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The many faces of Joan Rivers
The stand-up pioneer has spawned the next wave of female comedians
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This is a big moment for old white lady comedians. The improbable resurgence of Betty White at 88 has been a kind of national event. For at least a year she's been stealing whatever she can — movies, television shows, "Saturday Night Live'' sketches — from people a third her age.
Then there's Joan Rivers, who's 77. During one scene of live comedy in a new documentary about her career, Rivers made me laugh so hard with an unprintable rant about Viagra that I knew I was going to die. I mean it. I thought, "This is it. I'm going to spontaneously combust right here in this packed movie theater.''
In Rivers's case, you wouldn't be wrong to find this a shock. She's been the dotty gorgon of the awards-show red carpet. Plastic surgeons have sculpted her face into a mask. She hawks her jewelry collection on home-shopping channels and made that self-pitying TV movie "Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story,'' in which she and her daughter played themselves. Her Friars Club roast, even by roast standards, was a spectacle of chauvinism and molten disrespect.
But the documentary, "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,'' which opened here on Friday, captures her in rare form — not as a joke but as a vital stand-up comedian who can still breathe fire. Rivers's routines have made theater out of her plain looks and the meanness they inspired in both her suitors and her parents. She has suffered for her art. But like most comedians, she made art of her suffering.
The film also reminds us that Rivers is a pioneer (Joan, I'm sorry, but it's true). Sarah Silverman, Kathy Griffin, and Chelsea Handler are her offspring. They each practice a brand of Rivers's off-color self-deprecation and pop-culture kamikaze attack. It would annoy Rivers to point this out, since she doesn't always view these women as heirs (to her they're still competition) or herself as a groundbreaker. But they represent various elements of Rivers's career.
Rivers did stand-up comedy on the road and on variety programs in the 1960s and '70s, then got her own late-night talk show in 1986. She was the first woman to have such a show. But that milestone seemed to cost her the second act of her career: She had spent years entertaining America as Johnny Carson's guest host on "The Tonight Show,'' starting in 1983. When she accepted an offer to do her own competing late-night program on Fox, Carson never spoke to her again.
Handler, who's written three best-selling comedy books and has a late-night show on E!, "Chelsea Lately,'' is one of only a few women to have had such a show since Rivers. (Another is Mo'Nique, whose calamitous emotional life, risqué stand-up, and shapeless BET talk show are all in the Rivers universe.)
Rivers is on the record as saying she doesn't find Handler funny (again, she's competition). But "Chelsea Lately'' has at least as many moments of biting humor as Rivers's daytime talk show, which aired in syndication from 1989 to 1994. It served as an amusing showcase for bands like the schlock-metal act Gwar and the aggrieved actress Sean Young, who once protested her not being cast as Catwoman in Tim Burton's second "Batman'' movie by stalking Rivers's set in costume. Not unlike Rivers, Handler generates uncomfortable laughs by appearing to have no idea who her celebrity guests are.
Griffin's approach to Rivers is more literal. For one thing, she's turned her cosmetic surgeries into part of her act. For another, her comedy of self-deficiency is a perversion of Rivers's professional ebb (Griffin's reality show is called "My Life on the D-List''). Rivers's late-night Fox show lasted a year, after which she wound up floundering in the very spot that Griffin relishes: the bottom. It's only a backhanded tribute to Rivers that Griffin's mock-failure is the source of her success. Rivers never luxuriated on the D-list. She simply made the most of it.
If Handler has Rivers's occasional sense of cool and Griffin is Rivers in a more antic, desperate mode, Silverman is Rivers distilled to her most essential. Silverman's comedy is predicated on the idea that she doesn't know she's appalling, offensive, or even funny.
The key to the young Rivers's survival on 1960s television was telling her jokes as if she were talking to girlfriends or a therapist. Her intent was to appear competent but not intentional. It was a shrewd way for a woman to be funny about marriage, abortion, sex, sexism, Jewishness, and manlessness: not to be too heavy or too light, but to be confessional and chagrined. Both Phyllis Diller and the great Moms Mabley did "ugly woman'' comedy, but Rivers didn't play ugly or garish the way they did. She adjusted the social stakes: Why can't this nice modern girl get a date? I'm in the city, she seemed to say. Where's my sex?
The difference between Rivers and Silverman is a matter of presentation. Silverman feigns ignorance. She whines and mumbles like a child, which heightens the surprise of what comes out of her mouth, yet allows her to seem innocent of what she saying — as if she's just repeating what she's overheard. Rivers has always been a showy performer. She points and makes faces and projects.
After she introduces the groundwork for a joke — the inherent ridiculousness of, say, the double standard of a woman being single — she then backs up and says, "oh oh oh!'' and delivers the most aggravating thing about that double standard. The exclamation is part of the punch line. Silverman turns Rivers's flamboyance inward. If her little-girl stage persona ever grew up, it would be something like Rivers.
"A Piece of Work'' represents a kind of reversal of cultural fortune for Rivers, who, like the unstoppable Don Rickles, has never ceased performing. The film makes it impossible to see her as anything other than a smart businesswoman and comedian, as opposed to a freak. She's still funny on her terms.
After all these decades, she refuses to play wise or geriatric. Unlike White, who remains sharp, spry, and lethally funny, Rivers wants no part of any shocking-granny shtick. Her ageless indecency is shock enough.
"I spit on virtue,'' she said in a routine from the 1980s. If you plan on seeing her live anytime soon, bring a raincoat. She's still spitting.
Wesley Morris can be reached at email@example.com. For more on movies go to www.boston.com/movienation.


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Elementary school students smile between sno-cone slurps at DARE Day last Friday, the traditional almost-end-of-the-school year exhibition and family fun-fest at Rappahannock County Elementary School sponsored by the Rappahannock County Sheriff's Office's anti-drug program. Emergency responders from Rappahannock and around the region sent equipment and performed demos for the kids and families, including (of course) the fire hose demonstration, which is usually way more fun than the garden hose at home.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
40s Inspired Summer Dress
4 comments:
- Lilac Bud Gal said...
Aw, how sweet!! I really wish I had a 'summer wardrobe'... it just makes you feel more into the mood of the weather! :)
Hi nice to 'see' Des again! (for me..). She looks wonderful! Say hi to her for me, will ya??
Love ya and I hope we can see y'all sometime soon!!
- Thursday, June 23, 2011 12:03:00 PM
- Riah said...
Ohhh! Thanks! 1940's! I love it! I'm actually going to be wearing a 40's(ish) inspired bolero jacket with my wedding dress!
- Thursday, June 23, 2011 1:55:00 PM
- Papillon Bleu said...
Atlanta, I am so sorry, I've just realized I haven't replied to your last message ( bad , bad me...) .
I had to say that I am incredibly impressed by your fashion expertize and I truly wanted to thank you for taking the time to share the wonderful links about the bonnets .
I hope that one day, you can design a dress for me. I like 1940s and 1950 as I think women were still so feminine then.
Your photos are gorgeous.
- Friday, June 24, 2011 7:34:00 AM
- Dulantha said...
Quite feminine....
Feminine women and girls are always attractive.
Gender specifications are very important in any stage of the history.
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Like in "The Impossible Planet" in "An Army of Ghosts" we see human beings going to great and dangerous lengths just to procure an independent energy source. In this case, Britain's alien intelligence agency, Torchwood, opened up a spatial disturbance in an attempt to harness a massive energy source. After they opened up the disturbance a mysterious sphere comes through the disturbance and ghost-like figures appear all over the earth.
