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In 1969, an early incarnation of what's now the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison opened.
More than 40 years later, DesignLab has opened at UW-Madison to help prepare students to express themselves in the new digital landscape and communicate knowledge in different ways.
DesignLab, which opened in the fall of 2012, was modeled on the Writing Center. Through one-on-one and small group consultations, DesignLab teaching assistants help students hone the conceptual, aesthetic and technical skills they need to work effectively in digital media.
"(The Writing Center) already has that approach, and we're kind of building off of that in multimedia ways," said DesignLab Director Jon McKenzie, professor of English at UW-Madison.
Of course, over the past 40 years, much has changed in how information is found and consumed as well as the various digital and new media forms it's presented in. McKenzie said DesignLab seeks to enhance students' digital literacies -- the analytic and applied skills students need to explore, communicate and live in a digital world in which "Google" is often used as a verb.
DesignLab supports student work in emerging scholarly genres that McKenzie calls "smart media" -- digital and new media projects that convey knowledge.
DesignLab focuses on five families of smart media genres: video/multimedia, such as digital storytelling, video essays or documentary video; presentation genres, such as PowerPoint or TED talks; e-writing, such as blogs or graphic essays; imagery genres, such as posters displaying research results or infographics; and audio, such as podcasts, radio documentaries or audio essays.
McKenzie said many examples of the changing digital landscape can be seen in scholarly research and publication, in the shifts from card catalogs to search engines and from books on shelves to files on servers. With these changes, McKenzie said, connections can happen faster and in ways that were not possible when people were communicating by letters or "just chance meetings in cafeterias."
"As the infrastructure of knowledge is changing from this kind of print-based archive, where all the stuff is literally in one place in an archive or a file cabinet, to a digital infrastructure, where things are stored in the cloud -- just think about the difference between a book having a unique place on a shelf and a file existing in numerous kinds of different ways -- you can intuit the changes," McKenzie said. "And what skills will students need? We're already seeing that they need, in addition to writing skills, they need these other media skills."
McKenzie stressed that writing skills will continue to remain very important and that he wants DesignLab to build onto those core literacies with other types of new media literacies.
"Getting students skilled in visual skills and aural skills -- podcasts and things like that -- it broadens the palette of their communicational skills," McKenzie said.
McKenzie noted that TED talks are a good example of multimedia presentations that students can study and learn about what constitutes effective communication in various smart media genres.
"We can recognize these are multimedia presentations -- they have certain forms. We can learn what works and help students recognize the form and play with it and get them to develop a language to talk about it," he said.
McKenzie said DesignLab is an innovative initiative for the university that, through its support of smart media projects, empowers students and instructors to think in new forms and work in new venues. He said that although there are several other universities with programs or facilities that focus on digital media production, DesignLab is the only one he knows of that offers media design consultancy services to any and all students, regardless of their course or major.
As for his long-term vision, McKenzie said he anticipates that something will emerge around media communication analogous to that around writing, and media literacy will become a fundamental skill that DesignLab can enable.
DesignLab, which is located in a renovated area on the second floor of College Library, is made up of six cubicles equipped with iMacs. The teaching assistants hold 30-minute consultations at the cubicles with students who make appointments. McKenzie said DesignLab's relationship to College Library is important and makes it accessible to all students.
"There's a role there for the libraries to play because of their tradition of working in scholarly communication, helping scholars produce essays and articles and books," McKenzie said. "As knowledge is being produced in these other genres, folks will need help in basically learning how to argue, how to work with evidence, how to create imaginative works and really just represent themselves online."
McKenzie said he's also very interested in using DesignLab to help students build portfolios and preparing them to think about how they could share the work and research they've done even after a class ends. Many times, he said, students are producing exceptional work that nobody but their class or instructor sees after it's completed, and DesignLab can help students explore how to digitally archive and present their work, such as on a personal website or in a multimedia presentation that can easily be shared with potential future employers.
"Students should come out of here probably with their own Web presence, with some things they've created, their research and things they've done (at UW-Madison) represented in a professional format," McKenzie said.
He said part of the DesignLab process is encouraging students to think about their scholarship as content that can take different forms. For example, the research paper that a student wrote could be remade as a graphic essay using tools like Photoshop and InDesign. Then the student could also add an audio track and some sound narration and develop it into a podcast or perhaps a short video essay. Ultimately, the student could use these multimedia elements developed from their original concept and research and build a website or blog around it to further connect with diverse audiences.
At UW-Madison, students are increasingly being given assignments that ask them to storyboard videos, create blogs and deliver multimedia presentations, and McKenzie said DesignLab was created to fill a critical support need for students.
While students have access to technical training through DoIT's Software Training for Students, there was a "glaring gap in support for translating ideas and arguments into new media forms, for nurturing the conceptual and aesthetic skills that go beyond knowing what effect can be applied to an image or audio clip, to knowing how to produce a desired style or mood -- and, more importantly, why this design for this idea," according to the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates proposal to create DesignLab.
UW-Madison freshmen Eugene Newman, Labreea Walsh and Carlos Figari are among the students being assigned digital media projects. The three set up an appointment with a DesignLab teaching assistant to work on a video project for their English 100 course.
Their assignment was to create a video of a commercial for a seminar on creativity that's being offered at UW-Madison. After receiving a crash course in storyboarding from their course instructor, the group created a storyboard and shot some initial video footage that Walsh described as horrible.
"We didn't even know how to put it together," Walsh said.


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It is one of the most emblematic places of Madrid, the Broadway of this city. It's Gran Via, and this year is celebrating it's 100th birthday. Although its official birthdate is on April 4, during all 2010 Madrid is celebrating a lot of events commemorating the Gran Via.
It is the street that never sleeps. A frantic way. A street constantly moving. Gran Via offers a whole world of opportunities. In its two kilometers, you can take a coffee, eat in any restaurant, enjoy the best musicals, theatres, cinemas, coffee shops and get lost in its amazing stores or simply take a picture in some of its mythical builings like the Capitol, at Callao square and the famous corner of Schweppes, one of the untouchable advertising icons of the capital of Spain.
Gran Via has been also the stage chosen by several spanish directors to shoot some sequences of their movies, like Alejandro Amenabar with Abre los Ojos, or Santiago Segura, hanging out from a modernist building on El dia de la bestia. Gran Via was the first witness of the movida madrilena, a famous social movement in the 80's.
Because of its anniversary it has been celebrating various concerts: El Sueno de Morfeo, Nek, Shanon Corr, Georgina, Carlos Baute and Marta Sanchez or Alex Ubago have been the ones who rattled the young people of Madrid in an exceptional day, because, only for one day, the traffic was closed and all of us could walk through the roadway. Something unique and exceptional in a street full of life.
The street style are really diverse, because there are looks for every kind of taste. From stylist young people dressed with the current season trends like flower printed dresses, navy shirts or mini-shorts with spot tights, to the most punk styles with leggings, leather jackets and hats. A whole universe of fashion, where everyone dare with anything. And you, do you want to come to Gran Via?

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Jason DaSilva, 30, filmmaker.
When were you diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS)?
I was diagnosed in 2005. I was 26.
What helps you deal with your diagnosis?
Telling stories through film. It's a form of art therapy. Right now I'm telling my story of dealing with MS in a film called When I Walk.
What makes you angry?
I get angry at the symptoms of MS, though I know it's no real use. I generally try to be patient.
What were some of the challenges you faced making the film?
