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- For the realm, see Server:Elune US.
|Elune / Mu'sha
|The Moon Goddess,
The Mother Moon,
The Night Warrior
|Character class
|Healer, Warrior
|Personification of the White Lady, the Mother Moon, the Night Warrior
|Active, Eternal
|Cenarius (son), Malorne (lover), Remulos, Ordanus, Zaetar (grandsons), Lunara (Granddaughter), Several Grandchildren, Celebras (great grandson), Cavindra, (great granddaughter), An'she (brother in Tauren mythology)
|Tyrande Whisperwind (High priestess and chosen)
Elune (or Mu'sha, as she is called by the tauren) is the primary goddess of the night elf pantheon. She is associated with the larger of Azeroth's two moons, the White Lady, and is widely considered to be the mother of Cenarius, the forest lord and patron god of all druids. Elune is one of the few true deities of Azeroth.[1]
In tauren mythology, Elune is revered as the left eye of the Earthmother, though she is not worshipped as a sentient deity by the tauren.[2]
- 1 Background
- 2 In the RPG
- 3 Trivia
- 4 Speculation
- 5 See also
- 6 References
Facets of the Goddess
Strongly associated with healing, tranquility and harmony, the moon goddess Elune has been revered by the night elves and several other races since the earliest ages in Azeroth's history. While she is a goddess of peace, she is not a pacifist. One of her aspects is the Night Warrior, who takes the valiant among the dead and sets them riding across the sky as stars.[3]
Long before the Great Sundering came to pass, a well-organized priesthood had devoted itself to the service of Elune. Known as the Sisterhood of Elune, this ancient night elven order remains in existence to this day and, as their name implies, entrance to its upper echelons is available exclusively to women, on the belief that Elune's deepest mysteries can only be understood by a woman's heart. The war chants of the Sisters can call down the Night Warrior's wrath to smite their foes, and their prayers to the Mother Moon can nurture even the gravely wounded back to health.[1]
Before Goldrinn's noble sacrifice, the night elf goddess Elune was said to be disappointed in his feral insistence. It was his unwillingness to tame his savagery and bloodlust that overshadowed his noble heart. When Elune's great light illuminated the dark during the full moons, it was as if her eyes glared down upon him in judgement. His anger at her conviction caused Goldrinn to become even more bloodthirsty and indomitable than ever.[4]
Woman and mother
Elune has never been observed in physical form on Azeroth. Indeed, she is as much a collection of ideals and principles as she is a personality in her own right. A powerful and spiritual deity, the goddess is fundamentally an incorporeal being. Nevertheless, Elune has often been depicted as a kaldorei woman of transcending beauty and perfection, crowned with a simple platinum circlet and surrounded by a dazzling luminescence. Night elven artisans have traditionally portrayed her in their works as having long and silvery hair, alabaster skin, and eyes of pure moonlight.
To the best of anyone's knowledge, Elune only has had one lover: the demigod Malorne. They conceived a child named Cenarius, who inherited a powerful blend of his mother's unconditional love for Azeroth's living beings and his father's mystic ties to the Emerald Dream. The natural world is intimately connected to the moon goddess as a result, and for more than ten thousand years, the night elves have reflected this by arranging their society according to a harmonious balance between the dual ethos of druids and priestesses, which is embodied in the present age by the union of Malfurion Stormrage and Tyrande Whisperwind.
The tauren too have a myth that purportedly relates the story of Cenarius' conception.[1]
Devotion and worship
- Main article: Sisterhood of Elune
Recorded night elven history shows that formal worship of Elune dates back to at least 14,000 years. However, it is certain that the moon goddess was being revered through more primitive and decentralized methods long before this. The first known center of devotion to Elune was established by the Sisters of Elune within the ancient kaldorei capital Zin-Azshari. The Sisterhood at one point relocated this temple to the city of Suramar after it became evident Queen Azshara and the Highborne increasingly distanced themselves from the tenets of the moon goddess. After Suramar itself had fallen to the onslaught of the Burning Legion, Elune became a profound source of hope and humility to all night elves as they witnessed the Ancient Guardians of Azeroth rally under the blazing moon to come to the defense of a world being put to the flame over their civilization's mistakes.
In the era between the War of the Ancients and the Third War, a period known as the Long Vigil, devotion to Elune had essentially become universal among the kaldorei but was practiced without centralized places of worship, much like in ages past. The Sisters of Elune have recently founded a new temple for the moon goddess however, the first of its kind since the complex at Suramar itself: the Temple of the Moon within the night elven capital city of Darnassus. Elune's chosen, Tyrande Whisperwind, resides here both as high priestess and as head of the kaldorei government, and by her side stand many priestesses (and for the first time, several male night elven priests) ready to venture out and soothe a war-weary Azeroth with the Mother Moon's healing light.
Elune's aspect known as the Mother Moon emphasizes tranquillity and harmony to allow for the greatest nurturing of Azeroth's creatures. However, Elune does not advocate pacifism in the face of threats to her harmony and tranquillity; novices in the Sisters of Elune are trained extensively in tactics and combat under the moon goddess' aspect of the Night Warrior.[5] Elune expects devotion from her priestesses, but never demands they give her every waking moment — the Mother Moon is experienced by her daughters as a nurturing, loving matriarch whose expectations are not oppressive in nature. Whereas Elune is the center of reverence for the Sisters of Elune and the sentinels, the kaldorei druids have devoted themselves to the teachings of Elune's only child; the demigod Cenarius. As such, there exists a deep and intimate link between the spirituality of the night elven druids and priestesses, on which their entire society has been based for over ten thousand years.[citation needed]
In the area now known as Sargeron in Desolace, there were once four shrines known as Elune's Cathedral, Elune's Temple, Elune's Sanctuary and Elune's Palace. Each shrine housed a relic of Elune commonly used by the ancient elves in rituals to their goddess.
