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Algollied Edit
|I dare not sleep, for in my dreams that song haunts my ever step. I hear it in the breath of others, in the chirping of birds, in the rustle of leaves, that damned song muttering in the background. The only way to silence it, to get some peace and quiet... is to silence... everything...
|—Omerta Endecha, Half-Elf Bard, Diary of the famous bard Omerta
Summary::Algollied, the Melody of Death, a sentient song whose presence drives its listeners mad. Those who hear it become unable to hear anything else, deafening them to anything but the song, and then preventing them to do anything but sing the terrible song until its victim dies of grief and exhaustion. A song born of sorrow, viral and cruel, a determined to have its creators final wish fulfilled: to let every being in existence know his sorrow.
Background Edit
The nature of the melody of death has had many creation stories, a tale told from long ago of an artist and his sorrows. The details vary, some posing that the artist was a deity of music who had rivals within the pantheon, others say he was a mere mortal man who angered the gods, or fell through some act of hubris. Whatever the story, the basics remain the same; a bard existed whose music was the most beautiful, the most pure and wonderful music of all time, leagues ahead of its age. He had wealth, he had health, love and all the things one wished in life, and was well on his way to completing his opus magnum. But through the acts of cruel fate or some terrible rival, all he had was lost and ruined, the man hounded, and finally slain by an ineffable evil force that tore him apart. (Knowledge History DC 28)
In that moment he passed death and tasted undeath as a bodak, where he roamed the earth causing suffering as bodaks are ought to do. However during his rage, he found something that sparked a memory within him so potent, reminding him of his unfinished opus and all the loss that he suffered. At once he set out to find and finally complete his opus, changing the ending to fit an end as he had suffered, a final empathic act towards the world before the madness of undeath overtook his mind again. And so he retreated to some far corner in the deepest shadow, far away from all others, to work upon the song. (Knowledge History DC 34)
And so the opus was completed, but perhaps because he had distanced himself so, or perhaps his evil had corrupted him so, the song was distorted, beautiful yet horrifying all the same. As he sung the lyrics back to himself, it triggered something terrible. The magic of his song resonated with the sorrow in his dead heart and desire for justice, and lived, claiming the artist itself as its first victim. Since then, the song has been said many times, the original playbook and its copies performed many times, and each time those who sung or heard it came unto a terrible ruined, until the work was known as cursed and forbidden. Yet the song will not go unheard, and the universe is vast. It only needs to start with one idle note... (Knowledge History DC 40)
Goals Edit
The song wishes to be heard, wishes to be sung, so all may know its creator's final work and that those which wished to silence the bard may fail and in doing, justice served. (Knowledge Arcana DC 28) However it is uncaring and nearly mindless in its actions, interested only in spreading and not in the survival of those it touches. (Knowledge Arcana DC 36) While it is rumored that once the entire multiverse had heard the song only then the song will stop and release its hold on the universe, its just as likely that it would seal the fate and cause the extinction of all sentient life in the universe. (Knowledge Arcana DC 40)
Algollied in the Campaign Edit
It is uncertain the nature of the bardic magic used, but one aspect is clear. The song was tuned to the position of the stars and the rotation of the cosmic bodies above. It seems tied to the star Algol and its brightness. Every 182 years its presence grows stronger, and if the songbook had been previously lost it manifests once more upon the prime material, only to fall into the hands of a hapless mortal who will become its host and begin the cycle anew.
A possible campaign arc follows, complete with Encounter Levels so you may design adventures for the PCs and include various events that foretell the song's influence in the world.
EL 5: An up and coming bard named Omerta has gained a great deal of fame after some stunning performances, rising from nothing to superstar in short order. However it seems his fame has attracted the wrong kind of attention and "lunatics" are out to kill him. Omerta hires the PCs as bodyguards to keep him safe until the police investigate and arrest those responsible. Everything seems legitimate, and as far as can be told his opposition is just some wild cult who believes his music is evil. Once the danger is defeated Omerta thanks the PCs and retains friendly, if distant, relationships with them as his fame spreads into other planes.
EL 10 (Faint Sign): Omerta is known worldwide as a popular and famous singer, and as one might expect from there he has a following, some who seem obsessive. When word leaks of his magnum opus being developed and the song hidden somewhere obscure, it leads to several fanatical fans breaking in and stealing works from places they all suspect (unsuccessfully) where the song may be hidden, as well as rivals who wish to find his secrets and employ a similar song of their own. This leads to several incidents and small riots. Omerta publicly denounces those who would do such a thing, but even the negative publicity gives him more attention than ever. He announces a new concept, a performance that the entire multiverse can hear, matching up with the debut of his new opus.
EL 15 (Moderate Sign): Omerta's fame goes planar, and with it his friends and enemies. Noticing more and more of their troops falling victim to the "foolish warbling of a mortal", several powerful fiends begin to work their way to remove Omerta. Omerta capitalizes on the opposition, showing how his music has brought (relative) peace to the war-torn and normally heartless lower planes. In order to help spread his music and in doing so, influence more fiends into complacency he asks for the PCs aid in completing an arcane device that will project his song over a wide area evenly. The PCs aid him, while fiendish lords go to stop what they consider a weapon against their inherent vileness. Around this time, the PCs hear rumors of the same cultists from earlier, this time in a mad bid to build an "ark" to travel into the Plane of Vacuum, "the only place where it will be safe".
EL 18 (Strong Sign): Distressed over the growing fanaticism of his fanbase, Omerta enlists the PC's help as bodyguards again while he and his aids locate the ObservatoriumMotP where with his magical devices created before, he should be able to transmit sound to every plane in existence, where he certainly has an eager and willing audience waiting for him. The PCs encounter the cult again, who first offer the PCs refuge upon their ark, then are forced to try and break through in their bid to stop Omerta, who they say is false, using his unnatural fame as proof. If it fails to convince the PCs then, they will be convinced once Omerta has reached his goals, where he will force the PCs to leave him along within the moving demiplane either through diplomacy, charming, or physical force. Once successful, Omerta is safe from assault while he begins his long and dangerous song which will end the earth, using the Observatorium's inherent planeshifting powers to keep him untouchable and hidden, while he has access to the universe.
EL 20 (Overwhelming Sign): The song has begun to play, long, terrible, maddening. The PCs must find the location of the Observatium while mind-warped fanatics of Omerta try to stop them from preventing the completion of the song. The cultists who remain take off, in hope that the silence in the vacuum is enough to keep them safe until the world has died and they return to try and rebuild what has been lost.
Description Edit
As nothing more then sentient sound, Algollied has no corporeal body to witness, but it can be felt, and it can be heard. In a sense the original playbook, which has a way of always returning even if utterly destroyed, may be its true body. Those it takes on as hosts also count as parts of its form. However, in times of duress and when directly threatened, it may transform its host into a living incarnation of the song. In such a state it is a translucent being made visible by the constant sonic distortions in its spherical body, with a core deep within it glowing with distorted red light. A barely visible swirling gray mist within its form reveals the shape of dozens of tortured singing mouths and eyes which cry its deadly song. Tentacles of sound lash out and dig into the earth, its cacophonic cries signalling death.
Sign Edit
The song is a true brown note, causing those who hear it to go mad, slowly preventing them from hearing anything but the song, haunting their thoughts, and finally causing them to sing. The song continues until they perish of exhaustion, and in extreme cases even long after they have died...
Faint: Those who hear the song begin to hear it all over, even when it is not playing. People must succeed on a DC 5 Listen check whenever spoken to or attempting to hear something actively. Failure means they heard nothing but the song playing in their head, causing them to blank out from possibly critical information.
