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Fast, easy & delicious! Oh, and low cal! Perfect to get your morning started. Submitted by HOPEIGETIT2 Carbs: 13g | Fat: 8.7g | Fiber: 2.8g | Protein: 22.6g | Calories: 200.3
I am known for my pancakes, so trust me on this one! Submitted by AMROZ123 Carbs: 18.2g | Fat: 0.4g | Fiber: 3.3g | Protein: 5.2g | Calories: 92.6
This makes an easy weekend brunch or quick breakfast. Submitted by NANALINDA5355 Carbs: 0.9g | Fat: 6.9g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 14.1g | Calories: 125.6
My whole family loves these! Although they may seem small (considering the size of muffin we can get in a bakery) but we always add a helping of fruit or yogurt for breakfast. Yummy! Submitted by CHICKLET14580 Carbs: 17.1g | Fat: 0.6g | Fiber: 0.8g | Protein: 1.8g | Calories: 79.5
sugar free too, moist and lovely. Submitted by SLOWSET Carbs: 23.1g | Fat: 0.3g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 2.8g | Calories: 104
Tight on time? This quick breakfast literally takes one minute. Set your stopwatch..and GO! Submitted by KITHKINCAID Carbs: 25.5g | Fat: 9.5g | Fiber: 5g | Protein: 27.1g | Calories: 279
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners. Carbs: 18.7g | Fat: 0.2g | Fiber: 0.7g | Protein: 1.9g | Calories: 82.9
You'll love these easy, low-fat blueberry muffins. Submitted by IAMSUCCEEDING Carbs: 21.9g | Fat: 0.9g | Fiber: 2.6g | Protein: 3.1g | Calories: 102.8
Submitted by CANDICEELAM Carbs: 5.9g | Fat: 9.7g | Fiber: 1g | Protein: 18g | Calories: 178.9
Spinach and mozzarella cheese are baked together to make irresistable savory appetizer treats! Submitted by ERUPERTO Carbs: 5.2g | Fat: 5.3g | Fiber: 0.3g | Protein: 2.6g | Calories: 79
During the week, my morning time is very limited and I used to skip breakfast. After refocusing to ensure I ate something filling, healthy and quick EVERY morning, I started to make these. Usually, I make two at a time, one for my wife as well and we will drink it before heading out to our work outs. Submitted by DREAMGURU Carbs: 25.7g | Fat: 2.1g | Fiber: 2.5g | Protein: 22g | Calories: 205.7
Submitted by REV_SCOT Carbs: 13.4g | Fat: 0.5g | Fiber: 1.9g | Protein: 2.5g | Calories: 63.8
Submitted by SHANFANNIN Carbs: 17.2g | Fat: 1.1g | Fiber: 2.3g | Protein: 4.1g | Calories: 89.9
Submitted by CHRISSIET01 Carbs: 20.7g | Fat: 0.7g | Fiber: 0.9g | Protein: 2.1g | Calories: 95.6
This is THE most popular recipe on SparkRecipes. We've added more vegetables and reduced the sodium drastically to make it even better. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 7.3g | Fat: 2.5g | Fiber: 2.1g | Protein: 27.6g | Calories: 164.9
Submitted by 1LIFE2LIV Carbs: 1.7g | Fat: 19.3g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 18.8g | Calories: 257.9
A fun, delicious, and portable breakfast that kids will love (and adults, too). Plus, it's high in fiber and protien; and a great source of B6, D, and Calcium. Submitted by ACDYEHARRIS Carbs: 52.7g | Fat: 13g | Fiber: 8.4g | Protein: 15g | Calories: 371.9
Typical Breakfast sandwich Submitted by MTHURNAUER Carbs: 29.8g | Fat: 12.4g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 20.6g | Calories: 322.3
Submitted by MOOPIEKINS Carbs: 15.7g | Fat: 0.2g | Fiber: 1.3g | Protein: 2.4g | Calories: 71.1


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I normally disagree with buying second hand games but seeming as its BF3 just go for it! You get the game and the online pass, then they want you to rent servers, and now they're introducing Battlefield Premium! I don't like the whole concept of online passes as it is, but when EA want you to pay for servers after saying the online passes where to fund your spot on the servers Its messed up man!
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Servers don't currently cost any thing to PLAY on.
Setting up CUSTOM game rooms, Costs money.
This is because each PRIVATE server is an extra server not taking away a Room from Joe public players this time.
If you don't care about custom rules, you don't need to pay for a server.
Battlefiled 3 premium, info currently leaked is only a pre pay for DLC service unlike the limited edition that gave you extra content early but cost no extra this time you pre pay to get the DLC early.
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Thanks for the replies guys. So, am I right in thinking you have to pa ty for the pass and then a monthly subscription to use / rent a server to play online?
How do the servers cost to play on? Its not looking such a bargain at £15 now
BF3 is currently under £24 new at a few online stores so it's not worth paying £15 + £7.99 for the pass.
As said above only renting custom rules private servers cost money. I am in two minds with BF3 myself because my brother-in-law has returned to Bad Company 2 because he prefer's it.
