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One of our favorite up-and-comers in New York is the kid from a small town in Kansas who came to us by way of San Francisco and Los Angeles, recording, performing, photographing and writing everything down along the way: Alexis Penney. His life story is as full as many persons of twice or three times his age, which can be heard in the California new-age-meets-NYC after-hours-meets suburban-longing in his first full-legnth release, Window (Ecstasy), available for pre-order (out August 6th). It can also be experienced via his first book, also titled Window (Peradam), and also available for pre-order (out September 19th).
We asked Penney what the impetus was for creating a book and an album of the same name. Read his response below.
ALEXIS PENNEY The book I wrote [after] meeting Elizabeth Jaeger from Peradam at a party and sending it to her in its infancy. She was like 'Okay great I want to put it out' and I was like 'Oh shit wow okay I have to finish it then!'
The record was kind of similar. Tamaryn convinced me that I needed to do a full record before I would take myself seriously as an artist... I wrestled it into being with Jamie Crewe from UK's Poisonous Relationship and Nick Weiss from Teengirl Fantasy, over the course of almost two years, between LA, SF, and NYC.
I thought maybe I'd have to shop it around once I was finished, not knowing how Ecstasy, who I had worked with previously on the "Lonely Sea" single/EP, would react, but when I sent them the first batch of demos they were immediately like, 'Okay, so we wanna put it out,' and I was like, 'Oh shit, so now I have to finish this too!'
I feel really good about them both, separately, and especially together as complements. I'm working on new stuff right now... Really excited to finally do something that's not so specifally inspired by this one relationship which ended over three and a half years ago!
images from WINDOW (Peradam) courtesy the author

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After making the large squares-on-point quilt last winter, I decided it would be fun to make a baby-size version using 5″ Charm squares. This one is for my brand-new baby niece!
Oh that is really cute! I love yellow for a baby quilt. I hope to be a grandma someday, and need to make lots of baby quilts!!
Love the soft colors, and I think I have at least one charm pack of that fabric in my stash! Ooooh, I feel another project coming on!

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Such a cute baby quilt! I'm working on a second quilt following another of your fantastic patterns and I'm sure I'll be doing this one in the future. Love those bright stockings too! 🙂
Such a gorgeous baby quilt!
O, the little baby quilt tutorial is perfect timing for me! Was looking for a new baby quilt and just love this one! Thanks!
Your baby quilt is adorable. I can't wait to hear all about the sewing summit!
Your crib quilt is great, and polka dotted Christmas stocking…oh, my! Love all of your projects.
Wish I could have been there to meet you all – this quilt is so beautiful BTW.
What a beautiful baby quilt!
Love the quilt! The lattice pattern really shows off the fabric!
I had a BLAsT last weekend hanging with you!!!
What a beautiful baby quilt, I love the colors! I think I'm going to use this pattern for the baby quilt I'm making for a friend of mine.
How soft and pretty, I love it! It was great meeting you this weekend!
Love the latest quilt- so soft and sweet. Can't wait to hear all about your trip!
Such a wonderful baby quilt and the color are lovely.Love yoour projects
I love this quilt! It's going into my (ever-growing) list of "stuff to do." Thank you!
the quilt is adorable Amy!! I love Lily and Will!!! I took a little nap as well and I at least thought about unpacking 🙂
I saw you MBS quilt yesterday…I love it!!! Such a precious gift for your neice! I just printed the template for some stockings…think I will had some initials for them for some little Christmas gifts. Thanks for always sharing so much of your creativity with us 🙂 Looking forward to seeing pics from the SS.
Smiles~Beth
love the baby quilt! What a quick and easy project for a fast baby shower gift!!
This is gorgeous – thank you so much for the tutorial. I`ve been looking for a gorgeous pattern for my cousin`s baby who is due to arrive next month. I think this is the one!
It's beautiful! I love the colors and the layout. I can't wait till my son is big enough to cuddle with a quilt. Maybe soon!
Love the new baby quilt, what a great design idea!!! Thanks!
I love this quilt!! How cool to have a tutorial featured on Moda Bake SHop! And linky love!! Yay!
Lovely quilt, it's just lovely!
very nice quilt, amy! and thanks for the stocking link. will be using it, for sure!
Its lovely!
I love the simplicity of this pattern. But the charm pack you chose is one of my favs, I love Lily & Will! Great job.
Love this quilt! And love the colors you used! Thanks for a great tutorial! 🙂
look at you…on every blog. nice work. Love the projects.
Very cute! Can't wait to hear what all you have to share.
Love you and your quilts! this is so cute. I'm so glad we got to spend so much time together over the weekend. It was a blast! xo
That is a great quilt! I'm very new to sewing and quilting, but I'd love to give that one a try.
it was so great to meet and hang out with you amy! your new quilt pattern is fab!!!
Very cute – thanks for sharing!
cute quilt. off to moda bakeshop to check out the tutorial.

I don't know how to free motion. Any ideas on how to quilt it other than free motion?
Such a sweet quilt. I am starting to make baby quilts to put away for future grandchildren and this pattern looks like a winner.
@Cheryl, (Don't have a return email for you, so hoping you'll see this here)

I am not great at freemotion quilting either. I just finished a different baby quilt with straight-line quilting in a diagonal, cross-hatch pattern. It was easier for me and I really liked how it turned out.

Hope that helps!
I made this quilt and wanted to say thanks for the tutorial! I left out the two 9 block rows b/c I didn't use a Moda charm pack and didn't realize it would have less squares. It worked out great as a smaller tummy time/stroller quilt though.

Thanks so much again!
I've loved this blanket since I first saw it at Moda Bakeshop. :)
I also added it to a list of my favorite baby tutorials on my blog. :)
http://thelittlewaffleflower.blogspot.com/2012/02/baby-on-brain-and-bladder.html
Hi! I've had this quilt pinned for about a year in hopes of making it when we had a baby. We are now due in October, and I'm ready to quilt! I have a small question, though… Do you have a cute suggestion for making the length 53 inches? I just want to make it a bit longer, and I'm so new to this quilting thing that I'm not sure how best to do it. I would sincerely


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- Ficus Racemosa – This native south-east Asian plant is also known as the cluster fig tree. The extract of this plant has shown remarkable astringent (tightening) properties. It's also known to help restore damaged skin and maintain youthful elasticity.
- Butea Frondosa – This plant is grown in its native country of India and can reach upwards of 12 meters tall. The resin extracted from this plant is known to make the vagina more sensitive to pleasure when used topically. It's also rumored that this resin is able to enhance libido and sexual function.
- Sphatika – More commonly known as alum in the West Sphatika has a soothing and tightening effect on the vagina. Although generally alum is accepted as safe and mild please note that women with extremely sensitive skin may experience a mild reaction. Chances are alum can be found in most of your beauty products.
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20 comments:
- Theanne said...
love the hat and yes she is quite elegant!!!
- March 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM
- Lauren@Styleseer said...
- March 29, 2013 at 10:29 AM
- Best Dressed said...
Lovely :)
- March 29, 2013 at 11:30 AM
- Connie said...
