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For Thirteen Years FundingPost has worked to bring entrepreneurs together with leading investors worldwide. We believe that it is important to reach investors in every medium possible - both online and off line.
Through our successful Venture Capital Events in 23 cities, Venture Guide Publications and magazine, and our online Venture Exchange, FundingPost has had the opportunity to work with thousands of Angel and Venture Capital investors representing over SQLMOD_CAPITALEVALUE_TOTAL.
We've seen Millions of Dollars raised as a direct result of our Online Exchange, our Magazine, and our National Conferences and Events.
We work with more Real Accredited Angel Investors, Family Offices, VC Firms, Corporate Investors and Entrepreneurs than anyone else. We have a dedicated, professional team that works hard to make introductions from Investors to entrepreneurs every single day!
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Aaron Sahagun
Regional Manager of Nevada and San Diego
Prior to FundingPost, Aaron founded Alumwire, Inc., where he managed corporate networking events during the early days of the Company in Berkeley, CA. He drove the Company's strategic direction, business development, technical activity, and marketing activities as its CEO. Aaron has been named by BusinessWeek as one of "The Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs." He has been also featured on NBC, CBS and CNET. The initial sales of $100K+ from Alumwire's Fortune 500 beta clients led to a $1.4 million financing round. Aaron successfully exited Alumwire in 2011.
Aaron earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to attending the University of California, Berkeley, Aaron attended a private, technical high school in Los Angeles where he majored in computer science and developed games in Visual C++, C++, Visual Basic and Javascript. He programmed e-commerce web sites for several companies and organizations in the Southern California area during his teenage years.
Casey Minshew
Regional Manager of Houston
Casey Minshew is a serial Entrepreneur, but he has deep roots in the Commercial Real Estate Banking & Small Business world. Since 2000 he worked with and helped launched one of top 10 Mortgage Banking organizations in Texas serving over 4000 Loan Officers nationwide. While processing Billions of dollars in loans. In 2009, after the market crash, Casey entered into the technology industry as the COO of a Video Technology company, helping launch better online communications in over 50 countries. This gives Casey a unique perspective from both sides as a person seeking funding and what Venture Capital Firms and Investors are looking for. This makes him the best qualified candidate to assist both parties in achieving their goals..
Today Casey is advising small to medium sized companies in outsourcing their HR to better prepare for challenges Healthcare reform will bring. He is also very proud and honored Host and Manager for the Houston FundingPost Events.
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David Drake is a leading equity expert based in New York. He is the founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a private equity advisory firm, and of The Soho Loft, an event-driven global financial media company. Born in Sweden and fluent in six languages, David is a strong advocate of innovative investing in early-stage equity and the US JOBS Act, for which he lobbied both Congress and the EU Commission. Because of his leading work in this space, he was a US Commerce Department delegate to the EU Commission in Brussels and Rome, and was invited in May 2013 to the White House Champions of Change ceremony in Washington, D.C.
His investment, The Soho Loft, produces and sponsors 150+ global events a year. One such was produced in April 2013 for the institutional media leader Thomson Reuters, with speakers from NASDAQ, NYSE, KKR and Carlyle Group. He continues to advance innovative investing through his work as an international speaker and regular writer for major publications like Forbes and Thomson Reuters. He has coauthored the book "Planet Entrepreneur: The World Entrepreneurship Forum's Guide to Business Success Around the World" and is the author of "Crowd Fund Economics." His focus today is to take on board advisory positions at companies, angel networks and venture funds, and to guide them on such topics as international regulations, corporate strategy and fund structures, with emphasis on the growing trend of online investment automation for retail and angel investors.
Privately, David has hosted the Harvard Business Club of NY at his home, produced Carnegie Hall concerts and raised funds for the charities, Trail Blazers and Best Buddies Carnegie Hall for many years. Today he is a board director of the UBS Charity of the Year, London-based Archive International, and is co-chair of the Tree Kangaroo Foundation in New York. David has an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Law and Economics from George Washington University, where he was awarded the Wallenberg Scholarship for academic merit.
Harris Schwartz
Harris Schwartz has been the Chief Financial Officer of FundingPost (Second Venture Corporation) since its inception in 2000. Harris was previously employed by the New York City Finance Department from 1971 to 2002 as a Special Auditor.
Additionally, Harris is the CFO of Human Demand, Inc. (www.humandemand.com), since its inception in February 2012. Harris is also a limited partner in the ARC Angel Fund (www.arcangelfund.com) in NYC.
Harris has been the Principal of HJ Tax Service, LLC, with offices in New York and New Jersey since 1975. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Accredited Tax Preparer, Registered Tax Return Preparer with the IRS, a Licensed Insurance Agent in NY, NJ and CT, and has his FINRA Series 6 and 63 Licenses.
Harris earned his BS from Long Island University in 1969 and his MBA from Long Island University in 1974.
Heather Coull
Marketing Manager
|Heather Coull joined FundingPost as a Marketing Manager in August of 2009 after working in Marketing, Social Media, and brand development for Bay State College in Boston. Due to her fathers teaching her the passions of entrepreneurialism, Heather started early. As a skilled and professional artist she started Creatively Coull in 2001, and began selling acrylic paintings at a very young age. Creatively Coull also includes the organization of profitable social and charity events, as well as song writing and music production. Heather is also the CEO of Eddie Coull's accessory line for dogs which was launched this past year with great success, and a percentage of all proceeds from this line goes to local dog shelters.
Heather Coull graduated from the New England Institute of Art with a Bachelor Degree of Science in Graphic Design and Advertising in 2006, with previous courses from The Wentworth Institute of Technology in Industrial Design.
Joe Rubin
Joe Rubin is a Director and Co-Founder of FundingPost.com. FundingPost has been introducing entrepreneurs to investors nationwide for over 13 years through its Online Venture Exchange, Dealflow Magazine and organizes Venture Capital and Angel Investor Conferences in 23 cities nationwide. Joe has also invested in 11 seed deals over the past 7 years, including Sticky, Inc. (acquired by Splashtop, Inc.), Senscient, appMobi, Giftworks (acquired by Frontstream Payments), CIMA Systems, was an investor and on the advisory board of Offermobi (acquired by Moko.mobi) and Gozaik (acquired by Monster) and a current advisor and investor in Augmate. Joe spends most of his time working with investors and helping early-stage entrepreneurs, and speaks at events such as the NYC Economic Development Corporation's Jumpstart and Fasttrac Programs, Early-Stage-East, and Connecticut's CTech. He is a speaker at and sponsor of the UCLA Private Equity Club and Disruptive Technologists in NYC, and a Mentor to Angel Groups such as 37 Angels, TopStone Angels and Accel Foods. Joe is also a Founding Partner of ARC Angel Fund, a seed tech fund based in NYC, which has invested in, among others: Upnext (Acquired by Amazon), Medivo, Sidecar, Careerminds, iJukebox and Human Demand. He is a prior board member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) and a founder of FP Angels, a national Angel Investor Group.
Prior to FundingPost, Joe was instrumental in helping to raise $2.5 Million in angel and venture capital for his dot.com start-up producing a family-friendly network and over 100 flash-based video games which were playable online and sold as a compilation in stores like Comp USA. Joe was also the Webmaster at Knight Securities (NASD: NITE), where he helped to design its online trading platform and website. Prior to working Online, Joe worked in television and graphic design for companies such as NBC and MTV, in addition to doing freelance commercial production. Joe began working in television production, graphic design and 3D animation professionally when he was 15, and graduated from Hofstra University with a Bachelor's in Communications. He now lives in Connecticut with his wife and 2 children.
