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Art-Making Workshop
Nimbus Fragment with Celestials and Bodhi Tree, c. 100
India: Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, 75-125
Mottled red sandstone
21-3/4 x 39 in. (55.2 x 99.1 cm)
The Norton Simon Foundation
Carving a Masterpiece
Date: Sunday, April 21, 2013
Time: 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Educator: Jamie Sweetman
Type: Art-Making Workshop
The natural motifs found in the Museum's Indian and South East Asian sculpture collections serve as the focus for artist Jamie Sweetman's relief printmaking workshop. Participants spend the morning creating original designs inspired by the work in the galleries, which are then used to create carved stamps and printing blocks.
Meets in Entrance Gallery | The fee of $30 ($24 for members) includes all materials and admission to the galleries on the day of the class. | Online registration is required. For further information, contact the Education Department at (626) 844-6980.


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Even though performance and the amount of capabilities of integrated graphics processors (IGPs) that are either parts of core-logic sets or central processing units (CPUs) are constantly improving, there will always be a place for low-end standalone graphics processing units (GPUs), believes ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices.
"We will have low-end graphics cards because they still bring value to the end-user. We will make sure that this message comes out once we launch Fusion Llano products," said Shaila Bansal, a senior product manager for mainstream graphics at AMD's graphics division.
On Thursday ATI officially allowed its partners among makers of graphics cards to install high-speed GDDR5 memory onto relatively inexpensive Radeon HD 5550 adapters (powered by Redwood chip), effectively sending Radeon HD 5550 graphics cards with (G)DDR3 to lower price-points. By doing a rather simple and formal move, ATI boosted performance of graphics processing in the market segment, where improvements are expected, but not appreciated as in more advanced segments. The natural result of the price drop of the Radeon HD 5550 (G)DDR3 is its inevitable competition against much less powerful ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics cards based on Cedar chip.
The Redwood chip that powers ATI Radeon HD 5500-series graphics solutions has up to 400 stream processors, meanwhile, Cedar chip that is featured on ATI Radeon HD 5400-series boards only has 80 stream processors, the same amount as ATI Radeon HD 2400-series (RV710) processors three years ago.
Early next year AMD plans to launch the code-named Llano accelerating processing unit (APU) with up to four Phenom II-class x86 cores and with up to ATI Radeon HD 5000-class 480 stream processors. Potentially, Llano offers higher computing performance than Redwood, which means that AMD will have to refresh entry-level lineup otherwise Llano will likely stop sales Cedar-based products.
Underperforming Cedar, incoming Llano and inexpensive Redwood-based graphics cards clearly show that performance bar for low-end graphics either has to be increased or the low-end graphics will cease to exist. However, AMD believes that low-end graphics chips with 64-bit memory controllers will continue to serve the market after the launch of AMD Fusion family of APUs for desktops and mobiles. Moreover, even Cedar – which expensive versions cost the same amount of money as affordable more powerful Redwood-based boards – will not be discontinued anytime soon.
"There are no plans to discontinue the ATI Radeon HD 5450. […] 64-bit GPUs will continue [to exist] even after Fusion-type products come out," added Ms. Bansal.
Low-end graphics cards may be used for upgrades of rather old systems in order to enable better functionality. It is rather obvious that even ATI Cedar is much better than an integrated graphics solution of several years old. However, if AMD plans to quickly adopt new graphics technologies for its APUs, it will have to also ensure that the evolution of low-end discrete graphics processors happens quicker than nowadays.
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Man faces decades in jail for BB gun assaultBy Brent Curtis
staff writer | March 19,2014A Rutland man faces up to 35 years in jail for an alleged assault and robbery with a BB gun.
Roosevelt M. Norris, 44, pleaded innocent Tuesday to felony charges of assault and robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with a weapon.
When Norris public defender Nelson Floyd argued that setting bail at $75,000 was too high for an offense involving a BB gun, Judge Theresa DiMauro said she disagreed.
Its still capable of causing serious bodily injury if shot in the eye, the judge said.
According to an affidavit filed by Rutland City Police Detective Samson Delpha, Norris wouldnt have had to be much of a marksman to hit such a vulnerable target.
During the alleged assault on Monday afternoon, Norris allegedly pressed the muzzle into 32-year-old Robert Gradys eye while threatening to shoot him in the eye and the ear.
Grady told police that he was at his 21 Church St. apartment sometime after 5 p.m. Monday when Norris, who Grady said he knows by the names B and Maserati, knocked on his door.
He said he answered his door to find Norris pointing a gun at him that looked like a Glock handgun. Grady said Norris shot him with pellets while charging him. Grady told police he fell to the ground, and Norris got on top of him, striking him in the head and ribs with the butt of the gun.
While on top of Grady, Norris allegedly demanded to know Where is the (expletive) phone?
Grady said he was in fear for his life when he handed over his cell phone, a credit card and a jewelry box in the apartment.
Police say Grady was taken to Rutland Regional Medical Center where it took five staples to close a wound to his head.
Norris left the apartment but was arrested soon after in Castleton at the Trak Inn. Police say he was found with a carbon dioxide-powered BB gun along with Gradys phone, the credit card and a jewelry box.
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Hybrids Hires Plants and Herbs Retexture WIP
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High Resolution Scars
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|Replaces the scars with high resolution textures. All scars have been hand drawn using the originals as reference, at a resolution of 2048x2048. Although with some of them I had to improvise a little, due to the lack of detail. They were then scaled down to 1024x1024, the originals are 128x128. Most of the original scars looked like bloody, open wounds, I did not like that so I have not replicated it. I recently got a Wacom tablet, never used one of those before. This mod is the first one I...
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|This mod will replace all eye textures, of all races, of both genders (except the "Demon Eye" which is completely black). The difference is huge, I tried them all in game, no problems detected, they all look amazing, believe me. I have created the iris details in photoshop, using lots of altered and distorted pictures of flowers, many layers were blended together to get the final result. Hours and hours of work went into it. I have used the original eye textures as base, so they all have...
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Watch Toriko 65 vosta streaming English Sub. Watch streaming Toriko 65 vosta English Sub Thursday July 12, 2012. We are in for a great treat in the next episode of Bakuman. This coming Thursday, we will be given a back to back episodes namely Toriko 65 .
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In the world where the taste and texture of food are very important there is Toriko a hunter of precious foods regularly hired by restaurants and the rich , a man with inhuman skills to capture the ferocious, evasive and rare animals to complete his ultimate dinner course and then his current accomplice a weak timid person who was inspired by toriko's greatness and accompanies him on all his journeys on his quest for the course of his life
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Presbyterian Handles Howard 19-9
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Presbyterian College scored
12 goals in the first half, which included three from Shannon
Hartford, to secure the 19-9 victory over Howard in Women's
Lacrosse action this afternoon in Washington, D.C.
The win is the first of the season for PC as it improves to 1-2 overall and 1-0 in the National Lacrosse Conference. Howard falls to 0-3, and 0-1.
PC scored just 55 seconds into the first half as Catherine Ellis (Charlotte, N.C.) hit the back of the net off the assist from Laura Meade (Acworth, Ga.), who finished with a team-leading two assists. Brianna Ward (Cincinnati, Ohio) scored just over a minute later (assist Kirsten Stenoien from Houston, Texas) and the first half route was on as the Blue Hose rattled off the next 10 of the half's 12 goals to go to intermission leading 12-2.