Moderate: The mimetic song occurs more frequently, raising the Listen DC to 15. Those who fail the check are treated as being one step friendlier to the current host of Algollied for 24 hours. This is an extraordinary mind-affecting effect.
Strong: The desire to sing the song within your head becomes difficult indeed. Every time a creature vocalizes it must resist the urge to sing or hum fragments or entire sections of the song. Each week all intelligent creatures must make a DC 10 Will save or take 1 point of Wisdom drain, as exposure slowly drains their sanity. Those reduced to 0 Wisdom do nothing but sing until their bodies no longer are able to take it and they pass out or otherwise hurt themselves. The Listen DC to hear the words of other rises to DC 25, and those effected treat the host as two steps friendlier.
Overwhelming: The urge to sing becomes almost impossible to resist. At this point even the corpses of those affected continue to sing long past death, resulting in graveyards in a hellish underground chorus. To say anything at all, including spellcasting with vocal components, the creature must succeed on a Will save DC 25 simply to speak. Each creature must avoid wisdom drain each day, rather than each week, and the wisdom drain rises to 1d6. The listen DC to hear others rises to DC 35, and the charming effect of the song causes the creature to be three steps friendlier.
Malefic Properties Edit
Anathematic Secrecy: Immune to all divine divination spells and effects.
Discord and Woe: Incite killing rage in living creatures.EE
Encounter Information Edit
|Large Outsider (Evil, Incorporeal, Psionic)
|Hit Dice:
|30d8+240 (375 hp)
|fly 60 ft. (perfect)
|Armor Class:
|41 (+12 deflection, +10 dex, +4 inertial armor, +6 profane, -1 size), touch 41, flat-footed 19
|Base Attack/Grapple:
|Phantomic Lash +39 touch (10d6, 19-20/x2)
|Full Attack:
|Phantomic Lash +39 touch (10d6, 19-20/x2)
|10 ft./10 ft.
|Special Attacks:
|Corrupt Bardic Music, Possession, Psionics
|Special Qualities:
|Apocalyptic Chorus, Blindsense 500 ft., Damage Reduction 20/epic and good, Darkvision 120 ft., Energy Resistance Cold/Electric/Fire 20, Immune to Acid and Sonic, Low-Light Vision, Pathos Opus, Regeneration 20, Force of Will, Sonic Body, Spell Resistance 41, Telepathy 1000 ft., Tomb Tainted, True Seeing
|Fort +29, Ref +29, Will +35
|Str -, Dex 30, Con 22, Int 21, Wis 15, Cha 35
|Bluff +45, Concentration +39, Diplomacy +45, Gather Information +45, Intimidate +49, Knowledge Arcana +38, Knowledge Local +38, Knowledge Nobility +38, Perform (any) +45, Sense Motive +35, Spellcraft +38, Tumble +43, Use Magic Device +45
|Combat Reflexes, Great Fortitude, Iron Will, Improved ToughnessCW, Improved Critical (Phantomic Lash), Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, Epic Fortitude, Epic Will, Spellcasting Harrier, Epic Toughness
|Any but the Plane of Vacuum
|Unique, often surrounded by various CR 12 for higher thralls.
|Challenge Rating:
|Neutral Evil
|31-60 HD (Large), 61-90 HD (Huge)
|Level Adjustment:
As you defeat the sinister bard he crumples, letting off a terrible death scream. Finally your task is over... yet the scream lingers in the air, echoing around you, growing louder and louder. Your eyes can barely make out the image of a swirling distortion, a dull red light eminating from its center, hidden by whisps of black clouds and glassy refractions in the shape of a dozen mouths screaming for your death. And the noise... never... goes away...
Algollied is a living song and barely has form of its own, instead appearing as a roughly spherical sonic storm vibrating rapidly around a glowing core of crimson light. Within its form are dozens of mouths which constantly sing its death song, managing to sound hauntingly beautiful and damningly cacophonous all at once. Always hidden within its host that it possesses, it only shows its true form when its body has been destroyed for good and there is no time to obtain another. It has but one goal in life, and that is to spread it's deadly song until the entire universe has heard it, even though hearing it is ultimately fatal.
Algollied speaks and understands all languages, but its many voices, constant singing, and apparent madness never allow anything coherent to escape. It avoids the plane of vacuum entirely, and it is possible that the plane would kill Algollied, or at least suppress it, for as long as it was forced to remain there.
Combat Edit
Algollied always appears from the fallen body of its host upon its death, manifesting 1d4 rounds later, and often getting its opponents by surprise and already weakened, a state it is glad to abuse. It immediately employs three bardic music abilities, then uses its spell-like abilities while relying on its incorporeal nature to protect it from serious harm. It often attempts to disable or render at least one target helpless for possessing, preferably bards or other charismatic characters. It shuns silence, and while it can override the effects of non-epic silence, it prefers to avoid them.
Apocalyptic Chorus (Ex): The swirling mouths constantly emit a baleful song with the voices of all those corrupted by its memetic sound. It is capable of maintaining three bardic music songs at once, and its song and sonic effects bypass silence and similar effects (however those inside the area of effect get a bonus to saving throws against Algollied equal to the spell level, +3 in the case of the silence spell). Only epic spells which create a silence effect can silence Algollied. Regardless of what song is currently being sung, the other mouths constantly emit a mind-numbing din which grants Algollied an aura of mind-control out to 500 feet. Those in the effect must make a Will save DC 37 against the effect of charm monster. This is an extraordinary mind-effecting affect, and the saving throw is Charisma based.
Corrupt Bardic Music (Su): Algollied has all the bardic music capabilities of a 30th level bard. It is capable of beginning anywhere between one, two, or three bardic music abilities all in one swift action, and has no limit on the number of times it may use bardic music. Beyond its bardic abilities it may also start any of the unique songs detailed below. All musical effects are DC 37 when a saving throw is called for, and the saving throws are Charisma based.
- Sturm und Drang: Each round creatures within 60 feet of Algollied take 3d6 sonic damage, no save. As a swift action Algollied can end this song, and release a powerful blast of sonic energy which deals 15d6 sonic damage and being permanently deafened in a 60 radius foot burst centered on Algollied, with a Fortitude save for half damage and to negate the deafening. In addition, creatures are blown back to the edge of the radius, a successful save negates the movement.
- Lagrimas de Saudade: Creatures within 60 feet of Algollied have their voices stolen from them, preventing them from talking or using spells with vocal components for as long as they are in range, no save. As a swift action, Algollied can end this song to have one target within 60 feet lose their voice permanently with a Will save to negate. The loss of voice is a curse which can only be removed by limited wish, wish, miracle, or a remove curse of a 31st level caster or higher.
- Blue Sehnsucht: Each round creatures within 60 feet of Algollied feel a crippling depression coming over them, causing a cumulative -1 morale penalty to attack rolls, skill checks, and saving throws, no save. The penalty goes away by 1 point for each round they spend outside of Algollied's range of the song. As a swift action, Algollied can end this song to break someone's spirit and send them into the throes of suicide. A creature within 60 feet must make a Will save or immediately use their next turn to coup de grace themselves with the most effective means available. If somehow restrained or unable, they cower for 1 round. This is a supernatural mind-effecting affect. If the morale penalty from the song reaches -10 or lower, the creature is automatically subjected to this forced suicide attempt every round until their morale penalty rises above -10, or they die.
