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Into the far north we shall take you: Unreal World (A game diary)
Unreal World would be the Dwarf Fortress of survival sims, if the genre were large enough to make such a distinction. Its a roguelike with no dungeons, quests or magic wands. Its a detailed simulation of life in Iron Age Finland, developed over the past 20 years by Sami Maaranen. The wilderness is vast and civilisation is scarce. Youll have to kill your dinner before you can eat it, and possibly wear its skin to stay warm through the winter.
(Yeah you can eat those guys too if you want)
The menus are decorated with photos of the developer and his friends LARPing in the woods.
I will be venturing into this harsh environment and presenting my findings here for your entertainment.
Juhani is a young man of the Owl-Tribe, a nomadic people from the extreme north. Hes accompanying his father on his first hunting trip, together theyve ventured far from his native lands...
1st April 16
First let me introduce Juhani properly. Hes been raised as a hunter his whole life, and he knows how to survive in the wild. Hed be best off avoiding anything he cant bring down with a bow shot, as hes not a skilled fighter.
He seems to be a dark and brooding fellow; perhaps this has something to do with it:
His father lies dead before him, his guts torn out by the swipe of an animal. Juhani readies his bow and quietly takes a look around the area. The beast, whatever it was, has fled. There arent even any tracks to follow. He returns to his fathers body and gathers everything of use. Even his clothes. Theres little time for sentimentality when youre alone and lost, with a limited supply of food.
Gameplay note: the unfortunate hunting trip is one of a number of selectable start scenarios. Its a fairly good start for new players, as youll get plenty of useful equipment from your dead dad.
Juhani sets off to find a spot to make his camp. All he really needs are trees and easy access to water, neither of which are in short supply. But he has nowhere else to go, he might as well pick a good place to live.
This is the large scale map view, used for travel and locating game. The bridge of land between the lakes just south of the camp is my main reason for picking this spot, as will be apparent shortly.
A beautiful lake, with frolicking beavers (really hard to catch) and woods full of animals. A basic shelter of sturdy branches will keep the worst of the wind and rain off and allow Juhani to get a good nights sleep.
Next: Starvation and Salvation
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Neat! This has caught my eye before, it'll be good to read how it plays.
10th April 16
After making camp, the next two days were spent trying to hunt. Climbing trees allowed Juhani to survey the area and spot nearby wildlife. The large herd of reindeer wandering around seemed like a stroke of luck, but theyre not stupid animals. Hed painstakingly follow their tracks through the forest, only to hear the patter of escaping hooves behind a screen of trees. With the food almost gone, he set about preparing a better plan.
This is a trap fence, across the aforementioned bridge of land. Its an important concept if you plan to live on big game in URW. Animals walk into the pits trying to get past the fence. Ive previously only played as a fisherman/cannibal, never tried this before.
The construction took the best part of a week, and real starvation is now setting in. Hanging around the trap will do nothing but scare animals off, so Juhani heads off to the nearby river in the hope of catching some dinner. The rapids are teeming with fish, but spearing them is no easy task for a novice fisherman. A rod and nets would serve him better, but wheres he going to get those? He does manage to kill a slow, fat trout, but its not enough to sustain him.
Perhaps theres something else he can do. He sets off back towards his fence, looking for reindeer on the way. If he can come upon a herd from this side, theyll flee towards the traps.
The reindeer are proving elusive, but he spots some heavier tracks. A bear? They prefer hilly areas, seeing one out here is unusual, and dangerous. But Juhani is hungry enough to try. Following the tracks, he spots it in the distance and looses an arrow. Missed, he cant afford to waste his small quiver on more long shots. The bear flees, which is also unusual behaviour, but may well have saved Juhanis life. He gives up and heads back towards the fence.
Another day without food and hell barely have the strength to leave his camp. But he crosses fresh reindeer tracks, and theyre headed towards the fence. He must have scared it while chasing the bear. And there it is, impaled in one of the pits!
I didnt take screenshots of any of this. The graphics are functional but not pretty, there isnt much to see here.
Juhani moves in and puts the reindeer out of its misery with a thrust of his spear. First he skins it; fur is one of the most valuable commodities for both survival and trade. Then he cuts the carcass for meat, covering up the pit again before hauling his prize back to camp.
Next: Recovery
I will read this! I find that if I initially bounced off a game I wanted to like, reading a diary often helps me wring the most enjoyment out of a game on my next playthrough -- and Unreal World is exactly that sort of thing for me.The Secret of Gargoyle Manor, a browser point-and-click adventure about retrieving your lost hat whatever the cost, is something you could play!
I believe I mailed money to Finland to play this game.
Glad some people are reading it. @Mohorovicic, are you trying to tell me you don't want to look at half-naked finnish men while playing games?
April 12th 16
Back at the shelter with the kill, Juhanis first priority is to get a fire going. Hes hungry enough to eat it raw, but roasted meat will do him more good. He wolfs down as much as he can stomach, but even a starving man cant eat a whole reindeer. For now hes full, but it will take days of eating well to fully recover his strength.
The hunger bar shown in screenshots is short term hunger. Having a full belly means youll work faster and better. Nutrition is long term, some foods give you more nutrition than others.
If youre in good health you can fill yourself on water, but your nutrition will decrease if youre not eating properly. When you start starving youll get a penalty to your movement speed and skills, as shown by the negative numbers at the top. By the time I cooked the reindeer I was on about 20% penalty from starvation.
Juhanis roasted meat for the next few days while he has the fire going, but he cut around 150lbs from the carcass, and most of it will spoil before he can eat it. Thankfully its still early in the year, and the meat can be dried. For this he cuts up his dads clothes for cord, in order to hang the meat up from his shelter. It will be almost a month before its ready, but it will mean he has an emergency supply of meat for tough times, and it should even keep through the winter if he doesnt eat it beforehand.
Preserving meat is important. Spoiled food can be eaten, but too much of it will make you seriously ill. Drying meat requires the least resources cord and a shelter but it can only be done during the cold, dry season of winter and early spring. It takes a long time to prepare but can last a full year. Smoked meat needs a heated room a cabin or a large tent with a fireplace. It doesnt keep for as long, but it makes good travel rations or medium term supplies. Salt is expensive and mainly comes from shops in the civilised west, but salting meat only takes a few days.
With his health on the mend, Juhani can turn to more laborious tasks. First is the reindeer skin left unattended, it will rot and be useless in a few days. Tanning a skin is a multi stage process and takes a day or two as its left to dry, but in the mean-time he digs out a cellar. Its hard work, but storing meat in a cellar extends its lifetime considerably. Even raw meat will keep for a couple of weeks before going bad.
From left to right: Meat hung out to dry. Shelter. Boards (used in constructing the cellar, but I have plenty left over from one tree). Cellar. Tree trunk used as an impromptu workbench for beating the hide in the tanning process.
Theres two more tasks to take care of before he sleeps tonight. Firstly, he took a nasty knock to his chest falling from a tree, weeks ago when he was hunting. Normally a bruise like this wouldve healed quickly by itself, but maybe its a bad one or maybe his underfed body doesnt heal well. Its not much more than an annoyance, but it is slowing him down. He uses the last of the extra clothing to make a bandage, and applies a wet compress to his chest. He knows of a few herbs that may help it heal, but none will be grown at this time of year.
Secondly, the reindeer fur is now ready, and theres enough to make himself fur shoes, gloves and trousers. He already has a thick woollen tunic, and the cold isnt a real danger until winter, but anyone living this far north much prefers being too hot to being too cold.
Next: An Interlude
Interlude: Planning ahead
The looming threat on the horizon in URW is the coming of winter. I have more than enough time to prepare, but theres a lot to do. The land will be covered in snow, making movement difficult. The lakes will freeze over and Ill have to cut a hole in the ice to drink or fish. Game will be scarce, though easier to track in the snow. And my flimsy shelter will definitely not be enough to survive the freezing nights.
To deal with these in order:
-Skis will allow me to move quickly over snow. They can wait, it wont take me long to fashion a set.
-Leather skins or other containers can be filled with water (also useful for travelling), to save me having to dig through the ice too often. Again, not a difficult task to make them. Or I could choose to build next to a river, which wont freeze over.
-Having a cellar of preserved food is even more important during the winter. I may be able to supplement it with fresh meat, but likely in a far smaller quantity than during the rest of the year. During late summer and autumn, berries will be ready for harvest, as would my crops if I was a farmer. You can also buy flour from villages (I dont think it can be milled yourself currently) to bake bread.
-Warm clothing is a must to protect myself from the cold when I venture outside. I have that fairly well covered already, but clothing will wear out over the year and will need repairing. When I have the fur to spare a heavy cloak will help keep me warm, and also offer some protection against bruises (or animal claws).
-But even the warmest clothing wont keep you warm forever in the winter. You need a fire to warm you, and a sleeping place that will stay warm after the fire burns out. Having a big stack of firewood ready is important.
-A warm sleeping place means either a log cabin or a kota (large fur covered tent). If I wanted to play in character Id aim for a kota, but gathering enough fur may be difficult. Log cabins only need trees and an axe. Felling trees, fashioning them into useable logs and building the walls takes a long time, in game time, but URW fast forwards during any manual labour. A quality set of chopping and carving axes would speed up building significantly, for those Id have to find villages to trade with.
That gives you an idea of what Ill be trying to achieve over the next few game months. Ill likely be covering more game-time per entry once Im past the difficult initial month, where securing an easy food source is essential. Speaking of which, Juhanis worrying about food again in the next entry.
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I read all of it,very interesting. Would love to try something like this,but with slightly better graphics,i don't mind 2D but this looks really unappealing xP
What version are you playing?
I tend to play as a hunter/warrior, a lot of useful items can be taken from the cannibals if you're smart about hunting them. I usually take all my armour, a bow and a dog on a cannibal hunting trip, the dog serves as a good escape tactic in bad situations; release the dog and the cannibals will turn their attention to it instead of you. This does make you kind of sad from losing faithful companions though
Just poppin' my head to say: interesting read, please keep do keep it up. This pleases us.
*Goes back to lurking the thread*
I am reading this with keen interest.
16th April 16
Drying as much food as possible was sensible, but perhaps Juhani underestimated just how much he could eat after starvation. What should have been two or three weeks supply of fresh meat is only going to last one. From now on hell be more careful, rationing his remaining food to give himself time to catch more. The dried meat will be ready in three weeks, and in a worst case scenario he could probably survive that long without dying.
In the meantime, hes still strong and healthy. After checking the trap empty he sets out hunting. Climbing a nearby tree reveals a stag in the distance. Combing the area he last saw it in, Juhani runs straight into it. But as hes come to expect by now, the stag spots him before he can get close enough for a clear shot, and flees into the forest. This time, Juhani decides its worth trying to follow.
He spots the stag a couple more times, even manages to loose some arrows, but both miss and the stag disappears. Juhani only manages to recover one of the arrows, leaving him with three, and gives up on the stag to search for less alert game. Theres more stags in the area but he cant find them however hard he searches.
He heads back to camp before hes too worn out, so he can make himself more arrows before sleeping. This uses up the last of his cord, but now he has ten.
The following day, he encounters a wandering hunter. This man is apparently as lost as Juhani, and can give no useful information about the region. Nor does he have anything to trade. Juhani feels it would be wrong to shoot and eat the man, so he leaves him alone.
As Ive previously mentioned, cannibalism is a viable food source in the current version. Attacking people in a village will anger the rest of the village, but anyone else is fair game. Hopefully in a future version there will be some penalty like angering the spirits every character has access to rituals that give significant boosts to certain skills or actions. Juhani has nothing useful right now, so I havent been able to show you.
Juhani spends the next few days exploring the regions either side of his camp in the search for animals. Small game is common but not worth wasting arrows on, as theyre hard to hit and impossible to catch once they run. Hes down to his last three pieces of reindeer when he comes across a sleeping herd.
Catching animals sleeping is one of the benefits of hunting in the evening, offset by poorer vision range.
Two of the reindeer wake up and run, but one is not so lucky. Quietly putting his bow away, Juhani draws his spear and stabs it through the neck. Reindeer are tough animals and this doesnt kill it straight away, but with a wound like that its not going to wake up again.
Heavy wounds to both animals and humans are likely to knock them out, giving you time to finish them off at your leisure.
Now hell have enough fresh food to last until the dried meat is ready, and a little more to dry and add to the long-term supplies. Hopefully stupid animals will continue to fall into the trap pits, and Juhani can now focus on other things.
Next: Exploration
Got a bit behind on the writing, playing is much quicker.
23rd April 16
The skin from the reindeer replenishes Juhanis stock of bandage and cord. With some cord to spare, he can now make a raft, useful for exploration when you live on the edge of a large lake surrounded by rivers. First he needs to cut down some tree trunks to lash together. It takes a few hours but its not overly difficult. A board is fashioned into a crude paddle. The following day he drags his raft the short distance to the shore of the larger lake (his camp is on a small one) and sets off.
After paddling round the edge of the lake, this is the extent of his knowledge of the world:
Time for an excursion on the size and inhabitants of the Unreal World. Ill drop the italics for ease of reading.
Its difficult to get a sense of scale from that map. For comparison, heres the earlier shot of my camp, where the patch of water on the left is the eastern tip of the large lake.
Each tile on that smaller map is a significant area of land, though mostly only inhabited by trees. The area of the world map covered by the black square would probably take at least a day to cross, depending on the speed of your character and how much water was in the way. And that square is about 1/20 of the full world. Most of that world wouldnt be very interesting, if it wasnt for the people inhabiting it.
The orange blob to the north is the lands of the Sartola. Theyre a settled people, living in relatively large agricultural villages. They will have decent quality tools to trade, as well as some weapons and armour. Mostly these come from the Driik, who live a day or twos travel south from my camp. They have the most contact with the outside world, and live in large clusters of villages, often walled and guarded. They can sell me practically anything I need, provided I can come up with goods worth trading.
The other peoples to the west and north tend to be the least civilised, with those in the far north being nomadic hunters while the western forests are somewhat settled but more sparsely populated.
And then we have the Njerpez, hostile bandits who come from the west but quickly spread across the whole land (in the current version they seem to spring up at an alarmingly fast rate anywhere the player has explored). The pink square near my settlement is projected by one of their camps, over the next few days Ill discover a number of others. I will have to be careful of them.
Back to Juhani for the end of this entry.
Juhani spends the next two days paddling as far as he can down each river leading from the lake, returning in time to sleep in his shelter. Sleeping out in the wilds for a night wouldnt really do him any harm, but hed rather not. Unfortunately the rivers dont lead directly towards Sartola lands, so when he wants to visit them hell have to do so on foot.
The trap continues to provide, a small elk this time. After dealing with it, Juhani has enough meat spare to bait some of the pits. A wolfs been wandering around recently, it appears to be alone and is avoiding Juhani, but food is food and baited traps make catching predators more likely. The meat from the elk provides the last dried food of the season, the weather wont be suitable from now on.
Next: Trade
28th April 16
Juhani gathers up his things - the axe and knife of his dear departed father, and the skin from the elk. He did a poor job preparing it, but it should be worth something. He's heading to the Sartola for trade. He expects to reach their lands by the afternoon, then he'll have time to wander the villages before staying the night and setting out home the next morning.
He paddles his way across the lake, leaving his raft on the northern shore. Then he sets out to the north-west. The journey is uneventful, and within a few hours he spies a village ahead.
The first village has a tool shop, the main thing Juhani is after. They also have dogs for sale, and some other bits and pieces. They have a nice set of axes, but he'll take a look around the other nearby villages before making any trades. Following the paths from the village leads him to three or four more, they have an assortment of old weapons and armour, some knives and fishing gear, pigs and cows. But it's really the axes he wants.
You can buy a variety of domesticated animals, either as pack animals, a store of meat that won't go off, or for milking. You can only milk appropriate animals now; previously you could live on a diet of bull's "milk". Animals don't yet need to eat anything, so they're a little bit of a cheat and I'll try and avoid relying on them for my own food.
Before heading back to the first village, he has a chat with a sage he meets. The sage teaches him how to perform a new ritual, and this one most definitely is useful.
If Juhani performs this over his traps, he should never go hungry again.
Some rituals increase the effectiveness of a particular skill or action. Others please the spirits to keep them happy with you. In this version it doesn't matter if they're angry, though.
It's getting late, so he kips in one of the huts. The villagers don't seem to mind. In the morning he visits the tool shop he first encountered. He's got his eye on a good quality woodsman's axe and carving axe, which will speed up chopping trees and building a cabin significantly. He retires to a quiet corner to make a bunch of crappy shoes out of his elk fur, as the economy is purely barter-based and he doesn't want to trade away the whole fur for one item.
Juhani trades daddy's knife and axe along with some shoes for the two axes he wants. He still has some fur left so he picks up a cooking pot as well – but the shopkeeper isn't too impressed with the pile of shoes. Juhani takes off his trousers and throws them in to sweeten the deal. Linen is quite valuable, but nowhere near as warm as the fur leggings he made himself.
He stays another night, as making all those shoes took a while. After returning to camp he checks the trap again, there's a stag in it this time. He performs his new ritual over the trap pits after resetting them.
Next: Building
Will the villagers accept you just building house in their village, or is that a privilege you don't have as an outsider?


