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>Running 101>Change from Nocturnal
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Hello all,
I have a problemish, I always feel like running and run the best at night, however it's not a time when it is safe to run (12:00 - 3:00 AM). I always run best at this time too, do you know of anyway I can change my mindset to want to run earlier at a more reasonable hour? This became habit my freshman year of college while training for my marathon and the summer weather in Oklahoma is best between those hours and I happened to be up and still be able to sleep late enough to get adequate sleep, neither of which is true now and my running is suffering because of such.
Not all those who wander are lost - JRR Tolkien
Others will be able to offer up specific helpful advice (I hope)... I'm here to offer up my personal experience.
I started running (the first time) when I was in grad school. Just like you... night owl. I typically ran at, like 2-4a. I also went grocery shopping then, which was very very strange but I digress. Fast forward... the older I got, my brain/body started saying es no bueno to staying up late. Typical corporate worklife played a factor, but really I think it just happened because I got older. And I became a morning person. Now I'm my freshest at typical morning running times, with my second choice being typical evening times. I only run at 2-4a if it is a race and/or I'm pacing someone in a race. Otherwise, zzzzzz. So time is the great equalizer.


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This is a 2-Day College Teaching Excellence Workshop hosted by the CAPER Center for Astronomy & Physics Education Research. It takes place January 8-9, 2013 in Charleston, SC preceding the Association for Science Teacher Education ASTE International Conference. The FINESSE Team provides 2-day interactive teaching excellence workshops for college and university faculty who prepare future science teachers to work with highly diverse student populations. These workshops focus on reforming and revitalizing undergraduate science teaching methods courses and Earth and Space science survey courses, such as ASTRO 101 and GEOL 101, that future teachers most often take. The goals are to enhance courses with contemporary pedagogies and data-rich problem-based learning approaches steeped in authentic scientific inquiry, which consistently demonstrate effectiveness with diverse students. Participants themselves will conduct mini-science data-rich research projects during the institutes using highly regarded approaches to inquiry using proven models that can be readily applied in your classes next semester. Most importantly, the Institute agenda allocates significant time to illustrating best practices for working with diverse students. Participants leave with a well-formulated action plan to reform their courses targeting future teachers to include more data-rich scientific inquiry lessons and to be better focused on improving science education for a wide diversity of students. Pre-registration is recommended and participants are encouraged to bring their personal laptop computers. $250 STIPEND: Participants who are full-time college and university faculty who participate in the entire 2-day workshop are eligible to receive a $250 stipend to help subsidize some of their expenses for attending.
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A Tempe woman and the owners many restaurants in a popular chain with outlets in Arizona and California have been indicted on suspicion of hiring illegal immigrants and tax evasion.
Federal agents raided 15 Chuy's Mesquite Broiler restaurants on Wednesday in both states and served 20 search warrants.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Vincent Picard says they detained about 40 suspected illegal immigrants who were working at the restaurants. Chuy's has six restaurants throughout the Valley including two in Tempe, one in Mesa and one in Chandler.
Mark Evenson of Paradise Valley and his son, Christopher Evenson, 39, of Oro Valley near Tucson, co-own 20 restaurants. They and Diane Strehlow, 47, of Tempe, a company accountant, were arrested on a 19-count indictment that includes charges of unlawful hiring and harboring of illegal aliens, conspiracy to defraud the IRS and tax evasion.
The three are accused of hiring illegal immigrants for the company's kitchen operations and paying them under the table. When Mark Evenson received a complaint about illegal immigrants working at one of his restaurants in Lake Havasu City, he allegedly told an employee that "throwing some American people in there" might stop the complaints, according to information from ICE.
The indictment states that sometime before January 2008, the Evensons and Strehlow began filing fraudulent tax forms with the IRS and did so every three months until January 2010.
In what Picard described as a "complex criminal investigation into a conspiracy," the restaurant underreported and failed to pay at least $400,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes throughout the course of the crimes, according to ICE.
Through a public relations firm, the restaurant chain issued a statement Wednesday distancing itself from the accused. "Chuy's Mesquite Broiler Restaurants are owned by a number of individuals, not just Mark and Chris Evenson. While we are deeply disturbed by the alleged actions, they do not represent the values and ideals of the Chuy's Mesquite Broiler Restaurants, the other independent owners or our employees."
The Evensons and Strehlow are scheduled to make initial appearances Friday in U.S. District Court in Tucson, according to information from the Arizona Attorney General's Office, which is prosecuting the case.
If convicted of all charges, Mark Evenson faces up to 86 years in prison and a $5.33 million fine and Christopher Evenson faces up to 81 years in prison and a $5.08 million fine.
Strehlow faces a maximum prison term of 40 years and a $2 million fine.
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Mop Tops in Action #11
Paul waves from the back of his ride
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7 comments:
- swac said...
Taken shortly before he blew his mind out in a car.
- June 12, 2009 9:46 AM
- Rhys Ziemba said...
I constantly think to myself "If only I could have lived in Los Angeles in the 1930's or in the Paris of the 1920's, etc." Then I routinely remember that that would make me old and probably dead, and I quickly recant and feel happy to be me again. However, looking at this series has made me realize I would trade my life for that of any of the Beatles (even the dead ones).
- June 12, 2009 4:52 PM
- Vanwall said...
He didn't notice that the lights had changed.
- June 12, 2009 6:05 PM
- Geoff said...
Were just busy ridin', sitting the back seat of my car
- June 13, 2009 3:20 AM
- Who Am Us Anyway? said...
he's found a driver and that's a start
- June 13, 2009 12:57 PM
- Tommy O'C said...
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah
- June 13, 2009 3:04 PM
- F.G. Marshall-Stacks said...
Today, he is calling his finance and legal depts to start negotiations with whomever is inheriting the half of The Beatles Catalog that isn't owned by Sony Corpn Japan.
(I dont need to remind readers here that the mad Japs locked Paul and Linda up,
"WINGS Tour Japan 1981 - Cancelled"
separating them for the only time in their marriage. I just know he doesn't even eat sushi on account of that)
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I've just started using Pinterest, and wanted to suggest that you include a "pin" button on each photo that links to the photo's link-through page - I wanted to make sure I credited both Photograzing AND the linked post, and it took a little noodling to get there (for anyone else looking for this, click on the post title and not the picture, when the single photo comes up, pin that.)
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At holiday time, brunch is a great alternative to a dinner or cocktail party for entertaining. This festive strata features dried cherries and almonds and is served with a scrumptious butter sauce.
Recipe courtesy of McCormick
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Almond Extract
- 3 cups milk
- 7 cups challah, French or Italian bread cubes
- 3/4 cup dried cherries
- 1 cup sliced almonds
- 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 2 teaspoons Pure Almond Extract
- 1 Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix eggs, sugar and extract in large bowl with wire whisk until well blended. Stir in milk until well blended. Add bread cubes and cherries; toss to coat well. Pour into greased 13x9-inch baking dish. Sprinkle evenly with almonds.
- 2 Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cool slightly on wire rack. Serve strata with Almond Butter Sauce.
- 3 ALMOND BUTTER SAUCE:Bring 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar, 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter and 1/2 cup heavy cream to boil in medium saucepan on medium heat. Reduce heat to low; simmer 10 minutes or until slightly thickened. Remove from heat. Stir in 1 tablespoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract and 2 teaspoons McCormick® Pure Almond Extract.


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|One of the most powerful new features in RoboHelp 8, which rarely gets mentioned, is the new Scripting
engine, which Incidentally is the same scripting language also used in Photoshop,
Illustrator, Bridge, Soundbooth and other CS4 products.
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Put simply, the RoboHelp Scripting Language is a Javascript-based scripting language that exposes APIs to invoke most of the basic functionality of RoboHelp in an effort to automate complex or repetitive tasks.
For developing new scripts, all of our Adobe applications with scripting support use Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CS4, which naturally ships with Adobe RoboHelp 8.
For more information about ExtendScript Toolkit CS4, please click HERE.
Here's a practical example of a RoboHelp 8 Script
A common question we hear from our Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 customers is how do I recreate warning/tip/note tables created in FrameMaker in RoboHelp 8, where the images used are in the Reference Pages.
The following recording shows how two scripts can be used, based on the following two scenarios:
- If you use a two-cell table in FrameMaker.
