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Dietrich Bonhoeffer had a lot to say about Ethics, and with good reason. A pastor/theologian by heart, he was committed to the way of Jesus which, by all his understanding, meant a way of non-violence. In spite of this, he ultimately became part of a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler. The reasons behind his decision are far beyond the scope of this post, but central to this post is Bonhoeffer's belief that ethics flow from a person, not a system.The questions that have come out of this past S … [Read more...]
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Jeong Jae-hyeok (Lee Je-hoon) from "Fashion King" revealed his intention towards Lee Ga-yeong (Shin Se-kyung).
On the sixth episode of the SBS drama "Fashion King", there was conflict between Jeong Jae-hyeok and Choi An-na (Kwon Yoo-ri).
Jeong Jae-hyeok shoved Lee Ga-yeong's design in An-na's face and provoked her. She was upset that he didn't trust her abilities. Jeong Jae-hyeok came over to her house to comfort her and cook her dinner.
He asked, "Why don't we move in together. I don't want to waste time going back and forth. I think my father likes you. He doesn't usually say stuff like this but he said that you work hard and that he'll keep an eye on you".
Choi An-na then responded, "You don't even expect anything from me so why would he matter?" At her cold response, Jeong Jae-hyeok soon revealed his true intensions.
He said, "Everything will be in your name from beginning until end. So don't worry". He was going to disguise Lee Ga-yeong's designs into Choi An-na's. Now that she knew, she cried in disappointment.
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Watching Syria's War Videos and images of the continuing conflict in Syria
The New York Times is tracking the human toll of the conflict in this feature. The primary source is the online video that has allowed a widening war to be documented like no other, and posts try to put the video into context. Edited by Liam Stack
Deadly Explosion at Gas Station Near Border Updated September 20WarningGraphic content
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A large explosion shook a gas station on Thursday in Ayn Issa, a small town in Raqqa Province roughly 20 miles from a Turkish border post seized by rebel forces this week. Antigovernment activists said an airstrike by government forces had caused the huge blast and that between 30 and 100 had died. Video quickly posted by local activists, and said to be from the scene, showed gnarled trucks and what appeared to be bomb craters, but little sign of a high death toll or significant damage to the station.
The video was posted to a Facebook page affiliated with activists in Raqqa Province. An activist in the town, Ayn Issa, said government forces dropped a bomb on the station, on the east side of town, and roughly 30 had died. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll exceeded 100.
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After four seasons of sometimes good, but mostly mediocre football, Mike Shanahan has been relieved of his head coaching duties in Washington.
ProFootballTalk: The Shanahan era in Washington is over
thefootballgodssay says: Dec 30, 2013 7:49 PM
but mike and his staff is the best in the nfl
MichaelEdits says: Dec 30, 2013 7:55 PM
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bigcheetah19 says: Dec 30, 2013 10:31 PM
Lets look at whether or not Shanahan was being accurate today when he said the organization was in a better place then when he took the job…I think, as skins fans, we will see that he was right. First, our qb situation is much better today than it was four years ago. RG3 is a special talent and has the ability to be a top 8 qb for the next 10 years. When healthy, he is electric and I truly believe that with a full offseason and more time for his knee to heal he will regain his rookie year form. Cousins has proven he is a reliable back up who can come in and move the offense an win games in a pinch. Our rb situation is also much better with Shanahan finding a gem in Alfred Morris. Morris is a top 6 rb in the league and his skill set is scheme diverse. We can anticipate having him continue to be extremely productive moving forward. Roy Helu is a excellent complement with blazing speed and the ability to pass protect and catch the ball out of the backfield. At the skill spots we have a budding star in the tight end out of Florida and Garçon…an additional playmaker is needed on the outside bc moss is done and hankerson and Morgan have not panned out. Up front we are below average everywhere but left tackle where Shanahan added a diaper star in Trent Williams…lets recall that stephon heyer and Levi Jones were protecting out qb's blindside before Shanahan arrived.
Defensively the decision to move to a 3-4 was I'll conceived. We never added that dominant nose tackle to anchor as cofield is best suited at end. Orakpo, although not a Shanahan selection, has been utilized well when healthy and Kerrigan offers value as a hustle player with rush ability. Both guys have their best football ahead of them. Amerson has the ability to be a solid starter on the back end and a key piece to a restructured secondary. Overall, Shanahan leaves us with cofield, Jenkins, orakpo, Kerrigan, Riley, and Amerson as young solid defensive players to build the defense around.
Our Cap hell from disgusting contracts to guys like Jason Taylor, deangelo hall, Albert haynesworth, Derrick Dockery, and Laron Landry are gone as our the penalties from the league and we are now in position to have the ability to add pieces and be extremely active in free agency. We have a full stock of draft picks minus our first round selection from which to add young talent. Lets not forget that before Shanahan came on board we were dealing second round picks for declining players on dancing with the stars.
