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I've really enjoyed seeing Your Profound Performances over the years! As a child performing in Chicago, IL at The High Chapparell, The Regal Theatre and countless talent shows in the Chicago area where You always Won! I was soooo proud of THE WIZ, The Premiere was great, seeing You as the Scarecrow melted my heart! Qunicy Jones and You and the "Off the Wall" Album made the World open their eyes wide! "Thiller" didn't sell the 1st time and then Qunicy said, wait a minute the World missed it! Don't worry!. He waited 3 months and then re-released "Thirller" and it was a big success! I will cherish my photo of Me, You and Suzanne DePasse at "The CITY OF HOPE Lifetime Achievement Awards" honoring Quincy Jones! You will truly be missed by millions! Thanks for the Memories! May JEHOVAH GOD Bless You and Keep You in Jesus' Name!
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August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson
AKA Michael Joseph Jackson
Born: 29-Aug-1958
Birthplace: Gary, IN
Died: 25-Jun-2009
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: Accident - Overdose [1]
Remains: Buried, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: See Note [2]
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute [3]
Occupation: Singer, Dancer
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: King of Pop
The proclaimed King of Pop, Michael Jackson was an icon of 20th century music, and the most enigmatic performer of the century. Raised in a tough showbusiness family, he was a natural performer thrust into the limelight at a young age. At the height of his popularity, with 1982's Thriller, he was a superstar beloved by millions. But by the time of his death, his glories had been overshadowed by plastic surgery and public trial, and a life cut short just as he was about to stage his comeback.
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MICHAEL JACKSON was awarded his own STAR on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 20, 1984. 6927 Hollywood Blvd
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The Jackson 5 (also spelled The Jackson Five, sometimes stylized The Jackson 5ive), later known as the The Jacksons, or simply Jacksons, are an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana. Founding group members Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael formed the group after performing in an early incarnation called The Jackson Brothers, which originally consisted of a trio of the three older brothers. Active from 1964 to 1990, the Jacksons played from a repertoire of R&B, soul, pop and (in the 1970s) disco. During their six-and-a-half-year Motown tenure, The Jackson 5 were one of the biggest pop-music acts of the 1970s, and the band served as the launching pad for the solo careers of their lead singers Jermaine and Michael, the latter brother later transforming his early Motown solo fame into greater success as an adult artist. The Jackson 5/The Jacksons has sold 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best selling artists of all time.
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Quincy Jones, now 81 years old, has been not just an eyewitness to the evolution of 20th century music but one of its biggest players. He started as a jazz trumpeter and an arranger, and went on to be a bandleader, a film composer and a producer. Along the way, he worked with Ray Charles, Count Basie, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Paul Simon and Michael Jackson, to name a few. He produced the world's best-selling album (Michael Jackson's Thriller) and the all-star charity single "We Are the World." He's been nominated for 79 Grammys, winning 27 of them. His seven children include actress Rashida Jones: "She's a sweet little thing, so smart," he brags.
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Jones is featured in the forthcoming documentary Distortion of Sound, about how digital compression has compromised the music that we all hear today. We caught up with him in Los Angeles for a conversation about technology and his career.
Have you seen technology change music?
Yeah, that's what changes the world. I remember when Baryshnikov first came to New York in the Sixties. I asked him, "Mikhail, how the hell did you have the guts to pull out of Russia in those days?" He said, "Quincy, very simple – television. I saw Roland Petit at the Parisian Ballet, I saw ABT in NY, and I said, 'I can do that too.'" When I look back at my own lifetime, the things I saw change the most was jet planes and television. And then we got into faxes and satellites and email, and it was over, man. The Arab Spring couldn't have happened without e-mail.
How often do you play trumpet these days?
I can never play it again – I'd die. Dizzy [Gillespie] gave me his original horn, and I can't touch it. I had a brain operation: aneurysms. I have this clip in my brain. I got letters in five languages saying I can't go through anything magnetic. Given the alternative, it's an easy choice.
What did you learn from Ray Charles?
Well, everything. We met when I was 14 years old and he was 17. He used to teach me stuff in braille. He sang back then, like Nat Cole and Charles Brown, and he played alto like Charlie Parker. There was a lot of racism going on in the Forties, but every day we used to say to the world, "Not one drop of my self-worth depends on your opinion of me."
Frank Sinatra gave you your "Q" nickname?
I was living in France and one day they said, "Grace Kelly's office called, and Mr. Sinatra wants you to bring a 55-piece orchestra down to Monte Carlo for a benefit." We took a train down and at the end of the show, he said, "Great job, kid, koo-koo." I didn't hear from him for four years and then he called me and said, "Hey, Q, this is Francis, I'm in Hawaii directing a film called None But the Brave. I heard the record you did last year with Basie." It was a waltz – I did it in 4/4 with Basie so it would swing. He said, "That's the way I like to do it too. Would you consider doing an album with Basie and me?" I said hell to the yeah, went over to Hawaii, and I didn't leave Frank until he left earth.
Do you have a memory of Michael Jackson as a musician?
We started to work on The Wiz when he was about 19. He said, "I need a producer for my album," seeing if I had a personal interest in working with him. I said, "Michael, I don't want to talk about nothing but the film." But I was trying to find things that he hadn't done before. I had this song "She's Out of My Life" that Tommy Bahler wrote when his wife left him. I was saving that for Sinatra, but I said, "I want to try this with Michael, 'cause he's never had a real life experience, a genuine relationship with a woman." I saw him at the Oscars one year – he was doing "Ben," this romantic love story to a rat! So I gave the song to him, and every time we recorded it, he cried.
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Suzanne de Passe (born July 19, 1946)[ is an American television, music and film producer as well as the co-chairman of de Passe Jones Entertainment Group.
De Passe began her career at Motown as Creative Assistant to company founder, Berry Gordy. Early in her career, de Passe helped bring the Jackson 5 to his attention during their time with Motown. She was instrumental in taking the record label to television with a host of critically acclaimed and highly rated specials, including the multiple award winning Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever produced while she was President of Motown Productions
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This is obviously just rolling out on the newly produced dolls, because almost all of the display dolls at American Girl Place in Columbus (as of May 9, 2018) had the old eyes. Except, that is, for the brand new dolls like Luciana, and the four Truly Me boy dolls. Here are some pictures to compare the eyes.
Point #1: The whites of the eye on the new eyes are bright white. Notice Luciana's eyes in the photo above and how white they look. Then, look at Gabriella's eyes in the photo, and you can see that they are a more realistic and muted shade. This problem is very noticeable on all the dolls, but more particularly on the darker skin tones. The eyes look like they are almost glowing and shining out from the face. This is caused by the fact that the white area of the eye is actually above the level of the iris and pupil. Unlike the old eyes, where the whites, the iris and the pupil are inside a clear plastic ball, the whites on the new eyes are the top layer. You can even feel a ridge with your fingernail on the new eyes, between the whites and the iris.
