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Professions in most MMOs such as Weaponsmith, Alchemist, etc. are pre-defined from the beginning. In keeping with our existing classless design principles, Chronicles of Elyria doesn't define specific professions. Instead, it encourages players to take skills from across different skill trees and combine them in unique ways in order to define their own professions.
As an example, if you're a Blacksmith with a specialty in making weapon blades, that also has skills in carpentry, and maybe in filigree, then you could rightly call yourself a Swordsmith. This level of specialization allows you to reach the higher crafting tiers in the areas you want, while ignoring those that you don't.
In this week's design journal we're going to talk about how Chronicles of Elyria reduces the barrier to entering new crafting professions and allows you to be a Producer from the start. We'll also talk about the unique elements of crafting skills such as skill challenges, item specialization, component-based construction, and how we deal with non-renewable resources.
One of the problems you encounter in most MMOs is the inability get started with a crafting skill or profession. You want to a blacksmith? Great. But that requires money to buy resources, tools, and crafting supplies. In most MMOs this requires you to head out into the fields to kill a few bunnies, gain some coin, and then come back and sell off the vendor trash before you have enough money to do what you want to do.
In CoE, thanks to the power of contracts, we've mitigated this problem by offering apprenticeships and loans. Most villages or towns will have a resident expert in a specific crafting skill. If you go to them, they may be willing to offer you an apprenticeship. This will result in them providing you tasks that will help you develop the skills you need to improve. And, because they're getting free labor from you, they'll cover the supply costs for you. Once you move from Apprentice to Journeyman, many of them will even be willing to pay you for your service.
Finally, reaching the rank of Expert in a crafting or gathering profession will usually result in NPC loan agents being willing to grant you a loan to set up a small operation. They'll take everything you own as collateral, of course, but it means you can start your small business with nothing but your wits and dedication. As well, PC's may be willing to sign a loan contract even earlier than that if they trust your ability to pull a profit. But what really determines your crafting ability? Character skill? Player skill? Both!
The game breaks skills down into two fundamental categories: Combat Skills & Non-Combat skills. Regardless of the larger category all skills in Chronicles of Elyria require some degree of player skill. In the case of combat skills it's fairly obvious how character skill and player skill intermix. Timing, reflexes, and intuition have long been staples in traditional fighting games as well as aim based combat systems. Add onto that damage and reflex modifiers and you've got a hybrid combat system.
With non-combat skills it's a little more complicated. With CoE, we really wanted a system that went beyond simple progress bars and instead engaged the player in the activity they were performing. As a result, we've developed a dozen or so "Skill Challenges" which provide players an opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities within the specific skillset.
As an example, see Figure 2. In the Figure you can see a simple Blacksmithing Skill Challenge. Here, the player is required to cut out the shape of the axe blade they are trying to create. While it might not look like much, there's a couple things happening that may not be obvious. First, the more complicated the object, the more complicated the shape the player must cut out. Second, the higher the absolute difficulty of the object, the less time the player has to cut it out. Third, the larger the difference between the character's skill and the skill of the item, the wider or narrow the margin of error.
What's the end result? The better you are as a player, the more likely you are to attain higher character skill-levels. It should also be noted that several challenge types will be used across different crafting types. For example, blacksmithing, leather-working, and tailoring all use the stencil challenge shown in Figure 2.
In addition to the Stencil Challenge shown above we've got a dozen other challenges planned which will be used with different shared skill sets. We're looking at a musical, Guitar-Hero style challenge for musical skills, "find the item" type challenges for Tracking and other related skills, whack-a-mole type challenges for other smithy related tasks, and even "operation" style problems for first-aid! Want to remove the spear-head from your allies' wound? Don't touch the sides!
Figure 2 - Stencil Challenge for Blacksmithing
One thing we've done in an attempt to prevent endless grinding is to, in the case of crafting, provide item specialization. This means that you can become a master of crafting specific items, even before becoming a master at your specific craft or trade. This has to two fundamental implications.
It means that if you want to become a master weapon smith, able to create Sword blades that are unparalleled in the land, you can do that simply by crafting sword blades. You don't have to craft metal tools, axe blades, or metal steaks in order to get your blacksmithing skills high enough. Spend your time focusing on the things you want to make.
As we'll talk about more in a later design journal, CoE is a game of technology and research. At some point in the future someone may (hypothetically speaking) discover the ability to make longbows, recurve bows, and eventually compound bows. In other MMOs, the discovery of a recurve bow would force all new players to grind through knowledge of how to make short bows and long bows just to learn how to make a recurve bow.
This results in wasted time, and wasted resources. In Chronicles of Elyria, if you were to discover or learn how to make Recurve Bows, your success in doing so would of course be influenced by your overall Crafting Skills in Ranged Weapons and Carpentry, however there's nothing preventing you from jumping straight to Recurve bows and growing your skills on those. Of course, your early results may be horrible, but you'll advance quicker at developing recurve bows if you actually practice making recurve bows, than if you were to practice making short bows.
As with many other MMOs, Chronicles of Elyria allows the transfer of knowledge, specifically in the crafting skills, through recipes. Having a recipe and being able to read the language, grants you the knowledge necessary to attempt to craft something. If you also have sufficient skill you'll be able to reproduce the item. Unlike other MMOs there's a synergy between crafting and the Scribing skills, as those who have sufficient Bardic skill can create their own recipes to give to others in order to share the knowledge.
Chronicles of Elyria utilizes a component-based crafting model that both encourages collaboration and also allows Producers to specialize in the types of objects they want to create.
If you want to create a sword, you'll need a couple different components. In specific, you'll need the blade and the hilt, the latter being made up of a handle, a cross-guard, and a pommel. The handle again being made up of a wooden handle and some kind of binding.
As you assemble the final product, you'll have the opportunity to swap out components for higher or lower quality components as desired. And sometime, changing the type of component, such as changing from a straight blade to a curved blade, can even change the type of item you're creating and lead to the discovery of new recipes or patterns.
Chronicles of Elyria also uses the concept of progressive construction or "value added". This means it's possible to take a simple item, either assembled or unassembled and make it progressively better by adding onto it. For example, you can take any standard blade and add a blood groove to it to make it lighter. You can also take any existing blade and add filigree, etching, or even serration.
In Chronicles of Elyria virtually everything you encounter in the world is craftable, and virtually everything can be used as a resource for crafting. To begin with, we divide resources into inorganic and organic materials. The inorganic materials consist of
The organic materials can be divided up into various plant and animal products. When harvesting plants you can generally gather the:
When harvesting animal parts you can often get the:
In all of the above cases the raw materials are processed by a Gathering skill to turn them into something consumable by different crafting professions. For example, those with the Mining skill are able to gather raw metals and then convert them into smelted ingots. Those with the mining skill can also use the Jewel cutting skill to take gems from metal deposits and cut them into jewels for use by jewelers.
In Chronicles of Elyria, the majority of crafted objects which require assembly can also be disassembled. There's a couple reasons you might want to do this.
First, if you decide later you want a better hilt on your sword, you can take it apart, put a better hilt on it and you're good to go. This applies to the component level as well. Don't like the ruby on the pommel of your sword? Take it off and put the shiny new sapphire on.
Second, many items in CoE suffer durability loss over time. While it's possible to take the blade you've been using to a grinding wheel and put a good edge back on it, that'll only work so many times. At some point, it'll be necessary to get rid of the blade entirely and put a new one on it.
One of the major problems in most MMOs is the need for a money sink. This sink is necessary because resources are unlimited. Metal deposits are constantly appearing as new resource nodes, animals are always respawning, and NPC villains forever roam the land with wealth that materialized out of thin air.
Most MMOs handle this problem, among other ways, by having resources destroyed during crafting. This is true whether you're successful or unsuccessful. If you fail a skill check, you may lose some percent of the resources in addition to failing to create the item. If you succeed, you may get the item but the resources are still gone forever.
However, Chronicles of Elyria is a world with finite resources. Metals, gems, and other non-renewable resources can become extremely valuable as the game evolves. As a result, we've instituted a mechanic for recycling. Many materials, such as metals can be disassembled from their current object, such as taking a blade off a sword, and can be re-melted into ingots at a forge. In this way, many materials can be put to new use.
Rather than forcing you to sell the blade you just found to an NPC as "vendor trash", you can instead take the bad blade, put it back in the forge, and recoup most of the metal used in the initial crafting. In this way, you can continue to craft an item, advancing your skill, until you create a product at the quality you're looking for.
Reduce, reuse, and recycle!
This week's design journals focused on skills, skill advancement, crafting and professions. Next week we're going to do a deep-dive into a specific set of survival skills to learn more about maps, cartography, and navigation!
DJ #8: Character Roles and Skill Advancement
DJ #10: Maps, Cartography, and Navigation
You can look at our own history and see the Migration of miners, gatherers, etc over time. The Western USA for example is littered with played out mines and the Boom towns that grew up around them. So as an explorer you would want to stay a step or two ahead of the mining operations in finding new areas to open the next mine. You could then sell these locations to the local noble and move on to the next area. Doing so would likely help you gain a reputation and possible contracts from Nobles to search for such mines for them.
All awesome stuff, very exciting! One small but important point: The grooves on sword blades are called fullers not blood grooves, please, please don't call them blood grooves, it makes anyone who actually knows about swords cringe! There is no such thing as a blood groove, fullers have nothing to do with blood and are there simply to reduce the weight of a blade without compromising its strength giving a faster, more balanced sword.
You know how im MMORPG's they got those swords with blood encased in the grooves. yea.
I really hope it's largely skill-based when it comes to professions. Like with taming animals. I want to actually have to woo or dominate the animal I'm trying to tame. I want there to be a lot factors in skills so that seeing a master/expert of a skill lets a player know that, that player truly is skilled, and doesn't just have a lot of grind-time on their hands.
"For example, you can take any standard blade and add a blood groove to it to make it lighter".. my body actually twitched when I read the term "blood groove". It's called a fuller and it's used to reduce the amount of material required for a blade, and create lateral strength by introducing a curved surface on the inside.
Ah, someone got there first, thank goodness!
I am... interested to see how resource entropy (finite resources being exhausted over an extended period) will affect the game over time. How long would it be expected to take for a world to run out of a specific resource? What would occur at the end of a resource's lifespan in a world to satisfy its demand?
I am also curious: Will resources that are discarded disappear, or be dropped as a collectible item in the world? Will this game's realm have dumps? Scavengers? Material recycling could have a lot more depth with this kind of mechanic in play, though the server burden might be too much for it to be viable.
I Hope there will be medical professions, something that not going into witchcraft and potions made from toad eyeballs (that can be a different branch), but mixtures that can numb the pain, the use of letches, and tunicates. Being able to do autopsy, create medicine that can cure/tame illness. Medical Research? An illness can sweep the village.
So, when we are gathering or crafting and such, if that is what we do is there a way to gain fame? Can't there be a legendary swordsmith in legends, or people/regions/families who are famous for producing high quality materials? It would be nice to have a reward system for the top crafters, gatherers etc. Gathering I suppose would be harder die to conflict over materials but it is an idea.
Does that mean I can run a chop shop by stealing weapons, disassembling them, reassembling them slightly differently, and selling them as my own?
Hm.. This really makes one think about what path their character would go down upon.
I think I'm beginning to want to become a Legendary Blacksmith who will forge a sword for the hero who would take down a dragon or something xD
I noticed that you mentioned research and technology. Does that mean that you could, in theory, create a weapon type not in the game at that moment?
I like the Skill Challenge idea. For more academic skills like alchemy and scribing there should be skill challenges that require more thinking skills, like having to remember and follow steps in a recipe or know the lore and effects of particular materials. For scribing tasks there could be skill challenges that involve identifying statements that employ the correct grammar, contain logical fallacies, or create loopholes.
The absolutely best blacksmithing experience I've seen is in A Tale in the Desert. To make a hatchet, for example, you must select which tool you want to use (round hammer, shaping hammer, ball peen hammer, wide chisel) and the force (1 to 9) you are swinging it. The metal is deformed according to the type of tool and force, from the point at which you click. You get a limited number of hits (based on the quality of metal used), and can check your item's quality against the target goal (with item quality ranging from 0 to 10K).
The system essentially mimics real-world physics for shaping metal, and players who can craft 9K+ items are in high demand. There's a great deal of pleasure in creating a good item, because you know it was all based on your knowledge of metal and your practiced skill.
The Stencil Challenge sounds great (especially compared to the usual MMO model), but it would be great if it could even further.
ETA: Actually, ATITD is a great model for crafting in general. It's a game for people who like spreadsheets (which means it may go too far for a game with a wider target audience), but there may be elements of it that could provide inspiration for CoE.
Way too complicated for me. It would literally mean that a vast majority of people like me who craft for functionality and because combat bored them are now too "casual" to even craft. That I feel would severely cripple the game. I literally wouldn't want to play.
I'm just wondering if any sort of enchanting will be available in the game. For example if you were to be an expert swordsmith and wanted to increase the potential of a weapon and enchant it with runes or something else. Is this something that you're looking into? And if so, how?
This is what I am thinking as well. I recall a passage from Forgotten Realms books, where the Dwarf from Icewind Dale made his masterpiece, the throwing Axe that not only is super sharp, light, balanced, etc, but using some runes and gems caught magic that was "in the air" (full moon, bla bla bla). I like this concept of being able to get some magic into an item you forge depending on some circumstances (using the blood of a freshly killed bear, forge this blade at the stroke of midnight of the night of full moon when the stars are in so so position etc...)
Is crafting still up for debate? Doing a simple "cutting" the outline of a weapon sounds a bit simple. Maybe make it so you have to see the weapon in the forge reach a certain temperature by looking at the color (bashing a button to shoot more air into the fire and taking it out when it's at the right temperature), have it taken out and have you hammer at it (charge up hammer hits to make the shape of it faster and have higher quality and the goal is to make it before it gets too brittle). Add a balancing minigame for grinding as well. Make that one single weapon worth a lot cuz of the time it takes to make it.
This would be nice, however, if you take all the minutiae of every task possible it could very quickly become a chore just like real life. We must not forget this is still a game! :)
I feel like if someone see those things as a chore, it's probably not the profession that they should get into. I feel like having that amount of complexity will make things more rewarding.
Why can't this be out already, or at the very least let us practice making weapons, this looks like to much fun.
These ideas are very much what I have wanted in an MMO. Coming from a D&D background MMO's even the D&D ones were just another game nothing substantial on an RPG side but this certainly looks much more immersive.
when you hit legendary you should have to pay 5 dollers or less to get the pesific hardware to finetune your skills as a blacksmith or other professions for the mini games like using a pen or somthing to make the edge straighter thus getting a perfect legendary item imo just an idea.
If all the trees are chopped down how will the players get the wood they need for building, weps, etc.
Wood will obviously grow back, albeit slowly, using the game time would probably take a tree several hundred real time hours to grow from sapling to full height. Gems, rock, clay, etc will be finite though (they don't just grow) but come to think of it, gems and rock do grow from volcanoes so would just be a lot slower in game terms to renew and you would have to have a volcano spewing forth new minerals to the surface!
Based on the fact we will have some form of natural disasters this would certainly be a way to help balance the gameworld... volcanoes would eventually become a combat mining zone as players fought for the rare resources on offer...
The only thing I'm wondering about is if the fan base for the game grows, will the amount of materials available also grow to compensate? If not, things may run our fairly quickly.
Since there is a finite amount of resources, can we as players loot the trash for items as well? Instead of tossed items vanishing or deleting, are they going to lay on the ground waiting for a crafter to come along for recycling? I love crafting and to do scrounging runs for materials would be an interesting twist on gathering.
This! I would absolutely love this, considering how many times I threw trash around in Oblivion and Skyrim! lol. Some people could actually specialise in searching for and looting left over loot at the entrances of dungeons and caves. The recycling aspect is also very enticing, I like that nothing needs to go to waste.
the whole taking apart a sword that you might not use anymore is an exciting feature i will personally enjoy. i am really excited for this game even more so now.
Does this mean that eventually there will no longer be a need for people to go mining for ores if all of them in the server have already been gathered?
You can look at our own history and see the Migration of miners, gatherers, etc over time. The Western USA for example is littered with played out mines and the Boom towns that grew up around them. So as an explorer you would want to stay a step or two ahead of the mining operations in finding new areas to open the next mine. You could then sell these locations to the local noble and move on to the next area. Doing so would likely help you gain a reputation and possible contracts from Nobles to search for such mines for them.
Unlikely. But it does mean a particular mine might become tapped out. Regions that were once rich in ore may become barren, forcing exploration and a shifting of wealth to other regions.
More amazing stuff. Can't wait to hear more.
Would be nice to see more of the mini games :P if ya need a pre alpha tester to test them call me :P
Very neat concept, with no renewable quests plus the fact that people won't be vendoring items this will heavily reduce the amount of currency that can just be materialized out of thin air. This might mitigate inflation and promote a bartering system instead of the normal currency for items system that most MMOs see.
I hate nature. I would rather sell my my items as vendor trash then recycle! Mother Nature abandoned me to Mother Humanity. Mother Humanity once said "Humanity must rule nature with a iron grip, take and never give back."


