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HELCOM RED LIST Biotope Expert Team
bottoms in the photic zone with at least 90 % coverage of sand. Sand has
less than 20 % of mud/silt/clay fraction (<63 µm), and the proportion of
sand (grain size 0.063–2 mm) exceeds 70% of the combined gravel and sand
fraction. Submerged rooted plants,
including plants with rhizoids (i.e. Charales) cover at least 10 % of the
seabed, and more than other perennial attached erect groups. Out of the
submerged rooted plants, ponweed constitutes at least 50 % of the
range: <6 psu; Exposure range: sheltered to moderate; Depth range: from 0.2
to about 4 meters
Potamogeton perfoliatus, Stuckenia pectinata
Whole Baltic Sea
light penetration depth caused by eutrophication
2.5 Sandy bottoms
2.5.2 Sublittoral photic zone
188.8.131.52 Level bottoms dominated by macrophyte vegetation
A5 Sublittoral sediment
A5.5 Sublittoral macrophyte-dominated sediment
A5.54 Angiosperm communities in reduced salinity
A5.542 Association with [Potamogeton pectinatus]
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Shibori is a Japanese method of dyeing cloth, and this hand-dyed silk has a myriad of colors running through its folds. To showcase its brilliance and lend a bit of structure to the fabric, I strung a silk cord through it. In just a few stitches, you'll have a statement piece that's light as a feather.
Necklace 19–21 in. (48–53 cm)
Supplies from Sonoran Beads, sonoranbeads.com. Check your local bead store for supplies.
If you like, sew beads to the necklace. I went through the coin pearls two or three times to secure them to the cord.

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The Swiss Army Knife is a versatile tool that can be used for many different functions. The tool is renowned for its multiple uses and general utility. The tool is so well made that there is seldom any need to be disassembled. Yet, for cleaning purposes or for creating custom knives by attaching tools from other knives, some owners may wish to take their knives apart. Contrary to claims that the product needs to be sent back to the manufacturer or taken to a jeweller, it is possible to take the knife apart yourself.
Remove the sides of the knife. Take out the tweezers and pick. Slide a thin blade or another knife under the edge of the side until it pops out from the pin attaching it to the knife. Do this again for the remaining pins, there are two per side. On larger knives a screwdriver may be slid into the tweezers or pick compartments to pop off the sides.
Use the vice to secure the knife in the "up" position. The "down" side of the knife has a rivet while the "up" side has the rivet end contained in a small housing case.
Loosen the pins but keep them in tact. This can be quite difficult. Use a thin, dulled tool, like a finish nail flattened by a hammer. Place the blunted tip of the nail onto the pin in the knife and tap it with the hammer until the pin comes loose.
Remove the pins. They may slide right out or they may require the flattened nail or a screwdriver to pry out.
Remove the knife from the vice. Hold it together while removing it.
Remove each layer of the knife individually. When reassembling the knife it may be necessary to keep certain layers in order, so be careful to keep track of where they go.


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How nutrient dense is YOUR food supply?
In order for our bodies to thrive, we need to ensure that the food we eat was fed properly as well. Depleted soils, pesticide use, and factory farming all contribute to foods being deficient in vital nutrients, as well as overloading our bodies with chemicals. What we eat determines our health!
"You are what you eat" needs to be carried to the next level. Consider instead: "You are what your metabolism can do with what you eat."Ways to Aid Your Absorption and Assimilation of Nutrients
- Chew your food thoroughly. Get in the practice of putting your fork down until you have swallowed your previous bite of food.
- Evaluate the quality of food you are putting in your body. Buying "the best of the best" when it comes to nutrients may save money as you will feel satiated with less.
- Increase consumption of fat and include fat with every meal. Remember: saturated fat is good for you! Fat consumption is not the cause of weight gain. Carbohydrates and unnatural fats- not healthy, natural fats in your diet- make you fat. It is the higher glycemic index carbohydrates which raise insulin that facilitate weight gain. Focus on combining lower glycemic carbohydrates with a healthy fat: Raw butter, cream and cheese from grassfed cows, olive oil, coconut oil, avocado, nuts and seeds, nut butters and olives. For example, combine an apple with a nut butter, a pear with cheese, veggies with butter, etc.
- Eat the protein portion of the meal first. This has a very balancing affect and aids in energy conversion and utilization of all your macronutrients.
- Keep a meal diary. Note how you feel after consuming nutrients. If you feel hungry, irritable, sleepy or sluggish after you eat, you are likely not giving your body the fuel that it needs to do its job properly.
How do you insure that your body is absorbing and assimilating nutrients?
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In Proceedings of CCS 2010, pages 559–72. ACM Press, Oct. 2010.
We show that on both the x86 and ARM architectures it is possible to mount return-oriented programming attacks without using return instructions. Our attacks instead make use of certain instruction sequences that behave like a return, which occur with sufficient frequency in large libraries on (x86) Linux and (ARM) Android to allow creation of Turing-complete gadget sets.
Because they do not make use of return instructions, our new attacks have negative implications for several recently proposed classes of defense against return-oriented programming: those that detect the too-frequent use of returns in the instruction stream; those that detect violations of the last-in, first-out invariant normally maintained for the return-address stack; and those that modify compilers to produce code that avoids the return instruction.
The CCS paper represents the merge of two papers available separately as technical reports:


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Jack and I are expecting our second baby in June :) I'm sure you've noticed the lack of interesting posts on here, the reason being that for the past month and a half or so I didn't think you'd be interested in my usual view of my bedroom ceiling as I lay in bed for hours on end or a vomit tally for the day. I get super sick when I'm pregnant and considered changing the title of this blog to A Week of Greasy, Unwashed Hair, Zofran, and Tears. I didn't think it would appeal to as many people.
The truth is though, we feel extremely blessed. We were able to get pregnant very easily and are extremely excited to be adding to our family. After a much-needed Priesthood blessing a few days ago and daily prayer, I have been able to eat more, get more done around the house, and actually play with Olivia.
And now that the news is out, I'll have more to write about :)


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This week's pick is a photo we took while modeling for designer Adi Ashur in the post Belles of the Ball in Tel Aviv's Florentine neighborhood. Many of the walls in this neighborhood are covered with paintings that take graffiti to a whole new level of street art. We found this wall painting particularly moving and clever, with the Braille writing and the figure's deep expression.
Florentine neighborhood is home to many locksmith, wood and artist workshops so we find it so beautiful that the very buildings serve as canvas for street artists to express themselves!
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Joe Perry went large in Malta as he toppled world number one Mark Williams in a major semi-final upset at the #250,000 European Open in Valletta.
World number 27 Perry will now tackle Stephen Hendry in tomorrow's best of 17 frame final for a first prize of #44,000 after scoring a totally unexpected 6-2 victory over Williams.
But even if the bookies are right and Hendry justifies his favourite's role by claiming his 72nd trophy, Perry is guaranteed to collect at least #22,000 - the largest cheque of his 10-year professional career.
It has been a dream week for the steadily improving 27-year-old from Wisbech who has already ousted four members of snooker's elite top 16 during an inspired spell of giant-killing.
"I'm well chuffed," said Perry.
"I've had a really tough draw but I'm still here. Now I've got this far I might as well go all the way and win it. That's the way Im looking at it."
Asked whether he believed Hendry, without a ranking title since the 1999 British Open 26 months ago, would be under pressure Perry laughed and replied: "Hold on a minute, I've never won one.
"Mark missed a lot of balls I expected him to pot, and obviously that helped, but I was really relaxed.
"I didn't seem to have a nerve in my body and, when I made some mistakes early on, I thought that I might've been too relaxed for my own good."
With Williams prone to unforced errors from the outset, Perry unexpectedly got out of the blocks quicker and, despite managing a modest top break of only 38, he went into the mid-session interval with a 3-1 lead.
Having shown that he could handle the pressure of such a high stakes occasion by slotting home a long black to steal the second frame, Perry clicked up a gear in the second half.
The son of a Heathrow taxi driver, whose previous best in a ranking event was a lone quarter-final appearance at the 1999 China Open, Perry tightened his grip on the match with a 104 break to move 4-1 ahead.
Williams unconvincingly battled through the next but Perry - conqueror of Joe Swail, Matthew Stevens and Jimmy White in the previous three rounds - was in no mood to relinquish control.
By now full of confidence, Perry powered through frame seven with a 103 clearance before securing the most important result of his life with a run of 59 in the eighth.
Although clearly disappointed with a poor display Williams, who has not added to his trophy cabinet since the Grand Prix last October, remained diplomatic.
"Joe was different class to me over the whole match," said the Welsh left-hander, usually self-critical after a below par exhibition.
"He thoroughly deserved to win and he finished me off well in the end. I'm not going to sit here and make any excuses.
"Every credit to Joe, he deserves it. Now I hope he goes on and wins the trophy because it would be good to see a new name on the cup."
Perry has lost both of his previous encounters with Hendry - 5-1 at the 1998 Irish Open but only 5-4 in the quarter-finals of the 1999 China Open in Shanghai when he came within a pot of winning 5-3.