Point #2: The new eyes appear to be sitting slightly farther back in the head, which means that you can see in the sides of the eye. On further examination, though, we're wondering if it is not necessarily that the eyes are sitting farther back, but more that the new eyes don't fit in the eye sockets as well as the old ones. This is slightly visible in the photo of Luciana below (though it's hard to see in a photo).
Point #4: When you lay the doll's back to close their eyes, you see how thin the eyelashes are. And the eyes do not close down all the way. You still see white showing below the eyelashes.
Point #6: The pinwheel in the color of the eye is now a decal, instead of the quality molded design of previous years. This is a big deal breaker for a lot of people and something that can be no more than deliberate effort to cheapen the eyes.
More dolls that are quite noticeable with this problem are Melody and Nanea. Melody definitely has new eyes coming in on some of the dolls but not all of them yet. Nanea looks like she is in between. She almost has transitional eyes. Her whites are brighter than they should be, but the eyes seem to fit in the sockets of her head better (being a different face mold, she may just accommodate them a little better) --- though you can still see them sitting back a wee bit. When picking out my Nanea doll on Sunday, we looked through a lot of the boxed dolls, and there seemed to be variance in all of them. If you are considering her, then I would try to purchase her as soon as possible.
The Truly Me boy dolls all feature the new eyes and have this problem. The eyes fit better in #77 (the modified Addy mold), and he tended to look good almost all the time. #76 (modified Sonali mold) has a real problem, and we had trouble finding any that did not look a bit strange.
In fact, almost all of the boxed dolls at the Columbus store are the new eyes. I couldn't find a Beforver doll without them, unless it was one of the older displays. So, if you buy a doll, be sure to check the eyes. The easiest test is to lay it down and see if the eyes close all the way and the lashes are wider than the iris, but it's not fool proof. You'll know when you look at them, because the white is TOO white!
This picture below shows another comparison of Nanea and Kaya. You can see Nanea's new eyes, but they don't have bad lashes, which makes a difference. The thinner lashes look very strange.
The photos below show dolls in boxes and on display at the Columbus store in June. They all feature new eyes, and this will show just how white and odd the new eyes look. They also seem to have trouble with both eyes facing the same direction.

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Being rich is considered to be a big deal today. Above that too, if you become rich before the age of 30, then you can call it a fantasy. But I say, yes! It's no longer a fantasy and you can achieve it even at the age of 21. Don't be surprised, Just do some tweaks in your daily routine or habit and get down the trail soon.
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Grand Round: Dismantling Institutional Racism to Achieve Health Equity
Grand Round: Dismantling Institutional Racism to Achieve Health Equity
Grand Round: Dismantling Institutional Racism to Achieve Health Equity
Grand Round: Dismantling Institutional Racism to Achieve Health Equity
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May 27, 2019 - 12:00 - 13:00
Ongomiizwin - Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) and the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) are pleased to partner together for this Grand Round.
A light lunch will be provided following the Round. RSVP (below) is encouraged. Thank you!
Presenter: Ronald M. Wyatt, MD, MHA, IHI fellow, Chief Quality Officer Cook County Health System, Chicago, United States
When: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, May 27, 2019
Where: Theater A, Basic Medical Sciences, 745 Bannatyne Avenue
* Telehealth is available.
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Health equity is a key aim of quality health care, but serious disparities still exist. Health status and life expectancy among the poorest compared to other neighborhoods in cities across the U.S. show huge gaps. This session focuses on institutional racism - the structures, processes and norms that result in inequitable care and outcomes. Dismantling institutional racism is one of the elements of the five-part framework in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's paper on Achieving Health Equity published in 2016. The presenter is a co-author of that paper, and have been faculty for IHI programs about health equity. They recently developed a framework specifically related to Dismantling Institutional Racism in Health Care Organizations, which will be shared in this session.
Target Audience:
This Grand Round presentation is open to everyone.
1. Recognize institutional racism in health care organizations, and understand the harm caused to patients, providers and staff and the community.
2. Discuss racism and unconscious bias, and build will for seeing how it manifests in your organization and how to address it.
3. Apply lessons from case studies of organizations that have been working to implement the framework from the IHI Achieving Health Equity paper.
4. Discuss and compare the experience of health care organizations in the U.S., South Africa and other countries regarding institutional racism in health care.
This new framework is the result of an IHI Research and Development initiative that was conducted in 2018. It is based on a review of the literature, interviews with experts and advocates for health equity, and the experience of organizations implementing the initial five-part framework for Achieving Health Equity that was published in 2016, and other individuals and organizations working on health equity.
CHI Rounds are a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
For any questions regarding either of these events, please contact Amanda Fowler-Woods.
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BigHit Entertainment, the label behind BTS, has announced its latest boyband, TXT.
Last week (January 10), the label announced the upcoming launch of TXT. The name stands for Tomorrow X Together (pronounced Tomorrow By Together). They also unveiled the first member, Yeonjun, in a short teaser video. The clip ended with Morse code, which decodes to the word "dreaming."
Now, BigHit Entertainment has followed up the announcement with the reveal of the group's second member, Soobin. As revealed by BigHit Entertainment through a press release, 18-year-old Soobin will serve as the leader of the group.
In a statement following the initial announcement about TXT, BigHit stated: "TOMORROW X TOGETHER is a bright and youthful boyband where each member is different from one another, shining in their own way to create a synergy. Just as how their name suggests, the different members have all come together under one dream in hopes of building a new tomorrow."
Further reveals of additional members are expected in the coming days. Let's hope the final reveal culminates in a song from the group.
In the meantime, check out the two reveal trailers for Soobin and Yeonjun below.


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AlgoDynamix launches latest RAP-EQ™ analytics product at Silicon Valley Bank AI investor conference event, providing finance professionals with most informative forecasting analytics for more turbulent equity markets. These latest real time analytics products are based on decades of experience and the already very successful suite of RAP and ALDX-PI™ products.
With ever increasing global uncertainties — including trade wars, Brexit in the UK and possibly the end of the longest ever equity bull market — AlgoDynamix have just launched their latest RAP-EQ™ analytics product. The RAP-EQ™ product was designed from the ground up to be simple, very informative and especially relevant for more bearish equity market conditions. The RAP-EQ™ Down Flag(s) provide hours or days advance warning of downside market risk and the End Flag provides a clear and well-defined end point.
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Block Breakdown 2 is the upcoming sequel of the critically-acclaimed game known as Block Breakdown, made by GD Gaming Studios. Just like the predecessor, Block Breakdown 2 is primarily a puzzle game with many different modes, revolving around rotating blocks to match their color and clear them out for points. The game is also confirmed to have a story mode, just like the prequel. According to the developer, he will "attempt to do the impossible and make a better story than the original, while also trying not to stray it too far from the gameplay".