- A slightly modified version if you use side-heads instead, to create warning/tip/note paragraphs.
To apply this to your documentation, please watch the recording in its entirety and at the end of it, you will have the ability to download both scripts and put them to work with your own FrameMaker files.
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You're probably struggling right now to place Warren G. Harding in American history — sure, we have elementary schools and Wikipedia entries to evidence his presidency, but was he around during the depression? The Victorian era? Was he like, just before Eisenhower or something?
Warren G. Harding became an unlikely trending term today, not because of an anniversary or the centennial of an important date in American history. No, instead, it's because Harding was apparently a total raving horndog… and his salacious letters to the wife of a friend, no less, are set for release this month.
Harding was in office as Commander in Chief for two short years in the early twenties between Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson. (A period that could be dubbed "the era of eminently forgettable American Presidents.")
From March 4, 1921 until his sudden and mysterious death on August 2, 1923 at the age of fifty-seven, Harding was leader of the free world… a job he mysteriously appears to have gotten done despite nailing anything that was not previously nailed down.
A regular Hugh Hefner, Warren Harding's legacy of tang is prolific in one short Wikipedian paragraph, which details a string of exploits that could make Charlie Sheen blush. It reads:
"In a 1998 Washington Post article, journalist Carl S. Anthony wrote that Harding had extramarital affairs and sexual encounters with numerous women. These women included Susie Hodder and Carrie Fulton Phillips, Mrs. Harding's personal friends; Grace Cross, Harding's senatorial aide; and Nan Britton, a 22-year old campaign volunteer (President Harding was age 51 when the affair occurred). Anthony stated that Harding was the father of Hodder's daughter."
Luckily, Harding (heh, heh) couldn't swing an Anthony Weiner back then because we had no Twitter, right? Right? Wrong. One of America's most womanizing presidents indeed left behind the prehistoric equivalent of a sexting legacy… in the form of filthy, dirty, scandalous letters sent to a lover.
Hardcore history, indeed.
The New York Times, in an article titled "The Letters That Warren G. Harding's Family Didn't Want You to See," promises that even in a time in which political sex scandals are torrid, the letters' content is… explicit.
The paper reports:
"The correspondence is intimate and frank — and perhaps the most sexually explicit ever by an American president. Even in the age of Anthony Weiner sexts and John Edwards revelations, it still has the power to astonish."
It continues:
"In 106 letters, many written on official Senate stationery, Harding alternates between Victorian declarations of love and unabashedly carnal descriptions. (While Phillips's notes and some drafts of her letters have been preserved, her actual replies were not.) The president often wrote in code, in case the letters were discovered, referring to his penis as Jerry and devising nicknames, like Mrs. Pouterson, for Phillips."
The official record of Warren G. Harding letters has been sealed by the Library of Congress for decades, but the steamy missives will be made public at the end of the month.
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January Jones appears in the latest issue of Marie Claire UK where she gives the kind of answers that make her portrayal of Betty Draper look like not that much of a stretch and also leave you wondering if she grabbed a small child afterward and beat it into the wall for not using a coaster:
On Mad Men:
"Financially, we don't get paid very much on the show and that's well-documented. On the other hand, when you do television you have a steady pay check each week, so that's nice."
On ex-boyfriend Ashton Kutcher who said she'd never make it as an actress:
"I don't comment about that," she replies in clipped tones. "And I never commented about him."
On rumors she became a model to prove to "bitches" in high school she's pretty:
"Where are you getting this shit? It sounds like something I might have said when I was, like, 15. The bitches in high school were bitches because I was pretty."
I really wanted to go to town on that last comment, but I can't stop looking at this photo and mumbling, "Those filthy bitches. Why I oughta…" That's how she gets ya.
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They call it mellow yellow: Body of Nokia EOS leaks in another color
0. phoneArena posted on 20 Jun 2013, 02:00
On Wednesday morning, we showed you a picture of the polycarbonate body of the Nokia EOS in white; now, we have another leaked photo of the phone for you to look at, this time in yellow. The handset is expected to be available in four colors including black, red, white and yellow. Thanks to the combination of the 4.5 inch screen and the 768 x 1280 resolution, the Nokia EOS sports a well above average pixel density of 342ppi...
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1. Alex123 (Posts: 241; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
Nokia should at least use 1G of RAM
3. cameogt (Posts: 88; Member since: 18 Oct 2012)
for a midrange and for flagship maybe 2G of RAM. sounds cool.
12. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
They use 1GB in all the 92#s, I don't see why they'd use less this beast. I think the 808 PureView did too.
2. tusshharish (Posts: 342; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
colour sounds and looks good.....
13. akki20892 (Posts: 3902; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
looks like now nokia flagship color is yellow.
4. rihel_95 (Posts: 301; Member since: 21 Mar 2012)
That's why both NOKIA's event invitaion poster was in BLACK and YELLOW.
5. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
Sorry Samung/Sony/HTC/Nokia your all dead to me, my next smart phone is going to be the new Meizu phones becuase your all dead with innovation.
I just love how much phonearena skips over all the good phones just because their made by chinese companies, its pathetic.
6. MCrapp (Posts: 318; Member since: 07 Apr 2013)
I don't see anything innovative! Samsung processor? Small Bezels?(Galaxy S4 and LG Optimus G Pro)
9. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1122; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Me neither, just a chinese phone with high specs, putting high end components on a phone without differentiating features from the others is not innovative imo.
10. No_Nonsense (unregistered)
Oh wait, that is to many when a certain company does that.
14. ZeroCide (Posts: 785; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
I think his phone will Shatter when he gets it!
11. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
The original leaked EOS picture was yellow. It is nice having another leak, but it isn't new.


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Details on financial support to M&G Chemicals
As announced in company announcement no. 24, November 17, 2013, concerning the collaboration on biomass-based plastics in China, Novozymes would provide financial support of USD 35 million to M&G Chemicals.
As reported by media, M&G Chemicals is currently in the process of conducting an initial public offering (IPO) and applying for the listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Novozymes' previously announced financial support of USD 35 million to M&G Chemicals will be by way of a cornerstone investment in M&G Chemicals' IPO.
The share purchase is not expected to impact Novozymes' financial outlook for 2013. Novozymes' expectations to Cash flow before acquisitions for 2013 is thereby unchanged. However, the USD 35 million is expected to have a negative impact on net cash flow in 2013.
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Garang Leek hadn't heard a gunshot since he escaped a war zone in Sudan four years ago - until the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The 24-year-old was up watching television in a unit in Stuart Flats in Griffith when he says he heard the shot about 2am. But he didn't venture outside.
''I didn't come to check it out - it might not be safe,'' he said.
The bullet went through a street-facing window and closed curtain of a ground-floor unit on Light Street. At the time of writing, police were unable to confirm whether the bullet had been fired from a car or by someone on foot.
Mr Leek, who works dismantling old electrical equipment and has been staying at the flats for about a month, said he rarely hung out outside the flat, and was sometimes scared.
He came to Australia with his family as a refugee about four years ago, and has since become a permanent resident. He lives with his brother and a friend, and the three of them tend to keep to their flat when they aren't at work or studying. He said he'd become accustomed to the safety Australia has to offer, and was shocked to hear gunfire again.
''Four years in Australia, and this is the first time I've heard a gunshot,'' Mr Leek said.
A woman living in another block of the Stuart Flats said it was a terrible place to try to bring up her eight-year-old daughter.
The pair heard the gunshot, and the young girl was too scared to go back to bed or to take herself to school.
''This morning she wouldn't go on the bus [to school],'' her mother, who asked not to be named, said.
''She made me walk right around, she didn't even want to walk out the front here. For an eight-year-old, it's terrible. She goes to my grandparents' place and she wonders why the police aren't driving around her place three or four times … she thinks it is normal."
The woman said they had been living there for about five years, but between incidents - such as a recent fire in a nearby flat - and some unruly neighbours, it was impossible to live a normal life.
''She's got nowhere to play, nothing. She can't come out the front,'' the mother said. ''I just want her to feel comfortable and safe.''
She said the only way authorities could improve the complex would be to destroy it and start again.
Another resident from a nearby stairwell, Ben, didn't hear the shot, but was woken by the police activity about 3am.
