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My eldest son and I recently discovered Lego Heroica, part of the Lego Games range. We have a few of the more well-known family games, of course – Mousetrap, Snakes & Ladders, etc. – but were both bored with the 'roll and move' mechanics, even if they're dressed up with plastic geegaws, and wanted something a little more challenging. Full disclosure: I used to work for Lego, and saw the early range of Lego Games before they were released, and I was a little sceptical as to whether they would take off. But I think the reason they have is that, despite their simplicity, they engage the brain in a way that traditional family games rarely do, probably due to their origins in the European approach to tabletop gaming.
Anyway, as a D&D player I had to give Heroica a go – a Lego dungeon crawl: what's not to like? And it didn't disappoint. Despite the simple mechanics, there are plenty of cerebral elements to the game – selecting the best character to play, choosing the best path to the goal, deciding whether or not to make a diversion to gamble on opening a chest, working out whether or not to rely on your opponent to find a key to open the door in front of you.
After buying, building and playing the four sets, we started designing our own additions from the kids' Lego box (as both my wife and I are ex-employees, the kids are lucky enough to have a fair selection of bricks to play with). We supplemented the pieces with specially purchased elements from Bricklink.com, the fan-run website where individual bricks are sold for a few cents each. If you're thinking of doing something similar yourself, the two critical phrases you need to search on are 'Microfig', which is the name for the Lego Games playing pieces, and (deep breath) 'Plate, modified 2 x 2 with Groove and 1 Stud in Center' which are the plates with one stud that constitute the squares on the Heroica "board". Don't forget to get two colors so you can continue Heroica's checkerboard effect.
Pictured is the first one we made, a crypt full of sepulchres, which works well as an add-on to the Castle Fortaan or Waldurk Forest sets. We intended it as a bit of a game of Russian Roulette. Approach a grave and roll the dice. If it shows a skull (50% chance), up pops a skeleton, which you must fight, Strength 1. If it's a sword, find a treasure (33%), and if the shield, a treasure and 1 gold (17%). Then we pop a black plate on the top of the box grave to show that it's now open and been looted already.
The treasures were also salvaged from the kids' Lego box – some gold keys which we decided can get you through every door, some silver arrows which we figured must automatically kill the werewolves in Waldurk Forest, and some new potions. The skeletons are from the Ninjago game, and we picked them up on Bricklink.
I'll post a few more bits of Heroica inspiration over the next few days.
Also @Geek Dad, got anymore Heroica pics?
Hey guys. Love the room. @Glenn Gass, yes you could definitely run a good simple campaign for kids of any age. It reminds me of Hero Quest, which got me started questing when i was a kid. My niece age 9 loves the dungeon crawler with very simple rules, and my neighbor kids age 16 love the cooperative and competitive play. Check out my page, I am trying to build support for this game because I think it has so much potential. We also have house rules and general inspiration.
Now there's an idea! Didn't Gygax say that the biggest secret in D&D is that you don't need the rulebooks anyway (or words to that effect)?
Could you run a DND style campaign for the kids using their rules?
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Jones won two individual races and was part of two relay wins in a dual meet against Rider on Saturday. The senior won the 100-yard freestyle in 46.94 and the 200-yard freestyle in 1:43.60. Jones also anchored the 200-yard medley relay and the 400-yard free relay, helping the Retrievers to times of 1:34.64 and 3:11.42, respectively, in those races.
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It pumps "block level" census neighborhood information (% rentals on block, average age, income, % college grads, number of sex offenders within 1 mile radius, etc. ) directly into the listing rows of these sites automatically, so buyers can quickly and easily compare property characteristics of the properties at a glance without a lot of clicking, researching, etc.
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Guest post by Peter Tchir.
At 1,410 I am much more nervous about a big rally than I was earlier in the week. But this has been a great week to be a nimble bear.
Last Thursday, exactly a week ago, futures were higher overnight, only to fade once $GOOG rained on the parade.
Then on Friday, they creeped up a bit, only to take a big hit.
On Monday, up for awhile, and didn't finish a lot worse as market rallied into the close PPT style.
Tuesday, tried to go higher, then sold off hard as there wasn't a buyer.
Yesterday, up early again, before taking it on the chin.
So who knows what today will holds, but making the call that we hold early gains seems too bold.
