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Gangrel recently spoke to Andy Malnoske of Wrestling Inc. about working with Edge and Christian. After working together in The Brood, Edge and Christian both went on to have great careers in the WWE, for which Gangrel said he's proud of them.
"Edge and Christian, they're both awesome individuals. I wanna say this, I'm so proud of them and the way their careers went," Gangrel said. "It's sad that they ended so early, but they're good Canadians, they're good with their money and they knew what to do so they're well-off. They're doing alright and they're very happy, so I'm very proud of them."
Gangrel revealed that he had actually pitched his vampire gimmick for years before it was actually approved. After seeing the 1987 film The Lost Boys, he was inspired to create a faction of vampires. Gangrel commended Edge and Christian for getting over with the gimmick, and he also praised their rivalry with The Hardy Boyz for helping them propel further in their careers.
"It was amazing, I was a big fan of the movie The Lost Boys so I was constantly trying to push the whole thing about a group of vampires. From 1991, I was trying to convince them and finally in '98 they said, 'We get what you're doing, we get what you're saying, we'll do it.' That was with Christian and Edge and it was an amazing time, they're amazing talents," Gangrel said. "And the Hardys, I don't think The Brood could've been The Brood without the Hardys because they made The Brood, that feud altogether. The ladder matches with them made Christian and Edge 'E&C' and go off in their careers. So they're great, I'm happy for all four of those guys."
One of the trademarks of The Brood was to give their opponents Bloodbaths. The lights in the arena would turn off, the flashing red lights of Gangrel's entrance theme would come on, and then the arena lights would turn on again to reveal the opponent covered in "blood." Gangrel explained that the Bloodbaths were inspired by another movie.
"We were sitting there one day and, truth be told, we nicked it from the movie Blade," he said. "We had an early viewing of Blade before it ever came out and there was this really cool scene where they were in this meat locker and they were all partying and the lights went out, the sprinklers came on and blood came out, and this banner said 'Bloodbath.' I said we can do that and Edge was like, 'Yeah, let's do it.' From there on we twisted it to our own deal and then you had the Bloodbath. It was hard to do, it wasn't easy to do, but it was amazing and fun."


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Mwingi, March 25: Since the beginning of this year, thousands of Kenyans have lost their lives in road accidents. However, too few people have ever been made aware of what happens to the driver who causes such accidents by reckless driving on the roads.
Rampant accidents in the month of December led to losing of many lives, something which triggered President Uhuru Kenyatta to take action and disband the National Transport and Safety authority (NTSA) and ordered them to clear from Kenyan roads, reverting back the role of ensuring safety on Kenyan roads the traffic police.
The thorniest issue on Kenyan roads is the rising cases of Drivers who cause accidents on our roads but run away even without informing the police about the incidences. Many Kenyans have lost their lives and drivers gone scot-free due to the hit and run accidents which continue happening daily on our roads. But have you ever wondered what punitive measures the government might have put in place in order to bring sanity on our roads?
It is due to such incidences that Mwingi West MP Charles Nguna is calling for harsh punitive measure to be put in place targeting drivers who cause accidents and fail to report them to the necessary authorities.
Speaking during a burial ceremony at Kairungu location in his constituency, Mr Nguna vowed to sponsor a bill in parliament imposing harsh punitive measures on reckless drivers, who have been killing Kenyans on the roads through wanton road accidents.
The legislator said that currently a hit and run driver is only charged not more than sh.300, 000 and this according to him is too little compared to the magnitude of the offense.
" I have lost a cousin through this disturbing hit and run situation.A very young soul is gone yet no one knows who killed the 33 year old" Nguna lamented.
He said that too many innocent Kenyans have lost their lives in road accidents and now it was the right time to take stern action against recklessmotorists.


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Arlene Dickinson is president and CEO of Venture Communications and president and CEO of District Ventures Capital.
Calgary's Business: What would you say are the key things that separate a successful entrepreneur from those who fail?
Dickinson: I think successful entrepreneurs not only have vision, but the determination to see their vision through. Those who fail often didn't consider or truly understand the true cost of being an entrepreneur – and I don't just mean financially, but also personally.
It's always going to take more time, more money and more effort than you imagine. When some entrepreneurs are confronted by roadblocks and hardships, they throw in the towel. It's important for people who are in the midst of their entrepreneurial journey to know that successful entrepreneurs failed along the way, too, but they had the tenacity to carry on.
CB: When you look to invest money in new businesses, what are the key things you consider?
Dickinson: The baseline things I consider when investing in a new business are product quality, sales, and product-market fit. For example, my team at District Ventures Capital asks: is the market opportunity large enough to propel the company to success and deliver a good return?
But those are table stakes. Past that – and perhaps the most important quality I look for when investing into a company – is the mindset and personality of the entrepreneur. Does the entrepreneur have the drive and ability to scale the business with our support? Is the entrepreneur a team player who can collaborate with others to build their business? Is the entrepreneur authentic, genuine and honest, so that we can build a partnership based on a foundation of trust? Products and services are important but never as important as the person you're betting on.
CB: What are the character traits of successful entrepreneurs?
Dickinson: There are several key character traits of successful entrepreneurs. They have an innate sense of timing. They have foresight, and can see what people need, and where the market is heading, before anyone else can. They are persistent. They are tenacious. They're able to overcome hardship. They have an extraordinary belief in their vision; a deep belief in themselves, and an iron will. Ultimately, they are all in. They are entirely committed to their vision, to their business, and to seeing it through.
CB: What's your feel for where the Alberta economy is these days and where it's heading?
Dickinson: I've been an Albertan for over 50 years and seen more than my share of recessions. While the economy appears to be stabilizing, it's still dependent on one sector, and I think that dependence creates a degree of uncertainty that's detrimental to investment, and ultimately, growth.
There's no doubt that internal politics that stalls pipeline construction hurts the Alberta economy. It's truly unfortunate that some continue to push an anti-pipeline agenda that hurts Alberta, and the Canadian economy as a whole. I truly believe all Canadians need to work together to combat climate change – and creating new technology that combats climate change is an important emerging market. But I also believe that Canadians should support Canadian industry, particularly as we continue to import oil and energy from other countries – many of which don't have the environmental regulations that we impose on our industry. Until all Canadians get behind the Canadian energy sector, I don't think we will realize the full benefit to our economy.
CB: What's your take on economic diversification in Alberta? Is it something the province critically needs to do for its future?
Dickinson: The short answer is, yes, economic diversification is critical to Alberta's economic future. I think this recession reinforced the fact that Albertans cannot continue to bet on one industry. There have been some encouraging signs of economic diversification, and there are many entrepreneurs in the energy space who have successfully pivoted over to other industries.
In order to create an economy that's not boom and bust, we need to begin building on our expertise in agriculture and health sciences. Canadian-made products are amongst the most trusted food and health products in the world, and I think there's an opportunity to capitalize on this trust by exporting food and health science products abroad.
Ultimately, the business community and government need to work together to create an environment that is conducive to investment and business growth. This means policy that reduces red tape; invests in infrastructure and creates tax regimes that encourage entrepreneurism and investment.
Alberta has all the ingredients to become a diverse entrepreneurial hub: we have one of the youngest, most educated workforces in the world, we have affordable office space, we have one of the highest concentrations of head offices in the world. The task ahead of us is to turn these ingredients into an ecosystem that scales entrepreneurial businesses.
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AV Installations Becoming a Habit in Showrooms & Customer Minds
Audio visual installations at corporate showrooms have lately turned into a fad. Companies are increasingly going towards a look and feel that accentuates their purpose and direction in order to build customers' confidence.