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Dear All, how long does it take for a message to get to the receipent. I have just sent messages for testing but they have not been received yet. I am using internet and not a sim card.
Please help me. I work with a Non profit organisation in Uganda jinja and am interested in using FLSMS to send messages to pregnant mothers.
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Hi Mary
What service are you using to send messages over the Internet?
Dear Ken,
The Orange internet modem has a USB cable and has credit on it, please guide me on how to use it. Alternatively let me go visit the different service providers and then I will get back to you. Thank you
Hi Mary
What messages are you seeing on the "Phones" screen?
Dear Ken,
I sent out messages to all my collagues for testing but non of them seems to have got the message. I followed the right directions because the messages actually say they were sent. Please help me on this while I also try looking for a new service provider.
I've been trying to find out from you what error messages you are getting on the "Phones" screen. I think it's going to be too difficult to help you using this online Forum - you are best to find someone where you work - maybe a computer company - who can help you in person.
Sorry we're not going to be able to get this working for you. FrontlineSMS is easy to use but you do need some basic understanding of how to get your modem working, and how to install software.
Ken, this afternoon I am going to visit all the internet service providers in Uganda. Then I will carry along the requirements of the type of USB cable you recommended. I will also try to do the downloads again. I will get back to you tomorrow with the results.
I must say am looking forward to use this and am not about to give up, I will keep updating you on this.
Kindly help me if you have heard from anyone else in Uganda who has used this so I can get to them for help.
Hi Mary
You can see all members in the Forum who are in Uganda, or work in Uganda, here:
If you click on their name you can click "Send a Message" (on the left of the screen) to privately message them, and ask if they are able to help you.
I'm not sure what kind of device you have - GSM modems don't have cables these days - and you don't need to download the software again. You will need someone there, in person, who can help you with all of this. Hope you manage to find someone.
Best of luck.
Hello Mary,
Messages should be received instantly esp. when you are using an internet modem. i have used it before and MTN usb internet modem works perfect especially the new usb stick modem model.
Best wishes,
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If you've ever sipped a bright magenta-colored cup of Red Zinger tea you're on familiar terms with hibiscus. In Latin countries, dried hibiscus flowers are known as flor de jamaica and are blended into all sorts of beverages, hot and cold.
Brewed dried hibiscus flowers make jewel-toned gorgeous drinks; it's also loaded with vitamin C, with a tart flavor that will make your cheeks attempt to suck themselves back into your face. I think it's much more interesting than sucking on a lemon, though. Under the sourness is a background flavor that reminds me of raspberries and pomegranate.
Mexican paletas – otherwise known as popsicles – are popping up all over the place. There's an entire cookbook devoted to them, and multiple fun plastic accessories available to make them.
The September issue of St. Louis' Sauce Magazine features a story by photographer Greg Rannells, 8 delicious ways to fool around with these exotic flowers. I was moved into action by Greg's idea for paletas, number 3 on the list. After what seems like and endless summer of 100-degree days, all things cold and thirst quenching are highly appealing.
You'll end up with extra syrup after making this recipe. Go ahead and make another batch of pops, or keep the syrup chilled to add to sparkling water, wine or cocktails. Hibiscus Margarita anyone?
- 4 cups water
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup dried hibiscus flowers (available at Latin groceries or natural foods stores)
- Freshly grated zest of one lime
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice ( 4 - 6 limes, depending on how juicy they are)
- Pinch fine sea salt
- Bring the water and sugar to a boil in a saucepan, stirring to dissolve sugar. Add the hibiscus flowers, turn off the heat and let the mixture steep at least 15 minutes and up to 1 hour for a stronger color and flavor.
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The club, which is nearly 50 years old, has a lot of facilities which are quite basic because of their age and has vowed to use the funding to improve them.
Warren Price, the club's commodore, said: "We are absolutely delighted. It means a lot for the future of the club, particularly helping attract more women into the sport and improving facilities for the disability groups who use the building.
"A lot of work went into preparing the grant application and I want to thank everyone on the team who put so much effort into preparing the plans."
The club has made ambitious plans to invest in their facilities, improving insulation and refurbishing the ladies' changing rooms which currently have no natural light and are cramped.
The size of the ladies area will be increased by 20 per cent, the doorway will be adapted for wheelchair access and natural light introduced by the installation of "light pipes".
The group's application for the cash from Sport England's Inspired Facilities fund was boosted by endorsements from schools who work with the club.
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Sport England's Inspired Facilities programme, which aims to deliver a London 2012 legacy of increased mass participation in sport, has invested £50 million in up to 1000 community sports projects between 2011 and 2014.
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We all take so much pleasure from the ocean, let's give something back to her. We'll all get together at SEQ's one decent shore dive location and remove as much of the fishing tackle, garbage, and "bogan party favours" as we can from this beautiful spot.
After we drag up and record our "catch" we can get together for a barbecue across the road (or just sneak in and buy a hamburger at the cafe).
Plan would be to meet 1.5 hours before high tide to allow for team assignment, planning, briefing and equipment allocation. A couple of us will organise some underwater collection points before everyone hits the water and performs 2 line searches (spacing and timing to be determined by attendance) heading east and west along the wall from the entry point at the small pipe.
We may also organise a 3rd team to sweep the main pipe if numbers permit.
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This article was published 25/1/2013 (1670 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Before there was Inuit art, there were "Eskimo carvings."
That is, long before Nunavut sculptor Jamasie Pitseolak began turning the colourful stone of Baffin Island into motorcycles, guitars and high-heeled shoes, his ancestors were using their carving skills to craft weapons and tools.
The nomadic Arctic lifestyle didn't exactly lend itself to esthetic trappings or adornment. Occasionally, however, the Inuit would carve little figurines from the ivory of walrus tusks to give to missionaries, fur traders, military personnel and other visitors to the North as souvenirs.
"Carving was always part of their culture, but it wasn't an art-producing culture because they were rather concerned with survival," says Darlene Coward Wight, who has researched and curated Inuit art for more than 30 years, and travelled to many northern communities.
The carving culture changed in 1948 when a young artist named James Houston travelled to the Canadian Arctic and fell in love with the stone carvings he was given while visiting the village of Inukjuak in northern Quebec. Back home in Montreal, he showed them to members of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, along with an offer to return to the Arctic to acquire more carvings.
In November 1949, the guild -- now the Canadian Guild of Crafts -- held the first Inuit art show and sale. The "primitive and exotic" nature of the works fascinated the public, and an art form was born -- along with an artistic industry that would transform the lives of many Inuit.
As much as some people like to romanticize it as an ancient form of creative expression, "Inuit art has its genesis in economic necessity," Coward Wight writes in Creation & Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art. The new coffee-table book, which contains 150 colour images, serves as the catalogue for a Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition by the same name that opened Jan. 25 and runs until April 14.
Inuit art was "prompted," she says, by the Hudson's Bay Company's trading posts and Inuit-owned arts and crafts co-operatives set up by the federal government as a way to integrate Inuit into Canada's cash economy after the Second World War forced them to give up their nomadic lifestyle and settle in small communities. When the white fox population, the backbone of the Inuit economy, became scarce, Inuit art emerged as a commodity and a cultural identifier.
"There was a whole systemic exporting industry that developed in the '50s," says Coward Wight, the WAG's curator of Inuit art since 1986.
By 1954, all carvings were being purchased by Hudson's Bay Company trading posts; half were shipped to the Canadian Handicrafts Guild in Montreal and the other half to Hudson's Bay's Winnipeg headquarters.
(It wasn't until 1977, when the Department of Indian and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man organized a major touring exhibition titled The Inuit Print that the term "Inuit" replaced "Eskimo," which is now considered offensive outside of Alaska.)
Canada's first Inuit art exhibition in 1949 was an unsung event that didn't garner a single newspaper review, Coward Wight notes her in her book. But by the end of 1956, sculptures from the northern Quebec communities of Inukjuak, Puvirnituq and Salluit and Cape Dorset, in present-day Nunavut, were showcased in nearly 40 major galleries and museums across North America and Europe.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery displayed Inuit sculpture for the first time in December 1953 and started its collection in 1957. Today, the WAG is home to the world's largest public collection of Inuit art -- more than 11,000 works, including about 7,100 sculptures.
Inuit art makes up nearly half of the WAG's entire collection.
The Creation & Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit exhibition will feature 115 pieces -- sculptures, prints, drawings, textiles, ceramics and clay -- that chart the genesis and evolution of contemporary Inuit art from its inception to the present day.
"We're now into the third generation of artists who never lived off the land. Their lifestyle is very much community-based," says Coward Wight.
Featured artist Jamasie Pitseolak, for instance, the son of carvers Oopik Pitseolak and Mark Pitseolak, belongs to the first generation of Inuit who grew up in permanent, year-round settlements. Trained as a plumber in Edmonton, he started carving seriously in the mid-1990s and "specializes in the minutiae of contemporary settlement life, including guitars, sewing machines, automobiles, shoes, tennis rackets, skateboards and motorcycles," according to his bio. "Inspiration comes from television, movies, magazines, current events and from childhood memories."
Traditional carvers from the early 1950s, such Johnny Inukpuk, whose mostly female subjects are notable for their unusually large heads and hands, represent other defining moments in the show's six-decade timeline.
Of course, as visitors to the Creation and Transformation exhibition will see, Inuit art encompasses so much more than the shiny green soapstone sculptures of polar bears and hunters wielding ivory harpoons that are popular in the tourist market.
The 1970s were a period of expansion and diversification, notes Coward Wight, particularly for printmaking and textile arts. Fabric wall hangings emerged as a significant new art form. Meanwhile, a young Taloyoak artist named Karoo Ashevak took traditional whale-bone sculpture in a new expressionistic direction.
It wasn't until the 1990s that gallery owners in major urban centres started to develop direct working relationships with Inuit artists instead of just obtaining artworks through Arctic co-operatives. Worlds opened up, literally and artistically, as travel became easier and younger artists -- many of them English-speaking or bilingual -- began to make use of improved telecommunications and Internet capabilities. That decade, of course, ended with the creation of the Territory of Nunavut, the first major change to Canada's political map since the incorporation of Newfoundland as a province in 1949.
Today, as Coward Wight writes in her book, "the unprecedented inclusion of Inuit art in international exhibitions, biennales and art fairs has broken down barriers between previously exclusive art worlds."
For the uninitiated, she says, the WAG exhibition, taking place during the gallery's centennial year, will be a wonderful introduction to the complexity of creative expression in the Arctic.
"People see Inuit art at the airport and in gift shops and they come away with the idea that it all looks the same," says Coward Wight. "But there's a huge variety of artistic expression and it differs from community to community and from artist to artist."
Huge collection
-- The WAG's Inuit art collection contains more than 11,000 works, including about 7,100 sculptures. It is the world's largest public collection.
-- Since 1964, the WAG has organized 166 exhibitions featuring works by Inuit artists and hosted 22 shows organized by other museums and galleries.
-- In 1977, a major touring exhibition, The Inuit Print, organized by the Department of Indian and Northern Development and the
National Museum of Man marked the first high-profile use of the term "Inuit" instead of "Eskimo." The latter is now considered offensive.
-- On Oct. 17, 2012, Darlene Coward Wight, curator of Inuit art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery since 1986, received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Manitoba in recognition of her "tireless dedication to preserve, promote and celebrate art by Canada's Inuit."
Her coffee-table book, Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art, which includes essays by art historians, is available at the WAG shop.
Plans are in the works to build an Inuit Art and Learning Centre to be connected to the WAG and built on the site of its studio building. Ground is expected to break on the 40,000-square-foot, $45-million centre in 2014.
-- Members of the Manitoba Urban Inuit Association are building two igloos, or "iglus," on the WAG rooftop, next to an inukshuk by Nunavut-born artist Manasie Akpaliapik, to coincide with the exhibition Creation & Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art. The icy structures are approximately three metres wide and two metres tall.
Inuit Film Night -- Jan. 26, 7 p.m. (free admission)
Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos is a documentary by Aletha Arnaquq-Baril about her journey to explore the lost tradition of Inuit facial tattoos before getting tattooed herself. The screening will be followed by a Q&A.