U.K. Economy Surges 1% as Britain Exits Recession
Maybe we should throw the next Olympics in Spain? From Bloomberg.
Britain exited a double-dip recession in the third quarter with the strongest growth in five years as Olympic ticket sales and a surge in services helped boost the rebound. Inflation cooled to the slowest in almost three years in September, while retail sales increased more than forecast. Britain's economy resumed growth in the third quarter by more than economists forecast, boosted by Olympic ticket sales and a surge in services.
Gross domestic product rose 1 percent from the three months through June, the fastest growth since 2007, the Office for National Statistics said in London today. That exceeded the highest estimate in a Bloomberg News survey for growth of 0.8 percent. The median forecast of 33 economists was 0.6 percent. The pound rose after the data were published.
The growth surge reflects a boost from the Olympics and a rebound from the second quarter, when GDP was affected by an extra public holiday. While the data may give some short-term relief to Prime Minister David Cameron's struggling government, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said this week that the recovery is "slow and uncertain." That suggests the figures mask underlying weakness that could warrant further stimulus from the central bank. (Full article here)
Taking A Man At His Word – On the EZ, Spain, ECB and much more
Edward Hugh is one of the Economists that truly understands the European situation, especially the Spanish economy and the problems on the Iberian Peninsula. Below is an excerpt from a must read piece via A Fistful of Euros.
Legendary hedge fund supremo Ray Dalio is in ebullient mood. Following a series of moves by Mario Draghi to underpin European government financing Dalio told Bloomberg that, in his opinion, the euro will now "likely" stay together because existing growth-constraining austerity measures will henceforth be balanced by money printing over at the European Central Bank. His statement was, of course, a response to ECB President Draghi's save the Euro pledge.
This story starts back in July, when Mario Draghi calmly informed a London investors conference that, "Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough." Since that time, of course, this gamechanging statement has been qualified and clarified, and re-qualified and re-clarified innumerable times, but still the essence remains unchanged. The ECB President wasn't talking, remember, about any specific programme of bond purchases or exceptional liquidity measures, he was talking about doing "whatever it takes", and Ray Dalio for one is taking him at his word.
What Bridgewater's founder was getting at when he made this assessment is that there is now no meaningful limit being placed on what the ECB might eventually do. Naturally there is the mandate to work around, but the mandate can always be changed if Europe's political leaders see fit, and who at this point in the crisis still doubts that if needs must they will see fit.
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Biderman on portfolio managers that only know of being long the market.
If you ask portfolio managers why stocks have not gone down? The answer can be bottom lined as the Bernanke Put. A key truth for those who believe in today's School of What Works is that the Bernanke Put has been and will keep on saving the stock market.
For those of you who have been hibernating from the financial markets over the past few years, the Bernanke Put means that Wall Street believes that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is omnipotent; and that he can do whatever is takes to keep stock prices at around double the March 2009 lows. That is why most portfolio managers believe that any and all bad news cannot ultimately hurt stock prices.
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In case you missed the interview with Eric Hunsander of Nanex a few days ago, we suggest reviewing it again.
Mr Hunsander shares his views on crashes, system overloads and killer Algos.
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Comments before the Fed meeting, via Marc to Market.
Currency Wars Part II
Guest post by Jessie.
"All war is based on deception. Of all those close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."
Sun Tzu"Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day."
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There is a currency war underway.
The international trade clearing mechanisms are tottering. Countries are using their economic power, their banks and currencies, as a part of overall foreign as well as domestic policy.
This is a huge source of the tensions and problems which are are seeing both economically and militarily in the world today.
The current trade system based on the US dollar reserve currency is not sustainable. It has had a good long run, but like the euro it has reached the end of its rope. The US cannot continue to print enough money and increase its debt balance through trade any further. See Triffin Dilemma. Yes I am familiar with Eichengreen's counter argument.
Did You Get These Warnings? Gold?
Guest post via Gold Silver Worlds.
The author does a terrific job again, this time in summarizing the most important thoughts about the current economic effects on the monetary policy of the US government (in casu QE3). Although a lot has been written about QE3, it can be difficult for people with no economic background, to connect the dots between monetary actions, economic effects, personal risks. Furthermore, with a limited understanding of monetary matters, it can be difficult to distinguish the benefits that are argued by policymakers versus the real benefits / risks. From that point of the view, the following article succeeds in bringing an understandable summary of what really is happening in our economy as a result of monetary policies.