Well, it's not done yet. The ongoing challenge is confronting something so hard to deal with and making it public.
Who inspires you?
The people closest to me and others who are trying to surpass insurmountable odds.


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Lloyds road to normal still bumpy
Lloyds Banking Group just wants to be normal. It is getting there, albeit with some important caveats.
The UK bank, still nearly one-third government owned, rushed out headline numbers for 2013 on Monday, the top line a consensus-beating £6.2 billion ($10.2 billion) in underlying profit. With a core tier one equity ratio of 10.3% the bank's balance sheet is finally healthy again. And annual loan growth of 3% isn't to be sniffed at.
Preparations are also being made for a sale to retail investors of part of the government's shareholding, likely to come this year. Importantly, Lloyds is hoping to resume paying a dividend from next year, aiming eventually for a payout ratio of 50% or higher.
Still, those dividends will restart slightly later than some investors hoped—one reason Lloyds shares slipped over 2% Monday morning.
Another roadblock to 'normality' is the bank's continued problems with past mis-sold payment protection insurance. Lloyds took another £1.8 billion provision in the fourth quarter, enough to mean it likely made only a small net profit last year.
Lloyds says the monthly rate of PPI claims is slowing, and that it has enough in reserve to cover around 14 months of claims. But it is still hard to be sure when this saga will end.
Nor is political risk around Lloyds falling away. The UK's main opposition party—currently ahead in opinion polls—has said it would seek to limit major UK banks' market share of deposits and loans to small and medium-size businesses. That could hit Lloyds hard, as it is a market leader in both areas.
Lloyds has certainly made huge progress since its post-financial crisis government bailout. The bank's simple focus on being a leading domestic UK lender has won investor support, especially as the British economy recovers: It now trades at around 1.4 times expected tangible book value in 2015, compared with the European banking sector trading at tangible book, according to brokerage Jefferies.
But Monday's limited disclosure suggests Lloyds is only just making a double-digit return on equity, barely above its cost of capital. With regulatory and political risk in the air and a dividend still not in the bag, it is time for investors to take a pause on Lloyds.
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Ok, so I have a question in the opposite direction. Anyone have a good handle on what things look like if the shields are actually too big? I've been suspecting this for awhile, but I haven't been able to find much good info on it since the vast majority of shield-fit problems seem to be that it's too small.
Here's what I know:
- my nipples are about the size of a pencil eraser, maybe slightly bigger
- when I pump, they and part of my areola get sucked into the tube. It's kind of hard to describe, but my areolar tissue swells behind the nipple, and it's almost like the whole thing becomes one big, weird nipple.
- I have to be really careful to center the nipple when I first begin pumping, because when the suction comes on, it'll rub up against the side (any old side - top, bottom, whatever) that it's closest to...there's a fair bit of room around it when it's centered. It's like the whole thing gets pulled in whatever direction it's pointing.
- after I pump, my nipples and areolar tissue are pretty blanched. This doesn't hurt and usually resolves quickly.
Am I crazy and a) that's all normal sounding, or b) I'm super crazy and need a larger size or something?
Any info appreciated, since I'm running up against what seems to be a dearth of info - or info that's limited and vague at best.
Elizabeth, mama to Lillian - 10/03/10
You pretty much just described my breasts. I considered gettin the smaller shields at one point, but my output is really good and so I've stuck with the 24mm. I figure if it starts hurting or my supply starts being affected I may buy them.
It's weird too, b/c the girls are so big, but my actual nipple is like you said, about the diameter of a pencil eraser. I see people talking on here about being the size of a dime or bigger and I'm all 0.o
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Elizabeth - those are the problems I'm having, and pain too. I've lost my baby weight, so I have a hard time thinking that at this point I need bigger ones.
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Looking at this: http://www.medelabreastfeedingus.com...ng%20Image.pdf
I think mine is the image on the right, so my shields are too big.
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Yeah, I'm definitely on the right, too. Actually, I think I've got even more room around my own nipples than the photo shows. Guess I'll give the smaller size a shot but, like pp, I don't seem to have too many problems with output (not entirely true, but I think it's a letdown issue and I'm getting a handle on it )
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bump, here's the link taht works
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(Bobbi's Egg and Green Chile Breakfast Casserole was updated with photo sin May 2009.)
Bobbi's Egg and Green Chile Breakfast Casserole
(Before you make this you may want to read Basic Instructions and Recipes for Low-Carb Breakfast Casseroles which has instructions for different sizes of pans and ingredient options for this type of breakfast casserole.)
18 eggs
1/4 cup cream, half and half, or milk (use milk for South Beach Diet)
1 pkg. (16 oz) cottage cheese, rinsed and drained well (use low-fat cottage cheese for South Beach)
1 can (4 oz.) diced green chiles
1/4 cup green onions, sliced
1 small can sliced black olives
2 cups grated low-fat cheddar cheese
dash nutmeg (optional)
dash lemon zest (optional)
2 tsp. Spike seasoning (optional)
salt/pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375. Put cottage cheese in a fine strainer and rinse well with cold water, then let drain while you prep other ingredients.
Spray 10 X 14 glass casserole dish with olive oil or nonstick spray. Put drained cottage cheese, cheese, green onion, green chiles, and olives in bottom of casserole dish.
Beat eggs with cream and desired spices and pour over eggs. Stir gently with fork to be sure cheese/vegetable mixture is evenly distributed in eggs. Bake 45 minutes, or until casserole is slightly puffed and top is slightly browned.
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Guess i am a bit confused..... Is it possible to have a lipase issue to get worst? I just realized that i have a lipase issue. Before my milk would be great for 5+ days and now its like 1 or 2. I have been pumping and all that is bad, good thing its not too much because i don't make much, barely enough for her. I only work like 3 days a week or so and my lo is getting solids but does not always eat it. She waits for me unless the milk is fresh pumped. She is on the small side (14%) so i don't want her to stop eating. Going to start scalding the milk now so will see how that goes. Dont know how i didnt notice. Guess i never used the frozen milk. But the fresh does not stay like it use too. Could it have gotten worst?


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High Blood Pressure vs. Hypertension
It's 5 p.m. on a Friday in the height of summer. You're heading—along with what seems like 300,000 others—from your home in the city to a secluded weekend escape. Two miles out from the city, traffic slows to a crawl. There's no accident, no construction—simply too many cars trying to move on a highway that just can't accommodate that much traffic. So the pressure builds as you sit in your steaming car, waiting and waiting and waiting.
Much the same thing happens when you have high blood pressure. With every beat of your heart, oxygen-rich blood is pumped throughout the 60,000 miles of blood vessels in your body. Blood pressure describes the force of that blood as it wends its way through your arteries. As long as the walls of your arteries are clean, smooth, and flexible, the blood flows smoothly and your pressure remains low.
Sometimes, though, artery walls become stiff, so they're unable to contract and expand easily. Or they get clogged with sticky plaque, clots, and other gunk, thus narrowing the space through which blood can flow. Or too much fluid enters them. When any one of these happens, pressure builds inside your blood vessels, and the next thing you know, you're listening to some white-coated professional reading you the riot act about your diet, exercise, weight, and health.
Like the unexpected traffic jam, there are no warning signs of high blood pressure. If you don't have regular checkups with your doctor that include blood pressure monitoring, you could walk around for years with dangerously high levels without a clue. No wonder they call hypertension the silent killer.