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(CNSNews.com) - "Obamacare is a disaster. It is hurting millions of people all across this country," Sen. Ted Cruz told Fox News's Sean Hannity Wednesday night. "Sadly, all of the concerns of the millions of Americans who spoke up for months are coming true and proving even worse than was feared."Cruz dismissed the Democrats' "Band-Aid fixes" and said repealing the law is the "only answer.""And you know, the president apologized, but an apology is only meaningful if you make it right. And the way to make it right is to repeal it all and instead to allow people to buy insurance across state lines, have real choice, real opportunity for patients to control their health care, not the government." Cruz said he welcomes the growing support for his position that Obamacare is flawed beyond repair and should be scrapped:"And the more who come together, the better chance we are going to have of actually successfully empowering the American people. You know, if you want to expand health insurance, the way you do it is you want more choices and you want lower costs. What Obamacare does is it provides fewer choices and higher costs. And so it's great that we're seeing so many people... come on board. We welcome them all.
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There appears to be a plethora of headlines so far this year with a common theme – 2018 is the year of regtech, fintech, the year of digitisation and technological revamp. According to the Chinese calendar, it is in fact the year of the Dog. The Chinese Horoscope for 2018 predicts that this year, of the Brown Earth Dog, is going to be a good year in all respects, but it will also be an exhausting year. You will be happy, yet frustrated, rested, yet tired, cheerful, yet dull.
This may just about sum up how many feel about the continued focus on the Client Assets Sourcebook (CASS). 2018 will see the ten year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and let's remember that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) used reference to Lehman Brothers in PS14/9 (Review of the client assets regime for investment business) when putting into context its increased focus on client asset protection. This included the creation of the Client Assets Unit at the FCA, enhancing auditor reporting and creating the CF10A function.
So what really has changed and what challenges can firms expect to face in 2018?
CASS audits
A good place to start is the CASS audit. The Financial Reporting Council's (FRC) enhanced assurance standard will continue to be a focus, as the intention of CASS auditors this year is to increase scrutiny in the area of IT and systems controls, with some suggestion that this scrutiny will extend down to the level of code itself. Indeed, the approach being taken by auditors in assessing CASS compliance is still considered to be a moving target as their approaches evolve.
Costs vs. benefits
Some firms feel that the costs incurred from the enhanced audit regime has outweighed tangible benefits, and that the ongoing cost of the CASS audit is not sustainable. This appears somewhat contradictory to what the FCA and FRC are trying to achieve. The FCA's aim is to drive up client protection, ensure better record keeping and retention, so that firms can prove that they are in control. The FRC recognise the importance of effective safekeeping of custody assets and client monies, and the associated significant public interest. Have additional costs and resources been applied in the right direction to satisfy audit requirements? Would that time, money and effort have been better spent by firms on business as usual activities such as strengthening procedures, mitigating risks, eradicating spreadsheets and manual processes, so that data integrity and robust CASS control regimes prevail?
Aside from costs versus benefits, there still appears to be some levels of discomfort that auditors themselves do not necessarily have the operational or industry experience to be able to conduct the enhanced CASS audit. Best left for firms and auditors alike to ponder that thought on their own.
What we do know
The fallout of the first round of CASS audits from 2017 will see firms undertaking remedial work to ensure a return to an unqualified audit opinion. Will the FCA start visiting firms who had qualified or adverse opinions last year? Only time will tell, but the continuation of less than favourable audit opinions are more likely to pique the FCA's interest.
Senior managers and certification regime
Ten years on from the Lehman Brothers collapse, and the question remains as to what is really going to make the difference and truly drive up client protection once and for all? The CASS rule book has been rewritten, CASS audits have been toughened up, and so will the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) seal the deal? Or is the SMCR setting out what should have always been in place – in essence a culture of responsibility and accountability?
The SMCR was introduced in the banking sector in 2016 to address misconduct, which saw fines and redress costs of £35bn in the UK alone since 2009. Headlines continue, and less than two weeks into January 2018 the FCA have already raised areas of serious concern after carrying out a review of the contracts for difference (CFD) market.
The extension of the SMCR to cover all Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) authorised firms to hold individuals responsible for CASS failings.
There is no time to delay with the SMCR, even though it is now not expected to come into force until 2019. It is about truly understanding your business, the needs of your business and your customers, and making sure you have the right people in the right roles with the necessary skills and qualifications to ensure you are in control and truly protecting clients' assets.
What do firms need to achieve
Firms do now appear to be embracing the need for automation in the CASS space. Having the ability to integrate reconciliations to errors and breaches logs and to rules and control mappings, is one area that can have significant benefit in identifying where internal controls are not working as expected or are not working at all. Longer term remediation, which was previously precluded due to a myriad of manual processes, can be now identified in a more timely manner to mitigate the risk of breaches occurring.
As the wealth management sector groans under the weight of regulatory challenges, it is worth mentioning that the insurance sector remains unscathed from a re-write of CASS 5 (Client money: insurance mediation activity). CP12/20 (Review of the client money rules for insurance) was put to bed by the FCA almost 18 months ago. However, SMCR is expected to be brought into force in late 2018 ahead of investment firms. Insurance firms are also subject to the FRC's enhanced audit regime, and have to have well documented internal controls in place that can be shown to be working effectively. Perhaps they have not come off quite as lightly as first thought.
2019: The year of the pig
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? 2019 will be the year of the Pig, a joyous year, with an atmosphere of relaxation and where well-considered actions will be rewarded. Perhaps all that hard work will finally pay off!


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Spiritual Warfare
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. (Ephesians 6:12 NET)
Spiritual warfare is a very real thing. Some people experience it differently or are effected by with without ever acknowledging its reality because in Western Civ, spirituality and the spiritual realm falls outside the realm of scientific study in that its difficult to impericise. Meaning, you can't measure it, taste it, smell it, call it by name. (For example, If I described a 4 wheel vehicle, big, yellow, able to carry dozens of people (normally students), that had yellow and red flashing lights that displayed when it was picking up and dropping off students, you'd say BUS!, yet with spiritual war, its different). The above is a poster that hung in my room as a child. The verses following talk about spritual armor and the reality that we need to rely on the Holy Spirit in our lives accompanied by our agency in enabling this work through honing our hears, hearts and hands to follow its prompting.
When I was at Cortland College in NY I think I had my first experiences with spiritual warfare. Leading a group of Christians on a very secular campus it became apparent that people were influenced for better (and often for worse) by spiritual forces that either held them captive. Christians are influenced by the Holy Spirit and others by worldly spirits. The amount of time praying, fasting and spending time reading Gods word definetely made me more attuned to these forces and the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Random meetings became divine appointments, the correct words would flow from my mouth when my brain wasn't telling me what to say.
Keeping in Practice
Unfortunately, these skills need constant upkeep. Like going to the gym, its a Habit that needs to be formed and maintained. Prayer, fasting, reading God's word among other spiritual disciplines are the lost cornerstones of a faith that many in the western church have abandoned to tongue service. I'm working at this in my life and hope to keep this sword sharpened.
SYMC Conference
I'm praying again and spending time in the word and feeling compelled to spend time praying, fasting and seeking God's intervention at the Simply Youth Minstry Conference this year. I'm not sure why, but feel driven to. I like that, because its not about me, but about God and God's working in this event designed around youth workers helping youth workers. Join me in prayer for SYMC:
- Divine encounters outnumber the classes and the curriculum of the teachers.
- God's rest is given to those who need it "divine napping" if you will.
- That Len Evans and the SYM Soul Care team are empowered by the Holy Spirit in great ways.
- Traveling Mercies! Last year quite a few got caught up in Tornado Alley heading to SYMC Louisville.
- The speakers hear and heed the Spirit's prompting in their leading.
- The lead team is able to execute their plans and follow the Spirit's lead when the plan needs to change.
- The In the Trenches Team become true servants and seek out ministry opportunities above and beyond their regular assignments.
- Attendees are able to hear God, get emboldened for their ministries and discern the spriitual war around them.


