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- But the Transport Research Laboratory has been working on a breakable fence with metal pins between the pole and support.
- The piece is based on a flock of birds in flight - long white poles support wing-shaped metal triangles in a curved line which echoes the movement of a flock.
- Another year passes and not so much as a tent pole in the ground.
- The vines were trained up trees and also on trellises on poles of willow.
- Thicker poles are heavy enough to be freestanding.
- Toko will also introduce a cross country ski pole tube to protect poles while in transit.
- I ski a wide stance with short poles, with a pole always in the snow.
- Visually impaired skiers follow the sound of the guide's skis and poles on the snow.
- There is, however, a Byzantium illustration depicting what appears to be a fishing rod or pole.
- Then, lift the pole so the hook and the bulk shot is clear of the water.
- Year-round you'll find young fishing enthusiasts as well as elderly fishermen relaxing on the wooden pier with their poles and bait.
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- If, for example, after grounding the operator tries to power off instead of calling for assistance or poling the boat to deeper water, it will create a 'blow hole' in the grass bed about the size of the hull.
- Parvat stopped poling the boat and thought for a moment.
- Kartik and Sanyas take turns poling the boat, the pole dramatic against the sky.
under bare poles
- Sailing With no sail set: if it really blows you'll end up under bare polesMore example sentences
- Even under bare poles a sailboat will heel right over, at least to decks awash, in hurricane force conditions.
- It's powering under bare poles on a day which is ideal for all sail aloft and, unless I've forgotten what she looks like, that's surely Crusty Lady Lily heading for the Gap.
- Sails were down and it was running under bare poles before the wind.
up the pole informal
- She said I had shamed them enough without flying in the face of God trying to crack on I was a virgin when everyone on the street knew I was up the pole.
Late Old English pāl (in early use without reference to thickness or length), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch paal and German Pfahl, based on Latin palus 'stake'.
The Old English word from which we get pole, as in 'flag pole' or 'telegraph pole', meant 'stake' and is ultimately from the same source as pale. To be in pole position is to be in a leading or dominant position, from motor racing, where it describes the first place on the starting grid, on the front row, and on the inside of the first bend, but it comes from horse racing. On 19th-century racecourses a pole marked the starting position closest to the inside boundary rails, a favourable position in a race. Pole as in North Pole is from Latin polus 'end of an axis', from Greek polos 'pivot, axis, sky'. The adjective polar dates from the mid 16th century and is from medieval Latin polaris 'heavenly', from polus. The Pole Star, or Polaris, is the star around which the stars appear to rotate. Polos is also the probable source of pulley (Middle English).
Words that rhyme with polebarcarole, bole, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, condole, console, control, dhole, dole, droll, enrol (US enroll), extol, foal, goal, hole, Joel, knoll, kohl, mol, mole, Nicole, parol, parole, patrol, poll, prole, rôle, roll, scroll, Seoul, shoal, skoal, sole, soul, stole, stroll, thole, Tirol, toad-in-the-hole, toll, troll, vole, whole
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- The logic of the correction was to visualise a human form straddling the celestial North Pole and orientated with his feet toward the ground.
- Moreover, depending on the station's location relative to the pole and the season, it could be subject to extended periods of darkness.
- In the polar world, there are three classic expeditions, the North Pole, the South Pole and the Greenland Ice Cap.
- Like the lines of longitude on Earth, each great circle eventually intersects with every other great circle at the poles of the sphere.
- Ibrahim proves in this work that the stereographic projection maps circles which do not pass through the pole of projection onto circles.
- You could try simply pushing the poles of a sphere toward each other, as if to make them pass through each other and change places.
- Sturm's theoretical work in mathematical physics involved the study of caustic curves, and poles and polars of conic sections.
- His development of the pole and polar lines associated with conics led to the principle of duality.
- Hence, we can produce poles, polars, points, geodesics, angles, and so forth readily by converting back to the Poincare model.
- The PAS-protein stain revealed that the cells at the shoot pole have a dense cytoplasm.
- Kinetochore microtubule bundles link sister chromosomes to the poles.
- The cytoplasm at the posterior pole is distinguished by large organelles, the polar granules, which contain both proteins and RNAs.
- Physically, they were like the opposite poles of a magnet.
- This attraction is similar to that of two opposite poles of a magnet.
- Accountability to the Treasury is the opposite pole of the magnet to entrepreneurial spirit.
- Water molecules have poles of positive and negative electric charge that are known to create attractive forces between cells, known as van der Waals forces.
- Two recent front page stories in this newspaper represent the poles of opinion on crime and punishment.
- After the fiery blast of energy that revitalized popular music-making, artists moved to the opposite pole.
- This zero-degree photography embodied the opposite pole of the daguerreotype's infinite clarity.
be poles apart
- Have nothing in common: the two sisters had ceased to communicate with each other—their ideas were now poles apartMore example sentences
completely different, as different as they could be, widely separated, directly opposed, antithetical, incompatible, irreconcilable, miles/worlds apart, at opposite extremes/poles, like night and day;British like chalk and cheeserare antipodal
- Given that politically, we are poles apart, there is quite a lot of common ground.
- In its emphasis on self-knowledge gained through the study of poetry and heroes, Emerson's idea of self-reliance is poles apart from the modern notion of self-esteem.
- If you've never watched it live before, do it at some point in your life - it'll make you realise why this country and the US will always be poles apart, but why we're all bred to have a soft spot for Hollywood in the first place.
poleward adjective
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- High mountain ranges, especially those with a large north - south frontage, act as barriers to east - west circulation and force the atmospheric circulation into poleward diversions.
- But in the short-term, poleward range expansions of temperate-zone species will provide the major mechanism by which boreal and arctic diversity might increase.
- The relatively constant speed of a chromosome during poleward and antipoleward motion is difficult to explain from the behavior of conventional ATP-dependent motor proteins.
Late Middle English: from Latin polus 'end of an axis', from Greek polos 'pivot, axis, sky'.
The Old English word from which we get pole, as in 'flag pole' or 'telegraph pole', meant 'stake' and is ultimately from the same source as pale. To be in pole position is to be in a leading or dominant position, from motor racing, where it describes the first place on the starting grid, on the front row, and on the inside of the first bend, but it comes from horse racing. On 19th-century racecourses a pole marked the starting position closest to the inside boundary rails, a favourable position in a race. Pole as in North Pole is from Latin polus 'end of an axis', from Greek polos 'pivot, axis, sky'. The adjective polar dates from the mid 16th century and is from medieval Latin polaris 'heavenly', from polus. The Pole Star, or Polaris, is the star around which the stars appear to rotate. Polos is also the probable source of pulley (Middle English).
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- Hearn, who like Schmidt resides in Henderson, Nev., has a victory and two poles in the IndyCar Series.
- But now to come here and drive for a team that is as big as it is with the Rahal-Letterman and to get not only their first pole for them at Homestead, it was my first pole, and now it's all of our first poles here again at Indy.
- He started from the pole and captured the checkered flag driving a truck for Richard Childress.
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- Right-wing renegades - an English-speaker and a Pole, rather than Afrikaners - were responsible.
- What about the Indians, the Pakistanis, the Italians, the Poles and the English.
- Our films speak only to 40 million Poles in Poland and a few more millions abroad.
Via German from Polish Polanie, literally 'field-dwellers', from pole 'field'.
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EAST HARTFORD — Ansonia High football player Matthew Simon made a bold, but perhaps reasonable, prediction in the aftermath of the Chargers' second straight state title Saturday.
"If we put in the time, I think we have a chance for a three-peat next season," said Simon. "We already know what we need to do. If we play hard, and do everything to Tee, it can happen."
Junior linebacker Saiheed Sanders agreed.
"I am on top of the world right now," said Sanders. "We can have the same feeling next year, but we must stay humble and stay patient and continue to improve."
On perhaps any other team, Sanders would have been the primary running back, but he has always understood that the Chargers' offense features record-setting tailback Arkeel Newsome, who rushed for 237 yards and three touchdowns in a 59-26 win over North Branford.
Newsome will lead the Chargers again in 2013 as a senior. But Sanders will fill many roles, as a running back and receiver, and as an instinctive linebacker.