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Twins Diane and Carol show off their sensational smiles
Diane initially got referred to Queensway by her routine dentist for a second opinion for suspected periodontitis. An x-ray determined that her gum health wasn't a cause for concern and in turn this opened up the options for transforming her smile.
Due to taking tetracycline medicines as infants, both sisters had suffered with discolouration to their teeth and as a result, in their early 20's had crowns placed on their top teeth. Over time these had become discoloured and loose and required attention.
With a milestone birthday looming, Diane wanted to explore the options of dental implants to restore her smile. Carol accompanied her to her initial consultation with Dr Will Carter and she said it was the best decision she made as she too decided there and then "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" and booked in for similar treatment.
The twins had a combination of crowns, bridges and veneers on the top and bottom arch and opted for conscious sedation which Diane described as "absolutely wonderful" as she couldn't remember a thing. She came round and the 2-hour treatment was done!
Treatment was also carried out to restore good oral health to upkeep her new smile. Diane said "Thanks to Dental Hygienist Sally we are now more informed about dental care and how to keep our new smiles sensational!"
To complement their new look, the sisters took advantage of the skin treatments available at the clinic and Dr Rebecca Hierons used Botox to soften fine lines around the eye areas.
Carol said: "We absolutely did not want the frozen look – we wanted to just look a better version of ourselves and it seemed an obvious next step after the transformation to our teeth. We absolutely trusted Dr Rebecca and she fulfilled our request for natural rejuvenation. We're thrilled with the results and look and feel 10 years younger!"
Upon completion of their makeover the twins said: "We Sagittarians have now got our mojo back and can laugh at our blonde moments with confidence and start our 50's in style!"

