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Undergraduates majoring in B.S. in Childhood Education (Grades 1-6) must select a 30 to 32 credit academic specialty from the Liberal Arts and Sciences curriculum. Such study complements the Childhood Education courses and provides you with specialized knowledge in one particular discipline. This adds depth and breath to your level of teaching expertise. As a teacher, you can transmit your enthusiasm for the focused subject to young learners, helping them to grow intellectually and socially. You may select History from among the Liberal Arts and Sciences curriculum.History Concentration
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Gavin DeGraw is surprisingly thankful for many things that resulted following the horrific August 8 assault on the singer in New York City, an incident that left him hospitalized.
"I had an encounter with a group of people in New York City. It didn't go well for me, but I lived. I lived and I have all my [faculties] and I mean, not to say that I didn't have fear, but I feel really good about the experience overall," Gavin told Access Hollywood on Friday. "It was a little nerve-wracking — the first time I touched my face I felt things were a little swollen, but I smiled when I felt my mouth and I realized I had all my teeth.
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"It's funny how the little things that you take for granted mean so much," he added.
The 34-year-old singer was assaulted by a group of people in the early hours of August 8, and was later possibly hit by a taxi (Gavin told Access he does not if he was hit by or stumbled upon a taxi, after being bloodied in the attack) before being taken to New York's Bellevue Hospital.
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On Friday, Gavin told Access Hollywood he didn't realize how bad things were until he saw the reaction from his loved ones.
"It didn't hit me until I saw the look on my parents' faces and my brother when they visited me at the hospital and that really kind of allowed me to see that it was bad," he said. "They were my mirror and that was heavy, but I will say that there was a lot of love that came out of it. Even though you may feel like there's a lack of humanity because it can happen to you, you experience much more humanity from the response you're getting from people."
Looking at it optimistically, the singer, who is currently promoting his latest single, "Not Over You," off his upcoming album "Sweeter," which will be released on Tuesday, said some of the injuries he received happen to another kind of person on a weekly basis.
"It happens, something happens to everybody and this happened to me, he said. "This is — it's nothing that doesn't happen to professional football players on the weekends… I had a concussion."
While his memory of the incident is a little murky, Gavin said he's doing all right now.
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"I just don't remember much. I got dinged up and I lived through it and I'm happy I did," he said.
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- 600-650g/1lb 5oz-1lb 7oz skinless chicken breasts (about 5 breasts), each halved to make 2 thin breasts
- 1 tbsp oil, plus extra for the tin
- 170g pack breadcrumb stuffing mix (we used Paxo sage & onion)
- 500g good-quality flavoured sausage (we used pork & leek)
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Season the chicken breasts. Heat the oil in a frying pan over a high heat and brown the chicken very quickly on each side – you might need to fry these in batches. Don't worry about cooking the chicken all the way through. Set aside.
Set aside 2 tbsp of the stuffing mixture. Make up the rest using half the amount of water that the packet says.
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Martha Gellhorn was the woman who may have out-Hemingway-ed Hemingway. And for a passionate five-year period, she was the author's great love.
In the HBO film "Hemingway & Gelhorn," Nicole Kidman breathes life into the one of the most significant – and, as a woman, pioneering – war correspondents of the early 20th Century . She also became the distaff portion of one of the literary world's most intriguing couplings when she embarked on a hard-living, hard-loving, hard-drinking life of adventure with her era's most romanticized, machismo writer, Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen). She is credited with inspiring him to write his defining work For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Their love story, which premieres tonight at 9 pm ET on HBO, sheds fresh light on the lives of both a legendary literary giant and a journalist whose historical significance deserves re-exploring, as stars Kidman, Owen and director Philp Kaufman reveal.
Nicole Kidman: I think Martha found her voice when she was with Hemingway. And he was a big part of helping her to, as he says in a line in the film: "Get in the ring and start throwing some punches for what you believe in." The great thing about Gellhorn was that she was the first female war correspondent, really, and she wrote about people's lives, and she wrote with such direct truth. And that's hard to do. When you see, during their relationship, is her sort of formulating who she is as a writer -- she's not Hemingway. She didn't want to write novels. She wants to be a correspondent. And I love that she was the first woman to really do that. You see her on the frontline in the film. You see her hands bloody. She's a sponge, and then she's able to sort of feed that back to America and the world. And she was a trailblazer.
Clive Owen: I think she left a huge mark. She was probably the serious love of his life. The relationship lasted about seven years, and it was incredibly intense, incredibly passionate. He met his match, really. And I think that when they came together, they were fiercely intelligent and fiercely passionate. And they did, for that time, an enormous amount of travelling together. He was at the height of his powers. They were seeing the world. It was an incredible relationship. And there's something very special in the fact that it only lasted a certain amount of time. But the story of the film, really, is more about how she does find her voice, and becomes more passionate about what's going on in the outside world.
Philip Kaufman: It was based, in part, on Martha Gellhorn's memoirs, stories that she wrote. They go to China together, she wrote a book called "Travels with Myself and Another." We went into all the Hemingway material, biographers, and so forth. And the idea was when they first meet in Sloppy Joe's in Key West, it's almost as if when she walks in the room it's a character – Lady Brett Ashley –coming out of his own novel, walking into his life, and then he becomes infatuated with her. And he is, as Clive says, at the height of his powers, and we all know about the Hemingway code of behavior. Probably and possibly the most influential of all American writers. Every writer –Salinger, Norman Mailer, you know – was stamped by Hemingway's style and so forth. And Martha Gellhorn came to learn that code of behavior, and in a sense, transcended – she out-Hemingways Hemingway.