Hartford posted her last goal of the game with just 25 seconds remaining in the first half.
Howard opened the second half scoring five goals to just one for PC and only trailed 14-6, before the Blue Hose outscored the Bison 5-3 down the stretch to take the 19-9 win.
Hillary Leonard (Duluth, Ga.) proved to be the star of the second half, scoring all thee of her goals in the final stanza, including PC's last two (with 6:49 and 5:36 remaining).
Following Hartford and Leonard in goals scored was Jaime Beamish (Memphis, Tenn.), Ellis, Katie Prisco (West Babylon, N.Y.), Ward and Laura Lefeber (Waxhaw, N.C.) who all had two each on the afternoon
Cheryse Cox and Desiree Cox led Howard with three goals apiece.
PC held the 20-9 advantage in draw controls and out-shot Howard 30-26. Saves were even at nine apiece with Amber Meeks picking up the loss for the Bison and Susan England (Bethesda, Md.) earning the win for the Blue Hose.
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Written by Erik M. on 07.12.2013 at 18:04
I think the vocals on here are extremely annoying at times, really too over-the-top. I guess I just highly prefer Johan Längqvist over Messiah Marcolin (even though he did the vocals on Nightfall as well). Overall this album is far less great than Nightfall and especially EDM.
Still a good album, but honestly I can't enjoy it a lot. Somehow the style is very different from the first two albums (especially the debut), as for example this is way less doomy.
Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 07.12.2013 at 18:28
I really like the album, and Messiah is a great overall vocalist, but he is too theatrical at times on this. Mirror Mirror in particular bothers me a little. I personally find the album after this one to be the better album.
Written by Erik M. on 07.12.2013 at 18:44
Yep, I agree about Messiah but he's overdoing it here in my opinion. On Nightfall he did a way better job. Or it's just that the music there appeals to me more, just like the music on EDM appeals to me the most out of the albums I've heard so far. I haven't heard the 4th album (I'm chronologically checking out their discography... taking my time). Is it more similar to this one, Nightfall or EDM?
Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 07.12.2013 at 18:47
On the whole I'd say Tales of Creation is heavier and doomier in tone than this. I only heard it relatively recently with respect to when I first heard the 3 original albums and I kicked myself to leaving it so late as I thought it was of their mediocre middle-era albums, which it totally isn't. There's a slightly cheesy power metal-esque instrumental in Into the Unfathomed Tower but that's easily overlooked.
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Talking union
With nowhere to turn, workers seek the only protection available
By Lionel Rolfe 03/25/2014
There's a curious thing about talking union. It's not cool. Unions ain't cool. They are so uncool you'll notice almost nobody writes about them. They ain't trendy, but they're the coming thing. True, most of the great folk songs about workers organizing are from yesteryear. But ignoring something doesn't mean it's nonexistent. No doubt there are more songs yet to be written.
Despite what one might think, Hollywood is not the only economic driver of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles area is one of the world's greatest industrial areas, comparable to the Ruhr in Germany or the vast industrial areas of Shanghai. There's a lot of organizing in the city these days. Some even dream of organizing Wal-Mart and McDonald's.
For many years, Harry Bernstein was the labor writer for the Los Angeles Times, and while his politics were distinctly middle-of-the-road, he knew his subject. During the glory years of the Times, he provided generally fair and knowledgeable coverage of labor issues, which was amazing considering that the newspaper had been known as the most anti-labor rag in the world.
Bernstein was a good antidote to the newspaper's history, and it also strongly suggested the owners really were trying to build up the old paper into something great and important. Now Bernstein is gone, and the Times apparently has no one left who can or would be allowed to write intelligently about labor.
When I went to work at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, I felt particularly proud to receive my Newspaper Guild card at the age of 16. I still remember talking with "Slim" Connelly, the first president of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild. Slim, needless to say, was not slim. Quite the opposite.
I loved reading Heywood Broun, the first national president of the Newspaper Guild in 1933. Broun was a Depression Era columnist who famously feuded with Westbrook Pegler, a writer who was as right-wing as Broun was left. The writers of those times were masters of invective, as well as beautifully polished prose which brought one to whatever scene they were describing more vividly than any modern television news crew could.
My love of unions came early. When I was still in junior high school, I used to deliver the Long Beach Press-Telegram. I was up at 5 a.m., folding newspapers and pedaling my way around town. I had a history of being a newspaper boy. Before the Press-Telegram, in my West Side neighborhood I delivered the old Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, owned by Manchester Boddy, who died in Pasadena in 1967 at the age of 75. Boddy's estate in La Cañada Flintridge, Descanso Gardens, was bequeathed as a floral garden to the county of Los Angeles.
I began delivering the Daily News, which published nearby on Pico Boulevard, because my father didn't want me growing up soft and lazy. What my dad did not count on was my discovery of class struggle. At his most left, dad was a middle-of-the-road Roosevelt Democrat. Later in life, he was a Reagan Democrat. Like Bernstein, he wasn't an ideologue, but as a workers' compensation appeals court judge he knew class struggle wasn't just an ideological term, but one that described a way of life.
I read lots of Charles Dickens and Jack London and I saw the faces of young men all over the world peering out from dreary factory windows, and mine shafts, and ships, and agricultural fields. I saw those factories in England when I took a train from London to Weymouth, where George II kept his navy. We passed rows and rows of dreary brick workhouses from Victorian times, haunting in their ugliness and oppressiveness.
At the Press-Telegram, I determined to organize the other paper boys. My boss was a large, red-faced Irishman with 12 kids of his own, and they all worked with him. He came to my father and urged him to rein me in. He told my dad that if he couldn't deal with the situation, the newspaper proprietors said they would fire him. My dad the judge understood class struggle, but he had grown up in the Depression relatively comfortable. That's because his father had been in the "wholesale liquor business" in Minnesota with old Joe Kennedy during Prohibition. Ben Papa was my nice old grandfather who doted on me. His greatest joy in retirement was polishing the magnificent chrome on his Chrysler, and then taking us to the drug store for a five-cent malt and a five-cent Saturday Evening Post.
My dad forbade me from continuing my organizing, but it taught me a lesson — I had some ability as an organizer. I'm a shop steward for my union at work today for a Los Angeles news service, which is somewhat allied with what's left of the old Newspaper Guild. In the case of my first organizing attempts at the Press-Telegram, I capitulated to my dad. I think we got a symbolic raise, and I got a tour of the city room on Pine Street, where I was allowed to write a pro-Adlai Stevenson letter to the editor. That's when the ink first got in my veins.
I knew that I probably did not have to look forward to a life as a member of the industrial proletariat. But I felt perilously close to it when an editor at my current employer used to constantly remind me of the tenets of true industrial journalism. "We're producing Chevrolets and McDonald's here. We want all those stories rolling off the assembly line looking the same." That was his constant refrain.
Now I know this is a far from perfect world, and labor unions are not all run by perfect gentlemen and gentlewomen. The father of an ex-wife of mine owned a furniture factory in Gardena that employed about 100 workers. My wife, writer and musician Nigey Lennon had worked for her dad — and he had run afoul of his straw boss, a real white guy, a Southerner by background, who was a Baptist minister on the side and also continuously made racist jokes about the mostly Mexicans who worked for him. He also would look at me. I don't recall him using the term "kike," but he liked using his hands to indicate I had a big nose; a lovely fellow, indeed.
