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The variation in our personalities, interests, and jobs adds so much to our collective being, and the variety of their life's stories are always amazing and intriguing to me. We find among us those who spend much of their lives following a chosen path which elevates them to a desired level in their field. We find those who strive to help others and find satisfaction in giving of themselves. They clearly understand how life can affect and destroy some of the most helpless, the most innocent. By telling their stories they help us understand the problems in our society give us insight into a world that may seem quite foreign, yet shows us how we, as a society, played a role through our action or inaction. Oh, but if only the lessons could be learned.
Valerie participates in a writing class I lead and has many wonderful stories. She chose this one to share, no doubt, because there is a message here for all of us. Thank you for this story. May it help everyone have a better view and an open heart.
Broken children are everywhere, subsisting within the obscure fringes of the social order. Society chooses not to embrace them by claiming ignorance to their essence and their needs. These children's minds, bodies, and spirits bear a resemblance to fragments of a smashed glass. This situation equates to the Christmas story of the damaged Misfit toys. Banished to a remote island, the toys disappear out of the visual acuity of those who have so callously terminated them without any conception of their intrinsic value if repaired. Out of sight out of mind. Society tends to discard objects that are flawed. Imperfection is not an attribute we are willing to encircle with open arms. We follow the same pattern with children that do not live up to the criterion we as a society exemplify. If a child is broken, is it not our moral covenant to take the time and effort to rebuild that shattered child instead of throwing him/her away?
In 1990, I accepted a position with the Wenatchee School District as the School Program Teacher housed at the Chelan County Maximum Security Juvenile Detention Center. In the blink of an eye, I had descended into the world of incarcerated youth. For 20 years, these children infiltrated my heart, challenged me, occupied my thoughts, and inspired me to achieve unparalleled pinnacles of compassion, patience, and love. MY STUDENTS became my passion, morphing into a part of me. We were the same in so many ways. Welcome to my world of Incarcerated youth -- up close and personal.
It is 8:00 a.m., and I am on my 2-way radio calling for students to come to school. They walk down the hall hands behind their backs, eyes looking forward. The line must be straight and talking is prohibited. The students are accompanied by juvenile custodial officers, and when the kids are seated the staff retreats back into the bowels of the building. Standing by my door, each student is welcomed with a cheerful greeting. Many of the kids refuse to look at me and most mornings there is no reciprocal response. In all honesty, the kids do not know how to react to a simple salutation from an adult. It makes them uncomfortable. They are much more at ease when the interaction is negative as opposed to positive. Negativity is their forte and sadly enough their life code. Their social etiquette is simply stated: attack before you get attacked.
The kids know the routine: Enter the classroom, get your work folder, take your assigned seat and remain silent. The actual scenario presents itself as: enter the classroom, talk to anyone and everyone, forget about your file, sit in someone else's seat, continue to talk as loudly as possible, and pretend you are clueless. Finally, students are in allocated seats, folders on desk and silent. In a final effort to establish control before the day begins, they deliberately make eye contact with me flaunting an intimidating leer reminding me to watch my back.
Routine is problematic for this group of youngsters. They identify it as an implementation of authority. The line in the sand is brazenly drawn the minute they enter the classroom. Pencils, aka potential weapons, are passed out. A request to open folders is made and to begin work. It is now 8:10 and the natives are already restless. The next issue of the day presents itself as "what do I work on?" The habitually repeated answer is "where you left off yesterday." The response, "Don't remember, can you show me? Note the use of the words show me instead of help me. Asking for help demonstrates weakness. This start-up routine is to get attention, and each individual student demands it on a daily basis. With vague recognition etched on their faces, the day ultimately commences. Continuity and routine are two perplexing concepts thrown into their chaotic reality. Adapting to others expectations does not come without some kicking and screaming along the way.
As the day continues, small battles are fought and indignation infuses itself into every situation. The kids do not like to have anyone tell them what to do. A simple please get to work or stop talking can erupt into an ugly confrontation in less time than it would take to snap your fingers. The choreography between teacher and student is set in motion. Attaining the lead position is the ultimate goal of both parties, but for very adverse motives.
The teacher's intent is to gently guide the student to the awareness that life is dictated by boundaries and to demonstrate how the usage of adaptive behaviors and respective demeanor can ultimately influence the outcome. The frequently used illustration is: you are on the job and the boss instructs you to do a task. You blow up, curse him out and storm off. You get fired for this behavior and now find yourself in the predicament of not having money. You blame the boss! Being told what to do is taken as harsh criticism, and immediately there is the need to reestablish control over the situation. At the end of the day you no longer have a job, but you have the satisfaction that no one can tell you what to do. We then run through the role play of respectful compliance and its outcome.
The day brings constant struggles as the two worlds continually collide. Oddly enough the perception is that their world is much safer than ours and simpler to navigate. Their so called straightforward world consists of violence, abuse, crime, addiction, gangs, and death, and yet to them it is the more benign of the two coexisting domains.
Anger is the mother of all emotions. Indignation will eventually set you free. Strike out at everyone and you will be memorable. Where does this rage come from? That can be answered in one word: life. These kids have been deprived of a childhood. By the time they can walk and talk, it ends before it begins. They start off at a early age missing out on the occasions that make childhood special and magical. These kids will never have hot chocolate waiting for them on a cold winters day. Having their hand held to cross a street never happens. There aren't any loving hugs and assurances that everything will be OK. Nobody wipes the tears away or puts band-aids on scraped knees. Bedtime stories are never read. There isn't any encouragement or hope tossed their direction. Incapable of envisioning a future, only the current moment matters.
Home is not a sanctuary. It is a house of horrors. Think about going through a haunted house at Halloween. It is dark, scary ,and the fear of the unknown looms before you. Your heart races, and your palms get sweaty with the anticipation that a monster might jump out of nowhere and grab you. Your instinct is to run back outside to a safe place. The trepidation of what might happen if you stay is paralyzing. If grabbed, is escape even a possibility? Does the monster want your blood? Will cries for help be heard? Will your absence be noticed? For most of us having these concerns running through our minds at warp speed are short-lived. Outside of our present nightmare there exists a safety net of love, protection, friends and family. Make it through the next 5 minutes on this dark excursion and Shangri-La awaits. For most of us it takes a little side trip down a dark alley to make us appreciate what we actually possess. At risk youth live in the haunted house 24/7. When these kids depart into the dark alley there is no light to guide them to a safe place. There is no one waiting on the other side. Life for them is like being trapped on an out-of-control roller coaster ride. Your screams for help fall on deaf ears. There are no good Samaritans in their world.
Imagine having an accident where you take a large gouge out of your leg. It is deep painful and bleeding profusely. With proper measures the hemorrhage can be stopped. At risk youth are constantly on the verge of bleeding out. Preventative measures are not always accessible to them. Many friends and family members are already In heaven due to violent deaths.
In a convoluted way, these kids are very religious. They believe Heaven will provide them with the good life that was denied them here on earth. They do believe that God is virtuous and will grant them redemption sanctioning their entrance through the Pearly Gates. The honor of sitting at his feet and basking in the Holy Spirit will also be bequeathed. The ultimate vision is absolution. It is worth dying for even as a child. Religion is a lifeline used only to the hereafter not in the present.
A student's writing helped me visualize the inner angst of my charges.
I jump on a big white fluffy cloud and sail away from my life. I look down and jump off when I find a new place that looks good. This community has not labled me. They do not know what prior bad acts I have committed. At first they enthusiastically welcome me with open arms. Just as I feel like I belong, all of a sudden Chicken Little arrives yelling," the sky is falling, the sky is falling." The sky falls on me and ruins everything. It is though I had a gps system installed in by body at birth and can be tracked anywhere I go. Eventually all the Chicken Littles will find me and it is back to square one and once again incarceration. I screwed it up again and know that it is a vicious cycle. No more clouds. I need something faster to outrun my life. I hop a frieght train and am satisfied this will work. It departs and speeds throught the night increasing the distance between me and my old life. Sometimes it slows to a comfortable pace and then Boom it resumes full speed ahead. The train never stops. I find this odd. Then I realize there is no one driving this train. It is the train to no where for nobodies like me. Why did I not jump off when it was going slow and I still had a chance? Those chances are over. This train is now in runaway mode and there will be no slowing down. Why do I always try to keep up with my homies, my drugs, my crimes? Why? Why do I keep doing this? My one saving grace is knowing that I will be with god in the afterlife because I have already spent my years on earth in hell. God I am ready to be your obedient and devoted solider. Please take me now!