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Ikr? seriously???? $15 for an Australian Online Pass! ITS 1 YEARS OLD GAME AND THERE'S NO /RARELY ANY DICE/EA SERVERS? JUST RENTED SERVERS WITH CUSTOM RULES.... (sry for caps lol) So yeah...
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Media company 1105 Media has developed a social media strategy for its events portfolio that pushes beyond established online networks to include partnerships with industry leaders and influencers. Those outside voices have helped events organizers reach more than 1 million people, and they also currently deliver about one-third of show website referrals, said Mitch Arnowitz, managing director of Tuvel Communications, the consultancy that helps 1105 Media with strategy.
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The most corrupt White House in American history, with residents scraped from the walls of the Chicago sewer system....What else would we expect?
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We've seen many albums released on Rock Band via official DLC. In retailers, most albums sell for under $15, but with official RB DLC they sell for $20 and under. This can happen because of pack discounts.
Look at the albums Doolittle and Blood Sugar Sex Magik available on Rock Band. Doolittle sells for $19 for the full album, but it would be $28 if all tracks had to be purchased separately. BSSM sells for $20, but it would be $32 for all tracks separately purchased! The price becomes fairly unreasonable at a certain point (and I feel for the Wii owners who don't have the bundle discount option available for normal RB DLC).
It's not my intention to single out specific artists who are bringing albums to the RBN and how they are pricing their songs, but I think there are a couple good ways to approach the pricing in general with the RBN's lack of a bundling option:
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The second method I had in mind for releasing an album with many songs would be to release a handful of tracks (likely between 1 and 5 depending on the length of the album and the number of noteworthy songs) at the $2 price point. These might be the singles from the album or the stand-out tracks. Then price the rest of the album's tracks at $1. So a 14-song album with three songs priced at $2 would be $17 total, which is very close to the bundle discount. And a 16-song album with four songs priced at $2 would be $20 - right in line with BSSM's bundle pricing.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is acknowledging an attempt to infiltrate its computer system, but says it thwarted the effort
A White House official said the attack targeted an unclassified network. He said the attack was identified and that the system was isolated to prevent spread. He said there was no indication that any data was removed.
The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record about the attack, said there was no attempted breach of classified systems. The official described such "spear-phishing" attacks as "not infrequent."
Last year, Google Inc. blamed computer hackers in China for a phishing effort against Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials and military personnel. Last November, senior U.S. intelligence officials for the first time publicly accused China of systematically stealing American high-tech data for its own national economic gain.
The White House would not say whether the recent attack was linked to China.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, during a visit to China last month, raised the subject of China-based cyberattacks against American companies and the government.
News of the most recent attack came as the Obama administration is preparing an executive order with new rules to protect U.S. computer systems. After Congress failed this summer to pass a comprehensive cybersecurity bill, the White House said it would use executive branch authorities to improve the nation's computer security, especially for networks tied to essential U.S. industries, such as electric grids, water plants, and banks.
An initial draft of the order included provisions for voluntary cybersecurity standards for companies, a special council run by the Homeland Security Department and a review to determine if existing cybersecurity regulations are adequate.
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OK you have been taking lots of photos, you've been using jpeg + raw as your file formats. And you have been using the jpeg files to upload and do any printing. You are now ready to move up to some editing on the files. You can start with edits on your jpegs but in some ways that can be more difficult than editing raw files. Jpegs can take light editing, some sharpening and maybe some tonal adjustment. But any serious editing will cause the images to develop very ugly artifacts like banding and posterization. We will get into that when we talk about raw files in another post. Right now lets list some of the available free editing software on the web. So far as I know these editors will only work on non-raw file formats. Jpeg and .tif formats mainly. Some of the best known are:
- Paint.net an excellent light editor for Windows developed by MS but now open source
- Photoscape another pretty good Windows editor
- Serif Photoplus another Windows editor
- Adobe Photoshop Express online editor (this is not Photoshop) but it comes with 2 GB of free storage.
- Picnik a web based editor.
And Mac users have a freebie that is included on their system, iPhoto or some such. Your camera also may have come with free editing software of modest capability. Canon cameras come with DPP and Nikon users can get the pretty good Nikon editor but it isn't free.
Paint.net is an open source project and it has developed a large community of developers who are supplying a good variety of plugins which have greatly extended the capability of the basic product. This is a good choice for a basic editor.
Adobe Photoshop Express comes with 2 GB of free gallery space, and a free photoshop.com address, and it connects directly with Flickr, Photobucket and some other online galleries. The tools allow you to do basic editing like sharpening, cropping, resizing and other simple tasks. These are implemented with a wizard type interface which is simple and easy to use. If you select one of the tools you will see a string of thumbnails at the bottom of the image showing how different levels of the tool will affect the image. You click on the thumbnail to apply that level of the adjustment.
Editors with raw support.
Sooner or later you will want to move to real editor. And the three best supported editors are:
Why Adobe products?
Why do I limit the list above to Adobe products? The primary reason, in my mind, is the fact that there is a vast online support community for these products. You will find literally thousands of online websites, tutorials, podcasts, and video tutorials on these editors. If you participate in online lists almost all the users will be using one or another of these products and you will easily get help when you get stuck. I have never failed to find a number of online tutorials or other help when I use Google to search for a way to do something in one of these apps.
