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Having recently heard the new "anthem" they've started playing right before Leafs games down at the ACC - Free to Be - I'm left with two questions.
One: Does signing the lead singer of Glass Tiger to write a classic-rock ballad about the Leafs count against the salary cap?
Two: What was MLSE thinking???
Don't get me wrong - there are some serious production values there. If you closed your eyes, you'd swear you were listening to an above-average pickup-truck commercial. It's the lyrics I'm having difficulty with, specifically "Oh! Oh! Oh! This is Canada's song" and "From the Isle of Vancouver/To the Labrador Sea" and "Oh! Oh! Oh! That's Canada's dream (go Leafs go)."
Is it me, or is this kind of pan-Canadian vision of Leafs Nation both weird and obnoxious? The word lebensraum, oddly comes to mind, or leafensraum. Do they really think hockey lovers in places such as Edmonton, Montreal and Calgary think the Leafs winning the Cup is "Canada's dream" ? Aren't hockey fans in those cities supposed to be the people Leafs fans hate? I want to hate them, and now Free to Be won't let me.
The song is all part of the revamped "game-day experience" down at the Air Canada Centre. The suits at Maple Leaf Sport and Entertainment have unloaded a whopping $48-million - or 0.000002 per cent of gross condo revenue - on 300 flat-panel TVs for the atrium and a whole bunch of spiffy new fast-food outlets.
Foremost among the latter is Burkie's Dog House, where Leafs fans willing to part with $6.95 - and what's $6.95 after you've spent $187 on a ticket? - can now enjoy a Poutine Dog. (A marginally better deal than the Kobe Dog, which isn't made from genuine Kobe beef, and costs $7.25.)
What I want to know is, did coach "Burkie" willingly let his name be used, or was this buried in the fine print of his contract? Because serving a lukewarm wiener underneath a layer of cheese curds and sludge-like gravy and then a sprinkling of Hickory Sticks - that's right, Hickory Sticks - isn't what I expected from the guy who strong-armed the Bruins into giving up Phil Kessel. It's probably not such a good idea for the general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs to lend his name to a substandard sausage product that doesn't live up to its overpriced ingredients.
MLSE can do better. I know this to be true because they already have. It's called a Raptors game. The food is still awful, but at least they don't play egregious amounts of classic rock - chances are better than good, in fact, that you'll hear rhythms and melody by people whose skin colour is an actual colour. Carlton the Bear is the worst mascot in both leagues, while The Raptor gets my vote for the best. And the corporate tie-ins seem more, well, nuanced.
During Leafs games, on the other hand, the branding experience has gotten so intense even Dick Cheney would say it's torture. The number of lit corporate logos in the ACC numbers, I would guess, in the hundreds, and that's not including the beyond gratuitous promos: the Metro Food Frenzy, the Pro Line Shoot for Loot, the Molson Canadian Best Seats in the House, or the 407 ETR Forward Pass. There was even a moment during the second intermission last Tuesday when 18,830 paying fans found themselves staring at the scoreboard watching TV commercials. (I don't know how many or for how long, because the Poutine Dog had put me in a catatonic state.) Does Richard Peddie sit there in his luxury box the whole time, stroking a hairless albino cat while hissing, "Yes, children, yes" ?
But there's one thing MLSE still hasn't figured out: a Leafs Nation slogan. They wisely dumped "The Passion that Unites Us All," probably because they realized the thing uniting us is actually stupidity. But the new one, "Spirit is Everything," isn't quite working. (Winning, after all, is supposed to be everything.)
What they need is a slogan that gets across the grim sense of hopelessness that pervades the Leafs Nation: the inevitably bad team, the wealth that will nevertheless be spun by the MLSE brass, the powerlessness of fans to do anything about it, and, now, the disgusting hot dogs. I think I have a slogan that might actually work: "God help us."Report Typo/Error
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In my family, we don't yet have any established traditions, but there are a few guidelines. Stay awake as best you can, keep quiet during the talks, no other screens like IPads or cell phones, and don't bother or interrupt others trying to listen. Right now, it's just my wife and I and our nearly-three-year-old girl, with another due by the end of the month. Who knows where we'll actually be come conference weekend. We have discussed it, and we have at least agreed we'd like to establish some traditions for conference weekend. I love cooking, so it would be fun to make something special each spring conference, and something else special every fall when we're at home. I find I generally don't like watching conference with others, unless I'm certain those I watch it with are as intent on each of the talks as I am. I miss the days when all the men attended the Priesthood session together in the nearest chapel. Watching it at home, I think, only makes it harder to connect and bond with the other guys, young and old. When I was on my mission in the South, it was traditional for the ward or branch to have a dinner or ice cream social between the second session on Saturday and the Priesthood session. It was a big affair down there on both days, and I miss that a lot.
Watch at home with the whole family for the 4 general sessions. Food, especially rice crispy treats, will be involved. Priesthood session at the church building.
Lots of notes. LOTS of notes.
And the priesthood quorums usually have some kind of food related get together before the priesthood session. Ice cream, burgers, potato bar, something. But the number of people participating in that has gone down a lot over the last few conferences.
BTW, has anyone heard any official statement that PH session is going to be 1.5 hours from now on? Because I never heard anything, but we keep finishing up earlier than I'm expecting. :)
I have never heard anything official about it, but those around me have speculated that it's because of Pres. Monson's declining health. Why they can't have one or two others speak in that time slot is a bit beyond me, but perhaps Pres. Monson just wants to get home earlier? I have wondered the same thing myself. I am going to suggest to our eq president that we at least consider doing something as a group before the ph session. We just had another shooting activity Saturday morning (2 days ago), so maybe that won't work.

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Aside from the odd upstart setting up for one of the best seasons in school history, the annual exception to that continuity is what you might call the Mulligan Team, the perennial powerhouse granted automatic passage back into the pundits' good graces after a disappointing finish on the strength of the brand. Last year, that team was LSU, an 8-5 also-ran in 2008 that found itself hovering in and around the top 10 in the spring and summer rankings, as usual. This year, that team is clearly Oklahoma – Staples, Schlabach and Dodd all rank the Sooners in the top dozen despite last year's five-loss flop – for obvious reasons that go beyond "It's Oklahoma and Oklahoma is (almost) always good":
• They were unlucky last year. I don't just mean "unlucky" in the obvious, "lose two All-Americans/soon-to-be first-round draft picks before halftime of the first game" way. The Sooners were mathematically unlucky: Last month, a math-oriented Michigan fan at MGoBlog ran the numbers on fumbles, blocked kicks and other outlying harbingers of (mis)fortune and found Oklahoma was easily the unluckiest team in the country in 2009 – to the extent that, if it played the same schedule over again, even without the injuries that shelved stars Sam Bradford and Jermaine Gresham for the season, the Sooners could expect to improve their 8-5 record by three full games.
