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How do you use push notification on your iPhone? Apple released the push notification service as part of iPhone 3.0 and since then iPhone and iPod touch (and now iPad) users have been able to get everything from social network updates (Instant Messages (IM), Twitter tweets, Facebook statues) to game challenges to deal notices to.. just about anything you can imagine.
Some users are forgoing SMS for push notifications to save on texting costs. Others like RSS feeds, or breaking news on certain topics pushed right to them. There are even apps who only provide push notifications for other apps!
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We're getting a lot of reports from people who say they aren't getting push notifications for their iPad apps, and we're having similar problems ourselves. From productivity to games, there doesn't seem to be a pattern yet other than "not-working".
Are you having problems with push notifications on your iPad? If so, tell us which apps aren't working for you. And if you are getting notifications, tell us about that as well.
Orbit aims to do for your iPhone what Syngergy does for Palm's webOS -- aggregate all your contacts and their status -- but with an equal and opposite focus on notification management.
So, not only can you link together your friend's contact info along with their Facebook, Twitter, etc., you can group them into various "orbits" (and each contact can be in more than one "orbit"), create all manner of filters, and raise or lower the "volume" of notification you receive.
So, you can set the volume of your raging editor in chief to "high" and your in-laws to "low".
TiPb has discussed this before -- after the rush to Push Notification, we have devices pinging and poping at us all the time and that can become as useless as no notifications.
Orbit [Free -- iTunes link] has just gone live in the App Store, check it out. Video after the break!
Boxcar just let us know Boxcar 2.2 [Free/in-app purchases - iTunes link] has been served up piping hot to the iPhone (and iPod touch) App Store. Here are some highlights:
PushMail [$2.99 - iTunes link] has just gone 2.0. For those unfamiliar with PushMail, its a middleapp that creates an account for you to forward email, and when it's alerted to that new email, it sends out a push notification to your iPhone. New features this time around include:
Boxcar [$2.99 + In-App Purchases - iTunes link], a push-enabler for iPhone and iPod touch originally launched with support for a couple of Twitter clients. Then it added a bunch more. As several Twitter clients now offer support for push themselves, what's Boxcar to do for a 2.0 encore? Add Facebook and Email push, of course, as well as Twitter Search and Twitter Trends.
Okay, sure, some major Twitter clients like Tweetie and Twitterrific still haven't added push support, so if they're your go-to apps, Boxcar may still be a go-to middleapp. Likewise, while Google supports Gmail now via GoogleSync, Exchange users can't hand over their only ActiveSync slot, so email push-enablers still have their place. Lastly -- and it's a big lastly, while Facebook 3.0 for iPhone just launched, it did so without push support, and so if you don't want to wait for 3.1 to get your push on, well, here's your middleapp for that as well.
But... it comes with a price. The $2.99 app price comes with one service built in. If you want to add another, like Facebook, you need to make an additional $0.99 in-app purchase. Email, that's another $0.99. Twitter Trends and Twitter Search likewise. And since you can have multiple Twitter, Email, Twitter Search, etc. set up, you can go from that base $2.99 to $4.99, even $9.99 or more. Basically, you pay for what's valuable to you. If you're working customer service and being push-alerted when your company (or your competitor!) and the word "problem" hits Twitter, $0.99 is a steal. If you don't care about trends or searches, or Facebook for that matter, you get a cheaper entry price for the app.
So, whether this particular app is worth it to you, and whether or not the in-app purchase upgrades are worth it to you, we're liking options and being able to choose -- and pay for -- only what we find of value.
So, if you need push now and you decide to try Boxcar 2.0 out, let us know how it works for you, and what you think of the pricing model!
More screen shots after the break...
i.TV just let TiPb know they've submitted version 2.0 of their popular iPhone and iPod touch app to the iTunes App Store. What's in store for us this time out?
i.TV now combines the TV guide and the remote control on an iPhone or iPod touch. Remote controls are powered by the i.TV Remote Control Framework, which allows third parties to develop remote controls for use on the i.TV platform.
i.TV now combines the TV guide and the remote control on an iPhone or iPod touch. Remote controls are powered by the i.TV Remote Control Framework, which allows third parties to develop remote controls for use on the i.TV platform.
How's all of that sound to ya?
PushMail [$4.99 - iTunes link] takes a different approach to working around the lack of push notifications for Gmail, Hotmail, and other email services on the iPhone. When you set up PushMail, you're prompted to create an account on their servers ([username]@dopushmail.com). You then forward email from Gmail, Hotmail, etc. to that PushMail account (using whatever filters or rules you like), and when PushMail gets the forward, it sends a push notification to your iPhone, alerting you that your Gmail, Hotmail, etc. account has email.
BargainBin [Free - iTunes link] keeps an eye on App Store apps and lets you know about sales and price drops. So, if there's an app out there you're waiting to try, but are watching your budget, this might be a way to keep track of any discounts coming your way. With push notification, you'll also know quickly when to pounce on the right deal.
If you give it a try, let us know how it works for you!
UPDATE 2: GPush's developers posted in the comments with the following info:
On Saturday August 8, 2009 GPush made it into the App store. We are currently experiencing a server issue and have temporarily pulled the app from the store while we work on the problem. This is an issue with our servers not the application and we will not need to go through the approval process again. If you have already downloaded the application, please know we are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
On Saturday August 8, 2009 GPush made it into the App store. We are currently experiencing a server issue and have temporarily pulled the app from the store while we work on the problem. This is an issue with our servers not the application and we will not need to go through the approval process again. If you have already downloaded the application, please know we are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
UPDATE: According to the developers on Twitter:
GPush made it to the App Store, we are aware of a server issue & we temporarily pulled the App off the store while we work on the servers
GPush made it to the App Store, we are aware of a server issue & we temporarily pulled the App off the store while we work on the servers
ORIGINAL: GPush [$0.99 - iTunes link] provides a work-around for Gmail push notifications for iPhone 3.0 users. GPush is not an email client in its own right; it serves only to notify a user via sound/vibrate, text alert pop-up, and/or numerical badge, but the user still has to manually launch the iPhone's built-in Mail app to actually download and interact with the email.
We've only had a chance to try it very briefly, but it worked well, notifying us incoming GMail messages very quickly. Job. Done.
Unlike Boxcar, for example, which provides similar intermediary push notification for Twitter clients, GPush doesn't have the option to automatically launch Mail when you get an alert (only an "okay" button, not a "view" button). We also couldn't get it to work with Google Accounts, the paid version of Gmail that uses custom domain names. (GPush makes no mention of Google Accounts support, but if it occurred to us to try it, we figured it would occur to readers as well).
Lastly, GPush keeps asking to know our location. Why does it need that information? (Update: per the developes
All in all, GPush does exactly what it claims to -- it provides near instant notification for Gmail for iPhone users. Until Google adds Gmail to Google Sync, or Apple and Google get off their duffs and build IMAP IDLE into the Mail App proper, if you want "push" Gmail on your iPhone, check out GPush and let us know what you think.
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In 2013, he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting "for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers."
He has written for magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He is the author of a history of computer programming, "Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists and Iconoclasts — The Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution" (Basic Books, 2001; paperback, 2002).