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A nostalgic (but not blindly nostalgic) look back at some cult and classic movies. Are they worth checking out once you take off the rose-tinted glasses? Find out in this retrospective section.
The Warriors (1979) dir: Walter Hill, starring Michael Beck
Monday, 2 April, 2018 by Evan Popplestone Genres/Cycles: 1970s | action | dystopia | gang warfare | new york
This controversial classic, based on a 1965 novel by Sol Yurick, is a wonderfully tight and economical action movie. It also stars Deborah Van Valkenburgh, James Remar, plus David Patrick Kelly as Luther - the whiny, seething, coiled, psychotic little alley cat of a villain.
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Quadrophenia (1979)
Friday, 26 May, 2017 by Evan Popplestone Genres/Cycles: 1960s | gang warfare | mods | rock music | slice of life | youth
Adaptation of The Who's rock opera studies youthful rebellion and conformity through the prism of 1960s mods and rockers.
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Rumble Fish (1983)
Friday, 10 February, 2017 by Evan Popplestone Genres/Cycles: 1980s | adaptation | drama | experimental | gang warfare | youth
Get ready to rumble with the existentially arty Francis Ford Coppola adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel.
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A Cape Coral man has been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child in connection with the death of a 1-year-old boy.
Collier County jail records show 25-year-old Niklaus Booska was arrested Friday. He's also charged with aggravated child abuse and was being held on $1.5 million bond.
A sheriff's office statement says deputies were called to his home on Jan. 31 when the boy's mother came home from work and found 1-year-old Ivan unresponsive. Booska had been taking care of Ivan, who was pronounced dead a few days later. Doctors determined he had suffered head trauma that led to his death.
The statement says detectives obtained a warrant for Booska's arrest on Friday. Jail records do not list an attorney for him.
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Happy new year everyone. And new year means that the countdown to Cannes is now on in earnest. The 66th (2013) Cannes Film Festival will run 15-26 May.
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From the Coach's Desk...
I'd like to extend a warm Tiger Swimming & Diving welcome!
The student-athletes in the Tiger Swimming & Diving program consistently work to succeed both in the classroom and in the pool. I am so proud of the achievements of our team, from the All-America finishes at the NCAA Division III Championships to the graduation diplomas earned in Commencement Hollow each year, and I am deeply grateful for the investments made in our program by our alumni and friends throughout the country.
By giving to the Wittenberg swimming program through the Tiger Club, you help to cover ever-increasing costs associated with uniforms, transportation, equipment, food and lodging. This ensures that we provide the best possible collegiate experience for our student-athletes year after year.
Please consider making a contribution to the Wittenberg Swimming & Diving program to provide the financial support needed to continue our success in the pool, in the classroom and in our efforts to prepare these young men and women for life beyond Wittenberg.
We look forward to seeing you again on campus in the very near future!
Tiger Up!
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Bret Thoman, OFS
Bret is a Third Order Secular Franciscan, and writes on Franciscan and Catholic topics. He has a Master's degree in Italian and a certificate in Franciscan studies and the owner and president of St. Francis Pilgrimages, LLC. to Italy. His personal dedication and commitment to pilgrimages derives from his vocation as Secular Franciscan and his Catholic faith. He has been, recently, the formation director for his fraternity, Immaculate Conception Fraternity in Jonesboro, Georgia and has written many articles for Ongoing Formation.
Among his many accomplishments he is an active translator and writer. He has published five books from Italian to English and English to Italian and written and published two books. Among his many accomplishments, Bret announced the election of Pope Francis live on CNN while translating from Vatican TV; he also translated Pope Francis's Inaugural Mass.
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Formation, a Franciscan Perspective Francis, Go and Rebuild My House
Francis was a Peacemaker Franciscan Poverty – Sine Proprio
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In celebration of the premiere of Top Chef: Just Desserts (Bravo, 10 p.m. Central), OpenTable is making today "Free Dessert Day."
All you have to do is make an online reservation through OpenTable at one of the more than 35 participating Dallas/Fort Worth area restaurants. Find the full list here.
Browsing through the list, we see former Top Chef'ers Casey Thompson's Brownstone in Fort Worth, Tre Wilcox's kitchen at Loft 610 in Plano, and recent contestant Tiffany Derry's Go Fish Ocean Club in Addison are all taking part in the promotion. Coincidence?
Of course, there are a few stipulations -- you'll get a free dessert for every two diners at your table and each per must order a minimum of one entree. Click here to make a reservation.
Full disclosure: Bravo is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns this website. They do not own the moon nor the recipe to moon pie.


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The First Brazilian National Hearing Voices Congress in Rio in October 2017 is ends with the launch of the Hearing Voices Network Brazil and the adoption of their manifesto as follows:
"We are voice hearers, relatives and mental health professionals, and other participants of the First National Congress of Voices Speakers of Brazil that met on October 20th and 21st, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro.
INTERVOICE is a an international network for people who hear voices , a network for exchanging of information and experiences. INTERVOICE is against the against the pathologisation of the experience of hearing voices and fights for for the rights of people who hear voices.
Considering that our society still sees voice hearers as psychiatric patients, often regards people who hear voices as incapable and excludes and discriminates against them for not meeting the standards of normality imposed by society.
Considering the importance of the protagonism and the autonomy of voice hearers we launch here this manifesto for the foundation of the Brazilian Association of People Who Hear Voices with the following aims:
▪ to become part of INTERVOICE, the worldwide network for people who hear voices;
▪ to affirm that listening to voices is a human experience, an individual and private experience
▪ to support people who experience difficulties and suffering in relation to their voice experience"


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Can we create a judge-free bubble for a minute? I had a couple too many glasses of wine to drink the other night and I definitely had a hangover the next morning. Mind you, I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually done that and I'm not too terribly experienced in hangover remedies. But when you need to get up and get going, you find a solution right?
Off I went to my tea cupboard to see if I had anything that said "hangover cure tea." I knew that ginger soothed tummy aches and reduces nausea but I've never heard of ginger being a hangover cure tea. Common sense told me that it may work so off I go to boil up a kettle.
I'm telling you, after I drank that spicy cuppa, I was able to get on my feet! Not in a I'm-still-dragging-my-feet way. I mean, in a bounce-in-my-step, skin-a-glowing, revitalizing way! Can anybody relate???
So I wanted to know more of the ways I could use ginger in everyday life and this is what I found:
Not to be confused with "wild ginger" from North America, ginger is native to the tropical parts of Asia and a popular ingredient in Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and other asian cuisines. Ginger traveled with the Spaniards into the New World and now is extensively grown in the West Indies.
pungent, spicy, warming, clean, juicy.
cures hangovers!
Try ginger cookies or candy!
tip: blend it with peppermint. heat and spice of the ginger is balanced by the cooling peppermint
Now I'm finally coming around to drinking ginger tea for the fun of it, and not strictly in a medicinal way. Mind you, my sweet tooth has the best of me, so I sweeten my ginger tea with honey and lemon.
Obviously, I'm not a doctor, just a tea aficionado. This blog is a compilation of the information I found as I researched this herb. Please check with a medical professional before use.
I hope you got a bit of a laugh and enjoyed this herbal feature on ginger!


