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25th Aug 2009, 02:58 PM | #1 |
The Ball - Hueca - Released!
Part 4 of our award winning project!
Hueca takes place in a gigantic cavern with three large pyramids. Each pyramid contains several puzzles and challenges. The player travels from pyramid to pyramid using a large and ancient vehicle. Features # Solve the pyramids in any order and freely roam the desert. # The introduction of a vehicle! # Three new enemies: A giant bomb dropping bird, a cannonfodder beetle, and a big sandworm. # Introduction of ball modifications. The ball will acts as a local low gravity field or as flashlight in certain areas of Hueca. # The introduction of a brand new environment theme. # A new Survival level and further improvements done to the gametype in general. # A range of changes including new voice acting, more parts of the menu replaced, a stats system, and you are even able to save your game now! DOWNLOAD - 395 MB http://www.fileplanet.com/193016/190...he-Ball:-Hueca http://www.filefront.com/14391879/TheBall-Hueca.zip This installer also includes all previous episodes! Check out ModDB's Preview special! - http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-ball/f...-hueca-preview |
26th Aug 2009, 04:22 PM | #2 |
Thanks for all the hard work your team has put into this mod...I always look forward to the next release of this great mod!
5th Sep 2009, 03:00 AM | #3 |
I haven't had time to post in forever. But I wanted to jump in and say congrats to everyone for how amazing everything turned out. I played it through and it is kick ass. It is so much fun. Everyone did such amazing work, it really looks and plays beautifully.
5th Sep 2009, 05:59 PM | #4 |
You have outdone yourselves in fourth episode, congrats! Gravity-ball part is may favourite one so far... looking forward to seeing more ball modifications in the next episode. I also liked how easier is to attract the ball with secondary fire now...
Just some feedback: Least favourite part so far is combat, and especially the boss fights... they should be a little more personal and challenging IMO. The ball seems to have an ancient power in it... but then you see the biggest enemies dying by some random explosive balls, which makes the main Ball feel less mysterious... I was expecting to do something interesting with the Ball against the giant monkey, but the Ball would in fact be completely useless if you didn't have to kill a couple of mummies now and then. It would be better to see more buttons in that zone, perhaps a blue button that fills a lava pool in for a few seconds, so you have to drive the ball into the lava pool and then push it against the monkey while it is still hot and burning... This 'flame ball' could also be implemented as another ball modification along the game (activates for a few seconds when the ball runs on lava), allowing the ball to burn objects you wouldn't normally be able to destroy... The fight aginst the worm was kida easy too once you knew what to do (worm looks awesome btw ). You can park the Ball al the yellow button and wait for 3 mummies to come to the red one and that's all. 3 pairs of different buttons would make it more challenging IMO, for example ball-mummy for the first hit, 2 cube buttons for the second one, and ball-player (or 2 player buttons) for the last hit. It would also be awesome if the buttons activated, instead of the explosive balls, some sort of mechanism that electrified the Ball (yay, another ball modification! ) making it cause damage to nearby enemies, including the giant worm... Survival is kinda fun too but I felt that there were too many enemies that just run towards your position. It would be more interesting to apply different behaviours: the mummies could follow you like they do now, bugs could ignore you unless you run close to them, and other enemies could try to dodge the ball or push it far from your location. It just needs less enemies but different behaviours, at the moment I found the explosive-ball-throwing mummies the most fun to fight against. Would also be interesting to see now and then an enemy that you could only kill by activating the different traps each level has... Finally, found a couple of game-stopping bugs during my play: In Episode 2, when I completed the puzzle with the magnets and the bug, I went to chase the monkeys but the Ball was attracted by this magnet. Typed suicide at the console but I was no longer able to access this room and was forced to go to main menu and Resume. Teotl 1, in the puzzle after this bridge, I was over the mummies head when this elevator (pic2) was going up, which caused the lift to stop before it reached its destination. The mummy did not attack me so I had to go to Main Menu and Resume. Spawned in the bridge but the door to the mummies room was closed and had to restart the campaign from this episode. Quite a long post, hope it will be helpful! Best of luck on MSUC!
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6th Sep 2009, 05:24 AM | #5 |
Cool, thanks a lot for the feedback!
Yeah the heating up the ball thingy is exactly what is planned for part 5, with electrifying it maybe added later on too. I am aware that many boss fights are not ideal, we are first going to make the remaining story levels and once all content is done we will go over everything again and fix it all up. Prime concern now first is to just have everything there. Survival has way too many enemies yes and it gets repetitive. In the next release we will lower the number of enemies, shorten the rounds, and we need to come up with some feature that makes you feel more rewarded for surviving. Right now you never really get the feedback "you're doing a good job here man!" from the game, it just spawns monsters on and on. We will look at the bugs later on. |
8th Sep 2009, 03:16 AM | #6 |
I'll just chime in too with some feedback and a "crazy story"
First: rest assured you don't have to absolutely fix the following for me personally, I am able to play The Ball perfectly well on another computer. Now for the craziness I decided to install UT3 and The Ball (As well as a few other maps/mods) on my laptop, to see if first the game could run, and then the editor (So I can map while I'm on the road.) To my surprise (and probably yours too), UT3 did run, as well as The Ball which I've played through once more. And not only did it run, but it actually ran with all the detail sliders set at maximum (high, not low!), as well as a few other options ticked, at 848x480. Yeah, that's not a lot, but all of this is running on a dual core 2.26Ghz, 4GB of RAM, nVidia 9200 GS laptop with Vista x64... The system rating is 3.5, UT3 requires as bare minimum 3.7 (Or so it says)... And UT3 ran with the sliders on high too, not on low... 30-40FPS on the HOLP maps. Enough with the crazy experiment though, on with the feedback of this "extreme performance test." I played through the whole mod, like I said, with these graphical settings. I was able to adjust it in order to get 30FPS when I was standing right next to the Ball, and looking at it, which seemed to be the biggest performance drain in the whole mod (apart from two other things which I'll talk about later.) If I was doing anything else, I got 40-50FPS... on high! Even in Survival mode! So needless to say, the mod runs great... Except for two parts (One major and one minor.) The major part: Teotl II. This is where it hurt, I had to cheat at the point with the room with the pillars rising up and falling down when you walked on them and with the spikes below, as I couldn't get passed it because of the horrible framerate: 18FPS... So "fly" was in order, just for this spot. The problem started a looong way back, way before that point though, and every time I was looking in "that" direction, I was getting 18FPS... 40-50FPS otherwise. I soon determined (well, soon is a figure of speech, as it's quite a long way after the problem starts, like 1h or something) that it is because of the city. The whole city you have built is somehow causing troubles all the way back to near the beginning of the level. It seems it does not occlude properly and is fully rendered at all times. Now this isn't a problem (AFAIK, haven't played through it again since it's been released a long while ago) on an nVidia 8800 GTS (Which is why I'm saying don't fix it for me personally, I can run The Ball perfectly well), but on the 9200GS it is. Once I got passed the city everything was fine again, and when I was fighting the gorilla it's when I was looking "up" the hill that the framerate problem was happening, when it was when I was looking "down" the whole way from the beginning to the end otherwise. So yeah, that's the major part, some optimization problem it seems, as I said I got 30FPS minimum otherwise on all parts, and 25 on Hueca outside. Now the minor part: there is this FPS drain with the Ball I mentioned, 40-50FPS when looking at other stuff, but 30 barely when looking at it from 1cm of distance. There is the same problem with the vehicle in Hueca when you look at it. So that's basically it for the extreme performance test, now I've got other bugs/etc. 1. Single Player story: During certain cutscenes on my playthrough with the laptop, I had the jumping voice effect from your character playing through constantly: "Huh! Heh! Huh!" etc. And then when I regained control, I was jumping against a wall. The only part I remember clearly when it didn't do it was the beginning (Pehua) and Teotl I because you come from underwater and cannot jump. The bomb dropping bird completely kills the performance, even on the nVidia 8800 GTS this time. Too many bombs. It would be great if you could come up with another attack for him too, as for now he's fairly easy to dodge (and the attack looks completely out of place, and it looks like he stops flapping his wings when he drops the bomb, so he should fall to the ground if it were realistic...) 2. Survival: Still on the laptop, sometimes the Ball would get stuck against mummies/zombies, and then go through without killing them, and they'd start attacking me again. It would "freeze" like that for a second against the mummies, and then "unfreeze" by going through. Also, this is way too long, you don't go to the next round until you get the statue if there is one, and there's nothing at level 9's end (I cheated to got there...) |
8th Sep 2009, 04:02 AM | #7 |
Yeah Survival is too long, we will half each round in the next release and add more feedback so you feel like you do well in surviving.
