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The glass tea tumblers can break or shatter unexpectedly, posing laceration and burn hazards.
Teavana toll-free at (877) 261-1509 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday (or other times to leave a message), or visit the firm's website at www.Teavana.com, and click on "Glass Tumbler Recall" for more information.
About 445,000 in the U.S, and 24,850 in Canada
The glass tea tumblers are double-walled beverage glasses. Most models have removable stainless steel tea infuser baskets, removable lids, and ornamental etchings on the inner wall. The tumblers were packaged in color-coordinated cylindrical packages with the SKU number and UPC code found on a sticker on the bottom of the package. Some of the models with a lid were sold as part of a tea gift set. Only one model was sold without a lid or tea infuser basket and was sold in a set of four glasses. The products come in the following model names, SKU/product codes and UPC codes:
Akira Travel RED 14 oz.
30921 600 014
Clouds Travel CPR 14 oz.
31253 219 014
Flourish Iced Tea Glasses 12 oz.
(sold as set, 4 no-lid glasses)
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Harmony Glass Double Wall 11 oz.
Izmir Travel GRN 14 oz.
30922 300 014
Lotus Travel PUR 14 oz.
31254 500 014
Rhapsody Glass Double Wall 16 oz.
Six Dragons Double Wall 11 oz.
10004568 000 011
Six Dragons Double Wall 16 oz.
10004568 000 016
Symphony Double Wall 8 oz.
Tamira Travel BLU 14 oz.
30920 400 014
Imperial Blooming Collection Tea Sets with 2 Harmony 11oz.Tumblers
30331 000 000
Imperial Blooming Collection Tea Sets
with 2 Symphony 8 oz. Tumblers
Teavana has received approximately 302 reports of the glass breaking or shattering, including six reports of lacerations and burns when the tumblers broke during use. Injuries include cut fingers and legs and burned toes.
Consumers should immediately stop using the glass tea tumblers and return them to a Teavana store location (except for three stores; Columbia Mall, Columbia, Maryland; Dallas Fort Worth Airport, Arlington, Texas; or Galleria Mall, Fort Lauderdale, Florida) for a free replacement metallic tea tumbler and a complimentary 2 oz. package of Opus Rouge Rooibos Tea. Consumers returning tumblers or glasses sold as part of sets will receive a replacement tumbler and package of tea for each tumbler or glass in that set. Consumers may also mail the tumblers or glasses to Teavana by calling the company and requesting a pre-paid mailer that will be sent at no cost to the consumer for returning the recalled tumblers or glasses. A free replacement metallic tumbler plus the complimentary tea will be sent at no charge upon receipt of the returned tumblers or glasses.
Teavana stores and online at Teavana.com from August 2007 through May 2013 for about $15 to $33 for the individual tumblers, for about $40 for the Flourish Iced Tea Glasses Sets, and for about $80 to $100 for the Imperial Blooming Collection Tea Sets.
Teavana Corporation, of Atlanta, Ga.
Shaanxi Cathay Import and Export Corporation, Anhui Fuguang Industrial Co., Ltd., and Hong Tai Yang Glass Product Co., of China
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FIRST AMERICAN TITLE AVILA JUNIOR CLASSICAvila Golf & Country ClubTampa, FloridaJuly 12-15, 2004
KIM RUNS AWAY FROM FIELD AT AVILA FOR FIRST AJGA WINWhite wins second AJGA event in hometown
Tampa, Fla. â Lion Kim was already having a pretty good year, and after winning the First American Title Avila Junior Classic, itâs only getting better. The Lake Mary, Fla., native shot a final-round 73 to finish with a 214 tournament total and a four-stroke victory. Dolores White of Lakeland, Fla., finished with a tournament total of 71-74-75â220 to cruise to an eight-shot victory over the rest of the Girls Division.Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the First American Title Avila Junior Classic featured 84 players, 66 boys and 18 girls, ages 12-18 from 13 states and Peru. The 54-hole stroke play event was held at the Avila Golf & Country Club.After two third-place and a second-place finish already this year, Kimâs first AJGA win only strengthens his impressive list of accomplishments in 2004.âThis year is so different from last yearâIâm much more confident this year, and I know I can stick it to within 10-feet if I want to,â said the 15-year old Kim. âMy putting is still a little shaky, but the rest of my game feels great.âDown one-stroke heading into Thursdayâs final round, Kim found himself with a six shot lead at the turn. Feeling confident, his solid round of 37-36â73 was capped off by an eagle on the par-5, 500-yard No. 16.âI knew right after I made my eagle putt that I had a good size lead on Tyler [Rucarean],â said Kim. âIf I could just make par on Nos. 17 and 18, I knew I would have it. This win feels greatâI just want to keep playing.âFlorida natives Justin Jones of Jacksonville and Cameron Knight of Dade City made strong final round moves by shooting 70 and 71, respectively. Jonesâ tournament total of 218 put him four shots back of Kim in second place. Knightâs 221 total put him into a third-place tie with the second-round leader, Tyler Rucarean of Gainesville, Fla. Raj Nahal of Longwood, Fla., carded a final-round 76 to finish alone in fifth place with a 222 tournament total.Playing just minutes from her home in Lakeland, Fla., Dolores White took command of the Girls Division lead on day one with a 71 and never looked back. It was the first AJGA win for White this year, and the second of her career.âIts exciting because its basically my hometownâI had a lot of people here that I know and they were really supportive,â said the 16-year-old White. âIâll be smiling a lot for the next couple of months.âLike the Boys Division winner Kim, White also knew she was on her way to victory after No. 16.âOn the back nine, Jacqui [Concolino] started to make a run, and it was scary,â said White. âWhen Jacqui gets it going, she doesnât stop. But when she uncharacteristically put one in the water on No. 16, I knew it was over.âWith tournament totals of 228, the Orlando native Concolino finished tied for second place with Jessica Yadloczky of Cassleberry, Fla. The finish is the fourth top-5 performance for Concolino and the third top-5 for Yadloczky this year.The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The largest association of its kind, the AJGA has a junior membership of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.For more information on the First Amerian Title Avila Junior Classic or the AJGA, please call National Headquarters at (770) 868-4200.
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Ashley is a 2007 graduate of Goliad High School. She attended Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing in 2011. She resides in Lake Jackson and is employed by Allergy and Asthma Associates.
Travis is the son of Charles and Tona Wachstetter and is a 2006 graduate of Brazosport Christian School. He also attended Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in geographic information science. He resides in Lake Jackson and is employed by Doyle and Wachstetter Surveying Company.
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Local drilling to fuel U.S. energy surge
WHEELING – Drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations should help the United States surge past Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by the end of this decade, a report released Monday by the International Energy Agency states.
"North America is at the forefront of a sweeping transformation in oil and gas production that will affect all regions of the world, yet the potential also exists for a similarly transformative shift in global energy efficiency," said agency Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven.
As gasoline prices remain high – and tensions in the OPEC nations of the Middle East continue – increasing domestic oil production could be a way for the U.S. to boost its economy, while reducing or eliminating dependence on foreign sources of energy.
According to its website, the agency consists of 28 member nations, including the U.S., the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany and Australia. It formed in response to the 1973-74 international oil crisis to "help countries coordinate a collective response to major disruptions in oil supply through the release of emergency oil stocks to the markets."
The report shows that by 2020, shale drilling should allow the U.S. to surpass Saudi Arabia in oil production. It also shows the U.S. should become a net exporter of natural gas within the next eight years, meaning the country should be able to produce more than it can consume.
The agency's information also predicts the U.S. will be "almost self-sufficient in energy, in net terms, by 2035." The projections show U.S. oil production peaking in 2020 at 11.1 million barrels a day. This theoretically means the need to import oil from the Middle East would end over the next decade.
According to the report, global demand for natural gas will increase to 5 trillion cubic meters in 2035. With production increasing to meet demand, roughly half of the increase in gas production will come from "unconventional sources," mostly from the U.S. and China.
Drilling, fracking, processing, transporting and cracking in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations throughout the Upper Ohio Valley continues to increase.
Major corporations such as Chesapeake Energy, Gulfport Energy, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Dominion Resources, MarkWest Energy, Williams Partners and Royal Dutch Shell are all taking their stakes by investing billions of dollars to harvest the resources that lie thousands of feet underground.
Productive U.S. shale formations other than the Marcellus and Utica include the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas, the Haynesville Shale of Louisiana and the Bakken Shale of North Dakota. Shale drilling typically involves horizontal drilling and fracking, which gives it the "unconventional" label.
