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Of all the boys, there was one death that I remember better than others from the early days.
There were, in truth, a great many dying boys brought to us in those lightless hours. Perhaps I should not speak of them as "boys", for many had more than twice my years, but even the most tired and haggard among them looked, in some strange way, fragile and new as the life yet drained from their bodies. By March of that year, the City itself seemed a brittle shell of what it had once been, emptied now of all but the soldiers and guards, the statesmen and healers. I was one of precious few women in a vast martial camp of men and boys, a suddenly alien terrain that only played at being a real place. I came to dread those rare occasions in which I had need to leave the Houses and venture out onto the streets. I feared no assailants from the outside, not in those early days, but the vacant avenues and darkened windows of unpeopled shops and dwellings prompted me into a skittish, stumbling run on more than one errand, so eager was I to be out of their hollow-eyed sights.
In times of peace the Houses are reserved for the gravely ill, and they are light and airy and quiet. As a much younger girl, just learning my craft, I would keep watch at bedsides or go on tasks for my mother; on some silent afternoons I would come sharply into an awareness of myself, learning when I should shift and when I should keep still. I listened to my own breath and could feel the exact weight of my limbs, the way the skin stretched over my bones, there beside those whose own bodies were slowly failing.
But I was a grown-up young lady now, and all our land was being bled, and Gondor's strength was ebbing away. Situated as we were in the sixth circle, we healers were nestled in among countless councilors and clerks and the comings and goings of messengers, so news of the war should have come swiftly to us. As it were, we were rather isolated within our own wards and gardens. I learned little of the movements of companies and hosts, but knew what was coming, by way of the orders given to us. We took up our own defenses. We brought in what extra beds and pallets we could, laying them down so that their square edges touched, marching in columns down the lengths of the long halls. We stockpiled every scrap of clean cloth we found; in our storerooms we massed every herb known to our craft, and also some known only to our lore. All this we did as the light was leached from the sky, until one day seemed to emerge darker than the night which had preceded it.
I sat with Fíriel as we cut and folded countless yards of linen, watching as our finished work grew in soft piles at our feet.
"We could bind the wounds of several armies, now," she remarked, surveying the floor.
"Yes," I snorted. "Perhaps our good Warden wishes that we should tend to the legions of the East, as well as our own?"
She rested her knife-hand in her lap for a moment, eyebrows arched. "The Warden? Nay, thus far all our supply orders have come directly from the lord Aradîr." She shook her dark head in a manner that put me in mind of the way white-haired goodwives did when trying to ward off bad luck. "Neither healer nor surgeon," she added quietly.
This utterance was a long-standing refrain amongst those who worked in the Houses of Healing. Tradition held that while the Warden oversaw the staff and patients, it was the Master of the Houses, a statesman, who represented the Houses' interests in the City-councils. The Master was the one to whom the Warden must answer, and it was the Master who made the final decisions on many matters of supply, salary and the like. A good Master, my mother had told me, took care to listen to the Warden, and closely followed his counsel when making choices. A poor one, however, did not take the time to well acquaint himself with the workings of the Houses, and looked upon surgery and leech-craft as any other common trades, as they were in less enlightened nations. And the worst Masters were pure statesmen to the marrow, using the post only as a way to curry favor with their liege-lords, eager to ascend to higher appointments—neither healers nor surgeons, indeed.
In my lifetime, however, we had not had any Masters such as this, for it was said that the Lord Steward was a shrewd man who did not suffer opportunists kindly. The saying was mainly used to express mild annoyance or amusement at misunderstandings between men of the council and men of the scalpel. Lord Aradîr had been appointed Master some six months hence, when his predecessor had grown too feeble of eyesight and frail of hand to keep up with his required duties. I had never had any call to speak to Aradîr personally, of course, but he seemed a pleasant enough man, and as far I knew, he had yet to do any great wrong by us. Still, I found myself nodding in assent with Fíriel's statement, as I hoped his generous estimate would prove unnecessary.
I took another piece of fabric from the pile. "Do you think we'll really need all these dressings?" I asked, trying to sound as if I were inquiring about that evening's supper, though my voice rose slightly as I went on. "And will all those beds be filled, Fíriel?"
The other woman looked at me with large grey eyes. Of all the women in the Houses, Fíriel was somehow at once the gentlest and the most blunt. She was slender and fair, at least ten years my senior. She crouched at bedsides, patient as a cat, and occasionally told us lewd jokes when there were no men in earshot. Now she sighed and looked weary as she ran her fingers over the cloth.
"In truth? I cannot say one way or the other. 'Tis better to fill up the waiting hours, at any rate, though we may have fewer than we like, in the end."
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From then on it seemed no long wait until the large groups of the wounded began arriving. Soon I could scarcely recognize our familiar Houses. The light streaming in from the windows was greyed and muted. The air was close, and swiftly became thick and tortured with the groans and pleas of injured men. Every bed was full, and the steely odor of blood lingered on, no matter how we tried to scrub it away. Practiced though I was, I was one of the younger women in the place, and had little experience with battle injuries. Though I carried knives in my kit, I had seldom had chance to use them. When I saw the first men brought in and laid out, ashen and soaked with red, I went round the corner into a little alcove off the main room, and sank to the floor with my head against my knees, hoping in my shame that no one would see me. Beads of sweat dotted the back of my neck; flecks of shattered bone danced against the darkness when I pressed my eyes shut.
