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The Complete Clef/Mercury Rec. Of Oscar Peterson Trio (#241)Mosaic Records Limited Edition Box Set
"The addition of Barney Kessel took a lot of pressure from Ray and myself...we have the effect of three different voices, three different approaches to jazz in the trio..." - Oscar Peterson
Limited Edition: 10,000 copies
7 CDs - $119.00
This Mosaic Records jazz collection is the first comprehensive study of Oscar Peterson's earliest trio jazz recordings, the setting for which he was best known, throughout his reign. The collection includes 127 tunes, including five alternate masters that have never appeared on any record, in any format. The earliest recording dates from November 25, 1951 and the last is from December 7, 1953. In the interest of being complete, we amassed a collection that exceeds even the one held in the Universal Music vaults; with some original masters missing entirely, we went to collectors for vintage 78s, second generation tapes, even rare LPs and EPs, performing sonic miracles when necessary to achieve a quality that meets our Mosaic standards.
Coming up in the music era he did, he fell somewhere in between the swing players and the be-boppers, and the two strains wove together into something he never felt any reason to abandon. He and Ray Brown had developed an almost brotherly relationship thanks to the JATP music tours they did together, and in Barney Kessel he found another player whose jazz solos could wipe the floor, the walls, and the ceiling. With the JATP tours combined with these Clef and Mercury recordings the trio found the time and opportunity to hone their craft together and become a tight unit. Norman Granz' vision of the "Songbook" album, was perfected by the trio and the series of "Oscar Peterson Meets " have long been unavailable and are finally in one jazz music collection.
What is so compelling about the Oscar Peterson technique is the fusion of wizardry and swing. Even when his improvisations lean more toward the flashy, fast finger approach, it still is accomplished with swing and taste. There are many standards and ballads where he solos beautifully and sweetly, and with restraint. And while he would never be mistaken for the economical Count Basie, his comping behind other musicians was spot on, delicate, and tasteful. On other songs, when the goal was to set the keyboard on fire, no one could put together as many choruses of blazing jazz combinations - which he did while always remaining tuneful, and without ever duplicating an idea.
In this music collection, we've included a meticulously researched jazz discography and have corrected known mistakes in previously published works. The collection also includes an essay on Oscar Peterson's life and times, and a track by track analysis of his work written by John McDonough.
By sticking to the style and presentation about which he felt passionate, Oscar Peterson unquestionably established his own voice as unmistakable and personal, and his name as one of the great ones. That voice is captured forever on Mosaic's timeless Oscar Peterson jazz collection. The collection embodies the unique sound and style of of one of jazz music's legenday figures.
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The main reason some of this material has not been reissued on CD is because the original tapes are no longer in the vaults at Universal Music. In fact 1/3 of the music found in this reissue came from commercially issued - mint condition vinyl sources. However, with the expertise of our sound restoration and mastering engineer Malcolm Addey, weve been able to present an audibly cohesive set that finally brings together all of the original Songbook albums from the early Peterson trio.
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The photographic images presented have never been publicly released before and further enhance the enjoyment of this welcomed boxed set. Two main sources are responsible for the photos: the Esther Bubley archives and Hank ONeal.
Award-winning photojournalist Esther Bubley is known for her compositional genius and artistic ability with the lens. Freelancing mostly for Standard Oil of New Jersey during the 1940s and 1950s, she also worked for a variety of clients including Life, the Children's Bureau, Pepsi-Cola International, Pan American World Airways, and UNICEF. While in Los Angeles on assignment for the Ladies' Home Journal, she was invited by illustrator David Stone Martin to come along and take some pictures at a Norman Granz produced jam session for Clef on June 5, 1952. This famous date, known as the alto summit with Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges and Benny Carter, was issued as the Norman Granz Jam Session album and had also featured the Oscar Peterson Trio. We were able to make arrangements with the Bubley archives to finally release some of these wonderful images.
Hank ONeal is also another photographer whose eye has captured many remarkable images. His love of jazz moved him to begin one of the premier labels of the 1970s, Chiaroscuro Records and he has also co-produced a number of music festivals through his company HOSS. Hank also published the magnificent book The Eddie Condons Scrapbook of Jazz (along with Eddie Condon) in 1973. His connection with jazz musicians led him to acquire some photographs of the Peterson Trio in Flip Phillips basement back in 1952 as well as other photos while on tour with JATP. Again, these rare photos have never been published before.
(e) c. Early December 1952
The next sequence of 42 songs would form the basis of the first of Peterson songbook albums for Norman Granz. Although the specific date is uncertain, they appear to have been done in Los Angeles during a single long session or perhaps two sessions on successive days, since the master numbers are in an unbroken sequence from 896 to 937. It was a very busy time for Peterson in the studios. The trio recorded with Lester Young (Takes Two To Tango, and others) in New York on November 28. And Oscar was involved in all the 16 or so sessions Granz was doing in Los Angeles with Fred Astaire for The Astaire Story.
In Granzs mind the Astaire project was very closely related to the Peterson composers albums, and it was probably no coincidence that they were undertaken almost simultaneously. He found in planning the Astaire recordings that the great singer-dancer seemed to be the one common thread that ran through the greatest and richest vein of American popular music. Discographies offer no certainty and much doubt on the dates of the Astaire-Peterson sessions other than December 1952. This is unlikely, though, since we know from interviews Granz gave at the time that many sessions were involved. Moreover, the first reviews of the deluxe Astaire album began appearing in the national press the first week in January. It would have been virtually impossible to record, manufacture, and distribute even advance copies of such an elaborate album in December and make the closing date for the January 5 New Yorker.
Albums built around particular composers were nothing new in the early 50s. But the concept was rarely more than a marketing hook and seldom pursued with any sense of seriousness. Granz, a cultural elitist if there ever was one, believed this was injustice. Inspired by the Astaire project, he wanted to create a catalog of definitive performances, executed with the same consistency and care that Victor Red Seal might invest in a Toscanini-Beethoven cycle. For this he turned to Peterson.
Irregardless of what people may think because of the wealth of recordings [Norman] turned out, Peterson recalled in 1997, he tried to be very careful about the material. He tried to find material, in some cases, that would be different, because he figured that listening audiences might like to hear our viewpoints on these particular subjects. That was basically why he chose to do the composer series early on as well as the Astaire sessions, so that we could give them our reading and place them in a jazz context.