Some essays or market commentaries contain too much jargon to easily read and understand. This article keeps things simple and understandable. And we love it at GoldSilverWorlds as it links Gold & Silver as being the ultimate ways to protect oneself, although still an extremely low percentage of the population is aware of it.
Debt & Obesity
Guest post by Azizonomics.
The waistline bubble began to expand at just about the same time as the debt bubble:
First, it's important emphasise that correlation is not causation — more than 99% of murderers have consumed water in the twenty four hour period preceding a murder. But it is clear that the effects of globalisation are at play in both cases (simply because globalisation has transformed the American economy) – far fewer Americans have to do physically demanding manufacturing work, and thanks to the mechanisation of agriculture and food production there are far more calories-per-American available to consume.
The interesting difference between debt and obesity is that while it is possible from historical evidence to construct a fairly coherent model linking excess outgrowth in debt with recession and depression — for example, I conjecture that a depression becomes inevitable when debt service cost growth consistently outpaces income growth — there is no such historical evidence available for obesity, because there has never in known world history been an obesity epidemic of such proportion. To what extent do the healthcare overheads of an obesity epidemic act as a drag on economic growth?According to an estimate by the CDC, $147 billion.


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Fisher-Price Dora 10th Anniversary Lil Quad Battery Operated ATV Riding Toy
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Children ages 1 to 3 will love spending hours riding around on this Fisher-Price Dora battery-operated ATV riding toy. It features bright colorful Dora graphics that all Dora fans will enjoy and drives at 2 mph so they'll feel like they are really moving at a good speed. The toy includes a simple start-and-stop button that is easy for little fingers to work and a 6-volt battery and charger for added convenience.
- Fun Dora graphics
- Sporty, ATV style
- Recommended for ages 12 months-3 years
- Included 6V battery and charger
- Drives at 2 mph
- Dimensions: 29L x 22.5W x 20H in.
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Riding toy, battery, charger
It's an all-terrain exploration when you have the Fisher-Price Dora 10th Anniversary Lil Quad Battery Operated ATV Riding Toy. Dora is going off the beaten path.
Kids don't just like Dora, they LOVE Dora. When they love Dora, they want everything Dora. This is an addition to the collection that can't be missed.
Dora's explorations take her all over. Now, no terrain is too rough for your little adventurer! It's a toddler-friendly version of the popular ATV design. It has easy, push button start and stop. Simply push the button and it's off on the adventure. Let go and it stops. No throttle or pedal system to learn makes it easy for toddlers to jump on and ride.
Everything is done in classic Dora style. It's bright purple with big tires and plenty of Dora-themed graphics. The six-volt battery keeps everything in motion. With a 2 mph top speed, it keeps things fun and safe simultaneously. Built in footrests give little feet plenty of room and keep them from dragging and catching on the ground. The little explorer shouldn't be without proper equipment. Dora wouldn't start an expedition without it. Recommended for ages 12 months-3 years.
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As the most trusted name in quality toys, Fisher-Price has been helping to make childhood special for generations of kids. While they're still loved for their classics, their employees' talent, energy and ideas have helped them keep pace with the interests and needs of today's families. Now they add innovative learning toys, toys based on popular preschool characters, award-winning baby gear, and numerous licensed children's products to the list of Fisher-Price favorites.
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Basketball | 15 | 11 | - | - |
Golf | 10 | - | - | - |
Soccer | 23 | 24 | - | - |
Tennis | - | 9 | - | - |
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Asian/Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
Black/non-Hispanic | 8.8% |
Hispanic | 11.5% |
Non-resident alien | 1.2% |
Race/Ethnicity unknown | 11.5% |
Two or more races | 0.0% |
White/non-Hispanic | 66.0% |
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Drug Law Violation | 0 |
Liquor Law Violation | 0 |
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This has one best college dining experiences as the have an all you can eat buffet restaurant/cafe on campus. When I tried it a few years ago it was wonderful. The food tasted very good.
Read MoreThe food is good, and there is always a variety of foods to choose from.
Read MoreDining is great! Especially compared to many other school's in Florida. I am very blessed to have the food we do.
