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Unnecessary filler content. I find myself with less time and more money than I used to have. As a consequence, my backlog is ever-expanding. I don't want games to waste my time so that I can get my "money's worth", I want a good experience. If a game takes a lot of time but is more or less consistently appealing, that's great, but once I start to feel like I'm grinding I get disenchanted and annoyed and will soon abandon the game. I judge games by the enjoyment they provide, not the amount of time they consume. Adding more extra content to the same amount of base content generally detracts from the value, rather than increase it. I'd much rather replay a shorter, consistently interesting game than grind along in a more stretched out version of it.
Also, quicksaves. Both their inclusion and their exclusion. It often bugs me when quicksaves aren't available, but I don't have the discipline to not press F5 before every corner if I can.
07-02-2013, 12:10 AM #23I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
Obviously talented developers with a healthy budget doing nothing but making MMO RPGs.Virtual Pilot 3D NEVER NOT SCAM!
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Your last few sentences are elitist crap though. I have no objection to hand-holding tutorial text being available for those that might need it, I just wish they'd let me turn it off. Options (within reason) are good.
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Cutscenes recorded at console resolution and graphics settings that look laughably inferior to the realtime graphics, Bulletstorm I'm looking at you.
Also add one for the checkpoint system in stealth games, the Riddick games would have been significantly better with a quicksave.
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Unskippable cutscenes.
Unskippable animations in turn-based games.
Unskippable dialogue.
Press Any key To Start screens. I don't care if it's some Microsoft requirement. It cannot be beyond their wit to check whether the game is being run on a PC and remove the stupid screen accordingly.
Press Specific Key To Start screens. Whoever makes those is just being deliberately spiteful.
QTEs in long cutscenes you were just sitting back and relaxing in.Irrelevant on further examination of the rest of the thread.
07-02-2013, 07:55 AM #28Steam profile
PC Specs: I have a big e-peen
07-02-2013, 08:54 AM #29Another thing I hate is that it seems like developers today care more about targeting and bringing in non-gamers than they do about pleasing the fans they already have. Take the last Zelda, for example. I've already beaten over a dozen Zelda games, so why are you stopping me to explain how bombs work, or what my heart meter means? Why not make a game expecting the person playing to be a gamer, and not a casual or non-gamer who probably won't even finish it? You shouldn't have to tell the player to use the mouse to look around, or use the left stick to move. If they do not fucking know that already, then they have no business being here.
Making games less accessible to new gamers makes them less accessible to us, too, a lot of the time. Accessibility is good. I don't want to read a 100 page manual before I play a game. Making complex and rewarding mechanics accessible to anyone at the controls should be what we all want! Easy to learn hard to master? Isn't that what we should be striving for? There are all kinds of awful things people do in tutorials ... and that could be easily fixed if we dedicated more time and creativity and resources to developing tutorials.I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
There are lots of small niggly things that'll get an eye-roll or a loud tut (almost all caused by Consolitis), but there's one thing that can kill my interest in a game stone dead - Not being able to save whenever I like. I don't even mean being able to quick-save every 3 picoseconds, I just need a game to save my progress when I quit, so I can carry on from where I left off.
This is due to limited playtime and having a young kid. I need to know I can just save and quit at a moments notice. I can't face replaying a section just because I hadn't reached some distant checkpoint before my son started wailing.
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Not allowing every key on the keyboard to be remapped is the worst thingfor me. The Enter key especially being unavailable tends to crop up stupidly often in these things, as is treating the numpad buttons as the arrow keys and the Delete/End/PageDown cluster (ie you can't keymap eg down arrow and numpad 2 as different actions because apparently they're the same key). As a person who doesn't use WASD, the first thing I always do when I start a new game is to go to the key configs, and it's never certain if I can actually use the key config I'm used to.Give me [url=http://steamcommunity.com/id/flintgf]steam[/url] and how you feel to make it real.
An insufficient number of options in the graphical settings menu. File that right next to botchy key bindings menus.
Actually, let's just say stark settings menus in general. Fuck you developers.
"Get back to the war zone! 5 4 3 2 <reload last checkpoint>"
"Hey, listen! Hey, listen!, Hey listen!, Listen! Use mouse to look around! Listen!"
Console game:
<cutscene appears> "Press X!" <reload last checkpoint> <cutscene appears> "Press X!" <X pressed> "Press L1!" <L1 pressed> ... "Press O!" <reload last checkpoint> <repeat x times>
PC port of console game
<cutscene appears> "Press X!" <reload last checkpoint> <cutscene appears> "Press X!" <pressed any key> <reload last checkpoint> <repeat until all keys pressed> <cutscene appears> "Press X!" <X pressed> "Press O!" <pressed any key> <reload last checkpoint> <repeat all until you remeber that X mean e and O means space etc.>
I absolutely hate having to unlock weapons in multiplayer FPS. One of the biggest culprits: Battlefield 3. Would be so much more enjoyable without having to grind for stuff.
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No mouse support in menus..FFFUUUUUUU.
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Brought to mind by a comment a few moments ago, whilst not entirely related to any particular aspect of a game, but the lack of just raw gameplay footage that publishers/developers release I find it unbelievably annoying.
Just show the damn game. I couldn't a crap about some pointless video interview with the lead designer etc.
Tutorials that don't focus on gameplay mechanics. Guys, don't give me a list of steps to accomplish X without telling me why I want to do that and exactly what the hell it's doing. If I'm playing the tutorial it's because I don't know the mechanics, telling me to build a Wargorle Transmission Tower on my planet without explaining what it does or why I'm doing it isn't helping me. Some tutorials play like some of the worst game guides ever written. You know, the ones that go "Build 20 Zargles straight up, because I'm telling you to."
Unskippable anything, but make me confirm before skipping something important. If you're explaining an important plot point in this cutscene then confirm that I want to skip it just in case I have an attack of being retarded and hit something by accident. If it's your company logo taking 30 seconds to appear on screen like a bad YouTube intro, then don't confirm with me, just let me skip it. Actually, just don't do it. Period.
Littering savegame and config files everywhere. We have a Saved Games folder for a reason, and yet none of you are using it! The current standard seems to be "clutter up My Documents because...?" or sometimes using "Documents\My Games\AwesomeDev\Call of Ocular Trauma 4\saves\" Sometimes they just leave them in the game's directory. Whatever it is you should have some sort of conference, pick a standard, and goddamn stick to it! Stop cluttering up My Documents! I had to stop using it because you turn it into a mess!
Pointless social media integration, because it doesn't need to happen.
Dodgy mouse support in general. Either make the menu work properly with a mouse, or don't let the mouse activate the menu. Also don't apply weird acceleration curves to the mouse. If I move it in a short distance, don't make the view track slower. It's not a thumbstick, I have a much greater range of motion, if I move it a short distance I want it to move at the same speed in that direction. STOP. SCREWING. UP. MY. MOUSE.
Combining keys that should not be combined - Mass Effect 3 combining "USE" and "ROLL" was stupid, and there were enough buttons on a gamepad that they didn't need to do that. By the same token, not combining keys that should be combined. Having each key bound to different things just for the sake of it when it could easily be handled by one key with context-sensitive usage is not good game design. ARMA2 is a decent example (the Action menu scores points though) with its numerous pointless keys that stretch across the keyboard. Most games IMO get it right.
I don't like verbose characters repeating an objective over and over. And boss fights with those characters around you. I usually die a lot during those fights. And then you have to listen to the same crap again... 'Shoot this or we are all gonna die. Oh no.'
Unskippable cutscenes before difficult encounters: every time you have to replay an encounter, you have to watch the cutscene again.
Not being able to customize the key bindings.
Overly dramatic voice acting. I understand that some lines call for a dramatic delivery, but when every character speaks like the world could end at any moment, it gets tiresome.
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Unskippable intro videos. I'll allow unskippable logo videos the first time a game runs, that doesn't seem too bad.
Windows and menus that don't close with the same hotkey used to open them. Bonus dick points if that hotkey does something else when the menu is open.
Windows and menus that don't close when you press Esc, unless there's very good reason for this.
Game menu that doesn't upon with Esc, unless there's very good reason for this.
Real-time-with-pause games where Pause is on a key that isn't the spacebar.
RPGs where i doesn't open inventory, j doesn't open journal (sure, make it l for Log if you want to be a special snowflake, but make j work as well). c should probably open the character screen, but c is close enough to useful keys to have other potential uses. i, l and j rarely do anything, so they may as well be mapped to these standard menus in all RPGs.Irrelevant on further examination of the rest of the thread.

