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Heart breaking sadness, and panic-induced blankness
Published by Marranda in the blog Marranda's blog. Views: 130
I admit I've been guilty of silently snickering at those who woe about losing their files, or those who have said "I can't believe I didn't back those files up!" to which I would think to myself "Pfft. Everyone knows you back-up your writing. Duh."
Well, it's my turn to stare blankly, heart thumping painfully with the knowledge that now the shoe is on the other foot... or is it 'insert foot in mouth'?
Every single scrap of writing I've done, all of my rants, my character obsessions, and original drafts, every revision I've ever done- gone. Of course I have my blog, and my home computer with other variations of the stuff, but the Original-originals were here, on my work computer. And now they aren't.
Thursday I had not come to work as I was in class all day. So it was left up to my trainee to turn in our weekly updates to our civilian boss, Joe. I get in to work this morning and Joe instantly climbs on my back about the update not being sent and "you know how important that update is, Marranda, I can't believe it wasn't done yesterday." he says. Well, funny, because I wasn't here yesterday, and how would I know it wouldn't get done? Where was my trainee? Where was my supervisor, who also knows how to create the update? Why am I being blamed for this? So I log onto a different computer than I normally use (my regular computer was occupied at the time), and began generating the updates for Joe. Half-way through the updating, my regular computer becomes available, so I log-off and go to my desk and try logging onto my regular computer. No joy. I get a prompt telling me my login profile cannot be located and a temporary profile will be loaded in its place. Whhhaaaat???
I call the service help desk, trying to keep my panic down. Not only am I worried about my file with all my story stuff in it, I'm worried about all my work, everything I use on a regular basis to help those in need of submitting a trouble call, everything that allows me to give immediate and correct information. I'm thinking I'm royally screwed.
Well, my login profile is found corrupt, and the technician on the phone manages to re-load it, but without my excel or word files. "Sorry ma'am, they just aren't retrieveable." Again; Whhhhaaaaat????? And then the panic sets in. I thank the sky I had the forethought to email myself my own 'final' drafts I completed on Tuesday. But what about all my other documents containing everything I've written from day one? Sure I have my character notebooks, where most of them have the first 400-500 words hand written, but all the progress documents? Half of them are gone.
So no, not all my work has been erased, and I find myself very lucky for that. But it was a large hunk of my work that has gone MIA, and I'm so upset about it. Why, oh WHY didn't I use that jump drive??
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Double Alaska Trailer (2014)
17 March 2014 61 mins
In the summer of 2013, I spent two months living in Southeast Alaska, living on a former college campus and playing guitar in their old steam power plant building, often during long, lazy sunrises. I rehearsed a certain amount of continuous time each day, logging almost 70 hours of uninterrupted improvisation. I recorded a number of these sessions, and layered them into two tracks. In addition to playing guitar, I also hiked into waterfalls, went swimming all the time, watched sunsets from the tops of mountains, helped process thousands of spawning salmon, etc. I took my camcorder with me most of those places. I've compiled some of the things my camcorder saw into this video, a format I'm tentatively calling a collaged home movie. It's in two parts - Side A, and Side B. Each is about a half an hour long.
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2011 Cadillac STS V6 Luxury PKG, Navigation, Moon Roof, Must See! for sale in Sacramento CA
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text: Hello ladies and gents. Well, my son has a DS Phat (which the touchscreen isn't what it used to be) that he's had for quite some time and has an M3 Simply (running YSMenu) and Supercard SD. Last Christmas I bought him a used Limited Edition Zelda DS Lite which his mom pawned. Thanks mom! But anyway, my girlfriend went to Gamestop at 6am on black friday and got a white DS Lite for my daughter and a black DS Lite for my son for $59.99 each (used of course). We were looking into buying 4 or 5 flash carts (one for my son, daughter, my sister, and my girlfriend's 2 little cousins. I'm looking for a card which supports Wii connectivity. I don't want to spend almost $50 for a Cyclo card. I was leaning toward the EDGE, but I was also looking at the DSTT and AceKard. I haven't been looking at flash carts since the M3 Simply so I'm kind of lost. I did look through Urza's(?) reviews and I'm kind of confused. I just want them to be easy to use for my son who is 9, daughter who is 4 and the two cousins who are 8 and 10. Thank you for any suggestions.


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Well, here it is! A sneak preview of "Sew Busy Bears". It features two things I love - teddy bears and sewing! I have not finished it yet, but it will be available as a pattern sometime in June.
I had an interesting day yesterday - an appointment with my audiologist. I wear a hearing aid and also suffer from tinnitus. She told me that there were reports (not proven) that red wine can aggravate tinnitus, as does chocolate (also not proven)! She's talking to deaf ears (hmmmm......!). Later I watched the Pilot Guides episode about Britain (We have a love affair with the British Isles) whilst enjoying a glass of red, then a taped episode of Time Team whilst sipping a hot chocolate!!!!!
Give up wine and chocolate? I don't think so! Is there any hope for me?
Back to the sewing machine!
P.S. Did you know that there is a new Cadbury chocolate - Tiramisu. My chocoholic friend, Sue, put me on to it. She has such good taste!!!!! (Or is that TiramiSue?!!)
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Ricochet Trailer (1991)
"He's a cop accused of murder. And the only man who knows he's innocent is the killer who framed him." 04 October 1991 Action, Thriller, Crime 109 mins
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
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Larkin Bill To Give Farmers Tax Deadline Extension Becomes Law
This week, Senator Bill Larkin reports to residents that a bill he sponsored in the State Senate (S.7224-A) to give farmers more time to apply for an agricultural real property tax exemption has been signed into law by Governor Pataki.
Chapter 689 of the Laws of 2006 recognizes that critical life circumstances such as the death of a spouse or close family member, or a serious illness may prevent those in the farming industry from filing an agricultural tax exemption application on time.
Similar provisions have been granted to older residents who miss the senior citizen real property tax exemption deadline for the same reasons.
"Until now, the Agriculture and Markets Law didn't allow for the filing of a late application by farmers for these reasons," said Senator Larkin. "Over the past 30 years, the average age of the state's farmers has risen to 54.1 years old. In many instances, our state's farmers are also our state's senior citizens. This new law will help our local farmers keep their tax breaks just as we are doing for our seniors."
The new law has no statewide or local fiscal implications since it grants a waiver to individuals who have already been receiving an agricultural exemption. Therefore, no municipalities will lose any revenue.