Read MoreFood is definitely worth. Now, there are a few days that it is just like well there's nothing you can really eat. Overall, it is very good. 4 stars because it's too small for how many students are here.
Read MoreThere are a variety of food options.
Read MoreFood at the cafeteria (Chartwells) is ok. There are a lot of dinning places around the area to accommodate any eating habits and there is a café and coffee shop on campus
Read MoreDining is flexible and tasty. People often complained about it, but I've personally never had a bad experience.
Read MoreChartwell's...so many people give it negative reviews! I ate there during my orientation and I will admit the Pizza was gross. I don't know about their other food, but I would imagine that the food is about the same as any other college considering they all order from the same companies.
Read MoreThe Restaurant or dining area provides a large variety of foods daily. I like how they always seem to be looking out for vegetarians and vegans who have a healthy diet. The dining area at my school ensures this healthy diet, also providing a daily salad bar.
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You can still smoke at home.
Unfortunately smoking is one of those activities that inadvertently involves non-smokers when done in public areas. Case in point, my wife and I decide to enjoy a night eating out at a local establishment a couple of weekends ago, and decide to eat outside ONLY if there are no smokers around. The hostess is kind enough to go check, and fortunately there's nobody out there smoking at the time. Five minutes pass, a group is seated right behind us...and one of them promptly hauls out the cigarettes and lights up. No matter what we do, we can't avoid smelling (and therefore, inhaling) the smoke. We ended up moving inside where there is a designated non-smoking area. So since we're on the subject of "rights", how about my right to not have to sit next to some stinky smoker, particularly when I was there first?
It may be legal, but in my eyes, there is no "right" to smoke whenever, and wherever someone pleases, outside of your own home.
I am not a smoker and never have been but I have asthma, of which cigarette and cigar and pipe smoke bother me. Even though they are supposed to be at least 20 feet away from doors and windows, I can guarantee you, many don't go that far, as I have to often walk through a cloud of smoke to get into a building here on campus. It does bother me and I don't desire to smell someone's stinky clothes because they smoke nor do I prefer to walk through that cloud of smoke they just blew out.
I have every right under TN law since this is my work place to be in a smoke-free atmosphere, but those smoking on campus still prevent that.
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Resident Evil 6: New Trailer Shows Early October Release Date
Similar to the Lost Planet 3 trailer, Capcom has had their Resident Evil 6 trailer leak onto the internet. Along with news on the storyline, and what to see and expect, there's information on a new release date.
It was previously revealed that Resident Evil 6 will launch on 20 November, however the new trailer reveals that the game will launch prior to this.
There might be spoilers in the trailer, so watch with caution. However it's a trailer, so it would be stupid if it spoiled the entire game — right?
Anyway. Apart from all that, expect to see Resident Evil 6 in-store on October 5 — in South Africa. The US region will get it on October 2.


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Could the latest tablet-desktop-laptop offering from ASUS be the hardest working gadget in the biz? It very well may be. The ASUS Transformer Book Trio, unveiled at Computex 2013 in Taiwan on Monday, is a 3-in-1 device that can run, not one, but two different operating systems.
No transfiguration spells necessary: the 11.6-inch Transformer Book Trio can switch between Android tablet and Windows 8 desktop PC environments seamlessly, offering mobile mavens access to apps on both platforms.
Multifunction devices are not new — Intel has been working on ultrabook-tablet hybrids for a while — but the concept of a multi-platform hybrid device is.
Windows 8 was specifically designed to take users from tablet to desktop and back again, but with just over 50,000 apps in the Windows Store, the platform is certainly no match for the Google Play Store, which boasts over 700,000 apps. One device that can run both systems is ideal for the user who needs a desktop environment for more processor-intensive applications and a touchscreen environment that's more conducive to mobile apps.
The Transformer Book Trio features a detachable display that switches the device between tablet and laptop modes. The touch-enabled tablet has a 2.0 GHz Intel Atom processor, 64GB of local storage, and a 1920 x 1090 full HD display. Running on Android, the Transformer can last up to 15 hours on one charge.