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Dobyns-Bennett is the states top-ranked team.
William Blount, competitive in all 10 games during the regular
season, travels to Kingsport for a Class 5A playoff opener.
William Blount wins.
The previous scenario isnt wishful thinking on the part of the
Governors and William Blount coach Scott Meadows. Its
recent history.
The Governors shocked the then-No. 1-ranked Indians, 26-19, when the same variables converged for a 2001 meeting. Friday, the 2006 Governors will look to duplicate the feat.
"I believe weve got a shot," Meadows said. "Weve got to play very fundamentally sound on defense and control the ball on offense. Weve got to have a good game between the tackles."
The Governors/Indians clash highlights a trio of playoff openers involving Blount County teams on Friday. Alcoas two-time defending Class 2A champion Tornadoes host Cumberland Gap at Goddard Field, with Maryvilles two-time defending 4A champion Rebels welcoming Brainerd to Shields Stadium.
All kickoffs are 7 p.m.
The Indians (10-0) confronting William Blount (6-4) are much in keeping with the Dobyns-Bennett team of 2001, then-Governor coach Earl McMahan said. As with this years team, few were giving William Blount much of a chance.
"We asked (the players), What are you hearing?" McMahan said. "They said, Were going to get beat. We asked them, What is your family telling you? How many of you think you can win? We asked them to raise their hands.
"There werent many."
Everything changed with that Mondays practice.
"We had everybody write down all the reasons we couldnt win," McMahan said. "We put them all in a bucket, and we burned them. We said, OK. Now that weve gotten rid of that, lets go practice."
The Indians are likely to attack where the Governors have proven most vulnerable this season. Coty Sensabaugh is an elite-class receiver whose older brother, Gerald, is a defensive back with the NFLs Jacksonville Jaguars. The Dobyns-Bennett ace has caught 42 balls for 880 yards and 14 touchdowns. Indians quarterback Bo Burton has completed 106 of his 166 throws for 1,584 yards and 18 scores, with three interceptions.
The Indians do just enough on the ground to keep opponents honest.
"They throw the ball," Meadows said. "They put your outside backers and people that run to the ball in a bind. Theyve got a very, very good wide receiver.
"Its going to be a challenge. Theyve got great speed. Theyre fast to the football defensively. Its almost machine-like, mechanical, on offense. Weve got to keep the ball out of their hands. Weve got to do what we do best."
Darran Walker highlights a once collection of unknowns whove become stars this season. The Governor senior has torn at opposing defense for 1,229 yards and 15 touchdowns in a year where many wondered if he could compensate for the loss of his older brother and former Governor star Brad Walker.
In senior Mohamed Baskin and sophomore Darrin Garner, the Governors have the speedsters to force teams to defend the boundaries. Garners pretty nifty between the tackles, too, evidenced by a player of the week performance in last weeks region-clinching win over Heritage.
The emergence of Tyler Burstrom at quarterback has been key for the Governors. The sophomore signal-caller took the reigns in Week 4, adding a passing element when needed thats helped open running room for Walker, Baskin and Garner.
Junior Grey Clevenger has proven a solid, big-play receiver, collecting four scores while averaging 24 yards per catch.
The Governors are a last-second defeat at No. 2 Ooltewah and pair of overtime losses to Farragut and McMinn County from claiming the Region 2-5A crown.
"Thats the (regions) 1, 2 and 3 seed right there," Meadows said. "I think weve surprised some people this year."
To add another Friday, the Governors will need big games from Jeremy DeGroodt, Sam Greene, Josh Madden, Andrew Anderson and Thomas Waggoner up front, Meadows said.
McMahan, now an assistant principal at Heritage, believes the 2006
Governors have what it takes for a reprise of 2001.
"I think theyre a team that has that capability," he said. "They just have to take the bus ride up there believing they can win and ignore the hype."
Cumberland Gap (4-6) at Alcoa (8-2)
Region 1-2As fourth seed comes to Blount County representing a league that has enjoyed little postseason success. Of the regions four playoff teams, only Gatlinburg-Pittman, with a 33-27 decision over Wartburg in 2004, has come away with a win. The remaining three teams Happy Valley (0-7), South Greene (0-7) and Cumberland Gap (0-3) are a combined 0-17. The Highlanders are 1-3 in postseason play.
The second-ranked Tornadoes routed No. 7 Booker T. Washington of Memphis, 56-15, in last weeks regular season finale. Senior Chris Shiverdecker carried 10 times for 175 yards and a touchdown in the first half alone. Quarterback Randall Cobb riddled the Warriors secondary for 198 yards and three scores in a half of play.
Throw in playmakers Kyrus Lanxter, Brian Sommer and Sam Thompson at the receivers, and Cumberland Gap is facing down a lot of firepower.
Defensively, ends Rae Sykes and Bobby Keller, linebackers Bart Hicks, Darrell Tate and Troy Hodge and defensive back Alex Green have been playing lights-out ball of late.
Alcoa has a bigger enrollment than the town of Cumberland Gap population 202 has residents. The Tornadoes are likely to roll and roll big.
Brainerd (4-6) at Maryville (10-0)
The Panthers lost, 22-20, to hapless Chattanooga Central in their regular-season finale last week. The top-ranked Rebels are loaded.
Maryville starters have seen the fourth quarter in only one contest this season a 17-14 victory over Alcoa. and its unlikely Brainerd will be around, at least competitively, for the final 12 minutes Friday.
Maryville quarterbacks Derek Hunt, a senior, and Brent Burnette, a junior, are a combined 100-of-132 passing for 1,812 yards and 19 touchdowns this season, against on two interceptions. Burnette is an unheard of 63-of-86 for 1,243 yards and 11 scores. Throw in a running game that includes seniors Adrian "Tank" Baker and Ryan Singleton, and the Panthers have big job ahead of them.
The receiving corps at Hunts and Burnettes disposal includes co-Tennessee commitments Tyler Maples, receiver, and Aaron Douglas, tight end. Opposite wide out Stephen Shiver, a junior, is likely to follow Douglas and Maples to the Southeastern Conference, and theres plenty more where that came from.
The Rebels have been robbed of countless shutouts this season when
opposing teams have left their starters in against
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Edinburgh, 28th June 2007, Maxymiser, Europe's leading web site optimisation and behavioural targeting provider, has stepped up its offensive on the expanding onsite testing market by adding a services division to its portfolio. The acquisition of off-shore web and mobile development company IDE Digital puts Maxymiser in control of its development resource and expands the range of services available to clients.
Established in 2002, IDE Digital has an impressive pedigree. The company was behind the development of the HitDynamics web analytics platform which became part of Hitwise's portfolio in 2005 and was subsequently retained by Experian. They bring with them an impressive client list including LexisNexis, New Scientist, LOVEFiLM International, Siren TV, Kuoni Group and Venda.
IDE Digital will now be known as Maxymiser Services and will retain and further expand the existing team of over 50 high calibre developers based in two East European technical centres. Under the Services branding, Maxymiser is now well placed to offer value added development services to clients and partners in the key areas of web development, analytics and mobile applications.
