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Snow floated down through the streets of Somethway, the elven capital. Most of the torches had been put out, leaving the city dark and gloomy. Tonight was a time for secret meetings and forbidden deals. Pairs of elves filtered through one's visibility, conversing quickly and nervously. Others waited for their partner, wondering if they had been betrayed. One such of these was Sephalus Montan. He was used to waiting. An informer for the Speaker of the Dead had to be, especially in Somethway. Anyone who didn't soon learn that would wind up dead in some dark alleyway, with a dagger in their back. If they were found at all.
Even though he'd done this hundreds of times before, this particular meeting made Sephalus's blood turn to ice. His contact for tonight was supposed to be a mage of no more than middling power, but any elf would be wary when meeting with a bone elf. Especially when you considered the stories you'd heard about this one.
He was about to pack up and leave, and to the Hells with his mission, when he heard soft footsteps coming toward him. He lifted his head up, and someone who could only be the bone elf he was supposed to meet. She realized he had been waiting for her, and stopped in front of him. Sephalus examined his contact. Rei-G'l had extremely pale, almost white skin. Her hair was jet black and waist length. It seemed to be moving around, although the alley Sephalus was in had no wind. Sephalus also could have sworn it was ferrying small objects between the many pockets of her dark grey garment. Her eyes, however, disturbed him the most. Although most elves had eyes in shades of green, Rei-G'l's eyes were icy-blue, and cold. Looking into those eyes, Sephalus realized they would have no mercy in them, should he cross them.
Sephalus shivered, but was able to hide most of the quivers in his voice as he asked, "Do you have the information? On the minotaur warlord? Tanz, I think his name was? I have the book."
His condition seemed to amuse her. "What, simply straight to business? I would have thought there was time for a short chat before we began." Her voice was sarcastic and seemed to be laughing at him. There was no twinkle in her eyes, though, to suggest that her amusement was meant to be shared.
Then she seemed to compose herself and said, "Concerning Tanz, you will find everything you need to know about him right here in this scroll." She conjured a bound scroll from some pocket in her garment and gave it to him.
Sephalus took the scroll, and brought out the spellbook Rei-G'l had insisted on as payment for the scroll and gave it to her. "Mage, if I may ask why you insisted on this book? It is but an early book containing basic utility spells meant only for our beginning mages and-"He stopped talking when he noticed the dangerous glare growing on the drow's face. She walked away, and the swirling snow seemed to swallow her up.
Then Sephalus took out the scroll. If Rei-G'l had not deceived them, what was in this scroll could save Elvane's civilization as was currently known.


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Following on from my worry post I also wanted to ask if any of you had heard of ways to fast track fertility treatment? I mean if I was super rich and could write a blank cheque to a private fertility specialist then how long could I expect to wait for things to happen and how much would it cost? Just want to know what extreme options might be available?
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Well, if you have the funds then once youve had a consultation with a private clinic then you can start whenever you like. We had our first ivf consultation near the end of June and come August we had completed our first round of Ivf. Its up to you, just depends where you are in your cycle to how long your wait is. Also depends on what treatment it is youre looking at. x
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It depends on where you are based in the country. Our local private fertility center charges £5300 for 3 goes at IVF non refundable if you get PG on the first attemped but if all goes well you can have a second child as long as it is within a year. or £3400 per go. else it is a 8 week wait for IVF on the NHS at our local hospital. but have heard from people that there hospitals waiting list is over a year. Sorry to say that due to the Goverment we currently have in the waiting list are getting longer and our local hospital is under review for closure. They have just moved me to another hospital but under the same doctors so hopefull nothing changes.
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it is the london women's clinic. that price is only for the ivf not for any tests that may need to be done. there success rates depend on age but are about 45% for 25-35 year old. luckily all of my test have been done by the nhs using the London woman's clinic. so they have copies already.


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Posted 24 November 2010 - 10:09 PM
Last week I was showing my modest fleet of digital and real ships to a friend who recently acquired a mass of assorted bricks and seems to be taking an interest. After comparing my simplistic physical models to my digital designs he all but challenged me to a build off. As a result I decided to tear down my old "Snake" and rebuild her more in the fashion of my digital designs. As I've been saying for some time, my supply of bricks in limited and it was quite a task scrounging up what I could and making a lot of the wrong parts work. Though there are some obvious errors and imperfections, I'm quite pleased with the project so far. I've only been at about 12 hrs so far, counting parts hunting time. I am happy to say that my hull building technique holds up in live bricks with the addition of only a few pieces, such as the pillars below deck, which I usually omit for the sake of space in the digital environment, where gravity doesn't matter. She is far from finished and there are many more parts to hunt down.
Seen here is the original, "Snake" a tiny 6-gun privateer, which was never quite finished, lacking a mizzen topmast.
Pictured here is the incomplete new HMHV Snake, now a much larger and closer to accurate 16-gun snow brig, again serving as a privateer.
The design of the new snake is not unlike Cochran's HMS Speedy, the real world inspiration for Jack Aubrey's first command HMS Sophie. HMHV is the British abbreviation at that time for a privateer in the employment of the royal navy (His Majesty's Hired Vessel)Apologies for the low quality images, better pictures will be taken as the project progresses.
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Posted 17 March 2011 - 04:51 PM
I like the curve in the lines on the side and the colourscheme so far.