Ben, who said he was currently on a methadone program after having problems with drugs, said the flats weren't always an easy place to live, but it was still surprising to hear about a shooting next door.
''Especially if it was someone in a car driving - it doesn't take much to miss, for a bullet to go through someone else's window. We're all pretty close together here so it's no good,'' he said.
''I'm not real fearful of being here, but I feel sorry for some of the other people that do live here … there's a lot of people here that lead very normal lives and work and don't have anything to do with anything criminal.''
He said the Stuart Flats had good blocks and bad blocks, and there were problems with drugs, drug dealers and people fighting within the complex - but it wasn't any worse than other public housing complexes around the capital.
''When you put a heap of people, disadvantaged people in one area, that's what happens. It's notorious, this place, for drugs. People come from far and wide to score,'' Ben said. ''It's the way it is with any of these units like this, same as Illawarra Court or Gowrie Court - they're all the same. It's really hard to live a normal sort of existence around here. Everyone's sort of caught up in some drugs or whatever.''
Peter Chemhere, a 25-year-old who moved to the flats two years ago after spending time on the streets, said much of the problem came from the public housing environment, which isolated the residents from the rest of the Canberra community.
''Sometimes I feel rejected living here,'' he said. ''You can tell with the surrounding what it's like. This place, in this suburb, is the only place that's different. Living in a place like here you have to expect anything and anything can happen. People who live out of this area, out of this main part, they are afraid to come here because of the way this place is built. It's built to put away some people.''
Mr Chemhere said the Stuart Flats should be knocked down, and mixed housing, where public tenants could associate with private residents, be built in its place. ''This place needs to be pulled down. All government places have to be built like private housing so there's no difference in valuation of people,'' he said.
''If you look at it, it just tells you what it's like. Look at our housing, government housing, it's different to private housing. Private looks nice, you know. And if you're in a nice home, you will feel comfortable, you will feel worth it. It feels like you're someone. But if you're not … you lose hope."


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Cable Show session to tackle next-gen TV services
About one-third of all U.S. broadband households are now interested in connected set-top boxes, according to Parks Associates. The market research company says that this is good news for service providers, which have this device at the core of their current service strategies.
Parks Associates is hosting a Cable Show lunch session – entitled "Engaging the Consumer: Opportunities and Challenges in the Evolution of Television" and sponsored by Macrovision – on April 2 at 12:45 p.m. in Room 152 of the Washington Convention Center.
Panelists will address challenges in building ARPU and will discuss best strategies for developing innovative television services that will interest consumers and lower churn. Panelists include Bob Benya of Time Warner Cable, Jeff Bonin of Alticast, Richard Bullwinkle of Macrovision, David Grubb of Motorola and Steve Necessary of Cox.
"Up to 7 percent of broadband households are willing to pay $3-$6 more per month for a connected STB," said Jayant Dasari, an analyst with Parks Associates and session moderator. "They want to stream music, view photos and watch Web video through their television, and carriers can capture that consumer interest by leveraging the set-top to deploy these services."


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War on Terror News: Operation Gratitude
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Operation Gratitude does one thing (care packages) and does it well. There is no way they could have grown to this large of an operation, be getting addresses straight from the commanders of our military themselves, and be able to send a box out for $11 filled with items with a value of $100, if they did not know what they are doing! In addition to those main two drives, if a commander contacts them with an emergency need, the a shipment is sent out. To date, they have sent out 450,799 care packages! Just in a 6 year period…
How do they do this? ALL items going into the care packages are donated. They have an extensive list of big name sponsors (see site here and here). Space at the California Army National Guard is donated. They use priority mailing boxes from the U.S.P.S. which are free to anyone. (By FREE, I mean the EMPTY BOX can be obtained directly from your local post office or online at no charge to any person or company) Volunteers arrive at specific times throughout the year to prep, assemble and label the care packages. There are over 7000 local volunteers, not including those across the country who donate goods. Each box currently costs Operation Gratitude $11 with $9.85 of that amount going just towards postage costs, leaving not much to cover other expenses including communications, storage, labels and forklift rental, to name a few.
There are several ways in which Operation Gratitude is unique in the Military Support community:
1. We send at least 100,000 care packages every year
2. Each Operation Gratitude care package is personally addressed to a deployed service member
3. We are an all-volunteer organization
4. Our administrative expenses are less than 2% of our budget
That is extremely impressive!! Not many 501(c)(3) organizations can even come close to saying that about their administrative expenses!
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Palestinian sources reported Monday that an altercation between Arabs and settlers at a spring near Nablus ended with three of the Arab men receiving treatment at a local hospital.
According to reports, the settlers, residents of Itamar, arrived at the spring at the same time as the Palestinians, who residents of nearby Aqraba. A confrontation between the two groups ensued.
IDF forces arrived at the scene, and the individuals involved in the melee dispersed without incident. Three of the Palestinians were taken to a hospital in Nablus for treatment.


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Oh, the cold is back, comrades. You have no idea how stuffed up I am writing this - my desk is cluttered with Lemsip mugs and scrumpled tissues. I would sigh in despair if I could, but it'd undoubtedly just prompt another coughing fit. Ah well, here we go, Part 5 of Paramina's Final Fantasy XII Walkthrough... coming at you... slow and ... steady...
Locked UpEdit
Like Akon, we have been locked up. Vaan will awaken in our new location: Nalbina Dungeons, the best of the FF series prisons, in my opinion. Vaan will stumble to his feet and swiftly trip over a dead body: "Relax. It's just a corpse. Jump at every little thing down here and you'll wear yourself out." Awesome. Check your equipment to find the Imperials have totally plundered our stuff. Not awesome. It appears Fran is out already looking for an exit, so we might as well have a look around.
In the Stockade there are four treasure chests hanging about, containing Knots of Rust. Knots of Rust deal non-elemental damage which appears to be rather paltry, but each time you use one it increases the massive damage counter for Dark Matter so I wouldn't sell them off. Besides, sans equipment they're decent damagers right now. Before heading to the arena I recommend you Save at the Save Crystal - there's a slim, slim chance you might floor it in the next battle, but you don't want to be complacent.
Head towards the Arena to see a bunch of Seeqs beating up a Bangaa. As opposed to just sitting and shaking his head judgementally, Vaan feels the need to interject like the stupid moron he is. Naturally, his big mouth lands him in it and he's forced in some sort of Fight Club scenario completely unarmed. Things are looking bleak until Balthier jumps in: "I say you're the one who stinks, hamshanks. Hear me now?" Ha ha, hamshanks.
|Boss Battle: Daguza, Galeedo and Gwitch
Level: 8 | 7 | 7
Another easy battle sailing our way. Know that all three of these bacon clumps are weak to Fire. Firstly, focus your attacks on Gwitch since he has an annoying tendency to send Cure his allies way. Don't hesitate to throw out Knots of Rust for some quick damage - I'd recommend then setting after Galeedo and only going for Daguza once the other two are taken out. Daguza might be a little more enduring because piggy has Protect, but keep at it and he'll eventually fall.
The cutting down of these little piggies leads to the appearance of a minor villain of sorts: Ba'Gamnan, that croaky lizardo we saw earlier hanging about whilst our party got paraded through Rabanastre in chains. It appears Ba'Gamnan still has a hankering for our Sky Pirate (who doesn't?), and is after the steep price on his head. A wanted man, 'tis our Balthier. Vaan and Balthier hide by the old classic of pressing themselves against the wall. Ba'Gamnan is too stupid to spot them, so Fran has ample time to appear and tell them she's found an exit. However - there's a catch: she can't open it. Yet hope is not lost - an Archadian Judge arrives on scene, the real villains of this game. It looks like this iron-clad darling is going to be our ticket out of here.
We regain control in the Confiscatory - Save Up and take your equipment back, as well as a handy Map Urn, but whatever you do:
WARNING! Forbidden Treasure #3: If you want the Zodiac Spear, then DO NOT TOUCH the treasure chests in here. You've already got your stuff back - don't be greedy.
Check out your License Board - I know I said you should always be making your way across it, but it's really important you're at the best of your current ability for the next bit of the game. It makes things so much easier, so don't let yourself close that menu down with LP still to spare, okay?