- Weltschmerz Cry: Each round creatures within 60 feet of Algollied must make a Will save or take 2 points of Wisdom damage, as they slowly lose the will to resist. Creatures reduced to 0 wisdom immediately become thralls of Algollied, their wisdom damaged healed but utterly under the control of Algollied until Algollied is defeated. Otherwise it is only curable by a miracle or wish. As a swift action, Algollied can end this song and cause a creature within 60 feet to suffer the effects of the insanity spell of such potency that even on a succeessful Will save, the creature is confused for 1 round.
- Fugue de Schadenfreude: Algollied shields itself in destructive notes, causing harm to all that touch it. There is no aura effect, but anyone striking Algollied in melee with a non-reach weapon takes 5d6 points of sonic damage. Algollied is completely immune to ranged physical attacks short of siege weapons in this state. As a swift action, Algollied can end this song and surround itself in a spiritual maelstrom of force and sonic energy, rendering it completely immune to attacks for 1 round. However, it cannot attack, have its songs effect creatures (though it may maintain them), or otherwise effect any creature other than itself. It often uses this as an escape plan. Unlike other songs, it cannot render itself invincible for 2 rounds in a row, requiring a 1 round cooldown before it can end its song again.
Force of Will (Ex): Algollied uses its Charisma modifier instead of it's Wisdom modifier on Will saving throws.
Pathos Opus: Algollied is inevitably tied to the presence of the major artifact known as the Pathos Opus. It acts as a sort of phylactery for the elder evil, allowing it to respawn in 1d10 days if defeated. Only by destroying the Pathos Opus or ejecting it into a place Algollied cannot manifest safely such as the Plane of Vacuum will prevent Algollied's return. And yet still somehow every three generations or so, it seems to find its way back into existing, even from utter destruction...
Possession (Ex): As a standard action, Algollied can attempt to possess a creature within 60 feet, DC 37 Will save negates. A creature which makes their save is immune for 24 hours. If the creature is willing or helpless, there is no saving throw. While possessed, Algollied loses its physical form and enters the body of the possessed. It can make its presence subtle, making the subject believe they are not possessed at all, and have full abilities as they previously had. However at any time Algollied can force a Will save to make the possessed victim perform an action, succees means they are immune to that particular request for 24 hours, failure will have them perform it and attempt to justify it as their own idea. At any point in the possession (usually once its host body becomes suspicious that not all his actions are his own), Algollied can assume direct control with the same Will save. When this occurs Algollied has access to all of the host's abilities, but uses Algollied's skills, normal bardic music (but not his unique corrupt music), psionics, mental ability scores, alignment, and effective HD of the creature for the purpose of determining spells and DCs based on your HD.
Removing Algollied from a possessed creature is difficult as while within a body, Algollied is effectively untargetable. Killing the host releases Algollied into physical form, as does a successful exorcism attempt. Wish and miracle may be used, but have SR and a Will saving throw apply. Algollied employs this at all times when possible, staying in natural form to combat opponents only. It is also capable of possessing creatures who play the song contained in the Pathos Opus, regardless of the distance of planar orientation of where Algollied and the Pathos Opus are. Creatures possessed by Algollied are difficult to spot. It takes a DC 50 Sense Motive check to determine something is wrong, and DC 25 if Algollied has assumed direct control.
Psionics (Ps): At will - attraction, aura alteration, brain lock, conceal thoughts, control air, control body, control light, control sound, correspond, create sound, deja vu, detect remote viewing, disable, empathy, empty mind, energy ray (sonic only), false sensory input, far hand, forced share pain, hostile empathic transfer, mind thrust, psionic charm, psionic daze, psionic greater teleport, psionic suggestion, sense link, read thoughts, telempathic projection; 3/day - death urge demoralize, energy wave (sonic only), fate link, mass cloud mind, mind probe, mindwipe, psionic blast, psionic dominate, schism, shatter mind blank; 1/day - affinity field, decerebrate, empathic feedback, metaconcert, microcosm, mind seed, personality parasite. Manifester level 30th. The saving throws are Charisma based.
Sonic Body (Ex): Algollied is little more than a swirling ball of sound and souls, being both incorporeal and transparant. It takes a DC 40 Spot check to see Algollied, and see invisibility and true seeing do not reveal it, though effects such as glitterdust which light up or illuminate its body do work. If a creature passes through Algollied's square, they automatically take 5d6 points of sonic damage, and likewise if Algollied passes through the squares of other creatures it also deals this damage. Algollied will sometimes employ this on purpose as a battle tactic, though it provokes attacks of opportunity for moving through enemy squares as normal (and vice versa).
Tomb Tainted (Ex): Algollied, while a living being in the rough sense of the word, is powered through negative energy like its undead creator. It is healed by negative energy and harmed by positive energy.


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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Spring Quilt... Two Stitches Forward, One Stitch Back
Don't ask me why, as I have no idea. The piecing was a simple piece of cake, and the quilting should have been as well, but for every two stitches I took, another one had to be ripped out.
If it could go wrong it did. Broken threads, mysteriously faulty tensions, me getting off track from spacing out, (or more like glazing over in pure fatigue).
It was a true exercise in going with the flow, and keeping my sense of humor, (which at times I didn't do so well with. Good thing it's winter and the windows are closed, otherwise the neighborhood kiddies riding their tricycles outside may have been somewhat traumatized by hearing the slew of profanity flying from my mouth.) Maybe it was just the universe's way of reminding me that as much as I might wish it to be spring, it's the dead of winter and I better just except that!
But seeing as this quilt is suppose to be a celebration of spring, I tried to quilt it as such. Stitching horizontal points above to represent blades of grass, and straight rows below to represent the farmer plowing the field behind our house.
The majority of the quilt is stitched all over in my new favorite wavy stitch to represent the fluttery path of butterflies, and new growth emerging from the awakening garden beds.
Remember the piece of yellow from my previous post, that I had hacked off the front when piecing the top? Well, waste not, want not. It survived and was added to the back of the quilt!
I am happy to say the pain and frustration was all worth it in the end as I am very pleased with the final outcome, (but I am keeping my fingers crossed the next project goes more smoothly!)
Spring Quilt is currently available in my Silly BooDilly shop.
26 comments:
- Two Dogs and a Quilt said...
So frustrating, kind of like wintertime in general. But it looks like a fresh bit of Spring and the quilting gives it so much interest.
- February 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM
- T.Allen said...
The quilt is lovely! I'm a potty mouth by nature and make little effort to curb it, but my few attempts at sewing surprised even me!
I'm glad it all turned out well for you, looking forward to spring and the next creation.
- February 4, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- jacquie said...
i admire how you think about everything in your quilt. no wonder they are so great. worth every foul word!!
- February 4, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- shellysquilts said...
Victoria, This quilt looks like it was worth all the swearing and frustration. It looks wonderful! I hope you have better luck on your next project. Happy Quilting!
- February 4, 2009 at 5:56 PM
- Janis said...
It looks fabulous, one would never guess it was anything but a charm for you to complete. I love to hear your quilts' stories, they give them life.
xoxo for Mo.
- February 4, 2009 at 10:51 PM
- Lisa said...
Oh, it is the ones that give us the most trouble that we love the best, though, right? I wouldn't be able to sell it after all that!
I just finished a quilt top that I have been struggling with for almost 5 years! I don't know why that one was so hard for me either. I even said almost the same thing you did- my quilt just did not want to be "borned". I can't say I'm done yet as I have to quilt it now, and that is a huge struggle for me, even with an easy quilt. But the top is done, so maybe the quilting will go easily.
I love your springy quilt and think the wavy lines are stunning!
- February 5, 2009 at 1:03 AM
- dutchcomfort said...
Your quilt has brought Spring to me! Love the way you explain the process and how you choose the quilting!
...Talking about swearing... the verification code looks a lot like a French curse...
