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These are minor things that can be dropped in anywhere to add "narrative flavor", to make it more than just another road, field, forest or beach.
Alia exclaims, "What a gruesome sight!" and points to a brook filled with gravestones - some still upright while others are knocked over.
Habitat colonies do not occur are habitable planets, but are only found on marginal planets, asteroids, and worlds with ruined ecosystems.
Defintion: A Holde is any bounded place where the rules of an "other realm" hold sway, but are still of this world.
A Celestial Lense is a metallic clearing that focuses the energy of the etherial to the material realm in remote places. These points of concentrated Good and Order create dangers untold in the regions around them.
A HellPit is a spring of green ectoplasmic goo that spring forth from the bowels of the astreal to the materail realm in out of the way places. These points of concentrated Evil and Chaos create dangers untold in regions around them.
To the first or casual observer, this island sitting out in the ocean seems normal, if not heavily covered with lush trees and foliage. To those who have extensive nautical experience know something is amiss, especially since the island is never in the same place twice.
A mysterious quarry. Feel free to suggest explanations - it's just an eerie thought that struck me that I intend to play with.
When all attempts at healing have failed, then the Gate of Life may be one's only hope to live again…
The Scratching Stone has always been an area of interest for the local people. A huge slab of granite with a top a couple of acres in area, it is out of place when compared with the other rock formations in the area. It has bore many names - Evenstone, the Great Altar, the Giant's Dinnertable and others lost to time.
What if interplanar travel was not as simple as a spell. What if it required the use of certain gates, which were not only hard to find, but difficult to access, and dangerous to use.
Sesna's Volcano holds one such gate.
A list of locations and/or situations for a cool fight scene. (list)
The Eye is known by a number of names: The Eye of Motoss, Eye of Argus, Night Eye of Day, Eye of "Insert God", depending on the local legend. Motoss is the most common of names, based on the story of a man who could look into a box with a hole in the top and watch an entire land, its history unfolding before his eye.
HomeTrees, there is nothing more Elven. These enchanted trees are one of the three Keystones of Elventi Society; allowing Elves to live in harmony their beloved forests. Without them, there would be no Elventi Society.
At this time an old man, one who told the Prince wondrous tales during his childhood, walked upon the bridge and witnessed the prince commit suicide, saw him fall into the water. "This is the Bridge of Fates. I foresee great sorrow and happiness. This bridge shall never remain neutral, shall know tears of joy and the blood of innocents".
"When our barbarian ancestors first arrived on the plains of our homeland, they found them covered in dust inches thick. They named them Muranvan, the Dusty Plains and armed with spades they cleared the dust heaving it off the edge of the world. For they had been chasing the Prey for long aeons up the face of the cliffs at the edge of the world, and in the chase had tired of their nomadic ways. They wanted a stable home. So they founded Takvanak, the City on the Plains. In the long silence after they had cleared the dust from Muranvan, rang out the deep and unforgettable tones of the Iron Heart, Saekeri, and the barbarians knelt and felt resounding reverence."
- The Saekeran, book 1 verse 1.
After the death of Princess Dora Rurik of the powerful city-state of Pier Point, rumors began to leak out about the wonderful treasures buried with her body…
A kingdom where, if there are multiple princes (princesses can't rule unless they have no siblings), the princes fight to the death in the arena to decide who gets to rule. A simple way to make sure your brother cannot make a bid for the thrown, and keeps the royal blood in one line.


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Crafty ravens enlist cars as nutcrackers
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A year or so ago, I was driving along an empty stretch of Old Olympic Highway when I saw a raven swoop down to the road surface. It then flew to the side as my car neared.
Seeing that it had left a large nut in the other lane, I was reminded of broken shells strewn in the parking lot at John Wayne Marina. There, gulls drop clams to break them open.
This raven was craftier. Somehow it knew that cars can crack open nuts. And it knew to carefully lay the nut on the pavement, rather than dropping it, only to watch it bounce away.
Rather than risk its life by laying the nut in the lane in which I was approaching, it demonstrated patience, knowing that cars eventually would travel in the other lane.
What it still had failed to grasp, however, was the role of tires in cracking a nut. The raven had left the nut in the middle of the lane, rather than in one of the two faintly visible tire tracks worn into the road.
Farsightedness in birds is intriguing, as illustrated by several examples.
One such activity is caching food, a trait common to many species of birds. A student in my Beginning Birds class once commented on finding peanuts in the shell on the ground in the woods near her house in the foothills.
I suggested Steller's jays as a likely source, as jays are known to cache food and they are large enough to carry peanuts. Local jays show a fondness for them, occasionally flying past with peanut shells clutched in their bills.
In Fort Davis, Texas, I saw the entire front of a wooden church, as well as a nearby telephone pole, riddled with holes. Acorn woodpeckers - one of my favorite birds, albeit not found locally - had drilled them to cache acorns in the holes.
Seemingly those acorns are much more easily found later than peanuts buried in a forest.
Pileated woodpeckers take a different farsighted approach to food gathering. They carve out rectangular holes (typically several inches wide and twice as high) in trees as feeding holes.
Particular target foods in these holes are carpenter ants and wood-boring beetles.
Bernd Heinrich, in his book "Ravens in Winter," relates personal observations of raven behavior. These birds are territorial, so that a downed deer or other large prey is essentially the property of the pair of ravens residing in that territory. Other ravens, presumably having spotted such prey during an overflight, recruit additional ravens from a communal night-time roost to dine on the prey the next day.
They succeed by significantly outnumbering the territorial pair and ultimately they all feed side by side, peacefully.
On a larger scale, some avian farsightedness - whether conscious or simply embedded in their genetic programming -- is reflected in life strategies.
