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5 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend
Gianfranco Ferré's Canone Inverso, F/W 1986, prêt á porter, look 5, triple silk organza.
Luca Stoppini
New Times picks the best fashion, outdoors, and theater events in Metro Phoenix from November 6 to November 8.
La Dolce Vita Garden Party
We can sum up Phoenix Art Musem's La Dolce Vita Garden Party in just three words: footloose, fancy, free. Starting at 6 p.m. Friday, November 6, patrons are encouraged to gussy themselves up and head to 1625 North Central Avenue for a no-cost evening of high-end fashion in its newly opened pair of exhibitions exploring the late designer Gianfranco Ferré's work. Also on the sweet event's lineup: vintage fashion shows with clothing from local boutiques, Italian cocktails and espresso, a photo booth, and a 7 p.m. screening of Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Attendees can freely roam or tour the installations. For details, see www.phxart.org. Becky Bartkowski
This is a scavenger hunt of epic proportions.
Courtesy of Cotopaxi
Hark, brave adventurer! You have been chosen by fate to undertake an important quest that's also a party: Questival. Organized by Cotopaxi — a poverty relief-minded outdoor gear and apparel company — Questival is a 24-hour team scavenger hunt that takes place across the Valley, with each squad of two to six adventurers tasked with completing as many of the 300-plus challenges as they wish. The quests you choose may find you big-wheeling downtown, hiking nearby mountains, performing service at the local Y or taking a selfie with a llama, but complete more than any other team and your triumph will be rewarded with a trip to Belize.
The Questival begins 5 p.m. Friday, November 6, at the Gilbert Civic Center, 50 East Civic Center Drive in Gilbert. Race entry is $46. Visit questival.cotopaxi.com for more. Zach Fowle
Space 55 opens its new season with a throwback Mamet play.
Courtesy of Space 55
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
Everyone who has experienced Sexual Perversity in Chicago, take one step forward.
Not so fast, you guys. We're talking about the play by David Mamet.
Space 55, 636 East Pierce Street, opens its 10th anniversary season with this show, set amongst the sex and disco that permeated the Windy City in the 1970s. One of Mamet's earliest works, the play was celebrated when it debuted in 1976, and should prove an interesting retrospective when the players at Space 55 perform it at 8 p.m. Saturday, November 7. As artistic director Duane Daniels says, "It is such a culture shock to see how far we've progressed as a society… and also how we have not."
Tickets are available at www.space55.org. Melissa Campana
Get a sense of what it's like living in Midtown.
Margaret A. Wright
Midtown Living Tour
They say home's where the heart is, but we tend to think in more brick-and-mortar terms. Turns out, the folks behind the annual Midtown Living Tour agree. For the 2015 edition of the self-guided tour, seven Phoenix condo and apartment complexes including Al Beadle's Executive Towers and One Lexington will allow attendees a peek inside and a feel for the neighborhood, located between Hance Park and Indian School Road and Third Street and Third Avenue. Links to tickets ($15 to $20) and more information about the Saturday, November 7, event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., are available through www.facebook.com/MidtownPHX. At 10 a.m. on the morning of the tour, tickets can be picked up at Regency on Central. Becky Bartkowski
Get a glimpse of the aurora borealis in Peoria.
Courtesy of Theater Works
Almost, Maine
Almost, Maine, is almost a town. It's almost in Canada. And the play by that name features characters who, under the spell of the aurora borealis, fall almost in love. But there's nothing almost-y about the appeal of the script, whose delicate charm and humor, flexible casting requirements, and 11 short scenes have helped make it ragingly popular with regional, community, and high school theaters. And you can only describe tickets for Theater Works' current production as "almost" if you follow it with "gone," so you'd better hurry up and make your plans, entirely.
The show continues through Sunday, November 15, at 8355 West Peoria Avenue in Peoria. Showtime on Sunday, November 8, is 2 p.m. Tickets are $14 to $35 at 623-815-7930 or www.theaterworks.org. Julie Peterson
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RomeroGen is an anime based on the Romero series of games by STYX. It follows Romero, Dico, and many others caught up in a new foe: The Ender.
In Mallard, you see, the usual "bad events" are snowstorms, heavy rain, sometimes even the wicked scientist Lab Rat...however, though Romero and Dico don't know it's true form, a terror known only as the name it wishes to be called: "The Ender" has appeared seemingly out of nowhere. It's up to Romero and Dico to stop this madman (or thing?) from ending all life as we know it, and discovering the lore behind it...
...Of course when they can, otherwise, it's up to their usual antics!
|"A courageous duck in search of adventure!"
|Episode 00 - PILOT
|"The loyal goof of a sidekick to Romero, always curious, but inexperienced."
|Episode 00 - PILOT
|Doc Watt
|"A smart inventor and Hedgehog king of Tarragoo, though mostly not doing his kingly duties, helps Romero on his quests."
|Episode 00 - PILOT
|Lab Rat
|"The evil, but never the less genius, arch-enemy to Romero and Dico - looking to take over the planet DeDe."
|Episode 00 - PILOT
|"The conman "fox" and owner of Kitsoon, his very own shop. He speaks in broken english and always wants a quick buck, but usually helps Romero and Dico either way"
|Episode 01 - A new..."foe"?
|"A strange man, who's body structure or features are never seen, as he's always in the shadows...he's always watching Romero and Dico's larger battles."
|Episode 01 - A new..."foe"?
|"Dico's evil clone, who's only wish is to destroy...he was created in an accident with Watt's cloning device."
|Episode 03 - Cloneundrum
|"The Dragon Princess and stepdaughter to Doc Watt. She's stubborn but sweet, and helps Romero and Dico with tougher foes."
|Episode 04 - Bugzy
|"The metallic dopplegangerof Romero, at first seen as another Robor Robot, before being revealed as working for The Ender."
|Episode 06 - Robor-return Part I
|"One of the main lackeys of Lab Rat, an explosion-loving soldier-like robot."
|Episode 06 - Robor-return Part I
|"The other lackey to Lab Rat himself, he's a lanky, friendly bot who looks up to Cod as some sort of "genius."
|Episode 06 - Robor-return Part I
|"The weak and self-proclaimed "protector of Mallard", a large tree mutated by Lab Rat."
|Episode 09 - Playperil
|"A professional conman and semi-rival to Yorkman. He once owned a shop called "Kappah", but closed it for not known reasons."
|Episode 10 - Shunnedglasses
The Ender Forces
|"A dark cloud-ish being, known as the Ultimate Destroyer. It is a force from The Ender."
|Episode 01 - A new..."foe"?
|"An innocent looking shadowy bug at first...but soon revealed to be a force working for The Ender."
|Episode 04 - Bugzy
|Obliterah Form 2
|"Obliterah's new, gargantuation form. Now taking the physique of a four-legged creature. He's soon captured by Doc Watt."
|Episode 05 - The Light State
|The Horde
|"A swarm of vicious, hungry bugs sent by The Ender."
|Episode 08 - Horde-ibble
|"A large, pterodactyl-like creature, with the ability to shoot large dark lasers."
|Episode X - X
|Obliterah Form 3
|"The 3rd form of Obliterah, now with larger fins and two large bat wings, who escaped Watt's lab with the help of 'The Horde'."
|Episode 15 - Obliterah'd
|"The new, monsterous form of Bugzy. He speaks in a garbled language."
|Episode 16 - Doomsdae Part I
Seasons + Episodes
|"After a peaceful day on Mallard, Romero and Dico receive a distress call from Doc Watt. He says Lab Rat is invading Little City, Romero and Dico go out to stop him and succeed! (This is simply a Pilot)"
00 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|A New..."foe"?
