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The series of past World Water Fora have created awareness of Africa's water challenges; secured an increasing political commitment: galvanized regional collaboration and enhanced global partnerships.
Preparation is vital to achieving a successful Forum and, most importantly, the outcomes that will influence action on water for the years to come. AMCOW, the World Water Council and the 5th World Water Forum Secretariat have invited the African Development Bank (AfDB) to act as the Regional Coordinator for Africa and to organize and lead the region's participation at the Forum. The Bank has accepted this request and has initiated the preparatory process for an effective participation of Africa in the event.
The aim of the African preparatory process is to mobilize actors to act as catalysts for specific African contributions to the Forum; to contribute to the thematic process by providing their region's perspectives on the issues and on the priority actions required; and to contribute to the political process through political mobilisation.
The African Regional Preparatory Process kicked-off in Tunis, Tunisia at the 1st African Water Week, held from March 26-28, 2008. A Ministerial meeting, held in June 2008, and a Coordinators' meeting in July 2008 have then been included in the African Regional Process. The First Regional Steering and Coordination Meeting (Planned with the 6th UN Water Africa meeting) was celebrated in October in Addis Ababa.One of two more preparatory meetings were held in Tunis in December 2008 and the next one is scheduled in January 2009.
An outline of the African Regional Position Paper both in English and French can be seen. The consultation process for the final document is still going on. The last regional consultation workshop took place in Lusaka, Zambia. The second regional consultation workshop will take place in Accra, Ghana from the 12th to the 14th of January 2009. Contact the Africa Region leaders: Mr Rakatobe, AfDB / Mr Woudeneh, AfDB.
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Africa Day Programme (during the Forum)Africa Regional Position PaperAfrica's Message to 5th World Water ForumAfrican Water Vision 2025
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MacKinnon, Avalanche edge Penguins 1-0
PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby left little doubt about who remains the best player from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. And that's fine by Nathan MacKinnon and the Colorado Avalanche, who'll settle for one of the best records in the NHL.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere turned aside 34 shots and the surprising Avalanche edged the Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0 on Monday night to improve their win-loss record to 8-1 this season.
"It's a new season, new attitude," Giguere said. "I would have believed being over .500 (early) but not 8-1."
In other games, Logan Couture scored in the shootout as San Jose beat the Detroit Red Wings 1-0, and T.J. Brodie scored the tiebreaking power-play goal with 29.7 seconds to play to help the Calgary Flames edge the Los Angeles Kings 3-2.
At Pittsburgh, Gabriel Landeskog scored the game's only goal 5:26 into the second period and Giguere made it stand, posting his second shutout in 11 days.
The 36-year-old handled the Boston Bruins on the road on Oct. 10 and might have been even better against the Penguins.
The first professional meeting between MacKinnon and Crosby failed to produce fireworks — not that Crosby didn't try. He pumped a season-high seven shots at Giguere and played more than 26 minutes.
MacKinnon, by comparison, produced two shots in 10:54 of ice time as the Avalanche spent a large portion of the night relying on their penalty killers. Pittsburgh went 0 for 7 on the power play, generating numerous scoring chances but not a goal.
"We did a lot of good things and probably deserved better," Crosby said. "That's how the game works sometimes. Sometimes you don't deserve them and you find a way to win and tonight we deserved better and didn't find a way to win."
MacKinnon spent most of his childhood growing up in Crosby's considerable shadow in the town of about 25,000 near the Atlantic Ocean. He followed a similar path to the NHL, playing on the same junior team Crosby once starred for and showcasing prodigious talent as a playmaker.
Taken with the draft's top pick nearly a decade after Crosby, MacKinnon has a goal and six assists through his first nine games, a pace not too far off the one Crosby set during his rookie season in 2005-06.
The San Jose Sharks proved they can play pretty well defensively, too, after scoring 39 goals in their first eight games. After the win over the Red Wings, they are the NHL's last team without a regulation loss this season.
"We scored a lot of goals in our first eight games. We're not going to keep scoring like that," Couture said.
Each goalie got a shutout for not allowing a goal in 65 minutes.
Antti Niemi — who got his 24th career shutout — made 24 saves for San Jose and Jimmy Howard, who earned his 17th shutout, stopped 27 shots.
At Los Angeles, the Flames were awarded a power play with 2:12 left in regulation when Dennis Wideman fell to the ice near the benches, drawing a hooking penalty on Anze Kopitar.
Brodie collected a bouncing puck in the slot and beat Jonathan Quick for the third power-play goal of the night for the Flames.
Mike Cammalleri scored in his season debut for the Flames, and rookie Sean Monahan added another power-play goal in the second period. Karri Ramo stopped 27 shots in his first victory for Calgary.
Jeff Carter scored a tying short-handed goal late in the second period for the Kings, who had won 17 of their previous 19 home games. Quick made 22 saves, and Drew Doughty scored an early power-play goal in just Los Angeles' second loss in seven games.

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First off. Ive been playing RPGs for 10 years about. DnD. Went over to Pathfinder. Am now a VC. A PbP i enrolled had Ponyfinder as a resource. So i looked it up. And now i will be making my first character.
Ps. Found the forum because i was looking for herolab files for Ponyfinder
So wish me luck. Hope it gets picked. Yes. IT. Pegasus Doppelganger Crossblooded Sorcerer.
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CNN woke up and made it official when it did a segment on QVC's large role in Fashion Week in Manhattan this year. And this week "The Insider" sent the vapid and extremely annoying Lara Spencer down to HSN's headquarters in St. Petersburg, Fla., to do a story on how celebrities are flocking to sell goods on home shopping networks.
The story was a couple of minutes, which for "The Insider" is like an investigative report, even though it stated the obvious to anyone who knows the home shopping industry. But it was a great plug for HSN, that's for sure.
The segment showed a clip of Liza Minnelli's disastrous appearance, and there were also interviews with celebrity chef and pot peddler Wolfgang Puck, as well as Bill Brand, HSN's executive vice president of programming, marketing and business development.
The segment said that HSN started in 1977 on AM radio selling electronic can openers. While there was once a "stigma" to appear on HSN, now celebs are calling the TV network to get on, we're told.
"This world had changed and it's been focused on finding those personalities that are popular, that are interesting but also very credible and authentic and are experts in their field," Brand said to Spencer.
Spencer noted that Puck would be on the air for 10 hours, "not a single minute of it with a teleprompter," the day she was in Florida shooting her segment.
"Welcome to a very tasty HSN," Puck told Spencer.
She noted that as Puck was selling his cookware, HSN producers were watching how many people were calling in and buying, and then they told Puck through his earpiece whether to keep talking or move on.
There was also a clip of Sean "Diddy" Combs from his appearance on the home shopping network to sell his fragrance.
"I made it," Combs said. "I'm on HSN, Ma."
