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Having been out of the country for the last week it was immediately noticeable how the season had finally changed. The first sign was the presence of a Starling in the attic, they usually find their way into the house when the first frosts are about and this morning we could hear one scrabbling about and when I went out I could see it jumping up at the small port hole window. I often wonder if that window wasn't there would they make it into the actual roof space. I managed to catch it and release it, but it wasn't very pleased as it pecked me viciously, there's gratitude.
It rained for most of the morning, but by the early afternoon it was brightening so I decided to take my first cold walk for a long time. I headed off up Brislands, and noticed immediately the change. The ash trees had all lost their leaves, the beechs, sweet chestnuts and hazels were partially yellow, but the oaks were still hanging on to green leaves.
There were plenty of blackbirds feeding on the edge of the road, and I also saw a few robins. Before we went away the Jays were everywhere, but today I only saw one, and that was in a garden just beyond the Gradwell turn.
As I walked along the lane I noticed a strange shape on one of the Sweet Chestnut trees, and it turned out to be a bracket fungus growing from the trunk. Now I have been struggling to identify the fungi I see from a small book, that did not provide suitable pictures from which to pin down the species. I now own a Collins guide which as I browse through provides a much better aid to identification, and it also has informed me that I have been wrong in some of the recent posts. I will correct these and post the information.
So what was on the Sweet Chestnut? Well looking closely, and consulting the guide I am confident this is a Branching Oyster, they are commonly found on the dead wood and bark of deciduous trees, but I am open to any other advice should there be anyone who considers different. Fungi are new to me and I am looking to learn more about this fascinating phyla.
On the other side of the road the field was full of Wood Pigeon and Rooks. The Rooks are wonderful to watch as they walk like old men across the grass probing the long white beak into the ground. They are also very shy birds and difficult to get close to. I just managed to capture this individual before it was off.
I walked towards Old Down, I wanted to explore the woods to see if there were any more fungi around, plus there had been reports of a Brambling influx, and I wondered if they could be found with the other finches in the wood. As I approached I noticed that the field around the wood had been ploughed. I couldn't help wondering if the footpaths were still there.
The Larches were now in their autumn colour, their golden leaves standing out from a distance against the dark greens of the oaks and pines around them.
I walked around the copse on the other side of the road in search of finches, there were some small flocks of Chaffinches, and some Goldfinches, but no Brambling. I walked back and around the outside of the wood, and watched a buzzard glide across the field. The sun was by now beginning to peak through, and every so often its rays would pick out the trees and fields in the distance.
Once I was in the wood the change was again dramatic. The beech trees were full of golden brown and yellow leaves, while the fallen leaves added a further warm feel to the paths.
I walked around the open area of beech trees searching the ground for fungi. With the leaves now carpeting the floor, it was quite difficult to pick out anything different to the leaves. I couldn't help thinking that six months ago the floor of the wood was carpeted with a beautiful blue haze from the bluebells, and that now the floor has been transformed into a rich golden carpet that will feed the bulbs of the bluebells to deliver the blue carpet again next spring.
I then wondered what it must look like from ground level, so I played around with the camera to see if I could experience it.
As you can see the leaf litter gets quite thick, and must provide a warm cover for bugs and insects through the winter.
Disappointingly I couldn't find any fungi in this area, and there was very little bird life, so I walked back to the main path and then took the north perimeter path towards the west. The rain overnight and through the morning made the walk very sticky and difficult so when I could i came off the path and explored again through the leaf litter. This time I was a lot luckier, and came across this collection of Lilac Bonnets around an old tree trunk.
The Lilac Bonnet can be many different colours, varying from white to a deeper red, which probably accounts for my difficulties previously identifying them as russula which also has a pinkish red colour. They are apparently widespread and common, and found typically in beech woods.
I walked on, finding more bonnets and some small staghorns on rotting wood. Finally I found something larger. This was a Chicken Run Funnel, apparently named for its smell which recalls the smell of chicken droppings. They were grouped together and showed the gills quite nicely when I managed to get the camera down low enough. Once again they are common in beech woods
I looked to see if the earthstar I had misidentified a week or two back in this area was around, but I couldn't find it. So I made my way back to the path, and then came out of the wood at the west end. The sun was by now getting low, and was still managing to penetrate the clouds, and as a result it lit up the trees and hedge that runs from the wood away to the west. The late sunshine made the tips of the trees glow.
I have been to some beautiful places around the world, but as I looked out across the fields and watched the land scape change in colour with the setting sun, I realised that the countryside around the village is as stunning in its own way, and that while it is nice to travel and to experience the scenes and landscapes around the world, I never tire of experiencing the feeling I get as I look out across the fields away to the west from the village.