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ASCO Annual Meeting
June 4, 2012
A recent study showed that the drug trametinib slowed tumor growth and lengthened the lives of patients who have advanced melanoma with a BRAF gene mutation (change). Trametinib is a type of treatment called targeted therapy. Targeted therapy targets the cancer's specific genes, proteins, or the tissue environment that contributes to cancer growth and survival. Currently, there is one targeted therapy approved to treat melanoma that targets the BRAF gene, called vemurafenib (Zelboraf). However, vemurafenib eventually stops controlling melanoma growth for most patients, highlighting the need for other treatment options. Trametinib targets the MEK protein, which affects melanoma growth similarly to a mutated BRAF gene, which is why researchers are studying this treatment for melanoma.
The patients who participated in this study had advanced melanoma with a BRAF mutation and had received either one treatment or no treatment before the study began. During the study, they received trametinib or standard chemotherapy with either dacarbazine (DTIC-Dome) or paclitaxel (Taxol). Trametinib slowed or stopped melanoma growth for 22% of patients receiving the drug, compared with 8% of those who received chemotherapy.
Trametinib also lengthened the amount of time it took for the melanoma to worsen by a little more than three months when compared with chemotherapy. After six months, 81% of patients taking trametinib were living with the disease, compared with 67% of those who received chemotherapy. Because trametinib worked so well to control melanoma growth in this study, almost half of the patients who had their disease worsen while receiving chemotherapy were switched to trametinib.
The side effects of trametinib were generally manageable for patients in this study and included rashes, eye problems, high blood pressure, and reduced heart function.
What this means for patients
"This is the first in a new type of targeted drugs that could benefit patients with melanoma who have BRAF gene mutations. The findings show that blocking the MEK protein is an effective treatment for many people with the disease," said lead author Caroline Robert, MD, PhD, Head of Dermatology at the Institute Gustave Roussy in Paris, France. "Trametinib is likely to become another initial treatment option for patients with advanced melanoma." Because research on trametinib is ongoing, it is currently only available in clinical trials. It's important to talk with your doctor about all treatment options for melanoma, including clinical trials.
What to Ask Your Doctor
- What stage of melanoma do I have? What does this mean?
- Will tests be needed to find out if there are any gene mutations involved in my melanoma?
- What are my treatment options?
- What treatment plan do you recommend? Why?
- Will targeted therapy be a part of my treatment plan?
- What are the possible side effects? How can they be managed?
For More Information
Understanding Targeted Treatments
Skin Reactions to Targeted Therapies