"I am so thankful to be a part of this team," said Sanders.
So is sophomore quarterback Jai'Quan McKnight, filling in for injured starting quarterback Tyler Lester, who was sidelined all season because of a broken leg.
McKnight passed for 107 yards and two TDs and ran for 109 yards, including a 56-yard bootleg score down the right sideline off a a terrific ball fake.
"There's always room for improvement by all of us," noted McKnight. "We do have a lot of great athletes and we do have a lot of potential. We just have to keep our heads. We learned a lot from the senior class. They were great leaders and great role models and great players to look up to."
Two players who will be extremely motivated to get back on the field next spring are junior tackle and defensive end Ryan Hovan and junior left guard and defensive tackle Chris Devine. Both players were sidelined the entire season.
Hovan, Devine and Lester all were on crutches until recently and stood together along the sidelines Saturday. Hovan broke his right tibia in the Chargers' first scrimmage against Shelton in late August.
"I was pulling on a screen pass and a player slid under me and his helmet hit my leg and I fell right to the ground," said Hovan. "It was a terrible feeling. I had to start thinking about next year and my junior year hadn't even started. I hope players never take anything for granted."
Sophomore Tyler O'Connell moved from guard to tackle in Hovan's absence this season.
"Everyone worked well together to help each other," said Hovan, who hopes to begin weight training later this week.
Devine tore his left meniscus of his knee at the Yale camp in late June. Initially, he thought he had a 50-50 chance of returning toward the end of the season, but his rehabilitation turned into a four-to-eight month process.
He has surgery a week later.
"After I woke up the next day, I was a little depressed, but everyone on the team showed me support and I couldn't stay down," Devine said. "I knew that there was always next season."
Other underclassmen who played key roles in their championship path were junior linemen Anton Mack and Corey Dzienkiewicz and sophomore Tyler O'Connell, junior place-kicker Arthur Kwaskiewicz, sophomore defensive back Witold Gul and freshman Tyler Bailey. Bailey played on special teams but is expected to be a big part of the offense next season.
"I am looking forward to seeing what they can do in the future," said senior wide receiver Andrew Matos.
"They have proven that anything is possible," added senior tight end Raeshaun Finney. "They play hard, are all team players and they all have faith in each other. That is the mark of another great team."
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SAN MARTIN -- A field with 10 major champions, including Vijay Singh and 2012 British Open winner Ernie Els, does not lack for star power.
And the incentive awaiting the 132 golfers playing the Frys.com Open at the CordeValle Golf Club this week -- $5 million in prize money and the opportunity to increase their chances for automatic berths in every PGA stop next season -- is nothing to sniff at.
But tournament president Duke Butler chose to look down the road Tuesday before focusing on this year.
"This tournament becomes a little more prominent each year," he said. "Frys has an excellent reputation for taking care of players and their families and the caddies. We believe we're growing relationships that will culminate in something fairly magnificent someday."
Butler is looking into the not-too-distant future when electronics magnate John Fry will have finished all the amenities at The Institute, the course in nearby Morgan Hill he constructed with an eye toward making it a regular PGA Tour stop.
But even before that, the Frys.com Open is stepping up from its status as one of four stops in the PGA fall series. Next year's tournament -- which will again be played at CordeValle -- will have more prestige as the opening stop on the 2013-14 tour. For the first time, players will earn FedEx Cup points.
Butler estimates 60,000 fans will head to the rolling hills south of San Jose over the next five days for this year's tournament, which also is honoring Bay Area golfing legend Ken Venturi. That's about 25,000 more than attended the Frys.com Open's 2010 debut at CordeValle but 15,000 fewer than came a year ago when Tiger Woods made his first appearance.
Larger crowds increase the size of the checks to the charitable groups that benefit from tournament proceeds, Butler noted, but bigger isn't always better for the sport's followers.
"The crowds are not as large on site," he said, "but that enables the fans to get up close and personal with the players."
So who are some of those top players this year?
Where: CordeValle Golf Club, San Martin
When: Thursday-Sunday
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Winner's share: $900,000
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'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Opens to $161.1 Million
The "Hunger Games" audience grew only a bit in the U.S. the second time on the big screen, but exploded in size overseas.
Sequel "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," opened to $161.1 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to an estimate from studio Lions Gate Entertainment That's the fourth largest domestic opening of all time, but not much bigger than the original "Hunger Games" in March of 2012, which opened to $152.5 million.
The difference is particularly modest given that the new movie had the advantage of starting screenings at 8 p.m. Thursday, compared to 12 a.m. Friday morning for the original on its first weekend.
The bottom line appears to be that the "Hunger Games" fanbase remains huge, but hasn't grown significantly in the past year and a half.
Lions Gate got more thrilling news overseas, however, where "Catching Fire" opened to $146.6 million in 63 markets. Many major markets more than doubled the opening gross of "The Hunger Games," the studio said, including the United Kingdom ($20 million) and Germany ($13 million). Russia, meanwhile, was up an impressive 64% to nearly $11 million.
With $307.7 million worldwide, the film is another huge financial success for Lions Gate, which spent nearly $150 million to make the sequel and has two more follow-ups in the works, both based on the final book in the best-selling "Hunger Games" trilogy.
The weekend's only other new nationwide release, the offbeat Vince Vaughn comedy "Delivery Man," couldn't find its footing in the wake of such a monster hit. It opened to a weak $8.2 million.


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Worker nightmare at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
KITTERY, Maine - Brett Fralish is bracing for the worst. His 14-year-old car needs replacing, his wife's car needs major repair work, and they just had to replace a clothes dryer that broke. And, starting Monday, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard worker is going to be furloughed, and he will have to make ends meet on a paycheck that he anticipates will be 47 percent less than what he is making now.
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Cosy small apartment house. In the district of Centener 1 km from the centre of Rovinj, 500 m from the sea, 500 m from the beach, located by a road, in the countryside. For shared use: grounds 200 m2 (fenced), garden with lawn and plants. Barbecue, children's playground (slide, swing), parking by the house in the grounds. Shop, restaurant 100 m, pebble beach, shingle beach, public bathing area 500 m. Sports centre 500 m. Please note: There are more similar properties for rent in this same residence.
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Die Wohnung war sauber und wie wir sie uns vorgestellet hatten. Besonders gefallen hat uns die sehr guter Lage- sowohl zum Strand als in die Stadt braucht man zu Fuß nur wenige Minuten.Unser Auto konnten wir direkt vor dem Haus parken. Rovinj ist einfach wunderschön und wir würden gerne wieder einmal dorthin fahren. Die Wohnung ist ganz gut ausgestattet, auch wenn man mit den zwei Herdplatten keine großen Koch-Sprünge machen kann. Sowohl vor dem Haus als nhinter dem Haus gibt es einen Tisch, an dem man essen kann, was wir besonder schön fanden. Es war ruhig und die Vermietrein empfing uns herzlich.
Gute Lage nahe der Stadt Rovinj. Vom Meer weiter entfernt als angegeben. Für Personen mit Haustieren sehr gut geignet. Wenn sie keine Hunde mögen, dann ungeeignet. Parkplatz am Grund sehr gut. Fahrradverleih im Nahbereich.
Vi boede 2 uger på Plaza Suites i oktober 2013. Vi var fint tilfreds med både lejlighed, beliggenhed og service.
Beautiful, comfortable flat with a magnificent view over plage du sillon
Excellent! Thank you again Wimdu.
Our host Trusted Partner, Interhome, were kind and very, very efficient, working from their local office nearby in Deauville. We felt comfortable before we even arrived in France. Wimdu as usual and our host each confirmed everything by email before we even set off; so put our minds at rest during those last crazy days of packing before our holiday.
And such a wonderful stylish apartment Couturier! So much beautiful character in the middle of Trouville sur Mer. It was wonderful to be staying in one of those gorgeous old Norman town houses rather than just seeing them from the outside. We really got the feel of the town and all its history just by looking out of our shuttered windows at the roof tops. And lots of space for us as a family.
Thank you Wimdu, Trusted Partner Interhome and of course the apartment Couturier. We'll definitely be back.
