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Sending the Patriots Home
The Tigers end homecoming week with a bang.
After a great homecoming week full of rappers, rockers, 70's disco dancers, and plenty of movie and tv characters, it was time for the annual homecoming football game. Homecoming week is always a great week, and is always highlighted by the big game. This year was no different. The Tigers went up against the Massac County Patriots in a huge conference game. The crowd was ready for another exciting homecoming game and that's exactly what they got.
Right out of the gate, the Tigers pounced on the Patriots. The first quarter was full of highlight plays from seniors Jackson Yates and Tate Johnson, along with an outstanding catch from sophomore Billy Braid. The first quarter ended with a score of 21-0 in favor of the Tigers. In the second quarter, the Tigers kept coming, and at the end of the half, the Tiger were up 33-6.
The second half was just as action packed, with many great plays from both the offense and the defense. Halfway through the third quarter, Herrin started putting in the backups, and one they were up by forty point, the clock started running, and didn't stop. The game was over after that, and the Tigers came out on top with a score of 49-13.
Overall, the Tigers had stats from almost everyone in the team. The defensive stats are highlighted by Yates with six solo tackles, and many other players having four solo tackles, including an impressive second half performance by sophomore Iverson Brown. On offense, Yates ran for 148 yards, with three touchdowns. Yates also caught four passes for 133 yards and two more touchdowns. Sophomore quarterback Chance Karnes ran for 63 yards and a touchdown, and completed seven passes for 172 yards and two touchdowns.
After the game, senior Mathew "Chewy" Warren has a lot to say about that outstanding game. "We had a lot of new guys come in this season. We had to teach them a lot of new things so we just work together. It works out pretty good. I'm pretty fired up right now. We just beat Massac pretty good. Pretty good feeling." With it being Warren's last season, he had some things to say about it. "It's a pretty good feeling. I know it's my last year but I go out and play everyday and play my heart out, knowing I'm not gonna get to come back out here next season.
And with that, homecoming week comes to close (but not without the dance of course). Herrin can gladly say that it was an amazing homecoming week, and the students can't wait until this time next year!
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Sometimes, people are unexpectedly sweet. Last week, one of my choir members brought me three (3!) pairs of really cute shoes, brand new, because someone at her job had wanted to give them away and she thought of me. I am excited because, obviously, yay shoes!!! But also because I have never been the kind of woman people thought of, well, at all, but mostly in connection with cute fashion items. When I was with Asshole, I had four wearable pairs of shoes, including dress and workout shoes. He had 5 pairs of sneakers. So, someone associating ME with something fashionable and pretty is just..... Bizarre.
Behold my surprise shoes!


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The Wisconsin literary magazine
Mulany, John V., Editor
The Wisconsin literary magazine
Vol. V, No. 7
Madison, WisconsinApril 1908
URL to cite for this work: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Literature.v05i07
[Cover] The Wisconsin literary magazine
A Wisconsin poet, Wilcox, Ella Wheeler pp. 285-289
Further adventures of Don Quixote, Lundquist, Frances pp. 290-297
The irresistible force, Birchard, Ralph pp. 298-301
An Italian spring morning, Webb, Alice L. p. 302
A stylite of St. Anne's, Shannon, Shirley H. pp. 303-308
Lines on acquaintances, Willis, P. M. p. 308
The seat of learning at Ouisconsang, Parmley, H. J. pp. 309-312
Delilah, Buchen, Walther p. 313
From the second story, Corbett, Elizabeth F. pp. 314-315
Impression, LPS p. 315
Chubby, Burnham, D. M. pp. 316-317
The professor's secret, Kemp, William B. pp. 318-323
The boy and the devil, Moe, Jorgen p. 324
The eternal feminine, Burnham, Dorothy Maria pp. 325-329
Entre nous, pp. 330-331
Editorially, p. 331
Based on date of publication, this material is presumed to be in the public domain. For information on re-use see: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Copyright


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Medicine supervisor bans turnover of some Indian preparations
The State Service of Ukraine for Medicines and Drugs Control has temporarily banned the sale and application of several preparations made by Genom Biotech Pvt. Ltd. (India).
The authority posted its resolution dated November 28 on its official website.
According to the resolution, the authority temporarily bans turnover of six Indian preparations LANZA, COFEX, SIGAN, ENZYMTAL, COLDFLU and TILDA.
In addition, the authority banned Espumisan preparation manufactured by Berlin-Chemie (Menarini Group, Germany) and Ringer's solution.


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Introduction: Coconut Cinnamon Jam (diabetic Friendly)
It was a purchase gone wrong that led to an experiment gone right.
Since I was diagnosed a couple of months ago with type 2 diabetes, I have been reading up on all the good and bad foods for someone like me. One thing I have seen quite a bit of is the benefits of coconut for people with type 2. So, when I saw some coconuts on sale at the local supermarket (Yay!), I bought one.
All day, yesterday, I was looking forward to getting home from work, cracking open that nut, and enjoying some fresh coconut flesh. It had been a rather tough day at the office, and I was anxious for a little treat to pick my spirits up. I spent almost an hour peeling away the husk to get to the nut. I openned a hole, and drained the water into a glass. I was brimming with excitement by this point. Several taps with a hammer to break through the shell.
... Disappointment ... I almost cried ... almost ...
Instead of an approximate 1/2 inch thick layer of white flesh, there was less than 1/8 inch. I was able to scrape it all out with a spoon, and had barely a 1/4 cup of coconut to eat. But it wasn't nice chunks to chew on, but thin shavings. My first thought was to cook it, and put it in the freezer until I could figure out what to do, so into the pot it went. As I was turning on the heat, I remembered something another diabetic (my mother) had recently told me. "Add lots of cinnamon to your diet."
An idea was born. An experiment began.
(Since this was not what I initially planned to do, I did not get any pictures taken. I will be sure to do so with the next batch and update this instructable.)
Step 1: The Ingredients
1/4 cup fresh coconut flesh
1/2 cup fresh coconut water
1 Tbs ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
small saucepan
small jar or container for finished product (baby food jar works)
Step 2: The Coconut
Make sure you are using fresh coconut. You don't want something processed, or that has had the oil pressed out of it already.
Shred or chop about 1/4 cup of coconut flesh, and put it into a small saucepan. One easy way to do this is to drop chunks into a blender.
Pour 1/2 cup of coconut water over the flesh. You could use regular water if you wish, but I like the extra flavor from the coconut's own water.
Bring to a light boil, then reduce heat to a low simmer.
Step 3: Spices
Stir in 1 Tbs of ground cinnamon. If you want the bennefits for diabetes, be sure to use Ceylon cinnamon (this is the normal/real cinnamon), not Cassia.
Add 1/8 tsp of nutmeg.
Simmer until most of the water evaporates out, leaving a syrup or jam like consistency.
Be sure to stir frequently to avoid burning.
Step 4: Finishing Up
Spoon the mixture into an open jar, and set it aside to cool. I set my jar into a bowl of cold water, and changed out the water every few minutes to speed the cooling.
Once it has cooled, put the lid on the jar, and store it in the refridgerator.
I enjoyed a teaspoon of my new jam spread over a slice of low-carb flax seed bread.
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I have since learned from a co-worker that the coconut I bought (with the pith/fiber still on it around the shell) is a "young" coconut, and is supposed to only have a thin, soft layer of coconut flesh. If you want to avoid my mistake, do not buy one with the pith still on.
Coconut & cinnamon are two of my favourite flavours... and I'm diabetic... all I need now is a coconut... will see about putting that on my shopping list for next week! :-)


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Pregnancy can be a joyous time for the expecting mother, knowing that she will soon welcome a beautiful newborn child to the world and will have the privilege to watch the child grow and learn. However, with this joyous time, comes a variety of pain ranging from back pain to migraines that can negatively affect the mother's quality of life. With not only their own health, but the baby's health in mind, mothers are often rightfully weary of taking potentially dangerous pain medications. A treatment that many women have found to be effective at relieving pain during their pregnancy is chiropractic care.
Chiropractic adjustment have been proven to reduce pain in the low back, pelvis, and hips of pregnant women. Additionally, chiropractic adjustments help ease sciatica pain, reduce stress, and reduce the frequency of headaches during pregnancy. In addition to these benefits, some of the other major benefits of visiting a chiropractor during pregnancy include relieving neck and joint pains, controlling symptoms of nausea, reducing the time of labor and delivery, and reduction in the likelihood of needing a cesarean delivery.
Some of the more common reasons for the pains experienced during pregnancy, specifically lower back pain include weight gain, hormonal changes, posture changes, muscle separation, and stress. Each of these factors plays a different role in the increase of lower back pain during a women's pregnancy. However, it is not just the mother who can benefit from her receiving chiropractic care during pregnancy.
The child being born can also benefit from the mother's chiropractic care during her pregnancy. For example, misalignment in a pregnant woman's pelvis can lead to a condition known as torticollis in the child. Torticollis is the contracting of neck muscles in an unborn child or infant, causing the head to twist to one side. The baby's head being turned during pregnancy may impair the development of nervous systems and adversely affect the a number of the baby's body functions and systems. This turning of the baby's head during the labor process can also create problems for the mother in the form of a longer, more uncomfortable, and more complicated delivery process.
In recent years, more and more expecting parents have come to see the benefits that chiropractic care has to offer during the pregnancy and delivery process. If you or someone you know is currently pregnant, give Advanced Chiropractic & Rehab a call today at (330) 726-7404 to schedule a free consultation to see how we can help. We have been servicing the Youngstown and Mahoning Valley area since 2001 with convenient locations in Boardman, Hubbard, and Kinsman. At Advanced Chiropractic & Rehab, we are a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation group that treats work comp injuries, whiplash, and sports injuries and specializes in much more than just lower back pain.


