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The following is from Natasha Sims, CFCA web editor, who is currently in Central America participating in Walk2gether.
Jan. 11, 2010
Today the El Salvador mission awareness trip participants and I joined Walk2gether. We didnít leave at 4 a.m. like the walk team and Bob did. We met them about 15 kilometers in, right around 8:35 a.m.
The 10 of us trickled into the line, meeting some CFCA staff and families for the first time. The morning weather was still slightly chilly from the unseasonably cold night, but the sun was quickly working the chill out of the air.
I didnít know what to expect when we began the day. I was still trying to decide how to best cover the walk and share it with those who cannot experience it in person. In the end, I just decided to let the walk lead me, and a story would find me. And, a story did find me, many stories in fact.
Take Veron, for example. Veron is the project coordinator for CFCA's Manila project in the Philippines. She is walking through Central America with Bob, both to represent her country in the walk and also her son, who is unable to walk. When she speaks about her 6-year-old, thereís a soft look on her face that tells me she is not entirely in El Salvador, but also 14 hours away at her home in the Philippines.
Veron overcame many obstacles to participate in the walk with ìSir Bob,î as she calls him, and now she adds a steady, soothing presence to the walk.
ìAnother 40 kilometers done,î she said at the end of the day.
Then there is Harry, a sponsor from Wisconsin. Harry has met Bob on several mission awareness trips. He is fully committed to CFCA and his sponsored children. I pulled out my audio recorder to document a sponsorís view of the walk, but he was so choked with emotion before I finished my first question that he only managed to say this:
ìThis is the biggest thing I have ever done in my life, and Bob does this every day.î
Harry and I spoke several times during the walk and the rest stops, trading stretching tips and chatting about light topics. At the end of the walk, however, he smiled at me with tears in his eyes and said he might not be able to do that interview after all. Thatís OK, Harry. Your eyes say it all, anyway.
At the 20-kilometer mark, I spoke briefly with Jose Francisco, a quiet man and the father of four sponsored children. ìWhich children?î I asked. He pointed at the two children I had just taken a picture of. They were giggling over my notepad, writing their names for me. I told Jose Francisco that I would like a picture of him with his family, meaning the two children. He sadly told me that only four of his 8 children were there. So I took a picture of him with his four children, and his wife and mother-in-law, who were also there, as it turns out. I took several photos of them but the one I like the best is the one in which I caught them laughing with each other. It isnít perfect ñ the grandmotherís eyes are closed and Dina isnít looking at the camera, but you can see the love they have for each other.
The final 10 kilometers of the walk were along a busy, noisy highway. We walked single-file, which gave us time for some internal reflection. I thought about all those I had spoken with through the day, and decided that Bob was right.
Walk2gether really is about the people.


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Time: 6pm – 9pm
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On Wednesday, December 16, students from the UWM Peck School of the Arts will transform three floors of the Kenilworth Square East building into a dynamic and interactive gallery space. The event features works in a wide variety of mediums, from digital prints to time-based media, sculptures, and installations. These works investigate the role that evolving technologies play in our culture, psychology, and creative practices, as well as examine the continued influx of technologically mediated reality into our lives. Come explore and engage in a kinetic world of light, sound, and illusion.


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"It's really an exciting frontier in medicine right now to try and understand the potential of how the gut microbiome can play a role in brain development and behavior and therefore we might be able to develop novel strategies targeting the gut microbiome, what we call psychiobiotics that may be useful in the treatment of certain mental disorders," said professor John Cryan.
Stress-related disorders like anxiety, depression and irritable bowel syndrome were key study areas along with conditions like autism spectrum disorders, said professor Cryan, chair and head of the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience at University College Cork in Ireland.
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Earlier this month we featured Diego, a sponsored child who walked 80 minutes to school in Colombia ñ and that was just one way!
Our CFCA colleagues in Bogota ñ Harrison Garcia Ruiz, our communications liaison, and Judith Bautista, project coordinator ñ worked on getting a bicycle for Diego so he wouldn't have to walk such a great distance.
Harrison was there as Diego went with his mother to pick out a new bike. These pictures, along with quotes from Diego, tell the whole story beautifully.
In Diego's words
Having a bicycle to me was a very difficult dream to reach. My family does not have the resources to buy a bicycle for me.
One day CFCA staff members came to my house to interview me and to ask me about my life and how I get my education.
I told them about the long distance that I have to walk to get to school.
My mother told me later that CFCA staffers called her, and she told me that the CFCA office wanted to buy a bike to me so I could have a better situation in life.
I could not believe it at first, but I thank God for having that visit from CFCA's staff and to be able to tell them my story, and in this way I could go to choose my bike with my mother.
I was so excited that on our way back home I fell asleep holding my new bicycle and really wanting to ride it for the first time.
Finally, we arrived and I rode my new bicycle. My mother emphasized the importance of wearing my helmet and vest to be protected.
Here, I am riding on my bike for the first time on my way to school; I rode through the way that I used to walk.
Now, I am glad because I can save time and a lot of energy to get better grades at school.
I thank God, CFCA's staff and the CFCA office in Bogota for making my dream true. I thought it was an impossible dream to reach. Thanks for everything!


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name your top 5 free agents you want the colts to get, mine in no particular order.
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie
Mike Wallace
Jake Long
Tracy Porter
Anthony Spencer
Mike Wallace isn't necessary as there are more pressing needs elsewhere. DRC and Long should be at the top with any legitimate pass rusher following those two.
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DG for 3
You guys know that 80% of the good 2013 FA's are either going to be franchise tagged or signed right? A wish list is as good as the giver and I am not seeing Long or Wallace making the ACTUAL FA list.
If New England cuts bait on Vollmer he would be a good fit at RT next year. His back problems would need to be cleared but I could see the COlts making a run at a guy like that.
CB Mike Jenkins is a strong possibility. And there's little chance the Cowboys would tag him.
Better scouting for the draft is more important anyway.
Not sure what you mean. I thought the Colts had a fantastic draft last year. I don't think they could have done any better.
But if you mean that building a team through the draft is the way to go, then I agree completely. But the reality is, the Colts will have a ton of money to spend on free agents next year and there's a good chance they'll spend it.
Cromartie or Porter would be nice. We don't need Williams
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Mike Jenkins and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie would be nice pick-ups for us IMO. Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie at right corner, Vontae Davis at left, and Mike Jenkins in nickel.
1. Jake Long
2. Cliff Avril
3. Sebastian Vollmer
4. William Moore
5. Brent Grimes if he can still play
There are a lot of options and the Colts will have room to pay them. We've already used our 2nd round draft pick on Davis, so our 1st rounder will need to be a hit. Of course this all depends on how well we do in free agency. We may not need a Chance Warmick or Barrett Jones after free agency.
Wrong Long unless Jake got kidnapped and is being held in St. Louis.