Doctor: "So you find the breach, probe it, the sphere comes through, 600 feet above London. Bam! It leaves a hole in the fabric of reality, and that hole, you think 'Oh. Shall we leave it alone? Shall we back off? Shall we play it safe?' Nah you think 'Let's make it bigger!'"
Yvonne Hartman (Head of Torchwood, London): "It's a massive source of energy. If we can harness that power, we need never depend on the Middle East again. Britain will become truly independent."
The sphere contains an army of Daleks and the ghost-like figures are actually Cybermen trying to cross over from an alternate universe. AND it just so happens that the Daleks and the Cybermen are two of the Doctor's most notorious enemies, who then begin a battle over the earth.
Obviously the Doctor saves the day as he always does but the point of the narrative is the same, a small group of people risk not only their lives but the lives of the entire planet in an attempt at developing a cheap and independent energy resource that they know nothing about. The energy crisis needs a solution but that solution is not worth risking the lives of the people that want to use the energy in the first place.
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Ruby on Rails 4.1 has been released. Use the files below as needed to help upgrade your application. For this article we are doing things a little differently. To help keep things simple we include the files each in a separate tab. This means you can click each tab to look at the file contents.
Notable changes to Rails 4.1 include:
- Spring - Spring speeds up rails commands on Linux/OS-X systems.
- Variants - Variants allow you to easily serve up mobile content.
- Enums - Enums allow you to have status fields without creating database backed lookup tables.
- Mailer Previews - Mailer Previews allow you to preview emails during development.
- Secrets.yml - Secrets.yml gives you a centralized location to keep all of your application's secrets.
We hope to go over some of the news Rails 4.1 features in a future article. For now, enjoy!
The contents of the Rails 4.1 Gemfile are listed below. Major changes include the tzinfo-data gem on Windows systems as well as the spring gem on linux/OS-X systems.
source 'https://rubygems.org'
# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'rails', '4.1.0'
# Use sqlite3 as the database for Active Record
gem 'sqlite3'
# Use SCSS for stylesheets
gem 'sass-rails', '~> 4.0.3'
# Use Uglifier as compressor for JavaScript assets
gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.3.0'
# Use CoffeeScript for .js.coffee assets and views
gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 4.0.0'
# See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
# gem 'therubyracer', platforms: :ruby
# Use jquery as the JavaScript library
gem 'jquery-rails'
# Turbolinks makes following links in your web application faster. Read more: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks
gem 'turbolinks'
# Build JSON APIs with ease. Read more: https://github.com/rails/jbuilder
gem 'jbuilder', '~> 2.0'
# bundle exec rake doc:rails generates the API under doc/api.
gem 'sdoc', '~> 0.4.0', group: :doc
# Spring speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background. Read more: https://github.com/rails/spring
gem 'spring', group: :development
# Use ActiveModel has_secure_password
# gem 'bcrypt', '~> 3.1.7'
# Use unicorn as the app server
# gem 'unicorn'
# Use Capistrano for deployment
# gem 'capistrano-rails', group: :development
# Use debugger
# gem 'debugger', group: [:development, :test]
Only minor changes to the
config/application.rb file.
require File.expand_path('../boot', __FILE__)
require 'rails/all'
# Require the gems listed in Gemfile, including any gems
# you've limited to :test, :development, or :production.
module Rails41app
class Application < Rails::Application
# Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those specified here.
# Application configuration should go into files in config/initializers
# -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.
# Set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record auto-convert to this zone.
# Run "rake -D time" for a list of tasks for finding time zone names. Default is UTC.
# config.time_zone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'
# The default locale is :en and all translations from config/locales/*.rb,yml are auto loaded.
# config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('my', 'locales', '*.{rb,yml}').to_s]
# config.i18n.default_locale = :de
Only a few minor changes for the
config/environments/development.rb file as well.
Rails.application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb.
# In the development environment your application's code is reloaded on
# every request. This slows down response time but is perfect for development
# since you don't have to restart the web server when you make code changes.
config.cache_classes = false
# Do not eager load code on boot.
config.eager_load = false
# Show full error reports and disable caching.
config.consider_all_requests_local = true
config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
# Don't care if the mailer can't send.
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Print deprecation notices to the Rails logger.
config.active_support.deprecation = :log
# Raise an error on page load if there are pending migrations.
config.active_record.migration_error = :page_load
# Debug mode disables concatenation and preprocessing of assets.
# This option may cause significant delays in view rendering with a large
# number of complex assets.
config.assets.debug = true
# Adds additional error checking when serving assets at runtime.
# Checks for improperly declared sprockets dependencies.
# Raises helpful error messages.
config.assets.raise_runtime_errors = true
# Raises error for missing translations
# config.action_view.raise_on_missing_translations = true
Same for
Rails.application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb.
# Code is not reloaded between requests.
config.cache_classes = true
# Eager load code on boot. This eager loads most of Rails and
# your application in memory, allowing both threaded web servers
# and those relying on copy on write to perform better.
# Rake tasks automatically ignore this option for performance.
config.eager_load = true
# Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on.
config.consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
# Enable Rack::Cache to put a simple HTTP cache in front of your application
# Add `rack-cache` to your Gemfile before enabling this.
# For large-scale production use, consider using a caching reverse proxy like nginx, varnish or squid.
# config.action_dispatch.rack_cache = true
# Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this).
config.serve_static_assets = false
# Compress JavaScripts and CSS.
config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier
# config.assets.css_compressor = :sass
# Do not fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed.
config.assets.compile = false
# Generate digests for assets URLs.
config.assets.digest = true
# Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets.
config.assets.version = '1.0'
# Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files.
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx
# Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
# config.force_ssl = true
# Set to :debug to see everything in the log.
config.log_level = :info
# Prepend all log lines with the following tags.
# config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid ]
# Use a different logger for distributed setups.
# config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(SyslogLogger.new)
# Use a different cache store in production.
# config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
# config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"
# Precompile additional assets.
# application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS in app/assets folder are already added.
# config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )
# Ignore bad email addresses and do not raise email delivery errors.
# Set this to true and configure the email server for immediate delivery to raise delivery errors.
# config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
# the I18n.default_locale when a translation cannot be found).
config.i18n.fallbacks = true
# Send deprecation notices to registered listeners.
config.active_support.deprecation = :notify
# Disable automatic flushing of the log to improve performance.
# config.autoflush_log = false
# Use default logging formatter so that PID and timestamp are not suppressed.
config.log_formatter = ::Logger::Formatter.new
# Do not dump schema after migrations.
config.active_record.dump_schema_after_migration = false
Beginning to sound like a broken record, only minor changes to
config/environments/test.rb as well.
Rails.application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb.
# The test environment is used exclusively to run your application's
# test suite. You never need to work with it otherwise. Remember that
# your test database is "scratch space" for the test suite and is wiped
# and recreated between test runs. Don't rely on the data there!
config.cache_classes = true
# Do not eager load code on boot. This avoids loading your whole application
# just for the purpose of running a single test. If you are using a tool that
# preloads Rails for running tests, you may have to set it to true.
config.eager_load = false
# Configure static asset server for tests with Cache-Control for performance.
config.serve_static_assets = true
config.static_cache_control = 'public, max-age=3600'
# Show full error reports and disable caching.
config.consider_all_requests_local = true
config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
# Raise exceptions instead of rendering exception templates.
config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions = false
# Disable request forgery protection in test environment.
config.action_controller.allow_forgery_protection = false
# Tell Action Mailer not to deliver emails to the real world.
# The :test delivery method accumulates sent emails in the
# ActionMailer::Base.deliveries array.
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :test
# Print deprecation notices to the stderr.
config.active_support.deprecation = :stderr
# Raises error for missing translations
# config.action_view.raise_on_missing_translations = true
config/secrets.yml file is a new file. We hope to go over this in a future article.