One day a man named Tony showed up and announced that he was organizing the factory for the Teamsters. My ex-father-in-law wailed that he had always run a nice establishment where everyone was treated like family. He was mostly blind to his straw boss' considerable failures, not the least of which was a nasty habit of stealing furniture out the back door all the while talking about how we should all accept Jesus.
Now Tony was not a gentleman. He was a Native American with a rugged, red face. He wore loud plaid jackets in which he conspicuously carried a weapon. He liked to brag and wink and show off that weapon. My former father-in-law begged his daughter and me to help him write messages to his workers, telling them why they should not join the union. And to us, he said Tony and the Teamster were corrupt. Probably, we said. But your workers are demeaned and insulted by your straw boss. He's lucky he hasn't been stabbed and his body dumped in the alley at the rear of the factory.
The Teamsters got in and Tony was around a lot. When they negotiated, my father-in-law said they went into a room and watched a ballgame, just so the guys would believe the union was fighting for them. Instead, an envelope full of cash was handed to Tony. He was pocketing part of the money he had negotiated with the boss. Still, Tony gave his workers some clout, even if they only negotiated a corrupt, sweetheart deal. And the workers now had some real say over the fundamentalist straw boss who hated Jews and Mexicans.
And that's when I learned a basic lesson. When you talk union, the bosses aren't allowed to totally screw you over. It's not so much the raises, which are mostly paltry, although more than the bosses would offer on their own. It's the dignity you have by having some real clout as a worker and not being treated as nothing more than a wage slave.
When you're in the union and you talk to the boss, it's nice to know that you've got a Tony at your side. Tony, by the way, was later shot to death in Delano where he was trying to organize farm workers for the Teamsters.
Lionel Rolfe is the author of a number of books, all available at Amazon's Kindle Store. Follow him at twitter.com/lionelrolfe.
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Proposal in Congress could mean $20M for Vt.April 23,2013
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MONTPELIER — Proposals being considered by Congress to require Internet retailers to charge state sales taxes could mean $20 million a year in revenue for the state of Vermont.
Currently, Internet retailers don't have to impose a state sales tax unless the company has a physical presence in the state.
Vermont Tax Commissioner Mary Peterson tells Vermont Public Radio people who purchase items from e-retailers are supposed to pay the state sales tax, but they rarely do.
Many small retailers have complained that this gives the Internet retailers an unfair price advantage and state officials are upset because they lose revenue.
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Cycling blogs
Hi people. Â I wanted to briefly mention a couple of new cycling blogs I've found and like. Â Cycleicious is great and ran an article recently about new biking blogs in 2011. Â I commented on the post and the site administrator added Biking in Memphis to the list. Â Hooray for shameless self-promotion!
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Dr. Sudhakar Jamkhandi Named to WV Higher Education Policy Commission's Diversity Council
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(Bluefield)—Dr. Sudhakar Jamkhandi has accepted an invitation to serve on The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission's (HEPC) new Diversity Council. Jamkhandi, Director of the Office of International Initiatives & Professor of English at Bluefield State College, was appointed to a two-year term as a Council member. He is also a Fulbright Specialist for Internationalizing Institutional Capacity, 2011-2016, a designation given him by the Fulbright Commission and the US Department of State.
Dr. Kathy Butler, HEPC Vice Chancellor of State Colleges and Senior Director of Academic Affairs, extended the invitation, noting that the Diversity Council's initial goals will include: a) providing direction to the Commission regarding how existing programs and policies can be coordinated and improved to enhance and celebrate diversity; b) helping to establish a framework for the long-term continuation of the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative, and; c) providing recommendations regarding appropriate roles for the Commission in supporting and encouraging campus and community diversity initiatives at WV's higher education institutions.
"It is an honor to represent the Office of International Initiatives, Bluefield State College, and this region as a member of the Diversity Council," Jamkhandi observed. "I look forward to the opportunity to work together with my fellow Council members and achieve the Council's goals."


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In recent years, scientists have made much progress toward understanding what happens in cells of the cervix when cancer develops. In addition, they have identified several risk factors that increase the odds that a woman might develop cervical cancer (see the previous section).
The development of normal human cells mostly depends on the information contained in the cells' chromosomes. Chromosomes are large molecules of DNA. DNA is the chemical that carries the instructions for nearly everything our cells do. We usually look like our parents because they are the source of our DNA. However, DNA affects more than the way we look.
Some genes (packets of our DNA) have instructions for controlling when our cells grow and divide. Certain genes that promote cell division are called oncogenes. Others that slow down cell division or cause cells to die at the right time are called tumor suppressor genes. Cancers can be caused by DNA mutations (gene defects) that turn on oncogenes or turn off tumor suppressor genes.
HPV causes the production of 2 proteins known as E6 and E7 which turn off some tumor suppressor genes. This may allow the cervical lining cells to grow too much and to develop changes in additional genes, which in some cases will lead to cancer.
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Steam Autumn sale; discounts on practically all the games the Nexus supportsposted by Dark0ne Game NewsAs I'm completely blind to Steam at the moment while playing Planetside 2 I was unaware Steam were going through their Autumn sale. Now, as far as I can tell Steam have a sale on every day of every year (not that that's a particularly bad thing) and they remind me a lot of those stores that have "closing down sales" only to still be around a year later, so I become a bit blind to the sales on offer. Anyway; Nexus user SeraphTC kindly let me know of the sale was going on and, quite awesomely, you can pick up pretty much every game that we support in this current sale at great discounts. Here are the prices at time of writing:
X-Com: Enemy Unknown £20.09 (-33%)
Mount & Blade £4.99 (-50%)
Mount & Blade Collection (all the games) £14.99 (-50%)
Dark Souls £20.09 (-33%)
Fallen Enchantress £16.74 (-33%)
Legend of Grimrock £5.99 (-50%)
Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition £9.99 (-50%)
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition £1.74 (-75%)
The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition £7.99 (-60%)
Fallout Collection (1&2&Tactics) £5.43 (-66%)
Fallout 3: Game of the Year £8.99 (-40%)
Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate Edition £17.99 (-40%)
Skyrim £23.44 (-33%)
Dawnguard £9.37 (-33%)
Hearthfire £2.33 (-33%)
Oblivion: Game of the Year £8.99 (-40%)
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Morrowind: Game of the Year £7.79 (-40%)
The Witcher 1 and 2 together for under a tenner? The entire Mount & Blade collection for £14.99? New Nexus entries Fallen Enchantress, Dark Souls, Legend of Grimrock and XCOM all discounted by 33% or more? If you haven't got the games yet and you were teetering on the edge then now's your chance. You have until the 27th of November, or next Tuesday, to get in on these deals.


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God bless Harry Styles!
"Some claim that homosexual teens on Teen Wolf and transgender students on Glee desensitize children to "alternative lifestyles" and push an agenda."
Well I guess this technically true. Seeing it portrayed as normal and acceptable on TV will make people more likely to share those sentiments in real life. Though not by blindly copying, but simply because it offers a new and rational perspective on subjects where previously the only opinions they've heard was their priest frothing at the mouth while shouting about damnation.
