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Declaration by the People of the Cherokee Nation of the Causes Which Have Impelled Them to Unite Their Fortunes With Those of the Confederate States of America.
The Cherokee telephone company which placed in operation the first line in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, came into existence in 1886. A franchise authorizing the erection of the line was granted by the Cherokee National Council at Tahlequah in the autumn of 1885. Work was begun the following year and before its close the first telephone line was a reality, connecting Tahlequah with Fort Gibson in the Cherokee Nation, and with Muskogee in the Creek Nation.
Thursday night the prisoners to the number fourteen in one cell of the National Jail at this place dug out. The excavating has been going on for some time judging from the amount of work done. They removed the stone floor and sawed out some 2x6 scantling, near the wall, then dug under and up to the top of the ground on the outside of the jail.
About 12:30 a.m. on April 15, 1895, some people were returning to the National Hotel (across from the Capitol Building on the North side) in Tahlequah and discovered the fire which had started in a loft in John Wilson's livery stable. The stable was located on Muskogee Avenue at the corner of the alley that is between Delaware and Shawnee streets.


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Location: Smyth County
Campaign: Stoneman's Raid into Southwest Virginia (December 1864)
Date(s): December 20-21, 1864
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. George Stoneman [US]; Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge [CS]
Forces Engaged: Divisions
Estimated Casualties: Unknown
Description: After defeating a Confederate force at Marion on the December 17-18, Stoneman's expedition advanced to Saltville. After determined skirmishing on the part of the outnumbered Confederate defenders, the Federals captured and destroyed the saltworks, accomplishing the objective of their raid.
Result(s): Union victory
CWSAC Reference #: VA082
Preservation Priority: II.3 (Class C)
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Here's an interesting bit of info from the Nielsen folks: over 400,000 women are playing World of Warcraft in the US, which means it's the most-played "core" game for that gender. And even more interesting, females 25 years or older make up the largest block of PC game players overall, and they account for 54.6% of all gameplay minutes in December of last year. Girls don't just play WoW -- they're quickly becoming one of it's main demographics.
You can read the report in PDF form over here -- the chart above might be the most interesting piece of information, as it shows that though males still make up a huge part of the PC gaming audience, many of them have now moved on to consoles, and women (especially older women, over 25), during the last month of last year, are making up a huge audience for PC games. Later in the report, you can see what kinds of games women are really playing: Solitare, Freecell, Minesweeper, and all of those other little attention grabbers on every PC. But among those widespread casual games is our own World of Warcraft. And while the 25-52 male audience of 675, 713 for that game still remains larger than the female audience in the same demo, the ladies aren't far behind.
Neilsen also calculated some base stats for WoW, including the fact that 1.8 million unique people played the game, and the average time of gameplay per week was 744 minutes, just over 12 hours (slightly up from last year's average). Additionally, of those who play World of Warcraft, their second most-played game was Solitaire, followed by Warcraft III. Fascinating stuff. Remember that these are statistics, so they are more general trends than anything else, but it's definitely true World of Warcraft and PC gaming in general is no longer only the domain of the male demographic.


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READING, England, June 7 (UPI) -- British multinational energy company BG Group announced Friday its third floating production platform offshore Brazil started commercial oil and gas production.
BG Group said its Cidade de Paraty floating production, storage and offloading vessel entered into service about 185 miles off the coast of Brazil. The FPSO can process 120,000 barrels of oil and 176 million cubic feet of natural gas per day though the company said full capacity won't be reached until next year.
BG Group Chief Executive Officer Chris Finlayson said the addition of the Cidade de Paraty would help with the company's production goals of 500,000 barrels of oil equivalent from the Santos Basin in Brazil by 2020.
"We now have three FPSO vessels on-stream in the Santos Basin, two of which have started production this year alone as our development programs ramps up," he said in a statement.
An estimated 50 billion barrels of oil lies off Brazil's coast, a volume that's expected to put the Latin American country on par with some of the world's top oil producers.


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"Well, we did it."
Speaking from the slopes of Everest, a tired Mark Jenkins reported success Friday after climbing the world's tallest peak with a National Geographic-The North Face expedition.
"All five of us ... summited Mount Everest" despite unrelenting winds and crowds of climbers, said Jenkins, a National Geographic contributing writer, in a satellite-phone message to the magazine's offices. (Get the entire message on the magazine's blog Field Test: On Everest.)
And in a surprise twist, a sixth member of the team—group leader and The North Face athlete Conrad Anker—summited Saturday despite pulling out of the Friday bid due to exhaustion.
The group that summited Friday included magazine writer Jenkins as well as The North Face athletes Hilaree O'Neill, Kris Erickson, Sam Elias, and Emily Harrington.
Using supplemental oxygen—a near necessity in such thin air—the five climbers reached the top of the mountain via the relatively well-traveled Southeast Ridge route at approximately 8 a.m., local time, Friday.
"It was awesome," team member O'Neill said afterward. "There is a 360-degree view of the Himalaya, and you could see over into Tibet, all of Nepal and the mountains. It was amazing just being able to stand up there, and experiencing that made the whole thing worth it."
The summit attempt was only the most visible part of a wider expedition designed to answer scientific questions about Everest geology and human health.
At the summit, the team collected rock samples for a Montana State University project that aims, in part, to better understand the mineral composition of Everest and to get new measurements for the height of the mountain. The team also participated in Mayo Clinic research into the connection between high-altitude acclimatization and heart failure. (Both institutions are official expedition partners.)
As part of the expedition, MSU created an accompanying online science curriculum focused on topics such as geology, glaciology, and climate change.
Group leader Anker, who was climbing without an oxygen tank, pulled out of the Friday summit attempt after spending days helping Sherpa guides fix climbing ropes.
"I did a 5,000-foot [1,520-meter] day yesterday, and it was just too much," an exhausted Anker said in a phone message Thursday from Camp 4, the final stop before the top. "I tapped all my reserves."
Max Lowe, a National Geographic Society young explorer assisting at Everest Base Camp, said of Anker that, "If he had been able to move at his own pace and not wait behind the large lines of people, he would have been more apt to continue." (National Geographic News is a division of the Society.)
"Being at high altitude for prolonged periods of time is just too dangerous, and he recognized that," Lowe said in an email.
After the five climbers safely returned to Camp 4, Anker surprised everyone by deciding that he felt recovered enough to make a push for the summit himself.
Climbing without oxygen, Anker successfully summited on Saturday with a small group of climbers from the Washington State-based travel service International Mountain Guides, reaching Everest's peak at 10:10 a.m., local time.
The trek marks Anker's first Everest summit via the Southeast Ridge route.
As of Saturday afternoon, eastern time, all six team members were making their way down the rest of the mountain.
