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Red Wings-re-sign forward Drew Miller for 1 year
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DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings say they've re-signed forward Drew Miller to a one-year contract.
The team isn't releasing the terms.
The 26-year-old Miller was the Anaheim Ducks' sixth round pick (186th overall) in 2003 out of Michigan State. He played parts of three seasons with the Ducks before a trade to Tampa Bay Lightning before the 2009-10 season.
Miller played 14 games with Tampa Bay before being waived. The Red Wings claimed him in November. He played in 66 games for Detroit last season, making 10 goals and nine assists.

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Editor's note: As part of our partnership with PBS's Nightly Business Report, TheStreet's Director of Research Stephanie Link joined NBR to discuss transportation and aerospace stock picks for 2011. (Watch video and see transcript)
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- This has been a year for theme investing.
The themes we are most bullish on are the auto industry, aerospace and within technology, the data center. There are also a few opportunities to be had in deep-value financials.
The auto and truck markets are recovering after years of underproduction and plant closures that has left the industry with fewer companies. The aerospace story is also one of better demand and less supply, as well as new product introductions from the leading manufacturers.And within technology, corporate IT spending continues to improve, and as managers look to reduce costs, increase productivity and improve return on invested capital, they turn to storage and the data center for help. Auto industry: We've chosen to play the auto industry through Johnson Controls (JCI - Get Report) and General Motors (GM - Get Report). Johnson Controls is the leader in auto parts, batteries, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment and has the dominant market share in all three divisions. It has a strong balance sheet and built a better company during the downturn through multiple acquisitions, expanding its overseas presence. The stock has had a nice run but still remains a core position in the fund. GM is our other car name because it is a cheap way to play the economic cycle, and offers an interesting turnaround story. It has new products, more efficient manufacturing, an improved balance sheet, and terrific exposure in the international markets (boasting No. 1 share in key emerging markets). In the truck market, we've chosen Cummins (CMI), the world's leader in engines for trucks and large industrial equipment. Demand has been improving over the past year thanks to the age of the truck fleet (it's at 20 -year highs), changes to emission standards around the world and the recovering global economies. More than half of Cummins' revenues come from international and the company is dominant in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China), but 2011 will be the year of the North American truck recovery -- management expects this market to grow 60%.


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Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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GreenThumb Workshop: Community Composting Operations - Scaling Up
at Earth Matter - Compost Learning Center, Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Tour the Earth Matter composting system on Governor's Island and learn advanced composting techniques, such as forced aeration and browns recipe, from fellow gardeners and compost experts.
Category: Education, Nature
Bryant Park Reading Room: Kids - Clifford
at Reading Room (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Reading, writing, and literary happenings related to the written word-under the London plane trees-in the open-air Reading Room.
Category: Kids, Talks
Learn to Ride: West Harlem Piers Park
at Bike path at 135th Street, Manhattan
1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
These free classes teach children the fundamentals of bicycling, preparing them for years of safe and confident riding.
Category: Kids, Bike Month NYC, Learn To Ride
Conference House Tours
at Conference House Museum (in Conference House Park), Staten Island
1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Come to The Conference House in Tottenville for guided tours through an historic house where Benjamin Franklin, Edward Rutledge, John Adams and Lord Howe met in an attempt to end the…
Category: Education, History, Tours
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1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Come join in! Bootcamp is a total body workout that helps muscle tone, improve strengh and endurance while keeping the heart rate up…
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1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Learn adaptive sports basics! The program welcomes kids with a disability ages 5 and up.
Category: Accessible, Kids, Sports
Bryant Park Kids Time: Game Social
at 40th Street Plaza (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Though kids games are available whenever we are open, the Kids Time Game Social lets the little ones enjoy games geared especially towards them.
Category: Games, Kids
Central Park Tour: The Art of the Park
at Outside the Dairy Gift Shop (in Central Park), Manhattan
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Walk from the Dairy to Belvedere Castle and see how the Park's interwoven landscapes began as a series of images envisioned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
Category: History, Tours
History In Your Hands: Fleece Fun
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2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Come to Lefferts to try your hand at processing wool into yarn.
Category: Arts & Crafts, Education, Kids
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2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
This wise-cracking Brooklyn clown is proud to cross the borough border and bring his show to Queens.
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers introduces new Military Outreach Liaison
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers released a statement Thursday announcing retired Air Force service member and longtime veterans advocate John Davis as her new Veterans and Military Outreach Liaison.
"I am both humbled and honored to welcome John Davis to my team. Over the past four decades John has dedicated his life to serving our country, our military and our veterans, and his compassion for the Eastern Washington veteran community has impacted countless lives," the congresswoman said.
Davis' role with the congresswoman's office will be to assist veterans with their claims and records, and provide support and information on how to navigate the VA system.
Davis enlisted in the Air Force in 1968 and served in many locations, including Fairchild Air Force Base in the 92 Munitions Maintenance Squadron. While assigned at Fairchild AFB, John graudated from Spokane Falls Community College and Eastern Washington University where he studied counseling and sciences.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Indian Navy's Shore-Based Test Facility at INS Hansa on June 14, a naval spokesman said in Panaji on Monday.
The Indian Navy's public relations officer said that the Prime Minister would inaugurate the facility at INS Hansa on June 14 at 14.45 hours and he would be accompanied by other dignitaries.
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By Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin
Q: Could you tell me what constitutes a legal mortgage? I live in Florida and I have clear title to my home. The homeowner's insurance policy and property taxes are in my name. I got the house and my ex-husband got the mortgage in the divorce back in 2009.
He was to pay the mortgage and homeowner's insurance premium and property tax payments for three years. I was to receive a monthly statement, get a password to access the account and be privy to the transactions. That never happened. I could not afford to get an attorney, so he did what he wanted to. I sued for contempt and the judge said I did not need access to the mortgage. I could just mail in my payment every month, now that the three years were up.
So, I make the mortgage, insurance, property tax payments, and I have no access to the mortgage at all. I cannot discuss any problems or issues about the mortgage with the lender. I cannot discuss why a payment I made was sitting in a suspense account. I also don't get notices on what the payments need to be since the loan converted into an adjustable rate mortgage. I just recently started getting the mortgage statement.
I don't know how this is legal. I have clear title. I don't know what I need specifically, but I need some help.
A: Let's start with the basics. You don't have clear title to the home. You may own the home, but it is subject to a mortgage. While the divorce decree gave you the home, the divorce gave you that home subject to the lien of the mortgage to your lender. Furthermore, it appears that your ex-husband was supposed to make the mortgage payments on that loan for three years and then it was yours to pay.
If you have a good credit score and good credit history, you should try to refinance this loan and get control over your finances. It seems clear that your ex-husband didn't get the mortgage to the home, but rather got the obligation to pay that mortgage for three years, leaving you holding the bag after that.
You need to have more clarity about your home and its finances. Start by trying to confirm that the title to the home is in your name, and only in your name. To do this, you'll need to do a little research.
Depending on the state in which you live, your real estate property records may be online. If so, you should make sure that the online records show a deed conveying title from your ex-husband to you. If you see that document and you know that your ex-husband was the only owner of the home at that time, you'll at least have a good start in the process.
