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On a signature move and gimmick Jordan Burroughs could use: "'The Jordan.' Not like the Michael Jordan but he still the Real American. He can break the pinkie finger like Sheikie. He break people back with his pinkie. Because he a big strong [expletive] for America. I be happy. His name could be "the Real" and his finisher be "the Humble." Give me a hell yeah!"
On Ellis Coleman's nickname "Flying Squirrel": "Flying squirrel remind me of Ultimate Warrior because he a little rat when he jump in ring like that idiot Jose Canseco or Mel Gibson. I would never respect the squirrel because the squirrel have no [expletive]."
On if he could beat any of the current Team USA members: "In my day I beat living [expletive] out of all Olympian who challenge the legend. I put them in a camel clutch, break they back [two or three expletives], and make them humble. But now I am not in same shape as before so I don't [expletive] with them."
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BOAZ, Ala. (WHNT) — A conversation about gun violence between two high school students caused other classmates to become concerned, and school staff took action.
It was a misunderstanding as the kids were talking about a video game, but superintendent Mark Isley said after the shooting in Newton, Connecticut, school officials are taking seriously any perceived threat.
"We will not take statements lightly and as superintendent my job is to ensure the safety of every student before we educate them," Superintendent Isley said.
"They've got to be safe before we educate them."
Isley said he is concerned about students playing violent videogames, particularly those like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which has a with the Mature rating for ages 17 and up.
Gamers spent more than $500 million on the game in its first day of release in November, breaking the record set by its predecessor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
It took just 15 days for sales of the game to exceed $1 billion, and many children play it.
"We were dealing with a situation where students were referring back to a video game and that's a big concern that I have as a superintendent," Isley said.
"The games the students play at such a young age can lead to significant consequence."
Administrators worked with the school resource officer to investigate the comments and determined there was no actual threat to the school, but because the comments made other students feel uncomfortable and unsafe, it was a violation of school policy.
"Whether it's what's being said or actions in our schools today, all statements hold some consequence, and it's important kids understand what you say and how you say it."
The school system informed the students of their punishment Wednesday afternoon, but did not release specifics of the punishment since it involves minors.
Isley said the incident helped them review their procedure in reporting perceived threats.
"Our ultimate priority is safety of students," superintendent Isley said.
"Through this process we've been able in some degree to check our own system in relation to our safety plan and ideas and things that come our way.
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Sephora pointed liner eyeliner brush # 17
13 reviews
92% would repurchase
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on 10/27/2013 12:14:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Normal, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
The #17 pointed brush is thin but firm. It makes a thin line or with more strokes you can easily fatten it up. I dip it into the pot of my felt tip eyeliners as I hate those unmanageable felt tips. This little eye liner brush has rescued many a bottle of eyeliner previously judged unusable because of its rotten felt tip. It seems to be available only at the Sephora website, not in stores.
on 7/15/2012 12:34:00 AM
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This brush is awesome! I can draw my eyeliner really precise with this. It has a good quality. I've had my brush for about a year now and it's still in great shape!
on 5/19/2012 4:51:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Very Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
Maybe this brush just isn't intended for use with my eyeliner of choice, loose powder + sealer, since I didn't get great results with it.
I got #17 to replace my worn-out MAC 210, which I'd used happily for years.
The Sephora #17 iseven finer than the MAC 210, and I like that quality. But it's also softer, which, at least for me, makes the #17 more difficult to control. It also doesn't seem to give me a nice dense line, like the MAC 210 does. I don't think it picks up as much product. It also seems to be sort of blunt at the tip, and not tapered, like the 310.
The #17 is not a bad brush; I may find other uses for it. But I'll look elsewhere for a 310 stand-in.
on 5/24/2011 4:45:00 PM
Age: 44-55
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Hair: Blond, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Green
All my brushes used to be MAC or artist brushes, until I took a chance and bought some Sephora brand brushes.
The pointed eyeliner brush #17 is fabulous. Thin bristles yet nice and firm. I can get a super thin cat's eye look or apply more liner and get a thicker line I can then smudge with eyeshadow.
This is the first liner brush I have found that is firm enough to apply power shadow as liner and give a very precise line. Dry powder always tends to smudge and get too thick. But not with this brush.
This is a great quality brush for a fairly small price.
on 3/1/2011 2:33:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I bought this to use with my Stila Smudge Pot and I have to say it's a fantastic brush! My eyes are on the smaller side so I have to be very precise to not get too thick of a line. This brush does the trick! Well worth the $11. (:
on 12/29/2010 8:05:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Other, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
Love this brush! I never use pencil liner and the brush I was using to apply creams and liquid before was much to thick. This brush really allows you to have exact control over how thin or thick the line should be for the look you are creating.
on 8/2/2010 5:50:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I first saw this brush online, but ended up waiting to buy it until I saw it in real life. I adore this brush. I never really used cream eyeliner or a felt tip eyeliner. I'm was just not really into anything besides a brown pencil. I picked up several L'oreal hip cream eyeliners and hated the brushes that came with them. I felt they are too scratchy and def too thick for my liking. So after using this only 1 time I threw the others away. It is so thin and gives the most perfect subtle line. You can get so close to the lashline with the pointed end. And it's perfect for applying to the water line. The price seemed a tad bit high to me, being $11 but obviously not compared to mac brushes. I actually want to buy another, so yes I will def buy this again.
on 6/26/2010 2:39:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
This is a really great brush! I had always used pencil or liquid liners but wantedto dry gel and cream liners so I bought this to go with the Buxom Lashliner from BE. FOR $11, I'd say this brush is very inexpensive. I rarely ever make mistakes and when I do it's usually because I'm in a hurry. I can make a nice thin natural line or a thick dramatic line depending on pressure. Cleaning the brush is very easy too and it always goes back to it's shape. I only have one, but will definitely purchase more as my eyeliner color collection increases.
on 6/26/2010 10:42:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
After much trial and error with other brushes, I found that this brush makes applying my Smashbox Jet Set Eyeliner a snap. This brush gives me the perfect sized line (not to thick or too thin) and the lines are buildable so I can go over an area until I get it right without it looking too caked on. This brush also gets pretty close to the lashline and is smooth enough to use on the waterline. Cleaning the brush is easy: I mix a little bit of water and Neutrogena facial cleansing bar in my hand and then brush the bristles back and forth until they are clean.