Granz was also a believer in the doctrine of overwhelming force when it came to a pet project. The first Peterson songbooks would hit stores in 1953 on four composer fronts simultaneously: Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. Rodgers and Hart, Vincent Youmans, and Jerome Kern would follow in August 1954, then Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, and Jimmy McHugh in 1955, the last six divided between the Kessel and Ellis trios. The first group of four came out as Granz was transitioning out of his five-year partnership with Mercury and into his own Clef label and the more prestigious 12-inch record format. (My own copy of the original Ellington songbook LP has a Clef sticker pasted over the Mercury brand actually printed on the cover.) For a small jazz label in 1953, putting four songbooks out at once was a move calculated for impact and one that raised Petersons prominence to a new level.
With composers being the raison detre, of course, there was an inherent tension in this whole project between the trio on the one hand a jazz group expected to be creative and the songs on the other, which in a composers series enjoy an elevated if not sacred status. The Peterson songbooks attempted something of a compromise within the three-minute time constraints necessary to fit a fair sampling of each composers work onto an LP. The trio claimed a certain improvisational latitude, yet had to show deference to the material as well. This precluded the relaxed, extended explorations of a jazz club. Some purists dismissed the results as commercial cocktail jazz, a sellout of art to commerce. But to take that view was to write off Americas greatest composers as little more than tools of commerce. The only tension in the Peterson songbooks was the one between two arts, one founded on freedom and the other on text. Generally the albums were well received by those who understood the premise, typically fetching four-star honors. These sets are recommended, said Down Beat in a moment of wise consensus, for both the jazz initiate and the many thousands more who dig these tunes but would like a new perspective on them.
After a quiet Pick Yourself Up and Long Ago And Far Away by Jerome Kern, Peterson began to tackle the Gershwin canon. His habit of moving into the body of a piece with a break was becoming something of a signature by now; some would say a cliché. But one tends to hold on to the tools that work. Note, for instance, Kessels signature three note riff from Astaire Blues mentioned earlier, surfaces again in I Got Rhythm. Kerns A Fine Romance is charmingly loping and lackadaisical, certainly compared to the hard driving one he would render on the second Ella & Louis album in 1957. A Foggy Day is played so leisurely, its as if Peterson doesnt want it to end.
Back to Gershwin, Strike Up The Band gets down the molecular level in a series of one-bar exchanges between Peterson and Kessel. The Man I Love proves the truth in the notion that great popular music is the art of finding magic in fragments, in this case a six-note sequence endless repeated. The magic is in the harmonic undertones. Normally a mournful lament, this version is neither ballad nor the swinger that Coleman Hawkins made of it in 1943. Instead, Peterson finds new life for it at a dead center middle tempo. Cole Porters coy Lets Do it is one of the many songs in this group that underlines the limitations of attempting a definitive edition on the American song without a singer to do the lyrics a fact Granz obviously had in mind when he pried Ella Fitzgerald away from Decca (for whom she had done a modest Gershwin collection) and made the songbook series with Buddy Bregman her first project. It Aint Necessarily So, the only selection from Porgy and Bess, is transformed from a sly paean to skepticism into a delicate bluesy but sophisticated sonata.
Ive Got My Love To Keep Me Warm begins like a John Lewis fugue for the Modern Jazz Quartet, with just a hint of Berlins Ive Got Plenty To Be Thankful For before settling into a nice easy groove propelled by Ray Browns bass. Peterson gives Ive Got a Crush On You an uneventful but appropriately serene representation. Porters Night and Day offers greater opportunity for contrasts and Peterson threads a ceaselessly swinging and inventive line through the tune. Counter to expectations, Peterson tunes Berlins Isnt it a Lovely Day down to a ballad with dark harmonic shadows looming the corners.
Porters great What Is This Thing Called Love? constitutes one of the most familiar labyrinth of unexpected progressions in jazz, one that Tad Dameron famously fashioned into the bebop anthem, Hot House. Like dozens of other pop songs, it helped cement the alliance between popular music and improvised jazz in a symbiotic golden age for each. Peterson had recorded the Porter song earlier in the year on Granzs first studio jam session with Carter, Hodges, Parker and others. The same could be said for Oh, Lady Be Good, another road map through countless jazz originals of the swing and bop years. Peterson takes a completely fresh look at it here, producing an unrushed, medium slow reading in stark contrast to the extended blazing romp the trio plus Stoller gave it earlier in the year. Next, Kessel and Peterson invent an intriguing vamp for S Wonderful and generally split the solo time.
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|Not as flashy as his later trio recordings, but this box set music just gets better and better as I listen to the discs. Do like hearing the early Ray Brown and Barney Kessel too.
|The best recordings of Peterson, to my ears, is when he is an acccompanist with sax players, when he is playing duets with trumpet greats, and when he's playing in these early trio recordings. In all of these great recordings he's closer to his emotions and to his roots in the blues.
|Great Music, But Original Album Order Info Please
|Great music five stars without any hesitation. While the bulk of the tracks are relatively short and focused, there are also some amazing extended improvisations, like The Astaire Blues, which give this set variety. I have one issue with this package: Since the music is presented in the order it was recorded, it would be nice to have information about the sequence of the tracks on the original songbook albums. Those interested in hearing this music as originally issued are left to hunt for that information themselves. It would be a simple matter to include this in the booklet. Why make your customers go through the hassle of searching for it? That said, this is an absolutely wonderful collection, and easily one of my favorite Mosaics.
|Pre - G
|Peterson before he got glib. As focused and emotionally focused as when he's backing the great saxophonists - Young, Webster, Stitt etc. This is great jazz.
|Oscar Peterson Trio Alive Again
|This boxset is absolutely astonishing, i remember seeing oscar peterson at the monterey jazz festival a few times. Thanks for the memories.
|What can you say about this collection...???!!!! MASTERPIECES OF JAZZ!!!! Love it!
|Another classic big set!!!
|Seven cds of Oscar and his trios playing classic jazz standards. Oscar jumps around and embellishes some tunes to the point where you can hardly recognize them. It does not matter, however, as Oscar's playing is nothing short of amazing. I love these big, 6-plus cd sets!!! Keep them coming!!!
|Mosaic strikes again!
|Yet another welcome addition to the Mosaic canon! In response to the previous review, the Harold Arlen set is already available on a Verve CD and is with Herb Ellis on guitar.
|Textbook Beauty
|I've heard some of these songbook albums before and am looking to hearing them again. They are not about Peterson stretching out, but rather giving clear readings of beautiful songs in a classical sort of way. I hope the sound quality is improved from the crackling versions previously released on cd by Verve. It is curious that the Harold Arlen set from 1954 with Kessel and Brown is not included - maybe the tapes were lost or not salvageable. Anyways, long live Mosaic!
