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Descent Co-op: RedJak's RAMV Part 2
Descent Co-op: Redjak's Automated Monster Variant – Part 2
Posted By: Dillon
On 10/23/2015
Setting up the Shadow Rune Campaign, and the first quest against the RAMV
In our first segment, we took a look at RedJak's Variant that allows Descent Co-op by automating the monsters in the game. It also allows traditional persistent campaign play, as well through scaling difficulty by the use of event cards that are made increasingly nasty as the campaign progresses. If you missed the first segment, check it out to the right:
Now we're going to walk through the process of setting everything up and working our way through the first campaign mission to see just how functional the RAMV is. Will it be an absolute cakewalk for the heroes, or a complete nightmare of clumsy rules and poor AI?
After getting all of your cards printed and cut, you'll be setting up Descent 2e pretty similarly to a normal campaign. The one major change initially is that there will not be an Overlord deck used at all. The rest of the tokens and cards will likely come into play, and it seems perfectly acceptable to mix in any expansion content as well – so all of the other heroes, monsters and items that you have can all be used in the campaign, where appropriate.
Some of the cards that are included are shown here, such as the event cards that are drawn at the beginning of the round (skipping the first round) – these can act as instant effects or can be "Global" which means they will stay on the table until they are removed or another Global replaces them. In Act II, however, up to two Global cards can be in place at once, removing the older one if a third one is drawn.
The Dark Intervention and Dark Influence decks are how the Automated Overlord/Environment upgrades along the way. Every time the Overlord loses, a Dark Intervention card is added to the Events deck. If this card is drawn in the game you THEN draw a Dark Influence card which stays on the table! So you could have multiple DI cards out at once while still having global events. Some of these look to have VERY nasty effects and DI cards can stack up (one doesn't bump another off)
The Encounter Objective cards are shown above as well, these specify certain AI behaviors for individual monster groups in a given encounter. Great design idea by Redjak on this, as it combines with the regular monster AI cards that are included for practically every monster type in Descent 2e.
I don't have the monster AI cards pictured here, but they spell out quite clearly the sequence of behaviors that every monster will attempt to complete based on their current position and distance to heroes. They are unique for each monster type taking their abilities and strengths into account, and some of them are NASTY! They focus on a hero in range who has the lowest health, so protecting your weaker party members is crucial – and in a big group activation they can really go to town on a hero!
We chose Syndrael as a Knight for our first hero, and Roganna as a Stalker for the second. Syndrael seems to have a snooty air about her, but we are hoping that Roganna's forest-motif fashion sense can bring the average pretentiousness of the group down a notch or two.
Avric was our go-to 3rd spot for a healer character and chose the Spiritspeaker class. Avric loves interior decorating and spends most of his idle time on quests staring at the fall leaf decoration up around the lights just north of every map they fight on. Meanwhile Leoric went with the Necromancer class. He swears up and down to the rest of the group that he likes the company of live folks as well, but the jury is still out on this guy. Luckily, his reanimated zombie's name is Meatball and he is an absolute riot. Dude pulls his arm off and uses it to scratch the lower part of his own back. Big hit at parties.
Here is the picture taken after the board was laid out and most everything organized. Descent takes up a bit of space on it's own but the RAMV footprint is incredibly low, not adding very much at all. Many of the cards on the right are not necessary for the individual encounters as well if you are hurting for table space – really just the search deck.
The first quest in Shadow Rune is really just an introduction, with the same results win or lose for the heroes – although with RAMV, the Overlord actually gets stronger by losing (adding a DI card). Our heroes are out for glory and putting this variant through its paces though.
It's called First Blood, and despite not having Sylvester Stallone mentioned even remotely, does a good job of showing everyone the general flow of the gameplay. This holds true with the RAMV in the quest as well.
The objective for the heroes is to defeat the big red Ettin (who gets 2 more health for every hero in the game – bringing him to 16!) while the monsters are trying to get 5 goblin archers off the board through the exit to the West.
My confidence level was pretty low when I noticed all four of them facing the camera instead of the two groups of monsters just a short few paces away.
Right away, our initial impressions of Avric as a mild-mannered design-focused feng shui guy go RIGHT out the window as he dashes ahead to scoop up the search token!! Lots of scoffing and groans followed. Afterwards, Roganna dashed off to be as emo as she possibly could. She just had to be away from everybody and think about her thoughts or whatever.
One of my other favorite aspects of the RAMV is shown here as well – as after Avric's turn one, the first monster group activated. In this quest that is the Ettins (I might have done this backwards, it goes in order that they are listed in the quest guide)
So instead of all of our heroes going back-to-back and blasting or smacking away at he unsuspecting enemies, they get to go following the turns, until all of the enemy groups have gone. This is a wonderful mechanic change, brought over from Imperial Assault, and adds to the basic difficulty of the monsters being able to act sooner they might otherwise. Luckily for dumbass Avric, the elite goblin got in the way of some later goblins' shots in his eagerness to get to the exit (which is how the Overlord wins).
Another point I picked up from watching a video was using a d20 to track each hero's health, and usually one for the big-bad monster in the quest. This is an INCREDIBLE tip I would recommend anyone playing this (or IA) to take advantage of if they have the d20's available. It makes tracking health so much less fiddly than messing with 8-12+ tokens for every single character, when health is going up and down all the time.
I mean, what is even going on over there? She's just plopped herself right in the water and is waiting to pick up a search token next turn. She did manage to lay down a trap and seems to be trying to lure… something into it. Everyone had a rough first outing, but Roganna actually appeared to be on some sort of Narcotics.
While Roganna was off doing Roganna-things and Avric was trying to change his name to Avarice (har har) Syndrael was about to turn her nose WAY up at the others and boldly dashed right up to block the advance of the big-boned red Ettin who was stomping his way down to block the road from heroes so the goblins could achieve their objective. Maybe this group wasn't completely doomed!
Or, maybe they are – Leoric summoned Meatball who proceeded to walk right up to the goblins and throw a big fat X on his blue dice, missing completely. Not getting off on the right foot with us right now, dead guy.
This is a good point to note that the AI for the two monster groups was quite functional – The goblins would each take one action from their EO, which in this case was to run right towards the exit and try to escape. For goblins this means a fast 5 speed movement, and then for their second action they go down their AI card list and attempt the topmost action they can perform. For most of them this meant targeting and attacking a hero within 4 range, and if there was more than one, then target the one with the least health.
For the first two rounds, this meant that the goblins were chucking a LOT of dice, and did pretty considerable damage to Avric who was already up in the line of fire.
The Ettin AI is great as well, although this mission they could probably use an EO specific trait that will attempt their throw action FIRST, in an attempt to block the intersection and LOS for heroes so goblins can just run towards the exit and force the heroes to deal with the Ettins.
A bit further into the battle, we saw the now-famous-in-their-circle goblin-sandwich technique executed perfectly, with Syndrael and Avric smacking the lil guy do death. We also saw the culmination of Roganna's period of listening to Enya alone in the water, when a single unlucky goblin stumbled on her trap and killed himself trying to escape.
Following rounds had the heroes clearing out zombies and keeping each other alive while under attack from the red Ettin. Syndrael was down to 1 hp once the second Ettin was able to move in, but a lucky miss or two from the goblins kept her alive.
Once the second Ettin had been killed off and the goblins decimated, the last task was trying to bring down big red – and it was not easy. Lots of health and two defense die meant it took our rookie adventurers a few rounds. Thankfully without a threat dial going up and significant reinforcements it was just a matter of time. The Ettin was destroyed and the group was on to collect their gold and some experience to continue their adventure.
Here is one of the nastier events that we saw pop up – letting every monster take a second attack action which they can't normally do. The amount of damage they put up in that round was staggering and luckily another global wiped it out one round later.
Overall, this is a relatively simple quest, so it's tough to judge the AI too much based on it – but I liked most of what I saw in terms of balance.
For only having two groups, the design decision to activate a group following each hero activation is a brilliant one and gives the monsters an edge by design which helps a lot. The goblin AI was smart enough allowing them to focus on moving and shooting to keep pressure on the heroes each round. The Ettins were just a bit easy to game, unfortunately, but that is likely due to the layout of the quest not giving them much room to work with.
It very quickly becomes apparent that the event cards and upgraded DI cards are what give the AI teeth, and the randomness of that can be surprising. All it would have taken would have been one more miss for our heroes and one less miss for the AI and this quest could have been turned around.
Next Quest up: A Fat Goblin!