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I've come across this excellent Guide to London & Middlesex Burial registers and their availability online. Written by the very experienced genealogist Cliff Webb this guide is available for download or printing on the West Surrey Family History Society website.
Over a number of year Cliff Webb has worked hard on indexes and publications that make London Family History research so much easier for genealogists. I think Cliff is one of genealogy's heroes!
The guide was written in 2009 and at the end of the introduction I was amused to see that Cliff Webb has signed and dated it thus "Cliff Webb, Feast of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, 2009" which is the 24 April 2009 !!
The guide consists of 16 pages which must represent many hours of work. Many thanks to Cliff & the WSFHS.


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Dispositional affect, similar to mood, is a personality trait or overall tendency to respond to situations in stable, predictable ways. This trait is expressed by the tendency to see things in positive or negative way. People with high positive affectivity tend to perceive things through "pink lens" while people with high negative affectivity tend to perceive things through "black lens" [1]. The level of dispositional affect affects the autonomic sensations and behavior and most of the time in an unconscious way, and the effects can be prolonged (between a few weeks to a few months). Many researches show that there is a correlation between dispositional affect (both positive and negative) and important aspects in psychology and social science, such as personality, culture, decision making, negotiation, psychological resilience and coping with stressful life events. That is why this topic is important both in social psychology research and organizational psychology research.
Conceptual distinctions from emotion and moodEdit
Besides dispositional affect, there are other concepts for expressions of emotion such as mood or discrete emotions. These concepts are different from dispositional affect though there is a connection among them.
- Dispositional affect is different from emotion or affect, by being a personality trait while emotion is a general concept for subjective responses of people to certain situations. Emotion includes both general responses (positive or negative emotion) and specific responses (love, anger, hate, fear, jealousy, sadness etc. The strength of emotions a person feels can stem from his level of dispositional affect.
- Dispositional affect is also different from moods since mood relates to general feeling that usually tends to be diffusing and not focused on a specific cause or object. Though mood is specific, it is not a personality trait. Still, positive affectivity can explain why a person has good mood in general, since positive affectivity means viewing the world in a good light. The same thing is true for negative affectivity which can explain why a person has bad mood in general, since negative affectivity means viewing the world in a dark light.
In general, though emotion researchers disagree about the way that emotions and dispositional affect should be classified [2], a common classification of emotions assumes that each emotion is a combination of pleasantness (pleasant or unpleasant) and activation (high or low)) [3]. For example, excitement is a combination of pleasantness and high activation, while calmness is a combination of pleasantness and low activation. Dispositional Affect is also a combination of pleasantness and activation. According to this classification, the different combinations of high or low pleasantness and high or low activation create four Quarters. In line with the classification mentioned above, there is a well-known and common model that is being used in organizational psychology research to analyze and classify dispositional affect, which was developed by Watson and Tellegen [3]. The researchers claim that there are two dimensions of dispositional affect: positive affectivity and negative affectivity and that each person has a certain level of both positive affectivity and negative affectivity. Hence, according to the model and contrary to intuition, positive affectivity does not represent the opposite of negative affectivity, but a different aspect from it. According to Watson & Tellegen [4] one must regard these quarters as two pivots which determine the positive affectivity and negative affectivity of a person. These two dimensions of dispositional affect are bipolar, distinct and independent, relating to different emotion groups, so that each person can be classified with a positive affectivity and negative affectivity grade.
- Positive affectivity - describes a person's tendency to be cheerful and energetic, and to experience positive moods(such as pleasure or well-being), across a variety of situations. Individuals who have low levels of positive affectivity tend to be low energy and sluggish or melancholy. High level of positive affectivity represents the extent to which an individual feels energetic and excited, while low level of positive affectivity represents the extent to which an individual feels sadness, sluggishness or weariness " [1].
- Negative affectivity - describes a person's tendency to be distressed and upset, and have a negative view of self over time and across situations. It is important to explain that low levels of negative affectivity are perceived as positive traits since they represent individuals who are more calm, serene and relaxed. High levels of negative affectivity represents the extent to which an individual feels anger, irritability, fear or nervousness, while low level of negative affectivity represents the extent to which an individual feels calm and serene "[1].
Operationalizations for dispositional affect can be measured by questionnaires. In English researchers Use the Positive And Negative Affectivity Scale (PANAS)[4]. According to the instructions of this questionnaire, the individual is asked to indicate to what extent he or she feels a certain feeling or emotion such as happy, sad, excited, enthusiastic, guilty, distressed, afraid, etc. An individual has to indicate the most appropriate answer to each item (feeling or emotion) on a scale ranging from 1-5 (1- Very slightly or not at all, 5- Extremely). Early mapping of these emotions by the researchers, helps determine the positive affectivity and negative affectivity of the individual. Another advantage that was discovered while developing this questionnaire is that though it is intended for personality analysis, people can respond to the questions according to specific time frames, for example people can indicate the emotions or sensations they feel at this moment, in the past week, or in general. This way we can learn about dispositional affect to a certain situation and not only about dispositional affect as a general personality trait. By responding to the questions about feelings "in general" we can learn about positive and negative affectivity as a personality trait. By responding to the questions about feelings "at this moment" we can learn about situational dispositional affect as a response to a certain situation. For example, Rafaeli et al., [5] showed in their research that waiting in line cause an increase in negative affectivity levels.
Physical and mental aspectsEdit
- Physical health - When it comes to people with different illness, it is interesting to see that there are differences in the physical health according to the levels of dispositional affect. Individuals who have high levels of positive affectivity, had longer life span, reported fewer pains and illness symptoms (such as blood pressure), and were less likely to develop a cold when exposed to a virus compared with individuals who have high levels of negative affectivity, while both had the same illness. It was also discovered that when it comes to people with chronic diseases that has decent prospects for long-term survival, (such as coronary heart disease), people may benefit from high levels of positive affectivity. However, when it comes to people with chronic diseases that has short - term Prognoses (e.g., metastatic breast cancer) and poor survival chances, high levels of positive affectivity may be detrimental to the health of these individuals, possibly as a consequence of underreporting of symptoms resulting in inadequate care, or of a lack of adherence to treatment [6].
- Life style - Even when it comes to healthy individuals, it seems that there are differences between people's life style, due to their dispositional affect trait .Individuals who have high levels of positive affectivity, tend to attend healthier activities such as improved sleep quality, more physical exercise, and more intake of dietary vitamins, and tend to socialize more often and maintain more and higher-quality social ties. It was also found that high levels of positive affectivity may result in more and closer social contacts because it facilitates approach behavior, and because others are drawn to form attachments with pleasant individuals.
