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Originally posted by TrunksZ
Great 534 pages. For a game that sold millions of copies. Half of the posts are just filler, you do realize this? It's still not the point, you keep going on and on about SGR like it matters, put it in, leave it out, most people don't care, just fix the game is my point.
And I guess wanting to have a game be fun and playable is too high of an expectation for a AAA MMO these days. Silly me for wanting a game to play. One new battleground and one new raid means nothing if half the game is still broken and buggy.
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Wait..... wait a sec... I search and search in my Star Wars encyclopedia.... No, there is nothing about SGR. I think i never saw planet Earth in Star Wars universe. Do alliens really have SGR?
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I guess being gay is not "family friendly"?
According to a few of you.
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Originally posted by Aeonblades
Game is fun already, but it feels like some players are just looking for things to complain, help me understand your point of view what do you mean the game is "broken and buggy"?
Edit: I don't like to mention WoW, but I will, how long it takes WoW to release a BG or a Raid for that matter? and it has much more resources than Bioware, oh, but thats an AAA MMO, right?
Edit: Didn't really like how this came out, it will probably lead to misinterpretation.
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It's been quite a while since it mattered what Bioware did -- as far as most of these armchair devs are concerned, anyway. Literally the only thing they could do that might please them is announce they were shutting down the game, and even then there would be as much bitching about how they did it as there was nasty self-satisfied "I told you so" posts.
Seriously, just look at this thread. Most of these posts hit the same tired talking points, the same righteous fury, the same transparently faux rage. How in the hell these people haven't gotten sick of carrying this weird torch is a mystery, I suppose it mostly comes down to safety. The forum herd has declared all out war on ToR, so it's safe to pile on. Original thought be damned, it's all EAWare's fault that SWG is dead! Or whatever the twisted rational might be this week.
For better or ill -- better, mostly -- sites like this one long ago made themselves irrelevant to the overall market. Between the endless hype/crash addiction, the desperate need to knock anything remotely popular, and the constant sewer of vitriol, they've turned -- assuming they were ever anything else -- into an online version of those too-cool-for-you record stores of yore where only bands no one else has even heard of could possibly be decent and the main activity was looking down one's nose at anyone not you. Amusing places to visit from time-to-time, but amusing in large part because of how wholly and totally irrelevant they were in the grander scheme of things, and how little self-awareness they had.
It's amusingly notable that Rift has same-sex marriage -- with, unlike ToR, no apparent reason for marriage at all, given the near complete lack of story, let alone romantic storylines -- and no one really cares. ToR talks about adding it and it's a sign of the apocalypse.
Imagine that.
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I've been a big critic of BioWare and SWTOR since launch, as I feel it's the most disappointing handling of an extremely promising game/property with a ton of potential in the history of...well maybe ever. But this is ABSOLUTELY not one thing I've criticized them about.
I'll critisize them for taking so long to implement it, but I'm not going to critisize their implementation from anything other than a development standpoint. Their implementation comes as a result of a development team that's inept, understaffed, and mismanaged. Its small scope is a direct result the previous poor live development for this game.
However, I fully support them making a move to implement the feature in order to stay true to their word (even if it is quite late), and their desire to continue expanding it in the future.
There are a MILLION reasons to criticize BioWare and SWTOR, and a whole lot of them are extremely valid. But the criticism that this feature has received is a result of:
1. Bigots who can't handle that OMG GAY IS A THING AND IT'S IN MY GAMEZZZZZZZ. There's no point in sugar coating it, they're bigots just as those in the 60's who supported segregation were bigots.
2. People who feel that BioWare apparently has some hatred of SGR/LBGT (something which isn't exactly true, and is definitely not true of EA) so they are segregating them on one planet. If they didn't want it in the game, they coudl do what they've done with the grey moral alignment rewards and the super secret space project; pretend it doesn't exist and not talk about it.
I criticize the hell out of BioWare for SWTOR in every aspect, but I support their implementation, and hopfully expansion, of this feature in the game. Equality matters, and if you're going to include features like scripted romances in the game, make sure that everyone is covered (let's not go down the, I WANT TO ROMANCE MY SPEEDER/JAWA/ANIMAL BLAH BLAH road, that's pointless and you know it).
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Good read and I agree. Bioware has done a lot of stupid stuff since joining EA (always seem to happen in combinaiton with EA) but giving players more options to play a game the way they want it is not one of those stupid things.
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Give BioWare a break? Nope. They had their chance and blew it big time.
But that has nothing to do the the same-sex relationship thing. It's the game itself. SWTOR, DA2, and ME3 were massive disappointments. I've learned my lesson.
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They said no at that time but that caused an even madder outrage as the one we have now. So they changed course on this matter.
Maybe they'll change this time, too. But that would cause SGR implementation or even the whole expansion to be pushed back for obvious reasons.
Overall I'd say Bioware/EA have managed to almost make one unlucky decision after another with SWTOR.
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Originally posted by TrunksZ
Glitches, falling through objects, black screen at character select half the time (still) unbelievable lag if more than 10ish people are on the screen, horrendously slow combat/button recognition just to name a few. Don't use WoW as a reference, it's a game from 2006 which they have pulled most of their developers off of for another project. I don't play WoW anymore for the same reasons SWTOR is going down the drain, lack of credible development of features people actually want and not fluff filler content.
Not to mention WoW hasn't had truly challenging content since TBC. I'm not trying to be negative against Bioware or SWTOR, but a fan boy can only be a fan boy so long before he gets fed up with it.
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My only problem with it is that the game has so many flaws, bugs to correct, things to implement and yet they decided to spend money and their time on this crap. For me, unacceptable
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so we have f2p, p2p p2w,b2p.. does this create a new acronym. p2g?
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With all the things they could do to improve the game, I dont think adding man-on-man love is in the top 50% of gameplay improvements needed. I seriously wonder about the person or persons actually making the decisions. I can honestly imagine somewhere in an EA boardroom this taking place... "Hey guys, gay players account for almost 10% of our base. Lets milk them and add gay romance options in a pay-only place. We can add full breast shots in the following expansion and start milking the nerdy teenager playerbase we have next! We believe this will increase sales of the expansion by almost 6%!"
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I see what they are doing with the whole thing. Start in one area, see how it goes and go from there. It seems like the planet only gayness is just a knee jerk reaction and adding more fuel to the "let's hate on TOR" fire. I don't like the game that much, so i don't play it and i don't follow up on it. But from someone who can see the whole picture, it seems BIOWARE will have to do voice acting with everyone's NPCs and PCs just to add all that same gender stuff. Only the haters will be championing this outright and not looking at what kind of logistics are needed to put all aspects of the SGR into the game.
