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By Richard Baker, Bruce R. Cordell, David Noonan, Matthew Sernett, and James Wyatt
In Wheloon, a city known for its vibrant green slate roofs, a new temple to Mystra is in the final stages of construction. But something rings false among the heavenly spheres -- or at least among those who mouth the pieties of Mystra while plotting magical mayhem behind closed temple doors.
And that's just the beginning. . . .
The above passage is taken directly from the Introduction in Cormyr: The Tearing of the Weave, a hardcover super-adventure that is designed to take characters from 4th to 8th level. If you want to learn more about what's inside this book, read the rest of the Introduction, take a look at some information about the Path of Shadows, and download and expand the zipped encounter files below!
In Wheloon, a city known for its vibrant green slate roofs, a new temple to Mystra is in the final stages of construction. But something rings false among the heavenly spheres -- or at least among those who mouth the pieties of Mystra while plotting magical mayhem behind closed temple doors.
And that's just the beginning. . . .
Cormyr: The Tearing of the Weave is an adventure designed for four 4th-level Dungeons & Dragons characters. Player characters will advance through 5th level and into 6th level during the course of the adventure, and perhaps reach 7th or 8th level by its conclusion.
As Dungeon Master, you need four books to run this adventure: the Player's Handbook (PH), the Dungeon Master's Guide (DMG), the Monster Manual (MM), and the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (FRCS).
Review the information presented on pages 111-116 of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and the information about southeastern Cormyr in the appendix of this product. Otherwise, feel free to modify the adventure to suit a location other than Cormyr.
Unless you decide otherwise, this adventure takes place during the fall of 1374 DR.
This adventure uses the tactical encounter format to describe areas where PCs are likely to enter melee.
How To Use the Tactical Encounter Format
Encounters unlikely to end in combat use traditional keyed adventure text. But if a keyed area indicates combat is expected, the entry directs the DM to an associated tactical encounter. The traditional keyed entries remain your flowchart of the adventure -- they tell you when to refer to a tactical encounter, and to what page number you should turn.
The most obvious feature of each tactical encounter is the map for that area. A variety of information accompanies each map -- creature descriptions, initial positions, creature statistics, tactics, traps (if any), and other related information.
The encounters in this adventure are designed for use with Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures. In most cases, a D&D miniature can represent a character or creature perfectly; other times you'll have to improvise.
How To Use Encounter Maps
As described on DMG 59, if a map feature covers more than half of a given square, the feature is considered to extend into that square. If it covers less than half of a square, it doesn't extend into that square.
For example, if an area of light undergrowth skirts around the edges of a square, but the rest of the square is clear, then there's no extra movement cost to enter that square. If the undergrowth reaches past the middle of the square, the square costs 2 squares to move into.
The same rule applies to diagonal walls. We've drawn diagonal walls on the maps so they cut through the centers of square edges instead of running corner to corner. This way, it's easy to tell whether a character can stand in a given square or not, since every square that a diagonal wall passes through is either largely clear (you can stand there) or just a small corner (you can't stand there).
Adventure Background
The goddess Mystra provides for and tends the Weave, the conduit through which most creatures in Toril access magical energy. Despite this central role, the worship of Mystra has declined over the years. Even so, new temples are sometimes commissioned.
Until recently, Cormyr did not have a single temple to the Mother of All Magic. That changed six months ago when a Mystran priestess named Lady of Mystery Naedaenya Arthas convinced Lord Sarp Redbeard, leader of Wheloon and lord of much of the surrounding lands, that hosting a temple of Mystra was exactly the thing to bolster the city's economy and create a trade destination for magical items, components, and lore. A good deal of bribe money also exchanged hands, but in the end, construction was sited and started.
The temple was located on the site of a ruined citadel at the edge of Wheloon. With a foundation -- albeit crumbling -- already in place, along with the magic-aided construction techniques available to those pledged to Mystra, the temple was finished in mere months. The open central courtyard hosted nightly services to the Lady of Mysteries beneath her symbol of the seven stars.
When Tunaster Dranik, an itinerant cleric of Mystra, happened through Wheloon, he was astonished to discover a full-sized temple where for years had been a ruined citadel. Had he missed the church communiqué concerning news of the opening? But it was glorious news nonetheless that Cormyr finally hosted a temple to Mystra. Tunaster entered the temple, jubilant and eager to see his fellow clergy in their new chapel.
He barely escaped with his life -- and his sanity.
Adventure Synopsis
The characters who undertake this adventure discover all is not what it seems in the new temple to Mystra in Wheloon. To get to the bottom of the mystery, the PCs must travel to an abandoned keep in the Vast Swamp, journey from there to the Plane of Shadow, and fight their way through swamps, towers, and canyons to battle a black dragon devoted to Shar.
Chapter 1: Temple of Mystra: The PCs must force or trick their way into the well-guarded temple to discover what is amiss. They find out that the clerics offer "Mystra's Sacred Trust" to travelers through town and other folk who aren't likely to be missed. These folk are dominated after a long ritual; those with no magical talent are tortured to death or fed to monsters. The others are taken from the city to a location in the Vast Swamp for an unknown purpose -- one the PCs will have to discover for themselves. The temple's "clerics of Mystra" are indeed clerics -- but they worship a far more malevolent goddess.
Chapter 2: Into the Vast Swamp: The PCs follow the trail of the dominated victims to the Vast Swamp, encountering both friends and foes on the way. At the edge of the swamp, an encounter with some local lizardfolk reveals the existence of hordes of undead -- once the brethren of these same lizardfolk -- and a castle in the swamp where the dominated victims enter, but never leave.
Chapter 3: Cormyr's Lost Refuge: The PCs must fight their way inside the castle to reveal the fate of the dominated residents of Wheloon. Once inside the keep they battle various foes, including the chieftain of the undead lizardfolk. Further investigation leads the PCs to a few of the dispossessed Wheloonians -- and a strange-looking portal to the Plane of Shadow where the others must have gone.
Chapter 4: The Path of Shadows: Emerging from the portal into a dark mirror of the Material Plane, the PCs have a choice: set off in a magic boat across the dark waterway, or trek overland across the wide shadow swamp. A water journey is unnerving but ultimately uneventful, while choosing to walk across the swamp brings the PCs to the lair of the undead lizardfolk. Eventually the PCs arrive at an ancient monastery where they meet agents of Cyric and learn that the combined clergies of Shar and Cyric are attempting to tear a hole in the Weave, creating a vast area of dead magic.
