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R.I. Students Gaining 'Badges,' Credits Outside School
Many schools encourage students to get real-world experience outside school walls. But very few offer course credit and digital "badges"—virtual records of skills and achievements—for those experiences.
Now, the Providence, R.I., school district is in the middle of an initiative that appears to be breaking new ground in giving academic credit and recognizing skills and achievements out of school.
A collaborative project between a nonprofit organization, the Providence After School Alliance, or PASA, and the 23,500-student Providence district is allowing students to engage in for-credit, badge-earning learning experiences outside school. Examples range from developing and pitching business plans to local venture capital firms to learning how to make Android phone applications at Brown University.
While Providence's approach—to encourage connections between in- and out-of-school learning and get students more engaged in school—is gaining steam both at the state and district levels throughout the country. The district stands out as one of the first to bridge the two goals by having students receive badges and academic credit for out-of-school experiences.
"Districts are challenged in balancing the need to meet fiscal realities and policy regulations, while addressing the academic needs of students and making certain they have access to the types of courses they need to be prepared for college and a career," said Paula Shannon, the district's chief academic officer.
"But good learning is learning that is relevant and rigorous that takes place in and outside of school," she said. "Expanded learning opportunities provide real potential to move the needle forward in education by blending the line between the two worlds."
Testing the Model
Last school year, 30 students from one Providence high school, Juanita Sanchez High School, participated in a pilot project to test the model. Independent evaluations found promising results, and student and teacher responses were favorable, encouraging the district to expand the program.
A Providence, R.I., school district initiative offers students the opportunity to gain credits and digital badges for activities outside school in the following programs:
Students create, collaborate, present, and study works of art at the Rhode Island Museum of Art.
Students participate in science internships in the community to enrich the study of biotechnology, supported by CVS Pharmacy.
Students learn about environmental issues, challenges, and policies with the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island.
Students improve English skills participating in hands-on language-skill exercises with a local organization, Inspiring Minds.
Students work on public speaking and debate skills in a debate league, assisted by college mentors from Brown University.
Students participate in a discussion group on civic engagement and service with Serve Rhode Island, a community-service organization.
Students create articles, photos, and videos about their community and schools, while working with Inspiring Minds.
Students learn video-editing, photography, and Google-sketch skills in an arts education program called AS220.
Students receive training from Young Voices, a youth-advocacy organization, on leadership and communication skills.
Students learn how to create Android phone applications in a computer science program at Brown University.
Students participate in a dance-technique class with a local dance company, Fusionworks, including potential rehearsals with local dance companies.
Students learn video production and editing skills at the Rhode Island Film Collaborative.
Students work with Social Venture Partners of Rhode Island to develop business plans and pitch ideas to investors for seed funding.
Students learn engineering skills while designing projects related to flight, at Brown University.
Fifty-five students enrolled this past fall, and about 55 more are expected this spring, now from two high schools.
Next school year, the program will expand to four high schools and serve 150 students. The goal is to eventually expand the program to all eight high schools in the district, said Ms. Shannon, though the district will need to find additional community partners and work out a number of technical and logistical details.
PASA, an organization that also supports after-school programming for middle school students, among other expanded-learning work, collaborated with community partners to create out-of-school courses for students. The organization worked with district teachers to ensure the classes had academic relevance and were aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
While the courses have differing schedules, students attend their out-of-school courses a minimum of once a week for two hours, over a span of 10 weeks, and all student learning is assessed through collaboration by the community partners, PASA staff members, and district teachers.
Students are also required to participate in an online forum, located at www.hubprov.com, where they discuss what they are learning, bolstered through blogging and multimedia projects, such as the production of online photos or videos.
The new use of digital badges, recognized both in and out of school, really sets Providence apart from other efforts undertaken by schools and organizations to recognize out-of-school learning, said Damian Ewens, the director of high school initiatives at PASA.
To launch the badging project, PASA won $75,000 in funding through a digital-badging grant competition sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit based in Mountain View, Calif., that supports open-source Web content and the Firefox Web browser, and the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which has spent more than $80 million so far to support innovative digital-learning initiatives.
Competency vs. 'Seat Time'
In addition to having their badges displayed on the PASA website and recognized by the school system, students are able to post them on social-media sites such as Facebook, and use them wherever else they see fit, such as with college applications.
Rhode Island College, in Providence, has agreed to accept badges on college applications as a testament to the value of learning experiences and skill acquisition.
"Digital badges are designed to recognize learning that happens anytime, anywhere," said Mr. Ewens, adding that badges can have a powerful impact on students themselves, helping them take greater "ownership" of their learning.
"Academic credits sit on a transcript with an abbreviated title and a letter grade," he said. "Whoever sees a digital badge can also learn [through a full description] what a student did to get that badge; it supplies a tremendous amount of information that adds more value to the student."
The district hopes eventually to use the badges to help students gain credit within classes for relevant work outside the classroom that reflects mastery of academic content.
For example, a student could take part in a robotics club on weekends and gain a badge that he or she could use to show mastery of an algebra concept that would fulfill the requirements for a traditional assignment or test on a unit, according to Ms. Shannon.
The Providence district's work on the digital-badge program would not have been possible without changes in state education policies, which have made it easier for districts to recognize out-of-school learning and link it to classroom instruction.
Rhode Island, like some other states, has high school students gain credits for showing proficiency in academic courses needed for graduation, rather than by the amount of time they take to complete a course, known as "seat time." Increasing numbers of states are moving to such "competency-based education" models, in which schools want students to demonstrate knowledge of subject material in new ways to show they have mastered it to move forward, according to Jennifer Dounay Zinth, a senior policy analyst at the Denver-based Education Commission of the States.
About 40 states now have policies that allow high school students to gain academic credit through competency-based assessment systems that run the gamut state to state. Some of the most progressive credit-gaining opportunities are found in states such as New Hampshire and New Jersey.
The motivation behind the efforts comes from the acknowledgment that today's students learn in many new and different ways that aren't connected to how much time they spend in a classroom, said Betsy Brand, the director of the American Youth Policy Forum, a Washington-based advocacy organization that supports college and career readiness and expanded learning.
"The competency-based education model can be for anyone that feels hampered by the time- and seat-based system we have," Ms. Brand said.
"But everything you learn outside of high school is not going to get you credit," she said. "Schools have to determine what is rigorous enough and what meets the requirements they deem important."
Vol. 32, Issue 20, Pages 12-13Published in Print: February 6, 2013, as R.I. Students Gaining 'Badges' and Credits Outside of School
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|Release date
|14 April 2003 (Update)
|Also called
|The Desert, Kharidian Lands
|Menaphite Pantheon
|Mostly, besides Al Kharid
|No. of banks
|7 (5 members only)
|No. of altars
|11 (counting the Ancient Magicks altar)
|Human, Clay Golem, Scabarites, Camel, Crocodile, Wolf, Mahjarrat, Wyrm
The Kharidian Desert is an expansive region located south of the nations of Misthalin and Morytania. The desert becomes a dangerous region south of the Shantay Pass, requiring a player to drink from waterskins or other sources of water to avoid dehydration unless Crocodile Tears has been completed. Failing to drink will cause the player to lose life points.
The Kharidian Desert is a vast land found south of the wooded kingdom of Misthalin and Morytania. The desert is the home to some of the oldest civilisations in Gielinor, ranging from the Menaphites that built the cities of Ullek and Uzer to the bandits that are all that remain of the followers of Zaros. As a result, it is amongst the most history-rich and treasure-filled areas in the world. It is this that has attracted so many archaeologists and explorers to the area, but not without consequence.