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Originally posted by baphamet
I have to agree with this completely, as well as with the original article. The "pay to gay" thing had me rolling my eyes as soon as I first saw it. A team can only cram so much into one expansion, and typically a team doesn't attempt to overhaul an entire MMO worth of content during the course of an expansion development period. Nor are they normally expected to.
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Originally posted by floreairfoot
The funny thing is SWTOR is not a family friendly game it has a 16+ cert here in the UK. If anyone had played either a sith warrior or an IMP agent they would see this too , amoungst other classes. The sith warrior can have sex with someone and opt to have their companion Vette watch. Also the IMP agent gets tortured and it is quite disturbing. So no it ain't family friendly and people who say it is haven't even played many if any character classes all the way through.
So I don't think a few flirt options from NPC's be they same sex or SGR should annoy anyone at all. You can opt not to chose the flirt reply in the convos. As for people thinking that now they have to pay for the privalidge to have SGR then well it's only $10 and you get a level cap increase , new planet and a few other things. I'm quite amazed that all this has caused such a mass wave of media attention do we not live in the year 2013 or is this 1953 ?
As to giving them a break , we'll yeah I agree really they listened to me and a couple of other people the other month. We protested about possibly having to pay to unlock characters that where merged onto a single server. So they didin't charge us. I can play all my 16 chracters for free still. They listened to the complaints about not having LFG. They are quite secretive but that is only because of the uproar about a patch being a aweek late and taking out RWZ's at the last min. So again I don't blame them. PC gamers ( IMO ) on forums are a real bunch of crying , hating , abusive little brats , I only witnessed this on MMO forums though , not sure about other styles of games. I thought console forum users where bad , how I was wrong.
Also I have never heard the term Pay 2 Gay and I'm glad I haven't. There is so much hate for BW and EA on this forum itself that two of my recent posts where thought to be negative about SWTOR and DIsney when in fact they weren't . What does that tell you ? It is presummed that a person gears their posts against EA , BW , SWTOR and/or Disney , it's a sad state of affairs.
Try the game yourself if you haven't make up your own mind about it and don't act like sheep for gods sake. It's $4.99 for 4 action bars , 6 character slots and you can play the whole game all the way through , that's a bargain.
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Sandbox is your only hope for a decent mmo ;)
Should never mix real world topics with games. We play games to escape real world issues and to have fun. Does it really matter if your boy toon can hold hands with another boy toon? Lot of people don't even make their character the same sex that they are.
Just improve the game stop wasting time on trivial things.
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Originally posted by Aeonblades
Leaving WoW aside, Neither my brother and I have experience any of those bugs, the most annoying bug I have experienced so far is the casual stuck between a rock and that Kira's lightsaber doesn't goes off when she puts it away, I am going to assume you have a gaming rig, but I can tell you that I don't experience any lag if more than 10 people in my screen, I think you are just simply bored of the game and I understand that, game gets old, but every game does.
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Originally posted by Talonsin
This. almost an impossible to imagine business decision made to pander to the "minority" of your playerbase.
Executive #1: "Lets talk about adding new races to the Cartel Market to increase the playerbase by an estimated 15%"
Executive #2: "Nah, lets talking about adding a gay planet that decreases our playerbase by 10%"
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My thoughts exactly, unless the game is based on real world. SWTOR is obviously not based on real world topics.


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Originally posted by wowclones
haha brainpower to use hero engine? hero engine is one of the easiest engines to use. its a toy.
what kind of serious developer gives away 35% of his profits for use of an engine?
what kind of developer lets a 3rd party service provider manage their servers?
the whole idea of a low budget 3d open world mmorpg is stupid. hero engine doesnt make this idea feasible, it simply profits off the stupidity of people who think this idea is feasible.
every serious game developer using a 3rd party game engine buys a license for an undisclosedly large amount of money with full access to source code and fuck ton of support. if you are buying a proprietary license why would you buy hero engine when there is cryengine, unreal, havoc, source, gamebryo <-- a.k.a engines with history of success?
you have 0 examples of games produced using hero engine (non proprietary) and those that use proprietary suck bad . who knows if it is the engine or the fail devs? hero engine is a risky and costly venture and therefore it sucks.
point with faxion and swtor is they both ran/run very poor framerates for their graphics. compare with tera (running on unreal engine).
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Originally posted by MindTrigger
Have you tried it? I have. And I'm telling you, it's a lot easier than I expected, though you do need a strong math background for it, which is something that most programmers don't have. But then, you'll need a strong math background to do a lot of other things well. A game engine won't automatically play balance skills for you, and relying on reading forum whining won't get the job done, either.
I haven't done sound or networking code yet, though Java has built-in capabilities that I'll use. At the moment, I'm taking the view that if everyone and his neighbor's dog could do sound a decade ago, then I can probably figure out how to do it today. Meanwhile, the networking code absolutely must be customized to fit the exact data your game needs to send and take into account how time-sensitive various things are or else it will be terrible.
As for 3D APIs, you use either Direct3D or else OpenGL. It takes a few weeks to learn either one, but most of the graphical things that games commonly do that seem like they should be hard are handled automatically by the API.
Now, if it's a really small project where you're trying to make a game on a $10,000 budget, then yeah, you want to license a game engine rather than creating your own. But if you've got a $1 million budget, it doesn't cost that much to have one person spend a few months to create a 3D graphics engine that does exactly what you want it to do.
Originally posted by MindTrigger
you need buy a proprietary license and get full access to source code if you want to use a 3rd part engine to make something like a 3d open world mmorpgs (i think this is what the "against" side in this argument is basically trying to say).
serious developers dont use the hobby versions of these engines because
1. they dont give the developer much control
2. ~30% of your profits is way too expensive
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Originally posted by bishbosh
It's not too expensive if you are *never* going to secure the $1 million+ and a couple years it may take to write your own engine, which will not even come close to Hero or Unity's capability. For all intents and purposes, using Hero Cloud is a type of investment in your company, and for that investment, they are getting paid a percentage. If you can't afford to hire enough people to build an engine from scratch in the time it would take, you are pretty much dead in the water before you even get started. If you secure real investment, they might end up owning at least 30% of your business, and often times investment comes at the price of giving up majority ownership and control of your business
I've never used Hero Engine, but I have seen what some other devs are doing with it, such as The Repopulation, and it looks pretty damned good to me. The Repopulation probably wouldn't even exist if they didn't have the option of licensing a turnkey engine, nor would Greed Monger or other projects. This discussion wasn't about whether or not Hero Engine is the best choice for all projects. It was about a great tool being available to get *INDY DEVELOPERS* started in game development for a very low cost of entry.