"Come." I opened my eyes to the clear, low voice and saw Fíriel standing above me, her slender hand extended towards mine. There was no judgment on her face. "We are all needed now." For a moment, I fixed my gaze blankly on the hem of her plain blue dress and pale smock, a mirror of my own garb, save for the new pink spots on her garments. Then I took her hand and she helped me up in one taut, strong motion, and led me back to our patients so that I might bloody my own fingers in earnest.
Fíriel was a fine teacher, and so was necessity. I soon learned not to flinch when I probed a wound to see how deep the damage went. I stopped flinching, as well, when I had to push out an arrowhead, or clamp shut the source of the worst bleeding until the surgeons could come. I fetched water, cleaned and dressed injuries, and gave what words I could to comfort the men, although it seemed at times that anything I said would be deflected by the hard, flinty terror in their eyes. Still, we saved more of those earlier ones than we lost, which was no small comfort. All of the workers in the Houses had fallen into our own weary, uneasy rhythm by nightfall, our voices strained and hushed and our hands red and aching. Even as they stumbled and gasped and bled, the men brought news from the shattered outer defenses, tidings we both yearned for and dreaded. There were rumors of warriors from the South, tall and fell, and armies that swarmed like insects, and a Black Captain before whom horses went mad, and valiant men bent and quailed in horror.
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"It's a miracle that this one made it to us at all," Fíriel murmured in my ear as we stood over one of our newest arrivals, a soldier brought in on one of the wains that had borne the survivors of the wreck of the Causeway Forts through the City Gates that morning. Word had come that day, passing from station to station: Lord Faramir could not hold the Pelennor, and now the river was overrun. It was only a matter of time. Men and women alike, we in the Houses lowered our voices and tightened our fingers round our instruments, biting back our fear.
This young man's lack of color contrasted starkly with his dark, mangled livery and damp brown hair—his face was nearly the same shade as the bandage I had carefully applied to his throat, though a spot of bright scarlet bloomed swiftly upon it. His eyes were closed, his mouth open, and he was terribly cold to the touch. His breathing was a shallow, pained rasp. Wounds to the neck like this one were almost sure to kill quickly. "He may live through the night, at best," Fíriel added. "Ioreth wants me," she sighed, drawing a blanket up over the boy, "and when I find her it shall be no less than a quarter-hour 'til I discover what she actually wants. Until then I am sure I will hear all about her cousin from Lossarnach."
"No doubt," I smiled wanly. "I'll see to him." I drew a black scrap of cloth from a pocket of my smock and tied it to the bedpost; in the Houses, this was the marker we gave to those we deemed beyond help, so that none of us need waste our time. I was running out, I noticed; I would have to go and find more, soon.
"Thank you." Fíriel patted my arm lightly and walked down the narrow corridor that passed between the rows of beds. We had all learned to live in tight spaces in the past few days, and even many of the women and girls had begun to resemble soldiers on watch, passing one another with the briefest of nods as we moved through the aisles.
I turned my eyes back to the boy. Above the bandage was a round face that reminded me somewhat of my youngest cousin's countenance. Merely a week ago I would have wept right there, in grief and revulsion, but now I had taught myself to float over it, my mind as clear and clean as the surgeon's knife before the first incision. I could look with something nearing indifference, everything clamped back neatly into a vague, manageable sense of dread. I wondered who had dealt this soldier his death blow, be it a Southron, or an orc, or some fouler creature of which we yet had no inkling… For the Pelennor is overrun, and now only time stands between the Dark Tower and the White City…
"Tar'!" A voice called out somewhere behind me, and then a young man in the same dark garb the dying boy wore was at my side, kneeling beside the bed. "Tarondor," he whispered, seeing the full extent of the damage. "Valar, no…" He turned to me, and I saw that he had a bright red streak across his forehead, over his weary blue eyes. Another gash was apparent on his left shoulder; not a clean one, either, as whatever blade had given it had torn raggedly through the cloth. Still, he had fared better than most of his comrades-in-arms. "Is… is there any chance for him?" he asked quietly, although from his subdued tone it was clear that he had the answer already. "Any at all?"
"Very little, I'm afraid." He swallowed and nodded. "He may live through the night," I added, allowing him to take in the information for a few moments before I went on. "Now, let us see what we might do for you, shall we?" I suggested softly. The soldier nodded again, resignedly, and pulled himself slowly up to sit on the edge of the narrow cot, very careful not to disturb his friend as he did so. He had the air of one who felt he ought to rend his clothes and daub his face with ashes, but was strangely grateful that the deed had already been done for him. Normally I would have asked him to follow me to the north ward, where we treated those wounds which threatened neither life nor limb. But why not? I thought, excusing myself to replenish my supply of water and dressings. Let him stay here. I will be ready if a case more needful than his should present itself.
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"We were boys together," the soldier explained as I tended him, and his voice had a hoarse edge to it. I nodded.
