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The Unified SkinClothing HighEnd shader is a shader used for adding depth and substance to your clothing and skin (metal and tessellate feature). This shader is best used on high end machines.
You can use the basic Unified SkinClothing shader if you have a PC with lower performance.
To use this shader on your clothing and skin items, search for "Unified" in your Unity project window. Create a new material by right clicking in the project window and select 'Create>Material'. Drag the Unified SkinClothing HighEnd shader on to the new material and this will add the shader to the material.
Now to work with the settings.
But has the addition of a few more settings:
- Single channel (R) texture with height distances encoded on it, you can use a heightmap exported from your 3D package (either Quixel/Substance Painter or from Maya/Max/Blender) - should be derived from the same thing building the normal maps.
Use the height map for encoding fine details (such as for example complex textured fabrics) that are too small or high poly to justify using actual geometry.
- How much in meters to scale the model details by the heightmap. A value of 0.01 is 1cm. Typically you want 0.005 or so.
- This will subtract this value from the heightmap values uniformly; you can use for tweaking the visual appearance. Note: resulting values less than zero are treated as zero.
- This defines the maximum size of a triangle on screen in pixels. If a triangle is larger than this many pixels on screen, it will be subdivided. Do not go below 15.
- This defines how "smooth" the surface should become, values larger than 0.2-0.3 will often create weird balloons. Typical values range from 0 (no smoothing corners/edges) to 0.1 (slight smoothing)
NOTE: When using this shader, make sure to tick "Generate Lightmap UVs" and disable Mesh Compression on your model in the Unity Model Importer screen ( R ) = (R)


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So far, the controversial high-rise under development near Rice University hasn't hurt the housing market in the neighborhoods around it.
The average home price in the nearby Boulevard Oaks area was $1.36 million in the first half of the year. That's up 58 percent over the same period in 2012 and the highest increase among 18 high-end neighborhoods tracked by the Greenwood King real estate brokerage. The average sales price in the adjacent Southampton neighborhood was $1.2 million, up 29 percent from last year.
Homes in those neighborhoods have been selling at a faster clip than many others. The average time it took to sell a house from January through the end of June was 25 days for Boulevard Oaks and 23 days for Southampton, the Greenwood King report said.
Based on the numbers, residents can't exactly complain their area has been negatively impacted. In an open letter to the developers, residents fighting against the project said the tower at 1717 Bissonnet at Ashby would "devastate" property values.


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This is the last day of my Cherish Christmas Quest. Looking back I am so grateful for all that I gained by taking this adventure. It has been a very special Christmas filled with meaningful memories.
Today I checked one last item off my Cherish Christmas list. I wrote out some thank you notes and marked off my 35th idea. After 30 days of focusing on cherishing Christmas, I found 35 ways to make it memorable.
And this Quest was not just for me. Hubby, our Scientist, and our Engineer are the greatest support team. They have not only supported me in this new blogging adventure, but they have happily joined in on many of my cherish Christmas ideas throughout the month. Yes, we have made some fantastic memories these past 30 days.
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There is no doubt I felt loved this Christmas. So many thoughtful people in my life made an effort to show me how much they cared. I did get some special Christmas gifts, but they weren't all things bought with money. Although I most certainly appreciated the gifts that were, I was also given time, attention, kind words, encouragement, and even homemade goodies. I am very grateful for every gift given to me this Christmas.
Today I took some time to share with a few people how much their thoughtfulness touched me. Each note was just a few sentences, but hopefully I conveyed how much I cherish what they did for me this year.
And here's my thank you note to YOU:
Thank you sincerely for taking the time to read about my Quest. Whether you read my posts every day or just check in occasionally, I value each reader. Thank you especially to those who took the time to post a comment here on the blog, on My Rosie Outlook Facebook page or sent me an email. You will never know how much it brightens my day to read your feedback on something I wrote. It is such a gift - an encouragement to me - and I cherish it!
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On the day that is nearly synonymous with his own name, we're confirming that legendary horror director John Carpenter has signed on to direct Darkchylde. Based on the comic book series created by Randy Queen, the film will follow a southern teen by the name of Ariel Chylde. Per the press release, Chylde is "cursed to become the creatures from her many recurring nightmares." Having not read the comic book series, I can only assume this is bad news for the people who cross paths with the "good-hearted" teen.
Darkchylde's production will be a couples affair as Carpenter and his wife Sandy King will co-produce the film under their Storm King Productions moniker alongside Queen and his wife Sarah's Darkchylde Entertainment label. Hit the jump to check out the first teaser image from the film as well as the full press release. Carpenter's latest effort, The Ward, debuted in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. Additionally, a prequel of his 1982 classic The Thing is currently slated to hit theaters on April 29th, 2011.
Here's the press release:
John Carpenter To Direct Darkchylde
The Master of Horror is set to bring you the girl of your dreams. John Carpenter is onboard to direct Darkchylde, based on the comic by Randy Queen about a good hearted southern teen cursed to become the creatures from her many recurring nightmares. Every time Ariel Chylde transforms, she sheds her skin and a new nightmare emerges from her Id to act out her deepest, darkest impulses.
John Carpenter and Sandy King's Storm King Productions have allied with Randy and Sarah Queen's Darkchylde Ent. to produce the film, following the release of test footage created by Richard Taylor's Academy Award Winning Weta Workshop. (The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, King Kong, The Hobbit)
John Carpenter says, "Randy Queen's hijacked angel, Ariel Chylde, is the best young female character since Laurie Strode in Halloween. Bringing Ariel and her dark mysteries to life should be quite an adventure for us all."
Adds Queen, "I'm beyond thrilled that John Carpenter, one of our most important, and legendary genre directors, and the man responsible for such landmark films as THE THING, and HALLOWEEN has come onboard with Weta Workshop to help bring the nightmarish tale of Ariel Chylde to the silver screen. As a horror fan, the thought of Carpenter and Weta together, beautiful dreamscapes, and multiple transformations, makes me incredibly excited. There is a reason nearly his entire catalogue has, or is being remade, and it's because Carpenter is a genius."
Offering a stark contrast to super hero comics, Darkchylde was a breakout sensation of the late 90's and early 2000's, garnering immediate acclaim, and an unusually large female fanbase. The property went on to outsell Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman in both domestic and foreign audiences, and has been realized in toys, trading cards, apparel, lunch boxes, mini busts, and more recently a hit crossover with Top Cow, and a statue from PopCultureShockToys. Fans can now read the Ariel Chylde saga online via Wowio and Darkchylde.com and a trade paperback collecting the "Legacy" and "Redemption" series of books ships in January from Image Comics.
