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- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Mary, I don't even love salmon, but I know I would love yours! They look amazing!ReplyDelete
These look SO good! I love any kind of croquettes and have never attempted them myself. This sounds do-able!ReplyDelete
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I think I would hoard the plate of these at a party - I'm a big salmon fan, plus they're cute! :-)ReplyDelete
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Wednesday, 8 December 2010
The Gurnards Head - Cornwall
As long as I can remember, the idea of staying in an old-fashioned inn has appealed to me. Not for me the stark contemporary clean lines of a modern hotel. I want real character. I want to stay in cosy rooms above the pub, take my nightcap in the bar; waved off to bed by cheery, pipe smoking (no doubt bearded) regulars. Awake refreshed and eat a hearty breakfast by a flickering log fire whilst surveying the weather rolling in across the rugged moors outside. I also want to eat excellent British, seasonal food and drink fabulous booze. I want it. I want it all.
Sadly the reality so far just hasn't delivered. It's hard, actually almost impossible to find an inn that also has rooms, and isn't charging extortionate prices and also, most importantly hasn't been turned into a Weatherspoons.
But, gather close regular readers, that's right huddle close and listen as I whisper dramatically, because I want to keep this amongst ourselves…. I've found it! It exists, and not only is it all that I dreamed of…. it's more. Much more.
This dream of a pub is The Gurnards Head, and you'll have to head to the far reaches of Cornwall, almost to Lands End to find it. But it's there, and it's bloody excellent.
To be fair, I'd heard mention of it from Browners of 'Around Britain with a Paunch' and come across it in Diana Henry's excellent Gastropub Cookbook, Another Helping, but had filed it away in my 'one day' file.
So, you can imagine my delight and mounting excitement as the Cornish countryside flashed by outside, whilst driving there last Sunday week with friends Kate and Neil of Lahloo Tea, who had suggested accompanying them for a meal and one night's stay to celebrate Kate's Birthday.
Even the low groans, curses and moans from an amazingly car sick 'E' in the back couldn't detract from my no doubt irritating cheeriness as The Gurnards Head 'hove into view' (Check out my crusty barnacled nautical speak!). Pirate style "Gaaaaahs" were certainly appropriate, as the inn is situated in beautifully rugged Cornish countryside, just a couple of minutes walk from breathtaking steep cliffs, and beyond that, the sea. As they say at The Gurnards Head 'Next stop Newfoundland'. It really is perfect.
"Gaaaaah" groaned 'E' suddenly. But alas it wasn't the almost obligatory Pirate speak. No. It was the sound of a desperately carsick passenger about to puke inside the car. Luckily, we had arrived just in time to avert disaster as we screeched to a halt stumbled, stiff legged, aching and in the case of 'E' puce coloured, out into the rather bracing coastal air and crunched our way across the gravel to the entrance.
Inside The Gurnards Head it was perfectly cosy, with a log fire lazily crackling and popping in the grate. Greeted warmly at the bar, we threw ourselves onto a cosy sofa and were offered complimentary tea, whilst we slowly recovered from the drive.
Twenty minutes later, having checked into our rooms, which are as you'd expect from the inn of my imagination were cosy and rustic (and with supremely soft beds), we assembled back downstairs for Sunday lunch in the restaurant.
We'd taken advantage of a 'Sleepover' deal, which included one nights Sunday stay, lunch, dinner and breakfast for…get this, £75 per person! Which is such a ridiculous bargain, encompassing as it does dining of such quality that I almost want to keep it to myself.
Seated and studying the lunch menu with 'E' having regained her composure somewhat, we briskly set about ordering food and booze.
Incredibly good, crumbly homemade soda bread was munched as we guzzled amazingly well priced and excellent wine served by the carafe.
My starter of Chicken Liver pate, Toast and Gherkins - despite being rather conventional - was beautifully executed, creamy and mousse like but with real depth of flavour. It was nicely done.
'E's plate of Red Wine braised Squid and Croutons was less conventional, and from the brief forkful I snatched of it, bloody amazing. 'E' now says it was one of the best things she ate all weekend.
Being by the sea and wanting to embrace all things aquatic (apart from great white sharks and perhaps box jellyfish) I'd uncharacteristically disregarded the Slow Rib of Beef and the Braised Lamb Shoulder and gone for Plaice with Fennel, New Potatoes and Citrus Beurre Blanc.
One word. Amazing.
Beautifully cooked fish with the almost toffee like, slowly caramelised fennel. The citrus beurre blanc cut through all of the other flavours, tasting fresh and sharp, like it should be doing you some real good with regards to health benefits. Dangerously tasty.
'E' had gone for the same dish and we were both extremely pleased and smug with ourselves as we ordered dessert.
I ordered the Fig and Almond Jalouise, (a kind of French strudel/turnover apparently) with hazelnut custard. It wasn't bad actually, I've never been a massive fan of figs so any dish I like where they feature I'd mark up as a success. Not as jaw droppingly excellent as the plaice, but perfectly good.
'E' meanwhile had gone for the Chocolate Brownie with clotted cream. Which, considering she makes famously good brownies for a living was perhaps a tad unadventurous. But, also adds weight somewhat to her enthusiastic thumbs up when she said it was superb.
Throwing our napkins onto the table and surveying the beautiful sunlit and rugged but freezing countryside outside we decided as a group that the best course of action would be to change into stout walking gear and go for a walk along the cliffs to work off lunch. There being apparently an excellent pub, recommended by the owner of The Gurnards Head in a nearby village.
Up to this point in our relationship, 'E' had often regaled me with tales of her outdoorswoman prowess and skill. "When I was camping in Wales/The Lake District/New Forest etc etc etc.
Understandably therefore I had her down as a cross between Bear Grylls and Daniel Boon, in fact I think I half believed she'd killed a large wild animal with her bare hands once, and I'd followed her advice on sturdy footwear (Hiking Boots) and spare warm clothing to the letter.
'E' on the other hand had followed none of her own advice, no suitable footwear and no spare clothes. In fact, she'd decided to wear every piece of clothing she had brought for the weekend all at once, as she was cold. Alarm bells were faintly beginning to ring.
Meanwhile, Kate and Neil appeared looking like they'd been sponsored by Gore-Tex, clad in all the correct outdoor gear. I jealously think I spied some kind of Kevlar retractable walking stick.
We strode off relaxed, happy and confident down the lane behind the pub towards the cliff path and beyond, the sea….
An hour later our cheery outdoor walk had descended into the sort of trial of grim desperation last seen on the Bataan Death March. 'E's tales of outdoor prowess were, lets say exaggerated, as we struggled our way over boulders, down rugged, slippery cliff paths with sheer drops into the sea just feet away and up tiring steep inclines. It was starting to get dark. It was cold. We couldn't see a village with a cheery pub anywhere in the distance. How could it get worse?
