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The new Xbox 360 Dashboard OS update is coming soon and it is going to be one of the biggest changes to the Xbox 360 since the system hit the market. It is going to include the first complete redesign of the Xbox interface called the NXE by all the cool kids. The New Xbox Experience (NXE) is going to be the best thing to hit the Xbox and it is going to completely redefine how we use it.
One of the niftiest things at Penny Arcade Expo 08 was seeing the new Xbox dashboard. Xbox Live own Major Nelson showed it off. He made sure to stress that it is still a work in progress and that there was an army of programmers over in Redmond that were cranking out code and testing it as he gave the demo.
As a side note if you ever go to a game expo or press event and Major Nelson asks you not to film something in the presentation and you do it anyway and then go on and keep on filming after he notices you and calls you out and you don't stop it then you are a total schmuck.
I've always thought that Microsoft's biggest advantage in their fight with Sony and Nintendo was software innovation. Let me tell you why:
New Interface
So far the new user interface design looks well designed, clean and very efficient. It sort of resembles Windows Media Center and the Zune OS. They really are putting in a lot of effort into trying to reduce the amount of clicks required to perform a task. It is much faster and looks like a totally new product. . I am glad that they are taking their time with it and is about as major as the change as the jump from the original Xbox to the 360.
They moved all the current functions from the current dashboard and moved it to the guide. That means you can pull up all the existing blades by hitting the big green Guide button on the controller. Information on a game from Xbox.com on the game in your disc tray or an Xbox Live Arcade game is loaded when the game is selected. They showed this off at PAX
At PAX I could not get an answer about if the new OS will be able to fast forward audio files to the middle of a long song or podcast or if it will be able to play a video from a playlist (that would help me sort out my video in iTunes or on my media server) but Major Nelson said that it was filed as feature request.
Overall I really liked the look at it.
Community XNA Games
I think while the new interface is getting all the press attention the feature with the most potenial to change the video game market is Community XNA games.
Towards the back of the PAX show floor there was a booth manned by some of the folks at Microsoft that have been working on the XNA community games. They had a PC with an RPG game opened up in Game Studio and an Xbox 360 with several community games running on it. I had a whole slew of pretty technical questions about the Community games program and got a lot of direct answers.
The concept was to have a program to encourage amateur video game developers on the Xbox 360. It has the potential to be a new market in video games between professionally funded games and shareware. XNA Community games developer can join the XNA developers club for the cost two new games a year and get access to some of the same software development tool kits that professional developers use. Instead of requiring a developer kit system usually costing thousands a community XNA game can be made on a regular Windows PC. The same developer tools can be used to develop games for the Zune music player.
The Community XNA games are completely sandboxed with their own virtual memory space and execution thread. This means that they can crash and not directly affect the system. They can save to a virtual save file within the game program but they can't corrupt or affect your other save data. They have completely closed communication ports outside of the Xbox Live network, this means that they can't read external data off the Internet like using real weather reports, image feeds or news feeds but they can't make spyware using them since Community XNA game programs can't access the net directly. They have all the same access to the Xbox 360's processing power, graphics effects, sound effects, networking and 3d rendering power as all the grownup games.
They are actively encouraging open source community XNA games. The source code and art assets to your game project is wholly owned by you and you can do what you see fit with it. You can release it under any kind of open source or Creative Commons community license and let other developers build on or learn from your work. Think about that for a second. Open source games on the Xbox 360. You just can't violate someone else's copyright by making a blatant clone or using someone else's copyrighted work without permission. But if you make a very cool game you can open it up and let other people make games off it. Another example is using the same FPS or RPG engine to make different games. I think this is going to be a big deal for open source homebrew game development and enable thousands of new XNA game projects in the next couple years.
They can use all different kinds of controllers including guitars, drums, racing wheels, joysticks, and dance pads. I forgot to ask about USB Mice and Keyboards. They can't use the Xbox Live Vision camera yet but any controller that is available in the Xbox SDK will work with Community games. They will work almost exactly like Xbox Live Arcade games but they can't have Achievements.
They also don't care if you make a retro game with Atari 2600 level graphics and they had some retro inspired games on display at PAX. If someone invests their time and effort they can make what ever game they want. Microsoft is not going to dictate what they consider to be a "Game" thus it opens the door to some pretty weird games. You could make a virtual pet, flying simulator, RPG, Magic 8 ball or weird ambient game and publish, distribute and sell it.
I don't think that there is going to be a ton of super impressive community games when the new Dashboard ships this fall but after a year or so there is going to be some very innovative indie games made for it. It is weird to see the largest software company in the world create a system to empower some kids sitting in their dorm room to make, distribute and sell their own video games. It is going to take some time to show it's full potential but Community XNA games has the potential to be the single biggest feature of the new Xbox 360 OS.
I wrote Microsoft XNA Community Games with some questions I had about the program:
8bitjoystick: Is there going to be a hard defined list about what is and is not appropriate subject matter for a community XNA game? A TOS that states what you can and can't have in your game?
Microsoft: Each game submission must be played and validated by several members of the community and assessed against the service's Terms of Use (TOS). When reviewers identify in a game unauthorized or inappropriate content that doesn't comply with the policies, the game will not be listed on Xbox LIVE Marketplace until the submitter removes such content. Post publication on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, Microsoft will actively remove infringing content when properly notified by the copyright owner(s) and will remove inappropriate content when notified by the community.
8bitjoystick: Can you have: Sexual content, drug use, violence against women or minorities, satanic or demonic themes, gay romance, controversial historical events (like a Civil War game where you have to shoot Lincoln) or offensive language?
Microsoft: We do allow sexual references and innuendos However, we don't allow explicit sexual acts that would be pornographic, regardless of sexual orientation. Games with religious themes are not prohibited as long as they don't directly threaten any groups of people directly in the real world or depict any real world crimes against humanity. Controversial historical events like games with religious themes would also depend on the context, for example we absolutely do not allow German Nazi related content on the system.
8bitjoystick: Is there going to be a hard defined list of what you can't have in a community XNA game or is it going to be subjective on a game by game basis.
Microsoft: The ability to distribute Xbox LIVE Community Games is designed with a robust proactive and reactive screening process in mind. The core design is based on the community peer review process where a peer group of XNA Creators Club members are empowered to be self policing. Each game submission must be played and validated by several members of the community and assessed against the service's Terms of Use (TOS). When reviewers identify in a game unauthorized or inappropriate content that doesn't comply with the policies, the game will not be listed on Xbox LIVE Marketplace until the submitter removes such content. Post-publication on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, Microsoft will actively remove infringing content when properly notified by the copyright owner(s) and will remove inappropriate content when notified by the community.
8bitjoystick: Can you have objectionable content if it is a parody or allegory?
Microsoft: Again it depends on the context. As long as the objectionable content doesn't fall under the same prohibited themes described above, parody and allegory are permitted.
8bitjoystick: Is Microsoft concerned with someone making a game with objectionable content, publishing it on XNA games and then Microsoft will make some money off the transaction of them selling the game?
Microsoft: No. There are checks and balances throughout the peer review system which enables community created games to be submitted, approved and ultimately distributed over Xbox LIVE. Each peer reviewer is rewarded with a better reviewer reputation by the system for accuracy. Conversely, reviewers can get penalized or even banned from the ability to review games should the need arise. If inappropriate content makes it through the peer review process, the process has mechanisms to support reactive takedown measures as needed.
Avatars are going to be a customizable slightly abstracted figure used to represent a Xbox 360 player to be used in games and online. If you are thinking about claiming that they ripped off Nintendo I say hold on. No, they did not steal the concept of shared online Avatars. They have been around a long time before the Wii and I have copies of the books Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash and William Gibson's Burning Chrome if you don't believe me. There are some hard core haters out there on the net that are dreading Xbox Avatars but I have a feeling that they are going to be pretty nifty. Actually I think Avatars are better than Miis for two fundamental things, they are going to be constantly expanded and they actually look like high resolution game graphics. Miis have an extremely limited wardrobe and they all look like playschool figures.