Chapter 5: The Black Rift: From the monastery, the PCs must journey to the Black Rift, a huge canyon inexplicably set in the middle of the swamp. Here the strange, warped nature of the Plane of Shadow becomes very apparent as the PCs fight their way through strange locations linked by long bridges across the rift. At the end of the chain of fortifications, the PCs meet Despayr, the dragon behind it all. If they succeed in defeating him, the rip in the Weave that Despayr has started will heal itself. If the PCs fail, great woe will befall Cormyr.
The Path of Shadows
Beyond the Dusk Lord's Passage a dark and perilous journey awaits the characters. The true lair of Shar's servants lies deep in the Plane of Shadow, and it is here that Despayr intends to consummate the ritual that will rip a hole in Mystra's Weave. Characters following the trail of those dominated by the Starry Gnosis find that it leads into the Vast Swamp's counterpart on the Plane of Shadow.
Many locales and structures from the Material Plane are echoed in the Plane of Shadow. When the characters pass through the Dusk Lord's Passage in the Great Hall of the Lost Refuge, they emerge in a strange, twisted duplicate of the fortress they just left. Like the Lost Refuge itself, this "shadow citadel" is garrisoned by Shar's servants. Not far from the Shadow Citadel lies the Shadowscale Warren, where most of the remaining Shadowscale lizardfolk dwell.
The next step in the journey is the Whispermere -- a sluggish watercourse winding through the swamps beyond the shadow tower's islet. A battered old ferryboat driven by skeletal oarsmen bears the dominated victims to a landing at the eastern edge of the swamp. The ruined Monastery of the Ebon Dome overlooks the landing and a short trail leading to the Black Rift -- the stronghold of Despayr.
In this chapter, the characters must choose whether to take the ferryboat directly to the rift, or first root out the last of the Shadowscales. Either way, they encounter the plane's deadly denizens as they make their way through the dark and sinister shadow-reflection of Cormyr's Vast Swamp.
The Plane of Shadow
The Plane of Shadow is a dark echo of the Material Plane. Where mountains exist in the "real" world, mountains exist on the Plane of Shadow. Where towns and cities exist in the real world, settlements lie in the world of shadow. However, the shadow-analogues of Material Plane places and things are usually twisted and distorted.
Since this adventure takes place in the shadow-analogue of the Vast Swamp, most of the Plane of Shadow in this vicinity is a great black swamp. Like its Material Plane twin, this swamp is heavily forested -- countless creeks and waterways wind between cypress stands, low hummocks covered in dense undergrowth, and patches of open water and reedy marsh.
Features of the Plane of Shadow
The Plane of Shadow is strange, dark, and deadly. Travelers feel as if they can't get warm, they hear and sense things that aren't there, and they constantly feel as if they're being watched. Remind the players from time to time of just how uneasy their characters feel during their sojourn in this forbidding plane.
In addition, the Plane of Shadow has the following traits.
Vision: There is no natural illumination on the Plane of Shadow, and unnatural gloom dominates the plane. Creatures with normal human vision can see dimly to a distance of 60 feet, and can't see anything past that. (Consider this to be shadowy illumination, which means that targets within 60 feet have concealment, and targets more than 60 feet away have total concealment.) Creatures with low-light vision can see 120 feet, again in shadowy illumination. Creatures with darkvision see as usual for their darkvision range.
Illumination: The illumination ranges of all light sources, including spells that produce light, are halved on the Plane of Shadow. The Illumination and Sight Distances table on the following page gives you a quick reference for the most common light sources characters are likely to use on the plane. Note that shadowy illumination produced by a light source does not "brighten" the area a creature can see around itself.
Mildly Neutral-Aligned: A mildly neutral-aligned plane does not apply a circumstance penalty to anyone.
Enhanced Magic: Spells that have the shadow descriptor are maximized, as though the Maximize Spell feat had been applied, though they do not require higher-level spell slots or longer than normal casting times. Furthermore, specific spells are more powerful on the Plane of Shadow than they are elsewhere. Shadow conjuration and shadow evocation are 30% as powerful as the spells they mimic, not 20%. Similarly, greater shadow conjuration and greater shadow evocation are 70% as powerful, not 60%. Shades conjure creatures, objects, and effects that are 90% of the power of the original rather than 80%.
Impeded Magic: Spells that have the fire descriptor or the light descriptor are impeded (Spellcraft DC 20 + spell level to cast).
No Ethereal Connection: The Plane of Shadow does not connect to the Ethereal Plane, so spells and effects that use the Ethereal Plane (for example, blink) do not function here.
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Update? Is the crazyness down South affecting your timeline?
mod 0 comp and mod A44 ambi CH... maybe a gas block too
Laws to suppress tend to strenghten what they would prohibit.
Any updates here? I'm getting to the end of my build, and wondering if it's worth waiting for BCM with the stuff happening down south... Might be a while?
BCM BFH 14.5" Mid Length Upper Receiver Group
With the A2 not pinned of course.
The Jack carbine would be a great option, but how long would it be before we actually see one in Canada? Very interested!!!

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The game started out as a tough defensive battle, with neither the Hornets nor the Raiders managing a goal in the first period.
Roseville's Sarah Knowlton finally managed to sneak one past goalie Maddie Dahl late in the second period, during a Raiders power play. The Raiders kept the pressure on, as Kate Flug and Jordan Capeti scored a second and third goal within a two-minute span bridging the second and third periods.
The Hornets recovered midway through the third period on a power play goal by senior Anna Bartz, but Roseville put the game away with a Kate Flug power play goal of their own late in the third.
This was the fourth straight year the Hornets made the state tournament, though the team has never managed to secure the elusive state title. They are set to play in the third place game against Lakeville North at 4 p.m. today, Feb. 25, at the Xcel Energy Center.
Minnetonka and Roseville—who coincidentally have the past two years—will face each other at 7 p.m. tonight in the championship game.
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Silas hoards a treasure that destroys his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that fill this moving tale of guilt and innocence.
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Five Sussex Police officers are cleared of assaults
1:10pm Friday 21st December 2012 in News By Ben Parsons, Crime Reporter
Five Sussex Police officers have been cleared of attacking a family at their home.
The officers, a sergeant and four constables, were accused of attacking members of the High family at their home near Horsham after they had rowed with a taxi driver over £2.50.
Eighteen months later, and after a three-day trial at Brighton Magistrates' Court, the officers were told the force they had used was reasonable.
Sergeant Chris O'Leary and PCs Lucy Fenney, Natalie Jennings, Jacqueline Peel and Oliver Pullen were all based at Horsham Police Station at the time of the incident on Saturday, June 25, last year.
They arrived at the High family home in Mile Ash Road, Barns Green, Horsham, at 1.40am.
'Stamped on' A taxi driver had complained that Jamie and Joshua High, aged 26 and 24, had refused to pay his £27.50 charge, offering only £25 instead.