Make no mistake: Blood pressure can kill. Just as the growing rush-hour tension on the expressway increases the likelihood of an accident, so the growing pressure of blood against arterial muscles increases the risk of serious damage. It could be a clot breaking loose from an artery wall and traveling to your brain, causing a stroke. It could be microscopic damage to the artery walls themselves that eventually leads to plaque buildup and a heart attack. Or it could be long-term damage to the heart itself as it's forced to pump harder and harder to get blood through narrowed arteries.
Overall, a diagnosis of hypertension means that your risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, and kidney disease has just skyrocketed. Consider this: If you're between 40 and 70, each 20-point increase in systolic blood pressure (the top number) or 10-point rise in diastolic pressure (the bottom number) doubles your risk of any cardiovascular disease.
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When it comes to weight, there are three main categories: healthy, overweight, and obese. While many of us are overweight, we are not technically obese. The government officially considers obesity, as determined objectively based on a person's body mass index, a disease that warrants regular medical care.
Similar ratings apply to blood pressure. A reading of 120/80 mmHg or less is considered healthy. A higher reading signals high blood pressure, and you should be addressing it, just as you would if you were overweight. If your reading is above 140/90, you have hypertension, which needs a doctor's ongoing monitoring and treatment.


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See the new story in the Washington Post by Thomas Heath: Web site helps people profit from information collected about them
A new technology called "Personal" allows people to control some their personal information and monetize it themselves. A technology like "Personal" could give us control over our personal health data, which is constantly being "monetized" today without our consent and sold for uses that have nothing to do with improving our health.
"Personal" is betting that data we enter about ourselves and our product preferences will be very attractive to corporations that want to know us and/or sell to us. Today corporations use and sell whatever information they can scavenge about us online.
Similarly, sensitive health data that we control and release will be FAR more valuable to our doctors, researchers, and marketers because we have checked it for accuracy and completeness. No one has quite the same motivation to ensure the accuracy and completeness of our health data as we do: it's literally a matter of life and death.
Here is the business model "Personal" uses:
- "if you monetize your data (Personal doesn't like the word "sell") through commercial activities with companies that want to buy it. Personal wants to be your "agent," collecting a 10 percent fee on the compensation you receive each time you monetize your data.
- EXAMPLE: "So if I were a user of Personal, I could fill in the data fields in my "gem" on travel preferences for my trip to Stockholm this summer. I would release the information to Stockholm hotels, which could compete for my business based on my preferences for a clubby hotel bar, delicious breakfasts, a king-size bed and access to running trails. If a hotel gave me a discount or cash payment, Personal would collect a 10 percent fee."
JUST LIKE in today's electronic healthcare systems where we are powerless to stop the theft and sale of health data, "Personal can't stop companies and others from scavenging data by tracking your online activities. It does, however, "give you the tools to monetize your data, but only if you want to," Green said."
"Personal's" model of individual control over personal data could work very well with sensitive health data—–giving us choices, like NOT selling anything at all. But, Granny could sell some of her health information to afford her medications. Or Dad could sell some of his data for research to afford treatment.
At a time when healthcare is not affordable for so many people, why should hospitals, pharmacies, doctors, labs, health IT and HIE vendors, prescription data mining corporations, insurers, transcription companies, data warehouses, states like Texas, digital devices, cell phone corporations and innumerable others be able to sell and "monetize" health data, instead of patients?
Many are concerned that if patients can monetize their data, poor and vulnerable people will give up privacy for money and the rich won't need to. But how moral is the current system where corporations secretly profit from health information about the poor and rich alike?
To date, federal and state laws designed to prevent the sale of our protected health information have not been implemented or enforced. Congress and the states intended to stop the sales of health data without consent, but industry lobbies have effectively prevented the laws from working.
When was the last time your pharmacy asked if they could sell your prescription details? All US pharmacies sell everyone's prescription records every night. See: http://patientprivacyrights.org/consumers/campaign-for-perscription-privacy/


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Andresen will step into his role officially on Aug. 1. Previously, Andresen worked as the CFO of Vattenfall AB, one of Sweden's three largest companies.
Company CEO Ditlev Engel said that the appointment of the new CFO would further strengthen communications with both analysts and investors.
In January, Vestas announced that it was laying off more than 2,300 people worldwide and could lay off an additional 1,600 in the U.S. if Congress does not extend tax breaks for renewable energy.
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Nice article, Roswell. I think you're dead-on right, unfortunately.
Avant garde does denote innovation. It should suggest, in the case of jazz, a musician or composer who is out in front of the front, ahead of the times, one who's trying to find the next stage of the music's evolution. When writers or critics use the term they can mean all of that, or something less positive. More crucial is what most readers understand from the term. Intention is one thing, but reception is another; I think most readers understand avant garde to mean, simply, "you're gonna hear some weird-ass shit, possibly something you won't recognize as jazz, or even music." Now, that doesn't bring people in large numbers.


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After Tuesday's nuclear test, questions arose as to whether or not North Korea has advanced to the point where they could reach the continental U.S. with a missile.
An unapologetic North Korea declared Tuesday that it had conducted a test of a nuclear bomb after the detonation was detected by the U.S. Geological Survey.
"On February 12th... we successfully conducted a third underground nuclear test in the northern underground nuclear test site," the Daily NK reported, in a translation of Pyongyang's announcement on the state-run news agency, KCNA.
By conducting the test, the isolated authoritarian regime made good on a Jan. 24 pledge by North Korea's top military organ, the National Defense Commission, in further defiance of admonitions from the international community to cease and desist in its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The test was met with condemnation from around the globe. The White House called it a "highly provocative act" that warrants "further swift and credible action from the international community." Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Beijing was "strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed" to the move by its neighbor and long-time Communist ally.
South Korea and Japan convened emergency meetings of their top national security officials, while the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Tuesday, after which it promised to "begin work immediately" to draft a new resolution against the North.
The explosion was registered as a 5.1-magnitude seismic event by the USGS at 9:57 p.m. ET Monday. The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence quickly judged that North Korea had "probably conducted an underground nuclear explosion" with a yield of "several kilotons."
In a statement, President Barack Obama said the test "undermines regional stability, violates North Korea's obligations under numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions, contravenes its [international] commitments … and increases the risk of proliferation" in the wake of what he described as a "ballistic missile launch" by North Korea on Dec. 12.
"North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs constitute a threat to U.S. national security and to international peace and security," Obama said.
U.S. officials have previously told NBC News that North Korea has up to a "few dozen" nuclear weapons that could be fitted on ballistic missiles, far more than had previously been believed.
Obama on Tuesday said that "the danger posed by North Korea's threatening activities warrants further swift and credible action by the international community," adding that the U.S. would work with the international community to "pursue firm action."
'Vile hostile acts'
In a tit-for-tat that has characterized a diplomatic stalemate for decades, North Korea blamed the United States for forcing its hand.
"This nuclear test was conducted as part of measures to safeguard the country's security and independence in order to deal with the vile hostile acts of the United States, which violated our Republic's legitimate right to peaceful satellite launches," according to the KCNA report.
The comment refers UN Security Council Resolution 2087, passed after to Pyongyang's Dec. 12 rocket launch, heaping sanctions on previous sanctions against North Korea, further deepening the regime's isolation.
North Korean soldiers stand guard on the river bank of the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong on Tuesday.
The resolution called on North Korea to abandon its nuclear program and any weapons and allow verification; to conduct no more launches using ballistic missile technology; and to conduct no more nuclear tests.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the latest test was a "clear and grave violation."
