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This is a guest post submitted from a fellow Urban Homesteader:
I have never had the inclination to become a farmer, but if food costs keep going up at the current rate, I may have no other option but to start a garden on my balcony. Every week the prices for basic foods are higher than the week before. No one is saying anything, but I am sure everyone has noticed. At this current pace, our weekly groceries will equal our monthly rent payment before the end of the year. I have no clue what is driving these prices, but something is going to have to give.
The economy and jobless statistics are still too unstable. Prolonged unemployment has thrown crushing blows within our family for the last two years. We have had to downsize from renting a house to an apartment. I'm not used to apartment living, but at least I have a roof over my head and am not camping in a tent, yet. Several of our family members have had to double up under one roof just to make ends meet. We do what we have to do and try to remain optimistic. We look for ways to cut costs, reduce spending, increase cash flow, and pray we will make it through this long crisis. Now, with the rising food costs, each week becomes harder and more impossible to make ends meet. This is devastating to the already stressed families barely able to pay for rent and utilities. We will have to make further cuts in our food budget to pay the bills.
Food is a basic necessity for everyone.
If I have to become a balcony farmer to insure my family will have food, I am sure there are others contemplating this same option. We are talking real survival, here. I suspect there are going to be quite a few balcony farmers throughout the nation in urban areas.
I remember during the late 1990's with the Y2K millennia fears, people were starting organic container gardens in urban areas where they did not have a yard to plant gardens. Now, as some people are fearing the approach of 2017 predictions, I am beginning to see that trend reappear. I don't claim to know much about dooms day predictions, but I do know that the crisis is real, and the biggest threat is not just jobs and money. It is the accessibility, and affordability of food. We would all be wise to do what we can to prepare ahead in the event prices sky rocket beyond comprehension. Besides, should a natural disaster strike, having your own food to pull your family through would be priceless.
Get prepared and start your garden, now. The more prepared you are, the less vulnerable you and your family will be to conditions, situations, and events which we have no control.
Apartment Dwellers Can Grow a Garden, Too
Here is a great way to recycle your water and soda bottles to grow food, even if you live in an apartment.
• 2-liter bottle recycled garden container
1. Cut plastic bottle in half.
2. Turn upper bottle half upside down.
3. Insert cotton cloth remnant into spout, leaving half inside bottle and
half out, to serve as a wick.
4. fill lower half of bottle with water.
5. place upside down upper bottle half into lower bottle half.
(Cotton remnant will wick up water.)
6. fill upside down upper bottle with soil and plant seeds or seedling.
(TIP: Using different colored cotton remnants will add color to your recycled bottle garden.)
Best vegetables to grow on the balcony for apartment dwellers:
- Peas
- Green beans
- Lettuce
- Potatoes
- Tomatoes
- Peppers
- Squash
- Beans
- Strawberries
Remember, plants need pollination of their flowers in order to produce their fruit. You may have to do the work of a bee to pollinate your plants, since your balcony is probably not a bee's ideal place to visit. The end of a Q-tip swab will do the trick easily. Just remember to poke the swab in the center of the plant's flowers. Use a new Q-tip for each different plant. Pollen from a tomato plant won't work with a green bean plant.


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Project Overview
The objective of this project is to enroll and ensure childrens rights to education in West Singhbhum district in Jharkand.
- Implementing NGO: Life Education and Development Support (LEADS)
- Location: Bandgaon Block, West Singhbhum District, Jharkhand
- Target Area: 10 villages with 20 schools
- Target Area Population: 4,284
- # of Beneficiaries: 1,750
- Start Year//End Year: 2013/TBD
- Current Budget: $12,391 [2014/15]
- Past Funding: None
The target area is located at Bandgaon block of West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. The project will cover 10 villages having 11 AWCs with 571 children in 0-6 years age group. 8 schools will have 860 children in 6-14 years age group.
Context of Jharkhand, West Singhbhum and Bandgaon block
Jharkhand state was created on 15th November 2000. The state comprises of 24 districts and 216 blocks. The total population of Jharkhand 32.97 millions (Ref 2011 Census), which is 2.62% of the total Indian population. There are 32 different tribal communities and 8 primitive tribes reside in the state and their total population is 28% of total population. More than 70% of them are living below the poverty line in rural tribal dominated area of Jharkhand.
The average literacy rate is 67.63% in Jharkhand, but among the tribal, particularly among the female, literacy rate is very low i.e. approx. 10% in most of the districts.
Bandgaon is the Munda tribes dominated Block of West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. The project will be implemented in 10 villages of this district whose data is as shown below:
- Number of Household: 824
- Population : 4284 out of which total tribal population is 89%
- Literacy rate : 37%
- Female literacy rate: 12%
Problems Related to Anganwadi and Schools / Education
- Poor functionality of Anganwadi Centres, no activities for children.
- Workers are irregular to the centres.
- Poor quality supplementary nutrition is provided for children.
- Schools are marked by Irregular classes, non delivery of TLM, books, dresses on time.
- Poor drinking water and toilet facilities, no library, no sports materials etc in the schools. With no toilets in schools, girls discontinue school after 5-6 grade.
- Indifferent attitude of parents, ignorance on the need for education.
- Defunct School Monitoring Committee's in schools.
- Non availability of teachers as per provisions of RTE 2009 i.e. 30:1 in each school
- Poor learning levels.
- Retention of children is a big issue in Jharkhand, out of 66 lacs enrolled children 34 lacs are not regular to school.
Action Plan
a. Long term Goals
"Empowering communities for sustained education in Bandgaon block of West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand"
b. Short term Goals
- To ensure rights of the children by empowering 11 Anganwadi Centres, 8 School Monitoring Comittee's, 10 Bal Sansad, 8 PTA, 11MC, for 100% enrollment, regular attendance of students and teacher, 85% retention of children and timely functioning of Anganwadi centres and school with more focus on marginalized community.
- To ensure quality and relevant education by facilitating on timely delivery of School dresses, TLM, Books etc from concerned dept. and its proper utilization for regular quality classes for children from marginalized community.
- Promote participation of children through Bal Sansad (Child Rights Clubs) in villages.
|Data Collection/Baseline
|Understand literacy statistics in detail
|Conduct a baseline survey
|Promote & capacitate mother's committees and other community based organizations in all 10 AWC
ILP is partnering with the NGO - LEADS to implement this project.
"Life Education and Development Support" (LEADS) is a trust established by a committed group of professionals on 14th Dec 2005 for development and empowerment of poor and unorganized people of rural area and urban slums. Under the leadership of A.K Singh a group of Rural Development professionals came together to form LEADS to raise the issues of tribal people at local, state and national level.
LEADS is presently engaged in development of more than 220 villages in three districts of West Singhbhum, Khunti and Ranchi and in whole district with 734 villages in Latehar district on Women Self Help Group saturation program.
|Pre-School Education
|School Education
|Block Level Activities
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Grand Total
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This support does not end at death. Couples often share in the ownership of property, for example, and therefore it is essential that the surviving member of the relationship be able to keep owning and using that property.
