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Gerald "Jerry" Morrill, 81, of Hermon
Hermon – HERMON – Gerald "Jerry" Morrill of Hermon passed away Sunday evening at E.J. Noble Hospital in Gouverneur. He was 81.
A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, November 14th at 11:00 am at the Hermon United Methodist Church. The burial ceremony will follow at Hermon Cemetery. The family has made arrangements with the Green Funeral Home in Hermon.
Jerry was born in Gouverneur on June 10, 1931 to Stanley and Helena Hamilton Morrill. He graduated from Hermon High School in 1950 Jerry married Shirley Leonard, his wife of 58 years, on July 7, 1954.
Jerry was a loving husband and devoted father. He raised his family on a West Hermon dairy farm and he also worked in a local laborer's union on construction projects. Jerry loved to show cattle and was a 4-H leader for the Hermon Harvesters. Jerry was outgoing, friendly and a well-liked member of the Hermon community, which enabled him to serve the community of Hermon as Tax Assessor and Mayor.
He rarely missed a chance to watch his children and grandchildren play sports and enjoyed watching the New York Yankees, Syracuse University basketball, and the Hermon-DeKalb Demons. One of his favorite stories involved his trip to Yankee Stadium in 1961 to watch a doubleheader against the Tigers. Later that season, the Yankees would go on to win one of the 24 World Series championships that they won during Jerry's life.
Jerry is survived by Shirley; five children, Thomas and his wife Barbara, LuAnn and her husband Tom, Carol and her husband Roger, Andrew and his wife Alice, and Steven and his wife Jill; fifteen grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren. In addition to his wife, children and grandchildren,
Jerry is survived by two brothers, Stanley and James.
Jerry is predeceased by two children, Robert and Linda.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends and family make donations in Jerry's memory to the National Hemophilia Foundation in recognition of one of his great grandchildren. Donations made in the name of Gerald Morrill may be mailed to the Foundation at 116 West 32nd Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001 or through the Foundation's web site at www.hemophilia.com.
The Morrill family would like to extend their gratitude to Dr. Reason, Dr. Lang, and the caring staff of E.J. Noble Hospital in Gouverneur for the wonderful care that they provided to Jerry through the years.
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Air New Zealand will spend $2.5 million on a major promotional campaign, matching the Government's additional tourism funding for Australia.
"We're committed to getting international tourists to all of New Zealand, not just the main ports, and will deliver a campaign that offers something no other airline flying the Tasman can," says Air New Zealand Group General Manager Short Haul Airlines Bruce Parton.
"We congratulate the Government for supporting the tourism industry and moving at pace to address declining international visitor numbers.
"Following today's announcement, we will work with Tourism New Zealand to maximise the opportunity for growing Australian visitor numbers during the traditionally quieter autumn period for inbound arrivals."
"We are now working through the details of a significant marketing campaign to next month give away more than $2 million in free domestic travel to any of our 27 New Zealand ports when sold in conjunction with a trans-Tasman fare sold in Australia."
Air New Zealand is also offering up to 100 free return airfares to the regional tourism organisations (RTOs) to attract Australian media to visit their regions.
"As well as the marketing, we want to see a huge number of travel stories in Australian media over this time telling Australians about all the fantastic places there are to visit in New Zealand," says Mr Parton.
"This is a unique opportunity for the RTOs to see more international visitors in their regions. With more than $5m being committed by the Government and Air New Zealand we encourage them to reach deep into their own budgets and add to the marketing noise in Australia over this autumn period."
Mr Parton says the Government's bold approach to boosting tourism and protecting jobs is a step in the right direction.
"Air New Zealand strongly supports the idea of contestable funds from the government providing the opportunity for Tourism New Zealand and the industry to combine efforts to the best advantage of the New Zealand economy."
"We hope there are many more opportunities that lie ahead for tourism operators to take advantage of further funds to address declining visitor numbers from important international markets such as the USA and UK."
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A big thank you to Tom Kim and Chris Little and Susan Griffin of the Community Concerns Committee for organizing the Roll Out the Barrels food drive, to support the Food Bank of the Rockies. Also, thanks to the DBA Board of Trustees for its support. The following members of the Denver legal community (about 70!), joined the fight against hunger and made February's Roll Out the Barrels food drive a huge success. Much thanks to: U.S. Office Products for picking up and delivering food; Food Bank of the Rockies for the same thing; Weyerhaueser Recyling for cartons; Citation Document Services for copying notices and flyer; Steven Zansberg and Laurie Guthals, Faegre & Benson; Dale Harris, Davis, Graham & Stubbs; Hubert Farbes, Brownstein Hyatt & Farber; Donna Carter and Susan Clark, Holland & Hart Foundation; Hal Lewis, Lindquist Vennum & Christensen; Nancy Cohen, Supreme Court Attorney Regulation; Aimer Fitzsimmons, Lindquist Vennum, Neal & Turpen; Lisa Levinson, Issacson, Rosenbaum & Woods; Lauren McLaughlin, Sherman & Howard; Beverly Rehem, Haligman, Lottner Rubin & Fishman; Tom Kim, LeBoef, Lamb, Greene & MacRae; Susan Panko, Kutak Rock; Karen Leather, Clanahan Tanner Downing & Knowlton; Glen Laird, White & Steele; Teri Hammack, Otten Johnson Robinson Neff & Ragonetti; Ashley Moller, Markusson Green & Jarvis; Jeanne Simpson, Tilly & Graves; Debbie Adkins, Shughart Thomson & Kilroy; Deanna Viles, Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons; Evelyn Chavez, Hall & Evans; Judy Kennedy, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll; Bruce Phillips, Treece Alfrey Musat & Bosworth; Dan Mahoney, Schlueter Mahoney & Ross; Cindy Slevin, Ritsema & Lyon; Lynn Hannum, Kelly Haglund Garnsey & Kahn; Susan Wilson/Maisie, Sheridan Ross; Ronda Bilby, Cortez Macaulay Bernhardt & Schuetze; Libby Moser, Gorsuch Kirgis; Michelle Maynard, Long & Jaudon; Julie Pate, Mountain States Employers Council; J. Marquez, Court of Appeals; Fay Chu Fong, Baker & Hostetler; Valerie Malara, Milan & Malara; Jennifer Dechtman, Office of Attorney General; Catherine Tallerico/Dana Fowler, Fowler, Schimberg & Flanagan; Chris Little, Montgomery Little & McGrew; Sherri, Gutterman Carlton & Heckenbach; Angie Arkin, Robert Hinds & Associates; Linda Bender, Burns Figa & Will; Mary McCoy, Eley & Eley; Richard Laugesen, Anderson Campbell & Laugesen; Rae Sanez, Hughes Clikeman & Associates; Patti Zenk, Coors/Legal Department; Ann Miller, DU Law School; Karen Schwieder, Rossi Cox Kiker & Inderwish; Jackie Zarnadol, Senter Goldfarb & Rice; Debbie Boos, Buchanan Neville Stouffer; Richard F. Hennessey, Pendleton Friedberg Wilson & Hennessey; Roxanne Slatnick, Davis, Graham & Stubbs; Sara King, Attorney's Office.