Proceed through to the Black Watch - the door will close behind us, egads! No worries, this Imperial infested corridor is our EXP and LP bounty. I mean, yeah, I suppose you could sneak your way through (pansy), but if you're a competent gamer then you should relish at the chance for some slaughter! Also, killing all these suckers means you'll build up a Battle Chain, meaning better Loot and Droppages. Huzzah! you cry! And quite rightly so, let's get trooping and I'll map out the key points of this area:
- The first Treasure Chest you'll come across on this screen has a 50% chance of containing an Aero Mote. Plunder.
- In the most Southern corner of this screen in a Treasure Chest with a 50% chance of containing Chromed Leathers. Plunder.
- On the lower path before you round the corner into the second... rectangle of this screen, there's a Treasure Chest with a 50% chance of containing the Gambit 'Ally: HP < 60%'. Plunder.
- On the lower path on from the previous Treasure Chest is another with a 50% chance of containing an Ether. Plunder!
- There's also Treasure Chests with the Gambit 'Foe: Targeting Ally' and a Water Mote around here. Plunder plunder plunder.
Head to the Magicked Door North Central of the top screen. The Judge's possé will shuffle in behind us and let us in unwittingly. Do the obvious and follow him in to get an epic scene: 'tis Captain Basch! Long time no see, bro, how's it been? Ahhh, not good? You're looking a little thin and scraggly. I guess that's what being hung from a cage and imprisoned in an Oubliette does to the old physique. Basch denies killing Raminas back in Nalbina, which also means he didn't kill Reks. Of course, Vaan cannot accept this and must turn Monkey-Boy on us by leaping onto the cage and going ape. As he's making an insane amount of noise, he attracts unwanted attention and our only escape is downwards. Look out below! "Pirates without a sky." Peasant without a brain, I think you'll find.
"It'll give the energy back, if you ask nicely. Sticking it with a sword helps too."Edit
After landing, Vaan tries to take a swing at Basch. Fail, Vaan, fail - spare us your quiddities. I've now come to the conclusion that Bobby Edner is a terrible screamer - so far he's managed to convey Vaan falling from the motorcycle above a warzone and going to beat up the traitor who killed his brother with the fear and anger capable of Keanu Reeves. Of course, Balthier recognizes another awesome when he sees one, and invites Basch to join the team. Basch joins the party as a Guest! flashes across the screen, but I'm too distracted by how much Vaan looks like he could be a member of that Russian girl band Tatu in this still. Because he's only a Guest Character here, I was hesitant about giving him a character box... but the screaming fangirl in me won't allow me to continue without one. Basch Basch Basch!
|Party Member: Basch
"Let them watch. I know something of cages."
Basch fon Ronsenburg was supposed to be the lead of XII. Officially. But Square remembered the unwritten rule that all their leads must be erring on the feminine side of life whilst having magnificently flippy hair. After the fangirl-isms inspired by brooding Squall's "whatever", and Cloud's Squall-isms in Advent Children, it was far too risky to eschew the masses and go with a cool guy like Basch. I'm genuinely gutted he's not the official lead. Alongside Balthier, our Captain delivers some of the best lines in-game, including the best in FF history (you know, the "cages" one I've already dropped like, twice already?). Sadly, even Basch is not exempt from trippy character design: case in point, the patchwork man-bra he sports under his vest. Even when in his "prison gear", he's got a cod-piece on over Princess Jasmine pants. Still... he works it. Basch is so beyond awesome I don't even know where to begin. A disgraced knight... evil twin... insane dialogue... groovy facial hair. Ahhhhh, he's too much. And you know he works that facial scar better than Squall does. Vaan may be the flippy-haired effeminate lead by title, but Basch is Final Fantasy XII. Fact.
Okay, I'll reel the fangirl-isms in now. Stats wise, Basch is a total powerhouse. You'd be a fool not to use him. Luckily he starts out as a Guest so you can use your full party, but as soon as becomes a perma-addition, he should be in there 24/7. I tend to equip him with Axes or Greatswords, but it's up to you. Just know he's a complete killing machine, and if it makes any difference, you get slightly different cut scenes sometimes when he's part of the team.
ps. Just thought I'd add that to prove Basch's awesomeness, in Revenant Wings, he's a Paladin. Yeah, a Paladin. Awesome. pps. I'll end this with another Basch quote, to cement his epic... epicness.
"If I could protect but one person from war's horror... then I would bear any shame. I would bear it proudly."
We start our break-out in the Lightworks. There's a Save Crystal here and three treasure chests which, combined, hold 1,665 gil. Don't even hesitate to plunder these babies, they're not plagued by the curse of the Zodiac, worry not. Head down the stairs until you reach a Time-Worn Device. Check it out with but nothing will happen, it requires a fuse. Keep heading down to the bottom of the stairs to spot an old Bangaa, Borrogh. Not only does he have the Tube Fuse, but he's also set up shop down here! Convenient: make sure you buy Blizzard if you don't have it already, then grab all the White Magicks you can (Poisona, Blindna etc.) so you're not reliant on Item stocks. With that done, head back up to the Time-Worn Device and insert the Tube Fuse. We have lift-off!
Go down and check out the Gate Switchboard near Borrogh. The gate opens! Huzzah! But power has dropped to 70%! Un-Huzzah! With the lights on, our passage isn't so tricky. When they drop below 30%? Well, "fierce beasts start comin' out in the dark." To be honest, you're erring on danger if it drops below 50%, because that's when the undead start popping up. Technically we have enough power to open all the gates, but sadly these annoying Mimic blighters suck all the energy out. Worry not though, I managed to get through this entire bit without one hint of a blackout, and so can you:
- Head into the Op Sector 29. There are three treasure chests in here - the best contains Onion Arrows for Fran's Bow. Go take out Battery Mimic A, they're particularly weak against Blizzard, so throw that out. Another will scuttle off into the distance, but only go after it once the first is dead. Quickly dispatch the Zombie loitering about here so it doesn't follow you down to the next floor and distract your party. Head down the stairs to find Battery Mimic B. 'Tis slaughtering time.
The power will come back up - you can finish killing any enemies you sprinted past before. Or, alternatively, you can just head to the next section. Your choice.
- Move into the Great Eastern Passage. Mimic A is right in front of you, kill it. Hit flee and head down the passage, taking the dead-end split to your right. Mimic B is here - obliterate. Hit flee then backtrack to the start of the fork and take the straight path this time. At the next fork, take the left path and follow it down to find Mimic C. After taking care of that one, backtrack to follow the main passage downwards - you'll find Mimic D near the end. Now, with our power stabilized, head back up and mop up the undead. Don't forget to go up the side spur with the Map Urn.
- Technically, this is optional - but if it's optional, it gets done in my walkthroughs (unless it's Triple Triad). Where you saw Mimic D is an entrance to a small area called Ops Sector 36. There are only two Mimics in here, A and B - follow them up the stairs and beat them down to make a quick EXP and LP rush.
- Head back to the Great Eastern Passage and this time transition down to Special Op Sector 3. Mimic B is the first you'll come across, but it's hanging about with a possé of Flans. Throw Fire at them to get them out of the way quickly, then kill the Mimic. Head back towards the entrance to see a passage branching off to your left. Take it up, where you'll find Mimic A. Kill it.
- Keep going up the stairs until you screen transition to Op Sector 37. This little area has two mimics: Mimic A is right at the entrance, Mimic B is on the path branching to the left. With that fried, head up the stairs until you see the Gateboard Switch. Hello, button. Also, make sure you nab all the treasure chests in here to possibly walk away with Headgear, a Buckler, a shiny new Gambit and a Mage Masher.
- Return to Special Op Sector 3 and head down. The gate to the south should be open now. Head on through for sweet relief and a Save Crystal. Oh, and a cutscene!
In true Soap Opera fashion, we learn it wasn't Basch that killed Raminas and Reks back in Nalbina... but his evil twin brother! In fact, it was that guy we saw just a second ago, rattling Basch's cage. Apparently he came up with this elaborate assassination plot to not only kill King Raminas but also frame his damned twin brother in the process! Wow, if that's not a case screaming 'child neglect', I don't know what is. Vaan isn't convinced but I'm not entirely sure anyone really cares. Basch is too busy ramsacking a corpse for clothing and weaponry to notice. With his new sword in hand, he hits harder and battles end faster. Win. If you leave this area without Saving, then I hope your entire team gets slaughtered as soon as you step into Great Central. Seriously, I do.