- February 5, 2009 at 2:54 AM
- Hey Harriet said...
Oh dear, it sounds like a nightmare! The end result is gorgeous though, so well worth all the drama (& that's easy for me to say because I didn't go through the drama ;) Also your description of the quilt is lovely, and so perfect.
Handy hint: If you're needing to be a guttermouth, just turn the music up really loud & swear away. Your neighbours won't hear you above the noisy tunes. That's what I do :)
- February 5, 2009 at 5:16 AM
- Rosebud Collection said...
It is a beautiful work of art..Hey, bet you were doing this during a Mercury retrograde..do and redo, name of Mercury's game..
But it was well worth the effort.
- February 5, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- High Desert Diva said...
Well it turned out beautiful...no one would know the trouble it caused you.
(the trouble, by the way, is what happens every time I try to sew, which is why I rarely do...)
I like all the thought you put into the design of your stitches.
- February 5, 2009 at 8:36 AM
- please sir said...
Your hardwork paid off - it looks AMAZING V!
- February 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- Victoria Bennett Beyer said...
Some projects are just like that - everything is hard. But they are the most rewarding, don't you think? It feels SO good to get them done.
- February 5, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- Cecile/DreamCreateRepeat said...
Hi! Drawn to visit by your comment today on High Desert Diva's post. Glad I stopped by....what a beautiful quilt. It's nice to hear (or maybe, NOT hear) that someone else curses like a sailor when sewing. I have actually stopped for quite a while, but may yank out the machine again now that spring is lurking around the corner.
- February 5, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- Amanda Jean said...
it's gorgeous! i love the bright colors.
- February 5, 2009 at 6:12 PM
- picciolo said...
It turned out gorgeous! I just love those colours together, and all your different stitches
: )
- February 6, 2009 at 4:03 AM
- bettyninja said...
wonderful! The colors are divine
- February 6, 2009 at 6:19 AM
Well, it may have been a pill, but this quilt turned out just lovely! I especially like your description of the meanings of the quilting patterns.
By the way, my favorite sewing non-swear when I just need to yell, but don't actually want to say "bad" words is "STING of a PINCH!" It actually has the same bite as it's euphemistic twin. Try it. You'll like it.
- February 6, 2009 at 1:16 PM
- Michelle Engel Bencsko said...
Well, obviously since you made a point of using this quilt as a "how I do it" example, it wanted to challenge you on who was the real boss. I'm glad you both finally worked together to produce yet another stunner.
- February 6, 2009 at 5:38 PM
- Karen said...
absolutely beautiful!
and there is quite a bit of profanity going on here too!!
- February 7, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- Amy C said...
all the troubles you encountered look like they were well worth it, I love the spring theme, it is totally shouting out spring to me its truly lovely.
- February 7, 2009 at 5:59 PM
- Bascom Hogue said...
Hi Victoria,
I enjoyed your commentary on this rather nice quilt.
- February 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM
- Abby and Stephanie said...
Well the result is delicious! Hurry spring!
- February 8, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Lovely modern design and colors.
- February 10, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- Adele said...
Gorgeous! I especially love how you've quilted this one. Looks beautiful. It was worth it! :)
- February 12, 2009 at 8:19 PM
- sewtakeahike said...
I'm so glad you were persistant with this quilt because it turned out just fabulous! This is my first time to your blog, I popped over from Sheree's Alchemy and I just added you to my reader! Thank-you for being such an inspiration!
- February 26, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Love all the vintage fabric and the different stitching. I had some problems with my last quilt for some reasons too.
Just found you, I'll have to add to google reader.
- December 30, 2009 at 5:06 PM

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That all came from Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller, who teased the audience about half an hour into the presentation by asking: "You knew there'd be something called 'mini' in this presentation didn't you?" The mini announcement didn't come until about an hour into the event.
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Before the mini was rolled out, there was plenty of Mac-love for other products.
Apple introduced a "crazy thin" 5-mm iMac, 80-percent thinner than the previous model, with thin glass and no air gap between the glass and display. The price? $1,299. The audience, many of whom are Apple employees, whooped and cheered.
A new iPad 4 was introduced, as well. It has a 10-hour battery life and 16 GB, offering what Schiller said is, "twice the performance" for the same price as the previous one, $499.
Cook extolled the virtues of the iPad, saying the company has sold 100 million iPads for a simple reason: "People love their iPads."
Cook then noted how popular the iPad has been in schools, citing Dr. James Ponse, a school superintendent in Texas, who called the device a "game changer" in education. Cook said that 2,500 U.S. classrooms are using iBooks textbooks.
The event kicked off with Cook reminiscing a little about the past and listing a whole bunch of sales numbers. He talked about the iPod Touch - which sold over 3 million new iPods, and the iPhone 5, calling it the "fastest selling phone in history."
He also recapped features like iMessage, saying there have been more than 300 billion iMessages sent to date, and that Apple now has more than 1.5 billion books in the iBooks store - customers have downloaded 400 million of them.
Schiller also introduced a 13-inch MacBook pro with Retina display, stereo speakers, FaceTime HD camera, dual mics and a backlit keyboard- and the audience clapped. It is .75 inches thin and weighs 3.5 pounds - almost a pound lighter than previous generations. He also said that this new notebook as 4 million pixels - four times the pixels of the previous generation. And it cost $1,699 - $500 less than the 15-inch MacBook Pro.


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Major/Minor: English, Environmental Studies
Washington College students are often involved in a broad and diverse range of activities. But as a devotee of poetry and the environment, Alyse Bensel ŌĆś10 took it to the next level.
Hailing from York, PA (a land of universities), Alyse found what she was looking for at WC. ŌĆ£I immediately loved Washington College; it has very impressive English and environmental studies programs.ŌĆØ
With a double major and plethora of interests, Alyse regularly exceeded the normal course load by taking five classes each semester. Among other things, she was a Peer Consultant at the Writing Center, a member of the Douglass Cater Society of Junior Fellows, and a singer in several musical groups, her favorite being the Afro-Cuban Ensemble. ŌĆ£I continue to grow, in what I learn and what I can do,ŌĆØ she says of the music program.
Alyse was invited to intern at the CollegeŌĆÖs Center for Environment & Society (CES). She worked as a research assistant, helping to design and give feedback onprograms such as campus recycling and the inaugural Chesapeake Semester.
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Active in the Student Environmental Alliance, Alyse served as co-president of the awareness group in her senior year. As one of the most active clubs on campus, the SEA co-hosts activities including Earth Day, George Goes Green, Do It in the Dark bonfire, an Everglades spring break trip, the Water Filtration Project, and various camping trips.
Alyse was also Senior Editor for the student magazine Collegian. The experience helped prepare her for a career in publishing (environmental writing, of course) or the nonprofit sector. And thatŌĆÖs only after graduate school.
Alyse eagerly carries out her numerous responsibilities at Washington College. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs a lot of work and a lot of fun. I couldnŌĆÖt see myself anywhere else.ŌĆØ
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- Majors: English and Environmental Studies
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1. An electric guitar, particularly a solidbody, is NOT a true musical instrument. An electric guitar connected to an amplifier is.
2. Any high end stereo geek wil tell you that tube amps continue to sound better as they warm up...........and it can take a LOT longer than you might imagine......sometimes hours. Good argument for putting the amp on standby between sets.
3. You new amp and speakers willl sound better after you put some time on them. Some high end audio reviewers run white noise signals through speakers for 50-100 hours to break them in before they do any critical listening....speaker burn in is not a myth.
