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"Edge of the World," Session #8: Lasthaven
This week, the crew finally pulls into the Neptunian afterlife to reunite with their old captain. See more on the Lasthaven location concept here. See whole campaign so far here.
The setup
For those of you just joining us... Ever since a player brought in the NPC, the Mad Captain, just by mentioning his name in an early session, he's been seen as the "key" to getting to Lasthaven - because "according to legend" he can sail anywhere. And when the players (through their characters) had brought a "breaking-the-guy-who-knows-out-of-the-insane-asylum" plotline into the story through some great world-building, the madman Jacob Jones became the "key" to finding the Mad Captain.
So, once they found Jacob Jones he led them to the Mad Captain, and (after a detour back to Tortuga the Mad Captain took them to Lasthaven as easy as that. The way I GM is, I metagame the travel and transitional periods and pick up play when we get somewhere cool - and the adventure in Lasthaven is the cool part.
Arrival/Defining the Location
When the game gets to a new location, I like to have the players add detail. This can be as explicit as my asking them to contribute a situational aspect each (we play Fate RPG), or it can simply mean that I keep the rules of the location a little "soft" at the get-go.
I call these "slaps" because it stands (kind of) for "soft-rules location element added by a player," and because allowing them tends to jerk you awake from time to time as a GM. This week, we had some great ones.
· I described the location much like I did here, and didn't push the players to do anything. Somebody suggested that Balboa would surley have arrived on a ghostly version of the Elusive, and that they should look for that. Now, I had envisioned souls just arriving on generic ghost-transports, but I liked this idea.
· Next I decided that, what with this being a timeless afterlife, time and space should be somewhat fluid; it should be easy to walk anywhere, provided you knew what you were looking for – again, being at the new destination is the interesting part. So in short order they had found the "soul" of their familiar ship (the physical part of it having been left behind at Shudder Island)
· They began looking through the logbook for clues how to locate Balboa – again, a surprise (I expected them to, you know, ask some NPCs or something). So I conveniently tucked the description of the Quarter of the Discontent (see the Lasthaven writeup) into the logbook, and BSed some names of people Balboa had met there – that is, after he'd acquired some ink. That brought up the existing plot element of things-that-are-hard-to-find-in-heaven, which I'd planned all along, but in a way that they felt like they'd legitimately discovered something.
· Our next "slap" was when the Fair Lady reasoned that since the rules of space and time here let them find the ghost-Elusive so easily, she should also be able to walk right to Balboa, the man she loves. Since we were still in the first half of the graph above (before any major events or twists) I thought this iodea was a good contribution. Especially since it didn't mean I had to lead them right to him…
When the PCs are More Competent Than You Planned
The Fair Lady's senses led them to the Green Hydra tavern in the Quarter of the Discontent. Balboa wasn't currently there, but he was nearby. I planned for them to be captured here (you see, a few death worshipers have gotten into Lasthaven through a theological loophole, and mortal blood is a rare commodity there) so that Balboa could get a big entrance scene that involved saving them. So I had a scene planned and that meant some amount of railroading. However, you can do this tastefully.
The PCs met NPC Adam Pinchpurse, recognized his name from the logbook as the one who'd procured the mortal ink and paper for Balboa, and asked where to find him. Pinchpurse was planning to drug their drinks and sell them to the death worshipers, but the party was too cautious/creative (best player moment, "Can I invoke my 'Old Age' aspect to pass out first from anything he may have put in these drinks?"
Because their moves and roleplay were good, I let them defeat Pinchpurse. Because I still wanted Balboa to rescue them, I made it so the death worshipers were in fact already watching, and they released a horde of minionized shadows on the party.
Instant KO. But nobody complained. I find that most players don't mind a "have to lose" encounter now and then as long as they can feel like they've had a fighting chance – note that they don't have to succeed in order to feel like they've affected the situation in a satisfying way.
Action Scenes Without the Slow-Down
In previous session notes I've talked about action-scene "slowdown," the weird phenomenon that makes combat scenes the slowest part of an RPG.
If you're in a group that places fast-moving story above precise combat systems, try implementing the rule I tried this week: "one situation = one round."
Break your combat scene into distinct situations: the party is chained down and trying to escape – the party is loose and looking for an exit – bad guys attack from the balcony, etc. If it helps, think of each one of these situations as a "room" in an abstract map of the action scene – our group calls it the "one roll per room" rule.
Each PC rolls only once in each of these rooms. This rule pushes the players and yourself – the players get one action to deal with the current situation before it changes, for better or worse – and the GM must be ready with a distinctly different situation (you've now been driven back into a small corner, the bad guys are repulsed by your return fire giving you one round to try and move, etc.) for the beginning of each round.
This is the rule that has helped speed combat for our group – I hope you find it of interest for your own gaming!


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Highlights from April 6
Immanuel's Jeff Jantzen earned MVP of his school's tournament after throwing a six-hitter and collecting two hits in a 3-2 championship game victory against Lindsay. Kyler Boucher had the winning RBI in the top of the eighth, and Scott Findley also homered.
Drew Merlo (8-0) pitched a six-hitter, and Jack Karracker had two extra-base hits and three RBIs as top-ranked Buchanan beat No. 7 Clovis East 8-2 to pull into a three-way tie for first in the Tri-River Athletic Conference at 3-1 with the Timberwolves and No. 2 Clovis West.
Brandon Jeffries had four hits, including a homer and four RBIs to help El Diamante beat No. 6-ranked Hanford 12-6 in the West Yosemite League.
Chowchilla senior left-hander Tyler Cook beat Dos Palos 7-1, going the distance with 12 strikeouts. Cook improved to 3-0 with his 23rd career victory.