John Carpenter is an acclaimed director, screenwriter, producer, and composer, who won an academy award for his short film while still just a student at USC. His storied career includes such seminal films as Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York, Starman, Christine, In the Mouth of Madness, Assault on Precinct 13, They Live, and The Fog. His most recent outing, The Ward, starring Amber Heard as an institutionalized woman tormented by a sinister spirit, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.


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Aslan in the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, voiced by Liam Neeson.
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Aslan, the Great Lion, is the central character of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series. He is the great lion of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and his role in Narnia is developed throughout the remaining books. He is also the only character to appear in all seven books of the series.
He is depicted as a talking lion, the King of Beasts, son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea; a wise, compassionate, magical authority (both temporal and spiritual); mysterious and benevolent guide to the human children who visit; guardian and saviour of Narnia. The author, C. S. Lewis, described Aslan as an alternative version of Christ, that is, as the form in which Christ might have appeared in a fantasy world.
Aslan is Turkish for "lion".[2]
Throughout the series, it is stated that Aslan is "not a tame lion," since, despite his gentle and loving nature, he is powerful and can be dangerous. He has many followers, which include vast numbers of Talking Beasts, Centaurs, Fauns, Dryads, Dwarfs, Satyrs, Naiads, Hamadryads, Mermaids, Silvans, Unicorns, and Winged Horses. Lewis often capitalises the word lion, since, at least partially, he represents Jesus.[3]
- 1 Role in The Chronicles of Narnia
- 2 Influences
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Role in The Chronicles of Narnia[edit | edit source]
In The Magician's Nephew[edit | edit source]
(This is the first story in the chronology of Narnia, and of its human visitors, but the sixth tale that Lewis wrote, and for most readers, it is not the first meeting with the character.)
When Digory, Polly, Jadis, Uncle Andrew, the Cabby and Strawberry inadvertently enter a new world using magic rings, they find it an empty void. Aslan appears, and through the power of his singing, calls the world of Narnia into existence.
All the characters immediately feel awe for Aslan. Jadis expresses this as fear and hatred, and before fleeing she assaults Aslan with an iron bar that she tore from a lamp-post in London. Aslan is unperturbed and continues calling plants and animals into existence. The power of his song is so great that even the iron bar, dropped on fertile earth, grows into a functioning lamp post, and toffees sprout into fruit trees. Aslan claims the power of his song will last for a few days.
Aslan then selects two of most animals that his song has called into existence and gives them the power of speech and reason. He instructs them to look after all the animals. He appoints the cabby to be King Frank of Narnia and brings his wife Nellie from Earth to be Queen Helen.
Aslan explains that Jadis will pose a great threat to the Narnians, and charges Digory and Polly with a quest to acquire a magic apple so they may plant it to protect the land. To aid them, he turns Strawberry into a winged horse named Fledge. When the quest is complete, he crowns Frank and Helen, and advises Digory to take an apple from the tree for his sick mother.
At the end of the novel, he takes Digory, Polly and Uncle Andrew back to the Wood between the Worlds, without the use of magic rings, and warns them that their Earth is in danger of a similar fate to the dead world Charn, which is the world that Jadis (the White Witch) is from.
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe[edit | edit source]
Aslan is first introduced in the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Narnia is now in the hundredth year of the tyrannical rule of Jadis, who has returned as a powerful sorceress called the White Witch, Jadis has condemned the land to endless winter – but never Christmas – and has turned hundreds of Aslan's followers to stone.
He is first mentioned by Mr. Beaver, who tells the Pevensie children (Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy) that "Aslan is on the move". He explains that Aslan is the true king of Narnia and that the children (as Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve) are the chosen ones to help end the tyrannical rule of the White Witch. Even as the children explore Narnia, Aslan's presence begins to weaken Jadis' grip on the land; the ice begins to melt and Father Christmas appears at last and gives the children gifts. Edmund, who was enchanted by the White Witch on his first visit to Narnia, attempts to betray his siblings and is not present to receive a gift. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver lead the others to Aslan at the Stone Table at a large gathering of Loyal Narnians preparing for war. Aslan sends his creatures to rescue Edmund. Peter slays Maugrim the Wolf, chief of the Witch's secret police, and Aslan makes Peter a knight.
The White Witch comes in parley and demands her right to execute Edmund for his betrayal, citing Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time that gives her power over all traitors. In private conversation with her, Aslan offers himself in Edmund's place, and she accepts his offer, though none of Aslan's followers know this. Susan and Lucy, unable to sleep, follow Aslan to the Stone Table that night. They watch from afar as the White Witch mocks Aslan and slays him with her knife.
With her greatest adversary dead, the Witch leaves with her army to attack the Narnians. Lucy, Susan, and a number of mice remove the bonds from Aslan's body; but as dawn breaks they find that his body is gone. To their shock, Aslan reappears alive and well, thanks to a Deeper Magic from before the Dawn of Time. The Witch, having entered Narnia only at the Dawn of Time, had not known of this. Aslan explains that the Deeper Magic is invoked when an innocent willingly offers their life in place of a traitor's, causing death itself to be reversed until the victim is reborn.
Aslan goes to the Witch's palace and, with his breath, brings the statues of her petrified enemies back to life. He leads them all to aid Peter, Edmund, and the Narnian army, who are fighting the Witch's army. At the conclusion of the battle, Aslan leaps upon the Witch and kills her.
After the defeat of the evil forces, Aslan crowns the four children as Kings and Queens of Narnia, and during the celebration he quietly slips away. The children say nothing about it, for Mr. Beaver had warned them, "...one day you'll see him and another you won't" (a line assigned to Tumnus in the 2005 film), foreshadowing Aslan's role in the books to follow.
In The Horse and his Boy[edit | edit source]
The Horse and His Boy is set during the reign of Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy in Narnia, the only extended story told of that period.
This book is about finding one's home. The talking horses Bree and Hwin seek their home in the land of Narnia where they were born. For Shasta and Aravis, the two humans who journey with them, finding home is more a matter of the heart (For Aravis had run away from home,Shasta from slavery).
Aslan's influence throughout "The Horse and his Boy" is at first hidden from the characters. Secretly, he delivered the infant Prince Cor of Archenland from his enemies, placing him in the hands of a Calormene fisherman (who made a slave of him and called him Shasta). When Shasta meets Bree, it is Aslan, disguised as a "witless" lion, who drives them to join Aravis and Hwin. In the form of a cat Aslan comforts Shasta when he feels abandoned at the Tombs of the Ancient Kings (although as a lion, Aslan defends him from predatory jackals). It is Aslan who chases Bree and Hwin so that they will reach Archenland in time to warn the king of the impending attack by the Calormene army, led by Rabadash. Aslan gives Shasta the resolve to help save Archenland and Narnia from the invaders. He slashes Aravis across the back with his claws as punishment for disregarding her servant's safety when she ran away from home: the cuts on her back equal the severity of her servant's whipping.