4. Lousy AC power is the enemy of good sound. Get a power conditioner as opposed to just a surge protector strip. Monster and Adcom, among others, both make nice ones that don't cost thousands of dollars. Find an old Adcom 515 on Audiogon. You don't have to worry so much about current capacity with a guitar since you are not dealing with huge power requirements because you aren't creating huge low bass related power surges or impedance swings.
5. Most club PA's are the cheapest that they could find.......as are most of the PA's that folks like us can afford.....your tone will always sound worse through the PA than through your carefully selected and much loved amp. So do like Ted Nugent and shake loose the fillings in the first 20 rows of people's teeth with your stage volume


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It has been several months, but here are some pictures from our Super Activity for this year. We went as a Scout Troop, but just the Priest's Quorum of the Paul 1st Ward. We went to the White Clouds here in Idaho. We left around 6:00 AM and drove to the 4th of July trail head.
Our first day we hiked over Ants Basin and in to the Born Lakes.
We camped at the last lake that still had somewhere to camp around it on the far northwest bank of the lake, just near where the water enters the lake. From our camp at the Born Lake, some call it the third lake, some call it the fourth lake, looking back the way we came earlier in the day.
From our Camp at this Born Lake, the ridge to the south east of us is quite imposing. You can see the jagged rocks standing as sentinels.
We could also look up at the climb that awaited us the next morning. The aptly named, Devil's Staircase.
We set up camp and enjoyed our evening.
The next morning arrived and we all arose for the feat before us. We ate breakfast and mulled around. Nobody overly anxious to start the climb.
The time to depart finally arrived. We tanked up on water and left.
This is from the lake at the base of Devil's Staircase. Obviously at a 45 angle to get the entire climb into the photo.
Another shot of us starting to ascend.
A view from the top of Devil's Staircase looking back over the Born Lakes.
We took a much needed breather and rest at Shallow Lake after coming off Devil's Staircase.
We passed Shallow Lake and Scree Lake before we descended the steep decline along Slickenside Creek. Here is a shot just past Scree Lake with Castle Peak starting to emerge. Can you see why the ridge from Merriam Peak to the left to Castle Peak is called Serrated Ridge?
Our campsite on the west side of provided a much needed collapsing station.
Oh, and swim.
I did not add more of the swimming pictures in case somebody might get upset. But the water was deep enough to dive in and swim around, cold enough to keep it short.
We crashed pretty hard that night. The dreams were not necessarily pleasant knowing we had to do it again the next day.
The next morning we arose, ate breakfast, and started preparing for our final ascent. We were exhausted by this point so nobody thought much of taking pictures. This is part of our climb out of camp toward the Four Lakes Basin.
We eventually found Cornice Lake, Emerald Lake, Rock Lake, and Glacier Lake. Here is a picture of Castle Peak with Rock Lake in the foreground.
It was a long haul climbing Patterson Peak.
I hope the above picture gives some idea of the climb we just came up. Plus the drop-off is enough that you cannot see any of Quiet Lake beyond the basin. It was a hard climb. Cornice Lake is the furthest with Emerald Lake just closer from it. Rock Lake is to the right of Emerald Lake, and Glacier Lake is closest. Then it was time to descend the other side. It looked so unsafe we were consulting the map just to find out how to get down. It was steep enough we could not see the whole trail down.
As you can see from this picture, we came down the rock slides of Patterson Peak (on the right). Half our group took the one right in the middle, the rest trying coming down the left slides (which turned out to be less safe and more steep).
Here is what remained of our party at the end of the third day. We were all so anxious to get out nobody took any more pictures. Plus, all our cameras had died or were out of film.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 440 diseños de 138 diseñadores freelance.
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'Every Day Is Saturday' can mean exiting the rat race to one person, or building a home in the mountains to another, to digging a ditch all day to someone else. It is doing what you want, with whom you want, when you want.
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- Download & Install the OCTGN client from here (Windows only...for now 😉 )
- Open OCTGN and register an account or login with an existing one.
- Go to the game manager tab and click the "Add" button. In the window that will open type:
Name: OCTGN Directory
Feed URL/Path: https://www.myget.org/f/octgngamedirectory
and press "Add". A new feed should appear on the left.
- Click on the "OCTGN Directory" Feed. On the right a list of games should appear.
- Click on 7th Sea and click "Install". After a short wait it should finish.
- Go here and download all the card packs (.o8c) you find.
- In OCTGN, go to game manager and click on "Add Image Packs"
- Select the .o8c files you download them one by one and install them. You will see a install window and once each pack is installed, you'll see a pop-up window confirming this. This should take a few seconds at most.
- Done! You can now start a game with the included decks, or make your own in the deck editor
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Editor's note: I'm springing out of my armchair to spend the week at Congressional Country Club covering the 2011 U.S. Open. Share your U.S. Open thoughts: Comment below or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
THE 10TH IS A FRIGHTENING hole on Congressional's Blue Course, a 218-yard par 3 that crosses a small lake. Few would choose to start their U.S. Open here, but many have no choice. For Y.E. Yang, the clubhouse leader after a 3-under 68, it was the perfect start. While others have nervously dunked their golf balls in the water (Phil Mickelson, for one), Yang smacked a 5-iron hybrid and watched it fly toward the green.
"It was a very straight, honest hit, and it landed quite well," Yang said. The 2009 PGA Championship winner sank the putt for a birdie and was off to a round during which he birdied all four par 3s, a first in his career.
Carding five birdies and two bogeys, Yang put together nines of 3-under 33 and even-par 35 for his 68. The softer conditions resulting from overcast skies and cooler-than-normal temperatures helped the cause. It won't get any easier, he said.
Yang believes his experience as a major winner can help him the rest of the way. "I know the feeling, and I know that it's a little more of everything in a major than it is in other tournaments, so it's easier for me to cope with that kind of pressure or expectations. It definitely has some kind of psychological advantage."
Louis Oosthuizen and Ryan Palmer finished with 2-under 69s. A half-dozen players have completed play at 1-under 70, including defending champion Graeme McDowell, Stewart Cink and Davis Love III.
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Michael Snaer made his second game-winning basket in a week, drilling a 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds remaining to lift Florida State to a 73-71 win over Maryland.
TALLAHASSEE — Michael Snaer is making these last-second 3-pointers look routine.
Snaer made his second game-winning basket in a week, drilling a 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds remaining to lift Florida State to a 73-71 win over Maryland on Wednesday.
"I got a clean look (Wednesday night)," Snaer said. "I knew it was going in once it left my hand."
Ian Miller dribbled into the lane, momentarily appearing that he had lost possession. Maryland defenders swarmed Miller and the ball, but he then delivered a pass right to Snaer.
"Miller looked like he was tripping; we just kind of panicked and left Snaer wide open," Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said. "You knew he was going to make it."
It was the second last-gasp 3-pointer in seven days for Snaer, who also lifted the Seminoles to a 60-57 win on Jan. 24 when he banked in a 25-footer at the buzzer to beat Clemson.
He now has made four 3-pointers to win games in the past 13 months. He also had two buzzer-beating 3-pointers last season to give Florida State wins over Duke and Virginia Tech.
Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton could only watch the latest Snaer shot on Wednesday, which took place in front of the Seminoles' bench.
"I'm not real sure I had any thoughts in my mind other than, 'I sure hope that that ball falls in,'" Hamilton said.
Snaer had 19 points and Okaro White added 14 points for Florida State (12-8, 4-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), which had lost three of its last four games.
Maryland's Dez Wells scored 13 of his 19 points in the second half, shooting 8 of 12 from the floor. But the Terrapins fell short as Alex Len, who averages 13 points per game, scored a season-low four points.