- Psychological resilience and coping with stressful life events - Research findings show that there is a relationship between positive affectivity and improved physical health and healthier life style, but what is the explanation to the correlation between dispositional affect and psychological resilience and coping with stressful life events? Physiology gives one explanation, which claims that individuals who have high levels of positive affectivity, have lower levels of the stress hormones (such as epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol), so that it creates a psychological resilience that provides positive resources to confront stressful life events [6]. On the other hand, the broaden-and-build theory [7] provides a different explanation from the physiological one, and claim that individuals who have high levels of positive affectivity and experience positive events in the present, create a spiral or "snow ball" effect, that may lead to higher probability to experience positive events in the future as well. This means that happiness and well-being sensations in the present, are the ones which creates the likelihood to feel the same in the future, which helps us in building a strong and improved system of coping with stressful life events [8] [9].
Though it is agreed that there are differences between one culture and another, most of the differences that were addressed in researches are related to the comparison between individualism and collectivism. In individualistic cultures, it was found that there is a strong relationship between dispositional affect (either positive or negative) and general life satisfaction (though the relationship was stronger for positive affectivity compared to negative affectivity). On the other hand, in many collectivistic cultures, it was found that there is a no relationship between negative affectivity and general life satisfaction, and it may result from the great variance in the ways that different cultures regulate their positive affectivity compared to negative affectivity [10].
Decision making and negotiationEdit
- Decision making - In dealing with interesting and important situations, it was found that individuals who have high levels of positive affectivity make a thorough and efficient cognitive processing, and therefore their decision making process is more efficient, flexible, creative and innovative. It was also found that positive affectivity facilitate creativity, cognitive flexibility, novel responses, openness to new information and dealing with mental problems. This stems from the fact that positive affectivity encourages problem solving approach and searching for variety, in order to achieve a suitable result. At last, it was found that high levels of positive affectivity does not encourage risk taking, though it does facilitates negotiation processes, and improves the results of face to face negotiation processes, in order to reach to agreement [11].
- Negotiation - When individuals negotiate, it was found that high levels of positive affectivity was related to optimistic view of the upcoming results, planning and using cooperation strategies, and better results regarding the agreements that were made, both in personal (and not formal) negotiation, and group (formal) negotiation. It was also found that positive affectivity increases the likelihood to use cooperation strategies (but not other strategies such as "an eye for an eye") and improves the results of the negotiation, even if just one of the negotiators has the desired trait of positive affectivity [12], and increases the likelihood and willingness to agree with counter–arguments, and behavior changes as a result [13]. Another support for the findings presented above, showed that high levels of positive affectivity was related to willingness to compromise and give up, finding creative solutions, using cooperative strategies, less cheating and better results in negotiation processes [14]. On the contrary to the findings about positive affectivity, it was found that high levels of negative affectivity was related to usage of competitive strategies, and much worse results regarding the agreements that were made. Another support for these finding showed that high levels of negative affectivity was related to competition, lower offers, rejecting ultimatums and lower combined gains, as a result of the negotiation process, and minimum willingness to continue the cooperation strategy in the future [12] [14].
See alsoEdit
- Emotion
- Personality
- Behavior
- Emotions and culture
- Health
- Broaden-and-build
- Decision making
- Negotiation
- Psychology
- Organizational psychology
- Barbara Fredrickson
- Alice M. Isen
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Barsade, S.G., & Gibson, D.E. (2007). Why does affect matter in organizations? Academy of Management Perspectives, 36-59.
- ↑ James A. R., & James M. C. (1999). The Phoenix of Bipolarity: Reply to Watson and Tellegen (1999). Psychological Bulletin. 125, (5), ,611-617
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Watson, D, & Tellegen, A. (1985). Toward a consensual structure of mood. Psychological Bulletin, 98, 219-23
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Tellegen, A. (1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 1063-1070.
- ↑ Rafaeli, A., Barron, G. & Haber, K. (2002). The effects of queue structure on attitudes. Journal of Service Research', 5(2), 125-139.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cohen S & Pressman, S.D. (2006). Positive Affect and Health. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15 (3) 122
- ↑ Fredrickson, B. L. (1998). What good are positive emotions? Review of General Psychology, 2, 300–319.
- ↑ Fredrickson, B. L. (2001). The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. American Psychologist, 56, 218–226.
- ↑ Fredrickson, B. & Joiner, T. (2002). Positive emotions trigger upward spirals toward emotional well-being. Psychological Science, 13, 172-175.
- ↑ Suh, E., Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Triandis, H. C. (1998). The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: Emotions versus norms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 482-493
- ↑ Isen, A.M. (2004). An Influence of Positive Affect on Decision Making in Complex Situations: Theoretical Issues With Practical Implications. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 11(2), 75–85
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Forgas, J. P. (1998) "On feeling good and getting your way: Mood effects on negotiator cognition and behavior". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 565–577.
- ↑ Albarracin D. & Kumkale, G.T. (2003) "Affect as Information in Persuasion: A Model of Affect Identification and Discounting". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(3) 453-469.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Van Kleef, G. A., De Dreu, C. K. W., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2004). "The interpersonal effects of anger and happiness in negotiations". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 57–76
External linksEdit
- Personality Research, Individual differences in personality traits
- Stanford, Information about PANAS scale
- Abstract, Why does affect matter in organizations?
- Abstract, Broaden-and-build theory
- Abstract, Life satisfaction and Culture research
- Abstract, Dispositional Affect and Decision making research
- Albarracin D. & Kumkale, G.T. 2003 , Link to research
- Van Kleef et. al, 2004, Link to research
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Faseen Valli became the first batsman in the tournament to score a century and take four wickets in the same match as South Africa overcame a spirited challenge from Canada to win its Group C clash of the ICC Under-19 World Cup by 45 runs at the Abu Dhabi Oval 1.
On Sunday (February 16), Valli's all-round show ensured South Africa registered its second consecutive win of the tournament to put itself on top of the Group C standings. He scored an unbeaten 102 from 92 balls, with 10 fours and two sixes, and featured in a 102-run fifth-wicket partnership with Bradley Dial (47) as South Africa posted 293 for 6 after being sent into bat.
It was an uphill task, but Canada put up a valiant fight. Sudeepta Aurka, the opener, made a solid 69 and was well assisted by Nitish Kumar (53), the captain. The duo's stand of 101 for the second wicket ensured Canada needed just a little over seven an over for the last 18 overs, but a middle order collapse put paid to its hopes.
Valli's offspin proved tough for Canada to negotiate as he returned figures of 4 for 43 in his ten overs. Canada's innings ended at 248 for 8 in 50 overs, with Sibonela Makhanya, the medium pacer, picking up three wickets.
Valli is now the leading run-getter and wicket-taker in the tournament with 155 runs and six wickets respectively.
Canada now take on West Indies on Tuesday at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium Nursery 1 in Abu Dhabi while South Africa will face Zimbabwe on the same day.