Besides online user help Adobe itself provides a very comprehensive online support capability including forums and user groups and there are literally hundreds of published books available on each of these editors. Amazon shows 183 books for Photoshop CS4 and 202 books available for Photoshop Elements 7. Corel Photo Paint X3 by contrast has 3 books available. GIMP 2.6 has 14 books. Apple Aperture 2 has 26 books.
PSE 7 is the current version of Photoshop Elements and it will allow you to do raw file conversions and just about all basic editing on your images. PSE has a lot of wizard type interfaces to guide new users. And it comes with a pretty good photo organizer. I think this is the best choice for new users who need raw support or who want better editing capability. If you work at developing your editing skills you will eventually start wanting to do things that cannot be done in PSE and that is the time when you should start thinking about moving up to Photoshop. A good online community for PSE is found at this PSE group.
Some good introductory books:
- The Photoshop Elements 7 Book for Digital Photographers by Kloskowski
- Advanced Photoshop Elements 7 for Digital Photographers by Andrews
Some people find Lightroom to be a middle ground between PSE and Photoshop. But it seems like every Lightroom user I have heard from also owns Photoshop and uses that for the more intense editing procedures. Lightroom is aimed at production photographers, people who need to batch process large numbers of photographs. Perhaps someone who is shooting senior portraits by the hundreds. You can easily apply the same corrections to an entire batch of shots. This is possible in PS but not as easy and I'm not sure how well it would work on large batches. LR also has a very powerful photo archiving ability, it makes it easy to find your photos whether they are on your hard drive or have been moved to an external storage device. LR has the same raw converter as Photoshop: Adobe Camera Raw. Lightroom lacks the ability to select certain parts of the image and apply effects just to the selected area. That is when LR users move over to PS. Glenn Michell has some thoughts on the two.
Online support: Yahoo Lightroom group
Some good introductory books:
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers by Kelby
- The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Evening
Photoshop is simply the best editor available. Over the years many competitors have attempted to catch up with PS but they never succeed. I think the reason that they fail is this: they usually come up with a fairly good basic product. Maybe something in the PSE range plus a few more features. But to catch up with the vast capabilities of Photoshop they need a large group of programmers and time to write and debug all that code. So they need to sell copies of their first effort to finance the further development and they always seem to run out of money before that happens. Now PS is the best, but it also has a huge user community who has been using it for a decade or more. As new features are added many of those users are used to the arcane and difficult user interface and vociferously resist the least change in the way things work in PS. That means that new features are grafted on to the current user interface making it that much harder to learn. Old features never go away. John Nack has commented on this built in resistance to change from the user community.
Adobe of course has the large developer force, time and money to make sure that they stay far ahead of any competition. They have been steadily adding more power and capability to each new version. And I have yet to feel like a version upgrade is worthless from them. New versions are on a three year schedule lately. So Photoshop is difficult to learn, partly because of all the baggage it is carrying around from the past. It is also darned expensive, about $650 US for a new purchaser. Upgrades are running around $200 every two years.
Also Photoshop has a schizophrenic nature, it is both a graphics editor for graphical artists and it is a photo editor. Photographer may well never use many of the tools in PS since they are targeted at graphic artists. But it can do things that no other editor can do, and it can usually do those things in many different ways. But that will come at a cost to you.
Lynda.com has many online tutorials for PS (as well as many other applications) and they have 30 plus hours of video tutorials just on learning how to use the selection tools in PS. 30 hours for one feature. I watched them and worked thru the examples but still don't think I understand everything about the tools. So this is why I urge people not to spend that $650 unless you are sure that you are ready to tackle this difficult editor.
A major online community for PS can be found at: listmoms
Good books for CS4
- The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers by Kelby
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop by Schewe
Editing webpages
There are some excellent websites that cover editing technique. Like mostsites they are specific to Photoshop but if you know your editor you can probably adapt the techniques to your editor.
Cambridge in Color which is Sean McHugh's site is one of the best that I know of. It has a slightly technical reading level but has very good coverage of a most basic Photoshop techniques. Be sure to look at Sean's photo galleries while you are there.
The Light's Right the site owned by Glenn E Mitchell has a great set of tutorials that probably a bit more advanced than Cambridge. He has a 300 page ebook on sharpening for example. There are also a number of video tutorials. The essential read on this site is the 'pop' series of articles but you will want to read more than those. Mitch also has a blog and some excellent photo galleries.
The Luminous-Landscape is owned by Micheal Reichmann and a lot of other writers often contribute including Jeff Schewe. He has a set of video Magazines that can be downloaded (not free) that have some intensive looks at various aspects of photography. He also has the best intoduction to Printing and Color management that I have seen. It's a 6.5 hour video which he sells on site. This is call From Camera to Print, and it is on the advanced side and probably of little value unless you have Photoshop and a serious printer.
There are many guides and tutorials on this site but they are not as well organized. You have to look for the gems. The trip is well worth the effort. Try the Understanding series.