Avatars have the potential to be a medium for sharing mildly customized user created content in a seamless common online data format. I mean it is not as full as a making a skin or a mod on a PC but they are going to be quickly shared and they are saying that there are going to be thousands of pieces to chose from and they will be constantly adding to the Avatar pieces.
I wonder if there is going to be any gender restrictions on Avatars. In some current in-game custom character creation tools like in Soul Calibur IV and Smackdown there are restriction on what pieces you can select based on gender or character class. Can we make cross-dressing in drag or trans-gendered Avatars? What about text? I bet you can't make an offensive T-shirt for your Avatar directly but people will find a way to make something outlandish. They always do.
Currently they are not going to be in M-Rated game. If they made them available to M-Rated games it would be awesome. I want to see a Mortal Kombat or Soul Calibur using Avatars as fighters and then slice of the limbs of your friends. How cool would it be if you could take the severed heads of your vanquished online enemies and store them on a trophy spike as a warning to all those who would be foolish to take you on.
Avatars are not going to be available to community XNA games at the launch of the new dashboard but that is something that they want to ad to the Community XNA tool kit as soon as possible. I think that Avatars when combined with community XNA are going to be sweet since Microsoft is not going to be restricting game content games in Community XNA games.
Just imagine a pimping resource management game using Avatars and XNA Community games. You would play a pimp and had to walk around your turf and keep your girls happy and in line as well as investing to expand your pimping empire by hiring new girls, expanding to new properties, fight off rival pimps and increase your wardrobe by buying bling and suits. It would be like The Sims but with pimp slapping. Heck I want to see an online zombie horror game like Dead Rising and Stubs the Zombie but using your friend's avatars as zombies once they get infected. How cool would it be to blow the zombified arms of your friend's Avatar off or to tear into their virtual skull and eat the tasty brains inside their Avatar's head.
If they had games like that I don't think people would be complaining about them on Internet so often.
Installed Games on the Hard Drive
Another big feature is playing regular disc based Xbox 360 games off the hard drive or the option to install games to hard drive. It is an optional install but it can decrease load time and make the system quieter by not using the optical drive. However you do have to put the disc in the tray every time to verify that you still own the game. It would have been killer if you didn't have to get up to swap out the discs but I don't see how they could stop you from installing rented games or installing your friend's games without some key code. I deleted some HDTV shows and old videos from my hard drive to make space. I am going to install a number of my favorite games and have a feeling that a lot of the free space on my 120-Gig hard drive is not going to be empty for much longer.
Party System on Xbox Live
They are adding a party system for up to eight players and it is going to work with all Xbox Live enabled Xbox 360 games. You can invite freinds into a party and stick with them when switching games. It is pretty impressive that they can roll this out to all existing games. You can chat and trade photos with people in the party. You know what kind of photos people are going to be trading with this feature, LOL Cats.
Xbox Live Primetime
There is going to be online scheduled multiplayer games, basically big game shows. They have yet to show off more examples of it but it is a cool concept. I would be down with super nerd trivia games.
Netflix Streaming
They will be supporting watching Netflix View It Now streaming movies on the Xbox. They already had a streaming windows media player client in the Xbox. Currently this will only work in the US and you have to have a Netflix subscription. I've tried out streaming Netflix movies on my windows PC and it looks just about as good as a VHS tape.
Xbox Live Marketplace over the web
There is going to be support for accessing and buying Xbox Live Marketplace on the web. It little bit weird but I see why they did it. Hopefully there will be easier to sort through all the Xbox Live content.
My guess is that it will be out before the end on October so that when the November holiday winter shopping rush hits it will be on all the Xbox systems sold this fall. This is a big gamble for Microsoft but I think it is going to pay off and keep the Xbox platform going for the rest of this hardware generation. I can't wait to upgrade my Xbox 360.


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Inside Egypt's Facebook Bunker (Video)
The New York Times today has a video report about an apartment near Tahrir Square in Cairo that serves as a crash pad for 20 or so young activists who post photos and videos and information about the ongoing Egyptian uprising on Facebook.
Here's the video about "Cairo's Facebook flat." (I had to squish it to fit our column, but you can go here to see the original.)
Commentators have questioned how online social media could have played a significant role in a revolution in a country with only 20 percent Internet penetration. However, the flat residents, described as students and children of Cairo's elite, give social media full credit.
"Facebook and Twitter is what started this revolution," said Yusuf Bagato, an art student. "So it's the most important element we have here. Most of the youth in Egypt have Facebook accounts, so it's the easiest way to get to them."
Here's what appears to be the Tahrir Square Facebook page maintained by the group. The page has fewer than 2,000 registered fans, but lots of fresh content and activity.
Wael Ghonim, the recently freed Google executive who has become a hero in the Egyptian movement, is the administrator of another Facebook page called We are all Khaled Said. That page continues to be maintained and seems to have attracted a large international audience.

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Duck flies to Moscow…
30 Saturday Sep 2017
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30 Saturday Sep 2017
30 Saturday Sep 2017
Common Crawl now contains 3.01 billion web pages, and has newly added…
"a side crawl [containing links located] within a maximum of 3 links ("hops") away from […] a list of university domains collected by a Common Crawl user"
28 Thursday Sep 2017
Listen Notes, the new podcast search engine, is now a lot prettier.
27 Wednesday Sep 2017
Posted Ecology additions, New titles added to JURNin
Airo (Portugese Society for the Study of Birds)
Raven, The (Virginia Society of Ornithology)
Sea Swallow (Royal Naval Birdwatching Society, not currently well indexed by Google)
Biotika (All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology)
26 Tuesday Sep 2017
Posted Ooops!in
25 Monday Sep 2017
Posted Ecology additions, New titles added to JURNin
21 Thursday Sep 2017
Listen Notes is new and appears to be the podcast search-engine we've all been waiting for. At long last. Plus, it's a very pleasing service. Fast, comprehensive, and simple to use, if in need of a few hours of graphical and UI polishing. This is what it looks like for me (I immediately perma-blocked its row of distracting examples of 'most searched for').
There's a date-order filter. It's not yet perfect in its search handling, though. For instance, search for:
"West Midlands"
… and then for
"West Midlands" -BBC
No results at all for the latter search, despite the first set of results containing a number of non-BBC podcasts related to the West Midlands. Curious. Nor does it knock out unwanted results using NOT, which some sites such as 3D Warehouse use. Given the overbearing online verbosity of the BBC, it seems a pity they can't be excluded from results in favour of a wider variety of grassroots podcasts. As far as I can tell it's impossible to modify results by excluding some keywords. If that's down to a server workload problem, it seems a pity that a half-dozen exceptions can't be offered, such as -BBC -NPR etc.
There's also a very comprehensive and seemingly unbiased Directory with categories which, with a little drilling, gets you to sub-categories like History podcasts. Navigating the Directory is rather haphazard at present, but the another option is to Google thus…
site:www.listennotes.com/directory/ wildlife
… which in this case will quickly indicate that you'll need to browse the directory pages to the Local | Outdoor | and Government categories, and that you'll be wasting your time looking for any mention of the word "wildlife" in Natural Sciences podcasts.
There's no keyword-based date-order search results to be had by RSS, which would work as a form of alerts service, but it's good to see that each podcast's own RSS feed is prominent on each show's profile card.
Interestingly, there's an offer: "Buy podcast database for $1000 flat fee". It looks as though it's actually worth the price, though given the lifespan of podcasts you'd then have to do some serious ongoing work to maintain and repair it.
21 Thursday Sep 2017
Posted JURN tips and tricksin
National Grid Reference Redirect is a simple free service that takes your UK Ordnance Survey Grid Reference map location number, and then whisks you to the equivalent string of geo-coordinates on the large public mapping services such as Google Maps. Sadly it doesn't yet work with the excellent OS-based footpathmaps.com or the historic maps.nls.uk.
Usage: make sure you use the six-number format, e.g. SJ882359. If you have a more precise eight number OS Grid Reference — such as SJ882?359? — then you'll need to lop off the last '?' number in each block of four, and then cross-reference with the same spot in the OS-based footpathmaps.com and maps.nls.uk to work out the precise spot.
