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From the first day of Willis Wilson's tenure at the Island University on March 25, 2011, he made it instantly clear what his goal for the program was.
"We want to be the premier program in the Southland Conference and follow down the paths of a Butler, Gonzaga, George Mason or Virginia Commonwealth."
Taking a program with one NCAA Tournament appearance and just 12 years of Division I history into a place alongside the premier names in college basketball is a tall task. The first step is building a culture and foundation for the Islanders.
The program's philosophy for recruiting student-athletes – Character, Toughness, Talent – will be a major step in the building process for the Islanders. These attributes in basketball players that work hard will build Islanders Basketball into a championship program.
In the 2014-15 season, the Islanders posted the strongest campaign of the Willis Wilson era, notching 20 wins for the first time since the 2006-07 team advanced to the NCAA Tournament. The Islanders went 13-5 in conference play to finish third, and were the only team to defeat champion Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston State. A&M-Corpus Christi again advanced to the Southland Tournament semifinals, falling to SHSU, and earned a spot in the College Insider Tournament for the second year in a row. This time, the team knocked off former NCAA Tournament Cinderella Florida Gulf Coast before hosting the first postseason home game in program history, a loss to Kent State, in the second round.
Individual honors rolled in once again, as John Jordan was named first team All-Southland for the second straight year, and added NABC First Team All-District 23 honors for the first time. Sophomore forward Rashawn Thomas picked up second team recognition in each of those categories as well. Jordan, in particular rolled out the milestones, as the Wilson recruit became the school's all-time leader in points, assists, minutes, steals, games played, games started, free throws made and free throws attempted.
Wilson also earned a personal milestone, as the bench boss picked up his 250th career win in the first game of the season. The 20-win campaign was his first since 2003-04 as a head coach. His team finished strong for the second year in a row, winning six of the last seven contests to enter the Southland Conference Tournament on a hot streak thanks to outstanding defense.
During the 2013-14 season, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi took a huge step toward those goals, as the team had the third-largest turnaround in the nation, finishing with 12 more wins than it did the season before. The Islanders rolled to a 14-4 record and a second place finish in the Southland, and earned a berth in the College Insider Tournament. With a win over Northern Colorado in the CIT, the Islanders posted the program's first victory in a postseason tournament since its inception in 1999.
Individual accolades came with the team success, most notably for Wilson, who was the recipient of the Ben Jobe Coach of the Year Award, presented annually to the top minority coach in Division I.
Players were also in on the recognition, including Jordan, who picked up First Team All-Southland honors and Second Team All-Region 23 recognition. The Houston native set a new school record in assists for the third straight season, posting 177 on the year, and became just the ninth player in school history to top 1,000 points in his career. Thomas was also one of the top newcomers in the Southland, after averaging 10.7 points and 5.2 rebounds in his debut campaign.
In the 2012-13 season, the Islanders had one of the youngest teams in all of college basketball, with no seniors and just three players taking the court who were a regular part of the rotation the year before. With no group of five that had played a single minute of college basketball together, A&M-Corpus Christi went through some growing pains in playing a tough, road-heavy schedule early on.
But the Islanders finished the season strong, going 4-4 in their final eight conference games, with all four of those losses coming at the hands of the league's top three teams. Jordan was the highlight, as the Houston native earned honorable mention from the league after a stellar season when he averaged 12.8 points, 5.5 assists and 4.8 rebounds. Only three players in the nation had better numbers in those three categories than Jordan did. Junior Will Nelson also earned honorable mention after leading the team in rebounding and scoring.
The first year of the Willis Wilson era saw a team with just 10 scholarship players, including 10 newcomers and just two players with significant Division I experience, take on one of the most challenging non-conference schedules in the nation. And though the end of the season record showed 6-24, the Islanders played all 30 games against Division I opponents and had 18 games within striking distance in the closing minutes.
In a league where freshmen rarely provide impact minutes, the Islanders had five frosh on the floor regularly, including Jordan, who set a school record with 138 assists in his first year as a college athlete. Jordan averaged 31.4 minutes per game, led the Southland Conference in assists per game and finished third in the league in assist-to-turnover ratio.
Freshmen weren't the only ones to see significant improvement. Junior Terence Jones was given honorable mention by the league after averaging 13.7 points per game, while senior Chris Hawkins-Mast upped his scoring 250 percent from the year before with 12.7 points per game. Both players finished in the league's top 10 in scoring during conference contests, as Jones averaged 14.7 points and Hawkins-Mast 14.1.
Before coming to the Island University, Wilson served two seasons as an assistant to Josh Pastner at the University of Memphis. In two years, he saw the Tigers go 49-19 and advance to the postseason both years. During the 2010-11 season, the Tigers went 25-9, won their fifth Conference USA Championship and a berth in the 2011 NCAA Tournament. In his first season for the Tigers, Wilson helped guide the Tigers to a 24-10 overall record and a National Invitation Tournament (NIT) berth.
Wilson became one of the most respected coaches in the country in his time as the head coach at his alma mater, Rice. In 16 years leading the Owls, Wilson posted a career record of 219-246, leading the team to the postseason three times in his tenure. He is the school's all-time winningest coach, and his reputation in the collegiate coaching circles – and across college basketball – is impeccable.
Wilson had the most winning campaigns in Rice basketball history during his time as the head coach. His 2003-04 squad recorded a 22-11 overall record, and the 22 victories were the second-most for a single season since World War II. Wilson guided the Owls to 60 wins in a three-year span from 2002-05, marking the second-most victories in a three-year stretch in school history.
The Silver Spring, Md., native also led the Owl program to the most postseason appearances since 1950. Wilson guided the Owls to three National Invitation Tournaments (NIT) – in 1993, 2004 and 2005. Rice's first round win at Wisconsin in the 1993 NIT was the program's first postseason victory since the 1954 NCAA Tournament. Wilson was also an assistant on the Rice coaching staff when the Owls earned an NIT berth in 1991.
In his tenure at Rice, Wilson coached 17 all-conference performers, including 2007 Conference USA Player of the Year Morris Almond. Almond, a 2007 NBA Draft first round pick, and Michael Harris (2005) both earned All-America accolades. Wilson also had four players pick up CoSIDA Academic All-District honors, including Adam Peakes who was a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-America selection.
The 2004 team was Wilson's most successful, as it won 22 games including the BP Top of the World Classic championship. For his leadership in 2004, Wilson became the first Rice basketball coach to be selected as the National Association of Basketball Coaches District 9 Coach of the Year since the award began in 1970. During the 2005 season, the Owls won 19 contests and advanced to postseason action in consecutive seasons for only the second time in school history, as Michael Harris and Jason McKrieth again were named all-conference.
Prior to taking over the reins of the Rice program, Wilson spent the 1991-92 campaign as an assistant on Mike Montgomery's staff at Stanford. The Cardinal finished the season with an 18-11 overall record and a 10-8 Pac-10 mark for fourth place in the league. Stanford earned an NCAA Tournament bid and lost in the first round to Alabama. Wilson coached All-American Adam Keefe, who finished his collegiate career as one of four players in NCAA history to have 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds while shooting 60 percent from the floor in a career.
Wilson began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at his alma mater in 1985-86. After a one-year stint as a head coach at Houston's Strake Jesuit Prep, Wilson returned to Rice as an assistant from 1987-91. As a member of the Rice staff, Wilson helped the Owls improve their Southwest Conference standing each year. During Wilson's final year as a Rice assistant, the Owls finished fourth in the league and received a bid to the NIT. The winning record was Rice's first in 20 years and the postseason appearance marked its first in 21 seasons.