The most modern settlement in the desert is Al Kharid, having been built in around 1950 in the Fourth age by settlers crossing the River Lum in Misthalin. East of Al Kharid is the even newer Abbey of St. Elspeth Citharede, which was founded around 99 of the Fifth Age by Saradominist nuns.
Most of the peoples of the desert are worshippers of Tumeken and the Desert Pantheon, although in recent times the population has started to abandon the old Gods and begin worshipping other entities. This is demonstrated in the greedy, mercantile spirit of Pollnivneach and the destruction of the statue of Elidinis in Nardah. The plagues in Sophanem have been blamed on this, as well as incorrect burial practices.
The Kharidian Desert is largely open land, seemingly untouched since the God Wars. Here the scorching desert winds blast the sand, turning the dunes into a sea. The blazing sun watches tirelessly from the sky, slowly draining the life of all that walks beneath it. The vultures circle overhead, eating the corpses of those that the desert bested, and packs of starving wolves search endlessly for prey, their hunger never sated. Many have entered the desert, never to return.
Indeed, the Kharidian Desert has earned its reputation as dangerous, merciless, and unyielding. Yet even here civilisation has emerged, and great rewards await those with the courage and ability to travel into its wastes!
First and Second Age
The Kharidian Desert has the oldest known human civilisation from the midpoint of the Second Age or even earlier, descending even from the time when the human first came to Gielinor.
When the god Guthix shaped the realm of Gielinor, he also shaped the area which is now known as the Kharidian desert at the south. At least the Eastern Kharidian was heavily wooded and rich in resources back then. Although Guthix brought many races to Gielinor, Kharidian was uninhabited and unnamed until the second age. When Guthix finished his work, he fell in deep slumber to regain his power.
Years later, many other gods entered Gielinor. One of these gods was called Tumeken, god of Sun and heat. Many human tribes chose their own god to follow. Those who joined Tumeken later became known as the Menaphites.
Somewhere around the beginning of the second age, Tumeken blessed the southern lands with his deity, called it Kharidian, and brought his followers into the area to live on. The small menaphite tribe later grew into an enormous kingdom ruled by a pharaoh king or queen. The kingdom contained enormous cities. The biggest of them were Uzer and Ullek. Sophanem also originates from that age, but was only small Menaphite camp at the time.
Tumeken later married Elidinis, goddess of fertility and growth, and they shared their rule over the Kharidian Lands. They later got two children, Icthlarin, god of the dead, and Amascut, goddess of rebirth.
During the reign of the Menaphites, the heavily wooded menaphite kingdom slowly started to change into deserts. The blessing of Tumeken might have caused this. Or it was because of the Menaphites, who were gathering far more resources than they ever needed.
But the menaphite kingdom was not the only kingdom of the world. Other kingdoms and civilisations existed north of the Desert. The biggest of them all was a kingdom ruled by the god Zaros and lied straight north of the Kharidian Lands. When Zaros wanted to expand his kingdom, he sent his armies south into the Kharidian Lands in an attempt to conquer it. The Menaphites fought back, but Zaros' armies were far stronger than those of Kharidian Lands, and the Menaphites were likely to lose the Kharidian-Zarosian War.
Icthlarin saved Kharidian from his doom when he brought the Mahjarrat from Freneskae into Gielinor. The Mahjarrat were an extremely powerful and destructive race, and with the aid of these Mahjarrat, the menaphites were easily able to defeat Zaros' forces and drive them back to the north.
Unexpected things happened after the war with Zaros. Amascut, seeing the death and destruction the Mahjarrat caused, was driven insane and became obsessed with destruction. This caused Icthlarin and Amascut to become each other's worst enemy. Tumeken became tired of the hassle between his children and decided to sleep. He chose Icthlarin to rule the kingdom instead of him, and fell asleep. During the sleep of Tumeken, he had a dream where he created other gods: Apmeken, Crondis, Het, Scabaras, and possibly even more. They all formed the Desert pantheon and were worshipped by the entire Kharidian civilisation.
Also, after the war with Zaros the Mahjarrat believed that Zaros would be a better god for them to follow. And soon, they left Ichtlarin and joined Zaros' forces. Now that Zaros' had the Mahjarrat in his possession, he was more powerful than he had ever been, and he would now be able to conquer Kharidian without any trouble. However, an agreement took place between other gods to help each other, should Zaros attack one of their areas. This also saved Kharidian Desert from the destructive war.
So before Zaros was able to open another war with the Menaphites, he was betrayed by Zamorak, a Mahjarrat general who decided to rebel against Zaros. Zaros was forced to leave Gielinor. All other gods, including those of the desert Pantheon, were furious of Zamorak and banished him from Gielinor, but he later returned and declared war upon the gods, and the God Wars broke out.
Third Age and the God Wars
Many of Zaros' followers, including some Mahjarrat, switched to Zamorak and destroyed all of Zaros' remaining fortresses and settlements.
The god wars and the death of the Kharidian Lands' current pharaoh queen Senliten caused hard times for the Menaphites. The groups who stayed loyal to Zaros were forced to exile into the Kharidian Desert from the northern regions to escape from Saradominists and Zamorakians and the two groups had to somehow survive each other. Still, throughout most of the Third Age, the desert was relatively free from the God Wars.
A climate change took place in the middle of the Third Age in the eastern part of the lands, turning wooded areas into deserts like the rest of the area had been.
In the last millennium of the Third Age, the first major battles of the God Wars finally reached Kharidian areas. The Kharidian Desert Campaign started when other gods sent their forces into the desert in attempt to conquer the kingdom for themselves. The vampyre overlord Drakan was also involved in this campaign when he was trying to expand his kingdom Morytania into the Desert.
During the god wars the desert was a site of many battles. Where many settlements, most notably Uzer and Ullek, were destroyed by Zamorakian forces. Uzer, a city defended by clay golems, managed to survive throughout most of the god wars. It fell into the hands of Armadylean, Saradominists and Zamorakians, until finally the Zamorakian demon Thammaron managed to destroy the city (at that time held by Saradominists). However, he was mortally wounded and died after making his escape to his dimension. Soon Ullek fell to the hands of Balfrug Kreeyath who later became a bodyguard of K'ril Tsutsaroth. A few survivors managed to escape through a tunnel network into Sophanem.
A lot of the of Zaros' remaining followers were killed or imprisoned in the Kharidian Desert during that time, like the Zarosian Mahjarrat Azzanadra.
However, not all the settlements fell. Menaphos and Sophanem, much smaller than they are now, managed to survive the wars. They accepted the refugees from destroyed cities. Former inhabitants of Ullek, for example, influenced the city greatly, making these twin cities to be some of the oldest surviving human settlements.
One of the cities was even created in the desert during the wars, called Nardah. Saradominist follower Nardarine fled from the wars from the northern settlements but ran out of supplies. Saradomin did not listen to her prayers but Elidinis heard her and brought water to Nardarine. Around that spot, an oasis was created and eventually, Nardah was founded.
The god wars ended when Guthix woke up and set up the Edicts of Guthix. The Desert pantheon was also bound to the Edicts and were, like all other gods of Gielinor, forced to leave Gielinor for eternity, although Amascut and Icthlarin both got permission to stay on Gielinor, still continuing their "hassle".
