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Exploiting Resources, Continued
A Call of Cthulhu strategy article by guest writer Francesco Zappon |
Call of Cthulhu LCG | Published 24 June 2011 |
Welcome back to the second part of my two-part strategy article for Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game. In the first part, I talked about the resource system and the basic decisions you have to face during a game. In this second part, I will focus on what I call non-linear aspects of resourcing. When I say "non-linear," I refer to a game situation in which the number of resources in my domains is changing, usually because of a card effect. Notice that I said "changing" and not "increasing." Ideally you want to increase the resources available, but game effects can cause a reduction or a different arrangement of the cards you have in your domains.
While in the first part it was possible to discuss resourcing in a theoretical way, I will make use of specific cards here. This is because, as I said, the basic rules of the game allow only a linear growth of your domains. If you want to break this growth, you need some card effects that will break those rules. Like what, you ask? Read on:
Gain a new domain
A few cards in the game allow you to gain a new domain, such as Eldritch Nexus (Core Set, F154) and Overzealous Initiate (Core Set, F145). What's relevant is not really the resource development, but the fact that the new domain gives you the possibility to break the cap on the number of actions you can take per turn!
Nevertheless, even though at first glance this seems really powerful, I don't generally consider this option a good choice. First of all, it takes a lot of cards (Eldritch Nexus itself plus two cards from your deck). Second, it is very likely that in order to play most of the cards in your deck, you are going to need domains with two and three resources on them (notice, however, that you are not losing an action that turn if you play Eldritch Nexus using a domain with one resource).
The development of four domains, in this case, is going to cost you a lot of rounds and a lot of cards if you want to be able to play what you draw. And the question is this: while you are doing this, can you stay alive? Your opponent isn't sitting there watching you, after all. He is playing too, and while you're resourcing, the characters on the other side of the table will be running for stories.
A fourth domain is useful in a deck that requires cheap domains to trigger card abilities, rather than to play cards themselves. An extra domain to activate The Yuggoth Contract, Nefarious Pact (Whispers in the Dark, F12), or the Brood of Yig (Whispers in the Dark, F4), for example, could be quite helpful. So, if you are planning to use cards like Eldritch Nexus, make sure that you have a strategy to fully support the new domain and take advantage of it. In short, don't risk spreading yourself too thin without carefully weighing the potential benefits.
Increase the number of resources available
When it comes to increasing your resources, Shub is the master faction: Eat the Dead (The Antediluvian Dreams, F56), Feeding Time (Screams from Within, F95), and Harvesting Mi-Go (The Twilight Beckons, F11) are all cards that let you accelerate the growth of your domains. Of course, they all require some condition, but you'll have big domains at your disposal faster than usual, and this can be exploited in easy ways. And if you are afraid that useful cards might end up as wasted resources, don't worry; Slime Covered Dhole (Initiations of the Favored, F50) is there to help you.
Decrease the number of resources available
There are two main types of cards that decrease available resources: Transient and Zoog.
Transient cards, while providing a huge boost to play expensive cards one round earlier, leave you behind in the overall development of your resource curve. So Transient cards are strong if the advantage you gain when using them is good enough to overcome the loss (a statement that is obviously deck dependent). Suppose you are facing a rush deck with a lot of cheap characters with skill one. Resourcing a Descendant of Eibon (The Terror of the Tides, F75) to play a Y'ha-nthlei Statue (Aspirations of Ascension, F66) on turn two is probably going to be a good choice, since you are reducing the options available to your opponent.
Zoog cards have similar concerns, but Furtive Zoog (Twilight Horror, F15) deserves a special mention since in a rush deck it can give you a quick board advantage, and subsequently a successful story phase. But be careful, as this can also compromise your timing! Try to think what you are going to do in the next couple of turns, and if you foresee a dangerous delay in playing important cards, do not use his ability.
Another nice card that falls into this category is Obsessive Insomniac (In Memory of Day, F24). With it, you trade your linear resource development for cards in hand. To use Insomniac at its full potential you need the right deck, but the possibility of acquiring cards that are usually lost is obviously powerful. An example could be a Spell that you can use with Yog-Sothoth, Lord of Time and Space (Screams from Within, F99).
Rearrange resources
Sometimes it's helpful to reorganize your distribution of resources, and Twilight Gate (Twilight Horror, F12) is the classic example. On your very first turn you can resource then play this card, taking out a resource from one of your one-card domains and putting it back so as to have a three-card domain. Next turn, you have the possibility to have a four resources domain (and in this example, we are in turn two). What are you going to do with this possibility? Well, playing a Ravager from the Deep (Core Set, F46) seems nice, but even an Elder Thing (Spawn of Madness, F11) is a good option (maybe putting Twilight Gate on top of the deck again).
Non-Linear aspects of resourcing are an underestimated side of the game, so far. With the second part of the article I hope I have provided some hints about this feature, bringing to your attention some interactions and some cards that are not usually considered good enough to make it into competitive decks. As always, any comments, critiques or questions are welcome!
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I love cards that allow you to put resourced cards back into play!
Regarding Eldritch Nexus: This is one card I consider for inclusion very often. It doesn't cause you to lose tempo, and I very often have characters with abilities that cost 1 (or two). Getting it out early can make a big difference.
Very interesting. Event hough I only occasionnally play the game, and my friend makes the decks, it gives me some insight in how he makes them. Good stuff!
Thanks guys, I'm happy that you enjoy the articles!
Great stuff, keep it coming, I enjoy your articles very much konx.
I'm really digging these articles, I always find something thought-provoking in them.


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I noticed that you have First Avenue on your list. I mentioned this to our Executive Director and she said that certainly the Gay 90s is as much a fixture of downtown Minneapolis as is First Avenue. I don't know much about the history of the 90s and have only been there once, but it has a great drag show. Also, the Twin Cities is one of the larger gay-friendly cities in the U.S., so the 90s would be a symbol of this. One of the first attempts at gay marriage took place there.
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Epic Games has announced an upcoming DLC pack for Gears of War: Judgment called "Lost Relics".
According to the official news on the Epic Games forums, the new DLC will introduce a new online multiplayer game type called Breakthrough. Here, players will need to form two teams; one team must deliver a flag onto set locations, while the opposing team must stop them and are granted unlimited resources to do so.
The new pack will also feature four new maps for this version of the game: Gears of War 3's map Checkout, Lost City, Museum, and Ward. Players can also expect new armor and weapon skins, though Epic Games has yet to list them out in full detail.
Gears of War: Judgment was out on March 19 and was set as a prequel to the previous Gears of War titles. The game was praised for its difficulty modifiers in the single-player campaign and multiplayer modes, but was criticized for its narrative flow and aftermath campaign.


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DETROIT, MI — Want to learn what the deal is with the hundreds of layoffs unfolding at Gannett newspapers across the country? You can get slivers of the story from the local business press and alt-weeklies, and stabs at a big-picture take from industry-watching blogs.
But one place you won't find news about the layoffs? Many of the affected newspapers themselves.
The wave of job losses began around the end of July; on Aug. 2, Jim Hopkins, author of the independent Gannett Blog, reported that an estimated 226 jobs had been cut—the vast majority through layoffs—based on tips from his readers. At about the same time, a Gannett spokesman gave Jim Romenesko this less-than-robust explanation of the moves: "Some USCP (U.S. Community Publishing) sites are making cuts to align their business plans with local market conditions." An Associated Press story reported that the same spokesman "declined to say where the cuts are taking place," or even how many jobs would be eliminated.
Since then, the cuts kept coming. As of Friday, a spreadsheet maintained by Hopkins tallied an estimated 324 layoffs and open jobs eliminated, both newsroom and non-newsroom, at 52 work sites. (The layoffs come less than two months after Gannett announced plans to buy Belo Corporation in a $2.2 billion deal, nearly doubling the number of television stations the company owns.)
Authoritative information, though, remains hard to come by, and not just because corporate is tight-lipped; the affected papers themselves have at times failed to report on the changes and been uncommunicative when presented with questions. Here's what happened when I tried to get more information from a couple publications in the upper Midwest region I cover for CJR.