Brain fart...lol
Here is my list, in order, based on likelihood and need:
Jarius Byrd - S - BUF
Dominique Rodgers-Cromatrie - CB - PHI
Tracy Porter - CB - DEN
Carson Wiggs - K - Purdue (Current FA)
Reggie Bush - RB - MIA
Mike Jenkins - CB - DAL
Felix Jones - RB - DAL
Mike Wallace - WR - PIT
Ray Maulauluga - LB - CIN
Larod Stephens-Howling - RB - ARZ
Jake Long - OL - MIA
Glenn Dorsey - DL - KC
Sav Rocca - P - WAS (by for some awful reason we can't keep Pat Mac)
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This is interesting, Miami can't franchise Jake Long without over overpaying him.
Because Long's salary-cap number this season is higher than the franchise number for offensive linemen, the Dolphins would have to franchise him at 120 percent of this year's salary. Thus, his franchise tag would be $15,365,952, according to league sources.
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Big cities in North America and Asia may generate enough heat to warm areas far to the north of them, according to a new study co-authored by a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The study, published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests that energy consumption in U.S. and Asian cities can alter air circulation, pushing jet streams farther north and heating up parts of Canada and Siberia in the winter.
Its findings, the authors said, could account for unexplained warming in those areas of up to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit each winter.
"Human activity — light, heat, cooling and transportation — consumes a lot of energy," said Guang Zhang, a research meteorologist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "This energy eventually goes into the atmosphere as waste heat. We were trying to figure out how this excess heat affects climate. To our surprise, we saw that changes for surface temperature are substantial in regions far away from urban areas."
Meteorologists long have known that cities are warmer than rural areas, as cars and buildings burn energy, and asphalt and roofs absorb heat. That's called the urban heat island effect, and researchers have long thought that the heat stayed close to the cities.
But the study, based on a computer model, now suggests the heat does something else, albeit indirectly. It travels about half a mile up into the air and then its energy changes the high-altitude currents in the atmosphere that dictate prevailing weather.
The study adds to the evolving body of data examining how human activity affects climate. While scientists have said that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are responsible for warming trends, recent studies, including one published earlier this month, suggest that black soot — from coal or wood fires — plays a greater role than previously thought.
Research on the effect of urban heat on global weather systems might fill in another part in that puzzle, but researchers acknowledge that there are more questions to answer.
Several outside scientists said they were surprised by the study results, calling the work "intriguing" and "clever." But they said it would have to be shown in more than one computer model and in repeated experiments before they could accept this theory.
"It's an interesting and rationally carried out study," said David Parker, climate monitoring chief of the United Kingdom meteorology office. "We must be cautious until other models are used to test their hypothesis."
Warming trends aren't uniform around the globe, but instead are more pronounced over high-latitude land areas than elsewhere, said study co-author Ming Cai, a professor with the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science at Florida State University. Until now, scientists struggled to explain that difference, and climate models couldn't account for it, he said.
That extra heat could indicate a flaw in the model, natural temperature variability, or some other factor that forces northern areas to warm up in winter, Cai said. When he and his research partners factored urban heat in the model, the equation added up, with 95 percent confidence.
"By adding that heat into the model, this accounts for a substantial part of the missing warming that the models were unable to account for," Zhang said.
The heat generated in cities doesn't just warm the immediate area, however, the authors said, but instead may supercharge weather systems that move across the globe.
"The heat perturbs the jet stream," Zhang said. "It modifies the air circulation pattern and forces heat northward. Basically it pushes the jet stream further up north."
Urban heat involved represents a tiny fraction of the energy that the sun adds to the climate, Zhang said. So its role is not so much fueling — but rather rearranging — climate patterns. Consequently some parts of the Pacific Northwest and Europe may be a little chillier in winter, he said. And portions of North America and Asia may be cooler in fall.
Global energy use is almost 16 trillion watts, the study stated. Eighty-six cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo and other metropolitan giants, consume about 42 percent of that amount. The study only looked at that subset of cities, and only studied those through 2006, Zhang said, so future studies should include a more comprehensive estimate of energy use.


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Family Fishing Celebration Hits High Gear This Summer
AUSTIN, Texas — Fishing for crappie, bass and whatever else is biting takes center stage at more than 70 Texas state parks this summer, with dozens of Family Fishing Celebration events scheduled throughout the state.
Most events, such as the Kids Fishing Derby, Go Fishing With a Ranger and the Junior Angler Fishing Clinic, are geared toward youngsters who want to learn how to fish or how to fish better. The events also help instill in youngsters the importance of aquatic stewardship and the role they can play in sustaining a healthy fisheries resource.
The Family Fishing Celebration kicked off in 2003 to give families and others one more way to enjoy their Texas state park visits by eliminating the requirement for anglers to have a fishing license and the required stamps while fishing inside state parks.
"We're trying to remove obstacles or excuses not to fish through this program," Ann Miller, TPWD's Aquatic Education coordinator, said. "And, in some cases, we're reintroducing folks to how much fun fishing can be."
The FFC's license-free angling applies only to fishing inside a state park from the bank, a pier or from a boat if done in a body of water totally contained within the boundaries of a state park, such as Copper Breaks State Park's 60-acre lake.
Eight state parks this spring will feature a grant-sponsored coordinator to organize Family Fishing Celebration events. The state parks are: Bastrop/Buescher, Blanco, Bonham, Brazos Bend, Eisenhower, Fairfield Lake, Galveston Island and Inks Lake.
One of the bigger events this year is expected to be at Eisenhower State Park north of Denison on Lake Texoma. Gander Mountain Outdoor Retail Store has joined as a sponsor of the FFC events, including the 3rd annual Eisenhower-Grayson County 4-H Kids Fishing Derby June 3.
Park superintendent Richard Kellogg says the Sherman outdoor sports retailer is helping promote the June 3, June 24 and July 1 events, and by providing bottled water and other giveaways.
"Fishing will be from 8 a.m. to noon with a free hotdog lunch afterwards," Kellogg said. "After that, there'll be some fishing games and prizes given out for first fish ever caught, the biggest fish and the most fish caught that morning."
Last year's event, which was held at the state park marina, drew 150 people. The park has a dozen or so loaner rods and reels, but Kellogg suggests anglers bring their own equipment if possible.
The June 24 event at Eisenhower is a family fly fishing event being taught by Steve Hollensed, a certified fly fishing instructor. Programs, which are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., will showcase fly fishing opportunities at Lake Texoma and the park. This is a rare opportunity to learn fly fishing techniques and fly-tying from certified instructors and coaches. Call (903) 465-1956 for more information.
Bastrop and Buescher state parks east of Austin have already staged one spring FFC event, a Junior Angling Clinic that offered door prizes. Future clinics for youngsters 6 to 13 years of age are scheduled June 3, June 17, July 15 and July 22. Anglers of all ages are invited to attend an Advanced Fishing Clinic on Aug. 5.
