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Council Member Cecilia Hupp was elected to the Brea City Council in November 2014 and re-elected in 2018. She completed her first term as Mayor in 2017.
Council Member Hupp opened S&S Home Loans in Brea in 1983 with husband, Scott. The couple purchased a home in town and have resided here since 1988.
In addition to working in the mortgage business for three decades, Council Member Hupp became involved with her homeowner's association and has served on that board for over 25 years. This gave her an opportunity to develop many positive working relationships with the City and other community organizations. Most recently, she was able to take a leadership role with a local utility company in resolving an operational issue in her neighborhood.
Council Member Hupp considers herself a fiscal conservative who believes in prudent spending, as well as transparency in government. She seeks team-building to achieve mutually beneficial goals.
As they were growing, Council Member Hupp participated with her children in youth sports programs as a team mom while her husband coached. Currently, she has three granddaughters and one grandson. She enjoys gardening, cooking and golf. Plus, she often visits the Brea Dog Park with two pet Shih Tzu dogs.
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Moda favorites new and old: First my perennial favorite and new BFF (i wish!) Sandy Klop. Actually, Sandy is so real and genuine she really does make you feel like one of her old friends. And she didn't even treat me like some lunatic stalker (which I totally am). And then new favorite Cabbages and Roses. I'd bought the Fat 1/8th pack of their new collection the night before at sample spree and then, low and behold, Union Jacks! We are destined to get along well.
Bonnie and Camille's new collection for fall, Ruby. Super cute. (As I look at this picture, I am kicking myself for not snatching one of those little sample packs!)
More Moda designers: Aneela Hoey and her new collection Little Apples, lovely Liesl from Oliver + S, Joanna Figueroa (I didn't ask for pictures with many designers just because I felt like a geek, but I did ask for one with Joanna because it was the same day I was on Moda Bake Shop using her fabric, a cosmic coincidence. But I still felt like a geek), and Kaari Meng from French General who was, you guessed it, so nice.
The Kona booth and meeting Katy! (Katy sent me a lovely parcel once and I've loved her ever since. Plus, she's hilarious. And I just wanted to stand next to her all day, just so I could hear her lovely British accent.) And Joel Dewberry's gorgeous booth. Very impressed with Joel and his lovely wife Laurie. My favorite touch of their fabulous booth was the family picture. Love it. (I think I take special pride in the Dewberrys because we share the same alma mater. As does Heather Bailey, btw.)
Beautiful color at the Anna Maria Horner booth. Love the colorwheel made of floss. Lots of great stitching going on – literally – in the AMH booth.
Here's a tiny bit of the Riley Blake displays. Above is Lori Holt's new line Oh Cherry. Lori's quilts are amazing. It almost made me sad to see them have to be folded up and squished together instead of spread out in their glory. Lori is local so I'm hoping to get another peak at them in full some time. Also Deena Rutter's Happier line and the quilts I made for her. woot! Finally, I loved that Riley Blake had a Man Cave complete with flat screen TV playing the movie Hoosiers.
Next Lizzy House. Her new collection 1001 Peeps is great – esp if you are a Castle Peeps fan. And my favorite? The pearl bracelet print in green. And it is the perfect shade of green, no less. I can't wait to get my hands on some. Lizzy was beyond nice to share with me one of her coveted 1001 Peeps bags from Schoolhouse. (I need to get a picture.)
Speaking of young designers, there were some fabulous new designers with their first booths at Market. Wow – I am impressed with these girls. Some great designs! Clockwise starting top left: April Rosenthal of Prairie Grass Patterns, Allison of Cluck Cluck Sew, Amber of Gigi's Thimble and Julie of Jaybird Quilts. Good luck girls! I think you're amazing! Perhaps one of them is the Eleanor Burns of tomorrow. (Speaking of EB – I'm totally kicking myself for not getting of picture of her in her astronaut costume.)
And finally, the award for nicest person at Quilt Market (okay maybe it's a tie with Sandy Klop) is Jennifer Paganelli. Talk about real and down to earth and super, super fun. She's a gem and she makes everyone feel like they're her funnest friend on the planet.
If you're looking for some more inspiration and insight into Quilt Market, check out these talented girls: Kim and Kris of the DIY Dish or Daria of Boutique Cafe. Daria will soon have video interview with lots of your favorite designers on Boutique Cafe, so stay tuned.
Okay, you are probably totally Marketed-out by now, as am I. But if you're somehow not, be sure to check KPKM for more Market hoopla.

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Anne Arundel County police release images of beauty store robber
Authorities ask for public's help locating woman
Anne Arundel County police are asking for the public's help finding a woman who robbed a beauty supply store.
On Thursday, police released images of a car and woman involved in a robbery at Sally Beauty Supply at 7972 Crain Highway South in Glen Burnie around 1 p.m. Monday.
Police said the woman handed a cashier a note announcing a robbery. The note indicated the robber was armed, but no weapons were displayed, police said.
The robber was described as a white woman in her 20s with a thin build, wearing big, dark sunglasses, a hooded jacket over a gray sweatshirt with a hood and jeans.
The robber got into the passenger seat of a dark blue Chevrolet Cavalier that was driven by a white woman, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Clifford Van Hoesen of the Robbery Unit at 410-222-3469(3566) or Metro Crime Stoppers.