- Enter the Great Central Passage ready to kill some more Mimics. There's only one, and it's hanging out on the path directly South. That's all there is to do here, the gate to the West is locked just now, but we'll come back to it later. Some Mimics have taken to playing on our love for the plunder and hiding as Treasure Chests. You can generally tell which Chest is a Mimic, but keep an eye out.
- Head South to the Zeviah Subterrane. Mimic A is around the corner to your right, behind a bunch of Treasure Chests. Kill it and pick up the treasure on your way. Now head down the path and you'll see Mimic B. Death. Before you round the corner and exit, take the path to the right and follow it round. You have to walk through the water to reach the treasure, an Oaken Pole. Head back up the path and follow it round to meet Mimic C. With that done, head into Terminus No. 4 Adjunct.
Another sweet relief! A Save Crystal. Now, the wonderful thing about XII's ADB system is that you can enter a boss battle totally buffed up to the ready, meaning you have more time for the beat down. Make sure Fran has her Cure Gambits as priority. Quickly cast Protect around your party and any other Buffs you may have by now. Before you exit, really quickly touch the Save Crystal again to replenish your MP, then leg it down to the next screen.
|Boss Battle: Mimic Queen
Level: 10
Uh-oh, looks like the mother is not pleased with our rampant baby slaughter. In fact, she's really not pleased - she's raging. Hence the dramatic chorus soaring along with the boss music. Like her babies, the Queen is weak to Blizzard, so throw that out when you can. Of course, you'll want to reserve MP for the HP top-ups, but MP replenishes when you run-around, so just go for a jog when you're running low. I'd recommend focusing on the Queen and ignoring the little tykes for just now - they're not as dangerous and will disappear as soon as Mama's taken out. Keep Basch healed up because he's a total tank in this fight. Try and Steal that Rose Corsage if you can, it's a useful Accessory to have around for your mage. Uh... I think that's it. Yeah, Blizzard, Cure and Physicals. The end.
And with her defeat comes the obligatory "caving in" sequence. I guess the Mimic Queen must have been part of the scaffolding or something, because the entire place is just coming down. Our party wisely leg it out of dangers way and manage to escape into sunlight. Yes - we've made it! Jailbreak - complete! Are you taking note, Wentworth Miller? That's how you do it.
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With temperatures falling into single digits this morning, it seems like the right time to throw out some "How cold is it?" jokes.
Please feel free to add your own in the comments section below.
How cold it it? It's so cold,
*My car won't run, and my nose won't stop!
*It's freezing the nuts off the Dorset Avenue Bridge in Ventnor.
*Your shadow freezes to the sidewalk!
*You have to open the `fridge to heat the house.
*Atlantic City's hookers are charging 20 bucks to blow on your hands.
*Atlantic City politicians are putting their hands in their own pockets!
*Lucy the Elephant is wearing a fur coat!
*Drivers on the Parkway aren't giving each other the finger…they're giving them the mitten!


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I originally applied to teach maths to children for free, but was told there was not enough interest from local children for me to do this.
Then I was telling a woman how I loved art and playing the drums and she said she knew a boy with Down's Syndrome who would love to learn. I volunteered to teach him the drums.
At first, it was weird. I didn't know what I was supposed to do, but I quickly realised he had a lot of potential. I also found that he just knew some rhythms by heart. I worked on teaching him some more rhythms and it became a thrilling experience.
It was very important for me, because I like to be taken seriously, even if I am a minor.
Teenagers constantly think about their future and how adults are messing with the world we have to live in.
War is a problem for us young people, our brothers, our cousins, our future children and grandchildren.
Racism is also a major problem today.
I would like to speak to my forefathers, because they cared for the world as if it was theirs. I would ask them how to take care of it, and look at ways that we can avoid wars and stop senselessly killing each other.
I started getting interested in the Horn of Africa this year, when I participated in a United Nations schools programme, which focused on Somalia.
This was an extraordinary experience, as it helped me get to know this country that you never hear anything about.
I started reading about the situation there and I am anxious to keep informed about what's happening in Somalia and the wider region.
Even though I live so far away, it now occupies all of my thoughts.
I started to play when I was 15, and haven't stopped since.
I think it's a good way to relax and have fun at the same time.
I also use it to show that I am good at something, because, even though I try to apply myself at school, I am better at computer games.
My parents gave life to me and my sister, and you tend to like them more as you grow up.
My main passion is literature.
I would love to interview [Brazilian author] Paulo Coelho and ask him how he can write such beautiful books.
I also love hip-hop music.
But lately, there isn't any good new music. I just don't think bands put any effort into their music any more. It seems that they only care about money.
Rock and metal bands are not like they used to be. You don't see bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath or The Doors emerging.
I would love to interview Jim Morrison, Jimmy Page, Syd Barret and Ozzy Osbourne, and ask them how they managed to compose such perfect and deep lyrics and such pure sounds.
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Falmouth Aquarium has closed its doors to visitors less than two months after reopening following a rebrand.
In an online post on Tuesday, September 2, the aquarium stated simply that it had now closed to the public, without any explanation.
The statement read: "We would like to thank the community, local businesses and our dedicated team of volunteers for your support in helping us promote marine life."
In later posts, it added: "We have had to close to the public due to not enough grant funding to support the charity. Conservation-led attractions and heritage museums work very hard to engage with the public to promote education and awareness. We had a great run of two years working with the public and have had fantastic volunteers to support our education work."
In response to a question about re-homing the fish, it added: "We have donated Gary the Lobster and the cuttlefish to the National Lobster Hatchery among other things, as well as donations to the Plymouth National Marine Aquarium to support their work."
The aquarium, which is a charity, reopened in July this year, following a refurbishment which included new attractions including live cuttlefish eggs, an interactive fishing game and a marine 'touch' exhibit for children.
Last week it was presented with £500 from Rick Stein as a donation towards its Kids Marine Life project, to allow more live encounters with animals and to support children's beach cleans.
Since opening in 2012, the Falmouth Aquarium said it had reached over 30,000 people, led educational sessions for over 550 Cornish school children, provided free 'Live Encounters' to over 500 children and families, provided jobs to 10 people in the field of marine biology and trained 110 people.
Speaking at the relaunch, PR manager Johanna Naradzay said: "Setting up anything is going to have its challenges, but it has been really well received and we are rated highly by our visitors, everyone goes away feeling really good about their experience."
At time of going to press, the aquarium could not be reached for comment.


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Something similar I have done is working on my laptop with the project open in Scrivener and researching on the Dell Duo in tablet mode right next to me. I find it helpful to keep the project in front of me - I'm less likely to go off on a tangent. Something else I like to do with the Duo is collect photos that inspire me or bring to mind scenes for the story, and when I feel bogged down I can reach over and swipe the screen to flip through them.
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My interests include music (and lots of it; I'm happy to live near the Independent), film, books, travel, and doing the new and the random. I take my camera everywhere with me, and have a slightly subversive sense of humour, though it's very gentle. I'm part geek, but also pretty extroverted.
Workwise, I write software; unique, right? It's doing something very cool, but I'll save it for over a drink.
I'm a huge music fan, liking Radiohead, lots of electronic stuff (think Four Tet and Bibio), J Dilla, and have weaknesses for post-punk - 70's stuff like Neu! and Can. Other than that, I like Nils Frahm, The Beatles, and excellent pop music.
Films? Stanley Kubrick's stuff, especially 2001. Anything by Christopher Nolan or Michael Winterbottom (I think The Trip is now one of my favourite films, although I can never take Michael Caine seriously again). Right now, I'm really into Paul Thomas Anderson.
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WOULD-be fundraising joggers are being urged to sign up for one of Knutsford's annual highlights.
The annual Knutsford Jog – organised by Knutsford Rotary Club and supported by the Guardian – is in its 15th year this year.
And Knutsford's Rotarians launched this year's 'Jog' event at Egerton Youth Club at a presentation evening on Thursday, January 9.
This year it will take place on Sunday, March 16, starting at 10.30am. Joggers are encouraged to complete as many laps of the Moor in an hour that they can.
Rotary member Stuart Donn told those in attendance the aim of the family event was to give joggers the satisfaction of raising money for charity.