The bird is indeed easy to dodge, we ran out of time there, and yeah I know about the perfomance. Will fix later. We will redo the entire bird so it doesn't circle but really follows you like a bomber aircraft pretty much. For that you need AI path finding and all in the air though, that was the hard part to get done in the time we had left. The jumping is weird. Sometimes it can happen, but shouldn't happen all the time. It is a fairly minor though, we will look at much later on. The perfomance is kind of weird. The ball is not that incredibly heavy, not much different from some other things we have really. If the room with the spikes also went really slow, it almost starts sounding as if it doesn't like the dynamic lighting. In that case for example the gate at the beginning of Pehua, right after you got the weapon, should run horribly slow because it has a large concentration of dynamic meshes. The city really isn't drawn when you are inside, so I don't know why it is doing so... We will optimize it further later on though, just in case of. Thanks! |
8th Sep 2009, 11:56 AM | #8 |
The freezing happened to me, too. Though only in PIE.
But in-game a bug managed to climb on my head. Couldn't get rid of it until I used the water trap. Stupid thing bit me all the way there |
8th Sep 2009, 01:00 PM | #9 |
Note: I didn't have dynamic lights on except for in Hueca, the underground dark parts. It's really looking at the city through the wall, etc. At one point I remember I was facing a wall in that direction, and I got the 18FPS. But what I was seeing was only a BSP wall with a texture on it, nothing else. So I don't know what's up. Again: no dynamic lights except for Hueca, so yeah at Pehua I didn't have any troubles, that's one of the places it actually runs the best on that laptop.
28th Sep 2009, 02:15 PM | #10 |
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hey, whenever I get to teotl 2 it dumps me. I even tried unistalling and installiong an earlir version. It loads hueca just fine, but teotl 2... always dumps, no matter what. Any ideas?
28th Sep 2009, 04:06 PM | #11 |
Hi, there is a log file, it would be handy to have that. Folder Logs. Launch.log or Launch2.log. You need to check it out in notepad right after it has crashed as it only remember the last game you played. Feel free to paste it here, especially the end where it crashes.
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Suzanne Harwood didn't always want to be a nurse. In this article, she explains how she felt guided to nursing and how that decision has affected her life and the lives of countless others in Guatemala, India, TImor Leste, Mozambique and beyond.
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The New Berlin is a giant project in progress, a city obsessed with its future and self-definition but showing no sign of a due date. From the traffic-light-red Info Box perched on stilts over Potsdamer Platz you can take in 360 degrees of glass-and-girder jungle: corporate playgrounds sprout up next to vast desolate lots; excavated streets plow through neighborhoods that seem to gentrify as you watch. But alas, the meek new world of Berlin's architecture is both overbearing and underwhelming. It's the city's turbocharged restaurant scene that leaves you agape.
How did it all happen so swiftly?Where are the growing pains, the identity issues, in a city cruelly severed for more than 40 years?Who delivered such smart design, savvy service, and confident transnational cooking to a town whose pork-heavy cooking was the butt of jokes?
The explosion is so intense that Berlin's meddling city authorities recently tried to spoil the broth by restricting the number of restaurant openings in Mitte, the city's historic core. Fortunately the proposal didn't pass. Except for the always-mobbed restaurant under Norman Foster's glittering Reichstag dome (it's the view, not the food, that causes the stampedes), the city's best tables are yours for the asking, even on short notice.
"Berlin is a culinary wasteland," scoff white-tablecloth snobs from Hamburg and Munich. Obviously, they haven't visited the capital lately.
A man with a perpetual self-satisfied grin and the square-jawed good looks of a star quarterback, Markus Semmler incarnates Berlin's newest profession: celebrity chef.
To prove it, he has several cookbooks, a TV show, and a just-opened gastrodrome called Stil to his credit. And the guy can cook. At his flagship, Mensa—a feel-good affair of off-white curves, glass, and warm wood—Semmler's best dishes have the voluptuous precision of the stuff you swoon over at Gordon Ramsay in London or Jean Georges in New York.
An appetizer modestly called "duo of cèpes with rabbit" arrives as a stark white plate bearing two cups of mushroom elixir: a powerfully fragrant dark consommé and a celestial frothed cream; gilding the lily are sautéed cèpes and two succulent slices of rabbit loin. The dish is intelligent, flavorful, and unapologetically haute. Equally thrilling is the monkfish carpaccio, fanned around a glistening jellied-tomato mousse, its delicate flavors brought into focus by a sharp vinaigrette with an intriguing seaweed perfume. In the lobster salad with Sauternes dressing, tiny nuggets of crustacean are buried like jewels in a mound of beautiful greens and seven herbs. Each mouthful brings a surprise. The main courses are polished if somewhat predictable: a loin of venison with wild mushrooms and addictive bacon Rösti; truffle-crusted turbot on a bed of risotto. And I still dream about Semmler's plum strudel.
Tucked into an arcade in the middle of Mitte's new shopping wonderland, the five-month-old Guy is steps away from Jean Nouvel's ultramodern Galeries Lafayette and Karl Friedrich Schinkel's neoclassical Konzerthaus. With its bouquet of eclectic references—an Orientalist pond in the courtyard, pseudo-Renaissance artwork, Bauhaus color scheme, a baroque candelabrum—the sound-bite space catches the moment without shaking you up. The surprises here are the focused fresh flavors from young chef Andreas Krüger, the $25 lunch bargain, and the substantial wine list, with every selection available by the glass.
The rich, creamy pheasant pâté, framed by a wine jelly and offset by bright dots of parsley sauce, is an ideal après-shopping indulgence. Slices of superb smoked venison and dabs of fig chutney surround an arugula salad—the kind you expect to be a throwaway garnish—that consists of impeccably dressed boutique leaves. And I challenge you to find a better shellfish bisque, even in Paris.
Krüger's almost Californian dedication to quality shows in the vegetables that arrive with the entrées: crunchy haricots verts and a confetti of diced white and purple potatoes arrayed around a melting braised lamb shank; adorable baby zucchini and tender asparagus with the moist baked zander fillet. Perhaps the menu sings a familiar tune, but what perfect pitch.
The interior of Vau echoes the look of the New Berlin: ocher-hued wood framing those louvered panels you see on façades all over town. The smart, vaulted room—so narrow you could be eating inside one of Schinkel's Ionic columns—dead-ends at an altarlike black wall dramatically bisected by a bar of white light, an effect that seems borrowed from a Robert Wilson production. (If only someone would beam the neo-Expressionist paintings back to the eighties). Chef Kolja Kleeberg's understated but hyper-urban cuisine is perfectly in sync with the setting—just right for businessmen in dark suits and Helmut Langloving women.