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Since the introduction of dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio systems focus has been on techniques that allow capturing information from the environment. To enable distributed sensing and eventually map the spectrum environment, future radio platforms should ideally enable flexible spectrum sensing according to different scenarios, bands and algorithms.
An important target is the demonstration of a reconfigurable engine for multi-purpose spectrum sensing within the power and cost constraints of mobile devices.
This research takes place in the context of imec's research on cognitive reconfigurable radio systems (see section Reconfigurable radio baseband), (see section Reconfigurable radio front-end).
Reconfigurable sensing engine
The proposed reconfigurable sensing engine builds on a flexible analog front-end and a digital front-end for sensing (see fig. 1). It can be connected further to a baseband processor, resulting in sensing capable wireless devices. We further detail the functionality of the engine and its implementation.
Figure 1: Integrated sensing engine.
Flexible analog front-end
The reconfigurable analog front-end allows scanning the spectrum in different frequency bands. Since the basic task of a spectrum sensing engine is to scan all frequency bands for the presence of signals with several possible bandwidths, the functionality of the analog front-end actually requires the use of a software-defined radio (SDR). The flexible analog front-end is implemented with the 'scalable radio' SCALDIO radio frequency (RF)IC. SCALDIO is a fully reconfigurable analog transceiver implemented in 40nm CMOS technology. It covers all functionality from the low-noise amplifier (LNA) to the analog-to-digital converter (ADC), in a programmable way. The receiver RF operating frequency is programmable from 0.1 to 6GHz and the channel bandwidth is programmable between 1 and 40MHz. The high-speed network-on-chip used for configuration and the fast settling time of the phase-locked loop (PLL) enable fast switching between different RF frequencies and channel bandwidths. The low noise figure, 2.4 to 4dB below 3GHz, together with low power consumption, 30 to 90mA, makes this reconfigurable analog front-end very well suited for low-power flexible sensing.
Figure 2: SCALDIO flexible analog front-end architecture.
Digital front-end for sensing
The programmable digital front-end features the processing capabilities needed to analyze the signals in the scanned band.
- being the interface between the analog front-end and the baseband (front-end data and control interfaces);
- performing the signal acquisition and coarse time synchronization for the targeted standards;
- multiple channelization branches, for simultaneous sensing and reception of different frequencies;
- support for multi-band energy detection and feature-based sensing, relying on autocorrelation.
The sensing digital front-end is implemented with the digital front-end for sensing (DIFFS) architecture. DIFFS has now been fully implemented as a chip in 65nm CMOS technology. This will enable will enable hardware integration with the analog part and full real-time validation. The architecture consists of a fixed and flexible filter branch, which supports flexible band selection and resampling. The Sync/Sense engine consists of a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processor with scalar slot, combined with several accelerator cores for synchronization and sensing.
Figure 3: DIFFS digital front-end for sensing architecture.
Demonstration setup
The demonstration setup consists of two printed circuit board (PCBs), one containing the analog front-end, one containing the digital sensing engine. Such a setup can be demonstrated to perform a frequency sweep from 500MHz up to 2.5GHz in only 7.6ms. Focus for demonstration is also on the sensing of long-term evolution (LTE) and/or digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) (two detection algorithms will be executed and compared: the first one is a low complexity energy detection algorithm; the second one is a feature-specific cyclostationairy detector).
Figure 4: SCALDIO hardware board.
Figure 5: DIFFS hardware board.
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Instrument : Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement System (ECOR)
Instrument Categories
Surface/Subsurface Properties
General Overview
The eddy correlation (ECOR) flux measurement system provides in situ, half-hour measurements of the surface turbulent fluxes of momentum, sensible heat, latent heat, and carbon dioxide. The fluxes are obtained with the eddy covariance technique, which involves correlation of the vertical wind component with the horizontal wind component, the air temperature, the water vapor density, and the CO2 concentration. Instruments used are
- A fast-response, three-dimensional (3-D) wind sensor (sonic anemometer) to obtain the orthogonal wind components and the speed of sound (SOS) (used to derive the air
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- An open-path infrared gas analyzer (IRGA) to obtain the water vapor density and the CO2 concentration.
The ECOR systems are deployed at the locations where other methods for surface flux measurements (e.g., energy balance Bowen ratio systems) are difficult to employ, primarily at the north edge of a field of crops. To learn more about the calibration of this instrument, see Calibration of LI-7500 Sensor for the CO2flx and ECOR Systems.
Guidance on Using ECOR Surface Fluxes in Atmospheric Models
Background. The extent of the SGP domain was originally established to take advantage of the local seasonal variation (hot, dry summers to moderately cold, wet winters), the climatic variation across the site (significant north-south gradient of temperature and east-west gradient of humidity and soil moisture), and the proximity of the densely instrumented Oklahoma Mesonet.
The SGP site's Extended Facilities (EFs) were intentionally chosen to provide surface measurements representative of the dominant land-use types common to the geographic area: cropland, pastureland (grassland), and wooded areas. ECOR systems were placed at the north edge of primarily cropland because of the fairly long wind fetch required for the ECOR flux measurements (and prevailing southerly wind directions) and so that they would not interfere with farming practices. At one one site, instruments are located on a platform in a forest canopy. Conversely, the EBBR stations were placed in the middle of grasslands (the species mix of which varies from EF to EF) to take advantage of the fairly short wind fetch required for the EBBR flux measurements.
Variable land-uses throughout the SGP site result in differences in surface flux measurements from one side of the site to the other (both north-south and east-west). Therefore, a straight average of the surface fluxes across the entire SGP site can't properly describe the variation in surface fluxes across the site.
Recommendation. The recommended approach for using the surfaces fluxes from the ECOR and EBBR is to divide the SGP site into northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast climatological quadrants, determine the land-use percentage of each vegetation surface in each quadrant, and then average the flux for each land-use as measured by the ECOR and EBBR systems within each quadrant. While the average flux in the four quadrants may be quite different, the average of the four quadrant averages may provide a more realistic average for the entire site than a simple straight average of all EF fluxes.