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The object of this volume is not the construction of a system of Moral Philosophy. It is very far from attempting either an exhaustive or a systematic treatment of ethical questions. Nor is the Author so much as prepared to define the sphere of Moral Philosophy, to say what does fall within it and what does not.
The writer's object in this work has been mainly critical. He sees that ethical theories rest in the end on preconceptions metaphysical and psychological. He believes that many of the fundamental ideas now current, especially in England, are confused or even false; and he has endeavoured, by the correction of some of these, at least to remove what seem obstacles to the apprehension of moral facts. These Essays are a critical discussion of some leading questions in Ethics, and are so far connected that, for the most part, they must be read in the order in which they stand.
The writer knows how much is demanded by his task. It demands an acquaintance with the facts of the world which he does not possess; and it demands that clearness of view on the main conceptions which govern our thoughts, which comes, if at all, to the finished student of metaphysic. The reader must not expect this either.
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Hello,

I've been thinking a lot recently about the direction and future of the Happstack project.Ā

These days we hear a lot about technologies to allow servers to push data, such as Comet, Ajax Push, Reverse Ajax, Two-way-web, HTTP Streaming, and HTTP server push among others. HTML 5 includes something called 'Web Sockets'. In short, it seems that the 'stateless' web model is a complete failure. People want sockets!

Furthermore, the big sites of the day are 'social media' sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Four Square, etc.

Well, it's clear to me where the industry is headed, and I think this is a great chance for Haskell to be the leader.Ā

ĀĀpersistent connection + social web site == BBS

That's right! The return of the BBS is upon us. So, without further ado, I would like to announce the happstack-bbs project:

darcs get http://src.seereason.com/happstack-bbs/

You can connect right now to the world's newest Haskell BBS. Simple open a terminal which supports ansi & utf-8, and Ārun:

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Patches welcome (and sorely needed!)