I love the photos you take and how you are preserving the elegance and charm of aging. There is a beauty in growing old gracefully . . . I see it in my friends and I hopefully express it in my life. I want to do my part to make people realize that aging is a passage in life to be appreciated. Not just by the person going through it, but also my those that are wise enough to glean from our wisdom.
Each new day brings with it a beauty of it's own. Life is good!
Your blogging sister, Connie :)
- March 29, 2013 at 12:56 PM
- Sandra said...
Beautiful! I wonder how old she is? My mom is 92 so I often inhabit the world of the "older woman". My mom is a beautiful one too. Thanks for raising awareness around these beauties and for reminding us older and beautiful can go hand in hand.
- March 29, 2013 at 2:31 PM
wow! WHat a face. Great photo too. Lara
- March 29, 2013 at 3:09 PM
- Tamera said...
She is indeed chic, in her own understated way.
- March 29, 2013 at 4:23 PM
- Stavrina said...
There is a quiet elegance about her and understated self-
assurance...She makes me feel like everything is gonna be alright :)
- March 29, 2013 at 4:24 PM
- Manual Fashion said...
Amazing looks.
Kiss from Manual Fashion
- March 29, 2013 at 6:08 PM
- June said...
What a beautiful woman and she dresses so carefully and her make up is so discreet. Delightful!
- March 29, 2013 at 8:24 PM
- Palomasea said...
So much grace in her beautiful face...
- March 31, 2013 at 2:30 AM
- Annika Löbig said...
so elegant!
lovely <3
- April 1, 2013 at 5:49 AM
- Carizza Chua said...
oh that's really beautiful!
- April 1, 2013 at 5:53 AM
- Jennifer said...
She looks lovely. I just heard your interview on NPR this morning so nice to hear you getting more recognition!
- April 1, 2013 at 6:03 AM
Good morning Ari,
I am sure you will have multiple posts today from those of us who are aging and left out of the media and heard you on NPR. Bless your heart. Style is something important to me within my budget, and I will be 60 next year. I expect to be around until about 96 or 7. All of the magazines out there stop addressing clothing and style by the 50's. When yours, surely you are planning print media?, debuts I want a subscription.
Do you know a song by John Prine called "Hello in There?"
Again, bless your heart and thank you for noticing.
- April 1, 2013 at 8:08 AM
- Victoria Lynn said...
very cool
- April 1, 2013 at 7:31 PM
Love. So beautiful.
- April 1, 2013 at 9:28 PM
- Yama said...
She really look beauty in age, and choose right outfit so she could look amazing. This is sample for us to keep our modest event we are become aging.
- April 1, 2013 at 11:00 PM
- Eva Begins said...
How elegantly timeless she looks!
I read the piece on NPR about your work, and want to let you know that I find it inspirational.
- April 2, 2013 at 2:39 AM
I am 100% sure she is some Polish Jewess. I can see that in her face.
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This took me long time to type out and take screenshots lol because japanese likes to hide in private geez I'm going to get a single working replay no matter what and so this is what I ended up doing! Lots of pics, consider yourself warned!
Okay its turn 1 and I'm up against some lvl 9 guy with 3 win streak which means he knows how to play at least!
And.. we both summon a Folrart Commander! It backlashes into cemetery!
Its turn 2! We both backlashes our Folrart Commander again!
At this point we're both staring at each other with smoldering eyes and vows to get each other at turn 3!
Its turn 3! Both of us had same idea to sneak Folrart Commander onto the field instantly via Knights order grimiore!
It chooses a random lvl 2 non-character unit from your file and teleport it onto field! Why we both did it is
because Folrart Commander have a start skill that buffs +10 Max hp/+10 hp, +10 Atk/def perm every morning! Yes if
you have three of them on field, you're looking at +30/30 atk/def and max hp/hp every morning, an snowball!
Its turn 4 now! The guy i'm fighting gives up on trying to summon his folrart commander so I manage to get mine onto the field instead!
Its now nighttime and is turn 5! Which means my folrart commander will engage his buff if he isn't killed in the morning time! and I summon a Folrart Recruit Lancer to his Justice Fang Salus! I luv Folrart Recruit Lancer! She snowballs and have awesome End phase skill.
What does my folrart commander does in turn 5? I don't want to give him any advantage in an mirror match so I standby!
(oops forgot a screenshot for this turn.. well Folrart Commander is in slot 1 and standbys, opponent field is empty.)
It's turn 6! I summon one of my favorite lasses! Her name is Janie Sunblade. He summons nothing!
And this is what the field looks like now! Salus is facing off Folrart Commander! And i don't have a friggin clue what she can do but I know what my units can do!
And its morning start phase! And that means! Folrart Recruit Lancer activates her start skill and increases her base lvl from 2 to 3! And folrart commander
activates his start skill and raises both of my unit's stats to! Folrart commander 65 hp/35 atk/10 def/1 agi /1 rng. Folrart Recruit lancer 55 hp/35 hp/5 def/ 2 agi/ 2 rng. Folrart commander's start skill only affects all units that is lvl 3 and below! Salus stats stand at lvl 2 40 hp/40 atk/ 0 def/ 4 agi/ 1 rng.
This means Salus goes first and elects to do an action skill that costs 2 sp, from what It did to my unit I suspect it increases her lvl by 2 and does attack x2 damage to one random unit! It hits folrart commander for 70 damage .-.
My Folrart Recruit Lancer relitates in anger against Salus and does 35 damage!
No Hope isn't lost even when my folrart commander is gone! Thats amazing I know! I summon you Conviction priestess!
He summons nothing! If you need to know who she is, SHE IS THE JAPANESE VERSION OF USELESS USA BLESSED ACOLYTE!
She have 45 hp, 20 attack, 0 def, 2 agi and 1 rng. And has a trait of free revive! Free revive makes her superior to useless USA blessed acolye!
This is the field on turn 7!
My first soul skill is Jp alteil's 2nd version of folrart guaridan! Statwise it is exact the same as usa folrart guardian but it's abilities is different! It activates and sets time to morning and gives all my friendly units +10 atk/def and restores their hp to full!
Start phase of turn 7! Folrart Recruit Lancer raises her lvl to 4 and now stands with lvl 4/55hp/45 atk/15 def/2 agi/2 rng! And Janie stands at lvl 2/ 25 hp/ 25 atk/ 10 def/ 4 agi/ 1 rng! I place Janie on front row hoping she will go first but gamble fails and Salus slays her with a single strike and then decreases her own lvl by 4 which sets her lvl to 0 after being knocked unconscious by folrart recruit lancer and restores her hp back to lvl because her level got set to 0 something which means Salus survived being killed but her level is 0 now!
Its turn 8 now! I summon an Folrart Platinum knight to her Reinforce Cial!
Folrart Platinum Knight has lvl 3/ 60 hp/ 30 atk/ 0 def/ 2 agi/ 1 rng!
Reinforce Cial has lvl 2/ 30 hp/ 30 atk/ 0 def/ 1 agi/ 3 rng!
And this turn is noontime!