We could really use a Web browser plugin that streamlines all this, and intelligently discriminates between six and eight OS digit map references. Or the big mapping services could just start being able to handle OS map references.
21 Thursday Sep 2017
Posted Ooops!in
The Firefox Web browser's ever-increasing security nannying is starting to become very annoying. It's now currently refusing any connection whatsoever to Google Scholar…
No option to say "sod off and let me continue, you stupid bot." This has happened too many times, recently, with other mainstream sites.
Firefox has an 'abandon or keep' fork-point coming up with version 57, when it will start point-blank refusing to run add-ons it deems 'insecure'. With their officious nannying the makers of Firefox are risking an exodus to the Opera or some other browser, it seems to me. Security I control and can turn off is one thing, but handing it over to some always-on dumb-bot is quite another.
21 Thursday Sep 2017
Posted JURN tips and tricksin
Are you regularly annoyed by Google Search's spammy slide-in panel labelled "More Info"? It's also known as the "Local Info" or "Info Panel" among marketeers.
I have no use for it whatsoever, and it's just another whizzy and distinctly spammy distraction from proper search. It tends to appear when doing local searches, but I'm almost never searching for an eatery / hotel / venue 'to book'. Instead I'm looking for pages that give long-range advance details about forthcoming events, such as conferences, events which are set to happen locally over the coming months or even into next year. So I can feed them through into special-interest local Facebook groups. In which case Google's panel becomes yet another annoying example of dumb auto-suggest getting it wrong.
How to block it? In AdBlock Plus, with the Element Hiding Helper installed, this slide-in panel can be blocked for Google Search UK with…
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Very nice ship. Beautiful cabin service very good Bit of a loss for things to do not many quizzes or Activities . We never made it to Sir Bani Yas island Something to do with the tide/swell we couldn't land by tender Poor itenery .


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Popular and legendary Nigerian musician Innocent Idibia popularly known as 2face is putting up a concert to celebrate his 40 years of life.The concert will feel the presence of his fellow artists who want to share the great moment with him.
The award winning musician will be celebrated at Eko Hotel Convention Center with ace comedian Basket mouth as the host of the event. However, the likes of Burna Boy, D'banj, veteran highlife musician with who 2face did a remix of Baby Jowo, Dr Victor Olaiya, Sound Sultan, Wizkid, fellow Plantation Boys group member Blackface, Seyi Shay, Vector, Timaya, Wande Coal, Omawumi, Patoranking, 9ice and others will be present and they all will be performing live on stage.
Event Details
September 20, 2015
Time: 5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Location: Eko Hotel Convention Center
Regular – N5,000, VIP – N20,000
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Anyone who has grown up in the Bronx knows first hand that a "high majority" of U.S. soldiers come from our neighborhoods. The rampant drug addiction in the 70's that helped decimate the South Bronx was a direct result of Vietnam.
Even though I do NOT agree with the Friends of Brook Park in regard to their views on Fresh Direct, I do see them being 100% on point with their present battle against military recruiters targeting Bronx youth.
They should push for a law making sure all members of Congress and the US Senate send their children to the front lines each time they vote for our youth to do the same; not the Coast Guard, the front lines! Lets hope they don't open up another front in Iran.
Military recruiters target kids in communities continue to suffer the worst service cuts of the Obama Administration.
This Thursday activists inspired by the Granny Peace Brigade will distribute informative flyers to parents and students in our neighborhood high school.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
These flyers explain how recruiters lie, that parents have the right to prevent school administrators from giving their children's personal/private information to recruiters, and that youth in our community have opportunities to earn an income other than the joining wars for oil which the Pentagon are looking for troops for.
Join us at 141st street and Brook Avenue at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday to learn how you can help and to distribute flyers.
If you can't make it, check out the Granny Peace Brigade here:
There are schools throughout the city with folks. One hour only!
Friends of Brook Park
PO Box 801
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Giveaway: Better Date than Never books 1-6 by Susan Hatler
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This book bundle from USA Today Bestseller Susan Hatler includes six contemporary romance novellas from the bestselling series, Better Date than Never. Dating is so much easier when you have good friends to lean on. . . .
(Love at First Date, Book #1)
Ellen may not believe in storybook love, but it's about to rewrite her life. . . .
Excerpt from Love at First Date (Better Date than Never, Book #1)
Holding Rachel's bright yellow dishtowel under Chester's saliva-dripping mouth, I panicked at the morphed sounds he was making. "Hang in there, dude."
I shifted him in my arms then slammed on the metal bell some more. "Does anyone work here?"
"Can I help?" A male voice came from behind me.
"Yes, this dog got into my purse and—" I paused mid-sentence as my gaze met dark gray eyes that sent a bolt of adrenaline through me. My heart flipped in my chest. Not an appropriate reaction when Rach's dog could be dying. "I-I think he ate something toxic. Maybe my lip-gloss? Are you the vet? Can you give him that charcoal stuff to make him barf it up?"
He studied Chester's half-open mouth. "Try setting him down. I'll take a look."
"Thanks." I knelt, still holding the towel under his mouth—because, ew, slobber all over the place.
The vet dropped to his knees next to Chester and pried his little jaw open.
Hech! Hech!
As he examined the dog's throat, I couldn't help checking him out. There was something going on behind those dark eyes that had me dying to learn everything about him. Where he was from, what made him tick, what he looked for in a girl . . .
My pulse slammed into overdrive.
Weird that the vet was wearing sweats, though. Maybe he'd finished with his last patient and was going for a run? Definitely looked like a guy who worked out regularly. Yeah, that's what I should be thinking about while my friend's dog was gagging for his life. What was wrong with me? Focus, Ellen. "Can you save him?"
(Truth or Date, Book #2)
Truth or Dare is all fun and games until a spontaneous dare has Gina falling for the office playboy.
(My Last Blind Date, Book #3)
Should Rachel risk another dating disaster by trying yet again for love?
(Save the Date, Book #4)
Kristen swears off men, but temptation swoops in when her sexy friend Ethan starts flirting with her.
(A Twist of Date, Book #5)
If you are in the mood for a quick read, guaranteed to give you a happily ever after, than this boxed set is for you! It was refreshing to read a set of books that were full of romance and were also clean enough that I would have no problem recommending them to a young adult. In fact, I have read young adult fiction that is racier. Often when you want to read a clean romance, you usually have to read inspirational romances, and some readers are not into that sort of read. So, hats off to Susan Hatler for delivering a great set of short novels.
I won't make this review lengthy by reviewing each of the books in the set. There are some great reviews already posted that do that. But I will say that, I enjoyed the characters in these books. They are all flawed enough as to make them believable, but they are also instilled with all of the warm fuzzier that avid readers of romance fiction expect from their happily ever afters.
One of the things that I enjoyed most about the set is the fact that the main character from each book appears as a secondary character in the other books so that you get a fuller glimpse into their lives. Now that I have finished all of the books, I may have to go back and re-read them to see what I missed. Even so, each book *could* be read as a stand-alone, but I would recommend reading them in order.
As I said before, these books are a clean read and I would recommend them to anyone 14+.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1020298792
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/review/R22IWFLUXE54JL/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00IB4A7E6
Posted on July 30, 2014, in Paranormal Romance & Author's That Rock. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
nicholskathy | July 30, 2014 at 11:34 pm
These sound like an awesome set of books that I'd love to have. I've been married for 28 yrs and if I had to start dating again I don't know if I could deal with it – lol!
I don't want to enter…because I've already read all of these. I just want to say how much I loved them all. I sort of fell over Susan Hatler's books because I loved the covers and ended up buying all her books.
I love her voice, characters, the tone of the books! Anyone who wins this set is in for a treat.


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LOL...one of my co-workers emailed this to me.
Yesterday was a super long day for me. Four car chases and all of them were miles apart. I started driving at 7 AM...Fairfax, Woodbridge, Fredericksburg and then Warrenton. I didn't make it back until 1 PM.