Overall, I understand that Shanahan and his staff needed to go following such a dismal year but I do feel as a staunch supporter of the skins that we are in a much better place from a personnel standpoint and organization standpoint right now then we were when he took the job. A couple key free agent noes to bolster the offensive line (Alex Mack and the best available right tackle) will do wonders and the best playmaker at the top of the second round will do wonders for us next season.
mogogo1 says: Dec 31, 2013 11:09 AM
You're correct on most all your points but the fact it takes a detailed analysis to prove Shanny made them better during his tenure shows why he's unemployed now. He wasn't hired to make little improvements–he was supposed to make them a power once again. Instead, there was one bright shining moment when they made the playoffs that quickly turned sour when Shanny let the future of the franchise go out and try to play with a torn-up knee.
I thought Shanny was a great hire at the time, but his tenure with the Redskins closely mirrored his last few years with the Broncos–they basically ran in place and never could get over the hump…only with the added abrasiveness of having Kyle on staff in Washington. My guess is Mike probably would have won a few more games on his own and had a lot less drama minus Kyle, but the dream was clearly to have Junior someday take over for Papa. And that was a big symptom of the problem: It all ended up being about Shanny and his ego and attempts to secure Kyle's future than in winning games for the Redskins.
bigcheetah19 says: Dec 31, 2013 3:21 PM
I agreed with your sentiment but saying that obtaining a franchise qb, a stud left tackle, a 23 year old rb who is doing things only a handful of players have done tho early in his career and some solid young defensive players all while taking us out of cap hell shouldn't be classified as "little improvements". We will be extremely competitive moving forward with a few smart additions.


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NEW DELHI – An Indian television journalist who reported on deadly floods while perched on a survivor's shoulders has been fired, the head of the channel said Wednesday.
"What he did was very inhuman. You cannot ride on someone's back for a story. We terminated him on Tuesday," said Nishant Chaturvedi, channel head at News Express.
Narayan Pargaien, reporting on the flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand state in the north, triggered outrage after a video clip went viral on the Internet showing him speaking into the camera while sitting on the shoulders of a local villager.
The reporter claimed that the survivor, who can be seen wobbling under the strain while standing in ankle-high water, had hoisted him onto his shoulders as a sign of respect.
The man "wanted to show me some respect, as it was the first time someone of my level had visited his house," Pargaien said in an interview to Indian media website newslaundry.com on Tuesday. "So while crossing the river, he offered to help by carrying me . . . between which, I thought of reporting."
Chaturvedi said the channel did not broadcast the clip because it found it "highly distasteful."
"He sent the clip to us. We were shocked to see him sitting on the poor man. You have to be a part of the people, and not ride on them," he said.
Chaturvedi said the channel was investigating who uploaded the video onto YouTube, although the reporter claimed it had been posted online by the cameraman who filmed it. Pargaien was summoned to the channel's office to enable him to present his side of the story.
"He said he thought he could do this. But then it means he did not use his basic sense of judgment as a human being," Chaturvedi said.
Some 1,000 people have died in flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand state, known as the "Land of the Gods" for its revered Hindu shrines.
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The sound echoes through the room as I examine the body, clean kill, a smooth almost surgical incision to the throat. Blood now covering the floor makes it difficult to get out of the room without leaving footprints; then again I always love a challenge. She was fun, they all are. Never once have I left unsatisfied after one of my callings.
One town, one victim, this is how it must be. I have to be invisible to avoid detection. That is the only way I can spread my message to the world. They have to know why I do this, without them knowing exactly who I am. This is the second kill today. The other was much less methodical, his death didn't matter. I simply needed his identity for a cover, the power company goon that reads your meter.
Well, it's almost three thirty; her children are going to be barreling through the door in about ten minutes, time to get out of here. I take off the painter suit revealing the uniform I procured this morning and stuff it and the knife - now glistening red in the light - into the tool bag and walk out of the back door of the garage and read the meter before I hop into the work truck and drive around aimlessly for about twenty minutes before slowly driving by the house to catch a peek at my work.
I drive by the house slowly as not to arise suspicion. After all, there are two police cruisers in front. Who wouldn't want to see what happened? In a town this small, everybody knows everything just minutes after it happens. I happen to see two children, Kaileigh and Trevor Paulsen, knees and hands covered in their mother's blood and tears in their eyes being escorted out of the house by two of Boothbay's finest. The look on everyone's face is tantalizing, such grief, it's simply amazing. The two officers' faces are the greatest part. I mean, kids love their parents, but only in a small town would this affect seemingly complete strangers so powerfully. They probably went to high school with Karen; maybe one of them even had sex with her after prom, who knows? All I know is it's time to leave town and pick my next martyr, somewhere far, somewhere smaller. I wonder what the weather is like this time of year in Mammoth, Wyoming.
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The American Bankers Association recently released its Top 100 Farm Lenders by Dollar Volume for Q3 2015 and UMB Bank, a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: UMBF), is ranked No. 33 on the list. The rankings are based off information from FDIC data in Q3 2015 and loans within the Agricultural and Farmland FRB Codes.… Read More →
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Elanor 'The Laughing Fox' Reaper
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's comment on 2014-10-27 04:26 PM
As I was reading, I thought there should be more person in the person. Personality is what makes the difference between a character and a mook who dies without getting any lines. The setup is interesting for the most part, and you have provided plenty about what she is. But WHO is she? I still don't know.