After arriving on the Rice campus in August 1978, Wilson was a four-year letterman for the Owls. He co-captained the Owls to a 15-win season in 1982 and was a teammate of former NBA star and Rice Athletic Hall of Fame member Ricky Pierce. Wilson, a Will Rice College Fellow and member of the college court, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1982. He also participated in the Rice NCAA Volunteers for Youth program.
Wilson and his wife, Vicki, have three children, daughter, Kristin, and twin sons, Zachary and Keenan.


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EAGLE, Colorado - The Eagle Public Library will host a free, live performance with Colorado musician Jeff Van Devender on Sunday at 2 p.m. Van Devender will perform his original music on digital piano and share stories about his various pieces.
Van Devender is a versatile pianist who plays a diverse range of tunes, including pop, classical and light jazz. He has been a piano composer and arranger for more than three decades. Fans have referred to Van Devender's music, with its unique blend of piano technique and flair, as "a coffeehouse for your spirit."
He is an elementary music teacher in New Castle, as well as the full-time organist/pianist at First United Methodist Church in Glenwood Springs and St. John's Episcopal in New Castle.
He has released three CDs - "Ascend," "Bending Chords" and "Don't Ever Forget." These will be available for sale after his performance.
"His music has been described as Jim Brickman introducing George Winston to Elton John," said Robyn Bryant, adult services librarian. "We are excited to have Jeff perform at our library on a Sunday afternoon - this will be a nice treat for the public to come in, kick back and enjoy his relaxing music."
Van Devender has said that when composing music, a melody cannot be forced.
"When it is ready, it will arrive," Van Devender said. "Sometimes, I set a table for the melody's arrival, but I often have to make a choice to be patient. Other times, a melody will just materialize without warning, and I must quickly work before it vanishes!"
The pianist comes from a musical background. His father was a band director, and his mother was a church choir director. Van Devender received his master's degree in musical education from the VanderCook College of Music in Chicago. He taught in Gypsum in the early '90s at Gypsum Elementary School. During his tenure as a music teacher there, he was asked to write the school song. A copy of that song was placed in the time capsule of the building's cornerstone.
For more information about this event, call the Eagle Public Library at 970-328-8800. For more information on Jeff Van Devender's music, or to hear a sampling of his songs, visit www.javamusik.com.

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Research shows that children who get everything they want grow up to be greedy, self-centered adults. However, parents can raise their children to focus instead on goals such as learning and helping others. In December, ISU Extension and Outreach specialists offer tips for parents on how to avoid overindulging children in the Science of Parenting blog.
Iowa State University researchers have received new funding to evaluate an intergenerational exercise program for older adults in 21 rural Iowa counties. The Living (well through) Intergenerational Fitness and Exercise Program introduces older adults to exergaming, video games that integrate game play with physical activity.
Confinement site manure applicators and anyone interested in learning about manure issues should plan to attend a two-hour workshop offered by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in January or February 2013. A total of 61 confinement site manure applicator workshops will be held in 57 different counties.
Commercial manure applicators can attend three hours of training on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 to meet commercial manure applicator certification requirements. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources will conduct Commercial Manure Applicator training from 9 a.m. to noon at 69 locations in Iowa and one location in Wisconsin.
A news conference to announce the results of the 2012 Iowa Land Value Survey conducted by Iowa State University is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11. The news conference will be held at the Extension 4-H Youth Building, at the corner of 13th Street and Stange Road on the north edge of the Iowa State campus.
The poinsettia is one of the most popular potted flowers in the United States. ISU Extension horticulturists tell how to select a healthy plant and the care involved keeping the plant attractive through the holiday season.
Last spring, Iowa families throughout the state gathered together –- virtually –- once a month for the Eco Family Conference from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. The program is undergoing slight changes for its second year, and families can register now.
The Great Plains Growers Conference and Trade Show will be Jan. 10-12, 2013 at the Fulkerson Center on Missouri Western State University's campus in St. Joseph, Mo. The event is a five-state collaborative effort of growers associations and University Extension from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota.
Kaye Strohbehn has been hired as an agriculture producer and consumer education specialist for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in northwestern Iowa. Strohbehn began serving Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and Sioux counties Nov. 5 as education specialist after serving the region as an extension county program coordinator.
The 2013 Crop Advantage Series offered by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will be held at 13 Iowa locations during January. Crop Advantage meetings provide crop producers with the most current information necessary for making profitable decisions for the upcoming growing season.
Iowa State researchers will be conducting free nutritional screenings for older Iowans Dec. 17 at Heartland Senior Services in Ames, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The ISU research team will be using new measurement tools to detect malnutrition in older adults.
More than 30 million families will shop and buy a "real" Christmas tree this year. Horticulturists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach tell what to look for when selecting a real tree for Christmas and how to care for it after purchasing.
Jacqueline Comito and Ann Staudt were recognized at the Technology Association of Iowa's fifth annual Iowa Women of Innovation awards ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 15, for their work in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Governor Branstad asks for public comment on a nutrient reduction strategy developed over a two-year period by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Iowa State University.
The state nutrition and health team for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach recently added to its numbers. Jody Gatewood, new assistant state nutrition program specialist, will split her time between two nutrition education programs --- the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and Family Nutrition Program (FNP) --- and nutrition research grant projects.
Shrubs are integral components of home landscapes. During winter months they not only make eye-catching accent or specimen plants, but they provide food and shelter for birds and other wildlife. Horticulturists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach discuss shrub varieties with winter appeal.
Foodservice employees have many things to think about while on the job. To help them continue to put safe food knowledge into practice, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach recently launched a research and training development project called Do Your PART.
School lunch can be a good source of nutrition for children. But the menu may not match their food preferences every day. A new publication from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach aims to guide parents on creating healthy, balanced packed lunches, while keeping the food safe until lunch time.
Rodney "Butch" Baker will serve as interim director of the Iowa Pork Industry Center. He has been a senior clinician at the Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine department of Iowa State's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Various aspects of farmland drainage is the topic of a Dec. 12 workshop at Manatt Community Center in Brooklyn. The program begins at 9 a.m. and will adjourn at 3:30 p.m. Advanced registration is recommended.
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When it was first released, "inFamous" was a solution for the problem of bad comic book games. Instead of adapting a "Superman" into the medium, Sucker Punch Productions created a superhero universe geared toward games from the ground up. The result was an inventive take on the genre.
Since then, the team has developed a certain rhythm to the series. The games have an ebb and flow: Players take over city districts by doing side tasks to level up, and they finish main missions to move the plot forward. With "inFamous: Second Son," the team follows a similar pattern. Yes, it's more of the same, but Sucker Punch fine-tuned the formula with prettier visuals, not to mention a new hero, Delsin Rowe, and a fresh locale -- Seattle.
Set seven years after the previous title, the "inFamous" universe has changed since the days of Cole McGrath. The U.S. government has created the Department of Unified Protection to "defend" citizens from super-powered people known as Conduits. Anyone exhibiting abilities is rounded up and sent to a secret camp.
It's a system that had been working until a transport crashes near Delsin's tribal land. When he and his brother investigate, Delsin is attacked by a fugitive Conduit and the 24-year-old inherits smoke powers, becoming a Conduit himself. Unfortunately, that also raises the suspicion of the powerful Brooke Augustine, who leads the Department of Unified Protection. She attacks Delsin's tribe for information and inflicts wounds that can't be healed by normal means. It's up to Delsin to travel to Seattle and find a way to fix things.
As with previous entries, fans can choose to act as the hero or villain. The player's choices affect the gameplay, giving Delsin new twists on powers, and they also influence the plot and how the hero's allies act. Essentially, players will get two stories, but with a new chapter, Sucker Punch could have tweaked its storytelling so decisions were less binary and more organic, giving players tougher, less obvious decisions.