Let us also not forget that if I get Hero Engine for $99 and I walk away from my project before it's even done, for whatever reason, I'm only out my time plus $99. Try that with traditional investment. I haven't looked at their contract, but I imagine the fate of a finished game that fails at launch doesn't put you in the poor house either.
I'm not a fan of pharmaceutical anti-depressants, but I'm starting to think a lot of people around here could benefit from them. Seriously.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
Originally posted by MindTrigger
Hooray for completely made up numbers that sound scary?
If you make your own game engine, you don't need for it to match everything that the Hero or Unity engines can do. You only need for it to be able to do the things that you want to do in your particular game. You don't have to try to think of everything that everyone could conceivably ever want to do in any game and implement all of that.
Originally posted by MindTrigger
is repopulation using the hobby version of hero engine (herocloud) or the did they buy a license with access to source code etc?
source code access is $75k + 7% revenue. im guess repopulation went with this option. any developer which is actually serious about what they are doing will go with this option. herocloud is a toy.
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Originally posted by mmoDAD
There's more to having commercial success than having a good product. Yes, it does help, but that in itself does not guarantee its success.
Originally posted by grimal
mmoDAD ccompletely missed the part where blizzard has lots of experience with massive multiplayer with bnet and bioware has none and both companies have made other non mmorpg games. souldrainers advice is pretty good. i reckon you could subsitute 10 small indie games as he suggested with 1 succesful multiplayer indie game that people actually play. point is that you need skills/experience/money to make an mmorpg and until you acquire this you probs shouldnt bother. make a simple multiplayer game first-- see if you can do that.
An MMORPG as your very first project is probably a bad idea, unless it's awfully simple. But ten other games first? Why ten? Does ten really give you that much more critical experience as compared to nine?
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Wow I never witness so much vemon spewing forth at someone that is just trying to ask if herocloud would be a good start for new or small indie teams to tinker with. We're not talking about the next UO here. I personally think it's fine to dabble in while moving from the concept phase to the materialize stage. It would allow you to test your fortitude while keeping your finacial well being safe. I look at this as a way for new ideas to surface just like XNA was to console gamers for indies. No harm in that. HeroCloud is nothing more to MMOs than XNA was to consoles. Which maybe a good thing to humble a lot of the people around here that keep thinking they can do better. Some may and many will not.
Originally posted by Ramonski7
read thread again. i dont think anyone here has been even slightly rude to OP. a lot of people here dont seem to appreciate the engineering side of video games and the dont understand how important it is. multiplayer is a huge challenge and massively multiplayer is even harder. herocloud is fine for getting your feet wet but if you want to make actually make a massively multiplayer game and make money from it i would look elsewhere.
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"A wise man has something to say, but a fool just has to say something."
But both can be done with herocloud. Like I stated before, I don't think anyone here is looking to create a masterpiece here. And I know the OP is not looking to replace is income here. I just think instead of detracting from the small goals he has listed, maybe some of the more tech savvy members here could give some words of encouragement. But I now understand that's like asking people here for a kidney when all you asked for was a light.
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Hmm... while some of the more experienced people around here who are against the use of premade engines, are offering some valuable insight and information.
I still think that the spirit in which the OP is presentingthem is still valid and good. The premade engnes are a good start of the new people to get in to making a game. Not everyone can start coding their own engine just like that. And not everyone can make a game and grasp many of the notions that are involved. But everyone can learn and premade engines are a good way to learn in my opinion.
So unless some here have somethng to fear, i do not think that discouraging people from getting their feet wet with these engines which at 99$/year are a very affordable endeavor, is actually a good thing.
Many players have much better ideas than existing Devs (mainly due to constrtraints imposed on them by the industry), which these engines could help some to express without those constraints. It can only be good for the industry and I do not hink that there is anything to fear of.
I say anyone who ever wanted to put some of their Ideas to the test, go for it, pick one of these engines and let your creative juices guide you!
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Tell the guys Developing the Repopulation all this crap and see what they say considering they are using Hero... I personally have a HeroEngine Server - I'll tell you one thing it's NOT designed for people with no Programming Experience. There's a TON of Programming you have to do. And it runs great on my old Single Core CPU with Integrated Graphics so I have no idea where people get that it doesn't perform well.
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Originally posted by bishbosh
Tell that to the people making The Repopulation.
The HeroEngine and the HeroCloud is the perfect solution for an indie company wanting to create an MMO or some other online game. Heroscript is the way for people using heroengine to code in new things or manipulate the engine in different ways.. its just a different scripting language.. UDK also uses their own scriping language as well as many other game engines. You can also gain access to the source code for the hero engine via other license models.
As for making an MMO yes your right its a lot of work but HeroEngine does cut down that work quite a bit.. work that you would have to do if you where gonig to use Unity3d..
Unity is a nice engine as well, now with DX11 support as well but it is in no way setup to support MMOs and you have to do a lot of work to get it even close to being ready for an MMO.. you will also need to use middleware for the networking code.
Most people put the hero engine down because of SWTOR.. Bioware used an old version of the engine and managed to mash it up bad as well..
At the end of the day HeroEngine is a very viable option for any indie company wanting to make an MMO. its also one of the best engines for multiple people working togeather, I have not seen it done better in any engine.
Saying that no one should try and make an MMO game as their first game, there is a shit ton of work invovled and a lot of things can go wrong.. best to make a few SP games and maybe a few small MP games first :)
Didnt realsie they had released HeroEngine 2 think ill have to take another look at it :)
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Unity3D IS another option with the right Network Middleware (MuchDifferent's uLink) it's a very viable option. That's what the team I'm on is using. We are programming our own "inhouse" framework complete with custom Editors, Seamless Tech, our own Character Customization Tech, and plenty as of yet unreleased Cutting edge tech not found in any Current MMO.
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Originally posted by JamesP
Frame rate isn't just a function of the game engine. It depends tremendously on how much you're trying to keep track of and have to draw per frame, and on what you're trying to draw. The first time I ran my game engine, it ran at about 200 frames per second on my AMD E-350 based laptop/netbook, even though it was horribly unoptimized. It helped that the only thing it was trying to draw was a test pattern on the ground. Getting 50 frames per second while drawing 20 times as much means I've made huge improvements in efficiency, even though the frame rate went way down.
Now, you probably already knew that. But that's a point I was trying to make earlier in the thread, where someone was complaining that the Hero Engine is what forces SWTOR to limit how much it draws on the screen at once, as though some other game engine could draw arbitrarily large amounts of things without any performance problems. While there are surely some game engines that are more efficient than others, it's not an easy thing to measure, especially considering that the relevant comparison is after you've made all of your optimizations to each.