Step into any of the technology savvy showroom in your neighborhood and chances are that you get to see video walls that create the maximum visual impact for anyone who walks in. You get to see LED screens made at companies such as Samsung and the like proclaiming the arrival of some awesome technology to dedicated showroom lounges.
The most significant aspect about some of the LED screens we see, like the ones made by Sammy, is that they absorb external light and reflection and make viewing a pleasure.
AV installations can come in different formats and most of them abide by the rule that they need to be so charming. This because they find their presence in showrooms that are meant to see hundreds of foot falls each day.
Many companies who go for an AV installation, insist on charmers of the top order. The more slim an LED screen is, the better. Further, as they stay illuminated all the time, priority is accorded to cut in energy use too.
Showrooms of companies like Nike opt for awesome multimedia product messages to be churned out by way of AV installations. Audio is as important as the visual impact and so many opt for high end stuff when they invest in such set ups. Speakers like JBL and the like are most sought after for their sonic performance, as the listeners would be the customers who walk around the show area all the time.
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I am building a database (using the native database engine) in LO 18.104.22.168 on Linux Mint. The database is trying to make sense of multiple suppliers of multiple components.
It has 3 tables: Products, Suppliers and ProductSuppliers, linked (I hope) with one-to-many relationships from the former two to the last one (not real sure how to tell the nature of the relationship).
The main ProductSuppliers form uses two subforms, picking up the details of the product (and the supplier) from the Products (or Supplier) table when a particular product name is picked from the drop-down list in the combo-box.
But I've stuffed it up somehow; when entering a new item in the ProductSuppliers form selecting the relevant entry from the Product drop-down list and clicking in the sub-form text box displays the description of the product - which is what I want. But then selecting the relevant entry from the Supplier drop-down list does not display the data in the supplier subform.
I've checked the controls for the combo-box and the subform and subform text boxes, and eveything looks fine (but then what do I know?). EarthCareTech
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Ciao Italia Blog Exclusive Cranberry Relish Recipe: Relish This
Pick up any November food magazine and on the cover will surely be the hero of the Thanksgiving table, Tom the turkey, dressed in all his finery. There will be all kinds of informative articles in the magazine about how best to cook it. All that is fine, but it seems that roast turkey's best companion, cranberry relish never gets its culinary due. But, truth be told, cranberry relish is what I crave on Thanksgiving; it says fall is really here and comfort foods will, well, comfort us through a long hard winter.
So while the butterball turkey hotline will be lit up like a Christmas tree with questions from nervous cooks about what to do with the bird, I will anxiously be waiting to spoon my favorite cranberry sauce out of Aunt Phoebe's antique glass bowl and onto my plate.
And I will relish every spoonful.
Cranberry Relish
Makes about 2 cups (recipe can be doubled)
1 pound cranberries, washed and drained
1 ¼ cups sugar
Pinch salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 cup diced California dried apricots
Combine the cranberries and sugar in a sauce pan. Bring the mixture to a boil, then lower the heat to medium and cook until the cranberries begin to burst. Add the salt, cinnamon, cloves and lemon juice. Cook until the mixture thickens. Remove from the heat and stir in the apricots. Let the mixture cool, then transfer to a jar and refrigerate until needed. It will keep for weeks.
Barbara: Art and Bab Live in Italy!OH how I miss cranberries here in Umbria! I'll try this recipe when we visit the states in December - thanks!
Linda RizzoWow, I love the idea of apricots in this cranberry sauce recipe! I have a very similar recipe from my Nonna, however, her recipe calls for pineapple rather than the apricots. Will give the apricots a try in this year's sauce! Thanks!


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'Hinterlands' for the exhibition 'Between Worlds' Renmin University of China, Beijing, 2015 The installation, 'Hinterlands', comprises two related elements: a wall painting with vinyl text; and four unframed photographic digital prints arranged on adjacent walls. The wall texts are taken from a mixture of diary notes and descriptions of photographic images made by the artists, Brind & Harold, over a number of years whilst on research journeys. The texts are not chronologically ordered but, instead, are intended to be read as a series of text-images. Through typographic layout and proximity, the texts become interrelated whilst not being the direct traces of a linear journey or journeys. Rather, they tell of the small moments of travel and experience (un-photographable in some cases) that act as the truer registers of a journey; whether that journey is outwardly bound or inwardly focused. As a result the work seeks to allow these events and the phrases used to account for them to become liminal spaces - thresholds or hinterlands - through which the viewer's own imagination may engage with the artists'. The photographs of desert space, details of the desert floor taken in the Egyptian a Desert, are similarly intended as the traces of real events and locations, while providing ambiguous spaces of reading and meaning.
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Marilyn Crispell
HotHouse, April 8
The war that rages in jazz these days is no news to anyone following the continuing controversy between Wynton Marsalis and his critics. The war doesn't just concern the musical avenues Marsalis has chosen to explore: at its fundamental level it engages such issues as how and where jazz will evolve and who will get to decide such questions for the majority of listeners.
For me, the crisis gained a quiet focus with Marilyn Crispell's visit to Chicago last weekend. Crispell, a pianist of spectacular energy and an almost unnerving precision--unnerving because it serves such tumultuous and gloriously imprecise forms of expression--represents much of what the Marsalis-led neoconservatives demean.
For the obvious starter, she does not play bebop; she doesn't even refer to that watershed idiom in her music, which falls into the area generally referred to as "free jazz" or "the avant-garde." She does not "swing" in any traditional sense. Her music does not fit the externally imposed theme-and-variations format used by the young neoboppers; the structure instead arises from the free flow of her galvanizing improvisations. Although she uses such elements as tone clusters, dissonant voicings, and blurringly fast percussive melodies, she doesn't play like Cecil Taylor, who pioneered such techniques; Crispell thus disproves the assertion that "all that free stuff sounds alike." And she presents an obvious contrast--enhanced by the fact that her appearance in town was part of the Women of the New Jazz festival--to "young men in suits," the flip but telling epithet that describes the Marsalis-spawned wave of talented young players aping the sounds and styles of decades past.
Crispell performed at HotHouse last Friday night, in a dream trio of her own devising, with the great Chicago pioneer Fred Anderson on tenor sax and the world-seasoned Hamid Drake on drums. The night before, she appeared on the radio show I host, and in the course of that interview I touched on the "difficult" nature of freely improvised music such as hers.
I have always marveled at the power of some jazz, and music such as Crispell's in particular, to make people angry--angry enough to call and complain when they hear it on the radio, or to storm out of a concert with a wrath they would never display toward a bad film or a stupidly written book. I think this has everything to do with the fact that this music operates on such a primal level. It asks the listener to unlearn familiar presumptions about jazz specifically, music in general; using elements that predate sophisticated harmonic schemes and exacting rhythms, it reaches deep, like a great poem, to a very old place. It seeks out a spot beyond that cerebral net we try to throw over everything we hear. And that makes some people quite uncomfortable: mystified by what they hear, frustrated that others seem to be "getting it," and explosively defensive in the perceived insult to their intelligence.
But such reactions only prove the music's real power, its ability to forge and shape emotions at a substratum rarely reached by art. And when everything clicks, as it did at Crispell's performance, those emotions include joy and the most unvarnished delight. Crispell has already proved herself a spectacular accompanist in her work with Anthony Braxton's quartet, and that ability came to the fore as she underlined and enhanced Anderson's haunted tenor lyricism. But each of them also worked to prod the music, with Drake's help, into places neither of them might have separately considered. Their first three pieces rose and fell into place with an excited logic that reminded me why I listen to this stuff in the first place, and that happens not nearly often enough.
