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Amorial Suth was born 102 years ago in Stedding Tsofu within the human lands of Cairhien. While a Noble, Ogier Nobles are quite different from human Nobles. Knowledge not money is the currency of Ogier Nobles. Amorial comes from a long line of Ogier who preserve the lessons handed down through the people regarding the Age of Legends.
Despite his status among his people Amorial was much more interested in the world as it is versus what is was. "The past is the past, it is the future which we must preserve", Amorial is known to say to those who listen. As young as 50 Amorial would sneak out of the Stedding to explore the region of Cairhien. Luckily Amorial's luck held and his dalliances were never discovered by his elders. As a Noble in bearing as well as dress he was easily able to make friendships with minor nobility of Cairhien and learn of their Great Game Daes Dae'mar. By granting and withdrawing his patronage from different houses Amorial has played the game on and off for a decade now. His skills with stonework as well as treework have allowed him to avoid the deadly reprisals of some of the nobles he has offended as has no doubt his enormous size and strength. Once in a house of ill repute Amorial was accused of cheating at dice, the man's arm was never quite the same once the Aes Sedai reattached it with Healing weaves or so Amorial was told. Amorial doubts the story and assumes that the minor noble simply perished. Though slow to anger that man caught the wrath of Amorial's ire though he does in the deepest recesses of his soul regret that action. Amorial's time in these gambling houses would have been frowned upon if his mother knew but he saw them as the sharpening of his wits in a dangerous world. A world that over the decades seemed to draw ever more dangerous, especially during the Aiel War. Amorial knew better than to leave the Stedding during that time, it was a war between humans something Ogier were better not involved in. Amorial has never traveled outside of Cairhien but now he may just do that. Rumors have persisted that the Dragon Reborn has returned and with him the darkness and magic of the Age of Legends. In readiness for this trip Amorial has learned the language of the enemy and has used his treeworking skills to forge a mighty weapon from a young oak tree. Not sure how he will play a role in the coming events Amorial knows that play a role he must. The pull of the Ta'Vern has him as surely as it has the rest of the world which waits on the edge of a knife. Description:
Unlike most Ogier, Amorial has grey haid over his body. His ears are large and floppy and he appears older than his young age for an Ogier. At full height Amorial is a staggering 10'7". When he moves about he will slouch and wear a heavy cloak to attempt to hide his heritage. More often than not, his ability to move with stealth has allowed him to move about Cairhien with little notice. His new staff is not gleaming but dirty, covered with mud to conceal its true value. A large backpack is slung over one shoulder at all times holding several of his favorite books. Basic Stats:
Hit Points - 75 +2 all saves vs. Darkfriends Fortitude - 7 - Litheene Sedai - 8
50' Movement
Armor Class - 9 (-1 Size Modifier) Initiative +3 Combat Maneuver - 12 (+7 BAB, +3 Strength, +1 Size)
Attack Bonus + 12/7
Reach 10' Damage - 1d6+4 Skills:
(Total Skill Points 104) (Ranks+3 Bonus+Special+Ability Score+Synergy Bonus) Acrobatics - 7 (5+3-1) Appraise - 7 (1+3+4) Bluff - 10 (6+3+1) Climb - 2 Craft (Treesinging) 19 (8+3+3+4) Craft (Stonework) 10 (2+3+2+4) Diplomacy - 16 (8+3+1+4) - 19 (Illicit Barter) Disable Device - 13 (8+3) Innuendo - 4 (1+3) [+6 Transmit message] [+6 Intercept message] Intimidate - 13 (7+3+1+2) Knowledge (Engineering) – 12 (5+3+4) Knowledge (History) – 12 (5+3+4) Knowledge (Nature) – 11 (4+3+4) Knowledge (Nobility) – 11 (4+3+4) Knowledge (Age of Legends) – 19 (7+3+4+4) Linguistics - 12 (5+3+4) Perception - 14 (8+3+2) Sense Motive - 10 (5+3) Stealth - 11 (8+3-1) Sleight of Hand - 10 (6+3-1+2) Feats, Traits & Special Abilities:
Simple & Martial Weapon Proficiency, Armor (all) & Shield Proficiency, Dark One's Own Luck, Latent Tree Singing, Tree Singing, Heroic Surge, Bonus Class Skill (Linguistics), Illicit Barter, Call in a Favor (2), Inspire Confidence +1, Skill Emphasis (Craft - TreeSinging), Improved Initiative, Command +2, Tree Warden, Combat Expertise To Anger an Ogier Resilient, Stealthy Escape
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+4 Strength, -4 Dexterity, Large Size, Low Light Vision, 4 Ranks 1 Knowledge (Age of Legends), +2 Fortitude Saves, +2 Perception Checks, +2 Craft (Stonework), Bonus Languages Wealth and Equipment:
1363 Marks Treesung Quarterstaff Backpack - Books, Dice, Flint and Steel, 10 Torches, Explorer's Outfit, Noble Outfit, Waterskins (3), Parchment (10), Ink (2 - 1 oz. vial), Chalk, Large Cloak, Mirror (Small Steel), Rope (Silk 50'). 20 days rations. |

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Two Podcast Production Sins
Last week, I was on #zinechat talking about podcasting & new media. As these discussions tend to go, we talked about production. I was asked to go into further detail into two of those production topics by a reader.
Sin #1: Cutting All The "Ums"
I understand the impulse to do this. When you're editing audio, every "uh", "um", stutter, restarted sentence, vowel elongation and the like are discordant notes. Many of us as podcast editors hate those. They grate on us. So we remove them.