The masts are also placed in the right position and of the right lenght.
But there are three small things that can be improved IMO:
- The curve is a bit too edgy (I mean the curve in the widening of the deck).
I think it will look better already if you make the widest part of the same widt as the part in fron and behind it.
You could also make it smoother with widening it by 1/2 stud at the time, like CGH did.
- My other tip is to place the mast parts above the crow's nest a bit forward, instead of just above, the mast section below it.
On the main mast you already did it, but you can also do it on the foremast and the bowsprit.
- And on most ships the stern is protruding a bit more (instead of less) than the rudder. I think it would look better like this:
This may seem like a lot of criticism, but in fact there are only 3 small points. Outside of those I think your ship looks very good.
So keep it up
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Posted 26 March 2011 - 02:11 PM
I would suggest using a ifferent technique for the masts, for example technique connectors for the upper section like Admiral Croissant and myself did.
Also your bow is narrowing far to quickly; it should be much wider.
Of course some haedrails and a proper stern with windows and ornaments would be nice too!
But you're doing a good job here, with real Lego!
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Posted 29 March 2011 - 09:38 PM
Firstly I'll thank you to keep comments like that to your self. Frankly I despise such an attitude and find your sentiment rude and insulting. Perhaps you should check out darth yogi's thread, "WIP HMS Valentine " where I already made my "soap box" speech on the subject.
I find you're off base on all points. This is foremost a "proof of concept" experiment in my own style, there would be little point in utilizing other's methods where I'm trying to prove the validity of my own, wouldn't you agree? Never mind my fondness for Vesta and Achlle. I have studied carefully over as many examples of period ships that could, from drafts, to models to photographs of surviving and replica vessels. I have no lack of confidence that the shape of my hull is spot on. This is especially so where the limitations of my brick supply is concerned. Simply put, I am making Snake from what I have available, not what may be necessary. As for head rails, they are honestly a ridiculous notion on a vessel of this size, particularly as it has no head. Something more decorative and period appropriate will be done with the prow to be sure, but head rails, no. The same goes for a sweeping stern gallery. This is simply too small and simple of a vessel for such luxuries.
As stated before, I'm working with what I have, If I had enough center stud plates to make the half steps you describe, it might smooth the hull out some, but since I do not, I'm fine with her as is
As for the stern I take your point but alas I haven't the pieces I'd like to use to create such an effect, so again she is what she is. I did scrounge up two more inverted roof pieces to bring the over hang out to the edges and it looks better, but still not quite.
To anyone else observing, please keep in mind this isn't a great man-of-war. Snake is a tiny privateer, likely made from a merchant vessel. She wouldn't have room for great guns, large internal space or even a proper head. A small snow brig of this type would be cramped and would likely toss about like a cork on even a light swell, but she'd be fast and sail close to the wind. She's not on the high seas to make war, yardarm to yardarm, exchanging broad sides with frigates and ships of the line. She's a Pirate, sticking close to shipping lanes, blending in with merchant traffic till she luffs up and bears down on her unsuspecting prey, clearing the decks with carronades and small arms fire.
I haven't much progress to show this week, I'm not entirely satisfied with any thing I changed, or added. I haven't the cones I wanted to make the quarterdeck rail, hence the gray place holders, nor is the gun wall anything but awkward. The prow is still just thrown together, still haven't decided on a design there. The only thing I really have decided on was to use a windlass on the focsle rather that a capstan amid ship, to save on space. Yes this is a totally regular thing for a vessel of this size and period, that being of the very late 18th to early 19th century. Capstans were typically made of heavy metals and or wood, and were anchored down through the decks, adding a great deal to the vessel's burden. Use of a wooden windlass like this would save on weight and deck space, good for a privateer that needs to move quickly. As it stands, I either need to decide between a good hull and terrible yards, or breaking down and ordering bricks. If I add to the gun wall as I think needs to be I doubt I'll have enough materials to assemble the rest of the rigging. For the moment I think I'll concentrate on finishing up the lower portions of Snake and consider cannibalizing parts from other projects later.
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kurigan, on 29 March 2011 - 09:38 PM, said:
I like what you did with the parts available to you ... just a suggestion for the masts, since your ship already reminded me of the Baltimore Clippers, why didn't you try something like that ...
Put the masts on and and put a plate in between for hinge-parts for the right angle. to stablize is, try to build a small "guardrail" around, something like that:
(picture by Phred)
Don't know how this "guardrail" is actually called, since I'm a nautic analphabet...
I tried the same construction today for the "The Caribbean Queen" and it does work great... but since my handycam makes blurry pictures too, you would only see black
So, hope I could help with a constructed feedback
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Posted 29 June 2011 - 11:17 AM
is called a 'fife rails'
that is when its situated on deck like in that picture
when its connected to the bulwark i.e. the ships side
its called a 'pin rail'
so far the showing-of of my nautical vocabulary
I think your ship looks good, it looks like you know what you want.
I'm looking forward to see it develop.
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I've almost built the entire model from what I have on hand, much scavenged from other builds. I have two bricks I just can't find one more of and regret I may have to buckle down and just order them . In both cases the offending components occur on the starboard side. One is the all too obvious stern window in gray, the other a white 1X1 brick with side studs on all four sides, the hub on one that side of the windlass.