"Over the 15 years a variety of charities have been the benefactors of a total of more than £100,000," he said.
"Apart from the support of the joggers, who are the key to the success of the Jog , we have had invaluable help from the Knutsford Guardian, Sheldons Dairies, Ultimate Graphics, Hague Lambert and many others."
Representatives from the Children's Burns Foundation and Francis House Children's Hospice – who will benefit from the donations from the jog – were also in attendance and spoke about the importance of the Jog.
Stuart added: "We would like to point out to group organisers, schools, PTAs etc that the Jog is a major opportunity to raise significant funds for your own projects, with 50 per cent of funds raised going to an individuals nominated charity."
Rotary President Alan Ingram cut a special cake to celebrate the 15th year at the evening using a sword owned by Rotarian Rick Dallimore.
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Google has been slowly trying to branch out and find revenue streams that are separate from its core advertising business, but it has been a struggle. In Google's Q4 2012 earnings call, 96% of the company's quarterly revenue was from advertising. Now, it sounds like Google is going to try a bit harder to monetize YouTube by possibly introducing a premium subscription model this spring...
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New thifted Quilting Book from Pop!
Mickey has needed extra attention lately
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I get to see this! And I'm super stoked about it :)
I love these! 1. Because Heidi Kenney is super awesome and 2. because we can be twinsies lol
I was in Renown, a local clothing store recently, and the owner was saying he wanted to purchase new shopping bags for the shop. I think he needs these! I think baby faced tattooed boys would like them too. Just a thought!
Also, every Saturday I go to starbucks for breakfast with Mickey, because he loves car rides, and the kid that works there speaks in a Irish accent. I thought it was fake and I was right!!! I went inside for once and heard him talking to another customer, NOT IRISH lol he works at the Renaissance Festival and likes to trick his starbucks customers. I told him he was kinda a weirdo (in a joking way of course). But he is lol -I think I'll start talking to customers on the phone in different accents - spice things up a bit lolPin It


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This is a fun game if you get the right kids involved. You could call it Mat Wars as the girls wrestle over a boy named Matt's knee 😉 Pick a 5 girls and make sure a few of them are competitive. Then get 4 guys, pick […]
Cricket Spitting Contest
Buy some medium crickets at a pet store. Get a bulls eye or draw one on poster board. Have kids spit them for distance. Whoever spits the cricket the farthest wins!
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Assign as many stations as games and leaders available. Put one game at each station and "tweak it" as to create an aggressive 4 minute point earning encounter. Ex. Guesstures: everyone takes a turn acting an item from a card. You get 1 […]
Red Light Green Light
Red Light Green Light
The player serving as the "traffic light" stands at one end of the room. All the others stand at the other end. Play begins when the light turns his/her back to the others and says, "Green Light." This is the signal for […]
Play Doh Pictionary
Play Doh Pictionary
Divide into teams. Have a representative come up front from each group. Whisper a Pictionary word (like "dog") to the group and they must run back to their group and, without talking, mold that word with Play-doh. Put a leader on each team […]
The Good The Bad The Ugly Squirt Gun Duel Game
Here are 3 version of this game
1. Blindfold a guy and girl and have a squirt gun fight. Before you start, remove the girl's blindfold.
2. Another version of this is having each person holding a candle and a clear cup of water.
You need a lighter
Water […]
Pick Your Friend's Nose
You know what they say "You can Pick Your Friends, but you can't pick your friend's nose." Use a huge piece of posterboard and draw three people on it. Cut out the space for their noses. Three people are chosen to stick their noses through the […]
Drip, Drip, Drop
Just like Duck, Duck, Goose except with a cup of water that the person drips, drips, drips then drops the whole cup of water on the person's head they want to chase them around the circle!
Blind Man's Bacon
Like steal the bacon except have each team blindfold their person who crawls to a squirt gun or water bottle by directions shouted by their team and then tries to squirt their opponent again with directions from their team. Points are only given if the […]
Four guys vs. four girls (maybe one each class). Use TV tunes CD's (they are expensive but have many uses and are worth the investment). One from each team steps up with a big pot on their head and a […]
Jello Twister Game
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The Choice
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Spam Sculptures
Each team gets a can of Spam. Have a sculpting contest.
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Get a piece of Plexiglas, about 2 1/2′ x 4′. It needs to be pretty thick (3/8″ at least) so that there's no danger of it breaking. Then stick Ritz crackers on it in vertical lines with peanut butter. Or Oreos if you have peanut allergies Have […]
PB & J Foot Sandwich
Three girls, barefoot, make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with their feet. Have ingredients already in bowls. Feed to three guys. First guy to eat entire sandwich wins.
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Musical Baby Food Game
Get jars of baby food. Play music and pass the baby food around like a hot potato. When the music stops, the person holding the jar must take a bite. Start process again.
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Dr. Alan Armstrong received his Ph.D in Music History from The Ohio State University. He also holds a B.Mus.Ed from there, and an M.M. in piano performance from Bradley University. Dr. Armstrong is also a cellist, and serves as principal cellist of the Wilson Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he is a Grade II bagpiper, enjoying success as a competitor with the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association, and a member of the Wake and District Public Safety Pipes and Drums. Dr. Armstrong is also a scholar known for his work in French Grand Opera, notably the work of composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. Dr. Armstrong has been researching the life and works of Pipe Major John Grant, a piping composer and author who lived in Edinburgh, Scotland throughout the first half of the 20th century. Dr. Armstrong is also the founder and director of "Free Spirit," a contemporary Christian ensemble that represents Mount Olive College at various functions throughout the Eastern United States.
Alan wrote the Wake and District March so the band would have its own regimental march. Download here >> Wake & District March
…the band has a right to be proud of itself, and as we march in parades or off the field during a competition, I wanted to write a tune for the band that would be distinctly its own.
While there are many other bands who serve first responders within their communities, many of them play the same tunes to honor their fallen. "For Our Fallen" is everything the band stands for and Alan wanted to pay homage to the brave men and women who, as first responders, put their lives on the line daily for everyone – and he did so by composing the tune For our Fallen. Download here >> For Our Fallen
..I wanted Wake and District to be different and wanted the band to have a tune of its own to be played at those important times when honoring the service of our police, fire, and emergency personnel with a solemn march is appropriate.
Wake & District remains focused on future achievement, despite all of our past accomplishments. We take great pride in all our endeavors and realize there is always a higher level of excellence to be won. We strive to be humble and grateful for our members, our collective talents and hard work, and the opportunities we have to perform and grow. Our members share strong bonds beyond the competition circle, fostering relationships with other members of the team; allowing us to flourish as an organization and allows us to continue to move forward. The band is eternally grateful for Alan Armstrong's talents. Although a time may come when Alan will no longer be able to play with the band – his tunes will forever be a part of the band's repertoire — and he will always be within our ranks.
…both of these tunes mean a lot to me personally, because the band means something to me personally. It is such a joy to participate in an organization that is committed to honoring others in a way that is both emotionally and musically edifying.
– download PDF copies of Alan's tunes from the images above –


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Magellan CrossoverGPS
Magellan CrossoverGPSPCWorld Rating
Your need for directions may not end when you step out of your car. With its waterproof case and rubberized edge protector, Magellan's CrossoverGPS is designed to withstand the bumps, dust, and precipitation that sometimes attend hiking, biking, and other extravehicular activities. Unfortunately, the $500 device was a bit too big to carry comfortably while walking, and too complicated to rely on for navigating an unfamiliar city on foot.
As an in-car guide Magellan's GPS shines: The 3D maps on the 3.5-inch display show your route clearly, the voice directions (including pronunciation of street names) come through loud and clear via the device's built-in speaker, and you get plenty of warning when turns or other maneuvers follow each other quickly.
The device acquired its initial satellite signal in just a few seconds. You can enter your destination in various ways: by entering a street address or intersection via the touch-screen keyboard, or by selecting it from the unit's points-of-interest database of restaurants, gas stations, and other establishments. Another option is to use your finger to point to a destination on the map.