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Vintage Inspiration
32 comments:
- Prêt à Porter P said...
Exquisitely elegant
- March 23, 2011 at 3:04 AM
- FairyFiligree said...
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- March 23, 2011 at 3:24 AM
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- March 23, 2011 at 3:34 AM
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Wow, totally glamorous!
- March 23, 2011 at 4:02 AM
- This is Belgium said...
the old Holywood stars are something else!! totally fascinating today.
- March 23, 2011 at 4:51 AM
- Anula said...
Wonderful pictures! I love this style!
- March 23, 2011 at 5:04 AM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Oh I am SO inspired. This is exactly how I want to dress--both now and in the future!
- March 23, 2011 at 7:06 AM
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so amazing and lovely blog.They are so cute and stylish.Good luck to you.
- March 23, 2011 at 8:25 AM
- Ulrika Laan said...
Linda looks divine! Such good photos of her. Thanks for the inspiration.
- March 23, 2011 at 8:26 AM
Grey suit and Beads! Very nice.
- March 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- CathyEarnshaw said...
Linda is fabulous! What style!
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- Musette said...
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- March 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM
- D. said...
Gorgeous and vibrant. Such an inspiration.
This blog makes me so confident and happy! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
- March 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM
- Meesh said...
Beautiful styling.
- March 23, 2011 at 2:28 PM
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So beautiful! And the details like the cuffs on the grey trousers, very inspiring!
- March 23, 2011 at 4:49 PM
Linda is the epitome of glamorous movie star style. Her outfits are perfect and exquisite and the grooming impeccable. More please!
- March 23, 2011 at 4:52 PM
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Bsss Isabel - Spain
- March 23, 2011 at 6:03 PM
- Fashionistable said...
Your 1st shot is so, so strong and graphic. Beautiful. Xxxx
- March 23, 2011 at 6:09 PM
- Forest City Fashionista said...
Linda's wardrobe is too chic to be believed. That first shot of her in the red jacket and red and black hat is stunning--her pale skin stands out in perfect contrast. I'd love to know what her skin care routine is!
- March 23, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- Waagella said...
I'm increasingly obsessed with her style. It's soooo perfect: the colors, the cuts, the proportions, the geometry her ensemble creates, and especially the little vintage-y details! Seeing her in a color photograph (rather than a black and white portrait) seems shocking.
Thank you so much for giving me a peak at such a fantastic woman's style.
- March 24, 2011 at 2:30 AM
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- March 24, 2011 at 4:23 AM
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- March 24, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Maria (viola33) said...
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I just discovered your blog through Vixen Vintage (she linked to this post). I LOVE IT! I love the concept, I love that you're celebrating these wonderful, stylish people, I love the message, and I love this lady in particular. I will come back again and again. Thank you so much for sharing this!
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- The Style Crone said...
Great hats!!!!!!!
- March 25, 2011 at 10:06 PM
Red is one of my favorite colors. And this lady and her Louise Brooks 'helmet hair' is so amazing! I hope to look as glam and stylish as she is one day. My favorite decades for style are the 20s, 30s, the Mod part of the 60s (Edie and Twiggy), the late 70s, and the 80s. I do like some of the 40s and 50s looks though especially on others.
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Another step for distributed storage
Yesterday's column took off from an astute reader's remarks and parallel points made in that day's news media -- a pleasing coincidence some call "synchronicity."
That tells me our discussion of smart grid-related issues is far from insular; rather, the general public and mainstream media are paying attention. (And thank goodness for a break from metering uproars.)
Today I want to look at a distributed storage project based on batteries, which appears to offer one method for utilities to buffer demand at the distribution level. And I'll finish by noting some of the really solid points readers made yesterday on electric vehicles (henceforth, EVs).
Storage, of course, is one of the industry's Holy Grails and an integral aspect of the smart grid. Just 12 hours of storage, enough to shift loads between peak and off-peak, could work wonders to balance the supply-and-demand equation. Efficient, utility-scale storage is an area I need to get up-to-speed on. But distributed storage is being investigated at a scale I can more easily grasp.
Short-term, local storage strengthens the value proposition of distributed generation to both homeowner and utility. Storage could help alleviate uncertainties over electricity costs facing the American consumer. I understand that a lot of very smart people are working on this goal.
Thus it should come as no surprise that nearly 50 related projects -- battery technology, manufacturing and recycling, EVs, charging infrastructure, educational programs -- won stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (I'd like to hear of such projects that didn't get funded, and whether they got shelved or are moving ahead.)
One such demonstration project involves American Electric Power in Ohio (AEP Ohio), which is putting in place multiple elements of a smart grid in northeast central Ohio that includes 110,000 consumers in parts of Columbus and nearby communities. This is a $150 million project AEP Ohio dubs "gridSMART."
In what AEP Ohio calls community energy storage (CES), the utility has recently selected S&C Electric Co. to help it integrate small-scale, battery storage at the distribution level. International Battery's prismatic lithium-ion batteries won the contract for this demonstration project.
(In contrast, we've recently discussed in some detail an example of large-scale, distributed thermal storage innovations by Ice Energy, now being deployed by Southern California Public Power. Here are recent articles by colleagues Kate Rowland, Warren Causey and me.)
AEP Ohio's CES project involves putting a module of batteries between the distribution transformer and the meters on four to six homes. The first CESs will go from lab testing to the field about a year from now and are expected to produce 25 kW for one hour. An average home uses about 1.2 kW/hr, according to Jim Sember, vice president for power quality products at S&C. At that rate, the CES can run six homes for up to three and a half hours.
"Most reliability problems occur at the substation and transformer near your home," Sember told me recently. "A small battery system can address that challenge."
International Battery's prismatic lithium-ion batteries are large-format cells designed for "energy applications" -- that is, constant power output over several hours. "That's 'grid-friendly,'" Sember said. CES can also take the kinks out of frequency variations in electricity passing through the distribution system.
AEP Ohio will need four to five years to get sufficient data on performance and cost to determine whether CES fulfills its vision, and can do so at scale, according to Almgren. "The concept of 'community energy storage' makes a lot of sense," he said. "Our technology is a good fit. I'm humble about the challenges."