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For this reason, doctors should formally assess a person's weight status any time they are estimating their overall cardiovascular risk. However, researchers don't always agree which method is best for quantifying whether an individual is "too" overweight. The three most commonly used measures are BMI (body mass index), waist circumference, and waist-to-hip ratio. But is one better than the others? The BMI The measure most commonly used to assess weight-related risk is BMI, a ratio calculated from your weight and height. Specifically, your BMI equals your body (in kilograms) divided by your height squared (in meters). A "normal" BMI is 18.5 - 24.9 kg/m2). A BMI of 25 - 29.9 kg/m2 is considered overweight, from 30 - 34.9 kg/m2 is obese, and 35 kg/m2 or higher is very obese. BMI calculators are easy to use (all you need is your height and weight) and are readily available online. (Here's one from the NIH.) The BMI is useful because this measurement has been employed in numerous clinical studies, so lots of analysis has been done with the BMI measure. In fact, the formal definitions of "overweight," "obese" and "very obese" were themselves based on these BMI studies. However, BMI is not always accurate in every individual. It overestimates body fat in people with a lot of muscle mass and tends to underestimate it in elderly people (who often lose muscle mass). Waist Circumference The idea of using waist circumference as a risk predictor stems from the fact that abdominal obesity (accumulation of fatty tissue in the belly) is generally thought to be "worse" than accumulating fat elsewhere (such as the buttocks or thighs). This is because abdominal obesity correlates with an increased risk for not only cardiovascular disease, but also metabolic syndrome, hypertension, and diabetes. Studies have shown that a waist circumference of 40 inches or more (102 cm) in men, and of 35 inches or more (88 cm) in women, is associated with elevated cardiovascular risk. Waist-to-Hip Ratio The waist-to-hip ratio is another way of assessing abdominal obesity, and studies have confirmed that this measure correlates with cardiovascular risk. To calculate your waist-to-hip ratio, measure both your waist and hip circumferences, then divide the waist measurement by the hip measurement. In women, the ratio should be 0.8 or less, and in men, it should be 1.0 or less. (This means that in women the waist should be narrower than the hips, and in men, the waist should be narrower or the same as the hips.) The waist-to-hip ratio is helpful because in smaller people waist circumference alone may underestimate risk. By comparing waist circumference to hip circumference, you can get a better indication of abdominal obesity. Which Measurement Is Better at Predicting Risk? There is no definitive answer to this question. BMI is certainly the "standard" measure of obesity, in that it is the measure recommended by the NIH, the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and The Obesity Society. These recommendations, again, are based on the large body of research that has used BMI to predict cardiovascular outcomes. However, it is important to realize that, while BMI is quite good at predicting overall risk in large populations, it might not be a particularly accurate measure for a given individual. Also, it does not specifically take into account the degree of abdominal obesity a person may have. Several studies have suggested that a measure of abdominal girth can be more accurate than BMI in predicting heart disease. In particular, while BMI is a predictor of heart attack, it is a relatively weak predictor when other risk factors (such as diabetes, smoking, cholesterol, diet, activity, and hypertension) are taken into account. In contrast, some studies have shown an elevated waist-to-hip ratio to be a strong predictor of heart disease, even after the statistics were adjusted for these other risk factors. The Bottom Line Many doctors are now relying on a combination of measures to advise patients on their weight-related risk. If your BMI is 35 or higher, that's pretty much all you need to know. And if your BMI is 30 - 35, unless you are a bodybuilder or other type of muscular athlete, you are almost certainly too fat. But if you're in the "overweight" category, knowing your waist circumference or your waist-to-hip ratio can tell you something important, since abdominal obesity is bad for you even if your overall weight is not outlandishly high. One advantage of the waist-to-hip ratio is that you can assess it yourself, without formally measuring anything, in the privacy of your own home. Just strip down to your skivvies and look at yourself in the mirror, both head-on and in profile. If your waist in either dimension is bigger than your hips, you're busted, and the excess poundage you're carrying around in your abdomen is contributing to your overall cardiovascular risk. To reduce that risk, your weight is something you will need to address. A Word From Verywell Being overweight is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and metabolic conditions such as diabetes. The question of how best to measure whether we weigh "too much" is a good one, but in most cases, it's not too difficult for us to figure out. For people whose BMI is quite elevated (over 30 kg/m2), that's usually the only measure you need to know to conclude that obesity is posing a significant risk. But for people whose BMI is in the 25 - 30 kg/m2 range, a measurement of abdominal obesity can be quite helpful in determining whether excess fat is contributing to their risk. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Did you know the most common forms of heart disease are largely preventable? Our guide will show you what puts you at risk, and how to take control of your heart health. Sign Up You're in! Thank you, {{form.email}}, for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. What are your concerns? Other Inaccurate Hard to Understand Submit Article Sources Verywell Health uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read our editorial policy to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. Coutinho T, Goel K, Correa de Sá D, et al. Combining body mass index with measures of central obesity in the assessment of mortality in subjects with coronary heart disease. Role of "normal weight central obesity." J Am Coll Cardiol 2012; 61:553-560. Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Kit BK, et al. Prevalence of obesity and trends in the distribution of body mass index among US adults, 1999-2010. 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Liberty's Hub Le Bas is re-establishing itself as Britain's leading precision steel tube supplier.
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God's Littlest Lambs Children's Home, located in San Buenaventura, 45 minutes from Tegucigalpa, is home to over 70 children whose young lives have been marked by abuse and neglect. The dedicated Honduran staff are committed to raising these precious children in the knowledge and love of Jesus.
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God's Littlest Lambs School provides excellence in education (K-grade 8) for children whose families struggle to meet the most basic of needs. The daycare nurtures babies and toddlers in a loving and safe environment, giving their working moms peace of mind while they provide for their families.
In 2009, Alonzo, a LAMB scholarship student, intern and rising star in the Flor del Campo community was murdered for his cell phone. From his tragic death, God birthed an incredible outreach to the youth at Flor who are so at risk for gang involvement. Today, around 220 youth participate in this life-saving, life-giving ministry.
The microcredit program was started in 2010 to help five women grow their small businesses, thus providing food for their families. Today, more than 400 people have received small, short-term loans strengthening the community one family at a time.
The largest aspect of New Life Anti-trafficking Program is our Safe House which is a place of retreat and renewal for girls and women who are being rescued from human trafficking. Here they are surrounded by caring staff who remind them of their great worth in Jesus, of His love for them and His promises to them. It is a place of healing, of hope and of encouragement.