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
# Your secret key is used for verifying the integrity of signed cookies.
# If you change this key, all old signed cookies will become invalid!
# Make sure the secret is at least 30 characters and all random,
# no regular words or you'll be exposed to dictionary attacks.
# You can use `rake secret` to generate a secure secret key.
# Make sure the secrets in this file are kept private
# if you're sharing your code publicly.
secret_key_base: your_secret_key
secret_key_base: your_secret_key
# Do not keep production secrets in the repository,
# instead read values from the environment.
secret_key_base: <%= ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"] %>


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The MultiDrizzle Handbook
3.2 Image Reconstruction and Restoration
There are two basic techniques used to recover spatial information in images while preserving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR):
- Reconstruction, which attempts to recreate the image after it is has been convolved with the instrumental Point Spread Function (PSF)
- Deconvolution, which tries to remove the affects of the PSF on the ideal image by enhancing high frequency components which were suppressed by the optics and the detector.
The primary aim of these techniques is to recover image resolution while preserving the SNR. These goals are unfortunately not fully compatible. For example, non-linear image restoration procedures that enhance high frequencies in the image, such as the Richardson-Lucy (Richardson 1972; Lucy 1974; Lucy & Hook 1991) and maximum-entropy methods (Gull & Daniel 1978; Wier & Djorgovski 1990) directly exchange signal-to-noise for resolution, thus performing best on bright objects that have ample signal-to-noise.
An implementation of the Richardson-Lucy method is in the IRAF/STSDAS task "acoadd". However, this technique is unable to handle large dithers, and is limited by typical computing capabilities to combining either small regions of many images, or the entire image of only a few dithers. Furthermore, the present task can accommodate neither geometric distortions nor the changing shape of the PSF across the field of view. This technique, like all non-linear techniques, produces final images whose noise properties are difficult to quantify. In particular, this method has a strong tendency to "clump" noise into the shape of the input PSF.
In the rest of this section we will focus on the family of linear reconstruction techniques, of which two opposite extremes are "interlacing" and "shift-and-add"; with the "drizzle" algorithm representing a continuum between these two extremes.
3.2.1 Interlacing
If the dithers are particularly well-placed, one can simply interlace the pixels from the images onto a finer grid. In the interlacing method, the pixels from the independent input images are placed in alternate pixels on the output image according to the alignment of the pixel centers in the original images. For example, the image in the lower right of (Figure 3.1) was restored by interlacing a 3x3 array of dithered images. However, due to occasional small positioning errors of the telescope, and non-uniform shifts in pixel space across the detector caused by the geometric distortion of the optics, true interlacing of images is generally not feasible.
3.2.2 Shift-and-Add
Another standard simple linear technique for combining shifted images, descriptively named "shift-and-add", has been used for many years to combine dithered infrared data onto finer grids. Each input pixel is block replicated onto a finer sub-sampled grid, shifted into place, and added to the output image. Shift-and-add has the advantage of being able to easily handle arbitrary dither positions. However, it convolves the image yet again with the original pixel, thus adding to the blurring of the image and to the correlation of noise in the image. Furthermore, it is difficult to use shift-and-add in the presence of missing data (e.g., from cosmic rays) and geometric distortion.
3.2.3 Drizzle
In response to the limitations of the two techniques just described, an improved method known formally as variable-pixel linear reconstruction, and more commonly referred to as drizzle, was developed by Andy Fruchter and Richard Hook (Fruchter and Hook 1997), initially for the purposes of combining the dithered images of the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N). This algorithm can be thought of as a continuous set of linear functions that vary smoothly between the optimum linear combination technique (interlacing) and shift-and-add. This allows an improvement in resolution, and a reduction in correlated noise, compared with images produced using pure shift-and-add.
The degree to which the algorithm departs from interlacing and moves towards shift-and-add depends upon how well the PSF is sub-sampled by the shifts in the input images. In practice, the behavior of the drizzle algorithm is controlled through the use of a parameter called pixfrac (Section 5.5.6), which can be set to values ranging from 0 to 1, and represents the amount by which input pixels are shrunk before being mapped onto the output image plane.
A key to understanding the use of pixfrac (Section 5.5.6) is to realize that a CCD image can be thought of as the true image convolved first by the optics, then by the pixel response function (ideally a square the size of a pixel), and then sampled by a delta-function at the center of each pixel. A CCD image is thus a set of point samples of a continuous two-dimensional function. Hence the natural value of pixfrac is 0, which corresponds to pure interlacing. Setting pixfrac to values greater than 0 causes additional broadening of the output PSF by convolving the original PSF with pixels of non-zero size. Thus, setting pixfrac to its maximum value of 1 is equivalent to shift-and-add, the other extreme of linear combination, in which the output image PSF has been smeared by a convolution with the full size of the original input pixels.
The drizzle algorithm has also been designed to handle large dithers, where geometric distortion causes non-uniform subsampling across the field, and takes into account missing data resulting from cosmic rays and bad pixels. Other useful discussions on the reconstruction of Nyquist images from undersampled data, as well as the merits of various types of dither patterns, are presented by Lauer (1999a, 1999b), Arendt, Fixsen and Moseley (2000), and Anderson and King (2000). It is beyond the scope of the present documentation to provide an extensive discussion on the levels comparable to these papers, therefore we refer interested readers to these papers instead.
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JIANGU! Chapter 5, Scene 6 Deng Province
The henchmen remain in the road near the outpost until the thunderstorm strikes after dark. Without a tent or other shelter, they spend the night soaking wet as the storm rages. They get almost no sleep. The storm subsides into a drizzling rain some time after midnight. In the morning it tapers off. Tthe sun is shining by noon, when Termix, Nimdor, and a squad of cavalrymen arrive.
The cavalrymen present an official order to the outpost. It authorizes Termix, Nimdor, and their companions to cross the border.
The sentries explain that it should take about three and a half hours to climb the steep path to the Fortress at the top of the pass. They should reach the lair of the basilisk by late afternoon. They describe the geography of Deng Province so that the heroes gain a general understanding of what lies beyond the fortress as well.
The henchmen leave the outpost and enter Deng Province. They spend the afternoon on winding mountain trails crossing the range that protect the Imperial Heartland from the wild regions of the West.
Everyone in the group except Termix and Nimdor is fatigued.
A fatigued character can neither run nor charge and takes a -2 penalty to Strength and Dexterity. Doing anything that would normally cause fatigue causes the fatigued character to become exhausted. After 8 hours of complete rest, fatigued characters are no longer fatigued.
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"I'm sorry for leaving you all out here in the storm without letting you know we suceeded, but in the shape the horses were in, there was no way we could get back to you in time to get you out of the storm, and the horses would likely have died in the effort. Now, on to a more important matter. What are we going to about the basilisk. Defeating it will be very dangerous, and we could just avoid it. However, I did tell the chieftan we would attempt to defeat it, and he promised a reward if we suceed."
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Flarrgj frowns, dark circles under his eye's.
"Perhaps we should take some time to rest, i could not do so in the storm. While doing that we may discuss our plan?"
He stretches mightly, and sits down on a nearby rock, sprawling across it. He remains in this position for a heartbeat before hastly scrampling himself into a more dignified position, legs crossed as he had seen others do. The action seems self concius and almost nervous.
Linus glances at Flarrgj and nods. "I'm not sure we can afford too much of a delay, but I'm not liking the odds against a basilisk while we're this tired either."
Barely able to keep his eyes open after the long, wet night, Gizerak is still animated enough to express his concerns over waiting too long.