Eventually Aslan shows himself directly to the travellers, addressing their fears, or their self-pity, or their condescension towards others, or their pomposity (after Shasta and Aravis ask why some of the events happened, he said"I tell no one's story but their own"). After the victory over the Calormenes, Aslan reveals himself to Rabadash in an effort to free him of his arrogant and violent ways. When kind words and forgiveness fail to soften Rabadash, who calls Aslan the "demon of Narnia", Aslan resorts to an act of severe kindness: he turns Rabadash into a donkey. To cure himself of this "condition", Rabadash must present himself at the temple of the Calormene god Tash in Tashban, where in the sight of his people he would be restored to human form. But if he thereafter goes without ten miles of the temple, he would be turned back into a donkey permanently.
In Prince Caspian[edit | edit source]
The novel Prince Caspian takes place 1,300 Narnian years after the events in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Aslan and the Pevensie children have become near-forgotten "myths", and Narnia is now ruled by Telmarines, humans who have since defeated and settled in Narnia.
Aslan serves to guide the Pevensie children to Prince Caspian, but he appears unambiguously to them only when they put their faith in his will and really try to see him.
The loyal Narnians gather at Aslan's How, a mound over the site of the Stone Table. Here Prince Caspian forms his army to fight for Narnia against his uncle. Meanwhile, Aslan re-awakens the spirits of the forest and the river, leading a Bacchanalian revel through the oppressed towns and fomenting a popular revolution.
When the Telmarines are defeated and the Old Order is restored, Aslan creates a door in the air allowing the children to return to Earth – along with any Telmarines who do not wish to remain in the renewed Narnia, where humans and animals are equal. He tells Peter and Susan that they are now too old to return to Narnia, having learned all they can from their experiences there. However, he tells Edmund and Lucy that they may return to Narnia.
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader[edit | edit source]
Edmund, Lucy and their cousin Eustace Clarence Scrubb(who"almost deserved it")arrive into Narnia through a painting of a ship which turns into Caspian's ship, Dawn Treader. Caspian, having established peace in Narnia as the new King, has set out on a voyage in search of the Seven Lost Lords who had been loyal to his late father and were subsequently banished by the usurper Miraz. The talking mouse Reepicheep accompanies Caspian in hopes that their voyage will lead to Aslan's Country in the uttermost East, for he was told by a dryad that his fate lies in Aslan's country. Lucy and Caspian come to the conclusion that it was Aslan who summoned the three children into Narnia to help Caspian on his quest.
On many of the islands where they stop, a brief glimpse of Aslan or his image is enough to guide Caspian and his crew away from danger and folly. When the recalcitrant Eustace becomes a dragon, Aslan meets him and pulls the dragon-skin away, leaving Eustace a chastened and more pleasant boy.
In a magician's house on another island, Lucy attempts to perform a spell that would make her tragically beautiful, despite being warned of negative consequences. Just as she is about to say the words, however, she sees an image of Aslan snarling at her, frightening her from reading the spell (in the 2010 film, she reads the spell and turns into a version of Susan and finds her brothers have not heard of Lucy or Narnia). Aslan also reprimands her for using another spell to see what her friends say about her. She encounters a story-spell that she feels is the best story ever that disappears after she reads it, and Aslan reassures her that she will be able to read it again.
Eventually Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, and Reepicheep the mouse reach the world's end, where Aslan appears as a lamb before transforming into a lion (a scene that refers to John 21:12, where Jesus appears after his resurrection and makes a breakfast of fish for the disciples). He shows Reepicheep the way to his country and helps the children return home. He tells Edmund and Lucy that, like Peter and Susan, they have become too old to return to Narnia, and that they must instead come to know him in their world — a relatively direct reference to the Christian theme of the series. He does not say whether Eustace will return to Narnia.
In The Silver Chair[edit | edit source]
The story begins with Eustace Scrubb, who was introduced in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and his classmate Jill. They are unhappy at their school, where bullying is left uncorrected. One day they are beset by bullies, and Eustace suggests that they ask for Aslan's help. They blunder through a temporary gate and find themselves in Aslan's Country, atop an immense cliff. Jill, showing off, moves too close to the edge, and Eustace falls off trying to pull her back.
Aslan appears and saves Eustace by blowing him into Narnia; then he explains to Jill that she and Eustace are charged with the quest of finding Prince Rilian, Caspian's son, who disappeared years before. He tells her that their task has become more difficult because of what she did, but gives her four Signs to guide them on their quest. The fourth and final Sign is that at a key moment they will be asked to do something "in Aslan's name."
According to the Narnian timeline, fifty years have elapsed since The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Aslan then blows Jill into Narnia, where she arrives a few moments after Eustace. They see a very old King Caspian setting sail to search for Aslan one last time, but fail to realise who he is until it is too late, and are unable to speak to him. However, the elderly Lord Regent, Trumpkin the Dwarf, takes them to Cair Paravel. There they are aided by Master Glimfeather the Owl and a Parliament of his fellow talking owls (a pun on Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, and a nod toward "parliament" as a collective noun for owls, as "exaltation" is for larks). The owls explain that Rilian disappeared while searching for the green serpent that killed his mother; they believe that he is now under the spell of an enchantress he had seen in the forest while searching for the serpent. As Jill and Eustace journey toward the far north of Narnia, they acquire a companion and guide, a gloomy but stalwart Marsh-wiggle, fittingly named Puddleglum (or "the wet blanket").
Aslan makes no further appearance until the end of the story, but his Signs prove central to the quest, and belief in Aslan plays a crucial part in defeating the Lady of the Green Kirtle, who tries to destroy the children's belief in the reality of Narnia. The children manage to rescue Rilian, and they return him to Narnia just in time to meet his father who dies shortly afterwards.
In the end, Aslan sends Jill and Eustace back to our world, and aided by a rejuvenated Caspian, helps them repay the school bullies — and make the school better in the process. Aslan shows himself to the bullies, who, seeing only what they take to be a wild lion, are severely shaken. But no one believes their story, as the only other witnesses are Jill, Eustace and Caspian.
In The Last Battle[edit | edit source]
The ape Shift disguises the reluctant donkey Puzzle as Aslan and fools the Narnians into thinking that Aslan has returned. Shift issues commands in "Aslan's" name and takes advantage of the credulous Narnians.
Shift and the unbelieving Calormene leader Rishda Tarkaan encourage the invading Calormenes and the dispirited Narnians to treat Aslan and the Calormene god Tash as a single, combined being — "Tashlan." Dissenters are thrown into Puzzle's stable, supposedly to meet "Tashlan," where they are murdered by Calormene soldiers.