And in this start phase and because Folrart Recruit Lancer managed to stay alive long enough despite being a rookie and reaches lvl 5 and starts to accruate experience with her abilites! But thats for later during this turn!
Janie Sunblade revives after taking a nasty hit from emo Salus and retreats from slot 2 to slot 4 to allow the Conviction Priestess be her meatshield as Janie Sunblade snowballs my field with her auto skill giving +10 atk/+5 def every turn using her action skill to strike salus down isn't an option because it costs 2 sp!
Salus goes second and strikes Conviction Priestess with her 1 sp action skill for 60 damage which kills the poor priestess acting as meatshield and it also increases salus's lvl by 2! And in return, Folrart Recruit Lancer's autoskill activates and increases her attack by 10 and defense by 5 then she strikes salus for 65 damage while looking simply fabulous when killing salus and covering her armor in blood!
Its now turn 9 and nighttime! I summon a swordgirl! She's called Folrart Multiimage! He summons nothing!
This is what field looks like on turn 9! hmm.. i wonder what his plan is.. is he planning to spam many big mid lvls or dragons of doom? Yes, I revived Conviction priestess on slot 1 for 0 sp, ahhhh so nice to have zero revive sp cost unit, gowen have it too good in usa alteil. sheesh. And he revives his salus!
It's now start phase and only thing of relevance that occurs is Folrart Recruit Lancer just rose to lvl 6 and has fully unlocked her abilities she's now a force to be reckoned with! While that happened Ciel buffed Salus with +10 attack! I suspect Ciel was only summoned to trigger his first two soul skills!
Janie Sunblade the lass goes first and activates her auto skill and buffs all the solar kingdom units on field except for conviction priestess becuase she belongs to true god church and then chooses to standby because of vicious Salus. Salus acts next and brutalizes Conviction Priestess in one hit for 50 damage, oneshotting her!
Folrart Recruit Lancer activates her own auto skill and snowballs even more with her stats standing at now lvl 6/ 55 hp/ 85 atk/ 35 def/ 2 agi/ 2 rng and strikes Ciel for 85 damage overkilling her outright!
And finally Folrart platinum knight strikes salus for 40 damage but salus survives through some kind of shenanigans which I suspect to be self level manipulation by now setting her lvl to 0 but restores hp to full!
And now its the end phase! Folrart platinum knight's end skill activates and heals all friendly units for 10 hp while Folrart recruit lancer's -30 Max hp to a random unit activates at lvl 6 and debuffs salus's max hp to 10!
Its now turn 10 and it's also morning time! unforunately folrart commander is dead.... Anyways! I cast Recruit Training! It's a lvl 1 refess grimiore that heals all my friendly units for 10 hp and if I have three non-character units on field, I get 3 sp and fulfill this therefore I get 3 sp! Which is good because I know i will need SP REAL SOON! HE summons a Valkryie! I don't have any friggin clue what she does but whatevah! Her stats is lvl 2/ 45 hp/ 15 atk/ 5 def/ 2 agi/ 1 rng! Psst: JP have good grimiores for refess while usa alteil gets crap like inspiration which punishes you for using it! JP Inspiration is lvl 1 refess grimiore and gives the caster 3 sp or was it 2 whatevah but eitherway its better than usa grimiore!
And on field, I see that my fears is well found! Ciel is indeed traveling to the cemetery to trigger the first soul skill for the opponent! First soul skill gives the japanese guy +2 sp!
My folrart Multiimage acts first so I have her trigger her action skill because i know it snowballs! Wait what you asking me how her action skill can snowball??? Lemme tell you, her snowballing skills stays even after death, each time she triggers it, she increases the amount of units she hits on field up to maximum of 9 units! No, she cannot repeatedly strike a unit sorry, she just strikes alot of units once but I tell you, that's incredible. If you're feeling woozy by now, that's understandable, refess units in jp is amazingly viable compared to the crud usa alteil have. Anyways, Folrart Multiimage strikes the surviving Salus for 30 damage!
Janie Sunblade activates her autoskill and standbys! Nothing else of consequence happened in this turn except for snowballing I recieved an free turn of snowballing which punishes the opponent for not pressuring me where in usa, nothing happens to solar kingdom units, no snowballing just temp buffing which doesn't punish the opponent for not killing me.
ITs turn 11 and I cast Recruit Training again while he summons nothing! At this point I am wondering what diabolical plan he have up his sleeve.
Turn 11 field looks like this! NAbari Blademaster soul skill is revealed and strikes Janie sunblade for 30 damage and Folrart Recruit lancer for 60 damage, aw.. there goes my pretty lvl 7/ 55 hp/ 105 atk/ 45 def/ 2 agi/ 2 rng lass. Both of them dies and I don't quite understand how it happens but they are dead and there's nothing I can do about it and bite my nails! I am butthurt'd!
Folrart Multiimage and conviction priestess works together to slay the valkyrie! Then Folrart Platinum Knight sees an opening and rushes in to iczer The japanese person for 1 lp! Demolition/ Lauria soul skill is revealed! Lauria does a upper cut which decreases my Folrart Platinum Knight and Folrart multiimage's max hp by 30! I bite my nails bit bit more!
It's now turn 12! Climax is apporoaching! I cast Recruit Training for 3rd time! And he summons Hollybeast/ Titania!
I don't have a friggin clue what Titania does but the fact he haven't quit yet which makes me suspect she will.... HURT ME HARD AND HURT ME SO HARD TO THE POINT WHERE I START TO MISUNDERSTAND THAT IT'S LOVE! PLEASE HURT ME NO MORE!
Titania's stats is lvl 6/ 90 hp/ 40 atk/ 0 def/ 4 agi/ 2 rng and I am fearful!
This is turn 12's field! It gets messed up! MY units get thrown all over! whatever! Only Folrart Multiimage and conviction priestess isn't engaged! I decide to capitalize on the opporunity the japanese iczer accidently created!
AN empty field and I have plenty of sp to spare! My two unengaged units iczer like bunnies in heat! And the fifth soul skill is revealed to be a 2 lp one which will be triggered If i iczer one more time or a unit of his dies! End skills activate! but nothing happened.. because there's no opposing units and my units is at full health!
It's now turn 13! I summon Agios Goddess! He summons Next Generation/ Forte!
Agios Goddess is lvl 5/ 70 hp/ 50 attack/ 0 def/ 4 agi/ 3 rng at last the reason why I spammed Recruit Training Grimiores is revealed to you guys! It was building up for this!
Next Generation / Forte is lvl 5/ 100 hp/ 10 attack/ 10 defense/ 3 agi/ 1 rng!
I have no clue what he can do because I don't know how to read majority of the moonrunes but I suspect he must be one hell of a general because refess is viable sphere in jp!
Now upon the field! My engaged units is still engaged on for 2nd turn in a row! ugh so that was an soul skill which shuffle units around and engages them for rasam length of time x.x
Then Titania acts and decreases all of my friendly unit's max hp by 20 and buff/ heals her hp by 20 putting her hp at 110! Me .-. It must've been an start or auto skill because she slapped my bullied Folrart Recruit Lancer for 40 damage which kills her! My Folrart Multiimage must standby because I have no spare sp while Conviction priestess strikes Titania for 20 damage, no counter attack happened phew.. as I sigh with relief because I see that I can indeed wail on her with multipe units for no consequence.