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I'm always so curious as to finding out exactly what fashionistas like when it comes to accessorizing. I'm a true believer that just one accessory can liven up any outfit. Especially if it'a nude or tan dress, like the T-Bags mini-dress below, and the accessory is a much needed pop of color. But, that's just me. I want to know what you think…(read below)
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text: Last night during the Pacer/Laker game they ran a promo at least 3 times for the game coming up against the Mav's that went something like "Ron Artest and the Indiana Pacers will try to stop Dirk Nowitzki and the Mav's" showing Ron driving to the hoop and some guy named Bender dunking it. Anyone else see this? High comedy.


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This week's Landscape Links from around the world…………
To Control Floods, The Dutch Turn to Nature for Inspiration | Cheryl Katz | Yale e360
The Sand Engine is the signature project of Building with Nature, a consortium of Dutch industries, universities, research institutes, and public water agencies looking to harness natural systems for next-generation hydraulic engineering.
Conservationists hope to turn a disused Paris railway line into a nature trail | Sophie Landrin | Guardian
"So what should Paris do with this secret hideaway? Leave it to run wild, or turn it into a park? The city council has launched a consultation process involving residents and neighbourhood groups, the aim being to take a decision at the end of the year."
National Parks on a Precipice | Leslie Macmillian | NY Times
"Unless Congress can reach a budget agreement by March 1, the country's national parks will be hit by a $110 million budget cut, resulting in shuttered camp grounds, shorter seasons, road closings…."
From Denial to Integrated Solutions | Steven Apfelbaum | Metropolis Magazine
"If Sandy has taught us anything, it is that nature will always have the last word—a word that can seem unpredictable from our time-limited perspective. Nature takes the long view, repeatedly adapting to changes."
2013 CSI Research Fellows Announced | Landscape Architecture Foundation
"Eight faculty Research Fellows have been selected for LAF's 2013 Case Study Investigation (CSI) program. CSI is a unique research collaboration that matches LAF-funded faculty and student research teams with design firms to document the benefits of exemplary high-performing landscape projects as Landscape Performance Series Case Study Briefs."
Plantwatch: 'When gorse is out of bloom, kissing is out of season' | Paul Simons | Guardian
"Gorse flowers are at their best around this time of year although they stay in flower most of the year, hence the saying "When gorse is out of bloom, kissing is out of season"."
Living in Lafayette Park | Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, and Natasha Chandani | Metropolis Magazine
"The various views are all interesting and they're all different. It's surprising how the view of the Meadow from my neighbor's house just three doors down is quite different from mine."
Paint Is Not Enough | Erik Griswold | Copenhagenize.com
"Physical separation using traffic islands or raised aprons or recessed curbing as seen in places like Long Beach, California or Missoula, (yes, Missoula!) Montana or Richmond, British Columbia show what is already in use in North America."
Image Credit | Flickr user somekindofrob


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The Australian share market has closed modestly higher after the S&P 500 index in the United States finished above 2,000 points for the first time, helped by more encouraging data on the US economy.
100 Doors managing partner Peter Esho said positive sentiment from the S&P 500 being at an all-time high had flowed through to the local bourse.
"That's a major stimulatory element, I think, so our market is grinding higher," Mr Esho said.
"Along with that, reporting season (company financial results) has been positive on balance, so there's no real reasons to be negative."
Mr Esho said, however, that overall market gains on Wednesday were slight given that the soft iron ore price was still weighing upon the big miners and constraining any share price increases.
In the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton was up 11 cents at $37.33, Rio Tinto firmed two cents to $64.13, and Fortescue Metals improved three cents to $4.31.
Among the major banks, Commonwealth Bank rose 38 cents to $81.12, Westpac gained 21 cents at $35.12, ANZ lifted 24 cents to $33.54, and National Australia Bank was 24 cents richer at $34.80.
Telstra, which traded ex-dividend on Wednesday, was down 21 cents, or 3.66 per cent, at $5.53.
Seven West Media was 3.5 cents lower at $1.985. It posted a $149.2 million profit for 2013/14 helped by cost cuts and improved television earnings, which helped it turn around its $70 million loss a year earlier.
Kerry Stokes-led Seven Group Holdings dropped four cents to $7.53, after falling commodities prices hammered its annual profit, which fell 46 per cent to $261.1 million.
Building products maker Boral jumped 24 cents to $5.63 after returning to profitability.
Flight Centre descended 41 cents to $47.02 after its profit fell 16 per cent.
Property developer Lend Lease gained 20 cents at $13.95, after increasing its full year profit by nearly 50 per cent.
* On Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 13.6 points, or 0.24 per cent, at 5,651.2 points.
* The broader All Ordinaries index was up 14.4 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 5,648.9 points.
* The September share price index futures contract was up 33 points at 5,629 points, with 21,608 contracts traded.
* The price of gold in Sydney at 1700 AEST was $US1,285.00 per fine ounce, down $US4.80 on Tuesday's price of $US1,289.80.
* National turnover was 1.97 billion securities worth $4.8 billion.


