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As seen by a solitary urban Wiccan
Monthly Archive for October, 2012
The Wiccan Samhain and the American Halloween
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I believe Ghosts are the spiritual remains of our soul/energy from the Spirit World, a piece of us left behind as a sort of stamp, a place and time for us all. To revere that piece of us is the true meaning of the coming holidays and what we Wiccans are all about. [Read More]
Witch Hunts, Exorcisms, and the Pope.
Father Euteneuer told me possession is almost always a result of someone getting involved in some sort of occult practices, such as witchcraft, Wicca, tarot cards, and Ouiji boards. "Harry Potter and these Twilight vampires glamorize the power of evil," Father Eutenener explained, "and this has led to many, many cases of possession among […] [Read More]

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Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program sees one major flaw in President Obama's Affordable Care Act: It did not go far enough. The only solution, Flowers argues in this conversation with Laura Flanders, is to push for universal healthcare by expanding medicare so that it covers all Americans.
Laura Flanders talks to creative thinkers and change-makers from the worlds of politics, arts and the new economy. The smartest conversations, with the smartest thinkers and doers of our time, distributed in multiple formats on a variety of platforms. Keep abreast of fresh content by following GRITtv, the site Flanders founded, on Twitter @GRITtv.


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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
California Is Sending Far Fewer Immigrants to Feds Under New State Law
Read and listen to this AP/KQED story about how the California Trust Act, which went into effect on January 1, 2014, already has had positive impacts in dramatically reducing the numbers of low level criminal offenders turned over to federal immigration authorities. The result will be a reduction of the number of low level criminal offendeds removed from the United States as a result of the Secure Communities program. Will other states follow California's lead?


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Juniors on Broadway (JR) - Camp Tapawingo Resident Camp08/03/14, All Day
This exciting session is perfect for young actresses, theatre techies, and dancers with big dreams of Broadway. See what it takes to make it under the bright lights as you play acting games, learn new dances, make costumes, and try your hand at stage make-up. Whether you prefer to take the spotlight or test your skills behind the stage, at the end of the week, you'll show the whole camp and your family what you've created when you perform your skits and dances during Friday Family Lunch.
Who: Girls entering grades 4-5
Date: Sunday, August 3, 2014 – Friday, August 8, 2014
Location: Camp Tapawingo
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Fee: $270 per girl
Min/Max: 6/15 girls
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New vision and mission statements adopted
December 7, 2007
A process that began 14 months ago with a campus-wide review has culminated with Board of Trustees approval of new vision and mission statements for Mississippi State. At its November meeting, the College Board endorsed the new statements proposed by the university:
- The vision of Mississippi State University is to be the most respected land-grant institution in the region.
- The mission of Mississippi State University is to educate the workforce and leaders of the future, produce robust research for our state and nation, and provide expert services to our citizens, communities and businesses.
The new statements, which are more concise than those previously in effect, should be used beginning immediately in official publications, websites, and wherever the university mission statement is cited.
IHL and MSU policy require a campus review of the mission statement every five years or upon the appointment of a new president. Accordingly, the existing MSU vision and mission statements, along with proposed modifications suggested President Robert Foglesong, were presented to the entire campus community in October 2006 and comments were received from faculty, staff, and students until December 2006.
Based on the comments from faculty, staff, administrators and students received during fall 2006, and incorporating several of those suggestions, the revised vision and mission statements were recommended to the Board of Trustees earlier this year.
The previous mission statement was adopted by the Board of Trustees in May 2004, along with those of other IHL institutions. A set of operating principles that expand and elaborate on the mission statement were adopted as well in 2004, and those have been retained, with inclusion of portions of the previous mission statement, for use in conjunction with the newly approved vision and mission statements.
The new vision and mission statements, along with the supporting operating principles, are on line at http://www.msstate.edu/web/mission.html.


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Relationships, the Heart of Quality Care: Creating Community Among Adults in Early Care Settings
Item #: 156
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Subject: Families, Family Child Care, Social & Emotional Dev
Children's interactions with their special grown-ups affect everything in their lives, especially in their earliest years. And the relationships between those special people matter, too. When adult connections are caring and strong, parents, caregivers, and directors are motivated and empowered to work together to help children thrive. The book describes this concept of relationship-based child care, what understandings and attitudes support such care, and the policies required to enact it in a center setting. High-quality family child care homes and a growing numbers of enlightened centers are already using the model. As this book's many personal stories make clear, everyone benefits from relationship-based care!
"This book lovingly makes the point that adult relationships are important in child care. What thrills me however is that it doesn't stop there. It goes on to describe the kinds of relationships that work best, spells out the positive impact of close caring relationships for everyone involved, including children and parents, lists barriers to relationship building, and recommends policies that foster the development of relationships. It is an invaluable resource filled with many practical suggestions for the achievement of relationship based care. The insightful questions in the last chapter alone make this book a winner!"
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- BlackBerry Desktop Manager
- Microsoft Windows Vista
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During the installation of BlackBerry Desktop Manager, the following error message appears:
Error 1500. Another installation is in progress. You must complete the installation before continuing this one.
Cause 1
The error can occur when the Windows Installer service is not working properly.
Cause 2
Another Windows Installer application is currently running, or may have created a registry key called InProgress. This key is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer.
Note: To perform the following steps, one must be logged in with administrator permissions.
Right-click My Computer and select Manage.
Under Computer Management, expand Services and Applications.
Click Services.
In the right pane, right-click Windows Installer and select Properties. To help find Windows Installer, sort the list of services by name.
From the Startup Type drop-down list, select Disabled. By default, the Startup Type is set to Manual.Note: The Service status field is set to Started even though it is not running.
Click Apply.
Click OK.
Restart the computer. The Windows Installer service is now disabled and will not start with the computer.