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Discipline is nothing more than teaching our kids how to behave and manage their emotions. Read these 7 effective ways of disciplining children.
When you hear "discipline," you might think of unruly kids and their parents trying to rein them in. Maybe time outs or counting to three, or punishment, grounding and spanking.
But we forget that discipline means teaching behavior, including how we should act. Discipline doesn't have to be negative. Imagine yourself as a teacher helping your child behave, manage emotions and learn.
And so, giving blanket discipline advice can be tricky. We can tell a fellow mom to try time outs. But how much do we know about her situation, her children or how she handles other aspects of parenting?
7 ways of disciplining children
Discipline isn't just "what to do when your kid acts up." It should also include teaching your child how to act in general.
1. Find the reason behind the outburst
Sometimes I can't believe what sets my three-year-old off. II used the wrong color crayon or he'd rather stay in the van than go inside.
But when I think about what else could be bothering him, most cases point to the same culprits. He's hungry, sick, tired, or emotional. When I address those issues first, I can usually avoid a catastrophe in waiting.
2. Maintain a sense of calm
You're here to help your child, and the best way to do that is to remain calm. Yes, even when she's yelling and crying and you're ready to drag her by the arm and march her to a corner.
You're on the same team, and often, matching her frustration with your own does little to calm her down. Staying calm is effective, especially since kids feed off your emotions.
Learn what to do when you can't stop yelling.
3. Assert authority
One of the most important reasons to stand your ground is to protect your child from himself. When he's throwing a tantrum, emotions are flying high. He needs someone bigger than him to rein in his frustrations.
Explain what is acceptable and what isn't ("We do not do that," "You have no right to hit her,"). Most importantly, follow through and remain consistent.
4. Redirect
If possible, redirect your child's antics to something similar but more appropriate. Your son wants to color on the wall? Honor the impulse and acknowledge his desire to color.
But redirect him to a more appropriate activity, such as coloring on paper or outside with chalk. The activity should be similar—don't suggest playing with a ball when he wanted to color.
5. Set boundaries where it matters
We all have to pick our battles. Choose the non-negotiable boundaries and stick to it. Then, let the little things slide. Your child will learn what's important to your family while exploring within those limits.
Read more about setting boundaries.
6. Apply natural consequences
"Punishment" can work when the consequences follow the act. Is your kid thrashing around a toy and potentially breaking it? A natural consequence could be to take the toy away from him until he learns not to do that. Telling him he can't go to to the park isn't enough of a natural tie to the misbehavior.
Take a look at what to do when your child deliberately disobeys:
7. Listen
It's so easy to react that we feed off one another's emotions before we know what's going on. Instead, stop and listen. Maybe that means you're hearing out what your child is complaining about. Or maybe it's taking a breath and assessing the situation before acting.
As you can see, discipline can be a mixture of different methods, and what may work one day may not work the next. And as any parent can attest, sometimes you lose your cool. It happens, and we all try to do our best.
Discipline is teaching how to act appropriately, deal with frustrations, and harness their self-control. Not the punishment or tactic we use after the kids act up, but rather what we do every day to show them right and wrong.
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The Organikal kitchen does strike a fine balance between food love and health love, we can't help it – and our latest foray has involved organising a new veg box for a new breakfast regime:
It's been custom picked to provide us with enough juicy greens to make a green juice for five days out of the seven. A green juice, for breakfast? Remember we finally made the foray into green juices last year, trying out the powdered variety. Not an instant success, we got used to the smell and the taste, but I wasn't sold on it as a regular supplement to our diet, although I still use it – especially on days when greens have been lacking.
Plant foods high in alkalines have been high on our list for some time, but our standard veg box just didn't deliver enough of the right ones for a juicing regime. Until I read Kris Carr's latest book Crazy Sexy Diet. Isn't it funny, what finally moves you to take action on the stuff you know you should do, want to do, but haven't quite got round to doing – stuff you've known for years?
Kris is an exceptionally motivational writer, telling her story of a particularly rare stage 4 cancer that she's been living with for the past seven years or so. I'm loving her Crazy Sexy Life website and after watching a ton of videos I ordered the book. The day after I read it, I visited a supermarket and bought the ingredients listed in the recipe for the Make Juice Not War drink and promptly set to with a juicing extravaganza (you can see my real life TV approach to the making of on video over at my VegBoxMenu website).
An instant success! Yes, I'd found a way to get my day started with all of those juicy greens – rich in nutrients, enzymes, anti-oxidants and what not – in a format that actually tasted great! That same day I got in touch with our organic veg box suppliers, Grow Wild and asked for a custom box.
I'll be honest with you, living in the frozen north as we do, this customisation adds a fair bit onto the cost of the standard box – particularly at this time of year. At first I figured that we wouldn't be able to afford it in our £80 per week groceries budget. But you know what? We value our health so much that we're just going to cut down on the stuff we spend cash on that we know doesn't really fit into our Organikal way of life. How many coffees would we need to quit drinking to pay for the extra cucumbers? Think about it? I'll bet your good health is worth sacrificing a couple of coffees for …
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Most people love nature. After all, what's not to love about chirping birds, cute penguins and fuzzy polar bear cubs? Besides, we all want to live in a healthy environment with clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. It only makes sense that people care about the environment and want to be "green".
But most people don't know the truth about the very ugly and dangerous underside of the environmental movement. The environmental movement as it exists today is decidedly anti-human at its very core.
Read the actual words of nine well-known environmentalists expressing their opinion on humanity. It is chilling. (I was first made aware of most of these quotes by the @CFACT twitter account of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. Check out their excellent website, and follow them if you are on Twitter.)
Dave Foreman, Co-Founder of Earth First!
"Humanity is the cancer of nature."
"The optimum human population of earth is zero."
"Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental."
"We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight."
David Brower, Friends of the Earth
"Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license"
Carl Amery, German writer & environmental activist
"Killing a forest [should] be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of six year-old children to Asian brothels"
Lamont Cole, Ecologist & Population "Expert"
"To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem"
Stewart Brand, Environmental Activist
"We have wished...for a disaster or for a social change to come & bomb us into Stone Age"
John Davis, Editor of Earth First!
"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs"
"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."
Paul Ehrlich, Ecologist & Entomologist
"We already have to much economic growth in the
. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure" US
David Graber, of the National Park Service
"Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet"
Prince Phillip, President of World Wildlife Fund 1981-1996
"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."


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When you hear the term "social justice," be prepared to empty your wallet, particularly if it is paired with the word "economic." "An academic program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the minor in Social and Economic Justice, illustrates the difference between education and indoctrination," Jay Schalin of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy alleges.
The Pope Center is located in nearby Raleigh. The course is the "brainchild" of UNC sociologist Judith Blau, Shalin claims.
"If her own section of Sociology 273 is any indication, Dr. Blau clearly intended this program to be indoctrination," Schalin writes. "The intellectual content of Blau's course is based primarily on her book Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision (co-written with Spanish sociologist Alberto Moncada)."
"The book has two main themes. The first is a full-frontal assault on the United States and its foundations: capitalism, individualism, and the Protestant religion. The second is painting collectivism, and international organizations based on collective thought, on a moral plane, high above American traditions."
And it is not only used at UNC. "I have the misfortune of reading this book for a class at UCLA School of Law," one customer wrote on Amazon. "The authors do a great disservice in trying to represent a counterargument for neoliberal economic policies."
"There are numerous missing or incorrect citations."
"I am a law student, but I would never presume to turn in something like this as a rough draft," the reviewer concludes. "Where was the editor on this?"
"The second section of Sociology 273, taught by graduate student Alexis Silver, continues the trend toward indoctrination," Schalin asserts. "The focus on the international human rights movement is diminished, although there are several readings from Blau's and Moncado's Human Rights."
"Her emphasis is on inequality and abuses caused by global capitalism (using such leftwing authors as Barbara Ehrenrich and Jonathan Kozol) and illegal immigration (one selection is entitled Wasted Talent and Broken Dreams: The Lost Potential of Undocumented Students)."
(By the way, the May Day riots that followed Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's introduction of safeguards to prevent illegal immigration and cut down on the crime that follows in its wake led to a lot of wasted property and broken windows.)
You would think that a minor such as this and courses such as these would be booked to capacity, particularly when, as in Blau's case, even unfavorable reviewers note that she is an easy grader. Apparently not.
"The final option to satisfy the social justice requirement, African Studies 416, is taught by African and African-American studies professor Eunice Sahle," Schalin reports. "It was last offered in the fall of 2009, with only 16 students signing up."
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Pearson, P.D., Hiebert, E.H., & Kamil, M.L. (2007). Vocabulary assessment: What we know and what we need to know. Reading Research Quarterly, 42(2), pp. 282-296.
After a nearly 15-year absence from center stage, vocabulary has returned to a prominent place in discussions of reading, and it is alive and well in reading instruction and reading research. We have no doubt that the renaissance is due, at least in part, to the salutary findings about vocabulary in the report of the National Reading Panel (NRP; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD], 2000) and, even more important, the use of the NRP findings to shape policy and practice via the Reading First component of No Child Left Behind (2002). We regard these developments as positive, for we think there is good reason to teach vocabulary more aggressively and even better reason to study its relation to comprehension more carefully. However, if we are going to teach it more effectively and if we are going to better understand how it is implicated in reading comprehension, we must first address the vexing question of how we assess vocabulary knowledge and, even more challenging, vocabulary growth. In this essay, we argue that vocabulary assessment is grossly undernourished, both in its theoretical and practical aspects—that it has been driven by tradition, convenience, psychometric standards, and a quest for economy of effort rather than a clear conceptualization of its nature and relation to other aspects of reading expertise, most notably comprehension. We hope that our essay will serve as one small step in providing the nourishment it needs.