The game was first teased on the Block Breakdown page, and was originally planned to start development late May, but the team decided to start development early; their goal is to finish the game before June 2015. The game also is similar to the original in that there is a hidden story behind the events that happen in the non-canonical story mode, that nobody asides from the creator has figured out.
Continuing after the events of the last game, the story takes place in a colorful world full of blocks, made by an old Creator. However, due to some....interesting events, to say the least, the duty of keeping the world in balance has been passed on to a new creator. Thanks to the Pages of the Creator, a special set of sheets that have all the secrets to keeping the world orderly, all of the Terans from the last game, including Teisha's ghost, Bel and Oved, were able to come back and enjoy their life anew.
However, trouble was brewing once more...
On one particular day, the darkness came back. The Terans panicked, completely frightened by its return and unable to figure out why it came back if The Amalgamation was defeated. The land was in utter chaos, just as it has first been during the Crafto Massacre. Our heroes from the last adventure, Teisha, Bel, and Oved, try to fend off the darkness, but it simply flees to another location. As they run away in a certain direction, the inhabitants finally realize why it's back: something is tearing apart the Page of the Creators!
Teisha and the two Sphirs eventually manage to make their way up to the altar where the page is being held; sure enough, it was slowly ripping apart. Stepping forward, Teisha manages to drive away most of the darkness, only to notice that a new swarm is coming. Bel says that Teisha must take the page and make a wish for the darkness to go away, so that time can rewrite itself. Teisha is conflicted on whether to stop the incoming swarm first or to wish right away. She eventually decides to make a wish, but just as she finishes, a bolt of dark lightning strikes her....
Teisha's ghost, overridden by pain, vanishes into the air, seemingly dead. However, the land starts to glow as she goes away; her wish just barely managed to take effect. Cracks start appearing in the ground as a large tremor shakes the world, with Bel and Oved left to see the wish come true. The crack, however, only continues to grow and grow, as if the world were splitting apart. Finally, a beam of light rises from inside the crack, shooting out something in the process, while the cracks slowly merged together to create solid land once more. The mysterious object lands, revealing a caped figure with a hexagonal head.
Bel and Oved cannot believe her eyes. When Teisha wished for everything to go back to the way it was, she had brought back a living Crafto!
The Crafto gets up slowly, almost as if he were too weak to move, and slowly limps his way towards the dumbfounded Bel and Oved. The Crafto isn't really one for introductions, as his first words are insulting Bel and Oved for not keeping his land in order. He introduces himself as Archis, the last living Crafto in the world. He states that he was the only one with the ability to withstand the force of The Amalgamation. After returning to the surface, Archis makes it clear that he will be the one to bring back the world in the image that "the Creator would've wanted it", and proceeds to fight Bel and Oved.
Bel and Oved stand no chance against the darkness as they don't have Teisha's power, so they are quickly defeated. As Archis is lifted away to continue his "job", the duo realize that the Crafto needs to be stopped. However, with Teisha gone from the Crafto universe, they don't have a hero to rely on. As they head back to their living place, unaware of what to do, Oved comes up with the idea of creating a new Teran out of something else, just like how the Creator made them out of blocks. Bel agrees and manages to find a stack of paper, bringing it out. Bel and Oved concentrate all their power into crafting a new Teran for them... but it doesn't work, as they don't have enough power.
Bel and Oved are torn between how to fix the situation, when Bel realizes that there's only one thing they can do to make a Teran, even though it will come at a cost of their lives. Bel and Oved say one last goodbye, and concentrate their power on each other, slowly fusing into one Sphir. After the process is complete, the new Sphir wakes up, realizing that their body is back into one piece; this means that the Crafto Massacre must have been resolved. With the united mind of both Bel and Oved, this new Sphir concentrates immense power into crafting the new Teran, and it just barely manages to work!
When the living Teran wonders where he is, the Sphir introduces themself as "The Beloved", and that they have called him on a quest to reunite the lands. This new hero is a little confused at first, but eagerly decides to help anyways; he then asks what his name is. The Beloved freezes for a minute as they never thought of a name, but quickly decides to call him "Mâché" due to his origins. Now that he knew who he was, Mâché quickly gets up from his creation spot and gets ready to start his quest, with the Beloved helping him learn what he needs to know to take on Archis.
With Mâché's newfound power, he takes on all sorts of different puzzles, slowly bridging the remains of the Crafto World together by clearing out the darkness and the Shadow Blocks that reside there, all while learning more about The Beloved, the world around him, and who he really is. The Beloved is constantly cheering him on, giving him praise such as "you're awesome" or "I love you", but Mâché never understands these expressions of emotion.
Eventually, Mâché is able to make a path to a strange, ominous castle of darkness, where Archis resides. After overcoming all of the traps and guards that Archis had created, Mâché and The Beloved finally confront Archis himself, sitting in a throne of pitch black. He attempts to scare Mâché away, knowing that he would give in easily, but Mâché stands tall. However, Archis points out that a sheet of paper could never defeat a true Crafto, which manages to confuse Mâché.
Archis manages to explain that Mâché was never a true Teran, and that The Beloved had been lying to him the entire time. When Mâché looked back and wondered if it was true, The Beloved, torn by Archis's twisted truths, has no choice but to say yes. Mâché drops on the ground, disappointed and unknowing of who he really is. At that moment, a swarm of darkness struck Mâché: it was Archi's plan all along to tug at Mâché's emotions to weaken him. The Beloved tries desperately to wake Mâché up, but it all amounts to nothing.
The screen shifts to show Mâché alone in a dark room, supposedly stuck somewhere in his own mind. He tries nervously to escape, going through all his worst fears of not knowing who he is or what he's worth, and finds nothing. Eventually, Mâché realizes that if he wants to escape the darkness, he needs to be brave: after realizing the very truth that Teisha had first discovered, the darkness finally shows up all around him. Now that his enemy is revealed, he gets ready to battle, using the one item that could clear the way: the Bonus Spheres.
Mâché manages to break through the darkness and find a path made of light. This allows him to wake up in the real world, quickly taking on Archis as revenge for all the pain and suffering he's caused.
After a long and difficult battle, Mâché manages to come out on top, expelling the darkness that was controlling Archis. Archis slowly gets back up from his defeat, his cape all torn up, revealing a shadowy body. He slowly manages to state that the darkness will never lose, as he is slowly covered in shadow and vanishes away, leaving behind something. However, before The Beloved and Mâché can check it out, bolts of dark lightning start crashing all across the castle. Now that the one thing holding the pages together has been defeated, the whole Crafto world slowly disappears into the shadow....
Mâché and The Beloved eventually wake up in a dark area, similar in looks to the Crafto universe, but much more evil-looking if anything. One surprise that comes to the crew is that Teisha's ghost landed among them too. When Teisha wakes up and notices The Beloved and Mâché, she asks what's happening. After a brief explanation break, Teisha realizes that her wish must have been partially corrupted by the darkness, turning herself into a fake Crafto that she couldn't even control. The group of 3 decide to get up and figure out how exactly to stop the darkness. They all come to an agreement that it is probably most powerful around the altar where the Page was torn, and must make their way back there.