Why do they keep doing this since 99% of their reactions are impulse driven? The answer is simple; Because it feels good.One moment of feeling good is worth sacrificing everything! Sacrificing everything is easy because you never had anything. A moment of pleasure is a way to escape the harsh reality of a dysfunctional life even if only for a millisecond in time. The moment, the rush of adrenalin, the thrill, the chase, the deception, and the fame make it all worthwhile. Crime, addiction and violence are normal lifestyles for these kids. It is all they know. Trapped in an environment created by others, survival is the driving force. Incarceration for this group of youngsters is viewed not as a deterrent but an achievement.
Why did I do this for 20 years? That is best answered by the poet Emily Dickinson.
If I Can Stop
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
by Valerie S., 2013
23 Apr 2013


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Surrealism against the current: tracts and declarations
Pluto Press, 20 sep. 2001 - 220 pagina's
Bringing together many Surrealist texts that have never previously been available in English, this collection is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the Surrealist movement. Including a wealth of original works, it traces its development in the words of the Surrealists themselves, offering a definitive expression of Surrealism as a collective movement. It shows the extent of Surrealist positions and interests and shows how, having become a major cultural phenomenon of the twentieth century, the issues it has raised remain central to current debates.Covering the period 1922-91, these key texts illuminate its philosophical, political and ethical positions and locate Surrealism in a broader social and cultural context. Comprising statements from Surrealist groups in Paris, Belgium, Romania, Sweden and Czechoslovakia, and signed by the major participants, it reveals the international dimension of Surrealism and shows how it has maintained vitality in response to changing social and political exigencies. Chapters cover the historical orientation of Surrealism; its involvement with revolutionary politics; its ethical concerns and its defense of the 'security of the spirit'; and its position on colonialism. In particular, the volume brings attention to the extent to which Surrealism represented a 'collective adventure' in which their shared interests brought together groups of individuals to explore themes in common. In this sense, Surrealism truly represented, as André Masson once described it, a 'collective experience of individualism'.
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Surrealism Against The Current: Tracts and Declarations
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Fragmentweergave - 2001
Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations
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~ "Disney Center" by prim ~
Howdy ;)
Ok, you may have noticed by the title that LinuxGaming's version of Minetest is a wee bit out of date. Out of date but very, very stable.
The current version of Minetest (MT 5.0.1) won't connect with MT 0.4.x Minetest servers like LinuxGaming. (Yup, there are still a few other old MT 0.4.x servers still online and chugging along.)
If you would like to log into LinuxGaming or the other old MT 0.4.x Minetest servers, here are some links to old version installers for Windows (32bit and 64bit) and Linux source files.
Here's the general link:
For MT 0.4.14 (which LinuxGaming's server runs):
For MT 0.4.15:
For MT 0.4.16:
For MT 0.4.17.1 (player offset is a bit.. off... and texture animations are fubuared but you can still connect to older MT 0.4.x servers):
And for the Linux users who fancy a bit of nostalgia or like to tinker with minimalist setups, here's the link to a much smaller and simpler Minetest -- MT 0.2.2 released back in July 2011:
~~~ oOo ~~~
Now, about LinuxGaming...
Before getting into the details of Minetest server, here is a link list highlighting builds in our Minetest world.
Featured Builds
These are links to screenshot posts in this thread that showcase various builds.
- Some screenshots from the early days
- wijnand's Mansion
- Pyramid of Giza
- Pixel Art
- Pixel Art
- Locomotive Sculpture
- Various Works of shadowpawn84 and ubuntuyou
- Pixel Art
- klappspaten's 'Lemmings'
- TheGuinzo's "Kirby"
- TheGuinzo's "Smiley"
- TheGuinzo's "HOENN CONFIRMED!"
- TheGuinzo's "Lyn"
- shadowpawn84, ubuntuyou, klappspaten - "Moderators' Collaborative Bonanza" - part 1
- shadowpawn84, ubuntuyou, klappspaten - "Moderators' Collaborative Bonanza" - part 2
- shadowpawn84, ubuntuyou, klappspaten - "Moderators' Collaborative Bonanza" - part 3
- shadowpawn84, ubuntuyou, klappspaten - "Moderators' Collaborative Bonanza" - part 4
- Renovation Project, "Noah's Hill-House" by LazyJ
- More amazing builds by shadowpawn84 and klappspaten
- klappspaten's "Mortal Kombat Bears"
- gtest's renovation of PlayMassiv's Wood House
- xilef's renovation of his SkyCity House
- LazyJ's "Pie-Fighter" in Moonland
Thanks ;)
~ LazyJ
General Information
The server runs 24/7.
Our Minetest server runs in survival-mode for some degree of challenge but it is not a battle server. Player-vs-Player has been disabled. Instead, the focus of our Minetest server is on building.
Our server is not a pillage and plunder server and not an anarchy / chaos server. The server is monitored, the rules are enforced, and bans are permanent.
While our community strives to keep the server family-safe, the players are not babysitters and the server is not a day-care center. Please do not leave children unattended to dig at every object in sight; a singleplayer world is much better suited for that instead.
By "family-safe", I mean that the server is monitored, excessive crude language and rude behavior are not acceptable, and discussing topics unsuitable for polite company should be done on someone else's server.
It is unfortunate that good manners and decorum are in such decline among online communities that I have to spell this stuff out.
Server Rules
We strive to keep our Minetest server a family-safe place. Good players are good neighbors and caretakers. The general rule is: "If you didn't make it, don't take it."
- No griefing
- No stealing
- No lagging through protected areas, this is a violation of community trust.
- No bullying
- No threats to other players
- No swearing, inappropriate topics, or foul-language.
- No inappropriate, gross, or foul-language player names.
- No excessive arguing. It really ruins the fun for everyone else.
- No excessive use of all-caps.
- No spamming.
- No dating, flirting, sexting, or trying to court other players.
- Respect the build areas of others. Do not mine, harvest, or build near their structures and the open spaces around them.
- Players caught using CSMs (client-side mods) that can be used in any way to cheat, steal, grief, abuse players, abuse the server, or anything else that causes problems for players and admins, will be banned.
For those players who want to argue these points I'll keep it real simple for you - you can be banned at any time without notice.
If you are suspected of using a hacked client you will be banned on sight.
Be cautious when discussing topics of religion, politics or any topic that results in a heated argument. Our server's players come from many different parts of the world and many different faiths and many different walks of life. The one thing they all have in common is that they come to our server to stack blocks in peace. Do not push too much and know when to back-off. If I have to step in to quell an argument, bans are the usual result.
Bans are permanent.
The Caretaker Philosophy
Some of our best players are not great builders but they are good people and good neighbors. They are "caretakers".
Caretakers take care of our community. They don't have to be admins or moderators warding off griefers and trouble makers.
They are positive role models, they lead by setting a good example for others and are pillars of our community.
They possess humility, grace, and the personal experience of "to err is human".
They know when to be firm and when to be forgiving.
They are willing to give a hand but not always a "hand-out".
They are there to greet new comers and "welcome back" returning friends.
This hopefully gives you an idea of what type of community we are striving for.
Admins: LazyJ and Miner_48er
Initial Privs: interact, shout, fast, money
Higher Privs
- Don't ask to be an admin or moderator. Admins and moderators are chosen,
in secret, after a very long period of observation and debate between Miner_48er
and LazyJ.
- Privs are granted based on merit and good behavior.
- With higher level privs comes the expectation of more responsibility from the
player. It is because of this expectation that it usually takes a long time to
be granted higher privs.
- **Known and trusted** admins from other servers may be granted higher privs as a
professional courtesy. Don't try to con us; we have a network of contacts among
the other servers to know about admins.
- There is no defined time for when privs are upgraded. It is literally up to
LazyJ and Miner_48er to determine if you are eligible or not.
- "Spill" and "twist" privs are granted after a few weeks of observation if the
player has not caused any problems.
- "Fly" is granted after a few months of observation for good behavior.
- "Kick, ban/xban, basic_privs" are granted to mature players who have been on
our server a long time and thoroughly understand our rules and expectations of
- "Areas_high_limit" is granted after a player has used-up their already large
allotment of Areas, proven to be a prolific builder of good quality builds, and
has proven to be a pillar of our community.
- Privs higher than these are at moderator and admin levels.
Protect Your Stuff
ShadowNinja's 'Areas' protection mod is installed. Players, themselves, can now set protection on their own builds.
No Sign-Up Required
No sign-up is required. Enter an appropriate name and password of your chosing in Minetest's Multiplayer menu.
However; there are some exceptions:
- Please use a name other than "Guest<number>" (e.g., Guest1234)
- SqueakCrafter names are blocked.
- "Player<number>" names are blocked.
- Names beginning with numbers or are all numbers only are blocked.
- The playername "Admin" is blocked; please use a different playername.