Kidman: He thought he wanted a woman who was an adventurer, and then when he finally gets her and she won't settle down, and she won't be domesticated, he doesn't know what to do with that. It's not the crux of it, but it certainly is something that feeds through the whole story.
Kaufman: Of course, at the beginning he's married to Pauline and he set up a life in Key West, and at the end he's married to Mary Welsh – both of which are more secure relationships. With Martha, it's the life of adventure, it really is. And that's what was great about Hemingway in a way: was that he wasn't just a writer. There was nobody more diligent than Hemingway at writing, but he also was a man of action. He went into places, and he lived the life of the writer. The idea of grace under pressure, that was the Hemingway code – how you behave was something that, long after Hemingway was gone, Martha Gellhorn carried on. She was an extraordinary woman whose place in history was sort of eclipsed by the passage of time.
Owen: When I took this on, it was a huge challenge and I took a lot of time off before, to get ready for it. And I did a lot of research. I read everything. I immersed myself as much as I could. And there's certainly an element of playing Hemingway that you've got to be on the front with the situations he got into, and the way he was, so he was very much a part you have to attack. There's a danger in playing any part that you go over the top, but we had such a brilliantly written script. It was so smart and intelligent, and sensitive and nuanced, that it was a case of just trusting the material and committing to that, really.
Kidman: I'm attracted to many different roles, but there's times when I feel the need to play something that inspires me. And I think Martha inspires me. And in the same way even playing, say, Virginia Woolf. I learned from playing her. It was kind of a necessity, in the journey of my career, to find these women at times, and tell their stories. And it's a blessing because they're very hard stories to get made a lot of times, and that's why I'm so grateful to HBO for being willing to do this. And, yeah, I love these women that defy the odds, and that burn bright. And I think Martha's story, how it's depicted here, and in the truth of her – she has a line in the film where she says, "All that objectivity sh**t – right?" Sorry to swear, But it's true. She didn't believe in being objective as a journalist. She believed in having an opinion. And I think that's important in this day and age, having an opinion, and being willing to stand up for that no matter who throws sticks and stones.
Kaufman: We had interviews with the real Martha Gellhorn, and those were her lines…They are the real Martha Gellhorn's words, and as much as possible, we have the words of Hemingway and Gellhorn throughout the movie: famous lines that you can read that you would think couldn't be played in that way. And when you work with genius actors, they have a way of making things real and finding the heart of the matter. At some point, working with these two and the rest of the great actors, my role was to be an audience, just to sit there. And I enjoyed so much watching them work, sometimes I forgot to say "Cut."
Kidman: It really emphasizes that they came together through war. They fed off that drama and that energy, in a way. Two people that would make love through a building collapsing – that says something about who they are! And that's why I think that was important, that scene, because you really see that this is where they're their most comfortable, their most passionate, and that's where their love thrives.
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Today we are having some special hop along fun with the new releases! This release has brought a ton of fun and new things... aren't you LOVIN that new curly girl Gwen?! And today is no exception. Up until now all the clear stamp sets have been a 4" x 3" size but we've stepped up our game and stepped up the size! There are two sets this release that are a bigger 4" x 6" size! So say hello to Warm Wishes Tia and Deck the Halls Tobie!
My card today features Tia and her cute little penguin friend from the Warm Wishes set. Both of these two polar pals have an armload of presents to help spread the Christmas cheer to the rest of the gang hanging out in the snow. :)
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Last year's Mortal Kombat reboot was never released on console in Australia, because it exceeded the country's MA15+ rating. Without an adults-only rating Down Under, the game couldn't be put on shelves.
With the game getting a later release on the PlayStation Vita, though, publishers Warner Bros. figured they'd try their luck and re-submit Mortal Kombat for classification. They didn't make any changes to the title's violence, mind you. They just hit the re-submit button.
"Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment submitted Mortal Kombat Vita for classification to the Australian Classification Board as we believed that the smaller screen of the PlayStation Vita greatly reduced the impact of violence.", the publisher told Kotaku Australia in a statement.
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Disposable beauty: Wood thinks outside the bag
The ubiquitous plastic bag—flimsily useful for a minute or two and then thrown away without a second thought. Scourge of the environment, tossed-aside plastic bags clog sewers, foul waterways, and often flap out-of-reach in tree branches. Yet like the character of Ricky Fitts in the film American Beauty, artist K. Wood sees loveliness in this mass-produced, utilitarian item that most people despise (if they even think of it at all).
For her exhibit, "Contain," currently on view in the Dean's Gallery at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Wood puts a new twist—literally and figuratively—on the disposable plastic grocery sack. She shreds not only the bags but also their cookie-cutter image by transforming them into unique sculptural objects that recall both exquisite handmade crafts and organic phenomena, like insect hives and undersea plants.
Occasionally using only plastic strips but more often incorporating wire for form and structure, Wood winds, weaves, and coils her unlikely base material to create basket-like "containers" that are more beautiful than functional. Wood is particularly adept at working with color, and she plays with density and translucence to create different effects. Wrapped tightly, red plastic bags resemble coral beading. Twisted lightly, tan plastic strips become indistinguishable from raffia—except for the black lettering Woods allows to show here and there.
Wood challenges viewers' perceptions about what is manufactured and what is natural, what is mass-produced and what is handcrafted, and what is worthless and what is exquisite. In several pieces, she skillfully mixes textures. "Container no 12" begins with an outer left curl of woven citrine-like yellow, then moves into an interior sweep of wrapped vines in shades of emerald and peridot that curve back out to terminate in a thick gray-green fringe. In the cocoon-like "Container no. 13," spiraling vertical sections of woven ecru alternate with red netting that usually holds oranges and grapefruits.