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Archive for June 2015
Many who serve in church IT are frustrated because they don't feel the support of their church leadership. This is more common than one might believe, and there are reasons for it!Read More
OS Version Update: Windows, OSX, Android, & iOS
The Operating Systems (OS) on our computers and devices impact our computing experience and productivity. Whether it's about Windows, OSX, Android, or iOS– the question I often get is, "What's current and, even more important, what's dependable?"Read More


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The former Member of Parliament(MP) for La-Dadekotopon in the Greater Accra Region, Nii Amasah Namoale has noted that Ghana's Parliament will not be taken serious, if it goes ahead to abrogate the Ameri deal.
According to him, the international business community will not take Ghana's Parliamentary proceedings serious if it goes ahead.
He said this will be a dangerous precedent for doing business across the world.
Nii Amasah Namoale, one of the aspirants in the race for the presidential slot of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) made this comment when he appeared on Happy FM's "Epa Hoa Daben'.
He maintained that this action on the part of the current Parliament led by the Adansi-Asokwa Member of Parliament in the Ashanti Region, KT Hammond will not auger well for the country, business wise.
He questioned how a deal rectified by the same Parliament could be reviewed by the same Parliament.
According to him, this will create the perception that Ghana is not worthy doing business with international business community in the West African sub-region.
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text: On a recent trip to Elmhurst I stopped by an Asian market on Broadway. I picked up a few things: Chinese broccoli, a tub of fresh coconut and tapioca candies, and a bag of yam leaves. Never having seen them before, I wasn't sure what to do with them; I just hoped they wouldn't be as intensive as the pumpkin vines I used in WI. My "extensive" research told me that they were not — I simply had to pick off the leaves and tender parts of the stems. I quickly sauteed some mushrooms, then tipped them out of the pan into a bowl. I added a bit more oil to the pan, then tossed in the yam leaves. When they began to wilt I salted them and tossed them, then added the mushrooms back to the pan. I added a splash of vinegar and soy sauce, and covered it for a moment to let it all steam together, then served the mix over rice. The yam leaves didn't have unique flavor; they were delicious, tender greens, with texture similar to pea shoots. They're much easier to use than those pumpkin vines; if you see yam leaves on sale, I'd recommend picking some up.


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Prison warden threatens hunger strikers
Patnos Type L Closed Prison's Second Warden threatened to kill the hunger strikers.
The pressure on hunger strikers protesting the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan in the Patnos Type L Closed Prison has increased to the point of death threats.
The second warden has threatened to kill the prisoners. The prisoners sent a message with their families during the visitation on Wednesday and said the warden continuously patrols their wards and threatens them, saying "I am the state, you will all die here."
Prisoners' relatives said the hunger strikers are not given enough liquids and that they are only given the B1 vitamin pills.
2 of the hunger strikers were reported to be in critical condition.


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The hard stuff
Remember when you were just a little kid and your older family member's seemed super impressive and extremely complicated?
Did you recall that when you thought back to those moments years later, you realized you had become the older person with all the hard work they "just did"? Congratulations, you're smarter than the you from ten years ago! As trivial as it seems, I feel like it can be used as a decent measure to track progress. One of my first ventures into programming was when I attempted to learn C++ when I was, what, twelve? C++ isn't exactly a beginner friendly language (though depending on what you want to learn can be a good starting point), and when they started explaining pointers I struggled for a day or two and then just gave up. My little baby mind couldn't grasp their concept.
Only weeks ago, I taught myself everything C++-related I need to know to work with it. That is, I know the foundation, the concepts behind it, and to use the standard library because it's damn large and has all the wheels I might ever want to invent pre-built for me. Looking back, I have no idea how pointers seemed so hard to me. Maybe the explanation wasn't that good? A pointer is just a location in memory, that's all there's to it. (On the other hand, I definitely can, because hey, twelve-year-old me didn't know fuck-all about low-level concepts.)
Since that one negative experience pointers have always seemed like something super daunting to me. It feels really cool to add them as another tool onto my belt, conquering my childhood nemesis and becoming someone I'd have idolized. Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I've finally done something I used to think I never would be able to. That's growth.
But hey, if you haven't grown compared to your pre-teen years then there's definitely something concerning going on.
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Testability: Internal State Collapse
So I have started research for a book that I would like to write. I am currently looking for a metric or metric that will indicate when a design is not very testable. I came across an interesting concept, internal state collapse. This is where the input parameters are not released from the member. For example:
public interface IWarehouse
bool HasInventory(InventoryItem inventoryItem, int amount);
void Remove(InventoryItem inventoryItem, int amount);
void Add(InventoryItem inventoryItem, int amount);
The members Add and Remove do not release amount or inventoryItem. This is known as internal state collapse. The interest here is that it is very difficult to test. Lets examine this a little closer.
public void Add(InventoryItem inventoryItem, int amount)
if (this.HasInventory(inventoryItem, amount))
this.Inventory[inventoryItem] = (int) this.Inventory[inventoryItem] + amount;
this.Inventory[inventoryItem] = amount;
No surprises there. Some people might say "well just use HasInventory to verify that Add was successful". This is fine in production code but test code should try not to use production code to verify production code. What if there was a bug in HasInventory? When trying to test Add I don't want to get sidetracked by a bug elsewhere in the product. So the problem is that the information needed for verification is not accessible or in other cases has vanished. After more research I found an answer:
public void Add(InventoryItem inventoryItem, int amount)
if (this.HasInventory(inventoryItem, amount))
this.Inventory[inventoryItem] = (int) this.Inventory[inventoryItem] + amount;
System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(this.Inventory[inventoryItem] > amount, "The inventory should be more than the amount that was just added.");
this.Inventory[inventoryItem] = amount;
System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(this.Inventory[inventoryItem] == amount, "The inventory should be that same as what was just added.");
This feels a lot like a stint to me. The assertions act as stints allowing the verification while maintaining encapsulation. I have seen other solutions that offer information through public members that are conditionally compiled (i.e. encapsulation is only broken for testing). Any kind of solution that breaks the rules just to achieve testability is a lazy solution in my book (that is the bad kind not the good kind of lazy). I doubt that the inventors and practitioners of those solutions hold OOP values and principles. They certainly are not practising them.
Anyway I hope to have the time to finish up the research into testability metrics here in the next two weeks. If you are interested in this kind of thing you can keep track of my progress in more detail at JayFlowers.com.


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Friday, January 21, 2005
Friday Vocab Word
I'm introducing a new feature for 2005: the Friday Vocab Word. (don't worry, we'll still get Haiku Friday sometimes). Since I'm a teacher now, I thought I'd combine my worlds and offer some end-of-the-week mini-lessons. You might be shocked at how you were able to live without certain words operating as commonplace in your vocabulary. Perhaps you'll be better able to define the world around you. You just never know how a new word can make your life better!
As you may have noted, I completely ignored what was going on in DC yesterday - both on my blog and in my daily life. I thought about doing some big protest moves, etc - but then I thought, "you know, these people don't deserve my attention as they spend millions partying it up while people die because of them." The $40 million they spent on their party could have paid for something like 200 fully armored humvees for the troops. But who knows how to spend money better than the robber barons? Anwyay, in celebration of yesterday's events, I offer the first Friday Vocab Word:
Facism: a system of government characterized by rigid one-party leadership or dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition through terror and/or censorship, private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control, belligerent nationalism, racism and militarism.
Use it in a sentence this week. Perhaps while you're describing the inaugural address.