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The trick is, there is only so much blood you can sqeeze from a turnip. Also, if you don't have access to the code for the engine, at that price, that is where people make optimizations.
Originally posted by Caldrin
Does DirectX 11 even matter if you're not using tessellation? And how could one plausibly hope to do tessellation without writing your own shaders? That's low-level stuff that an off-the-shelf game engine isn't going to give you access to without the full source code.
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Having worked with Hero Engine for about a year and a half now, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the thing. It's renderer isn't on par with the likes of Unreal Tech, but the editors, collaberative editing, networking is all just fine.


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I have been seeing a lot of "gooey" red eyes which means bacterial conjunctivitis is going around.
Conjunctivitis is defined as reddening of the outermost layer of the eye, it is also called pink eye. I have to laugh when I tell a patient that their child has conjunctivitis, and the parent replies, "at least they don't have pink eye". If your eye is pink then it is called pink eye, but the question arises, what is causing the pink eye?
There are several common causes for conjunctivitis in children. Like many other illnesses, pink eye may be caused by a viral infection, a bacterial infection or allergies. There are certain physical findings that may point to the type of infection that is causing pink eye.
Bacterial conjunctivitis is more common in infants, toddlers and preschool children. Did you know that 1:8 children has an episode of conjunctivitis each year and there are 5 million cases in the U.S every year? Those little "germy" toddlers are good at touching their eyes, toys and each other and can readily spread pink eye.
Bacterial conjunctivitis typically causes a "gooey" discharge as well as matting of the eyelids. Children awaken with an eye that is "glued" shut with gunk. It is usually present in both eyes and may be associated with an infected ear as well, so if your toddler has gooey eyes they should be examined. If they have both otitis (ear infection) and conjunctivitis they will need an oral antibiotic and not just eye drops.
Viral conjunctivitis is more common in older children (and adults), than in the preschool set. It is also very contagious but the discharge is usually more watery. The most common cause of a viral pink eye is adenovirus (see another post) and this may cause one really red eye.
Viral pink eye is more often one sided than a bacterial infection. It is also not uncommon to have a sore throat to go along with a viral pink eye. Viral conjunctivitis does not improve with antibacterial eye drops, so if you have a pink eye and it is not getting better with antibiotic eye drops it is most likely viral in origin. I often just use over the counter artificial tears for a viral pink eye, just to help soothe the eye if the child/adolescent is "bugged" by it. No contact lenses either.
Allergic conjunctivitis is more commonly seen during allergy season. The symptoms of the allergic pink eye seem to come and go and may include itchy red eyes, watery or gooey discharge, swelling of the eye lids and area beneath the eye (allergic shiners) and a runny nose. Sometimes the conjunctiva becomes so affected that there are even blebs present.
So if you have a child with draining pink eyes, keep up that hand washing in hopes that you are not going to catch pink eye! We can always tell which doctors/nurses and staff have succumbed to pink eye as they show up in their glasses!
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The defendant was ordered to pay $5,305 in restitution to the victims and obtain his GED as part of his probation. He was also sentenced to three years probation for a separate offense of carrying weapons on school property.
Benefield has been a regular visitor to Superior Court recently. He was in court Sept. 24, 2012, facing a weapons charge, and Assistant District Attorney Keagan Waystack attempted to give him a break. Because the knife, which was the reason for the charge, was found in Benefield's vehicle on school grounds and not on his person, she asked the court to place the case on dead docket and the charge would be dropped if he stayed out of trouble.
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Welcome to Part II of our oh-so-basic nutrition class designed to give you an overview of basic nutrition and make healthy eating much simpler. Last time was our intro, and we're already changing the syllabus.
Today we're going to talk about what to eat. I've changed the schedule because of something that happened on the Message Boards this week, which hammered home just how far we've fallen in our basic understanding of dieting. In brief, a guy had heard that olive oil was good for him, so he was eating 12 tablespoons of it along with 4 ounces of chicken for lunch. Because of what he had read and heard about dieting, he actually believed he was doing something beneficial. Boys and girls, the situation has become alarming. Let's jump right into discussing what we should eat. When we're finished, I'm sure you'll know exactly what's wrong with that guy's lunch, other than that it sounds like a food challenge.
People often ask me—and I'm not kidding—why they need to eat protein, carbs, or fat. I had one person submit a scathing letter saying something along the lines of "no professional" would ever recommend more than such and such amount of protein, fat, and carbs. The reason I bring this up is that the percentages she claimed "no professional" would ever exceed totaled 70 percent. The problem with her logic was that proteins, fats, and carbs are—basically—your only choices. They have to equal 100 percent of your diet.
Well, actually, they don't have to, but they certainly ought to. Let's look at a few other things that can make up part of your 100 percent. Mainly it's just alcohol. At 7 calories per gram, alcohol is loaded with calories and can, especially during the holiday season, make up a fairly high percentage of your diet. However, I'm not aware of any nutritionist who would recommend that it be much more than a trace percentage, given that alcohol has no nutrient value. Other things you can eat are pesticides, heavy metals in your water, dust, dirt, toys, etc. Most of these things don't have calories, but, even if they did, I think we can conclude that they should not make up a percentage of your daily diet, at least not purposely. Therefore, the percentage of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in your diet should equal 99.99 percent or, ya know, 95 percent on girls' night out or during Super Bowl weekend.
I'd like to discuss this more fully, but remember, this class is only the CliffsNotes version. Should you wish to learn more, please read these in-depth articles on protein,
fat, and carbs from previous issues. It's good stuff, and well worth 15 minutes of your time. Or at least bookmark them for later.
Protein. Protein serves as building blocks for your body tissues. You need it to grow and repair your muscles and pretty much everything else. It's found in animal products and, to a lesser degree, in plants, making getting enough protein challenging for vegetarians, especially those who avoid dairy products.
What it doesn't do is give you energy. It's material, not fuel. A diet with too much protein does not help you function well. Too little protein, however, and you won't recover from the energy you burn.
It's found in abundance not only in animal products but also in grains and legumes, like rice and beans, respectively. This is why beans, rice, and soy products are so popular in cultures that tend to be vegetarian. It's also found in many vegetables, but because veggies contain so few calories, it's tough to make them a significant part of your protein intake, unless you use a juicer, but now I'm getting ahead of myself. We'll save juicing for a later date.
Proteins weigh in at 4 calories per gram.
Fat. Dietary fat, the kind you eat, should not be confused with body fat, the stuff that causes you to ask your husband or your wife, "Do I look fat in this?" That type of fat comes from an improper diet or lack of exercise—though it's usually both. The fat you eat is very important for many day-to-day functions. Fat:
But before you rush out to stock your fridge with butter and cheese, be aware that 1) there are good fats and bad fats and 2) you don't need too much fat to satisfy the above list.