No good-byes in Green Bay
According to the Gannett Blog, which is widely cited in other media accounts, the company cut 31 jobs in Wisconsin, including six at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. One of those laid off was veteran editorial cartoonist Joe Heller, reportedly the last staff cartoonist in the state. As Jim Romenesko pointed out, "Press-Gazette readers asking on Facebook about Heller's departure get a cold 'the Press-Gazette does not comment on personnel matters' reply. That's a nice send-off for a 28-year local newspaper legend."
The Press-Gazette apparently doesn't cover layoffs, either, or publish sentimental send-offs to departing staff, or even archive their past work. A search of the paper's site turned up no coverage of the job cuts. And when I searched for "Joe Heller" on the site, the first result read, "Joe Heller Cartoons - www.greenbaypressgazette.com/joeheller." But when I clicked the link, it was dead: "Unfortunately, that page could not be found."
This week, I reached out to multiple staffers at the Press-Gazette for more information. The one response I received was from Scott Johnson, the president and publisher, who said, "I am really not the best source for this."
He added, "We had a handful [of layoffs] at my site and some have already been rehired here or have opportunities at other Gannett sites." That's good news for the rehired folks, but only modestly illuminating in terms of what's happening.
A 'restructuring' in Cincinnati
But the situation in Green Bay is crystal-clear compared to what happened at The Cincinnati Enquirer, which experienced its own job reductions, though it's hard to say quite how many. Cincinnati Business Courier puts the number at 11, and says that was confirmed by Enquirer editor Carolyn Washburn; Cincinnati CityBeat, citing Gannett Blog, says it's 23, "but it's difficult to confirm the report because of Gannett's secrecy with staffing issues."
The Business Courier and CityBeat also both initially reported that the Enquirer was closing its northern Kentucky and West Chester, OH bureaus. When those reports prompted an outcry on Twitter from readers concerned that the paper was abandoning coverage of their region, Washburn responded on Twitter: "Not true. Same # reporters. Not closing office." She later supplied a quote to the Courier that led that publication to update its post. "The physical bureaus are staying open, with seats the reporters will use," Washburn said. "Reporters will work sometimes downtown with editors, sometimes in the bureaus."


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If you believe your life is the sum total of your choices, what do you do when things just don't add up? You are about to find out. It won't be pretty. It won't be dull. And surely, it won't be safe. In fact, making just one wrong choice could put evil at your bedside watching you sleep.
And so it is with Kate Simmons, a young woman who, by choosing to regain her life, actually puts it at risk by the very choices she makes. After unimaginable heartbreak stops her world on a dime, Kate falls into a three-year blackness of self blame that brings her to the edge of life, itself. As time finally brings light back through tiny cracks of renewed desire, Kate moves out of the prison she made for herself in her mother's home to find a new reality, rooming with her best girlfriend, Charlie.
Yet, to be free is to be vulnerable, and Kate's choices more than ever mark a splattered line between being happy and being dead.
Care to choose? Here's your menu:
A strangely alluring building manager so possessed with wanting you for his own, he'll bury more than the fact he has a girlfriend; a buff college student for whom you are clearly hot, as are all the other girls on campus; a pushy lawyer who is as handsome as he is intoxicated with conquest, who doesn't take no for an answer, who gets what he wants — always.
Sometimes, it's whom you choose. Sometimes, it's who chooses you. If you're Kate, it's both, and it puts you on a perilous road where good looks and humor are the thin masks of jealous delusion and utter violence.
You're in trouble when the sum total of your choices is written in blood red.
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Tammie's Review:
Right from the first chapter you can tell that Roger is creepy and would make you a bit uncomfortable if you met him. As the story continues and you get to know Kate you see that she is a kind person with a big heart. She has been deeply hurt in the past and it has taken her a long time to be ready to learn to love again. I liked that she trusted her heart when Neil came into the picture and proved he was worth giving a chance to see if they could work. I also liked her trusting her gut with Roger. I felt sometimes that the flow of the story kind of stuttered a little, but not enough to keep me from following the story or from enjoying it. Once I got started I didn't really want to put it down. I am looking forward to reading book 2.


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Lions vs Southern Kings!!
February 8, 2013 in Uncategorized
This is going to be a huge match, both teams looking to prove a point!!!!!
The Lions will be wanting to beat the Kings to prove a point that they shouldn't have been kicked out of the Super Rugby Competition.
Southern Kings will be wanting to prove point that they should be in the super 15 Competition and they will be wanting to prove there crItics wrong.
My prediction is that the Kings will win, but who knows anything can happen.
Its going to be a cracker of a match.
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Here is the translation of the address given by Pope Francis to the staff and employees of the Apostolic Floreria (Apostolic Floristry), who set-up all Papal events within the Vatican, during an audience today at the Apostolic Palace. * * *
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Welcome to the only jailbreak Wii step by step guide on the internet. You've decided to improve your Wii console so you can play FREE burned games from the internet, watch movies and do other cool stuff. I wanted to do this too and there was not much information I could find but I kept looking and researched until I found the easy software modding way.
Then I made this blog/guide so everyone can do it really fast because software modding is the most simple way to jailbreak your wii and it doesn't require a chip or tools or opening the console and it's 100% legal. You put some software on an SD card and transfer it to the wii. It's pretty easy and everyone can do it in a matter of minutes.
What do you get from it: play downloaded and imported Wii games, you don't void the warranty of the console, play games from other consoles (N64, GameCube, SNES, SEGA, PS1, etc), you can use it with any wii version, play DVDs, MP3 music and homebrew applications, etc.
That being said let's get started on the guide. My name is Radu and below you will find out how to install some software on your Wii and jailbreak it in the next half hour or less without a chip!
Step-by-Step Guide To Jailbreak The Wii
Part 1 – Requirements
You will need:
An SD Card
The SD cards are very common and you probably already have one in your phone or camera (or both). If not you need to get one of these cards because you need to transfer a little piece of software to the wii to softmod it. Note that you don't need a 2 GB, it can be much smaller. It costs around $5 dollars or less I believe and you can find one in a lot of places (electronic store, computer store, cell phone store, etc).
DVD Discs
You will need blank DVDs for your burned games (you don't need them now to jailbreak). It doesn't matter which kind: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL. Make sure your computer has a DVD burner and you have a DVD-burning software. If you don't download from Img Burn. It's free and easy to use. Press the download button and choose a mirror. The price for a blank DVD is very low (less than 30 cents) but get more than one because you will have so many games at your disposal you'll wish you bought more. You can buy them everywhere nowadays in all sorts of stores from electronics to supermarket stores.
Wii Unlocking Software
This is the software that you need to jailbreak your wii with. After you download this software you will receive some files that you put on the SD Card. So make sure you are able to transfer data from your computer to the SD Card. Most laptops have built-in Card Reader, but if you don't have one you can use an USB SD Card Reader or a camera/cell phone connected to the PC and then put the SD Card in the camera/cell phone (you probably already know how to transfer data but I have to make sure).
Where do you get the software: there are currently 3 websites that have this kind of software. The only difference is in the price so make you sure you get cheapest one because they like to change to price sometimes. You can choose from here:
Console Unlock (this is the one I used but it doesn't really matter).
Wii Unlocker (cheapest one currently)
A Nintendo Wii and a TV
Of course you need a Wii and a TV for this… Just make sure you have an SD card and the jailbreaking software. Total cost: $30 to $40 dollars which is basically 1 or 2 wii games but after you finish this you will be able to download, burn and play all of the wii games for free. OK, now let's see what you need to do next to jailbreak your wii (time remaining: 15 minutes).
Part 2 – Step by Step Instructions To Jailbreak Wii
Step 1 – Preparation
1. Get the software from one of the above links.
2. Unrar the content of the download to your computer.
3. If you can't do this you might need to download the free WinRar Software first.
4. Format the SD Card: the SD card needs to be empty!
5. Copy the content of the unlocking software onto the SD Card.
Step 2 – Installation
1. Insert the SD Card in the Wii and turn the console on.
2. Navigate to Wii Options –> Data Management –> Channels –> SD Card.
3. Now a pop-up will appear. Press "Yes" when it asks you to load "/boot.dol".
4. Use the on-screen instructions to install dvdx and the Homebrew Channel.
Step 3 -The Homebrew Channel
You have installed the homebrew channel. This is the channel you will have to use when you'll want to play burned games, movies,etc. But first you need to install an application to this channel and after that you can start downloading games and playing.