- One could expect special power from washing one's face in the waters of the Cup of Elune, allowing one to see the spirits of ancient elves as part of the Cleansing Ritual.[6]
- The legends surrounding Elune's Handmaiden has it that in ancient time, after battle, the enemies' weapons were to be cast upon the basin in exchange for a divine gift as part of the Ritual of War.[7]
- According to ancient legend, Elune's Brazier was placed for the performing of sacrifices. A blessing is bestowed upon the being who places the flesh of Elune's enemies on the brazier's burning embers as part of a sacrificial offering.[8]
- The ancient elves revered the gems created by the Ancient Vortex Runestone, claiming that they were gifts from the goddess herself. It was believed that they were weapons capable of delivering them from any enemy.[9] The momument's gemstones were imbued with the power to summon a firestorm. The storm could grow to be a mighty weapon either through sustained worship of Elune, or charged by spiritual energies of the fallen.[10]
At one point, a piece of one of Draenor's moons fell into a pool on the far side of the Shadowmoon Valley woods. Such a thing is perfect for use in the dedication of a moonwell to Elune.[11]
Divine interventions
When the night elves rode into battle, the Sisters of Elune fought side by side with the sentinels, singing to Elune and calling upon her power. Oftentimes the lunar goddess responded by visiting her wrath upon the night elves' enemies. It was even said that the priestesses could bring a semblance of the moon into the noonday sky, lending some of Elune's strength to the nocturnal night elves. After the battle was won, the priestesses prayed over the wounded and brought them healing.[5] Other divine interventions were granted by her including:
- The ability of calming races engaged in battle by singing a song of peace at night, until sunrise.[12]
- The ability to heal or grant a follower the gift of healing.[13]
- She also created a physical shield around Tyrande to prevent her from coming to harm in Azshara's palace, defending her from the likes of the jealous Lady Vashj.[14]
- Causing a rain of solid moonlight to fall when her priestesses face enemies.[15]
- Elune created the wildkin to watch over sacred sites.[16][17]
- She made nightsabers silver and black so they could meld into the shadows on a moonlit night.[18]
- Elune created the Gem of Elune to allow direct communication with her.[19]
- Elune provides her chosen High Priestess with psychic visions, warning her about a possible trouble or giving hope in times of despair.[20]
- Elune appears to be capable of cleansing the deepest corruption from a living creature. Two very notable examples of this are her salvation of Avrus Illwhisper[21] and in particular her redemption of Eranikus.[22]
- In Warcraft III, Tyrande states that she relies upon Elune's power to remain hidden during the night. This could imply that the night elf racial, [Shadowmeld], is a blessing of Elune upon the night elves.
- Elune is depicted to have some power over the element of water, or at least over the tides, as seen in [13] Power Over the Tides.
- It is believed that Elune granted the [Scythe of Elune] to Velinde Starsong.[23]
- Elune blessed the Ancient Guardian Omen with immortality.[24][25]
- She granted a vision to Zamael Lunthistle to recognize the wrong he did.
- After worgen arrived to Darnassus, Elune granted Tyrande a vision of Goldrinn being killed by demons during their first invasion, and of a spectral wolf, indicating the coming of King Wrynn to the city and Garrosh's assault on Ashenvale.[26]
Religious practice
The night elves use the word "god" in plural ("Gods help us all"; "May the gods have mercy"), and the Temple of the Moon in Suramar had frescoes and murals depicting Elune and many other gods (actual gods, not demigods) shaping the world.[13] We infer that the night elf religion, though centered around Elune, is actually polytheistic (the druids' reverence of certain demigods supports this). Elune's worship therefore is more like a dominant mystery cult than a monotheism, similar to the religions of Ancient Egypt or Ancient Greece on Earth.
The tauren and the earthen were also known to honor, if not outright worship Elune. The earthen were aware that it was she who gave birth to Cenarius, and were surprised to hear that Ysera was regarded as his mother. It's unknown if this means that the earthen worshiped her, or were merely better-informed about the origins of Kalimdor's demigods.
A tauren myth, the White Stag and the Moon, relates how Apa'ro (Malorne) fled the Shu'halo (Tauren) by escaping into the sky, but was entangled by the stars. Mu'sha saw him and fell in love with him, and agreed to free him if he loved her. Mu'sha's actions appear slightly out of character with Elune as understood by the night elves and the earthen, but it might be helpful to interpret it as a "just-so" story that the tauren used to explain the origin of Cenarius.
Velen's visit to Darnassus
During a visit to Darnassus by the draenei prophet Velen, he explained that the kaldorei's description of Elune, as well as the demonstrated powers of the goddess, matched his experiences with powerful naaru. He began to offer advice regarding how to commune with powerful naaru, but Tyrande thanked him for his opinion, then cordially requested that he refrain from making such outlandish claims when in Darnassus or in the presence of Elune's priesthood.[27]
In the RPG
This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft RPG and is considered non-canon.
In the RPG Elune is listed as a Healer class and her alignment is Lawful Good.