A tip for application that I learned from a friend: rather than using the tip of the pointed brush to line your eyes, hold the brush at a slant so that you drag the sides of the bristles along your lashline. This allows for a more stable movement and a consistent line. Just be sure to curve the movement of the brush along with the curve of your eye so that the line follows your natural shape and isn't too straight and artificial looking.
on 2/2/2010 12:29:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I have little tremors in my hands sometimes and this is the only brush that I can easily use to get the liner in all the right places.
It is pretty sturdy and last for quite a long time.
So happy not to make many application mistakes!
If you like liner on your undereye, you will not believe how easy this is to apply!
Wonderful product to use with gel or cream liners!
I like to have a couple on hand because I fear they will be discontinued.
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Cement Mixture Sprouts Self-Organized Structures
While working to incorporate fly-ash into its cement so as to lower its carbon footprint, CTS Cement Manufacturing Corp., Cypress, Calif., a manufacturer of specialty fast-setting hydraulic cement and shrinkage compensating cement, made an interesting discovery related to structures found in the ensuing cement mixture.
Found in mixtures of coal fly ash and hydrated calcium sulfoaluminate cement, these intriguing structures consist of micron-sized glass spheres upon which needles have grown radially. While these needles actually usually grow randomly in cement, in fly ash and cement mixtures they organize themselves as spines on the round fly ash particles.
According to Dr. Eric Bescher, vice president, cement technology, CTS Cement, this is the first time these complex structures have been seen. The structures are very small, typically a few tens of microns in size, and are only seen clearly under an electron microscope.
"We are excited about discovering these new self-organized inorganic architectures," Bescher says. "Think of these structures as micron-sized sea urchins shells embedded in cement paste. We have some indication they may play a beneficial role in reinforcement of concrete or in shrinkage mediation. Our work is in progress and we are investigating the influence they could have on other properties of construction materials."
Cementitious Background
Besides his work with CTS Cement, Bescher is author of more than 40 research articles and several patents. He is associate adjunct professor at the University of California Los Angeles, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Materials Science, and a distinguished professor at the Zhengjiang University, Hangzhou China. His work focuses on the fundamentals of advanced cementitious materials.
CTS Cement says it is not aware of reports on similar structures in scientific literature to date. It is possible these structures grow and develop only in calcium sulfoaluminate/fly ash mixtures.
Bescher explains that the discovery is the result of attempts to make the already green Rapid Set even greener. "By substituting some of the Rapid Set cement with fly ash, we will further reduce the already minimal carbon footprint of the cement while finding a use for a waste material," Bescher says. "In this process, we stumbled onto something unexpected and exciting, the significance of which is to be determined."
Further Investigations
CTS Cement is in the process of further investigations on the so-called self-organized BescherBalls to understand their significance and the role they can play in construction materials. BescherBalls is the working name for these innovative structures. "We have much more to learn about the ingenious design and the formation mechanism of these structures," Bescher says. "Our research teams are hard at work."
Jerry Hoyle, CTS president, notes that this discovery will likely offer the design and construction industry a new alternative for specifying concrete as a green solution. "We're excited that our commitment to research and development efforts has provided new opportunities for our marketplace."


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Associated Press | October 2, 2012
The spider in the picture is the same genus as the Braken Bat Cave meshweaver; because it's a juvenile, biologists can't determine if it's that specific species. However, the two spiders look identical - all the differences are internal. (Courtesy photo/ Jean Krejca, Zara Environmental LLC)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A $15 million San Antonio highway underpass project under construction since spring will have to be scrapped and completely redesigned after a rare spider was found on the construction site.
The Braken Bat Cave meshweaver was found about a month ago at the Texas 151-Loop 1604 intersection in northwestern San Antonio. The spider is listed on the federal endangered species list and was found after rain exposed a 6-foot-deep natural hole on a median.
Texas Department of Transportation spokesman Josh Donat says the state, after consulting with federal wildlife and transportation officials, has scrapped the idea of an underpass. He says the contractor has been released and an overpass design will be needed to avoid disturbing the habitat.
The new design will need federal approval since the habitat is protected.


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Neil Reynolds reveals the often brutal workings of the NFL Combine
The painstaking Combine puts hopefuls through mental and physical pain, says Neil Reynolds.
Last Updated: 27/02/14 11:48am
One of the biggest events of the off-season is underway in Indianapolis - the NFL Combine - as the leading 335 players from the college football ranks are put through a battery of physical and mental tests that could have a dramatic impact on where they are selected in the annual NFL Draft, which will be aired live and exclusively on Sky Sports on May 8.
And that ranking in the NFL Draft, of course, can mean a difference in annual salary worth millions of dollars.
Since the introduction of a rookie salary cap, the contrasts between those chosen at the top of the NFL Draft and those selected further down are not quite as stark. But there are still millions of reasons to succeed in Indianapolis this weekend.
Take last year's NFL Draft as an example. The top pick - Kansas City Chiefs' offensive tackle Eric Fisher - inked a four-year deal worth $22.2 million.