I did this in the early days of Master Plan. I thought it was "good audio." Today, I can't stand to listen to that. I did what I call today over-editing. The end result was (a) many hours of work on my end to produce the show, (b) a lot of cut waveform artifacts you can hear, and (c) the remove of the human quality in a voice.
It turns out that only I really noticed them. Listenrs, it turns out, are used to human speech. Ums and Uhs and the like are a part of that. However, jarring cuts in the waveform are not a part of that — and those do get noticed by listeners, particularly headphone & earbud ones.
Today, on the rare occasion I still edit audio, I don't slave over every Um. I only work on the ones that happen in succession — "Back when we were uh uh uh developing Podcast the RPG…" And even then, I'm as like to leave one in for the human element as I am to cut them all. It largely depends on how easy it is to cut all of the Uhs in a moment without leaving a cut artifact behind.
I saw it as part of my duty as an interview podcaster to leave my guests sounding human. A few Uhs and restarts helps convey that humanity in a way we unconsciously recognize. Now, I was incredulous to this idea, until I started watching and listening to professional interview pieces. Stutters are at times left in. They're character.
And it makes editing easier if you aren't trying to remove them all. As to which ones I remove? Generally ones in succession ("uh uh uh"), sentence & thought restarts that last ten or more seconds, and anything that makes it hard to understand what's being spoken.
Sin #2: Separating Speakers in Left & Right Track
I'm going to use a bit of hyperbole here. If you have some people speaking in just the left track, and others in the right track, you either intentionally or accidentally despise your audience.
Often, your listeners are going to be listening on headphones or earbuds. When you do that, you're saying "fuck you, you don't get to listen to my show" to:
- Folks partly deaf or completely deaf in one ear — can't hear half the conversation
- Folks with a sore ear or ear infection — can't hear half the conversation
- Folks who have inner ear disorders — the conversation is literally disorienting, dizzying (this applies to grossly non-normalized audio as well)
- Folks with suddenly-busted headphones (since they do wear down) — can't hear half the conversation (this also applies to commuters with stereo system problems, which is much more expensive)
I had this happen on a plane trip once. That…sucked. Luckily, the shows I listened to were in mono. - Folks with a reason for only wearing one ear bud, like going jogging in a traffic-busy urban area and still wanting to be aware of your surroundings. Cuz, hey, cars.
Some of these situations are temporary, some permanent. But even cater to the temporary — if I can't listen to your show when people are talking about it, what are the chances that by the time I can, ten other things have grabbed my attention instead?
And that doesn't even address when the two tracks are not normalized, so that one side is quite and the other loud. There's one indie podcast years ago that used to do this. I stopped listening the day that the grossly un-normalized spiking laughter happening in just my left ear nearly caused me to clutch my head in pain and disorientation. Remember, we use our ears for balance. Don't fuck with that, and you'll keep more listeners.
If you're just doing a talk show, make it mono (or barring that, identical stereo…which is just like mono except you've doubled the file size). Unless, of course, you like telling a portion of your audience that you are comfortable discriminating against them–because that's what we feel when podcasters thoughtlessly make such audio.
- Ryan
Podcasts and Seasons
I've mentioned before that I think more podcasters take the idea of "seasons" as a silly, "let's pretend we're real media" way. Like, "ohh, look at us, we're season 2! Aren't we keen!"
Not that I mind people having fun, playing around at something, whatever, but I feel like if that's what someone thinks of as a season, they're missing the point. And it's a point I've been talking about here and there for the last year or so. That seasons can be a good idea, if you understand them.
These days, I don't enter into new projects without some plan of an exit strategy. Things that sounds like they'll go over forever tend to end at a point of low energy, which is a violation of one of my podcast rules: "Leave people wanting more, not having wanted less." Which means that with anything on-going (including this blog), I break my time spend doing that into seasons, and choose whether to renew that project after each season.
I've been talking with a friend about starting a new show, something we're both interested in talking about but want to make separate from our current shows. He was worried about adding another ongoing commitment to his life, and I agreed.
"That's why podcasts aren't ongoing commitments to me anymore. I think in seasons. Tell you what, let's try five-episode seasons. If we like our first season, we'll renew."
As I described my thought and the advice I've given over the years, he came at me with a new thing I hadn't considered before. "No. I don't want to do something episode-based. That doesn't feel like it has a hard stop."
This blew me away, because I hadn't considered something based on time-elapsed before. Or, rather, I had and discarded it. "Yeah, but if we say 'Let's try this for two months' and we only do an episode…I dunno."
We compromised. Five episodes in fourteen weeks. That's one episode every two weeks, with an extra four weeks to cover life happening. Not that we've started that yet, but then GenCon recovery really only started with me last week, and I have a backlog of life. We should be recording our pilot in September.
Another podcast I might be a part of (holy crap, it's almost like I'm a media producer again) is taking a similar approach, and it's smart[1]. Small, agile seasons. It gives us a target to shoot for that's reachable in the short term, a period when we not only can but must seriously evaluate what's happened, a time where we can plan to take a break rather than it just happening…and lasting several months. Most importantly, it gives us permission to walk away.
Permission to walk away while you're at a high point is important to being successful at anything. You'll be remembered for your last acts on something. If you ride something all the way down to it crashing, that's what people will remember. People give me shit still for Master Plan podfading rather than properly ending (though I am, slowly, getting back on that horse because I feel like I should finish it right, even if that violates my rule above). And that's the point of seasons — to give yourself permission to quit something while it's still good when you think you don't have another full season in you.