The following are some details concerning the ECOR locations, land-use type (vegetation), wind direction dependencies of the surface fluxes, uncertainties in the measurements, energy balance closure considerations, and potential data problems. Vegetation type and height is recorded every two weeks in the SGP OMIS database, which can be accessed after you obtain an account from SGP Site Operations.
More detail is available in the ECOR Handbook
Half-hour Flux Measurements:
- momentum (M), sensible heat (H), latent heat (LE), carbon dioxide (CO2)
Locations (SGP ACRF Extended Facilities):
- 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 14, 16, 21, 24
Vegetation Viewed for Wind Directions:
(data for directions not shown is not representative of a single vegetation surface); refer to the SGP Site Operations OMIS vegetation reports for vegetation type and height.)
- ECOR (north edge of field of vegetation of primary interest):
- EF1: 0-53, 120-360 wheat or wheat stubble
- EF3: 0-48 pasture, 132-260 soybeans, wheat
- EF5: 80-154 sorghum or wheat, 155-260 wheat or wheat stubble
- EF6: 0-90 grazed pasture, 91-360 alfalfa and brome grass
- EF10: 0-90, 270-360 grazed, 91-269 grass
- EF14: 129-265 wheat (all years but 2005 and 2006), corn (2005), soybeans (2006), 352-85 ungrazed grass
- EF16: 134-269 pasture, 334-360 ungrazed grass
- EF21: 0-360 mixed deciduous forest (note that for the direction from the tower, 0-30, the data may be suspect)
- EF24: 80-280 wheat or wheat stubble
- ECOR (north edge of field of vegetation of primary interest):
Uncertainties of Fluxes from Instrument Limitations:
Energy Balance Closure:
- 75% to 90% typical
Potential Data Problems Under the Following Conditions:
- H underestimated at low temperatures.
- Non-closure of energy budget (H+LE) due to:
- canopy energy storage
- sonic anemometer frequency measurement limitations
- non-steady atmospheric conditions
- horizontal or vertical advection
- Precipitation, fog, and dew (frost) effects on LE, CO2
- Large spikes (positive and negative) in CO2 flux when the flux is essentially zero
- Sudden shifts in wind direction during a half hour
- Wind speed less than 1.5 m/s
Output Value-Added Products
This instrument is an input to the following value-added products, which provide improved measurements or derived quantities.
- 30qcecor : Quality Controlled Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement- 30 min avg
Output Datastreams
- 30ecor : ECOR: surface vertical fluxes of momentum, sensible heat, and latent heat, 30-min avg
Primary Measurements
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant.
- Atmospheric turbulence
- Carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration
- Carbon dioxide (CO2) flux
- Latent heat flux
- Sensible heat flux
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We stuck around for twelve hours, reveling in the novelty of a New York City power-outage. Then came the exodus.
The morning after Hurricane Sandy swept the power from Lower Manhattan, everyone in my dorm remembered their friends in the unaffected regions of New Jersey, or their relatives in a still-powered town upstate, and quickly evacuated to these havens of running water and satellite television. For my part, I tried to follow them, but the Megabus scares me and I've forgotten how to drive.
So I stayed at NYU the week after Hurricane Sandy. I regret almost nothing. Here's why:
Free food: "You're telling me I can just take as much of this ice-cream as I want?"
"Sure, until we run out. Pick a flavor." I had this exchange with a Sundaes and Cones employee outside the shop where they were handing out free scoops on Tuesday. It made sense, too. Without freezers, the ice-cream would have melted by the end of the day.
The same was true at BambooTori, where the chefs opened their dark restaurant and grilled their leftover kebabs free for passersby. As my friends and I waited in line, the chefs asked us for light. We held up cell phones and flashlights and even a replica lightsaber to illuminate the restaurant as they cooked. They laughed at our lightsaber, and gave us free drinks on top of our already-free kebabs.
Local food trucks got in on the act as well. Sponsored by JetBlue, the New York City Food Truck Association released an online list of where to get free food truck meals. Justifying it as a "crisis survival tactic", I proceeded to eat twice my body weight in Waffles and Dinges.
But perhaps the most impressive free food efforts came from NYU's own dining hall staff, many of whom remained on campus all week to distribute free meals to students, staff, and their families. Their patience kept food lines running quickly and efficiently, and lent an element of stability to an otherwise-chaotic week.
An excuse to do uptown things: A combination of laziness, homework, and a reluctance to appear "tourist-y" had previously kept me from exploring NYC's more popular uptown attractions. But like moths to a light, my band of refugees and I found ourselves increasingly drawn to the fully-illuminated midtown.
One night, we realized that, in the hurricane's aftermath, few people would have reserved tickets to TV show tapings. With this in mind, we trekked uptown and caught four tickets to the Colbert Report, where I got to meet Stephen Colbert himself. I asked him what his spirit animal was. He said probably a trout.
The next night, my friend won a raffle for tickets to a Broadway show. Behind us in the theater, two tourists discussed lower Manhattan and whether or not it would fall to anarchy without electricity. I would have offered my opinion, but I was too warm and content and full of free waffles from a vendor downtown to argue. When we exited, night had fallen and we found ourselves in Times Square, surrounded on all angles by blinding billboards and glowing storefronts. But what was usually an unbroken skyline fell away between buildings to reveal the impossible darkness downtown. People looked on as we walked into the apparent abyss that was our way back home.
A giant, slightly uncomfortable slumber party: One can never presume to know Kimmel before having slept there in a large room filled with strangers. Out of caution, I anticipated something akin to the Thunderdome.
To my surprise, I found a supportive group of fellow refugees, all of whom were content to join me in a week-long, continuous Super Smash Brothers tournament. We watched zombie movies together. We threw a Perishables Party and feasted upon the contents of our useless refrigerators. We learned to endure each other's snoring and to wake our friends for breakfast each morning.
We also invented a game called Cot Jenga.
The spirit of community: One morning I walked uptown in search of two basic needs: Starbucks and cell reception. The Starbucks I entered was full of composed, well-dressed Midtown-ers on their way to work. By contrast, with my three unmatched sweaters and wet hair, I looked incredibly bedraggled. "Still no electricity?" asked the barista. I nodded. "Here, stay warm," he told me, before making my coffee a size larger than I'd paid for.
