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DANVILLE -- Neighbors and members of Save Open Space Danville turned out in force Tuesday night to protest a proposed SummerHill Homes project at Magee Ranch.
The Planning Commission held the public hearing at the Danville Community Center on the draft environmental report for the project that proposes 70 houses on 410 acres of ranchland southeast of Diablo and McCauley roads.
The meeting took on a tone of opposition similar to that seen at recent Planning Commission meetings on the town's controversial update of its general plan.
"They want us to give you all of the considerations and the permissions to do whatever you want to the town, and subsequently we have to say enough is enough," resident Celia Beard told the commission to applause from the audience.
The environmental report has been posted on the town's website and is in a state-mandated minimum 45-day public review and comment period.
About 200 neighbors showed up for the hearing. Nearly all of the nearly two dozen who spoke were opposed to the SummerHill Homes project.
The main issue for most was fear of more traffic congestion on Diablo Road, which several speakers said is already congested especially during school drop off and pick up times. Crowding in schools from new residents and the loss of agricultural land and red-legged frog habitat were also concerns among speakers.
Members of Save Open Space Danville -- a grass-roots organization of hundreds of local residents -- want the public to vote under the Measure S open space protection initiative on whether the project should go forward. The town has maintained that the sale of the property by Jed Magee and potential development by SummerHill doesn't require a vote under measure guidelines.
"I'm opposed to this blatant attempt to circumvent the rights of Danville voters, pursuant to Measure S," said Bob Nealis, who ran unsuccessfully for the town council last election. Nealis centered his campaign around opposition to the SummerHill plan.
At the meeting's end, commissioners echoed many concerns voiced by residents. The commission then directed the town's staff to have Denise Duffy & Associates, consultants on the environmental impact report (EIR), to address concerns about bicycle and pedestrian trail access and safety, traffic mitigation, habitat concerns, and to use updated traffic counts on Diablo Road, among other things.
The commission will revisit the report after concerns have been addressed, no date was set for a new hearing. Then commissioners will make recommendations to the council, which will decide whether to accept the report.
"I feel like the public certainly was heard," commission Chair Lynn Overcashier said of the meeting. "I feel like everyone got the opportunity to say what they wanted. I hope the public understands that the planning commission not only listens but has similar concerns about the adequacy of the EIR."
Contact Jason Sweeney at 925-847-2123. Follow him at Twitter.com/Jason_Sweeney.


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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8.29 The extracts relied on by the Defendants are as follows:
- (i) Toronto, - 13th August 1988 'And this is, again, not just a wild hypothesis that I toss at you after just doing one month's work in the archives, this is in fact the result of work done by Paul Norris one of Zündel's men...In the British archives Paul Norris found documents which he showed me in photostat, showing quite clearly that British intelligence deliberately masterminded the gas chamber lie. I am not saying it was the same gas chamber lie that they masterminded, but it was a gas chamber lie. 1942, 1943, 1944 the Joint Intelligence Committee deliberated with the Psychological Warfare Executive which they ran in London, the propaganda agency in London,..on ways of blackening the German name, on ways of enraging allied soldiers so that they would fight even harder. And one of the methods that they hit on in the Psychological Warfare Executive, it's there in the documents, to say let us say that the Germans are using gas chambers to get rid of hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minority groups in Germany. And the minutes go to and fro...In one memorandum, Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, writes a handwritten minute to this effect: 'we have had a good run for our money with this gas chamber story we have been putting about, but don't we run the risk that eventually we are going to be found out and when we are found out the collapse of that lie is going to bring down the whole of our psychologicalwarfare effort with it. So isn't it rather time now to let it drift off by itself and concentrate on other lines that we're running'. 'We had a good run for our money' he writes in 1944 and here we are 44 years later and that hare is still running, bigger and stronger than ever because nobody now dares to stand up and kill it. It has go out of control. The Auschwitz propaganda lie that was starting to run in 1944 is now out of control and it going to take he-men of the kind of stature of Ernst Zündel to kill that particular hare. [Applause]' (p15-16).
- (ii) P's foreword to the FPP publication of the Leuchter Report: May 1989 '...Too many hundreds of millions of honest, intelligent people have been duped by the well-financed and brilliantly successful postwar publicity campaign which followed on from the original ingenious plan of the British Psychological Warfare Executive (PWE) in 1942 to spread to the world the propaganda story that the Germans were using 'gas chambers' to kill millions of Jews and other 'undesirables'
- (iii) Moers - 9th March 1990 'where did this myth come from? And for me as an Englishman, that is the most interesting question: who invented the myth of the gas chambers? Representatives of the victorious powers. We did it. The English. We invented the lie about the gas chambers, just as we invented the lie about the Belgian children with their hands hacked off in the first World War. The department the committee of the British PWE cabinet, Political Warfare Executive, psychological warfare...' (p 17).
- (iv) Latvian Hall, Toronto ... 8th November 1990 'How has this legend been propagated until now? Well, the legend was originally propagated, I think, by us British back in 1942. And I set out the reasons for believing this in my previous talk, 18 months ago. But since 1945, the legend has marched . And this is a great sad facet of war. In wartime, quite justifiably, the warring factions and powers decide to use propaganda, they lie about each other. They lie, massively...When the Victory Day comes, these Ministries of Lies are not replaced by Ministries of Truth. So the old propaganda continues to march on and nobody really has the job of stopping these lies from flooding out. Particularly when some people find they have a vested interest in keeping the lies spewing forth' (p12-13).
- (v) Chelsea Town Hall - 15th November 1991 'And if you ask where these legends come from, the trouble is that it comes in fact from us, the British, and we're very good liars. World War II showed this and the Falklands showed it, the Gulf War showed it, we're very good liars and in wartime we have ministers of propaganda whose job it is to lie and in fact we can show quite clearly how this particular lie started in our own Ministry of Propaganda, the Political Warfare Executive and you can go and get the records from the Public Records Office and you can see how we in September, October and November 1942 created the gas chamber lie as a weapon of war, perfectly justified. But the problem with all this is that after the war is over, the Government doesn't set up a Ministry of Truth whose job it is to go around with a bucket and mop cleaning-up all the lies that the Ministry of Information has been spreading and so the lies continue to soldier on. And if they're lies that are very profitable lies, as this particular lie is of course, and I'm not going to go into detail on that there, because then were treading on very thin ice, but it has become a very profitable lie, a lie in fact on which the financial existence of the State of Israel depends, then the lie is not only soldiering on it becomes reinforced and bolstered in a quite extraordinary way" (p 3).

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I've been using PSM really successfully for about a year, then recently I started having problems. I was happily watching quite high-bitrate MP4s and MKVs, with 5ch audio, until a couple of weeks ago.
My problem now is that when I am transcoding a video, even ones I have done before, the file plays for a minute or two then freezes, skips a few minutes, plays for a few seconds (maybe, if it does sometimes it will skip a few minutes more) then throws an "Unplayable content" error on the xbox. This happens on a variety of files, even ones that are nothing special (e.g. medium bitrate mp4 with 2ch audio that played fine a month ago). Streaming content that is native to the xbox is totally fine, absolutely no problem at all.