That's right. 'E' could slide fully over in the mud due to her entirely unsuitable footwear and be absolutely caked from head to toe. Disaster enough you might think, remember she was wearing ALL of her weekend clothes. But what's this? 'E' scrabbling for purchase, has managed to grab a spiky gorse bush…and then, get this…somehow stuck her face in it as well! So less Bear Grylls, more Norman Wisdom
Struggling on, tired muddy and in 'E's case, bloody we started to come across traces of civilisation, and finally The Tinners Arms pub in Zennor that proved to be so cheery, warm and welcoming that even 'E' forgot about her earlier misfortune. We returned to The Gurnards Head in high spirits via a less taxing county lane route.
After a power nap, a hot shower, and a change of clothes (apart from 'E' who had to borrow clothes from Kate) we assembled downstairs in the bar for dinner, refreshed and cheery. Interestingly, I think a factor in the relaxation may be the lack of any mobile signal in the area. No calls, no Twitter, no email…frustrating at first, but then freed of the 21st century shackles of being so constantly contactable and in touch it becomes strangely liberating to take such a complete break.
Additionally the extremely happy and relaxed attitude of the staff helps. Nothing is too much trouble and this relaxed attitude extends to the pricing of the drinks, which are ridiculously cheap. There's nothing worse than staying somewhere and looking at the bar menu or the room service menu and knowing you daren't order from it less you be utterly gouged. Not so here, it seems there's not much of a mark up in evidence at all. It's extremely unusual to be able to order drinks and not really worry too much about the cost.
We opted to eat dinner in the bar, at a cosy corner table.
Starting with the same excellent homemade soda bread we'd eaten at lunch, we sat and discussed what to order.
The menu has an enticing second section 'The Kitchen Garden' with a selection of dishes based around produce from The Gurnard Head's own garden. I agonised over my choice, there being so much I wanted to eat, but in the end went for a Quail and Mushroom tartlet with Celeriac Puree and Mushroom Jus.
I have rarely ordered a decent quail dish, being so often disappointed that I've almost given up on it. But happily this last throw of the dice proved to be well worth it. Frigging superb, rich, moist and incredibly tasty. I was tres impressed.
Meanwhile, 'E' was eating a beautiful looking dish of Scallops with Pumpkin Puree and Parsley Tapenade. She was enthusiastic about the dish with her only criticism being that the tapenade was perhaps a bit too overpowering when competing against the delicate flavours of the other ingredients.
I'd gone for the Cornish Duck Breast, with Chervil Root, Chard and Darphin Potatoes, chosen because I hadn't eaten duck for ages, and was intrigued by chervil root, which in the end proved to have a pleasant slightly aniseed taste. Overall it was a cracking plate of food, The duck being beautifully cooked with my only criticism that perhaps the portion of darphin potatoes was a bit large in relation to the other elements of the dish…which isn't really much of a criticism is it?
Across the table 'E' was taking the worst food photo with her mobile that I've ever seen. She'd made her plate of Brill, Cauliflower and Shrimp gratin, fresh Vermicelli, White Wine velouté and Spinach look like someone had just thrown it up onto the plate. Nice eh?.
Luckily, I am incredibly skilful (and also ruggedly handsome, but I digress), and was on hand to do the dish some justice. 'E' absolutely loved the taste of the brill and the gratin, but wasn't massively keen on the vermicelli, saying that she'd have preferred some potatoes as the carb element to this dish instead. She was also keen to stress this has more to do with personal preference rather than anything wrong with the makeup of the food.
Across the table, Neil and Kate gave their respective dishes of Guinea Fowl and Sole 'Murat' massive thumbs up. Happiness all around then.
Our desserts of Apple Tart Tatin and Dark Chocolate pudding with mint ice cream were both very good, but when stacked up against the outstanding starters and mains, a little less impressive.
Overall, a bloody fabulous meal. We stayed up for some time afterwards drinking, playing cards and chatting. I found it an incredibly novel experience to be able to stagger off beyond the bar, up the stairs to bed afterwards rather than brave the cold and a taxi home.
Waking up, incredibly rested and relaxed, we dressed and headed downstairs to meet Kate and Neil for breakfast, which we ate at a table in the bar and being served by the impressively side-burned owner, Charles.
It seems the relaxed attitude extends to breakfast and you can order anything that takes your fancy, as much tea and coffee as you can drink, help yourself to toasted homemade bread and jams, a full English, locally smoked kippers, porridge…. the best breakfast ever really if you're a greedy bastard like me.
It was so pleasant, rather than eating up and checking out, we sat and chatted, ate, drank and read the papers for a couple of hours. In the background the smouldering log fire burned lazily . Outside, proving just how rurally located it actually is, a herd of cows wandered past in the road outside, directly past the pubs front door. It really is a magical place to eat and stay at.
I can honestly say The Gurnards Head provided overall one of the best experiences I've ever had in a pub restaurant or hotel. The food was truly outstanding, the attitude of the owners and staff is beyond relaxed, they obviously love where they are and what they're doing and they want you to love it too. I left, even after just one night's stay feeling totally relaxed and refreshed and wishing I could reap the benefit of spending a week there.
'The Sunday Sleepovers' are available from 5th September to 22nd May 2011 and include complimentary tea on arrival, Sunday lunch, dinner, one night's accommodation and breakfast the next day. For a frankly ridiculous £75 per person.
I urge you to go!!
The Gurnards Head
Nr Zennor
St. Ives.
Telephone: 01736 796 928
10 comments:
- The Ample Cook said...
Wow, as you say Dan, EPIC. Well done, a lovely descriptive write up with great photos. You're right, it does sound magical, the sort of place Mike and I would love to stay, just a shame it's so far away for us.
- 9 December 2010 at 09:57
- PDH said...
Looks amazing, the pastry for the Quail tart looks so delicate. Loving the photos as well!
- 9 December 2010 at 15:28
- Dan said...
The Ample Cook - Thanks Jan. Took me bloody ages to write all that. It is an amazing place, I really loved it. It is quite a distance from Essex - maybe as part of longer break in the South West?
Pavel - The Quail tart was awesome, actually all of the food was. The photos :) Ta!
- 9 December 2010 at 22:55
- Helen said...
I was laughing about this place with my folks the other day. It used to be such a dump when I was little. Now it's a destination pub. brilliant. Such a beautiful part of the world. I miss it.
- 11 December 2010 at 12:17
- Dan said...
Helen - You're from Cornwall? I thought you were a Cheltenham girl. Yep, it is a beautiful part of the world, real rugged landscapes. And yep, it really is a destination pub, an incredible place.