Kenneth Huynh
Entrepreneur In Residence
|Ken specializes in Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service, and Enterprise technologies. He spent more than 10 years immersed in market research and execution of emerging technologies including several years at the private technology think tank, The Research Board, the Gartner Research subdivision. Ken has managed and led initiatives across the full-lifecycle of product development, market research, and business development. Currently Ken is the founder and CEO of the Saucey Sauce Company, a Brooklyn based food startup with an ever growing national distribution including retail chains such as Dean & Deluca, Morton Williams, HEB, and Natural Food Markets. Ken is also a Practice Lead for Virtustream, a Cloud Computing specialist to enterprise customers. Ken has invested in a number of startups including the NY Distilling Company, Kopi Trading Company, and servces as a member of the Local Food Lab, a food startup incubator, and Food Angels.
Matt Michalak
Regional Manager of Sacramento
O2 Naked Air Founder Matt Michalak is driven to say the least. As a young man he found himself enamored with the idea of entrepreneurialism and quickly realized his ability to work with and lead others. Matt thrived in corporate sales early on and was able to earn a nice living. However, Matt's itch for creating his own destiny led him to seek out proven entrepreneurs and business people who would teach, test and equip him. In addition to building his own serviced based business from conception, planning, funding and sale Matt has also acted as an executive assistant to a seven figure interpretation and translation company and later became a personal confidant to its President and VP. Matt has since been involved in consulting with other start-ups on companywide strategy and operations. O2 Naked Air is the second company Matt has launched himself. Matt has led strategy, sales coaching, marketing and business streamlining efforts for his own and other companies. His broad business experience gives him the knowledge for the diverse challenges of running a company.
Matt is the acting CEO of O2 Naked Air. He takes a very personal approach to working with each executive on all areas of the business. Matt works directly with his team in finance, operations and marketing and is involved in all directional decisions. Matt takes very seriously his role in looking for new and innovative ways to improve business efficiency and function and is passionate in his oversight and team's collaborative movement.
Matt has long had a vision to improve others' lives. He believes in personal health and the American dream. Matt sees canned oxygen as the answer to improving anyone one's life and body, no matter what their personal and physical condition or goals. His desire to help others, coupled with a strong belief in Capitalism, drives his mission to make O2 Naked Air available to every breathing human on earth.
Scott Kelly
Regional Manager of Phoenix
Scott Kelly is a 20 year veteran in marketing, sales, training and publicity. He has trained over 1,000 sales people, generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and has taught marketing at the university level in the United States and Europe. As founder and CEO of Black Dog Promotions, Scott has garnered national media coverage for hundreds regional and national brands and established large fan bases for many in the sports, entertainment and business community. When not making his clients famous, Scott spends his time in countless sporting events with his wife and two boys. He loves a good craft beer and playing with his "Black Dog" Shamus.
Spencer Lyon
Regional Manager of Miami
Spencer Lyon is the type of person to think outside of the parallelogram. Before graduating from Florida International University in Miami with a degree in finance, he had already worked with several different startups. From being the Director of Business Development for a biodegradable plastics company to assisting in the startup of a third party logistics company, he is no stranger to laying the foundation down to creating a business. Spencer has a strong understanding of sales, marketing and how to develop a strong brand. At his latest venture of working with a local business radio station he was responsible for, besides organizing his own program called "South Florida Business Spotlight", assisting individuals and businesses with getting their message out on the radio waves. Focusing on the needs of his clients, Spencer would develop full fledged marketing campaigns that would include interviews on his weekly program, advertisements, promotions and sponsorships. Spencer also organized, what he liked to call, live networking events due to the fact that he would be broadcasting live from these events. With his substantial passion for networking and bring people together, Spencer loves to be able to help others become successful.
Stephen Silver
Regional Manager of Orange County
Stephen is a founding partner at FP Angels, a nationwide virtual angel investment group. He is also the founder of SproutStart.com which specializes in website, software and mobile application development.
Stephen is also a partner with MAVN Funding Advisors which specializes in providing a range of funding and business development services for both investors and emerging growth companies. Since 2009 Stephen has connected 14 different ventures with over $15M in venture funding.
Stephen currently sits on the board of directors for the Southern California Venture Network (SCVN.org), a professional networking group focused on helping emerging growth companies. After graduating college, Stephen was the Entrepreneur Director for the Southern California Keiretsu Forum, the nation's largest angel investment group. Stephen managed the dealflow for the group's 250 local Angel investors.
Stephen attended Babson College, the nation's #1 school for entrepreneurship and graduated with a B.S. in business administration, with concentrations in entrepreneurship and marketing, and was awarded a "30 under 30" in Southern CA in 2011.
Yuriy Porytko
Regional Manager of Philadelphia
Yuriy is the entrepreneur's resource champion - networking, partnerships, community building, alliances, funding, mentoring,
and - especially today - learning to do more with less, maximizing yields from limited resources. Yuriy is a Senior Executive with
strategy, business development and Fund Management expertise derived from 20+ years of US and international experience. He
is currently a Founding General Partner of SmartInvest Ventures and a Managing General Partner of SmartStart, a transatlantic
startup accelerator/incubator. Yuriy Co-Chairs Open Access Philadelphia, a think tank and movement of civic-minded, innovative,
entrepreneurial leaders from government, academia and business in Philadelphia, which convenes monthly to share projects and
passion. Yuriy continues to hold advisory roles in Philadelphia Start-up Weekend, Leto Investments LLC and LABACA Venture
Capital, among others.
Yuriy was Founder and COO of Brooks Capital (a $500M Venture Fund) generating multiple high-value portfolio exits in Trade Sales to public and private companies. As a Principal in Sage Technology resources, Yuriy manages deal-flow and due diligence as well as participating as interim-CXO and Board Member in portfolio companies. Yuriy has worked with more than thirty technology startups under many funding structures and successful exits.
Other Activities:
Yuriy is an active participant and speaker in many Entrepreneurship and Start-up communities including PSL, Philadelphia Startup Leaders, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Delaware and Lehigh Valley Startup Weekends, Code for America Philly Brigade and Philly Health Codefest, among others. He has participated in both Company and Product launches at Suburban Connect, Network Visions, Metromedia International and Motorola Toperator, Solar Communications Camanco, PCRoomlink, BCG portfolio: Medcases, Alliance Consulting, Netcarrier, Eclipse Aviation, Santera Systems, Sage Technology Resources, Airdesk, DreamIt, GCV, Chariot ETE, University City Science Center QED technology transfer incubator programs. He is the Organizer of Code for Philly and Curator of Philadelphia StartupDigest.
Yuriy has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in European History, University of Pensylvania, 1991. He is fluent in Ukrainian and proficient in Russian and has travelled extensively in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the former Soviet Union.
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How long does it take to completely recover from hip fracture? I fell on December 8, then had surgery December 10 and came home from the hospital December 11. I'm doing well -- walking with a cane but still limping.
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Dear Faye:
A broken hip is one of the most common orthopedic injuries in people over the age of 65. It usually occurs as a result of a fall. It is often associated with osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is often referred to as having brittle bones due to a loss of calcium.
Although there are several kinds of hip fractures, most are repaired with a hip replacement, also known as a total hip arthroplasty. Approximately 150,000 hip replacement operations are done each year in the U.S., and 500,000 are done worldwide. About half of these surgeries are done under emergency circumstances for a broken hip, and half are planned surgeries because of arthritis or other hip problems. In this operation, the top of the femur (thigh) bone is cut off and a "man-made" top of femur replaces it. This prosthesis is circular or ball-like on top and generally made of metal. A semicircular plastic liner is placed in that part of the pelvis known as the acetabulum. This is where the upper leg comes in contact with the pelvis. The ball-like top of femur sits and moves in the semi-circular acetabulum, and this defines the hip joint.