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kurigan, on 30 July 2011 - 07:30 AM, said:
I never put any foremast backstays on my little schooner, only shrouds. I just ran a stay from the top of the foremast to the top of the mainmast, and then set up a pair of running backstays for the mainmast that I could adjust by wrapping them around railing supports. I'm not sure if it's historically accurate or anything like that, but it meant that I could tighten up the whole rig just with the running backstays. I found that there wasn't much point in trying to get it really drum tight, but just to get the slackness out. In any event, it seems like you need one set of stays or the other to be adjustable without retying knots, otherwise it's like herding cats.
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Posted 30 August 2011 - 10:47 AM
But anyway, you made a real nice ship with extraordanary details for it´s relatively small size. Also the rigging looks beautifull. I´d love to see your first seabattle between this and your new one
P.S.: I really like your attitude on building. You build for fun and don´t care for people who wanna make Lego-building a stupid competetion.
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only I think the spears are to long. Regular sticks don't fit in the slots?
catpaws on this scale might even be impossible..
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Posted 26 January 2012 - 10:35 PM
Firstly I found the pieces I needed to improve her astern. Using hinged bricks to set the rear most wall on an angle, rather than relying on inverted roof tiles as before. There is still a hitch where the red stripe breaks at the railing, but the overall effect is a definite improvement and I'm sure the Admiral will be pleased.
At the head, I reworked the prow to be more accurately shaped and sized for this vessel and decided to try out some head rails. I vehemently disagreed with Perfectionist on this point before, but after studying a lot more models and drawing of ships of this type I've changed my mind. Though there is still too little space for a head with a convenient seat of ease, it seems it was quite fashionable for vessels of this size to wear head rails as decoration as well as false stern galleries. I suppose they were compensating, trying to make their vessels look larger, like ships.
Please don't mind all the stray rope ends, much of the rigging is only belayed in place and the strings have been left long until I'm certain of these placement.
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Posted 26 January 2012 - 11:39 PM
This is the first time I've actually read through this whole thread and I noticed your completely understandable concern with the slackness in your back-stays. Obviously to solve the problem you need to lay some canvas aloft and let her fill. That should straighten it out straight way. In seriousness though I should think that if you wait to tie the stays in last that you wouldn't need worry about anything else pulling the masts so as to slacken them.
I did have a question about your bowsprit. I've seen ships use the 1x1's, 2x2's (as you have in essence) and the pre-fab pieces. I currently have the pre-fab's on a WIP of mine but I absolutely hate the variously ill-placed protrusions they have for attaching yards when used as a nominal mast. Whilst I hate this one aspect, I find the starting diameter and taper to be just right for the proportions of my ship. I'm inclined to use 1x1's but since they are employed in the yard-arms it doesn't seem right to use something of the same size for the bowsprit. I was curious if you had any apprehension using 2x2 sized pieces for yours? Seeing how she's a smaller sized boat and your current design looks a bit too bulky, to my eyes.
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Posted 27 January 2012 - 11:00 AM
I think this is going to be a very accurate model once finished.
Perhaps a bit strange that the side window is bigger than the stern windows, but outside of that it's
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On a somewhat simpler note, the windows are just what they are, Admiral. If I had more of the same type I might consider putting bigger windows on the stern but I don't even have two of the same color, as is. I avoid photographing the starboard side as the grey widow frame on that side is like a pimple of the ships face. I've looked for the piece on brick link but haven't found a seller without a minimum purchase or enough bricks I actually need/want in their inventory to meet the minimum, in order to get one. I'd just as well go without any windows on the back, save that it looks a little strange and it seems that these would still be useful if not as gun ports then as access to the rudder. In time I may find another solution, but for the moment, I'm going to back up to her rigging and forgetting the windows.
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As the time shortens before Miami Gardens's general elections, candidates vying for two seats on the city council are pushing hot issues hoping to connect to voters.
Seats, 2 and 6, are open for election on Aug. 26.
Council member Felicia Robinson was automatically re-elected to Seat 4 as there were no challengers who filed before the deadline in June.
Each council member serves a four-year term. Early voting will begin Aug. 11. The deadline to register to vote is July 28, according to the Division of Florida Elections.
Miami Gardens has a Mayor-Council-Manager form of government where elected council members set policies for the operation of the City. The City Council consists of seven members: a Mayor and two Council member's elected citywide and four additional Council member's elected by individual districts.
Seat 2 is a district position. Residents in this district can vote for both seats 2 and 6, which is a city-wide position in a district which encompasses NW 215th St. to NW 199th St. between NE 2nd Ave. and NW 27th Ave.
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Lisa Davis
Seat 2 is currently held by Vice Mayor Lisa Davis, 54, Davis has been a resident of Miami Gardens for over 34 years and was elected to the Miami Gardens City Council in 2010. Davis wants to develop more businesses in the area and help attract more hotels to Miami Gardens.
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Butler, 65, a retired postal worker is the challenger, seeks to create public and private partnerships to infuse more business in Miami Gardens. She takes pride in having voted in favor of the incorporation of the city, and now she wants to join the city's leadership.
Tamarah Lee, 26, has a law degree from the University of Florida, is a member of the Florida Bar, and is the youngest among the candidates. She believes she can bring fresh ideas and leadership to the position.
Lee said she plans to develop an early education program for elementary schools and seek more funding for public schools. She also wants to create a local workforce agency in Miami Gardens to help residents obtain jobs.