Police at the time believed he was reporting an assault.
Wrists marked
Jamie High claimed when he answered his front door to officers minutes later, they said: "£27.50 now, or you're nicked."
He claimed that during the struggle that followed he was hit with punches and a baton, sprayed with Captor spray and stamped on while handcuffed. He said the cuffs were so tight it took two officers to unlock them, and his wrists were marked afterwards.
Police said they had heard Jamie High tell Joshua High to "get the shooter", which Jamie High denied.
When police dropped their inquiry in December last year, the Highs launched their own private prosecution, which was taken over by the Crown Prosecution Service in July this year.
James, Joshua, the men's father, Andrew, and their mother, Jane, all claimed they were assaulted.
Denied charge
PC Fenney, 30, PC Jennings, 28, PC Peel, 42, PC Pullen, 30, and Sgt O'Leary, 34, all denied counts of assault.
Giving evidence, PC Pullen said Jamie High had taunted the officers when they threatened to use their Captor spray, by swearing and saying: "Go on, spray us."
PC Fenney described how she sprayed Jamie High, saying: "I thought he was going to injure Sergeant O'Leary. I did it in defence of him."
She described Jamie High as "revved up, sparring for a fight".
PC Peel said she was "devastated" by facing the charge.
Reasonable force
She confirmed she had been disciplined in the past with a final written warning for giving conflicting evidence at a coroner's court.
Lee Harris, prosecuting, said: "I'm not saying you are a bad officer, or any of you are bad officers, I'm saying you and your colleagues got the wrong end of the stick to start with and went over the top."
PC Peel said: "No."
Deputy District Judge Andrew Lewis considered the evidence yesterday afternoon (December 20). He acquitted all the officers of assault, saying the force they used was reasonable.
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1:18pm Fri 21 Dec 12
D360 says...
1:21pm Fri 21 Dec 12
Algeria Touchshriek says...
1:47pm Fri 21 Dec 12
still waiting says...
2:16pm Fri 21 Dec 12
markiemark1 says...
4:48pm Fri 21 Dec 12
lorrie1 says...
Why do the police ALWAYS get away with incidents like this?
5:02pm Fri 21 Dec 12
AmboGuy says...
lorrie1 wrote:Ha ha still waiting was right.
Police 1, citizens 0, Same old, same old.
Why do the police ALWAYS get away with incidents like this?
Well done lorrie1 for the first really stupid post of the thread.
5:10pm Fri 21 Dec 12
angrymonkey says...
11:19pm Fri 21 Dec 12
greeg2 says...
still waiting wrote:"Ambogay" you're so smart you should be involved in the space program ! You obviously have never stepped over the threshold of your front door if you think the cops can do no wrong.Mendacity is part of their game,if you don't know that,you don't know anything.
Just waiting for the resident trolls to trot out their All Cops Are Guilty Anyway posts. But I bet nobody who lives near this family is going to question the verdict....
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elephantsandowls says...
@funkyyoyo: go live next to the notorious High family, would you? They might actually be able to assist you with your spelling.
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D360 says...
funkyyoyo wrote:And I suppose all the armed forces are evil murderers too because of bloody Sunday? What does Hillsborough have to do with anything? The story here is the police were called to a family of scummy parasites who then made a malicious complaint, likely for some compo. It's just a shame the cost of the Court hearings can't be deducted from their benefits.
lets not forget hillsborough, they crossed the line in a monster way,and these big wigs will goto prison,not forgetting plebgate too!! the sweeney days are far from over,the corruption is rife and just hidden in a different way,which always surfaces in the end,so theyve only got themselves to blame,time to ween out the bad apples once and for all
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greeg2 wrote:And the runner up prize for moronic comments goes to greeg2. This silly little student needs to grow up and live in the real world.
still waiting wrote:"Ambogay" you're so smart you should be involved in the space program ! You obviously have never stepped over the threshold of your front door if you think the cops can do no wrong.Mendacity is part of their game,if you don't know that,you don't know anything.
Just waiting for the resident trolls to trot out their All Cops Are Guilty Anyway posts. But I bet nobody who lives near this family is going to question the verdict....
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IT DOESN'T take long to panic if you are a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates or Cleveland Indians.
As they have in the past, the two clubs were sporting pretty solid records going into the All-Star Break. Then came the return to play Friday night.
Both teams lost!
Yikes! Here we go again!
Suddenly after only one game we're envisioning second-half collapses that have been known to plague the teams in recent years.
After all, since the Pirates have had 20 straight losing seasons, it's difficult not to show a bit of pessimism. And since the Indians haven't won a World Series since Bob Feller was toeing the rubber back in 1948, it's easy to see doom and gloom in the future for the Tribe.
But fear not local fans. For some reason, I see good things ahead the rest of the season for the Buccos and Indians.
The Pirates won't win the division. In fact they won't even finish second. St. Louis and Cincinnati will grab those top spots. But Pittsburgh is playing well enough to cop a wild-card berth and definitely should finish with a winning record to break the 20-year drought.
And call me a dreamer, but I can still see Cleveland edging Detroit for the division title. Admittedly, the Tribe struggles against the Tigers, but Detroit hasn't shown that they can pull away in the division race as they lose to other clubs. And in the second half of the season, Detroit has a tougher schedule than the Indians.
And in the end, I see the Indians and Pirates squaring off in the World Series. OK, just kidding. I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. However, I do see them making the playoffs.
Hey, have I ever been wrong?
ä Speaking of wrong, there's something wrong with that British Open. It seems awfully unfair to me that the course conditions and wind change so much during any one day.
Sometimes players who go out early have a distinct advantage over those with afternoon tee times.
Yes, I realize that the British Open is the oldest of the majors. (I know the lords of golf want it just called the Open, but we have an Open in the United States too, so who cares what they think!)
And I realize that golf was invented in Scotland and there's a great sense of tradition in sports.
Still, in truth, those golf courses over there are no better than cow pastures. If that course were in the United States, nobody would go to play it.
The only good thing I see is that the British Open courses and conditions make all the pampered pros whine and cry.
That alone makes the British Open worth watching for all of us duffers.
It's good to know that even pros can shoot double and triple bogeys sometimes!
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DBG46 wrote: In the opinion of those more knowledgeable about recruiting than me, who are the Must-gets in 2014, and who are the Want-to-gets? These lists might be different.
Depends on your definition on those "must gets" because I dislike the term. To me the real only "must get" from 2013 was Jaylon Smith.
You can see how highly ND rated Dawkins as he is the lone QB offer. ND is doing well with tons of good OL and DL. The stuff really likes some kids like Enoch Smith Jr and is putting a lot of effort in Elijah Hood. That said, ND needs some good ILB this class so I would think getting at least one more of the staff's top priorities like Morgan would be nice.