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AN ILLEGAL tattooist who advertised his unregistered home parlour on Facebook has been fined hundreds of pounds.
Mark Chambers, 21, appeared at York Magistrates Court yesterday and was ordered to pay £820 in fines and court costs for tattooing people without proper registrations.
Chambers was caught because he ran a Facebook page called "Mark's Tattoos" advertising for clients, claiming he was experienced and used "professional equipment" which was kept "fully sterilised and up to standards".
Trading Standards officers, who had been tipped off about the Facebook page, tracked him down to his address in Kitchener Street and visited to give him chance to register as a tattooist.
Chambers then denied tattooing from that address, but officers used a warrant to search the house and found tattoo guns and tattooing ink.
The Facebook page showed that Chambers operated in York between February and March 2014, ran an appointment system, and in one 24-hour period carried out five tattoos.
He was fined £200 for each of his two offences – tattooing people without being registered, and tattooing from premises which were also not registered, and ordered to pay £400 contribution to costs and £20 surcharge.
The city council's public health boss has now urged people not to take risks by going to unregistered tattooists.
Director of Health and Wellbeing Dr Paul Edmondson-Jones said: "As tattooing and body piercing become more common, improper or unsanitary methods used in these procedures can carry high health risks in the short and long-term.
"These can include infections from staphylococci and streptococci bacteria which, in rare cases, cause invasive infections that can result in severe illness, septicaemia, amputation or death and, in particular, the risk of the transmission of blood-borne viruses like hepatitis B, C and HIV."
Council cabinet member Cllr Tracey Simpson-Laing has also urged anyone who knows of an illegal tattooist to come forward.
She added: "It might be cheaper, but the quality of an unregistered tattooist's work is likely to be poor and, even if you're not charged for it, it is still illegal. Anyone who knows of a tattooist operating illegally, is urged to give the council as much detail as possible to help protect others."


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BLACKBURN Rovers boss Gary Bowyer is ready to meet Venky's and discover his budget for next season.
Bowyer is expected to fly out to India in the next two days for talks with Rovers' Pune-based owners.
And it is only after that meeting has taken place that Bowyer will be able to put his summer transfer strategy into action.
But the Ewood chief has already made it clear Rovers must strive to improve a squad which finished two points and two places outside the Championship play-off positions last season.
"We can't stand still," said Bowyer, who has been busy identifying potential targets. "We've got to add and improve in certain areas.
"We need to challenge the existing squad in order to push them further and improve them but I wouldn't expect anywhere near the amount of players we brought in last summer."
Bowyer made 12 signings – 10 permanent and two on loan – last summer.
But this time around it is unlikely he will make many more than four signings – with a right back a priority – provided his squad remains intact.
Bowyer, after guiding revived Rovers to within touching distance of the top six in his first full season in charge, said he had been given no indication by Venky's that he will have to sell any of his stars – such as top scorer Jordan Rhodes – this summer.
But with the club's Premier League parachute payments being halved and Financial Fair Play coming into force in January, Bowyer already knows he must continue to move on the players who are not in his plans.
"We have to reduce the wage bill," said Bowyer, who believes it will take another two summer transfer windows to get Rovers' squad to where he sees fit.
"Financial Fair Play is being talked about a lot and that is something we have to take into consideration.
"We have players out on loan at the moment who might generate a bit of interest.
"We might see one or two of them depart but if not we have to deal with that and manage that."
Also on the agenda in India will be the futures of David Dunn and Markus Olsson. The pair are the only senior players Bowyer has out of contract this summer.
The Rovers boss will be accompanied on the planned trip to Pune by Rovers' director of communications Alan Myers.


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James Brown Snr: Yes, **** brilliant.
William Brown: She's mullered ain't she... That's got to make a lot ***** harder... Is that why they're holding off? She might of died a few weeks ago.
James Brown Snr: She might of died a few weeks ago. **** hell, only possibly way, and now has to sell her home, to pay costs. **** hell.
There is then talk about "still nick you", and James Brown Snr mentions they "can't put that down to me, she had cancer before I turned up".
William Brown: They can try, that's the end of the game, they'll still come and try.
William Brown: Of course they will.
James Brown Snr: I can give a good account now.
William Brown: They're **** James Brown Snr: What was her name, Gladys?
William Brown: Grace, oh her real name Gladys. Ohh that would be good news!
James Brown: Would, wouldn't it!
Discussion about last time they were there in October
Con artists jailed for 27 years and eight months
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William Brown: Can't blame it on us, had it before we knew her.
James Brown Snr: That's right Appears to be checking internet on phone - "Passed away Colchester Hospital Dec 24, 2012, mention of service taking place at Weeley Crem in Jan.
William Brown: So when did she die Jim, during December?
James Brown Snr: Day before Christmas, that's why they have to get others.
William Brown: **** hell that is good news, that is good news, that's why they're holding off Jim.
James Brown Snr: What, to interview me?
William Brown: Yep, they're fishing to find something else, it's obvious she ain't enough.
James Brown Snr: They can't say she died because of me!
William Brown: Of course not, she had cancer before we got to her!
Further talk about police investigation and last time they were there William Brown: They have been left well short Jim, they haven't got her Jim.
James Brown Snr: We got to be careful now, even more careful.
William Brown: Yeah, they're thinking, **** we can't let them get away with it again.
James Brown Snr: That's right.
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William Brown: She's gone Jim, it's good news init.
James Brown Snr: It is, isn't it.
William Brown: We know what they're gonna come up with, ***** James Brown Snr: "It's got to be better" mentions it was cancer that killed her.
William Brown: That's what killed her end of story, now that's why they haven't been back to you so far.
He then mentions that's why Essex Police and Trading Standards have not been back to old addresses and old customers.
Extract 4 - James Brown Snr on phone
Good news Grace is dead, she died 24th December, cushty, her place is up for sale, boarded up.
Googled it and it said she passed away in hospital December 24, ***** result, hey?
... Why yeah, I said to Willy, they'll try and say I caused it and question me, the ****** That's why they stopped me going there, they ain't going to pursue without her about, they can't anyway.
... That's alright init, result.
... That's alright James, I told you there'd be good news. It can't be bad, it can only be in my favour.
You could have had that bungy (bungalow) by now but it's better this way, we wanted to go another year or two.
Mentions funeral took place January 13.


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Hi Guys,I have a background in Graphic (print) Design, but I've spent the last year working with books and Lynda vids in an attempt to learn as much about HTML/CSS as I could.
I'm now at the point where I plan to launch a commercial site which teaches various craft skills. I want the site to host ads, include a shopping cart (with credit card payments) and support a forum. I'm going to need to spend most of my time concentrating on content, and won't have time to develop skills in things like PHP and JavaScript.
So my questions is these:
Thanks in advance for your help,Simon
Much better to use a CMS—especially as coding is not your focus. It would take years to learn this properly.
I would like to have a lot of control over the appearance on the site, is there a particular CMS that would support this (and my other requirements)?
Basically all of them allow you to change the styles, but some make it easier than others. Some have rather complex, contorted template systems that make is hard to change the layout, while others are very flexible and leave complete control of the front end coding to you. IMHO, ExpressionEngine is the standout example of this.
Can I get inside the CMS and make changes using HTML/CSS?
Yes indeed. As I said, some make it much harder than others to do this.
Do most CMSs support responsive/adaptive site design?
Usually, styling, appearance and behavior of this sort is up to you, not the CMS. So it's up to you to create / style the temples to behave in this way. Again, the better CMSes make this easier. If, for example, you use some junky old CMS that still works in tables, you are up the creek—though I suspect there are few, if any, that still do that.
At first glance, there are many things that appeal to me about Wordpress, is it heavy duty enough to support this kind of site?
Yes, but it's a friggin mess behind the scenes, and you have to hack it around to do anything other than blogging. I would recommed you check out other CMSes first before rushing into WP. [Runs for cover now that he's bagged WordPress ...]
If so, can I make manual adjustments to Wordpress using HTML/CSS?
Yes you can, but WP templates are a bit of a mess to work with ... harder than they need to be. Check out something like ExpressionEngine. It's a dream to work with. If you don't like the price tag, check out something like MODx or Concrete5.
Thanks, Concrete5 definitely looks interesting, but I've noticed that the only CMSs that seem to be covered in any depth by Lynda are: WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, is there any reason for this?
On a slight tangent, do people think that it's possible for a site like this to generate a "living wage" (whatever that may be) purely through advertising revenue?
And lastly, If I were to use something like AdSense, is there a way of predicting the numbers of hits/clicks required to generate a set level of revenue?
They are probably the three best known CMSes. Of course, "best known" is rarely the same as "best". (Drupal is a good CMS, mind you—probably the most powerful of all. But it has a steeper learning curve than some others.)
do people think that it's possible for a site like this to generate a "living wage" (whatever that may be) purely through advertising revenue?
From what I gather, it's highly unlikely. A few very popular sites generate decent revenue, apparently, but not necessarily enough to live on. (How many times do you click on ads? I never do—absolutely never.)
A couple of things to keep in mind:
imho no site should rely on advertising revenue as a major share of the sites income as you have no reliable way knowing if your target audience look at ads or have them blocked.
At the risk of asking an incredibly naive question. With a site that is based around craft tutorials with a modern (e.g. Manga, Steam Punk, Scifi) theme, can anyone suggest other revenue streams?
Maybe washing dishes? :lol:
But seriously, perhaps you could also offer files for download, for a fee—images that you've created. Sites like iStockPhoto do this. You can download vector art files for a fee, for example.
Personally i finds cms good for adding content but if you want to control the design part of cms you need more expertise in coding too.