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World of Warcraft Performance Guideby Anand Lal Shimpi on March 23, 2005 12:17 PM EST
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In PC gaming, first person shooters get all of the attention. The releases of Doom 3 and Half Life 2 were accompanied by a swarm of hardware upgrade guides all over the net, including those published on AnandTech. If you were waiting for Doom 3 or Half Life 2 before upgrading your machine, you had every ounce of information at your disposal upon their release.
The same type of attention is rarely cast on other genres of games in the PC world for a handful of reasons. For starters, FPSes are the most likely to have built-in benchmarking tools, making our ability to present you with performance data infinitely easier. There's also a good deal of emotional attachment to anything that comes out of id Software, Epic Games or Valve, given their history with PC games - in their own way, they are the developers who brought the PC its Super Mario Brothers or Legend of Zelda. But reasoning aside, there's much more to PC gaming than just FPSes; the best, most recent, example of an extremely successful non-fps is none other than Blizzard's foray into the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing realm - World of Warcraft.
MMORPGs, like World of Warcraft, rely on hordes of subscribed users (hence the massively multiplayer aspect); otherwise, they lose a big chunk of their appeal. World of Warcraft has been particularly successful in this respect. Earlier this month, Blizzard announced that WoW had reached over 1.5 million subscribers worldwide, with over 800,000 subscribers in North America alone. At any given time, there are over 500,000 users logged into one of Blizzard's many WoW servers at a speed of adoption never before seen in the MMORPG market. But as we saw with the introduction of Warcraft III, anything Warcraft from Blizzard is not only well done, but turns to gold upon release.
Given the tremendous market penetration of WoW, we felt that it was time to take a look at its performance demands. But unlike Doom 3 and Half Life 2, there is no static element of WoW gameplay - everything takes place in an ever-changing online world. The result is that finding a repeatable benchmark to run is fairly difficult...but not impossible. As a MMORPG, World of Warcraft doesn't depend on the razor-sharp reaction time of a fast-paced first person shooter; instead, you spend most of your time walking around performing quests and battling at a much slower pace, in a much larger, more interactive world. As such, there are two scenarios when performance in WoW becomes an issue: when a lot of characters are present on the screen, and simply rotating the camera in the world. The former is a virtually impossible scenario to use as a benchmark, as you can't reliably get a bunch of people to do the exact same thing at the exact same time in a repeatable fashion, but the same can't be said about scenario 2. The world of Warcraft is truly enormous and in order to prevent overcrowding, there is a large number of servers for you to choose on which your character may play - each server has a complete copy of the Warcraft world. Even on the highest populated servers (one of which we conducted our test), there are many areas where you can go that are devoid of any player controlled characters - making them ideal for benchmarking. We chose one such spot in the Night Elf city of Darnassus.
The other aspect of WoW that played into our favor was the fact that exiting and returning to the game using the same character always put you in the world at the exact same place. Equipped with FRAPS, we were able to get an extremely repeatable average frame rate out of a sequence of five full camera rotations in our chosen spot in Darnassus. The number of rotations ensured that minor variations such as a squirrel walking across the screen would have minimal impact on the benchmark, and the results backed that up. We found a maximum of 3% variation between runs as long as there was no disk swapping that occurred during the benchmark (more on that later). The only downside is that our benchmark is not externally reproducible, but similar techniques can be used to achieve a similar end result. We did have one user search us out in the world and interrupt our benchmarking by asking us if we had any linen cloth, but after a quick "no", we were back to benchmarking without being disturbed.
Graphically, WoW isn't another Doom 3 or Half Life 2; it's not pushing the limits of DirectX 9 nor is it going to knock your socks off visually. For a MMORPG, it looks pretty good, similar to Warcraft III, but obviously much more detailed, since you are taking the perspective of a single character in the world of Warcraft, rather than controlling an army from up above.
Blizzard states the minimum GPU requirement as a GeForce 2; while a GeForce 2 will run the game just fine at lower resolutions and detail settings, it will do so at the sacrifice of a good amount of image quality. Below, we have a comparison between a playable WoW system on a GeForce4 MX (GeForce 2 class DirectX 7 hardware) and on a Radeon X800 (DX9 hardware). You'll see a DX7 screenshot, and mouse over to see the same scene running on DX9 hardware:
As you can see, the improvement from older hardware to newer DX9 cards is fairly significant.
The same isn't necessarily true for DirectX 8 hardware, as the GeForce4 looks just as good as the X800, just slower, in WoW.
Below, you'll see a DX8 screenshot, and mouse over the image to see the DX9 version:
How much slower is a GeForce4 than a Radeon X800? That comparison and many more is the subject of our first comparison...
The Test
Our hardware configurations are similar to what we've used in previous comparisons.
AMD Athlon 64 Configuration
Socket-939 Athlon 64 CPUs
2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 EL Dual Channel DIMMs 2-2-2-10
NVIDIA nForce4 Reference Motherboard and MSI K8N-Neo2 (nForce3) for AGP tests
Intel Pentium 4 Configuration
LGA-775 Intel Pentium 4 and Extreme Edition CPUs
2 x 512MB Crucial DDR-II 533 Dual Channel DIMMs 3-3-3-12
Intel 925XE Motherboard
AMD Athon XP Configuration
Athlon XP 3200+ Barton CPU
2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 EL Dual Channel DIMMs 2-2-2-10
ASUS nForce2 Motherboard
ATI's Catalyst 5.3 and NVIDIA's ForceWare 71.84 Drivers were used.
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trs80m1 - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkGreat article, though I was disappointed to see that the ATI 9600XT (my card, of course) got left off. Hope you get a chance to add that, since I'd like to keep that card when I build a new A64 system soon.
Two other requests: City of Heroes performance review, and how does the Internet connection affect framerate? i.e. Cable vs DSL vs Dial-up
Thanks again! Reply
segagenesis - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkI dont think WoW even supports AA, at least on my card (read above). I force enable it outside and it works up to the character selection screen, but in game it goes away (back to jaggies). What gives? Reply
Glayde - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkHey I want to say thanks for doing comparisons on a game I play, it's hard to compare other benchmarks to actual results i'd get in game.
One thing I'd like to ask about though, none of your tests were with AA enabeled? (since AA isn't changed in-game in WoW, you need to do it out of game).
cHodAXUK - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkNice article, how about a look at EQ2 and DAoC Catacombs as well? The later has just had a major DX9 engine upgrade and all the old art/textures/models have been overhauled. Reply
Gholam - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkHeh, approaching Orgrimmar auction house/bank area in prime time really puts the stress on any system :) I have a Winchester running at 2.6GHz and a 6800GT PCIe at 420/1200, and it's still a little choppy there, especially on initial approach, although I suspect that is due to bunches of textures being loaded. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkFor this particular test LOD didn't dramatically influence performance, but you all right, if it does annoy you turning the option off definitely helps.
That comment was made for lower clocked Northwoods, I've made the appropriate clarification in the review.
The big difference ends up being in overall smoothness of gameplay, which is determined by minimum frame rates as well as averages. Unfortunately due to the nature of the test being non deterministic not all of the minimum frame rates make total sense, thus we left those statistics out.
Take care,
Anand Reply
WooDaddy - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkMy favorite part about the review is on the last page:
"And as always we found that the Extreme Edition is a waste of money"
I think anyone who is BUILDING a computer who uses a Intel processor for GAMING is nucking futz! I mean how many AT reviews do you have to read until you get it in your think skull that Intel is absolutely not the best way to go for gaming!?!</rant off>
Sorry about that... Seriously, though. Good review. Time to upgrade the Ti4200 128Mb. I've been waiting for a review like this. Reply
Illissius - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkThe 6600GT is only 15% slower than the 6800GT? That seems rather very odd... Reply
OrSin - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkAlittle off subject can we get beachmarks with some RTS games too. Thier was time when they were all 2d games, but now alot of them are 3d now. Kohan 2, and Axis and Allies both use the Grybo engine. This engine is used in quite a few RTS games. Most games have in game films so you can re-run the film to test thier game play.
Thanks. Reply
EODetroit - Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - linkInteresting, I might have to try that some time, thanks for the quick reply on resolutions... might let me see a wider FoV, useful for PvP. Reply


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Hello Good People who read this blog
I have been thinking that I need to write a new post but was a bit depressed due to various things and didn't…until now, and now I'm glad I have started writing because it bloody well cheered me up. How are you all in cyberspace, how is M15 and how are all you scammers, spammers, lunched out people, and hippies of course, and all those pretending not be hippies even though deep down you really are?
Instead of writing depressing stuff I thought I'd write this daft thing instead:
If I ruled Glastonbury…. Day 1.
I know I'm an old fart...but listening to the uninspiring airs and lyrics of some the blander bands the crowds love at Glastonbury, this early Friday evening, I thought I'd compile my own personal ideal Glastonbury line-up , just to cheer myself up a bit as a boring old fart.
So here it is in no particular order:
Jimi Hendrix singing Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" while chewing gum and playing around on his guitar with an ease, brilliance and charisma sadly lacking in the over rehearsed CD quality performances of today ( yes I am being an old complaining fart today).
Next,some Here & Now with their timeless song Addicted , the first song of theirs I heard and liked before I saw them live for the first time in 1979.
I don't think this is the same version though, as the one on the Here & Now/Alternative TV Album ( correct me if I am wrong). I no longer have a copy. I wish someone would upload it on youtube.
I also would have loved to have put up Only Way from their All Over The Show album but only have it on vinyl.
In 1998 I was at Glastonbury in the monsoon, and decided to go and watch Tori Amos who I knew little about.Thanks to the rain, I stood in the front "row" , so close I could see my own reflection in her piano. I saw her do this amazing performance, every song was done with the most amazing psychotic passion, and she inspired me to go back to London and play and sing to my teeny audiences with a new crazy confidence.
I make no apologies for including Genesis with their early English subversive songs.
However they do feature Phil Collins , I must apologise very deeply for that.
This is Selling England by the Pound from 1973. I think we will be selling England by the pound very soon, to a stronger economy, perhaps China, Germany or to aliens who are secretly living among us with wardrobes lined with gold , platinum and diamonds they brought to trade with us in case of emergencies. I assure you I'm not stoned , just rambling to entertain myself.
At sunset I think there should be all night anarchy from Hawkwind ( Urban Guerrilla again):
Some English folk at sunrise with the lovely Anne Briggs singing Living by the Water.
I must go to bed now, having successfully ignored the 2011 Glastonbury procedings on the TV in the background for several hours now, and created my own Friday night/Saturday dawn alternative line-up.
I bid you goodnight and actually I wouldn't want to see these acts at Glastonbury at all, it would have to be at a new "Peace, Love and Green Anarchy" free festival at Stonehenge .
I'm sure I will hear some good music this weekend on the TV from Glastonbury but I'm not sure if much of it will be innovative or spontaneous. Cynical old fart I am!
Love & Peace
p.s. now there's an act on as I type this who I like a lot , I think the music improves the later it is. Ah it's Primal Scream , now that the vocals are over and they are having a good jam, I quite like them.More old farts like me.