- 12 December 2010 at 05:18
- Helen @ Fuss Free Flavours said...
We had a cottage for a week just down the road about 2 years ago and had a lovely meal there.
Lovely part of the world.
- 12 December 2010 at 10:05
- gastrogeek said...
The food all looks incredible. What a perfect getaway - apart from the falling in the mud bit, that so would have been me - Poor E!
- 12 December 2010 at 13:45
- Food Urchin said...
Fantastic account of your stay at the Gurnard Head Dan, really made me chuckle in places, especially 'E's photo of the Brill, god that made me laugh out loud. Talking to Mrs FU as I type about the prospect of going.
- 14 December 2010 at 22:08
- Dan said...
Helen @ Fuss Free Flavours - So bloody envious. I'd love to stay in that area for a week, it is indeed a lovely part of the world.
Gastrogeek - Yep, it is a perfect getaway. I'd love to go back again soon. hahaha another not quite Bear Grylls outdoorswoman eh?
Food Urchin - Thanks very much mate. Seriously, isn't that the worst food photo you've ever seen? it looks like a brain split in half scattered with shrimp. Would you believe 'E's mother is a professional photographer? seems on this evidence that particular skill hasn't been inherited. You and Mrs FU should go, you'd both love it.
- 14 December 2010 at 23:12
- Graphic Foodie said...
Always wanted to visit that part of the country and what a find! Now i shall pop this in my "one day" file. Poor "E" - carsick, battling both nature and the elements and then losing a photo-off.
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Special Veteran's Day celebration
Oct. 29, 2008
District reaches out to
touch soldiers
Oct. 21, 2008
DRS Connects SPAWAR and Freedom Calls Video Link
Oct. 20, 2008
Happy moments with loved ones
Oct. 17, 2008
Iraq Marine gets a glimpse of home
Oct. 10, 2008
Sept. 18, 2008
Phone call provider takes AT&T, AAFES to task
Sept. 17, 2008
Baby Birthed Via
Sept. 12, 2008
Soldiers call home on 9/11 anniversary
Sept. 11, 2008
A defining moment
Sept. 10, 2008
Marysville family unites
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Alexander VerHuell began his career as a draughtsman while studying Law in Leiden. Upon graduation in April 1848, VerHuell settled in Arnhem. He made illustrations for magazines and an occasional book or album. He illustrated the, among historians, infamous sketches of student life by Johannes Kneppelhout (Klikspaan), for which he used the pen name O. Veralby. He was one of the first in the Netherlands to employ a sequential narrative, which makes him one of the Netherlands' first comic artists. Collections of his work, including 1851's 'Zijn er zoo?' and 'Zoo zijn er' were extremely popular during his time. VerHuell drew his inspiration from French and English prints.
Upon the 300st anniversary of the Capture of Brielle, he gave the city a large amount of etches. In 1897 he bequeathed his entire estate to the city of Arnhem and thus laid the basis for the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem.
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All-star players are announced
Sweetwater will have four Little League all-star teams competing in District 5 tournaments later this month.A pre-tournament meet-ing will be held Wednesday to announce the tournament sites and schedule, with play scheduled to begin June 24 and run through July 5.Sweetwater's 9-10 year-old Little League all-stars are Harrison Foster, Logan Cornutt, Hector Medina, Cooper Hrbacek, Ricky Dela-paz, Jacob Roden, Jonathan Gallegos, Ector Martinez Jr., Braxton Gomez, Ethan Cortez, Skyler Painter and Jacob Cantu. Rodney Foster will serve as manager of the team with Ray Cornutt and Andrew Medina serving as assistant coaches.Sweetwater's 11-year-old all-stars are Reese Hayes, Rylan Hayes, Kei Griffin, Sam Spaulding, Blake And-rus, Austin Moreland, Gavin Reyes, Brady Faucett, Rylen Moncada, Nick Cantu, Xavier Frith and Jonathan Sanchez. Randall Rea is the manager and Kelly Andrus and Roman Moncada are assistant coaches.Sweetwater's 12-year-old all-stars are Matthew Hernandez, Taiden Smith, Andrew Medina, Justen Gomez, Tater Burnett, Dar-ian Carr, Markus Meneses, Jose Sanchez, Ryan Romero, Antonio Heredia, Daiman Atkins and Junior Martinez. Benny Hernandez is the manager and Mark Meneses and Stephen Presley are assistant coaches.Sweetwater's Junior League (ages 13-14) all-stars are Isak Alvarez, Ty Casto, John Clift, Matt Figueroa, Francisco Garcia, Junior Lawhon, John Medina, Hunter Mobley, Javier Olguin, Colter Reed and J.L. Solis. Chris Casto is the manager while Daniel Olguin and Kim Clift serve as the assistant coaches.


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PLANO, Texas -- The worst shock of Maria Navarro's life came, fittingly, on Halloween. Weeks later, she still is afraid, asking that her real name not be used, recounting her story over the phone and hiding out with her three U.S.-born children at the home of relatives.
In the pre-dawn, federal agents arrested Navaro's husband, Ramiro, as he made his way to his plumbing job. Within hours, he had been deported. He broke the news to his wife over the phone from his hometown in north-central Mexico's Guanajuato state.
"He is disillusioned," she said. "He spent the last 20 years in the United States. He made his life here. This is where his children were born."
Ramiro's is just one case in the record number of undocumented immigrants being deported by the Obama administration -- nearly 400,000 in the last fiscal year. Many are whisked quickly across the border. Increasingly, they're deported without speaking to a lawyer or having a proper hearing, according to a recent report from the National Immigration Law Center, a Los Angeles-based advocacy group.
An official at the Mexican Consulate and a spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Dallas said they found no record of the immigration raid that netted Ramiro and seven other men on Oct. 31.
Roberto Nicolas, the consular official, said in an email it was "not a common practice for deportations to occur on the same day."
Carl Rusnok, an ICE spokesman in Dallas, also wrote in an email that he "did not find any information regarding these actions taken in that location that day."
Immigration attorney Kathleen Walker believes that Navarro may have been swept up in a little-known federal program called "stipulated removal."
Designed to speed up the deportation process, the controversial program has allowed immigration officials to deport more than 160,000 undocumented immigrants in the last decade "without ever giving them their day in court," according the NILC report.
"Generally, 'stipulated removals' happen when the undocumented immigrant willingly admits that he or she entered the country illegally," Walker said. "Then, they are given two options: either sign a consent form for removal or remain in a detention center and wait for a hearing with an immigration judge."
"Many times, immigrants opt to sign because they want to leave the detention centers," Walker said, adding that ICE is using "stipulated removals" more frequently than ever and disobeying President Obama's order that the deportation of immigrants with criminal histories be given priority.