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Focus – a center of activity, attraction, or attention.
When I look at successful people I see a single mindedness, an unshakable focus. If we want to get better at something in our life we need to focus on that area and keep it in focus until we get the result we are looking for. I think many people want to lose weight, get in shape etc but the reason they never do is their inability to focus on the goal and devote the amount of effort to achieving it.
For me I want to become a better bodybuilder by developing more muscle and getting stronger. While that is a good start I still think its not focused enough so I am going to focus even more directly over the next few months until I hit my goal of squatting 405 lbs. I have wanted to do this for a long time but I never really focused solely on this goal so for the next little while get use to seeing regular video's of me focusing on getting better in the squat.

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Competish: Ticket Giveaway For Static Jacks, Eagulls and Mazes At 100 Club
Been a while since we've had one of these kids. But with that in mind, and the Christmas vibe building up slowly but surely within our gangly frame due to the large influx of retailer advertisements on our tellybox, we've decided to be that gift that just keeps on giving by teaming up with some PR chums of ours and giving away 5 pairs of tickets for a rather splendid show taking place next week at the world-famous 100 Club. Some of our older readership may remember the 100 Club as that venue that they saw Wham! in back in the day when it was called The Marquee. In contrast, some of our younger readers might know the gaff as that venue that nearly got shut down by "the man" a little while back, until Converse came swooping in to save the day while everyone stood about shouting "HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO". The key point here regardless of your age-orientated perspective is that it is a venue. Now, in this venue, on Thursday 24th November to be exact, a Converse-sponsored show takes place featuring a line up that includes some pretty stonking bands – previous line ups having boasted the likes of Everything Everything, Gross Magic, The Rapture and Fanfarlo – this next bout showcases KM approvees The Static Jacks, Eagulls and Mazes.
The Static Jacks – Mercy, Hallelujah
Eagulls – Possessed
Mazes – Brunswick Stack
Wanna go? Course you do. Like we've almost definitely mentioned already, we've got 5 pairs of tickets (or 5 plus one's in guestlist-speak) to give away – and the fact that the show is free entry is irrelevant, just accept the fact its still a pain in the arse to get tickets (believe us, we've tried to work out how, and we failed miserably), hence we're making life easier for you. Because, as you know, we love you.
All you have to do is email firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject header AIN'T NO PARTY LIKE A CONVERSE PARTY plus your full name in the email, and five lucky winners will be picked at random. The deal ends at midnight on Wednesday 23rd November. ACTIVATE.
Thanks to: Rhi Davies @ 9PR.


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Toll free numbers play an important role in helping you expand your business. Just to list the point how it helps here are some pointers that will explain how good is toll free 844 numbers for your business.
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Business related SMS: With toll free service you can even send and receive SMS to your clients. In this way you can send promotional messages, offers of the day to your clients, luring them to extend their deals with you. On the same hand, they can also send you an SMS for the small queries that they have.
So, when thinking of extending your business, don't forget to add toll free 844 numbers to your list. Many upcoming business houses miss this step and keep thinking why their business is not flourishing. In places like India, having a toll free number is like giving assurance to the client that you are there always for them.
Having a toll free number helps you build a strong relation with your present clients, which in turn acts as your advertisers by telling more people about your business.
When your customer is satisfied, it will automatically bring increase in your ROI and sales. In India, specially the business spreads or finishes on the word of mouth. If you have a satisfied client, he will spread the word, telling how much reachable and supportive you are towards them.
So, don't think twice and add toll free number to your marketing strategy!


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Sylvester D5: Hendrickx wins today, Michiels and Omová overall
Van der Kleij was the fastest one in the forest today. He had an advantage of 2 minutes to your reporter, also beaten by D. Franssen, K. Peeters and T. Hendrickx today. Van der Kleij had already started the party after being the fastest for three days out of five, but the final results came as a bit of a shock. Hendrickx ran that fast that today's score was not good enough to close the gap. In the end, your reporter had just one point left to take the third place. The fifth and sixth places were taken by Hendrickx and Peeters. Franssen, Zwiker, Schulte-Zurhausen and ... completed the top ten.
Bloemen (Junior class winner) and Michiels.
The fight in the women's class was once again interesting. Before the race, Greet Oeyen had a small advantage to Emily Kemp and Michaela Omová. Kemp and Oeyen almost matched each other during the race. They were no match for Omová however. Leaving less than 900 points to both, she easily won the overall ranking.
Overall ranking
Map (Desmond Franssen, Yannick Michiels)


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12:34pm PT by Seth Abramovitch
Charles Manson Sends Postcard to Marilyn Manson
Charles Manson has sent a bizarre, handwritten postcard to Marilyn Manson -- the goth rocker who took his stage surname from the infamous cult leader, pairing it with the first name of Marilyn Monroe.
A copy of the original postcard, which was sent to the singer in August, was posted to mansondirect.com, a personal website that purports to reveal the "truth" about the convicted killer.
Manson, now 77, is currently serving a life sentence at California's Corcoran State Prison for masterminding a brutal murder spree in the summer of 1969 that would claim the lives of eight-months pregnant actress Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, among others.
The postcard reads:
"To Marilyn Manson –
It's taken me a long time to get there from where I could touch M. Manson. Now I got a card to play – you may look into my non-profit, ATWA, and give Manson what you think he's got coming for Air, Trees, Water, and you. Or I will pay Manson what you think Manson got coming – the music has make Manson into Abraxas Devil, and I'm SURE you would want some of what I got from what I got. It's a far out balance. Beyond good and bad, right, wrong. What you don't do is what I will do – what you did a sing-along, and let it roll and said how you saved me a lot of steps – I don't need, it's not a need or a want. Couped – coup. Ghost dancers slay together and you're just in my grave Sunstroker Corona-coronas-coronae – you seen me from under with it all standing on me. That's 2 dump trucks – doing the same as CMF 000007
Charles Manson"
Marilyn Manson recently made headlines for walking through LAX with the words "F--- YOU" written on his face. His eighth full-length studio album, Born Villain, was self-released on May 1, 2012, debuting at No. 10 on the Billboard 200.
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Electronic Arts announced that EA Access and Origin Access subscribers will get to try out up to 10 hours of the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda before it's released.
The program is called EA Access Play First Trial, and the Mass Effect: Andromeda trial will go live March 16, a full five days before the game's release date. EA Access and Origin Access are available on Xbox One and Windows PC, so if you own a PS4, you're out of luck.
Subscribers will also have access to more games in the "Vault," when EA adds more games later this year. The games they are adding are Dead Space: Ignition, Madden NFL 17, Skate 3, and Zuma's Revenge. These additions will expand the Vault to more than 40 games.
The Vault is a collection of EA games that subscribers can download and play as much as they want. It includes games from the Battlefield franchise, FIFA, Need for Speed, Mirror's Edge, and more.
EA Access and Origin Access costs $4.99 a month, or $29.99 for a year. If you join, you get unlimited access to the Vault, trials of new games, and a 10% discount on EA digital purchases.