His fragrance, "I Am King," sold out in 14 minutes, product that was meant to last for a two-hour show.
Brand also talked about singer Mary J. Blige debuting her new perfume exclusively on HSN. "That was really a first for the business," he said.
"The Insider" also showed Oprah Winfrey calling in while Blige was on the air on HSN.
"I am supporting her and waiting on my shower gel," Winfrey told Blige and HSN host Callie Northagen.
"You even have Oprah shopping on HSN, so it's no surprise that HSN brings in $2 billion a year in revenue," somebody whose name we didn't catch said.
As for Spencer, she told us "it is not your grandmother's HSN."
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Can We Finally Retire Scientific Superstition?
What an absolutely astounding admission former Fed boss Alan Greenspan makes about his new book The Map and The Territory: "Not a single major forecaster of note or institution caught it [the 2008 crash]. The Federal Reserve has got the most elaborate econometric model, which incorporates all the newfangled models of how the world works—and it missed it completely. I was actually flabbergasted. It upended my view of how the world worked."


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For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history.
Here's SI's Sign of the Apocalypse this week:
During the NHL lockout the Montreal Gazette is playing out the Canadiens' season on EA Sports's NHL 13, game by game, and publishing news stories off the results of the simulated matchups.
Frankly this is borders the anti-apocalyptic: At least a newspaper has rediscovered a path toward relevance. And yet, Deadspin was also held in thrall by the doomsday precursors we noticed this past week. We learned that Skip Bayless trains harder for his slap-fights against Stephen A. Smith each day on First Take than Barack Obama did for his first presidential debate. We saw a robber yell "Go, Cards!" as he fled a St. Louis bank, stolen money in hand. And we watched in pre-Judgment Day amusement as Wyoming coach Dave Christensen laced into Air Force coach Troy Calhoun with heaps of invective—"No fuckin' integrity!"—on Military Appreciation Night at Wyoming.
All worthy candidates for this week's Sign of the Apocalypse! But Deadspin's going with the following for our SotA:
A car bombing in Beirut that wounded dozens of people and killed at least eight, including a top Lebanese intelligence official, stoked fears and accusations that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered the assassination, and signaled that Syria's civil war, which has claimed 30,000 lives, could be spilling into neighboring Lebanon.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus' criminal court on Thursday sentenced a former television presenter, her brother and two other men to life in prison after finding them guilty of premeditated murder in the execution-style killing of the country's most prominent media baron.
The three judge bench ruled that Elena Skordelli and her brother, Anastasios Krasopoullis, sought to kill 41-year-old Andy Hadjicostis because he stood in the way of her returning to the media spotlight at Sigma TV that she longed for after being fired from the popular station that the victim managed.
The siblings had also spent millions of euros in a bid to gain a controlling stake in Sigma in hopes of securing Skordelli's future at the station, something Hadjicostis had vehemently opposed.
The court said Skordelli had harboured such bitterness and ill will toward Hadjicostis that she saw his elimination as the answer to her problems, despite numerous failed appeals to Hadjicostis' father Costas — who controlled the Dias Group to which Sigma belongs — to mediate.
"The motive of (Skordelli and Krasopoullis) was vengeance and to get rid of Andy Hadjicostis so that they could fulfil their plans according to the new order of things that they wanted and had set in motion at any cost," the court said in its 380-page decision.
Skordelli had even consulted a fortune teller in hopes of swaying both father and son Hadjicostis.
The court said the other two defendants, Andreas Gregoriou and Gregoris Xenofontos, had planned and executed the Jan. 11, 2010 killing. Hadjicostis was gunned down with a sawed-off shotgun outside his Nicosia home, ambushed as he was stepping out of his car and speaking with his aunt on his mobile phone.
The prosecution's case rested primarily on the testimony of another defendant, Fanos Hadjigeorgiou, who turned state's evidence and was placed under the police's witness protection program without being charged.
The court found Hadjigeorgiou's testimony entirely credible. Hadjigeorgiou had driven the getaway motorcycle the night of the killing, fingering Skordelli and her brother as ordering the hit on Hadjicostis, Gregoriou on planning the killing and Xenofontos as being the triggerman.
The murder had shocked the small island nation unaccustomed to killings of the wealthy and powerful. So shaken were some that suspicions abounded in the immediate aftermath of the killing that it was somehow linked to the ethnically-divided island's complicated politics.


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Peppi Le PiueI am pleased to write to you to apply for the Erasmus programme for the 2009-2010 academic year. I am currently studying English at the Université de Caen's Faculty of Arts. I am just finishing my second year and I am looking forward completing my degree at an English university. I would very much appreciate being able to spend a year at the university of Birmingham, but of course I remain open to studying at another university.
The University of Birmingham seems to offer an excellent study environment in a pleasant medium-sized city. The central location of Birmingham allows good access to the rest of the country, which is important to me, as this year would be an unique opportunity to visit and enjoy the historical and cultural wealth of the United Kingdom. I have been interested in English society for many years. I come to England eight times in the past six years, often for a week or more, on my own. The experience I had from these trips strengthens my motivation to live and study in this country.
I set my hopes for this year abroad upon improving my written and spoken English, expanding my social circle and opening up new horizons in my professional life. As I am determined to keep studying after getting my bachelor's degree, I think that my application for the Erasmus programme is fully integrated in my professional plan and academic background. In order to practice a profession related to translation, I am going to choose the Language option as the specialization of my masters. The experience I could gain during this year in England would be a valuable tool for the future, taking into account that a good knowledge of the British society is necessary to translate works from this country, as well as the language.
Finally, I deeply believe that living abroad is a crucial step in the study of a language. Not only does it brings knowledge in various academic disciplines, but it also speeds up the necessary need to become independent in daily life. Consequently, this prospect of personal development is one more motivation among the numerous others that drive me to write this application letter.
I wish to thank you in advance for your consideration.
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danced in the rain: Yup, but only when I was young(er). I won't dare now, can't say what chemicals are in the rain nowadays..kissed someone: but of course...all the time.
drank alcohol: I used to (socially) but I guess I outgrew it already that even the smell of alcohol, I cannot take.partied 'til the sun came up: Nope...just before the sun came up LOL!
had a movie marathon: Yeah!
gone too far on a dare: Too chicken...
spun until you were immensely dizzy: YES!
taken a survey quite like this before: uh-huh, this is important!!! :)
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Check 'em twice: Expense accounts get some travelers in trouble
By Ashley Strickland, Special to CNN • Updated 8th December 2011
Business travelers beware -- the next time you think about charging little extras to your expense account, consider worst-case scenarios.
One woman was immediately fired for putting a $9.95 hotel room movie rental on a business travel expense report, according to Peter Goldmann, president of fraud-prevention consulting firm FraudAware.