Last week, this blog discussed some of these estate planning considerations and how they can vary when it comes to married and unmarried couples. While the focus there was on unmarried couples, it is important as well for married couples to understand how Minnesota law operates with respect to what a
surviving spouse is entitled to at death.
Spouses can provide for their significant others in their estate plans. However, when they fail to do so, Minnesota law provides for the distribution of assets according to statute.
Under the intestacy statute, a surviving spouse is entitled to the entire estate of a deceased spouse if there are no descendants of the deceased spouse or if all of the surviving descendants are also descendants of the surviving spouse. Accordingly, the situation is relatively easy to figure out when the surviving spouse is the only survivor, or whether the deceased spouse only has children with the surviving spouse.
If the surviving spouse has surviving descendants who are not descendants of the decedent, such as where the deceased spouse has children from another marriage, it changes the situation. In that case, the surviving spouse is entitled to the first $150,000 of the estate, as well as one-half of the balance of the estate.
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Tell our readers a little about yourself and your writing.
I am a native Californian. I grew up in Southern California and have lived there all my life, except for military service. I spent twenty-some years in journalism as a crime reporter and investigative reporter, and later as an editor, before switching careers and becoming a Navy analyst in combat casualty care.
The Navy job came about because of my military service as a medic of one kind or another in three branches of the service. In fact, I retired from the reserves in 2016 with 27 years of active and reserve service. I also spent several years as a medical specialist with the local sheriff's wilderness search and rescue team, and with a federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team. That background inspires my mysteries and thrillers.
Tell us about your pets. Are any of them models for pets in your writing?
My wife, Winke, and I are great animal lovers, and our son, Brandon, grew up with the same love for creatures great and small. When we first met, Winke had two orange tabbies, Teddy and Franny. The cats and I fell in love immediately. I've always joked I married Winke for her cats, and she agreed to marry me only because the cats insisted.
Currently, we only have one cat, a 15-year-old orange tabby named Harry Potter Maximilian. Unfortunately, Harry's twin brother, Alexander Theodore, passed a couple of years ago from a stroke. Harry and Alex's mama cat died in childbirth, and the litter was being hand fed by the owners. But Harry and Alex didn't respond well to hand feeding. They were near death when they were given to our vet, Dr. Bruce Lindsey. Bruce is a great healer and through a herculean effort saved their lives. About the same time, we lost our two previous cats, Max and Molly, so Bruce gave us Harry and Alex. Harry was the sickest of the two when they arrived at Bruce's clinic, so we named him Harry Potter, the cat who lived.
We also had a cockatiel we got from my parents. Her name was Tweetie and she ruled the roost. She literally would take no guff off Harry and Alex, but they adored her. They would curl up next to her cage all the time. It's incredible how much personality can be packed into such a little package.
We also helped raise four or five generations of raccoons. One Christmas several years ago, I looked out our big bay window to find four little bandit faces looking at me over a fence. We immediately put out food and water, and they returned every night until they were grown. Later, the females would bring their babies. Two of the females had distinctive markings, unusual for raccoons, so we could identify them from the others. They always traveled together and would bring their latest babies. We called them Megs and Bines. They would come right up to the window or the sliding glass door and wait for us to put food out. Then they would play or curl up on our deck and sleep. Megs and Bines are gone now, but we still get mommy raccoons bringing their babies to us.
What writing projects are you currently working on?
My latest thriller, The Butcher's Bill, was published this past June. It's the second in my Linus Schag, NCIS, series, and is centered around the real-world theft of $9 billion in U.S. cash from Iraq—the biggest heist in history and it's never been investigated. You can read more about this true-life crime here: https://www.slideshare.net/MartinRoyHill/historys-biggest-heist-and-why-no-one-ever-investigated-it
My current work-in-progress is called Polar Melt and involves a special U.S. Coast Guard team investigating the mysterious disappearance of a research ship's crew in the nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean. It's a military sci-fi adventure inspired by global climate change. I spent 13 years in the Coast Guard, active and reserve, and it's always been my favorite branch.
Did you have childhood pets? If so, tell us about them.
I pretty much grew up with cats, though I also had a dog named Whiskers, a couple of hamsters and turtles, a parakeet, and fish. But cats were always there. When I was just a toddler, we had a cat named Peaches. One day my mother caught me trying to give Peaches a bath in a bucket of soapy water she was using to mop the kitchen floor. Fortunately, she caught me in time. But Peaches never protested or did anything to hurt me. She just put up with me. She was a sweet, gentle thing.
How do you use animals in your writing? Are they a character in their own right or just mentioned in passing?
I haven't written much about animals. I write thrillers and I hate the idea of putting an animal in jeopardy in a story. Once I read a James Rollins novel in which a dog was a character. All through that book I kept yelling, "If you kill the dog, I'll never read your books again!" Fortunately, the dog lived.
I did write a short story once in which a young woman takes vengeance on the man who killed her cat. I wrote it in a fit of anger after reading a newspaper article about an animal abuser. I never sold the story. Probably just as well, because the fate of the abuser was not pretty.
What's your favorite book or movie that had an animal as a central character? Why?
I would have to say it was Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey with Sally Fields, Michael J. Fox, and Don Ameche as the voices of the cat and dogs. We watched it all the time when Brandon was little, and we still love it.
What's your real-life funniest pet story?
All our cats have had strong personalities, but Franny had the most ferocious personality. We took her to an animal psychic once who said Franny was only the second animal she ever knew who saw no difference between animals and humans. We were all equals in Franny's eyes.
Once we had to take her to the emergency animal clinic and the vet, a stranger to us, told us Franny was blind because she wouldn't follow his finger when he moved it back and forth in front of her face. He wouldn't believe us when we explained she was simply being stubborn because she was upset about being at the clinic. Finally, I said, "Franny, follow the doctor's finger." The vet tried again and, sure enough, Franny followed his finger. It blew the vet away. But that was our Franny.
When did you know you were a writer? And how did you know?
In high school, I had an English teacher who enjoyed the compositions I wrote for the class and urged me to consider writing as a career. I got a position on the school paper and started writing short stories. I've been doing it ever since.
What do your pets do when you are writing?
Due to my work schedule, I do most of my writing on the run sitting in coffee houses and such, using my Kindle Fire and a Bluetooth keyboard. When I do work at home, I sit on the couch with my laptop. When Alex was alive, the laptop was his favorite place to relax. So, whenever he jumped up on the couch and settled down on the keyboard, I knew my workday was over. Harry, on the other hand, likes to curl up on my chest. He drapes himself over my shoulder and chest, and I keep on working.
Harry and I also have a daily ritual. When I get home from work, we go out to our enclosed patio—also known as our "cat-tio." Harry gets some fresh catnip and I get a Scotch. We call it our "cat-tail hour."
What's in your "To Be Read" (TBR) pile right now? And how many TBR piles do you have?