Besides losing Bradod and Gresham, the offensive line was constantly shuffled and reshuffled among four new starters, including a converted tight end who started the season opener at center just days after moving to the position out of desperation.
• They were often dominant, anyway. A TCU site, the Purple Wimple, compiled the most straightforward possible statistical formula (National Rank in Scoring Offense + National Rank in Scoring Defense) to develop his "Dominance Rankings," in which Oklahoma comes in eighth (7th in scoring defense, 29th on offense), well ahead of the likes of Cincinnati, Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia Tech and Iowa, all of which finished top-10 seasons in BCS games. When the Sooners won, they won big: Six of seven regular season wins came by at least 23 points, highlighted by a 65-10 kneecapping of Texas A&M and a 27-0 shutout over Oklahoma State at the end of the year. (The 31-27 bowl win over Stanford was the only triumph decided by a single-digit margin.)
On the other hand, Oklahoma's first four losses came by a combined 14 points, all against teams that finished the season in the top 20 (BYU, Miami, Texas, Nebraska), all away from Norman. Until the November flop at Texas Tech, the Sooners had been in every game deep into the fourth quarter and were conceivably only a handful of plays from being undefeated – again, without Bradford and Gresham.
• Landry Jones took his lumps. As id the very green, inconsistent offensive line. The lanky redshirt freshman started 10 games, some of them spectacular (he was the Big 12's Offensive Player of the Week in his first start, when he set a school record with six touchdown passes in a 45-0 rout over Tulsa) and some of them, well, very freshman-esque (he was picked twice in the loss to Texas and a whopping five times by Nebraska). As a somewhat seasoned sophomore, he has a real chance to lead the Big 12 in yards and touchdowns while cutting down the mistakes under (presumably) far less pressure.
That's the persuasive half of the argument, anyway. Ironically enough, it's almost easier to drum up that kind of optimism about a team that's already gone through a growing-pain phase, when the worst seems to be behind it – the focus tends to dwell on the assumption that things certainly can't get worse. (And they were still so close.) Whereas a team coming off yet another predictable 10 or 11-win campaign wouldn't bring as much positive spin to counter some harsh realities that could become burdens this fall:
• It's not the same defense. The only reason the Sooners were in so many close games despite the massive regression on offense was the D, which rebounded from a relatively mediocre effort in 2008 to finish in the top 10 nationally in total, scoring, rushing and pass efficiency defense, and just outside in takeaways. The heart of that unit, all-everything defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, has moved on to early draft glory, along with five other starters (to various degrees of draft glory their own selves). Opposite the inevitable offensive improvement is the reality that it's almost impossible to hold Texas, Nebraska and Oklahoma State to a single touchdown between them (I'm not counting the 'Huskers' one-yard "drive" for their only TD following an interception in Lincoln) two years in a row.
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• Landry Jones still isn't Sam Bradford. And his line isn't Bradford's line, a cohesive, veteran group that made their Hesiman-winning slinger the best-protected quarterback in America in 2007-08. That's not an entirely fair comparison, given Bradford and Company's scorched-earth march into record books in 2008, but the shortcomings of the revamped line were readily apparent from the first game, when Bradford was bounced from the lineup for the first time, and didn't obviously improve as the season wore on.
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CTools Plugins without Panels, step by step
CTools plugins and Panels are great and play together very well. It's almost as if they were made for each other--weren't they? However, I recently worked on a project where CTools plugins were an excellent solution for some of our needs, but Panels were verboten. I didn't find much documentation on that, so this page provides a detailed how-to for incorporating a CTools plugin in a regular Drupal block. It also shows how to pass arguments to a plugin render callback. Though the title says without Panels, I will begin with implementation of a CTools plugin that displays a Twitter feed in a Panel, then expand on how to make it work in a Block.
The first step in getting our plugin going is to include ctools as a dependency in our module's .info file. I've included panels here as well, but this is not necessary if all you want to do is stick a plugin in a block. You will need to include panels if you want to use your plugin in the Panels UI.
dependencies[] = ctools
dependencies[] = panels
Next, we need to tell CTools where our plugin lives. This is accomplished by implementing hook_ctools_plugin_directory() in our module's .module file
function MYMODULE_ctools_plugin_directory($module, $plugin) {
if (($module == 'ctools') && ($plugin == 'content_types')) {
return 'plugins/content_types';
With that out of the way, we are now ready to create our actual plugin. Within our module directory, we create a plugins directory, and create a content_types directory under that. We're also going to want a place for .tpl.php files, so we'll add a templates directory while we're at it. With that done, our module's directory structure looks like so
We now implement our plugin in a .inc file in the content_types/ directory. Since our plugin is doing a Twitter feed, I've called this twitter.inc
$plugin = array(
'title' => t('Twitter feed'),
'description' => t('Twitter feed'),
'category' => 'Widgets',
'icon' => '',
'render callback' => 'twitter_block',
'defaults' => array(),
// render callback
function twitter_block() {
// Add twitter widget javascript
drupal_add_js('http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js', 'external');
$url = TWITTER_USER
$widget_id = TWITTER_WIDGET_ID;
$data = array();
$data['url'] = $url;
$data['widget_id'] = $widget_id;
$content = array(
'#theme' => 'twitter_block',
'#content' => $data,
$block = new stdClass();
$block->content = $content;
$block->title = '';
$block->id = 'twitter_block';
return $block;
Let's break that down a little.
The $plugins array tells CTools about our plugin. The first four items will show up in the Panels UI, and the render_callback attribute tells CTools what code to use to output the contents of the plugin.
Now, let's add a hook_theme() to our .module file. This will take the content returned by the twitter_block() function above, and pass it along to a file called twitter.tpl.php in our modules templates directory.
function MY_MODULE_theme() {
return array(
'twitter_block' => array(
'render element' => 'data',
'template' => 'plugins/templates/twitter'
Next, create a twitter.tpl.php file in our templates directory

Twitter feed

<a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/<?php print $data['#content']['url']; ?>"
data-widget-id="<?php print $data['#content']['widget_id']; ?>"
height="<?php print $data['#content']['height']; ?>"
Tweets from @<?php print $data['#content']['url']; ?>
For a Panels implementation, we're done. This is a very simple example, but you can get a lot fancier inside of that .inc file and get a whole lot of bang for very little buck for a module that only implements two simple hooks. We can now go to /admin/structure/pages to build a page, and add our plugin as a content item in a region in that page. But, as mentioned, my problem was that I wasn't allowed to use Panels, so here's where it gets a little more interesting. We're now going to create a block and have our plugin show up inside of that. This is a compleat idiot page, so we start by telling Drupal about our block.
function MYMODULE_block_info() {
$blocks = array();
$blocks['my_twitter_block'] = array(
'info' => t('My Twitter block'),
'region' => 'sidebar_first',
'status' => 1,
return $blocks;
This code will automatically insert the block in the sidebar_first region, without having to go through the Block UI. If you want to insert your block manually, just get rid of the region and status attributes. Now that Drupal knows about our block, all that's left is to provide a way to display it. For this, we need hook_block_view(), and this is where things get interesting.
function MYMODULE_block_view($delta = '') {
$block = array();
switch ($delta) {
case 'my_twitter_block':
// assemble the params for ctools_content_render()
$type = 'twitter';
$subtype = 'twitter';
$conf = NULL;
$keywords = $contexts = array();
$args = array(
'user_id' => TWITTER_USER,
'widget_id' => TWITTER_WIDGET_ID
$data = ctools_content_render($type, $subtype, $conf, $keywords, $args, $contexts);
// pass the plugin content to our .tpl.php file via hook_theme()
$content = theme('twitter_block', $data->content);
$block['subject'] = '';
$block['content'] = array(
// put the themed content into our block markup
'#markup' => $content,
// voila!