That four-year salary slipped to $12.6 million by the time offensive guard Chance Warmack was selected tenth overall by the Tennessee Titans. The final pick in the first round - Baltimore Ravens' safety Matt Elam - also signed a four-year deal but his was worth just $6.7 million.
That's a difference of $15.5 million in terms of the contracts offered to the young men at the top and bottom of the first round a year ago.
The top pick in round two earned a four-year deal worth $5.4 million. That dropped to $3.1 million in round three, $2.7 million in round four and down to $2.2 million for a four-year deal in the seventh and final round.
So the stakes are clearly very high for the young players who will be poked, pushed, prodded and questioned hundreds of times over in the coming days.
The NFL Combine - which runs until February 25 - is unique in world sport. For a player looking to prove his worth in front of hundreds of scouts, coaches and personnel executives, it can be a head-spinning combination of a cattle market and a speed dating session.
While most participants have already played at least three years of high-profile college American football, this is the first time NFL scouts are really able to get their hands on them.
And the talent evaluators from America's most powerful sports league leave nothing to chance in their bid to find out everything they can about the young men they could potentially invest millions of dollars in.
It's hard to imagine something similar featuring young stars from the world of football or rugby union. But it remains the prime opportunity for each NFL team to learn more about their future financial investments.
It's like a meat market, admits former University of Connecticut running back Andre Dixon, who went through the NFL Combine in 2010. You feel like you're cattle and they're looking for the biggest cow.
I remember them measuring how far back my arm stretched, recalls quarterback Josh Freeman, who was chosen in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after successfully working out at the 2009 Combine.
They leave no stone unturned.
Before they even begin to partake in drills that remotely resemble something you would see on an American football field, players have to strip to their underwear in order to be measured for height and weight.
Team officials also carry out extra tests to find a player's wingspan, the size of his calves, wrists, arms, legs and torso. Each athlete is also forced to lie down in a giant egg-like contraption which measures body fat. There is not much room for dignity during these proceedings.
Medical tests are also very thorough at the NFL Combine as players are checked for blood pressure, heart and organ function, and undergo several X-rays in addition to flexibility testing. They are also screened for illegal and performance-enhancing substances.
It can be exhausting stuff. And that's all before the player has stepped onto the gridiron at Lucas Oil Field - home of the Indianapolis Colts.
When they do get onto the field, players will go through drills that relate to their respective positions. Quarterbacks will throw a barrage of passes, receivers will catch balls and cornerbacks will showcase their ability to shadow the fastest men in the game. And so on.
There are other standard drills that are spread across each position. The 40-yard dash, bench press, vertical jump, broad jump, three-cone drill and the 20 and 60-yard shuttles are all designed to test a player's explosiveness, speed and power.
Body and soul
Players are also tested for their mental sharpness. They are expected to undergo a 12-minute, 50-question Wonderlic test which is used as a standard intellectual measuring stick across American industry.
The importance of such test results is often disputed. The average score for an NFL player is 21 (journalists average 26 apparently!) but the legendary Dan Marino reportedly scored just 14. And any score under 10 is meant to suggest that a player has serious literacy problems.
Here are a few examples of questions prospective NFL players might face in Indianapolis this week (answers at the bottom of the page):
1. Paper sells for 21 cents per pad. What will four pads cost?
2. A train travels 20 feet in 1/5 of a second. At this same speed, how many feet will it travel in three seconds?
3. A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will be the age of his sister?
4. The hours of daylight and darkness in September are nearest equal to the hours of daylight and darkness in which month
Of more interest to the NFL clubs are the psychological evaluations that let the coaching staffs know what kind of player they could be investing in.
Are they getting a committed professional dedicated to the team and someone who is determined to win a Super Bowl ring, or are they about to sign a self-centred individual content to pick up a big salary without so much as a sniff of championship glory?
Each NFL team will gather in Indianapolis with their own team of psychologists looking to analyse every seemingly-inane remark made by players who are expected to meet with each club until gone 11pm every night.
They all come with their own crazy ideas, recalls Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kenny Britt, who took part in the 2009 NFL Combine.
The strangest question I had was: 'If you die, what kind of animal would you like to come back as: a cat or a dog?'
Former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Scott McKillop adds: I was discussing my mother when a scout suddenly blurted, 'Have you ever smoked marijuana?'
It can be tiring and repetitive but each player must negotiate his way through the gathering that has become part track meet and part job fair.
Sam's announcement
While scouts will be eyeing potential first round prospects who could become NFL superstars - including three highly rated quarterbacks in Johnny Manziel, Blake Bortles and Teddy Bridgewater - the media will focus considerable attention on Missouri defensive end Michael Sam.
The SEC Defensive Player of the Year has been tabbed as anything from a third round prospect to an athlete who will go undrafted. But the media storm will centre on the fact that Sam has the potential to become the first openly gay player in the NFL after coming out a couple of weeks ago.
Sam will not only find himself in the media spotlight in Indianapolis. Rightly or wrongly, NFL teams will want to find out more about his personality and ability to fit into a professional locker room.
From a pure football point of view, the 32 NFL teams will see an under-sized defensive end who has some questions surrounding his game - most notably whether he has the strength to survive on the line or the mobility and athleticism to succeed in space if he moves to the linebacker position.
Those concerns mean Sam is likely to be a low round draft choice. Given that he is going to attract massive media attention all through training camp and into the 2014 season, Sam has to prove that he is worth the trouble as such a low selection.
And one way he can do that in Indianapolis is to show the scouts that he is a team-first, solid and hard-working professional who is determined to succeed at the game's highest level.
The physical drills will be important for Sam, but the mental aspect of the NFL Combine will also be vital. And that rings true for the other 334 prospects about to go under the microscope in Indianapolis.