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Tom Hodgkinson
Tom Hodgkinson is editor of the Idler and author of How to be Idle, How to be Free, the Idle Parent and Brave Old World. He and his partner Victoria Hull have opened The Idler Academy in west London, a coffeehouse and bookshop
It's easy to disrupt – just pick an industry, say you're the Uber of it, or the Airbnb of it, and get disrupting! How about creating something new?
Every day, millions of internet users ask Google life's most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries
There is beauty to a less-than-prodigious output, and it won't kill you in your 40s
Tom Hodgkinson: An experiment that allows some lucky teenagers to start school an hour later than usual will prove what we idlers have long suspected – the key to success is plenty of sleep
Tom Hodgkinson: Politicians love to castigate slothful Britons, but Reg Dean says idleness helped him live to 110. So slow down. Take a nap
Tom Hodgkinson: I love lazy Sundays, but if Sunday trading laws are to be relaxed they should benefit small traders, not big business
Tom Hodgkinson: Facebook is neither an altruistic social enterprise, nor ideologically neutral. It emerges from a very particular world view
Switch off the TV and computer – it's time to make your own fun. Christmas is the perfect time to reclaim traditional games with your family and friends
Debt imprisons. It's high time for a boycott on banks…
My team's unlikely triumph on the 'fiendishly difficult' University Challenge, by Tom Hodgkinson
Tom Hodgkinson: It may conjure up images of dirt, squalor and plague, but the middle ages also created a society that was, remarkably, anti-capitalist
Tom Hodgkinson: Our three-night trip to Lundy was probably the best family holiday I've ever had
Tom Hodgkinson: Embrace the faff. It is an important part of life
Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler, celebrates the 40th anniversary of National Trust working holidays with some hard graft on home turf.
Far more than a horribly enjoyable tale for children, this book is a masterpiece of complex nihilism.
The master of cynical social satire has unexpected common ground with oriental wisdom.
Fifteenth-century feminist Christine de Pizan's calm celebration of women's achievements and their virtues puts some of today's so-called sisters to shame.
Tom Hodgkinson: I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.


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How would you like to make a mini-basket design or learn how to make a beautiful bow? Ohio Association of Garden Clubs recently accepted an invitation by L.L. Bean to stage a 'Make-and-Take' workshop recently at the Easton Town Center L.L. Bean store in Columbus. The free workshop was well received by holiday shoppers.
OAGC Past President Mary Lee Minor brought a large assortment of colorful ribbon, miniature baskets and varied textures of fragrant fresh greens. Second Vice President Jean Jankowski brought tiny hemlock cones and bright dried flowers. Soon OAGC member Shirley Chapman was teaching kids and adults how to make gorgeous bows for use on wreaths or gifts. We even served three generations, Jack and Clair with mom, grandma and grandpa.
OAGC Foundation Treasurer June Gebhardt and First Vice President Suzy Parker also assisted visitors in making tiny basket designs with their choice of lavender, yew, boxwood, arbor vitae, hemlock cones, dried flowers and baby's breath. After adding bright ribbon, designers took the basket home to decorate a tree or table scene.
While working with our guests, the OAGC crew talked with visitors about their interests and the benefits offered by our organization. Informative bookmarks were given so guests will know how to contact us to find a club they can join and where to explore our website, Facebook, and Pinterest .
L.L. Bean associate Bob Adams and store manager Kasie Clouser provided table space and signage for the activity, near a windowed entrance area, where our workshop was highly visible to curious shoppers. Observing how involved customers were in our activity, Clouser suggested we return in other seasons and expand to the Cincinnati store.


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Twitter Sets Up Survey Site Birdsignals In The UK & Asks For Feedback On Its Service
Twitter has launched a separate website called #Birdsignals which aims to solicit user feedback on its service. The online research community is for Twitter's UK users only, but it is significant because the microblogging site is taking a different sort of community-reliant approach to better its service. If you are in the UK, you can consider signing up because your opinion could have a hand in improving the service for the rest of the world.
The homepage does not say much, except giving a two-line statement on its intent – #birdsignals directly informs Twitter on what people think about its service. By joining, you will be helping Twitter to better understand its users. The FAQ is much more descriptive.
Joining up involves going through a small survey (that asks you about how you use your account) and connecting #Birdsignals with your Twitter account. Twitter is looking for a broad spectrum of users who are representative of the demographic that uses the service. The profile is probably designed to filter through the applicants and select the appropriate profiles who will be on its online research panel.
Participants will take part in voluntary surveys, and their responses could help determine how the service is perceived by users. The surveys will be emailed by the site periodically.
The FAQ states that:
As a member of #birdsignals you will receive regular feedback from the surveys you take part in and will receive a monthly newsletter which will tell you how your feedback is being applied to Twitter.
With #Birdsignals, the microblogging network is focusing its approach for user feedback. A dedicated research panel that is completely voluntary could be better for more accurate feedback. The user response could also open up #Birdsignals to other regions around the world.
Source: The Next Web | Image Credit: trekkyandy
Related topics: Surveys, Twitter.
Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more.


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Speaking of sports
Paul Sullivan is clearly a man after my own heart, always wanting to tinker with the sports: MLB All-Star Game could use some changes.
I never watch all-star games. They seem like a vestige of the days when sports broadcasts were comparatively rare and if, say, you lived in an American League city it was the MLB All-Star game or the NBC Game of the Week if you wanted to catch just a glimpse of National League superstars.
Why are soccer purists so opposed to the shoot-out? I mean, after regulation time and extra time are over, why not? The Netherlands/Costa Rica shootout in the World Cup the other day was pretty exciting and the best team did win.
Speaking of soccer, I came up with this analogy last week to reflect my discomfort with the serendipity of soccer; the role that luck can play in the outcome:
What if every golf tournament were, instead of stroke or match play, an eagle contest? The winner being the golfer who cards the most number of eagles (two under par on one hole) in four eighteen-hole rounds.
Like goals in World Cup soccer, eagles are fairly rare and the better players are likely to get more of them. But a golfer could be playing an indifferent, hum-drum tournaent and then fire in a couple of eagles on the back nine on the last day.
To complete the similarity, if the eagle-score was tied after 72 holes, they'd play three or four more holes to see if anyone got an eagle, then, for most tournaments, call it a draw and go home.