I'll close with a few thoughts posted by readers of yesterday's column on EVs' challenge to utilities, particularly their recharging load at the distribution level.
One reader asked if anyone has data on the aggregate load represented by all the cars and trucks on the road today -- what is the magnitude of the potential fuel shift? If any readers know of such calculations, please write in.
EVs need to avoid charging during peak hours and, thus, battery swapping during peak hours may be an excellent business model -- not incidentally, one that has garnered hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for Better Place, a start-up that is implementing that idea.
Meanwhile, readers encouraged utilities to be involved up front.
"PG&E is right to be looking at this seriously and I hope others utilities are considering it as well," one reader said. "The cars are coming. The clock is ticking. We will not have a smart grid implemented before they get here so some action needs to be taken."
Phil Carson
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Quoting from the article, "An average home uses about 1.2 kW/hr, according to Jim Sember, vice president for power quality products at S&C. At that rate, the CES can run six homes for up to three and a half hours."
This is where reality meets theory: I defy anyone to satisfy the needs of the "average home" with a 1.2kW supply...which cannot possibly accomodate the demand of air conditioning, electric heating or for that matter, concurrently running the TV and a hair dryer. If you first disable these devices using your fancy-schmancy "smart meter" aren't you in fact defeating the whole purpose?
Folks....credibility is something you build out of realistic facts and proven performance. Wishing won't make it so. If I wanted a 12-hour UPS for my fridge, I'd already have one.
I'll allow that the author may not have inluded all of the details necessary for a fair assessment. Still, the consequences of a neighborhood quasi-UPS battery system (again, for what purpose?) seem at great odds with the competing ideals of Greenies everywhere (batteries, until proven different, are not exactly eco-friently).
As much as I admire forward-thinking, I question the motives of vendors (and utilities) that fabricate "needs" to fit the availability of products.
Small Scale Pumped Storage
One concept I read about on one of the Energy Central Sites a few years back was the idea of using hydraulics in conjunction with a parking structure to create an urban pumped storage facility to manage peak loads. I recall at the time there was a proposed test project to be built I Houston, but I've never seen anything further on it.
A structure like this would literally kill two birds with one stone, parking and power in a downtown location. The structure could be lifted over an 8 hour period at night while mostly empty then in the morning cars would add additional potential energy to the system as they parked. Finally when the midday peak came the structure could be allowed to slowly drop back down, turning the pumps and motors in reverse to feed back into the distribution system. Given the limitations of battery storage and the possibility of greater then 100% energy return from the perspective of the facility owner (all the "free" energy added to the system as cars drive themselves up the ramp) I can't see why this idea hasn't caught on.
V2G for energy storage
ACPROPULSION.COM has already shown vehicle to GRID with it's Electric Vehicles. The storage is massive depending on how many vehicles and the battery capacity of each. So far they use 50 Kw in the eBox and Delaware has a study and rates established like net-metering for solar to cover these great vehicles.
We can continue to import 60% of our oil each day, at $37 Billion or more each year and create TONS of pollution or drive pollution free, charge on excess power in the GRID Off Peak and Sell On Peak . It helps the economy and environment while you make money.
Most vehicles sit 20-24 hours a day, mostly at night and can power America. A really great book on this is V2G-101. It's one of the best books on EVs and V2G I have ever read.
EV batteries as storage
The idea of using batteries as distribution storage has one major drawback - batteries have a limited number of charge-discharge cycles. If I were an owner of an EV, there is no way I would willing tie my vehicle to a system that would likely reduce the life of my batteries without being heavily compensated for the battery maintenance expense.
It's easy enough to prove V2G works with a few vehicles. Getting the idea to work cost-effectively work with hundreds of thousands of vehicles is a more complex task, even without the challenges of compensating owners for charge/discharge cycles. For one thing, every V2G scheme I'm aware of assumes the grid operator (utility or ISO) will control charging much as they dispatch power plants. Even if consumers allowed it, the cost and complexity of centrally managing that many end-use devices without emptying a customer's "fuel tank" make the idea impractical. The fact that most vehicles are idle at any given point in time does not mean they will be idle for the duration of the charge/discharge event, which introduces another element of complexity.
Implementing V2G using distributed decision-making (the vehicle, with some programming by its owner, decides whether and how to inject or withdraw energy), might work if the necessary elements were in place and grid operators would allow it.


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31 U.S. Code § 1537 - Services between the United States Government and the District of Columbia government
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(a) To prevent duplication and to promote efficiency and economy, an officer or employee of—
(1) Services under this section shall be provided under an agreement—
(2) Each agreement shall provide that the cost of providing the services shall be borne in the way provided in subsection (c) of this section by the government to which the services are provided at rates or charges based on the actual cost of providing the services.
(3) To carry out an agreement made under this subsection, the agreement may provide for the delegation of duties and powers of officers and employees of—
(A) the District of Columbia government to officers and employees of the United States Government; and
(c) In providing services under an agreement made under subsection (b) of this section—
(1) costs incurred by the United States Government may be paid from appropriations available to the District of Columbia government officer or employee to whom the services were provided; and
Source(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 934; Pub. L. 109–177, title VI, § 605(d)(1),Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 255.)
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In the section, the words "District of Columbia" are substituted for "District" for clarity and consistency.
In subsection (a), the word "duplication" is substituted for "duplication of effort" to eliminate unnecessary words. The words "officer or employee of the United States Government" are substituted for "any Federal officer or agency", and the words "officer or employee of the District of Columbia government" are substituted for "any District officer or agency", for consistency.
In subsection (b)(1), before clause (A), the words "Except where the terms and conditions governing the furnishing of such services are prescribed by other provisions of law" are omitted as surplus. In clause (A), the words "officers and employees of the 2 governments" are substituted for "Federal and District authorities" for consistency. In clause (B), the words "of the District of Columbia" are added for clarity.
In subsection (b)(3), before clause (A), the words "duties and powers" are substituted for "functions" for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code. The text of 31:685a(b)(last sentence) is omitted as surplus.
In subsection (c)(1), the words "United States Government" are substituted for "each Federal officer and agency" for clarity.
In subsection (c)(2), the words "District of Columbia government" are substituted for "each District officer and agency" for consistency.
2006—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 109–177substituted "and the Secret Service Uniformed Division" for "and the Executive Protective Service" and "their protective duties under sections 3056 and 3056A of title 18" for "their protective duties under section 302 of title 3 and section 3056 of title 18".