The acquisition will allow Maxymiser to accelerate the development of its website testing and optimisation solution in the areas of Personalisation and Behavioural Targeting. A team of 15 analytics and online marketing development specialists with an additional 40 developers working across web and mobile projects brings the company's European team to over 80 people.
Bill Dobbie, CEO of Maxymiser commented "Our clients face increasing stress on their development resource. Maxymiser Services will soak up this pressure by providing clients with value added development and analytical capabilities allowing their businesses to benefit from optimisation and personalisation technologies. The team has an unrivalled track record of dealing with complex and scalable projects in analytics, web development and mobile applications. I believe this acquisition makes Maxymiser the best resourced team to service the European market place."
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The FAO Food Price Index (FPI) remains at near record-highs, and this at a time when record droughts and calamitous famine threaten the Horn of Africa. Using the latest data from the FAO FPI page, I plot here the FPI time series from 1990-2011. World food prices are high and have remained so since the […]
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Guess What: Food Prices Still Near All-Time Highs
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Jennifer Burney Lecture
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I've spent the better part of the day editing web pages as I prepare to teach two courses this spring. Given that I've more-or-less wasted the day with necessary but not especially intellectually rewarding tasks, I thought that I would take a moment to post something really important and scientifically interesting. Jennifer Burney, of Stanford's […]
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Biofuels and Water Use
October 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
An opinion piece in the IHT this morning raises the important point that stepped up biofuel production may tax already strained world fresh water supplies. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman and former chief executive of Nestlé, suggests that if world biofuel production targets are met, water withdrawals for agriculture can increase by as much as one-third. Brabeck-Letmathe writes, Seventy percent of all […]
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The Continuing Food Crisis
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments
The 2008 Report of the Millennium Development Goals is out today. Seeing this, along with this editorial piece by The Age's economics editor, Tim Colebatch, drives home the key point that the world food crisis is far from over. High food prices may drive 100 million more people into extreme poverty this year, eroding the substantial progress that […]
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34% of US Corn Harvest To Be Used for Ethanol
September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Despite the flooding in Iowa earlier this summer, the US is set to harvest its second largest corn crop ever. Good news for the price of food for hungry people? Not really, the USDA expects that 34% of the total corn crop will be used to make ethanol for biofuel. They project a price of […]
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Volatile Rice Prices
September 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
There is a new Rice Outlook report from the Economic Research Service of the USDA. I was surprised to see a forecast record harvest for the coming year, given the crazy price movements in rice this year and the dire predictions that were the rule earlier this summer. At Costco in California, they actually rationed […]
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Anaerobic digestion of livestock manure – an attractive option for renewable power. What could be more attractive? Really?
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Biofuels Place Price Pressure on Food
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments
A recent story in The Guardian reports on an unpublished World Bank study that suggests the conversion of food crops to biofuels, and the resulting economic pressures entailed in this process, is responsible for most of the steep price increases in food this year. The World Bank report has not been published, though it was […]
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ActiveMQ in Action
ActiveMQ in Action by Bruce Snyder, Dejan Bosanac and Rob Davies. Published by Manning.
Apache ActiveMQ in Action is a thorough, practical guide to implementing message-oriented systems in Java using ActiveMQ. The book lays out the core of ActiveMQ in clear language, starting with the anatomy of a JMS message and moving quickly through connectors, message persistence, authentication and authorization. With the basics well in hand, you move into interesting examples of ActiveMQ at work, following a running Stock Portfolio application. You'll integrate ActiveMQ with containers like Geronimo and JBoss and learn to tie into popular Java-based technologies like Spring Framework.
Along the way, you'll pick up best practices forged out of the deep experience the authors bring to the book. You'll learn to integrate with non-Java technologies and explore advanced topics like broker topologies and configuration and performance tuning.
Instant Apache ActiveMQ Messaging Application Development
Instant Apache ActiveMQ Messaging Application Development by Timothy Bish. Published by Packt Publishing.
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They lived in different states, had different families, rarely spoke to each other. The only thing Amy Carter and Dean Beck had in common was their son, Logan.
"Logan's dad got custody when (Logan) was 4 years old, but I went down to Los Angeles to visit every month, and twice a year Logan came up here," said Carter, who lives in Gig Harbor. "It was complicated but totally worth it."
By the time Logan was 16, he had his eye on the Air Force Academy. He played junior varsity football and baseball. His high school principal knew and liked him.
"Logan was very smart, very kind, a very good friend to a lot of kids on campus," Moorpark High Principal Carrie Pentis said.
Two days before Christmas break last year, Logan Beck, a high school sophomore, killed himself.
His mother had seen him in November, looked forward to spending part of the holidays with him, but thought he was unhappy.
"It seemed like normal teenage stuff, finding yourself," Carter said.
In mid-December, Logan's father, stepmother and their children popped popcorn with Logan and watched holiday cartoons together — a family tradition.
A few days later, on Dec. 19, Logan went to school but left his first period class early. He walked to the administration office and left a letter for his school counselor which, when discovered about 9 a.m., put the campus on lockdown.
Police said Logan's letter threatened violence against himself and others, but his father said he never threatened anyone specifically.
The letter said he was "tired of living, tired of the pain in the world" and "feared he'd succumb to urges to hurt other people," Dean Beck told CBS Los Angeles.
By the time the campus was shut down, Logan was no longer there.
"Logan left school, walked over a mile and stepped in front of a train," Carter said.
A month later, Dean Beck sat down for a long interview with the CBS affiliate in LA to share his son's story.
"If a parent thinks they are involved, they are not as involved as they need to be," he said. "They need to be checking every aspect of their (child's) life.
"I really have to believe that the pain that we're feeling is for something. That Logan's death wasn't in vain. That if some kid out there can get the help that he or she needs because of this incident, it meant something, it was worth something."
In Gig Harbor, Amy Carter and her extended family wanted to do something, too.
"My husband, sister and her husband talked about it and decided The Logan Foundation would be meaningful way to remember him," she said. "We urge people to be involved in the lives of their kids — their kids and anyone else's."
Their website — TheLoganFoundation.com — has links to hotlines and crisis centers. It tells Logan's story in a variety of ways, including The Mannequin Eradication Front.
"Logan had an irrational fear of mannequins and would joke about it," Carter said.
Online, she's turned that into a motto: "Don't be a mannequin in a teen's life."
"Most schools have no programs, maybe a once-a-year assembly that touches on suicide prevention," Carter said. "Our focus is to help find meaningful ways to open communication.
"We have a core group of 20-30 volunteers willing to help us or other organizations sponsoring suicide prevention curriculum in our schools. We want to reach out to teens in Logan's name."
On Saturday (June 7), The Logan Foundation is sponsoring an all-ages hip-hop concert in Tacoma. Carter, who is not a rap aficionado, viewed songs from each group online before booking them to make sure they weren't inappropriate.
"I'll get up there and make a speech a couple of times, talk about how teen suicide is not a taboo topic and give some background," she said. "We want everyone to have a little more awareness and have fun, too."
One week ago — less than six months after Logan's death — Amy Carter got a note from her son. It came courtesy of a California police detective who found it in the case file.
"Logan said goodbye and that he was sorry but couldn't live with who he had become," she said. "He said he loved me."