Seeing your reply to MM's comment, I see it's a deliberate choice, and I respect the intent. I can't fault someone for having a different approach to design. However, I DO believe leaving her without a personality reduces her utility. This is all my opinion, and mileage may vary and such, but if I'm browsing the site instead of making my own NPC, I don't want to have to detail her personality. :)
In addition, I'd love to see a few plot hooks. How will she fit in my game?
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Elanor 'The Laughing Fox' Reaper
NPCs (Major) (Criminal/Espionage)
's comment on 2014-10-29 12:36 PM
I deserved that. :) I read all the way down and somehow missed those. I must have hit page down twice or something lame like that. :/ My bad.
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Gragnark, King of the Orcs
NPCs (Campaign) (Combative)
's comment on 2014-10-20 03:45 PM
I gotta be honest, from the title and the summary blurb, I expected this to be bad. But it wasn't.
This is a bit on the short side, could use some fleshing out. But what IS there is good stuff. It's evocative, and pretty interesting. Although... it's too bad none of the picutres show him missing that arm. :P
There are a few nitpicks in the presentation, but overall, I'd say this is a darn good sub. 4.0/5
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Introducing Generators!
Articles (Other Gaming) (Citadel Help)
's comment on 2014-10-20 03:48 PM
Lots of work went into compiling this. Nicely done, and of great use. 5/5
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Silverfox Mill - Part I
Locations (City) (Forest/ Jungle)
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Art - An interesting idea, blended well. Full Point
Craft - Some formatting issues. Half Point. The i, ii, iii, iv, and v could be better notated in the text. It was confusing at first, as I thought those were just part of terms and names you were using until I noticed the notations below. This impacted readability, but is easily fixed, I think.
Style - The writing is interesting and engaging. Full Point
Substance - There is a lot to work with there, and a lot of pieces one could use individually or as a whole. Full Point
Extra Mile - There is, in fact, a LOT to work with here. Full Point.
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Silverfox Mill - Part II
Plots (Discovery) (Multi-Storyline)
's comment on 2014-10-29 03:14 PM
System specific info is not necessarily a bad thing... provided everyone understands the intent. For example, is a Fortitude Save of DC 27 supposed to be easy? Hard? Somewhere in the middle? I'd include verbiage to clarify this for the non-Pathfinders in your audience.
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Silverfox Mill - Part II
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Only voted
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The Threat of Sugar
NPCs (Mythic/ Historical) (Artistic/Performance)
's comment on 2014-10-17 04:27 PM
I think this is well done. It presents an interesting idea in an equally interesting way, leaving a lot of leeway for a GM to fit this into his own work. It has a sweet (pun intended) "Stand Alone Complex" vibe I can see fitting in to any story set in a less-than-perfect future - which is all of them really.
The block quotes make the individual posts seem more forum-like, too.
There are a few typos, but they actually work perfectly here, because they're all in forum posts. Those are always riddled with errors. I'm not sure of you did it on purpose or not, but don't correct them. :P
My only beef is all the extra reading I had to do on the Eclipse Phase site. :P
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The Residents of Oldport
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A couple of awkward phrasings, but overall very well written piece built around a very interesting idea. I'd love to see more about Oldport, its history, people and environs.
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The Ruins of Oldport
Locations (Ruins) (Plains)
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Engaging, well-presented & most of all something I can see myself using. With a little tweaking for the naming style, this would be a perfect addition to my Everway games. (Everway has a pretty specific naming convention, so pretty much everything has to be renamed to fit. :P )
About the only flaw I see here is the dead link to the Resident of Oldport. :P Hopefully you'll have that finished and the link will work soon so I can read that one as well.
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Legacy, Part III - Delta Company
Articles (Fiction) (Gaming - Genre)
's comment on 2014-10-14 11:54 PM
Re: "Fast Friends," the term refers not to speed but to being firm. It's possible it's a colloquialism that isn't universal, but I thought it appropriate in the voice of the narrator.
Re: My typos, Awesome. Keep pointing those out. I'll keep fixing 'em.
Re: bit of work, I actually posted this part without being super happy with it. It felt - and still feels - like something's missing. But I couldn't put my finger on it and in the end, "perfect is the enemy of good," so I posted it. :) Any suggestions for what this part may be missing would be welcome.
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Legacy, Part III - Delta Company
Articles (Fiction) (Gaming - Genre)
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Let me think about how to better phrase those...
The intent of the sigh and running off is this: the moment of crisis has passed and Kevin, not wanting to be late (and really not wanting to deal with the mess which was just created), takes off running.
Also, I realized I narrated from his viewpoint without giving a clue about what an outside observer would be perceiving, which is that Kevin is moving at super speed. So he'll never be late again. :) But yeah, I could show that better.
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Legacy, Part III - Delta Company
Articles (Fiction) (Gaming - Genre)
's comment on 2014-10-22 02:02 PM
Fixed a section to better illustrate what happens as Kevin Expresses.