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Brian Campbell might not want to turn on the television, open a paper or peruse the Internet today. He's all over all of them, and it isn't pretty.
The Blackhawks defenseman had a game-losing giveaway Tuesday night as Chicago lost to Detroit, 3-2, in overtime. The setback dropped Chicago into a 2-0 hole in the Western Conference finals, and many are saying the series is over.
Campbell is definitely wearing the goat outfit. He turned the puck over at the Detroit blue line with a backhand attempt, and the Red Wings responded with a three-on-one rush that goalie Nikolai Khabibulin had no chance of stopping.
ESPN is running clips of Campbell's "Big Mistakes." The lowlights start with his penalty late in Game Seven of the 2006 Eastern Conference finals, when he shot the puck over the glass for the Sabres; Carolina scored the game-winner on the power play. The next clip is a penalty he took in the fourth overtime last season with San Jose, and Dallas eliminated the Sharks on the power play. Those plays are followed by Tuesday's gaffe.
"On the goal there I'll do that play a hundred more times," Campbell said in the Chicago Tribune.
"That's a play I can make and I normally do make it. It's a tough way to lose, and I don't feel too good about it right now. A lot of things are going on inside right now emotionally. I know me personally and the rest of the guys aren't going to quit."
Though Campbell would make the play again (the error and goal are in the clips package below), observers wish he wouldn't.
Writes Barry Rozner of Illinois' Daily Herald: "Campbell has been all season - and remains - a player you can't trust on the ice at crucial times, and that's a frightening statement about a guy getting paid $7.1 million a year for seven more years."
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Joe Namath said he expects Michael Vick to be the New York Jets' opening-day quarterback, but he needs to be healthy this season.
The Hall of Famer and former New York Jets great said Vick is a better option than incumbent Geno Smith and will give the Jets a better chance at success in 2014.
"Of course, the coaches are going to decide who's out there, but, boy, I don't know any football fan that's been around for nine or 10 years that doesn't think Michael will be outstanding and probably is the best player at this time," Namath said Tuesday night at the United Way's annual Gridiron Gala in Manhattan, according to ESPN.com
"If Mike's healthy, I think he's the better player at this point," Namath said. "Now, Geno's got some talent, no doubt, but we've obviously seen Michael and what he can do. To have some knowledge of (Marty Mornhinweg's) offense, I think that's an advantage, too, for Michael to make the transition. It's a matter of how sound he is."
Namath was asked to identify an area in which Smith needs to improve.
"The safest thing for me to say, the one factual thing for me to say that I know is his passing accuracy," he said. "The rest of it, I don't have a handle on -- his mind, what he sees, how he's doing those things. The one thing I know he has to improve on -- and he does, too -- is accuracy."
Vick, who signed with the Jets in March to compete for the starting job, has said that Smith is the starter.
Offensive coordinator Mornhinweg said earlier this month that a starter has not been named but announced Smith would get the majority of the first-team reps when the team starts its OTA practices.
In 16 starts as a rookie last year, Smith completed only 55.8 percent of his passes, threw for 3,046 yards with 12 touchdowns and 21 interceptions as the Jets went 8-8.
Smith has expressed confidence that he will continue to start. Coach Rex Ryan, however, said Vick was signed to "push" him.
Vick worked with Mornhinweg for four years with the Eagles when Mornhinweg was offensive coordinator.
Vick, 34, signed a one-year, $4 million deal after the Jets parted with Mark Sanchez. Vick, a four-time Pro Bowler, played just seven games with the Eagles last season and lost the starting job to Nick Foles.


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Nice large rooms. Clean and comfortable beds. Bar and food service and quality from bar was excellent. Good location if you don't want to stay in downtown CT. Great views from terrace. - Anonymous
La Savina was the best hotel I stayed in when I was in South Africa. La Savina is centrally located. 2 min walk to the Canel Walk. 10 min taxi ride to VA Waterfront, 20 mins to Camps Bay. Great on security. If you are looking for a hotel that gives you the home feeling this is your hotel. Do not be mislead and stay in Downtown Cape town it is better to stay outside the city. - Gabriel
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Date: September 16, 2009
by: Pam McTeer | News Editor
MANATEE COUNTY — Vance Photography owners Mark Vance and John Mulligan are on the hunt for talent.
The East County businessmen will be showcasing their services while snapping headshots and scouting for film talent from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sept. 19, during the Gulf Coast Talent & Film Expo at the Manatee Civic and Convention Center, 1 Haben Blvd., Palmetto. Representatives of the talent, film and publishing industries will be under one roof to showcase their services and to search for local talent.
"It's pulling a lot of people together," Mulligan said of the event. "There's a lot to offer here (in Manatee). It could be a catalyst for people to start making films in the area. You never know what might come out of it."
The event is free and open to the public.
Stage performances will include acting, comedic sketches, singing, dancing and modeling. Attendees also can participate in karaoke competitions, contests and auditions while picking up information from music recording and film studios in the area.
"If somebody thinks they've got what it takes, the businesses will be there," event organizer and True Hollywood Screentest owner Mark Ibasfalean said.
Ibasfalean said the event is hinging around his business, which will have a booth called True Hollywood Talent on site. There, the company will be videotaping individuals who wish to make audition tapes or simply see if they have a knack for the camera. Visitors will have up to four minutes on film to showcase their talents, and each video will be posted online at www.truehollywoodscreentest.com for viewing.
Attendees then can take those video clips, modify them and post them on YouTube or send them to producers or other companies for consideration.
"People want to do something — even if they only do it once," Ibasfalean said. "This way, they can go in there and experiment. There's nobody watching them. They can do what they want. It gives them a relaxed type of feeling when they do something they are unsure of."
Ibasfalean said the event and its offerings will give aspiring talents the tools they need to move forward in the entertainment and publishing industries without necessarily hiring an agent.
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Sounds like you had a wonderful birthday, Jesse! So cool that you received a call from Kurt Browning!
Sounds like you had a wonderful birthday, Jesse! So cool that you received a call from Kurt Browning!
A belated happy birthday to you, Jesse. That's way cool that Kurt Browning called you.
When I'm old, I don't want them to say of me, "She's so charming." I want them to say, "Be careful, I think she's armed."
Fact of Life: After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says W T F
No I still don't know who set up the Kurt call or how they got my phone number or anything haha.
I had DQ ice cream cake.. a few different kinds.
Thank you alllllllll! <3
I can't believe you talked to Kurt Browning, my hero.