I just finished reading Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions. I have Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil waiting in my Kindle, along with a collection of H.G. Wells' works, and another collection of Jules Verne's works. In addition to those, I have several novels written by author friends that I'm planning to read.


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Jerry and his first time men's partner take the gold in 3.5 50+ men's doubles. Jerry might get bumped to 4.0 by the USAPA.
Jeff and Joe take the gold in the 3.0 men's doubles. Jeff and Joe will probably get bumped to 3.5 by the USAPA since they lost only one of the nine games they played.


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Salmon Survival Game Plays Out on Boardby Jim Kadera
The Oregonian, January 27, 2005
The Forest Service and partners created Salmon Life Cycle, for schools and other educational programs
A new board game will teach children the life cycle of salmon and steelhead trout. The U.S. Forest Service and 12 partners ordered 1,200 of the games to be made by the federal printing office at cost of $36,000. The Salmon Life Cycle game will be distributed to schools in the lower Columbia River Basin, and will be available at any national forest headquarters office in Oregon and Washington or from the partners, Glen Sachet , spokesman for Mount Hood National Forest, said Wednesday.
The game will be loaned, similar to checking out a book from a library, and will not be sold, Sachet said.
"This started about 10 years ago with a big paper version of the game that we'd take to lay out on the floor of a school gym," he explained. But that version had limited utility and the Forest Service recruited Portland Public Schools, U.S. Fish and Wildife Service, Trout Unlimited and others to share in cost of providing the board games to reach more children.
The game resembles the old-time "Life" board game, Sachet said. At the roll of dice, up to six players advance around the board with a photo card on a stand depicting a coho, chinook, chum, pink or sockeye salmon or a steelhead. The goal is to migrate to sea and return to spawn without being killed by predators, dam turbines or other hazards.
Art for the game was created by Irene Stumpf, a Forest Service employee in Willamette National Forest, who died in 2001.
"We've had calls from Alaska and other places beyond the Northwest, so there's a lot of interest," Sachet said. "We'd like to see someone step forward and print a lot more of the games so every school in the Northwest could have one."
The game is designed for children in grades 6to 10, but other children and adults also can enjoy and learn from it, he said. <
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Joined: 22 Nov 2004
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Location: Wichita, KS
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:04 pm
Post subject: Hugo Mini-Comp....?
So, this is a continuation of the budding discussion started in another thread. I think it would be a great idea to have a Hugo mini-comp! I'd be willing to host and run it, but then again, I'm just as anxious to participate as an entrant!
Has anybody else given this any thought? Are there enough Hugo authors to even make it do-able? Is anybody already working on arranging a mini-comp? Should it work from a theme (i.e., short games about a certain situation, place, person, concept, etc), or just a general guideline (i.e., a filesize limit, a time limit, a requirement for or against multimedia, etc)?
Anybody want to brainstorm about it??? :)
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:31 pm
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Robb and I were talking about this on IM the other night. The hypothetical prize that appealed to me was having several of us donate money and have the money go towards airfare to Las Vegas for some to-be-determined weekend joltcountry.com retreat sometime this summer.
So, if we were to do that, we'd have to make this some sort of spring comp and maybe not have the goals be too lofty so that most people can't meet it. At the same time, that prize would be pretty kickass and might make a couple months of frenzied coding well worth it.
I'd be very interested in what other ideas people have.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:42 am
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Roody_Yogurt wrote:
Robb and I were talking about this on IM the other night. The hypothetical prize that appealed to me was having several of us donate money and have the money go towards airfare to Las Vegas for some to-be-determined weekend joltcountry.com retreat sometime this summer.
While this idea appeals to my desire to get a Mulligan for missing the CGExperience, I'm not entirely certain how much outside interest it would generate, as prizes go. Theoretically, I'd think we'd want to attract more than those who already hang out here, live in the states, and are free whatever particular weekend. Then again, maybe those people don't exist in the Hugodum; I dunno.
If we got some genuine interest in the comp, it might be fun to hold some sort of live quasi-convention for the presentation of awards. Not that I'd expect to be filling a banquet hall or anything in any event, but if we RSVPed a decent number of participants plus assorted hangers on who were interested in the hobby and wanted an excuse to hit Vegas for a few days, it might be worthwhile.
As far as rules for the comp go, I think maybe just a room/npc limit is the best way to go. I always thought the main comp's "two hour limit" was a bit fuzzy tended to result in entries that are all the wrong length because most people really haven't the faintest clue how long it's going to take someone else to play their game (at least not until beta, by which time they're already pretty firmly committed to a mostly finished product). A filesize limit might work if we don't want multimedia (which I could go either way on). A thematic constraint is kind of a double-edged sword. I like the idea of giving people more to work with than "produce whatever in Hugo", BUT: There's obviously a smaller pool of possible participants here than your average minicomp; so the idea of turning even one potential entrant off because he doesn't want to write about dinosaurs might be a bad idea.
Maybe some sort of very broad thematic unifier might work. Like maybe the participants are given an opening line that can be interpreted several different ways and they can go from there, just to present something off the top of my head.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:02 am
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The reason I thought having a prize that mainly appealed to JCers wasn't a bad idea was that we have at least a handful Hugo authors here alone, and if having such a target-specific prize translates into a handful of JC-written Hugo games, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
But if more people feel it'd be better to make it more general and think there's a good chance that others will also rise up the challenge, I'd be fine with that, too.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:46 am
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I have a gambling problem and I should sort of engage in those activities that don't require me ponying up money and league fees. My first real test will be the Super Bowl where I have a tendency to be the guy who buys all the extra squares. I don't want to be that guy this year.
I haven't done any deep thought about this, but something like a one-hour guideline for this Hugo mini-comp might be ideal. We could throw out a date when there aren't any games and try to all get our games in by then and maybe setup a beta test scenario where those of us with time can look over each other's games.
I like how the IF Arcade was announced. The games just showed up one day. There was no hype and while I don't remember if it was open to the public or not, there was a host of nice little games there.
When is a really dead time for IF? The middle of summer?
the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:26 am
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I tend to dislike time limits, mostly for the reasons already given: how does one estimate such a thing, etc. etc.
What about something that appeals to beginners, or would be useful in adding to beginner-level documentation? For example, everybody does a more complete implementation of either 'The Vault of Hugo' or 'The Cloak of Darkness'. That way, you have a common starting point (and part of the work's already done for you), and it'd be neat/informative to see different coding styles/techniques.
Either one of these could then be used to produce a sort of mini IBG, except for Hugo (HBG). Make useful commenting of source a judgeable point in the comp.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:38 pm
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Hey, let's not go to Vegas in the middle of the summer again until Robb has a car with A/C, eh?
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:39 pm
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But on the other hand, another JC Vega$-fest would utterly kick ass. I'm in. And I'll toss money into the prize pool.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:46 pm
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bruce wrote:
Hey, let's not go to Vegas in the middle of the summer again until Robb has a car with A/C, eh?