In addition to the natural gas found in the Marcellus and Utica formations, oil and natural gas liquids – ethane, propane, butane and pentane – are also prevalent in the rocks, particularly the farther west one drills. The report shows that oil and gas from unconventional sources in the U.S. is expected to significantly increase until 2035.
The report provides a more divided view for the future of coal usage. Though environmental regulations may reduce coal burning in the U.S., global coal demand is expected to jump by 21 percent by 2035, mostly focused in China and India.


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At about one o'clock that afternoon, my daughter was coming in the house from playing outside and was stung by a wasp. My husband being the responsible adult around promptly attended to the bite and investigated the ultimate source. Come to find out, a wasp nest had been formed on the porch, unbeknownst to us.
Now my husband, in every effort to protect the family, uses his vast supply of knowledge and resources and develops a wasp deterrent.
Wasps are very territorial, so they do not build their nest very close or in the same proximity as other wasp. Wasps do not want to be bothered just as much as we don't want to be bothered. However, sometimes those paths cross, and usually the person is the one who get stung by a wasp just defending his territory.
So, to prevent this from happening and encourage the wasps to build a home elsewhere, a simple brown paper bag and string deters the swarm to move on down the road.
Take a brown lunch bag you can purchase at any Walmart and crumble it up like you were going to throw it in the waste basket. Then open it up again like you were going to fill it up with your lunch. Gather just the top of the bag about an inch from the opening and tie a string around it, leaving enough string to be able to hang from the rafter of a porch or area that might attract wasps.
Wasps see this deterrent and do just that, deter from the area. They go and build their home elsewhere, away from what they think is some other wasp nest.
I am happy to report that my daughter is fine after being stung by the wasp. She really didn't have that much of a issue, just scared her a little. Also, our front porch and around our house has been wasp free for a week now.


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In the Fall of 2010 Lenovo released new models of Thinkpad T410s and T510 which incorporate the latest Optimus video technology from NVidia. The Optimus technology allows for "on the fly" video adapter switching. The previous video technology allowed for manual video adapter switching via Lenovo's Power Manager utility. The new technology switches video adapters automatically depending upon the type of application launched.
Lenovo will continue to produce ThinkPad T410s and T510 in both Switchable and Optimus models, it is important to know exactly which model is being used as the NVidia video driver is different for each video technology. There are several ways to determine which model which has which video subsystem. The first is the BIOS setting for the ThinkPad display and the second is the actual PNP ID of the subsystem. To determine the system from the BIOS, first boot the system into BIOS by pressing F1 key when the Lenovo / ThinkPad Logo is displayed upon first powering on the system. Select Config from the first screen then Display from the second screen. The default BIOS setting for is for Switchable or Optimus enabled and OS detection enabled.
The Switchable system has the following:
The Optimus system has the following:
The default BIOS setting for is for Switchable or Optimus enabled and OS detection enabled.
The second method is the actual PNP ID of the hardware device. This information is useful for unattended installations. The PNP ID is obtained from the NVidia display adapter listing from Device Manager. In the Details pane, select Hardware Id to view the information. Since Switchable and Optimus systems have 3 video modes, there are 3 different PNP ID's for each mode. The three modes are Intel video only, NVidia video only or Switchable / Optimus mode.
For Optimus Video driver version 6IDA14WW (Windows 7 64 bit) and 6ID914WW (Windows 7 32 bit) the PNP Id are as follows
For Switchable video driver version 6ID826WW (Windows 7 64 bit) and 6ID726WW (windows 7 32 bit) The PNP ID's are as follows:
Optimus PNP ID
Once the Optimus video device driver is installed successfully, the right click context menu from the Windows 7 desktop will show links to both the Intel Video control applet as well as the NVidia Control Panel.
For further information on Optimus technology by NVidia visit NVidia's website
Another keystone of NVIDIA's Optimus technology is the ability to use a list of GPU-powered applications, each with its own unique Optimus Profile. NVIDIA has profiled applications based on whether the GPU can add quality, performance, lower power, or functionality. In doing so, Optimus is able to avoid powering up the GPU unless it is necessary.
Before an application has an Optimus Profile, NVIDIA runs the application through a series of verification and validation processes to ensure the highest quality and experience. Once validated, the updated Profiles are hosted on an NVIDIA web server and then automatically pushed out to the end user. Should the user not want automatic updates, they can disable this feature within the NVIDIA Control Panel.
As new applications and games are introduced in the market they may not have an Optimus Profile preinstalled, so NVIDIA has created a unique solution-- an NVIDIA-hosted Web server will push updated Optimus Profiles to the end user. Users also have the ability to customize Profiles and create new ones.
Similar to the SLI profiles found in NVIDIA drivers over the last several years, a section within the NVIDIA Control Panel displays the application-specific settings for Optimus. Although there is an extensive list of existing application profiles with the preferred graphics processor for each application, users are also able to add new application profiles and customize existing profiles from the list.
Source: nVidia Optimus white paper
Figure below shows a partial list of applications pre-populated with current Optimus driver.
Here is a partial list of currently available Lenovo T410s ThinkPad computers with Nvidia Optimus Technology. This list will be updated as Lenovo releases more models with this new technology.
After the correctly installed Nvidia Optimus video driver, there will be a new account added to the system. The account is a System Service account that is used by the Nvidia Daemon update service to update the optimus profiles. The account will allow for the automatic download and installation of application profiles that the Optimus technology will use.
The account can be removed by changing it to use Local System, Set to Manual and then delete the UpdatusUser user account and folder.
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Home List of Titles Quenched cold accretion of a large-scale metal-poor filament due to virial shocking in the halo of a massive z = 0.7 galaxy
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/238556
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- Quenched cold accretion of a large-scale metal-poor filament due to virial shocking in the halo of a massive z = 0.7 galaxy
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- Churchill, Christopher W.; Kacprzak, Glenn G.; Steidel, Charles C.; Spitler, Lee R.; Holtzman, Jon; Nielsen, Nikole M.; Trujillo-Gomez, Sebastian
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- Using HST/COS/STIS and HIRES/Keck high-resolution spectra, we have studied a remarkable H I absorbing complex at z = 0.672 toward the quasar Q1317+277. The H I absorption has a velocity spread of Δv = 1600 km s–1, comprises 21 Voigt profile components, and resides at an impact parameter of D = 58 kpc from a bright, high-mass (log M vir/M ☉ 13.7) elliptical galaxy that is deduced to have a 6 Gyr old, solar metallicity stellar population. Ionization models suggest the majority of the structure is cold gas surrounding a shock-heated cloud that is kinematically adjacent to a multi-phase group of clouds with detected C III, C IV, and O VI absorption, suggestive of a conductive interface near the shock. The deduced metallicities are consistent with the moderate in situ enrichment relative to the levels observed in the z ~ 3 Lyα forest. We interpret the H I complex as a metal-poor filamentary structure being shock heated as it accretes into the halo of the galaxy. The data support the scenario of an early formation period (z > 4) in which the galaxy was presumably fed by cold-mode gas accretion that was later quenched via virial shocking by the hot halo such that, by intermediate redshift, the cold filamentary accreting gas is continuing to be disrupted by shock heating. Thus, continued filamentary accretion is being mixed into the hot halo, indicating that the star formation of the galaxy will likely remain quenched. To date, the galaxy and the H I absorption complex provide some of the most compelling observational data supporting the theoretical picture in which accretion is virial shocked in the hot coronal halos of high-mass galaxies.
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
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- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 760, no. 1 (Nov 2012), article no. 68
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- 2012
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- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; 0305 Organic Chemistry; 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)
- Keyword(s)
- Absorption lines; Galaxy evolution; Galaxy halos; Quasars
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- Institute of Physics Publishing
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- Copyright © 2012 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The American Astronomical Society does not allow Swinburne Research Bank to archive either the accepted manuscript or the published version of the article. However you can find an earlier version of the full text here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0595.
- Additional information
- The authors acknowledge support from the grant HST-GO-11667.01-A provided by NASA via the Space Telescope Science Institute operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.
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The Washington Monument opens to the public, John Lennon is born, Che Guevara is executed, and President Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, all on this day.
1986: The musical "The Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End. The musical, which would premiere on Broadway in 1988, won the 1986 Olivier Award and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical. It is the longest-running Broadway show by a wide margin and the second longest-running West End musical.


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I really wish I didn't have to write this letter to you.