|"Romero and Dico are seen wandering through State City looking for Yorkman's shop, "Kitsoon", when they step in Yorkman is seen serving a customer. Romero interrupts saying that their Stove broke again. Yorkman replies by "putting a band-aid on it". Suddenly a large crash is heard, and when they leave, see a dark force obliterating everything in it's path. It looks to be heading for Mallard, so Romero and Dico give chase. After coming to it, it says it is Obliterah from "The Ender". Romero and Dico have no time to react as it attacks them. They lose, and after waking, find Mallard to be infected with some type of goo and the Dae Sphere missing. They go to retreive it when Obliterah trying to consume it, they are once again beaten, but a glowing light surrounds them, giving the power to destroy it. They take the Sphere and it ends on a silhouette of a figure watching them, and saying their attempts are "valid for the taking".
|01 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|Bailing out
|"Yorkman and Watt are seen walking through Little City, argueing over fruits and veggies, when they are stopped by an officer. He arrests Yorkman for selling counterfeit stoves, and is taken to the big house. Watt contacts Romero who is confused about the light he and Dico where in the other day. Watt says Yorkman is in jail, and that the bail is 30,000 coins! With Dico being on some sort of vacation, him and Watt try to gain enough money to bail him out. After failures of getting jobs, and making it into the television industry, they give up...before they see a 30,000 coin reward for a rich lady's lost dog, and dress Watt up to look like it. Romero bails Yorkman and Watt is seen still with the dog owner, saying Romero "owes him".
|02 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|"It starts out on Romero and Dico running over to Watt's lab, now located in Tarragoo. They find the place to be empty, and Dico stumbles on a large device with two doors. He clumsily falls into it, creating another Dico...! Watt steps in and seeing this, freaks out. He came to show them this cloning device, but hadn't tested it out yet. Studying Dico and his clone, they both seemed stable. With the way events happened, he asked Dico to hang out with his clone for a while, see how he behaves. The next day, Romero wakes up to see Dico hanging out with his clone, who he refers to as "Dosico". Feeling neglected, Romero goes to the cloning lab to talk to Watt, when he sees Dosico making something. He asks whats going on, when Dosico quickly ties him up. He finishes making a weapon, and reveals Watt to be tied up as well. He cranks up the cloner and jumps in, creating thousands! The Dicos run out causing havoc in Mallard... Dico swings by the lab to find Romero tied up, and frees him. Romero explains the situation, and they go to stop the Dico army outside. They are caught up in the chaos. When Dosico is about to kill them, once again they are shrouded with a beam of light, and swiftly destroys all of the clones. Dosico attempts to run, but Dico catches him, and destroys him. It cuts to Watt still tied up asking where Romero is, and then to the strange, silhouetted man once again watching Romero & Dico's battle."
|03 - Season 2 (Adventure Awaits!)
|"Romero and Dico, in Tarragoo, are visiting Castle Tarragoo and Princess Rivera while her stepfather, Watt, is away. While she gives a tour of the castle, a small shadowy bug is seen hiding in the cracks. Although Dico is freaked out, Rivera picks it up. She names it Bugzy and decides to keep it as a pet, not knowing what kind it is. The next day Romero and Dico come back to her castle to see what happened to the bug, and see Rivera playing with him. She says Bugzy is really playful, and leaves after her mother calls. Romero gets up to Bugzy and hisses, in which Romero acts angry. Rivera comes back and Bugzy acts sad, and Rivera scolds Romero for scaring him. Romero waits in the center when Bugzy runs up to him. It tries to spray something on him, but swats it away. Rivera comes back saying she was looking for Bugzy, and forces Romero out of the house after thinking he hit him. Romero visits Watt's lab after he gets back from his trip, and asks him to examine the weird gooey stuff the bug sprayed. He says it's otherworldly, and comes with Romero to check it out. He sees that it got bigger, and it attacks Watt's nose and scratches up Romero. Rivera and Dico walk in to see Bugzy's goo all over Romero's beak, and says he tried to bite him. Romero is kicked onto the street, but a day later, finds Bugzy even bigger than before. Wishing to not be caught in it again, he starts to leave, before Bugzy pulls him back. Rivera comes trying to stop Bugzy, but Bugzy attacks her. Dico tries to help Romero, and Bugzy runs away. Rivera apologizes and helps them go after it. They see it gigantic, trying to steal the Dae Sphere on Mallard. Romero hits it, and Bugzy fights back. Romero manages to defeat it, but it only shrinks in size. It climbs on Mallard and starts to consume the Dae Sphere, and Romero and Dico start to glow again, before it hits them making it stop. Bugzy is near killing them, when Rivera and Watt shoot him with a laser Watt had. Romero and Dico turn out fine, and the episode ends with a deep voice ranting about something. The silhouette man is seen, and says "Your empire will fall...those are the ones."
|04 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|The Light State
|"Romero and Dico are seen resting in Mallard, when a large crash is heard. Watt suddenly transmits in, saying that a hulking monster is attacking Polis City. They go to investigate, and see it obliterating everything. It actually speaks to Romero and Dico, saying it is Obliterah - reincarnated and reformed by his master, and was trying to signal the two here. He attacks them, and Romero is beaten up...soon, however, he once again is swarmed with light. Obliterah says "Hah! Gotacha!" and punts down Romero, and absorbs the light in his mouth, calling it "the light state". He leaves behind a beaten Romero, who is taken to Watt's lab. Doc Watt betters Romero, and from the analyzing he did, that this "Light State" is triggered in high-octane situations. He does not know how Romero and Dico managed to get this form, however, and does not fully know it's capabilities. He says since the guy whose been attacking Romero meant to steal it, suggests they give chase and get it back. Romero and Dico go after Obliterah, and punch him. He turns around and does battle with them. Romero is badly injured, but Dico manages to knock him down. Watt picks him up with a massive claw, and places him in a large, glass container to keep him. They give the light state back to Romero, who is fully healed. Watt decides to keep Obliterah in this container and perhaps study it further, to see it's capabilities - and what it might have to do with this whole mess. It cuts to the silhouetted man, once again observing Romero and co. He doesn't say much, nods his head, and walks off."
|05 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|Robor-return Part I
|"Deep in the main office of Dynamo Industries, Lab Rat is seemingly ranting about the villanous activity, that he's not involved in. Two robots sit on his desk, in which he refers to the one with army hat as "Cod" and the lanky one as "Trout". Cod suggests building giant robots to combat other giant robots, in which Lab Rat smacks him upside the head. Instead he gets the idea to rebuild his finest creation "Robor". It cuts to Romero wandering Little City, when an earthquake starts. Dico, feeling it from Mallard, comes down to find Romero on the ground. He attempts to help him up, when Robor flies towards Mallard and takes the Dae Sphere. This Robor can talk, and delivers a message from Lab Rat himself. The moniter says he's been feeling a bit neglected, and decided to go "big" on this one. Robor quickly blasts the two with a powerful beam and flies off. Dico limps Romero to Watt's lab, who fixes up the two. He is astounded to find the new and improved Robor did this, and quickly gets on it. It cuts to Lab Rat admiring the Dae Sphere with Cod and Trout, where he wonders what he's going to do with it anyways. He decides after Robor's success, to upgrade him further with it and take over the world! However, Robor becomes so powerful, decides to betray Lab Rat and - instead - destroy DeDe. He forces Lab Rat, Cod, and Trout to do his dirty work, while he works on improvements for himself. Back at Watt's lab, he says that Lab Rat gave him not only a super arsenol - but a super mind as well. He gives Romero some back ups and says the Light State should kick in if things get dangerous. Before he can finish, however, Robor removes the roof to the lab - now looking like a mech. He blasts Watt, and Romero and Dico as well. As the Light State kicks in, he sucks it into his blaster and shoots Romero with it, who is seemingly dead...To be continued...