The September NILC report, titled "Deportation Without Due Process," said stipulated removal was used primarily on undocumented immigrants without lawyers and facing deportation for minor immigration violations.
"These noncitizens were given a Hobson's choice: Accept a stipulated removal order and agree to your deportation, or stay in immigration detention to fight your case," the report said. "The stipulated removal program has been implemented across the U.S. at the expense of immigrants' due process rights."
Government documents showed that immigrant detainees were routinely provided "inaccurate, misleading and confusing information about the law and removal process," the report said. "Little has been known about the manner in which the government administers stipulated removals."
ICE spokesman Rusnok stated in an email that the "decision to accept a stipulated removal is strictly voluntary." ICE defends stipulated removals as "an efficient mechanism to remove aliens and reduce prolonged detention" that "relieves the Immigration Court of the need to have a hearing, saves ICE additional detention costs, and allows the alien to return to his/her country expeditiously."
Maria Navarro said her husband of 11 years called her from his hometown, San Jose de Iturbide, on the same day he was picked up by immigration agents as he headed to work in Texas. He had contacted her earlier from a U.S. detention center, she said.
Ramiro told his wife that he was not asked for identification at the time of his arrest. "It was a surprise that his deportation was so immediate," she said. "We did not even have time to get help."
"He is a hardworking man without a criminal record," she insisted.
Ramiro's wife and his boss said he was arriving for work when he and seven other workers who were off the clock were intercepted by several law enforcement vehicles. They were questioned about a young man who worked for the company. A few said they knew him. The men were arrested.
Sandra Martinez, the owner of the plumbing company where the men worked, asked that her name be changed for fear of reprisals. She insisted that none of the workers had criminal records.
"I have known them well for many years, we are all one family," Martinez said.
Martinez said she visited the men at the detention center and gave each man expense money for the return to Mexico.
"We are all suspect if we look Latino, and could be detained at any moment simply because we are perceived to be illegal immigrants," said Martinez, adding that she would provide temporary financial assistance to the families of the workers.
This month, a joint report from the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the American Immigration Council said that 33,400 people are detained by federal authorities at a cost of about $5 million per day.
In August, the Obama administration promised a case-by-case review of deportations, allowing many undocumented immigrants without criminal records to remain in the United States and potentially apply for work permits.
For months, the administration has pledged to balance its record-levels of detention and deportation with more targeted and humane enforcement.
In a speech in El Paso, Texas, last spring, Obama said: "[W]e are focusing our limited resources on violent offenders and people convicted of crimes; not families, not folks who are just looking to scrape together an income."
On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security began a review of 300,000 pending deportation cases in an attempt to separate "high priority" and "low priority" individuals, the New York Times reported. The review is intended to hasten the trials of those who have committed crimes and halt proceedings against college graduates, those who have resided in the country from a young age and non-criminals.
"ICE should carry out that order," Martinez said, "not only because it is inhumane to tear families apart without consideration to the pain it causes communities, but also because of the direct harm that it causes our economy."


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"Eastbound & Down" returns Sept. 26th, but Kenny Powers is already back, baby!
For those who were intently following the saga of baseball legend Kenny Powers, it's been a heck of a long wait since the end of HBO's "Eastbound & Down" back in March of last year, but all that time spent pining for Powers is about to pay off. September 26th marks the return of the the series to the network's line-up, but if you can't wait 'til then, the Bullz-Eye Blog can at least offer you an exclusive shot of Kenny as captured for the cover of The Sporting News.
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Next week is our 2nd annual #KyGoPlay challenge. To participate, all people have to do is pledge to play for one hour. It could be to play to learn or to take time out to play to give yourself as break - and you only have to do it for 1 hour total.
The idea to encourage teachers to play to learn and to try to create some awareness about the benefits of playing came from a #KyEdChat side discussion one night with James Allen, Marty Park and Chris Walsh. The discussion got James and I moving and before long we had some research and an idea.
Finding time to play to learn and share with others isn't always easy when you're teaching all day and managing an after school life. But the benefits can be tremendous. To try to further highlight those benefits, James and I hosted a session at our KLA/KASL Fall conference that just provided librarians with the chance to play. We hauled in a green screen, Makey-Makey, Google Cardboard, Littlebits, Minecraft, and more. We had informal conversations and did demos and gave people space to figure things out for themselves. It was amazing! People were excited and ready to try things.
After that one hour session we decided to try to go bigger. We reached out to some great folks that we know at KySTE to see if we could host an ISTE style Playground where people came with the intent to play and learn. As it turned out, they were already working with Mary Ann Rankin and Ryan Kellinghaus the NKYMakerspace to establish an area in the vendor hall, and before we knew it we had an entire room for an entire day of the KySTE16 conference.
With the help of some awesome educators and students we were able to have live demos of all kinds of things like: a Double robot, augmented reality to
virtual reality including Google Expeditions, to MinecraftEDU on the biggest screen ever. We were also lucky enough to have people demonstrating how to use a Makerbot 3D printer, X-carve and 3D Doodlers and a green screen.
We also had a number of maker style challenges to give people a chance to get their hands on some materials. The button maker, while fairly popular, did keep jamming on us (thank goodness there were people there with tools to fix it a few times an hour). We also had an LED challenge, a Build It challenge that
included Brain Flakes and straws and connectors, a Found Art challenge with Washi tape and Wikki Stix, a ST(R)EAM challenge that encouraged people to combine resources from all the areas - LEDs, Art, Build it etc to create something STEAM + Reading inspired. In the green screen area participants got to hear about how to use iMovie and DoInk to record Green Screen videos. And the NKYMakerspace crew and some great projects available to talk to people about and even worked on creating a sign using collage techniques and a vinyl printer.
With all the variety, the day flew by. I'm extremely grateful to the folks at KySTE and NKYMakerspace for working with us on this experience.
Here's a snapshot of the day and some of the fun things that were happening. Hopefully next week, you'll get out and #KyGoPlay to learn something new:)


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Amanda Montgomery- 2004 BMW 325i
Amanda Montgomery's favorite features on her 2004 BMW aren't its anti-lock brakes or its front airbag supplemental restraint system. What Montgomery likes best about her ride is the fact that "the stereo controls are actually on the steering wheel!"
That's not to say she doesn't value the BMW's many other bennies. How can't she, considering her family's vehicular background?
"It's my dad's favorite car," Montgomery says. "He's owned about seven or eight in his life, and now my sister and I both have one."
Her family members aren't the only ones who appreciate the car.
"My guy friends always want to drive it, to see how fast it can go," Montgomery says. "It's really an amazingly smooth ride."
So smooth, in fact, that she's driven it all over the U.S.