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One of the simplest and highest impact deeds you can do is jot down a thank you note. It let's the giver know that you appreciate their thought and in turn, keeps you in a "blessable place".
On a very practical level, if you get a gift via post, it lets the sender know that you have received it. For example, one of my Momma's friends mentioned to her that she had not received a thank you note from Engineer and me for our wedding present she had sent to us. Engineer and I kept on top of all note writing. My Momma knew that and was confident in telling her friend that something must have gone awry and in fact it had; the store lost the order and therefore never sent it us.
When Diva was just beginning to learn how to write, I bought some form note cards for her that went something like this:
It was an age appropriate way to get her used to writing thank yous. Even now, we use a similar formula in her handwritten notes.Dear ________,Thank you for the _______. I like it very much.Love,_____
It is wise to write notes as soon as you get something instead of waiting for a good amount of time to sit down and write several at once. It's a lot easier to find 5 minutes for 1 note than it is to find 30 minutes for 6.
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Texas Administrative Code, 1 TAC 201.8 (a)(7), requires IHEs to report accessibility information and compliance to DIR. This requirement was previously satisfied by the Information Resources Deployment Review (IRDR); however, IHEs are no longer required to report the results of their IRDR to DIR. We encourage you to engage your institution's EIR Accessibility Coordinator in the completion of this survey to ensure one submission per institution. Please complete this survey by Friday, May 6th. If you have any questions about the survey please email email@example.com or call 512-463-0424. Use this link to access the survey.
WEPA has offered to partner with any interested institution in piloting their service offering. If you are interested, please contact Dean McWilliams, Phillip Crane or David Bannister.
The University of Texas at Austin sent out the following email to ITS staff related to Workday:
Recently, the University Budget Council approved a change to the Go Live date for Workday based on functionality being delivered with Workday release 28 in March 2017. The Business Services Committee of IT governance and campus stakeholders also agreed that moving Go Live to the fallback date of June/July 2017 will enable campus to take advantage of the new functionality. In addition, colleges, schools, and units (CSUs) will have more time to prepare for the transition to more efficient and effective administrative systems.
ASMP teams continue to make steady progress. This month, the ASMP Conversion team completed another Human Capital Management (HCM)/Payroll data load to support End-to-End (E2E) testing. This is our fifth HCM/Payroll conversion and data load. E2E testing will confirm that all HCM/Payroll business processes are configured correctly and that test scenarios function as expected. E2E testing includes the validation of reports that will support UT Austin's business operations. E2E testing by the HCM/Payroll team will be conducted from April 25 through June 2016, and the Integrations and Reporting teams will assist.
Other ASMP 2.0 teams are focused and making good progress. The Conversion team is due to wrap up the build of the Financials database this month, and the Enterprise Readiness team is engaged in updating the plans for readiness activities based on the new timeline. Campus leaders on the University Business Officers Council and the HCM/Payroll Advisory Group are engaged as CSU readiness efforts gear-up.
Thanks and appreciation goes to our campus colleagues for support and flexibility as we make steady progress with the ASMP 2.0. Kudos also goes out to ASMP 2.0 team members who are doing an impressive job meeting deadlines and achieving goals.
If you were not able to attend the Town Hall meeting on April 19th, I encourage you to go to the ASMP 2.0 Town Hall page and view the session. Also, I ask you to invest some time exploring the ASMP 2.0 website. There are lots of positive changes ahead!
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Project Helios
- Business process design workshops continued last week with Talent/Performance and Self-Service. SMEs from each member are participating. Workbooks documenting the process flows, steps and outputs, roles, notifications, regulatory and legal requirements, reports, and open items are being developed for each process group.
- Design sessions continued on the "Payroll Accounting Link" that will integrate Workday and FAMIS. The team is finishing up a design document that will be shared with the Finance/Payroll Integration Working Group.
- The integrations team continued to work on integration design documents.
- The data conversion team continued planning for data mapping and data loading. A meeting to kick off the data cleansing process is scheduled with the Project Coordinators on April 27.
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China Daily
China Daily reports on the latest news regarding sign-up regulations for micro-blogging in China.
China Daily says the upcoming regulation requiring micro blog users to register with their real identities has yet to set procedures for overseas users.
The situation is puzzling foreign users without Chinese ID cards.
A weibo user from South Africa, Jeremy Goldkorn, is quoted by China Daily as saying, "I asked the website staff members what I should do, but they didn't answer."
Goldkorn said he has been paying attention to this regulation for a long time, but is still confused. He registered with his real name since he began using weibo, and remembered noone asked him to provide a passport at that time.
Weibo has announced that it will require anyone registered after March 16 to provide their real identities to post or forward micro blogs.
At last count, according to figures supplied to China Daily by Sina.com, there were 8 million blog accounts "based overseas."
Shanghai Daily
Shanghai Daily reports the People's Bank of China says there are NO cats on the 100-yuan notes.
The PBC is the issuing bank of yuan, and Shanghai Daily says they deny allegations that its 100-yuan note contains cat images. They say the cloud pattern, in the background of the 100 Yuan note, where the design of three cats has been spotted, was copied from an ancient lacquer ware.
Interest around the notes began online, where microbloggers joked about the apparent three cats printed near the head of Mao Zedong on the note, one with an open mouth and staring eyes, the other two bowing on their knees.
Many of the bloggers expressed their appreciation toward the patterns after checking to see if it was true.
Instead of just Mao, now the notes are adorable and cute, one blogger said on Weibo.
The central bank says the pattern was copied from a lacquer ware dating from the Warring States Period (476-221 BC) and unearthed in central Hubei Province.
Experts who have looked at the fifth-generation 100-yuan notes say the pattern shows perfect symmetry, typical of decorative designs during the Warring States Period. But, that the banknote designer must have changed the original pattern slightly. No cat images were ever found in artifacts from that period.
Xinhua reports on an exciting new joint project between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.Both sides of the strait have jointly launched a multimedia database that offers free access to Chinese linguistic literature on line.
On the website zhonghuayuwen.org, people can search information in two latest Chinese dictionaries, as well as a large number of ancient Chinese literature.
The database also includes audio versions of important poems and classics, audio material of various dialects in China, and a video program teaching how to write Chinese characters.
It highlights a dictionary elaborating the difference of Chinese language between the mainland and Taiwan and has two versions, one in simplified Chinese commonly used in the mainland, and the other in traditional Chinese mainly used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao.
New York Post
The New York Post reports a Staten Island woman is suing the city for $900 trillion dollars.Fausat Ogunbayo, aged 46, has made the case against the city for her two kids being taken in 2008 and put into a Queens foster care home.
If she wins, The Post points out she could pay off the US national debt and still have $885 trillion left.
Ogunbayo says the city made it difficult for her to see her two sons, who she claims fared much worse in the foster care system.
The city says according to court papers, Ogunbayo is, quote, "mentally unstable and not currently receiving treatment," and that's why the boys, now 13 and 16, were removed.Ogunbayo says in court papers the allegation is "a huge lie."


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If you haven't been to Spencer Island near Everett lately, you should really go visit.
I went for a run there this morning. I nearly went to the gym because it was so cold, but I'm so glad I didn't. My run took forever, because I kept stopping to watch birds or admire the scenery.
Spencer Island is a treat anytime, but it's especially magical in this clear, cold weather.
The mountains are sparkling in the distance, and the waters around the island are covered in a thin layer of ice. Anything not in direct sun is still covered in thick, sparkling frost.
Birds are everywhere, song sparrows especially. And they're not shy. You'll be able to get a nice, close look at them. Spotted towhee are also darting around, some with particularly bright red feathers. The waters on the south end of the area are covered with many species of ducks.
I saw a bald eagle perched in a tree and later saw two red-tailed hawks circling. I saw and heard a number of blue herons, too. I watched for but never did see the peregrine falcon I saw last time I was there. If you do go, keep an eye out for it. If the songbirds suddenly vanish, look up.
While I was there, the tide was going out. The area is close enough to the Sound to be affected by the tide. The waters all around the island were frozen. As the tide retreated, it left ice by the shore unsupported. I kept hearing the ice tinkle and then crash down. It was magical.
Really, you should go. Take advantage of this stunning sun and take a walk. In the bright sunlight and still air, it actually feels much warmer out there than it really is. Of course, you're still going to need some warm layers.
How to get there: From Everett, go north on Broadway, Highway 529, over the Snohomish River. Turn right on 28th Place NE. Follow the signs for Langus Riverfront Park. Follow the road past the animal shelter and a couple parking areas. Follow the road until it bends left and becomes gravel. Near the water treatment plant, there is a parking lot on the right-hand side. (Bonus: In the cold weather, I could smell nothing from the treatment plant.) Park there, and then walk the short road to a bridge. Cross the bridge and explore. You can go north (left) for roughly a mile. If you go south, there's a loop that's roughly 1.5 miles. I did both. I saw more songbirds to the north and more ducks and herons to the south. If you'd like more walking, you can follow the paved trail that heads south from the bridge. It eventually loops back around to the paved parking areas near the animal shelter.
Note: Duck hunting is allowed on the north end of the island. It is not allowed on the south end. No dogs are allowed on the south end of the island.
Learn more
- Check out a story we wrote about Spencer Island in 2012
- Snohomish County Parks' Spencer Island page
- Map of Spencer Island (PDF)


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The move into the mythic past encompasses a transition from existence to essence. When the events in these stories told by great shamans took place, the characters and places described in them had no beginnings and no ends. You must understand, if you want to appreciate the underlying truth of the stories, that the boundaries separating the mythic realm from the time-bound world are sometimes porous, but never more so than they were in the time of Moonblood. So there's no contradiction when a shaman says, in a time before men, two men drew their bows and fired arrows at the moon.
Lac too laughs from deep in his belly, wondering, could this story be true? The doubt somehow makes it funnier. Does it even matter? He's already regretting his plans to leave the mission outpost tomorrow after talking to Laura, already looking forward to his next visit to Ocamo.