06 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|Robor-return Part II
|It recaps the events of last time, before cutting to an almost dead Romero. Watt says with Robor in the possesion of the Light State for ammo, he could succeed in destroying DeDe. He wonders how Robor even knew of the Light State, but gives Romero some mech armor, and says if he can get the Light State back, it could heal him like before (Episode 05). Romero agrees, and with Dico, they head out to see Robor decimating Little City. Robor greets him, before trying to shoot him with another Light Beam. Romero dodges, and engages combat with him. Romero wins, and takes back the Light State, healing him. Going back to Watt's, the armor is removed, and Romero goes to Dynamo Industries to see a tired Lab Rat and his lackeys scrubbing the floors. Romero explains to him what happened, and Lab Rat tries to play it off like it was his genius plan after all - Romero sees through the lie, but waves goodbye to them anyways. Soon it fades to a beaten Robor returning to the place that the silhouette man was before, where Robor apologizes for losing the mission. The Ender, however, said it was not in vain...as they still got the Dae Sphere.
|07 - Season 2 (Adventure Awaits!)
|Romero and Dico are walking through Tarragoo after Watt calls them in. Entering his lab, they find a small group of bugs sealed inside a container. Dico gets freaked out, while Romero asks where he got them. Watt exclaims he found them all, strangely, grouped together in the middle of the night. He took them to the lab, only to find they where an unidentified species! He asks Dico to take some home, study them for a bit. The two agree, and Dico places it in a glass container on a dresser. Waking up, the container looks completely full. He takes it back to Watt who says they must have duplicated somehow, and says he should look after them tonight. That night, once again, the horde of bugs started duplicating...and broke the container they where in. Flying to his old cloning machine, the horde is multiplied into trillions, and they all fly out. That morning Romero and Dico get a distress call from Watt, and see the Horde terrorizing Little City, eating everything in sight. The start to try and eat Romero, and his Light State starts to kick in - until the Horde eats it form his body. Now equipped with it, they decimate the city and move on. Romero goes back to Watt's lab, where he informs them that they are an unstoppable force meant to consume everything, most likely sent by this "Ender". He says after getting the Dae Sphere, with the Light State, something dreadful could happen... Romero gets an idea, and it cuts to them walking up to the Horde. Watt seems to be pushing a large object into the water. The Horde chases after, when Dico zaps the water with one of Watt's inventions. The Horde is electricuted, and Romero quickly collects the Light State. It fades to The Ender's voice saying that though this failed, with the Dae Sphere, they will plot something big...
|08 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|in Dynamo Industries, Lab Rat, looking disgruntled, is thinking in his office. Trout tells him that he hasn't done anything evil in days, in which Lab Rat replies he wants to get rid of Romero for good. Cod once again suggests giant robots, in which he gets smacked. Lab Rat says he needs to create something big, that will not fight back... he gets an idea, and tells Cod and Trout to meet him in his Mopod. It cuts to Romero and Dico resting on Mallard, when a large boom is heard on the other side of it. They investiagte it, seeing Lab Rat abducting Playper - a weak foe, usually challenging Romero and Dico to leave Mallard. He takes the large tree-like monster, and heads off to Tarragoo. Romero and Dico give chase, and end up in Watt's lab. Watt is nowhere to be seen, and Lab Rat puts Playper in a "Mutanizer". He says it was a little project he "heard" about from his sources, and would rebrand Playper with three things in mind: Bigger, faster, and killer...er. He sicks the pumped up Playper at Romero and Dico, who are swiftly beaten. Lab Rat laughs as he takes Playper to Polis City - to force them to hand over complete control, which he will do to all other countries as well. Romero is tooken back home to rest, seeing that Watt must have been on vacation. Romero gets up, knowing he has to beat Playper. It cuts to Lab Rat listing a list of demands on the Mayor of Polis, with Cod and Trout submitting in. Romero bursts in, wishing to face Playper 1-on-1. Lab Rat agrees, and Playper attacks. Soon enough, Playper is beat, and Romero takes Lab Rat, Cod, and Trout to prison. The silhouette man watches, saying "the next chapter is about to unfold".
|09 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|Romero and Dico are walking downtown in County City, just off the coast of Capita Sea. They see an old "turtle" charming an audience of people with "magic tricks", with a large hat covering his eyes. He quickly does a card trick, seemingly making it out of thin air, he is clapped and rewarded with coins. Romero says he's gonna check out the ice cream parlor, and asks Dico to hold his sunglasses. While Dico goes to talk to the man, He introduces himself as Kappone, a local street magician and salesman. Dico asks for a trick, in which he asks 15 coins in advance. Instead, Dico tries to trade him the glasses for a trick. Kappone agrees, and says to think of a card. Then he "reads his mind" by saying it's a number between 1-10. Dico, amazed, gives the man the glasses and runs off. Back at Mallard, Romero asks for his glasses back, and Dico tells him he sold it to Kappone. Romero freaks out, saying that he needs his sunglasses. They go and talk to Yorkman to see if he has any extras, and Yorkman notices the man he's talking about. He said Kappone used to have a sort of rivalry with Yorkman, and had a shop across the street called "Kappuh". For months they rivaled over who could make the most profits, and said he was a conman. Strangely, Kappone closed down his company even though he was in the lead, and Yorkman hadn't heard of him since. He offers to help track down Kappone and get Romero's glasses back, and they go back to Downtown County City where he first met him. Yorkman "sniffs" to find the glasses, and simply bumps into Kappone a few inches away. After a feirce stare-down, Kappone says he sold the glasses to a gameshow host as a prize, but Romero says he's a jinx without his glasses. The three go on anyways, and after a long amount of questions and puzzles (most of the time Yorkman misunderstanding, and Romero jinxing the puzzles) they barely manage to tie with the other team. As the last question is directed at Dico, on how many numbers can be on a a card set. Dico replies "3" and they lose...fortunatley, however, Yorkman trades the glasses for a "golden stick" on the other team, and quickly gets out, as it was simply a spraypainted stick.
|10 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|One day, Romero and Dico are sleeping, when they hear a badly transmitted distress call. Romero wakes up, trying to accept it, only for it to cut out. He slaps Dico out of bed and they head to Tarragoo and Watt's lab. They see Doc Watt lying on the floor, and ask what happened. He says that he was examining Obliterah after he captured him, when he started transmitting signals from his brain. He attempted to call Romero and Dico to come over here, but soon enough, The Horde from earlier came in and took him. He suggests that Obliterah was somehow able to communicate with The Ender to save him, and thus The Horde was revived. Romero and Dico go out to destroy Obliterah, but find he's been upgraded once again. They attempt to fight him, but are swiftly beaten, they enter the Light State. Romero at first tries to fight, but controls the state, and flies Dico back to Doc Watt's lab. He says Romero somehow controlled his Light State, and says with this knowledge, they may figure out the secrets to it. He equips a number of weapons from Watt, and he says that Obliterah will probably be coming back for the Light State. He is soon right, when reports of Obliterah smashing through County City are found. They go and try to defeat him, and Obliterah is weakened for a second. Though, he quickly sprouts wings, and shoots large beams at Romero and Dico. Romero dodges them, but Dico isn't so lucky, and gets shot down. Romero in rage, enters the Light State...however, in a different form. He now glows dark and eerie, and Obliterah seems surprised. Romero does a long battle with Obliterah and wins, taking Dico back to Doc Watt. Watt says he does not know what the form Romero said he took, but promises to get to researching it immediatley. Romero goes to get Obliterah, only to find he's gone, and Dico still in recovery. It cuts to The Ender talking to Obliterah. He says he's failed him one too many times, and goes onto "Phase 3". He laughs creepily, while the disgruntled sillouette man is seen.
