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FilmOffaly Award 2013
(Please note that the application deadline for this scheme has passed)
FilmOffaly, Offaly's Film Commission in association with Filmbase, has announced the FilmOffaly Award 2013. Closing date for applications is 3pm Friday 5th April 2013.
An application form and guidelines can be downloaded from the FilmOffaly website at www.filmoffaly.ie
This funding initiative aims to foster creative, resourceful filmmaking in Co. Offaly. FilmOffaly are looking for unique, original stories by talented new filmmakers, professional and novice alike. The only stipulation is that the filming must take place in Offaly! There will be one award to one successful applicant.
The winning applicant will receive:
- 8,000 towards the cost of their production
- A local premiere in Offaly
- 1-year's Filmbase membership to the Writer, Producer and Director of the winning film
- A 50% discount on production equipment and/or editing facilities from Filmbase for the project
- Filmbase's production insurance to cover the shoot
The award will be based on a two stage application process:
Stage 1
Screenplays/treatments of shorts, features or documentaries from any genre, style, topic or perspective will be considered and judged on its merits regarding the quality of the material along with interviews and re-writes with/by the Applicant/s.
Closing date for applications 2013: now closed.
Stage 2
- Notes outlining intended approach
- Evidence of ownership of rights. (Copies of all option and writers agreements entered into in respect of story and script if applicable to the project)
- Written confirmation in the form of clearances and permissions of key subjects willingness to participate
- A budget (to include, production, crew, casting, equip hire, editing, travel, music etc and evidence of further funding)
- CVs of proposed team (director, producer, writer, editor etc)
- Outline details of proposed casting
- Time schedule
- Any relevant supporting materials
It is in the interest of the applicant that as many members of the team attend the interview. Inability to attend for interview will render the applicant ineligible to compete for the award. There will only be one date selected for interviewing. Applicants will be interviewed by representatives of Filmbase and FilmOffaly.
For the full guidelines and to download the application form please visit the FilmOffaly website at www.filmoffaly.ie.


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The fight continues for staff at Picturehouse cinemas, who are demanding the living wage. Sign BECTU's petition today to show your support.View Campaigns
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Hosted by the Association of British Theatre Technicians this show on Wednesday 5 June and Thursday 6 June 2019 offers a great learning and networking opportunity for people working in theatre and ...
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text: During Friday's Bellator MMA event in Dublin, UFC star Conor McGregor jumped over the cage mid fight and attacked referee Marc Goddard and smacked a commissioner. Luckily security knew who he was because if he was a random fan he would have been tasered to sleep. Afterwards Conor shared his thoughts on Twitter then later deleted the tweet. Here it is:


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I am thankful for:
- awareness, debate and dialogue - With all that's crazy stupid in our modern world, hope hovers and lurks everywhere.
- the freedom to run my life without bending to other people's rules or expectations
- food
- music - specifically Sibelius, Morgana King, Kenny Rankin, Bossa Nova, Sondheim, Streisand, Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall, Broadway musicals, Jazz vocals, Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett, John Pizzarelli, Bernstein, Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern, Nina Simone and Ella
- movies, cable, the Internet
- my past
- books
- smart phones
- 5 chewing gum especially Cobalt - flavor lasts forever!
- coffee - Newman's, 8 O'clock, Donut Shop, French Roast
- Chai Latte
- Thai basil fried rice
- New York City
- Hamburg / Boston
- Public Libraries
- but most of all GLENN
"Life is earnest. Life is real. Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day."


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Thirty Three and a Third
Aphex Twin - Fingerbib
Skream - Midnight Request Line
Today is my 33 1/3 birthday – a monumental occasion in the life of any music lover, as it is of course the standardized phonograph recording speed selected for the long-play record. I actually got the idea for celebrating this vinyl-themed event from the late, great John Peel. His family threw him a party when he reached this landmark age, as they did when he turned 45. Sadly, he never made it to 78, but I'm sure that would have been one hell of a bash.
By way of celebration, I've updated the tracks on the TWNR Ghettoblaster, which you'll find over on the right. Not sure how many of you use it, but there's 10 fresh tracks for you to check if you so desire.
You'll be surprised to discover I am also posting a couple of songs. Well, it would be rude not to. The first, 'Fingerbib' by Aphex Twin, is my favourite song of all-time. It is impossible not to have a smile on your face when this song is playing owing to the sublime, joyful melodies. 'Fingerbib' is exquisite, fits perfectly in your pocket, is universally loved by all and will be playing at my funeral. The album from which it is taken, 'Richard D. James', has yet to be bettered by anyone recording music in this field. If you don't own it, what's wrong with you? Redeem yourself and purchase it forthwith from the link below.
For the second track I'm whacking up something fairly new from a nascent genre which I've yet to fully get my head round. 'Midnight Request Line' is by Skream, a UK dubstep producer who is set to drop his debut album in a couple of weeks. I've had this track on my pod for about 6 months now, and every time it comes on, a big cartoon question mark appears above my head. I love it (I think) but I've yet to fathom why. I won't embarrass myself by trying to describe it, so instead here is the review from Boomkat, who seem to know what they're talking about – "'Midnight Request Line' is a spooked out riddimatic piece of bassline science, with an insanely catchy floating melody punctuated by a neckbreaking snare/gunshot combo and subsonic bassline perfection to drive your ass into the skank."
Buy 'Richard D. James' from warpmart*
Pre-order the Skream album from Boomkat
Right Place, Right Time, Wrong Speed, one of the best John Peel websites on the web here, featuring an archive of past programmes
* 'Fingerbib' is listed as 'Fore Street' on the Warp Discography, but it is the same track, under a different name. I don't know why.


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At the start of employment foundation doctors, like any employee, receive induction to both the employing trust as well as to the location of work. Whilst trust induction is usually managed by medical education departments, local/departmental induction is delivered by teams and individuals within the localities/departments.
STFS foundation doctors will also receive an induction to the foundation school, usually delivered by a foundation training programme director, during August.
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One of the most important figures that you can find in gyms is the personal trainer, who is responsible for guiding the athletes to improve their quality of life. However, in recent times work intrusion has begun to be noticed. If you are starting as a mobile trainer, follow the tips recommended by our expert trainers.
The role of the Personal Trainer
The personal trainer is responsible for offering a series of services to improve or maintain our physical condition. You must ensure results and always propose a plan based on proven studies. This implies that he guides us at all times through a special methodology designed by himself.
One of the most important factors that define a good coach is individualization. Each person is a world and has specific needs. You cannot exercise several people at the same time. That is why we must do everything possible to adapt to them. It is important that the coach also takes care of guiding the client according to their schedules and the free time they have. It will be a good way to prevent the appearance of possible discomfort or injury.
Characteristics of a good personal trainer
To develop the profession in the most professional and effective way, it is necessary that the personal technicians take into account the following aspects:
I. Good communicator: At all times you must be able to convey what you want in a clear and concise manner, so that the trainee assimilates everything in the best possible way. There is no need to repair too many technical aspects because the majority of the population does not know about them and does not interest them either.
II. Training in a continuous way: In the world of sport there are non-stop advances, especially in relation to methodologies and training plans. The personal trainer must be aware of all the novelties that are produced in his field of work and constantly renew. Surely that way it manages to provide a more complete service.
III. Vocation: It is important that the person who dedicates himself feels passion for what he does. He must enjoy his profession, because otherwise he would not be able to give the best of himself. The technician who is trained and who seeks to be a little better each day will always be more valued. First of all you have to believe in the possibilities of each one so that the others can trust your knowledge.
IV. Psychological aspect: Any personal trainer will possibly have a very close relationship with the trainee. Being such a personalized treatment there will be time to get to know each other better and in many occasions you will have to play the tasks of a psychologist.
To understand the work of the technician you have to understand the client and listen to him at every moment. In that way we will get even more involved so that it achieves the objectives set. He also has to stand out for its motivating character. You must provide what you need to be excited about what you do in training.


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I am not part of any cool indexers, so to find content I manually download .rar files from a group and open it in winrar to see what it is. If it is a file I would like then I take the Obfuscated file name and search it and download. Not really a good solution but the only way I have found to find content.
My question is this
Once I have downloaded headers from a group, I have filtered out junk and known spam, Is there any way to automate having Newsbin download just the .rar file, or par file for that matter as that one often works as well?
Presently to accomplish this task I will highlight the header, press the right arrow key to expand the file list, press the down arrow to select the file, then enter key to add to download list. It works but is giving me carpel tunnel....
Of course if I am being an idiot and there is an easier way I am all ears!