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Daniel Kidane
"To Daniel Kidane's quietly impressive new Metamorphosis he brought stature, concentration and a beguiling range of sonorities."
Andrew Clark, Financial Times
Daniel Kidane's music has been performed extensively across the UK and abroad as well as being broadcast on BBC Radio 3, described by the Financial Times as 'quietly impressive' and by The Times as 'tautly constructed' and 'vibrantly imagined'.
Daniel began his musical education at the age of eight when he started playing the violin. He first received composition lessons at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and then went on to study privately in St Petersburg, receiving lessons in composition from Sergey Slonimsky. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the RNCM under the tutelage of Gary Carpenter and David Horne. Currently, he is undertaking a doctoral degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, supervised by Julian Anderson.
Current projects include orchestral pieces for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and CBSO Youth Orchestra, the latter of which is inspired by Grime music. A new chamber work for Cheltenham Festival draws inspiration from Jungle music and a new type of vernacular. Recent commissions for Michala Petri (recorder) and Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) were released on CD and premiered in the UK at Wigmore Hall. Works for members of the London Symphony Orchestra, which have focused on multiculturalism, and an orchestral work for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, motivated by the eclectic musical nightlife in Manchester, have received recent critical acclaim.
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Six Etudes
Mahan Esfahani, Recital, Wigmore Hall, London (July 2016)
The Six Etudes of 30-year-old Daniel Kidane brought us right up to the present, offering textures of great finesse and shards of Ligetian playfulness (even adding an intentionally jarring hotel reception bell to the sixth).
Harriet Smith, Financial Times
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra , Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (April 2016)
Daniel Kidane's Sirens plunged from sonnets 153 to 154 to a pulsating, foot-tapping Mancunian nocturne, topped off with a quesy morning-after.
Geoff Brown, The Times
…well-attuned to the homoeroticism of Shakespeare's poems; creating a febrile sense of a heady cruise through Manchester's gay village. Daniel Kidane's propulsive, eclectic piece, Sirens, soaked up influences of jungle, dubstep and R&B sampled from a trawl through the city after dark.
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
Grit, certainly, in a score infused with animal energy and visceral drive, but despite the frenetic ride through that myriad landscape of club scene hommages, it was mapped and navigated with meticulous control; the orchestration, characterised by a transparency of instrumental texture, was handled not just with rhythmic wit but also a searing clarity of purpose.
Pamela Nash, bachtrack.com
Tourbillon, UK-DK, Michala Petri and Mahan Esfahani
OUR 6.220611 (SACD: 66:27) (February 2015)
Kidane, who was born in 1986, has composed an interesting work not based on a whirlwind, as the title might suggest, but on a watch mechanism that bears that same name. In horology, a tourbillon counteracts the effects of gravity on a watch's escapement. Kidane writes, "Both instruments take on the idea of breaking away from gravity but at the same time are restrained by moments of tranquility." The recorder and the harpsichord are equals in this work, which, while lacking the rhythms of jazz, has something of modern jazz's spontaneity and jaggedness. I'm glad that it was included on this disc because, among all the sweets, it gives listeners something meaty on which to chew.
Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare
Tourbillon, the contribution of the youngest composer on the disc, British shooting star Daniel Kidane, born in 1986, was written for Michala and Mahan's CD – a work partly disturbingly mono-manic and circling around itself, partly highly virtuosic, but with lyric moments.
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Daniel Kidane's works are packed with incident and expression, braiding together sounds and entwining groups of instruments to create a meta-instrument that deftly weaves through novel timbres.
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Pei-Jee Ng, Royal Northern College of Music
Later that night, your intrepid correspondent braved a recorder quintet in order to hear in the same programme the Australian cellist Pei-Jee Ng premiere Metamorphosis by the Royal Northern College of Music student Daniel Kidane. It proved a splendid piece, in free variation form, and was superbly played. The composer told me that he is a violinist but has not yet written for solo violin. I hope he will. Journeying Songs by David Matthews (also present) uses variation form in a different but equally interesting way. Again Ng played with fine command and control...
Tully Potter, The Strad
With Ng we finally got the real thing - an artist whose age is irrelevant to his musical maturity…To Daniel Kidane's quietly impressive new Metamorphosis he brought stature, concentration and a beguiling range of sonorities.
Andrew Clark, Financial Times
Cellist Pei-Jee Ng's performance of…Daniel Kidane's Metamorphosis [was] strong and expressive.
Anna Picard, The Independent
Flux and Stasis
Fournier Piano Trio, Park Lane Group New Year Concert Series (November 2011)
The fine Fournier Piano Trio introduced the 24-year-old composer Daniel Kidane. They gave the world premiere of his Flux and Stasis, nine compelling minutes of tautly constructed, vibrantly imagined movement and colour, inspired by a mirage that Kidane experienced in Eritrea. No mere piece of impressionistic indulgence, this self-energising music would fire the imagination even without its hidden "programme". It made me keen to hear more both of Kidane and of the Fournier Piano Trio themselves.
Hilary Finch, The Times
Much more of a stretch for them was Flux and Stasis by Daniel Kidane, the result of the young composer's travels in East Africa in 2009 and his experience of and musical reaction to a mirage, an easily explained natural phenomenon and one with just as easily understandable visionary implications. In terms of the music's resources of string harmonics and tremolos, and chordal mightiness for the piano, Kidane has perhaps drunk deep at the Messiaen oasis, but the 10-minute piece did speak of stridently lit mysteries, and did so with rigour and assurance. In short, it worked, and the Fournier players were keenly alive to its glittering soundworld.
Peter Reed, Classical Source
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Samsung's Series 5 Ultra differs from the majority of ultrabooks with its DVD drive, which the company added in response to customer feedback. (The Samsung representative I spoke to described it as a "security blanket" for people who are afraid to abandon optical media entirely.) Nonetheless, the Series 5 Ultra maintains a slim profile of 0.82 in. thick. It's launching on Jan. 30 for $899 and up.
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This past year, Dread Unicorn Games released Gods and Icons, which expands the Icons in the game, giving them names, organizations, relationships with over icons, and even variations to make them more unique for your game. Each Icon also has a list of gods associated with them, which I love because 13th Age doesn't have any named gods. I reviewed this excellent supplement earlier this year, and now Dread Unicorn has released cards to make game play even easier.