Wood's most beautiful piece, though, is "Container no. 2," which simultaneously resembles an asymmetrical basket and an undersea flower. A loosely coiled tomato-red center radiates arms like a starfish. Between these limbs, areas of woven gray surround the base and send twisted fronds of cream and gray flowing to the outer oval rim. Light passes through it casting lacy shadows on the wall.
With "Contain," Wood has taken something functional but formless and altered it to have wondrous form without function— except to open eyes and inspire thought.
K. Wood's exhibition, "Contain," is on view through August 26 in the Dean's Gallery on the second floor of the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Campbell Hall. 982-2921.
Note: The artist's last name was misspelled in the print version of this story. It is Wood, not Woods; and the correct name has been updated in this archived online edition.Read more on: artK. WoodsculptureUVA School of Architecture


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"Despicable Me" wasn't such a bad guy after all, it seems, opening at the top of the box office with an estimated $60.1 million.
The first 3-D animated movie from Universal Pictures stars Steve Carell as the voice of Gru, a bumbling villain with plans to steal the moon — until three adorable orphan girls enter his life. Jason Segel, Russell Brand and Julie Andrews are among the star-studded voice cast.
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Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal, said Sunday that "Despicable Me" far exceeded the studio's expectations for opening weekend.
"Thirty (million) would have been a win for the studio — because it's a new creative idea, we really didn't know what we had, so we backed in saying (million)," said Rocco. "I would never have said $50 million-plus."
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Rocco believes a number of factors worked in the movie's favor, including jokes for the kids and more grown-up humor and a warmhearted story for adults. But the tiny, yellow Minions — quirky, pill-shaped creatures who spout gibberish and help Gru carry out his dastardly plans — were appealing to both, and were a huge part of the film's marketing campaign.
The week's other new wide release, "Predators," grossed .3 million to open at No. 3. A sequel of sorts to the 1987 sci-fi cult classic "Predator," the 20th Century Fox film stars Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne as mercenaries being stalked by alien hunters in the jungle.
Robert Rodriguez ("Planet Terror," the "Spy Kids" movies) wrote an early version of the script in the 1990s, produced the film at his Texas compound and his name appears high on the credits — an association that proved fruitful, said Bert Livingston, a 20th Century Fox distribution executive
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"People wanted to see the film because Robert Rodriguez was attached to it, and he's the best at what he does, and we got our audience," Livingston said. "It was 70-percent male and they liked the film."
Meanwhile, last week's juggernaut, "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," fell to second place with .35 million. The third film in the wildly popular vampire franchise has now made 7 million in its first 12 days. It's expected to surpass part two, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," which grossed 6.6 million when it came out last year.
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"'Twilight' dropped less than 50 percent — that's impressive to me," said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "That's a really strong hold for a movie that, in its first day, made million."
It's been a strong series of weeks at the box office, especially after a rough start to the summer with movies such as "Shrek Forever After" and "Sex and the City 2" not opening to expectations. Next weekend brings "Inception," Christopher Nolan's hugely anticipated first film since the blockbuster "The Dark Knight," which opened on the same weekend two years ago.
"You can't underestimate the importance of momentum in the marketplace," Dergarabedian said. "'The Karate Kid,' 'Toy Story 3,' 'Eclipse' and now 'Despicable Me' — we're on a roll and it feels more like the beginning of the summer than the middle of the summer."
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "Despicable Me," .1 million.
2. "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," .35 million.
3. "Predators," .3 million.
4. "Toy Story 3," million.
5. "The Last Airbender," .15 million.
6. "Grown Ups," .4 million.
7. "Knight and Day," .85 million.
8. "The Karate Kid," .7 million.
9. "The A-Team," .8 million.
10. "Cyrus," .4 million.
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Welch to HP Board: You Don't Know Jack!
Well, look at that, Jack Welch just one-upped Larry Ellison in the HP-bashing game. The master manager unloaded on the company today during a series of interviews at the World Business Forum, slagging HP's board for mishandling its CEOs and the company's management succession plans.
"The Hewlett-Packard board has committed sins over the last 10 years," the former GE CEO told The Wall Street Journal. "They have not done one of the primary jobs of a board, which is to prepare the next generation of leadership….They end up blowing up the CEOs and don't have anyone else in mind to come in. Where the hell was the leadership development? Who are these board members?"
Interestingly, Welch (pictured above, measuring his respect for HP's directors) seems particularly annoyed that HP passed over Todd Bradley, executive VP of the company's Personal Systems Group and a former GE employee, for the top job. In a second interview with Bloomberg TV, he lambasted HP for hiring yet another outsider as CEO and wondered aloud why the company didn't just hire Bradley.
"It tells you that they haven't done the management development job," he said. "Look, they hired Carly before Mark Hurd, so this is the second time that they've had to do that. You know Todd Bradley is out there and Todd Bradley worked for us at GE and Todd Bradley is a very good guy. Somehow or other he wasn't picked. I don't know any of the dynamics. So they chose to change the game again. This is their third outside CEO in eight years or something like that. It is obviously a board that isn't thinking about management succession internally for a long time."
Asked by the Journal if he knows any HP board members, Welch said, "I wouldn't admit it if I did."
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The accidental scientist: two degrees = one intriguing careerJody Arthur | 2002 Alumna, M.S. Geology | Department of Earth Sciences Once upon a time, Jody Arthur expected to spend her career looking for facts under every rock for the news stories she'd write as a budding Woodward or Bernstein.
Once upon a time, Jody Arthur expected to spend her career looking for facts under every rock for the news stories she'd write as a budding Woodward or Bernstein. But a decision to add an English degree to go with the journalism degree she was earning from IUPUI took her on a little detour. And her new path turned the Bloomington native and nontraditional student into a self-described "accidental scientist" who now works for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM, for short) in the office of water quality. And in a bit of irony not lost on the 46-year-old Arthur, one of her many tasks as a senior environmental manager is to gather facts and report them to the public — usually through journalists. "I guess I've always liked the idea of keeping my two degrees married," she laughs.