Commercial Tutorials
Lastly let's look at the two major commercial tutorial sites.
The first is Lynda.com. They offer a wide variety of video tutorials covering most Adobe and many other software packages. The instructors are excellent on the whole and the price is reasonable: $25/month for full access. Lynda is mostly limited to software training tho they have a few more general photography sets. You can get a free month of Lynda as a gift when you register CS4. The courses range from the basic to the advanced and can get very advanced.
KelbyTraining is Scott Kelby's site and I have only used it when they were offering a free look when they started up. At that time I thought it was very limted and Nikon centric, but I hear that they have added many new instructors and have photographic technique as well as software training courses. Cost is $20/month. I'll give it another whirl sometime soon. Kelby is the author of many very popular photography books and his books often live at the #1 position on Amazon.
And that wraps this post up.


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Combat map
Round 4 Silvio and Dargon can't find the mark with their attacks, but Kayle's claw and beak do a share of damage, as does Dargon's axe, which drops his foe.
The last of the creatures in the atrium swings its club at Kayle, but misses.
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Khaz, you can take your Round 4 action, which if it does more than 7 hp will put the frogman down.
Kyson hustles to the manor.
I hope I get to save the damsel!
Assuming Khaz or Silvio doesn't drop him:
Round 5, Init 16
Hearing the thud of Dargon's foe hitting the ground, Zstelian rushes forward drawing his falchion along the way.
Falchion: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27 Damage: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 1) + 4 = 6 Confirming: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23 Additional Damage: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 3) + 4 = 10
With the last frog-man dispatched, Zstelian quickly gathers his embedded armaments from fallen.
Khaz races up the wall with her fancy climbing slippers until she can get a decent shot without one of her companions being in the way, shooting an acidic ray at the frog man.
ranged touch attack:1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 5 - 4 = 181d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
After round 5 is over..
Sekathral lopes into the mansion, looking around him at the gore and entrails spattered all over its genteel interior.
"F**k me bow-legged, we can't leave you bastards alone for a second, can we? What's going on?"
Dargon makes gestures to signal to the elf to quiet down, then stands motionless, obviously listening for something...
Do we hear anything drawing us to a specific part of the mansion?
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
We need to head toward Liviana's bedroom. There are more assassins in there with her.
After recovering his weaponry, Zstelian pulls his wand and hits himself with it a few times.
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6 CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6 CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
"That way", Zstelian says pointing towards the bedroom.
Have Kyson and Seka caught up yet?
Pleased to have yet another enemy fallen beneath his feet Silvio gifts the atrium with another pearly smile. But knowing the situation that's about all the time he wastes before heroically scaling the stairs that lead to the upper floor. "There must be more of those creatures. To the Vanderboren bedroom!" he announces and darts towards the bedroom of Lavinia Vanderboren, stopping for nothing (but more monsters) on the way.
Once there, he tries to kick in the door: (str check if necessary: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6) I really hope that a check isn't necessary....
Sorry for the delay ... And, yes, by the end of the fight the party has all made it into the atrium.
Dargon, you can hear what sounds like barking coming from the south, likely the three mastiffs you've all run into before at the manor.
Possibly pending whatever you do about the dogs... Racing up the stairs, Silvio kicks the door open, fortunately not using his full strength so it doesn't bounce back off the wall.
None have you been in Lavinia's room before, but tall windows overlook the city of Eleder to the west and south from the spacious room, which features a large, four-poster bed made with frilly, lacy sheets and heaped with pillows.
Several of the sheets and pillows lie scattered across the floor, and a bloody handprint with webbed fingers mars the wall near the door; additional bloodstains and muddy footprints stain the carpet in places. A dead frogman lies slumped against a desk in the northwest corner of the room.
Zstelian looks around in confusion.
Are the windows open?
"Kayle, where are they? Show us girl."
Edit: Or I could ask the dogs.
Zstelian pauses, realizing he's never used this new gift on the Vanderboren hounds before.
"Where is Liviana?"
Dogs are downstairs. Unless you're going back down after finding the bedroom open. Windows are NOT open in Lavinia's room.
Okay, I'll deal with the dogs after we search the room then.
Speaking of dogs, Motte, how is yours? All okay, I hope?
Kyson arrives at the manor and yells for Liviana, his voice cracking with concern after seeing the frogpeople massacre.
Finally catching up to Silvio, Kyson regains some of his cool.
Okay...now I just need to follow him. Perfect.
Kyson aids in the search for Liviana.
Dargon's senses heighten at the apparent tragedy as he looks for clues as to what happened to Lavinia.
Perception 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29 +2 stone work
Sekathral helps Dargon inspect the room.
Aid another/Perception 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30
Haven't heard back from the vet, where she's spent the last two nights yet, but I'm expecting to get to pick her up soon. Thanks for asking!
Obviously there was a battle, but it's hard to make out the details -- you see a lot of muddy footprints coming and going as well as several signs of swords at play. Clearly, Lavinia was not captured easily, but you think she was alive when she was taken from the room.
"Damn", Zstelian growls.