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Review: Predation
Like most kids, I loved dinosaurs when I was growing up. It was a few hours away, but I made several pilgrimages to the Dinosaur National Monument in Vernal, Utah to pretend to dig up dinosaur bones and learn about why the Utahraptor was the best raptor. (Don't hold me to that, it's just what they told me). So I think, like many, opening an RPG where you get to live alongside dinosaurs re-opens a lot of childlike glee.
Predation is the most recent addition to Monte Cook Game's Cypher Systems line, an adaptation of the wonderfully flexible Cypher System to bring you dinosaurs and science. The setting is that a few hundred years in our future, the Space and Time, Intg. (SATI) corporation started sending 'commuters' back to the Cretaceous Period for some now unknown reason. Nine years after this time travel began, all of the machines on the Cretaceous side of the Gre-Vakian c trials malfunctioned, trapping the commuters in the past. Now we're 100 years after The Last Commute, and Grevakc is its own society, made up of the descendants of the 20,000 people left to live with the dinosaurs. These people are the descendants of scientists and soldiers and have all kinds of advanced technology to build their communities. However, they all know that at some point they're civilization is going to be wiped out by an asteroid, and many are desperate to find the secrets of time travel once more.
Review: Book of Unremitting Horror
One of the toughest parts of running an investigative horror RPG can be creating interesting monsters to terrorize your players. Unlike adversaries in more combat-oriented RPGs, the baddies in a horror game are more than just stat blocks: they need to have a complete background with hooks to discover in order to complete the investigation. Creating these can often be the most entertaining part of GM-ing games like Fear Itself, but sometimes it's nice to have something to weave a story around.
That's where The Book of Unremitting Horror comes in. This book provides a collection of fearsome creatures from your worst nightmares. Each entry provides a background for the creature including a story about a haunting and advice on how to run them in a game. And of course, the book also has stats. These entries are more than just single page write-ups, and can easily form the core of a scenario by themselves. In fact, Megan did this to create the one on one session we released for Halloween in 2015.
The thing is, the monsters and demons on offer in Unremitting Horror aren't just your run of the mill catalog of things that go bump in the night. There are very unique manifestations of common tropes and urban legends that make for genuinely creepy reading. They include things like the Kooks, creatures that retain their immortality by feeding on the essence of young children, the Blossomer, a demon summoned by angsty teenagers in a fit of sex and cannibalism, and Sisterides, basically an MRA's fears given form.
This book is a treasure trove of the sorts of horrifying moments that make Fear Itself, Esoterrorists and games like them so memorable. Some of the creatures featured in the book are used in the scenario Invasive Procedures, which The Redacted Files played in two parts. Another is featured in the one on one session entitled Soliloquy.
The book comes in both Gumshoe and d20 variants. We plan on using several of the entries in this book to terrorize our cast in the near future. We highly recommend you check it out and pick up a copy to inflict on your unsuspecting friends. You can purchase it on DriveThruRPG for Gumshoe or d20. It's also available for purchase from the Pelgrane Press website.
Review: FAITH: A Garden in Hell
FAITH: A Garden in Hell is a starter kit for playing FAITH from Burning Games. We've been watching the development of this game system over the last few years, and this starter set is a great place to get started with FAITH.
The Starter Set includes a rule book, an adventure book, four pre-generated characters, a deck for play, a deck with NPCs, gear, and robots, a deck with monsters, and some boss cards all neatly packed in an easy to transport box.
FAITH is set in a future where human civilization has fallen and the Earth is ruled by warlords. We would be fated to stay on earth, but an alien civilization arrived and offered a new option, to work for them as soldiers or laborers. These insectoid aliens are called Corvo, and need reinforcements to help in their fight against the Iz'kal, an aquatic race. I really like the touch that the Corvo required any humans that joined up with them be sterilized so that the Iz'kal couldn't start a slave army of their own. The two societies were locked in something of a cold war, neither side gaining ground until the Ravagers showed up, a gene-stealing race intent on bringing new samples back to their Queen. The Iz'kal, Corvo, humans, and a fourth race called Raag are now tenuously united to fight against this new enemy. They also make up the four playable races in the game.
Review: Story, Please! – An Adventure-Building Deck for No, Thank You Evil!
I finally got my copy of Story, Please – An Adventure-Building Deck for No, Thank You Evil! last week. I never got any alert to redeem my copy from the Kickstarter and because of the craziness of life didn't realize it until around Christmas. But emailing any company during the holidays is pointless, so it was a bit before Monte Cook Games had time to solve my issue which they did with much graciousness. Then even longer for me to get around to redeeming it once I got my redemption codes all worked out.
But this weekend, my daughter, age 6, and I got to take out the expansion for a test drive. We loved it. For her, she could look at the pictures and pick places and stories that looked cool or cute or whatever metric a 6 year old uses to pick things. While I the parent had simple guides to help narrate a story. One of the problems I found with playing No, Thank You Evil! with such a young kid is that they need lots of guides and prompts, and that is hard for me as an adult to remember to give them. I have spent so many years working towards collaborative storytelling, that it's hard to go back to basics and run a game where you need to give the player(s) more information and options. Add this to the enthusiasm of a kid who has dragged me out of bed before I've even had coffee to play, and it's rough to give her the best experience I can. So I was ultra excited when I heard about these cards and story prompts, and even happier now that I've seen them in action.
In the box you get 100 cards of various types: Story cards that give you dilemmas and problems to solve, Place cards that give you three locations based on a picture, People cards that have many of the characters from Storia, Map cards, Handout cards, Stuff cards, and Twist cards. I'm most impressed with the Story and Place cards because those are the tools I needed the most as the GM. Each comes with a beautifully illustrated pictures and three options of either story or place based on that picture from simple to detailed. My daughter absolutely loved the People cards because she knew them from the stories and some of the adventures from the base game that we've ran. For her they were almost like old friends.
So on a grading scale of 1 to 5 dice – Story, Please is hands down a 5 dice product. It enhances the main game without distracting from the fun, which is rare in a supplement and I really needed them to help run the game smoothly and quickly. My only experience with the game is for running it for a young child, but I can totally see new gamers (10-12 years old) using these cards to help create their own stories. So if you own No, Thank You Evil! this is a must buy supplement!
Review: Gods and Icons
The Icon mechanic in 13th Age is one of the more interesting additions to a system that builds on your standard d20 game. The Icons can help, or hurt you, depending on the relationship you build with them. Each have different priorities and strong suits, and of course allies and enemies. Gods and Icons, from Dread Unicorn Games, builds on the existing world to add more flavor to the Icons.