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Daily Thought For March 31, 2018
Getting Ready for Incredible Joy!
It was not enough to patch up the old things. In an ancient homily for Holy Saturday, Jesus is depicted as descending into hell to rescue Adam and Eve. He tells them, "The enemy led you out of the earthly paradise. I will not restore you to that paradise, but I will enthrone you in heaven. I forbade you the tree that was only a symbol of life, but see, I who am life itself am now one with you." No mere touch-up job, Jesus took his new creation to a whole new level!
The very liturgy of the Easter Vigil ushers us into the mystery of this new creation. A new fire is kindled, and a new Paschal candle is lit. Then the Church moves from darkness to light as we light our individual candles from that one flame. New holy water is blessed, and with it new members are brought into the Church. Yes, Jesus is making all things new!
This newness extends to our lives. Jesus has re-created and restored a world that was disordered by sin—and he re-creates each one of us. He who spoke the universe into existence now speaks healing and wholeness into our lives. He doesn't just patch us up; he gives us a whole new beginning.
So take some time today to pray about this new creation. On this day, when tabernacles are empty, join the whole Church as it waits in silence. Something new, something wonderful, something beautiful is about to burst forth. Its light will shine all over the world. Its power will rescue people from the darkness of sin. Yes, even you can be raised up in a new and exciting way. Jesus is about to rise from the dead. Let him draw you up to heaven with him.
"Lord, create me anew! Take me from death to life, from chaos to order, from darkness to light. Jesus, I believe in you!"
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Some of the best of the Berlin nightlife
Words by Timo Janse
Photography by Ritz-Carlton/Tom Zyankali/Green Door
Berlin has in recent years developed itself as a city with a unique nightlife. But what is beyond the obvious image of underground clubs?
The team of Diffordsguide NL recently has had the pleasure of visiting some of Berlin's most interesting cocktail bar.
Watch the attention to detail in the thought process and execution of the Ritz-Carlton,
the off-the-wall creativity of Tom Zyankali in his bar,
and watch how we finish the night off at the stylish and fun Green Door.
What are you waiting for? Go and discover Berlin! Or watch what else we did in Berlin
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Heavy Duty Side Filer
Product Description
A heavy-duty 2 drawer side-filing pedestal with skid feet, lockable with silver handles. Desk-high, this pedestal can accommodate both A4 and Foolscap hanging files.
- Available in beech, oak, dark or light walnut, grey oak, maple and white
- Sturdy, with wooden inners and Accuride drawer runners
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#graymatters you're mako me safe necklace
$ 49.99
Wear this real mako shark tooth to keep you safe and protected from sharks in and out of the water ;)...
-faceted black onyx beading
-real shark tooth with 24K gold plated cover
-approx. 16" long (please indicate if you would like 18" in special instructions at checkout.)
-18k gold filed magnetic clasp
-hand made in the u.s.a.
black onyx bead meaning:
protection, decision making, intuition, balance, grounding stone
shark tooth meaning:
-protection, survival, safety, royalty
*Shark teeth have long been recognized as a symbol of protection. The ancient Hawaiians wore shark tooth jewelry to keep any sea dangers at bay. This is based a myth of a young Hawaiian warrior who emerged from a battle with a sea god, victorious, and wearing a shark tooth necklace.


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Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Government And UNDP Signs Two Agreements Worthy $20 Million Towards The Implementation Of Programmes To Mitigate Gender Based Violence And The Promotion Of Human Rights.
Government And The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Have Signed Two Agreements Worthy $20 Million ,Approximately 100 Billion Kwacha Towards The Implementation Of Programmes To Mitigate Gender Based Violence And The Promotion Of Human Rights.
The Agreements Also Include The Promotion Of Dignity Of Individual Citizens And Inclusive Governance.
The Support Is Contained In Two Separate But Interlinked Programmes Namely Government-Un Joint Programme On Gender Based Violence With A Budget Of $15.5 Million And Government-UNDP Governance Programme From 2011-2015 With A Budget Of $7.2million.
The Joint Programme Against Gender Based Violence Is Jointly Funded By The Un System And Other Cooperating Partners While The Governance Programme Is Funded By UNDP Together With Bilateral Cooperating Partners.
The Un-Gender Based Violence Programme Which INVOLVES UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, ILO, WHO, UNHCR and IOM Aims At Contributing To The Reduction Of Gender Based Violence In Zambia Through The Establishment Of An Integrated And Multi-Sectoral Mechanism For The Implementation Of The Anti-Gender Based Violence Act.
The Initiative Will Support The Establishment Of Appropriate Justice/Legal Systems To Implement The Anti-Gender Based Violence Act, Scaling Up Of The Social Protection Systems For Prevention Of Gender Based Violence And Establishment Of An Effective Coordination Mechanism For An Integrated Gender Based Violence Response.
Signing On Behalf Of Government, Secretary To The Treasury Dr Fredson Yamba Welcomed The Support From The UNDP And The U.N System.
And Un Resident Coordinator And UNDP Representative Kanni Wignaraja Has Noted That The Two Programmes Are Based On Core National Priorities And Embrace The Orientation Of The New Government's Human Development Agenda.
Mrs. Wignaraja Says A Rights Based Approach To Development Which Includes The Promotion Of Gender Equality At All Levels Is Central To The Efforts Being Made By All Stakeholders.
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Introduction: Harry Potter Settlers of Catan: 3D
I made this Harry Potter version of Settlers of Catan for my sister for Christmas and it was a BIG HIT! All the pieces are made of sculpy and Femo clay so remember to bake at the temperature on the package.
3D Catan board by homechicken
Monster Book of monsters by Schiappa
Step 1: Hex Tiles
I chose to make my Hex tiles a little smaller than the actual game, so for he base white pieces i cut out a hexagon out of paper to use as my template. I also cut a smaller piece for the top layer of the base from a printed template. I wanted to have a flat surface to place the playing pieces on.
I used a pasta maker to ensure that my hex tiles would all be the same thickness.
I decided to have one tile from each harry potter book, and if your familiar with the game that left me with 1 tile more than the original game.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone ------------------> Mirror Of Erised
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -------------> Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Askaban -------------> Whomping willow
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ----------------------> Great Hall
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -------------> Room of Requirement
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince -----------------> Potions Room
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ------------------> Hogwarts Grounds
Each piece is hand made so each one will be different. I designed one of each and then repeated the design however many times i needed to. (remember this includes the 5-6 player expansion)
Mirror Of Erised (6)
Chamber of Secrets (5)
Whomping willow- dessert (2)
Great Hall (5)
Room of Requirement (3)
Potions Room (5)
Hogwarts Grounds (4)
Step 2: Tokens Instead of Cards
I chose to make tokens also out of clay instead of cards. I rolled out the clay with the pasta maker and traced a quarter to make the base of the tokens. I used a penny for the inner part of the token.
--------Cards/tokens--------and where to find them-------
Hex Tile -------------------> resource token (24 of each)
Mirror of Erised ---------> Sorcerers stone
Chamber of Secrets ----> Sword of Gryffindor
Potions room -------------> Liquid Luck
Hogwarts Grounds-------> The Elder wand
Great Hall ------------------> Tri-Wizard Cup
Development cards
Knight card -----> Dumbledore's army (20)
Victory points -----> Same (6)
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Accio - Get two resource tokens of your choice from the bank. (3)
Erecto- Build two free tracks. (3)
Expelliarmus - Choose one resource and disarm all opponents of that resource. (2)
Step 3: Port Peices
I decided to use Hagrid for the 11 port pieces. As you can see in the pictures I put each resource on the tile along with the trade in ratio. The base of these are triangles that are the same length as the side of the hex tiles. This makes it so you can trade at the port from either of 2 corners on the board.
Step 4: Longest Army, Longest Train, Robber, Castles, Huts, and Tracks.
Largest army and Longest train cards i made into these tiles .
The robber is Lord Voldemort.
I also made the 5-6 player expansion so you can see the 6 different colored pieces for the players.
Every Piece is made form Sculpy or Fimo so don't forget to bake it!
Step 5: Rules
For the rules, I found a PDF of the normal rules and went through and changed the few words to make it into my Harry Potter version. I also added the Room of Requirement tile to the game rules.
I used this website to create the rules in a harry potter text. This proved very difficult because it will only let you do so many letters at a time and in order to save it as just text it saves as an image. I had to play around a lot with each section to make the text look right and be the same size. But the end result looks great. I have noticed quite a few mistakes that i made in the rules but I figure my sister wont really have to read the rules because she knows how to play the game already.
Step 6: Monster Book of Monsters Carrying Case
For the case I took a plastic scrap booking case found at Micheal's, and covered it with fuzzy brown fabric, attached with hot glue. The teeth are also molded from FIMO clay and hot glued to the box. To hold the pieces I took a piece of foam and cut slits in it for the hex tiles and all the other pieces you see in the picture.
Step 7: Play the Game
Now that the game is done you enjoy your creation and have fun! We played the game Christmas eve and had so much fun!
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Can you share your rulebook?
I would but my computer died that had it on it :(
I am working on this now but not in 3d :) just textured, I'm worried I may not get it all done! I was wondering if you had the documents still for the rules Potterized of course lol
I don't suppose you created rules you would be willing to share?
What do you get for the Room of Requirement
It is a bonus piece you choose a resource of your choice
this is the most AWESOME thing that ANYONE has EVER made in the HISTORY of humanity!!!
What a perfect mashup of two excellent subjects. Well done!! :)
this is super fantastic. voted for you! what a great idea.
Thanks for voting for me!
This is awesome! We love Catan and Harry Potter, this looks super fun :)
Very cool project! I know how much work goes into making all of this! My last Instructable was a hand sculpted Settlers of Catan set that I molded and then casted in concrete. I love your designs!
It took me months of working on it here and there but I think it was worth it!