The next thing to do is to get a copy of your credit history. You can get one free at http://www.AnnualCreditReport.com from each of the credit reporting bureaus, Experian, Transunion and Equifax. You may be offered other services, but you can decline them.
(We recommend that you get one report from one bureau, and then four months from now order another, and then get the final free credit report eight months from now. You can only get one free report from each of the three bureaus once per year, so spacing them out is a smart things to do.)
When you download your credit report, go over it carefully. It will show what credit accounts you have open, those that have been closed and other credit information about you. As you go through the report, you might feel confused by the information. Take each piece of information at a time and try to understand what the report is saying.
What you're looking for is information that is in error, which might be artificially suppressing your credit score. You also want to see if the report shows that you have an outstanding balance on a mortgage. If you didn't take out the mortgage on your home, the mortgage shouldn't show up on your credit file. Also, don't be confused if you see balances on your credit cards. The report may be showing balances on the day the compiled the report or the highest balance you had outstanding at any given point in time.
If you stay focused, you'll get a better understanding of the report. If there is negative information that you can fix, then you can take the next step to correct those issues. For example, if your report shows an outstanding bill to a doctor's office, you can pay it and ask that the office report that the account has been paid and settled in full.
Then you can seek the help of a mortgage broker or lender to get your loan refinanced. You don't want the broker or lender to pull a copy of your credit report until you are ready to apply for a loan, so don't give out your Social Security number. Take the credit report you downloaded with you. As you talk to the broker or lender, you can see if current loans offer you a better deal than the loan you currently have. If one does, try to refinance with a loan in your own name.
In addition to the benefit of controlling your loan, your payments on that loan will help your credit. If the current loan isn't in your name, any on-time payments merely help your ex-husband's credit history. If you always pay the loan on time, his credit report will show that he has a great record of paying, but your credit history won't show it.
You should also know that if you have a loss on your property, insurance proceeds may be made payable to the lender and to you. If that were to happen, you'd have a terrible time trying to rebuild your home if the lender won't event communicate with you.
As far as your other questions regarding the legality of your interaction with your lender, it's probably legal. The lender on your property has a loan agreement with your ex-husband and not with you. For privacy reasons, the lender won't discuss his loan with you. While some lenders may assist people in your situation, others have been burned in the past and now have a hard and fast rule about these situations, and they don't make exceptions.
(Ilyce Glink is the creator of an 18-part webinar and ebook series called "The Intentional Investor: How to be wildly successful in real estate," as well as the author of many books on real estate. She also hosts the "Real Estate Minute," on her YouTube.com/expertrealestatetips channel. If you have questions, you can call her radio show toll-free (800-972-8255) any Sunday, from 11a-1p EST. Contact Ilyce and Sam through her website, http://www.thinkglink.com.)
(c) 2014 ILYCE R. GLINK AND SAMUEL J. TAMKIN. DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.Copyright © 2015, The Morning Call


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These have a big nutmeg flavor but are delish!!!! If you don't like nutmeg then reduce the amount or leave it out completely. My kids loved them! My dad (not a rawbee at all) loved them!
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I just got my dehydrator today, and was anxious to try a recipe. This snack is moist, sweet, chewy (depending on how long you dehydrate it and on what temperature),and can be all raw. After tasting the mixture, I put some aside to eat as porridge because it was so tasty. I am on a gluten-free diet and was told that John McCann's oat groats are gluten free, so this made me happy!


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Recent Dominican Republic East Reviews
Dream House In A Wonderful Location
Upon arrival, the house is even more beautiful than the pictures let on. The booking process was simple. Petra and Jose Luis were beyond helpful in answering any questions that we had. Our stay was for 4 couples, and the rooms were prepared accordingly when arrived. The house was extremely clean and Dilcia prepared our food every day. In the middle of our trip, we went with her to the grocery store to purchase food for the remainder of our stay. After that, we relaxed and woke up every morning to a wonderful hot breakfast. The house is centrally located to many excursions and beaches. When we would arrive back to the house, Dilcia was already preparing our evening meal (unless we informed her of other dinner plans for the evening). We had a wonderful time at the beaches, snorkeling excursions, etc. but by far we most enjoyed hanging out by the pool at the house and taking in the beautiful golf course views. We will definitely be looking to make another trip to Ibiza Cana! Wonderful House, Wonderful Staff and Owners, can't beat the price and location!
Fantastic get away on the beach
We were looking for a place to stay during a friend's wedding at Dreams and did not want to stay at a resort. We were also bringing our parents as it was my wife's parent's 50th wedding anniversary. This was just what our family needed. We were looking for something different that was a bit more natural and not so fancy like the resorts are. My wife enjoyed the freedom to just walk downstairs without feeling like she needed to be "made-up" to go to the "resort restaurant or bar" for coffee, drink or a meal. This feeling transcended to the beach where it wasn't full of people looking to see and be seen. We basically had our own private beach for the week. I would highly recommend asking the owner to hire a cook (Nilda) for you for a slight extra charge. She will help you get groceries and fix authentic Dominican cuisine for you. This made the trip extremely relaxing. Waking up to the sound of waves, a free range rooster and the smell of fresh coffee/breakfast cooking is not something easily experienced anywhere else. We felt extremely pampered and she was a wonderful person. The caretaker of the property (Santiago) is also a very nice man and one of his sons is usually on the beach in the small white store on the right next to the Zoetry resort. For you fishermen out there, I was able to fish directly from shore using lures on spinning tackle with mixed results. I would recommend bait if you want to do this. I was also able to walk to the lagoon and use my fly rod but the only way to get a good fish doing that in the lagoon would be to rent a kayak or small boat. The shoreline is not accessible for the biggest part of the lagoon. We rented a car for the week and had no problems driving to get groceries, driving to Dreams for the wedding, taking a trip to Higuey to see the basilica, going out to the Hard Rock casino one night, etc. We had some trouble with the WiFi hotspot that is at the house but the resort next door (Zoetry) has open WiFi so we were able to get connected while lying in the beach chairs, real hardship there <g>. The only thing that would make the house perfect would be hot water. This was really not as big an issue as it might sound as we took showers after being on the hot beach all day and it was refreshing. Morning showers would be an issue; If you are that inflexible, you probably don't belong in the Dominican Republic at all much less this house. Thanks Villijant!
Excellent time in Punta Cana
I travelled to Punta Cana in March of 2015 with about 18 or so friends to stay here. We're all young, so definitely wasn't a family or with-kids kind of trip as many other reviewers have mentioned. Nonetheless, the house was perfect. The staff is incredibly attentive. The food was very good, the cleaning very thorough, and everyone was courteous and professional. The house is about a 10 minute walk to the beach via a golf cart pathway. The airport is very, very close which made coming and going a breeze. The facilities at the club were also great. Overall, an incredible stay and would recommend with no hesitation.


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FNC 2014: Wrap it up with a flourish at martial-arts classic Dragon InnThe 2014 edition of the Festival du nouveau cinema wraps up tonight, Sunday, Oct. 19. Consider ending it with whooshes and sword clanging at the screening of a remastered copy of King Hu's Dragon Inn.