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This is the lube I use early in the season during the Spring rains. It stays on and handles the weather very well. Being a thicker lube it does attract dirt more.
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This chain lube is great for on the road not the best for off road/trail. Keeps the chain smooth and quiet but picks up a lot of dirt off the road.
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CDPHP CEO John Bennett to deliver 2014 commencement address at Sage
ALBANY & TROY, NY – The Sage Colleges is pleased to announce that Capital District Physicians' Health Plan (CDPHP) President and CEO John D. Bennett, MD, FACC, FACP, will deliver the 97th commencement address on Saturday, May 17. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. at the Houston Field House on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus in Troy.
Dr. Bennett was named president and CEO of CDPHP in 2008 after serving as chairman of the CDPHP board since September 2003, vice chairman since 1999, and board member since 1996.
Before joining CDPHP, Dr. Bennett served as CEO of Prime Care Physicians, PLLC. During his tenure there, he practiced cardiology with Albany Associates in Cardiology. He also chaired the department of medicine at Albany Memorial Hospital and served as their chief of the division of cardiology. Dr. Bennett was also a member of Northeast Health Systems' board of directors.
Dr. Bennett is board certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Internal Medicine, with subspecialties in internal medicine and cardiology. He earned his medical degree at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, and a Bachelor of Science degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Bennett completed an internship and residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Albany Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Bennett is chair of the board of directors for the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (Hixny). He also serves on the boards of the Alliance of Community Health Plans, America's Health Insurance Plans, Colonie Senior Service Centers, the American Red Cross of Northeastern New York, the Center for Economic Growth, New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), and the Palace Theatre.
Here are a few interesting facts that you may not know about Dr. Bennett. His wife Deborah is a graduate of Russell Sage College. Before pursuing an education in health care, Dr. Bennett studied chemical engineering at RPI and he is a Civil War history enthusiast with a great admiration for Abraham Lincoln.
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Sage will also award Chester "Chet" J. Opalka an honorary degree at this year's ceremony. Opalka is a former trustee of The Sage Colleges and donor to the Opalka Gallery on the Sage College of Albany campus which is named in his family's honor.
Opalka is a co-founder of Albany Molecular Research, Inc. (AMRI), a full service chemistry services provider to the life sciences industry. The company, founded in 1991, is based in Albany, NY. He retired from the company in September 2000. Prior to founding AMRI, Opalka worked for 20 years at Sterling Drug Inc. in various capacities in the Discovery and Process Development Departments. He holds nearly 30 patents and has co-authored several scientific publications reporting his work in organic chemistry. One invention led to the marketed product, Inocor, the first of a novel class of drug used in the treatment of congestive heart failure. Opalka received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Niagara University.
Since his retirement, Opalka has become very active in the local business and philanthropic communities, where arts and education have been the main focus. He has served on the Boards of the Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce, The Sage Colleges, The Freddie Institute and Northeast Health. Opalka is an advisor to and supporter of the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Capital Repertory Theatre, The Community Foundation of the Greater Capital Region, Proctors Theater and the Sand Lake Center for the Arts. He was a charter member of the Tech Valley Angel Network which, recently morphed into the Eastern New York Angels. As an angel investor, he serves in various advisory roles at numerous local early stage companies.
Opalka, and his wife, Karen, a retired elementary school teacher, have always recognized the pricelessness of a quality education; a cornerstone and enabler for children to become successful in life. Together they support scholarships at The Sage Colleges and College of St. Rose as well as The Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar and other regional education initiatives. Most notably, they provided the gift which enabled the Opalka Gallery at Sage College of Albany to become a reality. In 2003 they joined a group of like-minded individuals and founded The Global Child (www.theglobalchild.org) an entrepreneurial school for street working children in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (WUSA9) -- A man has been arrested on warrants charging him in two thefts in Prince George's County.
According to Prince George's County Sheriff's Office, Jonathan Warren sold stolen items to a pawn shop in Camp Springs, Md., on October 24, 2012. The stolen items included two IPods, a digital camera, a fog machine, and jewelry. Authorities say the items were stolen from people in Charles County, Md. Warren reportedly receive $220 for the items, which had an estimated value of $1350, say authorities.
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Leave a note for her saying, "Hey, I know you really dig your new guy and all, but I was wondering if you and me could hang out together sometime. Just us. You're still my best friend no matter what, and I miss you."
Some people get really wrapped up in the excitement of new relationships, and they forget about everything around them. Some people need a friendly nudge to remind them that their old friends are still there. A huge mistake a lot of people make (not just teens who are dating for the first time, but married couples, too) is that their partner becomes their life, and they alienate all the people around them. That's not good 'cause without friends, where do you turn when something goes wrong between you and your partner?
Whatever the deal don't act jealous of her boyfriend, and don't act bitchy about him or towards him, either. That's only going to give her reason to ignore you more. Instead try to be polite to him if you're all hanging out together.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
The New International Arms Race in SpaceAnd How to Avoid It
Recorded: Friday, March 7, 2008
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Did the United States test an anti-satellite weapon when it shot down an out-of-control spy satellite earlier this month? Or was it a precautionary measure to protect people on the ground who might have been hit with a fuel tank filled with a poisonous gas?
Experts: Peter L. Hays, Theresa Hitchens, Jeff Kueter, Mike MooreType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Government Secrecy, History (International), History (U.S), Science, Technology
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Recorded: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty designated space for peaceful purposes as the province of all mankind. Virtually all spacefaring nations now favor a new treaty to accommodate major changes in geopolitics and military technology. The United States, however, has blocked negotiations, citing potential threats to U.S. rights, capabilities, and freedom of action.
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Hi all,
This thread will be to provide a semi-comprehensive list of most the characters (those that are directly involved in the story and their role)in Alteil and i will do my best to link in some additional cards when applicable. I will go in chronological order beginning with refess. I don't have all the cards so some of the flavor test (which is important for story stuff) is lost to me (see other thread) but I'll do my best.
Note: If you disagree with this thread i suggest you leave without reading further and refrain from making inappropriate comments. Any an all user input is fully appreciated. Please support theories and ideas with data-ie. flavor text and future card pics etc.
Solar Prince Verlaat: See Link off main page under game Info- Story- Archives of Lavato. It is nice to see the progression verlaat takes in his card forms as he goes from young adolescent king to tyrant Sun Emporer.