The team still needs to cross the Khumbu Icefall (picture), considered perhaps the most treacherous part of the climb, due largely to its avalanche potential and unstable ice towers. In April a Sherpa died after plunging 150 feet (46 meters) into a Khumbu ice crevasse.
Tough Crowd
The South Col Six, as the National Geographic/The North Face team had dubbed itself, was part of a throng of about 150 climbers expected to scale the mountain Friday and Saturday—the last summiting opportunity of the spring Everest climbing season. At the end of May, Sherpas begin removing ladders and ropes along key routes.
So far it's been a "sad, bad year" on Everest, said Jenkins, referring in part to perceived overcrowding, poor weather conditions, and recent fatalities.
Some tour companies, deciding the danger was too great, pulled their teams off Everest entirely, despite the risk of angering clients who'd paid up to U.S. $65,000 for a chance to summit.
Then, last weekend, four people died during a "traffic jam" caused by climbers trying to take advantage of a rare window of favorable weather. (See "In Wake of Everest Deaths, Another 'Traffic Jam' Possible.")
"Normally the summit bids might get spread out over a number of days," said Eric Simonson, Himalaya-program director at International Mountain Guides.
"But what happened this year is the weather was bad"—too little snow, for example, left too much slippery ice exposed—"so teams that might have normally climbed earlier didn't go."
"The Mountain Dictates the Terms"
In the wake of last weekend's Everest deaths, those who know Anker said they trusted him to make the right choice and to always put safety first.
"I just feel sure that if things are risky or sketchy, they're going to turn around," Sadie Quarrier, a National Geographic senior photo editor who'd spent time with Anker and his team at Base Camp earlier this month, said before the team's summit attempt.
Anker's caution was on display just a few weeks earlier, when he made the tough decision to cancel his own attempt to summit via Everest's rarely used West Ridge. He scrapped the plan after his partner, National Geographic photographer Cory Richards, had fallen ill and Anker had deemed conditions on the West Ridge too dangerous.
"Conrad always puts safety first and, just as important, he has enough experience to know when situations cross the line," National Geographic magazine senior editor Peter Miller said from his Washington, D.C., office.
"This is something veteran alpinists like Conrad live by: The mountain dictates the terms, and you need to listen carefully."
After rejoining the main team, Anker made another difficult call last weekend: to skip the first summiting window.
"Everyone in camp was struggling with letting this first weather window pass us by, but in the end I think it's the best decision we could have made," O'Neill wrote at the time on The North Face team blog.
Climbing veteran Ed Viesturs, speaking from Idaho, said the patience Anker demonstrated by waiting is a valuable and hard-earned skill on Everest.
"If it's your first trip, you feel like it's your only chance. You don't have the patience and the understanding," Viesturs said.
"But if you've been to the top five, six, ten times, you're willing to say, You know what, I need great conditions for me to go to the top ... [Anker] understands it's not all about getting to the top. It's about getting home as well."
Overcoming Obstacles
The National Geographic/The North Face team's successful summit bid Friday began inauspiciously.
In addition to the unusually bad weather, the group had been plagued with various health problems in recent weeks. One member, Phil Henderson, had to drop out after getting sick at Camp 2; O'Neill sprained her ankle; Erickson got a sinus infection; and Anker got food poisoning.
"Not pretty," O'Neill blogged about the food poisoning. "I'll spare everyone the details on that."
But by Monday, May 20, most of the team had recovered enough to begin the climb from Base Camp to Camp 2, which is 21,000 feet (6,400 meters) above sea level.
By Wednesday the summit team had safely reached Camp 3, at 23,500 feet (7,163 meters). There they spent an uneasy night amid unpredictable towers of ice called seracs.
"We are just below a series of looming, ten-story-high seracs, which every afternoon get warm and begin to shift," Jenkins said by phone at the time. "Thank God we are only here for one night."
The next day the team began the long trudge to Camp 4, located at 26,000 feet (7,925 meters). Italian climber Simone Moro, who'd been accompanying the team without supplemental oxygen, turned back at this point.
"I was just too scared having to wait behind that many slow people without oxygen to continue," Moro explained in an iPad-only National Geographic blog post.
"If you climb without oxygen and you are stuck in that kind of line, you will get frostbite, at the least. Or as happened on the 19th, you are stuck there and you die."
"Today Is the Day"
At roughly 9:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, the team—now reduced to five members—began the final 3,000-foot (925-meter) push from Camp 4 to the summit, a trip that typically takes between 8 and 12 hours.
"Today is the day we have been waiting for, preparing for, speaking of, and believing in," team member Jenkins said in a voice message before setting out.
"Looking up the black mountain, we could see at least a hundred pinpricks of light, all in a vertical line going straight into the stars," Jenkins recalled later. "These were the headlamps of all the climbers who had started before us."
O'Neill was first to reach the peak, at around 8:15 a.m. Friday. The rest of the team followed shortly after.
"It was very cold and windy but rather beautiful at the same time," Erickson recalled afterward in a voice mail to The North Face colleagues.
The group lingered on the summit for about an hour to take photos—including a self-portrait by Harrington posted to Instagram from Camp 4—and to collect samples and data to meet their scientific goals.
By 4 p.m. the team was safely back at Camp 4, where they split up: Erickson and O'Neill stayed behind to prep for a late-night climb of neighboring Lhotse peak; Harrington and Jenkins set out for Base Camp; and Anker and Elias remained at Camp 4, where Anker decided he would attempt to summit after all.
"We are so grateful our team is back in one piece," National Geographic's Quarrier said from her office in Washington, D.C.
"That's the best news we could ask for. We're hoping the same for all the climbers on the mountain. I wish I was there in Base Camp to give them all a huge welcome-home party."
Reflecting on the achievement, an elated Jenkins admitted that "climbing Mount Everest makes absolutely no sense at all.
"Why do we do it? Well, we all need some deep sleep before we can answer that. Assuming we even can."


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Happy Blogging!!!
As of this post I'm shutting down my Dadequate blog. It's been less than half a year since my first post here, but it's time to move along to other projects.
Nothing dramatic — I'm not quitting fatherhood or anything. But I've had a really busy last few months, my posting frequency has suffered, and the readership and/or following of this blog never really caught on. The embarrassing truth is that my old O Me of Little Faith blog, which hasn't been updated since June 1, still gets nearly as many readers per month as this active blog does. Really. That's crazy, and a little disappointing, and it makes it hard to continue a passion project like this.
So what? a theoretical detractor might say. I've been blogging for 10 years and I only have 37 readers. If you really cared about it, you'd give it time and more commitment!
A good point, and you're right, of course. But here's my dirty little secret. I don't blog because I love to blog. I blog because I love to write. Mostly I love to write books. Blogging — especially on a big site like Beliefnet — helps me maintain and increase my "platform," which is something publishers love to talk about. It involves the number of people who know you and follow you and care about you and want to read stuff you've written. It helps you get books published. Blogging keeps me in the public eye. It helps sell books. It helps me get that next book contract.