In the surgery, a lot of muscles and ligaments are pulled and held away from the joint to allow the surgeon access. In this process, these soft tissues are damaged and need to heal after surgery. The patient who has a routine recovery can expect bruising of muscle and inflammation of the tendons at a minimum. These flesh injuries and tendonitis can be extremely painful and limit mobility. It can take several months to a year before complete recovery.
Those whose progress becomes stagnant at any time after surgery should have an evaluation by their orthopedic surgeon. The most common reason for a plateau in recovery is muscle weakness. Patients do benefit from regular physical therapy. Weight training and stretching can strengthen muscles and stretch ligaments. It is unfortunate that there is a tendency to skip physical therapy or take short cuts. This is a special problem among older patients.
Leg length discrepancy is also a common problem after surgery. Orthopedists do work hard to minimize leg length discrepancy, but it is difficult to do. A shoe lift may be needed to equalize the limb length, and some patients do end up needing a cane permanently.
Less common problems are heterotopic ossification and loosening of the artificial hip.
Heterotopic ossification involves a fibrous band that grows about the joint. It causes a stiffening of the hip and can begin occurring 10 days to two years after hip surgery.
Loose hip prostheses were a significant problem 20 years ago but less so today. Loosening of the artificial hip is more common among people who are overweight. When walking, a heavier person puts more stress on the prosthesis as it goes into the bone. Both heterotopic ossification and loosening of the prosthesis are diagnosed with physical examination and radiologic imaging.
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here. I lost sight of that when you suggested we could resolve the problem by placing "can not" with "will not", and I elaborated on why it's not quite that simple a solution, but, having identified that oversight, it's plainly in view again.
Also, I prefer to stick to my own example of "child rape" over "murder" to avoid the confusion between 'killing' and 'murder', and it provides less room for useless, unproductive, semantic quibbling. You can use whatever examples you want going forward, of course. But I intend to stick with mine when it serves my purposes, because I chose specifically it for the reasons I've described above.
Last, I'm completely fine with abandoning terms like "objective" and "intrinsic" going forward. I used them mostly for the sake of brevity, but it's obviously just making everything foggy.
Another thing I've failed to made explicit, and likely isn't obvious to you (being someone who doesn't appear, typically, to delve in the specifics of religions when engaging in theistic topics) is that Christians often rely on non-theistic, philosophical concepts (such as the Harm Principle, for example) when defending their version of morality. For example, they might refer to the harm same-sex marriage will do to society when describing why gay marriage is wrong. But the problem is that they can't rely on such principles because, as you rightly point out, if God can change the moral status of anything, what was a moral principle today could very well be an immoral principle tomorrow. And, when you look at some of the acts in the Bible where God has had direct influence, there seems to be a complete disregard for those principles on God's part, which strongly suggests that whatever practical reasons WE may have for behaving in some way, those reasons ultimately mean nothing.
Consider earlier when talking about acts at 1) harm the victim 2) do not help in any way and therefore is 3) are instances of unnecessary suffering. These are practical reasons that virtually any critically-thinking person will invoke when describing what makes something like rape, theft, or murder actually immoral. And, they are practical reasons that would be unreasonable to disregard. The problem with someone who holds to Divine Command Theory (or ANY theory that holds that there is an ultimate moral arbiter who can change the rules however they want, whenever they want), is that those practical reasons aren't actually available to them in argumentation because they hold that God - and ONLY God - has the ultimate say-so, no matter what.
Let's refer to someone to hold to Divine Command Theory as "DCT".
Suppose that DCT #1 holds that gay marriage is immoral - They hold that it is immoral because God said so (The Old Testament forbids homosexuality)
Suppose that DCT #2 holds that gay marriage is moral - They hold that it is moral because God said so (Jesus said "Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself" and was known to dine with adulterers and the like)
On what basis can they resolve their differences? Can they rely on any practical reasons (that their opponent would be irrational to disregard) in making their case? Nope. The only principle they can rely on is the supposedly "objective" idea that God agrees with them. And if DCT #1 disagrees with DCT #2 (or anyone, for that matter), then there's an intellectual stalemate.
So the problem with DCT theory is that, if you are an advocate, it severely stifles critical thinking in the realm of moral philosophy, while at the same time being touted as the ultimate standard for morality.


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== Pre-Renewal & Renewal Combination Server ==
== Pre-Renewal & Renewal Combination Server ==
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- 1 Pre-Renewal & Renewal Combination Server
- 2 Player chosable exp rates
- 3 Freebies
- 4 Storage
- 5 Hourly Rewards
- 6 World Drops
- 7 World Boss
- 8 Lucky 3 Slotmachine
- 9 Lucky Roulette
- 10 Refine UI
- 11 Level Box
- 12 Achievements & Titles
- 13 Custom Costume Headgears & Enchants
- 14 Original & Custom Instances
- 15 Baby Edits
- 16 Custom Battlegrounds
- 17 Weapon Evolution
- 18 Monster Hunter
- 19 Daily Check-in
- 20 Dual Class
- 21 Soul System
- 22 Spiritual Energy
- 23 Warper
- 24 Alternate Outfits
- 25 Instance Manager & Weekly Quest
- 26 Fortessa Dungeon
- 27 Nightmare Biolab & Quests
In Shining Moon we have some special features including:
Pre-Renewal & Renewal Combination Server
This feature allows you to switch between Pre-Renewal and Renewal through a World Gate, both use their own characters, items / monsters.
You will be in same guild in either of the two, same with party.
You can switch between the two as many times / often as you want without any cooldown / waiting time.
Player chosable exp rates
When you make a character you get prompted upon doing the newbie area if you want to change your rates.
At any point after that you can still change them by typing @baserate or @jobrate 1-100.
Once you have chosen your exp rate it stays that way until changed.
Being in a party with another person with another rate chosen does not affect your exp. You will still get exp based on your own rate, no matter who kills the monster.
A new account made on a computer with an unique hardware ID can get freebies when they create their first character ever.
Some of the items you will get includes:
- 1 Free account-bound costume from Costume Treasure .
- 5 Moonlight Coin
- 1 Sealed Soul
- 1 1 Hour Package Vol. 1
- 250,000 Zeny.
Every character after that gets:
- 1 Cutlas Box
- 1 Rudra Bow Box
- 1 Solar Sword Box
- 1 Wrench Box
- 1 Moonlight Dagger Box
- 1 Poll Axe Box
- 5 Grape Box
- 3 Bowman Scroll
- 1 Sealed Soul
Call Storage
Call Storage is a skill that is unlocked by using 100 Kafra Cards at the NPC Storage Master inside Main Office (@go office). This skill is an accountwide skill, once unlocked by one char it's usable by all other characters on that account. Aswell as future chracters.
Once learned you can find it in your ETC tab in your skilltree. You can also access it by typing @storage/@storage1-5.
Storage Expansion
Every account has 5 basic storages. Each storage contains a limit of 600.
You can rename the storages in the Main Office.
Hourly Rewards
Every 1 hour that you are online you get 2 cashpoints.
Every 2 hours that you are online you get 1 Moonlight Coin.
Note 1: The hours you're online count upwards. You are online 1 hour today and 1 tomorrow = 2 hours total.
Note 2: Venders are a special case, they're inside the hourly counting table but differently counted and rewarded.
-- Vendors get 1 coin every 12 hours.
Note 3: Relogging or disconnecting resets the timer.
Note 4: This has no limitation to IP or Computer.
World Drops
Any monster killed thats +- 40 of your own level.( except MVP slaves, mini boss slaves or any kind of slave ),
Example: You are lvl 50. Any monster between lvl 10-90 have a chance to contain a world drop.
|1x Moonlight Coin
|1x Costume Treasure
|1x Enchant Ore
|1x Token of Siegfried
|10x Kafra Card
|1x Bubble Gum
|1x Enriched Elunium
|1x Enriched Oridecon
|1x Moon Coin
|1x Enchant Certificate
|1x Soul Mastery Scroll
|1x Specific Costume Treasure
|1x Alternate Outfit Ticket
Note: These drops have no level requirement, meaning a lvl 1 novice can find them.