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Thanks for clarifying Graham. How do u restore harmony. Or more specific sense restore is an action, then the effects can be measured and modeled. So, if we can restore something, then it means it is lost. Thus we can model this. What is harmony? What does it mean to restore it? How do we know when it is restored?
Assuming I am in conflict with someone. We are arguing. I have land, he wants it. He feels it is his and I feel it is mine. How do you resolve this as a win win for both? We could split of down the middle, but one or both of us will still feel we compromised.
So what is the feedback loop that says..mission accomplished...I have restored harmony?
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I have a vineyard in the backyard, and it is getting hit by bugs I never knew existed. So, which one, under $150, will fill the bill? Comfort and light weight is key, but force of spray is mandatory. Which one?
My name is Suzi. JD is fishing, and I am buying this toy for him. Other than that, it's me and the empty windex bottle. Thanks! Suzi |
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Solo makes some nice ones. Others have asked the question on here before, try a search of the archives. You'll have to decide on manual or powered sprayer. I don't think you'll be able to touch a powered sprayer for under $300. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Solo Backpack Sprayers
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Birchmeir appears to be a pretty good one too. It is available at Gemplers. A few weeks ago, I had to have a bee swarm removed from under my shed. The technician had one of these and it has a lot of really nice features including an exterior pump that can be rebuilt easily. His was a 4 gallon model and I do not know if they have other sizes. |
My name is Suzi. JD is fishing, and I am buying this toy for him. Other than that, it's me and the empty windex bottle. Why does this sound like the TV ad for late night phone calls? |
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Siege in SydneyDecember 15, Sun News Network, The Arena with Michael Coren
Tour d'Horizon: ISIS, Iran, Turkey, and the PalestiniansNovember 16, David Horowitz Freedom Center
The Rushdie Rules, 25 Years LaterNovember 2, Danish Free Press Society Conference
Russia and the Middle East: A tour d'horizonOctober 25
Dubious U.S. Mission in SyriaSeptember 27, PressTV, The Debate
Interpreting the Arab UpheavalsSeptember 25, Blouin News
Does Europe Have No-go Zones?
by Daniel Pipes • January 20, 2015 • The Blaze
Comments by Steven Emerson on Fox News have prompted a heated debate over whether predominantly Muslim "no-go" zones exist in Europe. On Jan. 11, Emerson said they "exist throughout Europe … they're places where the governments like France, Britain, Sweden, Germany don't exercise any sovereignty. .. you basically have zones where Shariah courts were set up, where Muslim density is very intense, where the police don't go in, and where it's basically a separate country almost, a country within a country."
Although Emerson, whom I admire for his moral courage and investigative skills, immediately apologized for his "terrible error" of saying that cities such as Birmingham, England, "are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don't go," he did not address the larger question of whether no-go zones, in fact, do "exist throughout Europe" and are places where governments "don't exercise any sovereignty."
Is he right about this?
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Is Sisi Islam's Long-Awaited Reformer?
by Daniel Pipes • January 19, 2015 • National Review Online
In a widely praised January 1 speech at Cairo's Al-Azhar University, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addressed the country's religious leadership, saying the time had come to reform Islam. He's won Western plaudits for this, including a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, but I have reservations about the speech.
To begin with, no matter how fine Sisi's ideas, no politician – and especially no strongman – has moved modern Islam. Atatürk's reforms in Turkey are systematically being reversed. A decade ago, King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan gave similarly fine speeches on "the true voice of Islam" and "enlightened moderation" that immediately disappeared from view. Yes, Sisi's comments are stronger, but he is not a religious authority and, in all likelihood, they too will disappear without a trace.
In Defense of Europe's So-called Far Right
by Daniel Pipes • January 19, 2015 • The Washington Times
Sunday a week ago, the French government sponsored a solidarity rally featuring an array of foreign leaders and all domestic political parties joining together in a "sacred union" (a term recalling World War I) against the massacres at Charlie Hebdo magazine and the kosher market.
Make that all the political parties except one -- the National Front (NF) headed by Marine Le Pen, ostensibly excluded because it does not subscribe to "republican values." In reality, it was barred because, uniquely among French political parties, it opposes immigration; and other politicians fear that the NF gains in the aftermath of the massacres. Likewise, the government yesterday forbade a demonstration by the secularist Riposte Laïque organization that called for "Islamists out." .
Although myself a classical liberal with libertarian tendencies, in the center of the Republican party in the United States, I welcome the strengthening of the National Front and many of the other parties vilified as being on the "far right." Here is why:
Images, not Words, Most Disturb Islamists
by Daniel Pipes • January 15, 2015
Inspire, the glossy, English-language internet magazine published by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), published a "Wanted dead or alive for crimes against Islam" poster in its March 2013 issue. No one paid much attention to it, not until the commando-style murder of Stéphane Charbonnier, one of the eleven listed, on Jan. 7. The other ten are Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Terry Jones, Carsten Luste, Molly Norris, Flemming Rose, Salman Rushdie, Morris Sadek (misspelled on the poster as "Swadiq"), Lars Vilks, Kurt Westergaard, and Geert Wilders.
Looking over this list offers some insights into AQAP's mentality and by extension, that of Islamists in general:
How Terrorism Harms Radical Islam
by Daniel Pipes • January 9, 2015 • The Washington Times
An epidemic of recent high-profile attacks by Muslims in the name of Islam – in Canada, Israel, Nigeria, Australia, Pakistan, and France – raises an obvious question: How do the Islamist perpetrators figure that murdering an honor guard, driving cars into pedestrians, slaughtering non-Muslim bus passengers, taking hostage the patrons of a café, or massacring army kids and cartoonists will achieve their goal of applying Islamic law and building a caliphate?
Logically, their violence only helps if it terrorizes their enemies and compels them to bend to the Islamists' wishes; intimidation, after all, is the essence of terrorism. Sometimes, Islamist terrorism does achieve this objective. For example, to stay out of trouble, a sizeable number of artists have censored themselves concerning Islam; and the botched government response to the 2004 Madrid train bombings helped the opposition party win an election, then withdraw Spanish forces from Iraq.
UCLA's Embarrassment: Prof. Abou El Fadl
by Daniel Pipes • January 7, 2015 • FrontPageMagazine.com
The once-promising career of UCLA law professor Khaled Medhat Abou El Fadl has faded over the past decade. Gone are the pleasures of glowing attention of the media, the invitations to join important government bodies and to offer expert testimony at high-profile trials.
It's not clear that this downward spiral resulted solely from my 2004 article demonstrating him to be a "stealth Islamist," but that exposé, read more than 30,000 times, surely diminished his stature. In it, I showed how, despite Abou El Fadl's once-vaunted reputation as a moderate Muslim, he
wants Muslims to live by Islamic law (the Shari'a), the law that among other things endorses slavery, execution for apostasy, and the repression of women, and which treats non-Muslims as second-class citizens. "Shariah and Islam are inseparable," he has written, "and one cannot be without the other." In a revealing passage, he confesses that his "primary loyalty, after God, is to the Shariah."
This public airing of his true ambitions undercut his pretense of moderation.
Did the CIA Fiddle With Population Statistics about Iran?
by Daniel Pipes • January 5, 2015
The World Factbook, described as "information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities," is perhaps the most prominent unclassified publication of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a major source of information.