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In an update to last week's post Making for health: Calling Boston-area makers, the folks at Microsoft New England Research & Development Center are going to lend 4 or 5 Kinects for teams to use for the challenges. This should open up some really interesting new possibilities. For inspiration, check out Kinect air guitar
, Kinect puppet show
, and Minority Report-style web surfing with Kinect
Can't wait to see what happens at NERD on February 19th.


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Light turnout for Estherville election
With no contested elections in Estherville, voter turnout was very light on Tuesday.
The Estherville City Council will have a new representative in Ward 2 though. Write-in candidate Julie Clark received 26 of the 36 votes cast in that precinct.
Current Ward 2 council member Terry Nelson did not seek re-election.
All results were unofficial until canvassed by the Emmet County board of Supervisors on Thursday.
For mayor, incumbent Kenny Billings was given the nod for a second term as he received 168 votes in an uncontested race. There were 10 write-in votes in the mayoral election.
Incumbent Larry W. Anderson received 166 votes for the at-large council seat
In Ward 3, incumbent David Seylar received 32 votes with just one write-in ballot.
In Ward 4, Ann Goebel received 17 votes with two write-in ballots
Candidates elected Tuesday will take office in January 2014.


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The Man-Made Feminist
The self proclaimed "man-made feminist", Destiny Herndon de la Rosa is a force to be reckoned with…. and not just because she sports fabulously purple hair that gives the illusion she possesses unicorn magic. This lady is fierce and outspoken with it comes to speaking out about being consistently PRO LIFE on ALL matters. All…Read More


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Jerzy Żarnecki started his academic career in the 1930s at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. During the Second World War he made his way to England, became a British citizen, George Zarnecki, and held there many prestigious, both administrative and academic posts. He made Romanesque art, especially English sculpture of the period, the main subject of his research, one on which he became a world authority.
This essay addresses the renewed controversy regarding Raphael Santi's initial training and introduces substantive evidence in support of the hypothesis that he received his first training from his father Giovanni Santi in Urbino. In addition to documentary and formal evidence, the young artist's strong attachment to his father's artistic practice on a more conceptional level is explored. Interests, including the use of geometric compositional formulas, witty devotional concetti, and above all his intense preoccupation with returning to the specific sources that engaged Giovanni Santi — for instance Quattrocento sculpture, first known through his father's inexact copies and subsequently through direct study of the sculptures themselves — illuminate the formal and intellectual foundations of Raphael's art.
Before his death in 1464, the Florentine sculptor Desiderio da Settignano allegedly carved a marble portrait bust of Marietta Strozzi, considered the most beautiful woman in Renaissance Florence. Contemporary sources consistently praise this work as one of the most admired portrait sculptures of the age and its identification has vexed the modern scholar, eager to locate it among the various extant examples of the genre. Not surprisingly, almost every Tuscan portrait bust of a woman datable to the mid-fifteenth century has been attributed to Desiderio at one time or another, usually with the claim of being Marietta's lost image. Predictably, when authentic candidates have been unavailable, fakes have arisen to take their place.
The purpose of this note is to introduce a drawing of great interest and resonance, a profile portrait of Titian, and to suggest that it is indeed the work of the master himself. The drawing is clearly related to the profile self-portrait in the Prado, although in reverse, facing to the right. It had been tentatively ascribed to Giuseppe Porta, but that attribution has not proved convincing. Not surprisingly, the small corpus of accepted drawings by Titian offers no ready comparison, and the attribution of the portrait must be argued on the basis of its quality and the intimate mechanics of its creation. It is hoped that relocating this self-portrait into the small corpus of Titian drawings will serve not only to invite further critical attention to an important work but also, potentially, to expand the boundaries of the corpus itself.
This article is a study of some Italian paintings and prints from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries illustrating Virgil's story of the suicide of Dido, Queen of Carthage and lover of Aeneas. The theme of Dido's voluntary death was problematic, as suicide was condemned by the Church. Moreover, contrary to such Roman heroines as Lucretia, Dido did not take her life to save her virtuous reputation, but because her status had been ruined since her lover Aeneas had decided to leave her. A distinction is made between depictions showing Dido and Aeneas together, and pictures showing her alone. In the former case, Dido personifies the seductions of love and lust, that keep men (Aeneas) from pursuing their quest for a higher destination. In the latter case, Dido is represented as a warning example showing the dramatic consequences of a woman's irresponsible behaviour.
A cult specific to Mary Magdalene had existed at the Milanese church of Santo Sepolcro from at least the end of the thirteenth century. The remains of two frescoes, datable to about 1280—1300 and located at the western end of the crypt of the church, confirm the presence there of an altar devoted to her. In the space once reserved as an oratory encompassing the ancient altar is a life-size terracotta and polychrome Lamentation that includes a particularly evocative representation of the Magdalene. Although the sculptures are undocumented and the identity of the artist or workshop responsible for them is the subject of speculation, the establishment at Santo Sepolcro in 1527 of a confraternity which met in the crypt, its membership exclusively women devoted to Mary Magdalene, is suggestive regarding the commissioning and dating of the sculptures.
This paper intends briefly to review the historiography of Parmese sixteenth-century drawing in order to interrogate assumptions about disegno and colorito, about center and periphery, about an accepted canon and its exclusions. Although the debate over disegno and colorito has traditionally been seen almost exclusively in terms of Central Italy and Venice, a consideration of Vasari's respective biographies of Correggio and Parmigianino shifts the focus to Parma, at once extending the discourse and testing the underlying premises of Vasari's historical model. Particular attention will be paid to Vasari's critique of Correggio and his putative failure to visit Rome. Parmigianino's Roman sojourn is documented, and his drawings have been continuously prized and collected from his own day until the present. Correggio was accorded his due recognition and acclaim in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when active interest in collecting his designs, although comparatively few sheets survive, began. The question of his trip to Rome functions as a topos in the debate over his graphic prowess, culminating with Padre Sebastiano Resta, the great champion of Correggio's drawings, who insisted that the artist had taken not one, but two, trips to the Eternal City.
In the present article, the author discusses a famous topic: the interrogation of Paolo Veronese by the tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Venice on July 18, 1573. Notwithstanding publications by such outstanding art historians as Philipp Fehl, Michelangelo Muraro, André Chastel and Paul Kaplan, our knowledge of the context in which this interrogation should be situated, is still rather rudimentary.
This article develops an argument that leads to an explanation of why Veronese had to appear before the Inquisition, focusing on two protagonists of the tribunal: the inquisitor and the nuncio. The author comes to the conclusion that the dynamics in the proceedings had very little to do with Veronese but everything with internal ecclesiastical politics, which goes a long way to explain why Tintoretto, who ran into trouble because of his paintings only weeks after the interrogation of Veronese, did not have to appear before the Inquisition.
The Meaning and Transcendence in Caravaggio's Madonna de'Parafrenieri [The Grooms' Madonna]
Phryne, Venus and Galatea in the Studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme
The article explores the importance of different art media in Jean-Léon Gérôme's work by interrogating the connections between painting, sculpture and photography, particularly with regard to their iconographic implications.
Paul Gauguin's Still Lifes: An Unknown Aspect of His Artistic Activity
Re-reading Luca Signorelli's Nudes: From the 1870s till Today
The so-called New Fresco, discovered in 1980 beneath a layer of plaster in the main hall of Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, is one of the most puzzling works in the canon of medieval art. The difficulties inherent in trying to comprehend an image that bears no inscription and no regular iconography are exacerbated by the fact that, ever since its discovery the New Fresco has been embroiled in the notorious dispute over the Guidoriccio fresco, which sits on the wall above.
Encyclopedic Miniatures and Iconography in Two 14th-Century Medical Treatises at the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow (ms. 815 and ms. 816)