Note 2: These items are added instantly into the inventory.
Note 3: All these items are not bound, they can be traded / storaged / guild storaged and so on.
World Boss
Once the total amount of monsters killed on the server have reached 500,000 and 12 hours of cooldown period have passed the system will automatically summon a random world boss.
There is an NPC in @go 0 that shows the current amount of overall kills and if there is any time left on the cooldown, otherwise it will allow you to warp to the world boss map.
These bosses do not drop items in a normal fashioned way, but instead will reward the player with a World Boss Box based on their damage rank sent instantly to your mail.
There is no limitation as to how many players may receive a reward so even 1 damage makes you eligible. However if the boss is not killed, you'll not receive any reward at all.
Note: There is no level / class / party / guild requirement to participate in this.
Lucky 3 Slotmachine
You can use 2x Moonlight Coins per spin on the Lucky 3 Slotmachine.
You can obtain these coins from various methods ingame.
Fallen Angel Wings ,
Poison Bottle Box [100] ,
Acid Bomb Box [500] ,
RWC 2012 Ring ,
RWC 2012 Pendant ,
Costume Treasure ,
and alot more rare items!
Lucky Roulette
Next to your minimap below Cash Shop you will find Lucky Roulette, which you can spin by using Bronze Coin obtained by chance from Lucky 3 Slotmachine, and x5 from Day 21 at Daily Check-in.
You can get many goodies from Lucky Roulette such as:
Old Card Album
Mystical Card Album
Safe to 7 Armor Certificate
Safe to 8 Armor Certificate
Refine UI
Here in Shining Moon we have a Refine UI.
When you doubleclick on Elunium or Oridecon found in your consumable tab (short Con) in your inventory (alt+e) it will bring up the refine UI for you.
From there you can drag the item you want refined and chose which refine material you wish to use.
At the top of the UI you will see what success chance different items will give, and you will also have the option of using Blacksmith Blessing which you can recieve from Special Lucky 3 by chance.
Below you will see two pictures showing you the UI and how it looks once an item is in it:
Level Box
When you first create a char and login for the first time you will recieve a Level Box in your inventory.
Once you reach a specific level being 1, 50, 99 and 150 you can open the box to gain items to help you in your adventures.
Once a box is opened you will automatically gain the next one, which can then be opened when you reach next required level.
You will gain items such as:
|Basic Package ( Lv 1 )
|Intermediate Package (Lv 50)
|Veteran Package (Lv 99)
|Master Package (Lv 150)
|Battle Manual 50%
|Kafra Card (x2)
|Battle Manual 50%
|Token of Siegfried (x2)
|Novice Potion (x100)
|Small Life Potion (x2)
|Job Manual 50%
|Small Defense Potion (x2)
|Blessing Lv 10 Scroll (x5)
|Assumptio Lv 5 Scroll (x5)
|Regeneration Potion (x5)
|Bubble Gum (x2)
|Agility Lv 10 Scroll (x5)
|Yellow Potion (x100)
|Blue Potion (x25)
|White Potion (x100)
Achievements & Titles
Custom Achievements and Titles
Custom Costume Headgears & Enchants
Custom Headgears Click here for a full list!
Below are previews of 3 different categories:
|Red Monk Hat
|Top Headgear
|Flaming Imperator Wings
|Middle Headgear
|Dimensional Swords
|Lower Headgear
Original & Custom Instances
You can do original and custom Instances for Weekly Quest. You have until Monday 00.00 server time to finish 5 memorial dungeons and hand in at the Instance Manager and he will reward you with Costume Treasure, which contains a random costume headgear, at 00.01 it will reset.
And for doing certain dungeons you get Instance Points, which you can turn in for items.
Note: It doesn't matter if you are the healer or the killer, you will get the points.
Baby Edits
- As a baby char, normally you had certain limitations and penalties, these have been reworked and you can now equip gear that you normally couldn't. For example, a baby Arch Bishop couldn't wear Diabolus Robe because of the "Transcended Status". As-long as it matches your gender, class and level you can equip it.
- There is no longer a penalty to HP/SP. Every Baby Class have the 25% transcended HP/SP automatically.
- You can equip any transcended equipment.
- You will have the the same status points as the "adult" version. e.g. 130 max in a stat.
- You will have the same skill points as the "adult" version.
- You will have the transcended skills for your class, e.g. Assumptio for baby Priest/Arch Bishop.
- Baby chars can purchase a secondary class, just like others. You can also make that a normal char, and if you are adopted, not gone through @babyme or the job changer, the secondary class, even "adult", will be adopted.
- Baby chars has no penalties to stats e.g. ATK, FLEE, HIT.
- Baby chars can purchase alternative outfits, just like normal chars.
- Babies have no penalty towards crafting.
- Baby classes are considered size small in pvp.
Custom Battlegrounds
We have Battlegrounds for those hardcore PvP'ers.
Some of the custom battlegrounds we have are Bossnia (Alterac Valley style from WoW) and Eye of the Storm also based on WoW.
Weapon Evolution
Weapon Evolution can be activated by either using the skill "Weapon Evolution" in your ETC Skill Tree or visiting the NPC Master of Evolutions in the Main Office.
You can activate the Evolution status on any weapon that is within the evolution table of each weapon type.
Upon activation every card and refine will get deleted and the weapon gets bound to character.
You can now see the status of your weapon evolution including the bonuses for having a weapon under the evolution status.
You cannot refine or card the item anymore until that status is removed.
At any given point you can stop an evolution if you prefer another weapon from the evolution table rather than the last weapon.
You can start the evolution at any given point inside the evolution table incase you just want an easier way for a certain weapon.
Example of a table:
|Weapon Type
|Evolution 1
|Evolution 2
|Evolution 3
|Evolution 4
|Evolution 5
|Evolution 6
|Evolution 7
|Earth Bow [1]
|Elven Bow [1]
|Big CrossBow [2]
|Crimson Bow [2]
|Bow of Vicious Mind [1]
|Bow [3]
|Gakkung Bow [1]
|Burning Bow [1]
|Elven Bow [1]
|Gigantic Bow [1]
|Crimson Bow [2]
|Bow of Vicious Mind [1]
|Gust Bow [1]
|Elven Bow [1]
|Bellum CrossBow [0]
|Crimson Bow [2]
|Bow of Vicious Mind [1]
Monster Hunter
Monster Hunter where you can turn in the Monster Hunter Coins you earned from completing Monster Hunter achievements for rewards such as Heroic Backpack , Magical Ring and Rhino Model Hat and many more!
Daily Check-in
In-game we have a feature called Daily Rewards, everyday you can cross one day off of the ingame calendar where you can claim items after 30 minutes online.
There are some nice items you can get such as:
Fallen Angel Wing
Moonlight Coins
Enchant Ore (for enchanting custom headgears)
Gift Buff Set
You can collect your daily reward 30 minutes after you have logged in. However you cannot collect it more than once. After 30 minutes you'll receive a notification that you can collect your reward now!
Type @go office and visit the Special Reward Officer now.
Dual Class
Here in Shining Moon you can enjoy a brand new custom feature called Class Change.
When you reach third job, baby and non baby you can purcase a secondary class and level it just like your main class.
You can then use Class Mastery Book to switch between them depending on what it is you want to do. But there is a 4 second cast and it is interruptible.
For example you could go Arch Bishop for those parties you want to be a part of to support your fellow partymembers, and if you feel like farming zeny you could always take ranger as your secondary class.
And if you are adopted on your main class, you will be adopted on your secondary aswell.
Soul System
The Soul System is about monster souls.