Repeat the previous steps but change the Startup Type to Manual.
Resolution 2
- Close any installations that are running in the background and resume the installation. If there are no installations running in the background, restart the computer and resume the installation.
- Delete the InProgress key and install the BlackBerry Desktop Manager software.
- To delete the InProgress key, complete the following steps:
- Go to Start > Run
- Type regedit.
- Click OK.
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer.
- Delete the InProgress key.
If restarting the computer does not work, open the Task Manager and end the msiexec.exe process. There are usually three msiexec.exe processes.
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ICBA Urges Congress to Support Community Banks' Role in Supplying Credit to Small Businesses
Washington, D.C. (June 10, 2009)—The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) today urged Congress to support the community banking sector's important role in supplying credit to small businesses by promoting policy recommendations that would foster even more community bank lending.
"Our nation's more than 8,000 community banks are well-positioned to help get our economy back on track through greater small business lending," said Cynthia L. Blankenship, ICBA immediate past chairman and vice chairman and chief operating officer of Bank of the West, Grapevine, Texas, in her testimony to the House Committee on Small Business. "During these economically challenging times, SBA lending programs must serve as a counterbalance to tight credit markets. ICBA supports strong SBA programs, fair regulatory treatment and tax policies that will foster robust community bank small business lending-something that is critical to the economic recovery effort in cities and towns throughout America."
In March, Blankenship participated in the Obama Administration's launch of new Small Business Administration (SBA) lending initiatives on behalf of community banks. The program, aimed at helping small business borrowers and lenders, was developed to unfreeze secondary markets.
In her testimony, Blankenship urged Congress to extend or make permanent the temporary SBA lender and borrower fee reductions applied to 7(a) and 504 loan programs and give priority to small banks in implementing the 7(a) lender fee reduction. ICBA also called on Congress to enact tax reforms such as a five-year net operating loss period to help struggling small businesses ride out the recession.
Blankenship stressed the vital role that community banks play as small business lenders across the country. She said that while community banks represent about 12 percent of all bank assets, they make 20 percent of all small business loans and more than half of all small business loans under $100,000. In fact, 48 percent of small businesses get their financing from banks with $1 billion and under in assets.
ICBA appreciates the work of Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and pledges to work with the Small Business Committee to ensure our nation's small businesses have the access to capital they need to invest, grow and provide jobs and spur economic growth.
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When a stylish, roomy bowl is needed, designers can count on DuPont™ Corian® 831 Lavatory Sinks.
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With alternate flow location that adds flexibility to design, the DuPont™ Corian® 831 Lavatory Sink offers a large capacity and distinctive shape that also coordinates with Corian® vanity tops for a seamless, integrated look.
Sink colors include Corian® Bone, Corian® Bisque, Corian® Cameo White, Corian® Glacier White, Corian® Vanilla.


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The parts involved with this one were on back order for 3 weeks so this is a popular puppy.... some of you guys have to have run into this interface on one of Electrolux's fridges somewhere. What I really want to know is if anyone has faced this before and, if so, are there any tricks / caveats / etc. that I need to be aware of.
It's a bit long but I tried to write it in an entertaining style. I hope you enjoy.
Electrolux M# EW26SS65GS0 Fridge
Original complaint: Solved
Secondary Complaint: PF alarm won't reset, parts of interface touchpad unresponsive.
Ordered interface:
Waited 3 weeks for backorder to arrive while customer called every single day because she was going insane. The loud beeping could be heard in every room in the house, including the bedroom... at 2AM... and 3AM... and 4AM... etc...
Part arrives, it's a kit consisting of a new interface AND new main board. They must be replaced as a set. What was to be 2 screws and 3 minute job turns into a pain the the a** because the main board is mounted under, yes under, the fridge. I will gladly pay $500 for 5 minutes in a locked closet with the engineer who thought THAT was a good idea. But I digress...
So I get it done, plug it in and it goes beeep. I hit the reset and it goes quiet and all is well in Mudville.
Three seconds later both displays change to OP / OP and the unit refuses to start, AT ALL.
Oh yea....... we is havin funs now.
There is a number to call on the instructions if you have any issues or suggestions. I call it. The computer asks for an authorized contractor ID number. I hit 0 for operator, it says go find my number and hangs up on me. I call back, it hangs up on me again.
I begin to contemplate a road trip to Electrolux land to commit acts that would result in a lengthy prison term.
I get customer service on the phone and the girl tries her best. She defines OP as open thermistors, both Fridge and Freezer. Apparently the wiring has an open. I quadruple check it all, looks great, still no joy.
So I do the test of last resort... I put the old part back in.
Vrrrrrooooommmm!!!!!! She runs!
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep................. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.................
Just kill me now... please...
Electrosux... lux, whatever... expressed a new set of boards since there is clearly nothing wrong with the thermistors or the wiring and the new boards have to be faulty. I picked up the new ones today and will be putting them in tomorrow. If anyone has any tips or warnings about this beast, I'd appreciate any heads up.
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The Great Time Machine Hoax (1963)
by Keith Laumer, Keith Laumer
No current Talk conversations about this book.
I've read this a number of times, most recently in 2012. It was more political than I remembered, and the part I admired, the mental and physical training, was not as interesting in the mental/philosophical training as my memory of it. I did decide to discard the book with the belief that I won't want to read it again. Now {4-10-13} and I have all my books and bookcases in, and I realize that I don't want to throw it away because I may want to look something up about it.
Chester W. Chester IV owes a million dollars in back taxes, and to recoup the costs, he can use a circus that has seen better days, a run-down mansion, and a mammoth computer. Chester decides to recoup his costs by using the computer to fake a working time machine. All of this sounds like a pretty neat idea for a pulp-SF book, except that the premise is never delivered upon. Instead, Chester, Case (a friend of Chester's), and Genie (a personality created by the computer) have separate adventures in different eras, all apparently created by this fake time machine, each of the characters learn a few things, and there's a twist ending that is not really much of a twist at all.