That storytelling, side quests and structure make "Second Son" feel like a retread -- up to a point. The saving grace comes from the character design. The team imagined powers that feel distinct as players battle the Department of Unified Protection and travel across the Emerald City. Smoke is good, but the power based on neon allows the protagonist to scale walls and shoot from afar. Later, an ability sourced in video signals lets Delsin play stealth and fly through the air.
What's smart is how Sucker Punch marries these powers to the characters themselves, so they become a reflection of those characters. Delsin's fellow Conduits -- Fetch and Eugene -- are the more interesting part of "Second Son," and I wish there were more time spent with them than with Delsin's brother. Even the big, bad Augustine has her moments with a narrative shift that makes the storyline work.
With "Second Son," Sucker Punch spins a good superhero yarn, and it shows the team has hit its storytelling stride. Let's hope they shift to a higher gear in the next adventure.
Contact Gieson Cacho at 510-735-7076 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at Twitter.com/gcacho.
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Oregon Expands Support for Solar and Other Renewable Energy
July 12, 2007
Oregon has followed up passage of a new Renewable Energy Standard (RES) with a series of laws to boost applications of solar and other renewable energy technologies. Among other benefits, the measures are expected to attract more solar manufacturers to the state.
The RES, which requires that 25 percent of the state's electric load come from renewable energy by 2025, was adopted in April. By the end of June, the Oregon State Legislature and Governor Ted Kulongoski had wrapped up the legislative session by passing a number of laws to further promote renewables. Some highlights include:
- Solar Energy in Public Buildings, House Bill (HB) 2620, which requires state and local government to devote at least 1.5 percent of the cost of constructing a new building or renovating an existing building to solar energy technologies if the building receives state funds. Passive solar energy investments can meet the requirement if they reduce energy use by at least 20 percent.
- The Solar Incentives bill, HB 3488, which expands the property tax exemption for residential use of solar energy to business and other uses of solar and other renewable energy systems, including systems that can be used with net metering. The bill also authorizes the Oregon Public Utility Commission to establish tariffs and rules to further encourage investor-owned utilities to invest in renewable energy beyond what they currently provide.
- An amendment to the Business Energy Tax Credit, HB 2211, which increases the tax credit for renewable energy systems installed by businesses from 35 percent to 50 percent and increases the project cost limit from $10 million to $20 million. The bill also makes the costs of constructing facilities to manufacture renewable energy systems and components eligible for the tax credit.
- The Residential Energy Tax Credit, HB 2212, which applies to more than one qualifying item in the same year. For example, a homeowner could get the credit for installing a solar water heater, a solar electric system, and/or multiple energy-efficient appliances during a calendar year. The bill also increases the maximum tax credit for fuel cells and for wind generation from $1,500 to $6,000.
Other bills were passed that encourage development, distribution, and use of biofuels; establish energy efficiency standards for appliances and electrical equipment; authorize development of rules relating to ocean wave energy facilities; strengthen enforcement of vehicle emissions standards; and support development of hydrogen technology.
After passage of the legislation, Kulongoski said, "This will be remembered as a banner year for solar energy in Oregon," said Governor Ted Kulongoski. "We have already attracted two new major solar manufacturers to the state, with more likely on the way."
The two companies Kulongoski was referring to are SolarWorld AG and Solaicx®. SolarWorld AG, based in Germany, is building a solar silicon wafer and solar cell production facility in Hillsboro. The plant is expected to become the largest solar factory in North America if it reaches its projected capacity of 500 megawatts by 2009. Solaicx, based in California, is constructing a plant in Portland that will produce monocrystalline silicon ingots, which are used in photovoltaic panels.
For more information on the legislation, see a summary of energy bills enacted by the legislature, which was compiled by the Oregon Department of Energy.
Sources: July 3 and July 11 articles in Renewable Energy Weekly.
To read more about renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Oregon, see:
- Oregon news published on the EERE Web site.
- Brief project descriptions from the Oregon Energy Office published in the EERE State Energy Program newsletter, Conservation Update.
- Oregon publications listed in the EERE State Publications Database.


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I like this "Tips and Tutorials" thread but I thing it should not be mixed up with (by user provided) templates.
On the other hand I thing the templates are "good to have" and one day it could be a big resource for everything
Would it be possible to get a new thread for templates / projects / sample drawings / library items etc. ???


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Don't know if this has been posted up here yet but thought I'd share regardless.
I have a nice setup in the Man Cave here but unfortunatley when I bought my home recently there was no way to get a Network Cable over to my PS3 easily. I just went out and purchased [a powerline network adapter]
Took about 2 mins to do and it works amazingly well. Ran a bunch of 1080p's with lots of action scenes and not one hiccup.
Again not sure if this already has been posted but wanted to share regardless.


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Wigasha dance song for men, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4O8).
Likhengele Makhono (Composer/Performer)
Sukuma men and women (Performer)
78 RPM acetate record
Sound Forge v. 8
Technics SP - 10 MKII direct drive turntable
Vestax BDT-2500 belt-drive turntable
Studer Revox interface SP 10-8
Recording master number 5185-303
Sound of Africa series number TR-152 A5
Tape number 88X
International Library of African Music
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Dave Martell's Core Set of Sharpening Stones
These are the three stones that I grab when sharpening standard (non-wide double beveled) Japanese knives. I have not found a better set (at any price) for this task. They work great together for providing a perfect crisp bevel, I wouldn't be without them.
Bester 1200x Sharpening Stone
This is likely the best 1k(ish) stone available. It's a must have as far as I'm concerned.


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Commercial Mortgage Bond Demand Spurs Borrower's Market
The rally in commercial mortgage bonds since mid-2012 has paved the way for a brisk start for issuance this year and sweetened terms for borrowers.
A trio of Wall Street dealers this week plan to sell $600 million of commercial mortgage-backed securities based on a 12-year, interest-only loan on part of the 968,000 square foot Queens Center mall in New York, according to a term sheet.
The loan's unusually long maturity suggests that mall giant Macerich negotiated to lock in record low interest-rates longer than the standard 10 years, analysts said. But for investors, a longer-term loan exposes them to greater risk that owners won't be able to easily refinance if interest rates rise or the value of the property declines.
Christopher Sullivan, chief investment officer at the United Nations Federal Credit Union, said more such deals will follow because investors haven't yet balked at risky assets even as their yields have dropped to historic lows in recent months. "It's really becoming reminiscent of the earlier cyclical peak years, when loans came with extended-term IO periods and the underwritten cash flow streams didn't quite match up with reality," Mr. Sullivan said.
The loan will refinance $319 million of existing debt and hand $270 million to Macerich and its junior partner, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
Underwriters Wells Fargo Securities Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. declined to comment. A Macerich spokeswoman didn't return a call requesting comment.
Dealers expect strong demand for the Queens Center bonds based on early price talk, according to investors.
Demand for yield has already cut risk premiums on standard, multiloan 10-year CMBS in half to about 0.83 percentage point above interest-rate swap rates in the second half of last year, and that level is seen falling soon to 0.75 point, for a 2.68% yield. Tighter spreads have allowed lenders to lower rates and offer other more attractive terms to feed their pipelines.
The Queens Center single-loan CMBS is expected to garner spreads over longer-term swaps as low as 0.8 point on its AAA-rated class, or a yield of about 3%, one investor said.
Investors are also snapping up CMBS issued when lending standards were looser. The yield spread on one of the benchmark issues from 2007 this week narrowed to 1.21 percentage point, the lowest since January 2008 and down from 2.4 points at mid-year 2012.
