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As I'm writing this, it is Thanksgiving week. The boys ended last week with two full days of school to make up for their time at Grandpa and Grandma's. This week, I decided to do things slightly differently so we can be done with school ASAP and get as many days off for Thanksgiving break as possible. Yesterday, Josh and I spent a few hours moving quickly through his lessons. We had a story to write, math lessons to do, Science, Social Studies, reading - including recording two stories that Josh had to read. WHEW But, he finished and is done until the middle of next week.
Nate's day is today. He only has a handful of lessons to do plus a painting project for Art.
Then, it's time to enjoy the holiday and some time at Papa and Nana's :-)

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Jerry Bruckheimer is plotting a civil war at Disney, tapping J. Michael Straczynski to adapt 2K Games' "Shattered Union."
In the game, states secede from the U.S. and form their own governments that wage a civil war against each other after Washington, D.C., is wiped out in a nuclear blast and chaos ravages the nation. Players control one of the warring group of states — the California Commonwealth, Republic of Texas and New England Alliance are three of the six — or a European peacekeeping unit sent to reunify America.
The strategy war game, developed by PopTop Software (behind the "Railroad Tycoon" franchise), was published in 2005 by 2K Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive. Take-Two also has an adaptation of "BioShock" set up at Universal.
Straczynski, whose martial-arts actioner "Ninja Assassin" bows Nov. 25 via Warner Bros., is penning a "Silver Surfer" pic at Fox and a "Forbidden Planet" reboot at Warner Bros., and he adapted zombie book "World War Z" at Paramount. He also wrote Clint Eastwood's "Changeling."
His Vietnam War drama "They Marched Into Sunlight" is in pre-production at Universal with Paul Greengrass set to helm.
Mike Stenson and Chad Oman will exec produce the project at Jerry Bruckheimer Films, which is readying "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" for the Mouse House to release next summer, based on Ubisoft's vidgame franchise.


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Le Carnaval : The French Connection
This year, the annual Friends of European Art fundraiser focuses on southern France, as we celebrate our latest acquisition for the museum's European collection— Léon Pourtau's Paysage Provençal. Enjoy mouth-watering French food, music by Phoenix's premier dance band Snake Eyes and a silent auction.
Presented by the Museum's Friends of European Art
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1625 N. Central Avenue - Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Hi community,
Welcome to another stable update.
Seems with our last update we crashed a lot of desktops, especially Cinnamon, Gnome, Mate and others. We still assume the issue is due to commits in systemd. Therefore we had downgraded that packages again to the known working version v239.6. If you already running v239.303-1 or higher, don't worry. Nothing to be done on your end. Since there are multiple security issues with that version, we have to see on how we fix that.
Everyone who want to test newer systemd packages, can grap them from here.
We hope with all these changes Manjaro to be more efficient for you all.
#bladebook - shipping to Germany this Winter!
Currently we are working on a new Manjaro-Hardware project, the #bladebook. It will be powered by Manjaro KDE v18.0 and the latest Intel Apollo Lake Quad-Core HD APU. Having a fanless metal material (cassis gold-rose), a eMMC as storage (additional M2-SSD possible) and will have a long battery life. You can now order your #bladebook when you live in Switzerland or Germany. We are currently in preparation to ship to more european countries and the states. Find out more on our hardware page or the shop.
Manjaro v18.0.1 RC1 released!
If you are curious about the latest Manjaro-Illyria 18.0.1 release, you now have the opportunity to download XFCE Edition with the latest 4.13 packages, aswell as our most recent styling efforts. Our KDE fans may try our KDE Edition with the latest KDE v5.14 instead. And our GNOME fans may try our Gnome Edition with the latest GNOME v3.30.
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Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She holds the records for longest single space flight by a woman (199 days 16 hours) and for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight of a European astronaut. She is also the first Italian woman in space. Cristoforetti is also known as the first person who brewed an espresso coffee in space.
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Happy Yuri's Night! We're partying under Space Shuttle Endeavour in the first of two shows featuring interviews from the worldwide celebration of space. Star Trek's Robert Picardo will talk about his new video newsletter, the Planetary Post, and we'll visit with Samantha Cristoforetti, who returned last June from 200 days aboard the International Space Station.
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With an easy-to-use platform, the marketing team was empowered to focus on content creation, SEO, and boosting conversions.
For 25 years, Eliassen Group has been staffing and consulting leaders, perfectly matching capable and talented people with successful companies. Unfortunately, their website hadn't kept up with their evolving business. An aging and inflexible technology foundation made changes difficult to implement and resulted in stale content that didn't relate the great story they had to tell.
Eliassen Group serves two primary markets—consultants and clients, and their content needs are very different. The website needed to constantly guide visitors to content they would find relevant and valuable.
Getting the marketing team fully enabled on Percussion's key capabilities was an important milestone for Eliassen Group who had been using their previous content management system for many years.
With Eliassen Group's old tool, publishing updates required a significant amount of technical expertise. Getting IT to prioritize marketing work when they had their own deliverables certainly wasn't the solution, as both marketing and IT interpreted the challenge as a "lose lose" proposition. Marketing had to wait, and IT just got distracted from completing strategic tasks. Percussion changed all that.Download the full case study »


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While with the Comte's household, she was tutored in the art of French and Continental cuisine, which was becoming increasingly fashionable in the 1880s. The Duc D'Orleans took her into his household in 1887 as Head Cook; he soon began to hire her out to cook in the houses of society's leading families, and it was while working at one of these private engagements (for Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill) that Rosa first encountered Edward VII, then still Prince of Wales. He was so impressed by her culinary abilities and by her eccentric personality that the two became lifelong personal friends. The King is known to have had many mistresses, and Rosa was presumably one of them, though he never publicly acknowledged that they shared anything more than a close friendship.
As a known favorite - both culinary and personal - of the Prince of Wales, and later King Edward VII, Rosa was highly sought-after by society hostesses looking to impress their guests with the most fashionable and sumptuous cuisine; she was dubbed the "Queen of Cooks" and was widely acknowledged to be the best cook in London. In 1902, Rosa purchased the Cavendish Hotel and transformed it into one of the most fashionable private hotels in the country. The Cavendish catered to the elite of society, serving as a home-away-from-home where the wealthy of British and American society could enjoy themselves and be entertained by the infamous Cockney-accented antics of Mrs Lewis. Kaiser Wilhelm II (whose portrait she allegedly hung in the men's lavatory at the outbreak of WWI), Evelyn Waugh, Winston Churchill, and the future King Edward VIII were among many of her famous guests.
Though the fashion for the elaborate and costly entertainments of the Edwardian period declined rapidly during WWI and the hotel came very close to financial ruin, Rosa kept its doors open, catering to returning soldiers who were never permitted to pay. She toured America in the late 1920s, giving some rare interviews and teaching a new generation of eager culinary students some of her royal secrets. During WWII, the front of the hotel was destroyed by a bomb, but Rosa and the hotel emerged still victorious and determined to go on. Those who knew her in her later years were still impressed by her exuberant and oversized personality and her desperate desire to hold on to all that had been great about the late-Victorian and Edwardian period that had been her heyday; until her death in 1952, she persisted in wearing the fashions of the turn of the century.
The extraordinary life of Rosa Lewis was (thinly) fictionalized into a BBC series, The Duchess of Duke Street, which originally aired in Britain in 1976-77. Gemma Jones portrayed the eponymous "Duchess" and "Queen of Cooks," renamed Louisa Trotter in the show. Jones's performance is one of the finest pieces of acting I've ever seen; having read the little that has been written about Rosa by those who knew her, it's easy to imagine that Jones quite closely and brilliantly captures all that was fascinating and remarkable about Rosa Lewis.