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Cardinal Inn, Rome, Italy
- Free continental breakfast and free WiFi
- Great for families
- Collect stamps
More great choices
What's around Cardinal Inn, Rome, Italy
- In Vatican
- Vatican Museums - 6 min walk
- St. Peter's Square - 13 min walk
- St. Peter's Basilica - 14 min walk
- Sistine Chapel - 16 min walk
- Castel Sant'Angelo - 18 min walk
- Villa Borghese - 25 min walk
- Piazza del Popolo - 26 min walk
Getting around
- Fiumicino - Leonardo da Vinci Intl. Airport (FCO) - 35 min drive
- Ciampino Airport (CIA) - 42 min drive
- Rome Valle Aurelia Station - 16 min walk
- Rome Appiano Station - 21 min walk
- Rome San Pietro Station - 23 min walk
- Ottaviano - San Pietro - Musei Vaticani Station - 5 min walk
- Cipro Station - 9 min walk
- Lepanto Station - 12 min walk
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
At a glance
Key facts
- 3 rooms
- Check-in time noon-11:00 PM
- Check-out time is 10:00 AM
24-hour airport shuttle service is available on request. Fees may apply. Contact the property in advance to make arrangements.
Required at check-in
- Credit card, debit card, or cash deposit required for incidental charges
- Government-issued photo ID may be required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Pets stay free (dogs and cats only)
- 1 per room
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
Payment types at the property
- Cash
Other information
- Smoke-free property
At the property
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Free continental breakfast daily
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- English
- Italian
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Individually furnished
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Bidet
- Hair dryer
- 14-inch flat-screen TV
- Cable TV channels
- Free WiFi
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Cardinal Inn, Rome, Italy's small print
Also known as
- Cardinal Inn Rome
- Cardinal Inn Bed & breakfast
- Cardinal Inn Bed & breakfast Rome
All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 1999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.Guests must contact this property in advance to reserve cribs/infant beds and rollaway/extra beds.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check-in or check-out:
- A tax is imposed by the city and may be collected at the property. The amount varies based on factors such as length of stay, property classification, and room price. Other exemptions or reductions might apply. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 3.5 per person, per night
Optional extras
Parking is available nearby and costs EUR 18 per day (2 ft away; open 24 hours)
Rollaway beds are available for EUR 20 per day
Cribs/Infant beds are available for EUR 20 per day
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 55 per vehicle (one-way)
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We've talked about the possibility of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver joining the Avengers 2 in previous stories, now word from Superherohype sounds like they might be closer to finding the right fit:
Although Joss is still writing and probably not ready to send anything out to actors, for the two roles, they're generally looking for actors in their 20s and we've heard word that the "prototype" for their Scarlet Witch is none other than Irish actress Saoirse Ronan. Except something to note is that they're going "British" for the role rather than trying to have actors playing Eastern Europeans.
As it happens, Ronan just turned 19 last month and she will be turning 20 sometime during the time they would be filming the movie next year though she's also already been playing more mature roles. If she is Marvel's "prototype" for Wanda, why wouldn't Marvel just outright make an offer to Ronan once they have a script done? Ronan has those mesmerizing eyes that would be perfect for the Scarlet Witch, too.
Why look for someone in the model of Ronan when you can just go out and hire Ronan to play Scarlet Wtich? Loved Ronan in Hanna and I think she would make a great fit. Check out the eyes on her.


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July 19th, 2017
10 Photographers Who Celebrate Black Identity through Fashion
"The word dandy may evoke ideas of bygone white men in waistcoats and multilayered blouses with puffy sleeves," writes Shantrelle P. Lewis, in her new book, Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style. Historically, dandyism has been outside the traditional tropes of masculinity—queer, in a sense—dandies also threatened the existing class structure by dressing up. A Black man employing this strategy is even more radical and subversive. By looking sharp, the Black dandy fashions a sense of pride, positivity, and self-worth that can transcend circumstances, as well as societal perceptions. He defies monolithic understandings of what it is to be a man—particularly a Black man—through a colorful and complex dance between race, class, gender, power, and style. Today, the fashion of Black dandies is more a nod to the style of their well-dressed grandfathers than the likes of Oscar Wilde or Beau Brummell. With styles as diverse as their subjects', each of the following photographers portrays a striking relationship to dandyism.
Sara Shamsavari
Sara Shamsavari has long photographed London's Rude Boys as a way of shattering stereotypes of immigrants. Born in Tehran, Shamsavari is a British artist concerned with cultural identity and social justice. A bit of history—in England, eighteenth-century enslaved Africans were often dressed lavishly to reflect well on their owners, and they soon began personalizing those uniforms. Fast-forward to the 1960s, when waves of Black immigrants flocked to the UK from Anglophone countries in the Caribbean and West Africa, bringing their colorful and vibrant styles with them. The Rude boys were arbiters of style as soon as they arrived from Kingston, Jamaica. Modern-day Rude Boys come from all over and continue to influence global fashion.
Jody Ake
Jody Ake, born and raised in the South but now living in Portland, Oregon, creates rare and delicate ambrotypes. Developed in the 1850s as a less-expensive alternative to the daguerreotype, the ambrotype is a labor-intensive process that requires creating, exposing, and processing an image on a glass plate over about fifteen minutes. Ake's historic-looking portraits of twenty-first-century Black men convey self-actualization and identity. On first glance, it may even be easier to believe that the images were created in a past century than in the last decade.
Daniele Tamagni
Daniele Tamagni photographs one of the oldest sartorial movements, the Sapeurs. It dates back to the late nineteenth century, when Europeans first colonized the Congo, and locals imitated their mannerisms and dress. Over the past hundred years, this cult of extravagant clothing and elegance became known as La Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (The Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People) or La Sape. Tamagni's series Gentlemen of Bacongo (2009) has influenced style-based social movements around the world.
Rose Callahan
Rose Callahan has been well immersed in the world of dandyism since starting her blog The Dandy Portraits in early 2008. She explains the essential elements of dandyism: "Dressing is elevated to an art, and they have cultivated exceptional, refined personal style based in classic menswear, with a healthy dose of eccentricity and obsession. Dressing is a huge part, but it is never the whole picture. There is undoubtedly a strength of personality and a desire to cultivate a life according to one's own rules."
Andrew Dosunmu
Photographer and filmmaker Andrew Dosunmu was born in Nigeria, moved to London as a teen, and currently lives in Brooklyn. He is deeply influenced by cinema, particularly the Senegalese filmmakers Ousmane Sembène and Djibril Diop Mambéty. His films present intimate and moving portraits of African immigrants' stories. But, as Dosunmu explains, most projects begin with pictures: "Photos are my scrapbook. It gives me the freedom to make cinema on paper."
Harness Hamese
Self-taught photographer Harness Hamese belongs to Khumbula, a Johannesburg collective of vintage enthusiasts. Named after a Nguni word meaning "to remember," the collective is inspired by the philosophy, aesthetics, and actions of anti-apartheid freedom fighters, such as Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko. Hamese explains, "We focus particularly on how our parents used to dress, and the integrity that's attached to these expressions of individualism and independence." His images communicate both the African past of the vintage clothes and the present of the wearers, breaking down stereotypes of what Africa was and is.
Hassan Hajjaj
Extraordinary and out-of-the-box, Hassan Hajjaj's studio portraits show a clash of cultures, art forms, and expressions of creativity. A photographer, artist, and stylist, Hajjaj collaborates with his subjects as well as a tailor to conceptualize flamboyant ensembles through traditional clothes and suits. Hajjaj's series is a conversation about how cultures collide and fuse—he is as influenced by Andy Warhol as he is by Malick Sidibé—and speaks to a childhood with memories of an African past and a European present. His Moroccan "rock stars" are as flashy as the commercial products that he uses to frame them.
Arteh Odjidja
Arteh Odjidja's Stranger in Moscow series tells the story of a young, African immigrant in Russia. Odjidja met Habdulay Vilhette, a young man from a small island off the coast of West Africa, at a local casting call for a fashion shoot. Odjidja became interested in what it was like for a Black man living in Russia. He fashioned him as "the stranger" in this visual essay, shot in an exquisite Ozwald Boateng suit, in which Vilhette's dark complexion and six foot three inch height made for a striking juxtaposition against a mainly white Moscow.
Rog and Bee Walker
Rog and Bee Walker have the makings of a timeless love story. They are celebrated as photographers, muses, style mavens, and sartorialists. On their first date, they went to see the documentary Bill Cunningham New York (2010) and, a year later, Rog proposed. Rog is best-known for his collaboration with the creative agency Street Etiquette, while Bee's practice ranges from social documentary to lifestyle photography.
Omar Victor Diop
Senegalese photographer and artist Omar Victor Diop situates his subjects in settings reminiscent of those of his Francophone West African predecessors Malick Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, who produced studio portraits of young, progressive West Africans in the 1960s and '70s. His bold use of color, however, adds a contemporary twist. In one image, a set of twins, or a subject and his replica—one traditional, one Western—sit perfectly poised, their heads covered, in blue batik jackets.
Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style (2017) is published by Aperture.