Fourth Age
The God Wars ended and the Fourth Age started, but the Menaphite kingdom was changed into nothing more than an enormous desert, becoming heavily corrupted with almost all of its enormous cities ruined and abandoned. Most Menaphites now reside within the twin cities Sophanem and Menaphos. Many human groups, who no longer had a home, became nomadic tribes travelling around the world to survive, but the Kharidian Desert was one of the few places where many humans lived on permanent settlements, although large parts of the Kharidian Desert were also inhabited by nomadic tribes. Menaphos and Sophanem continued to grow. The human groups quickly recovered and many other settlements were created. New kingdoms were found and new settlements were built in the desert. Like Pollnivneach, Nardah, and most notably Al Kharid, which managed to achieve political independence from the rest of the desert. A very few of Zaros' worshippers still reside in the Bandit Camp today.
Fifth Age
Not all the trouble was gone though, as Amascut was still active during the current Fifth Age and she has pointed her attention at Sophanem, where her brother Icthlarin still rules. She created a deadly plague which affected all of Sophanem's citizens and animals. To avoid the plague spreading across the rest of the Desert, Sophanem was separated from Menaphos and the citizens of Sophanem were locked up within their own city.
Amascut also took control over the Scabarites, a new race of insect like humanoids who were loyal to the desert god Scabaras. Most scabarites resides now within the ruins of Ullek, and Amascut forced them to attack Sophanem through the ancient tunnel once used by Ullek citizens during the God Wars, making the life in Sophanem even harder.
In year 99 or 100 the Abbey of St. Elspeth Citharede was founded by the followers of Saint Elspeth near Al Kharid. In year 169, a brutal murder occurred within the abbey, and an adventurer arrives in time to investigate in the quest, One Piercing Note.
Sixth Age
The body of Tuska crashed just off of the western coast of the Kharidian desert, leaving debris strewn along the shore, and creating a large sandbar south of the crash site.
Kharidian desert is roughly separated into three regions - the Northern, Middle and Southern parts. The River Elid also divides the middle and southern regions into eastern and western parts.
Northern Region
Also called Al Kharid Desert. This place is the safest of the three and also the only part open to non-members. It is politically independent from the southern parts of the desert, with the centre being Al Kharid. The northernmost part of Al Kharid Desert has a mine with a wide variety of rocks. It also has the duel arena, Mage Training Arena and ends with the Shantay Pass on the southern edge. The Northern Kharidian Desert is the coolest region (temperature-wise), hence its inhabitants and tourists suffer no desert heat effect. This is also the place once you finish Diamond in the Rough, you can start the Sorceress's Garden minigame.
Middle Region
Shantay Pass divides the northern and middle region where players can buy supplies to venture further into the desert. Prior to April 2005 desert updates, anything south of the Shantay Pass was called Shantay Desert by many. The middle region of the desert is more dangerous than the northern one due to many monsters who are aggressive to low-level players. However the most notable danger in this region is the desert heat effect which is absent only in a few settlements. Fortunately, Kharidian Cacti grow in this region, which can be cut with a knife to refill waterskins. Also completion of the quest Crocodile Tears also provides immunity to desert heat. The middle part of this region of desert contains the Kalphite Lair, Desert Mining Camp, Bedabin Camp, ruins of Uzer, Dominion Tower, a hunting area, and on the southern border there lies the Bandit camp and Pollnivneach.
Southern Region
The southern region is the Kharidian Desert proper. The transition between the middle and southern regions, especially in the eastern part is smooth. Pollnivneach, the Bandit camp and a mountain range approximately divide the middle and southern regions in the west. In most of the southern region, players may notice slightly darker sand colour and a lack of Kharidian Cacti. This is where extra waterskins or an enchanted water tiara come in handy, especially when being away from settlements for extended periods of time. The monsters in the southern part are also stronger than those found in the middle part. For example, the River Elid is full of level 63 crocodiles. The south-eastern areas near the Ullek ruins and the reed swamp are particularly dangerous places due to the much larger crocodiles and scabarites residing there. The most important landmarks in the southern part include Nardah, the twin cities of Menaphos and Sophanem, several pyramids, a mining quarry and the ruins of Ullek underneath the swamp area.
Inventory: Water and Equipment
Waterskins can be refilled by three methods: using a waterskin on any water-filled item such as a bucket, jug or bowl or any water source such as a sink or a fountain; with a knife in their inventory, players can cut healthy Kharidian Cacti to fill waterskins; or players with access to the Lunar spellbook can cast the humidify spell, completely refilling all Waterskins in the players' inventory. Cutting a cactus will not always give the player water, but if it does the player will also receive 10 Woodcutting experience. Many parts of Kharidian Desert, especially the southern part of the desert, do not have cacti to get water. You can also drink from other sources of water such as water in bowls. You cannot drink from water not labelled on the map as a water source such as the River Elid.
The enchanted water tiara is a quest reward from Dealing with Scabaras which can be used in place of waterskins.
Wearing desert clothing, available from Shantay at the Shantay Pass, will cause the player to drink less frequently. Without desert clothing, a player needs water about every 90 seconds. With a full set of clothes, a player needs water about every 120 seconds. The desert outfit, Menaphite robes, and dervish outfit also provide protection like desert clothing.
If the tome of frost is worn the damage taken from the desert heat will be reduced and time between the hits will also be longer (still needs to be tested if it stacks with desert robes).
All those methods are rendered redundant upon completing the Crocodile Tears quest, as it rewards permanent immunity against desert heat.
Although the desert houses many beasts, there are three common creatures that can be found in great numbers and that players should be prepared for. Desert wolves, though only level 27, can be dangerous to lower-lever players. Ugthanki, level 42 desert camels, are aggressive and potentially dangerous, especially if the player is only wearing robes. In addition, along the River Elid the player can encounter level 63 crocodiles which will attack the player if they stray too close to the river. There are also desert strykewyrms, but as they attack the player only if they have been assigned as a slayer task (requires 77 slayer) and only if they are provoked, they are not a danger for the inexperienced.
There are four major cities in the desert. The player does not need to drink water in most cities.
- Al Kharid: Al Kharid is the only non-member city in the Kharidian Desert, and is located at its northern edge. Several quests can be started here including The Feud, Stolen Hearts, Diamond in the Rough and Shadow of the Storm. In Al Kharid there is a bank, crafting shop, tannery, furnace, platelegs shop, plateskirt shop, scimitar shop, some stalls and a palace. Other notable features are the Al Kharid Mine north of the city and the duel arena to the north east. Previously if players wanted to enter from Lumbridge, they would have to pay a toll of 10 coins, however a fee is no longer required to enter Al Kharid. You may also enter Al Kharid by walking through Lumbridge swamps to get to the docks where a boat takes you Daemonheim.
- Menaphos and Sophanem: Players are granted entrance to Sophanem if they have started the Itchlarin's Little Helper quest. Upon completion of the Contact! quest, a bank and several other features become available for use in Sophanem.
- Nardah: The city of Nardah is located in the south-eastern-most area of the desert. It is located near the Agility Pyramid. The player may buy a waterskin (full) from Ali for 1,000 coins. The reason of the high price is because the city is under a curse, featured in Spirits of Elid quest, which has dried up the fountain. The city also has a Choc-Ice stand, where the player can buy choc-ice for 30 coins each.
- Pollnivneach: Pollnivneach is a desert city located on the banks of the River Elid. A substantial amount of the quest The Feud takes place here. The city is divided between the Bandits and the Menaphites. The player can purchase water here from the shop. There is a well, a kebab shop where the player may buy super kebabs and red hot sauce, a tavern, where drinks can be bought, and a camel merchant. The player can fill waterskins from the well by filling a bucket and transferring the water.
Other locations include:
- Bedabin Camp: Located south-west of the Shantay Pass, the Bebabin Camp is used in quests such as Tourist Trap.