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By Manny Lewis
Communications Editor, MACEPA
Every year, in advance of the massive poster sessions at its annual meeting, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) produces a set of instructions that state: "A poster is a visual presentation of your research or clinical project. Use schematic diagrams, graphs, tables, and other strategies to direct the visual attention of the viewer, rather than explaining it using text as you would in a journal article."
And every year those instructions are completely ignored.
The poster sessions at ASTMH are an exercise in excess: an excess of posters (this year, 1,900 were displayed over the course of three days), an excess of people (seeking a break from the relentless symposium schedule and wooed by free sack lunches, the poster halls were flooded by many of the conference's 4,300 attendees), and an excess of content—usually in the form of small print jammed onto every inch of poster space.
But a select few sought to meet the low standard of being somewhat visually appealing and not over-reliant on text. Here are five posters that stood out at the recently concluded ASTMH annual meeting.
In order to diagnose someone with malaria, the majority of diagnostic tests in Africa look for the presence of the HRP2 protein in the patient's blood sample. But there is growing concern about malaria parasites that avoid detection due to a genetic mutation that eliminates production of the protein. This poster presented the results of a University of North Carolina study in the Democratic Republic of Congo that sought to investigate the prevalence and causes of the protein's deletion.
While most posters are inelegantly crammed with exposition, this one effectively uses space and efficiently uses text. Upon first glance, the eyes are immediately drawn to the posters' figures, and, helpfully, the bold headings above each figure serve as the authors' interpretation of the data. One could get the gist of the poster simply by reading its title, looking at the figures, and reading the conclusion. The background and methods sections provide context in the form of easy-to-digest bullet points.
My only suggestion: since we're dealing with mutation, next time, prominently place the word "mutant" in the title to draw the attention of dumb guys like me.
Speak Up Africa's elimination partnership
Ready for our poster presentation on Senegal's successful #partnership around #malaria #elimination @ASTMH #tropmed16 with @macepa_tweets pic.twitter.com/vdmlSsnbCh
— Speak Up Africa (@SpeakUpAfrica1) November 15, 2016
Considering its success and reach (58,290 Facebook likes and counting), it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Speak Up Africa that its poster effectively conveyed the mission of the Dakar-based communications and advocacy organization and its "Zero Malaria Starts With Me" campaign1.
"I believe the campaign has been successful because we strive to maintain a connection between what may seem like an abstract public health issue to people's daily lives and concerns" said Speak Up Africa's Founder and President Yacine Djibo. "We all have the power to be change agents, and with that comes a responsibility to stay informed and use the available tools such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets and getting the right treatment in a timely manner. That's exactly what 'Zero Malaria Starts with Me' aims to do in providing a user-friendly platform for citizens to get involved in malaria elimination."
This poster is one example of Speak Up Africa's many effective communications materials that help spur such involvement. And while the poster didn't have to shoulder the burden of presenting scientific data, it used the space allotted to great effect with a nice mix of maps, images, and colors. It is further proof that the organization knows what it's doing when it comes to messaging.
I was originally going to highlight this poster strictly out of sympathy as it had the misfortune of being positioned at the far corner of the poster hall where it faced a wall and relatively few eyeballs.
But it turns out there's far more reason to recommend it than that sob story.
With minimal fuss and plenty of compelling visuals, the poster provides an overview of a study in Zambia that used a census to find out where people lived and how far they were willing to travel in order to get to a health facility. The census results informed equations which then fed a model that showed a probability of treatment-seeking. The data came from a 2012–2013 mass-test-and-treat study, and the ultimate goal of the work will be to map cases from DHIS2 to the community level.
The poster is clean, doesn't burden the reader with text, and uses a nice variety of figure styles. Also, the intro was refreshingly simple—broken down into a "problem" and a "task"—and any additional context the reader might want could be found in the abstract.
Plasmodium detection in blood donors in Brazil
This poster presented the results of a study that examined the potential spread of malaria by blood donors from endemic and non-endemic areas of Brazil.
The study looked for specific malaria markers and the prevalence of Plasmodium infection in blood donors approved for donation by local screening methods. It was prompted by concerns of asymptomatic donors transmitting the infection and the fact that, while donors from malaria-endemic areas are carefully screened for malaria, the standards for malaria screening in non-endemic areas are comparatively lax, resulting in five transfusion cases in the last ten years in non-endemic areas. The study shows methods to identify the asymptomatic blood donors that would fit blood bank screening for malaria.
The poster makes this list because of its reader-friendly two-column layout, its good use of visuals, and because, as an American, I suspect I am still trying to make amends with Brazil for sending Ryan Lochte over there.
After being bombarded with charts and graphs all week at ASTMH, it doesn't get much more refreshing than seeing an adorable hamster on a poster. The enthusiasm goes down a few notches when you realize the hamster was deliberately infected with soil-transmitted helminth (STH), but beggars can't be choosers. The study sought to observe the effect of STH on the memory formation and cognitive function of hamsters in order to better understand STH's cognitive effect on children.
Sure, there's a lot of text on this poster, but it's not overly technical and it effectively and coherently explains the logistics and objectives of each separate task the hamsters performed. Plus, each explanation is accompanied by helpful images.
It's a well-made presentation of an interesting experiment, although I was already prone to confusing hamsters with guinea pigs and this poster did nothing to change that—especially since hamsters were used as the "guinea pigs" of this study.


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As Disney's D23 expo wraps up for another year, and San Diego Comic Con already imminent, the studio's rich slate of upcoming features was revealed to a hungry audience. The usual suspects were there - no fewer than six entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the latest Pixar animations (including Coco and a sequel to The Incredibles), more Star Wars movies, and the next batch of live-action remakes of beloved classics, with The Lion King standing out as a fan favorite.
All in all, the release schedule of 21 films from now until the end of 2019 was heavily defined by its familiarity. The vast majority of projects are sequels or remakes. Amidst this full slate, there were two films that stood out for their relative freshness: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, an adaptation of the classic ballet, and A Wrinkle in Time. While the reception for the news on the former was pleasant, if somewhat muted, the reactions for the first sneak peak at Ava DuVerney's adaptation of the Newbery Medal winning classic children's novel were rapturous. After the premiere of the trailer, social media responses were highly positive, and as of the writing of this piece, the trailer on Disney's official YouTube page has been viewed over 2.8million times. Some critics seem surprised by the enthusiasm for the film, but it is that excitement that could help change the game at Disney.
In many ways, A Wrinkle in Time has already changed the game in the Hollywood based film industry. It's the first film with a budget of over $100m to be directed by a woman of color (and the third by any woman director, after Kathryn Bigelow's K-19: The Widowmaker and Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman). Ava DuVernay, director of the Oscar nominated films Selma and 13th, had originally met with Disney for talks to direct Marvel's Black Panther, but pulled out over questions of creative control. Her remaining with Disney to helm a project such as A Wrinkle in Time suggests she negotiated well to maintain that power over the end film. The story, centred on a young girl named Meg Murry who is forced to travel to strange planets to save her scientist father, is a fascinating genre mishmash of science-fiction, fantasy, and coming-of-age drama, which would prove tough for any director to adapt (a made-for-TV movie was released in 2003, but was negatively received and author Madeleine L'Engle reportedly hated it).
On top of that, various characters in the story have undergone a race change, including Meg (Storm Reid) and her mother (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), as well as two of the supernatural beings, Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling), and Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey). Before any of us had even seen a second of footage, DuVernay was already opening doors at Disney. While the studio has made progress in terms of the gender and racial makeup of its directors, the vast majority are still white men, with DuVernay accounting for one of only three women alongside Niki Caro, who will direct Mulan, and Anna Boden, one of the directors of Captain Marvel.
- A Wrinkle In Time (2018) release date: Mar 09, 2018