First, we call ctools_include('content'). This will get us access to the ctools_content_render() function that will execute our plugin's render callback. A fun part of this is that we get to pass arguments to ctools_content_render() so we don't have to hardcode anything in our plugin. In our example here, ctools_content_render() will look for a plugin called 'twitter.inc', per the $type parameter, find the plugin's render callback specified in the $plugin array, pass it the $args array with our 'user_id' and 'widget_id' arguments, and return the plugin content, which we then pass along to our .tpl.php file via hook_theme(), and put the themed content into our block markup.
All that's left now is to modify our render callback slightly to use the arguments we're passing to ctools_content_render():
function twitter_block($type, $subtype, $args) {
// Add twitter widget javascript
drupal_add_js('http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js', 'external');
$url = $args['user_id'];
$widget_id = $args['widget_id'];
$data = array();
// ...
And that's it. When our block loads, it will get its content from our CTools plugin.


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Author | Tuhina Anand | Thursday, Jul 19,2007 9:23 AM
She once ruled the marquee with the twinkle in her eyes and her acting prowess, only to give it all up at the peak of her career. We are talking about Kajol. Though her appearance on the silver screen is marked by an odd 'Fanaa' or a blink and you miss dance sequence in 'KANK', she is very much the hot favourite for brand endorsements.
If the recent deluge of Tata Indicom commercials featuring Kajol minus hubby and actor Ajay Devgan is not enough, there are her endorsements for Whirlpool, Asmi, and Parle Digestive Marie. She has recently been signed up by Perfetti Van Melle for their flagship brand Alpenliebe.
If brand endorsements is proportionally related to a celeb's rating at the box-office meter, then Kajol's case throws a surprise as she no longer active in movies. Yet, going by the number of brands she endorses today, Kajol probably has more in her hands than some of today's top Bollywood actresses – be it Rani Mukherjee or Priety Zinta.
Josy Paul, National Creative Director, JWT, throws light on why Kajol makes a popular choice for brands. He says, "She is seen as a person who has very competently straddled the new woman image by being a successful actor and a homemaker. She has done well in balancing career, home and being a mother and has always known her priorities. Her advantage lies in the fact that she has a brand neutral kind of persona, which is not stereotypical. Also, she is someone who has mass acceptance and the brand gets instant recognition through her."
Sagar Mahabaleshwarkar, Group Creative Director, O&M, points out, "Kajol is a good bet among female celebrities as she typifies the girl next door persona. She also seems steady in her personal life with strong middle class values, which is a huge advantage for marketers who want a known face who could appeal to its TA and she fits the bill perfectly."
Another advantage of signing on Kajol is that she comes across as an intelligent person who is an informed decision maker. Her association with brands does not seem frivolous and lends credibility to them. As Kajal Malik, Regional Director, OMS, puts it, "Kajol is seen as a person who choses her movies intelligently and that's an impression one would have of her choice of brand endorsements. She left at the peak of her career and has maintained her stardom. In fact, I think the mass appeal she had has not been replaced by either Preity Zinta, Aishwarya Bachchan or even Kareena Kapoor."
In fact, an in-house survey done by Tata Teleservices, which was later backed by Hansa Research, found Kajol to be the most enduring personality. The TA for the research was mass market, including 25-plus men and women in the B and C markets. Following which, Kajol and Ajay Devgan were signed on for Tata Indicom brand.
Abdul Khan, Head-Marketing, TTSL, said, "When we launched, we had positioned ourselves as a company that didn't believe in hiding any facts from its subscribers or in cheating them in any way. Our creatives positioned us as 'True Paid' or a brand that has no 'conditions apply'. Kajol seemed to be a perfect fit as she is known as a no-nonsense person and one who expresses herself forthrightly."
He added, "We signed Kajol before the movie 'Fanaa' happened, yet there was no hesitance among us. Even now, when we have moved our positioning to be little more aspirational, we are using Kajol, who acts as a catalyst who helps people in getting the experience of Tata Indicom and feel the difference."
Perfetti, which till now has not used a celebrity to endorse its products, gives the reason behind signing Kajol. Sameer Suneja, Head, Marketing, Perfetti Van Melle India, says, "We have not used any celebrities in our communications as our brands are salient enough due to edgy and cut through communication. Our flagship brand Alpenliebe is a big hit among all age groups. Alpenliebe is the market leader and we wanted to move its sales to be next level. In Kajol we saw a perfect fit for Alpenliebe and the messages the brand conveys."
As OMS' Malik aptly sums up, "Kajol leads the pack among actresses for endorsements as she is not a diva like Sushmita Sen or looks cosmetic such as Aishwarya. She comes across as a real woman who is fun loving and intelligent. Hence, she is someone many of us can identify with which makes her credible as a brand ambassador."
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I know I know.. that is not a safe practice, but we have a few machines that do not have passwords assigned to the login due to a legacy application that we use.
How do I force Spiceworks to allow a network login without password?
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Mar 6, 2008 at 5:59 UTC
I wish I had an answer for you, but to clarify, not having passwords for users in Windows XP is actually safer than ones with less than super strong passwords. By default, users without passwords cannot be accessed remotely.
Mar 8, 2008 at 11:13 UTC
Couldn't you still create an account with a password on that machine that matches your other machines that SW scans?
You could still run your other application with the account with no password.
Wouldn't that work, or am I missing something?
Mar 10, 2008 at 7:31 UTC
This thread might help:
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In August and September we are running a series of free walks during the weekdays (our normal walk programme continues to run at weekends). Although all walks are free, because we expect these to be popular, you must book by clicking on a link below.
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Discussion in 'The GCB' started by luisoscarb, Jan 13, 2012.
That's where I got it from.
It's from a Swedish movie.
Don't remember which one, sorry.
Ok I searched Swedish Movie crotch gun. It lead me to the TV tropes page "Gun in My Pocket" which shows a clip of the scene and says the movie is called "Kopps"
There we go.
Yes, yes.
This is why I always stay put once I've made my choice. This includes traffic lanes as well.