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The Powerball winning numbers have been drawn, and while there were winners who matched some of the white balls and the red Powerball, no one managed to claim the jackpot. The last Powerball drawing took place on January 9, and the winning numbers were as follows: 16, 32, 19, 34, 57 and the Powerball is 13. The record-breaking jackpot saw more people buying tickets as the grand prize skyrocketed in worth faster than the Powerball site could keep up. By the time the Powerball winning numbers were announced, the jackpot had rocketed to $949.8 million. As no grand prize winner claimed the Powerball jackpot by matching all the winning numbers, it has ballooned to a staggering $1.3 billion. More people than ever before are caught up in Powerball fever, and dreaming of 1.3 billion ways to spend a billion dollars, should they match all winning numbers at the next drawing.
You can watch the video of the Powerball winning numbers as they were announced live in the latest drawing that occurred on January 9, 2016, in the video player below.
As Powerball fever swept the nation for the past week, there are many people who are expressing mixed emotions on social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Some Powerball and lottery players are disappointed they didn't match the winning numbers, while others are geared up for the next drawing. Powerball memes took over the Internet Saturday night, with "Powerball Steve Harvey" trending, due to his mishap announcing the Miss Universe winner. There's no reason to suspect those memes will end, but may become more creative as the next Powerball drawing approaches. The stats are still coming in, but long lines and an increase in Powerball sales are good early indicators that sales were broken in the multiple states where Powerball is played and tickets are sold. We'll have the exact figures for you as soon as they come in.
Here are some Twitter responses from those who played Powerball but failed to match all five white balls and the red Powerball when the winning numbers were revealed.
I wonder if church attendance will be up today…because of special prayer requests. #Powerball pic.twitter.com/3yvS2XwXj1
— T.J. Holmes (@tjholmes) January 10, 2016
I only play Powerball when the jackpot goes over 1 billion…
— O. Gerard Droze (@VerbalCryogenic) January 10, 2016
Powerball jackpot has reached record $1.3 billion. What would you do if you won? @WFMY pic.twitter.com/kHMzpcuY8L
— Jessica Mensch (@Jessmensch) January 10, 2016
The Powerball is so high, 1.3 billion, it can no longer be projected on highway billboard signs. #PowerballFever
— Jeremy Hoyle (@jeremy_hoyle) January 10, 2016
Though we don't have the exact number of Powerball ticket sales, and no one matched all five of the winning numbers and the Powerball number, there were many Powerball winners Saturday night. According to the official Powerball lottery website, there were 18,315,365 winners for lesser prizes. The non jackpot prizes totaled $159,080,965. Keep in mind that in addition to the current $1.3 billion grand prize jackpot, there are $1 million and $50,000 prizes. There are multiple ways to play and win Powerball, and you don't have to match all the numbers in the exact order to win. Various combinations of winning numbers will qualify for different prizes. You can check Powerball prizes, odds, and ways to win at the site.
As people gear up for the next Powerball drawing and chance to match the winning numbers, many are searching for Powerball secrets, strategies, and tips that will help them win. Before purchasing any book or video series that proposes to teach Powerball winning methods, it's a good idea to make certain the person advocating the tips has actually won the Powerball and other lotteries. Currently, there is one person who has won the Powerball and other lotteries seven times. His name is Richard Lustig, and he has shared many of his secrets, tips, and strategies. You can learn more about Richard Lustig and his tips for winning the Powerball through his books and videos. It is unknown if Richard Lustig played in Saturday's Powerball or matched any of the winning numbers in the record-breaking jackpot game.
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— RICHARD LUSTIG (@LUSTIG407) August 24, 2014
Since there were no Powerball grand prize jackpot winners, and no one matched all of the winning numbers, the jackpot continues to rocket. With more projected sales before the next Powerball drawing, the jackpot could continue to rise.
The next Powerball drawing will take place on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. Are you going to purchase a ticket and try your luck at matching the winning numbers?
No winners in tonight's #Powerball drawing. Next Wednesday's #jackpot rises to an unbelievable $1.3 Billion. pic.twitter.com/k7XJb8ikrx
— moonchild (@DeIics) January 10, 2016
Here's a quick look at the Powerball odds for those planning on playing for next Wednesday's jackpot
The Powerball prize jumps is the largest in U.S. history. Are you feeling lucky? https://t.co/s4CnQO0VLF pic.twitter.com/X80Y1u5yEL
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Derek Jacobi/ Ph: Johan Persson
Derek Jacobi
, the esteemed British actor, who is still probably best known to American audiences for playing a stuttering emperor in the 1976 television series
I, Claudius
, is giving a magnificent performance in Shakespeare's
King Lear
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre through June 5.
Jacobi, under the guidance of director
Michael Grandage
, gives us an accessible Lear for our time, a heroic man, fiercely proud, choleric at times and monstrously foolish. Mr.Jacobi plays Lear as an untamed king who often acts like a child and who at home rages at his daughters and on the heath at nature in a pelting rainstorm that unhinges his reason. He only finds his way back to his senses and humility in the play's later scenes after suffering through an ordeal that is at once terrifying and exhilarating.
Grandage, who first directed this production last season at London's Donmar Warehouse, presents Shakespeare's play in its full length without a pause, moving from one sharply etched moment to the next. The three hours plus of playing time, with one intermission, fly by. Most importantly, this
is spoken with clarity and beauty, with an acute ear for Shakespeare's truth.
Christopher Oram's
setting is made up of tall white and gray spackled planks, brightly lit by
Neil Austin
, which are thrust right into the first row of the auditorium, giving this
a new intimacy and making the audience feel like the play is being performed in their laps.
To me, no play of Shakespeare's is greater in theme or power than
King Lear
, and the success of this production lies not only with Jacobi's performance, but also with Grandage's clear-cut understanding of the story Shakespeare is trying to tell.
Jacobi also realizes that Lear is this larger-than-life character and that he is incapable of littleness, small feelings or puny emotions. He is towering in his pride and terrible in his anger. He is terrifying as he curses his daughter Goneril (
Gina McKee
) when he first begins to understand her cruelty. Yet on the heath he can be touching as he listens to The Fool, (
Ron Cook
), and heartbreaking when he meets his favorite daughter Cordelia (
Pippa Bennett-Warner
) again. Lear is a colossus of humanity and weakness all rolled into one personage.
Jacobi, at 72 years of age, is older than most Lears I have seen. The late Paul Scofield was 42 when he starred in Peter Brook's now classic 1964 stage and film version of the play. White-haired, rosy-cheeked, physically Jacobi is not a big man, but he has stature and suggests in his bearing the grandeur that can cling to an old man who has known greatness. With the play staged so close to the audience, Jacobi always is in eye contact with theatergoers and is able to pinpoint most of the king's feelings in his eyes, which are the windows of Lear's soul. This closeness also allows him to whisper some of the play's soliloquies or makes them ring out loudly like a king's trumpet when he lets loose his rage.
Jacobi is well served by his fellow players, all of whom give salient performances. As his daughters Goneril and Regan, McKee and Justine Mitchell have the force and power to make their characters as coldly vicious as they are. As the favored Cordelia, Bennett-Warner is lovely and touching in the play's final scenes when Lear emerges from his madness and reaches for her love and then to mourn her death.
The men all seem to be fired with the spirit of the play and act and speak with Shakespeare's own passion. As the loyal but contentious Earl of Kent,
Michael Hadley
is tough and strong. As the gullible old Earl of Gloucester,
Paul Jesson
is commendable.
Alec Newman
plays the illegitimate son, Edmond, like a cool fading rock star. As a typical jeering Shakespearean villain,
Tom Bear
makes a good man of the Earl of Albany. And
Gideon Turner
makes a wicked one of the Duke of Cornwall.
Yes, Prime Minister
contracts its run, while
A Chorus Line
expands its own.
- After 11 years as the Almeida Theatre's artistic director,
Michael Attenborough
is stepping down to focus on directing.
the Tony-Award winning musical is set to hit London in January.
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Regulators announce reforms for travel health insurance marketBy The IJ Staff | May 31 2017 01:30PM
The Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators (CCIR) released a position paper May 31 that outlines its final recommendations to reform the travel health insurance market. The goal is to enhance consumer protection and increase confidence in travel health insurance products.
"While the CCIR believes Canada has a strong and competitive travel health insurance marketplace, it also believes there are opportunities for improvements to be made," stated the CCIR in an announcement.
Common standardized definitions
Included in the regulators' recommendations are the development of common standardized definitions and terminology; improvements to the application, screening and claims process; simplifying and improving disclosure documents; ensuring adequate controls and oversight mechanisms are in place throughout the product lifecycle and improved training and information for sales forces.
The release of the position paper follows the publication of an issues paper last year and consultations related to growing concerns over public confidence in the travel health insurance market.
Eligibility requirements and exclusions
Underwriting of travel health insurance products is one of the problematic areas addressed in the position paper. The CCIR recommends that steps should be taken "to better assist consumers' understanding of their eligibility requirements and applicable exclusions at time of application. Insurers should also look at how to better assist consumers who may have questions or concerns during the application process, through enhanced educated staff at call centres and help lines, and better educated sales forces to allow consumers to have more confidence over their eligibility and coverage."
Another problem area is claims handling. The position paper recommends that insurers look at ways to improve their processes "to ensure that consumers are not unnecessarily denied for unrelated health situations or for errors or omissions in applications made by consumers acting in good faith and making best efforts to disclose."
Reinforcing consumer confidence
"We have heard the concerns of the public and insurance brokerage community and with this clear, nationally agreed way forward, we are reinforcing the pre-eminent goal of consumer confidence in their insurance protection when they travel," said CCIR chair Patrick Déry. "It is our belief that these measures will go a long way towards meeting consumer expectations wherever Canadians live in the country."
The CCIR says it will monitor the industry's implementation of the recommendations to ensure they are adopted in a timely manner. "CCIR members remain determined to see that the changes make a difference for all Canadians."
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Welcome to Wear Wag Repeat Podcast Episode 24: Asia Dabrowski grew her dog's Instagram account and then used that community of dog moms to built a new account just for crazy dog moms like us! In just the last six months, she's built up that account, launched a website and sold branded goods to her followers who now tag her in posts on a regular basis. We get into specifics on website platforms and shipping processes. If you're dreaming of starting a dog related business, this episode will give you a push to get started!
Asia Dabrowski is the proud dog mama behind her pup's Instagram account @starskythegoldie. When she welcomed Starsky into her life, Asia had no idea the impact he would have on her future. What started off as a hobby account & a way to bring smiles to the world, has completely taken over & inspired so many other projects in her life. The Dog Momager was launched as a way to connect on a more personal level with other dog mamas. It's a project that is built on Asia's crazy dog mom foundation & has spilled into her desire to help and inspire other dog mamas, give back to charitable causes, educate & simply share her own personal experiences with her dog Starsky.
Tori: When you started growing Starsky's account, did you have a growth hack?
Asia: In the beginning I spent a lot of time on Instagram. I connected with a lot of dog moms, even just asking for advice since Stasky is the first dog I've had on my own. Connecting with people in that way really built my community. I also got reposed by some big accounts in the beginning and that really helped. I never anticipated how much it would take off!
Tori: How did you come up with the idea for The Dog Momager?
Asia: I had the idea for The Dog Momager for months before I started it. It quickly became clear to me that doing something around dogs would be a passion for me. I spent a lot of time figuring out what I could do that would create value for others and also allow me to make a living. Starsky's account really started as a hobby for me, but with The Dog Momager I can be in front of the camera and share my story and make it mine. When I finally launched it, it was really empowering! I really put myself out there, which can be uncomfortable. But I knew this would open doors for other things I want to pursue in life.
Tori: Tell me a little more about the direction you see The Dog Momager brand moving?
Asia: When I initially searched for "dog momager" online I didn't see anyone else doing this. I knew it was something I'd want to buy and had a feeling other dog moms would too. Right now I have hats, tanks and t-shirts with my tag-line. Eventually I'd like to start manufacturing some products that I have ideas for!
I also really want to grow my YouTube channel. I share a lot of dog momager tips there and plan on doing a lot more videos this year.