I think I was using v1.72 fine, and then I upgraded to v1.82. I'm not sure if I upgraded to try to solve this new problem, or if it occurred first after I upgraded. I have fiddled with the settings, completely uninstalled, and tried previous versions (1.70, 1.72, 1.80 and 1.82) but it's still the same. It occurs with both ffmpeg and Mencoder. I've comfortably used vqscale=2 vqmin=3 in the past, but even changing the quality down to 'low-end' settings, offers no improvement. My buffer is 400MB, usually it gets a little less than half full before the skip/crash. The log just says "stop playing event". I am currently running v1.72.
I wondered if something was happening with the multi-threading, maybe if it's transcoding chunks into the buffer it's stringing them together in the wrong order (?), so I unchecked the "multiple CPU cores" on the Mencoder options, and it actually played for a little longer (maybe a minute longer) before it threw "unplayable". As I'm writing this, I realise that I haven't tried changing the "maximum cores" setting on the main options page, but I'm currently streaming an avi so that test will have to wait.
I have upgraded my version of java since the problem started. The only other thing that's changed is I think the xbox got a software update recently, but I'm not sure if this problem started before or after that, because for a while I was pretty much only watching avi files that didn't need any transcoding. I know that I've been trying to search for answers for a few weeks, and even though I can't find any every so often I just hope that if I fiddle with the settings or re-install, maybe it'll work this time. I'm running Windows 7 with a core i3 and 2GB RAM.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Please take in to consideration that streaming high-quality videos is fine, no skipping related to bandwidth, this is ONLY when transcoding, and EVEN WHEN the quality is set appallingly low.


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Congratulations to Makenna Cook of Kirksville on capturing the state wrestling title at 182 pounds over the weekend. Cook had an excellent tournament to cap off an outstanding career at KHS. Kudos to the entire team and especially the seven other wrestlers who qualified for the state tournament. You should all be proud of your accomplishments. Once again coach Kevin Powell put together another tremendous team.
The Truman State softball team began their season over the weekend by winning six straight games down in Decatur, Alabama. It's the first time the Truman State softball team has started 6 and 0 since the 2001 season.
The Truman State baseball team is 1 and 2 after their three game series at Washburn over the weekend. Truman State heads to Bolivar on Thursday for games against Southwest Baptist. Weather conditions in Kirksville on Thursday do not sound conducive to playing baseball so hopefully it will be warmer and dryer in Bolivar.
The Missouri Tigers rekindled an old rivalry over the weekend by losing a heartbreaker to Arkansas on Saturday. It was a very intense and physical game and reminded me of the incredible non conference games Missouri used to have with Arkansas several years ago. Of course the games have even more meaning now with both teams being in the SEC and Mike Anderson now coaching at Arkansas. Missouri did not shoot well from the field on Saturday and was victimized by horrid officiating throughout the game by still only managed to lose by two points. Missouri is next in action at home against Florida which should be an interesting game. Missouri rarely loses at home but Florida is one of the best teams in the country and has been all year so it should be quite an affair.
History was made at Daytona International Raceway on Sunday as Danica Patrick won the pole position for the Daytona 500 which takes place on February 24. Patrick not only becomes the first woman to accomplish this but becomes the first woman to win the pole position for a major race anywhere on any level. Those of you who read this blog regularly will recall that I said last year at this time that if people would be patient and give Patrick a year or so to get used to driving in NASCAR she would turn into a good driver and it appears we are starting to see that. There were a few bumps in the road for her last year but she stuck it out and has a good team and obviously a good car and will now start the Daytona 500 in the lead position.
I'm still trying to figure out why qualifying for the Daytona 500 is so convoluted. Kevin Harvick won a race Saturday night that apparently qualifies him to drive in the race but obviously not from the pole position. They had three hours of qualifying on Sunday which determined some of the other positions but not all of them. On Thursday afternoon they have two 125 races which fills out the rest of the field or at least that's my understanding. Why can't they do it like every other NASCAR race and have everyone qualify on the same day?
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Clemson dominates first-team All-ACC squad
Published: Monday, November 26, 2012 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 12:44 a.m.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Clemson dominated the all-Atlantic Coast Conference first team.
The 2012 all-Atlantic Coast Conference football team, as determined by a vote of 46 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association, with voting results in parenthesis. A first-team vote is worth two points and second-team vote is worth one.
QB—Tajh Boyd, Clemson (86)
RB—Gio Bernard, North Carolina (91)
RB—Andre Ellington, Clemson (77)
WR—DeAndre Hopkins, Clemson (80)
WR—Alex Amidon, Boston College (53)
OT—Oday Aboushi, Virginia (53)
OT—Brandon Thomas, Clemson (51)
OG—Jonathan Cooper, North Carolina (79)
OG—Omoregie Uzzi, Georgia Tech (64)
C—Dalton Freeman, Clemson (78)
TE—Brandon Ford, Clemson (54)
K—Dustin Hopkins, Florida State (79)
Spec.— Gio Bernard, North Carolina (48)
DE—Bjoern Werner, Florida State (89)
DE—Cornellius Carradine, Florida State (77)
DT—Joe Vellano, Maryland (80)
DT—Sylvester Williams, North Carolina (63)
LB—Nick Clancy, Boston College (66)
LB—Kevin Reddick, North Carolina (65)
LB—Steve Greer, Virginia (58)
CB—Xavier Rhodes, Florida State (66)
CB—Ross Cockrell, Duke (50)
S—Lamarcus Joyner, Florida State (59)
S—Earl Wolff, NC State (46)
P—Will Monday, Duke (73)
QB—EJ Manuel, Florida State (25)
RB—Duke Johnson, Miami (47)
RB—Chris Thompson, Florida State (31)
WR—Conner Vernon, Duke (51)
WR—Michael Campanaro, Wake Forest (32)
OT—James Hurst, North Carolina (50)
TIE OT—Cameron Erving, Florida State (21)
TIE OT—Emmett Cleary, Boston College (21)
OG—Tre' Jackson, Florida State (26)
OG—R.J. Matttes, NC State (24)
C— Bryan Stork, Florida State (19)
TE—Eric Ebron, North Carolina (51)
TIE K—Chandler Catanzaro, Clemson (22)
TIE K—Casey Barth, North Carolina (22)
Spec.—Duke Johnson, Miami (44)
DE—James Gayle, Virginia Tech (30)
DE—Kareem Martin, North Carolina (22)
DT—Everett Dawkins, Florida State (34)
DT—Nikita Whitlock, Wake Forest (24)
LB—Demetrius Hartsfield, Maryland (34)
LB—Christian Jones, Florida State (31)
LB—Jack Tyler Virginia Tech (28)
CB—David Amerson, NC State (46)
CB—Antone Exum, Virginia Tech (44)
S—Rashard Hall, Clemson (43)
S— Walt Canty, Duke (31)
P—Tommy Hibbard, North Carolina (40)
The league announced its all-conference team Monday and six offensive players from the 15th-ranked Tigers made the first team.