My boyfriend and I stayed here for 6 nights and it was absolutely wonderful! Exactly what you see in pictures, except there isn't actually a balcony. Just a glass door with railings right behind it. The area was by far our favourite in Barcelona. Truly unique and enjoyable to just walk around at any time of the day. The stairs are a frightening first impression, 57 in a small spiral staircase, but still definitely worth the mission. But yes, pack light!
Thank you Maria for your kind hospitality, suggestions and being readily available for anything we needed.
I definitely recommend :)
First of all, I was a little nervous because I had plenty of doubts and the agency didn't answer me, in that point very bad customer service I can't believe they take like one week to answer a customer email... Anyway one week before our arrival our host finally could contact me and I talked to her. Luckly Montse was a Spanish woman and we could understand each other very good. Despite we had problems in our arrival, she was very kind and understood everything, made everything very easy and was very flexible about the arriving time. She really cared about us, offering herself for any help we could need (finding supermakets, places to eat, and useful information) we are really grateful about that:)
About the house, 10-15 min walk from Piazza San Marco, good location, very close to important places and easy to find (difficult in Venice..) the house is exactly as described in the pictures, one big sofa-bed (very comfortable) one bedroom, the kitchen, bathroom and a small terrace. Despite was a little bit small apartment was very nice, comfortable and charming.
Against: it wasn't very cleaned, some dirty in the corners and under the sofa and furniture. I don't understand why we had to pay 20€ per person for cleaning taxes and other taxes when they left us the apartment not as cleaned as they could...
The oven didn't work (or we didn't know how to turn it on... Neither our host) and half of the stoves didn't work, and the ones who did was very low fire and we took ages to cook and to get the water to boil.
The other think I didn't like (but this isn't problem of the house) is that even is well located, it's pretty far from the train station, like 40 min walking, 1hour if you are taking luggage, so the best thing is to take the vaporetto and its 40 min more or less and 7,50€ each trip. It's not a really big deal but a think to take on count if money is a struggle for you. You'll do it if you are going to Treviso airport.
Anyway, we had a very nice time then, if I go back to Venice, I would repeat for sure! :)
In the apartment, it is calm at night in spite of it's central location and insufficient windows' sound proofing.
Also insufficient is room lighting, shutters of the kitchen cabinet are not arranged well, there is mold in the shower cabin.
But the Fountain Trevi district is an excellent place in Rome, and if you are not very captious you will enjoy this place to stay.
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Improved Customer Experience, but at what Cost? See the DELL Computer experience with RTD
By Richard Lefebvre-Oracle on Nov 26, 2012
We can all probably agree that improving your customers' experience is a good thing. But a key question many people are asking is will it help your organization and, in particular, what are the financial benefits?
That's a good question, especially when companies ARE experiencing phenomenal return on investment (ROI). Of course, there are many factors that impact ROI or other measures of success, but we'd like to share some success stories as examples of customer experience in action and delivering positive results. If you would like to learn more about the economics of customer experience, see Brian Curran's presentation at the Oracle Customer Experience Summit last month.
In this series of blog posts, we'll share actual customer stories. Today's example is Dell, which uses Oracle Real-Time Decisions (RTD) and Siebel CRM as part of their customer experience portfolio to better understand their customers' needs and wants and provide consistent interactions. Regular readers of this blog are probably familiar with Siebel, but RTD may be new to many of you. RTD is a complete decision management solution that delivers real-time decisions and recommendations and automatically renders decisions within a business process to create tailored messaging for every customer interaction.
What does that mean? In the video below, Dell describes how customer experience is important not just for one interaction channel, but across all "vehicles." RTD is helping Dell understand customer behavior and communicate with the customer in a more relevant manner, across all communication or interaction channels including sales and service call centers, email marketing and online.
Dell continues to expand use of RTD because the benefits are showing up in sales, service and marketing results including 19% increase in close rates, faster issue resolution and 40% improvement in revenue per click in email marketing. Video link


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TRACY - The Tracy Police Department arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder Tuesday following last week's shooting at a busy Tracy shopping mall, authorities said.
A SWAT team assisted other officers in serving a search warrant about 7 a.m. in the 800 block of Allegheny Court, police said. Lorenzo Hotel, 18, was taken into custody without incident and booked at the San Joaquin County Jail, authorities said.
Hotel was wanted in connection with a shooting that occurred Friday at the West Valley Mall, police said. Bullets pierced a sliding glass door and a window at the mall's main entrance, but no one was injured, authorities said. Investigators were still trying to determine who the intended victim was, police said.
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Leading the county with the highest acreage tally, Breckenridge Ski Resort is opening Peak 7 today. With snow still falling Tuesday, Breckenridge Ski Resort reported over a foot of new snow at the resort in the past 24 hours.
Peak 7 and the Independence SuperChair will open accessing Pioneer, Swan City, Upper Wirepatch, Upper Lincoln Meadows and Lower Forget-Me-Not. The Freeway Terrain Park and Pipe will also be open.
The ski resort has received 20 inches in the past week and now has more than 600 acres open across peaks 8 and 9.
The Independence SuperChair will open at 9 a.m. today and all skier services will be fully operational.
"We are very excited to have this much terrain to offer guests right before the holidays," said Alysa Hetze, spokeswoman for the resort. "The last storm was just what we needed."
Other notable openings in the county today are three runs on Arapahoe Basin's upper mountain: Humbug, Powerline and the Lenawee Park.
"It's been so awesome at the mountain," said Adrienne Saia Isaac, spokeswoman for Arapahoe Basin. "There's no easier way to see a smile on everyone's face than to have fresh snow falling."
Alan Henceroth, chief operating officer of Arapahoe Basin, said the next trails to open will be Wrangler and Cornice Run/West Wall.
"We may see some of those trails open briefly, in the past, we may open a trail for a couple hours to let the snow get packed," Henceroth said. "We then may close it for the evening and let it set up and stiffen up over night."
Copper Mountain has consistently opened new terrain in West Village and Union Creek with the Express and Kokomo lifts and trails Vein Glory, Sno Deal and Lower Roundabout open.
The ski area's Rosi's Run will also be accessible from the Super Bee Lift this weekend. The ski area currently offers 463 skiable acres.


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In Defense of E-cigarettes
He saved his worst ban for last. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg's nanny-state policies have left a trail of damage. His defeated soda ban, the ban on food donations to homeless shelters and other antics have cost New Yorkers money, jobs, food choices, and even their freedom to give charity.


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On Monday, April 22 former Clarkfield Police Chief Ian Hodge will start his new job as Benson's Chief of Police.
"Nope. No break. Just going to get right into it. I love my job," said Hodge late Tuesday night as he collected garbage from his office in Clarkfield.
"I was very excited to hear I had gotten the job," said Hodge of his recent hire as Benson's Police Chief, a position that will have Hodge overseeing seven officers for the community that is roughly 3,500 people in size. "My wife is originally from there, but more than that it was the size of the department and it being just a good step for my career."
News of Hodge's hiring in Benson broke early last week when the Swift County Monitor-News reported that Hodge had been hired by the City of Benson to serve as their Police Chief.
Hodge received a contract offer from Benson on Saturday and accepted that offer, after reflection, on Monday. On Tuesday the City of Clarkfield received Hodge's letter of resignation. And last night, at their regular council meeting, Clarkfield accepted Hodge's resignation.
Hodge has served as Chief of Police for Clarkfield and Boyd (who, until recently, Clarkfield had contracted with to provide police services) since 2005. Prior to that he worked as a corrections officer for the Clay County Sheriff's Department in Moorhead.
"Anytime you apply for a job in law enforcement it's a lengthy process," said Hodge of his own application process. "But a guy always wants to advance in his career."
Said Clarkfield City Administrator Scott Weske, "[The city] has known about this for a while now. But, these things happen a lot, where people apply for a new job and go through the process. You really don't get too excited about it until they're offered the job. [Benson's] people had been in here on a background check. And I obviously gave [Hodge] a glowing review, because he's such a great guy."
The Clarkfield City Council, for their part, put a plan in place at their meeting Tuesday night to begin the process of replacing Hodge.