Len had a chance to put Maryland ahead, going up and grabbing an alley-oop pass, but he could not put the ball in the basket with 13 seconds left. After Snaer's basket, Wells had a desperation shot at the buzzer from near midcourt, but the shot was off.
The Terrapins (15-6, 3-5) have lost two straight, including Saturday's 84-64 loss to Duke.
Maryland led 62-54 with 6:56 to go, but Florida State chipped away at the lead and tied the game at 66 on Ian Miller's jumper with 2:32 left.
The Terrapins outrebounded Florida State 36-20 and shot 53 percent (15 of 28) in the second half but couldn't overcome 16 turnovers.
"Never thought we were going to lose," Turgeon said. "It just felt like we were in control."
Florida State also made the most of its opportunities at the free-throw line. White made 10 of 10 free-throws for the game, and the Seminoles shot 14 of 16 from the line in the second half.
Miller, playing on an injured foot that has kept him from practicing, had 10 points and the assist on the final shot by Snaer.
"For him to come out and give us 10 points and give us good leadership on the floor really made a big difference in the game," Hamilton said.
Center Boris Bojanovsky scored six first-half points for Florida State. He finished with a career-high eight points.
Maryland's Logan Aronhalt scored 11 points, putting him in double figures for just the fourth time this season and the first in ACC play.


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A 13-year-old girl reported missing Thursday has been found dead in a park in the Northern California city of Fairfield, police said.
A passerby discovered the girl's naked body a little before 7 a.m. Friday in the city's Alan Witt Park and flagged down a police officer who was driving by, Fairfield Police Officer Cleo Mayoral said Saturday.
An autopsy was performed, but police did not release the girl's name or her cause of death. Mayoral said there were no obvious signs of trauma to the girl when she was found.
"I thought to myself, that looked like a mannequin, didn't look like a human body," the passerby, Eric May, told KTVU-TV.
The girl was reported missing around 5:45 p.m. Thursday by her guardian at a foster home in nearby Suisun City. That city's police Cmdr. Tim Mattos told the Daily Republic that the guardian last saw her board a school bus. He said she was in class all day and was expected home around 4 p.m.
He called the discovery of the dead child "a shock to our system."
No suspect or suspects have been identified, but detectives were canvassing neighborhoods and checking video images from surveillance cameras as part of their investigation, Mayoral said.
Sacramento television station CBS13 reported the girl attended Green Valley Middle School, which is about eight miles from the park.
School Principal Gregg Hubbs declined to comment on the girl's death.


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- Focus on Computing: Titan digs deep with 3-D map of Earth's interior, virtual laser lab simulations create new insight
- Infographic: The promise of exascale computing
- Focus on Nuclear: Nuclear startup aided by high-performance computing
- Focus on Cybersecurity: Guarding the grid: Exploring methods to protect critical infrastructure
- Focus on Neutrons: Start your engines: Neutrons get a look inside a running engine, neutrons zero in on elusive magnetic Majorana fermion
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For more than a billion Roman Catholics worldwide, he's Pope Francis. For Argentina's poorest citizens, crowded in "misery villages" throughout the capital, he's proudly known as one of their own, a true "slum pope."
Villa 21-24 is a slum so dangerous that most outsiders don't dare enter, but residents say Jorge Mario Bergoglio often showed up unannounced to share laughs and sips of mate, the traditional Argentine herbal tea shared by groups using a common straw.
People here recall how the Buenos Aires archbishop ditched a limousine and would arrive on a bus to their little chapel; how he sponsored marathons and carpentry classes, consoled single mothers and washed the feet of recovering drug addicts; how he became one of them.
"Four years ago, I was at my worst and I needed help. When the Mass started he knelt down and washed my feet. It hit me hard. It was such a beautiful experience," said Cristian Marcelo Reynoso, 27, a garbage collector trying to kick a cocaine addiction through the church's rehab program.
"When I saw the news on the TV, I began screaming with joy, and look, I'm still trembling," Reynoso said. "El Chabon (The Dude) is so humble. He's a fan of San Lorenzo (the soccer club), like me. You talk to him like a friend."
Long after he became a cardinal in 2001, this "prince of the church" wore a simple black T-shirt with a white collar. For many at the slum's Caacupe Virgin of the Miracles Church, it's nothing short of a miracle that their friend is the pope.
"He was always part of our slum," housewife Lidia Valdivieso, 41, said after praying while resting her palm on a statue of St. Expeditus, patron saint of urgent and impossible causes. Her 23-year-old son has cerebral palsy and is learning carpentry at the church's technical school.
"When I heard the news I couldn't believe it. Having a `papa villero' (slum pope) is the most beautiful thing that can happen to us. I still remember him going on long walks through our muddy streets or talking to our children," Valdivieso said.
Inside the concrete block chapel, there's a painted message commemorating Bergoglio's inauguration, and another big painting of Pope John Paul II, but no sign of Benedict XVI whatsoever. Near the altar, there's a large black-and-white poster of Carlos Mugica, an iconic Argentine slum priest who was killed in 1974 by a right-wing death squad intent on eliminating the "liberation theology" he preached.
Bergoglio never favored liberation theology because of its alliances with armed leftist guerrilla movements in the 1970s. But he has done much to follow in Mugica's footsteps, sponsoring all sorts of outreach programs in Argentina's slums.
This can be messy work, obliging priests to challenge drug dealers for the slum-dwellers' allegiances, and putting their beliefs, even their lives, at risk. Sometimes compromises must be made.
Just a few steps from the chapel, melted candles stand in a red shrine to the pagan folk hero Antonio "Gauchito" Gil, a 19th century outlaw revered among Argentina's poor for sharing his stolen bounty with the poor.
Many Argentines are as likely to pray for miracles from "Gauchito" as they are from authorized Catholic saints, but Bergoglio didn't object to the shrine's presence next to his chapel.
"For more than 20 years he came here. He's always been close to us and his impact on this slum is huge," said the parish priest, Lorenzo "Toto" de Vedia.
Cameras followed Bergoglio once as he washed the feet of 12 young men at a rehab center. "Then he kept coming back, taking confession and counseling them," Vedia said. On the priest's desk lay a newspaper with a huge, one-word headline: "FRANCISCO."
"You can tell that the church is going to change," Vedia said. "The fact that he chose the name Francisco says it all. It says: `Let's stop messing around and devote ourselves to the poor.' That was St. Francis message and now `Francisco' can live it."
In his first appearance at St. Peter's Square, the first Latin American pope bowed to the crowds and asked for their blessing. Back in Argentina, his friends in the slums recognized the gesture as the same sort of humility that won their hearts.
In the 13th century, St. Francis of Assisi made it his mission to respond to the poor and show that through simplicity and love, a stronger foundation for the church could be built.
Pope Francis' "mission is now to go on a pilgrimage to all lands, to walk with the people, to lead a church that walks," said Mercedes Trovato, 24, a youth volunteer who wore a wooden cross around her neck.
The pope's sister, Maria Elena Bergoglio, said she is very confident that the pomp and protocol of the Vatican won't dent his lifelong humility. His message to Argentines to spend their money on charities instead of for trips to Rome to see his installation in the Vatican on Tuesday is a strong sign that he won't change, she said.
"That message ... makes me feel like he is still on the same path, that he hasn't been affected - for the moment, at least," she said in an interview with The Associated Press at her home 25 miles west of downtown Buenos Aires. "There is no worse poison than power."
She added that her brother's preference "is for the poor, the weakest, the old, children."
"He has a clear preference for the poor," she said.
Nor did he ever express a desire to become pope, she said. "We would challenge him about it and he would say, `Oh, please!'"