Also, funding. But that's another topic for another time.
- Ryan
(Not sure if I'm going to stick to "Media Monday" as a blog topic, but I'm playing with the idea. We'll see if it survives a season!)
[1] Yes, I just said my own idea is smart. I'm a humble guy.
Round One on Podcast Production
(No, this is not an April Fool's Day joke. Or it's the world's most boring one.)
The other day, I was showing my business manager, Justin Smith, how I go about producing an episode of The Voice of the Revolution. We started talking at around 7pm as I did my pre-post-production (what I call it when I'm working with the files before I start editing). It wasn't until 9pm that I actually starting editing the source files.
It was around 9:30 that I really wished I had just recorded the screen and our conversation, because I'm sure others would benefit. (As would I — I don't lay claim to doing this as well as I could, but because amateur/self-production is so cloistered, learning better techniques is a slow process.)
So I'm going to start a series that I'll update from time to time. I have a lot to say about making an episode of any of the podcasts I do, and packing that into one blog post is madness. This post will serve as an introduction, for you to get a sense of what it is that I do.
The Voice of the Revolution is, on average, a 40 minute show. I do my damnedest to keep it from going over 40. There are four segments of varying length, three of which are done by the two co-hosts via Skype, and the remaining one being an interview done by one of the co-hosts and a guest.
Recording the three co-hosted segments takes a 35-45-minute session. The interview on average around 15 minutes.
And it takes me around seven hours to make all that into the end product.
That's three hours less than it took when I started doing The Voice on episode #19.
"Holy fuck, Ryan, that's a long time!" you might say. I know some of my podcasting cohorts tell me that. However, in the real world, a ratio of around 10x-time is a decent rate of production. I'm pretty comfortable with that, given that I've put a lot of pride in my abilities as an audio producer. But what I'm doing isn't complicated, it's just time-consuming. Anyone can do what I do. And I want to show you how.
This initial post will talk about the software I use and my overall philosophy on content.
Even though I have a Mac, I haven't found software that I'm happy with yet. So I keep an XP boot and run Adobe Audition 1.5. Audition isn't available for the Mac[1], but if it was I would make sweet, sweet love to it. (And would actually bother to upgrade.)
Audition is a great waveform editor and multi-track mixer. For those who aren't sure what I mean by that, a waveform editor is a program that manipulates the sound file — cutting, muting, adjusting, etc. A multi-track mixer is a program that lets you manipulate the way multiple sound files playing on top of and along side of each other.
(That's a pretty simple description. I'm sure those who don't know what I'm talking about are cringing at it. But then that description isn't for you.)
That's my main bit of software, my workhorse. But I use a couple other tools as well:
SoundSoap 2 is what I use to do some sound cleanup. But noise reduction and sound cleanup will need to be a post all of its own.
For doing all my remote calling work, I use Skype and with it PowerGramo Pro. I've been using PowerGramo Pro for years and it's always been reliable. (Though, twice I fucked up by misconfiguring it, so user error is possible.)
And because I'm using Audition 1.5, which doesn't handle .ogg files, I use Audacity to turn the .ogg files that Brennan sends me from his copy of PowerGramo Pro into .wav files. Otherwise, I stay the hell away from Audacity. It's a fine program if you're starting out, and I do recommend it for the newbie podcaster, but once you've been around the block a bit you'll see where it's frustratingly deficient.
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Justin was telling me that there's a clear signature to anything I produce, that he can tell something is "a Ryan Macklin production." Josh Roby once spotted that I started producing the Voice of the Revolution before we told anyone (which I think was episode 22 or 23, giving Brennan a few episodes to see if it worked out for him). That's largely because of my take on content. (Which I'm pretty sure I talked about on this blog a year ago, when I was less consistent with updating it.)
Mechanically, I'm a subtractive editor — I cut what I don't want from a source file to make my target file. But I don't think of myself like that. I look at what I'm leaving in as additive, as having passed a litmus test for content. And that test is that it fits in one of the three categories:
- What's said relevant information for the topic at hand (which is the point of anything I do[2]), or
- What's said adds to the speaker sounding human (and thus reduces listener distraction), or
- What's said adds to the noticeable rapport between the hosts & guests (which serves as a proxy rapport between the speaker and listener).
This means I don't cut every "um" and stutter. This means that awkwardly-timed laughter might actually stay in the file. This means I cut when one of us rambles off topic, unless that ramble helps build rapport and I'm not seeing that built well beforehand.
I came up with these rules a couple years back, and I talk about them whenever I do a podcast 101 type of panel. The latter two are actually things that forced me to stop editing every stutter, um, and pause in the source file — a bad habit I had for about six months.
Next bit of content: the end result is king. If the recording has to be shifted around and be "out of order" in order to make more sense for the end result, I do that. Nothing in the recording is sacred. The end product is everything. So I will occasionally re-organize the file by cutting and moving around (though that's usually difficult, for a number of reasons that's also its own post).
That's it for now. I'm over my 1K wordcount limit, and I'm late on finishing up March's Voice episode. Back to work!
(If you have a specific topic you'd like me to talk about, feel free to ask in the comments. I have several in mind already, but think of it as voting for which you want to see first.)
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[2] This totally betrays the sort of podcaster I am. While I'm happy to participate on rambly panel shows, I will never produce one.