Long-term IO loans on single-assets are "very rare," but the Queens Center is a strong property and likely justified the terms for lenders, said Darrell Wheeler, head of CMBS strategy at Amherst Securities Group.
The loan balance is relatively low compared with the $1.08 billion appraisal, and the property's cash flow covers 2.7 times the debt service, according to the term sheet. The mall is 96.4% occupied, and since 2005 has maintained an average occupancy rate of 97.5%, it said.
The Macerich venture bought the mall in 1995 for $108 million and in 2004 spent $275 million redeveloping and expanding the property, the term sheet said. The mall is anchored by Macy's and J.C. Penney, whose stores aren't part of the mortgaged property.
Malls have shown since the recession that they can quickly deteriorate, however. Some mall loans made at the peak of the real estate boom have resulted in near 100% losses to the CMBS that included these loans.
"The CMBS market continues to test the limits of what investors will accept," Mr. Wheeler said.


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U.S. Codex Committee Chairs
The U.S. hosts the Codex Committees on Food Hygiene, Veterinary Drugs in Foods, Processed Fruits and Vegetables, and Cereals, Pulses and Legumes.
Cereals, Pulses and Legumes (adjourned Sine Die)
Food Hygiene
Emilio Esteban, DVM, MBA, MPVM, PhD (Pending Confirmation)
Scientific Advisor for Laboratory Services and Research
Office of Public Health Science
Food Safety and Inspection Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
950 College Station Rd.
Athens, GA 30605
Phone: (706) 546-3429
Fax: (706) 546-3428
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Processed Fruits and Vegetables
Mr. Richard Boyd
Head, Defense Contract Inspection Section
Process Products Branch
Fruit and Vegetable Programs
Agricultural Marketing Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave, SW
Mail Stop 0247, Room 0726-South Building
Washington, DC 20250
United States
Phone: (202) 720-5021
Fax: (202) 690-1527
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods
Steven D. Vaughn, D.V.M.
Director, Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation
Center for Veterinary Medicine
Food and Drug Administration
7500 Standish Place
Rockville, MD 20855
Phone: (301) 827-1796
Fax: (301) 594-2297
Email: email@example.com


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LEGO Shop Home Themes Hero Factory BREEZ
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Come in BREEZ – report to the LEGO® Hero Factory briefing room immediately! The evil brains are spreading across the galaxy like a virus and must be stopped! Attach the special LEGO Hero Factory equipment: a spinning razor saw, bow staff, armored visor and super-secure hero core locking clamps. Suit up and get rid of those brain-draining bad guys!
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Wellness has redefined the world of grain-free, high-protein dog food! CORE Original Formula is a more thoughtful alternative to grain-free diets in the marketplace delivering the meat content consumers are looking for, without the excess fat, calories or minerals their dog doesn't need. CORE is a grain-free choice for dogs over 1 year who need to maintain optimal daily health.
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Country of Origin: USA
Manufacturer: Wellness
Ingredients - Deboned Turkey, Turkey Meal, Chicken Meal, Potatoes, Dried Ground Potatoes, Pea Fiber, Whitefish Meal, Tomato Pomace, Natural Chicken Flavor, Chicken Liver, Salmon Oil, Flaxseed, Carrots, Sweet Potatoes, Kale, Broccoli, Spinach, Parsley, Apples, Blueberries, Vitamins, Minerals, Choline Chloride, Chicory Root Extract, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate, Lactobacillus plantarum, Enterococcus faecium, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Mixed Tocopherols, Rosemary Extract
Calories Analysis (on an as fed basis)3270 kcal/kg350 cal/cup ME
Guaranteed AnalysisCrude Protein (min) 33%Crude Fat (min) 9%Crude Fat (max) 10%Crude Fiber (max) 8.5%Moisture (max) 10%Calcium (max) 1.9%Phosphorus (max) 1.3%Vitamin E (min) 500 IU/kgOmega 6 Fatty Acids* (min) 2.2%Omega 3 Fatty Acids* (min) 0.50%Glucosamin Hydrochloride* (min) 250 mg/kgChondroitin Sulfate* (min) 200 mg/kgBeta-carotene (min) 5 mg/kgTotal Micro-organisms* (min) 80,000,000 CFU/lb
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Cat Food Nutrient Profiles.
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When to feed CORE Perfect for everyday feeding, mixing with raw, supplementing raw or replacing raw while traveling.
Who Should Eat COREThe nutrient levels of this food are appropriate for adult dogs over 1 year. We do not recommend feeding this formula to puppies as they have special nutritional requirements during their growth stage. Please try our Wellness Puppy Food to meet these unique needs.
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Wellness CORE grain free is an excellent choice
By Pooh
from Vacaville, CA
About Me Long-time Pet Owner
Comments about Wellness CORE Reduced Fat Grain-Free Dry Dog Food:
Max has a tendency to gain weight. With Wellness Core reduced fat dog food it is easier to keep him within weight management goals. Besides, he just gobbles it up! So it must taste good.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Wonderful Wellness!!
By Kehaulanih
from collegeville, pa
LOVE this pet food brand, been a fan since its introduction and so happy with what they offer these days! Wellness' history goes back about 12-15 years ago as being a super premium food with AMAZING ingredients! At the time and still, with innovative and healthy ingredients like deboned HUMAN GRADE chicken... unheard of in the pet food industry! To sweet potatoes, blueberries, carrots and etc.. all utilizing the actual natural product's nutritional elements directly and not just in supplemental form! It really comes down to this… if I had to… if was held up for long periods of time to access to no human foods but with just Wellness foods, like a storm or such…Wellness is all I would allow myself to keep alive! Human grade products! KEY with me! The CORE diets are Grain Free, especially formulated for those pets that may have wheat, corn, dairy or soy allergies or prefer a vegetable, fruit and protein rich diet. It's a little pricier than other brands, but you get what you pay for…right?!
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By Quirky Bella
from Chestnut Ridge, New York
My lab has a very sensitive stomach and she is on the heavy side. This product reduces her weight and she loves eating it. Shipping is prompt and the best prices in town.
(4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
Best dog food for sensitive tummies!
By Karrah
from Overland Park, KS
We are the 3rd owner of our beloved beagle, Sally. She gains weight very quickly and has a very sensitive tummy. She went from having a hard time going twice daily to easily going up to 5x daily. She loves her dog food! We have tried to find her a brand that was low in fat but allergen free. Yours is the only one we have tried that has worked!
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Works Well for IBS/Food allergies
By Sadie
from Prescott, AZ
This has been my second trip around with food allergies causing digestive issues and possibly mast cell cancers. We just switched off prescription food and my malinois loves it. Note. We tried the Natural Balance Sweet Potato and Venison, but my dog hated it. Given that he's fourteen and has never turned down anything in his life, I won't force a food on him.
I'd give this dog food 6 stars!
By Lynn
from Huntington, WV
About 5 years ago I was searching for a reduced fat, good quality dog food. My then 6 year old Australian Shepherd was overweight and a picky eater. Because this food had a 6 star rating on the Dog Food Analysis.com site, I bought some and have been using it ever since. Punkin' the dog loves it and after dropping 10 pounds in the first few months, has kept it off all these years. The ingredients are all natural, healthy products, no useless fillers. You do pay a bit more than other brands, but it's definitely worth it!