After reaching the altar, their suspicions are confirmed as the darkness seems extremely unstable there, with an eerily grotesque heart hovering where the page was. Mâché and Teisha try to take it on, but a peculiar spiral of darkness stops them. The same sea of darkness that
Mâché encountered earlier begins to swallow and devour the very altar that the two heroes are standing on, and Teisha and Mâché must quickly defeat the sea of darkness.
Just when all hope seems lost, the group hears an odd voice. The voice states that it is the New Creator, who has barely managed to overcome the tearing of the page. He says that to take on The Darkness, you will need the very same thing that tore the page to weaken the seal. Teisha is confused as all the Craftos are dead, but the Creator asks that Teisha takes off her head hood. Reluctantly, she complies to the Creator's commands...
...as she does, The Beloved takes note of her peculiar head shape, which actually has a small curved bump across the top. The Beloved says that Teisha is an Impure, and they explain that it is the result of a cross between a Teran and a Crafto. Mâché realizes that this is how Teisha was able to take the form of a Crafto even though she was raised as a Teran her whole life. With this newfound knowledge, Teisha and Mâché work together to take down the seal that holds the heart.
Eventually, the Impure and Teran copy are able to take down all the parts of the seal, which weakens the darkness. As a last resort, however, a swarm of darkness shows up and forms a monstrous shape: with blood red eyes and 3 familiar colors, the group instantly recognizes it as Mummther, the true leader of the darkness and the puppet behind the Amalgamation.
After teaming up to overcome Mummther's traps, Teisha and Mâché bring down Mummther, seemingly expelling the darkness for good. The darkness does leave behind a familiar face, however; it was the body of Caesar, the Teran from the last adventure that was able to uncover the texts of the Creator, having been captured by The Darkness so that they would know the secrets behind the creator. He wakes up and realizes where he is, and begins apologizing for his actions. The Beloved explains that the reason the darkness knew to go for the pages is because they were controlling his mind, and accepts the apology.
The happy times are cut short, however, when a swarm of darkness erupts from the Dark Heart's case, which was somehow revived in short time. It begins pumping out more darkness, and Teisha begs that they stop the Dark Heart for good. Mâché does not act; rather, he thinks for a minute and then communicates his thoughts to The Beloved, which shocks them a lot.
When Teisha asks what Mâché said, they explain that Mâché believes there will always be darkness that makes their people suffer, and that the only way to eternally get rid of the dark heart is to have the world be destroyed, just as it once was by the old Creator. Teisha does not believe this statement at all and chooses to attack the Dark Heart on her own, but she is quickly overpowered and consumed; turning the Dark Heart into a terrifying dark shadow of Teisha, with her ghostly remains floating all around. Mâché gets ready for one last battle against his very own predecessor.
After Teisha's ultimate defeat, she vanishes once more with the darkness, dead for good. The Beloved says that Teisha's one wish was to defend her home to the very end, no matter what it would take, and ultimately believes that she got her wish through her defeat. The Beloved, Caesar, and Mâché continue outside and call upon the Creator's power to destroy the world, with the pages in hand. The creator's hand from the first game eventually appears in the form of multiple chains, pulling up the world of darkness into the light.
A few remaining dark survivors try to attack the chains, but they prove to be unbreakable as the darkness is easily destroyed. They then attempt to shift their attack on the 3 heroes. The Beloved grows worried for what will happen, and Caesar runs ahead to try and stop the darkness. The Beloved then turns towards Mâché, and tells about how even though they weren't natural, they still felt real in some form, and that they love him. Mâché is rather confused, and then begins concentrating to tell The Beloved something. The Beloved only is able to make out parts of it, something about "I" and "you" and the sort.
Right before the world is about to be destroyed by the light, Mâché manages to speak his very first and very last words:
"I love you too."
The two, joined by Caesar who has managed to expel the darkness, watch as their world starts to slowly fade into white, their bodies and spirits all fading away. Even if they were physically gone, they would never truly be forgotten, and the legend of Block Breakdown would be passed on from generation to generation.
In the final, post-credits scene, a basket of blocks are shown locked inside a closet, alongside a now taped-up set of pages.
Are you ready to figure out the REAL story? Good luck!
Puzzle Gameplay
The Basics
Here's the stuff you need to know: you start off on a simple screen divided into two sides by a large, grey bar. Your character is on one side, and your opponent is on the other. Every side has a large, square grid in it, where colorful blocks fall from the top of the grid, filling up the grid.
Tapping a block will allow you to rotate the order of all the blocks around it. With this in mind, your goal is to rotate blocks around so that you get a row of blocks that are all the same color. Making a row will clear it from the grid, and store its color into the gray line. The next set of blocks will fall down from the top of the grid, and players are encouraged to combo multiple rows of color at once.
Cleared rows will leave behind lights of different colors on the gray bar. As you clear more rows of that color, the light will grow in size. What does this light do? You can drag a light onto a square, transforming it and any squares around it into that color, allowing for combos to be made easily. The bigger the light you place, the larger the radius of transforming blocks, so focusing on one color of blocks might come in handy.
Ultimately, your goal is to reach a certain score of points in whatever ways you can - from clearing out rows of blocks, to filling sections of the grid with one color, or even stragetically setting up 1 massive combo at a time. The first player to reach the goal score will win the match!
Complex Puzzle
Complex Puzzle Mode puts your thinking skills to the ultimate test. How, you might ask? By limiting the number of turns you can use. In incraments of ten, you can set from 30 to 100 turns. A turn is used up whenever you place a color light, or confirm a rotation. This adds a huge layer of strategy to your game, as your options become very limited.
Players compete to gain the highest score they can with their limited moves, meaning that thinking things through far in time is required to get the most of your game. In addition, players will also gain 5 extra turns whenever they clear a row, forcing the competitors to decide whether they want to bulk up their turns as quickly as possible, or focus on getting the largest score with the tools you're given right away.
Speed Puzzle
Speed Puzzle focuses less on strategizing and more on quick thinking. This mode adds a time limit to the puzzle, anywhere between 1 and 10 minutes in increments of a minute, meaning that players must work as fast as they can to earn points. This is proven to be more of a challenge than it looks, as color lights are nowhere to be found in this mode, which leaves the player to test their row-making skills.
Shadowed Puzzle
Shadowed Puzzle is essentially ramping up the Standard Puzzles up to an 11 difficulty. Your goal is mostly the same: you've got a set goal score to reach and you want to get it done before anyone else, using the rotations and colored lights. What sets this apart from the Standard Puzzle, however, is the ominous Shadow Block lurking throughout the fight.