Ultimately I want to create a dog momager movement that highlights and showcases other dog moms. I think a lot of people don't realize how much work goes into running our dog's accounts.
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Senator Marco Rubio points out that for 822 days, the US Senate has offered NO BUDGET, and the Democrats don't want one. Kerry in standing up repeatedly to oppose him in "asking questions" and cast blame, rather than solutions, proves Rubio's points.
Why won't anyone dare even start with suggestions for a 2012 Fiscal year budget? Then let me start the debate with a few suggestions on where to start.
---My tentative Theoretical Budget Proposal if I were on the Hill, and even though this pragmatic straight talk shows why I would never be voted into Congress, or simply stopped by the Political Machines and Media prostitutes of both major parties, because I would only about doing an honest and forthrightly unapologetic action of "doing what's right for this Country as a Republic in need of rescue from dissolvance and overthrow by the Corrupt and Lazy in Congress." In other words, were I there now, these are the 7 points I would probably have slammed the lazy and treasonous guilt-ridden Congressional consciences with, and caused a necessary National Uproar and the debates we need to resolve the Debt Crisis, by introducing real solutions in the below proposals:
1. Defense Spending for 2012 should be capped at $600,000,000,000
$570,000,000,000 for regular operations budgetary authority, $30,000,000,000 for removal of troops from Afghanistan and last operations while pulling out.
a. Pensions freeze for retirees for 10 years
b. Pension reductions to a $4,000 a month cap regardless of rank
c. Defund the Afghanistan War and pull the troops out
d. Option: Up to $50,000,000,000 of Military Budget may be set aside for discretionary surgical strike spending (being pre-approved by Congress for this contingency) that can be rolled over into the next fiscal year for discretionary covert and surgical strike operations to a maximum fund of $80,000,000,000 in any given year, the surplus used to pay down the National Debt. Congressional Oversight and Intelligence will still need to be informed of the finances used, and pre-authorize use when operations not self-defense contingencies for being fired upon or specific rescue operations to recover personnel.
e. Reduction in top wage earners above$ 120,000 to that wage, and frozen for 5 years
f. Veterans Medical Services salary caps, reducing Administrator and Medical salaries to a cap of $85,000.
g. Reallocate surpluses saved in wages and pensions to Veterans Medical Service expenses, with the goal of increasing services and procedures for military veterans directly wounded while in performance of Military Service or in Military Transport.
2. Building of 4 US Military Oil/Gas Refineries and fuel storage Depots to be located on Atlantic Ocean US Coast, Gulf of Mexico US Coast, Pacific Alaska US Coast, and Pacific Continental United States Coast.
Each facility will accommodate a storage of 20,000,000 barrels of oil (ca. 110,000,000 gallons), and have a capacity to convert a minimum of at least 50,000 barrels of oil per day. Congress will allocate and set aside a total of $6,000,000,000 per facility, and all 4 facilities must be fully built and operational by January 1, 2015. They will be manned by US Military personnel and a force of no more than 5% Civilian sub-contractors, and require Secret Clearances.
3. Social Security and Welfare
a. Remove all non US Citizens, remove all non-seniors (exceptions 80-100% disableds) from receiving Social Security Checks and US Federal Government Aid of ANY Type, including Student Loans and Grants.
b. Recatorgorize Food Stamp and Welfare into its own Government Resource, and prevent any cash out or cash back issuance on food stamp debit cards.
c. Utilize a database user of card and thumb-print program entered nationwide (into a variation or advanced parallel system comparable to CJIS - the Criminal Justice Information System) to clamp down on massive fraud in the system.
Thumb prints into national computer identity index for every food stamp and welfare recipient (both primary and claimed beneficiary) with a feedback within 5 minutes or in real-time to prevent fraud, with arrest and prosecution and property recovery on those convicted (with a mandatory 5 years hard labor for each identity fraud duplication) to be served consecutively. Hence, all recipients will thumb-print on a checkstand scanner and swipe the food-stamp card prior to the ringing up of the first transaction, for time expediency. If fraud is detected as a multiple user of identity, having 3 or more welfare identities, the system will self-call the local Police who will be dispatched to the location to verify accuracy of thumb-print and identity on scene, and thereafter (if necessary) take into custody if multiple identities / fraud is verified.
d. Reduce all payments of Social Security and Welfare to a maximum issuance of no more than $2,000 per month.
e. Allow cost of living increase of 10% for any Social Security payments under $1,500 per month, and then freeze at $1,500 for Fiscal year 2012
f. Social Security payroll tax increase of 1% on wage earners January 1, 2013 to be locked in and not increased for a minimum of 10 years.
g. Goal is to reduce Social Security and Welfare payouts by 25% within 3 years, and pay only those in need. Multiple Home owners or those possessing assets and real estate above the value of $600,000 are to be disqualified from collecting Social Security as of January 1, 2012 (according to my plan).
a. An across the board 5% tax rate cut for incomes between $30,000 – $100,000
b. An across the board 3% tax rate cut for incomes $100,000.01 and up
c. Exemption deduction, fixed for 5 years @ $8,000 Single or Married filing Separately, $10,000 Head of Household or Married.
5. Corporate Tax Rate to be lowered to 20% for businesses inside the US.
For US businesses overseas, the Coporate tax rate for those assets and services is to be given a 40% tariff increase (in order to ship their goods and services INTO the USA) in 2012, followed by an increment of 10% a year for 3 years. Tariff will be against US Companies and their goods shipping in, regardless of who ships it, not specifically against nations unless they ship as middle men or what have you. Goal is to bring "Jobs" back into the USA. Tax incentives to be issued to those US businesses which dismantle foreign assets and build and employ US Citizens on US Soil.
6. Any Budget is to have no more than a $400,000,000,000 deficit under ANY Circumstances for fiscal year 2012, with a goal of no more than $200,000,000,000 in Fiscal year 2013, and a balanced budget in Fiscal year 2014 and thereafter.
7. There will ABSOLUTELY BE NO RELINQUISHING OF US CONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY to either a smaller Congress or Congressional Committee, nor to anyone in either the Executive or Judicial Branches of Government. Any inclusiveness of such a proposal should bring the charge of Treason against those proposing the Super Congress Oligarchy, regardless of Party affiliation or membership.
Again, this is just a tentative proposal as a PLACE TO START discussing the issues toward the creation of a sound Fiscal 2012 Budget, and where I think we can go to implement cuts on waste and fraud, etc., to help get us to a sound and fiscally responsible National Budget. That's my input.
[[ Update 9:45 pm PST July 31, 2011
The leadership of both parties and both chambers (the US Senate and the House of Representatives) are doing a victory boast of raising the debt ceiling by $2,200,000,000,000, and lying about how this is enough to fund the US Treasury until after the 2012 election cycle. Remember this lie of theirs, as they act as if they are a Congressional Mason Coven of Druids. In actions and deals contrary to the majority desires of their constituents, the leaders of Congress appear to claim NOT JUST amorality claims in the NOW justifying their deals, and how it is that 2.2 trillion dollars is enough of a raise to the Debt Ceiling; but in all likelihood, it seems to me, in 9 -10 months or less they will again as if in coven both party unison together, come clasping hands and howling in a staged angst, perhaps at that time, doing thus in order to fully transform our Republic prior to the 2012 elections in November 2012, it seems to me. That appears to be where this is all going. I can only hope that it is not so, but this bogus Presidency of a non-Constitutional occupant and his anti-Constitutionalist Executive Administration Compulsions and Motus Operandi EVERY DAY of his occupancy of the Office, leaves no other truly rational conclusion other than he has an end-game to destroy the Republic of the United States, and replace it with a Socialist or Communist Dictatorship or Oligarchy, or a combination thereof.
Tonight, in their agreement, both Parties of Congress kept the Legislative language to keep a Super Congress Oligarchy of 12. It seems to me by being acutely aware of the combination of this Super Congress and the financial figures agreed to, this is what creates the projected time-line that the Communist-Socialists will be made aware of in a matter of seconds, perhaps using their cell phone calculator, perhaps later hearing or reading about it in their spheres of influence and comfort zone groups. It is all about the Congress de facto announcing (in their open and slightly veiled lingo) of the creation of a future crisis in the language of Legislation now, which will likely seek to take over on or about April 1, 2012 to May 1, 2012 based on the amount the debt ceiling was raised. How so? The US now spends at a rate of almost 4 trillion a year, or about 320 billion dollars a month. Inflow is about 200 billion a month. 2.2 trillion will therefore dissipate under normal frozen projection in 18 months. However, based on the frivolous nature of Congress getting excited about new cash to waste, we can look for another crisis in half that time or by May Day 2012 at the latest, May Day being the Communist Holiday...and April 1 being April Fools Day on the American people. In either case, the Communist-Socialists will probably soon be laughing and saying quips such as "How convenient."
I can only hope I'm wrong, but the pattern of the Obama Administartion and Congressional Lawlessness increasing at the pace of apathy and reckless it is increasing at, leads me to only question the EXACT timing of WHEN (instead)...NOT "if."
The traitors of the Obama Administration (mostly key executives and various executive staff) and the Congressional Leadership will be joined by the Major Media in any overthrow of the Republic, because it is most often the Major Media who continuously run a cover for the heinous sins of deception and omission of the Obama Administration and of Congressional Leadership in Both Major Parties. It is clear that the Major Media have no excuse for their fraud and propaganda upon the American public, and perpetuation of fraud in their news cycles, along with their pretentious "oh, I'm so insulted you could even suggest that" hypocrisy. Follow what news they are willing to report and how, and the facts that commentators who have NO CLUE of the facts, report their opinions as if facts by the majority of the time spent in the news cycle. News in 2011, has become 80-90% editorializing or otherwise called: "propaganda". Even with just a casual read of the 2009 "10 year projection report table" put forth by the Obama Administration, the Media needed only to edit a few of the Obama Administration's own words of chastisement against 8 years of George Bush to show and report on the flagrant Obama "blame others and do worse thyself" hypocrisy and criminally gross misconduct. But will they be fair and balanced? No. It is up to others to figure it out for themselves.
By editing out blame the Obama Budget Report attributes to others, and the sure knowledge that they have already eclipsed those 8 years of more appropriate and accountable debts in less than 3 years, it would be so easy to report the contrast. Again, instead of the media reporting (rather than grossly editorialing the facts / news), it is up to all of America to themselves sift for the facts, facts that now almost by themselves seem to accuse the Communist-Socialist Obama Administration and the leaders of Congress during those Obama years of Fiscal 2009 following of acting criminally reckless misconduct and producing criminally frivolous waste of taxpayer monies that almost jsutifies the wicked thefts of those like Ponzi rip-off artists like Bernie Madoff.. Let's look at two examples of very minor word edits and how they could just as easily be turned against Obama reckless waste of taxpayer monies.
For example:
[Note: The Obama projection for 10 years is on page 117 of the ff. pdf link.]
Page 14
Fiscal Irresponsibility
Another manifestation of irresponsibility is
the large budget deficits ... These
deficits, over time, will harm economic growth
and impose burdens on our children and grandchildren.
...[T]he Government spent recklessly
on ... hand-outs for the welloff
and well-connected, mismanaged billions of
dollars in taxpayer money, and failed to honor the
responsibilities we have to future generations.
Massive new programs have routinely been omitted
from the Budget to mask their true cost....
Page 34
Planning for the Future
Over the past ... years [under Obama], fiscal recklessness
replaced fiscal responsibility. Huge tax cuts and
spending increases were undertaken without being
paid for. Large extra-budgetary expenses put
a veneer on our fiscal situation. Special interest driven
spending grew out of control. Long-term
challenges to our country and our fiscal situation
were ignored. Taken together, this has put the
Nation in an even more precarious fiscal position
as we confront this economic crisis.
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{{{Update - August 1, 2011 The House of Representatives voted to absolve its ability to legislate taxation per Article 1.8 of the US Constitution, and give that power to the Super Congress of 12 unelected members of the New Oligarchy.
The vote passed the House at 269 - 161. Even the reporters at Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" join in sugar-coating the vote, and closing their eyes and minds to the reality of what an event this is in US Politics.
It is the vote which once and for all enables "the Cessation", or should we say the "Fall of the Republic of the United States as a Government" whose beginnings were on July 04, 1776 and whose Constitution written 13 years later was a model and example of the pinnacle of modern Governments. The Fall was accomplished by the creation of an Oligarchy "Super Committee" or "Super Congress".
The Republic of the United States as of August 01, 2011 is now on "life support" status .
-- End of August 1, 2011 update, abridged on August 8,2011}}