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Council member Erhabor Ighodaro wants to establish a charter school In Miami Gardens to help at-risk children in the community while providing incentives to encourage more parental involvement in schools.
Challenger Andre Williams, a former council member and mayoral candidate bond. "I am running because there is more work to do," Williams said in a statement. "(I want) to bring businesses to Miami Gardens and strengthen small businesses here."
Francis Ragoo a real estate agent is also running for seat 6. Ragoo, 53, believes he can help reduce crime by getting more churches and religious leaders involved with the city.
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Nuremberg's recent form has seen them secure just one victory in their last nine games, losing the other eight.
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The alternative to The EU tuna fishing embargo
Nouakchot, June 17, 2008
According to the EU commission, European member states have exceeded by 4.400 metric tons their Year 2007 allowed red tuna fishing quotas. Therefore, and in order to prevent red tuna species extinction, the EU commission has decided to ban any red tuna fishing in Mediterranean sea from the 16th of June 2008 on. This measure applies to Greek, French, Italian, Cyprus and Malta fleets and from the 23rd of June to Spanish fleets also.
Such an abrupt ban had induced vehement protests from concerned member states and is adding to the ire of professionals attempting to cope with recent gas oil rising prices. The only single category which temporarily avoids this ban is the small scale fleet owners which can continue to fish red tuna but till end November 2008 only, providing that they have yet not fulfilled their own quotas.
This ban applies to industrial fishing, as over 70 % of Mediterranean red tuna catches are made by surface long-liner & pole-and-line vessels as well as by purse net vessels
In France, the « Syndicat des Thoniers de Méditerranée » has expressed its anger about a « décision arbitraire". In a recent press release its states that "Most of the French ship owners are aiming at bankruptcy because of an unfair decision".
On the contrary, in Mauritania, industrial tuna fishing - which belongs to a "special fishing" category - calls for a dedicated license, but is perfectly legal and encounters just no restriction at all.
In addition to EU vessels (compelled to abide to the above explained measures both in Mediterranean waters and in the Mauritanian ones, because of a signed convention between the EU and the Mauritanian government), many other vessels from Japan, Ghana, Senegal, Russia, Ukraine, Cabo Verde, Cyprus, St Vincent & Grenadines, Honduras, Belize, etc… are used to fish tuna in Mauritanian waters.
In Mauritania, tuna fishing is performed under a "Free Licensing" scheme with no restriction regarding trans-shipment in open roadstead. Thanks to this disposal, not only the catch is not disembarked and controlled on a pier but, in addition, the cargo can be freely sold without any Customs constraint.
The principles of free transfer of income being rooted into the Mauritanian legal system; consequently no repatriation of foreign currencies is required by the state either.
These disposals are very attractive on an economic stand point, allowing for the ship owner to use mother ships in order to feed their tuna fishing fleets and also to gather the catch to bring it back home or to sell it somewhere else.
Tuna fishing campaigns can be performed all year around, as tuna shoals move between Senegalese and Mauritanian waters. A wise ship owner can therefore enjoy non-stop tuna fishing providing that he uses both a Senegalese and a Mauritanian fishing license.
"Free licensing" scheme can be granted to foreign vessels intervening (or not) within a bilateral Fishing Agreement framework already existing with another country. However EU member states vessels cannot take advantage of this disposal (as such).
The Free licensing mandatory procedure calls for a preliminary agreement to be established between the foreign ship owner and a Mauritanian representative that he must have (by law) on the spot (Consignatory Agent). The Consignatory Agent is the one who obtains, on behalf of the foreign ship owner, the use of a "Free license" from the Mauritanian authorities.
Once this preliminary prerequisite is achieved (under strict supervision of the Mauritanian authorities), a fishing convention is established between the Consignatory Agent (representing the foreign Ship Owner) and the Mauritanian state which grants a "Free license" to the foreign fishing boat. To be noted that each "Free license" is individually allocated to a given boat.
Fees and constraints related to tuna free license fishing scheme are well identified and the license is only valid for 12 months, but can be renewed. Should these payments not be made on due time, the license would immediately be suspended.
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Bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) (Thon rouge)
Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus alabacares) (Thon à nageoires jaunes albacore)
Longfin tuna (Thunnus alalunga) (Thon blanc germon)
Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) (Thon obèse)
Atlantic little tunny (Euthynnus alletteratus) (Thonnine de l'atlantique)
Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) (Bonite à ventre rayé)
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Atlantic sailfish (Isotiophorus albicans) (Voilier de l'Atlantique)
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In Mauritania from November till end April
In Senegal, From April till end October
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Naomi Ledgerwood calls her mom, Kim, "the queen of research."
Kim Ledgerwood, however, sees herself as a mad scientist more than royalty.
"I like to make science experiments out of everything," said Ledgerwood, author of Rich in Mercy. "I like to see how long it takes me to cook a meal or clean my bedroom. It's just natural for me to keep track of such things."
Ledgerwood kept track of the number of hours she devoted to research between January and September of 2007. The total was more than 2,000.
The finished product spans nearly 200 pages, and includes many rare photographs as well as recollections from many alumni (some of them quite humorous) and little-known facts about the campus and its history (such as the exact location of the "holy water").
"I did feel like the school was far overdue to have some sort of initial compilation of everything that had happened here," said Ledgerwood, wife of Department of Music Chair Dr. David Ledgerwood. "It was something that needed to be taken care of."