^ Great stuff, but I'm not sure anything about what that idiot was doing would have been considered parkour--hahahaha.
I never stay put in my lane. I can't even describe how many traffic jams I've avoided by playing heads up.
I stumbled on this while trying to find a funny cow picture for the m00 thread.
These seem appropriate when you just want out of the topic.
Could use a slower version to emphasize his facial reaction, but this is the best I could find on short notice.
I never understood how Samus learned Ice Punch.
~ T h e D i l l o ~
I'm sorry, did someone say something after this? I uhm... Wow... yeah...
Jordan Carver ~<3
Dem rollerblades...
Anime gifs never make me laugh. They always seem over the top just for the sake of it.
then it probably helps that i like never watch anime so when i see an over the top gif of one show up on my dash it's unexpected and funny
Nah, Anime just generally makes me sad.
Unless it's early years Pokemon...
...Or Dragon Ball Z [abridged?].
so many feels
^ First gif: Why!?
Oldie but goodie
I really don't get what was being attempted there.
Furious feline language warning:
Two people on the seesaw as the third would be seesawing by rope over the goal post. It would have been quite interesting if it had worked, instead of quite interesting for having not
I made a post in here like 5 minutes ago. Where is it? Try #2.


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Stand with us and support removing the four lower Snake River dams to save the Southern Resident Killer Whales from being dammed to extinction.
The endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales support a multimillion dollar tourist economy in Puget Sound. They are perilously close to becoming too small a population to survive and reproduce, primarily due to lack of food. They are slowly starving. There are only 77 Southern Resident orcas remaining today. For more than two years, no calf has survived. In 2014 alone, the Southern Resident population has declined by 5%, with the recent death of J32, Rhapsody, and her calf. At 18 years old, J32 was just coming into her own and was among the most likely females to contribute to the killer whales' recovery for years to come. With her death, another J Pod matriline, the J10's, will die out. Rhapsody's death embodies the plight of the Southern Resident Killer Whales.
Chinook salmon are the killer whales' primary food. Chinook salmon runs originating in the Columbia/Snake River watershed are the singular most important food source for the killer whales' survival. Chinook salmon are endangered species themselves. There are not enough Chinook salmon to sustain even the 77 Southern Residents Killer Whales that are alive today.
Each year the Snake River dams kill many millions of Chinook salmon juveniles as they attempt to navigate the dams and migrate down river and out to the ocean. Despite the dams, some Chinook salmon do make it to the ocean and grow to adults. The dams again exact their toll when adult Chinook return to the Columbia/Snake watershed to spawn. The dams finish the killing cycle by impeding the Chinooks return to their spawning grounds.
According to hundreds of scientists, removal of the four Lower Snake River dams is the single most effective way to generate the abundant Columbia Basin salmon that Southern Resident Killer Whales need to survive and recover. Judge Redden, the judge who presided over the decades long Columbia/Snake River legal case involving salmon and hydropower, also believes the dams need to come down. Yet as the orcas spiral towards extinction, the federal government refuses to consider dam removal, and instead spends billions of dollars on unreasonable and speculative habitat restoration measures to avoid significant changes to dam operations.
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Arthur the Great signs a treaty with the Kingdom of Upper Brittany. Arthur cedes most of Ireland, except Belfast and a small area around it, to Upper Brittany.
Byzantines, at the same time, Hunnic Empire, taking parts of it.
The Danes establish several colonies on the coast of the area populated by Baltic tribes. Gustav IV begins a tradition of Danish raids against the Balts, taking the adults as slaves, and distributing the younger children to Danish families. also, any Children the slaves have are take at birth, and set to barracks in Stockholm and Oslo, where they are trained practically from birth as warriors. The Danes also raid the weak, decentralized Hunnic Empire, and the Slavic tribes.
Richard, the regent of Saxon Germany, severs all ties with the Kingdom of Britain. He becomes known as Richard the Wise. Richard reorganizes Saxon Germany into the Kingdom of Saxon-land. He annexes another large area of Poland. Richard also replenishes his treasury. He signs an alliance with the French, giving them OTL Netherlands, and Belgium in exchange for the right to invade Bavaria. Richard masses troops along the border with the Bavarians, preparing for an invasion.
The Danes, feeling threatened by the newly expansionistic Saxon Germany, demand that the Saxons call of their invasion of Bavaria unless the Saxon give them all of the Baltic Coast of Saxony. Richard, already called "the Wise" by the more sarcastic elements of the population, agrees, hoping to regain the territory in his upcoming invasion of Bavaria
Poland, with all of Saxony's troops on the Bavarian border take the chance and takes it's rightful territory from Saxony
The Huns and Rome make a deal. Rome gives the Huns their territory north of the Danube and the Huns will not raid Rome. A ceasefire agreement is called upon by the Huns, wanting to settle down, for 10 years.
Greater Bulgaria is formed by the Bulgars.
Richard the Wise invades Bavaria. He quickly gains a lot of territory. Richard also sends some troops to take back the northern coast for Saxony and he also sends troops into Poland.
The Bavarians hold out around the Muchen area
The Saxons gain a little more territory in eastern Bavaria
The Polish army invades Saxony while it is distracted by Bavaria
The Polish army, with the help of the Bavarians make a coordinated assault on the newly Saxon territory
The Danes deceivingly invade Saxony using the shore along the North and Baltic seas as a base
Saxony, with no coastline, forced to fight on 3 fronts, and with it's army cut off from necessary supplies, has NO way out of the hole it has dug itself
Richard (the Wise, hahaha) sues for peace but, with the main European populace sharing a dislike for Saxons and Britons because of their calculated slaughter of the Celts, the major European powers deny the offer
A meeting is set up for the official splitting-up of Saxony
The supposed great grandson of Attila the Hun forms Hungary from the Hunnic Empire.
The Danes begin raiding Lithuania for more slaves and children to train as Janissaries, much to Poland's delight
Much of Saxony's former population is shipped to Denmark as slaves, then separated into many different slave camps. the Saxons will never again for a united Kingdom. at this point approximately 20% of Denmark's population are slaves
Denmark expands its settlements in the area controlled by the Balts.
Charles the Great comes to power in France. He signs treaties with all of France's neighbors. In a act of good-faith, Charles gives Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg to Denmark. Charles prohibits slavery in France. He focuses on building up France. Charles also grants rights to the remaining Celts in Brittany. Charles then promises he would not expand France.
France becomes the European center of art, literature, science, and mathematics.
Justinian I invades Italia, he conquers Rome. The rebellious Italians resist Justinian's reign over Rome, riots ensue. Pope Vigilius, returning from a secret vacation in the north is accidentally killed in the chaos.
After serving only two years as the Pope Vigilius is killed. Justinian I elects Pope Pelagius I, who openly condemns the Three Chapters, this angers Charles because of his very open-minded political and religious policies.