As Josh Freeman stated earlier in this column, the NFL will leave no stone unturned in the search for the superstars of tomorrow.
Wonderlic Test Answers
1. 84 cents
2. 300 feet
3. 40 years old
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For a medieval pilgrim, the cathedral would have been a glistening, fabulous jewel with all the exterior sculptures brightly painted and the walls inside whitewashed and covered with a myriad of refractions from the stained-glass windows. These, too, in their original pristine state would have been so bright they would have glittered from the outside along with the gold of the crowns and haloes of the statuary. For the contemporary visitor, however, there are more than enough wonders to enthral: the geometry of the building, unique in being almost unaltered since its consecration; the details of the stonework, especially the Renaissance choir screen and the hosts of sculpted figures standing like guardians outside each entrance; and the shining circular symmetries of the transept windows, virtually all of which are original, dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. On the floor of the nave is an original thirteenth-century labyrinth comprising a path over 200m long enclosed within a 13-metre diameter, the same size as the rose window above the main doors. It's a great rarity, since the authorities at other cathedrals had them pulled up as distracting frivolities.
Among paying extras, the crypt and treasures are relatively unimpressive but, crowds permitting, it's worth climbing the north tower for its bird's-eye view of the sculptures and structure of the cathedral (Mon-Sat 9am-12.30pm & 2-4.30pm, Sun 2-4.30pm; May-Aug open until 5.30pm; E4). There are gardens at the back from where you can contemplate at ease the complexity of stress factors balanced by the flying buttresses. And if you hear a passionate and erudite Englishman giving guided tours as you're wandering around, it's probably Malcolm Miller, almost an institution in himself and a world expert on Chartres cathedral. He does two tours daily from April to November at noon and 2.30pm (E10), starting just inside the west door.
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On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:56 -0800, Carl Boettiger wrote:
> Hi,
> Have a quick question on using evolution calendar with google
> calendar. I was able to add gmail calendar using the private ical
> address provided by google calendar as an on-the-web calendar in
> evolution and see my calendar. However, it shows the times as if I
> were viewing them from the east coast time zone, when everything (my
> google calendars, my computer and evolution program) are all set to
> west coast. The times display correctly in google calendar itself.
> Any ideas?
> Also, anyone know about add/write support for evolution to google
> calendars?
Write support was added to SVN in October, and should appear in the next
Alternatively, you can use OpenSync to synchronize changes between
Evolution and Google Calendar (which you would be treating as separate
calendars, much as you would use a PDA). See
I'm using this to synchronize my Nokia 770 running GPE (which is not the
same as the N70 mentioned in this article) with Evolution on my desktop.
It works pretty well, but I had to give my Nokia 770 a static IP address
on my home network in order for it to work.
I'm wondering whether anybody's tried doing this kind of thing with a
Zaurus. It should be a similar set up to mine. Got any tips for life on
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Is it possible that the DM built in a trick to make things a little more workable? I know some of my players had complained about the difficulty of which I made my games at first. Once I explained to them that I always built in some kind of device to help them, they started figuring some of them out. Suddenly, what seemed impossible before was actually pretty simple. All they had to do was try looking for ways other than charging down the center.
The others have pretty much covered it. New groups are also usually a bit rough in the beginning. Once the players and DM get used to each other things tend to get a bit better.
I would have to agree, it sounds like the guy had some situation he was hoping to heard you guys into or trick he had placed for you. He might have done some kind of plan for the outcome but the players diverted from the plan he had set up. Less experienced DMs often have troubles like this.
Sending 18 zombies after you sounds like he wanted you guys to run away or go someplace/do something that he thought would be a natural choice but your group did not take.
A good idea for a new group is to save a spot of time after the session to talk some things out. If you felt something was handled poorly then the DM get's a chance to explain somewhat. Like he had something planed but everyone failed a perception check to notice it, or something like that. Don't expect him to hand over his notecards or anything. Sometimes this helps out the DM adjust and learn by a large margin.
After reading the responses and thinking about it all day yesterday I wrote a relatively calm email suggesting that we as a team start working on plans and have a retreat avenue planned out. I like the people personally, they are friendly, some are overly stereotypical but whatever lol. I suggested maybe that we figure out with the DM what an acceptable "take-20" distance is for shouting to each other. I also asked the DM if he would be okay with drawing the interior of a house when we enter it so we can count distance and understand what we are going to do inside. I'm not a fan of *poof* your in a house with a magical staircase to a second floor haha.
Most importantly what NotU and Hexblood said really triggered one of those "Heavenly trumpet OMG I am SMRT moments." Thinking on it I realized he wanted us to all bunch up in a house or possibly do what I ended up doing out of frustration. He kept hinting that we should all take torches and stuff for fire. And he kept mentioning the shrubbery. In extreme retrospect he was trying to lead us to an easy victory by burning the zombies. We could have even lead them into a building and set it on fire after barricading them in.
I am hosting this weeks session at my apartment. I think the less crowded environment will also provide a great place to all chat about what the DM was expecting from us and to set some goals for our group. I might ask to re-roll a character to play a druid for another healer.
I don't know what I would do without you guys haha. Seriously thank you all for the comments and suggestions. Every single one of them has helped me think through this experience clearly. I have high hopes for this group now pending the outcome of the bitchfest
Glad to hear we could be of some help
Like I said, new groups can be a bit rough sometimes.
Since you guys are using some interwebz communication between sessions you might want to suggest a simple forum be set up. It could help facilitate things a bit faster than just relying on emails.
I know it's bumping an old thread but in the last month we lost the cleric who wouldn't heal and the wizard that just ran away. Our archer is a local student (at GW Uni I think) so he's out of town and actually on a study abroad for hte summer. So we are rolling for him.