(By the way, on the radio Crispell didn't agree that there's anything difficult about her music. Instead, she described the way in which many people listen to and appreciate her music: they let it wash over them, not so much thinking about it--unconcerned with whether or not they're being duped--as simply reacting to the sounds.)
In a recent New York Times article recapping the jazz war, Peter Watrous painted the conflict as one between critics jadedly calling for more experimentation and cerebralism and the musicians who, led by Mr. Marsalis, have made clear their preference for more familiar idioms in easily assimilated contexts. And, said Watrous, it is clear that in establishing a new conservativism that will dominate jazz into the next century, "the musicians have won."
Actually, though, the success of the neoconservatives proves only that one faction of musicians has prevailed. It ignores the many others who realize the dire implications of feeding on, rather than growing out from, your roots; older and deeper into their art and its uncharted paths, these musicians in fact outnumber the putative pack of pencil-necked critics "out to get" Wynton and his progeny. And they score their own unequivocal victories whenever their creations shine as luminously as Crispell's.
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Dear Michelle, Here's a question for your new 'Advice Colummn.' When one spouse cheats, are both guilty? – Not that Innocent
Dear NTI,
Something tells me there is a lot more to the story than just a cheating spouse, as is very often the case when it comes to matters of the heart. My first thought is 'guilty of what' and by that I mean guilty of adultery or something else. Neglect, perhaps? When a person questions whether he or she should feel some sense of guilt the odds are that the person is feeling guilty for something. Sometimes this guilt is misplaced partly because another has projected their own negative behavior onto the person and/or perhaps society has certain expectations or generally accepted moral codes. In the case of a cheating spouse very often the person who has broken the sacred vow of marriage and gone ahead and engaged in an extramarital affair is seen as the louse. Only sometimes there is far more to the story than what is on the surface. Could cheating be rationalized and even justified? Some might think so because the circumstances that lead to one person seeking comfort of a third party might be understandable. For example, let's say that one spouse is abusive or neglectful and the cheating spouse finds that he or she is drawn to another due to the horrific circumstances of the marriage. On the flip side should that cheating spouse have gone to such lengths and perhaps it would have been better to end the relationship before committing adultery. Who can say?
There are those who will judge a cheating spouse based on very little knowledge of what's transpired. Those people will tend to see things in black and white. There are others who might point out that when a relationship fails that both parties are to blame. It's truly impossible to say without knowing all the circumstances involved. There are many times when a spouse does everything he or she could to make their partner happy but the marriage still ends because of an extramarital affair. There are also times when an extramarital affair can actually bring to light underlying problems and cause two people to realize that they might have been neglecting one another. Does one spouse-cheating mean the relationship has to end? Maybe. Maybe not.
What I think might be best is to do an inventory of your own behavior and see if you have done all you can to be the best you can be both in life and in the marriage. If you are the one who cheated, then ask yourself why you chose to cheat rather than look to separate and/or work on what was wrong in the marriage. Maybe you did that. If you are the one who was cheated on, then maybe ask yourself if you had been neglectful. Did you miss telltale signs that would have indicated your spouse was trying to tell you something before the affair?
Guilt, by the way is often described as a useless emotion but I do not think that is the case. I think guilt can help us to examine our own moral compass and we can use it in a way to grow. Life is about learning and if we use guilt to grow then it's not useless. All I can say is that nobody knows what might have gone one in the marriage and responsibility to have a relationship grow and flourish is on both parties. Cheating is not healthy because it causes a person to lie to another and to one's self. Why do I feel that you already know the answer to the question you asked? If you can look in the mirror and be honest about the circumstances that lead to the affair regardless of which side you are on, you should be able to move forward. Forgive yourself for the part you played and look toward the future. The past is the past and if you live an authentic life and treat others with the same respect you owe yourself, chances are you will find yourself in a relationship that is more solid at the core. All the best – Michelle


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February 2019
Duke Health Creates Simulation Tool that Predicts E-Consult Impact on Wait Times
The theme of the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference, which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden in December, was "Simulation for a Noble Cause!" Researchers at Duke Health submitted and then presented their "noble cause" in the form of a simulation tool using data from e-consult use at Duke Health's Rheumatology clinics. Based on the hypothesis that e-consult decreased lead times and makes specialty clinics more efficient and effective, researchers created a simulation to estimate how e-consults will impact lead time, queue length, and specialists' workload. The tool is adaptable and includes visualizations that any specialty clinic can use to "estimate the impact e-consults have on delivering quality care to referred patients," write the authors.
Médecins Sans Frontières Brings E-Consult to Global Frontlines
In 2010 ,Médecins Sans Frontières began using e-consult to provide field medical staff with access to specialist advice. A study of MSF's e-consult use over seven years demonstrates that "offering direct specialist expertise in low-resource settings improved the management of patients and provided additional educational value to the field physicians." MSF's specialist network comprises doctors that are part of the organization (75%) as well as volunteers located in Europe and America. Use of e-consults in MSF's low-resource and humanitarian aid settings rose significantly among the organization's 271 operational sites.
As the number of e-consults rose, response times decreased indicating an overall quality and performance increase.
Using Consensus Methods to Identify Features of High-Quality Specialist E-Consults
While communication quality among providers impacts patient safety, specialists "rarely receive feedback" for written communications, according to a recent study. To evaluate what features PCPs want from specialist e-consults, researchers had PCPs and specialists collaborate to define a list. Eight PCPs and three specialists, including a dermatologist, hematologist, and pediatric orthopedist, initially created a list of 49 items that was then refined to 14 items. The results revealed that "highly-ranked items encompassed specific, up-to-date, patient-individualized, and practical advice that the PCP could implement."
Cost Effectiveness
Cost Savings Research on E-Consult Generates Press Interest
First published in December 2018, recent research on cost savings achieved by Connecticut Community Health Center Inc's use of e-consult has generated positive press in both a local publications and a national medical news source. This press included the following articles:
How these 4 specialties used telemedicine to save nearly $600,000 This American Medical Association news brief focuses on e-consult's financial benefits and AMA's advocacy for provider reimbursement for e-consults.
Health center for the poor begets a telemedicine pioneer The Connecticut Post reports on how CHC has spun off a nonprofit technology with the goal of "radically" changing patient access to specialists. The reporter highlights e-consult's cost savings and quality, noting CHC, Inc.'s uniqueness as a safety net health center pioneer in high-tech business.
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Eiffel Tower Facts
The Eiffel Tower has stood in Paris since 1889.
It took two years, two months and five days to build.
The company that built it was owned by a man called Gustave Eiffel.
That's where the tower gets its name.
World's Fair
The Eiffel Tower was built as the main exhibit at the 1889 World's Fair – a big international exhibition.
The tower was only supposed to stand for 20 years, but because it is also used to transmit radio programs, it was allowed to stay!
Since it was built, over 250 million people have visited the tower and today it is one of the most well-known buildings in the world.
Eiffel Tower Facts for Kids
- There is almost always a queue to go up the Eiffel Tower.
- When you get to the front of the queue, you'll still have to climb 1,665 steps to get to the top. Luckily, there are also lifts!
- Visitors can walk up the first two levels and take a lift to the third and final level.
- From the top, there's a 360-degree view of Paris. It's particularly beautiful at night.
- The Eiffel Tower is 1,063 feet tall.
- It was the tallest structure in the world until the Chrysler Building was built in New York in 1930.