I walked down through the paddocks hoping for something on the hedge or flying over but it was very quiet. From the paddocks I walked up Swelling Hill Road towards the pond. The road is lined with beech trees and has been cut through the chalk. Looking up the road the colours again were lovely.
A little further on you can get a sense of the depth of the soil on the chalk and how the routes of the beech trees make their way through the soil, and exploit the chalk bed rock. One also has to be a little concerned about the way the cutting is eroding though, and how long it will be before this very substantial trees fall.
Just before I reached Old Down Cottage the Blackbirds and Tits were making a real noise, calling in alarm at something in the conifers. I stood and watched them getting quite upset, so I knew there had to be something in the trees. As well as the Blackbirds clacking away there were several Chaffinches, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Coal Tits, and even a Marsh Tit flitting about and calling in alarm. Finally the object of their scorn was flushed from the cover of the conifers and flew off. It was a Tawny Owl, and it gave just the briefest of views, as it disappeared silently.
I decided to walk back into the wood, to follow the south perimeter path. The entrance was badly flooded, and I had to wade through quite a deep puddle. The wood was quiet, there was no sign of any finches in the larches. This side of the wood is more about the conifers, and as a result the floor of the wood is completely different. Mostly covered in moss, it now has the fallen larch leaves covering it producing a unique colour that seems to compliment the darkness of the trees.
Despite searching the area I could not find any fungi, and the fly agaric that we found last month was gone. As I walked by the Kitwood footpath entrance my concerns of earlier were confirmed. The field had been ploughed and the footpath was now gone. The farmer has a duty to return the footpath once the field has been ploughed, but if the Brislands path is anything to go by this may become an issue.
I continued on and came out by the Gradwell path entrance, which too was now no longer there. I made my way across a very muddy wet field following a few footpaths of others, hoping this would spur some action to return the path.
As I walked home it was becoming dark, and with it came the cold. This has been my 100th post for the year, and I realised that with the short days and the dark evenings, as we run up to the end of the year the opportunities to get out will become very restricted. There are still many potentially interesting things to see and find as we make our way towards the winter. Keep your eyes open, there are lots of Waxwings about, and during the last "invasion" there was at least 3 sightings in Four Marks that I was aware of.
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
4th November - Every Time Just Like the Last
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Fascinating watching the change in seasons. Nature is truly inspiring. Your pic at ground level of the leaves gives a wonderfully different perspective. Dying to get out and commune with nature this weekend...ReplyDelete
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I recently moved my studio downstairs, and the only thing that has changed is that I now use a Wacom Intuos 6" x 11" tablet. When running Corel Painter 11 the right monitor is sluggish, but the other one is fine.
For example if I drag any painter window around on the right monitor it is really sluggish, but if I drag it to the left monitor it's fine.
Monitors on same ports as before, and I did not have this issue before I moved my studio.
Driving me crazy, and I need to get back to work! Any help, suggestions greatly appreciated!
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Frying the bonda
Batter to be used for making the Bonda
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Hi I prepared Potato Bonda (Batata Vada) with a very small twist. Added mozarella cheese (fat free brand) after mixing the remaining ingredients. Hope you too enjoy it. Add more cheese if you want a very cheesy taste. In konkani potato is called "kook", and so this dish is called "kookkache bonda". You may refer my snack section for the recipe for potato bonda which I had posted in my archives.


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VIDEO: Sour Cream, Bacon & Blue Cheese Dip
- 200 g Sour Cream
- 50 g Streaky Bacon
- 100 g Blue Cheese
- Salt & Milled Black Pepper
- Chop the streaky bacon into small pieces. Dry-fry the bacon pieces in a small frying pan until cooked with a slight colour.
- Make sure the blue cheese has been refrigerated; remove and lightly crumble.
- Place the sour cream into a mixing bowl and gently blend in half of the crumbled blue cheese until smooth.
- Fold in the remaining blue cheese. Fold the cooked streaky bacon pieces into the sour cream & blue cheese mixture.
- Season with salt and milled black pepper.
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Stefani produces videos and immersive, interactive installations that explores the influences of corporate culture and industrial food production. Her current project works with gastroenterologist Dr. Braden Kuo at Harvard University where they just completed the first ever clinical study to use the M2A™ and SmartPill devices that look at how the human body responds to processed versus whole foods. She is an Honorary Resident at Eyebeam Art +Technology Center in New York and teaches in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design and in the Food Studies Program at The New School for Public Engagement.
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Tuesday, 26 September 2017
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Saver Plus is a financial literacy savings program that helps low-income families save for educational items. For every dollar that you save Saver Plus matches you up to $500! Most importantly, families will learn of strategies and tools to deal with financial stress so that they can better handle life's tricky ups and downs.