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Last night I was struggling to compose a clue for the latest Azed Crossword competition (No. 2065) so I gave up and switched on the TV. I ended up watching an episode of QI, a popular entertainment programme in the form of a panel game, hosted by Lord Stephen of Fry. The title stands, I think, for Quite Interesting, rather than the active principle found in chinese medicine, which is an extremely useful word to know in Scrabble if you have a Q and no U.
Anyway, one of the features of said television programme is that if guests answer a question not only incorrectly but also in a manner that's predictable, stale or hackneyed, in such a way that it matches a pre-prepared list of such responses, then a claxon sounds and a penalty of ten points is applied. If you want to hear the claxon…
These forfeits are so frequently applied that it is by no means uncommon for the winner of the quiz to have a net score which is negative.
Anyway, watching this it occurred to me that it suggests a quite interesting way of livening up the business of refereeing grant applications, especially since in these difficult times a good outcome of an application to renew a geant might well be minus two PDRAs!
It's quite easy to come up with a list of tedious clichés that you're likely to find in a cosmology application, e.g. "We have now entered an era of precision cosmology…", "Generic inflationary scenario", "inspired by string theory", "assuming a linear bias", etc etc. From now on I'm going to press the buzzer every time I read such a phrase and subtract the resulting penalty from the score assigned to the proposal.
However, it would be unfair to apply this idea just to cosmology proposals. In order to make it more generally applicable, perhaps my loyal readers might suggest, through the Comments Box, similarly worn out, trite or banal terms appropriate to their own specialism?Follow @telescoper


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Trick Cyclist (w/DVD) by Andrew Normansell and Alakazam - Trick
An incredible, easy to do, multiple selection routine with an incredible, NO PALM, signed card to pocket ending! This trick will make you look like a master sleight of hand artist!EffectThree cards are freely selected (no force), signed and returned to the deck. The Magician now shows a Bicycle Joker and states that it has been specially trained to do the Magic.The Joker is placed in the Magician's back pocket and with a Magical gesture, reappears face-up in the face down deck, right next to the first selection.The Joker is then placed back in the Magician's pocket for a second time and the deck is spread to show that there are no face-up cards. Then once again, the Joker reappears face up in the facedown deck, right next to selection number two.The Joker is removed for a final time, but this time, fails to reappear in the deck... the Magician reaches into his pocket and brings out the Joker, only to find that the reason he did not return is because he has fallen off his bike! The Magician makes a final Magical gesture and with an empty hand, reaches into his pocket and removes the final signed selection!NO DIFFICULT SLEIGHT OF HAND! ENDS CLEAN! NO PALMING! QUICK RESET! INCLUDES SPECIALLY PRINTED CUSTOM BICYCLE CARDS AND INSTRUCTIONAL DVD!


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Leeanna Walsman was born in Sydney, Australia to Bob and Elaine Walsman. She has an older brother David. She quit school at the age of 16 to become an actress.She has appeared in numerous movies and TV shows . One of the most famous is Star wars Episode II, where she played Bounty Hunter, Zam Wessel. She also has diverse theatre credits to her name.
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The presence of Metro Transit can be felt practically everywhere in the Twin Cities. Between its 15,000 bus stops, 700 shelters and 19 light rail stops, elements of the Metro Transit system feel virtually omnipresent even without setting foot on a bus or train.
And the Metro Transit network is only growing larger. The service has several major expansions in the works that will bring new transit options to commuters around the metro area and help Metro Transit achieve its goal of increasing ridership to 145 million by 2030.
The best-known Metro Transit project currently in the works is the Central Corridor Light Rail line. The first expansion of light rail service in the Twin Cities since the completion of the original Hiawatha line, construction on the project has been long and occasionally contentious. When completed in the second half of 2014, the Central Corridor Light Rail line will connect downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul with 11 miles of track and 18 new stations. The new line will share five stations with the Hiawatha line, terminating in Minneapolis at the upcoming transportation hub the Interchange.
Travel time between The Interchange and the line's final stop at Union Depot in St. Paul will take 39 minutes, and Metro Transit is projecting ridership of over 40,000 by 2030. However, Metro Transit's deputy chief operating officer for rail Ed Byers said he doesn't think most riders will ride the full length of the route.
"It's a different type of system," said Byers. "People won't be riding end to end. People will be riding a few stations."
The Central Corridor line is expected to generate a great deal of development along its length. Tim Griffin of the Saint Paul Riverfront Corporation, the non-profit organization helping craft development guidelines along the light rail expansion, said he expects to see a large number of projects break ground near the new light rail line in the near future. Many of these projects will be private developments. Others will be led by government agencies, such as the proposed green infrastructure plan. A collaboration between Minneapolis, St. Paul and the parks departments of both cities, the plan will identify 10 sites along the Central Corridor line for green infrastructure projects, such as environmentally responsible ways to divert storm water.
"There are five projects going on within the next three years at the Fairview station. And that's just one station," said Griffin. "The idea of 10 to 1 has been around for a long time, 10 times the amount of private investment to public investment. The LRT is basically a billion-dollar investment, so it's not unreasonable to over 20 years see that leverage 10 billion dollars. I'd stand by that quote."
By the time it is up and running, the Central Corridor line will be know by another name: the Green Line. The Hiawatha line will be renamed the Blue Line. The name change is part of a rebranding strategy that rechristens the light rail system as the Metro. The Metro system also includes proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines called the Orange Line on Interstate 35W and the Red Line, which would start at the end of the Blue Line and run down Cedar Avenue to Lakeville.
There are no true BRT lines yet in the Metro Transit system, but public relations manager John Siqveland calls the stations of I-35W "proto BRT" and has a simple way to sum up the service. "The idea here is that it mimics light rail, but uses buses," he said. "The stations for BRT are similar to a light rail station. You pay your fare on the platform. You board all doors. The vehicles are comfortable."
Like light rail stations, the boarding platforms of BRT stations will be level with the entrance to the vehicles, so passengers can board without climbing steps. Level entrances eliminate the need for special accommodations for disabled customers and speeds the boarding process. Paying fares on the platform also keeps the boarding time down, as customers don't have to pause inside the vehicle door to pay fares on a bus. These features, as well as limited stops and dedicated lanes such as bus-only shoulders on highways allow BRT service to mimic the high-speed service of light rail. BRT service will supplement existing bus route, not replace it – local service with more frequent stops will continue along the routes. Siqveland said the new BRT lines will begin rolling out in phases within the next few years. In addition to freeway BRT, Metro Transit is eyeing Snelling Avenue, West 7th Street and East 7th Street in St. Paul for "arterial BRT," or BRT on surface streets.
"The goal is to have Snelling online in 2014 in time for the Green Line launch," he said. "We want to add maybe one of these corridors per year, starting around 2014."
All of the Metro's lines, both light rail and BRT, will ultimately converge at the Interchange, the new transit hub under construction next to Target Field. Also scheduled to open in 2014, the Interchange will serve as a central transportation hub for the region. In addition to serving as the major transfer point for the Metro routes, the Interchange will also be the place to catch the Northstar Commuter Rail and over 1,900 buses daily. The Interchange also figures prominently into two additional proposed routes, a light rail line from Minneapolis to Eden Prarie and a light rail or BRT line between Minneapolis and Osseo, Dayton and Rogers.
With so many major projects in the works, it is no surprise that Metro Transit is considering other projects designed to keep using the service as simple as possible. While the Metro Transit website has a mobile version optimized for use on smart phones, the organization is considering a development of an official Metro Transit app. Not only could the app potentially deliver real-time route updates and schedules to your phone, it may even transform your phone into a replacement for your bus card. Metro Transit is also considering adding QR Codes to bus stops, which could be scanned with the app for updates. These technological upgrades aren't a sure thing, but Siqveland said they are definitely being discussed.
Of course, none of the infrastructure or technology improvements in the works at Metro Transit would be possible without the people in the driver's seats' of its vehicle fleet. In the next installment of this series, we will check in with the people who keep Metro Transit literally moving.