Rosa's Cavendish Hotel was demolished twelve years after her death, but it was rebuilt by new owners on the same site. Today, it remains one of London's exclusive hotels and honors the history of its most famous - and infamous - personality with a recently unveiled memorial plaque.
Further Reading:
If you're interested in learning more about the life and times of Rosa Lewis, be sure to check out these sources.
- a Rosa Lewis online biography from The Royal Forums
- The Queen of Cooks - and some Kings, by Mary Lawton, reportedly written from the dictation of Rosa Lewis herself (1925).
- Rosa Lewis: An Exceptional Edwardian, by Anthony Masters (1978).
- The Duchess of Jermyn Street, by Daphne Fielding (1976).
Unsurprisingly, the latter two were published during the run of the successful TV series, The Duchess of Duke Street. Perhaps with all of the new interest in Edwardiana, we might see some further research in the near future!
- The Duchess of Duke Street, the fictionalized TV serial about Rosa Lewis, with Gemma Jones in the leading role.


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Band of the Golden Sun Week 5
The weekly Pathfinder RPG group took a week off to let their DM watch the NY Mets lose the 2015 World Series and I took my sweet time posting this recap. I needed some time to mentally recover from that ordeal.
Catch up with week 4 here.
Band of the Golden Sun Week 5 – Headless Corpse Edition
All six skulls descend upon the unfortunate magus, who was the first to enter the room. The other members of the party rush in to engage these undead, flying foes. Luckily, the skulls are not too formidable and after receiving a few relatively harmless headbutts, the adventurers are able to dispatch them all quite quickly. Looking around after the fight, the party discovers a collection of finery lying atop the stone pedestal—six silver goblets and six silver plates. After collecting their loot, they head south to continue exploring the house.
Their investigation leads them to the west side of the estate. Miles is the first person of the group to step through a set of western doors into the courtyard, where he suddenly spies a humanoid figure poking its head out of a reflecting pool to the south. Catching a glimpse of the adventurers, the figure quickly drops back into the empty pool, disappearing from view. The rogue hurries back to tell his companions what he saw. They decide to attempt communication. Miles gestures for the barbarian to take the lead and Damira starts walking towards the pool shouting, "Hellooooo! Is anyone there?" at the top of her lungs.
Expecting to see a person come forth from the pool, everyone is horrified when a giant centipede crawls out instead. The monstrous creature immediately lashes out at the party. What follows is a long and grueling fight, but eventually the party emerges victorious. Stepping over the gory remains of the centipede to check the pool for any other surprises, they only find sand and other kinds of gritty accumulation at the bottom of the empty pool, though Miles is still pretty sure he had seen a person. Broken and battered from the fight and suffering from poisonous ability damage, the party decides to head back into town to recuperate their health and pick up more supplies. (Centipede bites hurt, yo!)
As the party passes through the main gates, a loud wail rings through the air, frightening the rogue and the barbarian. In their panic, the two of them take off running in opposite directions and Miles ends up in the eastern side of the estate, huddling in fear beside a small one-room structure. Suddenly, he shrieks as a two-headed death dog steps out of this building, alerting the other members to the danger. The party engages the death dog, battling it until it succumbs to its wounds and dies. However, while the adventurers were occupied with their fighting, a large snake had noticed the scuffle, slithering over from its hiding place under a table to take advantage of the chaos, hoping to score an easy lunch. It is denied; however, as the adventurers kill it dead with what's left of their remaining strength and spells. Not wanting to wait a minute more, the party packs it up and hobbles out of the estate, desperately in need of some rest and restoration. Nearly having to carry the cleric all the way back to town due to the poison damage, the group sleeps off all their ills and injuries, and also takes this opportunity to sell off their silver goblets and plates. The group uses the gold to help pay for more potions as well as healing for the cleric, who had sustained so much poison damage that he was found walking into walls and falling out of chairs. Everyone was ready to tackle The House of Pentheru again.
The next day they head back into the estate, picking up where they left off in the eastern courtyard. Miles takes the lead again, exploring a couple of side structures in the northwest corner which appear to be servants' quarters. But as he steps into one of the buildings, three skeletons in the room come to life and attack him. Clearly they were a little upset about their minimum wage jobs in their former life. The rest of the party quickly helps him clear the place. There is nothing of interest in here, so they move on to explore the adjacent room, which turns out to be a granary. Here they find a scarab swarm, which the adventurers quickly burn up using some not-so-well placed oil and fire, covering the whole place (and a couple of party members) in a slick fiery mess. After dousing the immediate area and making it safe again, Damira peers into the granary and finds a heavy flail constructed of some otherworldly metal. Nefre determines that it is not magical, but it appears to be extremely well crafted.
With the first floor completely explored, the party heads for the stairs going up to the second floor. In the first room upstairs, they find a dead body which appears to have been lying there for quite a while, though the corpse is missing its head. On closer inspection, Nefre notes that instead of a clean decapitation, the head looks to have been pulled off with great force. On the dead body they also find a simple gold wedding ring with a loving inscription. No one recognizes the names on it, so the rogue pockets the ring just in case they find out more about it later. The next room they enter looks to be an office, with a worn out desk surrounded by crumbling bookshelves. Nefre searches the desk and finds a brass key in one of the drawers.
Everything seems quiet as the party continues to search the second floor, moving steadily in a counter-clockwise direction. However, inside the third room they come to, the adventurers only have time to spy something large, scary, green and bat-like flying at full-speed towards them as Miles eases open the door…
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Band of the Golden Sun Week 4
In this week's episode, the newly minted level 2 adventurers meet the competition and then delve into what appears to be an ancient haunted house. Catch up with earlier exploits of the Band of the Golden Sun here.
The Band of the Golden Sun travels back to town, lugging their spoils with them. The local merchants are eager to see what the returning adventurers have brought from their expeditions, so the party decides to rendezvous at a tavern called the Tooth and Hookah where they hope to sell off some loot and lighten their loads. The cleric, rogue, magus and barbarian stop by the bar to grab a drink, while the bard heads off into a dark corner with a saucy sitar player, sure to be occupied for the rest of the night. The rest of the party spends a relaxing evening drinking and sharing news with other groups who have returned from their assignments. A good time was had by all. This funky tavern even has a pet crocodile!
After selling their treasures, the party ends up with a good sum of gold, totaling 1755. They spend 500 of that on potions of cure light wounds, which they divide among themselves.Their spirits bolstered by the fact that they were one of the more successful groups, the party is at the town square again the next day, chomping at the bit for more adventure. A number is drawn, and thus the Band of the Golden Sun receives their next assignment: the House of Pentheru.
The House of Pentheru ends up being a very large estate, surrounded by high walls. The party decides to take the direct approach, boldly entering the property through the front gates. As soon as they step through, however, horrifying screams fill the air, sending the adventurers running in fear. In a panic, the magus, barbarian and the cleric run to the east. While the three of them cower in a corner, Miles and Ellis appear to be made of sterner stuff, and begin exploring this side of the courtyard. Here, they find a side door leading into the main house. Once everyone is recovered, they all go inside together.
Immediately, they are attacked by a trio of skeletons emerging from further inside the house. As members of the party move forward to confront the skeletons inside their room, haunted voices emanate from the walls, leaving the adventurers anxious and unsettled. At one point the haunting voices befuddled the mind of the barbarian and cleric and the barbarian nearly hacked the cleric to death.