I was pleased with the routes the CrossoverGPS suggested, and whenever I drove off course the device calculated a revised route in just a couple of seconds. My only quibble with the driving directions was the device's chattiness. Over the course of a 60-mile trip, the CrossoverGPS repeatedly urged me to a??continue on the current route.a?? And because it also uses chimes to indicate upcoming turns and other impending actions, the combined effect on a route with a lot of twists and turns is a near-endless stream of instructions and sound effects.
Using the device's Outdoor application to navigate on foot is much less rewarding. To select a location for the device to direct you to, you either choose it on the map or enter its latitude and longitude. You can't specify a street address or a series of street addresses, as you can with the in-car navigator.
The CrossoverGPS is also a tad hefty to tote around. It measures 3.4 inches tall by 4.3 inches wide by 1.1 inches deep and weighs 8.5 ounces (9.4 ounces when bundled up in its Sport Guard protective wrapper), making it cumbersome to carry on an extended outing. But you needn't worry about the CrossoverGPS running out of power on anything short of a trek along the Pacific Crest Trail). When I tested it, the device ran for 7 hours, 45 minutes on a single charge; Magellan claims that it has an 8-hour battery life. It also recharged fully in less than 30 minutes. You don't get much warning that the battery is about to expire, however. Just 15 minutes after I saw my first low-battery warning pop up on screen, the device konked out.
Media-player apps on GPS devices tend to be bare-bones affairs with few advanced features, and that's the case with the CrossoverGPS. The built-in monaural speaker may suffice for projecting driving directions over road noise, but it's not satisfactory for reproducing music. The unit plays audio files stored on SD Card, and it has a headphone jack, though it doesn't ship with headphones of its own.
Along with wishing that I could enter street addresses in the device's walking mode, I'd like to be able to listen to music files while viewing the street or trail map. Frustratingly, Magellan doesn't let you use both applications simultaneously.
But if you're willing to overlook these shortcomings, the CrossoverGPS will keep you heading in the right direction regardless of your method of transportation. When you add the optional maritime maps and load them via SD Card, the device will help keep your fleet on course, too. Regrettably, I was unable to test the maritime maps because my yacht is in drydock.
With a little less heft and a little easier guidance for pedestrians, the CrossoverGPS could be a navigator for all methods of locomotion, and in all types of weather.
Dennis O'Reilly
Magellan CrossoverGPSPCWorld Rating
- Features a rugged case and long battery life
- 3.5-inch screen is easy to read
- Too bulky for use while walking
- Entering destinations in walking mode is hard


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Final Fantasy XIII-2
Having trouble finding Dre?adnought...
I've been all over Vile peaks 010 and even 200 with encounter master set to more and battlemania on. Never ran into a dreadnought. Am i missong something?
Werdna1985 - 5 years ago
I am looking for him also - so i eagerly await an answer to this!
Ayla_Rain (Expert) - 5 years ago
With the skills [more enemies] and [attract tougher foes] it shouldn't take that long to find this guy, but if you are having trouble i would suggest that you run the full length of the map several times and be patient.
after doing this method i ran into the dreadnought more than 10x and managed to get a blk chocobo in the process along with yakshini.
rosariocapu2 - 5 years ago
If you have Battlemania AND Encounter Master both activated. He should be in Vile Peaks 010AF (the path you can only get across in this time frame) i caught up with him at the end of the top path JUST BEFORE you jump back down to ground level. Hopefully you guys find him! :)
forkreisssake - 5 years ago
I'd hang around the enclosed tunnel area at the beginning.
That's where I ran into him and Black Chocobo pretty frequently.
darlus - 4 years ago
Vile peaks -010AF-
Head north and there'll be a tower where you can you left and right before descend to the place where you'll have to fight twilight odin, but before the tower, there'll be a route that is near to the shape "U". Go back and forth along the "U"-shaped route (With one of your fragments skills, i think it's battlemania, set to more enemies)
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Out with the old and in with the new as the saying goes. Now that 2012 is coming to a close, check out what we think are the most anticipated games of 2013.
While only ten games made our list, 2013 is already shaping up to be an incredible year for games with the likes of DmC: Devil May Cry, Dead Space 3, Pikmin 3 and the Tomb Raider reboot all just missing out.
10. Next-gen consoles (Unknown)
While not a game, and not technically announced as of yet, we can't wait to hopefully see new consoles from Microsoft and Sony next year, not to mention the confirmed Steam Box from Valve. Nintendo launched their next-gen console in the Wii U in November and all signs point to the other two at least announcing theirs this year, possibly at E3. The Xbox 360 was released in 2006 and the PlayStation 3 in 2007, meaning this generation has been around for almost seven years. With the lack of new IP and video game sales down in 2012, it looks like both developers and consumers agree with our sentiment. Let's hope both companies give all of us what we want in 2013.
9. Rayman Legends (February 26)
Rayman Origins stole our hearts with its delightful art style and challenging platforming in 2011 so we can't wait for its sequel, Rayman Legends, coming from Ubisoft in 2013. We're not only excited just because it's a sequel to Origins, but also because it looks to be a good reason to own a Wii U. Outside of Pikmin 3 there's not much for the first part of the year exclusive to the console so Rayman Legends will nicely fill that hole in owner's consoles until Nintendo announces more at E3 2013.
8. SimCity (March 5)
Resurrecting one of the best-loved gaming series of all time after almost ten years without a release is either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. The original developers, Maxis, now fully under EA's control, are back to develop the first proper SimCity game since SimCity 4. With a new engine, more customisation and curved roads, plus 26 awards already bestowed upon it, SimCity promises much. Whether the need for a permanent Internet connection, the relentless focus on multiplayer, and the lack of multiple saved games will sink SimCity remains to be seen, but we're hoping the reboot will provide a good mix of nostalgia, addictive and fresh gameplay; and, of course, reticulated splines.
7. Double Fine Adventure (Q2 2013)
Double Fine Adventure not only marks the next game from one of our favorite developers, there's extra excitement as it was the first project to really kick off the Kickstarter phenomenon that was one of the biggest trends in 2012. What's not to like with Double Fine Adventure? Tim Schafer returns to the genre that made him a household name in the gaming industry alongside one of the most creative teams there is. Let's hope this one doesn't disappoint.
6. South Park: The Stick of Truth (May 2013)
After publisher THQ filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, there's extra pressure on South Park: The Stick of Truth to not only be great critically, but also commercially. Luckily, with Obsidian Entertainment behind the helm to provide the solid mechanics and serie's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone working close alongside the project, ensuring the humor will be on point, there's a good chance of just that happening.
5. Beyond: Two Souls (2013)
Quantic Dream's previous title, Heavy Rain, showed promise in the developing a video game narrative for a mature audience with irregular gameplay when it released in 2010. In Beyond: Two Souls, David Cage and company look to take that progress and improve upon it even more. Though we know little about the title outside of the debut trailer shown at E3, and that Ellen Page will provide the voice for the main character, we can't wait to experience what is in store.
4. Watch Dogs (2013)
Another title we know little about outside of its brief showing at E3 2012, Watch Dogs impressed us enough during its trailer to get our minds racing in anticipation. Coming from Ubisoft Montreal, developers of both the Assassin's Creed and Far Cry series, there's already pedigree to be excited about. Add in the ambitious promise of an open world setting with the ability to hack almost anything paired with an intriguing narrative based around information warfare it's easy to see where the anticipation comes from. Watch Dogs could be one of next year's best.
3. The Last of Us (May 7)
Naughty Dog's follow-up to the Uncharted trilogy has been hotly anticipated from the moment it was revealed, and the wanting has only grown since as more and more is revealed about the project. The Last of Us looks as bleek as any post-apocalyptic setting we've seen and the dynamic between Joel and Ellie already has us caring about the characters.
2. Grand Theft Auto 5 (Q2 2013)
Although we don't yet know an official release date, when Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 5 does hit (most likely May), it will most likely do so with a very big splash considering the performance of its predecessor earlier in the console generation. Going back to Los Santos and with the biggest game world in series history, GTA 5 looks to be bigger and better than any of the previous entries. Rockstar also seems to be making big changes to the series with three playable characters that the player can jump between. Whatever GTA 5 brings to the table, we're happy to have the series back.