|15 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|Doomsdae Part I
|In an area outside of Watt's Lab, Doc Watt and Rivera are seen a working Romero attempting to trigger the Light State, but failing. Watt tells him to stop trying, and Romero agrees, going to check on Dico - who's still injured. His eyes flare with a dark substance, and Watt tells him to calm down. Romero takes a deep breath, and suggests finally finding where this "The Ender" lies. Watt agrees, and says perhaps he can track it with the tests he did on Obliterah. Soon, however, a beam of light shoots through the lab, almost killing them. They see a shadowy figure trying to shoot the beam at them. Romero recognizes it, before they are blasted again. Romero takes Dico and runs, while telling Rivera and Watt to run. Dico wakes up and sees the giant monster, calling it "Bugzy". Romero puts Dico down in a safe place, and goes to fight Bugzy. Before Romero can even touch him, Bugzy grabs Romero and takes his Light State. He speaks in some garbled language Romero can't understand, and throws him down with force. Bugzy starts to walk away, thinking he's done, when Romero in fury - starts to glow ith dark aura. He attempts to punch Bugzy, until Bugzy starts attacking back. They wage a large battle, where Romero gets the Light State back. He is quickly switched to light around him, still with some darkness around him, until he surges a large burst of pure power. He opens his eyes to see another figure in front of him, a being of light, looking very simalar to Romero. The being looks around, and Bugzy thinks it's the Light State, and tries to take it again, the being fights back, easily blasting it with a beam of light. Bugzy falls down, murmuring something as he plummets. The Light Being looks at Romero, before flying off...to be continued.
|16 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|Doomsdae Part II
|It leaves off with Romero in Watt's lab, where he says that Dico has fully recovered. Rivera says she would've knocked out that monster if it wasn't for her stepfather. Watt sheepishly changes the subject, and asks more questions about the being of light he saw earlier. He said it appeared in a burst of energy from the Light State, and ever since, hasn't been able to trigger it at all. Watt theorizes that in a burst of energy, the Light State went into a physical form, which he dubs "Lite". He doesn't know how it could be living, or a copy of Romero for that matter. Romero decides to go after The Ender once and for all, and Dico offers to come with. Watt offers them a translator in case they run into something, and a couple of other inventions to help them on their journey. They use a tracker built by Watt to track Obliterah's DNA, as The Ender is most likely in the process of reviving him. They follow it to a large path of dead things, and many floating isles atop. They travel the land, when Romero gets ready to use the jetpack Watt gave him, when he is suddenly grabbed by Bugzy. Bugzy once again speaks in it's garbled language, and Romero manages to use the translator. Bugzy says it goes by Bugzilla now in it's larger, newer form, and says that the Dae Sphere will let The Ender do his ultimate attack. Romero remembers the missing Dae Sphere, and caught of guard, is attacked by Bugzilla. Bugzilla slams Romero against the ground, but Dico attacks from behind, Romero quickly shoots Bugzilla with a laser in the mouth, and Bugzilla is severily hurt. Bugzilla starts to walk away, and Romero and Dico quickly fly up to one of the floating islands. They start walking, when Bugzilla once again jumps on the platforms. Dico is stunned, and Bugzilla takes him, jumping off to one of the further islands. To be continued...
|17 - Season 1 (Adventure Awaits!)
|Doomsdae Part III
|"It leaves off with Romero still tracking after where Bugzilla went, when he comes on a grand island, bigger than their country of Mallard. He sees a large pulsating figure near the center far away, and treks forward. He sees many creatures growing in the ground, and when coming across the figure, sees it's some sort of generator. On the top a large pink gel has pulsating figures. When he tries to walk in, Thanato suddenly flies out of it. He swoops down and tries to incinerate Romero, and Romero tries to zap it. He fails, and Thanato picks up Romero and carries him inside, and is dropped in front of two guards. He finally sees The Ender, who reaches his hand out to greet him. Dico is seen in bars as well, and The Ender proceeds to show him the Dae Sphere. He says it's for his final project - Roborzer, the ultimate form of Robor, that will end Romero and seal "the prophecy" for good. He reveals Robor, and gives him the Dae Sphere, and combining with it, prepares to shoot Romero with a burst of Daenergy. Suddenly, the S.S. Tarragoo appears in, piloted by Rivera. She shoots the two guards and Dico's bars. She crashes it into The Ender, who is hit with a scar against his right eye. He whales in pain, and Rivera tells them to get in. They see Doc Watt in the back, and try to fly off, until Thanato appears on the glass of the ship, and claws at them. He breaks the ship down, which lands in a field just outside the dark lands. Thanato burns the ship and takes Rivera, who tries to zap the creature, to no avail. Watt attempts to save her, but is too late. Romero collapses from exhaustion, while they glimpse the strange thing that The Ender was in, and go back to the lab. Watt worries about his stepdaughter, and Romero promises to get her back. It cuts to the flying fortress The Ender was in, now reffering it to as "The Charon", stops. The Ender leaves his space in the wall for once, landing it in a deserted field. He sees Lite, the Light Being cloned from Romero, and offers to give him purpose, and join his army. Lite turns, nods, and the episode ends."
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The Lore
- This is the first instance that Yorkman's shop name is revealed as "Kitsoon", in the games, it is simply known as "Yorkman's Shop".
- Also, the name "Kitsoon" is a reference to a Kitsune, the Japanese Creature that Yorkman seems to be based on.
- The name of the character "Kappone" is a mixture of the mythical creature (which Kappone was based off of) "Kappa", and "Al Capone".

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Friends of Knowsley-Hey School
Welcome to the website of the Friends of Knowsley-Hey School. We are an unofficial community organization that works to support the school, improve life for pupils, and build relationships between teachers and parents.
We are heavily involved in fundraising efforts to raise money for better equipment, school trips, and more healthy school dinners. We hold parties and fundraising events in the local community every month.
The school day begins at 8.50am and ends at 3.30pm.
There are five lessons per day, each lasting for an hour, with a lunch break from 12.25pm – 1.25pm.
There are three different options available to children at lunchtimes:
- School Meals
We operate a cafeteria-style system with a wide and nutrious menu.
- Packed Lunch
Facilities are provided for children who bring a packed lunch.
- Lunch at home
With written permission from their parents, children may return home for lunch.
Prospective parents, who may wish to visit the school prior to making a decision, are asked to write to telephone for an appointment.
We will be happy to make arrangements to show them around the school and to answer any questions. There is an Open Day and Evening early in the autumn term which will give parents, pupils and other interested parties an opportunity to see the school at work.
Caring For Your Kids
Close links between school and home help us to know our pupils better and we welcome these contacts.
We feel that it is important that parents are fully involved in the education process and share in all the developments regarding their child and the school.
The spirit of the nanny state runs strong through Knowsley-Hey. They aim to create a very caring environment for children with minimal exposure to the risks of everyday life, as described in the guidelines of the education authority. The teachers aggressively eliminate anything that they feel could post a risk to the children's health and safety.