"Most companies wouldn't do that, but her manager's point was, 'if we allow it and it happens a thousand times a year, everyone is allowed to break the law,' " Goldmann said.
But based on the amount of expense account fraud he's seen, it's evident to Goldmann that business travelers know their way around the system.
Despite technological advances in expense reporting, companies are still having a hard time detecting fraud. On average, it takes a company 24 months to discover expense account fraud, according to a 2010 report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. And this kind of fraud is more than four times as likely to occur within a business as corruption or financial statement fraud.
"The clever people are the ones that are committing the fraud," said Allan Bachman, education manager at the
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
"They are the ones who are getting the cab drivers to give them blank receipts, asking for double receipts at hotels and restaurants, masking one transaction as another, using cash to buy something and getting a blank receipt and putting in for more than the transaction it was. There are an endless number of possibilities here."
And whether or not companies are using an automated system or manually compiling expense reports with receipts, without constant oversight and accountability, there simply aren't enough "mousetraps" to catch the gamers, Goldmann said.
Besides benefiting from the inflated reimbursement check that comes in, many business travelers are padding their expense account charges because they feel like they deserve it, Bachman said.
"Employees are thinking, 'They make me travel on a Saturday night, they can afford to buy me a steak for dinner,' " he said.
If they have to travel on their own time for the company, employees are looking at quality over saving money and pampering themselves rather than succumbing to the dirges of business travel.
"People are giving themselves a treat by putting in a little bit more than they should have and getting a little more back than they should," said John Geron, a public accountant who audited expense accounts for 44 years.
Employers should be looking for general vagueness, a disconnect in the length of a trip and the charges associated with it and for odd items that often signal that an expense report has been falsified, Geron said.
Those items can include everything from an "accidental" use of the company credit card on a business trip to purchase a suit coat to listing every single can of soda or pack of chewing gum purchased.
"Someone is going to look at that and ask, 'Why are all these things reimbursable? Do you not chew gum when you're not traveling?' " Geron said.
These unexplained and seemingly nonbusiness related charges are what Pat Fragale,
president of Directravel
, a company that manages travel on behalf of corporations, calls "visual guilt" on an expense report.
"The trip was booked for 'x' and you're trying to process 'y,' " he said. "Something has to be explained."
Business travelers looking for a fat reimbursement check know that it's all about the receipts when it comes time to turn in an expense report. They either buy fake receipts online in whatever amounts they want or cajole blank ones out of their favorite restaurants, Bachman said.
Bachman heard of one instance where an employee frequented a certain restaurant franchise and asked for receipts so often, they gave him a pad of them. The employee would turn in fake receipts for lunches he never had. He was only caught -- and fired -- when he began turning them in for locations where the franchise didn't exist.
While it is possible for credit card companies to set up "triggers" and alerts on company cards or specific travel cards, automatic tracking still requires a great deal of oversight, Bachman said. Some companies have instated zero tolerance policies for expense account fraud; the possibility of termination helps keep employees honest.
There is still much debate over whether automated processing of expense reports curtails this kind of fraud.
Fragale believes that automated reporting systems are cutting down on expense account fraud, and the breakdown occurs in the manual process where numbers can be changed and receipts multiplied. His company offers a checks and balances system to corporations, ensuring that fraudulent activity doesn't happen.
But most companies don't use automated systems, he says.
Paper reporting often gets shuffled to the bottom of the priority pile.
"The volume of paper is too much for any one manager to thoroughly handle," Goldmann said. "The employees know that and they take advantage of the fact that their manager is not going to be thoroughly reviewing it and signing off on their expenses. It's easy oftentimes to include phony receipts, because business managers just aren't paying attention."
Goldmann also said that automated systems can't distinguish between legitimate and false receipts.
So just what are employees getting away with on their expense accounts? Upgrading hotel rooms, excessive taxi rides, double-billing for plane tickets, seats and baggage fees, luxury rental cars, fake lunches and dinners, layovers for personal visits and heaps of laundry on overnight trips, according to Goldmann, Geron and Bachman.
Whether these false charges amount to a bit of personal pampering or thousands of dollars of additional income, expense account fraud is a crime. It's just a matter of getting caught. Depending on company policy, fraudsters may be subject to immediate termination if the company finds out, Bachman said.
Goldmann knows of a sales manager who lost her job when she abused the gift limit on her expense account. While 75% of the purchases were for actual clients, she also used the card to purchase expensive gifts under family names. Then, she sold those gifts on eBay and reimbursed herself.
It proves that while oversight and tight policy can rein in expense account abuse, employees are also getting creative.
"There are a million different ways to game the system," Goldmann said. But the fallout could ground high-flying business travelers.
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Samsung's Super Bowl Ad Leaves Apple Alone
Samsung used to spend a lot of money making fun of the iPhone and its fans — just like Apple used to do with Microsoft. And people really liked those ads.
But now the guy who pushed that campaign has gone over to Google. And Samsung's new spot doesn't even bother to tease the competition. Here's the company's Apple-less Super Bowl spot (remember, you no longer have to wait to see the game if you want to watch the ads):
Peter Kafka Patented Snap Judgement Review: Bob Odenkirk, Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd are all awesome. But they're more awesome when they're not doing this stuff for a sponsor.


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Chapter 5: The Desert
In which Carrotmob wanders the desert, spending 6 months with very little support.
In the summer of 2009 we were dealing with the strain of trying to juggle many different projects, but it was also a whole lot of fun. We had built quite a team! We had an awesome office at 164 South Park (which has also been home to Twitter, Get Satisfaction & Instagram, among others), and every week we would all eat lunch in the park and frequently talk about what kind of company we wanted to be. We brainstormed crazy ideas, and debated all sorts of questions: Should our projects all work together, or be thought of as separate? Should we plan to acquire new projects or build them in-house? What sort of incubator do we want to be? What sort of funding mechanisms would be most helpful? When will we expand beyond environmental issues and do projects related to poverty, education, social justice, etc? Should we experiment with other legal structures, like non-profits, B Corporations, L3Cs, Co-ops, etc? Lots of movers and shakers in the social enterprise field would stop by and join the conversation. We had a couple big parties, because that's how we liked to roll. We had more than one "mid-life crisis" as a company. But mostly, we worked hard on One Block Off The Grid.
One Block Off The Grid was born as a group purchase program for solar power systems. We would get a bunch of homeowners together who were interested in going solar, but sort of intimidated by the process. Then we would negotiate on behalf of the group to get a big group discount, and make the process really easy. By doing this, we found that we were able to help many more people go solar than would otherwise have done so. One Block Off The Grid was flourishing, because it was a great idea, executed well. It got more and more momentum, but meanwhile our vision for Virgance the incubator continued to drift.