When she finished, Ledgerwood had produced an original document that spanned nine chapters of text and interviews. Perhaps more impressively, however, she had also produced 24 charts that included a staggering amount of data—every faculty member hired, the year-by-year records of every athletic team (where available), every fall and spring special meeting speaker, and academic fee information for each year.
"It was all difficult to come by," said Ledgerwood, a mother of eight who first arrived at the college in 1986. "I don't remember looking at one thing that somebody just pulled out of a drawer. It was hours and hours of going through file cabinets and boxes. In the storage area above the third floor of Old Main, I found a box under the eaves, all mildewed. It was Dr. Cedarholm's sermon notes from many years."
There were some helpers. Charlotte Cedarholm, daughter of college founder Dr. B. Myron Cedarholm, contributed heavily. So did Cheryl (Anderson) Vegter, an alumnus who kept scrapbooks from each of the first four years of the college's existence.
Tricia Priebe is credited in the front of Rich in Mercy for having undertaken much of the original research a few years earlier. She worked in the college library while her husband attended Maranatha. Ledgerwood took up where Priebe left off and produced two prototype chapters in the fall of 2005. The college development office agreed in 2006 to provide funding for the project.
Learning more about Cedarholm's life, Ledgerwood said, allowed her a greater understanding of his original vision for the college.
"He wanted it to be very broad-based and strong academically, and he wanted it to be doctrinally Baptist as well as evangelical and fundamental," Ledgerwood said. "There have been so many different personalities and programs since then, but it seems pretty clear that the Lord's hand has been in what has taken place, to bring that vision to fruition."
Ledgerwood's original manuscript underwent severe editing to allow Rich in Mercy to accommodate many personal stories from alumni as well as an extensive collection of pictures. But, while not an exhaustive study of the college's history, the book does provide historical context—and a starting point for historians who will follow.
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The few TV shows we watch tend to take place here as well. (Sherlock!)
Call me easily amused, but it does tend to thrill me when Diamond, from George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind, pulls his buggy up to the King's Cross taxi stand, and I remember standing in that very queue on a rainy afternoon. Or when Mr. Pickwick and friends visit the Pump Rooms in Bath, and I recognize our trip to the Fashion Museum in that same building. Or when Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman solve a mystery involving Underground stops where we've been swept along in a human tide.
Charles Dickens has grown in my affections this year, which is to say that he's come a long way since I slogged through Great Expectations in middle school. I re-read A Tale of Two Cities a few months ago and cried again. That lit the way toward David Copperfield, which Dickens justifiably claims as his favorite of all his books (and where Harry Potter fans may notice hints of inspiration). Loved it. After finishing The Pickwick Papers, I decided it was time to go on a Charles Dickens tour with London Walks. Care for a peek?
By the way, the children stayed home for this one. I knew they wouldn't quite share my enthusiasm for spending two hours pounding the pavement in homage to an author they have yet to really connect with. But I'm glad I went anyway, for my own sake and theirs. As a mother, and especially a homeschooling mother, it's easy to find myself centered on their education and development. But sometimes I think one of the best gifts we can give our kids is inspiration. They need living proof that lifelong learning isn't a chore, or something that's limited to one's school days or years, but is a fire that can continue to burn when the requirements fall away.
I'd humbly submit that it's important to keep reading the classics. Keep taking classes -- there's so much available online, often for free, in addition to what you might find locally. Keep exploring around town, wherever curiosity leads. Our people need us, but we can't give very much from a dry well. Besides, it's just so much fun!


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Do you hate doing laundry? Then I promise reading this won't be a waste of three minutes.
We all have things we don't like about college. Waking up early, group projects, the struggle to find parking on campus… and laundry. It can seem like a big chore, especially if you have a lot piled up in the corner of your room, or you just lack the will to do it in general. There are some things I've learned from this tedious task that might set your mind at ease and make it a little easier for you to take care of it. Some are basic rules and others are handy lessons.
1. If you wash your clothes with something red, something will turn pink! Most people know this, but I have still either seen some people who have no clue about the power of red or just slip up and curse themselves later. Write a note on the washer, put your red clothes in a separate pile. Whatever you do, don't mix!
2. You don't really have to separate darks from lights. Unless you're paranoid about your white clothes staying their brightest white, you'll save so much time if you just put everything in the washer together.
3. A little soap goes a long way. You know how those Tide commercials show the person filling up the little plastic cup with a certain amount of soap? I've found that it doesn't really matter how much you put in; as long as you put at least a ¼ of a cup in (especially if it's liquid), you're good to go.
4. Assume everything will shrink. Unless the tag is marked "pre-shrunk" (and even then it will probably still shrink), everything has a tendency to shrink in the dryer. Air dry some things to be extra careful!
5. You don't even really have to fold stuff! At least not right away. Feel free to just shove it in your laundry bag and leave it sitting for a couple hours. After you've hung up your shirts in the closet, they'll shake out most wrinkles anyway.
If you really find it hard to get yourself to actually start a load, try rewarding yourself.
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NEW YORK: India is the second best country for business investment, a new survey of American corporate executives shows. Conducted by Development Counsellors International every three years, the 'Winning Strategies in Economic Development Marketing' survey has tracked trends in economic development since its inception in 1996.