Most pressing for the council is their need to identify and hire an interim Police Chief before next week. With Hodge beginning his new job so quickly, the council will need to hastily hold a special meeting once they find someone willing to act on an interim basis for the city.
Once that hurdle is cleared, the council will then advertise for the position and begin narrowing down candidates with the goal of hiring a new chief by June.
Yet, that possibility will then most likely be vetted against the city contracting for their police services with the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Department, which has been an idea that's been floating around the council for the last couple years now.
Page 2 of 2 - The offer on the table from the YMCA Sheriff's Department, that the council will compare against hiring their own chief, is to provide one officer and a vehicle to the city at a cost of roughly $94,000.
Back to Hodge, "I am going to miss it here," he said. "I have a lot of friends in Clarkfield and I've developed a lot of great working relationships. I'm going to miss the people here a lot. I've made some good friends and have really enjoyed working with the local law enforcement in this area."
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As Antioch and Contra Costa County officials negotiate a complex annexation package for about 680 acres to the city's northeast, city leaders recently raised concerns about moving forward without giving the area's roughly 200 residents a chance to weigh in, even though a hearing is not required.
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The city and county are working out the final kinks of an agreement on how to split property taxes for the power plants, Carnligia said. He says it "largely mirrors" a typical property tax split set by a 1980s master tax agreement, which would be about 62 percent for the county and 38 percent for Antioch.
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A second agreement is being considered to cover the estimated $3 million infrastructure improvements in the Viera area. Those improvements were being considered in the property tax split, but lumping it all together is proving to be too complicated, Carniglia said.
Antioch expects to complete a revamped version of its environmental and zoning documents later this month, he said. The public would have 30 days to comment.
GenOn has offered an incentive to the city and county of $1 million apiece to complete the annexation as soon as possible.
"We should be getting very close on settling this," Agopian said.
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.
some of the details in the tax transfer agreement with county
presenting on Feb. 13, be presenting what that looks like, need to have LAFCO staff as part of discussion
agreed to dollars and cents, largely mirrors with master agreement ... how they all work together, one agreement that includes also infra agreement
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Wednesday, 1st October, 2003, 03:56 AM #81
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Music galore
Oh, you can definitely post the "Meloch the Pygmy" song. We included Llyr's Rules of the Druids, didn't we? And hey, Chalky is far better than a lot of nicknames. (It comes, for the record, from the Latin word for the Philosopher's Stone.)
Thanks, Fimmtiu, for the encouragement. It's good to know people are reading. In the next post (to come tomorrow or Thursday), the party actually unites behind the same goal for the first time!
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The Meloch Song
To the tune of "Eleanor Rigby":
Meloch the Pygmy
Lives with Cornelia Crispa, he works as her slave
Her mama gave
Meloch the Pygmy
To her dear daughter to train her in dark mysteries
And fertility
All the Roman babies
Where do they all come from?
Romans need a pygmy
To help them get it on
Oh... look at all the horny people...
Meloch the Pygmy
Tiptoed past Marcus and tried to make off with the staff
He almost cut him in half
Heilyn the Blacksmith
Is pissed at the pygmy, now watch as the curses they fly
Hope no one dies
All the angry people
Where do they all come from?
Blame it on the pygmy
He always eggs them on
Oh... look at all the angry people...
[more verses to follow, as plot advances]
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Fifth Session: All Roads Seventh Post: Cornelia Gets Tough; the Party Gets Going
That night, we sleep well, and the Gaulish stone floor, while hard, is pleasantly warm in late spring to my fur. The next morning, Cornelia has a private interview with her cousin Gnaeus. He explicitly asks her to consider a marriage proposal from Septimus; she, politely but quite firmly, refuses, and reiterates her desire to see her mother and settle in Rome for the time being. He tries to persuade her, but finally accepts her denial and the rest of the day is spent in somewhat awkward avoidance. The rest of us go shopping, and Melech prepares a feast of Kaspar the Xth, to my resigned horror.
After a much less formal dinner where conversation focuses on the weather and the pretty Massilian architecture, we retire for our last night in Gaul. A few hours before dawn, Melech and I both awaken with a rush at the noise of someone in Cornelia's room, who kicked us lightly as he went by. Looking inside the room, we see the vague shape of a small, thin man leaning over Cornelia's bed, and Melech screeches at the top of his lungs. I cry out too, more from the pain of having Melech scream right next to my ear than out of desire for help in a situation we can clearly take care of by ourselves.
Several things happen in the next few seconds. The man, startled by our cries, trips slightly and braces for balance with his hand on Cornelia's chest. Cornelia wakes up, screams herself, and punches the guy in the face, sending him reeling backwards.Cato flies into his face and scratches his cheek sharply. Metellus and Marcus come running towards the doorway. From the rooms of Heilyn, Wena, Llyr, and Verix, we can see torches being lit.
Marcus shouts, "Take your hands off the domina Cornelia, thug!"
Metellus, more calmly says, "Drop your weapons, and come out. Now. And we might not kill you."
The man drops whatever he was holding in his left hand, an odd flat rectangular object, to the floor, and Meloch grabs it before it can break, stammering, "Don't kill me!"
"Septimus???" Cornelia says, in tones of utter outrage and contempt. "I should have known." She gathers her blankets around her, managing to maintain a remarkable impression of dignity. This does not stop Marcus from casually staring at the sight of Cornelia in her nightgown; Metellus keeps his eyes fixed firmly on Septimus. Meloch and I, of course, have seen it all before.
As the rest gather, they also see Gnaeus, standing in the doorway of the courtyard, and from the other exit to the courtyard they see several people running. Llyr looks at Metellus, "Permission to follow, Tribune?"
"Certainly. Take Heilyn and Marcus. Find out what they know and teach them a lesson. No killing." Metellus raps out, every inch the leader for once.
Heilyn smiles savagely. "That'll teach them to violate the laws of hospitality like this. I mean, assaulting your cousin! In your own house! Do you Romans have no morals whatsoever?"
"Go. Now." Metellus says. The three warriors gleefully take off in pursuit of the fleeing men, grabbing swords and hammers as they go but not particularly bothering with full armor. Marcus sleeps in leathers, anyway.
Meanwhile, the rest of us turned to Gnaeus, while Septimus continued to cower in the corner. Wena, glancing at him, spoke finally, "Why are you fully dressed? It's three in the morning." Indeed, as we all then noticed, he was dressed in a full white toga and bronze-clasped sandals.
"Well, um...uh....I heard the commotion, and wanted to be prepared for whatever was happening; that's why I brought my old sword..." Gnaeus fumbles in response.
"You knew about this, Gnaeus. I can't believe you would allow your son to...assault Cornelia like this!" Metellus says, for once stepping firmly to Cornelia's defense.
"That wasn't the plan," Gnaeus blurts out. "We intended honorable marriage."
"Oh," Meloch interrupts. "Would that be with the help of this curse tablet?" He holds up the rectangular object which Septimus dropped in his panic.
"What???" they all shout.
"I know something about love magic, and I'm quite certain this tablet was intended to be slipped under Cornelia's pillow. It has her name and Septimus's name on it, and I believe was intended to induce at least temporary feelings of love for him." Melech declares. The rest of us wince.
At this point, the fully dressed Cornelia steps out of her bedroom into the dark courtyard and confronts the rest of us. I have never seen her this angry, not even during the combat with Aeduana.
"Cousin Gnaeus, cousin Septimus. I cannot believe that you would violate the laws of both kinship and hospitality in this fashion. You asked me, directly, if I was interested in marrying your son. I told you that I was not. Attempting to magically enchant me against my will and then, what, drag me to the altar of Juno for a clandestine marriage before I regained my senses? It''s not only tawdry and evil, it's also a remarkably stupid plan. As apparently befits your entire family. At least cousin Decimus isn't here, unless he was one of those people running in terror.
Our ship departs a few hours after dawn, and it is no time to be running around Massilia looking for an inn. Meloch will be guarding my door for the rest of the night; I suggest strongly you not try any more...plans. We will speak again in the morning, and discuss exactly how you will make recompense to me and my friends for this indignity." Cornelia wheels, turns, and stalks into her bedroom. Meloch and Cato and I follow. Wena and Verix come close to applauding.