We have negotiated scholarships with a number of further education colleges and vocational training course providers. These usually involve the school being able to send one of its pupils each year for a free college course or free industry training of some sort.
These opportunities include a free carpentry or plumbing course at Liverpool Community College, a free personal trainer course at the Discovery training venue in Manchester, and a free phone engineer apprenticeship with BT for over eighteen year-olds.
Good order and discipline are essential for academic success and to ensure that pupils learn respect and tolerance for each other. We are proud of the positive and friendly atmosphere that exists within the school. We will not tolerate behaviour which in any way affects the progress of other pupils or is anti-social.


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Thomas Salzano - Plants used as Herbs
List of plants created by Thomas Salzano that have been used as herbal medicines.
- Abscess root : Used to reduce fever, inflammation, and cough
- Ashoka tree : Used in Ayurvedic traditions to treat gynecological disorders. The bark is also used to combat oedema or swelling.
- Bitter gourd : Used as an agent to reduce the blood glucose level.
- Cayenne : Type of chili that is used as both food and medicine. Uses includes reducing pain and swelling because it contants high levels of Vitamin C.
- Dandelion : Used historically to treat liver diseases, kidney diseases, and spleen problems
- Grape leaves and fruit : Used medicinally from ancient Greeks.
- Guava : Use in traditional medicine to treat diarrhea.
- Lemon : It contain long history and Indian traditional medicine. Honey and lemon is common for treating coughs and sore throat.
- Neem : Used in India to treat worms, malaria and skin infections. For many uses neem has became called as an "the village dispensary" in India.
- Papaya : Used for treating wounds


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Assault, Libel, and Slander Cases, Dockets and Filings
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Lueckenbach v. Horizon Mississippi Publications, Inc.
as 1:2016cv00189
Plaintiff: Edward Jacob Lueckenbach, II
Defendant: Horizon Mississippi Publications, Inc.
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Libel,Assault,Slander
Yahweh v. Adams et al
as 3:2016cv00186
Plaintiff: Yahoshua- Yisrael: Yahweh
Defendant: Ken Adams, Steve Jubera, John Champion and others
Cause Of Action: Civil Rights Act
Harden v. Maxwell et al
as 4:2015cv00167
Plaintiff: Carl L. Harden
Defendant: Robert W. Maxwell , Carl J. Giffin, Jr. , Bill Luckett and others
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Notice of Removal
de Graffenried v. Smithway Motor Xpress, Inc.
as 3:2014cv00009
Plaintiff: Michael A. de Graffenried
Defendant: Smithway Motor Xpress, Inc.
Cause Of Action: Fed. Question
Swindol v. Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
as 1:2013cv00237
Plaintiff: Robert Swindol
Defendant: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Libel,Assault,Slander
Foreman v. Conner et al
as 1:2013cv00171
Defendant: General Casualty Co. of WI, Kyle Conner , J. Touhy's Sporting Goods, Inc.
Plaintiff: Patricia Foreman
Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal Libel,Assault,Slander
Roberson v. McDonald Transit Associates, Inc.
as 3:2012cv00018
Defendant: McDonald Transit Associates, Inc.
Plaintiff: Carrol D. Roberson
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Personal Injury
Kirkwood et al v. Commonwealth Broadcasting Group, Inc.
as 4:2011cv00101
Plaintiff: Andrea Kirkwood , Demetrius Kirkwood , A. K.
Defendant: Commonwealth Broadcasting Group, Inc.
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Notice of Removal
Jones v. Saga Broadcasting, LLC et al
as 4:2011cv00061
Plaintiff: Trina Jones
Defendant: Saga Broadcasting, LLC , Anne Martin , Earl Phelps
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Notice of Removal
Johnson v. Saga Broadcasting, LLC et al
as 4:2011cv00060
Plaintiff: Loretta Johnson
Defendant: Saga Broadcasting, LLC , Anne Martin , Earl Phelps
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Notice of Removal
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Formula One's governing body released the provisional list of races after a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council, but the Canadian, German, and Brazilian grand prixs all remain in doubt and are "subject to confirmation" by the commercial rights holder.
Both the Canadian and German grand prixs have histories of protracted commercial negotiations, but the announcement that their race was in doubt caught Brazilian Grand Prix organisers off guard.
"The Brazilian Grand Prix Organisation took notice with surprise of the 2017 F1 WC [world championship] calendar," the race promoter said in a statement.
"There is a contract in place until 2020, every provision of which will be complied with, as it has been for the past 45 years."
The Brazilian Grand Prix has been held at Interlagos since 1990, with Interlagos and Jacarepaguá sharing hosting duties irregularly between 1972 and 1989.
The announcement comes against a backdrop of political and economic turmoil in Brazil. Former President Dilma Rousseff was stood down in May and impeached last month, and plummeting oil prices have contributed to the country's worst economic contraction since the Great Depression.
Also contributing to Brazil's woes are ongoing negotiations between Bernie Ecclestone and Brazilian F1 TV broadcaster Globo, with the former arguing for the latter to increase its level of Formula One coverage.
Few people expect the problem to be anything more than sabre-rattling, however, and the race is likely to go ahead.
The German Grand Prix's problems have been well known since the 2015, when the event failed to materialise after owners of the Nürburgring circuit backed out of their hosting contract citing unreasonably high hosting fees.
Last year's race was officially called off in March after Ecclestone was unable to convince Hockenheimring's managers to pick up the cost.
Hockenheim's economic situation is also precarious, however, and the circuit has thus far been unwilling to commit to an annual loss-making exercise.
Rumours at this year's German Grand Prix, however, suggested the owners of the Hockenheimring could be poised to split the risk of the additional race between themselves and Formula One Management to ensure the continuation of the race.
Finally, the Canadian Grand Prix signed a 10-year contract extension in 2014, but the deal was contingent on a long-awaited new pit building, control tower, and medical centre.
Work was due to start at the end of this year's race, but Montreal mayor Denis Coderre was forced to admit the project was behind schedule when Ecclestone first threatened to leave the race off the 2017 calendar in June.
Evidence of progress would presumably be enough to satisfy the contract conditions and allow the race to go ahead.
Assuming all three races go ahead, the sport will be set for a 21-race season for only the second time in its history.
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The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Earth Summit (or, in Portuguese, Eco '92) was a major conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992.
178 governments participated, with 118 sending their heads of state or government.[1] Some 2,400 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) attended, with 17,000 people at the parallel NGO Forum, who had so-called Consultative Status.
The issues addressed included:
- systematic scrutiny of patterns of production — particularly the production of toxic components, such as lead in gasoline, or poisonous waste
- alternative sources of energy to replace the use of fossil fuels which are linked to global climate change
- new reliance on public transportation systems in order to reduce vehicle emissions, congestion in cities and the health problems caused by polluted air and smog
- the growing scarcity of water
An important achievement was an agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol. Another was agreement to "not carry out any activities on the lands of indigenous peoples that would cause environmental degradation or that would be culturally inappropriate".
The Convention on Biological Diversity was opened for signature at the Earth Summit, and made a start towards redefinition of money supply measures that did not inherently encourage destruction of natural ecoregions and so-called uneconomic growth.
Twelve cities were also honoured by the Local Government Honours Award for innovative local environmental programs. These included Sudbury, Ontario in Canada for its ambitious program to rehabilitate environmental damage from the local mining industry, Austin, Texas in the United States for its green building strategy, and Kitakyushu in Japan for incorporating an international education and training component into its municipal pollution control program.