The Shadow Block is the ultimate mischief maker around these parts, and he'll mess with your game in every way possible to prevent you from getting to your goal. For example, he might cast a shadow over a certain part of your board, preventing you from seeing what blocks are there. He can turn certain blocks into stone so that they can't be rotated at all, or swapping chunks of blocks around. Because of all the ways he can change up the game, the Shadow Block is nearly unpredictable.
Capture Puzzle
Capture Puzzle, just like the standard puzzle, focuses on you trying to reach a set score before your opponent does. The way that you get points, however, is substantially different. Rather than forming rows, you'll have special objects on the field called Bonus Spheres, which take up about 4 blocks, and come in a multitude of colors.
To get points, you need to surround the Bonus Spheres in a square of blocks that share a color. You'll get plenty of points if you encover a Bonus Sphere with blocks that share the same color as the item, but you won't get as many if the blocks and the Bonus Sphere are different colors.
Color Puzzle
Color Puzzle is a mode that focuses primarily on the color lights. Just like the usual game, you want to clear out rows, but they won't give you points. You only get points from placing colored lights on the grid, which rather than permanently transforming all blocks around it to one color, will transform all the blocks into the color it shows and then disappear.
Because of this new mechanic, the ways that you can play change completely. The choice to use your lights right away or build them up for a bigger blast plays a much larger role now. In addition, if you use a light and create another row or square with it, you'll get extra points, making placement a key part.
Gift Puzzle
In Gift Puzzle, you'll get to make use of the Gift Items that you'd purchase for Story Mode in a standard puzzle match. Unlike most modes, in Gift Puzzle, you already have a set score listed for you; 100,000 points. You can still get points from clearing rows (glowing lights are absent from this mode) but it won't be as much as the usual score. Rather, the point of the mode is to earn Gifts, which can then be used to hinder your opponents and lower their scores.
Players recieve Gifts through a special Gift Roulette. It has 3 slots, and every time a player clears a row, a slot fills. After all 3 slots are filled, the 4th row cleared will stop the roulette, landing on an item; as such, the player stopping the roulette can potentially affect how good of an item his opponents will get. Then, the roulette will create 3 copies of that item to distribute among the players who cleared rows and filled slots. The players can then select items to affect a target's score, and the player with the highest score after a set time wins.
Gift Puzzle is one of 2 unlockable modes. You can unlock it by clearing the battle against Archis and having used at least one gift in the story mode.
Anything Goes Puzzle
Anything Goes Puzzle is the custom mode of the game, where you can craft your own choices for puzzle matches, the way you want them. You can add a time or turn limit to mimic the Speed and Complex Puzzles, turn on Bonus Spheres and Bonus Color Lights to represent Capture and Color Puzzles, enable Shadow Havoc from the Shadow Mode, and enable the Gift Roulette from Gift Puzzle.
There's also a special version of Anything Goes Puzzle called Switch Puzzle. Switch Puzzle will start off with a random setup, and after certain timeframes, it will switch to a completely new setup, making your goal completely random and unknown until you actually get the mode. No matter what options you set up, the goal remains the same as the normal puzzle: to reach a set score that can be customized as well.
Anything Goes Puzzle is one of 2 unlockable modes. You can complete it by winning at least one match on every other puzzle mode on Hard difficulty or higher (this includes Gift Puzzle, which means that Anything Goes Puzzle will always be the last mode to unlock).
Gift Shop
One of the big new features in the game is the Gift Shop. In the Gift Shop, players can buy all sorts of neat things using points. Points are earned at the end of a puzzle match; if you win, you generally get the amount of points that your goal was set to, and there are also plenty of bonus objectives that can be cleared for extra points as well.
The main thing that you can buy are Gift Items. Gift Items are mysterious tokens that can be used in the Story Mode. They have special functions when used in a puzzle match, and you can hold up to 3 of them at a time. Buying a Gift for the first time also unlocks the ability to earn it during the Gift Roulette of Gift Puzzle. Once you've bought a certain type of gift for the first time, you can also equip one as a Battle Token. Battle Tokens are Gift Items that can be used in Online Mode and in regular modes.
There are also some neat extras you can get from the Gift Shop! You can buy parts of the soundtrack to listen to at any time (provided you've heard them once already!) as well as special models of the characters you encounter. Probably the most unique option is the Avie Maker. You can create your very own Teran avatar to use during local and online multiplayer, and with points you can buy cool new costumes and outfits for your Teran to wear. You can also use the Avies you've made and the models you've bought in a special Photo Studio where you can take clever snapshots.
|Mâché is the main protagonist of the game, and an attempt by Bel and Oved to recreate the lost hero of the Creator's lands. Immediately after his creation, he is tasked with the important job of uniting the lands in order to reach Archis, just like the missing Teran who performed the same duty aeons before him.
|The Beloved
|Attempting to undo the chaos Archis has brought upon the Crafto universe is a unique case in that one would be better than two: in order to garner the magic power to create an all new Teran, the two bid one last adieu and form into their original form again, known as The Beloved. The Beloved is the true last Sphir remaining, and split itself into two as a survival tactic during the massacre.
|Following Teisha's wish with the page of the Creator, the world cracks open in a familiar scene to Bel and Oved, releasing a Crafto who had survived for aeons after the massacre. Corrupted both externally and interally by the Amalgamation, he desires to cover the world in darkness to recreate the image that the old Creator "wanted".
|Widely known as the hero of the Creator's universe, she risked her life to rescue the almighty Sphirs, defeat The Amalgamation, and save the Creator from his dark struggles. As a spirit, she watched over the reunited Residue Isles to keep peace, but when darkness struck, she was left in a position of do or die: and unfortunately, she was brought with both.
|Sea of Darkness
|Darkness is a vile power that is released whenever the Creator is going through tough times and begins to weaken. Their only goal is to consume and destroy everything in sight to make a new, darkness-covered land: the more they break through into the Crafto world, the more powerful they become. If the darkness manage to capture their prey or corner them, they begin invading the mind and destroying them inside out.
|Mummther was a ruthless monster of darkness who did everything in his abilities to prevent Teisha from reuniting the Residue Isles. His appearance in that game and the creation of The Amalgamation was an elaborate plan to steal away Caesar, being able to learn the key to destroying the Creator's world, and his true dark soul reveals himself to be the puppet holding the strings for the whole ordeal, ready to unleash his full power to take over the universe.
|Dark Heart
|A grotesque, human-like heart that actually belongs to Mummther; you can see it right by staring into the heart-shaped hole in his body. The beat of this heart is what energizes the darkness, with each pump making more and more evil that is released into the world. As Mummther is the main cause of the darkness, his death would render the heart unable to circulate darkness throughout the world; but does darkness ever truly die...?
|Caesar was a knowledgeable Teran who was unraveling the secrets of the Creator through a mystic text. He was one of the few friends Teisha ever had and the two shared a bond like those of siblings, but he "died" fighting The Amalgamation. He was later revealed to be held hostage by the darkness, reluctantly challenging everything he loved in an attempt to recreate his beloved world.
|The Creator
List of Items
Below is a list of all 25 Gift Items in the game.