You have a 1.5% chance to seal the soul of a monster into a crystal when killing the monster.
Only monsters within a +30/-30 level range works for this.
Or you can craft them using Soul Shards with the Soul Forge Skill
You can carry at most 50 souls with you at any point.
Master of Souls in Main Office
Master of Souls lets you lock and unlock a monster soul, which means that if you do not wish your monster soul to be overwritten you need to lock it. Unlocking it lets it be overwritten by another monster soul.
The soul system is aswell based on 8 different skills.
Soul Control
Soul Control
Release the captured Monsters soul and merge it with your own while taking control of its power.
Increase All Stats based on the amount of Sealed Souls in your inventory, however +10 to All Stats is the maximum you can get.
Example, 4 Sealed Souls will give you +4 to All Stats.
Materialize Soul
Materialize Soul
Active Skill - Materialize the captured monster soul and have it fight for you.
This will summon an aggressive monster of your saved monster ID and fight with you for x minutes.
Deletes x number of souls depending on skill lvl used (Unless you have Soul Mastery)
Note:Level 3 ALWAYS deletes 3 souls, even WITH Soul Mastery.
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger
Acive Skill - Deletes three Sealed Souls from your inventory to either summon a MvP or have Chronos summon you to his realm.
Soul Mastery does NOT protect your souls from being deleted after using this skill.
This skill has a 12 hours cooldown.
Soul Pulse
Soul Pulse
Active Skill - Deals 10 * ( ATK + MATK * Skill_LV ) miscellaneous soul element damage to all enemies within 23x23 radius Requirement: 1 Sealed Soul * Skill Lvl (cost is halved with Soul Mastery) Note 1: Does not work against players. Note 2: Monsters cannot dodge this skill.
Soul Shatter
Soul Shatter
Active Skill - Deals 1 * ( ATK + MATK ) miscellaneous soul element damage to a monster. Has a 25% chance to create a Soul Shard Note 1: Does not work against players.
Soul Forge
Soul Forge
Supportive Skill - Consumes 10 Soul Shards to create 1x Sealed Soul. 30% chance + 2% * Soul Mastery LV
Active Skill - Summons your Soul Storaged IDs as monsters. Summons at most all 3 different saved IDs. These summoned monsters will not be following you nor teleport with you. They contain no EXP or drops. These monsters will attack other monsters but their damage does not count as your own damage. If the monsters have any supportive skills they will cast them on you as they're friendly monsters. Requirement: 5 Sealed Souls Note 1: These monsters will disappear after 3 minutes.
Soul Mastery
Soul Mastery
Passive Skill - Feature 1: You will not consume any Sealed Souls when using Materialize Soul Lvl 1 or 2.
Feature 2: Increases the chance to synthesize a Sealed Soul using Soul Forge by 2% per Mastery lvl.
Feature 3: Reduces the cost of Soul Pulse by half.
Feature 4: At level 10 grants a chance to have monsters drop a Soul Mastery Scroll on kill.
Spiritual Energy
In Shining Moon you have a Spiritual Energy bar that fills by 1% every time you kill a monster, 5% from MvP's. Once it is filled to 100% you type @release, or use the skill in your skilltree and chose to activate it, it will deplete the bar and give you certain buffs.
The buffs you get are the following:
Blessing LV 10
Agility UP LV 10
Life Insurance
By chance: to gain +1 Moonlight Coin (25% chance)
If you type @release at any point it will give you a menu where you can chose to activate it, read information about it, and disable the bar completely so it won't be shown.
We have a warper in every town that can take you to any level dungeon or any field you so desire. It can aswell send you to any guild dungeon without you actually having to be in a guild.
We also have an option called "Special Areas" where you can go to the Styling Room and try out costumes to see what you would like to wear. In special areas we also have Eden Headquarters, but you could aswell just type @go eden to go there.
In the option "Nightmare" we have all nightmare areas. Nightmare Bio Lab, Nightmare Clock Tower, Nightmare Pyramid and Nightmare Scaraba Hole. In the option "Guild Castles" you find every guild castle that exists. In the option "Guild Dungeons" you can find every guild dungeon for your convinience.
The command @warp was recently added, so if you want to get back to a place fast you could type in your chat @warp pay_fild01 for example and it warps you to the same xy positions the Warper does.
Everything has been added to this command, fields, towns and dungeons.
Alternate Outfits
We have Alternative Outfits for most of the classes in Ragnarok Online, the newest being Shadow Chaser.
To purchase your alternative sprite, go to Prontera, talk to the Stylist and chose Outfit Style.
Each alternate outfit costs 5,000 Cash Points, and is character bound (meaning, if you have two Geneticists, you will need to pay for one outfit for each character).
When it has been purchased, the option text will turn from red to black, and you can switch outfits at any time by returning to the Stylist.
Below is examples of how it would look
Instance Manager & Weekly Quest
Instance Manager
We have a special NPC in Fortessa and Prontera called Instance Manager, which can create and teleport you to any instance there is, with exception for Society Raid and Dark Society.
You can aswell use the Instance Manager below your Basic Information window, just press the arrow button to unfold it.
Both are custom dungeons and are only accessible through the NPC Adventurer Balin.
The Instance Manager will also check for quests you have active for dungeons that require a quest, such as Bios Island.
And also for items for dungeons that requires certain items, such as Octopus Cave.
Weekly Quest
We also have something called Weekly Quest which requires you to finish 5 memorial dungeons in a week and hand it in to Instance Manager before 00.00 on monday (as it resets at 00.01).
Once the quest is finished and handed in he will give you a Costume Treasure which contains a random custom headgear.
Fortessa Dungeon
Fortessa Dungeon is a custom dungeon with a total of 4 levels.
You can obtain special equipment from the monsters inside this dungeon.
This dungeon contains over 50 new items and 13 new custom monsters on top of that every monster have a chance to drop a Fortessa Box which can contain any of the loot or certain other equipment.
Warning !!
This dungeon is not suggested for new players and will definitely kill you.
If you do not care about dying and still wish to venture into certain death this dungeon is the best place for you!
This dungeon requires you to have finished Dark Society at least once.
Nightmare Biolab & Quests
We have Nightmare Bio Lab and Nightmare Biolab Hat Quests here in Shining Moon, which is the 5th floor of Lighthalzen Bio Laboratory.
Here you can talk to a NPC called Memory of Regret located here:
You can convert weapons you obtained on floor 4 from normal monsters and MvP's, such as Krishna , Giant Crossbow and Two-Handed Chrome Metal Sword
The conversion rate is 1 weapon = 1 ~ 3 Energy Debris
And also being able to craft costume versions of 3rd class hats such as Rune Circlet , Mitra and Midas Whisper .
The requirements to craft these headgears are:
1x 3rd job headgear (depending on which costume you want)
50x Energy Debris
You then get for example Costume: Rune Circlet , Costume: Mitra and Costume: Midas Whisper
With those costumes you can then craft Ancient Headgears at
Ancient Headgears are advanced versions of the previous 3rd job headgears.
Below are examples of the three headgears already listened:
| Old Rune Circlet [1]
Rune Knight
| Old Mitra [1]
Arch Bishop
Old Midas Whisper [1]


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Romney now leads the Democrat by 47 percent to 44 percent among likely voters in the online poll, with less than a month before the November 6 election. The Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Wednesday had shown Romney with a one-point lead over Obama, his first lead in the survey in more than a month.
Romney has been enjoying one of his best runs of the campaign after handily winning the first presidential debate last week, partially due to Obama's passive performance in that contest.