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An expert in the law and regulation of e-commerce and videogames, Prof. Fairfield joined the School of Law in 2007 as a visiting professor before becoming a member of the permanent faculty last fall. Prof. Fairfields research and scholarship explores the law and economics of online contracts and the application of standard economic models to virtual environments.
In addition, Prof. Fairfield is one of the nations leading voices in the analysis of virtual worlds, such as the popular Second Life. He has briefed intelligence officials on terrorist activity and law enforcement within virtual worlds and has written on strategies for protecting children online. In October 2008, Fairfield organized and hosted a first-of-its-kind symposium at the School of Law exploring the legal and social challenges of virtual worlds built specifically for children, the fastest growing area of virtual environments.
Josh brings boundless energy, creativity, and intellectual rigor to the position, said Rodney A. Smolla, dean of the School of Law. He is a generous and congenial colleague who will be superb in advancing the mission of the Center and encouraging widespread participation in its activities.
Prof. Fairfield earned his JD magna cum laude from the University of Chicago in 2001. After law school, Professor Fairfield clerked for Judge Danny J. Boggs at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He then joined Jones Day in Columbus, Ohio, where he litigated cases in commercial law and software/technology law.
Before embarking on his legal career, Fairfield directed the development of the award winning Rosetta Stone Language Library, a leading language teaching software program for educational institutions.
Washington and Lee and the Frances Lewis Law Center have long been at the forefront of innovative scholarship and legal reform, said Fairfield. Now is an exciting time for this mission, given the great energy for change and reform at W&L. I am thrilled and deeply honored to be able to play a part in this effort.
Established in 1978 with a generous gift from Frances and Sydney Lewis, the Law Center's mandate is to support faculty research and scholarship that advances legal reform. The Law Center fulfills this mission by sponsoring scholars-in-residence, supporting the scholarly research of the law school's faculty, and organizing legal symposia that feature national and internationally renowned scholars.


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- The title of the page doesn't sound like much "Time to Play Across Wikia" but it is a great opportunity to promote Uncyclopedia through the rest of Wikia. It would give us a feature on their home page, and on the hub page of whatever category we fall into, plus Wikia would promote us on their Facebook and Twitter accounts, but we would have to decide which content we would want to promote on wikia (and thus would have to keep it pretty clean). We should pick from our "best of" features, and make sure that it is nonoffensive. This could be a great new opportunity to attract new users. -- Simsilikesims(♀GUN) Talk here. 18:50, November 2, 2012 (UTC)


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1911 Curtiss Model D Reproduction
Completed in 2010, this reproduction 1911 Curtiss Model D Pusher was built in the College Park Aviation Museum's own restoration shop. The plane was raised on April 17, 2010 and is the newest member of the museum's collection.
The Model D was a biplane fitted with a wheeled, tricycle undercarriage. The construction was primarily of spruce, with ash used in parts of the engine bearers and undercarriage beams, with doped linen stretch over it. The outrigger beams are made of bamboo. Prevented by patents from using the Wright brothers' wing warping technique to provide lateral control, Curtiss used ailerons instead. Model Ds were constructed with a pusher configuration, where the propeller is behind the pilot. Because of this configuration, they were often referred to as a "Curtiss pusher". Early examples were built in a canard configuration, with elevators mounted on struts at the front of the aircraft in addition to a horizontal stabilizer at the rear. Later versions dispensed with the front elevator and are often referred to as "headless" pushers.
The Curtiss Model D was used by the United States Army at Ft. Sam Houston before being moved to the Army Aviation School at College Park. The aircraft on display portrays the plane used at College Park in 1911.


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Published: Friday, August 23, 2013 at 11:00 p.m.
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Freshman forward Savannah Jordan's two unassisted goals in the last 10 minutes of play were the difference as No. 9 Florida opened its soccer season with a 3-1 win over Florida Gulf Coast before a Pressly Stadium crowd of 1,472 Friday night.
After just missing out on several scoring chances early in the match, Jordan's patience paid off in the 81st minute when she took control of a ball in the box, turned and fired a rocket from eight yards out past FGCU goalkeeper Brittany Brown to break a 1-all tie.
She added some insurance a little more than five minutes later when she put in a rebound from point-blank range to close out the scoring.
"In the first half, I was a little nervous, and I think I had a lot of opportunities I could have finished," Jordan said. "But once I started relaxing in the second half, I calmed down a little bit.
"It was exciting, especially the first one because it put us in the lead. The second one was just icing on the cake, I guess."
Coach Becky Burleigh was impressed with Jordan's opening night performance.
"I think it's really big because she (Jordan) was really frustrated in the first half," she said. "She probably should have had a hat trick in the first 10 minutes. When she came off, she said, 'I'm going to finish some in the second half,' and I just told her, 'Look, you're getting into great position to score. It's going to come. Just be patient.' And it did."
After dominating the action from the outset, the Gators finally broke a scoreless tie when junior midfielder Havana Solaun was able to get her foot on a bouncing ball from about 12 yards out in the 35th minute and sent it into the back of the net for UF's first goal of the season and the 14th of her career.
Freshmen Brooke Sharp and Pamela Begič had assists on the score.
It appeared that lead would hold up until halftime, but the Eagles, who had not scored in all three previous losses to Florida, ended that drought with just a little more than a minute left in the half.
Melissa Arnold sent a low line drive into the box on the Eagles' first corner kick of the match, and Florida's players failed to react, allowing FGCU's Ally Kasun an open header that she cleanly converted to tie the score.
It was the Eagles' only shot of the night, as UF finished with a 19-1 advantage.
"The thing that's so disappointing about that is we had spent so much time on set pieces and being a lot more organized, but we've got to attack the ball," Burleigh said. "We can be as organized as we want, but if we don't attack the ball, they're going to have a free header like they did.
"But if you take that away, they really had very little attack, and I think that bodes well for our defense."
UF regained control of the match coming out of intermission and kept forcing the issue, with Solaun constantly using her exceptional ball-handling ability to keep pressure on the Eagles' defense.
"I kept hearing their coach say 'Who's got 19? (Solaun's number), who's got 19?'" Burleigh said. "You know you're doing a good job when the other coach is really worried about you."
Former Ocala Trinity Catholic standout Tabitha Tindell, the 2012 Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Soccer who led the Celtics to the state Class 2A title last season, started at forward for FGCU and was cheered on by a large contingent of family and friends.
UF will try to improve to 2-0 on the season when the Gators host Oregon State at 7 p.m. Sunday.
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BROMSGROVE and Redditch residents are being encouraged to make their homes safer by getting community safety advice.
As part of Safer Bromsgrove's Secure Homes Initiative, stalls are being set up by Bromsgrove District Council's community safety team and West Mercia Police's safer neighbourhood team.
The teams will be advising residents on the best ways to secure their homes, keep their families safe and valuables protected.
Residents will also be able to buy discounted home security products, including fake televisions and SmartWater property marking solutions, from the stalls.
SmartWater kits enable householders to mark more than 100 items. Police can then scan lost and stolen goods and help them to return property to a rightful owner and convict criminals.
Kits are being sold on the stalls at the reduced price of £15.
The first stall is being held at the Lounge Cafe, Alvechurch, from 10am until noon, tomorrow, February 15.
The second stall is being held at Wythall Library from 2pm until 4pm on Saturday, February 22.
A stall is being held in Rubery, on Saturday, March 8, at the Mica Hardware Store, from 10am until 4pm.
The final stall takes place from 2pm until 4pm on Saturday, March 22, at Hagley Library.
Felicity Pate, community safety project officer, said: "Partners from Safer Bromsgrove have been working closely with residents to tackle home security and burglary issues around the district.
"However, it is vital that the public continue to take the necessary steps to ensure their homes are secure. Together we will continue to crack down on this type of crime."
At each of the events the first 100 members of the public will receive a free window alarm and a home security guide.
Only cash purchases will be available at the stalls, but SmartWater can also be purchased at the authority's Customer Service Centre, in School Drive, where card payments are accepted.
Purchases can be made over the phone on 01527 881572.
SmartWater kits can be delivered to residents for an additional £2 charge, to cover postage and packaging.
For more details call the Community Safety Team on 01527 881472.