Fantasia Film Festival: Singing and dancing on The Rooftop with Jay Chou – Saturday at the ImperialIf only we could see inside megastar Jay Chou's mind. There's obviously lots of intriguing stuff in there, and he's put some of it on the screen in the movie musical The Rooftop.
Yung Chang's documentary China Heavyweight wins a Golden Horse Award in Taiwan and praise from Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau!The Golden Horse Awards begin! — with Yi Han, Coach Qi and Yung Chang at 蘭城晶英酒店 Silks Place Yilan, Taiwan. Montreal director Yung Chang has just won a Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary
Montrealer Yung Chang in race to win Taiwan's Golden Horse Award for China HeavyweightThis is what a Golden Horse looks like. (L-R) Best Director Ang Lee, Best New Performer Tang Wei and Taiwan actor Leehom Wang display trophies at the Golden Horse Film Awards in Taipei, December 8, 2007.
Fantasia 2012: You Are the Apple of My Eye - film from Taiwan is rude yet sweet, totally hilariousKo Chen-tung plays Ko Ching-teng in a scene from the Taiwanese movie You Are The Apple of My Eye. No, he's not angry, and he's not about to throw the chair, he is being punished by his teacher - a punishment


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We had a wonderful holiday (8 nights) at Fare Edith. The fare (Fare Miti) was very spacious and comfortable for our family of four. It had a large veranda that overlooked a gorgeous, turkoise lagoon. The location was fabulous! We travelled all around the island of Moorea and did not find a beach as nice as the beach in front... More
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Win a Trip to Chicago for the Ultimate Hockey Experience!
Arizona Cardinals Head Coach Bruce Arians Has An Interesting Take On A Gay Football Player
According to the new head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, a potential gay ball player will face bigger obstacles with fans then with teammates.
Bruce Arians, the man who ran the Indianapolis Colts last year while Colts head coach Chuck Pagano recovered from Cancer claims fans will be the main problem not fellow players
NHL And NBA Combine For Remarkable Night Of Playoff Action – Bruce's Thought Of The Day
Fans Sing National Anthem Before Bruins-Sabres Game [VIDEO]
For anyone who ever pays attention to the articles I usually put together for this website, you are very aware that it is extremely rare for me to post a video and that I usually only write about news stories. However, when something as awesome as this occurs, I willingly make an exception.
It's 2 P.M. Eastern And Already The Sports Weekend Is Nuts- Bruce's Thought Of The Day
Union College Goaltender Troy Grosenick Signs With NHL'S San Jose Sharks
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"BALTIMORE: THE INFERNAL TRAIN" #1 (Comic Review)
Bigger weapons, higher death-tolls, and political interests have changed the face of mans need to divide and conquer, but for some, like Henry Baltimore, actions in battle have consequences far beyond human understanding. With a post-war Europe plagued with vampires, BALTIMORE takes the traumas of war and mixes it with the arcane and bizarre; creating a sublime series that ensnares readers with its dark charm. BALTIMORE: THE INFERNAL TRAIN takes our hero into the wild streets of Budapest as he continues his hunt to eradicate the blood-suckers that he, mistakenly, let out onto the world.Read more »


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Jacob Schlottke---Gone too soon, and the world is a little less bright because of it. RIP, brother.
One, two, Evans is coming for you...
Pretty sure he is spoken for
Gold is an idiot.
I'm doing 2 or 3 things at once, I have Falcon's pick so when Snackem takes another guy and Zapp provides 1stplace's pick someone text me and I'll tell you who Falcon wants.
RIP Jacob Schlottke - 1984-2011
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At the end of 2010, around 500 seafarers from more than eighteen countries were being held hostage by pirates.
During the same year, around $238 million was paid in ransoms to Somali pirates. Piracy doesn't only affect the world's largest trade transport industry; it actually costs the global community a lot more than just ransoms and stolen cargo.
Despite piracy on the high seas being one of the world's oldest crimes, the maritime industry has failed to figure out a way to deal with it.
According to the Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) project, contemporary international reactions to piracy follow similar lines to early international law, which declared it the duty of states and their navies to deal with pirates.
But, despite more than thirty countries (including the US) contributing to the navies patrolling the trade lanes around the Horn of Africa, pirates operating in the waters off the coast of Somalia are still doing a roaring trade.
Although the navies' presencemanaged to reduce the rate of successful hijackings, the pirates doubled the number of attacks and expanded their playground, so the actual number of successful hijackings increased.
Furthermore, hijacked vessels are reportedly being used as "mother ships". This not only enables the pirates to expand their operating area, but also gives them some degree of protection since a naval vessel would hesitate to fire on pirates aboard a ship full of crude oil.
OBP says that, between 2004-2009, only 15% of global piracy attacks occurred off the coast of Somalia But in 2009, Somali pirates were responsible for 53% of reported attacks around the world, including 47 hijacked vessels and 867 seafarers held hostage.
The cost
Total direct costs of piracy in 2010 is thus estimated to be between $7 billion and $12 billion.
But there are secondary costs as well:
Total secondary costs to regional economies: $125 billion a year
And we haven't even started trying to quantify "loss of use" and "loss of man-hours" while ships and their crew are held hostage, often for a few months, while shipowners and pirates negotiate a price for their release..
The One Earth Future Foundation says that the scourge of piracy will continue to increase because there is no effective international system to deal with the problem.
Which is why the Foundation established the Oceans Beyond Piracy project, which is attempting to develop a robust and global system to manage piracy through collaboration with stakeholders from industry and governments.
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The long trip to Grenada will not take place until 2014. I will start sailing out of Panama City in May or June of 13. I will start off with one day outings and progress out from there. I thought about a trip to the Bahamas (2013) but way to early to talk about it (for real). I have a lot of train up (takes time) time in front of me. I need to learn my boat, & time to get it ship shape. I'm asking a lot of question's and doing some long range plans (longer trips) to keep my big dream maker alive & well. I'm smart enough to know that it will be 2014 (Grenada & return, est. 9 mo's.) for my long trip.
My sailing off into the sunset (2014) is driven by one other (major) factor. My Mother is in her later stages of dementia. I'm a only chlld and she need's 24/7 overwatch/ care. She is (nearly) at the point where she does not know (that often) me and hostile (against me). I'm just starting to look for a nursing home to take Good Care of Her. My Son is on her good side. he's the only family member that she know's (currently) and still gets along with. So long story short, I'm walking a time line with a number of variables -- Train Up Time, Prep./ Proof Out of I-37, Off Shore (more training) Experience, and Ma Ma's Care. I need to know she's provided for while I'm gone, & Son checks in on her. Lastly, I have minor (+) health issues. When you're 64 and counting.. another week, months or years is not yours to count on. I have a 2, 3 or 4 year window and I need to make it happen. I did not come up with this Sailing Plan over night. I have been setting money aside and going over everything for 2 years (+). I just found the right boat for me (I37); I wanted a Motor Sailor/ Sailboat, well satisfied with overall condition of the I37 and own it.
So, please bear with me, with a little bit of luck and hard work (some of it fun)... I'm determined to get there. I expect to have .. big smiles, see breath taking sunsets and much more in my (near future) touchable dreams.