The Icons are well fleshed out in the 13th Age core book, but Gods and Icons goes even further, giving the players and the GM the option to incorporate alternative icons that have clear analogues in the core book, but provides names and a much more expanded history for each. For example, The Dwarf King analogue is King Thorbal of the Glittering Gem. There are then examples of his politics, and a list of organizations operating under his purview. It also details his relationships with each of the other icons, and gives some ideas of variants that you could use to make King Thorbal slightly more unique in your game.
The one thing I like with each Icon page is that it also provides a list of gods that the Icon is associated with. I play a cleric in 13th Age, and I wanted a solid list of gods to grab onto and explore for building up my character. I'm incredibly bad at coming up with names on my own. So, the gods aspect of Gods and Icons is particularly useful for me.
Gods and Icons introduces three pantheons of gods, the Bright Gods, the Thirsty Gods, and the Old Gods. Each pantheon is based more on geography, though certain races are more likely to follow one pantheon then another. The book describes the gods in each pantheon, including the cults that follow them and their cultural impact. I think these small details can flesh out the world, and helps you build a believable culture in the game that your character is a part of. There's also alternative names and variant rules for the gods, which also helps you make your world your own.
In addition to the new gods, there's new domains for Clerics and new talents for Druids, Paladins, and Rangers to go along with the new pantheons. For example, your Druid can take Blessing of the Sparrow, giving you a bit of mischief to your magic. There is also a list of new locations, holy sites and unhallowed grounds related to the gods for your players to explore.
In addition to expanding the world of 13th Age with both gods and Icons, this supplement lists new items to give to your players based on Icon rolls. What's really cool is they include tables, that are divided up by class for you to roll on to decide what items to hand out. And even more, you can decide if you want to give a useful item, in which case only a few items in the table will be in the pool you roll for. If instead you want to truly randomly hand out the loot more options are available. The tables you end up with include loot from the core book, 13 True Ways, and the Gods and Icons book.
The last additional worldbuilding included in the book are new races and NPC appearance tables. These tables can help you randomly decide on a race, gender, icon, and quirk for each of your NPCs. The new races give your players a lot more options on what they want to play – I didn't even know half-owlbear was a thing. A few of the other options include Dhampir, Goblin, and of course, Gelatinous Troglodyte. I want to see an adventuring part with one of those guys!
Gods and Icons also has a Player's Guide version that you can give to your group. This includes most of the same information, excluding the loot tables and the locations. There is also an introductory adventure available, called Towers in the Mist, which includes pre-generated characters and helpful hints to GMs running 13th Age for the first time. This includes suggestions on boons from Icon Relationship rolls and how to present them, which should give the GM an idea of ways to frame such interactions in the future. Like with Sleeping Lady, another Dread Unicorn release, the adventure gives the GM ideas on how to alter it depending the number of players and experience they have with RPGs, something even somewhat experienced GMs can lack confidence in doing for the first time.
Overall, if you're looking to make your campaign of 13th Age a little more expansive, I would highly recommend picking up Gods and Icons. Even if you're not quite at that stage yet, I think Tower in the Mist is a great introductory adventure, for both the players and the GM.
Gods and Icons is available on DriveThruRPG for $14.95 as a PDF, or $29.95 as a softcovered book. The Players Guide is $9.95, and The Tower in the Mist is $4.95. If you want all three, you can purchase them as a bundle for only $18.45.
*The Redacted Files received a free copies of these supplements for review purposes.
Review: Dungeon Crate
I decided to try out another RPG-themed subscription box, so this month I received my first box from Dungeon Crate! Dungeon Crate has been going since about the beginning of the year, and they have pictures of what was in the previous boxes which gave me a better idea of what I could expect in my box. Each box has a theme, and the one I received was Elementally Speaking, with lots of elemental-related items.
Review: Delta Green Agent's Handbook
The designer of Red Markets and long-time contributor to Role-Playing Public Radio Caleb Stokes once remarked that games like Call of Cthulhu are, contrary to popular belief, just as escapist as your stereotypical sword-wielding adventuring fantasy, only in a different way. I couldn't agree more, and I love them for it. I first came to tabletop role-playing a little after I'd just gone blind. Well, I'd been pretty much blind as far as most people were concerned for quite a while. But Where before I'd been able to make out shapes, perceive color and detect motion, now I truly, functionally could not see. I felt frail and small and decidedly mortal. And then I found a podcast feed from something called The Unspeakable Oath, with actual play recordings of a game called Delta Green.
This variant of Call of Cthulhu starred members of a conspiracy within the United States federal government who conducted investigations within investigations, concealed evidence while trying to find the horrible truth, discredited witnesses of the unnatural, and served as the only effective defense against things man was not meant to know. It was a hard game, one that challenged you to play smart and watch out for any angle because the odds of emerging with your body and sanity intact were already vanishingly small. And therein lies the escapism: with the whole world, the uncaring cosmos arrayed against you in all its apathetic splendor, you play a puny human that goes out into the dark to fight the monsters with nothing but a Glock, a fake ID and the knowledge that you can only ever forestall the inevitable, because if you don't do it, no one else will. Fuck the odds, humanity is still here and will be until these agents are dead at least, because that's what it means to be Delta Green. It was a setting whose fatalism and sense of gallows humor appealed to me. So imagine my disappointment when I discovered that the books from which these games were run had been published more than a decade before and long since disappeared from store shelves. That would change of course, with the advent of electronic sales and print on demand, Delta Green could be had again, but too there was talk of more. Delta Green would rise again.
And now it has, in the form of an entirely standalone product with its own line of hardcover releases scheduled through this year and the next at the very least. Born of Kickstarter and gifted with the depressingly rich world of Post-9/11 covert operations to muck around with for background, the new Delta Green RPG promises a thrilling new world of modern mythos horror for your agents to die in: nihilists rejoice!
Review: RPG Crate
A lot of subscription boxes are hit or miss. I've actually never kept a subscription for one longer then a few months. But I was really excited to hear about RPG Crate– a subscription box that aligned with one of my greatest passions. RPG Crate advertises that it has "Fantastic Tabletop Roleplaying loot delivered right to your castle steps! Subscribers will receive a monthly RPG Crate which may include up to a dozen different products; full modules, maps, dice, miniatures, exclusive adventure settings, and other tabletop role-playing game treasures." I subscribed to get my hands on the first box and was super excited to have it arrive this month.
Review: CypherCaster Magazine, Issue 006
CypherCaster Magazine is a great fanzine for all Monte Cook Games, with a ton of valuable information and inspiration with each release. I have found valuable information with each release, and the latest issue is no exception.