I had the most enjoyable time on a 12 mile stretch on Rt 1. I was driving, blasting "Make my Day" and minding my own business when a gold colored Sport Trac pulled up next to me in the left lane. A nice looking man, maybe in his early 40's, slight accent, looked like he just walked out of the barber shop, rolled down the window and started talking to me. LOL, we kept all traffic on Rt 1 South from going over 55 miles per hour for 12 miles until I had to make a right.
This was the most excitement I've had in a while.
I MUST get out more. :)
This morning I'm going to Strasburg, VA. Yes, I know, it's 50 miles from home, but the client called me ahead of time and asked if I would take care of this one for double the fee.
When it's done like this, I don't mind, but my other client just slipped one in on me last night that's 182 miles from home without even e-mailing or calling me. That's the second time this client has done this and this one pays the lowest fees. WTF??? Do they think I won't notice driving 3+ hours for a car chase and just go ahead and take care of it? What happened to the zip code list I sent them?? Ha, bastards!
One of my inspections yesterday took me to a house not two miles from my home. Sometimes I wonder what happened to the people that made theses houses their home.
^^^^ This home was found abandoned in May of this year.


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March 26, 2014
Lisa has posted another new Vidoe on Merging Files to make a Design using Embrilliance software programs.
The Merging method applies to the following Embrilliance software programs - Essentials, Alpha tricks, Enthusiast and Density Repair Kit .
You can watch the Video at the link below.
Thank you Lisa!
These Videos are great and really do help us learn how to use our Embrilliance Software Programs.
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Last month, in Part Two of our patient engagement series, we examined the benefits of leveraging technology tools that enable patient engagement in the revenue cycle.
In Part Three, we take a closer look at technology-enabled estimates and the impact this practice has on both engagement and the financial bottom line.
Much attention has been paid to the concepts of price transparency and patient engagement when it comes to strengthening a provider organization's financial foundation. Central to this quest is leveraging advanced technologies to provide patients with accurate estimates of the cost of their care, and present them with a simplified and convenient method of submitting timely payment—whether via patient portals, secure websites or mobile applications.
Offering patients access to accurate estimates allows providers to educate their patients on their insurance plan design and has been shown to decrease bad debt, improve efficiencies and care outcomes, and increase patient and provider satisfaction. However, to be truly effective, estimating must go beyond simply reciting a total price. Rather, it breaks down that estimate to include:
- Total patient responsibility
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By combining personalized cost estimates with simplified payment options, healthcare organizations are realizing even greater value from their investment into patient engagement in the revenue cycle. A prime example is the coupling of SwervePay Health's pre-care estimating and post-care payment tools.
On the front end, SwervePay utilizes a combination of technology, services and direct partnerships with insurance companies to access relevant and accurate eligibility data from every health plan. Its analytics engine then blends that data with providers' negotiated contracts and claims history to create an accurate, personalized cost estimate for each patient.
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The sold-out 2016 Holiday Tour of Homes was a successful and enjoyable event for our visitors and Corn Hill residents alike. What a unique way to celebrate the winter season and share our community and history with our fellow Rochester and suburban neighbors!
We are looking to build on that success, so if you are interested in being part of this Corn Hill tradition, please consider joining the Holiday Tour of Homes Committee.
Our first planning meeting will be scheduled for late April and future meetings will be determined by the preference of Committee members.
You may email [email protected] or Rob Goodling at [email protected] to submit your name for membership or to get more information.
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|Outside madhura
I was at Dadar in Central Mumbai a few evenings back in front of a mall called Star Mall which is in between Sena Bhavan and Plaza cinema. The mall has a Burger King and a McDonalds. I wanted to have an evening snack before heading home.
I looked across the street and saw a small shop which I had often passed by before but had never gone to. I had always thought it to be a sweet shop. This time I noticed that there were people sitting and eating there. I was curious and decided to go in and see what the deal was. Was it just a tea and sweet shop or was there anything to eat there too?
|The Madhura menu
I crossed over and peered in and saw the menu. They seemed to be offering all the standard Maharashtrian vegetarian snacky dishes – poha, missal, batata vada, kothimbir vadi – the sort you get in places such as Aaswad and Prakash down the corner near Sena Bhavan. I decided to try my luck with the food as I saw that the tiny shop was packed with people who seemed to be eating happily.
The restaurant turned out to be the sort of place where you are supposed to share a table with your fellow diners. Yes, table sharing is common in traditional Indian restaurants even though modern restaurants such as Le Pain Quotidien and The Table have introduced it here as a novel concept from Europe.
An elderly and smiling waiter showed me a table close to the door. The two gentlemen already sitting there quickly made space for me so that I could sit comfortably.
|Poha at madhura
I was hungry and quickly ordered a poha. This is a popular Maharashtrian dish which, thanks to memories of my granny's cooking back home in Calcutta, is a comfort dish for me. You can read my recent article on my poha memories for NDTV Food here.
I took a bite of the poha and smiled. The rice flakes had a nice firm texture. The dish was not greasy at all. There was a mild sweetness to the dish and it was seasoned perfectly and had a hint of chilli heat to it. If I was to shut my eyes, I would have thought I was eating this dish in someone's home. Cooked by someone's grandmother. Not in a restaurant.
I realised the reason why everyone around me in the restaurant looked so happy.
I was wondering what to order next and began talking to my table mates. The gentleman sitting opposite me, a professor, said he was a regular at this restaurant 20 years back. He now lives in far off Nerul. He had popped in for a snack on the way back home after delivering a lecture on parenting and education in a nearby auditorium.
I realized that I had entered the shop without checking the name. I looked out and saw that this tiny restaurant is called 'Madhura'.
The professor suggested that I try a farali missal. Faral refers to fasting food. For Maharashtrians, 'fasting' for religious occasions, from what I have observed, doesn't mean abstaining from food unlike for us Bengalis. It's just that there are restrictions on what they can eat. Farali food refers to dishes made with the ingredients that are allowed on such days. The professor told me that he was not actually fasting and yet had chosen the farali version of the missal at Madhura as it is very tasty.
|Farali missal at mahura
The farali missal was promptly brought to our table. It looked very different from regular missal, a dish I am fond of. The sauce in the farali version was creamish white in colour and not yellowish-red unlike in a missal. The dish had sabudana or sago beans and not pulses such as matki beans that regular missal has. The dish had potatoes and white deep fried thin potato straw toppings instead of the yellow gram flour based fried crunchy farsan which conventional missal has.
I tried the dish and was floored with the taste. The sauce was mildly sweet and then there were bursts of chilli heat popping up in each bite. The sago beans were properly cooked, not chewy at all. The potato straws gave a nice textural contrast to the sauce. I realized why the professor ordered this dish even if he was not fasting.
While I ate the farali missal, the prof called for a farali thali peeth or the fasting version of the popular Maharashtrian multi grain flat bread, thali peeth. I shamelessly requested to take a photograph of the picture before he and his friend ate it. They indulged me politely.
|Farali thlai peeth at madhura
I was intrigued by the sauce of the missal and wondered if it had curd as the base. I noticed the elderly couple at the couple and realized that they were the owners. So I looked at them and asked whether the curry had curd in it.
The lady smilingly replied that it didn't have curd. That the white colour was a result of a mix of coconut milk (or juice, I am not sure) and crushed peanuts. The coconut bit explained the sweetness I guess.
|Shalan and Shankar Velankar of Madhura
I got to know the story of Madhura from the lady and her husband, Mrs Shalan and Mr Shankar Velankar, the owners of Madhura.
The story of Madhura began 80 years back in Girgaom in South Mumbai when a small restaurant called Kolhapuri Chiwda was opened. KC still exists and is run by Mr Velankar's younger brother I was told.
The Velankars opened Madhura in Dadar in 1988, close to thirty years back. Mr Velankar, a civil engineer, was in service then and managed the restaurant on the side. While in college, he had gone to London to study in the 1960s. His son, an engineer too, lives in the US now. Mr Shankar runs the restaurant with his wife.