Yeah, I got it fixed the next week. Sorry about that.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:24 pm
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I got my fill of Las Vegas last spring, when my wife and I took a vacation there (I had never been). I doubt I'd be able to go anywhere, since I'm saving my vacation time (and my money) for the fall arrival of a little Merk. :)
I still like the idea of a mini-comp, though. I know that play-time guidelines are subjective, but it seems to work well most of the time. :) I was thinking of something that might end up with some varied, original, fairly short games -- kind of like the C32 competition, but not necessarily with a file size limit. I'm not sure how fun it would be to revise the Cloak of Darkness...? It might be interesting to take it and build a real game and story around it. Dunno. :)
Basically, anything to promote Hugo would be a good idea. I mean, the Adrift folks are having comps and posting newsletters and they seem very active. Inform and Tads have large followings, and it would just be cool to say "Hey, look at all these great Hugo games!" A bunch of 1-hour Hugo games would be a great way to get more stuff out there -- get Hugo some publicity in the community.
It would be cool to do it, no hype, then release it unexpectedly (as suggested). But I think it *needs* some hype -- a website, competition news, announcements, a call for entries, a call for judges, etc. I think it would be cool to be more active in the IF community, because right now, there is almost no Hugo discussion on R.A.I-F. The only discussion you really see is to the effect that Hugo isn't very widely used because it's not very widely used. Something like this might not change that, but it would at least put it in people's faces. :)
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:41 am
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I think revising tutorials might be a bit lacking in the sexy, both from a participants persepctive and an audience's perspective, unless people just came up with a bunch of cool twists. Still, I do like the idea of releasing source alongside the entries. Are people in the broader community violently opposed to sharing source? If not, I think we should at least treat source like the main comp does walkthroughs (i.e., highly encouraged but not technically required anymore). On the other hand, I'm still hacking together largely uncommented code in wordpad, so maybe I'm not the one to advance this cause.
Also on the "are people violently opposed" front, is the author/judge division sacrosanct? Obviously people shouldn't be rating their own work, but I think allowing people to vote on all the other entrants:
A. Plays into the relatively small group we have/will likely have. Both because it allows people to fill two neccessary roles and because I think the potential for rampant abuse is less here than in the main comp with it's fifty entries a year, over half of which are released by newcomers, the anonymous, and anonymous newcomers.
B. Just makes things smell a bit more like community. Like when we have a winner we can say "hey, IF people, we put our heads together and we all agree we're putting our best foot forward with this piece". I dunno.
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What about something that appeals to beginners, or would be useful in adding to beginner-level documentation? For example, everybody does a more complete implementation of either 'The Vault of Hugo' or 'The Cloak of Darkness'. That way, you have a common starting point (and part of the work's already done for you), and it'd be neat/informative to see different coding styles/techniques.
Not a bad idea. Sort of like
Scavenger Hunt
in that sense. The games in the comp could then be used as the basis for examining source code that is well-commented.
Adding to the ideas, I was thinking of how sometimes in old composition classes, we would be given a set of book titles and we had to pick one to read. Often many of us had nothing to go on but the title. Maybe something like that? Some "titles" for games are thrown out there; people pick a title and have to craft a game from that. Or multiple people can pick one title and see what different concept of game results from the title. (Sort of like how they show a picture of some scene to a kid in school and say: "What do
think is the backstory of this picture?" The child is then encouraged to sort of free-thought a story on the spot.)
Or another idea might be picking a concept about the Hugo language (like character scripting) and then having people craft games that specifically use that feature of the language. Part of the judging is perhaps on how complex the scripting is done as part of the game. The two-pronged effect here is to (1) have a competition that encourages Hugo development and (2) that showcases what kinds of things can be done with the language. [The other benefit of this is that such things can showcase weaknesses in the language that either will suggest possible future changes or library extensions that could be written to supplement the language itself. This is actually something that I think comp games might be good at showcasing, given their visibility, and I say that whether the language is Inform, TADS, Hugo or whatever.]
I do think "theme" ideas, as has been brought up, can be helpful as well. A good example might be something like "Time Travel Games". These can be tricky to implement well in something like Interactive Fiction (or that is my belief, anyway) and so that might be the theme. Who can, for example, craft a time travel game that has some neat little gimmicks but that also has an engaging story.
Again, just some thoughts.
- Jeff
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I would totally go down to Vega$$ to throw down with you guys if the middle of summer wasn't exactly when I was planning on moving into a new town for five years. Iieeegh. ...Oh, yeah, the competition. My 2sense would be that this could be a 'newbie comp.' Like, all the new people who are trying in their half-assed ways to actually make a hugo game could toss together their games, or at least part of it*, and see who can make the best small game. By small, I mean the game can be completed in... oh, say, twenty minutes. But it can also take much longer than that if the player decides to go deeper, to explore the world around him or her. Basically, the idea I think would be keen for this is for the prospective new Hugo author to implament a small game that still has quite a lot of depth; while the game itself is small, attention is given to details, describing scenery objects and implamenting special responses for interacting with them. That kind of thing. Also, bug-testing would be of course an area to be judged; how well the game is actually coded is very important. The judges could be the more experienced Hugo programmers. ...So, now that I think of it, they could be tasked to look for different things; RobB could look for the game's artistic prowess whereas Kent could look at the game's technical prowess. ...Keep in mind though that this is just an idea I threw together after about a minute of thought, though I have to admit I kind of dig it.
*When I say "part of [the game]" I'm not talking about turning it into "introcomp05, hugo redux". I mean that people who want to make a bigger game (like me) could, instead, spend their energy concentrating on just making the first scene or set of puzzles or section or chunk or whatever, and flushing that out until it is as vibrant as possible, so that it is its own self-contained game.
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I think I'd like it to be recommended but not required that people release the source code for their games. I appreciate the intent that we make this comp offer something for future beginners, but I also worry about the energy that's being put into adding more Hugo documentation when it could very well be applied to writing more games (which is exactly what Hugo needs most).
When I was an Inform author, I'd download this or that special Inform editing program, always under the assumption that something that makes the small stuff easier was going to let my brain run free creatively. Nice docs and tutorials offer a littlbe bit of the same feeling ("if I just learn this simple stuff
well, I'll be a coding machine").
The thing is, at the end of the day, a mostly-empty source file is still going to be staring at you with you wondering how you want to start things off. Like physical exercise, you have to get into it yourself and get comfortable with the routine, banging your head against big and small problems along the way (which are solved by going over the manual and source code on the archive and asking questions here or there). It's never easy, but it's possible to get yourself to start enjoying the work.
That all said, if doing something beginner-oriented really would help motivate people to spit something out, I'd support that. On the other hand, if the idea is one more distraction from jumping head-first into your first Big or Especially Meaningful or Aspiring game , I say we all suck it up and be willing to put ourselves out there. I say this as someone who has really only released distractions thus far.
No offense to Hugella and Cryptonomic, of course. I love your websites and that you're here to contribute in this forum. I just see this forum as having a decent number of intelligent and aspiring authors and thinki it's time we do something not so much for the rest of the world but for ourselves.