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Why Not Let Diplomatic Security Do It?
Sunday, April 22nd 2012
Here's a thought: why don't the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) agents protect the President when he travels to foreign countries?
If there is a constant theme in public diplomacy, it is that the people in the field, at the embassy, know best how to do what the USG needs done.
One reason the Secret Service agents in Cartagena got caught with their pants down (metaphorically speaking) is because they were out of their element. They were in unfamiliar, foreign territory.Read More


text: Mindy Cartolano (Physics '13) and Dr. Darren Craig Publish Paper in Physics of Plasmas Posted December 23, 2013 by PhysicsTags: Department News, Student Achievements Mindy Cartolano (Physics '13) and Dr. Darren Craig received word that the paper they recently submitted to Physics of Plasmas has been accepted for publication. The paper entitled "Statistical analysis of variations in impurity ion heating at reconnection events in the Madison Symmetric Torus" summarizes research that Mindy did for her honor's thesis at Wheaton. The published study describes observations of ion heating during reconnection in a large plasma experiment at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Reconnection is a process that converts magnetic energy to thermal or kinetic energy in plasmas. This process is active in laboratory plasmas and throughout the universe in places like the earth's magnetosphere and the solar corona. Mindy is currently pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. Read more about Dr. Craig's research here.


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HOUSTON - Local 2 Investigates has learned a new environmental report, released Tuesday, shows conditions at a dump site near downtown could lead to an increased risk of cancer for those living nearby. It's a big change from what neighbors in the Ryon community were told just six months ago.
In February, the Environmental Protection Agency told Local 2 Investigates there were no neighborhood health dangers from the contaminated Superfund site. But the EPA will tell residents a different story at a community meeting on Tuesday night. The new report shows the danger has spread beyond the dump site.
Monique Howard lives in the Ryon community and says she call you almost everything about it, except for the contaminated dumping ground she didn't know was there.
"The actual dump site is two blocks from where I live. I had no idea," she said.
Neighbors always knew this large industrial site was here. It's easy to see. They didn't know that when a wood treatment plant operated here, the EPA says contaminants like arsenic and benzene from the plant leaked into the soil and ground water. The government labeled the area the "South Cavalcade Superfund Site" and ordered it to be cleaned up in the 1980's.
This new EPA report found testing done this summer shows contamination has spread beyond the site, traveling in the water underground toward the nearby neighborhood.
Even more troubling, the EPA says the potential excess lifetime cancer risk for future residents is now "above acceptable risk values." The EPA report also says there's a increased chance for what it calls "non-cancer" risks, too. That means new cleanup must be done.
The EPA says right now, neighbors are not being exposed because their city drinking water comes from miles away. However, the EPA says the future health risk is increased because of the possibility that residents could eventually get drinking water from the contaminated ground.
Neighbors will be showing up at Jeff Davis High School to learn more from the EPA at a 6:30pm meeting. Local 2 Investigator Bill Spencer will have an update tonight on Local 2 News at 10.
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Vitamin E is an important antioxidant that can help prevent damage by neutralizing destructive molecules that are produced naturally by the body. Taking high doses of vitamin E may help prevent the development of cancer, cataracts, and heart disease. In addition, some studies have shown that long-term supplementation with vitamin E, in combination with vitamin C, can reduce the severity of age related memory decline and help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
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Fox Skirts Issue Of RNC Speaker Receiving Millions In Aid For Small Business
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Fox Business' Neil Cavuto missed a prime opportunity last night to highlight the millions in federal loans and contracts that RNC speaker Sher Valenzuela received for her small business.
Cavuto instead used the interview to promote the discredited Fox-fueled narrative claiming "We Built It," which the GOP adopted as its convention theme Tuesday night.
CAVUTO: A lot of business owners featured here. A lot even in the ads and the public ads that run in this auditorium, as well as the businessmen and women themselves. Very heavy, very heavy. Why is that?
VALENZUELA: Because we speak for America, Neil. I mean if we can't build jobs as businesswomen and families who are struggling to succeed. If we can't show the American people what it takes to build our businesses and share and communicate our experiences to encourage others forward that are having difficulty in this time, then nothing can.
But Valenzuela did not share the full story of what it took to build her business, and Cavuto did not press her for those details. As Media Matters reported last week, Valenzuela's business First State Manufacturing benefitted from more than $2 million in Small Business Administration loans and more than $15 million in federal contracts.
Cavuto did ask her to elaborate on what governments should do to help businesses and "people like you." Instead of pointing to the government programs that she has previously credited to her success, Valenzuela referred to "best practices" put in place by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie that "oversees the red tape cutting department."
At previous public appearances, Valenzuela has not only openly acknowledged her acceptance of government aid, but widely credits it to her success and encourages other small business owners to do the same. In a PowerPoint presentation given earlier this year, she advised business owners to "start with the no-cost/low-cost resources that you, the taxpayer, have already paid for."
She also appeared in a promotional video for the SBA -- titled "The Skinny on SBA Small Business Success" -- where she says, "We are an example of what can happen when good ideas connect with high impact resources like the SBA." The clip also features Ashley Wolfe, the company's executive director, who explains, "We owe so much of our success to the SBA. From the disaster loan we received right after 9/11, it kept our doors open, even up to the support we recently received to purchase our new facility and all points in between, the SBA have been there for us."
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo baseball team is aiming to set another record in donation of something other than money as they kick off the 4th Annual Blood Bowl on Tuesday evening. The first game of the best-of-5 series gets underway tonight at 5:00 p.m. at Thomas B. Southard Stadium.
What has seemingly become a fall rite of passage for the Saint Leo baseball team since head coach Russ McNickle's arrival four years ago, the Blood Bowl divides the Lions into two equally matched teams who square off in a five-game 'World Series' to wrap up the fall season. The losing team in the matchup is required to roll up their sleeves and donate blood on November 28th.
Holding a 2-0-1 all-time record in the Blood Bowl, the Gold Team led by assistant coach Lee Parks and student assistant Chris Fenisey look to make it four undefeated times over the members of the black team. But assistant coaches, Keith Strickland and Sean VanGuilder will look to change the fortunes of the Black Team after last year's questionable tie.
Although it appears to be a punishment, the donation is well-received beyond just the baseball team as both the winning team and members of other Saint Leo squads, including coaches and department staff members stop by and donate.
This year, the BloodNet's Bloodmobile will open for donations on Monday, November 28th between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and will be parked along the north side of the Marion Bowman Activities Center.
All are invited to attend the games as well as helping in the donation of blood. This season, the goal for the drive is 40 pints of blood, higher than previous years.
The series presents an excellent opportunity for players and students alike to give back to others in a special, life-saving manner as we further our commitment to the Core Values of Community and Responsible Stewardship.
For more information about the Blood Bowl Series, contact Coach McNickle at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the BloodNet USA site at www.bloodnetusa.com.
Click here for the 2011 Gold and Black team rosters
2011 Blood Bowl Series Schedule
Game 1 – Monday, November 8th
Game 2 – Tuesday, November 9th
Game 3 – Wednesday, November 10th
Game 4 – Monday, November 14th
Game 5 – Tuesday, November 15th
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The countdown has started.
The sequester budget cuts are now less than a week away, and there are few signs that Congress and the Administration will be able to agree on a compromise to avert those cuts. The cuts total $85 billion for the rest of fiscal 2013 and are split between defense and non-defense spending.
A few programs, such as Social Security and the SNAP program (food stamps) are exempt from the cuts. USDA will also honor "contractual" obligations, such as CRP payments.
USDA Secretary Vilsack has said the sequester cuts would mean furloughs for some employees, including some food safety inspectors. The cuts may still be avoided, but compromise must happen soon.
Senate Democrats have floated a plan targeting ag spending for cuts.
Direct payments to farmers would be eliminated according to the plan, which includes some additional revenue (tax hikes). Then, according to Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., agriculture would be exempt from any new round of sequestration cuts.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., is strongly opposed to the Senate proposal.
He says "That's the resource base we need to use to craft the next farm bill in 2013. I don't know what we have left to write a farm bill with this summer."
Without his support, the Senate plan has little chance in the House. Attorneys have not yet ruled on how the counter-cyclical and ACRE program contracts will be treated under the sequestration cuts.
Seeing these programs as similar to CRP, Chairman Lucas says he doesn't see how USDA could reneg e on these contracts either and he encourages farmers to sign up for them before Mar. 1.
The sequester kicks in on Mar. 1 unless some compromise is reached.
Despite the looming budget cuts, USDA will hold a four-week open signup period for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announced that tracts covering about 3.3 million acres of land in the CRP expire at the end of September and USDA will accept bids for CRP enrollment from May 20 to June 14 this spring.
About 2.5 million acres of land came out of the CRP in 2012 and the current enrollment in the program totals 27 million acres.
Four Senators introduced legislation that would cap farm payments and close loopholes in farm payment programs.
The bill was introduced by Senators Grassley, R-Iowa, Johnson, D-S.D., Enzi, R-Wyo., and Brown, D-Ohio. The legislation would establish a per farm cap of $50,000 on all commodity prog ram benefits, except those associated with the marketing loan program.
Payments under the marketing loan programs would be capped at $125,000 for an individual; $250,000 for a married couple.
The bill would also make it more difficult for non-farmers to qualify for federal farm payments.