Yet, a numerical discrepancy concerning the ethnic makeup of Iran prompted me three months ago, on October 5, 2014, to send the agency a letter (via its website):
Dear Sir or Madam:I have looked at the World Factbook (WF) figures since 2000 on the question of ethnicity in Iran.From 2000 through January 2011, the WF uses one set of numbers, which indicate that 51 percent of the population is Persian; but then, in November 2011, it switches to a 61 percent figure for Persians, where it has remained ever since. This is ostensibly based, the WF says in the November 2011 entry, on a 2008 estimate.In the space of 10 months, then, the Persians increased 10 percent, the Lur 4 percent, the Kurds 3 percent, the Turkmen & Baloch remained unchanged, the Arabs lost 1 percent, the Azeris 8 percent, and the Gilaki and Mazandarani vanished.
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I have looked at the World Factbook (WF) figures since 2000 on the question of ethnicity in Iran.
From 2000 through January 2011, the WF uses one set of numbers, which indicate that 51 percent of the population is Persian; but then, in November 2011, it switches to a 61 percent figure for Persians, where it has remained ever since. This is ostensibly based, the WF says in the November 2011 entry, on a 2008 estimate.
In the space of 10 months, then, the Persians increased 10 percent, the Lur 4 percent, the Kurds 3 percent, the Turkmen & Baloch remained unchanged, the Arabs lost 1 percent, the Azeris 8 percent, and the Gilaki and Mazandarani vanished.
How to Travel like a CIA Spy
by Daniel Pipes • December 31, 2014 • The Washington Times
I unreservedly condemn Edward Snowden's massive release of important U.S. government secrets. Once they're out, though, it makes no sense to ignore the information now available.
A 14-page document from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) carrying the arduous bureaucratic title of Surviving Secondary: An Identity Threat Assessment of Secondary Screening Procedures at International Airports offers a case in point. Translated into normal English, this means, "How undercover agents can avoid trouble when going through passport and custom controls."
Although the study deals narrowly with the CIA's concern that its clandestine agents will be stopped in passport checks and their false identities exposed, its information holds interest to anyone who travels internationally. Indeed, it's a useful guide precisely to what not to do when landing in a foreign airport. I plan to adopt its advice for my own trips, and, as a public good, I offer some of its main points to other lawful travelers so that they too can better avoid what's known as "secondary screening" – or being plucked from the primary (or routine) line for additional questioning.
Did Swedes Just Decide for National Suicide?
by Daniel Pipes • December 30, 2014 • National Review Online
Woe to anyone in Sweden who dissents from the orthodox view that welcoming large numbers of indigent peoples from such countries as Iraq, Syria, and Somalia is anything but a fine and noble idea. Even to argue against permitting about 1 percent of the existing population to emigrate annually from an alien civilization renders one politically, socially, and even legally beyond the pale. (I know a journalist threatened with arrest for mild dissent on this issue.) To state that there exists a Swedish culture worth preserving meets with puzzlement.
And yet, the realities of immigration are apparent for all to see: welfare dependency, violent bigotry against Christians and Jews, and a wide range of social pathologies from unemployment to politically-motivated rape. Accordingly, ever-increasing numbers of Swedes find themselves – despite known hazards – opting out of the consensus and worrying about their country's cultural suicide.
An Arab Prince Denounces Islamism
by Daniel Pipes • December 10, 2014 • The Washington Times
In a remarkable but thus-far unnoticed address on Dec. 5, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the crown prince of Bahrain (an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf and home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet), candidly analyzed the Islamist enemy and suggested important ways to fight it.
He has much to teach Westerners (starting with his hapless UK counterpart, Crown Prince Charles), if only we would listen. Yes, some Western leaders speak about confronting the Islamist ideology, but the majority avoids this issue by resorting to euphemism, obfuscation, and cowardice. Most frustrating are those leaders (like Tony Blair) who deliver powerful speeches without follow-through.
Is CAIR a Terror Group?
by Daniel Pipes • November 28, 2014 • National Review Online
We who follow the Islamist movement fell off our collective chair on Nov. 15 when the news came that the United Arab Emirates' ministerial cabinet had listed the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as one of 83 proscribed terrorist organizations, up there with the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS.
This came as a surprise because the UAE authorities themselves have a record of promoting Islamism; because CAIR has a history of raising funds in the UAE; and because the UAE embassy in Washington had previously praised CAIR.
On reflection, however, the listing makes sense for, in recent years, the Islamist movement has gravely fractured. Sunnis fight Shi'is; advocates of violence struggle against those working within the system; modernizers do battle against those trying to return to the seventh century; and monarchists confront republicans.
Adding Turkey to the "State Sponsors of Terrorism" List
by Daniel Pipes • November 28, 2014
According to Israeli intelligence, Hamas has moved its outside-Gaza headquarters from Damascus to Istanbul; it is headed by Saleh al-Arouri, whom Israel Hayom calls "an infamous arch-terrorist believed to be responsible for dozens of attacks against Israelis."
Arouri recently plotted at least two very ambitious but foiled operations: an August effort to topple the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and this past week multiple operations against "Israeli destinations in the West Bank, … an attack on Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, and an attack on the light rail train in the capital."
So far, the Israelis have limited their protests to suggesting that this is not the way a NATO ally should behave.
Official communiqués sent from Jerusalem to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's office in Brussels, via several channels, said it was inconceivable that a member of the intergovernmental military alliance would maintain ties with a terrorist organization. …
Thoughts on the P5+1 Negotiations with Tehran
by Daniel Pipes • November 26, 2014
The Nov. 24 deadline came and went for an agreement between the powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran; on that date, they managed only to extend the existing interim deal for another seven months. The ayatollah crowed and U.S. senators stewed. Looking beyond these responses, the current situation spurs several thoughts:
A Quiet Clash at the Swedish Foreign Ministry
by Daniel Pipes • November 13, 2014 • The Washington Times
Sweden is arguably the most "European" of European countries by virtue of its historically cohesive nationhood ("one big family"), militaristic and socialist legacies, untrammeled immigration, unmatched political correctness, and a supercilious claim to the status of a "moral superpower." These features also make it perhaps the most alien of European countries to an American conservative.
In this context, I offer a summary and paraphrase of my discussion with two senior members of the permanent bureaucracy in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) held during a recent visit to Stockholm. Our affable but pointed discussion focused on the Middle East, on which we agreed on almost nothing; I might as well have been in Sudan's or Syria's MFA.
The following contains the seemingly sober officials' more colorful statements, then my responses. First, we discussed the Iranian nuclear program:
The IAEA inspection regime in Iran is the most intense ever mounted anywhere; it includes cameras that watch the Iranian installations around the clock, so we definitely know what's going on there.
Terrorism Defies Definition
by Daniel Pipes and Teri Blumenfeld • October 24, 2014 • The Washington Times
Defining terrorism has practical implications because formally certifying an act of violence as terrorist has important consequences in U.S. law.
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In the summer of 2008, a small group of civilians ran 4,000 miles across America. They called themselves Run for the Fallen, and their mission was to run one mile for every service member killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. To Them That.s Gone is the documentary of this inspirational and historic event.
The Run began on Flag Day in Fort Irwin, CA, and ended in Arlington National Cemetery, VA, 72 days later. The team marked each mile with an American flag and personalized postcard in honor of every fallen service member. Along the way, the runners met many others who had lost a loved one, and who came to participate in this moving memorial.
On Wednesday May 23rd, 2012, the University of Oregon will host a preview screening of To Them That's Gone, and hold its own Run for the Fallen in honor of Memorial Day. Please join us to watch this poignant film, and run to honor and remember all Americans who have died in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Note: Those participating in the run/walk and are purchasing online. Please read the confirmation email for waiver information
Each registered participant will receive a flag to commemorate a fallen service member to carry and/or post along the route.
Portions of the proceeds from this event will go to these charities.
Active Heros: A volunteer led charity dedicated to helping veterans, active duty military and their families activeheroes.org Dog Tags to Ducks Mentorship Program to help student veterans on the UO Campus.