- The tower isn't always the same height, though. During cold weather, the tower shrinks and is six inches shorter!
- When it's windy, the tower sways around two to three inches in the wind.
- There are 18,038 metal parts in the tower and 7,300 tons of iron.
- There's so much iron that the tower's nickname is the Iron Lady!
- The tower is repainted every seven years.
- This takes 15 months and 60 tons of paint! It also takes 25 painters who paint the tower with paintbrushes. Yes, it's all done by hand!
- The tower hasn't always been the same color, though. It used to be a red-brown color but today it's bronze.
- 72 engineers, scientists and mathematicians worked on the tower. All of their names are engraved on the side.
- Each night, 20,000 lightbulbs light up the tower.
- Sometimes there are special light shows, too, such as on New Year's Eve 2000.
- If guests get hungry or thirsty while visiting the tower, they can try one of the tower's restaurants or bars, and enjoy beautiful views of the city as they eat and drink.
- When the building of the tower began, not everyone in Paris was happy about it. They didn't all love the idea of the huge, modern metal structure. Today, however, the tower is the symbol not only of Paris but also of France.
- Many painters have painted the Eiffel Tower and it can be seen in many films.
- People have written poems and even songs about it. It really is pretty famous!
- Gustave Eiffel did not only create the Eiffel Tower. In fact, the Eiffel Tower was the last thing he worked on. Before that he had also designed some parts of the Statue of Liberty in New York. He had also designed a railway station in Hungary and bridges over rivers in France and Portugal.
Question: How much does the Eiffel Tower weigh?
Answer: It weighs 10,100 tons.
Question: Is the Eiffel Tower the tallest monument in Paris?
Answer: Yes, it is!


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Latent free radical polymerization of bulk methacrylates: Organic visible-light photocatalysis and supramolecular effects Public Deposited
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- Light-activated polymerizations are important because they allow spatially and temporally controlled synthesis of polymers and polymer-based materials under ambient conditions. This capability is greatly valued in numerous applications, such as coatings, adhesives, sealants, electronics, diagnostics, dental materials, and biomaterials. Hence, the amount of precursors and synthetic routes available increases every year. However, there is limited understanding of the often intricate mechanisms via which many of these reactions work. As a consequence, this technology has not been exploited to its fullest. As a result, a need exists for the elucidation of refined mechanisms and kinetic models that aid in better understanding, predicting, and controlling such immensely valuable reactions for the production of practically relevant materials and devices. The present work delves into the refinement of the theoretical framework of free radically initiated chain growth polymerizations in solvent-free (bulk) monomer(s). This project originated to explain an unexpectedly long-lasting (>2000 s) latent polymerization observed after briefly exposing certain (meth)acrylic monomers, like 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, to visible-light in the presence of an organic photocatalysis composition including Methylene blue (MB+), Hünig's base and an Iodonium salt. Free radical chain growth photopolymerizations in bulk typically stop shortly (< 17 s) after irradiation is extinguished. Thus, it was clear that the available kinetic models and theories were not sufficient to account for this atypical, and potentially advantageous, phenomenon. We simultaneously monitored the photocatalyst (MB+) and monomer concentrations with UV-Vis and FT-IR spectroscopy, respectively, under several irradiation regimes. EPR spectroscopy was used to determine the nature and lifetime of the light-generated radical intermediates. Rheology confirmed that the vinyl groups consumed in the dark are in fact being polymerized. Quantum chemical calculations guided the experiments and supported the proposal of a photocatalytic mechanism via which reactive initiating free radicals can be produced long after the irradiation is extinguished. With these results, the unusually extended latent polymerization was explained by two mechanistic conclusions: 1) organic photocatalysis using MB+/Hünig's base/Iodonium salt stores energy during irradiation in the form of Leuco Methylene Blue via an e-/H+/e- transfer process instead of the typical single e- transfer; then, LMB is later used to produce radicals upon reaction with the Iodonium salts for even thousands of seconds after light cessation, and 2) hydrogen bonding exacerbates the Trommsdorff-Norrish effect via which bimolecular termination is hindered, thus resulting in the extension of the vinyl polymerization in the dark by the well-documented radical occlusion process.
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Causes of leakage at valve packing
1. Wrong choice of packing, corrosion resistant to medium, high pressure or vacuum, high temperature or low temperature of valve;
2. The packing is not properly installed, and there are defects such as small size instead of large size, screw coil joint is not good, upper and lower loose
3. The filler is aging and loses its elasticity after its usage
4. Low precision of valve stem, with defects such as bending, corrosion and wear
5. Insufficient packing ring number, and the gland is not pressed;
6. The gland, bolts and other parts are damaged, making the gland unable to be pressed;
7. Improper operation, excessive force, etc.;
8. The pressure cover is skewed, and the gap between the pressure cover and the stem is too small or too large, resulting in the stem wear and packing damage.
Methods of prevention and exclusion:
1. The filler material and type shall be selected according to the working condition;
2, according to the relevant provisions of the correct installation packing, packing should be by circle put pressure, joint should be 45 ℃ to 30 ℃ or;
3. The overlong, aging and damaged filler should be replaced in time;
4. The valve stem should be straightened and repaired after bending and wearing, and the seriously damaged valve stem should be replaced in time;
5. The packing shall be installed according to the required number of turns, and the gland shall be symmetrically and uniformly tightened, and the pressing sleeve shall have a pre-tightening clearance above 5mm;
6. The damaged gland, bolts and other parts shall be repaired or replaced in time;
7. Operating procedures shall be followed, and normal operation with constant speed with the exception of percussive hand wheel;
8. Tighten the gland bolts evenly and symmetrically. If the gap between the gland and the valve stem is too small, the gap should be increased appropriately.The gap between gland and stem is too large and should be replaced.


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A project initiated by the Neotropical section of the IUCN SSC Deer Specialist Group (DSG) aimed to compile a state-of-the-art resource on Neotropical deer species. Since 1998, when the Deer Action Plan (DAP) was published, there has been no publication that has followed up on all its recommendations and proposed management actions.
In Latin America, the historical relationship between humans and deer is a long one. Deer have been a source of food, raw materials and medicine from time immemorial. In spite of this long relationship, very little scientific research has been conducted to understand their basic biology and natural history. Today, the survival of almost half the species is threatened to some degree, ranging, in terms of the IUCN Red List Categories from Near Threatened to Critically Endangered. Knowledge of the natural history and ecological requirements of these species is required if we are to conserve the threatened species, as well as manage the "healthier" populations sustainably. We also need to gather together the knowledge we do have into accessible forms so that we are able to set targets and priorities for acquiring new knowledge.
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Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles is anything but a strict reboot of the pink mountain lion with particularly refined sensibilities." —Hollywood Reporter
" It's sort of crazy and awesome that this even exists at all…The writing by Mark Russell is witty and compelling." —Nerdist
"New concepts that capture the playful spirit of those old cartoons with a more modern sensibility." —A.V. Club
A bold new take on the beloved cartoon comedian from the writer of The Flintstones!
Drama! Comedy! Tragedy! For the renowned Southern playwright called Snagglepuss, these are the ingredients that have made him a star of the New York stage and the glittering world that surrounds it. But the year is 1953, and behind the bright lights, darkness is brewing.
As Snagglepuss prepares for his next hit play, there's already a target on his back. The Red Scare is in full effect, and the House Un-American Activities Committee is hunting down every last subversive in show business. So far, Snagglepuss has stayed out of their spotlight.
But Snagglepuss is gay…and his enemies are out to destroy him for it.