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State Issues Cyanobacteria Warning for Lake Monomonac, Rindge, NH, and Winchendon, MA
Concord, NH - The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) has issued a cyanobacteria warning for those who recreate on Lake Monomonac in Rindge, NH and Winchendon, MA. The June 4, 2009 warning will remain in effect until additional samples reveal cyanobacteria levels have diminished. DES advises lake users to avoid contact with the water in areas experiencing cyanobacteria bloom conditions. DES also advises pet owners to keep their pets out of any waters that have a surface scum.
Lake users should be on the lookout for cyanobacteria blooms. The current bloom is variable with portions of the lake reporting no evidence of a bloom and other areas of the lake exhibiting a blue-green hue. Recent sightings report congregations of the blue-green hue in some coves of the lake.
DES routinely monitors public beaches and lakes for cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria are natural components of many water bodies in New Hampshire. Cyanobacteria may bloom and form surface scums when excess phosphorus and ample sunlight are available. Some cyanobacteria produce toxins that are stored within the cells but released upon cell death. Toxins can cause both acute and chronic health effects ranging in severity from skin and mucous membrane irritations, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea to liver and central nervous system damage.
Visit the DES Beach Program website at des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/water/wmb/beaches/cyano_bacteria.htm for photos and more information about cyanobacteria. Updates on advisories and warnings may be obtained at http://www2.des.state.nh.us/Advisories/Beaches/.If you notice anything resembling cyanobacteria, please refrain from wading, swimming, or drinking the water. Keep all pets out of the water and contact DES immediately. Please call DES to report a cyanobacteria bloom at (603)419-9229
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Bootcamp 101by Dana Angelo White in Fitness & Wellness, January 6, 2013
Looking for new form of exercise? Maybe you're already a fan of this intense workout regimen. Learn more about this exhilarating fitness craze.
Defining Bootcamp
Inspired by military training, bootcamp workouts combine cardio and weight training. Classes may include the use of free weights, bands, balls and plyometric-type exercises – all designed to build lean muscle. Sessions also include lots of interval training where intensity is ramped up for short bursts to maximize calorie burn.
Class attendees will often find themselves switching between running, doing pull-ups, playing tug of war and jumping through a course of oversized tires all in one session. Bootcamp workouts are designed to push participants to work together in groups, while weaving some healthy competition in to the mix. If you're a competitive person or former athlete, bootcamp is for you. Some programs are designed to be a little less intense and can be offered for specific groups like women only – there's lots of variety so find the best fit for you.
Classes are typically an hour in length. Some gyms and fitness outlets offer outdoor sessions at local parks. Many also offer package deals where participants can sign up for a month of hour-long sessions that take place 5 days a week.
Like any exercise regimen, check with your doctor before getting started. Those with existing orthopedic issues may need to modify their activity for some of the more high-impact activities.
Diet and Hydration Tips
Bootcamp can get really sweaty! Proper hydration is vital, especially when classes are held outdoors during the summer months. Participants often find themselves using muscles they didn't know they had and soreness is common in the first few days. To help combat tender muscles, focus on electrolyte replenishment from healthy potassium and sodium-rich foods.
More fueling tips for bootcamp include:
- No bootcamp on an empty stomach – have a light meal 60 to 90 minutes before.
- Don't only drink during sessions – hydrate before, during AND after classes.
- Give TLC to sore muscles by eating these recovery foods.
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THE owner of a Chipping Sodbury workshop which went up in smoke on Saturday night has spoken of his devastation at losing 50 years of carpentry tools.
Ted Hughes, whose Grade II listed house to the rear of Horse Street and Broad Street was also badly damaged in the blaze, told the Gazette the fire had been a 'nightmare' but he was relieved his family and neighbours had all escaped unharmed.
Mr Hughes, 71, bought and converted the stables to the Royal Oak pub in 1997, said: "We are coping. We have no electricity, heating or water at the moment and the whole house completely reeks of smoke so we are staying elsewhere.
"We have no idea when we will be allowed back in yet. It is just such an upheaval, that is the problem."
Mr Hughes' daughter Liz Edwards, her partner Charlie Ludlow and Liz's children Anna, 18, Huw, 13, and three-year-old Lucy all escaped the building uninjured when the fire broke out in the workshop at 1.25am on Sunday.
"I was at my girlfriend's in Frampton Cotterell," said Mr Hughes. "I had a phone call from my daughter and rushed straight back but it was already ablaze.
"There was nothing I could do, I just had to stand there and watch."
Added the retired carpenter, who worked in the Chipping Sodbury area for 50 years: "My workshop has been completely destroyed and will have to be demolished.
"I used to spend a lot of time out there pottering about and had a lot of tools I had accumulated over the years."
In total, 35 firefighters took two hours to put out the blaze as many residents and people enjoying a night out looked on.
Avon Fire and Rescue Service group manager Mark Anderson said five appliances, including incident support and Red Cross vehicles, were on the scene.
"There were no reports of any injuries," he said. "The 10x10metre workshop was well alight and the fire had spread to adjacent buildings."
Nextdoor neighbour Caroline Gurney, whose car port was destroyed in the blaze, said she and husband Nick had been awake when the fire broke out.
"We never go to bed before 2.30am on a Friday and Saturday because of the noise from the Portcullis Hotel opposite," she said. "I was playing a game on my laptop when I smelt electrical smoke.
"Five minutes later a policeman knocked on the door and asked to look out of our upstairs window to get a view of the fire. It didn't look much at all, maybe a bonfire that had gone out of control.
"But three minutes later we were evacuated. It was absolutely terrifying."
Mr and Mrs Gurney were among 20 residents to be taken to Chipping Sodbury Police Station for shelter during the night after all houses in Horse Street were evacuated.
"We have to be thankful as it could have been a lot worse," said Mrs Gurney. "The police and firefighters were wonderful."
It is believed the fire was caused by an electrical fault.


