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Just in time for the weekend, the Associated Press reported on Friday that the Department of Homeland Security had notified 21 states earlier that day that their election systems had been targeted by malicious cyber actors. The states and DHS quickly jumped to the conclusion that Russia had ordered the cyberattacks, even though it was reported that the identity or identities of the perpetrators were inconclusive Yet, the news spread like wildfire after readers had been primed as reports of possible infiltartion of state election systems had circulated for nearly a year. Even so, for many states, the call Friday from the Department of Homeland Security was the first official confirmation that their election systems had, in fact, been targeted by hackers.
Federal officials said that in most of the 21 states, the targeting was preparatory activity such as scanning computer systems.
But in a stunning reversal - one which we doubt will put endless rumors of Russian cyberinterference to bed - the AP now reports that DHS has told Wisconsin that the Russian government was not involved in the cyber-targeting.
In an email to the state's deputy elections administrator that was provided to reporters at the Wisconsin Elections Commission meeting on Tuesday, Homeland Security said that initial notice of Russian involvement was made in error. Also, as we noted at the time, the government did not originally assign blame to the Russians when news of the alleged "scanning" initially broke on Friday although most medias jumped at the opportunity to blame Putin.
Infuriated by the error, some state officials said that DHS should provide an expalanation for the errror, or at least issue an apology to state elections officials, who were understandbly unnerved by the news of Russian involvement.
"Based on our external analysis, the WI IP address affected belongs to the WI Department of Workforce Development, not the Elections Commission," said the email from Juan Figueroa, with Homeland Security's Office of Infrastructure Protection.
It wasn't immediately known if Homeland Security made similar mistakes with any of the other 20 states. Figueroa did not immediately reply to an email seeking an explanation of how the mistake was made.
Homeland Security initially told the Elections Commission that the Russians scanned the state's internet-connected election infrastructure, likely seeking specific vulnerabilities to access voter registration databases.
"Either they were right on Friday and this is a cover up, or they were wrong on Friday and we deserve an apology," Mark Thomsen, the commission's chairman, said in light of the new email.
Wisconsin's chief elections administrator Michael Haas told AP that Homeland Security had assured the state that it had not been targeted - by Russians, or anybody else, for that matter.
"Wisconsin was not provided any information that indicated before the November election that Russian government actors were targeting election systems," Haas said. He said one theory is that Homeland Security saw suspicious activity from IP addresses targeting state election systems in other states and assumed that was the intent in Wisconsin as well.
Others were apparently in shock: "It's been a difficult process trying to piece all of this together," said Wisconsin Elections Commission spokesman Reid Magney. "We're trying to understand what happened."
Furthermore, Wisconsin's chief information officer, David Cagigal, told the elections commission that Wisconsin had never been told by Homeland Security, prior to the Friday notice, that Russians had targeted Wisconsin's election system or anything else. Deputy information officer, Herb Thompson, said Homeland Security told the state in October to check on a certain IP address that the state had blocked from accessing its systems in August 2016.
"We have never seen any of those activities result in anything other than someone trying to turn the doorknob to see if a door is open," Thompson said. "Those IP addresses we talked about, we had blocked, they were related to non-election systems." Cagigal said, "Our systems were protected and we had no incidences."
Still, the state's election commission has promised to improve security before the midterms next year. Reports that Russians may have targeted, or infiltrated, state voting systems have been circulating since late last year, when the Washington Post published a story about alleged Russian infiltration in Vermont, only to retract the story shortly after.
While we doubt that this will be the last "Russia hacked the elections" fake news, it is reassuring that all this frenzied chaos will at least bring some security to America's voting systems. Security enhancements being considered include encrypting the entire voter registration database to protect the information and make it unusable to anyone who may be able to steal it and requiring two-factor authentication for the roughly 3,000 local and state officials who have access to the WisVote system.
Perhaps an appropriate question is why this wasn't done before?


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Many people who suffer from chronic depression know that it can be a debilitating condition that can prevent you from holding on to a job or even performing everyday activities and maintaining personal relationships. It is possible for individuals to collect disability benefits for both physical and mental ailments. However, it can be more challenging to collect these benefits for a mental illness such as depression. That's because symptoms of a mental illness can be more challenging to evaluate and it may be more difficult to evaluate the severity of a mental condition.
Challenges for the Mentally Ill
The challenges multiply for those seeking these benefits because disability claims examiners who work for the Social Security Administration are often not licensed psychiatrists. They are neither qualified nor in a position to understand the full scope of challenges or limitations posed by certain mental illnesses. For example, some disability examiners don't understand that the onset of mental illnesses could occur at any time and that symptoms could return.
In addition, some of these examiners may have an inherent bias against disability claims for mental illness and simply assume that disability applicants who claim mental illness are lazy or faking their illness for the sake of benefits. This is indeed unfortunate because one in four Americans suffers from mental illness in the United States, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Understanding Depression
Depression is the leading cause of disability when it comes to nonfatal medical conditions in the United States. Depression is basically a mood disorder, which causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It is a condition that can affect how you feel, think and behave. It could also lead to a variety of other emotional and physical problems. Those who are depressed may have trouble performing normal day-to-day activities and may even have suicidal tendencies. Depression often requires long-term treatment. It could be caused by biological or genetic factors. Sometimes, stress and other environmental factors could also cause depression.
Some of the common symptoms of depression include:
- Feelings of sadness, emptiness or hopelessness
- Angry, emotional outbursts or frustration, even over small matters
- Loss of interest in hobbies, sports or sex
- Sleep disorders such as insomnia or sleeping too much
- Lack of energy or exhaustion
- Changes in appetite. Some may lose appetite and weight while others may have increased cravings and experience weight gain
- Anxiety or agitation
- Slowed thinking, speaking or body movements
- Inability to get out of bed
- Trouble thinking, focusing, making decisions and remembering thinks
- Unexplained physical problems such as headaches or back pain
- Recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal thoughts or suicide attempts
Qualifying for Disability Benefits
In order to qualify for disability benefits, a person who has been afflicted with depression must meet the criteria for disability that are spelled out in Social Security's impairment listing manual. The individual can also be granted a medical-vocational allowance based on the severity of their depression and a combination of other factors such as work history, age, education level and other impairments.
Depression is listed under "affective disorders" in Social Security's impairment listing manual. To qualify for Social Security Disability benefits for depression, applicants must show that they have severe depression by showing that they have at least four major symptoms of depression. Also, Social Security requires that these symptoms cause you serious difficulty with everyday activities, social functioning, concentrating/focusing or repeated extended periods of worsening symptoms. For example, if you have a depression diagnosis and have trouble getting along with co-workers and are unable to focus on completing simple tasks, you may be able to qualify for Social Security Disability under the disability listing for depression.
If you have experienced depression over a period or time and your condition has improved due to medication, you may still be able to qualify for benefits if your recovery is deemed tentative and if you could experience a setback if you change up your routine or return to work. Your symptoms should either be recorded regularly by a psychiatrist or you may want to track your condition by using a self-rated depression scale.