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Biographical entry Morton, Alexander (1854 - 1907)
- Born
- 11 September 1854
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Died
- 27 May 1907
Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia
- Occupation
- Museum curator and Naturalist
Alexander Morton became Curator of the Royal Society of Tasmania's museum in Hobart in 1884 (renamed the Tasmanian Museum, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens in 1885 when it was transferred to the state). He was Director of that institution 1903-1907.
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- Alexander Morton - Records, 1874 - 1907; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Community History Collection. Details
Royal Society of Tasmania
- Alexander Morton - Records, 1882 - 1907, Ms 165; Royal Society of Tasmania. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Mercer, Peter, 'Morton, Alexander (1854-1907)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 597-598. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100582b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Huxley, J. K., 'Courtier to the Powerful and Zealous Curator for the People: the Contribution of Alexander Morton to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1884-1907', Kanunnah, vol. 2, 2008, pp. 1-34. Details
- Morton, Alex, 'Some Account of the Work and Workers of the Tasmanian Society and the Royal Society of Tasmania, From the Year 1840 to the Close of 1900.', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1900, pp. 109-126. Details
- 'Morton, Alexander (1854-1907)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462103. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
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I am a sucker for beautiful films. Don't get me wrong; gritty stories, which tell it like it is from the trenches, also pull me in, and if the story doesn't acknowledge the darker side of life at all, it usually seems cheesy.
But I love stories that show me the beauty and innocence in life, which weave a thread binding real life and myth–the conscious and the unconscious.
I recently watched the film, 'Song of the Sea,' written and directed by Tomm Moore, who also gave us 'The Secret of Kells.' It's about a boy's journey from being mean to being a good brother. It's about a girl coming to know and accept her inner, secret self. It shows that the mundane world in which we move about is not the only world. The people we see in cities and towns are only some of the beings in existence. Part metaphor, part Irish myth, yet set in the modern day, this film reminds of something a great teacher ofbhakti-yoga said, Srila BR Sridhar Maharaja, that the world we perceive with our senses is just like the cream on top of an ocean of milk. There is so much more beneath the surface.
The artwork is gorgeous, with watercolor backgrounds and intricate patterns everywhere. The design of the characters is based on simple shapes– circles, triangles, squares and so on. The simple basis of the art makes the innovations all the more pleasing.
There are no enemies in this film's story. Everyone is doing what they do for their own reasons, no one is wrong. Everyone is redeemed and it feels real, not corny.
Magical rules
Brandon Sanderson has some interesting thoughts about magical rules.
He speaks about a continuum of magic systems ranging from soft to hard. A soft magic system is mysterious. Its specific rules– if there are any– are unknown to the reader. An example is Gandalf in 'The Lord of the Rings.' What can and can't he do, exactly? No one knows. The upside of this is that it gives the story a sense of mystery. The potential downside is that if characters use the magic to solve major problems, it seems like a copout.
A hard magic system is more 'physical,' in the sense that the reader understands its specific limitations. Superheroes are examples of this: Superman can fly, has laser vision, speed, strength etc. Wolverine can heal really quickly, has claws etc. If Wolverine could suddenly fly, we'd feel like someone pulled a fast one on us.
The magic system in 'Song of the Sea' is soft, but we get a general idea of what the characters are capable of, and no one suddenly becomes super powerful. But actually the rules are evident, but they are not physical rules. The magic is limited and liberated by the choices of the characters. As they make key choices the world around them unlocks. I'll say no more. Watch it and you'll see what I mean.
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Most titles will be available for 48 hours once you begin watching, and HD versions of new releases will cost $4.99. Older releases will cost $3.99 for the HD version, and $2.99 for standard definition.
"Paramount Pictures is one of the biggest movies studios on the planet," Malik Ducard, director of content partnerships for YouTube, said in a statement. "We're thrilled to bring nearly 500 of their films to movie fans in the US and Canada on YouTube and Google Play."
Google was busy last year signing deals with indie and major studios to ramp up its video rental services. The Web giant now offers for rent more than 9,000 movies from Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Brothers, along with more than 10 indie studios, including Lionsgate Films, Magnolia, Starz, and The Weinstein Company. The only major studio Google hasn't cracked is 20th Century Fox.
"It's still early days for us, and we'll continue adding new titles and expanding our service to more countries this year," Malik Ducard, director of content partnerships at YouTube, wrote in a blog post Wednesday.
The news comes one day after Amazon added its Instant Video lineup to the PlayStation 3.
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Since I didn't have that much time this morning, I opted to follow the idea on Life is a Party which adapted Poppies at Play's idea by using pre-made cinnamon rolls.
To make heart-shaped cinnamon rolls, simply unroll each cinnamon roll and then roll each end into the middle. Pinch the bottom of the roll a bit, and it will look like a heart.
Cinnamon rolls before baking.
Cinnamon rolls hot out of the oven.
It seems simple enough, yet for some reason I struggled with getting the cute little hearts that the other two ladies seemed to effortlessly make. Further, once the rolls are baked they became even more distorted.
So much for heart-shaped rolls. At least they tasted good and were a change from what we normally eat for breakfast.
In the afternoon, we volunteered for the Valentine's Day party. The dining room was filled with residents and some family members.
The dining room was filled with residents and some family members
for the Valentine's Day party.
There were treats for everyone - including cupcakes with pink frosting and a lollipop decoration.
Cupcakes with pink frosting and colorful lollipops.
I shared a recipe with the volunteer director that I found on Pinterest that led to All Recipes for Party Punch VI. The nursing home made the punch so we were able to serve it to over 30 people who attended the party.
Party Punch VI.
It was delicious, and everyone seemed to enjoy it!
Here's the recipe:
1/2 gallon strawberry sherbet (they used a combination of lemon and orange sherbets)
2 (64 ounce ) bottles fruit punch
1 (2 liter) chilled lemon-lime soda.
Put sherbet in bowl. Add fruit punch and lemon-lime soda.
I saw a pin on Pinterest that led to Sweet Tidings for a cute idea for Valentine's Day cards. Simply use a paper to cut rectangular sheets of paper (they used Kraft paper). Embellish the front with Valentine's Day-themed fabrics cut in hearts. Then hand stitch onto the card or use a sewing machine. Tie a bow at the top of the heart.
Because I was pressed for time - plus was making 20 cards for the senior-residents at the nursing home, I cut the hearts out of scrapbooking paper instead of fabric. I attached a bow onto the heart using a small bit of glue from a glue gun. On the inside, we included a Valentine's Day wish and signed our names.
Handmade Valentine's Day cards that we made
for the seniors at the nursing home.
Each of the seniors who attended the Valentine's Day party received a card. Many seemed genuinely happy to get a handmade card.
We also passed out booklets and binders to the seniors who participated in the "Grandfriends" program - an intergenerational program that 18 of the residents (over 1/3 of the residents) did.
Three of the booklets I made for the residents.
The one on the far left is for Iva,
a resident who experienced a heart attack six days ago.
There were four sessions that the seniors and youth volunteers participated in during January and February. Some of the residents participated in one session, while others participated in multiple ones.
These two binders are for gentlemen who did the most sessions,
and who had the most pages in their binders -
from interviews and artwork.
There were some residents who were very engaged and interested in participating in all four sessions which made it particularly rewarding for both the seniors and youth.
An example of what the pages look like in a binder.
Many of the residents enjoyed looking at their booklets and binders. Some spent a long time reading what they said during the interviews and looking at the pictures that I chose to accompany what they said.
Rita reading what was captured during an interview
about her early childhood.
For those with family members at the Valentine's Day party, the booklets were an insight into the activities that their loved ones had done during the past month. They were able to see what their loved one said and/or created (if they did an art project at the sessions).
Joan's husband takes a look at her artwork and
what we did at the session she attended.
The value of these personal history booklets was very apparent today when I was told that one of the residents (Iva - a woman I enjoyed visiting with during the past year) had a heart attack this past week. Currently, the resident is in the hospital and is not doing very well. Iva had participated in two of the sessions; and had done two interviews and two art projects. One of those interviews was one that I was fortunate to be able to have done.
It's hard to believe that just six days ago, at the last session, I was encouraging her to do watercolor painting and Sophia was interviewing was doing an interview with her. I truly hope she pulls out of this. However, it doesn't sound promising. I'm just very thankful that I was able to assemble a booklet that her family can enjoy that features her artwork and her interviews.
For dinner, Sophia wanted to make the meal. So, I looked at different recipes on Pinterest that I wanted to try. I found a pin that led to Richly Blessed Richardsons for Baked Pesto Alfredo Ravioli. The recipe it is based off of it is from a pin that leads to Betty Crocker for Easy Ravioli Bake.
Baked Pesto Alfredo Ravioli that Sophia made.
It was absolutely delicious!!
We all want to have this again.
The recipe makes enough for 6-8 servings.
1 (25 oz.) bag of frozen ravioli (we used fresh ravioli and just shortened the baking time)
1 (26 oz.) jar of spaghetti sauce
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 (15 oz.) jar of alfredo sauce
3 T. pesto
Parmesan cheese, for sprinkling
Dried parsley, for sprinkling (we didn't use this)
Heat oven to 400°F. Spray bottom and sides of a 9×13 rectangular baking dish with cooking spray.
Mix the alfredo sauce and pesto together.
Spread 3/4 cup of the spaghetti sauce in baking dish. Arrange half of the frozen ravioli in a single layer over the sauce; top with half of the remaining spaghetti sauce, half of the alfredo sauce and pesto, and half of the mozzarella cheese.
Repeat layers once: ravioli, remaining spaghetti sauce, remaining alfredo sauce and pesto, and remaining mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and dried parsley.
Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes (20 minutes for fresh ravioli). Remove foil; bake uncovered for 10 to 15 minutes longer or until bubbly and hot in the center. If you prefer cheese that is a bit crispy, turn on the broiler for the last 2-3 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
Note: A person left a comment on Richly Blessed Richardsons that suggested that sauteed garlic and mushrooms in olive oil be added to the spaghetti sauce.)
On the Betty Crocker site, there were these suggestions:
=> Use meat-filled ravioli instead of the cheese-filled variety for families who prefer eating meat.
=> Add one of the following on the first layer of ravioli: 1 cup sliced mushrooms, 1 package (9 ounces) frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed to drain, or 1 1/2 ounces sliced pepperoni.
=> To make this super-easy recipe ahead of time, layer the ingredients in the baking dish, cover tightly with foil and refrigerate up to 24 hours. Bake as directed.
My place setting that was set by Sophia.
The chocolate rose was from her and on my plate when I came downstairs for dinner.
She had Cherry 7-Up in the water glass, and
mandarin oranges and an apple to go with the ravioli dinner.
For dessert: ice cream with whipped cream on top.
She even pulled out the fine china and sterling silver for the dinner!
Hand-embroidered Valentine's Day bags I made many years ago.
I also couldn't get to the storage bin with the origami boats - the ones that I can put little candy hearts in. I'm waiting for warmer weather so I can get into the hobby shed....maybe before the next holiday that we celebrate: St. Patrick's Day.
Origami boats I made several years ago.