Jordan Yates pitched a six-hitter with 11 strikeouts in Kerman's 3-2 win over Sanger and a sweep of a doubleheader. Chelsea Weber's five-hitter with eight strikeouts in Game 2 helped Kerman, the top-ranked team in Division IV and now 16-1, to a 3-1 victory.


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A moody hour under the spell of Northern, Eastern Europe. Beats and poetics from Russia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, the Nederlands.
Dichters Dansen Niet - Milord l'Arsouille (Ontscheping)
Maya Kristalinskaya - U Tebya Takie Glaza (21 Outside Remix)
Futuresounder - Venera Y
Vladimir Maiakovski - Une aventure extraordinaire arrivee a Vladimir Maiakovski en ete a la datcha
Allison Chanic & Alan McKerl - Further
Dichters Dansen Niet - De nachtuil van vermaak (Onttovering)
Kern Koppen - Laat Maar
Beryoza-Chervoboy - Uhodi
Helsinki Poetry Jam - Anonyymi
Helsinki Poetry Jam - Kruger
Insane Fennel - Remote Places
Helsinki Poetry Jam - Lyhyet Tarvitsevat Vähemmän Hamekangasta
Dichters Dansen Niet - De voorspoed is een junk (Ontwenning)
Raumskaya - Suka Ljubov (Tribute to Mihey)
Vitaliy Rybakin (poem by Daniil Kharms) - Подруга (Girlfriend)
Mikołaj Trzaska + Tomasz Sowiński + Adam Żuchowski - Śpisz
Zhe Pechorin - Outro Mundo
Vladimir Maiakovski - Ecoutez
The Swiss Conspiracy - Delire Nostalgique
Balkantronika feat. ASkitzo & Deepstoned Selectah - Boranija (Shazalakazoo Remix)
Aheadahead - untitled (from High Status and Continued Success in the Ongoing Battle for Power and Prestige)
Moresebya - Еёслезы (j.Faraday Instr)
Horny Trees - Branches of Dirty Delight
Panikattacken - Kriechend Schwarz IV & Wenn ich…
Dichters Dansen Niet - Met de smaak van vroeger (Ontginning)
Sonae - Entmutigt
Sabine Oymanns - Zeit für Drachen
Dichters Dansen Niet - Het nulde uur (Ontknoping)
Ane Brun - The Treehouse
Notes on the show
"Asked what he would take when his house was on fire Jean Cocteau answered 'Fire!'"
Beginning La Danza Poetica number 19's strange and wonderful journey - we're guided through the show by the voice of poet Serge van Duijn Hoven of Dichters Dansen Niet (translated into English = "poets don't dance"). From the album Vuurproef (Crucibles) the third in a trio of collaborations between two musicians and a poet from Belgium. The trio is poet Serge van Duijn Hoven, DJ Fred de Backer, and pianist Edwin Berg. They first released an album called Blood Test in 2003, a follow-up album Klip Drift in 2007, and now Vuurproef, released this year in a really beautifully put together book/CD package. All these releases are also live performance events in Europe.
Serge's poetry progresses on the album in a kind of quest - questing for reflection in an excessively accelerated and largely lifeless world. Struggles through depression, addiction, meaninglessness and confusion, emergence into light through art, poetry, and deeper understanding. The orchestration of both music and voice in this album is fantastic - it's seriously one of the best spoken word and music collaborations I've heard, in any language.
Russian ghetto music community label Beryoza releases music from underground electronic producers around Russia. Their 'Old' New Year compilation released in January is a free download, a 'new years' gift during the celebration of Russia's second new year of 2014. (According to the producers, Russia is the only country in the world that celebrates New Year twice, because of Julian and Gregorian calendar differences. The night from 13 to 14 january is usually called "Old" New Year. From this compilation, I took the 21 Outside Remix of Maya Kristalinskaya - a popular singer of the Soviet period.
Also released by Beryoza this year, the Russian Ghetto Vol.1 compilation. As explained by the label: "Appealing to Russian pop-heritage of the 90s always seemed to be ambiguous. One could laugh, one could seriously call it "reincarnation". But obviously no one could deny, that this tendency reached everyone who loves underground electronic music in Russia. Russian Ghetto Compilation Vol.1 is a reflection of this tendency. We gathered 20 tracks from different producers all over the country in order to redefine forgotten pop melodies from the past and give them a new life by means of ghetto music." This is electronic music with a melodic soul, deep and passionate. The label is a great introduction to what's happening in Russian dance music if you're looking for one. In the show, tracks from Raumskaya and Chervoboi (Saint-Petersburg).
Moresbya is also from Russia, making abstract hip hop, electronics with spoken word and a little bit of alternative shoegaze. The latest is the Cough Syrup LP. Some straight dark hip hop, but some great excursions into 'cloud rap', thin synths, and some true experimentation around the embedding of voice into music.
Zhe Pechorin's second release for Generation Bass is the Black Soul EP. The Serbian producer has been making some brilliant electronic music, multi-layered percussion and synth sounds, with melodic drive and a real clarity of sound. The tracks are all hypnotic, my favourite is Outro Mundo.
Another compilation that's a good intro into the sounds of a place is the PL2UA benefit compilation, out of Poland. An expression of solidarity and support by Polish musicians, as well as musicians from other countries of Eastern Europe, for the people suffering as a result of clashes in the Ukraine. "Independent can be understood in two ways: on the one hand as an independent music scene, and on the other as the independent Ukraine which is fought for by its people." The funds are all going to the "Open Dialogue" Foundation - http://odfoundation.eu Most of the tracks on this compilation are more purely electronic than I might normally feature, but there are a couple of total gems in there. One is by Poland's Horny Trees - a track called Branches of Dirty Delight (the title track from their 2009 album). Ambient electronics with a heart of jazz.