Gnaeus retorts after her, "It was for your own good, silly girl. You need a man to run those fat farms of yours, and why shouldn't my son profit from them? You would have settled down soon enough..."
He subsides when the combined glares of Metellus and the rest of us start to burn into his skin. Metellus, coldly, speaks, "I suggest you return to your quarters. We'll see you in the morning, I suppose."
Metellus waits until the other warriors return. They tell him that they tracked the group of thugs to a tavern, where they beat them up until they confessed that they had been hired by Gnaeus for "an easy escort job" taking a woman and his son safely to the temple of Juno, and fighting anyone who tried to stop the "path of true love." The thugs were left with more than a few bruises to remember their stupidity by; they say Decimus ran off into the far reaches of the city, and Marcus, Heilyn and Llyr decided not to pursue.
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I can't help but think that the eligible Cornelia's problems in this area are only just beginning.
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Cornelia's Long Night
There was no way I could go back to sleep after that. Oh, I didnt think they would try it again not after what happened the first time. I was just too angry to do anything more than pace back and forth.
Poor Cato there are times when Im grateful that he and I share our feelings, and then there are times when I feel sorry for him. The poor little thing had fluttered up into a corner of the room, trying to get as far away from me as possible. Im not going to hurt you, I thought at him as I swished around a corner.
No throwing? Catos voice in my head trembled. Only then did I realize that I had picked up the wine decanter from the nightstand and was starting to lift it threateningly.
No throwing, I sighed out loud, setting the decanter carefully back on the table. My hand started trembling again as soon as I unclenched my fingers. I didnt want to hurt him. I wanted to hurt them! Off I went again. Back and forth, back and forth.
Spells arent so bad? Cato ventured hesitantly, after a moment. You do charm spells
Not like that! It came out louder than I had meant it, and I held my breath for an instant after, listening for the sound of people coming. But the silence held, and I continued in my mind. I dont do spells like that. Sneaking into my bedroom? My bedroom! At night! And I only charmed Metellus once! And it was only to get him to take me to Caledonia, not for for anything else!. I have never done anything like that since!
And I wont, I said, out loud again. My voice was a little steadier now, and I kept going. I will never do anything like that to Metellus again. I promised him. I paused, feeling a small warm smile come to my face at the memory of Metellus coming to the rescue, his voice commanding the others in my defense. And Im going to keep that promise, I continued. If I am to marry Metellus, I will do it honestly. I knew Melech was still outside my door I let my voice grow just a bit louder as I continued, so that he would hear. No charms. No love-spells. I will do it honestly.
The anger was going out of me now, and as it left, I realized that my knees were shaking too, along with my hands. I let myself slump down on the bed, sighing, Oh, what am I going to do? What can I do to them? Theyve disgraced the family but if I make it known what theyve done, it will disgrace me, too! I cant do that to myself, to my branch of the family I wasnt sure if I was even talking to Cato anymore, or to myself. His scattered owl-thoughts fluttered confusedly at the edges of my mind. I sent an absent reassurance back to him as I stood up again slowly. But I can bring some others to my defense. Other people in the family
Carefully, with still-trembling fingers, I slipped my great-grandfathers mask out of my traveling bag, and unwrapped it. Did I even have enough to make a funeral offering? Well, there was a bit of wine left in the decanter that I had nearly thrown and there was a honey-cake that I had sneaked away from the dinner table for a late-night snack. That would have to do.
I set the mask up on the bedside table, poured out the wine-dregs and placed the honey-cake before it, murmuring the prayers that brought forth his spirit. I waited waited .I could never tell when he was there, until he spoke. Great-Grandfather? I ventured.
The voice echoed deeply in my mind. Great-Granddaughter? There was faint surprise in the hollow words. Why have you called on me?
There has been a great dishonor done to the gens Cornelii. I could feel his presence begin to darken with anger. I need your help to avenge it.
Who has harmed our family? he intoned.
Some of our own. Gnaeus Cornelius Nepos, and his sons Decimus and Septimus. They attempted to force me to marry Decimus by means of sorcery. A curse tablet, placed on my person. In my bedchamber. At night.
Anger rumbled in my great-grandfathers voice. Worthless descendants! Their sleep shall not be easy. Not for months to come. Their dreams shall be haunted by their ancestors. They shall not be allowed to forget the dishonor they have done to their kinswoman and their family.
Finally, I let myself smile. Thank you.
Are you safe, Great-Granddaughter? You do not remain in their house, still, do you?
Its the middle of the night, Great-Grandfather. Theres nowhere else to go I sighed. But well be gone first thing in the morning. And I dont think my friends would let anything else happen to me between now and then. Another thought struck me, then. Nepa. Oh, no, poor Nepa. Having to live in this house, with them? I dont feel safe leaving her here. Not with people who would do such a thing to one of their female relatives. Great-Grandfather didnt reply was he even still there? The wine was running low; he might be gone already, with the funeral offerings used up and their power to hold his spirit here gone. Still, I kept talking. I dont think shes safe. But could we take her with us?
Yes, I said, answering my own question. We can. My thoughts sped up, my words hardly able to keep pace. No! Ill offer to take her with us. Im not going to force her. There have already been too many attempts to force the women in our family to do things. Ill let her choose. Ill make her father tell her what he did. Yes! That will be part of his punishment to have to confess it to his daughter. And then, after she knows exactly what her father has done, I will let her choose whether she wants to come to Rome with us.
I looked to Great-Grandfather, but I already knew that what I had decided was the right thing to do. And in any case, he didnt answer. I sighed. Whether he was there or not, I made my usual farewell to him: Vale, Great-Grandfather. Tell Father I love him. Well speak again soon.
Gray early-morning sunlight was starting to come into the windows as I sat back and turned my eyes away from the mask. Cato was still on his high perch, head tucked under a wing. Lucky that you can sleep, I said softly. And then I stood up, and started out to face the day.
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Fifth Session: All Roads Seventh Post: Ultimatums and Pirates
The next morning, we packed hurriedly. Between the cracked walls and the stunning lack of hospitality, I was glad to be leaving the Cornelii Nepotes. Gnaeus stumbled timidly out, clearly cowed by the weapons drawn at his appearance. Cornelia, dressed practically but elegantly, turned to him.
Cousin. Despite the fact that I could have you and your sons imprisoned or possibly executed for instigating such an assault, I will not do so. Such an act would only further dishonor your family. However, in my opinion this is not a fit household for a young woman to be raised in. If you dont want me contacting the authorities, summon Nepa, now, and inform her what you tried to do to me last night. I am offering her the opportunity to accompany me to Rome and seek a fate apart from your sordid destiny. You will not try to stop me, although she may refuse, if she wishes.
Gnaeus feebly protested, but was quelled by our glares. Nepa, the mouse-like daughter, was duly summoned, and reacted in shock and horror even to the somewhat bland version Gnaeus gave of the previous nights activities. She stood in silence for several minutes, as we all watched her.
Finally, quietly, without much show of emotion, she spoke, Could I go to Rome and become a priestess of the Maiden Goddess? I dont want to live here anymore; I dont want to get married. Id like to study, and pray with other women, and be alone.
Cornelia, slightly disconcerted but with a generous heart, responded, Of course you can! There are lots of temples of Diana in Rome, Im sure, that would be glad to have you.
I dont really have much to pack. I can be ready in just a bit; I know you...we...have a ship to catch. Nepa turns and goes off to her room.
Her father yells after her, How dare you? Insolent girl! Weve fed and clothed you for all these years, and you have a responsibility to profit this family by making a good marriage.
No, she doesnt, not anymore, Cornelia intones with steel in her voice. You abandoned any rights to her when you chose to condone the assault of a relative in your own home. Make your farewells; you wont be seeing either of us again.