The teams were determined by a vote of 46 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.
Quarterback Tajh Boyd, running back Andre Ellington and receiver DeAndre Hopkins were Clemson's skill players on the first team. They were joined by tackle Brandon Thomas, center Dalton Freeman and tight end Brandon Ford.
Boyd led the ACC with 34 touchdown passes while Hopkins had league-bests of 16 total TD catches and an average of 104 yards receiving for the conference's best offense.
Freeman became the first Clemson center in history to be named first-team All-ACC in consecutive years.
Malliciah Goodman and Sammy Watkins were named honorable mention.
Nine teams had at least one first-team selection.
There were no unanimous picks to the first team, but North Carolina running back Gio Bernard was chosen as a first-teamer on 45 ballots.
The Tar Heels and No. 13 Florida State had five players apiece on the first team.
Bernard, a punt returner, also was picked as the first-team specialist.
Offensive guard Omoregie Uzzi was the only player from Georgia Tech on the first team. The Yellow Jackets will play Florida State on Saturday for the ACC title.
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Protesters decry plan to remove plants from Oaks island
Published: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 11:54 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 6:58 p.m.
Bird rookery fans protested late Wednesday morning at the gate of the The Oaks neighborhood on South Tamiami Trail, hoping to change the club's plan to clear a golf course island.
The island is one of two in a lake that have become a home and nesting site for hundreds of shorebirds. The club has a permit to remove Brazilian pepper trees from the island as soon as this year's last fledgling birds are able to fly away. That could be any day now, said protest organizer Beverly Meadows.
Protesters say the invasive plants should be removed gradually, not in a sudden project that will displace most or all the birds.
The golf club's president has said he hopes many of the birds will leave and find homes elsewhere, because some golfers and residents have complained about the smell of guano, and about bird noise.
The protesters include some of the golf course's close neighbors and local members of wildlife groups.
Meadows said shortly before noon that police were at the scene, but that the protest by 16 people was orderly and calm.
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With some of the top local tennis players assembled for the inaugural Christian Care Sleep Center Islanders Shootout on Saturday, the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Tennis program held another successful event at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
The event was sponsored through a generous donation by Christian Care Sleep Center, which allowed Director of Tennis Steve Moore to hold yet another event that helps in the funding of Islanders Tennis.
"We are so grateful to Christian Care Sleep Center for their generous sponsorship of this tournament that is so beneficial for the Islanders Tennis teams," said Moore.
The tournament started with eight players from around the area teaming up with eight Islanders players, with the Islander being randomly drawn before each round to decide their partner would be.
The day came down to Denny Barre and David Harris, with Barre winning a thrilling final in tiebreak with a service ace to clinch the match. Other players in the tournament were Ruben Lerma, Art Boss, Anthony Garza, Kevin Lilies, Jason Bescenceny and Glen Shandy.
"We have such a special group of guys that played," said Moore. "Each one of them is a very strong player and great supporter of Islanders Tennis," said Moore. "This group does so much to help this team all year long. They are genuinely part of the Islanders Tennis family in Corpus Christi that is as strong as any in the country."
In addition to the sponsorship by Christi Care Sleep Center, donations from the players involved helped raise additional funds for the Islanders Tennis program that will help fund the team throughout the spring 2013 season.
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I forgot that I have a offset kart with a briggs 5hp motor on it that we have not used in a while. It has a body on the kart and would work for a first kart. How old is your daughter the kart has a medium seat on it. I Have a purple plate briggs 5hp motor that I could put on it ( rookie motor). My grandson drove the motor and he is 5 now but started on it at age 4. We set the throttle back for him to practice. I will take $700 for the complete setup. Let me know if you want pics.
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Web Wednesday: ECU Phone Directory
If you haven't visited the ECU phone directory recently, please check it out. You can get there by clicking the on the ECU home page (and many other ECU pages with toolbar icons). We've added many new features, most notable of which is the new "Departments" search option. You may type all or part of a department name to see all the department(s) that have that name. If you're not sure about the name, there's an alphabetical directory so you can see all the entries that begin with that letter. Only letters that have entries are shown, which is why you don't see 'Q', 'X', and 'Y' (at least for now). We also have a '1' for the 1 Card Office entries.
There's also now a Reverse Lookup feature. Reverse lookup is where you know a phone number, but not who/what has that phone number. The dedicated reverse lookup tab has a single entry box, and both the people and department directories are searched. Numbers can be entered in any of the following ways:
- 252-328-6131
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- 252 328 6131
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That's right, even if you don't know the prefix (327, 737, …), you can still find the department or person with that extension. Adding the prefix will speed up your search, though. Note that since most of our phone numbers (all people, most departments) do NOT have the 252 area code, leaving it off will not affect your search results.
In addition to the dedicated reverse number lookup, the last name and the department name fields also accept phone numbers or names, so you can use those if you want only a result for a person or department.
And, to earn the 'web' and 'web design' tags I've put on the post, I'll just say that I'm very pleased that the ECU Phone Directory Search now earns this icon:


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Friday, November 26, 2010
Creamy Turkey Noodle Soup
Nahhh... I can't lie. I made this soup two weeks ago when I made my turkey broth and I posted this on auto-post earlier in the week. Hey, I'm no better than the rest of you. I'm still in bed as you're reading this. I need time to recover from all that turkey and stuffing too! However, you'll NOT find me at the malls today. I'd rather take 50 lashes with a wet noodle.
Creamy Turkey-Noodle Soup
2 TBSP olive oil
1/2 onion, diced
1 stalk celery, diced
1 medium carrot, small diced
kosher salt and pepper
pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
1 bay leaf
1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 tsp dried thyme
2 TBSP all-purpose flour
6 cups chicken or turkey stock
8 oz. egg noodles
2 cups cooked turkey, diced
1/2 cup half & half or whole milk
1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
In soup pot, heat olive oil over medium to medium-high heat. Add onion, celery and carrot. Season with salt, pepper and crushed red pepper flakes. Add bay leaf. Saute for 6-8 minutes, or until onions soften and become translucent. Add garlic and thyme and saute for an additional minute. Sprinkle flour over all and cook for two minutes, stirring to prevent garlic and flour from burning. Add turkey stock and whisk to combine. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the egg noodles and simmer for another 15 minutes or so, depending on the thickness of your noodles. Add the turkey and simmer for another minute or two. Remove from heat. Remove bay leaf and stir in the half & half and the parsley.
9 comments:
- June said...
Looks sublime Mags. I think there's soup in our future too. I won't be in the malls either, though kitchen clean up duty is in my future. Darn...where is that maid anyway? Hope you have a wonderful day!
- November 26, 2010 at 8:58 AM
- Julie said...
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! This soup looks like a delicious recipe for those leftovers!
- November 26, 2010 at 9:13 AM
- Nanan said...
Lovely looking soup - enjoy the relaxing day - we aren't leaving home either!
- November 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Frieda said...