It's turn 14!
I cast LightForm! It does ATk x10 per refess sphere level which means if i have 9 refess sphere it buffs my unit's attack by 90 attack points for a turn! Japanese Iczer summons nothing..
Agios Goddess catches the Light form and boosts her attack by 50 which raises it to 100!
Its noontime but it got changed to morning time because of my 2nd folrart guardian soul skill! It buffs my whole field but at best this is a futile gesture..
Titania acts first then reduces my whole field's max hp by 20 and buffs Titania/Forte's hp by 20/20! Setting titania at 110/130 hp and forte's hp at 120/120! Folrart Platinum Knight dies! Janie Sunblade dies!Then Titania proceeds to fiercely slap Conviction priestess for 30 damage! 10 damage was nullified by 10 defense but she had only 10 max hp remaining! Conviction priestess dies!
In retaliation for my three dead units I have Agios Goddess use her action skill to decrease Titania's max hp by 110 which leaves titania at 20 hp left! And Folrart Multiimage acts next to strike both Titania and Forte with her action skill for 40 damage to both units! Titania dies and Forte survives with 90 hp remaining! Forte's auto skill activates and boosts his attack by 90 which means his attack is now at 100! He strikes Agios Goddess for 100 damage!
How dare him beat a girl up that's simply being a poor sport!!! Agios Goddess survives the strike and decreases her max hp by 40 which leaves her with just 10 max hp remaining!
Its now turn 15! ( i am quite tired of typing by now.. x.x) I cast Knight's Order! He summons Wise Priest! Wise
Priest stands at lvl 4/ 60 hp/ 20 attack/ 30 def/ 1 agi/ 1 rng! 0.0 And he is uhhh True god church I THINK! If this was USA Alteil his def will be 0 and hp be 40 and attack be 15 and agi be 2 and rng be 2!!!!!!
My Knight's Order summons a Folrart Recruit Lancer straight to the field onto slot 5!
And this is what the field looks like on turn 15! I'm not sure but I feel quite copious amount of butthurt emanating from the Japanese Iczer for losing to an illiterate english Iczer!
My Conviction Priestess dies and goes straight to cemetery which triggers my third soul skill called Wyvern Leader! It strikes for 140 damage with 10 damage being nullified because of 10 defense on forte! It leaves Forte at -50 hp remaining and his Close skill triggers which increases his max hp by 10 and heals himself for 20 hp! It isn't enough to save him because I overkilled him by 40 damage in revenge for bullying Agios Goddess!
Because my Folrart platinum knight died as well so Lionhead Barbarian in 4th soul skill triggers! It does nothing.. because its a damage soul skill and all enemy units is already dead derp!
And finally his Titania fades to cemetery and it triggered Japanese Iczer's final soul skill named Artifact Merchant! I don't know what it does but I do know it set all of my unit's hp to 0! jewwwwwwww!
It's turn 16 and his forte falls to cemetery and I win.
See, Refess have viable units and it don't break alteil, something which USA alteil is allergic to for some reason
because apparently tanks isn't fun for people. Yet it don't stop the japanese from having uber tanks that can take a
oneshotting hit and live, like, Agios goddess and Ishtar. And fantastic snowballing that will be unimaginable in usa
alteil and is reserved for only falkow/lawtia/gowen spheres but not solar kingdom even when it's their name of game
to get onto the field and snowball yet, they're not allowed to snowball. See, I have uber snowballed units and they
still got oneshot but at least they got some kills in which allow the battle to process fairly instead of being
Yes, I had Janie Sunblade get her stats up to like 120+ hp and 150 atk + while oneshotting two big dragons at once with her action skill or strike a single unit for 300+ damage. Unforunately I don't have that duel saved.. i should've saved it Its more of the opposing iczer's fault for doing nothing and letting me snowball unopposed so I earned the right to pummel his units for fun with janie sunblade which only have 25 hp and 15 atk and 4 agi and 1 rng at start. Anyways the point is, I was pretty happy and have positive first time experience which immediately hooked me onto spending cash when I didn't plan to at all in first place.
But, in usa alteil Ah Blessed Acolyte oh how much I hate art thou useless priest which always gets oneshot by Combat Monk Triple faggotry while not having free revive ability which already puts me in the hole back in set 5 or 6 when I first started as newbie, I wasn't conviced that alteil was a good game because of all the defeats my refess starter suffered from when I was a newbie cuz of noobs running amok with combat monk and oneshotting everything I could field and I couldn't do anything about it, **** units **** everything in refess and op units op everything in gowen.
IN the duels i've done and reached lvl 20+ I already got a silver star in there jp alteil, while I never got one in usa alteil so I dunno. And there is an noticable lack of sissy things like assassin soul skills removal soul skills and returns and tidals while they're rampant in usa alteil. I found that rather interesting. Gimme good units in refess for usa alteil instead of tanks that DG can laugh at and don't nerf them like instantly
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The only thing I have an issue with is the hills. At least that's what I think they are. I'm talking about those circle-shaped elements, with the strokes around them. I just can't seem to figure out what they are suppose to represent. Are the strokes suppose to indicate elevation? If so, they look sorta like big bulbs, not like the natural shape of the land. Given that all your other representations of depth, like the southern ravine and the Maw and all the mesas, look really stunning, I think those circles look out of place.
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What's for Dinner? Comforting dishes warm winter evenings
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Cold January weather calls for hearty and comforting dishes such as Simple Chicken Casserole, Shepherd's Pie and Vegetarian Lasagna. Purchase and cook a family pack of chicken breasts to get an economical head start on Easy Chicken Pie and Chicken Creole.
Most of the recipes this week contain less than 350 calories per serving, making them great entrée choices for a healthy start to 2013.
Easy Chicken Pie
Makes 6 servings. Source: WVUES Family Nutrition Program.
3 cups diced, cooked chicken
1 10-ounce package frozen mixed vegetables
1 10.75-ounce can fat free cream of celery soup, undiluted
1 cup fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 cup self-rising flour
1 cup skim milk
1/4 cup light margarine
HEAT oven to 400°. Spray a 2-quart baking dish with nonfat cooking spray. Place chicken and vegetables in baking dish.
STIR together soup, chicken broth and pepper; pour over chicken mixture. Combine flour, milk, margarine; until smooth. Pour over mixture in baking dish.
BAKE 40 to 45 minutes or until lightly browned. Let cool.
Nutrition information: 300 calories, 8 grams total fat, 2 grams saturated fat, 66 milligrams cholesterol, 29 grams protein, 27 grams total carbohydrates, 3.5 grams fiber, 809 milligrams sodium.
Simple Chicken Casserole
Makes 8 servings. Source: WVUES Family Nutrition Program.
3 cups corn flakes, crushed to 1 3/4 cup
1 egg
1 cup reconstituted nonfat dry milk
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 pounds chicken breasts, skin removed
3 tablespoons olive oil
PLACE crushed cornflakes in a shallow dish or pan. Set aside.