"We have already delayed this long. Waiting another day to rest may defeat the purpose of gaining entrance through the pass. But of course, waiting a day would allow me to heal our wounds more fully. I leave the decision to you all. Either way, Sha-gaat will see me through this."
Je porte mon fromage dans mon slip.
---It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.---
Already in a bad mood because of the lack of sleep, the debate of the others on whether to continue right away or not annoys Fugen. Still, with all the soldiers around from the village, he's not willing to risk exposing himself to scrutiny by signing or writing and so quietly goes about saddling the horses.
Fools! We promised the chieftian that it would be the golem doing the fighting. Or at least, that is what Nimdor was supposed to promise him. Given that I seriously doubt that these militia men would understand a delay because we are tired. They don't expect us to do anything more than stay close enough to the golem to direct it until we catch sight of the basilisk and then to hang back while the golem takes care of the creature.
Kierna glances at the militia as they ride up the path to the fortress; when none are close enough to hear her, she leans closer to Termix and mutters,
"I know I was against it before, but in the current state we find ourselves in, it might be better to let the golem do the basilisk-slaying. If it comes up, of course. Are we within a day's ride of its supposed lair? If we aren't, the problem will solve itself next time we stop for the evening."
Once she is done conversing with the wizard, she moves to the head of the column, keeping an eye out for dangers along the path.
"I doubt the golem should fight. Termix and I are well rested, and although I am not much of a fighter, Termix should be able to blast the beast. Kierna, although you are tired, I'm sure your bow will not waver. Anyway, we cannot much afford a delay, as they will wonder why we are not there soon."
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Once the guard outpost is far behind and out of sight, Fugen signs to convey his thoughts to the others. With most of the group still tired from the night out in the storm, their best bet was to find someplace where they could hole up to rest before attempting to take on the basilisk. Kierna especially. The creature's ability to turn its victims to stone and its sluggish nature meant that any confrontation, whether with the golem or not, was likely to take place at a distance so as to minimize the chance of anyone being turned to stone. Those with the ability to attack at a distance would need to be at their best.
Either that, or they should try to make it through the pass as quickly as possible without encountering the basilisk. The promise had only been to try, and as much as Fugen disliked leaving these people open to further attack from the basilisk, if they made it through without encountering the basilisk, then they could reasonably pass on that fact and continue on their way.
Physics is like sex. Sometimes it yields practical results, but that's not why we do it.
-Richard Feynman
6:1 The Imperial Fortress of Deng Pass
JIANGU! Chapter 5, Scene 6:1 The Imperial Fortress of Deng Pass
The heroes spend the afternoon resting in the middle of the narrow road. There is no need to leave the road ,since the blockade has stopped all traffic. They are ready to travel again as the sun starts to set.
Through the night they follow the road through the mountains . The road goes parallel to the first ridgeline as it climbs, finally reaching the crest and crossing over into a narrow valley. The middle range is narrower but steeper. Steadily they climb, until they round a turn and see the fortress ahead. It is midnight, but starlight reveals the general shape of the distant fortress.
OOC: With two days to rest and heal since the last battle, the group are all back up to max HP, with full spells. No fatigue.
"Well, here we go!"
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Feeling better since the party rested, the darkness of night still makes Fugen uncomfortable, especially when they face a creature whose mere gaze can turn some one to stone.
Getting out his bull's eye lantern, Fugen shines it over the road ahead and the terrain around them before closing it back up. Waiting a moment for his eyes to readjust to the starlight, Fugen turns to Linus and Gizerak and suggests that the group wait until morning before proceeding any further.
Physics is like sex. Sometimes it yields practical results, but that's not why we do it.
-Richard Feynman
Flarrgj eye's the fortress with a warry glance and frowns proffesionaly. After a minute he says in a low voice;
"So... what is Basalisk exactly?"
"I'm not too sure about details, but I can tell you, from myths and stories and the like, that it is a lizard like creature that can turn you to stone. Scary, isn't it?"
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Flarrgj frowns again.
"In my homeland there is a creature, in your tongue it would be 'Cold Snake. They are massive creatures that grow to hundreds of feet long, longer sometimes, and are able to spew a cone of cold that can feeze the very air you breathe. It is so cold that to very touch it can kill. When it dies, it turns to ice and exploads, sending out a field of ice shards that can decimate entire villiges."
Flarrgj leaves this statement as a counter point of it's own.
"I certainly hope that isn't what we are facing."
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6:2 The Imperial Fortress of Deng Pass
JIANGU! Chapter 5, Scene 6:2 The Imperial Fortress of Deng Pass
Before arriving at the fortress, the heroes find a large cave that opens onto the road. Taking suitable precautions, they ensure that it is safe. This seems to have been used as a resting place for carvans or troops. There are hearths for campfires and a roped-off area for animals, but it is now deserted. Here the heroes rest again for several hours until dawn.
In the early morning daylight they leave the cave and advance towards the fortress. It is an incredibly tall structure, well over 100 feet high. This was necessary to make it more difficult for enemies to assail from the surrounding peaks.
The fortress is narrow, with two sturdy towers on either side. The towers portrude only on the other side, so the side facing the henchmen is flat. Several levels of arrow slits are arrayed above the imposing passage through the fortress. The fortress was built to defend against invaders seeking to enter the Imperial Heartland from outide, but defenses were built facing both sides, against the possibility that a dismounted enemy contingent might climb the mountains to attack from the rear.
Scattered rubble lays around the outside of the gate. Once they get closer, the henchmen see that the rubble is the petrified remains of some of the basilisk's victims. It appears that they were pushed out of the fortress and piled here. These stone figures are broken and hollow on the inside. The gaze of the basilisk appears to petrify the outer layers of its victims to imobilize them, so that it can break them open to eat the meat and innards within.
A sign is carved neatly into the outer wall of the fortress beside the gate, but the henchmen are still too far away to read it.
The passage is open, and the rising sun behind them illuminates all the way through to the other side. The gates and portcullises at either end are open.
The passage is fifteen feet wide and fifteen feet high. The fortress is sixty feet deep. The exterior walls are twenty feet thick on either side. After the passage penetrates the exterior walls from both directions, it opens up to a wider area in the middle.
This is what the henchmen have determined by glancing through the passage from the greatest distance possible. They are now about a hundred feet from the gate. They neither see nor hear any sign of the basilisk. Since the victims were pushed outside, the passage through the fortress is unobstructed.
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Signing, Fugen suggests (though Gizerak or Linus) that Termix direct the golem to walk through the fortress and then come back so as to draw the basilisk out if it is there. Those with ranged weapons should have them at the ready to fire should the basilisk appear.
Physics is like sex. Sometimes it yields practical results, but that's not why we do it.
-Richard Feynman
After the plan is revealed to Flarrgj he stands in the backround for a second. He then diggs around his pack for a scrap of cloth, which he ties around his eye's. Next he draws his greatsword and sits down in the middle of the path, sword sitting wide across his lap, extending a good two feet on either side.
Nimdor draws a dagger after the translation, and then speaks to Fugen. "You know, sometime when we are in less danger, you need to teach me how to understand that sign language."
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6:3 The Basilisk Appears
JIANGU! Chapter 5, Scene 6:3 The Basilisk Appears
On the command of Termix, the golem sets off on its own, marching through the fortress. It seems strange after the last several days to see the golem moving by itself, instead of following Termix.
Once the golem enters the small courtyard in the middle of the fortress, the henchmen can hear a distant reptilian growl echo through the passage. The golem marches on, oblivious.
As the golem exits the fortress through the passage in the far wall, the basilisk appears. It lumbers into view in the courtyard and turns away from the henchmen to face the golem, just as the golem reaches the far end and does an about face.