The Varisian storms out the room and back down the stairs to the barking dogs.
Try talking to the dogs now.
"I think she's in the basement! Who thinks she's in the basement!?" Kyson grasps at straws, trying to help.
"Maybe we should start from the bottom and work our way up? Or top down?"
Zstelian opens the door to the kennels, revealing the three mastiffs -- Leshton, Ealia and Kurz -- who growl furiously at the site. Their hackles up, they seem surprised as the Varisian growls back in a way they can understand, but it doesn't seem as if they're ready to trust this stranger.
Zstelian handle animal: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
I was under the impression that Zstelian had interacted with the dogs before and in any case would have taken 10.
"You know my scent. Calm down."
"The basement? Actually that isn't a bad idea. The basement may be damp. Don't frogs like damp?"
While talking, Khaz helps the other looks for clues in the room first.
Aid another/Perception:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
"That's probably where the buggers came in, unless some t*t let them in the front door. There's sod all in here, anyway, so we might as well try elsewhere."
EDIT: Are we all going with Zsetelian?
That works for me.
I assumed you all went with Zstelian back to the first floor.
The dogs settle as they realize who's at the door. However, they prove to be of little help, especially as Tosh keeps looking out from his perch on the Varisian's shoulder.
Bark woof growl -- ROOF! -- whine woof woof grrr -- ROOF! -- snarl arooo whine -- ROOF!
Zstelian tries to remain calm despite the hounds' difficulty to focus on the task at hand.
He opens the door wide and steps aside.
"Do you have her scent? Show us where the stinky frogs took her."
He's encouraging them to track her with scent. He'll take 10 with handle animal if necessary.
The dogs cast about for a bit, but Lavinia's scent covers far too much of the house for them to hone in on a trail. They seem eager to accompany you, though, if you can find her.
Well that was disappointing. Was Kayle just as confused when we went into the bedroom and she wasn't there? He'd asked her in this post.
Zstelian returns to the scene of the crime and looks for clues/tracks.
Taking 10 on Perception and Survival to track.
Sorry, missed that.
Kayle seemed frustrated at the question, as if she doesn't know how to get to where she saw Lavinia from the bedroom you were in.
The frogmen tracks cover far too much, going into all the upstairs rooms, to figure out exactly what order they were made in, but you do see some spots of blood on the other bedroom doors.
Kyson, frustrated with not finding Lavinia, decides that *his* plan is the best...and runs to the basement.
"I bet she's down there...we used to hide in the basement of the monastery all the time."
Zstelian tries to help Kayle figure it out.
"Was it up?", he asks while pointing towards the ceiling.
"Well, Kyson, we sure aren't making any pro...Kyson, where are you going???" Khaz runs after Kyson, catching up as they reach the basement.
"Oi! Come back 'ere!"
Sekathral yells at Kyson in an attempt to stop him running off.
"I bet this place is crawling with bleeding frogmen. Somebody fetch that lad back before he ends up filling out some croaker's slimy belly"
Sekathral will stay with Zstelian until the ranger's worked out what's what, occupying himself by making an infernal device out of a flask of alchemist's fire, a thunderstone and some caltrops, all held together with strips of cloth from the curtains. However, if needed to help search, he'll do that instead
Craft (untrained) - take 10, so 14, or Perception 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19, as required.
Sheesh, that's loyalty, Sekathral! Seka: "I'm going to stay behind to loot bodies." Kyson: "I watch out for you!" ... Kyson: "I'm going down to save the damsel!" Seka: "Have fun running towards certain doom! I'm going stay here and play ElfGuyver!"
Kyson continues to the basement, his excitement overriding his fear.
Bah. You knew that there were going to be boobies, otherwise you'd've been off like a shot. Besides, this time you've got a genuine Andoran were-ankheg looking after you!
Sekathral glowers in the direction of Kyson's retreating footsteps, still putting together his home-made bomb.
"Has he just been caught short, or what? Zstelian - those look like pure-bred cleric hounds. Can't you send one of them off to round him up and bring him back, or are we going to have to go after him?"
Zstelian looks frustrated.
"Kayle knows where they are. She's just having trouble explaining it. Nest-room?"
Silvio looks in surprise as Kyson sprints away. "Silvio admires the young boy's enthusiasm. You try and find out where the giant frogs are keeping the lady Vanderboren, and Silvio will go and fetch Kyson", he says to Zstelian and darts after Kyson.
When i can reach him Silvio will try and trip Kyson (unless there's enemies about): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17
"I always say, when in doubt trust the priest." Dargon states as he goes after Kyson.
As Sekathral and Zstelian return to the top floor, the rest of the group follows Kyson toward the basement.
Silvio reacts quickly, but Kyson is perhaps surprisingly even faster as he races toward the basement entrance, with Dargon and Khazmia following behind them both.
They catch up as the young priest opens the door to the trophy hall, which features many hunting prizes, all well-preserved by taxidermy. Great saber-toothed cats, a crouching deinonychus, a bloated toad the size of a pony, and a strange badger-like creature with golden fur and eight legs round out a menagerie of more mundane leopards, wolves and bears. The carpet in this room is terribly stained with mud, especially around a door in the northeast corner of the room.