As for that book-writing career? It's a side career. It's something I do when I'm not doing my regular, full-time job.
Over the past three months, my "real" job has been incredibly busy. This is good. Steady work is a blessing.
Over the past three months, I've written two short books. One was ghost-written and you won't see my name on it. The other I'll publish as an e-book in January to Kindle and Nook. I've got about a half-dozen ideas for novels stirring in my brain and I'll be pursuing one of them very, very soon. The book thing is good, too.
But the blogging thing to support the book thing that I do in my spare time from my "real" job? It's not going great. It's gotten neglected. It's reaching fewer people than I can justify spending time on. So I'm making the hard decision to pull the plug, and make better use of my time.
For those of you who've told me how much you've liked the content — from the interviews with other dads to the insights into my own parenting style to the goofy videos to share with your kids — thank you. Thanks for reading. Thanks for commenting. Thanks for the emails. I appreciate you. I hope you'll keep being active, caring, present, approachable, and wise dads. Your kids are learning from you all the time, good and bad. Always remember that.
In the meantime, you can still find me on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram (username: jasonboyett). Let's keep in touch.
Sorry for the paucity of posts this week and last. I've been knee-deep in my next book and am facing a self-imposed deadline.
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I have found my Stallings family members as far back as Nicholas Stallings born in the 1600s in middlesex england to my grandfather ellis dixon, ellis is where I have hit a wall. ellis r. dixon was born in 1881 in durham nc. he died in 1948 in portsmouth va. he married lillie stallings no date. ellis is the one i need to find.
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|30th July 2014, 05:44 PM
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|30th July 2014, 05:59 PM
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Not much to hex editing. You'll need for find a Firered .tbl file and a hex editor like gold finger or transhexlation. Then you search for the terms you need and look through offsets until you find what you're looking for.
Yes, it's a very tedious process but it works.
|3rd August 2014, 10:31 PM
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I have a quick question which I didn't see on here. When doing script that occur when I step on the tile, since there are a certain number of Safe Vars and Safe Flags can I recycle the vars and flags or do i need different ones in each script. Bc since I use my working scripts as basses for other scripts sometime they get messed up and I want to know which should I change the Var or the flags to make sure everything works safely.
|3rd August 2014, 10:33 PM
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Umm, look for a list of flags that correspond to the rom you're hacking. Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, the only other way is to test them yourself.
|3rd August 2014, 10:50 PM
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ok. Sorry for that let me make it a bit clearer,
in my fire red hack Im adding some new events that are trip scripts. So for those should I use the safe Var and flags.
Safe Vars:
Safe Flags:
I have like about more than 10 I think. Some are different rival encounters and some are events.
|3rd August 2014, 10:55 PM
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I'm sure there are a few you can use that are being used by FireRed's default scripts. You'd have to look for them though. Always use safe ones if you can.
|4th August 2014, 02:59 AM
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Can I get some help with my 2 intro scripts. I can't seem to make it work the way the script is. The only thing that happens is the 1st text part but if i go back inside a house all sprites disappear [but some times i get the trip script again] not to mention a few times the script tile moves my iteslf when i put it in a certain spot. Anyway here are my two scripts that i need help fixing:
#dynamic 0x80ACB1 '--------------- #org @start lockall setvar 0x4021 0x1 hidesprite 0x10 hidesprite 0x11 hidesprite 0x9 hidesprite 0x8 applymovement 0xFFF @move12 checkgender compare 0x800D 0x1 if 0x1 goto @female compare 0x800D 0x0 if 0x1 goto @male applymovement 0xFFF @move14 waitmovement 0x0 applymovement 0x5 @move1 waitmovement 0x0 applymovement 0x6 @move2 waitmovement 0x0 applymovement 0x7 @move3 waitmovement 0x0 compare 0x800D 0x1 if 0x1 goto @female1 compare 0x800D 0x0 if 0x1 goto @male1 showsprite 0x8 showsprite 0x9 applymovement 0x8 @move4 applymovement 0x9 @move5 msgbox @string2 MSG_KEEPOPEN hidesprite 0x8 showsprite 0x11 msgbox @win MSG_NORMAL hidesprite 0x9 showsprite 0x10 msgbox @lose MSG_NORMAL applymovement 0x10 @move6 hidesprite 0x10 msgbox @string4 MSG_NORMAL applymovement 0x5 @move9 applymovement 0x7 @move10 closeonkeypress waitmovement 0x0 fadescreen 0x1 hidesprite 0x5 hidesprite 0x6 hidesprite 0x7 hidesprite 0x4 setflag 0x206 warp 0x1 0x11 0x1 0x0 0x0 fadescreen 0x0 release end '--------- ' Strings '--------- #org @string1 = [player]: Kira not you and\nTeam Obsidian again.\lKira: Yes. That is right [player]\lTeam Obsidian is back.\lHhaaaa!\l[player]: I don't think so.\l #org @win = Kira: Not quite. I made this\ndevice that just copied your\lpower. Now take a look at my\lnew Shadow Pokemon. You can't win!\l #org @lose = Kira: Go Shadow Mega Swampert!!\nUse Shadow Ball on Mega charizard\lX and [player].\pShadow Mega Swampert: Swaammpp! #org @string4 = Kira: Now grunts capture them\nand lets return to our new hideout. #org @string5 = [player]: Come on Abby. Lets go to\nsee that new horror movie.\lWait something seems off.\l #org @string2 = Come on Kira, I got my Charizard\nand I'm powered up to destroy\lTeam Obsidian once and for all.\lGo Mega Charizard X!\l #org @yourf = [player]: Come on Matt. Lets go to\nsee that new horror movie.\lWait something seems off.\l #org @6 = [player]: Kira not you and\nTeam Obsidian again.\lKira: Yes. That is right [player]\lTeam Obsidian is back.\lHhaaaa!\l[player]: I don't think so.\l #org @female closeonkeypress msgbox @yourf 0x6 release end #org @female1 closeonkeypress msgbox @6 0x6 release end #org @male closeonkeypress msgbox @string5 0x6 release end #org @male1 closeonkeypress msgbox @string1 0x6 release end '----------- ' Movements '----------- #org @move1 #raw 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x2 0xFE #org @move2 #raw 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0xFE #org @move3 #raw 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x2 0x12 0x12 0xFE #org @move4 #raw 0x55 0x55 0xFE #org @move5 #raw 0x54 0x54 0xFE #org @move6 #raw 0x54 0x54 0x66 0x54 0x3B 0xFE #org @move9 #raw 0x066 0x1F 0x1F 0xFE #org @move10 #raw 0x066 0x1F 0x1F 0x1F 0X12 0xFE #org @move11 #raw 0x0 0x2 0x3 0x1 0x7 0x6 0x7 0x4 0xFE #org @move12 #raw 0x3 0x13 0x1 0xFE #org @move14 #raw 0x62 0x2 0x11 0x3 0x62 0xFE
now after this part you are then warped to another place to see more of the story.