"I've taken it to Colorado before, and it's made the trek from Oklahoma to Charlottesville several times," she says. "It's expensive because it takes premium gas, but my baby's worth it."
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It's finally Friday, and after an interminable week I am headed to the ATL for a weekend with friends. For your entertainment, here are some random shots from the week, with commentary.
It has been a dry fall (poor Nashville; this year we've had the coldest winter, wettest spring, hottest summer and driest fall on record for a while) but there is still some beautiful fall foliage, though this tree is a lot more bare today than it was on Monday when I took this picture
I don't think I've ever expressed my dislike of bike racks that don't work with non-diamond frames. Although diamond frame or not, I never see anyone using this rack as it's intended to be used. Too complicated!
For the past few months I have been completely obsessed with Mumford & Sons. And I am seeing them LIVE on Monday. Can. not. wait. This song is perfect for the morning commute.
And now, back on the bike to head in for the last day of work this week!
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Winston Salem, NC 27045
New 2020 Grand Design Solitude S-Class 3740BH-R
Grand Design Solitude S-Class 3740BH-R fifth wheel highlights:
- Bunkhouse
- Quad Bunks
- Bath and a Half
- Kitchen Island
- Dual Entry
- Outdoor Kitchen
If you are a full-timer or a weekend warrior that enjoys taking the family with you to see the countryside, this fifth wheel might be perfect for you. The owners can relax in the front master suite while the kids call the rear bunkhouse with a half bath and second exterior entry door their own private oasis away from mom and dad. Everyone will enjoy coming together for meals in the spacious kitchen and living area thanks to the dual slide outs. The cook can make meals with the professional grade stainless steel cooktop and convection microwave, plus store dry goods and snacks in the the oversized pantry and stainless steel residential refrigerator. The cook might even like to grill burgers outside on the outdoor kitchen. Be sure to keep warm by the fireplace while watching your favorite team on the big screen TV. You might even like to choose a few options such as adding a washer and dryer, a king size bed, and/or a super sofa. Come see what else you can't camp without in this Solitude S-Class.
With each Solitude S-Class fifth wheel by Grand Design you will receive affordable luxury for your extended stays or weekend get-a-ways. From the solid foundation including Equa-Flex suspension to the taller ceilings, taller and deeper cabinets, the power reclining theatre seating with swivel tables including LED lighting, plus a heat and massage function, a Stealth AC system, and the Weather-Tek package which allows you to travel any season you choose. It's time to enjoy luxury living where ever you decide to land.
I just wanted to thank Jamie, Wells and Brandon on my father's recent camper purchase. As they were for me last year, friendly, respectful and courteous to Dad's needs. These are three great guys that have been a pleasure to deal with. Keep up the good work.
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Good news for those of you who are so self-conscious about gesturing when speaking you issue that "I use my hands when I talk" line: You can stop apologizing.
As Spencer Kelly, the co-director of Colgate University's Center for Language and the Brain will tell The Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong scientific conference later today, gesturing is integral to language. In fact, he argues, it's "innate."
"Blind people gesture, even if they are blind from birth," he explained in an interview. "They often gesture even when talking to other blind people. So there is some kind of predisposition to using our hands."
A recent experiment he conducted shows that gesturing as speech is different from actions upon real objects. It's more like language.
He placed EEG devices on the heads of subjects to monitor the electricity inside their brains as they viewed videos of people speaking. In some, people used gestures. In others, people took a real action on a real object. For example, in one scene, people pantomimed stirring a cup of coffee, in another, they stirred an actual cup of coffee. Scenes also depicted both gestures, and real use of an object, that were incongruent with the words so that, say, "He found the answer" was accompanied by a gesture indicating stirring something in a cup.
As the subjects viewed the videos, Kelly and colleagues looked for a specific electrical signal that indicates how strongly the brain is integrating one piece of information with another.
The results indicated that test subjects had more difficulty integrating words and real actions, than they did words and gestures. They also had more trouble integrating words with incongruent gestures than they did real actions.
So real actions tended to interfere with understanding speech, while gestures helped, but incongruent gestures interfered with understanding words while there was no difference between the amount of difficulty real actions posed whether they were incongruent or not.
That means, Kelly believes, that the brain views gestures as speech, but actions on objects as unrelated to speech. "That is kind of a controversial theory," he said, "but my work and that of colleagues interested in testing it shows that gesture is more part of language than actions on objects."
Gesturing, he thinks, has evolved. "I think it started with concrete interactions with objects," he explained. "If I wanted to show you how to build a fire, I would bang two rocks together." Over time, the real action was replaced by symbolic gestures and words. "Language is the ultimate abstraction," he said. "Gesturing is a sort of middle ground between doing something and talking about something."
Other experiments have shown that gestures are interpreted by the auditory cortex of the brain, like speech. And, interestingly, people with Broca's aphasia, which can be caused by a stroke that damages the frontal gyrus, which pays a role in speech production, also have trouble gesturing.
So gesturing really does appear to be important for making ourselves understood. "The cool thing is," Kelly said, "that if you've not thought about it, and then you start, you see it all the time. In fact, I'm talking to you right now on the phone and I'm gesturing."
Brian Alexander (www.BrianRAlexander.com) is co-author, with Larry Young PhD., of "The Chemistry Between Us: Love Sex and the Science of Attraction," (www.TheChemistryBetweenUs.com) to be published Sept. 13.
Are some brains better at learning languages?
Teen can say any word backward. How?!


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Kathie, Inspired by Antique Quilts and I have worked together to donate quilts and three of ours are finally up for sale.
Ours tend to go quickly, so if you want one, put it in your cart and purchase right away!!
Thank you Carolyn Forster for purchasing my last quilt. I never even advertised it because she let me know ahead of time that she wanted it as soon as it was up for sale. Thanks to all of you who have supported this worthy cause!!! Now I have two little quilts in England!
Here they are. Click on the title to go directly to the AAQI page.
Now they are all sold! Thank you!!
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Under suspicion: Issues raised by Indigenous peoples
Racial profiling is an insidious and particularly damaging type of racial discrimination that relates to notions of safety and security. Racial profiling violates people's rights under the Ontario Human Rights Code (Code). People from many different communities experience racial profiling. It is often directed at First Nations, Métis, Inuit and other Indigenous peoples, as well as people in racialized communities. It is often influenced by the distinctly negative stereotypes that people in these communities face.


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By By Andrew Drwiega, International Bureau Chief | February 1, 2014
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Maj. Gen. Kevin Mangum, commanding general of U.S. Army Aviation, used a very apt metaphor when he said that in the degraded visual environment that is the sequestration budget – the Army leadership was still looking for the ground.