Our Minetest server is setup for full-sized monitors and PC's with real keyboards and mice. iPads, tablets, Kindles, and smart-phones will not be able to access all the controls in some menus or F-number key functions.
Server Details
If you connect with a Minetest client older than that date you will see a warning message saying your client may not be fully compatible.
Where to Download Minetest
Minetest's official download page - https://www.minetest.net/downloads/
Windows Users:
You may have to wait a few days for a more up-to-date Windows build to be released.
Linux Users:
If you want the latest-and-greatest version of Minetest you will have to compile Minetest from the source code by typing commands in the terminal. Follow the Linux install instructions in the README.txt file. It can be daunting at first but after a few times you'll get the hang of it and from then on you will know how to install and run the newest versions of Minetest. ;)
Address: LinuxGaming2.com
Port: 30000
Our server uses strict protocol version checking so Minetest doesn't have to do more processing to try to accommodate older versions. Players' clients *must be* within the same version series to connect to our Minetest server.
LinuxGaming2's IRC Connection Info:
Address: linuxgaming2.com
For SSL connection, use: 6697
For a non-SSL connection, use: 6667
- #minetest - This is the channel that is piped into the game. In-game chat and IRC chat go back-and-forth.
- #LinuxGaming2 - This is the channel to use if you want to chat outside of the game and not be interrupted by young players who don't yet know what IRC is and don't want to be asked "can i liv wit u" or "ware r u" every time you chat with someone.
If you are using the SSL connection, port 6697, use these extra settings in your IRC client (these are what I use in my HexChat):
- Accept invalid SSL certificates. For now we have to use self-signed certificates.
- Use SSL for all servers.
If you are using the non-SSL connection, port 6667, then you don't need any of that SSL setting stuff.
There are several, free chat programs available for download such as XChat for Linux (should be in your repositories; if not, try XChat's homepage) or its more frequently updated clone, HexChat (HexChat is FREE for Linux and Windows).
If you would like to try IRC chat without installing any additional software, you can use your web browser instead. Go to KiwiIRC, enter a nickname, skip the "Start" button, click on the small blue text that says "Server and Network", enter the server and port info above, then click on the "Start" button.
- "Ambience" - sound effects
- "Areas" and "Markers" - allow players to set their own protection on the things they create
- "HomeDecor" - provides furnishings and items for interior and exterior design
- "MoreBlocks" - provides many different shapes and extra blocks to build with.
- "MoreTrees" and "PlantLife" - provide a variety of trees, wood planks, and plants.
- "TravelNet" - provides elevators for players to teleport vertically through. The omni-directional teleport booths can only be set by admins.
- "Unified Inventory" - a feature-rich inventory manager.
The other installed mods (except the admin mods) are in this next list:
- "Bonemeal" - a custom mod for growing trees and plants
- "Columia" - provides columns and column bases
- "Currency" - (barter table only) provides the barter table for securely trading items with other players
- "Destinations" - a custom mod for chat-command teleports set by admins.
- "Fake Fire" - harmless, non-destructive fire
- "Fences" - a fork of an old fence mod
- "GloopBlocks" - provides decorative blocks
- "Info" - information screens that can be called-up with chat commands for info on some topics about the server
- "IRC" - a mod that connects the in-game chat to the IRC server and back
- "Item Tweaks" - stand by dropped items and they will float toward you and go into your inventory if there is room for them
- "Lantern" - provides a couple different, decorative, light blocks, a candle, and black fences for lamp posts
- "Lava Lamp" - the old, cylindrical version of the "Lava Lamp" mod
- "Money" - provides shop chests that players can sell items from and the digital currency used in the server
- "MoreBlocks Legacy" - a really old version of "MoreBlocks" that was used when the server first started years ago (kept to preserve the old blocks, and the old builds created from them, that didn't convert in newer versions).
- "MoreOres" - provides a few more ores used in recipes of other mods
- "Ore Recipes" - crafting recipes to put ores and stone back together for use as decoration or design elements
- "OtherBlocks" - a set of custom mods that provide extra, decorative blocks for creating with
- "Player Textures" - the player skin mod used on the server - chat with an admin to have your skin installed
- "Snow" - an old fork of the "Snow Biomes" mod
- "Streets" - a really old, small, limited, fork of the "Streets" mod
- "Teleport Request" - provides player-to-player, chat-command teleport - no special privs required
- "Traffic Light" - provides an animated traffic light
- "Weild 3D" - displays the item held in the player's weild hand
- No world wipes. LinuxGaming2 is one of the oldest surviving online worlds in Minetest (created back in April, 2013).
- Interact on join. No sign-up process required.
- In-game global chat interface with our IRC server.
- PvP damage has been disabled to prevent players from killing each other or accidental player damage done while working too close to each other.
- Drowning has been disabled.
- Burning has been disabled.
- The only ways to get hurt are by falling or touching lava.
- The full-sized version of Unified Inventory is used.
- Crafting recipe outputs have been increased for most building materials.
- The server shuts down to perform backups at 10am GMT/2am PST (The server computer is located in the state of California, USA)
- 24/7 uptime! (or, at least, that's what we strive for)
- Water and lava buckets require a special priv to be able to empty the buckets
- Screwdriver requires a special priv to use.
- Display names of duplicated items have their mod name added, ie: "Default" Copper Ingot vs. "MoreOres" Copper Ingot.
- Default wool now can be crafted into basic stairs and slabs as well as being compatible with More Blocks' circular saw.
- All default blocks that can be used to build with can auto-rotate and work with the screwdriver.
- Lava now automatically renews itself (just like water does) when 2 source blocks are within 1 space of each other
- The flammable property has been removed from all mods so nothing will burn.
Occassionally the server is closed for several hours to run clearobjects. Clearobjects clears the world of all dropped items (litter). Over time this stuff builds-up and causes lag so we have to clear it out. Even with the built-in feature to remove items after several seconds, that feature doesn't clean-up everything so clearobjects is still necessary.
Our server is a work-in-progress. It is also a very customized server. As such mod updates take awhile to test, edit, and tailor to our server. Major updates will be posted in this forum thread. Minor updates and tweaks happen along the way without much fanfare. LinuxGaming2 will never be "bleeding edge"; stability is preferred.
The maps were created using Rogier's (a.k.a 'argos') fork of mireq's minetestmapper-cpp. The external color.txt file is based on VanessaE's color.txt. (Note: Right-click on the link and then select the save-as option.)
Our custom color.txt file can be downloaded from here:
(Note: Right-click on the link and then select the save-as option.)
Before uploading the section maps are processed through pngquant to make their file sizes smaller and easier for uploading/downloading. The "8K" map and the "Main Section" map are processed through optipng. For png files smaller than a megabyte, pngquant seems to work best, however on larger png files, pngquant doesn't have much affect. For larger png files, optipng can reduce their size, somewhat, but it also takes much, much longer.
When posting screenshots on our thread or anyone else's, please try to compress them as much as possible. A maximum image width of 1024 seems to work well for most forums. What I've found is downsizing Minetest screenshots to 1024 wide and then compressing them really doesn't affect their image quality all that much. Minetest is a digging-in-the-dirt game, not a high-resolution, photo-shoot of supermodels for a glamor magazine. :0)
Download the "8K" map (8,000m x 8,000m):
Download the "Teleports" map (8,000m x 8,000m):
The Teleports map is a grey scale version of the 8K map and shows the destinations of the Travelnet booths and the go-points.
- Travelnet booths are yellow circles and words.
- Go-points are red circles and words.
- The map in the background is greyed-out to make it easier to read the small print of the teleport locations.
Download the Main Section map (3,300m x 2,300m):
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/uh58d8fmeeuwwkg/linuxgaming_main_section.png (4mb)
The main section broken down into smaller pieces:
Section 01 - 2020_04_04
(1000m x 1000m)
Section 02 - 2020_04_04
(1000m x 1000m)
Section 03 - 2020_04_04
(1000m x 1000m)
Section 04 - 2020_04_04
(1000m x 1000m)
Staffeville (west) - 2020_04_04
(1000m x 1000m)
Staffeville (east) - 2020_04_04
(1000m x 1000m)
Other sections beyond the main section:
Disney Center - 2020_04_04
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Pixel Art Area - 2020_04_04
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Forbidden Lands - 2020_04_04
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Norwood - 2020_04_04
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Urbanvale - 2020_04_04
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Wild West - 2020_04_04
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More About Our Minetest Server
A Minetest world is huge!
60,000 x 60,000 x 60,000 blocks huge!!
With plenty of room for everyone there is no need to pile-up and build on top of each other.