"Over Spring Break, 51 kids came out for the first event," said Todd McClanahan, assistant superintendent of Bastrop and Buescher state parks. "Five of them caught their first fish and couldn't have been happier."
For more information, about the Bastrop-Buescher FFC events, call Jamie Hackett at (512) 237-2241.
Lake Livingston and Ray Roberts Lake state parks also will be hosting special FFC events this summer. At Lake Livingston State Park in Polk County, anglers can attend workshops from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on July 22 to learn about freshwater fishing rules, knot-tying, fish identification and casting safety. To reserve your spot, call (936) 365-2201, Ext. 17.
From 9 a.m. to noon on June 3, the Isle du Bois unit of Ray Roberts Lake State Park near Pilot Point will host the 2006 Wal-Mart Kids All-American Fishing Derby at the fishing pier. In addition, there also will be a Junior Angler Education clinic and Family Fishing Celebration on June 17 to educate youngsters and parents alike. Participants will learn about the basics of fishing through hands-on instruction during the morning clinic. To register, call (940) 686-2080.
Even one of Texas' state historic sites, Landmark Inn in Castroville, is taking part in the Family Fishing Celebration festivities. Children 4 to 16 years of age will head to the banks of the Medina River that flows by Landmark Inn to participate in the 4th annual Catfish Kid Fish. All tackle will be provided for the July 22 event, which lasts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call (830) 931-2133.
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PLEASANTON — Veeva Systems, poised for expansion, has struck a deal to buy a big office building in Pleasanton where the software company could add hundreds of jobs, according to a new regulatory filing.
The tech firm has agreed to pay $24.5 million for a 141,000-square-foot office building at 4280 Hacienda Drive near Stoneridge Drive in Hacienda Business Park, the Securities and Exchange Commission documents show.
"The company plans to use the property as its headquarters facility, with occupancy to begin in the spring of 2015," Veeva Systems said in the SEC filing, which occurred this week. Veeva makes cloud-based software for the life sciences industry.
Potentially 700 or more people could work in the building. At present, Veeva has 250 employees who work in 40,000 square feet in Pleasanton.
"Veeva's office expansion is to support its current and future growth," the company said in emailed answers to questions from this newspaper.
Over the 12 months that ended in April, Veeva earned $16.6 million on revenue of $234.1 million.
In October, Veeva launched an initial public offering, raising $217 million in the first-time sale of its stock. The company's shares jumped 86 percent in the first day of trading and on Wednesday were still above the IPO price of $20.
Pleasanton-based Veeva, as part of the purchase agreement, has paid $1 million as a deposit for the transaction. The company expects to pay the remainder of the purchase price once the deal is concluded, which is anticipated to occur in July. The seller is the Duffield Family Foundation, a nonprofit led by David Duffield, co-founder of Pleasanton-based Workday.
Veeva said it has the ability to partition its new headquarters complex should the company elect to use only a portion of the building for its future operations.
"It's wonderful that Veeva found a location that allows them to grow and expand in Pleasanton," said Pamela Ott, the city's economic development director. "We strive for companies to be able to start in Pleasanton when they are small and then to continue to grow and reach their full potential here."
Contact George Avalos at 408-859-5167. Follow him at Twitter.com/georgeavalos.


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I know he is probably just moving into hardball mode, but here we are two days removed from Terre Haute and have zero of this year's picks signed. Polian's comments seemed a bit harsh today. Lets just hope it is all hugs and lollipops a few days from now:
"We haven't made any progress. None," Polian said. "If they come in, they come in. If they don't, they don't.
"We'll play with the guys who are there. If these players don't want to sign because the union thinks our offers are too low or the agents are afraid to sign or whatever other excuses they use, it doesn't matter to me. I could care less."


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GUMSHOE: Night's Black Agents - Tinker Tailor Vampire Die
For those that do not know, Night's Black Agents is Pelgrane Press' newest game, a combination spy thriller, eldritch horror, vampire suspense tale.
I adore this game and would bear it's RP-babies if it would let me. Mechanically, GUMSHOE is pretty clean and easy for new and experienced hands alike to pick up, allowing for the focus to be on the particular story.
For those that do not know me, I'm John. I...do stuff. One of those things is gaming. And this is my game, a slightly hacked version of a Mirror-version of Night's Black Agents called "Tinker Tailor Vampire Die".
Some setup first:
This is a world where organizations like Mission Impossible's IMF also happen to have a need now to do things like "kill cultists, save the world, defeat arcane and terrible horrors that have for years (centuries?) attempted to control/enslave/eliminate mankind". You know, a typical Tuesday at the office.
The characters:
The leader of this team is Mace Hunter, epic superspy extraordinaire, who has climbed the ranks of authority and espionage usually by dumb luck, and he now sits behind a desk and conducts this "symphony of insanity", while still managing to go out and have a date with a beautiful lady/his secretary/the wife of someone important. He misses field work, and wants back in, but the team needs a home base leader now more than ever.
His Point Man is Nick Darter, and he's everything Mace was ten years ago, only more vegan and less casual. Nick specializes in small arms, cold drinks and looking really good in a tuxedo. Everyone assumes Nick will succeed and exceed Mace one of these days.
Anna Latwanna is the British hacker, working for Nick after he promised her he'd find out what happened to her sister Lucy (more on that in a minute). She does two things well, one with clothes on (there's not a system she can't get into) and one without (and she's desperate for Nick to try).
Mike Smith (not his real last name) blows things and people up. He's a trifle deaf now, but this lapsed Catholic priest is second to none with fuses and detonators.
Rossini (also not his real name) is most likely an escaped convict. No one is really sure. He's got no fingerprints, and depending on who you ask he's either a former Secret Service Agent or a birthday clown. He lives to drive and fly. There's a rumor he once turned an ice cream truck into a submersible to pilot the canals of Venice.
Desdemona Briggetti (probably not her real name) has a history. She'll have your history, if you're not careful. Desdemona has been a princess, an oil baroness, several different men and a leper. That was last week. This week she's whoever the job needs her to be.
This adventure has three prequels, explained below.
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The prequels occur anywhere from 1 year to 6 weeks prior to the start of the campaign. While these prequels are happening, the PCs are working at their previous jobs, getting burnt and disavowed and being recruited by Mace to a new team.
Prequel I: There's something about Lucy
Lucy Latwanna was a school teacher, who enjoyed her job, even if it was in the middle of nowhere, teaching kids who would be lucky if they got out with a grade school education. The town lived and died because of the mines and mill, not because some kid knew who Chaucer was.
On the second evening of Parent-Teacher conferences Hector and Evgeny showed up. Now Lucy was not one to quibble over a student having two daddies, she knew it was possible and it didn't bother her the way it bothered some of the other faculty.
Lucy didn't come back to school the next morning. Two days later, her bank accounts were empty, her apartment was cleaned out and all that was left was a note on a thumb drive.