King Tirian of Narnia calls on Aslan for help, and Jill and Eustace arrive in Narnia. They help Tirian and the remaining loyal Narnians battle the Calormenes and their allies, but are all forced through the stable door along with several Black Dwarfs. They find themselves not within the confines of a stable, but in a paradise: Aslan's Country. Aslan is there, with King Peter and the other Pevensies(except for Susan who no-longer believes in Narnia) with other characters from previous books, and they watch through the stable door as the world of Narnia is destroyed. But the Black Dwarfs (who, unlike the Red Dwarfs, have lost faith in Aslan) are unable to see Aslan's Country, certain that they are still inside an ordinary stable. When Lucy asks Aslan to help them, he tells her that he will show her what he can and what he cannot do. He then growls at the Black Dwarfs, and makes food magically appear in their hands. This fails to convince them: they think that the growling is a machine and that the food is only what would normally be found in a stable. Aslan tells the children that the Black Dwarfs shut themselves out from him, and therefore cannot be reached much like Uncle Andrew in The Magician's Nephew.
Aslan then commands Peter to shut the door on Narnia, and he leads them into his country, a platonic ideal of Narnia. He greets Emeth, a devout yet kind Tash-worshipping Calormene, telling him that "I and Tash are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him." As they get "further up and further in," the Narnians find Aslan's country getting bigger and better, eventually encompassing Earth as well. Digory, Polly, Peter, Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, and Jill learn that they have died, or rather, passed into Aslan's country, which is more real than the "Shadowlands" (to use Lewis's own word) from which they have come.
Influences[edit | edit source]
The theory that the figure of Aslan may have been inspired by a mysterious lion which appears and disappears suddenly at key moments in the novel The Place of the Lion, written by Lewis' close friend Charles Williams, was specifically denied by Lewis in a paper published later in his life.[citation needed]
Christian interpretation[edit | edit source]
Although Aslan can be read as an original character, parallels exist with Christ. In particular, Aslan's sacrifice and subsequent resurrection parallel Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. Aslan also has God-like powers; he created Narnia with a song (The Magician's Nephew). The Emperor-Over-the-Sea then refers to God the Father, and Aslan's country (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) to heaven. In The Last Battle a new Narnia is made and also a new Earth, as in the Book of Revelation. Furthermore, there are biblical references of Christ being called a lion, as in Revelation 5:5 "And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof" (KJV). When he first appeared at the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, he looked like a lamb, which is also a symbol of Christ, who is frequently described throughout the New Testament as being "The Lamb of God".
According to the author, Aslan is not an allegorical portrayal of Christ, but rather a suppositional incarnation of Christ Himself:
If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all.
This interpretation is related to J. R. R. Tolkien's concept of "secondary creation" expounded in his 1947 essay "On Fairy-Stories," reflecting discussions Lewis and Tolkien had in the Inklings group.
Aslan's words to the Calormene in The Last Battle (I take to me the services which thou hast done to [the false god]... if any man swear by [him] and keep his oath for the oath's sake, it is by [Christ] that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him"), ratifying the good deeds the latter did even under the name of Tash, have been the subject of controversy in some Christian circles. See Emeth for details.
Portrayals[edit | edit source]
The first visual dramatization of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, broadcast on British television in 1967, presented a bipedal Aslan played by Bernard Kay. In the animated adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe distributed by the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), Aslan is voiced by Stephen Thorne. Thorne also makes appearances as the Great Lion in the adaptations made in the mid-1990s by BBC Radio.
In all four of the BBC television serial adaptations of the late 1980s and early 1990s (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [two tales told in one package], The Silver Chair), Aslan is voiced by Ronald Pickup and the elaborate costume/puppet is operated by Alisa Berk, Tim Rose, and William Todd-Jones. In the Focus on the Family radio adaptations, he is portrayed by David Suchet.
In the 2005 film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the CGI Aslan is voiced by Liam Neeson. Neeson returned to voice the character in the sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian in 2008, and the third film in the series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Caspian to be second Narnia movie". BBC. 18 January 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4625478.stm. Retrieved 1 December 2006.
- ↑ Langenscheidt Pocket Turkish Dictionary
- ↑ The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, vol iii, p 160: "I found the name [Aslan]...it is the Turkish for Lion. ... And of course I meant the Lion of Judah."
External links[edit | edit source]
- SparkNotes reference to the meaning of Aslan's death
- "Aslan is still on the move" Christianity Today editorial, 6 August 2001.


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Computer Fest Classes III to V
Date of the Event: 18th July to 22ndJuly, 2016
Teachers Involved: Ms. NeetuNagpal, Ms. ShivaniGoel& Ms. Rashmi Verma
In keeping with the firm belief that computing is one of the key elements of life itself, and with the aim of keeping our children abreast with the latest in technology, the Computer week was organized for Classes III-V from 18th to 22nd July, 2016.
• Intra class Competitions on MS Paint(Drawing on Sea World) for Class III, MS WORD(Poster on Modern Gadgets)for Class IV and MS PowerPoint(Impact of Technology) for Class V were organized in the respective computer periodsduring this week.
20-7-16 A new software,'Microsoft Sway' was introducedto Class V by Mr. Gurpreet Singh who is a Google Certified Educator & MS Office Specialist.Sway is an online software, that makes it quick and easy to create and share polished, interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more.A quiz on IT icons was also organized in the AV Room. The learners participated in the Quiz with full enthusiasm.
21-7-16 Microsoft One Note and Google Apps were introduced in Classes III & IV by Mr. Gurpreet Singh. Microsoft OneNote is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network.A quiz on I/O Devices was conducted which the students participated in wholeheartedly.
Students immensely enjoyed participating 100% in the competitions and are more techno-savvy post the demo classes, emerging as confident learners of the 21st century.
It was an enriching and rewarding week for all.
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SJC14 wrote:If you can smell rotten eggs and it is strong near the sewer and you think that the sewer has leaked and you told SWW exactly this and have they checked?
Have you had a plumber come and investigate with a camera?
Ignore the source of the pipe and it being your neighbours waste pipe - that is irrelevant and not going to change.
Hi SJC14,
Thank you for your input.
Here's the thing, (really sorry but I can't seem to make any of this brief as it truly is complex and twisted.
I finally managed to get sww to come and cctv the offending sewer on Jan 8th 2018.
This has taken 11 months of me endlessley dealing with the blatant lies and inconsistencies delay, tactics from sww, who tried to tell me that they had cctv'd said sewer pipe in march 2017 and it was fine and actually the only (apparently) sewage undertaker who covers the whole of south west uk (really? I don't think they're that hard up tbh); said he was not coming back down again, end of, nothing wrong with it!
I couldn't believe my ears, I managed to get the name of this undertaker, upon checking my records no such man ever come to my property. Plus I had the name of the man that did come down & he did not CCTV the said sewer, even though I had expressly requested that they did above & beyond everything. Unbelievable, truly a very dangerous sad state of affairs.