"I have not the time to give you stitches for this," I said as I cleaned the cut on his forehead. "You may have a scar, but 'tis not too deep." My mother had taught me very early on that I should always explain to my patients what I was doing. These days, I found myself able to follow this advice only intermittently.
"Should I live long enough for the skin to grow over," he murmured.
"We're thankful to all of you."
He was silent for several minutes more, and when he spoke again I saw that he wore the calm, glazed expression I had grown familiar with over the past few days. I had seen it on too many faces to count.
"Perhaps one day," he said slowly, "there shall be wars where no one needs to touch anyone else." He was smiling now, a thin ghost of a smile. "You would not have to touch a man to kill him, nor be close to him." He shut his eyes. "Perhaps you would not even have to look at him."
I finished with his forehead and moved on to his arm. He opened his eyes again. They were the color of the sky, the last time the sun had risen.
"You see, it would all be so much easier that way. No skin," he said, his voice catching slightly on the edge of the word, "and no blood."
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There were a small number of rooms set aside, so that the healers might get some rest. We took turns sleeping, a few hours at a time. I bypassed the basin of thyme-and-lavender water we used for hand-washing, instead scrubbing my hands until they chafed from the ash and lye of the hard brown soap that we kept. The women's quarters were dark. There were only five pallets in the close space, all of them occupied. I shrugged lightly to myself before stripping down to my shift, folding my dress and smock into a corner of the room, and sliding onto a mattress beside Fíriel. The older woman was already asleep, and as I curled my own body next to hers I could feel her warm, regular breath on my skin. She smelled faintly of chamomile, and I recalled she kept a private supply of the stuff in a pouch at her waist. The scent reminded me instantly of my mother—her hand resting on my cheek as she and my young brothers and cousins bade me farewell—she would have stayed here, my mother, had she not the children to look after…
Your City has greater need of you now, dear one. Go, and be brave, and I will see you again soon…
That night I dreamt of chamomile, and black wings scraping over a sky bluer than any I had yet seen in my waking life.
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The student editors of The Lamp, Hunterdon Central High School's student newspaper, attribute the Garden State Scholastic Press Association's award to hard work - and taking risks. Photos by Warren Cooper.
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Retail is the downtown historic district's largest sector with shops specializing in outdoor gear, gifts and crafts, home furnishings, clothing, music, and, five independent bookstores. It's a classic downtown, complete with a hardware store, movie theater, hotel, pharmacies, banks, a library, and a natural foods supermarket and deli. The choices for lunch or dinner are numerous, ranging from five-star continental cuisine to informal ethnic eateries. A local coffee roaster and two microbreweries add to the town's distinctive flavor.
Art lovers will find a broad spectrum of local galleries, theaters, dance studios, music centers, and a museum. The Latchis Theater at the bottom of Main Street is one of only two Art Deco buildings in Vermont and is being fully restored to its full 1930's splendor. Cafes, bakeries, and bookstores foster a vibrant community spirit, providing gathering places for area residents and visitors alike. The downtown contains a small collection of shops within a glassed-in building that captures the feeling of open air, especially on a comforatable patio overlooking the river.
Annual festivals brighten the streets with Strolling of the Heifers in June (pictured above in 2010 in a photograph by Greg Worden), Puppets in the Green Mountains in early fall and DecemberFest each winter.
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MORE THAN 200 ANGRY PEOPLE PACKED LAST NIGHT'S SPRING COVE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING. EARLIER THIS WEEK, OFFICIALS voted to lay off 2 ELEMENTARY TEACHERS AND HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND DIRECTOR DUSTIN RAINEY AT THE END OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR. ROARING SPRING POLICE WERE POSTED OUTSIDE THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GYM ALONG WITH PRIVATE SECURITY OFFICERS. officials say The cutS are part of a district-wide re-structuring DUE TO a gradual drop in the student population. 2 OTHER TEACHERS ARE RETIRING AND THOSE POSITIONS WILL NOT BE FILLED.
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AS PROMISED YESTERDAY, The Paterno family FILED A LAW suiT AGAINST the NCAA, SEEKING TO HAVE The Penn State sanctions OVERTURNED. the SUIT INCLUDES 19 other PLAINTIFFS, INCLUDING current Board of Trustees members and Penn State faculty, as well as former football players and coaches. A RESPONSE IS EXPECTED FROM the NCAA IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS. THE PATERNO FAMILY HAS SAID THEY WILL DONATE ANY MONETARY AWARDS TO CHARITY.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR JOHN WOZNIAK OF CAMBRIA COUNTY TELLS CAPITOL-WIRE THAT HE'S CONSIDERING A RUN FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN 2014. WOZNIAK SAYS HE WOULD TAKE A CRACK AT GOVERNOR, BUT HE CAN'T RAISE 60-MILLION DOLLARS. HIS SENATE TERM RUNS THROUGH 2016. HIS DISTRICT WILL DRASTICALLY CHANGE UNDER the LATEST REAPPORTIONMENT.