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SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for Justice League, which hits theaters on November 17.
Fans waiting until Friday to see the Justice League already got a taste of the movie's first post-credits scene earlier today, and now the second has found its way online ahead of the film's theatrical release. The short clip gives us our first look at Henry Cavill's resurrected Superman in a friendly race against Ezra Miller's Flash, as the two fight for the DC Extended Universe's title of "Fastest Man Alive."
It's a playful clip that may well reflect the lighter tone of Joss Whedon, who was brought in to finish the film's post-production after Zack Snyder stepped away. The scene ends with the two characters speeding off, without the audience seeing a clear-cut winner.
RELATED: Justice League's Post-Credits Scene Leaks Ahead of Theatrical Release
This "Fastest Man Alive" debate has raged in comics and cartoons for years, and it seems the DCEU will use it to show fans that the films are shifting to a brighter tone. Earlier, a darker post-credits scene surfaced online and showed an escaped Lex Luthor meeting up with Deathstroke on a boat, where they hatched a plan for the aftermath of Superman's return.
Justice League hits theaters on November 17 and stars Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Henry Cavill as Superman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko, Ciarán Hinds as Steppenwolf, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon.


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Yesterday we met Trudy Thomas, former student of Wolfgang Puck and current bar manager at BLT Steak at Camelback Inn. Today she shares with us the recipe for Passionate Pisco Punch, a cocktail new for BLT's summer 5@5 menu inspired by Thomas' current infatuation with Pisco, a strong, clear grape brandy.
The ingredients:
1 oz. Don Cesar Pisco
1 oz. Cruzan pineapple rum
½ oz. passionfruit puree
1 oz. fresh lemon juice
1 oz. simple syrup
1 oz. lemon-lime soda
1 pineapple wedge
How to make it:
Throw all the ingredients except the soda and pineapple wedge inside a large mixer. Add ice, shake well and strain over ice into a Collins glass. Top with lemon-lime soda, stir to combine, and garnish with the wedge of pineapple.
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GAC Pushes Further into the Arctic with Polar Logistics Group
GAC Norway AS and Polar Logistics Group ApS (POLOG) formed a strategic partnership to further strengthen GAC's network within the Arctic Circle.
The move is the latest stage in the company's Arctic strategy to better serve the region by bringing together organizations and individuals to create a unified network of expertise, experience and local resources.
By combining GAC's shipping, logistics and marine expertise with POLOG's network throughout Greenland and ability to meet remote location logistical needs from ice runways to mountaintop camps, the alliance offers tangible benefits to the energy sector.
Since the opening of the LNG plant in Hammerfest, Norway, in 2007 GAC has supported the increasing number of oil majors looking to move further north. GAC Spitsbergen opened in 2010 supported by Pole Position AS, followed by a joint cooperation between GAC Norway and GAC Russia - GAC's branch in Murmansk - two years later. Also in 2012, GAC and Henriksen Shipping Service AS in Kirkenes began supporting offshore operations in the Barents and Kara seas. Last year, when the LNG carrier Ob River became the first vessel of its kind to transit the Northern Sea Route (ice-free for only two months of the year), GAC was the agent.


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While the Mercedes S500 plug-in hybrid may offer comparable performance to the 550 V8 but with much improved economy, the way it all comes together detracts from the overall S-Class experience.
CNET's Brian Cooley criticizes the plug-in for being too jarring around town. He also bashes it for not being a model that Mercedes itself wanted to make, being more of a regulation appeaser instead – this apparently shows in the overall impression it leaves.
This review says it's by no means the best S-Class, and that it's one nobody asked for…
Maybe with some software updates and tweaks, they will improve it over time. They are most likely going to do that – the first S-Class hybrid was passable, this new one is better – we'll probably have to wait for another update before it evolves enough to be considered 'proper.'
If you think the hybrid is down on power, then you can contact Brabus for performance and visual upgrades.