Later, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that North Korea threatened, citing an unidentified foreign ministry spokesman, to conduct more nuclear tests if the U.S. moves to penalize it for Tuesday's test.
At a disarmament forum in Geneva on Tuesday, a North Korean official said that his country would not change course in the current climate, Reuters reported.
"The U.S. and their followers are sadly mistaken if they miscalculate the DPRK would respect the entirely unreasonable resolutions against it. The DPRK will never bow to any resolutions," Jon Yong Ryong, first secretary of North Korea's mission in Geneva, told the Conference on Disarmament, referring to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
South Korea's government said in a statement that Tuesday's nuclear test, "poses a direct challenge to the whole international community as well as an unacceptable threat to the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia."
It said the government would stand firm in that it "will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea" and added that it will "also accelerate expanding its military capability, including deploying at an early stage its extended-range missiles, currently being developed, which cover all of North Korea."
Major hostilities in the 1950-1953 Korean War ended with armistice, not a peace treaty. Today, North Korean forces and South Korean forces bolstered by about 28,000 U.S. troops remain faced off at the 38th parallel, where the Korean Peninsula was divided.
Between 2003 and 2007, North Korean took party in several rounds of the so-called "Six Party Talks" with South Korea, China, the United States, Russia and Japan, in an attempt to reverse Pyongyang's nuclear weapons development in return for fuel and progress towards normalization of relations. The talks went on hold and then fell apart for good in April 2009 and Pyongyang expelled UN inspectors from the country.
China 'humiliated'
A key unanswered question is what Beijing will do after North Korea's latest move. The long-time Communist ally and neighbor, which has strategic reasons to continue supporting the regime in Pyongyang, nonetheless expressed its strong opposition to the test.
"China has been humiliated," according to Andrei Lankov, a veteran analyst of North Korea based in Seoul's Kookmin Unversity. That could prompt a change in Beijing's approach, he said.
A North Korean flag flies above the North Korean embassy in Beijing on Feb. 12.
"This time, China explicitly warned North Korea against conducting the test, but they were ignored," Landov added. "A Chinese government newspaper said two weeks ago that in the case of a nuclear test, China might significantly reduce its aid to North Korea."
China is a major source of aid to North Korea and key to keeping its decrepit economy afloat. China is also one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council with the power to veto sanctions.
The United States and other countries have urged China to put pressure on Pyongyang, but it remained to be seen how far Beijing would go to confront its old comrade.
"They are not happy about nuclear adventurism. At the same time though, a collapsing non-nuclear North Korea is far worse than a nuclear but stable North Korea," Lankov said.
North wants U.S. recognition
Professor Yan Xuetong, a top international security analyst at China's Tsinghua University, said "the key to the North Korean nuclear challenge is in the hands of the United States, not China."
"China is certainly opposed to North Korea's latest nuclear test and opposed to North Korea becoming a nuclear power, but the test was aimed at the Unite States with the aim of forcing the U.S. to normalize relations with North Korea, but if the U.S. doesn't want to play the game of trade-off, then there is not much that China can do," he said.
Yan, who closely follows government policy thinking on the issue, argued that "the role of economic sanctions is limited," suggesting China will not stop economic assistance to North Korea because of the latest test.
"What China should do is to act as bridge between North Korea and the United States so that they will agree to a trade-off, with the U.S. granting recognition to the North Korean government in exchange for it giving up its nuclear program," he said.
"If the U.S. views North Korea's nuclear threat with the same seriousness as it views Iran's nuclear threat, then there will be hope for solving the North Korea's nuclear problem," he said.
NBC News staff writers Ian Johnston, Eric Baculinao, John Newland and Arata Yamamoto contributed to this report.
Analysis: China fears alienating nuclear-armed Kim
N. Korea propaganda video shows US city in flames
Show of force: US, South Korea hold naval drills
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Truckee at Incline baseball | Wolverines score 32 in doubleheader sweep
March 25, 2013
Truckee couldn't have asked for a better start to its Mount Rose League baseball schedule.
The Wolverines outscored Incline 32-3 in the opening league doubleheader at Governor's Field in Carson City on Saturday, winning the first game 16-1 and the second game 16-2.
Incline sophomore Tommy Dolan started Game 1 and immediately ran into control issues that persisted for his two and one-third innings. Truckee capitalized, scoring five runs in the first inning on eight walks to take early control.
The Wolverines added another four runs in the third, five in the fourth and two in the fifth to end the game on the 10-run rule.
Senior Erik Holmer started for the Wolverines. He allowed one run on two hits and a walk in four innings, while striking out four. Ty Vaio pitched a scoreless inning in relief, striking out two.
Cam Powell and Jack Clouthier delivered the Highlanders' only hits, while Kris Dirga scored their one run in the fourth inning. Tommy Thompson and Dirga pitched in relief.
Despite the high run total, the Wolverines managed only six hits in the game — one apiece by Andy McKechnie, Aaron Pado, Jackson Rohlf and Holmer, and two by Thor Retzlaff.
Rohlf's one hit was a bases-clearing double during Truckee's four-run third inning. McKechnie and Holmer each drove in three runs, while Chris Towle, Travis Ferre, Pado and Retzlaff contributed an RBI apiece.
In Game 2, Truckee matched Incline's one run in the first inning. But it was all Wolverines from there as they scored three times in the second inning, eight more in the third and four in the fifth to again end the game on the 10-run rule. Incline committed seven errors to contribute to the lopsided margin.
McKechnie started and gave up one run in three innings on two hits and a walk. The senior right-hander helped his cause by leading off the third inning with a solo home run to left to spark the eight-run rally. He finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
Truckee had 16 hits in all, with Towle going 3-for-4 with a double and four RBIs. Vaio and Holmer each had two hits, while Riley Guiragossian, Bradley VanSchoonhoven, Ferre, Rohlf and Retzlaff each had one hit. Holmer contributed two RBIs.
The Highlanders finished with three hits — doubles by Powell and Clouthier and a single by Dirga. Clouthier and Masxsimo pitched for Incline.
Truckee improved to 5-6 overall after winning five of its last six games. Incline is 5-4-1 overall.
Incline is scheduled to play at Virginia City on Tuesday before entering a Division III crossover tournament against West Wendover, Battle Mountain and White Pine of the Ruby Mountain League at Battle Mountain on Friday and Saturday. Truckee will play Division IA crossover games against the Ruby Mountain League on Friday and Saturday.
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According to research conducted by Joyce Julius & Associates, Inc. -- which has monitored every NASCAR race telecast over the last 27 seasons -- Busch's sponsors, with logos appearing on his car, uniform and pit crew, etc., were monitored for eight hours, 30 minutes, 39 seconds (8:30:39) during live and replayed coverage of NASCAR's Daytona 500 through last month's Coca-Cola 600. Additionally, Busch and the FOX TV crew verbally mentioned his sponsors on 95 occasions.
Earnhardt Jr.'s cumulative exposure value ranked him second among all drivers with $21.8 million, based on 5.5 hours of on-screen time for his sponsors and 18 brand mentions. The popular driver was third in interview durations (0:13:07), but interestingly, Earnhardt Jr. sat just seventh in total driver mentions (1,140).
