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The Child Development Center (CDC) is a weekday children's ministry of Canterbury United Methodist Church whose mission is to help families provide their young children with a nurturing, creative, balanced, and developmentally appropriate environment that promotes the growt'h of all children (spiritually, physically, socio-emotionally, and cognitively) as well as the understanding that each child is special to God.
Hours of Operation
Our hours are Monday through Friday; 7 am - 6 pm. to see Holiday closings.
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The center is open to any child. Enrollment preference is given in the following order:
1. Children presently enrolled in our program
2. Children of Full Time Canterbury UMC staff
3. Children of Canterbury UMC church members with a child already enrolled in our program
4. Children of Canterbury UMC members
5. Siblings of nonchurch members children already enrolled in our program
6. Nonmembers
How to Apply
Download and fill out the Application Form and return with a $25 application fee to Canterbury Child Development Center, 350 Overbrook Road, Birmingham, AL 35213. Your child's name will be put on the waiting list and you will be notified when there is a vacancy.
Tuition & Fees
For August 2013 - July 2014 the Monthly rates are:
Additional Fees are:
Application Fee...........................................$25
Annual Registration Fee (February)...........$150
Annual Supply Fee (August).......................$150
Security Deposit (Refundable)....................$200
Tuition is payable in advance and due in the CDC office on the first business day of each month. After 6:00 pm on the 5th day of the month (or first business day after) a late fee of $25 per child will be charged. If payment is not received by 6:00 pm on the 15th of the month, the child will be dropped from enrollment. Checks should be made payable to Canterbury CDC.
There is no reduction of fees for absences due to illness, vacation, holidays, inclement weather closings or circumstances beyond Canterbury UMC control.
Returned checks will charged a service fee equal to the amount the bank charges plus a $25 late fee. After three returned checks in a year, tuition must be paid by cash, money orders or cashier's check. Please notify the CDC office in writing if you need a receipt.
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Google Drive offers users 5GB of free storage with several upgrade options: 25GB for $2.49/month; 100GB for $4.99/month; and a whopping 1TB (terabyte) for $49.99/month.
Box offers 5GB of free storage already, while Dropbox offers 2GB and both offer upgrade options.
When you upgrade to any of the paid Drive accounts, Google will automatically upgrade your Gmail account storage to 25GB.
Google Drive has similar features to services like Box and DropBox. Ironically, Google was rumored for years to be ready to launch a cloud-based storage service call GDrive before some of these newer competitors had really gained traction, but it never happened. The advent of more Internet-enabled mobile devices like tablets, makes the cloud-based offering even more attractive as it allows users to access and share files while mobile.
The new Google Drive has similar features to these competitors, although it's tightly integrated to Google's services. For example, while the others let you store and share documents, Google Docs is built right in to Drive.
At last week's DEMO conference, Box CEO Aaron Levie implied his company is better positioned to service business customers.
"Their job is to get into very big categories," said Levie. "They are going to be a very important competitor particularly on the consumer side. As businesses want to scale, that's our entire business, to offer a more scalable, open platform."
The search giant describes Google Drive in a blog post as "a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you're working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond."
But Google's also done more to integrate Drive into other Google services. For example, you can attach photos from Drive to posts in Google+. Google says it also plans to soon offer the ability to attach Drive files directly to Gmail emails.
Senior VP of Chrome and Apps, Sundar Pichai also said in the blog post today that Google is working with third party developers that will offer Drive-friendly apps. Some of the examples mentioned include apps that will let you send faxes, edit videos and create website mockups directly from Drive. These apps will be available from Google's Chrome Web Store.


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Adam Goldberg | |
Born | Adam Charles Goldberg October 25, 1970 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, director, producer |
Years active | 1990–present |
Adam Goldberg | |
Born | Adam Charles Goldberg October 25, 1970 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, director, producer |
Years active | 1990–present |
Adam Charles Goldberg (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor, director, producer, and musician.
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Goldberg was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Donna (née Goebel)[1] and Earl Goldberg, a former lifeguard.[2] His father is Jewish and his mother is a "lapsed" Roman Catholic of Irish, French, and German descent.[3][4][5] As an adult, Goldberg does not practice any religion.[6] He lives in Los Angeles with his dog, Digger.[7]
Goldberg's first major screen role was in the Billy Crystal film Mr. Saturday Night (1992). His career-making role was arguably that of the tough, wise-cracking infantryman Mellish in Steven Spielberg's 1998 film Saving Private Ryan. While having played multiple lead characters, as in the short-lived 2005 Fox series Head Cases and The Hebrew Hammer, Goldberg has mostly been cast in strong supporting roles.
Notable roles include Jerry, the miserable undead servant to Christopher Walken's Gabriel character in the supernatural thriller The Prophecy and the borderline-psychotic Eddie Menuek on the sitcom Friends. Goldberg has also worked with preeminent voice artists like Dan Castellaneta and Charlie Adler, his vocal performances in Babe: Pig in the City and cartoons like Eek! The Cat. Goldberg often portrays stereotypically Jewish characters (most notably in Dazed and Confused, The Hebrew Hammer and in the series Entourage).[8]
Goldberg appeared extensively in the Flaming Lips documentary The Fearless Freaks, and had a supporting role in Christmas on Mars, a science fiction film written and directed by Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne. In 1999, he appeared in the 'Sixpence None The Richer' music video "There She Goes".
Goldberg wrote, produced, directed and edited the features Scotch and Milk and I Love Your Work, as well as multiple television projects, notably including the philosophical travelogue, Running with the Bulls for IFC. A guitarist and songwriter, Goldberg composed and arranged the music to I Love Your Work and Running with the Bulls and provided a song for the Hebrew Hammer soundtrack. He is known to travel with a cheap acoustic guitar, as can be seen in ...Bulls. Goldberg has released rock and jazz albums, including Changes, with Latin jazz percussionist Phil Maturano.
He appeared in a three episode arc on Friends season two as Chandler's crazy roommate Eddie. He also appeared some years later in a nine episode arc in season two of the spinoff show Joey as Joey's best friend from high school Jimmy, the father of Michael Tribbiani.
He also appeared in the short-lived ensemble cop show The Unusuals, where he plays a detective in New York City with brain cancer, but refuses treatment because of his dislike of doctors. His character is stated as being "sarcastic" and Goldberg has been described as "one of the better reasons to watch".[9] He subsequently appeared in the short-lived ensemble cop show NYC 22.
He plays in a group named LANDy. LANDy's debut album, "Eros and Omissions" was released on June 23, 2009. The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd, with whom Goldberg collaborated on the score for his 2005 film "I Love Your Work," performed on the record. Earlimart's Aaron Espinoza is credited as having done the final mix as well as having engineered many of the more recent songs.[10]
On June 7, 2011, Goldberg performed as lead singer with his group The Goldberg Sisters, performing "Shush" on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.


text: Simon Geard wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 14:32 -0700, Jason Erickson wrote: >> For the book, it could be 6.4.X where X is the latest version of the >> 6.4 book. Only changes made would be spelling, grammar, and FTP >> locations. > > Makes sense to me... any time you have something that would require an > errata page, just change the text instead, and bump the patch level to > 6.4.x+1... Creating even a minor release is quite a bit more work than that. New directories have to be made and populated, tarballs created, websites updated, etc. I'd estimate it to be about a full day's work. I try to automate as much as I can, but there's still a lot of manual work to do. If you want the latest packages, then use -dev. It's always helpful to actually read the book: vii. Errata To check whether the package versions or instructions in this release of LFS need any modifications to accommodate security vulnerabilities or other bug fixes, please visit http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/errata/6.4/ before proceeding with your build. 3.1. Introduction Download locations may not always be accessible. If a download location has changed since this book was published, Google (http://www.google.com/) provides a useful search engine for most packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the alternative means of downloading discussed at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/packages.html#packages. -- Bruce


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Right now, Spriggs says, he knows of no other prison-transportation service operating out of South Florida. A few other companies have started and fizzled, usually in less than a year. "People don't realize what the cost involved is," Spriggs opines. "A van is around $30,000. It costs $5800 a year for a commercial insurance policy. Wear and tear on the van. An 800 number. We mail out about fifteen information packets a week A a letter, train schedule, our business card, a flyer. A lot of these people just get into it over the weekend, and that doesn't usually work too good."