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Department says 'most' books have been delivered
THE Department of Basic Education is confident that 99% of the 5000 schools in Limpopo had received their textbooks by the deadline.
The department and non-governmental organisation Section 27 have decided to get an independent verification of the progress reports relating to delivery.
The department said 100% of the books were delivered to the foundation phase and only 3% of Grade 10s did not have books.
The Democratic Alliance's education shadow minister Annette Lovemore said that at least 129 schools in Limpopo had not received any books, received the wrong books or did not receive enough books.
Last month the department was ordered by the Pretoria High Court to deliver books to Limpopo after the NGO Section 27 made an application.
Section 27's Mark Heywood said the department needed to stop blaming teachers and take responsibility.
"This should be a shared responsibility. The department must also conduct an investigation into EduSolutions and textbook corruption in general."
The department's spokesman, Panyaza Lesufi, said they had approached the Nelson Mandela Foundation to convene an education summit between Minister Angie Motshekga and education NGOs.
Lovemore and DA national spokesman Mmusi Maimane said they would march to the Limpopo education department offices in Polokwane on Monday.
The department's director-general Bobby Soobrayan said it was hard to deliver the books on a tight schedule.
"The project of the procurement and delivery of stationery and textbooks to schools would ordinarily be carried out within a cycle of 10 to 20 months.
"Given the urgency and the importance of the exercise, a communique was issued to district and circuit officials for principals to make themselves available for the delivery of textbooks to schools."
Soobrayan said by Wednesday morning 97% of all Grade 10 textbooks were delivered from central warehouse and 100% of the Grade 1 to 3 textbooks were delivered from the warehouse.
He said there were problems at warehouses in Thohoyandou because of distributors who did not turn up for their consignments despite being reminded.
"After learning about the Thohoyandou problem, resources were immediately deployed to Thohoyandou to deal with the delivery problems there.
"We were disappointed to learn that some school principals were reported to have refused to come to their respective schools to receive the delivered consignments," Soobrayan said.
He said disciplinary action would be taken against principals who had refused to go to schools.
Lovemore said they had asked Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to investigate why textbooks had not been delivered on time in the province.
"We are not asking for an investigation into EduSolutions because that is being done by the Treasury. We will be looking closely at the investigation.
"What we want to know is why books were not delivered to schools in the first place. We also want the minister to form a commission of inquiry.
"We would prefer an independent commission headed by a judge, but if she does not take it up we will form our own." - email@example.com
How can you sleep at night knowing that 5000 schools did not receive their books for almost 6 months?What kind of person can do that?
Will she get fired?
Will she get a golden handshake?
Will she be moved to another department?
Where is the ancyl marching for the removal of the minister or are they benefiting from some illegal deal with the text books.
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THE Department of Basic Education is confident that 99% of the 5000 schools in Limpopo had received their textbooks by the deadline................................................................................................................................
Deadline in end of June right?
99% wow what an achievement guess you all proud of yourselves, bunch of useless incompetent idiots.
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Misnister of education and all her allies in limpopo inclduding mathale mst go, dis is a disgrace to our nation and to the future of this country and yet they expcet de kids to pass at the end of the year!!!!! mxmmmmReport Abuse
Almost doesnt count, now zuma's intervantion is coming back to haunt him and his ineffective national government. What was he thinking?Report Abuse
Did i see 2 boxes delivered to a school on the news last night? Pathetic how they expect 2 boxes to go around over 500 students!!This is the worst that our govt could have done. Seriously, they can not deliver on basic needs? mxxim.
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Lovemore said they had asked Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to investigate why textbooks had not been delivered on time in the province.I think the ToR should also include why the textbooks were never delivered in the fisrt place, was it not because of s27 organization most of us South African we wouldn't have known about this problem.
They promised 100% delivery and now they are telling us its 99,9% delivered, what about the 0.01%. It might look like small but they promised 100% so they should delivered 100% then maybe we might find a place in our hearts to forgive them. The minister is arrogant in hear reply to this, her apology doesn't convince us.
Come year end the black results are low yet again.
Thanks to Mrk Heywood's organization and the DA for taking this up so seriously. The ANC is not vociferous in this matter, they are taking it light maybe because it was committed by one of their own.
If it was committed by someone outside their camp they would be telling us about marching against an incompetent and yet arrogant minister.
The people of South Africa need an explanation in the form of someone up there resigning or being forced to resign then we can sleep well and say South africa takes its education serious.
Aluta continua!!!
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Remove the ancThe power should be in the hands of the people, not an few elite.
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SOLUTIONSRemove the anc
The power should be in the hands of the people, not an few elite.
Did you know that each country must have a government? Removing ANC and replacing with nothing is not going to work. Who will govern people? So you see now your comment is useless?
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DJWinner,Ok, I see you need a full description, Remove the anc and put a capable party in government, the anc are more useless that snake dung on the bottom of the ocean.
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Fire the Minister; the President and the ruling party. It's time for a prty that is going to do the will of the people to come to power; ANYParty But the ANC!!!!Report Abuse


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I woke up starving and changed into my favorite coral-colored swimsuit cover-up before we went downstairs to breakfast at the hotel's restaurant. We feasted on homemade jams and huevos rancheros, the perfect way to start our second day on Holbox island.
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Cake Balls
What u think about cake balls?
I want to make cake balls more unique and more unusual but cant create god idea for it (((
#2 Tue 10 Apr 12 5:58pm
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Re: Cake Balls
Never heard of them chuck...............what are they?