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Did you know?
The Vista Bar at One&Only was included on CNN Go's online portal as one of the top 50 rooftop bars and restaurants in the world.
South Africa's rooftop bars rival the best in the world, with a particularly impressive selection to choose from in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Randlords in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, is on the 22nd floor of South Point Towers. Relax and enjoy your drink with 360-degree views of the city that include the FNB Stadium in Soweto and Sandton's distinctive skyline.
Skyline Gardens is also in Braamfontein. Set in a rooftop garden, it has a cocktail bar, caters for alfresco dining and provides lots of intimate spaces where friends can relax and chat. Its sweeping views take in some of the city's most iconic sites, such as the Nelson Mandela Bridge and the Hillbrow Tower.
12 Decades Hotel, in downtown Johannesburg, is home to the Main Street Life Rooftop Bar. This trendy setting is also the venue for Sundays in the City, something of an inner-city institution where friends hang out while DJs play a selection of music to wind-down the weekend.
Other rooftop bars in Johannesburg include Private Practice, an independent venue on the 18th and 19th floors of the Lister Medical Building in Jeppe Street. Urban Tree is on the edge of the Sandton industrial fringe, with views of its famous skyline.
Cape Town also has a selection of fantastic rooftop bars. Tjing Tjing Bar, in the heart of the city bowl, occupies the top floor of a 200-year-old building. It opens onto a terrace, with views of the city and Table Mountain. It has an equally impressive interior of dark wood and red leather and was named amongst the 10 hottest new bars around the world by Condé Nast Traveller.
Not too far from Tjing Tjing Bar is the Sky Bar at Cape Town's Grand Daddy Hotel. This Cape Town bar shares its space with the Airstream Rooftop Trailer Park, where each trailer is a uniquely designed hotel room. The venue hosts regular events, such as rooftop cinema evenings and live music.
The Vista Bar at the One&Only Cape Town is another stunning rooftop bar, with floor-to-ceiling windows and great views of Table Mountain.
Other rooftop bars in Cape Town include the Soho rooftop bar and restaurant, just behind the Cape Quarter, and The Waiting Room, a trendy pub above the Royale Eatery in Long Street, with good views over the city.
In Durban, Gino's Sky Bar is situated on the 33rd level of John Ross House, just above the Roma revolving restaurant. You can see out over the city and the sea, especially spectacular when the sun is setting.
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Tours to do
Several tour operators offer pub crawls in cities around South Africa, where you'll be safely transported to a number of bars over the course of an evening.
Where to stay
The 12 Decades Johannesburg Art Hotel, part of Main Street Life, has individually designed rooms representing each of the past 12 decades of Johannesburg's history. In Cape Town, try one of the individually decorated trailers at Airstream Rooftop Trailer Park.
What to eat
Most of the bars mentioned also serve food, ranging from tapas-style snacks to full meals.
What's happening
As some of the trendiest spots in South Africa, these rooftop bars hold regular events. See their websites for details.