Eventually we decided that what made the most sense was for Virgance to stop being an incubator, and just work on One Block Off The Grid, and we would spin the other projects out of the company. Meanwhile, we had investors who were interested in investing in One Block Off The Grid, but of course no one was interested in investing in an ill-defined, vague incubator concept. Figuring all of this out was a very strange challenge. There was no blueprint for anything that we were trying to do, and the uncertainty made it a very stressful time. But in the end, we closed a deal in February 2010 which accomplished the following:
- Steve and I resigned from Virgance and promoted Dave Llorens to be CEO
- We renamed the company, from 'Virgance' to 'One Block Off The Grid'
- We spun out various projects (for example, ownership of the Carrotmob project was returned to me again, and ownership of the blog network was returned to David Anderson again, etc)
- We raised a $5 million investment for 1BOG from NEA
Since then, 1BOG has helped thousands of people to go solar. So what to make of Virgance? It was a success in the sense that we successfully incubated and built a great company designed to improve the world. It was also a failure in the sense that the incubator idea itself collapsed and never really materialized into something that worked well. But the team at Virgance was great, and have all gone on to do very cool things. Now, this is the story of Carrotmob, so what, you may ask, was the impact of Virgance on the arc of Carrotmob's history? Let me tell you….
One fantastic thing about my co-founder at Virgance, Steve Newcomb, is that he loves to teach and mentor others on how to be entrepreneurs, and he's really good at it. I was very lucky to be in a position to learn as much from Steve as I did during this time. He's a genius. Sometimes he's also completely nutballs crazy. Sometimes he claims that up is down. When he does this, it is maddening. But for every 4 times he says something like this, there's one time when it turns out that up actually is down, and he was the only one who could see it. Watching Steve practice the art of business was mind-blowingly educational for me. When the first Carrotmob campaign happened, I wasn't the least bit equipped to make Carrotmob successful on a large scale. The experience of building Virgance and learning from Steve changed that. Big picture: Virgance didn't end up producing that much tangible value for the Carrotmob movement, but it taught me how to be an entrepreneur, and left me much better equipped to lead the Carrotmob organization to success. I'm thankful for everyone who was involved with making Virgance happen. That team will always feel like part of me and should always feel like they are part of Carrotmob.


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According to a blog post by Google issued today, they are offering new customers for its AdWords Express service free advertising in January in the same about you buy in December
Here is the announcement"
"To help businesses reach new customers this season and keep the holiday spirit rolling into 2013, we have a special offer for new AdWords Express users in the U.S.
If you sign up for AdWords Express before December 16, 2012, you'll receive a free advertising credit in January worth what you spend between now and the end of this year.*
Since AdWords Express launched in July 2011 in the United States, we've seen businesses from toy stores to tree farms use AdWords Express to get their businesses discovered online.
After 16 busy months, AdWords Express has expanded its borders to 12 additional countries and 9 languages, so that gift shops in Germany, heating contractors in the U.K., and surf shops in Australia can get on the map in front of potential customers in time for the holiday season.
Remember, the sooner you start advertising online, the more holiday customers you can reach and the more free advertising credit you can earn, so visit google.com/adwords/express today.
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I'm proud to announce the launch of my new Embellished Bayou website for 2013! I'll still be making some tweaks over the next week, but I think it is looking good so far!
I know I have not been keeping up with this blog as much as I'd like to or said I would, but hopefully I can do better in 2013. This way I'll be able to keep all of my Etsy/embroidery stuff separate on the website and post more crafty non-business things here on the blog.
Thanks to everyone for your support this year, best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


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In general I'd like to see more individual armor pieces and less full outfit sets, I'm not picky about the specifics :P
Oldest player with the least amount of AP
+1 for Mask of the Silent
I was hoping to see it on Halloween event sale.
Another week, another 'No Wedding Dress Outfit'. Put it back, please. Wallet stays locked until it is added.
Runecrafter's kit is a scam!
just salvage rune/sigil to dust. i want my 200g back.
this whole new rune/sigil system is very frustrating
Can the Mask of the Wanderer skin come back to the store?
I'm so desperate to get a Strider's Tunic, please make it available! I'm losing my mind
Seeing as Anet actually do return items I see quoted in this thread... please return the Raven helm and shoulder soon please. Also the Sworn Zaishen Helm...
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Seeing as Anet actually do return items I see quoted in this thread... please return the Raven helm and shoulder soon please. Also the Sworn Zaishen Helm...
Well of course they're bound to show up again eventually, and any items that show up again within any sort of close proximity to any post in this thread is purely coincidence. I guarantee that nothing posted in this thread has any bearing whatsoever on what shows up in the shop when, which is why I've given up. The things I've been waiting for will show up again eventually, and until then, they just won't make any money off of my account...and I know they don't care.
There is usually New Year/ January discounts on the expansions?
I want PoF but it's a little expansive for me.
Exemplar Attire Outfit, please and thank you
Personal Appearance Tonic
not really sure on the name, but the idea being that it could be a Novelty/Combat Tonic you can set to the appearance of one of the characters on your account, then, on other characters, use the tonic to look like the preset you chose. I can see this not being a thing because of character slots, total makeover kits, etc, but with the inability to change race/class, people may like to make a character to play the alternate races' storylines, and maybe even grew attached to the character, and maybe just want to LOOK like their Main or something, while still keeping the other character's progress.. i can also see it being an issue with maybe taxing the server by making it recall 2 appearances from an account at the same time, or possibly an issue with saving the appearance or something... not really sure about what kind of impact it would have, since in my head it would just be interacting with the same account it was already interacting with to begin with.. i suppose to limit this, it could have a cooldown on saving a preset.
but it would basically work just like any Combat tonic, changing the base appearance and armor to the saved appearance, with the weapons being whatever was already equipped. voices could change with the tonic to match the race/gender of whatever they change into, though not influence dialogue and story, obviously.. this could also be a fun way to allow someone to wear heavy armor as a light armor class, simply by making a clone of their Main in an alternate armor class. and since all races and genders already have the ability to wield each weapon just fine, there wouldnt be any animation issues.
I'd love to see the return of:
Haunted Armor Outfit
Here's some examples of the armors/outfits I badly want:
Han Solo: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/8/83/HanSolo-Fathead.png/revision/latest?cb=20161003042429
WoW Kul Tiran leather set: https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/696759.jpg
Steampunk Outfit: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/6a/73/836a73eb1eea9f4d5c9c3074ce504c0e.jpg
Can we please get something like this in the future ANet?
I love Zafirah's Outfit so much, but I wish I could change some pieces of it, like the top and the sleeves/cloak on it.
I really love how trousers and boots are done on that outfit and I'd love to see more of such sets/outfits in game, using the theme I proposed above.
Elegy armor set is as close as it gets to Han Solo: http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/gw2-elegy-armor-light-male_thumb.jpg
...but it is Light Armor. Medium armor is nothing close to it and doesn't fit my Thief's theme at all I was so excited to see that light Elegy armor, but then got so super disappointed to know it's light armor.