She nurtured and sheltered the earliest living beings of the world as they awaited the first dawn, giving them the chance to thrive and to grow into the present myriad of life, along with all the possibilities and promises that it entails.[28]
Thus, it was for many centuries, until arcane energy began to leak into the world through the Well of Eternity. Despite her attempts to guide them away, she watched in horror as her spiritual children among the kaldorei were drawn to the Well and seduced by its power. Though her companion Malorne and their child Cenarius joined her faithful among the kaldorei in an attempt to stave off the arrival of the Burning Legion, the demons spilled across the land in a wave of death and destruction that even she could not prevent.
Just as Elune felt that she had once again accomplished her task and brought Azeroth toward a new era of peace, the human kingdoms fell under the corrupting influence of high elven magic, and crumbled into chaos. Shortly thereafter, the orcish Horde came to Azeroth and sparked a new era of warfare that threatens to consume the world like the War of the Ancients did so long ago. Though her kaldorei followers have returned from their time in the Emerald Dream, it has yet to be seen if the moon goddess will take any direct action during this time of trouble.
It's difficult to make the goddess out through the luminescence that surrounds her, only catching glimpses of alabaster skin and long, pale hair, graceful gossamer robes and a platinum circlet upon her brow. Her eyes are brilliant orbs of pure moonlight, and she smiles peacefully upon her worshippers.[28]
Elune faiths
Elune is revered by those who worship her as the mother of the world, a scion of peace and a protector of all living things. The majority of the kaldorei strive to follow in her footsteps, though most rationalize their need to resort to violence as the shortcoming of a mortal existence. Even those who worship other powers respect Elune for the unconditional love she gives to all creatures regardless of their beliefs or actions. Though she has never shown herself in physical form on the Material Plane, all the creatures of Azeroth know that were she to do so, it would herald the arrival of a long awaited era of peace.[29]
Elune never engages in combat of any kind, nor does she allow it to occur in her presence. Though she never physically manifests in the world of mortals, when she involves herself in a violent situation, she arrives invisibly and undetected using her song of peace to calm the combatants until sunrise.[28]
- One of the Pillars of Creation artifacts are named after her - Tears of Elune, hinting some connections between her and the Titans.
- The wedding of Tyrande and Malfurion took place when the White Lady was at its zenith.[30]
- In an alternate timeline where Deathwing had successfully brought about the Hour of Twilight the time-twisted fragment of Tyrande was still able to call upon the powers of Elune.
- Elune is not an Old God.[31]
- The ship Elune's Blessing is named after her.
- Prior to patch 4.0.3, players could encounter the Voice of Elune upon completing [59] Guardians of the Altar.
- She is not likely to ever appear in physical, or even non-physical form (except perhaps in a hallucination). Worship of Elune is meant to grant peace and these occasional interventions — unlike the Aspects, Guardians, or even mortals, she is not meant to actively defend (the War of the Ancients and the Battle of Mt. Hyjal notwithstanding) — she is abstract and spiritual, a light in the darkness, hope in despair.
- Elune's name almost certainly comes from the Latin root Luna, meaning Moon.
- In modern mythological studies, Elune can be considered a "Great Goddess" figure. As with many lunar fantasy goddesses, aspects of Elune's character are likely drawn from the Greek lunar goddesses Artemis (Roman Diana, goddess of the moon and the hunt) and Selene (Roman Luna, the personification of the moon). Another possible inspiration is Elbereth, the Goddess of Stars and patron deity of the elves in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium. Elune and Elbereth share many similarities, including appearance[citation needed], names, epithets, and their relationship to elves.
- Given the influence Dungeons & Dragons has had on Warcraft, Elune may also be loosely based upon the default goddess Sehanine, goddess of elves and autumn or the Forgotten Realms goddess Selûne (notice the similar name, though different pronunciation), the generic personification of the moon. Elune and Sehanine share a particular habit of rarely, if ever, manifesting themselves, communicating with their Chosen through dreams and moonlight. It is revealed in the fourth edition of D&D that Sehanine is in fact an aspect of Selûne. More so, Elune may be be based on Ehlonna, goddess of the elves, forests, woodlands, flora, fauna and fertility from the Greyhawk setting.
- Many fans theorized that Elune and Ysera are the same being, since they are both described as the mother of Cenarius and show great compassion for the lesser races. However, writer Richard A. Knaak has confirmed that they are NOT the same.[32]
Sphere of influence reaffirmed
In the Patch 5.2 Raid Preview, Lead Encounter Designer Ion Hazzikostas talked about how they originally planned for the Twin Consorts of Lei Shen, Lu'lin and Suen, to be the imprisoned spirits of the sun and moon but scrapped the idea because it didn't feel right. He goes on to state the only true spirit of the Moon is Elune and she was clearly not locked away by the Thunder King.[33]
This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.
- It is hinted that it was Elune who transformed Kalecgos into an Aspect of Magic. Given that the ritual was done during the Embrace and involved the presence of the White Lady and the Blue Child, and the White Lady is associated with Elune, then it is possible this was the case. This is supported by the following texts: "His was now the ultimate mastery of arcane magic, given willingly, with love and hope and trust, by his flight, by the Mother and Child, by the echo of what the titans had willed, long ago".
- It is possible that Elune's power are on par with, if not rival, the Old Gods. Tyrande were able to call upon Elune's blessed power in the Emerald Dream at the other plane of existence to cleanse it's corruption caused by N'Zoth, an Old God.
- There are possibility that Elune aided the Titans in creating Azeroth. In the Temple of Elune in Suramar, there were murals on the ceiling depicting Elune creating Azeroth alongside gods whose faces were undepicted.
Does Elune have a connection to the Void/Shadow?