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Is there an easy way to copy a quiz and edit it rather than recreating the entire thing?
Is the only way to do it: Settings>Import Course>Course Copy and then select the specific content to copy?
Is there an easy way to copy a quiz and edit it rather than recreating the entire thing?
Is the only way to do it: Settings>Import Course>Course Copy and then select the specific content to copy?
HI Mark Krommenacker - Yes, sir...you are basically correct. You have to import it. (I am assuming you are not using Quizzes.Next...I'm not sure about those, though a quick check of the documentation does not show anything specifically on copying.)
However, also take a look at this discussion (Which quiz is the copy? ) for some sage advice from Kona Jones on determining which quiz is the copy. (Be sure to do this before you make the copy so that you can tell which quiz is the original.)
Hope this helps, Mark!
Mark, to add on to Ken Black's helpful advice (thank you, Ken!), if/when you're using Quizzes.Next, you'll be able to duplicate a Q.N in the same fashion as you would an assignment. How do I duplicate an assignment? states, "Except for Quizzes.Next assessments, assignments configured as an external tool (LTI) submission type cannot be duplicated"—which is in effect saying that Quizzes.Next assessments are the exception to the rule and can be copied despite the fact that they're configured as an LTI. (Plus, I just tested it to be sure. )
Hello Mark Krommenacker...
In addition to the great feedback that you've received from Ken Black and Stefanie Sanders, I wanted to share a link I recently found called Copying items in a course which is located in the Instructional Designers group here in the Community. It describes how to copy specific content into the same course you're already in. If you're not follwing the Instructional Designers group, please click on the group link that I have provided, and then click on the "Follow" button at the top right corner of the screen. Also, there's a link near that button for "Actions". Click on "Actions", and then select "Join group". I hope this will be helpful for you, Mark.