In spring, males of many species, such as rufus hummingbirds, race ahead of the females to find and stake out the best breeding territories. Pressure on the male hummers to make wise choices is particularly high as they do not play any role in nesting and chick raising.
Capitalizing on the fact that birds, unlike mammals, don't nurse their young, a few species optimize the female role as egg layer.
Male and female phalaropes do an almost total reversal of gender roles compared to hummingbirds. Once a female phalarope has laid eggs, she leaves everything else to her mate, from incubating the eggs to raising the chicks.
Meanwhile she seeks a new mate to repeat the process. That's why female phalaropes, not the males, have the gaudy plumage - a rare phenomenon among birds.
Our resident song spar-rows have an unusual technique for getting along with each other in cramped quarters.
Song sparrows are numerous locally (as often elsewhere), and consequently males have small breeding territories. As related by Donald Kroudsma in "The Singing Life of Birds," male song sparrows - that typically develop unique songs - also learn the songs of their neighbors. And they learn which song belongs to which neighbor.
As a male patrols the perimeter of his territory, he will pause occasionally to sing the song of his immediately adjacent neighbor, seemingly an avian form of male bonding.
Think where mankind could be if nations adopted a similar strategy for dealing with neighboring countries.
My next Introduction to Birds and Birding class starts Tuesday evening, Sept. 22.
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The Doctor of Music degree (D.Mus., D.M., D.Mus.A., Mus.D. or Mus.Doc.), is an academic degree given in music. Music is the only practicing arts field with a doctorate as the standard terminal degree. (The MFA is the standard terminal degree for most other arts and creative writing) DMA programs are intended for musicians and composers who wish to combine the highest attainments in their area of specialization with doctoral-level academic study in music. D.Mus. students complete advanced studies in one of typically three musical areas: performance (including conducting); musical composition; or, less often, musicology. Assessment varies with subject matter and University. A musicologist would be expected to produce a thesis on a specialised subject matter, whilst a performer would give recitals, and a composer would present a portfolio of compositions.
The DMA exists in conjunction with the PhD as doctoral degrees in music. The former is typically for practitioners of music, most commonly for performers. The PhD is typically given to a more academic or scholarship focused emphasis, such as musicology, ethnomusicology, or music theory. For composers, there are both DMA programs (especially in the context of conservatories) available as well as PhD programs (which are more prevalent in universities).
In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries, the DMus is a higher doctorate, awarded on the basis of a substantial portfolio of compositions and/or scholarly publications on music. Most universities restrict candidature to their own graduates or staff, which is a reversal of the practice in former times, when (unlike higher degrees in other faculties) candidates for the degree were not required to be a Master of Arts. While most graduate programs in the United States offer a D.M.A. degree, Indiana University has been issuing the DMus degree since 1953.[1]
The Doctor of Music degree has also been awarded honoris causa when presented to musicians and composers such as Joseph Haydn,[2] Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Joan Baez, Matthew Bellamy, Richard Strauss, Daniel Barenboim, Bruce Dickinson,[3] Bob Dylan, Kenny Garrett, Billy Joel, Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Jon Lord and Sir Paul McCartney. It has also been awarded as an honorary degree to musical artists who were not composers, including the ballet dancers Dame Alicia Markova and Dame Beryl Grey, as well as female royalty regardless of their experience in music[citation needed].
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- ^ Correspondence with Graduate Music Office, Indiana University Bloomington.
- ^ Hughes, Rosemary S. M. "Haydn at Oxford 1773–1791". Music and Letters 20: 242–249. doi:10.1093/ml/XX.3.242.
- ^ "IRON MAIDEN Singer Receives Honorary Doctorate In Music From Queen Mary University". Blabbermouth.net. July 20, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
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Pennsylvania man sentenced to five years in prison
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Solicited Kidnapping of New Jersey Woman and Her Young Daughter
TRENTON, N.J. – A Bucks County, Pa., man was sentenced to 60 months in prison for trying to hire someone he thought was a white supremacist to kidnap a New Jersey woman and her child, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Jayen I. Patel, 41, of Southampton, Pa., previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson to an Indictment charging him with one count of soliciting an individual to aid in a kidnapping. Judge Wolfson imposed the sentence today in Trenton federal court.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
In September 2010, Patel reached out to an FBI agent acting in an undercover capacity ("the UC") through an Internet-based social networking site. As the relationship between the UC and Patel developed, Patel identified a woman and her daughter, whom he wished to have kidnapped, claiming that the child's father wanted custody of the child. Patel's plan involved forcing the woman to do things 'to make her loose [sic] custody of her child.'
Patel indicated that if the UC – whom he thought was a white supremacist – and his associates aided in the abduction, they would be paid from money they obtained from the victim, whom they would all share as a slave following her abduction. Patel admitted that he provided instructions to separate the child from her mother, to restrain the mother with handcuffs, and to knock the mother unconscious with a handgun if she resisted. Patel also provided the victims' names and address, urging the UC to conduct surveillance on the victims to determine their schedules and how many people lived in the residence. He also gave instructions regarding the makeup of the group that should engage in the kidnapping.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Wolfson sentenced Patel to three years of supervised release and fined him $1,000.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward, as well as the other members of the Newark Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). He also thanked the Oklahoma City FBI, Franklin Township, N.J., Police Department, South Brunswick Police Department, and the Hopewell Township Police Department for their roles in the investigation. The JTTF is made up of agents and officers of the U.S. Department of State: U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations; U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection; New Jersey State Police; Jersey City Police Department; Bayonne Police Department; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and other law enforcement agencies.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis C. Carletta of the U.S. Attorney's Office National Security Unit in Newark.
Defense counsel: Robert J. DeGroot Esq., Newark
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