Elune may have a connection to the shadow. Elune may be the Goddess of the Moon, but even the Moon has a dark side[34] and even the grace of Elune cannot keep all her daughters from the shadow.[35] Elune, being the moon, would represent the light that is present in the darkness, but even the light of the moon casts a shadow.[36]
Elune, a naaru?
In the third round of Ask CDev, Blizzard remarked that "Velen has been a prophet of the naaru for many thousands of years, and it's unlikely that he would propose such a theory without significant evidence and consideration."[37] Community manager Kaivax fueled the mystery a bit further by tweeting "whether or not [Elune being a naaru] is anything other than talk is anyone's guess."
Tyrande Whisperwind, Elune's chosen high priestess, has dismissed Velen's opinion on the matter out of hand.[27] Tyrande's rejection of Velen's claim seems to tie into a notable difference between the naaru and Elune--the naaru reject being objects of worship by mortals,[citation needed] although some may revere them. The moon goddess however has for countless ages empowered a night elven priesthood devoted to worshiping her as a divinity, and in every generation has anointed the most faithful of her worshipers as high priestess of a religion dedicated to her name.
With Elune's mortal avatar dismissing the assertion that the mother moon can be identified as a naaru of major prominence, no certainty exists either way. This does not preclude connections between the naaru and Elune, but it suggests the moon goddess might not merely be one of them.
Elune, once a mortal?
While proven by Brann Bronzebeard's archaeological research that night elves were descended from trolls (dark trolls are their closest ancestors), and Zanza the Restless, a mortal becoming a powerful Loa, it is highly possible that Elune was once a mortal that ascended into a deity by the Well of Eternity's magics, transforming her to become more closely akin to the Titans' own image since the Well was their creation. This would explain why the night elves bear resemblance to the dryads and keepers of the grove, who themselves have a biological link to Elune herself. In addition, Elune might not be her 'mortal name' as their language had changed over the ages (from Zandali to Darnassian), and since the night elves revered her as the mother of their race, Elune might have been a powerful matriarch of her tribe, which fits the claim of her being the Night Warrior. Night elves sometimes refer to Elune as "the Great Mother",[38] although this is possibly due to her parentage of the revered Cenarius.
See also
- ^ a b c The Warcraft Encyclopedia: Elune
- ^ Tahu Sagewind says: The elves speak of a moon goddess, did you know? They put great stock in the light given by the moon.
Aponi Brightmane says: Like Mu'sha.
Tahu Sagewind says: Just like her. The parallels I've heard are interesting... Mu'sha is one of the Earthmother's eyes, and she watches over us.
- ^ [Necklace with Elune Pendant]
- ^ Curse of the Worgen Issue 1, pg 28-29
- ^ a b The Warcraft Encyclopedia: Sisterhood of Elune
- ^ [30] Nothing a Couple of Melons Won't Fix
- ^ [31] To the Hilt!
- ^ [31] Ten Pounds of Flesh
- ^ [31] All Becoming Clearer
- ^ [31] Firestarter
- ^ [91] Shadowmoonwell
- ^ The Demon Soul, chapter 8
- ^ a b The Well of Eternity, chapter 8
- ^ The Sundering, chapter 4
- ^ The Sundering, chapter 19
- ^ [59] Guardians of the Altar
- ^ Ultimate Visual Guide
- ^ [Nightsaber Cub]
- ^ Priestess of Elune#Cutscene at the Altar of Elune
- ^ Stormrage, chapter 5
- ^ [23] In the Hands of the Perverse
- ^ Transcript of Eranikus' redemption
- ^ [30] The Howling Vale
- ^ Moons + Explosives = Lunar Festival!. Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. "Driven mad by the Burning Legion's tainted magics during the War of the Ancients, Elune's blessing of immortality means that [Omen] will forever be cursed to return in his maddened state at the advent of a new year."
- ^ [100] Elune's Blessing
- ^ Wolfheart
- ^ a b Ask CDev Answers - Round 2
- ^ a b c Shadows & Light, pg. 80
- ^ Shadows & Light, pg. 81
- ^ Stormrage, chapter 30
- ^ Loreology on Twitter (dead link)
- ^ http://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/elune
- ^ Patch 5.2 Raid Preview: Throne of Thunder
- ^ Scourgewar/126
- ^ Heroes of Azeroth/196
- ^ March of the Legion/8
- ^ Ask CDev Answers - Round 3
- ^ Huntresses in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Blizzard Entertainment


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Reviews in American History
Volume 25, Number 3, September 1997
pp. 416-421 | 10.1353/rah.1997.0082
Reviews in American History 25.3 (1997) 416-421
William J. Novak. The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. x + 396 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Listening to National Public Radio the other day I heard a gentleman from the Cato Institute argue that the interstate highway system should be privatized. Mixed in among his various economic and philosophical arguments were historical reassurances. We know that private highways can work, he insisted, because throughout the nineteenth century most highways in the United States were private. The would-be privatizer had invoked a potent historical image -- that of the good old days when the government stayed out of peoples' business and allowed them to engage in that most American of activities: making a profit.