CCTV of sewer pipe by sww
I had mentioned the following in emails to sww via the complaits departrment in advance of the cctv on jan 8th 2018, as I was very concerned, gut instinct, sixth sense, inuition for a very good reason as you will soon see:-
Hydrogen Sulphide Gas Detection – H2S Is A Toxic Gas Risk, Not Just A Bad Smell
The real danger with H2S is that it can kill at reasonable low levels.
..........Pipe damage detection is accomplished via the injection of smoke and fluorescent dyes [34], [25] or via remote inspection with cameras and sonar systems attached to tethered probes [34] or mobile robots [1].Flow monitoring is achieved with the installation of meters at strategic locations such that the drainage system can be properly controlled to prevent overflows [35]. Finally, once a flow problem has been detected and localized flushing or chemical treatments are used to attain sediment control.
The respiratory tract and the nervous system are the main targets for the acute toxicity of hydrogen sulphide.
Caution: Odour is unreliable as a means of detecting H2S
Side Effects of Sewer Gas Inhalation
Sewer gas forms when solid waste from humans and animals decomposes. The gas contains ammonia, methane and hydrogen sulfide, all of which are toxic when inhaled in high concentrations. People can die through asphyxiation when exposed to very high concentrations of sewer gas. More common effects include eye irritation, nausea and breathing difficulty.
Pipe damage detectionis accomplished via the injection of smoke and fluorescent dyes [34], [25] or via remote inspection with cameras and sonar systems attached to tethered probes [34] or mobile robots [1].Flow monitoring is achieved with the installation of meters at strategic locations such that the drainage system can be properly controlled to prevent overflows [35]. Finally, once a flow problem has been detected and localized flushing or chemical treatments are used to attain sediment control.
Whilst sww had cctv in sewer pipe, I was watching the monitor to see what what was what. It appears that at every one of the clay pipes section at the joint, it shows they are displaced, misaligned, I questioned why I could see the full face of the next pipe at one of the joins, and was brushed off as though I was an imbecile. I queried this and asked would this not allow hydrogen sulfide sewer gas to escape and more than likely liquid to. I was told, no.
I then noticed what looked like smokey vapours moving along the sewer and said, see, what's all that then?
Then I said, Ah haaa someone must be in next door now
With that the neighbour came storming out (I wrote to him in Nov 2017 all about this pipe he absolutely ignored it) ready to throw a right performance (he is a bully) and started screaming and shouting and said- I've already told you, it's not my problem, nothing to do with me. I asked him to stop shouting at me and said how impossible it has been to find out just who exactly was responsible.
So I had 3 people from sww and 2 people from enviromental protection, all stood on my front garden when this happened.
Anyway, sww customer relations bloke was talking to me when I noticed the cctv bloke was trying to sort something out, he had come to a halt. Oh, the cctv was being blocked by a deposit from pipe user and they where (can't believe this) really nicely and politely asking neighbour please , do you mind? can yuou please flush it again, thank you, sorry about that. OMG.
Now when they where all leaving sww cutomer chap turned to me and said this 'go and see your doctor'. Right, that is bang out of order! who the hell does he think he is? what a thing to say, my hearts nearly lept out of my rib cage just typing it here! Yep thanks for nothing sww. The worst part was enviro health just (probably through lack of true knowledge about sewers etc) where guided and influenced by sww's analysis and that was THERE IS NOTHING WRONG THE SEWER PIPE.
With regard to the odor, enviro had been up once before in the morning had a quick sniff about and concluded, no odor. I need to stress to them now that after 4pm ish and up to 11 ish is when it reaks 9 out of 10 evenings and it almost makes me throw up on average once a week from it's violent deadly odor.
So I can't even call on enviromental health and apparently they don't deal with residential properties when it comes to this sort of thing. I have asked them to then please tell me who does, they ignored it.
I was so upset and confused that I complained online to local council and LGO.
LGO told me off for not going through the correct procedure, then at the end of the email I read something that made feel like I was going to pass out.
If you do decided that you are going to pursue this complaint I have to tell you that you will probably not get any help from LGO as you fall outside the 12 month time period. Well do you know what? First that is wrong and after reading about LGO, they are 100% biased in this area, intrigued I needed to know more....Oh they are all ex council workers I discover, figures. I checked the name on my LGO email and sure as eggs is eggs , it was still working for the council!!!!!
My head is ready to explode, I can not afford legaL advice. Can't get legal aid. I have health issues and all this is making my health deteriorate badly. Every time I try and take the right step forward, some how everything is turned around and thrown at me!! And the sewer pipe has NOTHING to do with my property in anyway whatsoever.
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One of those online discussions that you get into, or rather arguments I should say, this week featured the pros and cons of National Radio's "Matinee Idle" programme.
I'm a defender of the programme. I enjoy it. It's often a bit naff, and to be frank I don't want to listen to it for long stretches. But it's fun.
The comparison I use is that it is like one of those old motor camp lounges. These may still exist. I hope they do.
They're the sort of places that are furnished with ancient, dishevelled chairs and lounge suites, out-of-tune pianos, a rich supply of books, many of them Reader's Digest versions, slightly dodgy novels from the likes of Harold Robbins and Sven Hassell, probably a few new-agey books on meditation or transactional analysis, plus the occasional gem such as Evelyn Waugh's 'Scoop' or Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five'.(Don't laugh: I've found both these in motor camp lounges)
There will be books about World War Two – of course there will. The large ones about tanks will have pages torn out, and perhaps drool stains.
And there will be one of those ancient Ultimate radiograms, probably stocked with scratchy recordings of the Beach Boys Golden Greats, Trini Lopez Live at PJ's, the Howard Morrison Quartet, and various 20 Solid Gold hits volume Umpteen compilations.
On wet days, and even and the occasional dry days, there will be some kids either playing on ping-pong tables, or some sort of go-round-the-room-by-leaping-around-the-furniture-so-you-don't-touch-the-floor games on the ancient long-suffering furniture.
Someone will have "Spiders and Snakes" or "Fernando" going on the stereo. There will be some kids trying to bash out 'Chopsticks' on the old out-of-tune piano.
That's the Matinee Idle vibe. It suits the Kiwi summer brilliantly like a battered, over-worn jandal.
Okay, I'm sounding completely nostalgic here. The list of examples outlined probably betrays my own age, a 1970s childhood. It's been much on my mind the past few weeks, partly because summer always seems to engender at least some wafts of nostalgia.
Someone once called this the "L & P Tinted Spectacles" view of Kiwi summers. I can't claim credit for that phrase – I wish I could, it's brilliant – but I'm inclined to engage in the behaviour, while being aware of the pitfalls.
My earliest memories of summer are of the ground. I suspect this is not unusual: one is rather close to it at that stage of one's life.