I have become a victim and really don't know how to address that fact without an attempt to "fix" the problem. I am a survivor. It is just part of me.
I am a retired ship captain and have to work to make ends meet as my measly pension barely covers my monthly expenses.
I mow yards and haul away trash for folks who don't have a pickup of their own. I also own a (secondhand) chain saw and can cut up and remove tree limbs and such. I don't make very much, but every little bit helps. Plus, it is honest work that keeps me active and fit (after a fashion).
In April, I bought a Murray 22-inch [red] mower from our local Walmart.
With it and my pawn shop weed whacker, I was slowly getting a lawn care "home business" together. It is hard work but honest labor, and I enjoy being outdoors as much as is possible.
Then, last week, someone came onto my lot and stole my mower, my chain saw and a second mower I had just resurrected from the junk pile.
The two mowers were chained together and to the trailer under which they were stored nearly out of sight. The chain saw was hidden under the same trailer in an old feed sack as a sort of "homemade" saw case. The chain itself was not enough to keep my tools safe from the thief or thieves. Don't count on a chain alone.
I called the sheriff's office, and when the deputy took the info, he was glad to see that I did have the serial numbers to all three items.
"This is a good thing because without the serial numbers, there is very little chance that we can find your mower. Just think of how many 'red mowers' there are in Bee County alone, let alone the State of Texas," was his statement on my actually having the serial numbers for his report.
I hope that I will have my property returned to me at some point, but for now I have had to make a loan and take money from my savings in order to get another mower and chain saw so that I can continue to make a living.
I write to you in hopes that I can share a little bit of this hard lesson I have learned. I hope that everyone in Bee County will write down the serial numbers to all of their yard tools, bicycles, window A/C units and power tools. This makes it nearly impossible for the thief/thieves to pawn them anywhere in the entire U.S. Nowadays, computers can reach to Bee County from anywhere in the U.S.
With this economy, everyone is looking for a "good deal," but a mower, chain saw or tool kit bought for really cheap might be stolen goods and that might get one into trouble with the law if it turns out actually to be stolen.
As well as writing down the serial numbers, I would highly recommend that everyone mark their property with a unique mark of your own design. Just like the brands a rancher uses on his/her cattle. [X is not such a hot choice in this case.]
Sadder and poorer but back at work,
Capt. Gregory Gooch


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Antiallias and sharpen effect
|Nov 15, 2011
|The sharpen effect is applied by default. To deactive sharpen effect : open shader.fx and scroll till you see : #include "Sharpen.h" Put 2 // in the begining of the line. = //#include "Sharpen.h" INSTALL: Extract the content inside the D3D9 folder to The install dir. Where the executable is. Usually here: Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim PEOPLE WHO HAVE PROBLEM WITH CRASHING READ HERE: It seems that Fps monitoring programs and tray tools such as ati tray tools cause the game...
chris2012s whiterun hq texture pack
|Nov 27, 2011
|Chris2012s Whiterun HQ Texture Pack This is a high-quality texturing mod (currently for Whiterun). As you can see in the comparison pictures, i try to keep the same feel to the textures while having actual quality instead of bluriness. Some are actually redrawn at 4 times the resolution of the original file. Textures are 2048x2048 and 1024x2048. Here you can see a before/after comparison of different sections of the Whiterun Town:...
City Mod
|Nov 19, 2013
|Build your own city anywhere you want and in many different styles. Always wanted to build your own castle and city, now you can build it the way you want it.
Collectors Edition to Breezehome
|Dec 11, 2011
|Ads the Collector's Edition to Breezehome! Just put CollectorsED.esp in your Data folder and BAM, free collector's edition!
Handy Map Markers
|Dec 07, 2011
|This mod adds many new map marker locations to popular city areas for easier traveling. In addition to these, the College of Winterhold travel location has been moved to the statue in the college courtyard. Dawnstar: -The White Hall Markarth: -Smithy Riften: -Docks -Market Solitude: -Bards College -Castle Dour Whiterun: -Jorrvaskr -Market Windhelm: -Docks -Gray Quarter -House Quarter -Market Copy the esp to your Skyrim\Data folder and activate in Data Files of the Skyrim Launcher.
No Fast Travel
|Dec 04, 2011
|Description Skyrim's beauty can only be seen and experienced by those that take the time to lead the adventurer's life. Those that walk the paths, and don't fast travel get to truly experience what Skyrim has to offer. This mod disables fast travel, and monitors in the background to make sure it cannot be re-enabled. Requirements This plugin requires Script Dragon in order to function. Installation Copy the .asi file into your <skyrim>\asi folder, NOT into your data folder. That's it!...
ReAL Water - insane0h hiRES water replacement
|Nov 22, 2011
|Welcome to my finished release for a high resolution water texture replacement for Skyrim. The default water looks pretty good in Skyrim, but this small texture mod will make it look somewhat realistic. :::INSTALLATION::: Simply extract the folder to your skyrim/data - if prompted to merge or replace files/folders, click yes. Note: My version has smoother y-axis depth than others, and it has a small rippling effect to simulate water on the surface. On the fast-water-movement: I have tried to...
|Dec 11, 2011
|This modification gives your Breezehome a more Riften styled look, the layout is much the same as vanilla Breezehome with a few additions, the bedroom is much bigger and there is an extra area in the living room. Also includes an enchanting table and much more. Next release will be focused more on decoration and things like mannequins, weapon racks, bookshelves etc.. As well as a basement with a smithy. ENJOY! ***WARNING READ THIS BEFORE TOUCHING THIS*** Make sure you have Breezehome 100%...
under pass of Skyrim
|Jan 28, 2012
|thiis would hopfuuly work as this is my first mod ever hopping this will creat a path under the city of skyrim a bit like what you have in rivten
World Map in Full 3D
|Nov 17, 2011
|Mod changes camera controls in ingame world map view so it becomes possible to zoom in almost to the ground and explore area around character in full detail. Watch video to see the result. Troubleshooting 1. Game doesn't start or crashes on save load - remove lines with uLockedObjectMapLOD and uLockedTerrainLOD (this may lower objects and terrain detail on the map) 2. Love clouds? Then remove line that contains sMapCloudNIF


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The young man, he could be no more than 19 looks horrified and backs away from the serpentine tail as it twitches like a feline toy. "Hey, who are you what do you want." he moves back into the large bedroom eyes wide.
The group can obviously ascertain that the dark pseudopod points towards the wardrobe; the young man stops at the bed growing a back-bone. "Who are you guys? You're too old to be studying here. Leave my room before I call the porter!" he spots Jack. "Weren't you at the ball? I don't want no trouble!"
|Danny Kaye
Danny stops, looks the young man in the eye, and then grins.
"Oh dear. I think it's a tad bit late for THAT now, isn't it?" He asks, still grinning. He gestures towards the tiny dorm room closet. (Oh that's right, it's a 'wardrobe' over here. Stoopid language folderol,...)
"Go ahead. 'Open Sesame', or whatever. Let's have it out and get this over with!" He says, still smiling.
"Or would you rather that we opened it?"
Whoops, wardrobe=closet, silly language.
Looking confused the young man moves slowly to the dorm closet, smoothly opening it whilst biting his lip. "Hey what do you want?" Revealed is a sparcely filled space with a couple of dozen crinkled clothes hung up, at the top in the 'hat/linen' space is a block of wood that the tail twitches at.
Matt sees what it's pointing to, revulsion on his face at the thing... "What...is that?" His words husky in fear; "Don't kill me, you can have it." He throws the lump of wood on the bed.
Looking at it closely it appears to be a chess or go board made out of finely crafted walnut and ivory/bone. The workmanship is quite exquisite and expensive.... the tail tries to jerk out of the carriers hand towards the anchor.
Might 4d3 - 8 + 3 ⇒ (2, 2, 2, 3) - 8 + 3 = 4 - someone (who's holding it roll an opposed roll or it will escape across the floor.
[/ooc] Wearing his trench coat over his armor; carrying his helmet; Axe follows the others in the dormitory thinking; hehe, with all the Greek fraternities and such; he can pass off as training for Grecian Week festivities, though he never went to college; many can pick up some spare change working their catered parties, picking up on Danny's cue; Axe plays the thug to Danny's Boss play [/ooc]
Who you callin Old, piss-fur-brains, you best do what da man says for we break som tin, might be unhealthy like fur youse
4d3 - 8 + 2 ⇒ (1, 1, 3, 2) - 8 + 2 = 1
Dont you eye my boy! I zzlap the taste outa yer mouth I will
|Danny Kaye
Danny hides a smirk at Axe's scare tactics. It's all just another game to Danny. Then the tail makes a lunge,...