BEAT egg and milk slightly in a small mixing bowl. Add flour, salt and pepper. Mix until smooth.
DIP chicken in batter and coat with cereal. Place in a single layer on foil-lined shallow baking pan. Drizzle with olive oil. Bake at 350° for 1 hour until chicken is tender and internal temperature reaches 165°. Do not cover pan or turn chicken while baking.
Nutrition information: 192 calories, 4 grams total fat, 1 gram saturated fat, 59 grams cholesterol, 13 grams total carbohydrates, 23 grams protein, 350 milligrams sodium.
Chicken Creole
Makes 4 servings. Source: Utah State University.
1 cup brown rice
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 16-ounce can diced tomatoes
1 cup low-sodium tomato juice
1 medium onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped
1 bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1 clove garlic, minced
1 pinch hot pepper (optional)
COOK rice in 2 cups of water for 45 minutes and keep warm. Meanwhile, combine all other ingredients in a heavy pot. Bring contents of pot to boil.
REDUCE heat, cover pot with a lid and simmer for 1 hour or until chicken is tender. Remove chicken and cut into bite-sized pieces. Add chicken back to pot and heat through.
SERVE creole in bowls over rice.
Nutrition information: 315 calories, 4 grams total fat, 1 gram saturated fat, 73 milligrams cholesterol, 34 grams protein, 38 grams total carbohydrates, 336 milligrams sodium.
Shepherd's Pie
Makes 8 servings. Source: WVUES Family Nutrition Program.
1 pound cooked ground turkey or lean ground beef
1 to 2 cans of corn, or 2 to 3 cups fresh corn
1 can low-sodium cream of mushroom soup
1 cup low-fat shredded cheese (optional)
6 to 8 peeled and boiled potatoes, mashed
PLACE cooked meat on the bottom of a 9- by 13-inch casserole dish. Layer corn on top of meat. Spread cream of mushroom soup on the corn. Layer shredded cheese, if desired. Spread mashed potatoes on top.
BAKE at 350° for 20 to 30 minutes.
Nutrition information: 285 calories, 9 grams total fat, 3 grams saturated fat, 53 milligrams cholesterol, 17 grams protein, 35 grams total carbohydrates, 145 milligrams sodium.
Quick Veggie Lasagna
Makes 10 servings. Source: WVUES Family Nutrition Program.
1 16-ounce box of lasagna noodles, uncooked
1 carton 16-ounce fat-free cottage cheese or ricotta cheese
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, divided
1 tablespoon parsley flakes
1/4 teaspoon oregano
1 26-ounce jar spaghetti sauce, divided
2 cups part-skim mozzarella cheese, shredded
1 10-ounce frozen spinach, thawed and drained
COOK noodles as directed on package.
MIX cottage cheese, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, parsley and oregano. Thinly spread 1/4 cup spaghetti sauce in nongreased 9- by 13-inch baking dish and top with noodles.
SPREAD 1 cup of the cheese mixture over the noodles. Cover with 1 cup of the sauce. Top with a layer of spinach. Sprinkle with 2/3 cup mozzarella cheese.
REPEAT with 4 noodles, the remaining cheese mixture, 1 cup of the sauce and 2/3 cup mozzarella cheese. Top with remaining noodles and sauce, sprinkle with remaining mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses.
BAKE uncovered at 350° until hot and bubbly, about 45 minutes. Let stand 15 minutes before serving.
Nutrition information: 365 calories, 10 grams total fat, 4 grams saturated fat, 18 milligrams cholesterol, 21 grams protein, 49 grams total carbohydrates, 755 milligrams sodium.
Shopping list
Bell pepper
Canned fat-free cream of celery soup
Fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth
Canned low-sodium cream of mushroom soup
Canned diced tomatoes
Canned corn
Spaghetti sauce
Lasagna noodles
Tomato juice
Nonfat dry milk
Chicken breasts, family pack or two to three packages
Ground turkey or lean ground beef
Frozen spinach
Frozen mixed vegetables
Fat-free cottage or ricotta cheese
Shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
Parmesan cheese
Pantry staples: pepper, flour, milk, margarine, salt, olive oil, bay leaf, thyme, garlic clove, hot pepper, parsley flakes, oregano, egg
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- "We are ironborn. We're not subjects, we're not slaves. We do not plow the field or toil in the mine. We take what is ours."
- ―Balon Greyjoy
The ironborn (or rarely, ironmen) are the natives of the Iron Islands off the west coast of Westeros. They are a fiercely independent seafaring people who chafe at the rule of the Iron Throne.
The ironborn are an intermingling of the blood of the original First Men settlers of the islands and the Andals who followed six thousand years later. While the Andals and the Faith of the Seven came to dominate everywhere else below the Neck, they found less purchase on the Islands. While a few converts to the Faith of the Seven may be found there even in the present day, most of the Andal invaders converted to the native deity, the Drowned God instead. The Andal invaders completely acculturated to the distinct "ironborn" culture, and their invasion had relatively little impact upon the Iron Islands.
One of the few notable changes was that the ironborn switched to speaking the Common Tongue of the Andals. On the other hand, the independent First Men of the North also eventually took up using the language of their Andal neighbors through cultural proximity, not because it was imposed upon them. Therefore, it might be wrong to say that the Andals even "forced" the ironborn to speak their language.
In the present day, the ironborn generally think of their distinct culture as stretching back without interruption to the Dawn Age, long before the Andals arrived. Thus the ironborn are ethnically composed of the same First Men/Andal mix as most of the rest of Westeros: they are culturally, not ethnically distinct.
In the Seven Kingdoms
For centuries, the ironborn pillaged the western coasts of Westeros, and conquered various coastal territories in a far-flung maritime empire, whose size waxed and waned depending on the constantly shifting political climate on the continent. About three generations before the War of Conquest, the ruling House Hoare led the ironborn to conquer the Riverlands, which had previously been conquered by the Stormlands three centuries before. After driving out the Storm Kings, they spent decades forcing their new thralls in the Riverlands to build the largest castle on the entire continent: Harrenhal. Almost the city of a small city, Harrenhal was meant to ensure lasting ironborn domination of the Riverlands.
The last stone of Harrenhal was laid during the rule of King Harren Hoare - unfortunately, the very same day that Aegon the Conqueror landed on the eastern coast of Westeros with his Targaryen army and his dragons. A million men might have marched against Harren at Harrenhal, but they would have failed to take its massive walls. Aegon Targaryen changed the rules, however, as dragons can fly right over the highest castle walls. Harren and all of his sons were roasted alive in their tower at Harrenhal by the fire of Aegon's dragon Balerion the Black Dread. Meanwhile the local Riverlands Houses rose up in a revolt led by House Tully to support the Targaryens in overthrowing their hated ironborn overlords. Their armies defeated and House Hoare destroyed, the surviving ironborn Houses bent the knee to Aegon. Now-King Aegon asked the remaining ironborn noble Houses to choose one of their number to rule over the Iron Islands under the overall authority of the Iron Throne, and they chose House Greyjoy of Pyke.