Even in small gestures, this attitude of empathy was everywhere. Free phone-charging stations appeared wherever stores could spare an extension cord. Threads of "survival tips" appeared in NYU facebook groups. Students in dorms with electricity opened their rooms to those who needed a warm place to sleep and shower. Displaced students living in Kimmel still found time and resources to help with volunteer efforts.
Though my dorm and my showers were often cold, my time spent in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy was nothing less than heart-warming. I can try to weigh last week's stresses against the relative comfort I would have found at home with my family, but the truth is that staying at NYU was something quite worth experiencing.
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Columbus, OH – In recent years, it seems that when a citizens group collects petition signatures to put a proposal onto the statewide ballot, some of the paid petition circulators are caught giving false or misleading sales pitches. Instances of forged petition signatures also regularly arise. The democrat who wants to become the next Secretar of State is proposing a new law to more closely regulate petition campaigns. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports.


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EL PASO, Texas-Second-quarter net income for Helen of Troy finished at a record $23.6 million, up 0.5 percent from last year's second quarter.
The company also set a new record in net sales for the quarter, which ended on Aug. 31. Net sales rose 59 percent to $277.4 million, thanks largely to Helen of Troy's acquisition of Kaz, which it completed in January. Sales in both its housewares and personal-care segments also posted double-digit gains in the quarter.
The company's gross margin fell 440 basis points to 40.5 percent, due to product cost increases and out-of-season promotional activity, along with the fact that the gross margin in the health-care/home-environment segment (the Kaz product grouping) was lower than in the other two company sectors. Selling, general and administrative expenses, while rising 56 percent in dollar terms, fell 60 basis points as a percentage of sales to 29.5 percent.
Gerald Rubin, Helen of Troy's chairman, president and CEO, said the company managed to break its sales and bottom-line records despite a difficult retail environment. "The integration of Kaz continues to progress well and according to our expectations," Rubin said.
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The School of Nursing and Health Studies offers two separate doctoral programs: the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). The DNP (Doctorate in Nursing Practice) is a practice focused doctoral degree. Graduates of the DNP program are prepared to create innovation for nursing practice and health care. The PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) is a research-focused degree. Graduates of the PhD program are prepared to assume faculty roles in research and teaching.
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Free workshop on rent increases, evictions, discrimination foreclosure and more on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library, Small LAMP Classroom, 318 South Ramona Avenue, Monterey Park, CA 91754. HRC will present information and resources regarding housing discrimination and landlord-tenant rights and responsibilities. Topics will include: discrimination against families with children, disability rights, sexual harassment, evictions, repairs, security deposits, rent increases, substandard conditions, and much more! For more information, or to RSVP for this FREE workshop, please call Amy at (800) 477-5977 extension 19. TTY users please call (213) 201-0867. This location is handicap accessible.


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Serves 4
4 free-range or organic chicken thighs, bone in and skin on
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
200g assorted sprouts
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 tsp ground cumin
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 Tbs yoghurt
tsp cayenne pepper
Olive oil
2 large green tomatoes
Bread and avocado to serve
1 Preheat oven to 200C. Place the chicken in a roasting dish, season and roast for 20 minutes.
2 To make the hummus; put the sprouts, garlic, cumin, lemon juice, yoghurt and cayenne into a blender or food processor and blend while adding enough olive oil to make a smooth puree, season.
3 Heat a pan and add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Slice the tomatoes thickly then cook for 1 minute on each side, season and serve with the chicken, hummus, avocado and warmed bread.


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Delaware Valley okays tax increase
June 26, 2013 —
WESTFALL, PA — A final debate did not change any of the numbers and the Delaware Valley Board of Education, by a five to three vote with one member absent, gave its final approval for a $70.6 million budget for the 2013-14 school year.
Board members Jessica Decker, Pam Lutfy and Zachary Pierce were opposed; member Bob Goldsack did not attend the June 20 meeting.
The new budget contains the district's first tax rate increase in seven years; the 2.3% hike will cause an increase of $66 in the tax on an average home assessed at $28,436. The tax on that property in the 2012-13 year was $2,868.24.
Prior to the vote, Dawn Bukaj, whose husband Michael Bukaj spoke against the tax increase last week, once again asked the board to reconsider the decision.
She said a variety of people would be hurt by the new cost increase that she did not believe was necessary. "If you can't get rid of the 2.3%, perhaps it could be reduced to 1%," she asked.
Bukaj said she realized the difficulty the board had in approving the new rate. "It's tough to increase taxes, tougher to say 'maybe I made mistake.' Just because you can doesn't mean you should," she said.
Bukaj said that the teacher (librarian), who last week spoke of the horrible computers in use now, would still be thrilled to get a percentage of new ones over several years. "You've made great progress. You just need to be a little more responsible," she said.
Board president Bill Greenlaw responded to her comments. "You say we need to be responsible. Don't sell us short. Nobody wants to raise taxes. Those who can't afford a $60 increase could not afford $30."
"We feel we're doing the responsible thing, not like other districts that are closing buildings and laying off people."
Speaking to the ongoing decrease in the growth of the district's tax base, Greenlaw said, "Our not raising taxes did not keep people from leaving. There comes a time when a majority of us just don't know how to do this any other way."
Continuing, he said, "You moved here 15 years ago. Your house is worth more now. Nobody came here for six years saying 'thanks for not raising taxes. My property is worth more.'"
Bukaj said her reference was not to his responsibility as a school board member. She said Delaware Valley was an exceptional district and the teachers deserve increased salaries, "but you can get it all done without a tax increase."
Bukaj said other districts should look at Delaware Valley. "We need to fight for every teacher, student and dollar."


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The Most Common Misconception About Lead Nurturing
My discussions with b-to-b marketers who want to implement a lead nurture program or enhance existing programs almost always begin with one major misconception about the true meaning of lead nurturing. Many marketers describe lead nurturing as a process that involves an automated response to a broad set of targets, followed by a series of emails offering potential buyers a wide variety of assets. That sounds a lot like a drip marketing program! And drip marketing isn't the same as a true lead nurturing effort.
Here are some tips to help you make this distinction and guide the development of a focused, effective approach to lead nurturing:
- Segment and categorize leads. Unlike a drip marketing program, which may involve sending the same automated response to all responders, nurture involves segmenting and categorizing your leads, based on where they sit in the demand waterfall, to determine what type of treatment (i.e. content, offers and messages) they will receive to influence further engagement.