Kyson stops short as he notices three more frog-like creatures hiding behind the huge toad, and a strange "blourp" noise precedes three thrown axes. Kyson and Silvio are in the doorway to room 6, with the other two right behind them. Kyson can act first in the surprise round; then they'll get a chance to go before Round 1
Kyson Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19 Silvio Perception: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (8) - 1 = 7
INITIATIVES Dargon: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 Khazmia: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4 Frogmen: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
Round Surprise!
"ERP!!!" Kyson lets out a *little* yelp of surprise at the sight of the unexpected frogs.
"They're here!!"
Kyson will slam the doors shut with his surprise action.
* * * Round 1
In theory, Kyson won Init and should go again.
"They're right there, Silvio! Sarenrae's blessings upon you!"
Kyson will hastily cast Shield of Faith on Silvio and the move back behind the table in Room 12 (which is where I assume was are).
+2 to your AC Silvio for 4 minutes.
Sorry, no, you're in the hallway in Room 1. But you can choose not to be in Initiative, if you want as you were able to slam the door shut in time.
I think that works fine. I can still slam the door, yell, protect Silvio and hide, right? That's pure Kyson right there. Let's see what happens next.
Round 1, Init 5? HP 28/43, Ki Pool 5/5 AC 18 (24), touch 17 (23), flat-footed 15, (full def w/ crane style) Fort +8, Ref +6, Will +7 (+2 vs. poison, spells, spell effects, +2 vs. enchantment) CMD 24 (30)
"I'll draw their fire." Dargon suggest to Silvio.
Dargon waits to sync actions with Silvio. Then he walk ins, taking a full defensive.
Round 1, initiative 24 ac 24, touch 14, fleet-footed 16 fort +5, ref +4, will +0 cmd 20 (21 vs disarm) hp 20/36 effects: total defence
Silvio looks at Kyson with a stunned look of surprise. "What are you doing?", he asks the cleric and gestures wildly. "Why did you close the door? Now the enemies are shut inside. How are they supposed to be defeated by Silvio in there?"
The chelaxian shoves Kyson aside, places himself in the doorway and opens the door, ready to face whatever the frogmen can throw at him.
Move action to open the door Total defence as a standard action
"Oh Thank you, Silvio. Always the gentleman...." Khaz catches up (hopefully) with just enough time to see Silvio open the door, with enough expeditiousy retreatness left over to get close enough to color spray(DC15) a bunch of frogmen.
When Kyson thinks about it, he realizes Silvio is correct.
Yeah. How *are* they supposed to be defeated by Silvio if the door is closed. Can't argue with that logic.
Kyson continues to hide out of sight from thrown axes.
Zstelian continues trying to puzzle out with Kayle (and possibly Seka) when this 'nest-room' is.
"Attic? Another bedroom? On the roof?"
Sekathral's trying to help.
"Maybe we could walk about a bit and she can tell us if we're getting warm or cold?"
LOL, I imagine an animal would have a better sense of up and down than hot or cold.
"Come on girl. You can figure this out."
This is an elf who divides nature into Stuff He Can Eat and Stuff That Wants to Eat Him, though... Maybe he just feels like a game of Hide & Seek? :)
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Has anybody actually sparred those Spanish guys shown in that video?
I have not. Apparently nobody else has either. Yet I think such a query helps put all the commentary into proper perspective.
KeithFarrell wrote:The "old guard" of the Scottish HEMA scene still aren't very good at working with anyone else, but the Academy of Historical Arts is most definitely interested in working with people in the international community!
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I have been watching these guys for a while. like many I at first wanted to discount what they were doing because I thought it looked too much like classical fencing. however the more I watch, the more I am drawn to the conclusion that they have an insight into something that many of us have been ignoring (if not ignoring just plainly not practicing).


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Gold and silver prices soared to record highs and commodities continued pushing upwards as investors seek safe havens amid growing fears about inflation and the debt crisis swamping Europe.
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Complying with a court order, the Federal Reserve began releasing documents on March 31 related to one of its bailout and wealth-transfer schemes during the financial crisis. And it turns out that among the biggest beneficiaries were foreign firms, including a bank owned by Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's central bank.
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Before the economic meltdown was in full swing, a Florida real-estate developer named William Pitts correctly read the signs pointing toward tough times ahead. In an effort to preserve some of his savings, he bought financial products that would increase in value as real-estate and banking collapsed. It seemed like the sensible thing to do. But though his analysis was correct, his investments went bust — because the U.S. Federal Reserve made them go bust.
Top Banks Conspired to Defraud Taxpayers
More than a dozen top American banks were involved in a conspiracy to swindle taxpayers by rigging auctions in the $2.8 trillion municipal bond market, according to an indictment filed by the Department of Justice and multiple lawsuits across the country.
Manipulation of Precious-metals Market Under Fire
The banking cartel's manipulation of supposedly "free" markets is coming under increasing fire as a broad coalition of activists, legislators, and non-profit groups target the Federal Reserve System with lawsuits, investigations, criminal complaints, and federal transparency legislation. Now whistleblowers, and even some government officials, are also taking aim at "irregularities" in the precious-metals market being orchestrated by the banking cartel and its government allies.