The dm worked alot of our complaints, bitches and suggestions and now openly rolls in front of us which we all find more exciting. I think the open conversation was what made the big difference, everything is now a two way street. I write up reports for everyone after the session, have hosted two sessions, and we are all getting along really well in sessions and out of sessions.
We have since leveled up to 3rd and the groupd dynamics are great. we have one guy who is a great strategist and good talking to NPCs (which i suck at lol) and i'm good at acting out my barbarian. The cast enlarge on me and i walked over the front gate and started swinging. half the army failed moral and left after very gruesome rawr!
Thanks again everyone for the advice and encouraging me to stick with it.
I have to say, you would never get me or any of the DMs I play with to put all rolls out in the open.
Combat and other "Face-to-face" type encounters sure.
As a DM I can be very sneaky. Tossing a die or 3 behind my screen at random times for no reason at all. Sometimes for a reason I cannot tell the players. When they ask what that was for I would either toss out something cryptic or disconcerting. If they stop and start poking around the area when they seemed content to move on I'd make up an excuse to pop a monster or trap or some such thing on them. I like to break my players of "Meta-playing" as I called it
I once had a DM who had these little trays he would hand out to the players at the beginning of a session. He would have us roll our dice on them. If we rolled our dice off the tray it was an automatic Critical Fail. Sometimes he would have one or all of us roll a full set of dice on the tray. That way we did not know what we were rolling for.
You also have to keep in mind that sometimes a DM wants you to win or fail an encounter for plot development, at those times the DM may need to keep rolls hidden so that they can "alter" the results as needed.
If there is a local comic/gaming store nearby that hosts sessions you may want to go sometime and watch how others play.
Other than that, glad to hear your game is going well.
He sounds like a very inexperienced DM, but are you sure he was actually trying to kill off the player characters on purpose?
Maybe he was hoping you would think of a clever way to save the town, or at least get away. Maybe he thought that you would use fire, or that the cleric would succeed at turning them. Maybe he wanted you to flee the town in the general direction of the other adventure. Of course, these possibilities are far more likely for an experienced DM, but they're possible.
I joined a Savage Worlds game at a game store last Saturday and one of the guys had a mini for his character with a bare boob. He claimed it was supposed to be authentic Amizon to have armor with one boob bare. I thought it was kind of rude, and a bit disturbing that it was a guy playing that character, but nobody else seemed to care about it but me.
You should ask him if he'd go into a fight with a testicle showing, especially a knife fight. If he says "of course not" pull out the sharpee pen and cover that girl up. If he acts cocky and says hell yeah, kick him in the nuts as hard as you can and just walk out.
It may not be gaming etiquette; but it'll teach the guy to stop failing at life.
Vandalizing his miniatures is an incredibly rude thing to do, and it could also land you in jail for a day or two. It could also trigger a fist fight which could land you both in jail and/or the hospital. If you have to cover up his miniature, use a sticker.
Besides, I have a hard time imagining any armor at all, even with a bare breast, could possibly be as revealing as what those sorceresses wear.
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October 15, 2013
Forest Health Restoration Pilot Project targets northeast Washington forest landowners in Kettle and Sanpoil Watersheds
OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is piloting a new tool to help landowners address forest health problems in the areas around Republic, Curlew, Chesaw, Orient, Kettle Falls and Wauconda.
Often, landowners face a tough choice. Their woodlands are in a high-risk condition for insect outbreaks, but the economics of tree thinning and restoration to reduce those risks prove too costly. Some wait for the timber market to improve. Others might wait until an outbreak happens and try to clean up the dead timber afterward. Both choices can involve losing the scenic beauty, recreation, timber and other values that people care about from their land.
The project seeks to engage and help people who are in this situation using an incentive payment that improves otherwise economically marginal thinning and restoration activities. In exchange, landowners would agree to conduct the restoration project on their land using guidelines developed by DNR – a set of "prescriptions" to achieve forest health.
Willing landowners located in the project area are eligible to receive an incentive payment ranging from $100 to $200 per acre. The incentive payment is meant to help motivate landowners and cover some of the financial risk involved with thinning. Landowners get less risk of forest damage by taking preventative action. The people of the state, in turn, get the benefit of healthier forests, fewer severe wildfires and less taxpayer funds to fight them, and increased economic activity.
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The project is timely because forests in Okanogan and Ferry counties are currently experiencing elevated levels of damage from insects. In 2012, Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark issued a Forest Health Hazard Warning for the area, citing two main causes of the damage: western spruce budworm and pine bark beetles.
Widespread increases in tree densities and a loss of tree species diversity has occurred over much of eastern Washington during the last 100 years. The result is crowded, unhealthy forests that are susceptible to various forest insects and diseases and severe wildfire.
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The film had premiered at Cannes in May 2001, almost a decade after Somalia, three months before nine eleven and everything after.
For nine years straight, every graduate of Ferguson has been accepted into college.
Of the nine who stood against him in 2010, seven saw the inside of a prison.
Old English nigen, from Proto-Germanic *niwun (cf. Old Saxon nigun, Old Frisian niugun, Old Norse niu, Swedish nio, Middle Dutch neghen, Dutch negen, Old High German niun, German neun, Gothic niun "nine"), from PIE newn "nine" (cf. Sanskrit nava, Avestan nava, Greek ennea, Albanian nende, Latin novem (with change of -n- to -m- by analogy of septem, decem), Lithuanian devnyi, Old Church Slavonic deveti (the Balto-Slavic forms by dissimilation of -n- to -d-), Old Irish noin, Welsh naw).