Step 4 – Installing the Backup Launcher
1. Run the homebrew channel.
2. Click the cIOS_installer.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions and then wait until the Wii reboots.
4. And now you're done.
5. Put the DVD in the Wii when you want to play a burned game.
6. Launch "Backup Launcher" from the Homebrew Channel Menu.
7. Play and have fun.
Part 3 – Downloading & Burning Games To Your Wii
Downloading From Warez-BB
This is one of the ways to download Wii games. Join the forum (free) at Warez-BB and then search for the game you want to download. They use Rapid Share to download so if you're a free Rapid Share user it might take more time to download. You could consider the option of getting a premium membership.
Downloading From Torrents
This is the simple way and sometimes even the faster way to download games. All you need is a free Bit Torrent program. I've been using for years uTorrent and it's the best of it's kind. Press the free download button and that's it. If I remember well you don't even have to install it. It just runs. After you install the torrent client you can go to these free torrent sites and type the name of the game(s) you want in the search bar (the are many other torrent sites of course):
Burning Wii Games to DVD
After you download the .iso games you need to burn it to a DVD disc. As I said above you need that free program ImgBurn. So make sure you have that. Install ImgBurn and open it and then choose the .iso game you want to burn. Insert a blank DVD in your computer/laptop and wait for it to finish. And now you're ready to play. Just put the DVD in the Wii and run the "Backup Launcher" from the homebrew channel as I said earlier.
The End
You have successfully jailbreak ed your wii! If you're having trouble with my guide leave a comment or send an e-mail (see the Contact page). And if you liked this guide share it with your friends so they can get the most out of their wii console too and not spend money on mod chips. Thanks for visiting and have fun playing all those games available for your wii starting from now. PS: leave a comment and press the Like button if you enjoyed this.


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Use these fun Ice Trays to put some vampire teeth in some punch or in your Vodka/Cranberry. Perfect for making Halloween Ice Cubes. Each ice tray makes five (5) sets of teeth / ice cubes.
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Looking for a European adventure check out THE 100 Km OF THE ALPS.
The countdown until Saturday October 15th has begun. The day in which, at 10:00 AM, from the heart of the 6th district of Turin, the third edition of the 100 Km run of the Alps, from Turin to Saint Vincent will depart.
A route that is nice and speedy despite the two climbs, one towards Alice (50 km) and the one of Monjovetta, near the finish line. The route offers the participants beautiful scenery, the warmth of the people of the 17 communes that will be crossed, each in its respective center, and the typical culinary excellence that can be tasted in each refreshment booth make the 100 Km of the Alps a unique run.
As usual there will be a hospitality package for those who would like to combine the pleasure of participating in the race along with that of spending two or more days before the run in the first capital of the country or Saint Vincent, the capital of the "Riviera of the Alps." A Turin more splendent this year due to the multiple initiatives taking place to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Italian Unification.
The registration is already available online on the website
Here are more details on the hospitality package:
For those who would like to sojourn comfortably, the night before and/or after the finish we have negotiated a preferential rate in the selected Saint Vincent hotels.
For all who choose this option (including those escorting the participants)
the organization will equally put at disposal a shuttle bus that will follow the subsequent itinerary:
1. Saturday October 15th , leaving at 7:45 AM from Saint Vincent to the starting line.
2. Sunday October 16th , leaving at 14:30 (after the awards ceremony at 11:00 AM) from Saint Vincent going to the starting line as well as the station FS Porta Susa.
The full package that the race offers to all the participants, this year once more, includes a 10 euro coupon to give your luck a shot at our partner, the Casino de la Vallée de Saint Vincent.
The 100 Km run of the Alps is a Bronze label IAU race.


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Do the hours of operation 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. for the health department meet your needs for receiving our services? If you have a comment or concern regarding the hours of operation, please email Paula Carden @ email@example.com.
The Jackson County Department of Public Health offers services in Personal Health, Communicable Diseases, Specialty Clinics, Family Outreach Services, Laboratory Services, Environmental Health and Ancillary Service.
The Jackson County Department of Public Health and its employees are prohibited from discriminating against clients on the basis of age, sex, race, color, creed, religion, national origin or disability. All clients shall be treated equally.
El Departamento de Salud del Condado de Jackson y sus empleados son prohibidos de discriminar contra clientes por edad, sexo, raza, color, credo, religión, origen nacional o incapacidad. Todos los clientes serán tratados iguales.


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.... "paint-grade"(white or cream) cabinets from a local contractor and "factory-finished" painted cabinets from a big retailer (like Kraftmaid/Schuler etc), in terms of:
quality of finish durability and need for repainting down the road type of wood and how it holds up to the usual kitchen environment ( a friend told me that paint grade cabs are usually alder) ease of maintenance ( does one get dirty quicker than the other) including any needed DIY touch-ups price difference ( hundreds/thousands) warranty or anything else I may have left out? I'm still hankering after maple for my cabs. Thanks, all! :-) |
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Selecting and (especially) applying paint films and finishes is a professional job. A large scale shop or manufacturer would, all things being equal, have a great advantage in experience in both areas. |
There are typically two kinds of finish; paint or conversion varnish. Paint is applied with a brush and when a contractor is involved its subbed out to a house painter. This is the cheap way of doing it. Painted surfaces will only hold up only so long to moisture and chemicals. Conversion Varnish is a two part industrial finish that is applied with finishing system. Its basically the best finish possible for moisture and chemicals. The technology and skills used to spray cars are basically the same needed to spray-finish custom cabinets. Conversion varnish can be tinted to any color under the sun, just provide a Benjamin Moore # ( or similar ). It takes a certain level of skill and equipment to be a finisher, there is a lot of prep work and between coat sandings. Trust me the house painter that the gc hires wont come even close. I have been made despondent by my some of my clients decisions to "save" money and have "Jerry" the guy who is painting the outside of my house also do the kitchen cabinets. Inevitably, I come back to take photos for our portfolio and I take one look and the deep brush marks, hairs in the finish, runs and flooded inside corners. I don't even unpack my camera, I just shake my head and walk out. |
"Paint grade" can mean: maple not suitable for stain, MDF, poplar, could mean alder though not usually from a large mfg. Factory appiled paint usually has a catalyzed top coat. This will be tougher than most of what you can get locally. The down side to that though is if it chips it is more difficult to touch up or to repaint. Site painted are less durable and will eventually need repainting. But are easier to repaint. The best are done by a professional. Price difference can be all over the map. IMO, at least in these parts the biggest difference in price has to do with construction. And I don't mean drawer glides, dovetails or plywood thickness. The biggest price (and quality) difference is in frame construction. Pocket hole frames will be the least expensive and account for more than half of all cabinet sales. Again around here that is the most common with local "custom" makers. Next up the scale is a doweled face frame (sometimes loose tenons or biscuits) and finally the best and most expensive will be true mortise and tenon. In mfg brands that will be in higher end and true custom mfg's You will also find variations in the material used for the sides of the case. Particle, ply, varied thickness of ply, and source/quality of ply. (Chinese, mexican, canadian domestic, NAUF, and a myriad of grades) All of those contribute to price difference as does mark up. So you decide how you want to deal with paint. Talk with a few makers/dealers, find someone you like and trust that can make your budget. Most (not all) mid price and up options out there are "good" nowadays. |
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Fantastic information from all! Thank you, Clarion, Cabmanct and jakuvall. Exactly what I needed to know! :-) |
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I've been reading for years and years about just how great Decipher's Star Wars CCG was, but no-one has ever said exactly why to any great degree. Certainly nothing anyone has said anything that has ever done more than made me mildly curious about this bit of nostalgia. Largely it seems to be used as a stick to beat WotC's TCG with. Wookieepedia seems to imply the rules are overly (and possibly unnecessarily) complex, but allows this makes it a rich gaming experience. Other than the fact they engaged people to pose as Mara Jade and Grand Admiral Thrawn, I have no other idea what there is that could make this so great.
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Pussy Riot: 'We had nothing to do in prison but read the Bible'
Jailed Russian punk collective Pussy Riot have spoken out about their time in prison and claimed they had been spending their time reading the Bible.