The ironborn consider reaving and piracy to be their birthright, and fear that three centuries of peace under the Iron Throne has destroyed their heritage and removing their edge, especially as the Seven have found more purchase on the Islands since the Targaryen invasion. Nine years before the War of the Five Kings, to reverse this trend, Lord Balon Greyjoy declared independence in the Greyjoy Rebellion but was soundly defeated. Since then the ironborn remained quiet vassals of the Iron Throne.
- See also: Drowned God, Storm God, or Drowned Men
Like the Northmen, they are descendants of the First Men, but while their mainland cousins adopted the Old Gods of the Children of the Forest, the ironborn worship a deity known as the Drowned God. The Drowned God is said to have created the ironborn to reave and rape and carve out their names in blood and song.[1] When the Andals invaded Westeros, they conquered the Iron Islands as well, but instead of converting the ironborn, the Andals that settled on the Islands were absorbed into the local culture, adopting their religion and way of life as their own.[2]
Culture and Economy
- See also: Old Way
The traditional ironborn way of life, known as the Old Way, is centered on piracy and raiding. An ironborn is considered a man only when he has killed his first foe, while his personal wealth is expected to be obtained by "paying the iron price" - that is, seizing it from enemies he has personally killed. An ironborn is also expected to abstain from working the land or toiling in the mines, since such tasks are reserved for thralls - men captured in raids and forced into servitude.
The Iron Islands are ruled by House Greyjoy from the castle and island of Pyke. Lord Balon Greyjoy rules the Islands. His only surviving son and heir is Theon Greyjoy who was formerly a ward and hostage of Lord Eddard Stark at Winterfell.
In the books
George R.R. Martin has frequently compared the ironborn to Vikings from the real-life Middle Ages. Given the analogy that the entire continent of Westeros is supposed to be an oversized version of the British Isles, the ironborn also loosely correspond to celtic raiders from medieval Ireland, as well as raiders from other outer islands in the group (the Isle of Mann, the Orkneys, the Sheltlands, etc.).
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Lakers vs. Heat? Don't bother Kobe with that
The anticipation began as soon as the NBA released this season's schedule. The date, not only highlighted on every calendar around because it's Christmas, but it quickly was circled by Lakers and Heat fans, the media and KABC/7 alike. TV execs couldn't have asked for a better gift.
The Lakers vs. the Miami.
Kobe and Pau vs. The Big Three.
Championships vs. Decisions.
Southern California vs. South Beach.
All the talk barely elicits a yawn from Kobe Bryant.
"It's another game," he said. "I don't think the masses understand that. It's just another game. It's the Heat. I mean, Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work."
Now, if the Lakers were playing the Boston Celtics on Dec. 25, that would be a whole other Christmas story for Bryant.
"Now that's a war," Bryant said. "Boston is a great city to go to, all the history. If you're an opponent, they hate your (expletive) guts – like New York, like Chicago, all those Eastern cities. That's the one that gets me excited.
"If you're a basketball purist, that's the (expletive) you want to see."
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Well, here we are again. Another year gone by and I honestly didn't see it coming. Seriously. Where did the time go? They say that time flies when you're having fun. If that's true, then 2010 must have been one helluva nonstop party. Too bad I can't remember it!
I don't usually make a lot of New Year's resolutions. Been there, done that. I find that I usually break most of them by the end of January, and then spend the rest of the year beating myself up over it. Who needs that kind of pressure? I mean, I know that I'm never going to hoof it to the gym at 6:00 a.m. three times a week. Almost everyone who knows me, knows it too. So why set myself up for failure? Instead, I try to set a few goals that I want to achieve, and work toward them in small, realistic increments. I probably won't be making many any pre-dawn visits to the gym. But, I might take Bella for an extra walk around the block from time to time.
The past twelve months have been a mixture of bitter and sweet for me. I've had some wonderful new opportunities come my way, like my gigs writing for Edible Sarasota Magazine and the Tampa Tribune. I've also had some not so wonderful things happen in my life, but I won't bore you with the details. A new year is on the horizon and that means a fresh start and a world of possibilities. I have a feeling that 2011 is going to be my year. I can taste it! And, I hope you'll all come along for the ride.
The slideshow below features my favorite SGCC recipes of 2010. I've chosen one from each month. Some may be familiar to you and some may be new. I hope you enjoy them as much as I've enjoyed sharing them with you.


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text: After four successful years in Paris, Cutlog art fair is welcomed to New York's Lower East Side to become yet another satellite fair to accompany the British Import, Frieze, alongside NADA, Pulse, Seven and others. Strategically positioned in the budding gallery district, the fair hopes to bring a dense cross section of emerging artists from across the globe, housed in the expansive Clemente Soto Velez, a striking Dutch Neo Gothic building located on Suffolk street. Over 45 participant galleries are exhibiting in the high-ceilinged 19th century schoolhouse, where booths are densely nested into former classrooms, and teacher lounges, giving the fair an oddly DIY aesthetic. One will find the galleries and artists at cutlog approachable, and eager to discuss their work with the public. While programming, such as an artist talk by the beloved John Lurie on painting, and a marathon weight-loss performance by Marni Kotak, who works out obsessively on a stair master machine in an attempt to burn off "baby fat" from a recent pregnancy give the fair an eccentric appeal. In a brief exchange with Kotak (conducted while she continued to exercise relentlessly), I asked her about her ongoing artist project to render her entire life an artwork. Kotak, who recently gained public attention for giving birth to her son, Ajax, publicly in a small Brooklyn gallery as an artwork, spoke candidly about her search for sincere experience through her art. Kotak stated her intention to transform the life of her 18 month old son, Ajax into a work of art by having him wear a camera and document his entire life for the purpose of her work. I asked if she expected a conflict to arise between them in the future over this matter, to which she casually replied, that this would of course happen, "—naturally."


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Martin Brodeur scored his third career goal and made 17 saves in his first game in a month, leading the New Jersey Devils to a 4-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.
Brodeur had been out since Feb. 21 with a pinched nerve in his upper back and neck. New Jersey went 3-8-2 in his absence.
Peter Harrold, Adam Henrique and Andrei Loktionov also scored to help the Devils snap a three-game losing streak.
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Personal care assistants (PCAs) are persons who care for elderly and disabled folk at home. Clara R. NaKumbe, age 72, gave up her private daycare business to take care of her adult son Siran, who was stricken several years ago with multiple sclerosis. "When he first got it, he could still do some things for himself," recalls NaKumbe. But soon thereafter, Siran had to move into her North Minneapolis home where he could receive 24-hour supervision and care. "He has to be fed. Continue Reading →


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The front-page news stories in Saturday's issue of this paper included a report on a two-member VIP medical delegation with a difference currently in Tanzania for a familiarisation tour – also with a difference.
One of the two special guests is Dr Roysuneel V. Patankar, a well-known consultant gastrointestinal and laparoscopic surgeon based in Mumbai, India, who also has special interest in the endoscopic treatment for varicose veins.