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Tags Proposition I
Tag: Proposition I
Black privilege loses to white power, white politics and white privilege...
Proposition I on San Francisco's June 5, 2018, ballot: "Establish a Declaration of Policy of: 'Thou Shall Not Covet' to Make It Clear to All Owners of Professional Sports Teams that the City and County of San Francisco Will Not Endorse or Condone the Relocation of Any Team With an Extensive History in Another Location." The 81,000 votes of support of Proposition I were proof that this was no "frivolous" ballot measure. But the 110,000 votes that opposed it only made me philosophical: I'm deflated but not defeated. A setback is really a step forward for those who are determined.
Vote for natural grass soccer fields, not toxic artificial turf
The November election pits a grassroots initiative protecting Golden Gate Park against a SF Recreation and Park Department park power grab. The Rec. and Park Department has been pushing to demolish the natural grass fields at the Beach Chalet soccer fields in western Golden Gate Park to make way for a seven-acre artificial-turf soccer field containing toxic tire waste and 150,000 watts of stadium lighting on 60-foot-tall poles.


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- Financial markets moved sideways, rising in the first half of the week and sliding lower thereafter, but ultimately ending the week in the black.
- Economic data was more consistent, surprising to the upside. After three lackluster months, retail sales jumped 0.6% in March. Housing starts also posted a decent rebound rising by 1.9% on the month.
- Rising input costs a stood out prominently in the latest Beige Book, but comments from Fed speakers saw little cause for alarm or the need for more aggressive interest rate increases
The Fed Preaches Patience Amid Rising Inflation Tide
Markets moved sideways this week, rising in the first half and sliding thereafter, even as energy stocks rallied. Still, there was no shortage of economic data and Fed speeches, giving investors plenty of news to digest.
For its part, economic data surprised to the upside. After three lackluster months, retail sales jumped 0.6% in March and the core measure rose by 0.4%, beating market expectations. March was the first full month where taxpayers would have felt the impact of tax cuts on their paychecks, raising the bar for retail sales. This week's report did not disappoint. Consumers responded to higher after-tax income by ramping up spending on most categories of products, particularly on discretionary and big-ticket items, such as autos, furniture, electronics & appliances, as well as at online retailers. While the strong print in March comes a little too late to save first quarter consumer spending, it sets up second quarter for a healthy rebound, with consumer spending likely to grow around 3%.
Housing starts also posted a decent rebound in March, rising by 1.9%. However, details were slightly softer than suggested by the headline. The gain was concentrated in the volatile multi-family segment, while single-family starts declined. For the first quarter as a whole, homebuilding has outperformed our expectations; however, it remains low relative to underlying demand and history. Even though economic fundamentals remain strong, a shortage of workers, available building lots, as well as risings costs of labor and materials continue to weigh on homebuilding activity. These headwinds are contributing to tight inventory of houses on the market.
Rising inflationary pressures also stood out prominently in the latest Federal Reserve Beige Book. Businesses reported rising steel prices in the aftermath of the tariff announcement. Prices for building materials, such as lumber, drywall, and concrete, also continued to rise briskly. Transportation costs, meanwhile, increased on the back of higher fuel prices, with oil prices rising to the highest level in more than three years this week. Labor shortages were also reported across a wide range of industries and skills. All in all, businesses are increasingly facing rising input costs for both labor and raw materials, and with declining unemployment, strong economic growth and the risk of further tariffs, this trend looks set to continue. It is likely only a matter of time before companies pass these higher costs onto consumers, ultimately pushing inflation higher (see our recent report).
Nonetheless, this week's many Fed speakers downplayed the need for faster rate hikes. New York Fed President William Dudley said that the case for "tightening policy more aggressively is not compelling". Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Randal Quarles said that he didn't view recent flattening of the yield curve as a signal of an imminent recession. This suggests that the Fed remains on track (but not in a hurry) for continued gradual interest rate normalization.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Travelers Property Casualty and St. Paul Cos. said Monday they are merging to form the second largest insurance company in the U.S. by market value.
The companies described the deal as a "merger of equals," creating a company worth $16.4 billion.
By market value, the deal would create the second-largest U.S. insurer, according to St. Paul
Terms call for holders of Travelers Class A and Class B stock to receive 0.4334 of a St. Paul share for each of their shares.
St. Paul's shares rose 6 percent in early trading, while Travelers shares added 1.4 percent.
Jay Fishman, St. Paul's chairman and chief executive, will serve as CEO of the combined company. Fishman, 51, was a top-ranking executive in the past for both Travelers and Citigroup
Robert Lipp, the 65-year-old chairman and CEO of Travelers, will serve as the merged entity's company's executive chairman until Jan. 1, 2006, at which time it is anticipated that Fishman will add the chairman's title.
Combined, the insurer is expected to have total assets of $107 billion, shareholders' equity of $20 billion, total capital of $26 billion and net written premiums of $20 billion.
St. Paul is one of the country's oldest insurers and the eighth-biggest property-casualty insurer.
"This transaction represents a unique and compelling opportunity to create one of the nation's largest and strongest property and casualty insurers," Fishman said in a statement.
"From a financial standpoint, I expect the transaction to enhance growth opportunities and enable the combined company to benefit from improved efficiencies and economies of scale," he said.
Fishman and Lipp said the two companies "are committed to maintaining a strong presence" in their home cities of St. Paul, Minn., and Hartford, Conn. The combined entity's headquarters will be located in St. Paul.