I'm with YOU~ I got to sleep in and enjoy a day OFF! It was waaaaay to cold to stand out in line at 4 a.m. Besides, I'm crabby if you wake me up at 4 a.m.....Enjoy!`
- November 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM
- Moogie said...
Hope you had a great holiday with your family.
You know that I'm a pushover for soup. This look so very yummy.
I'm worn out from spending several days at my daughters house. And I've been away from my blog, so now I'm trying to play catchup.
- November 26, 2010 at 5:42 PM
- Pam said...
You shouldn't have fessed up!
- November 26, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
Perfect use of leftover turkey if I have any. :) All of my family (and their families and their friends) are here and food is disappearing at an alarming rate. I love it. :)
- November 27, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- Barbara @ Modern Comfort Food said...
I spent my morning after Thanksgiving in similar non-activities, although I eventually roused myself to "clean up" that last pesky bit of pie by having it with my morning coffee. This excellent looking soup looks like an ideal way to use up the turkey carcass we now have left. Must try today!
- November 28, 2010 at 5:45 AM
- Sue said...
Any recipe with the word "creamy" in the title is okay in my book!
- November 28, 2010 at 6:58 PM


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Consultant: county should target younger, affluent visitors
Published: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 9:47 p.m.
County tourism promoters should target their marketing efforts on "slightly younger, more affluent" visitors in the Southeast, pushing Henderson County as part of a larger regional destination, according to a new consultant's study.
Berkeley Young of Young Strategies Inc. presented the results of a $40,000 research study to the Tourism Development Authority on Tuesday, emphasizing the need to drive more spending in local business through longer overnight stays.
Young's analysis of 1,350 survey respondents who visited Henderson County showed the average age of those coming for leisure or business purposes was around 58 — Baby Boomers born between 1943 and 1960.
"If we want to really sell retail around the county, we need people that are in the peak income and their accumulation years," Young said. "They're looking to buy. So we'd like you to have more Gen-Xers, which is people in their 40s. We think you're a little heavy on Baby Boomers and a little light on Gen-X right now."
Young urged more marketing to visitors in their 40s and 50s because that maximizes spending.
"They will get out and do more, spend more, eat more, drink more, and this is a business strategy, right? We're here to make money," he said.
About 70 percent of respondents came for leisure purposes, Young said, with top draws being general relaxation, visiting friends and relatives, and outdoor recreation.
"It's not tied to an 'it,' it's a 'them,'" Young said, so promoters should seek to sell a "mountain experience."
Because 96 percent drive to the county, most visitors surveyed came from the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama. But many of the major attractions they cited include regional destinations such as the Blue Ridge Parkway, Biltmore Estate and Lake Lure.
As a result, Young suggested tourism officials place less emphasis on "managing the destination" and more on marketing and outreach.
"Right now, a lot of your funding and effort is going into giving the party, and we need to work hard on inviting people to the party," he said. "Because remember, our hotel occupancy is low. And we've got to focus on the low... If we get the hotel numbers up, (there's) more eating, more shopping, more wineries, more breweries, etc."
Young's analysis of 109 county accommodations found occupancy rates for local hotels and motels trend below the national norm, hovering around 47.5 percent in 2010 and 50.7 percent in 2012. It's also highly seasonal, peaking from June through October. Young urged tourism promoters to pump up visitation during the slow period of January through May and push leaf season through November.
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Judge Orders State to Pay $190,589 in Drug Testing Suit
Published: Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 6:34 a.m.
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TALLAHASSEE | Florida's attempt to drug test employees will cost taxpayers $190,589.74 after a federal judge in Miami on Friday ordered the state to pay lawyers' fees in a case challenging an executive order issued by Gov. Rick Scott last year.
U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro ordered the payment to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 79, which filed suit in May 2011. The union is plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging Scott's ability to randomly drug tests workers in agencies his office oversees.
But Ungaro on Friday denied legal payments of $17,455 to the ACLU, which represents AFSCME in the case, saying the civil rights group was not a prevailing party and therefore was not entitled to reimbursement by the state.
In April, Ungaro ruled that Scott's attempt to require random drug testing for tens of thousands of state workers violated the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches, saying Scott did not show a "compelling need" for the controversial plan.
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A supplement popular among athletes, bodybuilders and dieters is now off limits to young people in Florida.
Gov. Bush has just signed a new law, which treats ephedrine just like cigarettes. You must be 18 or older with a photo id to buy it.
Rod Foys has been a competitive body builder for nearly eight years. He has taken ephedra off and on, and says when it comes to getting into top form, it works.
"I seem to get leaner. It burns body fat. I can definitely see it in my abs after I've used it for a week or two and I get a lot of energy from it," says Rod.
Illinois just became the first state to ban the sale of all Ephedra products, and effective 2004, Florida will ban them for anyone under 18. A move hailed by pharmacologist Phillip Treadwell.
"I think that's perfectly appropriate. This is a drug that can cause people to die and certainly has the potential to do that when abused," says Treadwell.
A study recently commissioned by the National Institutes of Health suggests the safety risks of taking ephedrine are unreasonable: heart attack, stroke and death.
The study helped to convince Tallahassee's New Leaf Market to begin phasing out its supply of Ephedra-based supplements.
"There was the major controversy with, I believe, Steve Bechler the Orioles Pitcher and just really the controversy that has swirled around the issue of ephedra," says Brandon Alkire, Supplements Manager for New Leaf Market.
Yet some of those looking to lose weight or enhance their athletic performance contend Ephedra is safe and effective when taken properly.
The new law in Florida requires retailers to card young people before allowing them to buy Ephedra-based supplements, much like it must card them when they attempt to buy beer or cigarettes. It goes into effect July 1, 2004.
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Hiroshi Yamauchi, Former Nintendo Visionary, Dies at 85
The man who turned Nintendo from a small maker of playing cards into a global videogame giant died Thursday from pneumonia. He was 85 years old.
During his tenure as president from 1949 to 2002, Hiroshi Yamauchi, a scion of Nintendo's founding family, transformed the Kyoto, Japan, company into a force that shaped the world's videogame industry.
His death comes as Nintendo is struggling to cope with competition from games played on smartphones.
Nintendo's first breakthrough in videogames came under Mr. Yamauchi's leadership in 1980 with the Game & Watch, a portable game player.
But what made Nintendo's name synonymous with videogames was the Family Computer, a home console that was released in Japan in 1983 and released globally as the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. Building on the success of the NES, Nintendo cemented its position as the industry leader with the Game Boy and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
"Mr. Yamauchi has taught us that there is value in being different," Nintendo President Satoru Iwata in a written statement. "We will continue to flexibly change the shape of Nintendo from one era to another, as Mr. Yamauchi has done, and Nintendo, as a whole company, will keep his soul alive."
By laying the foundation of the Japanese videogame company, Mr. Yamauchi in his half-century as president also led the evolution of the games industry more broadly.