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As requested, a little thread on the basics of Erháin. As a matter of fact it began as a support language for a novel I'm writing, and at the beginning it was exactly that: nothing but some random notes on word forms and a very rudimentary grammar. But ever since, the time I spent on the language has largely overgrown the effort I'm putting in the novel itself. The language (and the script) are my main interest(s) now.
Erháin has some interesting features. The most important ones are:
- vowel mutation for both grammatical case and number
- infixes in verb conjugations (except for imperatives, gerunds, gerundives and participles)
- postpositions instead of prepositions
Let's go through them here:
1. vowel mutations
1.1 cases
Nominative vowels in Erháin can only be a /a/ , i /i/ , o /ɔ/ , u /u/. The vowel of the stressed syllable (always the penultimate syllable unless otherwise indicated by means of an acute accent) is called the "stemvowel". The three cases - nominative, accusative and genitive - are indicated by mutating this stemvowel.
- Nominative: no mutation
- Accusative: stemvowel is umlauted (a > e /ɛ/ , i > î /ɪ/ , o > ø /œ/ , u > y /y/)
- Genitive: stemvowel is followed by a i /ɪ/
NOM: caron --- /ˈkarɔn/ (sphere, globe)
ACC: ceron --- /ˈkɛron/
GEN: cairon --- /ˈkaɪrɔn/
NOM: silan --- /ˈsilan/ (star)
ACC: sîlan --- /ˈsɪlan/
GEN: siilan --- /ˈsiʔilan/
NOM: oric --- /ˈɔrik/ (nut, nutshell)
ACC: øric --- /ˈœrik/
GEN: oiric --- /ˈɔɪrik/
NOM: durun --- /ˈdurun/ (drum)
ACC: dyrun --- /ˈdyrun/
GEN: duirun --- /ˈduɪrun/
1.2 number
The number of a noun or adjective is again indicated by mutating the stemvowel. In this case many of the possible preceding consonants will mutate under the influence of this mutation as well.
- stemvowels are iotated (a > iá /ja/ , e > ié /jɛ/ , o > io /jɔ/ , ø > iǿ /jœ/ , etc)
- preceding c , s and g are palatalized (/k/ > /tʃ/ , /s/ > /ʃ/ , /g/ > /dʒ/)
- preceding t, d, p, b are fricantized (t /t/ > th /θ/ , d /d/ > dh /ð/ , p /p/ > ph /f/ , b /b/ > bh /v/)
- preceding sonorants m, n, w, j, l, r, h are not touched
SG NOM: caron --- /ˈkarɔn/ (sphere, globe)
PL NOM: ciáron --- /ˈtʃarɔn/ (spheres, globes)
SG NOM: durun --- /ˈdurun/ (drum)
PL NOM: dhiúrun --- /ˈðjurun/ (drums)
SG NOM: moran --- /ˈmɔran/ (sail)
PL NOM: mióran --- /ˈmjɔran/ (sail)
This process is unchanged in ACC and GEN. You can imagine however that it would - at least in spelling - collide with stemvowel -i-. the plural of, say, silan (star, SG NOM) would become *siilan, rendering it undistinguishable of siilan (star, SG GEN). For that reason the plural of -i- becomes -ei-. Pronunciation however remains the same:
SG NOM: silan --- /ˈsilan/
SG ACC: sîlan --- /ˈsɪlan/
SG GEN: siilan --- /ˈsiʔilan/
PL NOM: seilan --- /ˈʃilan/
PL ACC: seîlan --- /ˈʃɪlɛn/
PL GEN: seiilan --- /ˈʃiʔilan/
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SONY and Panasonic, the Japanese electronics makers reeling from record losses, have had their credit ratings cut to junk amid slumping demand for televisions.
Sony's rating was cut by three levels to BB-, three steps below investment grade, and Panasonic by two to BB, with the outlook for both companies negative, ratings agency Fitch said.
The companies would struggle amid a strong yen and weakened economic conditions at home and overseas, Fitch said.
After dominating the consumer-electronics industry since the 1980s, Sony, Panasonic and third Japanese player Sharp have resorted to cutting jobs, closing plants and selling assets after failing to come up with products to challenge Samsung and Apple.
''The future of both companies will depend on their ability to curb loss-making segments and rediscover the kind of technological leadership which historically enabled them to develop must-have products,'' said Steve Durose, Fitch's head of technology ratings for the Asia-Pacific region. ''Sony is the higher risk of the two.''
Shares in Sony, Panasonic and Sharp have fallen to their lowest in more than 30 years in Tokyo this year. The three companies combined are valued at $US24 billion, compared with $US528 billion for Apple and $US192 billion for Samsung.
Sony, founded in 1946 and the inventor of the Walkman player that revolutionised music in the 1980s, was valued at more than $US120 billion in 2000.
Sony posted a net loss of ¥15.5 billion ($A181 million) for the quarter to September 30. After reporting losses in each of the past four years, it retains its forecast for full-year net income of ¥20 billion.
Sony chief executive Kazuo Hirai is cutting 10,000 jobs and selling assets to focus on mobile devices, games and digital imaging. Sony had 7 per cent of the global TV market in the quarter to September, down from 8.4 per cent the previous quarter. Panasonic dropped to 6.2 per cent from 6.8 per cent. Samsung remained first with 25.2 per cent.


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A dance studio located in the up-scale Westchester County, owned by Joe Cavise. Over 400 kids attend dance classes ranging from ballet to zumba, taught by teachers coming in from New York City. Most notable of these is Olga Dvorovenko and Chris White. Unlike most suburban dance schools, Dance Cavise owns an entire 3-floor building that includes 4 spatious studios, a kitchen, 2 costume rooms, a staff room, changing room, homework room, office, 4 bathrooms, boutique, large lobby and viewing areas. Children of all ages and levels attend the school, and most who continue on past 7th grade (and are in an advanced level) are a part of the school's non-profit, non-competition dance company, Off Center Dance Theatre.
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SANTA ANA – A drive-by shooting left two teens injured Sunday night, police said.
The two injured boys were getting into a parked car in the 2100 block of West Myrtle Street when another vehicle passed. It slowed as an unknown shooter fired, then drove off, said Cmdr. Larry Coleman of the Santa Ana Police Department.
Officers responded around 8 p.m. and the teens were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related, Coleman said.
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def mycalc():
In1 = input('Input your first Number');
In2 = input('Input your second Number');
op = raw_input('Input your desired Operation');
if op == '+':
answer = In1 + In2
elif op == '-':
answer = In1 - In2
answer = 'Please enter correct values. Use only + or -'
print ('answer')
When I try it out in the shell, I can enter values which are then printed out for me but cannot enter an operation - I get syntax error. What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?


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Worcester Park race ace Howard Fuller is set to team up with New Malden's Tom Onslow-Cole in the British Touring Car Championship in 2013 - and he cannot wait to get behind the wheel.
Team HARD owner Tony Gilham has confirmed the 20-year-old will return to his squad to drive one of his two new VW Passat CC NGTC machines in a yet-to-be-named team for at least a part-BTCC season.
Fuller, who made his BTCC debut last season for Gilham as reward for claiming a victory for the team in the VW Cup, will share driving reponsibilities with recently signed American racer Robb Holland, who is racing only selected events.
Fuller is currently working on raising the budget for a full season, having already impressed in two outings in the elderly Team HARD Honda Cicic at Rockingham and Silverstone last season.
Onslow-Cole, who penned a three-year deal with Gilham's set-up over Christmas, has targeted a flying start to the season and his new team mate hopes his experience rubs off on him.
"It has all come together nicely, and it's great to know that I'll be on the grid," he said.
"It can be frustrating reading about everyone else's plans while I've been busy trying to secure my own place. I'm just thankful to Tony for the opportunity and I can't wait to work with him and the team again.
"To be bringing the VW Passat to the BTCC grid – along with Tom Onslow-Cole of course – is a great feeling.
"I am likely to be the youngest guy on the grid and the likes of Tom obviously have more experience than me, but I am confident in my own ability and I am looking forward to the challenge."
Gilham, now one of the BTCC's major players, could yet race a third Passat in the series provided Fuller can find the monet to fund a whole season.
And the Kent-based team boss admitted he had great expecatations for his new man.
"Howard is a very good driver," he added.
"He won for us in the VW Cup and the whole team loves him.
"We rewarded him with a BTCC drive at Rockingham last year and he did so well that we put him back in the car for Silverstone.
"I am sure he will do a great job for us."


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New Europe Market launching in Dubrovnik
Media Vision is organising a new content market that will be held in Dubrovnik from May 8-11.
The goal of the New Europe Market (NEM) is to open new content, production, marketing and television services for their region.
The NEM will host key speakers including:
- Marciej Sojka (head of YouTube content parternship, CEE)
- John Rossiter (general manager, central Europe, Sony Pictures Television Networks)
- Gregor Memedović (regional manager, Fox International Channels)
- Marco Frazier (vice president, global distribution, AMC/Sundance Channel Global).
The market will also hold a number of panels on television, marketing and advertisement, as well as different forms of media.
BBC business news presenter Aaron Heslehurts will be the main commentator during the NEM's panels.
Registration and information for exhibitors, visitors or press and media can be found on their website, www.neweumarket.com as well as a full list of panels and key speakers.
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WRES: NC State Cruises to Three Wins in Wolfpack Duals
Posted November 24, 2013
Raleigh, N.C. — The NC State wrestling team breezed to three victories today in the first three duals of the season. The Wolfpack downed Gardner-Webb 37-0, Lindsey Wilson 34-12, and UNC Pembroke 39-6.
The Pack posteda combined 25-5 mark in the three duals, recording seven falls and three technical falls among its victories.
The Pack's 37-0 shutout of Gardner-Webb to start the day was the first shutout in a dual for NC State since a 40-0 win over VMI in 2001. After recording three decisions to start the match, freshman Brian Hamann scored a major decision at 149 pounds, followed by senior Nijel Jones recording a pin at 165 pounds.
In the win over Lindsey Wilson, the Pack posted back-to-back pins by freshmen Micah Perez (125) and Chris Wilkes (133) to start the dual. Fellow freshmen Max Rohskopf (157) and Nick Gwiazdowski (285) also recorded pins.
Against UNC Pembroke, NC State won its first six matches. Freshman Brendan Calas started with a pin at 125, followed by technical fall wins by Wilkes at 133 pounds and Tommy Gantt at 157 pounds. The match was finished off with Gwiazdowski's second pin of the day, 1:48 into the match.


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Cecor's model CP50-200/200CB5 coolant sump cleaner and dispenser is designed to filter solids from coolant in larger metal machining operations so coolant can be recycled. The unit is mounted on an electric 48-V Columbia ParCar truck for transporting coolant between the machine tool and batch processing areas.
A 200-gallon-compartment tank collects and filters dirty coolant, and another 200-gallon compartment dispenses clean coolant. On the way to the tank, the dirty coolant passes through a filter that separates the chips and swarf from the coolant. The F23 filter can hold 2.3 cu. ft. of solids. The sump can be refilled with fresh coolant from the dispenser side, and both tanks have pump-in and pump-out capabilities. The pump is powered by a Kohler 20-hp, four-stroke cycle Command series engine with electric start. The sump cleaner pumps fluid at rates ranging to 110 gpm and generates suction ranging to 13" Hg (177" water).


