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DETROIT -- The Detroit 3 are racing to install fuel-saving diesel engines in their U.S. light trucks. Nissan and Toyota may be in the race, too.
Diesels are common in domestic brands' heavy-duty pickups. But fuel economy concerns and competitive pressures are prompting automakers to put them in light-duty trucks as well.
In 2009, Ford Motor Co. likely will be first to market when it puts a diesel in the F-150 pickup. Last month General Motors became the last of the Detroit 3 to commit to using a diesel in its U.S. light trucks.
News reports indicate that Nissan plans a diesel for its Titan pickup. Toyota officials have said they are exploring a diesel for the Tundra pickup.
Diesel engines, which boost fuel economy by 25 to 30 percent, can't get here soon enough for dealers who sell trucks. Diesels also attract customers because they can tow heavier loads and have higher resale value.
"That's what people have been waiting for," says Shaun Laird, new-truck sales manager at Hummer of Orlando in Altamonte Springs, Fla. "They'll want the diesel engine for both the added towing capability and the fuel economy."
Better mpg
For example, a Dodge Ram 1500 pickup with a diesel should improve its fuel economy from 15 mpg city/19 highway to 19.5 city and nearly 25 mpg highway. A diesel-powered Hummer H2 could get around 16 mpg or higher in highway driving. GM estimates the gasoline-powered version gets 13 to 14 mpg in a combination of city and highway driving.
GM plans to add a 4.5-liter turbocharged V-8 diesel engine to the H2 and light-duty versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups.
The new engine will be a Duramax, but it will not share any parts with the current 6.6-liter Duramax that GM developed with Isuzu. GM says the new turbodiesel will produce at least 310 hp and 520 pounds-feet of torque and will be made in its Tonawanda, N.Y., plant, which is getting a $100 million makeover.
The engine will fit in the same space as the current gasoline small-block V-8. And, GM says, it could be used in other vehicles.
Nissan, Toyota diesels?
Nissan also appears to be gearing up for a diesel in its Titan. Japan's Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper recently reported that Nissan will use a diesel engine made by Ford's longtime diesel supplier, International Truck and Engine Corp. International and Nissan officials would not confirm the report.
Nissan spokesman Fred Standish says the company is considering a diesel engine for the Titan.
"If we determine there is a good business case for it, just like any other vehicle, we'll do it," he said. "It's pretty simple."
International's relations with Ford have been strained by a lawsuit and wrangling over price, quality and warranty issues. International is eager to do business with another automaker.
Spokesman Roy Wiley says International has two diesel engines ready to supply and is talking with other automakers. But he would not confirm a deal with Nissan.
"We have a V-6 that we have developed and a V-8, too," Wiley says. "It depends on where they want to put it, but we could get that in a vehicle in less than two years."
Toyota officials have said they want to make a diesel optional in the new full-sized Tundra pickup. Toyota has not said when a diesel would be available or who would build it, but the company is collaborating with Isuzu on diesels. Toyota also could use a diesel from its truckmaking affiliate, Hino Motors Ltd.
Pedal to the metal at Ford
Ford plans to launch a light-duty diesel in the F-150 and possibly the Expedition SUV in 2009.
The 4.4-liter engine is a larger version of the 3.6-liter turbocharged V-8 used in European market Land Rover Range Rovers.
International's lawsuit against Ford says Ford plans to build the engine in Mexico, but Ford officials aren't talking.
Ford officials also won't say who might buy a light-duty diesel truck or whether putting the diesel in an F-150 could cannibalize sales of the bigger, more expensive F-250. But they do make it clear they want to be first.
"Our 30 years of truck leadership is founded on having the most capable and innovative trucks out there," says Ford spokesman Wes Sherwood. "It's important to continue to be the leader by delivering on those principles."
Earlier this year, the Chrysler group confirmed that it will use at least one new engine from its diesel supplier, Cummins Inc., in the Dodge Ram 1500 pickup. The engine is a 4.2-liter V-6 that Cummins developed with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Early test versions cranked out 190 hp and an estimated 570 pounds-feet of torque. Cummins is developing a V-8 based on the same architecture.
Diesels = profit
All Detroit 3 automakers offer diesels in their heavy-duty trucks. The engines are popular and profitable.
About 40 percent of the 796,000 Ford F-series trucks sold in the United States last year were diesel-powered. Diesels are optional in Ford's F-250 and larger trucks.
Sales of GM's heavy-duty Silverado and Sierra diesels are capped at about 200,000 units annually because of production constraints at the Moraine, Ohio, plant. Dodge sold about 150,000 heavy-duty Ram pickups in 2006 with Cummins-built diesel engines.
A diesel costs a consumer an average of $6,660 more than a comparable gasoline engine. But after 4½ years of ownership, a diesel truck is worth $4,700 more than a gasoline-powered truck, according to a study by the Martec Group, a marketing and consulting firm.
Also after 4½ years, the diesel owner has spent about $4,200 less on fuel than the gasoline engine owner, Martec says. Last week the average price of a gallon of diesel fuel was $2.91, 7 cents less than for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline.
Diesel truck sales generate at least $1 billion in additional profits to the Detroit 3, Martec says.
Kevin McMahon, managing partner of the Martec Group's Detroit office, says automakers likely will charge between $4,000 and $6,000 for diesels in their light-duty trucks over the base engine. And they will make money, he predicts. Consumers, he said, will choose the diesel because it boosts resale value and offers greater fuel efficiency.
Says McMahon: "The (light-truck) customer today is losing ground on fuel efficiency because of the gasoline engine."