You know, anything can be done with the right attitude and determination. However, instead of setting your sites on the carrib, set it on the Bahamas. The run from Panama City just to the keys (rodriguez if you want to jump across to the Bahamas) is realistically several days and most likely a week or better. In doing it that way, even taking a week, you will miss a lot of great stuff. Not to mention , I would not leave the US without stopping by the Tortugas. I think they are the most beautiful place in the US via water (my opinion). Somewhere in there you have to refuel and restock with water and groceries and the stuff that broke or doesn't run right. Then you set in ROdriguez Key and wait for the right weather window. Then you jump across. All of that is likely two weeks or more - assuming very little sight-seeing or issues.
Being a Floridian, you know the inherent dangers of making the run into the Bahamas (much less the carrib) in the summer and especially late summer. Your progress will be determined by the weather, period. Many of the delivery captains I know will not take a boat out that time of year from here. They will wait until post-November. There is a reason for that. Also, are you carrying insurance? If not, you may well find it difficult to stay at any reasonably nice marina in the US. If you are, you better check the coverage. Many demand that you are out of the hurricane zone during hurricane season.
I want you to get to the carrib and enjoy your dream. But remember that it isn't the destination that makes this life wonderful, it is everything inbetween.
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Personally, I believe that while the show was not as godlike as the diehard Whedon fans believe, it also was a world apart from Whedon's previous work.
In other words, Firefly was where Whedon was /beginning/ to get serious and was consciously struggling to raise himself out of the "hack" category, putting the good parts of his abilities to use. People who dismiss the show as being "just like all his other stuff" are reading in what isn't there; not all the characters are his stock characters, they actually have different voices and personalities, and the universe he was setting up had much more nuance and was damned intriguing.
Truthfully, Firefly showed the most potential of any major sci-fi to make it on television in years, especially because it showed signs of being a postmodern space opera: its rethinking of space opera tropes was more in line with modern authors like Alastair Reynolds than with the Star Trek-age ideas that have fueled (and been mined clean) mass market sci-fi for decades. It was a better show than Moore's BSG in many ways. (For one thing, while it was clear Whedon and Mineer were interested in turning sci-fi on its ear, they didn't show open disdain for the genre that Moore did and caused BSG's mythology to fall apart.)
So yeah, there's a really bitter pill to swallow. To draw a comparison: what if say, NuBSG had been suddenly canceled after the first 13 episodes, at the episode 13 cliffhanger? How much brutal sting of wasted potential would have been felt, and how much bad blood would have been directed at the network involved? I suspect it would have made the Farscape cancellation look like a girl scout campfire.
While lots of "browncoat" fans have been very annoying, I think you can argue Firefly getting screwed over is maybe the biggest missed opportunity in television sci-fi in the 21st century.
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Any small patch of land can become a thriving vegetable garden
Living off the land has been around since time unknown. Growing one's own food, whether tubers and greens or grains and herbs, has always preoccupied man.
In a BBC series, ace British gardener Monty Don showed how islanders in rubble-strewn West Indies grow vegetables in derelict plots, between tiny homes and fallen buildings. Between the debris small patches of greens, chilly, brinjal, tomato and gourd flourish. Grown organically, these vegetables are bartered among the locals in exchange for organic matter to put back into the soil such as vegetable peel, stalks and leaves.
In Central and South America, many settlers live on boats that glide along densely forested river banks, and satisfy their desire for fresh vegetables and fruit by planting gardens on layers of soil laid on floating structures alongside their boats. This is seen in Kashmir too, whose floating gardens are rafts layered with reeds and roots and covered with mud, on which potato, tomato, pumpkins and radish are grown extensively, besides melons and flowers.
Along the backwaters of Kumarakom in Kerala we see a similar approach to produce gardening. The backyards of these little homes (which lead to the river) all boast a jackfruit tree, mango tree, chilly, tomato plants, banana tree, and a small patch of paddy. The river, of course, gives fish in plenty and trees provide firewood.
On a recent visit to Kolkata, I found everything covered in a layer of dust. Could there be a more unappealing place? But as we drove into the city, something caught my eye. A man sitting under the shade of a huge signboard with a cloth pegged down with stones. He had arranged a few vegetables on it and I have never seen them so fresh — beans, tomatoes, flat beans, leeks, and cauliflower. Desi gobi (country variety) he said proudly of his unique cauliflowers. What we know as avarakai in Tamil Nadu had no resemblance to the ones he had — flat, fat, tender and so green — I was bowled over.
Just behind him, along an inner lane, was a narrow stretch of land that boasted of green and red saag . Deciding to explore, I came off the highway and found small plots of land perfectly hoed and sown with rows of cabbage, cauliflower, brinjal, chilly, and pumpkins. Poor families in dwellings alongside the land looked after the crops, growing them for their own needs and selling the rest. It seemed like another world. Here, water was ferried in pots on a cycle, fresh bundles of vegetables slung over the shoulder, and the land attended to, in rain and shine.
My driver told me how these areas, now replete with new construction activity, used to be farmlands till just a few years ago. The rich loamy soil is part of the Gangetic belt, fertile and healthy. Mahamayatala, as the area is called, is one of the oldest settlements, where refugees once arrived in droves.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and optimum use of space for man's primary need, food, is what I have stated above.
As vegetable prices soar, a small pot on the balcony or a bed in the backyard can yield enough for a family's consumption.
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Young female fashion stylist with potential to manipulate magical forces uses an ancient talisman to use powers that influence future events, cast protective spells, & generate light-based effects.d ef
Hero's Identity: Sharmaine Anne Javier Fernando; nee. Macy (secret)
Age: 26 yrs.
Origin: Altered Human
Base of Operations: 171 Felix Manalo ext. San Juan, Metro Mla.
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Primary Abilities:
F Excellent (23)
A Good (8)
S poor (3)
E Good (8)
R Typical (5)
I Remarkable (26)
P Remarkable (26)
Health: 42
Karma: 557
Initiative modifier: +2
Popularity: 5/10
Talents: 4/4
-Artist (Fashion Design)
-Mystical Lore (counts as two skills; represents Talisman's background & aptitude for working with magical forces; it is this talent which enables Macy to use the legendary talismanic vest of the ancient Sulod hero Labaw Donggon)
-Occult Lore (Talisman has acquired extensive knowledge about magical societies, antiquities, and other subjects of magical lore, especially those connected with Philippine culture)
Sponsor corporations & Resources: Summit media, inc. In; Penshoppe Philippines Gd; SOFA (School Of Fashion & the Arts)Gd
Contacts: 5
Powers: 5/5 magical powers
mechanism: Talisman (Talismanic vest of Sulod Labaw Donggon)
Composed of gold and silver threads padded in the inside by cotton, This magical Vest is an artifact actually worn by the legendary Sulod warrior Labaw Donggon over a thousand years ago in while adventuring in the Philippine isles and all over asia at that time. Already ancient even during Labaw donggon's time, the vest, in addition, is inscribed all over with magical writings in decals of a shiny unknown metal, and is purportedly lemurian in origin. After the death Labaw Donggon, his spirit was supposedly bound to the vest, the latter consequently disappearing from the public eye, being passed through countless owners down through the ages, who just kept it as a priceless heirloom without knowing its true significance, until circa early in the 21st century, when a young fashion stylist working for penshoppe, inc., named Macy Fernando bought an old wooden trunk at bargain price in a garage sale for an old house in san juan being demolished to make way for a condominium building, which contained the vest. Upon opening the chest and seeing the vest inside, Macy proceeds to wear it and then the vest's magic makes itself apparent to her, with the supposed spirit of Labaw Donggon appearing before her and earnestly starts the task of mentoring her in the use of the Talismanic vest. While it is the actual appearance of Labaw Donggon which shows itself before Macy ( and which only she can see ), it is in actuality a hologram used by the Talismanic vest to communicate in a more "human-like" manner to the wearer of the vest, it being apparently intelligent. It is not known if the Talismanic vest also used to communicate this way with Sulod Labaw Donggon when he wore and used it over a thousand years ago, and with any other previous owners of the artifact even before the legendary Sulod warrior.