There's nothing that I can really single out as being worthy of attention in the book, and more than a few things that are quite poor. Science fiction clichés are present in force, the characters are barely sketched, there is nothing noteworthy about the adventures each has, and the writing varies between serviceable and deplorable. There are one or two small ideas there, but nothing that hasn't been done better elsewhere. It's not even much of a fun read, which I should at least be able to expect for one of my first unguided forays into pulp-SF. Avoid.
The Great Time Machine Hoax - Keith Laumer
This book is not as wack as Time Trap is, for example, but is certainly no Dinosaur Beach.
A guy and his mate with a broken down circus show to try and save find out that an elderly relative has produced a supercomputer that just may be running the world.
Working out what it can do demonstrates that time viewing may be possible - so, what would be a good show? Dinosaurs! However, they didnt count on actually ending up in different times and palces personally.
In this latter part the novel gets a little more serious with the situations they find themselves in, but comes full circle in tone by the end.
This was a great book considering I got it for twenty-five cents at the library. I finished it in two days, and anyone who likes science fiction should read it.
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'Don't Vote' advocate tells TBD he voted
October 28, 2010 - 02:15 pm
In the video clip above, TBD TV's Mike Conneen reports on the Virginia man who has been trying to suppress the Latino vote in Nevada and elsewhere with his "Don't Vote" ads.
From Politico:
The man behind the controversial ad telling Hispanics "Don't Vote" isn't taking his own advice.
Robert de Posada told TBD.com he voted absentee in Virginia on Wednesday.
De Posada is president of Latinos for Reform, the Republican-backed group that caused a firestorm when it sought to air a Spanish-language television ad in Nevada telling Hispanics not to vote.
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The Spring 2011 issue of Pediatric INSIGHTS
This issue of Pediatric Insights tells the story of Luke Maeding, who received a double-lung transplant at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC in August 2010. Luke, 9, is living a new life.
Also in this issue:
- Noted adult congenital heart disease specialist Stephen Cook, MD, has joined Children's Hospital's Heart Center.
- Children's ENT specialists take a conservative approach to tubes and tonsils.
- Our pulmonary medicine specialists work in concert with primary care physicians.
We welcome your feedback, thoughts and story suggestions. Please share your thoughts with one of our physician liaisons.
To refer a patient to any of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC's clinical services,
please call our Physician Referral Service at 412-692-PEDS (7337) or visit the Referring Physician section of Children's website.


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Arizona is 5, and gets really bored in his corral/stall during the day. The corral is approximately 12x12. He will paw at the gate, kick at the wood, and turn over his hay bucket. Not angry, just bored.
Items he has inside the corral:
Jolly Ball (completely ignored)
Hanging Likit (he has NO IDEA what to do with this thing)
Hay bucket (pretty big)
What other things could I put in his corral for him to occupy his time with during the day while we're at work? I was thinking of tying various knots on the rails around the corral for him to work loose since that is one of his favorite past times while tied.


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Spotlight On
Jim Weisbruch, a TSO at Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley International Airport, is a longtime aviation professional who was recently recognized with the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. The award recognizes pilots who have demonstrated professionalism, skill, and aviation expertise by maintaining safe operations for 50 or more years. This achievement makes Weisbruch one of just 2,200 pilots out of more than 900,000 who have been recognized with this award. He joins an elite category of pilots like legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong and Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier.
- How has your aviation career prepared you for TSA?
My experience as a commercial airline pilot for nearly four decades before joining TSA, along with my Doctorate of Aviation, helped me sharply tune my aviation transportation security senses so that I could support TSA's counterterrorism mission. During my commercial flying days I experienced a hijacking and several bomb threats. It's those experiences and memories that serve as vivid reminders of our important role to ensure the safety and security of every passenger that travels by plane and other modes of transportation.
- My job is important because...
I know that the work I do every day as a frontline Officer is connected to a larger, global network of counterterrorism professionals, technologies, and initiatives. Having spent more than half of my life flying aircraft, I never take for granted the important role TSA plays in securing our transportation networks—not for one second. Because of the hard work we accomplish throughout the year and the strong commitment to mission, millions of people reach their destinations safely. I'm proud of what I do and know that I help make a difference. And that matters to me.
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Playing sports
Playing sports can help you through tough periods and put you on the path to a healthy adult life. The Women's Sports Foundation has conducted research on the link between academic success and sports for women and girls. Their research shows that:
- Girls who participate in sports are less likely to do drugs, less likely to get pregnant, and more likely to graduate from high school than those who do not play sports.
- Half of all girls who participate in sports have higher than average levels of self-esteem and less depression.
- 80 percent of women identified as key leaders in Fortune 500 companies participated in sports during their childhood.
- Women who are student athletes graduate at higher rates than women students generally.
What kind of sports or exercise would you like to participate in? In picking a sport the focus should not be on what particular sport you excel in, but what sport you enjoy most!
If you are quiet, shy, or just not very athletic, go for walks with a friend or your mom. Try hiking or swimming on the weekends as a family. You might also try noncompetitive dance, gymnastics, aerobics, or ice skating classes. Learn about playing sports with an illness or disability.
If you are a bit of a "tomboy" and always seem to want to play with the boys at the park, go for the more competitive sports. Enroll in either co-ed or all-girl sports such as softball, soccer, basketball, field hockey, or track. Let's not forget football!
Even if you consider yourself a "girly-girl," you can enjoy participating in sports as well. Dance and cheerleading often are overlooked when considering sports, but they are physically demanding and are excellent forms of exercise.