Dennis and Beverly Spriggs put in long hours advertising their service. About every three or four months, Dennis spends a few weekdays swinging by as many prisons as he can, handing out information packets, including a poster with the Prison Connection's 800 phone number, for display on inmate bulletin boards. Sometimes the officials just throw the materials away. The Spriggses also must contend with outdated flyers from long-dead companies with disconnected phone numbers, which the administrators neglect or refuse to rip down. Right now he and Beverly are trying to get a list of all 56,000 inmates in the state Department of Corrections system so they can mail each one a notice about their service. "You gotta let them know," Spriggs notes. "Then they're gonna tell their families about us and get them to call. A lot of people have no idea something like this exists."
Visiting days are the only times a lot of the female inmates get to see their small children, and George says the scene at Jefferson at day's end is usually an unhappy one. "It's really sad to see little kids crying and holding on to their mothers when they have to leave, while the grandparents are trying to pull them away," he says. For George and his wife, though, parting has lost some of the deep despair of past months. Things are better on the inside, too. After a year of rising at 4:00 a.m. to spend eight hours a day tossing wet laundry into dryers, Nancy has been assigned a new job in the law library, where she writes legal briefs.
George says that because she is older than most of the other inmates (Department of Corrections figures reveal the predominant inmate age group is from 30 to 34), his wife has the advantage of being left alone by the "cliques" that control most social aspects of prison life, right down to what TV programs are watched. "She says they fight over everything," he confides. "The littlest things. But she stays out of it, and they don't bother her." He has made plans to drive back up on Christmas Eve, spend the night in a motel and Christmas at the prison.
"I don't think she ever thought she'd be here much past her first Christmas," George reflects. "Now this is the third, and she's thinking in terms of how many more she has to go." Their son will celebrate the holiday at home with friends.
Pearlie and Janet are in good spirits when Spriggs comes to pick them up at Madison, and Michelle says she had a really good visit with Charles. She will be spending Christmas with her mother, however, who lives in Belle Glade. Though she knows it's highly unlikely, Pearlie speaks about the possibility that Otis will be released in time for Christmas. "We talked about how much I love him, how much I miss him," she says with a beatific smile. "Doin' things together, cookin' together -- this time of year, we be in the kitchen cooking together."
Pearlie met Otis, a friend of her brother's, about four years ago. At the time he was on parole, she won't say for what, and had given up a religious ministry. "He was a pastor and a healer," Pearlie says, "but he got scared. He really didn't have anybody standing beside him." That's the way she explains it. After they'd been married a year, Otis "got caught with a pistol" and was sent to prison. She's been visiting regularly since then. During that time, Otis has sought to repair his relationship with the Lord, and Pearlie has experienced a spiritual awakening. Pearlie says she's never been religious, and it was only after her husband was sent away that she sought something to help her serve the sentence that his imprisonment had imposed on her.
"I got tired of living out here in this world," she explains, lifting her hands, palms up, then pointing a finger. "I used to drink beer and such. See, the Devil is tricky." She found help, she remembers, during a revival in Fort Lauderdale held by the pastor of the church she attended years ago in her hometown of Lake City, South Carolina. "I got saved," Pearlie notes. "And [Otis] knew when I did. He called me that night and he said, 'The Spirit told me where you got saved.'
"But I haven't went to the river," she adds, meaning a real baptism, the ritual immersion in water to symbolize the washing away of sins. "When he comes home, we're both going to do that together. We'll go to South Carolina." And when they come back, Otis wants to return to the ministry. In the meantime, Pearlie is learning to be patient. "As God is my witness, I can count the number of men I've had since then A zero. Because he is my husband and I love him. If you know you love that person, if you know there's a scar in your heart for that person, it don't make sense to run out and have another person. And that's the way that ball bounce."


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I noticed the rear shock absorbers were bad today when i was cleaning the bike. the shock compresses easily, with almost no force at all, but then it takes a lot of force to pull it back out again. they obviously need to be replaced. you can tell they are bad when you go around corners and the rear wheel feels like it dosent have a firm contact with the road.
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Time LyricsArtist: The Incredible String BandAlbum: U as best you can Come follow me, my measured dance Come see my circus, come dice with chance Now you are come beneath my sway Who once was as the daylight gay Here's rights and wrongs and reasons why A time to live A time to die I was your slave, now you are mine I am Time, I am Time. Experience will teach you what you may and what you may not do I'll teach you to forget the truths you always knew See what might be, See what might have been Though you yourself created me, Your own mistake has set me free I was your slave, now you are mine I am Time, I am Time.
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Bridgestone completed a three-day test at the Jerez circuit in Spain last week. While the opening two days permitted the teams in attendance to gain further knowledge of the medium compound dry grooved tyre, the final rainy day, allowed the teams to run with 2007s wet and extreme wet tyres.
With a further three group tests before the season opener in Australia on March 18, Kees van de Grint, Bridgestone Motorsports head of track engineering operations, discusses progress to date
Q: Are the new specification tyres of a harder compound than last season? How does this affect the teams and drivers?
KvdG: A target of the development of the new compounds is to make the tyre easier to drive. We have changed the working range of the tyre to make the temperature range in which the tyre operates wider. The overall grip level is lower, but the temperature dependency of the grip is far wider and not so extreme, which means improved driveability.
Q: What does the wider operating window of the 2007 specification mean for teams and drivers?
KvdG: We believe it is easier to drive and this has been seen in the testing we have had where the teams have been able to go out when it is not much above 0 degrees Celsius and then up to 25 degrees Celsius with the same tyre. Warm up has become less of an issue. Over the course of a season there is a lot of variation of temperature and of track surface and the wider operating window we have accounts for this. We have tested at different circuits and on different types of tarmac and have had good feedback from all of them.
Q: Can you clarify how the decision is made for which two tyre compounds are taken to each Grand Prix?
KvdG: We already have a plan of our expected tyre compound allocation for the season which is based on our estimates of wear life, graining level, and the blister level of the compounds. Whilst the outline allocation is decided, we are still conducting the winter tests which give us validation of our estimates and after these are completed we will make our final decisions. So far though we are happy and confident with what we have seen related to our estimates.
Q: What were the aims of the week's test and which tyres were tested at Jerez?
KvdG: We used the medium, wet and extreme wets here. This is our third winter test at Jerez so we have already confirmed that the tyre works well in these conditions. It is more of an opportunity for the teams to get further data and become more confident with their chassis. There has been some tyre degradation of course, but at the moment the teams are still studying how to run with the new tyres and how to make the best use of their characteristics. Of course the difference this year is that it is the teams who have to adapt to the tyres whereas in previous years we have provided teams with tyres to suit each of them and each circuit.
Q: The final day at Jerez featured a wet circuit, which tyres were used on this and what did you learn?
KvdG: On Thursday we ran with the wet and extreme wet weather tyres. The operating window of both tyres was very similar to our expectations, their performance has been good and they provide a good base for teams to work with when they face variable conditions.
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Keep all appointments with your doctor and the laboratory. Your doctor will order certain lab tests to check your response to lithium.