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Have you been watching the new season of The Next Iron Chef over on Food Network? The stakes are high this year with a star-studded lineup of Super Chefs competing for one coveted Iron Chef spot, including Cooking Channel's own Chuck Hughes.
The Chuck's Day Off host and chef-owner of Montreal's Garde Manger restaurant has made it through the first two Chairman's Challenges with solid food, but he also seems to be endearing himself quite well to the judges: "You always look very happy when you're cooking," said food writer Simon Majumdar in Sunday's episode. "It really comes through in your food."
In the premiere's "Heat and Meat" challenge, Chuck was paired up with chef Michael Chiarello, whose Easy Entertaining also appears on Cooking Channel. The guys overcame the wilderness elements and presented two pork dishes that the judges loved, landing their team in the top two.
Last Sunday night, Chuck (who's Canadian) cooked up successful takes on all-American ballpark fare for a challenge in San Diego's Petco Park. "The corn dog is as good a bite of food as I think I've had today," said Iron Chef (and Cook Like an Iron Chef host) Michael Symon.
Though Chuck might not yet have the star wattage of some of his heavyweight competitors, many see him as a breakout star: Check out this recent piece from Grub Street deeming him the "next big celebrity chef." Chuck's fans have also come out in full force to support him — he's currently neck-and-neck with chef Anne Burrell for the lead in the Next Iron Chef Fan Vote.
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The Education of a British-Protected Childby Chinua Achebe
A collection of autobiographical essays from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe's characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. From a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria to considerations on the African-American Diaspora, from a/b>/i>
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A collection of autobiographical essays from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe's characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. From a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria to considerations on the African-American Diaspora, from a glimpse into his extraordinary family life and his thoughts on the potent symbolism of President Obama's elections—this charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and steadfastly wise collection is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.
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—Toni Morrison
"An eclectic and thorough view of Achebe in his longtime roles as writer, father, and teacher. [Written] with the same generosity and humility that have always distinguished his work. . . . [Achebe] strives to act and to write with empathy and nuance rather than with fanaticism. . . . [He writes] in his characteristically gentle narrative style, that way he has of seeming to be in casual conversation, discussing matters big and small with an interested and sympathetic companion."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Measured but firm. . . . Achebe's deeply humane intelligence reverberates."
"Sharp and fresh. . . . Achebe's assessment of colonial contact [has] gravitas and pathos. . . . He is one of world literature's great humane voices."
—The Times Literary Supplement (London)
"A welcome return. . . . [Achebe] writes firmly and vividly. . . . [He] tangles further, and profitably, with the obsessions that have defined his career; colonialism, identity, family, the uses and abuses of language."
—The New York Times
"Quite wonderful: it gives the reader the feeling of sitting across the table and talking on easy terms with one of the world's deepest and broadest literary minds, gaining insight into Achebe's life and work, but also into Nigeria, colonialism, and the complicated interplay of European and African culture. . . . Rich and insightful."
—The Buffalo News
"Timeless. . . . Achebe has stayed an engaged and provocative voice. There's plenty of pluck and fight in this collection. . . . [His] arguments are well reasoned, interesting, and often engrossing."
—The Associated Press
"This collection of beautifully written autobiographical essays reveals much about [Achebe's] worldview."
—The Christian Science Monitor
"[Achebe's] essays range from the political to the historical to the personal, yet they are all projected through an intimate, biographical lens, thus making each a milestone on his long journey on this earth. . . . It is a mark of Achebe's genius as a narrator that one could hear him many times on the same subject and never grow bored."
—The Guardian (London)
"British protection assumed the humiliation and denial of dignity of colonialism but also allowed for the unpredictable in human affairs. . . . In all of these essays . . . Achebe generously locates and describes this unpredictable area."
—The Boston Globe
"Achebe has discharged the burden of storyteller and intellectual with penetrating intelligence and sensitivity. . . . The essays reveal a characteristic awareness of history . . . and an intellectual temperament suspicious of fanaticism of any sort, secular or religious."
—Financial Times
"The hero Achebe has become is not disassembled before us in these essays. If anything, he is, as an individual hero, remade. . . . [His] many personal anecdotes in The Education amount, in the end, to something like liner notes to the great songs of his novels."
—Columbia Journalism Review
"Early in the book, Achebe states that his thinking occupies the 'middle-ground' which is 'un-dramatic' and 'unspectacular.' But don't be fooled; his is a voice that roars. . . . There is much to admire about the life and mind of one of the world's most important writers and thinkers."
—The Independent (London)
"The essays, like his novels, are models of clarity, care and thoughtfulness. They are the product of a western-educated mind, but are suffused with an Igbo sensibility."
—The Times (London)
"Surprising and revelatory . . . wise and scintillating. . . . Here style is substance as Achebe writes with generosity, reason, and elegant clarity about the perpetual struggles between tyranny and resistance, denial and remembrance."
"For all the ferocity of Achebe's argument, he never loses his sense of humour, his instinct for poetry, nor his belief in the resilience of the human spirit."
—The Scotsman
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All my life I have had to take account of the millionbdifferences—some little, others quite big—between the Nigerian culture into which I was born, and the domineering Westernbstyle that infiltrated and then invaded it. Nowhere is the difference more stark and startling than in the ability to ask a parent: "How many children do you have?" The right answer should be a rebuke: "Children are not livestock!" Or better still, silence, and carry on as if the question was never asked.
But things are changing and changing fast with us, and we have been making concession after concession even when the other party shows little sign of reciprocating. And so I have learned to answer questions that my father would not have touched with a bargepole. And to my shame let me add that I suspect I may even be enjoying it, to a certain extent!
My wife and I have four children—two daughters and two sons, a lovely balance further enhanced by the symmetry of their arrivals: girl, boy, boy, girl. Thus the girls had taken strategic positions in the family.
We, my wife and I, cut our teeth on parenthood with the first girl, Chinelo. Naturally, we made many blunders. But Chinelo was up to it. She taught us. At age four or thereabouts, she began to reflect back to us her experience of her world. One day she put it in words: "I am not black; I am brown." We sat up and began to pay attention.
The first place our minds went was her nursery school, run by a bunch of white expatriate women. But inquiries to the school board returned only assurances. I continued sniffing around, which led me in the end to those expensive and colorful children's books imported from Europe and displayed so seductively in the better supermarkets of Lagos.
Many parents like me, who never read children's books in their own childhood, saw a chance to give to their children the blessings of modern civilization which they never had and grabbed it. But what I saw in many of the books was not civilization but condescension and even offensiveness.
Here, retold in my own words, is a mean story hiding behind the glamorous covers of a children's book:
A white boy is playing with his kite in a beautiful open space on a clear summer's day. In the background are lovely houses and gardens and tree-lined avenues. The wind is good and the little boy's kite rises higher and higher and higher. It flies so high in the end that it gets caught under the tail of an airplane that just happens to be passing overhead at that very moment. Trailing the kite, the airplane flies on past cities and oceans and deserts. Finally it is flying over forests and jungles. We see wild animals in the forests and we see little round huts in the clearing. An African village.
For some reason, the kite untangles itself at this point and begins to fall while the airplane goes on its way. The kite falls and falls and finally comes to rest on top of a coconut tree.
A little black boy climbing the tree to pick a coconut beholds this strange and terrifying object sitting on top of the tree. He utters a piercing cry and literally falls off the tree.
His parents and their neighbors rush to the scene and discuss this apparition with great fear and trembling. In the end they send for the village witch doctor, who appears in his feathers with an entourage of drummers. He offers sacrifices and prayers and then sends his boldest man up the tree to bring down the object, which he does with appropriate reverence. The witch doctor then leads the village in a procession from the coconut tree to the village shrine, where the supernatural object is deposited and where it is worshipped to this day.
That was the most dramatic of the many imported, beautifully packaged, but demeaning readings available to our children, perhaps given them as birthday presents by their parents.
So it was that when my friend the poet Christopher Okigbo, representing Cambridge University Press in Nigeria at that time, called on me and said I must write him a children's book for his company, I had no difficulty seeing the need and the urgency. So I wrote Chike and the River and dedicated it to Chinelo and to all my nephews and nieces.
(I am making everything sound so simple. Children may be little, but writing a children's book is not simple. I remember that my first draft was too short for the Cambridge format, and the editor directed me to look at Cyprian Ekwensi's Passport of Mallam Illia for the length required. I did.)
With Chinelo, I learned that parents must not assume that all they had to do for books was to find the smartest department store and pick up the most attractive-looking book in stock. Our complacency was well and truly rebuked by the poison we now saw wrapped and taken home to our little girl. I learned that if I wanted a safe book for my child I should at least read it through and at best write it myself.
Our second daughter, Nwando, gave us a variation on Chinelo's theme eight years later. The year was 1972 and the place Amherst, Massachusetts, where I had retreated with my family after the catastrophic Biafran civil war. I had been invited to teach at the university, and my wife had decided to complete her graduate studies. We enrolled our three older children in various Amherst schools and Nwando, who was two and a half, in a nursery school. And she thoroughly hated it. At first we thought it was a passing problem for a child who had never left home before. But it was more than that. Every morning as I dropped her off she would cry with such intensity I would keep hearing her in my head all three miles back. And in the afternoon, when I went back for her, she would seem so desolate. Apparently she would have said not a single word to anybody all day.
As I had the task of driving her to this school every morning, I began to dread mornings as much as she did. But in the end we struck a bargain that solved the problem. I had to tell her a story all the way to school if she promised not to cry when I dropped her off. Very soon she added another story all the way back. The agreement, needless to say, taxed my repertory of known and fudged stories to the utmost. But it worked. Nwando was no longer crying. By the year's end she had become such a success in her school that many of her little American schoolmates had begun to call their school
Nwando-haven instead of its proper name, Wonderhaven.
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Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. His first novel, Things Falls Apart, became a classic of international literature and required reading for students worldwide. He also authored four subsequent novels, two short-story collections, and numerous other books. He was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and, for over 15 years, was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. In 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement. He died in 2013.
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No other author places as much of a high powered lens on the uncomfortable topics of race, colonialization, oppression, and reconciliation like Achebe. The West owes him a great deal of gratitude, for being able to present these topics that no one else wants to deal with, in an exquisite, narrative style, that is both educational, and, fundamentally hopeful, for our rapidly changing world. An instant classic that should be required reading!
This collection, mostly of speeches previously delivered over Achebe's career, is somewhat repetitive. However, his elegant prose makes reading every essay worthwhile.