Charles is also angry at the abrupt change of power in church, Justinian and the Papacy have to go forth cautiously, to disturb Charles any further would be a big mistake for Rome.
Carthago (Carthage) tries to take more land on Sicily but the people of Sicily, inspired by the rebellions in the city of Rome, rise up and fight off the Carthaginians. The Kingdom of Sicily is formed from Justinian's weak grip on Italia.
Hispania Major takes more land from the Suebs.
- King Arthur dies and his cousin Geoffrey comes to power. Geoffrey had been cast out from Saxon society because he hated the Celtic massacres. However the French and Upper Bretons forced the Saxons to accept him. King Geoffrey I changes the Kingdom of Britain into the Realm of Britons. He cedes Ireland and Southern England to the Upper Bretons as a peace offering then begins a program of spreading Celts from the North into the south. He hoped to fuse the Saxons and the Celts into a new nation, the Britons without unnecessary death.
- The Danes' slaving settlements in the Baltic expand further.
- Hispania Major conquers the Algarve section of the Sueb Kingdom.
- Hispania Minor invades the Basques.
France signs a alliance with Suebs, Basques, and Hispania Inferior to defend against aggressive Hispania Major.
- Saxons disgruntled with what they call 'wishy washy pro-Celt policies' declare independence as the Angle Empire and begin slaughtering Celts moved in to the area. This means three nations exist in the British Isles, one for each major ethnic group. For the Celts there is the Kingdom of Upper Brittany (though a number of French settlers exist here). For the Saxons there is the Angle Empire. And for the Britons, there is the Realm of Britons.
- Hispania Major and Hispania Minor invade Carthaginian Iberia, turning on the one enemy not allied with France.
- Sicily drives the Carthaginian off their island while they are distracted by the Hispanians.
- The Bavarians and Danes expand into the Slavic lands.
- The Danes expand into the Baltic lands.
Carl III, son of the great Gustav IV, sends a "diplomatic" embassy to the king of Poland, respectfully requesting that he turn over all of his territory which borders the Baltic to the Danes. the Polish Monarch, fearing Danish invasion, agrees, in exchange for a promise that the Danes will mot interfere in a Polish invasion of Saxony. the Danes agree to this deal, and also agree to assist Poland if the Bavarians come to Saxony's aid.
Charles the Great breaks off the alliance with Suebs and Basques, afraid his kingdom will be invaded. He then promises to leave out of Hispanian affairs. Also this year, his wife Blanche gives birth to the first of their five children. They name him Philip.
- Both Hispanias expand, pushing Carthage out of Iberia. Hispania Major takes more land from the Suebs and Hispania Inferior takes more Basque land.
- Kingdom of Poland march into Saxony. The Bavarians declare war on Poland, fearing they will be a lesser power if Saxony falls, and begin skirmishes along their northern border. The Danes prepare to help the Poles.
- Sicily and Italia work together to push the Romans out of the Italian Peninsula. Sicily turns on the Carthaginian Islands.
- The Danes expand into Baltic lands.
The Suebs and Basques, bolstered by Danish and Briton advisors and mercenaries, retake much of the lands they had lost. A temporary peace (5 years) is signed.
The Danes expand further into Karelia and the Baltic/Slavic areas. The first generation of "Thrall" warriors completes training and are sent into the Baltic theatre. Raids by Danish troops begin in Bavaria, in order to help gain the support of Poland in the assimilation of the Slavs.
Carl III uses the income provided by plunder from the Balts and Slavs to establish a research institution in Stockholm, which continually assesses the Danish army's weapons and military tactics in order to keep them modernized. the Stockholm institute, as it is known, is also responsible for developing new weapons for the Danish army. soon, the Institute recommends replacing traditional axes and swords with pikes and crossbows, in order to better fend off increasingly powerful western European cavalry. this is the first known use of massed archery in the modern era.
Seeing the Danish example, Charles the Great establishes a military research institution in Paris. At the same time, his wife Blanche gives birth to Jenna, the last of their five children.
- Danes expand deeper into Baltic territory.
- Poland and Denmark split Saxony between them then begin a program of attack on Bavaria to pummel them into accepting their conquest.
- Hispania Major and Hispania Inferior annex the Basque Country.
- Sicily takes over Majorca from the Carthaginians.
The Danes expand into the Tribal areas, as well as moving into Karelia. Slavs begin to raid Pannonia.
The Bulgars attack the Greeks and take Georgia.
- Bavaria surrenders and cedes territory to Poland and Denmark.
- Poland and Denmark continue into Slavic lands, precipitating further conflict in Pannonia.
- Danes complete Baltic conquest.
- Hungary takes advantage of the chaos in Pannonia and invades.
- Sicilians attack Carthaginian Tunisia.
- Bound by treaty not to attack the Suebs, the Hispanias attack Carthaginian North Africa and begin establishing settlements.
- Angle Empire attacks Wales.
Charles the Great and Carl III sign a treaty of alliance between their countries. They promise to support each-other if either are attacked. At the same time, the Angle Empire consolidates it's rule in northern Wales.
Bulgars continue to expand into the Roman's territory. Hungary and Poland both absorb more of Pannonia, and the Slavs are reduced to a small sliver of land. In response to the Engle's attacks on the Celts, the Britons and Danes invade, with the Danes pledging all lands wone by them will go to the Celts.
the Danes defeat the Huns at the Battle of Muscovy, when Danish Thrall pikemen and crossbowmen repel twice their number in Hunnic cavalry,cementing Danish battlefield dominance for the foreseeable future. the Danes also annex much of the Hunnic Empire.
the Romans repel the Bulgarian invaders using new northern European tactics, driving them out of Anatolia entirely, and back across the Caucasus.
A Roman naval invasion also takes control of Crimea from the Bulgars.
A Danish Botanist changes the classical system of agriculture to include a extra crop rotation, which greatly increases Danish agricultural output.
Danes pioneer new tactics, including the combination of light Hun-style cavalry and tercios, and the use of light archers as raiders and scouts.. A final peace is brokered between the Huns and Danes.
Sicily expands into Carthage.
Brittany and the Angles make a peace.
Both Pannonia and the Slavs are absorbed into various empires.
Danish inventor, entrepreneur and chemist Mikael Torstensson builds a factory in Finland which is powered by a waterwheel, and creates identical arrows and pikes at twice rate and half the cost of traditional methods. Carl III sees the potential in this, and has Torstensson build a factory in Stockholm which builds ships out of identical parts, reducing maintenance costs tremendously. the Danish navy soon dominates the North Sea, and purchases the Channel Islands from the Kingdom of Upper Brittany in order to extend their naval dominance to the Bay of Biscay
in order to prevent famine and keep the rapidly expanding Danish population under control, Carl III allows any Dane who farms land in the Danish central Asian territories for ten years to keep the land. this places Russia firmly under the control of Denmark.
the Danish Thralls begin work on a massive system of highways through the now Huge Danish Empire. they are modeled off the old Roman road system.