His wife, Shalan aunty, looked at me and proudly pointed to her husband and said, "he has made changes to recipes at Kolhapuri Chiwda and the recipes are his own".
Mr Velankar said that original menu was sans onion and garlic. He introduced these to suit the taste preferences of the itinerant crowd at Dadar. He also said that the dishes at Kolhapuri Chiwda, like its neighbour Vinay Health Home in Girgaom, was on the sweeter side. He tempered down the sweet notes to suit local tastes. The food in their vegetarian household is sweeter than what they serve in the restaurant.
Well, Mr Velankar's tinkering had definitely let to some really tasty dishes.
The attraction of running a restaurant finally got to Mr Velankar and he took an early retirement and began to run Madhura full time.
This is pretty rare for Maharashtrians who, like Bengalis, prefer to be in service than run their own businesses.
"All these shops on the road are run by Non- Maharashtrians" said Mr Velankar. This despite our being in the heart of a Maharashtrian dominated locality in Mumbai.
I asked Mrs Velankar what else I should try and she suggested the kothimbir vadi.
|Kothimbir vadi at Madhura
This was brought to my table within minutes of my ordering it. Freshly fried. Intricately flavoured with savoury notes interspersed with sharp tastes of fresh coriander (kothambir) and mildy pungent bites of garlic. The texture was beautiful, crunchy outside and soft and yet firm inside. Probably the best rendition of this Maharashtrian favourite that I have had. I couldn't finish all the food and packed some for home. My mom in law loved the kothimbir vadi the best too and remember she had it cold and not fresh from the pan unlike me.
Mrs Velankar explained that the kothimbir vadi is made by boiling a gramflour (besan) based dough which is first mixed with chilli, garlic and fresh coriander. The cubes are deep fried when a customer places an order and served fresh. All the food is made fresh daily here.
|Batata Vada at Madhura
I wanted to try more (!) food and ordered a plate of batata vada. The gramflour batter crust was beautifully crunchy and well seasoned and the potato mash inside was very pleasantly spiced unlike the super spicy vada pav in the sliders that I tried at Bombay Vintage, a new Indian fusion place, the other day.
This was comfort food. Potatoes wrapped in carbs and deep fried. A lullaby of a dish.
|The missal at madhura
Having tried the farali missal, I wanted to try the regular missal at Madhura too. The curry here was a bit thinner than the one at Aaswad, and had a pleasant slightly sweet tang well complimented by a bit of tanginess and chilli kick. Again very different from the thick and very spicy mutton missal at Bombay Vintage. In fact none of the missals that I have eaten in Mumbai have been very spicy though the legendary one at Mamledar at Thane, which I am yet to try, is supposed to very tikkhat or spicy
The missal at Madhura I happily polished off and what I couldn't finish, I took for my mom in law who liked it as she did the remaining batata vada.
The missal at Madhura had more of the farsan (crunchy namkeen) than pulses in it. Turns out that they make the farsan in house here and offer it on sale along with other Marathi snacks, spices and sweets. You get these at the Kolhapuri Chiwda too. Mr Velankar proudly showed me his recipe book for the snacks that they sold. He smiled and said that there is no recipe book for the hot meals. Those are prepared from memory, instinct and experience!
|The recipe book
I bought quite a bit of snacks and masalas for my Maharashtrian friends who said they quite liked it.
The beauty of Dadar is that thanks to the train station close by, you have people from all communities coming here and I met a smiling Bengali couple who came in for chai at Madhura. They too, like me, have made Mumbai their home.
For dessert I had a delectably thick shrikhand which had just the right levels of sweetness and was not overtly sweet or synthetic and had an interesting touch of spice to it.
|Shrikhand at Madhura
Mrs Velankar told me that they make their Shrikhand in house. The dish takes two days in making apparently. One day for making the curd from milk. Then the curd is strained overnight through a muslin cloth. Sugar and nutmeg (remember the spice notes I mentioned) powder are blended into the resultant mixture and then refrigerated.
I paid my bill, booked an Uber and moved on.
My food bill for the poha, 2 missals, kothimbir vada, batata vada and shrikhand was Rs 209! (January 2015)
I was smiling widely when I got into the cab feeling very at peace.
It has been a while since I have popped into a small place packed with people, run by proud and passionate owners serving food that is freshly made and blessed by years of loyal diners and at prices which allows you to enjoy the food without worrying about your finances.
The sort of place where you are guaranteed to have a happy meal.
|Madhura. Don't miss it
Madhura is opposite Star Mall near Plaza. It is open from 9 am to 9pm and is shut on Fridays. They serve roti and a daily bhaji (vegetable) at lunch time. The restaurant is no frills, clean and non-air-conditioned. The don't levy a service charge but make you feel fully at home. The owner speaks English and everyone speaks Hindi apart from Marathi. Do check out this article of mine on exploring Indian regional food and try out restaurants such as Madhura for this


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Do One, Teach One, Kill One is the third episode of the second season of ER, and the twenty-ninth episode overall.
Guest Stars: Abraham Benrubi (Jerry), Yvette Freeman (Haleh), Joe Costanza (Ed Menke), John Finnegan (Mitchell), Lucy Liu (Mei-Sun), David Spielberg (Dr. Neil Bernstein), Deezer D. (Malik), Vanessa Marquez (Wendy), Carlos Gomez (Raul), Carol Locatell, Gloria Reuben (Jeanie Boulet), Ron Eldard (Shep), Christine Elise McCarthy (Harper Tracy), Christine Harnos (Jenn Greene), Laura Innes (Dr. Kerry Weaver), CCH Pounder (Dr. Angela Hicks), Kathleen Wilhoite (Chloe Lewis), Nicole Nagel (Hulda), Albert Henderson, Tony Longo, Kedric Robin Wolfe, Laura Ceron (Chuny), Kristin Minter (Randi), Perry Anzilotti (Anesthesiologist), Carole Goldman (Bartender), Billy Mayo (Sheriff), Mario Tanzi (Security Guard)
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Carter gets his first official patient, but things go wrong after he performs a procedure; Ross treats a 4-year-old boy with AIDS; Susan is left to care for her niece when Chloe leaves town.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 8 seconds Hello, and welcome to this session. This week, we are looking at how the work of persuasion and promotion of ideals comes into the most personal aspects of our lives– how branding, slogans, and other tactics are used to affect decisions about what we eat, what we wear, and how we organise our homes and daily lives. In the arena of public health, this becomes more personal, still– how we behave with respect to our bodies, diet, nutrition, and exercise; whether we smoke, drink, or take other drugs; how we raise our children; our sexual behaviour. Who do we think has the right to influence and comment on these most personal aspects? When does it become appropriate to attempt to influence our decisions?
Skip to 0 minutes and 50 seconds And who do we allow to trust and convince us? I'm here today with Ian Cooke at the British Library to talk through some of these issues. Ian, Britain is a very liberal country, priding itself on this liberal tradition. Does this kind of influencing happen here, too, and how do people react to it? Well, although sometimes we like to think it doesn't, there is obviously very clear examples of times when public health campaigns have run. And, actually, there's a long tradition of public health campaigns in Britain.
Skip to 1 minute and 20 seconds And although some of the examples I've got out on the table here might look kind of charming to the eye, there is also a tradition that sees this as something that we may need to be wary about– we may need to think about. And certainly, these are issues we touched on in the session on freedom, when we were thinking about the theories of John Stuart Mill. And that sort of sensitivity to the state telling us what to think and how to act certainly came through in the Second World War. And we can see how the government responded to this through the Ministry of Information. Now the Ministry of information was unpopular when it started.
Skip to 1 minute and 56 seconds You can see that in the negative publicity it got in the press, and also the way people wrote about it. So at the Ministry, they were very concerned to bring in experts from public relations and advertising, and also conduct a little public opinion research to see how they could get materials produced that went more with the grain of say, common sense, or the prevailing public opinion at the time. And you can see that very clearly through some of the health and productivity campaigns. The example I've got here– say, for example, this one from Dig the Victory. Can you tell us a bit more about these? These are leaflets produced in the 1940s, I believe.