Meanwhile, Trevor Bayne, despite starting only eight of the first 12 points races this year, rode the wave of his Daytona 500 win to earn $12.3 million of exposure value for his sponsors, the seventh-most among the drivers. Bayne placed 20th in terms of cumulative sponsor on-camera time and 22nd in driver mentions. (for charts and more, go to Joyce Julius & Associates)(6-15-2011)


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Pirsig's thesis is that to truly experience quality one must both embrace and apply it as best fits the requirements of the situation. According to Pirsig, such an approach would avoid a great deal of frustration and dissatisfaction common to modern life
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, on the novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.Robert
M. Pirsig's first novel holds a dubious record: according to those nice folks at Guinness, despite selling five million copies worldwide, the original manuscript was rejected by a massive 121 publishers. It's one of the stories my Creative Writing teacher trotted out when he was trying to convince the class that not only a) is persistence a good quality in a writer, but also that b) believing in yourself is vital. Knowing WHY you write is as important a specification as what you write. Someone asked me why I do that yesterday, in an extremely internet-specific context. Why bother if your website isn't showing up as the #1 hit for your domain? He couldn't see me as the top return in his wee internet search box, so he couldn't grasp why I was bothering with this to begin with.
It's a really good question: why bother writing on a medium if people can't find you?
I also had a discussion with another friend yesterday, which takes me back to the days of the New Blogger Initiative early in the year: what should you write when you begin a blog? Both these questions have a lot of internal resonance with me, especially in reference to the work that goes on here. When I began my journey three years ago it had pretty much nothing to do with people finding me, and everything with the need to write, which those of you who follow my ramblings reguarly will know is of some significance. At no point did I feel the need to wave my blog in people's faces, to make sure that if someone looked for me they'd automatically get me as their #1 Search Result, because I wasn't writing for a popularity contest. It was, and always will be, just me publishing what I think is important. If people choose to come and read that, then so be it, but its not about making it easy to find me. In fact, if I'm honest, I kinda like the idea that people have to work.
A lot of that has to do with my own confidence in ability, and this is where the second point come to the fore: writing should be about making you happy. I will never understand someone who bemoans having to write something 'because they have to' (apart perhaps in the context of an educational project on a subject they're having to do not by choice) or getting upset about a piece they don't want to write. Even discussing difficult subjects has the potential to make you happy, simply by the process of externalising the problem. Dragging this back to the game for a moment, I know how hard it was to sit down and admit my failings concerning gameplay a couple of weeks back, but the benefits of making that a post has been well worth the effort. I didn't say that in public so that I could link it to seven different gaming sites and be the #2 most retweeted post that day, I said it because I wanted it said so that I could ask for some help, and I got that. I also gained a great deal more besides, none of which I would have garnered from random web searches. In the end, you guys have become a new set of friends, and that was never the plan, it just happened.
However, there is one last point to be made before we go back to the actual point of the blog: relevance. It's a word that gets thrown about a lot in the world of internet-driven sales, because those people who market and target all those lovely adverts you'll never see on this site ever, who understand the need to present you guys with stuff you'd want to read/buy/adopt as your lifestyle. I talk about stuff that is relevant to me, that matters when I'm playing the game or when I see stuff in the World that relates to it. I have no desire to start writing articles I know would gain favour with certain sites, or indeed would raise my profile by doing so. If, like yesterday's mention on WoW Insider someone comes along and feels my work is deserving of a wider audience, then so be it. I write from the standpoint of hoping that who I am is more important than pandering to anyone else's perception. This is why I'd make a lousy journalist, because in the end there are some lines I just will not cross, however good the 'story' might be. In the end, you guys take me as I am, and that's probably the most satisfying part of this entire process.
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The son of YorkFebruary 07,2013
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third was acted on stages in Vermont last year.
The history of King Richard III achieved a remarkable coda in recent days in Leicester, England, when the skeletal remains of the actual Richard were discovered buried beneath a parking lot.
Richard III died in the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 after a brief bloody reign that was the culmination of the long dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster, known as the War of the Roses. He was succeeded by Henry, the earl of Richmond, who became Henry VII, the first of the Tudor monarchs who included Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
The discovery of Richards remains is a bracing reminder that the story told in Shakespeares Richard III was based on an actual Richard III. The whereabouts of his grave were unknown during these many centuries, though a historian writing shortly after his death had written Richard had been buried in the corner of a priory in Leicester. Other accounts said the crowd had thrown his body into the nearby river.
The remains uncovered in Leicester have been identified by DNA linking two living Englishmen to Anne of York, Richards sister, 16 generations ago. Tellingly, the remains also display a distinct curvature of the spine, which would account for the depiction by Shakespeare of Richard as a deformed and hideous hunchback, or a poisonous bunch-backed toad, as he is described by Margaret, widow of Henry VI. (He is also called an elvish-marked, abortive rooting hog and a hedgehog, among other things.)
Also tellingly, the remains in Leicester showed a gash in the skull that could have been caused by a blow in battle, as well as other gashes about the head that could have been caused by knife blows inflicted on the corpse as it was trundled by horseback into Leicester.
The historical Richard has long been overshadowed by the Shakespearean Richard, which was the creation of a playwright with an interest in celebrating the Tudor line. Shakespeares creation was a vividly malevolent villain who displayed the kind of warped psychology more richly described in later plays, such as Macbeth, and re-enacted in real life by an unending catalog of tyrants. (See: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Saddam, Gadhafi.)
In England, plans are afoot to inter the bones of Richard in the nearby cathedral with the dignity befitting a king. It appears that under the House of Windsor, the sins of the Plantagenets can be, if not forgiven, at least put into context.
That context is something we continually try to imagine in the histories and the historic plays and movies that we read and watch. It is hard to know what degree of nobility to ascribe to the nobility of bygone eras. Those who rose to the level of king often had to be tested in actual battle, wielding swords in fierce combat, killing at close quarters. Our leaders today dont go in for that sort of thing. In the violent environment of the late medieval world, the continual battle among the armies of clans and warlords must have seemed like a world dominated by the gangs with the fastest horses and the most brutal fighters.
The remains in Leicester connect us to that world. But it is the lasting contribution of Shakespeare that he infused that world with something else: humanity. Within the self-contained world of Shakespeares monarchies, he explored the ways that human beings may act with treachery, self-deception and pride or with humility, nobility and compassion. He asked continually: What makes a great king? The answer: what makes a great person.
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Watch: The Road Not Taken
People who make their living from businesses near the main gate to Fort Drum aren't seeing as much traffic this summer.
The apparent reason? Route 781, the road that opened in December that is a direct exit off Route 81 to Fort Drum.
The road was built in response to long waits and heavy traffic on Route 11 near Drum's main gate. Six months in, it seems tgo be working.
"It's so much faster and more convenient. I don't get stuck at the lights. The speed limit is 65," said Alexander Ruggerio, a soldier at Drum.
Yet the main virtue of the road - taking strain off Route 11 - also means fewer potential customers for the businesses that line 11 near the base. Some soldiers and civilian employees at Drum now find a lunch trip to Watertown possible. And other businesses - like hotels - lose the "top of mind" awareness that comes from being seen every day.
"Before they were traveling right past us. Now they have 781, which gets them right on Fort Drum. So it reduces our visibility," said Darpen Patel, of the Days Inn on 11.
To see, hear more about the dilemma Route 11 businesses face, click on the picture to watch 7 News reporter Rachel Spotts' report from Sunday.


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|DM Sinvel
All, I added two sections of information to the Gazetteer as well as a few maps located on the Campaign Info tab at the top.