- Bandit Camp: Used mainly in the Desert Treasure quest.
- Citharede Abbey: A small Abbey where the followers of Saint Elspeth live. It was founded in 99 or 100 of the Fifth Age.
- Desert Mining Camp (AKA Slave Mine):Used mainly in the Tourist Trap quest, it is located in the middle of the Desert.
- Uzer: This city was destroyed hundreds of years ago. The ruins have a part in The Golem, Shadow of the Storm, Do No Evil, and Dishonour among Thieves quests.
The main form of transportation in the desert is by Magic carpet. They can take the player to a variety of places in the desert, such as:
- Shantay Pass
- North and South Pollnivneach
- Nardah
- Menaphos and Sophanem
- Bedabin Camp
The normal cost of such travel is roughly 200 coins. However, doing the Rogue Trader activity or wearing the activated ring of Charos will decrease the price to 100 coins, and combining them both lowers it to 75 coins.
There are also several fairy rings located in the desert.
Wearing armour of any kind is not advisable, as due to its metallic nature the player will overheat faster and thus use up their supply of water quicker.
Extra Features
Kalphite Queen: The Kalphite lair is located west of the Shantay Pass, surrounded by bones. A rope is required to enter the Kalphite tunnels and another to enter the Queen's chamber. Also, on the first level of the dungeon, there is a tunnel leading to the Dorgesh-Kaan south dungeon.Kalphite King: The Exiled Kalphite Hive is located south of Azzanadra's Pyramid. The Kalphite there are more powerful than the traditional ones, and so is the "King of the Desert". The Kalphite King is the third-most powerful boss of the game, having a combat level of 2500, he can be killed by only one person but it is extremely hard. He is very rewarding, providing valuable random drops along with the drygore weaponry, which is immensely expensive and some of the most powerful weaponry in the game for players. The Exiled Kalphite Queen also resides there.
Azzanadra's Pyramid: The final Pyramid from the Desert Treasure quest, this labyrinth is where the player can switch between the normal spellbook and the Ancient Magicks spellbook.
Agility Pyramid: Located just north of Nardah, this Pyramid is one of the more popular methods of training Agility. Players must negotiate each level of the Pyramid to reach the summit, where they can retrieve a golden pyramid exchangeable for 1,000 coins.
Pyramid Plunder: Located in Sophanem, this Thieving activity allows the player to advance based on your Thieving level.
Dust Devils: Dust Devils are level 122 monsters. They require 65 Slayer and a facemask to kill. They are located down a well east of the Bandit camp.
Desert Lizards: These Slayer monsters are located north of Nardah an east of Sophanem. They require level 22 Slayer and an ice cooler to kill.
Goats: These level 10 monsters, and the level 22 billy goats that are found with them, are the only source of the desert goat horns used to make combat potions. They are found near Pollnivneach, Nardah, the Kalphite lair and the Shantay Pass.
- Al Kharid Mine
- Desert Mining Camp
- Granite and sandstone quarry
- Kharidian Desert gold mine - west of Nardah - 5 gold ores
Soundtracks unlocked in the region
- A Song for Khnum
- Above the City
- Al Kharid
- Arabian, Arabian2 and Arabian3
- Bandit Camp
- Breaking In
- Citharede Requiem
- Coleoptera
- Cool for Ali Cats
- Copris Lunaris
- Desert Heat
- Desert Smoke
- Desert Voyage
- Dominion Lobby I, Dominion Lobby II and Dominion Lobby III
- Dominion Tower I, Dominion Tower II, Dominion Tower III, Dominion Tower IV and Dominion Tower V
- Duel Arena
- Dune
- Dynasty
- Egypt
- Everything in its Right Palace
- Evil
- Final Showdown
- Forgotten
- Insect Queen
- Kharidian Bustle
- Kharidian Nights
- King of the Desert
- Lament
- Mirage
- Monkey See, Monkey Do
- Oasis
- Over To Nardah
- Palace
- Palace Above
- Pharaoh's Tomb
- Quicksand!
- Rooftops
- Sands of Time
- Sarcophagus
- Scarab
- Scarabaeoidea
- Shantay Pass
- Simian Scuffle
- Sphinx
- Spirits of Elid
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- The Plundered Tomb
- Traveller's Tale
- Troubadour Dance
- Under the Sand
- Valerio's Song
- Violinsanity
- Although unknown, there may be a capital to the Kharidian Desert. Possible candidates for capital of the Kharidian Desert are: Al Kharid (possibly the capital to the north), Menaphos (possibly and most likely capital to the south and the whole desert respectively), and Sophanem being a large city occupied in the desert.
- In real life, the regions that the Kharidian Desert is based on (Southwest Asia and the Sahara) do not actually have any cacti. Cacti is native to North and South America.
- The Kharidian Desert was graphically updated on 5 June 2017, to coincide with the release of Menaphos.


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Dan Connors
TellTale to announce new "dream IP" projects soon
Walking Dead: Season 2 developer TellTale Games has taken to Reddit to discuss its current and future projects with fans. Studio co-founder Dan Connors has teased that the studio is working on a few "Dream IP" projects that it will announce soon.
Dan Connors headlines
The Walking Dead season two targeting northern autumn 2014
TellTale Games doesn't expect the second season of its award-winning The Walking Dead adventure to drop until late 2014.
The Walking Dead season two aims to be more "robust", less buggy
The Walking Dead produced a couple of unpleasant save-destroying bugs, and while only a tiny fraction of players were affected, TellTale is working hard to avoid a repat if possible.
TellTale keen to partner up for original IP
Telltale has made a name for itself working on licenses like The Walking Dead and Jurassic Park, and if it ever goes down the original property line it will probably do so with a media partner.
TellTale's Fables game will have a different title
TellTale's next project is based on the comic Fables. But for some reason, that's not what it's going to be called.
TellTale CEO outlines benefits of episodic gaming
The Walking Dead developer TellTale has used the episodic release model for many years, to great effect. In a keynote speech delivered at DICE Summit 2013, CEO Dan Connors talked up the episodic formula's strengths and weaknesses.
The Walking Dead Season Two may be tied in with TV show
TellTale's award-winning The Walking Dead series is drawn from the comics rather than the TV show and stars all new characters, but the developer hasn't ruled out the possibility of some sort of interaction between the two adaptations.
The Walking Dead: Season 2- Telltale "figuring out" save imports, looking at larger franchises
The concept for The Walking Dead Season 2 is currently being formed by Telltale, and the developer is looking into the possibility of carrying saves over from the previous season.
Telltale boss compares adventure game fans to wine aficionados
Some of us want to discuss the fragrant floral notes and cigar box overtones, and some of us just want something to put in our faces. That's the divide between general gamers and adventure fans right there, according to Telltale CEO Dan Connors.
First Walking Dead gameplay trailer, rumours claim five episodes planned
Get all your Waking Dead news here, both official and unofficial, plus check out the first gameplay footage.
TellTale's Walking Dead coming soon, Fables due in third quarter
Two of Telltale's upcoming action games have gained slightly firmer release windows.