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I don't think the documentation or example source code is lacking. I learned before the "Hugo Book" was even released, and I only had the Vault of Hugo and Guilty Bastards to look at. What I think is needed most is just good games. Get Hugo in front of people. If they see it's being used, and the games are quality, I think that's the best way to get more people interested in using it. I really think that extra tutorials, more source code, and all of that is secondary. The initial problem is that Hugo isn't even being *considered* when people are trying to pick a language to start.
I would also support a contest that tries to promote beginner-oriented games (source code, whatever). But I'd rather see a normal comp where we write games intended to showcase Hugo. Or at the very least, show people that it *is* being used, and *should* be used...
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The initial problem is that Hugo isn't even being *considered* when people are trying to pick a language to start.
That does often seem to be the case. In fact, that, to me, meant the question to ask was: why is Hugo not considered more? Certainly many people are aware of games like
Future Boy
Fallacy of Dawn
, and
Necrotic Drift
-- all of which showcase what the language can do. So when I first started looking at Hugo, I wanted to find out why Hugo was not mentioned more or why it was not (apparently) seen as a viable alternative (assuming I just looked at quantity). This was even moreso the case for me when I realized that there was a consensus that Hugo was much better at cross-platform compatibility in terms of text formatting and multimedia than the other languages.
In doing a fairly hefty search of RAIF, what I have found is that people saw Roger Firth's articles about Inform and that spurred them to use it more because they felt the language was more comprehensible. They saw the DM4 or the IBG for Inform and that inspired them to use it more because they felt that they had more options to get any questions they might have answered. So with Inform, what I found, is that people often were staying with the language or started using it because of the perceived level of documentation as opposed to the amount of source code available - of which there is a considerable amount.
For TADS 2, in looking back in RAIF, I saw that one of the most quoted things that people referenced were the source code to games like
Perdition's Flames
The Plant
Ditch Day Drifter
Common Ground
, etc. People, in this case, often did not mention the manual at all but did reference the source code. Often this seems to have been because they found games they thought were "neat" and seeing that the source code was available, it spurred them on to learn more about the language.
(TADS 3, clearly, is too new to discern much about but here it is certainly the case that people often reference Eric Eve's TADS 3 Tour Guide or the Getting Started guide. Those are usually the first things people recommend to those who want to decide if TADS 3 is "for them".)
For both (or all three) of the above languages, it seems many people did want to learn the language based on the competitions they saw that were available and that they could enter.
The key, I think, is also realizing that there are primarily two groups you might try to reach: those who may still decide and those who are pretty much set on a system. You may have a hard slog getting a tried-and-true Inform or TADS programmer to switch to Hugo, regardless of the source code available, tutorials available, the quality of a manual, etc. However, those who are still deciding may be swayed by those very things: as many were when looking at Inform or TADS. Granted, there is a third group: those already using Hugo. But, then again, you are not trying to convince them, necessarily.
All that being said, I agree there is enough source code out there for Hugo:
Scavenger Hunt
Guilty Bastards
A Crimson Spring
Hugo Zork
Trading Punches
, etc. What there might not be enough of (and I am not certain of this) is enough polish or veneer around the existing source code to get people to start with Hugo in the first place. My experience with programming languages in general and, it seems IF in particular (if RAIF threads from "newbies" are anything to go by) that people like to feel there is a large set of supporting elements to a given language and its toolset.
I do agree with the argument to show that Hugo is being used to get more people to come to it. But a lot of how people (again, at least on RAIF, from what I have seen) see that a tool is "being used" is by the documentation that exists for it, the number of extensions written for it, the "help text" that exists to supplement manuals, etc. That shows people that there is an active community behind the language that is continually expanding not just its game-base and its source-code base, but the overall elements of the language and supplementary material to the language and its tools.
I definitely agree that a contest that supports "beginner-oriented games" could be good - but beginners are of different skill levels. True beginners will need to percieve that there is helpful documentation or supporting elements to even help them get their feet off the ground. I do know that many people do not learn as well just by looking at existing source code. That said, others may prefer to learn that way. It ultimately comes down to what audience you want to focus on and what that audience best responds to. I think competitions can be good for attracting people to a language -- if that is the goal (even if only secondarily) of a competition.
Like Roody_Yogurt said in his post, if the goal or audience being sought is the group that is mainly here on this forum, clearly your goals for various things regarding the Hugo language or competitions are going to be different than if the focus is on trying to broaden the appeal of Hugo to a wider base of not just game players, but game authors. I could definitely see the benefit and the fun of a competition just for the benefit of current or already-aspiring Hugo authors.
(By the way, I know I have strayed a bit off topic here for this thread. My apologies for that.)
- Jeff
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I suppose I'm the documentation harpy here, but I have to disagree, Merk, with your statement that Hugo doesn't need more docs. The perception is that Hugo's docs, well, suck. And they do! (No offense to Kent.) I think it's a liability that we can't point to similar efforts such as Eric Eve's or the IBG when newbies start asking their infernal 'which language' questions on raif. Respondents always refer them to the docs, not games, when advising them on how to pick the language that best suits them. After all, the 'big 3' are more alike than dissimilar.
Maybe we should draft a 'Why choose Hugo' public service announcement to be posted to the newsgroups once a month or so. I mean, why choose it? Nobody really says, or they mumble something about multimedia. Well, so? Inform has Glulx and Tads had HTMLTads (or whatever it was called) and Tads3. How is Hugo's handling of graphics/sound better? What if I don't care about adding pictures to my game? Why should I choose Hugo then? Or, if I already use Inform/Tads, why should I switch? (I seem to recall a comment by Adam Cadre once, where he said he tried Hugo, but didn't like it because it didn't use semi-colons at the end of lines, or some such.)
That said, more games certainly couldn't hurt, either. :) The point about releasing source code and/or a 'beginner's comp' was simply to 1)add to the docs by have more source to reference and 2)motivate newcomers to try out the language in a fun, but relatively easy way. But it's also true that 'higher-level' games would raise visibility and provide (theoretically) 'better' documentation in the form of source. I remember Robb saying something about how the DM showed you how to program (a computer like in Starcross? can't remember)...but the point was that it was very motivating, seeing exactly how to implement some cool thing into a game. Good source should do that; I think Guilty Bastards is a great resource just for that reason...it shows you how to do some neat shit. Robb's code is generally pretty well commented too, and fun to read.
But here's my question, after a couple days of idle thought...why do we need a Hugo-comp in order to put out more games? Don't y'all think that if raising visibility through games is the way to go, that one's efforts could be better spent by entering a game in the annual Comp (or SpringThing) when the largest number of people are most likely to see it?
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Winston Groovy never attained much popularity or critical acclaim outside of England, but in the U.K. he released a wonderful series of soulful, sentimental reggae tunes throughout the '70s and early '80s. Born Winston Tucker in 1946 in the Waltham Park Road area of Kingston, he took an early interest in music. He listened to local jukeboxes and American R&B shows on the radio, and he also spent a great deal of time listening to the top sound systems playing out in Kingston, namely those of Duke Reid, Sir Coxsone, and King Edwards. Two of his favorites were local heroes Owen Gray and Derrick Morgan.
