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Heroes of Might and Magic® 5 is a turn-based strategy game in which you can build cities and besiege them, train troops and slaughter them, and explore new lands – and crush them under your iron heel. You directly command your armies on the battlefield and aid them with your character's abilities as well as your own strategy skills. With six unique factions to choose from, each with its own set of buildings and creatures, Heroes of Might and Magic® 5 provides gamers with the strategy and detailed graphics that the series has been known for. As you progress through the game your character gains levels of experience that allow him to learn new spells and abilities. All this is set in the magical and enchanting setting of the legendary Might and Magic® universe.
Heroes of Might and Magic® 5 is, without a doubt, a worthy installment of the acclaimed series. It stays true to the formula established by the previous parts of the franchise and improves upon it, creating a very entertaining title with a gripping story, an enchanting soundtrack with visuals to match, and very fluid gameplay. If you are a fan of the franchise you will not be disappointed, but if you haven't tried Heroes of Might and Magic® games yet, then this is the perfect place to start.
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Minimum system requirements: Supported OS: Windows® XP / Vista® / Windows® 7 Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD AthlonTM 1.5 GHz (Intel® Pentium® 4 2.4 GHz recommended) Memory: 512 MB (1 GB recommended) Hard Disk Space: 2+ GB Video: DirectX® 9 compliant w/ 64MB RAM (128 MB recommended) Sound: Direct X 9.0 compliant DirectX®: DirectX 9.0 or higher
Posted on 2012-04-05 14:34:53 byRoman5:
Heroes of Might and Magic V, just like it's predecessors - Is a turn based strategy game, after many people were dissapointed with IV and it's changes many people thought that it was the end for the franchise
After 3DO Dissolved and passed away, the series fell into Ubisoft's hands and they knew they had a big name to work with, the development of V was handed to Nival Interactive,read more a Russian developer, so your question might be: Did they deliver?
The answer to that is: Yes, they have indeed
The game unfortunately had a very bad rep during it's release because of it's issues, bugs, optimisation problems, balance, and so on
Rest easy though, because with the patches and expansions, all of those issues were resolved and fixed, GOG sells the best possible version of this game online
Now then, onto the game itself
Story: Without spoiling anything, I'll just say that the story is surprisingly very well done and much more engaging than in 3 or 4 with each mission something progresses forward and there's plenty of neat twists, there's also a lot of great characters. there's definitely a lot of interesting things here to keep you interested
Also: This game has some elements in it's story which explain some of the story and moments in M&M: Dark Messiah
Gameplay: The gameplay of HOMMV is very similar to the games previous in the series, however the UI has been improved and you have more options now with your towns/hero/world that add a lot of depth
Combat is now set on Squares instead of Hexagons, and the perspective can freely be viewed from any point but the Combat still has a lot of depth and tactical options
Creatures are varied, interesting and well balanced and depending on unit upgrades open up a wide variety of battles and depth. Castles and Factions are more balanced this time around and every magic school is useful, the Talent trees for Heroes are also gigantic and have a ton of customizability, so you can build your hero however you want, it's much better than in previous games
Gone are some features from IV which arguably were disliked by many people, and the game essentially is like HOMM3 On Steroids, if you enjoyed 3 - you will enjoy this game, the overall game is very addicting and has that "Just one more turn" elusive feel
HOMMV just like the previous installments is a fantastic "hotseat" game and a game to play with others
Graphics: The graphical style of V is somewhat a change from the "realistic" feel of 3 and 4, this however is a change done for the better, units look very distinctive as well as heroes, towns have their own very special personality, just like in 3, the graphics are somewhat more "Stylized" in this case but these changes were for the better
The ammount of effects is really impressive and overall: The game looks gorgeous, and with good hardware, you should marvel at the beautiful graphics and enjoy the very short loadtimes
Sound: The soundtrack in HOMMV is Amazing, it's right on par with 4 and 3 in terms of that, there are many effects and you can see that the developers spent a lot of time and detail into everything
The Voice acting is also great and there are many neat little effects throughout the game which should put a smile on your face
Overall: A "Must have" game, just like HOMM3, this game will keep you hooked for many days and nights and has absolutely a ton of content to keep you occupied
Reccomended to everyone
5 out of 5 Star Rating
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Posted on 2012-04-06 21:18:02 byKeftsmaell:
My expectations were low when this game was announced, I'll have to admit. The fourth chapter in the franchise was such a major disappointment, spelled the doom of the series, and a fifth entry could probably never fix that. Or so I thought. Boy, was I wrong.
Sure, HoMM5 is not even close to the perfection that is HoMM3, but as a fantastic and solid experience on its own, thisread more game really is a worthy successor. There were bugs, bad optimization and questionable AI and balancing at times, but I really enjoyed pretty much every single minute I spent. Of course, logically I had the fourth game as comparison, but still.
New story, new factions, new skills, yes, that's great, even on their own, but it's the introduction of abilities that really made things interesting, as far as gameplay goes. It gave you more control over the leveling and specializing of your heroes. Also, your hero can attack directly now, without the use of a spellbook, and without being able to die. Awesome? Yes. The only thing that took a while to accept, or rather adapt to, was the art-style, which felt a bit too.. cartoony for me, at first. But I eventually started to get along with it, and actually even enjoy it.
Don't let the unfamiliar developer fool you, they actually managed to make this franchise somewhat relevant again, and playable. They did a better job than 3DO themselves did with HoMM4, obviously, which says something. No more lonely armies hulking around without a damn Hero.
I highly recommend this game for any fan of the franchise, or just a fan of turn-based strategy in general.
You also get the expansions, which add new and pretty unique factions, new campaigns, and a lot of quality playtime to the package. It's just a great deal. Pure and simple.
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Posted on 2012-04-08 19:47:34 byKingCrimson250:
I'll start by saying the same thing that no doubt most of the reviews for this game will say: Heroes 5 is not Heroes 3. That being said, it sure does try hard to fool you.
That might be unfair, as HOMM 5 isn't openly deceptive. Rather, it's a repackaging of many of the core gameplay mechanics from the series' perennial instalment with a few updates. Considering the controversyread more that erupted over Heroes 4, this will likely come as a relief to a lot of Heroes fans, however the question remains: Is it worth purchasing?
To its credit, the game does offer some solid improvements over Heroes 3. Most notable is the skill system, which allows each hero to take three "sub-skills" for every secondary skill. So for example, skills such as Navigation and Scouting are now sub-skills of Logistics, allowing the player to pick those skills when necessary without having to miss out on other secondary skills. This adds a new level of depth to hero development and helps balance out the skill trees a bit.
Adding to the flavour, each town now has it's own unique special ability. The Necromancers can raise the dead, of course, while the Haven can train lower level units up to higher levels for a fee, and the Inferno can summon in reinforcements who disappear at the end of battle. Some of these abilities become very interesting, such as the Academy who can create artifacts to enchant their soldiers. This diversifies the towns and allows for more strategic options. The Tribes of the East expansion also adds alternate upgrades for every unit, and while the distinctions are usually fairly minor, this still adds an additional layer of strategy to the recruitment process. For example, when upgrading your Archers, you can choose either the Marksman, who ignores enemy defense at close range, or the Crossbowman, who ignores range penalties.