The smell of butter and fatty cuts of meat fill the air as you come downstairs from your room into the main lobby of The Merchants Heaven Inn shown at the red dot in the Trades Ward on the map, which these days doesn't offer many services to any merchants since it has been the main station of the Night Watchmen in the Trades Ward for many score.
After a month or so of training, the four of you from your class of a few shy of a dozen were assigned to this station. The assignment of which being the most prestigious of any in Azir save for the small station in the Cast Ward, but that is usually filled with men who have sharp features instead of brains and brawn.
It is Starday, the 1st of Desnus. The last day of the first week of work as Night Watchmen for the four of you. The four of you meet every morning for breakfast and sit together, mainly because the other Watchmen don't associate much with the new members. Anslon Briarback, proprietor of the inn, greets you cheerfully just as he does every morning and will soon bring out your normal breakfast.
After the day is over you can each get your hand filled with 10 gold pieces, a week's wage, from Judge Bao, the leader or "general" of this station's Watchmen. He stands a few inches above six feet and, although he is more than four decades in age, he can still beat most of the other Watchmen during the drunken arm wrestling matches that spring up late in the night at the Merchants Heaven Inn.
The week went without much for excitement until two nights ago when a few of the Pure Legion came to the Inn to pick up the four new Watchmen. They said they needed some backup while they arrested a group of smugglers who may have also been "cultists" (the Pure Legion's name for someone who followed even legitimate religions). The Pure Legion cursed the followers of religion the entire way to the smuggler's hideout, seeming to prod the four of you for your feelings on the matter.
When the smugglers were found and rounded up, Nathaniel spoke up, telling one of the Pure Legion that he recognized one of the criminals as a cult member. She was searched on the spot and found to be carrying a holy symbol and a religious text. Possibly trying to make an impact on the young Watchmen, the Legionnaire drew his sword and unceremoniously beheaded the pretty young woman, leaving the four of you to shockingly stare at her decapitated body.
So gather around the breakfast table. You all know each other for at least a month now, so any information that you want the other PCs to know about yourself please put in italics.
Here is the layout of the lower floor of the Merchants Heaven Inn
Malchius' fine linen coat stands open, his almost spotless shirt wrinkled from yesterday's wearing and last night's sleeping. As usual, there has been no spell-casting to freshen up until after his morning coffee and spell book study, which as usual lies on the table, taking up way more than his share of the space.
Lines around his eyes betray his lack of sleep these past few nights.
Xarina is a suspicious of most everyone, although not paranoid. She never takes anyone at face value. Most of the time she just comes across as intimidating. Partly because of her demeanor and partly because of her size. Not many like to see someone tower above them. She doesn't abuse her size & heritage though. Treat others good and they will usually be nice back. She hasn't kept it a secret that she doesn't like the Pure Legion. Too overzealous. Plus laws don't really matter when they hurt people.
Xarina comes down looking refreshed and ready for the day.
I put my hat on the back of the chair and sit down at the second leftmost table and face my back to the wall.
I look over at Malchius. You're looking ragged, Malchius. Something got you down?
|Nathaniel Briton
Nathaniel, who bears more than a passing resemblance to Malchius (although they both deny any relation), is a serious man with a frequently unexpected sense of humor. A Taldan by birth and breed, he is less arrogant than most of his countrymen but no less sure of himself. He is a zealous Watchman who sincerely believes in what he does.
Nathaniel comes downstairs, as quietly and solemnly as he did the day before. He is unshaven and unrested. He collects his morning coffee from the bar without a word and sits down at the table with Xarina and Malchius. Sipping the black liquid slowly, drawing a measure of strength from its warmth, he speaks softly in a quiet voice, If we are going to discuss this, we should discuss it in private.
Raising his eyes and his voice, Nathaniel then wonders aloud, Has anyone seen Garrett?
|Garret Nihks
Among other halflings, there really wasn't much that made Garret stand out... until you got him to tell a tale. When Garret started on a story, he made you feel like you were watching it happen. Sure, he sometimes disappeared for no reason during the day and, yes, he sometimes knew things he shouldn't, but everyone had their quirks, right?
"Here I am." The storyteller says as he pulls over a chair, dressed in his usual many-pocketed clothes. "What we talking 'bout where?"
Malchius is arrogant and proud. At the same time, he is a reformed partier, so still possesses many of the entitled loafer, alternating with a strong work ethic when the mood takes him. He has a strong presence, born and bred into him, and he fully expects others to do what he says. He can twist words to make you think he's promised something that he hasn't. He resents his current situation (like their meager living situation, though he's polite enough to ever let their host know this), and craved finer everything from food to clothes. He's desperate to reclaim at least a part of his former wealth. Finally, he's so adamant that he practices no religion that it's almost like he's over-compensating. You know his family was ruined because its head practiced religion. As adamant as he was that those smugglers needed to be punished, he was sickened by the brutal killing. He'd much rather turn and use an asset than kill it.
"Apparently, we're not talking about my lack of sleep, though why that should require a private room is beyond me. I promise you that my lack of sleep last night had no cause we cannot discuss in mixed company."
|Nathaniel Briton
|Anslon Briarback
Just then Anslon stops at the table for a moment and places Xarina's breakfast in front of her. "Don't look so glum boys, you've almost made it through the first week!" the ever cheerful round man says.
Anslon, just like the rest of the Watchmen, call the group "boys" or "men" even though one of them is, in fact, a lady. No one in the Watchmen seems to treat Xarina any different than any of the other men. Could it be because she is a half-orc?
|Garret Nihks
Malchius grimaces sourly. "Okay, maybe a private room would be needed if we were actually going to talk about it, but since we're not, we don't need one. Maybe we could instead resume unraveling the mystery about why you have my face."
Malchius orders some breakfast himself and makes sure his espresso is on its way.
They probably treat her like one of the guys due to her demeanor. She acts like one of the guys most of the time anyways.
Ah, breakfast. I'm famished. She begins eating like the food was something special she had never eaten before. Anslon, you always did have a talent for making good grub. Bring a pot of coffee and a large mug would you? She glances at Malchius. Your face is too cute to belong to anyone else.
Malchius and Nathaniel, how tall are the both of you? Garret is pretty easy to guess. :P
|DM Sinvel
Re:lack of sleep, Although you are part of the Night Watchmen, they do indeed patrol mainly during the day. Especially here in the Trade Ward where most of the petty crimes happen during the day. The Watchmen in the Port Ward or the Residential Wards do patrol more during the night. The name, much like they name of your station house, is very old and their cause and duties have progressed over the centuries. Sorry for that lack of detail on my part. Let's say your shift is currently noon to midnight and it is about 10:30 in the morning.
Now, if your PC has some other reason to be lacking sleep...
|Anslon Briarback
"Not many make it through the first week, I'm guessing?" Garret asks. "Is it the change in the sleeping routine or the job that stops them?"
"Bah, there are near peace here. I recon you won't see much heavy crime, even around here. Is a fairly peaceful time with this Keeper we have. Of course, that doesn't mean the Pure Legion can't find a way to bash some heads in..." the innkeeper says.
|DM Sinvel
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Nathaniel gives Anslon a smile, as he eyes Xarina's breakfast somewhat uneasily.
Taking a deep drink of coffee, he turns his attention to Malchius, We've been over this my friend: you have my face, not the other way around. As for how you came to be graced with the chiseled features of a Taldan--when you quite clearly are not Taldan--is beyond my understanding. My best guess is that witchcraft and your mother are both involved somehow. Nathaniel smirks enough to make certain that Malchius knows he is making light of the undeniably uncanny resemblance they bear to one another.