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Travel Guide Asia Myanmar Yangon Division Yangon
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Myanmar's capital until 2005, Yangon is still one of the country's main hubs and likely to be your point of entry if you are planning a trip to Myanmar. Some of the most authentic British colonial architecture in the region is found in the city, and the combination with newer high-rise gives the city a unique feel.
Yangon has a hot and humid tropical climate. Temperatures are well above 30 °C during the day and mostly around 20 °C at night. Temperatures from mid March to May can reach 40 °C making this time rather unpleasant for visiting the city. This time is often called the hot dry season. From June to October is rainy season. There is massive amounts of rainfall this time of year. The best time to visit is during the cool dry season which is December to February. During this period there is still warm and pleasant weather with pleasant nights around 18 °C. It usually is dry and rather sunny during these months.
Yangon International Airport (RGN) is where most travellers start their trip in Myanmar. It has good connections in the region but does not have direct flights from North America or Australia, but a few direct flights from Milan in Europe.
Myanmar Airways International, the international airline of Myanmar, flies to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. While they do not operate any aircraft, they are on code share with Jetstar Asia, Malaysia Airlines, Qatar Airways and Thai Airways. The Bangkok-Yangon route, the most commonly used one, is serviced by Thai Airways and AirAsia.
Other international airlines flying into this airport include Air India, Air Bagan, Air China, Air Mandalay, Bangkok Airways, China Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hong Kong Express Airways, Singapore Airlines and Vietnam Airlines.
Domestically, Air Bagan, Air Mandalay and Yangon Airways all offer flights between Yangon and Mandalay, Bagain and Heho (for lake Inle) as well as flying to more remote places like Sittwe at the west coast, Kawthoung in the south (for onward travel to and from Thailand) and Kengtung (also for onward travel to and from Thailand).
The most often used train ride is the one between Yangon and Mandalay with many overnight trains and one train during the day as well. The journey takes between 12 and 15 hours.
There are several budget options near the city centre. Although during high times they can book up fast. Almost all places include free breakfast.
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Betty Lea Kleve 82, was born in Pawnee City, NE on November 16, 1930 to Fredia "Gladys" (Bradney) and Allan "Worthy" Montgomery. She lived in Fall City, Norfolk, Lincoln, and Omaha, before she graduated from Talmage High School in 1949. At a young age, Betty was known for her natural artistic ability, especially in drawing people. After high school she worked for Dr. Brown and Wards in Nebraska City. After moving to Alliance with her parents in 1953, she worked as a Northwestern Bell Telephone Operator until 1961.
Betty met her husband Eugene Kleve in 1957 at a dance in Hay Springs, NE. She said, "She knew she could trust him as soon as she met him," and "Knew he was the right one for her." They were married in April 18, 1959, in Alliance and lived there until 1964, when they moved to Aurora, NE. In 1969, they moved to Scottsbluff and lived there for about 19 years. Betty returned back to Alliance in 1988. She died at home, as she desired, on August 29, 2013.
She is survived by her husband Eugene, her daughters Lisa (Phil) Blanco of Gering, Regina (Tom) Paglia of Cazenovia, NY, her son Douglas "Doug" (Libby) Kleve of Lake Worth, FL, and her grandchildren, Chanice, Laettner, Shelton, and Sheridan Blanco; Erin, Vince, and Dominic Paglia; and Aiden and Christopher Kleve. She is also survived by her aunt Bonnie McNeil of Golden, CO.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Gladys Koch (April 1998), her adopted father, Alexis Koch (Jan 1998), her father, Worthy Montgomery (1958), and daughter, Karen Porter (1994).
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The Global Action Award is now an OFFICIAL Award and therefore it may be worn on the front of the Official Uniform sash or vest. To earn the award, girls complete one or more activities below.
What makes the Global Action Award exciting at this grade level is that Brownies are put in direct contact with leadership opportunities, both locally and globally. They learn how they are part of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), a worldwide movement, comprised of 10 million girls throughout 146 countries, all working together to build a better world. By working on the Global Action award not only will Brownies feel more connected to their WAGGGS' sisterhood, they'll be able to search for Girl Scout keys to leadership, the important concepts of discovering, connecting, and taking action," tied to theBrownie Quest journey in the It's Your World-Change It! series. Brownies will see how leadership skills play an important role in fighting hunger, extreme poverty, and other serious global problems.
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3. Imagine what it would be like to live someplace without television, a computer, or electronic toys. Spend an entire day without using them. Tell your Brownie friends what you did instead. How can taking a break from these activities create peace? For example, perhaps you helped your mother around the house, or took a walk in the neighborhood. Talk about how these "old-fashioned" activities can put people in touch with others. How can face-to-face contact increase awareness and understanding? (Millennium Development Goal: Promoting peace through partnerships)
4. What if, as girls, you could not go to school? What would your life be like? What would you do with your time? How would you learn? Share your ideas with other Brownies. (Millennium Development Goal: Empowering girls)
5. Read a story about hunger and poverty in the world. Then, come up with a slogan to make people aware of these issues. Make decorative buttons or stickers with these slogans. (Millennium Development Goal: Ending hunger and poverty)
6. Draw a picture or take photos of your school and classroom. List the things you enjoy most about school. Then, with the help of books, pictures, or even a movie, find out what school is like for girls in another part of the world. Idea: Read the youth edition of Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver. (Millennium Development Goal: Education opens doors)
7. Did you know, in some parts of the world, children get sick because they don't have clean drinking water? Find out where your drinking water comes from. Then, with your Brownie friends, try this nifty experiment with a grown-up. First, mix up a bowl of dirty water by adding cooking oil, soil, and small pieces of paper. Then, with help, cut a plastic bottle in half. Turn the top half upside down so it's like a funnel. Build a filter in the funnel trying different materials: gravel, sand, and cotton balls. Pour the dirty water through the bottle, experimenting with different layers of filter material to see which filters the water best. (Don't drink the filtered water.) Share your findings with others. (Millennium Development Goal: Helping children survive)
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Allison wanted to go down to the bayfront last night and watch the 4th of July fireworks. Since we were going to be down there anyway, and had been wanting to try Mozaic we made reservations for 7:30.