Drought-hardened ground, often with Onehunga weed, particularly noticable as childhood involved going everywhere in bare feet. The pads toughened up by the end of summer, which was useful for going to school: a half mile walk up a gravel road at the start and finish of each day.
There was the hard dry ground of the farm in summer: being taken over to either the hay shed or whichever hay paddock was being worked at the time.
The dirt tracks, usually graded at the start of the season because they would have become so puggy during winter, flattened by the tractors towing the hay tedder and baler, and then the truck carrying loads of hay.
The sounds, too: the rattle of the old tedder we used when I was young, a converted International make which had originally been towed by horses.
The hay baler, with its spurt, spurt, spurt, engine pushing out the hay bales and which always managed to sound more urgent when there was a rush on – either because of looming rain clouds or simply because there was so much to get done.
First time I heard the word 'message' was about haymaking – I was about four, and was told Grandma would be coming down 'with a message about the baler' – and Mum would have to take it over to the where Dad and Grandpa were working. I had to look out and tell her when Grandma was coming.
I wanted to see what this 'message' thing was. I pictured something physical and was disappointed when, in the event, nothing was actually handed over.
The smells, of course…freshly made hay smells uniquely sweet, but not in a sickly way. It has an uplifting freshness, even when – as when I got a bit older – you've been hauling the bales around all day.
The hay smells though are mingled, in the hay paddock, with other aromas: old fashioned baling twine has its own, grease-like smell, and of course there's is also the smell of grease itself, from the continually working hay tedder and baler.
'..across the fields of stubble where the bales, they had been….'
Grease, to me, always smells no-nonsense , businesslike. It's a very practical smell.
Summer holidays, usually a week, sometimes 10 days, one landmark year a whole two weeks at Camp Morley on the shores of the Manukau.
It's still there but very different now: all Lockwood chalets.
Back then it was four buildings, two family sized units in each. The buildings were old army huts from World War II – I think they'd been used by the Americans in New Zealand. at the end of the war they'd been put on barges in Onehunga and shipped across the Manukau.
They were pretty basic. Everything in them was second hand.
Ancient beds, with sagging wire bases. Didn't matter after a while: a lot of the time we'd camp out somewhere along the beach. It tended to be roughly the same families at the same time every year and we all got to know each other pretty well. Friendships – and alliances and rivalries – built up over successive summers.
After dinner: the whole camp would usually join in a huge game of longball which lasted until the sun went down, sometime after 9am.
There were no TVs in the camp. Some of the caravanners would bring in portables but this was widely regarded as kind of copping out on summer. It missed the whole point.
It was on the southern side of the Manukau, across from Mangere Airport. The year the first jumbo jet landed – 1971, I think, one of the first years we went there – the entire camp sat along the edge of the foreshore to see it coming in, One of the older kids (i.e. about eight or nine) running up and down and yelling 'the jumbo jet! The jumbo jet!' As it came in low towards Mangere.
Being the Manukau, the tide went out a long way. At low tide, in the distance, were two rocks. A couple of kids walked out to them one day and came back reporting there was a whole lot of bombs out there, and the rocks were in fact very large slabs of concrete.
No-one believed them, of course, but enough curiosity was roused for a general expedition the next day.
This produced about half a dozen little bomb-like things, in various stages of corrosion and general dismemberment. Full size they were about the length and diameter of a fully grown guinea pig.
One of the adults at the camp – a Territorial in his spare time – took one look, turned puce and phoned up the Ardmore Military Camp (it dates this piece that there still was a camp at Ardmore).
A couple of Serious Uniformed Blokes turned up in a landrover. Looked at the bits of bomb spread out on the footpath by the temporarily abandoned home made go-Karts, chuckled, and suggested they had once been smoke bombs, probably, but 30 years previously. They were no risk to anyone now, at least not explosively.
Lurking on the edge during all this was a lad, about 17 I'd say, who worked on the farm next door. He was hanging around because – as was plain to me even at that age and with my tendency to be oblivious to these nuances – he had a huge crush on one of the girls.
He mentioned, to the army blokes, there was a bomb-like thing over at the farm. it was propping up the door to one of the sheds, he reckoned. "Oh, go and get it, we'll have a look," says one of the Army guys (they had relaxed, and someone had made them a cuppa and had brought out the biscuit tin.)
The lad returns, 10 minutes or so later, with this missile-shaped device: bigger than the ones hauled out of the Manukau mud, about a foot and a half long and in pretty good condition.
The army blokes leap up from their tea with some urgency, carry it delicately out to the middle of the field where we played longball and indicate, with some degree of excitement, that everyone should keep away for a bit.
A bit of historical research turned up a few facts: there had been an air-base further along the spit of land the camp was on, and both the blocks out at low tide, and the concrete building in the paddock next to the camp, had been used for target practice during World War Two by squadrons based there.
The following year, a bunch of us announced we were going to go along and find the old airbase site.
It was a big expedition, set up with all the focus and serious determination small boys can bring to such projects. We packed lunches, drinks, and set off at low tide to find the base.
Operation Seagrove – 'Seagrove' being the name of the base – took a couple of attempts, but like good keen young Kiwi lads, we eventually knocked the bugger off.
That is the other thing summers are for, regardless of your age. Expeditions, voyages into the unknown, whether the "unknown" is river, sea, mountain or other natural spaces, or the inner spaces explored by new books, or old books re-discovered.
Summer break gives the rest of the year some perspective. It involves taking some distance from the day-to-day. This often involves an indirect route, but indirect routes, on such intrepid journeys, only add to the depth and experience.


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The Sun was up and sky was blue. In these days of uncertain weather it was a call to arms and stepping over the door step armed with the Salomons, I took my light sabre and ventured to Wearside to the North East Harrier League Cross Country at Sunderland.
It's a narrow route and there was a bumper crowd in evidence. Its a good run out and I joined around 300 others for a wander through the sticky mud. Results up now on the RACE-RESULTS (link on the right-its a zipped file so you may need to download it first, then open it after). A few photos on link to the right!


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Gospel of Skyler version: We cry to our God, "Where are you!? Have you forgotten me?" A woman can forget her precious baby, but God cannot forget us. The scars of his Sacrifice for us, his Atonement, are engraven on the palms of his hands. Our limitations and our weaknesses are constantly on his mind because he has felt them, and transcended them. Only he knows how.
Audience, he has not forgotten you. He cannot forget you.
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This wearable is like a dash cam for your face
Somewhere between creepy and beautiful lies Blincam
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When I first heard about the Blincam, I thought it'd be a product for creepers. It's a small camera that can be mounted to your glasses that snaps a picture if you wink. Google Glass comes to mind, which had a similar feature, but I think Blincam can stand on its own as a product.