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Passwords are becoming passe on Wall Street, as more and more firms are turning to new biometrics-based account identification tools to keep client data safe, secure and breach proof from cyber-thieves.
Some pretty big financial industry names are already on board.
"It's time to move away from passwords so that that the body becomes your password," said Tim Sloan, CEO at Wells Fargo, at the FinTech Ideas Festival in San Francisco in January. Wells Fargo is in the midst of a technology transformation that relies on biometrics authentication to enable customers to sign onto accounts.
Wells Fargo isn't alone. USAA has seen its customer usage of biometrics double from two years ago, with two million out of five million users signing onto accounts via facial recognition, fingerprints or voice recognition technologies. The use of biometrics is so pervasive at USAA that new clients are automatically lock new clients into biometrics-based account log in when they open an account.
At Edward Jones, clients can now sign onto their accounts via thumbprint on their smartphones. For the investment giant's 15,000 financial advisors, a touch-based account identification system is on tap next.
"Biometrics isn't science anymore," says Tony Chew, cybersecurity director at Citibank, who echoes the sentiments of many financial industry executives. "This is a business decision."
But more than just business, biometrics is on the fast track due to standard corporate operational objectives.
"It's all about security plus convenience," says Jessica Gagner, a communications and events strategy director at BioConnect, a technology company that specializes in biometric software. "What a lot of financial institutions are finding is that biometrics provides both a better user experience for their client base reducing the cost of operational friction and because passwords and PINs aren't unique to an individual, there are big gaps in security."
Simple cyber-defense plays a big role, too, as biometrics takes flight. Gagner says that, for investment firms, the traditional password (or multi-factor authentication, i.e. something you know, something you have and something you know) has been the standard account identification for decades, but they're not up to the task of locking out increasingly sophisticated cyber fraudsters.
Case in point: 63% of data breaches are the result of using weak, default or stolen passwords, according to the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. In addition, seven in ten people no longer trust people to trust their online accounts, and 28% of households say they are ready to move to a more "innovative" financial institution.
In biometrics, both companies and clients like what they see.
"Biometrics offers options, as it comes in many forms - the physiological, being fingerprint, face, voice, eyes, as well as behavioral biometrics, which leverages the way you walk, talk, type, and write your signature," says Gagner.
For financial firms looking to shed passwords and go the biometric route, Gagner advises focusing on a multi-pronged strategy. "Don't just focus on one type of biometric," she says. "Context matters, and whether your customer is calling into a call center, logging into their online banking or transferring money, firms need to remember that it's the same person. Consequently, there needs to be choice and flexibility in how people authenticate using biometrics."
Leveraging a multi-modal approach also ensures that investment firms have greater flexibility in deployment options for the future. "Want to implement and provide fingerprint tech for your customers today? What about in three years? The answer is to make it scalable by not tying yourself to one particular technology," she says.
Even so, the most common forms of biometrics still rely, in some form, on password authentication technologies, says Mike Wilson, chief executive officer at PasswordPing, a technology security firm based in Boulder, Colo. That suggests a gradual phase out from passwords, as security risks must be evaluated in any technology tool transition to biometrics.
"Fingerprint authentication is commonplace, with facial recognition available in some cases as well," says Wilson. "However, in all cases the user must still authenticate first with their password prior to activating the biometric authentication option the first time and the password can be used in lieu of the biometric, so ultimately this approach is only as strong as the user's password."
While biometrics is increasing in popularity, Wilson believes there is a "misconception" that biometrics is a replacement for passwords.
"For high value assets such as financial accounts and funds transfers the recommended strategy is still a multi-layered approach," he says. "Any single authentication layer is much less secure than multiple layers, especially when combining the "something you have" with the "something you know" approach to multi-factor authentication. Passwords can be compromised. Biometric data can be spoofed. Smartphones can be stolen."
"It makes sense to raise the bar for high value targets by requiring an attacker to compromise multiple vectors," Wilson adds.
Wilson says that, in many ways, biometric authentication is simply exchanging passwords for another form of identifying data that can be easily compromised. "Biometric authentication systems have been shown to be exploitable via a number of techniques," he says. "One problem is the data is inherently public. One can easily find photos of someone's face, apps exist to record and spoof someone's voice, and fingerprints are left on everything we touch. Another issue is, unlike a password or PIN, once the data representing someone's fingerprint, face, or eye retina, are exposed, there is no way to change it."
"In absence of an additional layer, an attacker able to circumvent the biometric sensor and feed the data directly to the authentication system could then authenticate as that user at will," he says.
Even with some work to do better securing biometric data, the die seems cast, and for Wall Street, at least, passwords are on the way out and biometrics are on the way in as we near the midway point of 2017.
The big investment firms are already on the case - as usual, expect the smaller ones to follow - eyeball to eyeball.


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Getting Started with Hall Effect Sensors
The Getting Started with Hall Effect Sensors series helps educate engineers on everything related to Hall Effect, from magnetic concepts to applications and key specifications. This series focuses on Hall Effect sensors aimed at applications to detect position and rotation.
High Resolution 4K UHD Digital Display Solutions using DLP® Technology
This series highlights the high-resolution DLP 4K UHD digital display solution for laser tv and digital signage applications. The DLP 4K UHD chipset, featuring the DLP660TE digital micromirror device (DMD), enables bright and large images for projection systems. The series includes:
- DLP 4K UHD training overview
- Chipset overview and target display applications
- System design considerations
- Supply chain options for system implementation
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Fixed Frequency vsConstant On-Time Control of DC/DC Converters
In depth comparison of voltage mode, current mode control vs DCAP2 and DCAP3 control modes for step down DC/DC converters.


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Joshua Tree Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Joshua Tree Wilderness (map) in 1976 and it now has a total of 594,502 acres. All of this wilderness is located in California and is managed by the National Park Service. The Joshua Tree Wilderness is bordered by the Sheephole Valley Wilderness to the north and the Pinto Mountains Wilderness to the north.
DescriptionThe California Desert Protection Act of 1994 transformed Joshua Tree National Monument into a national park and expanded the wilderness. The additions thrust north into the Pinto Mountains, northeast into the Coxcomb Mountains, southeast into the Eagle Mountains, and southwest into the Little San Bernardino Mountains. Most of the park away from road corridors is Wilderness, a fabulous meeting place of two desert ecosystems. The lower, drier Colorado Desert dominates the eastern half of the park, home to abundant creosote bushes, the spidery ocotillo, and the "jumping" cholla cactus. The slightly more cool and moist Mojave Desert covers the western half of the park, serving as a hospitable breeding ground for the undisciplined Joshua tree. You'll find examples of a third ecosystem within the park: five fan-palm oases, where surface or near-surface water gives life to the stately palms. By day, you might spy bighorn sheep on mountainous slopes, numerous lizards lazing in the heat, and eagles soaring in bright sunlight. Still, it's nighttime that truly brings the desert to life, with tarantulas, rattlesnakes, coyotes, jackrabbits, bobcats, kangaroo rats, and burrowing owls responding to the lure of the dry, cool air. You'll witness some of the most fascinating geologic displays to be found in any of Southern California's desertland: twisted rock formations and granite monoliths painted with faded colors into a giant and beautiful mosaic. These rocks are an immense attraction to rock climbers.
Planning to Visit the Joshua Tree Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the National Park Service
- Other recommended websites
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Joshua Tree Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Monique Gallegos' only memories of her mother are visiting the grave at Mount Olivet Cemetery where Jacqueline Gallegos has been buried since 1994. On Wednesday, 21-year-old Monique had something to tell her mother, who was killed at age 28.
"I let her know she can rest her head in peace," said Monique Gallegos, who visited the cemetery Wednesday with a brother and sister. "They caught three of the guys who killed her."
DNA evidence was used recently to win indictments of Andre "Dre" Jackson, Samuel "Sparky" Sims and Jackie McConnell on multiple counts of murder and attempted murder. Sims and Jackson have also been indicted for sexual assault of Jacqueline Gallegos.
Monique Gallegos and her four siblings, who grew up mostly in foster homes, say they learned about the indictments Tuesday morning after a relative read an article in The Denver Post.
The three suspects allegedly were part of a group of five or six masked men who burst into a home on July 12, 1994, posing as federal drug agents and killed Jacqueline Gallegos and Nelson E. Swiggett, 42, according to court records. The only survivor of the attack, Mack Martinez, told police the suspects demanded drugs and cash, and tortured and stabbed everyone in the home.
Police are still looking for other suspects.
Robert Galvan, 23, Jacqueline Gallegos' third son, said he is grateful that police and prosecutors never quit investigating the case he thought would never be solved.
His mother had a drug addiction and had lost custody of all her children shortly before her death. But he remembers her as very loving.
"I was a momma's boy," Galvan said. "Everywhere my mother went, I would follow."
He was 3½ years old when his mother died. Over the next 15 years he would bounce from one foster home to the next — 23 in all. His siblings had similar experiences.
It was a hard life that got tougher.
On Nov. 14, 1998, Aracely Galvan fatally shot their father, Robert Galvan, in an incident that Denver authorities considered self-defense. Robert Galvan, 33, had broken into his estranged wife's home in the 1200 block of Tennyson Street shortly before she shot him.
The younger Robert Galvan now is attending community college in Los Angeles. He hopes to become a social worker, so he can help children experiencing what he did.
Monique Gallegos said she didn't learn how her mother died until she was 10. That's when a foster parent molested her and she was placed in her grandparent's home. She said family members wanted to protect her.
The five siblings were allowed to meet, and over the years they have grown close, she said.
"We keep each other strong," Monique Gallegos said. "We're all each other have ever had."
Trish Martinez, 43, brought flowers to her sister's grave Wednesday. Martinez said she was awed by her older sister as they grew up. Jacqueline Gallegos was full of life and was very loving, she said.
But she became addicted to cocaine and drifted from her family, Martinez said.
The inscription on her sister's grave — "step softly, a dream lies buried here" — holds special significance for Martinez.
"We'll never know what she could have been," Martinez said. "Despite any problem that she had, she didn't deserve this in any shape or form."
She, too, had praise for law enforcement officers who did not forget her sister.
"It's at least a glimpse of justice," Martinez said.
Monique Gallegos said she hopes the others responsible for her mother's death will also be caught.
"All we want is that the people who did it to pay," she said.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206, Facebook.com/kmitchelldp or twitter.com/kmitchelldp