Yet, as William J. Novak demonstrates in his excellent book, The People's Welfare, this image is an illusion based on two "resilient myths about nineteenth-century America" (pp. 2-3). The first, which Novak calls "the myth of statelessness," is the notion that government played a very small role in the lives of antebellum Americans: "the essence of nineteenth-century government was its absence" (p. 3). The second--"the myth of liberal individualism"--is that nineteenth-century political ideology was concerned primarily with protecting the private rights of individuals in a way that promoted market capitalism (p. 6). Novak rejects these myths, arguing instead that regulation was pervasive in nineteenth-century America. By examining the day-to-day activities of local officials, Novak demonstrates the existence of a "distinctive and powerful governmental tradition devoted in theory and practice" to "social and economic policy-making" (p. 1). At the center of this tradition was the notion of "the well-regulated society," the idea that the government has an obligation to ensure the well-being of its citizens (p. 2).
Novak's first step in exploring the administration of this well-regulated society is to examine its intellectual roots. He discovers a "fuzzy intellectual matrix" of political philosophers, legal theorists, and common law judges who expounded a theory of governance that was quite at odds with the mythic liberal conception of the state (p. 26). These thinkers portrayed humans as profoundly social creatures who found happiness as part of a community. When viewed in this manner, individual rights became necessarily correlative -- they existed only so long as they were not antagonistic to social interaction. Rights were seen as obligations to the community. "Civil liberty" meant the liberty to behave in a civil fashion, or, as Mark Hopkins, an instructor of "moral science" at Williams College put it in 1862: "A man has rights in order that he may do right" (p. 33).
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All the players are the same, but Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said UConn can expect to face a different Cardinal team at the Final Four than the one the Huskies beat in November by 19 points.
VanDerveer said that her team was still learning about itself when it lost 76-57 to UConn at Gampel Pavilion. Although Amber Orrange scored a career-high 22 points in that game, the Cardinal was still much too dependent on All-American Chiney Ogwumike at that point.
The Cardinal are a more balanced team right now, with five players averaging in double figures in scoring during the NCAA Tournament. Ogwumike is averaging 23.3 ppg., but she's getting plenty of support from Orrange (12.4), Bonnie Samuelson (12.0), Lili Thompson (11.5) and Mikaela Ruef (10.0). Ruef, not Ogwumike, was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Stanford Regional.
"Sometimes it takes some bumps in the road to kind of really get going in the right direction a little bit," VanDerveer said. "I thought (the 75-65 regional final win over North Caroline) was a great example of team basketball, which is what I like to see and what I like to coach. Yes, we have a star and an All-American. But what a relief that is for Chiney to know that she can really trust her teammates and she doesn't have to do it all. Other people are going to pick up the slack."
The Huskies have had great balance all season with five players averaging in double-figure scoring both for regular season games and postseason games. In the NCAA Tournament the Huskies have been led by Breanna Stewart and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis at 17.3 ppg. followed by Bria Hartley at 16.5, Stefanie Dolson at 12.8 and Moriah Jefferson at 11.8.
Read between the lines: During a press conference with local media Wednesday night, VanDerveer talked about what she called the team's Scouting Report Defense. She said they don't play the same type of defense from game to game because they make adjustments based on the opponent's personnel. Sometimes, she said, you can cheat off one player to double another.
When asked how she planned to defend UConn's five All-Americans, she quickly questioned the reporter about the number of All-Americans and informed him that Jefferson is not an All-American. (She did receive All-America honorable mention). That could mean the Cardinal will give Jefferson a little leeway to shoot while concentrating on Hartley and Mosqueda-Lewis.
"I hope so," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "I think Moriah hopes so. Just like we all want to talk about how much Stanford has grown as a team, and I think that's great. I don't think Moriah's been sleeping for the last five months either. No team that's in the Final Four is one-dimensional. If you're going to the Final Four and you've only got one way to win, you're probably not going to win. So if our ability to win depends on what happens if one guy doesn't guard Moriah Jefferson, then we don't deserve to win."
VanDerveer wasn't about to divulge what her Scouting Report Defense called for against UConn. She just said the team just uses a program to figure out tendencies for opponents and goes from there.
Defense wins championships: UConn senior center Stefanie Dolson has been named one of three finalists for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's Division I Defensive Player of the Year Award.
The other two finalists are Stanford's Ogwumike and Baylor's Odyssey Sims.
Dolson is averaging 12.4 points and leads the Huskies in rebounding at 9.2 per game while being second on the team in blocked shots with 89. She already won the American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year award this season.
The winner will be announced during the WBCA Awards Show on Monday evening at 6:30.
Game time: The UConn-Stanford game will be the second of two national semifinals Sunday and is tentatively scheduled to begin on ESPN around 9 p.m.
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As you're sketching out the deliverable, your direct manager emails you and asks you to hurry up with the slides you're working on as there's a meeting at 3PM.
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You're working with a senior colleague to analyze client sales growth in different regions to present to your manager. Your colleague is also working on another module, so you're doing most of the work on this one while he supervises. Your performance on this will - in a very real way - determine your final performance evaluation results.
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You're opening one excel sheet after another, alt-tabbing between 3 different countries' local data as you prepare scenarios. It's a lot to keep track of, but the calculations are little more than basic arithmetic.
Approach A: You continue as you have, straight copying and pasting data (hard-coding) and not labeling or formatting anything since you just need a final number. You've got it all in your head. You finally get the number you need and email it to your manager.
He comes back after his meeting and asks you exactly HOW you came up with that calculation, saying that the client wants to see a full backup. In case you're not sure, this is because the figures look very wrong.
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You make a mental list in your head of all the things you might discuss: quick bullet points on the project status, a self-introduction that you practiced hundreds of times at your school's career center, congratulations for landing that new client as you read in the firm's newsletter, some other ideas to bounce off him. You're set.