Skip to 2 minutes and 35 seconds But they're not quite what one expects. They're not quite what we remember from that campaign. They're not big propaganda pictures, are they? Well, that's why. I mean, although Dig the Victory did have a very memorable poster campaign, actually the bulk of the publishing around it were these how-to guides. So they kind of– the general view was already accepted that it was important to kind of grow your own, and contribute to a sort of productivity drive. And so it tells you in some detail here kind of how to dig, how to save seeds. Elsewhere is kind of which crops to grow when.
Skip to 3 minutes and 6 seconds And of course, all this fed into the need to reduce our reliance on imports, and also reduce the need to transport food around the country. And so you see the potato becomes quite a significant vegetable here because it was relatively easy to grow, and it could be used as a substitute for other things that were resource intensive, such as wheat. So here we have Potato Pete's Recipe Book, another kind of how-to guide there. It's a very jolly image. I just noticed there are a lot of women here shown following Potato Pete– some men, as well, but could you tell us a bit more about the gender dimension of this kind of propaganda? Who was it targeted at? Yeah, of course.
Skip to 3 minutes and 46 seconds I mean, women were a very important group that the Ministry was targeting with its domestic information campaigns and publicity campaigns. And certainly when it comes to the area of public health, they become a very significant group. Deborah Lupton writing in the Imperative of Health notes how from the 19th century, women are seen almost as kind of the guardians and the agents of change to do with public health within the family, but also sort of a bit more widely within society, as well. So women are certainly very important, and seen as very important in public health campaigns during the Second World War and after.
Skip to 4 minutes and 22 seconds And indeed, one of the most kind of successful and long running campaigns during the War was The Kitchen Front. Really, kind of the title brings it home. And this was a series of daily radio broadcasts on the BBC, which would run recipes– so sort of what to cook with the food that was available, as well as giving out information about rationing and so on. And so it gave information about government policy. And you can see sort of a use of both humour here, and celebrity, and I think both of them were very important. Humour gets used a lot in British domestic wartime propaganda.
Skip to 4 minutes and 57 seconds It's almost kind of more inclusive and more enduring than those kind of heavy morally exaltations to do your duty. And celebrity is important, as well. So you can see here on The Kitchen Front recipes, it tells you who was broadcasting at the time. And these would have been sort of well-known, family favourites and the broadcasters. And you even have the caricatures of the quite famous comedies. You've got Gert and Daisy here on Gert and Daisy's Wartime Cookery Book. And celebrity can provide an important role because it's people we already know, it's people we like, and people who we maybe identify with who are presenting us the message. It's not sort of someone from the Ministry, it's not someone detached.
Skip to 5 minutes and 38 seconds And again, they can be seen as the voice of common sense, the voice of everyday people, and can be seen sometimes as independent from, let's say, a state view, or a government view. So they can at the same time kind of express public dissatisfaction, or kind of gripes with things like rationing, at the same time as giving information about it. So there is this important role that they're playing again, and kind of reinforcing that message that it's what we do. It's kind of the common sense thing. We should be doing it. And I think there's something that you see through all of these campaigns– how there was an interest in matching the mood of the public at the time.
Skip to 6 minutes and 17 seconds And the Ministry both commissioned and conducted its own public opinion research to see how these campaigns were playing out, and to sort of make sure that what they were doing was going with the grain of public opinion at the time. And as we've seen sort of throughout other sessions, that's quite common through a lot of this messaging– that there is kind of an intent to change attitudes, and change behaviour, but it has to work with prevailing public preferences and conceptions. So this week, I think what we'd like you to do as you're working through the sessions is think about campaigns that you see around you in your everyday life.
Skip to 6 minutes and 57 seconds How are they trying to kind of either change attitudes or reinforce attitudes? What tactics do they use? And share some examples of those in the discussions that follow. And I suppose my last question is really, has there been a campaign that's changed your mind?
Consuming ideology: food, the body and the nation
In this film, Ian and Maiken begin our exploration of how ideology and propaganda travel into the most intimate aspects of our personal lives: clothing, eating, and sexual behaviour. The first topic we focus on are the politics of food. We go through some of the British Library's collections of historical pamphlets to analyse how and why the British government made it its business to encourage people to grow and consume certain foods during the Second World War.
Please use to comment function to share your thoughts on this topic. Is the politicisation of food culture unique to times of war and conflict, or can you think of peacetime examples where what and how we should eat has been subject to political intervention, directly or indirectly? And is it legitimate and sensible for political actors to try and guide such choices, or should they remain 'private'?
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An unborn set of twins' conversation in the womb of their mother...
"Say, do you actually believe in life after birth?" the one twin asks.
"Yes, definitely! Inside we grow and are prepared for what will come outside", answered the other twin.
"I believe that´s nonsense!" says the first. "There can't be life after birth - what is that supposed to look like?"
"I don't exactly know either. But there will certainly be much more light than in here. And maybe we will be walking about and eat with our mouths?"
"I've never heard such nonsense! Eating with the mouth? What a crazy idea. There is the umbilical cord that nourishes us. And how do you want to walk about? The umbilical cord is much too short."
"I am sure it is possible. It´s just that everything will be a little bit different."
"You are crazy! Nobody ever came back after birth. Life is over with birth. That's it."
"I admit that nobody knows what life after birth will look like. But I do know that we will see our mother then, and that she will take care of us."
"Mother???? But you don't believe in a mother, do you? Where is she?"
"She is here, all around us. We are and we live within her and through her. Without her we couldn't exist at all!"
"Nonsense! I´ve never sensed a mother, consequently she doesn´t exist."
"Yes, sometimes, when we are very quiet you can hear her sing, or feel how she caresses our world."
"Let's all be careful out there!"


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Cub Scout Pack 528
6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
K-5th Grade
Cub Scouts do not meet weekly at the church until the Fall.
Cub Scout Pack 528
We offer the Scouting experience for boys and girls in K-5th grade, through our Lions, Tigers, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, and Arrow of Light programs.
We meet on Thursdays each week during the school year at our Charter Organization of the Mary Esther United Methodist Church at 6:30 p.m.
Kindergarten – boys and girls – Lions
1st grade – boys and girls – Tigers
2nd grade – boys and girls – Wolf
3rd grade – boys and girls – Bear
4th grade – boys and girls – Webelos
5th grade – boys and girls – Arrow of Light
Pack meetings are held the fourth Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Unless it is a holiday month (like Thanksgiving), then it will be the last Thursday before the holiday.
Team Members
Sean Risher, Cub Master
Louis Cumming, Committee Chairman
Michelle Wright, Pack Unit Commissioner
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"The board is set, the pieces are moving.
We come to it at last, the great battle of our time."
Gandalf the White, Return of the King, The Lord of The Rings
The battle for Minas Tirith
With a bit of organising and players pulling in their models, we were set for a fantastic 4 v 4 battle for Minas Tirith on a beautifully created board by Rick Fryer. This was a chance for a few members of our club Midsussexwargaming or arrange a game, have some beers and enjoy a BBQ.
Sam Page - Gondor
Louis Jones - Fiefdoms
Rick Fryer - Rohan
Craig Harrison - Grey Company
George Seymour - Mordor 1
Michael McDonald - Mordor 2
Thomas Secombe - Khand & Easterlings
Dan Fyer - Harad
Me - Umbar 'Corsairs'
Each army was 1000 points (Mordor had 2 x 750) and both Mordor and Gondor were able to deploy immediately, the rest would roll two dice and add the turn number... if that was 12 they could enter the battle.
The battle field was 6 x 6 ft, with 1/2 covered by Minas Tirth, the rest Pelennor Fields.
|Hobbit Battle Field - Mega SBG Battle:
Walls of Minas Tirith
Sam Page - Gondor
Louis Jones - Fiefdoms
Rick Fryer - Rohan
Craig Harrison - Grey Company
George Seymour - Mordor 1
Michael McDonald - Mordor 2
Thomas Secombe - Khand & Easterlings
Dan Fyer - Harad
Me - Umbar 'Corsairs'
Each army was 1000 points (Mordor had 2 x 750) and both Mordor and Gondor were able to deploy immediately, the rest would roll two dice and add the turn number... if that was 12 they could enter the battle.