The talent mystical origin is required to be able to use the magical powers of the vest, which Macy has, enabling her to become the current user of the ancient artifact. As of this moment, it is not known if anyone else, even if possessing the talent of mystical origin, can also use the magical vest other than Macy, as the talismanic vest has accepted Macy as its current owner.
Exposure to the magical energies emitted by the talismanic vest, as well as the training provided by the ghostly apparition of Sulod Labaw Donggon has enhanced Macy's abilities to up to remarkable rank, especially her fighting ability & Psyche.
MG2: Energy Source:(freebie)
The Talismanic Vest of Sulod Labaw Donggon is its own power source, providing Macy with all the raw Power she needs to work out the Magic it provides as long as she continues to wear it. It would not be possible at all for her to work out all its magic thats possible for her to work out at this time the moment she isnt wearing it. If it is already suspect that this isn't really a Power but is more like a restraint, not so, for it is also a freebie. Thus, it has no power ranking.
MG9 Power Simulation: EE8 Light Emission at Amazing (46) rank
The Talismanic Vest enables Macy to emit powerful bursts of light that does Amazing Power rank damage at same rank range. The light is emitted from an aura on Macy's chest as she is wearing the vest. The Power travels in a straight line, perpendicular to the body. The light may be of any nature:
• Normal light in any color or intensity; Talisman can light the area, dispel Shadow Powers, and temporarily blind targets.
• Coherent Light (lasers) that does Amazing rank level heat damage as they burn into targets. Lasers can also be used to carry information, relaying them to any receiving devices that is enabled to recieve them. Talisman can also create holograms using this magical laser light.
The ability to also discharge optic blasts isn't enabled by the vest in this magical version of the power, but the absence of this feature in this version of the power gives +1CS (from incredible to amazing) in the rank possible for the vest to generate this power.
MG13 Warding at Excellent (16) rank:
Talisman can create areas of latent Power in any desired location. The Ward is designated by Talisman as she traces its magical symbol with her fingers on any surface she desires to place the ward upon. She can decide what specific Powers the Ward possesses and what the triggering stimulus will be. When that stimulus occurs, the Ward releases all its power in a single turn, generally in the direction of whatever created the stimulus. With an excellent rank enabled by the magical vest in warding, Talisman can create a total of up to 16 wards, each ward being able to accomodate up to 16 different powers ( even if she cannot use those powers directly herself ) & with each ward having up to excellent intensity. A Remarkable Intensity FEAT enables Talisman to create a single-use Ward. An Amazing Intensity FEAT enables her to create a self-renewing Ward. With the Power rank number being the maximum number of Wards she can have in existence at any one time, If Talisman tries to surpass this number, her oldest still-existing Ward harmlessly vanishes. The minimum distance between Wards is one foot for each point of the Wards' combined Intensity rank numbers. For example, a Feeble and an excellent Ward both created by Talisman must be separated by at least 17 feet. If she attempts to place a new ward within range of an existing one, the new one will not function. If the new Ward's area of effect would overlap with another Ward, the new Ward cannot have the full Intensity rank. The new Ward will have a maximum rank that will only touch the edge of the earlier Ward's range. For example, for talisman, a Good Ward covers an area of eight-foot radius. If she tries to create an excellent Ward within 16 feet of the Good Ward, she discovers he can only create another Good ward at best. If she backs off another 8 ft., though, he can create the excellent Intensity ward that she desires. The triggering mechanism can be any condition stated by Talisman at the time of creation. Normally Wards are triggered by the close passage of a living being. Thus they are often found near doorways or in passages.
Once created, Wards last until they are depleted or destroyed. Given the durability of modern building materials, a Ward can last for about a century or so. (Quick, name five 100-year-old buildings in your area!) Wards can be destroyed by demolishing the surface on which they are placed or by the use of Magic Control/ Negation.
Wards can be detected by a number of ways. The simplest is the brute force method of triggering them (also called the really stupid method). The presence of a Ward can be revealed by either Energy ( Nanite can detect them through her energy signature detecting goggles ) , Magic, Power, or Psionic Detection.
Here is the list of all (16) different powers that Talisman is able to incorporate into her wards. Wards that employ a special variation on normal Power use, such as a Power Stunt, should be treated as individual Wards. Example: Consider two different Wards that each employ Force Field Generation. One creates a trap that envelops anyone within the target area. The other one creates an invisible column of force that shoves anyone back with excellent level Strength. Each of these is considered a separate Ward and requires a unique designation.
1.) D2/Force Field: The ward creates the type of field used by the Invisible Woman™. It provides protection against a variety of forces, including brute force, energy attacks, and extreme temperature conditions.
2.) variation of D2/Force Field: The effects are like the above, but this variation envelops everyone within the target area, entraping them.
3.) D3/Force Field vs. Emotion Attack: The ward provides protection from attacks that are emotion-related or aimed at the Intuition, including Emotion Control, Hallucinations, and Domination
4.) D5/Force Field v.s. Magic: The Ward protects anything from magical attack whether mental or physical in orientation.
5.) D6/Force Field v.s. Mental Attack: The Ward protects anyone from attacks aimed at the mind, neural system, and Psyche, including Psionics, and Neural Manipulation. It does not protect against emotion-based attacks (see D3) or magical attacks (see D5).
6.) D8/Force Field vs. Power Manipulation: This ward protects from any attacks that directly affect the NEXT hero's Powers, including Weakness Creation, Power Control, Power Domination, Magic Control, and Magician Domination.
7.) D9/Force Field v.s. Vampirism: The field protects anyone within from any vampiric-type attacks. This includes the forms of Psi-, Bio-, Energy, Magic, and Power Vampirism.
8.) D10/Reflection: The ward can turn any attack back onto the attacker. The attack may be of any nature: brute force, Power, or magic. The Power absorbs the energy of the attack up to this rank and redirects it. A Typical FEAT send the attack off in a random direction. An Amazing FEAT reflects some of the attack back onto the attacker; it is now -3CS in Intensity. An Unearthly FEAT sends the entire attack back onto the attacker. If the attack's Intensity is higher that this Power's rank, some of the damage passes through and affects the hero. The Power rank is subtracted from the attack's Intensity. While most of the attack is reflected, the remainder gets through to Talisman if she is within range of the attack.