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|Jenna Harrison (portrait by Brigham and Co.)
Facebook: facebook.com/imaginealltheart
Jenna Harrison contributed an article to the first issue of the Paws For Charity Magazine about choosing the appropriate background for your portrait commission. Jenna has lots of experience painting portraits! Here is some of her background information from her website:
"Imagine Art is owned and managed by Jenna Harrison (previously Jenna Wilke), an award-winning professional pet portrait artist based in Middletown, CT. She attended Paier College of Art and received a Bachelor's in Fine Art in 2012. Since graduating, she has perfected the art of animal portraiture through various mediums. Proficient in colored pencil, pastel, intaglio printmaking, as well as oil and acrylic paints, Jenna has a wide variety of skills that provide amazing options for her clients.
Jenna's solo work focuses on the beauty that nature has to offer. She enjoys landscapes, trompe l'oeil still life paintings, and pet portraiture. Specializing in horse and dog portraits, she has gained a reputation for capturing the animal spirit in her art. Jenna's attention to detail makes her sharp focus realism close to that of photography.
When she is not sitting in front of her easel, Jenna is busy spending time with her husband Adam, or practicing natural horsemanship with Caz, a white Azteca horse in Guilford, CT. Jenna is also Secretary of the Lower CT River Valley Horse Council."
Read Jenna's article by clicking on this link...go to page 20:


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It started out like a typical photo op when Mayor Eric Garcetti arrived at the Los Angeles Reservoir in Sylmar this month.
He was joined by officials from the city and the Department of Water and Power, who stood on the banks of the Los Angeles Reservoir to unload 20,000 small black balls into the water. The so-called shade balls are designed to form a cover and protect the water from UV rays and algae. They also reduce evaporation, which is important amid California's drought.
But there was something mesmerizing about all those balls rolling out of the truck and bouncing down into the water. They went seriously viral.
Within hours, videos of the shade balls were everywhere. Social media went crazy for the name. The hashtag #shadeballs took off, with one Twitter user writing, "If you ever doubted that LA was the home to everything plastic... #shadeballs." And the mayor found a drought angle for the long-standing water quality project.
"In the midst of California's historic drought, it takes bold ingenuity to maximize my goals for water conservation," Garcetti said in a statement, noting that the balls would reduce evaporation by as much as 300 million gallons a year.
Shade balls turned into a PR triumph that lasted a while. The story made headlines in publications that typically don't cover the DWP:
• "California throwing shade ... at the drought" — TMZ
• "Shade balls fill reservoir to conserve water in drought-hit LA" — The Guardian
• "LA throws 96 million 'shade balls' at its water shortage — and it's mesmerizing" — Mashable
Then the shade ball became a true media darling.
A headline in the New York Times declared: "In California, Millions of 'Shade Balls' Combat a Nagging Drought." Video of the rollout posted on the mayor's Facebook page was shared 21,000 times.
Judy Muller, a broadcast professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, first saw the story on a Russian newscast in her hotel room in Moscow.
"Garcetti is no fool when it comes to social media. He knew that this was a new way to get people interested in the drought story," Muller said. "Whether it's the bear in the backyard or the shade balls in the reservoir — it's good video and, I now know, it's such good video that it made it to Russia."
But amid the fascination came questions.
The shade balls are made of high-density polyethylene, the same plastic found in 1-gallon containers of milk and even the DWP's own water pipes. Inside the balls is drinking water, which helps weigh them down so they don't blow away in a gusty breeze. Carbon black is added to the balls to stabilize them in the sun's UV rays.
Those details didn't seem to connect with viewers and readers, who still had a host of questions after watching the footage of black balls rolling in the water: Why were the balls black? Wouldn't the plastic contaminate the drinking water? Won't the balls heat the water and breed bacteria?
Those questions reached a fever pitch last Thursday. In a piece for FoxNews.com, experts questioned the science behind the plastic balls and warned they could be a "disaster."
"It's going to be a bacterial nightmare," one expert told the news outlet.
In response, the DWP put out a three-page statement that called the Fox News piece "wrong, invalid and based on uninformed opinions."
"We know the shade ball discussions and speculations continue on social media platforms and other mainstream media," said DWP spokeswoman Michelle Figueroa. "We want to make sure our customers don't miss that amidst all the 'noise.'"
FoxNews.com Editor Refet Kaplan said, "We stand by our reporting."
That story was just part of the backlash.
LA Weekly declared shade balls a "stupid" way to conserve water. Other publications quickly seized on the conservation aspect, questioning why water officials weren't focusing on more serious, long-term solutions to the drought.
By Sunday, the headlines in a Google search were less charitable:
"Shade balls — a not-so-bright solution to drought" — San Francisco Chronicle
"Why shade balls aren't such a great idea after all" — Grist
"Shade balls to the rescue? Hardly" — Newser
Ultimately, Muller said the shade balls saga is a story about the media today.
"If they can't communicate their science, then the news media and social media will take over and twist it," she said. "I think it's really incumbent on scientists and engineers to be very, very clear and simple in terms of how they describe what's going on."


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|Micrograph demonstrating marked (macrovesicular) steatosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Masson's trichrome stain.
|Classification and external resources
Steatosis (also called fatty change, fatty degeneration, or adipose degeneration) is the process describing the abnormal retention of lipids within a cell. It reflects an impairment of the normal processes of synthesis and elimination of triglyceride fat. Excess lipid accumulates in vesicles that displace the cytoplasm. When the vesicles are large enough to distort the nucleus, the condition is known as macrovesicular steatosis; otherwise, the condition is known as microvesicular steatosis. While not particularly detrimental to the cell in mild cases, large accumulations can disrupt cell constituents, and in severe cases the cell may even burst.
The risk factors associated with steatosis are varied, and include diabetes mellitus,[1][2] protein malnutrition,[3] hypertension[4] cell toxins, obesity,[5] anoxia[6] and sleep apnea.[7][8][9] As the liver is the primary organ of lipid metabolism it is most often associated with steatosis; however, it may occur in any organ, commonly the kidneys, heart, and muscle.[6]
No single mechanism leading to steatosis exists; rather, a varied multitude of pathologies disrupt normal lipid movement through the cell and cause accumulation.[10] These mechanisms can be separated on whether they ultimately cause an oversupply of lipid which can not be removed quickly enough (i.e., too much in), or whether they cause a failure in lipid breakdown (i.e., not enough used).
Failure of lipid metabolism can also lead to the mechanisms which would normally utilise or remove lipids becoming impaired, resulting in the accumulation of unused lipids in the cell. Certain toxins, such as alcohols, carbon tetrachloride, aspirin, and diphtheria toxin, interfere with cellular machinery involved in lipid metabolism. In those with Gaucher's disease, the lysosomes fail to degrade lipids and steatosis arises from the accumulation of glycolipids. Protein malnutrition, such as that seen in kwashiorkor, results in a lack of precursor apoproteins within the cell, therefore unused lipids which would normally participate in lipoprotein synthesis begin to accumulate.
Macrovesicular steatosis
Macrovesicular steatosis is the more common form of fatty degeneration and may be caused by oversupply of lipids due to obesity, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA),[11] insulin resistance, or alcoholism. Nutrient malnutrition may also cause the mobilisation of fat from adipocytes and create a local oversupply in the liver where lipid metabolism occurs. Excess alcohol over a long period of time can induce steatosis. The breakdown of large amounts of ethanol in alcoholic drinks produces large amounts of chemical energy, in the form of NADH, signalling to the cell to inhibit the breakdown of fatty acids (which also produces energy) and simultaneously increase the synthesis of fatty acids. This "false sense of energy" results in more lipid being created than is needed.
Microvesicular steatosis
Microvesicular steatosis is characterized by small intracytoplasmic fat vacuoles (liposomes) which accumulate in the cell. Common causes are tetracyclines, acute fatty liver of pregnancy, Reye's syndrome, and hepatitis C.
Histologically, steatosis is physically apparent as lipid within membrane bound liposomes of parenchymal cells.[6] When this tissue is fixed and stained to be better viewed under a microscope, the lipid is usually dissolved by the solvents used to prepare the sample. As such, samples prepared this way will appear to have empty holes (or vacuoles) within the cells where the lipid has been cleared. Special lipid stains, such as Sudan stains and osmium tetroxide are able to retain and show up lipid droplets, hence more conclusively indicating the presence of lipids. Other intracellular accumulations, such as water or glycogen, can also appear as clear vacuoles, therefore it becomes necessary to use stains to better decide what is accumulating.
Grossly, steatosis causes organ enlargement and lightening in colour.[6] This is due to the high lipid content increasing the organ's volume and becoming visible to the unaided eye. In severe cases, the organ may become vastly enlarged, greasy, and yellow in appearance.
- Histological section of a mouse's liver showing severe steatosis. The clear vacuoles contained lipid in life; however, histological fixation caused it to be dissolved and hence only empty/clear spaces are seen.
- Micrograph of fatty liver showing lipid steatosis. H&E stain.
On X-ray computed tomography (CT), the increased fat component will decrease the density of the liver tissue, making the image less bright. Typically the density of the spleen and liver are roughly equivalent. In steatosis, there is a difference between the density and brightness of the two organs, with the liver appearing darker.[12] On ultrasound, fat is more echogenic (capable of reflecting sound waves). The combination of liver steatosis being dark on CT and bright on ultrasound is sometimes known as the flip flop sign.
See also
- ↑ Araya Q AV, et al. (2006). "Glucose tolerance alterations and frequency of metabolic syndrome among patients with non alcoholic fatty liver disease". Rev Med Chil. 134 (9): 1092–1098. PMID 17167710.
- ↑ Ali ES, Hua J, Wilson CH, Tallis GA, Zhou FH, Rychkov GY, Barritt GJ. "The glucagon-like peptide-1 analogue exendin-4 reverses impaired intracellular Ca2+ signalling in steatotic hepatocytes". BBA-Molecular Cell Research. doi:10.1016/j.bbamcr.2016.05.006.
- ↑ Conde Martel A, et al. (1993). "Liver changes in protein malnutrition. An experimental study in rats". Nutr Hosp. 8 (6): 358–363. PMID 8373879.
- ↑ MJ Brookes; BT Cooper (2007). "Hypertension and fatty liver: guilty by association?". J Hum Hypertens. 21 (4): 264–270. doi:10.1038/sj.jhh.1002148. PMID 17273155.
- ↑ S Saadeh (2007). "Nonalcoholic Fatty liver disease and obesity". Nutr Clin Pract. 22 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1177/011542650702200101. PMID 17242448.
- 1 2 3 4 Cotran; Kumar, Collins (1998). Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease. Philadelphia: W.B Saunders Company. ISBN 0-7216-7335-X.
- ↑ MH Ahmed; CD Byrne (2010). "Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and fatty liver: association or causal link?". World J Gastroenterol. 16 (34): 4243–52. doi:10.3748/wjg.v16.i34.4243. PMC 2937104. PMID 20818807.
- ↑ H Singh; R Pollock; J Uhanova; M Kryger; K Hawkins; GY Minuk (2005). "Symptoms of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease". Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 50 (12): 2338–2343. doi:10.1007/s10620-005-3058-y.
- ↑ F Tanne; F Gagnadoux; O Chazouilleres; B Fleury; D Wendum; E Lasnier; B Labeau; R Poupon; L Serfaty (2005). "Chronic Liver Injury During Obstructive Sleep Apnea". Hepatology. 41 (6): 1290–1296. doi:10.1002/hep.20725.
- ↑ Wilson CH, Ali ES, Scrimgeour N, Martin AM, Hua J, Tallis GA, Rychkov GY, Barritt GJ (2015). "Steatosis inhibits liver cell store-operated Ca2+ entry and reduces ER Ca2+ through a protein kinase C-dependent mechanism". The Biochemical Journal. 466 (2): 379–90. doi:10.1042/BJ20140881. PMID 25422863.
- ↑ Bhattacharjee R, Gozal D (2010). "Metabolic disease in sleep disordered breathing: puberty! puberty!". Sleep. 33: 1133–4. PMC 2938852. PMID 20857857.
- ↑ Helms, Clyde A.; Brant, William E. (2007). Fundamentals of diagnostic radiology. Phila: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 0-7817-6135-2.