Governor Tom Corbett IS pushING for more spending on transportation. IN ORDER TO RAISE ADDITIONAL REVENUE, Corbett'S BUDGET PLAN CALLS FOR REMOVING THE CAP ON THE OIL COMPANY FRANCHISE TAX AND RAISING THE FEES ON DRIVER'S LICENSES AND VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS. SPEAKING in Cumberland County YESTERDAY, CORBETT said his proposal would raise around 2-billion dollars over 5 years AND HELP FIX THE 4-THOUSAND STATE bridges thAT are structurally deficient. almost 10-THOUSAND miles of roads are in poor condition.
THE STATE Department of Environmental Protection YESTERDay reported the season's first 2 detections of West Nile virus-carrying mosquitos since surveillance began in early May. The infected mosquitos were collected May 22ND in Erie County and May 23RD in Adams County. Typically, the state's first positive sample of West Nile virus carrying mosquitos is found in mid-June, SO IT'S early THIS YEAR. ACTING D-E-P SECRETARY CHRIS ABRUZZO IS RemindING all residents TO take proper precautions to protect against mosquitoes. THE FIRST STEP WOULD BE Removing standing water from flower pots, bird baths, and other vessels. Last year WAS a record year for WEST NILE in Pennsylvania. The first positive mosquito was found May 3RD, the earliest ever. ThERE WAS ALSO the highest recorded numbers of human, bird, mosquito and veterinary positives since 2003.


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Kuso Party is a casual-friendly 2D MMO filled with minigames. Players can decorate their homes and explore those of their neighbors. Make friends, play short 'micro games', and chat in this cute social game.
Publisher: Suba Games
Playerbase: Low
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Filesize: 381 MB
Pros: +Plenty of minigames. +Player housing. +Make friends, form families, and visit other players' homes.
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Kuso Party is a simple MMO that mixes social elements with short minigames. There are over 52 minigames available which are unlocked as players level. Players start with a house with modest decor but can customize it themselves and show it off to their friends. The cute, anime themed graphics are appealing, but gameplay features feel lacking. Kuso Party is a casual game that plays a lot like browser based titles.
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December 11th, 2011, 10:39 AM #1
Good news
Just found out from the publisher has just ordered a second printing for the first two books, Theft of Swords and Rise of Empire. While Rise is on the shelves it's not really its release date yet ;-)
As a new author I didn't expect to sell out the first printing at all...least of all in a few weeks of release. I want to thank everyone who is supporting the series.
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December 11th, 2011, 10:45 AM #2
Great news, Michael!
December 11th, 2011, 11:47 AM #3
Congratulations. Glad to hear it is working out so well.
December 11th, 2011, 12:04 PM #4
That's great to hear! Here's to a third and a fourth
December 11th, 2011, 04:21 PM #5
Wow, that's amazing. Congrats.
December 12th, 2011, 01:22 AM #6
Thanks all...I'm new to this whole "big publishing" thing - it took me over a year to sell just 2,200 copies from my first small press run. Technically thinking they are working off of "buy-in" not "sell-through" so hopefully they won't get a huge amount of returns in 60 days.
December 26th, 2011, 11:19 PM #7
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This is good stuff and well deserved. I still have to be sure to buy my copies of these omnibus editions, but I think I'll hold off until I finish with the Ridan Percepliquis edition, and then do a complete re-read via the Orbit editions. Looking forward to reading the ending to the series though, it's been a great read.
December 29th, 2011, 05:01 AM #8
my website or the Riyria Facebook pages. That's not to say that I'm sure Orbit would appreciate a purchase of their version - just didn't want you to think you "have to."
December 29th, 2011, 07:24 AM #9
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Yeah, I realize that the differences aren't very significant, mostly I just want to get the Orbit versions for any re-reads I might do in the future. Although I think I'll probably go with the e-book versions anyways, as I've been doing my reading almost exclusively on my kindle lately. I've only got Wintertide as an e-book so far, so it makes sense to get the Orbit omnibus editions. We'll see.
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Beating the Christmas blues: Tips to keep it together during the holidays
Thursday, December 20, 2012
DOVER — While the holiday season should be a festive time of the year with friends, family and celebration, it's a tough time for many to cope with as yearly traditions kick in and the daylight hours dwindle.
Burns said it's important, though, for everyone to remember it is not just those affected by SAD. Anyone can suffer at least some depressive effects due to lack of sunlight and at this time of year, not getting enough rest.
Things such as anniversaries for events that may be traumatic or unpleasant also get "underlined" during the holidays, he said, because people tend to relive the event over and over recalling that it happened at this time of year and during certain events.
So, when do things turn from quiet contemplation and nostalgia to something that would be more of a concern?
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Pi Story
UPDATE: This game has been shutdown and is no longer available
This game has been SHUT DOWN – It is NO LONGER available. This means the official servers are offline and no one can create new accounts or log in to the game. For all intents and purposes this game is dead. This page will be updated if the game ever re-launches.
Pi Story Overview
Pi Story is 2D MMORPG with a persistent towns but with the rest of the game world run through instances. Players can interact with one another in town, form groups than launch missions using special Pi Stones obtained from either quests or through NPC stores. Pi Story has an optional tutorial mission and an organized skill tree but players won't be able to pick a class until level 10. The classes available at level 10 are:
Fighter - The easiest of the classes to play. Fighters have large health pools and simple melee attacks.