(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
Best Dog Food Ever
By Cal Girl
from Pequannock,NJ
My yellow lab was over weight. Her vet use to call her "Thunder Thighs". He told me her life span will be shorter due to her weight. Her hips will go out....So I mixed her dry food with Core, gradually until she only gets Core. I give her 2 cups a day now, with raw hide treats once in a while. She went from 87 pounds to 67 pounds within 10 months, Her vet was amazed, could not get over her. She is much happier and even plays fetch.
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Wellness Reduced Fat Dry Dog Food
By just Jim
from Scranton, Pa
I adopted my senior dog from a rescue shelter last year. She was very overweight. I use Wellness Low Fat dry to help her gradually lose weieght. It is working well. Her coat has a wonderfl sheen to it. She seems to be in overall better health, and is losing weight gradually.
Great food.
By minicooper
from summerville,sc
i mix it with real cooked chicken and that's it.
(3 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
Saved my Dog
By Roed
from LI NY
This food really saved my dog. He had pancreatitis and was suspected of having a gluten allergy. He was always eating grass and hated to eat his food. Since being on this he gobbles it up and is very happy and healthy.
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In the figurative repertoire, Herakles holds a privileged position alongside Dionysos, but he is quite different from the hero of the classical era. He is rarely depicted performing his labours, with the exception of his stay in the garden of the Hesperides. However, this episode is depicted in a totally new light. The hero no longer fights the snake guarding the tree with the golden apples or carries the world on his shoulders in place of Atlas. A younger, clean-shaven, naked Herakles , simply bearing on his head the Nemean lion skin, sits peacefully in a luxuriant garden prefiguring the Elysian Fields, watching the golden apples which the Hesperides will bring him, symbolising immortality, being picked.


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Inspired by real events, The Closed Circuit opens in 2003, in the midst of a lavish factory dedication by a fast-rising, locally owned firm, Navar. The innovative Gdansk outfit, helmed by three ingenious young entrepreneurs, Piotr (Robert Olech), Marek (Przemyslaw Sadowski), and Grzegorz (Jaroslaw Kopaczewski), quickly arouses the suspicions of the city's shadowy old guard. Spearheading an invasive and increasingly predatory investigation into the source of the company's sizable resources is district prosecutor Andrezj (Janusz Gajos), a former Communist Party member who continues to exercise considerable power in Poland's capitalistic present. As revealed in a series of digitally processed flashbacks, Andrezj has a contemptible secret concerning Piotr's politically persecuted father, a well-respected law-school professor who was the victim of a Communist purge many years earlier.
The steely, deeply disquieting Gajos (Three Colors: White) is especially strong in this consummately performed, melodramatic political thriller. Gajos previously co-starred in the director's Interrogation, a 1982 film about false imprisonment under the pro-Soviet Polish regime, which would not be screened publicly until after the communist state's dissolution in the late eighties. (However, with VCRs exploding in popularity late in the communist era, Interrogation would be watched illegally by countless Poles.)
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- LeGarrette Blount ran the Patriots into their third straight AFC Championship game.
The 250-pound back had four touchdown runs and New England kept Andrew Luck from a second straight comeback win, beating the Indianapolis Colts 43-22 on Saturday night.
Blount scored on three 2-yard runs in the first half, then burst through the right side of the line and rambled 73 yards on a field made soggy by a game-long rain. He finished with 166 yards on 24 carries.
On the next series, Luck threw his third interception and the Patriots capitalized with Stevan Ridley's second touchdown run, a 1-yarder that finished the scoring with 11:12 left.
"Once I get into the open field, they're going to have to chase me," Blount said. "And if they catch me, they do. And if they don't, they don't. They usually don't."
The Patriots (13-4) will face the winner of Sunday's game between the Broncos and Chargers. It will be in Denver if the Broncos win, and New England will host it if the Chargers win. The Colts (12-6) never led.
"It's just a great achievement," Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said. "People have counted us out at times this year, but we've got a locker room full of believers."
Blount joined Ricky Watters, who had five touchdowns for the 49ers against the New York Giants on Jan. 15, 1994, as the only players with four or more in a playoff game.
His big rushing performance came two weeks after he ran for 189 yards in a 34-20 win over Buffalo in the regular-season finale.
"He's got that combination of size, power and quickness and speed," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "He can run hard. He can make guys miss and he can go the distance."
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Definition of nomological in English:
1Relating to or denoting certain principles, such as laws of nature, that are neither logically necessary nor theoretically explicable, but are simply taken as true.
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- I take it that Quine has in mind a causal or nomological sense.
- Many standard theories of causation also endorse this conclusion, for example, if we are willing to assume it is a law that all ravens are black, then nomological theories of causation will support the claim.
- The laws linking mind and brain are what Feigl calls nomological danglers, that is, brute facts added onto the body of integrated physical law.
1.1 another term for nomothetic.
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- For Boyle, physical objects do exhibit nomological regularities, but this is a contingent fact about the world, or rather, for Boyle was cautious about generalizing, about the spatio-temporal portion of it we occupy.
- This way, one might have interaction yet preserve a kind of nomological closure, in the sense that no laws are infringed.
- A nomological network seeks to relate theoretical constructs to each other, theoretical constructs to observable measures, and observable measures to each other.
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- The mental is distinct from the physical but nomologically supervenes on it.
- In other words, take two tokens of a nomologically reversible process type, say A and B, and let B be the actively time reversed process of A, then this interpretation claims that A and B causally develop in the same direction of time.
- Indeed, this is exactly what happens in the nomologically possible cases discovered by Gödel.
Mid 19th century: from Greek nomos 'law' + -logical (see -logy).
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Princeton Theological Seminary was established in 1812, the first Seminary founded by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. The establishment of The Theological Seminary at Princeton marked a turning point in American theological education. Within the last quarter of the eighteenth century, all learning was of a piece and could be adequately taught and studied in the schools and colleges, nearly all of which were church initiated. General education was also the context for professional studies in divinity, medicine, and the law. In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, professional training became disengaged from the college curriculum, medical and law schools were established, and seventeen divinity schools and seminaries came into existence.
The plan to establish a theological seminary at Princeton was in the interests of advancing and extending the theological curriculum, to go beyond the liberal arts course by setting up a postgraduate, professional school in theology. The plan met with enthusiastic approval on the part of authorities at the College of New Jersey, later to become Princeton University, for they were coming to see that specialized training in theology required more attention than they could give.
With fewer than a dozen students, in 1812 Archibald Alexander was the first, and for one year the only, professor. He was joined the following year by a second professor, Samuel Miller, who came to Princeton from the pastorate of the Wall Street Church in New York.
To read the wording of the original "Design of the Seminary" is to perceive the early growth of the modern development in theological education in America, though the Princeton innovators were not at all thinking of breaking new ground except in the literal sense. They were prophetic enough, however, and among other things the "Design" noted that the purpose of the Seminary was to unite in those who shall sustain the ministerial office, religion and literature; that piety of the heart, which is the fruit only of the renewing and sanctifying grace of God, with solid learning; believing that religion without learning, or learning without religion, in the ministers of the gospel, must ultimately prove injurious to the church.
The Seminary has been served by a remarkable succession of presidents. Francis Landey Patton (1902–1913) came to the Seminary after serving as president of Princeton University. J. Ross Stevenson (1914–1936) guided the Seminary through some turbulent years and expanded the institution's vision and program. John A. Mackay (1936–1959) strengthened the faculty, enlarged the campus, and created a new ecumenical era for theological education. James I. McCord (1959–1983), whose presidency saw the institution of the first center of continuing education at a theological seminary, the establishment of full endowment for twenty-six faculty chairs, and the construction or renovation of major campus residences and academic facilities, gave leadership to both the national and world church through denominational and ecumenical councils. Thomas W. Gillespie (1983–2004) increased the size of the faculty, including the establishment of nine endowed chairs, and significantly lowered the student/faculty ratio. Iain R. Torrance (2004–2012) led a curriculum review and revision of the Master of Divinity degree program, and supported the use of new technologies in administrative and academic areas. Under his leadership, the Seminary initiated an Office of Multicultural Relations and the Board of Trustees initiated a major capital campaign to build a new library in service to the church in the world, and new campus apartments for student families.