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Mien Endsieg
Items (Books and Scrolls) (Campaign Defining)
's comment on 2014-10-14 03:32 PM
Hitler's suicide was not suicide. Was he killed because he was a mindless dupe to this same dark power? Or did he shoot himself to complete the ritual which ensure his own dark spirit would remain to infect the world for decades to come?
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30 Super-Villians
NPCs (Major) (Criminal/Espionage)
's comment on 2014-01-27 08:43 PM
A couple I've used in the past...
Spectre uses his ability to merge with shadow and travel between shadows to get the drop on criminals, who he beats senseless. You might think he's a hero, and sure, he's helped a bunch of people. But he also takes their stuff, and isn't shy about using excessive force.
The Fury was drugged and they thought she was dead. They disposed of her body by putting her in the buildings incinerator. That's where she woke up. On Fire. She's criminally insane, usually failing to distinguish between friend and foe, and burns so hot it should have consumes her long ago. She doesn't talk; only howls in rage and pain and hate.
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NPCs (Minor) (Technical)
's comment on 2014-10-13 01:14 PM
I like this one. A power that seems pretty minor, but depending on how easily usable it is, it could be incredibly powerful in a fight. Switching places with someone can really mess them up, put them out of position, facing the wrong way, all sorts of trouble.
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It's A Gone World
Locations (World) (Any)
's comment on 2014-10-13 01:11 PM
Aramax, I challenged this one. If you feel the need to make a comment preemptively defending the sub, that should tell you something. The potential here to offend outweighs any utility. This is something that could be pursued, but it needs to be handled to care and sensitivity, and I'm sorry, but that didn't happen here.
In addition, there's two other issues which were not challenge-worthy, but which I think deserve mention.
First, this isn't a 100 word sub; it's a stub. I haven't had a problem with your short format before this, but an idea touching on such a topic deserves more thought and consideration than trying to fit it in such a short word count.
Second, run this through spell check and grammar, or have someone proofread it. I typo like mad and I know it, so I don't expect perfection, But some effort to clean up a post would be nice.
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Legacy, Part I - Goodbye
Articles (Fiction) (Gaming - Genre)
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Thanks. I appreciate the comment on my choice of tense. Fair warning, a LOT of my subs use this tense. I know it's not one a lot of people like to use, or read. I like it because it gives a sense of being more part of the scene. For me anyway.
I should maybe not admit this, but I tried to do a thing where all the past scenes were in past tense, and mixed my tenses horribly because I'm so used to writing in present tense. Need to fix it ASAP. :P
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Legacy, Part I - Goodbye
Articles (Fiction) (Gaming - Genre)
's comment on 2014-10-10 12:09 PM
Heh. Where were you when others were talking me into splitting Legacy into parts. :P
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Legacy, Part I - Goodbye
Articles (Fiction) (Gaming - Genre)
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Fixed some mixed tenses in the flashback scenes.
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The Nespresso Variations capsules have enjoyed a long run, shipping three different flavors in each market, and in 2013, Nespresso shook a few things up. While they are still offering three flavors, they polled Nespresso drinkers in the middle of the year, and allocated the most popular flavor in each country to that market. After thousands of votes, the US got Masala Chai.
It's worth noting that Canada got Cioccorosso - a chocolate raspberry flavor..... visit us here at SSE for more on this next week.
Just in case you wanted more variation earlier this year, Nespresso re-introduced three "favorites" into the permanent collection for people to buy any time of the year; vanilla, chocolate, and caramel.
Review and tasting notes after the jump.....
Review and Tasting Notes: Masala Chai
The Nespresso team didn't waste any time getting the Masala Chai out of the warehouse on a Monday and getting it to me the next day with normal Nespresso Club shipping - impressive.
Typically, Variations are designed for a global audience, and the Masala Chai flavor is no exception. So while you may go to a local Starbucks and get an extra pump or two of sweet syrup to blow your mind, this won't. The flavors are more subtle, less overwhelming, whispering, not shouting.
I have a new Latissima Plus machine that I have been using lately and brewed a few lattes and espresso shots with the Masala Chai capsules. (I'll review the Latissima Plus soon)
Overall, the flavor is slight; very subtle and almost lost in a latte; a double shot of expresso helps, but won't make things jump out and yell "YO, CHAI HERE!" I was afraid that the milk was masking the flavors; it can do that, especially when the coffee is layered in the glass under a foamy layer of froth.
After having a few shots of pure Masala Chai espresso, I am convinced that this was designed to be that subtle, that slight, that quiet. The cardamon and spice flavors come through, but are barely there. If you look for them, they will reward you with a nicely true note that is authentic, and not cloying. It's like a secret that only you, the drinker, gets to enjoy in a crowd. A it of sugar helps it come alive in a shot.
If you like big flavors, and love Chai, this might not be enough for you. If you want to enjoy a quiet change of pace, and like Chai, then this little shot might reward you with a few minutes of fun.
Currently shipping at Nespresso Club, the Nespresso Variations Chai Masala for 2013 is $0.70 per capsule.