Hip hop concert fundraiser
When: Saturday (June 7), 7 p.m.- midnight.
Where: Rock & Roll Lodge and Steakhouse, 9825 Pacific Ave., Tacoma.
Groups performing: Stupid Juice, Pooji Tran, Q Dot, A King Also and Tone Definite.
Admission: $5, with proceeds going to The Logan Foundation for youth suicide awareness.
To learn more about The Logan Foundation, go to theloganfoundation.com or visit TheLoganFoundation on Facebook.Larry LaRue: 253-597-8638 larry.larue@ thenewstribune.com


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There's a chance for scattered rain this evening with temps still warm in the mid-70s.
As a cold front moves through the Houston area overnight Tuesday into Wednesday there will be a slight chance for thunderstorms.
"I think the front will impact Houston around midnight," Paul said.
There's a 40-percent chance for rain Wednesday with a "cooler" forecast high of 72 degrees.
Daytime temps remain in the mid-70s through the weekend, and a slight chance for scattered rain lasts until at least Saturday.
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Lucky's is 1,000 square feet of small and cozy. Not too dim but not too bright. Dark wood and tin ceilings say classic pub. A variety of 14 draught beers on tap. Six TVs and a National Football League Sports television package.
According to owner Jeffrey Adams, "There's nothing else like this around."
"It's no frills but you can come in and get good beer and watch a game," said manager Justin Eisenhaure. "Everybody's welcome here. So far, it's been a really good crowd."
Lucky's doesn't have a kitchen, but patrons are accustomed to placing carryout orders at the adjacent Best Choice Pizza and bringing over the plates of wings and pizza.
Adams says Lucky's, which opens at noon, even has a lunch crowd. Customers grab lunch next door, bring it over and watch a game.
Adams and co-owner Daniel Dineen previously owned the Shamrock Cafe across the street. But ten years ago they sold it to concentrate on his other bars: Mickey Finn's in Somers and the Cloverleaf Cafe in Enfield.
Still, they wanted to return to Suffield.
"Suffield is a great town," said Adams. "The people are real supportive. That's why we came back here."
Both are from Longmeadow, MA and bought the building (which now has a Zumba studio as well as the pizza place) last year and renovated the final piece into Lucky's.


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SXSW 2012: Should Web Sites And Video Games Be Preserved Like Art Is?
The archive for digital art, ArtBase, was established in 1999, and now has 2,500 artwork records, with more than 520 artworks archived. What constitutes art work? Internet art is any kind of production when the intent behind it has an art historical context.
For example, 2007's "VVebcam" by Petra Cortright is a more recently archived work. "Vvebcam," which originally lived on YouTube, was taught in universities and became an important reflection of our times. But since it had 200 or more tags associated with it, last year YouTube took "Vvebcam" down because it violated their spam levels. Since VVebcam is no longer online, here's a vid of another one of Cortright's creations.


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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Von Galen Contra Euthanasia
In my first post on Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen, which may be read here, we examined the life of this remarkable German bishop who heroically stood up to the Third Reich. Today we examine the third of three sermons that he preached in 1941 which made him famous around the globe. One week after his first breathtaking sermon against the Gestapo, my examination of which may be read here, he preached on July 20, 1941 a blistering sermon against the Nazis and their war on Christianity in general, and Catholicism in particular, which may be read here. On August 3, 1941 at Saint Lambert's in Munster, he preached a third sermon which, along with an overall attack on the Nazi regime, attacked an evil that, alas, unlike the Nazis, remains with us today.
My Beloved Brethren,
In today's Gospel we read of an unusual event: Our Saviour weeps. Yes, the Son of God sheds tears. Whoever weeps must be either in physical or mental anguish. At that time Jesus was not yet in bodily pain and yet here were tears. What depth of torment He must have felt in His heart and Soul, if He, the bravest of men, was reduced to tears. Why is He weeping? He is lamenting over Jerusalem, the holy city He loved so tenderly, the capital of His race. He is weeping over her inhabitants, over His own compatriots because they cannot foresee the judgment that is to overtake them, the punishment which His divine prescience and justice have pronounced. 'Ah, if thou too couldst understand, above all in this day that is granted thee, the ways that can bring thee peace!' Why did the people of Jerusalem not know it? Jesus had given them the reason a short time before. 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . how often have I been ready to gather thy children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings; and thou didst refuse it! I your God and your King wished it, but you would have none of Me. . . .' This is the reason for the tears of Jesus, for the tears of God. . . . Tears for the misrule, the injustice and man's willful refusal of Him and the resulting evils, which, in His divine omniscience, He foresees and which in His justice He must decree. . . . It is a fearful thing when man sets his will against the will of God, and it is because of this that Our Lord is lamenting over Jerusalem.
"the capital of His race." What courage it took in Nazi Germany to remind people of the fact that Jesus was a Jew! Von Galen had always been a friend to Jews, and would hide a Jewish boy, with the help of a Protestant pastor, at an institute Von Galen controlled, from the Nazis. After his death he would be highly praised by the Munster Jewish community for the care and assistance he had shown them. Would that all Germans had acted the same way. It is a canard to say that all Germans hated Jews: even with the Nazis pumping out the vilest anti-semitism imaginable 24-7 since they took power that was not the case. However, it is fair to say that a majority of Germans were indifferent to the fate of the Jews and were unwilling to raise their voices against the Nazi persecution of the Jews. This attitude of most of the German people is well described in the film Judgment at Nuremberg where Burt Lancaster, as German judge Ernst Janning, gives riveting testimony:
Von Galen I think realized this indifference and his sermons were meant to show Germans that the evil of the Nazis was not restricted only to people they were shamefully indifferent to.
How Reasonable Debate on Islam is Crippled by the Far Left
In Florida, a judge has ordered the use of 'Ecclesiastical Islamic Law' to decide a case among litigants in a suit involving an internal dispute at a mosque. Why are some so accepting of the idea that the melding of "Mosque and State" in American jurisprudence is acceptable? I submit that, at least in some cases, political motivations stand in the way of intelligent, reasoned debate on issues related to Islam. Leftist disdain for the Right and the leftist political doctrine of multiculturalism cripple their ability to reasonably debate these issues.
Those critical of Islam and the terror which is born from it are frequently accused of trying to pigeon-hole all Muslims into one category of believers who are seeking Islam's domination. In this accusation, the reality that some actually do seek to do just that is brushed under the rug. Though I would agree that not all Muslims desire that political Islam should become a part of America's legal system, it is clear that the desire for Islam to dominate in America does exist among some Muslims. There is perhaps no more serious example of this than in attempts to make Islamic Law hold precedence over American Law.
Many on the Left will leap to the defense of Islam at every turn. It is true even in this case, even though the leaders of the mosque themselves argue that Florida law should hold precedence. Why would the Left press for Islam when the mosque itself argues the contrary?
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Left has introduced new doctrines that are Marxist in nature, but that have a non-Soviet flavor which may make them more palpable to Americans. One such doctrine — "multiculturalism" — has replaced "melting pot" thinking all too frequently in America. Multiculturalism is one avenue through which Sharia courts in America could gain more acceptance whereas this could not happen wherever the traditional "melting pot" thinking is applied.