"Owned by ... "
When you look at a block and see "Owned by <playername>" that means the block has been protected, or "permafied", in that player's name. Most of Spawntown has been permafied, so everywhere you look is "Owned by ... ". To find a place to mine and build that hasn't been permafied you will have go out of Spawntown. Follow the main roads north, south, east, and west and eventually you will find a spot.
Areas Protection
The protection status of an area is displayed in the lower-left corner of your screen. If it says "Areas" followed by an ID number and name/title then that area has already been protected and claimed by someone else.
Using shadowninja's Areas mod with Sokomine's Markers GUI mod for Areas, players can set protection on their creations by themselves.
Staff will not set protection on mines. Mines are too sprawling, overlapping and entagled.
* Note: This is NOT real money; it's just fake, play money.
The purpose of the Money mod is:
- a way for players to trade amongst themselves if the other player doesn't have an item to trade that the other player is interested in.
- a way to provide players access to items that do not have crafting recipes or are not renewable.
How Much *Money Do I Have?
Before you can buy anything, you will want to know how much *money you have in your account. To check your account balance type:
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This will display your current balance in the chat area in the upper, left corner of your screen.
All players start off with no *money in their account. In order to get *money you will have to sell stuff.
Selling to Other Players - Work on Your Sales Pitch, Improve Your Skills in the Art of Haggling
Often players will buy and sell directly to each other. Remember when coming up with your sales pitch or haggling a deal, "Honey gathers more flies than vinegar".
RealBadAngel's "Unified Inventory" mod provides 4 bags of extra storage in your inventory. Use these to carry your surplus for player-to-player sales.
For example, blacksabre_43 doesn't want to buy a full stack of 99, red, wool, blocks because blacksabre_43 just needs 8 blocks, not 99.
MegaMiner happens to have a surplus of white, wool blocks in their inventory and some red dye.
MegaMiner makes an offer to blacksabre_43... $24 for 8, red, wool blocks.
blacksabre_43 thinks MegaMiner's price is too high so both players haggle for a while and settle on a deal of 8, red, wool blocks for $16.
MegaMiner crafts the 8 blocks of wool with red dye to sell to blacksabre_43 and then blacksabre_43 pays MegaMiner the agreed upon price of $16.
To pay another player type (without the < >):
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/money pay <playername> <amount>
So to pay MegaMiner $16 for the 8, red, wool blocks, blacksabre_43 typed in:
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/money pay MegaMiner 16
After blacksabre_43 enters the code above, $16 is transfered from blacksabre_43's account and put into MegaMiner's account.
Both players can confirm the transaction by typing in:
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blacksabre_43 sees that their account balance is now $16 less and MegaMiner sees that their account balance has increased by $16.
Make *Money by Selling to Admin Shop Chests
The easiest and most reliable way to make *money is to mine cobble and then sell it to the admin shop in the Admin Shops Building. Other materials can be bought and sold there as well at any time, 24/7. The item each shop buys or sells is on top of the shop chest it represents (e.g., there is a block of cobble on top of the shop that buys a stack of 99 cobble for $100).
If you plan ahead you can build-up your account with steady mining.
Here is an example of how very useful RealBadAngel's "Unified Inventory" mod truly is.
You are about to go on a long-term mining expedition. Plan-out what items you will need to survive underground for several days. Move all the things you don't need out of your inventory and into locked chests. Once you have four, empty, large bags and a mostly empty inventory (except for the things that you will need like saplings, dirt, apples, snow, ice blocks (water), torches, tools, glowlights, and rope), head out on your mining expidition for tales of adventure and glory!
With four, empty, large bags and a nearly empty inventory you can store a lot of cobble and ores to sell later for *money.
Now that you have an inventory and 4 bags full of cobble and ores it's time to sell it.
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The spawn command, on our server, doesn't "kill" you like it might on other servers. Instead it will teleport you to the spawn building with all your stuff still in your inventory.
Across the street from the spawn building is the Admin Shops Building (pictured below). The ground floor is where you sell your goods to the admin shops. Vairous items such as dirt, desert sand, cobble, desert stone, desert cobble, wood, leaves, ice, and cactus can be sold to the admin shops. Some items are bought at a better price than others so be sure to check first and plan accordingly.
Admin Shops Building (Top Floor) - Buy Wool, Buy Your Own Shop
After you've sold your stuff to the shops on the ground floor, you can buy stuff on the top floor.
Swim up the water elevator in the middle of the Admin Shops Building to get to the top floor. On the top floor you can buy some of the available, colored wools (red, green, blue, white, grey, dark grey). You can also purchase your own shop chest to buy and sell things to other players. You don't have to be ingame for your shop to make *money for you. Players can buy items from your shop even while you are offline. Be sure to keep your shops well stocked. If your shop runs out of items to sell, then you won't make any more *money.
Admin Dye Shops
Just off to the west side of the Admin Shops Building are the dye shops. The colored block on the ground in front of each dye shop chest represents the color of dye sold. Before buying dyes, be sure to check if the item you wish to color is capable of changing colors (e.g., you can dye white wool but not cobble or brick). Also check the craft guide for alternate recipes for the dyes. Dyes are made from other dyes but if you study the alternate recipes you may be able to make completely different dye colors from left-over dyes in your inventory. Frugal and effective.
Admin Wool, Moonrock, and Anti-Moonrock Shops
The colors of wool that aren't sold on the top floor of the Admin Shops Building (magenta, dark green, black, orange, yellow, cyan, purple, pink, brown) can be found at street level along side of two shops that sell moonrocks (white, bounce pads) and anti-moonrocks (purple; no fall-damage). They are just up the street from the Admin Shops Building, between the Sneak Elevator Demo and Mind's Market Tower.
Admin Shop - 'The Clay and Brick Store'
The map-generated clay has been quickly snatched-up from all the near-by areas. Since clay is non-renewable, a store was setup where players could buy clay and use the furnaces in the store to make brick. For those players with a little more money to spend, red brick and green, cactus brick is sold in the shops in the lounge on the top floor of the store. Also on the top floor is a balcony looking out upon Spawntown. If you are on the ground, you can walk along the narrow edge that goes around the building to look over the cliff.
Admin Shop - "Junglegrass Hut"
Our server's world started before jungle biomes where brought back to the default minetest_game. The Junglegrass Hut provides access to junglegrass in large quantities (a stack at at time) or smaller quantities (10 at a time). Players can buy junglegrass and sell back any execess. Over time junglegrass has been made more accessible through other means but the Junglegrass Hut remains the best source for aquiring bulk junglegrass for your landscaping and botanical decorating needs.
Mind's 'Market Tower'
Originally a flat plot of land, later transformed into a stylish shopping tower, Mind's Market Tower holds several floors for players to place there shops. The top floor has a tree-topped canopy and deck to relax in with the theraputic powers of thefamilygrog66's, "Living Room Furniture" mod's sofas.
Xiong's 'Old Town Market'
To the north of Spawntown is Old Town. A multi-level market place for players to set up shop. Old Town starts off with a dance floor and open-air dining area overlooked by a stately bell tower. Each level is easily accessable and ready for business.
Public Mine
One of the easiest and most reliable ways to make *money is to sell cobble to the admin shop. On the west edge of town, across the street from the admin shop that buys cobble, is the public mine where anyone can mine for as much cobble as they like, as often as they like. The entry way to the mine is paved with various ores. The surface of the mine and the first few levels of stairs and wijnand's Mining Store are protected, otherwise the rest of the mine is available. The public mine extends to depths where mese and diamonds are more common.
After filling the shop chest with 240 diamond pickaxes, MegaMiner is selling them in sets of 2 at $30 a set. This is how MegaMiner's shop is "tuned":
Line 1: Enter the name of your shop. (e.g., 'MegaMiner's Professional Mining Tools')
Line 2: If buying, enter capital 'B'. If selling, enter capital 'S' if buying and selling, enter captial 'BS' (e.g., 'S' because MegaMiner is selling)
Line 3: Enter the item code. (e.g., default:pick_diamond)
Line 4: Enter the number of items you are selling at a time. (e.g., '2')
Line 5: If you are buying, enter how much you are willing to pay for the item. (e.g., This is left blank because MegaMiner is selling, not buying.)
Line 6: If you are selling, enter your price to sell the items. (e.g., MegaMiner entered "30".)
Players often don't know the proper item code to enter in the third line, "Name of node that you want to buy or/and sell". This is where the craft guide in RealBadAngel's "Unified Inventory" mod really helps out. By clicking on the item in your inventory's items list that you want to sell (the item's list is the grid on the right side of the inventory screen), the inventory menu will switch over to the craft guide. Above the crafting grid will appear the item's proper code name to enter in the shop's third line.