"Axe! Grab it!"
I don't know whose actually carrying it. But if it's Danny, he has NO hope of beating that Might roll! ;P
Can I use Athletics or Fists to stop it?
Danny lunges for the violently wriggling tail, trying to wrap it around his wrist so it can't get away,...
Fists/Athletics: 4d3 - 8 + 2 ⇒ (3, 2, 2, 2) - 8 + 2 = 3
"I don't know, Sir." he stutters... "Me and me mates, went down to the pawn shop in Compton Street and picked it up. The bloke behind the counter said this bloke who was 'off his head' sold it, 'he came in off-his head drunk or drugged and virually gave it away' the owner said. "He didn't want to see it again""
Matt pauses thinking back; "It was only like a couple of quid and Jason..." the youth blanches "Jason said he wanted to play us at chess, so we played. A night of booze, games and pot." his words wistful. "One last hoorah before uni, didn't realise how true that was."
"Jason's dead, accident with a bus. Keith vanished after the opening ceremony, Gonzo overdosed. And Micky got stabbed outside a night-club." He has a haunted look in his eyes. "Get it away from us."
"Hawker's Pawn Shop, London... it's got a light blue frontage." he says with his slight estuary accent, the tone shell-shocked as he remembers his dead friends.
"You can find their phone number in the book." he adds.
Whoops, sorry, it's in London a 7 hour drive away. Matthew & his dead friends are from the Capital.
|Danny Kaye
Danny looks at Kenneth.
"I'm guessing that letting the thing touch the board is a BAD idea? Just a guess?" He says with a slight smirk.
Danny holds up his hands in a 'no thank you' gesture to Axe.
"Um. If it's all the same to you, I'll let YOU hold onto it. I think it likes you better. And if it gives you any trouble, just give it a squeeze,..." He flashes a quick grin.
He turns and picks up the box from the bed. He flips it over and looks at it. "It's, just a game box?" He says quizzically. He holds it out to Kenneth and the wizard. Presuming one of them takes it from him
Danny turns back to the obviously scared teen. He's not that much younger than Danny, but at the moment he looks like a lost child compared to the singer. Danny clears his throat a little self-consciously.
"Alright. Here's what we're gonna do. We're going to take this accursed thing off of your hands for you." He says kindly while sitting the student on the bed.
"You are going to go and have a last round in memory of your friends. And then you are going to come back here, sleep it off, get up and go to class. And you are going to work your arse off. You are going to be top in your class. And your going to do it for your friends. Because life is too darned short to waste. Period. Be whatever you want to be. But be the best d@#%ed one that ever walked the halls of this campus. Got it?"
Presence: 4d3 - 8 + 3 ⇒ (2, 2, 2, 3) - 8 + 3 = 4
"And, your going to forget all about the box, and us. Let's face it, no one would believe you anyway." He adds, not unkindly.
Danny waves the others out, and follows, humming softly,...
Performance 4d3 - 8 + 4 ⇒ (2, 3, 3, 3) - 8 + 4 = 7
Wow. OK not gonna waste that roll! :)
As the others file out the door at Danny's urging, Axe gripping the tail with one heavy fist, and the Celtic bard carrying the box as if it might bite him, Danny starts singing softly. It sounds like a lullaby, but the words are foreign, no, almost alien. The student finds his eyes heavy, no matter how much he tries to keep them open. And his view of Danny and the others fades, turning to mist, his vision filling with white before fading to the black of closed eyes and sleep.
Danny slowly closes the door quietly behind them, still singing softly. He listens at the door for a moment, then turns to the others with a quick grin.
"Well? Don't just stand there! Let's go!" he whispers.
"It was just an illusion. But he was very upset, and susceptible to suggestion. I can't MAKE him sleep, or forget, but he was already mentally exhausted, and he wanted to forget. I just,... gave him a picture of how nice it would be to go ahead and do it." He smirks.
"So, let's get out of here before some other late-nighter asks us what we're doing in the hallway!" He waves them towards the exit,...
|Kenneth Evander Finley
|Jack the Shadowlord
The young man falls asleep under Danny's illusions, the faint lines flow from his face as his worries are eased. His visage appears young and innocent in unconciousness.
The group walk outside without any other of the dorm students noticing; soon everyone is outside in the dark as Grillian watches. In front of you is the dark lake; to the south there is a deserted weir. To the rear is a dark field, quiet apart from a few cows grazing.
|Danny Kaye
what the three double L do I do with this
holds up the tail.
so; we London bound fer that pawn shop? or we could go back to the place we ...found this; probably cleared out by now
"Well It seems like Ken and Jericho are the experts here. But I vote we find a nice spot for a bonfire, and solve both these problems with one marshmallow roast!"
He turns towards the two he named. "Would that pretty much do it?"
|Grillan Avaruvex
Grillan has just finished the cigar as the others come out, and he can't help but blink in surprise. "That was rather quick." He nods at Danny's suggestion. "Fire is a purifying force, so yes, burning the anchor would probably be sufficient to destroy it. I've a place we can use if you need it."
|Kenneth Evander Finley
Kenneth nods, "Aye, that'll do. If you give me a wee bit of time tae prepare, I should be able ensure any dark evils surprises willnae throttle us or the nice people that live 'round here."
He adds in a serious tone, "Though, sadly, Axe, you'll lose your little girlfriend when the anchor goes. It willnae be able to keep to this side o' the veil."
Kenneth puts a hand on his cross, then points it forward, seeking for a safe place to put up a circle and perform the ritual.
I'm not sure how tough the anchor is, so step one is to make a big containment circle. I'm thinking we're looking at a containment circle with 7 shifts of power -- and in case of any lingering effects, let's keep this one at full duration so that the sun will wash away any residuals...
A 7 shift circle is beyond my 4 lore, so I need to roll -- however, I'm going to tag the tail as MATERIAL LINK to reduce the complexity (since this circle is specific to the kobold's evil), meaning I'm looking for 5 shifts of complexity when I use the tag.
Lore (Complexity): 4 + 4d3 - 8 ⇒ 4 + (3, 2, 1, 3) - 8 = 5
Got it. Now I need to bring in the power, and while Thaumaturgy usually lets you build up slowly, I'm thinking I want to get it done quickly so we're not interrupted... So I'll activate the sword's flames and tap them again for +2, and try to get the rest in a single shot (worst case, it takes longer).
Discipline: 4 + 4d3 - 8 ⇒ 4 + (3, 3, 1, 3) - 8 = 6 That's 8 shifts, enough to make the circle.
Kenneth stops cracking wise and begins grabbing stones, placing four in careful positions to reflect the north, south, east and west. He draws his knife and begins to cut patterns into the grass, weaving lines of power together from the stones, creating first an outer circle, then an inner one, and finally a cross, such that each stone is now connected to all of the others. He stops to examine his work, and then puts his knife away and draws a flattened stone and a small sprig of oak from his pouch. He carefully places the oak in the center of the circle, where the lines of power meet, and then gingerly places the flattened stone upon it.
"The iron ore in the stone aught weaken the thing and make it easier to burn," he explains as he places the box in place, covering the stone, and begins to whisper in Scotsgaelic. He draws his sword and commands it to flame, and begins retracing the patterns he's drawn, leaving behind a glowing trail like that of an ember moved quickly in the darkness. As he completes the trace of the outer symbols, the sword flares as its flames are drawn down into the circle, where the warm glow begins to build, shifting from a dull red to a brighter orange, with heat shimmers forming a curtain around the circle.
He takes a deep breath as he completes the work, smiling as the cross takes on the same red-orange glow as the outer circle, and watching the stone below the set begin to heat.
He stares at the box and says, "And now, let's watch it burn", and draws forward a slow, steady draw of the Flames of Kildare to destroy the object.
The purifying flames flicker around the box, slowly sliding off the varnished surface before finally taking hold. The intense heat radiates as the box burns with sharp pops and the faint wail of an animal in pain. A flare of energy explodes, a blue light and chill heat, and the box seems to collapse in on itself leaving a pile of ash.
Aximeus, whilst this is going on feels a frantic struggle of the tail then as the flames take hold it stops moving. Then from the tip and rolling down the tail becomes a solid ash which crumples into dust under the soft rain and the greco-romans' grip.