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Carcar heritages
Man-made Structures
Now here include not only the heritage houses and all houses that represent a given period in the architectural development of the town and perhaps the country but especially the houses with real historical bearing to the town—be it for itself or for its owner. The house where Leon Kilat was assassinated is perhaps the most historical house in the town. And the family home of Archbishop Teofilo Camomot is historical for the person. Along with the Camomot house, I would also include the master painter Martino Abellana 's house as a heritage site of Carcar. If they'd be opened to the public people would go there with a definite purpose, almost as if on pilgrimage.
The oldest structures we have meanwhile—the 3 Bs watchtowers (Bantayan, Bas, Bacsiji) and the Daanglungsod church ruins. Whatever had been left of the old church ruins have unfortunately been carted away by some unscrupulous—let us say unknowing—townspeople for their own insignificant and unremarkable use. What a waste of history by pseudo-antiquarians. What do the stones of Stonehenge matter were they carted away to London, for example, so more people can view them? The people who built the monumental work chose the place for a definite purpose, and the structure goes with the site.
In 29-June-2010, Fr. Ambeth Ocampo, Chairman of the National Heritage Commission himself unveiled markers for 4 heritages houses of Carcar. The houses are where the Carcar Heritage Conservation Society has been at its most assiduous, and yet the attendance to the affair brought a stark reminder that all stakeholders should as much as possible be brought in to any heritage undertaking.
The Roman Sarmiento House photos show only the Valencia family and their friends. No Sarmiento, Cacafranca, Alegarbes, Urgello who are of the family, too. The Noel House had only two or three grandchildren of Manuel Noel. The Vicente, Mariano, Mateo, and Maximino branches should have been invited, and if they were, they should have come. The Silva House, which many think should have been additionally named the del Corro, showed only the children of Dr. Nemesio Silva. If the other Silvas were not there, so much more for the del Corros. For the Mercado House should also have stood witness the Mercado-Zosa families of Cebu City, and the Gutierrez of Ocaña, grandnephews of Mariano Mercado. And the Camotes family of Carcar, that of Catalina's brother Jose.
I feel ill at ease with the loose usage of the term ancestral when they say the Ancestral House of So-and-So Family. I kind of expect the term ancestral to mean several generations, or even the very first residence of the entire clan, not just a house owned by a single two-generation branch of it. For instance, I'd call my great-grandfather's house (now gone) his house but certainly not the ancestral house of the Aleonar family, which term should carry with it the connotation of the entire Aleonar family. It's the ancestral house for my great-grandfather's descendants—us–but not of the descendants of his brothers, as it never was his father's or his uncles'.
The landmarks most identified with our town—the Dispensary and its swimming pool and the rotunda. The pergolas around the rotunda have been waylaid by small stalls selling foodstuff.
This piece has been overtaken by events. The new mayor, Nicepuro Apura, has seen fit to get rid of the stalls and view of the market, with the pergolas, is now unobstructed.
The Leon Kilat and other statues are our heritage, too.
The St. Catherine's School (now College) main building and the Upland Elementary School, like the Dispensary and rotunda, remind us of a era now gone, but the mere gazing at which whisks us back to that time. Those memories should be relished by us, by those of us who care. The Upland Elementary School has the dual history of being a school building that served as a prison during World War II.
Be that as it may, I don't know, even if by some manna from heaven we can embark on a full repair cum restoration of our heritage structures, whether our town and its craftsmen still possess the skills in masonry, carpentry, painting, etc., and especially the appropriate familiarity with old construction techniques…so they don't just cover up everything with new plaster or panel because they don't quite know how to go about it.
I suppose we can always call on experts in Cebu City or even elsewhere who can help and guide our efforts. They may prove quite pricey, of course, but as I said, with the manna from heaven…show us the manna!


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There are few bird-watching experiences more rewarding than setting up a birdhouse and having a pair of birds select it as their home to raise young. Not all backyard birds use houses, including many popular species like cardinals, orioles and goldfinches. But enough common birds do nest in birdhouses to make it worthwhile to set up a few to see what happens.
About 30 bird species in each region of the country are so-called cavity nesters, which means that most of them will also use a birdhouse. Bluebirds, purple martins, house wrens, chickadees, tree swallows and house sparrows are the most common occupants. Attracting birds like wood ducks, screech-owls, woodpeckers, titmice and nuthatches may also be possible.
But setting up a successful birdhouse isn't as simple as "build it and they will come." There are several key factors to consider that will give you the best chance to attract nesting birds.
Select a Good Nesting Location
Each bird species has different habitat requirements, and this includes the environment they'll choose for nesting. For example, the best location for a bluebird house is an area facing or surrounded by open fields, where the insects they eat and feed to their young are plentiful. Chickadees are just the opposite. They prefer houses in a thicket or a stand of small trees and shrubs. House wrens like their house to hang from a small tree in a more open yard. Purple martins select apartment houses placed on a tall pole in the middle of a lawn or open field. And tree swallows want to be close to water where they can find aquatic insects to eat and feed to their young.
Pick the Proper Birdhouse Design
In addition to specific habitats, different bird species also require varied types of birdhouses. Purple martins like to live in communities of many birds of their species. Therefore, an apartment-style house or multiple nesting gourds work best. House wrens live in single, small houses, and prefer not to have other wrens close by. Bluebirds require single-room dwellings, typically 50 to 75 yards apart. No matter what type of birdhouse you use, wood is the best material. The houses also should have ventilation around the top and drainage holes in the floor, and be painted or stained an earth tone. The exception is purple martin houses, which often are made of aluminum (or dried gourds) and painted white to reflect heat.
Use the Right Size of Birdhouse
Generally, small birds need small houses; large birds require large houses. House wrens are happy with an 8-inch-tall house with a 4- by 6-inch base, while a chickadee might select an 8-inch-tall house with a 5- by 5-inch base. Bluebirds need more room, so a box that's 5-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches and 10 inches tall is perfect. Wood ducks and screech-owls need big houses, 10 by 10 inches and 24 inches high.
Check the Entrance Hole
A very important aspect of selecting the right house for the nesting birds you want to attract is the size of the entrance hole. House wrens require the smallest entrance, only 1-1/8 inches. This will also keep out competing nesters, since almost no other birds can fit through such a small opening. Wood ducks and screech-owls like an elliptical doorway that is 4 by 3 inches and about 20 inches above the floor of the house. The oval-shaped entrance helps prevent predators like raccoons from entering. Chickadees, tufted titmice and nuthatches are comfortable with a 1-1/4-inch hole, while bluebirds need about 1-1/2 inches to get inside.
Hang the Birdhouse at the Right Height
The final factor to consider is that nesting birds prefer their houses at different heights. Purple martin houses need to be about 15 to 20 feet above the ground. Wood ducks and screech-owls also need lofty homes, 12 to 40 feet high. For bluebirds, hang it 5 to 8 feet above the ground. House wrens prefer them 6 to 10 feet above the ground and hanging from a tree. Chickadees are most likely to nest in houses that are 4 to 8 feet above the floor of a thicket.
Even if you follow these five requirements, not every birdhouse will be successful in attracting birds. The best way to increase your odds is to offer multiple houses of several types. Then, chances are good you'll have some winged tenants to admire come nesting season.


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WB Adds New Trailer to "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" Website
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Not quite a week since fansites had the exclusive first look at the new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but we have a quick update today to note that WB has now added the piece to the front of the HBP website. This trailer will be playing in front of Twilight, when it opens in theaters this Friday.
As reported previously, we have the trailer direct download links here, in our video galleries and on youtube, as well as our PotterCast trailer extra here on youtube. Finally, be sure to check out our fantastic high definition HBP trailer screencaps here in our image galleries.