Bad fats include animal and trans fats, which should be severely restricted in your diet. Animal fats are pretty easy to avoid, since they are obvious. Trans fats are a man-made variety and tend to show up in processed junk foods, like cookies, cakes, chips, and stuff that may sit on a shelf for months or years. Fortunately, they are now required to be listed on labels, which have hurt sales so much that most companies have stopped using them.
Good fats come from plant sources, like olives, avocados, nuts, seeds, and so on.
You may have noticed a pattern: All the foods mentioned above tend to be filling. That's because they are what's termed "nutrient dense." Fat has more than twice the calories per gram than carbs and protein. You don't need much in their natural state. And condensed fats, like oils and butter, should be used sparingly indeed.
Fats weigh in at 9 calories per gram.
Carbohydrates. Maligned and misunderstood, carbs are probably the simplest foods to understand. They are fuel for your body, plain and simple. Carbs help you do stuff, as in they help you stay active. The more stuff you do, the more carbs you need to eat. Conversely, the lazier you are, the less you need to eat.
Carbs basically break down into glucose—blood sugar—in your body, which provides energy for both your muscles and your brain. Unlike fats, there aren't really good and bad carbs. Different types suit you better at different times, depending on—you guessed it—what sort of stuff you happen to be doing.
Carbs mainly come from plant sources, with milk products being the primary exception. In nature, plants have something called fiber, which is the part of the plant we can't digest. The rest of the plant will become blood sugar—fuel—in our bodies, while the fiber will help regulate how we use it. Fiber is important stuff. It not only helps us digest nutrients, it cleanses our digestive tracts and soaks up excess cholesterol.
The "bad carb" moniker comes from those carbs without fiber—things like simple sugars (candy)—and carbs that have been stripped of their fiber—things like white rice, some cereals, fruit juices, pastas, etc., etc. These foods aren't really bad, per se; they are just bad most of the time because they speed into your system and cause an insulin spike, or what we call a sugar rush. Unfortunately, and where the negative association comes from, we tend to consume sugars at the worst times, such as when we're sitting around at movies, watching TV, at work, etc. Insulin spikes during these times can lead us into a vicious cycle, which we'll look at a bit deeper during our dessert session.
But there are times when a sugar rush is advantageous, like during or immediately after sports. At these times, you want an insulin spike because it will help you recover faster by rushing nutrients back into a system that you've depleted by doing exercise. The quicker you recharge your body's glycogen (sugar) stores, the less damage your muscle tissue incurs from the workout and the quicker you recover (making products like
Results and Recovery Formula beneficial at these times). This is why "sports foods" tend to be sugary, and why Gatorade has no business as a regular part of your diet. Sports foods are for sports, only, and I don't mean watching sports.
At all inactive times you should opt for the natural version of carbs, complete with fiber, like whole fruits, fresh veggies, whole grains, legumes, sweet potatoes, etc. This will not only keep your energy level more consistent, it will also keep you from craving more sugar. While you need carbohydrates, you only need enough to keep your blood sugar levels stocked up. Your body can't store extra carbs, so it stores them as fat—and not as good dietary fat, but in adipose tissue, which is the kind of fat that might cause your husband to lie to you about how you look in that new dress or your wife to lie to you about how tight that belt really looks.
Carbs weigh in at 4 calories per gram.
The one key piece of advice to take from this class is this: You should eat for what you do each day. Let me use a simple analogy. How much fuel do you put in your car when you don't drive it? How much when you do?
This doesn't exactly equate. You are not a machine, plus you're always on. But the fuel example is relevant. When you are active, you burn more glycogen and, hence, need to eat more carbs. Carbs should be the most variable item in your diet. If you've been hiking through the Grand Canyon, you may eat double, or even triple, the amount of carbs you'd eat than during a day at the office. Your other nutrients don't change as much. You need more protein if you are causing more muscle breakdown, but only so much. Carbs are literally burned off.
How much is quite variable. A muscular athlete will burn more fuel at rest than someone who is out of shape. With my clients, I tend to start them at 40 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, and 30 percent fat, and then adjust as necessary. This varies by the individual, but this ratio seems like the best average place to start.
Keep in mind that your diet is always a moving target. As you change, so does your nutrient requirement. People often ask me, "Can't you just tell me exactly what I should eat every day?" My answer is, "No."
A person trying to change his or her body composition (lose or gain weight) will eat differently than someone trying to maintain it. And everyone, no matter what his or her goal is, should eat differently on days when he or she does different things. It's not as simple as "calories in, calories out," but that cliché is not a bad ballpark figure to think about while deciding what, when, and why to eat.
Here are simple guidelines. Of course, results vary because all of our bodies are different to a degree. But we're also similar, so using these guidelines as a starting point will work for most people. In the end, no one will be better able to tell you what you need than you will. You have to learn to listen to your body's signals and adjust.
We left these out of today's discussion. While they are a big part of your nutritional equation, you're likely to get enough if you use the above guidelines to eat. These are found in abundance in all natural foods. Processing foods ruins their nutrient values, so these foods often have nutrients added to them. But there is no guarantee that manufacturers have added good nutrients—you can't beat natural foods for ensuring quality and bioavailability. When we eat enough natural foods to support our activities, we generally get plenty. People who are cutting calories, exercising excessively, or eating a lot of processed food should consider supplementing. There are many different ways to choose vitamin and mineral supplements. Beachbody's
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Now let's get back to that guy in the intro. His lunch consisted of 4 ounces of chicken, which is mainly protein with a little fat. Olive oil is a healthy fat. But 12 tablespoons is around 1,500 calories. So we're looking at a nutrient ration of around 12 percent protein, 0 percent carbohydrate, and 88 percent fat in a lunch approaching what is probably 80 percent of the calories that guy should eat that day. It doesn't take a nutritionist to figure out that this guy is going to have a problem reaching any of the nutrient ratios discussed above. That is unless he, quite literally, loses his lunch, which seems pretty likely.
That's it for today. Next time, we'll get back on track of sorting out what advertisers mean as we're sorting through all those catchy slogans at our local supermarkets.
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Speaking of guns, I still have that gun of yours here. I was going to drop it off to you at the birthday bash, but I guess you aren't doing that anymore.
I've gotten away from guns (not that I don't still like to shoot. I do.) and I'm having a blast designing/building a streetfighter out of a 1974 Z1
I'm taking this mock up
and making something like this with a few weapon mounts. lol
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Pull up your pants, turn off that damn rap and speak clear English, if you want to talk to me.