The Kobold is gone from this world and the next...
Everyone is stood in a damp field at 3am, the rain softly falling. Letitia turns to you, "Well done, what now?"
|Kenneth Evander Finley
Kenneth watches with a sense of grim satisfaction, That's one more beastie that willnae be harming anyone else... Still, I'd rather get them afore they start leaving bodies behind.
He turns to Jericho and smiles, "I knew I was right tae lead the Wardens astray back then, lad... Though I trust ye dinnae mind me taking the honours, here."
He then looks up a Letitia and says, "Aye, a bonny question. If only all our problems were so easily solved. I imagine we'd best be looking intae this key business... Though, Warden, mayhap some greycloaks 'round Londontown might feel an urge tae dae a mite bit of shopping?"
|Danny Kaye
Danny's head pops up from where he was contemplating the ashes in the circle.
"Hey, I resemble that remark!" He snarks with a smirk.
"Oh, wait, nevermind. I gave up 'idealistic' the day I got drafted." he adds. Mostly jokingly.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm wet, and cold. And the last thing I need is to catch a cold! I'M going back home and get dry before I catch my death!" He declares firmly, tugging up the collar of his heavy leather jacket against the annoying drizzle.
"And then I have to check on the girls,... Oh ye little gods and goddesses, their dad is gonna kill me,..." He murmurs, sticking his hands deep into his pockets and looking decidedly forlorn.
|Grillan Avaruvex
Grillan observes the circle and destruction with a mild curiosity. Once all is said and done, he shrugs faintly. "The key is only of mild importance... a far more pressing concern is the question of what it opens." He considers Danny's comments, and then nods a faint agreement. "I'd suggest that is a wise idea... perhaps tomorrow afternoon we can all get together and discuss what we're facing? I'd be pleased to host most of you for tea."
Everyone manages to get home or wherever they wish to stay for the night, with the promise to meet-up the next afternoon. The night passes uneventfully.
The mornings headlines include;
If you wish to do anything before you meet-up please say.
In fact he was actually slightly pleased (in his gruff manner) that Danny protected them.
Axe works the night at the diner and sleeps until a couple hours before the meeting; get showered and ready; packs his armor and such in a duffle with the left overs of other supplies from before and takes it with this as thing get rough around this crowd. He goes early enough to scout the place and look for any watchers that might be out of place; orders a few drinks and gets a table as a eatery is a likely meeing spot; some pub I would think.
|Danny Kaye
Danny hangs up with the girls after promising them another night out. Without the party crashers. He lets out a breath he didn't know he had been holding.
Danny scratches his chin thoughtfully. It wasn't that the girls dad was really all that bad. Not Really. At least, not that Danny had ever SEEN personally. But for him not to at least verbally deride Danny for endangering the girls, since the girls were (once again) attending an event with him that turned into a supernatural slugfest was,... unusual to say the least.
Danny had always attributed it to his being protective. But once again Danny wondered,... Not what daddy's business was (he knew enough to know that the less he knew about THAT, the better!) But whether daddy was as 'clueless' about about the spooky-side stuff as he appeared to be.
Danny shuddered. He decided that some questions just didn't need to be answered that urgently. He scrubbed his face and grabbed his jacket. After a moments pause, he grabbed one of the two guitar cases leaning near the door. Not the one with his favorite acoustical guitar, but the one carrying what he dubbed his 'Battle Axe'. He figured that the way things were going, things were more likely than not to get rough hanging around this crowd.
(If he had known how closely his thoughts echoed those of his friend Aximeus, he might have really worried,...)
Danny steps out the door to figure out the shortest path public transportation availed to get him to the dragon's lair. He quickly turned that thought into a limerick, then an almost proper poem. He spent most of the trip trying to figure out a melody to put the words too,...
Axe, I think that the 'Dragon' is hosting us as his house. :)
The afternoon rushes around all too soon as they are wont to do. Danny and Axe soon find themselves at the address Grillan gave them; a beautiful large building. I'll let Grillan put any more description he wants.
Soon after Letitia joins them, this time not wearing an elegant dress but a jeans and a Cthulhu t-shirt. Looking a lot more comfortable and rested she exchanges pleasantries with the others. However soon her wizardly tendancies take over, sipping on a cup of tea. "So what do we know and what leads shall we investigate:
|Kenneth Evander Finley
Kenneth returns to his flat and winces as he takes off the ruins of his tuxedo, The kilt can be mended, but the jacket's a poxy ruin. I dinnae ken if I'm glad it wasnae a rental...
He is happy to take a shower and let the hot water remove the knots from his shoulders and the gore from his hair and face.
Standing in the door to his bathroom, he debates with himself, I should head tae the shrine and make up some potions.... Aye, I may be a mite knackered, but that's why Brigid gives her champions the gift of constitution. Still, I dinnae ken what it is I might need or what might be more helpful than a night's sleep -- especially if I need tae press on tomorrow.
He collapses onto his bed ...or mayhap I'm just telling meself what I want tae hear..., and falls asleep relatively quickly, only waking once in the night when he reaches out to the empty other side of the bed.
He wakes mid-morning when he can no longer ignore the sun on his face, his groggy mind trying to think of a way to block it magically without burning down the house before he sighs and gets out of bed. He looks to the nightstand where he'd emptied his sporran the night before, and picks up Laura's business card. I should call... afore we get wrapped up in all this....
He picks up the phone and starts to dial, then stops and hangs up. He starts dialing a second time and then hangs up again. Finally, he looks at the phone and then laughs at himself, Aye, Cait, this bit should be familiar. How many times did I call and hang up on ye? He shakes his head one more time until he notices the number for the service on the card, Well, now..., and dials it, instead.
"Good morrow, Laura, it's Kenneth. I didnae want tae wake you since I ken you were up late last night, but at the same time, I was under pretty direct orders tae call, and I amnae one of those guys with some sort of poxy three day game. I'd love tae grab a cup or a pint with you, though we're still working on figuring out this hackit mess from last night. Still, though, give me a call -- nae matter what, a man's got tae eat, and what better way than in the company of a bonny woman like yourself."
He hangs up and sighs, There, love. Satisfied?
He dresses quickly, dark jeans, Sex Pistols shirt and black leather jacket, tucking the claighbeag into a duffel before heading to meet the others at the Dragon's Lair. He laughs at that thought for a moment, I wonder if I'll see little flashes telling me the safe path?
|Jericho Korben
Jericho sits in stunned silence much of the night, only breaking it to thank Letitia and ask her of a way to contact the Wardens with news of his innocence. He returns to the party and grabs his jeep before driving it back to the dorms. He finds his room comfortable after so much action in the night, though he misses his coffee table. I really need to get another one. He strips off his ruined tux as he goes into the room, his head pounding in pain where he struck the rock and his small wounds announcing their presence similarly. I have a father. I know who he is. I know what he did. He was a wizard. Does this mean I may be a wizard as well? Have I been closed minded, thinking I could only move metal?" The implications bother Jericho, though not enough to keep sleep from descending on him like a dark shroud.
In the morning he is woken to an annoying buzz. The alarm was going off, though when he checked it was 8:36, meaning he must have slept through it for at least an hour. Not surprising considering how he felt. He slowly leveraged himself, still filthy with the sweat of fear and combat and nerves, out of the bed and into the shower, enjoying the hot water. I don't know if I want to be a wizard really... I hear they can't use almost any technology. The hot water was blissful, and being clean afterward even more so. I'll have to call Andrew and ask him to record the lecture Dr. Barrow is giving today. I always miss when someone exciting is speaking. It said much about Jericho Korben that his idea of 'someone exciting' was a man who intended to speak on the importance of remembering the metals you worked with when designing buildings, including their stresses, breaking points and tensile strength. At this rate, I'm going to end up failing my damn classes.
After a short morning ritual that was all the worse for being devoid of coffee, Jericho dresses in dark slacks, a navy blue Oxford shirt and his favorite coat (still a bit dusty from the rubble of last night) and goes out to the ratty old jeep, arriving at Grillan's "Lair" I refuse to call it that in conversation, right about the appointed time.
Jericho smiles in appreciation to Grillan as he leads him to a tea room, happy to find several of the others already arrived. Ugh... tea. Why is it always tea? He thinks, having a cup but wishing the entire time that someone in this country could brew a decent cup of coffee. "British Barbarians..." He mutters quietly with appropriate sarcasm. He sits near Letitia, smiling at her wardrobe as he does. "I'm sorry for my reticence last night it's just... my whole life just changed in a rather stunning way. I am glad for your help Letitia, I wouldn't be off the hook with the Warden's without you. If I may, I'd like to speak to you in private later." He then listens as she outlines the questions brought on by the evening.