Note that the coordinates refer to the upper-right hand edge of each square. One square=20 ft
The characters are currently at and around 220E/20N
The basilisk is at 240E/130N
The golem is at 240E/ 160N
Nimdor turns his gaze downward, refusing to look into the eyes of so dangerous a beast. He then moves into a nearby hiding place to avoid it's notice if possible.
<OOC: Cast gaze away. Hide. Spend action point if necessary>
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With the basilisk's back to the party at the moment, Fugen waits apprehensively. In his throwing hand rests a tanglefoot bag and in his other, a bottle of alchemist's fire: one to hold the basilisk at bay, the other to hurt it without getting too close. The basilisk is still much to far away though for his throwing arm and Fugen patently hopes that the creature never does get close enough.
Anxious, Fugen waits for Kierna and Linus to use their bows to take the first shot.
Gods! Don't let the creature get too close.
Physics is like sex. Sometimes it yields practical results, but that's not why we do it.
-Richard Feynman
Linus comprehends the monk's anxiety, draws his bow and takes aim at the basilisk, letting loose an arrow at the distracted large lizard.
Kierna follows suit, raising her bow up high for a pair of long, arcing shots. She isn't sure how easy the basilisk will be to hit, but she is determined to prevent it from coming too close to the group.
[Rapid Shot +9/+9, d8+3/x3; will not avert gaze if basilisk closes, but I will spend action points on my saves versus its gaze]
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Tone (style or manner of expression) can make a big difference in a passage. Here's a quick example from the great comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.
Example of the right tone
In one chapter of Jeeves and the Mating Season, the rich and idle Bertie Wooster is at a village concert. Before the first number, the vicar makes a fundraising speech. Bertie, the narrator of the novel, summarizes the speech:
"The Church Organ, he told us frankly, was in a hell of a bad way. For years it had been going around with holes in its socks, doing the Brother-can-you-spare-a-dime stuff, and now it was about due to hand in its dinner pail."
Bertie's narration is comical not only because it contains one of Mr. Wodehouse's wonderful metaphors, but also because of its tone. "Summarizing something in the most incongruous, inappropriate language possible is one of Wodehouse's most reliable tricks." (Source) Readers imagine the vicar's tone and are certain that it was nothing like the flippant, irreverent tone of Bertie's summary.
Bertie is being flippant not only about vicars and church organs but also about the Great Depression. The three parts of Bertie's metaphor (holes in one's socks, handing in one's dinner pail, and especially the song "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" evoke the Depression era, which was still a painfully fresh memory when this novel was published (1949).
The Takeaway: Setting the right tone in your writing is one of those things that is difficult to do but looks easy when it's done. Bertie Wooster's summary of the vicar's speech looks like something you or I could dash off in two or three minutes at the keyboard. But of course you and I know it isn't. On this blog I have given you many quick-fix ideas; I wish I could give you one for tone. All I can say is that it takes some maturity – gained from a lot of reading, listening and writing – just to acquire a refined sense of tone. And, of course, it takes a lot of rewriting to set the right tone in any given passage or work.
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It seems safe to say that the 2017 Drum Corps International season is off to a rip-roaring start. The repertoires are smoking, the corps are touring, and the new uniform reveals are definitely something to behold.
First Impressions DCI 2017
After watching Bluecoats exit the field after their finals performance last summer, we knew that 'Down Side Up' would turn the drum corps world on its shell. It's safe to say that that the Bluecoats have definitely influenced a "non-traditional" uniform push to the very heart of the drum corps activity for 2017. I mean we have Santa Clara Vanguard debuting their 2017 show, Ourobouros sans Aussies. Did I spell Ourobourous right? Does it matter? None the less, no hats at all in Santa Clara. I think the big shocker is Madison Scouts though. Their uniform is best described as Mad Max, meets Fallout, with more feathers.
Bluecoats are currently leading the pack with their show, "Jagged Line." The star of the show is a "Broadway-level" prop as program coordinator; Dean Westman described on the 2017 Tour Premiere which was live-broadcasted to movie theaters around the country from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. What an amazing drum corps prop. We're more than happy to watch hornline, drumline, and guard members run up, down, through, and on it all summer.
Statistically speaking, aren't Blue Devils' chances of winning at Finals like 1000 to 1? Regardless of the odds, it's quite likely after seeing what they're currently doing on California tour. Their show "Metamorph" has something for everyone. We particularly like that their drums are quoting the 1976 show during their opening statement. Even though their brass was recently beat by Vanguard, once Flight of the Bumblebee is cleaned up, it's going to be hard to beat. Maybe even hard for the magical horn line of Carolina Crown, who are performing DCI's first self-proclaimed "deconstructive" show entitled simply, "It Is."


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Pros: I like the look and feel much better. Software looks great on mobile devices and loads fast. templates are easy to use.
Cons: It is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for, or the best way to do something. I also don't really like how you can't get totals for the different ticket types easily without pulling a report. There is that one graph with the sales trends which is helpful, but when your ticket types over lay each other, you can't really view them unless you zoom in extra close. Would be great to see those numbers with a roll over or a chart of how many and how much.
Another issue is tokens. I wish you could set up a token and add the ticket types you want to instead of having them all go into the same token. I know you can set it up through the app to have the ones you want selected but having to update all the devices to do that can be time consuming. From a manager point of view I do not want my ticket takers to have access to types of tickets they can scan. Leaves room for error at a very busy event.
When it comes to CSS I had some issues getting what I wanted to work all over the document. Front sizes would jump or not stick when I would use the HTML button. I finally gave up. Would be great to have a tutorial on how it works and if there are any tricks.
Overall: I had a good experience overall. It's always challenging to switch versions but I found it to be pretty easy.
Recommendations to other buyers: It's a good product and if the user could customize a few more things that would be great. App was easy to install and use which was AWESOME.
Immensely better than Eventbrite!!
Comments: I signed up for TicketSpice for my conference website (www.LifeschoolingConference.com) after comparing a lot of different options. TicketSpice seemed to offer the most flexibility for the price and I also was really excited about the social networking options. I loved the idea of incentivizing my customers to share my event for an additional amount off their ticket! I was hesitant about the .99 fee TicketSpice charges per ticket, since the other option I was considering was a free Wordpress plugin, but it's still cheaper than Eventbrite and it has been well worth it! I just added a $1 fee per ticket, so in the end, I'm not really paying anything extra besides credit card processing fees.
The flexibility of the program has been amazing! Unlike Eventbrite, I am able to set up my basic tickets, but then I can add what they call "actions" to create variables for each ticket. In other words, I have two basic tickets for my conference: Single and Family. But we also have a fair on Saturday after the conference. It is free for attendees, but others can also sign up just to come to the fair portion. I added actions so that when someone selects the Single or Family Ticket, they see the fair ticket with a $0 price, as well as an additional Speaker Luncheon ticket option. But if they select the $15 fair option at the beginning, then the single and family tickets disappear and the Speaker Luncheon option also remains hidden. Not possible with Eventbrite!
Also, I have set up early bird, regular, and late tickets. With Eventbrite, I had to do each ticket for each length of time separately. It was confusing and time-consuming! With TicketSpice, I just created an action for each ticket. The coupon codes are also nice because I can add actions so that they can only be used in certain instances. For example, I had a Cyber Monday sale, so I added an action that the coupon could only be used on the specific date of November 28th. Worked perfectly!