Speaking of hearts of jazz, it was nice to include in this show one of my old favourite, long tracks, from Kern Koppen's 2009 album ÉÉN. Brothers Ki and Ahab and Tommy 2 Times, out of the Nederlands, make good conscious music - hip hop, spoken word poetry, organic rhythms, pop riffs, 70s synths, jazz syncopation, excellently off-beat humour, '& even Dutch classics'. They have a jazz approach to composition - as Ki says in this Ajakanu interview from 2010: "Improvisation has had a tremendous impact to who we are as artists. It made us develop ourselves. There aren't many people who make jazz this way. Because basically that's what you do, you're making jazz at that point. Not with a trumpet but with a rap voice." The trio have been releasing a quartet of 'seasonal' LPs out more recently - Lente Koorts (Spring Fever), Zomer Fruit (Summer Fruits), Herfst Blad (Autumn Leaves), and Winter Slaap (Winter Sleep) - check them out here.
They make some great, surreal videos, too...
Also from the Nederlands is the spoken word/music duo Aheadahead (Henrik Sundh aka Dodebum and Michael Lee Burgess) who I first came into contact with a few years ago whilst editing the CDs for literary journal Going Down Swinging. We featured a track from their 2006 album High Status and Continued Success in the Ongoing Battle for Power and Prestige in one of our issues. This is a generally quite simply produced album of spoken word pieces and short stories. Drily humorous, sometimes silly, always intelligent. The track featured in this show Osama is one that has stuck with me in its surrealism and sense of confusion, which develops into a very clear and still very pertinent message about demonisation of "the other". You can still get this album, from iTunes.
A lovely piano/electro track features in the middle of the show from electronic producer Sonae. Mixed in with Sonae, a couple of pieces from German spoken word poetry outfit Panikattacken. Here are the originals:
I took the Sonae track from the Pussy Riot Freedom compilation released by Female:Pressure in 2013 as a benefit for the Pussy Riot collective and awareness-raiser for Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. Since Maria and Nadezhda's release, and their split from the Pussy Riot collective, - the Voice Project (which had been gathering funds) closed their fundraising and the album is now a free download.
Female:pressure is an international database and support network for women in the fields of electronic music and digital art. With more than 1300 members in 58 countries it's a great collective of women empowering women in a most often male-dominated field. Through this network I'm meeting more and more amazing women artists every day and I'm looking forward to talking more about their work here in future.
One of the artists met through female:pressure is Allison Chanic. Avante-garde electronic musician Chanic draws on a background in classical piano and violin, making intriguing, layered, minimal electronic tracks. Again, I am led in this dance further into the pure electronics but again, it is because of the melodic organic approach of these producers. Allison's approach is very orchestral. The spoken voice is processed along with the instrumentation, embedded within the frequencies, making it very much a part of the orchestration and overall musicality - something that I've always sought in spoken word production. This track Further (Come back to me) is a collaboration with Alan McKerl, from the 2008 album Ultima.
Allison is also head of the TCSP label, and has some fascinating projects about which I'm sure I'll be writing more ... for now, some words that touched me today from the LoVE (Lucrative Opinions of Victorious Evolution) project:
"We thought about the scenario and we have all realized our mistakes. We have formed together a massive organization, called LoVE (Lucrative Opinions of Victorious Evolution). A foundation based on love have become our biggest weapon.....We use it in order to defeat ignorance and war. We see no race, gender or sexuality as a threat. We are the homogeneity of a society. We have come to the conclusion that love is more than ever so important. In order to survive, we need to cherish mother earth and everything within. Our world have been brought upon the edge of a knife. Our eco system is failing and the food industry's pollution have over powered us completely.....We let people be what they are. We respect other peoples believes, personality or identity. We protect diversity and mutual awareness. We unite in order to find peace and a deeper understanding for love. We believe in the goodness of being kind to the world."
Amen, sister.
To take a slight detour from the podcast for a moment, this week Alan McKerl shared with me a haunting video - 6 floor, acollaboration with Vietnamese-French video artist, musician and writer TK.Kim. Beautiful visual and oral storytelling!
One more Russian producer I want to mention this month: Futuresounder, a young producer out of Russia, making 'pop, glo-fi and future bass' ... I'm enough out of the scene to not know the intricacies of 'glo-fi' are but this is really on the edge of experimentation and in this music I'm hearing a welcome infusion of organics into the experimental electronic dance field. Changes was released in 2013 - I'm late to this one yes, but glad to find it!
To end, I have to mention our two 'honoured ghosts' for this dance poetic - two subversive futurist writers, both imprisoned for their work - Russian Vladimir Maiakovski and Daniil Kharms.
Also an actor, playwright and artist, Maiakovski was among the Russian Futurists of the early 20th century, a political poet and a realist poet, a passionate a dramatic figure. In the show, the poem Une aventure extraordinaire arrivee a Vladimir Maiakovski en ete a la datcha (An Extraordinary Adventure Which Befell Vladimir Mayakovksy In A Summer Cottage). A heated conversation with the sun (! sorry) ... which turns into a beautiful tribute to life.
shone in all my might,
and morning ran its round.
Always to shine,
to shine everywhere,
to the very deeps of the last days,
to shine—
and to hell with everything else!
That is my motto—
and the sun's!
There is an English language translation of the full poem here. * I know that DJ Spooky has used this poem - this recording, in fact - in a track on his Rhythm Science collection. I mention it, but it's honestly not a very exciting track or mix, to me, so I'll leave it there.