He also handpicked two of Nintendo's most important talents: game creator Shigeru Miyamoto, who gave birth to the "Super Mario" game; and Mr. Iwata. Mr. Yamauchi hired Mr. Miyamoto in 1977, fresh out of college, and later made him the company's main game developer. Mr. Miyamoto's games, such as "Super Mario," "Donkey Kong" and "The Legend of Zelda," became Nintendo's most popular franchises.
Mr. Yamauchi passed the baton to Mr. Iwata, who helped usher in a new era for Nintendo with the Wii home game console and the Nintendo DS hand-held device, as the company competed against Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Even after stepping down, Mr. Yamauchi continued to influence Nintendo. The idea to use two screens on the Nintendo DS, for example, came from Mr. Yamauchi.
In recent years, Nintendo's fortunes have changed dramatically as a sea change in the industry created new challenges for traditional videogame companies. As free games on smartphones have gained popularity around the world, Nintendo's systems have struggled to gain momentum. Smartphone games, such as Rovio Entertainment Ltd.'s "Angry Birds" and GungHo Online Entertainment's "Puzzle & Dragons," have been grabbing players' attention, hurting the sales of portable dedicated game devices.
Mr. Yamauchi's death could raise questions about whether Nintendo will stick to its long-held strategy of limiting its game titles to the company's own hardware platforms. Since its entry into the videogame market in the 1980s, Nintendo has held that customers buy its consoles because they want to play Nintendo games.
Mr. Iwata, so far, has insisted that consumers still are interested in buying dedicated game devices and that the company's strategy remains sound.
Mr. Yamauchi also made his name as an investor. In 1992, he became majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball club in the U.S. that became a household name in Japan because of Japanese stars on its roster, such as current New York Yankee outfielder Ichiro Suzuki. Mr. Yamauchi also owned 10% of Nintendo shares.


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Millennials Will Benefit and Suffer Due to Their Hyperconnected Lives
by Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie
Feb 29, 2012, Pew Internet and the American Life Project
"In a survey about the future of the internet, technology experts and stakeholders were fairly evenly split as to whether the younger generation's always-on connection to people and information will turn out to be a net positive or a net negative by 2020. They said many of the young people growing up hyperconnected to each other and the mobile Web and counting on the internet as their external brain will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who will do well in key respects."
"At the same time, these experts predicted that the impact of networked living on today's young will drive them to thirst for instant gratification, settle for quick choices, and lack patience. A number of the survey respondents argued that it is vital to reform education and emphasize digital literacy. A notable number expressed concerns that trends are leading to a future in which most people are shallow consumers of information, and some mentioned George Orwell's 1984 or expressed their fears of control by powerful interests in an age of entertaining distractions." . . .


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DEAR JOAN: I watched a show during the holiday break called "Infested." I don't recommend watching this show -- it causes bad dreams. But one episode was about a family infested with brown recluse spiders.
I searched Google for information and it said, "Despite rumors to the contrary, the brown recluse spider has not established itself in California anywhere outside its native range." However, a couple of months ago we removed a wooden planter box in the yard and found an odd looking spider that had violet and translucent yellow/brown colors. The shape of the body was similar to what you see if you search Google for photos. It was long and violin shaped.
My question: Are there brown recluse spiders in the Bay Area? I work in Foster City but live in Walnut Creek.
Linda A.
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DEAR LINDA: I'm not sure what the fascination with brown recluse spiders is, but we've definitely got it. The interest, not the spider, that is. I suppose because its bite and venom pack such a punch, we all fear them. But your Google research is correct. Except for a small corner of Death Valley, the recluse has never been spotted anywhere else in California.
There are seven means of identifying a recluse:
And I would add an eighth way -- if you see one, you're not in California.
DEAR JOAN: A black phoebe has taken up residence on a wind chime on my back porch. He has been coming every day around dusk and leaving around dawn.
I have several birdhouses on the porch and deck, but he prefers the wind chime. I have noticed he is not afraid if my dog or I come and go out the door right below where he is perching.
I worry he is cold, being on metal all night long. I've seen him puff out his feathers. Is that for warmth? Is this normal behavior for this type of bird? This is the first time I have seen this type of bird in my yard.
Susan M.
DEAR SUSAN: You don't need to worry about the bird getting too cold. It apparently likes your wind chime and it wouldn't stay where if it weren't comfortable. The puffing up of the wings is a way of staying warm. The layers of feathers and down trap warm air inside.
Don't expect the bird to move into one of your available birdhouses. The black phoebe is not a cavity dweller. Instead, the birds build an open cup mud nest.
That's why they always are found near water, so they have access to the mud. They also feast on flies and the flying insects found year-round at water sources.
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When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, Maryland, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they are trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter, Abby, just home from her first year of college. I Used to Be Darker is a story of people finding each other and letting each other go; of looking for love where they have found it before; and, when that does not work, figuring out where they might find it next.
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TRACY -- Case for Kids, a new nonprofit, is hoping to help bring needed supplies and comfort to children in foster care.
Tracy resident Lori Souza was inspired to start it after hearing from foster parents about children placed in foster care showing up with only a change of clothes tucked inside a plastic garbage bag.
"My friend Denise (a local foster parent) called me one day after she received a newborn and 5-year-old foster child that came with barely anything," said Souza. "The newborn came with only one can of formula and two diapers. The 5-year-old little girl came with two pairs of clothes and it was three days before the start of kindergarten. My friend had nothing for this little girl that was about to start school.
"After Denise told me this, I posted some requests on Facebook and the outpouring was amazing," Souza said. "Being a Christian has taught me to believe in life and helping take care of orphans is an extension of that."
Now up and running, Case for Kids is currently helping more than 180 children. The group provides each of them with a personalized bin with three new pairs of clothes with tags, new bedding and other needed personal supplies. For infants, Case for Kids stocks their personalized bins with diapers and other new baby supplies.
"These bins with the child's name on them gives the child ownership of something," said Denise Hayes, a foster parent in Tracy. "Many times these kids are in a whirlwind and they come to us with a black plastic bag -- if anything at all. You can see the excitement in their eyes when they receive these bins and they see their name on it and what's inside. The kids are proud to have something of their own."
"Last year there were 1,170 children in foster care here in San Joaquin County alone," said Souza. "There were 1,630 children in Alameda County. All in all, there were 56,138 children in foster care in California. We can't all be foster parents, but we can all help."
Case for Kids is currently offered in the Tracy area, but Souza hopes to expand countywide.
The group has about 20 volunteers and is asking the public for donations of new clothes with tags, new bedding, new blankets and volunteers to help assemble and deliver the personalized bins.
"The D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) students are getting involved with this," said local D.A.R.E. Officer Steve Abercrombie. "The D.A.R.E. curriculum teaches the students about empathy, and this allows them to experience it firsthand. This is a great opportunity for the students to assist fellow children (who) are less fortunate."
Case for Kids will host its first fundraiser, a motorcycle poker run, on March 30 at El Pescadero Park in Tracy. There will be a DJ and a noon barbecue following the run, which starts and ends at the park. Tickets are $25 per bike and $5 per passenger. The ticket price includes the meal, a hand of poker and the bike run. There also will be raffles throughout the event. Registration begins at 9 a.m.