Summer study turns to love
Arthur's path from IUPUI to IDEM was circuitous, to say the least. She earned a bachelor's degree from the IU School of Journalism in 1998 as expected, but before completing that work, decided to expand her options by earning a second degree in English. "But that required some science, so I wound up taking a summer course in geology," Arthur recalls. It didn't take long before she was hooked. "It was like learning how to see all over again," she adds. "It's a whole new way to understand the world around us!"
For an ardent outdoor enthusiast, the lure of learning the history of the world as told by rocks — and the rest of Mother Nature's posse — was irresistible. Better still, Arthur found that not only did she have an interest in the field, she had an aptitude for it. She wasn't ready to give up journalism — she enjoys writing too much for that — but she was curious where geology might lead. Then she met Lenore Tedesco. Arthur calls the Purdue School of Science faculty member, veteran environmental researcher and head of the Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES) "a human dynamo" and an extraordinary teacher.
Tedesco "knows how to excite your imagination, when to challenge you, and how to create a good research experience for graduate students who will need that skill as they move through their careers," Arthur says. That imagination and enthusiasm led Arthur to a master's degree in geology in 2002.
Dual backgrounds
The skills Arthur acquired throughout her IUPUI careers — both of them — have served her well as part of the state's agency overseeing environmental impact. In journalism, she honed her "ability to listen. I don't think any discipline teaches its students how to listen quite so well as journalism," Arthur says, and credited teachers like James Brown (the school's outgoing executive associate dean) with helping her master the skill. "It's crucial if you're going to get a story right, and I find the same skill helps me find key information in my day-to-day work." Another key skill from journalism is multitasking. "Time management is a big key for me," Arthur says. "My job comes at me from so many different directions." Her science training has played a pivotal role, too. "Doing research at IUPUI, I learned how to gather a lot of information, then organize it in order to develop conclusions, something I do all the time for the state," Arthur says. One problem: the amounts of information can be massive. Sometimes, Arthur says, "you just need to lock yourself in a room and think about it all."
A big share of her IDEM time is spent maintaining Indiana's database of water quality assessments. That information is the foundation of reports on water quality problems throughout the state, a report she releases every two years. But she also finds herself supporting other parts of the office. "I feel a little like I'm a traffic cop" on the information highway, she laughs. For a long time, Arthur admits feeling like "I had to apologize" for having a journalism background in a science-based setting. "Then I met with some people from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in Cincinnati, and one of them told me something that really hit home," Arthur says. "He said 'you can teach a writer the science, but you can't teach a scientist to write.' That's when I realized that I needed to stop apologizing for my (journalism) background and start using it to my advantage!"
Her dual perspectives occasionally clash.
"I get a little peeved at the state of science in journalism," Arthur says. "So much is focused on that narrow list of things that are wrong, and so little attention is paid to the things people are doing right. We need to know that we're accomplishing things along the way, if only to encourage ourselves that we can reach our goals." That's why she always tries to leaven the water quality report with success stories. "They don't get picked up as much," she admits with a chuckle, "but once in a while ..."
Connected to campus
IUPUI is still a daily part of Arthur's life. Husband Jack is a graduate (BA in General Studies in 2000) and is a computer support specialist for the School of Medicine's biochemistry and molecular biology department, and oldest son Isaac graduated from the Herron School of Art & Design this spring. And she maintains ties to many of the people who helped shape her professional life. "IUPUI is made for people like me, people who want to explore new options to careers, or change the direction of their lives," she says. "Some people outside the university used to think the adjunct faculty here were a drawback, but I've found that they understand the material in very different ways. They use it in their work lives, and they're able to pass that (experience) along to students who get a real-life perspective!"
She believes the wide array of certificate programs offered at IUPUI contributes greatly to professional life in the city and throughout the state. "They help people keep up with changes in the field, to keep learning and growing," Arthur says. "IUPUI is much more nimble than most any other campus," Arthur adds. "That's crucial these days, because the time of 30-year or lifetime work careers is pretty much over. IUPUI caters to people in transition, and it constantly helps graduates hit the ground running." Her own academic career path exemplifies the campus's dual nature: she earned one degree from an IU school (Journalism) and another from a Purdue school (Science), and is not far from adding that English degree that changed the course of her life about a decade back.
"Being an urban university, there is constant cross-pollination going on," says Arthur. "IUPUI has never been traditional — heck, it was born non-traditionally! But that's what makes things here so fresh and so new; the perspectives of teachers, researchers and students are shaped by partnerships and fields that might never find one another at other schools."


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As a closing circle, i am again in the same doubt of when i started: How many varl should get to Boersgard?
We know that Saga2 default start provide you with much more varl than how many was possible in the first game, but that's another story.
Right now, after some partial official bugfixing, we're in this situation:
You arrive a Einartoft with about 60 varl.
- a) If you leave you will have: 60, plus 38 (volunteers + wounded), plus the same 38 (bug), plus 5 (ONLY if Gunnulf is dead, a bug)= something between 103 and 141;
- b) If you help Eyvind in trying/succesfully destroying the bridge: 60, plus 5 (ONLY if Gunnulf is dead, a bug) -4 (Krumr event)= 56 to 61;
- c) If you let Iver confront Jorundr and destry the bridge: 60, plus 23 ("many" varl that join Iver), plus 5 (as before) -4 (Krumr event)= 79 to 84;
In Boersgard the gate breach event will trigger if you lose all the varl (and fighter) and you could lose a total of 85 varl there.