Thank you.
I bet you have some pretty sick stuff yourself.
As far as my mounts, I've been trying to figure what weapons will fit and how it rides with that weapon mounted.
I have been testing ideas on this bike. So far I figured out how to mount a Titan 45acp to the dash, a Lan-Cay M9 under the seat, and a M590A1 down by the swingarm.
I'd really like to do a weapon mount with a solenoid to activate a trigger and a back up camera from a car mounted inline with the weapons sights/optic.
Then I could mount the monitor to my dash and a fire control switch to my handlebars. I just don't know how I'd explain that mod to the local PD. LOL
Pull up your pants, turn off that damn rap and speak clear English, if you want to talk to me.
naw , i just ride a 11 yr old HD with a crescent wrench and a allen set in the bag and yes , a bottle of oil.........
A 11 year old HD? My newest bike is 3 times older than yours.
My dad's buddy who used to race Harley's with his brown Z1 on Saturday night in the late 70's, past away last year.
He still had some Z1's (including his old brown Z1) that had been rotting away outside for the last 20+ years.
Well, I ended up with them and I'm just about finished with the first one.
Just waiting for the Larry of Cavanaugh Racing to ship back the head and then It's all going back together. (fingers crossed)
1000cc pistons from a fuel injected Kaw, Andrews 2X cams, 28mm Mic's with the 17mm drain bolt on the float bowls, 1000cc valves w/ 3 angle valve job, new valve guides, Street ported head, so on and so on. Basically it's a "sleeper". http://www.kzrider.com/forum/11-proj...a-preservation
Oh, by the way. I'm giving this bike to my mother.
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Pull up your pants, turn off that damn rap and speak clear English, if you want to talk to me.
Kenny, that bike is coming along nicely. I definitely love the red one you showed as an example. Bada$$!!!! I miss my old Eliminator 1000!!!!
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
I'm plugging away on them. I can't wait for the brown Z1 to be finished, so I can start on my streetfighter.
I remember you telling me that you had a 87 Z1000. I sat on one of those on the show room floor back in 87.
My buddy had one in his shop for repair last month. I had to sit on it also. lol
Kinda gave up on building guns and decided to mess with bikes. I have enough old Kawasaki bikes to keep me busy for years. lol
This is what I have stashed.
1974 400 Triple
1974 Z1A Streetfighter
1974 Z1A Preservation
1976 KZ900 Parts Bike
P.S. Have you heard anything from Scott? Is he still building?
I still can't get over how much he looks like Jeff Bridges.
Pull up your pants, turn off that damn rap and speak clear English, if you want to talk to me.
I have a few.
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TERRELL, Texas George William Tarbell, 76, died Dec. 29, 2012.
He was born Oct. 6, 1936, in Rutland, Vt., the son of William and Marion Tarbell.
He graduated in 1954 from Rutland High School.
Mr. Tarbell served in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1965.
He was the safety officer at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas for over 25 years, retiring in 1995.
In Terrell, he was a member of College Mound United Methodist Church, chief of College Mound Volunteer Fire Department and a leader in the Boy Scouts.
Survivors include a brother, William Tarbell of Livingston, and a foster son, Bradly Wallace of The Colony.
The memorial service will be held March 16, 2013, at College Mound Methodist Church in Terrell.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
A fourth grader stole the show at last week's Black History celebration in Goose Creek.
Fourth-grader T'auna Prioleau gave a dramatic monologue for which she received a standing ovation. She spoke as Coretta Scott King (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife) in an emphatic speech she memorized.
The nine-year-old Joseph Pye Elementary School student used her booming, powerful voice and enunciated each word as clearly as the vision of the character she was portraying.
"I can't be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be," T'auna said. "I believe all forms of discrimination are equally wrong."
T'auna's performance was only one of many show-stopping moments witnessed last week during the Goose Creek NAACP's Black History Month Celebration held at the Berkeley Electric Co-op building off Springhill Drive in Goose Creek.
The 2013 Black History Month theme was "At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington." The program touched on both topics.
Goose Creek Mayor Michael Heitzler spoke of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect 150 years ago. Heitzler said Lincoln waited two years into his presidency before the proclamation was made.
Heitzler added that Lincoln's move was similar to a British end to slavery and kept Britain, France and Spain from becoming allies with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Those countries were on the verge of supporting the South in the war, while Russia nearly became an ally to the Union, according to Heitzler.
This is when Lincoln turned from a politician into a moralist, Heitzler said.
A century later, on Aug. 28, 1963, America stood at the crossroads of segregation and discrimination when King led his peaceful march on Washington to the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech.
Goose Creek High School student Silas Adams read that speech to the audience at Monday's celebration and linked it to President Barack Obama.
Adams said Obama's inauguration cashed the check and made King's dream a reality. "Dr. King's dream, Obama's dream, my dream, your dream, the American Dream is just a blink away," he said.
Fort Sumter National Park Service employee Michael Allen spoke of the importance of Gullah and Geechee heritage.
Goose Creek Concerned Citizens Elder Kenny Johnson told his story of working with city officials to rename the Goose Creek Recreation Center the Casey Center, after a slave who escaped. There is also a historical marker by the Goose Creek Library off Old Moncks Corner Road.
GCHS student Uzuri Boatwright gave a brief history of Rosa Parks and read from some of her writings on the success of the bus boycott.
Goose Creek City Councilmember John McCants was honored and presented with a city proclamation on Black History Month.
"I was stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. with a weapon as security as people marched from Selma to Montgomery," McCants said of the 1965 march that ended less than 100 miles away from Fort Benning.
U.S. Post Office employees presented framed posters of two special stamps: one honoring the Emancipation Proclamation and the other honoring Rosa Parks. The posters will hang at the Berkeley County School District and Goose Creek City Hall, respectively. Several actual first-class "forever stamps" were sold after the program.
BCSD Associate Superintendent of Human Resources Glenda Levine was the mistress of ceremonies for the evening.
Several other local dignitaries spoke and were among the more than 50 people in attendance.
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If we ran into any of The Walking Dead actors on the street, we'd be hard-pressed to recognize them without their onscreen sheen of blood, sweat, and dirt. OK, that's a slight exaggeration: Norman Reedus ;(Daryl Dixon) is the same kind of smoldering hot in or out of the dirt (or a Prada suit), and Andrew Lincoln ;(Rick Grimes)'s baby blues have been burnt on the back of our retinas since that "to me, you are perfect" scene from Love Actually. It remains, though, that some TWD ;cast members clean up pretty nice.
So, what do these gritty survivors look like when not in costume and caked with walker gore? Probably something like their characters looked before the turn, although we're pretty sure Eugene Porter ;(Josh McDermitt) ;was born with a mullet.