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since the motherboard (mini-itx) is 17cm(x) x 17cm(y) (6.7 in x 6.7 in), I would say you are off to a bad start.... now if you can go to 7"(x) x 10"(y) x 4"(z), the Travla c156 might work.....or is it the 136.... I forget.....
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since the motherboard (mini-itx) is 17cm(x) x 17cm(y) (6.7 in x 6.7 in), I would say you are off to a bad start.... now if you can go to 7"(x) x 10"(y) x 4"(z), the Travla c156 might work.....or is it the 136.... I forget.....
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The 5" x 10" is easy, as Splinter says a nano itx will get you that. Or a 3.5" biscuit PC (6"x4"). I'm running a PCM-9373 that has everything needed on board, and could even take a compact flash hard drive if you want to go small on that too.
I think the tricky thing is going to be the 1" requirement. The height of heatsink/fan on many boards will break this requirement. Perhaps thermally coupling the cpu directly to a substantial ally case might work here?
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Actress Amy (Kate Bosworth) returns to her small Mississippi hometown with her Hollywood screenwriter husband, David Sumner (James Marsden), so he can work on his new script. They hire Amy's former boyfriend, Charlie (True Blood's Alexander Skarsgard), and his buddies to repair the barn roof ... and so begins a series of subtle psychological games designed to make David look foolish and weak. Eventually, a deadly incident leads up to a violent stand-off, in which David must take up arms to defend his wife and his home.
Film critic-turned-director Rod Lurie unwisely tries to redo Sam Peckinpah with this incendiary tale. In Peckinpah's hands, the story (which was originally based on a 1969 novel by Gordon M. Williams) was an intensely psychological thriller about perceived masculinity. The remake avoids anything psychological -- or even emotional -- and turns it into a rather empty and soulless revenge thriller. This time the characters don't make much sense, and when they change or snap, it seems too sudden, rather than gradual.
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Nuturtle, i designed this turtles in 2010 was a pitch that i offered for a Iphone videogame, it was never approved haha, but i stayed with the characters, some time i will get the chance to do a remake of those, Screwi is the main character and it had to advance in various levels and win the shells of the other NUTURTLES, wasn't the big deal but it was a really fun idea back then haha.
The game was probably meant for much more than just a iPhone game
This is cool
Pretty cool
I would totally have gotten the game! But, I would have preferred it to be an Android game though.
Love the different silhouettes!
Creeme que si supiera programar, si te apoyaba con la idea, suena buena, jajajaja me encantan los videojuegos.
i would have gotten the game if it really came out XD
sweet design!
sweet design!
screwi is the real deal
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Well, their loss, this turtles are awesome and anyone with two eyes can see that...hell, even the blind people can see that this is epic!


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A TEENAGER is still in a critical condition in hospital after he was thrown from and crushed by a car in a crash in Belmont.
The 16-year-old, a former Harper Green School pupil from Farnworth, was thrown from the black Citroen C2, which then overturned and landed on him, in Rivington Road, Belmont, at about 11pm on Thursday.
Police said the boy was still in a critical condition in hospital.
Another man, aged 19, also a former Harper Green pupil, was in the car, but escaped without serious injuries.
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Mrs. Navy K. owns a general store at her home where she can earn some money from selling groceries. She is the mother of four children who are all enrolled in the local public school. Her husband, Mr. Saret Sau, is a teacher.
Although this couple tries to work hard, they earn less income than needed to support their family. So, to improve this condition, Mrs. Navy K. is asking for a loan to buy a mother pig and piglets for breeding to start a new business.
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About AMKAngkor Microfinance Kampuchea (AMK) is a leading microfinance institution in Cambodia with a wide reach of operations. AMK works with over 6,000 villages and serves clients in every Cambodian province. With an average loan size of US$115, AMK's focus is to provide credit and savings products to the very poor in rural areas. For more information, please visit AMK's website.
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In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
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A couple of months ago, Armando an architect at Remend (and now a movie star :)) contacted me via this blog about the SaaS projects he was working on.
After a few back and forth by email, Fred spent some time with them on the phone and was impressed by their sound architecture (of course the fact they were 100% Microsoft technology based did not hurt). To share even more thoughts, he paid them a visit in the Valley and performed a architecture design session with them.
A few weeks back, Ron (of Arcast fame) spent some time with them and produces 5 short videos provided very interesting input in their business and architecture.
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It may be true in some cases, but in most cases, it is the bank manager who can make or break the loan applications. Else, how come so much bad loan is being given to people who are not even worth 1/100 of it.
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Teams needed to lead summer camps and other types of children/youth outreach. Also teams to do general cleaning and inside painting.
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Kings Mountain Memorial Community Center is an outreach ministry of the Lincoln County Baptist Association.
Size of Teams: Small teams needed (20 or less).
Available dates for teams to come: Spring/Summer 2016
Housing and food preparation: Housing can be provided. There also motels in the area. Call for information.
Materials for Project: Ministry will provide the materials, however if teams can help to provide the paint it would be appreciated.
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We took this opportunity, not even 2 days after launch, to sit down with the game's Creative Director, Laralyn McWilliams, to discuss the big event and how players have reacted so far. Plus, we talk a bit about the future of the game and what types of features we can expect to see coming soon. Follow along after the cut below for our complete interview with Free Realms!
We took this opportunity, not even 2 days after launch, to sit down with the game's Creative Director, Laralyn McWilliams, to discuss the big event and how players have reacted so far. Plus, we talk a bit about the future of the game and what types of features we can expect to see coming soon. Follow along after the cut below for our complete interview with Free Realms!