#dynamic 0x80DBD4 #org @start lock faceplayer msgbox @1 0x4 closeonkeypress fadescreen 0x1 fadescreen 0x0 waitmovement 0x0 msgbox @2 0x6 applymovement 14 @walk1 waitmovement 0x0 applymovement 15 @walk6 msgbox @3 0x6 applymovement 14 @walk2 waitmovement 0x0 hidesprite 14 waitmovement 0x0 setvar 0x8004 0xF setvar 0x8005 0xF setvar 0x8006 0xF setvar 0x8007 0xF special 0x136 applymovement 15 @walk5 msgbox @4 0x6 waitmovement 0x0 fadescreen 0x1 hidesprite 15 hidesprite 13 hidesprite 12 fadescreen 0x0 applymovement 11 @walk3 msgbox @5 0x6 applymovement 11 @walk4 waitmovement 0x0 fadescreen 0x1 hidesprite 11 warp 0x3 0x19 0x0 0x0 0x0 setvar 0x6000 0x1 setflag 0x1206 release end #org @1 = SCIENTIST 1: Alright Kira.\nEverything is ready to go and we\lcan start the experiment any time\lyou are ready.\pKira: Excellent. Soon\nwe will turn all Pokemon into\lDark Pokemon and brainwash\leverone into Team Dark members.\lNow start it up.\pSCIENTIST 2: Starting it up sir.\p[PLAYER]: Awwwww.\p\nCHARIZARD: RROOOAAAARRR\pSCIENTIST 1: Subject 1 and\nSubject 2 responding.\pSCIENTIST 2: Mechine at maximum\npower. Launching device.\pKira: Mwahaaa! #org @2 = Kira: Yes finally! HAahaaa!\nIt worked. Look at this\lrandom Pokemon I just caught.\p\nSCIENTIST1: Yes Kira the\lexperimennt did indeed work.\p\nABBY: King KIRA. What are your\lorders my lord. #org @3 = KIRA: Yes the brainwashing is a\nsuccess. Now I'm KING KIRA.\pLt. ABBY I want you to take these\nSHADOW BADGES and give them to the\lthe top members who are fit to be\l called ADMINs\pLT. ABBY: As you wish my Lord.\pKIRA: Now go. #org @4 = [PLAYER]: Aaaa hhhaaaaaaaa\pSCIENTEST2: Sir KIRA the power\nlevel is too much. It seems\l[PLAYER] is over loading the\lengines. This place is going to\lblow soon.\pKIRA: Who cares. We got what we\nwanted. Lets leave now and this\lplace can finally take out that\lannoying brat who kept getting in\lour way. Now move out. #org @5 = [PLAYER]: Come on CHARIZARD.\nLets get out of here. #org @walk1 #raw 0x10 0x10 0x3 0x13 0xFE #org @walk2 #raw 0x0 0x10 0x3 0x13 0x0 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0x10 0xFE #org @walk3 #raw 0x2 0x61 0x16 0x66 0xFE #org @walk4 #raw 0x0 0x1D 0x1D 0x1D 0x1D 0x1D 0x1D 0x1D 0xFE #org @walk5 #raw 0x62 0x63 0x65 0x3 0xFE #org @walk6 #raw 0x2 0xFE
Last edited by qaz015393; 6th August 2014 at 02:17 AM. Reason: didn't want to double post since its only been 2 days
|23rd April 2015, 11:54 PM
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Yo, would anyone happen to know where Deoxys' data is stored in FireRed? I was hoping to edit the base stats of its form, since its always reverted to Attack.
|27th January 2016, 09:15 PM
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Generation II tools?
I've been jumping into Gen II ROM hacking, and while there are tools and guides readily available for basic things like mapping, editing sprites and whatnot, and I've even changed a few Pokemon/Trainer sprites without issue, I'm tempted to delve a bit deeper into the mysteries of Pokémon.
So it's known, I do have some programming and scripting experience, and I am capable of working with Hex - but would rather avoid it where possible.
1: Is there a G/S/C script editor available? Johtomap has options for working with scripts, but I don't have a script editor, so...I don't have much use for it.
2: Working with tilesets, I have a few questions. Is it possible to add new ones and have Johtomap read them? Also, is it save to edit garbage tiles I see in existing tilesets, or is is that game data and Johtomap is just reading past the end of the tile data?
2.5: How about editing existing ones? I have Tile Layer Pro, and know that some tilesets are completely uncompressed and just sitting at odd offsets, but there are some that are without a doubt compressed. How do I edit the compressed tilesets?
3: On the subject of tilesets, does anyone know where the animated graphics for tilesets in G/S are stored? I'm at a loss finding them.
With this all addressed, the main reason I'm asking about this is not only because I want to make a few small changes, but because I want to know where I should set the bar for this mini-hack.
|14th August 2017, 07:45 PM
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Hey!Is the Pokemon rom map Editor for Android done? I Need this app!I want to make my own Rom Hack but i don't have a PC
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The final stage is to build a concourse from the new east-end structure, bringing the airport's capacity up to 14 or 15 gates.


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Why is it when you go abroad all the food just looks so much more interesting? Speculoos pasta is one of my favourite 'foreign' supermarket finds - it is a Dutch spread based on the lovely Lotus biscuits you can buy in UK supermarkets. I know it sounds weird but it is ADDICTIVE. I hearby start the campaign to get it sold here. You can email them via their, rather boring, UK site.
Just before I left my old crappy office job in March a colleague mentioned he was going to Amsterdam for a day and he kindly brought me back a jar of paste and two packets of Speculoos sprinkles aka Hagel. Yesterday I finally got round to using them and damn, why did I wait so long?
I made two kinds of cupcakes - one stuffed with Speculoos and one with it baked in.
I used my basic vanilla cupcake recipe (except I used slightly less vanilla than usual), and scooped some into the cases with my trusty ice cream scoop, then mixed two dollops (approx 2 tablespoons - give or take some spoon licking) into the leftover mixture for the baked Speculoos cupcakes.
For the plain cupcakes - once cooled I scooped the middle out of them and added a heaped teaspoon into the centre of the cakes. Again spoon licking may have been involved.
The frosting is trusty vanilla frosting base (125g unsalted butter, 250g icing sugar - milk if necessary), without vanilla, with about 2 -3 tablespoons of Speculoos mixed in to taste. And boy did it taste pipe straight into your mouth good.
The plain ones got topped with a swirl of frosting and a good sprinkle of Speculoos Hagel - little sprinkles of biscuit. The baked Speculoos ones I did a circle of frosting and filled the middle with spread before topping with sprinkles. This was my favourite one I think, but it was difficult to choose - they were both delicious.