Mozaic appears to be fairly small when you first walk-in, but they have an upstairs area and is pretty decent sized after all. We were promptly greeted and seated, even though we showed up about 15 minutes early for our reservation. We were given a table upstairs and next to the railing, so we overlooked the front door and dining room, as well as had views of the sidewalk through ample windows along the front and could somewhat people watch.
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Allison ordered wild mushroom ravioli for an appetizer. The ravioli was freshly made, and she declared that it was perfect. I had a duck leg confit, which was served over an orange infused risotto, and it too was spot on.
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Allison ordered the special – grilled Ahi Tuna. The tuna was cooked rare, exactly as ordered. Unfortunately, it was over salted and she had to trim the edge off in order to eat it. The restaurant did not charge us for this, which was the right thing to do in my opinion, and both the owner (or manager – not sure which) as well as the chef both came over to the table to apologize.
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Why are you reading this book review? Although there is a chance you are reading it because you are related to the author, more likely you are a mathematics teacher, a mathematics student, or a mathematician. Now, reflect a moment on how you came to be so mathematical. You probably had some aptitude. Encouraging that aptitude, you probably had good teachers, and nourishing it, there were probably books.
Not textbooks. Interesting books. Books that captured the excitement of mathematics. Such books are absolutely essential. They gave us the promise that, beyond the tedium of calculation and routine algebraic manipulation, there were interesting and exciting things to learn and to do.
My favorites were by Irving Adler and George Gamow. The generation before me might have read Kastner and Newman's "Mathematics and the Imagination", and many mathematical people younger than me discovered mathematics in the works of Douglas Hofstadter and Martin Gardner. Even Andrew Wiles reports that his interest in mathematics in general, Fermat's Last Theorem in particular, began with a popular book on mathematics from his local public library.
Such books age quickly, though, as mathematics and culture both grow and change. Today's popular mathematics books seldom mention "rubber sheet geometry", for example, and a chapter on Rubik's cube today is not nearly as interesting as it would have been fifteen years ago (is it already that long?) Thus, there is a need, and always will be a need, for new popular mathematics books.
The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies by Donald C. Benson is a worthy addition to the family of popular mathematics books. Its twenty chapters, each about 15 pages long, each try to climax with a discovery or an insight that will carry the reader to that wonderful feeling of "I understand!" The author calls these events "Mathematical Epiphanies" and says that they are found at the "moment of proof", though they might better be described as arriving at the moment of understanding.
The topics the author has chosen resemble those in a typical liberal arts mathematics textbook, like For All Practical Purposes by COMAP or Excursions in Modern Mathematics, by Tannenbaum and Arnold.
In Chapter 9, "Divide and Conquer", we learn about the complexity of sorting algorithms, starting with the insertion sort that most people use to sort a hand of playing cards. The mathematical epiphany arrives when we learn how the quicksort works, why it works, and why it is faster than more familiar techniques, if the lists are very long.
Chapter 14, "Two Pearls" describes Archimedes' beautiful demonstration that the volume of a cone plus the volume of a sphere equals the volume of a cylinder.
Chapter 8, "The Power of Two" is a slightly longer chapter that tours through binary arithmetic, card tricks, the games of Nim and Kayles, base three arithmetic and the Cantor set before reaching the use of chaos in drawing a Sierpinski triangle.
Chapter 12, "Cutouts", is devoted to clever geometry proofs, especially the ones that use dissection. There is President Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem (though our author gets Garfield's first name wrong. It's James, not John.) There's a neat proof relating double angle triangles, those where the measure of one angle is twice that of another, to Pythagorean triangles, and a refreshingly brief mention of Fermat's last theorem. This is not a textbook. Its personality is more that of a tour guide than of a teacher, and there are no exercises. It is hard to know what books will entice today's and tomorrow's budding mathematicians to pursue their interests and develop their talents, but The Moment of Proof has a chance of being one of those books.
Finally, if you are related to the author, you should read this book, and maybe you'll understand why he thinks mathematics is such a beautiful subject. Maybe you'll agree.
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Begone, quests! Take 2: Ironman edition
(AKA: Putting my gaming money where my mouth is.)
(EDIT – server change. I'll make this alt on Landroval where I have *cough* one char slot left. I'm also kicking around the idea of just taking an existing char and not questing for a week, but I'm not sure that would be legit. None of the chars are higher than 16 or so.)
Quite a few people are talking about quests at the moment, including the usual suspects (Spinks, Stargrace) and on a variety of slants. They're all good posts and they — as good posts should — made me think.
More specifically, the hare-brained idea for this Monday morning was: "I wonder if I could play a game for a week without doing a single quest?"
Sounds easy, right? I suspect it won't be.
Stream of consciousness for a cyberpunk MMO
NOTE – this is a long and mostly personal-reference post. You can read the first bit and skip the notes, or just not read it at all. YHBW.
Damn you, Psychochild*, damn you! I was all set to wake up, have my coffee quietly, zip through my email as fast as humanly possible (still took an hour), and get some quality gaming time that I haven't been able to snatch in the last few days by dint of having too much work (yay!) and being too tired afterwards (boo!).
This happened to me yesterday, too. But I'm the forgiving sort and I'm also a cyberpunk fan so I am going to drive all five of you (Hi Joe, hi Billy Bob, hi Fuchsia, hi Dickie, hi Scaryboo!) to go check it out. I haz cattle prod and I'm not afraid to use it.