Massively: So how has the launch-day feedback been so far, considering the delays?
Laralyn McWilliams: We saw from our end actually it was more anticipation -- people just eager to get into the game -- from things like Twitter and other things we were monitoring. I think some people were actually staying up late in anticipation to play. But Free Realms is a really complicated game and there's lots of moving parts, and getting all of those parts synchronized together and up on live was a real feat. So it was really gratifying for us because within the first ten minutes of the gates opening, essentially, there was a flood of players that came in. So even though it was comparatively late in the evening here on the West Coast, we still had a ton of people who came in as soon as the doors opened, so that was very exciting for us.
When the game was in beta, there was one server which quickly evolved into 2 servers at launch. Now the server count is at 6. Are there more servers scheduled to come out soon?
We actually have a lot of servers ready in our data center just waiting for us to flip the switch and turn them on. One of the greatest things about Free Realms is that you can take your character to any server, any time. So even as the server load increases, you can still play with your friends wherever you want on any server you want. It really is only a matter of 10-15 minutes for us to set up another server. So we'll continue to do that as the population increases.
Are there any plans to introduce a family plan for managing multiple accounts under one master account, much like FusionFall has?
Katie Hanson (SR PR Manager for SOE): Yes, we'd like to do something like that. It wasn't a launch feature, but it is in discussion.
Free Realms is already being called "everyone's secondary MMO". From a business perspective, this is a pretty good position to be in, especially with such an inexpensive membership fee. Was this "secondary MMO" status by design, or just a happy accident?
Our initial goal for Free Realms was to make it a game for casual players, and people who don't usually play MMOs at all. Maybe they don't like the grind or they don't have time or they don't like being limited, or they want to do more than one thing with one character. It was all of those types of things that drove the design and development of Free Realms. So the fact that MMO players are really enjoying Free Realms and that more hardcore gamers are enjoying Free Realms is really exciting for us. Our team really loves it, so we suspected other gamers would too, but it wasn't actually an audience that we intentionally went after.
"I can't give you an actual time for when they'd be in the game, but I can't imagine a game that lets you drive a race car would not let you have a mount."
Despite the fact that travel mounts would be unnecessary, are there any plans to add mounts in as just something cool to have?
Yeah, down the road, but there's no time frame for that. We have a lot of cool features on our list that we want to do, with housing being one of the first things on the list. Mounts are definitely on there too. I can't give you an actual time for when they'd be in the game, but I can't imagine a game that lets you drive a race car would not let you have a mount.
There has been some discussion of a "club" system replacing the traditional guild system in other MMOs. Is this still in the works?
Yeah, there's no date I can give you on that either, but that's a feature that's really important to us, and it's definitely on our list.
Can you explain a bit about how that would work?
We're still in development with that, so I'm hesitant to say a whole lot about it. One of the interesting things about Free Realms is trying to balance features so that the general public that's over 13 can enjoy them, but is still safe for those members under 13. Figuring out how you can design guilds or club emblems and name your guild and all of that is something that we're really spending a lot of time figuring out.
We've noticed that the whole Free Realms team is participating in Twitter quite a bit, with in-game meet-up announcements and other communication with the community done quite frequently. Is this something you plan to continue?
Oh yeah, definitely. We love talking about Free Realms. We're really proud of the game and we're really excited about it. In fact, the night of launch, when we saw the servers go live, technically we could have gone home because we were all exhausted at that point, but at least a third of the team stayed and played Free Realms until three or four in the morning because they were so excited. So we're going to keep tweeting about it, although you probably won't hear a lot of tweets about upcoming features, unless they're coming from me or Laura Naviaux or Katie, just because we don't want people to get excited about stuff until it's ready to come out. We definitely plan to keep tweeting news and special promo codes and special events to go to certain locations in the game right now where there's a party, and that kind of stuff.
Right now there are Station Cash Cards for Free Realms available at Target. Are there plans to bring these cards to other retail stores?
Katie: Right now they're available at Target, 7-11 and Rite Aid on Friday and then Best Buy on Monday. You can check out the website for more availability nationwide.
"As the game grows over time, I would anticipate that things that are members-only now will become free later on"
In future content patches, will we see a consistent balance between what's new for free users versus paid members?
We're going to maintain that same balance that we have now, which is roughly 60% free to 40% members-only. One of the great things about Free Realms is that since it streams to you in the background, it means it's easy for us to change content and update for fixes, but it also means that it's easy to release new content. We won't be artificially trying to maintain that balance of 60/40, but we'll be developing the features and new content and releasing it when it's ready so it can get to players as quickly as possible.
As the game grows over time, I would anticipate that things that are members-only now will become free later on because they'll be more new things for members to do. It's a living, growing game, and I anticipate that everything will be in flux for a bit, but we're basically maintaining the 60/40 balance going forward.
Before we go, can you give us any hint as to what's in the works with Free Realms?
There are some things that we actually have talked about, but they just didn't make it in time for launch. We do still have soccer coming. I know Smed has been talking about that a lot. I can't give any exact dates for any of these because we're in player feedback mode right now. So we really want to make sure that the game is solid, we've nailed all the bugs and that we're paying attention in the forums and paying attention to what people are talking about. So that's our first priority right now, which is making changes and pleasing the customers that we already have.
We do still plan to let you have a garage and let you customize your car, which was always something we've talked about. Also some new jobs that we have in the works, but that's all I can talk about that's in the pipe. It's not close as in next month, but it's definitely something you'll see sooner rather than later.