A Medical-Vocational Allowance
There are other ways in which applicants may be able to receive approval for benefits. Instead of meeting the requirements of the depression listing, applicants can be approved by being granted what is known as a "medical-vocational allowance." In fact, this is how a majority of disability claims receive approval. In order to qualify applicants must understand how their depression symptoms affect their ability to do unskilled work that requires them to do things like understand and perform simple tasks, make work-related decisions that are simple, respond and interact appropriately to co-workers and supervisors and handle change in routine.
If Social Security makes a determination that the limitations caused by your depression makes it difficult for you perform simple, unskilled work, you may be able to receive disability benefits. You can also get benefits if you have the mental capacity to perform such work but have a physical impairment that prevents you from doing certain tasks.
How an Attorney Can Help
If your application for benefits has been denied and you feel your case is strong enough to win an appeal, it would be in your best interest to retain the services of an experienced Social Security Disability lawyer who can help represent you during a hearing. Those who are represented by an attorney in such cases do have a better rate of getting their applications approved compared to those who are not represented by a lawyer or represent themselves.
If you are disabled and cannot work because of depression, you may be entitled to receive Social Security Disability benefits. However, there are a number of requirements and criteria to meet, which can be complicated, confusing and intimidating. An experienced Social Security Disability lawyer in Arizona can help guide you through what can be a complex process and assist you with not just the filing process, but also the appeal if necessary. A knowledgeable lawyer will also be able to work closely with medical professionals to collect and present the appropriate documentary evidence that is required to ensure that your depression disability claim has a favorable outcome.

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The Psychology of Mortality 'Death Anxiety Makes Us Hate People Who Are Different'
SPIEGEL: Professor Solomon, you have spent almost your entire professional life focusing on the fear of death. Can you remember the first time you ever experienced this fear?
Solomon: I do. I was eight years old and my mother said one night: "Say goodbye to your grandmother because she's not going to be around much longer." And she died the next day of cancer. Afterwards, I went upstairs and started leafing through my stamp collection. I had a lot of American stamps and they happened to all have dead presidents on them. So there was George Washington. He was a great guy, but he's still dead. Here's Thomas Jefferson. And then, like a psychological lightning bolt, I was like: "Oh, wow. This does not bode well for me." And I had what I, at least in retrospect, remember as a convulsing realization that that would be my inevitable fate.
SPIEGEL: And this shock still affects you 50 years later?
Solomon: Essentially, yes. In the lovely language of the anthropologist Ernest Becker, there's always a rumbling of panic beneath the surface of our consciousness. Our big forebrain gives us the capacity to think abstractly and symbolically and we are smart enough to realize that, like all living things, our lives are of finite duration. That conspires to give rise to potentially paralyzing existential terror.
SPIEGEL: Despite being so concerned, you seem quite happy...
Solomon: Each of us must live with this terror. Becker's claim is that in order to be able to get up in the morning, we embed ourselves in carefully constructed symbolic belief systems that the anthropologists call "culture." Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value -- by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally, through the heavens, the soul's afterlives or reincarnation, or by the prospect that some vestige of ourselves will persist over time -- from having kids, amassing great fortunes or producing great works of art or science. Yet no culturally constructed symbolic belief system is ever powerful enough to completely eradicate the anxiety that is engendered by the awareness of death.
SPIEGEL: Do you suffer more than others from this existential terror?
Solomon: I don't believe so. It is usually about this time, five to nine years of age or so, when children, in light of their intellectual and emotional maturation, really do become explicitly self-aware to the point where they recognize that their parents are not the omniscient and omnipotent creatures that they thought. That they are not only fallible but also finite. And it's at that point that we switch our psychological allegiance from relying solely on our parents as the basis for psychological security to the culture at large. Rather than just being a good boy or girl, now I want to be a good American, a good German, a good Christian, a good fill-in-the-blank, depending on the cultural construction upon which our identity is ultimately centered.
Sheldon Solomon, 62, is a social psychologist at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. In the last 30 years, he and fellow researchers around the world have performed over 500 experiments showing how the fear of death affects the way people think and act. His book, written together with Jeff Greenberg, is called "The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life," and was published in May, 2015.
SPIEGEL: At what point did you decide to focus your career on the fear of death, a rather dark topic, it must be said?
Solomon: Accidentally, as happens in science quite often. What happened, literally, is that I was in the library looking for some books by Freud and I saw a book with a very interesting green dot. Its author was Ernest Becker. In the very first paragraph of the book, Becker writes: I want to figure out what makes people act the way they do. I was like, yeah, me too!
SPIEGEL: Thinkers have been considering the fear of death for centuries.
Solomon: That's correct. It's an idea that goes back to the Old Testament and further, to the ancients. There is no shortage of strands of thought -- artistic, philosophical and theological -- that point to the uniquely human awareness of death as literally the psychodynamic lynchpin toward which all of our behavior is directed. Only psychologists have avoided the subject. When I first started working on it, the attitude was: This is nonsense.
SPIEGEL: Why?
Solomon: They said: Even if one grants that these are intriguing ideas, they're unscientific and highly speculative.
SPIEGEL: How were you able to convince them of the contrary?
Solomon: I think this is our small contribution. We said, let's try to figure out if the fear of death influences behavior; let's subject it to empirical scrutiny. Again, we were the beneficiaries of an accident of sorts. We had a graduate student who was in a death and dying course and her class was asked to jot down their thoughts about how they might feel and think as they were physically dying. We heard that and decided: That's exactly what we're going to do. Let's ask some people to answer those questions about death and others to answer questions about other negative stuff, like going to the dentist or a car accident. And then we'll see if the members of the two groups behave differently.
SPIEGEL: Did it work?
Solomon: The very first study that we did was with court judges in Arizona, where we had half of the judges think about their own deaths, and then we asked them to set bond for an alleged prostitute, which was the most common crime in Arizona at the time. The average bond for that crime was $50, but when the judges were reminded of their mortality before setting a bond, they set bonds that were nine times higher, at $455.
SPIEGEL: Wow. That much more?
Solomon: It still astonishes me. What was remarkable is that judges are supposedly trained to administer the law in an evenhanded and rational fashion. But when we explained to them what we were doing, they said there's no way that our stupid questionnaire could have had any effect on their judgment. But the results have been replicated many times, both here and in other countries. So there have been many instances where punitive reactions to moral transgressors are magnified by these death reminders.
SPIEGEL: In your book, you go even further. You even believe that Hitler's success can be explained by Germans' fear of death.
Solomon: We must be very cautious; we should be suspicious of any monolithic explanation of anything. In our book, if we have overstated the case, and we surely have, it's because we believe that psychologists have been oblivious to the possibility that the awareness of death has any effect on what people do. Regarding Hitler: There was the defeat in World War I. There were the incredibly humiliating terms imposed upon the Germans. There was the economic instability engendered by the Depression. The combination of those factors made this a ripe substrate for the emergence of a charismatic leader.
SPIEGEL: Economic distress and aggrieved national feelings are different than the fear of death.
Solomon: You need not know that death is on your mind for these concerns to be lurking perpetually. Let's take another example that we examined closely: Prior to September 11th, President George W. Bush's approval rating was as low as that of few presidents in the history of presidential polling. Soon after, he had the highest approval rating. We thought: Maybe September 11th was like a giant death reminder. The message was: Terrorists are diabolical, but they're also smart. What did they target? They targeted the Pentagon. They targeted the Twin Towers and possibly the White House. They targeted the ultimate symbols of American military, economic and political might. And there's good evidence that people in Montana were just as traumatized as people who lived in Manhattan. So it was both a symbolic as well as a literal death reminder.