The first piece is a short story set in the world of Gods of the Fall written by Bruce Cordell. There's not a lot about the setting, but there is a lot of world building that really helped me get a feel for the setting. For those of you who don't know, Gods of the Fall was part of the Cypher System kickstarter earlier this year as a setting book. It builds a world where the gods have disappeared, but years later people have dominions they can control awakened. There's a lot to love about this setting, most of all the flexibility of the powers, and how perception can change them.
There is also a short story by Andrew Cady, called Field Mission, which is an action piece set in the world of The Strange. It has a Lovecraftian angle that I really love, and I only wish that it could have been longer.
I really love the small focused setting in Qi for Numenera, written by Chris Fitzgerald. Miranda's House is a boarding house that you can have your PCs stay in or find a lead at. There's descriptions of the staff and guests, and what is really great is that the NPCs are given a short description as well as strengths and weaknesses. The strengths and weaknesses really give you an idea of who the character is and how to play them, but isn't super restrictive and doesn't require a lot of reading or things to keep track of. There's a great diversity of people to encounter, plus a menu of food that can be found there! I haven't seen a Ninth World menu anywhere else, and the creativity was great. Now I want a whole article focused on the regional delicacies of the Ninth World.
The bulk of this release is a really interesting intergalactic police cypher setting called Sector Agents, created by David Wilson Brown. It gives some really great advice on incorporating the variety of foci for PCs as different alien species in a way I think really works out well. I really enjoy pulpy settings, and Brown doubles down on providing that. We've been talking about building a Star Trek-esque campaign for a cypher game, and this has so many great ideas and resources, including tables for creating star systems, a table for planetary politics, and a random mission generator. Plus, there's the laws for interstellar space that your Sector Agents will enforce. This issue really helps give you the resources you need to run a game in the setting, with five species that can be encountered or played by a PC, including ones that aren't bipedal.
There are two adventures that accompany the Sector Agents setting, the first called "The Curious Case of Praxis-3" by Rustin Coones, and the second written by TRF friend John WS Marvin, "The Prisoner of Morpheus Station." You'll have all of the resources you need to try out this really fun looking setting and have your own pulpy, police procedural.
Great minds think alike, and it was a pleasant surprise to see the Vehicles with Character article by Marc Plourde. Vehicles in the Cypher games haven't been given much attention, and we've talked about creating a new system using the character creation rules to make a really special ship on TRF before. Luckily, Plourde did the work for us! Using the same basic outline for building a character, he outlines how different parts of a ship are analogous to a character, and how points should be distributed. He has a huge list of upgrades that are available for your ship, but what I really love is his suggestion that both credits and XP can be used to buy these. Many parts of the ship creation reminded me of the Firefly (Cortex+) system for building a ship, with choosing distinctions and assets. But the method he outlines is really a great fit for cypher system, and I think it's something anyone running a Cypher game with a ship in it should read.
There is also a campaign set in a new recursion, which is described in Issue 005, called Zuomeng by Rustin Coones, Scott Robinson & Jennifer Ross. The setting is full of pirates and your agents must determine what Rukian agents are doing near a US naval base.
I have found a wealth of information, ideas, and inspiration in each issue of CypherCaster Magazine, and I am happy to read it each time. The magazine always has a really diverse set of articles, and the ideas that I read have been consistently great. However, this issue was plagued by some formatting issues and one difficult to read font. I don't think any of this is distracting enough to prevent me from giving two thumbs up and my recommendation to add it to your Cypher resource list.
You can find this Issue 006 at DriveThruRPG for $4.
Check out my review for Issue 001 here.


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Fifteen years ago Jared Bonatelli had it all. The youngest son of one of the founding families in the Conservatorship of The Dark Order, he lived a life you only thought existed in novels and nightmares. After becoming engaged to his childhood sweetheart, he loses it all in one violent act. Since that night he has suffered reliving his fiancé's murder repeatedly in his dreams. After an emergency meeting of the Conservatorship, Jared finds that the comfortable world he lives is beginning to crumble at his feet.
Alexandra Toscano has been searching for the one assignment that could catapult her journalistic career. When her editor Gene O'Hanlon drops a manila folder in her lap, Alex is immediately skeptical. At first glance the information he hands her seems like a publicity piece until she comes across an article he wrote some 15 years ago about vampires murdering a young woman in Central Park. But that isn't what intrigues her the most. It's the photo of the woman's fiancé that captures her eye, Jared Bonatelli.
Now as Alex begins to dig deeper into Jared's life she begins to question her own past. Could the answer she seeks be found in the glowing eyes of the one person she is sworn to expose? Or will they both find themselves torn apart by a world beyond the sun?
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Budget Energy's profits hit £3.6m in the past year: Firm expands into Republic before targeting rest of UK
Electricity firm Budget Energy has seen its pre-tax profits skyrocket to more than £3.6m - just five years after setting up.
Profits increased five-fold in the space of a year at the electricity business, which is run by Eleanor McEvoy.
It now has 61,500 customers here and is currently expanding into the Republic, before taking on the rest of the UK. Turnover at Budget Energy is up around 13%, rising to £34m in the year to June 2015.
Its success comes as business supplier Vayu — which is backed by mining giant Glencore — announces its entry into the Northern Ireland market.
Ms McEvoy says she is confident she can turn Budget Energy into a £100m turnover business in another five years.
This is her third major business, after starting out with a vending machine firm and then Phonecard Warehouse — a pre-paid phone firm which was sold in 2006 with a turnover of €50m (£38m). And it was selling pre-paid top-ups for mobile phones that got her into the electricity market.
"Northern Ireland has the most advanced and highest number of pre-paid customers of pre-paid electricity," she told the Belfast Telegraph.
More than 300,000 customers in Northern Ireland use pre-paid power, including around 80% of Budget Energy's base.
She said she wanted to make energy "more transparent and take out the confusion where people don't understand energy".
And the firm wanted to "always stay true to keeping our prices as low as possible". But she said Budget is now growing to include other sectors, such as businesses and farmers.
The firm is based in Londonderry but its customers are right across Northern Ireland, with the largest proportion in Belfast.
Budget Energy is currently the cheapest tariff on the market, according to Ms McEvoy — who's running the firm with husband, Londonderry man George — and is now the third biggest provider here. And she describes Budget as the "Ryanair of the energy business". Budget now employs around 65 staff. She says the company's success is down to her own talent, and sticking to tight margins and a low-cost base.