UO Veterans and Family Student Associaton (VFSA) will be selling T-Shirts at the event.
There will be a raffle with prizes donated by Wind Home Photography windhomephotography.com, Willamette Valley Crossfit willamettevalleycrossfit.com, and Trina Circle Aesthetics trinacircle.com
The UO Ticket Office is located in the Erb Memorial Union on the corner of 13th Ave. and University St.


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April 16th, 2012 WIKY Morning Show
** It's one of our favorite movies of all time, "Young Frankenstein," and now the musical is coming to The Centre on April 29th! All this week in the Culture Quiz at 8:20, we'll have a pair of tickets you can win. We're pretty sure Frau Blucher and The Monster will be there.....how about "Abby Normal?"
** There's a big lettuce recall that we need to tell you about. Dole has recalled 756 cases of their bagged "Seven Lettuce Salad," because of the possibility that they're contamined with salmonella. These bagged salads were distributed in Indiana and Illinois, but NOT in Kentucky. The use-by date is April 11,2012. The UPC Code is 71430 01057 and the Product Codes are 0577N089112A and 0577N089112B.
** Culture Quiz: They're supposed to be for kids, but 2/3 of adults use them. What?
Answer: Piggy Banks!
Congrats to Laurie Meese! She wins Subway swag and a pair of tickets to "Young Frankenstein" at The Centre!
** And, with allergy season in full swing, we found this to be quite interesting. Turns out there are 5 common things that will help ease your misery.
1. Shampoo your eyelashes to get the pollen out of them. Obviously, use baby shampoo....no more tears!
2. Eat Yogurt. Some of the good bacteria in yogurt helps the body produce anti-inflammatory proteins and can reduce symptoms by as much as 40%.
3. Drink Ice Tea. The antioxidants stop your body from producing a major allergy trigger called "immunoglobulin E".
4. Wear clothing that is made of cotton or linen. Pollen doesn't stick to it as much as it does to synthetic fabrics.
5. Avoid eating certain foods during allergy season, such as apples, carrots, zuchinni, celery and tomatoes. Yes, we know that it can be tough to not eat these, but if you cook them, it breaks down the allergy triggers in them.


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In 2 weeks or so, I'll be about halfway through my current deployment to Afghanistan. (.. and the crowd Cheers!)
After over 22 years in the Air Force, this will be my last "vacation" or "camping trip" .. depending on whether you want to use my wife Ana's or 3-year old daughter Jaiden's euphemism. I'm not retiring just yet. But once I get back to Fort Hood in May, I'll definitely be on the downward glidepath.
In the mean-time, I really don't have much to complain about …
- For some reason I keep getting sent to relatively "quiet" locations for these "vacations". Seriously, the next time I expect to wear my body armor or helmet is on the plane ride home.
- This time I've got a rather nice view … the picture above was taken right outside my tent door. That's part of the Hindu Kush mountain range.
- I live in a tent … but I have a sleeping bag, several warm blankets, and the whole thing has a "climate control system" .. ok, so it's just big tube that runs down the center of the tent's ceiling, which blows out warm (or cold) air. But still, probably better than I would have on a civilian "camping trip".
- The food is pretty good. A Captain on my last deployment described these deployed DFACs (Dinning Facilities) as pretty much the equivalent of "eating 3 meals a day at Golden Corral .. for 6 straight months". That about sums it up. The only dangerous part is, just like at an all you can eat buffet, the dessert bar, and the temptation to actually put "all you can eat" on your plate every meal, can easily catch up with you if you're not careful.
- We've got a nice USO tent. They have video games, movie rooms, ping-pong & pool tables, and even free wi-fi (veryslow, but still free!). I usually try to get over there at least a couple of times a week, to download books onto my Kindle, or catch a movie.
- Although I work 12 hour shifts, as we're getting more used to the job, things have been slowing down a bit, so I actually have time to keep up with my email, and talk to friends and family on Facebook. Don't get me wrong, the goverment is definitely getting their money's worth out of this trip … but I find that coming to work is actually the part of my day I most look forward to!
- Maybe it's just because we were here over the Holidays, but we seems to get a lot of care packages here. Most contain some sort of yummy treats. Not terribly easy on the old waistline .. but then again, who wouldn't want to have a box full of snickers in their office?
Now obviously there are a least a few things I don't like about this place. But really, there's nothing useful to be accomplished by recording them here. Other than …
If I had a choice, I'd definitely prefer to be home with these guys:
Til next time ..


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Whatcom Youth Sports is proud to present the 25th Annual Baker Blast Tournament in Bellingham, Washington. This tournament focuses on bringing in boys' and girls' teams throughout the West to the Northwest Soccer Park for some great soccer! Our 2014 event hosted 174 squads in the Baker Blast! The Baker Blast has a superb history of providing high level boys' and girls' competition, and has a reputation of being a well-organized, first class tournament.
Tournament Location: Northwest Soccer Park, 5238 Northwest Drive, Bellingham WA and Ferndale High School and Pioneer Park in Ferndale
Northwest Soccer Park is one of the finest soccer complexes in the Northwest, featuring a fully equipped concession building and restroom facility, 31 acres of lush green grass, and a breathtaking view of Mt. Baker. The Northwest Soccer Park is located in Northwest Washington State, just 10 minutes from downtown Bellingham and 20 minutes from the Canadian boarder. Ferndale High School and Pioneer Park, located 8 minutes away from Northwest Soccer Park will have 3 or 4 high quality grass fields which may be used in the event of the number of teams applied. This region offers spectacular sightseeing opportunities from the mountains to the sea. Hotels, shopping and entertainment are only minutes away. Please apply using the following procedure--please scroll down and read instructions completely:
A completed on-line application form along with the entry fee and tentative team roster must be completed no later than June 8. We will continue to accept applications after the deadline date if there is space available, otherwise your check will be returned and you will be placed on a waiting list. Team Selection: The Baker Blast is a select/premier level tournament accepting teams on a "first completed registration, first serve" basis. Please be advised that certain divisions may fill up prior to the deadline date. You are not considered registered until your online registration is complete and payment is received at the tournament office or payment via credit card online. Format: Teams will play in a four team matrix whenever possible and be guaranteed at least three games. U10 and U11 will play 50 minute matches and U12-19 will play 60 minute matches. U10 & U 11 teams will play 9 a-side on a 50 yd x 90yd field. U12-19 will play 11 a-side on full size fields. Where applicable we will attempt to have two divisions PREMIER (upper level) and COPA (lower level) to provide appropriate levels of competition. We reserve the right to combine or modify age divisions should the need arise to balance competition.