Lithium is used to treat and prevent episodes of mania (frenzied, abnormally excited mood) in people with bipolar disorder (manic-depressive disorder; a disease that causes episodes of depression, episodes of mania, and other abnormal moods). Lithium is in a class of medications called antimanic agents. It works by decreasing abnormal activity in the brain.
Lithium comes as a tablet, capsule, extended-release (long-acting) tablet, and solution (liquid) to take by mouth. The tablets, capsules, and solution are usually taken three to four times a day. The extended-release tablets are usually taken two to three times a day. Take lithium at around the same times every day. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Take lithium exactly as directed. Do not take more or less of it or take it more often than prescribed by your doctor.
Swallow the extended-release tablet whole; do not split, chew, or crush it.
Your doctor may increase or decrease the dose of your medication during your treatment. Follow these directions carefully.
Lithium may help to control your condition but will not cure it. It may take 1 to 3 weeks or longer for you to feel the full benefit of lithium. Continue to take lithium even if you feel well. Do not stop taking lithium without talking to your doctor.
Lithium is also sometimes used to treat depression, schizophrenia (a mental illness that causes disturbed or unusual thinking, loss of interest in life, and strong or inappropriate emotions), disorders of impulse control (inability to resist the urge to perform a harmful action), and certain mental illnesses in children. Talk to your doctor about the risks of using this medication for your condition.
This medication may be prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
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It is important to follow a proper diet, including the right amounts of fluid and salt during your treatment. Your doctor will give you specific directions about the diet that is right for you. Follow these directions carefully.
Talk to your doctor about drinking drinks that contain caffeine, such as tea, coffee, cola, or chocolate milk.
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember it. However, if it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and continue your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one.
Lithium may cause side effects. Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms are severe or do not go away:
Some side effects may be serious. If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately or get emergency medical help:
If you experience any of the following symptoms, stop taking lithium and call your doctor immediately:
Lithium may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you experience any unusual symptoms while you are taking this medication.
If you experience a serious side effect, you or your doctor may send a report to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program online [at Web Site] or by phone [1-800-332-1088].
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DH: Well, to be completely honest, me and my mother talked right before the draft and she told me to go into the draft with a clear mind, to expect anything because we serve a big God, a God that answers prayers and does anything that you ask if you're doing it in his name. And that's what I did: I prayed before the draft. I said 'God, put me in a position where I can be successful. Put me in a position where I can help a team and go to a team that's going to win games and hopefully play for a long time.'
Q: How would you describe what the past few hours have been like for you?
DH: To tell you the truth, they've been very exciting. I've had a great feeling about today. I just have been excited. I was there just sitting with my mother, my little sister and two of my closest friends and we're here just sitting there, watching this draft, not with any expectations and watching it somewhat as a fan and just enjoying the moment. This day has really been a great day.
Q: So you didn't necessarily have any expectations, so were you prepared to potentially go undrafted?
DH: I was prepared for anything. If undrafted was the case, then so be it. I know that, like I said, I serve a big God, a God that's always taking care of me, always done the things that I've needed to be done for myself. I had no worries about this situation. If I was going undrafted, I had enough confidence in my abilities to where I knew that I could still be able to make a team and help a team win some games.
Q: You said that you were watching the draft from home. Did you kind of laugh when you saw that they didn't have any video on you?
DH: Yeah, I did. My mother, she was very excited. She was like 'Oh my baby. Where's your clips at?' I was like, 'Mommy, I don't think they knew I was going today, so I don't think they had any clips ready for me.' She was a little upset about me not having clips, but I think me getting drafted just overtook her sadness about my clips.
Q: Why do you think that was the case that you flew so far under the radar?
DH: To tell you the truth, I don't know. I just play with great players. You have
Q: What do you think they saw in you?
DH: To tell you the truth I think they saw a great character person who plays hard and who is versatile. I think I do a lot of things that they like. I'm not just an in-the-box safety and I'm not just a free safety; I can play both positions, and I've shown that over the years at Rutgers.
Q: Will it make a difference to you or even your mother that you know quite a few players on the team?
DH: I don't know how much she's looking into that. I know she was very excited that I'll get to be playing with Logan, because our families are pretty close. They sat by each other at the games, so just the idea that she'll know a couple of people I play with, I think she is probably excited about that. And then we have
Q: Have you talked to Justin Francis or Devin McCourty since you got drafted?
DH: Actually, yeah, I talked to Devin. It's crazy because I saw the 508 number calling me and I didn't get to answer it. I called back thinking it was the Patriots. I called back and he was like, 'Duron?' and I said 'Yes, sir, this is Duron.' He said, 'This is Devin, man. Don't answer the phone like that. This isn't anybody from the Patriots office.' It was kind of exciting talking to him. He said he's very eager to get me up there. He's very eager to teach me what he knows, help me with the defense, basically just eager to play with me again. I talked to Justin Francis not too long ago. He just told me he is excited for me and he told me that it's a place where they work. There's no time for games – it's a place where they work. The ultimate goal for them is to win Super Bowls, it's not to win games, it's to win Super Bowls. I talked to Logan [Ryan] and he was just excited that he and I get to play together again and we get to start our rookie years off together.
Q: What are your thoughts on playing for Coach Belichick?
DH: I'm very excited. You just look at his track record – he is a winner and he knows how to win. I'm excited to play for somebody like that. He's proven he has the philosophy, the mindset to win games. Just to come into the NFL and be lucky enough to play for a coach like that is just unbelievable. A lot of people do not get that chance. He's a hall of fame coach and I'm just excited to not only play for him but to soak up all the knowledge that he gives to all of his players.
Q: What is your mom's name?
DH: Dawn Harmon.
Q: Did the Patriots appear to have more interest in you than other teams?
DH: I think I picked up quite a bit of interest over the last couple of weeks. I definitely knew the Patriots were interested; I didn't know how interested. I didn't really know how interested anybody was. I knew they liked my film; they liked the way I worked out so I knew anything was possible.
Q: Why do you think there are so many Rutgers players that come to the Patriots and play well?
DH: To tell you the truth, I think it all has to start with [former Rutgers] Coach Greg Schiano. He's instilled in his players a great football mindset. We know how to prepare for games. We prepare like professionals at Rutgers University – that's something that he's instilled in all of us. I think a lot of players when they get to the NFL, they don't know how to watch film, they don't know how to practice, they don't know how to do the certain things that you have to do to be a great football player. I think Coach Schiano instilled that in us and I think Coach Belichick saw those characteristics from Rutgers football players. He knows what he's going to get from the Rutgers football players. I think he has gotten that consistently over the years. I think that's why he has seriously taken great looks at Rutgers football players.
Q: How well do you know Steve Belichick and how do you feel about working with him again?
DH: We had a great relationship. Steve, you could tell was a smart man, just the way that he was on the field, the way he understood football. He was somebody who would, when I would come to the sideline, he would tell me what maybe I didn't see out there that he did see and give me different types of tips. I think it will be great to work with him again. He was a great person and I'm just excited to get back to work with him.


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I have the 07 Access Cab (non prerunner) with stock 15" wheels and 70 series tires. I thought I'd be fine with that but they just look too small on the truck.
An option they offered me at the dealership was a 16" alloy wheel with 75 series tires.
This didn't make any since to me without changes to the transmission and PROMM. Anyone done this or know wha this would entail?


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The show Capital Account started airing last week and pretty much every episode they give the libertarian view on a certain topic.