(Are they an American thing?)
#3 Tue 10 Apr 12 6:26pm
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Re: Cake Balls
something like rum balls made of cookies, cocoa and sour cream comes to mind. but I am not sure if that is what you meant?
#4 Tue 10 Apr 12 6:37pm
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Re: Cake Balls
I thought they might be cake pops:
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#5 Tue 10 Apr 12 6:48pm
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Re: Cake Balls
As far as I know cake balls are Cake pops without the stick
http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch … l0.cfis.1.
sort of like a bite sized ball of cake that has been iced / dipped in chocolate and some are then decorated.
Fun , but a bt of a fiddle to do I think crumbed cake stuck together with something and then reformed as balls as far as I am aware.
I have not made them myself .
Think one of my daughters was planning to have a go at making some soon.
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#6 Tue 10 Apr 12 10:18pm
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Re: Cake Balls
We used to get 'rum balls' from The Watergate Bakery' when I was in college, because they were one of the cheap items - made up of leftover cake crumbs. It wasn't a very trendy or fashionable thing then, it was a budget thing and you did kind of wonder what was in them, but the rum made it good.
#7 Tue 10 Apr 12 10:23pm
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Re: Cake Balls
one can get seriously addicted to rum-flavored stuff though. even if you know it is a leftover from bitten pieces of pie crusts...
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Rum and butter - can't go wrong.
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Welcome Cakeballhead!
I've heard of cake balls, but never had one. They seem really sweet to me, and I'm not a big fan of super sweet desserts. I'd try one if someone gave it to me, but probably would not buy or make them myself.
Now, if you soak it in rum like the previous posters mentioned, I'd probably go for that.
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I tasted them at a wedding, they were made with a typical chocolate/orange flavoured cake. The cake once cooked was broken up, mixed with chocolate frosting, rolled into balls then ..once dry they were covered in black chocolate then decorated with white icing....not difficult to guess the recipe.
Not over sweet due to the black chocolate and orange flavour.
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From northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River's meandering 2,530-mile southward path has helped shape U.S. history and defined the cities along its bank, most prominently, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Minneapolis, the "City of Lakes," has 5.5 miles of Mississippi riverfront that will make room for the largest expansion of park and public space since the Minneapolis park system was created over 100 years ago.
On March 14, 2012, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board approved "RiverFirst," a park design plan proposal for the Minneapolis upper riverfront. This five-year initiative will create several miles of new Mississippi riverfront walking and biking trails, three new multifunctional parks and multiple local and regional connections.
RiverFirst derives from the 2011 Minneapolis Riverfront Development Initiative (MR|DI), a nine-month community-based vetting of the winning landscape and urban design concept submitted by the design team of Tom Leader Studio and Kennedy & Violich Architecture for the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition. More than 60 agency and community partners were directly involved in the MR|DI. The RiverFirst Design Team included New York-based economic development consultants HR&A Advisors, which created the RiverFirst implementation plan, and Groundwork City Building, which managed the project.
John Erwin, president of the nine-member Minneapolis Park Board, deems the riverfront a neglected citywide natural amenity. "We recognize this project will not only add recreational amenities, but will also be an economic catalyst for the entire area, and dramatically increase bird and fish habitat along an important natural flyway."
RiverFirst fills the gap in the Mississippi River parks and trails system and contributes significantly to improved water quality of the river, completes a critical connection to the larger Minneapolis "Grand Rounds" and links corridor initiatives taking place on both sides of the river.
The RiverFirst design is infused with essential infrastructure, such as stormwater treatment, flood storage, energy generation and food production. Given its ambition, full realization of the RiverFirst vision will likely take 20 years.
Through the MR|DI, the RiverFirst design team developed a "Strategic Implementation Plan" for five phase one priority projects to meet the city's needs today, and build momentum for overall completion of the RiverFirst vision over time.
Five priority projects will be pursued simultaneously: riverfront trail system and knot bridges; the Scherer Park District; northside wetlands and downtown gateway parks; new greenways on both sides of the river, and leading to the river; and floating islands.
Three additional projects are featured in the long-term RiverFirst vision: A mile-long land bridge covering Interstate 94, Northeast Riverfront Park and Spirit Island.
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Celebrating 5 Years of Play, Zynga Launches Pipeline of New Web and Mobile Games, More Genres of Play, Delivering on the Next-Generation of Fun and Social
SAN FRANCISCO – June 26, 2012 – Today at Zynga Unleashed, Zynga (Nasdaq:ZNGA), the world's leading provider of social game services, announced its unified Zynga With Friends network and unveiled new web and mobile games across more genres. Zynga showcased its newest "Ville" games, introduced its latest 'With Friends' mobile game and expanded its portfolio across casino and arcade categories. Zynga shared its vision and strategy for the future of its social gaming network and outlined how the company will unify its technology and its player experience across web and mobile.
"We founded Zynga with a simple premise that we could help people put play back in their lives. We believe that play can become one of the most important ways we make new friends and enhance relationships," said Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga. "Today's Unleashed shows the products and technology that represent the next generation of Zynga. We've made some great progress on the Zynga Platform, and our pipeline of new games represents more genres of play that expand our audience, more mobile ways to play and more dimensions of play that will deliver the next generation of fun and social."
Zynga Platform: Introduces Zynga API and Zynga With Friends Network
The Zynga Platform consists of a deep layer of infrastructure and a social gaming network. Today Zynga unveiled a new API layer called Zynga API, a central more efficient way for Zynga studios to tap into game services to make games more fun and more social. Zynga announced that it will open up the Zynga API to third party developers soon.