After the skeletons are vanquished, the party gathers itself and moves north from the foyer. Miles enters first, and here he encounters a monstrous creature. Slowly, however, the creature's fearsome visage coalesces into an image of a woman. Beckoning to the adventurers, she calls herself the spirit of the house and asks for the touch of the barbarian's flesh. Recoiling in horror, Damira lashes out with the flat of her greatsword, swatting the woman's hand aside. Enraged, the figure of the woman transforms back into the horrible creature and attacks the party, activating a sleep aura that sends a couple of the adventurers collapsing to the ground during the course of the fight. After a while, the creature finally succumbs to its wounds and dies.
Digging through the sand in this room, they find the creature's hoard: a suit of scale mail, a very well-crafted light crossbow, 5 cold iron bolts, 10 regular bolts, a golden holy symbol of Sarenrae, and a little bag containing 3 platinum and 37 gold pieces. Damira equips the scale mail, and Nefre claims the crossbow and bolts. The party presses on, exploring the northern side of the house. In what appears to be a kitchen, Nefre finds a skeleton with a knife wedged into its chest. He then leads the others down a western corridor, which opens into a room with a stone table, on which rests six skulls. However, before anyone can investigate further, the skulls suddenly come to life, flying towards the five intruders who have disturbed their rest…
Continue the adventure here.
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Band of the Golden Sun Weeks 2 and 3
Double feature this week to catch up with our fearless band. See this post for where we left the adventurers last time. Thanks to @MMOGC for picking up the weekly scribe duties.
Week 2
Recovering from their near-fatal encounter with the dart trap, the adventurers of the Band of the Golden Sun prepare to move deeper into the Tomb of Akhentepi. Meanwhile, the silent bard who has been following the party tumbles down the ladder to rejoin the rest of the group. They open the door to the western chamber and peer in. The room is a foyer of sorts, containing some general grave goods. The party moves on towards the south chamber, with the rogue checking for traps. They find a small flight of stairs descending to another set of doors. Inside this room is a magical mirror which the bard and the barbarian step up to inspect. The mirror turns out to be enchanted with some nasty spells; the bard howls as the word THIEF is branded on his forehead, while the barbarian leaps back to safety. Thinking quickly, the cleric hurls his hammer at the mirror and shatters it.
The party heads east, into a room with an altar. Without warning, a couple of giant spiders spring up from behind it, and attack the adventurers. After a frenzied battle, with spider guts and blood flying everywhere, the party manages to dispatch the creatures, though the bard was grievously wounded during the encounter. He is thankfully stabilized and healed by the cleric before he could succumb to his injuries. The party decides to barricade themselves in this room in order to rest up and regain their strength.
After their rest, the adventurers backtrack to the foyer, deciding to head through the doors to the north. A chest in the corner of this room catches their attention. The rogue attempts to unlock it, but unknowingly triggers a trap and a poisoned blade flies out and slices him in the arm. Shaking off the damage, he continues working and finally succeeds. Inside the chest are some books with gold plated pages along with three vials. It is decided that the heavy books can be left here for now, though the vials are divvied up, with the bard taking one cure light wounds potion, and the rogue taking the other one as well as the dark vision potion.
The party ventures further into the room, where they find more potential treasures. Before they can look too closely, they are attacked by several small animated warrior dolls. After a short fight, the little figurines are vanquished, and the adventurers are able to investigate the rest of the chamber. They collect an assortment of valuable weapons. The cleric picks up a Scarab Shield, the bard picks up a short bow with a broken string, the barbarian picks up a khopesh, and the rogue picks up a spear. Looting through the chests in the room, they also find a good sum of money and a lot of old official documents. These documents are donated to the bard's order for posterity. There is also old jar containing some perfume. This, the barbarian empties over her head to cover up the horrid stench of spider guts clinging to her skin.
The adventurers return to the room to the south. They travel through the western doors, which lead to a crumbling staircase going down to another chamber. All of a sudden, the ground erupts from beneath the rogue's feet, and the sand and dust around them coalesces into a sandling. The creature tears through the party, walloping several of its members senseless before it is finally brought down. A little worse for wear, the party continues down the stairs to the set of doors at the bottom. They go through and enter the next chamber, which has doorways leading off to the north, south, and west. The rogue checks the north door first, which is locked. He jimmies it open and steps through, finding more stairs going down and more doors. As they descend, their surroundings appear more and more lavish and ornate. They end up at a large octagonal room with a grand sarcophagus sitting on a raised platform at the center.
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The Adventurers Start Week 3 a Little Banged Up
The adventurers enter the room with the sarcophagus. The magus steps on the platform to investigate further. As he does so, the four pillars surrounding the sarcophagus shoot out bolts of lightning, giving the magus quite a shock, in more ways than one! The sarcophagus then springs to life, bearing down on the party. As the adventurers engage the target, the security system triggered by the magus begins to take its course, the doors to the south slamming shut while torrents of water start pouring into the room through the northern doors. Ellis Whisperfoot, fancying himself a clever bard, leaps upon the sarcophagus and rides the thing like a gambling house whore. In his eagerness, he casts an unwitting spell which mends the animated coffin. Impervious to the bard's actions and everyone's collective facepalms, the sarcophagus continues to attack, even managing to encase the magus within its receptacle. All the while, the water level is rising, rising, rising.
After a long struggle, the adventurers finally manage to bring down the hulking sarcophagus. The water ceases to rush into the room and levels off, allowing the party to search the area. The barbarian starts scraping the sarcophagus, collecting valuable scraps of gold from its decorated surface. The rest of the room, however, is conspicuously bare. The bard asserts his belief that this room along with its sarcophagus must have been constructed as a decoy, designed to lure unsuspecting tomb robbers to their watery graves. So after a night of rest, the party decides to forge onwards. Since the northern door here appears to be stuck, the adventurers head back to the room to the south, where doors to the west remain locked and unopened. The rogue jimmies these doors open and steps through.
There is a corridor here, ending in a staircase leading down. The rogue also spots a secret door nestled in the northern wall. As everyone searches for a way to open this door, the barbarian heads down the stairs and disturbs a couple of mining beetles. The bugs are quickly crushed, and the party responds to a call from the bard, who has been exploring back in the sarcophagus room. Here he has discovered another secret door to the west. Miles works his skills on this door and manages to open it. These western doors lead to a small landing, with another hidden door! This one easily unlatches, opening to a rough tunnel. A hidden passageway! Alas, this just ends up anticlimactically linking up with the first secret door.
The party backtracks to the landing, and takes the stairs to the north, which opens up into a chamber with a lot of chests containing a whole bunch of ancient, moth-eaten clothes. Other than a solid gold scarab clasp that the rogue found, there's not much else of value. As the party divvies up some other items they found (a masterwork longbow with a wrecked string, two vials of silvery liquid, and ten cold iron arrows), it's becoming clear that there should be more to this place, that perhaps the party has missed the main tomb. Suddenly, a swarm of roaches bursts forth from out of nowhere as the bard sets off a magical trap. As his companions stab, stomp and swat at the critters, the magus tosses in a couple bottles of alchemist's fire, burning the roaches and his fellow adventurers both. Thankfully, the swarm is taken care of before the party can get themselves spectacularly killed in a raging inferno of their own making. They exit to the east through a secret door that they found after the skirmish.
This leads to a small chamber with a huge sarcophagus. However, before they can investigate further, an iron cobra crawls out from its hiding place behind a crate and strikes at the rogue. The slippery metal serpent evades our adventurers for many rounds before it is brought down by a mighty strike from the barbarian. Finally, the party is able to search this room in peace, which turns out to be the tomb of General Akhentepi. The magus scores a magical piece of padded armor. The rest of the party also divides up 500 gold pieces, an ornate jeweled pendant and assorted precious stones. Inside a very well preserved box they also find two vials, a dark vision potion and a lesser restoration potion. Thus ends the Band of the Golden Sun's explorations into the tomb of Akhentepi.