1. Bioshock Infinite (March 26)
Several delays and news of members of the development team leaving haven't scared us off from Bioshock Infinite. If anything, the waiting has only increased our appetite to experience the world of Columbia. So far, anything we've seen from the game has been breathtaking, from the floating city itself to the travel and combat benefits of the sky rails to the incredible voice acting. Irrational Games has the pedigree to expect greatness from, and we expect Bioshock Infinite to be nothing less than to be one of 2013's best titles.
If you missed our earlier end of the year coverage, be sure to check out our top five games of 2012 and our top five indie games of the year.


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Victoria Cross recipient Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith has urged Australians to remember this ANZAC Day the families of those serving their country as well as those who died doing so.
Speaking outside the Australian War Memorial after the Dawn Service, his first in Canberra, Corporal Roberts-Smith said people were going through a lot of hard times.
"Although as soldiers we sometime have to make to ultimate sacrifice, it's the families that actually suffer and we need to make sure that we maintain the momentum of looking after those families," he said.
"There are a lot of guys that get wounded and potentially get forgotten. They come home and they're just another face in the street. Those people as well need to be remembered and they need to be supported, particularly when Afghanistan winds down."
Corporal Roberts-Smith will be marching later with the children of two fallen soldiers, who he described as "the face of enduring sacrifice".
"When people see them marching, it will hit home what today is about," he said.
Before this morning's service, Corporal Roberts-Smith read excerpts from the experiences of Australians serving in Afghanistan.
He said their stories were important for Australians.
"The writings are from the guys' hearts, and to me, I know what they've done and what they've been through," he said.
"It is emotional. The idea today was not to talk about the guts and the blood, it's to talk about the emotion - what people go through and what it means to them to serve. It's important and that's why we do it."


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A sushi instructor introduces students to the techniques and lingo used in making california rolls, vegetable rolls, and spicy-tuna rolls. At the end of the class, students can dine on their own creations while sipping a glass of wine. The Just Roll It! sushi-making class provides an apron, ingredients, and all necessary tools.
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You'll find that I am a youthful, healthy, happy 69 y.o. Virgo male, 5'10" and a slim and trim 180# with mostly grey hair,hazel eyes and a nice smile. I retired from a college in Southern California where I worked in the performing arts department designing and building sets and scenery for theatrical productions of comedies,musical comedies and dramatic presentations
I am also very good at amusing you and have been told by several people that I am the funniest person they have ever met.
I am very good at making that "someone special" feel all the things a woman (and man,too,I'm sure) wants to feel from her mate....attractive,sexy,funny,smart,desirable, wanted.......and yes,.......needed.
That I do take care of myself and my appearance.
That I can fit well into any environment or situation.
That Im capable of being very serious but can also be very amusing (assuming that they too, have a dry, spontaneous sense of humor) and that I am very comfortable and "familiar" to be around.
Chinese food is high on my list of favorite food along with a great pot roast or backyard barecue. Although I am slim and trim I eat like a larger man and am not very select about what there is.
The owner of the local chinese buffet said to me "You go now!" (lol)
you'll love her.
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Friends. (mostly your since mine are in California)
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Above all else, the biggest takeaway from the first two games of the preseason for the New York Giants has been health. Although a large number of players have endured injuries during practice and/or sat out against both the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers, the team has managed to steer clear of on-field injuries for the most part. Unfortunately, fullback John Conner became the sole exception on Saturday night.
On the final offensive play of the game for the Giants (victory formation not withstanding), Conner made helmet-to-helmet contact with a defender and immediately appeared dazed. He made his way off the field and admitted after the game that he was "dinged up."
At the time, Conner was unsure if it would be officially labeled as a concussion, but shortly after postgame interviews, the veteran fullback was sent for tests and went through the full concussion protocol. Results for those tests were not immediately made public.
If Conner did, in fact, suffer a concussion, he will be unable to practice until team doctors clear him using the league-mandated concussion protocol. It would also make Conner the 25th (pending count from other games played on Saturday night) NFL player to suffer a concussion since the start of training camp — a truly staggering figure when you consider how hard the league is trying to crack down on the number of concussions.
Conner is currently involved in a camp battle with Henry Hynoski for the Giants' starting fullback job.
Update: Head coach Tom Coughlin confirmed in a Sunday conference call that Conner was officially diagnosed with a concussion.
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Floyd County, Rome schools closed Tuesday as well, GDOT says state highways are open
Floyd County Schools and Rome City Schools will also be closed for Tuesday. Floyd County officials cited wind chills expected to be at danger levels early tomorrow morning. Children waiting for buses early in the morning would be unsafe in the expected temperatures of -15 windchill. School will return to normal operation on Wednesday.
Berry elementary and middle schools are closed tomorrow.
Darlington School open Tuesday. Today was a teacher work day.
Garden Lakes Baptist Preschool will be closed Tuesday - as per Jennifer Bagby, director.
The Georgia Department of Transportation reports the state's highways are open and areas that experienced icing overnight (primarily in northwest Georgia) have been treated.
Georgia DOT crews will remain active throughout the day and overnight hours into Tuesday treating any icing that may occur as a result of residual water on roadways.
Previously posted: Georgia Highlands College open today,but Marietta classes won't start until 10 a.m. Unity Christian is closed today.
Previously posted: Floyd County Schools will hold classes today.
St. Mary's Catholic School is also closed today.
Darlington was not scheduled to resume classes until Tuesday. Teachers should report today at noon instead of 8 a.m.
Previously posted: Rome City Scools will not have classes today or Tuesday but teachers should report at 10 a.m., reports Superintendent Jeff Bearden. He said the extremely cold weather was the biggest factor in his decision.
Previously posted: Georgia Northwestern Technical College has cancelled classes at all its campuses to day.
All Shorter University campuses will open at 10 am today and classes will resume at that time.
Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation Authority facilities are closed today to prevent any unnecessary travel on the icy roads today, the Authority
will close all facilities and offices today. All activities are cancelled and will be rescheduled.
Previously posted: Most students across Floyd County are supposed to resume classes Monday, however Mother Nature may have something to say about that.
"Of course, we will be out checking roads all night, looking for freezing rain and ice," said Tim Hensley, Assistant to the Superintendent at Floyd County Schools. "Usually we finish checking between 5 and 5:30 a.m. and make a final decision by 5:45. When we do make that decision, we post it on our Facebook site, Twitter, we call local media and we send out the automated calls to parents."
Rome City Schools Superintendent Jeff Bearden said his system works with Rome Transit officials and Floyd County Emergency Management to make a decision.
"We usually start checking roads around 4 a.m. and try to make a decision by 5:30 a.m.," Bearden said. "It is a big team effort between our maintenance staff and the transportation folks and the emergency management staff. We have many teachers who travel in from other counties and Alabama, so we try to make the decision as early as possible."
Rome City Schools also uses social media to make sure the message is received.
"We contact local media, we put the news on our website and we use Facebook and Twitter to reach our parents," Bearden said.
If school is in session, students are encouraged to dress extra warmly, to combat the wind chill advisory the National Weather Service has put in place for Rome and Floyd County today.
"We hope everyone will take extra precautions because of the colder temperatures," said Hensley. "Try to stay out of the weather as much as possible and make sure you dress warmly. Also, we advise all parents to have a family plan in place if schools do have to close. Unfortunately, this weather is coming in overnight and can be hard to predict. During these winter months, it is best to know ahead of time what you will do in case of a school closing."
Area private schools are also planning for inclement weather.
"If either Rome or Floyd County (schools) close, we follow them and close too," said Christa Jackson, assistant principal at St. Mary's School. "We always contact our parents to let them know and we contact local media as well."
Darlington School's inclement weather policy states that a decision about closing or delaying the start will be made before 6:30 a.m. on the day in question.
"If there is a change in the schedule, we will notify parents via our text alert system, in addition to posting the information on our school website and social media pages," said Darlington spokeswoman Tannika Wester. "We will also notify local media so that they can help share the information."
As of Sunday, there are no changes to the schedule for Darlington's professional development day today or the students' return to school on Tuesday.
"However, we will continue to closely monitor weather conditions," Wester said.
Debra Belvin, director of Berry College Elementary and Middle School, is also keeping an eye on the weather.
"We generally follow whatever Floyd County Schools decides to do," said Belvin. "We use the Berry Alert System, which calls all of our parents to let them know. We also contact local media and we use Facebook, too."
The Rome News-Tribune website will be posting weather updates throughout the day as warranted.