A pair of couriers (two disposable characters I created for the players to learn the rules/mechanics) had to get the thumb drive to Mace, who was doing background checks on recently available agents. He offered the couriers fifty thousand dollars each to get him the drive in three days. All they had to do was drive eighty miles.
It should have been an easy job: go to the house, get the package, drive it, get paid. The couriers though, didn't expect a team of burglars searching the house when they arrived. Or that they'd get shot at.
Side note - couriers are surprisingly well-trained.
After getting the truck shot at, after one of them cracking some ribs from a fall off a fire escape, they got the drive, and did t heir best to put distance between them and the situation.
And all was well, until the situation had grenades. And one of the burglars tried to peel the skin off the second courier in her dreams. By using his teeth and an egg beater.
The truck didn't survive. The couriers did though, along with the drive, and got it to Mace at the airport, two hours before the deadline.
Prequel II: Mace on A Plane
Thumb drive in hand, Mace got on the plane and settled into his first class seat, ready to hear the words of his boss in his ears. "Good evening Mister Hunter, we have some more work to do, if you're interested..." He was used to it. Time for another drink. Time for eight hours of sleep.
Except what he heard was this:
"Good evening, Mister Hunter. We have some more work to do, and the job starts now. There's a problem with your plane, and in all likelihood, should you fail, I'll be sending fishing trawlers to find pieces of you all next month. We have reason to believe that on your flight is an old woman - someone old enough to have seen the first plane, and probably old enough to see the first printing press. Protect the drive and the plane Mace. Do all that's necessary. Nick is on the plane with you, he'll meet you in the lounge."
So Mace and Nick, having heard the same information, had to figure out who the old woman was. Which didn't take too long, since they found her in coach, knitting at Mach 2 with three rows of adoring fans staring at her. There was something about her, she just...got in your head Nick felt and if he didn't stick to the plan, he would have put the plane into the ocean himself.
But with careful use of salt, a bathroom and a drink cart, the old lady wasn't a problem...
(GM Note - I homebrewed an excel chart of vampire-construction, if you're interested let me know)
She was however rather adamant that even if Mace and Nick stopped her, there would be others. And that they knew where Nick's mother lived. And they knew about Mace's summer cottage. And weren't afraid to pay visits. Somehow though, she was gone after Nick locked her in the bathroom.
The plane arrived in Munich, no one much the wiser. Most passengers thought it had something to do with oxygen on the plane or the altitude or the champagne.
Prequel III: The Munich Auditions
Mace and Nick were sent to Munich to assist some rather not-good guys in doing something not-good but for the greater-good. Nick always found himself in that position; Mace only got there after two or three drinks, if you blew in his ear just right.
They were posing as two hitters, button-men-for-hire, a pair of Americans who only trusted each other. It was not a hard role to play. Surrounded by angry German neo-nazi militants, their target was easy - level a building, run up a body count, maybe blow a safe or two inside and walk away.
Except this building was the house where Mace had previously loved Rebecca. Not just 'loved' Rebecca, but LOVED her, a long time ago before the job show its true colors and before he showed his. He left her via a single rose and an empty ring box.
But now she ran a day care. A day care for the children of diplomats and celebrities. And she was married now. With kids of her own.
The job was in two days. That was plenty of time for he and Nick to extract her and the kids, right?
Grudges run deep. Rebecca didn't patch that hole in her heart the way Mace did. She didn't drink for a week and sleep with any woman who smiled at him.
When he broke into her house, and found her at the breakfast table, the first slap hurt. The second and third may as well have been foreplay. She still kissed just like before. He had to get her out.
Nick however, met the leadership of this bomb brigade when they tried to tear his arms off and lick his heart clean. The meeting didn't go well.
So, Mace and Nick, against the nazis, against whatever was leading them, in Munich, armed with whatever they could scrounge up in about a day.
For any lesser man, running would be the only option. For Mace Hunter, running is not an option. Unless it's running headfirst into action.
The bombs went off, the building went down. The kids cheered. The nazis....not so much. Nothing could have survived that explosion, right?
Rebecca was supposed to meet him at the airport. To join him.
All he got was a single rose and an empty box.
They didn't go home for two months. Nick needed a rest. They went to Monaco. Mace introduced himself to several stewardesses and hotel employees. It helped him get over the pain.
The campaign starts about five weeks after that.....
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Tinker Tailor Vampire Die, Campaign part 1
Tinker Tailor Vampire Die (hereafter TTVD) hinges on a few key items. I'll lay them out first.
- Several elements are of my own design: specifically the build-a-vampire chart, the burnbox (supplies available at campaign start), the chart on how they got burnt, and the number of points available for creation.
- I also handle the 'Trust' component differently, and before they created the characters, I sat the players down and had them pick someone at the table who they trusted the most, and who they trusted the least. It's a large group (sometimes up to 7 players), so it worked out that no one got excluded in some capacity. Later, as characters were developing, I asked the players to justify their earlier selections through backstory.
- During prequel gaming, I discovered that I needed to pad the Stability of the players a little, so I threw in a +1 to the pool to keep them from becoming gibbering idiots too quickly.
- I re-instituted my AD&D house rule of "If you can explain it, I'll go with it", to keep the game from stalling into long silent down times.
Campaign Start
Mace has returned from Monaco (see prequels) and has set himself up a headquarters in New York City at "Undisclosed Midtown Office" with a cover ID of being "Special Liaising Assistant to the Assistant Under-Secretary of the National Department of Commerce". From here he can dispatch the team globally while working on his own private mission.
PRIVATELY....Mace has been overhearing chatter about a large and potentially dangerous conspiracy with fingers reaching everywhere there's an authority figure or financial opportunity. Of course, he's been hearing about this by sleeping with people's wives and drinking a little heavier than normal. He's called this conspiracy "The Blue Book", tracking it off-the-record and not even trusting Nick with the details. Yet.
So the campaign is built with two different, occasionally overlapping adventures, hooks and arcs. There are the missions that Mace gets from "The Man" and there are the missions that Mace and team discover/fall into trying to discover for Blue Book.
Here's what Mace, to date, knows about "The Man" (so you at home can play along):
- He's a high-ranking government official
- He is NOT the President or Vice President of the United States
- He is NOT the head of the CIA or FBI
- He is not a ranked military officer, but he does have military experience
- He is older than Mace (Mace figures he's at least 50)
- He is or has been married to someone named "Julia"
- He smokes foreign-brand (often Turkish) cigarettes
- He drinks, preferring hard liquors and wines to beer
- He does not own an iPhone.
- He owns a home in New York, one in LA, one in Rome, one in New Zealand...all were bought in cash from a different realtor each time.
- He prefers to communicate through buffers: often leaving voice mails, mp3s, or multimedia messages for Mace.
- He has been inside Mace's home, when Mace may or may not have been awake.