Back to the Future games releasing from Telltale this winter
Who are you gonna call!? Wait, wrong movie…
Telltale: We have something "that'll blow everybody's mind"
Speaking in an interview with Shack (via D'Toid), Telltale's Dan Connors has revealed that the studio has lined up something "that'll blow everybody's mind".Asked what would they be doing after Wallace and Gromit and Monkey Island was finished, Connors said:"We've got product in production right now that we've been talking about but we haven't really […]
Telltale announcing "new franchises" in new genres "around October"
Adventure specialist Telltale is gearing up to announce new titles "around October," head honcho Dan Connors has told VG247 in a phone interview, and it sounds as though the studio – known for its episodic comedy titles, such as Sam & Max – is about to get more serious."Yes, probably in the next few months," […]
Telltale: Natal is a "huge thing for what we're doing"
Telltale CEO Dan Connors said the idea of being able to act in an adventure game could be made possible by Project Natal and that the full body motion sensor is a "huge thing" for what the company is doing."Obviously with the type of games that we make, the idea of making a person an […]
Telltale doing Wallace and Gromit games
Telltale games is to release a batch of episodic titles based around Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit franchise, the company told the AP earlier today.The series will be called Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures and will continue the popular "clay look" from the films and TV shorts."We're certainly going for the clay look with this," […]
Dan Connors latest
The Walking Dead season two aims to be more "robust", less buggy
The Walking Dead: Season 2- Telltale "figuring out" save imports, looking at larger franchises
Telltale boss compares adventure game fans to wine aficionados
First Walking Dead gameplay trailer, rumours claim five episodes planned
TellTale's Walking Dead coming soon, Fables due in third quarter
Back to the Future games releasing from Telltale this winter
Telltale announcing "new franchises" in new genres "around October"


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This week from the Ranch…
October 14, 2015 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that reveals or explores a moment of serendipity. How did it come about? What did it lead to? You can express a character's view of the moment or on serendipity in general. Use the element of surprise or show how it is unexpected or accidentally good.
My life is really one serendipitous moment after another but if I think about serendipity, I can't go beyond how my parents met. I've posted about that here! In case you missed it.
Actually you do wonder if this counts. A bomb exploded in central London during the working day. As a result my parents got together but what of the inevitable casualties, the loss of property? Can one couple's good fortune mean you ignore other egregious effects?
In many cases of the luck involved in serendipity, someone, off stage might suffer. Not necessarily directly but they don't get the chance afforded to the lottery winner. Is serendipity to be conditioned and if so how? Meeting one's future spouse was serendipitous but what of the girlfriend left behind? Maybe that relationship was ending and all that happened was an acceleration but can we be sure?
Not much in life is purely Yin without the Yang. Lurking somewhere is the dark side of the moon and we shouldn't be blind to it. When there are sliding doors, someone's fingers might get trapped.
Charli mentioned that we have had serendipity as a prompt before. So I checked. It was my first ever attempt at one of Charli's prompts. Here it is, if you're interested. Charli's first comment? 'You pooped well'. Oddly I took that as a rather quaint Idahovian encouragement. And I'm still here.
And so to the flash this week, Mary and Rupert are taking their long postponed trip to Ireland to try and find Mary's long lost twin. This previous flash may help you set the scene.
The luck of the Irish
Mary climbed into the cab, while Rupert went to the far side. She wondered if this whole trip to Dublin to try and find her twin was a mistake. At least being with Rupert had, so far, been easy. Fun even. Though leaving Charlotte and Penny hurt.
'So what are you two planning?' The cabbie sounded cheerful. 'Bit of romance?'
Mary snorted a laugh and Rupert joined in. She said, 'We're siblings. Looking for a long lost relative.'
'Yes. Katherine Potts.'
The cabbie laughed. 'Never. My aunt is Kate Potts. She's English. Adopted…'
Mary shook her head. 'Coincidence…'
And here's the whole back story of Mary, her family and their daily tribulations


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TYLER, Texas (AP) _ Blacks fought in the Civil War, surprisingly on the side of the Confederacy, many of them from Texas, Palestine historian Norris White Jr. said his research shows.
They are the "black forgotten Confederates,'' White said, who has extensively researched the role of blacks in the Confederate Army for a book he is writing that will be titled "Black Texans Who Served in the Confederate Army.''
Much attention has been given in movies such as "Glory'' and in books and articles written by prominent U.S. military and Civil War era historians to the exploits and heroics of black soldiers serving in the Union forces, White said, but he added that "very little observance, if any, has been given to their counterparts in the Confederate Army.''
"Their voices have been omitted from the pages of history,'' White said.
Traditionally, the consensus has been that the Civil War was a battle among white men, White said.
"That's pretty accurate, but it's not complete, and I'm finding out that many different, diverse ethnic groups participated for the Union cause and the Southern cause,'' he said.
His research has uncovered that blacks, Latinos and Native Americans served in the Confederate Army.
"I approached this as a historical topic that needs great attention,'' White said. Since it's well documented that blacks fought for the Union forces, White said, he likes to take in his research the road that has been traveled.
He found that black Texans served in the Confederate Army in many diverse capacities, such as infantrymen on the battlefield, personal body servants, teamsters or laborers.
For the past 150 years, historians have documented just about every aspect of the Civil War, some topics more so than others, but this is one area that has been neglected by everyone, White said.
The topic caught White's attention while he was working on his thesis on the Buffalo soldiers, the first regular black soldiers in the U.S. military, as he pursues a master's degree in history from Stephen F. Austin State University.
White found that several Buffalo soldiers had prior service in the Confederate Army and said the thought occurred to him that they are a category that has not really been explored.
White expects to receive his degree next summer, and then he plans to begin composing his book about blacks in the Confederate Army.
"When I first began my research, I was somewhat ridiculed that I'm chasing a mystical category,'' White said.
"But three years later, I can show you evidence that indicates at least over 7.500 black Texans participated in the Confederate Army,'' he said.
That's the number of "forgotten Confederates'' he said he has personally documented in his research, but White estimates the number of black Texans who participated in the Confederate Army in the War Between the States may have been as high as 50,000.
"The goals of my research are to historically recognize and acknowledge black Texans who served in the Confederate Army,'' White said, a board member for the Museum for East Texas Culture in Palestine and a preservation fellow for the Texas Historical Commission.
Since this is a country that honors its veterans, it should acknowledge, recognize and honor all of its veterans, including blacks who fought for the South, White asserted.
"My issue is simply I'd like to recognize the service of veterans _ in this case, they are black Texans who fought on behalf of the Confederacy,'' he said.
Many families are proud and honored when he shows them evidence that their ancestors are Confederate veterans, White said.
White is still in the investigation process, which he undertook three years ago.
He says several publishers have expressed interest in his book, which he hopes to publish in 2014.
"A lot of folks may wonder why blacks fought for the Confederacy or what may have motivated them'' White said. "My work is not to answer that; my work is to validate that they did serve in some capacity. That's the basis of my research – just to acknowledge the fact they are Confederate veterans.''
His research is based on what he calls "primary sources that indicate black Texans served in the Confederate Army.''
Primary sources, White said, are "100 percent irrefutable evidence _ letters, diaries, pension applications, photographs, newspaper accounts, county commission records and other evidence that give primary insight'' that blacks were in the Confederate Army.
For example, White found a Texas historical marker in Wise County that states Randolph Vesey was a respected Negro citizen and homeowner who served during the Civil War as body servant and voluntary battle aid to General W.L. Cabel of the Confederate Army.
"If the Texas Historical Commission, the leading authority in preserving our history recognized the fact that there were black Texans who participated and served in the Confederate Army, then why can't we as a society?'' White said.
White said he had traveled more than 30,000 miles crisscrossing the state searching for primary sources validating that blacks served in the Confederate Army.
"I've been all over the state of Texas and back again and I'm proud of what I've accomplished. I'm still looking for sources,'' White said.