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Christian Science by Mark Twain
Book II.
Chapter I
There were remarkable things about the stranger called the Man--Mystery- things so very extraordinary that they monopolized attention and made all of him seem extraordinary; but this was not so, the most of his qualities being of the common, every-day size and like anybody else's. It was curious. He was of the ordinary stature, and had the ordinary aspects; yet in him were hidden such strange contradictions and disproportions! He was majestically fearless and heroic; he had the strength of thirty men and the daring of thirty thousand; handling armies, organizing states, administering governments--these were pastimes to him; he publicly and ostentatiously accepted the human race at its own valuation- -as demigods--and privately and successfully dealt with it at quite another and juster valuation--as children and slaves; his ambitions were stupendous, and his dreams had no commerce with the humble plain, but moved with the cloud-rack among the snow-summits. These features of him were, indeed, extraordinary, but the rest of him was ordinary and usual. He was so mean-minded, in the matter of jealousy, that it was thought he was descended from a god; he was vain in little ways, and had a pride in trivialities; he doted on ballads about moonshine and bruised hearts; in education he was deficient, he was indifferent to literature, and knew nothing of art; he was dumb upon all subjects but one, indifferent to all except that one--the Nebular Theory. Upon that one his flow of words was full and free, he was a geyser. The official astronomers disputed his facts and deeded his views, and said that he had invented both, they not being findable in any of the books. But many of the laity, who wanted their nebulosities fresh, admired his doctrine and adopted it, and it attained to great prosperity in spite of the hostility of the experts."-- The Legend of the Man-Mystery, ch. i.
JANUARY, 1903. When we do not know a public man personally, we guess him out by the facts of his career. When it is Washington, we all arrive at about one and the same result. We agree that his words and his acts clearly interpret his character to us, and that they never leave us in doubt as to the motives whence the words and acts proceeded. It is the same with Joan of Arc, it is the same with two or three or five or six others among the immortals. But in the matter of motives and of a few details of character we agree to disagree upon Napoleon, Cromwell, and all the rest; and to this list we must add Mrs. Eddy. I think we can peacefully agree as to two or three extraordinary features of her make- up, but not upon the other features of it. We cannot peacefully agree as to her motives, therefore her character must remain crooked to some of us and straight to the others.
No matter, she is interesting enough without an amicable agreement. In several ways she is the most interesting woman that ever lived, and the most extraordinary. The same may be said of her career, and the same may be said of its chief result. She started from nothing. Her enemies charge that she surreptitiously took from Quimby a peculiar system of healing which was mind-cure with a Biblical basis. She and her friends deny that she took anything from him. This is a matter which we can discuss by-and-by. Whether she took it or invented it, it was-- materially--a sawdust mine when she got it, and she has turned it into a Klondike; its spiritual dock had next to no custom, if any at all: from it she has launched a world-religion which has now six hundred and sixty- three churches, and she charters a new one every four days. When we do not know a person--and also when we do--we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business--there is no other way. Measured by this standard, it is thirteen hundred years since the world has produced any one who could reach up to Mrs. Eddy's waistbelt.
Figuratively speaking, Mrs. Eddy is already as tall as the Eiffel tower. She is adding surprisingly to her stature every day. It is quite within the probabilities that a century hence she will be the most imposing figure that has cast its shadow across the globe since the inauguration of our era. I grant that after saying these strong things, it is necessary that I offer some details calculated to satisfactorily demonstrate the proportions which I have claimed for her. I will do that presently; but before exhibiting the matured sequoia gigantea, I believe it will be best to exhibit the sprout from which it sprang. It may save the reader from making miscalculations. The person who imagines that a Big Tree sprout is bigger than other kinds of sprouts is quite mistaken. It is the ordinary thing; it makes no show, it compels no notice, it hasn't a detectible quality in it that entitles it to attention, or suggests the future giant its sap is suckling. That is the kind of sprout Mrs. Eddy was.
From her childhood days up to where she was running a half-century a close race and gaining on it, she was most humanly commonplace.
She is the witness I am drawing this from. She has revealed it in her autobiography not intentionally, of course--I am not claiming that. An autobiography is the most treacherous thing there is. It lets out every secret its author is trying to keep; it lets the truth shine unobstructed through every harmless little deception he tries to play; it pitilessly exposes him as a tin hero worshipping himself as Big Metal every time he tries to do the modest-unconsciousness act before the reader. This is not guessing; I am speaking from autobiographical personal experience; I was never able to refrain from mentioning, with a studied casualness that could deceive none but the most incautious reader, that an ancestor of mine was sent ambassador to Spain by Charles I., nor that in a remote branch of my family there exists a claimant to an earldom, nor that an uncle of mine used to own a dog that was descended from the dog that was in the Ark; and at the same time I was never able to persuade myself to call a gibbet by its right name when accounting for other ancestors of mine, but always spoke of it as the "platform"--puerilely intimating that they were out lecturing when it happened.
It is Mrs. Eddy over again. As regards her minor half, she is as commonplace as the rest of us. Vain of trivial things all the first half of her life, and still vain of them at seventy and recording them with naive satisfaction--even rescuing some early rhymes of hers of the sort that we all scribble in the innocent days of our youth--rescuing them and printing them without pity or apology, just as the weakest and commonest of us do in our gray age. More--she still frankly admires them; and in her introduction of them profanely confers upon them the holy name of "poetry." Sample:
You note it is not a shade above the thing which all human beings churn out in their youth.
You would not think that in a little wee primer--for that is what the Autobiography is--a person with a tumultuous career of seventy years behind her could find room for two or three pages of padding of this kind, but such is the case. She evidently puts narrative together with difficulty and is not at home in it, and is glad to have something ready- made to fill in with. Another sample:
Vivid? You can fairly see those trees galloping around. That she could still treasure up, and print, and manifestly admire those Poems, indicates that the most daring and masculine and masterful woman that has appeared in the earth in centuries has the same soft, girly-girly places in her that the rest of us have.
When it comes to selecting her ancestors she is still human, natural, vain, commonplace--as commonplace as I am myself when I am sorting ancestors for my autobiography. She combs out some creditable Scots, and labels them and sets them aside for use, not overlooking the one to whom Sir William Wallace gave "a heavy sword encased in a brass scabbard," and naively explaining which Sir William Wallace it was, lest we get the wrong one by the hassock; this is the one "from whose patriotism and bravery comes that heart-stirring air, 'Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled.'" Hannah More was related to her ancestors. She explains who Hannah More was.
Whenever a person informs us who Sir William Wallace was, or who wrote "Hamlet," or where the Declaration of Independence was fought, it fills us with a suspicion wellnigh amounting to conviction, that that person would not suspect us of being so empty of knowledge if he wasn't suffering from the same "claim" himself. Then we turn to page 20 of the Autobiography and happen upon this passage, and that hasty suspicion stands rebuked:
"I gained book-knowledge with far less labor than is usually requisite. At ten years of age I was as familiar with Lindley Murray's Grammar as with the Westminster Catechism; and the latter I had to repeat every Sunday. My favorite studies were Natural Philosophy, Logic, and Moral Science. From my brother A1bert I received lessons in the ancient tongues, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin."
You catch your breath in astonishment, and feel again and still again the pang of that rebuke. But then your eye falls upon the next sentence but one, and the pain passes away and you set up the suspicion again with evil satisfaction:
"After my discovery of Christian Science, most of the knowledge I had gleaned from school-books vanished like a dream."
That disappearance accounts for much in her miscellaneous writings. As I was saying, she handles her "ancestral shadows," as she calls them, just as I do mine. It is remarkable. When she runs across "a relative of my Grandfather Baker, General Henry Knox, of Revolutionary fame," she sets him down; when she finds another good one, "the late Sir John Macneill, in the line of my Grandfather Baker's family," she sets him down, and remembers that he "was prominent in British politics, and at one time held the position of ambassador to Persia"; when she discovers that her grandparents "were likewise connected with Captain John Lovewell, whose gallant leadership and death in the Indian troubles of 1722-25 caused that prolonged contest to be known historically as Lovewell's War," she sets the Captain down; when it turns out that a cousin of her grandmother "was John Macneill, the New Hampshire general, who fought at Lundy's Lane and won distinction in 1814 at the battle of Chippewa," she catalogues the General. (And tells where Chippewa was.) And then she skips all her platform people; never mentions one of them. It shows that she is just as human as any of us.
Yet, after all, there is something very touching in her pride in these worthy small-fry, and something large and fine in her modesty in not caring to remember that their kinship to her can confer no distinction upon her, whereas her mere mention of their names has conferred upon them a faceless earthly immortality.