For example:
cobble = default:cobble
fancy door = homedecor:door_exterior_fancy_bottom_left
To learn more about how to 'tune' your shop, go to the first post in the following link:
"Money" by kotolegokot
Other, Non-Money Stuff
When mining long-term, always carry dirt, saplings, and light sources (torches, glowglass, glowlights, glow-in-the-dark scaffolding) to grow trees underground.
You will need dirt and light in order for the sapling to grow into a tree.
Growing trees underground helps you to keep mining without having to return to the surface for tools and supplies. From a single tree you get:
- wood to make tools, ladders, and torches from, and fuel for furnaces for making metal tools (though coal is a better fuel).
- leaves to make rope (cheaper to make than ladders)
- apples to restore health
- saplings to renew your tree resources
PowerPlayer Tip:
Always carry snow and ice blocks with you; much more snow than ice blocks as you can create ice blocks from water with snow.
Since the spill priv is required to use buckets on our server, snow or ice blocks are the way to transport water. Snow or ice blocks melt when near a torch or lava.
Infinite water supplies can be created by digging a 2x2 hole, place 2 snow/ice blocks diagonally from each other in the hole, then place a torch on the surface of the hole next to each snow/ice block. The snow/ice blocks will melt into 2 water sources. The 2, diagonally-positioned, water sources will merge into an infinite water supply.
Water is useful when mining because you can create water elevators (drowning has been disabled) and, if you come across a lava lake, water can be used to to produce obsidian, basalt, or pumice.
To transport water from your newly created infinite water supply, place a snow block in the water and the water will freeze into ice blocks that can be dug.
PowerPlayer Tip:
Always carry in your inventory an armchair from "Living Room Furniture" by thefamilygrog66 to restore your health 100%. These are not the same as the armchairs from "Home Decor" by VanessaE.
Apples are great for emergency, quick-fixes but they rapidly run out and only restore partial health. The armchair from the mod, "Living Room Furniture" by thefamilygrog66 is small, cheap to make, reuseable, and just as powerful as the sofas and long sofas. If you are running low on health, but not in an emergency situation, place the armchair, move a step or two away from the armchair, right-click on the armchair, you will be teleported to the middle of the armchair (sitting) and your health will be restored to 100%. Once your health has been restored, dig the armchair back into your inventory for use again later.
PowerPlayer Tip:
After you've found a spot for mining, use your second sethome at the bottom of your mine. When your inventory is full of cobble, use the /spawn command to return to spawn and sell your cobble to the Cobble Admin Shop. Then you can use the /home command to teleport back to the bottom of your mine.
PowerPlayer Tip:
Make your tools last longer by repairing them.
The tool repair setting has been increased to produce a 100% new tool from two, old, worn-out, tools of the same type.
For example, if you have two mesepick axes that are almost wore-out (their tool-life bar is red) you can combine both of those old, mese pick axes in the crafting grid to produce a brand new mese axe with full, 100% tool life. Essentially 3 tools for the price of 2.
Made of ethereal cloud blocks, Mind's Archive of Coords is the place to have your build's coordinates listed (if you wish) or to find the coords to other builds that players are proud of.
Ok, now that you have the coordinates to a place listed in Mind's Archive of Coords, how do you use them?
Here are some navigation tips:
- Clouds drift from north to south, the sun and moon rotate east to west.
- Pressing the "F5" key will display the coords in the upper, left corner of your screen, above the chat and below where it says "Minetest 0.(whatever-version-number-it-is)". To turn them off, press the F5 key again (though it is recommended to leave them turned on).
- The coords are 3 digits seperated by commas. (e.g., 444,42,716)
- The fist coordinate, "444", is the "x" = east and west directions.
- The second coordinate, "42", is the "y" = height or depth.
- The third coordinate, "716", is the "z" = north and south directions.
- Positive coordinates are east, up, and north.
- Negative coordinates are west, down, and south.
- If the coordinate numbers are getting bigger, you are moving east, up, north, or any combination of those three.
- If the coordinate nubmers are getting smaller, you are moving west, down, south, or any combination of those three.
- The newer versions of Minetest now include the cardinal direction names in coord line as well as a mini-map that can be toggled on and off. The square version of the mini-map doesn't rotate so North is always at the top.
Take a look at the overview maps posted above for examples of how the "coords" can be used.
Along the top of the maps is a scale that represents the "x" coord.
Along the left side of the maps is a scale thar represents the "z" coord.
The y coord, (height/depth) isn't represented.
So by looking at the map, Sokomine's Inn is located around 1152,y?,960.
- 1152 on the x scale along the top of the map.
- Unknown height (y?), no y scale.
- 960 on the z scale along the left side of the map.
Two of our custom blocks are moonrocks and anti-moonrocks. To demonstrate what these blocks do a bounce-pad demo was setup. When jumped upon, moonrocks (white) greatly increase the height of a jump (like a trampoline). Anti-moonrocks (purple) are for safe landings. No matter how far you fall, you will not suffer any damage or die if you land on an anti-moonrock.
- Anti-moon rocks are great for placing at the bottom of mineshafts, sneak elevators, and escape routes.
- Working on a tall structure? Place anti-moonrocks around there base of where you are working in case you fall off.
- Moonrocks can make obstical courses more interesting and challenging.
- When strategicaly placed, moorocks can allow players to quickly jump up to builds high in the sky.
2018_05_24 - The ability to use sneak elevators is in flux. The MT devs broke them then later added a slowed-down imitation after much blow-back. Depending on what dev version of Minetest you are using you may still have the ability to use the old, fast sneak elevators, or you might have the new, slow version, or you may have the version that breaks them and are not able to use sneak elevators at all. Time will tell how all this will work out but for now it is still changing. ~ LazyJ
Sneak elevators can be constructed for rapid climbs. Either the corner version (like the demo) or the flush-surface version of alternating blocks and spaces. To climb a sneak elevator, move right up against the surface and the hold down the shift and space keys at the same time. To get back down, jump down, close to the surface of the sneak elevator and safely stop yourself by holding the shift key. For getting down faster, place an anti-moonrock pad at the bottom of the sneak elavator for a damage-free landing.
Sneak elevators are especially useful when creating mine shafts. Dig alternating spaces as you mine downward. When you want to climb back up to a higher level, going up a sneak elevator is much faster than climbing ladder or rope.
Sneak Elevator Tower
To practice climbing a sneak elevator, a four-sided sneak elevator tower was created next to the Sneak Elevator Demo. Climb the tower and get a birdseye view of Spawntown and the surrounding area. While at the top, there are mini-water elevators in the floor. You can drift down and walk precarilously along the very edge. Don't let the horizontal ladders fool you. There is nothing preventing you from falling off.
Sneak Elevator Tower - North View of Spawntown
Sneak Elevator Tower - South View of Spawntown
* The texture pack used in the screenshots is Calinou's coversion of Misa's texpure pack.


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Updated at 7:26 p.m. ET on 7/23
(CNN) – Embattled Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Tuesday he was paying back more than $120,000 in loans amid federal and state investigations into gifts and financial contributions he received from a wealthy executive.
McDonnell, who has said he will not resign, added he was working toward advancing policy items in the final several months of his governorship.
He apologized for the "embarrassment certain members of my family and I brought upon my beloved Virginia and her citizens."
"I want you to know that I broke no laws and that I am committed to regaining your sacred trust and confidence," McDonnell continued. "I hope today's action is another step toward that end."
READ MORE: Virginia governor scandal: 'That's not the guy we know'
The Republican governor has been under intense scrutiny for the past several weeks over gifts and loans he received from Jonnie Williams Sr., the owner of a dietary supplement company that McDonnell and his wife have promoted in recent years.
On Tuesday, McDonnell said he had repaid Williams $52,278 for a loan made to his wife Maureen McDonnell in 2011, as well as a $71,837 for two loans made to a McDonnell family business.
Funds for repayment came from McDonnell himself, his family, and his family's business.
Cuccinelli, a Republican, owned stock in Williams' company, but sold off his shares earlier this year. He also collected more than $18,000 in gifts from the executive and stayed at his vacation house on Smith Mountain Lake.
Cuccinelli's Democratic rival Terry McAuliffe Tuesday called on the attorney general to follow McDonnell's lead on Tuesday.
"Since the Governor has begun the process of repaying Jonnie Williams, so should the Attorney General," McAuliffe spokesperson Josh Schwerin wrote. "The Attorney General should repay the $18,000 in gifts he received from the CEO of a company he was supposed to be pursuing for unpaid taxes. Instead of taking Williams and his company to court, Cuccinelli was taking gifts and vacations and buying stock in the company."
Last week an state investigation indicated the attorney general would not face charges for the failure to report the gifts, adding that there was no evidence Cuccinelli committed a crime.