Finally, the customer service has been outstanding! I worked a lot during Thanksgiving week, but my questions through chat were always answered in a timely manner, even on Sunday...pretty important since one of my actions would have resulted in giving away all my tickets for free instead of only the first three sold! Ryan was so helpful and encouraging and even sent a video showing how to do what I needed to do. Can't say enough good things about TicketSpice!! Happy enough to take the time to write this long review! :)
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Comments: After coming from Eventbrite, and testing out MANY ticketing systems for our many events, I have found the NEW 4.0 version of Ticketspice to be the best and in a class by itself.
1. The clean and modern look.. On MOBILE and on web - Looks great... Have yous een an Eventbrite's STRIPPED OUT mobile version? It looks like a contract of text! All the graphics are gone.
2. The crazy flexibility of the builder in Ticketspice. You can basically customize it to look CLEAN AND SHARP... Streamlined.. ONE PAGE ticket checkout... Move things around, add all different elements.... It's easy and interactive and looks GREAT and modern and clean... but without sacrificing features.
3. The responsive customer support... they'lll live chat with you any time to fix issues and open to suggestions.. They are the best. Ever try dealing with a person at Eventbrite. Good luck with that.
4. They add new features. Eventbrite is notorious for putting in their blog 'we are adding apple pay' or something like that then saying it won't be for months and never happen. These people are proactive. They probably have a smaller team and can move quicker. Eventbrite being cannot make changes quickly or at all... they promise things that never come.
5. The action commands. Nothing on ANY other ticketing system comes close. You can literally incentive in a major way by having sections appear based on criteria. Want to ovver a free t shirt when someone buys 10 tickets.. you CAN. Want to only show a ticket type for an age group when they put their age in. You CAN. Want to sell merch on the site... ANY amount (not 5 items like Eventbrite) You CAN. Want to have different instructions appear for different ticket types... you CAN. Want to have a 2 for one sale when someone buys multiples of 2 tickets.. you CAN.... You can do SO MUCH to incentive and create a ticket buying experience that is fn and gives people reasons to buy things. And is SMART without cluttering up the page.
6. The checkout process on one page is simple - easy for anyone.
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Pros: We have used many ticketing solutions and found TicketSpice to possess all of the features we have needed from the more expensive solutions at a fraction of the price. Excellent product.
Cons: It would be great to have a rolling window of date availability for ongoing events. Otherwise, the software works great.
Stellar product, stellar support!!!
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Pros: Flexibility, ease of use, packed with features, low cost, turnkey solution... To put it succinctly, I like EVERYTHING about this software.
Cons: Ummm.... ...
Overall: I have used TicketSpice on events for about a year. When I first signed up, they had not yet launched the 4.0 platform, so all the TicketSpice pages for my first round of events were developed on the 3.0 platform. It was so easy to put together a snazzy event page, with a ton of customizable options. At the time, the only thing I was really missing was logic... And I found out at my event that the ticket scanning app was a huge battery drain! And then 4.0 rolled out... And also a new app that allows you to turn off the scanner without killing the app. Those were my biggest hurdles last fall, and they have been addressed.
Regarding the team, EVERY contact I have had with them has been a stellar experience. They are friendly, engaging, funny, and oh, so smart... They have always been able to answer my questions and fix what I broke... :) Just this evening, I was working on an event page and had a question about setting up some logic to calculate a discount based on ticket quantities purchased, but it was almost midnight (Texas time). I decided to leave a message and wait for them to get back to me when they opened in the morning... But no... Eric responded within a minute or so, and not only did he answer my question, he wrote the logic for me, and then he took the time to make changes to the design of two of my pages so that my graphics looked better and worked better on a mobile platform. In all, he spent about an hour helping me tonight.
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Pros: Everything about Ticketspice has been great. The website configuration was absurdly easy. Configuring the auto deposit was easy. And the check in software was absurdly easy to use. The few times I did have questions the customer support answered the questions pretty fast as well.
Cons: My only complaint about Ticketspice is that they do not support Android. Once they have an Android app I do not know what they will be able to do to improve their service.
Thank you, TicketSpice!
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Pros: The customer service was prompt, friendly, and patient. The app was flawless on the night of our event. The cost is very low without sacrificing quality. The app was flexible enough to meet nearly every need we had from start to finish.
Cons: The only real con for us was some limitations with reporting. It would have also been nice to do a test run of the app in action (scanning tickets, etc) with a test ticket - versus having to use real tickets for testing our phones, etc.
Overall: We used TicketSpice for our largest fundraiser of the year; a unique Orange is the New Black-themed premiere party and musical performance. Learning how to use the app, tailoring it to our needs, getting near-constant and friendly assistance from the TicketSpice team, and utilizing the app during and after our event was all simple, exciting, and worry-free.
No ticketed events without TicketSpice
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Pros: The ease of putting together ticketing for a simple event to the most complicated, professional looking results, and helpful, timely customer service.
Cons: The only con I can think of is online customer service is offline on the weekends/Sundays. Sometimes that's when I'm working on the platform. But their online resources to find your own answers is really helpful sometimes negating the need to speak with someone directly!
Overall: As a start up, we needed to ticket events in a cost effective manner, that still made us look professional with a platform that is user friendly for nonprogrammer types. Ticket Spice was the perfect answer for us. As long as I'm at the helm of our production company, I will never use another platform to ticket source our events.
Good find!
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Pros: I like the fact that it's free to use but charges per ticket, which isn't a lot at all.
Cons: I didn't like that I had to set everything up and EVERYTHING wasn't automated...but that's just the millennial in me talking. It would be a cool feature to speak or scan everything you wanted and it automatically created the tickets for you.
Overall: Everything was great. Customer service stayed up to date on the process of project and being on hands with helping when needed.
Very easy to use and removed all of the headaches that we've had to deal with on prior events.
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Pros: Easy to use, tracking, refunds, payments, processing. Easy to customize pages. Everything was very easy and made our event much smoother. Scanning was a cinch and lines moved fast. Can't really think of anything to change it was so good.
Cons: We had a weird glitch, which could be totally unrelated but it would add a random amount of drinks to some tickets. Easy to refund though so not a big deal. Of 200+ registrants, only 5 people had this.
Overall: Saved time and money.
best ticketing app around!
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Comments: This is the 11th year of my event and I've used a wide range of ticketing software over the years. From eventbrite - to my own custom ticketing system I coded for Wordpress. I've tried quite a few ticketing options, and Ticketspice has been by far my best experience. It's easy to customize, and offers just about all the features I need! Whether I want to add on to an original order and automatically charging the customers credit card, update my ticket landing page, export reports or check-in with the Ticketspice app - it's been a delight. And... customer service is very responsive!
Great Product and Value
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Comments: I'm very happy and currently using this product!
Pros: The system has great features & functionality. The costs are very reasonable as well. We have access to reserved seating we can use if needed.
Cons: I really only have one issue that seems to have a limitation. The embedding feature Does not work super well on the website. It looks good and functions but it has limited customization. I've had this issue with every ticketing system I've used though.
Is it possible to give six stars?
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Pros: I love how affordable this solution is. The transaction fee is minor and there are no monthly fees. As a small non profit, offering small workshops, this was seriously appreciated.
Cons: It took me a little while to realize the other solutions offered by WebConnex. We setup TicketSpice for an event before eventually using RegFox because it was more complex.
Overall: TicketSpice has made selling tickets for our small workshops a breeze. Our older, less tech savvy community has had no issues using this solution.
Fantastic Ticketing Tool
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Pros: TicketSpice is an incredible ticketing app I recommend to nonprofits all the time to use. TicketSpice makes it easy to create ticket registration form pages as well as confirmation emails. Their rates are much cheaper than Eventbrite's and they have some additional features for nonprofits that outweigh Eventbrite.