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Tikhova MineSubsidiary of IMH-Coal
Tikhova Mine carries out construction of a mine having the same name in the Kemerovo Region. The total projected production capacity of Tikhova Mine is about 2.8 mln t. per year
The beginning of production at this facility is projected for 2018. The mine will produce coking coal of the grades «ZH» and «2ZH» which are in great demand in Russia.
Ivan FadeevManaging director
Graduated from the Kuzbass Technical University with a degree in Underground mining, qualified as a mining engineer.
He started his career in 1998 at Polysaevskaya mine as a mining master of the section for mining works.
He came to IMH in 2010 as the chief technologist of Butovskaya mine. He worked at the mine until 2017 as a deputy director for production, chief engineer, director. In 2017 – 2018 Ivan Fadeev headed Department for prospective development of the raw materials base of PJSC Koks.
Since March 2018, he worked in the branch of IMH Management Company – IMH- Coal as the head of the technical department. In August 2018, he was appointed as S.D.Tikhova mine Managing director.


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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-362, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (increase of maximum number of weeks: combined weeks of benefits).
Mr. Speaker, all too often the government pays lip service to supporting women without taking any concrete steps to improve the lives of women and girls. Offering posters and platitudes simply is not good enough.
We need to take action now. That is why I am pleased to reintroduce legislation today that would make the employment insurance system fair for working mothers. One of the many barriers that prevent women from accessing EI entitlements is the anti-stacking provisions in the Employment Insurance Act. For example, these provisions prevent mothers who have secured maternity and parental benefits from accessing regular EI benefits in the event that they lose their jobs during these officially sanctioned leaves.
With layoff announcements still coming daily, new mothers often find that their workplaces are closing during their maternity leave, or they return to work but lose their jobs soon after. Shamefully, they find that they no longer qualify for the employment insurance benefits for which they have paid.
My bill would bring fairness to working mothers by eliminating the 50-week cap and changing the qualifying period so individuals could access their maternity, parental, sickness and compassionate care benefits without worrying that if they lost their jobs in the interim they would be left without EI.
Working moms deserve the support of this House. I urge all members to give unanimous consent to pass this bill now.
Finally, I want to thank the member for Nanaimo—Cowichan for seconding this bill and for her continuing support of this initiative. I know that when that bill comes before her committee, she will lead the fight for fairness for working mothers.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)


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Thanks to The proprietors Mohan V Kamat and Vijay R Kamat have tremendous experience in this business, who came up with their proposal for establishing the plant in Belgaum the plants total capacity is of 10,000 vehicles per annum.
MG-Alma Motors , Hyderabad based company has established its plant and assembly line unit at Belgaum.
The company is specializes in coach buildings of Military Luxury standard and executive coaches on Leyland chassis. The company also makes interior FRP fabs for coaches.
In years to come Belgaum will regain its glory of being the mother of ancillary units.


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A brand new adaptation of the classic tale Pinocchio is at Lincoln Performing Arts Centre next week.
Jasmin Vardimon Company will use dance, humour and drama to bring to life the famous marionette as he embarks on a fantastic journey to become a human boy.
The show is on Thursday, November 17 at 7.30pm and tickets are £15 and £13 (£5 NUS and under-26) on 01522 837600 or online at www.lpac.co.uk