If you need more direction, you spineless internet zombies, here it is. Exhibit A: A Cyberpunk MMO would be a terrible idea! And Exhibit B: A Cyberpunk MMO would rule!
Persistence: ourstory
We wee MMO players appear to be growing up. Back in the day it was enough just to kill a mountain of [insert your favourite monster here — olthoi for me], return home laden with mega-phat lewt, rebuff and go do the whole thing again. Nobody really cared that the only dynamic and persistent thing about MMOs was the respawn schedule.
I'm older now, and somewhat wiser, and I want different things. Persistence, for one — real persistence, not the buzzword, game-box blurb version that really just means "the world doesn't vanish when you log out."
Or maybe it's not just persistence we want, but persistent impact. As Wolfshead eloquently put it in a comment over at We Fly Spitfires:
The other component to all of this is the sense of "persistence". The idea that the world persists, lives and grows even when you are not logged on. This allows players to create their own history and help shape the history of the world they play in. Without a robust sense of persistence in MMOs accomplishments are almost worthless and definitely cheapened.
Sadly many MMOs have a very small persistence quotient. WoW's is about 6 minutes which is the average respawn time of an NPC. But that's another issue for another day.
The WFS post is actually about external acknowledgement of one's achievements — lots of achievements in single-player games, lots of impact on the world, but nobody else gets to see you do it; but it's not entirely surprising that the discussion should eventually veer to persistence, since one of the things many of us are seeking these days isn't just persistence, it's persistence of impact.
It bothers me increasingly that nothing I can do ever impacts an MMO for longer than it takes a given NPC to respawn. Sure, I can get a nifty title or piece of gear or whatever that proves what I did and lets me show off to my peers, but a) 58,756 other people also have said title or item, and b) Gorgonzola the Terrifyingly Stinky came right back 5 minutes after I killed him.
Okay, I don't actually give a shit about killing Gorgonzola the Terrifyingly Stinky and even less about getting his phat lewt and/or title, but the point remains: other stuff moves me, like making something truly rare and even possibly unique, or having a diplomatically vital conversation that changes the course of a war, or whatever. We have different shinies-preferences, but we ALL love shinies or we probably wouldn't be playing MMOs.
One of the things about persistent impact, as Wolfshead so accurately said, is that it creates history — and if you've only been playing MMOs for a year or two, you may never have had that sense at all (remembering a keep siege or raid for 3 weeks isn't quite what I'm talking about). Back in the day, when games were small and server communities were probably about the size that some single guilds are now, server events actually were history — big stuff happened for the first time and everybody got to hear about it, knew the names of the few who had boldly gone, sent them tells of congratulation (as opposed to the smack talk people probably get now). Everyone knew and in some sense everyone participated in that event, even if they weren't there in person — it's like knowing where you were when Kennedy was assassinated or the Moon landings took place. Ironically, I had more of a sense of a world being shared and shaped back in Asheron's Call than I do in the much more polished games I play today. Games are more polished now, but that also means they're even more impervious to the players.
Another interesting thing I realised is that sandbox games seem to have an easier time creating their own type of persistent-impact history. Take EVE, for instance, where large-scale wars have raged across entire solar systems and everyone knows the names of those involved — and where changes in control over such areas can have a direct impact on how you play the game and even who plays the game. Sure, the central, safe parts of the game don't change a whole lot, but that's just the kiddy-pool part of the sandbox (and one I never dared leave in my two brief EVE stints, I should add). EVE has the added advantage of being played on only one server, which means that whatever happens affects everyone and happens on your server — not some other random server out of 200 possible servers out of eleventy-million possible players.
So scale might be an issue. When you have eleventy-million players all wanting to change the universe, it's probably hard to design something to accommodate them all. Also, I'm sure it'll be extremely hard to design and develop the kind of persistent-impact play the more mature MMO players now want (and I don't mean age-wise, necessarily, though I do think there's a correlation).
Nonetheless, if this persistent-impact thing doesn't start creeping into multiplayer games soon, and by that I mean more than just the ability to decorate your own house or wear the "Gorgonzola-killa!" title, I suspect the more mature (read also: jaded) players will start to get restive. Hell, "start to"? We already are. We yearn for a deeper meaning to these games we play, which may be an unfortunate and unfairly heavy burden to lay on a mere game, but it's still something many of us want. Besides, playing is an intrinsic human activity and the childish connotation now attached to playing games is pretty limiting anyway. There's no reason a game can't be deep and meaninfgul — games are, among other things, learning tools, and the best games are deep and meaningful (as well as, you know, fun). In any case, what with the brave new world of the internet, massively multiplayer games are blazing a whole new trail that includes vast social and community aspects, which means they may eventually have to deliver more than just short-persistence fun. Fun's not a bad thing, it's just not the only thing we play MMOs for.
The hard part will be figuring out how to let people have a persistent impact on games without derailing or even destroying the world — and, of course, how to let eleventy-million players all have a little impact on a world. One of the things that's going to have to happen, as far as I can see, is that the choke-hold of quest-driven play is going to have to loosen somewhat, so that players aren't on rails anymore; which means more EVE-type sandbox design and less WoW-type amusement park design. Even if all you can impact is how other people play the game, if other people are the game (as they are in most sandbox games) then by impacting them you're impacting the world in a larger sense, for good or ill. (Which is another issue, of course: impact can be "bad" impact… but it's still impact, and it still creates a shared history, which is ultimately more meaningful than if no impact were had at all. We don't just remember the good stuff that happens to us in life, and shared crises create bonds too.)