The battle field was 6 x 6 ft, with 1/2 covered by Minas Tirth, the rest Pelennor Fields.
|The City of Gondor:
Minas Tirith
|The Gondor and Fiefdom armies deploy within the walls of Mina Tirith,
protecting the central statue and the objective
|The Gateway to Pelennor and the enterance to Gondors City
|The walls protecting the city buildings of Minas Tirith
|Gondorian Trebuchet with Commanders
|Minas Tirith Commanders Hall
'Officers Mess'
|Entrance to the Keep
|The High walls of Minas Tirith
|Gondor buildings behind the walls
|The Army of Mordor appear on the battle field and deploy
|"Defend the walls" Gondor archers line the walls to prepare to fight off the attacking evil armies
|Gondorians and the Fiefdoms form a defensive ring around the main objective and protect the gate
|Fiefdoms army deployed to the defend the gates of Gondor
|Gandalf the White takes to the walls to support Gondor in its hour of need
|Beregond also takes to the battlements
|Gondor buildings protected by a host of warriors
|Mordor siege tower
|The Witch King on Fell Beast leads the assault
|Orcs n Fell beast
|The Mordor Army deploys on the outskirts of Osgiliath
|"Send forth all Legions"
|Gondor (and Rick) brace for the Mordor assault
|Gandalf the White prepares and casts blinding light
|Fiefdoms defend the centre statue and the objective
|Black Root Vale archers test the Mordor Line with bow fire
|Slowly, slowly the tower advances, while the catapults open fire on the walls
|Mordor orcs carry ladders to scale the walls
|Gondor return fire with the Trebuchet
|Orc eye view from the Ruins of Osgiliath
|The Fell Beast cover the flanks of the troops
|The catapult barrage continues
|Next round - Enter Harad and their Mumak
|The Harad Cavalry
|The Harad infantry
|The Mumak advances
|The battlefield so far...
|Gondor view
|The rangers continue to fire...
|...picking their targets to try to whittle down the Mordor orcs and the ladders
|The city of Minas Tirith under siege
|The Mordor siege tower is almost at the wall
|Next round and Umbar arrive.
The Corsairs spread out to prevent another army deploying on their flank
|The Harad cavalry race to the opposite side of the board to await the deployment of good
|Meanwhile the Harad infantry advances
|The Corsair fleet form up and prepare to move to the gate and the siege tower
|Armies of evil swarm the battlefield
|BUT, the Grey Company arrive and immediately charge the Corsair flank!
|Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli lead the charge
|Just as a horn sounds... ROHAN!
|Forward Eorlings!
Rohan arrive with 1000 points of cavalry
|The evil army pause and asses the situation....
meanwhile Rohan charge full on into the Mordor Flank
|The Three Hunters and twins lead the Grey Company onto the Corsairs
|The Corsairs are taken by surprise and falter
|The Eleven Twins with army of the Dead rush the Corsairs and take advance of their deployment
|The Corsairs desperately try to regroup and leave a warband of pirates to the mercy of the Grey Company
|Across the battlefield the Rohan Riders split and charge the orcs
|But Theoden has over stretched and is now facing the Harad cavalry and fell beast counter charge
|Theoden and his knights attempt to take down a fell beast
|The riders continue their charge
|Oh dear, Harad come to the rescue of the Fell Beast
|The fight is now in full swing as Theoden fights for his life
|The Siege tower hits the wall
|Rohan call for aid...
|and the fiefdoms answer, breaking formation to open the gates and aid Rohan
|Rohan riders
|in the thick of battle
|The fell beast loom over the battle field and the riders of Rohan continue to fight
|The Trebuchet even targets the fell beast to assist
|Harad infantry stop and wait... and watch the riders of Rohan
|Rick's Riders need the priority
|Theoden is surrounded
|and the fell beasts swoop in for the kill
|Fiefdoms march to the gate
"Now is the hour"
|Meanwhile the corsairs are being dealt a bloody nose by the Grey Company
|Rohan look in trouble
|Catapult fire decimate the second war band of Rohan riders
|Riders strewn across the field
|Eomer leads his riders to defend the king
|but the fell beasts keep coming
|and now the Harad Cavalry are helping to mop up the riders of Rohan
|Despite the sun, this is a dark day for Rohan
|Theoden makes a last charge against the fellbeast...
|but his battered remains are scattered on to the battlefield
|The corsairs quickly regroup and the archers fire into the Grey Company
|Enter the Dragon -
Easterling and Khan swarm onto the field, right behind the now exhausted riders of Rohan
|A mass of riders, chariots and easterling focus onthe stranded Rohan
|Rick's last knights withdraw to protect the Kings body
|but the Khandish eastern warriors are a sight to behold.
|The Khandish chariots chase down the last few riders
|All is now lost for Rohan
|Now the orcs are reaching the walls with their ladders, and the tower becomes the target for the Trebuchet
|And so the Harad Infantry, safe in the knowledge that there are no more Rohan continue their advance
|The Grey Company pause as riders of Harad arrive to their rear
|Craig sends out some warriors of the dead to intercept them and over the Grey Company rear
|Taking advantage of the pause, the Corsair open fire into the Grey Company
|Forcing them to continue their advance
|Red and Gold now covers the field, where once there was a ave of Rohan green
|The evil army now dominates the fields of Pelennor
|The Fiefdoms are unable to aid Rohan in time
|and decide to return to their stations and await the assault
|Khandish riders charge across the field in front of the walls
|The King of Khand feels victorious
|and the fellbeasts, fresh from the kill, turn their attention to the walls of Minas Tirith
|The Eastern Army
|The age of men is over
|The orcs make for the siege tower
|and the Mumak advances
|The Knight of Umbar on Fell Beast
|Eomer still defiant, but hope is lost
|Denethor, failing is courage test moves closer to the ledge, hope really is lost
|The Siege tower reaches the wall
|Fiefdoms regroup
|But there are no troops in the tower!
|Aragorn and the King of the Dead charge the Corsairs again
|As The Khandish mop up the last of the Rohan
|Every single one of them!
|The Witch King
|Harad race to the gates
|Rick deploys his secret weapon... a warband of Woses, right behind the Mordor Catapults
|The end of Rohan
|but on the other side of the field,
the Corsairs are losing fight after fight tot he might of the Grey Company
|Halbarad and Aragorn secure more Corsair deaths... can the flank hold
|Time for the Fell beasts to move
|All advance
|More Harad riders race to assist the flanks, this time to engage the woses hidden in the ruins
|Harad nearly reach the tower, time for war
|as the fell beasts stay out of bow range
|The Woses open fire
|Aragorn is surrounded by Corsairs, will he kill another lot!?
|BANG, the trebuchet fire contiues...
|...and the tower is lost
|The fell beast move across the field, Aragorn is in their sights
|The battlefield so far
|A Corsair Reaver climbs a ladder,
but faces a captain and 2 warriors, plus an in the way for the wall... no chance!
|The troll now faces the Gates of Gondor
|as the evil army moves ever forward
|The Khandish king advances flanked by Fell beast and his riders
|Evil forces
|Aragorn loses and is slain
|The troll is prone
|and the fell beast still race across the field
|Shock hits the Grey Company with the fall of Aragorn, but still the Reavers and Corsair keep coming
|Halbarad fights for his life
|Harad still seem to be faltering
|Khandish riders charge for the gate
|Evil George -
"Job Well Done"
|The Mumak reches the wall, but not before a volley
of arrows kills the Mumak Mahaud leader
|Halbarad fights on
|Bored of waiting for evil to get the walls Gondorians climb down the ladders to engage the Corsairs and help the rangers
|The troll stays prone to allow the catapults to fire on the gate
|Craig continues to push his Grey company onto the Corsairs, even with the fell beasts bearing down
|Fiefdoms prepare for the gate to go
|as the fell beasts turn towards the wall
|The gates are open and a Khandish chariot leads the charge
|Good shooting!
|The Khandish King with full entourage march proudly forward...
|...until - A trebuchet shot wipes the Khandish King on chariot and about 10 riders in one go,
|The Elven Twins help Halbarad
|and get stuck into the fight
|Harad race to the gate
|But the Mumak fails it's courage and is turned towards it's own army
|The troll stands and waits to get stuck in... but the fighting is tough and Harad fail to push through he gates
|The Witch King moves forward
|Fight for the Gate
|For Gondor!
|Unable to risk it, the Witch King engages the Fell beast to get rid of it
|And the Easterling start to climb the walls
|Still outnumbered and on the ladders, it is going to be tough
|With the light fading time is running out
|The Battlefield now
|Gondor still retain control of the walls and the inner fortress
|The Corsairs try the ladder again
|As the last of the Grey Company fight on
|Stalemate at the gates
|The fell beast finally goes over the wall
|and smashes the rangers
|Gondors number at eh gate are still strong
|The evil army are stalling and are failing to break into Minas Tirith
|One final push, but this is too little too late, and evil fail to break the walls of Minas Tirith
|With the light gone it was time to call the game.