"I can think of at least one more," He adds, standing as well, surprised to find his teacup empty By the gods, I've gone native "What, exactly, was it that the kobold from last night was attempting to do at the party? What could have been there that advanced a dark god's plan for escaping?" Jericho considers for a few more moments, then comes around again. "Also, though it may be unrelated, something is attacking both vampires and humans in the city and leaving them ehxsaunginated. What or who is doing this, and were they after Alicia when they got her family?"
Letitia sips from her translucent cup, strangely looking at ease in an informal occassion as much as the formal. She nods slightly as Jericho's requests a meeting, her eyes meet his for a brief moment before she breaks away. "I put some feelers out regarding the dark one and what happened to him. The kobold seemed to be moving around the world for the past few years."
She pauses; "Kenneth you said that you might be able to use police contacts to find out where Alicia came from?"
"We could check out with the Werewolves, 'Witches' or Vampires?" she spits out the last word, but there is some needle too with the others, Letitia does not trust any of the factions.
Something I just remembered:
""Geas - from the Gingerbread Cottage
It contains an old letter of appointment and an address - Balda: The Retreat, Thirsk.
"For some reason the questions he asked; were not the ones he should have. It wasn't too good for him, the revolution or 'the disappearance of Amelie LaCroix'. But he did say that he would create it for the information." her eyes glint in the mischievous way the faes can.
She looks at Danny thoughtful, "Yes, he might welcome the information. Tell him - Maria (his lover) joining the Revolution will kill her. Amelie might be found but not returned whole. And that he should look to the Holy Island - for there lies the beings that will destroy the country."""
I know it might be ages IRL, but Danny feels the pull of the letter that has not left his pocket. Tomorrow you should probably deliver it.
|Danny Kaye
ACK! Thx for the reminder DSXM! I'll type up a post for that as soon as we decide where this meeting is going! (How far away from where Dan is now is 'The Retreat- Thirsk'?) Meanwhile,...
Danny's twinges, reaching for his forehead. He takes a breath and starts to lift his cup, and winces again with an involuntary hiss of pain.
"Bloody Heck,..." He murmurs. With an almost intense deliberation he reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls out a bottle of tylenol. He swiftly pops two in his mouth and re-caps the bottle fiercely. He washes them down with a gulp of tea. Then 'Acks' in surprise and pants to cool his burning tongue.
"Good. Hot." He recovers with a wan grin. He sips it again, more cautiously this time.
'Okaaaayyy,... Tomorrow. First thing. I swear. Now let me alone for a few minutes will ya?!? Sheesh. Stoopid Geas,...'
"Ah,... I haven't been in the area long enough to make a lot of friends,... But I know a few people. I could ask around. The question is, how much do we want to get out? The more people we ask about all this, the more people know we're looking for answers. And the sooner the bad guy finds out we're on the trail." He looks around at the others.
"What? I'm no private investigator, but i watch a lot of TV. Asking questions on the street is exactly how information gets around. For bad guys even more than good guys."
Thirsk = 1 to 1.5 hours away by car (+ 0.5 by Bus or train)
Letitia nods; "So we keep subtle, do we pick a specific area? Cool." she agrees.
|Danny Kaye
Danny shrugs, takes another sip of tea. (Incident free this time.)
"I just think, we should probably focus our search. That's all. On the other hand, it's not as if Mr-Medievel-Iron-Man doesn't already KNOW we're looking for him. So maybe secrecy isn't the issue. But then I would guess Speed would be. We'd need to move as soon as we got info, before the fact that we've got it gets back to him,... Am I the only one this is making any sense too?"
Axe chooses the Orange Pekoe tea with a bit of lemon and one cube of sugar and a scone. He listens as the others talk...
Letitia, if you want some backup, let me know; those guys can be rough and sometimes the appearance of casual strength can make a difference
Thinking in terms of a battle plan.
this is to big to wrap our heads around looking at it like this; maybe we should map it out; get a map and some stick pins and map out all the activity we find out about, ask around, and see if we can see a pattern. When I was in Italy back in The WAR, around Anzio there was this little priest who was Venetori Umbrella or some such; some kind of group; he had info that led us to some necromancers who were the cause of much trouble. There is likely some local group like that who keep tabs on currents in the extraordinary; some even guard icons of power. In all the wars I have fought in one thing holds true, every group has items they consier national treasures and a lot of people get killed taking or protecting them way beyond their street value as treasures. All these museaum attacks seem to point to some core concept, where is Egg Shan when you need him.
Letitia nods her head; "Yes, there are two native groups - the Order of St. John & the Royal Antediluvian Order of the Buffalo (ROAB). The former are a Holy Order with fingers in the church, the latter a militant group to do with the stopping of the supernatural."
I believe you can also contact these if you wish.
|Danny Kaye
Danny chokes, spraying a bit of tea from his nose. He coughs a bit, quickly wipes his face with a napkin whilst eying Axe with a look halfway between murder and the idolatry he usually reserves for Robin Williams.
"Sorry, sorry. Wasn't expecting that, that's all. At least not from him." Danny apologizes, pointing at Axe accusingly. "That's the kind of thing I usually say. I think I've been a bad influence." He smirks.
"Um,... ok, where were we? Ah, yes. OK, Instead of chasing down ALL my possible contacts, I'll ask one or two very specific (hopefully trustworthy) people, and see if that leads to anything. Hopefully it'll point back to one of the leads we already have. Sounds like the LAST thing we need right now is MORE options."
|Kenneth Evander Finley
Kenneth raises an eyebrow, Police contacts, is it? I just met the woman.... and trust a Warden to stick her nose in enough tae know.
He sighs and takes another sip of his Scottish Breakfast tea, savouring it, This is better than the stuff I grew up with... Clearly, there are perks tae associating with dragons.
Finally, running out of ways to procrastinate, he says, "As it happens, I am meeting our bonnie detective this evening. Would that be soon enow?"
|Danny Kaye
Danny grins knowingly. But that's as far as he's willing to take it. For now.
"Sounds good to me. If I hustle I can talk to one or two people, and still make my gig tonight. (If I still HAVE a gig. I forgot to check in yesterday! Dangit!)"
Danny fumbles for his cell phone, hastily checking for messages.
On Danny's phone is a message from his 'Agent', a cheap-suited man. His gig at the Three-legged Mare Pub is still on, usual time of 8 'til late - entertaining the patrons.
Letitia smiles at Danny's at-ease manner, seemingly happy to have found a group of dependable people. "Yes, sounds sensible to me as well. Where to?" she asks sipping her drink.
|Danny Kaye
Nice! Thx for the link! :)
Danny shrugs. "I should probably get moving if I'm gonna ask around. Meet up again tomorrow? See if anything panned out?" He asks, looking around.
"I know that normally, just fishing takes time. But with the mess this guy made last night, somebody's gotta be talking about something. Maybe I'll even hear something tonight? If anyone wants to grab a late beer, er,... 'Pint', I'm playing at,... the 'Wonkey Donkey'?!? You gotta be kiddin me,... Oh, it's 'The Three-Legged Mare'" He says bemusedly, looking at the screen of his cell phone.
"I prefer a nice Sauvignon Blanc myself." Letitia's lips curl at the 'humourous' ale name. "So I'll probably see you tonight? I was thinking of asking the Order of Saint John and then later going to the Vampires... if anyone wishes to join me."
Soon everyone departs on their merry way.
What is everyone doing? Kenneth is meeting up with the police-lady later; Danny meeting with the girls or the package?


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At C's 12 month checkup he weighed 22 pounds 2 ounces. He is almost 15 months right now and I had to take him in today to get checked for a possible ear infection and he weighed 22 pounds 1 ounce.
Is it normal for him not to have gained any weight in nearly three months? He is kind of going through a nursing strike right now, but he eats solids like a champ and he is having plenty of wet and dirty diapers. I asked his pediatrician about it and she didn't seem to be concerned, but I still am worrying a bit.