Nadia Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich received two-year prison sentences on August 17 after being found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred – and in an interview with GQ, Tolokonnikova revealed that the only text she had been able to read to stave off boredom was the Christian tome.
"Prison is a good place to learn to really listen to your own mind and your own body," she said. "I've learned to read much more deeply, for instance. For four months, I had nothing to read but the Bible, so I read it for all four months – diligently, picking everything apart."
She added: "Prison is like a monastery – it's a place for ascetic practices. After a month here, I became a vegetarian. Walking in circles for an hour in that tiny dusty yard gets you into a pretty meditative state as well. We don't get much in the way of news. But enough to get inspired."
When asked about a report published in a Moscow newspaper which alleged that the three women had been enjoying 'VIP' treatment in prison, meanwhile, she responded: "Did Auschwitz have VIP death lounges? If yes, then I suppose you can call our conditions VIP treatment."
She also spoke about the support the band had received from the Western world, adding: "I still can't shake the feeling that I've spent the last six months acting in a big-budget movie. The amount of Western support that we got is a miracle. I believe that if Russia had independent national media, our performance would be better understood at home as well.
"Right now we're in hell here. It's hard living in a place where everyone can hate you because of something they heard on TV. That's why every gesture of support is so important and so much appreciated."
The three jailed women's case is up for appeal on October 1. Meanwhile, other members of Pussy Riot recently delivered a video message to their supporters, which you can watch below. The video features members of the collective abseiling down a wall before setting fire to an image of President Vladimir Putin.
"We've been fighting for the right to sing, to think, to criticise," they say. "To be musicians and artists ready to do everything to change our country. No matter the risks, we go on with our musical fight in Russia".
"Start the pussy riot and never stop," they conclude. "The fight for freedom is an endless battle that is bigger than life."


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It took just over three years from beginning to end (kitchen is part of a multistory addition), but here, finally, is the new kitchen for our 1938 house in the Midwest. |
Follow-Up Postings:
- Posted by californiagirl (My Page) on Mon, Dec 3, 12 at 21:17
Second photo. Many, many thanks to everyone who posts here. Have learned so much. We love our kitchen |
- Posted by californiagirl (My Page) on Mon, Dec 3, 12 at 21:25
Wish I could edit. Apologies for the bad spelling and missing period. Was focused on how to get the poor quality iPhone photos uploaded. |
This is beautiful. But why don't your post this over on the "discussion" side too. If not all of the pictures at least a link to this area. It seems that most people post their new kitchens on the Discussion side. and ps, you can edit on the discussion side, it is a new feature. |
- Posted by Zippity-do-dah (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 12 at 22:38
Gorgeous! Marvelous Darling! Is there mirror in your corner door (pantry?). Great idea. Cabinets go all the way up! Love it. Ah, those chandeliers!!! They are the bestest of all! Enjoy! |
That's gorgeous! |
- Posted by californiagirl (My Page) on Wed, Jan 2, 13 at 23:01
Zippity, I was thinking about mirror in that door because I was afraid I would hate seeing the messy pantry. Turns out I am so happy to have a pantry I don't care! The cabinet maker made changes after the plans were drawn in the glass doors sizes that created overly small panes. When DH and I first saw them we were sure we would ask him to change them. But we got used to them and the way all the muntins in the cab and pantry doors hide what's behind. I will take enduring's advice and post on the other side. As a longtimer I knew this was the side finished photos used to be posted on but it has never been very active. |
- Posted by decordummy (My Page) on Thu, Jan 3, 13 at 9:30
Your kitchen is beautiful! I love absolutely everything in it. |
- Posted by californiagirl (My Page) on Sat, Mar 2, 13 at 21:48
Thanks to all of you for the kind reviews. I finally got some new, better photos (but without the counter chairs!) and posted them on the Discussions side, per enduring's suggestion. |
- Posted by lalalisa123 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 21, 13 at 20:05
Beautiful!!!! |
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Image from the James Hotel NYC (through Remodelista)
botanicals in style
100% love for the way these plants are put together in a beautiful way of displaying and storing them.
Image from the James Hotel NYC (through Remodelista)
Little ones, little details
Looking for some inspiration for the room of your little one? It should be special ofcourse...By adding some special details to the room it gets instant style, personality and character. It's all about those little details that make you smile.
The above images show you what I mean and are made by Jolien from the Kinderkamerstylist (childroom stylist). She specializes in designing kids rooms and shows all of her inspiration on her blog.
Take a look at her blog and website for more kids room inspiration. Think you will like it!
April & May hearts
This made me smile...
1. Ina Jang Photography by Ina Jang
2. office space through Emma's Designblogg
3. silk vortex by Akiko Ikeuchi
4. neon touch office space through Dezeen
INSEKT desk by BB+++
Kellie Smits, designer and founder of the great kids label BB+++ is the designer of this desk called INSEKT. As beautiful as her kids wear label is, even as beautiful is this product design.
The desk with a lot of steps to put papers, drawings and paraphernalia in is both functional as good-looking. In the opening at the top is more space for pens etc. and an opening at both sides to leave electricity cables. The name INSEKT is a association of Kellie with insect legs and it's desk legs.
The desk is not only available for kids but also for adults and work purposes with a higher size. Available in pink, olive green and sunny yellow you really can add some personality to your kids room or office.
The desk is available through the webshop of Buisjes en Beugels.
Thank you Kellie for the use of your images.
Win this dipvase!
Together with Bijzondermooi.nl, the online shop to get the most beautiful Dutch Design, I am offering you a chance to win this dipvase by GOODS. April & May has made some pictures especially for this give-away and I hope you will like this original vase as much as I do.
What do you have to do to win this dipvase?
1. "Like" the Bijzondermooi Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/bijzondermooi
(or in case you already did this)
2. Leave a comment at the picture of the dipvase at the Bijzondermooi Facebook page and tell us why you would like to win this dipvase.
3. You will have an extra chance to win by leaving a comment at this post on my blog.
This give-away ends at the 31st of may 2011 and we will announce the winner through Facebook and ofcourse on my blog.
Images by April & May for Bijzondermooi.nl
Wall stickers by Harmonie Interieure
I was introduced to these beautiful wall stickers through an e-mail of Fabien Barral (one of the owners of Harmonie interieure).
Harmonie interieure designs and sells home decoration for walls. They want to use decorative stickers differently, giving them spirit. Their passion for typography results in these beautiful wall stickers, not only to decorate your home but also sending a message.
As a typography lover I think the stickers are wonderful and they do really give some spirit to these walls don't you think?
Images through Harmonie interieure
Inspired by wood
Lately I am seeing lots of wood wall paneling around me...It inspires me, so many ways of doing it...modern, old-style, smooth or rough.
Think it's beautiful in many ways and really ads some character and personality to your home.
Images through 1. Hindsvik (Johannes Norlander Arkitetur), 2. Bloesem (home of Christien Starkenburg), 3. (source unknown), 4. Remodelista (summer retreat)
Treasured by April & May
Something special, to love, treasure and enjoy...
I am opening an Etsy shop where you can buy your treasure!
Soon more...
Think Fabricate
Think Fabricate creates these furniture pieces with beautiful little details. Love the little wall cabinets and the cut out flower detail in the cabinet. Look for more here.
Images by Think Fabricate
ceramic wall installations
Katherine Dube is the designer of this ceramic wall installation called Growth.
Her sculptural wall installations include a series of handcrafted, individual ceramic pieces installed directly onto the current environment to seamlessy integrate within your existing space.
Me as a ceramic lover find her work intriguing and beautiful. She has more wall installations called waves and bloom which you can find here.
Images through Katherinedube.com
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This made me smile...
1. Little horse by min lilla veranda
2. Made in China by FriedaMaria through Emmas Designblogg
3. Sargadelos Ceramics by Sargadelos
4. Yes, No, Maybe through Piccsy
Convent becomes home
German designer Katrin Arens made a home out of this old convent. It is a cozy yet minimalistic home. The use of raw materials, concrete, mixed objects and original style elements makes it a wonderful place to live in. Don't you agree?
Images by Marie Claire Maison (through My Blackbook)
Chic cham
Above images are from the new interior decoration brand Chic cham.