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Her business had been based at The Hair Company on the High Street for five years when a fire broke out in December.
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The Prophet Moses (pbuh)
The Prophet Moses (pbuh) and a Learned Man
Another story about the Prophet Moses (pbuh) is related in the Surat al-Kahf. At the beginning of the story, Allah relates a journey the Prophet Moses (pbuh) makes with his young assistant:
Remember when Moses said to his servant, "I will not give up until I reach the meeting-place of the two seas, even if I must press on for many years." But when they reached their meeting-place, they forgot their fish which quickly burrowed its way into the sea. When they had gone a distance further on, he (Moses) said to his servant, "Bring us our morning meal. Truly this journey of ours has made us tired." He (Moses' servant) said, "Do you see what has happened? When we went to find shelter at the rock, I forgot the fish. No one made me forget to remember it except satan. It found its way into the sea in an amazing way." He (Moses) said, "That is the very thing that we were looking for!" So, following their footsteps, they retraced their route. (Surat al-Kahf: 60-64)
There are important lessons to take from the verses. The statement "Bring us our morning meal, truly this journey of ours has made us tired," shows that the Prophet Moses (pbuh) takes his food at the same time as he breaks for rest, while others would probably take two separate breaks to fulfil two such needs. Essentially, this decision of his indicates that a Muslim should manage his time wisely.
Another Divine lesson these verses reveal is their forgetting their food during the journey and satan's role as their forgetting. The clear influence satan has on people, that is, that he can cause man to be forgetful, is here stressed. For instance, satan causes man to forget in order to hinder him from engaging in something good for the cause of religion and for the sake of the Muslims. His primary goal is to keep people from remembering Allah and reflecting on Him. The best thing a man of faith can do to counter satan's efforts is to keep himself occupied with the remembrance of Allah.
A third Divine lesson to be drawn from the dialogue mentioned is the Prophet Moses' (pbuh) alertness to the signs of Allah. Indeed, he immediately regards his forgetting the food as a sign, and, accordingly, changes his way. This indicates that the Prophet Moses (pbuh) is a man who constantly keeps himself occupied with the remembrance of Allah, which makes him utterly aware that all situations in life are ordained by Allah. This, as a blessing of Allah, makes him a man of wisdom, able to arrive at sound conclusions from what happens around him.
The Prophet Moses (pbuh) and his young companion saw their forgetfulness a sign and returned by following their footsteps back. Later, the Prophet Moses (pbuh) met a certain person. This person possessed a special wisdom that Allah has bestowed on him. Though the Prophet Moses (pbuh) was willing to learn of his wisdom, this person of wisdom openly told him that he would not be able to be patient. The story is as follows:
They found a servant of Ours whom We had granted mercy from Us and whom We had also given knowledge direct from Us. Moses said to him, "May I follow you on condition that you teach me some of the right guidance you have been taught?"
He said, "You will not be able to bear with me. How indeed could you bear with patience something you have not encompassed in your knowledge?"
Moses said, "You will find me patient, if Allah wills, and I will not disobey you in any matter."
He said, "Then if you follow me, do not question me about anything until I myself make mention of it to you."
They continued until they boarded a boat and he scuppered it. Then Moses said, "Did you scupper it so that those in it would be drowned? This is truly a dreadful thing that you have done!"
He said, "Did I not say that you would not be able to bear with me?" Moses said, "Do not take me to task because I forgot. Do not demand of me something which is too difficult."
So they went on until they met a youngster whom he killed. Moses said, "Have you killed a boy who has done no wrong, without it being in retaliation for someone else? This is truly an appalling thing that you have done!"
He said, "Did I not tell you that you would not be able to bear with me?"
Moses said, "If I ask you about anything after this, then you should no longer keep me company. I will have given you excuse enough." So they went on until they reached the inhabitants of a town. They asked them for food but they refused them hospitality. They found there a wall about to fall down and he built it up. Moses said, "If you had wanted, you could have taken a wage for doing that."
He said, "This is where you and I part company. I will let you know the explanation of those things about which you were not able to restrain yourself. As for the boat, it belonged to some poor people who worked on the sea. I wanted to damage it because a king was coming behind them, commandeering every boat. As for the boy, his parents were believers and we feared that he would darken their days with excessive insolence and transgression. We wanted their Lord to give them in exchange a purer son than him, one more compassionate. As for the wall, it belonged to two young orphans in the town and there was a treasure underneath it, belonging to them. Their father was one of the pious and your Lord wanted them to come of age and then to unearth their treasure as a mercy from Him. I did not do it of my own volition. That is the explanation of the things about which you were not able to restrain yourself." (Surat al-Kahf: 65-82)
The lesson presented here deserves special attention: It may well be that behind what appear to be evil events, Allah may bestow certain blessings through them. The sinking of a boat for no apparent reason, or the killing of a child who has not committed any crime, may appear to be evil deeds when assessed without sufficient understanding. However, as related in the above story, there is good and wisdom behind these events ordained by Allah, which are neither obvious nor immediately comprehensible. People should think about the good inherent in everything that befalls them in their every-day lives. Behind many events considered to be evil by people in our day, there are surely Divine purposes created by Allah. If a person remains patient and strives sincerely to grasp their Divine purposes, Allah may well make him comprehend their hidden meanings.
Then when he reached it, a voice called out, "Moses! I am your Lord. Take off your sandals. You are in the holy valley of Tuwa. I have chosen you, so listen well to what is revealed. I am Allah. There is no god but Me, so workship Me and establish prayer to remember Me." (Surat Ta-Ha: 11-14)


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HOUSTON - A judge ruled a former Houston Independent School District middle school principal involved in a cheating scandal will not lose her teaching certification.
A judge ruled there is insufficient evidence to revoke Mable Caleb's teaching certification.
Caleb, a former principal at Key Middle School and Kashmere High School, and several other HISD employees were involved in the district's investigation into accusations of financial fraud, theft, nepotism and cheating at Key Middle School in 2009.
The administrative judge ruled that Caleb is not responsible for the cheating, alleged to have occurred on state-mandated tests four years ago, officials said.
Caleb has denied any wrongdoing, but has since resigned from her position as principal of Kashmere High School in 2010.
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Hello everyone, its been a while since I have written. My husband, Teddy, who will be 75 in October had his check up the end of May. August will be 2 years since his Whipple surgery. He is still working and golfing! Everything is looking good except (and I feel guilty complaining) no one alerted us to the fact his immune system would not be what it was. Starting about 3 months ago he has been catching this and that beginning with an e-coli infection from a blockage in his bile duct that eventually moved out on its own. Then he had an infectious cough for a month followed by a flu like thing. We are told its allergies and infections.Other than that he is doing quite well. What puzzles us is why did it take 1 1/2 years for all this to start? Its just so weird. Seems with this monster disease that even if you are doing good there are reminders of what you went through and what could still come. But we are so blessed for this extra time and if the flus and infections continue its a small price to pay for being here. Wishing you all the best as always. Lainy


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