Honestly, i think all this have no sense at all and should be reworked. Here's my proposition:
- a-fixed) 38 (fixed)+6(fixed) (when Krumr say he will stay at Einartoft, his varl warrior from Wyrmtoe will remain too, it makes sense to me)= 44 [Worst case scenario, breach could happen]
- b-fixed) 60+6-4= 62 (better case scenario, breach could still happen);
- c-fixed) 60+42+6-4= 104 (best case scenario, breach could be easily prevented)
I am considering to raise varl losses in Boersgard as follow:
day2: 14 --> 19
day3: 25 --> 33
day4: 46 --> 53
The sum of the possible losses will raise from 85 to 105, so in the worst case scenario it's still possible to trigger the gate breach event.
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Heavy rains paralyse life in Mumbai; road, rail traffic hit1 min read . Updated: 02 Jul 2014, 04:23 PM IST
Met officials predict showers to continue for the next 48 hours after which the rainfall condition may slacken
Met officials predict showers to continue for the next 48 hours after which the rainfall condition may slacken
Mumbai: Heavy rains on Wednesday lashed the metropolis, severely disrupting road, rail and suburban train services and inconveniencing lakhs of commuters and office goers.
"There is a traffic jam due to water logging in suburban Dadar, Parel, Chembur and LBS Marg in Ghatkopar. The Andheri subway has been closed down completely due to water logging. We have been getting distress calls from citizens right from the morning," a senior Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) official told PTI.
Traffic came to a halt on the Western Express Highway and on roads leading to the domestic airport from Kherwadi junction.
Mumbai suburban trains, the city's life line was worst-hit due to water logging on tracks, delaying local services upto more than a hour on some routes.
"There a few locations on the central railway like Kurla, Ghatkopar, Vikhroli and Bhandup where water has flooded the tracks and hence the main line is running late by about 20-25 minutes," a railway official said.
There is severe water logging on the Harbour line at stations like Kurla and Tilaknagar, which has resulted in the delay of train services by more than a hour, he said.
Several commuters were stranded for hours due to the rail traffic halt between Kurla and Chunabhatti stations, another official said. However, train services on the Western line are running with a "small delay" on the Virar-Churchgate route.
"We are continuously monitoring the situation of water logging and trying our best to resolve the problem at the earliest. Since these are non-peak hours, the damage caused is comparatively less," the official added.
Flights from Mumbai airport are delayed by half an hour. Seven flights have been diverted due to heavy rains.
Meteorological department officials predict showers to continue for the next 48 hours after which the rainfall condition may slacken.
"So far we had a weak spell of rains in Mumbai. A low pressure has now formed over the Bay of Bengal which has caused rainfall in the city. We expect the rainfall to last with the same intensity for the next 48 hours and after that it may reduce," V.K. Rajeev, director of weather forecasting, Mumbai Meteorological department said.
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Kinston residents, veterans turn out for annual Salute parade, ceremony at Pearson Park
James Williams of Kinston stood along Herritage Street Saturday, the sun beating down, gazing as veterans of all ages � along with classic cars, marching bands, military vehicles and more � passed for the 12th annual Salute Veterans Parade.
�I think it�s right good,� he said when the parade ended. �I enjoyed it.�
The parade is a major piece of this weekend�s annual tribute to veterans. Known as Salute, it includes the parade, ceremonies, speeches, a stage show and memorial service.
Participants in Saturday�s parade -- led by the American Legion Riders motorcycle group -- included local Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts, Kinston High School�s marching band and JROTC unit, Elks Lodge 740 of Kinston, Greenville Public Safety Pipes and Drums, McDonald�s � which provided an SUV with the McCaf�logo emblazoned on the side and the Hamburglar sitting on top waving � veterans organizations and more.
Parade watchers could see a trailer bearing a board with the names of Lenoir County residents who have given their lives in conflicts ranging from World War I to the Global War on Terror, courtesy of Bethel Baptist Church of Pink Hill and J.C. Howard Farms.
Another trailer held a model of the destroyer USS Waterman (DE-740), courtesy of the Destroyer-Escort Sailors Association, Carolinas Chapter.
Watchers were also treated to the sight of a handful of military trucks and jeeps, provided by the Military Vehicle Preservation Group of Wilson.
�I liked it all, liked everything in it,� Williams said. �(I) enjoyed the whole works.�
Lekisha Leach of Kinston came Saturday with her husband Tony, 8-year-old daughter Zhimeria Williams and 5-year-old niece Sakyiah Williams.
�It was nice, it lifted my spirits up,� said Leach.
She thought of her late father, who served during the Vietnam War.
�My father was a veteran, so it was nice,� she said.
�Welcome home�
The participants in the parade lined up at Edwards Funeral Home and traveled about half a mile down Herritage Street to Pearson Park.
Vietnam veteran Arthur Gray of Kinston walked through the crowd at the park, shaking hands with fellow veterans and telling them, �Welcome home.�
Gray wore a cap indicating he had been wounded in combat. He said he was in Vietnam with the U.S. Marine Corps during 1965 and 1966, and was wounded by a booby trap as he and his fellow Marines prepared to set a night ambush.
He noted that Saturday was also the USMC�s birthday � the Corps turned 237 years old.
�When we see another marine we just say, �Happy birthday,� � Gray explained.
Gray said many Vietnam veterans received no welcome when they returned home. He called Saturday�s parade and other events �heartwarming.�
�It was an unpopular war, but we went off to serve just like any other conflict and it feels really good to see the people honoring us now,� he said.
Veterans and their friends and families gathered to hear tributes to veterans, including one given by retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Alfred K. Flowers, who was born and raised in Jones County � he was also grand marshal in the parade.