- He has killed before, and has no hesitation about doing it again.
- He speaks at least 5 languages (Spanish, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and German).
- He was educated overseas, likely Oxford
- He has a soft spot for children, and will often make saving or protecting children a priority in missions
- He does not use CIA or NSA chartered flights to ferry himself around the globe, but it is unlikely he flies commercially.
Here's what "The Man" knows about Mace Hunter:
- Every damn thing.
- Every affair, every disciplinary hearing, every part-time job Mace had since being in high school
- He knows 10 of Mace's Cover IDs intimately, including the falsified credit histories and cover stories.
Mace is currently trying ascertain whether "The Man" knows about Rebecca's current location, Mace's hidden safehouses or Mace's slush funds (GM Note: He doesn't. Nor, to date, is he looking.)
Up Next: "The Asia Gambit" where the agents learn elevators are not their friends.
Friday, 10th February, 2012, 07:55 PM #4
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Loving this. I will probably move it over to the Story Hour forum, since it's more about plot and less about mechanics. Wishing I was in this game.
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Move it wherever you think it best belongs, of course.
If you'd prefer I speak more crunchy, I'm happy to do so.
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The Asia Gambit
Mace assembled the team at a Starbucks down by Wall Street, by telling each of them the meeting location via homeless people paid to hold certain signs. (Rather elaborate, but worth it...you'll see why shortly)
Once gathered, Mace paid the staff to use their back room (free lattes!) and briefed the party.
A jewel thief is out of retirement, having been blackmailed to break into the Swedish embassy, needs to escape, and is willing to give up the names of former employers to get out.
Here's the wrinkle - he's not sure where he is. He was kidnapped, blindfolded, beaten and drugged. And he knows he was brought somewhere, a hotel suite across the street from the embassy, but in the middle of the night, something came in the room and...took care of his captors.
He was left alone though. That was 41 hours ago. He's since gotten free, and has some what free reign over the suite, but he's 60 stories up, he's not sure what is waiting for him in the hallway and he was only able to get access to the phone for 90 seconds to call the American Embassy and declare himself a "hostage of an unknown power".
Mace got called at 4 this morning, and told to get the information the thief has. Optionally, save the man. But the data is the priority.
So when Nick's original plan was to pose as Hotel Staff was going to take too long, Mace turned to Rossini, who had a brilliant plan.
Helicopter to the tall building NEXT to the hotel, break in and exfiltrate.
Yes, it was so crazy it had to work. Right?
Getting the helicopter was no trouble (once I explained that you can make a Contact DO something rather than only HAVE something), and getting there was great. Even the landing was okay.
Just that they never asked how far apart the buildings were. And didn't have a plan for how to cross them.
And they had no idea what to do about the Guatemalan Death squad on the hotel roof.
The firefight was long, and slow (not mechanically, but tactically), since the Death Squad couldn't hit the broad side of the barn and the players were conserving ammo not bothering to shoot at the riflemen.
Anna found the way across. Grapnel guns homebrewed from helicopter parts. (She's resourceful and prepared). This also was good, since the helicopter was eating bullets left and right.
Guns built, the team rappelled/tightrope walked across the street. Eventually. In between firefight volleys. Once on the roof, the fight got personal and Mike introduced them to gravity.
They didn't know what hit them after that. The party I mean. Some THING came up the rooftop access stairs and nearly knocked Desdemona off the edge (where she was hanging to gauge the distance to the possible open window). It was big. It had teeth. It smelled like old baby diapers.
Nick's shotgun just annoyed it. Mike's grenade slowed it. The tear gas though, that helped. It was huge, and filthy and mean and oh man did it beat the snot out of the team. Eventually, they lured it to the edge and shoved it off, because even dogs of the devil can't fly. But they limped into the hotel, and found an empty suite. And bled everywhere.
It was then they remembered the clock was ticking and the old jewel thief had info. Recuperating was no longer the priority and after trashing the bathroom (shower curtain bandages and bath mat sling), the party tried to track down the thief. Via the webtv in the room.
After a horrific mistake where everyone on the third floor got free adult movies for 12 hours, the thief was located. To the elevator! declared Rossini
When the elevator came, there was one man in the car. One man with a lot of guns. The players, rather craftily, crammed into the elevator and shot out the light.
Close quarters combat in the dark, in an elevator. Eventually they reached the floor, and wedged the elevator open with the guy's corpse.
The hallway was clear. Bone chillingly cold. Cold enough to see breath. But clear. The door though, when they got it, was torn off its hinges.
The old thief was inside, safe, rested even showered and shaved. But he wouldn't talk. He just wanted to leave. So into the elevator they led him, and Nick just turned his eyes away for a second....
when he was pulled up through the elevator access panel, screaming and babbling as something large and spider climbed up the elevator shaft WITHOUT using the ladder.
The team gave chase via the ladder. Rossini though realized the elevator worked so he rode up. And he was fine until the cable was snapped and he plummeted down. He didn't die, but only just.
Back on the roof, the spidery thing spoke sweet words. And the old thief cried before the thing tore him to pieces. One word. "Grolliniere" And then his head left his neck and his spine left his back.
The fight lasted maybe five minutes. They practically leveled the whole helipad to stop that thing. Nick almost lost an eye. Mike broke his leg, discovering he could still pray.
But they could go home...successful?
"Grolliniere" he said. The name of a French banker who only works with drug cartels and arms dealers.
The team was going to Paris....as soon as they healed.
Next time.....Mace Hunter meets Devico.
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Just a note to say this looks great, and that Night's Black Agents looks great too. I don't have my bloody hands on it yet, but that game has every appearance yet of being the best design yet from one of the 21st Century's best game designers.
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GM Note - One of the things I like to do with the characters of any campaign I'm involved in is to show them doing more than just the particular plot. Yes, it's all nice and well and good that the paladin is up early praying for guidance, but it's also good to see the paladin relaxing at the tavern cheering on the bard or seeing the spymaster doing normal-person tasks, giving them a chance to be a real character in a three-dimensional world.
Mace Hunter, the spy who can do any/everything (allegedly) had to go grocery shopping last night. Living alone at headquarters is pretty easy when you've had some supplies shipped to the door, but eventually you need milk and bread and coffee. So to the store he went.
While standing in the dairy aisle, and thanks to an inadvertent slip of the tongue ("I'm ready for anything, anytime."), who should he run into but Devico, who also had to go to the store.
Devico is a bad man. He's bad because to him, it's still the 1960s and he's the baddest cat in Harlem. Except it's not the 1960s, and he's a white guy from Kansas. Devico is an information broker, able to connect people for a fee and not above blackmailing them when they don't stay connected. He calls himself, "Like AT&T, but with more gunplay."
Devico knows a thing or two about Grolliniere and he may know something about The Man (no, he's not The Man, the players worked that out in about ten seconds). And while waiting at the checkout line, he made Mace a deal.