And yes we do have an agenda, to be treated fairly and equally, and media exposure sure helps there.
WOW!!! I was wondering why I had this unusual attraction to bit purple dinosaurs. Case closed.
If enough Catholic priests molest enough children some of them will happen to be gay later on as adults. Using confirmation bias we ignore the non-gay adults who were molested by Catholic priest(s) as children and only count the gay adults who were molested by Catholic priest(s) as children. Then the current Catholic priest concludes that molestation causes homosexuality.
Confirmation bias can be a very useful tool when you are desperate to deny reality.
My mother was not overbearing, my dad was there, I was never molested, and I actually used to only watch dvds when I was young. TV sucks.
And now I'm a confirmed lover of the dick :D
NARTH. Isn't that what Pinkie of "Pinkie and the Brain" would say? ;)
@kevininbuffalo: I'll drink to that!
One thing I always wondered is, if they think that being molested by a man will make a boy become gay, why do they think that a girl that is molested by a man will become a lesbian man-hater? How does that work, exactly?


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- Wave-formed sediment ripples: transient analysis of ripple spectral development
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- Davis, Joseph P.; Walker, David J.; Townsend, Murray; Young, Ian R.
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- A new method has been developed that models the changes a wave-formed rippled sediment bed undergoes as it is actively evolving between two given equilibrium states due to a change in surface wave conditions. The transient analysis of rippled beds has received very little attention within the literature. Dynamic changes within ripple parameters have implications for the estimation of flow dissipation and sediment transport by changing the bottom roughness height. The method uses the spectral density function of the rippled bed and is based on a series of ripple growth and ripple transition experimental tests. The ripple evolution model was developed from the well-known Logistic Growth Law. Fitting the general solution of the logistic nonlinear differential equation to the experimental data enabled the evolution rate of the bed to be determined for each experimental test. It was concluded that there was no difference between the evolution rate determined from the ripple growth tests and the ripple transition tests. This indicated that the two types of growth are special cases of the same evolution processes, which is adequately modeled by the logistic growth equation. A functional dependence was established between the ripple evolution rate and the Shields parameter. This allows the evolution rate to be estimated from flow and sediment properties. The estimation of the rate at which rippled sediment beds evolve under a variable sea state has the potential to lead to significant improvements to the way ripple transition and hence bottom roughness is approximated in coastal wave models.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Chancellery
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- Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 109, no. C7 (Jul 2004), article no. C07020
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A rescue dog known as Britain's "real-life Lassie" is retiring after saving 14 lives.
Mij, a 10-year-old Welsh collie, led more than 200 search and rescue missions during her seven-year career, becoming known as the country's most dependable rescue dog, The Telegraph reported.
Born with health problems, she was nearly put to sleep when she couldn't keep up in search-and-rescue training classes.
But her handler, Iain Nicholson, refused to give up and helped Mij become a star student.
The pair is now a pioneering duo, becoming the first human-canine team in the United Kingdom to successfully follow the trail of a person missing for more than 24 hours, according to The Daily Mail.
"The woman Mij saved would never have been found, but thanks to her she was rushed to hospital and made a full recovery," Nicholson said of his canine companion.
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Burlesque Dancer Tomahawk Tassels Suspends Indian-Themed Act
Minneapolis-based burlesque dancer Tomahawk Tassels is hanging up the sexy Native American shtick -- for now, at least.
Local culture guide Vita.mn reports that Tassels, who was born Amanda Riley and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, won't be wearing a feathered headdress or buckskin bikini when she performs tonight at local venue Ground Zero with Dr. Farrago's Burlesque Theatre, nor will she on Saturday at Amsterdam Bar & Hall as part of Le Cirque Rouge.
Tassels, who says her father, whom she did not know growing up, was an unenrolled Cherokee Indian, has weathered criticism over her costume and act for years. Tassels' situation of late is a strange one: She's been attending Idle No More events wearing what many natives would consider a parody of traditional dress, and finding a chilly reception. According to Vita.mn, Tassels fears for her safety. However, she also says that the Violence Against Women Act is a factor: "I've heard the statistics [about the higher rates of rape and assault for Native women] quoted to me constantly. My response is that rape is awful anytime -- I don't support that… it's one of the reasons why I'm suspending at the moment. Maybe VAWA will get passed, maybe it won't be as much of an issue."
Although cognizant of the statistics, Tassels doesn't feel there's a connection to what she does: "Getting onstage, you are empowered. It's not saying I'm sexually available to everyone in this room, it's not an open invitation." She also sees attacks on her as a form of blaming the victim. "Why blame the woman when the issue at hand is the male dominated culture that is negative and hateful toward women?" she told Vita.mn.
She gave an explanation for her decision on her Facebook page which read, in part:
I have raised the white flag. Said my piece. Suspended the art that is supposedly offensive. Questioned, debated, gotten angry, felt misunderstood, cried until I can't cry anymore. Blocked all the haters. Tried to remain humble, honest, and true to myself. Now, I must move on. ... I am willing to step back. Listen. Research. Educate. Strengthen myself. Find clarity of vision.
Although Tassels is speaking in terms of surrender and education, she is apparently going to keep using her stage name even if she leaves the costumes and props behind. Some Natives see that as evidence she isn't really serious about change, and they've organized a Retirement Protest for Tomahawk Tassels tonight.
At Last Real Indians, Chase Iron Eyes offers his support to the protest, making a direct connection between Tassels and "the un-nerving Violence Against Women, especially Indigenous women, the rapes, the molestation, the beatings, the recent gang rape of a Native woman -that's what Tomahawk Tassels promotes."
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Guest post: why I don't give in to submission by Mark Antony OwenTuesday, December 18th, 2012
The other day on Twitter I was chatting with Mark about a poem he's written recently, and he happened to mention that it's his policy never to send his poems out for publication in magazines. As this is a bit of a break from the usual poetrythink, I was intrigued to find out why… and thought you might be, too. So I invited Mark to write a guest post! Enjoy…
The thinking goes like this: if you write, you write to be read. And as a poet, I certainly want to be read. So why don't I submit my work to respected journals and sites? Or rather, having had five poems accepted for publication and only one rejection, why did I stop submitting? My thinking goes like this …
Poetry journals, in print or online, can be a great way for readers to discover new writing, new poets. At their best, they're a platform for excellence – a filtration system that keeps the 'bad' writing from the 'good'.
But journals can also skew one's view of a poet or their work – as I discovered by accident.
Having read some print and online journals, I found several poets whose work I admired and whose collections I went on to buy. What was shown of their work was, I found, representative of their style and subject matter. Bottom line? One happy reader/customer. But there were also poets whose output I initially rejected as a result of seeing their work, in isolation, in journals. Poets whose collections I later dipped into in bookshops, only to find I actually quite liked other of their poems.
Frankly, I felt a little bit misled.
Now of course, it would be terribly unfair to journal editors to castigate them for having their own literary preferences and choosing to publish only those works which they deem to have merit. And anyone who reads a particular journal for long enough will surely get to know an editor's tastes and can then decide whether or not these match their own. But the fact remains that journals can only showcase a poet's work as a 'slice' – at first, anyway. And that slice may not cut it for everyone.