SPIEGEL: You're probably going to tell us next that Donald Trump is playing on these same fears.
Solomon: That's true. America has been in a persistent state of economic insecurity. And you have lower-middle class, poorly educated white males who are feeling particularly existentially threatened right now by the changing demographics in the US, where they're about to become a minority. And here's Trump, who says: I'm going to make America great again! I'm going to build a big wall! I'm going to keep all of the Muslims out! We did our first study a couple of months ago and found that after being reminded of death, subjects expressed a greater willingness to vote for Trump.
SPIEGEL: You seem to believe that only the dark elements of our cultural identity are intensified by our fear of death. It makes us nationalist, xenophobic and intolerant. But why? There are many positive elements to culture as well.
Solomon: Perhaps we're just interested in the capacity for tremendous evil that lurks within all of us (laughs). But death reminders magnify any pre-existing beliefs. Conservatives who are reminded of their mortality like liberal people a lot less. Liberals reminded of their mortality actually like conservative people a little bit more, because they become more tolerant and open minded. We also know that, when people are reminded of their mortality, they become more generous and if you ask them to give to charity, they will do so. But it's really important that we get a handle on the malignant manifestations of death denial. Death anxiety makes us hate people who are different. It makes us uncomfortable with our bodies and bodily functions. It turns us into mindless conspicuous consumers of stuff. It makes us go shopping, makes us eat and drink and smoke more. It undermines our physical as well as our psychological well-being.
SPIEGEL: You also argue that the fear of mortality influences our sexual behavior as well. How so?
Solomon: Ernest Becker said sex and death are twins. When I first read that, I was like: Oh man. I was already miserable, but at least there are a few things left that I enjoyed. And then: Sex and death are twins. But Becker was right: Sex as a physical activity reminds us that we're animals. Animals have sex. They die. We have sex. Therefore, we're animals, and we die. The other problem is that, after we reproduce, we've carried our baton around the relay race of life for one lap, and then it's off to the next generation. That too makes us aware of our own mortality.
SPIEGEL: You write that the moment awareness was achieved was a key moment in humanity's development. When did that happen, do you think?
Solomon: Evolutionary arguments are of necessity highly speculative. But our argument is that, by becoming self-aware, humans learned to anticipate the future, to plan and to ask questions about the world. There came a point where consciousness would have become highly problematic in the absence of the coincident development of mechanisms of denial that enabled us to take full advantage of self-awareness without being overwhelmed by death anxiety. And we go back to the cognitive awakening, something like 50,000 years ago. That is concurrent with the first appearances of grave goods, body ornaments and art. All these things are a way to prevent us from being explicitly aware of the tragic elements of the human condition.
SPIEGEL: Art was just a way to deny death?
Solomon: Yes. "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable," Bernhard Shaw said. And Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "We fly to Beauty from the terrors of finite existence."
SPIEGEL: Religion offers hope of immortality even more explicitly than does art.
Solomon: Yes, and that is likely the most important function of all religions. I like the idea that religion is an unbelievably creative way for large groups of unrelated people to get along and to foster social cohesion and social coordination. In the beginning was the beat. We were dancing and drumming and singing long before we engaged in discursive language. And yet, the conquistador Juan Ponce de León did not go looking for the Fountain of Social Glue. He went looking for the Fountain of Youth. And the people building the pyramids did not have images of lots of folks yoked arm in arm. No, they're like: I want to live forever.
SPIEGEL: Do our attitudes to death change throughout our lives? What happens, for example, when a doctor diagnoses a deadly disease? Does that intensify one's fear of death?
Solomon: That's a great question, and I don't know. But we want to find the answer and right now we are looking at people who are terminally ill. My wife is a bereavement counselor in the local hospice and she talks about how people react completely differently to terminal diagnoses. Sometimes they react as we might expect: They get incredibly anxious, fearful and demoralized. But other times, they literally find life never more meaningful. It's a psychological wake-up call that instigates a process by which they savor every last moment.
SPIEGEL: If we're mortal anyway, why should it matter whether we have 30 years left to live or just one year?
Solomon: Henning Mankell, the Swedish crime writer, wrote captivatingly about exactly that question. He wrote about his reaction to receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis and how, for 10 days, he felt like he was on his way to hell. He describes himself as both paralyzed and terrified, and then he describes in a very poignant, literary and beautiful way how he comes to the realization that you've just proposed, which is, it actually doesn't matter. He was then able to return to life in light of that realization.
SPIEGEL: Has your research helped you come to terms with death?
Solomon: That is a question I am often asked: You've been thinking about death for 40 years. Has it changed you? Has it alleviated your fear of death? What I say is: sadly, probably not. I actually feel that, to a certain extent, this has been my own death denial mechanism. Then sometimes I think maybe I have made some progress -- that I'm making a couple of baby steps on the road to coming to terms with death.
SPIEGEL: In this process of coming to terms with death, does it help to consider that immortality may even be worse than mortality?
Solomon: You're right! If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the prospect of our inevitable demise is to ponder how much more horrendous it would be if we persisted in perpetuity. And yet, if you told me I had X number of days left to live, I would lobby for X plus one.
SPIEGEL: And when the day does come: How do you want to die?
Solomon: I just want to be sitting here with my cheeks stuffed with chocolate, and then just kind of fall asleep.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Solomon, we thank you for this interview.


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You Simply Must Touch .......
Everything about handmade pottery involves hands touching and feeling.
Hands push squeeze and wedge the moist clay. Muscle memory in the hands of the potter coax the clay into the shape of the makers vision. Hands hold the tools to trim the vessel refining it's form. Hands load the vessel into the kiln, fire the kiln then unload the vessel from the kiln. Hands glaze the vessel then send it through the kiln again.
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The touch of the potter is what creates the vessel and the touch of the user is what gives the vessel life. So the next time you go into a pottery store or a pottery booth at an art show or craft fair don't be afraid - you simply must touch that piece of pottery to know all about it
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The Mission of KidSport:
We believe that no kid should be left on the sidelines and all should be given the opportunity to experience the positive benefits of organized sports. KidSport™ provides support to children in order to remove financial barriers that prevent them from playing organized sport.
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You are receiving this email because you have registered for a Blue Jays Baseball Academy event within the last 24 months. We feel this information might be relevant to you or someone you know.
Jays Care Foundation, the charitable arm of the Blue Jays, is proud to announce the extension of its partnership with KidSport. Jays Care will once again invest $100,000 this year which will provide 500 children & youth the opportunity to participate in baseball programs across Canada. In 2014, Jays Care's $100,000 contribution provided 500 deserving kids a season of baseball and led to a 25% increase in KidSport baseball grants from 2013 to 2014.
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In a prestigious situation, just off Browning's Pool in Little Venice, this well established and charming site is very well located for traversing London's waterways, being located at the junction of the Regent's Canal and Paddington Branch of the Grand Union Canal. Also within a short distance is Paddington which has a good variety of shops, bars, restaurants, a daily market and excellent public transport connections.
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The site accommodates up to 38 vessels, some narrowbeam vessels are doubled berthed.