- Guide buyers through the buying process. Lead nurture is designed to facilitate a buyer's journey through the buying process and influence his or her decisionmaking process along the way. Unlike drip marketing, in which all responders receive the same message and offers, lead nurturing takes into account individual buyer preferences and delivers relevant messaging and content within the context of the stages of the buying cycle.
- Determine how leads will be transitioned. Drip marketing programs tend to have a standard, impersonal method of followup. Lead nurturing involves the identification of specific signals that indicate a potential buyer is ready to move back into an active demand state, and a disposition that is tailored to the needs of the buyer and his or her stage in the buying cycle.
You can read more about the four pillars that define lead nurture in the post "A Foundation for Focused and Effective Lead Nurturing."


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Jewish cricket season begins
By Danny Caro, April 15, 2010
The Jewish cricket season gets under way on Sunday as five teams battle it out in the Maccabi GB Indoor Six-a-side competition.
London Maccabi Vale, MAL, Southgate, BECC and Chigwell will contest an all-day tournament at the Play On Sports in Canary Wharf.
Competition organiser Mark Landau said: "It should be lots of fun for those taking part, and a good curtain raiser for the Jewish season, before the proper cricket starts."
The outdoor season features a four-team Maccabi League with Belmont & Edgware, Casual Nomads, Chigwell and Southgate participating.
Another feature is the return of the Maccabi National Knockout Cup while the Twenty20 continues.
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A review of Clean and Clear's Morning Burst Facial Scrub.
I've been using this facial scrub almost religiously since I bought it. I'm the first to admit that I do get acne from time to time and blackheads are an issue of mine. With clean and clear I've actually seen a difference the blackheads that like to congregate around my nose are almost all gone. Morning burst also feels really good to use and doesn't smell too bad. I do however tend to use this product at night, even though it has morning in the name. I'm sure you aren't going to tell anyone though.
Most facial washes smell a little funny. Its the price you pay to keep the acne away. Now I'm not going to say that Clean and Clear's Morning Burst smells good. But it definitely doesn't doesn't smell bad (especially when you compare it to some of the ones I've reviewed). Its also pretty easy to use. Wet face with water. Put some of the product in your hand the gently massage face (be careful to avoid the eyes) and then rinse off. Best of all its gently enough that it can be used daily.
Its oil free. This is a big thing, any skin care product that isn't should make you run away quickly. It also exfoliates the skin because of all the tiny little beads that are in it getting ride of any dirt in your pores. I haven't had one pimple since I've been using this to clean my face and as I said before my black heads have almost all disappeared. This is a product I plan on continuing my relationship with... forever.
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Colorful Sandcastles
Who's Got the Beaucoup Dolores Today?
Take your silver spoon And dig your grave
Ganz War Mein Herz An Deiner Seite
The sun is always making me feel guilty like go do something. You should be happy, you should be outside, you should be hustlin' and bustlin' why are you inside being so boring? Summer is the most totalitarian season of all. I want the winter. The magic, the snow, the quietness, the white sparkly nights. Maybe it's because life in general scares me. Winter isn't real life is it? You hibernate, you isolate yourself from others and wait in limbo until its warm, when you should be doing something.
Wir sehen Sie so gerne Sie sind wie ein Traum Es leuchten die Sterne durch Zeit und Raum!
Then if he thrive and I may be cast away/ The worst was this my love was my decay
Were you but lying cold and dead,
And lights were paling out of the West,
You would come hither, and bend your head,
And I would lay my head on your breast;
And you would murmur tender words,
Forgiving me, because you were dead:
Nor would you rise and hasten away,
Though you have the will of the wild birds,
But know your hair was bound and wound
Above the stars and moon and sun:
O would, beloved, that you lay
Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one.-William Butler Yeats
O ME! what eyes hath love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight:
Or if they have, where is my judgment fled
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: No,
How can it? O how can love's eye be true,
That is so vex'd with watching and with tears?
No marvel then though I mistake my view:
The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,
Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find!
Du, ich fühle mich augenblicklich wirklich, glücklicher als glücklich!
Anna Pavlova
Parting is such a sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow
Laß die Frau, die dich liebt, niemals weinen!
Thats what intelligent women do: What they're told
If I love you, What business is it of yours?
The Past Beats Inside Me Like A Second Heart
Willkommen und Abschied
Boy I Gotta Watch My Body I'm Not Just Anybody
Midnight Grindin'
My Heartrate's Climbin'
You Go, I Go
Cause We Share Pillows
Chase Me, Leave Me
There's Still No Separating
Morning Massages
With New Bones In Your Closet
Did it matter, then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, Did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely. All this must go on without her. Did she resent it? Or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely. It is possible to die. It is possible to die.-Virginia Woolfe
He Looked Inside Me
This wasn't supposed to happen,
I was happy by myself.
Accidently, you seduced me,
I'm in love again.
I lie in my bed,
Totally still,
My eyes wide open.
I'm in rapture.
I don't believe this,
I'm in love again!
This wasn't
Supposed to happen,
I've been hit
With your charm.
How could you do this
To me?
I'm in love
You've put a seed inside me,
And while you're away,
It's growing silently,
Starts in my stomach.
Embraces my insides,
And about to reach my heart.
This wasn't supposed to happen!
This wasn't supposed to happen!
This really hurts!
Nimm dich in Acht vor blonden Frauen
Wenn eine Frau dich verstrickt ins Liebesspiel,
Prüfe zuerst ihren ganzen Sex appeal.
Sieh dir ihr Haar erst auf seine Farbe an,
Weil man daraus den Charakter deuten kann.
Dunkle Frauen sind ja gewöhnlich sanft wie der Mond,
Schwerer durchschauen wirst du die süßen Racker in blond.
Nimm dich in acht vor blonden Frau'n,
Die haben so etwas Gewisses!
's ist ihnen nicht gleich anzuschau'n,
Aber irgend etwas is' es.
Ein kleines Blickgeplänkel sei erlaubt dir;
Doch denke immer: Achtung vor dem Raubtier!
Nimm dich in acht vor blonden Frau'n,
Sie haben so etwas Gewisses.
Jedermann glaubt, die Blonden sind naiv!
Sei auf der Hut, stille Wasser sind tief!
Mal dir kein Glück mit den blonden Kätzchen aus,
Eh' du's geahnt, kommen schon die Krallen raus!
Und wenn das Blondchen all deine Lieb mit Treue dir lohnt,
Ist sie ganz sicher heimlich geforben wasserstoffblond.
Nimm dich in acht vor blonden Frau'n,
Die haben so etwas Gewisses.
's ist ihnen nicht gleich anzuschau'n,
Aber irgend etwas is' es.