The only thing I can think of is that maybe he is just burning a bunch of extra calories than normal because he is walking and trying to run all over the place now. He seriously never stops moving and he is constantly going up and down our stairs. (You would think that I would be 95 pounds after chasing him around the house all day, but nooooo... )
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- The architecture of self-organized three-dimensionally interconnected nanocrystal fibrillar networks has been achieved by ultrasound from a solution consisting of separate spherulites. The ultrasound stimulated structural transformation is correlated to the striking ultrasonic effects on turning nongelled solutions or weak gels into strong gels instantly, with enhancement of the storage modulus up to 3 magnitudes and up to 4 times more gelling capability. The basic principle involved in the ultrasound-induced structural transformation is established on the basis of the nucleation-and-growth model of a fiber network formation, and the mechanism of seeding multiplication, aggregation suppressing, and fiber distribution and growth promotion is proposed. This novel technique enables us to produce self-supporting gel functional materials possessing significantly modified macroscopic properties, from materials previously thus far considered to be "useless", without the use of chemical stimuli. Moreover, it provides a general strategy for the engineering of self-organized fiber network architectures, and we are consequently able to achieve the supramolecular functional materials with controllable macroscopic properties.
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A petition to allow Sunday alcohol sales in Clovis bars and restaurants lacked the required signatures to be placed on the ballot for the next municipal election, according to City Clerk LeighAnn Melancon.
To have made it on the March 7 ballot, the petition required 733 signatures from registered Clovis voters. However, the clerk's office counted only 571, Melancon said Friday.
Petitioner Robin Howe said he turned in the petition to Melancon's office Tuesday with 880 signatures.
Melancon said some names were repeated, illegible or not registered Clovis voters.
Petitioner and longtime Clovis resident Len Vohs said he wasn't surprised to hear the petition fell short of the required number of valid signatures.
"The biggest problem was that it was circulated during the holiday season," Vohs said. "We didn't have time to collect signatures, because we were busy doing other things. A lot of people who signed didn't realize they had to live in the city."
Vohs does not feel defeated. He said he'll try to petition for Sunday alcohol sales in Clovis again.
"We'll go after it again— no harm no foul," Vohs said.
There is no statute that addresses how long petitioners must wait to resubmit a particular petition for voter consideration in a special election, Melancon said.
Petitioners could request a special election if they gather the necessary signatures, Melancon said.
Petitioners believe Sunday alcohol sales would benefit the city by providing residents and visitors with more dining and drinking options.
"People go to Amarillo and Lubbock to drink on Sunday, " Vohs said. "When people come to Clovis we need to be aggressive in receiving their business. We have an opportunity to do what other communities are doing," Vohs said.
Clovis voted down a proposal for Sunday alcohol sales in restaurants and stores in an October 1995 special election, Melancon said.


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hectoring, lecturing, intro to philosophy and what often strikes me as
"i'm enlightened and you're not so WAKE UP" art. faux profundity is,
well -- bor-ing, as is so-called "conceptual" art-work that requires some
long-winded and often intellectually jejune explanation as to its
"meaning." "injustice is bad" -- well, thank you very much for the
wake-up call and have a nice day..... goodness gracious, if the piece
doesn't engage visually first-off, well hell, write a letter-to-the-editor
instead :-)..... lemming-like, so much of this stuff strives to be
"outrageous" or "in-your-face" but comes off as being merely superficial
and self-important. a fine still-life likewise involves a concept i do
believe, and can likewise be deeply moving, among other things -- but
draws much less attention to the creator's deeply "evolved" moral and
societal insights one supposes.... hmmmm, speaking for myself, i'm
much less interested in an artist's "deep thoughts" than in the work.
lots of folks think their crap deserves to be cast in bronze, but that
doesn't make it so (see much that which resides in the Whitney, for
example, including during several of the biennials, or at least the ones i
have attended). well, all of the above reflect but one guy's opinion, it
goes w/o saying. draw me a flower; if you're going to do something on
some aspect of the human condition, and overtly make the statement
that that is what you are up to, well ---- it's VERY hard to pull off in my
experience, and so it had better be pretty damn good -- otherwise it
tends to look like second-rate intellect shock and awe with a very large
dollop of "i/me" referent thrown into the mix.... so peace and biscuits -
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what should be done about rugby league legend dally messenger?
Started by l'angelo mysterioso , Jul 26 2010 08:17 AM
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 05:46 PM
Keeping it local
Keeping it local
Posted 01 August 2010 - 09:47 AM
QUOTE (T Dub @ Jul 29 2010, 08:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
That wasnt my point. The characters I saw lining up clearly had no heritage from the nations they were representing. I could have defined two of them by skin colour but (lest anyone get touchy and accusative) preferred to do so by name
That has nothing to do with it. If they choose to become citizens of another country and then represent that country, there is no problem whatsoever.
If they choose to represent another country having represented one already then it contestable.
Eoin Morgan opting for England is fine with me.
What undermines this however in my view is the rules allowing him to do so after playing international cricket for Ireland already. I don't see how a cricketing nation like England which has the largest professional setup in the world should be allowed to pilfer players already qualified for a country. Dirk Nannes is the same. He's an Aussie who played for Netherlands then played for Australia.
I don't know the Israeli athlete but if he hasn't represented Ukraine then there should be no problem. Israel's Galicianer population soared in the early 90s when Jews were finally able to leave countries previously under the boot of the USSR.
Posted 01 August 2010 - 02:46 PM
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the fact that you perpetuate this 'non country' nosense shoqws how much you understand
your first sentence informs the quality of your rhetoric excellently.
your first sentence informs the quality of your rhetoric excellently.
Caused some heat under your collar did it?
Look you stated that you did not go in for this 'countries nonsense', or words to that effect, so please do not carry on making out that I have made up what you first claimed.
That is the reason I have put it back to you, maybe you ought to check the posts you have made on this thread before making yourself seem sillier that you appear to be.
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Congressman Hinchey to retire; future of district uncertain
January 25, 2012 —
KINGSTON, NY — Congressman Maurice Hinchey, who served the NY 22nd Congressional District for 20 years, and who served in the New York State Legislature for 18 years before that, announced that he is retiring. At a packed and emotional event in Kingston on January 18, Hinchey noted that he recently suffered a bout with colon cancer.
According to a press release, he is now cancer-free, but the 73-year-old legislator said, "This life-changing experience helped put everything in perspective for me. It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day things in life, but this past year provided me with an even greater appreciation for my family, my friends and, quite frankly, my time."
Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, who has been hitting the campaign trail with Hinchey since 1992, said there were a lot of moist eyes at the event. She said, "When I think about public service, Maurice has just been a tremendous advocate for the people of the district, and people who need help the most, such as veterans and seniors."
Maurice was a fierce opponent of the war in Iraq, which Gunther said took a lot of courage. "But now, people come up to him and say, 'You were right,'" she said.
Hinchey was also a strong advocate for the environment and alternative energy. He will also be remembered as bringing money into the district for a wide variety of projects, such as the new emergency room at Catskill Regional Medical Center and the proposed red meat processing facility in Liberty.
The future of the 22nd Congressional District
Although Hinchey said he would like his district to remain intact, his retirement announcement may make it easier for Democrats to decide what to do about the redistricting process that is now getting underway. Because of the outcome of the 2010 census, the state is losing two congressional districts, falling from 29 to 27.
Analysts have generally predicted that the Republicans and Democrats will likely work out a deal in which each party will lose one seat. With Hinchey bowing out, various analysts are speculating that Hinchey's district, which stretches from Kingston to Ithaca, and is configured in such as way as to include quite a few population centers such as Newburgh, Binghamton and Middletown, will be broken up.


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Police are finally getting some answers in the investigation of a fire that damaged playground equipment at a Madison elementary school last week.
The Madison Police Department said a 17-year-old boy admitted to starting the fire at Randall Elementary. According to the report he told police the fire started after he used fireworks in a high school prom prank.
Last week MPD and Madison firefighters were called to the elementary school at 1802 Regent St. around 12:30 a.m. after a citizen noticed the fire. After extinguishing the flames, firefighters noticed the burnt material spelled "?PROM?"
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Started by boxhead , Nov 10 2012 10:50 PM
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Posted 10 November 2012 - 10:50 PM
TOM BURGESS, the last of the four English brothers to join South Sydney, makes no secret about his ambition with the Rabbitohs next season.
''Imagine all four of us starting in the same team for Souths - that would be something, wouldn't it,'' Burgess told Fairfax in his first interview since arriving in Sydney last weekend. ''It is definitely what we want to do.''
Besides Burgess, North Queensland have recruited Huddersfield hooker Scott Moore, Wigan hardman Gareth Hock is tipped to join Parramatta and Gold Coast have signed rookie Wigan fullback Matty Russell.