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The The Seven Wonders of the Philippines are:
- Rice Terraces of Banaue
- Underground River of Puerto Princessa
- Tubbataha Reef
- Chocolate Hills
- Taal Volcano
- Mayon Volcano
- Boracay
Rice Terraces of Banaue
The Rice Terraces of Banaue are perhaps the most well-known attraction in the Philippines, and no list of the Seven Wonders of the Philippines would be complete without them. Located in central Luzon, they have been carved by local Ifugao people over the last 3,000 thousand years. When you visit, you can see terraces still being built today. The locals often describe the terraces as the largest man-made structure created without forced labor. If each terrace were laid end to end, they would stretch almost 14,000 miles. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995 and are one of 6 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Philippines.
Underground River of Puerto Princessa
The Underground River on the island of Palawan is not only a UNESCO World Heritage site but was named as one of the Earth's New7Wonders of Nature. The Underground River is the longest subterranean river in the world, extending 8.2km underground. Over 2km is accessible to the public. The surrounding National Park includes many species including monitor lizards, the Blue-naped parrot and macaque monkeys. The park is located 50km north of the city of Puerto Princessa on the island of Palawan.
Tubbataha Reef
Located in the middle of the Sulu Sea, Tubbataha Reef is one of the largest and best-preserved reef systems in the world. Actually composed to two atolls, Tubbataha is far removed from any human settlement, it is a 92-mile boat trip from the city of Puerto Princessa. The marine park covers over 968 km² and is home to over 300 coral species and 400 fish species, rivaling the diversity of the Great Barrier Reef. The few pieces of atoll which are above water are also home to a large number of seabirds. It was inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites in 1993.
Chocolate Hills
The Chocolate Hills are located on the Island of Bohol. They are over 1,200 hills, covering over 50 km² and get their name because the grass which covers the hills turns brown during the dry season. The hills are almost all conical in shape and made of limestone. Many people have believed that they were human creations. Geologists are not entirely sure how they were created. Theories include erosion of limestone, volcanic uplift, and accretion of limestone around basalt fragments from a volcanic eruption. The government of the Philippines has declared it one of their flagship tourist destinations. The Chocolate Hills are so central to the people of Bohol, they appear on the flag of the province.
Taal Volcano
Taal volcano has a unique distinction in the world. It contains the largest island, inside of a lake, which is on an island, which is inside a lake, which is on an island. (got that?) Taal is a very active volcano which has killed over 5,000 people in recorded history. It has been named one of the 16-decade volcanoes in the world worthy of special study. Inside the Taal caldera is Lake Tall, which is a 25km across. The lake is known for its high sulfur content and is also home to many endemic species of freshwater fish. Taal is only 50km from the city of Manila.
Mayon Volcano
Mayon volcano is perhaps the most perfectly shaped conic volcano in the world. It has been called by some the "Filipino Mount Fuji". Located in southeast Luzon, it is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. It has erupted close to 50 times since the year 1600, with the most recent eruption occurring in 2006. 77 people were killed in an eruption in 1993 and 75,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes during an eruption in 1984. It rises 2462m over Legazpi City in the province of Albay.
Boracay is a small island approximately 200 miles south of Manila and is very close to the major island of Panay. Its white sand beaches and direct flights from all over Asia have made it one of the Philippines most popular tourist destinations. White Beach is the longest beach on Boracay and extends 4 km on the west side of the islands.
Honorable Mention Wonders of the Philippines
El Nido
Located on the northern tip of the island of Palawan, El Nido is known for its distinctive limestone islands and inlets. El Nido consistently scores high in surveys of top eco-tourist destinations in the world. Forbes magazine rated the wreck dives off the island of Coron as someone of the top 10 dive sites in the world. Archeological evidence of human habitation dating back 22,000 years has also been found in El Nido.
The Province of Batanes is the northernmost, and smallest province in the Philippines. It is located almost halfway between is island of Luzon and Taiwan. The culture of the Ivatan people is unique in the Philippines. Crime in Batanes is almost unknown as many police officials have complained of nothing to do with zero crimes reported and no one in the jails.
Mall of Asia
It may be surprising to some, but one of the largest malls in the world is in Manila. The SM Mall of Asia is the third largest mall in the world in terms of gross leasable area, surpassed only by two malls in China (neither of which is anywhere near capacity). The Mall of Asia consists of four separate buildings connected by open air walkways. It is 50% larger than the Mall of America and 10% larger than the West Edmonton Mall. It addition to the standard mall fare, it also is host to Olympic-sized ice skating rink.
Other articles in Gary's Wonders of the World series:
Seven Wonders of Australia | Seven Wonders of New Zealand | Seven Wonders of Japan | Seven Wonders of Egypt


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Today's the day Chancellor George Osborne revealed the latest government spending cuts.
As usual, we were softened up by horror stories, and as it turned out, they were not far wrong. Others will have their say on whether, say, the loss of a further 144,000 public sector jobs is a good way to stimulate economic growth at this juncture. The news that made me sit up concerned English Heritage, the government body which manages the historic built environment of England.
The BBC reports today that "English Heritage has been given £80m in the government's Spending Review". Maria Miller, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, said: "The new £80 million investment for English Heritage is fantastic news and recognises the vital importance of the historic environment to our national life." Who can argue with that? Well, watch me try. This windfall is in fact a part of a process to transfer English Heritage to the charitable sector, and I have some big problems with that.
There's a bit more detail available, although it's all pretty new stuff. English Heritage is to become a charity by 2015. The new charity will manage the National Heritage Collection, which includes Osborne House, Stonehenge, and many other monuments and artefacts: as English Heritage does now. Statutory English Heritage responsibilities such as listing buildings will remain government funded – it's hard to see how they couldn't be. The new English Heritage charity will have, in the words of the official EH statement: "more freedom to generate greater commercial and philanthropic income". And the ultimate purpose of all this? The government currently contributes £22m annually towards this work. Government funding for the new "National Heritage Protection Service" will be be reduced after 2015, eventually to nothing.
Continue reading Government set to create massive new heritage charity to compete with National Trust, Wildlife Trusts


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The only institution in the state to offer a graduate degree in art history at both the master's and doctoral level.
Considered one of the leading programs in the nation for training in ballet and modern dance technique.
The second oldest established school in the nation, behind Yale University.
Oklahoma's only comprehensive music school.
Musical Theatre
The only School of Musical Theatre within a public university in the country.


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Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates. Five of the more promising words on offer to the American television audience, and reason enough for even those put off by the absurd amount of sexual violence, sadistic brutality, extreme gore and downright silliness that marked the first two seasons of FX's "American Horror Story" to gather 'round for the third.
With "American Horror Story: Coven," which premieres Wednesday, creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk seem to be choosing the more traditional elements of a deliciously scary campfire story over the hyperbolic elements of comic book horror (Nazis! Aliens! Serial killers and their serial-killing sons! Anne Frank! ) of previous seasons.
There's still blood and gore all over the floor, mind you. Not to mention rape, gruesome torture and evil run riot, and that's just the first episode. But there's also a lightness of touch and tone, a backlight of sly humor and, more important, a clearly delineated narrative.
PHOTOS: TV witches -- The funny, the spooky and the ugly
In a post-"Harry Potter" world, a young witch discovering her powers and peers is not, perhaps, the most original story. YA fiction is chock-a-block with teens learning that they are really members of an outlier caste — children of gods or demon hunters — for which there is a special school. But witches offer an enticing blend of the mortal and nether worlds, with plenty of terrifying possibilities.
And, in this case, a cast that just does not stop. Bates is not the only A-list newcomer; Angela Bassett, Emma Roberts, Gabourey Sidibe, Patti LuPone and Mare Winningham are also joining the already high-wattage series regulars, who include Lange, Sarah Paulson, Taissa Farmiga, Jamie Brewer, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy and Denis O'Hare.