M. Craig Barnes became the Seminary's seventh president in January 2013. Prior to his appointment, he was on the faculty of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and pastor and head of staff of Shadyside Presbyterian Church. He is widely respected as a preacher and pastor and has written eight books on ministry. He is deeply committed to the theological formation of pastors to lead the church in changing times.
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A Vail Resorts employee is in the Eagle County Detention Facility on a felony charge that he stole expensive camera equipment from a skier who found her backpack unzipped while she waited in a Vail Mountain lift line.
Teodor Georgiev, 29, of Vail allegedly tried to sell the equipment, valued at $4,200 on Craigslist - first to the victim, then an undercover investigator.
"Georgiev told deputies that he found the camera while he was working at Vail Resorts," the Eagle County Sheriff's Department said in a media release Monday . "He stated that 'times are tough' so he figured he would sell it rather than following Vail Resorts policy which requires employees to report all found items to lost and found."
The victim, who was not named, spotted the camera on Craigslist on Jan. 29, a week after it was allegedly stolen. She contacted Georgiev and asked he send her pictures of the camera, which revealed its serial number and, based on the encryption from smartphone photos to find the location where the photo was taken.
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Definition of chromatic in English:
1 Music Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
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- The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
- Although the piece is indebted to lush, late - 19 th-century chromatic harmony, there's something classical about the ambience of Fauré's soundworld.
- Though you hardly notice it, the melody, beginning with its hook, is highly chromatic, and the harmony constantly mixes the major and minor modes in a way surprisingly reminiscent of Schumann or Brahms.
1.1(Of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones.
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- Inconveniently for composers, birds don't limit themselves to the chromatic scale, or to the confines of a straightforward metrical scheme.
- Below is the chromatic scale, both ascending and descending.
- Both of these pitch standards define what are called 'equal tempered chromatic scales.'
1.2(Of an instrument) able to play all the notes of the chromatic scale.
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- The nineteenth century added some mechanics to the beast to allow it some ability to play sharps and flats and to modulate, but it's still not a chromatic instrument, and since at least Wagner, music sings mainly chromatically.
- The record was by a group that has since faded into obscurity, The Harmonicats, three Chicagoans who played chromatic harmonicas.
- 18th-century basset horns had two basset keys, for D and C, but by the end of the century the instrument was fully chromatic.
2Relating to or produced by color.
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- In the hands of the Latin American magical realist, Gauguin's story has been transmuted into a lush story of frenzy, in vivid chromatic colours.
- In the experiments described in the last two sections, we purposely made achromatic intensity unreliable, to prove that moths used the chromatic aspect of colour.
- But when chromatic lights or colouring substances are mixed the eye sees only one colour and does not analyse out the components.
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- It is useful to consider chord/scale relationships when playing chromatically, so that you can deliberately choose a scale that will increase tension, and then resolve it by returning to an expected scale.
- All the varieties of blackness chromatically echo modern women's lifestyles, the pursuit of progress and breakthrough.
- 'In the Middle of the Night, Something or Someone Is Under the Bed and I Decide to Look' is a wonderfully descriptive piece that consists of chromatically rising rhythmic effects within one long crescendo and accelerando.
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- However, Campbell too performed some wonderful jazz work, illustrating some of the challenging chromaticism and irregular syncopation with which jazz music is synonymous.
- A visit to North Africa inspired his interest in Islamic culture, which surfaces in the exotic chromaticism of the Hafiz and Muezzin sets.
- In the opening bars of 'O liberty', for example, the added clarinet and bassoon seem to clutter the music with extraneous chromaticism, contradicting what is suggested by the movement of the bass.
Early 17th century: from French chromatique or Latin chromaticus, from Greek khrōmatikos, from khrōma, khrōmat- 'color, chromatic scale'.
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With the aim of making beer from a can taste just as good as beer from a tap, Bill Coors and his team developed the first recyclable aluminum beer can in 1959. Not only did they reduce waste, since aluminum is 100% recyclable, they also promptly made it available to the rest of the beverage world.
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AS THEY PUT ON PLASTIC GLOVES FOR THEIR first litter hunt, the third graders knew what to expect. They knew their garbage. It was part of their science curriculum at Bridges Elementary, a public school on West 17th Street in Manhattan. They had learned the Three R's -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -- and discussed how to stop their parents from using paper plates. For Earth Day they had read a Scholastic science publication, "Inside the World of Trash." For homework, they had kept garbage diaries and drawn color-coded charts of their families' trash. So they were primed for the field experiment on this May afternoon.
"We have to help the earth," Natasha Newman explained as she and her classmates dashed around the school collecting specimens. Their science teacher, Linnette Aponte, mediated disputes -- "I saw that gum wrapper first!" -- and supervised the subsequent analysis of data back in the classroom. The students gathered around to watch her dump out their bags on the floor.
Do you see any pattern as I'm emptying it?" Miss Aponte asked.
"Yeah, it stinks."
"Everybody's chewing Winterfresh."
"A lot of paper napkins."
"It's disgusting."
"They're throwing away a folder. That's a perfectly good folder!"
"It's only half a folder."
"Well, they could find the other half and attach them together."
Miss Aponte finished emptying the last bag. "We've been learning about the need to reduce, reuse and recycle," she said, and pointed at the pile. "How does all this make you feel?"
"Baaaad," the students moaned.
Miss Aponte separated out two bottles, the only items in the pile that could be recycled. She asked what lesson the students had learned. The class sentiment was summarized by Lily Finn, the student who had been so determined to save the half folder: "People shouldn't throw away paper or anything. They should recycle it. And they shouldn't eat candy in school."
Lily's judgment about candy sounded reasonable, but the conclusion about recycling seemed to be contradicted by the data on the floor. The pile of garbage included the equipment used by the children in the litter hunt: a dozen plastic bags and two dozen pairs of plastic gloves. The cost of this recycling equipment obviously exceeded the value of the recyclable items recovered. The equipment also seemed to be a greater burden on the environment, because the bags and gloves would occupy more space in a landfill than the two bottles.
Without realizing it, the third graders had beautifully reproduced the results of a grand national experiment begun in 1987 -- the year they were born, back when the Three R's had nothing to do with garbage. That year a barge named the Mobro 4000 wandered thousands of miles trying to unload its cargo of Long Islanders' trash, and its journey had a strange effect on America. The citizens of the richest society in the history of the planet suddenly became obsessed with personally handling their own waste.
Believing that there was no more room in landfills, Americans concluded that recycling was their only option. Their intentions were good and their conclusions seemed plausible. Recycling does sometimes makes sense -- for some materials in some places at some times. But the simplest and cheapest option is usually to bury garbage in an environmentally safe landfill. And since there's no shortage of landfill space (the crisis of 1987 was a false alarm), there's no reason to make recycling a legal or moral imperative. Mandatory recycling programs aren't good for posterity. They offer mainly short-term benefits to a few groups -- politicians, public relations consultants, environmental organizations, waste-handling corporations -- while diverting money from genuine social and environmental problems. Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America: a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources.
The obvious temptation is to blame journalists, who did a remarkable job of creating the garbage crisis, often at considerable expense to their own employers. Newspaper and magazine publishers, whose products are a major component of municipal landfills, nobly led the crusade against trash, and they're paying for it now through regulations that force them to buy recycled paper -- a costly handicap in their struggle against electronic rivals. It's the first time that an industry has conducted a mass-media campaign informing customers that its own product is a menace to society.