Nine to five "the average workday" is attested from 1935. Nine days has been proverbial since 14c. for the time which a wonder or novelty holds attention.
A nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol: There was a fight. I saw a man running with a nine/ People seeking guns for personal combat want reliable stopping power, revolvers or semiautomatic pistols known as ''nines'' (1990s+)
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A legislator from the MDC-T, who is also a passionate gender activist, has called on victims of rape and physical abuse to speak out, after statistics released by the police last week showed that child rape cases were on the rise.
The call came after the Victim Friendly Unit of the Zimbabwe Republic Police revealed a shocking rise in the sexual abuse of children under18 years old, with more than 2,400 cases reported by October this year.
The figures were revealed by Assistant Commanding Officer, Isabella Sergio, at a crime awareness seminar last week. She said of the 3,421 abuse cases that were reported, 2,405 were rape and 27% had been committed by relatives.
Bulawayo East MP Tabitha Khumalo, from the MDC-T, said she had warned government to do something about abuse years ago, but nothing was done. The few institutions that existed in 2000 claimed they did not have enough money to help more victims.
Speaking to our Behind the Headlines programme on Monday, Khumalo said she was heartbroken by the recent statistics.
3,421 cases of child abuse were reported between January and October this year, but Khumalo said she was sure many more had gone unreported, due to fear and shame.
Domestic violence was also reported to be on the rise. The police unit documented 8, 296 cases in 2011. But as of October this year 9,807 cases had already been documented.
Khumalo said a clear message must be sent to victims that the only way to heal is to talk about the experience with others and not be fearful or ashamed. She added that she is available at anytime to assist victims of rape.
The statistics come at a time when the world is observing 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, a global campaign aimed at ending violence against women, whether it is politically motivated or domestic.
But Khumalo said this should be an everyday campaign throughout the year, because so many children are experiencing abuse each day of their lives.
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By Robert Stanton | October 1, 2012
Photo By Houston PDToccara Victoria Dubose (DOB: 10-17-83) is charged with intoxication manslaughter in the Sept. 30, 2012, death of Anesha Griffin.
A 28-year-old motorist has been charged with intoxication manslaughter in the death of her passenger in southwest Houston on Sunday, police said.
The suspect, Toccara Victoria Dubose, was being held Monday at the Harris County Jail on $30,000 bond, court records show.
Investigators said Dubose's Ford Taurus struck a Houston police patrol unit en route to a call as it attempted to make a right turn from the 9100 block of Richmond about 2:30 a.m.
Dubose then lost control of her vehicle and struck a tree in the median.
Aresha Griffin, 21, a passenger in Dubose's vehicle, died at the scene.
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When State Administrator-turned-State Trustee Vincent Matthews leaves the Oakland school district in July to take charge of San Jose Unified, the financially struggling school system could find itself with a $100,000-plus windfall (my estimate — nothing official).
Matthews' replacement, whoever it is, is likely to be part-time, Hilary McLean, the press secretary for California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, told me today.
"Probably at this point, given the stability the superintendent has brought to the district and the progress they've made, it'll probably be more of a half-time position," McLean said.
The state, which ran the district for six years through three appointees, has required the school district to maintain Matthews' $240,000 state administrator's salary even after he moved to the back seat as the veto-holding trustee. (In addition to his base salary, Matthews received $15,000 in "other pay" in the 2009 calendar year, according to a spreadsheet of employee salaries produced by the district. Troy Flint, the district's spokesman, is looking into what the other pay was for.)
Emery Unified, which emerged from full state control in 2004, has a 1/4-time trustee who earns $30,000 a year. West Contra Costa Unified — which has had a trustee since 1992 (when I was in middle school, to put it in perspective) — pays $67,130 a year for the 1/3-time position, according to McLean. Oakland's oversight might last even longer; it still had a balance of $78 million as of last July.
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Peck, J. C., and L. Rolfs. 2005. Wichita Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project moves forward. Water Law Newsletter 38(3):6.
Provencher, B., and O. R. Burt. 1993. The externalities associated with common property exploitation of ground water. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 24(2)139-158.
Pyne, R. D. G. 2006. Aquifer Storage Recovery. Second Edition. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers.
Roberts, M., and H. Crossly. 1997. Managed conjunctive use of groundwater storage. Water Resources Bulletin October :147-153.
Scharpf, F. W. 1997. Games Real Actors Play: Actor-Centered Institutionalism in Policy Research. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
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USEPA. 1999. The Class V Underground Injection Study, Volume 1: Study Approach and General Findings. EPA/816-R-99-014A. Washington DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.
Vaux, H.J., Jr. 1985. Economic aspects of groundwater recharge. Pp. 703-718 in T. Asano (ed.) Artificial Recharge of Groundwater. Boston, MA: Butterworth.
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A representative of the ZimRights management board is to report to Harare police Wednesday, to answer questions regarding the ongoing fraud case against the organization.
The police have so far charged the ZimRights boss Okay Machisa and two others with fraud, and they are also accused of forgery in their individual capacity. But the police have now added charges against the organization itself.
One of the ZimRights board members Nunurai Jena told SW Radio Africa the organization has been summoned to Harare Central Police Station and he will report to the Law and Order Section to represent them.
It is not clear exactly what ZimRights is being accused of doing, but the police allege that the organization was involved in an illegal voter registration exercise. They are also accused of 'conspiracy to commit fraud' and publishing 'falsehoods prejudicial to the state'.
Jena said on Tuesday that they welcome the police investigations and ZimRights will cooperate, adding that the organization does not support any illegal activities.
"As a board we condemn the commission of crime in whatever form and the board disassociates itself from the alleged criminal activities and if anything ever happened in that manner, as alleged by the state, such was done outside the mandate and objectives of the organizations," Jena said.