For details on Case for Kids, go to www.caseforkidstracy.org.
What: Motorcycle poker run benefit
When: Registration 9 a.m. March 30; barbecue at noon after the run
Where: El Pescadero Park, Grantline Road and Parker Avenue, Tracy
Cost: $25 per bike, $5 per passenger
Details: www.caseforkidstracy.org or 209-640-5804


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West Alabama's Shartzer is softball player of week
Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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LIVINGSTON | University of West Alabama first baseman Anna Shartzer is the Gulf South Conference softball Player of the Week.
The junior had a league-high eight hits last week. She had two hits in both ends of a doubleheader against Shorter, and then went 4-for-5 with a double, home run and three RBIs in a win over Union. The first baseman was also perfect in 16 chances in the field.
Before a Tuesday sweep of Miles, Shartzer was fifth in the Gulf South with a .412 batting average, and her 40 hits were fourth. She had scored 24 runs with a team-high nine doubles, two home runs and 14 RBI. She had three more hits against the Golden Bears and now leads UWA in hitting at .422.
The Tigers (20-10) won the first game, 17-3, and took the nightcap, 23-0.
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Capitol Visitor Center Commemorative Coins Fact Sheet
When Congress first gathered in this building on November 17, 1800, the sparse population and woodland surroundings of Washington, D.C. inspired some to call it a "palace in the wilderness." The members of this original gathering could hardly have envisioned the volume of visitors the building would host 200 years later.
To receive these visitors better, the Capitol building needed a secure place that offered guests comfort, information and assistance, and enough space to accommodate the crowds who come to see democracy in action.
Under the guidance of Congressional leaders in the Capitol Preservation Commission, plans were drawn up for a visitors' center (http://www.senate.gov/coins.html) on the East Front of the Capitol. On June 20, 2000, ground was broken for the Capitol Visitor Center, the first step toward its planned completion in 2005.
The 446,000-square-foot visitor center will contain space for interactive and multi-media exhibits in many languages, food service, security and storage, and will allow access to the Capitol building. Able to accommodate 5,000 visitors at a time, it will allow about 1,500 people per hour to tour the main Capitol Building. Another 700 people per hour will be able to visit the House and Senate galleries.
Silver Dollar
The proof Silver Dollar obverse was designed by Marika Somogyi of the Beaux Arts College in Budapest. Somogyi's work has been seen in more than 14 art museums around the world, including the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the British Museum. She designed the U.S. Mint's Mount Rushmore Commemorative Silver Dollar obverse and has received the "Excellence in American Medallic Art" Award.
The Silver Dollar reverse was designed by John Mercanti. Mercanti designed the 2000 Library of Congress Bimetallic Ten Dollar obverse and Silver Dollar reverse, the reverse of the Leif Ericson Silver Dollar, and the obverse designs for the George H. W. Bush and the Hubert Humphrey medals. He also designed the Bicentennial of the Congress Gold Five Dollar; the Eisenhower Silver Dollar obverse; the Mount Rushmore Gold Five Dollar obverse; the Korean War Silver Dollar obverse; the 1991 USO Anniversary Silver Dollar obverse; and two of the 1995 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Silver Dollar obverses (track & field and cycling).
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The Clad Half Dollar obverse was designed by Dean McMullen, a semi-retired free-lance graphic designer and formerly a staff artist with an advertising agency. He also designed the 1993 Bill of Rights one dollar and half dollar reverses, the 1994 World Cup Soccer Silver Dollar obverse, as well as the World Cup Soccer Gold Five Dollar, Silver Dollar and Clad Half Dollar reverses.
The Clad Half Dollar reverse is a composite of designs by Alex Shagin and Marcel Jovine.
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Marcel Jovine designed the official medal for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY; the 125th Anniversary Medal for the American Numismatic Society; and, for the U.S. Mint, the Mount Rushmore Clad Half Dollar obverse and the Bicentennial of the Constitution Gold Five Dollar obverse and reverse.


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The Honeybee and the Robber
by Eric Carle
Follow an adventurous honeybee as she goes about her busy day, sipping nectar from flowers, avoiding hungry birds and playing with butterflies. But when a robber bear scratches at their nest looking for honey, all the bees must rush out to defend their home.
This classic Eric Carle story is brought to life by movable pull-tabs that children can use to animate the action, as well as a pop-up spread of a colorful butterfly, one of Eric Carle's most gorgeous pieces of art. Revised as a smaller book with an easier, younger text (and a fun new cover), The Honeybee & the Robber will delight both longtime fans and first-time readers.
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SAN JOSE -- San Jose's roads are starting to fall apart after a decade of budgetary red ink. Cracks and potholes multiply like spring weeds, the pavement ranks worst in the county and motorists are griping more than ever about rougher rides through town.
City officials have a plan to fix all this, and will give it an airing before the City Council on March 5. But San Jose residents, grab your wallets, because it's going to cost you.
"Funding sources we relied on over past decades are insufficient to cover current needs," said Hans Larsen, San Jose's transportation director.
The solution, he said, is new taxes -- plural. City officials aren't thinking about one tax measure but three to pay for San Jose's current and ongoing road repair and maintenance needs.
What are those needs?
San Jose currently spends $20 million a year on roads. Larsen said it should be five times that -- $100 million annually -- to keep city roads from deteriorating further. Overall, San Jose streets average a "fair" pavement rating, but nearly a fourth of the city's 2,410-mile road network rates poor. At current spending levels, the city's entire road network will average a poor rating by 2020, Larsen said.
And on top of the need to quintuple the road maintenance budget, San Jose has built up a $339 million backlog of repair work to fix 375 miles of neighborhood streets already in poor shape.
Getting all that cash won't just take a single tax measure, Larsen said.
San Jose resident Dan Nguyen, 37, would gladly vote for tax measures, but only if the money was guaranteed for roads.
"I don't mind," Nguyen said. "The only problem is would they spend the money on what they said they would spend it on?"
But Dave Cimolino, 72, said he'd definitely oppose any new city tax for roads.
"The taxes already in place should be sufficient," Cimolino said. "They've got to figure out a way to make the money they have work for them."
City leaders already are strongly considering a general San Jose sales tax that could possibly go before voters in June 2014. A general tax allowing city leaders to spend the money as they see fit would not guarantee a share of funding for roads but would require only majority approval under state law. Recent city polling suggested up to 70 percent of likely voters might support a quarter-cent city sales tax and up to 57 percent might support a half-cent measure, though much of the support was tentative.
Larsen has urged city officials to pursue the higher half-cent measure, arguing the estimated revenue of up to $64 million a year would be enough to ensure a significant slice for roads. A quarter-cent tax would deliver about half as much revenue.
Larsen also is recommending the city seek to "amend and extend" the 30-year half-cent countywide sales tax that voters approved in 2000 to pay for BART and other public transit. The idea would be to continue the tax forever and allow some of the proceeds to be spent on city streets instead of just transit.