Very first guest was Michael Pento saying end the Fed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrtyvYNx8Pw
Had Lew Rockwell (who doesn't appear on TV a lot) talking about inflation & MIC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szfQlyWa1vM
and today Jim Grant was exposing the Fed and the host had the good sense to ask about how interest rates were set before the Fed, and the host played a quick clip of Ron Paul, and copied one of Ron Paul's talking points that money is one half of every transaction. Check it out - here's today's full show w/ Jim Grant:
This is a very, very strong start for the show. I'm not sure the host herself is libertarian but she gives us major respect


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Los Angeles, CA - The world first mammogram machine featuring celebrity hands has been authorized for testing in a Beverly Hill Hospital. The prototype, known as the Richard Gere 1, is actually autographed by the famous actor and has breast supports that are prosthetic hands cast directly from Richard Gere's hands.
"I was all to happy to allow the use of my hands to make this an easier more enjoyable process for women. I'm particularly proud that they can have heat turned on to warm them up," said Gere in an interview.Gere has recruited several other celebrities to have their hands used for this non-profit project, including Harrison Ford, George Clooney, Dennis Rodman, Elvis Presley,David Letterman and even President Barrack Obama.
"This is such a good cause, it is good to know that so many good men are willing to give a hand," said Michelle Obama giving Barrack a kiss on the cheek,"I've personally tried the Elvis Presley version and I have to admit...I left all shook up," she said with a coy smile.


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Pocket God Ooga Jump: episode 1
Hey Guys, long time no chat.
We have been hard at work on multiple things over the last year including getting rid of a lot of distractions that have been sucking the productivity away from us for a while now. I will be doing some posts in the next week on our blog about what's been happening including the status on The Runs and what we are looking toward in the future. So, Ooga Jump. This game came out of the fact that the Runs was just taking too long for us to finish in a reasonable amount of time so we needed to find a project we could finish in 2 months. 8 months later Ooga Jump was born. It's funny, I've always tried to warn other developers about being too ambitious with their projects because thats the easiest way to ensure you never finish it. Over ambition hit us with the Runs and it also hit us with Ooga Jump. Don't get me wrong, Ooga Jump is a fun game, the graphics are stunning and we are incredibly proud of it. It's just that when we set out to make Ooga Jump we wanted to take the jumping game from Pocket God and transform it into a solid stand-alone game. Upgrade the game play, add a lot more variety, add customizations and add a good meta game (collectibles, objectives, etc). We ended up trying to make the most epic jumping game that anyone has every seen. lol, which might not match what most people think about jumping games. The game has a ton of animations, funny sacrifices (the ghost power-up actually sacrifices the pygmy before the game starts and each sacrifice is custom to the pygmy you are playing). We decided to make the graphics 100% retina with no compression because we thought that would make the game look amazing. It looks amazing but the app is big for a jumper. Eli actually warned me about this, and so far people are giving feedback about the game being too big for a jumper. We will be fixing this in one of the next updates. I am planning on doing weekly or bi weekly updates to tune the game and this will be one of our higher priority fixes. If you have a non retina device one of the next updates will be a lot smaller than it is now. About the game play. We didn't make a clone of any jumping games that are available now. We really wanted this to stand on it's own and have some mechanics that are special. At the same time, we didn't want to make the game unrecognizable to people who like jumpers. We had a ton of different prototypes early on where we experimented with slowing time down matrix style, where we gave the pygmy different types of weapons that gave him special abilities when you tap the screen. What we settled on was Slam Bouncing like Mario Brothers. when you tap the screen you slam down hard on the platform below you and jump 50% higher. If there is something breakable below you like a player sign or a gem crystal, you smash it and collect gems. It's actually pretty fun and satisfying. It gives the game a much more arcady feel. We also added some unique obstacles to the game. We added wind sections which feel pretty good. since its a tilt game it really feels like you have to lean into the wind in order to not fall off the platforms. We added a monkey that copies your every move and if you jump on the same platform twice he rips your face off. A dodo drops turds on you as you are climbing. There is an ant section where you have to tilt a magnifying glass to burn their ant fill before you can pass. We really tried to experiment with things we thought would be cool that we haven't really seen in this type of game. Another thing that Ooga Jump has is some pretty awesome game center integration. We post signposts in the middle of the game that show your friends image and name and you can smash them for gems. We also have a cool high score challenge mode that is integrated into the game that we plan on expanding in the future. and all this is integrated into the game. you don't have to open a game center panel to get to it. So I hope you guys give the game a chance. If anything I hope we've proven with Pocket God that we support our games and respond to issues that people have. Right now, this is the only game on our plate. We cleared off all our other projects and this is what we are working on. We will probably start thinking about what our next game will be between now and the end of the year, but as of now our plan is to add content to Ooga Jump. We want to expand the challenge mode to add things like betting gems with your friends. We have a long list of themes and customizations that are coming. New game modes, like a nightmare difficulty mode. We have a huge list of objectives that we will be adding to with each update. Youtube link | Pop Up Last edited by davecazz; 11-04-2013 at 06:23 PM.. |
Yay! Can't wait!
With all this talk about size (which apparently does matter it's weird that no one has pointed out that one of the reasons is big is bc it's Universal. No need to buy a separate game for your iPad. (And needing to do game progress, purchases and the like twice.) Would you really rather pay twice for the same game then it takin up more space? |
Okay, I was one of the first TAers to jump on the Pocket God bandwagon and this is a big reason why: you guys at Bolt care. The op made me feel like crap cause I hadn't considered buying the game yet thanks Dave... Seriously thanks for taking the time to come here and let us in on the game and your plans. I can't wait to buy it and play it!
Why has the other thread been closed when that was the original one? Normally they get combined together.
Anyway I'll probably give this a try tonight, the amount of time I spent with pocket god I feel bolt deserve a little more money from me. Edit: nvm it's probably mods I'm noticing a few posts going missing tonight, |
Davecazz! It's been so long! It's the ol' beta tester Failboat here! Glad to see Ooga Jump finally becoming a thing! Can't wait to see how it fleshes out
I'm in the UK so under 2 hours wait for me now, I'm definitely interested in trying this. I've never been a fan of jump games but this sounds good to me and I had pocket god from the beginning so I do know you guys support your games which I love to see.
As for the file size, space on my phone is precious to me generally I have to remove games to put new games on as I have that many but if I enjoy a game I don't care about the size for eg Infinity Blade. The game sounds different to me than other jumpers by having more to it and more coming so I wouldn't compare them as I'd rather see great graphics and lots of updates than none of those and a tiny file size. |
hey failboat how are you? I'm definitely going to be burning the midnight oil over the next few weeks getting updates out. feels like the old days.
Downloading now.
Long time no see.
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Volpino Italiano
Sponsored Links:A Volpino Italiano is a white, spitz-type breed of dog originally from Italy. Spitz-type dogs were found throughout the ancient world. Specimens from this group have been found preserved in European peat bogs which anthropologists trace to 4000 BC. The remains—with curly tails, foxy heads, and small erect ears—have been found dating back over 5,000 years. These little pets wore decorative ivory bracelets and collars. Engravings of similar dogs were found in Greece, and these have been determined to date to about 400 BC.
The Volpino has been known and loved by Italian royalty for centuries, being a special favorite of the ladies. Although bearing a strong resemblance to the Pomeranian, the breed is much older and thus has a different background. The northern dogs found their way south very early in the history of domesticated dogs. The Italian word for wolf is lupo, and the Keeshond is called both Lupino and Volpino in Italian. Volpe is Italian for "fox", hence volpino means little fox in Italian. Despite his long history, the Volpino is unknown outside of Italy and is now quite rare even in his homeland.
Despite its small size, this dog was originally kept as a guard dog. Its job was to alert the large mastiffs to an intruder. However, due to their lovely temperament and intelligence they also became popular as pets. For unknown reasons the breed's popularity dropped and in 1965 the last dogs were registered.