It's quite possible that Kurt reads FSU and has seen this thread, and contacted your club for your number. Or someone at your club contacted him.
That is amazing! Happy belated birthday, I think of you often and hope you are doing well.
"Michelle would never be caught with sausage grease staining her Vera Wang." - rfisher
Jesse, your address is in this thread. Look up your last name and address on 411.ca...
Haunting the Princess of Pink since 20/07/11...
Jesse, I'm really happy for you about Kirk's call, it must have made your already great birthday even more wonderful.
How amazing for you - a call from Kurt Browning!! Made your day even more special, I'm sure.
We were away for about 3 weeks, so I just discovered the news about your health situation. My thoughts & prayers are with you. Glad that you had an awesome b'day with your loved ones & Kurt's call.
Super cool Kirk called you! And several kinds of ice cream cake is awesome!
Sounds like a great birthday!
So how was your labour day Spaz? Are the nurses any better?
The nurses are getting so much worse it seems.. I was sleeping and she's in my room doing who knows what.. then she's like..... IT'S 11 AM!! like wtf? let me sleep i don't care what time it is!!
after that it was good though.. my family came and got me out of there and we went to a restaurant and now i'm at home for a while.
So sorry Spaz and wish I was there to give the nurses a piece of my mind. A thousand hugs & kisses to you and lad you broke outta there for a while. Enjoy your time home.
So frustrating! You need your sleep!
Tell your nurses there is a pair of beautiful Swarovski crystal earrings for whoever you decide is the Jesse Smith Nurse of the Week. (Have your family put a sign on your wall.) The winner can pick the color and I will make them to order. If you PM me your email address I will send a sample pic. (I am starting a jewelry business.) And I'm good for a pair every week if it helps.
Jesse, you need to talk to supervisory personnel about the behavior/attitude of your nurses.
Checks may be necessary from time to time; but, they can do them in a way that disturbs you as little as possible.
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The rusted gate from Tiger Plaza still stands at the Tiger Stadium site, beckoning you on to the old diamond.
DETROIT -- At this link is my Sunday Inside Baseball column talking about Tiger Stadium.
The last game at "The Corner" was in 1999 and the wrecking ball finished its job in 2009 but it's great to see a diamond back at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull -- and to see the old center field flagpole still standing.
Click here for my Flickr stream slideshow of my trip back in time to The Corner last week.
And check out my Flickrs on the World Series venues
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Student housing project subject of public hearing tonight
The project, called The District at Campus West, will be considered at a public hearing tonight at Fort Collins City Council Chambers at 300 LaPorte Ave.
If approved, the project would include a 193-unit development on 4.48 acres of land on the north side of West Plum Street between City Park Avenue and Aster Street. The development, as proposed, consists of five buildings that include housing, a clubhouse, parking and an interior courtyard.
Two dead-end streets, Columbine and Daisy, would be removed for the development of the project. The project's developer is Fort Collins Student Housing, a subsidiary of Residential Housing Development, a student-housing developer headquartered in Houston.
Residential Housing Development was formed in 2003 and has developed residential facilities as large as 924 bedrooms.
The project was initially proposed in 2008 but did not get off the ground because of the poor economic conditions.
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"The Hammer Falls" is a short adventure for five 2nd-level characters that takes place in the Chaos Scar. The characters enter an abandoned metalworking refinery under the control of a clan of duergar who have given their souls to infernal forces in exchange for power. Inside, the duergar work tirelessly to uncover the secrets within a river of lava corrupted by a shard from the meteorite.
An overpowering stench of sulfur lingers in the air as you approach the refinery. It's evident from the decay and debris that the facility has not been used in many years. One of the upper walls has collapsed, and rusty tools lie scattered around the entrance, yet steam and smoke billow out from the broken chimneys, rising above the faint sound of hammers on anvils that echo within the broken walls.
(For details on the Chaos Scar and its environs, read the Chaos Scar introduction and check out the map of the entire valley. Then check out and join the Chaos Scar group on the D&D Community pages.)
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Horsemanning (Internet Meme), aka "headless Horsemanning": Getting two people two strike a pose such that gives the illusion of being a single decapitated person.
Attention: this meme does not call for actual decapitations; just the illusion thereof. Do not – I repeat – DO NOT attempt to decapitate your friends just to get a cool picture to post in your Facebook. Seriously, that's not even cool and you might even go to jail. Or gross people out. Besides, that wouldn't be proper Horsemanning. You will learn the correct procedure somewhere in this post, so keep your eyes peeled.
So what is this new Horsemanning thing all about?
Finally! A photographic Internet meme that doesn't imply risking your life balancing from unlikely places – as with the older meme cousins planking and owling. This time around, it's all about using your imagination, rather than your lack of common sense.
Also known as Headless Horsemanning (a reference to the movie "Sleepy Hollow" and its Headless Horseman), this newest craze requires two people to combine their acting skills and strike a pose together. One person is supposed to hide their head, while the other must hide their entire body – except for their head. The result… well, let's just assume you get the picture. If not, scroll down and… check the pictures, already.
How did the Horsemanning craze get started?
This time around, you can't blame it on the crazed-out Internet generation! Well, at least not entirely. Apparently, Horsemanning was all the rage in the 1920′s. Back then, the real hipster folks came up with the ingenious idea taking a picture that passed the illusion the portrayed subject had been decapitated. And that's a long time before the person who invented Photoshop was even born!
Back in the day, Horsemanning was the cool thing to do (even though the actual term hadn't been coined yet). Then someone invented other great things such as Technicolor, the Band-Aid and the Tommy gum, and soon…. everybody was distracted. You know people, and their short attention spans!
Enter 2011, someone rescues the picture above from a flea market, posts it on-line, and BAM! Millions of hobbyist photographers who were bored from acting like planks or owls now have a reason to combine forces and do something together. The results keep pouring from all corners of the globe. As usual, we'll round up this post with a hundred or so of the best horsemanning pictures available. Yeah, at this website we scour the Internet so you don't have to, thanks very much! Now scroll down, and feast your eyes. Let there be…
The Behemoth-est Horsemanning Gallery, Ever!
Can't get enough? Check out the unofficially offical Horsemanning website. We swiped most of these pictures from over there(yeah… the watermark surely was a dead give-away), and there's a good chance they've posted many more by the time you're actually reading this. Now go forth, and horseman!


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North Fort Myers, Fla. — Died at Citrus Gardens of Fort Myers after a long illness. He was born in Derry to Marion and George Devine.
He is survived by his loving wife, Ruth and three sons, James and wife, Sandy, John and wife, Madelyn, Fredric and wife, Dottie; eight grandchildren, James Jr, Lisa, Robert, Derek, Michael, John, Amy, Chad; one great-grandson; one great-granddaughter, and one great-great-granddaughter; two sisters, Harriet, 98, and Grace, 87.