Not everything about HOMM 5 is good, though. First, and most notable, is the campaign. The quality of the voice-acting, story, and cutscenes is painful at times, but more noticeable is the bizarre change of setting. Fans of both the HOMM and M&M series will be disappointed to find themselves transported into a much more generic fantasy world, that at times feels like Warcraft-lite. Distinctive factions, such as the collection of subterranean monsters that was HOMM 3's Dungeon, or the mysterious swamp creatures of the Fortress, have been replaced with the standard fantasy fare of Dark Elves and Dwarves (respectively). While this might seem like a cosmetic change, atmosphere is a significant part of fantasy TBS, and the series lost a great deal of its charm with this instalment.
Conversely, aside from the special abilities, many of the towns themselves have an awfully familiar ring to them. Specifically Haven, Academy and Necropolis are nearly identical to their HOMM 3 counterparts, while Sylvan seems suspiciously similar to HOMM 2's Sorceress town. As a result, many of the towns end up feeling rehashed from past games, just more dull.
Additionally, the new "Town Points" system, in which each building requires a certain amount of other buildings to be built first. For example, the Castle, Capitol and top tier creature dwelling each require 15 points, and so likely will not be available until late second or early third week. This may seem balancing, but in the end it only forces players to adapt the same build orders over and over again, rather than allowing them to diversify between economic and military development depending on the situation.
The 3D is no doubt a controversial decision as well. While I never had an issue with it, some have found that it makes the game too clunky.
All in all, however, even though Heroes 5 has its flaws, and hasn't quite got the same depth or level of immersion as Heroes 3, its core gameplay is nonetheless still quite enjoyable, and fans of fantasy TBS would be doing themselves a favour to pick it up. Long-time Heroes fans, if they are able to look past the butchering of the game world and a few issues here and there, will end up finding the same classic gameplay that they grew to love, with a few tweaks and improvements that they may come to appreciate.
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"I go to his grave site all the time and it's empty," says Crawley. A plastic frame marks the plot in the Harris Family Cemetery where Casey Burgiss is buried. The 24-year-old had been missing for three months when police found his body. "I tried to provide him with a beautiful stone with a picture that I could look at when I went there and it's not there," says Crawley. Receipt records show Casey's mom purchased a headstone from Monuments By Design on Hixson Pike in January. "$2,197.02 for the stone and we paid him in full the day we ordered the stone," says Crawley. Now five months later, there's still no headstone. "Every time I called it was a couple more weeks, a couple more weeks, a couple more weeks," Crawley says. "I think it's sad for anyone to take this kind of tragedy and not keep their word." Bill Fairbanks did not want to go on camera but tells Channel 3 over the phone that his supplier filed bankruptcy, causing his business to lose the money two dozen families paid for stones.
The stones were lost too, leaving his business to come up with $30,000. He went on to say in a written statement, "we are slowly recovering from the loss, but as I've explained to the Crawley's, it's taking time, more time than they or I would like. We have never let one single family down in the 15 plus years we've been in business and I never will!" But Crawley is tired of waiting. Her son's murder trial is coming up, and she's ready to put this heartbreak behind her.
"I think that they should return my money, so I can go somewhere else," says Crawley.
Fairbanks says he still has about a dozen stones to finish, including Casey's.
He says his recession-impacted business can't afford to refund all those families.
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The man accused of killing Casey Burgiss goes back to court this week for a trial date.
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The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling this week allows Atlanta to continue to pull water from Lake Lanier, but water officials say that doesn't mean the water war is over.
The Army Corps of Engineers was given a year to set a protocol for how much water the city of Atlanta can draw out of the lake. They're also working on a water control audit for how much water must be dispersed out of dams on the Chattahoochee River.
How does that affect south Georgia? While the ruling doesn't directly impact south Georgia which pulls its water from underground aquifers, not surface water like the northern part of the state, water experts say it does have a round about effect on the Flint River basin.
An appeals court's reversal of a federal judge's 2009 order allows Atlanta to continue pulling water from Lake Lanier, although how much has yet to be determined. You may say, so what? That doesn't affect south Georgia aquifers, but what happens along the Chattahoochee River could have an impact on the Flint River.
"The fact that those two rivers run together doesn't mean the folks on the Flint can just say, yeah, that's not any of our problem. The steam flow along the Flint River does impact the amount of water in Lake Seminole and ultimately how much water flows into Florida," said Mark Masters of the Flint River Water Planning & Policy Center.
The stream flow along the Flint River does impact the amount of water in Lake Seminole and ultimately how much water flows into Florida. Paul DeLoach of Flint Riverkeeper told us as of June first, low flow in the Flint barely met the minimum of 5,000 cubic feet per second that must flow into Florida. The Army Corps of engineers will be watching the Flint River levels closely.
"They're governed by some minimum flows that need to go into the state of Florida, so what they assume about the Flint is going to govern releases from those dams," Masters said.
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"It remains to be seen how the Corps is going to respond, the three judge panel gave them one year to come up with a proposed allocation for Metro Atlanta's water supply," Masters said.
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The Free Press reported the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association of Newcastle, Maine, will host a talk by Esperanza Stancioff, an educator with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant, as part of its winter talk series "Citizen Science in the Sheepscot Watershed." Stancioff will speak on February 5, 2014 about the current research on how coastal Maine's climate is changing, how it might change in the future and the current adaptations that are under way.
Registration is underway for the 2013 Maine Food Summit, a daylong conference Friday, Dec. 6 at the University of Maine. The event, sponsored by University of Maine Cooperative Extension, will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Wells Conference Center on the Orono campus.
The summit is an opportunity for food producers, business owners and anyone involved with and interested in Maine's dynamic food system to share ideas about growing Maine's agriculture and fishery, supporting the state's economy and improving food security.
Tim Griffin, associate professor and director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University, and Patrick Keliher, commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, are keynote presenters. In addition, there will be panel discussions, workshops and opportunities to meet others interested in food systems.
Registration is $30 ($20 for students) through Nov. 22, and $40 ($30 for students) from Nov. 23 until the Nov. 27 deadline. Lunch is included. For more information or to register online, visit http://umaine.edu/agriculture/maine-food-summit/.
To register or request a disability accommodation, call Meghan Dill at 207.581.3878. For more information, contact John Jemison at 207.581.3241.
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Frank Drummond, entomologist at the University of Maine, was quoted in a TakePart article titled "Is climate change threatening Maine's staple foods?" Drummond spoke about the spotted wing drosophila, a new fruit fly that is targeting the state's blueberries. Drummond said the pests need to be monitored and managed, but harvesting berries earlier and using an experimental mesh trap could help keep the flies off the berries.
The Sun Journal, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) were among several news organizations to carry an Associated Press report previewing the Maine Beaches Conference. The conference, coordinated by Maine Sea Grant and a steering committee of public and private partners, takes place Friday, July 12, 2013 at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. The effects of Superstorm Sandy and the lessons Maine can learn from the storm will be the focus of the conference, The Associated Press also reported recently.