So we come to my reason for not submitting. Is it fear of rejection? Is it fear of the agonising wait for a response that might be a rejection? Is it artistic arrogance? It's none of these. It's simply that I don't believe my own poems stand up well individually. By which, I don't mean each poem isn't readable or even rewarding in its own way. I mean that I conceive my poems as details in a larger canvas. Yes, you can appreciate them close up. But I prefer them to be seen within the context of a collection. I just think they work better that way; and it's completely unreasonable of me to expect them to be seen this way if they're being published in ones and twos across various journals.
Let me be clear – I'm not knocking (or rejecting) journals. I'm simply saying they're not for me or my work. At least, not now I've found my style and have a broad creative vision for my writing. You might think: 'If you don't submit, how will you be read?' Good question – and one to which I don't have a good answer. All I know is that I'm not about to give in.
Mark Antony Owen is a poet who writes exclusively in syllabic metre. His poetry draws on that world where the English countryside bleeds into ordinary suburban living – a world he refers to as 'subrural'.
Mark builds around details of subrural life to create economical poems; each obeying one of nine self-developed forms or variations on these – his subjects often painted a little darker than they really are.
From autumn 2013, Mark will self-publish 'Subruria': a multi-volume collection he describes as part sketchbook, part journal, part memoir.
You can find out more at Mark's website or follow him on Twitter.
Want to write a guest post for One Night Stanzas? Email me a short, informal pitch to claire [at] onenightstanzas.com and we'll talk!
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Hoffmeier is currently a professor of Near Eastern archaeology at Trinity International University, Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill. He grew up in the Middle East and has been engaged in fieldwork and research in Egypt on a regular basis since 1975. He has published several books regarding the Bible and Egypt, and he's spoken at various engagements all over the world.
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Can anyone explains me how they deflected the Bijuu Dama from the juubi?
Finally..... they have been running for quite a some time now ...... its time to show sasuke i guess.....
I love how the Juubi just flicked away the tailed beast bomb all "Like a baws"...
And how Obito said Naruto could just become Hokage inside the Infinite Tsukuyomi.. I think that shows that Obito's mind is just set on one thing.. But in a way very similar to a child, where he disregards reality, and facts - so that combined with the fact that he sees himself in Naruto makes base for a classic Naruto-Talk-no-jutsu
And I think the support will give the rest they all need to regain the chakra etc.
But other than that, I don't think they will change the situation.. It's like sending an army of ants into a battle of lions.. - While they can be very anoying, they won't really do any difference
fuuton: ninja's will power wind cutting no jutsu
oh god, this fight is boring and annoying. i really hope sasuke comes back soon. do you know how many times naruto said i wanna be hokage during 15 chapters?
Unbelievable. The K11 finally arrive after all this time? Now its an army against a monster that can kill them all in an instant? I can just see it now, Madara uses the Juubi's soul sucking tech to kill hundreds of people in an instant. Not to mention, the alliance grouping up like this? They are just making themselves perfect targets for the infinite Tsukyomi..... smh.
5/5 Amazing Chapter!!
I liked the pacing in this chapter a lot. and I honestly have a feeling that Naruto's so called "Super amazing Jutsu" is gonna end up being a failure, a comic jutsu or something like that.
I'm still waiting for the Mangastream translation as I personally don't trust Mangapanda/Mangareader's translations at all.
a great chapter overall, very likeable too.
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… Naruto is already out but I am waiting for BLEACH!!!!
Well... the chap was just anothoer Naruto chap. Can't say I liked it or not. It didn't touch me.:shrug:
Awesome chapter is awesome. Although I don't like how Kishi keeps teasing us about NaruHina
Holy COW .. I Like It ..
Seen the tech in a filler once .... i wanna see what happen .... how the 4 divison survived i thought that the metorite killed em
Not bad...
The new jutsu doesn't sem like it will be any different than one of Temari's wind techs,maybe Naruto will put a spin on it.
Funny to see the Juubi, just pop Bee's Biju dama back at him so effortlessly. I forgot Naruto Biju Mode had a limit. I didn't expect to see all the Shinobi alliance there, I thought just K11 would show up, I doubt they will make a difference though. Hopefully we switch to Sasuke next week.
Instead of "Arrived" the should have name this chapter "Arrive Of the Fodders" because we all know whats going to happen to them :/
Absolutely stunning chapter - the best I've seen in so long. The last page panel of everyone together was so good, I've been waiting for it to happen for so long. I Lol'd at kibas on liner, they are in the worst situation and he is still got cheeky banter.
One thing I didn't get was the Ino hyuuga combo anyone understand it? Also did Ino mind transfer the Juubi.... Wtf?
Originally Posted by 6DIVINExJUDGEMENT8
its called plot no jutsu. the bijuus had trouble with it, you really think k11 have anything in their arsenal that could deflect something like that from the juubi itself? i don't think so :/
You can't be serious..
it was explained in the chapter, that two shinobi (a Hyuuga and a Yamanaka) worked together. and they got inside Obito's mind (apparently Obito and Madara are controlling the Juubi as of right now) and they sort of ordered the Juubi to move his attack. that is why in one panel Kakashi and co. where shocked because they though that the Juubi did it on his own will.
Nice, very nice..Now what's this new wind technique Naruto is talking about?? Haha when I read the title of the chapter I thought it was Sasuke arriving lol and to my surprise it was the entire shinobi army, nice one Kishi you got me there..now I'm stuck wondering when are the Kages showing their useless faces again lol (I say "useless" because lets be honest, what did they do? nothing, apart from Gaara really who took out a few edo tensei's)
Originally Posted by Gatsuuga
Absolutely stunning chapter - the best I've seen in so long. The last page panel of everyone together was so good, I've been waiting for it to happen for so long. I Lol'd at kibas on liner, they are in the worst situation and he is still got cheeky banter.
One thing I didn't get was the Ino hyuuga combo anyone understand it? Also did Ino mind transfer the Juubi.... Wtf?
@Bold : While I didn't understand how exactly the Hyuuga shinobi assisted the Yamanaka shinobi with the Shintenshin no jutsu, they actually didn't control the Juubi, they used the Shintenshin on Obito (That is why in one panel, it showed a dark background behind Obito and he said *Tsk*, as he knew he was caught in the Shintenshin) apparently, Obito and Madara are the ones controlling the Juubi as of right now, it would explain why they are connected to it.
loved the chapter 5/5 for me FINALLY the ninja army is here this should be good the next couple of chapters are going to be chaotic as hell and when juubi flicked away a bijuu dama that is just insane for a second i thought bee was going to die and damn ino was so good in this chapter talk about timing
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Locally shot movie screened in Liberty
June 12, 2013 —
According to the International Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the story line of the feature film "Contest" is: "A bullied high school student is suddenly befriended by his chief tormentor and together they face challenges that will change their lives forever." One of the challenges they face is that they must win a cooking contest.
Local youth Blake Nichols won a role as one of the bullies in the film, and his mother, Francine, was involved in presenting a screening of the movie at Liberty High School on June 7. Francine said the screening was a gift to the community from the producers and director. She said the film was shot in Liberty High School, Fallsburg High School and Sullivan County Community College as well as various homes in the area. She said it was a real Sullivan County project.