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I'm afraid I've got some bad news for those of us who do our accounts online: one of the most advanced viruses for attacking online banking is now free.
The malware – named Carberp – originally cost criminals $50,000 for a copy of its code, while the less affluent could rent it for between $2,000 to $10,000 a month. This changed a couple of weeks ago when Carberp's code was released for free on a popular Russian hacking forum.
The release means that a huge swathe of criminals who previously couldn't afford the code can now use it to attack people using online banking. This will undoubtedly cause a huge rise in the number Carberp-related infections, and a big increase in the number of people who will become victims of cyber crime. One security analyst even likened the release to "giving a bazooka to a child".
A similar situation occurred a few years ago, when another piece of banking malware – ZeuS – reappeared after its source code was made available. While the release of ZeuS' code didn't bring about the end of the internet, it did cause a spike in infections, and many new variants of the virus (of which some are still in the wild).
How the worldwide code release will affect the popularity of Carberp is unclear, but one thing is for certain: we should all be even more vigilant over our internet browsing habits over the next few weeks/months.
How to avoid the malware
Some simple (but effective tips) to stay safe are:
▪ Don't visit unsafe websites, such as those offering free eBooks, music, TV shows or films
▪ Don't click any advert that seems too good to be true, including anything that says "YOU ARE A WINNER"
▪ If you user P2P file-sharing or BitTorrent, be extra careful of what your downloads might hold
▪ Don't open unsolicited emails
Finally, make sure your computer and virus protection are kept up-to-date. With the increased popularity of Carberp, expect Microsoft and anti-virus companies to be in a hurry to fix the security holes the malware exploits. If you don't keep your computer up-to-date, then you'll be just as vulnerable in a few years as you are now.
On the bright side…
There's just one good thing to come out of this release – it seems that the author of the Carberp virus had his files stolen, rather than getting paid the $50,000 he wanted.
It's believed this is what happened because the Carberp release also includes some private instant messenger conversations involving the author, as well as a bunch of other data – not information you would voluntarily disclose if it had been a proper release.
We're not saying it's karma for carberp, but we hope he now has a better understanding of what it's like to be stolen from.
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This is a discussion on RE: Xerox Phaser IPP Media Names? - VMS ; > From: Michael Fleming [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > The printer is a Xerox 5500DX that, according to their documentation, > supports "Microsoft IPP" (my first clue of impending trouble). > > First things first, does it print at all? Yes! (After reading ...
> From: Michael Fleming [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
> The printer is a Xerox 5500DX that, according to their documentation,
> supports "Microsoft IPP" (my first clue of impending trouble).
> First things first, does it print at all? Yes! (After reading
I'm glad it worked. In the past we had some issues with Xerox printers claiming IPP support, but Xerox wasn't interested in returning our calls to discuss the problems we were seeing with their implementation. Apparently someone else got them to address them, since the ones we were seeing were very basic and prevented printing at all.
> Using the MultiNet documentation, we tried printing to various trays
> using the /param=media=xxx parameter. Here is MultiNet's
> documentation for media names:
Those are the ones mentioned in the RFCs for IPP. We don't actually care what the names are in the symbiont...we ask the printer what it supports and use that list. The RFCs just have a suggested list, but manufacturers are free to add additional names if they like.
This error:
VerifyJob: /MEDIA parameter for entry 9309, queue blah, specified value
'TOP' but printer at http://blah/ipp does not support media.
Seems to be saying that the printer doesn't support the "media" attribute at all, not that it doens't like your particular value. You can see what the printer claims to support with the MU IPP SHOW command:
$ mu ipp show foobar
FOOBAR as of Fri May 13 15:13:33 2005
Printer State: Idle
State Reasons: none
Accepting Jobs?: Yes
Queued Job Count: 0
Name: Lexmark Optra T610
Make & Model: Lexmark Optra T610
Document Format: application/octet-stream
Orientation: Portrait
Number-Up: 1
Copies: 1
Job Media Sheets: none
Character Set: utf-8
Natural Language: en-us
Color?: No
Orientation: Portrait, Landscape
Document Formats: application/octet-stream, application/postscript,
application/vnd.hp-PCL, text/plain
Job Sheets: none, standard
Number-Up: 1:16
Copies: 1:999
PDL Override: not-attempted
Character Sets: utf-8, us-ascii
Natural Languages: en-us
Operations: Print_Job, Validate-Job, Cancel-Job,
Get-Job_Attributes, Get-Jobs,
Get-Printer_Atrributes, Unknown: 18
As you can see, not all printers support all their features through IPP. This printer has a main paper tray as well as a manual feeder that will handle envelopes...but you can't ask for that through IPP as there's no MEDIA feature in the list. It is supported with their Windows Driver (non-IPP) though.
> If anyone has figured this out, I'd love to hear from you; otherwise,
> suggestions are welcome.
Asking Xerox about it is your best bet, but I'm guessing their implementation of IPP doesn't support picking a paper source and you can only print from the default source with that protocol. If they get enough requests, perhaps they'll do a firmware upgrade to add this capability, or not, or maybe they already have and you just need to install it. MU IPP SHOW
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Her uniform jersey hangs in the gym lobby at Parkersburg Catholic High School in a glass case that also regales her many accomplishments and honors as a Crusaderette cager.
A lot of younger people, though, know just of Mary Ostrowski as a name from PCHS's storied girls basketball past.