Daniil Kharms came from the era of sound poet Aleksandr Tufanov, continuing the subversive modernist poetry in Russia into the mid 20th century, seeking to unite the previous futurist artists with young progressive artists into a whole movement - a doomed venture given Stalin outlawed all such societies. Arrested in 1931 as an "anti-Soviet children's writer" and exiled, he lived poorly, was arrested a second time ten years later, and starved to death in prison. An awful fate for a man who - from what I've read - had a vibrant and unusual imagination. Kharms wrote mainly children's stories and very short absurdist fiction - what people now call flash fiction. I'm new to his work but I've found this good collection of stories in English, and I love the absurd sharpness of his tongue: http://www.sevaj.dk/kharms/kharmseng.htm. I came to Kharms via Vitaliy Rybakin, a musician, artist, philosopher from Samara, Russia. He makes some varied sounds, explores all kinds of abstract musical ideas, from John Lennon covers to abstract classical experiments - a child of the Russian spirit of experimentation definitely!
The show closes with a sweet twisted track from Ane Brun, the Swedish singer who was in Australia last month for Womadelaide. This video for her 2010 song The Treehouse is fittingly abstract, fittingly surreal, to wrap up this month's dance. We've travelled through forests and cities of story, met ghosts in these places where so many of the western world's fairytales come from, seen some of the brilliantly expressionist future visions. I know I'm only barely scratching the surface here but I've enjoyed this dance and there'll be more.


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NGC 6388 :: New preprint
M. Catelan et al.
Deep HST Photometry of NGC 6388: Age and Horizontal Branch Luminosity
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we have obtained the first color-magnitude diagram (CMD) to reach the main-sequence turnoff of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6388. From a comparison between the cluster CMD and 47 Tucanae's, we find that the bulk of the stars in these two clusters have nearly the same age and chemical composition. On the other hand, our results indicate that the blue horizontal branch and RR Lyrae components in NGC 6388 are intrinsically overluminous, which must be due to one or more, still undetermined, non-canonical second parameter(s) affecting a relatively minor fraction of the stars in NGC 6388.


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I also would like to add closing thoughts. This thread (and those who smoke pot) has been beat to a pulp, and although I disagree with some of the comments posted, I do respect and understand that we all have some vices and "skeletons". Personally, I consider pot a neutral "evil" if you will. You are right, I am one of those who can smoke it and still maintain normal relations and life reactions. I know some people who smoke it and go off to never-never land, but I was never one of those. No hangovers, etc.
To me, it's kinda like those who smoke fine cigars. You develop and come to cherish the flavor, the fixation of holding something in your fingers. I don't use it to gain stature or to make fake friends. The friendships I've made and continue to hold dear were made via my personality and heartfelt caring for others. Most of my "rock and roll" and Fixxture friends don't even smoke pot, yet they also hold our friendship near and dear. Some people use different methods to meet, befriend, and "get closer" to others. I choose to use my East Coast upbringing and the golden rules my mother imparted to me. It has worked well so far.... nothing fake, Pot is not a currency used to buy friendships as far as I'm concerned. You like me for me or you don't. Pot can be had from almost anyone. I like to think my personality is genuine. My real friends do, anyway.
I would love to see the wrath aimed at the evils and dangers of excessive alcohol instead. It's much more dangerous, is IS a social currency (just cozey up to any bar and you'll make new "friends" instantly), in my opinion, not much socializing can happen when you are ****faced drunk, so it becomes a physical and phony friendship.
Again, stop beating a dead horse. Someday pot will be legal, taxed, and will be on the same level as alcohol. Then I'd love to see the comments posted. That's my opinion, offered genuinely. Take it as you will......
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November 3, 2013
In August we wrote about a Silicon Valley Startup that got $25 Million in Funding. Its in stealth mode and talk of the town. Recently, former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy, joined this very secretive Startup Clinkle as the chief operating officer. Clinkle a payments startup was found in 2011 by a Stanford University graduate Lucas Duplan, who is also the CEO. The company currently has over 50 employees mostly Stanford Graduates fresh out of college. Emergence of Clinkle in the startup space focusing on the payments vertical is certainly a positive sign for entrepreneurs interested in starting up in the payments space. What's most appealing is that the company has been successful in bagging $25 Million in funding. Backed by VC's, Clinkle is currently working on innovative ideas to deal with payments. One of them certainly is the sound based payment system. The list of investors includes Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Diane Greene, Jim Breyer, Marc Benioff and Owen Van Natta. A lot of them from Paypal mafia. Richard Branson is also known to have invested in the company.
The company's payment offerings are not yet out in public as the product is still in Beta stages and is undergoing tests and corrections at Stanford University. But reliable sources say that it is a sound based payment system. These are payment systems that use sound waves to connect smartphones with another device. Secure payments are made over the cloud with the help of sound based technology and data is exchanged through smartphones' microphones/speakers. Microsoft's Dhwani and Verifone's Way2ride in New York are great examples. Clinkle is expected to be using sound wave technology similar to Verifone's Zoosh.
As the next step, Clinkle wants to extend its services to other college campuses and build a base of students and add merchants over a period of time. Watch this video by WSJ Digits about Clinkle's team being comprised of Stanford graduates.
According to the CEO of Clinkle, his focus is on software of the mobile payments solution and not essentially on improving the existing hardware. One of the sources at Clinkle has revealed that beeping sounds will be used to communicate to the VeriFone machines that already exist in stores to make the transactions. Considering the amount of funding they have bagged, and the people backing it, it will be interesting to follow Clinkle to find out the future course of action of this company. We will keep you updated.