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I really need help here and hope you dont mind. I just recently threw my resume out there a few weeks ago and things are moving faster than I thought. As such, MA is now on the radar as potential new job location. No offer yet but in interviewing stage. Given the wife will understandably nag me more than usual with questions I am reaching out for some solid input - google is useful, but random when it comes to getting me key info I really need.
Right now the most promising places per new job search are MD and now MA. The current MA job would be in Cambridge.
With kids, oldest in high school, education is the top priority. I fully appreciate traffic considerations so i know its a fine line as to how far one could go from Cambridge and not go nutz. Fortunately I have lived in Los Angeles and our freeways are also not my favorite
(1) what city would provide the best school disctrict in your opinion? Acknowledging every school district probably has great schools...which are to candidates in your opinions that are driveable to work???
(2) what is MTBing like...what are the popular/good places to ride so i can see that would be like for me in terms of drive from potential home and/or work? I know it wont be the same year round type of riding I am used to but to be honest, i am so focking busy with reality out here i dont even get to take advantage of it anyway.
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Leah has more than 12 years' experience as a consulting engineering geologist both in New Zealand and overseas. She has worked on a diverse range of projects including large transportation and infrastructure; power and energy; residential, commercial, and industrial development; and dam and water engineering.
Leah has undertaken geological hazard assessments; geological and geomorphological mapping; rockfall assessments; scoping management and supervision of geotechnical, environmental, and hydrogeological ground investigations; slope stabilisation, landfill engineering, and design of cut and fill slopes; construction supervision; and provision of geotechnical design parameters for new structures.
Leah enjoys the great kiwi outdoors and likes to travel. She often takes her love of geology to her home life where her husband inevitably finds himself on holiday, tramping amongst interesting geological features, looking at rockfall or slope stabilisation measures, or taking large detours past dam sites.
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This Friday night I am doing homework. It is something of a reverse of the old image of a student muddling through a creative writing assignment, stretched out on the bed beneath the high school pennants on the walls and sneaking comic books out from under a volume of You & the Participial Phrase or whatever it is you are plagiarizing. In this case, the comic books are Realm of Chaos and Eye of Terror from the Warhammer 40,000 series, a popular role-playing game that my son explains to me is not really an RPG, a distinction I can't make out. These are the textbooks I should be working from, but I keep eyeing Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Craft of Fiction. I have been promising Jason for months that I will learn the game and play it with him on-line, each of us in our respective bedrooms, maybe three feet from each other on opposite sides of the same wall. I have been putting him off because, among other reasons, it is complicated. I have been driven to it tonight because I have come to suspect that his fascination with the game may be rife with clues as to the world he inhabits mentally for most of the day and quite possibly a good deal of his dream time. Any entrée into my son's world must be pursued. I feel like Dr. Robert Lindner in The Fifty-Minute Hour, in the chapter he calls "The Jet-Propelled Couch," in which he enters a patient's delusional world in a risky attempt to expose its flaws.
On the game table I have a cheap Tijuana trinket, a reproduction of a Mayan pyramid, the one at Chichén Itzá, which in this case represents the Golden Throne.
For zealous aficionados, my apologies; I am sure to have much of my scenario inaccurate.
In the chthonic years of the 40,000-year war, the Emperor's son, the Warmaster, Horus, has imprisoned the Grand Lord of the Imperium. Horus is a monster of Chaos. For Chaos read "Evil." For the Imperium, I am reading the kingdoms of both Heaven and Earth. I am still very new to the overwhelming volumes of material my son has on the history, sociology, strategies, uprisings, and counter-uprisings, vast, space-faring wars et cetera, but I can find no single name for the bound Emperor. For my purposes, I am thinking of Horus's father as me, for one, and God for another. Horus is like a fallen Lucifer, his father's favorite. Both have been out of the picture for some 10,000 years before any action or play begins between participants.
My son is Abbadon, a mercenary for Chaos, selected for his "buff physique" and "cool Chaos armor." Abbadon is often transported into battle surrounded with Terminators -- not exactly Arnold types. Abbadon wields a great sword and a lightning claw.
My incarnation for the coming battle is Rogal Dorn (selected for his access to the Emperor in the mists of time and his bitchin' name, which I may adopt on a more permanent basis). Purists may say I cannot do this because Dorn would be an anachronism or something, but I have it all worked out with icy, geometric, crystalline logic.
As Dorn I have enlisted the aid of Sound Marines, the Eldar (an Elvin race with certain emotional qualities key to my plan), and Psykers. The Psykers have psionic abilities, also key to my plan.
The Emperor is in a morally ambiguous limbo in the Golden Throne and has been bound that way for millennia. To ward off complete obliteration from the forces of Chaos, he must sacrifice thousands of Psykers every year. Why he has to do this and why Psykers is unclear to me as yet and may bring ruin upon my plan. This much is clear, the Emperor may be a god, but not a very good one; his son is not divine but a porcine and brutish monster, a creature of Chaos whose legacy has terrorized the Imperium for time immemorial.
As Dorn I have utilized the Trojan horse ruse, and this will test my son's memory of this ploy (I related it to him myself years ago). A Leviathan, robot-like device known as a Carnifex (a tank or personnel carrier), has been secured by my men, and several of my Psykers have been rounded up in a phony sweep to be taken to the Throne for execution. Under cover of a troupe of actors (Harlequins, who reenact the awakening of an obscure, ancient god, Slaanesh), they are brought within the mystic walls of the Golden Throne, where His Imperial Vagueness and I await them. Upon their arrival after the staged skirmish tomorrow morning, they will disembark from the Carnifex and immediately employ a spell to allow the Eldar (Jason has a certain affection for these Elves that I can use here) and Harlequin players to enrapture the army of guards who keep watch over the Emperor, kept in a half life/half death state by magical means. This rapture will, I hope, set the stage for something like a conversation between Hamlet and his father -- or Oedipus and his dad.
If this all seems like frustratingly complex nonsense, you have no idea. I have to be convincing every step of the way in order to orchestrate the possibility of a seemingly primal confrontation between father and son.
If the Harlequin can argue for the literal resurrection of whoever Slaanesh is, I will argue (as the Eldar Elves) for the possibility of bringing the Emperor and the long-defunct Horus into a mystical circle or chamber (whatever the hell it is), where they may speak openly of their atrophied emotions.
You see, I am betting on the appeal of the freakish but powerful Horus to the players of this best-selling game as having the same root appeal that aliens (such as, say Michael Valentine Smith from Stranger In a Strange Land or E.T. ) in the field of sci-fi have in general. Readers/viewers identify with everything from bug-eyed-monsters (Alien, Predator -- just power-fantasy versions of bad-ass little brats akin to Chucky) to more sympathetic humanoid-type aliens because they themselves -- as teenagers mostly, emotionally anyway -- feel alienated all the time.
That my cackling preparations this Friday night are a ridiculous, clownish waste of time and intelligence is likely a surety. The odds of anything along these lines opening a meaningful dialogue, prying out something, anything revealing, seem unpromising doesn't it? Jason's psychiatrist would far prefer I drag him kicking and screaming to Weight Watchers, where he will be surrounded with nurturing and supportive professionals unlike myself. (Sorry, Doc, if I seem to be choosing my battles in the most absurd possible way.) But for this Friday night I, at least, sense a shot here.
What other bizarre lengths might I be willing to go to? I am open to suggestions. And I'm still maneuvering Jason out the door to Weight Watchers with yet another Machiavellian scheme to do so. I have the appointment. I am also taking him to Controversial Bookstore to purchase a crystal in which to channel malevolent spirit energy from his cortex.
On another page of my diary I have been working on the phrasing of a question for professionals. Something like: What is the rate of success with this disorder when treated conventionally, and what is the success rate when it is treated not at all or with, say, the entrails of crows?
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- More stories by John Brizzolara
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- Letters — April 22, 2009
- I am, in fact, very much related to Conan the Barbarian and, by extension, the governor of California — Aug. 13, 2008
- "Well, I show up at all your stupid interventions." — Nov. 21, 2007
- "Our roles are reversed. Now I'm taking care of you." — Nov. 8, 2007


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Guest blog by Moheb Costandi.
Rapid technological advances are improving not only our understanding of how the brain works, but also our ability to manipulate it and make inferences about peoples' behavior.
Such advances should ultimately be of huge benefit to society. They also raise various concerns, regarding privacy and identity in particular; and in a month's time, some of the world's leading bioethicists will convene in San Diego for the Annual Meeting of the International Neuroethics Society (INS) to discuss these issues.