However Tuesday night at Catholic in the same gym where Mary O starred in the late 70s, those not familiar with her got a chance to see her first-hand, as she and her dad Chet showed up unannounced at the girls basketball game between the Crusaderettes and Tyler Consolidated, won by PCHS 48-45.
But word spread quickly and people came up to to her to introduce themselves, shake her hand and talk to her throughout the night.
After the Catholic lineup was introduced before the game, the PCHS team en masse went over where Mary was sitting to shake her hand.
There was an inkling, though, beforehand that ''there was a possibility of her being here,'' said current Crusaderette head coach Marty Vierheller after the game.
But when she was on hand for the game, ''we really wanted Mary to understand what she means to us,'' said Vierheller. ''I hope she does.''
However, with Mary O being diagnosed with a form of blood cancer five years ago and undergoing treatments, including chemotherapy, to combat the illness ever since, sometimes she was unable to travel very much. She even had to miss her induction this spring right here in Parkersburg - her hometown - into the West Virginia Sports Writers Hall of Fame
''So there was talk that when she was in town, we wanted to get her in this building, and I was so proud of her to make the effort to be here,'' said Vierheller. ''But if you know Mary and the Ostrowski family like we do, you know it's not about them and they don't want any extra attention. But they deserve it, by golly. She is Parkersburg Catholic basketball, and we hope that in some small way we were able to return to her in a little bit of a tribute what she's done for us.''
To which he added, ''it was an absolute thrill for me to coach a basketball game with her in this building. It means that much to me - and I told her so - and it did to our girls too, who have obviously heard about her and talked to her before the game.''
Then after the game in the locker room, Vierheller showed Mary the plaque that her dad had given to Marty and his team several years ago from her induction into the University of Tennessee Lady Vols' Hall of Fame in 2006. ''Chet had it and wanted us to have it, and we've got it hanging down there,'' said Vierheller. ''We touch it everytime we go past it. So every trip out of the locker room, the girls know that Mary's with them and we're with her.
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Mary O was a three-time state high school player of the year (1977-79) and voted the West Virginia Amateur Athlete of the Year as a PCHS senior in 1980. Catholic won two state titles in her time there with an 88-game winning streak.
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Bated breath Introduction
I'm Shylock. I'm a Jewish moneylender. I'm despised by everyone in Venice and betrayed by my daughter, so it might not surprise you that I'm a downright angry man. And you know what I think?
Signior Antonio, many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances:
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for use of that which is mine own.
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Go to, then; you come to me, and you say
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On the mean streets of Venice, Bassanio wheels and deals with Shylock. Bassanio needs some cash so he can woo his honey Portia in style. We're talking a team of servants, a new set of fancy threads, and plenty of bling to impress the rich heiress. The problem is, Bassanio's broke.
So he asks Shylock if he can borrow 3,000 ducats, or gold coins, with the stipulation that he'll pay them back in three months. He'll use his buddy Antonio's credit to get the loan. Shylock thinks that Antonio is likely good for the money, but still, all the man's cash is tied up in potential ventures. None of it actually exists yet. Shmoop smells shenanigans.
Shylock gives us a brief look into Antonio's diverse financial portfolio: he's got a ship bound to Tripoli and another to the Indies. In the marketplace, Shylock has heard of even more ships backed by Antonio—a third for Mexico, a fourth for England, and several others.
Though all this sailing about seems rather risky, Shylock says he'll lend the money, but he would like to speak to Antonio first. Willing to comply, Bassanio invites Antonio to dinner so the three men can chat. But Shylock also says he's not hot about the idea of hanging out with Christians. Ouch. He says he'll trade with Christians, talk and walk with Christians, but he has to draw a line somewhere, and he's drawn it at eating, drinking, and praying with them.
So Antonio then enters the scene. Shylock admits to us in the audience that he hates Antonio "for he is a Christian." More than anything else, however, Shylock says he hates Antonio for what he does in the marketplace. Antonio lends out money free of interest, which is unfair competition for the lenders who aren't willing to do so… like Shylock.
Shylock says he'd like to catch Antonio at a disadvantage so he can get even with him, not only for undercutting him in trade, but also for the nasty things Antonio has said about Shylock around town. We're getting the idea that there's more than a few hundred gold pieces at stake here. Shylock talks money with Antonio and Bassanio. He says he can lend the 3,000 ducats. Sure, he doesn't have that sum on hand, but he can borrow some from his fellow Jewish friend Tubal.
Shylock doesn't drop Antonio's seeming hypocrisy so easily. He points out that Antonio is always saying he doesn't believe in charging or paying interest. But this is on the condition that Antonio signs a bond promising that if the debt goes unpaid, Antonio will give Shylock a pound of his own flesh. Literally. This seems like a good idea at the time, since Antonio is sure he'll have earned the money from his ships before Shylock's due date. But this is a Shakespeare play, so nothing can possibly go right, right?


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So the WSJ posted a piece [We Have a Basketball Team?] comparing the the lack of success of the Nebraska hoops program vis a vis the Cornhusker football team. Since I have a string of posts going mentioning the name Fielding H. Yost, I�ll note that in 1898 Yost was the head coach in Lincoln and led the Huskers to an 8-3 record, their first eight win season in history.