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Sometime between 6:00 am and 4:00 pm on Tuesday, September 13th unknown suspects unlawfully entered a residence located in the 300 block of N. Coulson Street in Fruita. While inside, the suspects removed ten firearms; including two Remington Arms rifles, one Winchester rifle with a gold plated trigger, one Stevens Arms rifle, one Savage Arms rifle, one Beretta pistol, four Ruger pistols, and various calibers of ammunition. The total estimated property loss is over $5,600.
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Since they only get three Endowments at any given time, tough choices sometimes have to be made. There were no firm conclusions from the players - some loved some of the Endowments, others loved others, and no one could agree on which ones were "best", which is a tentatively good thing to hear for those of us trying to make sure they're balanced. But there was certainly a lot to talk about!
Playtesting Issue: Players suspect that one Endowment is objectively "better" than the others, and are on a mission to figure out which one it is an invest in it as soon as possible.
As issues go, this isn't really all that bad of one to have. Players are always looking for the "best" stat, the "optimal" build, the "most useful" powers, and so on; it's what players as a generality do, from the gentle basic level of "I want to be good enough at this thing that I don't have to sweat my rolls so much" to the committed and passionate level of "I WANT TO BE THE BEST IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE EVEN IF ONLY BY ONE POINT." We're used to them looking for the "best" way to do something, and as designers, we spend a lot of time tweaking and tuning so that, while there are certainly a lot of things that are best for certain situations or heroic career paths, there hopefully aren't any things that are objectively best all around for everyone forever.
Since this is less of a problem-solution issue this week and more of a discussion roundtable, I'm going to just share with you the notes our players (from various different playtests, not just the one discussing it this week) had and the pros and cons they mentioned seeing in each Endowment.
- Empowerment (Creator): This one is the hardest to talk about, because it's the most "unfinished" of the lot. Although we know exactly what it does - it gives Creators the ability to use supercharged versions of their Creator Blessings in times of need - this involves a lot of balancing and comparing Blessings against one another and whatnot, and so it's been an ongoing process throughout the playtests (one which our Creators have been very patient about, thank you, y'all). As a result, it usually gets the least conversation about its pros and cons, because it's hard to tell until finalization exactly how it stacks up against everything else.
What players do know and tell us is that Empowerment makes a good panic button for ye olde Creator-healer character archetype; it has several times been used by a frazzled healer who needed to save too many people or had too few resources, and was able to become a brief supernova of wellness for those around them. We've also seen some excitement over using it to repair damaged or broken items (for example, the Warrior's weapon, which she realllly needs right about now) much more quickly and efficiently than otherwise possible, which is another Energy application. We have not seen a ton of use of Empowerment for the other Creator Talents yet, though; our last several games have not featured anyone who really invested in Vision heavily enough to get Empowerment for it, and while we do have characters with Art, most of them are in the playtest that is having trouble keeping its head above water, so there's been a bit too much running and crying and hiding under overpasses to get a lot of makin' stuff done.
I've heard there are some Creators afoot in the new playtest that just started up north, though, so this is one we're definitely looking forward to hearing more feedback about as it firms up.
- Faithful Allies (Lover): Faithful Allies are what they sound like: people who love and cherish the Hero and show up to help them at various times, usually bringing with them resources, benefits, or game mechanic bonuses from the sheer force of their adoration. (For example, money, or an item they needed right now, or their arrival triggers a free Lull Episode.) There is still an element of randomness in the Faithful Allies system, in that how well it works affects how useful the ally's help actually is to the Hero, and that there is a small chance that the ally may instead get in trouble on their way to the Hero and need rescuing.
We found that a lot of players really like Faithful Allies... but had trouble figuring out when or how to use them. One player, for example, had chosen their NPC wife as a Faithful Ally; this was all well and good, but since the wife lived in town with the Hero, it didn't make much sense to use an Endowment to call on her for help when they could also just pick up the phone and call her in person, and they had just seen her ten minutes ago anyway. Players who invest in Lover often tend to want to roleplay and develop relationships with the NPCs who become their Faithful Allies, so some players expressed some concern that the more time they spent with a Faithful Ally, the less useful they seemed to be to the system, since it seemed like they could have just gotten those rewards through roleplaying. (The same players gave us some positive feedback about Lover Blessings that specifically allowed them to work with or save Faithful Allies, though; being able to designate a category of NPCs as ones that they could save with the power of their love appealed to the career roleplayers!)
Obviously, this is an issue that would depend on the particular game, as well as the player's choices - if Heroes are globetrotting, it makes a lot more sense for a Faithful Ally showing up unexpectedly in their Manila hotel room to be a pleasant surprise, and if a player chooses to designate "my high school boyfriend who never got over me" as their Faithful Ally, there are fewer chances for that character to seem like they should be there helping all the time anyway. But nevertheless, since Lover can be very roleplaying-heavy, Faithful Allies need to find a way to fit into that a little better.
Those players who did have and use Faithful Allies noted that a "backfire" (i.e., rolled a 1 and now my Faithful Ally has to be rescued from the bad guy) felt worse here than in Gambits below, because it meant that a request for help turned into a strain on their resources, and the whole system was not set up to be as randomly punishing as Gambits in the first place. The chance for something bad to happen is significantly lower with Faithful Allies than with Gambits, but that didn't make players feel any less soured when it did occur.
- Focus (Sage): Focus is the most straightforward Endowment: it lets players use other Endowments more. That's all it does, and it does it well - Sages are swimming in Endowment usage opportunities, sacrificing having more options for just being able to do fewer options more often.
Players generally don't have a lot to say about this, but they are pleased, low-key fans of it. If there are Endowments that they feel really suit them or that they love using a lot, taking Focus alongside them gives them all the more access to those. We also heard it mentioned that Focus feels especially good for those players who like to play "support"-style characters - healers, crafters, diplomats, intrepid leaders, or anyone else who spends the majority of their time using their skills and power to help or support others - because it gives them both a larger array of tools to keep helping people, and lessens the occasional sting that they sometimes feel when they spend most of their resources or time on people other than themselves. In particular, Focus + Empowerment, Focus + Gambits, and Focus + Sway were mentioned as popular combos that players would like to have.
- Gambits: The Gambit system is the reigning champion of player polarization; either they love Gambits, want to see what will happen when they use Gambits, and encourage everyone else to use Gambits, too, or else they hate them, want them to stop happening, and tend to announce they're using them in a sort of hollow, doomsday grave-voice. This is basically what we designed them to do, so it's nice to see they're living up to their purpose.
Gambits are random; sometimes they're great, save everyone from danger, win people prizes, and make everything awesome, and sometimes they're terrible, everything is destroyed, the plan is in tatters, and everyone is blaming everyone else. And, as a result, that means that whether or not players like Gambits completely depends on whether or not they like randomness in their games, so some always do, and some always don't, and a few put up with it but really wish there was a more dependable way of getting these things done.
They're tricky to judge balance from, but for the most part, we've been pleased that they seem to function appropriately, and that players have exactly the kind of love-hate relationship with them that the entire universe has with Trickster stories. Those players who love them love them to death - conversations about the best Endowment almost always include one person yelling "OBVIOUSLY, GAMBITS" no matter what opposition they face, and even players who don't personally want to have and use Gambits often mentioned that they still enjoyed watching others do so. Gambits are also very powerful, since in spite of their randomness they can literally save Heroes from certain doom if they happen to go off just right, so some players said that they liked to take Gambits as an emergency precaution, even though they weren't necessarily normally huge fans of random effects.