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|[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dramatic_cigars.png]]²²''[[http://shine.erinptah.com/ And Shine Heaven Now]]'' is a ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' [[FanWebComics fan web comic]] created by Creator/ErinPtah, originally hosted on Website/ComicGenesis. More humorous than its source material, ''Shine'' follows the Hellsing organization and others as they tackle problems such as parties, monster attacks, romance, paychecks, extremely aggravating [[FanGirl fangirls]], and [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo those meddling kids]].²²This page also contains tropes from Erin's related comics, ''[[http://shine.erinptah.com/manga/ Sailor Hellsing]]'' and ''[[http://shine.erinptah.com/chapters/ The Eagle of Hermes]]''. Scroll down.²²Several [[{{Expy}} AU versions]] of original characters created for the Shineverse appear in the artist's original comic, ''Webcomic/ButImACatPerson''.²²Completed as of November 17th, 2011.²²----²!!Besides many of the tropes found in ''Hellsing'', ''Shine'' also provides examples of:²²* AbortedArc: Set was supposed to be the main villain in a storyline where the villains killed in the Hellsing animated series would supposedly escape from Hell. It was dumped after WordOfGod discontinued the animated series, and more than half the people that would appear in this pseudo-storyline ceased to exist.²** The 'lost storyline' was a plot conceived in the early days of Shine, back when it was still gag-a-day format and Pip had yet to arrive on the scene. It had been supplanted by another plot and never picked up again. Some plot elements from this would be revived during the 'Getting Sick of Fangirls' plot.²** During the rerun of Eagle of Hermes, Erin tells of a few plots that, for one reason or another, never got off the ground, such as Reseda meeting Helena or the Franchise/SherlockHolmes[=/=]Manga/PetShopOfHorrors crossover.²* ArmsDealer: Ann Warbucks. Inherited from her adopted father.²* ArtEvolution: [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/when-fangirls-attack-125/ So very much]]. Any strip which summarizes earlier events reveals this.²* AscendedExtra: meta-example: Xuanwu of ''Webcomic/StrangeCandy'' started out as one of Shine's many fans, then co-wrote the [[http://shine.erinptah.com/storylines/2006/23-shine-or-die/ Shine or Die]] arc with Erin and has shown up several times since, including the Eurekon storyline and the What's Up, Doc? (not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny What's up, Doc?]]) Sunday strips.²** In-story wise, Sir Shelby Penwood appears to be getting a bigger role than he did in the manga, seeing as how he's now [[spoiler:[[Series/DoctorWho Jackie and Rose Tyler]]'s guardian angel]].²** Ditto for Yumiko and Heinkel, who have gotten several long storylines fleshing out their characterization in ways [[RedShirt their manga versions]] never did.²* AuthorAppeal: ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' and, say, ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin'' have a lot thematically in common; but a lot of the series, from ''Marimite'' to ''Literature/{{Madeline}}'', are just there because the author likes them, and made to fit in out of sheer willpower:²* BleachedUnderpants: Aside from the established Hellsing examples, three characters came from some of Kohta Hirano's hentai works:²** Nina, who was an unnamed demon in ''Doc's Story''.²** [[spoiler: Pip Bernadotte, from ''Coyote'', who was the prototype for the Hellsing version of Pip. In Shine, he's Pip's grandfather.]]²** [[spoiler: Natalie, from ''Coyote'' as well. While she's seen chained up, that's the extent Shine goes to. She's revealed to be Pip's grandmother.]]²* BrickJoke: In the very first story line, Alucard and Walter already knew what a FanGirl was, and explained them to Integra and Seras. Seven years later, we find out how they knew. [[spoiler: They fought off fangirls during World War II.]]²* CatGirl: Aside from the canon example of Schrodinger, fangirls turned Alucard into a catboy and Rip into a CatGirl²* CerebusSyndrome: Arguably justified, as readers have known from the beginning that the gag storylines would lead to the dramatic plot of Hellsing eventually.²** To the point, Erin had told Millennium that the main plot would kick in [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/doujinshi-kas-inbox-how-will-shine-end/ once she knew the identity of the She]].²** The Shine or Die story arc is where it started to switch from gag a day to action dramedy.²* ChekhovsSkill: Integra's ability to consecrate liquid in the Good Books backstory, later seen as an integral (er, no pun intended) weapon in the Let There Be Guns storyline.²* ClimacticBattleResurrection: Everything is leading toward Hellsing's big showdown, with a stack of crossovers thrown in²* ConRecap: Parodied in [[http://shine.erinptah.com/storylines/2006/29-convention-of-fanatic-generation/ the Catholicon storyline]], in which Enrico recounts a convention of religious fanatics.²** Also played straight with a strip or two each year after Otakon.²* [[strike: CoolPlane]] [[CoolPlane Incredibly Awesome Plane]]²-->'''Soldier:''' A plane like this, it can call itself whatever it wants!²* CuteClumsyGirl: Marian tries to [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/londons-last-stand-28-32/ play up this trope]] to make herself more attractive to Integra. (It doesn't work.)²* DarkSkinnedBlond: Timothy and Integra.²* DeadpanSnarker: The captain manages this despite being TheVoiceless²* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Of the Limited Palette variety -- WWII flashbacks are sepia-toned, including the introduction of [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster Jeeves and Bertie]], the flashback involving Pip's grandparents, and the young-Walter-era fangirl arc. There's spot-coloring for the red of vampire eyes...and then the fangirls.²-->'''Alucard:''' What ''is'' this thing, and why does it get to be in color?²* DeusExMachina: Alucard calls the [[CoolPlane Incredibly Awesome Plane]] this. Integra denies it is one.²** Also, [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/triptych-part-ii-30-35/ the Nail of Helena (no relation)]]. Well played, Anderson, well played.²* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Well, to be fair, Alucard is ''very'' convincing as Girlycard, and Bertie is not very bright...²** And also, technically, pulled this on Maggie.²* DistantFinale: The final storyline, like the final chapter of Hellsing, takes place years after the final battle, and expands upon the future hinted at in earlier FlashForward storylines.²* FanFic: In spite of being essentially fic itself, the series has [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6197860/1/And_Shine_Simple_Heroes spawned some of its own]].²* FilkSong: The [[http://shine.erinptah.com/storylines/sundays/fangirl-karaoke/ Hell''Sing'' fillers]]²* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Where the [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/fangirls-are-hell-1-60/ dead villains are]].²* FlashStep: [[spoiler: [=iJeeves=]]]²* ForScience: "What's Up Doc?", a series of Sunday specials featuring Doc, Millennium's mad scientist²* FourthWallMailSlot: The Doujinshi-Ka's Inbox segment, usually an AuthorGuestSpot, though other characters often chime in²* FreakyFridayFlip: for the entire Millennium cast, followed by just [[spoiler:Schroedinger and the kidnapped [[HornyDevil succubus]] Nina]].²* FunWithAcronyms: '''M'''arian '''A'''methyst '''R'''aven '''Y'''umi '''S'''appho '''U'''rania '''E'''lizabeth.²* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Erin hinted [[http://sailorptah.deviantart.com/art/Integra-s-Family-Tree-171870994 in this picture]] that Arthur might have been the result of an affair between Mina and Abraham. If true, this would probably be seen as an example of 'good' adultery because...well, if we don't have Arthur, we don't have Integra.²* GoodAngelBadAngel: Integra and Timothy. Partially subverted in that Integra's angel and devil appeared in full-size versions during the visit-to-Hell storyline.²** And now Enrico has Bad Angel and [[Comicbook/TheSandman Delirium]], who filled in for Enrico's good angel while he was lost in her domain. [[spoiler: This, natually, is taking place when Enrico goes batshit insane with power.]]²* GuestStrip: Used as filler to keep up the update schedule, with the side effect that any SeriesHiatus is limited by the number of strips the readership can be coerced to send in.²* [[spoiler: HasTwoMommies: Turns out D just ''thinks'' Alucard is his father; he's actually Integra and ''Seras's'' child, and no, neither of them will say how.]]²* [[strike: {{Hermaphrodite}}]] [[{{Hermaphrodite}} Intersex]]: Heinkel. A number of strips describe how Heinkel struggled to find a gender identity.²* HeroicBSOD: Yumiko, after [[spoiler: Heinkel releases her other nine personalities and as they sort themselves out]]²* [[HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas How the Grinch Cancelled Christmas]]: The 2004 [[http://shine.erinptah.com/storylines/2004/15-how-the-grinch-canceled-christmas/ Christmas storyline]].²* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: Walter. Millennium has his daughter, Maggie.]]²* ILied: Leah and Marian discussing revealing clothing.²-->'''Marian''': But the catalog you took from the camper last year, the models had even less clothing than this...²-->'''Leah''': Marian, when I said that was a catalog? [[PornStash I lied]].²* InstrumentOfMurder: In a flashback arc, after Jeeves refused to teach Walter a complicated technique with their weapon of choice, monofilament, Walter nicks the piano wires from Bertie's piano to practice on his own, and later uses it to hold back a vampire while the others escaped.²* InsultBackfire:²-->'''Fangirl:''' ...wait, Jeeves hates my clothing! JEEVES HATES MY CLOTHING EVERYBODY! MY EXISTENCE HAS BEEN VALIDATED!²** Later...²-->'''Jeeves:''' All of you are clad in the most garish, unappealing costumes ever to have been assembled from colors not found in nature.²-->'''Fangirls:''' [[{{Squee}} WHEEEEEEEE OMG!]]²-->'''Alucard:''' [[InsultMisfire Hey!]]²* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Weaves together plot points from all the major series included, plus a bunch of original twists²* LesbianVampire: Two of the baobhan sith, Laura (from the original anime) and Marian (her OC protégé). They're both attracted to women in general and Integra in particular.²* LighterAndSofter: Oh holy shit yes.²* MegaCrossover: Far too many crossovers and cameos to even begin mentioning. But let's try! There's ''Anime/ReadOrDie'', ''Manga/VictorianRomanceEmma'', ''Literature/{{Madeline}}'', ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin'', ''[[LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru Marimite]]'', ''Literature/GoodOmens'', and ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. And {{cameo}} of other series, such as [[Literature/GoodOmens the Four]] [[Comicbook/TheSandman Horsemen]] as well as a slightly older-looking [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin, Susie and Candice]], [[Series/DoctorWho Ace]][[note]]Killing a vampire with [[BlatantLies so-totally-not-Nitro 9]].[[/note]], [[Series/DoctorWho Jackie and a young Rose Tyler]] have appeared. Also, the Sixth Doctor appeared in an earlier storyline with H.G. Wells.²** In a sentence: Shine crosses Hellsing with everything you'd expect and a few things you didn't.²* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Walter and Girlycard killed a mortally wounded Jeeves rather than let him fall into the Nazis' hands (and Jeeves refused to be turned into a vampire.]]²** Later, [[spoiler: Maggie does this to Walter after it's revealed there's no permanent way to break Millennium's brainwashing.]]²* MindRape: What [[spoiler: the Jeeves I-Jin]] does to Walter to turn him evil.²* MostCommonCardGame: The artist has difficulty drawing cool-looking fight scenes, so extended dramatic battles are often represented as games of [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/cats-are-people-too-48-54/ Go Fish]].²** Then when that got a bit old, it was exchanged for [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus fish-slapping]].²* MultipleChoicePast: Lampshaded in regards to Enrico telling [[http://shine.erinptah.com/storylines/2004/nothing-ever-changes/ how he met Integra]].²--> "Yes, but the story changes every time he tells it."²* MythArc: Was held off until ''Hellsing'' ended so as not to get {{Jossed}}, then started to develop.²* NiceHat: One fangirl absconded back to her world with Alucard's hat²* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Lampshaded when Annie claims that because she was born on February 29th, she ages at a quarter of the rate of a normal human (hence why she could have been alive in the 1940s but look no older than thirty). Course, she ''could'' be pulling Seras's leg.²** No, no, that's the canon explanation from the original comic. ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie is AWESOME!²* OnlyAFleshWound: [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/the-cursed-storyline-99-111/ Subverted]]; in spite of her bravado, the character is significantly weakened, and easily knocked out in the next strip²* OriginalCharacter: the vampires Reseda and Marian, most notably, along with some supporting cast in Heaven and Hell²* OverlyLongName: Marian Amethyst Raven Yumi Sappho Urania Elizabeth, who oddly enough is not a MarySue²* ParentalSexualitySquick: Integra's horrified at the thought of hearing about her father's teenage exploits. Alucard reassures her that nothing of the sort would happen, because this is in a novel written by Bertie, who's an UpperClassTwit and wouldn't know sexual innuendo if it bit him.²* ParodySue: Marian, who ''thinks'' she has Sue-esque plot-bending powers... [[SubvertedTrope but really has nothing of the sort]]. Note [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/birthday-bash-6-85/ the initials of her name]].²* PornStash: See ILied up above.²* RealMenWearPink: Alucard wore Hello Kitty pjs in the Lost Storyline.²* RemixComic: Occurs occasionally as guest strips.²* {{Robinsonade}}: Enrico and Integra get [[http://shine.erinptah.com/storylines/2004/the-obligatory-desert-island-storyline/ stuck on a desert island together]].²* RousingSpeech: If you thought the 'I Love War' speech was awesome before, [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/gentlemen-i-fanboy-war-16-21/ you should see the fandom version.]]²* RunningGag: The three people that visit Enrico in the "Ghosts of Iscariot Past" storyline aren't ''technically'' ghosts. They all said they had some free time.²* SeriousBusiness: Jeeves holds Bertie's fashion faux pas on the same level as fangirls.²* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Seras is definitely not interested in Pip. Nope.²* ShownTheirWork: Ranges from footnotes under her comics to [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/the-vatican-rag-deconstructed/ an entire comic dedicated to it.]]²* SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness: it can be broken for comedy value, as [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/the-fourth-wall/ Integra explains]]²* SoBeautifulItsACurse: eras on her figure; Pip insists that he can respect her as a person ''and'' enjoy her chest²* SplitPersonality: Yumiko and Yumie, [[spoiler:and all [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/all-heaven-broke-loose-11-21/ nine others]] identified in the system]], given much more backstory than in the original, where their splitting is just a plot device. May be a form of AuthorAppeal, given some of Erin's [[Series/UnitedStatesOfTara other fandoms]].²* {{Squee}}: One can hear a fangirl coming a mile away because they do this. The best way to get fangirls to let go is to make them do this so much they faint from sheer joy. Examples:²** Year 1: having Alucard aim at Integra, making the fangirls rave about what the hell's going on and what the characters are thinking, all declaring "THIS IS SO COOL!"²** Year 2: Enrico pointing out that "A World Without Logos" can also be translated as "A World Without God", which is also relevant to ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''²** Year 4: Giving the fans autographs (and in the case of the Jackal fangirl, a bullet)²** Year 6: An epic battle between Alucard and Nina²** Year 7: The Major giving a fanboy version of his infamous 'I Love War' RousingSpeech.²** Year 8: [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster Jeeves]] insulting everyone's clothes. Apparently it was just so Jeeves everyone fangasmed.²* SundayStrip: Sometimes plot-relevant, but generally used to present non-storyline features, including Q&As, parodies, filk, and one-shots²* TakeThat: Fangirls were what caused ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'''s version of vampires to sparkle in the first place.²* ThePowerOfLove: Subverted.²-->'''Marian:''' It's not unlikely at all. You're an enemy of Integra. So there's no way you can beat me. Because I have the most powerful thing in the universe on my side-the power of true love!²-->'''[[spoiler: [=iJeeves=]]]:''' Indeed. [[spoiler: [slices Marian in to pieces]]] As a tactic, it leaves something to be desired.²* TimeTravel: Used by the I-jin H. G. Wells.²* TookALevelInBadass: Some of the more unconventional crossovers have the characters do this:²** Literature/{{Madeline}}, who's [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/tu-seras-avec-moi-27-43/ become a vampire hunter]] for the French branch of Iscariot²** [[ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie Annie Warbucks]], who inherited her adopted father's arms dealing business²** The Yellow Kid, along with [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Peppermint Patty and Marcie]], who now work for Annie. Patty was even seen shooting at Allhambra.²* TranslationConvention: Usually used, although averted when a character is speaking/thinking in French.²** Lampshaded here with "[[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/what-is-it-good-for-20-25/ Translated from German with a heavy French accent]]".²* {{Tsundere}}: Seras.²* {{Tuckerization}}: The fangirl storylines, as well as the Catholicon storyline, take this to extremes.²* VanHelsingHateCrimes: especially when Integra and Enrico are debating the subject of vampires.²* WebcomicTime: Everything before the time travel storyline (published in 2006, taking place in 1997) has been hit by {{Retcon}}, but after it things have started to advance. In 2008 the comic had made it into 1998, and WordOfGod states that Hellsing's main plot will take place in 1999 (comic time). It has also been [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/a-long-flight-to-the-fight-1-30/ lampshaded a few times by the characters]].²* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: Jeeves is working with Millennium. ]]²** [[spoiler:Then it turns out it's an i-Jin of Jeeves.]]²* WholesomeCrossdresser: Timothy [[spoiler:after becoming the [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Rose Bride]]]]²* WildMassGuessing: ''Shine'' explores some possible ones, and has given rise to other ones, notably the WMG that Schrodinger [[spoiler:is an I-jin.]] He is in ''Shine'' canon.²* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: The 2009 Christmas storyline, directed at Enrico Maxwell. [[spoiler: Original character Lisa the Angel fills in as the Ghost of Iscariot Past, and [[Franchise/SailorMoon Helios]] substitutes as the Ghost of Iscariot Present. [[Comicbook/TheSandman Death]] substitutes as the Ghost of Iscariot Future.]]²²-----²!!''Pretty Knight Sailor Hellsing''²[[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supersailors_hellsing.png]] ² [[caption-width-right:290:Pretty knights.]]In addition to ''Shine'', Erin also has a FusionFic comic, [[http://shine.erinptah.com/manga/ Bishojo Kishi Sailor Hellsing]], which replaces the characters of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' with the cast and setting of ''Hellsing''.²²A young Integra finds herself leading battle against vampires when her father dies, leaving her leadership of the Hellsing organization, while a talking eight-eyed dog called Alunacard gives her a crucifix pin that changes her into Sailor Hellsing. With the aid of Sailors Regenerator, Ghoul, Human, Vampire, along with the help of the mysterious Masked Vampire, Sailor Hellsing leads the Sailor Knights in the fight against the vampire menace while searching for the Master of Monster.²²-----²!!''Sailor Hellsing'' contains examples of:²* AllThereInTheManual: Erin only intended to do this for one arc. She had, however, drawn out concepts for other ''Hellsing'' characters as Sailor Knights and written summaries of [[http://shine.erinptah.com/sailor-hellsing/sailor-hellsing-arc-summaries/ potential future arcs]].²* GenderBender: Anderson and Pip have both been changed into teenage girls for this comic²* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Sailor Ghoul has the amazing ability to think, though sadly this does not change her status as TheDitz. Still, for a ghoul still having a functional mind is pretty amazing. For a ghoul.²²-----²!!''The Eagle of Hermes''²[[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ch5p03.png]] ² [[caption-width-right:290:Every version of Stephen has a special relationship with his gun.]]In additional [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment addition]] to that, Erin has a third comic on Website/DeviantArt and rerunning on the main site, [[http://shine.erinptah.com/chapters/ The Eagle of Hermes]], a ''Series/TheDailyShow'', ''Series/TheColbertReport'', and ''Hellsing'' crossover set in present day Shine-verse, with flashbacks to the Millennium invasion in 1999. ²²It's a story that asks one thing: WhatIf Creator/StephenColbert was a vampire?²²-----²!!The Eagle of Hermes contains examples of:²* BrokenMasquerade: Bobby's death alerted Iscariot to Stephen's vampirism.²** TheUnmasquedWorld: On a larger scale, The Eagle of Hermes reveals that the general masquerade of vampires broke with the Millennium invasion, as it was too large scale to ever cover up.²** And finally, the [[http://shine.erinptah.com/eoh/the-rally-to-restore-humanity-15/ sequel/side story]] had Stephen reveal he's a vampire to the audience of the Rally to Restore Sanity.²* CassandraTruth: Stephen warned Jon that there were vampires. He didn't listen, and tried to go home.²* ChurchMilitant: Iscariot, of course. [[spoiler: Back in '99, Stephen served as one of their field agents.]]²* CombatPragmatist: The head of Iscariot, [[spoiler: Timothy]], decided not to waste manpower on taking Stephen out because a) he's not a threat, b) he might be useful later, c) Hellsing already has a handle on him, and d) all Stephen wants to do is his show anyway.²* CoolPlane: The Incredibly Awesome Plane makes a comeback!²* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Also of the Limited Palette variety, the recurring color here is red (with an odd exception of [[http://shine.erinptah.com/eoh/chapter-4-page-03/ this title page.]])²* GangstaStyle: Heinkel holds the pistol this way when changing targets from Stephen to Jon.²* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[http://shine.erinptah.com/ashn/doujinshi-kas-last-inbox-18-23/ Jon and Stephen]]. With a healthy dose of HoYay, much as Stephen [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday would like to deny it]].²* MemeticBadass: Integra is now an in-universe example.²* MoralityPet: Jon seems to be this for Stephen.²* PosthumousCharacter: Alas, poor Bobby.²* RedOniBlueOni: Stephen to Jon²* ShroudedInMyth: Seras, she's been seen a couple of times in public, but other than that the public knows little about her, and sees her as more of a symbol than a real person.²* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Sister Kim for Yumiko.²²----
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I wrote the first 'best you can be' post almost 12 years ago. #1 was 7 then, #2 was 5. E and I already had years of experience with cognitive disabilities, autism spectrum, and atypical minds. We already understood how worthless the classifications we'd studied in medical school were. Autism, ADHD, Asperger's (defunct now) — very rough labels that are primarily useful for obtaining services and perhaps for initial medication selection.
We thought there would be progress.
There really hasn't been much that we've seen. We still have most of the original classifications (frozen in DSM V) and I haven't seen any useful research emerge. We're going nowhere.
If someone were to drop a few million dollars on me I'd start by defining 5-8 axes of thinking/feeling — measures of things like external-word vs. internal-world orientation, spatial processing, impulsivity, short-term memory, etc. Things that can be tested and measured.
I'd mine the existing literature for axes to study, but otherwise I'd toss out most of it. Test a few thousand late teens/early adults and plot them on a "spider graph". Run the analysis to see if there are any useful clusters. If there are useful clusters, then name them. Use that as the basis for future research.
Basically, start over.