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General Take and Competing Narratives
The nature of the challenge the EPRDF government has faced in recent months, relating to the country at large, is new – at least over the past quarter of a century.
Ironically, the situation blew up in the same year the ruling party publicly admitted its limitations in good governance, declaring the year a make or break to itself, promising to roll heads. Not much happened; rather, it was the sporadic displays of unrest that pre-empted action, at some points culminating in the use of force.
The nature of the unrest, though similar throughout the year, came from different angles and in light of a variety of issues.
The loss of life and property is clearly evident – officially declared at Parliament by the human rights commissioner to have reached 173 in Oromia and 97 in Amhara. This was before the full blown Gondar protest. Unofficial counts now go as high as 600.
Competing narratives put the situation in different contexts – the government's version of events actually varies from time to time and depending upon the audience being addressed.
The Prime Minister's take in different settings varies from the complete detachment of the issues from politics, to admitting to a lack of good governance as a striking factor in one of his Parliamentary addresses.
Key Narrative Voices
The man at the top
"The root cause of the protest in this country is not politics. It is having so many young people who are unemployed," Prime Minister Hailemariam.
The man in the midst
Fikadu Tessema, Communications Bureau head of the Oromia regional state, instead pointed his finger at maladministration and believes the solution is simple.
"The Choices are simple; either [EPRDF] cut off the rent-seeking political economy or allow the nation to disintegrate," Fikadu Tessema.
The former insiders
Many opposition leaders, unlike Hailemariam, explain the entire series of events through politics. Unaccountability and the regression of democratic culture is earmarked as the source of the issue from their end.
Former members of the ruling EPRDF/TPLF party, and now critics of the system, tend to focus on this regression in democracy.
"The country is sliding back in all aspects," Aregash Adane, former TPLF member , and now in Arena, an opposition party.
"It is all one step ahead and two steps back," Abebe T. Haimanot, former Chief of the Ethiopian Air Forces.
The mainstream opposition
Mainstream opposition leaders, like Yackob Hailemariam, a former opposition politician, it is all about culture.
"Staying unaccountable has become a culture," Yackob Hailemariam.
But, for people like Bekele Gerba, member of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), though it is highly localised and focused, it is about resisting land grabs in the guise of master plans.
"We say the master plan is mischievous, because it is all about land grab," Bekele Gerba.
The master planners
Experts who took part in the development of the integrated master plan, however, disagree.
"The draft integrated master plan was politicised before it got the floor; it was a mere proposal yet to be tabled for the public and Parliament
Series of Events
December 2015
The onset of the Oromia region's popular protest was triggered by the decision of local officials to give away a certain portion of a school compound in Ambo for other development purposes. This was resisted by a few of the youths at school, with a few losing their lives.
Private businesses, mainly foreign companies, including Suprafloritech; the Indian, Linssen Roser; Dutch flower and Akper textile, have suffered an almost total loss as a result of the disturbances.
January 2016
The draft integrated city master plan was officially cancelled before being tabled for public discussion. The government, though never attaching the cause of the unrest to the plan, have opted to cancel it without any precondition.
"Nothing will be implemented without the will of the people," said Diriba Kuma, Mayor of the capital.
The anger was contagious across various woredas in the Oromia region, which actually picked up on issues beyond anger – unemployment, unfair distribution of wealth and especially land administration and the compensation issues the surround it.
Before settling the internal unpredictable pattern of unrest that led to burning down of farms, vehicles and other properties of investors, the country had to deal with an external hostile force.
June 2016
Ethiopian troops had a skirmish with their Eritrean counterparts, both suffering many casualties and fatalities. Dodging the question on numbers and budget as pointless, Getachew Reda, government communications affairs, stood clear on the way forward.
"We let the Eritrean regime decide. If it will continue to provoke us, we will crush it again," he sai
Vocal figures in the country's politics, like Abebe T.Haimanot, seem to have polar opposite views on how to deal with this issue. Some call for the overthrow of Esayas Afwerki's regime; others call for an informed decision about the ultimate output before action.
"Bringing Esayas down will not be the ultimate end, but the beginning of unknown ends," argued Zerihun Teshome, a political commentator and author of the book Kurkora.
The skirmish was brief; it stopped within days, but the trouble inside the country got a new player with popular protests in Gondar.
July 2016
Dubbed mainly on social media platforms as #Amharaprotest, at the beginning the unrest had a very particular issue of identity.
"There is no such thing as Amhara protest," Getachew Reda, Government Communications Minister, said, dismissing the notion.
He rather frames the issue with a group of people suspected of criminal acts, for whom the federal security forces had an arrest warrant for. The resistance and shoot out was all initiated from the suspects' side, he argues.
The individuals referred to by Getachew as suspects were members of a committee – a self-assigned group that has voiced issues of identity for almost a year now.
Despite the yearlong issue of identity, the committee raised no response of a formal nature. Unfortunately, a month before the unrest in Gondar, high officials of the country were boasting about the capability of the system to handle such cases.
"We have a clear road map for resolving identity issues," bragged Demeke Mokonenne in an exclusive interview with a radio broadcaster based in the US.
The government narrative continues to blame external forces as the push factors behind.
"The forces behind this unrest are many, among which are neighbouring enemies of the country and some liberal forces who do not want Ethiopia to set an example of success outside of their command," said Desta Tesfaw, chairperson of the EPRDF's secretariat office, during one of his interviews with the Fana Broadcasting Corporate.
The yearlong uncertainty on the political front is far from over, yet it has become calmer. The EPRDF is strongly pushing the limits in admitting its cracks and proposing a road map to the future. Four veterans of the party were involved in eight hours of dialogue in a flagship assertion of their commitment, yet to be checked in the new year.
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San Diego City Council Approves Resolution Opposing Offshore Drilling
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
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The San Diego City Council Tuesday approved a resolution opposing oil and gas drilling off the California coast.
The vote on the resolution, which also opposes "federal and gas leases in all United States," was 7-1, with Councilman Scott Sherman casting the dissenting vote. Councilman Chris Cate was absent.
In January, the Trump administration proposed opening up U.S. coastal waters to drilling, a move opposed by many coastal state governments.
Several council members stressed that drilling would harm tourism, the San Diego economy and the marine environment.
RELATED: San Diego Supervisors To Lobby Against Oil Drilling Off California Coast
Councilman David Alvarez said he's heard from military representatives who are very concerned and it's "not often they and environmental groups stand together."
"We can be successful, as well, if we stand united on this," Alvarez said.
Councilman Chris Ward said people only need to look back to the 1969 spill off the coast of Santa Barbara and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster as reminders of how dangerous drilling can be. He said voters were wise in the 1980s to support an anti-drilling city charter, adding it's important for the city to "send a strong message to (U.S. Interior) Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Trump administration."
Explaining his no vote, Sherman said he's not a fan of resolutions "as they end up in a circular file in a bureaucrat's desk."
Sherman added that the city pays lobbyists to relay San Diego's message to Washington, D.C.
Councilwoman Lorie Zapf disagreed, saying this resolution is different.
Zapf said she and several other council members "represent a big chunk of the coastline."
"We do our (economic) part with our military," she said.
Zapf said she will testify Thursday in Washington, D.C., before the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
Zapf added she'll also hand-deliver the city resolution to Interior Department officials and the BOEM, along with California congressional representatives.
RELATED: California May Have A Way To Block Trump's Offshore Drilling Push
Councilman Mark Kersey said he was voting yes because the state of Florida got a waiver on drilling.
"In this case, the resolution is appropriate," Kersey added.
Earlier today, Councilwoman Barbara Bry, Ward and Zapf appeared at a rally on the City Concourse, organized by the groups Oceana and SanDiego350 in opposition to any drilling.
In other actions, the council voted unanimously to give $7,000 to I Love a Clean San Diego for the 33rd annual Coastal Cleanup Day.
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The Sandton Convention Centre Is Easily Accessible
The Sandton Convention Centre is located in Sandton the financial hub of Johannesburg in South Africa. It is easily accessible from O.R.Tambo International Airport, just 15 minutes via the Gautrain – the state-of-the-art rapid rail network launched in 2010. The Gautrain links Sandton with Pretoria, central Johannesburg and O.R. Tambo International Airport. The Gautrain station is a convenient 5-minute walk from the Sandton Convention Centre.
Johannesburg Airport Connections
The SCC is just 35 minutes by road from O.R. Tambo International Airport, approximately 19km from Grand Central Airport and 30km from Lanseria International Airport. Airport-approved operators provide taxi, bus and shuttle services between Sandton and the terminal. There are also several car hire companies based at the airport.