- Overextension (Warrior): After Focus, Overextension is probably the second most straightforward of the Endowments; its purpose is to allow Warriors to be even stronger than they normally could, to possibly ridiculous levels under the right circumstances. Brawn, one of the Warrior Talents, already governs feats of strength such as lifting elephants or crushing a car's hood with their bare hands, but Overextension lets Warriors be so strong for brief periods of time that they potentially do things that no one should be doing. Low-level Warriors essentially pretend to be higher-level Warriors, while high-level Warriors do things that probably shouldn't be allowed.
We have gotten by far the least testing on Overextension, since we have had surprisingly few players go directly for Warrior like their lives depended on it (even though, you know, they often do), and it shows. Players felt like Overextension seemed fine in theory, but weren't using it much and so didn't have a strong opinion one way or the other. A few said that they could use it but preferred to conserve their points to be able to use other, more interesting Endowments like Gambits or Sway more often instead.
It's hard to tell if this is a failing in Overextension itself or just an issue of non-Warrior characters not seeing much point in spending their points on shot-putting a tractor into a downtown bank. It's possible that more Warrior-heavy games would use it more often, since they would be more likely to be solving problems with muscle and moxy than sneakiness or diplomacy... but we need more Warrior testing to find out if that's true. Salutes up to the new group that just started this week; let's hope they have some more input for us soon!
- Persistence (Hunter): Persistence is the sleeper hit of the Endowments; we didn't expect it to be quite as popular as it is now, and judging by how few players have it but how many made cranky faces when they said they wished they did, they also didn't expect it to be so good.
Heroes normally use the Mettle Talent to survive deprivation; it helps them temporarily stave off penalties from failing to eat, sleep, or rest, or from doing strenuous activities for too long. This is its primary function and therefore the one players tend to look at most, so Persistence, which allows Heroes to permanently wipe any of those penalties clean without bothering to recharge, seemed to them at first to be nice and good in a pinch, but not applicable to their everyday lives as much as it could be. (Players getting lost in the woods and trying to survive on acorns, or spending the night in a graveyard mausoleum and realizing they were never going to be able to sleep around this much undead activity, notwithstanding.)
But Mettle is also used for something else, which is that when a player is Mortally Wounded and likely to die soon, Mettle points can be spent to keep them on the brink of death long enough for someone to (hopefully) rescue them. Players were aware of this, of course, but it took several hard-fought combats and at least one Divine Intervention for them to realize exactly how valuable Mettle was to them in combat situations - which in turn slingshotted back around to make them realize that Persistence, which means spending much less Mettle and being able to hold onto it in case of Almost Certain Death, was a lot more useful than they had previously thought.
Persistence is still somewhat incognito among the other Endowments; players who have been testing for a while have now said that they wish they had taken it or paid more attention to the system it underwrites, but it still tends to be glossed past pretty quickly by new players who come into a game that doesn't outright say things like "you will be crossing deserts on foot".
- Sway (Leader): And finally Sway, which is probably our greatest designer headache, due to a combination of wanting it to do a lot of neat things but not wanting it to be too complicated a system and distract players from everything else they're doing. Sway allows Heroes to gain control over a specific area of influence - say, the criminal underworld, or the media - and influence it to get things done for them. They can pretty much ask for anything that their contacts could reasonably do, and if it works well enough, that thing will get done and they'll get to hang up the phone and tell their fellow Heroes that "their people" are on it in as snooty a tone of voice as they wish.
Like some of the other Endowments, Sway is semi-random, but unlike Gambits (where the effect is completely random and everyone begs a deity for a good roll) or Faithful Allies (where the amount of help gotten from the system is random but usually above zero), Sway's randomness element is in the consequences of the Hero's request. What they wanted is going to get done, but if they roll poorly, they may end up getting the people who did it for them in trouble, or even lock themself off from being able to use their Sway in the area again for some time. (For example, one player recently rolled catastrophically poorly... so while her paralegal did indeed manage to steal the incriminating magical item from the police station and allow her to win her case, he also went to jail and she's not going to be able to call on him again for a long time, or possibly ever.)
Sway was originally more punishing than this, with roll results where the Hero's task didn't get accomplished, so it's already been tweaked as a result of playtesting and realizing that this wasn't good enough and was causing undue amounts of player angst. Now that it's been updated, players are more optimistic about it, but still cautious - the spectre of that one time someone used it twice in a row and both times it just didn't work hasn't left their minds, and even though that isn't possible anymore, it's probably hard to shake. We're looking forward to increased data on that from the new groups starting up here in the near future, and the players at the in-house tell us that they'll probably do it again... you know, sometime soon. Probably.
Possible Solutions:
So, with all those players telling us things they did and didn't like, where do we go from there?
For Faithful Allies, our current fix to the system is to allow them a form of "do-over" if they roll poorly; that is, if they get a low roll and a Faithful Ally ends up in trouble and needing help instead of showing up and providing it, they can immediately use the Endowment again for free once they rescue their friend, ensuring that their point wasn't "wasted", just had its effects deterred for a while and required a little more work to get to. That way there still may be some rescuing of your loved one in distress in order, but once you find them they can still hand off the critical item you needed and no one needs to feel like they spent points on just making their life harder. (Of course, you also have the option to not go to the effort to rescue your loved one in peril and, if you have at least one other Faithful Ally, spend another point to use the system again to call them instead... if you're a heartless person, but then some Lover Heroes might be!)
The main concern we've been hearing about Gambits is a theoretical one - some players, usually the ones who wouldn't touch Gambits with a fifty-foot pole and like to know what's going to happen at all times, have raised concerns that it feels "unfair" if the Trickster uses a Gambit and they're caught in the often spectacular splash. Of course, most players aren't going to use Gambits except in an emergency or when they think they couldn't succeed doing something else, since they're costly and might backfire, so it's unlikely that anyone is going to torture their fellow players with random effects just for fun; but still, players who like predictability in their games have been a little unsure about the power Tricksters wield to make a mess of things. We're not sure if this is a problem we can fix mechanically; making a mess of things is as much what Tricksters are about as making order of them is what Leaders do, but more importantly, this seems like more an issue of communicating with fellow players and discussing what to do and why. We're talking about whether we need to add a "Gambits Etiquette" sidebar somewhere that says "sure, they're fun, but remember to only ruin the lives of other characters, not other real-life players."
As we noted above, we still need to see Overextension in action more to figure out how well it's playing alongside the other Endowments. If it turns out that it's too lackluster in comparison to the other systems, we may have to revisit it and see if it can be spiced up some and become more of a fun and enticing option for players. Stay tuned on that one.
Sway has already been updated during playtesting to make it less likely to ruin someone's day, but we're still going to do some more looking at its risk vs. reward ratio to make sure it's something worth investing in for the serious Hero on the go. Actually, we'll be doing that for all the random-roll Endowments, as a final sweep - for Gambits, we want to make sure that all the random effect results are at appropriate levels of awesomeness/danger/confusion and that there aren't any results that players might feel "don't matter", and for Faithful Allies, we want to do another balancing pass to make sure that different levels of rewards for different rolls are appropriately spaced out and relevant to the Hero.