As I was baking these I realised the mixes go out of date next month so I am giving away an unopened box of Speculoos Hagel Mix, the biscuit sprinkles mixed with chocolate. The Dutch put these on buttered toast, but they are great cupcakes toppers, could be mixed into cake or just eaten from the box.
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Finally you can buy Speculoos paste in the UK online but compare the prices to Hollands - 1 Euro - I must get to Holland soon. They also have crunchy spread. The lucky sods.


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- Words by Mr Richard Benson
In the 20 years since his death, Mr Kurt Cobain has become a global icon for those who feel alienated, marginalised or just plain bored by the mainstream, but in life, however, his demeanour seemed the very antithesis of an international figurehead or superstar. Diffident, ungroomed and dressed in workwear and thrift-store clothing, he certainly looked an unlikely challenger to the dominant, poodle-permed pomp rockers of the 1980s, like, say, Guns N' Roses or Def Leppard. Paradoxically, though, it was that very downbeatness that made him so sympathetic and appealing. The 1980s brash, showy, materialism had left many young people feeling disenchanted by the time Nirvana began to break through at the end of the decade, and there was already a huge audience just waiting for such an antihero to come along.
Those early audiences instinctively recognised the significance of Mr Cobain's style, just as he himself was aware of clothing's power to make statements. As a teenage punk in a small town in Washington State, he had been a fan of the Sex Pistols, who had been dressed by Ms Vivienne Westwood and managed by that arch semiotician Mr Malcolm McLaren. Moving to nearby Seattle for its burgeoning punk/ hardcore scene, he found others with similar ideas, and their choice of a grungy, sometimes playful workwear/ thrift look was not quite accidental. What became known as the grunge look implied a rejection of conservative values and, in its androgyny (long hair for men, dresses with heavy boots for girls) a hostility to gender stereotypes. According to the writer Ms Amy Raphael, who was close to Mr Cobain and his wife Ms Courtney Love, the couple "deliberately worked that look together in Seattle" and "knew what they were doing" in using it to push alternative values in the media that covered their music.
What Mr Cobain was doing in adopting this style and music was expressing radical views and feelings that developed out of his many unhappy childhood experiences. He had grown up in a dysfunctional, divorced family, and felt unusual and isolated at school. One of his friends was gay, and for this young Mr Cobain himself was bullied. "I knew I was different," he told an interviewer later. "I thought I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male." Remember these were the Reagan-Bush years, 15 years before the metrosexual, a time when in Middle America, even two straight men dancing together could be hounded out of a nightclub. Mr Cobain's vocal opposition to sexism, racism and homophobia as Nirvana became famous would help change those entrenched attitudes, and the eyeliner, long hair and dresses he wore were as much a part of that opposition as his interviews and benefit gigs.
Diffident, ungroomed and dressed in workwear and thrift-store clothing he looked an unlikely challenger to the dominant pomp rockers of the 1980s... but it was that very downbeatness that made him so sympathetic and appealing
In 1991, in the midst of a severe economic recession that challenged the smug complacency of the previous decade, Nevermind thrust Nirvana noisily into the mainstream. At the same time Mr Douglas Coupland published Generation X, a novel about a generation of kids who had given up on now-unachievable career success and chosen instead alternative lifestyles based on their own values. Rolling Stone magazine framed Mr Cobain as the spokesman for Gen X, and Mr Marc Jacobs used him and Seattle as the inspiration for one of the most famous collections in fashion history, namely his SS93 grunge collection for Perry Ellis. (Unconfirmed reports say that after the collection failed to sell, Mr Jacobs posted all the original samples to Mr Cobain and Ms Love, who then promptly burned them).
Looking back, his elevation seems inevitable. "He looked like a model," says Ms Raphael. "He was startlingly handsome, he had a good body, and although he didn't understand the fashion icon thing, he did know how to dress. Most important was the ennui. Models put it on, but his ennui was real and genuine, and people felt it."
He was, of course, profoundly uncomfortable with his celebrity, and increasingly disappointed that parts of his audience ignored his messages about politics and gender. Suffering from a serious drug dependency, he killed himself at his home in Seattle in April 1994. At the time some British commentators suggested his work and death would ultimately be meaningless, but they were wrong. Nirvana opened up the mainstream media to "alternative" or "indie" music like no act before or since. More importantly Mr Cobain enabled the marginalised to make their voices heard, and demonstrated the size and power of their constituency as no one had since at least the 1960s.
He can also be credited with helping to usher in a more open notion of masculinity, and in this, as in his other achievements, his unique sense of style was of crucial importance. Those flannel shirts, torn jeans and perfectly sloppy cardigans may have looked like shabby make-do gardening gear to the establishment, but to the alienated, marginalised and bored their message was clear and uplifting. "Come as you are," they said. And boy, did the people come.


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The roots of bluegrass
"I hate folk music," she said. "Peter, Paul and Mary make me want to vomit."
Quite a bold statement, on her part, and I have to admit it flustered me. Yes, I too have occasionally felt like vomiting when Peter, Paul and Mary comes on the radio. Who hasn't? But to hate folk music? All folk music? What does that even mean?
I tried to come up with a sufficiently cutting response, but the best I could do was stammer out some high and mighty hokum about ballads of the working poor and the traditions of anonymous musicianship. Even I didn't buy it.
Her assertion continued to haunt me. As I thought about the conversation later, I began wondering about the degree to which the term folk music may have been permanently mangled by the worst of the so-called "folk revival," a musical period that reached its commercial peak in the '60s with horrible, sugary dreck best exemplified by Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, and The Kingston Trio.
At a concert this Friday evening at the South Broadway Cultural Center, Blaine Sprouse, Peter Feldmann and Wayne Shrubsall will explore the origins of bluegrass, a genre that hasn't been around that long, but that's deeply linked to the ancient, weird, anonymous music sometimes called folk. The idea behind the show is to explore how old-time traditional music from Appalachia, along with elements from gospel and jazz, evolved into the musical form pioneered by Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys in the mid-'40s.
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Shrubsall, the banjo king of New Mexico, rounds out the show.
All three can play and explain this music extremely well. Feldmann, in particular, specializes in exploring the folk roots of the bluegrass form. So, if it's a musical education you're after, you'll get one. For those of you who aren't into musical scholarship: I'm told a wood dance floor will be open for anyone who wants to shake their business during the show.


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Production efficiency is good, since plastic parts rarely require additional shaping. Right from the start, the part has the correct surface structure and colour without the needing to be cleaned or trimmed.
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Thomas brought this up and I think it is the most important thing going forward. One of the points of OJB is that it is easy to use it to implement arbitrary object persistence to arbitrary backends. Thomas is working on a Prevayler backed PersistenceBroker, I want to experiment with a couple alternative querying mechanisms, etc.