The action begins in New Orleans, 1834, at the home of Bates' psycho-socialite Madame Delphine LaLaurie (an actual historical figure), who debuts her daughters downstairs while horrifically torturing her slaves in the attic. Cut to the signature creepy credits (say what you will about this series, it always has terrific credits), then present day, where young Zoe (Farmiga) attempts to have sex with her boyfriend and winds up killing him. As with so much of the "American Horror" franchise, "Coven" takes the Puritanical view of female sexuality (life-sucking power in need of control) quite literally.
Here at least it serves a purpose beyond misogynist metaphor. Zoe discovers she is descended from a long line of witches, and her parents know just what to do: ship her off to Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies in New Orleans. There, she meets mild-mannered Headmistress Cordelia Foxx (Paulson) and students Madison (Roberts), Queenie (Sidibe) and Nan (Brewer); each witch-girl possesses a different supernatural gift along with the requisite adolescent attitude.
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Cordelia favors a curriculum of repress and control, which is swiftly interrupted by the return of her mother, Fiona, (Lange), this generation's Supreme witch. Fiona has a very different ideology. "When witches don't fight, we burn," she tells her young charges as they trail after her through the streets of New Orleans like figures from an Edward Gorey drawing.
Fiona is also concerned with the rigors of mortality — being a Supreme does not prevent death, or wrinkles. A side trip to Madame LaLaurie's house reminds her of Delphine's own ghastly beauty ritual, and the possibility of a perilous, but narratively productive, alliance arises. Literally.
"Come on, Mary Todd Lincoln," Fiona says when the two finally meet, "let's go get a drink."
The prospect of watching Lange and Bates toil and trouble their way through the Big Easy casts a spell of its own, but there is plenty of plot to go around. Good witches and bad witches, young witches and old witches, all embodying, one hopes, the many faces of the archetypal crone rather than just vessels for more violence.
As with the opening of any good ghost story, the pilot is something of a feint. The quartet of young women flounce and sulk like a diverse cross between "Pretty Little Liars" and "Charmed," O'Hare spends his few moments on-screen as a mute servant in a fright wig, Bassett's sorceress is but briefly glimpsed and LuPone is nowhere in sight. All that will change, no doubt. There will be blood, and monsters, power plays and many horrible things going bump in the night.
More important, most important, there will be Jessica Lange. Having used her considerable gifts to heave the "American Horror Story" franchise out of the teeming guts of torture porn into its occasional moments of humanity, she has earned a role in which she can vamp and terrorize. In and out of control, as vulnerable as she is powerful, Fiona is, essentially, a grim student of women's history, in which playing by society's rules rarely works out well.
If witchcraft is a time-honored and double-edged metaphor for female sexuality, Lange's Fiona seems determined to show us what a midlife crisis really looks like.
'American Horror Story: Coven'
Where: FX
When: 10 p.m. Wednesday
Rating: TV-MA (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 17)
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The insert filter method is called when an SAF such as insert-filter calls the filter_insert function to request that a specific filter be inserted into the filter stack. Each filter must implement the insert filter method.
When insert is called, the filter can determine whether it should be inserted into the filter stack. For example, the filter could inspect the content-type header in the rq->srvhdrs pblock to determine whether it is interested in the type of data that will be transmitted. If the filter should not be inserted, the insert filter method should indicate this by returning REQ_NOACTION.
If the filter should be inserted, the insert filter method provides an opportunity to initialize this particular instance of the filter. For example, the insert method could allocate a buffer with MALLOC and store a pointer to that buffer in layer->context->data.
The filter is not part of the filter stack until after insert returns. As a result, the insert method should not attempt to read from, write to, or otherwise interact with the filter stack.
For more information, see insert() Function in Chapter 6, NSAPI Function and Macro Reference.


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I was completely excited when a comment on my blog lead to me finding Susan from Love Where you Live. Not only does she write an interior design blog, but she owns her own home store! Hello, dream job! I was totally in awe of her and wanted to be her new BFF.
Then I found out that she is also a magazine scout, which means she gets to scout out locations/home in the TX area and submit them to shelter mags to be featured! Ok talk about dream job number 2!!!!
She splits her time between Salida, Colorado and Galveston, TX and today she is letting us in on a day in her life as a shop keeper. In the coming months she will follow up with a day in her life as a magazine scout.
So sit back, relax and enjoy!
6:30 a.m. — I've been awake, a little sore from moving around furniture in our store a few days ago. But it's time to get up. There's a chill in the air. So, I've grabbed a sweater and some socks (which I prefer over slippers).
With toes all warm, I'm ready to walk into my kitchen. Our bedroom is just off an open-concept room here in Colorado, where the living and dining rooms converge with the kitchen. Anyway, time to make tracks to the coffee maker!!
6:50 a.m. – Fresh coffee is brewing. It won't be long now . . . Coffee in hand, (Love the large Cuisinart that makes 14 cups – perfect for company.) I head for our long front porch that offers some spectacular view of the Rockies. My plants need a little water, and the hummingbirds are hungry, too.
Now, it's time to pour more coffee and watch the news . . . .
Up until about 8 a.m. – I'm sitting over in one of two wingback chairs flanking the rock fireplace, I learn Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, has received her first haircut ever in Las Vegas. And her guardian, Sister Rose, has asked the hairdresser to pick up from the floor alltraces of her hair…… Time to walk.
8:10 a.m. – I slip on these well-worn (in case you didn't notice) Land's End athletic shoes to head out with my dog, Sam, for a 2+ mile walk. (Oh, I never forget my i-tune thingy.)
8:22 a.m. Before heading back home, Sam, our 3-year-old Australian Shepherd, takes a quick swim. (We have an irrigation pond on our property.) I also take a look at my plants in back and give them a little water.
9 a.m. – I make and eat a bowl of oatmeal – with raisins. Then I prepare my lunch. A salad. And I take some snacks: yogurt and a couple of leftover polenta things. I shower, get dressed, put on my makeup – and a pair of black, strapy low-heeled numbers:
Gotta go, gotta go .. . grab my lunch, laptop, purse….
10:10 a.m. – I'm at Sears! (I know I'm running late…. eek.) I'm looking at dishwashers. I want to replace the one we have – a Whirlpool – with a Bosch. I know what I want; I've studied the offerings online. I really wanted to see in person the dishwasher drawers, which intrigue me. But, the Kenmore drawers don't get positive customer reviews. Too bad. Do you want to weigh in on these or other models? (As a shop owner, I appreciate the importance of shopping local. So, my choices are a little limited. So, Sears it is.) I do like Bosch; I've gotten them in the past for a few homes. It will be a quiet and efficient addition to our open-concept home.
10:25 a.m. – I'm leaving Sears. Denny, the manager, says he will look to see if any of the Bosch models are going on sale soon and will call to tell me. Wow. Nice small-town touch. Save me money. I like that. (So does my husband.)
I've reached our store:
10:45 a.m. – The Green Plum (Salida, CO) is supposed to open at 10:30. Guess it's a good thing I'm the boss. I start by taking out the connected whitewashed "revival" chairs. I place them so passersby can sit under the red awning. Plus, it's an eye catcher. It's good, too, that people congregate around the shop door. Looks like I'm a happening place (smile). I turn on some music, plug in scented oil . . . and take my lunch to the kitchen fridge.
11 a.m. – I turn on my computer. Look at email. See that I've got an invite to visit an exhibitor at the Las Vegas market. The vendor looks interesting, so I visit their site online, register as a retailer ….. Now, I'll have to wait for them to approve my access.
11:30 a.m. –Denny at Sears calls to tell me the high-end model I like will go on sale this Friday. I'll save $200-$300. Yeah. I make a note to call him then.
Noonish — I call a curtain vendor I want to add to our line. I want to order samples for a catalogue customers can peruse. It also will allow them to see and touch the fabrics. They're hard to get through to . . . is that sign? Hmmm….