Chic cham combines the spirit of India with design, as well tradition with modernity. It is a brand of interior decoration that edits beautiful and poetic products for everyday life, which focus on natural materials.
The Chic cham collections offer decorative cushions, curtains, custom-made rugs, towels, blankets and bed covers. The products are made exclusively in India and are divided into five collections with more collections to come.
Take a look at Chic cham for all the beautiful products they offer.
Nanna Lagerman
100% love for these images, styled by Nanna Lagerman for Elle Interior Sweden. Love the pure and white look, the taped carpet and mix of furniture.
Last week I received an e-mail from Anya who has won the birdcage from my April & May give-away.
The birdcage arrived at her home in Denmark and after trying several locations in and around the home it now has a beautiful place inside on the dining table.
Thank you Anya for sending me these pictures.
April & May hearts
This made me smile...
1. Tio chairs by Massproductions
2. Bloesem Kids wear Neon by Bloesem
3. Flowers through VTwonen


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At The Hearing Aid Center our hearing evaluations are a family affair. It is important that a loved-one accompany you on your visit.
Your first appointment will be very educational; you will be able to discuss many aspects of hearing loss and the various treatment options. Having another person you trust accompany you can ease anxiety and make it a more comfortable experience for you. Additionally, the familiar voice of your loved-one may actually be used for hearing amplification demonstration.
Your hearing evaluation will consist of:
- Video Otoscopy – This allows you to see the inside of your ear canal on a video screen, and see what we see! During this exam we will be looking for anything unusual that might explain your hearing trouble, including signs of any medical conditions or wax build-up in your ears.
- Pure Tone Audiometry – This exam allows us to see what your hearing sensitivity is for each ear at different frequencies and different intensities, and allows us to determine what degree of hearing loss you may have.
- Bone Conductivity Test – This exam allows us to determine how well your inner ear is working. We are able to bypass the outer and middle ear and reach the auditory nerve through vibration in the skull bones.
- Speech Audiometry – This exam allows us to determine how well you are able to hear and understand speech. In conjunction with pure tone audiometry, this exam provides information that helps to determine proper fitting ranges, and expectations for a hearing instrument.
Immediately following the hearing evaluation, your specialist will review with you the tests you've just completed in language that you understand. The explanation will include if you do or do not have a hearing loss, the type and degree of loss, and a summary of possible treatment options based on your testing results. Additionally, they can provide information on the consequences of untreated hearing loss. You and your loved-one are encouraged to ask questions at any time.


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Jessica Mang, who traded material non-public information based on tips obtained by her Mizuho investment banker boyfriend, Thomas Ammann, because he promised to take her on vacation afterward and also because she thought his entrusting her with such a high level task was a sign he wanted to get serious, was cleared by a jury today, as was Christina Weckwerth, Thomas Ammann's other girlfriend/execution trader.
The women nearly doubled the amount they invested and then paid half of their profits to Ammann, the U.K. Financial Services Authority, which prosecuted the case, had said during the trial in London. Neither woman knew Ammann was dating the other simultaneously. Ammann, a German national who worked on the Mizuho mergers and acquisitions team that advised Canon on the OCE deal, pleaded guilty earlier this year to insider trading and encouraging Mang and Weckwerth to commit insider trading. Canon, the Tokyo-based maker of cameras and photocopiers, agreed to buy OCE in a 730 million-euro ($931.8 million) deal in November 2009. The FSA said that Ammann tried to avoid being caught by having his girlfriends make the trades. "The charges against Weckwerth and Mang were serious and we considered that the evidence provided a proper basis to put the case before a jury," Tracey McDermott, the regulator's director of enforcement and financial crime, said in a statement.
Weckwerth, who has British and Cypriot citizenship, took in nearly 2 million pounds ($3.2 million) after investing 1 million euros before the deal in 2009, the FSA said at trial. She argued that she bought shares of OCE only after she researched Ammann's recommendation. Mang, who got back 65,000 pounds on a 39,000-pound stake, said she bought the shares at Ammann's request because she wanted to show him that she trusted him and was trying to build their relationship.
Follow-up questions that need answering:
* Did the ladies, who hadn't known about the other's existence until they were tried alongside one another over a four week period, become friends?
* Will they buy something nice for themselves with the profits they were allowed to keep?
* What are the odds Jessica "ma petite due diligénce" Mang will go out with Ammann again if he calls? High to pretty high?
Ex-Mizuho Banker's Girlfriends Not Guilty of Inside Trade [Bloomberg]
Earlier: Woman Who Insider Traded On (Two-Timing) Boyfriend's Behalf Did So In The Hopes Of Taking Relationship To The Next Level
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That guy looks like a cross between and young Gerard Depardieu and Harry Dunne.
"a" not "and"
c'est le bullshite…
what an anti-climatic ending for this tranny love triangle story
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present the accused. As you can clear see, the accused is a woman. We all know that women do not know what they are doing, nor do they know right from wrong. If the penis fits, you must acquit.
The blow jobs must have been epic.
comma, Gerry Dep
The slouching Slovakian chick yesterday. Jefferies bought out by a slaughterhouse. UBS RIF the day of Hurricane Sandy (and then the awkward hire-back). Actually, just: UBS. And now today you've got this bruiser on the left and the frumpy betch with the latte in the middle.
As my friend Friedrich might have put it: Wall Street is dead.
The blow jobs following the million pound gain must have been epic.
I would trade anything not to be inside her.
-Guy with a fondness for the mental well being of his penis
I wonder what would have happened if a woman investment banker did the same thing with some mimbo guy
Investing neophytes randomly investing a million bucks in a company that was about to be acquired by one of the largest electronic manufacturers in the world sounds like pure beginners luck to me!
"A fondness for the mental well being of his penis" is making my head explode. Excellent turn of phrase there, Guest. xoxo
Keep telling yourself that you're not getting laid for the "mental well being of your penis" I'm sure that's the reason!
I predicted you would think about a penis today.
Stop fretting and roll the dice for once!
– your penis -
Worst comment ever.
pmco, when I'm sharing a bed with a young vixen, I leave my phone locked, but with vibrate and text preview on. When I'm asleep and my iPhone is buzzing at 3 a.m. from drunk-texting 23 yos, I feel like no girl can resist investigating. The result: the girl sees that you're in demand, without knowing the context or depth (lack thereof) of your relationship with the texting cuties. Demand -> Competition -> the iPhone snooper delivers stronger performances in the sheets. Bedroom capitalism if you will. Do you agree with my theory?
What kind of royalties is she getting from Starbucks
You may have missed some factors in your equation. Demand is usually greatest for a superior product at a reasonable price point. Ponder that, little Grasshopper.
Don't get all hyper-literal on me
Serious talk time, wtf happened here. You can actually use the,"yeah it was insider information, but I didn't rely on it," defense successfully!?!?!
Note to all heavy set Europeans. If your fat you cannot and should not attempt to pull off the skinny tie slim fit look. And also note to the fluffy asian…you can do better, maybe not much better but definitely better then this asshole.
I predicted you would engage in this incorrect analysis of my comment.
forget to sign in on this one, laxbro/n'08? as always, you suck.
texting is for fags
*after the verdict *
Miss U Ho
30 yo busted asian chiropractor can do better than a two-timing investment banker? If she could she would..
"you're" otherwise no concerns.
It was over when they put in quotas for women and minorities.
Seems to me that if you're in bed with a girl and she's more interested in the phone on your nightstand than in you, you're doing something wrong.
I mean they're both a little heavy, but not a million pounds…
-Guy who has never left the US or traded FX
Soo, are they available now?
I think the bloated Asian one might be what they call a "value trap."
She's a Mang baby!
A. Powers
after a million pounds, she probably paid to have someone else provide said bj
Very well versed blog you got there and keep up the knowledge spreading
You've included all the qualities in good writing I like all in this article. It's unique, provocative interesting and thought-provoking. I have to agree with your unique viewpoint. Thank you.
Cuddling is for fags.
Apparently 'being a girl' is a legitimate legal defense nowadays. Bat your eyelashes, flip your hair, say you really really liked the guy, and you are all good.
 Found no guilty? They should be double guilty i say!
"she wanted to show him that she trusted him and was trying to build their relationship." -___-" really ?