The rest of us pack hurriedly and leave for the docks with Nepa, who keeps her head resolutely downwards, refusing to look at her family. We set off on a small but fast merchant ship, the Bacchus Grapes, heading directly to Ostia, Romes port, with a cargo of expensive wine. Initially, the trip is going well. I, of course, am seasick, but only Meloch notices, and most of the other members of our group, despite the bonding over the triumphant defense of Cornelias dubious honor, still are ignoring the pygmy and his monkey. Heilyn spends his time trying to talk to dolphins over the side of the ship; he eventually succeeds in befriending one, who follows our ship, leaping and doing flips for everyones enjoyment but mine. I can do flips, but no, the perpetually smiling sea animal gets the oohs and the aahs and the thrown food. Sometimes life just isnt fair.
Wena, who has the sharpest eyes in the party, notices off in the distance a plume of smoke, and asks the captain to sail towards it. Upon doing so, she and Llyr realize that the smoke is coming from a badly damaged ship, heavily listing in the water, with wounded people lying around the deck. Cornelia insists, somewhat against the better judgement of the noninterventionist Metellus, that they sail towards the ship and rescue the wounded. Marcus reminds Metellus that they can claim the ship as rightful rescue bounty, and its probably worth a lot of money.
Only a few seconds before the side of their boat scrapes against the side of the damaged ship, the Lugh-blessed eyes of Wena, Llyr, and Heilyn realize that the people on the other ship have no real wounds, but rather blood artistically spilled over them, and that the ship looks less damaged than initially thought. They shout a warning, and we all draw weapons and prepare for a fight directly before the wounded victims pick up the swords lying under their bodies and storm the Bacchuss Grapes. At the same moment, arrows fly at the crew and all of us, wounding Meloch and Marcus, and a large number of figures who look distinctly less like innocent wounded sailors and a lot more like ruffianly pirates appear on the deck of the other ship.
In the next few rounds, a variety of interesting things happen, as I climb up to the crows nest, which seems by far the most suitable place for a monkey during a raging sea battle. I have, after all, read all the Greek novels, which always include pirates, and often heroic monkeys. First of all, Meloch turns invisible, his favorite trick, and, as I know through my mental link, bounds across to the other ship and begins making life difficult for the pirates. A priest of Mars appears on the stern and commands Metellus to surrender; Metellus hesitates but resists the urge. Meanwhile, a female figure in robes appears on one edge of the prow and a fireball erupts in the middle of our ship; luckily, the fragile Meloch and Cornelia are out of range, and everyone else does a remarkable job of falling prone to the deck. On the prow itself, an enormous Nubian man appears, wearing little besides a loincloth and a large leopardskin draped across his torso; the enormous bow he wields sends a bolt hurtling into Heilyn and is then dropped in exchange for an axe.
Both Marcus and Metellus jump across to the other ship, nimbly jumping on the rowing planks that criss-cross the hollow hold and avoiding the arrow shafts coming from the hidden archers within the hold, but Meloch, my ever-impulsive partner, gets to the Nubian first and drops his invisibility to shoot a True Struck Sleep Arrow at him. As usual you think he would learn getting into direct combat with our most powerful enemies does not go well for the pygmy, and he is quickly fairly battered, and the Nubian, although injured, does not fall unconscious. However, Meloch evades the Nubian long enough to send most of the archers in the hold and on the deck into a nice peaceful slumber.
Meanwhile, Cornelia and Wena are very effectively preventing the priest of Mars from casting by stunning him whenever he tries to pray. In a nice example of positive teamwork, they also take care of immobilizing the rest of the pirate scum. Marcus shouts, Remember, we want them alive! We can sell them for lots of money!
Heilyn charges and, between his spells and his hammer, nicely bludgeons the sorcerer into near-unconsciousness and sends her body toppling over the side of the boat, where it is held under water until drowned by the dolphin. Meanwhile, Marcus and Metellus have flanked the enormous Nubian; while they are taking damage, they are also dishing it out. Cornelia, Wenna, and the highly accurate Verix, with his bow, immobilize the priest of Mars and bind and gag him.
Eventually, the Nubian looks wounded enough that Marcus begins striking to subdue him, on the grounds that hed make a wonderful captive, but Metellus fails, deliberately or accidentally, to hear Marcuss advice and decapitates the Nubian with one fell swoop of his sword. The head goes flying off the railing of the ship, and comes right back up a second later, as the dolphin proceeds to play Bounce the Nubian. The dolphin asks Heilyn if it can keep the fun toy, and Heilyn, finally realizing what sort of bloodthirsty companion hes adopted, and how much safer and more reliable monkeys are, tells the dolphin that, yes, it can keep the head, but he never wants to see it again. The dolphin goes leaping off into the sunset, bouncing the head of the enormous pirate captain on its nose with savage glee. Too late, Heilyn realizes that being able to Speak with Dead might have been useful.
[Edit: Meloch, in fact, did not have any directly offensive spells at this point, being a master pygmy of misdirection and non-lethal magic. In general, the party has an annoying habit of not actually killing people in preference to capturing them, which has led to me needing to deal with the effects of prisoner interrogations. Bunch of annoying pacifists. ]
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Once the surviving prisoners have been immobilized, we turn to examining the treasure and goods on the pirate ship and figuring out how to divide them amongst ourselves. The Romans argue that Metellus, as the highest ranking officers, should have final say over the distribution of the booty; this, of course, means that Meloch and I, as mere slaves, only get what Cornelia decides to pass along to us. But, still, all together we get a lot of interesting stuff:
1. 1 medium-sized non-magical trireme, equipped for speed, with a nasty ramming prow in the shape of a gryphon. Metellus decides to keep this ship, on the grounds that it might be useful later on.
2. 4 potential slaves, including one priest of Ares and three
nasty good-for-nothings who have skills with bows. These wind up being sold for 350 sestertii (gp) each, while the priest of Ares, after a long discussion, is killed.
3. 1 leopard skin magical torso wrap, sized extra large., which I believe Heilyn takes.
4. 3 flasks which Llyr believes to contain Greek fire.
Non-magical. Llyr, who knows how to use Greek fire, appropriates these.
5. 2 long cloaks which two of the pirates used to help them hide well in the hold. Low level illusion magic. Arcane. Llyr takes one of these, and Meloch the other.
6. A light mace which Heilyn believes to be of superior
worksmanship, which is sold for cash.
7. 2 ceramic bottles, carefully stoppered with wax, containing a substance with low-level healing magic in them. Cornelia takes these.
8. 4 oilskin bags, containing low-level water-spirit magic liquid inside them, tied to both sides of the small dinghy. I believe Wena has all of these; they are later identified as potions of Water-Breathing.
9. Around the Nubian's head, a headdress with
three long, sharpened crane feathers. Each is magical and has had certain bits plucked out to form a specific pattern in the feather. Meloch recognizes this as an item used by his people in their wars against the evil cranes; he says that each feather can be used once for a specific effect. The feather on the left allows him to fall safely from a great height, the one in the center produces a full-sized date palm tree when detached from the headdress and thrown at a solid surface, and the one on the right can transform into a small dove and be used to convey a message. Also, the headdress infuriates and frightens cranes. Meoch merely tells Metellus that it's a tawdry artifact of his people that can produce food in a crisis, so Metellus lets him keep it.
10. 2 small pouches attached to a belt worn by the Nubian, each containing brightly colored desert sand. One radiates medium-level illusion magic, the other enchantment magic. Both arcane. Meloch and Cornelia take possession of these; one of them is later established to have four doses worth of Improved Invisibility; the other is still unknown to most of us.
11. Within a wooden chest locked away in the hold we find two greaves which appear to be made out of a clear hard crystal, edged with copper. Medium-level psionic psyport magic. After investigation in Rome, Wenna discovers that these increase the wearer's speed if the wearer is psionically active and also have some other unidentifiable power not connected with normal reality.
12. A small glass vial with some very strong-smelling herb inside, also in the chest.Heilyn figures out that this herb has strong healing and energy-producing properties, but has not yet fully identified it.
13. A necklace of pearls, unmagical but reasonably high quality. Verix gets to keep these.
14. A large elephant tusk, hollow, with a copper mouthpiece, apparently intended as a horn. Arcane Magical - Illusion and necromancy. No one knows what this does yet, but Metellus is keeping it.
15. A set of lockpicks and tools apparently intended for breaking into places. Non-magical. Llyr decides his are better and these are sold.