His first recording opportunity came courtesy of King Edwards, with whom he recorded a song called "She's Mine" that was never released on record but was played exclusively by Edwards and his sound system. Then, in 1961, he moved to England to join his father, who was living in Birmingham. There Winston became the lead singer and songwriter in a group called the Ebonites, but that didn't last long and he ended up moving to London. It wasn't long before he crossed paths there with Laurel Aitken, who knew Winston as the lead singer of the Ebonites. This meeting led to a partnership that resulted in a great many songs. Aitken licensed these recordings to the Pama group of labels, and the recording career of Winston (now billing himself as Winston Groovy) was well underway.
In 1971 he signed with Pama directly and began producing his own records, beginning with "I Want to Be Loved." His next big break came in 1974 when he signed with Trojan and continued his hitmaking. "Please Don't Make Me Cry" was one of his most noteworthy songs, later covered by UB40 in 1983 to much worldwide success. With his evolution into a brand-name lovers rock singer on solid ground, Winston's output continued into the next decade, with "Something on the Side" (1981) and a cover of the Commodores' "Night Shift" (1985) standing out as particularly big hits. ~ Jason Birchmeier


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I got a phone call last summer... my cousin was recently engaged to an amazing girl, and they wanted to get some engagement photos done here in Saskatoon before an anniversary party they were planning. After a brief conversation, his fiance said she would call me back to discuss further what they had wanted as far as the session goes. She called me back and confided that their engagement photos would actually be a surprise wedding! Only their parents knew, and well, now me. Fast forward to the day of their 'engagement party' AKA surprise wedding last October!
I showed up at the James hotel in their beautiful penthouse suite. My cousin and his fiance were there with their parents/grandparents and some special kids, who had no idea they were about to be a flower girl and ring bear. At this point only the parents and myself new we were about to witness a wedding later that evening! We started the day with the bride slipping into her gorgeous wedding gown, we stepped outside the bedroom and everyone seemed a bit confused. They yelled SURPRISE! We are getting married today!!! The look on everyone's faces were priceless. We ventured off the the U of S for a little mini session with just the bride and groom, then went to the Saskatoon club where the bride slipped into a different dress for the 'engagement party'. Guests started to arrive to a beautifully decorated room, enjoyed some appy's, and visited.
As a diversion right before supper, I arranged to get everyone outside for a group photo. We came back into the room to find all the chairs all lined up like there was a ceremony about to happen. Everyone looked a bit confused and the excitement grew! We ushered everyone into the ceremony part of the room, and the ceremony began. I have never felt so much excitement in one room before. The energy was out of this world! There were so many tears of joy and so many smiles on everyone's faces! If you are ever thinking of having a surprise wedding, I highly suggest it. It was the most emotional wedding we have ever been to.
So here it is... my first ever surprise wedding! I sure hope it's not my last... it was freakin' amazing!!!


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How New Technologies Can Improve Compliance in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Manufacturing
While U.S. drug products are of high quality, there has been an increasing trend towards manufacturing problems, resulting in recalls, disruption of operations and drug shortages. Companies are missing billions of dollars of potential additional revenue, and necessary medications are sometimes unavailable to the public. By enforcing 21 CFR Part 11 and introducing additional new quality-related initiatives, the FDA is signaling a need for better compliance to ensure consistency and safety. The industry wants to comply, but many manufacturers lack the necessary capabilities, or are unaware that new technologies are available to meet the beefed-up regulatory demands and still operate efficiently and profitably. Justin Neway, Ph.D., executive vice president and chief science officer of Aegis Analytical Corporation examines why these problems occur and how new technology can improve the manufacturing process.


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Why have Afghanistan's Shias been targeted now?
The deadly and unprecedented attack on a packed shrine in a historic district of Kabul has put the spotlight on Afghanistan's Shia minority.
Unlike their brethren in Pakistan, Afghanistan's Shias have largely escaped the wrath of the Sunni militant groups that operate in both countries.
There have been low-level tensions between the Shia and Sunni communities and one clash in the largely Sunni area of Herat in 2006 left five dead.
But over the last decade Shias in Afghanistan have been able to celebrate their festivals on a larger scale and with more confidence and openness than ever before.
Ashura, the climax of Muharram, the month of mourning for the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, is the most important day of the Shia calendar and in Afghanistan it is now marked with a public holiday.
Every Ashura, streets in Shia areas of Kabul are lined with black flags - as a symbol of the community's mourning.
Such signals of their faith were scarcely in evidence until 2001. After the collapse of the Taliban regime and the freedoms that ensued, they extended their mourning ceremonies to non-Shia neighbourhoods, driving long convoys with flags and loudspeakers blaring religious songs.
In fact, there is an Islamic Brotherhood Council of Shia and Sunni clerics who work to maintain harmony between the communities.
Ethnic strife
There has been so little evidence of sectarian violence that many ask how Afghanistan could have evolved so differently to Pakistan, where parts of the country have deep sectarian tensions. The answer lies in Afghanistan's recent history.
There has not been a proper census for more than 40 years, but it is estimated that around 20% of the population are Shia - the rest are Sunni. Most Shias come from the Tajik and Hazara ethnic minorities.
Hazaras, largely to be found in central provinces like Bamiyan, were relentlessly persecuted by the Taliban. Tajiks are spread across the country.
One reason for the absence of openly sectarian conflict in Afghanistan could be the absence of extremist religious groups throughout Afghan history. Both Shias and Sunnis united to wage an insurgency against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and Kabul's then communist government in the 1970s and 1980s.
They were fighting for shared causes - Islam and the country.
However, as the war against the Soviets started, Sunni fighters went to Pakistan and Shia fighters went to Iran, where they were radicalised. Because there were then so many factions along linguistic and ethnic lines - and even within religious schools of thoughts - there was no room for a straightforward Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict.
But although sectarian conflict may not have scarred the country, there has been plenty of ethnic strife. After the collapse of the communist regime in 1989, ethnic rivalries between Pashtuns, Uzbeks and Tajiks resulted in a four-year-long civil war that killed tens of thousands.
Sowing division
Regional players such as Iran and Pakistan supported specific ethnic groups and fuelled violence in the country.
But under Hamid Karzai's government, which came into being in 2001 after the downfall of the Taliban, all ethnic and religious groups had freedoms. A number of Afghanistan's private TV channels in Kabul are owned by religious figures and there are at least five Shia-only television channels.
So who would target Shias in Afghanistan now?
Analysts believe the regional players of old still have a stake in Afghanistan's instability. Unity between Shias and Sunnis, and unity between ethnic groups and between political factions leaves no room for Iran or Pakistan to wield influence.
Many analysts here believe that Pakistan in particular has come under increasing international pressure for sheltering militants on its soil, and particularly the leadership of the Afghan Taliban.
This is a charge Pakistan denies but analysts maintain that elements in Pakistan want to open another yet divide - a sectarian one pitting Sunnis in Afghanistan against the Shia who have traditionally shunned the Taliban.