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Protease nexin I, thrombin- and urokinase-inhibiting serpin, concentrated in normal human cerebrospinal fluid. | |
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PMID: 1620346 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Protease nexin I (PNI), a 43,000- to 50,000-dalton glycoprotein, is a potent thrombin and urokinase inhibitor produced by many mammalian cells, including human glia, in tissue culture. PNI is a member of the growing superfamily of serine protease inhibitors now known as serpins, but, unlike many others of this family, it has not yet been detected in normal human plasma. Of interest to neurobiology and neurologic disease, PNI is identical to a glia-derived neurite-promoting factor, glia-derived nexin (GDN). Antibody to PNI stains the periphery of senile amyloid plaques in brain tissue from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), along with another serpin, alpha 1-antichymotrypsin (alpha 1-ACT). A soluble form of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta APP), containing a Kunitz-type trypsin inhibitor domain, the beta APP751 form, is identical to protease nexin II (PNII), a 100,000-dalton serine protease inhibitor present in a number of tissues besides the brain. PNII/beta APP is also found in normal and AD CSF. We found a 47,000-dalton PNI, a thrombin- and urokinase-inhibiting serpin, in normal human CSF by Western blotting using a monospecific antibody. We also demonstrated biologically active PNI capable of forming complexes with serine proteases 125I-urokinase or 125I-thrombin. |
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State | Virginia |
Name | Lower Tertiary Deposits |
Geologic age | Tertiary |
Original map label | Tl |
Comments | May include the following formation - Brightseat, Aquia, Marlboro, Nanjemoy, and Piney Point (Pamunkey Group), and Old Church; Coastal Plain From expanded explanation (ref. VA002): Lower Tertiary deposits (Oligocene, Eocene, and Paleocene). Mostly fine- to coarse-grained glauconitic quartz sand and clay-silt, shelly in part; includes lesser amounts of sandy limestone and limey sand. In outcrop, unit comprises the Pamunkey Group (Brightseat, Aquia, Marlboro, Nanjemoy, and Piney Point Formations) and the Old Church Formation. In subsurface, unit includes Eocene and Oligocene strata not included in the Pamunkey and Old Church. Ages of formational units based on foraminiferal, nannofossil, dinocyst, pollen, and molluscan studies (Frederiksen, 1979; Gibson and others, 1980; Gibson and Bybell, 1984; Edwards, 1984, 1989; Edwards and others, 1984; Poag, 1989; Ward, 1985; Ward and Krafft, 1984). Stratigraphic sections vary widely, comprising one or more of the following formations: Old Church Formation (Ward, 1985) and unnamed glauconitic sands (upper Oligocene). In inner and middle Coastal Plain, unit is 0 to 5 feet of olive-gray, fine- to coarse-grained, shelly, very sparsely glauconitic quartz sand of the Old Church Formation; typical fossils include Anomia ruffini, Lucina sp., and Mercenaria capax. In subsurface of outer Coastal Plain, unit includes about 45 feet of dark-olive-gray to greenish black glauconite sand with lesser amounts of quartz; sand has olive-brown clay-silt matrix. Lower Oligocene beds. Olive-gray to grayish-olive sand, very-fine-grained, clayey and silty, micaceous, glauconitic; coarsens upward to a very-fine- to fine-grained sand. Unit is 0 to 50 feet thick; identified only in subsurface of Eastern Shore area (Exmore, core hole, R. B. Mixon and D. S. Powars, personal communication). Chickahominy Formation (upper Eocene, Cushman and Cederstrom, 1945). Predominantly olive-gray clayey silt and silty clay, very compact, glauconitic, micaceous, contains abundant finely crystalline iron sulfide. Coarsens downward to a very-fine- to fine-grained sand, pebbles at base. Rare fragmental shell, microfossils very abundant. Thickness is 0 to 100 feet; present in subsurface of southeastern Virginia. Piney Point Formation (middle Eocene, Otton, 1955). Olive-gray and grayish-olive-green, glauconitic quartz sand, medium-to coarse-grained, poorly sorted, contains scattered quartz pebbles, interbedded with carbonate-cemented sand and moldic limestone. Unit is characterized by large, calcitic shells of the oyster Cubitostrea sellaeformis, a middle Eocene marker. Aragonitic mollusks are generally leached, leaving only molds and casts. Thickness is 0 to 60 feet. Nanjemoy Formation (lower Eocene, Clark and Martin,1901). Dark-olive-gray, greenish-gray, and olive-black glauconitic quartz sand, fine- to coarse-grained, very