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Perfect for all you redwork lovers out there! This boxy Redwork Pin Cushions is excellent to make this for yourself or for a friend who love tea and biscuits (isn't that everybody)? In fact making gifts if my favourite excuse to stitch!
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There's some good ideas here for using to set class standards at the start of the year including using smiley faces (all students love these regardless of age) to determine good/bad behaviours in class.
I can't recommend or place emphasis enough on setting agreed standards at the start of classes to ensure everyone knows where they stand with boundaries firmly in place. Just click on the link below to view the ideas from Jo Budden.
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By: Amouage Released: 2002
Dia by Amouage is a floral fragrance for women.
It contains includes fig, cyclamen, bergamot, tarragon, sage, violet leaves, peach blossom, rose oil, orange flower, peony, orris, white musk, misterious incense, vanilla, heliotrope, cedarwood, sandalwood and Guaiac wood.
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Hydraulic Piston Extruders or Hydraulic Press Briquette Machine: for those who have small amounts of waste.
See Hydraulic Piston Briquette Machines
Equipment that uses a hydraulically driven piston.
The material to be compacted is fed laterally by a screw.
A front piece to the piston opens the briquette expelled when it reaches the desired pressure.
Ideal for smaller productions and recovery and cleaning companies that generate smaller amounts of residue.
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text: BabShad Jazzz performs standards from the Great American Songbook, Broadway melodies, some blues, some funk, lots of swing and Latin. Vocalist Barbara Hadenfeldt "imbues each song with passion and meaning and her own sense of how the world works. She sexes up the tunes, drapes them in drama, and pulls feelings from a deep inner space. Her singing is experienced and serene." [M. Pronko, Jazz in Japan ]. In addition to rock and jazz gigs on both coasts, Barbara has performed in Paris, Copenhagen, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Her repertoire includes international favorites in several languages. A "versatile vocalist with great intonation, control of difficult intervals, and compelling interpretation of her material" [J. Gannon, Mal Sharpe's Big Money in Jazz Band], Barbara uses her theater and rock 'n roll experience to enrich her jazz stylings. After jazz stints in California, New York, and at the famed Blue Note in Paris, Barbara (along with her drummer husband Charles) formed bands playing rock and blues in Montana and the Northwest. In the 1980s Barbara and Charles returned to the San Francisco Bay Area and to their favorite music, jazz. BabShad Jazzz toured in Asia in 2007 and returned to play in Tokyo in May 2009.Tokyo tours with bassist Alan Gleason and pianist Yuichi Kudoh took place in 2014 and 2015. As the BabShad Jazzz Quartet, Barbara and Charles perform with outstanding Bay Area musicians.


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Paul writes eloquently and actionably on how marketers and businesses of all stripes can earn amazing returns by investing in the channels of search, social and content. FIRM is the first digital agency to be financially backed by Salesforce Ventures, a credit to the agency's growth and expertise within the Salesforce community. Have focus – There must be a point of focus or a focal point in your marketing strategy. The answer lies first in creating a culture in which the firm moves from a practice area orientation to a problem-solving one.
For instance, they personally contact their potential clients so that their marketing and advertising costs during that period is zero. And I am going to do it through my new ebook, Stop Searching for Needles and Start Looking at the Haystack: Integrated Strategies for Marketing Your Law Firm.
Straight North, a premier Internet marketing firm, creates measurable marketing campaigns — tracking every click, every call, every lead — so you know that your advertising dollars are working hard to bring you more business. Our agency was founded on the principals of ensuring our clients were receiving a positive ROI for their marketing spend.
It can save you time and money by finding and qualifying the best marketing and communications vendors for the next project. Two things: One, the firm should be reputable; and two, with a good track record. Through media and marketing consultation, sports marketing firms know exactly what it takes to grab the public's attention.
Our work shows that our company knows how to optimize your social media channels to satisfy your marketing objectives. These are tried and tested Internet marketing strategy Tampa Marketing Lab's methods that have pulled in over a quarter million in sales for themselves, and Tampa Marketing Lab's team will be using the same one for your business.


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Mysteries: Coben's 'The Stranger' is spellbinding from first sentence
The Stranger, by Harlan Coben. Dutton, 400 pages.
Harlan Coben is a master of "the hook," the art of grabbing you on the first page. In this case he manages it in the first sentence: "The stranger didn't shatter Adam's world all at once."
See? How can you not read on? Impossible.
The stranger rocks Adam Price's world with the staggering news that his wife faked a pregnancy and miscarriage. Adam's wife then goes missing, and when he tries to find the bearer of bad tidings, he discovers a pattern of startling disclosures – all connected somehow with unsavory websites – and a related pattern of deaths.
Coben is a great storyteller who never disappoints.
Where They Found Her, by Kimberly McCreight. HarperCollins, 336 pages.
A small-town reporter struggles to keep her objectivity when covering her first big news story, about the discovery of the body of an infant girl in woods near a university campus. Because Molly Sanderson is just climbing out of a depression caused by a miscarriage, her husband and others keep urging her to hand the story off to another reporter, but she feels driven to prove she can handle it.
This is one seriously twisted college town. McCreight runs through a whole range of dysfunctional families and sexual predators, but manages to keep us guessing right to the end about exactly which of them took their dysfunction over the edge into murder.
The Bone Tree, by Greg Iles. William Morrow, 816 pages.
The Bone Tree picks up the action where Greg Iles' "Natchez Burning" left off, with Natchez Mayor Penn Cage chasing conspiracies across the Deep South with his newspaper-publisher girlfriend and an FBI agent.
There's a prologue to catch you up on the plot, and then we are in the midst again as remnants of the deadly Double Eagle group try to finish off Cage and the others before they can deliver evidence of involvement in pretty much every assassination of any magnitude in the past century.
Meanwhile, Penn's elderly father is on the run from law enforcement officials who are in the pockets of the conspirators. It's 816 pages of blood, pain, pursuit and narrow escapes against a backdrop of Mississippi and Louisiana scenery.
House of Echoes, by Brendan Duffy. Ballantine, 400 pages.
Who can resist a "family moves to a spooky house in the woods" opening?
This spooky house in upstate New York has 65 decaying rooms and a basement full of rotting debris. The family is also a little shaky and escaping the New York City rat race to renovate an old manse into an inn may not have been the best way to deal with their issues.
Dad Ben has roots in the small village nearby, and in flashback diary entries we learn why his ancestors are among what's called the Winter Families. He also is interested in the statistically suspicious incidence of fires around the old estate, including a fatal fire in the 1980s that was deliberately set.
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Developing a MAPI Message Store Provider
This content is outdated and is no longer being maintained. It is provided as a courtesy for individuals who are still using these technologies. This page may contain URLs that were valid when originally published, but now link to sites or pages that no longer exist.
Like other MAPI service providers, message stores are dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) that present the services of an underlying storage mechanism to MAPI client applications and the MAPI spooler. The message store provider presents the underlying storage mechanism as a hierarchical set of folders and messages that MAPI clients and the MAPI spooler can use.
The following illustration shows the basic MAPI message store architecture.
Message store architecture
You can implement a message store provider by using any sort of underlying storage mechanism you like. However, you need to be aware of performance concerns. In addition, the underlying storage mechanism must be presented as a hierarchical collection of MAPI objects. These requirements mean that message stores are typically implemented by using an existing database product that supports hierarchical storage of objects in the database and that has a programming interface or well-defined file structure. For example, Microsoft Office Access, SQL, and Oracle databases can be used as the underlying storage mechanism. Some database products have feature sets that make it easier to implement MAPI features, so your choice of database product may be affected by the features that your message store provider needs to support.
Using an existing database as the underlying storage mechanism saves you work because it is usually easier to present database objects to MAPI clients as MAPI objects than to implement your own hierarchical storage mechanism. Doing this enables you to treat MAPI operations at a higher level than if you implement your own hierarchical storage mechanism. For example, searching for a message with a particular subject line becomes a fairly simple matter of constructing and submitting an appropriate database query, rather than implementing complex routines to search your hierarchical storage mechanism.
Message store providers communicate with MAPI clients and the MAPI spooler to perform operations on folders and objects. The message store provider translates those operations into lower level operations on the underlying storage mechanism. The MAPI spooler typically communicates with the message store provider while sending and receiving messages. MAPI clients typically communicate with message store providers to manipulate the folder hierarchy and to read, edit, delete, and send messages.
Both the MAPI spooler and MAPI clients communicate with the message store provider to create new messages. Client applications do this when users compose a message. The MAPI spooler does this when it receives an incoming message. In either case, the new message is usually created in the Inbox folder of the message store, if there is one.
Message store providers make heavy use of MAPI tables, folders, messages, and properties. The implementation details for those objects are documented in MAPI Tables, MAPI Folders, MAPI Messages, and MAPI Property Overview. You should familiarize yourself with that material before attempting to implement a message store provider.
There are two important types of message store providers: those that can act as a user's default message store and those that cannot. A default message store is one in which client applications and the MAPI spooler can perform any messaging task, such as receiving messages or creating folders. A default message store provider must support several more features than the minimum number required for all message store providers.