Cons: Although you can customize your registration forms, there are parts of the form builder that can feel a bit dated. Some of their templates could use a bit of updating.
Overall: TIcketSpice has saved many nonprofits I've worked with lots of funds by the lower fees they charge compared to other ticketing systems out there.
Love the on-demand support!
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Pros: Great ticket sales are in your control with this software. You have full customizing power and the option to create free or paid ticketing for your event. You can easily gather all the information you need from ticket buyers and when you need help, it's only a chat away!
Cons: They have a very similar software called regfox, it is a little unclear when it is best to use each but the good news is, once you learn one, you can work on the other too!
AWESOME experience! Easy and effortless
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Pros: The biggest pro for me was the fact that money was available immediately, enabling me to use the funds as they came in to handle expenses. Secondly, the fees were very reasonable. I love the fact that it was so easy to navigate and understand for myself and purchasers. This was the very first time I did something and Ticketspice was recommended.
Overall: Everything was done in the program, i.e. accounting, statistics, and graphs.
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Pros: Ease of use
Cons: Would like more reporting features
Overall: We were trying to ease our day of ticket sales at our 7th annual event and we decided to try and pre-sale some of our tickets through TicketSpice. What a great venture - the online sales were easy for our customers and redeeming the tickets with the scanner was lightning fast. Would definately recommend using TicketSpice!
Best web-based option for all your ticket sales needs
Pros: Create and customize virtually all aspects of free or paid ticket sales. Ticket spice allows you to choose how many customers per ticket, which is helpful when selling a table with multiple seats. Ticket spice also has GREAT customer service with their live chat features.
Cons: Ticket spice is very similar to another webconnex product, regfox. It is difficult to know when to use which option but regardless, is a great product.
Quick and Easy to Learn with Amazing Support
Comments: I have used various ticket platforms for our zoo and TicketSpice is by far the most flexible system I have ever used. The new platform is even more amazing with enhanced logic and a robust design interface. The best part is they provide amazing support and are continually improving their product. I had a little trouble learning the ins and outs of the new Actions logic, but with a little guidance and practice, I had a whole new world of possibilities open to me. I highly recommend this product and encourage anyone to check it out even if they are using a different system.
Customer Service reps and developers won't stop until you are completely satisfied!!!
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Pros: The hands on videos that help answer questions are very helpful and provide user friendly directions.
Great for Professional Clubs
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Pros: Ease of creating multiple campaigns and allowing specific guest access. This is beneficial as the VP of Communications for a professional club that administers several different events chaired by different board members, all of whom require limited access.
The ability to offer different ticketing levels and to purchase multiple tickets is also a great and necessary capability.
Cons: Does not easily integrate with Wordpress or Mail Chimp - requires Zapier to connect.
Overall: Increased accuracy in determining attendance.
Easy & Powerful
Comments: Setting up an online ticketing site is a breeze with TicketSpice. We found that we were able to customize anything we wanted, but more importantly, I felt I had direct access to the database fields with their reporting wizard. I can pull any customized report for any committee that I wanted. Finally, the attendee scanning mobile app was a joy to use. It actually made check-in fun. Volunteers were able to focus on welcoming guests and not on the technology.
Stress free ticket sales
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Comments: If you are planning a large event, there is already so much to worry about! After trying TONS of ticket selling platforms, this was by far the most comprehensive and competitive as far as pricing and functionality. I am so impressed with the level of customer service. They have truly worked with us to make sure our events go off without a hitch! I would suggest this to an organization, big or small, for your next ticket selling platform!
WebConnex Rocks!
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Comments: We are a teeny event staff of 3 people. I manage ticket processing and the customer database. WebConnex has reduced my data entry and ticket processing time down to almost NOTHING! I love the formatting options and the back-end database tools. I'm so excited to see what they come up with next and look forward to using their products for many events to come.
A Non Profits first experience with on line ticketing
Comments: The functionality, availability of reports, ease of use and cost are all worthy of five stars. I would highly recommend TicketSpice. I'm sure that ease of the process facilitated ticket sales. Customer service was always quick to respond but the system is so easy to navigate you most likely will not need their service once your account is established
Switch-Over from Previous Platform
Likely Extremely
Pros: Although I just discovered TicketSpice a day ago, I've been selling event tickets for our venue (both online and in-house) for over 25 years. It is quickly obvious that they have carefully built an excellent site. However, I am particularly impressed with their quick response times for customer assistance questions.
Cons: There are no complaints yet (only two days in).
TicketSpice Rocks!
Comments: We had an incredibly easy experience with TicketSpice. Very easy to you. Intuitive. The best event software available.
Ticketspice Review
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Pros: How easily you are able to customize your ticket pages.
Cons: Really have no complaints. They were extremely helpful with the initial demonstration, even able to talk me through the process while we were on a screenshare!
From purchase to execution, we easily kept a 200 person ticketed event organized and trouble free.
Pros: -awesome userface
-customizing the page is a great feature
-solid tutorials
-very, very easy to use, whether creating a campaign or purchasing a ticket
-stress free bank transaction
-novice friendly
Glad I made the switch to TicketSpice
Likely Extremely
Pros: What made me change ticket companies were the fees. I really love the fact that you can add on a ticket fee to your tickets. This is a great feature!!
Cons: I haven't experienced anything that I haven't liked yet!
Overall: What I really enjoy about TicketSpice is the ticket scanning option. Man, it's fast and super convenient. Nothing like their competitors. Thanks guys!


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Boston Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello wants harsher penalties for MLB players who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
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Boston Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello wants harsher penalties for players who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
Porcello explained his position to Christian Red of The New York Daily News.
To start, the pitcher criticized the MLB for letting players who are appealing suspensions continue to appear in games. Porcello said those games played during appeal could have major impact on a season.
"In 2009, it came down to Game 163 for us, and with the two wild cards and all the teams that are competitive this year, one game could mean the difference," Porcello said. "We play 162 games and you have a lot of time to separate yourself. But if you're that evenly matched, and it comes down to one game, and somebody who tested positive hits a three-run home run against you, or throws seven shut-out innings or closes the game, that's impacting your season."
Porcello also told the Daily News he would be in favor of a lifetime ban after the first PED offense. Currently, players are given a lifetime ban if they test positive for PEDs three times.
• Looking at Hall of Fame hopes for Kershaw, Trout and 10 other stars
Porcello, using the example of Jenrry Mejia, said the current system may not be enough of a deterrent.
"I'm all in favor for (stiffer penalties). Obviously what's going on right now is not preventing guys from doing it," Porcello told the Daily News. "This year, there's a guy that literally tested positive three times. That's obviously not effective. I'm all in favor for a much, much more severe punishment or a lifetime ban. At the end of the day, it's looking like that's the only thing that's going to keep guys from doing it. If that ever happens, we'll find out if that's even enough. There's no right or wrong answer right now, but I think there at least needs to be some adjustments for sure."
Porcello made his 19th start of the season for Boston on Tuesday. He entered the start with an 11–2 record and 3.66 ERA.
MLB's collective bargaining agreement with the MLBPA expires after this season.