This sounds like a random request but id love to see some kind of gem store item that changes the hue of abilities in PVE (not PVP or WVW for obvious reasons). I bought the Chain Sword skin for my mesmer many years ago and i love the green but it looks a little odd with his purple abilities.
Valentines Day is coming up, and I really want the backpack version of the Valentines Day Glider. I'd even fork over a few more bucks for it.
I still would like to be able to purchase songs to automatically play on our musical instruments. Individual songs or packs of songs. For those of us who aren't enthused with looking up macros.
I wonder what's here.
I'd love to see to be able to get the chance to buy the Phalanx heavy armor set outfit. I just like the way it looks, and missed the chances to buy it previously.
I'd like to request making the armor that Zaishen Zealots wear into wearable player armor or even an outfit.
Mask of silent please!!
Dear Anet,
I would like to request the First Follower Desmina outfit to be returned to the gem shop please.
Please bring back the Largos backpack glider combo!
Make the phalanx heavy armor skins available please.
Phalanx heavy armor skins! Please!!!
Wreath of Cooperation please please please
@Lobotomie.9027 said:
I'd love to see to be able to get the chance to buy the Phalanx heavy armor set outfit. I just like the way it looks, and missed the chances to buy it previously.
I would like to buy the Phalanx Heavy Armor Set too.
Another vote for the phalanx heavy armor set
Add my name to the pile for the Phalanx set. Also, will you bring back the Reading Glasses?
Please bring back" Feathers of the Zephyr Package " in Black Lion Statuette
I'd really like to buy a forged glider/backpack combo. Please put it in the gemstore so I can give you money
It's 2019 and I'm pretty sure this has been brought up a lot but I would prefer spending gems on armor sets than outfits. So, please, more armor sets instead????
Can we please get Crystal Savant and/or Elonian Elementalist sets for sale? At least one of the two, I'd really love to have them both but any one of them would be great. Thank you!
Also, as I saw the first comment on this thread my heart literally skipped. Memory of Lion's Arch Pass is such a great idea, it used to be my absolute favorite zone in all of gaming ever, the old LA. When I took a break for a year (from LW1 episode 3 to around HoT) I logged back in... and I saw the devastation. I was crying at my desk, I just couldn't accept what happened to our beautiful city. I wandered aimlessly around it until I ran into survivors right outside in Gendarran fields who told me that most people lived and are taking refuge at Vigil keep. I ran over there as fast as I could, just to make sure everyone was alright... and then I logged out and didn't come back for 3 years. I just couldn't bring myself to play GW2 without Lion's Arch. My heart was broken.
I... really, really dislike new LA. Old Lion's Arch had so much character, so much individuality. So much flavor. New LA is just a Sea World. Whenever I go through the original story and I have missions in old Lion's Arch I can't bring myself to leave the instance for hours. If there would be a Memory of Lion's Arch pass I'd pay double, triple of what I paid for my Mistlock Sanctuary passkey. Please take my money Anet. I just want to stay in Lion's Arch Memory forever.
it would be nice if HOT could be put on sale (as an upgrade for POF-owners) whenever POF is on sale
EDIT: omg nice, it IS on discount!!!
Not sure where to make a request like this but please please please can we have the Fire-Breathing package with the Fire-Breathing Quiver and longbow back? Please? Pretty please?
This is not a suggestion for a new or returning item specifically but more of a suggestion in functionality/feature.
This suggestion is both QOL and Gem Store related, so I will be posting on both threads.
It would be awesome if when sending a gem purchased gift, if there was an option on the item that would allow you to accept the gem equivalent for your account rather than the item itself. This would (possibly) increase the amount of gifts sent via the gem store. I know I try to only send to one person for whom I have api keys so I know if I am sending something he already has.
I also had a situation where I received a gift of mount licenses and had already unlocked all of the ones for that set. The person who sent the gift and I both had to put in a support ticket to get the original gem purchase revoked, and this could cut down on those types of tickets.
As the gift is mailed immediately, I would think you wouldn't have to worry about someone purchasing at a lower price and then trying to get gems after that item discount has ended. Or, include in the option of accept the gift or accept the equivalent XXXX gems for your account.
Currently attempting all Legendary Journey collections at once.
The new greatsword skin within bl chests is amazing why not making a whole set of bl weapons in that style for bl tickets?
Shiny links, take a look!
->Ideas: Housing , Designing a new lounge , New GameMode
->Project: ASURAN/PRIMORDIUS EXPANSION available on WIKI.
->NEW: Crucible of Eternity path 4: Legacy on WIKI
->NEW Asurapedia
Could you potentially make angel wings that look like "Hawk Wings Backpack"? I feel like their proportions are more proper, and it looks less like a feather cape and more like actual wings. Thanks.
Thanks for everything you've brought us already
Additional Crafting Licence and Storage Expanders i don't think i have ever seen on sale and it'd be nice to see them
Yay, finally the Sworn Zaishen Helm Skin returned in the Special Items category. Thank you!
Northerner @ Dragon Season
Seafarer's Rest since launch!
Seriously, what's with the crappy gem store updates lately? Why don't you add some stuff back to the store that people actually want? Namely, why don't you add the stuff back to the store that I want? LOL
Oh that's right, like I said before, they don't look at this thread, and they don't care what we want. I'm on the verge of quitting again because I can't give my character the look that I want, and therefore don't feel like playing.
Hello, it would be very useful to expand the maximum stacks in bank in the same time whey we buy the expand for the Account vault. For example i have 1500 max stack in Account vault but still have 250 max in bank. It should be useful to have same amount available in both with the same expand purchase.
Someone may have suggested these things in here at some point, but here we go anyway.
While not technically gemstore items, but sort of since you need a style kit, I would love some new tattoo options for Norns - I feel like the ladies kind of got cheated out of some cool knotwork tattoos, the dudes have way more options there. Also in the same vein, having new skin patterns for charr, sylvari, asura, or new skin color/pattern color/glow color would be great additions to style kits.
I know some people don't want more mount skins, but I would personally love some sylvari/sylvan themed ones, mostly because I'm biased and Sylvari are my favorite and it would be pretty sweet if they could have matching mounts Actually kind of surprised they haven't been made.
I'd like to see the return of the Reading Glasses, they are on my "instant purchase" list alongside the Wreath of Cooperation.
A mini ley-line that would use the same animations as the mystic dragon.
A full base mounts dye kit (I suggest 1600 gems, including the roller beetle and the glider) that would give us 4 dye channels to all of our mounts, reusing the base model's colour paterns, as well as a second dye channel to our base glider skin to bring it on par with the others gliders.
A mordrem/ley-line mounts pack.