He grew up in a sharecropping family around Phillips Crossroads, and went on to become longest-serving active duty member of the Air Force.
Flowers retired Jan. 1 after nearly 47 years in the service. His last assignment was serving as deputy assistant secretary for budget, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, Washington, D.C., according to his Air Force biography.
�I�m proud of my Jones and Lenoir County heritages � Thank you all veterans for all that you have done and all you continue to do,� Flowers told the audience.
The general spoke of the millions of Americans who have served in the military, and those who are �in harm�s way� today, such as the tens of thousands still serving in Afghanistan.
�We can hardly wait until the end of (fiscal year 2014) when we have all of our veterans come home from Afghanistan,� he said.
Flowers also spoke of the recent sacrifice made by two former Navy SEALs, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who were killed Sept. 11 during a terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Although they, along with U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and State Department staffer Sean Smith, were killed, Flowers said their actions saved 20 other American personnel.
�A country is only as good as the people in it,� he said. �A land that could produce such heroes is worth serving.�
Flowers also encouraged those in the audience to consider the thousands of American veterans who are unemployed or under-employed. He said veterans make up one out of every four members of the homeless population.
He implored the audience to not only say �thank you� to a veteran, but take action to assist him or her.
�Saying thank you is good; showing (your thanks) is much better,� he said.
Giving thanks
Members of the Salute organizing committee and local leaders also gave tribute to veterans Saturday.
Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy welcomed the community to Pearson Park, and spoke about his father, Buster Murphy, who served in the military.
He said his father�s service had given him the freedom to choose how he wanted to serve his community � through elected office.
�Thank you,� he told the veterans. �Our country loves you, this community embraces you, and to many of you here today, welcome home.�
Eric Cantu, a member of the Salute committee and commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2771, asked the audience to remember the nation�s prisoners of war and those listed as missing in action.
He indicated an empty chair meant to symbolize those still missing, and mentioned a current U.S. POW, Army Sgt. Bowe Berghdal, who has been a prisoner of the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2009.
�Pray for him, pray for his family and do not let your legislators forget him,� Cantu said.
Memebers of the Croatan Lodge of the Order of the Arrow, part of the Eastern Carolina Council of the Boy Scouts, performed a Native American dance and sang in honor of the veterans.
George Washington of Kinston, who served two tours in Vietnam and was a U.S. Army drill sergeant, recruiter and more, led the crowd in marching cadence.
Guy Basden, chairman of the Salute committee, thanked those who gave �their time, love and commitment� to put this weekend�s events together.
�Thank you Kinston and Lenoir County for your support and your participation,� he said.
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The Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, has offered Serbia CZK 10 million in financial aid to help deal with a wave of refugees. Speaking on a visit to Belgrade on Tuesday, Mr. Sobotka also said he supported Serbia's accession talks with the European Union, which he described as great progress. He offered his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic the help of Czech experts on both migration and EU accession. The two delegations at Tuesday's talks also discussed mutual trade and investment opportunities.
Czech striker Matěj Vydra has gone on a season-long loan from the English Premier League club Watford to Reading, who are in the second tier of English football, Sky Sports reported. Vydra scored 16 times for Watford last season as the club won promotion to the top flight. He had been at Watford on loan and only signed a permanent contract in July. The 23-year-old has scored four goals in 15 appearances for the Czech national team.
A lawyer for Kevin Dahlgren says his client's legal action against being remanded in custody on four counts of murder is unlikely to succeed, Czech Television reported. Attorney Richard Špíšek said the Regional Court in Brno was likely to issue a ruling on his client's action within three weeks. Dahlgren on Monday became the first US citizen extradited to the Czech Republic, where the 23-year-old was wanted over the killing of four relatives of his in Brno in 2013.
The actress Vlasta Chramostová has been inducted into a new Hall of Fame at the National Theatre in Prague. Chramostová, who is 88 years old, was the first person honoured in this way. A signatory of the Charter 77 protest document, she was active in the Velvet Revolution. Speaking at Tuesday's induction ceremony, Culture Minister Daniel Herman described her as a great moral paragon.
The Czech Republic is among the three European Union countries with the lowest unemployment, according to figures released by Eurostat on Tuesday. The Czech Republic, like Malta, had a jobless rate of 5.1 percent in July, with both behind Germany, which had an unemployment rate of 4.7 percent. The EU average was 9.5 percent.
Almost 120,000 first graders started school on Tuesday morning as the 2015–2016 academic year got underway at kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools around the Czech Republic. The overall number of pupils has increased by 30,000 since September last year, though demographic trends have resulted in a decline in numbers at secondary schools. The minister of education, Kateřina Valachová, said on Tuesday that she planned to secure higher pay for teachers and to increase the number of psychologists and social workers working with schools.
Police in Austria have charged a Czech man with people smuggling after catching him with 37 migrants in his truck near Vienna in July, a Czech Embassy official in the city told the website Echo24.cz. The man, who is said to be between 20 and 25 years old, is being held on remand and could face up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. His lawyer said he had made a confession.
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, told children at a primary school on Tuesday that if he were to choose his successor it would be Pavel Rychetský, the chairman of the Constitutional Court. He made the comment in a discussion with older pupils during a visit to their school in Prague as it reopened after the summer. Justice Rychetský served as deputy prime minister in a government headed by Mr. Zeman in the late 1990s. In an opinion poll in June he was named the third most trustworthy senior state official.