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FALLEN IDOL (BRITAIN-1948)Library: Greenwich Library
With Bobby Henrey, Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan. Directed by Carol Reed. Told from a child's point of view, this Graham Greene story focuses indeed on whether the butler did it. Robert Henrey of Greenwich and will grace our stage with tales of being a child actor and working with the great Sir Carol Reed (Fallen Idol, The Third Man) and will also discuss his recent book Through Grown-Up Eyes.
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Capitalism doesn't just create generous wealthy people, but generous poor people, too. Americans give twice as much to charity as the most generous European nations, and the most generous Americans are, in fact, poor Americans.
But forget philanthropy. Since 2000, hundreds of millions of people in China and India -- home to a plurality of the world's poor -- have lifted themselves out of poverty and illiteracy thanks to capitalism.
China started to embrace markets as a last resort in the late 1970s. And by last resort, I mean last resort. First they tried murdering tens of millions of their own people through collectivism and oppression. When that didn't work, they embraced markets, and the poverty rate dropped from 64 percent to around 8 percent today.
As it always does, capitalism drove innovation over the last decade. The BlackBerry was introduced in 1999, but the iPhone didn't exist in 2000, nor did the iPod. YouTube was a fantasy, and no one could even imagine why you'd ever need something like Facebook or Twitter (in fairness, some people still ask that question). iTunes was launched in 2003, and five years later it was outselling Wal-Mart as the No. 1 music retailer. Government-funded basic research in medical science deserves some credit for breakthroughs, but it's worth remembering that lots of countries invest in basic research. America, with its markets, stands alone as the leading, arguably sole, source of medical innovation. Breakthrough drugs are as American as apple pie.
Every good thing capitalism helps produce -- from singing careers to cures for diseases to staggering charity -- is credited to some other sphere of our lives. Every problem with capitalism, meanwhile, is laid at her feet. Except the problems with capitalism -- greed, theft, etc. -- aren't capitalism's fault, they're humanity's. Socialist countries have greedy thieves, too.
Free markets are in disrepute these days, particularly by the people running Washington. For them, government is the solution and capitalism is the problem. If they have their way over the next decade, they won't cure what allegedly ails capitalism -- people will still steal and lie -- but they will impede everything that makes capitalism great. And that will be bad for everyone, even NPR.
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what is your favourite counter service in DHS and what do you have? I used to like the pizzas at Pizza planet but it wasn't that good last year
You know? I've never eaten there but once in the Commissary and don't recall much about that as it was ages ago. I was given a piping hot container of French fries once... they were nice. Probably because they were free.
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To be honest, I dont think that Studios is well served with QS options. I dont usually sit outside but I make an exception for Starring Rolls. We usually just share a sandwich and cake between three of us. I love the food on offer there. Sometimes though, we just take the boat across to Epcot and eat there.


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I surveyed the now empty room, glancing at the stack of cardboard boxes. The walls were white and lifeless. My bed just a wooden frame and a mattress. The small bedroom now empty of belongings. It's strange to be moving all the time. I bet kids my age don't have to go through this. Hopefully I'll find some friends and actually get to go to school. I thought, crossing my arms. I circled the bedroom, pausing at the window to look out at the scenery for the last time. Then I walked to the door. I thought we really found a home.
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Faux Wrought Iron Wall Art
Design an eye-catching wall art creation for just pennies! By recycling cardboard tubes, you can create sturdy lengths to use in the traditional art of quilling. Spray your finished creation with a metallic spray paint to create the look of wrought iron.
- Recycled cardboard toilet paper and paper towel tubes, 30
- Balsa strips, 3/8"-wide, 10" lengths, 16
Basic Supplies
ruler, scissors, craft knife, newspaper (to cover work surface)
- Wooden dowel
- Rust-Oleum Textured Metallic Spray Paint
- Aleene's Tacky Glue
- Size
- 1. Wall art is 10"x10".
- Wall Art
- 1. On covered work surface, cut balsa wood into 10" lengths. Adhere lengths together forming square shapes. Let dry. See Photos 1-3. (see photos)
- 2. Cut along length of paper towel tubes to form straight, long lengths. Flatten tube out. Use scrap of balsa strip to measure 3/8" sections lengthwise on tube. (Note: The toilet paper tubes are cut in 3/8" strips across width of tube to keep curl.) Cut along length of paper towel tube, flatten out, and mark 3/8" strips across width resulting in 3/8" curls. See Photos 4 and 5. (see photos)
- 3. Print out pattern. Choose pattern and begin laying out design on work surface. Cut straight strips to proper lengths and adhere in place. See Photos 6-8. (see photos)
- 4. Curl cardboard toilet paper tube strips with end of paintbrush handle or wooden dowel. Adhere in place. See Photos 9-14. (see photos)
- 5. Allow design to completely dry. Apply Textured Metallic spray paint to create wrought-iron look. Reapply as needed covering all angles and curls. See Photos 15 and 16. (see photos)
- Tips
- 1. To get an even pattern, divide your design into four sections and work on one section at a time. Each section needs to mirror each other. Once you have the first section completed, hold your curled pieces up to their matching piece in the completed section in order to match the curl before adhering in place.
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Benjamin Thomas GalleryBenjamin Thomas Gallery
83 Brown Street
Wickford, Rhode Island
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Phone: 401-295-7555
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Website: http://www.benthomasgallery.com
Photography Gallery of work by Benjamin Thomas. Specialized printing, specifically canvas and fine art papers. Commercial photography as well, (weddings, business, portrait and real estate).
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