In closing, I'll quickly mention a side topic of conversation that spun off about Endowments' attachment to Aspects. For the most part, players felt positively about this; Gambits, for example, feel like something Tricksters should be doing, and Sway makes sense as something a Leader Hero should be able to do when they want to. Some players said that they really liked the fact that deciding to be a certain kind of Hero came with its own type of special extra powers, just for being that person, and helped make the Hero feel like they were doing what they came to do even if they didn't have all the Blessings or rolls to back it up quite yet. On the other side, a few players expressed a longing for Endowments to be separate from Aspects, mostly because they could then choose which ones they wanted without having to be invested in that set of stats to begin with.
Since the point of Endowments is to give Heroes powers to match their Aspects, we probably aren't about to uncouple them any time soon... but it's still fun to listen to people spitballing what they'd do if they had that freedom.


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Just for the curiosity, I went to this place. Some of my friends said the girls are good. So what the fak.
The place is a complex of small shop. About 3/4 of the complex are rented by Progressive English Course (CMIIW). I went there in the afternoon. Parking was easy. I was a bit doubt to get in. The place is dark, small and ugly. But I finally got in. There are about 6 girls available from their photo on the desk. None of them ring a bell. From my last experience to similar places, photo can't tell. I asked the guy, which one has the most customers. The guy pointed me to the ELSA. From the photo looked alright, so why not.
There were about 4 rooms, partitioned by plywood and gorden as its door. The guy chosen me the last room. A good looking, really nice body, young girl came inside. What I really like the most was her body. Her body was well fed. She looked a bit arrogant for the first time. Massage was ok. After turned over, I started to do some talking to be more comfortable. She started to be more friendly. She told me that she was 18 yrs old. I believe she was.
Then the show begun. Tips: with youngster, normally we have to do the work a little bit more.
Cost: 50rb for front desk, 250rb for the girl tips.
I tried other girl: Sarah, the other day. But no good, just standard. We can find in other better places.
I certainly will come back for this girl only. The place is really bad.


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Starting apache:
service httpd start
Step 3. mysql server:
yum install mysql mysql-server -y
Starting mysql:
service mysql start
Step 4. Installing php :
yum install php php-mysql -y
Step 5-Installing necessary modul php :
-PHP PDO extension and PDO-MySQL driver
yum install php-pdo -y
– PHP XML-extension
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Slipknot Shares First New Song In 4 Years, "All Out Life"
The Halloween treat we weren't prepared for
Happy Halloween! We should have seen this coming. Today is basically Slipknot's holiday and the band is celebrating with the surprise release of their first new music in four years.
Related: Corey Taylor Confirms New Stone Sour + 2019 Slipknot Return
After teasing a new album in spring of 2019 with frontman Corey Taylor noting that he would switch his focus to Slipknot in the upcoming year, the band is back and as heavy as ever.
The thrashing new song is called "All Out Life," an unforgiving song that marks their highly-anticipated return. Listen below:
Taylor describes the single as an expression of his frustration with the notion that "that unless something came out 10 minutes ago, it's not any good." He continued by summing up his feelings with "Let's not talk about old. Let's not talk about new. Let's talk about what is. Let's talk about what's good, what's real..."


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Handbook of Ceramics Grinding & Polishing
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Focusing on the machining of ceramic materials such as silicon nitride, silicon carbide, and zirconia, this handbook meets the growing need in industry for a clear understanding of modern improvements in ceramic processing. The presentation is international in scope, with techniques and information represented from the USA, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdomùcountries that have made important contributions to the field. The 20 expert chapter authors explore the challenge of reducing the costs of machining operations, a continuing problem in an industry where ceramic parts must be machined into final form to achieve a proper fit.
The handbook reveals that the abrasive machining of ceramic materials will always be a requirement because of the difficulty of controlling parts dimensions at the high temperatures required in their creation. The contributors then explain the properties and characteristics of ceramics, the various types of abrasive processes, and typical tests used in the procedures. An entire section of the handbook concerns grinding tools, their conditioning, lubrication, and cooling, checking for wear on the tools, and using them efficiently. The book also examines modern honing and superfinishing tools and machines, and describes advances in the technology, as well as lapping and polishing techniques using chemical compounds and ultrasound.
Ceramics is a field where more advanced products are sure to appear. Many of the products will require advanced, better-controlled processing technologies; vastly improved productivity in manufacturing; and increased product reliability. The contributors to this Handbook will assist readers in the attainment of these important goals.
Essentials of ceramic machining technology for manufacturing engineers, product designers, scientists, research and development teams, academic researchers, technicians, and machine operators.
Table of Contents
Properties of Ceramics Wear Mechanisms of Ceramic Materials Fundamental Properties and Selection Criteria Microstructural Reinforcement of Ceramics Deformation and Fracture of Ceramic Materials Deformation Dislocation Slip Mechanism Twinning Mechanism Fracture of Ceramic Materials Indentation in Ceramic Materials Abrasive Processes Typology of Abrasive Processes Tribology of Abrasive Processes Single Point Scratch Tests Multi Point Scratch Tests General Model of Abrasive Processes Surface Typography and Surface Integrity Conditioning of the Grinding Wheel (Dressing and Trueing) Wear Mechanism Cool Lubrication Environmental Aspects Properties of Ground Surfaces Grinding Machines Honing and Superfinishing Typology of the Honing Process Honing and Superfinishing Tools Honing and Superfinishing Machines Honing Technology Lapping and Polishing Typology of Processes with Loose Abrasives Lapping Polishing Chemical Compound Polishing Ultrasonic Lapping Appendix: Manufacturing of Ceramic Components: Case Studies
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University of Toledo, OH, USA
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When it comes to buying gifts for women, men are pretty clueless. They can mess up even when it comes to the most important gift, the engagement ring. Because this has been a problem for a long time, jewelry manufacturers developed a ring size chart. This chart is very precise and it saves men a lot of trouble when buying rings. However, the chart can differ in various areas of the world. Therefore, if you order online from foreign companies or you buy a ring from another country, you may have the bad luck of getting the wrong ring size. Lets see how these problems can be avoided.
A chart like this can be found on the internet or at local jewelry shops. What it does is assign a size number or letter for each type of finger. The US sses sized from 0 to 16 but other countries use a different system. Most of Asia uses sized from 1 to 26, India uses sizes from 0 to 37 and the United Kingdom and a few other countries use letter sizes.
The internet is full of information from most fields of interest. As a result, you can even find online ring size converters. These converters are useful tools which can help you avoid the troubles of buying a ring which does not fit. If you know the ring size you have in your country, you can use an online converter in order to know your ring size in all parts of the world.
This is probably the best way to determine your ring size. What you do is use a paper strip (a string also works) in order to determine the width of your finger. If you use a paper strip, it should be about 2,5 in. wide. Wrap it around your finger and make sure that it can slide up and down the knuckle. Make a mark on the paper in order to determine how large the ring should be and then use a ruler in order to measure the paper. If you want to surprise someone, you can use this method on a ring which that person owns.