Anyone who uses Maine's beaches — from surfers to business owners — is invited to attend the 2013 Maine Beaches Conference to share information with other stakeholders.
The latest on erosion, weather and water quality at Maine's beaches, as well as the importance of tourism and property rights, will be discussed Friday, July 12, 2013 at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland.
The conference aims to share data from the state's beach monitoring programs, as well as provide a forum for communication among beach stakeholders, such as property owners, recreational users and managers.
The 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. event will include multimedia sessions and exhibits, presentations and a walking tour during lunch.
Session topics will include the effects of Superstorm Sandy, erosion control, tourism promotion, water quality, pollution, ecological values and property rights.
Representatives from several organizations including the Maine Geological Survey, National Weather Service, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Maine Office of Tourism and Maine Beaches Association will present during the sessions.
The conference is coordinated by Maine Sea Grant and a steering committee of public and private partners.
Steering committee members representing conference stakeholder groups are responsible for designing and implementing the event, according to conference coordinator Kristen Grant, a marine extension associate with Maine Sea Grant and University of Maine Cooperative Extension based at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve.
The first Maine Beaches Conference was held in 2000 and emerged from Sea Grant-funded research by UMaine faculty Joseph Kelley and Daniel Belknap who developed a volunteer beach erosion monitoring program in response to recommendations of the Southern Maine Beach Stakeholder Group, according to Catherine Schmitt, Maine Sea Grant communications coordinator.
"Even in that first year, it was clear the interest in that information extended far beyond the monitoring volunteers," Grant says. "Because beach stakeholders in Maine represent a diverse range of interests, the conference has always sought to provide continuing opportunities for communication and exchange of the most current information among these stakeholders."
Grant says participants continue to return to the conference because they say it provides up-to-date information and many opportunities to learn and network.
"They also appreciate the chance to meet resource people face-to-face, the sharing of diverse perspectives and new ideas, and the action-orientation of the conference," Grant says.
For more information or to request disability accommodations, call Grant at 207.646.1555, ext. 115.
Registration information, program details, speaker biographies and session and exhibit descriptions are available online.
Contact: Elyse Kahl, 207.581.3747
Life on earth may be shrinking in size as a result of climate change, according to a recent study published in Nature Climate Change. From tortoises to sheep, to trees and grass, University of Singapore biologists Jennifer Sheridan and David Bickford have compiled fossil and experimental evidence showing that many species adapt to climate change by decreasing in body size.
This is not Alice in Wonderland – the adaptation evolves over the course of generations, not within given individuals. Still, species with short generation times can evolve quickly and some have already begun to show growth changes associated with climate trends. For example, over the course of a 23 year study of the common toad in southern England, British ecologist C.J. Reading showed that female body size decreased as winters became more mild from 1983 to 2005. Dr. Reading, who published his findings in Oecologia in 2007, argues that the mild winters disrupted the metabolic hibernation cycles within these cold-blooded creatures. As in all cold-blooded animals, the common toad's metabolism speeds up in warm temperatures and slows down in cool temperatures. So, during mild winters, a toad burns through its fat reserves faster than during a colder winter, depleting its energy reserves available for springtime growth.
Some plant species may also experience stunted growth from indirect effects of climate warming, like changes in water and nutrient availability. Increased flooding, for example, washes nutrients from forest floors and prevents plants from growing to full capacity. Drought, on the other hand, decreases plant respiration and growth. In response, animals that feed on these shrinking plants will need to compensate either by eating larger quantities of the plant, or by succumbing to the shrinking trend by evolving to be smaller themselves. Since animals with small bodies often give birth to small offspring, Sheridan and Bickford argue that this trend may be exacerbated through time in a positive feedback loop.
How low will we go? The extent of growth stuntedness will vary across species and habitats, and will unfold in a web of complicated ecological adjustments. Fossil evidence from the last great warming period on earth, which occurred about 56 million years ago, indicates that beetles, ants, and cicadas shrank by 50 – 75% over the course of 20,000 years. This likely bares little on the fate of 21st century animals, since warming is happening at a faster rate today than it did back then. However, it does at least offer compelling evidence that warming-shrinking trends have unfolded in the past.
But how low will we go, as humans? Sheridan and Bickford argue that ecological shrinking could impact human nutrition by limiting important crop and protein sources. This may or may not ultimately affect the way human body size evolves. Meanwhile, if you do find yourself falling down a rabbit hole with the opportunity to eat size-reducing cake, it may be nutritionally beneficial to go for it. These things are difficult to predict.
Posted by Laura Poppick, Assistant Editor of Maine Climate News
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New findings from a team of U.C. Davis ecologists show that sedimentary bedrock fertilizes plant growth in a northern Californian forest, filling an ecological role previously thought to be reserved for bacteria. Graduate student Scott Morford and colleagues have found that the rock provides ecologically available nitrogen (N), an essential nutrient for plant growth. Since plants cannot use N in its most abundant form as an atmospheric gas, they rely largely on bacteria to 'fix' atmospheric N into a usable form in soil. Now, Morford's team shows that plants can also use ancient N stored in rocks, unveiling a hitherto unaccounted for reservoir of fertilizer that promotes plant growth and carbon sequestration in forests.
The sedimentary rocks fertilizing Morford's study site formed on ocean and lake floors roughly 140 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. As dinosaurs frolicked and battled around these bodies of water, layers of N-rich organic material slowly accumulated within bottom sediments. After millions of years of compaction, these sediments were exhumed as solid rock to form the modern forest floor. Over time, the rock has broken down enough to slowly release nitrogen into the soil.
Not all bedrock has the same fertilizing effect as this Cretaceous sedimentary rock. Igneous rocks, for example, come directly from the Earth's interior and contain only a small fraction of the N available in sedimentary rocks. Morford compared plant productivity in a forest underlain by sedimentary rock versus a forest underlain by igneous rock and found that the sedimentary forest was 50% more productive and stored more carbon than the igneous forest. Since sedimentary rocks are extremely prevalent, covering 75% of the Earth's surface, these findings have global implications for the carbon cycle and the capacity for forests to slow climate change through carbon sequestration.
Morford has yet to identify the rate at which the bedrock releases nitrogen, which will be important in understanding the full potential of sedimentary forests to store carbon in the future. Regardless, he has discovered a new reservoir of N that fundamentally changes the way scientists understand the global N-cycle and the ecological role of rocks in forests.
Posted by Laura Poppick, Assistant Editor of Maine Climate News
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Tropical rainforests cover 6% of Earth's surface, but their soils contain nearly 30% of the total global soil carbon stocks, making them one of the most important carbon sinks on Earth. Yet, ironically, tropical rainforests are also the largest natural source of carbon dioxide on Earth. Plant material grows, decays, and makes way for new growth so rapidly within these lush habitats that carbon stocks remain fairly unstable. Still, rates of carbon sequestration generally outpace carbon release in tropical rainforests, allowing them to maintain their crown in the carbon sink-dom.