One by one, his best friends are being blackballed, from legends like Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker to his fellow Southern gentleman Huckleberry Hound. Can Snagglepuss' reputation survive the rampage of the right wing long enough for him to stage his next masterpiece? One thing's for sure: the show must go on!
Hot off his surprise-hit reimagining of The Flintstones, writer Mark Russell joins artist Mike Feehan to unleash the fire and fury of his sharp-witted political satire in Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles—a powerful look at what it means to be an American, no matter who or what you are. Collects Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles #1-6, plus a Snagglepuss story from Suicide Squad/Banana Splits Special #1.
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It's 1953. While the United States is locked in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the gay Southern playwright known as Snagglepuss is the toast of Broadway. But success has made him a target. As he plans for his next hit play, Snagglepuss becomes the focus of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And when powerful forces align to purge show business of its most subversive voice
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As some of you may or may not know, contributing to AniTAY is not the full extent of my anime writing. I am also a regular contributor to Crunchyroll's official newsletter. I officially joined the newsletter on April 27th last year, though my first article wouldn't go live until May 8th. So now that a full year has passed since I joined the newsletter, I decided to look back at the different series I reviewed both by myself and as a group with some of the other writers. Funnily enough I joined the newsletter roughly one year after I returned from my hiatus from anime.
Now as to how I joined the newsletter, it's actually rather mundane and largely had to do with luck. Shortly before I joined I had started finally reading Crunchyroll's news blog (which is an entirely different thing; I've yet to contribute to that, though I am planning on changing that in the future) and specifically started checking out their weekly Fanart Friday, a column that gathered various pieces of fanart that fit whatever that week's theme is (I have contributed to this myself from time to time, though) and by chance I noticed that the guy running the Fanart Friday column was also one of the people in charge of the newsletter team and was asking for additional people to join the newsletter. By mere chance, when I asked to join the team, they only had one open spot left, so I managed to nab it. Like I said, it's a bit of a straight forward and lame story.
Anyways, like I said, I'm going to be looking back at all of the series I've reviewed for the newsletter, give a little blurb about each of them, and link to each of the actual articles I wrote. I did write more than just reviews, but I morphed two of them into other articles that I made for here. The first was an aggregation of the newsletter's individual Top 5 Summer 2014 simulcasts into a single overall Top 5 list (speaking of, we took the Fall 2014 season off for this type of article, but did bring it back for the Winter 2015 season, which I will be doing a similar aggregation for later today, you may be surprised by some of the results), and the other was my article over why I love sports anime, which was primarily a more expanded version of what I said in a round table discussion article over sports anime we did in Fall 2014. So with all that in order, let's get started!
World Fool News
World Fool News was the first series I reviewed for the newsletter. By the time I joined, the Spring 2014 season was well under way, so pretty much all the big name titles were already assigned to those already on the writing staff. So I was left to pick through the scrap heap. The series itself is rather inoffensive. Its short episode length, minimalistic art style and extremely odd sense of humor reminded me of the shows I was watching on Adult Swim back in high school and thus endeared me to the weird little series.
Blade and Soul
The first full length show I reviewed was the severely underwhelming Blade and Soul. The Spring season was still going at the time, so this was another series I pulled from the "junk pile". Writing for the newsletter can be challenging at times, as we can be honest with our opinions about a show, but we also have to try our best to make shows sound appealing enough for people to still watch it, and Blade and Soul has been by far the toughest show I've reviewed for Crunchyroll to achieve that balance. It should also be noted that aside from some rare cases, most of our reviews are written while the shows are airing (effectively making them glorified versions of the impression articles that have been popping up around here recently) and I wrote my review for this show before things like the animation got to their peak suckitude in this show.
Sword Art Online II
My first group review was for the second season of the highly popular Sword Art Online series. It was relatively early on in the season's run, so the Phantom Bullet arc that was airing at the time wasn't in its full stride, but even then it was more enough for me to know that I would enjoy this season more than the first(which ultimately did come to pass, as I loved SAO2, but am still overall "meh" on the first season). The funny thing is, when I was writing my part of the review, I wasn't even aware of the well placed pun I put at the end of my section. It wasn't until I read the final version of the article that I saw it.
Free! Eternal Summer
The Summer 2014 season actually had quite a large number of group reviews, and in fact had the most I've participated in in a given season with three. The second one was the follow up to KyoAni's smash hit Free! from Summer 2013. I love Free!, it was the series that got me into sports anime. It is a gorgeously animated series with surprisingly engaging characters and action, though it wouldn't be until Eternal Summer that the characters truly got fleshed out and the story really became engaging. Plus Eternal Summer ends on a really satisfying ending that at the same time leaves an opening for any potential continuations in the future.
Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club!
The first solo review I would do of a show I willingly requested during each season's initial wave of review requests would be the hilarious Sabagebu!. Even now Momoka is still one of the biggest jerks I've seen in anime and I still love her for it. Making up for, all things being fair, lackluster animation with hilarious and sharp comedy, Sabagebu! became a favorite show for several people during Summer 2014.
Magimoji Rurumo
The next show I would review would be the ecchi comedy series Magimoji Rurumo, based on a manga from the same creator as Yowamushi Pedal's manga. While I enjoyed Rurumo all the way through its run, I was left a little wanting in the end. The show does have some rather emotional moments and some good messages at heart, it ultimately fails to live up to its potential and winds up feeling like a weaker version of The Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat.
Sailor Moon Crystal
The last of the Summer 2014 group reviews would be the latest adaptation in the world famous Sailor Moon franchise. Going in with much hype, suffice to say this show has been greatly disappointing to me. I kept trying to find positive things in Sailor Moon Crystal, but eventually I bowed out as the awkward release schedule for the episodes made it hard for me to care about watching it each week.
Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road
Easily one of the most surprising successes in anime in recent years has to be Yowamushi Pedal. A series that came out of nowhere to surprise people in Fall 2013 would end up having its sequel be one of the most hyped shows for Fall 2014 and would be the first group review I would take part of that season. I absolutely love Yowapeda, and Grande Road just continued from where the series left off and went bigger and better.
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Ufotable's popularly nicknamed Unlimited Budget Works would be the second group review I participated in in the Fall season. I went into UBW more or less a Fate series virgin, as aside from the first few episodes of Studio DEEN's 2006 adaptation of Fate/stay night that I saw in my high school anime club the year it came out. While the first season of UBW was a bit heavy on exposition, it was still a gorgeous and entertaining season, and I honestly preferred its pace to the near breakneck speed the the second half of UBW is progressing at.
Your Lie in April
While I ultimately may not have fallen completely head over heels in love with Your Lie in April like several other people did, I still thought it was a very solid series more than worthy of seeing. It's a flawed masterpiece, but beautiful nevertheless. This series also proved to be a bit of a challenge to review, as I try my damnedest to avoid using spoilers in my Crunchyroll reviews, as, like I said, they are done while the shows are airing usually. The problem with Your Lie in April is, in hindsight, not much really happens in the first chunk of episodes, so there isn't much to talk about without getting into light spoiler territory.
Tribe Cool Crew
So far the only time a show has been "forced" upon me is when I was randomly assigned Tribe Cool Crew, a show that I intentionally avoided at first because it looked like a kid show with little to offer for those outside its target demographic. And I'll be honest, the first two or three episodes were a bit of a chore to get through, but once the adult members of the core cast of characters were introduced, the show immediately became better. On top of that, the show actually does a few things that belie its outward appearance. One of these things is that the show occasionally dips into some rather dark and serious material, and another of these things is the shockingly high amount of intentional shots of the butts of the female characters in the series, like most ecchi shows don't have this much on purpose focus on asses. In the end, Tribe Cool Crew has become a very genuine surprise for me, with it being a nice cool down show for me to watch each week.
Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls
While this charming short format series could be a bit hit or miss depending on the person, I absolutely adored it. I grew up playing the Genesis, so SEGA games formed the cornerstone of my gaming as a youth. So an anime series focusing on the games and hardware from SEGA's glory days would definitely resonate with me. Helps that the Japanese version of my beloved Genesis, Mega Drive, ended up being the best character in the show.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Battle in Egypt
I love JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Love it. It is quite possibly my favorite shonen battle series to date. So obviously I eagerly jumped at the chance to help pitch in with the group review of the second half of the series' third arc, Stardust Crusaders. If you haven't seen JoJo's yet, just watch it. Trying to describe it won't do the series justice. It needs to be experienced first hand.
Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend
I only ended up getting to do one solo review from amongst the Winter 2015 simulcasts, but I lucked out with that review being for what was arguably the best non-sequel and non-Fall 2014 continuation to be on Crunchyroll during that season, the hilarious meta-comedy harem series Saekano.
At the time I wrote my part of the group review for KanColle I was still enjoying the anime overall, even though it still had many flaws. Of course now I hate the anime, thanks to how it went in its back half. But at least the anime got me to play the game, which I am enjoying more than I ever did the anime, so there's that.
Trinity Seven
This is the last review I've written for the newsletter as of the time of this article. I actually rescued both this and SeHa Girls from the list of shows left over from after the Fall 2014 season. I've said it many times by now, but Trinity Seven was my favorite harem show in 2014. I loved the characters, the way the characters interacted with each other, and the voice acting. So much so that I didn't even really care that much that I had no real clue what the hell the story was. This was one of the rare chances that I got to review a series after it had finished airing, so I was able to give my full opinions on the show, and thus a true review.
So that's everything that I've done in the first twelve months I've been writing for Crunchyroll's newsletter. I've greatly enjoyed my time writing for them as it presents a challenge unlike any other I've experienced yet. Here's hoping for another twelve months!


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- Brendan Rodgers is among the main candidates in becoming Chelsea's new manager
- Luis Enrique, Maurizio Sarri and Massimiliano Allegri are the other names on the Blues' radar
- READ MORE: Chelsea star sensationally dropped after questioning Conte's tactics
The question over 'who will become Chelsea's next manager' continues to be unsolved as another coach has entered the equation.
Having previously worked at Chelsea in a backroom staff role before going onto earn plaudits at Liverpool and currently Celtic, Brendan Rodgers is among the favourites to return to Stamford Bridge.
That's according to the Daily Express who report that the Northern Irishman could be lured away from Celtic Park at the hands of the Blues.
Rodgers, who led the Scottish side to the domestic treble in 2016, is joined by former-Barcelona boss Luis Enrique along with respective Napoli and Juventus managers Maurizio Sarri and Massimiliano Allegri, as the Daily Express reports.
It is likely that we won't hear any major news over a potential replacement for Antonio Conte till the end of the season, with a month left of the current campaign.


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Nairn Lochloy Holiday Park has a superb setting, nestled between the fine white sand dunes of Nairn East Beach, a championship golf course and a beautiful marina. So you might want to bring your clubs, along with beach balls, buckets and spades and keep your camera close in case you spot the resident Moray Firth dolphins!
Awards: 4 Star Excellent Award from the Scottish Tourist Board, Silver David Bellamy Conservation Award
Facilities and entertainment includes –
* Kids' clubs with Sid & Lizzie for preschool – 10 year olds.
* Freestyle teen club for 10-15 year olds.
* Fun-filled evening entertainment in the Drifter's family entertainment suite.
* Heated indoor pool with toddler's pool, sauna and solarium.
* Children's Splash Pool.
* Spelding's Restaurant & Lounge Bar with glass front and marina views.
* Drifter's Bar.
* Pizza takeaway
* Nine hole crazy golf course.
* Adventure play area with slide, swings, climbing areas and 'skate ride'.
* Amusements.
* Free Wi-Fi in designated areas.
* Pet friendly accommodation.
* And much more!
Nairn Lochloy Holiday Park also offers spacious touring and camping pitches with great facilities.
evening entertainment
Fort George
Clbun Sands
Cawdor Castle
Landmark Forest Adventure Park
The local area is dotted with ancient castles, whiskey distilleries, excellent golf courses and stunning scenery. Whats more, Inverness, the capital of the Highlands is only a short drive away and excellent for shopping and the famous Loch Ness.This area is also known as the Sun Coast of Scotland.
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DERBYSHIRE 12 Jul 2010
Be carefull when getting to this park , lotts of building work at the top of the lane.
Touring park is small but not to bad,all the things you expect from holiday company .
Tiolets and showers are on the small size, one shower and two toiets but clean and tidy.
nice location near the marina and beach.
The club was a little empty but thats one of those things. disco ended early because no one in so cant conplain.
Its good enough but would not like to stay to long.
Nairn Lochloy Holiday Park , Highlands, Scotland
Lancs 26 Sep 2009
Hired a caravan with up grade 1st van left with smelly dirty mop in shower 2nd van offered a basic van, third van not very clean. Reception staff not helpful. Only good point handy for a part of the country we had never been before.
Nairn Lochloy Holiday Park
Cheshire 02 May 2009
In April 2009, Four of our family went to this place. We paid extra for an 'Upgrade'.
The caravan was unbelievably dirty. The pillows were dirty and flat, the beds smelt, The carpet was filthy, Under the seats were food debris and general dirt, The whole caravan smelt like a stale nightclub. That was inside, Outside around the camp the drains/sewers smelt something awful as well.
Nairn Lochloy Holiday Park
The smoke alarm was not working, the clock was not working, the TV had no remote control. We had arrived late after a 350 mile drive so just crashed out, the following day we took stock of the situation and decided that staying there was not going to be good for our health. We were to stay for five days but left after two. The staff did offer to clean the place but it was just not good enough. There are some nice privately owned caravans there.
Aberdeen 22 Sep 2008
Just spent the local holiday weekend at Lochloy with my husband and 2 kids. The site is great for families, really friendly and the kids had a ball. The Entertainment Team, headed by Paula, was absolutely fantastic and kept the kids (and adults!) amused from first thing in the morning until last thing at night. This is the second year we have came up for the long weekend and on both occasions we have had a really great weekend. Thanks!
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aberdeenshire 25 Apr 2008
I had a really enjoyable long weekend here with my 2 young kids,my friend and her niece and nephew.There was plenty to do,kids clubs,character t-partys and eveving entertainment.All the kids had a ball with milli and maxi the resident characters,so did my friend and I!! Definetly worth a visit,we will be going back very soon.


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Using .FORGET on a spell
"Bryan Hanson
I am crossposting this from pcgenlstfilehelp to see if anyone here may know the answer to my question. It has not garnered any response on that group.
have tried searching and don't know if I am doing something wrong, this is a bug (known or not), or just not supported. (or how it should work)
For some reason .FORGET doesn't seem to work for me on a spell. I went back and recreated it with just the RSRD and a simple homebrew LST to make sure it was not something else in the datasets causing an issue.