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This luxury Leather Watch/Cufflink Box will display your watch, cufflinks and rings. Keep your items safe from dust and damage.
Features: see-through lid, eight squares for storage in total (inner compartment can be removed to reveal four more storage squares).
Would make a perfect gift for the Best Man and Groomsmen.
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This gets harder every year! Many thanks to those who auditioned, and congratulations to the following people on being invited to Effusion A Cappella's Winter 2018 Callbacks:
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The house can can be naturally illuminated while maintaining privacy on a small, crowded plot of land.
The interior comprises a series of terraces, each shaped differently according to its intended purpose.
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"During the process of designing for a small plot of land, there are a lot of times in which the form of the building is steered by legal constraints.
If you are thinking of how you can have the most floor space, the outer shape of the building is automatically decided by how the permitted ratio of square footage to property size, so the architectural design comes out of the number of stories built just to increase the floor space.
Here, I'm thinking about the possibility of space that can be made by subtraction.
This building was made to slightly exceed its allotted coverage ratio, so each floor fluctuates in shape.
The sections that slide out function as lighting design elements, bringing in the outside environment.
I've changed the shape of each floor freely according to its intended purpose and features, turning them into spaces with a sense of distance and perspective, maintaining privacy even in crowded urban areas where housing units are close together, creating a bright, well-lit living space.
Before you know it, design that starts from the rules, from the legal restrictions, can become stronger restrictions than the rules.
By starting the design away from the legal constraints, by designing the way we start to plan, we can have buildings that possess a degree of freedom. Just by changing the bottom line a little, I want to pinpoint the things we've overlooked, the elements of richness, and design richness around that subtraction."
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On this show Jay sits down with Alan Avery owner of the Alan Avery Art Company in Atlanta, GA. Alan's gallery is the oldest surviving contemporary art gallery in the city, and his programming doesn't shy away from difficult issues around class, race and the American South. In this conversation they chat about Alan's history and what it takes to run a successful gallery.
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Wow time flies when you're having fun! :)
Since moving to Colorado we've made a bunch of really great friends , connected with old ones and expanded our pin business! We love it here! To celebrate I even designed this Colorado Dead Flag! Email me if interested.
I can't wait to fly it at Phish this labor day weekend at Dicks Sporting Good's!!
It's going to be legendary!!
We have some great Phish pins in the works for this summer! Speaking of pins!
Back in April we rocked an official Blindpack Trading Pins booth at the 1st Annual Denver High Times® Cannabis Cup™!
The Official High Times Cannabis Cup pin and The Blindpack Lil Growerz pins sold out in ONE DAY!
As we speak , the Blindpack crew is
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Blindpack pins has made the official High Times Cannabis Cup pin again and will have another set of Blindpack pins LIL'RAGERZ II and 4th harvest NUG pins to unveil!
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Miike has a new flick coming out in 2 weeks (December 23rd) and I don't think I've read anything about it anywhere yet. It's a sequel to his 2013 effort THE MOLE SONG (土竜の唄), which got some festival play but never hit English friendly DVD as far as I know. It must have been successful in Japan though, because why give it a decently budgeted (by the looks of it) sequel if it wasn't? Can't say I enjoyed the original all that much but I'll probably give this a chance eventually. Trailer doesn't make it look too terrible if you can deal with its manga-based silliness:
And the teaser:
The Mole Song 2 (Takashi Miike, 2016)
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DVD/BD comes out June 14th. Japanese subs only.
The film was surprisingly well reviewed in both Variety and the Japan Times and enjoyed some festival play at IFFR.
The film was surprisingly well reviewed in both Variety and the Japan Times and enjoyed some festival play at IFFR.
Re: The Mole Song 2 (Takashi Miike, 2016)
I'd say the sequel is an improvement over the original as this time around the relative darkness of the story (concerning a human trafficking ring) is a nice contrast to the wacky cat and squirrel yakuza clans and grade school level sexual humor. I also kind of like this stylized yakuza world where everybody dresses as garishly as Kakihara in ICHI THE KILLER. Maybe it's because this was the third Miike I watched in as many days but the bloat was most noticeable with this one. Had the running time been 90 minutes instead of 2+ hours I'd probably even consider watching this again sometime, if only for the scene in which the head of the squirrel yakuzas sexually molests the daughter of another yakuza clan with a sock puppet.
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Erfordter, Antoni (d. 1541)
Antoni Erfordter was the most outstanding of the Anabaptists in Carinthia. Nothing is known of his youth, nor how or when he was won to the Anabaptist movement. In 1538 he was in Klagenfurt, where he owned a house. There he wrote his Urlaubsbrief, viz., a severe sermon against the immorality and lack of faith of his contemporaries, especially the rich and those clergymen "who practice idolatry and lie on cushions." He aims his blows at the followers of the pope as well as those of Luther, and in plainness of language he surpasses even Luther. His censure is meant for a clergy that praises the Law of God with lofty words, but never in the least translates it into action; for rulers and subjects "who know the rascality of the clergy, and yet roar with them." They all continue to sin against God's mercy "and remain in their old shoes." King Ferdinand fares very badly, "who persecute Christ in His members. Today your mandates are proclaimed that one may no longer speak, write, nor sing the name of Jesus." Concerning governments he says, "If they are no good, how can the subjects be good?" The gentlemen on the council and court fare equally badly.
It is a type of eloquence that the common man understood. It is not different from the speeches of the Estates in the Carinthian diets. Klagenfurt had an unusually bad reputation: "A pigeon could carry all the Christians away on its back," he wrote. Erfordter then attacked the superstitions of the time, citing some striking examples which offer a good picture of moral conditions. In such company he did not care to live. He adhered to the Anabaptists Donner and Brandl. Thrown into prison for this he was "so violently threatened by his ruffian jailors to wall him up alive, that he was compelled to call the confession of faith of the two men of God a sect and a seduction." This declaration now grieved him, and so "he wanted to retract it now, and loudly confess that the teaching of these men is the real truth." To his fellow citizens he said, "Do not be surprised that there are here in Klagenfurt, Villach, St. Veit, and Völkermarkt, indeed perhaps in all Carinthia scarcely one or two pious Christians to be found; and there you have the reason for my departure from you."
Erfordter went to Moravia and was there ordained as a preacher (Diener des Wortes). When the Anabaptist meeting at Steinabrunn, Lower Austria, December 1539, was surprised and 136 members taken prisoner to the castle at Falkenstein, he wrote them (in 1540) an epistle and a moving poem of consolation. "Would to God," he wrote, "that I could serve you and die for you."
Erfordter was one of the best poets among the Brethren. He is the author of several fine songs, which praise the deeds of the Hutterite martyrs and describe the sorrows of the prisoners. The song "Ach Gott, wem soll ichs klagen?" pictures their suffering under constant persecution. His most famous song is "Ich armes Brüderlein klag mich sehr," which describes his own distress. It was written at the time when he bade farewell to his wife and his people in Klagenfurt. Two other songs should also be mentioned. "Susanne war in Aengsten gross," and "Wol auf, wol auf, von hinnen, im Kampf, ihr Brüder wert."
Erfordter died in 1541 on the Bruderhof either of Pausram or of Schackwitz (near Austerlitz), where the largest Hutterite settlements were located. His songs are published in Die Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder (Scottdale, 1914) 107-15, and Wolkan, Lieder, 173-78 and 248.
The Urlaubsbrief is printed in extenso in J. v. Beck, "Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Wiedertäufer in Kärnten," Archiv des Historisches Vereins f. Kärnten XI (1867) and in excerpts in L. Müller, Glaubenszeugnisse der oberdeutschen Taufgesinnten (1938) 258-62. An English translation of large parts of this letter is found in Loserth's article in Mennonite Quarterly Review.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 605 f.