Zynga gave an early look at the Zynga With Friends network, a unified experience that will connect all players on any platform from Facebook to iOS and Android to Zynga.com. Zynga With Friends will take new, social inventions built on Zynga.com, and make them available to players across the entire network. Zynga With Friends will roll out a social lobby that will include features and services such as: zFriends, live Social Stream, chat, as well as Zynga's newly launched multi-player feature on Zynga.com. Multiplayer allows players to challenge friends in head-to-head competition on Zynga.com.
Platform Partners: New Developers and First Partner Game Revealed for Zynga.com
Building on Zynga Platform partner momentum, the company unveiled three new partners developing games for Zynga.com: 50 Cubes, Majesco and Portalarium. They join a strong lineup of diverse and talented developers, including Sava Transmedia, Konami, Playdemic, Mob Science, Row Sham Bow and Rebellion. On stage at Unleashed, Sava Transmedia previewed the first third-party developed game for Zynga.com: Rubber Tacos. Rubber Tacos will be available soon on Zynga.com and Facebook.
Zynga Mobile: Unveils Zynga Partners for Mobile & New "With Friends" Game
Zynga Mobile unveiled its dedicated partner program for mobile, giving mobile developers and partners access to one of the world's largest audiences of active mobile game players to drive discovery and reach for their games. The program will let partners of all sizes benefit from Zynga's success with monetization, distribution, and player engagement. Early Zynga Partners for Mobile include, Atari, Crash Lab, Fat Pebble, Phosphor Games Studio, and Sava Transmedia. Partner games will be available on the Zynga with Friends Network this summer. More information can be found at developers.zynga.com.
Zynga launched its latest game in the "With Friends" franchise: Matching With Friends, which is available globally on iOS devices today. Matching With Friends is the fifth game in the With Friends franchise, and is a new type of social puzzle game that challenges players to strategically compete against their opponents by matching color blocks on their game board. The game includes popular social elements found in other With Friends games, including turn-based play and in-game chat.
New Games Across More Genres
Zynga revealed several new web games across new genres of play including Zynga Casino and Zynga Arcade. It also detailed several new, next generation games in its popular "Ville" genre. New games and updates rounding out the day's event include:
- The Ville Genre: Building on the genre it established, Zynga unveiled two new titles in the Ville genre:
- The Ville – Led by social games pioneer Mark Skaggs, The Ville is Zynga's next generation "house and people" game that offers players a chance to build the home of their dreams and enjoy it with their friends. The Ville is Zynga's most social game to-date. The more people you interact with the more happiness you obtain in the game. As you level up in the game you unlock new objects for your home, and by building relationships with other avatars you unlock new interactions. The Ville is available tomorrow on Facebook and soon on Zynga.com.
- ChefVille – ChefVille uses food to bring friends and family together through play. Players create a kitchen that would rival a 4-star chef's allowing players unique, tasty dishes, ranging from pizza and steak Florentine to orange chicken. As players master a new dish, they're emailed the recipe so they can recreate the dish at home in a true "Game to Table" play experience. ChefVille is coming soon to Zynga.com and Facebook.
- The Casino Genre: Zynga continues to create the most social, engaging Casino games, building on its legacy with Zynga Poker.
- Zynga Elite Slots – Zynga announced its next game in the Casino genre, joining Zynga Poker and Zynga Bingo: Zynga Elite Slots. Available soon, the game redefines the slots gameplay experience with brand new social elements, innovative features and beautiful graphics that will appeal to slots fans and new players alike.
- The Arcade Genre: Zynga recapped its recent growth in the Arcade genre, as well as a new update to its most recently launched game, Ruby Blast.
- Ruby Blast – Launched last week, Ruby Blast is a fast, fun, social and visually-engaging game, where players match gems, dig through bedrock with help from friends, and activate power-ups to reach high scores in a weekly leaderboard. Today, Zynga announced that it will soon bring Ruby Blast multi-platform, allowing players to carry their scores wherever they go.
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About Zynga Inc.
Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is the world's leading provider of social game services with more than 290 million monthly active users playing its games, which include CityVille, FarmVille, Words With Friends, Scramble With Friends, CastleVille, Hidden Chronicles, Zynga Poker, Empires & Allies, Indiana Jones™ Adventure World, The Pioneer Trail, Mafia Wars and Café World. Zynga's games are available on a number of global platforms, including Facebook, Zynga.com, Google+, Tencent, Apple iOS and Google Android. Through Zynga.org, Zynga players have raised more than $10 million for world social causes. Zynga is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, our launch of new games, features and technologies; building and expanding the Zynga platform and Zynga With Friends Network; the continued success of our franchise games and our games, platform and network generally; the launch of games by third party developers on our platform, including through our Zynga Partner program for mobile; our future financial results and prospects; and our plans, strategies and opportunities to expand our business. Forward-looking statements often include words such as "will", "anticipate", "believe", "expect", and statements in the future tense are generally forward-looking statements. The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results could differ materially from those predicted or implied. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, changing interests of players, competition, our ability to launch new games in a timely manner and monetize these games, intellectual property disputes or other litigation, our ability to anticipate and address technical challenges, acquisitions, and changes in our corporate strategy, management or the Facebook platform.