But the press isn't solely responsible for recycling fervor; the public's obsession wouldn't have lasted this long unless recycling met some emotional need. Just as the third graders believed that their litter run was helping the planet, Americans have embraced recycling as a transcendental experience, an act of moral redemption. We're not just reusing our garbage; we're performing a rite of atonement for the sin of excess. Recycling teaches the themes that previous generations of schoolchildren learned from that Puritan classic, "The Pilgrim's Progress."
John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory features a character not unlike the garbage barge that left Long Island: a man dressed in rags who flees the City of Destruction, desperate to find a place he can unload the "great burden upon his back." Guided by the Evangelist, the pilgrim wanders the world trying to reach the Celestial City. His worst trial occurs in Vanity Fair, a village market founded by Beelzebub and inhabited by noblemen named Lord Luxurious and Sir Having Greedy. The market offers tempting wares, but the pilgrim bravely practices the first R -- reduce -- by shunning the products of the "merchandizers" and continuing on to the Celestial City.


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I have never feared for my life more than I did on Thursday, October 21. A grown man landed on my head while he was trying to crowd surf, my ponytail got pulled in all sorts of directions, and I was sure that I was going to be crushed on by a hoard of sweaty, moshing and angsty men. But that's par for the course when going to see Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA).
Before talking about the performance itself, there were a couple quick of gripes about the venue. The concert was held at the Royale, which is primarily a nightclub, and in order to accommodate their business and squeeze as much money as they could out of one night, the doors for the show opened at 6:00PM. This meant that OFWGKTA was scheduled to go on at 7:30PM. That is early, and OFWGKTA is very definitely a group that deserves a later start time. The other common complaint was about the line to get in. Rather than queue people on Tremont St., the management had the crowd go around the back, climb a set of stairs, go through four separate checkpoints and then finally enter the venue. The whole process took about thirty minutes, which is far too long of a wait.
Fortunately, OFWGKTA made it worth everyone's while. But first, let's talk about Syd Tha Kid. The only female member of Odd Future, Syd serves as DJ and producer. Her DJ sets that start off their live shows have become somewhat legendary, and her brief twenty-minute set did not disappoint. She began with a Waka Flocka song, and the already energized crowd launched into action. People were jumping and pushing. It felt like being caught in a rip tide; you had to go where the crowd was going or you had to leave for fear of getting stomped on. The craziest moment of her set came when she dropped Skrillex's remix of La Roux's "In For the Kill." It was a strange meeting of hip-hop and dubstep, but the crowd was receptive to the track and did not stop their movement.
In fact, the moshing and the dancing did not stop once during the entire 90-minutes that Odd Future was on stage. The audience's behavior bordered on violent, but with lyrics like "In my basement, and keep that b**ch locked up in my storage / Rape her and record it, then edit it with more sh*t," it's very easy to understand why.
The mastermind behind these depraved and generally disgusting lyrics is Tyler, The Creator. He is the ringmaster of Odd Future, and at twenty years old, it is clear that he is enjoying every second of his time in the spotlight. Tyler and the rest of the group seemed almost childlike between songs. Syd and Left Brain were sharing a bag of Doritos onstage, and Tyler befriended a giant stuffed toy wizard that he named Harold. That sort of innocent banter between songs makes their songs seem even more twisted. One of Tyler's most memorable moments from the show was his performance of "Yonkers." He did not move around the stage much and used nothing but his facial expressions – complete with giant, bug-eyes – and deliberate hand movements, to whip the crowd into a frenzy.
Although Tyler is very much the star of OFWGTA, the other members of the group also shone. In fact, Tyler spent a lot of his time offstage or simply sitting in a chair onstage; some could speculate that his recently healed leg after breaking his foot this summer is still bothering him. But this gave Domo Genesis, Hodgy Beats and Left Brain a chance to strut their stuff and perform some of their solo tracks. They still played all of their biggest hits including "B**ch Suck D*ck," "Turnt Down" and "French!" There were also some touching moments like when Syd played Earl Sweatshirt's "Earl" and "Drop" while the other members rapped along in his honor.
All in all, no one got injured except for the oversized stuffed wizard toy, which Hodgy ripped into shreds. But seeing OFWGKTA live is definitely not for the faint of heart. After nearly two full hours of being thrown around in a crowd, my body is still sore, but the entire experience can be immensely satisfying if you know what to expect and can prepare accordingly.
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Tuesday, 21st August, 2012, 03:28 AM #1
Upscaling Reavers of Harkenwold and Campaign...
After some 25 years, my original role-playing group has gotten back together, using the 4th edition rules. I'm the DM this time around, and much to my surprise, this old crew who had given up on 1e AD&D for ICE's Rolemaster way back when, now quite enjoys 4th edition.
I don't plan this as an edition war by any stretch... rather, I'm asking for advice on stringing pieces of my campaign together.
At the moment, my group is on the final dungeon crawl of Keep on the Shadowfell. They've done quite well and enjoyed, advancing to 2nd level quite easily, and I can see them being 4th level by the time they (hopefully) defeat Kalarel.
I had originally intended to take them straight through H2-H3 and then on through P1-3 and E1-3. I own H1-3, but not the others. However, since then I have acquired both the Reavers of Harkenwold, and Madness at Gardmore Abbey... and I really am more excited about these two than H2-3. Partly because the backstories that my players have developed for their characters fit into a story involving the Iron Circle.
My plan is currently to complete H1, but then to move to the Reavers of Harkenwold, upscaling it to whatever level my group is at the end of H1 (I presume 4th). Hopefully they'll be 6th at the end of an upscaled Reavers, and then I can move them directly into Madness at Gardmore Abbey. I was admittedly not all that keen on the Cairn of the Winter King myself... but that's a personal taste thing.
Anyway, my questions are:
1. does anyone have experience upscaling Reavers? I know it's easily done with 4th edition, but did you change anything?
2. my plan is to have Nazin Redthorn as having the single card that the players start "Madness" with, with him having just commissioned the rival adventuring group to go retrieve the deck for Lord Vhennyk. They won't know about the rival group being commissioned, only that Vhennyk has given Redthorn orders to retrieve the deck. Does this seem a reasonable link?
3. Post-Gardmore Abbey, I'd eventually like to link things to P1, but I may need to do a homebrew adventure to bridge the gap. One possibility is to use Vor Rukhoth or Hammerfast as a setting to cover this territory. I had a thought of pulling the characters more seriously into the Iron Circle's sphere again, but bring it south into the IC's own territory near Sarthel. This is why Vor Rukhoth might play into this a little bit more.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Anywhere from upping Reavers to a 4th-6th adventure, to what to do post Gardmore Abbey?
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Tuesday, 21st August, 2012, 02:15 PM #2
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Congrats and good luck!
There are actually quite a few people who have made changes to and have posted about these modules. Search this forum and get on Google too. There is a lot of great stuff out there about these modules.
I am pretty certain someone will post in a little bit some threads here for ya... 3... 2...
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Tuesday, 21st August, 2012, 09:42 PM #3
I don't have direct access to the search function yet, as I'm not yet as subscriber to EN World... I felt kinda stupid when I couldn't find it, and then I found the fine print
I've done some google searches as well to see what people have done with Reavers. Mostly it has been about setting adjustments rather than level scaling.