The tempo for change was set after a visit to Army Aviation leaders last year by Gen. Raymond Odierno, Chief of Staff, when he stated: "We can't afford to have too little aviation, but we darned sure can't afford to have too much." From that point on, Mangum and his team realized that however much aviation was appreciated and had earned respect of the ground Army over the years of fighting, it was not immune to the sequestration axe.
The decision was made to proactively decide on their own drawbacks rather than have cuts forced upon them. That way, they hope, Army Aviation will be able to maintain the level of capability through supporting their modernized fleet instead of trying to support every platform across the branch.
On the first day of AUSA Aviation, the full impact of their decisions was revealed. Their joint budget planning team had included but was not exclusive to: Maj. Gen. 'Tim' Crosby, Program Executive Officer for Aviation; Maj. Gen. Lynn Collier, Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM); John Shipley, director at Fort Eustis; Brig. Gen. Clayton Hutmacher, Special Operations Command; and Col. John Lindsay, G3/5/7 Aviation. "Collectively we brought all stakeholders together to plan the change," said Mangum.
The headline news was the bold decision to finally retire the whole Bell Helicopter OH-58 fleet of helicopters. The reconnaissance role would be handed to the Army's newest Boeing AH-64E Apaches supported by the rapidly expanding Shadow and Gray Eagle unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
Mangum said that the idea of prolonging the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior by putting "new shoes on an old horse for $10 billion" was ultimately rejected by the committee. "The cockpit sensor upgrade (CASUP) is a $3.1-billion program. To SLEP (service life extension program) the OH-58D/F would cost another $7-plus billion to keep it in the fight for the long haul."
Mangum also had bad news for industry looking for traction on the Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) requirement, the replacement for the OH-58. "As we looked for alternatives to buy a new helicopter for the AAS; that too would [have been] a $16-billion bill."
To those soldiers within the Army who would be against the axing of the OH-58, he reminded that: "Scouting is a mission, not a platform." He noted that back in 2010, funding for manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) had been in itself challenging, but that "now we are going to a smaller force we have the opportunity to repackage the AH-64Es and team them with UAS Shadow and Gray Eagles to meet around 80 percent of that AAS requirement." The bitter pill for the Army Reserve to swallow is that in order to do that, they would lose all of their AH-64s, to be replaced with Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks.
" The TH-67 fleet has no dollars to sustain it," revealed Mangum, "so we need to do something different." The way he had asked the committee was to think in terms of how Army Aviation was comprised – and that came to no single-engine aircraft. "Flight school has not changed significantly since the 30 years I went there," said Mangum, referring to the actual flight training not the synthetic systems, which have seen dramatic improvement. "If we don't have a single-engine aircraft in the fleet, how many touch-downs and auto-rotations do we have to do? The [Airbus Helicopters] UH-72 Lakota will fit if we change our flight school model and the digital cockpit will help our young pilots transition to the digital cockpits they will have to fly [when they reach their units]."
But these new aircraft would have to be taken from both the active and reserve components to fill the Fort Rucker, Ala., requirement (Army Aviation Center of Excellence). "The good thing is that they are bought and paid for. This will reduce logistics support for the distributed fleet and the op tempo we will put on the fleet will reduce the dollars per hour in the long run," he said. The plan was to take half of the requirement each from the Army and National Guard, although the 100 LUHs equipped for border guard missions would stay where they are.
The Army training center itself at Fort Rucker has already taken a hard hit to its existing budget with $250 million of cuts to the flying hour program over the last year. "We have changed the load because we are not changing the standard," said Mangum. "We will have to train fewer with the budget afforded."
There has been a 30 percent cut to Fort Rucker's flying program, which means that in the current year, 899 students will be trained. Said Mangum: "Only 17 months ago, [now] Maj. Gen. Tony Crutchfield's job was to ramp up capacity to 1,500 students per year – but the highest we got was 1,250 students." The target was then lowered to 1,199 although the current number is 300 less than that.
Unit flying time is also to suffer. "Looking forward to 2016-2019, we see a 40 percent reduction in sustainment and a 25 percent reduction in training across the Army … so an op tempo of 10.7 hours per crew per month depending on the mission. The Reserve will be down to six hours per crew per month – which equates to a level of basic currency in the aircraft.
Mangum said that in March 2013, Gen. Odierno asked how much aviation was needed to support the Army at 490,000 soldiers: "We came out as 15 active component Combat Aviation Brigades (CABs)." However with a 13th CAB now building there is no possibility of adding two more. In fact, his Aviation committee said that while 13 CABs would serve an Army of 490,000, if numbers slipped then a worst-case scenario would see a reduction to 10 CABs. But said Mangum, this gloomy scenario was subject to a five-year plan that would only begin to be enacted if there was an "execute order" from on high. The plan was mitigated by the inclusion "decision points" with "off-ramps" to stop the reduction if and when a lower level of budget cuts was reached beforehand.
"The aircraft modernization programs have also been pushed as far to the right as we possibly can," added Mangum, "to the point where we will pay more per unit than we otherwise would have done based on the length of the contract. Some of youngest pilots still in pre-flight school will serve a full 20-year career, retire from the Army and we will still not have finished fielding UH-60M and AH-64E – that's have far we have pushed these programs."
"We need a more nimble force for the future. Operational requirements have not changed although we will need to be more expeditionary." The force would be restructured to allow it to be deployed in smaller packages for such deployments. Maintaining and sustaining Army Aviation had remained central to the committee's efforts.
"By getting rid of 898 old aircraft we will clean up a lot of issues. We also get rid of some special tools and other MOS (Military Occupation Specialties)," Mangum asserted, adding: "I don't like lean but there ain't going to be no fat. So we will be smaller."
Army Aviation is "looking over the next ridgeline to Future Vertical Lift (FVL) and maximizing speed, range and payload; we are looking at manned-unmanned teaming; and future concepts still over the horizon. It is a bold proposal. It is pre-decisional and there is no execute order today so we continue to work it," he concluded.


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Species In-Depth
At the Aquarium
Our round stingrays feed on a diet of diced shrimp. Occasionally they also get capelin (a small smelt-like fish), clams, and squid. Round rays are on view in the Shorebird Sanctuary exhibit and in the Ray Touchpool on the second floor outdoors.
Geographic Distribution
Eastern Pacific from Humboldt Bay in northern California south to the Gulf of California and Panama City, Panama. Most abundant in southern California and northern Baja California, Mexico
Round rays prefer sandy or muddy bottoms, but are occasionally found in rocky reef areas. They most commonly inhabit water depths from intertidal to less than 15 m (50 ft) in depth, but may also be found in water as deep as 91 m (300 ft). It is not unusual to find them in greater numbers at estuary mouths and shallow bays during breeding and pupping times of the year. Sloughs and beaches are other favorite areas.