16. 6 Masterwork short bows, 24 daggers, 8 sets hide armor, 8 gladii. Non-magical. These are sold. In total, the cash is around 2400 sestertii.
17. Decorated Leather Collar, low-level psionic telepathic magic on it, around the neck of the priest. Decorated leather armlet around the arm of the Nubian, same patterns and psionic signature. Upon experimentation, it is discovered that whoever has the armlet can generally telepathically control the person wearing the collar. Marcus, with glee, keeps this.
After sorting all of this out, we finally arrive at Ostia, the port of Rome, which we find somewhat startlingly quiet. During the five-mile walk to Rome, however, we find more and more people heading towards the city. Finally, we get through the western gate of this enormous marbled city of a million or more people. There are hordes of people lining the streets, and as we watch we see a parade of some sort going by of soldiers - rank after rank of Legionaries marching in full uniform. Marcus counts 14 Eagles, including the Eagle of the 12th from Britannia, marching by. Asking the crowd, we are informed that the Legions are marching off to Parthia [modern Iran, roughly] to fight a new great war against the Eastern Empire in the ancient desert lands.
Finally, a golden chariot, ringed by purple banners, passes us by. Standing tall and proud in it is a white-haired, scarred and weathered but tough-looking man, dressed in golden armor and wearing a golden laurel wreath; his tunic is edged in purple. The crowd kneels and exclaims at the presence of the Sacred Emperor, Lucius Mamercus Aemilianus, as he rides out of Rome to fight what will undoubtedly be his last great war on the Parthian front.
Suddenly, a smooth, soft, vaguely oily male voice is heard in the heads of various members of our group, virtually everyone except for Heilyn, Meloch, and myself. "I would give you greetings, " the voice says, "but really, I have advice instead which will be far more relevant. Leave. Now. This city is not for you; you will meet only doom and suffering here. And really, I'd hate to have to slowly and painfully kill you and all those you care for." The voice fades out, as the humans look at each other, stunned.
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re: Priest of Ares
So, the Priest of Ares was being controlled by the collar, but the humans had taken off the collar and interrogated him. They found that he hadn't wanted to be a pirate minion of the Nubian, but that he was a fairly nasty, war-mongering man who couldn't be trusted if sold as a slave not to go around killing his owners. They contemplated keeping the collar on him and using him themselves, but decided the collar was more useful than the Priest and so slit his throat. In case you hadn't noticed, this isn't a party that behaves according to modern moral standards.
They also discovered, in the course of interrogating him, that the chest with the herbs and the greaves had been taken off a ship carrying an elderly Greek philosopher, who pled for mercy but was ruthlessly killed by the Nubian. The Nubian had somehow known about the path of this particular ship - according to the priest of Ares he would get these sudden intuitions about profitable cargoes - and set out to intercept it and kill the philosopher in question.
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DANVILLE -- A Detroit native, Dan Radowicz was rocked in the cradle of the automobile industry during its golden age.
"We were just about seeing how fast you can go," he said of his passion for cars. "It's a disease. And once you've caught the disease, there is no cure."
He grew up just a block from Woodward Avenue -- which he describes as the street race capital of the world at the time -- stretching from the city into the Detroit suburbs. He got his first speeding ticket when he was 14 years old, before he was even old enough to own a license. "I was just rabid about cars. I ate, drank and slept cars," he said.
And his passion for cars through the decades hasn't ever lost its spark. The longtime racer and classic car restoration specialist worked at the famed Griswold's vintage restoration shop in Berkeley from 1978 to 1984. After that he owned his own restoration shop for 20 years and ran the vintage car racing group, Classic Sports Racing Group, off and on for nearly 30 years, in various roles, including president and later general administrator manager.
And for the past 18 years, the Danville resident has had a job that is the envy of vintage car buffs around the world: He's the full-time organizer for the California Mille, an annual salute to Italy's famous thousand-mile race, the Mille Miglia, which ran from 1927 to 1957. Radowicz brings drivers of some 75 vintage autos from all over the world to San Francisco for one of the biggest car shows of its kind in the country.
This year, drivers will park their vintage cars in front of the Fairmont hotel along Mason Street on Sunday in an all-day California Mille Preview on top of Nob Hill, before they set out the next day for a four-day open road adventure. Thousands of spectators will gather to gawk and admire this year's lineup, which includes 13 Alfa Romeos, 11 Porsches, six Jaguars, several vintage '50s and '60s Ferraris, a '52 Tojeiro Roadster, a '28 Bentley, '57 Kurtis Kraft 500KK and a '38 Lancia Aprilia.
The original Mille Miglia was an open road endurance race, its end coming after two fatal car crashes in 1957. Yet it found a second life in Northern California, as a car tour that rambles through a thousand miles of scenic back roads and foothills of Northern California.
But it's not a race -- drivers must follow posted speed limits, Radowicz says: "It's not a free-for-all, and we don't want to get thrown off the road. We have to behave like everyone else."
And Radowicz is "the point man that everyone answers to" when it comes to the event, no matter who the driver is, said Howard Swig, a co-director of the California Mille with brother David. "He has a huge breadth of experience in organizing a bunch of car events on the road and track. Dan has done it all. He's extremely confident and extremely good at what he does. He's kind of a car guy's guy."
But he's also "very approachable and unpretentious, easy to get along with and very humble," Swig said.
"We love him," he said. "And we hope he won't retire anytime soon, because we need him more than he needs us."
In 1996, Radowicz teamed up with Howard and David's father, the late Martin Swig, whose uncle owned the Fairmont, after being asked to design a gift for all entrants. He crafted a special Nardi steering wheel, engraved with their logo. From there, Radowicz was asked to organize the event full time.
Radowicz admits most of the cars in the California Mille are far above his pay scale. He's a self-described "GM brat"; his father was a prototype builder for General Motors, literally building the first Corvette prototype back in 1952, and his mom had a love of fast cars.
"Cars are just part of my DNA," he said. He and his wife, Rita, own a 2003 black Corvette Z06 -- along with six other cars.
Radowicz helps develop the California Mille route, different every year, and makes arrangements to suit an entourage of a total of nearly 150 affluent drivers and co-drivers. He finds the inns and hotels, the restaurants, the wines and coffee stops along the way, and two mechanics are always equipped on the tour to help with roadside repairs.
"All that little stuff is all under Dan's purview and he does it seamlessly," Swig said.
The best part for Radowicz, though, is getting to share his love of cars with so many people from around the world and bask in the camaraderie that annual adventure brings. "And we all speak the same language -- basically, cars," he said.
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The California Mille Preview is a free car show, open to the public, held the day before the tour, on Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in front of the Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason St. in San Francisco. Vintage-car drivers will be on hand to answer questions about their cars.
The Nob Hill Association is also co-sponsoring a cocktail party and social from noon to 4 p.m. at the hotel. Admission is $50, which goes to charity.
Cars depart for the tour from the hotel on Monday morning at 8:30 a.m.


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16.03.2012 - Irish drugmaker Shire plc has agreed to pay US-$100m in upfront for Ferrokin Biosciences Inc., a San Francisco-based specialist for iron chelation therapies. US-$225m could be added if certain milestones are achieved.
FerroKin is a virtual company founded by Hugh Young Rienhoff in 2007. It is working on a once-daily oral capsule to treat chronic blood transfusion patients suffering from iron overload, which increases the risk of heart, liver or other organ failures. Lead candidate FBS-0701 is in Phase II testing. "An important factor for FerroKin BioSciences in agreeing to this transaction was Shire's drive, capability and vision to bring new products to the haematology market that promise to raise the standard of care for patients," Rienhoff said in a press release. "In Shire's hands, FBS-0701 has greater potential to fulfil that promise." FerroKin was financed by Burrill & Co., Clarus Ventures, HealthCap Ventures and MP Venture. The acquisition is a strategic fit for Shire which plans to build up its haematology business unit. Shire already sells Xagrid to treat the overproduction of blood platelets.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-01/shire-expands-haematology-business-with-virtual-company.html


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Magnetorheological damper is a type of advanced damping system that can reduce the impact of earthquakes on structures. This video demonstrates the project that applies magnetorheological damper in large scale. Real-time Hybrid Simulation and Over-Driven Clipped Optimal Control are used in this project, and their performances are validated through experiments.