Verlaat being cast into the ravine: https://alteil-login.gamepotusa.com/car ... php?id=858
Eskatia meets with rescued verlaat: https://alteil-login.gamepotusa.com/car ... hp?id=1001
Verlaat meets with the kng of the undead: https://alteil-login.gamepotusa.com/car ... hp?id=1081
Alliance of sun and moon: https://alteil-login.gamepotusa.com/car ... php?id=747
At some pointe alphonce and verlaat will meet and look to be in some form or peril. After this? they become arch enemies.
Sibling solidarity: https://login.alteil.jp/al2CardDB/detail.php?id=1350
Dragonrider / Wasseir: Leader of the dragon riders and teacher to both Resource and Millia. Opted not enter the war of the sun and moon.
Lion Baron / Zagar: Military leader of the Solar kingdom under Verlaat. More detailed information available off main page storyline. trained under the Abyss centaur/ Dical.
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As a general:
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Saber Saint / Lapierre Commander of the Solar kingdom's cleric army
She is known to feud with Inquisition Nun Cynthia. she is the overall leader of the shrine Knights. uses lantylit (special whip) as a weapon. i think she likes her red wine-i am beginning to like her more and more (see card below)
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Knight of luminance Ernst:
Realm guardian mayleen:
Fountain knight elneith: personal body guard to verlaat separate from the Priests of the royal guard. Failing to protect verlaat from gaieshart when he casts verlaat into the ravine, she commits suicide for failing in her duty.
Boy inquisitor cudgel: no impact on the story yet but these true god guys are heinous. Remember, it was the high priest of the tgc that managed to get verlaat as next in line to succession over Alphonse.
Inquisition nun Cynthia: leader of the tgc faction of solar kingdom units. Trained under the tutelage of demon nun cosmos. She quarrels with lapierre. At some point they assist one another Ina battle against what looks like magic dolls. Something tells me this feud between the tgc religious wing and the normal military will come to a head.
Lapierre and Cynthia battling together: https://alteil-login.gamepotusa.com/car ... php?id=517
Fallen moon child miffyre: abyssal forces character that betrays the envoy of chaos elandi. She is escorted to the solar kingdom by the beasts orthos, belus, and scarrion. She informs verlaat of the impending coming of elgandi and what must be done to save lavato. She is locked away in the holy realm. I am not exactly sure what the holy realm is is it another dimension? Perhaps it is a magical location outside of lavato or within lavato itself only accessible through the a special door or portal that is protected by realm guardian mayleen and the key to the holy realm.
Beast soldier Orthos: one of the beasts that escorts Miffyre to the Solar kingdom.
2nd Dragonrider Resource: Leaves training to join the war of the sun and moon, for The solar forces. Trained under Wasseir.
2nd Shrine leader Shathia: Captain of 2nd shrine knights.
3rd Shrine leader Ridrea: Captain of the 3rd shrine knights.
4th Shrine leader Elaice:
5th Shrine leader Judie: Captain of the 5th Shrine knights "the crazies"
Servant of the sun Safira: leading strategist for the Solar Kingdom. She secretly supports Alphonce and manages to get him smuggled back intothekingdom whenVerlaat goes missing. Personal note: I really like Safira more and more after reading this. She does her duty day in and day out but never lost faith in her primary allegiance. She'll probably hang for what she does but my hat off to her.
Unknown knight Aano; A shrine knight but really a spy working for the True God Church. She has some second thoughts about the true purpose of the church however. We also suspect she has an alias and goes by the name Justice to do good deeds throughout the kingdom in here spare time.
Archer captain Fistara:
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Solar Princess Aliria: She is the younger sister to Verlaat. Despite his misgivings, she joins the battles to help heal the wounded.
Envoy of Chaos Elgandi: The mastermind of evil. Ultimate goal is to rule Lavato. Is an Iczer. The triad of chaos Annarose, Zalzagul, and the late Galdirea work to meet his ends.


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I know I've said it before, but Spotify is about as good as Google Earth – and that's saying something. If you're like me and you love listening to music more than you are obsessed by any single band or style, you'll love Spotify.
Why? Because it's the free streaming service that will bring you music you've never heard before but will be glad you did.
And it works like an intelligent iTunes: explore from any and every logical angle. Kick off your own radio station and let Spotify bring you 1950's Jazz tracks. Like an artist? Click on their name, explore what else they've done. Like an album? Click on that album to listen to it like an album.
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At the age of 11, you play book cricket with player names like Victor Trumper, Trevor Goddard and Pankaj Roy.
"I want to raise my hand and say one thing. Those who complain about my love for the game or commitment to the game are clueless. These are the only 2 areas where I give myself 100 out of 100."
- Sachin Tendulkar, as told in an interview published in Bengali newspaper Anandabazar Patrika after his 100th International century (translated by weldone)
When you have a dream that India winning the world cup was a dream. You wake up and reassure yourself that it did actually happen.
RIP Phil Hughes. Forever 63*
1. Read from the first post and loved each and everyone of them as I do most of them as well. Gun thread.
And to add on,
2. when you get scolded by each and everyone around you that cricket is going to ruin your life and your career
3. when you start a fantasy competition in paper in your college since most of your friends were not willing to pay and play it in cricinfo and update the scores for all players after every match manually
Can say a lot more but it might tend to look like boasting so will stop here..
You know you are obsessed with cricket when you get up at 4am to watch a series you know you are likely to lose before it even starts. Will still get up for the 4th test even if we are 3-0 down if only to try and spot my dad in the crowd.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"I don't think that they'll come close to us to be honest."
- Steve Smith before the Ashes
You know you're obsessed with cricket when a Sky commentator mentions a Test match player who retired thirty years ago, and you remember his Cricketweb all time rank, and why you trashed him because of his stats against non-minnows.
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
When you agree to be the mascot for your provincial cricket team, which involves dressing up in a spandex one-piece suit and showing occasional dashes of speed.
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Ted's random photo from Christmas Eve dinner w/ my daddy Maurice. We had ham. Do you stil have left overs from your holiday feast? Here's a recipe you can do with all/any leftovers...
Ted's stuff in a pan:
On his plate.. cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes and ham..Grab a large pan, sray pam it/ or butter of margarine... brown up the cornbread and mashed potatoes in the pan and then add chopped up ham. Add your favorite seasonings.. garlic, pepper, whatever you like... cook up until a bit crispy w/ the potatoes.. put on a plate to eat. You can add your veggies, sweet potatoes, whatever your leftovers are to the pan.. cranberry sauce is good to add after it's on the plate on top..or the side which you like.