The party heads back into town to see how other groups have fared on their own expeditions.
Read more here!
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Where Pid GM's a Pathfinder RPG using a Virtual Tabletop
Things have been dark here at the old REB. Oddly, the website still gets a hit or two a day. Kind of surprising really. Who knew there were so many accidental clicks on the 15th page of a google search. So why am I posting then? Just to add that extra hit? Au contraire mon frère, I have a little treat for you. I will be publishing the exploits of my weekly gaming group as they tackle the Pathfinder Adventure Path campaign, The Mummy's Mask.
First off SPOILER ALERT! If you plan on playing the Mummy's Mask campaign you might want to stop reading now and move on. Along with spiders, zombies, and other monsters, here there be spoilers!
Second, the cast of characters:
- The Dungeon Master (a.k.a the man with the plan) played by yours truly @pidtms
- Miles Blackhand CN Human Rogue played by @paganrites
- Damira Dakari CG Gnome Barbarian played by @MMOGC
- Ellis Whisperwind LN Halfling Bard played by @RyanHVND
- Tekema Khat-nofru LG Human Cleric of Osiris played by Mr. @MMOGC
- Nefrekeptah CN Human Magus played by @TrevorWhitaker
Third, the VTT software. We will be utilizing the Fantasy Grounds VTT which can be found at their website or over at Steam. I may be posting screenshots from our adventure and if I can convince the crew, I might post a youtube video or two. We'll see.
I should also add a nod to Paizo, the creators of the Pathfinder RPG and the Mummy's Mask adventure path campaign.
So without further ado, The Band of the Golden Sun begin The Mummy's Mask…
Begin Session 1:
The Band of the Golden Sun assembled before the Grand Mausoleum and the leaders of the followers of Pharasma anxiously awaiting assignment of their first location to explore within the necropolis of the City of Wati. Standing with a couple dozen other adventuring parties, the band listened to a brief history of the city of Wati and learned the rules for exploration of the necropolis. A banner with the party's crest was hoisted into the air and a representative of the group obtained the adventurer's assignment, the Tomb of Akhentepi.
The following morning the troop ventured into the necropolis and found the tomb. The tomb entrance was half buried in sand and sealed with no handles. The group barbarian luckily had some tools and after a few minutes of shoveling the door was pried open with the help of a crowbar. The party entered the tomb only to find a large stone wheel barring their way. While the group focused on opening the stone door, the party Rogue was busy examining the ornate carvings in the tomb when he was attacked by a scorpion. Succumbing to the venom of a scorpion sting, the rogue's strength was sapped, but the group managed to dispatch the foe with the help of a mighty swing of the barbarian's greatsword and ultimately opened the door with a group effort.
Moving further into the tomb, the group found a 60′ deep shaft. The magus descended the shaft via a secured rope and examined the tomb floor. Unfortunately, the party rogue and cleric had difficulty climbing down the shaft and ultimately fell over 20′ nearly claiming their lives. A couple of cure spells from the cleric and the two were back up to fighting strength. The magus discovered the remains of a previous tomb raider and claimed two bottles of alchemist's fire. After the barbarian descended successfully into the tomb, the party moved through the door in the chamber into a long hallway.
Aware of the potential for traps, the party rogue moved in scanning the area with the party following closely behind. Unfortunately for all, the rogue missed a trap switch on the floor, and the party suffered the consequences. Hundreds of darts peppered the party and the rogue and magus took massive damage. The magus dropped to the ground bleeding out. The cleric channeled the power of his deity to bring the magus back from the brink of death. The party retreated to the previous room while the rogue proceeded to disable the trap making the path passable without risk of harm. The party moved into the next room to see what more they could uncover within the Tomb of Akhentepi.
End Session 1
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Project Gorgon: First impressions — or first kiss
Project Gorgon Impressions from Sypster of Massively fame.
I… don't know what's come over me. I really don't. A few days ago, Project: Gorgon was that interesting indie MMO with a terribad name, and now I've become a Kickstarter supporter (my first pledge ever) while raving to anyone I can find about how innovative and clever and funny this title is. Maybe it needed the bad name and 2003-era graphics to ward the mainstream off, lest it be overrun beyond control? I don't know, but I will tell you that merely going through the tutorial the other night severely impressed me with the potential on display.
I mean, most tutorials and beginner zones in MMOs are tame affairs with killing, a light story, and not much else. Here, I lived a full RPG life merely trying to get through a cave. That says something to me.
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In memory of Christopher "River" Cavelle. Twitter friend and fellow blogger.
"It's a fragile thing, this life we lead."
So long @theeriver thanks for the laughs and endless entertainment. #Godspeed
It is with the heaviest of hearts that I make this post today.
Although I haven't posted in a while, River and I have remained friends, mostly keeping updated through facebook. When I logged in yesterday I saw hundreds of posts from River's friends and family being made to his facebook wall. As I read through them I was met with the news that River passed away yesterday.
The messages from his friends and family are so touching. It is apparent he was loved and appreciated by so many people. I know he impacted my life in a very positive way.
Although we never met in person, he was my friend from afar. He gave me advice, he stood up for me, and he always made me laugh. I know he sometimes struggled to find a balance in life, because he was so giving of himself. He was the first…
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Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer
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Optimizely is the world's leader in customer experience optimization, allowing businesses to dramatically drive up the value of their digital products, commerce and campaigns through its best in class experimentation software platform. By replacing digital guesswork with evidence-based results, Optimizely enables product and marketing professionals to accelerate innovation, lower the risk of new features, and drive up the return on investment from digital by up to 10X. Over 26 of the Fortune 100 companies choose Optimizely to power their global digital experiences. Optimizely's impressive customer list includes eBay, FOX, IBM, The New York Times and many more global enterprises.
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At Optimizely, the Data Platform is the core foundation driving all our Experimentation and Personalization products that directly impact the customer experience. The Platform is leveraged across all product lines from spanning Analytics, Targeting, Recommendations and large-scale Ingestion. This platform, based primarily on the Hadoop Ecosystem on AWS, processes billions of events a day and we've built many sophisticated data pipelines that can power a variety of analytical queries at web scale.
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December futures on the S&P/TSX index were up 0.62 percent at 7:00 a.m. ET.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index closed down 80.80 points, or 0.5 percent, at 15,010.78, on Friday. For the week, the TSX declined nearly 1 percent.
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Chania Migrants on Hunger Strike – summary of events 11-20 Nov.
Posted by clandestinaenglish on 23 November 2008
Tuesday, 11 November 2008.
At 5 am the hunger strike begins, 15 migrants participate. Since that moment, the struggle receives support from hundreds of people, Greek and Migrants. Their presence is impressive. The small camping of the tents where the hunger strikers are to spend the hunger strike days is set up next to the entrance of the town's city hall. A sound system is also there, and the migrants make the best use of it virtually singing in Arabic the demands of their struggle. The major has already alerted the police authorities, although he is aware that the 9/10 migrants are "sans papiers": he is already guilty to our eyes of consenting actively to any detention and/or deportation the hunger strikers might be subjected to. Cops and officer-cops check out regularly the situation but do not intervene. During the next night, some decerebrates and self-proclaimed "nationalists – racists", on motor-bikes and big ideas for themselves, assault the hunger strikers with empty glass bottles. One of the motorbikes is halted by the hunger strike's picketers…
Thursday, 13 November 2008.