Example: Talisman is battling X-Factor™ and creates this ward to protect herself. Cyclops™ fires an optic blast of Remarkable Intensity. Talisman can imbue up to Excellent rank in all the wards she creates & thus this Reflection ward with excellent rank. Her ward splits Cyke's optic blast in two. A Feeble blast penetrates the ward and knocks Talisman back. The bulk of the blast was reflected, however. Talisman makes an Amazing FEAT, so some of Cyclops' blast returns to him. Cyke takes Typical damage from his own Power.
9.) EC1/Absorption Power (energy): The ward can absorb a specific type of energy (any emitted energy forms, whether natural, artificial, or Power-based, including Light, Heat and Flame, Plasma, Hard Radiation, Electricity, Vibration, Sonics, Cold, and Kinetic Bolts (most of the Energy Emission category) and enables Talisman to actually gain Health points by converting
the energy absorbed and directing it to her for Self-Healing. She gains a number of Health points equal her Power rank number each time she is hit by any of the specified forms of absorbable
energy. This addition to Health quickly heals any damage she had suffer, and acts as a buffer to absorb consequent damage (temporary hp™).
In the absence of life-sustaining materials, the energies absorbed can act as a substitute for air, water, and food. She converts energy into healing power for the damage she's taking from suffocation, dehydration, starvation, and any other unpleasant results of not living carefully.
10.) EE1/Cold Generation: This ward emits a field that decreases thermal energy and infrared radiation. The temperature in the area is decreased; the amount is determined both by a FEAT and the Power rank number (excellent 16). A Typical FEAT drops the temperature by 10x the rank number; a Remarkable FEAT drops it by 20x the rank number; and an Unearthly FEAT drops it by 40x the rank number. With Talisman's excellent rank in warding she can create a ward with the Cold Generation effect that can lower a target's temperature by 160 (10×16) to 640 (40×16) degrees. The only limitation is that the temperature cannot drop lower than absolute zero (-273 degrees Celsius or -459.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
The power has the side-effect of cooling the air within the area affected by the ward. Gases within that area may condense. Such by-products evaporate quickly after the Power ceases to operate.
Cold Generation can be used to negate other sources of cold, whether Power-based, artificial, or environmental; its Power rank decreases the intensity of the affected cold. However, it cannot be used to raise the temperature of a frigid environment.
11.) EE2/Electrical Generation (lightning): The ward creates streams of lightning that can do
Power rank (excellent) damage to anything and anyone within the area affected by the ward.
12.) EE4/Fire Generation: The ward if triggered projects fire that does Power rank (excellent) damage within the area of effect. The sudden firestorm also tend to consume all the oxygen in the location, making everyone within it pass out. There is the question of smoke and gases generated by the firestorm.
13.) MCo3/Disintegration: The ward has the ability to convert any matter in its area of effect into pure light. The energy dissipates harmlessly immediately after. The maximum amount of matter that can be disintegrated in a single turn is the number of cubic feet equal to the Power rank number ( 16 cubic feet ). Unwilling targets of this Power are allowed to resist it in any way they can. Actually, some air is accidentally Disintegrated whenever this Power is used – that's why the Power appears as a glowing beam emitted around the area of effect.
Nemeses for Disintegration are Phasing (to protect the target, like the one exhibited by Silver Sapphire) and Ionization (to protect other targets) as the Power cannot affect intangible matter.
14.) L18/Sleep-Induced: The ward puts any target in the area of effect into a deep sleep, from which he cannot awake while the Power is in effect. During this induced sleep, the target is completely helpless The power rank (excellent)determines the duration of the Power. Sleep persists for 1 -10 hours after the Power's duration. During that time, the victim can be awakened by anyone, but he'll wake up naturally in any case.
15.) L1/Biophysical Control (aging): The ward accelerates or decelerates the aging process of everyone in the area of effect when triggered. The normal rate is multiplied by the Power rank number (excellent 16), making aging occur at a sixteen-fold rate forward or in reverse. A green FEAT accelerates aging. A yellow FEAT stops it. A red FEAT reverses it. As the victim's age changes, physiology and mental capacities change as well. While the Power can function as a Fountain of Youth, it can also be used to kill through old age or regression to protoplasm.
A target can be protected from unwanted Biophysical Control by such Powers as Force Field Generation and True Invulnerability.
16.) MG3/Internal Limbo: The ward materializes a pocket dimension whose gateway is it's area of effect. This is a timeless space of near-infinite volume. The world within is a vast sea under an almost completely cloudy sky, with an island bordered by a vast expanse of corrals that jut out of the surface of the waters. The island is almost totally encompassed by a stone fortress, with a vast underground dungeon complex. This is Tulogmatian, the seaside fortress of Saragnayan, the lord of darkness of the Sulod pantheon, and a mortal enemy to Labaw Donggon. The size of this pocket dimension is the equivalent of a cube measuring on one side the number of miles equal to the Power rank number ( 16 miles on a side, 576 cubic miles). The real limit to how much can be crammed into this little world is the size of the Gateway that everything must pass through, in this case area of effect covered by the ward. A target can Resist being draw in by the Gateway by using Strength, Agility, or any Travel Power. This Power's rank determines what Intensity of Strength FEAT. A moving target requires an Agility FEAT to escape being drawn in. If the gateway draws in a target larger than itself, odd things can happen. One, only a section of it might be drawn in ; the rest would appear to be sticking out of the gateway. This could be fatal and quite messy if some factor were to suddenly negate this Power. Two, parts of it might be able to break off that would fit within the Gateway. This requires a Power FEAT based on the Material Strength of the target. Such broken materials are rejoined once the enter the Internal Limbo. Three, it simply might not work. The gateway would stick the target to it but that's as far as it would go. Talisman is only limited to basic awareness of conditions within the Internal Limbo created by the ward.
The Nemesis for this is Dimension Travel.
MG10 Reality Alteration (Alter Future)(considered as 2 powers) at Remarkable (26) ranking:
Talisman, enabled by the magical powers of the Talismanic vest of Sulod Labaw Donggon, can reshape time itself in order to achieve a desired situation. Talisman's version of this magical power is the control of the probability of a certain event coming to pass. The event can have any degree of importance, from a simple coin toss to the passage of the Mutant Control Act. Events of greater importance require Talisman to make the desired change in a series of several steps over a great period of time. The Power is limited to directly influencing events within a finite range of time and complexity. The maximum range into the future that Talisman can directly influence events is the number of turns equal to her Power rank number( 26 turns[156 seconds, 2.6 minutes] at remarkable ranking ). The complexity of the desired change decides what Intensity FEAT is required. Random chance or a single event that is decided by the dice requires a green FEAT to change to Talisman's whim. Series of physical actions or altering a person's decisions requires a yellow FEAT. Altering several conscious decisions by two or more people requires a red FEAT.
Talisman must be within line-of-sight of the location of the impending event in order to use this Power. Her Magical Sensory Link power is coupled with this Power & serves to extend its range up to the limit of the Sensory Link's detection range ( also at Remarakable ranking).
This Power requires a great deal of cooperation with the Judge. If the FEAT is successful, the future event occurs naturally at the appointed time. If the FEAT is unsuccessful, the event is somehow protected from Talisman's tampering. She must try a different tactic if she makes another attempt to alter that future event.