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Ground Lamb on Cinnamon Stick
- 1 lb ground lamb
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- 1/2 tsp allspice
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 1/8 tsp ground cardamon
- 1/2 shredded or finely chopped medium onion
- 1/4 c toasted pine nuts
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Cape Woolamai
I love shooting seascapes and I honestly doubt that I'll ever get tired of it. I've seen so many capes, heads, beaches, bays and coves that I can't remember or count them all. Despite that, they can still surprise me and offer something different, something unique.
I knew that Cape Woolamai is special – it was on my list for quite a while and I saw many great photographs taken there, but even with these high expectations I had that "Wow!" moment once I reached the cliff's edge.


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The Yreka High boys junior varsity basketball team downed Henley at home on Tuesday by the score of 57-45.
Drew Kannely-Robles led Yreka with 24 points while Anthony Esparza had 13 points. Scott Hopper finished with 10 points for the Miners. The Yreka freshman team also won against Henley.
Today, both the JV and freshman team are at a tournament in Etna. The freshman team faces the Mount Shasta JV squad at 2:30 p.m. At 3:30 p.m. the Miners JV squad faces the Camberwell freshman team. The Etna tournament runs through Saturday.


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Changes to Frequent Flier Programs Could Mean the End of 'Mileage Runs'
Changes to SkyMiles could drive a stake in the very heart of mileage running.
Jan. 26, 2013 -- A woman I know - we'll call her Passenger #1 - told me about a recent conversation she had while seated in first class on Delta:
Passenger #1: "The flight attendant told us to turn off our phones, so please do so."
Passenger #2: "Mind your own business."
Passenger #1: "You're sending a message that you're 'special.'"
Passenger #2: "I am special."
It's easy to feel that way, what with those first class lie-flat seats, personal TVs, gourmet food and all the other perks. That "special" feeling explains the hordes of almost-elites who make frantic year-end mileage runs to reach exalted status in airline frequent flyer miles programs. But are they doomed to lose this race?
Maybe. Coming changes to Delta's loyalty program SkyMiles could drive a stake in the very heart of mileage running.
For more travel news and insights view Rick's blog at Farecompare.com
First, some quick back-story: Take a trip. Take another. Then, take a free trip. That's how the original airline frequent flyer miles programs worked. Okay, extreme simplification (but not by all that much). Today, nothing's simple.
The rules of miles programs are riddled with cryptic charts and dense lines of print crammed with asterisks designating one loophole after another, always in the airline's favor. It's like navigating a legal document, only trickier, and using rewards gets harder and harder. Want to take your free trip to a popular resort during peak season? Let me know how that works out for you.
Then there's the old use-it-or-lose-it trap. Back in 1981 when American started AAdvantage, the grand-daddy of loyalty programs, miles lasted a lifetime. Not anymore. Sure, Southwest's website proudly notes that its Rapid Rewards points "don't expire" but this statement is followed by one of those asterisks that explains points will expire if you don't have "earning activity" every couple of years.
Keeping track of this can seem like a full time job though there are websites that will do it for you (but some will charge a fee). However, let's get back to the changes coming to Delta.
Starting next year, Delta's SkyMiles program will be the first to include a spending requirement. It won't be enough to simply earn miles to reach the holy grail of air travel - elite status and all those built-in perks - you will also have to shell out a minimum amount of cash for flights. So forget those incredibly cheap deals you love to snap up. That's not going to cut it for most mileage runs.
RELATED: Delta Changes SkyMiles to Require Minimum Spend
Look, what Delta is doing makes sense from a business point of view: it's rewarding its very best customers like free-spending business travelers. Road warriors who try to save their companies money won't fare so well nor will cheapskate leisure travelers (and to me, "cheapskate" is a compliment). Other casualties may be flyers in major cities who spread their loyalty around since they have a choice of airlines; it may be time to quit playing the field and settle down.
As for mileage runners who sprint around the globe on dirt-cheap fares to rack up miles, the Delta changes are no good at all. And I feel your pain, having just done a mileage run myself to Beijing - quick, cheap, and I had a blast.
Unless there's a massive outcry (which I don't see happening), Delta's SkyMiles is going to get more elite than ever, which is great news for big spenders; with fewer elites vying for the limited pool of perks, the ones who do earn status will have a better shot at getting and using those perks.
You don't fly Delta? Don't get too comfortable. Airlines are like sheep, forever following the herd and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if others start mimicking these changes. Think back to 2008 and how all the airlines jumped on the bag fee bandwagon once American led the way. Your program could be next. Will it get too elite for you? Is there any point to loyalty?
Well, miles programs are still free. And most of us take an unplanned, expensive last minute trip once in a while, maybe for a family emergency (or maybe just to get away); might as well get whatever you can out of it, be it miles or a spending minimum. And don't forget that even if you don't earn many miles, a lot of programs allow you to buy more so a free trip or occasional perk is not out of the question.
But my mileage running days may be over. Unless it's just for fun.
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Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by 8of5, Jul 24, 2012.
I'm not the restaurant critic either . . . .
Welcome, it's always nice to get another author around here.
This sounds very interesting.
Seconded !
They all sound fascinating to me, though I am easy to please!
Naraht was in the Rihannsu series, Spock's World and Rules of Engagement
Hortas also appeared in:
The Starship Trap (Dr Brewster)
DS9: Devil in the Sky (Ttan and hatchlings)
TNG: Dyson Sphere (Dalen and crew)
New Worlds, New Civilizations: "Mother's Day"
SNW: "Tears for Eternity", "Guardians"
Titan: The Red King (Chwollk)
SCE: Ambush
Articles of the Federation (Sanaht)
Excelsior: Forged in Fire (Flek).
Or even ground explored in "Strangers From The Sky".
But, while I'll be picking them up, I probably won't get around to them for year's.
It's too bad that we aren't seeing any of those 2009 tie-in novels though.
I'm not complaining, but I'd have expected these faux movie tie-ins to be "early mission" stories, to better capture the vibe of the new movie which fans will be (presumably) clamouring for more of.
If the novels can't tell actual nuTrek stories, I think they should start their own ongoing TOS Myriad Universe. A parallel to the parallel, so to speak.
I miss Naraht and the gang.
That completely defeats the purpose of setting aside the four novels. When people buy tie-ins, they do expect that they will be derived from the parent material.
Be patient. Pocket Books paid good money to four authors to write these novels. They will want to eventually recoup those losses. Once Bad Robot has managed to establish their movie continuity in the way they want it to be, unhampered by too much clashing peripheral material (there have already been complaints about a few minor details in "Countdown" that were at odds with the first movie), I'm sure that Pocket will be able to get an all clear to reinvestigate/modify the four shelved novel tie-ins and release them.
Drafts of "Engines of Destiny" sat in a box of donated author materials in a public library until it was reawakened as a viable novel almost four years later. Dustjackets for "Probe" sat in warehouse for over twelve months before that novel was overhauled/rewritten. A few other ST novels took over a year longer than originally announced: "Dyson Sphere" and "The Left Hand of Destiny" duology, not to mention plans for the continuation of the "Rihannsu" saga.
Eventually, there won't be a reason to keep four perfectly good novels on the shelf.
If they wait too long to release the books, couldn't that hurt the books somewhat? After all, they were written with only Trek XI to draw from. If they're released after XII or later they would clearly be a product of another time and things have developed much from when they were written. It could be similar from a novel written during TNG's first season being released during the sixth. Thing are very different now and it would show.
Granted that doesn't mean the book wouldn't still be a worthy read, and some might even see novelty to it written with only the first season to draw on. But that book could have been more popular in the first season than it would be now in the sixth.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation, but everything about how these novels were handled just seems sloppy. Especially now that we have a comic series telling new stories and a video game coming.
^If they ever were released, they could possibly be rewritten to reflect later movies.
No. I would assume the four authors would get a chance to revise/update before publication, just as "Engines of Destiny" was polished four years after originally being canned. Some of the books might require more work than others, depending on how well the four authors predicted the events in the sequels to the 2009 movie.
Similarly, the second instalment of "Vulcan's Soul" was delayed by about a year so the authors could graft the Remans of "Nemesis" into the unfolding trilogy. They hadn't anticipated the information when submitting their original proposal.
Not really, Pocket proceeded in the belief that the four novels were going to be acceptable because the proposals had been accepted/approved (much like "Star Trek II Short Stories" and "Star Trek II Biographies" attempted to anticipate the events of ST III, but ended up getting lots of details incorrect). No more "sloppy" than the ST Office having second thoughts about "Probe" being a direct sequel to ST IV, even though the author's proposal had already been approved and dustjackets printed.
It was probably realised that keeping four full novels on track - without giving away the plot of the next film - was too tricky, especially when Bad Robot was busy working on the new movie. IDW's comics are keeping to approved/suggested "safe", tight storylines, co-plotted by the writers of the new movie. The three "Starfleet Academy" teen novels are prequels to the first film.
Exactly. These are more containable, without as much opportunity to clash with unfolding live-action movie events.
Well, these 2013 novels are no more tie-ins to the movie than what I suggested.
IMO a lot of the appeal of the new movie series is that anything can happen. Of course, that can't happen even in TOS or STXI tie-ins (not without a reset button finale, at least), but I think having another TOS spin-off timeline could capture some of that same spirit of uncertianty and fun. If we can't have "safe" JJTrek tie-ins, why not have an "unsafe" TOS-alternate along similar lines?
Because those four shelved novels already threatened to be "unsafe". It's probably too early to start splintering off the new timeline. Look how long it took for "Myriad Universes" and "The Mirror Universe" to become recognisable, marketable, highly-anticipated tie-in entities. Decades!
And there are already "safe" JJ tie-ins: the "Starfleet Academy" tie-ins and the IDW Ongoing comic.
Really, are you that short on ST stuff to read? My "to read" pile teeters all over the house. I'm at a point where, even if/when those four shelved novels are released, I won't get to them for years.
Christopher has said the delay of those novels is nothing to do with continuity concerns.
That's not the point. My want for a Treklit TOS splinter timeline isn't even to do with the cancellation of the new movie books, altho NOT having them released and thus not already having two TOS-eras on the Trek lit shedule (for full length novels, at least) presents a perfect oppertunity.
TNG, DS9 and VOY have all continued on beyond the series' endings, and taken the characters in new directions. They're open ended. TOS isn't. We know how it all ends, all there is is to fill in the gaps. And we're at the point where they're all packed solidly and we're getting the fourth or fifth "end of the 5YM story." Doing an ongoing TOS Myriad Universe can not only cash in on the current movies but give longtime lit fans something fresh and exciting with TOS characters.
I don't know what you mean. The general audience had no awareness of Myriad Universes until the first book came out. And the core fanbase who visited the boards were only aware of the project that became MyrU for about 3 years before it saw print.
Christopher has also said that the authors were not given actual reasons for the novels to be shelved, or whether it was permanent or temporary. I believe I recall the editor (Margaret?) saying that Pocket was asked that they be set aside "for now", and Pocket complied. Or did I dream all that?
Whether Bob Orci/Bad Robot was mostly concerned about continuity, or lack of direct control, or diluting the new franchise before the second film could better lay out the new direction, has not been explained. Perhaps the film's writers simply knew they'd be too busy to read four novel manuscripts while writing a new movie has not been laid out.
I'm not sure anyone can say "nothing to do with continuity concerns" as an absolute.