More information about factors that could affect our operating results is included under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, copies of which may be obtained by visiting our Investor Relations web site at http://investor.zynga.com or the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements in this release, which are based on information available to us on the date hereof. We assume no obligation to update such statements.


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The Superior Court mall in Van Nuys is a bleak concrete sprawl that attracts many lost and troubled souls. There's Hank Fisher, an itinerant singer with a weather-beaten face and wild eyes; each weekday he connects his guitar to a car battery and snarls out tunes by Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley and the Beatles. Hank tells me he was a volunteer in Eugene McCarthy's quixotic 1968 presidential campaign and still chokes whenever he sings Phil Ochs' brotherhood anthem "There but for Fortune." Then there's senior citizen Marvin Zalowitz, who, early each morning, takes white cardboard boxes with his thoughts printed on their sides and neatly pyramids them along the east concourse. "Out of sight out of mind is for HUMANOIDS ZOMBIES and FASCIST IMPERIALISM IS DEAD" reads one, while another proclaims, "The Bible is an Imperial Document."
"The word is out that I'm a crazy guy," Marvin says, "and so nobody bothers me. I'm against religion — I also stand outside synagogues."
Other mall regulars keep to themselves inside the nearby library or just sit on the concourse and stare into space. The courthouse itself is somewhat loud and shabby on the lower floors where traffic fines are paid and arraignments held. Bathroom walls are heavily graffitied, with chunks of wood battered off the doorjambs. On the eighth floor, though, the halls are hushed and spotless, and on clear, windy days the panorama of the Valley and San Gabriels is breathtaking — a view of Los Angeles as it once was, or at least, as it was supposed to be. There are quirks, though, even up here. The clock at the end of the hall is broken and, in Room 810, where the court reporter's laptop screen defaults to a photograph of Stonehenge, the air conditioning is set too high.
This chilly room is where Robert Blake's trial finally began December 20, three and a half years after the murder of his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, and two and a half years after Blake's arrest. The room's 40 open seats once wouldn't have seemed enough to accommodate all of the media and curious public, but over the years the case has moved from tabloid front page to the landfill of our collective unconscious. Last year Dominick Dunne had expressed an interest in reserving a press seat, but hasn't been heard from since.
"Resuming on the Blake matter" is how judge Darlene Schempp tersely begins each session of the trial. She is a grandmotherly but sober figure presiding over two wildly contrasting counsels. Deputy District Attorney Shellie Samuels jumps to her feet to begin her presentations and witness interrogations. She's focused, dresses in soft neutral colors and, with Streisand-ish sass, jokes with the jury.
"They told me to get my nails done!" she cracks as she places a document onto an overhead projector and her French manicure is shown on a screen. Samuels always seems in motion, she's loud and doesn't linger over rhetorical phrasing. The PowerPoint presentation that accompanied her argument was splashed with the kind of lurid graphics reminiscent of political attack ads.
Samuels does not conceal her disdain for Blake nor, for that matter, his lawyer, M. Gerald Schwartzbach, who became the defendant's fourth after Thomas Meserau Jr. quit last February. The older Mill Valley attorney could not be more different from Samuels. Bespectacled, goateed and dressed in a black suit and bow tie, with his open coat exposing a white shirt, the short Schwartzbach cuts something of a penguin-like figure. He moves and speaks deliberately, in a low voice that often rustles outside the range of microphones and spectators, sometimes moving Samuels to complain she can't hear him. When forced to confer, the taller Samuels literally looks down on Schwartzbach, with her hands on hips or arms folded like a scolding teacher.
Samuels needed about an hour or so to tear through her opening argument early that first morning. Schwartzbach took the rest of the day and most of the following morning for his. For a moment it seemed as though he would never end his presentation — along with his claims to be ignorant of technology. (At one point he asked a witness to show him how to insert the tape of a 911 call into a boom box.) Schwartzbach's slide show was simplistic and repetitious compared with that of Samuels, who interrupted with several objections.
For all Schwartzbach's apparent plodding, though, his strategy was clear. While Samuels laid out to jurors what her circumstantial evidence would show over the course of the trial, Schwartzbach presented his remarks as though they were a closing argument — a summation of witnesses and evidence that had already been questioned and proven. It also became obvious that he planned to demolish the credibility of the LAPD and the two stuntmen, Gary McLarty and Duffy Hambleton, who claim Blake tried to hire them to kill Bakley, as well as to hammer on the fact that Blake's hands showed no gunshot residue after his wife's murder.


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So we provide funding for and encourage our employees to take part in volunteer activities that sometimes transform and always add needed support to many causes. We are particularly supportive of causes that meet more than one of the general guidelines listed on our Sigma-Aldrich Foundation home page. Examples include science education, not-for-profit human services agencies with a clear and long-term connection to a Sigma-Aldrich employee volunteer, and not-for-profit disease education and research organizations.
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Pictureplane: THEE PHYSICAL
Produced and recorded by Egedy and mixed/co-produced by Jupiter Keyes of HEALTH, Thee Physical is a celebration of human touch in a digital world. The album is also unquestionably Pictureplane's best and most assured record to date: his vocals are confident and unnervingly sexy, the instrumentation is at once both purely electronic and surprisingly human. Pictureplane has managed to make electronic music deeply emotive--a synthesis of the human and the machine both in lyrics and sound. Summer 2011 belongs to Pictureplane.