A ring size chart is pretty straightforward and if you use a paper strip, there are very few chances of making a mistake. However, in order to make sure that you don't make any mistakes, it is better to hand on to that paper strip. Furthermore, as a man, if you are buying a ring for your fiance make sure that you measure the right ring. Women have multiple rings which fit different fingers. Most women wear rings on their middle fingers which are thicker than the ring finger. Keep this in mind before making an important investment. You can always get a ring fitted but that ruins some of the magic.


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Despite what is thought by many, weapons are not a home appliance for most people. If you live in an isolated place, then may be; however, the typical suburbia inhabitant does not have such needs and becomes a dangerous user of handguns.
The reason is that suburbians are not prepared to handle them with safety and use them responsibly like farmers, real outdoorsmen, soldiers, rangers and similar people because these last have been using these tools for years, every day; meanwhile, the suburbian put his or her revolver in a drawer and forgot about it until a strange noise was heard over the roof. You cannot expect that under such circumstances, a gun would be of much use; on the contrary, non-trained users may do more harm than good.
It would be much better to start thinking about how to build a society where such a way of life would not be necessary; this may sound as a cliché, an its is often mentioned as such, but there is also a lot of truth to it.
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The wedding couples first dance and other ceremonial dances at a wedding are performed around the world, Many cultures have their own traditions that they incorporate into special wedding dances.
China - The Chinese Lion Dance is performed at wedding receptions as a form of a blessing for the newlyweds. During this dance, there are two performers each in a lion costume. This traditional ceremonial dance is performed to the music of drums, cymbals and gongs,
Nigeria - In many African cultures, a wedding has many traditions including several ceremonial dances. One of the most common and popular in Nigeria is the Money Dance. During this dance, the wedding couple are showered with currency notes/bills while they dance. The family and friends of the newlyweds gently toss the bills around the couple or even dress them with leis and decorations made from money. The Money Dance is done in many forms in various cultures around the world.
Russia - Russian weddings usually last about two days and include a lot of singing to traditional Russian songs that are played along with an accordian, bayan, or garmoshka. During the festivities, there is a parent-in-law dance where the bride dances with her new father-in-law and the groom dances with this new mother-in-law.
Scotland – The Grand March is often the first dance at a wedding in Scotland. The dance starts with the newlyweds marching to bagpipes, then the Maid-of-Honor and Best Man join in followed by the bride and grooms parents and then by all of the wedding guests.
Finland - In Finland, dance decides which single girl will be married next and not the bouquet. The bride is blindfolded and spun around as the girls gather and dance around her. A bride in FInland wears a crown during the reception and during this dance she will place the crown on one of the girls.
Mexico - It is common to see guests at a Mexican wedding standing in the shape of a heart around the bride and groom as they dance their first dance.
There are so many cultural traditions that celebrate love and marriage through dance. We were only able to share a few here and would love for you to share your traditions or experiences with us.


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Going back to the autumn of the year 1990, people would be able to recognize that it was during this time and season that the world came to know the Volvo 960. During that introduction for the vehicle, the Volvo 960 was introduced as a 1991 year model. It was also launched alongside the Volvo 940. It was marketed as the replacement for the then defunct Volvo 760. It lived for quite sometime. This vehicle was known as the Volvo S90 and the Volvo V90 for the last two years of its existence.
And in the year 1998, production for this vehicle was entirely halted. These vehicles were actually built in Kalmar in Sweden. The very first Volvo 960 was actually completed and came out to the streets on the 12th of August in 1991. It was then packaged as a 1992 year model. Starting from 1995 up until a year before its last production, the Volvo 960s were built in another location.
This time, it was in Goteborg, Sweden. It was in June 27th of 1994 that the very first one from this location came out to do some rolling on the streets. In the United States, the Volvo 960 parts were equipped with an electronically controlled Asin Warner automatic gearbox. As per those that were marketed in Europe, these came with 2.5 liter engines combined with a manual gearbox that was called as the M90. These vehicles were actually a range of rear wheel drive cars. They were crafted and specifically built so as to cater to the tastes, preferences, and appeal of the buyers from the United States. By doing such, the Volvo 960 was one of the cars that paved the way for Volvo to enter and expand its market in North America. This vehicle has been made available in two versions which comprised of the sedan which held four doors and the estate car which boasted of five doors. As for the Volvo 960s marketed in the United States, these actually got their power from an all new in line 6 cylinder block with double overhead camshafts.
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On the second day of the NCAA Division III National Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, junior Mike Denver carried much more than the 184 pounds he had used to keep his hopes alive in his first trip to the tournament.
His first Saturday bout would not only decide his All-America fate, as he needed a win to claim the honor, but he was the College's last chance to add a link in a 37-year-old chain of excellence. At least one Lion had claimed All-America honors each year without fail since 1972, when the achievement was first created.
Denver, a No. 5 seed in his weight class, squared off in the consolation bracket against No. 6-seeded Todd Becker of Wartburg College, a junior and Iowa native. As Denver outlasted Becker 6-4 in overtime, he claimed at least a top-eight national finish at 184 pounds, along with a spot next to a list of 134 past College wrestlers who became NCAA All-Americans to cap off their seasons.
"It feels great to be an all-American and be part of such a great tradition," Denver said.
In spite of his accomplishments, the junior still wishes he could have placed higher.
"I'm happy with being an all-American but I am not content or satisfied with taking seventh place," he said. "Don't get me wrong seventh in the nation is nice to say and has a nice ring to it, but not as good as saying you're a national champ, it's all or nothing."
In his next bout, Denver took on Coe College's No. 1-seeded senior, Tyler Burkle, who had been upset by a No. 8 seed earlier in the tournament. Burkle defeated him 9-2, sending Denver to the seventh-place bout, which would decide his final place in the weight class.
Denver outlasted John Carroll University senior Ben Adams 8-7 to finish seventh nationally at 184 pounds.
"I feel as though I performed pretty well for it being my first time out there," Denver said. "The coaches were telling us all week that 'you have to make the most out of every chance you get because you might not make it back here again so take advantage.' I think
that played a big part in my success out there especially when I was tired and had to push through to achieve what I wanted."
"We were happy with (Denver's) performance," head coach David Icenhower said. "This was (his) first time ever at a major tournament, as he never qualified for the state tournament in high school."
Denver's 3-2 performance also gave him a final season record of 45-4, tying 1994-95's John Johnson for the most wins by a Lions in a single season.
Also representing the College at the tournament were junior Ed Broderick at 285 pounds and sophomores Kyle Packer and Dan Herr at 165 and 133 pounds, respectively.
None of the three were able to tally a win in the tournament.
Herr, unseeded entering the tournament, suffered a bit of bad luck, falling to a No. 7 seed before facing off against No. 2-seeded freshman Nate Fitzenreider of North Central College. Fitzenreider defeated Herr 13-5, as Herr finished his season with a record of 31-8.
At 165 pounds, Packer, also unseeded, snapped his 10-match win-streak after a difficult 1-0 loss to sophomore Joey Favia of Stevens Institute of Technology. In the consolation bracket, Packer fell to unseeded freshman Jordan Schulte of University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, 8-2.
Broderick fell to Coe College's No. 7-seeded senior Mitch Sander 4-1, and later fell in 6:37 to Wilmington's senior Adam Salyers in the consolation bracket. Broderick finished the season with a 27-9 record.