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Monday, Sep 23, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
The Asheville Area Arts Council is excited to exhibit the work of Hall Fletcher 4th Graders during a 2018 project sponsored by Asheville City School Foundation with TAPAS teaching artist and ALNUGE Inventor Cleaster Cotton. ALNUGE Codes + Art Techniques (STEM + Art = STEAM) was used to teach English Language Arts (ELA) Standards in a project called Cubist Characters and Codes Portraits.
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Patients with diabetes need access to doctors and medicines to help them keep their disease under control. But they also need food in their pantries and enough money in their pockets to pay for necessities like rent and heat, a new study shows.
Among a group of 411 patients being treated for Type 2 diabetes in the Boston area, those who suffered from food insecurity and those who tried to save money by skimping on their meds were only half as likely as their more financially secure counterparts to be managing their disease. This disparity turned up despite the fact that in Massachusetts, nearly everyone has medical insurance and prescription coverage thanks to the state's universal healthcare law.
The results, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, underscore the fact that some aspects of health are controlled by factors outside the medical system. And yet, doctors are increasingly being held accountable when their patients miss their targets for things like blood sugar and cholesterol, the study authors noted.
It stands to reason that better access to medical care ought to improve people's health. But clinical trials have found that things aren't always so simple, especially for low-income patients with diabetes.
So researchers decided to look for answers at four clinics that treat diabetes patients. Two of the clinics were based at Boston's famed Massachusetts General Hospital – one focused on diabetes care and another served general internal medicine patients – and two were community health centers in the Boston suburbs of Revere and Charleston. Study participants took a survey about their economic needs.
Among the 411 patients, only 4.1% lacked health insurance and 2.8% had no prescription coverage. But about 40% of them had trouble paying for food, medicine, rent or energy, and more than 20% reported more than one of such "material need insecurity," as the researchers put it.
Compared with patients who didn't have to worry about where their next meal would come from, patients with food insecurity were 97% more likely to have high blood sugar and high levels of LDL, or "bad," cholesterol – two signs that their diabetes was not under control.
Similarly, compared with patients who could afford to buy all of their prescribed medications, patients who couldn't were 91% more likely to have high blood sugar, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, the researchers found.
Housing instability and energy insecurity were not independently associated with worse health for the diabetes patients. But in general, for each additional type of financial hardship suffered by a patient, the odds that he or she would have poor diabetes control rose by 39%, according to the study.
The results suggest that doctors should think more expansively about ways they can help their diabetes patients. At a minimum, they raise questions about the wisdom of providing services like medical nutritional therapy to people who can't afford to buy enough food in the first place, the researchers wrote.
"Addressing access to food and to medication together may be important to improve clinical diabetes control," they concluded.
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Wind on the Waves
from Victoria BC
Contact DetailsLisa Szeker-Madden
The harp and recorder duo, Wind on the Waves (Lisa Szeker-Madden, Baroque recorders and Lillian Slanina, voice and Celtic lever harp), has been delighting audiences all over Victoria for a number of years with their fresh, unique sound. At times haunting and poignant, at times wickedly fun and deliciously fast, their original arrangements and compositions embrace the entire spectrum of musical styles and emotions.
Lisa began her musical life as a clarinettist, but switched to the recorder during her undergraduate degree after falling in love with the music of Telemann, Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi. Sadly, the clarinet had not yet been invented when these composers were alive. She continued her studies in recorder during her Master's and Doctoral degrees in music, and is an early music specialist.
Lillian entered her undergraduate studies in music as a vocalist. Her mother felt this was a natural choice, since Lillian was always "the loudest of my children!" While continuing her vocal studies, Lillian took lessons on the orchestral harp at UBC. She purchased her unique, handmade harp from Laurie Niesch on Salt Spring Island, after a harrowing chase down a few country roads.
Wind on the Waves is ideally suited to a number of performance situations including: weddings, engagements, concerts, private celebrations, end of life, bereavement, or funeral services - anywhere a touch of beauty and elegance is needed.
Current Lineup
|Lisa Szeker-Madden
|Lillian Slanina
|mezzo soprano / Celtic lever harp


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- Download and install TESO Delve Addon
- Start ESO and enable the addon
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It will only be this characters inventory and your bank that will be exported.
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According to the rating, when it comes to level of competition development the Krasnodar region is well ahead of others, the Amur region has the toughest situation to tackle, while Moscow and St. Petersburg are ranked the 8th and the 13th respectively. The FAS Russia cited this data at the roundtable on "Intensity of competition and competitive environment in Russia: rating of regions" held at the Analytical Center today.
Under the Russian President's order, the FAS Russia and Russia's Ministry of Economic Development prepared methodology for competitive environment evaluation, this took them over a year, subsequently ranking the subjects of the Russian Federation by level of competition development. According to the order, such ratings are to be made public annually by the 1st of May. Today the FAS Russia presented the first results of its work at the Analytical Center.
The FAS Russia proposed using the following as the key indicators: macroeconomic indicators (number of enterprises, net migration, GRP, volume index for investment in fixed capital - all of those per capita), number of applications submitted to the regional offices of the FAS Russia, market power concentration indicator for specific product markets as well as results of surveys on competitive environment in the construction sector conducted by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service.
All of the indicators mentioned reflect the existing competitive environment to a different extent. Head of the Analytical Department of the FAS Russia Aleksey Sushkevich is certain that "evaluation should be relevant, initial data should be available and up-to-date, while methodology should be comprehensible and convincing, which is necessary with regard to the motivating effect the rating may have on regional authorities to improve competition." Mr. Sushkevich also remarked that the so-called black and white registers for regional pro-competitive and anticompetitive practices are being compiled to complement annual ratings.
Since the region's ranking will be used to assess its competitive environment, experts' key proposal with regard to the FAS Russia approach consists in introducing indicators that regional authorities can influence. At least such indicators will stimulate regional and local authorities to work on previously made mistakes in specific product markets and fields.
According to the Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Regional Office of the FAS Russia Ruslan Biktimirov, "a group of industrial indicators characterizing the market structure should be made part of the rating criteria." It is equally necessary to consider the level of state involvement in each and every region's economy. "The more significant the state share in the region's GDP is, the worse the opportunities for competitive environment development are," Mr. Biktimirov said.
Deputy Head of the Department for small and medium entrepreneurship and competition within the Ministry of Economic Development Kirill Emelianov confirmed that level of state involvement is of great importance. Mr. Emelianov asked to take into account the fact that "there are strict budget restrictions when it comes to methodology development, we cannot implement excessively expensive methodology and can only use criteria and sources available to us".
During the roundtable the FAS Russia presented its first conclusions. According to those, the Krasnodar region is one of the leaders (well ahead of others), followed by the Belgorod region, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Kaluga, the Novosibirsk, the Tyumen and the Voronezh regions. Moscow was ranked the 8th and St. Petersburg – the 13th. The Amur, the Ivanovo, the Kurgan and the Astrakhan regions are listed among the outsiders.
Construction and reconstruction markets, major highway repairs market, AI92 and AI95 vehicle petrol and diesel fuel retail markets, compulsory third party car insurance services market, compulsory civil liability insurance for companies exploiting dangerous industrial facilities and compulsory pension insurance markets were analyzed for pilot calculations. It is obvious that the selection of markets is subject to revision and the criteria for the selection are still to be developed.
In the future the rating values will be integrated with the indicators set out in the Standards of competition development in regions. At present five regions have been selected for pilot projects, namely: the Moscow, the Tula, the Ulyanovsk, the Volgograd and the Nizhniy Novgorod regions.