Laparoscopic surgery, also called minimally invasive surgery, bandaid surgery or keyhole surgery, is a modern surgical technique in which operations in the abdomen are performed through small incisions or natural body openings in order to diagnose and treat diseases. It makes use of images displayed on TV monitors to magnify the surgical elements, and includes operations within the abdominal or pelvic cavities.
The other guest is paediatric surgeon and urologist Rajesh Nathani who, like Dr Patankar, is from the Institute for Special Surgery of the Mumbai-based Joy Hospital.
A number of Tanzanians have received medical attention, at Joy Hospital in recent years, this including consultations with specialists and specialised treatment for a range of complications. This has, understandably, gradually led to the cultivation and consolidation of very special links between the hospital and the Tanzanians in questions as well as between Tanzania and India.
Indications are that it is largely thanks to this scenario that the two Indian medicals consultants have come over and are committed to introducing Tanzanian surgeons to what is known in medical lingo as laparascopy, the idea to enable the latter to apply the technology locally.
But that is only part of the story because, according to Dr Patankar, all that the Tanzanian surgeons picked to undergo the specialised training in India will be supposed to cover are travel and accommodations costs.
It is common knowledge that, considering the state of our economy, training doctors and other medical practitioners costs a fortune. This is regardless of whether those trained are self-sponsored or have their tuition and miscellaneous other fees covered through other arrangements.
Landing the kind of offer the visiting Indian medics have laid on our table is therefore a bonus we ought to appreciate. In this context, Dr Patankar has rightly said it is of crucial importance for Tanzanian experts to be armed with enough of the skills they would need to perform laparoscopic surgery in Tanzania so that the service is available in as many hospitals as possible in the country and even poor patients benefit.
The Indian surgeons have had an audience with Tanzanian medical students, general practitioners and a wide array of medical specialists, all concurring on the utility, relevance, convenience and relative affordability of the "wonder technology" they have been introduced to.
As importantly, Dr Patankar has walked the extra mile by actually performing one keyhole surgery (and a few other "ordinary ones") at a Dar es Salaam hospital, with reports saying everything ran as scheduled.
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49 U.S. Code § 46502 - Aircraft piracy
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(a) In Special Aircraft Jurisdiction.—
(1) In this subsection—
(A) "aircraft piracy" means seizing or exercising control of an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States by force, violence, threat of force or violence, or any form of intimidation, and with wrongful intent.
(2) An individual committing or attempting or conspiring to commit aircraft piracy—
(b) Outside Special Aircraft Jurisdiction.—
(1) An individual committing or conspiring to commit an offense (as defined in the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft) on an aircraft in flight outside the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States—
(2) There is jurisdiction over the offense in paragraph (1) if—
Source(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e),July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1241; Pub. L. 103–429, § 6(61),Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4385; Pub. L. 104–132, title VII, §§ 721(a), 723 (b),Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1298, 1300.)
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|49 App.:1472(i)(2), (3).
|Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, 72 Stat. 731, § 902(i); added Sept. 5, 1961, Pub. L. 87–197, § 1, 75 Stat. 466; Oct. 14, 1970, Pub. L. 91–449, § 1(3), 84 Stat. 921; Aug. 5, 1974, Pub. L. 93–366, §§ 103(a), 104, 88 Stat. 410, 411.
|49 App.:1472(i)(1).
|49 App.:1472(n)(1).
|Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, 72 Stat. 731, § 902(n)(1), (3); added Aug. 5, 1974, Pub. L. 93–366, § 103(b), 88 Stat. 410.
|49 App.:1472(n)(3).
In subsection (a)(1)(B), the words "offense of" are omitted as surplus.
In subsection (a)(2), the words "as herein defined" are omitted as surplus.
In subsection (b)(2), the words "the place of actual" are omitted as surplus. The words "as defined in paragraph (2) of this subsection" are omitted because of the restatement. The word "country" is substituted for "State" for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code.
Pub. L. 103–429
This amends 49:46502(a)(2)(B) and (b)(1)(B) to clarify the restatement of 49 App.:1472(i)(1)(B) and (n)(1)(B) by section 1 of the Act of July 5, 1994 (Public Law 103–272, 108 Stat. 1241, 1242).
1996—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 104–132, § 723(b)(1), inserted "or conspiring" after "attempting".
Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 104–132, §§ 721(a)(1), 723 (b)(2), in introductory provisions, inserted "or conspiring to commit" after "committing" and struck out "and later found in the United States" after "jurisdiction of the United States".
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 104–132, § 721(a)(2), amended par. (2) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (2) read as follows: "This subsection applies only if the place of takeoff or landing of the aircraft on which the individual commits the offense is located outside the territory of the country of registration of the aircraft."
Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 104–132, § 721(a)(3), added par. (3).
1994—Subsecs. (a)(2)(B), (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 103–429inserted "notwithstanding section 3559 (b) of title 18," before "if the death".
Effective Date of 1994 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 103–429effective July 5, 1994, see section 9 ofPub. L. 103–429, set out as a note under section 321 of this title.
Death Penalty Procedures for Certain Air Piracy Cases Occurring Before Enactment of the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994
Pub. L. 109–177, title II, § 211,Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 230, provided that:
"(a) In General.—Section 60003 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322), is amended, as of the time of its enactment [Sept. 13, 1994], by adding at the end the following:
" '(c) [Omitted, see below.]'.
"(b) Severability Clause.—If any provision of section 60003(b)(2) of the Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) [repealed section 46503 of this title], or the application thereof to any person or any circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of such section and the application of such section to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby."
Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60003(c), as added by Pub. L. 109–177, title II, § 211(a),Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 230, provided that:
"(c) Death Penalty Procedures for Certain Previous Aircraft Piracy Violations.—An individual convicted of violating section 46502 of title 49, United States Code, or its predecessor, may be sentenced to death in accordance with the procedures established in chapter 228 of title 18, United States Code, if for any offense committed before the enactment of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) [Sept. 13, 1994], but after the enactment of the Antihijacking Act of 1974 (Public Law 93–366) [Aug. 5, 1974], it is determined by the finder of fact, before consideration of the factors set forth in sections 3591 (a)(2) and 3592 (a) and (c) of title 18, United States Code, that one or more of the factors set forth in former section 46503 (c)(2) of title 49, United States Code, or its predecessor, has been proven by the Government to exist, beyond a reasonable doubt, and that none of the factors set forth in former section 46503 (c)(1) of title 49, United States Code, or its predecessor, has been proven by the defendant to exist, by a preponderance of the information. The meaning of the term 'especially heinous, cruel, or depraved', as used in the factor set forth in former section 46503 (c)(2)(B)(iv) of title 49, United States Code, or its predecessor, shall be narrowed by adding the limiting language 'in that it involved torture or serious physical abuse to the victim', and shall be construed as when that term is used in section 3592 (c)(6) of title 18, United States Code."
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Police say a man ended up shooting and killing his own brother after he heard someone breaking the glass to his front door early this morning.
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When the man turned on his porch light, he realized the person he shot was his younger brother. The 63-year-old brother was taken to New Hanover Regional Medical Center where he later died.