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The National Science Foundation: CMMI Grant # - 1011534
George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
NEEShub Project 648 @ nees.org
Photos and charts: Friedman, A.J. (2012). Development and Experimental Validation of a New Control Strategy Considering Device Dynamics for Large-Scale MR Dampers using Real-Time Hybrid Simulation.
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sixtyforce is an emulator that runs Nintendo 64 games. It does this by dynamically translating the code that a Nintendo 64 uses into something your Mac understands. Nearly every part of a Nintendo 64 has been painstakingly recreated entirely out of software to pull off such an amazing feat.
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Majoras Mask has eaten up most of my emulation time. I managed to get though all the parts where the lens of truth was needed. Before getting in the Stone Temple the Song of Storms is needed to fill up a barren lake, and the way to get the last song is to use the Captains Hat to order three skullchildren to open a grave. But after they all strike the grave it doesnot open, and the game idles. WTF?
0.9.1 has brought some long-awaited compatibility improvements. Majora's Mask is now playable, although I got stuck in the Goron City part due to some graphical glitches (the lens of truth doesn't work.)
Gerrit has rewritten the save functionality, but this time around it is a members-only feature. I decided to register Sixtyforce just for this, and I found out that the extra goodies (freeze states, joypad support) make it worth the money. Playing through Ocarina of Time in fullscreen with a joypad is amazing (especially compared to a tiny window and keyboard in 0.8.0 unregistered.) It's almost as good as a real N64 and it looks sharper to boot.
I hope more people register Sixtyforce so Gerrit can spend more time improving it.
This is the best N64 emulator available for Mac OS X. I haven't had that much luck with certain point releases, I think I was running 0.8.0 or 0.8.5 for the saving capabilities. However, the emulation is constantly getting better.
Currently, it can't run advanced titles like Majora's Mask, but I got it to run Ocarina of Time beautifully.
Project64 on Windows is one of the few reasons I still have for keeping my PC around- to play the titles sixtyforce can't.
And I think that the author deserves to ask for some money to use certain features. I doubt that maintaining this program singlehandedly is much of a cake walk.
What are the parts that have not been "painstakingly recreated entirely out of software" created with then? Food for thought.
Quite effective, runs quickly, I like it. Made even better by a game controller (actually an XBox controller, but meh) attached for just this purpose ;)


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The top two finishers from a year ago will return to the American Century Championship at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course this weekend, with actor Jack Wagner wondering if he can again hold off quarterback Tony Romo and win consecutive titles.
"I just won a golf tournament," Wagner said last year after holding off Romo 80-77 in a 54-hole tournament that uses a Stableford scoring system that awards graduated points for pars or better. Wagner, who also won in 2006, is one of four players to have played in all celebrity golf events here in Tahoe. This will be his 23rd year participating.
Romo, an amateur player who is good enough to have tried to qualify for the last seven U.S. Opens, remembers the 8-iron miss on the final hole that left him short of the title.
"I just missed a key shot coming down the stretch," said Romo, who will report to Dallas Cowboys training camp next week. "But anytime I play in something, I think I can win. I've played pretty well this summer and if my putter is working, my game is pretty sharp.
Romo teamed with quarterback Aaron Rodgers in a practice round against NBC producer Tom Randolph and announcer Mark Rolfing. And Rodgers showed promise to improve on his tie for 39th place last year. He drove the par-4 315-yard second hole, and fell just short of reaching the par-5 third hole in two shots.
"I've been working on my game, but I have to be realistic" said Rodgers, who also will report to training camp next week in Green Bay. "I'd like to think I can be in the top 25 this week. If I can get off the tee, I'll do okay."


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Disney XD's promo for the March 2 season finale taunts viewers with flashes of the Dark Lord of the Sith.
Marshall will play Gamora and Taylor picks up double duty as Yondu and Cosmo alongside Kevin Michael Richardson, Trevor Devall, Will Friedle and David Sobolov.
As promised, the franchise veteran reprises his role as the renowned gambler for the Disney XD animated series.
Marvel unveils first photos of Charlie Cox as Daredevil; Rocket runs through the rain in first footage from the upcoming Disney XD cartoon and more.
Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" will debut next year in an animated series airing on Disney XD.
The "Young Justice" and "Gargoyles" producer has confirmed that he will not be returning for the Disney XD series' second season.
The Disney show's upcoming "Spider-Verse" event tie-in will include a Noir, Spider-Girl and Spider-Ham variations on the hero.
Actor Donald Glover's wish comes true as he lends his voice to Miles Morales in Disney XD's "Ultimate Spider-Man" animated series.
The producers and stars sat down at Comic-Con to discuss the characters and setting of the upcoming Disney XD animated series.
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Marvel's "Ultimate Spider-Man" animated series will take its cue from the comics this fall with a "Spider-Verse" storyline featuring Miles Morales.
A new image of the badges for Reed's Special Edition: NYC con features art and a logo for "Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors."
Odin joins Earth's Mightiest Heroes for "All-Father's Day," the next episode of Disney XD's "Avengers Assemble!"
Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh gets in on some animated action as the voice of Heimdall in this week's "Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H."
Red Hulk and A-Bomb share a multimedia moment in this clip from an all-new episode of Disney XD's "Hulk and the Agents of SMASH."
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Venom goes gamma on "Agents of SMASH" while Dr. Doom attempts to take down the heroes on "Avengers Assemble."
Disney XD's "Agents of SMASH" and "Avengers Assemble" air at a special time this weekend, spotlighting Devil Dinosaur and Hulk.
The Red Skull descends upon "Avengers Assemble," and a pajama-clad Ben Grimm joins "Hulk and the Agents of SMASH" on Disney XD!
"Ultimate Spider-Man" supervising producer Cort Lane opens up about last weekend's season two finale and it's Avenger-tastic cliffhanger ending.
Steven Weber explains how the hubris of Norman Osborn and Iron Patriot led to the climatic showdown on "Ultimate Spider-Man's" season finale.
Disney XD shares clips from "Ultimate Spider-Man's" season finale as Absorbing Man & the Wrecking Crew attack "Hulk & the Agents of SMASH."
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Doc Ock has a new Sinister Six on "Ultimate Spider-Man" and Wolverine guest-stars on this weekend's "Hulk and the Agents of SMASH."
Cort Lane and Supervising Director Alex Soto discuss rehabilitating Sandman, his new duds and the impending "Ultimate Spider-Man" season finale
Disney XD previews this weekend's "Ultimate Spider-Man" and "Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.," guest-starring Sandman and - the Hulk-bus?
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Lucasfilm gives fans a sneak peek at the villainous side of "Star Wars: Rebels," including the debut of the Empire's Inquisitor.
Disney XD's Marvel line-up gets more powerful as Iron Patriot guest-stars on "Ultimate Spider-Man" & Impossible Man pops in on "Avengers Assemble."
"The Expendables 3" and "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2" star Terry Crews spoke with CBR about bringing Blade to life for "Ultimate Spider-Man" and clarifies his recent Luke Cage comments.
Spdiey, Blade, Man-Thing and the rest of Fury's Howling Commandos take on the lord of the undead as they confront Dracula head-on in this clip from the special Halloween episode of "Ultimate Spider-Man."
Marvel has released a clip from the next episode of "Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.," featuring the green-skinned goliath's Avengers teammate, Thor. The episode airs Sunday, October 6 at 7PM on Disney XD.
Spidey and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Howling Commandos invade Dracula's castle on the special, 1-hour Halloween episode of "Ultimate Spider-Man," airing October 5 at 9PM on the Disney Channel.
Frankenstein's Monster, Werewolf By Night and The Living Mummy are the core of the all-new Howling Commandos guest-starring on Disney XD and Disney Channel's "Ultimate Spider-Man" Halloween special.
Roger Craig Smith spoke to CBR news about playing Captain America on "Ultimate Spider-Man" and "Avengers Assemble," how stand-up comedy led to voice work, physically getting into character and more!
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