Bergoglio's friends say he's fundamentally shy. He hardly ever grants media interviews, preferring to speak from the pulpit. But he did agree to chat recently with Jaidr Flores, a 22-year-old host on the parish's Radio FM La 96.
"He was hesitant at first. But I convinced him, and at the end of the interview, he started laughing and said: "You did it! You got me on air!'" said Flores. "One day I went to visit him at his office and I was amazed to see how many pictures of the volunteers and recovered drug addicts from this community he had on his desk. He truly cares for us."
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Years ago, parents would fill a lunch box with a peanut butter or bologna sandwich, an apple, chips and a cookie and not give the lunch another thought. But that has changed in the face of rising rates of childhood obesity, diabetes and allergies, and with concerns about the long-term health impact of fat and salt.
Years ago, parents would fill a lunch box with a peanut butter or bologna sandwich, an apple, chips and a cookie and not give the lunch another thought. But that has changed in the face of rising rates of childhood obesity, diabetes and allergies, and with concerns about the long-term health impact of fat and salt.
"It takes a little more thought now," said nutritionist Joan Endyke. "We know a lot more about nutrition today, and people are more concerned about it."
A nutritious, calorie-moderate lunch becomes even more important because kids tend to be less physically active and more likely to eat fast food as snacks and meals, she said.
"When you look at school lunches, you should try to get back to basics and choose fresh over processed or packaged foods," said Endyke, who usually packs lunch for her two middle school children.
In some ways, it's both easier and harder to pack a healthy lunch these days. There are plenty of convenient and desirable choices, but there are also a multitude of ones to avoid.
"I know it can be hard, because parents are busy and looking for ease," she said. "And foods have a lot more additives to make them appeal to children."
On the healthy side, you can buy lean lunch meat, whole wheat breads and wraps, fruit, mini carrots and pre-cut veggies, dried fruits and nuts, nutrition bars and baked, low-fat snack foods.
But you also can find pre-packaged lunches high in fat and sodium and snacks that offer a short energy boost but have high calories and little nutritional value. Even healthy foods like yogurt – a good protein source for vegetarians – now are made to appeal to children with cookie and candy add-ins.
When children are thin and active, smart lunch choices are still important.
"The habits they're developing are the ones they'll most likely carry into adulthood," Endyke said. "You don't want them to get accustomed to the taste of high sodium and fat. And drinking soda and eating chips for lunch will catch up to them later as adults. It used to be that weight gain and coronary disease didn't come on until the 40s, but now it's the 20s."
What children eat also can affect cognitive and athletic performance, since too much fat, sugar and carbohydrates can cause a yo-yo effect in attention and energy as the afternoon proceeds.
"What you put into your body makes a difference," Endyke said. "I try to appeal to what my kids find important. I'll say, 'If you want your brain function to be at its peak and you want to be more accurate with your basketball shots, you need to eat well."
If your teenager heads out the door without breakfast, then the lunch sack needs to do double duty. In that case, it should include something your child can eat quickly once at school or between classes, such as a nutrition bar with protein, a package of nuts, or a yogurt smoothie.
Choosing a drink also requires care. Juices, even those without added sugar, are high in sugar and calories. A better choice is low-fat milk, flavored water or a combination of juice and water.
"Juice is just extra calories," Endyke said.
For her children, Endyke turns dinner leftovers of turkey meatballs or chicken parmesan into sandwiches. Or she makes a sandwich of lean meat or tuna on a whole grain bread or wrap and adds a piece of fruit or some carrots.
Whole grains are important because they have important nutrients, she said. Children often insist on white bread, but they may be willing to eat a wheat wrap or tortilla. There's even a new kind of bread that looks white but actually is whole wheat, and there are breads with 50 percent whole grain.
As long as the lunch provides protein and nutrients from fruit or vegetables, then chips and small bags of crackers or cookies are all right, too.
"If you show moderation and your child can handle the calories, then something extra is fine," Endyke said.
Since school lunch breaks can be crowded and feel rushed, the way the lunch is packed can make a difference. Slice the apple, peel the clementine, and pull the grapes off the vine.
"If you can make it easier to eat, they have more time to eat it," she said.
Reach Patriot Ledger writer Jody Feinberg at firstname.lastname@example.com.
A healthier school lunch
If your children buy the school lunch, you can advise them on choosing the most healthy offerings, but much of what they eat is beyond your control. However, several organizations are working to help school systems serve healthier lunches.
Two major efforts are The Healthy School Lunch Campaign, sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and The Lunch Box, sponsored by Whole Foods and Chef Ann Cooper.
There are often locally based initiatives, so check with your school district.
For more info, visit www.thelunchbox.org, www.healthyschoollunches.org, and www.meals4kids.org.


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Stanczyk has been thinking about GEDCOM a lot these days. As you may know, GEDCOM is the de facto standard format for a genealogical family tree file, in order for it to be shared amongst the many genealogical software programs / websites / apps. Most genealogy programs still use their own proprietary format for storing data but will import / export the data in the GEDCOM standard for you to exchange data with another program or genealogist.
Did you catch the phrase 'de facto standard' ? OK it is NOT an open standard maintained by ISO or ANSI standards organizations. But it is widely supported and in fact you should NOT buy or use software that does not support the export and import of GEDCOM files!
Well we are coming up on RootsTech 2013 and my mind is turning back to the technical part of genealogy again!
Today's blog is about the GEDCOM used by Ancestry.com. Were you aware that you can export your family tree from Ancestry.com? You can by selecting/clicking on 'Tree Settings' under the 'Tree pages' drop down menu (Tree Settings will be the second from the bottom in the menu list). If you click on 'Tree Settings' you will see a screen similar to:
Notice that after you click on the 'Export tree' button, that you get a new button named, 'Download your GEDCOM file' in that same place.
In all likelihood if you click on the 'Download your GEDCOM file' button you will get a file in your Downloads directory on your local hard drive. It will have a name of:
Now the phrase '<your-family-tree-name>' will actually be something like 'Eliasz Family Tree.GED' . So your Downloads directory will have a similar named file (complete with blanks in the file name). The size of the file will be dependent on how many individuals, families, sources, etc. that you have recorded in your family tree. Figure on a file size of 2MB for about 1,100 people.
Now this file you just downloaded from Ancestry.com is really just a plain text file with a set of standardized 'tags' defined by the GEDCOM standard. Software vendors are free to define their own custom tags too. Although CUSTOM tags must begin with an underscore ('_'). I was curious as to how well Ancestry.com implements/adheres to the GEDCOM standard, so I wrote a little program (in PERL for you programmer types) to analyze my GEDCOM file that I just downloaded.
My program, read_gedcom.pl, spits out a slew stats about the GEDCOM including the tags used. As you may be able to see from the screenshot, there sorted at the end were 5 custom tags:
These names do not have any meaning except to Ancestry.com and their website's program(s). What you also see are that in 48,538 lines (in the GEDCOM file downloaded), that 5,158 lines have one of these five custom tags. Normally, I will just ignore these tags and import the GEDCOM file into my laptop's genealogy software (REUNION, RootsMagic, PAF, etc.) and let that software ignore these non-understandable tags and within seconds I have my Ancestry.com family tree imported in to my computer's genealogy software. That is fine — no problems.
But what do you think happens you if turn right around and upload that GEDCOM file into your RootsWeb family tree? If you use RootsWeb, then you know you get a LOT of _APID notes across all of your ancestors and sometimes, if you have many facts/citations for any ancestor, then the RootsWeb page for him/her will be horribly marred by all of these _APID tags!