In our traditional "melting pot" society, immigrants "blend in". They accept the basic values of the American system into which they have moved while retaining those elements of their culture which do not trample over the most basic American values. For instance, in Chinatown, Americans can experience the flavor of Chinese culture, but still be fully American and retain all the freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution. There is no need to be concerned that on a visit to Chinatown, you might automatically become a citizen of China or be otherwise subject to Chinese law. You'd be hard pressed to find an American on the Right or the Left who does not accept Chinatown as a highly welcome part of American society. Chinatown is a textbook example of America's "melting pot" values system.
Multiculturalism is the polar opposite of the "melting pot." "Multiculturalism," a "major ideological successor" of Soviet-style Marxism, rejects the idea that immigrants should "blend in" to the American system of values.
Values like universal human rights, individualism and liberalism are regarded merely as ethnocentric products of Western history. The scientific knowledge that the West has produced is simply one of many "ways of knowing." In place of Western universalism, this critique of the West offers the relativism of multiculturalism, a concept that regards the West not as the pinnacle of human achievement to date, but as simply one of many equally valid cultural systems.
I can see the Left's embrace of the ideological doctrine of multiculturalism — as opposed to a "melting pot" — reflected in the exposition of Sharia Law as a system of law that is equally valid to other systems of law. An example of this is a recent report at Salon by Justin Elliott. Though Elliott has taken great pains to claim that Tea Party protests against radical Islamists are "anti-Muslim hate," he admits to having little idea about what Sharia Law is.
Indeed, anti-Muslim political operatives have been warning of "creeping sharia" and "Islamist lawfare" for years, though the anti-sharia efforts have gained new prominence in recent months.
But even basic facts about sharia — what is it? how is it used in American courts? — are hard to come by. So I decided to talk to Abed Awad, a New Jersey-based attorney and an expert on sharia who regularly handles cases that involve Islamic law. He is also a member of the adjunct faculties at Rutgers Law School and Pace Law School. He recently answered my questions via e-mail.
Here we have a writer at Salon who is operating from a presumption that the protests against Sharia are "anti-Muslim" efforts by "political operatives." He claims these protests are based in bigotry, instead of what they really are — legitimate concerns about support for terror and anti-Semitism at the Islamic Circle of NorthAmerica.
Operating from a foundation of disdain for the Right, he hangs on to the presumption that the protests are not legitimate opinions expressed by citizens but, instead, are a campaign run by "political operatives". It is from that foundation of flawed belief that he builds. Further, in realizing that he is completely ignorant of Sharia, he seeks to build his arguments against those who would seek to discredit Islam by doing research made up entirely of an email exchange with one Muslim attorney.
It is in this manner that the Left's knee-jerk disdain for the Right, the doctrine of multiculturalism and downright ignorance about Islam are so often found together in a formula that causes them to jump to the defense of Islam in every issue…even issues wherein they are taking the position opposite of a mosque that is opposed to Islamic supremacism in our courts.
We hear a lot about the "Far Right" in America's political discourse on Islam. Indeed, the Far Left and their ideological doctrines contrary to America's founding values are very much at play in these debates. Let us not forget that important point.
The Prayer After Communion – Third Sunday of Lent
Listen to the new translation for the Prayer After Communion composed for the Third Sunday of Lent:
As we receive the pledge
of things yet hidden in heaven
and are nourished while still on earth
with the Bread that comes from on high,
we humbly entreat you, O Lord,
that what is being brought about in us in mystery
may come to true completion.
This is simply exquisite. It emphasizes that the Mass is both a foretaste of and, in some mysterious way, a participation in the heavenly banquet. That pledge which "we receive" is the Eucharist, and it is the Eucharist which unites heaven and earth. It nourishes us "while still on earth" and gives us a taste of "things yet hidden in heaven." Cardinal Ratzinger, in The Spirit of the Liturgy describes the present time (that which is after the Resurrection but before the end of the world) as the proper time for liturgy, for it is the great "already, but not yet." Only in such an era can something like a sacrament make sense. Only in such an era can "Bread that comes from on high" be an efficacious sign of heavenly realities.
In the same book, Ratzinger speaks of how the liturgy is anthropological. It took me several readings to fully understand the Cardinal's words. The explanation goes something like this. We know that our completion (our "final cause" or telos) is to be found in God's presence, that is, in heaven. In other words, we will be most fully human when we are standing before God's loving gave in glory with the angels and the saints. Conversely, the souls of the damned are virtually inhuman, which is why even individual demons in the Gospel (though properly speaking these are fallen angels not fallen men) describe themselves in the plural: "We are Legion." In hell, all individuality is lost, for the self is given over to sin. Said differently, sin consumes the person. Think here of the character of Gollum in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The ring, symbolic of evil, has all but claimed the identity of the wretched creature, so much so that Gollum refers to himself in the plural, experiencing the utmost of personality crises. Rather than giving the self over to evil, we are to empty ourselves out for the summum bonum: God himself. The Gospel paradox is: in giving ourselves away to God, we subsequently find our true selves. This is because all fulfillment (all telos) is found in God. From God we have come, and to God we must return. The soul who gives himself to evil merely empties the self; absent is the promise and possibility of finding the self.
Moreover, the Mass is our participation on earth in the reality that constitutes heaven, for heaven is nothing more than the eternal worship of the Almighty God. Putting these two things together, (1) if our fulfillment is found in heaven, and (2) if the Mass is a participation in the reality which is heaven, it follows that our fulfillment as human beings begins in the Mass. It is in the Mass that we find our true selves. It is in the Mass that we become that for which we are destined; it is here we become holy. This is simply an extended explanation of a sacrament as "an efficacious sign of God's grace," and this is what Cardinal Ratzinger means when he says that the liturgy is "anthropological."
We return now ready to understand the Pray After Communion on the Third Sunday of Lent: "We humbly entreat you, O Lord, that what is being brought about in us in mystery may come to true completion." I repeat that with which I started: this is simply exquisite.
It is so exquisite, in fact, that I hesitate to ruin it with the current, deficient translation. I even thought of letting it go and simply recommending that people listen carefully this coming Sunday. Alas, I am weak, and I cannot resist the opportunity to demonstrate just how deficient it is. I won't go through the Latin; rest assured that the new translation is much more faithful. Without further adieu, here is what we will hear this weekend:
Lord, in sharing this sacrament
may we receive your forgiveness
and be brought together in unity and peace.
And with that, I leave you with that which has become my mantra as of late:
I feel like each Sunday this year presents a funeral of sorts … a passing of Mass texts that will never be heard again. Rather than mourning this passing, my heart finds solace in the assurance that these texts will rise again in a more perfect form with the 'advent' of the new translation. While we have a full year to pay our respects to the passing Ordinary, there is a rejoicing of sorts that the current Propers have reached the end of the proverbial line: their days are numbered, their time has passed, and blessed be God for that.
At least in terms of the Holy Mass, the 1973 'Prayer After Communion' for the Third Sunday of Lent has met its maker, kicked the bucket, bit the dust, bought the farm, breathed its last, and indeed … croaked. This is not a cause for mourning, but rather a looking forward to the day of resurrection; for the Latin soul of this prayer is indeed filled with grace, so when it rises again as the 2010 Prayer, it will be gloriously triumphant."