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Masala Chai is a rip off. There is absolutely no chai flavor at all. Compared to the other variations from Nespresso, this one is worthless as a flavored coffee. It just makes a good regular espresso.
I am quite disappointed in the Chai Masala. There's really almost no added flavor there. I have chai spices here, and and I guess I should just make my own masala coffee.


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BalanceBall Chair with Pump
This is different and I like it. Designed so that you can improve your posture and help out your back by strengthening those core muscles at your desk! The exercise ball is also removable if you wish to use the chair and ball separately, and it comes in a variety of colors. Last, but not least, its eco friendly!


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The Scientific Basis of National Progress
From Wikisource
- Preface.
- Chapter I. The Scientific Basis of Material Progress
- Chapter II. The Scientific Basis of Mental and Moral Progress
- Chapter III. New Truth, and its general relation to Human Progress
- Chapter IV. The Promotion of Original Scientific Research
This work was published before January 1, 1923, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.


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Having installed the back axle and engine
we are really cracking on, until we get to the front suspension
that is...
We opted for the basic front suspension option on our 2B,
no fancy wishbones for us - if the sliding pillar is good
enough for Morgan then its good enough for us.
The principle of the front suspension is fairly easy
to grasp, even if the realisation is a little more
tricky. Basically the chrome shaft from the MacPherson
strut if the donor vehicle is bolted between the two
plates on the chassis (shown left) and the axle of
the wheel moves up and down the shaft (which also
has a coil over it), damped by a separate shock absorber.
Now this sounds simple, but first you need to assemble
a load of bits and pieces, compress the spring, get
it all lined up and have faith that the thing will
hold together.
Hear are the main components as assembled, now this
looks simple, what you can't see are the small spacers,
bushes and plates needed to get all this together.
We'd go into more detail but we aren't even sure that
we have got it right yet.
Somewhere in here is the phosphor bronze bush that
allows the hub to slide up and down the chrome shaft.
Note the chipped paint on the chassis, that's what
happens when you keep taking it off - putting it back
on, swearing, taking it off, putting it back on, taking
it off, compressing the springs...you get the idea
Hmmmm...sliding pillars may be alright for Morgans but
they are a bit on the fiddly side, to be more precise they
are a pain. Study the build video carefully, then watch
it again, then try to build the suspension and then watch
the video again...


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#22 Lacy Tee
Steinberg delves deep into her project bag of tricks, combining a wide variety of lace patterns on this stunning tee, shown in Koigu Wool Designs' "KPM." With so much going on in the fabric itself, the edges are completed without additional finishing.
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Stephanie and Tyler traveled from San Padre Island, Texas to share their vows with family and friends in the Bay Area. Although there was traditional military protocol to be followed, the day was also infused with side-splitting humor. To begin with, the receesion music after the ceremony was from Top Gun, and prompted the entire wedding party to don aviator glasses and march down the aisle. Parents included! Later, while Stephanie and her father were sharing their first dance, the music changed to showtunes and they begin a synchronized tap routine! A complete surprise to Tyler and guests. Now that's a great beginning to a new journey together.
The Claremont Hotel-Stephanie and Tyler, married!
The slideshow is wonderful… such a great way to summarized the day and the mood! I look forward to seeing the entire album. A truly spectacular job. Thank you, The father of the bride.


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Closed Casket
From Louisville Punk/Hardcore History
Closed Casket isn't a real record label that way that Slamdek or Initial Records act like labels. CC is just a name put on releases that Bryan Volz is involved in, even though the band is just putting the stuff out it's self. The name was changed in early 2005 to simply Louisville Hardcore Records to reflect the name of the website that Bryan ran and to remove the spectre of violence, death, and decay that plagued hardcore designs and names of the time.


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This blog has been updated on 8/3/11 by BlackMonkey with more relevant information
This is BlackMonkey, signing in! Over the past two weeks, I have been doing some research on the fanons of The Avatar Wiki, and I found some interesting information. Check these numbers:
Did you know that out of every fanon ever created:
- 5% of them are complete
- 60% of them are incomplete but active
- 22% of them are incomplete but inactive
- 14% of them are discontinued
And thanks to AvatarRokusGhost, you can check out this:
- 49% of stories were begun in 2011.
- 33% of stories were begun in 2010.
- 15% were begun in 2009.
- Only 3% were begun in 2008 or before.
But wait, there's more! Did you know that out of all 5,351 registered users, only 4% are fanon writers?
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Nicole Kidman Gives Birth
In a Nashville hospital, Nicole Kidman and country singer husband Keith Urban welcomed their daughter Sunday Rose Urban into the world. Maintaining a very svelte physique throughout her pregnancy, the 41-year-old actress could be seen recently sporting what looked like a slight baby bump. Her daughter weighs in at 6 lbs. 7oz.
To prepare for the birth, Nicole made a mix-tape of some of the most soothing sounds she could think of. On Saturday, Urban performed at a sold-out concert in Nashville and dedicated his song "Better Half" to his "very, very, very, very, very pregnant wife."