The Huskers hold the distinction of having the biggest discrepancy between winning percentages between these two major programs, a gap of +.173 (football minus basketball). In the same piece they cite your Wolverines as having the second biggest gap. Details:
But..when you�re talking about the team with the all-time highest winning percentage of all the teams to ever to play this collegiate sport, it�s not shocking to say there�s a decent gap between Michigan football and Michigan sport X. Next, the source of the data is the NCAA. It�s probably safe to assume their .579 all-time hoops winning % factors for the NCAA-vacated games, but the WSJ didn�t mention that. Yes, vacated means vacated and the NCAA is awesome and all that�but it was probably worth mentioning with a *.
I checked with U-M media relations, they actually have the official winning % (factoring for the NCAA sanctions) at .578 but we�ll let that point slide. FWIW�the winning percentage of the hoops squad, if you ignore the NCAA sanctions is .590, again according to media relations. So while that doesn�t really change the order of the graphic, it would slide the football gap down to +.144.
Finally, the graphic uses the title �One-Trick Ponies� (a fav of my dad�s to describe entities like the Dexys Midnight Runners of the world). This is to suggest Michigan doesn�t have a historically significant basketball program. Granted, in hoops lore even .590 wouldn�t put Michigan in or near the top echelon of all-time winning percentage. But again somewhere in here there�s a �yeah but�—whether you count the 1990s or not, Michigan still had Final Four teams in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s,
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An impressive student from John Paul College with a record of service to school and community was tonight recognised through the Trustpower Youth Community Spirit Award. Kimberley Burr has been named as the Winner of the Award which is run in conjunction with the Trustpower Rotorua District Community Awards.
The Award is jointly run by Trustpower and the Rotorua District Council and local high schools were asked to recommend one student to be considered for the Award. The Runner-up for this Award is Pragnesh Moraji from Rotorua Boys High School and the finalists are Hannah Bailey from Rotorua lakes High School, Stephen Wright from Western Heights High School, Jazmin Henare from Rotorua Girls High School and Alexandra Hill from Rotorua Girls High School.
The Trustpower Youth Community Spirit Award celebrates the work young people do to enrich their community and is open to all students who have given service to school or community projects, treated others with care and respect and been a good ambassador for the school and the Rotorua region.
Trustpower Community Relations Representative Jess Somerville says the Trustpower Youth Community Spirit Award is a great opportunity for a generous student with a big heart to be formally acknowledged and congratulated.
"This busy young lady lends her time to a variety of projects and causes at her school and in the community. This stretches from coordinating the student volunteers at the breakfast club at Sunset Primary to leading her schools 40 hour famine effort to cleaning the Utuhina River clear of rubbish. At John Paul she is also one of two La Sallian Captains, a role which sees her help coordinate community projects at school and raise funds for great causes.
"On top of this she has coached three different badminton teams since 2012, she organises lunchtime activities for students and she has supported a number of local charities such as Red Cross with this year's appeal. It's a special kind of young person who chooses o gift their time in this way and as a coach, mentor and determined fundraiser she is a very deserving Winner of this Award," says Miss Somerville.
For winning the Award Kimberley will receive a trophy, framed certificate and $500 prize money, with $250 being given to a community group or organisation of her choice.
The Trustpower Youth Community Spirit Award will be presented at the Trustpower Rotorua District Community Awards, being held at the Rotorua Convention Centre tonight on Monday 23 June.


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#PhRMA12: Inspiration for Advancing Medical Innovation
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04.16.12 | By Christian Clymer
This is a guest post from John C. Lechleiter, PhD, who is Chairman, President and CEO of Eli Lilly and Company. Starting today, Mr. Lechleiter is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of PhRMA.
The biopharmaceutical industry is all about medical innovation. It's our lifeblood. Yet, too often we talk about medical innovation without making it hit home for people outside the industry.
Rewind to three decades ago, when HIV first became a major public health concern. Not only were we on the verge of a human disaster, but public health officials worried that we wouldn't have enough hospitals to treat an approaching avalanche of AIDS patients. Thanks to medical innovation, it didn't happen (AIDS deaths have dropped by 70 percent since 1995). Similarly, thanks to a two-thirds drop in the death rate from coronary heart disease in the U.S. since the 1960s, 1 million more Americans are alive each year. Anti-hypertensive treatments alone account for 800,000 fewer hospitalizations each year - and 86,000 fewer deaths.
These are impressive and important success stories, but our work is far from over. Fast-forward to today: too many people still die from cancer. Diabetes is growing at epidemic rates. And Alzheimer's disease represents an imminent crisis. The Alzheimer's Association says that by 2050, more than 13 million Americans will have the disease - at a cost of more than $1 trillion annually - unless better treatments are found.
Sustaining our advances in medical innovation is priority one -- and it's incumbent upon all those in our industry to make it happen. The ongoing revolution in the life sciences, with all its promise, will mean little without public policies that foster innovation. We have to get our story out in compelling and meaningful ways. Our industry must also continue to build trust with our various stakeholders. By telling the stories of our mothers and brothers and children who've been saved by new medical treatments - and by upholding the highest standards of integrity and ethical behavior in everything we do - the fruits of our efforts can be fully realized.
I'm proud to chair PhRMA's board for the next 12 months - and it's an honor to be part of an industry that focuses on saving lives. But let's not look at our past successes as some sort of historical footnote. Let's use them as inspiration to find new innovative treatments for the next generation of patients. They're waiting.