Caesar's Texts
Caesar's Texts are a compilation of notes from Caesar that must be deciphered in order to learn more about the game. It provides info on bits of the true story, neat secrets, and more. Also hidden with the notes is a list of accomplishments that must be achieved to uncover more information.
- Start up the game.
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- Complete the main Story.
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- Complete 1 Puzzle.
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- Complete 10 Puzzles.
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- Complete 100 Puzzles.
- RULJLQDO: Wkhuh zdv d Fuhdwru zkr olyhg idu ehiruh wklv rqh, dqg kh olyhg d fduhiuhh olih zlwk klv zlog lpdjlqdwlrq.
- Complete 1,000 Puzzles.
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- Complete 10,000 Puzzles.
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- Complete 100,000 Puzzles.
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- Complete 1,000,000 Puzzles.
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- Use "Shadow Block" 10 times in Gift Puzzle.
- ZKDW DUH WKHB: Wkh Vkdgrz Eorfnv duh d pbvwhulrxv kbeulg, olnh wkh Lpsxuh. Wkhb gdwh edfn wr wkh wlph ri wkh Sdqgrud'v Era.
- Use "The Rock" 10 times in Gift Puzzle.
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- Use "Mode Box" 10 times in Gift Puzzle.
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- Use the Shadow Block Token in Shadowed Puzzle.
- WKH SXSSHW: Dv gdunqhvv juhz dqg wlph zdv wklq, wkh Sdqgrud'v Era zdv uheruq, d vzluolqj pdvv ri doo wklqjv hylo. Wklv Dpdojdpdwlrq zdv wkh zrun ri vrphrqh hovh wkdw wkh Fuhdwru frxogq'w vwrs dorqh.
- Bridge 10 pieces of the world together.
- WHLVKD: Wkh hwhuqdo khur ri wkh Uhvlgxh Lvohv dv hqjudyhg lq wkh pdunlqjv ri Sdqgrud'v Era. Wkh vslulw ri wkh ruljlqdo Fuhdwru lv ghdg, dv lv vkh.
- WKH ORVW KRSH: WHudq Lq VKDgrz, grrphg wr eh wkh hqg ri wkh zruog...
- Defeat Archis.
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- WZR ZRUOGV: Rqh sxoohg eb gdun, rqh sxoohg eb oljkw...erxqg eb wkh Lpsxuh wr hwhuqdoob iljkw.
- Win 10 Complex Puzzles.
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- Win 10 Speed Puzzles.
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- Win 10 Shadowed Puzzles.
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- Win 10 Capture Puzzles.
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- Win 10 Color Puzzles.
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- Win 10 Gift Puzzles.
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- Win 20 Anything Goes Puzzles.
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- Finish a round of Complex Puzzle using less than 30 turns.
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- Score over 30,000 points in under 5 minutes of a Speed Puzzle.
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- Clear a Bonus Sphere with blocks of the same color as the sphere in Capture Puzzle.
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- Clear the entire grid with 1 light in Color Puzzle.
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- Take up all 3 slots of the Gift Roulette in Gift Puzzle.
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- Purchase 1 of every Gift Item.
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- Purchase 1 of every Battle Token.
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- Purchase the entire soundtrack.
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- Earn 1,000,000 points total.
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- WKH VWRUB...: ...lw zloo qhyhu hqg...dqg lw kdvq'w hyhq ehjxq.
- Buy everything in the Shop that isn't restockable.
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- Win a match by using a Gift Item.
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- Use Lights 50 times.
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- Uncover every other piece of text.
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- After reaching Teisha's death point in the storyline, the title screen changes to reflect the much more serious mode, with a dark black and red background and an updated logo. This special opening disappears once you reclaim a piece of the Isles for the first time, and can be set as a definitive opening after beating Mummther.
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Here's some easy ways to customizing your hoverboard that won't leave you broke. I'm working on a bigger and better guide, but it is still in the process of being finished. In the meantime, you should visit my blog on hoverboarding. But first I need some feedback from you. What things are you interested in doing to your hoverboards/self-balancing scooter?
I know: spinners!
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Learning basic MySQL commands: Part II
This is the continuation of "MySQL basic commands I", in this part we'll cover:
- How to use the SELECT command to retrieve records (continuation)
- How to use basic functions, the WHERE clause, and the GROUP BY clause
- How to select from multiple tables, using JOIN
Using WHERE in your queries:
So far we've cover how to retrieve particular columns from your table, but not how to extract particular rows. This is when the WHERE clause comes in to play. From the basic SELECT syntax, you see that WHERE is used to specify a particular condition:
SELECT expressions_and_columns FROM table_name [WHERE some_condition_is_true]
An example would be to retrieve all the records for items with a quantity of 500:
SELECT * FROM grocery_inventory WHERE curr_qty = 500;
As shown previously, if you use an integer as the WHERE clause comes in to play. From part of your WHERE clasue, quotation marks are not required. Quotation marks are required around strings and the same rules apply with regard to escaping characters.
Using Operators in the WHERE Clause:
You've used the equal sign = in your WHERE clauses to determine the truth of a condition– is one thing equal to another. You can use many types of operators, with comparison operators and logical operators being the most popular types.
Comparison Operators, shown in the next table, should look familiar:
Operator Meaning
= Equal to
!= Not equal to
<= Less than or equal to
< Less than
>= Greater than or equal to
> Greater than
There's also a handy operator called BETWEEN, which is useful with integer or data comparisons because it searches for results between a minimum and maximum value, For example:
SELECT * FROM grocery_inventory WHERE item_price BETWEEN 1.50 AND 3.00;
Other operator include logical operators which enable you to use multiple comparisons within your WHERE clause. The basic logical operators are AND and OR. When using AND, all comparisons in the clause must be true to the WHERE clause comes in to play. From retrieve results, whereas using OR allows a minimum of one comparison to be true.
String Comparison Using LIKE:
We've seen matching strings within a WHERE clause by using = or !=, but there's another useful operator for the WHERE clause comes in to play. From string comparisons: LIKE. This operator uses two characters as wildcards in pattern matching.
% — Matching multiple characters
_ —- Matching exactly one character
If you want to find records in the grocery_inventory table where the first name of the item starts with the letter "A", use
SELECT * FROM grocery_inventory WHERE item_name LIKE 'A%';
Selecting from Multiple Tables:
You're not limited to selecting only one table at a time. That would certainly make application programming a long and tedious task! When you select from more than one table in one SELECT statement you are said to be joining the tables together.
Suppose you have two tables. Fruit and Color. You can select all rows from each of the two tables, using two separate SELECT statements:
SELECT * FROM fruit;
SELECT * FROM color;
When you want to select from both tables at once, there are a few differences int the syntax of the SELECT statement. First, you must ensure that all the tables you're using in your query appear in the FROM clause of the SELECT statement. Using the fruit and color example if you simply want to select all columns and rows from both tables, you might think you would use the following SELECT statement:
SELECT * FROM fruit, color;
Sixteen rows of repeated information is probably not what you we're going for, what this query did is literally join a row in the color table to each row int the fruit table. Because there are four records in the fruit table and four entries int the color table that's 16 records returned to you.