Loserth, Johann. "The Anabaptists in Carinthia in the 16th Century." Mennonite Quarterly Review XXI (1947): 235-47.
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pp. 242-243. All rights reserved.
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The picture pretty much sums me up for today--trying to decide between a nap and having another mug of caffeine. It has been an exhausting week, but in the absolute best way. My head still spinning with all of the wonderful things that have happened.
I'm going to try and sum the week up here for both you and me:
We'll start with me learning that SNOWBOUND WITH THE SOLDIER was named a finalist in the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence - Contemporary Series
I pressed 'send' on my revisions for my next Christmas story, due out in October. But alas it has no name yet. I'll let you know as soon as it does.
And then Monday the SAFE IN THE TYCOON'S ARMS blog tour kicked off and the people have been so amazingly supportive. Thank you everybody who took time to check out some of my stops and chat with me. And if you haven't had a chance yet, don't worry. The blog tour continues until March 21st. And there are some cool prizes. :-) You can check it all out on my Calendar page.
I had a couple of interesting posts up too:
I started at Book Mama Blog where I talked about "Finding That Special Someone".
At Fresh Fiction, I'm talking about "Spreading My Wings".
Over at Just Contemporary Romance I'm revealing some of the "Behind The Scenes" research I did while writing SAFE IN THE TYCOON'S ARMS.
And I stopped by Tawny Weber's blog to do a fun Quick Six.
And there were also people generous enough to read and review SAFE IN THE TYCOON'S ARMS. Here are just some snippets of the reviews from this week:
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"Safe in the Tycoon's Arms is the third book I've read by Jennifer Faye, and once again she delivers a heartfelt, touching, and enjoyable romance that contemporary romance fans will love." Always YA at Heart
"...the author crafted a beautiful read about two people who through each other find the kind of happiness one can only dream of." Contemporary Romance Reviews
"Safe in the Tycoon's Arms. What a title, huh? I kind of love it, it reminds me of some of my favorite reads when I was younger. Books I borrowed from my aunts. This was a good story, a bit like a made-for-television movie, in fact." The Bookish Babe
"So. I'd kinda like to meet a Tycoon now. *nods* Safe in the Tycoon's Arms was a sweet read. I don't usually pick up category romances but something about this one pulled me in and I'm glad it did because I had such a good time with Kate and Lucas as they...have a bit of a run in." Herding Cats & Burning Soup
"Oh wow, this is definitely a book that you need Kleenex for. It was a touching, heartwarming read." SSLY (Smile Somebody Loves You)
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Judges find in favor of ODNR in MWCD appeals case
September 9, 2008
Judges of the 5th District Court of Appeals have reversed a decision of the lower court that holds jurisdiction over the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) and permitted assessments on property owned by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).
The appeals court ruled that the Ohio Revised Code does not unambiguously waive the state's sovereign immunity from conservancy assessments, so that properties owned by the ODNR - a department of state government - are not subject to assessments levied by a conservancy district, said James J. Pringle, legal counsel to the MWCD.
"The MWCD appreciates the careful and thoughtful consideration that the judges of the appeals court took in reaching this decision," Pringle said. "The court's decision will be reviewed with the MWCD Board of Directors for a decision as to any further action by the district."
The ODNR is one of eight property owners that filed appeals to their projected assessments to be levied by the MWCD, according to Pringle. Nearly 500,000 parcels of property in the watershed - an 18-county region that drains to the Muskingum River, the state's largest wholly-contained watershed - are subject to the assessment, which could begin as early as next year. The MWCD projects that around $10 million annually will be generated by the assessment, with nearly 95 percent of the property owners paying the minimum assessment of $12 per year.
The MWCD estimates that ODNR would have paid a total of about $39,000 per year in assessments for the land it owns in various counties in the watershed, Pringle said.
"The legal issues applicable to the ODNR appeal do not apply to the other pending appeals," Pringle said.
In August, judges of the appeals court dismissed a case filed by a Stark County attorney on behalf of his mother that claimed the Conservancy Court - the common pleas court that holds jurisdiction over the MWCD - violated the state's open meetings law. The decision filed by the appeals court denied attorney William Walker's claim and held that the Conservancy Court had the right to confer in private as part of the deliberation process. The Conservancy Court consists of one common pleas court judge from each of the 18 counties of jurisdiction in the MWCD region.
Oral arguments in five other consolidated cases also were held in August before the appeals court and decisions are pending in those cases.
The five appeals cases are for attorney and property owner David L. Blackwell and property owners Joseph R. Carlisle Jr., the Dean F. Levengood Revocable Trust, Scott Levengood and Anthony B. Zadra. Blackwell, the Levengoods and Zadra own property in Tuscarawas County and Carlisle is a property owner in Carroll County.
The property owners have appealed decisions of the Conservancy Court to permit the MWCD to levy assessments against their properties as part of the MWCD's plan to maintain reservoirs and participate with the federal government as the mandated local financial sponsor on maintenance and rehabilitation projects for the dams in the Muskingum River Watershed.
Arguments in the eighth case, filed by the Tripodi Family Trust for property located in Tuscarawas County, were held earlier this summer and a decision also is pending in that case.
Assessments are provided for in Ohio's conservancy district laws and the MWCD has not levied an assessment in its 75-year history. The MWCD, a political subdivision of the state of Ohio, was organized in 1933 to develop and implement a plan to reduce flooding and conserve water for public uses in the Muskingum River Watershed. The MWCD is a partner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the operation of the system of dams and reservoirs in the watershed, as the USACE operates the dams and the MWCD manages much of the reservoir areas behind the dams.
The USACE has said that it could spend up to $621 million on maintenance and rehabilitation at four dams - Beach City, Bolivar, Dover and Mohawk - and Zoar levee to address safety concerns over the next several years beginning in 2009. The MWCD will serve as the mandated non-federal local sponsor for the projects, with its share of the total cost ranging from an estimated $93.2 million to $123.1 million. The MWCD has proposed to pay for its share through the assessment of property owners in the watershed according to Ohio law.
Since their original construction, the dams and reservoirs have prevented more than $7 billion worth of potential property damage from flooding, according to the USACE.
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I need a new pair of jeans. My pseudo-beergut and burgeoning ass are threatening to evict me from every pair of pants I own.
I went to the mall Monday willing to spend some money to find a nice basic pair of jeans that fit well and after trying on 15 pairs, I ended up with nothing.
I must be shopping in the wrong places because everything I saw was either flared, low-rider, distressed, cigarette-legged, ultra-low-rider or bedazzled.
Most pairs I tried on kind of fit until I'd bend over, and despite wearing a belt, I found myself showing a whole other version of cleavage.
So yesterday I stopped by a thrift shop and picked out four pairs that looked like they might work. I got them home and only one pair is really fitting. I think two others should be good once I lose ten pounds.
Why is this so hard? I'm not freakishly built. I have a short waist, but that used to just mean I should stay away from Liz Claiborne and Jordache, who both seem to think that a woman should fasten her pants directly under her breasts.
I just don't get why designers seem to think that women's legs look best as denim sausage casings. If I go a size up, I just get this champagne glass thing where the waist of the pants is flared out around me, but my legs are still bound tightly. Oh also, a size up shouldn't assume that I'm also four inches taller.
Where does one go for a good selection of basic relaxed fit Levi's these days?
I'm starting to think I should approach this from the other direction and just lose some weight. I have a completely serviceable wardrobe just waiting for me to drink less beer and eat healthier. Ten pounds should do it. Maybe that's the real message here.