Ein kleines Blickgeplänkel sei erlaubt dir;
Doch denke immer: Achtung vor dem Raubtier!
Nimm dich in acht vor blonden Frau'n,
Sie haben so etwas Gewisses.
Spring Time Shrines
I Want You, But You're An Asshole You Know That?
Why is your love so anemic?
"I've wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman."
"Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched."
"I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind–and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression."
Ayn Rand
You really pour the honey on then you lick it off
Childhood Fantasy
Warum Liebt Er Mich Nicht?
I Don't Know What To Do, So I Do Nothing
Motherfuckers Get Buzzed Off The Spice That I Bring
Dry As A Funeral Drum
I Hate You
You'll find my favorite axe
Don't look so frightened
This is just a passing phase
One of my bad days
Would you like to watch T. V.?
Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
Would you like something to eat?
Would you like to learn to fly?
Would you like to see me try?
Would you like to call the cops?
Do you think it's time I stopped?
Why are you running away?
Nothing anyone does for me is ever enough, and if he makes me sad he sucks.
It Never Happened, It Willl Shock You How Much It Never Happened
keep hatin' I'ma fold your bitch
Firm, nigga what? Get my twat licked
Never love a trick, get him for his chips
Fuck him and his dick, nigga where the six?
He actin' like a bitch, should've known this
Got the stone the wrist, I ain't no bonin' this
Bomb ass shit, I could play with my shit
More of the shit to hold you with, keep hatin' I'ma fold your bitch
Should've known to control that chick, hoes mad, 'cos I roll the six
Dumb ass, think I slept in your bumm ass
Knew the whole stee 'bout a chip like me
Did it ori G-P, let you eat me
Couldn't even freak me, I'm better off with the TV
I'll **** You 'Til You Love Me
I don't know why I'm always sad. Sometimes I feel like a little girl. I'm twenty now. I feel like I'm five, but it's funny because when I was five I felt like I was twenty. I must have been born two people. I feel like I've lived before, that's why I want to be a kid again. That was the best. When you were five years old and you were smart enough to understand things, but untouched enough to be happy momentously. That won't ever happen again.
Know how to cut them, know how to read them,
Know how to stain them, know how to prove them,
Know how to evoke them, know how to score them,
Know how to send them know how to send them
"I know that I hung on a windy tree
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows
from where its roots run.
No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn
downwards I peered;
I took up the runes, screaming I took them,
then I fell back from there."
In Old Norse
"Veit ec at ec hecc vindga meiði a
netr allar nío,
geiri vndaþr oc gefinn Oðni,
sialfr sialfom mer,
a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn.
Við hleifi mic seldo ne viþ hornigi,
nysta ec niþr,
nam ec vp rvnar,o
pandi nam,
fell ec aptr þaðan."
Deutsche Zeitschriften Jugend und Der Orchideengarten
Gisele You So Fit
My feet
wtf is wrong with our generation
I wish I lived during Walther von der Vogelweide's time period. I don't belong here. Everyone is so awful to one another. There isn't any real love or loyalty. I feel isolated. In the early pagan days I feel like there was a community to which everyone belonged and served a purpose. They relied on each other for help because life was hard. Life is easy now so easy we don't even need each other. How purposeless. And we just keep living longer and longer.
Celestial Paths
Returning to Nature
Alt Modisch
Suomolainen Sisu
My friends and I celebrated so hard we listened to Nirvana until four in the morning and continually pointed at the shrine we made of Kurt to honor his gifts to us. We love you buddy, be well and blessed be from the pagan community.
"Dying in general or like dying from drugs? I've thought about dying all my life just like any normal person."
We Miss You Kurt, Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Kurt Cobain! February 20th! Best day ever!
It is Kurt's birthday in two days so my friends and I are going to celebrate and only listen to Nirvana records. My dad doesn't understand why I love him so much, but Kurt is like our John Lennon. I was born in 1991 so I was too young to know about them, but in elementary school at a wee age of 8 we were already in love with Nirvana. I think the angst and mitleid our generation has was summed up in his music.


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I have a Pentium II 399 MHz, 192 MB, and a Rage128 PRO (16 MB) video card. Of course I'm running every classic gamer's favorite OS with the latest for Service Pack 2. The download from an abandonware site has been occupying most of my time for the last 8 hours. I've surfed several forums, including this 1, and found but a single post with a problem like mine. Sadly, that person never received a reply. I hope I don't suffer the same fate.
The abandonware site download has a lot going for it. The 'Savegame' and 'Scenario' folders R already there after U unzip it. Mouse2kv.exe is in place and there's even a .bat file which is set up to run VDMSound (which I installed) and the mouse fix. I've found that I can watch the intro with unbroken sound just by unpacking the .rar's, setting the compatibility for Windows 95 and 256 colors, and then firing up VDMS_Apoc.bat by double-clicking. Following the intro I'm given the black screen which I Esc from. This puts me back onto the desktop with the following error message:
16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.
CS:0000 IP:43a4 OP:ff ff 00 00 00 Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.
I'm then given the options 'Close' and 'Ignore'. I generally choose 'Close' at that point because choosing 'Ignore' presents me with the same choice a few more times B4 the program decides to close itself. Strangely, fiddling with the sound configuration axes the intro even though the default sound setting won't give me a successful sound test; the auto-detect setting produces a warbly alarm sound but the intro will invariably fail to play. Seemingly no matter what, I end up with the black screen followed by the above error message -- sometimes the codes on the last line will have changed. I was able to start the game using DOSBox but it's so choppy that I'd rather not play the game if that's the only option left to me.
Believe me, 8 hours is a lengthy time for me to try different things. I've been able to get many other DOS-based games from the abandonware site to work on my machine at other times. I used to run X-Com 1 on this computer. There seems to B ample evidence that other people have been able to get X-Com 3 working on their systems without having to resort to an emulator. At this point I will usually have either gotten the program working or determined that it is beyond my system's capabilities; the former obviously hasn't happened and the latter is almost certainly negative. I feel as if I've mined as much data as I can from various Web locales and I've tried most everything that has proven effective for other people in similar situations. Barring DOSBox, every attempt has resulted in a kick to the desktop and a variant on the above error message.
I'd have posted this on the abandonware site if their forum registration wasn't broken. Also, it was on this forum that I found the post closest to my own problem and U guys seemed more focused on the X-Com games in general. I thank U for reading to this point and I await your timely and helpful reply.
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Removed abandonware site name.