Suggestion: Make a matching Roller Beetle skin for all mount packs. It would cost something like 400 gems and would be sold separately, but would only be avalaible if we already purchased the matching mount pack. They shouldn't be tied to any limitted-time sales so people can complete their sets anytime.
Guild Slot Expansions, I know of several players will full guild slots that would purchase this item to be able to join more than 5 guilds. Put them in for 800gems.
Also I'd really love to see Caithe's new look from when she gets all crystallized from Aurene be introduced either as an outfit or for sylvari to use, it was so pretty.
Dear A-Net Dev Team... Pretty Please with cherry on top... I would LOVE to have a PAIR OF ICE SKATES!!
They should be easily doable as a movement toy... and for example if you step on actual ice (e.g. Lake Mourn in Hoelbrak) you can use the number keys to do Spins, Axels, Flips, Salchows... and Role Players could use the instruments to play personal songs for a figure skating championship It could also be a great Wintersday gift
Thank you for your continuous hard work!!
Can we have this outfit please? !
Dear Anet team,
-Also a camp fire would be nice and fun:-)
Are additional character slots ever on sale? I'd grab a few for sure, current limit is a bit tight.
@Moonless.9470 said:
Are additional character slots ever on sale? I'd grab a few for sure, current limit is a bit tight.
They do go on sale, recently grabbed a couple at 600 gems.


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PureDWTS Season 19, Week 5 – Power Rankings
And this is the week that the hammer drops and suddenly the judges are "over" some of the dance crushes they have had so far this season – particularly Julianne and her crush on Tommy. Hate to say it, but you only have yourselves to blame, guys – when you gush over the same people doing the same rudimentary stuff week after week, you can't expect them to improve…and then it's kinda lame to suddenly say "I'm bored, I want more." But in the same token, you also don't have to be over-the-top mean – and I think they got that way with a few of the couples tonight. They seemed to lose sight of the fact that these were NOT the regular pairings, which is a tough enough row to hoe, and on top of that, they were all doing these bizarre dance styles that none of them are extensively trained in. Was this REALLY the best week to drop that hammer, stooges?
So I guess the asshattery from Julianne, Carrie Ann, and Bruno made me thankful for Jessie J, who at least seemed to try and find the positive in everyone's routines while still giving a useful critique – she is a judge on The Voice UK, after all, so I think she felt obligated to be constructive. Also quite impressed with her ability to not only sing live (!!!), but also do some dancing at the same time. As I said on Twitter – it's so rare to find singers that actually sing live and don't just lip sync, let along singers that sing live and dance as well. The only other singer I can think of off the the top of my head that also does both is Usher…so she's in good company.
So I guess all this talk about the judges tonight brings me to pose this question to everyone: do we really need Len? Next week will be the 4th week out of 6 that Len hasn't been at the judges' table – and I'm not really noticing his absence. I'm almost wondering, what with his sorta-kinda farewell speech on the finale last season, if he originally was not gonna come back at all this season – and TPTB somehow guilted him into doing a few shows just to maintain some consistency.
But anyway – no elim tonight, but there is one next week, based on last week's votes, this week's scores and votes, and next week's scores. As our longtime readers know, the more total points given out = the smaller the margins = the greater the likelihood of a "shocking" elimination. It really becomes a battle of the fanbases – who's getting the votes vs. who isn't. I don't care if you're at the bottom of the leaderboard – in a massive-points-dump-to-calculate-elimination scenario like this one, the playing field becomes a lot more level. To give you an idea of what crazy sh*t could happen – Sabrina was voted off the all-star season in a week where she was only 1/2 point away from a perfect score…but the elim was based on multiple weeks of scores and votes. Vote, vote, vote, kids – even if your favorite is in the lead.
1.) Alfonso & Cheryl (Witney) – Aaaaand we're back to nitpicking Alfonso to death, I see – can't let him get too confident now, can we PTB? Once again, he dances FLAWLESSLY – and in a style that's totally different than anything we've seen from him so far. He nails the technique (those heel things he was doing at the beginning are insanely difficult – the bf actually got a hairline fracture attempting it during a showcase routine), he nails the drama (loved the dust – just that added drama every time he clapped his hands), and he nails the partnering…and all Carrie Ann and Bruno wanna talk about is the distance between his neck and his shoulder??? Seriously, you stooges – what's the complaint gonna be next week? He's moving his ears in a strange way when he's dancing? His pupils are too dilated? He's flaring his nostrils too much? Because this is getting ri-goddamn-diculous. I guess I see what they're trying to do – trying to level the playing field, make it seem like Alfonso isn't running away with this season (even though he really is), but there's gonna reach a point when even the most dim viewers are gonna say "Ok, that's just being petty." And sorry, but 8's for a dance that good are just ASSININE…especially when they specifically say Sadie missed a few steps in the beginning of her routine, and give her 9's across the board. She earned her 9's – but so did Alfonso. Oh well – at least he still gets THUNDEROUS applause after every dance he does. 😀 Read more..


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Global Freight Forwarders: How to stay ahead in global trade
With new, complex regulatory obstacles on the horizon, our panel says that improving relationships with intermediaries should be a top priority for global shippers heading into 2014. Want to stay ahead of the game? It's time to listen up.
By Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor
October 01, 2013
Besides anticipating changes in compliance and trade law, shippers are asking their freight intermediaries to help them with risk mitigation and for advice on how to penetrate emerging markets. Modal choices and IT investment are also top of mind with global shippers these days. With so many concerns, finding reliable market intelligence and the proper partnership can be a daunting challenge.
In an effort to help global shippers improve their relationships and processes with their freight forwarders, we've asked four prominent industry experts to address a variety of issues that will have an important impact on global logistics next year.
Joining us in this dialogue are Bryn Heimbeck, chief executive officer of Trade Tech, a provider of cloud-based trade management applications; David Ross, managing director of global transportation and logistics at investment and business consulting firm Stifel Nicolaus; Beth Peterson, president of the training and global trade consulting firm BPE Global; and Robert Voltmann, president and CEO of the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA).
Logistics Management (LM): The "mega" forwarders just seem to be getting bigger. Is there a significant barrier to entry for new players?
Robert Voltmann: Yes, there are some barriers, including knowledge, software, cash flow, and the ability to develop customers. However, we also see a growing striation in the market with the biggest shippers seeking to work with bigger third-partly logistics providers (3PLs) and the mid-sized shippers working with mid-size 3PLs.
David Ross: I agree. The biggest barrier to entry is scale. Without significant buying power in a certain lane, it's very difficult to add value for shippers whether they're big players or small to medium-sized players.
Bryn Heimbeck: Breaking old models requires new thinking. The mega forwarders have the strongest claim to unified processes because of the extent of their networks. However, in a global environment, manual management processes can only go so far. There's room for new forwarders to hurdle these barriers if they have the right technology.