Cleric - Supportive caster class. Clerics can heal party members and even bring them back from the dead. They are also proficient in blunt melee weapons and can hold their own in combat.
Mage - The offensive casters of Pi Story. Mages have powerful direct damage and area of effect spells but are very fragile. Playing a mage is the most difficult as they have more hotkeys and skills to deal with that the other classes.
A Thief class is currently under development.
Pi Story Screenshots
Pi Story Featured Video
Pi Story Review
By Erhan Altay
Pi Story is an interesting 2D MMORPG which takes the Guild Wars approach and instances much of the game rather than having a persistent world. Published by Aeria Games, a prolific publisher who isn't afraid of taking chances with little known titles, Pi Story favors cooperation over competition as there is currently no PvP method in place. Instead, players must form parties of up to 8 players and take on the games many missions. This gameplay style is most similar to the free to play MMORPG Lunia by ijji.
We Love Pi
New players have several appearance customization options including hair, mouth, and eye styles. There are also several clothing colors to choose from. 2D games tend to have fewer appearance choices so the limited options are not out of the ordinary but you will see many players in game who look identical to your character. New players need not worry about choosing a class from the start, instead all players start as novices and pick their class at level 10. The three class choices are; Fighter, Cleric and Mage. Each plays differently, has a unique skill tree and requires the completion of a quest to complete the promotion. A forth class has been announced and is currently being developed — The Thief. No set date on its implementation but hopefully it'll add some variety. Until level 10, players will have to contend with the novice and his skill tree. Players receive a single skill point each level to distribute. The novice has a mix of melee and spell oriented skills so be sure to experiment with which kind you prefer. In general, the melee oriented fighter is the easiest class to play since he has a high HP pool but doesn't possess the damage potential of mages.
Pi Fighting
The initial optional tutorial mission is quite boring but introduces players to the game's controls. Gameplay is handled exclusively with the keyboard while the mouse is used for navigating menus. Pi Story has what I like to call real time combat since every attack is controlled by the player. By default 'F' is your standard attack while tapping it performs simple combos. Players can also combine moves to perform special attacks, for example, a dash attack ( –> + F), a jump attack ( space + F), and so on. Potions and skills are assigned to a hot bar with keyboard shortcuts. Even talking to NPCs can be done with the keyboard by pressing 'F' to start a conversation when close enough to one than use the 1-9 keys to select dialogue options. Actual fighting is done in instanced areas either alone or with a group. Accessing these areas requires special egg shaped stones called Pi Stones. These stones can be purchased either in town or at the end of a previous mission. When playing alone, simply clicking 'Go' at the top launches the appropriate mission but when in a party, it is the party leader who gets to decide with Pi Stone will be used and which corresponding mission all players will be teleported to. Each stage is composed of several rooms where players battle through hordes of monsters in classic beat 'em up style. At the end of each mission is a boss which can be quite difficult, especially alone. The first boss, a young fox, killed me on my first attempt.
Pi Town
The only area of Pi Story that's truly persistent rather than instanced is the town. Called 'Town of Pantheon', it contains many quest giving NPCs, stores, and acts as a place for players to meet up with others and form groups. Players who aren't seeking action right away can actually take a few moments to explore the rather large town and pick up several quests which can be completed with having to fight anything. A 'feed the chickens' and 'feed the hamsters' quest can be obtained which involves finding the appropriate animals around town and talking to them. There are also several 'talk quests' as I label them that involve speaking from one NPC to another. Luckily, quest objectives are marked as red squares on your mini map, making it much easier to find your way around. Unfortunately, the quest log fills way to fast with a limit of only 5 quests. I found it frustrating to have to walk away from a potential quest since my log was full, even at level 1! My final comment concerning town is that the 2D graphics sometimes made navigation confusing, I had to use a portal located at the top of the map to be taken a level lower while the portals at the bottom took me elsewhere. This probably had more to do with my poor navigational skills than anything else but I did find myself going in circles at times, check out the 'Pi Story Town Walkthrough' video to see me in action.
Life of Pi
Pi Story has a unique anime styled look with side scrolling graphics. You can move up and down but your character is always facing either left or right. This graphic style is closer to LaTale than other 2D games such as Stonage 2 but cute graphics alone don't make a game. Pi Story comes up short in the content department. There are a few interesting features to keep people busy, namely player housing where players can purchase furniture for their instanced homes. Currently, there is only one live server, the other two have been closed because of low population. Pi Story also relies too much on repeating the same missions several times. Quests have you hunting for 10 of a certain item drop which cannot be completed in a single run through a mission. Hopefully with a few more content upgrades, that 4th class being added and a slight experience boost during the early levels (it takes too long to get to level 10), Pi Story will be a game worth sticking around for.
Final Verdict – Fair
Pi Story has cute graphics and a casual atmosphere but suffers from a lack of content. With only 3 classes and slow paced leveling, Pi Story frightens new comers and bores veterans. The classic beat 'em up style combat and emphasis on coop play make it worth trying for fans of the genre.