After trying this and reloading everything (even exiting the program just to make sure)
And the spell is still showing up on the spell list for known spells. What is odd is that I see an error introduced in the rsrd_kits.lst file with an unconstructed reference tot he spell Alarm so i am assuming it is actually forgetting it. Likely the line in that file with the error is
SPELLS:SPELLBOOK=Prepared Spells|Daze|Detect Magic=2|Resistance|Alarm|Charm Person|Color Spray|Mage Armor|Magic Missile=2|Blur|Bull's Strength|Darkness|Fox's Cunning|See Invisibility|Dispel Magic|Displacement|Fly|Lightning Bolt|Invisibility (Greater)|Phantasmal Killer|Scrying|Stoneskin|Hold Monster|Lightning Bolt[Empower Spell]|Wall of Force
So the question is if it is forgetting the spell, why is it showing up on the spell list of known spells in the program? Using a different spell (Hideous Laughter) which does NOT throw any errors
Hideous Laughter.FORGET
I see the same thing. Datasets load fine this time and show green. but when I go to add spells it is still on the list.
I can .MOD and .COPY the spell just fine, it is when i just use .FORGET it doesn't seem to go away from the spell list.
Am i doing something wrong or is this an issue?
Re: Issues Creating Animated Object In Pathfinder 1e
Andrew Maitland
Wouldn't surprise me. A lot of things are just text without actually changing the attributes.
Coding it to work shouldn't be too hard, but it will take time.
On 11/27/2019 7:43 PM, allencohn wrote:
Re: Add language to 3.5
Andrew Maitland
Hi Steven,
Who has declined your offer to help?
I can assure you I do not turn away any seeking to volunteer.
I'm curious about the rationalised comment. The data sets are set up to be like the books, but the annoyance is the information in them often requires information in other earlier source books to work correctly.
On 11/27/2019 12:23 PM, Steven High wrote:
Re: situation tag via equipment?
Andrew Maitland
Should work fine.
Though, your situation you have in one needs to match in the other.
By weight vs. Fine detail
On 11/27/2019 12:05 PM, ferret.griffin+io via Groups.Io wrote:
Should it be possible to use a SITUATION bonus via a piece of equipment?
Re: Deity Headers
Andrew Maitland
Place them into pantheons. You can sort the UI list by Pantheon.
On 11/26/2019 9:30 AM, Ramon Menendez wrote:
Issues Creating Animated Object In Pathfinder 1e
Hello everyone!
Re: Add language to 3.5
Robert Singers
And to add to Steven's comments. I offered to help with documentation, and but gave up trying to be involved as there was never anyone on the Discord server to talk to about it.
I'd also be seeing the meta-model for the data files, if one exists.
Robert Singers
Re: Deity Headers
Glad it's sorted. That little 'expand' box appears quite a lot and is quite handy, I often think a lot of those extra fields ought to be displayed by default really...
Re: Deity Headers
Ramon Menendez
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awesome.. thats what I needed.. tyvm
On November 27, 2019 at 11:29 AM "ferret.griffin+io via Groups.Io" <ferret.griffin+io@...> wrote:
Re: Add language to 3.5
Steven High
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Actually, I have edited plenty of PCGen splt.lst files---that is the origin of my criticism. And I have edited plenty of html, too. I've spent plenty of hours working up new output sheets after making to revisions to the included output sheets. But no, I do not code java. Nor do I want to.
Furthermore, I **have** offered to work on ("volunteer for") the data files; I am repeatedly told that is an area the project "does not need help" on. A point about which I clearly disagree. I'm still ready to help out with them.
As far as a solution, I've written it numerous times---the data files need to be rationalised. If the parser is too broken to allow for that, then the parser needs to be rewritten. The data files are needlessly complicated and duplicative, QUITE APART FROM THE EXISTENCE OF SUPPLEMENTARY SOURCES. Anyone who spends any time actually working with the data sets knows this.
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situation tag via equipment?
Should it be possible to use a SITUATION bonus via a piece of equipment?
Appraise.MOD SITUATION:By weight
Magnifying Glass TYPE:Tools and Skill Kits SOURCEPAGE:p.130 SPROP:This simple lens allows a closer look at small objects. It is also useful as a substitute for flint and steel when starting fires. Lighting a fire with a magnifying glass requires light as bright as sunlight to focus, tinder to ignite, and at least a full-round action. A magnifying glass grants a +2 circumstance bonus on Appraise checks involving any item that is small or highly detailed, such as a gem. SORTKEY:Tools BONUS:SITUATION|Appraise=Fine detail|2
? Doesnt seem to be working for me. (using 6.07.08 still ...)
Re: Deity Headers
on the domains tab, There is little down arrow to the right of the 'diety' column heading, just above the scroll bar.
Click that - it lets you select additional fields to display (and thus sort by).
That will let you get Pantheon viewed.
Re: Deity Headers
You should be able to use the 'PANTHEON' to filter on these, should be a key added to each diety
Deity Headers
Ramon Menendez
I am trying to set up the deities section.. have have a good start on it... but i would like to know if there is a way to separate the deities in the drop down... so that if I want Norse gods or Elven gods.. etc.. I can click that part and then have the list associated with them to pick from
Re: Add language to 3.5
Steven High
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Actually, I feel PCGen has done a very good job of dealing with multiple sources and their conflicts as far as identifying which are interdependent and which are exclusive; if you spend any time manipulating sources in the Advanced Sources list you very quickly see just how much effort went into that.
To the extent that file duplication is inherent in the sources, and the very real caution with which AM and his fellow designers should approach the alteration of source material provided by the Game Designer itself---say Pathfinder---your point is valid, and clearly the PCGen team made a real effort to be consistent with the Game Designer's vision while permitting the GM to be as crazy as we like to be.
Where your agrument breaks down---and I cannot speak at all to AM's comment about a quantitative view of "issues", as he is the expert there, clearly---is within the many data files themselves, within the sources loaded by the game's user interface.
If you've spent any times inside them---and I have spent a lot of time there, just so you are fully warned before you go off again---you find that very little consistency exists across the numerous files and filesets. To speak to AM's point about the long history of PCGen and its nature as an open-source project, it is clear that the more recent efforts **have** made attempts to exert standards and practices, and to ensure as much commonality as possible. One of the issues seems to be that successive file "Tsars" want to go in different directions, so that "the wheel" keeps getting reinvented; another is the scale of the files themselves, which makes it close to impossible to make wholesale changes in a single iteration of the PCGen engine--this second issue results in several "started-and-stopped" efforts at clean-up.
If you had spent any real time in the files, you'd have known those thing, and have known about the efforts to fix them, and recognised that it was a real problem. As you are clearly one of the "privledged few"---I see your name on the output files when I'm repairing them---one might have expected you to answer my comment with the same calm that AM did, but add some salient facts; like **why** there are so many starts and stops, and **why** the project seems unable to settle upon a standard for data files; after all, the choices of Java brought with it the absolute requirement for complexly-formatted data files.
But none of that answers some of the low-level "whys". For example, why is it that any given file might require two or three entries for the same item, in different lists? Why is it that a single data point---say, for example, a Weapon Bonus---has to be repeated two or three times in a single data entry? All of those redundancies create opportunities for error and anomaly, and make altering the data files, even for experienced editors, an onerous and error-prone task.
Good version control doesn't just protect a file from being edited by more than one person at a time, nor track progressive edits. It controls the process by which a project advances the technology employed and the technology being attempted---so that if a new technology should prove to trouble-probe, or unusuable, it can be "backed out" without the whole project collapsing. The data files supporting PCGen---and without which the programme is useless---are not well managed, however you want to split hairs over how you define the work of version control, and whatever the reasons.