- King Geoffrey dies peacefully in his sleep. His son, Alfred sets about the final destruction of the Angle Empire and the adoption of the Danish four crop rotation system. King Alfred was highly ambitious and wanted in on the North African conquest. He purchased a strip of land between Sicily and Hispania Inferior and set up his own settlements, hoping to usher in a British Golden Age.
- The Five Year Peace is over and Hispania Major invades the Suebs again. Last time the Britons helped the Suebs, but this time the Britons have settlements in Africa that they don't want the Hispaniards damaging. So the Britons don't help. The Danes are busy consolidating their Empire and don't want to get involved. Most Sueb territory is taken.


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The West Texas town of Burnt Rock has a new preacher. Handsome and sophisticated, Reverend Warner soon wins the affection and respect of the congregation, but he seems particularly drawn to lady rancher Lee Morgan. Ben Flood is not taken in so quickly. He's shaken the minister's hand and found it heavily callused . . . and doesn't the minister have an unusual fondness for guns? When a blizzard hits Burnt Rock, the truth plays out in both murder and redemption.
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A Phase III Trial of Adjuvant Chemotherapy Following Chemoradiation as Primary Treatment for Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer Compared to Chemoradiation Alone: The OUTBACK Trial
- To determine if the addition of adjuvant chemotherapy to standard cisplatin-based
chemoradiation improves overall survival.
- To determine the progression-free survival rates.
- To determine acute and long-term toxicities.
- To determine patterns of disease recurrence.
- To determine the association between radiation protocol compliance and outcomes.
- To determine patient quality of life, including psycho-sexual health.
- To determine the association between the results of a follow-up PET scan performed 4 -
6 months post completion of chemoradiation and outcomes for all patients in the trial.
- To determine the biological predictors of patients' outcomes based on translational
laboratory studies of blood and tissue specimens.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to pelvic or common
iliac nodal involvement (yes vs no), requirement for extended-field radiotherapy treatment
(yes vs no), FIGO stage (IB/IIA vs IIB vs IIIB/IVA), age (< 60 years of age vs ≥ 60 years of
age), and hospital/site. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive cisplatin IV over 60-90 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.
Patients also undergo external-beam radiation therapy once daily, 5 days a week, for
approximately 5 weeks. Patients then undergo high-dose rate, pulsed-dose rate, or
low-dose rate intracavitary brachytherapy.
- Arm II: Patients receive cisplatin and undergo external-beam radiation and
brachytherapy as in arm I. Beginning 4 weeks later, patients also receive adjuvant
chemotherapy comprising paclitaxel IV over 3 hours and carboplatin IV over 1 hour on
day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 4 courses in the absence of disease
progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients may undergo baseline tumor biopsy and blood collection for future correlative
Patients complete the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
Core questionnaire (QLQ-C30), the EORTC cervix cancer module (CX24), the ovarian cancer
module (OV28), and the Sexual function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire (SVQ) questionnaires at
baseline, during, and after completion of study treatment.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up every 3 months for 2 years and
then every 6 months for 3 years.
Allocation: Randomized, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment
Overall survival rate at 5 years
Kathleen N. Moore, MD
Principal Investigator
Oklahoma University Cancer Institute
January 2012
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Who knew high school could be so much fun? I'm a great student and I'm involved in the school band. I'm not actually in marching band, but the concert band class I'm in does provide a few special occasions. I remember the first fun trip I experienced in that class. It felt like it lasted forever. We had scheduled to go to Cliff's Amusement Park and stay at the Radisson Water-Park hotel the first night in Albuquerque. As soon as school got out on that Friday afternoon, all the band kids going on the trip met in the band room at 4 P.M. With everything set, everybody got packed and we headed off.
We arrived at the hotel at around 5:30 P.M the same evening. The band parents put us in groups of four with no boys and girls in the same room. We noticed that for an expensive hotel that it was dirty and had a few things out of the ordinary, but it would do. When everyone had gotten settled in to their rooms, we all decided to check out the water park. My friends and I went swimming for a few hours and then came up to eat at 9 P.M. I still can't get the taste of pizza out of my mouth. In band, you always bring more than enough food for everyone. After an hour of family guy and relaxing with my bus buddy Erika, it was time to leave to my real room and spend the night with my roomies. Other than the fact that the sleeping position I was in was extremely uncomfortable combined with being located right next to the ice cold AC, the night was still fun. We did pointless stuff like burping and keeping straight faces while watching humorous TV shows like jackass and Robot Chicken, but there was one thing that I really enjoyed.
The person with seniority over us younger band kids was a man by the name of Osvaldo Garcia. Earlier he was showing us a song he performed called Vesuvius. It wasn't the song that got me intrigued, but rather how you can sync up the song to almost any bad television show or commercial and watch how the actions fit the song perfectly when you least expect it! I don't know why doing this for an hour never got old, but it made the time pass like lightning. After we were done doing what-not, we finally went to bed at around 2 in the morning which is funny because Osvaldo planned to stay up all night.
I had woken up at six and had to wait another hour for everyone to wake up. Surprisingly no one got a good-night sleep because all the pillows in our room were stolen by a girl named Emma. Osvaldo was the first to wake up after me at around 7:30 A.M. My two other roommates, Ken and Gabe, woke up shortly after him.
We had put on the TV while I was out on the balcony talking with the girls from the other room. Something seemed familiar...They called the band teacher to ask if they could go out of there room and he had said yes, and that was basically our confirmation too. Ken and Gabe left with me to get food while Osvaldo was in the shower. After we got a snack, we waited for him and went down to get breakfast after he got dressed.
Unlike most hotels I've been to, the breakfast in this one was actually served to us, and it was the same for everyone: A pile of eggs, two or three pieces of bacon, and fried potatoes, not counting the toast that the waiters seemed to forget to serve. Even my friend got a glass of orange juice spilled all over his pants, and the waiter made up for it with only a piece of free bacon.
After we ate, we went back upstairs and watched more TV on mute while listening to Vesuvius. We had brought one girl in our room with us. Her name was Olivia.
After thirty minutes of more Vesuvius combined with TV, we were done fooling around. We packed up and left to Cliffs at around Noon. We got there and were instructed to go through the gates first, and then come back to get our instruments so we could get our wrist bands. When we got back, we formed in the middle of the park and began to perform pep-tunes, which I didn't know much of, but I wasn't in marching band anyways.
After half an hour of dancing and playing music that I've never played before, we finally got released through a dance. We literally had to dance our way into a single file line. Before long, Erika and I had already returned to the bus and put back our instruments while the others were still catching up. We returned to the front gate and proceeded to go on our first ride: The Cliffhanger.