Entry Fee: U10 & U11 $500.00 per squad, U12-19 $550.00 Checks or money orders should be made payable to "WYS (Whatcom Youth Sports).". You may also choose to pay online with a credit card. Entry fee acceptance made after June 8, 2015 will be on a as team need basis. Applications will not be accepted without fees. Acceptance: You will receive an e-mail notice of your squads acceptance. Schedules: We anticipate schedules to be mailed out to you no later then June 15, 2015. We will attempt to accommodate all requests for late games on Friday. However, this is not always possible. Please be prepared to play an early game on Friday as early as 2:40 PM. All teams will be scheduled to play ONE GAME ON FRIDAY and two games on Saturday. Semifinal and finals will be played on Sunday. Withdrawing from the Tournament: After June 8, teams wishing to withdraw from the tournament must notify us in writing. There will be no refunds issued for teams withdrawing after June 8. Prior to June 8, teams wishing to withdraw must notify us in writing; refunds will be issued less a $35.00 handling fee. Age Groups for 2015:
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Reviewed Strawberry Shortcake
May 16, 2013 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"It was ok. Based on the earlier reviews, I added 1 tbs of butter (probably needed 2 and a little extra sugar & a little vanilla. I also did not use heavy cream - too many people with cholesterol issues in our house. The texture was great - just kind of bland tasting - even after the above changes. I might make one more time and add a little more""
Reviewed Lobster Mac & Cheese
Jan 8, 2013 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"I agree with another reviewer - you need to really love rich foods to enjoy this dish. I'm rating it how others felt. It's too rich for me! I served this as part of a buffet on New Year's Eve. If you are looking for a "grown up" mac & cheese - this is it. I would definitely serve this in small servings. It retains it's tastiness, without bein""
Reviewed Herb and Apple Stuffing
Jan 8, 2013 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"Big hit at Christmas. We served it with ham and it complimented it nicely! I also cut back on the onion, used 2 very large apples and baked it in the oven. Everyone really like it. I'll make it again. ""
Reviewed Roasted Thanksgiving Turkey
Nov 23, 2012 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"This was fabulous!!! We decided to try this on Thanksgiving - a little scary trying a new recipe on a holiday, but the reviews were so good we took a chance. And are we glad we did! the turkey was very moist, but the best part was the gravy. Following an earlier reviewer suggestion, we didn't use the butter and orange zest, but butter and sag""
Reviewed Seafood Chowder
Nov 18, 2012 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"I tried this recipe because of the reviews and the everyone was right - this was really delicious! I used a little less potato, added corn and used Old Bay Seasoning. Everyone really loved it! Great recipe! Easy and delicious!""
Reviewed Mediterranean Barley Salad
Feb 16, 2012 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"Really delicious! I also added the garbonzo beans and only used 3 T of lemon juice. That was plenty of lemon flavor. Also added feta cheese. Very simple and very tasty. """
Reviewed Sweet Chicken Bacon Wraps
Sep 27, 2011 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"This has become my four teenagers favorite meal! It's easy to make a nice change from other chicken recipes. Although this is an appetizer recipe, we do have it for our meal. With a little bread and a nice side veggie........quite delicious! """
Reviewed Sour Cream Pumpkin Bread
Aug 30, 2011 in on Food.com
"Ok, I didn't make the recipe exactly as written. I followed "Deantini"'s suggestions for lowering the fat. The taste was out of this world - the addition of the sour cream really added a smoothness. However, Deantini, my bread did not rise. I made it with your exact changes. Any thoughts? I'm going to keep trying, because the flavor is real..."
Reviewed Angelic Cake and Berries
Jan 26, 2011 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"I recently saw Rachel make this on her show & I was inspired to make it. It was great! My whole family loved it. I have 4 very active teenagers who want dessert every night. It's great to serve something sweet and still good for you. They've been asking for it again! Easy delicious dessert."
Reviewed Vegetable Stew (Giambotta
Jan 19, 2011 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"As written, it was good. I thought it a little bland, so I followed another's advice and added 1 tsp of thyme. It was really tasty. I also liked cooking it a little longer; it gave the flavors a chance to blend. To make it more appealing to my teenagers, I separated 1/2 the stew and added turkey sausage. They loved it with the meat. I loved it..."


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I used to have this issue with stiff line art and why some of the things I paint or color with look flat. It's the issue of understanding 3D forms on a flat surface; it tricks the mind thinking it's actually real, or even possible to touch it.
Line art is something that will come out naturally as you draw more confidently and you understand the piece you draw behind it and one of the issue's I solved when drawing nice line art, is using my whole arm rather then my wrist to draw circles, lines and curves.
Secondly I recommend doing more figure drawing's to free your mind from certain restrictions. I wanted my characters to have life in them, so I use very quick 1-2 min sketches from posemaniacs.com/http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ or even regular people in photographs just walking along the street. Drawing from life is your best bet and trust me, it will be a little messy the first time, but once I understood why it had to be done this way, then I moved on to other topics like: Why do people draw 3D stuff? Is there a point in drawing 3D? What am I learning from it?
For example, I take the human figure that's made out of cylinders and cubes. Not just flat squares and circles; why? It's because in reality, we're all made out of three dimensional things, I touch my arm, it's round. I feel my face, it's made out of different forms like skeletal and muscles and not just a square or a triangle. This is to help not second guess where you are placing any object or limb in your drawing's- because being unsure where everything goes will definitely show up in your drawing's!
I also noticed your shading is going all over the place with no true source of light hitting on your character. The shadows are too consistent and the value's are not flowing correctly in their perspective direction. I understand you really like to work with gradients and so do I too, but you really have to work with flat colors and value's first, because your drawing's will look very muddy and not as nice as you want them to be. I believe that shadows and light should be taken great care of once the form and drawing is complete. With great subtlety and understanding, it will definitely push your drawing's look greater then what you have now. I totally suggest reading james gurney "Color and light" for the realist painter, I'm reading it now as well. It has great information about the principle of light and shadow, and why colors are the way you see them.
Lastly, my final suggestion is to do a study of more reference material. Because you're starting off with fantasy and anime right away, you have to understand that it's just a style- it's based off the real world. For example, the purple (dragon?) doesn't really strike to me as real to me, since the tail and the shoes needed a bit more care to them to really show their design. If you need help with animals, use their reference's and apply them to your drawing's- but don't copy the exact pose of it.
I really hope this helped and that I'm not trying to be mean or downgrade your art; you just need a little more bit of effort, persistence and study and it will show up in your next art piece. You have the skills for it, but make sure you are pushing yourself little by little, even if it takes longer then it should. It will look amazing at the end of the day! :)


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7 And she shall follow her lovers, and shall not (over)take them, and she shall seek them, and shall not find [them]; and she shall say, I shall go, and turn again to my former husband, for it was well to me then more than now. (And she shall follow after her lovers, but shall not overtake them, and she shall seek after them, but shall not find them; and then she shall say, I shall go, and return to my former husband, for it was better for me then, than it is now.) | 7 She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.' |
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For Amy Grant and Vince Gill, the Second Time's the Charm
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Problem was, he was a little slow.
"I forgot that when you first start, it's really tiring to ride a bike," says Grant. "I was behind him, and I shouted at him, 'Is this as fast as you're going to go?'"
Then she passed him. Or, as Gill grumbles, "You left me in the dust!" In mock disgrace, Grant buries her face in her hands.
They both double over in laughter.
How did it end? Gill pulled his bike alongside his wife's. As Grant remembers it, Gill said, "How would you feel if I teed off and then said, 'See you at the next tee?'" Chastened, Grant reconsidered her motivation that day. "What was my ultimate goal there?" she says. "I was acting like I wanted to go do something with him, but really, I wanted to work out...and I learned a good lesson the hard way."
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Food security is becoming one of the most important issues in our country today. While Europe has taken action to get rid of GMO food , It appears our country is heading head long for it. The question is " Who will we belive and what are we willing to do about it?' Is europe wrong and our leaders are right or is it the other way around?
Do you know much about GMD foods? If not then why not google it and read the stories. Read about rat fed gmo potatos in england or sheep fed gmo cotton plants in india Take time to do your reasearch adn then let me know what you think Farmer John


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The article then goes on to describe a project called the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth, a sister program called the Plate Boundary Observatory, and finally, the Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table at the University of California at San Diego, each of which is providing new information about earthquake dynamics. In a similar fashion, Nature News distanced itself from the pack with an article explaining why "few experts thought the seismic zone off Sendai, Japan, was capable of such violence." The piece focuses on what the event is teaching scientists about the relative earthquake potential related to subduction of old, versus new, oceanic crust.