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West Ham United Community Sports Trust celebrated its longstanding and much-valued partnership with official sponsors Higgins Group PLC this week, one that now extends some ten years.
Higgins representatives, together with Community patron Joe Cole, enjoyed an extensive tour of the Trust's impressive Beckton home, led by Joe Lyons, Head of the Community Sports Trust.
Now in its 23rd year of delivery, the Trust has worked tirelessly to establish solid local partnerships and programmes, which are designed to promote social and economic wellbeing.
Higgins, a local-based contractor/developer dealing chiefly in estate regeneration and private sale, mixed tenure housing, have supported the Trust in making Beckton a hub of community activity, one that now proudly boasts a flagship Premier League Kicks programme.
Their generous and enduring support is vital in facilitating the many precious projects that the Trust deliver in east London and Essex, such that Mr Lyons emphasised the value of the partnership.
"The Trust has a very positive role to play across our community and this cannot be achieved by working in silos," he explained.
"The next three years are going to be an extremely exciting time for us and one that can make our partnership even stronger and more positive for everyone involved."
Sentiments echoed by Higgins Director Paul Cooke, who was suitably impressed with all that he saw at Beckton, safe in the knowledge that their investment is going to wonderfully good use.
He told West Ham TV: "We've had a relationship with West Ham for the last ten years, funding work down here at Beckton, so it's good to see it's still very active.
The Trust showcased a multitude of programmes at their Beckton hub
"There are loads of youngsters out there reaping the benefit of the facilities and the coaches that are here, which is very good and very encouraging.
"It was a natural fit for us to join up with West Ham United in this locality. West Ham bring the sporting side and we bring the opportunity for work placements and construction skills."
Once Academy graduate Joe Cole was similarly effusive in his praise of the partnership, insisting that it sits very comfortably within the Hammers' framework as an inclusive family Club.
"It's good, because big businesses do have a responsibility, like footballers do, to invest time and money into places," he explained. With Higgins, they're good West Ham people, the company's family run by West Ham supporters. It's what the Club's all about!"
The 31-year-old was named Community patron last season and it is plain to see why. As well as his deep-rooted affection for the Club, Cole cares deeply that local youngsters are given the tools to succeed, with the Trust and Higgins at the very heart of that process. He continued: "It has been a good experience to come down here. I've met a couple of the guys briefly before, but it's amazing what the Club's doing in the community.
Joe Cole shares some advice with the Trust's budding footballers
"Kids need to be given opportunities to improve. These places here, when the penny drops with the kids, they come here and can develop themselves into good, important people who can make the best of themselves.
"Not all of them are going to make it in football, because it's a tough industry. But if they take just one thing out of this process, of being here and learning personal skills, learning communication and things like that, it will help them massively to go and better themselves and do what they want to do."
Mr Cooke could hardly agree more, hopeful that their sponsorship will continue to improve young lives.
He explained: "As a company, the family have got West Ham at their heart, so we certainly support West Ham as a club on the football field, but also in seeing the work with the young people and how you create an opportunity.
"We can build houses, give them new homes and new facilities, but the youngsters have got to have the opportunity to build new lives. I think the link with West Ham has created that, so that you get the buildings and the people skills going together at the same time, which has been very good.
"There are new opportunities for us and new opportunities for West Ham moving to Stratford as well. I think there's lots of work to be done, opportunities arising, hopefully we can work together in the future and make the most of those."


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Ingrid Mattson Appointed as Chair of Islamic Studies
October 27, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
LONDON, ON–Huron University College, at the University of Western Ontario, announced the appointment of Dr. Ingrid Mattson as the inaugural London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at its Faculty of Theology. The Chair in Islamic Studies builds on an almost 150-year tradition at Huron University College of open discourse and engagement between people of different faiths. Dr. Mattson will begin her appointment on July 1, 2012.
"Dr. Mattson brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise to this area of study and Huron is privileged to have a scholar of her calibre," said Dr. Stephen McClatchie, Principal of Huron University College. "We are honoured that, with her pick of many positions around the world, Dr. Mattson has decided to return to Canada and accept our appointment to the London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies."
Dr. Mattson was born and raised in Kitchener-Waterloo and earned her PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago. She is the first convert to Islam and the first woman to lead the Islamic Society of North America. Before accepting the Chair in Islamic Studies at Huron University College, Dr. Mattson was Director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford Connecticut. She has also been an Advisor to both the Bush and Obama Administrations.
"It is an honour to be back in Canada and to accept this position at such a prestigious institution as Huron University College," said Dr. Mattson. "Huron has a remarkable history of critical inquiry and I look forward to building on this tradition by offering Huron students the opportunity to learn about a faith that more than 20 per cent of the world's population practices, in an open and liberal environment."
Imam Salie: Preparing Islamic Chair at UD Mercy
August 11, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, TMO
Farmington–August 10–Imam Achmat Salie, who championed an effort to establish an Islamic studies school at Oakland University, is now in the planning process of establishing a similar program at the University of Detroit–Mercy, a Catholic private university in Detroit.
Imam Salie is trying to establish a Chair at UD Mercy for Islamic Studies, and he explains the purpose of creating a chair is "to create a permanent place–if not, every year you have to beg for money, and spend so much time. Once there is a chair, the money is there for life. In 10 or 20 years, if I am gone, someone else fills that place."
He says the chair of Islamic studies would help the Muslim community by fueling mutual understanding across religious lines and even within the Muslim community by providing bridges across the gaps of Shi'a-Sunni and other doctrinal disagreements. "This will be a cosmopolitan approach to Islam, not an orientalist approach–an insider view, different from the skeptical and suspicious outsider view. But this will still be objective, there will be analysis, it won't be superficial. Muslims speaking for themselves. Founded by Muslims, with an Islamic ethos, with an accurate portrayal of Islam."
The Oakland University program eventually failed under fiscal pressures. And the learning process that Mr. Salie went through from Oakland University definitely shows in his approach to UD Mercy. First, he chose UD Mercy in part because it is private rather than public.
"With the recession, a lot of uncertainty in universities, public universities… [T]his is a private university, and there is more stability," explains Salie.
He has also addressed the fundamental gap in funding that sidelined the Oakland University program. Imam Salie has now secured "matching funding" from the IIIT, a well-funded Muslim not-for-profit based in Washington DC.
There are many Muslim graduates, Salie says, of UD Mercy's various schools, practising dentists and lawyers, and he asks that they choose now to give back.
"Education, like journalism, provides a safe environment, a great way to promote understanding. Previous communities went through education to create understanding. Catholic and Jewish communities promoted understanding of themselves by being present at educational institutions."
The utility of the program, Salie argues, would be that it would provide exposure of Catholics to Islam, to alleviate the sometimes tense relations between the communities. The program would also provide means for Muslims to speak across sectarian boundaries to one another.
Salie looks forward to this program because he has found "broad appeal" and acceptance at a very high level from the school and from the infrastructure of the Catholic church in Detroit, namely Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron.
Even more importantly within the Catholic church, the pope has also expressed support for maintaining good relations with Muslims.
"The pope has wonderful relations with Turkey. There are delegations from the Vatican to Turkey. But at the lowest level, this type of enlightenment doesn't necessarily filter down."
Imam Salie points to distrust and animosity directed against Muslims from rank-and-file Catholics, including prominent Catholics like Fox News' Bill O'Reilly.
"One out of four Christians is Catholic," Salie explains. "We should not take the Catholic position for granted–they are not all at the same level as the good people at the top." Therefore he says it is important to reach out to the Catholic community.
Also, Salie's experience with Islamic Studies at Oakland University taught him that sometimes the most attentive students are not those you might expect.
Sometimes practicing Muslims attend, merely hoping for "an easy A, but the quality of their work is very bad." Salie cites one atheist student who devoured the material in the Islamic Studies course and then wanted to teach other atheists about Islam. "Muslims are fooling themselves if they are expecting an easy A."
Salie's Islamic Studies classes are a way to reach Muslims who no longer practice. "I have had students from everywhere, Bosnians, Albanians, Pakistanis… totally disconnected from the religion." The Islamic Studies courses are sometimes for these young people a safe way of reacquainting themselves with Islam.