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$100,000 death benefits during the shutdown. And next to the major winter storm at this hour. The blizzard warning from Colorado to Minnesota, and tornado watch issued for parts of Texas, Oklahoma, a. Denver's airport, de-icing planes. Here's Adrienne Bankert. Reporter: Get ready. A new round of blizzard warnings. Southern Utah digging out from a foot of snow, while blowing snow in Wyoming forces these truckers to pull over and chain up. This is what it looks like in eastern Colorado. I-70 so dangerous, it's shut down in both directions. Dozens of flights cancelled at Denver international airport. Those making it in are delayed up to 2 1/2 hours. It's kind of a mess. Everyone is trying to get on to planes. Reporter: Minnesota set to get hit next. Shelves stocked with shovels and salt. The key ingredients for crews ready for up to a foot of snow. If it's snowing during rush hour, the snow begins to freeze, temperatures will drop a little bit, too. It could make for very slick conditions. Reporter: In the northeast, a quick thaw caused ice jams like this one in Pennsylvania. Along the Connecticut river, the coast guard is breaking up ice so boat traffic can get through. We can see the frozen falls behind you. When will the snow start? Reporter: It's relatively mild right now. But still cold enough for the falls to remain frozen. We're expecting the snowfall tomorrow between 7 to 9:00 A.M., just in time for a messy morning commute. Adrienne, thank you. Let's get right to rob Marciano, who is tracking this
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Cultural Experience | Ecuador
Reverse culture shock, pre-departure
By Kate Hiller of Ohio University 04/09/14
The end of one adventure is just the beginning of another, right?
If the last three and a half months have passed this quickly, then the next two weeks will be over before I can even finish writing this blog post. I have been in Cuenca since January 19, and in Ecuador since January 12, and it is hard to believe that in less than two weeks I will be starting my journey back to the United States. My first stop will be in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador, where I will spend about a week and a half teaching computer assisted reporting to (what I have been told will be) a group of students, professors and professional journalists. I'm nervous about translating what I learned less than a year ago to a group of strangers in a language that I am still definitely not fluent in, but I'm also very excited for this opportunity. So, thank you Aimee, Consuelo and everyone else who is helping a second-year journalism student teach CAR internationally, for believing in me.
After teaching and spending some time being a tourist in Quito, I'll head back to Ohio by way of a 7-hour layover in Miami, FL. There are so many "Cuencanisms" and other small cultural differences that will probably add up to a significant shock to my system when I get back. Luckily for me, this is apparently completely normal and actually very common. Reverse culture shock, which is exactly what it sounds like, often hits harder than the initial culture shock of traveling. I attended a charla (mini-seminar type thing) this week about reverse culture shock and how to handle it, which honestly just made me depressed about going home. However, I now know more of what to expect and how to handle it. Obviously this experience is different for everyone, but I think that in today's world with easy communication (Skype is my best friend!) the culture shock experience isn't as great because keeping up with family and friends while overseas is much easier. But who knows… I guess I'll find out in a few weeks.
In the meantime, I have started compiling a list of small things that either bothered me when I arrived, still bug me a bit, or that I know will be weird experiences when I get back to the United States. Here are my top 10 items, in no particular order:
• Toilet paper does NOT go in the toilets here. There is a trash can provided in every single bathroom for this purpose. Why? The sewage system can't handle anything except for human waste and water. In public places, sometimes you have to pay either to use the bathroom (bring your own TP), or for the TP before you enter a stall. This generally doesn't cost more than 10 cents, but if you don't have a dime you may be out of luck.
• Taxis are (comparatively) very cheap here. A 25-minute ride partway up a mountain from the center of the city cost me $5, and this is the most expensive ride I have taken. The average price is about $2.50 in Cuenca, but depending on where you are going and what time of day it is (also how obviously gringo you are), the price fluctuates slightly.
• Coins are everywhere. Dollar coins are more common than paper dollars. Also, most storekeepers don't have change for bills larger than a $5 (or at least they say they don't). If you need to break a $20 that the ATMs like to give, I recommend finding a gringo-friendly, highly popular coffee shop. Cafe Austria in Cuenca has been very good about having change (and marvelous omelets), and there are a few other places that are generally pretty good about taking larger bills. For the most part though, stick to coinage and nothing larger than a $10.
• Wireless internet…one of the most unreliable things in this city. When it hasn't rained, sometimes the wifi (and general electricity) goes out because a significant portion of the city is powered by the rivers, and when there isn't enough water going through, it gets rough. When it is raining, sometimes the wifi goes out because it just doesn't like the weather. And sometimes the wifi just decides to stop for no reason. Some cafes have decent wifi (Cacao y Canela is the best I've found, but their business hours are less than helpful), but others aren't so great.
• Business hours are the second least reliable things in this city. For the most part, businesses don't open until at least 9am (Cafe San Sebas opens at 8:30am), and even then if the hours are posted they generally tend to just be suggestions. Some cafes participate in the daily siesta, and others serve food during those hours, and it's hard to tell unless you ask or practically live at a cafe.
• The siesta – one of my favorite parts of the day, and one of my least favorite. From about 12pm to 3pm, pretty much all businesses that don't sell lunch food close down for a few hours. This time is generally reserved for returning home to eat lunch with your family (lunch is the biggest/most important meal of the day here), and for a short nap, if you so choose. Even schoolchildren head home to have lunch with their families.
• Personal space, especially on the bus, doesn't exist. In general, people here are much more touchy and slightly in-your-face physically, but when it comes to sharing secrets or actually talking, a lot of people are very closed off. It's sort of the opposite from the United States, in which we post our deepest thoughts and any random sentiments on the internet while maintaining bubbles of personal space. Even if this bothers you, a 25-cent bus ride across the city will save you a lot of time and money, so I think it is worth it to be very friendly. Busses can occasionally turn into oversized clown cars though, so if you have time, wait for the next one just in case.
• Traffic "laws" seem to be more like suggestions here. Cars and busses alike like to zip past each other on the narrow, one-way streets downtown, especially when a vehicle is stopped to pick up or drop off passengers, and motorcycles will slip through the cracks in traffic. Lane lines don't really exist since most streets are only wide enough for a parked vehicle and one driving, but on wider roads (such as Huayana-Capac) turn signals don't usually exist. I'm also not allowed to drive here, so that's going to be a whole new experience when I get back.
• Tampons are both rare and expensive here. If you're going to be in Ecuador for a significant amount of time and don't want to spend a lot of money on these suckers (or prefer the kind with applicators, which I haven't seen anywhere in the city), bring your own. Not only will you have room for souvenirs at the end of your trip, but there's one less SuperMaxi cart full of feminine supplies.
• All yogurt is drinkable here, even the kind that comes with the little add-in packet of M&Ms. I usually have a glass of yogurt and either cookies, bread or cake for breakfast (I don't decide what I eat, that is a job done by my host family even though I have offered to make my own breakfast since I have to leave the house before they even need to get up). Also, it comes in a bag…so does milk and cooking oil. I have no idea how to store it, and whenever I have purchased groceries for myself I have spent the extra quarter on the box of milk or bottle of oil so that I can actually sit it somewhere when I'm not using it.
Though many of these "Cuencanisms" used to (or still) bother me, I know I will miss them all when I get home in a few weeks. It may take some time to get used to my "old ways" of living, but I'm sure I'll catch on eventually. After all, it's just another adventure…


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Like | robinna | August 3, 2010 | Design, my projects, social media
So, here are the kinds of things were are talking about and exploring in the Emerging Technologies Group for the Libraries. We now have a newly formed Social Media Group in addition to the Home Page Redesign Group and the Mobile Development Group, so the EMT Group is more of a thinktank group. We assist the other groups and try to look to trends in libraries (at least, that is our working premise).
Thoughts on focus for upcoming year: Mobile, Social Media
* How does Social Media mesh with our homepage? Should it?
* Dynamic vs. static pages? Our current site is more static than dynamic, what are our feelings on that?
* Should/Could we incorporate more of the SM into our home page, like we do on the blog?
* Youtube: A cohesive presence and how to present our multimedia. We have the multimedia and subscribe pages, now what?
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