Ample Parking For Visitors
Close to 11 000 parking pays are available to Sandton Convention Centre visitors, with the entrance to the parking arcade on Alice Lane, between West and 5th Streets in Sandton.
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Whatever happened to the ceasefire that was supposed to be in place between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip? Is it a surprise that Hamas, little more than two weeks after Israel withdrew from Gaza, began to launch rockets and mortars into Israel again? Yesterday a rocket from Gaza struck the Isreali city of Ashkelon causing only property damage fortunately. Hamas went back to their old ways back on January 27 when they detonated a bomb near an Israeli border patrol that killed an Israeli soldier. On Sunday Palestinians fired at least four rockets and a "shower of mortar shells" into Israel. (Kershner, Isabel, "Rocket from Gaza Strikes Israeli City", The New York Times, February 3, 2009). Israel responded with air raids against terrorists in return.
All this is going on while the Egyptians are trying to negotiate a more lasting truce between Hamas and Israel. Hamas wants all of the crossings opened and the lifting of the economic embargo and Israel wants an end to the smuggling tunnels. Egypt has announced that the U.S. Army Engineers had arrived to set up ground-penetrating radar to detect smuggling tunnels (Kershner, Isabel, "Rocket from Gaza Strikes Israeli City", The New York Times, February 3, 2009). One has to wonder why they are even there when the tunnels are not really a secret as Sarah Topol of The New Republic notes in her February 2nd 2009 story "Tunnel Vision:
Finding the tunnels proved much easier than I had expected. Together with two other journalists, I hired Mahmoud, who moonlights as translator while co-owning a profitable, albeit somewhat vague, telecommunications company in the Palestinian town of Rafah. His best friend drove us the 15 minutes from Rafah to just outside the Philadelphi corridor, the heavily guarded strip of no-man's land that separates the two countries. Approximately 70 yards from the border, we hit dozens of tattered white tents, organized row upon row, tens of feet apart. Each tent houses the mouth of a tunnel that snakes beneath the border to Egypt.
…Around us, the flurry of activity is anything but surreptitious. Trucks, heavily laden with unmarked, small white parcels, loiter outside the tents ready to transport goods around the Strip. Tractors push and pull mounds of sand disgorged by bombings, looking to recover lost goods. Some tents have been damaged by the war, but many remain unscathed.
"What are the tents for?" I ask Mahmoud.
"They are to protect from sun and rain," he answers.
"It's not to keep the tunnels secret?"
"The tunnels are not a secret!" he exclaims over the din of generators and the frantic scraping of shovels.
(Topol, Sarah, "Tunnel Vision, The New Republic, February 2, 2009)
Thanks to Yisrael Medad for the New Republic article link.
Of all the unlikely stories I thought I would ever read in the New York Times this was one of them. Normally I expect the Times to take the most left-leaning perspective and just slam Israel for anything that it does especially when it comes to Palestinians. It makes me wonder why I even bother to read the New York Times anymore (or the Washington Post for that matter). But this story just had my jaw dropping. Here was a semi-balanced piece that somehow slipped through the Times' editor's fingers. Here's just a sample:
Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze of tunnels, booby traps and sophisticated roadside bombs. Weapons are hidden in mosques, schoolyards and civilian houses, and the leadership's war room is a bunker beneath Gaza's largest hospital
(Erlanger, Steven, "A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery", The New York Times, January 10, 2009)
Who would have thought that Hamas would hide their weapons inside of mosques, schoolyards and civilian houses. And on top of that, running their war from a bunker underneath a hospital! Isn't this what Israel has been saying all along…and said about Hezbollah's conduct of their operations during the war in the north of Israel 2 and 1/2 years ago? But it didn't matter to the New York Times that that was the case…in their editor's minds Israel was still in the wrong for even daring to fight. But it gets better,
Unwilling to take Israel's bait and come into the open, Hamas militants are fighting in civilian clothes; even the police have been ordered to take off their uniforms. The militants emerge from tunnels to shoot automatic weapons or antitank missiles, then disappear back inside, hoping to lure the Israeli soldiers with their fire.
In one apartment building in Zeitoun, in northern Gaza, Hamas set an inventive, deadly trap. According to an Israeli journalist embedded with Israeli troops, the militants placed a mannequin in a hallway off the building's main entrance. They hoped to draw fire from Israeli soldiers who might, through the blur of night vision goggles and split-second decisions, mistake the figure for a fighter. The mannequin was rigged to explode and bring down the building.
In an interview, the reporter, Ron Ben-Yishai, a senior military correspondent for the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, said soldiers also found a pile of weapons with a grenade launcher on top. When they moved the launcher, "they saw a detonator light up, but somehow it didn't go off."
(Erlanger, Steven, "A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery", The New York Times, January 10, 2009)
Here is how Hamas really works. And if it's not enough for the world to read it in the New York Times (as the saying goes "you can't believe everything you read") then here's a video showing how Hamas booby trapped a school and a zoo to blow it up when Israeli soldiers entered it…a school where children learn
While I'm saddened by the tragedy that the everyday Palestinian suffers in Gaza, the Israelis are not the ones who are fighting dirty. It's the Hamas terrorists who feel that civilian shields, booby trapped houses and schools and launching rockets and mortars from civilian areas are legitimate fighting techniques. They're the ones who violate international law and perpetrate war crimes against humanity. Israel cannot tolerate rockets being rained down upon its citizenry — not on a sporadic basis and certainly not on a continual basis.
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times penned an op-ed yesterday titled "The Gaza Boomerang" in which he excoriates Israel for their incursion into Gaza. He notes that
Since the shelling from Gaza started in 2001, 20 Israeli civilians have been killed by rockets or mortars, according to a tabulation by Israeli human rights groups. That doesn't justify an all-out ground invasion that has killed more than 660 people (it's difficult to know how many are militants and how many are civilians)
(Kristof, Nicholas D., "The Gaza Boomerang", The New York Times, January 8 2009)
Sitting in an office a few thousand miles away Mr. Kristof balances the lives of 20 people on the one hand and 660 people on the other (which is probably more now) and says that the 20 people are not worth the 660 people. He uses this balance to say make the old tired response that Israel's response is "disproportionate." Israel, as Mr. Kristof believes, should simply have bombed the tunnels which Hamas is using to smuggle weapons into the Gaza strip or, better yet, eased the blockade of the Gaza strip in the hopes that in would have created "an environment in which Hamas would have extended the cease-fire."
Whether Hamas would have extended the cease-fire or not we will never know now. I'm betting that they wouldn't. They would have used the easing of a blockade to arm themselves with probably even more deadlier rockets as well as unleased their legions of suicide bombers on Israel. This sort of thinking originates from the Munich Pact of 1938 in which France, Britain, and Germany met to discuss Hitler's demands for the Sudetenland (at the time part of the country of Czechoslovakia). Hitler reassured Britain's prime minister Neville Chamberlain that if Germany was given the Sudetenland than he (Hitler) would make no more claims on the territory of it's neighbors. Chamberlain went back to Britain with the pact in hand and proclaimed that he had secured "peace for our time." Not long after, in March of 1939, Hitler's army invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia and we all know the rest of the story.
Mr. Kristof's naive assertion that if only Israel had made "nice" with Hamas then Hamas would make "nice" with Israel is completely off. It smacks of Gollum's quote in the Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, "We'll be nice to them, if they'll be nice to us" — well, we all now how that ended. Gollum betrayed Sam and Frodo, tried to kill them and managed, albeit only briefly, to capture the One Ring for himself. Israel cannot afford to make "nice" with an organization that continually professes that it's sole aim is the destruction of Israel with the concomittant explusion or mass murder of all Jews from their land. And Mr. Kristof clearly doesn't understand that – it doesn't enter into his calculus.
Hamas can easily bring an end to the Gaza tragedy it it would stop raining rockets down on Israel (which, just before the current fighting was around 60 per day), stop sending suicide bombers into Israeli cafes, shops, synagoguges, and malls, and realizes that a two-state solution is the only way to end this festering, open sore of a conflict. Instead, they only wish to continue the cycle of violence (which leads to Israeli retaliation which, in itself also contributes to the cycle).
The 20 Israeli lives that have been lost to the Hamas rain of rockets over the past 8 years (it's been going on since 2001) are just as meaningful and valid as the Palestinian lives lost over the past two weeks. Those 20 were someone mother, father, child, brother, and sister. This is not a game of numbers that defines how hard Israel is allowed to strike back against an organization that is determined to see its destruction. It's a question of survival. Israel's response has to be strong enough that Hamas will think twice in the future of whether they want to keep the count going up to 21, 22 or beyond. It has to be strong enough that Hamas will realize that true peace comes with being willing to live with your neighbors rather than sitting and waiting to cut their throats whenever they let their guard down.