In 1984 an attempt was made to revive the breed. The dogs still living as guard dogs on farms became the new breeding stock. Volpinos remain rare with about 2000 dogs world wide. Most are in Italy but some people are now breeding them in Scandinavia, the UK and the USA. A 2006 survey of kennel clubs found an average of 120 puppies registered each year in Italy (with ENCI) and a total of 200-300 registered each in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Fewer than one dozen were registered in the USA with UKC and CKC.
What is the Volpino Italiano? This dog is a type of Spitz in its morphology and character, maximum height 30 cm (11 to 12 inches), unicolor white or red. Its coat has long, straight, glassy, raised hair which wraps around the dog like a muff. It broke away from the common stock of the other European Spitz dogs and has spread throughout Italy since ancient times. It was taken into lordly houses, The Volpino was loved by palace lords as well as farms and plebeian quarters, especially in Tuscany and Lazio. For unexplainable reasons, the numbers of this population declined continuously until it came near extinction.
In 1965 the last five subjects were registered in the Breed Book. Then it disappeared until 1984 when the ENCI launched a recovery project for Italian breeds. Then, precisely those dogs that had survived on rural farms, being used to rouse the more powerful watchdogs, were the new progenitors of the modern day selective lines.
Today the situation is continuously improving, even though the red variety seems be very rare. It has a reactive temperament, morbidly attached to the family, wary of strangers, it has a strong watchdog instinct. Robust and lively, this dog is long-lived.
The exact origin of the Volpino Italiano is not known, although this breed resembles the Italian Pomeranian which it is impossible for this breed to have descended from the Pomeranian because it is a much older breed. This breed in Italy was the choice pet of the women of Italy. The Volpino Italiano was adorned with bracelets and collars, made of ivory as a symbol of the owner's love.
The Volpino Italiano was the most popular breed for Italian royalty centuries. Specimens from this group have been found preserved in European peat bogs which anthropologists trace to 4000 BC. The remains with curly tails, foxy heads and small erect ears have been found, dating back over 5,000 years. Despite the Volpino Italiano's popularity in the past, today the breed is not known outside of Italy and even there it remains in small numbers. Engravings of similar dogs were found in Greece, and these have been determined to date about 400 BC.
BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMARY – He is one of the descendants of the European Spitz which already existed in the central region of our continent since the bronze age and of which skeleton fossils have been discovered around the foundation piles of the lake dwellings. So the Volpino goes back to the same ancestors as the German Spitz of which he is not a descendant, but a relative. He has been bred in Italy since immemorial times and has been idolized in the palaces of the noblemen as well as in the hovels of the common people, where he was especially appreciated because of his instinct of guarding and vigilance.
He was the dog of Michelangelo, and, in the 18th century, the tireless companion of the carters of Tuscany and Latium, always ready to announce noisily any strange persons met on the roads. The Italian word for wolf is lupo, and the Keeshond is called both Lupino and Volpino in Italian, so Volpino may be an old term for wolfdog or wolf spitz, (small fox).
GENERAL APPEARANCE – Small size Spitz, very compact, harmonious, with a long stand-off coat.
IMPORTANT PROPORTIONS – Built into a square, length of head reaches nearly the 4/10th of that of the body.
BEHAVIOUR AND TEMPERAMENT – Very attached to his environment and his family, of a very distinct temperament, lively, happy and playful.
HEAD – Pyramid shape, length reaching almost 1/4 the height at the withers.
SKULL REGION – Longer than the muzzle (6,5:5), its biogenetic width is more than half the length of the head (7,3:11,5); is slightly ovoid (egg-shaped) as much in longitudinal as transversal direction; medio-frontal furrow very slightly marked; occipital protuberance slightly marked. The superior axes of the skull and muzzle are slightly convergent. The bony protuberance of the forehead, well developed, come down almost perpendicular onto the onset of the muzzle.
Stop – Rather accentuated.
FACIAL REGION – Nose – Wet, cool, with well opened nostrils. Set in the same line as the top line of the foreface and does not protrude beyond the front line of the lips. Its color is always black, as well in subjects with white coats as in those with red coats. Muzzle – Of inferior length to that of the skull with lateral surfaces convergent, is pointed. The foreface is straight. The lower edge of the muzzle is determined by the lower jaw. Lips – From the front, the upper lips, by their lower edge, draw a straight line. The mucous of the labial commissar is not visible, so the lips are very short. The edges of the lips are black. Jaws – Apparently not very strong, normally developed and meeting perfectly level on front.
The branches of the lower jaw are straight. Teeth – White, regular in alignment, complete and perfectly developed. Scissor bite, pincer bite tolerated. Eyes – Well opened and of normal size, denoting vigilance and vivaciousness. Roundish eye aperture, set in plans forming a very open angle towards the rear; eyelids fitting perfectly the shape of the eyeball. Color of the iris is dark ochre, the rims of the lids are black. Ears – Short, triangular shape, pricked, with a rigid cartilage and the inner surface of the lobe showing forward. High set, close together. The length of the ears reaches almost half the length of the head.
NECK – Its length is almost equal to that of the head. Always carried upright. Skin closely fitting.
BODY – Square built, its length measured from the point of the shoulder to that of the buttock is equal to the height at the withers. Top line – Dorsal line straight. Over the loins slightly convex. Withers – Slightly raised from dorsal line. Chest – Descending to level of elbows; ribs well sprung. Sternal region is long. Rump – Extends the line of the loin. Obliqueness from the hip to base of the tail is of 10ƒ below the horizontal. Underline – From sternum to belly rising only slightly. The hollow of the flanks is slightly accentuated. Tail – Set in the prolongation of the rump, carried permanently curled over the back. Its length is a little less than the height at the withers.
FOREQUARTERS – Considered on the whole parallel to each other and, in relation to the median plane of the body, perfectly straight. Shoulders – Their length is equal to 1/4 of the height at the withers and their obliqueness below the horizontal is of 60ƒ. Upper arm – Longer than the shoulder and its obliqueness below the horizontal is of 60ƒ. Is approximately parallel to the median plane of the body. Forearm – Continuing the vertical line, finely boned. Its length, from ground to elbow, is slightly more than half the height at the withers. Elbows – Parallel to the median plane of the body. Carpus and metacarpus – Seen from the front, they continue the vertical line of the forearm. Seen in profile, the pasterns are sloping. Forefoot – Oval shaped with closely-knit toes. The pads and the nails are black.
HINDQUARTERS – Seen on the whole and from behind, they must follow a perfectly vertical line from the point of the buttock to the ground. They are parallel to each other. Thigh – Its length is equal to 1/3 of the height at withers. Perfectly parallel to the median plane of the body. Leg – Its length is a little less than that of the thigh. Of a light bone structure and its obliqueness below the horizontal is of 55ƒ to 60ƒ. Hock join – Distance between the point of the hock and the ground is slightly more than 1/4 of the height at the withers. Metatarsal – Vertical and perfectly straight seen as much in profile as from behind. Hind foot – Oval like the forefoot with all the same characteristics as this latter.
GAIT AND MOVEMENT – Must not be jumpy either at the trot or gallop. At all gaits, the strides are free.
SKIN – Well applied and taut, without looseness in any region.
COAT – Nature of the hair – Hair bushy, very long and exceptionally standing-off. Of harsh texture with straight stiff hairs; must never be falling; must be upstanding even when there is not a lot of coat. The body gives the impression of being wrapped up in a muffle, particularly on the neck where the coat forms an abundant collar. The skull is covered with semi-long hairs which hide the base of the ears. Hairs are short on the muzzle. On the ears, the hair is very fine and smooth. The tail is covered with very long hair. On the edges of the hindquarters, the coat forms fringes. Color of coat – a) all-white b) all-red c) champagne, color accepted but not desirable. Pale orange shades on the ears are tolerated, but in any case constitute an imperfection.
SIZE AND WEIGHT – Size at the withers – 11 to 12″ for males, 9 to 10″ for females. Females 9 to 10 lbs. Males 10 to 12 lbs.