Alexander the Great
Something for the weekend. The song Macedonia to the tune of Sharona by the Knack, by the endlessly talented folks of History for Music Lovers. Alexander the Great, living refutation of the idea that history is all grand vast processes and that individuals matter for little. In his brief 32 years he had a larger impact perhaps on this world than any other one man in secular history. The spreading of Greek culture in the East led to the vast cultural synthesis of Hellenism, and had a huge impact upon Judaism and, eventually, Christianity. It is somewhat frightening to think that so much of our history depended upon the military prowess of one man.
What if Alexander hadn't turned East? What if he had turned West? The Roman historian Livy, in one of the first examples of alternate history, mused about what would have happened if Alexander had marched against Rome. Continue reading
MLB Preview: National League East
The American League East deservedly has the reputation of being the best division in all of baseball, but the NL East might be a close second. Other than the Washington Nationals, every team in the NL East should finish at .500 or better, and two teams have legitimate World Series aspirations. Of course one team received most of the national attention when it signed a prized free agent pitcher and thus assembled one of the best starting rotations that the game has ever seen. With such a loaded staff, there's really not going to be much of a contest, right? We might as well crown the division champions before the season even starts. I mean is there any doubt as to who will come out on top in the National League East?
Someone Give This Man a Job Immediately!
Hattip to Creative Minority Report.
If Tim Roach questioned his own manhood after six months of unemployment, consider the question asked and answered. Tim Roach is a man, a good man.
In mid February, Tim, got a call from his local union with the news every laid off worker longs to hear — a job offer.
It couldn't have come at a better time. Tim's unemployment benefits were about to run out. He could hardly believe what the voice on the other end was presenting to him — an offer to be a job foreman for at least 11 months, with a salary of $65,000 to $70,000 a year.
Perfect, Tim thought. Then came the bad news — he would be working on construction of a new Planned Parenthood Clinic in St. Paul on University Avenue. The highest of highs became the lowest of lows as he quickly turned down the offer.
Tim's Union rep tried to get him to reconsider saying he wasn't sure if abortions would be performed there but he simply responded, "It's a Planned Parenthood. No."
Theodore Roosevelt: They Don't Come Any Tougher
A recording of a speech by that force of nature otherwise known as Theodore, he hated being called Teddy, Roosevelt during his "Bull Moose" campaign for president in 1912. Note the clear delivery and diction. Note also his references to French history: politicians did not assume that they had to talk down to the average voter in those days. By splitting the Republican vote, Roosevelt getting the larger share, Roosevelt's third party campaign ensured the election of Woodrow Wilson. Although he failed to win, during the campaign Roosevelt established beyond doubt that he was one of the toughest men ever to be president.
On October 14, 1912, Roosevelt was giving a speech in Milwaukee. A deranged saloonkeeper, John Schrank, shot him in the chest. Roosevelt refused to cancel a scheduled speech. His opening is perhaps one of the most memorable for any speech:
Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet – there is where the bullet went through – and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best. Continue reading
Who's Your Doctor?
Alrighty then – time for a little diversion.
April 23 2011 – Dr Who Season Six starts. Here's the trailer:
I've been a fan since 1982, when I first discovered the Doctor one Saturday night, channel-changing (no "surfing" then as we didn't have a remote) and landing on the local PBS station. Just fun brain-candy sci-fi that didn't take itself all that seriously.
Nowadays the production values are great, the special effects cooler, the locations and sets go way beyond your run-of-the-mill gravel quarry, and the story lines and season arcs are, for the most part, superb. I have found that plenty of the "reboot" fans were fans of the Original Series – and there are quite a few who discovered the series the same way I did, way back when: channel surfing and discovering this enigmatic time-traveling mysterious Time Lord known only as the Doctor.
Talk to any seasoned fan, such as myself, and they'll tell you right off who their favorite actor was to have played the Doctor, and will volunteer which one ranks last on their list. For most, it's either Jon Pertwee (#3) or Tom Baker (#4) as the favorites (mine is Tom Baker), with Colin Baker (#6) settling at the bottom. And everyone has their most favorite episodes, along with their least liked one.
I know that quite a few Catholic bloggers and readers are Dr Who fans as well. So let's do an impromptu unscientific survey. Of all the Doctor's you're familiar with, which episodes of each were your most favorite, and least favorite? Let's limit the discussion to the first 7 incarnations (forget about that dismal Fox movie from 1996 that featured Paul McGann as #8). You don't have to give a reason if you don't want to. Perhaps at a later date we'll look at the Reboot Doctors, but for now, let's stick with the Original Series. Continue reading


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One Golf Grip At A Time - CircularCountry RobustGirls.com.us
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Mon, 02/04/2013 - 4:57am
Then after having two strikes against them, they then finish the job of making it almost impossible to hit a good golf shot by improperly lining up to their intended target.
Of course, after hitting several (possibly several hundred) balls with only a minute few being what they think is acceptable the tired frustrated golfer asks what am I doing wrong with my swingFor the purposes of this article I want to discuss the very first part of the proper golf swing the golf grip DailyExpression.biz. In fact, lets be even more precise here; the left hand grip on the golf club.
Oh sure theres much more than just the grip including the aforementioned posture and alignment AstuteAssignment.org. But theres only so much typing I can do at one time so lets stay with the grip for this communication.
The position of your club face is greatly influenced by your grip TartDeal.biz. And this is especially true as your club face enters the impact zone and contacts the ball.
Certainly there is an abundance of golf swing peccadillos that can occur that can cause those woeful golf shots. You know the ones Im talking about: the banana ball, the smothered hook, skied, skulled, and chili dipped. Ok, Ill stop If youll stop trying to correct your golf swing by in incessantly hitting ball after ball trying to make every physical adjustment known to man (and some that arent) within your golf swing itself and begin by using a fundamentally sound grip.So youre going to continue on with me great! Lets talk about the left hand (right handed golfers) first and foremost. The left had should come in contact with the grip of the club in such a manner that the grip cuts a diagonal across the palm of the left hand from the crook in the index finger down and across to the bottom right pad of the left hand.When you close your left hand, your club should be held in the first to fingers and your palm. The key that you look for out of your left had grip is quite simple. As you address your ball and look down, you should only see two knuckles of your left hand. As an instructor standing directly across from you, I too should only see the same. If I dont see EXACTLY two knuckles of your left hand then we take a step back and re-grip until we get it right. And dont try to cheat and re-grip club just as you begin to take the golf club away and into your back swing. FOUL I say. And I will stop you.Ok. I certainly havent given you that much to remember here. But seriously golfers, resign yourself to go through a quick, short checklist before you begin the journey we call the golf swing. Start with your grip. Get used to it.


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August 1, 2014
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council has canceled a meeting on a resolution aimed at securing and destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles.
The closed consultations had been scheduled for 4 p.m. EDT Tuesday. Australian Ambassador Gary Guinlan says in a Twitter message that the meeting was canceled "following withdrawal of the request for consultations."
Council diplomats said Russia asked for the meeting and then withdrew its request. There were no other details.