"Every single penny is a prisoner when it comes to me," she said.
"If you compare us to someone like Power NI, they are big, huge machines, we can move and change quickly, they can't.
"We've made significant inroads, but we have an awful lot to do. Competition only opened in 2007, and in 2011 competition arrived in keypad — competition isn't there as long as everyone thinks."
And long-running low input costs, especially low oil prices, have helped keep electricity prices down.
Asked if the speedy growth can continue, she said: "It will get harder to grow. I'd like 120,000 domestic customers and probably a 5% stake in the business market in Northern Ireland."
Budget Energy now has a licence to operate in the Republic, and could be up-and-running by the summer. Budget was also just named as Northern Ireland's top energy company, according to an annual survey from Which?
And as prices remain stable, Ms McEvoy says Budget will be cutting its prices in the spring.
It's also growing its green energy credentials. It currently has around 14% of its supply in green energy. And in the next five years she's confident the business could triple turnover to £100m.
"I don't see any reason why we can't keep this growth rate. You'll have years where it goes up and down, or doesn't grow as fast, but my ambition is 110,000 to 120,000 customers," she added.
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Will this winter ever wind down? Just when the sun starts to shines, another snow hits the 10-day weather forecast. But not to worry—this just means there's more time to enjoy a fireplace in your Zionsville home this winter. With cabin fever running high, a cozy fire inside might just be the cure.
There's lots of ways to still enjoy your fireplace this winter. But before firing up the logs, be sure to have your chimney and fireplace properly inspected. Hire a reputable chimney sweep to keep the flue free of hazardous creosotes. This will give you peace of mind for your fireside family night.
- Avoid using wet wood; it can create excessive smoke and creosotes. Seasoned or kiln-dried wood is the optimal choice for nice fire.
- Keep glass door or a grate in front of the fire to prevent hot embers from coming out of the fireplace.
- Only use newspaper or a log starter as fire accelerants. Flammable liquids are a no-no.
- Keep the fireplace damper open to prevent smoke and dangerous gasses from entering the home.
- Be sure to let the fire fully burnout before trying to remove the ashes.
Never use a paper bag to remove and store your ashes. A metal can or bucket is the safest way to store fireplace ashes—and keep them stored outside and away from the home. And do hold onto them for future use! Not sure what to do with all the ashes after your fire burns out? The good news is that ash offers many uses to your Zionsville garden and yard. Here's a few ways use ash instead up adding it to your waste:
- Compost enricher – Sprinkling a few ashes in with the organic compounds enhances the nutrients.
- Pest repellent – A light application of fireplace ash in your flower and garden beds repels slugs and snails.
- Tomato food – You can add 1/4 cup of ash to holes of calcium-loving plants like tomatoes.
Over 300 homes listed in Zionsville include a fireplace. Many even have multiple fireplaces, including one in the master suite. Since this winter never seems to end, there's plenty of time to enjoy a fireplace of your own.
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Hyderabad, Apr 7: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy today said his government will launch the Rs two per kg rice scheme from April 9, benefitting all white ration card holders in the State.
Participating in Ugadi, Telugu New Year's day celebrations, organised by the State Cultural department here, he said the new scheme would help the poor as the price of rice had shot up to Rs 20 per kg. Stating that the Government was committed to the welfare of poor by providing to them the fruits of economic development, he said his Government was fulfilling all poll promises made prior to the 2004 Assembly elections.
Observing that the 'Rajiv Arogya Sri' scheme was helping the BPL families get free corporate medical treatment in 13 districts, Dr Reddy announced that the scheme would be extended to the remaining ten districts at the earliest.
The Government was paying the entire premium to the insurance agencies on behalf of the beneficiaries, he added.
Stating that the Government was implementing 'Indira Life Insurance scheme', covering 38 lakh agricultural labourers in the State, he pointed out that the total number of farmers benefitted by the Centre's farm loan waiver scheme was four crore farmers, including 78 lakh from the State.


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Just west of Washington D.C., the Potomac River is funneled through a rather narrow Mather Gorge. This wild looking cascade drops in a series of falls totaling 76 feet. Once part of the Northern Virginia Parks System, Great Falls National Park joined the national park ranks in 1966.
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North American bats are not so much compatible with the commercial bat houses due to several reasons. The reasons may be poor design or construction. It is also possible that proper instructions are not given on placement, painting, mounting and sun exposure. To help the manufacturers in designing a bat house, BCI's Bat Approved Certification Program started in 1998. This program provides detailed guidance to the manufacturers. BCI ensures that all the bat houses and products from other companies meet the criteria in its catalog. To finalize the criteria of successful bat house installations was not an easy task. It involved several years of research for the BCI and volunteer Research Associates in Bat House Project (1993-2004).
Finally, the following criteria were found important:
To get greater temperature diversity, wide and tall designs are preferable Proper crevice dimensions are also preferable Roughened interior and landing areas Ventilation slots Tight, draft-free construction Based on the above set criteria, it is mandatory for the manufacturers to submit a finalized bat house for evaluation. If all the above criteria are met, only then the manufacturer gets the Bat Approved certification. One important point to note here is that the certifications are valid only for two years. The bat house instructions must be re-evaluated after this period.
Following are the Bat House Design and Construction Certification Criteria:
1. Taller chambers are considered better. The recommended height of roost chambers is minimum of 20 inches.
2. Larger width or side to side is considered better. The recommended width of roost chambers should be at least 14 inches. Rocket style houses which have continuous or 360 degree chambers are less wide. Different material can be used for bat houses and roost chambers of such houses could be wider than 16 inches. Spacer blocks should be used between partitions.
3. Irrespective of the number of chambers, you should ensure that roost partitions are carefully spaced 3/4 (ideal for North American bats) to 1 inch apart from front to back. An exception in this area is the houses built for larger species such as pallid bats and Florida bonneted bats. Chambers are spaced in a combination of 3/4- and 1-inch. Chambers spaced with 1 1/2-inch are considered more attractive to wasps and other non-target animals. Such chambers need regular monitoring. This should be advertised for these special species.
4. Suitable landing area is another important aspect. Preferred landing area is three- to six-inch, that should extend below entrance; i.e. by extending the length of backboard. Partitions should be gaped three-to six-inches. This will allow the bats to land on inside walls of bottom of the bat house.