These detailed accounts of ongoing earthquake research should guide more reporters. Articles about the statistical likelihood of earthquakes in California and how those quakes might compare to the one in Japan are fine, but readers would surely benefit from more specifics about how scientists know what they know and about how the Golden State is using that knowledge (or not) to safeguard the public.


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You've probably heard that forgiveness reduces stress and can provide peace and closure. But Slate advice columnist Emily Yoffe says that's not always true. She tells host Michel Martin that sometimes it's better to cut ties, especially in the case of abusive parents. Psychiatrist Richard Friedman also joins the conversation (This interview originally aired on Mar. 11, 2013 on Tell Me More).
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Police are searching for a suspect in a deadly shooting late Saturday night at a TGI Fridays in Albuquerque.
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Dec 17th 2007 11:20AM Although I agree with the fact that chain potting is going to be absolutely primary, with Shadowfiend and VE , SP's do have a little more to play with in a non PvP environment. Whereas we mages can set up an off timer gem and pot rotation so that for at least 10 minutes with all our gems, 5 pots and a non CD on Evoc, we have a much much deeper mana pool. Warlocks have life tap /w bandages, dark pact & drain mana ( if AFF /DEMO like me ). So we all have that extra utility if specced correctly.
But I must agree with Layn, our shadow priest is always right up there with myself ( the mage ) and our lock in dps.


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On the cusp of his thirty-third birthday, the author is tormented by an undeniable truth: He's somewhat less successful than the Son of God
THIS JUNE, I SHALL BECOME a thirty-three-year-old human, which (for me) is probably middle age. Purely as a numeric designation, "33" ranks among my favorite nonprime numbers: It was Bird's and Kareem's jersey number (and Magic's, at least during college), it's symmetrical (if you look at it sideways), and it's divisible by eleven (which, I will grant, is not my strongest point). However, thirty-three is both the hardest and most exciting age for any man to be, and I am trying to galvanize myself for this electrifying dystopia. Archilochus once noted that the sly fox knows many things, but the old hedgehog knows one big thing. This sentiment is confusing, but wholly true. For our first thirty-two years we live like foxes, acquiring all the interesting tidbits we never needed to know in the first place. But at the dawn of year XXXIII, something more trenchant whacks you in the face like Vijay Singh's 7-iron. When you hit thirty-three, you become the hedgehog, and this is the one big thing you know: In all probability, you are less successful than Jesus.
Many Americans freak out when they turn thirty or forty or fifty, but those are the kind of Americans who don't deserve hedgehog status. There is nothing significant about those ages beyond the fact that they happen to include zeros. There are only two birthdays that really matter: twenty-seven and thirty-three. Twenty-seven is noteworthy because it is the Icon Age, or (more accurately) the Age You Need to Be in Order to Be a Dead Icon. We're all aware of the wondrous people who died at twenty-seven: Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, and probably a few others who weren't necessarily boozy hippies. Twenty-seven is the only age when it's okay to die, primarily because it will enhance your merchandising potential. Do you ever wonder why you never see any Blind Melon T-shirts wherever you're purchasing sandalwood incense? This is because Shannon Hoon died at twenty-eight. He got the math wrong; Hoon's inability to understand subtraction while snorting cocaine stopped him from being Kurt Cobain. Stay in school, kids!
Still, turning twenty-seven is not even a fraction as important as turning thirty-three. You see, Jesus was thirty-three when he died, and that dude got a lot accomplished. Even if you're not a practicing Christian and/or Mel Gibson's father, it's impossible to deny the unadulterated verve of J. C.: He knew how to mobilize people, he was a classic storyteller, and he (clearly) wasn't afraid to man up and take one for the team. Though I have no proof, I suspect he was a better-than-average carpenter. And most important, Jesus peaked. Jesus was at the top of his game when he needed it the most. There is no evidence in the Gospels suggesting that Jesus was nostalgic for his former, better self; nowhere in the Book of John does Jesus say, "You know, if they had crucified me back in college, I probably would have risen from the dead in two days." As far as I can tell, thirty-three is the age to be messianic. And this is daunting, because if I am at the height of my powers, then my powers are somewhat laughable. I can't even turn water into gin.
My father once told me that the best age for an American male is thirty-six. "That's when you can do it all," he said. "At thirty-six, you can still work all day, and you're strong enough to ignore pain, but you're just starting to get wise in the head. You start making better decisions." He told me this when he was sixty-five and I was twenty. Now that he's seventy-seven, I asked him if he still believes thirty-six is the best age for a man. "Who told you that?" he responded. This seemed to weaken his original argument.
When I was twenty, I could jump higher than I can now, and I never got hangovers. I was an above-average Clue player, and I didn't know anything about semantic philosophy. Ten years from now, it's possible that I'll be an expert in semantic philosophy, but I may be unable to jump over a sleeping badger any time I've had more than ten drinks the night before. (I suspect my Clue prowess will remain static.) There are so many independent qualities that constitute any person's greatness, and most of them are always improving or declining. But there must be one moment in every man's life when all his abilities operate in perfect balance. For Jesus, this appears to have happened at thirty-three, and that's why I'm nervous about my birthday. It feels like the pressure is on.
But perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps the pressure was on long ago. Perhaps I missed the pressure entirely, and perhaps it was because I was playing kickball.
"Most aging specialists would agree that the peak age for both genders is eleven," says Dr. Robert N. Butler, a professor of geriatrics and the founder and CEO of the International Longevity Center. "We all reach our maximum survival potential at that age."
Butler argues that people peak at eleven because of something called the Gompertz Curve, which was developed in 1825 by a London insurance actuary named Benjamin Gompertz. The Gompertz Curve calculates "survivorship," a logarithmic computation that estimates the likelihood of remaining alive. For both genders, the arc of this curve tends to be highest around eleven, near the beginning of sexual maturity.
The problem with Butler's argument is that it changes the meaning of "peaking." The only quality it rewards is being unkillable (or maybe just less killable). This has nothing to do with my original query. I don't care what the safest age is; I want to know what the best age is. Common sense probably gets us closer to this answer than Benjamin Gompertz. Men hit their sexual peak at nineteen (according to the Kinsey Report), and their speed/power peak at twenty-eight or twenty-nine. (Even though thirty-one-year-old Curtis Martin led the NFL in rushing last season, conventional football wisdom states that running backs start to break down at thirty.) Creatively and intellectually, things are murkier but still not opaque. With the exception of prime-number superstar Paul Erdos, almost every mathematical genius was finished before he turned thirty-five. Left-brain savants like Bob Dylan and Neil Young have done exceptional work after fifty-five, but only in comparison with other mortals; when measured against themselves, neither made anything transcendent past forty. All things considered (and by "all things" I mean "these five random examples"), placing the apex at thirty-three doesn't seem altogether inaccurate. But Dr. Butler disagrees.
"You are making a mistake," he told me. "Certainly, speed of reaction does decline as you get older, as does the ability to retrieve information. But intellectual power does not decline. If you give anolder person time, he will answer questions as well as--or better than--a younger person. And while most physicistsand mathematicians do tend to excel during their twenties, historians, philosophers, and painters tend to excel when they're older. Tolstoy wrote Resurrection in his seventies. And speaking personally, I feel like I'm at the top of my game right now."
Of course, Butler is seventy-eight, so he might have a vested interest in this debate. But I'm about to turn thirty-three, which means my interests are just as vested. As far as I'm concerned, I'm at the top of my game, too. This is it. It's hedgehog time. It's Jesus time. I'm ready.