Meanwhile, a High Court judge postponed Machisa's bail hearing on Tuesday to Thursday. ZimRights Programs Manager Cynthia Manjoro said the case could not be heard on Tuesday because the state appointed a new prosecutor, Edmore Nyazamba, "who claimed that he wanted some time to acquaint himself with the record proceedings."
The rights group said the other accused persons (chairperson for Highfields Dorcas Shereni and the organisation's Education and Programmes Officer Leo Chamahwinya) are likely to spend fourteen more days behind bars after a Harare magistrate on Monday remanded them in custody to 4 February, citing the need to give the state more time to conduct investigations. ZimRights said this was despite the defence counsel having submitted lengthy and detailed arguments warranting the release of the two.
Jena said his organization is law abiding and is waiting for the court process to be concluded and the board will carry out its own internal investigations to unearth the truth facts of the allegations at institutional level.
"Now we are appealing to the state to expedite the prosecution of this matter to conclusion rather than to make these guys to wait and wait and wait. I think it's not proper," Jena added.


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POLICE in Mpanda District, Katavi Region are holding four people who exchanged punches inside Kawajense Mosque, thus causing chaos after last Friday's prayers.
According to Katavi Regional Police Commander (RPC), Mr Dhahiri Kidavashari, the fracas started after the suspects started quarrelling among themselves over who was the right Imam to lead the prayers, a move that led them to physical confrontations.
The RPC named them as Juma Mazomba(32), Ibrahimu Rashid(42), Mussa Hamis (27) and Husein Omary (32), all residents from Kawajense Street in Mpanda town. According to RPC, the incident occurred at around 1:15 pm at Kawajense Namba Mbili mosque, when the four suspects entered the mosque and started claiming they had the right to lead the prayers.
It was further claimed that some faithful who attended the prayers went out and later returned armed with some traditional weapons including machetes and clubs.
"We were timely informed about the incident and the anti- riot-squad swiftly rushed to the scene and successfully contained the situation," explained the RPC. According to him, the four suspects are still in hands of police for interrogations and they would soon be arraigned once preliminary investigations are completed.


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Tony Bennett is 86-going-on-16!
The tireless singer, on tour through the fall,will record new album with Lady Gaga this summer. He is also spearheading a social media-fueled anti-violence campaign. 'He won't stop,' says his son.
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During World War II, Tony Bennett fought on the front lines in France and Germany as a soldier in the U.S. Army. He has been an avowed pacifist ever since.
Earlier this year, he and his son, Danny, joined forces with the Brady Campaign for the Prevention of Gun Violence to launch "Voices Against Violence." The social media-driven campaign is designed to help the American public lobby congress to support "common sense gun laws."
We asked Bennett about the campaign and whether he thought he might alienate any of his fans with it.
"I think a majority of the people want what I want," he said. "Everybody, the average person, wants peace. I just want to slow down on the assault weapons. I have friends that live in Romania. And for them to get a gun, it takes a whole year. They get thoroughly checked out, and — at the end of the year — if they're accepted, they finally get a pistol with a couple of bullets, and that's it... I grew up in an era when we would leave our doors (unlocked) at night, without fear of somebody stealing something from us. All I know is, it would be so much better if we could trust our neighbors and feel (safe) living in this country, the greatest and most creative country in the world."


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Last year, violence broke out in a north-western corner of China, when members of the local Uighur population – an ethnic minority in China – faced off against the police. Dozens of people were reportedly killed, and social media lit up with posts about the riots. But as China's many censors got to work, many posts also quickly disappeared. But how did the government decide which could stay and which had to go?
A group of US researchers can help answer that question. They have lifted the lid on Chinese online censorship – by pretending to be censors themselves. They found that the censors of China's social media sites are only worried about posts that may incite mass protests, rather than ones that poke fun at individual politicians, for example.
Acting like a social media start-up, Gary King at Harvard University and his colleagues built a fake website, bought a domain name and server space inside China, and populated the site with their own posts. Then, they obtained a copy of the software that helps Chinese website administrators censor their content so they stay out of trouble with the authorities. When questions about how the software worked came up, answers were just a phone call to customer service away.
"We could call customer service and say, 'How do we stay out of trouble with the Chinese government?' They would say, 'Let me tell you,'" says King. "Customer service was pretty good at their job."
Reverse engineering
The software could automatically block posts that came from banned IP addresses or contained problematic keywords. But many of the censorship choices were still deferred to human judgment. Some sites held posts for manual review within 24 hours; others automatically published the post, and a person would check in later to decide if it was OK.
If in-house human censors, rather than software, were calling the shots, then perhaps the researchers could divine insight into the minds of both government and independent censors by examining their choices carefully. King's team went back to real social media sites such as Sina Weibo. Of the 100 sites, 20 were run by central government, 25 were by overseen by local authorities, and 55 were privately owned.
The researchers wrote more than 1000 comments about controversial topics, such as artist Ai Weiwei's music, a village protest in Panxu, and the Uighur riots in Xinjiang. The researchers tracked if and when the posts were taken down.
"The censorship programme is like an elephant tiptoeing around. It leaves big footprints," says King. "We can look at those footprints and learn things about the intentions of the Chinese government that would be difficult to learn otherwise."
Collectivism a no-no
To their surprise, the posts that were most likely to be censored were those that mentioned collective action in the real world, like a protest or a boycott. Even posts that praised the government could be censored if they also referenced collective action.
Meanwhile, criticism and complaints often made it through to publication. A satirical post about the Uighur situation went viral, and only got censored about 10 per cent of the time.