It's way too early to splinter off a new timeline into even more, new, "Parallel" timeline. Yet.
Yes, after a solid seven years each of new stories.
But the new timeline is!
We don't know how this new timeline develops at all.
But you are asking for a "Myriad Universe" based on the new movie (ie. releasing the four shelved novels now) that won't necessarily agree with the next new movie. And Bad Robot doesn't want that kind of story tie-in being published. For now.
I'm sure I recall Marco Palmieri saying that a "Myriad Universes" series was not something that would have been so readily approved decades ago. Previously, novels that set out a radical new timeline had to be reset by the end of that novel ("Killing Time", "Ishmael", "Home is the Hunter", "First Frontier", etc). The "Myriad Universes" spin off the concept from TNG's "Parallels" that many alternate storylines actually co-exist.
The two are not mutually exclusive. I don't know the exact reason why it was done, but I know enough to say it's probably not a matter of continuity, or at least, not solely that. Heck, if it were, they would've just asked us to rewrite them. By now they've done a bunch of YA novels and comic books that they don't consider a threat to the movie continuity. They've had plenty of time to get us to rewrite the novels by now if that were what it was about. So it doesn't even make sense as an explanation.
And I don't recall anyone explicitly saying that the books were set aside "for now." The initial statement said that Pocket would "hold off on telling new stories while JJ and his team continue to develop his vision" -- which some optimistically intepreted to mean "until they knew what the next movie would be about," but the actual statement is far more ambiguous. John Van Citters later elaborated, "That doesn't mean we wont have stories taking place in this timeline," but he never said anything definite about these four books being released at a later date, beyond the ambiguous statement that they were "on hold." And Pocket has had stories in this timeline, the YA books.
So the statements that have been made are a lot more vague than you're implying. There's never been a promise made that these books would be published one day. It hasn't been completely, absolutely ruled out, no, but it's not guaranteed either.
Just as a point of clarification, Bob Orci isn't technically part of Bad Robot. BR is J. J. Abrams's production company, and Orci and Kurtzman formed their own separate production company, K/O Paper Products, in 2009. The two companies are production partners on the second Abramsverse movie.
So Orci may be the one who's adopted the task of overseeing continuity for all the tie-ins, but that doesn't mean he's the only or principal one who's making decisions about them on a larger scale (e. g. whether to publish them at all).
But they've been able to handle the comics and the YA novels. The movie script was finished long ago and principal photography is now over. That explanation doesn't hold water anymore.
We can't say as an absolute that President Lincoln wasn't killed by a Cyberdyne T-1000 impersonating John Wilkes Booth, but it would still be most unwise to believe he was. Asking for absolute certainty is an unrealistic standard. We assess the veracity of an idea based on its probability. Effectively nothing has zero probability, but lots of things have really, really low probability and should be recognized as bad ideas.
No, that's not what KingDaniel was asking for at all. You need to go back and reread his post. As I understand it, he was asking for a separate new TOS-cast continuity, not based on either Prime or Abrams. Sort of like what The Children of Kings did.
But that's not what you said. You said it took MyrU decades to "become recognisable [and] marketable." Something can't take decades to become something if it hasn't existed for decades.
So really I think you're misusing that concept. Sure, it took decades to get the right climate for ideas like the MU and MyrU books to be conceived, but once that climate arrived, it only took a few years to get from the concept to the realization. And that climate allowing for coexisting timelines in Trek Lit already exists, so it doesn't make sense to say it would be necessary to wait decades before creating another one.
Why not? The movies have their splinter timeline, why can't the novels have their own one, too? Especially since the novels aren't allowed near the movie one.
That's not what I said. My only mention of those four STXI novels was just the usual "Oh, I wish they'd release them one day" and seperate from my suggestion of a new TOS Myriad Universe-style novel series, where anything can happen to Kirk and co.
Personally I derive great enjoyment from the cohesive, unified "extended universe" TrekLit paints today and have no interest in yet another new timeline.
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Warning: You might not have realized how much you've missed Rory's snarky pessimism, until you watch this clip from "Let's Kill Hitler," Doctor Who's midseason premiere. Also, you may be left with gnawing questions that will eat you alive for the next eight days.
Like, they're trapped inside a giant robot what? And what the blazes are those robot jellyfish anyway?
Here's another clip, that will open up a whole slew of bewildering questions as well:
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Last night on Twitter I was having a discussion with Jar regarding the new nerf to Efflorescence (which is a rant for another day), and one of the things that I mentioned was something that Keeva brought up in her post on the changes. Namely that the change, which effectively means that efflorescence now only heals 6 people, has a significantly larger impact on 25 man raids than it does on 10 man raids. Which then got me to really thinking about the differences between the two raid types, which of course then started making me ask questions.
Forgive me if I start to grow a bit rambly here as I work through my thoughts on this…or run in fear as you see my brain try to process and function. If you look hard enough you can probably see smoke coming out of my ears as the cogs are turning in overtime.
******* Before I get started here, I want to make something very clear: I do not have a problem with 10s, nor do I have a problem with them getting equal gear for their efforts. I am happy that my 10 man brethren were finally recognized and received the validation as a "proper" raiders that they sought throughout the entirety of this expansion. I just wanted to get that in before the "QQ more" comments that I've seen from some of the 10 man raiders who seemingly characterize valid concerns from the 25 man front as nothing more than whining. As such, please keep that in mind when commenting here. ********
Exactly How Are These Raids Going To Be Equal?
As I was ranting a bit to Brade, one of the biggest points I was making was that I honestly see no way that these two raid sizes are going to be equal in difficulty. I just don't think it's even remotely close to being in the realm of possibility. I mean let's take a simple mechanic like needing to spread out. Unless they shrink the size of the room – a 10 man raid is going to have a significant advantage and greater ease with this solely based on the fact that there are only 10 of them. How are they going to equal that out in a 25 man setting?
Let's take a look next at some of the healing spells available – such as WG, Echo of Light (new priest version of effloresce), CoH, Efflorescence, Holy Radiance. All of which apparently now only hit 6 targets at full strength. Now let's take a fight with constant raid AE damage, and oh yes…they still exist, and a 10 man raid now has another significant advantage over a 25 man raid. Those spells will heal 60% of their raid while in a 25 man raid those spells will only heal 24% of the raid. How is that remotely close to being equal? How can you design an encounter with those mechanics that is "equal"? Sure a 25 man raid will have more healers, but the difference a single healer will be able to make in a 10 man raid vs a 25 man raid is hugely disparaging.
I could probably give 100 more examples here – but I'm wary of how much of my whining…er, valid complaining you want to truly listen to! I'm really trying very hard to give Blizzard the benefit of the doubt on this, but as more and more information regarding Cataclysm comes to light, my faith that we are going to see equal raids waivers. I just don't think it can happen. And yet everything to date, including frequently sought after "server first" achievements, has them set on equal footing. I just don't understand it – at all.
Will The Two Raids Be Well Balanced For Their Respective Structure?
I just don't see how it's possible. At all.
Here is what I think is going to happen – and please keep in mind that this is pure conjecture at this point – I think that 10s are going to be over tuned at release. And, honestly, I don't think that should come as a shock to anyone if it happens, because the evidence that they don't know how to balance the raids is all over the WotLK expansion. Just take a look at fights like Sarth 3D and HM LK in 10s; or Heroic Lady Deathwhisper, Heroic Anub'arak or Heroic Firefighter in 25s. There is no way that those encounters were respectively difficult.
Sure – the counter argument to that is that Blizzard had to balance 10s around 25s gear this expansion. I'm sorry, but I'm just not sold on it.
I think that in their effort to make things "equal" in difficulty, Blizzard is going to over-balance the 10s, and make them disproportionately difficult. Now, I could be completely wrong, and the 25s could be the raid that is balanced incorrectly. I guess what I'm really trying to say, is that on release I feel that one of the two raid sizes is going to be screwed. The only questions is: which one?
Exactly What Benefits Do You Get From 25 Man Raiding, Again?
When Blizzard first made the announcement that 10s and 25s were going to be "equalized" a lot of people were concerned that they were essentially killing the 25 man raid. And the verdict of that death sentence has yet to play out. However, one of the things that they had indicated was that in order to keep 25 man raiding viable (i.e. worth the effort) was that 25s would drop loot at a significantly higher rate, and 25s would gear faster – and then subsequently, and logically, be prepared to tackle more challenging content at a quicker pace.
And, as I stated above, I really want to believe that they are going to do this right. Now – they've already announced that legendaries are going to be available to both raid structures, and as long as they seem truly "rare" and special, I have absolutely no problems with that. However, if they become so common that they lose their honor, I'm going to be disappointed. They are meant to be truly rare – legendary, in fact.
But I digress.
Loot drops, I believe is where I left off. 25s are supposed to have an "advantage" of gearing more quickly than 10s. So let's take a look at what's been seen in the Beta. Most 10 mans are reporting that each boss drops 2 loot items. Alright, fair enough. That's 20% of the raid getting an upgrade per boss, much the same as now. But 25s have reported anywhere between 8 items per boss in early testing (32% of the raid) and as low as only 4 items per boss in some of the later testing (16% of the raid). And here I start to get nervous. If the 4 items per boss is what we are going to see…then where is the advantage? It's actually less loot than you would receive than if you were running a 10 man.
If the later numbers that we've seen are an accurate reflection of what we can expect when Cataclysm pushes live – where are the promised "perks" for the struggles and challenges it takes to coordinate 25 people together? Because if it's not in the increased loot drops – exactly where is it? I want to believe Blizzard is going to do it right – but beta patch after beta patch – and report after report – I find myself wondering if I'm mis-placing my faith in them. I wish that they'd just pick one raid size, even if it's 10s, and stick to it. I think they'd find more success and frankly probably do a better job with the content, if they weren't trying to please all of the people all of the time.
Are 25s Worth The Effort Anymore?
We are going into the expansion full steam as a 25 man raiding guild. We've been a 40s/25s guild since Vanilla – and we don't want to change that. But I'm going to be honest here, I'm really struggling to find the silver lining in this cloud. It is a lot of work to organize a 25 man raid, and even more work to do it with any modicum of success. But to date – it's continued to be worth the effort put into it because the reward has been there to justify it.
But moving forward?
I have to tell you, I just don't know where the effort vs reward factor is going to fall. I want to continue raiding 25s – we've built a strong guild full of people that I enjoy playing with, and I don't want that to change. But ultimately, the question that we are inevitably going to be faced with is if we can continue to sustain it – which won't entirely be within our control. If it continues to be worth the effort it takes to maintain the machine. And I would be lying to you to tell you that it wasn't playing heavily on my mind right now. I'm trying to stay positive, I'm trying to see the silver lining and I'm desperately trying to see how these changes are going to have positive effects on my guild. But it's not easy.
I Am Surely Not The Only One With These Concerns. I'm curious to know how other raiders are feeling right now. As more information becomes accessible from the beta, do you grow more nervous? Do you think that 25s will continue to remain a viable raiding option? If you are running 10s – do you feel that my concerns with regards to 25s are valid? Do you have concerns that I didn't address?