John graduated from Pinkerton Academy class of 1937, where he played football for four years. He was so proud he attended Pennsylvaia. He worked at Jodi Shoe until it closed and then at Sanders Associates in Nashua until he retired with his wife to Polk City Fla. He moved to Jacksonville with his wife to live with their son, James and his wife, Sandy in 2000 and then to North Fort Myers, when James retired in 2003.


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WASHINGTON—Northeast lawmakers, including a Republican, blasted the House GOP leadership Wednesday for delaying action on a multibillion-dollar Superstorm Sandy measure they say is critical to the recovery of their states.
President Obama called on the House to take an immediate vote on the aid, saying in a statement that "our citizens are still trying to put their lives back together. Our states are still trying to rebuild vital infrastructure.''


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Here's two videos for Tuesday. These videos both have different musical things I like. The first video is showing Dutch producer Sebastien Léger using Ableton Live and the touchAble iPad app. The second video is the great Macbeth M5 synthesizer bleeping on it's own accord.
touchAble featured artists video : Sebastien Léger from touchAble on Vimeo.
Macbeth M5N : Five from LEbER SOUND on Vimeo.
"Tuesday is a day of the week occurring after Monday and before Wednesday. According to international standard ISO 8601, is the second day of the week, in some traditions also the third. The English name is derived from Old English Tiwesdæg and Middle English Tewesday. This was a loan translation of Latin dies Martis, originally associating the day with the planet Mars, but the Germanic name translates Mars, the god of war, as Teiwaz (Old English Tiw)." – WIkipedia
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Did you think I would go to the coolest analog synth store in the world and not take a few photos? To go along with my last post here is a photo set from Schneiders Buero. Berlin, Germany. Feel free to tag and add notes to the photos if a synth or module isn't labeled. I dare you to even attempt to label the Doepfer Modular!
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Springfield, Mass. - February 28, 2010 - On Sunday, March 7, the Springfield College women's gymnastics team is hosting Yale University and Rhode Island College in what is being tabbed the "Tumble for Teal" meet. The meet, which is scheduled to begin at 1:00 pm, is dedicated to help raise Gynecological Cancer Awareness.
All donations made during the meet will be made to the Dana-Farber Cancer Center and Team Maureen, a group founded in memory of SC gymnast Maureen Duffey '91. For more information about Team Maureen visit www.myspace.com/teammaureen.
Teal bracelets will be on sale throughout the meet, while there will be an information desk at the meet to provide any answers to questions you may have.
Raffle tickets will be on sale throughout the day, with a grand prize of an I-Pod Touch. Spectators will also be able to help raise money for awareness by sponsoing the SC gymnastics team through pledges for routine scores of 8.5 to 10.0.
In what will be the final home meet for the seniors, we welcome you to show your support and help heighten gynecological cancer awareness.


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BEIJING, China - The U.S. Paralympic Track Cycling Team will start the 2008 Paralympic Games on Sunday, September 7 just a few hours after the Opening Ceremony ends. After several days of practicing at Laoshan Velodrome, Beijing, China, Coach Craig Griffin (Colorado Springs, Colo.) feels they are ready.
"The training since being here has been really encouraging and we had a very good practice today," said Griffin. "I believe all of the cyclists will have personal bests in tomorrow's races."
The squad includes two returning from the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece and five athletes competing in their first Paralympic Track Cycling competition. This will mark Barbara Buchan's (CP3/Bend, Ore.) fifth Paralympic Games and Karissa Whitsell (B&VI/ Eugene, Ore.) will be entering her third Paralympic Games with new pilot Mackenzie Woodring (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
Also on the team is Mike Farrell (CP4/Colorado Springs, Colo.), Anthony Zahn (LC4/Riverside, Calif.), Greta Neimanas (LC1/Colorado Springs, Colo.), Jennifer Schuble (LC4/Homewood, Ala.), and Allison Jones (LC3/Denver, Colo.).
Farrell will be the first to compete in the qualification round of the Men's CP4 Individual Pursuit. In the afternoon session, Zahn will compete in the Men's LC 3/LC 4 1 Km Time Trial, followed immediately by Whitsell and Woodring competing in the Women's B&VI 1-3 1 Km Time Trial. Just as he began the day, Farrell will also conclude the day with his final in the Men's CP4 Individual Pursuit.
The track cycling team will compete in ten different events during the Beijing Games. Track cycling will conclude on Wednesday, September 10, 2008. Road cycling will then begin on Friday, September 12. The entire track team will also be competing in the road race events.
Members of the U.S. Paralympic Cycling Team:Track:Name (Classification/Hometown)Barbara Buchan (CP3/Bend Ore.)Mike Farrell (CP4/Colorado Springs, Colo.)Allison Jones (LC3/Denver, Colo.)Greta Neimanas (LC1/Colorado Springs, Colo.)Jennifer Schuble (LC4/Homewood Ala.)Karissa Whitsell (B&VI/Eugene Ore.)Mackenzie Woodring (Pilot for Whitsell/Grand Rapids, Mich.)Anthony Zahn (LC4/Riverside, Calif.)
Road:Name (Classification/Hometown)Alejandro Albor (HCC/Elk Grove, Calif.)Mike Farrell (CP4/Colorado Springs, Colo.)David Lee (HCB/Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.)Oz Sanchez (HCC/San Diego, Calif.)Allison Jones (LC3/Denver, Colo.)Greta Neimanas (LC1/Colorado Springs, Colo.)Jennifer Schuble (LC4/Homewood Ala.)Matthew Updike (HCB/Denver, Colo.)Karissa Whitsell (B/VI/Eugene Ore.)Ron Williams (LC2/Hoover, Ala.)Mackenzie Woodring (Pilot for Whitsell/Grand Rapids, Mich.)Anthony Zahn (LC4/Riverside, Calif.)
For more information or to arrange an athlete interview, please contact Katrina Shaklee at 13910754730 (if calling from the U.S., dial 011 86 plus the local number).
Daily video highlights of the 2008 Paralympic Games are available at www.usparalympics.org and www.universalsports.com.


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Obama's Inauguration Present: The Economic Recovery Is Finally Here
President Obama will enjoy a much stronger economy during his second term.
Call it the passive-aggressive economy.
When Congress pumped billions of dollars of stimulus spending into the economy, it sputtered and wheezed like a patient having a heart attack. Now that Congress is raising taxes and cutting back on stimulus measures, the economy seems more resilient than expected. For President Barack Obama, it could mean a much more durable economy over the next four years than he enjoyed in his first term.
[PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes of Obama's Second Inauguration]
Toward the end of 2012, economists warned repeatedly that the fiscal-cliff standoff would harm economic growth and perhaps even cause a recession. The last-second solution avoided the worse possible outcome, but it still included tax hikes that will take money out of consumers' pockets, without addressing the looming crisis over the national debt.
Yet instead of tanking, the economy held up much better than expected given the dangerous game of chickenCongress and the president engaged in. Employers created 155,000 new jobs in December, maintaining the same pace of job creation established throughout 2012. Instead of plunging, the stock market drifted upward toward a five-year high, preventing many investors from taking advantage of a panicky selloff to buy stocks cheap, while hoping for a snapback once Congress got the message and did its job.
Economic growth is still weak, perhaps just 1.5 percent or so. But that's not bad considering that measures to address the federal deficit are now cutting into growth. Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimates that the fiscal-cliff deal negotiated at the start of the year will cut GDP growth by about 1.5 percentage points this year, with further spending cuts likely to cut it by another half-point. "This implies that absent the fiscal drag, we would be forecasting 3.5% growth," BofA said in a recent report. "This is actually quite positive."
[READ: One Big Thing That Will Be A Lot Easier in Obama's Second Term]
There's more good news from the housing market, where prices have bottomed out and the recovery seems to have legs. Long ones, perhaps. Homes sales are rising back toward more normal levels, and foreclosures have fallen to the lowest level since early 2007, according to RealtyTrac. Housing permits, which indicate plans for future construction, are at the highest level since 2008. That suggests lost construction jobs, one of the biggest contributors to high unemployment, will start to return in larger numbers.
Housing is key to a recovery, since it's usually the force that powers the economy out of a recession. Since a huge housing bust, fueled by excess debt, helped cause the recession in the first place, it has taken a lot longer for housing to bounce back this time. Now that a housing recovery has finally arrived, other sectors will benefit as well. Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies reports that a remodeling boomlet is well underway, for instance, which will boost sales of appliances and hardware and bring more work to contractors.
Other factors will mask an improving economy for at least the next few months, as Washington policymakers continue to battle over taxes and spending. Consumer confidence has dipped lately, since people are noticing that the end of a temporary cut in the payroll tax means more money is coming out of their paychecks. But there are concrete signs that the overall confidence trendline is moving higher. Auto sales ended 2012 strong, for instance, and most forecasters expect sales to keep climbing in 2013.
[SEE: Winners and Losers in 2013]
Businesses have pulled back on spending too, since they're especially sensitive to bad policies in Washington that could torpedo the economy. And business spending may remain restrained until it's clear that Washington has resolved the standoff over raising the nation's borrowing limit and come up with some kind of plan to start addressing the $16 trillion national debt. If the political theatrics yield any breakthroughs this year, businesses might finally loosen up the purse strings.
Meanwhile, Europe may have put the worst of its own debt crisis behind it, China's growth is rebounding, and Japan's new prime minister is promising aggressive new policies to jolt his nation out of a two-decade slump. Americans should still expect an up-and-down economy in 2013, but the lows and highs may both be higher. It's about time.
Rick Newman is the author of Rebounders: How Winners Pivot From Setback To Success. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman.


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Web Animations: the good, the bad and how to do them better
Animations are among the simplest and most effective ways to evoke an emotional response from a website. But whenever you introduce a flourish to web design, there's always some risk.
Web animations create an element of surprise that can be incredibly attention-grabbing—when used in moderation. A designer should never introduce animations just for the sake of having them. They should be subtle and organic, and not detract from your content.
There are drawbacks: the options can be overwhelming and they can complicate an otherwise simple project. Like whose role is it to determine the animations? the strategist? designer? developer?
Animations can be hard to conceptualize and difficult to then communicate to a project team or client—there are so many different terms to describe the same thing and it's hard to know if you'll be on the same page. Also, they can just go horrifically wrong. The client might hate it which has potential to derail a project.
Let's take a look at some bad animations, good ones and then I'll offer some tips for doing it right.
An Open Letter to Custom Development Clients
We see two kinds of projects when building the web: build-to-spec projects, where you bring the idea, we make it happen, and solve-a-problem projects, where we collaborate to find the best opportunity, together.
Our clients seem to happily bring us the second option when the project is a campaign or a fairly standard CMS build. But when clients needs a very tailored custom developed tool or application—the kinds that really involve in-depth problem solving—there is a strange tendency to bring build-to-spec projects to our team.
Here's the plain fact: most of the time, build-to-spec projects leave big opportunities on the table. A set of specs laid out before you have a understanding of the strength of our design, UX, and technical architecture chops, mean you probably aren't accessing the full breadth and skill of a custom dev team.
"But we already know what we need," you might say. "We know what pieces of tech will solve our business problem, and we just need someone to build it."
That's why we need to talk. I believe it's right there—the part where a problem is defined—where we find the most fertile ground for growing a...
Using Open Data Sets to Solve Real Human Problems
We keep hearing that data is this century's greatest natural resource, but way more effort goes into talking about it than into figuring out how to mine it and what to actually DO with it.
Domain7 recently hosted the 2014 Open Data Day Hackathon at our Railtown office. Local developers gathered to discuss ways we can use open data sets, and to hack some new tools using some of the City of Vancouver's data.
Data like this is at our disposal, and now our job is to figure out how to use it to better humanity. That day we heard about some great projects that are using open data for human-friendly results:
- Bike lanes: Vancouver's bike lanes have been directly influenced by a developer who used ICBC data to show where frequent collisions have historically taken place.
- Vancouver budget: Though the City always releases their budget in PDF format, few residents will actually take the time to review it. That data has been turned into a handy tool—...
Building the Web Beyond the Screen
A couple weeks ago my colleague Ryan James asked a great question: How is the trajectory of ubiquitous computing going to affect the Web and browsers? Kevan Gilbert followed up with some of the ways ubiquitous computing will mesh with storytelling, including a mention of Wilson Miner's talk When We Build.
In Miner's talk—already 3 years old—he describes how so much of computers as we know them (screens, network cables, keyboards, etc) has disappeared.
With the loss of visible computers, is the Web in danger?
In short, no. It's thriving in new ways as the Internet fundamentally transforms the way we work.
Here are some examples:
- Networking: Whether it's your phone, watch, thermostat, oven, garage-door, TV, stereo, or car, anything with a decent chip in it can connect to the internet. And you can bet that if it's connecting to the Internet, it can talk with servers you can...