Now, with preliminary results published in last week's issue of Nature Climate Change, British ecologist Emma Sayer and colleagues are finding that climate change may dethrone tropical rainforests from their reign in the world of carbon sequestration. Will increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels transform this carbon sink into a carbon source?
Atmospheric carbon dioxide naturally fertilizes plants, as plants use carbon dioxide to photosynthesize. With ever-increasing carbon dioxide emissions in the global atmosphere, plant production has already started to increase in some locations, particularly in tropical forests. Increased plant productivity amounts to larger and more abundant leaves. Since leaves suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, increased leaf growth would presumably bolster a given tree's ability to sequester carbon dioxide. Sayer and her colleagues, however, show that plant-atmosphere interactions are not this simple, and are further complicated by increased carbon-fertilization.
Yes, carbon-fertilized leaves serve as a carbon sink while they are still attached to their respective trees. But, upon dying, they fall to the forest the floor and contribute to a growing pile of dead plant material, or litter. Litter is quickly scavenged by decomposing microbes in the soil that release the once-sequestered carbon back into the atmosphere. This activity is normal, and explains why tropical rainforests are such a large natural carbon dioxide emitter. However, according to Sayer's findings, increased leaf litter produced by carbon-fertilization may stimulate microbes to decompose more efficiently because leaves are more decomposable than woody material on the forest floor. This 'priming' of the microbes with an influx of easily decomposable material could disproportionally increase the net amount of carbon dioxide emitted from a given stand of trees.
Sayer's study is uniquely long term, with data spanning from 2005 to 2009 . Such long term studies are crucial in detecting plant-soil-atmosphere interactions that fluctuate from season to season and year to year. Similar long term studies have yet to be implemented on other forest types, but Sayer suggests that other forest types will likely experience a similar 'priming' effect induced by increased carbon-fertilization. If this is the case, climate models should be tweaked accordingly to better predict future oscillations in forest carbon stocks.
Posted by Laura Poppick, Assistant Editor of Maine Climate News.
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On Thursday, NASA-funded scientists released the first complete map of Antarctic ice flow. Until now, Antarctic ice flow studies have focused on the outer fringes of the continent, leaving the frozen interior essentially uncharted. The new map illustrates the speed and direction of ice flow across the entire continent, dramatically improving the accuracy with which scientists will be able to track future ice sheet movement and sea-level rise related to climate change.
The map reveals a major mountain ridge in East Antarctica that bisects the continent from east to west. In a video of the findings, you can track tributary glaciers weaving dendritically from the ridge across thousands of miles of the continental interior, eventually feeding outlet glaciers that flow into the sea. The video illustrates the true nature of glaciers as rivers of ice, like tributaries of the Mississippi River feeding from the Rocky Mountains into the Gulf of Mexico.
But how can ice flow like a river of water? While ice is solid under certain conditions, it is actually fairly deformable under high pressure because pressure exerts heat that induces melting and flow. Given that the Antarctic ice sheet is more than one mile thick on average, it exerts plenty of pressure to initiate flow.
A geology professor of mine demonstrated the concept of glacial flow to my class by relating glaciers to pancakes (yes, he pulled out a griddle and started cooking glacier pancakes for us — yes, we got to eat them). Like pancake batter spreading laterally as you pile it on the griddle, glaciers spread laterally as snow and ice accumulates at some topographic high. In both cases, the pressure exerted by the vertical accumulation of material forces that material outward. Theoretically, if a glacier were to build on a uniformly flat and sturdy surface like a pancake griddle, it would form the circular shape of a pancake. This rarely happens. The elongated tributary glaciers on Antarctica have conformed to existing valleys or have carved out pathways through erodible rocks.
Aside from glacial shape, the direction and speed of glacial flow also varies greatly across Antarctica because of its varied landscape. For example, ice flows more quickly in narrow valleys than in broad valleys because narrow valleys channelize thick ice. Thick ice increases friction and heat, creating meltwater along the valley floor. Meltwater lubricates ice movement and increases the speed of glacial flow.
Such concepts in glaciology are well established but, until now, they have never been documented in detail across Antarctica. Now, with velocity data from hundreds of tributary glaciers and cutting-edge evidence that ice flow initiates thousands of miles from the sea near topographic divides, the new map offers a vibrant future for research in ice flow dynamics and global sea-level rise. And, underneath the ice flow velocities, the map reveals an Antarctic landscape of mountains and valleys that has hitherto been a frozen enigma. Yet again, climate change research allows us to become better acquainted with our planet.
Posted by Laura Poppick, Assistant Editor of Maine Climate News.
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Yes, aerosols from volcanic eruptions cool the climate, but don't carbon dioxide emissions from the same eruptions counteract this
cooling? No, at least not significantly.
Terrance Gerlach, scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, untangles this commonly misconstrued reality in the American Geophysical Union's EOS June 2011 issue. The amount of carbon dioxide emitted by volcanoes, Gerlach affirms, is inconsequential when compared to human emissions. He calculates that humans emit the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide as the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption every 12.5 hours. Every 2.7 days, we emit the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes during an average year. Our ubiquitous and unabated emissions easily dwarf volcanic emissions, and the cooling effect of volcanic aerosols from a single catastrophic event is much larger than the average annual warming effect of volcanoes worldwide.
There have been periods in Earth History, however, when volcanic carbon dioxide emissions may have been more significant in global climate. Roughly 640 million years ago, for example, volcanic emissions may have pulled the Earth out of a global glaciation. During this glaciation, called Snowball Earth, the Earth is thought to have been sealed in ice as thick as 1 kilometer in some regions, tapering down to less than than 2 meters at the equator. In such a scenario, the atmospheric-oceanic-terrestrial carbon cycle would have slowed down to a near standstill, seriously hindering the Earth's natural thermostat. Volcanic eruptions, both sub-marine and sub-glacial, may have been the one source of carbon dioxide available to thaw the snowball.
According to studies led by Paul Hoffman, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and a leader in Snowball Earth research, carbon dioxide from volcanic emissions could have leaked through weakly-frozen regions of the equatorial ocean and cracks in terrestrial glaciers, slowly warming the atmosphere. With essentially all carbon sinks sealed off, this carbon dioxide would have built up unabatedly in the atmosphere. Over the course of millions of years, enough could have accumulated to end Snowball Earth.
So, yes, volcanoes may contribute to significant climate warming, but only over the extended course of geologic time. Over the course of the 21st century, a mere blink in geologic time, we can safely assume that, if anything, volcanoes will cool global climate.
Posted by Laura Poppick, Assistant Editor of Maine Climate News.
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MILFORD, Del. (AP) - A furniture store in Milford that's been owned by the same family since 1928 has been destroyed by fire.
Fire officials say the blaze at Warren Furniture started around 9 p.m. Wednesday and ultimately went to three alarms, with 50 firefighters called to the scene. It took about 3 hours to bring the fire under control. No one was injured.
Milford City Manager Richard Carmean says Warren's was "probably the oldest continuous operating business in town."