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The 23 credit unions headquartered in New Hampshire have seen growth in assets, deposits, loans and membership according to data compiled from year end reports released recently by the National Credit Union Administration.
Over the year these credit unions had aggregate growth in assets of 11.74% growing to $4.22 billion from $3.8 billion at the first of the year. This figure exceeds the national growth rate of 7%.
Savings in New Hampshire credit unions are up by 9.13% since the beginning of the year. Nationally savings grew by almost 7%.
Some of that money may have been deposited by new credit union members. The data show that New Hampshire credit unions have added approximately 23,000 new members in 2009 which represents a 5.7% increase.
Despite the fact that consumer has been hearing a great deal about the credit crunch Granite State credit unions are ready to meet their borrowing needs. Loans outstanding at New Hampshire credit unions have grown by 7.5% or $330 million dollars since the beginning of the year. Loans were up nationwide by 6.7%
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Public transport:
Easy access from the Vilnius International Airport to the Central Train/Bus station:
- 7 min by local train (every 20 min, price - 2 Lt per person). Train is available every day from 5 am to 1 am;
- Bus No 1 or any other to Stotis (Central Train/Bus station), then you can take trolley bus No. 1,2, 5 or 7 and get off at the Traku bus stop (the 3rd bus stop from the Central Train/Bus station).
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Yesterday I played a game as Germany. After completed all the decisions historically, I came to claim Klaipedia (or whatever that province name is). Surprisingly, that Baltic country (I never care about its name) refused to give me the province.
And so I declared war against them (I think that 90% people here would do the same). Before I could make a peace deal, the SU declared war against me. That's a little annoying, but it's not the best part yet.
The very best part is that, just after the declaration of war from Soviets, nearly half of Europe ASKED to join my alliance!!! Those include Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal, Yugoslavia (perhaps one or two more but I can't be sure). I can understand the Italian part (well we signed the Anti-Communism treaty, didn't we?) but it's quite strange about the other countries.
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Another nail in the Mir coffin.
Phoronix: Mesa DRI PRIME Support Comes To Wayland
DRI PRIME that allows for secondary GPUs to provide rendering support to primary GPUs -- i.e. NVIDIA Optimus systems -- can now work under Wayland for allowing secondary GPUs to render games/applications even if they aren't the GPU used by the compositor...
Another nail in the Mir coffin.
I hope there will be no tearing in prime windows, as it is in X.
If a drawing help understanding better the concept.
The performance is the best for an application if it is above black arrows.
Green arrows force the application above them to disable tiling, and the buffer location is shared between two card, in a location which can be slower to render to for a client.
Instead of doing a hidden copy, which would make a client use black arrows, and the compositor receive green arrows,
you use explicitly an embedded compositor to do this conversion when you want to use black arrows on a different card than the compositor.
To get the id_path_tag associated with a graphic card, you need recent systemd, and the command:
udevadm info /dev/dri/card0
with /dev/dri/card0, the card you want to know the id_path_tag of.
X dri3 prime support might improve that.
Wayland can avoid tearings, even when the application doesn't use vsync (and all applications can use vsync, whatever they use to render)
Remember how Ryan Gordon proposed a new window manager hint for fulscreen games? This is very close to how I think it should be done, even for single-GPU systems I think the best solution would a some kind of fullscreen hint, that would cause a new compozitor to spawn with desired settings such as color depth and resolution, which would be responsible for running that application only.
The great advantage of such solution is that it could newer mess your desktop. Now it sometimes happens that if a fullscreen application crashes, the desktop is left with whatever resolution the application was using (which means that eg. on KDE you may get you panels resized to fit the screen). And no, this is not just a plain "I told you so" post, I've actually proposed this on the wm-spec-list more than a year ago.


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Design Books to Win, December 18, 2014: Winners of Five Books by Pentagram Designers Announced
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12. – I Will Take Care of Everything
She went into the kitchen. The rest of the family was long since up and out of the house, the older ones to work, the younger ones to play. Marbrona was kneading the day's bread, her rhythmic motions singing to Elana of the very substance of home. She would have gone to help, but as soon as Marbrona saw her daughter she wiped off her floury hands and brought to the table a bowl of porridge that had been keeping warm on the back of the stove. As Elana ate, Marbrona fixed them each a cup of hot herbal tea. The bread dough was set aside to rise, and Marbrona joined Elana at the table, the two of them sipping their tea.
Finally Marbrona broke the silence. "Elana… I can still hardly believe you're here, alive. When Gareden slammed those doors with you outside… I wanted to help you, but the babies needed me… I was torn in two."
"It's all right, Mother. That's what I wanted – for the rest of you to be safe."
"I know, and I knew that then. But when your father came and told us the orcs had been routed, and you were gone, not even your body to be found anywhere… I lay awake nights, hoping you'd been killed quickly, my mind filled with black imagining of what those orcs might do to you. And now to find out that it was even worse for you than my darkest dreams…
Elana could hardly speak for the lump in her throat, and her eyes stung with tears. "It's over now, Mama. I'm here. I survived."
"You survived." Marbrona's voice was rich with wonder. "My baby, my firstborn. We are so very glad to have you back. And I promise you, we will do everything in our power to make things right for you.