It's the first child for the couple, who celebrated their second anniversary this past June.


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It is true. As I blow through interests there are often long stagnant periods here on the 'ol home page. Recently much of my attention has been on Facebook, mindlessly clicking for Farm and Frontier. Lately though I've been feeling a bit brain dead, too much senseless clicking me thinks.
Finally taking the time I have updated my old fonts. People were having trouble embeding to PDF, and hooray they should work fine now. What little task shall I tackle next?
September got away from me. I started my freebie the first week and then finally gave in to the siren song from The Sims 3. I had it on my system but wasn't ready to give up the time to really check it out, I'm a real junkie since Sims 1.
So anywho the month passes and I'm throwing my tiny kit together. I even painted my own interpretation of the Simmy plumbob thingy, so now you can be a Sim in the crowd and easy to find. Go Sim youselves!
I finished my Color Challenge kit and I'm really happy with all the pieces. If you would like it's available………. here.
Kit includes 6 – 8″x8″ papers and 9 elements.
DSO August Color Challenge wrapping up…
Finally got it together, a small kit for the color challenge at Digi Scrap Obsession. I've not done a kit before and found myself worrying about each piece being used. I coundn't decide, do I design for the page or the overall kit appearance. I'm still not sure how I'll dive in next time, hmm…
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Yes, starting again. I want to play in the digiscrap community so I need to get this off the ground. I'm just starting and really, I like this free theme as it is.
I am putting together the first freebie for the Color Challenge at DSO. Working on the terms of use, a blinkie, and where to host it. DSO is a popular site so I don't know if that will result in heavy download of my kit, so I'm leary to host it myself.
Who the heck am I? Working on that too…
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A public candidate gene testing pipeline for resistance to aflatoxin accumulation or
Aflatoxins are carcinogenic and toxic metabolites produced by the fungus
Although many candidate loci and gene sequences have now been identified, none have been reported in use to create improved breeding lines to date. There are several possible explanations why they have not been used. Few QTL have been identified with large phenotypic effects or that are consistent across multiple environments, and they have rarely been tested in more than one genetic background. The candidate genes identified via differential expression profiling of mRNA or protein have generally not been validated and cannot yet be confirmed to have a causal effect on the trait. In addition, hundreds of potentially up- or down-regulated genes have been identified, which is too many to begin to use in a practical breeding program. Even with the most advanced breeding technology available, there is no feasible method to use these large numbers of informative genes simultaneously for breeding purposes. The problem is confounded because resistance genes identified to date are usually found in genetic backgrounds that differ from US breeder's elite materials. Breeders generally will not invest in these genes without more guarantee of success. The most conclusive independent validation of these genes would require the production and field testing of near isogenic or transgenic lines. Because of the expense and time required to generate these lines, only the most promising and well characterized candidate genes should be tested with them.
Here, we present a candidate gene testing pipeline consisting of a database for choosing candidate genes, a panel of maize lines for identifying polymorphisms within the genes, and mapping populations for testing the phenotypic effect of each gene. Genes which appear to significantly reduce aflatoxin accumulation or fungal biomass can then be used to create Near Isogenic Lines (NILs) for final validation of gene effect. Ten candidate genes have been taken through part or all of the steps in the pipeline. The objectives of this study were to follow these 10 genes through the candidate gene testing pipeline and ensure that the steps are all efficient, necessary, and yield conclusive results. These results are presented here.
The overall flow of the candidate gene testing pipeline can be found in
Diagram of the steps in the candidate gene testing pipeline. Researchers interested in submitting gene sequences to be analyzed in the pipeline can contact the corresponding author of this article at the USDA/ARS Corn Host Plant Resistance Research Unit.
1. The Corn Fungal Resistance Associated Sequences Database (CFRAS-DB) of DNA and protein sequences identified in past resistance studies [
2. A diverse panel of 8 inbred lines for SNP and InDel (Insertion/Deletion polymorphisms) identification within any given maize gene sequence. The lines include four resistant lines (Mp313E, Mp715, Mp717, and CML341) and four diverse susceptible lines (B73, NC300, T173, and Va35), chosen because they are well characterized (in the case of B73) or frequently used as breeding lines in the southern US. In addition, because they are from unrelated germplasm, there is a higher probability of finding polymorphisms between the lines within each candidate sequence. These lines are currently being re-sequenced to identify polymorphisms within any selected candidate gene sequence. Genes can also be quickly sequenced one at a time in the panel as part of the pipeline (
Example of an alignment of the 8 diverse inbred lines and the B73 reference (published genotype) used to find polymorphisms within one amplicon of the p450 candidate gene, and compared to the published reference B73 genome sequence. Boxes identify possible SNP or InDel polymorphisms between the lines that could be tested in the QTL and association mapping populations.