Milford Tavern owner Rich Hoomans says the store's owner, Brett Warren, had been out of town for a few days and arrived home to find his business burning.
The cause remains under investigation.
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Mudpie is getting toasty warm in your cup of coffee in this House-Mouse Designs® image from the pen of Ellen Jareckie. Image measures approximately 2-1/2" X 3".
This original design is copyright Ellen Jareckie and House-Mouse Designs®. The image is deeply etched and precision cut from premium gray rubber on a 1/8" gray rubber foam backing then mounted on your choice of premium American hardwood handle with decal image on top OR on a cling vinyl decal with full sized image for easier storage and use with an acrylic handle sold separately.
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Not my Doggy but my girlfriends brothers. He has two, Bella and Sonny, newfoundlands, when they go on holiday or bella is in heat we get one or both of them for a couple of weeks. Great fun, we both work full time so no life for doggies of our own, sadly.
Bella is about 4 months old here, and the size of a large spanial. She's now 2 years and the size of a small family car, just about.
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Suspensions of two former DeKalb County school board members are being sustained, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal announced Wednesday.Chief Administrative Law Judge Maxwell Woods decided to sustain the suspensions of Sarah Copelin-Woods and Pamela Speaks. He stated that they failed to show that their presence on the DeKalb school board would improve the ability of the local school system to retain or re-attain its accreditation, as required by O.C.G.A Section 20-2-73.The rulings in the cases of two other suspended board members -- Jay Cunningham and Donna Elder -- who petitioned for reinstatement will be determined at a later date.A federal judge has already issued a temporary restraining order preventing any new board members from taking office until after two court hearings later this week.Some parents who have watched the events unfold are hoping for a compromise."I am working with very diligently to try to come up with a solution that accomplishes three goals. And those three goals are to remove the six board members that have been recommended for suspension, to protect the voting rights of the DeKalb County citizens, and to eliminate the need for legal proceedings on this matter," concerned parent Jennifer Hatfield.
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Cell Phone Demand Stays Strong at Koryolink
Koryolink, North Korea's only 3G cellular operator, saw sales more than double in the first three months of this year as it expanded its network coverage and enjoyed continued demand for its service.
At the end of March the company had 125,661 subscribers, a gain just under 34,000 subscribers over the quarter, according to majority-shareholder Orascom Telecom. The Egyptian company, which invests in cellular operators in developing nations, owns 75 percent of Koryolink.
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Chinese shops offer cheap cellphones to North Koreans
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Shops in cities on the Chinese side of the border are attempting to tempt North Koreans with cheap cellphones for use on their country's mobile phone network, according to a report by Radio Free Asia. The phones are on sale for about half the price they would fetch in North Korea, but are attracting few…
Inside North Korea's cell phone use
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North Koreans used cell phone messaging to independently organize a soccer group, surprising authorities, according to a new report on cell phone usage in the country. The soccer club was apparently organized by a group at Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang, and could be one of the reasons that pushed authorities to launch a…
Lost phone found in Pyongyang?
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A smartphone that was lost in South Korea has apparently surfaced in Pyongyang. A South Korean Internet used posted a screenshot from Google's Android Device Manager that shows the phone on Sungri Street (승리거리) in Pyongyang. The page says the location accuracy is 75 meters. Curtis Melvin, author of North Korea Economy Watch and authority…
Orascom has $422 million in cash in North Korea
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Orascom Telecom Media and Technology (OTMT), the Egyptian company that owns a 75 percent stake in North Korea's on 3G cellular network operator, has apparently been doing very well in the North Korean market. A recent audit report by Deloitte says the company's assets in North Korea stand at US$512 million, of which $422 million…
Koryolink hits 2 million subscribers
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North Korea's Koryolink cellular network has hit the 2 million subscriber mark, majority owner Orascom Telecom said this week. The landmark was reached in late May, 15 months after it surpassed the million subscriber mark. Koryolink launched its 3G cellular service in the final days of December 2008 and in the last four years has…
Koryolink nears 2 million subscribers
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Koryolink, North Korea's sole 3G cellular service provider, is close to hitting the 2 million subscriber mark. The news was disclosed this week by the Koryolink CEO Ezz Heikal in Pyongyang and later confirmed by the company's head office in Cairo. It means that Koryolink will have roughly doubled its subscriber base in the last 15 months.…
Mobile Internet service reportedly stopped for tourists
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Well, that didn't last for long. Short-term tourists entering the DPRK can no longer get mobile Internet service, according to Koryo Tours. "3G access is no longer available for tourists to the DPRK. Sim cards can still be purchased to make international calls but no internet access is available," the Beijing-based North Korean tourism specialist…
Koryolink mobile Internet charges detailed
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Ever since it became known last week that foreigners in Pyongyang would be able to get access to mobile Internet services through Koryolink, the big unanswered question has been 'how much?'. We now know, thanks to a report from China's Xinhua News Agency, and prospective users might not like the answer. The news agency said a…
Koryolink to give foreigners mobile data
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Foreigners visiting North Korea should be able to get mobile data service on their cellphones within the coming week, according to a report on Friday. Koryolink, the country's only 3G cellphone network, plans to allow visitors to buy mobile Internet when they arrive in the country, the AP said in a report from Pyongyang. The…
Koryolink international calling rates detailed
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Over the weekend a series of stories from Pyongyang reported that visitors to North Korea can now buy SIM cards for the local Koryolink network so they can make international calls while in the country. Thanks to an update from Young Pioneer Tours, which was the first to report on the new service, we now…


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CATEGORIES Movies, News/Reactions, Sci-FiSci-fi royalty Sigourney Weaver has singed to play the vampire queen in Amy Heckerling's horror-comedy Vamps.
The flick stars Clueless vet Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as a pair of hard-partying NYC vampire chicks whose lives are complicated by, you guessed it, true love.
Weaver will take on the role of the ladies' sire, Ciccerus, a bloodthirsty creature of the night.
Heckerling hasn't directed a hit since Clueless permeated the culture back in the mid-'90s. I doubt Vamps will be able to repeat the success of that film or ... er ... eclipse the current mega-popular fang-toothed movie franchise, but it sounds like a fun romp and a decent comeback vehicle for Silverstone.
I was already interested in Vamps after I heard Ritter (who had memorable recurring roles on Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls) had joined the cast. I can't wait to see this thing now that Ripley has signed on.
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Skydive Spain is pleased to announce that one of it's fleet of Dornier G92's - a twin turbine aircraft reaching an altitude of 15,000ft in under 13 minutes - is based permanently at Skydive Spain for the spring and summer season.
This month´s newsletter was provided by Jonno Horne, Skydive Spain resident FAA Master Rigger, BPA Rigger, USPA and BPA AFF, Static Line and Tandem Instructor and BPA FS Coach and Canopy Coach.
Read on for more of what´s been happening at our DZ this month.
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Congratulations to Volare, the boys took Bronze at the World Games in Taiwan.
1st place - Babylon
2nd place - Skywalkers
3rd place - Volare
Volare will be competing at this year's British Nationals were they will be expecting to take Gold and then to take the World Meet by storm.