It may also mean that "fair" gameplay has to go. In most games, everyone starts from the same spot and player intelligence and skill matter less than the ability to hit the right buttons in the right sequence, which any half-awake chimp can manage without breaking much of a sweat. This bothers me somewhat, because I know I'm crap at twitch-based anything, I'm crap at running around people trying to kill them, and I'm probably not very good at combatty stuff in general — so I would suck. On the other hand, I'm really good at finding stuff, getting stuff, making stuff and selling stuff, and I'm a kick-ass negotiator when I want to be so diplomacy wouldn't be out either; which, in a brave new-new player-based, persistent world might be enough to let me carve out my own niche and, more importantly, find my own fun.
It's not like I don't do that already: in most games I play I ignore the adventuring part to whatever extent I can, or indulge it only as a hobby, which means I'm often trying to buck the system (with more or less success depending on the game). I'm sure there are many fighty-type players who get as irritated as I do when they have to do stupid crafty- or harvesty-type things they detest just because the game is trying to mix and match what players do in some attempt to artificially vary gameplay. While most of us don't fit into a single playstyle box 100% of the time, we do have a style and we do have stuff we prefer doing; less "fairness" might mean more freedom to indulge our preferred style. Like I said, the thought of possible "unfairness" makes me twitch, because I like fair, but I'm not sure the lowest-common-denominator style games have to use these days to be accessible is necessarily fair or good for the industry as a whole.
I'm not saying we should scrap all MMOs as they are today. I am saying that lots and lots of people are discussing the persistence thing, and lots of us want a deeper experience from our games — and lots of us remember a deeper experience. The thing is, small servers aren't coming back and that first-time, MMO-virgin experience is more and more remote, so it's time to move forward.
Here's hoping.
CoX Mission Architect update
In typical Ysh knee-jerk fashion, after /ragequitting a few times in frustration at how difficult the MA enemies seem to be, I've discovered that this only holds true for custom-created enemies. Groups/mobs drawn from the existing pool are about the same as they are outside the MA system.
There are already some excellent story arcs out there, and here's where I once again prove my craposity — I forget to write down their titles. Here's what I can remember, and it should be enough to search on until I get my act together and get the full details down.
— "You wouldn't steal a car" (Lars from MMOment of Zen)
— "Rescuing the Boss" (Jennifer from GirlIRL)
— "Demonic Love Story" — intended for villains really, but a great story and a truly awesome-looking demon mission-giver
— "Heroic Rescue 1″ (I think — it's by @Robzilla, which will help narrow it down, or you can search by author name)
— "The Sole Success of Project Saturn" by @Perplex
There are several more I've played but can't recall — and one thing that's missing from the system right now (unless I'm being blind, which is entirely probable*) is a way of looking back through completed missions. If this can be done through the mission "souvenir clues" then I'll have to remember to use the arc's name as the clue name also.
I'm working on some more missions myself, but I suffer from the usual "OMG everyone else's work is so much better than mine, I might as well go drown myself with those kittens" syndrome. Pfft.
In other news, I actually hit 20 for the first time ever in City of Heroes — I never made it that high during my first stint, and I swear levelling was slower, but maybe I was just more of a noob — and so, clothes ho that I am, the first thing I did was to get that second costume slot opened up. Todestraum, my sad goth/vampire wannabe (well, she is one — does that make her a wannabe? or does it make ME the wannabe?), now has the full black/red "Hey look, I'm a vampire!" getup one needs for any serious gathering of the denizens of the night. Gotta project the right image and all. Corny though it is, it's a look I love, probably because it's not one I could ever in a million years carry off in real life.
* I'm the person who had no idea where to find architect ticket counts on my char until Jen helpfully snapped my attention to the obvious "Architect Tickets" stack in my salvage window. Ahem.
CoX Mission Architect – the countdown commences
Sente over at A Ding World has the real skinny, I'm just passing it along.
We shall be Mission Architecting on Live from April 8th. D -4 and counting! Don't expect to be playing on Wednesday, if a hundred major patches from a dozen other games are any indication.
I've tried the architect on CoX Test, as those of you who pay attention will already know, but I haven't been back to it in the last week or so for several reasons. One, I have too many other things to do. Two, as release dates approach (and we knew it had to be getting close), doing things on test servers starts to seem more pointless (other than testing, obviously). And three, I was so awed by other people's creations that my peasly little cat-themed arc started seeming rather paltry in comparison. But I wasn't sulking! I was … resting. Pining for the Fjords. Mostly, I was just too busy with other stuff — it's been one of those months where you spend a lot of time WANTING to play and much less time being able to indulge that desire.
That's it. I'm off to work and wish I could play.
CoX Mission Architect – My First Mission
NOTE: Issue 14 (the one with the Mission Architect system) is still only on CoX's Test Server(s). It's slated to go live sometime in the next few weeks.
I finally created my first story in the new Mission Architect; I was aiming for what I thought would be something relatively simple, humorous rather than really dangerous, and thus hopefully easy to write.
Lesson #1: I should have stuck with premade bad guys. It would have been a lot easier. On the other hand, I now know how to make my own custom groups and characters, and it's not that difficult. It does, however, chew up a chunk of "save" space.
Lesson #2: The mission architect isn't that difficult to use. Hurrah! Sure, it has a learning curve, but every option has a clickable ? that gives you more information and examples.
Lesson #3: No matter how well drafted you think your mission/arc idea was, it wasn't detailed enough. This, however, will get easier for subsequent creations, since I now have a much better idea of how missions/arcs are put together.
I didn't time myself to see how long this arc took to create, but it was spread out over several sessions starting sometime last week, as time allowed. If I had to guesstimate, I'd say 6-8 hours including the time to read the tutorial, enter the info, create custom chars and groups, test the various missions (4 in total), edit what needed to be edited, and test some more. Greater familiarity with the creation tool will cut this time down considerably, as will better preparation beforehand.