clayey and silty, intensely burrowed, sparsely to abundantly shelly, interbedded with sandy clay-silt. Sand in upper part of unit is less clayey, very micaceous, and contains scattered quartz pebbles. Typical mollusks include Venericardia potapacoensis, Venericardia ascia, and Macrocallista subimpressa. Unit is 0 to 140 feet thick. Marlboro Clay (lower Eocene (?) and upper Paleocene, Clark and Martin, 1901). Light-gray, pinkish-gray, and reddish- brown kaolinitic clay, massively bedded to laminated, interbedded with lesser amounts of laminated and ripple cross-laminated silt and very-fine-grained sand. Contains rare molds of small mollusks and arenaceous foraminifera. Thickness is 0 to 30 feet . Aquia Formation (upper Paleocene, Clark and Martin, 1901). Light- to dark-olive gray, glauconitic quartz sand, fine- to coarse-grained, clayey and silty, thick- to massively bedded, sparsely to abundantly shelly. Lower part of unit is more poorly sorted and more calcarious than upper part and contains a few thin to medium beds of olive-gray, white, and pale greenish-yellow limestone. Upper part of unit is moderately well sorted and characterized by thin beds of the large, high-spired gastropod Turritella mortoni. Other common mollusks in clude Cucullaea gigantea, Ostrea sinuosa, and Crassatellites alaeformis. Thickness is 0 to 130 feet. Brightseat Formation (lower Paleocene, Bennett and Collins, 1952). Olive-gray to olive-black, micaceous quartz sand, fine- to very fine-grained, clayey and silty, variably glauconitic. Thickness is 0 to 20 feet. |
Primary rock type | sand |
Secondary rock type | silt |
Other rock types | limestone |
Lithologic constituents | Major
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Silt Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand Minor
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone |
Map references | Digital Representation of the 1993 Geologic Map of Virginia", 2003, CD ROM (ISO-9660) contains image file, expanded explanation in pdf, and ESRI shapefiles, viewing software not included. This is a digital version of "Geologic Map of Virginia" published in 1993. Available from: https://www.dmme.virginia.gov/commerce/ |
Unit references | Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, 1993, Geologic Map of Virginia: Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, scale 1:500,000 Digital Representation of the 1993 Geologic Map of Virginia - expanded explanation: 2003, Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, Divsion of Mineral Resources, Publication 147, 85 pp Digital Representation of the 1993 Geologic Map of Virginia", 2003, CD ROM (ISO-9660) contains image file, expanded explanation in pdf, and ESRI shapefiles, viewing software not included. This is a digital version of "Geologic Map of Virginia" published in 1993. Available from: https://www.dmme.virginia.gov/commerce/ |
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AZUSA, Calif. – Going scoreless for a near six minute stretch at the end of the ball game hurt the Lewis-Clark State College women's team as it fell to Azusa Pacific 64-57 in a nonleague contest of NAIA Top 25 teams on Friday night.
After Sadie Short's jumper cut APU's lead to 55-54 with 6:07 left in a see-saw second half, the Warriors didn't score again until Madison Mendezona buried a 3-pointer with 13 seconds left. During that stretch, LCSC was its own worst enemy by going 0-for-6 at the foul line and 0-for-5 from the field. LCSC, ranked No. 12 in the NAIA, also committed five turnovers during that stretch.
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Short led the Warriors with 11 points, while Breianna Gaines and Mandy Trout had 10 each. Trout also led the Warriors with eight rebounds, while Short, Vanessa West, and Jade Fulbright added six each. Fulbright also had nine points and six steals.
Abby Johnson, who played at Clarkston High, recorded a double-double for the Cougars with 12 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. Guard Sarah Leathers led the Cougars with 14 points, while C.J. Hill added 13, and Kristie Hala'ufia scored 12.
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09-07-2011, 02:05 AM #3I like how both sets of pics are started with the ones of the lady's. I like the two extra seats.
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09-08-2011, 12:48 AM #5i like it...how much were the "girls" option? hahaha! j/k your truck looks awesome!
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09-08-2011, 02:02 PM #6So, how much did you have to pay the girls to get in your truck, tell the truth!Your truck also looks great!!!