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka says the Czech military is on standby to help cope with the migrant crisis if the situation should dramatically worsen. Following talks with President Milos Zeman on Monday, Mr. Sobotka said that the police still had the situation under control and had so far not requested assistance. However he said the migrant situation in neigbouring states was being closely monitored and in the event of need the army was prepared to deploy between 900 and 2,600 soldiers in the border areas at short notice. President Miloš Zeman said on Monday that unless the EU takes effective measures to secure its outer borders the Czech Republic should move on its own to step up border security.
Police in the Moravian border town of Břeclav detained over 200 migrants on international trains from Austria and Hungary in the course of Monday night. The vast majority of them were from Syria and the group included 61 children. They were accommodated at local sports facilities and will gradually be moved to asylum centres in Moravia. According to the ctk news agency the police were prepared for the influx and had busses on standby. The Moravian authorities have been gearing up for a steep rise in the number of migrants after Hungary enabled them to board Western-bound trains en masse in order to alleviate the situation on overcrowded railway stations.


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I'm not writing my usual Politics Live blog today but, as an alternative, here's Politics Live: readers' edition. It's intended to be a place where you can catch up with the latest news and find links to good politics blogs and articles on the web.
Please feel free to use this as somewhere you can comment on any of the day's political stories - just as you do when I'm writing the daily blog.
It would be particularly useful for readers to flag up new material in the comments - breaking news or blogposts or tweets that are worth passing on because someone is going to find them interesting. A lot of what I do on my blog is aggregation - finding the good stuff and passing it on - and you can do this just as well as me.
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So you want to display virtual reality (VR) panoramas on a cell phone. If your cellphone is Java-enabled, this tutorial may be for you.
I wanted to understand the buzz about VR on cellphone. To be honest, on such a tiny display it is not nearly as spectacular as on an average PC display. But it has its merits, if only to illustrate the concept of VR when discussing with a potential customer.
I used Helmut Dersch's PTViewerME2. Don't expect the quality of the legendary older brother PTViewer, another creation of professor Dersch, improved and currently maintained by Fulvio Senore.
PTviewerME2 can work in two way: stand alone or with separate media files.
In stand alone mode, the media and the applet are packaged in a single midlet. While it is possible to pack multiple VR with the midlet, it is not recommended because of memory issues. In this tutorial, we will make a single stand alone VR.
With separate media files, the VR is fetched from another archive or from the Internet. In both cases, the cellphone will keep asking if the midlet should be granted access to the filesystem or to the network, unless it is signed. Signing is beyond this tutorial.
Java on cellphones is a lottery – there are dozens of variations of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and little control over them. Compatibility is an issue. This can be frustrating. There are four entries for Java in the list of 101 great programming quotes. Read them and get over it – this is Java.
Still with me? OK, let's go. In this first part we will look at the requirements and prepare the media. Later we will produce and deploy your VR to your cellphone and discuss advanced features.
Cellphone Requirements
Besides a color display and as much heap memory as possible, the cell phone will need the following Java technologies / profiles:
- JSR 75 FileConnection and PIM API
- JSR 184 Mobile 3D Graphics API
Don't worry about the weird acronyms, just look at this table. Is your phone listed? If it has MIDP 2.0 or higher, CLDC 1.1 or higher and a Yes in the JSR 184 column, it is likely to work. The size of heap column gives you an idea of what resolution you can afford before Java crashes with an out of memory error. If your phone is not listed in the above table, check its tech specs at the manufacturer's website.
Even if the phone's specs are OK, the ultimate test is playing an actual VR. Do it now before embarking in a journey that may end in frustration if it does not work.
- Download this zipped VR
- Verify its MD5 sum
- Unzip it
- Connect the phone to the computer
- Transfer the pair of JAR/JAD files
- Play them. Use the phone's cursors to pan left and right and tilt up and down. You can also zoom in and out.
Please comment back here with your phone model and what worked and what did not. Sometimes the boundaries of the cubefaces are visible. This may be due to the Java Virtual Machine's (JVM) JPEG decoder or other factors that can't be controlled by PTViewerME2.
Computer Requirements
Now that it is determined that the VRs will work on your phone, prepare your computer to author your own.
- If it is not yet on your computer, get and install Java.
- You will need software to produce QTVR out of your equirectangular images. Thomas Rauscher's Pano2VR is a comfortable choice. Buy a license. Alternatively use Bruno Postle's jpeg2qtvr, a free perl command line script.
- Get the PTViewerME2 archive and the Java Application Descriptor (JAD) from Professor Dersch's website and save them in a folder on your desktop.
- Last but not least, you will need an equirectangular image like the one below.
Prepare the media
Make a QTVR from your equirectangular image. Use a cubeface of 256px, and enough JPG compression to keep the QTVR smaller than 200Kb. A discussion of these parameters will follow in a future installment.
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The college football season may be in the books for the 2017 season, bu there is still a piece of hardware to present to one of the sport's top players from the most recent season. On Monday, the Lombardi Foundation unveiled a list of 21 players named as a candidate for the Lombardi Award for the 2017 season. This year, the award is open to players of any position based on performance, leadership, character and resiliency and the list of candidates includes a number of names you should be familiar with.
2017 Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield, 2016 Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson, Bryce Love, Saquon Barkley, Roquan Smith, and J.T. Barrett are all among the players nominated for the award. The list of 21 candidates will be whittled down to seven finalists by a select panel of award voters this week, and four of those finalists will be invited to the Lombardi Honors presentation for the awarding of the Lombardi Award. The seven initial finalists will be announced this coming Monday, January 22.