You could also do the Layered Stuff in a Pan..grab a baking dish and spray pam the bottom to prevent sticking. Layer the stuffing, then a layer of mashed potatoes, and add the chopped up ham...Veggies/sweet potatoe whatever else you have could go on top. Adding cheese inbetween and on top can rock too! Bake until a light golden brown on top/warm in the middle, since they are already cooked. ENJOY!
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This is wonderful. It's great to see this as a family effort! Really heartwarming - and producing a really good background too!
Well, my band of Four Happy Carpet Orcs (aged 3 to 13) and I have decided to do a map, we browsed about and they chose Snapgallows, purely, I think, because of the recent influence of the Corpse Bride.
We are using this adventure to teach them the basics of several programs, Inkscape, Sketchup, Photoshop, PD Particles/Dogwaffle, and the original Terragen, so far, though the output of all of them may not make it into the final image.
Creative story telling will also be a big part of their journey, as every map needs a history, especially for children. I entertain the ones who are not actively working on the 2 laptops with bits of jibberish concerning just about everything I can think of, they ask amazingly astute questions, and we refine the tale.
Hopefully this will be the beginning of at least one Cartographers' or Tellers' long term journey, and as it is really for their enjoyment it may not be entirely appropriate for big folk, but you can take that up with the FHCO Inc. muscle.
Some of the basics so far, contingent upon the whims and wiles of FHCO Inc.
Snapgallows is now a village of middling size, rather grim and unkempt.
It sets on the remnants of a older, much more refined Town, once known as Haughley.
Of early Haughley little is known. That Limestone was skillfully quarried is evident from the partially standing town walls and towers that encircle Snapgallows, several fine structures walled and floored entirely with limestone blocks and slabs, and, of course, the large scale Quarry and myriad of Quarrier Digs,narrow twisting tunnels which followed the veins of blue tinted Limestone deep beneath the hill which stands to the north f Snapgallow. These tunnels were the earliest manner in which the fine Snapgallow limestone was quarried and a quite numerous. seldom visited in these days, as shal be seen.
Snapgallows, and Haughley in its time, is governed by members of the Seven Families, folk of above average wealth and status who through politic and persuasion (some times heavy handed) wheedled their way to the seat of power and control.
Most houses in Snapgallows are cobwalled with shingled roofing made from castoffs from the quarry, here and there bits of the older, finer buildings have been absorbed into even the roughest hovel. The Seven Families have made their homes from the last of the fully standing Haughley structures, a few of which were actually houses, some of which were quarry stone cutter's halls, (making for vast drafty rooms, bitterly cold in winter, but status outweighs comfort) and one of which was the original Haughley gaol (owned now by the Oboro Family, which sets firmly, and somewhat resentfully, at the bottom of the Snapgallows Seven Families Hierarchy).
Employment/livelihood. The Seven Families money is thought to come from trade, transport and security, as they are not known to raise a hand in labor, but many rumor that filching from caravans they have been paid to protect adds much to their purses.
Most other Snappies, as they are oft called, subsist by working the land, with taters and sow corn being the main crops. Taters for eating and sow corn for feeding, as the raising of a furry little piggish creature known as a casked belly hammer is another Snapgallow livelihood. Casked Belly Hammer's are rather intelligent and grow extremely quick on a limited diet, making for the perfect livestock. "Feeds itself and tastes grand", is the local opinion of these little porkers.
A semi feral breed of goat, known as Quarriers, as they roam the sparse fields near the diggings, is herded for its milk, making a tasty sharp cheese and the squeakiest curds ever heard.
Most other skills follow from these livelihoods, cheesemaker, glover, skinner, tanner, brewer (tatershine!), and so on. As well as the more common trades as merchant, smith, barber, pother, seamstress, booter and the like.
The origination of the name of Snapgallows, as opposed to its earlier moniker Haughley, is a tale in itself, concerning the last day and words of one Alfert Kier, Tanner by Trade, and his death above Gwillam's Seat atop Snapgallow Hill,,and shall be extolled upon the CWBP Wiki in due time.
"Fear the Head of Alfert Kier"
This is wonderful. It's great to see this as a family effort! Really heartwarming - and producing a really good background too!
It has been quite fun really, and luckily I am more the child minder than parent, as only the oldest, Lizzy, is mine, so once they are all suitably scared by the Head of Alfert Kier, I can send them home to keep their parents awake with their own version of the tales,,,which I have no qualms plagiarizing when better than mine.
And Thrubmorton Fen gives me a locale to drop the daily stories I have been telling Lizzy and her youngest sister for years, into. In a form that is much easier to read than my scratchings, and much more tangible to them.
Thanks, SeerBlue
I have just read by email the tale of Alfert Kier... its so awesome...
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Well, we of the FHCO Inc, thank you, the kids are quite happy an adult who is not related likes their/our effort. A lot of the little things, from wet boots to Cask Belly Hammers, started out as things they said. Ask them what they would need to survive in Snapgallows and let them do some internet searches on medeival england (of all places) and we run from there.
Today we spent at the Journey Museum here in RC SD, which covers Black hills history from dinosaurs, thru Native American history and cowboys, to geology.
So they are full of little germs of ideas for things to add. One of their favorite things is a full length Horse hair coat a local cowhand wore in the 1800's, so we talked about that for awhile and finally came up with a reason one would wear one, which will find its way into Snapgallows, "Well, the old bolt carried me for 20 years on her back with never a wicker, so I thought it only fair to return the favor"....
Gotta love kids
Hopefully we are putting in enough little things to be hooks, reasons for further expansion, I find now that I have to keep a notepad or their PDA around to keep up. I sent them off yesterday with some very old copies of a D and D related magazine and they are really looking at the maps and stories hard, the oldest boy reads to the younger, which is good in itself. SeerBlue
the FHCO and I are still chugging away at Snapgallows, right now they have a real good understanding of Sketchup, as far as making simple roofed and textured buildings for a map point of view, not all buildings have chimneys yet, some may not get them at all, poor chilly louts, and for the first map we are leaving out doors and windows due to laptop memory limits. Their laptop can handle it, but mine is olllld and slow, so moving the file back and forth for two to work on, (one building, one texturing) would be a problem. But, as we can export single buildings as skp files, and keep its position for reimport, "Rasce" as he is now known, is going to work that on his own via ruby scripts. As well as a bit of furniture, rough and Gallowish, here and there.