Certainly the deluge of supplements and "campaigns" and etc... coming out of Gaming Companies is a huge burden, and quite probably beyond the resources of an all-volunteer effort; much less going back and enforcing one of the several "formats" envisioned for the data sets and the way they are loaded into the java engine. I do see that. Better than you, clearly. But that there is an explanation does not mean there is no problem.
Starfinder - Armory #starfinder
Hello all,
I guess I ve stumbled about a few issues porting my starfinder society char into pcgen.
1.) Personal upgrade didnt offer adjusting an attribute by +x (as per core book for lowest grade it should be a +2 i.e.)
2.) Android internal slot can take any armor upgrade assigned for light armor. But cant choose "Hover field" from Armory.
So far the only points I have noticed.. keep up the good work :)
Re: Is There A Pathfinder 1st Ed. Alchemist Feral Mutagen Template Or Similar?
Oops! I just found it under "Temporary Bonuses" | "Ability".
Sorry for the false alarm.
PS: I'm wondering if an alchemist can select the feat Improved Natural Armor or Improved Natural Attack since in feral form they get both. But I think that's a rules question...
Is There A Pathfinder 1st Ed. Alchemist Feral Mutagen Template Or Similar?
Re: Add language to 3.5
Ramon Menendez
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TY... that might be the better way to go..... but I need tyo learn more on how to get the races working first... the subraces are already ther it seems.. just cant get them to work
On November 17, 2019 at 3:59 PM "Andrew Maitland via Groups.Io" <drew0500@...> wrote:
Re: Add language to 3.5
Ramon Menendez
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Thank you Andrew... and yes I was trying to put it in like the 3.0 version had.... its a probably best added as a skill and not a language but I am not that versed in the program.. yet. I was not aware of the videos and stuff so will be looking those up too. Again... thank you and your team for helping .... my next task (after I watch the videos this time) will be to integrate the subraces .. all the data appears to be there already... just need to figure out how to make it work smoothly :)
On November 14, 2019 at 12:15 AM "Andrew Maitland via Groups.Io" <drew0500@...> wrote:


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Thakor, a former England U19 player, has not been arrested but voluntarily attended a police station in Derby where he was questioned. Derbyshire subsequently suspended the 23-year-old on full pay pending a further investigation.
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Missguided Is Using Diverse, Realistic Mannequins to Promote Body Positivity
Tamim Alnuweiri・February 23, 2018
In theory, a mannequin's purpose is to help you imagine how that covetable garment (say, a Year of the Dog hoodie) would look on you, not on a hanger. But have you ever actually seen a mannequin that really looks like you? (I haven't.) Most of the time they are white, faceless (sometimes headless) objects that don't accurately mirror the human form. But British fashion brand Missguided is changing that with its just-announced #makeyourmark mannequins.
The new mannequins represent an array of races and have "imperfections" like stretch marks, freckles, and vitiligo.
The #makeyourmark mannequins, which have appeared in two of its United Kingdom stores so far, represent an array of races and have "imperfections" like stretch marks, freckles, and vitiligo. And, according to a statement the brand made to BuzzFeed, the mannequins are part of the Missguided's commitment to encourage shoppers "to be themselves, be comfortable in their own skin, celebrate their flaws, take risks, and own it."
In recent years, the retailer has become extremely committed to body realism and acceptance. Last year, it stopped photoshopping the images in its campaigns and product shots. Then it launched the editorial campaign Make Your Mark, which features diverse women who were not professional models but were activists, bloggers, and other inspiring boss babes (the new mannequins are an extension of this initiative). The photos proudly showcase perceived imperfections, like cellulite and stretch marks.
And while these new mannequins could stand to be cover more range regarding size, they are still a step in the right, inclusive, direction in which some high-fashion designers have already headed.
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Massive Attack is an English musical group from Bristol consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, formed in 1988.
Their debut album Blue Lines was released in 1991, with the single "Unfinished Sympathy" reaching the charts and later being voted the 10th greatest song of all time in a poll by The Guardian.
1998's Mezzanine, containing "Teardrop", and 2003's 100th Window charted in the UK at number 1.
Both Blue Lines and Mezzanine feature in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.The group has won numerous music awards throughout their career, including a Brit Award—winning Best British Dance Act, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and two Q Awards.
They have released 5 studio albums that have sold over 11 million copies worldwide.'Fire Sale' exhibitionDel Naja's solo art show was held at the Lazarides gallery in central London, UK from 24 May to 22 June 2013.
The show's content spanned a period of over twenty years and featured many of the art pieces that Del Naja created for Massive Attack.
Each piece, reinterpreted especially for the exhibition, was hand-printed and finished.
The show also featured three one-off 'digital infinity mirrors', two of which contained phrases supplied by Reprieve that were extracted from drone pilot dialogues.
Del Naja performed as a DJ during the opening night on 23 May.Massive Attack vs Adam CurtisDel Naja conceived and designed an eight-night festival with filmmaker Adam Curtis—in collaboration with UVA (United Visual Artists)— that premiered in Manchester, UK in July 2013.
The festival featured Curtis's film, unofficially titled The Plan, which was projected on a huge screen surrounding the audience, while music from Massive Attack was interweaved throughout the film.
Del Naja, who orchestrated the film's soundtrack, described the experience as a "collective hallucination" and the film was also shown at the Manchester Festival in July 2013.
The show was performed at the Ruhr International Festival in Germany in August and the Park Avenue Armory in New York City in SeptemberActivism and politicsDel Naja has been critical about government policy.
He was strongly opposed to the 2003 war against Iraq, and with fellow musician Damon Albarn personally paid for full page adverts in the NME magazine.In 2005 Del Naja organised and performed at a charity concert in Bristol for Tsunami Relief with Adrian Utley and Geoff Barrow of Portishead.
The two-night event featured Massive Attack, Portishead, Robert Plant, The Coral and Damon Albarn.
Del Naja and Marshall performed three shows in 2005 in support of Hoping, an organisation that helps raise money, support projects for Palestinian youth in refugee camps in the occupied territories, Lebanon and Syria.Del Naja, musicians Damon Albarn and Brian Eno, and United Visual Artists contributed to a demonstration against the renewal of the UK Trident programme that was held aboard the Arctic Sunrise on the River Thames in 2007.In 2008, Massive Attack curated the annual Meltdown festival on London's south bank.
During the two weeks of live performance, cinema and art, they worked with human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith and his Reprieve organisation which uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners.In 2010, the video for shot by Oliver Chanarin and Adam Bloomberg for the song "Saturday come slow", featuring Damon Albarn, drew attention to the use of music in torture.
In 2010, Massive Attack donated the income from a Lincoln car commercial to the clean up campaign after the BP oil spill disaster.Massive Attack donated all proceeds from their 2010 EP Atlas Air this week for War Child, a charity the band previously supported when they contributed to the HELP album.Del Naja supports the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and his band will not perform in Israel, a stance Del Naja qualifies as being "not an action of aggression towards the Israeli people" but "towards the [Israeli\] government and its policies", arguing that "the Palestinians [in Israel\] have no access to the same fundamental benefits that the Israelis do."Del Naja and Thom Yorke of Radiohead threw an unofficial party at the occupied UBS building in the city of London in December 2011, in support for the international Occupy movement.On 14 November 2012, on the eve of the Bristol Mayor election the band caused some surprise by endorsing independent millionaire and former LibDem George Ferguson, citing the need for a mayor who would help facilitate creative projects to the city, and wasn't simply following a party political agenda.
Previously, Del Naja had openly criticised Ferguson for being a member of the Society of Merchant Venturers, an organisation dating back to the 16th century which had many connections with the Bristol slave trade.
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