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How to configure Eth 1 port of AP for POE and Trunking
When ever we need to connect an access Switch or any POE device such as a phone or a camera, to Eth 1 port of an AP, we need to take care of Trunk mode and POE configuration on that port.
We can enable POE on Eth 1 port of an AP through "Ethernet interface 1 port configuration" and Trunking can be configured through "Wired-AP-Profile".
Even if we enable POE in the profile, power will be sourced by some specific models of RAPs ( Power sourcing is not possible with APs) such as, RAP 3WNP(Eth -2) and RAP 155P(Eth-1 & 2).
Enabling POE on AP :
Step 1 : Select Configuration-->AP Group--><AP-Group of the desired AP>
Step 2 : Select AP > Ethernet interface 1 port configuration-->Ethernet interface link profile--> New Profile
Step 3 : Enable POE by selecting "Power over Ethernet" knob
Configuring Trunk on an AP:
Step 1 : Select Configuration-->AP Group--><AP-Group of the desired AP>
Step 2 : Select AP-->Ethernet interface 1 port configuration > Wired AP -->New Profile
Step 3 : Select Trunk on "Switch Port Mode", Configure Natïve VLAN and Allowed VLAN accordingly
Enabling POE on IAP :
Step 1 : Select More-->WiredNew "Wired Network"
Step 2 : Enter a Name, enable/disable POE, enable/disable Spanning tree "Wired Settings" tab
Step 3: Select Mode as 'Trunk" and enter allowed VLANs under "VLAN" tab
Step 4 : Now map this Wired-Network to Eth 0/1 or any other desired port
1. The following output showing that the Trunking is enabled on "Default" "Wired-Ap-Profile" profile and the same is applied to the Eth 1 port of the AP,
2. The following output is showing that the POE is enabled and the profile is applied on eth-2 port.


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Add some edge to your game with optional Alienware SFF Advanced Liquid Cooling to enable CPU overclocking, a first for X51. Expect incredibly quiet, but powerful performance when you need it most. A low profile and compact blower design pushes heat outside the rear of the chassis, and a copper cold plate ensures efficient heat transfer. Plus, all units are 100% leak and weight tested to meet quality requirements.
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The new X51 is outfitted with quad-core 6th Gen Intel® Core™ processors and features unlocked K-series processors that enable additional overclocking features so they can be tweaked to boost performance. Our highest-end processor will deliver an overclock of up to 4.4GHz.
With Turbo Boost Technology, your processor runs faster when you need it to and saves battery when you don't. And Hyper-Threading Technology increases performance on multi-threaded tasks so you can run various programs more smoothly. The X51's entire engine has been overhauled since the last generation, now built on a foundation that's based on the Intel Z170 Chipset and the latest DDR4 memory.
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Decoupling Aspects from Phases
In Fate Core, character creation and aspects are meant to be a module you swap out for specific settings. But in reality, we didn't really give a lot of space for that. The aspect dynamic in Core is:
- The core notion of the character's role, and make an aspect
- Something interesting that makes the character's life hard, and make an aspect
- Share some recent backstory, and make an aspect
- Linking characters together, and make a couple aspects
In Spirit of the Century, the first two bits weren't called out, and you had three phases for the backstory in which you should bake in the character's role and difficult situation. Then you have the two rounds of Crossing Paths. This generated 10 aspects. In The Dresden Files RPG, we added in high concept and trouble, left in three phases for backstory and the two for Crossing Paths — all while paring the aspect list down to 7. But in working on Fate Core, Leonard Balsera and I saw that we needed to reduce further, so we cut out two of the backstory sections to get the aspects down to 5.
Lately, I've been thinking that we cut out the wrong thing. We kept aspects coupled to phases, and we cut out some good stuff in the sake of cutting the aspect list. That's lead me to the notion that we should decouple aspects from phases. This came up again in a recent thread in the Fate G+ community about how Crossing Paths can lead to poor aspects. And that 40% of your aspects come from that part of character creation, I'm not as happy with it as I was when I wrote that chapter in 2012[1]. So here's what I propose:
- Come up with the high concept, as a general statement and not as an aspect.
- Come up with the sort of trouble the character must contend with, again just as a general statement.
- Detail some backstory. But one question isn't really great for making three-dimensional characters, so let's go with two:
- Detail some formative experience that lead to who your character is today.
- Detail a vivid memory of pride or fear, and how that shapes who your character is.
- Detail a recent awesome thing, ideally (but not necessarily) something other characters could be involved with.
- Then do two rounds of Crossing Paths. This can hook into any part of another character's story, not just the "recent awesome thing" adventure analogue. Two characters who grew up together could feature in each other's formative experiences, for example. This could also be a new story moment, rather than one that comes from what's already been established — two characters who have no reason to be in each other's backstory might instead have met last night in a barroom brawl, and happened to be on the same side in said fight.
At no point have you made aspects. Even if you have a good idea for an aspect, don't write one down yet — leaving it blank forces you to revisit your ideas, whereas writing it down and saying "I'll change it if I have a better idea" doesn't force that.
So, with all of that, make up five aspects. Cover these bases with the aspects you make:
- Your character's role in the greater story
- Problems that will haunt your character
- Ties to other characters or to the world
Anyway, that's what I recommend today, after seeing Fate Core in the field for the last year or so.
Addendum: Right, I forgot the other thing that prompted this. Sometimes you'll, as a Fate GM, tell folks stumped on an aspect for a given phase to leave it blank and fill it in later. This is sort of a progression of that idea, and it's easy to say "Okay, fill in three or four now, and fill in the rest in play." Since they don't have to be explicitly or implicitly linked to a phase, that's even easier to handle.
Also, it opens up making aspects from another person's Crossing Paths about you, not unlike the Fate Boost Trio idea I posted a bit ago.
– Ryan
[1] A side effect of time away from making something is getting to examine it on its own principles, rather than as a reaction to something else. Certainly Core's setup is an improvement over what we did with Dresden, but time shows that it can be improved still.
9 Responses to Decoupling Aspects from Phases
I'm intrigued by the idea of being able to cross-paths with any part of another character's story, I haven't done that much Fate but can immediately think of a few ways I'd use that.
That said, it does dramatically increase the choice space in a way that could be intimidating and also could leave one of the characters under-connected on the receiving end. On the other hand you're still just talking 4*([number of players]-1) choices and since you're listening to those anyways probably something has caught your attention. I guess I'm curious whether you think some structure will need to be added back in or if that structure wasn't actually that necessary to begin with.
Ah yes, that completely clarifies things. I was overly reductionist in what "Crossing paths" meant and took the term "another character's story" to mean any character rather than maintaining the structure of passing left/right/shuffling/whatever.
So, with that modification, you're only choosing from 4 background phases per round, which isn't too challenging. The only implication i can see is that players may want to hand around a background sheet rather than an index card with their adventure. That doesn't seem like a problem.
So the structure you discuss below might be a good idea, but I meant the structure that you were leaving in.
Thanks for the response.
I am currently running my third Fate (inspired) campaign since Spirit of the Century, and this time around we decoupled the Crossovers from Aspects, with mixed results.
In the first two campaigns, we found the Crossover Aspects to be generally the weakest and least used ones. High Concept and Trouble continue to be useful, reinforcing what the character should really be good at, and providing juicy story-driving Compels.
The downside is that some of the characters relationships are not as strong as they were in previous campaigns. It's better than ("We met in a bar last night.") but not a whole lot. Fortunately, the players are experienced enough to generally go along with the group vibe, but sometimes the seams show, and that can be distracting.
The other problem we have encountered is one Rob Donoghue mentioned on his blog: Sometimes the players are too damn poetic. But allowing Aspects to be revised (not to say completely replaced) without waiting for Milestones has helped with that. Leaving Aspects blanks has worked out well too, although we are coming up on Episode 10 and one or two of them (on the more casual players) are still blank.
Talking with guys about aspects (my comlain – isn't enough aspects to define my character) we created interesting variant (for potential Planescape hack):
Make 4 aspects, limited by cathegories:
High Concept:
Choose one of the aspects above, to be your Trouble.
Add up 3 aspects of your choice, whenever you want to.
Thank you for response. I am appreciate it.
Fate is a appealing, but restive system. It's hard sometimes to reconsile my ideas with it's dynamics. And maybe too easy to misunderstand it and screw up everything. To turn small miracle into pile of dirt.) Certainly do _not want that_ to happen.
But your article actually helping me with my "not enough aspects!" problem. I just wanted to share idea about "virtual Trouble aspect" – when one oyou can make less aspects, because 'role' of Trouble aspect may be assigned to the _existing_ one.
Sorry. Didn't wanted to faze you that much.