5. Sufficient interior surface and landing area texture is the next concern, which will help bats in footholds. This can be achieved with rough-cut wood, mechanically grooved surfaces, roughened or scored horizontally at 1/4 to 1/2-inch intervals, which are about 1/16-inch deep. Cover roost surfaces with a durable plastic mesh, preferably 1/8- or 1/4-inch square mesh. To avoid the twisting and dropping of the plastic mesh, firmly staple the plastic mesh every two inches - up, down and across. Trim the edges of the plastic mesh to avoid sharp edges. Avoid hardware cloth, metal mesh or aluminum window screen. These materials can harm bats.
6. While installing houses, staples, screws, mounting hardware, nails or other sharp objects like splinters should be adjusted properly and these should not protrude into roost chambers. You should also ensure that all hardware and metal components are coated, brass, or galvanized. The holding capacity of nails, brads or staples degrades over time. Hence, screws are recommended to assemble all possible major components of the house. It is recommended to use smooth exposed metal edges such as roofs.
7. The distance between the bottom and ventilations slots should be not more than one-third. Depending on the wideness of the house, front vents are designed wide. Side vents are optional and its dimensions should be approximately six inches tall and one inch wide. You can also go for decorative vents with appropriate size and position. In case, a bat house is designed for cool climates, unvented wooden houses can be used. Again, it should be well-stated in advertising.
8. Exterior grade plywood - ACX, T1-11, BCX with quality stock such as cedar or pine should be used if need be. To avoid destructive actions on bats, pressure- or chemically-treated wood should be avoided.
9. Design should say it all. Durability of bat houses is very important. Ensure that the bat houses are tightly constructed - no unplanned gaps. During assembly, to prevent draft, glue exterior joints. Latex caulk and exterior-grade, water-based paint or stain is recommended for caulking and painting. However, sufficient instructions must be provided for the customers on these.
10. BCI should approve every little instance of advertising and instructions of the bat house. Many manufacturers state misleading claims such as "No more mosquito problems". Such claims should not be permitted. Instruction sheets with adequate information on painting, sun exposure, mounting sites, mounting height and recommended distances to water and obstacles will surely get approved by BCI.
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Recently, Continental Airlines sent an email of updates about the merging of the airline to United with information of interest, especially to those flyers who have miles in both programs. The two programs will continue to operate separately in 2011, but members can expect a single program by Jan. 1, 2012. At the end of 2011, the elite qualifying miles and elite qualifying points in OnePass and Mileage Plus will be combined and count toward your 2012 status in the new program. The new elite program will offer six one-way systemwide upgrades for those who earn 100,000 elite qualifying miles or 120 elite qualifying points; two additional upgrades will be issued every 50,000 EQMs or 60 EQPs earned thereafter (available for all eligible fares except S, T, K, L and G in all BusinessFirst markets). A new benefit for Elite members will be two regional upgrades after completing 75,000 EQMs or 90 EQPs; two additional regional upgrades will be issued for every additional 25,000 EQMs or 30 EQPs. Regional upgrades, valid for upgrades to first class, can be confirmed as early as the time of booking.
Current and ongoing qualifying OnePass Presidential Platinum Elite members will receive all the benefits and services associated with that program through Jan. 31, 2012. The United Global Services program will replace the Presidential Platinum Elite program in 2012 and will be open to OnePass members. Top revenue qualifiers will be invited to Global Services in late 2011.
There are also changes to how members will qualify for 1K status starting Jan. 1, 2011. Now, members will need 120 segments to qualify (it was 100 segments) while the number of elite qualifying miles will remain at 100,000. Members will receive their six systemwide upgrades as soon as they reach their qualification threshold, instead of getting the upgrades at the beginning of the next year.
The OnePass Elite program year will now be valid for 13 months, beginning Jan. 1 and continue through Jan. 31 of the following year (instead of continuing through February per the current policy).
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This is the Universal Food Chopper No. 2 in it's original box and doesn't look to have ever been used; like new. It comes complete with the coarse, medium and fine cutters and also has assembly instructions. The box is faded a little and has some scuffs but has protected the grinder over the years.
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Manifest Destiny
"from sea to shining sea"
General Information
The term "Manifest Destiny" refers to the belief that Americans had the God-given right to expand the country across the entire North American continent.
The phrase was coined by John O'Sullivan in 1845 in the newspaper the
Democratic Review
Under presidents John Tyler, James K. Polk, and Zachary Taylor, the major territories of Texas, Oregon, New Mexico, and California were added to the country.
Such territories were obtained through annexation, cession, treaties, and war.
Several presidents had considered annexing this territory, but were hesitant as they feared it would upset the balance between free and slave states.
John Tyler was the first to propose a treaty of annexation, but it was rejected by the senate.
However, Tyler was able to find a loophole in the system: by convincing some members of both houses of Congress to pass the resolution, he needed only a simple majority, rather than a two-thirds vote.
While the annexation itself was peaceful, as many residents of Texas had come from the US, it angered Mexico who had lost Texas during its war for independence and had been hoping to regain possession.
The next area sought by Americans was the Oregon Territory. Obtaining this land was a major part of James K. Polk's presidential campaign in 1844.
America adopted the slogan "fifty-four forty or fight", referring to the latitude line that was the desirable northern border of this territory.
Polk was willing to compromise this goal in order to avoid war with Britain, the owners of the area at the time, although he did not initially reveal this.
While the northern boundary was not the intended parallel, Polk's goal of gaining land, "without costing a cent of money, or a drop of blood," was achieved.
Mexican Cession
The Mexican Territory was the only area to be obtained through warfare.
The Mexican War broke out in 1846, and while they had a smaller army and other disadvantages, the Unites States was victorious.
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended the conflict and awarded the Americans the territories of New Mexico and California.
While technically the US could have also gained control of Mexico itself, the government wanted to avoid further conflict with Mexico, and felt that the area would not be easily controlled.
Other Plans For Expansion
Gadsden Purchase: a small area of land in present day New Mexico and Arizona, purchased by president Pierce for railroad building
Ostend Manifesto: the secret plan, formulated by President Pierce, to send three American diplomats to Ostend, Belgium to negotiate purchasing Cuba from Spain
Walker Expedition: an attempt by Southern adventurer William Walker to take Baja California (unsuccessful) and Nicaragua (successful) as part of a plan to create a pro slavery Central America
Nationalism is simply defined as pride in one's country, and it cannot be denied that this feeling was present at the time, although it was often marred by sectional tensions.
The term "Manifest Destiny" itself implies a feeling of nationalism, as it depicts America as God's chosen country.