In any event, I'm likely being paranoid; I think Xarina is starting to rub off on me.Nathaniel cracks a grin in Xarina's direction. Nevertheless, Nathaniel lowers his voice a bit as he turns to Garrett, We are talking about what we all saw happen two nights ago.
And with that Nathaniel falls oddly silent for a moment.
Sense Motive: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
What kind of roll is that? All I needed was a two! Grr
Xarina has smiley eyes at the paranoia comment.
She lowers her voice so only those at the table can hear.
The legionnaire that executed that girl is no better than those the legion claims they hunt. I say that there is more to them than they are letting on. With our new employment we should be able to keep a good eye out for anything. Anyone up for it?
She takes a gulp of hot coffee and continues eating.
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|Poulias Atregan
As the group is close to finishing breakfast and about to discuss things in Garret's room, a man walks up to the table. He is a little older and one of the men that has kept to himself so far this week. Before he approached the group just know it was hard to tell if any of you had even been members living under the same roof for a week.
"I guess we have some fresh faced young men with some stones here!" he says jovially. He sticks out his hand to Malchius. "That's a damn fine thing you did the other night with that cultist. Glad someone in here knows what needs to be done and when it needs to happen!" he says in a low tone, bending over close to Malchius' ear.
He then straightens up. "The name is Poulias, Poulias Atregan. And I hope the rest of you are as devoted as young Nathaniel here." he says with his hand on Malchius' shoulder, oblivious of his error.
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|Nathaniel Briton
Nathaniel stands dutifully to shake Poulias's hand. Following Malchius's lead, he leaves the issue of mistaken identity alone. We have a fine team here, sir. None finer." Nathaniel sits back down and fills a cup of coffee, which he then offers to Poulias. Regarding the cultist, do we know if she was alone, or were there others?
|Poulias Atregan
"Regarding the cultist, do we know if she was alone, or were there others?"
"The hells if I know, son. I just heard about what happened last night!" Poulias says. Then a puzzled look crosses over his face as he looks back and forth between Malchius and Nathaniel. He grumbles something to himself and walks back to his table away from the entrance and towards the back of the inn, where the more senior Watchmen congregate.
|Garret Nihks
"I'm surprised the Legionairrre didn't want to torture her to get more names and a confession. It's a good thing there aren't too many like that guy, or the guy that actually did the deed. Of course, we don't even know for sure she was guilty. I know you say you recognized her, but are you sure? Maybe she had just confiscated that symbol from a wayward brother she was trying to save from corruption."
Malchius' hypothetical waxing sounds entirely too close to home to him.
"I agree with you Garret. She didn't deserve to die. If she was guilty of she should have been taken for a trial. Everyone has the right to prove their innocence. I've known people that like to stir the pot from time to time. Or it may just be that this legionnaire has no scruples."
Xarina finishes the last bite of her breakfast and washes it down with a fresh cup of coffee. "Ahh! That hit the spot. The three of you enjoy that as much as I did?"
|Garret Nihks
"And beings, supposed to be so powerful that we should worship them, getting petty and vengeful when we don't play by their little rules. Does this really suggest that they're the type of creatures we should place our everything in. I wouldn't follow a leader that punished his underlings for not liking him, so why should I follow some god who behaves the same way?"
|Nathaniel Briton
Nathaniel stares vacantly at his cup.
It was her, says Nathaniel, apparently answering Malchius's earlier question. I'm certain of it. And she was a cultist; I'm certain of that too. It doesn't mean what the Legionnaire did was right, but she was a fool for not giving up her god when she had the chance. It's obvious her god gave her up ... for what? Nathaniel pauses to dull the angry edge that has crept into his voice.
The point is that she didn't have to die. She shouldn't have died. Nathaniel clears his throat.
Listen, none of this changes the fact that we all have a job to do. We let the Pure Legion do their thing; they let us do ours. Either way, the people of Azir need safe streets. We all do. ...
With a forced smile, Nathaniel stands with a mild wince. What time is it anyway?
|DM Sinvel
It is about 11:30am, half an hour before your patrol begins.
Sinvel, do we normally patrol in pairs or by ourselves?
Either in pairs or in fours. Depending on how much ground you want to cover. You all have one particular assignment from Judge Bao for your patrol this week: several people shopping for goods in the Market Square have been complaining about pick pockets taking their coins and other valuables. Other than that, the lower ranked Night Watchmen patrol the Market Square, a large open area where merchants set up their stalls and sell all manner of goods.
The Market Square is right in front of the Merchants Heaven Inn. Map of the Trades Ward, red dot is the Merchants Heaven Inn.
|Garret Nihks
|Nathaniel Briton
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|Nathaniel Briton
Nathaniel looks about for spiders.
Perception 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Seeing none (presumably), he offers with a smile, "I'm fresh out of spiders, so I guess we'll stick together.
With that, he takes his money pouch and lets out the strings so that he can wear it around his neck. "Good advice."
"Does anyone need to collect anything or are we ready?"
"Let me grab my weapons and I will be ready. Xarina gets up, puts on her hat and makes her way to the stairs. She walks past the table where Casmir Renfoult is sitting and acknowledges him with a nod. When he does the same she will continue upstairs. Once in her room she will leave all but 10gp behind in her chest in the room.
She then joins the others downstairs.
|Nathaniel Briton


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ALCS, Angels, BRING IT ON!!!
Yanks Swept ALDS, Now Ready For Next Step
WAHOO!!! We have conquered the Twinkies and swept them in the ALDS! I'm so proud of my Yankees. They haven't gotten this far since 2004, a year that I am still trying to forget. But hey, this team is BEAST!!! I have all the confidence in the world that they can do it. Anyway, the Yankees beat the Twins 4-1.
Pitching Analysis: Andy Pettitte was as fabulous as can be. What else is new. Andy + postseason = Yankee win. With his win in game 3, Andy has 15 postseason wins, the most in baseball. Pettitte was great on Sunday. He allowed just 1 run, an RBI double by Mauer, in 6 and 1/3 innings of work. Andy could have gone longer, but the bullpen has been so good lately, so you can't argue with taking Andy out. The Yankees have a killer starting rotation. CC, A.J., and Andy. When they are on, they are ON! And they are unhittable. And the bullpen has just been insanely amazing. If you think about it, pitching is what won this series for the Yanks. Yankee pitchers, give yourselves a bat on the back. Job well done to all of'ya🙂
Andy. Isn't he just the dandiest?🙂
Defensive Analysis: Derek Jeter has baseball instincts. In the 8th inning, Jeet made a fantastic play. With Punto on second, Denard Span hit a chopper to short. Jeet made a spectacular play to just get to the ball, but when his instincts took over it was just awesome. He held the ball for a bit, and then fired home, because Punto was heading for the plate! He must have thought the ball got through. So Jeet fired home, and Jorge fired to Arod at third, who tagged the diving Punto for the out. OUT! It was so cool.
Jeet lets the instincts take over….
….and Punto is out. Booya!
Offensive Analysis: The Yankees were trailing 1-0 heading into the 7th. It seemed like the way Pavano was pitching, the Yankees weren't even going to be able to buy a run. I was afraid to get up because I didn't want to jinx them, but my dinner was ready in the 7th. I got up and joined my family at the table for some delicious, homemade chicken soup. And of course, I missed it. Arod had to be a show-off-clutch-sexy-beast. He hit an opposite-field solo homer to tie the game at 1. His clutchness this series was unbelievable. Good for him. Later in the inning, Jorge Posada smashed an opposite-field solo homer, giving the Yanks a 2-1 lead! In a way, I kind of felt
bad for Pavano. Wait. Hold the phone. What am I saying? He was a bust for us. I hate him. Take that back, I was laughing at him. HAHA! The Yankees came back!