Roberta Byron-Lockwood, president and CEO of the Sullivan County Visitors Association, told lawmakers about the screening at a meeting at the government center on June 6, and listed some of the other films made in the county recently.
She said a production company is in the process of performing site selection in the county for a pilot for HBO. She said the creators of the show "Lost" were seeking to make a series called "The Leftovers."
She said, "Obviously we're not a movie Mecca, but we've had some good success stories in the past few years. The film 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' was all done here. 'Knuckle Jack' shot a little bit in our office, but primarily they stayed in the Parksville area."
There was also the movie "Jamie Marks Is Dead," which was shot in the early spring at the abandoned Apollo Plaza and at Monticello High School.


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1. You deny saying that you think all is well with SL but then in point 2 of your post, you list a litany of successes of SL. You apparently do think SL is a roaring success.
2. No there hasn';t ever been a fully profitable or even a remotely fully profitable or, in fact, anything which even faintly resembles a profitable SL. However, if we don't get a lot closer to a profitable operation, there will be "touble at t mill", big time.
As to your laundry list.I will agree with a, e and f. Of the remainder
b. This is not true. Since we went to Sky and dumped terrestrial TV, e.g. the players trophy and most internationals, the profile of RL has vastly decreased. There is no comparison with the exposure on Sky TV compared to the BBC. The BBC is hundreds of time bigger in the exposure league than Sky. Do not interpret this as me saying that I do not value the Sky coverage because I do. The money from themn is vital BUT in terms of exposure, Sky has reduced the profile of the game in this country.
c. This is patently false. The game is played all over the country due to the initiative of Lionel Hurst and thereafter the RFL and the growth of the Summer Conference league and then the appointment of development officers nationwide due to the Sports England wwindfall. SL had very little if anything to do with this.
d. I am not so sure they have developed more amd more professional players from all across the country. Firstly, many hundreds, if not thousands, of professional players were recruited from Australasia. This was even more true in France, than England. The other professional players produced were, as always, introduced to the game via the amateur ranks and any gems uncovered were hoovered up by SL clubs.
3. The number of clubs being too great at 14.I disagree with this also. It is not the number of clubs that is the problem, it is the level of finance and cash that is needed to successfully and, god willing, profitably operate.The bar has been set too high. We need to pay less so as to enable us to break even in more places. It's no good having 6 five star hotels when you can have a motel in every town in the country for less and still attract guests.Reducing the numbers to give more cash to Wigan, Leeds or Saints is not the answer. Reducing the numbers sends out a message of failure. Every mega business, Woolworth comes to mind, cuts out huge numbers of branches when they start to fail. We should not go down that road unless we really are seriously declining.
Maurice Lyndsay was a typical greedy, grasping business tycoon. He wanted to have less clubs so that there was more pie to divvy up with his cronies at the top clubs. He was not doing it to satisfy Murdoch. Murdoch wanted our game in his pocket to put Kerry Packer to the sword in the SL war back in Australia. He was so hot to do that that when the clubs initially balked, especially those who were going to be excluded from SL, he immediately, without a murmur, coughed up extra millions to placate the clubs and seal the deal.
Have you considered what you propose, i.e ditch two SL clubs, turn the championship clubs into parasites. In short, decimate the whole of width and breadth of RL to enable SL to spend more than it can afford or to enable it to function for the sake of 12 clubs. It took RU 50 years to claw back the losses form the great split. Casting teams out is a bad strategy. It is better to lower your expenses to enable existing clubs to function. Expansion and holding the line is good. Contraction is bad for the many for the benefit of the few.
I would be delighted if SKY coughed up more cash. I think they possibly could. However, whenever I have ever suggested this previously, you have strenuously argue that there was no way they would ever do so. You need to be consistent.
Lastly, nobody wants SL to collapse. It would be the death knell of the game. I don't think anyone on these boards wants that. It's to avoid that specifically that I am saying, if we can't afford to operate at current levels, we must reduce our costs to the point where we can at the very least break even. My feeling is that you are a professional in a financial field. If so, you should know very well that we cannot keep on vastly overspending and getting further into the mire year after year but you seem to advocate that. Cost cutting to save the game seems to be an anathma
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It's a case of "green," turning the bottom line "red."
Or at least that's a fear of number-crunching economists on the Council of Revenues.
With photovoltaic credits flying high, the tax collections are expected to shirk.
The state tax office said it is in the process of tightening up the criteria for what qualifies for the solar tax credits now pegged at $5,000 per system.
"It's coming down the pike. There was a lot of concern during the last legislative session. We would like to get something in place as soon as possible," said State Tax Director Fred Pablo.
Proposed changes to new administrative rules are expected in about a month and could take effect around the first of the year.
Pablo said there has been lots of confusion about what qualifies and how many credits homeowners can claim.
Over the past few months, the state has reached out to the industry to understand what impacts of reducing the credit or restricting what can be claimed on your taxes.
"The more information we can get out to the consumers, to the tax preparers they seek advice from, to the solar industry, the better guidelines on what would qualify for the credit," said Pablo.
The city says in the last two fiscal years the number of solar permits has soared dramatically.
In 2012, it issued 6,950 permits, compared to 3,102 in the previous fiscal year.
Hawaiian Electric Company says five years ago, solar systems generated 10 megawatts of power for the grid. That has doubled every year since.
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|DM Chaos
Welcome all to the OOC page. Please jump in and get to know each other.
I have gotten the initial IC post about 1/2 done - takes a while to create it with all the backgrounds. I hope to have it within a day or two - except that work seems to keep sticking its nose into my pbp time and may push it a day or so.
Once again, congrats on being selected and get ready to see just how evil the elements can be.
|Glorfin Umbar-Caeli
Waves to all present and mouths obligatory effusive thanks for selection and what not.
Will work on getting Glorfin to being the dwarfiest Aasimar he can be tonight.
|Tybek Odeon
Greetings everyone! I am very pleased to meet all of you. I am really looking forward to playing this campaign with such great characters! I cannot remember much of the details of this old module, but this will be like taking a step back in time to my early years of AD&D. So what time zones are you all posting from? I am in eastern standard time.
|Ranim Nejem
...hiccup!...Hello everyone! Let's raise a glass and toast...to new friends! he intones a prayer...
btw I won't be pushing the drinking all of the time, it's just his hook :]
Updated stats and equipment, Arindale should be ready to go.
|Glorfin Umbar-Caeli
As most of you will already be aware - I'm GMT+8 in Malaysia.
DM Chaos - would you like us to do the status line next to our name? - or can we run with race and class?
|DM Chaos
Welcome all - we have our dwarves and our tall people, just waiting on the little folk.
For the Status line, it is up to you. I like the Saves, AC (Touch/FF) and key skills (Perception, etc) - hp are good, but because they change in a battle, it makes it harder to track since the stat line changes.
I cannot say that I am the best at it as a player, but I find that if you create a spoiler block on your sheet, you can just copy the spoiler from your sheet (or you PC if that is where you save it) whenever you make a new post. In the Stat Spoiler include your HP, AC (with magical modifiers) and spells in effect. Doing it this way makes it easier for me to know your status and also to backtrack to discover whether mistakes have been made. Since the Status Line updates whenever you update you Profile and whenever a new page is loaded, it loses any benefit historically whereas a Stat Spoiler never changes (unless you edit it in the first hour).
|Braden Montajay
Hobbit wizard checking in.