This ride consists of a box shaped seat that goes up a hundred feet and then drops you straight down. We went on it and came to the agreement that it was a waste of time. After riding the cliffhanger we ate at about 2 P.M. After we finished eating we decided to go on the best roller coaster at the park: The Rattler. In fact even though I got sick, the rattler with all its twists and turns didn't even make me dizzy. The next ride was one of those pendulum boat type rides. This one was my absolute favorite. After this one my friend Joseph and I went to the bumper cars. After that, we went to a roller coaster carousel type ride. It was small, but it contained a lot of force, and the entire time Joseph had to obliterate my leg because I was sitting on the outside part. Now that's the ride that got me dizzy.
After that ride, things got weird. I got so motion sickly that I was delirious. The next ride we went on was a yellow one that is basically a swing that spins you around as you rotate around it, like the old fashioned tea cups but with swings. While waiting in line with Joseph, Osvaldo and Olivia, we noticed a girl, probably around seven or eight years old with a purple peace sign shirt. She had the coolest but scariest face paint on that we had ever seen. She pulled off a good skeleton look. We were so intrigued by her face paint that Joseph got out his phone and took a photo of her as she passed by when she left. Well, we thought she left.
It was our turn for the ride so the four of us went to find seats on one of the double seats. Joseph and I couldn't get in our seat at first, but then we realized the door wasn't open. I must have been sick. Olivia and Osvaldo sat in the seat behind us. Once everyone got settled, we finally began to go off.
It seemed almost instantly when we noticed what was wrong. The ride was fine and I began to feel less nauseated. Everything about the ride was in check, but it was what Joseph and I saw when the ride began to move that wasn't ordinary. As the ride began spinning, I noticed something that looked familiar...the purple shirt. The same shirt the girl was wearing.
The girl had returned, but there was something strange about her this time. She was...staring at us. I told Joseph and he took a glance to where I was pointing. As the ride spun around and around, she only got closer and closer...this is when we realized that she wasn't just looking at us for any reason. The longer I stared into her eyes, the more distorted everything around me became. I was locked into her line of sight, unable to get a grasp of the exterior world around me. I noticed the ride began to spin faster and faster making it much harder to turn my head to stare at her. The wind hitting my eyes became so forceful that tears were smothering my face. Blink.
My eyes re-opened to the same spot I was in. It wasn't spinning anymore and nobody was moving, except for Joseph who I could feel moving beside of me. I immediately looked at him to find that he was gone; the little girl had taken his place. I jumped up out of my seat out of shock and with that came another surprise. Blink.
Splash! I opened my eyes to the sight of Joseph in the hot tub with me back at the hotel. I was in swim trunks and instead of jumping I decided to close my eyes and go under the water. You can't hold your breath for too long. Blink.
This was different. I was in a chair, a chair in my grandparent's room. "Grandpa?", I asked. I knew exactly where I was. I was watching the death of my grandpa. He had dialysis but he had suddenly decided to quit a few weeks before the band trip took place. It was right before the point of his liquid morphine injections given by my grandmother used for calming him into a peaceful death, only the woman giving them wasn't my grandmother. The girl was back holding the tube of brown fluid into his mouth while staring at me with her huge satisfied grin. I began to tear up from the painful re-experience. Blink.
I was in a room. The girl was gone, but that didn't help. The room around me was very dark and comfortably warm. I heard a lot of commotion going on, but I couldn't tell what was being said, I couldn't even move for God sake! Suddenly a slit of light pierced my eye and out of curiosity I wiggled closer to it. It got brighter and brighter while at the same time the noise outside got louder and louder. I heard screaming. Mom is that you?
I felt a hand grab me by my armpits but it was too big to be real. I suddenly felt a horrible sharp pain in my groin. Was I being tortured? I quickly looked up only to be greeted with a friendly faced doctor. He faced me towards what looked like my mother. It couldn't be her, the woman was too young. I finally came to the obscure realization of where I was but then I felt another jolt of pain on my butt. Slap! Blink.
I awoke in a room with four others. It was six o'clock in the morning and surprisingly no one got a good-night sleep because all the pillows in our room were stolen by a girl named Emma. Osvaldo was the first to wake up after me at around 7:30 A.M. My two other roommates, Ken and Gabe, woke up shortly after him.
We had put on the TV while I was out on the balcony talking with the girls from the other room. Something seems familiar...


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Author Tags: Art, Outdoors
A retrospective of the mountaineer and master printmaker Arnold Shives' art has appeared as Alpine Anatomy: The Mountain Art of Arnold Shives (Tricouni 2012).
Drawings by the North Vancouver-based artist are also contained in The Valley of Melting Sand (North Vancouver: Prospect Press, 1999).
According to the artist's website:
"Arnold Edward Shives was born December 27, 1943 in Vancouver, BC. As a child he recalls always loving to draw and has a vivid memory of encouragement from a classmate to whom he sold a drawing to at age 9. This early entrepreneurial success led him to sell his work door-to-door in his west-side neighborhood, further motivating the budding young artist!
"Shives continued to develop his love of art during high school years at Lord Byng Secondary in Vancouver and later at U.B.C. where, in his freshman years, he audited painting classes with the ever inspiring Gordon Smith. In 1964, following two years at university, he moved to California to complete a BFA degree at the San Francisco Art Institute. There he was profoundly influenced by teacher Richard Diebenkorn and went on graduate with an MA in Painting from Stanford University.
"In 1968 he returned to Vancouver and met Toni Onley who became a lifelong mentor and supporter of his work. Toni encouraged Arnold to pursue his imagery with professional galleries and met early success in both Vancouver and Toronto. Since that time he has worked as a full time artist exploring the serene nature of the landscape in painting, assemblage and through print making.
"Shives experiences as a mountain climber have provided a rich repertoire of imagery for his work over the years. He has made a number of first ascents of peaks from the north Cascades to the glaciered peaks of northern BC and has climbed with some of the provinces top mountaineers. He is mentioned in Bruce Fairleys Canadian Mountaineering Anthology and in Phil Dowlings Famous Climbers in Canada.
"Exhibited across Canada, the United States, in South Africa, in Europe and in Japan, Shives' work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the San Francisco Art Museum and in the Artists for Kids Gallery in North Vancouver.
"He has received a number of honours including Canada Council grants over the years and was appointed a member of the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) in 2006. Arnold Shives lives and works at his home studio in North Vancouver with his wife Sue and their children."
The Mountain Art of Arnold Shives (Tricouni 2012). 978-0-9811536-1-2 $39.95
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So the guy I am seeing is really protective of me and I don't mind it but I don't know why he's so protective.. He's worried that I'll cuddle with other guys and when I don't update him when I get back to my house and stuff he gets really worried.. He just seems to really care and worry about me. I've never had a guy like this.. Is it weird or normal?
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He's worried you'll cuddle up with other guys when you don't update him of where you are?
Kinda not normal. Like if it was one of those normal things even friends say like "call/text so I know you got home safe" when you leave them, it's more understandable, but he's not even coming at it like that.
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Oh yea sorry about that, I read it differently at first.