They will join England internationals James Graham (Canterbury), Gareth Widdop (Melbourne), Jack Reed (Brisbane), Chris Heighington (Cronulla) and Sam and Luke Burgess in the NRL next season.
In addition, Leeds forward James Davies will play for Penrith's under 20s team after impressing Panthers officials in an open trial and the Broncos have offered an opportunity with their Toyota Cup squad to French teenager Ben Garcia, who paid his own way to Australia and played for Queensland Cup winners Wynnum Manly this year.
Besides the NRL, English players are hoping to use the Queensland Cup teams as a way into the NRL, with 20-year-old Hull KR second-rower Dave Peterson (Mackay Cutters) and Castleford forward Steve Snitch (Northern Pride) joining a Cowboys feeder team.
Bradford's George Marchant (Ipswich Jets) and Hull KR's Louis Sheriff (Redcliffe) have also signed with Queensland Cup outfits, while Bradford winger Shaun Ainscough has joined Wagga club South City Bulls and Leeds rookie Danny Bravo (Thirroul) and former Salford pair Malcolm Alker and Lewis Palfrey (Dapto) will play in the Illawarra competition.
Potter, who coached for seven seasons in England, said the exchange rate made it attractive for players from the UK to relocate to Australia to play in the NRL.
''The increased salary cap in the NRL would also make a difference,'' he said.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 12:42 AM
Be interesting to see if some of the "lesser lights" in the Queensland cup/Toyota cup get on and if any can break into the NRL.
"surely they've got to try somthing different now, maybe the little chip over the top?2
Posted 11 November 2012 - 09:14 AM
Andy Platts son plays for Sunshine Coast in Queensland Cup, he's from Wigan. Tim Sutcliff who played for West Bowling, Dewsbury Moor and Barla played a Queensland cup game for Souths Logan last year.
Also. I know of about another 10 other lads playing in various comps all over Queensland, NSW and Perth, all British lads
Also. I know of about another 10 other lads playing in various comps all over Queensland, NSW and Perth, all British lads


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On Tuesday, April 22, at 7:00 p.m., Old York Road Temple-Beth Am will host a performance of Defiant Kindness, a one-man show that explores fictional tools for mental survival during the Holocaust, as well as its aftermath.
As the show opens, Jake, a cantorial intern, is unexpectedly thrust into the lead role for the Kol Nidre service. Wrestling with diminished confidence, Jake visits the rabbi, Leo, who survived concentration camp imprisonment as a teenager. As Jake and Leo share their life stories, Jake is bolstered; and he and Leo discover a revelation from the past that profoundly links them.
Written by congregant Harriet Gomon and starring local actor Kevin Rodden, the one-act theatrical piece incorporates segments of humor that serve as counterpoint to the horrors of the Shoah.
This presentation of Defiant Kindness is sponsored by Beth Am's Lincow Institute for Adult Jewish Studies in connection with Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 28).
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Keeping up with inspections of two major pipeline projects in Pike County has consumed the limited resources of the small staff at the Pike County Conservation District (PCCD) since spring, when the 12-mile Columbia Gas Pipeline project kicked off, followed closely by the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) expansion of its 300 Line. Both projects involve massive amounts of earth disturbance and multiple stream and wetlands crossings.
The projects have stretched PCCD resources to the limit as related issues multiply across the miles of raw earth (approximately 300 acres in Pike County) resulting from the clearing activities associated with right of way (ROW) expansion, access roads, staging areas and temporary workspace.
While the Columbia project is nearing completion as it works through the restoration phase, the project has managed to accumulate numerous violations and may be facing additional penalties. Meanwhile, PCCD staff have documented 45 violations with 16 pollution events impacting Pike County waters as a result of the TGP project activities, according to PCCD executive director Susan Beecher.
In Wayne County, conservation district resource conservationist Len Grover has logged 14 violations of varying severity on the TGP project, with some as simple as breached silt fences. Five others have involved pollution events with impacts to waters or wetlands and resulted in formal notices of violation.
Similar experiences in Susquehanna County have prompted several conference calls organized by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Northeast Regional Office with all three districts, TGP officials and TGP's contractor Henkels and McCoy.
Both projects have suffered from excessive amounts of rainfall this year, but Beecher contends that the overarching problem lies in the approach taken. "The way that they're constructed is not conducive to water resource protection," she said. "These projects simply have too much pipeline right-of-way opened up for too long, sometimes months. Best Management Practice (BMP) maintenance is a constant challenge when miles of right-of-way are disturbed for long periods.
"We believe the pipeline companies should stage construction in critical areas, such as stream and wetland crossings and approaches, to limit the time between initial earth disturbance and final stabilization. Having the whole length of ROW disturbed at one time over a period of months is problematic for water resource protection."
Beecher says she is hearing the same thing from the Susquehanna and Wayne Conservation District staff who are inspecting the TGP 300-line project in their counties, where the work is much farther along, but that pipeline project timelines sometimes dictate construction practices that are in conflict with water resource protection.
Differing standards are another problem. Beecher points out that normal construction projects, such as highways, are required to minimize the extent of earth disturbance at any time. Grover agrees. Seventeen miles of open turf in Wayne County have also presented ongoing challenges. "With any other construction process, we demand stabilization in four days," he said. "In the case of the pipelines, DEP allows 60 days
from opening to closing the earth disturbance sites."
Beecher noted that the things her staff is seeing go wrong are day-to-day maintenance of BMPs given the overwhelming acreage involved. "We're seeing the same mistakes over and over again. We're really frustrated. I do not trust the contractor and the company to manage this project to protect the resources of Pike County."
With the rising number of violations, Beecher's concerns are growing. "It's scary to watch how this whole thing is unfolding," she said. "I believe it's time for this company to get assessed a penalty. When things are going wrong, when we have this many pollution events documented, I think DEP should be penalizing them as they go, not waiting until the end."
El Paso Corporation spokesperson Penny Paul responded, "We are working with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, as well as with other state and local agencies, to resolve outstanding issues related to construction of Tennessee Gas Pipeline's 300 Line Project."
The conservation districts plan to continue addressing their concerns in hopes of improving outcomes for the next TGP project coming to Pike and Wayne counties—the Northeast Upgrade—which is in the planning phase now.


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Posted 16 February 2013 - 11:32 AM
Homer: How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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Posted 16 February 2013 - 11:40 AM
According to telly addicts whove seen the vid.We should have had another try.ffs whats point in the tv people hoisting up all that gear for it not to be used.In these games the captain ought to be able to go to the ref and ask him to go to the screen.Anyway history and thats what it is shows we lost.Bring on the budgies.


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February 20, 2013 —
Deputy county treasurer Nancy Buck said, "It's not really a horror film." That was after county chair Scott Samuelson said, "I'd like to see maybe a non-horror movie next time," which prompted a round of laughter.
The exchange came at a meeting of the Sullivan County Legislature on February 14, and the legislators were pleased that the producers of a film, with the working title "Jamie Marks is Dead," have decided to shoot just about the entire movie in Sullivan County.
According to Roberta Byron-Lockwood, president of the Sullivan County Visitors Association, her organization has been working with the film company on a daily basis to get them to not only shoot most of the film in the county, but also to have the crew stay at accommodations within the county and make use of county businesses as much as possible.
One of the locations is the abandoned Apollo Plaza, and another is Monticello High School. Shooting is expected to begin within the next couple of weeks.
The film is based on a novel entitled "One for Sorrow," and is about a high school student who is murdered, Jamie, and the friend who can see his ghost, Adam.
Here's an excerpt of a review by Marc Wielage posted on Amazon.com: "Soon after investigating the place where Jamie's body was found, the boy's ghost haunts Adam and becomes a friend—or so it seems. At different times in the story, the reader is convinced that the ghost may actually be trying to drive him insane, or could just be trying to have the living boy join him in the other world as a ghost. The dead boy is presumably gay, and the living boy is presumably straight, but their friendship is extraordinarily close, albeit more like brothers than lovers.
"The plotline is made more complex by the appearance of Gracie, a slightly older, intellectual girl who was the one who originally found Jamie's dead body. Like Adam, Gracie can also sometimes see the spirits of the dead, but Adam isn't sure whether her warnings to stay away from the ghosts are honest, or whether Gracie has her own designs on the boy."
The film is being written and directed by Carter Smith, who, according to a biography posted on the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb), had an initial career in fashion photography before moving into feature films.