FAULTS – Any departure from the foregoing points constitutes a fault which when judging must be penalized according to its seriousness and extension.
ELIMINATING FAULTS – Color of nose other than black; wall eye; convex top line of the muzzle; tail tucked in between hind legs; size over, by 3 cm, the limits indicated by the standard, floppy ears.
COLORS – White, Fawn or Honey, Black, Red, Champagne
OTHER NAMES – Cane de Quirinale
DISQUALIFYING FAULTS – Overshot mouth; divergence of cranial-facial axes; total de-pigmentation of nose or eyelid rims; ears completely drooping; lack of tail whether congenital or acquired; all colors other than white, not desirable red on champagne; red markings on white background, white or black markings on red background.


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Final Fantasy Legend III
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Final Fantasy Legend III | |
時空の覇者 Sa・Ga3 [完結編] Jikuu no Hasha: Sa·Ga 3 [Kanketsu Hen] | |
Developers | Square |
Publishers | Square Sunsoft (1998 rerelease) |
Release dates | December 13, 1991 / September 29, 1993 Re-released by Sunsoft in 1998 |
Genre | Role-Playing Game |
Game modes | Single player |
Ratings | N/A |
Platforms | Game Boy |
Final Fantasy Legend III, originally released as Jikuu no Hasha: Sa・Ga 3 [Kanketsu Hen] (時空の覇者 Sa・Ga3 [完結編], lit. The Ruler of Time and Space ~ SaGa3 [Final Chapter]) in Japan, was the third in the SaGa series released for the original Nintendo Game Boy. Like its two predecessors, the English version was re-branded as a Final Fantasy title due to the series' popularity in the Western territories.
A remake of the game known as SaGa 3 Jikū no Hasha: Shadow or Light was released for the Nintendo DS.
The Pureland Water Entity appeared and flooded this world's present, past and future. The water brought monsters, which hunted people day and night. Cities fell one by one, covered by the sea... However, a few individuals prepare for a journey that may determine the fate of the world. Behold: the sealed city Dharm. Here three young people sent back as children from the ruins of the future, are living with the Elder. He has reared them together with his own granddaughter.
- —Intro
Original WorldEdit
In the future, the world is being destroyed by the Pureland water entity, and a band of rebels has gathered to avert this disaster. Their leader, Borgin, has sent three children back in time to the present in the hopes of improving the rebels' chances against their foes.
The game begins in the present with Arthur, Curtis, Gloria, and Myron all engaged in a fight using the Battle Simulator, a huge device which simulates actual battles (including the spoils earned from them) with less risk than real battles. After the battle is over, Myron leaves and the remaining three go and talk with the Elder of Dharm about their mission, which for the time being is to travel to the town of Elan and talk to Cronos about the Talon Units. Units are devices that are installed into the futuristic fighter called the Talon, which can travel to the Past, Present, and Future, once the proper units have been found and installed. The first key item Arthur received is the Radar, which detects the number of units that remain uncollected in the current time period. While talking to Elder in the Palace, the party is joined by Sharon and Myron. Upon reaching Elan, Cronos gives Arthur the Past unit, allowing the party to travel into the past. On the way back to the Palace where the Talon is held, the party is attacked by a WaterHag guarding the entrance to the Palace. Working for the Masters. Before boarding the Talon, Myron leaves the party to go defend Dharm. The Past unit is then attached, and the party is off to the past.
In the past, the party encounters the younger, though not visually different, Elder, who is looking for a place to build a town. Arthur recommends to build one east of the Palace, and the Elder agrees and decides to name the town Dharm. The party then travels to Elan, and they find the young Cronos who informs them that Granny went to a cave to rescue a young woman named Lara. Naturally, it is now Arthur's duty to go to the cave and rescue both of them. Granny is found not that far into the cave, and she tells Arthur that Lara was taken by Dogra, and she leaves the rescue up to him. When the party encounters Lara, she's being controlled by Dogra and attacks them. After defeating her, she regains control of her body and joins the party. Deeper in the cave lies Dogra, who mistakes Arthur for Borgin and attacks. After Dogra is killed, it leaves behind the Rover unit, which is an engine type for the Talon, allowing it to move along the land (once it is freed from the Palace). Upon returning to Elan, Granny instructs Arthur to return to the Present and bring Lara to the Elder. She also gives Arthur the Dive spell, which will allow him to dive under the oceans and explore further places. In the past there is also a town, Lae, where people are being infected with a disease that is slowly turning them into WaterHags. One of the diseased people will give Arthur the Flushex unit, which, when installed into the Talon, will allow the player to reset any character's class to the default. A second town, under the ocean, can be visited and also holds the Ifram seed key item.
Back in the Present, Arthur takes Lara to the Elder, who will keep watch on her. He then tells Arthur that Cronos (in the Present) has found something. In Elan, Cronos tells Arthur that he has found out where the Future unit is located. Suddenly, the ground starts shaking and somebody runs in saying that something is happening in Lae's Bay. Cronos and Arthur go outside and find a structure rising from the water, and Cronos tells Arthur that one of the four Water Entity monsters, possibly either Chaos or Maitreya, is behind this. They both return to Elan and Cronos gives the player a copy of the key to the South Tower. At the top of South Tower, the party runs into Ashura, and Arthur demands that it return the units. Ashura, however, had already moved them to Castle of Chaos, and a battle ensues. Upon defeating Ashura, Arthur receives the key to Castle of Chaos. At the top of the castle the party encounters Chaos, and they fight and defeat him. After defeating Chaos, Arthur receives the Future and Hover units. The Hover unit is another engine unit for the Talon. Arthur than warps to the Future.
Fifteen years have passed. The future is a world mostly of water, with a few islands remaining. Arthur first travels to Elan and finds Granny now on her death bed. She gives Arthur the Morph magic (which is essential later in the game, and very easy to miss receiving) and tells him to travel to the mutated city of Muu. Dharm has sunken bellow the water and a new town has been founded named New Dharm, told by the Ifram Tree where it is hidden below a cemetery. Elan, however, is unaffected. At a base in New Dharm, the party runs back into Myron, who has aged and become an even more accomplished fighter. He tells Arthur the password for the base in the technological Viper City, "ERAUQS" ("SQUARE" backwards). At the base in Viper, the party joins up with Dion, who has grown and urges Arthur to defeat Maitreya. He also mentions going to see Dr. Pulcer in an Undersea Shelter. When Arthur meets Dr. Pulcer, he tells him of the plan to get to the floating island known as Floatland. After using the Rocket to get to Floatland, Arthur journeys along the mountains and valleys atop it. Along the way the party comes across the Northern Ruins, and inside they find the Remote key item. Past the ruins is a huge mountain, atop which is Maitreya's Tower. Partway to the top of the tower, a monster will block the path, and Arthur will tackle it, falling down a floor and becoming separated from Dion. Dion then finds a hidden door and confronts Maitreya by himself, but is defeated. Arthur then rushes in to find Dion wounded, and attacks Maitreya. After defeating Maitreya, Arthur receives the X-Plane unit and takes Dion back to the base of the mountain, where Arthur calls Dr. Pulcer on the Radio. Dr. Pulcer destroys the Palace, freeing the Talon for use. Calling the Talon with the Remote and after boarding the Talon, Arthur takes Dion back to Viper City to get Dr. Belski to help him. Dr. Belski restore Dion, rejoins the party, and they head off to the Pureland aboard the Talon.