"I know this store is about to be robbed in a minute. If, during the robbery, you can get your team together and send them to an address I give you, without calling the cops here, I'll tell you what I know about Grolliniere."
Mace never send out text messages faster.
Thankfully the team wasn't too far away and were able to hack into the grocery store security feeds to keep an eye on the robbery in progress. Through a series of blinks, Morse code taps on a stapler, and a clever use of brand names in a sales flyer, Mace sent the team to Devico's requested address.
Naturally it was an abandoned house on a block of slowly withering trees in a run-down poor suburb in residential New Jersey. And naturally, the place was beyond decrepit.
At least on the outside.
Swift work with prybars got them entry into a house that had its own power supply, phone system and military grade air system. Basically this house was a bunker.
Or, as Nick believed, there was a bunker and someone put a ghetto on top of it.
The house was deserted, dark and the lack of bulbs in the fixtures frequently gave pause and had the team tying rope to one another and sticking close to the walls. Which was great, until the landmines.
No, not a mine field, just a pair of landmines rigged to pressure plates in the wall, so that when the players leaned against the wall to get around the puddle of possible goo/acid/really-just-diluted-pudding-with-glitter-in-it) they went BOOM.
Anna didn't know what hit her. She did however, find both pressure plates, after caroming off one onto the other. So I guess you could say the walls and ceiling hit her. Repeatedly. She survived, but mainly because Mike dragged her into the car and left her in the backseat.
The rest of the team went through the bunker, and found a rather disturbingly sterile, recently used medical room, and they toyed with bringing Anna in there, until something came off the ceiling and tried to turn their brains into milkshakes and pulp.
Little known fact - If you put enough bullets into a thing before it can put its claws through your face, you win.
The party also noted two things:
1. They tend to get beat up A LOT, and should probably consider finding a medic for a team position.
2. Going to a strange address given by a man in a grocery store is not exactly part of the job description.
But onward they ventured, and down into the bunker they went. Past rows and rows of empty rooms: barracks, cubicles, bathrooms and storage closets. Past old computers and reel-to-reel machines thick with dust. Past a kitchen with thirty years of canned food.
They reached what they believed was the lowest floor (it isn't, but they've not found the passage yet) and ran into a very fat creature, like a shaved chimpanzee with gout, who was busy sucking the marrow out of a skeleton. A skeleton that had a briefcase handcuffed to its wrist. A badly dented metal briefcase. With a USSR flag stenciled on it.
Did I mention that the party also learned the value of casual ammunition and supply checks? Defeating this...thing took duct tape, three road flares, an office chair, some canned peaches and half a bottle of floor wax.
GM Note - I may have to ratchet up the intensity on creatures now.
But they got the case (after using it to bludgeon the creature's head into applesauce) and got it open.
Grollineire's real name is Markov. Piotr Markov. And he's got some Swiss bank accounts the team is now very interested in. Especially because that particular Swiss Bank is only accessible in person, with three forms of ID verification.
Escaping the house/bunker was easy, almost fun. Not as much fun as calling the police that some terrorists had invaded a supermarket and had a chemical weapon hidden in the bread aisle, creating enough of a media frenzy for Mace (and his groceries) to make it back to headquarters, but pretty damn fun.
The team heads to Switzerland later this week.
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Upcoming TTVD post(s):
2 items of note here:
1. Expect something posted likely Thursday morning before I head to Dreamation. It will have the party in Switzerland.
2. There will also be a post-Dreamation report of the one-shot adventure...which I need to be writing now, actually.
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I'm watching this with interest. I've run four sessions so far, and they've just met a proper vamp.
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This week's program "Approaching Prayer" is on my list of SOF classics. It's a busy program: three interviews, readings and poetry, chants and music, biblical stories and Rilke quotes.
I love Anoushka Shankar's description of Hinduism's connection to nature and how prayer is about sound as much as words. I appreciate Stephen Mitchell's story of how encountering the Book of Job was a "spiritual riddle" for him — a form of prayer. And I'm drawn to Roberta Bondi's generous philosophy of prayer: "However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family."
This program always makes me reflect on what I consider prayer to be in my life. I'm reminded this time of the pocket prayers I keep in my wallet — the Irish Blessing (my heritage) and the Serenity Prayer (authored by Niebuhr, popularized in addiction recovery programs, cherished by me for its simple, versatile message to consider what is and isn't in my control on a daily basis):
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text: Dave Sim's Archives File Drawer #1 (1972-1979) provides the raw material for Cerebus Archive, the new light-hearted bi-monthly series from Cerebus creator Dave Sim, covering his career from 1972 to the present! It's a mortified (but tongue-in-cheek) look back by Dave Sim at the first prototype drawings of his earliest cartoon creations, The Beavers, along with his first professionally published comic-book story "Cry of the White Wolf" (art by Stan Connerty), complete in this issue! In addition to Sim's commentary, you'll also find letters from Gene Day the year before he was accepted at Marvel Comics, a rejection letter from Gray Morrow, and a 1975 reproduction from the only comic book to feature - in one issue - the work of John Byrne, Gene Day, Frank Cirocco and Dave Sim. With six issues "in the can" - and the creation of Cerebus as a cartoon mascot for a sword-and-sorcery/fantasy fanzine still a year away... Cerebus Archive might turn out to be Dave Sim's next 300-issue limited series!


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Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scanning Before Surgery in Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Breast Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, or Head and Neck Cancer
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RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanning before surgery, may help measure the extent of disease.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying PET/CT scanning before surgery in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, or head and neck cancer.
|Breast Cancer Colorectal Cancer Esophageal Cancer Head and Neck Cancer Lung Cancer
|Other: 18F-fluoromisonidazole Other: fluorescence angiography Other: laboratory biomarker analysis Procedure: infrared thermography Procedure: magnetic resonance imaging Procedure: therapeutic conventional surgery Radiation: [18F]-ML-10 Radiation: fludeoxyglucose F 18 Radiation: rubidium Rb-82
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|Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Tumor Angiogenesis in Non-Small Cell Lung (NSCLC), Colorectal, Breast, Esophageal, Head and Neck Cancer: Radiology-Pathology and Prognostic Correlation
- Clinical, radiological, and pathological correlation
- Prognosis (6-month, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year mortality including local/distance recurrence rates)
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|November 2006
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|August 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
- To determine the ability of preoperative fludeoxyglucose F 18 positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanning in assessing tumor angiogenesis in patients with potentially operable non-small cell lung cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, or head and neck cancer.
- To determine the ability of preoperative fludeoxyglucose F 18 PET/CT scanning in assessing prognosis by means of measuring angiogenesis in these patients.
OUTLINE: All patients undergo fludeoxyglucose F 18 positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanning for staging, tumor perfusion measurement/angiogenesis, and glucose metabolism. If staging confirms operable disease, then the patient proceeds to surgery as planned. Resected tumor tissue samples are examined for tumor angiogenesis in the various cancer types.