"What I'm finding out is black Texans for a variety of reasons served in the Confederate Army, some as slaves, some as free men, some were conscripted and paid for their service, some as body servants .'' White said. "There is no one category fits all.''
It's both black history and Confederate history, White said, calling the two interconnected and entwined.
White said he is able to do the research because of the foundation he received from his mentors in the Texas Historical Commission and his studies at Stephen F. Austin State University and at The University of Texas at Tyler.
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Ferocious Grizzly Bear Escape
This is a story of self-control and marksmanship with an itsy bitsy shooter by a man against a fierce predator.
What is the smallest caliber you trust to protect yourself?
The Beretta Jetfire:
While out hiking in Alberta Canada with my girlfriend we were surprised by a huge grizzly bear charging at us from out of nowhere.
The ferocious grizzly must have been protecting her cubs because she was extremely aggressive.
If I had not had my little Beretta Jetfire with me I would not be here today!
Just one shot to my girlfriend's knee cap was all it took... the bear got her and I was able to escape by just walking away at a brisk pace.
It's one of the best pistols in my collection
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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
Piers Morgan's emotional interview with Amy Winehouse's father Mitch Winehouse aired last night. Mitch opened up about Amy's relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil. "I was sickened, and I did everything in my power to stop the relationship," he said. "But again, what can you do, she loved him."
He also talked about Amy's last night:
Said Winehouse: "She'd had a good day, as most of her days were good days...she was in good spirits."
nothink can stop love..you know why..because is most pure .and powerfull ..what everything ells.so letet free and just feeled..others nometter...this is my own excpanted..(platton)..thank you..s
in this i'am with young lady EMMY H.....and when you are young and you have big sucsess you can not control yourself..so in this side parencte have risponsibility.
What a class act Mitch Winehouse is. Amy will always be missed.
Maybe,I've gotten Amy wrong.Her father seems like a decent, classy guy.She wasn't trash-my mistake- forgive me,Amy.
Why wasn't Mitch with his daughter while she was detoxing? I guess he felt more needed on the other side of the Atlantic holding his cousins newborns and promoting his band in New York. I have a hard time believing him when he said the family was close-knit group.
As a black musician this women was as fake as the false eyelashes she wore, y'all always seeing more into something than is actually there, if you want to hear soul, listen to it from somebody who really has some like Etta James or Aretha Franklin. This girls soul was where she is now.
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it is too sad i admired her alot of she was amazing when she hand out all this music she had a charming voice that i have never heard take care alot and only think that she is with god resting in pace


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How Does It Feel: DIIV's Zachary Cole Smith Rolls On
Zachary Cole Smith opens the door wearing a collarless white button-down shirt so big it could pass for a nightgown. The 28-year-old DIIV frontman is also rocking a leather ball cap over his light brown shoulder-length locks, plus baggy white shorts and black low-cut shoes with tall black socks climbing up his calves. Short, slight, and boyish in the face, he looks like a kid dressed up as a 19th-century baseball player for Halloween. It's about 10 o'clock on a seasonably hot July Monday night. We are on the sidewalk in a vaguely defined area of Brooklyn between the heavily gentrified Williamsburg neighborhood and the increasingly gentrified Bushwick. Across the street in a warehouse decked out with colorful murals and gym mats, a group of men are breakdancing. Various musicians have been coming in and out of the graffiti-strewn brick structure Smith just emerged from, one of those industrial buildings where bands rent out space to practice. DIIV are borrowing a room from their buddy Matthew Molnar of Friends for tonight's rehearsal.
"Sorry, the space is really small," Smith says, leading me inside down whitewashed halls and identical doorframes. "Our drummer's not here, so maybe you can sit there." The space is really, really small — smaller than some people's closets — so I press my back against one of the plain white walls while four out of five members of DIIV scramble to practice new songs. Also present: guitarist Andrew Bailey, a grade-school friend of Smith's who wears blonde braided pigtails and used to play in gothic garage-rocker Shilpa Ray's band the Happy Hookers; bassist Devin Ruben Perez, a skateboarder and devoted astrologer who's never been in a band before DIIV; and guitarist/keyboardist Colin Caulfield, a veteran of various underground music projects who joined DIIV last year to flesh out the live sound. All of them are wearing baggy clothes with long hair streaming out from under their baseball caps.
Not present yet is drummer Colby Hewitt, formerly of Smith Westerns, who is off somewhere working on a photo project with his girlfriend, the acclaimed documentary and fashion photographer Sandy Kim. In Hewitt's absence, his bandmates are attempting to play along with demos from Smith's laptop using a click track, and the resulting racket is not helping anyone figure out whether these songs are ready for the road. Smith clicks around his iTunes library through innumerable recordings — some of them familiar to his bandmates, others not, most of them described as "that weird one." This process repeats several times over: Smith plays a few seconds of one song, then another, then another, until eventually he stumbles upon the song he's looking for. He intersperses his search with brief digressions about the influences behind these songs, referencing "the Television scale," Weezer's "Only In Dreams," and one poppy new number that descends into "some weird Suicide jam." At one point, he spends several minutes seeking out a track they've rarely rehearsed before. "I found it!" This is it! Let's do this," he says. "Or is that a waste of like one hour of practice?"
Smith doesn't really have an hour to spare tonight. He and his bandmates are scrambling through what might be their only rehearsal for their first US headlining tour, which launches later this week. The goal is to road-test new material for the follow-up to DIIV's 2012 debut album, Oshin, an underground breakout hit that marked them as one of indie rock's most promising bands on the rise. Tomorrow he has to take care of countless logistical matters for the tour such as picking up borrowed gear and buying a van, which would be stressful enough for a random Tuesday. But tomorrow is also the 22nd birthday of Smith's girlfriend, the model and acclaimed pop singer Sky Ferreira, and he needs to make it special after spending much of her 21st birthday stressing out about an impending European tour. "Last year I blew it," Smith says. "She was so upset." On top of all that, he's also supposed to meet with his probation officer upstate, one of many unpleasant consequences of being arrested for heroin possession and other crimes last September in upstate Saugerties, New York.
Smith has decided not to go to the appointment in Saugerties and is crossing his fingers that he'll be allowed to push it back. "I made a decision that I can't go and that rehearsing and getting my shit ready for the show and being with my girlfriend on her birthday is more important than that," he says. "My lawyer says that they should be able to postpone it, but we don't know what their response is going to be." To help make this happen, I've been asked to supply a letter on company letterhead explaining Smith's commitments for this feature. It's being forwarded to the courts along with the contracts for DIIV's tour dates in the hopes that with enough documentation the authorities will take Smith's commitments with the band seriously. "If somebody was like, 'Oh, I have to work at the factory on Tuesday,' they'd be like, 'Oh, OK,'" Smith says. "For me, they're like, 'No!'"
The preeminent stressor of the moment, though, is band practice. There are so many songs to learn and so little time. DIIV are opening Ferreira's benefit show for the David Lynch Foundation this Wednesday at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg, and the tour kicks off in earnest Thursday and Friday with two more sold-out headlining gigs at the same venue. "This is our first US headline tour, and it's kind of crazy to be doing it not on a record," Smith says. The main point of the tour is to workshop new material and move forward with the second album, so DIIV have to get some of that material ready for the stage tonight or else remain in between-album limbo. Still, Smith seems less concerned with the number of songs they bash out and more focused on satisfying his audience. "On this tour people want to hear new stuff, but nobody likes hearing new songs," he announces to the band. "Nobody's gonna want to hear us play the next record all the way through because they don't know it."