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This morning I went out start my car. As I headed back into my apartment building the sky was swirling with a large flock of pigeons and starlings. As they wheeled around the group focused in on a large adult female Cooper's hawk, the flock of birds spun around her and I watched as she darted over the building towards my bird feeder. She did a sneak drop down and landed in a nearby tree. The pigeons and starlings continued to circle the tree. A lone crow flew in and landed about three feet away from the hawk when it dawned on me that no one was making any noise. I had never seen silent mobbing before it was kind of pretty in a ballet kind of way to watch.
The whole scene made me think of other things I had never noticed, like I have never seen a flock of coots in flight. Oh sure, I've seen them half fly/half run across water, but I've never seen a huge migrating flock in mid air. I know they have to do this because one day the lake is empty and the next it can be filled with rafts of coots, but I've never seen the flock arrive or leave. They must be night migrants, but I've never seen it. Something to watch for, not the loftiest birding goal out there, but something I would like to see.


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For activists, practitioners, caregivers, and spirit heart centered warriors: supports being calm, clear, grounded, confident. Supports having healthy boundaries, claiming space, standing for the earth, and each other, standing in the heart, for our times, and for love. Clears obstacles. Supports staying, balance, centered, open, aware, strong, action-oriented. Space clearing/cleansing as a spritzer. Use at actions, in meetings, groups, fundraising, in clinics and treatment rooms, anywhere people gather to work for health.
Supports exuberant, clear expression of one's true voice, concrete sustained decisive action in alignment with one's own creative expression and greater forces of truth, inspired artistry, connection to others, confident and centered in the face of transformation and the unknown.
Essence of Aspen, Blackberry, Cayenne, Grape Hyacinth, Iris, Mountain Pride, Jadeite Jade.
Spirit Warrior formula features
Transforming anger into constructive and positive action.
Serving others from inner strength from inner purpose, healthy recognition of one's own needs, saying no when appropriate.
Supports differentiation, selfless love given freely, mindful of the needs of others, bountiful expression of care for all of life, wellspring of love, giving, devoted and receptive, counteracts feelings of victimhood.
Leadership, joyful service, enthusiasm, counteracts martyrdom, alignment between feeling life and ideals, inspiring others by example through social service.
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Inner fortitude, perseverance, courage, resilience, experiencing a sense of choice for one's own life path even if it includes challenges and accepting one's calling.
Globe Thistle
Taking planetary action and responsibility, global consciousness, maintaining mental willpower in groups, psychic protection.
Pretty Thistle
Protection from attack and aggression.
Spear Thistle
Defense against judgement, and protection from toxic situations.
Pink Yarrow
Appropriate emotional boundaries, counteracts co-dependence, calms the soul, supports people are sensitive and empathic to use these abilities well, loving awareness of others within a field of self-contained consciousness, protection, grounded, compassionate presence versus sympathetic merging.
Wound healer, knits things back together, inclusivity, re-balances, stabilizes, grounds, protection.
Energizes, supports the resolution of burnout or over-giving.
Energizes, supports the resolution of burnout or over-giving. Strengthens emotional boundaries, emotional inter-dependence rather than co-dependence rather than co-dependence, even while witnessing intense emotions in others, contains one's own emotions in a responsible way.
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Grounding, peace, wellness.
Mountain Spring Water infused with Frequency Specific Microcurrents
Supports healing and tone of the vagus nerve, vitality, balances emotions in each organ system and energy center, restores joy and ease.
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Decisive action, exuberant manifestation in the world, supports manifesting and executing one's goals, brings energy down from the head to the rest of one's body, translates ideas and intention into concrete action, mobility.
Fiery and energetic, supports change and transformation, breakthrough, decisive action, motivation, overcome blocks to progress, ignites oneself with their own fiery essence.
Grape Hyacinth
Clear expression of one's voice, communication, speak one's truth from the heart, connect with others through creative energy and expression.
Inspired artistry, deep soulfulness, luminosity, restore and revitalize the soul, bring passion and creativity to life's work, create and cultivate beauty within oneself and the world, support for the healing process, alive and vibrant.
Mountain Pride
Forthright energy, spiritual warrior, positive peaceful action, soul compelled to take a stand for the world aligning one's own personal identity with forces of goodness and truth.
Jadeite Jade
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We started our evening off with a nice meal of ham, beans and sweet potatoes. This is a far cry from our usual, and traditional, meal but with Harris' allergies we decided to go simple. And you know what? It was nice. It was relaxed, easy and not a ton of clean-up.
Nothing required a lot of prep or work and so I did make the effort to putting together a fun dessert. I think the tree cake came out darling! (the idea and instructions on how to make the trees came from here, but I made a gluten/dairy free coconut cake).
This years ornaments were a pointe shoe for Grace and a sword for Harris (to signify his spell of making swords in the basement and binge reading Percy Jackson over and over again).
Turns out that the tree was still very prickly and our evening was punctuated by cries of pain all evening but we finally got the ornaments on! Having two children who are of an age where they can help sure does make a difference as it used to take forever to put the ornaments on and now it goes by pretty fast. Grace really enjoys seeing all the ornaments and reminiscing about what they stand for. I love that.


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Last week, news was dominated by 'that speech' it was to become a defining moment in his leadership, and signalled to the country – even his harshest critics that Ed Miliband is ready to lead a government.
One commentator said the speech had its "real strength in its authenticity and the raw, at times poignant, emotion." While others suggested that his last speech showed he could lead with conviction. You can read a full analysis from both left and right commentators on the Guardian's Comment is Free site here. The performance, the delivery, the content were all rich- this was a leader telling us he was ready.
Meanwhile, it was an embarrassing week for the Government after the controversial West Coast train line deal, which had already received much unwanted media attention, fell through.
The shambolic deal had, what Virgin boss Richard Branson, called "significant flaws" from the start which, the then transport minister, Justine Greening should have recognised.
Three civil servants in questions have been suspended and a full investigation which could cost the tax payer (an estimated) £40mn will begin.
A thorough investigation will begin after the department failed to analyse the plans in great detail of FirstGroup who was awarded the franchise.
As Branson said these were completely unacceptable mistakes. A guardian poll of its readers showed Greening should go over the fiasco – 89% said in a poll that she should resign. You can read more here.
David Cameron is due to set out his agenda this week at the Conservative Party Conference. But by Sunday Cameron's 'scatter gun approach' to Europe was already being attacked.
During an interview with Andrew Marr on Sunday Cameron said he was prepared to veto the next EU budget.
But the Guardian's political editor Patrick Wintour was quick to point out in his blog that "David Cameron's scattergun approach on EU risks UK national interest."
His promise to adopt a 'tough approach' to Europe completely undermines British interests.
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, told the Sunday Times "that Britain is interested in imposing restrictions on the free movement of people around the EU."
Again the problem with May's unwise words is that they fail to acknowledge the interests of the UK. Wintour rightly points out that over the coming months Cameron must 1. Preserve Britain's rebate in the budget negotiations and 2. Guarantee the integrity of the EU single market when the rules of the Eurozone are rewritten.
Wintour says: "Every word uttered by every minister over the coming months should be directed at achieving those two goals. By tabling a series of other demands the government will complicate the picture and strengthen the hand of opponents (France) that would dearly love to end Britain's budget rebate and ensure that the single market is run by the 17 members of the Eurozone rather than by all 27 members of the EU.
"The prime minister also needs to be careful about pledging things he cannot deliver."
Wintour goes on to give several examples of the consequences of reconfiguring the UKs relationship with Europe, such as:
• Theresa May's idea of limiting the free movement of people through the EU can only be achieved in full by rewriting the 1957 Treaty of Rome, the founding treaty. This had at its heart the four pillars of what is now the EU – the free movement of labour, capital, goods and services.
In the highly unlikely event that Britain succeeded in curbing the free movement of people, France would probably demand an end to the free movement of services – a vital UK interest. So May's idea will probably mean Britain will press for more modest measures such as imposing restrictions on the movement of citizens from new member states. So tiny Croatia will suffer, as will Turkey if it ever joins. How will this fit with another British aim – full Turkish membership of the EU?
This is something I have been addressing for many months. Cameron's treading a dangerous path, perhaps he doesn't understand the consequences of such reckless actions, and if this is correct then it's even more worrying. You can read the blog in full here.