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Changing profile programmatically in Qt
This article provides an API which you can use to read and set the standard Symbian device profiles from your Qt application.
S60 5th Edition
The Profile API can be used for changing between different profiles and also for fetching the current active profile. The main class of the API is XQProfile. The API only works for the predefined profiles so custom profiles are not supported. The API does not provide methods for creating new profiles or modifying profiles that are not predefined. This code snippets/example shows how to change profile programmatically using a convenience API that calls functions in Symbian C++. Note that if you just want to read the profile you should use the Qt Mobility API QSystemDeviceInfo
The method setActiveProfile() of class XQProfile will change profile to given parameter. This snippet requires WriteUserData capability. Self-signing is not possible because a Developer certificate is needed.
Headers required
#include "XQProfile.h"
.pro file
Add following lines to your .pro file.
symbian:LIBS += -lprofileengine \
-letel3rdparty \
symbian:TARGET.CAPABILITY += WriteDeviceData
Source code
/* initialize XQProfile */
XQProfile* profile = new XQProfile(this);
/* to set the profile to General */
bool result = profile->setActiveProfile(XQProfile::ProfileGeneral);
/* to set the profile to Silent */
bool result = profile->setActiveProfile(XQProfile::ProfileSilent);
Tested on device
This application has been tested on Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
Download Code Example
- Original source code can be downloaded from here : QtProfile.Zip


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You might have traveled long and far to find an outstanding vacation, but once you have found "The Peddler", your travels will be over. With its tin roof, extensive porches and elegant style, this amazing home brings back memories when peddlers were common pulling their carts of goods throughout Historic Charleston. Nestled on a lagoon, with a resident alligator, "The Peddler" is an easy two-minute walk to the beach (1235-feet) along a walkway of Oaks. With complimentary access to the Grand Pavilion Oceanfront Swimming Pools, you will have direct access to the best options for swimming and relaxing.
A couple of the most sought after features of "The Peddler "are the front porch (with a relaxing swing) and back screened porch overlooking the lagoon. It is a perfect destination to enjoy the Island's fresh breezes, sounds of the sea and wildlife. When you enter "The Peddler" you will find that the home has been meticulously built and decorated by an owner-designer. Each room is designed to flow from one to another with countless fine details. The living room is ideally furnished so that everyone can sit in comfort. It even has a game table that is perfect for assembling the beach jigsaw puzzle. The formal dining room will seat eight, comfortably, and the kitchen is well stocked. There are two bedrooms on the main floor, each featuring a queen bed and private bath. On the upper level there are two additional bedrooms with private baths. One bedroom features a king and the other twins. "The Peddler" has wireless, five televisions and three DVD players. Make your reservation today for "The Peddler".
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house rental amenities
- Amenities
- Clothes Dryer
- Parking Off Street
- Washing Machine
- Linens Provided
- Air-Conditioning
- Beds
- Queen (2) : Both Queen beds located on main floor-Egyptian Cotton Sheets!
- King : Located in Master Bedroom Suite-Egyptian Cotton Sheets!
- Twin/ Single : Twin located on Second floor-Room has own TV
- Entertainment
- Communal Pool : Seaside Homes pool pass allows renters access to Grand Pavilion pools
- Satellite Or Cable
- Stereo System
- Kitchen
- Cooking Utensils
- Refrigerator
- Ice Maker
- Dish Washer
- Microwave
- Full Kitchen
- Catering Available
- Outdoor Features
- Lanai
- Outdoor Grill Charcoal
- Balcony
- Communications
- Telephone
- Wireless Broadband
- Suitability
- Pets Not Allowed
- Non Smoking Only
- Children Welcome
- Activities
- Swimming
- Wind-Surfing
- Hiking
- Fitness Center
- Surfing
- Jet Skiing
- Tennis
- Golf
- Sailing
- Fishing
- Cycling
- Water Skiing
- Health/Beauty Spa
- Antiquing
- Sight Seeing
- Basketball Court
- Cinemas
- Restaurants
- Museums
- Snorkeling/Diving
- Kayaking
- Shelling
- Boating
- Shopping
- Parasailing
vacation rental rates
Summer Rate (Sat-Sat Only) ......$3995/Week (All Inclusive)
Yearly Rates ................... $1995-$3995/Week
Summer Rentals Weekly (Sat-Sat) July 4th week requires addtl fee
Spring/Fall 4 Nights Minimum, Winter 3 Nights Minimum(excluding holidays)
Please Email For Exact Rates, Availability, Holiday Rates, and Current Specials
Sports Card Is Included with All Rental
*All Inclusive: Rate Already Includes High End Cotton Linens, Towels(Bath),
Cleaning Fee Upon Departure, and Applicable Taxes


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Almost every year, a last-place team signs a free agent for a lot of money. The perfect example in my lifetime was probably Gil Meche signing with the Royals. The Royals weren't a Gil Meche away from being good, and that wasn't even the kind of Royals team that had oodles of prospects, either. The correct response was to point and laugh.
Now the Cubs have signed Edwin Jackson to a four year, $52 million deal. The Cubs have a great chance to make progress on their second-to-last-place finish from last year. Now they can have a clear shot at last because the Astros are in the American League now. Progress! And it's time to point and laugh at the Cubs because they're throwing money down a hole for a pitcher who isn't going to be around for the next good Cubs team.
Except that's off. Way off. That kind of thinking is kind of a relic from the olden days, back when the Internet was more about making fun of Rey Ordonez than anything else. Back then, statheads and Internet-savvy folks were right about everything. You just had to ask. But a couple of things changed.
1. The 2003 Tigers became the 2006 Tigers
I already wrote about this here, so I won't go too deep into it. But the 2003 Tigers were the worst collection of baseball players assembled in a half-century. They were wretched, just wretched. Think about how bad the Cubs were to lose 101 games in 2012. Now consider they would have finished 18 games over the 2003 Tigers. The Cubs were almost as close to .500 as they were to the 2003 Tigers. That's how bad the 2003 Tigers were.
After the 2003 season, the Tigers signed Pudge Rodriguez to a big five-year deal. The baseball world shut down with laughter. A 31-year-old catcher getting tens of millions to be on the worst team since the '62 Mets? Good luck with that.
The 2006 Tigers won 95 games and the American League pennant. Pudge hit .300, won a Gold Glove, and started 136 games for them.
The question isn't "How can this free agent help the team now?" The question is really a two-parter: Does this free agent make the team better, and does he prevent the team from making an even better move, like locking up a young superstar?
The Cubs aren't going to lose one of their own players because of Edwin Jackson. They already have Starlin Castro locked up, and the only other pending free agent they might want to keep is Matt Garza, who is a pretty good comp for Jackson.
The 2003 Tigers didn't have a young superstar in the wings, either. They didn't have a looming arbitration award that made them nervous. They had Alex Sanchez and Warren Morris. If they didn't spend the money on Pudge (and other players around him), where was the money going to go? To the Mike Ilitch retirement fund, and he didn't want it. If Pudge stunk and the Tigers stunk, well, everyone expected the Tigers to stink. If Pudge was great and the Tigers stunk, well, everyone expected that, too, except the team was that much more watchable.