Others believe that the Taliban, who failed to target the recent loya jirga conference in Kabul or to make headlines ahead of the global Bonn conference, are behind this latest attack, in an attempt to further divide Hamid Karzai's political support base.
Either way, a new and brutal precedent has been set and Afghans of all faiths are hoping that it does not open up yet another front in the country's bloody conflict.


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How can you find out what you're good at?… That's a question I asked myself so much I don't even remember when it started.
Along the way, I went through rebellion at school to changing countries to losing myself in meaningless jobs, but I never stopped looking around. I knew there was something somewhere that would make sense to me.
And the thirst to find out what I was made for led me to discover my winning recipe.
I hope this article will help you discover yours.
The origin of the issue
First off, I think it's a good idea to understand the origin of our issue here: why some of us feel so lost in life?
How come school didn't prepare us to understand how to be happy, why we have certain desires or how to overcome depression?
Seth Godin's talk about the origin of school might shake your preconceived ideas. My favorite quotes from this "Art vs Work" talk is:
"Fitting in is a short term strategy that get you nowhere, standing out is a long term strategy that takes guts and produces results."
In another talk, Seth gives his inspiring definition of an artist:
"Somebody who does human work, unpredictable work, makes a connection with someone else, and changes them for the better."
What are you here for?
This part is particular as nobody can agree on a specific answer. I'll give you mine, up to you to keep bits of it…
- I believe we're here to accumulate experiences of life, to evolve, to become better persons.
- Even if I don't understand the full meaning of what happens to me or to the world, I believe it's only a matter of knowledge. I believe there is a sense to everything that happens - think personal and collective karma, energies, destiny…
- I want to make a positive impact in the world, and I believe everybody can. We all have specific qualities that make us unique and useful to others.
- I don't want to wait for improvements from the economy or the political situation to act. I don't control these external conditions, but I control what I think and what I do.
Now that makes sense to me, and as a result, how I spend my days and what I choose to focus on make sense to me... and it feels pretty awesome!
Are there any emotions that particularly move you?
When you don't care, you don't have emotions. So pay attention to your emotions to find if something is important to you.
Maybe when you encounter some kind of injustice, you feel deep inside that something needs to be done to eradicate it? What kind of injustice?
What conditions bring you the more emotions?
Any strong emotions watching movies? What about watching documentaries about animals, children, ecology, or any disaster out there?! Anything moving you more than the others?
Try to find what triggers in you a strong emotional response. After all, if something affects you, it must be important to you!
Then, looking for ways to help in that area could lead you to find a very meaningful work, or even mission that really matters to you.
First clues: What did you like to do as a kid?
A good starting point is to go back in time and think of all the activities you enjoyed doing when you were a kid.
Back then, nobody asked you to spend time drawing, classifying things or building stuff, but you did these things because you had fun doing them.
Nowadays, when our heart feels something, our head comes right away with a heavy thinking process to try to make sense of the feelings. It weights and calculates if the heart's idea is reasonable, if it has a future etc. Our mental system brings doubt to the equation and makes it hard to find what's right for us.
What would you do if money didn't matter?
Let's dream big for a minute.
You won the lottery and you have now millions in your account, no need to work anymore for 3 generations.
Sure, get that plane ticket and go to that fantastic beach for a while, but then what? Will you just go around spending that money, or will you try to do something meaningful of your life?
Will you get involved in humanitarian activities? If so, which ones and why?
Will you learn new skills? If so, which ones and why?
Will you help people that face the same difficulties you went through? If so, which ones and why?
I think it comes back to purpose. In that unusual situation without anymore duty in your life, will you choose to just stay on holidays?
So, what would you do?
PS: If you would prefer to hear a podcast with a few slightly crazy guys talking about that same topic, check it here. The team at Fizzle put together "23 tips to uncover what to do with your life".
What about a personality test?
Out of the few personality tests out there, I would recommend the one from Roger Hamilton on his GeniusU platform.
It's free, and made me realize that I was actually creative!
During my school years, I never considered this possibility as drawing teachers made me understand I'd better go into sports or anything but art.
Backing up Seth Godin, school can be quite mistaken and leave prints for a lifetime...
Let me guide you to go to the core of the test - up to you to go back to it later :)
- Once you take the Genius Test, remember your "general" personality type (either Dynamo, Blaze, Tempo or Steel).
- Below are the 3 more detailed profiles associated with your general profile:
- If you're a Dynamo in the test, you're either a Mechanic, a Creator or a Star
- If you're a Blaze in the test, you're either a Star, a Supporter or a Deal Maker
- If you're a Tempo in the test, you're either Deal Maker, a Trader or an Accumulator
- If you're a Steel in the test, you're either an Accumulator, a Lord or a Mechanic.
- Then, with the short definitions below, figure out which one of the 3 feels more like you:
- Going further to get awesome insights, sign up to Roger's free Entrepreneur TV channel and download the 3 audio courses… then listen to the Wealth Dynamics series, CD #4 starting at 6 minutes until the end of CD #5.
In these 2 tracks you will find the specific strategies to use for each personality profile. It was eye opening for me and it should give you a whole new look at how you should consider your career.
Let's talk projects
Danielle Laporte's got an original approach to goal setting. It's full of sense and if you're not familiar with it, here is the idea:
She says we set up goals believing that when we reach them, we will feel a certain way. So most of the time we endure things we don't like for long periods to reach our goal… so we can feel happy. But how can we feel happy when we get there if the whole process feels draining?!
Danielle thinks it's upside down. She recommends we first find out how we would like to feel, and then set up goals that fit our "desired feelings".
Her book can be helpful if you would like to dig this concept - I went for the audiobook as she got a sweet voice…
To help us find out what goals to pursue, she has a blog post on the main question to ask yourself:
What are you most excited about?
She also has more questions to guide you in her article.
Now, the origin of the early orientation issue at school may be clearer to you, you may have a feeling of destiny, an idea of the type of personality you are and how you should consider your goals.
It's time to brainstorm goals and projects.
This is when Warren Buffet's list comes in handy, here it is:
Your Warren Buffet's list
1 - Make a list of the top 25 things you want to do in the next few years, or even in your lifetime.
2 - Pick the 5 most important to you.
3 - Once you did, forget the other 20.
4 - Yes, forget these 20 other projects… Warren goes even further and says that you should "avoid them at all costs. No matter what, these things get no attention from you until you've succeeded with your top 5."
Keep also in mind that to get anything done, you need focus.
Just as a magnifying glass can't light up anything if it doesn't focus the sun's rays on one point, when it does it can burn anything.
Bottom line:
Once you're happy with your 5 goals, double check if the path to get to these goals is also exciting, making you happy along the way. Otherwise it won't be fun.
In conclusion...
By your education, background, experience, skills, taste, values, motivations, you're a completely unique individual.
You can bring a unique color to the society, walking a path that only you can walk.