Various criticisms have already been levelled at the Mission Architect system, including the fact that it doesn't let you custom-place opponents and the like — but then again, that's quite consistent with CoX missions in general. I'm just glad they're actually putting this kind of tool in the hands of the players; I've already played 3 player-created missions (and abandoned several more as just too difficult for my gimped scrapper self), and there's a distinct added flavour to playing something another player made.
For those of you who have access and the inclination, the Story is called Catnapped! and it's Arc #18799 — you can search strings, which should make it easier to find if you've a yen to try it out. Me, I'm going to try out Sente's Missing Geneticist story! Well.. as soon as the Test server comes back up. Ain't that just typical?
A large step for CoX, an even bigger one for MMOs
I wasn't going to comment on NCSoft's new Mission Architect system, planned to go live sometime in March, largely because plenty of others have already done so, but then it occurred to me that more exposure for a good idea can't hurt. Even if you don't play CoX (and I don't, right now), it's worth a look at how NCSoft designed this, especially if you're one of the people who believe, as I do, that (some degree of) user-generated content has got to be in the future of MMOs. It's probably not the only answer down that road, but I suspect it's a prominent part of it.
Look at crafting/trading: whether it's in fantasy-WoW or scifi-EVE, there's no real, dynamic trade if there's no way for consumers to request supply from producers. Sure, you can post stuff on auction houses, but that's largely a case of post and pray. More to the point, if you make FoozleNoses and Bob needs 100 FoozleNoses but NONE have sold on the AH in the last 3 weeks, you're unlikely to be making and selling any since there appears to be no demand, and Bob starts to believe FoozleNoses just don't exist.
Enter purchase orders. I'm pretty sure EVE had them, but my memory is at best coy and at worst downright mendacious, so forgive me if I'm wrong. EVE *should* have them if it doesn't. Hell, every game should have them. Sadly, it's much, much easier to design an Auction House interface that it is to work out a proper purchase order system to go with it… even though the latter isn't exactly rocket science. Some games have them, or had them — I'm pretty sure Horizons (remember that?) had one back in the day.
Sure, you could do what businesses in real life do and have done for millennia: find someone who makes what you want and go to them to place your order. They may be next door, down the street, in the next county or in the next country, but what doing business is all about.
Except I'm not DOING business in an MMO, I'm PLAYING at doing business. There is a real, huge difference. It's not that we're not taking it seriously, but play /= work. When kids play make-believe, they do it quite seriously, with proper attention to what they're doing. That doesn't mean they're working at it. And when I run a business in an MMO (or try to, most games make it damn near impossible to play as anything other than a glorified medieval Gordon Gecko), I take it seriously but I do not want to have it become work. I've been there, and it's called SWG, and is closely followed by the slouching Burnout Beast.
Trying to make contact in game with someone who sold something I need on the AH and thus may or may not actually produce what I need on a regular basis, and then getting them to supply me — have Devs actually TRIED doing that, ever? It was hard enough in SWG, which is a game predicated around player trading and crafting (or was) and which has a relatively robust email system. And seriously… I have to try to contact someone who may or may not log on, may or may not speak English (or whatever I speak), may or may not respond, and then may or may not actually adhere to our agreement, with no obligation or accountability on their part at any point in this process? (Or on mine, for that matter.) So maybe, in a few weeks, if I get lucky, I'll have the FoozleNoses I need? No thanks. Neither am I going to sit in TradeHub001 making endless requests on a chat channel — sure, that might have been how it was done in EQ back in the day and how it's done in WoW now, but that doesn't make it a GOOD way, it makes it a "we couldn't be arsed to cater to crafters so you're just going to have to spam a channel" Dev-way.
I'm not saying I want everything now and I want everything easily. I'm certainly not saying I want to be able to do everything myself, because a trading game (or sub-game) by definition needs people to interact with or it's a lot less entertaining. But, if I'm going to "seriously play" at being a trader, then I need a vaguely reliable, timely way of contracting suppliers. THAT isn't rocket science either. Purrrchaaaase Orrrders. It's not that hard to say, and it's not that hard to design.
And that's just for trading — heck, you could restrict it to materials-trading or whatever you want if you didn't want to kill your Auction House, though I seriously doubt that would happen anyway. Some people like to order, some people like to browse. No reason you can't please both.
I've pondered "player-generated content" before and, sad to say, my imagination usually lets me down. That's because our MMOs have become variants on "Kill Ten Rats" and the only real ideas I could come up with were… you guessed it. But then I remembered SWG's new(ish) Storytelling mini-system — you can buy props, stage settings, effects doohickeys (smoke machines), NPCs, monsters, whatever — and you can place them, load them up with lines and/or treasure, and voila: user-generated content. It can be a show, it can be a treasure hunt, it can be an epic fight. Or it can be all three — bird, plane, pterodactyl!
So here's what I think: if we players are given the tools, I suspect we'll come up with some pretty non-killtenrats stuff. Maybe not all of us, maybe not even most of us — but most Neverwinter Nights players never made a dungeon and there were still enough talented guys who *did* that you could be playing them till 2012 and never have to make one of your own. We don't ALL have to be content-creators — but being empowered to become one is going to be a huge step forward. I'll be fascinated to see how the Mission Architect system works in practice, when it's launched. If I've the funds, I may even have to resub to CoX just to try it. Who else plays, and where?


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Today's image is one of those ones I am rather pleased with. As for me, it ticked a number of boxes. I was also inspired to try a monochrome floral photograph ( this is an infra-red conversion) by seeing the work of Ron Clifford a fellow 365'er over on Google+ and his monochrome floral photography ...
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"Just a heads up that closed beta has begun. What's new with you guys? ;P"
His post is followed by Drysc claiming first response postion in the thread.
Fantastic news! If the beta goes well, we could have the Burning Crusade pretty quickly. If it goes badly...well...let's not even think about that. So, is anyone out there in the closed beta? Is this not the best news out of Blizzard in a while?