Hip, hip….JORGE!!!
The Yanks tacked on 2 more runs later on, giving them a 4-1 lead. After they won, they celebrated. And again I became envious of Kim Jones. I WANT HER JOB!!! Running around the clubhouse and interviewing alcoholic beverage-covered Yankees? What could be better than that? Seriously, I would pay to have her job.
Jorge begging for dear life.
CC getting attacked from the flank by Phil Hughes. What is Arod doing?
Thattaboy, Melky! Melky pours the bubbly all over Alex.
I have to wait until Friday to see my boys again? Ugh. How will I survive?! It seems like it's been forever since I last posted. Sorry about that. These AP classes are slowly taking over my life! Aside from the amount of work, this year is going well. I like all my teachers. They are Yankee fans, and they like my blog. How cool is that? My history teacher has easy access to my blog on his computer. He made a point to show me that today after school when I went to get feedback on my essay. Mr. Sayers, thanks for being a fan!
The ALCS. My Yankees are in it. This is great. I'm going to make sure I don't do ANYTHING to jinx them. I'll sit in that same spot on the couch, use that same pen when I take notes, and pray for them like I always do! GO YANKEES! I'm really starting to get excited now. And I thought I was excited before. I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!
** Note ** Our buddy EJ is back to blogging! Don't forget to check out his blog at http://yankeesquad.mlblogs.com/
Go Yankees!
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How cool is that that your history teacher reads your blog! Maybe you could do a combination history/Yankee post. I don"t kow what to do with myself until Thursday so I can imagine how you are! Now breathe in, breathe out.
I was expecting Melky pouring some milk or having some pour on him.
LOL that you were having homemade chicken soup when A-Rod hit the homer! (Sounds delicious, btw. How about posting the recipe?) And how cool that your teachers are Yankee fans who read your blog. I'd bet they'd give you an "A" for your writing. It's really good.
My mom has a chicken soup recipe that is to DIE for. Everything is homemade, including the noodles. I tell you, one bowl when you have a cold or something, and you're feeling better before you finish it.
The ALCS will be tough, the Angels are the one team I worry about more than any other, including Boston. I felt that a road to the World Series through the Red Sox would have been a hell of a lot easier, but if we're going to win, we need to exorcise some demons and now is as good a time as any to start.
I don't know what Alex has been eating this postseason, but I hope Kate Hudson keeps making it because he's turned into a beast. We're talking Bonds in '02 type beast. I just hope this postseason ends for Alex ends much different than that one ended for Barroids.
homemade chicken soup..mmmmmmmmmm….the sweep was sweet…good luck against the Halos…
Outside the Phillies Looking In
Personally, I want the Angels to win. Angels vs. Yankees should be very exciting especially since both of them finished the ALDS with sweeps. Bring it on Yankees🙂
Great post. The Yankees need to stop the Angels running game and counter that with the homers and a running game of their own. That's the only way they'll win this series.
Matthew Tang
You guys are going to do GREAT! PLEASE take down the Angels for me! xoxo http://diamondgirl55.mlblogs.com
I literally LOLed at the "I hate Pavano" part. He was such a #$#@$@ [insert more profanities here]. I can't stand him either, good or bad, the bum.
Buuut anyway, it was a great ALDS for us Yankee fans! I'm anxious for Friday. It isn't coming fast enough! Oy!


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Dordt College News
Gesink Named To All-Tournament Team
December 9, 2013
(Monday, December 9; Sioux Center, Iowa) Dordt College's Kayla Gesink (Junior; Sioux Center, Iowa) was named to the 2013 NAIA Volleyball National Championship All-Tournament Team for her play in the five matches Dordt College played.
Gesink totaled 222 assists in 20 sets and had 23 kills with 34 digs. She hit for a .315 kill efficiency as she averaged 11.1 assists, 1.2 kills and 1.7 digs per outing. She also had three service aces as the Defenders defeated Cardinal Stritch (Wisconsin), Lindsey Wilson (Kentucky) and Indiana Wesleyan. Dordt lost matches to eventual national runner-up, Biola (California), and Wayland Baptist (Texas), semifinalist in the NAIA Championship field.
Gesink is a two-time all-GPAC selection and she was a 2013 third-team All-American selection by the AVCA (American Volleyball Coaches' Association). She was also recently named a 2013 NAIA Scholar-Athlete.
2013 NAIA Volleyball National Championship All-Tournament Team:
Amy Weststeyn-Biola
Chelsee Arnitz-Biola
Trinity Ojo-Columbia
Jessica Israel-Concordia
Kayla Gesink-Dordt
Rachel Eubanks-Georgetown
Chrissy Daggett-Grand View
Emilie Freeman-Madonna
Megan Farley-Midland
Karlie Schutt-Northwestern
Samantha Dougherty-The Master's
Ana Guerra-Texas at Brownsville
Vanja Joksic-Texas at Brownsville
Shahala Hawkins-Wayland Baptist
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Social change and health care addressed at Great Lakes History Conference
Posted on October 04, 2012
The life of a 97-year-old Detroit activist and the history of health care reform are topics of keynote addresses during the 38th Annual Great Lakes History Conference at Grand Valley State University.
"Born in Revolution: History, Gender and the Power of Conflict," is the theme of the conference, October 12-13, at the Eberhard Center, 301 W. Fulton, on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus. A fee is required for the full conference; admission to the keynote addresses is free and open to the public.
"Both speakers are addressing topics that are of interest to the general public," said Gretchen Galbraith, conference organizer and associate professor of history. "We are honoring Michigan history and taking a look at the country's history of health care, in addition to nearly 20 panels that address our wider conference theme."
Los Angeles-based filmmaker and director Grace Lee will discuss and present highlights from her documentary film, "American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs," Friday, October 12, at 7:30 p.m. The biographical work-in-progress film explores the life and work of centenarian Grace Lee Boggs, a Detroit activist and feminist who was born before women could vote. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Boggs' life story embodies the major social movements of the last century. She remains a passionate writer and advocate for the rebirth of her adopted hometown.
Filmmaker Lee uses Boggs' work in Detroit as a springboard for a process of re-imagination, conversation and action. Her film asks audiences to rigorously reflect on their communities and themselves, and understand that revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in places like Detroit, is already happening. Learn more at http://americanrevolutionaryfilm.com.
Beatrix Hoffman is a historian of the U.S. health care system. The professor and chair of the Department of History at Northern Illinois University will present "Health Care for All! Women, Activism and the Human Right to Health," Saturday, October 13, at 12:30 p.m. Hoffman will provide an investigation of and explanation for what she calls America's long tradition of unequal access to health care.
Her latest book, "Health Care For Some," is a history of rights and rationing in the U. S., from the Great Depression through "Obamacare." Publishers Weekly praised Hoffman's "rational, plainspoken analysis [which] succeeds in clarifying the discourse around a topic of pressing national importance, delineating partisans' priorities and discarding the numerous distractions."
Registration for Hoffman's address is required; for more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/history. Free parking is available in the Fulton Street and Watson lots on Grand Valley's Pew Grand Rapids Campus.