Some patients undergo a half-dose of rubidium Rb-82 or 18F-fluoromisonidazole or [18F]-ML-10 PET scan or fluorescence angiography. Patients with colorectal cancer undergo a CT scan for perfusion of the tumor after the staging PET/CT. Patients with breast cancer undergo infrared thermometry as well as a MRI scan for staging and to predict angiogenesis.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up at 1 month and then every 6 months for 5 years.
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|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, or head and neck cancer
- Potentially operable disease
- Hormone receptor status not specified
- Not specified
- Menopausal status not specified
- Not specified
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01254591
|United Kingdom
|University College Hospital
|London, England, United Kingdom, NW1 2BU
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|Peter Ell, MD
|University College London Hospitals
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|NCT01254591 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 3, 2010
|Last Updated:
|August 23, 2013
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
stage IA non-small cell lung cancer
stage IB non-small cell lung cancer
stage IIA non-small cell lung cancer
stage IIB non-small cell lung cancer
stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer
stage I colon cancer
stage IIA colon cancer
stage IIB colon cancer
stage IIC colon cancer
stage IIIA colon cancer
stage I rectal cancer
stage IIA rectal cancer
stage IIB rectal cancer
stage IIC rectal cancer
stage IIIA rectal cancer
stage IA breast cancer
stage IB breast cancer
stage II breast cancer
stage IIIA breast cancer
stage IIIB breast cancer
stage I esophageal cancer
stage II esophageal cancer
stage III esophageal cancer
stage I hypopharyngeal cancer
stage II hypopharyngeal cancer
stage III hypopharyngeal cancer
stage I laryngeal cancer
stage II laryngeal cancer
stage III laryngeal cancer
stage I lip and oral cavity cancer
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Breast Neoplasms
Lung Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Colorectal Neoplasms
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Esophageal Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
Bronchial Neoplasms
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Rectal Diseases
Esophageal Diseases
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
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A MOTHER has said she was 'devastated' when she saw the council had not cut swathes of long grass around her daughter's grave in Pleasington cemetery.
Kaley Wilkinson's three-month-old was daughter, Jade, died suddenly 13-years-ago and since then, Kaley has endeavored to visit Jade's burial site at least once a week.
The mother-of-two said: "I have never seen it like this in thirteen years. I was just devastated when I saw it.
"It's not a pleasant experience coming up to the cemetery as it is and all you want is for it to be looked after."
Kaley and her sister, Samantha visited Jade's grave together two weeks ago and noticing that the grass was overgrown, drove around to find someone to tell.
Finding no-one, Samantha consoled her sister and contacted both the council and the cemetery.
Samantha said: "I couldn't get through to anyone at the cemetery and the council said that it wasn't there responsibilty to cut the grass.
"It was horrible seeing my sister so upset and we just didn't know what to do. I told Kayley not to worry and that they would probably get round to it in the next few days."
Kayley returned on Thursday and said that the grass had grown so long that she could 'hardly make out the graves'.
She added: "I don't want to blame anyone, I just want it to be right.
"They're only babies there, just babies and people will be so upset to see it like this.
"I cut the grass around with some scissors as best I could but there wasn't much I could do."
The Lancashire Telegraph contacted the council about the matter on Friday morning and by Friday afternoon, they had been out to cut the grass.
Councillor Jim Smith, executive member for environment, said: "At present, we cut the grass in Pleasington Cemetery about six times a year and the grass in this section was cut on Friday, June 13.
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Wildlife, Landscape Recovering Year After Big Fire
AUSTIN, Texas — It's been about a year since the biggest wildfire in Texas Panhandle history roared across the prairie. According to the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho, wildfires east of Amarillo burned 907,245 acres in late March 2006.
Now, as ranchers, wildlife biologists and university researchers look out on a changed landscape, most experts agree that in the long run, the fires will be good for wildlife and the land, although they were tragic for many people.
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"We were sitting there looking at the sky, and the western horizon just got orange like we were looking at the sunset, and that's when the firefighters said 'Here it comes.'"
Rancher LH Webb has by now told the story of March 12, 2006 many times, the tale of how he tried to save his cattle and nearly lost his life.
That Sunday morning, as the Webb family returned from church to their Seven Cross Ranch, the wind was gusting close to 50 miles per hour, the sky gone gray-brown with airborne prairie topsoil. The Seven Cross comprises about 10,000 acres in Gray County. That day, they had 780 cattle, foraging as best they could in the dry pastures. Months of punishing drought had left the country ripe for wildfire.
At 3 p.m., neighbors called. The fire was coming.
"My wife and I decided we'd load some things we didn't want destroyed—the family Bible, the computer, photos," Webb said. "I told my two little girls to get whatever was special to them, their favorite stuffed animals."
Webb sent his wife and girls to a safer place up the road. He and his son stayed "to see what we could do to save the place. I got the bright idea to go a mile south down a pasture road to open a couple of gates, try to let the cattle escape."
"When we got to the gates, the fire was there, a wall of flame," Webb said. "It was either take the offense and go through it or wait to let it come toward us. I told my son to hold on and pray and we just drove through it. It was zero visibility, the cab filled with smoke. My diesel pickup stalled out three times and finally I phoned a friend, who came to get us. By that time, the fire had blown through and it was just blowing dust and smoke."
Lightning apparently does strike twice in some places. About a year later, a second natural disaster struck the Webb family. On March 28, a powerful tornado tore the roof off both ranch houses, which had survived the fire.
"We made it to the basement," Webb recounts. "Our ears popped, and dirt was coming down through the trap door, the house was shaking. But we were all safe, and we were able to stay in the house that night, with buckets catching the rain."
Nonetheless, Webb says he still loves his way of life and the big sky prairie country, and he sees reason to hope for a better future.
"It's going to take a while for this land to recover, but there have been fires here for centuries before any human beings were on this land, and it's always come back. All these native plants and wildlife, they evolved with fire. It's man—we haven't evolved with fire, we've kept it in check. When it comes, it can be devastating to us in terms of our operations, and psychologically. When I see smoke on the horizon, I pray it's a controlled burn. I've seen how it can wipe out 170 head of cattle and 30 miles of fence in the blink of an eye."
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"The fire was a very bad thing for ranching operations, fences, structures, people and livestock," said Jeff Bonner, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wildlife biologist in Pampa. "But for wildlife and habitat, it will be good in the long run."
Bonner says fire has a way of rejuvenating almost every plant on the prairie. It increases plant diversity, with a corresponding response from wildlife in terms of abundance and diversity. He cautions this is all rainfall-dependent. The big fires were followed by months of continuing drought before good rains began to fall last autumn.
"But with the moisture we've had in most of the area this past fall through the spring—we've have five inches just in March—this country's really loaded and in the chute to jump out this year," Bonner says.