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Baking bread is a lot like raising children. It starts from nothing, a blend of a few high-quality, simple, basic ingredients and love. One stirs it all up and prays for the best. It is a gentle balance of coddling and kneading, tender pressure mixed with a little force and elbow grease. Press and fold, push and pull as we whisper encouragement, brush the sweat from our brow and try and get the perfect texture, faultless, beyond compare. We do our best to mold it into the desired shape and yet accept its imperfections, patching up its bumps and imperceptibly, gingerly pushing it back as best we can. Then we cover it loosely, just enough to protect it but not so much as to smother it, step back, breathe and wait. Wait. Impatiently even as we are oh-so tempted to help it along, knowing that our help just won't make it go any faster or change the outcome. We watch. Anxiously. Praying that it goes as planned though knowing now that we have done our job, all that we can do, and now can only watch and wait.
We are at once powerless and all-powerful, having followed our own urges and made the decision to create something of beauty, something to please others while really only trying to please ourselves, yet we can only do what is in our power to do for only so long and then what happens happens. We pray that inside our little baby is soft and tender, fragrant and sweet. We hope that outside our little baby is tough enough to hold up to heat and pressure, protect the delicate goodness inside, crusty, golden, delectable. We would like what we have created to be distinctive, enticing, delightful and, yes, palatable. We take that basic recipe and throw in our own personal mix of pizzazz: nuts, earthy, wholesome and toothsome; chocolate chips or fruit, sweetness oh-so sweet; cheese or meat, smoky, powerful, spicy or subtle yet intriguing. And we serve it up, send it out of the kitchen and into the world to be tasted, eaten and judged and wait, wait some more, for smiles to appear all around, nods of appreciation, applause and kudos, asking for more.
Together with my wonderful friends Lora the Cake Duchess and Lisa of Parsley, Sage, Dessert and Line Drives, we have created Twelve Loaves, a monthly baking challenge – mostly bread in its every form – to get you baking. I have never kept it secret that, although I often buy fresh bread at the boulangerie and the occasional box of cookies at the supermarket, I believe that breads, cakes and cookies are always better homemade than packaged. And if one is baking from scratch then, well nothing beats flour, sugar, butter and milk. While good in a pinch, boxed mixes just don't come close to the quality, healthfulness and flavor. Baking from scratch can be just as simple while giving better tasting results. So Lora, Lisa and I, three passionate home bakers, have decided to create this little baking challenge every month to inspire and encourage you all to bake from scratch. Just a simple challenge, quite casual, where you are in charge of choosing the recipe you make, as simple or as complicated as you like, but hoping that you are inspired to kick it up every once in a while with new techniques, recipes and creations. Get the creative juices flowing, fill your home with the scent of freshly baked bread and treat yourself and those around you to the wonders of home baking.
Our very first Twelve Loaves theme for the month of August is Bread with Summer Fruit. I have taken a favorite, fabulous, failproof Challah recipe from Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day and added my favorite summer fruit: cherries. Deep, dark, sweet with a delicate sourness and pronounced flavor, cherries with a tablespoon or two of tiny chocolate chips will raise the Challah to new heights and take a bread and turn it into dessert. A touch of maple syrup, the crunch of slivered almonds and the bread is complete. This braided loaf is my very own first of my Twelve Loaves.
And yours? Simply bake a bread, yeast or quick bread, loaf or individual, filled, stuffed, studded or topped with your favorite fresh summer fruit or berries. Try this Challah recipe: it is so easy to put together and is practically foolproof. Perfect every time.
What unites Twelve Loaves and all of you? We love baking from scratch because people love eating real bread, real cake, delectable treats right out of the oven. Together we will discover new recipes and learn and master new techniques, discover flavors, textures, new ways to experience bread at the table with family and friends. 12 months, 12 baked goods, 12 challenges... Lisa, Lora and I will each post the new challenge on our blogs the first of every month with our own choice of recipe; feel free to use one of our recipes or choose your own. Just adhere to the theme.
So what are you waiting for? Get baking!
Just follow the rules, it's as easy as pie:
1. When you post your Twelve Loaves bread on your blog, make sure that you mention the Twelve Loaves challenge in your post and mention and link back to Lora, Lisa and Jamie's blogs. Please make sure that your Bread is inspired by the theme! This is obligatory if you would like your link to be included!
2. Please link your post to the linky tool at the bottom of Lora, Lisa or Jamie's blog. It must be a bread baked to the Twelve Loaves theme.
3. Feel free to promote the Twelve Loaves by proudly displaying the Twelve Loaves badge in your Twelve Loaves post as well as in your sidebar! It isn't mandatory but is a nice way to get the word out!
4. Have your Twelve Loaves bread posted on your blog and linked to ours by August 31, 2012.
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I would also like to share this Challah with Susan of Wild Yeast for her weekly Yeastspotting!
From Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day by Zoë François and Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.
For step-by-step photo directions please click here.
This recipe makes four 1-lb (500 g) loaves.
1 ¾ cups (300 ml) lukewarm water
1 ½ Tbs (18 g) active dry yeast
1 ½ Tbs (30 g) Kosher or table salt
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
½ cup (120 ml) honey (or ¼ cup honey + ¼ cup maple syrup)
½ cup (115 g) unsalted butter (or neutral-tasting vegetable oil)
7 cups (scant kilo) flour
Egg wash (1 egg beaten with 1 Tbs water)
Poppy or sesame seeds for the top, optional
For my Challah:
3.5 – 7 oz (100 – 200 g) fresh cherries, stems removed, cherries pitted and sliced in half
2 Tbs mini chocolate chips
Replace the poppy or sesame seeds with 1 Tbs slivered almonds
1 Tbs maple syrup for brushing the Challah, optional
In a large mixing bowl, stir together the yeast, salt, eggs, honey, maple syrup (if using) and melted butter (warm, not hot) with the water. Stir in the flour without kneading, using a wooden spoon, a food processor or stand mixer. I used the spoon.
Stir and fold just until all of the flour is blended into the wet ingredients and is moist. Cover with plastic wrap (not airtight) and allow to stand at room temperature for 2 hours. The dough should rise then collapse. It may take a little longer depending upon outside conditions.
The dough can now be used but I place the dough in the refrigerator overnight. This allows it to finish rising and become very light and the dough is also muxh easier to work with chilled.
To prepare the Cherry Chocolate Chip Challah:
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Remove the bowl of dough from the refrigerator, dust the surface of the dough, your hands and your dough scraper all with flour, keeping extra flour handy, and scrape the dough down the sides of the bowl. The dough will sink and flatten. Dipping your hands and the dough scraper in flour as needed (the dough is sticky) break off one 1-pound (500 g) piece of dough for each Challah you would like to make and place on a well-floured work surface. Dust the dough with more flour and shape it into a ball.