Muslims wanting to participate are welcomed by Salie. "One way is through donations…. Some people offer money, some offer expertise." Salie invites the various communities of Muslims to participate by offering their knowledge of their own practice of Islam, or of their own national community. Salie emphasizes that specific communities of Muslims will be spoken for by that community, rather than having an intolerant view of any branch of Muslims imposed by an outsider to that community.
Salie is trying to establish an endowment at the university. "For the first year, we need at least $200,000 to get started. That will be used up the first year. If we get an endowment, it takes one year to mature, and then with that endowment money in, we don't need much in donations."
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The Blessed Nights of Ramadan
July 28, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, TMO
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A refreshing new voice in Michigan is that of Shaykh Khalid Abdul Sattar, who spoke Saturday at the Tawheed Center at an event that was attended by dozens of people preparing themselves for the joys and rigors of Ramadan.
Shaykh Khalid Abdul Sattar was born in Chicago in 1974. He completed his bachelor's degree in marketing and management from the Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU) in 1997.
After graduation, he began studying with local scholars in Chicago. In 2003, he traveled to Pakistan to further advance his knowledge of the traditional Islamic sciences. There he dedicated five years to a full-time course of studies under some of the most accomplished scholars of the sub-continent. In 2008, he formally graduated with a degree in Islamic Studies. He also received his teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects, including Classical Arabic, Hanafi Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh and Hadith.
In conjunction with his pursuit of traditional knowledge, he has also received spiritual guidance and training from Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad. After spending more than a decade in the company of his shaykh, he was given permission to take students in the path of Tasawwuf.
Currently, he runs Ilm Essentials.com, an online traditional learning program, and also teaches Arabic and Hanafi Fiqh with Sacred Learning, a Chicago-based learning institute. He currently resides in Maryland with his family.
The entire day was devoted to learning about Ramadan, with lectures entitled, "The Key to Ramadan–the Qur`an," two workshops on the Fiqh of Ramadan, and a two part workshop on hadith relating to virtues of the Qur`an.
In speaking about the fiqh of Ramadan, the shaykh discussed the rules relating to fasting, explaining that the levels of requirement in fiqh are Fard, Wajib, then Sunnah Muaqqadah, and Nawafil.
Fard fasting relates to for example fasting during Ramadan, making up Ramadan fasts.
Wajib is still required, and he gave examples of wajib fasts as for example when one makes an oath that "if such and such happens then I will fast," or if one makes the intention to fast every Thursday but then misses a Thursday fast, the makeup for that fast becomes obligatory on the servant.
Sunnah Muaqqadah fasts are for example the 9th and 10th of Muharram.
Mustahhab fasts are not required but Prophet (s) used to practice them. Such fasts as Monday / Thursday, or fasting the three white days, or fasting six days from Shawwal, are such fasts.
Surprisingly, but also interestingly, the shaykh discussed the fiqh of fasting Fridays and supported the argument that in our time it is not a sin to fast Friday without accompanying it with another day. Also he argued that it may not be necessary to combine a fast on Ashura with a fast on the 9th or 11th, pointing out that in our time Jews no longer fast only the 10th of Muharram therefore if we fast only the 10th we are not imitating them.
An interesting point he made was that fasting is the only kind of 'ibadat that we perform that involves not doing anything–the other acts of worship that we perform involve doing specified acts. He built from this starting point towards the argument that Muslims in the West who find themselves "too busy" to perform other acts of worship are still able to fast because fasting does not involve taking time away from one's other obligations, such as work and school.
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Cranes are my main subject of photography. During their migration-period from september to november I mostly spend my time in northern Germany, on taking pictures at the resting places. With a little luck, there are two to three chances, in this period of time, to get them in front of full moon. This picture shows the cranes on their flight to their sleeping place in Linum, a small town close to Berlin, on the evening of 14th of october 2008. The next morning, there was a counting and the result was a number of more than 86.000 cranes, staying in this area.
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Among its other demands is that URI provide a specific breakdown of costs to arm police, which it says the school has underestimated.
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The average temperature on Earth is rising – what is going on with the climate? How does this affect me? These questions were the starting point when Teknikens Hus created the exhibition Grasping Climate.
In 100 years time the average temperature on the Earth might rise as much as 6 degrees C. The result can be both drought and floods and extreme heat and cold. But there is hope!
The exhibition shows actions we all can take in our everyday lives to reduce the climate change. The visitors can also explore renewable energy sources.
Exhibition content
Grasping Climate contains interactive exhibits, images, a slide show, film and text. The starting point of Grasping Climate is the energy principle – we can neither create nor destroy energy. All energy on Earth origins from the Sun. Visitors learn about the increased green house effect and that our climate is getting hotter.
Visitors can save the Earth by taking it safely through the energy maze. They can create renewable energy like wind power, hydro power, wave and solar energy.
In the humoristic and thought evoking exhibition film A Climate Change Show a couple of sheep teach visitors about the climate changes and what humans can do about it. The film is in English but can come with subtitling and dubbing into other languages.
Finally, visitors can make a climate promise.
Included in the hire cost for Grasping Climate is 30 copies of the inspirational material Guidebook for teachers. In the book, there are facts and climate related experiments as well as the manuscript for the interactive exhibition drama.
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This week's Humble Weekly Sale isn't filled with Android games, but it contains two goodies that are arguably worth the price of admission alone - NightSky and MANOS: The Hands of Fate. The former is available in the Play Store for $4.99, and the latter, $2.49. But if you pay over six bucks for this week's bundle, you can get both games along with seven additional titles for your PC and the Multimedia Fusion 2 game development software.
The Humble Bundle is one of the best deals in gaming, but the Humble folks also do smaller weekly sales. The newest weekly sale bundle includes five total games, three of which come with Android versions.
The sale is brought to you by Cipher Prime, which is the developer of all five titles. The three Android titles are fairly popular, but aren't the kind of thing everyone knows about. Fractal and Splice are both abstract puzzle games with very polished visuals.
Just like last week's Humble Weekly Sale, there is only one Android game available in today's new bundle. This time it's McPixel, but considering the game usually costs $2.99 on Google Play, it's still worth your while to jump in on this pay-what-you-want deal. That said, this game is so, well, odd that it still might be worth trying out the free version before ponying up however much (or little) you want to contribute to this bundle.
There is only one Android game available in this week's Humble Weekly Sale, but it's still a bargain to pick up that game at such a discounted price. Uplink normally costs $4.99 in the Play Store, but for the next seven days you can pay whatever price your heart desires. The game pits players in the role of a hacker-for-hire who breaks into various systems and makes off with whatever's valuable.
The Humble Bundle debuts a new bundle of games every Thursday on sale for whatever-you-want-to-pay. Most sales are multi-platform, but Android gamers don't always make the list. Today, take notice. Four of this week's games are just begging to find a home on your mobile device. Altogether, this collection is bound to please strategy gurus, platforming masters, and arcade action addicts alike.
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White wall tires and babies. And some mighty fine BMX riding. I haven't posted a BMX clip in a while, so I thought you might like this one.
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A video preview of the upcoming DVD FBM's "Thousand Yard Stare."
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Jonathan Ferrehir, a rider in Columbia, put this edit together. All I can say is wow. Some great air and some awesome gaps. It's just good all around. Enjoy!
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I feel as though I've neglected those BMXers out there, so here's a clip for you. I'm pretty sure these guys shred pretty hard. Perhaps Shredfest is the proper term. You be the judge. I also dig the music they put to it "Ultimate Spinach - Visions of Your Reality." So good. The team is Fiend BMX. Enjoy!…
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Tokyo is a beautiful and great city. I'd love to get back there one day. This short little film is about Yugo, a resident, who loves riding BMX around the city. Makes me want an Asahi. I dig that piano.
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I feel that I've been neglecting all of those BMX people out there with these blogs. I'd like to address that. But also, I would like to point out that anyone can like this video. It's fun to watch and its amazing. You will be wowed. This clip was featured in the 2010 bicycle film festival, and it's worth the watch. Enjoy!
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There are a lot of music videos with bicycles in them. I'll try to post more as time goes on. I hadn't seen this one yet, and I'm happy to share it with you. Such a good groove. Much to my surprise, The Cool Kids are coming to a show near me! How excellent is that? I may have to make it a point to attend. They have a new album out, When Fish Ride Bicycles. The website is interactive! Solid.…
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If you haven't seen this yet, it's pretty impressive. These guys have true faith in their equipment. I have to say, its a wonder something didn't break. It goes to show you how well quality carbon can hold up. Those are some pretty tight rim brakes too. Enjoy!