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Braised Rabbit
with Whole Grain Mustard Sauce
2 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp olive oil
1-3 lbs rabbit, cleaned and quartered
2 cups julienned yellow onions
1 tsp chopped garlic
1 ½ cup Chateau Ste. Michelle Syrah
2 cups chopped tomatoes
3 cups chicken stock
2 Tbsp whole grain mustard
¼ cup sour cream or crème fraiche
2 Tbsp chopped parsley
Kosher salt & pepper, to taste
Preheat oven to 400ºF.
Note: If the liver has been included with the rabbit, put it and any rabbit scraps in the chicken stock and simmer for 30 minutes and strain.
In a large ovenproof pan melt the butter with the oil, over medium-high heat. Add rabbit and brown well, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer rabbit to a platter; set aside. Add onions to the pan; sauté for 2 minutes, then add garlic and cook for one more minute. Add Chateau Ste. Michelle Syrah to deglaze the pan; simmer to reduce the liquid by half. Add tomatoes, rabbit, and stock. Bring to a boil, cover with a tight-fitting lid, and place pan in the preheated oven
Cook until rabbit is tender, about 1 ½ hours. Transfer rabbit to a serving platter. Whisk in mustard, creme fraiche and parsley; season to taste with salt & pepper. Pour sauce over the rabbit & serve.
Note: Mushrooms make a nice addition to this dish.


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It features a 6,000 square foot medieval village, complete with tavern. It's filled with intricate puzzles and monsters. Those who survive are rewarded for their efforts with treasure. It sold out last year at GenCon, and is scheduled to sell out again. And Wil Wheaton once played a bard who got killed by a giant spider. It could only be True Dungeon.
Nocturnum is a product published by Fantasy Flight Games for use with the d20 Call of Cthulhu rules system. Weighing in at 270 pages of content, not counting credits, ads and handouts, Nocturnum truly is an epic campaign. Fans of Call of Cthulhu, both d20 and Chaosium, will not be disappointed by this masterwork.
Atlas Games is probably best known to gamers as the first to have a non-WOTC d20 product available for sale (John Tynes' Three Days To Kill). But there's much more to their story, from their humble beginnings in 1990 to their recent success with Ars Magica. We talked with John Nephew, the man behind the myth, about the past, the present, the future and a little bit more.
Metal Gear Solid. Rambo. Rambo II. That other movie with the guy who fought in that one place that one time. At least one of these should flash through your mind when you think of the popular culture conception of a "mercenary." If you've ever wanted to run a mercenary campaign, The Modern: Mercenary Manual from Ronin Arts contains a plethora of rules that will have you parachuting behind enemy lines, negotiating mercenary contracts with morally bankrupt dictatorships, and, most importantly, shooting stuff. A lot. With guns.
This may come as a shock for those of you who know me or those of you who are familiar with my work, but I like horror. Horror in all its forms, with the exception of lame ass slasher flicks, is something I just really dig. When it comes to my tastes in gaming there's no difference: I just love to freak the shit out of my players.
I feel I must say it takes quite a bit to shock me, but now that I have read the entirety of The Book Of Erotic Fantasy published by Valor Project, Inc. I am shocked. What I am shocked about is not the presence of exposed breasts, the usage of the word "fuck" or the presence of devices known as cock rings (these are all things I am already pretty familiar with) but the fact that the sexual content is handled in a mature manner suitable for game use.
Imagine the adrenaline of bolting out of the bank, a gun in one hand and a bag of cash in the other only to find the police are pulling up just then. Overhead you hear a helicopter and look up to see one from the local news watching you intently, and then you are thankful you're still wearing your mask. As one of the officers steps out of the cruiser, you open up on him. You see the one cop drop in a shower of glass from the car window. His partner fires wildly but you're already on your way. Bullets rip through the air around you as you round the corner and are gone down the alleyway. You dive into the waiting car out of sight of the chopper and your buddy guns the engine. You toss your mask and the cash into the back and grab the locked and loaded M-16 on the back seat, just in case they catch up with you. Thankfully for them, they don't.
Miniatures have long been a nice enhancement option for D&D campaigns. You head down to the local hobby shop, pick out the figures that catch your eye or that you need to fill up the monster slots for your weekly campaign and voila, you have instantly clarified combat, movement, and scale. Miniatures generally are made from pewter and part of the fun is to paint your miniature however you wish. So, you want a green fire elemental or a fuchsia troll? Anything you wanted to experiment with was fine. And you can always throw your miniatures into a bucket of Pine Sol overnight and in the morning ninety percent of the paint would be stripped off giving you the opportunity to repaint particularly poorly finished or hideously ugly figs.
I admit that I'm one of those guys who don't dig the D20 rules for the 3rd Edition of D&D. See, I was weaned on D&D during the last days of 1st Edition. I'm used to everyone going up a level with varying amounts of experience points. I'm used to -7 AC being a good thing. I'm used to arguing over how you pronounce THAC0. I'm used to D&D having it's own, unique set of rules. I'm used to playing the game my way.
When I first began playing Dungeons & Dragons at the tender age of eight, I was fascinated by the alignment chart in the blue Basic Set rulebook. I did not understand it. I asked my father to explain it to me, but not being a gamer, he was unable to shed much illumination on the subject. Now, a little over twenty-four years later, I find I still have not received an explanation of the D&D alignment system to entirely satisfy my curiosity.