Thanks for the selection. I am Eastern Standard Time. Just to let you know, Braden is not your happy go lucky hobbit. He is somewhat cynical and sarcastic. Think of Harry Dresden in a hobbit body with the face of an innocent child (without the duster but a pipe).
|Maegge Weissam
Thank you, GM Chaos, for selecting me!
I'm CST. Anyone else have problems connecting today? I've been trying most of the morning, and only now got through.
Braden, we should adjust backgrounds to be family (instead of Falco)! We're from the same area, and even match as focusing on Conjuration-ing. My disappearance could be the tipping point for you to decide to leave your home and go looking for me.
|Tybek Odeon
Maegge, I've been trying to get on the boards all morning and was unable. I am glad we are on now! I think this is going to be an interesting group!
Chaos, As for the Stat line, I find it really helpful as a DM, especially if you want to include the use of the health bar on the characters in your map tools. It saves you opening up and looking at many windows to find that current number in the middle of a battle. It is also a big help to any cleric in the party who may want to heal the others.
|Maegge Weissam
|DM Chaos
Maegge, I've been trying to get on the boards all morning and was unable. I am glad we are on now! I think this is going to be an interesting group!
Chaos, As for the Stat line, I find it really helpful as a DM, especially if you want to include the use of the health bar on the characters in your map tools. It saves you opening up and looking at many windows to find that current number in the middle of a battle. It is also a big help to any cleric in the party who may want to heal the others.
Thanks - that is why I like the spoilers. Yeh, you have to open them, but that is pretty easy, and you can also include any spells or other effects so that it is easy to see. Really during battles - and once again, I do not do this consistently in my games, is make something like this:
Round 2
hp: 9/13
AC 18 (+4 Dex, +4 Mage Armor)
Spells in effect:
Mage Armor - 1 hour
Vanish - 2 rounds
Fort: +1
Ref: +4
Will: +3
It is not perfect, but I have one or two characters where I have this spoiler on my character sheet. I edit it for the current round on my character sheet, and then cut and paste the whole thing to my IC combat post. It only adds one line to the post since everything is in the spoiler and provides me, and everyone else, the information needed as to what is going on.
No, you do not have to do this, but the easier it is for me, and the fewer mistakes I make, the faster things will proceed. (This is also why I really do not like cutting and pasting from HeroLab as the skills and feats are all in horizontal lines, are lacking anything that you do not have ranks in, and do not have special modifiers (familiar bonus, Favored Enemy bonus, etc).
Putting everything on the status line is great, it is just that you have to remember to adjust it every time you post and as I mentioned before, it does not provide any historic data since the status line for every post since day one changes each time you update it.
Anyway, get to know each other. I will try to look over the character sheets as I write up the intro for each of you. I already found one person with the stats still off (already fixed, thanks), so please check to make sure your stats, skills, feats, etc. are correct and how you want them.
|Tybek Odeon
No problem, Chaos. Just let me know what I can do to help! I am always willing to keep the DM happy!
I was so excited to meet of all you, that I didn't realize that this was a pancake house! So how many of you use real maple syrup with your pancakes? I live in Vermont and we would be laughed at and have our loyalty questioned if we didn't.
|DM Chaos
No problem, Chaos. Just let me know what I can do to help! I am always willing to keep the DM happy!
I was so excited to meet of all you, that I didn't realize that this was a pancake house! So how many of you use real maple syrup with your pancakes? I live in Vermont and we would be laughed at and have our loyalty questioned if we didn't.
Bah - traitor - what Tybek is not telling you is that he is born and bread in New Hampshire where they make real maple syrup. Since he has now moved out west to Vermont, he has fallen under the sway of the dark side (I suppose in VT that would be the green side) and is now preaching about Vermont Maple Syrup. Traitor.
Regarding the name, you do not want to know how many Iuz Inns, Iuz campsites, and Iuz's houses of debauchery I went though before finally settling on a pancake house. Simply calling it the "ToEE Discussion" just kind of seemed a little boring.
|Maegge Weissam
Ha, like I'd touch anything else besides 100% real maple syrup! Except the apricot syrup, every once in a while at restaurants
"ToEE Discussion" is like pancakes without syrup: you can do it, but it's just wrong.
Dammit, now I'm hungry for pancakes!
|Glorfin Umbar-Caeli
We'd occasionally have a pancake dinner on a weekend... while lemon juice and sugar was nice I enjoyed eating mine with beef stock. Of course these were probably more like crepes in terms of the batter, but still good.
|DM Chaos
We'd occasionally have a pancake dinner on a weekend... while lemon juice and sugar was nice I enjoyed eating mine with beef stock. Of course these were probably more like crepes in terms of the batter, but still good.
I am guessing there are not a lot of sugar maples in Aussie land or Malaysia.
|Braden Montajay
First, I need to establish my syrup cred: I have ridden in a sap cart and dumped the buckets by hand into the cart pulled by the tractor, and then went back to the sugar house to put the wood in and boil the sap. It gets no better than the real stuff. Now this was in upper Ohio at my college roommate's farm, but the syrup was quite good.
Maegge, let us call you my niece, and I'll add you to my background. Though I will be quite disappointed with your non-canine companion.
|Maegge Weissam
|DM Chaos
|Tybek Odeon
|DM Chaos
I love the olympics, especially great performance from past olympics like these from the 27th Olympiad.
|DM Chaos
Ok all - I got responses from all but Ranim. I will asume that she is fine with hers. My understanding is that she is currently in Waco and then going to Gencon.
I just about have the intro finished and should have it up sometime in the next day or so. Once again, sorry that I have been a little slow, but this has taken more time than expected and RL seems to think that I need to do work there as well.
|Ranim Nejem
|DM Chaos
|DM Chaos
Man - I did not realize that none of you had felt it necessary to put points into Knowledge skills when I typed that all up. Oh well, go ahead and read if for fun, just remember your characters don't know anything unless you made the respective rolls.
Ranim - don't forget with Bardic knowledge you can make knowledge skill checks untrained, you just don't get the Class Skill bonus unless you have ranks in them.
|Maegge Weissam
|DM Chaos
A few notes on operations:
Initiative: I will roll for everyone. Monsters will be grouped by type and I will make one Initiative roll for each group.
Combat: Feel free to post actions and/or contingent actions --> I attack enemy A, but if A has decided to jump off a cliff, then I will prepare to attack B if he charges me. etc. If your action no longer makes sense, I will either attempt to make you do what seems best (attack the next nearest enemy) or just delay you. I do not care if you post out of turn. If we are in a major combat and you do not post and have not informed me and the group that you will be away, I will use a 24 hour rule before NPCing your character. I know that you all are regular posters and hope that I never have to do this.
Skills: I know there are a ton of methods, but I like to know what modifiers are affecting your skill bonus (race, class skill, ranks, feats, etc.) If you can list these out in a format something like this:
+7/+9, +10/+12 Perception (Wis +3, Ranks 1, Class Skill +3)(+3 Familiar if Water Terrain)(+2 Alertness if near familiar)
+3 Profession(sailor) (Wis +3, Ranks 0, Class Skill +3)
+2 Ride (Dex +2, Ranks 0, Class Skill +3)
+4/+6 Sense Motive (Wis +3, Ranks 0, Trait +1, Class(trait) Skill +3)(+2 Alertness if near familiar)
+* Slight of Hand (Dex +2, Ranks 0)
+* Spellcraft (Int -1, Ranks 0, Class Skill +3)
+2 Stealth (Dex +2, Ranks 0)
+5 Survival (Wis +3, Ranks 0, Class Skill +3)(+2 Druid Bonus)
It makes things much easier if I need to make a roll for you or some modifier (Ranger FE, etc.) is applicable.