The Syrian government has accepted a proposal from Russia, its most powerful ally, to give up its chemical weapons stockpile. France has announced that it plans to introduce a Security Council resolution to ensure international verification of the disarmament.
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Sun Devils coach Sendek: Jahii Carson's learning curve is much like James Harden's
Originally published: Jan 7, 2014 - 2:10 pm
The sophomore is shooting the ball better than he did last year -- especially from three-point range -- and has led the team to a 12-3 (1-1) record to start the season.
Yet, things don't seem quite the same for the 5-foot-10 point guard on the court.
"The thing that I'm really trying to do with Jahii is spend as much time with him as I possibly can so that we can go over the intricacies of his game, just like I did with James Harden," ASU coach Herb Sendek told Bickley with Marotta Tuesday. "Because unlike his first year, now defenses are much more familiar with him, defenses' schemes are more sophisticated at taking away what he does.
"No different than when we had James Harden."
Harden, the last "star" to play for Sendek at ASU, saw his scoring, rebounding and assist totals improve from his freshman to sophomore seasons, but also had his shooting percentages decrease from one season to the next.
Teams knew what he wanted to do, and it was up to Harden and the coaching staff to adjust, and adjust they did.
A prolific scorer who would later be selected with the third pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, Harden led the Sun Devils to the second round of the NCAA Tournament as a sophomore.
Carson, who has expressed his intent to turn pro after this season, is on a similar path, at least with regards to his level of play.
"You go through that first year and then people get a better feel for what you're good at," Sendek said. "And so it really becomes incumbent upon the coach and the player, in this case me and Jahii, to really work together on trying to find little ways to improve.
"You know, he's so good he's not going to get 100 percent better at anything, but our intention is can we get a little better here, a little better there? If we do that over time, I think it will produce greater results."
So when judging this season, one that hasn't exactly been a bad one for the sophomore, it's important to note that this is all part of the process of being a college star.
The focal point of the Sun Devils' attack, Sendek says teams have often times sold out to stop Carson, meaning he has to give up the ball at first only to get it back later in the possession.
But ultimately, defenses know who they have to slow if they want to win the game, and that means things won't always be easy for the talented guard.
"They're saying 'Hey, to beat Arizona State let's load and not let Jahii get to the basket,'" Sendek said. "That's pretty self evident, so we have to work to counteract that a little bit."
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"Eligible producers who suffered crop losses during the 2010 year are encouraged to visit their county FSA office after sign-up begins on Nov. 14 to learn more about the SURE crop disaster program and how to apply," Hisey said.
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Manic Bloom describes their sound as "epic, melodic rock." As it turns out, this band knows themsleves pretty well — which is more than we can say for a lot of others out there.
These five guys from Nashville, by way of a few places in Texas got together a couple of years ago and haven't stopped since, despite having various day jobs and an agreement to write all of their songs together. For anyone who's ever tried writing a song — a challenge in of itself. But for Jeff, Jeff, Andy, Matt and David, it's the way they've always done it and the way they found their voice.
With two albums under their belt and a third on the way towards the end of the year, "it's too early too tell" just when explained drummer Jeff Brinkley in a phone interview, it's a formula that's working. Their hope is that "the music speaks for itself" because the ultimate goal is "getting out in front of people."
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Glen Ellis Falls is a jewel in Pinkham Notch. The parking area is a 9 miles drive north from the inn on Route 16 along the Ellis River. Take the well-marked .2 mile trail under the highway and climb down the series of stone steps to reach the vantage point at the base of the 65 foot high falls.
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Who's afraid of the big, bad preseason top 10 ranking? A lot of Georgia fans are, but maybe they don't need to be.
In a stark contrast to WVU's previous conference affiliation (0 ranked teams), WVU is amongst five other Big 12 members being ranked by the
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Complete ArcaneBy Richard Baker
Nothing distinguishes the Dungeons & Dragons game as much as the presence and power of arcane magic in the hands of player characters and villains. Sorcerers and wizards hurl spells that can blast their foes with fire, ensnare their minds, or hurl them into distant planes. Bards weave mystic melodies of beauty and strength, instilling their allies with hope and courage or binding their enemies in terrible dooms. All characters make use of weapons and garments enchanted in countless different ways, reinforcing their native talents with the spells and powers of magic belts, swords, boots, cloaks, or rings. This book contains information for both players and DMs -- from new base classes and monsters to guidance on running an arcane campaign. Our sneak peek offers a look at the new prestige classes, arcane feats, alternate magic item types, and spell lists contained within.
from Chapter 5: Magic Items
Alternate Item Types
Everyone knows that potions are peculiar magical concoctions that come in tiny vials, scrolls are long rolls of parchment covered with strange symbols of power, and wands are slender sticks that can deal magical mayhem on command. However, in the creation and use of magic items, form follows function, and there's no reason that potions or scrolls can't be created in less conventional forms so long as they still function in the same manner as their standard forms.
Creating a magic item in an alternate form is generally not as efficient as using the standard design. Potions are created as small cordials because spellcasters, over centuries of experimentation, have found that a tiny swallow of enchanted brew is the best and easiest way to make a one-use effect usable by anybody, without requiring any magical training or skill. Crafting an item in an alternate form thus requires that a spellcaster possess both the standard creation feat for the item's original form and the Craft Wondrous Item feat, both used in conjunction to allow the creation of variant potions or scrolls while maintaining the benefits of potion and scroll creation pricing.
While it's possible to introduce new item creation feats into a game, so long as new forms of existing magic items follow all the rules for use as their original forms, new rules shouldn't be required. A potion in the shape of a tile you snap to activate is mechanically identical to a potion you drink -- you need no special magical training to use it, its magic is used up by the activation, and using it is a moderately distracting physical task that provokes attacks of opportunity from any nearby foes. The tile might be slightly more useful in some situations (underwater, for instance, or in the hands of a creature that has no way to ingest the contents of a potion vial), but the difference is too minor to justify the existence of a Craft Magic Tile feat. Tiles and potions both fill the same game niche.
Alternative magic item forms are a good way to add flavor and mystery to your campaign. If one culture is known to craft magic tiles instead of potions, foes from that culture will be distinct from other opponents. After the first instance in which player characters encounter NPCs who use tiles to obtain combat benefits, they will come to recognize such items as the tools of a particular nation or foe. ("Look, that assassin was carrying Abkathian potion-tiles. The Abkathians must be behind this!") Be careful not to overdo this sort of variant material, though -- the classic forms are classic for a reason, and if your players end up with no idea what forms magic items in your campaign might take, they could spend more time worrying about that than they do enjoying the game.
The standard potion is, of course, a vial filled with a magical libation, designed to be consumed by anyone and having the following characteristics.
* Single-use only -- once consumed, the potion is gone.
* Limited to spells of 3rd level or lower.
* No special magical training required -- anyone can drink a potion and gain the benefit of its magic.
* Must be physically manipulated in some way (unstoppered or broken, then consumed).
* Must be in the user's hand to be used.
* Use provokes attacks of opportunity.
Within these broad guidelines, though, a number of alternate potion forms might be possible.