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ICAR SEC Submission - Recent News and Opinion
Dear Chairman and Commissioners,
The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable ("ICAR") is a coalition of leading human rights groups including Amnesty International, EarthRights International, Global Witness, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch. ICAR, along with our partner the Enough Project, submit this update to your offices concerning recent news articles and blog posts made in support of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act, and of the SEC crafting strong rules to give full force to the law's intent. We reiterate our request that the final rule allow for no delays in implementation, including delays in reporting requirements. We also ask that the SEC issue the final rules as soon as possible.
Enclosed, please find:
- Global Witness Fact Sheet on Conflict Minerals;
- Article by Salil Tripathi, Director of Policy at the Institute for Human Rights and Business, published in the Guardian;
- Article by Sasha Lezhnev, Policy Consultant at the Enough Project, published by the Huffington Post;
- Article by Jason Stearns, an academic who has spent 10 years working on DRC issues and was named by the UN to lead a special investigation into the violence in the country;
- Four Letters to the Editor, published in the New York Times;
- Post by Brilliant Earth Jewelers, published on Greenwala.
Yours sincerely,
Amol Mehra
International Corporate Accountability Roundtable


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920 Intracoastal Dr 603
$1,825,000, 3 Beds 4 Baths 3,258 Sqft 2 Garages
About This Property
Unobstructed Intracoastal views, a parade of boats, luminous open living spaces, floor to ceiling walls of glass & 10' ceilings are just a few of the wow factors upon entering this flow thru corner unit. This sleek modern design is conducive to today's lifestyle, open kitchen, large center island, upgraded appliances & tremendous counter space. The great room & lavish master suite opens to an enormous waterside balcony & summer kitchen/BBQ. The family room opens to a large balcony boasting waterway & city skyline views. This newly built waterside condo offers front lobby concierge, valet, a fitness center, social room with kitchen, waterside pool. Within walking distance of the mall, water taxi, park restaurants, shopping, Publix, Starbucks, spas & the beach. Sq ft from developer's plans
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Bike Storage, Clubhouse-Clubroom, Elevator, Exercise Room, Heated Pool, Trash Chute, Boat Dock, Kitchen Facilities, Exterior Lighting
Valet Parking, 2 Or More Spaces, Assigned Parking
Intracoastal Front, No Fixed Bridges, Ocean Access, Seawall
Interior Features
Cooking Island, Elevator, Split Bedroom, Walk-In Closets, Foyer Entry, Pantry, Volume Ceilings
Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Electric Range, Refrigerator, Wall Oven, Washer
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Barbeque, High Impact Doors, Open Balcony
Cbs Construction, New Construction
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Many South Africans, particularly in rural areas, still face untold hardship that stem, in part, from poverty, lack of education and scarcity of opportunities. Although South Africa has to-date enjoyed 20 years of democracy, the government is overburdened and cannot always deliver effectively. This is where the Vuya Foundation tries to step in.
As the late Nelson Mandela once said: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." And that is a view that we whole-heartedly believe.


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2012 Seiun Award Winners
The Seiun Awards (星雲賞), Japan's rough equivalent to the Hugo, were just announced for 2012. Here are the results and some explanation. A complete list in Japanese of all nominees is here, since I will only cover the winners in this post. Note that the foreign SF is determined by publishing date in Japan, which is why the novel nominees include J.G. Ballard and Dhalgren. Anyway, I'll get the foreign stuff out of the way first and get to the fun bits. I'll also try to give some sort of description and/or explanation of the Japanese winners, though I haven't read either of them and am pulling my information off of Japanese Amazon and random websites.
Best Foreign Novel: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Best Foreign Short Story: The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
Best Japanese Novel: Heaven and Hell (天獄と地国) by Kobayashi Yasumi (小林泰三)
Best Japanese Short Story: The Singing Submarine and Peer-Peer Douga (歌う潜水艦とピアピア動画) by Nojiri Housuke (野尻抱介)
Heaven and Hell is about a world where gravity is flipped upside down, so everything falls away from the ground and into the sky. Kobayashi is a writer who straddles horror and SF, with this book falling more into Hard SF. It is a follow-up to ΑΩ, which also appears to have won a prize or two. I haven't read anything by Kobayashi and nothing seems to be in translation, though he is fairly prolific.
According to the author's website, The Singing Submarine and Peer-Peer Douga is the third in Nojiri's Peer-Peer Douga series, which use Japan's NikoNiko Douga site (rather like Youtube) as an inspiration. This one in particular was written for an SF Magazine special issue about Hatsune Miku, a virtual idol about whom more will follow. Explains Nojiri, the Peer-Peer Douga stories are built around a virtual idol that he has based around Hatsune Miku, so he was happy to write this particular series. Nojiri notes that the first story in the series also won a Seiun Award, but that the second story was panned. He seems rather surprised that the newest addition proved so popular.
As for Ms. Hatsune, let us just say that anyone who has read William Gibson's Aidoru is about to have a wild case of deja vu. As I write this, Mrs. Pep is staring aghast at her own computer screen, watching clips of live concerts given by a hologram of Hatsune Miku, who is entirely computer generated save for her vocoder voice. Setting aside questions of what virtual idols mean for the future of pop music and the taste of the Japanese nerd public, "the logical extreme" and "deplorable," in that order, I will just post this link to Crunchyroll. This particular song went #1 on iTunes the day after its release, after being used for a blockbuster commercial for Google Chrome. To sum up: the Seiun Award winning short story for 2012 is based on a real-life singer who is entirely digital and is pimping Google products on TV. The future, it appears, is already upon us.


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Looking for Something to Do This Weekend: Check out Jacki B and the Backburners
If you have not heard their music yet: There are three free full song downloads on their site, you won't be disappointed. If you like blues you will be in for a treat, for more things to do check out All Things Lynchburg message board.
Eric from the JB&B sent this email:
Jacki B and the Backburners to serve up a heaping of helping of Blues at Mitchell's Point Marina's First Annual 4th of July Celebration. JB&B will be putting on the good blues from 6pm till 10pm THIS SUNDAY - JULY 3RD, with Fireworks Show to follow.
To get to Mitchell's Point by land:
From Lynchburg - 460 west to the 2nd Bedford exit (D-Day Memorial exit)
122 South toward Smith Mountain Lake state park for 16 miles
Left on White House Rd (Route 608)
take White House Rd for 6 miles
turn right onto Smith Mountain Lake Pkwy
Take quick left on Tolers Ferry Rd
Stay on Tolers Ferry for 3.8 miles
Turn Right onto Trading Post Rd
Follow to the end of the road - Approx 2.5 miles
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I miss you guys! OMG! Happy Holidays everyone! I'm so happy today blogging about this. But never mind the title I don't know what to put there actually.
Thank you so much for the positive and true comments left on my review about REVIEW: Hello Kitty BB Cream. If you haven't seen it yet, you better read it! I post clear photos there to spot the difference.
Well btw, my post was 2 weeks ago already I think. Supposedly, the post must be about a review on new circle lens I got from Uniqso! Because I was so excited I decided to have fun with my camera which is HP S300. Good thing I bought a tripod too for only 100pesos haha it was so cute! You wouldn't believe that it was a Tripod. I'll take a photo of it some other day. So to make this post short then I will post it now! 🙂 Btw I'm still playing with my camera so sorry if the photos are not that high quality. 😀
Did you know that these new clothes are from Romwe? I was wearing Classic Gold Velvet Black Leggings for $20.89 because it was on sale now its $26.24 and Hole Detailed Flag T-shirt for $21.25 which I think is Sold-Out and its really big as you can see below.
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This is what I really wore inside, as you can see the top have many holes and at the back too! And I can't wear it without that inside. 😀
Sneak peek on my next post too! Review on KkCenterHk's False Eyelashes and Barbie Diamond 3 Tones in Grey. 🙂
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Writing A Mystery
Sharon Tregenza, author of The Shiver Stone, wrote this piece for us on one kind of story she really loves - a mystery. How does she keep us turning the pages?
The Shiver Stone, my Middle Grade novel published by Firefly Press, is a mystery.
It's true﹣mysteries are a challenge to write. You have to create an intriguing puzzle, weave in a number of clues and scatter some red herrings. You also try to take the story in more than one direction so that you have the possibility of several different endings.
Everyone loves mysteries. If you get the clues and guess right – you're chuffed that you're as clever as the main character. If you don't, you're pleased with the 'Gotcha' ending.
The Shiver Stone follows a feisty girl and an unusual boy fighting danger in the beautiful setting of the Pembrokeshire coastline. The secrets, at the heart of the story, draw the reader into a fast-paced adventure with a terrifying climax.
Can you solve the mystery of The Shiver Stone?