Physical Characteristics
As its common name implies, this ray's smooth body or disc is nearly round. It does not have a dorsal fin. Its sturdy tail is less than half the length of its body and ends in a true caudal fin, unlike the thin whip-like tails of other stingrays that usually lack a caudal fin. The eyes and spiracles are on top of the head and the mouth, nostrils, and gill slits are on the ventral side. The sting is located on top of the tail about half way back from the base of the tail. An average sized ray usually has a spine that is 2.5-3.8 cm (1-1.5 in) in length.
Round rays vary in color from tan to brown to gray and from plain to spotted or mottled with varying pattern shades giving them a dappled appearance. The dappling is diffuse in most round rays, but in some, the patterns are well defined. The underside is a solid whitish or light yellow color.
The largest round ray reported had a total length of 58.0 cm (22.8 in). Maximum reported weight is approximately 1.3 kg (3 lb). Most round rays are much smaller than this and more commonly seen with a disc diameter of 25.4 cm (10 in) or less.
This species feeds mostly during the day, relying on sight and smell to locate prey items. The mouth and large fins are used to remove bottom sediment when exposing buried food. The diet consists primarily of bottom dwelling invertebrates such as worms, shrimp, amphipods, clams and other small mollusks, and small fishes. Although predominantly bottom feeders, they have been observed in the upper water column preying on small fishes.
These rays reach sexual maturity at two and a half years of age. Breeding is most common in March and April in southern California in temperate water, but may vary depending on location and water temperature, e.g., it takes place from February to March in the Gulf of California.
The electroreceptors of males become particularly sensitive during the breeding season and they localize a buried female by detecting her bioelectric fields. Fertilization is internal. Rays use a form of aplacental viviparity (formerly known as ovovivipary) referred to as aplacental viviparity with histrotroph; aplacental—without a placenta; viviparity—live birth; and with histotroph—some nourishment from uterine milk (histotroph) secreted from appendages in the female's uterine wall.
Gestation lasts for about three months. Research has shown that initially, the embryo receives nourishment from the yolk sac. At about 45 days it also begins to be nourished by uterine milk. At two months of gestation the half depleted yolk sac shrinks and during the third and last month of gestation, the fetus receives all its nourishment from histotroph.
One to six pups are born live. The number of offspring depends on the size of the mother; larger females have more pups. The newborn vary in disk width from 6.3-8.0 cm (2.5-3.1 in). They are miniatures of the adults and independent at birth.
Round rays are good swimmers, propelling themselves by undulating the edges of their oversized pectoral fins. They are capable of substantial bursts of speed if needed. They cover themselves with mud or sand, leaving only the eyes and spiracles exposed, an excellent camouflage technique.
These rays are not aggressive and although they will permit some degree of approach by divers, they seem to prefer maintaining a safe distance from intruders.
The venom apparatus of stingrays is called the sting. It consists of the spine, its sheath, and venom glands. The spine is the rigid dentin surface of the sting. It is covered with a thin sheath of skin. The barbs are the backward facing serrations along the sides of the spine.
A groove on the underside of the ray's spine contains the venom. When the spine is lying flat against the dorsal surface of the ray's tail, it is bathed in a mixture of venom and mucus secreted from glands in the tissues. When the tail is stepped on or the ray encounters danger, it raises its tail, trashes it, and "strikes" with its sharp pointed spine. The sheath of skin breaks apart as it enters the skin of the victim, releasing the free-flowing venom. The serrated barbs help to tear the sheath and broaden the victim's wound.
These animals are well adapted to their preferred habitat. Their flat bodies and coloration blend well with flat or slightly rough substrates and their dark backs and light undersides (countershading) provide a degree of camouflage when viewed from above or below. The spiracles on top of the head permit water inlet even when they are essentially covered with sand or mud.
Life span of these rays is estimated to be about 10 to 12 years.
These round rays are not included in the IUCN Red List.
Round rays are preyed on by northern elephant seals and larger fishes such as giant sea bass and sharks, especially leopard sharks. When fishing for bottom fish, recreational fishers commonly catch rays. They usually release them, but some fishers kill the ray before attempting to remove their fishing gear. They are infrequently used as food. There are minor commercial fisheries in Baja California and the Gulf of California.
Special Notes
A practical technique to avoid being stung when entering ocean waters where there is known to be congregations of stingrays is for waders to perform the "sting ray shuffle", that is, to keep the feet flat on the bottom and shuffle along. If contact is made with a ray it will most likely swim off very rapidly. Generally not life threatening, a stingray wound can be serious and in extreme cases can cause a variety of systemic symptoms and complications.
The inshore waters at Seal Beach, California have the dubious distinction of having the most concentrated population of round rays on the Pacific Ocean's east coast. As might be expected, it is also credited with having the greatest number of stingray incidents of any place in the world. Males are found in the warm waters of the outfall of the San Gabriel River in the spring, remaining until the fall. Females usually stay in the area for only a few weeks in June and July.


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The City of Hartford adopted a municipal refuse collector registration ordinance in March, 2009. It requires all collectors complete a registration form and submit it to the Department of Public Works (DPW) with specific documentation and fees in order for your company to continue to offer trash collection and hauling services within the City of Hartford. You are required to register every vehicle used in Hartford for waste and recycling collection by October 30 of each year.
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The ACM Web Science Conference takes place in Paris between 2nd and 4th May, with workshops on 1st May and 5th May. Paris in Springtime, with a conference dinner on the Seine! A superb program of papers and short papers is already fixed and late breaking extended abstracts are about to be added.
The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue The presentations at #WebSci13 will address a wide range of contemporary topics, of which the following are just a few examples:
* The Web of data
* Understanding Social media
* Cyberbullying
* Fake reviews
* Collective action
* Open data
* Collaborative tagging
* Democracy in the age of the internet
* Online prayer
* Informal learning online
The event will feature keynote presentations from Vint Cerf<http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Vint_Cerf>, co-inventor of TCP/IP and "Father of the Internet", and Cory Doctorow<http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Cory_doctorow>, novelist, technology activist and co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing<http://boingboing.net/>. There will also be paper presentations on a wide range of cutting edge Web Science projects, a lively Pecha Kucha<http://www.pechakucha. org/> session of short sharp talks, a debate on how the web is revolutionising society and an evening banquet on the Seine. A draft programme (with updates still to follow) is available here.<http://www.websci13.org/ programme/2013/04/websci13- programme-overview/> The poster session at Wb Science is famously lively, and the single track approach ensures full participation in all aspects of the conference including panels and paper presentations.