If I would come across this kind of information years ago with the right state of mind, it would have saved me months or even years of search. Today it's in front of you.
I hope you do something with it.
Please share this article if you feel it can be a useful inspiration for your close ones to find their own thing.


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Review - 5 Stars - Alphas Gone Wild (Shifter Paranormal Romance Boxed Set)
Book: Alphas Gone Wild (Shifter Paranormal Romance Boxed Set)
Michelle Fox , Catherine Vale , Melissa Snark , Kristen Strassel , Crystal Dawn, Ruby Glass , Ariana Hawkes , Tabitha Conall , Alisa Woods, Ever Coming
Publication Date: 3/16/2015
Reviewed by: Tammy Payne- Book Nook Nuts
My Rating: 5 Stars
Touch Of Alpha by Catherine Vale
New to me author.
Violet dreams of passion with an old flame but Kayla is a bit hyper today and trying to get her attention about something going on. The packs alpha Storm has died and they are set to choose a new alpha.
She knows of a man who would be the perfect Alpha. Denver one of the teachers at the school where Victoria teaches. At one time they were friends but they have since drifted apart. Denver has been put in the hat so to speak for the position of Alpha however with that he must have named a Mate.
When Denver goes to talk to Violet about things he touches her and feels weird. He has always had feelings for Violet even when they were younger but now well what could it be?
This was a great short story. Love ,Romance and Hot passion.
Pack Justice by Michelle Fox
New to me author.
Kane is the Alpha of the Bright Moon wolf pack and one evening while out driving with his girlfriend he pulls over
and walks away. When he returns he mentions something about a guy he met from the Huntville pack having a girlfriend with a mole in the same place as his girl. Well she is caught now for sure as Mason the guy from the Huntville pack comes out of the shadows. Sabrina just couldn't chose between the two. She wants them both.
But what will they think of that? And will Sabrina get her wish?
WOW let me say this is one hot hot hot short story. Loved it.
A Cats Tale by Melissa Stark
New to me author.
Jared has met himself a werecat at the bar he stopped at. He had never been with a werecat but he would damn sure like to be with this one he thinks to himself. Well next thing he knows he is drugged and taken to the home of a vamp. Evangeline has blood slaves which Jared finds out is what his werecat is the vamps blood slave. Jared wants Josephine aka Josie Cat but now he has to find a way out of his dilemma. Josie doesn't have trust in anyone so it takes all of Jareds' strength to get her to trust in him. Can he get his Josie Cat to be his? You know the old saying about dogs and cats. Great short story I enjoyed it.
Wild for the Lion by Kristen Strassel
New to me author.
In this story it's all about you can't help who you fall in love and mate with. Leo is a lion shifter and his mate Daphne is a Doe (Deer) shifter. Life for Daphne can get lonely however as she has no family that will visit her nor can she roam alone up on the mountain top where she and Leo live. The pride do nothing to welcome her infact they do all they can to chase and use her as their meal if they catch her. Leo tries to do all he can for the woman he loves.
This story was very romantic and well written storyline.
Masked Desire by Crystal Dawn
New to me author.
In this story we have male wolf shifters who know who their mates are except for one thing. They can't claim because the women want nothing to do with their kind. Well these men come up with a way to make the women they so desperately desire come them. They start up a Fantasy Dating service and everyone wears masks so no really knows who they are getting. As each woman signs up they will have the man of their desires and dreams and hopefully the male will have his mate forever. I enjoyed this short story , very funny and very sexy.
Dragon's Dewdrop by Ruby Glass
New to me author.
Rochelle is a chef at a beautiful estate for a man who is so drool worthy. He doesn't treat his staff very kind but Rochelle daydreams about the gorgeous man. One day while out strolling on the grounds she comes across jems in the grass she at first think its dewdrops. Rochelle knows something weird is going on as she hears weird noises at night and now the jems show up. Ecliptic is a very rich and powerful man. What some do not know is he is more than a man. He has never wanted to mix business with pleasure with any of his staff yet there is something that pulls him to Rochelle. One day someone threatens to take Rochelle from him and Ecliptic has changed dramatically. Can he save Rochelle? Will she want him when she knows what he is?
Very good dragon shifter book. I am an avid fan of Dragonshifters so this one I really enjoyed.
I was gifted a copy of this book for my honest review.
There are many more stories yet to read in this wonderful, sexy , funny and intriguing boxed set and as I get through them I will update my review further.
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Inequalities and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Income inequalities between and within countries have worsened in recent decades. Gender inequalities are narrowing at a snail's pace. Citizenship and location continue to determine life chances, despite the increasing integration of economies. Policy instruments to promote equality of outcome have largely been neglected in the name of approaches to claim to create equality of opportunity. This has failed to stem the tide of inequality. Current social discontent and distrust of government highlight the urgency of addressing inequality head-on: it should be high on the post-2015 development agenda, both as a goal in itself and reflected in targets for other goals.
Razavi, S. Inequalities and the Post-2015 Development Agenda. UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development), Geneva, Switzerland (2012) 4 pp. [UNRISD Research and Policy Brief No. 15]


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CS2201 DATA STRUCTURES ANNA UNIVERSITY QUESTION PAPER NOV/DEC 2009 for CSE 3rd Sem ...
Posted by R.Anirudhan
B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009
Third Semester
Computer Science and Engineering
(Regulation 2008)
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer ALL Questions
PART A — (10 × 2 = 20 Marks)1. What is abstract data type?
2. Give any four applications of stack.
3. What is meant by binary search tree?
4. Write the advantages of threaded binary tree.
5. Define B-Tree.
6. What is sentinel?
7. What is primary clustering?
8. What is meant by rehashing?
9. What are articulation points?
10. What is activity-node graph?
PART B — (5 × 16 = 80 Marks)11. (a) (i) Explain the process of postfix expression evaluation with an
example. (8)
(ii) Write a program to print the elements of a singly linked list. (8)
(b) (i) Explain with an example the creation of a linked list, insertion and
deletion of nodes, and swapping of any two nodes. (10)
(ii) Explain the process of conversion from infix expression to postfix
expression using stack. (6)
12. (a) (i) Explain the operations of insertion of nodes into and deletion of
nodes from, a binary search tree with code. (10)
(ii) Construct an expression tree for the expression (a + b * c) +
((d * e + 1) * g). Give the outputs when you apply preorder, inorder
and postorder traversals. (6)
(b) Give the analysis of insertion and deletion operations of nodes in binary
search tree. (16)
13. (a) Explain the operations which are done in B-Tree with examples. (16)
(b) What is heap order property? Explain the operations which can be done
in heap with examples. (16)
14. (a) Briefly explain the three common collision resolution strategies in open
addressing hashing. (16)
(b) Give an account on the following :
(i) Dynamic equivalence problem. (8)
(ii) Smart union algorithms. (8)
15. (a) Define network flow problem. Explain the maximum flow algorithm for
the graph given below. (16)
(b) (i) Explain the Kruskal's algorithm with an example. (10)
(ii) Give a short note on Euler circuits. (6)