"Your father and I talked last night about the future. Of course, you are welcome in this house as long as you wish to stay. But you are no longer a child, and a woman will want to establish her own household at some point. I know there were a few young men in the village who took it particularly hard when we lost you. I don't know if you had your eyes on any of them…" Elana blushed and shook her head. "Well, no matter. If at some point you wish to marry, your father and I will support you completely, and help you in whatever way we can."
"I don't think I'll have to worry about that for awhile, Mother." Elana wondered if any man would be interested in her, after what had happened, and her with a baby already, an only half-human baby at that. Could she even bear a man's touch without being overwhelmed by hateful memories? "All I want now is to be here in my home, to be your daughter, to have you take care of me when I give birth."
"Yes." Marbrona put down her cup, and took Elana's hands in hers. She looked deep into her daughter's eyes. "I want you to know, that when your time comes, I will take care of everything. You won't have to worry about a thing."
Elana thought how different this birth would be. Her mother, wise in the ways of women's bodies, at her side, surrounded by the loving support of family and friends, safe in her home.
"Of course," Marbrona continued, "it would have been better if you weren't so far along. There are herbs we could have used, but they are dangerous for the mother so late. But it's just a few more months, and then we can put this whole tragedy behind us."
Elana froze. Her heart thudded. She couldn't quite believe what she heard her mother saying.
"I really do think you should consider looking for a husband right away. I know it's hard on a woman to lose a pregnancy. But a man to love you and a babe of your own to cherish can heal many hurts."
Elana unstuck her tongue from the roof of her mouth. Surely she was mistaken in what she thought Marbrona meant. "But mother, I have a baby. She's healthy and strong. She'll be born in about three months."
Marbrona looked surprised. "And like I said, you won't have to worry about anything. I'll take care of it. You won't even have to look at the monster. I can't imagine how horrible it must be, to know your body harbors such an abomination, but I would never leave my daughter to deal with it alone."
Elana stood up. She felt cold. Somehow, she had to make her mother understand. "Mama, she is not an abomination. She is not a monster. She is my baby. I've seen her - she came to me in dreams, and saved me, saved us all. I love her already."
Marbrona looked at her daughter with shock and pity. Such trauma as she had endured could twist a mind's perceptions. The instinct to nurture life was strong in a woman's heart, and Elana seemed to have taken refuge in the fantasy of a perfect child. She might think she wanted the creature now, but Marbrona was sure when she faced the reality of the monstrosity she had born, she would feel the same revulsion that Marbrona and the rest of the people of the village felt now. Why, last night, overjoyed as she was at her daughter's miraculous return from the dead, when she learned the origin of her pregnancy she could barely suppress her disgust enough to give Elana the welcome she deserved. But Marbrona was a practical woman, and had known at once what she would have to do. She wished she could spare her daughter the grief of losing her dream-child, but she couldn't be allowed, in her state of delusion, to endanger the village. Marbrona shuddered to think of the orc-spawn growing to monstrous maturity. Would its own mother be the first to fall victim to its base appetites?
Rising, Marbrona reached out to Elana. She folded her in to her breast, remembering the days of her babyhood. She patted her back, murmuring. "Shh, shh, it's all right. Everything will be fine. I will take care of you. I love you."
Elana wrenched away. She stared at her mother in horror. The familiar house, which had seemed such a safe and comforting refuge, was suddenly threatening. Her baby would never be safe here! To all but Elana she would be a danger, a demon, a viper that must be killed with as much dispatch as any other vermin, before it could strike. Even if Elana managed to keep her safe through her birth, they would comfort and reassure her to her face, but some night while Elana slept her baby would be smothered in her cradle, or meet some other accident. Everyone would be kind and sympathetic, but secretly they would be glad someone had done away with the foul creature.
She fled into the bedroom. Marbrona watched her go, but refrained from going after her. Let her grieve, she thought. It will be hard on her, but it must be done. She will thank me someday.
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Theft of unit funds is a risk most units should take more precautions against, in my view. The episode below has many of the elements which cause such thefts and allow them to go undetected:
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Sucks stealing from kids.
All units should have an outside audit.
Who do you get to do that? A professional accounting firm (at what cost?), someone outside the unit who is knowledgable in accounting practices, or maybe someone from the CO?
We should probably have our books audited but don't. Something to look into.
I have just been appointed Pack Treasurer.
Personally, I don't think an outside audit is needed, and it would be a significant expense.
The methods I support for maintaining transparency and preventing theft include:
1) Have checking account statements sent to the Pack Committee Chair or someone designated by the chair to review the checking account statement for any irregularities, and to approve any checks written to the Treasurer.
2) Anyone receiving pack funds, especially cash receipts, will issue a receipt in a three part receipt book.
a) one copy is sent to the Treasurer along with the payment received
b) one copy is given to the person making the payment
c) the third copy stays with the receipt book.
Cash is an especially slippery commodity, and even an honest person can forget about receiving payments. This can insure that payments to the unit are received.