For one thing, it's a lot less intrusive, hanging out only on the side of your glasses, rather than wrapping around the front of your face. The whole unit is 3.6 inches long, and tips the scales at 25 grams, less than an ounce. When it's on your glasses, you quickly get used to it.
Once mounted to your glasses, all you need to do is wink, and a proprietary sensor activates the HD CMOS camera. The current model has 16GB of memory, but you can also pair with your smart phone via Bluetooth 4.1 if you want to instantly view your photos.
I changed my mind about Blincam after I stopped looking at it like it was a product you'd wear everywhere like Google Glasses. Rather, these would be great for instructors.
Imagine you're trying to show off something that requires a certain point of view, like how to properly hold a bow and arrow. By showing what you're seeing, it makes the process easier for an outsider to understand. The same goes for any task that requires both your hands, like taking photos while you're cooking. That is especially true if something unexpected happens, and you don't have time to fumble around for your phone.
On that note, Blincam might also be useful as a dash-cam-like device, but on your face. More unexpected events happen in a wink of an eye rather than in the time it takes to unholster your phone.
Blincam will start shipping in April 2017 for $199.


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Linda's Sparkpeople Breads
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Saw a similar recipe on the internet and made a healthier version, with a good amount of fiber and a little less sweet than the original. Submitted by ERICALYNNJ
Very moist and delicious!!!Submitted by CHILLEPEPPA
Low Sugar, Low FatSubmitted by PSMELLOGUY
A dark, dense, hearty whole grain bread which is tasty served warm. I enjoy it by itself but you can also spread no fat cream cheese or your favorite preserves on it. Submitted by VICKI103
This recipe is from my Cuisinart Mixer, if you do not have an electric mixer a would not recomend this.
Makes 2 Loaves. I calculated the nutrition estimating 10 slices per loaf, making 1 slice a serving.
This recipe is a treat.Submitted by AMABELLE_SNOW
This is a rich, high-rising sandwich bread and a favorite!Submitted by JASI27
Using applesauce instead of oil decreases the fat content of these muffins, but keeps them moist and sweet.Submitted by GAYENOBLE
Delicious muffins with oats and buttermilkSubmitted by LIBRARYCARD
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A multigrain, wholesome food. My kids love this and it holds together well for sandwiches. The seeds can be omitted if you like.Submitted by OPENMYMIND_2


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March 13, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — Moogsoft, a leading provider of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), today announced $40 million in Series D funding led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, with participation from existing investors including HCL, Northgate Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Singtel Innov8, STTelemedia and Wing VC. This round brings Moogsoft's total funding to $90 million. Funds will be used to scale sales and marketing to meet global demand as well as R&D investment for new product development and continued innovation in their core AIOps platform.
In 2017, Moogsoft more than doubled revenue and saw the onboarding of key customers from across the Global Fortune 500. In addition to closing its fourth round of funding, Moogsoft has also recently released over 15 updates to their AIOps platform, bringing to market innovative new features such as Real-Time Service Dashboards, Collaborative Team-Based Workflows, Algorithmic Clustering Engine, Probable Root Cause Analysis, and a Mobile version. To date, Moogsoft has been awarded six patents and have filed for over 40 additional patent applications for their inventions.
"We are enormously excited to welcome Goldman Sachs Growth Equity as a partner as we dive headlong into the future of IT operations and service assurance," said Phil Tee, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Moogsoft. "Moogsoft's purpose-built AIOps platform is in production in the world's most complex IT environments and is fundamentally transforming the way enterprise operations teams work. We have the intention to be the primary supplier of service assurance software for the new digital economy. With new products, additional capability in AIOps, and with significant investments in sales and marketing, Moogsoft is set to lead the next phase of the digital revolution."
Gartner Research defines AIOps platforms as software systems that combine big data and AI or machine learning functionality to enhance and partially replace a broad range of IT operations processes and tasks, including availability and performance monitoring, event correlation and analysis, IT service management, and automation. In their 2017 Market Guide for AIOps Platforms, Gartner predicts that, by 2022, 40 percent of all large enterprises will combine big data and machine learning functionality to support and partially replace monitoring, service desk and automation processes and tasks, up from five percent in 2017.
"We have followed the Moogsoft story closely over the past several years, and have been consistently impressed with their thoughtfulness around product development and ability to deliver such a compelling value proposition to customers managing some of the most complex IT operations in the world. By leveraging intelligent algorithms to deliver true machine learning, Moogsoft's platform addresses the human scalability challenges of using legacy rules-based monitoring technology in increasingly distributed and complicated IT environments," said Jason Kreuziger, a Vice President in Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division, who will join the Moogsoft board of directors in connection with the investment. "We are excited to partner with a world-class management team that has deep domain expertise and a track-record of success in this market, and look forward to working with them to help further scale Moogsoft going forward."
To learn more about Moogsoft's future plans, read CEO Phil Tee's latest blog post.
About Moogsoft
Moogsoft is a pioneer and leading provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter. With patented AI analyzing billions of events daily across the world's most complex IT environments, the Moogsoft AIOps platform helps the world's top enterprises avoid outages, automate service assurance, and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Founded in 2012, Moogsoft has more than 120 customers worldwide including SAP SuccessFactors, American Airlines, Fannie Mae, Yahoo!, and HCL Technologies. It has established strategic partnerships with leading managed service providers and outsourcing organizations including AWS, Cisco, HCL Technologies, TCS and Wipro. Moogsoft® and the Moogsoft logo are proprietary trademarks of Moogsoft Inc. All other products or names may be trademarks of their respective companies.
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The folks at 350.org have put together the story of the February 17 demonstration in photos, video clips, and tweets. It's very inspiring. You can breeze through it, or take your time, watching the clips and listening to short selections from impassioned speakers like the Hip Hop Caucus's Rev Yearwood, Chief Jackie Thomas (speaking for Canada's indigenous groups that oppose the Keystone Pipeline), Van Jones from Rebuild the Dream, and the Sierra Club's Michael Brune. Is this made using a program called Story–does anyone know? It's very user-friendly, whatever was used.
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"Proper Sites for Public Buildings". Dundee Courier, Thursday 19 April 1866, p.2 col.5 (pdf image)
(Letter dated April 1866, published Apr 19 1866)
Matthew opposes current plans for the building site of the new Albert Institute in Dundee, and proposes alternatives. He ends by stating that, as with the proposed "rainbow bridge" over the Tay Firth, both "monument and bridge could so much more advantageously and cheaply be erected where I have pointed out".