The Talon warps to the Pureland, and the Talon gets damaged and it can no longer return back to the Original World. Its engine units cease to function, limiting it to land movement. Dion and Arthur disembark and agree to separate and search for the advance party and Faye. The Talon can now be boarded and will attack first and only once in each battle. Arthur come upon Eitar's Village roaming with BlackCat monsters with the villagers having been turned to stone. He learns from Eitar that Fenrir is located in the North Maze, and before leaving the village Arthur grabs the Catnip growing on a tree in the back of the village. Arthur uses the Catnip to lull all of the BlackCat monsters, allowing the party to proceed. At the back of the dungeon, Fenrir mistakes Arthur for Jupiah and attacks him. After defeating Fenrir, Arthur receives the prison key which allows access deeper in the maze, where he finds Faye. Faye asks where Dion has gone to and Arthur tells her that they have split up. Faye then tells Arthur of the Masters, who intend to rule the world and need her to draw one of the four Mystic Swords. Faye then joins the party to aid them in their search for the four original Talon crew members.
Eitar's Village that was turned to stone by Fenrir has now return back to normal, and one of the villagers, Eitar, tells Arthur he can find one of the four Talon crew, Buzi, atop Mt. Hasbid. At the city of Darius to the east, Arthur take a ferryboat to the city of Knaya, the center of trade in Pureland. The party then travels to Mt. Hasid, in search of Buzi. Partway up the mountain, the Missile unit which is one of the Talon's weapon units is found. At the top, the party finds Buzi who is asking Guha why the Masters seek to destroy other worlds. Guha admits that is up to Xagor to decide, and then tries to attack Buzi. Arthur intervenes and a battle ensues. After defeating Guha, Buzi joins Arthur, and awaits aboard the Talon. Arthur then retrieves the Mystic Sword Durend that Guha was guarding. At a Cape Frost, Arthur meets Shar, another crew member, and is told to retrieve the Tablet from the Southwest Ruins. The Tablet is said to hold the key to releasing the people of the Pureland from serving the Masters. At the entrance to the ruins, Arthur encounters the giant lizard Dahak, and must defeat it to proceed. After defeating Dahak, Arthur finds the Tablet and treks deeper into the ruins in order to stop the flow of water of the river that blocks travel across the Jorgandr Desert. After the river dried up, Arthur delivers the Tablet to Shar, who then tells Arthur to travel to Talonsburg across the desert while he deciphers the Tablet.
As Arthur crosses the desert in the Talon, it gets trapped in a sandstorm and crashes at the feet of the sandstorm master, Jorgandr. Yet another battle ensues, after which, Buzi tells Arthur to take what's left of the Talon and go to Talonsburg. When he gets to there, Arthur finds not only the Hover and Shield units (engine and weapon units, respectively) but Dr. Quacer as well. Initially, Quacer mistakes Arthur for Jupiah, but then realizes who he really is. After being told of the Talon's destruction, Dr. Quacer attaches the recovered units to Talon2. Now with the Hover unit, Arthur is free to fly almost anywhere in the Pureland, except for the area in the continent to the north that is surrounded by the barrier. Arthur returns to the Cape Frost and gets Buzi and Shar to join the crew of the Talon. Arthur then flies to Cirrus, the floating city. Here, Arthur finds the Talon crew member Juba, who wishes to go to the Goht region in search of the Metal item. Arthur then beseeches King Clamin to give him the pass into the Goht region, but he won't give it to him until he's recovered the sword Xcalibr. On a small island located near the northern continent lies Zhakal, Arthur finds Xcalibr in the stone, and urges Faye to go ahead and draw the sword. She does, and Arthur receives the Mystic Sword Xcalibr. Arthur brings the sword back to King Clamin, shows it to him, and receives the Pass into the Underworld.
Arthur heads to Porle, and just as Arthur is about to enter the Underworld, Dion appears from the whirlgate and replaces Faye as the party's 5th member. Deep in the Underworld, Arthur finds many things including the Oil key item, the final Talon weapon unit, E-ray, the Crystal key item, and the Emblem key item. Arthur exits the Underworld and arrives in the town of Donmac, and receives the Katana key item from a man in the town. After leaving Donmac, he comes upon the Eastern Ruins where Agron is guarding the Barrier Machine. Halfway through the ruins, Arthur runs into Borgin who tells Arthur he must go and investigate Mt. Goht before running off. Arthur is then left to face Agron. When Arthur tries to strike Agron with one of the Mystic Swords, he is unsuccessful because the Barrier Machine also protects Agron from its power. However, Dr. Quacer had installed a bomb in Dion for just such an occasion. Dion blow himself up and destroys the machine, leaving Agron vulnerable to attack. After defeating Agron, Borgin arrives to discover Dion's dead, then tells Arthur that it is now time to go and face Xagor atop Mt. Goht. Arthur retrieves the Soar unit and then leaves the ruins. Back in Zhakal, the city where Faye drew Xcalibr, Arthur meets up with Masa, the last of the four Talon crew members, who helps create special weapons.
Arthur and his friends then travel to Mt. Goht, where they find the Xagor's Castle atop the mountain. After defeating Ballor, they meet Sol, who has taken in Xagor's soul for party and pleas with them to kill him. They reluctantly do so, but Xagor emerges to stop Arthur and the party. After defeating Xagor, Sol thanks Arthur and stops the Pureland Entity with his dying breath. Fleeing from the destruction, Arthur and the party make it out alive, and uses the Talon2 and flies into the Hole in the Ocean and emerge out of the Water Entity in the Future World. The Talon gets destroyed in the process.
They return to Viper City, where Dr. Belski is able to revive both Dion and Jupiah with their tissue cells. Due to the destruction of Talon2, Dr. Quacer tells Arthur that it'll take time to build another time machine and Arthur replies that he'll stay with Myron in New Dharm until its completion. Before leaving for New Dharm, Jupiah tells Arthur he will name his son after him. After meeting up with Myron in New Dharm, he introduced them to the Battle Simulator2 before the credits roll.
- Main article: List of Final Fantasy Legend III Characters
Final Fantasy Legend III features four permanent player characters as well as five guest characters who are only briefly controlled by the player. Most of the main characters are children sent from the future into the present so they can change the doomed future, and find a way to put a stop to the Water Entity.
Playable CharactersEdit
- Arthur: The main character of the game who was sent back in time from the future to the present. He starts out as a Human fighter.
- Curtis: One of the children who was sent with Arthur to the present. He starts as a mutant who is good at casting black magic.
- Gloria: A female mutant who accompanied Arthur to the present. In contrast to Curtis, she is more skilled with white magic.
- Sharon: The granddaughter of Dharm's Elder from the present. Like Arthur, she is a fairly skilled fighter. She seems to be infatuated with Arthur.
- Myron: A skilled fighter who grew up with Arthur and the others in the future. He lends his support but does not accompany them any further in their journey.
- Lara: A young woman who was brainwashed by Dogra. She was raised by Granny in Elan.
- Dion: A boy from the present who eventually trains to become a powerful rebel leader in the future. He is a strong warrior.
- Faye: A girl from the present Dharm who grew up with Dion to become a strong warrior.
- Borgin: A man rebelling against the Pureland Entity in the future. He is the one who decided to send Arthur and the others to the present. In the remake, he is the true final boss and is the same entity as the Wanderer, a mysterious man who appears in the Talon.
The player can change form into a robot, a monster, or the like. The player can also purchase magic, unlike Legend and Legend II where the characters learned magic through level ups. The party in this game is made up of two humans, Arthur and Sharon, and two mutants, Curtis and Gloria, and the party can transform into other forms through eating monster meat or cogs. Each of the party members, and just about every character in the game, is "attuned" to a particular element which affects the creatures they can transform into.
- Main article: List of Final Fantasy Legends III Transformations
All four of the main characters are able to transform into various monsters and robots. This is done using meat or installing cybernetic parts left behind from defeated monsters. After a battle, the party may receive either meat or parts, and the player has the option of using it on any of the four main characters.