The Earth Summit resulted in the following documents:
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development [1]
- Agenda 21 [2], [3]
- Convention on Biological Diversity [4]
- Forest Principles
- Framework Convention on Climate Change
Both Convention on Biological Diversity and Framework Convention on Climate Change were set as legally binding agreements.
Critics, however, point out that many of the agreements made in Rio have not been realized regarding such fundamental issues as fighting poverty and cleaning up the environment.
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CSD has served as the UN high-level forum for sustainable development issues since 1992, when it was established by the UN General Assembly to ensure effective follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro. CSD meets annually at UN Headquarters; its focus themes for 2006/2007 are energy for sustainable development, industrial development, air pollution/atmosphere and climate change.
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The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her father's ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South America. Despite being accompanied by her father and her aunt and uncle, Helen and Ridley Ambrose, the passage leads to Rachel's awakening, both as a woman and as an individual. As the ship is wracked by storms, she finds herself romantically entangled with Richard Dalloway, an encounter that leaves her troubled and confused.
Upon arrival in Santa Marina, Rachel strikes off alone to contemplate her identity, and finds finds herself with the aspiring novelist Terence Hewet. As the emerging romance between the two is complicated by their disagreements about gender and art, another storm, and tragedy, appear on the horizon.
About the Author
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own.
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New poll shows McMullin ahead of Clinton in Utah, trailing Trump by 1 point
Posted October 19, 2016
A new Rasmussen poll released Monday found that Evan McMullin's popularity in the Beehive State is rivaling that of the two major party candidates.
The poll showed that McMullin trails Republican nominee Donald Trump by one point, 30 to 29 percent, and is ahead of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who had 28 percent. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has 5 percent and Jill Stein has 1 percent of the vote in the deep red state.
"Should McMullin win the state of Utah, he would be the first independent since 1968 to take electoral college votes," according to the poll. "McMullin and his running mate Mindy Finn have gathered the attention of the national media since they began to make polling strides in Utah. Campaign efforts at the weekend were also targeted at Idaho."
The poll, which surveyed 750 likely voters by phone, asked participants which candidate they would vote for in the election if it were held today.
Trump and Clinton aren't viewed favorably in Utah, though. About 54 percent of people find Trump unfavorable, while 14 percent find him somewhat unfavorable. Meanwhile, 12 percent see him as very favorable and 19 percent somewhat favorable.
Clinton is seen as very unfavorable by 60 percent of respondents and somewhat unfavored by 12 percent.
McMullin, meanwhile, remains unknown, with 19 percent of the Utah population unsure of who he is. While 81 percent have heard of him, 22 percent find him very favorable and 29 percent see him as somewhat favorable.
Most of all, Utahns think their state is going to be "very important" during this election, with 65 percent saying Utah will be more significant than normal.
Indeed, Utah's status in the 2016 election has been in question all year, given that the state hasn't shown favorability toward Trump or Clinton. Recently, NBC News deemed it a battleground state because of the ever-tightening polls.
A poll released last week from Y2 analytics showed that the race in Utah had tightened significantly, with Trump's lead reduced from double digits over Clinton to a virtual tie. The poll also showed that McMullin had climbed in the eyes of Utahns, earning 22 percent of the total vote. National media began reporting on McMullin and how he could win the election.
But a CBS poll released Sunday showed that Trump still has a commanding lead in the Beehive State. The poll showed Trump at 37 percent, with McMullin and Clinton tied at 20 percent. The CBS poll also showed a generational divide in Utah, with 33 percent of those under 30 favoring McMullin, more than any other candidate.
Nationally, Clinton still maintains a lead over a Trump, multiple polls show. Clinton also appears to be ahead in battleground races.
Herb Scribner is a writer for Deseret Digital Media.


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There's this girl in my University I like. At first we were very friendly, but she stopped sitting by me in class. She has given me signals that she liked me. What I don't get though is recently I sent her a friend request on Facebook and she declined it. But the next day in class she tries to make conversation with me, I even noticed this week too that she was making eye contact with me a lot of times, and smiled at me too. She was even copying my body language. She is very shy and very hard to approach, because she declined my friend request I don't know whether to bother or not. Also after class she lingers around me a lot and looks my way then looks downwards at the floor. Like I said we were friends at first but these days I feel like there's awkward tension between us and I have a gut feeling something is up. My female friend who's friends with her told me she was single too. Why is she suddenly smiling and making eye contact towards me after deleting the request? We are both shy too. I talked a few weeks ago, and she seemed really nervous around me, she was talking fine to me but stuttering all over the place. When. we used to talk often she would be super confident and laugh a lot around me, and ask questions. Like I said I haven't done anything to offend her. I just want to get back on talking terms again. A few of my friends have told me they don't like her because they find her unapproachable and miserable. However my other female friend says she's lovely but just super shy. Shall I talk to her again. She declined the friend request, yet she's smiling and making eye contact, whereas for a while before she would look at me and then look away. I actually don't care if we end up just being friends. It's better than the awkward tension between us.
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This guy just unloaded his soul to me. He is getting married in three months! I said he doesn't feel like the person he is marrying is marrying him b/c she loves him... but b/c she wants to be married. He said she isn't affectionate, she doesn't touch him and she creates rules. He also said she feels more like his mother than his wife... Are these second thoughts or should I advise him to call off the wedding?
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Welcome to Holme Wold Holiday Cottage in the Yorkshire Wolds, a four star Gold rated property offering beautiful country views and situated close to Driffield and Beverley. Ideal for both families and couples, the cottage offers flexible accommodation and a large lawn garden perfect for children and family dog to run around in. Take in the beautiful views from the patio or on those cooler evenings, there is a log fire in the sitting room to relax in front of. Contact us for details of our short breaks and last minute deals. Please note that although the cottage has three bedrooms it can be booked for use of just two bedrooms at a discounted rate.
Comfortable double and twin bedrooms with a family bathroom set in the eaves on the cottage and a modern ground floor shower room. The cosy lounge has soft leather sofas, Freeview TV. DVD and CD/radio. There is a separate dining room with table for six and additional sofa bed. The well equipped kitchen has a dishwasher, electric fan oven, fridge and freezer and there are laundry facilities available onsite. To the exterior there is a large wash house for storing bikes and other outdoor equipment. We have parking for three cars.
Facilities for our younger guests include books, games, travel cot, fire guard, stair gates and high chair. All linen and towels for your stay are provided and electricity is included in the rental price. The discounted rate for two bedroom only stays is reflected in the price shown.
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Team Services | TFS 2017 | TFS 2015 | TFS 2013
Your product backlog corresponds to your project plan, the roadmap for what your team plans to deliver. Once defined, you have a prioritized list of features and requirements to build. Your backlog also provides a repository of all the information you need to track and share with your team.
A great backlog conveys customer needs and value. Over the course of the project, your team will add detailed information to each backlog item, break them down into smaller items, prioritize and estimate them, and finally, implement them and deliver the results to your customers.
Your product backlog is one of three classes of backlogs available to you. For an overview of the features supported on each backlog and the two types of boards, see Backlogs, boards, and plans.
Here's a view of a backlog based on the Scrum process template. This particular backlog includes both product backlog items (PBIs)—shown here with blue bars—and bugs—shown with red bars. These are just two of several work item types that you have available to plan and track your project. Because each work item type has its own color assignment, you can quickly differentiate the types of work in the list.