Note: This is an updated article (with more info), originally published on LTP in August.


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Nurmagomedov destroys Johnson at UFC 205, demands fight with 'chicken' McGregor
After a cagey start the fight burst into life around the one minute mark when Johnson landed an overhand left that visibly shook Nurmagomedov.
However, "The Eagle" soon recovered and took the contest to the mat, pounding Johnson with a series of brutal shots, but the American somehow managed to survive to the end of the round.
Johnson started the second round well, tossing out kicks and left hands, but Nurmagomedov soon got in on the striking action with an uppercut-left hook combination.
After failing with one takedown attempt, Nurmagomedov dragged Johnson to the floor once again and began to rain down a series of vicious punches.
Johnson tried to escape but without success as the Russian looked to end the contest, but he was unable to find a finish.
Nurmagomedov started the third round on the front foot, throwing out a hard three-punch combination that visibly rocked Johnson.
Just half a minute into the round, Nurmagomedov got another takedown and relentlessly pounded away at his opponent's head.
Referee John McCarthy gave Johnson every chance to survive, but Nurmagomedov switched to the mount position before applying kimura on the American's left arm forcing him to tap.
The victory moved Nurmagomedov to 24-0 in his career and after the bout he called Conor McGregor a "chicken" before gesturing to president Dana White that he wanted a title shot.
"I want to stay humble but other guys talk too much," said Nurmagomedov.
"Irish only 6 million, Russia 150 million, I want to fight your chicken. What do you say about 24-win streak? Let's go, let's go with your chicken."


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Reviews: Nao, For All We Know; Jeremih, Late Nights: Europe
Nao, For All We Know
I haven't been impressed by the mass import of female R&B artists over wonky (but not too wonky) backdrops from the UK. The effect is supposed to combine sweeter vocals with, call them industrial soundscapes, but most of the time, it often feels like it's a pose. The darkness is too clean and the movement's too lurchy (the spacing of the hook on "Girlfriend" leaves something to be desired). Nao's less insufferable because she's not so concerned with shoving sexual overtones down your throat, because she can sing a hook every now and then (i.e. "Do You Want Me") and because her producers can add some nice color. Examples: the distorted sample adding an additional hook on "Fool to Love"; the faraway piano plinks on "Blue Wine"; the staccato anger in "Trophy" ("If you think that I'm a trophy/ You'd better change your mind") while A.K. Paul's distorted guitars and hiccupped vocal intrusion distinguishes the song from the rest of the album. And while I wasn't nearly won over by the loud howl of "Bad Blood," I confess awe when Nao does the vocal acrobatics at the end of the bridge, "Don't tell me I'm coo-coo..." But the songwriting can't sustain interest over the album's 14 tracks (plus 4 interludes), as opposed to a more succinct 10-12, even though she nabs two highlights that were available on her previous EPs ("Adore You," which features some pointillist synths in the choruses from So Good, and "Inhale Exhale" which features her harmonizing with the bass-line from February 15). As it stands, it's a moderate success following her appearance on Disclosure's Caracal and Samsung commercials. [Marshall Gu] B
Jeremih, Late Nights: Europe
Coming off of the artistic success of last year's Late Nights: The Album and its striking standout "Oui", Late Nights: Europe constantly treads a fine line between "proud victory lap" and "passable B-side collection". It has its fair share of embarrassing lyrics (scatology and sexuality are never a good mix, especially when it's phrased as confusingly as "we in the bathroom and she always with the shits"), but the beats are well-devised, and the mixtape shines when Jeremih and his collaborators bring out the best in each other—which happens on virtually every collaboration here. Most of the strongest tracks are toward the middle (the three-song stretch from "London" to "Stockholm" is great R&B through and through), but "Dubai" also deserves a mention, its carefree atmosphere creating the feel of a posse track despite only having two guest features. This can't hold a candle to Late Nights: The Album (was anyone expecting it to?), but it's one of the better mixtapes released this year. [Luke Fowler] B


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Prep football | Lakewood Ranch Mustangs win wild one in overtime over Bayshore Bruins
LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Lakewood Ranch head football coach Shawn Trent knew his young kids were going to take him on a wild ride this season.
But even then he couldn't envision what happened in the Mustangs' 21-14 victory in overtime Friday night against visiting Bayshore.
The Mustangs were coasting along with a 14-0 lead with less than nine minutes go when they unraveled and, in the span of less than four minutes the game was tied.
Bayshore (0-3) had a chance to win when the Bruins attempted a chip shot 20-yard field goal with 38 seconds left, but Andre Christiano, one of the few seniors on the squad, busted his way through and blocked the kick.
In the tie-breaker, each team gets the ball from the 10 and the game continues until some
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This time Ranch's "Kiddie Corps" didn't waste any time. On the third play, freshman A'Shawn Angell took it in from five yards out, and Hunter Cate added the extra point.
Bayshore got it down to the 2 on its first play. But Ranch safety K.J. Brown tackled Bayshore quarterback Wesley Jackson for a one-yard loss. After an incomplete pass, Brown and some of his teammates swarmed Jackson again, and the game was over.
"We needed a play, and I am senior and I had to step up," Brown said. "They made some good plays and came back, but we worked hard this season for games like this. I am disappointed we gave up the lead, but it feels good to come back and get the win. We gave up some big plays because our players were not where they were supposed to be. But we got the win; that's all that counts."
Trailing 14-0, Jackson ripped off a 49-yard run to give the Bruins a first down at the Ranch 11. Calvin Williams ran it to the 1, and Jackson took it in from there. Josh Freeman kicked the extra point, and Bayshore cut its deficit to 14-7 with 6:59 left in the game.