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A new iPhone app called Jetpac City Guides will appear in the iPhone store on December 5. It tells you all about the best places in every city to hit, based on analyzing millions of Instagram photos.
We've been playing with a preview of it and really like it.
It uses some pretty cool big data technology to look at the photos, understand what's going on in them (are people smiling? what are they wearing?) and match them to their GPS locations.
From that, the app tells you, city by city things like:
- The bars women love (based on how many photos of smiling women taken there).
- Where foodies eat and drink
- The best coffee shops
- Where music lovers hang out
- Hikes tourists don't know about
- Restaurants with the best views
- Dog-friendly places
- Best places for kids
- And (one of our favorites), hipster hangouts, based on pictures of guys dressed hipster style or sporting hipster mustaches.
For instance, from the app we learned that ...
The No. 1 bar that women love in San Francisco is Ace Wasabi's Rock-N-Roll Sushi.
The top restaurant where people take photos of their food in Manhattan is the Terakawa Ramen noodle house.
The favorite hangout for hipsters in Denver is a breakfast spot called Snooze.
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Nokia has launched three new mobile phones designed to please both the IT department and the business and mobile email user.
The E60, E61 and E70 are the first of the E-series and will be available in the first quarter of 2006. They run on Symbian operating systems and will work on GSM and 3G networks. They can also link to WLANs using Bluetooth and infrared. According to Nokia they are easy for IT departments to manage security settings, corporate apps and data.
Nokia said: "when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles."
The E61, which looks like a PDA, has a full keyboard and joystick and will support many email clients including BlackBerry Connect, Goodlink, Seven Mobile Mail and Visto Mobile. Visto said the phones: "will meet the needs of business end users and the IT professionals that support them."
The E70 has a fold-out butterfly keyboard, full colour screen which can handle email and basic editing.
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