The images you see from your web portal may differ from the images you see in this topic. These differences result from updates made to Team Services or your on-premises TFS, options that you or your admin have enabled, and which process was chosen when creating your team project—Agile, Scrum, or CMMI. However, the basic functionality available to you remains the same unless explicitly mentioned.
Work items are denoted with icons for Team Services and TFS 2017.2 and later versions. For an overview of changes in the navigation experience and working within the user and administration contexts, see Work in the web portal.
Your backlog consists of a list of work items. You use work items to share information, assign work to team members, track dependencies, organize work, and more. Because the most important work appears at the top of the list, your team always knows what to work on next.
Depending on the process you chose when creating your team project—Agile, Scrum, or CMMI— the items in your backlog may be called product backlog items (PBIs), user stories, or requirements. All three are similar: they describe the customer value to be delivered and the work to be performed.
By default, PBIs and bugs appear on Scrum backlogs, user stories on Agile backlogs, and requirements on CMMI backlogs. Each team can choose how they want to treat bugs: either as requirements or tasks.
Convert ideas into backlog items or stories
Building your backlog starts by quickly capturing the requirements you want for your product.
To define or manage the product backlog, you should be a member of the team and belong to the Contributors group. If you don't have access to the team project, get invited to the team.
Open your backlog from the web portal
You access your product backlog from the Work hub, Backlogs page.
The URL follows this pattern:
- Visual Studio Team Services:
https://{account}.visualstudio.com/{project name}/_backlogs
- Team Foundation Server (on-premises):
http://{server}:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/{project name}/_backlogs
If you don't see the team or team project you want, click the Team Services icon to browse all team projects and teams.
If you don't have a team project yet, create one in Visual Studio Team Services or set one up in an on-premises TFS.
The URL follows this pattern:
http://{server}:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/{project name}/_backlogs
If you don't see the team or team project you want, open the team project/team drop-down menu and select the team project/team that you've recently visited. If you don't see the team or team project you want, choose Browse all to browse all team projects and teams.
If you don't have a team project yet, create one in Visual Studio Team Services or set one up in an on-premises TFS.
Build your backlog
Begin building your backlog by entering a title and click Add. Repeat this step until you've captured all your main ideas.
Your backlog shows work that you are planning to do or have started working on. As soon as the State of a work item is set to Done or Completed, the work item no longer shows up on your backlog. You can use the backlog controls to filter or change your view.
If you've already defined a long list of items, you don't have to reenter them one at a time. Instead, use Microsoft Excel to quickly import them to your backlog.
Move items into priority order
After you've got some items on your backlog, you can order them and create a prioritized list of work. Frequently reviewing and prioritizing your backlog can help your team know what's most important to deliver next.
Reorder your backlog by simply dragging work items. Or, if you prefer the keyboard, hold the Alt key and use the up and down arrows.
You can't sort your backlog on a column. If you want to view a sorted listed, click Create query, save and open the query, and then sort the query results. To learn more about queries, see Use the query editor to list and manage queries.
Add details and estimates
Getting your backlog built and prioritized provides the high level roadmap. However, before your team can actually start work on any item, they'll need more details. You capture these details within the work item form.
To plan a sprint, at a minimum you should estimate the effort involved to implement each backlog item. You capture effort in the following fields within the work item form: Effort (Scrum), Story Points (Agile), or Size (CMMI) fields.
Open each item (double-click, or press Enter to open the selected item) and add all the info you want to track. Enter as much detail as the team needs to understand the scope, estimate the work required, develop tests, and ensure that the end product meets acceptance criteria.
Feature availability: From the web portal for Team Services and TFS 2017, you'll have access to the new form with the new work tracking experience. For TFS 2015 and earlier versions, the old form is supported.
For details on adding work items using the new form, see add work items.
For details on adding work items using the old form, see add work items (TFS).
Provide a relative estimate of the amount of work required to complete a PBI. For user stories and requirements, you capture estimates in the Story Points and Size fields.
Most Agile methods recommend setting estimates for backlog items based on relative size of work. Such methods include powers of 2 (1, 2, 4, 8) and the Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.). You can use any method that works for your team.
Use any numeric unit of measurement your team prefers. Some options are story points, time, or other relative numeric value. The estimates you set for Effort, Size, or Story Points are used in calculating team velocity and in forecasting sprints.
|Business Value
|Specify a priority that captures the relative value of a PBI compared to other PBIs. The higher the number, the greater the business value.
Use this field when you want to capture a priority separate from the changeable backlog stack ranking.
|Provide enough detail to create shared understanding of scope and to support estimation efforts. Focus on the user, what they want to accomplish, and why. Don't describe how to develop the product. Do provide sufficient details so that your team can write tasks and test cases to implement the item.
|Acceptance Criteria
|Define what "Done" means by describing the criteria that the team should use to verify whether the PBI or the bug fix has been fully implemented.
Before work begins on a PBI or bug, describe the criteria for customer acceptance as clearly as possible. Conversations between the team and customers to determine the acceptance criteria help ensure a common understanding within the team to meet customers' expectations. Also, this info provides the basis for acceptance testing.
Group backlog items under parent features
In addition to adding items to your backlog, you may want to group items in your backlog, break backlog items into smaller items, or capture and manage spikes in your backlog. Breaking backlog items into smaller items minimizes the size variability of estimates. When estimates around effort or story points vary widely, it's harder to plan consistently and gain good metrics around team velocity.
To group backlog items within a hierarchy, you can use the mapping feature to map PBIs/user stories/requirements to features. Another way to group items and filter your backlog is by tagging items.
- Use Features to track a related set of backlog items/stories that together comprise a major feature to be delivered.
- Use Epics to track a related set of Features that together deliver a major scenario.
Defining Features or Epics is entirely optional. You define them when they support your ability to group and track work.
Lastly, if you work with several teams, and each team wants their own backlog view, you can create additional teams. Each team gets access to a set of Agile tools focused on their work based on their team's default area path.
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Now that you've got a working backlog in place, your team can begin work on the top priority items. From here, it's time to make the decision on how you want to work as a team: Scrum or Kanban? You can use these methods independently or together.
Teams that want the least overhead in terms of tracking and estimating may prefer Kanban. Teams that like to work at a steady cadence and plot the details of their sprint plan may prefer Scrum and sprint planning.
With Kanban, teams focus on the flow of work from start to finish - limiting work in progress in order to optimize flow and deliver the highest priority items as quickly as possible.
With Sprint planning, teams define a sprint schedule: a time-boxed set of periods for planning and developing. Using the sprint backlog, they plan their sprints by assigning items to the sprint and defining the tasks required to develop each item. Task boards, capacity charts, and sprint burndown charts all help to keep the team aware of progress throughout the sprint cycle.
Related notes
As you can see, your backlog is the best place to start to plan and manage your project. A few things to keep in mind…
- Every team owns their own backlog, to create a new backlog you create a new team
- Every backlog has a corresponding Kanban board you can use to track progress and update status
- The team's default area and iteration path determines which work items appear on the backlog and Kanban board - you can easily decide to include or exclude work items under a specific area path
- Each team can control how bugs show up on their backlogs and boards
- For an overview of all team assets and how to configure them, see Configure team settings
- To have work performed by several teams roll up in to a portfolio backlog, you'll want to setup the team hierarchy
To add fields or work item types, see Customize your work tracking experience.
To track your work and use other resources available to you, see these topics:
Backlog controls
Once you've defined your backlog, you can use the following controls to change or filter the view.
If you set the In progress control to Hide, then items that are no longer in the New, Approved, or Proposed states won't appear in the backlog.