And when the Tigers started winning, hooo, man, were they glad they made that move to sign Pudge Rodriguez.
There was a rebuttal to the "What else were they going to spend it on" back in 2003. There isn't now, and that leads us to …
2. There's a cap on amateur spending now
So even if the Cubs wanted to take that $52 million they were giving to Edwin Jackson and plow it in to the Dominican Republic, they couldn't. There are serious penalties for going over the international cap -- just five percent over the cap is subject to a 75-percent tax, and anything over that prevents the team from making an international signing over $500,000 the following year.
It used to be that a team could draft a two-way star in the 14th round and pay him a lot of money to blow off college and ride buses for the next few years. Now, it will really go back into the team coffers if it isn't spent.
So the checklist for a team like the Cubs is simple.
Is Edwin Jackson better than the previous fifth starter on the Cubs?
/looks at Travis Wood, furrows brow
Check. Does Jackson prevent the Cubs from locking up their in-house talent?
/looks at future payroll obligations, reflexively laughs at Soriano contract
Check. And after those two are checked off, the real question is if a) Jackson is going to block a prospect (not likely) and b) if there was a free agent who was preferable to Jackson, either this year or next.
That last one is a legitimate point to debate. It's not like Jackson to the Cubs was something that made such perfect sense that I can't stand it. But it's a bad team getting less bad, and the downside isn't worth getting worked up about. That's how it should be with every bad team and free agents. Remember the 2003 Tigers, and forget about the draft. Bad teams can play in the hot-stove league, too.


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Investment Banker
Typical Day
Pitch Wu sleeps in ironed sheets. His mother told him that he insisted on pin-striped diapers as a baby and the parallels stuck. He graduated Wharton's undergraduate business program with great grades and was honored to receive a full-time offer from SilverSlacks, one of the best investment banks on Wall Street. His parents, both school teachers, were appalled that his starting base salary and bonus was $140,000 – more than both of them made, combined, after 25 years of work. But appalled in a loving, supportive way. Pitch was quick to point out that on a per-hour basis, his salary was more like $50,000 a year if compared with their teachers' hours where they worked just 8-3 and had summers off. Pitch regularly works 80 hour weeks.
He feels as if he never sleeps – even in his dreams he assembles pitch books and analyzeds numbers and pours coffee. It's a Tuesday and he has to finish an 84-page analysis for a big oil company buying a little oil company; oil prices are volatile and he has to figure out how to hedge the deal if Israel bombs Iran and prices rocket; or if economic reports from China come out soft and prices plummet. So he knows he has to be in the trading room by 7 a.m. if he is going to get 5 minutes' attention from an oil trader who could give him the proper math.
That pitch book is due at 8:30, which means it is actually due at 8:15 and in Pitch's mind, it is due at 8. Sharp. So he gets his task done and then zips upstairs to his office where he finds four other books due and deliverable in the next week – he wants to get them finished asap because he knows that there is a deluge behind them. He has made the stupid mistake of only processing books a night or two before they are due rather than getting "ahead." There has been a deluge of 6 other deals and he hasn't slept for the last 2 nights. He swears he'll never do it again, but "thank you, Red Bull" has been ingrained in his brain for a while now.
This vehicle has a hard time not speeding.
One of the deals requires detailed financial processing. He has to create what is called a "discounted cash flow model." He has to figure out what a company would be worth based on the likelihood of its future stream of cash flows materializing. The model is complex because the company has 11 divisions and a highly volatile set of flows. So he spends three hours cranking through that model – but he knows that he doesn't "know" everything and, to hedge his bets, he makes an appointment with his boss (the VP of his group) to go over the model to double-check for errors. Pitch is a smart kid and realizes that by going early to his boss, in case there ARE any mistakes, the VP will stick up for him and not throw him under the bus. And with another set of smart eyes on the numbers, odds of a flub are relatively low.
Early afternoon rolls around and the senior managing director pops into his office. "I need you." (Not in a romantic way.) Rather, the MD needs more bodies for a final pitch to a company looking to go public. He wants to "show mass" – i.e. that this deal is hugely important for the bank and that this IPO would be an "all hands on deck" kind of priority for the bank. Pitch is yet another body; he is available and looks good in a suit. Pitch keeps two extra-clean, pressed white shirts and two spare ties in the office for just such an emergency. Extra razors too.
The IPO pitch goes long – lots of questions – but this is a good problem; it means the client is interested. And the deal is big for the bank which believes it will roll much of the profits from the IPO to those clients into its lucrative hedge fund series. Literally a billion dollars of profit could be at stake for SilverSlacks if they win this deal so, career-wise, even though Pitch has 800 other things to do at the office, it makes sense for Pitch to hang out as long as he possibly can.
Since Pitch is a second year analyst, he has to start thinking about applying to business schools – but he knows that getting in would be a long shot; he isn't an Olympic gold medalist; he doesn't speak 5 languages (though he does have a decent grasp of Chinese, courtesy of Grandma); he doesn't have anything other than just good grades and test scores. Which is fine if he is "ok with" second tier business schools. But those are met with scorn and derision at SilverSlacks, who markets that they hire only the "best of the best."
If anyone mentions "LeBron" right now we'll scream.
A degree from Emory, even though it's an awesome school and probably delivers at least as good if not better education than does Stanford or Harvard, is viewed at SilverSlacks as a kind of black mark failure on a resume. So Pitch knows he needs that third year analyst offer – he would remain at SilverSlacks and marry the firm if he could. He would … yes, pitch woo. (Sorry.)
If you work at SilverSlacks past 6:30 p.m. you get a "free" dinner – and limo service home. The bank has a bulk deal with various providers. It doesn't cost them that much to provide and the young analysts love having anything free. It makes them stay the extra two hours at night and draws dramatically better productivity from them. For the $140,000 SilverSlacks is getting a GREAT deal in their hire of Pitch – he tirelessly tends to every document, financial detail, and the other ministerial processes he has to manage.
And a biggie is interviewing new victim- er um, hires from Wharton. He has committed to have interview schedules in every manager's inboxes by the end of the week and he wants to get on that process this eve – after poring through 214 ask letters, he chooses 80 to put "in rotation" – i.e. each will get three 30-minute interviews by one of eight members of the bank in a single full day of on-campus interviews. From that list will be chosen 16 candidates to be flown to New York and groomed, offered, synthesized and pushed: At SilverSlacks, candidates have to first answer that "if offered, I would accept" a job. That way, SilverSlacks never pitches their own woo to then be jilted. They are fussy and sensitive about such things – but they are selling "best of the best" to their clients, so silly things like this issue matter.
Today was a relatively easy day – Pitch leaves the office at 9. He is only in the first third of employees to leave. Literally hundreds of bankers are still there processing, analyzing and avoiding their families because …work beckons. It is a warm night so he decides to walk the 23 blocks home to his tiny apartment, passing by store windows with awesome things being offered. And on his $140,000 salary and bonus, he can still afford almost none of them. Many years' work and sacrifice still needed to get there, wherever "there" is.