Saquon Barkley, Penn State (RB)
J.T. Barrett, Ohio State (QB)
Bradley Chubb, N.C. State (DE)
Tyrell Crosby, Oregon (OT)
DeShon Elliott, Texas (S)
Minkah Fitzpatrick, Alabama (S)
Shaquem Griffin, UCF (LB)
Lamar Jackson, Louisville (QB)
Derwin James, Florida State (S)
Joel Lanning, Iowa State (LB/QB)
Bryce Love, Stanford (RB)
Hercules Mata'afa, Washington State (DE)
Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma (QB)
Quenton Nelson, Notre Dame (G)
Ed Oliver, Houston (DT)
Da'Ron Payne, Alabama (DT)
Rashaad Penny, San Diego State (RB)
Roquan Smith, Georgia (LB)
Vita Vea, Washington (DT)
James Washington, Oklahoma State (WR)
Christian Wilkins, Clemson (DT)
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I was reading my excessive list of blogs I check daily at work and noticed they were looking for guest posters during the vaca. (I really do hate that word, but it's so easy to use.) I thought I'd drop my hat into the ring as it were so here I am!
I guess I should introduce myself a bit prior to getting to the meat of what I'd like to discuss with you fine readers today. I've been playing WoW since the early days, November 26th, 2004 is when I created my account and my very first character was a Night Elf Warrior. Rawr. I dabbled through vanilla, and managed to get myself to around level 43 and quit cold turkey for a good year. I would have had a nifty zergling or panda pet as well but I really despise a certain gaming establishment that sold my copy of the original CE I had paid for, but that's a story for another time. No hard feelings. Really. No, really.
Way back when I started to play my significant other started to play with me. We both bought the game, made some Night Elves because they were cool looking and went on our way. She took a break about half a year before I did, and then I took my good long break.
We picked the game back up when BC was released and I created a hunter at that point. She a druid and we went along our ways and played through BC to Wrath. Long story slightly less long, today I am an official alt-a-holic. I have four 80's and turned out to be a raid leader in the guild I'm currently in. She's also amassed a number of 80's under her belt and we both have a good selection of people to choose from to play.
That said, I read a lot of WoW related blogs as I stated above. Some of the ones I read often have posts about their spouse who plays with them and it got me wondering. Are she and I alone here, are we one of the only couples I'm aware of that when they play a game together, such as WoW, we don't actually play together? We sit three feet apart from each other, and we talk and we even raid and instance on occasion.
But during the entire 1-80 process for our multiple characters we never actually grouped. Is that odd? Seems normal to us and fits us I guess since we do it without a problem but I always wonder, are we just the weird people, and every single other person out there does that?
I guess it's enough that we raid and run heroics together. I mean, I see her a lot. We both work for the same company, more or less the same hours and same days off. She's not remotely a bad player, not someone I wouldn't want to bring on a raid. Are we doing something wrong here? Is it chaos? Cats and dogs sleeping together sort of chaos and end of the world…ness?
I personally feel it works out. We live together, spend a lot of time with each other and our friends but in game we get our "alone" time as it were. We get a nice little MMO-Break from each other. I think that's a good thing in a way. We don't really fight, or argue we still get our work done and our house clean and the dogs and cat fed. So it must be good, right?
What do all of you think?
Those of who play with your significant other. How do you do it, do you two constantly group/party up and does it work out? I wonder.


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Happy Monday everyone, and have FUN! Here's to light hearts, adventures, and making the most of these last days of summer.
Oh, I definitely need a reminder to lighten up every once in a while. For some reason I've become way more uptight as I get older and just need to learn to leg go and go with the flow sometimes. Love the image and quote!ReplyDelete
It can be hard for me to relax too. I always feel like I am go-go-going and when I am not I feel as though I should be doing something productive. I'm glad my husband can lead me to follow his cues on relaxing and having fun as well as Hank does for you.ReplyDelete
I absolutely adore this.ReplyDelete
Something I'm trying so hard to remind myself... I need to be more relaxed when I'm with Ruari... I don't want her to worry as much as I do.
Wonderful you and Hank have a fabulous balance!
I find it hard for me to relax sometimes too. I often get so caught up in what the "plan" was, that I just forget to enjoy the ride.ReplyDelete
What a cute quote. I'll have to look into that author. He looks like such a cute author. XO, Rae
Great reminder! I know for me,it's been hard trying to relax and my husband tells me "take life one day at at time" and I never have until I started therapy.My therapist taught how to breathe and relax. It's really helped. Hope you're having a great Labor Day! :)ReplyDelete
Cute text! After an action packed summer of flying and driving all over the place, I'm constantly reminding myself to calm down, let go, and relax. Fall is around the corner and I'm ready to wind down and relax. My boots and scarves are dying to come out!ReplyDelete
Fabulous, uplifting post, as usual. Such a simple message that we could all stand to hear more often. I tend to be the one in our family that thinks too much and can't let go. <3ReplyDelete
perfect. love this.ReplyDelete
im always looking for new children's authors! He looks great and the illustration is so cute, too!
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I really, really needed this reminder. Thank you! I'm going to look for that book.ReplyDelete
i love the quotes! :) Don't be safe, you miss fun! Love it! :)
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I love this! I sadly know a few people who worry so much they miss out on the fun and it always breaks my heart. This made me think of them.ReplyDelete
I stumbled upon Dallas on one of my favorite photographers' blogs last year. I LOVE his books. We have such a huge collection of kids books, and his are my favorite--they have such a real and much needed message.ReplyDelete
What a great post, I ALWAYS feel like this! I wish I could be more carefree and less practical. I try so that's what matters I suppose. Thanks for the reminder. : )ReplyDelete
what a great quote! I think it's so important to be with a partner that brings out the best in us :)ReplyDelete
I so needed this reminder.ReplyDelete
LOVE THIS QUOTE! I am going to have to borrow it as well! I am in the same boat as you and thankfully married an amazingly laid back fun loving guy so he definitely helps to to relax! Perfect combo indeed!ReplyDelete
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