Technically, there's no next record for people to know just yet. It's not for lack of effort. DIIV recorded some material with JR White of Girls last summer, but the sessions were scrapped, and Smith returned to writing and recording DIIV's music in isolation. He says he's finished more than 150 songs in the two years since Oshin, and those are just the ones he still likes. Still others have been deleted or disappeared into the crevices of his hard drive. Many are saved under names like "Shitty Song" and " Fuck You," which doesn't much help Smith remember which one is which. Smith presents the best of these creations to the band, supplying each member with a meticulously written part. Some of those parts are incredibly simple, to the extent that while rehearsing one song, Bailey can load up Yankees highlights on his phone with his left hand while jangling away on an open guitar string with his right. That's just the way Smith writes — lots of independent bits and pieces that don't amount to much on their own but, when deployed at the same time, fade into careening post-punk mirages.
After about an hour of middling results and a water-and-cigarette break, Hewitt shows up — also in baggy clothes and a ball cap, but taller than his bandmates and with close-cropped hair — and immediately DIIV's new songs jolt to life. The heat is suddenly far less oppressive, whether due to the water everyone is chugging or the sense of lifting pressure as the new material comes together. These songs reveal a real diversity within DIIV's carefully honed aesthetic: One song starts out dreamy, accelerates into aggression, then glides gracefully to conclusion. Another one is an instrumental post-rock slow-build that could almost pass for Explosions In The Sky. Yet another is ominous, noisy, and crushingly heavy from start to finish. DIIV spend most of their time tonight perfecting one song in particular, a brisk krautrock-informed joyride built around some of the most effortlessly pretty guitar lines of Smith's career. Tentatively titled "Under The Sun," it will make a marvelous lead single whenever LP2 finally emerges.
At the center of the swirl is Smith, more coach than dictator but definitely in charge. "Try and stay on the root notes and 4 and 5," he counsels his fellow guitarists. "If we're all on dissonant notes at different times it just sounds like a mess." When posed with questions about the band, the rest of the members mostly just direct me to him. He's DIIV's founder and unquestioned alpha dog — the one who selects which song to practice, who stops the practice runs midway through and decides to circle back and try again, who notices when one of his bandmates' instruments is out of whack and instructs them to tune up. At one point he even reaches over and twists Bailey's tuning peg for him. Smith exerts control over DIIV down to the most minuscule detail, in part because he has carefully studied what makes music tick and how bands ascend from obscurity to maintain lengthy careers. In part, though, it's because everything else always seems so close to going off the rails.
Smith was born in New York City to a musician named Zachary and a Vogue fashion editor named Debbie. That sounds glamorous, but any hope of an idyllic urbanite childhood fell apart pretty quickly. "They were old when they had me," Smith says. "They had done their whole career and stuff. I don't think my dad wanted to have kids, and my mom was like into her career and stuff. So they were like 35. They'd lived out their marriage. And as soon as they had kids, I guess it got super real for my dad." The family moved to Connecticut when Smith was about 3 and his mom was pregnant with his younger sister. Smith's father dropped off Debbie and little Zachary at a house they'd never seen and left for two years on tour. When he finally returned, he announced he was leaving for good. From then on, Smith went by his middle name, Cole.
Abandonment is bad enough, but being left behind in an unfamiliar place was especially rough for Smith's mom, who loved living in New York but couldn't afford it anymore as a single mother. Instead she was stuck raising two children alone, working six days a week at retail jobs she hated and living in a dilapidated house. "It felt like a shack," Smith says. "It was this falling-apart, tiny, weird house that I spent my whole teenage years trying to rebuild and fix. I painted it, re-sided it, put all new doors and windows — like, basically rebuilt the house starting when I was a teenager until she sold it." She dated a series of men, none of whom stuck. "My mom was almost a character out of a Helen Hunt movie," Smith says. "She was a struggling single mom who just kind of hoped that she would land on a good space and somehow some miracle would happen to her." She later married a man whose promises of financial provision didn't pan out. "She couldn't quit her job, which is all she wanted. She couldn't even reduce her hours."
Meanwhile, Smith was switching schools almost as often as he changed underwear. "I had disciplinary problems. Like, really bad," he says. "I used to get in a lot of trouble in middle school and got suspended a lot. But then my freshman year, the very beginning of the year, like two months into the year I got expelled from public school. And my mom just didn't know what to do with me at all because I was a completely out-of-control kid." Untamed by his mom and stepdad, he ran wild for a year, skateboarding with friends and sneaking into school to mess with teachers. Eventually his stepdad stepped in and enrolled Smith at a private school, but before long he was expelled from there too. "I just loved when things would go wrong, like when the teacher wouldn't be able to turn on the TV or something," Smith says. "I just would do shit to make their lives difficult." The process of enrollment and expulsion repeated several times over. School psychiatrists wondered if Smith was developmentally disabled, but he regularly earned high scores on aptitude tests such as the ISEE. "Nobody knew what to do with me," he says. "I just underperformed so much." Finally, after six schools in five years, he gutted out a diploma from the Wooster School in Danbury.
Throughout high school, Smith gravitated toward creative pursuits such as visual art and fashion. That's when he started wearing humongous shirts, which he attributes to a combination of personal expression and shame about his physical appearance. "When I was in high school, I just felt really, really, really small," he recalls. Smith's mom would buy him XXXL shirts from her retail stores, and her friend would shorten the sleeves for him. He eventually learned to sew his own clothes, one of many hobbies that continue to this day. Here's another: He collects rare coral reefs in a 50-gallon salt water tank at his apartment. "In a lot of ways, I feel like that's who I am," he says. "I'm a person who dresses kind of weird and just has some cool hobbies."
Music was also a constant during Smith's high school years. Becoming a musician had always appealed to him — and it frequently came up as a potential career on those aptitude tests — but he never considered it as a possibility until one of his mom's boyfriends gave him a guitar during middle school. The fact that his biological father played music for a living (and in fact wrote the famous cotton jingle "The Fabric Of Our Lives") never dawned on Smith growing up. "I never thought about it because we just never talked," Smith says. "I didn't talk to him for basically my entire life. We just only recently connected as adults." As teenage Smith learned to play guitar, he downloaded a program called n-Track and started recording songs on the family computer. "I've always recorded on computers since then," he recalls. "I could only think of music in a multitrack way." Those self-taught methods have carried Smith far, though they also carry certain limitations: "I don't really know chords. I don't know songs. It amazes me when somebody can sit down and play an Elliott Smith song or something on guitar because I wouldn't even know where to start."
His mom insisted on college, so Smith chose Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts because (a) he sensed there was a good sense of community there, (b) his uncle went there, and (c) it was the college "where it seemed like the most people were smoking weed." In 2004 he enrolled at Hampshire to pursue a degree in studio art, his primary creative passion at the time. But even in the most liberal education environment imaginable, Smith despised school. "It's like, wait, these people are paying $40,000 just to have a nice library and somebody who tells you what books to read?" he says. After his first year, he told his mom he wanted to drop out and follow the course syllabi on his own, but Hampshire beat him to the punch. "I ended up getting expelled from the hippiest hippie school in the world," he laments. He now realizes that his anti-authority streak resulted in a lack of respect for the faculty, and just like in high school, he also struggled to connect with his peers. "The only people I fit in with were, like, the druggies," he recalls. When Smith told his mom he didn't want to do college anymore, she accepted the decision but also cut him off financially. "I've never taken a cent from either of my parents," he says.


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Dad-to-be Josh Duhamel is ready to show that he's really just a big kid at heart when he hosts the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in March.