The Bruins got the ball on an onside kick. Two plays later, Dereck Williams broke free on a 48-yard run, and Freeman added the PAT to tie the game at 14 with 6:00 left.
"As young as we are, you will take a win anyway you can get it," Trent said. "They are huge up front and we are still pretty young on defense and we probably got a little tired. The plays we were making the first three quarters, we were just a step slower in the fourth quarter and couldn't make. They've got some phenomenal athletes and as big as they are up front they just wear at you. When those kinds of kids get out in space, it's hard to catch them.
"I wasn't surprised KJ made that stop. He is a pretty tough kid and has been here for a long time and knows the drill. We mixed up our running backs (Chris Pearcey and Angell) because they give you different looks."
Ranch (2-1) scored the game's first points when Wyatt Mcleod caught a 13-yard pass from Chad Rex with 6:49 left before halftime. The Mustangs increased their lead on Pearcey's four yard run with 4:19 left in the third quarter and got a two-point conversion on a Rex-to-Cameron Pearcey pass.
"They just get better every week. The first district game is next week, and that's what we are aiming for," Bayshore head coach J.P. Gordon said. "The play at the end was an option play, and Wes had done a pretty good job at that. Hindsight is 20-20. I turned my back on the field goal. It was a brand new kicker. It was his first football game. He got us two extra points and an onside kick, and no one can blame him. He did a heckuva job."
Angell ran for 62 yards on eight carries, and Pearcey had 55 on 10. After struggling last week with his passing, Rex completed 9 of 17 passes for 142 yards and had five passes of 20 plus yards. Jackson led Bayshore with 99 yards rushing on 15 carries and completed 7 of 13 pass attempts for 105 yards. Williams had 66 yards on 19 carries


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Loopmasters are very proud to present Dubstep Producer, a collection of dark and inspiring samples from the incredible talent of Jack Dunning aka Untold. Stilted rhythms meet jilted synths and squashed drums with the ever-present specter of grime to bring producers worldwide a collection of Beats, Basses and Sampled Sounds with Low-Fi Swing and Cinematic Atmospheres. In this Dubstep Sample collection you can expect to find over 600Mb of 24Bit samples including over 500 Sounds, 327 Loops and 197 One shot sounds, plus 54 Ready to play Sampler Patches for Reason NNXT, Halion, EXS, SFZ and Kontakt Samplers. There are also Apple Loops, Reason Refill and Ableton Live versions available for those with specific system requirements.
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CY-IWANDER's posts on travel in Central America including Mexico: where to study Spanish in Mexico, information on what to do in Oaxaca; Guatemala: where to study Spanish in Guatemala. living in Xela, practicing yoga in Xela, and volunteering with Pop Wuj. Finally some details on an 'epic' chicken bus trip through El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize.
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I am a big believer in pursuing your passions and creating what you love, so last year I decided to follow my passion and design an eco-friendly, organic silk bridal collection. I am so happy to be able to share with you the designs which I have put my heart and soul into.
Every aspect of the Organic Bridal Collection has been meticulously thought through. Designed to be a smaller collection which can be really easily interchanged with other garments to create completely different looks, taking the focus away from 'fast fashion' and making the garments much more versatile.
I love the idea of building upon your dream dress with your own personal touches. As a dressmaker it is incredible exciting to see a bride put her own mark on her wedding gown, adding a different neckline, using a different lace trim or adding layers to a beautiful skirt. I like to encourage brides into making their dress exactly as they had imagined, and even better to do that whilst thinking about the impact on the environment.
I believe it is fundamental that we raise awareness for a healthier textile industry and promote more eco-friendly products and processes. Choosing to buy into quality, and to invest in the passion and the skill of who has made the clothing. Each dressmaker/designer has a different voice and therefore each garment they produce has part of their passion within it's seams , which is why I think it is so important to know the dresses story from not just the final product, but right from the intial design.
It's so exciting to be using these organic fabrics and to create a range of amazing organic wedding dresses! See the collections here!
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There is an article in the New York Times that discusses the increased use of employee referral programs by large companies. There are many reasons to use employee referral programs but the article implies that there is one that is becoming predominate. Sneaky discrimination. It points out the main reason the unemployed need to stay connected.
Referral programs speed up hiring
The New York Times article was entitled In Hiring, a Friend in Need Is a Prospect, Indeed and it starts off with the story of an individual who was fast tracked through the hiring process at Ernst & Young because she had a friend submit her résumé. I don't have a problem with that. I am a big proponent of using employee referral programs to find good candidates. The article goes on to tell us of other companies that have increased the use of their employee referral programs. Again, this is a good thing. However, the news of the use of these programs to get good employees was tempered by this statement "Big companies … are increasingly using their own workers to find new hires, saving time and money but lengthening the odds for job seekers without connections, especially among the long-term unemployed." (My emphasis)
Long-term unemployed
I have written several times about the campaign against the long-term unemployed here, here and here. The early attempts were about blatant attempts to exclude the long-term unemployed. Now it appears companies are getting more discrete about their attempts to exclude workers who have been out of work for a while. They look for employees to refer friends and past co-workers. On the surface this seems innocent enough, but a reality is that if we have a friend who is unemployed and has been for a longer period of time we become more distant from them and subsequently are less likely to refer them. We start thinking they have that "taint" about them and since our reputations are on the line we are more careful about whom we present. As the article states: "Economists and other experts say the recession has severed networks for many workers, especially the long-term unemployed, whose ranks have remained high even as the economy recovers."