Flatten one ball of dough into a wide disc on a floured surface and press in about half of the cherries and chocolate chips which have been placed evenly over the surface. Roll up the dough and knead quickly. Flatten the dough once again into a disc and place the rest of the cherries and chocolate chips over the surface as best as possible, fold or roll up again and knead until the fruit seems well ensconced in the dough. Divide the ball of dough into 3 equal pieces and, using your hands, form each piece into a long, thin rope (remember making Play-doh snakes? Same thing: roll between your hands with the rope hanging down and roll back and forth on the table, pulling and squeezing gently as need be.) If the dough resists shaping just let the pieces rest for about 5 minutes and try again. Some of the cherries may slip out and this is okay. The cherries will make the dough a bit wet and rather stickier than normal but just keep working.
Place the ropes of dough lengthwise on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Braid the ropes starting from the middle and working towards one end, tucking the ends underneath the braided dough, then turning the baking sheet and braiding the other half down from the middle to the end, again tucking the ends underneath.
Allow the dough to rest and rise for 1 hour and 20 minutes (only 40 minutes if using freshly made, unrefrigerated dough).
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
Brush the loaf with the egg wash. Sprinkle the surface all over with the slivered almonds. Bake the loaf or loaves for about 25 to 30 minutes until risen and uniformly golden brown. The braids near the center will offer resistance to pressure and the bottom of the loaf will be golden.
Remove the baking sheet from the oven to a cooling rack, stovetop or wooden cutting board and allow to cool until tepid. Brush and dab the surface of the loaf all over with maple syrup. Allow to cool completely before carefully slicing and eating.


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The feature no longer seems to work: the "block" link is no longer displayed, the preferences page doesn't mention the feature and the blocked domains still appear in Google's results. The page that allows you to manage blocked sites is still available.
"When you're signed in to Google, you can block a specific website from appearing in your future search results. This is a helpful option when you encounter a site that you don't like and whose pages you want to remove from your future results. If you change your mind, you can unblock the site at any point," explains a help center page.
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Finding good sources of water, when disaster strikes, are crucial to keep on living. You can go for about two weeks without food and survive but you will die a horrible death within a couple days if you don't get enough water. Even the most rancid pond however can be a source of potable water if you are well enough equipped to purify it.
Go to any camping store and you will find water filters for lakes, ponds, or whatever. These filters are made specifically to filter out any horrible bacteria and other bugs that may cause intestinal issues. This is exactly what you may need to survive. Carrying around enough water on foot is quite frankly stupid if you plan on traveling hundreds of miles over rough terrain.
The best place to buy water filters is Amazon, because it has a great selection and a lot of reviews so you can make an informative decision:
Think outside the box
Thinking like some wilderness camper or soldier here would help you a lot. Purifying water basically means boiling the water to a high enough temperature to kill any bugs that may be living in it. Now if the water is filled with algae or other lifeforms than this may be a bit more complicated. Never assume that if the water is clear that it is safe to drink, that is a mistake that many people make when they are in a foreign country.
Water is purified naturally by going through the many layers of the earth. You could make your own ad-hoc water filtration system by using the same principles. By using a combination of PVC pipes, different grades of gravel and sand you could make a nice and quick water filter to use when you have acquired a good water source.
Use what comes naturally to you
Using rainfall is another source of water that many people use when times are tough. Again, however, don't assume that just because the water fell from the sky that it is necessarily safe to drink. After all, natural disasters would probably cause damage to nuclear power plants as well as some industrial parks so the pollution in the surrounding area could be spread around through clouds and rainfall.
Filtering water is tougher when you are on the move. Stocking up on camping gear that will filter the water for you would give you an edge over others who didn't consider using that. After a natural disaster it is common for people to loot for guns, food, ammo, but they always seem to forget about clean sources of water.
Get certified as a pool cleaner?
Believe it or not many survivalists take courses on water filtering from pool cleaning companies. These companies have very good courses in how to clean up even the most rancid pools of water. You can apply the same principles you learned in these courses for your own survival. Knowledge is very powerful especially tools any skills that will help you survive some disaster.
For your home or other place you may have built for such a disaster installing a "off grid" water filtration system would be an ideal way to have a potable water source at hand. Many people who live "off-grid" gather up and filter the rainwater that comes naturally to their property. These systems can be installed in such a way so that you can bypass the normal city water at will and just use your own stored water you may have at hand.
Of course installing your own water filtration system is going to be costly so please make sure you do it in an area you plan on staying for a while. The principles of cleaning water so you can drink it are not that complicated. Honestly, there are just a few things you need to keep in mind whenever you are planning on taking on this task.
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Hotels are easily accessed from the airport by Metro Light Rail and bus line connections, running at 15-minute intervals. Upon arrival in the downtown area, travelers to Minneapolis will find hotels greeting them with all of the amenities normally provided by urban hoteliers, such as pools, fitness centers, business centers, dining, and concierge services. Some of the trendy, boutique hotels have made bicycles available to guests, engaging visitors as they explore the city's inner core in a relaxed, active, up-close and personal way, weather permitting.
Many area hotels are conveniently located near the city's abundance of theatre locations, academic institutions, or businesses in the downtown sector, offering special rates to guests traveling to Minneapolis for particular events. With several upscale national hotel brands, a good number of mid-range chain hotels and suites, and an eclectic selection of beautifully restored boutique hotels, Minneapolis greets shoppers, convention attendees, cultural, leisure, and business travelers with solid services and warm welcomes, even delivering luxury at an affordable price point.


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David Alden's most recent production at Oper Frankfurt was Chabrier's L'Étoile in 2010/11. His first for the company was Schreker's Der Schatzgräber/The Treasure Seeker in 2002/03. This American artist is one of the leading directors in the world. He recently directed three early operas at the Hamburg State Opera - La battaglia di Legnano, I due Foscari and I lombardi alla prima crociata and, in 2014, Billy Budd at the Deutschen Oper Berlin. David Alden made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1979, with Wozzeck. Films have included Kurt Weills The Seven Deadly Sins. He was commissioned by the BBC to make a Verdi documentary, and staged a world tour for the Pet Shop Boys. Awards have included the South Bank Show Award for Peter Grimes (English National Opera, De Vlaamse Opera Antwerp / Gent and Deutsche Oper Berlin), an Olivier Award for Jenufa (co-production between ENO, Houston Grand Opera and Washington National Opera) and the Bavarian Theatre Prize in 2001.