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Wii Vitality Sensor: not only for pulse rates, also for lie detection |
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It appears that the Wii Vitality Sensor aims to do more than just "provide information to the users about the body's inner world." Herald Sun is reporting that Nintendo staff at E3 discussed how the peripheral can measure fluctuations in the electrical conductivity of skin - much like in polygraphs, aka Lie Detectors.
Such fluctuations are significant in detecting if a person is lying because it correlates with the changes in emotions like fear, anger and desire.
While specific games utilizing the Wii Vitality Sensor - the peripheral that attaches to your finger to read your pulse - have yet to be announced, "You can imagine games along "truth or dare" lines being developed for fun at home on a Nintendo Wii fitted with a Wii Vitality Sensor," noted the newspaper.
If this be the case, you might want to keep it away from your parents just in case they quiz you about why you were out late last night. I also foresee a "guest appearance" of the WVS on The Moment of Truth.
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This will be absolutely useless for politicians. We already know their lying by the movement of their lips.
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of course, it would be hard to get the average person to take a lie-detector test. this may still be quite useful. i want to learn all about this new gizmo!
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If this is cheap, i might as well get it just for the fun of having a lie detector test and of course getting pulse rate. I'm pretty sure it'll be fun. *wishing for a cheap price*
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whats the point?
unless you feel like playing truth or dare of some stupid ish like that
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It is NOT irrelevant to point out the fact that the work week was 61 hours before organized labor pressured management for better working hours and conditions. Miserly Mises and you are the parties that are engaging in historical revisionism, falsely attributing the shorter work week to some capitalistic success. You seem to be the one staunchly defending a false premise. Where's your proof?
I am not at all "desperate" as you contend. Why should I be? I am comfortably retired from a long business career, and the main reasons I participate on these forums are to rebut and expose fraudulent thinking like yours and to stay mentally active. You're not much of a challenge because you bring no factual information to the table, only deflection and projection.
Answer this question - do you actually believe that business success caused the shorter work week to happen over the years? If so, then why did organized labor arise, and why were the labor laws favoring workers passed?
It is ironic that someone with a challenged integrity would see things only as black and white, and label another's mere opinion as dishonest.
I am not a "staunch supporter" of one view or another…I just look for the truth wherever I can find it, and this message board is a target rich environment of folks that are so myopic in their prejudice that they do not have the integrity to look for the truth, or the capacity to recognize it. All they do is mindlessly cite progressive websites where all if their "thinking" is done for them. That is why it is fun to reply to your comments.
With regard to the 40 hour work week. This is not to convince you or to advocate one side or the other…and you can say it is revisionist if your ignorance compels you to…that is okay, you cannot help it and I understand.
There were a combination of complex factors that led to the 40 hour work week, increased pay, etc., and to say that it was solely due labor unions is simply not true. Trade organizations, which existed long before Ford was born, advocated all sorts of "reforms", from better working conditions to price fixing. They may have pushed for a lot of things in various industries, but were not uniformly or universally successful. In the auto industry, it was not until the market conditions required it did Ford start the 40 hour work week and increased the pay in his business, and the other automaker reluctantly followed. You see, some industries changed in spite of the unions, not because of them.
You are correct in citing that the unions, with a big help from the communist party, did coerce the codification by the Federal government of the 40 hour work week, forcing it on the rest of the markets.
And you have to admit, it has come with a price…unions have had an adverse effect on the market ever since, exploiting the working class as a whole, and becoming wealthy as a result. In a nutshell, it is undeniable that Unions play a major role in artificially forcing up wages, which reduces employment within the working class, reducing profits causing the costs of goods and services to increase to those that can least afford it, all the while becoming more politically and financially powerful and corrupt.
Have fun trying to keep your mind sharp…but all you are doing is spiraling down into the same hole. Unless you are willing to exercise with critical thinking, you're better off trying crossword puzzles.
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The city's redevelopment agency and developer Comstock Homes worked together to bring to residential standard the site, called the Villages at Heritage Springs. The award is the California Redevelopment Association Award of Excellence in the Special Citation category for the oil field transformation.
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Happy, Happy YOU Day Jessica!!!!
Welcome to a SURPRISE Birthday Hop for sweet Jessica.....or as I call her, "TSG Jessica"! I know a lot of Jessica's! LOL And she's such a sweetie with I know what will be another FABulous TSG release coming up this week....so we're popping in a few days early with a surprise from some of her friends who adore her and her adorable stamps!!!