Job board discrimination
A secondary result that comes from this is that many companies are beginning to avoid résumés that have been submitted from the major job boards, such as Monster. In fact Dr. John Sullivan, a recognized expert in hiring, says "We call it Monster.ugly" referring to Monster.com. "In the H.R. world, applicants from Monster or other job boards carry a stigma." He sees the job boards as "black holes" and implies that companies will only find quality candidates from employee referrals rather than job boards and job fairs.
Nelson Schwartz, the author of this article says "For those who make it to the interview stage, the referred candidates had a 40 percent better chance of being hired than other applicants." For one company he cites the referred candidate is ten times more likely to get hired.
The critical necessity of staying connected
If you are unemployed it is CRITICALLY important you stay connected with ex-coworkers. Just having your profile on Linked In is not sufficient to get you noticed. You must maintain an active connection with as many people as you can. Don't just link with them, COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. Emails and occasional phone calls to them will be very important to keep your name in front of them.
If you used to associate with the outside of work don't stop. You may have to make some adjustments due to finances, but don't disappear. If you find yourself shunned find out why. Maybe they are embarrassed because they are doing things they think you cannot afford. Help them work around it.
Of course you need to stay on top of what is happening in the world of your chosen profession. Read, read, read and then comment PUBLICALLY on what you have read. Make some contact with the people who have written something you find interesting. The key point of this is to STAY CONNECTED. Don't become that person that Sullivan refers to as a "Homer" referring to Homer Simpson.
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The below is the complete core rules for Pulp!. You can also download this as a 2 page PDF, and as a pocketmod from DriveThruRPG.
by Brian A Liberge
Edited by Jim White
Pulp! is a role-playing system that encourages creative play through minimal, dynamic rules. It highlights the action-oriented heroes of Pulp Magazines, who fight against the strange and phenomenal. The Player Characters (PCs) are the stars of the stories. The Game Master (GM) controls the world and Non-Player Characters (NPCs). Each character fits on a playing card for fast play you can take with you anywhere. The goal is to have fun telling stories together.
Playing the Game
The GM takes turns with the players, with the GM introducing new story elements and the players responding. It's important to collaborate but the GM has final say on the limits of the story.
Once a high stress situation begins, such as combat, it's time to enter Initiative. The character that triggered the action takes the first turn. Each turn a character can make any number of Mundane Actions leading up to one Test, Contest, Aid, Create Asset, or Repair action. Once the turn is resolved, the player or GM controlling that character chooses any character that has not taken a turn to go next. The last person to take their turn starts the sequence again, choosing who begins the next round of turns. This continues until the scene is resolved.
Mundane Action: Any action that is particularly easy considering a character's abilities. These actions automatically succeed. In a particularly difficult situation an action that was previously Mundane may call for a Test, as determined by the GM.
Tests: Tests are used to determine the outcome of difficult situations. Tests are resolved by rolling a six sided die. You add one relevant Ability Score AND one relevant Trait or Asset modifier to the result of the die to get your Total. A Total that meets or exceeds the Difficulty is a Success. A Total lower than the Difficulty is a Failure.
A result of 6 on the die OR a Total that exceeds the Difficulty by 6 or more is an Outstanding Success. This grants the Character an additional benefit, often a lower Difficulty on related actions, as determined by the GM.
A result of 1 on the die OR a Total of 2 or lower is a Complication. This results in greater consequences that may put the character in an undesirable situation or create a higher Difficulty on related actions, as determined by the GM.
Difficulty is determined by the GM using the following guidelines:
1-3: A Mundane Action that most could complete without failing.
4-6: A Skilled Action requires some talent or training.
7-9: An Expert Action requires great talent or years of training.
10-13: A Master Action is difficult for even trained experts.
14+: A Legendary Action will be retold by bards in song.
Contests: A Contest is when two characters are working in direct opposition. The initiating character rolls first and then the targeted character rolls a reaction, both adding in modifiers as with a Test. The higher Total wins the Contest. The difference between the two scores is the Margin of Success.
Characters can attack another character's Abilities with a Contest. A successful attacking character reduces the reacting character's Ability Score by the Margin of Success. A successful reacting character can also reduce the attacking character's Ability Score by the Margin of Success, as long as it narratively makes sense.
The rules for Outstanding Success and Failure still apply with the consequences determined by the GM. A reacting character that has a lower Total but achieved an Outstanding Success never loses Ability Score. Should both characters achieve Outstanding Success then both characters displayed incredible skill, but neither character achieved victory.
Aid: Aid adds a +1 Bond modifier to an ally's next roll. You can use multiple Aid bonuses on one action, to a maximum of +5.
Create Asset: Any beneficial effect that lasts more than one turn is an Asset. Players can use their action to create an Asset by succeeding on a Test, with the Difficulty set by the GM.
Assets created during initiative are generally temporary. The bonus on temporary Assets is equal to the margin of success. If it makes sense for an Asset to last longer than one scene, the bonus granted becomes +1 at the end of the scene. You may add it to your Asset list.
Repair: Add one point of Vigor back to an Asset. You can never exceed the Asset's original Vigor Rank in this way.
Between scenes each character can make one Recovery Action. Characters who take extended downtime may take several recovery actions as determined by the GM.
A Personal Recovery Action allows a character to add a point back to an Ability Score that has been reduced. You can never go over your original Ability Rank in this way.
An Inspiring Action allows a character to add a point to an ally's Ability Score. The Inspiring character has to have a higher Ability Rank than the target's Ability Score or make an Expert test to succeed. Unlike a Personal Recovery Action, you can exceed the target's original Ability Rank up to a maximum Score of 5. At the end of the next action scene any Ability that exceeds its original Rank returns to its original Rank.