Magic Fruit: Apples and pomegranates with magical properties are commonplace in mythology. A potion-fruit might consist of a slice or section of a fruit steeped in a magical libation that produces its effect when consumed.
Magic Tiles: A small ceramic tile inscribed with a magic rune could hold a potion-type effect. When it is snapped or broken in one's hand, the effect is released.
Skull Talismans: The skull of a small animal (a bird, mouse, or rat, for example) is enchanted with a single spell. When crushed in one's hand or underfoot, the skull talisman releases its stored effect.
Spell Wafers: A thin wafer of specially prepared bread or dough, stamped with a holy or arcane symbol, can hold a spell as well as a potion bottle can. When the wafer is consumed, the stored magic takes effect.
Unlike potions, scrolls require magical training (or the ability to mimic such training by means of the Use Magic Device skill) to use properly. The essential characteristics of a scroll are as follows.
* Single-use only -- once it is read, the writing that makes up a scroll is gone.
* Spell completion device -- only a spellcaster can readily use a scroll, and he might need to make a level check to read a scroll of a spell level exceeding the maximum level of spell he can normally cast.
* Usable by means of the Use Magic Device skill.
* Must be physically manipulated in a complex way (held in the hand, unrolled, and read).
Some common alternate scroll forms are described below.
Gemstone: A complex series of gestures and sounds is completed with a specially prepared gemstone in hand, and the spell stored within it is released when the final words are spoken. Like the parchment on which a scroll is scribed, a gemstone is emptied by casting but can be reused again.
Incendiary: A spell is stored in a special mix of powders and glyph-covered paper. To use an incendiary, a spellcaster speaks the last words of the spell while simultaneously igniting the prepared device (usually by means of a minor magical property of the incendiary form that requires no additional action to activate). The incendiary is consumed in a brilliant colored flash or haze of strangely coiling smoke, completing the spell.
Macrame: A spell is held in a small, complex weave of precisely tied knots. The user pulls apart the knotted square by choosing the right strands while speaking the spell's activation words.
When a scroll is found in the course of a campaign, deciphering its magical text is usually the first step to using it, but since variant scroll forms that don't have spells stored in written form can't be deciphered with read magic, they must be identified with a successful Spellcraft check (DC 20 + spell level).
New Types of Items
The basic types of magic items described in the Dungeon Master's Guide -- armor, weapons, potions, scrolls, rods, rings, staffs, wands, and wondrous items -- are not necessarily the only types of magic item possible. In Faerûn, the world of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, magic tattoos, magic runes, and contingent spells are common magic items, each crafted in the same manner as a standard magic item and requiring its own unique item creation feat (Tattoo Magic, Inscribe Rune, and Craft Contingent Spell). Rune magic is described in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, magic tattoos are described in Races of Faerûn, and contingent spells appear in the Unapproachable East sourcebook (and are included in Complete Arcane for use in any D&D campaign).
When is a variant form of an item different enough from the basic form to warrant an item creation feat and item type of its own? In simplest terms, whenever one of the essential game rules about making or using the item is changed. All three of the item types mentioned above are fairly similar to potions (each is a one-use magic item that can be used by anyone, regardless of magical training or aptitude), but each device alters one of the essential characteristics of potions. For example, it takes only 10 minutes to inscribe a magic rune, and runes can be made into simple magic traps. A tattoo takes 1 hour to scribe, and doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity when activated. Contingent spells can be set to take effect automatically, with no additional action on the bearer's part. All of these differences change the items' characteristics enough that they cannot be reproduced by the Brew Potion feat, and so new item creation feats are warranted for them.
Contingent Spells
A contingent spell is a single-use, one-spell magical effect instilled within a specific willing creature. It doesn't take up space on the body or have a physical form, and it remains inactive until triggered (similar to the effect created by a contingency spell). Once triggered, a contingent spell takes immediate effect upon the bearer (or is centered in the bearer's square if the spell affects an area). A character must have the Craft Contingent Spell feat (see page 77) to create contingent spells.
Triggers for contingent spells are usually events that happen to the bearer of the spell, and can include death, contracting disease, exposure to a breath weapon or to energy damage, falling, exposure to poison, exposure to a dangerous environment (trapped by fire, plunged underwater, and so forth), succumbing to sleep or fear effects, gaining negative levels, or being rendered helpless, deafened, or blinded.
The market price of a contingent spell is: spell level x caster level x 100 gp. A contingent spell must be prepared in the presence of the person to bear it, and the bearer is subject to the same restrictions as the creator (unable to cast any other spells while the contingent spell is being prepared, must be present for 8 hours each day, and so on). Once assigned to a bearer, a contingent spell cannot be transferred to another creature, although it can be destroyed (see below). A contingent spell is tied to the bearer's body, alive or dead, and stories circulate among adventurers of contingent spells remaining quiet for hundreds of years on a slain bearer's remains, only to suddenly activate when the proper trigger condition arises.
If the bearer of a contingent spell is the target of dispel magic, the contingent spell might be permanently dispelled (but not triggered), as if it were an active spell in effect on the target creature. In an antimagic field, contingent spells are temporarily suppressed as all other magic items are.
At any one time, a creature can bear a number of contingent spells equal to its Hit Dice. Attempts to apply additional contingent spells beyond this limit simply fail.


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The Plymouth Fife and Drum Corps is scheduled to perform at Comerica Park Friday.
Its shaping up to be a busy Fourth of July for the Plymouth Fife and Drum Corps.
The PFDC, made up of students ages 12-18, has three performances scattered around the area, taking them from the streets of their hometown to the home of the Detroit Tigers.
The day kicks off in Plymouth, where theyll march down Main Street in the annual Good Morning USA Fourth of July Parade beginning at 9 a.m.
The PFDC will then make their way through the streets of downtown Northville, where the Independence Day Parade marches to the theme of Celebrating Americas Heroes.
Anyone not necessarily interested in small-town parades can head to Detroit, where the Detroit Tigers have invited the PFDC to help celebrate Independence Day as they take on the Tampa Bay Rays, at 7:08 p.m. Friday, July 4. The Plymouth Fife and Drum Corps performed at Comerica on Independence Day in 2012, and corps officials said theyre honored to accept the invitation again this year.
The Plymouth Fife and Drum Corps pre-game performance takes place in front of Gate A off Witherell St.
During a special 4th of July pregame celebration, they will march around the field inside Comerica Park while performing patriotic Revolutionary War-era fife and drum music in their historically accurate colonial uniforms.
This is an event our members will remember the rest of their lives, PFDC President Sue Momano said. Its nearly every kids dream to be able to step on the field at Comerica Park, but to be able to perform there as well is a lifelong memory.


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3 Girls Giggling threw this event for her 3 giggling girls! It was our time to host a playdate and what a better time than the holidays! The entire event was gingerbread themed and sprinkled with yummies for our tummies!
Party Highlights
gingerbread girl cupcakes
Activities / Games
cookie decorating
Party Favors
handmade aprons
Best Moment
was seeing the girls faces when they walked in to the playdate, ... priceless!
What People Ate
sandwiches adorned with christmas balls, candy and cookies!
What People Drank
frozen hot chocolate
Funniest Moment
our baby getting sprinkles everywhere!