LM: Given the increasing complexity of global trade, do shippers have enough choices when it comes to finding the right forwarder?
Beth Peterson: I believe that they do. Successfully overcoming the complexity of global trade is not the responsibility of the forwarder, it's the responsibility of the shipper. The shipper must ensure that the goods are correctly valued, classified, and the correct country of origin is identified.
These tasks are not something that the forwarder should be asked to do. The shipper must also make sure that the proper authorizations—import licenses, affidavits, certifications—were obtained prior to shipping. If the shipper gives all the necessary data and documentation to the forwarder, any forwarder should be able to clear the goods through customs.
Voltmann: I say yes. These service providers bring expertise, the ability to hire people, and the power to deploy technology to meet the needs of shippers. The 3PLs are also working with their software providers to automate and meet new challenges. We're also seeing industry leading domestic 3PLs move into or buy industry leading forwarders to create door-to door solutions.
Heimbeck: Well, there certainly is enough choice in the market and there multitudes of forwarders in every location. The question is, do they all have the capacity to handle business requirements at a unified or standardized level to meet the requirements of a shipper or consignee?
This is especially important in the ever-expanding frontier where local experience and expertise is critical, but where process sophistication has not yet been embraced. In short, if the shipper is pushing the frontier and buying or selling in far-flung areas, then reliance on locals will be increasingly important.
LM: The business also seems fraught with risk when choosing a partner. How do you advise shippers when it comes to managing risk mitigation?
Ross: We advise shippers to look outside the simple transactional costs when trying to determine the optimal mode or supply chain. We also suggest that they consider any potential disruption in the supply chain. How fragile is it? How resilient can it be?
Voltmann: Shippers should have written procedures for hiring carriers and 3PLs, and they must be aggressive in their due diligence. Membership in industry organizations, credit, and performance are all key metrics.
Peterson: I probably sound like a broken record here, but shippers must get their Incoterms right. I can't tell you how many times we see invalid Incoterms on shipping documents. This guarantees additional cost and delay.
LM: What would you say is the most common mistake shippers make when looking for a capable forwarder?
Voltmann: The biggest mistake is when a shipper buys on price. The other pitfall is not using a written agreement that is fair to both parties.
Ross: Bob is right. Shippers should not be looking for a discount. Peace of mind comes from choosing the most reliable forwarder. I'll stress that shippers can avoid headaches and save expenses in the long term with this type of strategy.
Peterson: We all seem to be in agreement here. Many shippers only consider the rates. It is equally important to consider capability, such as having a network of partners who can support clearance and transportation at all of their destinations.
LM: Will reliance on information technology continue to become crucial in this business, or will we eventually reach a plateau?
Ross: IT is always changing and improving, so we don't see a plateau ahead. Forwarders and shippers will need to keep up with the latest trends to make sure that they're still adding value. It's an ongoing process.
Heimbeck: If there's a plateau, it's a long way off. The capacity of information technology to change the nature of logistics as we know it is epic, and we're just at the beginning of this major transformation. Many like to imagine that we've already seen such massive improvements that there is little left to come, but that thinking is wrong. In tomorrow's collaborative environment, using the cloud will be the norm.
Peterson: The only way to reach a plateau is to have all of the product and shipment information available in real time. For this to happen, shippers need to step up and proactively provide product and invoice data.
LM: How does the shipper work with the forwarder when it comes to making modal choices? Air versus ocean, for example.
Peterson: The biggest driver is cost. If cost can be reduced through a modal change without an impact on shipper satisfaction, then it's a good choice.
Ross: Sometimes it's the shipper that dictates modal choice to the forwarders, whereas in other cases a forwarder can advise on the optimal mode—it just depends on the relationship. Because the forwarder does not own the assets, they should be able to offer objective advice. But I'd say that the best forwarders should take the initiative to propose modal changes to its clients, especially when it sees inefficiencies in a shipper's supply chain.
Voltmann: Generally, air freight is a mistake. The shipper should review its acquisition and manufacturing processes to see if timing can be changed, but usually the 3PL is capable of bringing that level of move management expertise to the process.
LM: When does it make sense for a shipper to rely on multiple forwarders in the global marketplace? Can the job be handled by just one or two?
Heimbeck: There are a variety of reasons why a shipper could be faced with the decision to select several forwarders, such as specific regional strengths, expertise in air versus ocean, or specialized product movements. The key is to see what commonality they can secure with each one.
Ross: Multiple forwarders should be used on big operations, as different forwarders have various strengths either in lane or product. Sometimes niche forwarders are the best solution in certain industries or lanes, whereas a large, global forwarder may be able to get a shipper the best box rate in a larger, generally commoditized ocean lane.
Peterson: All sound advice. We should also note that specialized forwarders should be sought out when you have sensitive products such as chemicals, oil, and gas and for highly regulated products such as military or licensable goods and shipments that require other government agency review. Fortunately, this is a vibrant marketplace, and today's shipper is going to win in the global arena if good sense and caution is exercised.


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VATICAN CITY (AFP) - The Vatican said on Monday that a secret report on a leaks scandal in 2012 had revealed human "imperfections" in the running of the Church and would be shown exclusively to the future pope, not to voting cardinals.
"The Holy Father has decided that the documents, which only he has seen, will be exclusively available to his successor," Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said at a press conference.
"Their work made it possible to detect, given the limitations and imperfections of the human factor of every institution, the generosity and dedication of those who work with uprightness and generosity in the Holy See," it said.
Italian media reports had suggested cardinals set to vote in a new pope once Benedict XVI has resigned would be given access to the report The pope met on Monday with the cardinals who investigated the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal, Mr Lombardi said.
The run-up to next month's conclave to elect a successor to Benedict has seen new scandals and allegations emerge, including claims of "inappropriate behaviour" on the part of one of the cardinal electors, Keith O'Brien of Britain.
Cardinal O'Brien has resigned as head of the Catholic Church in Scotland and said he would not take part in the conclave. The pope has accepted his resignation, effective on Monday.
Already four other members of the conclave are associated with the paedophile priest scandals that have dominated Benedict's eight years on the papal throne.
Also on Monday, the Vatican said the pope has signed a special decree giving cardinals "the possibility to bring forward" a conclave to elect his successor.
"I leave the College of Cardinals the possibility to bring forward the start of the conclave once all cardinals are present, or push the beginning of the election back by a few days should there be serious reasons," the pope said.
The conclave is traditionally held between 15 and 20 days after the papal seat is left vacant, but that period normally includes a nine-day period of mourning for a deceased pope.
Benedict is the first head of the Roman Catholic Church since the Middle Ages to resign of his own free will.
The 85-year-old German pontiff cited his age as the main factor in his nearly unprecedented decision, but observers said Vatileaks may have been the last straw in a scandal-ridden papacy.