Abilities: Each character has five Abilities, with a Rank representing how talented or skilled they are in each area. A character with a Rank of 0 in an Ability is average while a character with a Rank of 5 (the maximum for PCs) is one of the most gifted individuals in the world.
- Charm: A character's grace, charisma and looks. Charm is almost always used in social situations to convince someone to act or think the way you want them to.
- Grit: A character's determination, resolve and will. Grit is generally used to fight off the effects of fear, misdirection or insanity.
- Smarts: A character's acquired knowledge, reasoning, creativity and ability to think on their feet. Smarts is generally used to improvise tools, assess a target, research a problem or develop new equipment.
- Vigor: A character's strength, fortitude, health, and toughness. Vigor is most often used to inflict or absorb physical damage, or otherwise physically affect the world.
- Luck: Luck works differently than the other Abilities. It represents fate, chance and your natural ability to avoid danger.
Luck: Luck can't be targeted by an opponent, and you can't use your Luck Ability as a modifier on a Test or Contest. Instead, you can spend a Luck point to add a +1 bonus to a Total, or you can spend 2 Luck points to reroll a d6. Spending Luck lowers your Score until you can recover, just as losing Contests reduces your other abilities. When initiating a Contest, you have to choose to spend Luck before your target rolls a reaction. Your cannot spend your Luck Score into negative. Once it drops to zero, you're out of Luck!
Traits: Traits represents a characters skills, personality and past. Each character has one of each Trait type: an Edge, a Tagline and a Bond.
An Edge is a specific, positive Trait that grants a +3 modifier on Tests and Contests. They're always positive and represent the thing that the PC is best at. Some example Edges are Flying Ace, Deadly Right Hook, and Enchanting Songstress.
Supernatural powers such as Necromancy, Fire Resistance or Telekinesis are also represented by an Edge when appropriate to the setting.
A Tagline is a quick phrase that sums up a large part of who your character is. Taglines grant either a +1 or -1 modifier on Tests or Contests, so the best Taglines can be used both positively and negatively. Example Taglines include Too Hot to Handle, My Gun Talks for Me and Arrogant Mogul.
Bonds represent a link to another character or part of the world. Like Taglines, they can provide a +1 or -1. Some example Bonds might be Trained by the Dragon Knights, I Owe a Life Debt to the Rogue or Wanted by the CIA.
A character that chooses to use a Tagline or Bond with a -1 modifier on a roll recovers 1 Luck point, to a maximum of their Luck Rank.
Asset: Any beneficial effect that lasts more than one turn is an Asset. Assets are often pieces of equipment, but may also be inherent abilities. Generally, Assets grant a +1 modifier. Assets that are more fantastic may have a higher bonus but might also require a minimum Ability Score to use, a Test to activate, or have a clear drawback.
Assets have a Vigor Rank which represent how durable they are. An Asset's Vigor can be targeted just like a character's Vigor, with the character wielding the equipment rolling the reaction. Assets with a Vigor Score of 0 or below are no longer functional. At -5 equipment can no longer be repaired or recovered. Unless otherwise noted, an Asset has a Vigor Rank equal to its bonus.
Pets: Any Asset that has its own Traits is a Pet. Common pets are vehicles, mounts and servants. Pets do not get their own turn. A character in control of a Pet can use either their own Abilities and Traits, those of their Pet, or an Ability of one and a Trait of the other.
When a character is defeated they cannot take further actions until they recover. Most NPCs are defeated when an Ability Score is reduced to below 0. PCs and NPCs with Luck Ranks need to have an Ability Rank reduced to -5 or below to be defeated.
Character Creation
Player Characters start with a name and an idea. The GM's adventure might provide some example characters and will be a great place to start looking for ideas.
Distribute 10 points among your Abilities. No Ability Rank should be higher than 5 or lower than 0. Every PC has 1 bonus rank in Luck.
Create three Traits: an Edge, Tagline and a Bond.
Starting Assets are generally established by the adventure itself. You might not start with any Assets.
Write a brief description of your character and you're done. Most characters will fit easily on an index card or sticky note.
NPCs are as detailed as you need them to be. The average person likely has 3 points to distribute to Abilities, and a Tagline. The lead villain may have as many Abilities and Traits as a PC, or possibly more. A GM should feel free to create NPCs with degrees of detail in between these extremes as called for by the story.
Have fun.


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This Christmas the veil between where Phil is and where I am seems to be much thinner than in years past. Michelle and I once talked about the "feeling" of knowing our husbands were in the room.
Michelle remarked that she wasn't sure if knowing for sure that Daniel was right there would make her feel better or worse. If he were right next to you, but you couldn't touch him or hold him or hear his voice would that drive a person insane? This is what we wondered aloud.
Phil has showed up for Christmas sporadically over the years. Some years I have felt him very clearly, either through things he would have done or the many things I have learned to do in his absence. Other years I have wanted to scream into the heavens..."Where are you?" Every year since his death Christmas has been a little different. I miss him most when sitting on the couch watching the kids open their gifts. Or when I leave the family party and bundle up my kids to drive home alone. The empty bed that waits for me is particularly difficult to climb into at the end of a day filled with joy and laughter.
But this year Phil has been around more than ever before. Maybe he knows I need his assurance that the life changes ahead for me are okay with him. Perhaps he gets the idea that I can handle knowing he is near, but not be able to touch or hear him. I guess it could be that my heart isn't pierced by the happy memories of Christmases past like it has been in years past, so I welcome the visions of us instead of shying away from them.
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