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A 1992 survey done by Model Railroader magazine showed 1.4% of their readers modeling in S-scale, and 9.6% of the people considering S-scale their secondary favorite. At the time that meant around 21,000 people interested in S-scale. The author proposes how to reach those people.
Introduces Russ Mobley (the third general director of the NASG, and owner of Amity Star Models).
Englewood Station in Chicago. The author shares photos of the model he built, prototype photos, the track arrangement at the station (four railroads intersected there), and a track plan for his 22'x26' HO-scale that modeled the area along with a photo.
Notes about brass models, including remembering that these are hand-built, one-off models, replacing worn-out flexible tubing between motor and gear tower, universal joint cracking issues, and Alco RS-11/RS-18/RS-32 running problems.
The author describes how he takes audio speakers, dresses them up as buildings, and places them around his layout.
The author describes how he built a New Haven EP5 from various parts, including an American Models FP7 chassis.
Updates on the 1992 and 1993 NASG A.F. Commemorative cars.
History and information about the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railroad. Includes many prototype photos, and the Cummins Siding track plan (and car movement diagrams).
Report on the 1992 Fall S Fest in Elk Grove Village, IL.
The author describes how he built his own illuminated signal lights, purely for scenic effect. Includes a photo and construction diagram.
The secretary's report of what happened at the NASG BOT meeting at the 1992 NASG Convention.
The secretary's report of what happened at the NASG general membership meeting at the 1992 NASG Convention.
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It was back in April 2017 that Canonical decided they would abandon Unity 8 and switch back to GNOME. While Mir played a big role together with Unity 8, they continued working on Mir with staffing changes and a shifted focus of adding Wayland support and tailoring it for primarily IoT use-cases and tightly integrated with their Snap packaging concept. Two years later, Mir is still alive and earlier this month marked the release of Mir 1.6. Here's a look back at the Mir highlights for 2019.
Canonical's Alan Griffiths continues leading the Mir efforts and his team had a very busy 2019 continuing to push along Mir even though it's not featured on the Ubuntu desktop right now is still playing a big role at the company due to IoT use-cases like digital signage. Griffiths provided a look back at Mir in 2019 on Ubuntu Discourse. Here were some of the highlights:
- NVIDIA driver support for Mir.
- Support for static display configurations.
- Support for Sway's layer-shell extension protocol.
- Recently with Mir 1.6 adding a Wayland graphics platform it became possible to run Mir as a Wayland client.
- Various integration improvements around Mir with Canonical's own Snap system.
- The MATE desktop environment working on Wayland support by way of Mir lifting.
- The ability for Mir shells to provide additional Wayland extensions.
- Performance testing/tracing of Mir with LTTng.
- The release of the Wayland Conformance Suite 1.0 for better testing.
- Improvements for Mali graphics with Mir.
- Various other Mir improvements like using Musl libc rather than Glibc and other different areas for enhancing Mir's use-cases for the Internet of Things.
Similarly, below is a look at the most popular Mir articles on Phoronix for the year.
Mir Made Good Progress Over The Holidays With Porting To Debian & Alpine, ARM Mali
Canonical's Mir display server is off to a good start for 2019 with a lot of work and pet projects being worked on over the holidays by the developers involved.
Mir 1.1.1 RC1 Has Fixes For PostmarketOS, Demo Shells Using Wayland
Mir 1.1 was released back in December as the first post-1.0 feature update while now preparing for release is the Mir 1.1.1 maintenance milestone.
It's Still A Slow Process For Ubuntu Touch Moving To Mir 1.x / Wayland
Given yesterday's release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-7, you might be curious how this UBports project is moving along with their adoption of the modern Mir 1.x that provides Wayland support... Unfortunately, it will still be a while before that is being shipped in production on Ubuntu Touch.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Won't Move To Mir 1.1 + Unity 8 Due To Qualcomm Binary Blob Issues
The Ubuntu Touch community team has put out their latest questions/answers about this effort continuing to let the Ubuntu effort live on for mobile devices like the Nexus and other hardware as well as looking ahead to get this mobile operating system running on the likes of Librem 5 and Pine64 phones.
SDL 2.0.10 Released With New APIs, Drops Mir In Favor Of Wayland
As the first Simple DirectMedia Layer release of 2019, SDL 2.0.10 has debuted today for this library that's widely used by cross-platform games including as part of the Steam run-time.
The MATE Desktop Is Becoming Quite Usable On Wayland Via Mir
The MATE desktop environment is becoming usable on Wayland thanks to its support being provided by the Mir display stack.
UBports Ubuntu Touch Continues Pursuing Mir/Unity8, Broad Device Support
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 was released earlier this month while the UBports community developers continue working to further along this Ubuntu-based mobile Linux OS.
Ubuntu Touch Nearing Updated Unity 8 + Mir, But Not Yet Full Wayland
Those at UBports continuing to independently advance Ubuntu Touch have put out a fresh status update on their work, including the long-awaited Unity 8 and Mir upgrade.
It's Becoming Easier To Develop New Wayland Extensions For Mir
The Mir 1.2 release was aiming to make it easier to develop Mir servers with custom Wayland extensions easier, but in dog feeding the work, Canonical's long-time Mir developer Alan Griffiths realized some shortcomings in the experience.
Mir 1.3 Released With Wayland Improvements, New AL Features
Mir 1.3 was released today as the newest version of Canonical's project making it easier to write desktop shells with Wayland support.


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Practice Area
- Business Transactions and Counseling
- Pension Plans, Profit Sharing and Employee Benefits
- Taxation Law
- Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- Wills, Trusts, Estate Planning and Probate Law
Bar Admissions
- State of Iowa, 2004
- University of Iowa College of Law, JD, with high distinction, 2004
- University of Iowa, BBA, with highest distinction, 2001
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Amanda D'Amico is an experienced transactional attorney primarily engaged in business and corporate law, taxation, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, estate planning and probate law. She has counseled clients for almost 15 years regarding entity formations, business operations, governance, and tax implications regarding pass-through entities. Ms. D'Amico also works with many individuals and families regarding their estate and succession plans and guides clients through the probate process.
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The Town of Holden Beach Board of Commissioners will meet Tuesday, March 19 for their regular monthly meeting. Highlights include:
- Changes to the recently enacted Trash Ordinance. The proposed revisions are in Ordinance 19-03 which would remove the time limits, allow corrals and provide for roll-back for all homes.
- Selecting an engineering firm for design and construction management for sewer modifications at Station #3 (800 block of OBW).
- Budget amendment for the search for sand. A new sand source will be needed for the anticipated major project to replace sand losses from Florence and Michael. FEMA reimbursement amounts are pending but could be around $20M.
Click here for the meeting agenda and packet.


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The distinctive cry of Sokratis Sinopoulos' lyra has previously been heard on ECM recordings of Charles Lloyd/Maria Farantouri and Eleni Karaindrou. Sokratis has played a key role in the revival of interest in the lyra in Greece, both in traditional music contexts and in the shaping of new music. To see him in concert for the first time is to marvel at the range of emotion and expression conveyed through the lyra and the power of the sound projected from this small, bowed instrument.
Born in Athens, Sokratis Sinopoulos studied classical guitar, Byzantine music and folk song before taking up the lyra at age 14. Within a year he was playing with mentor Ross Daly's group, and over the last two decades has collaborated with composers, musicians and singers from Greece and abroad. Along the way he has found his own voice as a creative musician. "I play an instrument associated with a specific tradition and live in a place where the tradition is really strong. There are many advantages to a strong tradition. It's like having a time machine, almost, which can take you back to the medieval era or on journeys through the history of Greece, the Balkans, many countries. And I have loved all the years I have spent supporting the traditions, including the folk music traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean. But recently something else has been developing, bringing together all of my background with something, let's say, 'universal'."
Eight Winds, the debut album of the quartet and Sokratis's leader debut for ECM, was produced by Manfred Eicher at Sierra Studios in Athens in April 2014. The reflective compositions and yearning ballads on the album cede the central melodic role to the lyra, sensitively supported by the piano of Yann Keerim and the subtle bass and drums of Dimitris Tsekouras and Dimitris Emmanuel. But there is more happening here than a cross-referencing of folk instrument and jazz trio.


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Depeche Mode reveal second single "Soothe My Soul"
Depeche Mode fans were treated today to a surprise debut of the second single from the band's soon-to-be-released ablum, "Delta Machine," on BBC6 Radio's morning show. The uptempo stomper, "Soothe My Soul," was revealed to have a more electronic edge than the rocky performance at this week's "Live On Letterman" streaming concert series would have indicated.
With the performance on "Live On Letterman," the announcement of North American tourdates and one in Amsterdam, the midweek Q&A session and tonight's exclusive showcase at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas, this week has proven to be one of the busiest for promotion in the band's more-than-three decade history.
Check out "Soothe My Soul" below:


text: Josh 43 Posted June 17, 2010 (edited) WARNING: THIS MASS IS IN MULTI-COMBAT PVP, THERE IS A VERY HIGH YOU WILL DIE AND, IF YOU DO, YOU WILL KEEP NO ITEMS. DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO LOSE. Time: 7PM GMT Date: Sunday 20 June 2010 World: 86 Boss: Dagannoth Kings Suggested Gear & Inventory - This is only suggested, take what you are comfortable risking. All of the following suggestions assume that you have a Pack yak filled with 30 Rocktails or a combination of Saradomin Brews & Super Restores, if you are not 96 Summoning, you made need to tweak them. Ranged: Magic (Mystic boots & a god cape would work better): Melee (Feel free to swap out accumulator for a melee cape): Hybrid: If you have any queries, feel free to post and I will try to reply to them as soon as possible. As there are no PvP LootShare worlds, we will be unable to use it. Edited June 17, 2010 by Josh Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Kalev lost to Unics
Kalev/Cramo got their 12th loss of the season in VTB as Unics defeated Kalev 95:107(42:47).
Kalev stayed in the game for most of the first half as they won the high paced first quarter 25:22 but lost the half-time 42:47. But third quarter was crucial for Unics as led the way and took a 80:63 lead going into the fourth quarter. 31 year old Errick McCollum had one of the biggest games of his career as he made 12 of his 13 shots and finished with 33 points, Jamar Smith added 19. Moultrie was on form for Kalev as he finished with 22, Lewis and Mirkovic added 16 points.
Moscow CSKA (21-4) stays on top as the VTB leader, followed by Unics(18-4). Kalev(10-12) is on the eight and Avtodor(9-14) on the ninth spot.