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Outages and the customer: more work to come
Implementing new systems is bigger task than anticipated
Several trends and missed opportunities may have conspired to overwhelm utility responses to outages in an era of grid modernization, hampering their ability to give customers good restoration estimates, even when they seemingly have the means to do so.
This is important in and of itself because utilities naturally seek to please their customers, not aggravate them, and just as importantly because utilities have to track traditional metrics that measure the frequency and duration of outages to meet regulators' demands. At its extreme, a poor track record in managing outages and related expectations may dampen investor enthusiasm for a particular utility. Not good.
Further, as we noted in yesterday's column—"Is Saving Money the Right Smart Grid Pitch?"—selling smarter grids by claiming that interval meters and advanced metering infrastructure will help customers "save money" and produce "shrinking bills" has been accompanied by claims that millions and billions of customer dollars should be invested to increase reliability and shorten outages.
In both cases, those outcomes are possible, but in many cases, not yet attainable. Another way of stating the matter is that hype has outrun reality and the power industry's credibility with customers and regulators—those who pay for improvements and those who approve of cost recovery—is at stake.
We'll feature some thought leadership in tomorrow's column around the subject of why outage management systems with a customer focus may not yield the promised results, coming from an operations person with long experience who has specific ideas on the hurdles to better performance by outage management systems (OMS) and the systems that OMS interact with.
Just in the past couple weeks, we featured two related columns, establishing that this issue is real. I wrote "Managing Expectations on Outages?," in which an Accenture executive described the contours of the challenge and another by my colleague, Kate Rowland, editor-in-chief of Intelligent Utility magazine, "Making Electricity Outage Communications Consumer-centric."
The latter piece emphasized consumer-friendly communication channels over which to send outage information and time-to-restoration updates, as well as updated service territory maps that might provide an alternative means of informing the public of progress.
But a utility's various systems still need to identify the cause and extent of the outage, the solution, an estimate of how long restoration will take and thus, what to tell the customer.
It's the latter issue that we'll take up tomorrow, in an attempt to generate further thought leadership and other perspectives on the matter. The themes will be legacy systems, conversions to newer, more sophisticated systems, the need to audit the data in legacy systems to ensure that the new systems have correct data and the issue of scale.
Just the issue of scale in recent events has called utilities' outage management abilities into question.
While generalities are difficult and citing individual cases without intimate knowledge of their status on implementing various systems would be unfair, it's possible to look back to last fall when in the Northeast a hurricane-turned-tropical-storm followed by an early winter snowstorm devastated several states and wreaked havoc with nearly every utility therein.
Extended outages became headline news, prompting at least one top utility executive resignation, attorney general investigations in two states into possible criminality and to regulator-driven grilling sessions with utilities to see what went so badly wrong.
Of the two answers we'll explore tomorrow—one being the labor-intensive conversion of legacy systems to modern, interacting, customer-focused systems, the other being scale—certainly the issue of scale is suggested by widespread, violent storms that might have overwhelmed utility systems with hundreds of thousands of "last gasps" from digital meters.
Join us tomorrow for that discussion. I have a feeling we may be overwhelmed by our audience's gasps, though those will hardly be their last.
Phil Carson
Intelligent Utility Daily
I wonder what algorithms are used to detect the outages - presumably smart meters are used. I was thinking that one solution would be that the meters measure voltages and an alternative would be that the meters detect sudden 'no power' situation. This looks like a fundamental question, but is there any feedback as to the most popular algorithm?


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These surreal, satiric stories pay a mesmerizing visit to the shadowy zone that lies between our everyday lives and a perilously tangible near-future.
In "The Wall of America," the Department of Homeland Security has put up a border wall between the United States and Canada. But the NEA has plans for the wall as well, turning it into the world's largest art gallery. After the Rapture, working-class life for "A Family of the Post-Apocalypse" is not as different as one might imagine, despite the occasional plague of biker-gang locusts. Between addiction and art is "Ringtime," where a criminal is trapped in a recursive compulsion to visit other people's memories while he is forced to record his own for an eager audience. A Somali schoolgirl living in post-WWIII Minneapolis goes on a bloody crusade to rid her town of a familiar predator, one who might just be a monster, in "White Man."
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Anonymous (Charlie Kisdacuzquter) (b.1094–d.1332)
Quite possibly the best-known writer in the Universe, Anonymous has written over 43,904,529 poems and 23,900,241 short stories, among a million other kinds of written word. Although his works are well-known amongst the entire world's population, most do not know about him.
The Early Years
Anonymous was born Charlie Uther Kisdacuzquter on November 13, 1094, in Bollocks, England. At an early age, his mother, Fran Kisdacuzquter, enrolled him into the School For Young Chavs to learn to read and write. His teacher, William Shakespeare (best known for his play, "Rent"), taught him not only to write, but also to form both coherent and incoherent works of literature. It was then that Charlie decided to start his career.
After a short stint writing as Charlie Kisdacuzquter at the Daily Plague News (May 10, 1116 - May 12, 1116), his editor advised him to change his name to a more pronounceable pseudonym. It was then, that Charlie Kisdacuzquter became Anonymous. The greatest writer who ever lived.
His Career
After working at the Daily Plague News for a few short years, Anonymous had already compiled a short book of poems, sonnets and dirty limericks. "Do Not Steal Ye Book" was released in 1120 and was immediately picked up by Warner Bros. to become a motion picture. Slated to direct was the up-and-coming director Tim Burton, but, unfortunately, he wasn't to be born for another hundred years. This problem was never sorted out and eventually was completely forgotten.
But this didn't discourage Anonymous. He went on to write five more books that year, including:
The next twenty years, he wrote a total of 31,598 books and wrote 19,438 articles for assorted newspapers of the world.
By 1298, Anonymous had nearly tripled the amount of published works under his name. Very pleased with himself one day, Anonymous decided to go bar-hopping. While talking with a very drunken fellow in Justabout, England, he found out there was another writer using his pseudonym and publishing very awful works of literature. Enraged, Anonymous demanded to speak with the impostor, but he was always unavailable.
The Downfall
Anonymous decided to solve this bit out immediately. He hired Abraham Lincoln as his lawyer and brought to court one of the most heated courtroom sessions in the world, Anonymous v. Anonymous. In the months to come, Anonymous fought his case all the way to Supreme Court. The session lasted two years. Ultimately, the case was settled out of court and Anonymous was left penniless.
Down on his luck and outright bitch-slapped by the soon-to-be American Justice System, Anonymous wrote short haikus for food. In 1332, the increasing numbers of phoney Anonymous's finally beared down on him. He was found dead in a gutter outside the red-light district of Cleveland. No one knows how he died, but how he got in Cleveland before it was even thought up was the biggest mystery of them all.
His Legacy
What Anonymous did leave behind, however, was the use of his pen name for people who didn't like the sound of their real names on paper. Since his death in 1332, more than 800 million pieces of work were posthumously credited to him. The legacy lives on, and will forever until people come up with a different name to use. As his last-known poem entitled, "The Poem Of Poems", says:
- To those who are gone by gone,
- And to those who are not,
- Let us not forget the words
- of "Mr. Forget-Me-Not."


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April 19, 2012
Justin Hokanson
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