- A grand demonstration takes place in the streets of the Chania city centre to accompany the hunger strikers to the new site of their strikers' camp, in front of the Public Economic Agency facilities. The demonstrators have virtually moved the camp by lifting the tents up in their arms (see photos)! The change of place is due to Mayor Virvidakis' machinations: this prick has been busy thinking up ways to put the migrants to the added risk of immediate detention/deportation – as if the hunger strike were not enough. This change of place however does not signal defeat or retreat for the hunger strike. On the contrary, the new setting is in the very centre of the city's economic, commercial and administrative life (lots of shops and public services there). Not to mention that just on the other side of the road (Tzanakaki street) there is an occupied Crete Polytechnic University building, which can offer added publicity to the whole event both creatively and organizationally. As the hunger strikers put it in their statement: "…we are leave the town hall entrance with our heads held high. We do so out of respect for the law, not for the mayor and his opinions. Fighters never leave the battle. They only move to new positions, just like lions like to change their den".
- More and more local associations, societies, trade unions, collectives and communities express their solidatity with the hanger strikers, hundreds of signatures have already been collected for the hunger strike's petition.
- On the same day, the hunger strikers issue a press release to express their solidarity with the ongoing massive hunger strike across the country's prisons. In terms of participating numbers and broadness, this has been the most important prison hunger strike in Greece so far, forcing the Minister of Justice to proclaim a new draft of law, partially satisfying the hunger strikers' demands. The Chania hunger strikers' support was the natural thing to do, not least because a good half of prison hunger strikers were migrants – the number of imprisoned migrants, in Greece as elsewhere, is disproportionally large.
Monday, 17 November 2008.
- The annual demonstration commemorating the student and popular revolt against the military junta in Greece (1973), was turned in Chania into a mass manifestation of solidarity with the hunger strikers (both migrants and prisoners). About 800 hundred people attended the demo and supported the struggle.
- The hunger strikers' health deteriorates, the first signs of exhaustion become apparent. No sign from the Greek government though. Local MPs of the opposition visit the hunger strikers and express their solidarity. The local Lawyers Bar issues an announcement, supporting the migrants' lawful demands, and denouncing the unfairness they have been subjected to by authorities.
Wednesday, 19 November 2008.
- The Chania city council becomes another arena of the migrant's struggle, with the opposition accusing the mayor of hostile politics against the migrants. The mayor, whose authority is directly involved in the unfair interpretation of the law against the migrants, has been attacked for his overall attitude and his dirty role in putting the hunger strikers in danger, ignoring the mass wave of support within his own municipality's electorate. Of course, this is not just a local issue, but one that relates to core values and legal regulations in Greece and Europe as a whole. But resistance should also turn against local authorities that behave the way this mayor did, they are also responsible, as the Greek government is for remaining silent.
- The hunger strikers demand to have a face-to-face meeting with the Minister of the Interior now, to state, loud and clear, their determination and demands.
Thursday, 20 November 2008.
The first immigrant hunger striker in need of hospital aid is already suffering the hunger strike's severe consequences. He fainted and was taken to the Chania hospital.
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Book Review: HIGH STRUNG: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the Untold Story of Tennis's Fiercest Rivalry
My favorite part of HIGH STRUNG is the awesome 70s & 80s pics of the awesome hairdos! Seriously though, I was excited to get this book to review to read about this interesting piece of tennis history.
One was an ice-cold Swede with an aura of invincibility. A poster boy for the sport who was equal parts enigma and Adonis. He was tennis's version of a matinee idol. He was a Houdini in a headband who could outlast opponents for thrilling comeback victories. He was obsessive, unflappable, and unbeatable on grass and clay. They called him "Ice Borg".
The other was the poster boy for everything that was wrong with Western society. He was a left-handed lightning rod who sought confrontation with nearly every living being on the court while he was in the midst of battle. He yelled at umpires and linesmen loudly and with reckless abandon. He was an exact balance of talent and the temper, perfect biomechanics and boorishness. They called him "Superbrat".
With all of their differences, their battles were pure tennis magic, and their rivalry the stuff of sports legend. Stephen Tignor's "HIGH STRUNG: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the Untold Story of Tennis's Fiercest Rivalry" (Harper, May 2011) is a marvelously articulated chronicle of the matches that defined the rivalry and the personalities that fueled it.
Both were exceedingly talented. John McEnroe represented the blinding heat of youth. Bjorn Borg was the epitome of cool control. McEnroe externalized everything. Borg's competitive fires burned deep within him. McEnroe respected Borg and was driven by the desire to unseat him as the world's #1. Borg was already a legend and sought to remain as the most dominant player in the sport. McEnroe found refuge in the rivalry. Borg found his final opponent.
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Book Review: GOLF LIST MANIA!
I was quite excited to get this book to review since I'm a not only a fan of golf but a huge fan of quick, easily digestible reading. This most definitely fit both criteria. For example, who won't appreciate a list entitled, "Great Caddyshack Pick-up Lines"? Most of the quotes come from the Rodney Dangerfield character, of course. "You must have been something before electricity." Epic.
This spring, as golfers everywhere dust off their clubs and begin the long-overdue march to the 1st tee, celebrated golf writers Leonard Shapiro and Ed Sherman aim to fill our heads with all things "golf" and present GOLF LIST MANIA!: The Most Authoritative and Opinionated Rankings of the Best and Worst of the Game (Running Press, May 2011), a comprehensive record of epic moments and massive disappointments, of major heroes and Sunday breakdowns, and of sage advice.
GOLF LIST MANIA! is a celebration of golf. These are our favorite subjects as fans, players, and major championship junkies: Tiger, the Shark, Sarazen's double eagle, Miller's 63, Van de Velde's collapse, Sergio's light résumé, Lefty's greatest hits and near misses, Jack's second places and Feherty's acerbic wit. Shapiro and Sherman effortlessly compare 2nd rank events and personalities over decades and generations and leave the reader entertained and raring to go for that next tee time.
Top-10 graduates of the Nationwide Tour? There's a list for that. Top-10 Aussies of all-time? Yep. Top-10 golf movies? Please. Ten best Korean LPGA players? There's a list for that too. If it's happened in golf over the last century or so, GOLF LIST MANIA! has it covered.
And interspersed throughout GOLF LIST MANIA! are some of the great golf quotes from some of the most famous and infamous golfers, thinkers, and personalities who ever shanked a three-iron: Bob Hope, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Alistair Cooke, John Updike, Phyllis Diller, Gerald Ford, Will Rogers, Billy Graham, Heywood Hale Broun, Rick Reilly, Jack Lemmon, Hank Aaron; black-and-white photos of golfers who've shaped the golf world, past and present; as well as guest-lists from some of the great sources of golf-knowledge in the game: Dan Jenkins, John Feinstein, Lance Barrow, Peter Kessler, et al. GOLF LIST MANIA! is about as much fun as a golfer can have with his soft spikes off. For some, it might be more fun.
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Albany County Campaign Seeks to Prevent Infant "Unsafe Sleeping"
You don't have to sleep with your baby to keep them close: That's what Albany County Executive Dan McCoy underlined when he announced in March a coordinated effort to prevent infant deaths due to "unsafe sleeping."
According to the Albany County's Child Fatality Review Team (CFRT) 75% of child death cases have been directly attributed to "unsafe sleeping," which commonly occurs when an adult shares a bed with an infant and rolls over onto them which leads to accidental smothering, suffocating, permanent injury, or even the death of the child.