Example: Talisman has Remarkable Reality Alteration and a range of three minutes. She is incognito at a secret Congressional Appropriations Committee meeting at which Henry Peter Gyrich is seeking funding for additional Sentinels. Talisman is trying to cut the funding. As this requires changing the minds of several Congressmen, a red FEAT is required. Two minutes before the vote is taken, she tries and fails (her player rolled a 66). The Congressmen's minds are already made up. She tries another tactic by concentrating on Gyrich himself. She increases the probability that he would do something incredibly obnoxious that would disgrace him in front of the Congressmen. This only alters a single mind and is a yellow FEAT. She fails that too (he's too hidebound). Finally she concentrates on making the fire sprinkler system fail (a green FEAT). She succeeds, the room gets drenched, and the Committee adjourns before actually taking the vote. Talisman has another day to figure out some way to succeed. Some events appear to be too complex for this Power. In such a case, the Mage should remember the adage, "From little acorns grow mighty oaks." A little time tampering today can snowball into a major rewrite of history in years to come.
MG9 Power Simulation: M27 Sensory Link at remarkable (26) ranking:
Talisman can telepathically link her senses with those of another being. She can use the information gained from the other's senses as if it came from her own senses. An example would be a blind man really seeing through his guide dog's eyes. The Power is crucial to sense-impaired characters. Such characters need other beings with the necessary senses to replace the hero's own deficiency.
The hero could receive input from any living being, including companions, adversaries, onlookers, and even animals. The range for this is line-of-sight within one area. The hero can concentrate on the input from a single being but he can also automatically scan for other possible sense-donors. This is a mental reflex action that permits the hero to constantly seek out new contacts.
Sensory Link can be of benefit to heroes who are not sense-impaired. In such cases, the hero can scan distant areas through the senses of beings within the target area. The Power can be used to locate people, spy on foes, or simply to check out the scenery.
In particular, this magical version of the Power is also used by Talisman to increase the range of the effectivity of her Reality Alteration Power. The sense donor is unaware that part of his senses are being siphoned by Talisman. A red Reason FEAT is required for the sense-donor to feel the Power's presence and even then the donor would probably not recognize what is happening to him.
A weakness of the Power is that, when in use, it decreases -1CS Talisman's resistance to psionic attacks aimed at him or at the current sense-donor. A second disadvantage while in use is that Talisman's initial Agility and Fighting ranks are decreased -1CS due to the fact that she is operating with a detached point of view. Either of these can be overcome by expending Karma.
The Nemesis is Neural Manipulation.
The Preceding magical effects of the Talismanic vest are only the surface of it's fullest capabilities, being the only ones Macy can access and use as of this time. With advancing experience and longer tutoring of the "spirit of Labaw Donggon", she may be able to use these other effects of the artifact, thus revealing its full potential:
MG9 Power Simulation: T4/Energy Path
MG9 Power Simulation: MC12/Weather Control
MG12/Sympathetic Magic (Voodoo)
MG4/Magic Control
Sharmaine Fernando, or Macy is your typical 26-year old cosmopolitan manila girl, who after having experienced turbulence in her studies, career and finances, and especially in her love-life for the past immediate years, deliberately makes major changes in her life style as she enters her 26th year of age, desiring for a more quieter, peaceful, stable life. Little did she know that her life was to take on a more different, dramatic, unusual direction, starting with the uassuming spur-of-the-moment purchase of an old chest-type locker box at a very ludicrously low price in a garage sale for clearance of an old house being demolished to pave the way for the construction of a condominium building near her palce in San Juan. Inside the chest which she had to break open to unlock, she discovers what appears to be an actual vest made of gold and silver wirings, with decal of strange characters (ancient lemurian magical script) of unknown metal. Upon wearing the vest on impulse, the vest suddenly comes alive, with the appearance of a ghostly male 'Sulod' warrior in his early 30's, revealing himself to be supposedly the legendary ancient Sulod warrior Labaw Donggon whose exploits are chronicled in the 8,340 verse -oral epic 'Hinilawod' of the Sulod people of ancient Central Panay. Declaring to the confused Macy that by right of being the rediscoverer in the early 21st century of the ancient talismanic vest of Sulod Labaw Donggon, the ghostly apparition admonishes Macy of actively using the powers of the vest to help the common people, right wrongs, and generally fight evil in the way it is appearing now in the present time. Thinking that all of this is too fantastic and too much for her, Macy declines, despite the apparition's admonishons that 'it is her apparent destiny' to wield the powers of the magical vest in the current modern times, and proceeds taking off the vest and not wanting to wear it again, ever. Feeling unable to discard or dismantle the vest, she keeps and hides it, wanting to just forget about it.
But during the subsequent days, this proves impossible as Macy gets urges, promptings, and even dreams about the vest and it's ghostly patron, still declaring that it is unavoidable for her to use the vest to fight evil in today's world. And as a result, after a week of denial, Macy reluctantly wears the vest again, and proceeds to talk more in-depth with the ghostly apparition of Labaw Donggon to know more about the what the vest is and the history behind it, as well as what's in it for her – her supposed destiny to use the vest in present times. After more or less a month like this where she asks all the questions she could think of, and where the ghostly apparition starts to actually tutor her about the vests powers and how to utilize them, Macy finally but still reservedly agrees to 'sort-of' start using the vest to do some good in the world. She starts with giving aid 'incognito' to the recently devastated areas of Cagayan De oro and the Compostella Valley of Davao del Norte, helping in the rescue of survivors and the retrieval of dead bodies, plus the distribution of relief goods and the rebuilding and rehabilitation of the affected areas thru the use of the magical powers she began to access from the vest.
She also begins going after small time crooks – mostly muggers, burglars, & carnappers, foiling their misdeeds and apprehending them for the local police. These beginning exploits make the ghostly apparition quite happy and more confident of Macy being the current possessor of the magical artifact. This also gives Macy more confidence, more interest, and thus more acceptance of actively using the talismanic vest for the general good of society.
Upon advise of the ghostly apparition of Labaw Donggon, she adopts the NEXT code name 'Talisman' as a general description of her and her magical NEXT powers. Soon after this, again upon advise of her ghostly mentor, she reluctantly and candidly joins HERO TV: Philippines as the magical NEXT heroine Talisman, where she starts formally fighting crime in view of the general public.
Honda Civic Vtec
well used; prone to a lot of mishaps like battery discharge if engine is left cold for too long, etc.