Redrobes has offered to supply FOHC with the terrain, which will go into sketchup as well, and perhaps terragen for an orthographic textured render. Roy wants to add a border around the map that imitates a birds eye view of different parts of the city, mimicking a view he found at rumsey maps (my favorite resource) as at 6 he is having trouble visualizing the top down view (ain't neber been in on a Wybern, he says, so totally in character, which by the way is named Royt Hayer, better known as HorseHair). So I have some homework to do.
Most likely mapping will take longer than adding bits of story to the Wiki, as kids have 100 ideas a minute and it is my job to sort them out with them, but it is their job to make a map. Which we will refine near the end.
BumbleMouse is our resident menu explorer and link/info finder, she is working from a list of words taken from the Thrubmorton Fen Wiki, and other places like the Journey Museum, to get information and reference pics, she is also the one who discovered Sketchups styles menu early on, leading to this very early in development render, which will perhaps be the basis for HorseHair's birds eye view Border.
Lemur, at 3, has contributed to buildings and sketchup, and being a master of "watch and learn" proved that the ruby script for roofs can be used on towers and circular buildings, after I had said it could not. The two squat circular buildings in the render, with the pointed roofs are part of her work, as are the bright yellow buildings in the background. The squat buildings have become the undoing of one Alfert Kier, as will soon be told on the Wiki, as they are vattish, they fit perfect. As for her yellow buildings all I know so far is "cheese" meaning I think this is the ageing house for the Quarrier Goats Cheese, or it is yelllow and made of cheese as is the moon, thank you, Wallace and Gromit .
"I looked for a man riding a horse, which is rare in West Fentor, a man who resembled a horse, which is common in West Fentor, even for a man who smelled like a horse, assuredly even more common, though I am befuddled as to why, as there are naught for Horses here."
From "The Weather outside is Frightful, BAAAAAA" A rainy day Snapgallow story by the FHCO , headed to a wiki soon
Redrobes has posted the second installment of Snapgallow Tells, as the kids call them to the Wiki
for us.
The stories are a group effort for the FHCO and I, they come up with ideas and then we flesh them out. Really they are for the kids, but we decided that, if we did it right, they could be used for background during a game, and the characters could become npc's, this one is known as "Fear the Head of Alfert Kier" by the FHCO's, and introduces just a bit of history and a few characters,,,and the head of Alfert Kier and its "deably" (read deadly) power,,,which will be expanded.
Their are currently 3 further Snapgallow Tells inwork, which tie in or expand on this one, each from an idea the kids came up with.
"Fick Bring Me a Chair", "Yelping Limestone", and "The Weather Outside is Frightful" (it was raining the day we wrote it).
Each has its own flavor, and introduce characters and traits that may not fall within any gaming system, but could be adapted.
They range in length from 4 to 15 pages, kids can set still when they are an active part of something after all,.
I do heartily suggest that if you have kids, involve them in the CWBP, this has been the most fun, the most fulfilling, map and story adventure I have ever had,,,,when we are done our map may not be awesome, but it will be kept.
Thank Seer. Great idea, getting family involvement. If at the end of the day the only thing we have to show for the CWBP is your post, I think it will have been a success. Great work, giving real meaning to collaboration.
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I have done stage1 map for ya. Will do a closer view but it should give better idea.
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While most know Valentines Day as the holiday of love and affection, some remember it for a different reason: the Saint Valentines Day massacre.
Back during the prohibition era, the streets of Chicago were torn between two rival gangs, Al Capones South Side Italian gang and Bugs Morans North Side Irish gang. On the morning of February 14, 1929, Valentines Day, five members from Bugs Morans gang and two local gang collaborators were lined up against the back wall of the garage at 2122 North Clark Street and executed. The executioners were gangsters hired from outside Chicago by Al Capone, who wanted the attack to be a complete surprise.
The executing gangsters were dressed in varying styles of clothing; two dressed as police offers, while the rest wore suits, ties, and general businessman attire – not the usual gangster costumes. Two of the shooters used Thompson sub-machine guns, one equipped with a 50-round drum and the other a 20-round box magazine. The shooters sprayed round after round into the seven gangsters lined along the wall, even continuing to shoot after the victims fell to the floor. The coroners report claims some of the executed gangsters were literally torn apart by the volley of bullets.
After the shooting stopped, the two false police officers led the fellow conspiring gang members out by gunpoint, so as to look like an arrest was taking place. The gang members then fled the scene.
But a local neighbor, Mrs. Landesman, sensed something was not quite right, so she sent one of her tenants to go look at the scene. The tenant became sick at the sight of seven bodies bleeding all over the garages floor, and he called for an ambulance.
Frank Gusenberg, one of the men gunned down, was still breathing, and emergency medical staff immediately rushed him to a local hospital. After the doctors stabilized Frank, police asked him to describe who shot him. He replied, Nobody shot me, even though his body had clearly sustained fourteen bullet wounds. He died three hours later.
This event drew mass attention to the gang activities within Chicago, and some attribute the event with the eventual downfall of Capones mob.
But heres an interesting question: What happened to the garage where the massacre took place?
In 1967, the garage was demolished and is now a landscaped parking lot for a nursing home. As for the bricks that once comprised the wall where seven men were gunned down, those 414 bricks were purchased by George Patey, who painstakingly dismantled the wall, numbered the bricks, and then shipped them to his home in Canada.
In 1971, Patey opened the Banjo Palace nightclub, where he installed the bricks in the mens restroom. Patey shielded the bricks with a Plexiglas shield, which he painted targets onto, so as to encourage men to use their urine to reenact the massacre. The nightclub closed in 1976.
In 1978, Time Magazine reported that Patey reassembled the wall and put it on display in a wax museum. The museum featured a scene of gangsters shooting each other in front of the wall. But the wax museum later went bankrupt.
The bricks were then placed in storage until 1997, when Patey tried to auction them off. A Las Vegas casino offered $175,000 for all of the bricks, but Patey refused. In 1999, Patey tried to sell off individual bricks and managed to get rid of approximately a hundred.
Patey passed away on December 26, 2004, with the brick collection going to his niece, who then sold the remaining bricks to a Las Vegas mob museum.


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I'm just saying.
I've been watching Saturday Night Live the Best of Christopher Walken and laughing my ass of for the past two days in a row.
One of the best skits ever features Christopher Walken as a producer during the band's recording of "Fear the Reaper".
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On that note…. choose your own cowbell in your favorite color and party on.