InDels identified within each gene sequence are used to design a size-based assay that can be run via PCR and visualized on an agarose or polyacrylamide gel, and SNPs are used to create a SNP assay that can be run on a fluorescence-based plate reader. In our laboratory, size based polymorphism assays are designed by finding primer pairs within the candidate sequence using Primer 3 software version 0.40 (
3. Four QTL mapping populations and one association mapping panel. The QTL mapping populations include F2:3 families of the crosses between Mp313E × Va35 (MpVa), Mp313E × B73 (MpB), Mp715 × T173 (MpT), and Mp717 × NC300 (MpNC) (resistant parents are listed first in each cross). These populations have each been genotyped with over 100 Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) markers. The association mapping panel contains 300 inbred lines, including all aflatoxin/
All five populations have been phenotyped over multiple years, locations, and two to three replications for aflatoxin accumulation resistance and associated phenotypes, including fungal biomass calculated via qPCR according to Mideros
4. Genotyping capability to allow each InDel and SNP identified in the pipeline to be characterized in the population(s) (
Ten candidate genes were chosen to be run through the pipeline based on queries of the CFRAS database including genes or proteins significantly up- or down- regulated in resistant lines following infection with
Example of genotyping available for polymorphisms to be tested in the QTL mapping population. The markers shown here segregate in the expected 1:2:1 pattern for F2 individuals. (
Information on the 10 candidate genes included in this study including the identification number from the corresponding published database; the name or putative function of the gene, location on the chromosome according to the published maize genome sequence; and a published reference, when available. Sequences chosen on the basis of queries from the CFRAS-DB database are indicated, if no previous studies on resistance have been published for these candidate genes.
|MaizeSequence, EST or UniProt ID
|Gene Name
|Chromosomal Location *
|Cytochrome P450
|1-Cys peroxiredoxin PER1
|Hypothetical protein
|CFRAS-DB query
|Unk. homocysteine S-methyltransferase
|CFRAS-DB query
|Hypothetical protein
|CFRAS-DB query
|Hypothetical protein
|CFRAS-DB query
|Glyoxalase I
|Lipoxygenase 10
|Heat Shock Protein (22 kD)
|Photosytem II3 protein, chloroplast precursor
|4: 27096658
* Location is read as chromosome number before the colon and base pair number after the colon.
One to six size-based or Single Nucleotide polymorphisms were identified within the sequences of all ten candidate genes over the 8 diverse inbred lines, and were used to generate assays to map the genes in the four QTL mapping populations. Size assays (for the genes photosytem II3, P450 and PER1) were amplified and separated on agarose gels for mapping in the QTL populations for which these InDels segregated; SNP assays (for all other genes) were visualized with the KASPAR (KBioScience, Hoddesdon Herts, UK) SNP detection system. This was found to be the most economical method for running a smaller number of SNPs on many lines. The polymorphisms for all ten genes were mapped to the expected places on the chromosomes in all cases using JoinMap (
Effect of candidate gene polymorphisms on the phenotype measured in QTL mapping populations. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with resistance to
|MaizeSequence, EST or UniProt ID
|Gene Name
|QTL Population in Which Polymorphic
|LOD at the Peak of Significant QTL Effect
|Potentially Useful Marker for Fine Mapping?
|Cytochrome P450
|MpT, MpVa
|MpVa = 2.5
|1-Cys peroxiredoxin PER1
|MpT, MpVa, MpNC
|Hypothetical protein
|Unk. homocysteine S-methyltransferase
|Hypothetical protein
|MpB = 7.0
|Hypothetical protein
|MpNC, MpT
|MpNC =2.5
|Glyoxalase I
|Lipoxygenase 10
|MpB, MpNc, MpVa
|MpVa = yes, all others no
|Heat Shock Protein (22 kD)
|Photosytem II3 protein, chloroplast precursor
|MpT, MpVa, MpB,
|MpB = 2.5, MpVa = 2.4, MpB = 2.4
Examples of linkage maps generated in the F2:3 segregating population Mp715 × T173, showing the location of the gene based markers 1-Cys peroxiredoxin PER1 (PER) and Cytochrome P450 (P450), and previously mapped SSR markers. Both markers map to the expected location based on the location found by BLAST against these sequences in the B73 reference genome. The numbers to the left of the chromosomes are the cM distances calculated between markers by the JoinMap linkage mapping program.
The phenotypic effect of each of the polymorphisms was estimated in the same mapping populations via QTL analysis. Polymorphisms in genetic sequences that explain a significant level of the phenotypic variation of one or more populations were found in four of the ten candidate gene sequences (
Phenotypic effect of the SNP marker 262-1 identified within gene TC230106, in three environments (mean aflatoxin levels measured at MSU in 2000, 2001, and 2002) in the mapping population Mp313E × B73, as calculated by QTL cartographer.