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A report published Tuesday by a British newspaper sent shockwaves across the world. The Independent story, entitled "The demise of the dollar," claimed that several key governments around the world were conspiring in secret meetings to stop trading oil in U.S. federal reserve notes.
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Switzerland overtook the United States as the most competitive economy in the world, according to the global competitiveness index released this week by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
BRICS Renew Challenge to U.S. Dollar Hegemony
The statist rulers of the so-called "BRICS" countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — have been subtly calling for an end to the U.S. dollar's status as the world reserve currency for years. Now, they are making more moves to turn that rhetoric into reality, proposing a jointly controlled "development" bank and working to sideline America's already-troubled Federal Reserve Notes in trade by relying more heavily on their own fiat currencies.
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The second speaker, Chip Callaway was perhaps my favorite. Although I am not sure why, I have never previously heard of him nor his company, Callaway and Associates. This prolific North Carolina firm has designed nearly 1000 gardens, and one of their specialties is working on historic properties. Mr. Callaway took us through a small part of his portfolio, all the while injecting a serious degree of Southern humor delivered with a rich Carolina accent. My favorite property he showed us was Wharton Hall, which happens to be within walking distance of the house where my great-grandmother, Mammy Nock lived in Assawoman, Va. Even though the houses are very close, they are worlds away from each other. If you are interested, his web site is here, including a gallery of some of his projects.
Pam Baggett was the next speaker and she spoke about using tropical plants in temperate gardens. She was the owner of the sadly now defunct Singing Springs Nursery, which was a mail order nursery in North Carolina specializing in tropical plants. I still have a Euphorbia 'Sticks On Fire' that I got from Singing Springs years ago. Ms. Baggett was promoting her recent book Tropicalismo! and she had some luscious photography to show us. The bright colors and bold textures were welcome distractions on yet another cold day.
The last to speak on Thursday is one of the godfathers of television horticulture, Roger Swain. His topic was "Vegetables for Every Appetite" and I left ready to pull up my shrubs and perennials in favor for something more edible. We were a PBS family growing up and I remember him from The Victory Garden before it changed and changed and changed again. One thing that was not apparent watching the show was just how funny Roger Swain is. He has a great sense of humor, as well as a vast knowledge of all things horticultural.
The day ended with door prizes, some of which I contributed, or at least my company did. I really would like to commend the ladies from the Garden Clubs of Norfolk and Virginia Beach for once again sponsoring a great host of speakers, I don't know how they do it, but am glad they do. For me this event is always a sign that spring is here, and since my first Narcissus (pictured above) began opening the same day, it must be true.
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Don't go digging up all your flowers and shrubs until you've taken a look through the veg section of a seed catalogue because you will find that there are some veg that make attractive foliage plants and things such as runner beans also have quite nice flowers so maybe you could grow some veg without doing away with the rest of the garden. There is no law in nature to say that you must grow one or the other or that they must be grown seperate, we are the ones that made those rules for some reason. Bob.
I agree. I know that somewhere in Boston there must be back issues.
I would stay home too if they were going to speak about hardscaping. I want plants!
We are not supposed to have any freezing weather for the next week with temps in the 50's, so I know my dafs will be popping in time for bloom day.
I do not think Chip Callaway is affiliated with the garden.
I agree with you, but my toungue was firmly in cheek.
Randy and Jamie,
The show is still on, and is enjoyable, but it is just not the same. I will say that last season's shows were much better than what was on a few years ago.
I am ready for some excitement.
LesHi Les, spring has sprung where you are...and I will say the same when my first daffodil opens! The little mounds of snow here and there are gone now (in my yard, at least) but I understand your need to 'do something about them'! I was just letting nature take her course, I guess;-) Love your daffodil...she's a beauty. Hearing talks by these gardeners must have been inspirational and how nice to have seen Roger Swain in person...a real treat, no doubt!
ReplyDeleteA soil science convert...yay! As a microbiologist - and *shudder* a traditionally-trained soil microbiologist (all of my degrees are in soil science) - I still find it absolutely puzzling that I became fascinated with soil science. It was due to a teacher when I was an undergraduate - he deserves the credit. Anyway, soil science is FASCINATING. I haven't yet read the book (Teaming with Microbes) but probably should (but it kinda seems like preaching to the choir).
Callaway sounds fascinating.
ps I want to live in Assawoman, Virginia!Is there anyone who doesn't miss Roger Swain? I always felt the changes in the Victory Garden were the result of a kind of Martha Stewartization of the show. Since Martha already had a magazine and a show, they ruined a good show for no reason. I stopped watching and never went back. That was the program that got so many of us hooked on gardening.


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When her hamstring tore, it sounded like the pop of a firecracker. It felt like a gunshot.