Terms to Know When Talking to Your Web Developer
A couple weeks ago I decoded some of them terms you'll inevitably hear when working with a web designer. Once design moves into development, however, it's a completely new dialect. Fortunately I've been rolling with those foreigners for three years now, and I've picked up a bit of developer patois.
In the lay-est of laymen's terms, here's what they mean.
Agile Development: 99% of the time, what clients and developers initially set out to build looks very little like the actual end product. A traditional planning approach—with a detailed and rigid set of launch requirements—can be counterproductive. It's like installing a state of the art chef's kitchen when all you ever eat is takeout; or conversely, like building a one-bedroom bungalow when your wife is pregnant with twins. It's why many digital products take so long to launch, and often flop once they do. Instead, agile (or iterative) software development focuses on the very basic requirements for your application (see "MVP" below).
Whether it's an event registration system,...
The Future of Her: Artificial Intelligence and the Specialness of Humans
What does tomorrow hold? Are 'the machines' taking over the world? Will human and artificial intelligence become one—achieving singularity? Are test-tube burgers coming to a McDonald's near you? Probably.
It feels like our future is being defined by technologists and venture capitalists. While their hearts are usually in the right place, there will be some shortcomings and ill-effects along the way. I sense a palpable restlessness among the complicit majority—the rest of us who blindly snap up iPhones and open Facebook accounts. Marshall McLuhan warned us way back in the Sixties: "innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions." Can I get an 'amen'!?
No wonder Spike Jonze's science-fiction drama, Her has many a technologist and futurist buzzing. His vision of the near-future depicts the human emotional experience enmeshed with ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence and user-experience design. Crazy, right? Not really.
In the film, the shock of a man falling in love with his personalized operating-system is matched only by the plausibility and...
Ubiquitous Computing: the future of human-computer interaction
As I'm writing this, I'm sitting in a coffee shop with around 20 other people. Every single one of us is looking at a screen.
Some (like myself) are punching away at keyboards connected to large screens, some are flicking their fingers across screens the size of a greeting card, and some are tapping away at screens that fit in their pockets.
Most of us are interfacing with the same massive, global network: the Internet. Some of us are interacting with it through the web in a browser, and some of us are interacting with it through native apps designed and optimized specifically for the devices we're holding.
At any given time, I can safely assume that the majority of the people I know are looking at a screen at the same time I am. This is the ever-connected lifestyle we live in, and it's a world that has only existed in its current pervasiveness for a handful of years.
So what does the future hold? Where are we headed?
All of the screens in my life—my phone, my notebook, my iPad— they all know me. They all have my information in them. The thing that's going to change is how much my various devices know each other, and how they will know other devices...
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Jack and Meg White, collectively known as the White Stripes, peer tentatively out of the doorway of their dressing room at the MTV Movie Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. In the hallway stands Sharon Osbourne, and she is perturbed. It seems that Eminem's bodyguards deigned to ask her to remove her brood from the hallway so that the scrawny white rapper could pass by. "Crack a smile, little boy," she cackles as Eminem and his muscular entourage walk past. "Keep your head down. Don't look at me."
Jack and Meg shake their heads in disbelief.
"We've slipped into some other dimension," mutters Meg.
"I can't even fathom why they asked us to perform here," says Jack.
Photos: The White Stripes on Tour in 2007
Today, the White Stripes have reached a pinnacle of popularity far beyond their biggest dreams — or nightmares. For the past five years, Jack (on guitar) and Meg (on drums) have been bashing out raw, bluesy garage rock in their home studio in Detroit, recording three albums for independent labels and demonstrating how big a sound just two people can make. As the rock pendulum swings away from new metal, it seems to be heading straight for the White Stripes and a handful of other retrominded rock bands that they've been lumped in with, including the Strokes, the Hives and the Vines.
This article appeared in the August 22, 2002 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available in the online archive.
"I just laughed," Jack says about first hearing his song "Fell in Love With a Girl" on the radio. "I mean, it would be Staind, P.O.D., then us and then Incubus. Half of your brain is going, 'What is going on? Why are we even involved with this? This is pointless.' The other half is full of people going, 'No, this is new, a quote revolution in music unquote, and something is going to change now, because of you guys and the Strokes and the Hives, and music is going to come back to more realism.'"
Photos: The White Stripes on Tour in 2001
Of all these bands, the White Stripes are the most original, which makes their success even more surprising. Their music is raw and meaty, ranging from bottle-neck-blues dirges to childlike ballads to squealing Zeppelin-esque guitar stomps. It is shot through with a sense of history: of records that Jack White pledges his allegiance to, most of them by Delta bluesmen. And it is highly improvisatory: No two White Stripes shows are the same. There is no set list. Jack White simply plays what he feels. If he isn't feeling "Fell in Love With a Girl" within the first two bars, he'll switch right away into a new song, and who gives a shit about the pop fans.
The White Stripes' Final 'Late Night' Gig: Conan O'Brien on His Special Relationship With Jack and Meg
At the MTV Movie Awards, for the first time in their history, the White Stripes are being treated like rock stars. And they hate it: They are at heart indie rockers and Detroit scenesters, more focused on credibility than fame. After the Eminem incident, Jack and Meg briefly run into the party-hard singer Andrew W.K., who steps up to the couple and admits that he actually isn't from Detroit proper.
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The cover photo is taken from one of the book's featured cases from the Open Society Institute's Step by Step program. Currently operating in 30 countries, Step by Step promotes reform of teacher training systems and early education policies in partnership with governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The photo depicts parents who participated in the program at a Roma settlement in Slovakia, working with their preschool-age children at home to prepare them for school. Photo courtesy of Eva Koncoková, Wide Open School Foundation, Slovakia
Serves as a supplemental text in graduate-level courses in case study research, qualitative research methods, evaluation, and applied research.


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More than ever, there is a requirement for efficient, effective and accountable public administration, for "good governance". As for all public administrations, and perhaps even more so, this applies to social security institutions.
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The 103rd International Labour Conference has highlighted the critical importance of enabling a transition of informal workers to formal employment and social security.
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The global financial and economic crisis has forcefully underlined the importance of social security as a human right and as an economic and social necessity, and many countries are boldly expanding their social protection systems, according to the World Social Protection Report 2014/15 published by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Billy Clark was appointed Academy Manger in June 2012 taking over from Neal Hatley.
Clark joined with strong coaching credentials which include early roles as Rugby Development Officer at Leicester Tigers and then Sports Development Officer in the London Borough of Richmond. He moved back into rugby in November 2007 when he took a position with the RFU as their Age Grade Competitions Manager. In January 2011 he moved to Gloucester Rugby where he did a superb job as Junior Academy Manager.
Billy also played for the Leicester Tigers Academy from 1998 to 2003 before injury cut his career short.
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