But that's not all. To tackle the backlog of road repairs, Larsen is recommending a $295 million street repair bond measure, which would cost the average homeowner about $100 a year. San Francisco voters in 2011 passed a $248 million bond measure that included $148 million to repair streets, with the balance to be used for bikeways, sidewalks, traffic signals and curb ramps.
Patrick Maxwell, 44, who was fueling up at a Willow Glen Chevron station, said he appreciates the value of having good roads in the city after having to pay $800 to repair damage to his car from hitting a pothole in an East Bay city. But he was taken aback when told the city might ask him to pay at least $100 a year more for roads.
"That's a little steep," Maxwell said.
A tax or bond measure dedicated to a specific program such as roads would require two-thirds voter approval. Recent city polling suggested only 54 percent of likely city voters would pay about $100 a year more to fix roads, well short of the required two-thirds threshold.
City officials, however, have been urging lawmakers in the state Capitol, where Democrats who until recently held a supermajority have been weighing a number of new tax ideas, to put a measure on the ballot that would lower the threshold for approving transportation measures to 55 percent.
Larsen acknowledged that new taxes for roads will be a tough sell.
"There is a perception that existing taxes people pay are sufficient to cover basic services such as pavement maintenance," Larsen said. "But we are at a point where almost no city money is going to pavement maintenance."
Of the $20 million San Jose now spends on roads, just $3 million comes from city sources -- in this case, construction taxes. The rest comes from federal and state gas taxes -- a figure that is declining due to rising fuel efficiency -- and vehicle registration fees.
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George Soros built a big bet at the end of last year that the stock market was due for a tumble.
Mr. Soros's hedge fund, Soros Fund Management LLC, boosted its so-called "put" position on the exchange traded fund market's biggest and most widely traded fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, known by its ticker symbol SPY. The ETF tracks the broad S&P 500 stock index.
Mr. Soros held put options linked to 7.1 million shares of SPY as of Dec. 31, compared to about 2.8 million shares at the end of the third quarter, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The value of that position jumped to $1.3 billion, up from $470 million, and made up about 11.1% of the fund's holdings, by far the fund's biggest position.
A put option grants the buyer the right to sell stock at a set price for a limited time. It generally rises in value as the price of underlying stock falls relative to the strike price.
Mr. Soros's increased bearish bet came as the S&P 500 soared in the fourth quarter and finished the year up 30%. Stocks started 2014 on a sour note, with the S&P 500 tumbling 5.8% from mid-January through early February. The market has recovered in recent weeks and currently sits less than 1% off its all-time high.
It's unclear whether Mr. Soros changed his position at any point this year as the most recent regulatory filing, published late Friday, accounted for positions reported during the final three months of 2013.
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Mr. Soros's fund, which returned cash to outside investors last year, invests money for Mr. Soros and his family.
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Sunday, 17th March, 2002, 04:46 AM #51
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As the attack and its provoked responce come to an end, and the black brotherhood represenative remains unharmed thanks to the fields around the meeting, the Red Elf glowers at the point where the attacker came from.
'Such distractions do nothing but shake our minds from the matter they must consider.' Speaking to the air, he continues, in hopes that the assaliant will hear these words; 'Come back to this meeting and talk. Violence at this point is useless, both figurativly and physically. Speech, however, may yet turn out to be another matter.'
Calm now, the Red Elf turns his gaze back to the Wanderer. His glove continues to give off a harsh crimson glow.
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Kas steps forward,
"Gnome, how dare you talk of promoting peace, and then threaten us with war? What might i ask you, have you done for peace? The Union of Oerth, as it is properly called, and you so often forget, has done ten-fold more than your nation. The peace conference in Jalpa was held by us at our insistance! The evil that was known as Vecna WAS SLAIN BY MY HAND! Were it not for me, THARIZDUN WOULD YET WALK THIS PLANET! The evil that was Acererak's empire was destroyed at the cost of hundreds upon thousands OF OUR LIVES. The victory of Oerth over the shade was made possible by our allowing other nations to march their armies THROUGH OUR TERRITORY! The peaceful unification of people, enemies for many more years than your nation has existed, WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY US!"
Shaking his head, as though to clear it of anger, he continues,
"Gnome, what have you done? We have put our lives on the line many times for peace. Admittedly, we have made many transgressions against the peace we fight to protect and build now. And indeed, we are still working for it. Who among you has openly announced your intentions and the intentions of your nation to all, in an effort to reduce tensions? Who among you has declared free sharing of technology, so that all might benifit? Who among you has openly pledged assistance to Kalanyr's magical research? We have done all of these gnome. Know this well: as you stand here and presume to threaten us, all the while we suffer your disrespect for our people, we have bowed in to the concessions of the mightly Oerth Alliance, not for our own good, but for the good of Oerth. While we allow the wanderer's "people" to be moved, you attempt to spark a new war."
Kas steps back slightly,
"What concessions are you willing to make for peace?"
Shaking his head slightly, Kas goes on,
"No, you have shown you will not make concessions, although i hope you can prove me wrong about that. Perhaps the better question is 'Why are you so eager for war?' Is it that not enough have already died? Perhaps you wish for more to waste their lives fighting each other when they should be fighting for the survival of Oerth? Perhaps you wish to test your new weapons of war? Either way gnome, we will not fight you. We make this concession as an effort for peace. Take your willingness to fight to somebody else, perhaps they will abide you."
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"Archcleric, i agree with you that Acererak is more important than this argument. Here is my suggestion: let us gather together the greatest warriors from each nation wishing peace, then, and with the aid of the dragons, not only the metallic, but certaintly also the gem dragons allied with the UO at least, and with information on the location of Acererak that i believe Kalanyr would be more than willing to release, we, as warriors of Oerth, can lead the attack. Undertaken in this manner, it would be a task undertaken by the peace-wishing nations of Oerth, a joint task, for Oerth, by the people of Oerth. Not a war undertaken for power or vengeance, for wars bring only hardship for the people of the warring nations. But a cleansing, undertaken by the brave warriors of the many nations of Oerth, as the first coordinated act of those nations, to free Oerth of the shadow cast by the evil of Acererak."
Kas telepathically sends for his elite guard, they teleport into the room around him, and all present can feel that they hold great power. Lithedenor Ytnivv, dragon mount of Kas, and another of his elite guard, appears outside of the building, and those inside can hear the building and nearby trees being buffeted by the currents of air his wings produce until he settles down in the courtyard, changes his shape into that of a human male, and strides into the room, taking his place at Kas' side.
"Archcleric, I offer the people of Oerth the services and lives, should it come to that, of myself and my elite-guard as the first to volunteer for the task force to end Acererak's evil. We stand as the representatives of the Union of Oerth. Do you, in the name of the people of Oerth, accept our offer?"
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"Lord Kas, Lord Kessel," Hazen says urgently, "this bickering is pointless."
"It is true that many brave Union forces died to stop Acerak. This is the real concern. It was also necessary to march through the Union of Oerth to deal the Shade a might blow."