"I feel as though (Herr, Packer and Broderick) wrestled very well," Denver said. "All of us, except for (Broderick), were first time national qualifiers and (he) had eight returning all-Americans in his weight class, the most of the entire tournament. I feel we wrestled very well for such a young group of guys."
Coach Icenhower added, "I thought the other three did well but was disappointed in the fact they did not place," he said. "I feel the end of the season injuries to two of our captains hurt the whole team mentally. Both Dan DiColo and Tyler Branham could have placed high at the National tournament and it affected the team."


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Skip to 0 minutes and 18 seconds My interest in cultural heritage and in particular tangible built heritage is very much connected with my research on the transformation of Naples and in particular its historic centre. And there are a number of important starting points to underline. First of all, Naples has one of the largest historic centres in Europe. For a long time it was one of the largest cities in Europe alongside Paris in the 16th and 17th century. So today it has the legacy of this huge urban area.
Skip to 0 minutes and 51 seconds However, after unification, as a city, it was very much marginalised from the attempt to build a national urban culture, which was very much centred on the legacy of the medieval and Renaissance cities of Tuscany and other parts of central and northern Italy. Another important point to underline is that until 25 years ago, there were still proposals to knock down most historic centre of Naples. And in fact, the idea of Naples as a heritage site, the historic centre as a heritage site, it's relatively late compared to places, the more famous places, such as Florence, Venice, and Rome, and so forth.
Skip to 1 minute and 37 seconds And a very important point to underline also is that unlike many historic city centres in Europe, Naples still has a very large low income residential population, which obviously makes the whole issue of it being constructed a heritage site quite particular and quite interesting also in terms of thinking about the consequences of heritage. So as I said, up until the 1980s, there were still a lot of plans to actually knock down a lot of the popular neighbourhoods. What happens? Why is it that in the 1990s we have a consensus, at a political and a public level, of actually protecting this historic centre?
Skip to 2 minutes and 21 seconds What happens is that in the early 1990s, there's a shift on a number of levels, at a political, economic, and cultural level with regard to the running of the city. At an economic level, the old idea of a productivist city based on heavy industry that was supported by the state comes to an end, also symbolically with the closure of the major steel works outside the city centre. And there's a new rhetoric about cities needing to invest in their own assets.
Skip to 2 minutes and 50 seconds And in Italian cases– and this was something that was taking place across Europe at the time– in the Italian case it was very much on historic, cultural heritage that could be harnessed as an economic asset for attracting tourism to the city. At a political level, many of these crackpot ideas of demolishing the city centre, which seem quite strange today, came to a sudden end, largely because they were supported by a political class that was wiped out, at least in the short term, as a result of anti-corruption scandals, the Tangentopoli process at the beginning of the 1990s. And what you also had was for the first time ever a new administrative electoral reform leading to the direct election of mayors.
Skip to 3 minutes and 39 seconds So for the first time, mayors were accountable to local citizens. And so they were often working on issues, such as civic pride, on ideas about citizenship. And this very much connected with the idea of regenerating the historic centre, not just as an economic strategy, but also for creating a space that was really rehabilitating the cultural effective ties between the population and the city. And so very much from the 1990s onwards, heritage and historic centre become key aspects in a journey regeneration strategy for the city.
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Nick Dines shows that until the 1980s, the historic centre of Naples was under threat of demolition. A shift takes places in the 1990's, when cultural heritage starts being viewed as an asset.
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Don't throw away that leftover rice! Use it to make this delicious, easy fried rice. So simple you don't even need a recipe.
Easy fried rice is one of the simplest – and cheapest – meals you can make.
Here's a secret: even if all you do is toss whatever leftover meats & veggies you have in your fridge into a skillet, add the rice and a little soy sauce, it's going to be pretty darn tasty. You really don't even need a recipe to make easy fried rice.
But I'm going to give you one anyway. Because if you're throwing away your leftover rice and not turning it into something satisfyingly delicious, you're seriously missing out on one of life's simple pleasures.
I didn't even have any leftover meat on hand this time and my easy fried rice still made for an awesome, easy lunch. Which makes it great for vegetarians and meat eaters alike.
Peas, carrots, red onion. A little soy sauce, a little oyster sauce – those are all the ingredients you'll need to keep on hand to whip this up whenever the mood strikes. Then when leftover rice appears in your refrigerator, tomorrow night's dinner is practically already done!
And don't worry about needing a wok. Although they come in handy and are super fun to cook with (I have this Carbon Steel Wok
and love it (although I also covet this one in Cast Iron), a skillet will do just fine.
easy fried rice
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1/2 medium onion (chopped (I use red but any will do))
- 3 medium carrots (diced)
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup leftover meat (chopped)
- 1 cup frozen peas (thawed (if you measure the peas when you start the recipe they'll be thawed enough by the time you toss them in))
- 3-4 cups leftover rice (preferably medium or long-grain; can also cook your own rice, just refrigerate it for at least two hours)
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- Dash of fish sauce (optional)
- kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat a wok or large skillet over medium heat.
- Place rice in a bowl and break up any large clumps.
- Add oil to wok and swirl to coat the sides. Add carrots, stir and cook for two minutes. Add garlic and onions, cooking for another two minutes.
- Move all the ingredients to one side of the wok. Break the eggs into the wok and stir until they're almost cooked completely.
- Add chopped meat, peas and rice, stirring between each addition.
- Stir in the oyster and soy sauces. Stir constantly until rice is coated with sauce and all ingredients are heated thoroughly, about 3 minutes or so (add more oil if rice begins to stick to wok).
- Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve immediately.


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Online conversation is reality, representing the real-life experiences of people all over the world. But do you know what the reality looks like for your institution? Understanding your reality is key to developing strategies that resonate with your audience.
2019 Online Conversation Benchmarks for Higher Education: A Campus Sonar Social Listening Study is our newest research—designed to provide you with data to define your online conversation, conversation volume, and branded content based on comparable institutions.
As a higher education professional, you can use the data in this report to analyze your online conversation behavior and create actionable outcomes that directly relate to your institution's goals.
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Campus Sonar Social Media Data Analysts assessed 52 metrics—including the amount of conversation; whether it was positive, negative, or neutral; or whether it focused on athletics, prospective students, or alumni—across a sample of 65 representative schools throughout the U.S.
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The most impactful strategic insights we identified from our analysis tell us a few things about the behavior of higher education's online conversation.
- Quality, engaging content influences how your audience talks about you online. You can shape your online presence so it's representative of your institution. This is especially important given the 90-9-1 rule—90 percent of the population observes the conversation, while only one percent creates the conversation.
- Every conversation that you find about your institution is an opportunity to learn from or engage with your audience and increase your ROI in the form of tuition revenue or fundraising.
- Athletics conversation is increasingly impactful—whether to complement your general conversation about your brand, gain positive sentiment, or create brand alignment—it levels the playing field for online conversation and supports your institutional brand.
Campus Sonar's recent social listening study stresses the need for colleges and universities to not only be engaged in social listening, but to also be active participants in online conversations. As Campus Sonar noted in its research findings, "alignment of owned and earned conversation themes is a measure of institutional influence." This reinforces the importance of not only listening, but doing. And if you do, others with the same passion for shared-affinity areas like athletics, performing arts, specific academic majors, study abroad, and location, will repeat and reinforce the content shared—and help increase your institutional visibility.
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