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President Emeritus, West Virginia University
Professor of Law
- A.B., West Virginia University (1967)
— Student Body President
—16th Rhodes Scholar (1983)
- B.A. (1969), M.A. (1983), Oxford University, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
- J.D., Harvard Law School (1973)
David Hardesty is President Emeritus and Professor of Law at West Virginia University. He teaches subjects related to legal ethics, leadership for lawyers, trends in the legal profession, law practice management and the role of legislatures in the American legal system, including bill drafting.
Professor Hardesty holds degrees from West Virginia University, Oxford University (which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard Law School. He also attended advanced courses in higher education leadership and decision theory at Harvard University.
Professor Hardesty was the 21st president and CEO of West Virginia University from 1995-2007. While president, he served as chair of WVU Hospitals, Inc. and United Health System. WVU is a multi-campus public research university with comprehensive health sciences education. It enrolled approximately 35,000 students on all of its campuses in his last year as president.
While President, Prof. Hardesty led efforts to develop more than 25 student centered programs, including the first faculty led residential colleges in the university's history. These efforts resulted in rapid expansion of the university student body. He also led efforts to focus WVU's research programs, establish the world's first forensic science and biometrics degrees, increase the university's outreach and service activities, and create a new hospital system. WVU achieved a national reputation in the science of biometrics during his presidency. The health system he chaired expanded to become the largest in West Virginia.
Also, during his tenure, over $750 million in capital projects were launched, including a new student recreation center, Lincoln Hall (a residential college), major additions to the main university and the health sciences library, several other health sciences additions, a new basic science building, and many new laboratory, teaching and athletics facilities.
While serving as president, Professor Hardesty was a member of the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board; Chairman of the National 4-H Council; a director and officer in the Big East Conference; and a member of the Bowl Championship Series Presidential Oversight Committee. He was a founding director of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute.
Prior to becoming president of WVU, Hardesty engaged in the private practice of law in Charleston with Bowles Rice for 19 years and served as State Tax Commissioner during Senator John D. Rockefeller IV's first term as governor of West Virginia (1977-80).
Professor Hardesty is a former member of the Board of Directors of Consol Energy, Inc., and is Of Counsel to the law firm of Bowles Rice. He has previously been a member of and chaired several charitable, civic, economic development, business and education related boards.
Mr. Hardesty's honors include several honorary degrees and citations, designation as a Distinguished West Virginian, West Virginian of the Year by the West Virginia Society of Washington, D.C., induction into the West Virginia Business Hall of Fame, induction into The National 4-H Hall of Fame, receipt of The National Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, and designation as a Graduate of Distinction by the West Virginia Education Alliance.
In 2009, the Festival of Ideas speakers' series at WVU was endowed and named in honor of Hardesty, who helped to found the series in 1966 when he was student body president. An annual lecture at the WVU Cancer center is named in his honor.
Professor Hardesty is a frequent speaker on subjects related to the legal profession, higher education and leadership. He and his wife, Susan, are co-authors of Leading the Public University, Essays, Speeches and Commentary, published for West Virginia University by the WVU Press (2007). He has facilitated retreats and other meetings of boards and community groups for over three decades.
Susan Hardesty, a former teacher, served as the founder of the Mountaineer Parents Club, a parent and student advocacy organization that grew to 17,000 members under her leadership, and now enrolls 22,000 parents. She served a member of the board of directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Mrs. Hardesty is widely recognized for her advocacy on behalf of the parents of college age students. The Hardestys have two adult children, each of whom is a graduate of WVU and its College of Law. They have two grandchildren.
(Revised March 2017)
Teaching/Administrative Experience
- President, WVU (1995-2007)
- Faculty, West Virginia University College of Law (1995-present)
- Director, West Virginia Law Institute (2009-2011)
Professional Background
- Lawyer, Bowles Rice, McDavid, Graff & Love (1973-95)
- Tax Commissioner, West Virginia (1977-80)
- General Counsel, various West Virginia non-profit groups and private companies
Publications, Research, and Intellectual Contributions (see resume for full list)
- Law STudents as Future Leaders: Using Neutral Facilitation Techniques to Teach Leadership Skills. WV Law Review on Line(120), 100. (2017)
- Bill Drafting in West Virginia. WV Law Review on Line(118), 68. (2016)
- Leading the Public University, Essays, Speeches and Commentary with Susan Hardesty, published for West Virginia University by the WVU Press (2007)
- Introduction to Bill Drafting in West Virginia, 118 W.Va.L. Rev. Online 68
- "Changing Campus Culture," Handbook of Applied Developmental Science, Volume 4.Chapter 2: Hardesty, Jr., David C., Cote, Lawrence S., LeFlore, Larry. Sage (2003)
- WV State Bar, "Leading lawyers—Lawyers in Leadership Roles—Implications for the Profession," The West Virginia Lawyer, October-December 2009.
- Contributor to Focus Magazine (West Virginia Media)