There are a couple facets to the ApiSpi seperation as I see them. The first is a clean SPI for tools mapping to a persistence back end. This would be implemented by a relational database SPI, a JNDI SPI, etc. It serves as an interface to the persistence mechanism. An OJB to CMP SPI would be entertaining
The API side is the client API to OJB's persistence mechanism. In theory everything is built on top of the PersistenceBroker right now, but the ODMG implementation is off in its own world. The PersistenceBrokerAPI and the OTM are the two "low level" API's upon which other services can and should be built. The design of those API's should be around enabling higher level API's to be built on them, rather than being as convenient as possible as a client API in their own rights.
The PersistenceBrokerAPI is the designated PersistenceKernel for OJB and should be refactored with this in mind. The stated intention is to move the ODMG implementation on top of the OTM, and then the JDOSupport as well. I think that the OTM should only support the PersistenceBrokerAPI as a client API in order to keep it more maintainable (as of this writing it supported OQL and PersistenceBokerAPI style queries. -- BrianMcCallister


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PSU AOTI System Updates
PSU AOTI System Updates
Nov 14 2007, 10:54 AM
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PSU AOTI Update
PSU Update Schedule
Due to the specifications for upgrading our servers for Ambition of the Illuminus, we are introducing new system changes separately to the servers on Friday 11/16 and Tuesday 11/20.
Schedule for 11/16 and 11/20
11/16: PSU to AOTI System Upgrade for PlayStation 2/PC, Normal Maintenance for Xbox 360
11/20: PSU to AOTI System Upgrade for Xbox 360, No Maintenance for PlayStation 2/PC
11/20: AOTI Content Live For All Servers
PSU to AOTI System Upgrades!
Ambition of the Illuminus will be here in one week, and we are updating the servers to get ready for the expansion. Unless otherwise noted, all of these system changes are in effect for players using the original Phantasy Star Universe, and many more enhancements are included within the expansion. For clarity, PSU will refer to the original version and AOTI to the expansion. As previously stated these changes will take effect on 11/16 for the PlayStation 2/PC and 11/20 for Xbox 360.
Lobby Transport: Players can transport directly to Field Lobbies they have already visited by paying meseta to the Lobby Attendant NPC. This will only work for lobbies you have visited after this update.
Increased Photon Arts Levels: Photon Arts level limit is currently 30, but Photon Arts can be level 31-40 after AOTI launch.
Protranser Gains Detect Traps Ability: Traps, previously only detected by goggles, are now always visible to Protransers. However, goggles are required to uncover and disarm traps.
Chat Availability: Chat communication becomes available during some event cutscenes, such as boss enemy entrances.
Changes To First Person View And Goggle Activation: This adjustment will cause a delay when switching between normal camera, first-person and goggle viewing modes.
First-Person View Available While Seated: Now you can get better camera angles while sitting down in rooms and lobbies.
Increased Synthesis Success and Elemental Attribute Results: Synthesis success rates and elemental attribute results will be higher. The success rate when using rare and unusual materials will be raised even further. In addition, there are more varied results when synthesis fails. To make failure less punishing, synthesis materials related to target item or unusual items may be created.
Weapon Grinding Changes: Weapons no longer break when a grinding upgrade attempt fails. However, grind status will be reset (back to zero) and the maximum number of grinds is lowered by one. For example, the first time you fail when grinding a weapon, its grind status will become 0/9, and it can no longer be ground to +10.
Just Attack Available: Just Attack is the melee timed-attack system where critical hits are caused by following up melee attacks with precise timing. Just Attack will work with Skill Photon Arts; players can automatically critical with their whole Photon Art if it is activated after the second part of a normal melee attack. As a result of this, Just Attack will work a maximum of five times continuously (Normal melee attack, followed up with the 2nd and 3rd part of the normal attack chain, then 1st, 2nd and 3rd Photon Art attacks). There is no special effect in PSU for Just Attack (there is a special effect in AOTI), but Attack button icon will become brighter. Due to a unique issue, PSU players cannot activate Just Attack when using Photon Arts after 3rd attack with knuckles, although this will work in AOTI.
Just Counter Available: Just Counter is a critical counter-attack activated by attacking with precise timing after evading enemies (the shield guard animation). It is possible to use Photon Arts for Just Counter, including Bullet and TECHNIC Photon Arts. There is no special effect in PSU for Just Counter (there is a special effect in AOTI), but Attack button icon becomes brighter.
Photon Points Will Be Recovered By Normal Melee Attacks: Photon Points of your equipped melee weapon will recharge when attacking normally (without using Photon Arts). Extra PP are recovered with a critical hit.
Elemental Attribute Calculation Changes: The difference in damage between weapons with different elemental attributes has been reduced. With this update, the damage will be almost the same when using 50% elemental weapons against the correct element, as it was previously. However, players will notice damage is much improved for weapons with low attributes, no attribute, or against creatures with the same attribute as your weapon.
Character Damage and Defense Adjusted: Changes are made to characters' base damage and defense to balance the changes with elemental attribute damage calculation.
SUV and Nanoblast Changes: When using SUV weapons and Nanoblasts, CASTs and Beasts will no longer lose any positive status bonuses granted by support TECHNICs and consumables.
Weapons Drop With Elemental Attributes: Attributes will be added with random percentages when whole weapons and armors are dropped. Which attribute is added for actual weapons and armors depends upon the manufacturer.
Meseta Drops Increase With Size Of Party: Meseta amount players receive from enemy drops will increase according to number of party members.
The Default For Item Distribution Is Now "Set Random": This change only affects Rare Item distribution.
Changes To Meseta Distribution: When "Set random" or "Set in order" is selected on the Adjust item distribution menu, picked up meseta is distributed to all party members evenly. Only the player picking up the meseta will receive it if set to "Give finder".
Photon Arts Balance Update: Some parts of low-power Photon Arts are updated to balance them with high-power Photon Arts. This update will bring more variety to battle by making different Photon Arts more effective.
Updating Endurance For Huge Enemies: To improve attack variation against huge enemies, endurance will be lowered for some parts of huge enemies which are currently affected by high-level status effects. With this update, even low-level status effects become potentially useful against huge enemies, although they will have low probability of working.
Enemy Experience Increased: Defeating enemies will grant more experience, especially at lower levels. Players can reach at Level 100 faster then they can currently, but leveling up becomes slower after that.
Changes to Status Inflicting Attacks: Inflicting negative status will be easier for players and enemies. Using different status attacks will be a more effective strategy then before.
Bonus Damage Using 'Hanzo' With Photon Arts: Now this Seven Star GRM long sword is especially good for Photon Arts.
Bonus Damage Using Kubara Melee Weapons With Photon Arts: Now all Kubara melee weapons are especially effective when using Photon Arts.