Macy uses the ff. hoodies & other apparel for costume when as Talisman (all along with a black leather mask and of course, the talismanic vest of Sulod Labaw Donggon):
Blackberry Bold 9700 smartphone
Tarot of the Witches deck; Osho Zen tarot deck


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Underwater Rover M'RAJE (Image 9)
June 23, 2010
Underwater Rover M'RAJE (Image 9) One of rover M'RAJE's final "flights" was in the shallow waters off Cape Evans. This is the location of a historic hut used by Robert F. Scott in the early 20th century during the "heroic age" of Antarctic exploration. The site is in the shadow of 14,000-foot Mt. Erebus, the world's southernmost active volcano. M'RAJE is an underwater, camera-equipped "rover" developed by two high school seniors from Cabrillo High School in Lompoc, Calif. The two developed the rover as part of the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center ROV Design competition in 2005. [Image 9 in a series of 9. Back to Image 1.] More about this Image In Antarctica, where the remote location means shipping and assembly of scientific instruments can cost millions of dollars, a relatively meager $5,000 investment has returned a wealth of experience for students at a California High School and the research team with whom they are working at McMurdo Station, the National Science Foundation's logistics hub in Antarctica. Working with graduate students and technicians from the lab of marine biologist Gretchen Hofmann of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Ryan Garner and Amanda Wilson, two female graduates of Cabrillo High School in Lompoc, Calif. built an underwater, camera-equipped "rover" that appears to be able to meet the challenges of the harshest environments on Earth. The submersible rig--called M'RAJE (pronounced "mirage")--is providing Hofmann and her team with an extra set of eyes to observe fish in their natural environments in water frequently covered by many meters of ice. Hofmann studies the environmental genomics of Antarctic fishes and their response to variations in water temperatures, such as might occur in a climate change scenario. She also takes very seriously the NSF priority of melding research and education. Working closely with graduate students Jessica Dutton, Mackenzie Zippay and Elizabeth Hoaglund in Hofmann's lab, Garner and Wilson--both high school seniors at Cabrillo at the time--turned their design of M'RAJE into a workable prototype. "I really like how Gretchen found these girls and emphasized the 'women in science' dimension of the project," noted Dutton, who acted as a liaison between Hofmann's laboratory and the rover team. As juniors, both Garner and Wilson were members of a team at Cabrillo that competed and placed highly in the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center ROV design competition in 2005. Working with Ali Whitmer, the director of education at UCSB's Marine Science Institute and Robert Ranard and Shirley Pillus who coached the winning 2005 team, Hofmann encouraged Garner and Wilson to design a rover that was better adapted to Polar waters. "We wanted it to be specifically designed to do research in Antarctica," said Dutton. "We know the design would have to take into account things like how big a hole we are able to drill in the ice" to provide access to the ocean. Although scuba divers usually assist Hofmann's team in scouting out the underwater landscape, a successful rover design would compliment the work that human divers can do. The rover, for example, has a maximum tether length of 100 feet, which allows it to operate at the outer limits of safe diving. "We've never really been able, ourselves, to look at the habitat down there," said Dutton. "But we can take a rover out as a team and operate it independently." M'RAJE made roughly ten successful dives this Antarctic research season, between October and December 2006. (Date of Image: 2006)
Topics: Education, Unmanned vehicles, Rover, Space exploration, antarctic, Cabrillo High School, Tata Group, Remotely operated underwater vehicle, Rover Company, Environment, Gretchen Hofmann


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Chiefs Announce Resignation of GM Toby O'BrienSubmitted by chad on August 23, 2006 - 10:14
Today, the Johnstown Chiefs announced the resignation of GM Toby O'Brien. O'Brien has served as executive vice president and general manager of the Chiefs since 1996. "Toby has been a great asset both to the Johnstown Chiefs and to the Tampa Bay Lightning organization,†said Chiefs vice president of Hockey Operations Ryan Belec in a team release. "I consider Toby not only to be a colleague, but a good friend of mine, and I wish him the best in his future endeavors.â€
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Falcons Add Offense, Bring Back BlatnySubmitted by chad on August 22, 2006 - 11:31
The Springfield Falcons have signed winger Zdenek Blatny to a standard AHL contract. Blatny was property of the Lightning last year and appeared in 31 games for the Falcons during the 2005-06 season collecting 14 goals and 15 assists for 29 points. "Zdenek is another player that provides us with some scoring depth at the forward position,†said Falcons President and General Manager Bruce Landon in a team release (article not on web site at this time). "Zdenek displayed a strong scoring touch down the stretch last year and has proven he can be a solid point producer for us heading into the 2006-07 campaign.â€
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Chiefs Sign AndressSubmitted by chad on August 21, 2006 - 22:48
The Johnstown Chiefs have signed defenseman Doug Andress. A former Ohio State Buckeye, Andress appeared in 64 regular season games with the Chiefs in 2005-06, scoring 37 points (6g, 31a) and earning one assist in five Kelly Cup Playoff games. The Iroquois Falls, Ont.-native also appeared in one game with the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights of the American Hockey League, and in three games with the Springfield Falcons, the Chiefs' AHL affiliate, Andress registered his first career AHL goal. "Doug is an experienced player," said Chiefs head coach Frank Anzalone in a press release. "He's strong on the power play and he enjoys playing in Johnstown. He's going into his third pro season, and with the interest in him show by Tampa Bay and Springfield, we're expecting him to perform at a high level this season." [b]8/22 Note:[/b] Today's Johnstown [i]Tribune-Democrat[/i] story of the Andress signing suggests 10-12 parent club prospects could be with the Chiefs this year. The Lightning's Ryan Belec, the new Chiefs vice president of hockey operations and assistant to Tampa Bay Lightning GM Jay Feaster, says several of the young players participating in the Traverse City tournament could end up in Johnstown.
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Hockey's Future Releases Revised Top-20 ProspectsSubmitted by pete on August 21, 2006 - 22:27
Today Hockey's Future [url=http://hockeysfuture.com/article.php?sid=9008&mode=threaded&order=0]released their top-20 rankings for prospects in the Lightning organization.[/url] Consider this post an open thread for discussion of the article. Personally, while I have some quarrels with one or two of the rankings, it must be said that the improvement between HF's last stab at the rankings, when they left [url=justin-keller]Justin Keller[/url] and [url=vasily-koshechkin]Vasily Koshechkin[/url] off their list altogether, and this article by Phil Laugher is tremendous. Unlike previous attempts, this list has all the major players in the Lightning organization, sans perhaps [url=jonathan-boutin]Jonathan Boutin[/url], in the field of discussion, and that alone is light years ahead of what HF put out in the past. It's good to see the pressure Lightning fans brought to bear on HF management had positive results and that perhaps their product is on the road back to respectability. For those wondering when Bolt Prospects' Preliminary 2006-2007 Rankings will be released, those are scheduled to be published in October at the conclusion of training camp and the exhibition season. We've learned over the years that Traverse City, and training camp, and the exhibition games rarely follow conventional wisdom and that the only true gauge of where one prospect grades out relative to another is to see them go head to head in a competitive environment. Fortunately, we're only just a shade more than two weeks away from the first practice in Traverse City when it all begins.
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Lightning Add Waugh to Traverse City RosterSubmitted by pete on August 20, 2006 - 22:05
The final roster for the Lightning's Traverse City team [url=http://www.redwingscentral.com/camps/2006-07/rosters/TampaBay.html]has been released on redwingscentral.com and the Lightning have added Northern Michigan defenseman Geoff Waugh to their team.[/url] The 6'4" 215 lb. native of Winnipeg, Manitoba was drafted in the 3rd round of the 2002 Entry Draft by the Dallas Stars but was not signed after four years with the Wildcats. A teammate of Lightning draft pick Dusty Collins for the past three seasons, Waugh's best season came in 2003-2004 when he scored 2 goals and 14 points in 41 games. The Traverse City prospect tournament begins September 8th when the Lightning prospects face the New York Rangers prospects. Hat tip to Bolt Prospects reader Abbey.
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