Association mapping has been completed for only one gene to date (AW424439, Photosystem II3, from chromosome 4). Fifty-eight SNPs were found between these 240 lines, 40 of which had a minor allele frequency (MAF) of greater than 5%. A MAF of less than 5% does not lead to useful data, as this frequency is too low to have any statistical power in an association test due to small sampling size of one of the haplotype classes. In addition, there were 27 Indels (that ranged from 1 to 59 bp), of which 11 of these (all shorter than 2 bp) had a MAF of greater than 5%. There was also one SSR (with a GCG repeat) with various alleles (some very rare) in the middle of the amplified region. Such diversity makes it quite difficult to align the amplified regions and find polymorphisms, but this was done with the BioPerl script written expressly to reduce some of the complexity by aligning the forward and reverse sequences of each genotype and trimming sequences from up- and down-stream of the primer sites. Sequences with mismatched sites in the forward and reverse reads were not used. ClustalW (
The 51 polymorphisms with MAF greater than 5% were run in TASSEL with the phenotypic data for the association mapping panel measured in Lubbock and College Station, TX, and Raymond and Starkville, MS, for 2010 only (2011 aflatoxin data are still being analyzed). No significant associations were found between any of the polymorphisms and aflatoxin levels in the panel in the site in Lubbock, TX. Three significant associations were found in data collected from College Station, TX (with probabilities of 9.27 × 10−4, 8.19 × 10−4, and 9.65 × 10−4). The latter two of these polymorphisms were completely linked, but the first was not. The two MS sites showed association between aflatoxin levels and one polymorphism (the same one) in both field sites, with probabilities of 3.86 × 10−9 in Raymond and 5.76 × 10−37 in Starkville. This polymorphism was not the same as those associated with aflatoxin in College Station, although it is linked to the College Station polymorphisms.
Although no significant association with a phenotypic effect in aflatoxin and
The public candidate gene testing pipeline for aflatoxin accumulation or
The authors would like to thank Jack Haynes for his excellent technical assistance in the laboratory; Baozhu Guo, Robert Brown and Z. Chen for their candidate Resistance Associated Protein sequences; Baozhu Guo and Ana Diaz for their suggestions and review of the manuscript, and the USDA-ARS for funding of the work presented in this paper. This paper is a joint contribution of USDA-ARS and the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and is published as journal No.J-12008 of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.


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Passing on the Faith
My Six Essentials for Passing on the Faith
Note: This article is part of a special Patheos Symposium, Passing on the Faith: Teaching the Next Generation. Read more perspectives here.
Train up a child in the way s/he shall go etc., etc. may be the oldest cliché that parents are subjected to in this world. It certainly is the most annoying when it is laid upon one by an overweening grandparent. Yet there is—isn't there always!—a rock-solid truth in the whole thing. In this case, what it means is that the first thing we must do in teaching and forming our children is to become dreadfully honest with ourselves and our mates and/or extended family about just how Christian we want this youngster to be and in what ways.
Most of us, if we're honest, eventually conclude this preliminary work by realizing that what we really want to form is not so much a code of conduct, though that is obviously important, as it is an intimacy with God and the things of God. What we want to implant is an easy and natural affection for the holy, an inherent connectedness to an on-going story, and a sense of membership within a sustaining community that, being larger than any of us, is always there to hold all of us as well as demand some things of us.
And to do these things, the second step is to pray earnestly together as parents and/or extended family and without the children present, for them and for the progress of their souls. That, too, seems like a no-brainer, but it is an adult or mentoring habit often overlooked and almost never routinized in the press of other, more immediate duties.
The third on my short list of a half-dozen essentials is a bit easier to accomplish. Children respond (as do we all) to the very business of routine, and here the flow of the week itself helps. Judaism long ago discovered the informing necessity not just of observing Sabbath...really observing it, that is...but also of wrapping it in prayerful preparation and prayerful conclusion. What that translates to for us is a time of evening prayer as a family on the eve of Sabbath and again on the evening of the Sabbath itself, the former to be a time of preparation for communal worship, and the latter to be a time of family thanksgiving for having been granted the gift thereof.
The fourth in my short-list of essentials is storytelling, but there is a trick here, too. It is a good and joyful thing to read to children (or watch a DVD rendition thereof with them), but it is not nearly as instructive as is the business of telling them a story without benefit of books or discs. Implied in telling is the authenticity of what is being told. The underlying message is that this story matters. It matters because Daddy or Grand-daddy or Uncle Bill knows it all the way through. It matters because Mama or Granny or Aunt Sue loves it enough to know exactly what happens next. Of course, what that also means—and this is the source of the child's perception of authenticity—is that Daddy and Mama et al. have valued this story enough to know it in detail and have also thought about it before telling it. What telling rather than reading or watching also means, of course, is that the stories of the faith can be pulled out spontaneously when their words and plot lines are apropos of some conversation or situation other than bedtime.
All of that is to say that I suspect that of all the things we do in shaping our children in the faith, it is the storytelling that is most formative over the long years of their adult lives. I also think (which is far beyond "I suspect," obviously) that one of the things we as mentoring Christians need most urgently to turn our energies toward is adult classes in teaching each other how to be good storytellers and then in learning in detail the stories of both the Hebrew and the Christian scriptures that most need our telling.
Phyllis Tickle, founding editor of the Religion Department of Publishers Weekly, the international journal of the book industry, is frequently quoted in print sources, electronic media, and innumerable blogs and web sites. Tickle is an authority on religion in America and a much sought after lecturer on the subject.