McCoy says that a comprehensive approach is needed to help CFRT develop collaborative strategies to prevent infant deaths in the county due to "unsafe sleeping" through public education and other means. During a press conference, McCoy announced the establishment of the Safe Sleeping Task Force, which will determine how the county can work with the state and caregiver community to ensure that parents and caregivers know the importance of creating a safe sleep environment for babies. The campaign will feature "safe sleeping" ads on buses and at bus stops.
The CFRT is supervised by the county's Department of Children, Youth and Family, which has engaged government and community partners to access critical resources and expertise for the campaign.
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I met my husband July 19, 1997. We began our date roller blading in Central Park at 11am and ended it at an Italian Restaurant at 1am. I think summer/fall romance has an allure unlike any other. The sun is in all its glory illuminating everything, the nights are perfect for strolling and holding hands- the possibilities feel immense and ripe for the picking. There is an air of excitement, energy and yes even lust which these seasons like no other – and all of us- including yours truly is NEVER above enhancing her sexual energy with the help of an aphrodisiac.
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Katy Perry introduces her latest fragrance Killer Queen by Katy Perry. The new, strikingly gorgeous perfume captures Katy Perry's rebellious spirit, throwing convention to the wind. Inspired by the queen's scepter, the distinct jewel-shaped bottle encompasses key notes; Wild Berry, Red Velvet Flower and Natural Patchouli Heart – portraying sexy sophistication and lawless luxury.
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Indulge your creativity on winter break!
MAKE something – COOK something – DO something – something creative and fun this winter break. The MW Library has books full of ideas and recipes. Check one out today!
Books new to the MW Library
Check one out this December!
In history:
• A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino
• Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
• Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
In biography/autobiography/memoir:
• The Return (Pulitzer winner) by Hisham Matar
"When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. "Hope," as he writes, "is cunning and persistent." Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells are empty and there is no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returns with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he'd go back to again. The Return is the story of what he found there."
• Daring to Drive by Manal al-Sharif
"A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brother's boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. But what a difference an education can make. By her twenties she was a computer security engineer, one of few women working in a desert compound that resembled suburban America. That's when the Saudi kingdom's contradictions became too much to bear: she was labeled a slut for chatting with male colleagues, her teenage brother chaperoned her on a business trip, and while she kept a car in her garage, she was forbidden from driving down city streets behind the wheel."
• Daughters of the Samurai by Janice P. Nimura
"In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors—Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda—grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they returned to Japan—a land grown foreign to them—determined to revolutionize women's education."
• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui (graphic format memoir)
"This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. At the heart of Bui's story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent—the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home."
In fiction:
• American Street by Ibi Zoboi
"In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture. […] Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world, a dangerous proposition presents itself, and Fabiola soon realizes that freedom comes at a cost. Trapped at the crossroads of an impossible choice, will she pay the price for the American dream?"
• The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff
"When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she steals one of the babies and flees into the snowy night. Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. But as the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another—or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything."
• Make Your Home among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet
When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy-Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom-without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live. […] Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with difficult decisions that will change her life forever. Urgent and mordantly funny, Make Your Home Among Strangers tells the moving story of a young woman torn between generational, cultural, and political forces; it's the new story of what it means to be American today."


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Gardening is a great way for a family to bond over a project together. It teaches kids the value of hard work and how to make something special. Plus, you get to enjoy the profits of your labor at the dinner table! Here's how to grow a garden with your kids.
1. Make it exciting
Garden is a slow process. It might take a month to see any results. So you have to find ways to make it fun. If your son likes bugs, tell him about all the critters you'll come across. If your daughter likes flowers, make sure to plant her favorite colors.
2. Pick up some child-sized tools
If you ask your kids to use a full-sized shovel, they are going to feel encumbered and overwhelmed, which will lead to disinterest. Grab some hoes, rakes, spades, water cans, and of course their very own pair of personalized gloves.
3. Choose plants that are easy
At first, you want to have some successes so the kids are likely to keep working. Choose plants like sunflowers, lettuce, tomatoes, peas, and squash. This way they'll have some early victories and will feel empowered to keep working.
4. For younger kids, skip all the digging
Your kids might be put off with how much tilling is necessary before you can begin seeding. If they're young, it might just seem like work. Prepare the soil for them so they can plant the seeds and water them regularly.
5. Include wildlife into your garden
A proper garden wouldn't be complete without some animals! Add a birdbath and birdfeeder to encourage birds to stop by. You could even dig a small pond and line it with rocks for fish. If you have plenty of space, include an outdoor rabbit cage or even a chicken! Kids will love to experience and learn about the animals.
6. Get digital!
Kids love computers these days, so use them to your advantage. Check out garden ideas and arrangements on Pinterest. Use a garden calendar or app to keep track of your plants. Older kids can find ways online to tackle bigger projects, like making a sundial, chicken coop, or even solar panels.
7. Eat what you grow!
When you've grown something worth picking, make sure it shows up on the dinner table. This will help teach kids the value of their hard work and how they can enjoy the benefits. Ask them how you all can work to make the food bigger and tastier next time.
Guest Blog by Christina Plejdrup, Mom and Inventor of the Minkey
Christina Plejdrup is a mother of a 3-year-old girl, Oliva, who tried many different winter products to see if she could find anything that could get her daughter to keep her gloves on as well as her hat and scarf. Christina tried everything, but nothing worked!
After several failed attempts to get her daughter to keep her gloves, hat and scar on, Christina designed her own solution! It worked like a charm and when they would walk through their neighborhood, several parents asked where they found such a unique and practical winter garment. This is when the Minkey (as her daughter calls it) was born.
The Minkey is a unique 3-in-1 winter hat, gloves and scarf for babies and toddlers. It's easy to use and goes great under any jacket, snowsuit or vest, and children have plenty of comfort and movement. They will always stay warm and dry where it is important while out in the cold.
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The World of Simon Rich
Classic and new work from Simon Rich - never before published outside the USA - to tie in with Simon's BBC Radio 4 show of the same name
The world is a bewildering place and we're ill-equipped to deal with it. From the horrors of childhood to the vagaries of old age, from confused people to humiliated animals, we're all just trying - and often failing - to keep it together. How carefully should you answer when asked what you'd take to a desert island? What do you do if your parents are reading your diary? How useful is a Swiss Army Knife? And what's A Brief History of Time really about?
Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Simon Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives, from the most minute of anxieties to one of life's biggest questions: Does God really have a plan for us? Yes, it turns out. Now if only He could remember what it was ...
'Simon Rich is very much laugh-out-loud funny. He can conjure authentic, from-the-abdomen laughter on almost every page. He stacks surrealism on top of slick satire on top of pure childish silliness in such a brilliant and condensed way, there are sometimes three laugh-out-loud moments within the same paragraph ... He is exactly the right kind of writer for the internet: funny, high-concept, accessible, short, sharable, a James Thurber for the Twitter age'.
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Get information on all of our end-of-year events.
What's Happening Now
3D printers used to produce headbands for PPE for essential workers during COVID-19.
Plus: Winners from a pi pun contest.
Online classes began March 18.
The Spanish teacher talks about a recent professional development workshop, and odes to silly things.
Thinking Out Loud is at the Cherry Center gallery in Carmel through March 22.
Sophomores collaborate across English classes to put on the performance for the whole school.
Sara '23 reflects on her first season; Channing '21 wins an award.
Welcome to the sisterhood, Class of 2021!
Meet Our Students
Right when I arrived at school on the first day, my "big sister" was there to greet me. She made me feel very welcomed and not as nervous about coming to boarding school.