King suspects this is because the government is more worried about regime stability than anything else, so they exert most of their pressure on posts that could jeopardise their power. "They don't care what anybody says about them in and of itself. They care what people will do with that information," he says.
Degrees of criticism
Before this study, we only had "very impressionistic understandings" of the Chinese government's priorities, says Susan Shirk, director of the 21st Century China Program at the University of California, San Diego. The findings suggest that censorship decisions are more nuanced than previously thought.
"It's really an amazing piece of work, to be able to do that kind of intervention and look at the impact of the intervention. Nobody has ever done anything quite like that before," Shirk says. In some ways, the censorship system is tighter than we thought, she says, and in some ways looser.
Min Jiang at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is more sceptical of the results. She suspects there are still some kinds of complaints that the government would want to censor, like Western media reports that expose abuses of power. "Criticism has many different degrees," she notes.
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Despite .115 batting average, Marlins' Mathis blasts a walk-off grand slam
MIAMI A short fly ball would've done the trick. For that matter, a well-placed bunt or walk or hit batter would've had the exact same effect.
As he saw his last pitch come loudly off the bat of Miami Marlins catcher Jeff Mathis, though, Padres relief pitcher Tyson Ross knew that he and his teammates were done for the day at Marlins Park. That the 6-2 walk-off loss came on Mathis' one-out
grand slam over a drawn-in, extra-man infield merely turned a question mark into a period that became an exclamation point.
"Game over, and that's that," said Ross. "The only word I can think of is, it feels pretty cruddy."
As you might've surmised, Ross didn't exactly use the word "cruddy," but the general sentiment was universal and pretty evident throughout a dead-silent Padres clubhouse. Having come back to tie the game on Carlos Quentin's two-run, pinch-hit, first-pitch homer to left, the Padres wound up losing their second straight game to the National League's lowest-ranked club, their sixth defeat in the past eight games.
"We've been fighting, playing close games that haven't been going our way, but we've had a lot of games go our way," said starting pitcher Andrew Cashner. "We've just got to keep playing, get Cabby (shortstop Everth Cabrera) back here soon, keep grinding. This is a tough road trip."
With the rare Monday series finale at Marlins Park, the Padres then move on to three games at Boston and three more at Washington. The plan is for Cabrera to play a couple of rehab games with Single-A Fort Wayne before joining the club at Fenway Park, ostensibly reactivated from the latest disabled-list assignment that has taken a lot of steam out of the once-surging Padres.
If any of them even bothered to look, the sight of Mathis' homer dropping into the Padres' bullpen should've been particularly deflating. The right-handed hitter stepped up to the plate batting .115 for the season, including one previous homer and seven RBIs. That was justification enough for manager Bud Black to order left-handed hitter Greg Dobbs walked to load the bases, whereupon center fielder Alexi Amarista was called in as an extra infielder.
There's no defense, of course, for the kind of fly that Mathis produced.
"Too much plate," Ross said. "Bases loaded, down 1-0, so I had to come with a strike. I just got too much of the plate."
Erased were Quentin's heroics and an entertaining duel between two of the game's true flamethrowers, Cashner and Miami starter Nathan Eovaldi, each of whom was pulled after six innings. Eovaldi, on average (96.8 mph) the fastest starting pitcher in the majors, had shut out the Padres over 89 pitches.
Cashner, who last year came out of the Padres' bullpen and threw nothing but triple-digit heat at Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton in an epic showdown, has dialed the velocity back under 100 mph as a starter and got Stanton swinging at a changeup in their first faceoff Sunday.
Cashner even recorded the game's first hit, shocking the Marlins with a looping bunt in the third that he easily beat out. He still hadn't given up a hit, either, when the Padres started chipping away at Eovaldi, loading the bases in the fourth.


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa A big, black block of Mississippi Valley Conference championship banners, 31 in all, dominate the southeast wall of the Prairie High School gym.
There's a lot for wrestling and a few for bowling, cross country and other sports.
None for girls' basketball.
It's certainly not a certainty that one will come this winter. But there's a chance. A fighting chance.
Prairie remained tied atop the Valley Division, using a big third quarter and a 21-point night by Courteney McCrary to subdue Class 4A No. 6 Cedar Rapids Xavier, 54-47, Tuesday night at Prairie.
"It's something (Prairie) has never done, and we're trying to reach for that," McCrary said. "There's still a lot of improving to do. We're not consistent. We need to be more steady."
Prairie (11-5 overall, 7-2 MVC) is tied for the top of division lead with Cedar Rapids Washington, and Waterloo West looms a half-game back. The Hawks face both of them in the stretch run.
"We've got a chance," Prairie Coach Steve Doser said. "Xavier and us, we were both 6-2, and we knew this was a chance to put up another notch."
The Saints (9-7, 6-3) scored the first basket of the second half for a 23-22 edge, but McCrary scored three straight baskets to fuel a 21-4 Prairie run. The Hawks twice led by 16 points.
"We couldn't defend a few of their kids," Xavier Coach Tom Lilly said. "That's the bottom line they exposed some of our weaknesses. When the other team has three kids in double digits and you have none, you're probably going to lose."
McCrary scored 14 points in the second half, 10 in the third quarter. She made 10 of 15 shots from the floor.
"I knew I had to not get into foul trouble," she said. "I'd been doing that a lot."
Madison Dellamuth added 13 points, Alisa Weiland scored 11.
Kayla Armstrong and Hayley Deutmeyer paced Xavier with nine points apiece.
Prairie faces a big test Friday at defending state champion Iowa City West. The Hawks go to Washington on Feb. 1, to Waterloo West on Feb. 8.
The road to a first divisional title is a hilly one, but at least it's paved.
Xavier hosts Cedar Falls on Friday.
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