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Jews, according to the stereotype, tend to be control freaks. We all crack jokes about our neurotic dads and balabooster mothers having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
But OCD is far from a joke, with an estimated 740,000 sufferers in Britain. And although not borne out by hard data, the clinical view is that Jews are more likely than the general population to be affected.
"There's always been a feeling that, like Catholics, Jews have a higher incidence of OCD," says Dr Roz Shafran, one of the country's leading researchers into the distressing condition.
Sometimes it takes the form of fearing one will cause harm inadvertently to one's nearest and dearest. But mostly, there is endless hand-washing, there is constant checking and there can also be a compulsion to count in a certain pattern - turning the light on and off precisely four times, for example, in an effort to ward off bad consequences in the same way as children avoiding cracks in the pavements.
Simply by looking at our history, it is easy to see why Jews are likely to become overly anxious, leading to obsessions and compulsions.
"In Judaism there are so many behaviours around washing hands, purity and morality, and given that OCD sufferers report that washing their hands repeatedly reinforces the problem, observant Jews are vulnerable," explains Shafran.
An even more common affliction of OCD sufferers than obsessive washing is the need constantly to check that doors are locked, taps turned off and irons are unplugged . "There are a lot of responsible Jewish mothers around," Shafran, herself a Jewish mother from Barnet, observes wryly.
As the need for this checking comes from an over-developed sense of responsibility, it is not hard to see why Jews are vulnerable to this behaviour. "Anxiety and conscientiousness can be a pretty toxic combination," she says.
One of the fascinating aspects about new research Shafran is doing in Reading is the discovery people may not be obsessed with washing because they feel physically dirty, but that they believe they may be contaminated mentally: "You can feel polluted as a person, just as a rape victim feels not only physically dirty but dirty again just remembering the rape."
In extreme cases, OCD sufferers can feel dirty just walking past a homeless person, or attending a funeral.
And it was another Jewish researcher, Professor Jack Rachman, who first exposed the idea that the feeling of being contaminated could emanate from something much less obvious than touching a dirty surface: "It seems logical now, but it took us all this time to make that connection."
Shafran even has a patient who believed that germs could jump from one surface to another: "Even though he knows that is not logical, he is terrified."
Surprisingly, perhaps, all religious people are vulnerable to a type of OCD involving blasphemy: "It is quite common to be standing in a synagogue and experiencing the unwelcome thought that God doesn't exist; Martin Luther King suffered those thoughts." The observant are also subject to a variation called scrupulosity - " an anxiety about always doing the right thing," explains Shafran.
The good news is that there is a treatment out there - about half of all OCD sufferers benefit from cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). "It can be incredibly helpful, but people must make sure they are getting it from an accredited therapist," says Shafran, citing the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Pyschotherapies, or BABCP.
Its website lists therapists who are available on the NHS as well as
"It has become much easier to get access on the NHS, and, under a new service, people can refer themselves instead of having to go through their GPs," she adds. But some of our obsessions are perfectly logical, points out Shafran:
"You may fear that you are spreading salmonella when you wash out a chicken on a Friday. Scientists have confirmed that you can spread bacteria washing a chicken, so it's better not to do it- only cooking kills the germs ."
More information at www.ocduk.org.


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Reboot of award-winning Echo Bazaar offers email sign-up, new stories and new gameplay. Facebook and Twitter not required.
"We want to be an ethical social game" says CEO.
Failbetter Games is delighted to announce the release of Fallen London: a revised and extended reboot of its highly acclaimed online adventure Echo Bazaar.
The re-launched game features an updated interface, new ways to play alone or with friends, many new illustrations and more than 700,000 words of original, interactive stories, adding up to months of free play.
And for the first time, Failbetter Games has introduced an email sign-up, so players won't need a Facebook or Twitter account to experience Fallen London.
"We want to be an ethical company, so we won't force players to hand over the keys to their social networks," says Failbetter founder Alexis Kennedy. "Social games get a bad reputation in the industry, and it's not controversial to say that some of them deserve it. We want to be clear to our players upfront that Twitter and Facebook are a choice, not a requirement".
Part Choose Your Own Adventure and part role-playing game, Fallen London takes place in a dark and hilarious Victorian Gothic underworld where your choices affect everything from the price of your soul to your table manners. In its former incarnation as Echo Bazaar, it was named Best Browser Game of the year by the Escapist and has won rave reviews from mainstream media and gaming press alike.
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Who are Failbetter Games?
Alexis Kennedy and Paul Arendt formed Failbetter Games in 2009 to create story- driven social games and explore interactive digital storytelling. Their first game, Echo Bazaar, was named Browser Game of the Year by the Escapist. More recently, Failbetter created The Night Circus, a highly acclaimed online narrative based on the bestselling novel, for Random House publishing. They have also carried out narrative consultancy work for Bioware. The company is currently working on two games for younger players for Channel 4 & the BBC.
What is Fallen London about?
The year is 1889. Three decades ago, London was stolen by bats. Dragged deep into the earth by the entity known as the Echo Bazaar. It lies now in the Neath, a cavern of impossible size, on the shores of the Unterzee, a giant saltwater lake. The sun is gone. The tumbling white clouds are gone. There will never be another strawberry.
But Londoners can get used to anything. And it's quiet down here, with the devils and the darkness and Rubbery Men and the mushroom wine. Peaceful.
Well, it was until you arrived.
Whether sleuth, spy, seducer or trader in souls, Echo Bazaar lets players be whoever they want to be whilst finding their way through a vast and complex storyworld, rich with secrets and scandals alike. With uniquely narrative-driven gameplay, Echo Bazaar blurs the line between text adventures and social gaming, enabling the player to make difficult choices with real consequences.
How is Fallen London different from Echo Bazaar?
Fallen London adds a number of new features. These include:
- email sign-up capability.
- A unique narrative crafting system that rewards players with hidden chunks of story for their loot.
- An updated interface that's cleaner and easier to read.
- New pets to discover, including the Hungover Terrier, the Partisan Messenger Tortoise and the Subtle Mole.
- 'Living Stories': occasional, special tales in which the characters contact the player directly via Facebook or Twitter - with the player's permission, of course.
- Cliques (currently in beta) Form an exclusive social salon with your friends.
- Many new stories and illustrations.
"Intriguing and addictive... The world of Fallen London is a joy to explore, a weird an wonderful playground"
"The developers at Failbetter Games have build a world out of words, every bit as vividly drawn as the worlds build by Rockstar in Red Dead Redemption, or Irrational in Bioshock."