"Ken Cuccinelli has been open and transparent in his race for governor, while Terry McAuliffe uses scare tactics to distract voters from his history of broken promises and unanswered questions," said Anna Nix, a spokeswoman for the Cuccinelli campaign.
CNN's Paul Steinhauser, Peter Hamby, Kevin Liptak and Ashley Killough contributed to this report.
Virginia governor resignation would solve GOP problem, create another
If you rob a bank then after you get caught you give the money back. Then you should walk away free and clear. This guy is a piece of work.
I wonder what "policy items" McDonnell wants to "advance". I suspect a flurry of a lunatic proposals involving women's reproduction.
Too late, Gov. Ultrasound. Any hope he had for future political office is now a pipe dream.
Where did he get the money to repay the "loans" so quickly? His government salary isn't enough for that.
Too little-too late
Tell him Fox News.
I dare you!
I want you to know that I broke no laws and that I am committed to regaining your sacred trust and confidence," McDonnell continued. "I hope today's action is another step toward that end."
Isn't there a certain FEDERAL investigation that would say otherwise?
IF you've done nothing wrong – and when I say "you" I mean your family as well,a s they have enjoyed the perks of your governorship and are an extension of you- why pay the money back?
Let it ride. And may the chips fall where they may.
IF you've done nothing wrong.
I must say that if you were a regular Joe Blow and not the governor I'm not quite sure that these types of "loans" would've manifested themselves.
You can't make these people up.
If I just give back the dirty money, then everything will be ok, right? It will be like it never happened, right? NOT!
I see the future mayor of New York City, Anthony Weiner, has admitted to sending lewd texts to someone other than his wife even AFTER he resigned from Congress.
Another one of those "but the law does not apply to me" GOTP'ers.
Someone's very worried about getting prosecuted.
"I see the future mayor of New York City, Anthony Weiner, has admitted to sending lewd texts to someone other than his wife even AFTER he resigned from Congress."
I see that you're lying. In his response to "The Dirty" publishing another text message, he explicitly stated that it was another photo from BEFORE he resigned...and he also reminded everyone that he admitted there were others at the time, predicted that more would come out eventually and poof, here we are rehashing something that's already old news and over simply because a tabloid decided to try to resurrect it for profit.
Clearly, they need to probe deeper.
===>Anthony Weiner and Rachel Jeantel<===
(I can't wait to see the bumper stickers)
Absolute power corrupts absolutely...
Republicans/democrats both do this. Demcorats in this administration didn't pay their taxes for years. Tax cheat Timmy was the high profile one there considering his position.
Get rid of all who do this including this one.
I guess the "bribe" became a "loan" after he was caught
Does McDonnell plan to re-imburse VA taxpayers for the use of the governor's mansion to promote Star Scientific's latest product?
Hey Republicans-
Forget your Benghazi-gate, NSA-gate, IRS-gate, and Lord knows what else you've cooked up- here is a REAL-LIVE scandal..... I am not hearing you.....hey? Don't you guys want Issa to hold a hearing or something? How about some PROBES?
Carlos Danger
I see the future mayor of New York City, Anthony Weiner, has admitted to sending lewd texts to someone other than his wife even AFTER he resigned from Congress.
Yeah, so? What Weiner did IS NOT a crime. What governor v-probe did IS.
GOP is in Doom. For a decade or two–these idiots are done. That's it.
I guess the "bribe" became a "loan" after he was caught
Shouldn't ALL thieves, then, at least those in the state of Virginia be allowed to repay money they unlawfully took and wipe their slate clean like the good Governor here hopes will happen with him?
Leading by the example and all that malarky they demand of others other than themselves and their families and such clap...
Typical Republican solution to everything, just apologize and tell them that he is a christian and the GOP/TP sheep will forgive us. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McDonnell saying, "I broke no laws," reminds me of Nixon saying, "I am not a crook."
McDonnell paying back a loan but funny he had to be caught and publized before he decided to pay it back and is it his money being used for the pay off or is it the company that bribed him many times before in Scientific!!Answer those questions McDonnell and see how you're treated as Democrate Martinez was publicly admonished by your ignorent party and set up by your republican thugs as well,remember buds I do!!


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It wasn't artistic or clinical, but all that mattered was the result: The Crew earned a berth in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup for the first time since winning it in 2002.
Taking advantage of two calls after yielding a penalty in the 13th minute, the Crew gutted out a 2-1 extratime semifinal victory over D.C. United in RFK Stadium on Wednesday.
"It wasn't perfect soccer, but we won," midfielder Brian Carroll said. "That's great, and we're moving on."
The Crew were a minute away from their third straight shutout in as many different competitions before an Andy Iro shot went off defender Marc Burch for an own-goal in the 89th minute.
Iro thought the goal was his but was happy nonetheless.
"I'd like that goal," the center back said. "I put the shot on the frame. It took a deflection but it was going in anyway. It should be my goal, but honestly the bigger picture is winning."
[inline_node:317425]The deciding goal came in the eighth minute of extra time when Steven Lenhart dribbled into the box against 10-man United and drew a penalty that Guillermo Barros Schelotto converted.
"We had to battle back the whole game," Carroll said. "Being down 1-0 is never easy, but we showed grit and determination."
The Crew knew the league's last-place team had put its entire season into the game, yet DC seemed uninspired for much of the match. The hosts paid dearly when Iro took down Pablo Hernandez to set up the game's first score.
"Yeah, it was a foul," Iro said. "He sold it. I didn't really tackle him, but there was contact. You're on the road. I wasn't too surprised."
Hernández was ejected in the 59th minute. He and Danny O'Rourke tangled near midfield, and Hernández was shown red after trying to trip O'Rourke, who received a caution for his actions.
After a controversial 1-0 loss to Santos in the CONCACAF Champions League eight days earlier and Saturday's 0-0 draw with FC Dallas, the Crew got several breaks.
The biggest might have been in the 47th minute when Andy Najar beat backup goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum, but his effort hit the left post.
Najar also missed a tap-in shortly after the own goal that would have put DC in front. Then, in the 105th minute, United defender Dejan Jakovic shot high over the open goal.
It was perhaps an omen for the Crew, who lost in stoppage time at Santos.
"Scoring toward the end of the game tonight sort of flip-flopped our game at Santos," Carroll said. "It's always nice to finish out a game strong. I hope the luck has changed."


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It has been a long while since I last posted, I remembered riding off into the sunset a few years ago after witnessing the rise of another LEGO golden age.
Travelling across the void I have since battled monsters, aliens, mutants, heretics and demons alike in a thousand battlefields across hundred of worlds. Adventures done, knowledge gathered, wisdom gained (by the brick hopefully) and new skills honed I have decided to join back my favorite branded ABS marveling folks in celebration of this golden age.
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Federation Music Groups
The group, originally known as the Bloomfield Civic Chorus was organized in 1933 with an invitation extended by the Bloomfield Board of Recreation and printed in the Bloomfield Independent Press. The fifty member chorus joined with the Bloomfield Symphonic Orchestra and gave their debut performance on May 6, 1934. Under the leadership of Walter Kurkewicz the choir grew to a membership of one hundred and twenty five.
For over seven decades the group flourished and presented many ambitious programs and was led by a series of very able conductors.. However, lifestyles changed and the membership dwindled, forcing the group to finally disband and it remained defunct for four years.
In 2008 the Bloomfield Federation of Music made a commitment to reorganize the group. Under the leadership of Ruth Hsu the group, now known as the Bloomfield Chorale, has grown to 25 members and goes from strength to strength under Ruth's leadership.
Civic Band
The Bloomfield Civic Band was "born" on Friday, March 1, 1946, when more than 20 people brought music stands to the high school cafeteria. Directed by Walter Kurkewicz, the band made its debut July 4, 1946 in Bloomfield's "Welcome Home Celebration," playing for memorial services in the morning and a parade in the afternoon. Park concerts followed during the summer, and the first indoor performance was held Sunday, January 19, 1947.
Dominick Ferrara III was named as conductor in September, 1972. A devotee of band music, he has led the Civic Band through yet another metamorphosis. Today the band plays a wide variety of music, often utilizing vocal and instrumental soloists.
Please visit our dedicated site at: www.bloomfieldcivicband.org
Mandolin Orchestra
In 1941, a group of six musicians met in the backroom of a local barbershop to discuss their dream of forming a mandolin orchestra. However, their dreams were put aside as our nation prepared to fight in World War II. At the conclusion of the war in 1945, these music pioneers formed the Orange and Vicinities Mandolin Society, under the direction of Elia Ciricillo. In a few years, this group quickly expanded into a sixty-member orchestra.