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So in order to get better at MapEd I decided to make two basic 100x100 maps for hunting mostly. These maps were made mostly so I can get familiar with maped, I know it's not a complex or difficult map to make.
So far I added the terrain and monster spawners; there are no chests or quests.
I'll be using this thread to submit recent versions of this map and possibly others as well as ask for help/advice/feedback from the community.
Looking at the picture dump, the map looks pretty bare. Probably more bare than I'd like, but the theme of the map I was going for was a hidden camp inside of a small cavern.
Please let me know if you have any map suggestions or maped tips (I've read most guides but I'll be rereading them).
First map 100x100
Leads down to second map 100x100
Edit: Updates to underground map, added above ground map.
Edit: Shrouded woods updated to include some small changes by Lord M.


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The turquoise lagoons and misty mountains of Bora-Bora have always enchanted bride-to-be Maja Sakowsky. She's so enamored of the fabled South Pacific island, in fact, that she has delayed her wedding for more than a year so that she can legally wed there.
In May, Sakowsky and her groom, Zach Hosford, plan to say their vows while standing on a spit of land overlooking one of those turquoise lagoons, taking advantage of a change in French Polynesian law that simplifies the marriage of foreign visitors in Bora-Bora and the other islands of Tahiti.
"I just know it will be perfect," said Sakowsky, a Baltimore resident.
The couple will join a growing number of brides and grooms who are forgoing hometown ceremonies for destination weddings, sometimes in such locales as Mexico, the Caribbean and Hawaii, at other times in vacation regions closer to home, such as California's Napa Valley or Sierra.
We're not talking about eloping: We're talking about elaborate, well-planned, white-gown weddings with a passel of guests, flowers and all the other trappings of a Big Wedding.
So why leave home to do it?
Basically, to avoid the hassle of a hometown wedding, say bridal planners. Tying the knot while on vacation is a vacation.
"It's hard to limit your guest list if you marry at home," said Los Angeles event and wedding planner Evette Knight.
Limiting the guest list is easier when the wedding is far away, she said. "Even if you do invite a lot of people, many won't come," she said. "And the people who do come really want to be there. It's a much more intimate feeling."
Another advantage: The couple typically feels much more relaxed. "The atmosphere is better," Knight said.
"Instead of rushing around before the wedding, the couple arrives a few days in advance; they're pampered and their guests are pampered."
Couples in their 20s and 30s are more likely to choose domestic resort locations for destination weddings, according to Brides Magazine. "The trend is really hitting this age group," said Jacqui Gifford, travel editor for Brides.
"Before, a small group would fly out to a beach resort, spend a couple nights, fly home. Now, we're seeing people ask their guests to travel a little closer to home," she said, using as an example a San Francisco couple who might wed in the Napa Valley.
But, she added, exotic locations still draw many brides and grooms — and the weddings often become weeklong parties.
"The top, classic destination wedding markets (Hawaii, Mexico, the Caribbean) are seeing guests stay longer, sometimes up to five nights," Gifford said. "The couple has events planned for each evening. From the guests' perspective, it's a built-in vacation. From the couple's perspective, [it's] an easy way to spend more time with their friends."
Los Angeles resident Felicia Midrahi agrees. She married her husband, Guy, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, attended by 100 guests; they chose a south-of-the-border wedding "because we're selfish," she said. "There was no other way we'd ever have been able to spend so much time with the people we're closest to. We were able to have an extended vacation with them."
Everything went as planned. "The scenery was beautiful and the wedding perfect," she said.
That's what most brides want, of course, and Sakowsky has been willing to wait to make her Tahiti wedding work out. Bora-Bora and the other islands of Tahiti formerly required non-French nationals to stay within French Polynesia for 30 days before marrying there. When Sakowsky heard that a proposed law that wouldn't require 30-day residence was pending, she put her plans on hold for more than a year until the French Parliament approved the change.
French Polynesia may be late to the destinations wedding party, but the hoteliers there — just like bride-to-be Sakowsky — have been planning.
Luxury hotels such as the St. Regis Bora Bora, Hilton Bora Bora Nui and Four Seasons Bora Bora have their own wedding chapels, some built over lagoons so the wedding party can see fish swimming below glass panels in the floor. Many other resorts conduct lagoon-side weddings, with the couple arriving by outrigger canoe dressed as Tahitian princesses and chiefs. Wedding packages abound: spa treatments, traditional Polynesian feasts, honeymoons on desert isles.
But marrying in French Polynesia still isn't easy. Couples have to plan — as they do in many overseas locations — on providing paperwork and documents as much as three months in advance. And they must be officially married in the local mayor's office before the lagoon or chapel ceremony.
"We suggest you start planning at least 45 days prior to the ceremony," said Jonathon Reap, communications director of Tahiti Tourisme (www.tahiti-tourisme.com), the L.A.-based Tahitian tourism bureau. The organization also recommends working with a travel agent who specializes in French Polynesian weddings or with an event planner who specializes in destination weddings.
"Getting married in Bora-Bora will still be a lot of trouble," Sakowsky said, "but I think every wedding is a lot of trouble. And mine will be worth it: I'll be getting married on a blue lagoon in Bora-Bora."


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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is one of the most famous women in America right now. She is on the campaign trail in her bid to become President of the United States. Clinton turned her campaign slogan into a book entitled "Stronger Together." Despite the massive amount of exposure Clinton has been receiving, to man millions domestically and worldwide, the book has flopped.
During its first week of release "Stronger Together" sold 2,912. Clinton's previous book "Hard Choices" sold 85,000 copies in its first week of release. That's a massive sales decline and pundits will ponder what it means. It's clear Clinton's popularity has declined.
Nobody wants Hillary Clinton's new book
September 14, 2016 - Hillary Clinton's newest book is a certifiable flop by the publishing industry's standards, The New York Times reports. Stronger Together sold only 2,912 copies in its first week of sales according to Nielsen BookScan, which charts about 80 percent of nationwide physical book sales. By comparison, Clinton's 2014 memoir Hard Choices, which also didn't meet expectations, sold over 85,000 copies in its first week, and Clinton's 2003 memoir, Living History, sold six times as many copies as Hard Choices...


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When the mind gets rolling,
And the heart can't even say,
Should it run or should it wait?
Cause there's a fire burning bright,
In the shadows of the day,
But it's all just so vague,
Maybe it is just a story,
A feeling that would pass by soon,
A wind that would cease to blow.
So let it go...
Let it go...Let it go,
Smile and let it go!