Hometown: Mamaroneck, New York
Activities: Lady Rhythmics (a body percussion club), community service, volleyball, and lacrosse
Favorite Place on Campus: The Hacienda is so beautiful. One thing that I find special about the Hacienda is that there is this really pretty garden behind it. It is almost hidden. There is a huge mural and roses everywhere. Whenever I go there, all my stress goes away and it makes me appreciate how lucky I am to be going to Santa Catalina.
What are some ways to make friends from different classes?
The Big Sister/Little Sister program helped me bond with the senior class. I also attend monthly community service events at a local elementary school, which is where a lot of Catalina students get to help amazing young girls. Through all of my activities, I made friends with many different people, in all four classes, with similar interests as me.
Ana Sofia
There's always something going on in the theatre! Whether it's rehearsals for the current play, the Shakespeare Festival, or a guest speaker, every time you go to the theatre you have a completely new experience.
Ana Sofia
Hometown: Mexico City, Mexico
Activities: I've always liked being busy, so I'm involved in a lot of activities. I currently spend most of my time in rehearsal for the play. I took the lifeguarding course, and I did horseback riding almost all of last year, as well as sailing on Saturdays. I'm part of Mock Trial, Lady Rhythmics (a body percussion group), and TEDx.
Favorite Place on Campus: Definitely Study Hall—there's always someone there who you can have fun with.
How did the environment at Catalina support you in your journey to the stage?
It is always hard to be rejected, but when you are, you can either give up or keep on trying. Luckily, the environment at Catalina is the one that pushes you to keep trying. My first audition was scary and not my best. I didn't get into the play that time, but I met with the drama teacher and she gave me tons of tips and feedback. I started taking singing lessons and going to dance classes whenever I could. The great thing about Catalina is that it offers so many different classes and coaches that can help you with anything you need. After working hard I finally got into the spring musical, and I loved every second of it!
Catalina has given me the opportunity to create a club that brings art and art history to low-income elementary schools. When I see these young students display excitement and intellectual curiosity, these are the moments I know that my peers and I are making a positive impact.
Hometown: Monterey, California
Activities: I participate in monthly community service events with a local elementary school. Inspired by this, I founded the Art and Art History Club, which works to increase art and art history awareness in local elementary schools that lack funding for these classes. During my junior year, I started a nonprofit organization called Bringing Art History to Schools. I have also been a part of Catalina's varsity tennis team since my freshman year.
Favorite Place on Campus: The art studio. When I make art, I relieve stress and release emotion. I go to the art room when I want to relax and take a quick break during the school day.
How has participating in service inspired you?
Being exposed to community service at Catalina sparked my passion for teaching. Working with elementary school students in Seaside and Salinas has helped connect my world with theirs. The bonds we've created through art are stronger than our different socioeconomic backgrounds. These young students are just like me: interested in learning, eager to form friendships, and excited to explore. In addition to providing education, these visits allow us to become mentors, friends, and even big sisters. These experiences have further confirmed my desire to earn a Ph.D. and become a university professor in art history.
The Marine Ecology Research Program is a unique experience—we go into the field and work on projects that can help protect the marine ecosystem. Most high school students don't have this kind of opportunity.
Activities: Mock Trial, Model U.N., Student Senate, National Honor Society, Smile Fund, Mosaic, tennis, dance, musical theatre productions, and MERP. I am also a tour guide and volunteer at a local hospital.
Favorite Place on Campus: My favorite place after school is the Hacienda, and my favorite place during the school day is the second floor of the Math and Science Center.
My teachers are very supportive and attentive. They view me as an individual and meet me halfway to help me progress in their class.
Hometown: Manteca, California
Activities: Violin, track and field, Prom Committee, Senate, Mock Trial, Model U.N., Catalinan (yearbook), and Lamplighter (student newspaper)
Favorite Place on Campus: Sister Kieran Library
How would you describe the classroom experience?
It's fulfilling. The supportive environment encourages me to share my thoughts and ask clarifying questions during class, which allows me to gain a complete understanding of the topic.
Being a day student at a boarding school has been one of the most valuable and enriching parts of my Catalina experience. Meeting girls from around the world has broadened my perspective and helped me recognize the importance of celebrating diversity.
Hometown: Seaside, California
Activities: Golf, lacrosse, theatre, Lady Rhythmics (a body percussion club), B.U.R.R.I.T.O (improv group), TEDx, and the Health and Wellness Committee
Favorite Place on Campus: Sister Claire and Sister Christine Mathematics and Science Center
What have you learned by being a part of Catalina's athletics program?
Catalina's athletics program has allowed me to not only grow stronger as an athlete, but to witness how dedicated practice can pay off, whether in victories or in the camaraderie of a team. Additionally, the athletics program has allowed me to improve my time management skills as I balance my schoolwork and my other activities while practicing and competing regularly in sports.
Being at Catalina, away from home, it is up to me to push myself daily to be the best person I can be. This fosters my creativity in that I need to find ways every day to improve myself in various aspects of my life: studying, my room, friends, family, health.
Hometown: Biel-Benken, Switzerland
Activities: Last year, I took part in tennis and robotics. This year, I chose to have more time for my artwork and have enjoyed yoga and strength training.
Favorite Place on Campus: My favorite place on campus is the front lawn when it is dry and the sun is out. You can lay on the warm grass, look up and see the clouds moving by. It is beautiful.
How would you describe Santa Catalina's art program?
I like the art department because it offers classes that allow students to explore varied art forms. The teachers are helpful and supportive throughout our art projects by guiding us along the way. I also very much appreciate that the art facilities are open during off hours so we can utilize the space and the art supplies.


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When it comes to facilitating and understanding your online marketing campaigns, it's important to remember that there is no one-size-fits-all model. You must determine what your marketing goals are, and what success means for you and your business. What do you want the Lifetime Value of you customers to be?
There is an ever-growing presence of new marketing and social media tools, now that customers live in so many new digital neighborhoods.
Where everyone used to read the local newspaper, now your customers might be looking at search engines, display ads, or social media. And different kinds of marketing efforts find success on different networks.
How do you find your customers, the ones who will bring long-term value to your business?
Let's break down an approach to finding your customers digitally with an old school analogy:
Think back to high school, when you were a math tutor. You posted flyers around town – some at the library, some at the local coffee shop, on the bulletin board at the pizza shop, and a few other places. The goal? Hope someone sees it and grabs a flyer to give you a call.
When you start receiving phone calls, you realize that you need to re-stock the flyers at each location. When you travel around town, you notice that every single flyer from the library is gone, but only 2 were taken from the pizza shop. Are you going to re-stock both evenly? No – you're going to realize that the library is your best lead-generator. A tutoring goldmine.
This is the same approach you should apply to advertising digitally. Start by distributing your marketing efforts across a variety of channels, and see where you find the best results.
Some of your approaches worked, and some did not – and that's ok! The important thing is you discovered there is a difference, and now you can make some changes. By learning where your clientele spends their time, you can then allocate your advertising budget to the areas of online marketing most likely to reach your targeted consumer.
Unfortunately, your SEM campaign didn't generate the leads you had hoped for. You're still waiting to see how you can rank for your new SEO terms. But you saw a ton of qualified leads (customers who are most likely to buy) from your Facebook ad, specifically from one demographic group. Now that you know where your customers are, you can refocus on Facebook and drive even more leads from the source that works best!
You cast a wide net, saw what you were able to catch and where the influx of business swam in from, and you fed the stream that yielded the most promising clients. It's the same approach as the flyer analogy above, we just have a new label for it.
Your leads came to you because you reached different audiences through different channels. Some of the channels worked, and some did not, but you were able to determine the best route(s) for your business by understanding your data. Now it's up to you to work those qualified leads through your purchasing funnel to become happy buying customer. Then you make the most of your customers and keep them coming back over time, maintaining loyalty to your brand or store.