The orchestra members truly view themselves as a family and that feeling of camaraderie beautifully flows through all of its performances and touches audience members' hearts. Under Gabriel L. Nevola's direction for thirty seven years, the Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra amassed an extensive repertoire, which includes traditional Italian and American songs, opera and Broadway selections, classical and jazz pieces, and original compositions.
Please visit our dedicated site at: www.bloomfieldmandolinorchestra.org
Symhony Orchestra
The Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra is one of the oldest of New Jersey's 25 community orchestras, having performed its 1st concert in 1932 with its founder, Walter Kurkewicz conducting. Maestro Kurkewicz was succeeded by Louis Sutera in 1961 and Edward J. Napiwocki in 1964. Israel G. Herman, is the present Musical Director and Conductor.
Please visit our dedicated site at: www.bloomfieldsymphony.org
Youth Band
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Williams impressed with club's early-season energy
CHICAGO -- Ken Williams often referred to the term "Chicago tough" in describing the type of players he wanted on the White Sox roster as the team's general manager.
The White Sox executive vice president wouldn't go to his catch phrase Tuesday in describing the 2014 version of the club, but he certainly likes the energy shown in the season's first couple of weeks.
"One thing I am really pleased about is that in our offseason conversations, our scouts, [general manager] Rick [Hahn], they really paid attention, they really focused on energy," Williams said. "And this goes back to the [Avisail] Garcia trade in July, where we said, 'This is the kind of team we want.'
"It seems to be that whether it be from the Minors, from the trades, we are developing this culture of hard-nosed, gritty kind of play again. I'm loving it."
With the front-office structure of the White Sox, Williams is able to go out and see some of these players and talk to the club's scouts to reinforce some things the team has tried to do over the years. Having this sort of energy becomes infectious throughout the clubhouse and the team.
"Of course. Just the way it works the opposite way, it works to the positive when you have guys that you know are coming to play every day," Williams said. "That you know are sacrificing for the good of a team.
"When you see an [Adam] Eaton have a nine-pitch at-bat, it's like, 'Let me get up there and fight.' When you see a [Jose] Abreu who can hit the ball 1,000 miles take a pitch in a situation and clearly he's trying to go up the middle for the base hit or to right-center field for the base hit, those are unselfish things that carry over for the good of the team."
Williams is not surprised by the change, since this was the type of team manager Robin Ventura expressly wanted to assemble for this season and beyond.
"No. 1 in the type of players we acquire and No. 2, and this is how they are going to play. This is how we are going to play, come hell or high water," said Williams of Ventura's focus. "If we got somebody that doesn't believe in the team concept, well we are going to have to get rid of them or move them on."
"They are scoring a bunch of runs and they have some energy," said Red Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski of his former team. "I know last year when we played against these guys, there wasn't a whole lot of energy."


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Libyan rebels are rejoicing in Tripoli by firing their guns in the air. Little do they know, this is one of the dumbest ways they could celebrate.
It all comes down to our good friend gravity. When a bullet goes up, it must come down and you have little control where it's going to land. Though a falling bullet is estimated to have only 10% of its original muzzle velocity, it still has a good chance of injuring and possibly even killing you.
A 30-caliber bullet falls at 200 MPH, while a 50-caliber falls at almost 330 MPH. And that's why they kill people. A bullet falling at as little as 105 MPH can pierce the skin, while one falling at 135 MPH can travel through your skull and into your brain.
Even if the bullet falls at a rate somewhere between 100 and 135MPH , it still can knock you on the head and give you a traumatic brain injury. Of course the bullet can miss your head, but it could hit you in the arms, shoulders, and legs. Ouch. [Amazing Facts and The Straight Dope]


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Daniel8 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 183 diseños de 48 diseñadores freelance.
Servebest / ServeBest / SERVEBEST
We are a professional organisation that is involved in the service industry. We currently own a residential/commercial removals company, have interests in the self storage industry and provide consulting for many divergent service companies (plumbing, cleaning, etc).
The logos for our operating businesses are bit more fun/targetted, the logo we are after now is a high-end corporate logo.
The logo to be designed needs to cater to investors, business owners, financiers etc. It will become the logo that is the head of our corporate family, so to speak.
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Open to all capitals, or normal capitalisation. Open to the word Servebest bing incorporated into the graphic with tagline below, or to having a graphic with both Servebest and tagline somewhere below, or graphic side by side with Servebest and tagline below. Quite open on it..
The logo should 'work' with and without the tagline, hence it possibly being below and easier to remove
Preferences in colours go to blues/greens, possibly with other colours blended in... Happy to take advice from the pros on this.
This logo will eventually form the basis of a full suite of stationary, website and PowerPoint templates. With this in mind, it needs to work with a white background (and with colour background if you choose to use it).
Professional, impressive, persuasive... Some key words that come to my mind.
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Clean start: The 2013 Padres
Health, schedule might slow Padres start
Padres' new brass definitely on hot seat
Will Padres' pitching stack up to NL West's?
A peek at the future: Top 10 minors prospects
On the day last August that Ron Fowler became the face of Padres ownership, he was unable to speak for a few seconds. Emotions overwhelmed the longtime San Diegan as he stood on a stage at Petco Park.
The Padres were in fourth place, the fourth year in five they'd not sniffed the playoffs. But Fowler's temporary paralysis owed not to the enormity of the task ahead.
He was euphoric, not daunted.
"I like being an underdog," he said, talking seven months later as the Padres wrapped up their final week of spring training in preparation for Monday's season opener at the New York Mets.
Fowler, 68, said he's used to being the little guy tasked with overachieving. He's been doing it his entire life, first in small town Minnesota and later as a beer distributor out west.
Fowler and his supporters say those battles have prepared him well to guide the perennial underdog Padres.
"If there's one guy who's set up for the challenge, it's him," said Aldo Madrigrano, who runs a beer distributorship in Milwaukee and considers Fowler a business mentor. "You'll get quality. It may take a little while to get there, but if he's in charge, it's going to be a No. 1 team sooner or later."
Fowler grew up in small-town Minnesota, a 5-foot-7 second baseman with dreams of playing at the University of Minnesota. A knee injury ended that ambition, and after his family couldn't pay for him to go to college, he took out student loans and paid bills by working at a clothing store, a shoe shop and a manufacturing plant. The first in his family to attend college, he earned a degree in economics and a master's in business.
In 1970 Fowler left Minnesota to work in San Diego and San Francisco, as a salesman for Lucky Lager Brewers. Next came a job in Los Angeles, overseeing Olympia Brewery's western operations.
Then came the move that launched him toward building a multistate business empire: a San Diego-based beer distributor named John Cuchna asked him to help run his company so he could deal with legal matters.
Fowler, wanting to learn the distribution game, accepted.
It later developed that Cuchna would sell Fowler the bulk of the company that would become Liquid Investments. Fowler, 35, lacked money but nonetheless came up with the $250,000 down payment, without putting up any of his cash. He took on three partners, all of them lawyers.
The company was generating $7 million in annual revenues in 1978, Fowler's first year in charge.
The annual revenues climbed and reached $272 million in late 2004, when he sold off the company's lead division, in Sacramento.
"Ron, he's a one-man wrecking crew when he gets going," Madrigrano said.
His business endeavors built muscles that the Fowler crowd says will come in handy in the daunting National League Western Division. There the Padres again rank last in player payroll.
For every salary dollar the Padres plan to spend on their big leaguers this year, the Dodgers are spending three salary dollars on their big leaguers. The Giants, coming off their second World Series celebration in three years, are spending double San Diego's payroll amount.
"Ron will do as well as possible, given the macroeconomics of baseball," said Erik Judson, a former Fowler understudy who is a business partner to John Moores. "Ron can't fix a $230 million payroll up in L.A, but Ron can make the best of the situation here in San Diego."
As executive chairman of the Padres, Fowler won't be making trades, at least of ballplayers. He said he trusts Josh Byrnes and Bud Black, the general manager and manager he inherited. He also consults outside baseball executives such as White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchinso, saying both "have forgotten more about baseball than I know about baseball."
But he is devoting 80 percent of his business hours to overseeing the Padres, while also serving as Liquid's CEO and chairman.
"Our goal with the Padres is to win more than we lose on an ongoing basis, and to compete, also on an ongoing basis, for the Western Division title," he said. "We have to be smarter in how we use our resources than our competitors, and based upon my beverage experience, I look forward to that challenge."


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How can I paint my walls and be eco-friendly?