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The Ontelaunee Township Board of Supervisors has required the Schuylkill Valley School District to construct a turning lane northbound on Ontelaunee Drive at the point of entrance into the middle school. The estimated cost for this project is $250,000. The district has had two separate traffic studies, each of which has concluded that the turning lane presently is not needed. Despite several appeals, the township supervisors have continued to require that the turning lane be constructed. Please sign the attached petition to show your support of having the Ontelaunee Township Board of Supervisors reconsider their position on this matter, saving the Schuylkill Valley taxpayer the cost of constructing a turning lane.
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PEKIN Ill -- It was a typical Good Friday in Pekin, as one bare-footed man made a traditional walk that's been taking place for the last 21 years.
"It started the first year just by myself, and I think the Pekin Times were the only ones who covered it," said Paul Helmig. "Now, 22 it's years later and we are expanding out."
This year, it was not Paul Helmig dressing up as Jesus like he has every year since 1991to remind every one of the meaning of Easter.
This year, it was his middle son, Travis Helmig, who put off an employment move for three months to take his fathers place, due to a foot injury.
"He was not going to hand the reigns over to anyone," said Travis. "You're going to have to physically take them out of his hands. I told him that he was not going to do this and that I would. To see the look on his face right now, it's the best going away present I could have given him."
As Travis made his push through the streets of Pekin carrying a 10 foot, 50 pound cross, people stopped to watch and took pictures all along the way.
"I hope they think to tell their kids about this during Easter. While they are doing the eggs and while they are doing all of that, just talk about why we celebrate Easter. If it gets just one person, that would be great. I know that's my dad's goal."
Travis traveled down a three mile path just like his father has done for the past two decades. Family friends said the emotional uplift from those passing by was stronger than ever.
"There is just such an awesome presence that fills me every time I see this," said Geraldine Clauson. "When I see him do this I just want to weep and cry , and it's not because of him. It is who it represents."
Paul was at a loss for words watching someone else, let alone his own son, play Jesus for the first time.
He said he is going to pray for Travis to make the trip back each year to do the walk on Good Friday.


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"Heaven is for Real," is based on the true story of a 4-year-old Nebraska boy who after major surgery tells his father a local minister that he has been to heaven. Although there are immediate doubts, people begin to accept the story when the youngster reveals information he only could have been given by those who died before he was born.
His recount has been inspirational for some and drawn the wrath of others who call it all a fabrication. That becomes a major source of tension in the film.
This story is fodder for countless debates. What should not be overlooked is the strong story of how a family must along with this big event deal with the normal hardships of life.
Director Randall Wallace shows as he did on "Secretariat" and "We Were Soldiers" that the strength of a movie comes from a focus on family. Even when "Heaven is for Real" slips into theological mode, Wallace quickly pulls the attention back to how the family members deal with all that is being thrown at them.
Too often in movies, a man of the cloth is either portrayed as being all knowing or fallen from grace. Greg Kinnear's portrayal of Pastor Todd Burpo the father of the young boy and the leader of the local church is played more human than most church leaders in film. He spends as much time worrying about the mortgage as he does preaching the Gospel.
It helps that he gets an equally strong performance from Kelly Reilly as Sonja, the minister's wife. Wallace doesn't sacrifice the paternal and maternal parts of the couple's lives in the name of their deep spiritual beliefs. Their financial struggles are very reflective of what is going on across the country and that makes the movie more accessible to those who don't care as much about the spiritual aspects. Although it's hard to imagine this movie pulling beyond the religious community.
Wallace also manages to get a surprisingly good performance from 6-year-old Connor Corum. There's a very natural feel to the way the youngster acts in scenes especially when working with Kinnear that helps fortify the family story.
The film is not without flaws. The biggest mistake in the script by Wallace and Chris Parker is the decision to actually show on film what the youngster says he saw in heaven.
No matter how reverent the approach, the depiction of angels comes across as cheesy special effects. And the appearance by Jesus looks more like the worst moments from a church Easter production.
More clarification would have helped, especially when it comes to how the boy's announcement shakes the foundation of those who should have a rock-solid faith.
All of this chips away at the solid family foundation on which Wallace had built his movie.
These aren't mortal sins. Wallace has created a movie that has a message that goes beyond preaching to the choir. That's when the work is at its best.
Movie review
"Heaven is for Real," rated PG for intense medical situation. Stars Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Connor Corum, Thomas Haden Church. Directed by Randall Wallace. Running time: 109 minutes. Grade: B-
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A man was beheaded and his wife is missing in a crime that has terrified a gated community in Georgia.
Investigators have asked the FBI to join the investigation into the disappearance of 87-year-old Shirley Dermond and the apparent murder of 88-year-old Russell Dermond.
According to WSB-TV, friends of the couple went to their Lake Oconee home Tuesday morning and discovered what they believed to be the body of Russell Dermond. Dermond's head was not found at the crime scene, the station reports.
Police said Shirley Dermond was not at home at the time her husband's body was found, and they believe she may have been abducted. Authorities say it's possible that someone the couple knew committed the crime because there were no signs of forced entry and nothing was taken from the home, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
It's also likely the killers entered the home from the lake, because the community is gated with security guards at the entrance.
Surveillance cameras in the community were not working, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills told The Macon Telegraph.
At a press conference Thursday, Sills says after this week's brutal murder everyone should lock their doors.
"The only one who's not a suspect is me because I know where I was," Sills said in the press conference covered by WMAZ TV.
Sills says police have examined the backgrounds of family members and everyone who may have had contact with the couple over the last week, even the mail carrier. The Dermonds had no major health issues, no sign of any mental illness, and had been expected to go to a Kentucky Derby party over the weekend.
When they didn't show friends gave it a couple of days and on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. they went to the house and discovered Russell Dermond's body in the garage, WMAZ reports. He had been moved a few feet and his head had been removed. Shirley Dermond was nowhere to be found.
"I'm not optimistic given the fact of her husband's circumstances, holding out hope for the family," Sills said. "We still approach this as if she's been abducted and we pray that she is alive but we don't know anything about where Ms. Dermond is."
Investigators are finding it hard to track Shirley Dermond because her wallet, cellphone, purse and car were all left behind, the sheriff said.
The killing happened between Friday and Sunday.
The couple has New Jersey roots and moved to Putnam County about 10 years ago, the sheriff told The Telegraph in Macon. Russell Dermond, AJC.com reported, owned several fast food restaurants before retiring.
Sills says a search of the lake, a search of the grounds, the woods with cadaver dogs, and knocking on neighbors' doors has turned up nothing. The last phone contact with the couple was on Thursday and they have no leads.
The sheriff told WMAZ that the couple had been happily married for 68 years, there has been no issues of any kind of domestic problems according to the people they have interviewed.
Shirley Dermond stands at 5 feet, 2 inches tall, weighs 148 pounds and has grey hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Putnam County Sheriff's Office at 706-485-8557.