Many Americans united in their desire to expand westward, which is what resulted in the successful election of James K. Polk, a dark horse candidate.
Overall, Manifest Destiny was one of the main causes of the Civil War due to the sectional conflicts it brought to the surface.
Documents that expressed the Southern desire to expand slavery included the Ostend Manifesto and the Walker Expedition.
The Wilmot Proviso expressed the northern desire to prevent slavery from expanding into the newly acquired territories.
The Compromise of 1850 attempted to retain a fragile peace.
Sectional conflict was most visible in the Kansas-Nebraska territory, where mounting violence led to the nickname "Bleeding Kansas"
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Booknotes - Summer 2016
Booknotes, the literary review of The Elliott Bay Book Company, is written entirely by bookstore staff. It represents a sampling of recently published and forthcoming books that we're excited to share with you.
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But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all... Read More »
Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet on a crazy night? No one, really?
Mark and Kate have sat next to each other for an entire year, but have never spoken. For whatever reason, their paths outside of class have never crossed.
That is until Kate spots Mark miles away from home, out in the city... Read More »
A riveting historical art mystery for fans of Chasing Vermeer and The Westing Game, set in the Roaring Twenties!
It's 1929, and twelve-year-old Martha has no choice but to work as a maid in the New York City mansion of the wealthy Sewell family. But, despite the Gatsby-like parties and trimmings of success, she suspects something might be deeply... Read More »
From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks.
When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window, Dèja can't help but feel confused. She sets off on a... Read More »
From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web—an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing's suicide and plunges into a post-war Britain of immeasurable repression, conformity and fear
June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In... Read More »
Readers of the Harry Potter series and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta's thrilling blend of historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to discover startling wonders—and dangerous secrets.
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What would you give to save the thing you love the most?
It has been twenty years since Lucie Bowen left the islands. Twenty years ago, the May Day Quake set loose catastrophic waves along the west coast, from Alaska to California, shattering thousands of lives. Twenty years ago, Lucie's father disappeared in an explosion at the Marrow Island oil... Read More »
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on... Read More »
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Coming of age in a culture that demands... Read More »
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Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a... Read More »
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to "read" and "write" our own genetic information?
The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as... Read More »
We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing... Read More »
From the acclaimed writer, director, and star of the hit documentary The Muslims are Coming! comes a memoir in essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post-9/11 world and the power of comedy to combat racism.
Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world through jokes. And yes,... Read More »
New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams?... Read More »
Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan (called one of the "best living writers of English prose") reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet.
Since its inception, the Internet has morphed from merely an extension of traditional media into its own full-fledged civilization. It... Read More »
A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.
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The tradition of high school football rivalries started with Needham and Wellesley.
The two towns have a friendly rivalry across all sports. The rivalry, that is the oldest in public high school football rivalry, started in 1882 when East and West Needham separated, taking their respective high schools with them.
"Wellesley and Needham is in our blood and we have been coming since our kids were really little," says Jennifer Halloran of Wellesley.
The big Thanksgiving game is just as important as the big meal.
Lindsey Charron of Wellesley says she gets to re-connect with people she hasn't seen in a while. And players know the pressure is on.
Today Wellesley beat Needham 34-14 and end the year 10-1.
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A very pleasant tea – I got my samples tonight and loved the sample bags. I'm a dork but all that matters. The smell of this one delicious – had to take about 10 sniffs before brewing.
Brewed a large tsp in my cup for about 4 minutes. The taste is pure and smooth and very clean. The black tea base is not overpowering at all but does a good base. I don't taste wine much and only a tiny bit of strawberries – mainly I taste peach flavor. It's kind of like a strawberry inspired peach. It's refreshing and fun and light
Flavors: Peach, Strawberry
Unfortunately I'm not impressed with this one. While I still love their green ginger offering, this one comes across plain with the mildest peach touch when piping hot, but nothing memorable. As it cools down, the peach becomes more present but not necessarily as a juicy treat. It's not fake tasting, but it doesn't do much, and with the coolness comes mild bitterness.
Overall it's pretty boring, but at least the packaging is cute.
Flavors: Peach
I really liked this one, but seem to be in the minority. My friend sent me the small box of tea bags, not the loose tea. I loved the maple smell and think it was a pleasant black base with a nice maple undertaste. Already went through the box and finished all the tea.
Flavors: Maple Syrup
I'm not a fan of mango tea in general, but this was a free sample in an order. I found it pretty good considering what it was and that it's not a personal preference. A tiny touch of waxy flavor that's always present, but it's overall pleasing and uplifting. The tea bag delivered a strong taste.
Flavors: Fruity, Mango
I'm glad I ordered a full tin of this. I'm a black tea fan but I'm picky on breakfast and afternoon blends. This one isn't labeled as such really, but it works perfectly as either of those. It's a pleasant, appealing, aromatic black tea that will work well as a staple in my tea cupboard. I haven't tried adding any cream or milk to it, but a small drop of sugar adds a nice enhancement.
This tea is a black basic tea. Nothing special about it but nothing awful. I can tell it will tend to get too strong or bitter if you oversteep or overfill. I managed not to do that. Not a bad tea at all for those who want a strong, basic black, but there are no special frills. I will drink the rest of the sample I ordered, but I don't see myself ordering a full bag.


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Weddings at the Ocean Gateway Marine Terminal
Portland's rich seafaring tradition is evident everywhere you look in our seaside town – from our working waterfront to the historic Old Port district. Why not honor that tradition by having your wedding in a building that overlooks it all?
If you are planning a wedding in Portland, Maine, the Ocean Gateway Marine Terminal offers unparalleled views from its 5,600 square foot event space. Floor to ceiling windows offer a panorama of your surroundings East to the Calendar Islands of Casco Bay, South – to the Portland Head Light and open Atlantic, and West – to the working waterfront and Portland skyline.
The Ocean Gateway Marine Terminal is set up to showcase all the best of Maine. The seaside grounds and nearby historic buildings offer unlimited options for photographs on your wedding day. Your guests can mingle on the private outdoor balcony, which is the perfect place to host your cocktail hour, while enjoying freshly shucked oysters and a variety of hors d'oeuvre.
When it comes to making the space your own, the Churchill Events team has the expertise and design chops to transform the Ocean Gateway to your specifications. Our wedding designers will work with you so your guests don't just see a cavernous room with stellar views – they see your style, your taste, and the story of your love affair. We will create the lighting design and table design, and stage the room so your wedding can transition seamlessly from dining to dancing into the night.
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