Our walls surround us, so it's natural that the way they look would influence our sense of well-being and comfort. This is why it makes sense to use high-quality paints that also eliminate what are known as VOCs (volatile organic compounds), the solvents found in standard paints that contaminate indoor air. That strong, unpleasant odor accompanying a new paint job is not your brother's B.O. — it's VOCs seeping into the air. Unfortunately, they continue to do so as long as the paint remains on the wall. But fortunately, healthier, low- or zero-VOC options are priced competitively with most premium paints. While there's no widely available budget option, this is one area in which it's advisable to trade up for quality. Plus, splurging on a few gallons of high-quality paint is still one of the most cost-effective ways to upgrade your home's aesthetic and improve its indoor air quality. Larger companies such as Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, and Olympic offer lines that are low or zero-VOC. Smaller, innovative paint companies like Bioshield, Yolo Colorhouse, and Mythic Paint do, too.
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In 2012, ARPathfinder competed in the USARA Adventure Race National Championship. Teams earn spots in the USARA Adventure Race National Championship by participating in 45 USARA regional qualifying events across the United States. Adventure racing teams track through a series of checkpoints with only maps and compasses, while testing their abilities in the following disciplines: trail, running/trekking, mountain biking, paddling and orienteering.
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The city of Indianapolis signed a consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make more than $1.86 billion in improvements to curb overflows from its sewer system.
The settlement will be the third highest-cost Clean Water Act settlement addressing combined sewer overflows, and will ultimately reduce the volume of Indianapolis' untreated discharges by 7.2 billion gallons in an average year. The combined sewer overflows combine both sewage and stormwater runoff.
Although EPA is not aware of any health problems from sewage overflow in Indianapolis, nationwide, sewer overflows can lead to outbreaks of disease from such substances as E.coli bacteria and cryptosporidium.
"Through this agreement, Indianapolis has shown a real commitment to get rid of its long-standing sewage problems," said Granta Y. Nakayama, EPA's assistant administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. "The EPA agreement will not only ensure compliance with the law, it will also benefit the citizens by significantly improving water quality in the White River and its tributaries, which are important natural resources and great assets to the city."
"With today's consent decree, the city of Indianapolis is taking an important step toward complying with the Clean Water Act," said Sue Ellen Wooldridge, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division. "We are pleased that we have reached a resolution to these matters, and that city has agreed to make the necessary improvements and committed funds to ensure significant improvements to reduce untreated sewer discharges."
Indianapolis will make the improvements over twenty years to reduce the overflows. Currently, the overflows occur about 60 times per year. The plan should reduce that number down to four or fewer per year.
The city will also pay penalties of $588,900 each to the United States and Indiana, and spend $2 million on a project to eliminate failing septic systems. The city may offset up to 90 percent of the state's penalty by spending an additional $1,050,020 on the septic system project.
Under the consent decree, Indianapolis has specifically agreed to implement a Long Term Control Plan designed to greatly reduce overflows from its combined sewer system and will implement another plan designed to eliminate overflows from its sanitary sewer system (SSOs), and perform various other remedial measures.
The agreement is related to the city's operation of its municipal wastewater and sewer system, through which approximately eight billion gallons of untreated sewage is discharged each year into the White River and its tributaries.
The Justice Department has alleged that these discharges violate discharge permits under the federal Clean Water Act.
Indianapolis owns two large municipal advanced wastewater treatment plants, known as Belmont and Southport, as well as nearly 246 square miles of sewers that feed into the treatment plants. The sewer system, which serves approximately 866,000 people, transports the city's sewage for treatment at the two plants prior to being discharged into area rivers and streams.
The settlement has not yet been approved by the federal court.


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Challenging America's youth, families and schools to incorporate physical activity into the everyday lives of students.
For the ninth straight season, the Chicago Wolves are excited to offer "Howl for your Health". This program challenges America's youth, families, and schools to incorporate physical activity into the everyday lives of students.
Targeting students in kindergarten through eighth grade, the program serves as a reward for those who improve at their physical fitness tests within their respective schools. The Wolves supply posters and free activity logs to help support the current fitness programs as well. Students who complete their physical fitness programs, or reach their goals, determined by their schools, receive a certificate for a complimentary ticket to a select 2019-20 Chicago Wolves home game.
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Over half of Syria's public hospitals have been damaged and those that are open lack basic supplies such as antibiotics and pain killers. One in five schools has either been destroyed or is being used as a shelter for displaced families.
"The situation is getting worse every day and the widespread violence is having a devastating impact on the lives of ordinary Syrian women, men and children," warned the humanitarian chief.
UN agencies and humanitarian partners have started stepping up assistance across the conflict lines. The World Food Programme began scaling up its food distribution to reach 1.75 million people this month, about half of them in opposition-controlled or contested areas. Working with more local partners, it aims to reach about 2.5 million people by April. UNICEF and the World Health Organization with their partners have vaccinated more than a million children against polio and measles, many in areas held by opposition groups. UNHCR distributed blankets, mattresses and household goods to over 400,000 people last year. About 40,000 children in conflict areas now have access to education and psycho-social support to cope with the crisis.
The Syrian Government recently authorized three additional international NGOs – Merlin, Mercy Corps and the Norwegian Refugee Council – to work in Syria but this brings the total to just eleven, said Ms. Amos. "We are crossing conflict lines, negotiating with armed groups on the ground, to reach more people in need but we are not reaching enough of those who require our help. Limited access in the north is a major problem that we can only solve using alternative methods of aid delivery."
Last Saturday (16 Feb), a UN inter-agency mission delivered the first batch of critical, life-saving relief supplies including food, clothes, mattresses and blankets to about 6,000 internally displaced people in Syria's north-western province of Idleb, where nearly 50,000 people are said to be living in makeshift shelters exposed to harsh winter conditions.
"The joint relief convoy, including eight UN agencies, shows that outreach is possible from inside Syria," said Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria Radhouane Nouicer. "It encourages us to continue to increase our efforts to reach more people in need across the country." More inter-agency missions and aid convoys are expected to arrive in the area shortly to assist some 25,000 people.


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One year ago, Tiger Woods was still technically the No. 1 golfer in the world, finishing a never-to-be-equaled 623 weeks, or 5 ½ years, at the top spot. It is stunning how far and how quickly he has fallen. In the official world golf rankings released after the PGA Championship Monday, Woods was down to No. 33, just 42 weeks after he was alone at the top.
By the end of 2011, he could be out of the top 50 entirely as he was outside of the top 125 in the FedEx Championships with a week to qualify. However, a family obligation will prevent him from playing this week, which means he will not play again until The Australian Open in November.
The kindest way to assess his season would be to say it was a lost year because of the leg injury suffered at the Masters that cost him the chance to play in the two middle majors, the U.S. and British Opens. He came back at Bridgestone and had a respectable showing there in preparation for the PGA last weekend. However, after going out in three-under after five holes, Woods gave it all back and more, plummeting to an embarrassing 77 to take him out of the tournament. His half-hearted 73 on Friday left him 10-over for two days, more fitting for a PGA pro than a 14-time major champion.
As bad as the 150 score was, it was the way Woods looked that was even more telling. It was like a day at the beach as Woods spent more time in the sand of the bunkers and the water hazards than he did on the fairways and greens. He actually admitted that he abandoned his new swing and played by "feel", a mental mistake players of his experience should not be making. This is the swing he left Hank Haney for last year?
Haney is regarded as one of the best swing instructors in the game but Woods and he parted ways for no visible positive reason. The nasty recent breakup between Woods and longtime caddie Steve Williams, one of golf's best, will not help Woods either. There was a time when Woods didn't need any assistance because of his raw talent and bravado. Those times are long gone.
Despite the enormity of the November 2009 sex scandal that led to his divorce, no one could have anticipated the aftermath of injuries and the different level of play that has followed. He is simply not the same player he once was.
Tiger Woods may win another major if he can stay healthy but he'll never be No. 1 in the world again and it's highly doubtful he'll win five to break the record of 18 by Jack Nicklaus.


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Homeopathic medicine chest, London, England, 1880-1920
Doctors used medicine chests such as this mahogany example as home remedy kits. This homeopathic medicine chest was manufactured by B. C. Garratt of Stoke Newington. It contains 38 phials and six bottles of homeopathic medicines. Homeopathy relies on the idea that 'like cures like'. For example, treatment for vomiting is something that causes vomiting but in a smaller, much diluted dose. The chest also contains a monaural stethoscope, an enema syringe and a book titled 'Homoeopathic Vade Mecum of Modern Medicine and Surgery'. The book is by E. Harris Ruddock. It is commonly used today by homeopaths worldwide. This edition was published by the Homeopathic Publishing Company in 1877. Homeopathy was founded by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). It was brought to England in the 1830s. There were over 80 homeopathic practitioners in London by the 1870s. There was friction with the traditional medical establishment. However, pharmacists quickly exploited interest in the new remedies.
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