"I'll just get to act [like] a fool and that's really what I do best," Duhamel told TVGuide.com at the network's upfront presentation.
Although Duhamel is no stranger to the awards show — we were there when he was inducted into the show's Arm Fart Hall of Fame —he says it's an honor to be named host.
"I remember watching it as a kid and wishing I could be slimed, so for me it's like a dream come true," he said. "I've already been slimed a couple of times. You'd think it's a lot stickier and horrible-tasting, but there's no taste or smell and it washes off really easily. It actually moisturizes your skin." And who's at the top of his list to get slimed when he's at the helm? "Let's go with Ryan Seacrest. Maybe we can actually make it happen!" (He did just costar with Seacrest's girlfriend Julianne Hough.) "Or I'd like to slime Tom Brady."
Stars who don't look their age
Duhamel, whose wife Fergie announced that she was pregnant earlier this month, says he's more than ready for parenthood.
"I think I never really grew out of [being a kid]," he said. "The enthusiasm and innocence that kids bring to anything makes it more fun. If I'm at a party and there are kids, they are the first ones I want to hang out with."
Watch Duhamel's hilarious promo below, where he dresses up as Carly Rae Jepsen, Taylor Swift and more!


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I've been a little busy of late. Renovate a house - check. Move in - check. Have a baby - check. Decorate a girly nursery - check.
This is the first room that we feel is totally finished in our house. Here is a before shot:
Could not WAIT to ditch those blinds, tear down that wallpaper, and cover up that mauvy pink paint!
We started with the wall color. I knew I wanted gray, and we went with Silver Chain by Benjamin Moore. It's a perfect gray. Just gray. Not blue, not green, not purple, not tan. Just gray. And we love it!
It is one of my favorite colors we've used so far. I may repaint my Master Bedroom this color, I love it so much. It makes the room look and feel so calm and pretty, and I love the way it plays with the pink. Gray makes pink more soothing.
Next came the curtains. Good old Walmart had these from Better Homes and Gardens and I love them too. I love that they're not baby curtains. But, they still look great with all her baby things.
We already had the furniture from our two boys. My husband actually built - yes built that changing table for me. Isn't he the greatest!!?
And the bedding is Wendy Bellissimo Sweet Baby Dreams, with a bumper I found at Babies R Us. I wanted to go with pink, but especially after drooling over all the bedding at Restoration Hardware Baby & Child, I wanted there to be tan mixed in. I think the tans and greys really tone down the craziness pink can give a room.
So, I was really excited to find this bedding on the cheaper side on Amazon. :)
Above the crib are some shelves filled with little nic nacs I found mostly at Michael's. I fell in LOVE with this little crown! Princesses all need little crowns in their bedrooms! And the pedastle from Hobby Lobby was perfect for it!
I love the tiny little flowers I found to accessorize the shelves, too.
At the head of the crib, I hung a mobil that I made using styrofoam balls, ribbon, fabric, and an embroidery hoop.
I saw the idea on Pinterest and about died!!
I mean, so cute. I'm in love with the way it turned out.
And I think it adds the perfect touch to the head of my princess's bed.
Love this pillow from the bedding collection.
The shelf is of course filled with baby essentials like diapers, creams, and clothes. But there are a few nic nacs on it as well.
My favorite piece is probably the little children figurine. It was my Mom's. The basket is filled with burp clothes, and the canister holds binkis.
I really love this little display shelf.
Found the cute little cherry blossom canisters at Michael's, and they hold the hair accessories that don't match the room. :) Perfect!
These blankets were a gift and I'm completely in love with them. There will be newborn photos taken with them shortly.
The ducky and block box were re-used from my boy's nursery decorations.
These headband holders I found on Amazon. I LOVE them. They are white leather and really sturdy. I found the candlesticks they're sitting on at Marshalls, and I think it just gives them a prettier perch. The headbands were all given to me at my baby shower. This is what we did instead of play games.
I saw these headband holders on Pinterest, and through the links I found out that you can get a kit to make them at a baby shower from {LB Boutique}. I LOVE the idea, and I LOVE that my host did it for my at my shower. She's the best!
Last but not least, a little pretty clock sits above the door, so I know how long thost night time feedings last. :) It was a photo clock, but I just covered the holes with paper to match the room.
Ta-Da! I love it. Girls are so much fun.


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This article first appeared in AWIN First.
India expects to sign a contract to purchase up to 126 Dassault Rafale fighters by the middle of this year, the country's air force chief says, trying to put to rest speculation that recently announced budget cuts could delay the acquisition.
The government has cut defense spending for its current fiscal year ending March 31 by about 5% from the originally allocated 1.93 trillion rupees ($38.6 billion), mainly due to the ongoing economic downturn (Aerospace DAILY, Feb. 7).
"The deal is highest priority for us," Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne says. "The project is very much on track."
Discussions are under way on the work share between Dassault and the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), which will manufacture the aircraft under licensed production.
As per the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) contract, estimated to be worth $12-20 billion, 18 of the 126 fighter aircraft will be bought in flyaway condition from Dassault and the remaining 108 will be manufactured by HAL later this decade.
"It was only a year ago that Dassault was selected as the L1 [lowest bidder] for acquiring the aircraft and the CNC [contract negotiation committee] was established to finalize the deal soon after. We want the deal to happen as early as possible for induction soon," Browne said on the sidelines of the ninth Aero India show in Bengaluru.
Three French air force Rafales are at this year's show, with two performing flight displays and one on static display.
Browne concedes that some defense programs take years to clear the negotiation committee stage. "We hope it won't happen in the case of the MMRCA," he says. There appear to be six or seven layers of bureaucratic approval before the MMRCA deal reaches the Cabinet Committee on Security, which has final say on the procurement.
Meanwhile, Dassault Aviation says it hopes to conclude the deal this year, with negotiations set to be taken up when French President Francois Hollande visits India next week.
"The ideal would be to sign it in 2013," Dassault chief executive Eric Trappier told French media.
Meanwhile, HAL says it has begun advanced preparations to build a facility for assembling the Rafale fighters in India.


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Body on Mount Hood glacier believed to be that of missing dentist
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Searchers are trying to reach a body on a Mount Hood glacier that was spotted by a helicopter crew looking for a missing climber.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said officials believe the body is likely Kinley Adams, a 59-year-old Salem dentist who failed to return June 22 from a climb on the west side of Oregon's tallest mountain.
Oregon Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter crews made the discovery Saturday at an altitude of about 8,400 feet, the sheriff's office said in a statement.
Because of extremely difficult terrain, a recovery effort was getting under way Sunday morning.
Avalanche risk from warming temperatures prevented rescue teams from climbing to the upper part of the 11,239-foot peak.
Adams is an experienced climber who had been making frequent trips to Mount Hood in preparation for a trip to Nepal. He is thought to have a cellphone, but searchers have been unable to pinpoint the signal. His mountain locator beacon was found at home, apparently with gear he was planning to take to Nepal.
He was reported missing June 22. His vehicle was found on the mountain at Timberline Lodge.


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Welcome to the website for the Shire of Arrows' Flight, a chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism, located in and about Provo, Utah. The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating pre-17th-century European history. The SCA is a non-profit educational organization under U.S. law. Membership is open to all who are interested in the Middle Ages.
The Shire is part of the Kingdom of Artemisia which regularly sponsors medieval oriented activities throughout most of Utah, southern Idaho, Montana, and the parts of Colorado and Wyoming that are west of the Continental Divide. The Shire has local meetings every week and is open to anyone who feels brave enough to step into Medieval garb and back into the Middle Ages.