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As the title of the video implies, it's all about ground control. Flat land tricks take a lot of skills. You can do them anywhere, and they're just so cool. This guy looks like he's effortlessly dancing with a partner. The amount of balance for this sort of thing is amazing.
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I liked posting that last BMX video so much, I thought I'd do it again. This is one of my favorites for sure. The spot they have is inspiring. These guys from New Zealand try to explain why they ride and what it feels like. In my opinion, there's no real way to describe why you ride your bike, and there's no concise answer. You just know why. There are those times when you ride with your friends, and the way you feel comes together. You vaguely understand each other, and then it's…
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Anyone who rides in the suburbs can tell you that rush hour traffic can be no fun. This ride wasn't so bad until I hit a major bottleneck at Yate's Ford Road. Yet Clifton is a beautiful area. I will admit, I got lost a few times, but it was no big deal.
I came across a BMX rider, who wished me a good day at a light. Most bicycle people are some of really nice, and they often have an unspoken bond with other bicycle people, even if it's not the same type of bike. Makes me feel…
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I would bet that anyone who rides BMX can tell you they've had this problem from time to time.
Finding a place to ride that's worthwhile is a problem most cyclists share, whether it's road, mountain, or whatever. Sure, you might get away with riding some where for a while, but there's…
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The way I see it, if you're on two wheels most of the time, you're part of a culture. There are many facets to biking, and sometimes people get myopic in their scope. To me, riding a bike is a common interest and something which brings people together far more than most things in life. Not to get all deep and dramatic about it, but if you think about it, you know there's truth to that statement. There's a sense that when you're on a bike, life is a lot simpler, and people are more…
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I saw this clip for an upcoming film. It's called Breakin' LA. Their website is here. Not sure when the release date is, but I wouldn't mind seeing it. From what I can gather, it looks to be a unified bicycle effort to retake the urban landscape of LA by some folks from Hamburg, Germany. Also, they're helping out the homeless! All types of bicycles working together to bring awareness to a very car-driven culture in…
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In light of some of the requests that surfaced in my last post on the danger that John Piper poses to the church and its mission, I'll be posting, over the next little while a few reflections on precisely how his theology is dangerous and false. First off, one of the central issues arising from John Piper's doctrine of God, which he gets from Jonathan Edwards, is the claim that God requires sin and evil in order for God to be fully manifest and glorified. Without sin and evil, God's glory would be veiled and incomplete. In his famous book, Desiring God, Piper approvingly quotes the following segment from Jonathan Edwards's Concerning the Divine Decrees:
It is a proper and excellent thing for infinite glory to shine forth; and for the same reason, it is proper that the shining forth of God's glory should be complete; that is, that all parts of his glory should shine forth, that every beauty should be proportionably effulgent, that the beholder may have a proper notion of God. It is not proper that one glory should be exceedingly manifested, and another not at all.…
Thus it is necessary, that God's awful majesty, his authority and dreadful greatness, justice, and holiness, should be manifested. But this could not be, unless sin and punishment had been decreed; so that the shining forth of God's glory would be very imperfect, both because these parts of divine glory would not shine forth as the others do, and also the glory of his goodness, love, and holiness would be faint without them; nay, they could scarcely shine forth at all. If it were not right that God should decree and permit and punish sin, there could be no manifestation of God's holiness in hatred of sin, or in showing any preference, in his providence, of godliness before it.
There would be no manifestation of God's grace or true goodness, if there was no sin to be pardoned, no misery to be saved from. How much happiness soever he bestowed, his goodness would not be so much prized and admired.…
So evil is necessary, in order to the highest happiness of the creature, and the completeness of that communication of God, for which he made the world; because the creature's happiness consists in the knowledge of God, and the sense of his love. And if the knowledge of him be imperfect, the happiness of the creature must be proportionably imperfect. (Concerning the Divine Decrees, 528, emphasis added. On page 350 of Desiring God)
Piper follows this quote up with his own hearty approval: "God is more glorious for having conceived and created and governed a world like this with all its evil" (p. 351). Think on this quite carefully. For Piper God's glory would be incomplete without all of horrors that have taken place in the history of the world. Every instance of death, suffering, murder, rape, torture, and mutilation—God needs them. God wants them to happen because without them, he would not be fully glorified. And God's own (monadicly conceived) self-glorification, for Piper God's sole and utter goal in the world.
Obviously this theology is deeply incoherent and does not square with Scripture, or the church's traditional teaching concerning evil (for Augustine and most of the church after him evil is privation, not something that could "add" to the display of God's glory). But what is worst about it is its pastoral and ethical consequences. A God who needs evil to be himself will surely garner a people who have no interest in stopping evil or comforting those who suffer. Indeed, as the Scripture explicitly tell us to imitate God (Eph 5:1), this theology implicitly encourages Christians to perpetrate violence and suffering against those who are seen to deserve it (whether or not Piper would endorse this is not the issue—his theology logically demands this conclusion whether he admits it or not).
As such, it is vital for us to see and recognize that the God proclaimed by Piper and his ilk is a false God. An idol that desperately needs to be dethroned. The omnipotent demon that Piper worships is not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and the sooner all Christians realize this the better off we will all be.


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Hello everyone,
so I am going to try, again, to store my dahlias with the saran wrap method. But, I have a bigger problem. Where do I keep them?? I have no cellar or cold basement. I don't have a garage. I am wondering if I should just keep them in the ground right next to the house which is brick with full sun, and put tons of leaf mulch on them? Brent and Beckys say their dahlias overwinter in the ground, but they are a couple hours further south than I am. What temperature do they need to be? I don't have TONS of tubers, but I'll probably have 20 or so. I really want to be able to store them, as it is getting too expensive to replace them every year. Any thoughts? |
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if your ground freezes they will be lost - that is the basic rule of thumb. They would like to be stored above 40 degrees - ideal is 45-55. Any hotter and they may break dormancy too early and rot. Can you bury them, or shield them with a few bales of straw or some other insulation? I have no idea if this is a good idea or not but maybe you could dig a hole 12" deep which ought to be well below the frost line, and put them in there. I thought about using the paper bags that potatoes come in here - have a netting window in the front for air to pass thru. If you pile dirt on top, that ought to be good insulation for it. But maybe you should call your local dahlia society or Brent & Becky's. I love testing stuff so I would be inclined to try a couple different things. Good luck |
- Posted by threeorangeboys Z7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 26, 07 at 9:13
That is interesting! 12 inches is below the frost line? Hmmmm. Okay, well that is a thought. I think I'll try to stick a few in the fridge, but I definitely don't have room for all of them. Ugh. How frustrating! Well, I'll just have to experiment until I find something that works. |
I have no idea where your frost line is - not sure in zone 7 but your County Extension Service would know. I may have spoken too soon with my guess of 12 inches. For us the plumbing regulations require 4 feet below soil surface to be below the frost line in extreme weather situations. Thats why burying doesn't work for us :) I got sort of interested in this question and found a website with some research. A school in Arkansas (zone 7?) had measured soil temps at 10 cm. If you go to page 16 there is a graph of soil temps vs air temps. Air temp is the right axis and soil temp is on the left axis. You can see the soil remains warmer till the air temp has been cold for a while. At 10 cm the soil is frozen for a short time in January. My garage freezes solid, but I successfully keep dahlias and other potted plants there. The dahlias are saran wrapped, put in a cardboard box with bubble wrap lining, and crumpled newspaper on top, box is put in a wheelbarrow off the floor and have tarps piled on them |
- Posted by threeorangeboys Z7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 26, 07 at 14:40
Oh that is good to know. so, perhaps I could store them in my Mom's garage if I wrap them in tarps, etc. do you check on them regularly throughout the winter? |
I check maybe once or twice to make sure they aren't rotting. But I think you should look up your local dahlia society and ask somebody down the road. I don't know how many below freezing days you have and how far down it goes. I think I was at a meeting once in ATL when it snowed about 4 inches and the city and I-75 shut down for days. |
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