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Meeting Rooms A, B & C
Thursday, March 20 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Join us as we look between the lines of 'The Magnificent Ambersons' and into the lives of our ancestors during this pivotal time of change for women. Author and columnist Dorothy Jerse will share her research on local women and storyteller Sally Weatherston will share their stories. Don't miss this celebration of Terre Haute Women's History.


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You won't be able to dismiss this by usual means (escape or click button), but you can close it programatically based on user choices or actions.
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For a while now I have been working on a ORM library for AIR and SQLite. It's not officially launched yet, but if you want to sneak a peak and give it try then look "here":http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cairngorm/How+to+Use+the+Cairngorm+Persistence+Library.
I took my initial inspiration from "iBATIS":http://ibatis.apache.org/ as I wanted the developer to have control over the SQL. It is intended to be incredibly simple. You put the SQL in a SQLMap and then decorate your VOs with metadata. There's a sample app so take a look and let me know how you get on.


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NICK Riewoldt will captain St Kilda for an eighth season, appointed to front a refreshed leadership group minus defender Sam Fisher.
Fisher and Adam Schneider have relinquished their positions in the eight-player group, with Fisher's decision coming at the end of a pre-season in which his off-field behaviour and influence on his teammates was questioned.
Saints coach Scott Watters has praised the 30-year-old's attitude and training form since a Fairfax Media report in November indicated his leadership role was under threat, and Fisher said he had chosen to focus on his football this year.
''I have enjoyed being part of the leadership group for the last seven years but I missed eight games through injury last year,'' Fisher explained in a club statement.
''Over the summer, my commitment to the club was questioned in some quarters outside the club. While I don't agree with it, I think the best thing for me is to concentrate on ensuring I deliver my best form.''
Riewoldt will be joined in the leadership group by Leigh Montagna, Nick Dal Santo, Ben McEvoy and James Gwilt, as well as additions David Armitage and Jarryn Geary. Fisher, Schneider, Lenny Hayes, Stephen Milne, Justin Koschitzke and Jason Blake will participate in a program mentoring younger players viewed as emerging leaders.
"We are looking for a critical mass of leaders who are committed to driving high standards,'' Watters said. ''We need to develop emerging leaders and so some of our most respected players will be involved in mentoring those who have been identified as possible future leaders.''
After enduring knee problems throughout 2011, Riewoldt had a more successful 2012 season, kicking 47 goals in his first year playing for Watters.
The 30-year-old became St Kilda's captain for the first time in 2005, one of the single-year ''rotating'' skippers appointed during Grant Thomas' time as coach.
After sharing the role with Hayes and former Saint Luke Ball in 2007, Riewoldt became the sole captain in 2008 and has held the position since.
"I'm honoured to again be named captain of the Saints in 2013,'' Riewoldt said. ''It's an exciting period for the club and, with the support of our strong leadership group, I'm looking forward to leading the team into a successful season."


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Chinese studies is currently the largest language program at Monash University. It is taught on the Clayton campus and caters for the needs of students with language proficiency ranging from introductory to advanced level. A special translation stream in the Chinese studies major is available for students with advanced language proficiency. At Monash, the study of the Chinese language is strongly supported by offerings on Chinese culture, society and politics available both within the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics and in other schools of the Faculty of Arts. Some examples are: Understanding Asia, Understanding Modern and Contemporary China, Borderless Media in East Asia and Chinese Media Analysis.
The Program also provides graduate supervision on a wide range of China-related research topics that reflect the expertise of its academic staff. Current research activities of the Program's staff include: modern and contemporary Chinese thought, elite Chinese politics, history of the PRC, Chinese children's literature, moral education in China, literature and culture of the Mao and post-Mao periods, teaching Chinese as a second/heritage language, language and immigrant identity, second language acquisition and Sinophone communications in the digital age (spanning cultural and media studies and sociolinguistics).
Chinese Studies is a multidisciplinary program that provides students with rigorous language training and the knowledge and skills essential for the study of modern and contemporary China.
- Chinese, Japanese & French languages graduate Sarah Holloway co-founded Matcha Maiden, a global e-commerce organic matcha powder supplier, and about a year ago started the ... Read more
- Last week saw Monash Arts students win the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Language Proficiency Competition for Foreign University Students once again. Read more
- Monash Chinese Studies students win first and second places in language competition Read more
- Our student David Kral won the first prize at the 14th Chinese Bridge language proficiency competition held in Melbourne University last Saturday, 16 May, beating ... Read more
- The School is proud to announce the success of Monash students, Shahzad Billimoria and Stephanie Tsiros, in the 13th Chinese Bridge competition held in RMIT last Saturday, 24 May. Competitors ... Read more
- Following Alistair Bayley's win of the World Champion title of the Chinese Bridge competition last year, he once again, won the Many Languages, One World Essay ... Read more
- Our student, Alistair Bayley, currently in Advanced Chinese 4 and Chinese Translation 2, won both the world champion and the champion of Oceania at the ... Read more
- Monash advanced Chinese language student Alistair Bayley will travel to Changsha in Hunan Province, China in July 2013 to represent Victorian universities in the final ... Read more
- The Scholarships program for 2013 – 2014 has recently been released to eligible students of Australian citizenship from Monash University. Applications should be submitted to ... Read more
- The new CEFR Website homepage The School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash has recently adopted the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) ... Read more
- Students on an excursion to Melbournes Chinatown. Image courtesy of the Monash Photography Club Victorian students are taking advantage of a unique opportunity to improve their ... Read more


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i am completely serious when i say this, it is not an insult of you intelligence. did you try just pressing enter? i had a similar problem with my usb keys
This is my first time setting up BackTrack. I downloaded BackTrack 4 from here(backtrack-linux.org) and tried using UNetbootin to create my bootable usb. I did that and it didn't work. I checked my md5sum using HashCalc and the md5sums matched. When I would boot up off the usb I would get the error:
SYSLINUX 3.05 2010-02-20 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
boot: _
The underscore after boot: is the cursor blinking. Whenever I type anything in I just get an error saying that the command is not a recognized function.
Right now I am trying to download BT3, BT4-pre-final, and BT-beta so that way I can see if I can install one of those to get it to work.
Please ignore the attachment, I uploaded the wrong file.
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i am completely serious when i say this, it is not an insult of you intelligence. did you try just pressing enter? i had a similar problem with my usb keys
open source = open minds, human knowledge belongs to the world
Did you format your USB (FAT32) before installing BT4?
Yes I did format it usuing both the quick format and normal format of the FAT32 format.
Yes I formatted it, multiple times in fact. I formatted it into the FAT32 by using the Quick Format method and the normal format method.
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Now if you could just answer crweedon's question.
I'm a compulsive post editor, you might wanna wait until my post has been online for 5-10 mins before quoting it as it will likely change.
I know I seem harsh in some of my replies. SORRY! But if you're doing something illegal or posting something that seems to be obvious BS I'm going to call you on it.
Yes I did press enter and it didn't work. I also tried typing in login and also got nothing. I also tried burning BT3 to my USB and I got the same error. Do you think that my UNetbootin is corrupt?
Okay I solved the issue. For some reason it wasn't working on that Flash Drive. Maybe because I bought it a couple of years ago. But I switched to my newest one and it worked fine.
Thanks for the help everyone!
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Las Vegas fusion
Published Feb. 1, 2012
We honestly, seriously, really, didn't know when we planned our annual work/fun trip to Sin City that it would coincide with the Adult Video News Expo at the Hard Rock Casino's meeting hall. After all, this annual junket is more about a winter getaway than anything else. But when we found ourselves credentialed to the porn and adult novelty show, we knew it would play a prominent role in bringing our readers along for the ride. Las Vegas means so many different things to so many different people. But it means different things to the same people, too.


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Learn how to evaluate the timing of future possibilities and discuss what astrology suggests in support, or not, of one's plans. Learn how to analyze the measurements into a cohesive whole. Strengthen your predictive technique, gain confidence and improve your communication skills.
People consult astrologers to relieve preoccupation and gain clarity about their current situation and plans for the near future. The astrologer must analyze the data with respect the client's reality and what he projects for himself. Do the measurements support what the client envisions or does the astrology suggest otherwise? How does the astrologer evaluate this and communicate this to the client?
In this study guide, Lauren Delsack takes you through four in-depth consultations, regarding major life plans that involve a change of residence, career moves, finances, new relationship beginnings, having a child, and fulfilling a dream of becoming an artist.
Study the consultations from start to finish: horoscope preparation, interpreting the time-flow listing, client discussion, and find out what transpired and when. Was it according to the client's plans or not?
©2009 Lauren Delsack (P)2012 Lauren Delsack
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