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In 2016 we saw some incredible decisions taken by some of the reputed companies over the globe. One such decision that stands out from every other is that Google releasing their own smartphones. The Google Pixel phones were the search giant's first attempt to take on the Apple iPhone.
And, they succeeded in doing that. The Pixel XL is widely regarded as the best smartphone of 2016 and best camera smartphone of all time.
The latest rumors about Google's upcoming flagship date from January claimed that Google is working on a budget-segment "Pixel 2B". Despite of all these rumors, Rick Osterloh (Google's head of hardware) has confirmed that the second-generation Google Pixel will be released this year and will remain "premium".
"There is an annual rhythm in the industry. So, you can count on us to follow it."
"Pixel stays premium, Google will continue to leave lower price segments to other manufacturers."
With the Pixel 2, Google is expected to bring new features and upgrades with some improvements in various areas like the camera, design and SoC.
What features and changes do you want to see in Google Pixel 2? Let us know in the comment section below!
Source: AndroidPit | Pixel 2 Concept: Deepal Pallav Suthar


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SHOWBIZ> Movies
Jackie Chan, Andy Lau to star in new Shaolin movie
Updated: 2009-10-22 19:50
Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan (L) holds a giant incense stick with Buddhist abbot Shi Yongxin, while actor Andy Lau (C) looks on, at the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Henan province October 22, 2009. The movie New Shaolin Temple, staring Chan and Lau, will start filming on Thursday, local media reported. [Agencies]
HONG KONG – The king of kung fu cinema is set to star in a new movie about China's famed shrine of martial arts, the Shaolin Temple.
Jackie Chan will star in the $29 million production, "Shaolin," the latest screen portrayal of the 1,500-year old temple in central China whose famous fighting monks have featured in films by stars such as Bruce Lee and Jet Li, and in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" with David Carradine.
Chan's Chinese-language film will co-star veteran Hong Kong actor Andy Lau, actor-singer Nicholas Tse and mainland actress Fan Bingbing.
The production, said to boast 1,000 real fighting monks and a grand scene in which the temple burns down, will start shooting later this year for release in late 2010. It was announced in a joint statement Thursday by four Chinese film studios: China Film Group Corp., Emperor Motion Pictures, Huayi Brothers Media Corp. and Beijing Silver Moon Productions Ltd.
Hong Kong filmmaker Benny Chan, who worked with Chan on "New Police Story" and "Rob-B-Hood," will direct and Cory Yuen will serve as action co-ordinator. Yuen's credits include "Lethal Weapon 4" and "X-Men."
"Shaolin" will be an updated version of a 1982 movie, "The Shaolin Temple," in which former Chinese kung fu champion Li made his screen debut, playing a boy adopted and trained by Shaolin monks who seeks to avenge the death of his father.
"It's worth cheering that we are now working with the most outstanding production team," Shaolin Temple abbot Shi Yongxin was quoted as saying in the statement Thursday.
Chan has most recently been shooting a remake of "The Karate Kid" in China with Will Smith's son, Jaden.


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The Hadlock Field Family sculpture was a gift from Daniel Burke, owner of the Portland Sea Dogs, and his wife, Bunny. They commissioned artist Rhoda Sherbell to create a sculpture that depicted a family going to a baseball game.
The acquisition of the statue ran into controversy when it was presented as a take-it-or-leave-it gift to the City. The representatives of the Portland Public Art Committee did not feel the statue adequately represented the diversity of Portland's population and voted against acquiring the piece. The committee also felt that art containing the logo of a private business, as this did with the Sea Dog emblem emblazoned on the males' baseball caps, violated the public art ordinance. The City Council overruled the Committee and the statue was installed in front of Hadlock Field, home of the Portland Sea Dogs.
Rhoda Sherbell is an American portrait sculptor who works in clay and bronze. She has had over 26 solo museum and gallery shows and is the recipient of over 50 awards. She is a member of the National Academy and of Portraits Inc., and is on the board of the Portrait Society of America.
Ms. Sherbell was injured twice during the fabrication of this statue. She was hit with a foul ball while taking source photographs at Sea Dogs game. She also received a broken rib while working on the original clay sculpture when the little girl (weighing 300 lbs) fell on her.


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Florida Keys Shut Down
Tourists may have to wait a month to visit a favorite destination
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It's not every day that you get a news release declaring an entire area of a state closed to visitors — but that's precisely what happened Tuesday, when the Florida Keys tourism folks announced that the Keys are closed for business, thanks to the destructive powers of Hurricane Irma last weekend. Officials expect the area to reopen by mid-October, according to the release.
The storm and subsequent closings are, of course, a massive blow to the area's $2.7 billion tourism industry; the island chain is typically abuzz with visitors snorkeling, fishing and dolphin-spotting. Hotels are reimbursing visitors who've already paid for rooms, according to Ashley Serrate, a representative from the Keys' Tourism Development Council.
The businesses here have their work cut out for them: Irma left the region without electricity, roads washed out and an estimated 25 percent of homes destroyed. Florida Keys Marathon International Airport, which usually sees almost 750,000 arrivals and departures every year, is closed indefinitely to all but relief operations. No one is sure when full power and cellphone service in the Keys will be restored. On Tuesday residents were allowed to return to the upper Keys, but there is still no word on when residents will be able to access the lower areas: Everywhere below mile marker 74 in Islamorada on the famed 113-mile Overseas Highway is closed, including the hugely popular Key West.
That means homeowners and businesspeople can't even assess how much their properties were damaged by Irma's punishing winds and rain.
Serrate suggests that anyone with plans to visit in the next few months contact specific hotels for updates. The visitor information site, fla-keys.com, has more general updated visitor information, including the estimation that the Keys will be open to visitors by the Oct. 20 start of the annual Fantasy Fest, a 10-day costume festival in Key West that draws some 75,000 revelers.
Organizers offered an upbeat note in a recent post on the fest's Facebook page: "YES … we are going to have Fantasy Fest 2017, I ask you to stay tuned and be patient. The spirit of our Keys Residents is much stronger than any Hurricane!"
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The Zoghlin Group was formed in 2016 by Mindy L. Zoghlin, Esq., who, after nearly thirty years of practicing law, decided to build her own firm with a legal team focused on the areas of law where they most enjoy working and are best able to contribute. Since its founding, The Zoghlin Group has successfully grown to a team of five attorneys, an office manager, a litigation legal assistant, a land use and energy legal assistant, and an administrative assistant.
The Zoghlin Group uses a team approach and specially tailored legal case management techniques to assign the most capable team member to each task and provide efficient, client-focused legal services. While certain legal issues recur with some frequency in our cases, we realize that each matter is unique, and each client has their own needs, interests, and values. Our team members are dedicated to our firm's practice areas, and we work hard to best use our skills and experience for each client.


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So have at it with your best parting shot at Metro's less-than-stellar tweeting on this softball from Sept. 20.
metroopensdoors Yellow Line: Trains are sharing the same track between Mt. Vernon Sq. and Pentagon City stations due to scheduled track maintenance. ExpectPrevious Complete the Tweets: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
We'd love to hear your suggestions for something to fill Complete the Tweet's shoes!
Other items:
Weekend track work (WMATA)
Metro unveils swine flu page (WMATA)
Metro v. Google (GGW)


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HACCP Declaration
Pietro Romanengo company possesses the self-monitoring plan based on the principles of the HACCP System and guarantees operating in the respect of that plan from raw materials delivery to the end of the production cycle.
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Crystallized Violet petals, Manna preserves, manna candies, Gomme altea.
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