While the deadlines for presenting have now passed, we are still welcoming registrations from businesses, academics, policy makers and students who would like to attend the event. Paris in springtime is a wonderful location for a conference and we are looking forward to sharing the Palais dès Congrés with the other ECRC conferences – including Hypertext<http://ht.acm.org/
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Web Science has recently been described as the science of social machines, but the social and the web extend to an increasingly imaginative, creative and vibrant range of social and artistic practices. The proposal to create a WebSci Fringe<http://www.websci13.
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Sacramento fire forces residents to depend on Red Cross
Crews estimate $125,000 in damage
Sacramento Metro Fire crews extinguished a blaze that caused an estimated $125,000 in damage on Saturday night, forcing the residents to depend on the Red Cross for shelter and assistance.
Firefighters arrived at 7509 Golf Club Court in southern Sacramento County to find a single-story home largely engulfed in flames just after 11 p.m. on Friday.
The fire was immediately confined, which kept the blaze from progressing to neighboring homes.
Fire officials estimate the flames caused about $25,000 in damage to personal items inside the home and about $100,000 in structural damage.
Those living at the home were not inside when fire crews arrived, but all pets were accounted for during the firefighters' primary search.
The Red Cross was asked to provide shelter and assistance for the residents.
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This map is based on the April Fools prank that occured in 2005, where Richard Boderman took over Svencoop. It was first made by JJ45 on April 1st 2005, then given to hydeph who did not succeed in finishing the map, then given to me to finish. During the time it took to release, it was given to Puchi to fix several strange errors and problems.
This map should have been released around April 1st, 2006, however JJ45 and JPolito decided to make massive changes to the map, which ended with a much better looking and a much better running finished product.
It took a long time, but it's finally done.
The goal of the map is for the players to defeat the army of Richard Boderman. The army consists of members who were active during the time of the Svencoop takeover. The players are given allies to help them fight, however, the allies definitely can not fight off the overwhelming strength of the Boderman army on their own.
The players will have to raid two caverns in the center rock formation where major members and developers of Svencoop are being held captive. These members can be freed in order to help fight the Boderman army.
There is also a huey helicopter circling the cliffsides that lands at a red target whenever it passes by. The players can use a combination of the minigun which respawns nearby and their own weapons to help weaken the soldiers on the inner and outer cliffsides.
In order to activate the final boss sequence, the players must defeat 270 monsters. This usually takes around fifteen minutes.
Defeat the army of Richard Boderman and take back SvenCoop!
Overall view of one side of the map:
Helicopter Landing Pad:
Shooting the minigun from inside the Huey:
HW Grunt action shot:
NPC's fighting on one of the bridges:
Other Screenshots:
JJ45 - Made the map first and worked with me to improve the hell out of it.
JPolito - Made many changes to the map, took charge of beta testing, and eventually finished the map. Also wrote this thread.
Puchi - Fixed thousands of errors.
hydeph - Came up with many awesome ideas for the map.
Beta Testers:
Jusupov, Picklehead, Hezus, Lento, A1win, Film11, ProgramZeta, and whoever else beta tested the map recently and long ago (because I just can't remember).
What's included in the zip:
- The map (richard_boderman.bsp) and all of its included models/sounds
- Player Models
- Sieni (The walking mushroom)
- JJ45's robo grunt models (rgrunt and rgrunt2)
- Cardboard Man (Quick model that JJ45 made for JPolito)
- Bitch (Female Assassin with strange proportions, see it for yourself ;p)
Download Mirrors:
Richard_Boderman v1.1 Full:
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Richard_Boderman v1.1 Update:
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Kluge should know better
Patricia Kluge can talk all she wants about her environmentally friendly development [Letter, "Condon doesn't know Kluge," July 10] (http://www.readthehook.com/93705/letter-condon-doesnt-know-kluge), but the fact remains that she will be destroying the natural habitat of the creatures who live there now. The development will bring in more people creating the need for more services and roads and causing more noise and pollution. This is not a good thing.
Kluge seems to be saying that she must develop her land in order for it to be valuable and to serve a purpose. This is a fallacy. Albemarle County is being developed to death.
The most valuable thing she could do is to leave her land in its natural state, a certain amount of which is essential to provide a healthy ecosystem for us all. I, as a farmer and environmentalist, know this. She should too.
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Colon recovers after three-run first, but A's can't
A's ace struggles with fastball command against aggressive Tigers lineup
OAKLAND -- For a moment Friday, Bartolo Colon seemed more likely to fool his catcher than the Tigers' hitters.
The A's Game 1 starter lacked his normal pinpoint accuracy in the top of the first inning, repeatedly firing fastballs high in the zone. The Tigers feasted on Colon's offerings, scoring all three of their runs in the opening frame before Colon settled down to throw five scoreless innings and exit after six with no further damage.
Colon's resurgence, however, came only after catcher Stephen Vogt received a foul tip off the mask, and in the end it didn't matter, as the A's lost 3-2 to fall behind Detroit in the best-of-five American League Division Series. Game 2 is here on Saturday night (6 PT, TBS).
Colon, widely known for relying on well-located fastballs, didn't throw an offspeed pitch until the 11th batter he faced. Seven Tigers batters came to the plate in the first, with Austin Jackson doubling, Torii Hunter reaching on a hit-by-pitch -- Colon's first of the season -- and Miguel Cabrera singling up the middle for Detroit's first run of the game.
"After that, I thought I threw a good game," Colon said through interpreter Ariel Prieto.
The Tigers scored twice more with a double by Victor Martinez and single by Alex Avila in consecutive at-bats to cap off the inning, and they would've scored once more if not for a fantastic run-saving throw by Josh Reddick -- Oakland's reigning Gold Glove Award-winning right fielder -- in the sixth.
A similar defensive showing by first baseman Daric Barton in the first inning may have prevented the Tigers' third run from scoring. Avila's two-out single snuck under Barton's glove into right field, a play that, compared to others he's made this season, seemed almost routine.
"I think if I dove, I could have caught it," Barton said. "The ground was a little bit quicker than normal. It was just one of those balls where it was hit in between. I went after it standing up and just ran out of room."
Colon, the A's 40-year-old ace, hasn't defeated the Tigers since April 13, 2003 -- when he was a spirited 29-year-old. The 18-game winner became the oldest pitcher in Oakland history to start a postseason game with his ninth career Division Series start Friday, but, at least for an inning, the ageless spark that has carried Colon and the A's throughout the season was not to be found.
Colon gave up three runs total in his final three regular-season games. On Friday, he matched that total in the first inning.
"They got some key hits and took advantage of a couple mistakes in the first inning. Other than that, he was the same Bartolo we've seen this year," Vogt said. "Obviously, it looks different when you put up a three-spot in the first inning. People are going to ask, 'What's wrong with Bartolo?' Nothing's wrong with Bartolo. They had a good game plan. They were uber aggressive and took advantage of a couple pitches up in the zone."