NPC Shops Will Pay More For Certain Items: Weapons can be sold to NPC shops for higher price. Selling prices will be also be updated for certain items.
Beauty Salon Is Discounted: Certain character customization options in the Lumilass salon are discounted.
11/20 AOTI Content is Live!
PSU: Ambition of the Illuminus has shipped!! Please enjoy the expanded PSU with many additional missions, items and new features. Note: All content information below is for AOTI only unless otherwise noted that it affects standard PSU.
AMF HQ Recovery C to S: Mission Counter: Parum: AMF HQ
Military Subway C to S: Mission Counter: Parum: AMF Metro Linear Platform: Central Command
Scarred Planet C to S: Mission Counter: Parum: Holtes City Flyer Base
Lightning Beasts C to S: Mission Counter: Parum: Old Rosenom City: Paracabana Coast
Sakura Blast C to S: Mission Counter: Neudaiz: Mizuraki C.D. Kugo Hot Spring: Kego Clearing
Caves of Ice C to S: Mission Counter: Moatoob: North Continent: Vio Tonga, Granigs Mine
Awoken Serpent C to S: Mission Counter: Moatoob: North Continent: Granigs Mine, Voloyal
New Enemies: Along with the new missions, you will find many new enemies to battle.
Casino: Voloyal is a special lobby featuring casino games. Slot machines and a giant roulette wheel can be played with special coins different from Meseta. Exchange coins for rare items! Note: You can receive 100 special coins in a day with each account from the bank in the Casino. This is not transferable.
Autumn Leaf Lobby at GUARDIANS Colony and Neudaiz: Winter is approaching! Lobbies in GUARDIANS Colony and Neudaiz are decorated with autumn leaves! How about taking it easy these autumn nights and sitting down under the beautiful foliage? This is also in effect for standard PSU.
New categories added: "Photon Whip," "Slicer," Shadoog" and "Madoog" are added.
Many new weapons: There is a large addition of new weapons to existing weapon categories available in shops.
New units: New Rank B units are available in shops.
New Clothes and Parts: Each shop adds new clothes for Human, Newman and Beast characters and parts for CASTs. New color variations are available for existing clothes and parts.
New Photon Arts: Chikki Kyoren-jin and Visshi Grudda are added to Skill venders in shops.
Partner Machinery Update: The following partner machines have been rebalanced: GH413, GH423, GH433, GH443 and GH453. This is also in effect for standard PSU.
Many other new items are also in shops!
New GUARDIAN Types: Acrofighter and Acrotecher advanced GUARDIAN types are available for players who meet the qualifications.
New Level Cap: Level cap is extended to Level 110. This is also in effect for standard PSU.
New Type Level Cap: Advanced Type level cap is extended to Level 15. This is also in effect for standard PSU. Basic types (Hunter/Ranger/Force) do not go above 10.
Nov 14 2007, 11:36 AM
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Your sig was redirecting to the Windows Live login page, I disabled your sig on this post for now.
~Edit: It seems to be fine now, I re-added your sig again.
Nov 14 2007, 11:58 AM
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HEL YEH. This update is massive and it's certainly enough content to hold for 4 days when Illuminus drops. I plan to get those lobbies situated, I wonder how long it would take to do an entire planet run haha.
Nov 14 2007, 12:48 PM
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HEL YEH. This update is massive and it's certainly enough content to hold for 4 days when Illuminus drops. I plan to get those lobbies situated, I wonder how long it would take to do an entire planet run haha.
"Brotherhood asked for no friendship, only loyalty. They stood back to back as the galaxy burned - always brothers, never friends; traitors together unto the last."
--an Excerpt from a Night Lords Novel Void Stalkers Chapter X: Revenge
Nov 14 2007, 03:51 PM
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HEL YEH. This update is massive and it's certainly enough content to hold for 4 days when Illuminus drops. I plan to get those lobbies situated, I wonder how long it would take to do an entire planet run haha.
Let's doob it.
Nov 14 2007, 05:01 PM
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Awesome we get all these updates without even having to get the expansion installed.
Hel yeh, i'm down for a full universe-wide lobby activating adventure!
I just put my preorder in for the expansion today too, so I'll be there day one
Nov 21 2007, 01:11 PM
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Got my copy at lunch, can't wait till work is over. FFXI: WotG got delayed to friday due shipping problems and the holiday.
Nov 21 2007, 01:54 PM
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I'm heading to get my copy in several minutes. I'm psyched man haha. Imma get a lot of playtime in before I kick it with the fam tomorrow haha.
Nov 21 2007, 03:13 PM
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Augh, I totally forgot about this. I need to pick mine up on the way home from work.
Nov 21 2007, 05:55 PM
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Just picked it up along with the PC version of Call of Duty 4.
Installing as I type this =)
Nov 21 2007, 08:11 PM
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Looks like I can't play till Friday... :(
Nov 23 2007, 02:25 AM
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I never really played PSU much because of WoW. I kept my account active if I ever wanted to play. So I have AOI and to give it a spin this week. Check out the new stuff you know.
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Yummy! I'm gonna have to try these! I have a can of pumpkin in my pantry right now!!
Another winner, li'l girl! Thanks. Keep 'em coming.
Yummy and easy!!! That's awesome :D
Yummy fall is in the air as is pumpkin recipes, super easy and great looking.
Delicious muffins. I think I need one! Thanks for sharing.
Yum - and I have everything that I need to cook myself up a batch!
It is Fall, pumpkin season and this is perfect for this time of the year. I have to break out a can of pumpkin and bake. Thanks for sharing this with us.
These are HANDS-DOWN the BEST Pumpkin muffins I have ever had!!
We just love a great warm muffin with our morning coffee and your recipe looks so delicious. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and have a great week!
Come Back Soon,
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These are perfect for Fall! Thanks so much for sharing these delicious muffins at Muffin Monday!
Love these! So perfect for fall and I love crumb toppings : )
Thanks for sharing at Mealtime Monday!
I love pumpkin. Your muffins look so yummy. I love the crumb topping that you have added.
Those are so cute!
(I found you via trick or treat tuesday)
Mm. Mm. Mm. These look absolutely scrumptious! Would love if you'd join our Countdown to Fall link party! Hope to see you there! Have a great day! :)
I can't wait to get my oven fixed so I can make these! Thanks for linking up at Meatless Monday! Having a weekend hop today too if you'd like to share there: http://jessica-healthymommyhealthybaby.blogspot.com/2012/09/sweet-saturday-19-my-lily-is-growing-up.html. have a nice weekend :)
Pumpkin always says fall to me. I love easy pumpkin muffins and yes, I would like a sugar coating on mine please:-)


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- 2 large eggs, well beaten
- 3 tbsp seltzer
- 2 tbsp schmaltz, melted (preferably herb-infused)
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
- ½ cup matzo meal
Mix the eggs, seltzer, chicken fat, salt, and pepper in a bowl. Gradually stir in the matzo meal, stirring until everything is well combined.