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Here's a brief and simple article by Robin Konie on how Constructive Rest can help tired moms and dads. The illustration shows well the intentions of grounding and renewed spine length during CR.
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What Can I Do to Help Myself Right Now?
From the Self-Help Information page of Imogen Ragone's website: Body Intelligence:
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Andrea Matthews, an experienced Alexander Technique teacher and singer in Boston, MA, USA shares this succinct description of Constructive Rest in PDF.


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Rakhi Sawant, the outspoken, wannabe-bride on NDTV Imagine has not only managed to select her groom on television, but has also achieved in garnering the maximum ratings for any reality show in last two years.
As per Tam data, the grand finale of Rakhi Ka Swayamvar Faisle Ki Raat, which was aired live on 2 August from 9-11.30 pm, fetched a whopping TVR of 8.4 for the channel.
The viewers remained captivated by Rakhi and her tantrums to make the finale the top rated show among the Hindi GECs (general entertainment channels) during the week. It also helped the channel to notch a total of 141 GRPs in the week ended 2 August.
Rakhi Ka Swayamvar had been into controversies from the very beginning. While on one hand, there was Rakhi selecting and rejecting perspective contestants as per her whims and fancies, there were news channels on the other hand trying to create scoops out of the show.
It is pertinent to note here that News24 conducted a sting operation, saying that the show was rigged, ultimately helping the property to garner more eyeballs.
Rakhi Ka Swayamvar that hit the television screen on 29 June witnessed the best non-fiction opening with a TVR of 4.1, till Sach Ka Saamna launched on Star Plus. But the show did what it was created for. It gave NDTV Imagine a major upward push. The channel which was hovering around the 100 GRP (gross rating points) mark on a weekly basis, before the launch of the show, zoomed up by over 25 GRPs per week.
Overall, the show that was spread over a 6-week span fared an average of 2.8 TVR.
On a week-on-week basis, the show managed an average TVR of 2.8 in its first week. The ratings dipped slightly in the second week (2.3 TVR) but as word of mouth about Rakhi's hunt for a dulha spread, the ratings soared higher. However, after an average of more than 3 TVR for two consecutive weeks, the three remaining contestants and Rakhi lost some of the charm as average rating slumped to 1.5 TVR in the fifth week.
The final week (average 5.9 TVR) saw two major events in the show, Mehendi Sangeet on 1 August (3.4 TVR) and the finale, where she picked NRI Elesh Parujanwala as her to-be groom.
And now, the channel has decided to milk all the publicity around the couple, and has roped in them to contest in their upcoming reality show, Pati Patni or Woh, which is adaption of international format show Baby Borrowers. BBC Worldwide, which holds the rights of the show is producing it for the channel.
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Having a regular creative outlet is not just part of a well rounded education – it is essential for emotional health and well being. Producing a show brings the arts together and provides growth opportunities for all varieties of learners. And besides being incredibly fun, theatre helps young people develop many of the skills necessary for success in today's world:
Self-Confidence: Throughout the rehearsal and performance process, performers discover how to take creative and emotional risks and learn to trust their abilities.
Literacy: Students increase reading and writing skills at their own pace by immersing themselves in the story, reading and re-reading their scripts, memorizing their lines and taking notes at rehearsal.
Communication: During rehearsals, students learn how to articulate their thoughts and questions and carefully listen to direction in order to improve their performances.
Imagination: Theatre is most dynamic when the imaginations of its participants are fully engaged. Students make countless interpretive choices in design and performance to create a detailed, fictional world for their audiences.
Empathy: Through character work and story creation, young performers explore the lives of others. First-hand perspectives of new circumstances challenge prejudices and aid in the development of well-rounded students and citizens.
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1/21/17 CBS News reports Inaugural rioters are facing felony charges with up to 10-year sentences. A bit more serious than most were expecting, I'm sure. There are consequences to this behavior and it isn't participation trophies.
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- drjim said...
The "protesters" will get Soros-funded lawyers and plea bargain it down.
I'd say hit em with the max, but I doubt it will happen.
- January 22, 2017 at 5:15 PM
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I remember people in the occupy movement expecting they would be bailed out using the donation money flowing in from other Progressives. Then the people who were put in charge of that money decided they had a better use for it and went off on world traavel to meet "foreign supporters". I have always wondered how many "Occupy" members are still in jail since many of their crimes were punishable by jail time greater then Obama's two terms in office.
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The Washington Wizards have won five straight. That's pretty good. They've won nine out of the past ten and that's even better. The thing that I love though is that over these past ten games they have gone 10-0 against the spread. If, for some reason, you had advanced knowledge of this and decided to bet $100 on that first game and let it ride on each game until now you would have a whopping $51,200. (!) That is ridiculous and this is the type of thing that simply doesn't happen in basketball.
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A big part of this is probably just the team learning to gel together under a new coach in Scott Brooks. Changes don't happen overnight to a team and the Wizards have had to sort of find themselves again under Brooks. That clearly is starting to happen and the steps forward have been evident.
This team is all about the starting five. We all know Bradley Beal and John Wall who have been great this year and are starting to really show some chemistry that everything thought they would never develop. Beal has also benefitted from better health this year, but as I write that I find myself crossing my fingers and putting them behind my back. An injury to either of these two kills the season, but as long as they are healthy I think they will be a top five seed in the East.
The big jump this season has been from Otto Porter. He's shown signs over the past few seasons of developing into something, but he looked more like a bust at times and it wasn't sure what he would be in this league. Well, now we know: he's a killer three-and-D guy who opens up their offense. He's going to get paid big when he hits free agency and the Wizards may have finally found the final piece of their core in him.
Marcin Gortat has been key to their success as well in a really weird way. He's doing all the dirty work down low, rebounding and grinding in the paint, and he's doing that by taking the least amount of shots that he's ever taken (as a starter). He's really taken an unselfish, complimentary role to help the team win and it has worked. It seems to be working as well as he's shooting 60% right now which is .33% better than his best season. He's also rebounding a career high 11.4 boards per game which would blow away his career best 10 per game. He is the key to this team and what keeps them somewhat respectable on defense.
Washington also had a big month from Markieff Morris who seems to be meeting some of his potential. His 17.3 points and 8.6 rebounds in January were his best of the season and he was a +10.5 +/- player for them. If he can continue playing like he played in January then I could really see this team making some noise in the East. The second seed is not out of the question.
Of course, the big issue with them is their bench. Kelly Oubre is decent, but other than him they don't have a single positive value player on their bench and the on/off numbers for the starters are glaring.
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It's going to look like this for nearly all teams as starters are usually starters for a reason, but every player being at least -9 is glaring. For comparison, the Celtics don't have a single player in their top 8 that is -9 and the same can be said about the Raptors. The Wizards bench is a serious issue that they should be looking into. That said, any upgrade will be marginal as the Wizards aren't in a position to trade assets. This seems more like a team that will be REALLY good… next year.
No team is ever as good as their highest high nor bad as their lowest low, but I do feel like the Wizards are a top four team in the East. The starting five is tough and can hang with any team in the East (well, almost any team) and they should be around to stay.
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I don't see movies too often these days, but when I do, I try and save the movie-going experience for films that seem like they wouldn't quite be the same from the comforts of my couch. The Greatest Showman is amazing! The story is loosely based on the P.T. Barnum (of Barnum and Bailey Circus), and I found it a compelling, engaging story. Even more so if you're a fan of musicals.
The cinematography reminded me a little of Moulin Rouge, with it's vibrant colors woven in with song, the music is inviting, catchy, and emboldens you to want to jump up and dance (just ask my kids, we've had it blasting on repeat)! Listening to the soundtrack the week before seeing the film and and then seeing the same songs come alive on the screen was magical.
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WATCH: Police announce charges against missing boy's stepmother
According to KAKE, Jail records show 26-year-old Emily Glass was booked just before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday for two counts of child endangerment. Lucas is still missing.
"The charges are related to new information gathered during this investigation," Deputy Police Chief Gavin Seiler said Wednesday afternoon. "Officers and investigators have been working on this case non-stop."
Seiler said the two child endangerment counts related to Lucas and a 1-year-old child. He did not release details on the alleged incidents, but said more charges could be coming.
Wichita police have said that Glass last saw Lucas when she then took a shower and fell asleep. Officers were notified around 6:15 p.m. that the boy was missing.
"We hope that we are able to find Lucas," Seiler said.
WATCH: Tips on missing boy lead investigators to park
Meanwhile, Wichita police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation continue to search for a missing 5-year-old boy who was last seen Saturday afternoon.
KAKE reports Lucas Hernandez was last seen around 3 p.m. on Saturday near his home in the 600 block of South Edgemoor. Wichita police said the boy's stepmother last saw Lucas at around 3 p.m. Saturday when she then took a shower and fell asleep. Officers were notified around 6:15 p.m. that the boy was missing.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has deployed its Child Action Rapid Deployment team to assist in the search, and the Wichita Police Department has activated its Emergency Operation Command Center.
Lucas has brown hair and brown eyes, weighs 60 pounds and is four feet tall. He was last known to be wearing black sweats, white socks and a gray shirt with a bear on it. He's a Pre-K student at Beech Elementary School.
Officer Charley Davidson with the Wichita Police Department said Tuesday morning that about 100 law enforcement officials are helping in the search for Lucas.
"We are going to be there as long as it takes," Officer Davidson said. "Right now, our concern is to find Lucas."
Since the weekend, teams have searched Chisholm Creek Park, Dr Glen Day Park, Harrison Park and the boy's neighborhood. Authorities are planning more searches, but Davidson did not say where.
Although people want to start search parties, Davidson said the department has adequate resources to search. He said the best thing people can do is submit tips by calling (316) 383-4661.
Lucas' great-aunt Sally Rasmussen, who lives in New Mexico, told ABC News that she saw marks on the boy's arms and on his cheek in a photo she saw of him last May.
Rasmussen, who said she's worked with at-risk youth before, said she is familiar with the possible signs of abuse and reported the marks to Kansas Child Protective Services.
Rasmussen said relatives grew more concerned when Lucas and his father, Johnathan Hernandez, visited New Mexico in November. She said they told her they saw more signs of abuse and reported them to authorities in New Mexico.
However, Rasmussen does not believe Lucas' father hurt his son.
"He loves his son dearly!" Rasmussen wrote in a Facebook message to ABC News.
She added that she believes Hernandez, who often travels out of state for work, was out of town working when Lucas disappeared. According to police, Lucas' stepmother told investigators she last saw him in his bedroom just before she took a shower and fell asleep. Police were called to the home about three hours later.
The New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department told ABC News that its cases are confidential and did not confirm whether it has an open case involving Lucas.
The Kansas Department for Children and Families, of which Child Protective Services is a part, said it couldn't share any information on its cases either but expressed worry for Lucas.
"We share the public's concern regarding Lucas Hernandez," Theresa Freed, communications director for Kansas DCF, said in a statement to ABC News. "In the event the agency has information, we will share it with law enforcement, assisting them as requested."
Wichita police confirmed in a media briefing Monday that they have had contact with the family before, but did not elaborate on the nature of that contact.
Authorities said they have as many as 100 officers working the case and have searched the Hernandez home as well as Wichita's Chisholm Trail Park, Grove Park and Harrison Park using horses, dogs and drones, but have found no sign of Lucas.
At a prayer vigil on Monday night, Lucas' father told ABC affiliate KAKE he was thankful for the community's help.
"I think it's good to see people in this community treating Lucas like he's their child," Hernandez said. "This is a serious thing and we want him home."
The family is cooperating with the investigation, authorities said.
ABC News has reached out to other relatives of Lucas, but did not immediately receive a response.