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GREENACRES — Now airing on Bravo, The Real Council Members of Greenacres.
Well, OK, that may not be one of the basic cable network's latest reality shows, but it sure could be given how the council has conducted itself in recent weeks.
Since John Tharp was ousted by political newcomer Lisa Rivera in the March election, the once mild-mannered council meetings have taken on a decidedly different tone, with audience members booing and council members publicly sniping at each other.
When Mayor Sam Ferreri brought up Rivera's political inexperience at Monday's meeting, she rolled her eyes and pointedly said she didn't appreciate his sarcasm. She also called Ferreri's comments "sad" — repeatedly.
At the same meeting, Estelle Friedman, a long-time city resident, called the actions of some council members "arrogant," "self-serving" and "vengeful."
The latest issue to cause a stir was Ferreri voting at the April 20 meeting during which Jonathan Pearce tried to have retiring City Attorney Pam Terranova fired four months before she's scheduled to step down, a move that has outraged many residents who are privately grumbling about Pearce's tactics — and motives.
There was some confusion after the vote because the mayor doesn't have a vote on the council.
The City Charter states the mayor, while having a voice in all council proceedings, can only vote in the event of a tie. The motion to fire Terranova failed 4-2, with Pearce and Judy Dugo in favor.
Ferreri, however, referenced a section of the charter that says only the majority of the "full council" can fire the city attorney. Under that language, Ferreri said that included him.
Dugo, Pearce and Rivera disagreed.
The problem is, the term "full council" is not defined in the charter and is left open to interpretation, Terranova said.
There are three ways to resolve the issue, she said.
Court, seek an opinion from the attorney general or amend the charter to clarify the language.
"There is a discrepancy and I don't believe it can be resolved by any of us up here," Terranova said.
In a rookie move, Rivera made an eyebrow-raising motion to change the minutes from the April 20 meeting, which lead to groans and a lot of head shaking from those in the audience.
"You can't change the minutes if you don't like something somebody said about you or you don't like the vote," Ferreri said. "You can't just change the record."
In the end, nothing was changed, meaning the term "full council" is still open to interpretation — and perhaps the subject of more political infighting.
Next week on the Real Council Members of Greenacres…
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TOLEDO, Ohio -- Despite a career-high 24 points off of the bench by graduate forward Kevin Mickle (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and a third double-double from freshman guard Teyvion Kirk (Joliet, Ill.), the Ohio men's basketball team (10-15, 3-10 MAC) was unable to overcome a slow start in an 82-74 loss to Mid-American Conference West Division foe Toledo (19-7, 11-2 MAC) on Tuesday (Feb. 13) at Savage Arena.
The Rockets raced out to a 15-0 lead over the first five minutes of play, and the Bobcats never quite recovered despite outscoring Toledo by a 74-67 count the rest of the way.
The Bobcats lost despite leading the way in rebounds (37-33), points in the paint (36-22) and bench points (39-20). Toledo took advantage of 37 attempts at the free throw line, making 32 foul shots for an 86.5 percent success rate. The Rockets went 28-of-33 from the charity stripe in the second half, allowing Toledo to seal the victory despite shooting just 29.2 percent (7-of-24) from the floor over the final 20 minutes.
"They came out and pressured us, and we didn't attack well," said fourth-year head coach Saul Phillips. "Once again, they came out absolutely blazing. Take away that stretch, and you've got yourself a really interesting ballgame."
Mickle provided Ohio with a lift with his performance off of the bench, going 10-of-19 from the floor with a three-pointer and 3-of-4 from the free throw line. The contest marked his first career game with at least 20 points. He has now finished in double figures 10 times this year. Mickle also finished with six rebounds, two blocks and an assist in 24 minutes.
"The last two games, he's been much more active," said Phillips of Mickle. "The guys did a good job of recognizing that he felt good and kept delivering the ball."
Kirk finished with 21 points and a game-high 10 boards to achieve another double-double. He shot 7-of-11 from both the field and the free throw line, shaking off a tough first half in which he went 1-of-3 for two points with a second half in which he went 6-of-8 for 19 points. He has now finished in double figures in points a team-high 23 times this season -- including each of the last 17 contests. He posted his fifth outing with at least 20 points this year. Kirk also totaled an assist, a block and a steal over 26 minutes of work.
"He's growing and maturing as a point guard every day," said Phillips of Kirk. "We saw what he can be at his best, and we saw a pretty tough version in the first half. Keep working on drawing out the positives and eliminating some of the mistakes, and we've got ourselves a heck of a player. You can argue for a good chunk of the second half, he was the best player out there."
Redshirt sophomore guard James Gollon (Stevens Point, Wis.) joined Mickle in helping the Bobcats account for 39 bench points, scoring 11 ponts off of 3-of-6 shooting from the floor -- including a pair of treys -- and 3-of-3 shooting from the charity stripe. He finished in double figures for the sixth time this year. Gollon also added five rebounds, two assists and two steals in 27 minutes.
Junior forward Doug Taylor (Columbus, Ohio) -- the MAC's leading shot blocker in 2017-18 -- added to his total with four blocks -- including three in the second half. He also chipped in two points and four rebounds in 17 minutes of action.
Three-pointers by senior guard/forward Tre'Shaun Fletcher, freshman guard Marreon Jackson and junior forward Nate Navigato helped Toledo build a 15-0 lead in the early going while Ohio struggled to get going, with the Bobcats missing their first seven shots. Junior guard Jordan Dartis (Newark, Ohio) finally ended the drought by hitting a jumper.
Mickle then brought the Bobcats back into the game, scoring 11 points in a span of 2:26 to cut Toledo's lead down to seven at 20-13 with 11:40 to go in the half. Mickle's hot stretch included a three-pointer and a windmill dunk.
Toledo's lead swelled to a game-high 18 at 37-19 with just under five minutes to go, though, with a pair of three-pointers by Navigato, a trey by sophomore guard Justin Roberts and a dunk by junior forward Taylor Adway giving the Rockets a cushion. Ohio gave itself a chance to get back in the game in the second half, however, by closing out the opening 20 minutes on a 10-2 run over the final 4:25. Two triples from Laster and another by Gollon helped the Bobcats take advantage of a stretch in which Toledo turned the ball over three times and went 1-of-5 from the field.
Kirk shaved Ohio's deficit down to seven at 43-36 with just over 17 minutes to go with five points in the first three minutes of the second half. The Rockets used a 12-2 run to go back up by 17, though, at 55-38 with just under 13 minutes to go. The Bobcats cut Toledo's lead down to eight courtesy of a layup by Kirk, a layup and a jumper by Mickle and a three by Laster, but a 9-2 run by the Rockets made it a 62-49 score in favor of the home team with 6:20 to go.
An and-one layup by Kirk, a pair of free throws from Mickle and a layup by Gollon made it a six-point game at 65-59 with 3:56 to play. That's as close as the Bobcats got, though, as a jumper by Fletcher and two free throws apiece from junior guard Jaelan Sanford and Roberts helped put the Rockets back up by 10 with 1:30 to play and forced Ohio to play the foul game the rest of the way.
Sanford led the way for Toledo with 21 points off a 6-of-9 performance from the field that included two triples and a 7-of-8 effort from the free throw line. He also had five rebounds, three assists and a steal in 37 minutes. Fletcher finished with 17 points, going 5-of-11 from the floor with a three-pointer and 6-of-6 from the line. He led the Rockets with eight rebounds and also added an assist, a block and a steal over 36 minutes. Navigato also finished in double figures, scoring 15 points after hitting three treys and making 6-of-8 free throws. He also chipped in five rebounds and a team-high four assists in 30 minutes.
Ohio returns to the friendly confines of the Convo to take on MAC East Division archrival Miami (13-13, 6-7 MAC) in a 3:30 p.m. ET 'Battle of the Bricks' matchup on Saturday (Feb. 17). The contest will be streamed live on WatchESPN and the ESPN app.