Chill, covered, for at least 4 and up to 8 hours.
Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Using cool, wet hands, shape the matzo mixture into 8 balls, each about 1½ in in diameter. Reduce the heat to simmering and gently add the matzo balls. Cover the pot and poach the matzo balls in the barely simmering water for 25 min.
— poaching separately will preserve the flavors in the matzo balls so they don't just taste like mushy bits of soup. The temperature of just water is also easier to control than that of a pot of soup.


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missing you madly Mary ... hope all is well and we'll be here when you get back to blogland xxxxxxxReplyDelete
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when you return.
ps. I've just hand quilted my mini quilt ala MF and I love it!!
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I saw this picture too, I love it! Hope you are well :)ReplyDelete
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Hope everything is ok. We will all be here when your able to come back. Take lots of care, dee xReplyDelete
You are in my thoughts dear Mary. Prayers and hugs to you and yours! May all your umbrellas be sun shades. XXXReplyDelete
Sending you and your family lots of big hugs!!!!ReplyDelete
Take care of those important things. Will miss you while your away, but totally understand.ReplyDelete
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Sometimes when it rains, it pours. Hope the sun comes out for you soon, Mary!ReplyDelete
Take all the time you need! Hope everything is ok. Great picture choice, too.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to you being back. Life trumps blog is how it needs to be. Hope all is alright.ReplyDelete
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thinking of you. sending lots of prayers your way.ReplyDelete
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Oh, American Apparel. How often I wore your super-tight forest green U-neck dress as an NYU sophomore in 2007, and how much I now regret the Facebook pictures that resulted. (Let's just say I can never run for public office.) But the brand's ad strategy — which generally involves gamine-like female AA employees in various scantily-clad, come-hither poses that are enough to make Don Draper blush — has been controversial even before it hit all the major cities.
The man behind these images is American Apparel's CEO Dov Charney, who makes notoriously skeevy perv-cum-hipster "Uncle Terry" Richardson look like an SVU-driving soccer dad. Charney's been accused multiple times of sexually harassing his female employees and once blithely masturbated in front of a reporter from the now-defunct Jane Magazine.
So it's unsurprising that British watchdog group the Advertising Standards Authority has taken issue with the latest crop of ads from the retailer, reports the New York Daily News. "We considered there was a voyeuristic quality to the images, which served to heighten the impression that the women were vulnerable and in sexually provocative poses. For the reasons given, we considered the ads were likely to cause serious offense to visitors to American Apparel's website."
The ads depict a woman in a bodysuit, thigh highs and a large knitted sweater who appears to be sans underwear. In other images from the same campaign, close-up shots of her crotch show a pretty clear outline of her business (o hai vulva). As the English would say, "Cripes."
Are these more gratuitous than the various ads that have come before? Maybe. But the brand's vacillated from bankruptcy and back over the last few years, no doubt due in part to the shock value of the ads, and Charney's been getting away with this stuff for a long time now. I highly doubt that anything's gonna change. If nothing else, the potential ban will probably help sales in cities like London.
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Viviane Reding
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Privacy: the challenges ahead for the European Union
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Keynote Speech at the Data Protection Day
28 January 2010, European Parliament, Brussels
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am pleased to be with you today to celebrate the Data Protection Day. The growing number of events organised each year all over Europe to raise awareness and inform citizens of their privacy rights clearly demonstrates the usefulness of this Day. I am particularly glad to see here, in the European Parliament, so many young participants at the "Think Privacy" event. It is evidence of the growing understanding by the young generation of the importance of keeping control over their data.
Whether we want it or not, almost every day we share personal data about ourselves. These data are collected, processed and then stored out of our sight. By booking a flight ticket, transferring money, applying for a job or just using the Internet we are exposing our private lives to others. Sometimes it is necessary. For example we declare our income to allow the State to collect taxes. Sometimes we give our personal data because we simply chose to do so. For example we give our address to a seller to receive new offers and discounts. But sometimes we do not want to show our data. Still, data are being collected without our consent and often without our knowledge. This is where European law comes in.
It is my firm belief that we cannot expect citizens to trust Europe if we are not serious in defending the right to privacy . We need to ensure that personal data are protected against any unauthorised use and that citizens have the right to decide on the way their data are processed. Privacy and the protection of personal data have always been high on my list of priorities as the Commissioner for the Information Society.
Let me give you some examples:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As the EU's Information Society Commissioner, I have had many opportunities to see the impressive power of innovation of information society and the creation of exciting and promising new products and services. Unfortunately, privacy and the protection of personal data were not always a key ingredient at the early development stage of these products and services.
Here we need a change of approach: Businesses must use their power of innovation to improve the protection of privacy and personal data from the very beginning of the development cycle. Privacy by Design is a principle that is in the interest of both citizens and businesses. Privacy by Design will lead to better protection for individuals, as well as to trust and confidence in new services and products that will in turn have a positive impact on the economy. I have seen some encouraging examples, but much more needs to be done.
Now let me turn to the wider picture. Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union enshrine the fundamental rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data of every individual in a legally binding nature. We have also a solid set of principles established by our General Data Protection Directive of 1995. However, we can not rest on our laurels! The world has changed and keeps changing since 1995. The EU has to lead the world when it comes to protecting personal data. As such the EU will have to provide a robust legal instrument to respond to the challenges posed by the rapid development of new technologies and by evolving security threats. The demand for personal data continues to grow massively, and so should our determination to reinforce the rights of individuals over the use of their personal data.
The European Commission is currently analysing the over 160 responses to the public consultation on the reform of the General Data Protection Directive. I can tell you that most responses call for stronger and more consistent data protection legislation across the Union. We will carefully assess all responses and prepare a future proposal in line with the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. There are important challenges ahead:
In our external relations we should firmly promote fundamental rights including the right to privacy and protection of personal data. The right to data protection should also be respected when performing simple operations like transferring money, booking a flight ticket or passing a security check at the airport .
Why should citizens have to reveal their personal information in order to prove that they have nothing to hide?
This leads me to body scanners.
I am convinced that body scanners have a considerable privacy-invasive potential. Their usefulness is still to be proven. Their impact on health has not yet been fully assessed. Therefore I cannot imagine this privacy-intrusive technique being imposed on us without full consideration of its impact.
The same applies to large volumes of our financial data transferred to the U.S. I remain to be convinced that all these SWIFT transfers are necessary, proportionate and effective to fight terrorism. I will be looking into this very closely in the coming weeks.
I want to make sure that our EU legislation and international agreements are based on evidence rather than on emotional responses to the latest scare.
Thank you for your attention!
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