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The city, which was the capital of the British Gold Coast from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, is a lively display of old and new culture, architecture and history.
If you want to escape the noise and hustle of the city, there are pretty beaches nearby at La and elsewhere along the road toward Tema. Kokrobite in particular is charming and the tiny oceanside village also has some of the country's liveliest drum and dance performances.
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Ghostwriter (TV series)
Ghostwriter was an early-90s PBS TV series which promoted reading books and discouraged looking at pictures. It was more subtle than its PBS brethren such as "Wishbone", "Reading Rainbow", and "Read, Dammit!" in that it weaved pro-reading messages into the plot rather than just making the plot an excuse for a dog to reenact Romeo and Juliet.
Ghostwriter was a ghost, a bright, colorful circle who floated around reading and writing things and helping the only kids who can see him solve mysteries. Also he can travel through time.
But really...[edit]
The show was librarian propaganda. Some of the pro-reading messages were relatively subtle (note the presence of a book in the left image), and some were blatant (see right image). As the 20th century was drawing to a close, kids were reading less and less, and the library-educational complex responded to the worries of Those Who Know Better with a War On Illiteracy. This campaign featured educational video games, television shows, and a three-month exhibition by Mapplethorpe at the Museum of Modern Art. The result was that a generation would grow up to read and edit Uncyclopedia. ::shudder::
In addition, the campaign took on other goals, such as educating viewers on the dangers of marijuana in the episode, "What's up with Alex?" In retrospect, having one of the characters be a ghost who could whip up a psychedelic cloud of letters and who was invisible to everyone else may have confused first-time viewers.
Ghostwriter took place in New York City and depicted a reality where almost everyone got along, where pre-teens had excellent handwriting and stuck to phrases such as "that's no picnic" and "don't sweat it" and were allowed to roam around the city, solving mysteries (with the secret help of a ghost) as long as they got home before curfew. Nevertheless, it was quite realistic compared to typical adult shows.
- As mentioned above, Ghostwriter was a ghost, and if you didn't catch that by now, you must be fuckin' stupid or something. The precise religious and philosophical underpinnings of Ghostwriter were satisfactorily dealt with in the episode "Ghost Story II: Lost In New York". He communicates by displaying messages slowly across a computer screen or by physically rearranging letters into messages such as "Why am I the only ghost who does this?" He blinks when he's tired from time travel or when he masturbates, sometimes both.
- There were other characters, but it's been about 15 years since I've seen the show regularly, so give me a break.
Obligatory Controversy Section[edit]
13 horses and a pony died in the making of the series.
Also, the actor who played Alex and gave 43% of female viewers their first wet dream now does voice-over work for Grand Theft Auto. (This is actually true, the part about GTA I mean.)


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walk south on the tel aviv bordwalk
DistanceIn the city
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
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Alternative name maravi
Wave qualityNormal
ExperienceAll surfers
FrequencyVery consistent (150 day/year)
DirectionRight and left
PowerPowerful, Fun
Normal lengthShort (< 50m)
Good day lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good swell directionNorthWest, West, SouthWest
Good wind directionWest, East
Swell sizeStarts working at Less than 1m / 3ft and holds up to 2.5m+ / 8ft+
Best tide positionAll tides
Best tide movement
Week crowdFew surfers
Week-end crowdCrowded
- Man-made danger (buoys etc..)
2 main peaks - 1 above the small broken jetty
and just befor "bit ha ezel"
both peaks work both left and right
fat wave good on small days and in after big storm waves , can be hard to paddle out on biger then 4-5'ft
my favorite spot , but far from being the best...
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By Mel(M) firstname.lastname@example.com , 15-06-2006
Maravi - Until 1987 this beach suffered from being the main Tel-Avi-Jaffa sewage outfall 'victim'. You could see the classic waves but you wouldn`t dare surf there!! Turds & tampons everwhere, YUK!!!My personal contribution to sufing in Israel & Tel-Aviv is that I was the National Water Company`s site- construction engineer for the divertion of all the sewage from the sea-outfall to a new treatment plant just south of Tel-Aviv. Friend`s called me the one who 'kicked-the-shit-outa-the-waves'in Tel-Aiv. Literaly the pollution stopped & over a period of a couple of year`s 'mother-nature' cleaned-up & together with 'Neptune' gave us a new surfing break(& beach) to be proud of! If you take a look @ 'Best Photos' above, photo #2002-08-26, you have a back-drop of the entrance to the oldest sea-port in the world - ancient Jaffa (Jafo). Also, my friends, those rocks are THE mythalogical 'Andromeda`s Rocks' - awesome eh!?The 'Maravi' works on most swell directions, but like most Tel-Aviv surfing venues it works best on a SW swell, early morning offshores & windless conditions. You can pick-up on outside waves coming-thru` @ 2 - 3metres on the face & because of the combination of a small reef & the sandbar you get long solid well-formed walls breaking-off the peak front & backside. It`s preety-well consistent here & occasionaly your get some tubes. Locals are 'ucla' (cool) & after surfing your 'nuts-off' take a spicey pita-bread & almond juice from the Iconic Arab bakery 'Abulafia' in Old Jaffa (tell Sami Mel set yoo) - Awesome!
By silversurfer , 01-10-2003
comment - my home brake works both sides very authentic because of the view of old jaffa on a big day very hard to paddel out strong current also make it hard but the wave is graet.don't miss it.sorry mind my langage
By silversurfer , 01-10-2003
comment - my home break works both sides very authentic because of the view of old jaffa on a bug day very hard to paddel out strong current also make it hard but the wave is graet.don't miss it
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I'm reading Siu's peper"Fujita conjecture and the extension theorem of Ohsawa-Takegoshi".He refered to a "well-known techniques of using Rieamann-Roch to produce singular metrics".
The situation is: $L$ is a positive line bundle over an $n$-dimensional compact complex manifold M,$\epsilon$ is a sufficiently small positive rational number,$P$ is a given point on $M$.
He claims that we can find a multivalued holomorphic section of $(n+\epsilon)L$ such that the section vanishes to order at least $n$ at $P$;
or equivalent to say for some positive integer $m$ with $m \epsilon$ is a integer, we can find a holomorphic section of $m(n+\epsilon)L$ which vanishes to order at least $mn$ at $P$.
Why this statement is true?
Here vanishing order $k$ means when the section is represented by a local holomorphic function,the function germ lies eaxctly in the k-th power of the maximal ideal $m_{M,P}$.


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Not that this will be too big a surprise for suffering American Wii owners, but in Nintendo's latest release schedule (out today), there's still no mention of Xenoblade Chronicles being due for North America. It's still scheduled for release in Europe, however, on August 19.
The game has been the subject of an ongoing campaign by disgruntled American RPG fans, upset that many promising Wii games due for release in Japan (and sometimes Europe as well) are not being released in the United States.
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