3) Any checks paid to the Treasurer are approved by the Committee Chair or his designee. Aside from that the Treasurer only signs checks. (of course the Committee Chair sees all the checks when the monthly statement comes to him)
4) I plan to use Quicken to record pack financial transactions, and I plan to e-mail monthly financial statements to all families.
So let's suppose someone makes a cash payment for a pack activity. The person making the payment should be given a numbered receipt for their payment and they should be able to see a record of that payment being deposited in the checking account in the monthly financial statement.
In case you haven't noticed, I'm as concerned about making sure that payments made to the unit are actually deposited as I am in making sure that checks are written for appropriate purposes.
It's all too easy for checks and cash to never get deposited. They are easily lost.
In general my aim is to maximize accountability while minimizing the burden of accounting for funds.It is IMPORTANT that people who have pack expenses get reimbursed for those expenses quickly and as easily as is practical.
Those are my bright ideas, anyway. Anyone have improvements they would suggest?
The first adult volunteer position I ever held was that of Pack treasurer. I would add:
1. Use a dual signature checking account
2. Treasurer, committee chair, and unit leader should all be from different households
3. Monthly finacial reports to the committee.
One of the first things I did after I accepted the position was purchase a receipt book (mine made only one copy). I found myself accepting a large number of small cash payments at pack meetings for various things and this was the only way I could keep straight what all the money was for. This is probably less of a problem for a troop treasurer.
Someone recommended having the bank statements Sent to the CC or other leader anyone other than the treasurer.
The only good solution I've seen is transparency. Identify one person as the treasurer, but make sure multiple people are seeing the bank statements. For our troop, we have five people with online access to review the account. Each person has their own sign-on and can see the data.
The only time a policy of two signatures makes sense to me is when the Treasurer is paying expenses to himself. Then my plan is to send the CC receipts for my expenses and have him sign a check made out to me.
The rest of the time, the Treasurer is already an independent person and getting a second signature is a pointlessly burdensome practice, in my view.
If checking account statements can be viewed on line, that's great and as many people as may be interested can view the statement. But ONE person needs to be RESPONSIBLE for reviewing the checking account statement every month other than the Treasurer.
Anyway, those are my current thoughts as I propose to get started on the job as soon as the current Treasurer is ready to pass things on to me.
While these are all great ideas and will work for the honest person, we all know that if someone is determined enough they will find a way to beat the system.
One thing to look into is Bonding your treasurer. Most Non-profits already do it for thier employees that handle funds, you may beable to piggy back off your CO for a minimal cost.
Also watch the treasurers home life. If there is a life altering event, loss of job, divorce, death of immediate family member, or anything like that. These are the times to watch them closer.
Lastly if you do detect or suspect some ongoing fraud its time to be un-scoutlike and turn the issue over to the professionals in the criminal justice system for handling. The system is far better equipped to deal with it than a unit scouter.
If you delay it may mean you never get your money back.
I agree that it's fairly common for financially desperate people to get themselves into trouble if they have access to other people's money. So I think that's good advice. I don't know how many units are going to be willing to find a new Treasurer on that basis, though.
I don't know how practical that might be. It's not something I would take the initiative to do. Our ties to the Catholic parish that charters the pack are more limited than I would wish for.
In my view, the biggest check on abuse is sending the checking account statements to the Committee Chair. If the Committee Chair is paying attention, they should be able to catch discrepancies early and they have the power to ACT promptly. If the CC doesn't want to do that, the responsibility should be assigned to another person who is motivated to scrutinize those statements, and ask further questions as needed.
That and getting receipts issued especially for cash payments are the things I'm hot about.
These are my theories, anyway.
I appreciate all the comments!
It is absolutely correct that no level of safeguards can guarantee against losses. I like the idea of bonding the treasurer if this can be done inexpensively.
The failure of ordinary safeguards is illustrated most dramatically by the appropriation of client funds held as a fiduciary by MF Global at the apparent direction of the former governor of New Jersey. This was not just fraud but criminal theft on a massive scale by people who knew exactly what they were doing.
Fraud and theft is committed daily by the people you would least expect it. I see these people all the time, they are the ones that you would least expect.
I do know that GSUSA is ruthless when it comes to money, unlike a lot of BS units that will let things slide rather than causing an issue. It might be that the CO's do not want to make waves and would rather settle things privately.
Understand what a bond is.
It's a guarantee by an insurance company that they will pay off on a court judgment if the person bonded is sued and loses in a trial, and refuses or is unable to pay.
The assets of most Scout units is pretty trivial --- a very few thousand dollars in most cases.
Even if someone steals the treasury, proving that in court would probably be complicated to do unless the person is convicted of a crime.
My personal bias is to have one person receiving the checking account statement who will watch what the Treasurer is doing with a reasonable degree of care. A watched pot, they say, never boils.
In my view, that's a better system than most Scout units have, including the system in my pack currently in place which has no review of what the treasurer is doing and infrequent treasurer reports which amount to little more than the checking account balance.
A Cub Pack for which I'm Commissioner has the wife of the Cubmaster acting as Treasurer.
I'm looking for a system that offers a reasonable amount of oversight consistent with what is practical for a Scout unit. A "Good" system is a LOT better than a poor or bad system, which is what most Scout units have.
That's my theory, anyway.


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