There are countless enlightening moments in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, an engrossing new documentary based on the best-selling book by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. If you (like me) never truly understood the details of this scandal, this movie (a standout at Sundance) is worth watching. It's not necessarily objective journalism, but I suppose it's difficult to give an unbiased account of unregulated power fraud. However, it will also make you a little nervous about the reality of your own existence. In simplest terms, Enron convinced stockholders that the company was earning a profit when it was actually losing money; at the core, that was the key to how its executives stole from people. And that duplicity makes me question my own financial situation. Every month, money I never see or touch is directly deposited into my bank account, and that account is nothing but a number on a spreadsheet. Nothing is tangible. I believe those checks have value, and I believe that money is in there, but I have no proof. Now more than ever, the entire modern economy is theoretical. If it weren't, Enron couldn't have happened. And this is the danger of technology: It provides ever greater opportunity for dangerous illusion. --C. K.
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May 18, 2010At the recent PRIMIR Spring Meeting held during the NPES 2010 Industry Summit, Dr. John Zarwan provided a brief update of his original research conducted five years ago for PRIMIR. John noted that while some of the change has come faster than originally predicted—particularly the decline of newspapers—print is still very viable and relevant. He noted that there is uneven impact from electronic media with some applications more affected than others.Many advertising print media applications were the first to shift, driven by changes in consumer behavior, economic trends, increased broadband access and other market factors.
Dr. Zarwan noted that the biggest change since the study was completed is the torrent of Social Media usage—which wasn't really on the radar screen in the study and the growing use of Mobile (smartphone) advertising. Advertisers continue to chase their audience—many of whom have migrated to online instead of traditional media like newspapers or magazines. Many advertisers have created 'fan' pages to capture the social media market. The next big thing is mobile advertising, where spending is expected to top $1.5 billion by 2013. He concluded that print will remain viable and vibrant; however, firms in the print value chain must understand their costs, learn about their customers' business and communications requirements and most of all understand why people print. Done right, print can enhance or complement new media.
The PRIMIR Spring meeting included several other key presentations, but one of the most important features of this particular meeting was focused on developing future research for PRIMIR. After a thorough survey process that included both NPES and PRIMIR members, five 'hot' topics emerged for PRIMIR to focus its attention on over the coming year. Task forces were formed to begin the process of crafting a document that will outline the scope and key objectives of this critical research. Two of the five studies will be available to NPES active members as part of their benefits package.


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I posted this on the Shrubs forum also, but would like to ask here. I never had boxwoods before but heard they can have a bad, cat urine type of smell. Which I want to avoid, since the shrubs will be near my front door.
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Since the first one is a Buxus sempervirens cultivar it would be expected to have the characteristic odor. I haven't noticed the Asian boxes being as assertive with their aromas. |
Is it universally disliked? I love the smell of boxwood, but assume it's because it always reminds me of my grandmother's home and my childhood. Some dislike the scent of a ligustrum( privet)blossom, while others like it. Am I all alone in liking it or , at least, not minding the smell of boxwood?? |
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Leahcate - I don't think the dislike is universal. I have a keen sense of smell and have had boxwood in warmer climates. When I pruned it, it seemed to emit an earthy amoma which did not make me recoil. Maybe I'm just not such a "sensitive plant" when it comes to scents. Boxwood being such a popular shrub for all sorts of applications - not everyone is turned off. Many odors can become intensely more cloying to some in hot and humid climates - here in my part of the world, really hot and humid is pretty much an unknown. There are several boxwood varieties that do well here - and I'm going to try a few of them primarily for their deer resistance. I hope they do smell! |
Thanks duluth...good to hear not everyone thinks they smell like cat urine, or whatever :>O At any rate, it's certainly not an over-powering scent. I usually must pick a few leaves to crush to determine if it is boxwood vs. another look alike shrub with no scent ... name escapes me :>/ |
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I love the smell of English boxwood and would have more here if it did better in Maine. It reminds me of the old library from my home town that was surrounded by boxwoods that smelled wonderful in the summer. |
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L-R: European Student Energy Summit 2014 co-organisers Lora Dimitrova and Malgorzata OIesiewicz.
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Regional Student Energy Summits will occur simultaneously around the globe, with Aberdeen confirmed as the European winner, Mexico City winning the bid for Latin America and Cape Town hosting the African event. The winners in North America and Asia are yet to be announced.
"Competing with rival European universities to host this event was challenging – but nothing compared to what now lies ahead of us," says co-organiser Lora Dimitrova, part of the student team behind the bid.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Van Eeden, Daniel Greyling firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-03232007-095314 Document Title Aspects of the ecology and conservation status of selected wildlife in and around Tembe Elephant Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Degree MSc (Wildlife Management) Department Centre for Wildlife Management Supervisor
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Date 2006-09-07 Availability unrestricted Abstract The present study compared Sand Forest bird assemblages found in a communal land area with that of the Tembe Elephant Park, and determined the habitat preference and status of selected herbivore species within the park. The study forms part of the Maputaland Conservation-based and Integrated Rural Development Programme of the Centre for Wildlife Management from the University of Pretoria and is linked to the activities of the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area (LTFCA). The main purpose of the study was to compare Sand Forest bird assemblages found in the Tshanini Community Conservation Area, which is characterised by low levels of human utilisation, with that of the Tembe Elephant Park, which is characterised by wildlife utilisation. This approach was used to determine the biological importance of this communal land area in contributing towards the conservation of the rare Sand Forest habitat. Visual and auditory bird surveys revealed that the communal land area contains unique Sand Forest bird assemblages, which demonstrated the biological importance of the communal land for Sand Forest conservation, especially from an avian perspective. The second purpose of the study was to identify possible competition between selected herbivore species within the Tembe Elephant Park and/or a decrease in numbers of rare species. Herbivores that might be adversely affected by the destruction of the Sand Forest, or who may themselves have a destructive effect on the Sand Forest were also identified. Target herbivores included the nyala Tragelaphus angasii, impala Aepyceros melampus, Burchell's zebra Equus burchellii, greater kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros, red duiker Cephalophus natalensis and suni Neotragus moschatus. Road transects were used to record the spatial distribution of the target herbivores, and the vegetation types that were used more or less often than expected were subsequently determined. None of the target herbivores showed a preference for the Sand Forest or appeared to have a destructive effect on the Sand Forest. The suni, however, reached its highest density within the Sand Forest and the destruction of this habitat will therefore negatively affect the suni population. In several parks and reserves that aim to conserve a variety of species, it has been necessary to control the populations of highly competitive species. Both the nyala and the impala are highly competitive and occur in relatively high numbers within the Tembe Elephant Park, and consequently their population numbers should be kept sufficiently low in order not to have a negative influence on the vegetation or the survival of less competitive ungulates. Total aerial counts and transect distance sampling counts indicated an increase in the numbers of all the target herbivores. It is important to protect a viable portion of the preferred habitat of every target species within a reserve, and to keep competition with rare species to a minimum for the long-term survival of the regional biodiversity. Key aspects of wildlife and their habitat should be monitored so that trends are noted in time, and management adjustments can be made accordingly. Files
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0Feb 3, '11 by dsds138hello chensiqi,
my name is Ya. I read your threads for a while and got a lot of useful information. I am an applicant of fall 2011.
I took my teas and I scored at 72. I am wondering if this score could get me into the program. My gpa is somewhere at 3.4. Hope you could see this thread by chance. good luck to you
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0Feb 10, '11 by everparkThere is no rhyme or reason how the nursing schools accept students. I don't really understand it. I scored a 79 on the Teas, 94 on the HESI, (with an 880 on Critical thinking-which IMO is very very important on getting in to UT). GPA 3.46, science 3.75. I got waitlisted to UTMB???(never got off of it), got accepted to UT and TWU. Chose UT. Interview seems veeeerrry important at UTMB and UT....I feel it's the deciding factor.


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