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I hate ice-skating. I just hate it. It looks beautiful and Christmassy and all sorts of lovely, but I just can't. I think it's because I saw a bloody accident at Streatham Ice Rink when I was younger and I 100% have no core stability so I feel very vulnerable on the ice. So when it gets to this time of year I feel a bit at a loss for Christmassy activities that don't involve bloody ice-skating or cost a day's wage (I'm looking at you Winter Wonderland) – but I found one at the Southbank Christmas Market.
My friend Bex and I headed there before midday on a Sunday and it was pleasantly quiet; and by this I mean busy but bearable. If you like street food, you'll love this place – we spotted pancakes, Indian food, kebabs, pizzas, burgers, hot dogs, waffles… the list goes on.
We opted for dutch pancakes and bratwurst hot dogs and oh my lord, both were SO good. Make sure you get the hot dog with the sauerkraut (Bex hadn't had it before and she was very impressed), and we loved the Dutch pancakes with icing sugar and maple syrup, I think the nutella option would have sent our blood sugar levels into overdrive.
All food was washed down with a hot cider at the Rekorderlig bar, which was delicious, however a lot stronger then it tastes, maybe it was the cold, but my legs felt seriously heavy when we got up to leave…
The market reminded me of the Weihnachtsmarkt in Germany, and sure things are a tad spendy if you want to eat, drink and buy bobble hats – but if you're after something a little less superficial than Winter Wonderland, then I'd definitely give it a visit.
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