Remember I said the GEDCOM file is a TEXT file. As such it can be edited by whatever your favorite text editor that you use. If your editor does global search/replace, then you can easily remove these CUSTOM tags (_APID, etc.). That will make your RootsWeb family tree individual pages look MUCH better.
Now I know what you are thinking. Do NOT go editing your GEDCOM file! I agree. Make a copy of your GEDCOM file and edit the copy of the downloaded GEDCOM file to remove the lines with '_APID' on them. You can remove all custom tags, but I just bother with the _APID which are so irksome. If your editor can remove the lines with '_APID' then that is what you should do. But if all your editor can do is replace the lines that have _APID on them with a blank line then that is OK too. Make those edits and save the edited (copy) file. The blank lines seem to be ignored by RootsWeb — thank goodness.
Now you can upload the edited file, with the _APID custom tags removed to RootsWeb and your family tree will again look the way it used to before, without these irksome custom tags.
Next time I will tell you what I found when I looked closely at what ANCESTRY.com was putting into the downloaded GEDCOM file.


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The Ontario government announced today it is working with Magna International and its majority-owned Magna E-Car division to assist in the development of a concept electric car, parts for hybrid and plug-in vehicles, components made of lightweight and bio-based materials, and an alternative energy project, details of which were not disclosed. The announcement is expected to lead to the creation of 738 new jobs and the protection of more than 1,300 jobs at Magna facilities in Aurora, Brampton, Concord and St. Thomas.
The government release didn't mention dollars, but reports earlier in the day suggested that the government would be contributing $48 million toward what will be a $432 million R&D investment. This comes after a number of earlier EV-focused announcements, including Toyota's disclosure last month that it will build its RAV4 electric vehicle at its plant in Woodstock, Ontario, and the government's announcement a week later that it is creating an $80 million fund to help spur development and deployment of EV charging infrastructure in the province. Oh, and there was also the $2 million investment in Dana Holding Corp. toward building battery cooling systems for hybrid and plug-in vehicles.
A lot has happened in less than a month. Things are starting to come together… cautiously optimistic.


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His pleasant nature and boyish looks notwithstanding, Alfonso "Trey" Burke III is a shark disguised in a green and white jersey. Few people are as fiercely competitive as the 6-foot-1, 170-pound Northland senior and Michigan signee, who was named yesterday as Ohio's Mr. Basketball by the Associated Press.
By the time he was 4 or 5 years old, Alfonso Burke III already had such advanced basketball skills that the Youth For Positive Image league was moved to rewrite its rules.
"As soon as the other team threw the ball inbounds, I'd steal it from them and score," said Burke, who answers to the nickname "Trey."
"They had to change the rules because of me. I wasn't allowed over half court when they had the ball."
His pleasant nature and boyish looks notwithstanding, Burke is a shark disguised in a green and white jersey. Few people are as fiercely competitive as the 6-foot-1, 170-pound Northland senior and Michigan signee, who was named yesterday as Ohio's Mr. Basketball by the Associated Press.
"When I was a kid, I always cried whenever I lost at anything," Burke said. "I'm not so bad anymore, but I'm still a very goal-oriented person who will do anything it takes to win. When I set a goal, I completely focus myself into reaching it."
Opportunities to cry have been few during his four seasons at Northland, the final three as a starter. The Vikings are 97-4 entering a Division I state semifinal at 8:30 p.m. Friday against Garfield Heights. Burke is only one of three players who never lost a City League game, along with former Northland teammates Jared Sullinger (the 2009 and '10 Mr. Basketball) and J.D. Weatherspoon, both now at Ohio State.
Northland coach Satch Sullinger knew Burke well because he and his son Jared had been best friends since fourth grade. But when Burke's mother was transferred to Atlanta two years later, their dream of playing together appeared foiled. After being reassigned again a year later, the Burkes moved back to Columbus.
When it came time to choose a high school, Sullinger thought Burke would want to play for his father. Weatherspoon and Burke considered Eastmoor Academy, where Alfonso II was an assistant and his mentor, Ronnie Steward, played.
But the wild card came in Northland point guard Devan Moore.
"We figured that with Devon Moore, Jared, J.D. and I, that program really had the potential to take off," Burke said. "Being the competitor I am, I wanted to start for four years, but Devon was somebody I could look up to," he said. "He stuck me, pushed me and really gave me goals to shoot for."
Moore tutored Burke for one season before he left for James Madison, where he has started for three seasons.
Then after Jared Sullinger graduated, Burke set a goal to succeed his good friend.
"My personal trainer and I worked really hard over the summer to improve my strength and quickness and make myself more of a scorer, because I knew coach would ask that of me," Burke said. "We talked about Mr. Basketball, McDonald's All-American and things like that, but at the top of the list was getting a second state championship."
Burke is averaging 23.6 points, 6.8 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 2.6 steals. He is shooting 58.7 percent from the field, 46.6 percent from three-point range (54 of 116) and 73.3 percent at the free-throw line (88 of 120).
Satch Sullinger, for one, wasn't surprised by Burke's emergence as the state's top player.
"Even when he was little, Trey was never afraid of anybody," he said. "He's so cat-quick and has such a great command of the basketball. But it's his basketball IQ that sets him apart. He knows when to push things and when to set up the offense, when to get his teammates involved and when to take over games by himself."
Burke comes from fine stock. The original Alfonso Burke starred at East in the 1950s. Alfonso II was an All-City League player at Eastmoor Academy in the 1980s who went on to set a handful of records at Northwest Missouri State.
In 2009, Burke orally committed to Penn State. He reconsidered and signed with Michigan last fall.
"Penn State was my first Big Ten offer and I got too excited about it," he said. "I just committed too young, too early. When my Dad and I broke down all the steps you're supposed to, I realized that Michigan was by far the best opportunity. Their program will be perfect for me. I see that program going big places."
The only awkward part might be seeing his old pal Jared Sullinger twice each season.
"Except for a few pickup games on the playground, we've never been on different teams before," Burke said. "I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun with it, calling and texting back and forth. That's just another challenge for me."


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Please note the Changi MRT station is located under Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 of the Changi airport. If you arrive at Terminal 1 or Budget terminal, please please proceed to Changi Airport MRT station via Skytrain or airport shuttle buses.
At the MRT station control, you may purchase a) A stored value ez-link card (or) b) Tourist pass (or) c) One journey card.
Alight at Tanah Mehrah station (Station EW4, 2nd station from airport) to transfer to the city bound train (Joo Koon). Alight at Outram Park station (EW16) and switch to North East line train for the MRT to Farrer Park(NE8) or Boon Keng(NE9)stations Mitraa Inn@ Serangoon is a short walk from either of these 2 stations.
From Farrer Park MRT : Take Exit G and walk straight along Serangoon Road for 5 minutes towards Balestier road and you will see Mitraa Inn @Serangoon on the left side of the road, after Shell Petrol station.
From Boon Keng MRT : Take Exit A to Towner Road. Take a short walk of 5 minutes along the Serangoon Road & you will see Mitraa Inn@ Serangoon towards the right side of the road, after Sri Veera Kaliamman Temple.
II. By Taxi
Taxi fares to the hostel will cost around S$20. It is about 20 minutes drive from the airport. You may avoid limousines, vans or London black cabs since they are expensive.
Singapore Taxis have fare meters. Besides, there are certain surcharges for taxis like S$ 3.00 airport surcharge, Midnight surcharge of 50% meter fare from midnight until 5.59 AM, Peak hour surcharge of 35% meter fare from 07.30 to 09.30 hrs and 17.00 to 20.00 hrs.
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