I now look again at another vendor that I found when at the Denver market recently:
I browse their catalogue and go online. What do you think of these things? They caught my eye:
I thought the fireplace mantel might work in my display window for the Holidays. Picturing stockings and a pretty display of mercury glass on the shelf.
We'll see…. They Web site indicates they're out of stock on many things. Do I sense a problem.Hmmm..
Customers continue to come in to browse, talk…. I invite each to try out this terrific soybean candle (Colorado made – and only $20!!) that contains a moisturizer to use on hands, elbows, feet (it gets soooo dry up here during the winter months)
"Enjoy the lovely scent of this candle," I tell each, "and as it melts, apply a bit of the liquid to your hands." (It doesn't burn.) One customer buys all of the vanilla pear scent. Christmas presents for friends, she says. (This reminds me how soon the holidays will be here!)
Next in . . . UPS and then Fed-X. They come with big boxes:
2ish p.m. – I've started to open up the packages, but I'm getting hungry. Salad time. Yum (I'm easy).
I start to figure pricing on the items and fill out little price tags….
2:30 p.m. — One customer comes in and likes the little dogs posing as leash holders. I've just taken them out of the box and set them on the counter by me. Good thing I've already done the pricing. I'm prepared. She takes two:
I continue to unpack my goodies for the store . . .
dragonfly coasters (they look like fossils almost)
pinecone candleholders
and the cutest, a woodpecker doorknocker
4:45 p.m. – The day has gone by pretty quickly. My husband calls to say he'll swing by and pick me up in about 10 minutes. We're meeting friends downtown for an early dinner.
8:30 p.m. – Back home. We enjoyed the evening. Thought we were going for Thai food, but the people who prepare it –only once a week at this terrific Riverside place — are dealing with a family emergency. So, we walked over to another place.
Anyway, it's been a nice day. Tomorrow, I really need to work on my bookkeeping; my accountant keeps hounding me…. And, I've got to write copy for a local ad…. Oh, and I need to break down boxes. It never ends.
All good! 'night.
A big thank you to Susan for participating. I loved every second of it and I must get my hands on that dog leash holder. Love it!
I hope you all enjoy the long weekend!
Tomorrow my husband who wants to make me prematurely gray is having his first solo sky-dive! Then it's off to the vineyards to celebrate my parents 29th wedding anniversary!
I promise to talk lots of pics!
Enjoy these last couple of days of summer.


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Saints midfielder Jason Puncheon has completed a permanent move to Crystal Palace.
The 27-year-old has signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with the Eagles, who he joined on loan earlier this season.
Palace are understood to have paid about £1.75m to secure his services long-term.
Puncheon signed for Saints in February 2010, making 81 appearances for the club and scoring ten goals.
He has played 22 times for Palace this term, netting three goals.
Puncheon said: "It is great to sign a permanent deal, it's something I dreamt about when I was a kid so I'm pleased to get it done.
"The massive factor in this was the chairman and the manager, the gaffer has shown great faith in me since he has been here and that's been unbelievable for me.
"It is a boost for me mentally - I thought it might happen at the end of the season, but it has come quicker and, obviously, that is good for both me and the football club."


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When it comes to femininity and sophistication, Fornarina definitely knows how things work. For the upcoming warm season, the famous label brings a beautiful, flirty and super-chic collection featuring an alluring parade of dreamy hues. Drawing its inspiration from a Maghrebian ambience and taste, the Fornarina spring/summer 2012 ad campaign manages to flawlessly express the graceful vibe of the collection. The Fornarina girl is "a new Venus" who "rises from inlays and mosaics in a kaleidoscope of colours, she is clad in precious and... Read More
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Tracking the Invaders
By Anna Lena Phillips
A new study uses air travel and climate data to predict the riskiest times for invasions by nonnative species
A new study uses air travel and climate data to predict the riskiest times for invasions by nonnative species
It's not just ecosystems that feel the effects of invasive species. They're an increasingly obvious threat to economies as well. A 2005 estimate from David Pimentel and his colleagues at Cornell University put the cost of annual environmental damage and losses due to invasive species at nearly $120 billion—and that was just for the United States. But with limited funds and the involvement of many parties, it can be hard to prevent the introduction of potentially harmful species into new locales, and even harder to restore ecosystems once such species have become established.
Andy Tatem, a professor of geography with the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida, believes we need better tools for predicting when and where the risk of species invasion is high. In a paper published online in March in the journal Ecography, he demonstrates just such a tool.
"It's really about exploring what barriers there are left in the world to the movement of invasive species," Tatem says. "Up to a hundred years ago, sheer distance would have been the major barrier preventing species movement."
But the worldwide airline network has changed all that. As international travelers know from strict customs warnings, the likelihood of potentially invasive organisms traveling by air to new destinations can be high. Fruit flies, beetles, moths, mollusks, nematodes, mites, mosquitoes—all have been known to hitch an airplane ride, whether it's in a suitcase, inside a mango someone has brought home to eat or buzzing about in the flight cabin.
Another important factor is easier to miss: If the places of origin and destination have similar climates, the risk that a climatically sensitive organism will get established in a new place increases.
In a 2007 study, Tatem and epidemiologist Simon I. Hay detailed a set of indices for measurement of these factors. Tatem has now applied them to create predictions about future risk. "This is the first time more contemporary and future projections have been used," he says. He compiled data on international air-traffic routes, passenger and freight volumes, and yearly and seasonal climatic conditions for each of 3,570 airports and a total of 44,000 flight routes. These current measurements and economic and climate-change projections allowed him to create models for each month from 2007 to 2010.
First, Tatem focused on flight routes. To determine how similar the climatic conditions are at the origin and destination of a given route, he calculated the Euclidean distance between the set of several climatic variables at each location. The climatic Euclidean distance (CED) for a given route and month incorporates data on projected air temperature, total precipitation and relative humidity. A relatively low CED indicates that the regions connected by the route have similar climates during that month; a relatively high CED suggests that the regions will have dissimilar climates. Next, the factor of air-traffic volume was added to produce the CEDt, or traffic-scaled climatic Euclidean distance, for each route.
To identify airports with higher numbers of low-CED routes, the climatic similarity index (CSI) was calculated. For a given airport, this index takes into account the number of other airports from which incoming direct flights arrive. Finally, a traffic-scaled climatic similarity index, CSIt, combines climatic distance, traffic volume and number of low-CED routes to create a relative indicator that identifies airports with high incoming traffic from a greater number of regions with similar climates—and thus higher risk.
For example, according to the indices, June 2010 will have particularly high overall risk. But that's just "within the limits of the study," Tatem cautions, highlighting the need for further work. "If we extrapolate to 2011 or 2012, the summertime may be the most risky."
Stas Burgiel, policy director for the Global Invasive Species Programme, likes the study's real-world relevance: "This type of work offers tools and analysis with direct application for decision-makers and border control staff, whereas a significant portion of the academic literature on invasive species remains two to three degrees removed from policy relevance."
Tatem would like to take this even further. "I'd like to make it available as a free online resource and have data sets on specific species that have invaded in the past," he says. This would allow airport authorities to figure out when their highest-risk times are and even what organisms to watch for.
Even without such a program, though, airport authorities can use inferences from the study to determine when to concentrate staff and resources for the next couple of years. "Governments need good early warning and inspection procedures—ultimately, to save them money," says Tatem.
Speaking of money, what would he do if he had unlimited funding for this work? "I'd probably try to implement standardized data-gathering techniques at all airports, seaports and border crossings for a range of notifiable species," he says, "so that we can get an idea of how different transport techniques, traffic levels, times of year and routes translate to numbers of exotic organisms being moved around the world."
Such extensive study would "give us a solid quantitative base on which to build models." Economists and ecologists can likely agree that this would be a good thing.—Anna Lena Phillips
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