When you select from multiple tables, you must build proper WHERE clauses to ensure you really get what you want, In the case of the fruit and color tables, what your really want is to see the fruitname and colorname records from there two tables where the id's of each match up. This brings us to the next part: how to indicate exactly which field you want when the fields are named the same in both tables!
Simply, you append the table name to the field name, like this:
So, the query for selecting fruitname and colorname from both tables where the id's match would be:
SELECT fruitname, colorname FROM fruit, color WHERE fruit.id = color.id;
However, if you attempt to select a column that appears in both tables with the same name, you will get an error.
SELECT id, fruitname, colorname FROM fruit, color WHERE fruit.id = color.id;
If you mean to select the id from the fruit table you would use:
SELECT fruit.id, fruitname, colorname FROM fruit, color WHERE fruit.id = color.id;
This was a basic example of joining two tables together for use in a single SELECT query. The JOIN keyword is an actual part of SQL, which enables you to build more complex queries.
Using JOIN:
Several types of JOINs can be used in MySQL, all of which refer to the order in which the tables are put together and the results are diplayed. the type of JOIN used with the fruit and color tabgles is called an INNER JOIN, although it wasn't written explicitly as such. To rewrite the SQL statement using the proper INNER JOIN syntax, you would use:
SELECT fruitname, colorname FROM fruit INNER JOIN color ON fruit.id = color.id;
The ON clause replaced the WHERE clause, in this instance telling MySQL, to join together the rows in the tables where the id's match each other. When joining tables using ON clauses, you can use any condition that you would use in the WHERE clause, including all the various logical and arithmetic operators.
Another common type of JOIN is the LEFT JOIN. When joining two tables with LEFT JOIN, all rows from the first table will be returned, no matter if there are matches in the second table or not. Suppose you have two tables in an address book, one called master_name, containing basic records and one called email, containing email records. Any records in the email table would be tied to a particular id of a record in the master_name table.
SELECT * FROM master_name;
SELECT * FROM email;
Using LEFT JOIN on these two tables, you can see that if a value from the email table doesn't' exist, NULL will appear in place of an email address:
SELECT firstname, lastname, email FROM master_name LEFT JOIN email ON master_name.name.id = email.name_id;
A RIGHT JOIN works like LEFT, but with the table order reversed, in other workds, when using a RIGHT JOIN, all rows from the second table will be returned no matter whether there are matches in the first table or not.
SELECT firstname, lastname, email FROM master_name RIGHT JOIN email ON master_name.name_id = email.name_id;
Several different types of JOINs are available in MySQL, if you want to learn more about the types ofJOIN's like CROSS JOIN, STRAIGHT JOIN, NATURAL JOIN, visit the MySQL manual.


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Although Rock Island passenger trains first came through Oelwein in 1877, the company that earned Oelwein its nickname as the Hub City was the Chicago Great Western, which was founded in 1892.
The CGW found that Oelwein's central location between Kansas City-Minneapolis and Omaha-Chicago made it ideal as a hub for its passenger and freight divisions. All mainlines of the Great Western passed through the Fayette County city.
The company began negotiating with Oelwein landowners to acquire 1,500 acres to build its shops in spring 1894, according to the Dubuque Herald.
With the expected addition of thousands of new rail employees to Oelwein, and conductors and brakemen scrambling to find housing for their families, a Chicago contractor was hired to build 110 cottages to either rent or sell to shop employees.
mammoth shops
Construction of the 10-stall, 180,000-square-foot roundhouse began in 1898. It was completed in 1899 at a cost of $250,000.
The shop structures were built of stone, pressed brick and steel with tile roofs. The principal buildings were:
• The powerhouse, 43-by-120 feet with a 130-foot smoke stack, had a boiler room with three 200-horsepower boilers to produce steam for the electric dynamos that provided power and light for the complex, the steam pump and the heating for all the buildings. The building included the 43-by-53 foot wheelhouse, where a revolving electric crane picked up sets of wheels and placed them on a moving table for distribution. Tunnels, measuring 5-by-6 feet, contained electric wires, steam and exhaust pipes connected to the pump house.
• The freight car repair shop, 30-by-460 feet, included a storehouse for lumber and a woodworking shop building for repairing cars and coaches. Adjoining the repair shop were the blacksmith shop with a mammoth steam hammer and the paint shops, lighted by glass tiles in the roof.
• The transfer table moved the cars, coaches and locomotives between shops and placed them on tracks when the work was done.
• The two-story main shop, the monster building of them all, 94-by-702 feet, had the machine, boiler and coach shops. In the main room, 15 to 20 locomotives were always under repair. Two traveling electric cranes could lift 30,000 to 160,000 pounds. The east end had the company offices. The west end contained the coach repair shop.
• The two-story clubhouse for employees had lockers, showers and bathrooms on the lower level and a library/reading room on the upper level. It also was used for social gatherings.
even bigger
In 1903, construction began on a major addition to the roundhouse.
The Great Western shops and roundhouses were already the largest in the state, where all of the general repair work and overhauling of engines was done. Shops at Fort Dodge, Clarion and Omaha were used only for light overhauls.
When steam locomotives were converted to diesel engines in spring 1948, the railroad needed fewer employees and many workers were laid off from the shops.
Some of the now empty space at the facility was marked for rental to local industry. By fall, the CGW decided that some of that space would go to railcar repair and other heavy work, and some employees were called back to work.
The shops had once employed 1,000 workers — boilermakers, pipe fitters, foundry workers — and the number dropped to 500, mostly office workers, trainmen, engine men and machinists. Even so, the Great Western was still the Oelwein's main employer with a payroll of more than $3 million.
merger, layoffs
Talk about merging the Great Western with Chicago & North Western began in 1961, with an agreement reached in April 1967. The Soo Line contested the merger, delaying it until February 1968 when Soo Line was allowed more access points.
When the deal was finalized, the Chicago Great Western ceased to exist at 12:01 a.m. July 1, 1968, throwing the future of the Oelwein diesel repair shops in doubt.
By 1979, the shops were employee-owned and were again the city's biggest employer with 225 workers doing complete locomotive rebuilds and reclamations.
When the Oelwein shops finally closed in March 1994, the Chicago & North Western left a souvenir for the Oelwein railway museum — a 238,000-pound, faded yellow, 1950s FP7 locomotive.
The Transco Specialty railroad repair branch plant in Oelwein repainted the engine in CNW colors — maroon, red, gold and black — before putting it on display near the museum.
The Transco company continues to repair train cars in shop space it bought from the C&NW in northwest Oelwein.