A victory for Good as evil could not break through the walls and gates
|Man of the Match:
Gandalf the White
I think this has to go to Gandalf the White, just because his blinding light made it virtually impossible to shoot the troops on the wall, needing a 6 to hit, 5 to get passed the in the way and then needing 5/6 to wound it made the evil bows useless. He didn't do much else as the evil army couldn't get to the wall and lay siege.
Final thoughts
I loved this game and can't wait to do another.
Next time I think I will set objectives for each army, which will be hidden from everyone else, perhaps printed on cards for extra points, so that players have to get stuck in and try to score their max points.
I think the new rules DO NOT lend themselves to sieging... next time I will look at the old siege rules and come up with some agreed house rules so that walls can be smashed and ladders climbed easier.
All in all a really fun day, with loads of food, beer and a BBQ.
Thanks to Rick Fryer for the Minas Tirith board and houses - they are truley amazing.
|The mass of evil armies on the fields of Pelennor
We welcome anyone interested in playing The Hobbit SBG, Lotr SBG, WotR or any Warhammer/40K, X-Wing battle or table-top war game - why not let us know so that we can arrange some starter battles,
Or if you/your club want to challenge us. We have all the figures and scenery from the Mines of Moria to the siege of Helms Deep, snow fields to desert boards ready and waiting; fighting in the ruins of Osgiliath, Helms Deep and Far Harad, you cannot afford to miss it.
Why not join our watch list for updates and look out for more battle reports, campaigns and armies on parade... as well as our brilliant GBHL Hobbit Hobby Tournament.
Feel free to come along to Midsussexwargaming or arrange a game.
Or if you/your club want to challenge us. We have all the figures and scenery from the Mines of Moria to the siege of Helms Deep, snow fields to desert boards ready and waiting; fighting in the ruins of Osgiliath, Helms Deep and Far Harad, you cannot afford to miss it.
Why not join our watch list for updates and look out for more battle reports, campaigns and armies on parade... as well as our brilliant GBHL Hobbit Hobby Tournament.
Feel free to come along to Midsussexwargaming or arrange a game.


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Welcome to the Committee To End Slavery nerve center.
I'm Lee Olson, Chairman of the Committee.
You may be asking yourself, "What does he mean by End Slavery, we American's are the freest people on earth?" I won't bore you with detailed facts at this point. But, we American's are not free, we are entrapped in a system operating under the death paradigm of "Slavery, War and Poverty for All but the Special Interests." By virtue of this entrapment we are effectively bound in chains. We are, in fact, slaves on the plantation known as America, in the subdivision known as the State of California.
The Committee To End Slavery (CTES) was formed to "Break The Chains That Bind Us." Because there are so many, various kinds of chains binding us, the expectation is that the CTES will be around for quite a while. The chains will have to be broken one at a time, over time. They cannot realistically be broken all at once. A few will be broken initially and then over time momentum will propel the breaking of an increasing number of chains that governments have imposed unwillingly upon us mundanes.
Fortunately, CA residents have a legal means to break these chains via the ballot initiative process. It is a constitutionally sanctioned (Senate Constitutional Amendment No.22 (Proposition 7) in 1911) means for circumventing the Governor and the Legislature, who, demonstrably, really don't listen to us anyway.
The CTES is initially promoting three CA Initiative Constitutional Amendments for the General Election ballot. They are the CA Freedom from Slavery Act, the CA Education Tax Relief Act and the CA Parental Rights Act of 2018.
Each initiative is designed to give more freedom (less enslavement) to CA residents by eliminating onerous CA government usurpations of their endowed inalienable rights.
- The CA Freedom from Slavery Act eliminates local, county and state income and property taxes for CA residents ages 55+, as well as estate taxes.
- The CA Education Tax Relief Act will require that the cost for a student enrolled in a government educational institution be paid only by the person(s) financially responsible for the student.
- The CA Parental Rights Act of 2018 establishes that parents, or legal guardians, have the inviolable right of sole authority over the education of their children and that right shall not be usurped by any State sanctioned governmental entity.
The CA Freedom from Slavery Act will protect senior citizens who may have unexpected excessive medical or other unforeseen expenses from being kicked out of their homes due to failure to pay property taxes because they will be exempt from property taxes. The CA Educational Tax Relief Act will benefit parents who choose private or home schooling by exempting them (and other CA residents) from having to pay for government schools their children are not enrolled in. The CA Parental Rights Act of 2018 will empower parents to establish higher educational standards for their children as well as eliminate forced indoctrination of their children in everything politically correct that violates their own ethics, moral values and common sense.
The CTES is now gathering signatures to qualify the initiatives for the General Election ballot. Here's what you need to do now.
- Click on the initiative links on the navigation bar above or on the initiative buttons in the side bar to learn more about each initiative.
- If you find the initiatives appealing in the sense that they will, in fact, break a few of the chains binding us, then please click on the "Donate" button in the side bar to fund gathering of the required number of signatures on petitions requesting placement of the initiatives on the General Election ballot. If you are on a slim budget please consider making manageable recurring donations by selecting "Recurring Donation" on the donation form. Don't think your donation will be too small to have any affect. Every donation counts because they will add up considering the large number of CA residents who will find the benefits of the initiatives will more than outweigh the amount of their donation. Working together, we can defeat the Governor and the Legislature.
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- Please immediately notify your friends, associates, neighbors or others of these initiatives and encourage them to reach out to their friends. This is especially true if you are a CA resident age 55+ or have children in private or home schools. Also, you can reach out to people located outside of CA. They can donate to the campaign and may be inclined to do so because what starts in CA often spreads across the land. Therefore, although the initiatives currently promoted by the CTES will benefit only CA residents, breaking of the chains in CA could lead to breaking of the same chains in other states. Feel free to send a link to this CTES website.
- If you wish to collect petition signatures, instructions are provided with each initiative. However, your donation will be the primary factor for successful qualification of the initiatives.
- The CTES website will be a living site. Besides qualification updates, current issues affecting Californian's that will be rectified by implementation of the initiatives will be added as they arise. You are welcome to click the "Issues" links on this page or the main page of each initiative. You will be taken to an Issues page that will have a list of issues with clickable links to each issue listed.
The CTES thanks you for your interest to this point and looks forward to working alongside of you to achieve victory over the Governor and Legislature who, without evidence of a shred of conscience, have imposed upon us unwillingly the chains of enslavement. We do not have to, and are not meant to live under the death paradigm of "Slavery, War and Poverty for All but the Special Interests." We were meant to live under the life paradigm of "Freedom, Peace and Prosperity for All."
If I were politician, which I'm not, I would lead us out of the death paradigm into our intended life paradigm. I'm tired of being a Slave, tired of unending War and tired of the Poverty deliberately imposed unwillingly upon us by the Special Interests for their benefit alone. In fact, I intend to provide that leadership for Californians by opposing Dianne "Not So" Feinstein in 2018 (LeeOlsonforSenate.com).