This spring, rolling prairie hills that looked like the Sahara Desert last March right after the fire show lush green again. The grasses are coming back, and the yucca, and woody plants like wild plum.
The hurt that may take longest to heal is the larger trees, especially big cottonwoods along creeks and rivers that provide important roosting habitat for turkeys.
"The big cottonwood trees were probably the biggest loss," Bonner said. "It's hard to replace a 100 year old cottonwood, not just in terms of wildlife habitat, but in terms of beauty and aesthetics."
Ground-nesting birds like quail and lesser prairie chickens also took a hit.
"The sheer scale and size of the fire and having a hard time finding a place to build a nest afterward hurt lesser prairie chickens," Bonner said. "This wasn't a patchy fire that burned some places and skipped others—birds would have to fly miles outside the burn area to find anywhere to nest. Follow that up with a drought, and you have little or no insects for them to eat."
"The flip side of all that is quail and prairie chickens have survived wildfires before, and they are still there. And now with improved conditions, increased weed production, as well as deferred grazing for ranchers under the Natural Resource Conservation Service, that will do a lot to provide nesting cover in years to come."
Bonner says 62 percent of ranchers in the burn area (including Webb) signed up for two year livestock grazing deferment offered by the NRCS. This will let the land rest and allow grasses to recover. Under the NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program, one of several federal farm bill programs for wildlife conservation and environmental protection, ranchers are being paid $5 per acre to rest their pastures.
Larger, more mobile animals like white-tailed deer and pronghorn antelope appeared to have fared better.
"We run a 15 mile Gray County spotlight route where we census deer every year, and the entire area had burned along that route," Bonner said. "One year after the fire, we saw about the same number of deer."
"Pronghorn are real mobile, they have huge home ranges, and are notorious for moving where the groceries are. The best place to find green is in the burn area a year later. All you're seeing there is they moved where the food sources are."
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A team of Texas Tech University scientists has launched a three-year study of how plants and birds are recovering in the burn area. The work is funded in part with a $45,000 TPWD grant, using hunter dollars from upland game bird stamp sales. Researchers include professors in fire, plant and avian ecology.
The team has set up three types of study plots: burn area plots where exclosure fencing keeps grazing livestock out, burn area plots where grazing is allowed, and plots just outside the burn area. In these areas, they are observing and analyzing changes in the soil, plants, and birds.
It's too early to draw definitive conclusions, but already in the first year some trends are emerging.
"What we've seen so far is an increase in grass mortality," said Sandra Rideout-Hanzak, PhD, a university assistant professor of wildland fire science. "And this is sort of surprising because the grasslands adapted to having their tops removed, whether by bison or cattle or fire, and they usually come back again. What we think happened is the combination of extreme fire conditions, followed by no rain for months and by wind blowing away topsoil caused about twice as much mortality in the burned area as in the unburned sections, much more than we expected to see."
Nonetheless, Rideout-Hanzak echoes Webb and Bonner on the long view.
"Long term it probably will be good," she said. "In a few years, when those dead cottonwood trees start to fall, the turkey population will probably decrease. But over 50-to-100 years, that's probably part of normal wildlife fluctuations. With good rainfall, the grasses have the potential for greater yield long-term than they did before the fire. It's a temporary thing the ranchers are dealing with where their grass yields have been reduced, but eventually it'll be back just as good or better as it was before the fire."
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As chance would have it, a coalition of ranchers had just begun to get things rolling with the Texas Panhandle Prescribed Burn Association last spring, when the big fires hit.
"We'd been getting together equipment and grant money for the burn association, and then the wildfire kind of changed all that," said Webb, who still believes strongly in the use of prescribed fire as a land management tool.
"It's still going to go," he said of the burn association, but notes that "the work's kind of been done for this decade, and then some. The wildfire pretty well cleaned house."
Webb emphasized the differences between prescribed burns and uncontrolled wildfire.
"You need fuel for a controlled burn, and you want higher soil moisture so things will stay controlled. This was too wide spread, nearly a million acres. If you can just burn a section, the wildlife can spread out elsewhere. And even a controlled burn's not good if you don't get rainfall soon after. But prescribed fire's a good thing, and I'm still an advocate of it; it's a great tool."
About fires, tornadoes and most other things, in spite of the adversity nature seems to want to throw at him, Webb remains upbeat and positive.
"You've got to count your blessings," he said. "I think I'm really lucky. I walked away from the largest fire in Panhandle history and an EF3 tornado. It's all in God's hands, anyway."
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SOME 80 classic and sports cars headed for the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey to take part in the Winchester MG Owners Club annual Cobweb Spin on Sunday (Mar2).
An open invitation to all marques resulted in a mix that included Daimler, Austin-Healey, Porsche, Bentley and Austin cars.
MG were very much in evidence of course and, despite the gloomy weather, other MG clubs from the region arrived in convoys from Basingstoke, Bournemouth, Solent, Chichester and Blackmore Vale in Dorset.
The Mayor and Mayoress of Winchester Ernie and Barbara Jeffs visited the event, meeting club members and taking a keen interest in the cars on display.
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Based on the Hasbro toy line that initially captivated kids in the 1980s, director Michael Bay's Transformers finds two warring bands of shape-shifting alien robots renewing their intergalactic conflict on Earth. While the Decepticons, followers of the malevolent Megatron (voiced by Hugo Weaving), strive to take over the planet, the Autobots, led by the valiant Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen), are intent on protecting humanity. When young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) discovers that his new car is really the Autobot Bumblebee (voiced by Mark Ryan), it sets the stage for a massive giant-robot showdown. A shining example of the Hollywood summer blockbuster at its best, Transformers combines stunning CGI effects and thrilling action sequences with drama, humour, and a touch of romance. Featuring a large cast that includes Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Voight, John Turturro, Anthony Anderson, and Rachael Taylor, the film is anchored by LaBeouf, who always displays an engaging Everyman charm, whether he's running from colossal robots, interacting with his well-meaning parents (hilariously played by Kevin Dunn and Julie White), or pining for his gorgeous classmate (Megan Fox). While some Transformers purists may be dismayed by certain aspects of this bold big-screen adaptation (Bumblebee is a Camaro instead of a Volkswagen), the movie balances its spectacle with an admirable amount of substance, giving it an appeal far beyond pre-teen boys and their nostalgic Autobot-loving elders.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
With the success of the live-action film Transformers, the robots in disguise proved that there was too much action for just one film. Bombastic action filmmaker Michael Bay reunites with original cast member Shia La Beouf and Megan Fox for this action-packed sequel. A dastardly new adversary in the shape of The Fallen steps in to avenge the destruction of Megatron and lead the evil Decepticons into battle against the heroic Autobots once more.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
A mysterious event from Earth's past threatens to ignite a war so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save the planet. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots™ must fight against the darkness to defend our world from the Decepticons'™ all-consuming evil in the smash hit from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg.
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