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Nicolas Anelka's controversial goal salute should alert us that prejudice against Jews is spreading worldwide.
What do a major Palestinian political organisation, a French comedian of partly African descent, large sections of the Iranian elite and a rightwing Hungarian leader have in common? They all believe that the world is run by an international Jewish conspiracy.
Hamas, which currently runs the Gaza Strip, put an approving reference to the paranoid anti-Semitic forgery, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in its founding charter. Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, whose comic shows are particularly popular among young and disadvantaged Frenchmen from immigrant backgrounds, invented the now notorious "quenelle", a disguised Hitler salute. It hit the mainstream news when West Bromwich Albion striker Nicolas Anelka gave the quenelle after scoring against West Ham in December of last year. The Iranian leadership and press routinely refer to the dominance of Jewish and Zionist forces — the two terms are used more or less interchangeably — in the world.
Gabor Vona, chairman of the racist Jobbik ("better") movement in Hungary, now the third largest group in parliament, is more careful than some of his comrades. That did not stop him, however, from telling a rally in Budapest against the World Jewish Congress that, "These Israeli conquerors [Jews], these investors, should look for another country in the world for themselves, because Hungary is not for sale", accusing Hungarian "Jews" (pure and simple) of being "anti-Hungarian". Vona's arrival in Britain caused outrage among Jewish groups, and provoked demands from MPs, councillors and assembly members for his exclusion.
Traditional Jew-hatred is thousands of years old, but paranoid political anti-Semitism only goes back to the late 19th century. Central to modern anti-Semitism was anti-capitalism. Jews were seen as the vanguard of the department store, which impoverished small shopkeepers, of industrialisation, which enriched the few and exploited the many, and of the world financial system, which enslaved economies through the market and its servant, parliamentary democracy.
Adolf Hitler, for example, came to anti-Semitism via anti-capitalism, particularly of the "international" Anglo-American variety, which he accused of reducing post-First World War Germany to the status of a "colony". Senior figures on the Left saw the connection to anti-capitalism: the German Social Democrat leader August Bebel referred to anti-Semitism as a form of socialism, albeit "a socialism of fools".
Today, anti-Semitism unites a diverse but increasingly coherent coalition across classes, races and continents. Though partly feeding off hostility to Israel, its main strand is anti-capitalism and nationalist anti-globalisation. Thus Jobbik's member of parliament Marton Gyongyos claims that Hungary is "subjugated to Zionism [ie the Jews]" and a "target of colonisation". For this reason, he called on the government to establish "how many people of Jewish [not Israeli] descent there are here, and especially in the Hungarian parliament and the Hungarian government who represent a certain national security risk".
Similar sentiments are routinely expressed in Iranian, Islamist and "anti-imperialist" discourse across the world. Likewise, Nicolas Anelka is being sincere when he claims that the quenelle is an "anti-Establishment" gesture, but only if one realises that in giving it, he believes that the Establishment is run by Jews.
Recently, anti-Semites in Hungary and Iran (and elsewhere) have begun to reach out to one another. For example, the Jobbik mayor of the small town of Tiszavasvari in eastern Hungary has inaugurated a twinning arrangement with the Iranian city of Ardabil. The erstwhile anti-racism campaigner M'bala M'bala is now allied with the anti-immigrant but fellow anti-Semite Jean-Marie Le Pen; the former National Front leader is godfather to one of his children.
Global anti-Semites also combine to deny or trivialise the Holocaust; M'bala M'bala refers to it as "Shoannas", conflating the murder of six million Jews with a pineapple. In short, anti-Semites are now beginning to unite: in their eyes they have nothing to lose but the fetters of global Jewish or "Zionist" capital.
The authorities, both nationally and internationally, tend to treat anti-Semitism as routine "hate crime". This is a mistake. Other groups — such as gypsies — suffer worse discrimination on a daily basis. Nobody, however, thinks that the Roma run the world.
What is distinctive about paranoid political anti-Semitism of the stripe of Hamas, Vona and M'bala M'bala is that it is not just another prejudice but a world view. This makes it dangerous not just to Jews but to those seen as their allies, most of the Western capitalist democracies, or plutocracies, as anti-Semites (but not only they) often call them.
This fact was nowhere better illustrated than by the attack on the Twin Towers at the heart of the financial district in New York, places as remote from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem or an Israeli kibbutz as it is possible to be but intimately linked to both in the minds of the perpetrators and of the many millions who cheered them on. Likewise, the real target of Jobbik is not Israel but the agents of its "enslavement", the United States and the EU. For radical anti-Semites, the West is politically "Jewish" whether it is aware of it or not, and whether it likes it or not.
The authorities have largely kicked racism off the pitch in Europe. Now they need to banish anti-Semitism altogether. The French, who have banned further appearances by M'bala M'bala, are on the right track. So are the MPs who wanted to prevent Vona from addressing political meetings here. So too is the FA, which has called upon Anelka to explain himself. Such measures, of course, will be interpreted by anti-Semites simply as more evidence of "Jewish" subversion. That is a risk which we have to take. As writer CP Snow once said, the only way to deal with a paranoid man is to give him something to be paranoid about.


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Most of you reading this will be aware of the importance of music in Basque culture and we could quite easily dedicate an entire blog to Basque music alone. Today's Flashback Friday story concerns an interesting figure in the world of Basque music that is sometimes overlooked in studies of the topic. Sara Soto Gabiola was born in Gorliz, Bizkaia, on March 21, 1941, although her family moved to Irun, Gipuzkoa, when she was very young.
She suffered from a muscular illness as a child, which limited her ability to move around easily, and she found an escape from the physical limitation imposed on her by developing a keen appreciation for the arts: she drew and painted and was an avid reader. But in was in music that she found her true métier. Although she did undertakle some formal studies of harmony, she was largeñy self-taught.
Her first compositions, influenced strongly by the Basque artistic collective Ez Dok Amairu and in particular Lourdes Iriondo and Xabier Lete (with whom she established a lasting friendship), she started composing songs for accompaniment by the guitar. Lete wrote the lyrics for several of her compositions, including the popular "Kanta Kanta," recorded by Maria Ostiz in the late 1960s, and Iriondo recorded her song "Maitasun honek zugan dirudi" in the mid-1970s.
In the late 1970s the renowned sculptor, artist, and all-round Basque renaissance figure Nestor Basterretxea commissioned her to compose an accompanying soundtrack for what would become arguably his most famous work, the Serie Cosmogonica Vasca (Basque Cosmogonic Series), today housed in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. The result was the choral work "Karraxis," based on verses by Basterretxea, which premiered in 1979 in Donostia-San Sebastián with the Ametsa Choir from Irun and some members of the Orfeón Donostiarra choir as well. In the mid-1980s she worked with Basterretxea again to create the "Cripta," a piece for the organ inspired by the artist's murals for the crypt in the Sanctuary of Arantzazu. Although these were her best known works, she composed many more choral and organ pieces and left a profound mark on Basque music. She died in Irun in June 1999.