- Main article: List of Final Fantasy Legend III Locations
The players start out in their world, and can eventually travel to the past and the future. They also learn to go underwater. After a time, they go to Pureland, a much larger world, but no traveling through time there.
Initially, the players can just walk along the ground, but they quickly gain a spell called "Float" which enables them to hover above the ground, enabling them to cross the water, but not over mountains. The players also learn a spell called "Dive" which enables them to go on water and dive underwater. There, they can find shipwrecks across the seafloor. Eventually they rebuild the space-time battle cruiser Talon and the different units they install enables them to do different things, such as fly over oceans, and over mountains. The Talon can also travel through time (with the requisite modules installed), even before its engines are fixed. Once the party arrives in Pureland, the party is force to use ferryboats to ferry between continents since the Talon can't cross the ocean upon arrival.
Final Fantasy Legend III was the first game developed by Square's Osaka department, who later produced Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. Due to this, both games share more than a few similarities. Ted Woolsey also handled the translation (and eventually Mystic Quest's), hoping to improve upon the quality of the translations seen in Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy Legend II. Chihiro Fujioka, the executive producer, noted that a lot of effort was put into the game's development because they were also attempting to establish the department. Effort was made to overcome the GameBoy's limitations by leaving some things in the game to player's imagination. With the graphics, sprites were drawn as an object with shadows, leaving the player to visualize the missing colors by themselves. Composer Ryuji Sasai also approached the music a similar way, which was only composed with three notes. Fujioka also contributed some music to the game, being a musician himself. Sasai has compared the limitations of the audio to a guitar with six tones. They focused on shorter music, cutting down the length of the songs until they thought the music conveyed the proper impression.


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Our manual will help you to create a pendant using strung beads and seed beads from the PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Beads brand. You will see that this is very simple. The following is merely a suggestion for the basic procedure. You are sure to appreciate the opportunity to make use of your own creative skills, to adapt the appearance and size of the pendant and to choose the material composition and the colors according to your options and your requirements.
The Ball
String 5 rocailles onto the nylon line and bind them together with two knots so that a flower is formed. |
A further 4 rocailles belong to each seed bead in the flower: string one seed bead and add 4 seed beads and then string the seed bead again from the other side. Thread 1 seed bead on each of the next three eyes, add 3 seed beads and string 2 seed beads. String 2 seed beads on the last eye, add 2 seed beads and string 2 seed beads (half the ball is finished). |
Go to the outer edge, only string one seed bead, add 3 seed beads and pass the line through the top seed bead from the adjacent eye. Then go back to the original seed bead. Pass the line through the seed bead from the adjacent eye again, string 2 seed beads and repeat 2 more times. Only add one seed bead at the last eye: place a 10mm pressed bead inside it before completing it. At the end, reinforce the top eye with threaded nylon line and tie it off with two knots. An eye will be created between the beads with the threading of the nylon thread which you should pass the needle through and pull tight. Pull the end of the nylon line into several seed beads and cut it off. |
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Make the base of the cube according to the stitching in the illustration. |
Return to the basic circle according to the stitching in the illustration. Then sew a further row of seed beads. Pass the top seed bead through one in the initial row and then string 3 more seed beads. Add the missing seed beads when returning. Sew the top part in the same way as the bottom, make 2 knots, pass the nylon line through several seed beads and cut. |
Now start the linking process. String a bead onto an eyepin or a needle and twist the end with needle nosed pliers, attach the chain and close. Place the bead inside before the completion of the cube. |
The Tassel
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The linking process then follows again. String a bead, a rondelle and a bead onto an eyepin or headpin and turn the end using pliers, attach the chain and close. |
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Michael A. O'Neal, Ph.D. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Delaware
My research seeks to explain how the Earth's surface is influenced by changes in climate and human activities over diverse timescales. Nearly all of my studies involve directly measuring properties of the Earth's surface and trying to understand how those properties are created by climatic, geologic, and anthropogenic processes. My research group collects data using a very wide range of techniques, including sophisticated laser mapping systems, remotely sensed imagery, and less sophisticated but useful field methods that include traditional instrument surveys. The basic research questions I address can be posed in many different settings. As a result, my publications encompass a wide spectrum of surficial environments including glaciers, beaches, river channels, and earthworks, in addition to publications that investigate changes in climatic processes such as temperature patterns and heat stress caused by landcover change.
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O'Neal M.A. (in press) Terrestrial Laser Scanner Survey Design and Data Analysis in Above-Water Coastal Settings. In Remote Sensing and Modeling, Coastal Research Library. Springer.
O'Neal M.A. (in review) Estimating rock exposure ages in the northern Cascade Range using Lecanora sp. lichens.
Stotts, S., M.A. O'Neal, and J.E. Pizzuto (accepted) Exposed tree root analysis as a dendrogeomorphic approach to estimating bank erosion at the South River, VA. Geomorphology.
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Stotts, S., M.A. O'Neal, and J.E. Pizzuto (In press) Observations of riparian trees and bank characteristics along a bank stability gradient at South River, Va. River Research and Applications.
O'Neal M.A. (in press) Fjords/Geomorphic Mapping/Glaciated Estuaries. Encyclopedia of Estuaries. Springer.
O'Neal et al. (2013) Lichenometric Dating of Rock Surfaces in the northern Cascade Range, USA. Geografiska Annaler. Vol.95, No. 3. pp. 241-248.
Danilina, I. A.R. Gillespie, L.K. Balick, A. Mushkin, M.A. O'Neal. (2012) Performance of a thermal-infrared radiosity and heat-diffusion model for estimating sub-pixel radiant temperatures over the course of a day. Remote Sensing of Environment. Vol. 124, pp. 492-501.
O'Neal, M.A. (2012) An Objective Approach to Defining Earthwork Geometries Using Sub-Decimeter Digital Elevation Models. Geoarchaeology. Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 157-165.
O'Neal, M.A. and J.E. Pizzuto (2011) The Rates and Spatial Patterns of Annual Riverbank Erosion Revealed Through Terrestrial Laser Scanner Surveys of the South River, VA. ESPL. Vol. 36, No. 5, pp 695-701.
Lowery, D., M.A. O'Neal, et al. (2010) Late Pleistocene Upland Stratigraphy of The Western Delmarva Peninsula, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 29, pp. 1472-1480.
O'Neal. M.A. (2010) Identifying lichenometrically datable, glacierized terrains: A case study in the Cascade Range of western North America. Geocarto International. Vol. 25, No.4, pp. 315-325.
O'Neal et al. (2010) A field-based model of the effects of landcover changes on daytime summer temperatures in the North Cascades. Physical Geography. Vol. 31. No. 2.
Pizzuto, J.E., M.A. O'Neal, and S. Stotts (2010) On the Retreat of Forested, Cohesive Riverbanks. Geomorphology. Vol. 116, No. 3-4, pp. 341-352


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Alpha Stem Cell Clinics
Basic Biology
CIRM Co-Funded
Comprehensive Grant
Disease Team
Early Translational
Genomics Centers of Excellence Awards
hiPSC Derivation
hPSC Repository
Large Facilities
New Cell Lines
New Faculty
Research Leadership
Seed Grant
Shared Laboratories
Strategic Partnership
Targeted Clinical Development
Tissue Collection for Disease Modeling
Tools and Technologies
Training Grant
Transplantation Immunology
Visiting Scientist
Stem Cell Use
Adult Stem Cell
Cancer Stem Cell
Directly Reprogrammed Cell
Embryonic Stem Cell
iPS Cell
Cell Line Generation
Adult Stem Cell
Cancer Stem Cell
Directly Reprogrammed Cell
Embryonic Stem Cell
iPS Cell
Collaborative Funder
Andalusia, Spain
Victoria, Australia
Award status
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