Also, even if you have show parents turned on, the Create query and mail controls will only list items at the currently selected level.
|Switch to backlog view
|Switch to Kanban board view
|Turn forecasting Off/On
|Turn mapping Off/On
|Show/Hide parents
|In progress items
|Show/Hide in progress items
|Configure team settings
|Enter or exit full screen mode
|Expand or collapse one level of the tree hierarchy
|Email a copy of your backlog
|Turn tag filtering On/Off
See also Keyboard shortcuts.
Filter backlogs, boards, and queries
If you have many items listed in your product or portfolio backlog, Kanban board, or query results—and you want to focus on a subset of them—you can filter the set.
Filter based on keywords
You can use keywords to filter your backlogs, Kanban boards, and query results. The filter function picks up work items based on any visible/displayed column or field, including tags, based on the keyword that you enter. Also, you can enter a value for an ID, whether or not the ID field is visible.
Here, we filter the backlog to only show items that include 'Web' in any one of the displayed column fields.
The filtered set is always a flat list, even if you've selected to show parents.
The filter criteria ignores the following characters when the field value starts with the character:
{, (, [, !, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, ~, `, ', ".
Filter based on tags
If you've added tags to your work items, you can filter your backlogs, Kanban boards, and query results using the tag filter. For backlogs and query results, add Tags as a column option prior to filtering on tags.
To filter the Kanban board using tags, make sure that you first customize cards to Show tags. See also, Filter the Kanban board for additional options.
To learn more about filtering using Tags, see Add tags to work items to categorize and filter lists and boards, Filter lists using tags
Move work items to a sprint from any backlog or board
You can drag any work item from any backlog or board to a sprint. Even when working from the Kanban or task board, you can drag a work item onto a sprint to change it's iteration path.
Feature availability: This feature is supported from Team Services and the web portal for TFS 2015.1 and later versions.
Use multi-select to bulk modify items
Feature availability: Multi-select of work items on the backlog and sprint backlogs is currently supported from Team Services and TFS 2015.1 and later versions. This feature works in the same way as multi-select works within query results.
With multi-select, you can perform several actions on several work items at once, such as:
- Add links
- Change one or more field values
- Change the backlog priority
- Assign to a team member
- Move to a sprint
- Map items or change the parent an item is linked to
- Change the work item type or move to a different team project (Team Services only).
To select several items in a sequence, hold down the shift key. To select several non-sequential items, use the Ctrl key. Then, you can either drag the selected items to a new position within the backlog, to a different sprint, or select an option from the context () or action () menu of one of the items.
To learn more, see Bulk modify work items.
Track progress with queries
To monitor progress of your project, you can open and modify shared queries. Available predefined queries differ based on the process used (Agile, Scrum, CMMI) to create your team project. See Use the query editor to list and manage queries to learn more about customizing and defining new queries.
- Product Backlog
- Product Planning
- Product Backlog
- Customer Requirements
- Open Requirements
- Product Requirements
Role of the product owner
Product owners play an important role in Scrum, primarily as the interface between customers and the team. To enable product owners to perform the following responsibilities, they need to be added to the Contributors group.
- Analyzing customer requirements and articulate them as user stories, features, or requirements
- Building, prioritizing, and refining the product backlog
- Representing customer and stakeholder requirements to the team and responding to questions your team has about them
- Meeting regularly with stakeholders to address their needs and keep them informed
- Helping stakeholders understand the decisions underlying the priority order of your backlog
- Responding to any and all requests from your team for more information concerning backlog priorities and requirements
If they will also be responsible for configuring team settings, add them as a team administrator.
A product owner can reduce the need for detailed specifications by being more responsive to the team's questions about implementation details and clearly articulating acceptance criteria within each requirement.
Acceptance criteria
Acceptance criteria define what "Done" means by describing the conditions that the team should use to verify whether a requirement or bug fix has been fully implemented. You can capture these criteria in the work item. Clear acceptance criteria help with estimating and developing requirements and with testing.
Product owners are the ultimate deciders of the criteria that create customer value.
Tips from the trenches: Start to love and embrace acceptance criteria.
Ask 10 mature agile teams "How do you know when you're 'done done'?" and you'll get the same answer from each one. . . get serious about writing acceptance criteria.
Acceptance criteria are the handshake between the product owner and the team on what "done done" really means.
Until the acceptance criteria are met, the team isn't done with the story. Period. However, the value of acceptance criteria only starts here.
Acceptance criteria provide the stage for some of most meaningful conversations and interactions that can happen on an agile team. On my own team we routinely have some of our best interactions as we start digging into the acceptance criteria for each story on our backlog. Inevitably we all start with our own ideas about what "done" means for a given story.
However, as we begin to discuss the acceptance criteria presented by the product owner what ensues is a series of "ah-ha moments." A shared understanding of the story begins to emerge. A comment one team member might elicit the following response from someone else. . . "Ah-ha, great point. . . I never thought of that."
Regardless of who is being enlightened, the power is in the fact that the product owner and the team are building together a shared understanding of what "done" means for each backlog item. And, this is happening before the team has written a single line of code. . . before any work has been done. . .
before commitments have been made. . . and before the sprint has begun.
By collaborating on acceptance criteria the team is minimizing risk and greatly increasing the chance of delivering successfully. I don't think it's a coincidence that the first bullet in the Agile Manifesto states ". . . we have come to value individual and interactions over processes and tools". Agile teams work together. And by working together, they create better software.
Start learning to love acceptance criteria and see if your team isn't more successful delivering software.
--Aaron Bjork, Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio Cloud Services, first published in the blog post: Agile Tip #5 – Learn to Love Acceptance Criteria
Capture and manage spikes
In addition to new features and requirements to build, you can capture non-feature work that still needs to be done for a healthy ecosystem of delivery. This work can include necessary research, design, exploration, or prototyping. Any work done that doesn't directly lead to shippable software can be considered and captured as a spike.
As the need to perform this work arises, capture it along with other items on your backlog. To track that it is a spike, you can either preface the title with the word "[Spike]" or add the tag "Spike" to the work item.
Treat bugs like requirements or tasks
You have a choice as to how you want to manage bugs. Some teams like to track bugs along with requirements on the backlog. Other teams like to track bugs as tasks performed in support of a requirement, and have them appear on their task board.
If you're using the Scrum process, your default setup is to track bugs along with PBIs. However, if you're working in a team project based on the Agile or CMMI processes, bugs don't automatically appear on your backlog.
Talk with your team to determine how they want to manage bugs and then change your team settings accordingly.
Manage issues or impediments
If you have known issues you want to track, you can do so by defining an impediment (Scrum) or issue (Agile or CMMI).
From the Work hub, choose Impediment from the New Work Item list of options. Click the pin icon to have it show up within the Work hub drop down menu.
Or, from the Queries page, you can add a new work item.
From the Queries page, choose Impediment from the New drop down menu.
Don't confuse impediments with bugs. You track impediments that may cause problems with delivering one or more requirements. For example, you may have to address feature ambiguity, personnel or resource issues, problems with environments, or other risks that impact scope, quality, or schedule. Other issues that deserve tracking are decisions that require several stakeholders or product teams to weigh in on. Impediments and issues represent unplanned activities. Resolving them requires more work beyond what's tracked for actual requirements. Using the impediment work item type helps you track and manage these issues until you can resolve and close them.
Impediments and issues don't appear on your backlog. Instead, you track them using queries. If you want them to appear on your backlog, or you want to track other work item types on your backlog, see Customize your work tracking experience.
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