Anyway, I realize now there's a spoilers tag, so I'm going to use it just in case:
I don't really want to change too much of the plot, although I have debated about adjusting the bullywug lair, especially given that with virtually everything else it doesn't seem to fit the vibe of the Nentir Vale. They seem rather out of place. Why use Bullywugs when the Iron Circle can easily work in partnership with the Daggerburg Goblins, as they appear to do in the south? I don't think it'd be too hard to build up similarly-levelled encounters to replace the Bullywug raiders... and it would also tie in with the Goblin harassment of the Woodsinger Elves and their requested mission to Dal Nystere.
I think the idea is, currently the Iron Circle has essentially bought off the Daggerburg Goblins with allowing them to harass the western part of Harkenwold, when once the western villages could rely upon protection from Baron Stockmer and Harken village. With that protection lifted, the Daggerburg Goblins have taken to looting the western edges. A blow against a Goblin raiding camp would certainly achieve a similar end result as the Bullywug caverns, and would tie even better into Dal Nystere as well.
As for the rest of the adventure, I think I'll essentially use it as is, either upscaling the various encounters but keeping the numbers the same (ie. making the various monsters 2 levels higher than they are as printed), or bulking out the numbers. I still want to keep it challenging enough, so bulked out numbers may not be as interesting as scaled-up monsters.
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I apologise if this sounds dumb, but I'll say it anyway- I tend to upscale lots of stuff and adapt and change lots of monsters. I do this-
Example encounter is
4 Brutes level 2
1 Artillery level 3
1 Soldier level 4
Check original encounter level to PC level, for example PCs should be level 1 at this point encounter is level 3 (825 XP), so it's a +2 encounter.
Work out what level PC's are going to be when they hit this spot, for example level 4, and add 2= I'm building a level 6 encounter (1250XP+ aim for around the top end say 1400XP).
Hit adventure tools and stick with same format-
4 brutes (maybe level 5-6)
1 artillery (maybe 6-7)
1 soldier (maybe level 7-8)
Actually I usually go for a spread, so for brutes search for level 4-7.
If I want to keep the same monsters, so for reavers of harkenwold, iron circle dudes- then I just find nice bad guys of about the right level (which are probably humanoids for iron circle guys) and then reskin- as in just change the names of the monsters, and drop in an existing iron circle power or trait, or whatever, maybe change the name of the power.
So the guys roll up to an encounter and tend not to know what they've got coming, the thuggish, moon-faced iron circle dude built like a brick-out house is actually a bloodspear ogrillon with re-named powers and a change or two. The iron circle priest dude is actually an Orc storm shaman with a few changes of power names.
Just to add with the core modules H-P-E, which one of my groups is going through now, then I've ripped and changed them as seemed cool at the time- I had the duergar in Thunderspire as religious fanatics, with demolitionist suicide bombers. Warforged in the halls doing all the mining, like the automatons from the film Westworld- with a few going rogue (after being corrupted by the aforesaid duergar). With all of the H, P & E adventures, use them as a jumping off point (whisper this but some of them are just very grindy and a little dull in places).
Hope that was helpful, and not too obvious.
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Wednesday, 22nd August, 2012, 04:59 AM #5
Thanks for the input. One of the things that I've noticed with DDI's tools is that with a complete library of monsters, I can call up all the critters/cretins in Reavers of Harkenwold, and edit them simply by upping their level and it takes care of the rest as per the DMG's guidelines (and any subsequent revisions). As such, I could potentially do the encounters straight up, with each creature presented at level +2. It doesn't change or add any new or nifty powers, the monsters simply hit harder, and hit their respective armour classes a bit easier. So I don't necessarily have to re-skin any monsters... but I will have to go through and up-level every creature in every encounter... unless I simply want to add X number of additional creatures in a given encounter until it matches up with the target experience. I guess what I am asking is that am I better to simply leave the quantity of monsters in a given encounter the same, but up their quality in order to make the encounters level appropriate?
If I do what I plan in terms of replacing the [spoiler]bullywugs[/spoiler] with [spoiler]Daggerburg Goblins[/spoiler], then those encounters I will of course be building from the ground up.
Thanks for the input so far.
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Why not experiment with adding extra monsters in one encounter and up-levelling monsters in another and see which encounter the players enjoy more?
(Generally speaking, my players love fighting their way through a big group. We all find it more cinematic.)
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If you're only talking about a couple of levels difference, then either way should work well. If you were talking about a 4 or 5+ level difference, then adding more monsters works less well, as the players will pretty much always hit and the monsters will struggle to hit back.
If I was doing it, and if I was happy with how the encounter looked in general, I'd scale up the existing monsters. Since levelling up 4e monsters is pretty much just adding +1 to everything per level and giving it some extra hit points, it's easy enough to do at the table without any extra preparation.
Saturday, 25th August, 2012, 08:15 AM #9
I've discovered masterplan, which makes scaling fairly easy. I've decided that I will do a mix, upping the levels of some creatures while increasing quantity of others. I'm also going to replace the bullywug encounters with Daggerburg Goblins, as I think it fits the intrigue angle better, and makes them a more consistent threat. That, and it gives me a chance to build 3 encounters from the ground up. I'll still use the Toadswallow setting, but use it was where the goblins have established a raiding base. I may even have them face a Mistmane Bugbear.
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When the adventure is played with 1st level characters the "goblin horde" is a serious threat because of the characters inexperience (monsters are a bit harder). When the adventure is played with 5th level characters I wanted the threat to be because of the enemy numbers.
I didn't so much increase the levels of the creatures. I increased their numbers, and gave them better advantage in numbers. The monsters always go for flanks, effectively increasing their level by 2 without doing much more damage, and they get a flank bonus to damage (sneak attack), increasing their damage output. This gave me some freedom to increase the numbers without increasing the monsters hit points, or defenses.
The heroes were always threatened because they were being hit, and for significant damage, but they were also mowing through the monsters. I also used a lot of minions. This shifted the combats to a "feel" of "we're bad-asses, but we're facing a metric ton of goblins."
I kept the bullywugs, mostly because I wanted to have more variety. I didn't want the entire campaign to be against "goblins". It also gave me the opportunity to introduce the next leg of the campaign, which had to do with the help the bullywugs are providing to the "Crimson Chalice"; an organization of slave traffickers that are "holed up" in the city if Highport.
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Key-value observing is a mechanism that allows objects to be notified of changes to specified properties of other objects.
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Key-value observing provides a mechanism that allows objects to be notified of changes to specific properties of other objects. It is particularly useful for communication between model and controller layers in an application. (In OS X, the controller layer binding technology relies heavily on key-value observing.) A controller object typically observes properties of model objects, and a view object observes properties of model objects through a controller. In addition, however, a model object may observe other model objects (usually to determine when a dependent value changes) or even itself (again to determine when a dependent value changes).
You can observe properties including simple attributes, to-one relationships, and to-many relationships. Observers of to-many relationships are informed of the type of change made—as well as which objects are involved in the change.
There are three steps to setting up an observer of a property. Understanding these three steps provides a clear illustration of how KVO works.
First, see whether you have a scenario where key-value observing could be beneficial, for example, an object that needs to be notified when any changes are made to a specific property in another object.
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Registering for Key-Value Observing describes how to register and receive observation notifications.
observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:method is automatically invoked when the value of an observed property is changed in a KVO-compliant manner, or if a key upon which it depends is changed.
Registering Dependent Keys explains how to specify that the value of a key is dependent on the value of another key.
KVO's primary benefit is that you don't have to implement your own scheme to send notifications every time a property changes. Its well-defined infrastructure has framework-level support that makes it easy to adopt—typically you do not have to add any code to your project. In addition, the infrastructure is already full-featured, which makes it easy to support multiple observers for a single property, as well as dependent values.
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