The mania of a bridge at present near Dundee is on a par with the absurd scheme of destroying the beautiful square east of the north end of Reform Street, by cumbering it with the Albert Institute. To me it is a painful sight to observe the destruction of this fine square going on, which I thought was to have formed a central esplanade, ventilation, and adornment to the town of Dundee, around which the public buildings would come to be grouped in different styles of architecture, so as to form a collection in elegance, design, and variety, unique in Scotland. This misplacement, amounting to sacrilege, is the more vexing, as not only destroying the square, but not improbably the Institute itself, on account of the unstable foundation, while the lava rock a little farther south, at the top of the wide entry, at present only covered by rubbish, would have afforded a most excellent site of elevation for this monument. The space between it and the square being left open, the short distance back would only give more effect to the view – the more that no hill lay behind it from the line of view, only the blue sky or the clouds. The monument, seen from the square, or from the proposed street from the east end of the High Street, north to the square, would be a temple placed upon an acropolis of basalt.
The men of old showed more judgment and good taste in the site of their temples and monumental erections. The Capitol of Rome, the Parthenon at Athens, both had the advantage of a rock foundation and elevation. Even our Boeotian Carse ancestors, in the time of the Druids, and as far back as the stone era, had their temple on the top of the most commanding summit of the Carse hills, the Hill of Bele or Baal, above and west of the village of Rait.
"Not vainly did the early Persian make
His altar the high places."
Instead of choosing this excellent site formed by nature, in order to save a little money in the purchase, the men of Dundee, penny wise and pound foolish, have thrown away a large portion of the means provided in an attempt to procure a secure foundation, where only an insecure foundation can be got. Do they expect that with such a foundation the institute will reach one half the age, or be half as much revered as the Old Steeple tower? Are the men of Dundee, now four times more numerous, so very destitute of public spirit, so far behind their ancestors in architectural ability as this? One would naturally think that the Dundonians, who have shown such a pre-eminence in manufacturing and mercantile enterprise, causing Dundee to outstrip her sister town of the East Coast, Aberdeen, so far in going a head, would have displayed more genius in the arrangement of the central space of their city, that when they had obtained a large and fine square in the very position most desirable, they would have had taste and judgment to retain it sacred. Yet such is human nature. If we find one ability in excess, we generally find a minus to balance the plus. I am pretty certain the men of Aberdeen would not have sunk either their money or their grand monument in a morass.
The cause of this wide vacant space in the centre of Dundee was necessity. Being a swamp to a great depth, and only superficially drained, it was held unfit for building upon, and was let out by the town, though in the very face of the public buildings and best and most frequented street of the city, as lumber yards and abominations of all kinds by the public authorities, much to their shame, instead of being rendered a beautiful breathing ground to the very crowded portion of the town and slums closely adjacent, for the children to play, and to form an Almaida for the evening assemblage and walk of the citizens. It was only after an Albert Institute was determined on that it was cleared of the wretched huts, sheds, and impurities as a suitable central place for this monument, and, after it was cleared out, that its peculiar advantage for a great central square to beautify the city by having the public buildings arranged round it, was perceived. Although this was obvious to all, the committee of management and public authorities still persisted in their ill-advised scheme, notwithstanding of the very great cost of piling and burying of materials, and, after all, insecurity of foundation. They were the more blameable here as a most excellent site for the Institute was ready at hand upon the rock at the south side of the square, which rises some 15 or more feet above the square, and which, as the depth of the piling and buried stone will amount to about 30 feet, would altogether give an elevation of upwards of 40 feet to the rock site over the morass site. Height is essential to the grandeur of architecture. But it is thus that our wise men bury the public money, if they were erecting a temple to Pluto or some other of the Infernal Gods. Height for edifice of the description we require is of the utmost importance, and the rock foundation would have admitted of any possible height of the monument, whereas the marsh foundation may, as in the case of the Exchange reading-room, prevent even the intended height being attained, and the monument turn out a dumpy abortion. It has been urged as an exculpating reason for the desecration of the square, that such was the spirit of building at present in Dundee, and so greedy of money the authorities or public feeling, and such the fine central position of the morass, that, unless it was devoted to the Institute, it would have been sold to builders for new streets, where the builders, taking a lesson from the engineer of the proposed Forth bridge, would probably have used platform of wood for the foundation of the houses, similar to the proposed ones for the bridge piers, and have had the houses mere shells that they might half swim on such.
It may be said, "What good purpose can this fault-finding serve? The Institute is now partly erected." This is no reason why error should not be pointed out. Surely the public spirit in Dundee will not totally exhaust itself in the erection of the Institute. The rapid improvements of the age and of this prosperous city will demand other public buildings. And it is right to point out past error to prevent future. At any rate, the very commanding and central position I have pointed out ought to be secured to the Town to await a future want. It is pity that the former high basalt rock at the west end of Bank Street has nearly all been reduced to street level. It ought to have been preserved for the site of a future monumental building. The rock of Castle Street has been wisely selected for the Episcopal Chapel, but only after it was much reduced in height. Would it not be right to clear away some of the rubbish round this chapel?
However, the present bizarre attempts may go — succeed or fail — the erecting of an intended lasting monument in a morass, or throwing a rainbow bridge over the middle of the Tay Frith, when monument and bridge could so much more advantageously and cheaply be erected where I have pointed out; this much I will say, that neither will throw much honour upon their designers, but not improbably much disgrace.— l am, &c.,
Gourdiehill, April 1866.


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16.0 in. Largemouth Bass caught by Dennis Huskins fishing in New Jersey on 11/08/18
Posted by Dennis Huskins about 1 year ago
Went back today to this hot little spot. I needed to check it out again for a possible get together with Brian Shea on Sunday. The bait fish were gone from the shore area and the bite was less intense then a week ago. Finally keyed in on a deep area with a slow retrieve and connected with the bass. This time 4 Bass and 2 Pickerel. Nothing huge, but worth the trip. Met a guy there fishing who had flown his private 2 seater plane to the airport just to do some fishing. Very cool.
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When I was a child I participated in my library's summer reading program. I read 100 books one summer, earning a trophy (which I still have today – see below) and a $50 savings account at the local bank. I remember loving that particular summer, going to the library as often as possible and reading as late as my parents would let me each night.
Because of my fond memories – and our desire to continually instill a love of reading in our kids – we decided to go to our local library and check out their summer reading program. They have a lot of activities kids can participate in at various branches around town, and each week children can come in to pick up a reading prize. I really appreciate how great our libraries are, but the program wasn't exactly what I had in mind. Kids receive prizes just for coming in each week. So you don't misunderstand – I think it's great to have incentive to go to the library on a weekly basis, and our kids love going in and seeing what prize they'll get that week. I wanted a program for the kids that was more similar to mine, where there are prizes & privileges available based upon how much they're reading.
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To keep things fair, I decided to create a system in which 20 minutes of reading earns 1 book buck. The book bucks are a currency the kids can spend on the prizes Brian and I have chosen for them to pick from.
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HGTV Green Home 2009: Floor Plan
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