Yea it is normal for a guy who likes you to worry about your safety and that you got home and stuff. Some are worried about other guys when they're insecure though.
Some guys can just pretend though, so just don't believe it all if it's only been a short time.


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Legends of the Dark Millenium: Genestealer Cults
Author : Peter Fehervari
Publisher : Dey Street Books
Release : 2016
Genre : Science Fiction
A Legends of the Dark Millennium novel
Members of a seemingly loyal cult devoted to the Emperor make a pilgrimage to the world on which their order began. But what they find there puts all they believe into question…
The galaxy is vast, and worship of the God-Emperor by His faithful takes many forms. The Spiral Dawn is one of the countless sanctioned sects of the Imperial Cult. As a gathering of Spiralytes make their holy pilgrimage to Redemption, the sect's world of origin and a shrine world of the Imperium, they find not a haven of enlightenment and introspection, but a soot-choked hellhole where their order's founders and an unorthodox regiment of Astra Militarum maintain an uneasy coexistence. As tensions between the serene congregation and the superstitious Guardsmen mount, the new arrivals begin to unravel the dark secrets concealed at the heart of their faith.
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Perfect for families, Nuthatch Lodge is one of our four award-winning ecolodges, surrounded by our 21 acre North Devon Farm. The lodge has a furnished veranda with pretty views across surrounding grassland and Dartmoor beyond. No need to leave the family pet behind - up to 2 dogs are welcome in Nuthatch. Families will adore our fun farm holiday experience, with lots to do and explore onsite including our 7 acre nature reserve, a boat on the pond during the summer season, play areas, swings and BBQ space. A farm shop selling a range of local Devon produce is just up the road, and several inns serving food are within cycling distance. Enjoy fun days playing volleyball or badminton on the mown court, fishing on our pond or a family BBQ close to our camp fire site. You are also welcome to use our free bikes available in a range of sizes.
A cosy family and dog friendly holiday lodge accommodating 4 to 6 guests.
Enjoy a fantastic Devon fun family farm holiday here at Wheatland Farm. Kids love our acres of space, and there is lots to do onsite from fishing and exploring the nature reserve to wild swimming during summer. Up to two well trained dogs are welcome in Nuthatch Lodge, and dogs are allowed access to all areas of the farm except the 7 acre nature reserve.
Nuthatch Lodge is available February to October plus Christmas and New Year (our Otter Cottage and Balebarn Lodge are available all year round). Short breaks are also available, except during 6 weeks in the summer school holidays.
On booking we email detailed directions to guests from the M5 at Tiverton, and via Eggesford, as well as from the A30 East and West, via Widdon Down and North Tawton. Wheatland Farm Eco Lodges and Cottage sit just outside the pretty Saxon village of Winkleigh (which has two great village pubs!).
From Winkleigh village, take the A3124 north, continue past the recreation ground just on your right. Turn off at the sharp left hand bend and follow the signpost for Chulmleigh. After about half a mile you will pass Fiona's farm shop just to your left. The farm is just on the right, about half a mile further on from the farm shop. Continue on down the track (not through the gates to the cottage on the road). Pass our next door neighbour's bungalow and the car park for the ecolodges. To reach the farmhouse and collect your keys, keep going until you get to the end of the drive and the main farmhouse (white) - our front door is just down some steps (ring if these are a problem and we'll come out and meet you). Welcome scones on arrival!


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A delicious version of chicken salad. I leave out the cilantro because of personal preference. Adapted from allrecipes.
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- 2 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
- 1 head red leaf lettuce, rinsed and torn
- 1 head green leaf lettuce, rinsed and torn
- 1 fresh tomato, chopped
- 1 bunch cilantro, chopped
- 1 (15 1/4 ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained
- 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained
- 1 (2 7/8 ounce) can French-fried onions
- 1⁄2 cup ranch dressing
- 1⁄2 cup barbecue sauce
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- Preheat the grill for high heat. Lightly oil the grill grate.
- Place chicken on the grill, and cook 6 minutes per side, or until juices run clear. Remove from heat, cool, and slice.
- In a large bowl, mix the red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, tomato, cilantro, corn, and black beans. Top with the grilled chicken slices and French fried onions.
- In a small bowl, mix the Ranch dressing and barbeque sauce. Serve on the side as a dipping sauce, or toss with the salad to coat.


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Magistrates did some trash talking at the Marion County Fiscal Court meeting Thursday, Nov. 5, but not at each other. The trash talk was concerning problems with the collection of waste at various businesses located in the City of Lebanon. Specifically, there are establishments that are currently paying the residential rate but are generating large volumes of trash on a daily and/or weekly basis, according to Marion County Solid Waste and Environmental Coordinator Keith Brock.
The City of Lebanon wants to end its Bicentennial with a bang during the New Year's Eve Bicentennial Ball.
The black tie/formal affair will take place from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dec. 31 at Centre Square in Lebanon.
The Marion County Fiscal Court will be meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday.
The Lebanon Tourist and Convention Commission will be having a special-called meeting at 5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29, to discuss and possibly approve a Lebanon water tower project that's been in the works for quite some time. The commission has contracted with an artist to paint a mural on the water tower signifying Marion County as the home of Maker's Mark Distillery.
With consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 65 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2016.
In the past nine years, the county has cleaned 18 dumpsites, and that work continues today, Marion County Solid Waste Coordinator Keith Brock told the Marion County Fiscal Court during its Oct. 1 meeting.
"We've about cleaned this county up," Brock said.
The first dumpsite that was cleaned was the one located at Scott's Ridge in Raywick. More recently, Brock inspected three illegal dumpsites near Gravel Switch, which the court approved cleaning during Thursday's meeting.
A civil lawsuit has been filed against the City of Lebanon, the Lebanon Police Department, Lebanon Police Chief Wally Brady and Lebanon Police Officers for an incident involving pepper spray that took place at the 2014 Marion County Country Ham Days Festival.
The lawsuit was filed on Sept. 15 in the Marion Circuit Clerk's Office.
The Lebanon City Council approved the city's 2015-16 tax rates recently.
Monday, Sept. 7, the council voted 4-1 to exceed the compensating tax rate by levying a proposed tax rate of 20.40 cents per $100 of assessed value on real property, 25.15 cents per $100 of assessed value on personal property and 24.33 per $100 of assessed value on motor vehicles. Kate Palagi cast the only no vote.
During a public hearing prior to the council's special-called meeting on Sept. 7, there were some questions from the audience.
Concerned citizens attended the Marion County Fiscal Court meeting Sept. 3 and asked magistrates to consider drafting a nuisance ordinance that would address property eyesores and potential health hazards throughout the county.
Julie Peake, who has lived on Tatum Lane in Lebanon for more than 20 years, said if the county doesn't do something soon, things are going to get out of hand.
"We need to commit to doing something as a community before we become a shanty town," she said.
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