"A beautifully moody and lusciously written faux-Victorian game set in a London that has been, for nefarious reasons, sold to Hell"
"Simply and brilliantly produced on what can only be a minuscule budget."
"It plays out like a grand spidery Choose Your Own Adventure."
"The game offers up some genuinely intriguing story full of tongue-in-cheek moments, mixing serious intrigue with surreal fantasy."
"The writers of Echo Bazaar use concrete nouns and active verbs. They don't abuse adjectives. They have a sense of rhythm."
Ethical Social Gaming: an interview with Alexis Kennedy of Failbetter Games
Why are you relaunching Echo Bazaar?
I founded Failbetter because I was interested in new ways of telling stories. Our first project was a social game because that was what everyone was doing in 2009, and it seemed the obvious way to make enough money to fund a team. But... I was never comfortable with the aggressive virals that social games rely on. So we had something that looked and behaved like a social game but was incredibly polite and gentle. And which was a bit quirky to be mass-market, too. Result, we didn't get the giant stack of players that social games do, but we still suffered from the shonky reputation that they have. It was, as I've said a few times, like dressing up as Darth Vader but refusing to use your dark powers.
So we said hang it all, the game stands or falls on the quality of its storytelling and that's what we care about, let's make the social network thing optional. So you can now sign up with just an email address and a password.
And as soon as we started thinking in those terms... we realised this is the bright line that allows us to demonstrate we're going to behave ourselves. If a game insists on getting your social networking details, it might use them responsibly, or it might not. If a game lets you play without insisting on access, then you know it's not just going to be all about the viral marketing.
I don't want to suggest that all social games, or even most social games, take liberties. The Wild West days are long past. There are plenty of responsible, high quality offerings with deep gameplay, and plenty of others that want social network access for good reasons. But we all feel that nervousness in the second after we click 'authorise this application'. I wish there were more games that allowed limited engagement. Too often, it's like someone demanding your phone number before they'll talk to you.
Why "Fallen London?"
Oh, people have been calling the game Fallen London for years. And it's just a better name: it conveys the flavour of the setting instantly. We've sort of had two names for years and we thought we'd use the relaunch to sort it out. Plus, the Bazaar is a character, and one we have fun with. Now its Twitter feed can become a way of injecting additional flavour and character into the storyworld, as well as just a pipeline for announcements. You may have noticed we've already started with that.
Apart from the name and the email sign-up, what else is new?
We have a sexy new interface which makes messages that the game spits out less texty and more appealing. We've got the only crafting system in the *world* that runs on character, dialogue and story. And we've got cliques on the way, as a new focus for socialising and co-operating in the game. They've been on the way for a long time. I'm quite excited about that. But the big thing is Living Stories, which we're just rolling out now.
Living Stories?
OK, so, the platform Fallen London uses was always intended to support other projects as well - the only one in the wild right now is Night Circus, but we've got a couple more launching this year. We want the stories that we tell on this platform to be a bit more pervasive than just text on a tab. So first of all, we've got access codes that you can pop into your browser that will unlock extra items or stories in the game. We can give those out from Fallen London characters on Twitter, as the results of mysteries or puzzles, or links from other storyworlds. So you might be watching Mr Stones' Twitter feed and see him link to a story about the Tomb Colonies that'll only run for a month, for the people who find that link.
Second, we've got reactive stories that come and talk to you after the fact. This means we can have characters who mail you a week or two after another story and say "Our old enemy has returned to plague us..." or, perhaps, "I miss you. Is it really over between us?" It means we can mix up ways of pacing stories - so we can still tell them over days or months, but you don't need to do quite as much clicking to see the end of them.
This is early tech and we're only just working out the best way to use it and how to refine it, but it feels like a big deal.
So it's, like, a transmedia thing?
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A day of searching in and along the shoreline of the Black River Sunday yielded no sign of a 47 year old man.
The man jumped into the waters of the Black River Saturday evening when his fishing companion, a five year old boy, fell in and the man attempted to save him.
It happened in Watertown, across from the restaurant 'Maggies On The River.' The boy's body was swiftly carried downriver and recovered Saturday night at the Glen Park hydroelectric dam.
The man is described as a friend of the five year old's family.
Police did not release the name of either person Sunday.
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Some US-bound air travelers must turn on phonesBy EILEEN SULLIVAN
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Passengers queue up for a security check at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China. The Transportation Security Administration is requiring passengers at some overseas airports that offer U.S.-bound flights to power on their electronic devices, the agency said Sunday. It says devices that wont power up wont be allowed on planes, and those travelers may have to undergo additional screening.WASHINGTON Passengers at some overseas airports that offer U.S.-bound flights will soon be required to power on their electronic devices in order to board their flights a measure intended to enhance aviation security at a time when intelligence officials are concerned about hidden explosives, a counterterrorism official said.
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The Transportation Security Administration says it is adding the requirement that passengers coming to the U.S. from some airports must turn on devices such as cellphones before boarding. It says devices that wont power up wont be allowed on planes and those travelers may have to undergo additional screening. Turning on an electronic device can show a screener that the laptop or cellphone, for instance, is a working device and that the batteries are used for operating that device and that the device is not hiding explosives.
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Cities across the US – including Los Angeles - have banned the ubiquitous plastic bags handed out by grocery stores and other retail stores, and now one courageous town may start the ball rolling on plastic water bottles.
Although more than 90 universities such as Brown, Cornell, Harvard and Princeton, have restricted or banned sales of water bottles on campus, Concord, Massachusetts is the first city to do so.
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Have you ever wondered why the 360 version of so many games are scheduled to come out weeks (or months) before the PlayStation 3 versions? New York Times writer Matt Richtel did too, and tracked down the answer.
While many analysts said the release date discrepancies are about the difficulty of developing on a brand new platform, EA cited a different reason. Richtel spoke to Jeff Brown, EA's spokesman, who said that, as EA gets close to completing games, it sometimes must focus its resources on the version for one particular console, because manpower resources are limited.
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Marco Dapper appears as "Carmine" on December 6.
Ignacio Serricchio first airs as "Alex Chavez" on December 7.
Lamon Archey first airs as "Mason" on December 12.
Jerry Douglas appears as "John Abbott" on December 13.
Redaric Williams first airs as "Tyler Michaelson" on December 14.
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Redaric Williams joins the cast as "Tyler Douglas," to begin taping on November 8 to air on December 12, and Lamon Archey has been cast as "Mason," taping the week of November 5. Williams and Serricchio will appear as two hot, new men who land in Genoa City to shake things up.
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