Pictureplane: Dark Rift
Grimy synths, broken beats, and bucolic vocals collide somewhere between early 90s house music and the gnarly soundscapes of Black Dice to forge a sound that's wholly unique and endlessly exciting. It's exceedlingly rare to find dance music that transcends the cold and robotic, but on Dark Rift Pictureplane does just that: churning out intricate electronic jams out of his Denver bedroom. It feels at once personal and cosmically expansive. In Pictureplane's own words: "once every 26,000 years our planet crosses through the eliptical plane at the center of our galaxy known as the dark rift. the songs on dark rift lyrically deal with humanity entering a new age or next phase of our existence?" The dance-floor and universe await Dark Rift.


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I-75 Ambassador Bridge Gateway, United States of America
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The I-75 Ambassador Bridge Gateway Project is located in Michigan, US. It is the largest project ever undertaken by Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).
The project provides enhanced connections between the US and Canada, Detroit and Windsor, the freeways I-75 and I-96 and the Ambassador Bridge and Mexicantown areas of Detroit.
The Ambassador Bridge, along with the I-94 and I-75 / I-96 freeways, is a major section in the North American trade route.
The bridge is crossed by thousands of vehicles each day and approximately 11m vehicles each year. Expansion on this route will ease traffic congestion and also contribute to regional growth and economic development. The project is estimated to cost $230m.
The Gateway Project was completed and all roads were opened to traffic by the end of 2009. Landscaping and clean up works are, however, pending and will be carried out throughout 2010.
Gateway project
MDOT unveiled the Gateway Project expansion plan in 1994. The project was approved by the Federal Highway Administration in 1997. The construction work was planned in four phases.
The first phase involving the rehabilitation of Fort Street from Rosa Parks Boulevard to Clark Street was completed in 2003.
The West Grand Boulevard Bridge over I-75 was reconstructed during the second phase of construction in 2004. I-75 and I-96 South Bound Service Drive, and the I-96 off ramp were reconstructed in the Phase 3.
Phase 4 commenced in July 2007. It included the reconstruction of I-75 and I-96 freeways, construction of a new interchange for the bridge and local access, and a new pedestrian bridge over I-75 and I-96 connecting east and west Mexicantown in south-west Detroit. The Ambassador Bridge Plaza was also redesigned to improve safety and ease traffic flow.
A key object in the five year plan of MDOT, the Gateway Project is expected to have significant positive economic impact on the region. The project is intended to increase the state GDP and personnel income over the next five years.
Phase 4 was the most extensive stage in the project. It involved the reconstruction works from Clark Street to 14th Street on the I-75 freeway and from I-75 to Warren Avenue.
As part of the expansion, new ramps were built between the freeway and the proposed Ambassador Bridge Plaza, and between the freeway and Vernor Highway. Large water and sewer lines, and public lighting lines were relocated during the construction.
The works including reconstruction and reclamation of over 20 bridges, construction of the new Bagley Avenue pedestrian bridge and three miles of retaining walls between Hubbard and West Grand Boulevard were also carried out in the final phase.
Bridge construction
A new cable-stayed Mexicantown Bagley Avenue Pedestrian Bridge was built as part of the I-75 Gateway Project.
The cable-stayed bridge was designed by Michigan-based architecture firm VanTine Guthrie (now InFORM Studios). Lafarge North America, the largest supplier of cementitious materials in the US and Canada, supplied high-performance Tercem 3000 cement blend for the bridge.
The pedestrian bridge raises 150ft from the freeway floor and features a 407ft long structure spanning I-75 and I-96 freeways.
HNTB Corporation was involved in the design and engineering of the reconstruction project. Michigan-based Walter Toebe Construction was appointed as the prime contractor and was responsible for performing all the structural demolitions.
Other subcontractors including Ace Steel Erection and Ajax Paving Industries were involved in the re-steel installation and bituminous work respectively. The Atsalis Brothers performed painting works and Hardman Construction carried out the sheeting.
Permanent signs were installed by Highway Services, while pavement striping was completed by Motor City Electric, Nationwide Fence and P.K. Contracting. Other contractors included: INSPEC-SOL (concrete testing), POCO (traffic control) and Wess Construction (landscaping).
The $230m project was financed by MDOT with the assistance of Federal Highway Administration. In 1998, the project became eligible to receive funds from federal transportation programmes under Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.
The federal highway legislation provides a major part of funding for the project.


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Twelve years of experience developing large and small applications has taught us to build flexible, predictable and scalable software solutions.
Flexible systems are made up of small, well defined components. Working closely with project stake holders, we identify and prioritize the features required by the user. Then we model the application as a composition of small, well defined components. The separation and segregation of responsibilities that results leads to flexible applications that evolve easily as requirements evolve.
Predictable systems are the result of thoroughly tested and well designed components. Test Driven Development methods call for the development of unit tests prior to the development of components. These methods allow development to evolve predictably, even when requirements change. With banks of tests in place, the consequences of changes are immediately apparent. With a concrete list of problems to address, developers can resolve them systematically. Additionally, tests give us the confidence to re-factor our components to insure that the application remains well designed and modular with a clean separation of concerns.
Scalable software has traditionally been made of components that can be grouped into layers and then distributed across more and more servers as needed. This is yet another reason, beyond insuring flexibility and predictability, to use components as the basis for application design. However, new multicore processors are shifting the focus of scalability practices. New applications must now also consider distributing workload at the processor and thread level as well as at the component and layer level. As better tools and practices evolve in this new area of software development, we will continue to evaluate and incorporate what works best for our clients. That said, good application design will continue to be the key to developing applications that scale well.


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