I used one of my favorite TSG sets, Wonderful Winter Wishes and the sentiment comes from Blossom By Blossom, another adorable set......I love these little girlies!!! Just some fun Copic coloring and sparkly snow....after all, snow sure means happiness to me! ;) You'll want to see all the fun and gorgeous birthday cards, so follow the list below!!
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- Crafty Math Chick said...
AWWW! This is adorable Lee! Jessica is going to LOVE it!! Love the snow and the bling.
~Meredith - May 21, 2012 at 7:09 AM
- Kim O'Connell said...
Awwwww! So cute!
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- Jodi Collins aka Kharmagirl said...
AWWWW! This is SO sweet! This one of my all time favorite TSG stamps, and I LOVE the colors and your sparkly snow!!
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- Kelly Collins said...
I just love this image. Great job on this card!
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- Ann Kranitz said...
My heart always melts at this image. It is too sweet and you colored it perfectly!!!
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- Wendy Ramlakhan said...
Awwww, how sweet!! Love your sparkly snow!
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- Savannah O'Gwynn said...
BEAUTIFUL card! LOVE the purples and your design! FAB:)
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- Joanne (jojot) said...
love your color choices.....sweet image and sentiment
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- ChristineCreations said...
I've always thought this set was fab too. They are such a cute pair. Great job Lee!
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- Patti J said...
Awww...what cuteness! Love the image, Lee, and you have colored it beautifully! Thanks for sharing, my friend, and Happy Birthday to Jessica! Hugs...
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- Marisa said...
Precious image and a great card.
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Well this is kind of like that. I got the exact same feeling, from a totally different situation. I just beat the Special World on Super Mario World, and when I emerged from the Darkness I was back at Yoshi's house on Dinosaur Island, only the Season had changed, and the game's theme had become Autumn. Not only did I find a very neat easter egg, but I found it in a game that came out a fairly long time ago, a game that I used to own, but never really cared to play through, and because of this I had totally missed out. I'm sure many of you already know about this. Those of you who dont, I apologize, for I have stolen any chance of you having this feeling over this game, as the surprise is gone. It's a kind of bittersweet feeling stumbling upon this little reward. Even many of the enemies are replaced with their haloween-themed counterparts. Its worth checking out.
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"As storm winds drive ocean waves higher, the microseism signals increase their amplitude as well, offering a unique way to track storm intensities across seasons, over time, and at different geographical locations. For instance, Aster and colleagues Daniel McNamara from the U.S. Geological Survey and Peter Bromirski of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography recently published analysis in the Seismological Society of America journal Seismological Research Letters showing that microseism data collected around the Pacific Basin and throughout the world could be used to detect and quantify wave activity from multi-year events such as the El Niño and La Niña ocean disruptions.
The findings spurred them to look for a microseism signal that would reveal whether extreme storms were becoming more common in a warming world. In fact, they saw 'a remarkable thing,' among the worldwide microseism data collected from 1972 to 2008, Aster recalled. In 22 of the 22 stations included in the study, the number of extreme storm events had increased over time, they found.
While the work on evaluating changes in extreme storms is 'still very much in its early stages,' Aster is 'hoping that the study will offer a much more global look' at the effects of climate change on extreme storms and the wind-driven waves that they produce. At the moment, most of the evidence linking the two comes from studies of hurricane intensity and shoreline erosion in specific regions such as the Pacific Northwest Gulf of Mexico, he noted.
The researchers are also working on recovering and digitizing older microseism records, potentially creating a data set that stretches back to the 1930s. Aster praised the work of the long-term observatories that have collected the records, calling them a good example of the 'Cinderella science' unloved and overlooked that often support significant discoveries.
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Meh? Forgettable.
And outside of New York, former congressman Anthony Weiner has been largely forgotten. He's a stay at home dad. His wife brings home the bacon. He changes diapers. Seems like some kind of justice since he embarrassed her with his sexting exploits.
Weiner has spent over 100K on polls…feeling out the public. He wants to know if they have forgiven him. If they would vote for him again.
He has his eye on the New York City mayor's office. Or city comptroller.
Either would do to begin clawing his way back up the political ladder. And in the scandal plagued New York mayoral race, Weiner doesn't look so bad.


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