It happened at the 100-meter hurdles semifinal of the 2008 Olympic Trials. On Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, Kellie Wells stood in lane four, her teammate and friend Damu Cherry to her right in lane five. Eight athletes took their marks. Set. Go. (Search: 2008 Olympic Trials)
Wells exploded off the blocks with her characteristic grunt. Other hurdlers screamed. They all covered the 13 meters to the first hurdle in exactly eight steps. Wells attacked the first hurdle tied for first, extending her right leg parallel to the ground, driving her upper body forward and down, skimming the top of the 33-inch-high barrier. She snapped her right foot to the ground and whipped off the 8.5 meters to the next hurdle in three steps. The athletes were close enough to touch fingers, hook hands. By the fourth hurdle Wells was alone in first place, devouring the space between barriers to open a slight lead.
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A hurdles race is about rhythm. Three steps-attack, three steps-attack. All that matters is how fast you take those three steps. When she reached hurdles 8, 9, and 10, Wells felt a downhill sensation take over. At such speed, her eyes played tricks on her. Each hurdle appeared so fast, there seemed barely room to clear it. Three steps-attack, three steps-attack. After hurdle 10, there were just 10.5 meters—five steps—to the finish line. But hurdlers cannot simply race to the line. The depth of American women hurdlers is so great and the margins of victory so slim they must hurtle themselves through it, leaning at such a pitch that they can topple into somersaults. Wells threw her head and shoulders forward and crossed the line in second place behind Cherry. Steps after the line, she looked up at the clock. Not only had she qualified for the finals, but she had also run 12.58 seconds, a PR by .13 seconds, huge in a sport where the world record is 12.21.
Wells slowed down, ecstatic. And that's when she heard it. The sound of a grade-three hamstring tear, a complete rupture of the muscle. She collapsed, writhing with pain as her right leg cramped. Medics rushed out. They tried to straighten the leg, get her to stand, to walk. Please God, it hurts too much. They loaded her onto a stretcher and sent her to the ER. No, I have to run! During the MRI, the technician piped in the results of the final: Lolo Jones, Damu Cherry, and Dawn Harper were going to Beijing.
After the scan, Wells lay on a hospital bed while the doctor delivered his verdict. Her injury was so severe she may never run again. If she did run, it was unlikely she'd ever run fast.
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The track had been her refuge, her friend, her mate since childhood. Through all the horror, it had been there for her. Had it finally betrayed her?
Kellie Wells, 29, does not have a professional hurdler's body. When she lines up at events, she's easy to pick out; she's the small one. At 5'4" and 125 pounds, she is shorter and lighter than most of her competitors, who typically stand at least 5'5". Her lithe frame is muscular, tight, and without a trace of fat, but to the uninitiated seems fitting more for a dancer than an attack machine. But that's exactly what she is.
She is one of many. Though she captured both the Indoor and Outdoor Championships in a breakout 2011 performance, when Kellie Wells takes the blocks in Eugene this June for the Olympic Trials, she will be testing herself, and her repaired hamstring, against one of the strongest fields in history. The women's hurdles is stacked with talent that includes Lolo Jones, winner of the 2008 Trials; Dawn Harper, 2008 Olympic gold medalist; and Danielle Carruthers, second in the 2011 World Championships. "We've never had this depth in the women's 100-meter hurdles," says Gail Devers, 45, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the 100-meter sprint, multiple world champion in the 100-meter hurdles, and self-professed grandmother of women's hurdling. "We are six, seven, eight deep, and unfortunately, only three can make the team. The field is wide open—it's going to be an all-out battle of who's on it that day."
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Welcome to Liverpool Public Library
Holiday Concert: Maria DeSantis Band
Sunday, December 8
2pm • Carman Community Room
Join us for a free concert of holiday songs by the Maria Desantis Band.
Art in the Lobby - December
This month's display is Nothing But Chalk Dust
by the Syracuse Pastel Artists
Queen of the Sandcastles by Deb Dahlin
Christmas Bureau Toy Drive
November 25 – December 9
We've extended our drive until the 9th! Drop off new unwrapped toys for newborns to teens at the library. They will be donated to the Christmas Bureau.
Click on the Read More below to see the Toy Drive Wish List.
Polaris Library Systems employees dropping of a big box of toys for the drive. Thanks Polaris!
Foreign and Independent Movie - Stories We Tell
Monday, December 9 • 6:30pm
Carman Community Room
A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
Rated PG-13 • Documentary • 108 Minutes.
Free admission. No registration is required.
Health Plan Marketplace Information Meeting
Thursday, December 12 • 7-8:30pm
Sargent Meeting Room
Do you have questions about the New York State of Health, the healthcare exchange set up in the State of New York as part of the Affordable Care Act? Navigators from ACR Health (Access Care and Resources) will be present to answer questions and provide information on the choices available.


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The National Exchange Club Foundation was established in 1979 to help advance the National Exchange Club's Programs of Service, and its national project, the Prevention of Child Abuse. The NEC Foundation, through its network of 75 Exchange child abuse prevention centers, has helped more than 1.8 million children and 778,400 families break the cycle of child abuse.
The National Exchange Club responds to the Penn State scandal.
Strong American families and National Exchange Club identity through the prevention of child abuse and Exchange's Programs of Service.
To provide resources for the National Exchange Club's Programs of Service,