"The Union of Oerth was aided by the Sky-Sea League in its efforts. I was pleased that a member of the Oerth Alliance could assist in this noble cause. I believe we should offer further assistance, although there are other threats besides Acerak."
"The Union of Oerth is trying to make amends. I think they are going through a period of self-evaluation. Do not judge them too harshly Kessel."
"I ask that the Oerth Alliance provide some assistance in the fight against Acerak. I believe we must stand with the Union of Oerth in this cause."
"For myself, I am concerned with many threats. However, Acerak is determined to achieve apotheosis. I would ask that the both of you, Lord Kas and Lord Kessel, try to be at peace with one another. For argument only serves the interest of common foes. Foes who would devour life and soul. In light of this, our differences may seem less important with some reflection on these matters."
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"Lord Kas, I agree with Hazen, for now. Let us put aside our current bickerings, and focus on the situation at hand. Now is a time for us to prove ourselves and our words to each other."
"And as for me not promoting peace... I promote peace, through superior firepower. I believe that threatening those that would perform evil deeds with my vast arsenal is the best way to keep them in check."
"But, again - let us put aside our bickering, for now. Focus on the event at hand. If need be, we can continue our argument at a later date."
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"My lord is most willing to move against Acererak, The information will be released."
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"Well put, Kas, Hazen." the image of the God-Emperor smiles, "Truly, other matters must take precedence. Acererak is the greatest threat. Perhaps something good will come out of this. I will send an embassade with my people from the Lonely Heath to Hope Island, I think the Angels will come to realise how much they have in common with the Chursh of Aerdi."
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The Wanderer stands there with his mouth wide open for a long time, not speaking.
Finally, he splutters:
Hazen, I think your person from Earth was very wise.
The fate of that world is a good indication of where this kind of talk is leading.
A world of ruins, destroyed by magic and nuclear weapons.
Acererak's Apotheosis would be bad, but to destroy our world with magic and weapons would be worse.
(The Wanderer then turns red with fury, and looks at the God Emperor. He roars)
Who do you think you are?
The Great Kingdom of Aerdi annexed the Lone Heath by military force.
We never agreed to any such annexation.
Then, when the Dark Union formed, it again annexed the Lone Heath.
You have the height of arrogance - Gods, they call ME arrogant?? - to state that my people - I should say the people under my protection, for they are not MY people - are your citizens?!
They are NOT your citizens!!
We did not vote to join your Dark Union.
We did not ask to join your Dark Union.
We don't WANT to be in your Dark Union.
You are a boy who plays with magic he presumes to comprehend, and calls himself a great ruler when he sponsors Olympic Games of Torture.
You dare to call ME a traitor?!
YOU are a traitor.
(CAUTION - the Gloves come off now. The Wanderer is really going to let everyone have it. This is strictly IC.
But the demand by the God Emperor for the Wanderer's extradition as a traitor has caused him to lose it, in a fit of fury)
Forrester of the United Commonwealth of Toril makes you look like a piker, O God Emperor!! (he sneers that word.)
Forrester personally ate elven children, while they were still alive!
Forrester, ordered his troops to eat all the elves, alive or dead.
Forrester, singlehandedly exterminated the entire elven race of Toril!
And all of you ...
(The Wanderer looks around with deadly anger)
Your Alliance of Oerth, works with him.
Your Alliance of Oerth, has sacrificed the people of Oerth, OUR PEOPLE, to protect him.
I watched as you gave him the secrets of 10th level magic!
You call Acererak bad?!
Yes, he killed several hundred thousand people, devoured their souls, and seeks Apotheosis.
But Acererak did not kill MILLIONS of people, exterminate an entire race.
You are FRIENDS of this person.
You ask this person for aid!
You welcome this person with open arms!
(The Wanderer whirls.)
You're no better, God Emperor.
You'd sell out our people to Forrester and the Torilians in two heartbeats.
So would you, Kas!
Lieutenant of Vecna! Kas, the Lieutenant of Vecna!
Do tell ME how good and noble you are. ALL of us know the horrific crimes you committed, again and again, gleefully, as the right hand man of Vecna!
People massacred, people tortured, people terrorized, the whole Suel Imperium cringing in fear under the boot of Vecna and his lapdog, Kas!
So, let's see:
We have Forrester the Torilian, who eats elves.
We have Kas, Lieutenant of Vecna the Mad Dog.
We have the God Emperor, a boy who plays at being a Divinity, and takes my lands by force, then calls me a traitor because I don't like it.
And we have the Alliance of Oerth, which works with Forrester, welcomes him with open arms, and calls him a good man.
(The Wanderer starts laughing hysterically.)
And you are worried about ACERERAK??
Why, he'd be perfectly at home, if he were standing here right now.
(The Wanderer glares at the God Emperor)
You'd start a war, over my people, and in that war you would wreck our world, and then Forrester would come and conquer us all.
Maybe then, YOU'D end up on the dinner plate!
(He turns, and points at Hazen)
Or YOU might be the main feast.
(He turns, and points at the emissary of the Black Brotherhood.)
YOU most certainly would be dessert!
(He looks to Kalanyr and GnomeWorks and Hazen.)
You both have supported me, and I thank you for that.
I appreciate your efforts as well, Hazen.
But you should all put away your nuclear toys, your magical toys, and your weapons, all of you.
And you, O God Emperor, should shut your mouth, for children shouldn't speak when their elders council silence!
What we should do is STAND TOGETHER, AS THE PEOPLE OF OERTH.
For, although the average Torilian is a good person, their leadership is bad.
I don't care if they say they've had a change of heart.
I don't forgive mass murder, no matter how long it's been since the event.
I know the Torilian Leadership for what it is.
They want to come and take over our planet, and treat us as they treated their own.
If they treated their OWN so badly, just how do you think they will treat US?
But who will listen to me?
I'm an old man, a hatemonger, a raving lunatic.
So you say.
Well then, say it and be done!
Kalanyr, GnomeWorks, if you will still help me, let us teleport to the Lone Heath, and save my people.
Let us go NOW, and free my people from the mad clutches of the God Emperor.
And then, if the God Emperor wants to throw a childish temper tantrum, he can do it without my people being at risk!
(The Wanderer, having blown off all his steam, quiets down. Which is good: he is beet red, and his breathing is coming with difficulty.)
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"Wanderer, do you not listen with those ears, or are they purely decoration? Indeed, you prove the fool you are with these accusations. Had you paid attention, you would realize the God-emporer stated that your people are free to leave with Kalanyr's assistance! And you insult us for allowing it?
Nay, your attempts at starting a new war, and that was indeed what your speech was, whether you know it or not, will not work. Calmer heads are present here, and we'd like to be able to discuss events in a civilized and peaceful manner. Right now, we're discussing Acererak. Your people have been allowed their leave by the Union of Oerth, so do stop complaining.
Perhaps you should heed your own advice and be quiet, we elders wish to discuss the matters at hand."
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Edena, i sent you the template for the Union of Oerth for turn 5. Did you receive it?


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