Most of the shops were demolished in 2010 by the then-owner, the Union Pacific Railroad.
As for the Chicago Great Western, most of its rails were abandoned after the 1968 merger. Today, what remains has been turned into biking and hiking trails.
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Sodium azide, an explosive chemical used in auto-mobile airbags, is made by the following reaction:
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If you combine 15.0 g of NaNO3 with 15.0 g of NaNH2, what mass of NaN3 is produced?
The mass of produced in the given reaction has to be determined.
Concept introduction:
The balanced chemical reaction equation for the given reaction is,
The amount (moles) of available can be calculated by using the equation.
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The season of Advent is about preparing. We prepare for Christmas by making travel plans, buying presents, and decorating. This is also a season to remember that we are waiting for Jesus to return. We are reminded to empty ourselves of what we are too full of. We prepare for Christ by making room for love, mercy, and faith to grow. It is a way of life to live expectantly for the fulfillment of God's greatest dream for us. Browse the following links to learn the latest news and make plans for celebrating Christmas Eve with your "church family"!
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This week I had the good fortune to attend the Games for Change festival at the New School's Parsons School of Design. The festival opened with two statistics: over half of the presenters were women, and there was more diversity among presenters than ever before. Games, many said, are at the center of the tech universe, making up a $90 billion + market. And we are just at the start of the game revolution. Over two days at the festival, I was able to catch a variety of presenters, from an Italian protest artist to a virtual reality demo involving … Keep goin'
Over the past two months I've been devoting most of my game development time to fleshing out the story of Kore. The game has morphed into an odd textured autobiography, which I'm not sure is legal in a game — so we will see how this plays out. Since the last post, I've been continuing my research including taking game design courses, reading relevant books, talking to other app builders, testing out paper prototypes, and assessing the pros/cons of online game builders. As I move forward to create the first digital prototype, I thought more about whether or not I … Keep goin'
Based on the myth of Persephone (Kore) and Demeter, Kore: The Mysteries takes the player through a series of trials inspired by the ancient Eleusinian mysteries. The artwork will come later, but for now I'm finding free images online, like this one of the game's guide / mentor Ekati (Hecate — the ancient goddess of the crossroads, also known as the "bitch goddess"). I've started to build out wireframes to test the idea (for the first level) and I will be seeking playtesters soon. As can be expected, the wireframes are very crude — but I'm having a blast putting … Keep goin'
Back in college, I worked full-time to pay for my tuition and books, my apartment, and everything else life charges you (food, clothes, cupcakes). My daily commute from the University of Washington to my job in Seattle's industrial area did not allow much time between classes and work to worry about finding (or paying for) parking. Until then I would bicycle commute about 20 miles round trip, which wasn't that fast (or pleasant behind semi-trucks for roughly half of the trip). So, I did the only logical thing: I signed up for motorcycle school, a one-day intensive training. Then, I … Keep goin'
I was riding right along with Jesse Schell in his book The Art of Game Design, right until about page 102, when he started exploring the relation of player demographics to game design. For instance, is this statement, from page 102, true or false? "The majority of videogames are played by boys and men." BZZT! (That means, no — not true.) Just to set the stage, the version of this book I'm reading was from 2008. Not the dark ages, but almost a decade ago. New research and ideas about how women play games has emerged since that time. As … Keep goin'
You've seen your Facebook feed. It ain't all fun and games out there. Could Gamification be applied to topple the oligarch? Defeat the mortal enemy? Can gamification solve our problems? Well, let's see. What is gamification, anyway? According to Merriam Webster (sorry Wikipedia — I've moved up) gamification is "the process of adding games or game-like elements to something (as a task) so as to encourage participation." What are game-like elements? Game-like elements include PBLs (points, badges, and leaderboards), a collection of things (coins, fake cash/gold, etc), and customization (making something uniquely yours) among other things. Certainly the newly emerged … Keep goin'
I worked my way through college at an armored car company. [You may react/gasp here in this space.] As part of the job, I screened potential armored car drivers and other employees responsible for cash processing. As you can imagine, the screening process intended to weed out those who should not have guns, money, and your armored vehicle simultaneously. One of the tools we used to avoid hiring potential hijackers was a personality assessment. If you haven't seen one, they generally ask a long list of questions, often the same questions with different wording. I would score the test, which … Keep goin'


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Andy Carroll says Dimitri Payet's dispute with West Ham won't destroy team spirit.
The giant striker scored twice as Slaven Bilic's men dismantled Middlesbrough and triggered home boss Aitor Karanka's bizarre grumble about the Riverside fans.
Fit-again Carroll , who took his personal tally to four goals in five league games, told rebel Payet that his demands for a £30million move to Marseille won't interrupt the Hammers' climb up the Premier League.
"No one player is going to destroy things," he said, as his early-season relegation candidates moved into the top half of the Premier League with a second successive win. "Our response just proves what the lads have got deep down in themselves.
"This is a very tight-knit group, certainly the tightest it has been since I joined West Ham. It's great just walking into the dressing room every morning.
"The lads have always got a smile on their faces — even when the manager has dragged us in on a Sunday morning when we don't really want to be there because we're supposed to be off!"
Geordie Carroll is unstoppable when fit and firing.
Summing up his performance, boss Bilic conjured a wonderful image, saying: "He is the only one who has, you know the movie, Perfect Storm – he's got everything."
And former Everton star Bilic compared Carroll to a Goodison legend.
"Duncan Ferguson is the only other player like him," he said. "They attack the ball fearlessly and with great timing."
Payet may be leaving but Bilic says he wouldn't sell Carroll for any money, adding: "It's impossible to replace a player like that, because Duncan has retired!"
Carroll still dreams of an England recall. The 28-year-old has won just nine caps but hasn't played for the national side since 2012.
He said: "Everyone talks about my injuries and I can't really say that's unfair because over the years I haven't been as fit as I've wanted to be.
"Hopefully that's all in the past.
"I'm looking forward to many years of injury-free football. Obviously I'd love to be back in the England squad. Right now it's important just to concentrate on West Ham but if the call comes, then fantastic."
Christhian Stuani cancelled out Carroll's ninth-minute opener but the big man put Hammers in front again two minutes before half-time. Jonathan Calleri's injury-time strike sealed the points for the Londoners.
Boro boss Karanka took the risky step of criticising Boro fans who chanted: "Attack, attack, attack," with their team 2-1 down. He thought they were demanding "long balls" and that his players "deserved more respect."
The Spaniard also described the atmosphere in the ground as "awful."
His comments, prompted by a question about the eight-man move that ended with Stuani's goal, will raise doubts about Karanka's temperament.
But midfielder Adam Forshaw put up a spirited defence of Boro's tactics, even though they are the lowest-scoring side in the top flight.
He said: "We pride ourselves on being an organised side which is why we are gutted to concede three goals. We were more free-flowing than we have been. We can't just sulk and put our heads down. We need to pick up points quickly."