Vacations/absences: Please let me know if you are going to be away for more than a day. This way either I or someone else can NPC your character. If you are gone for a week without notice, you may be replaced.
Skill Checks: (perception/sense motive)
If people do not specify that they are carefully looking for things, you will get general descriptions. If you say you are looking carefully, you will essentially get a Take 10 view of things. If you wish to roll Perception checks, feel free to do so at any time, just recognize that this will slow down your movement as I will view it as carefully proceeding and looking at most nooks and crannies in the dungeon (movement will be 20feet/minute). You can take 20 for many perception rolls, but then you will be moving at a rate of about 20 minutes /20feet.
Regarding Perception rolls. Making one roll per room is usually fine unless I state otherwise. Making one roll in a passageway and assuming that it will be good for the entire passage is not good. I will consider each Perception roll to represent searching about a 20' section of the passage which will take about a minute (6 seconds seems a little unrealistic even though the rules seem to indicate that a Perception check only takes 1 round).
I am sure that there are other things I have not thought of off the top of my head. If there are any questions, feel free to ask.
|DM Chaos
Testing to see if this works.
Everyone let me know whether you can see the cover from the old module. I am planning on using Google Docs unless someone has a good reason why I shouldn't. I have never used it before, but it has 5GB of free data storage for maps and pics and stuff.
|Braden Montajay
|Tybek Odeon
I have to admit, DM Chaos has done a tremendous job starting out this adventure! I've DMed for a year and a half, and I have a great campaign going, but I have never put that kind of effort into an adventure. Kudos to Chaos!
|Braden Montajay
|Glorfin Umbar-Caeli
Aye - was an epic wall of text combined with personalization that has far exceeded my own mild efforts at worldbuilding.
|Tybek Odeon
It certainly does set a very high level of expectations. I am happy to give what I can when time permits, but I fear what will happen when work and my other life gets in the way. However, in the meantime, I'm lovin it!
|Braden Montajay
I am more of a wing it/ fly by the seat of the pants DM, but I am seeing the standards set for good preparation. I really like how the questions became pictures on the wall. Nice touch.
Is there a link to where I can get my words converted to dwarven?
|Tybek Odeon
|Glorfin Umbar-Caeli
Yeah - I just use Google Translate for languages, hoping to find a language that looks appropriate. Serbian is nice as it's character set is symbols that look almost like they might be Dwarvish.
|Maegge Weissam
|DM Chaos
Thanks for the compliments, I hope that I can keep it up. I plan on this being done within the shell that is the original AD&D module, but with lots of changes which are obviously necessitated by the rather substantial changes between AD&D and PF. I actually started to plan everything until I realized that if you all as the players made different decisions, then a lot of work would be for naught. But, I have a pretty good idea how things will progress.
|Ranim Nejem
|DM Chaos
For anyone wondering, I have not really described Yanmass that well, but in my view it is sort of a cross between a dusty end of the trade route town like St. Louis or Kansas City before the railroads were introduced, combined with the eastern influences you might have gotten from trading with the middle-east and far east in the 1300s and 1400s (spice trade, exotic fabrics, strange cultures, etc.) The buildings would be more along the lines of eastern europe - balkan/slavic in nature.
|DM Chaos
sorry for not posting much. Work is kicking my butt hardcore. Going to try to read through the gameplay thread and get a post up. If nothing else, I do have Monday off.
No problem, just try to update when you can. As you know, most everyone in here is a fairly prolific poster, so try to keep up. I will move things forward and have you sort of follow along if necessary.
|DM Chaos
For all, I am slowly working through your character sheets seeing whether I have any questions. If possible, there are a few things that I find make things easier.
Equipment - if you could put how much you spent, I would appreciate it.
Feats - if you can put in parenthesis where you got each feat, I prefer that ie:
Power Attack (Level 1)
Cleave (Level 1 Fighter Bonus)
Weapon Focus (Level 1 Human Bonus)
Great Cleave (Level 2 Fighter Bonus)
Skills - if you could put the modifies after each skill, this is useful if I need to make rolls for you
For example:
+13 Bluff (Cha +6, Ranks 4, Class(race) Skill +3)
-1 Climb (Str -1, Ranks 0, Class Skill +3)
+13 Diplomacy (Cha +6, Ranks 4, Class Skill +3)
+9 Disable Device (Dex +8, Ranks 1)
+6 Disguise (Cha +6, Ranks 0)
+12 Escape Artist (Dex +8, Ranks 1, Class Skill +3)
+24 Fly (Dex +8, Ranks 1, Perfect Maneuverability +8, Size +4, Class(race) Skill +3)
For skills, I usually put conditional modifiers, such as armor penalties, separate and break the skill into two numbers:
+8/+4 Climb (Str +4, Ranks 1, Class Skill +3) (Armor Penalty -4)
Other conditionals might be Owl/Hawk familiars (Perception bonus in night/day), Favored Enemy, etc.
That way, if you are out of your armor, you, or I, do not need to recalculate skills.
|Tybek Odeon
|DM Chaos
As long as you stick a footnote indicating what the asterisk means. I use the asterisk to indicate skills that are trained use only (like knowledge), that I do not have ranks in. But, armor check identifiers work as well. Remember, Armor Check penalties can get mixed up if you buy an Agile Breastplate.


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Here's some background {please bear with me!} At the end of April I nightweaned my 2-year old son, as he was waking 1-2 times every night to nurse, plus staying latched from about 5AM-7AM. This resulted in a very tired Mommy, thus the nightweaning. Now I let him nurse once it's light out - he still stays latched for 2 hours in the AM
We also switched around our bedtime routine, from me nursing him and passing him over to Daddy to walk him to sleep, to nursing, teeth brushing, book, and laying down with Daddy. (He has cavities so we want to make sure he brushes after nursing, also one of the reasons for night weaning.)
It has made my son want to nurse even more - I hear requests for "MamaMilk" lots, mostly if we are home and not constantly doing something stimulating. If he's bored, "MamaMilk", tired, "MamaMilk", and I guess I've just kind of had it. I'm really ready to wean, but I really wanted him to wean himself.
I've gone to the LLL meetings, and I've received advice, but I'm still...conflicted. I know nobody can tell me whether to do it, but I feel that I'm ready to make a change as he's making life miserable {right now he is screaming for "MamaMilk" over and over even though Daddy is in the bedroom trying to comfort him,} and he throws tantrums over it.
On one hand I feel like I'm taking away the thing he loves the most, on the other, I wonder whether his behavior will improve when he knows there is just no way around it, there is no more "MamaMilk". It seems like a constant power struggle between us and he just doesn't accept "no." Previously I had tried only nursing him before nap and before bedtime. That didn't seem to help {or made things worse} so I let him breastfeed a lot more on demand, and I'm worn out!
Any advice for a weary mom?