"This program is very beneficial to me, so I want people in my community to know about it as well"
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Many of us living in Australia have left our loved ones behind and with that comes a responsibility and expectation to help where we can. For over a decade and a half Saver Plus has helped families better handle their money:
⁃ 87% or participants are saving the same amount or more since completing the program
⁃ 84% encourage children and family members to save
⁃ 85% have more control over their finances
⁃ 78% are able to make ends meet
⁃ 88% are more aware of where to get help with financial decision making
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"Once it was set up, it was easy, and I'm still saving into the same account"
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Since 2004 Saver Plus has matched over $14million dollars and we are going for more! Saver Plus is delivered in 60 communities across Australia, if you want more information you can call toll-free 1300 610 355 and enter your postcode to be connected with your local Saver Plus Coordinator.
Ivan Amaro is the Saver Plus Coordinator for Fairfield, Liverpool and parts of Cumberland areas in Sydney, NSW working for The Smith Family. He can be contacted on (02) 9728 6778 or 0407 747 307. Saver Plus is an initiative of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and ANZ, delivered in partnership with The Smith Family, Berry Street, The Benevolent Society and other local community agencies. The program is funded by ANZ and the Australian Government, with ANZ providing matched savings for participants.
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Kerry Cassill Kimono (Long) | Periwinkle Wild Floral
Take all the softness and beauty of Kerry Cassill's block-printed cotton bedding, and wear it out of bed with this comfy kimono. Seen here is Periwinkle Wild Floral, which features a contrast print trim with a belt and a pocket, and reverses to Periwinkle Stripe. Made in India from 100% cotton, the length is approximately 42". Because these textiles are block-printed by hand, some variations in color and pattern may occur; this adds to the uniqueness of each item and should not be considered a defect.


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Job Description
Are you detail oriented, personable, conscientious? If this is you, read on…
A bit about us …. Who is Young Life?
Since Young Life began in Canada in 1954, its staff and volunteers have cared enough to leave the comfort of their adult worlds and enter the arena of high school and junior high school life. These trained Young Life leaders are committed to friendships with kids – no strings attached. We go to teenagers, on their turf and in their culture, building bridges of authentic friendship to communicate God's love and the Christian message in terms they can understand. With staff in over 40 communities throughout BC, Alberta, and southern Ontario, Young Life of Canada employs more than 120 staff, and works with over 500 volunteers.
To learn more about Young Life – visit younglife.ca.
A bit about the job …..
Young Life is growing! More and bigger areas mean more donors, which means more hands on deck at the National Service Centre to serve our field and property staff. We want you to be a part of helping us reach more kids!
Working alongside the Accounting team you will process donations as well as assist with administrative and office duties that range from speaking with donors and staff on the phone to producing reports in Raiser's Edge for our Fundraising Campaign team and others.
This is a new full-time position, available immediately. You will report to the Payroll and Income Processing Administrator and learn first-hand about basic accounting, income processing, Raiser's Edge, and how to laugh while crunching numbers and entering data.
What it's going to take ….
In a nutshell, here is what is required.
You are ….
• Experiencing a vibrant and growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Excited about loving teenagers and supporting staff who are reaching them with the Gospel.
• Able to interact effectively with a wide variety of constituents using an engaging phone manner.
• Flexible with a positive attitude toward serving, learning and training. Gracious. (re-read this line)
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Beauty Egypt Tours guide will be waiting you with a sign showing your name.
From the moment your tour starts, your guides will give you full attention. Once in the car, your guide will talk to you about all the things on the way as well as other aspects of your tour that will interest you.
Travel to the Great Pyramids one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, enjoy a panoramic view of the Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinus. Visit The Great Sphinx, the Valley Temple & many outstanding photo stops.
Move on to visit the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities that includes King Tutankhamen's treasures.
End the day with an optional visit to traditional bazaars then drive back to your cruise ship 2 hours before your departure time. If time permits, we can make some photo stops in Ain Sokhna.
Your day trip to Cairo has been designed to help you enjoy the maximum amount of Egypt with the least amount of time.
If you want to customize your trip, please let us know.
Comfortable walking shoes and sun hat are recommended.
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NVIDIA is making available a repository of driver binaries. You can find it here:https://driver-symbols.nvidia.com/
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Nsight Visual Studio Edition
NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 5.5 is now available for download! Version 5.5 extends support to the latest Volta GPUs and Win10 RS3. Screenshot shows the advanced features of Nsight Visual Studio Edition while debugging Ninja Theory's Hellblade™: Senua's Sacrifice, a Direct3D 11 game based on Unreal Engine 4.
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Here at NVIDIA, we focus on the best experience for our customers and powerful tools that empower developers to produce high quality software faster and easier are one of the key parts of a great developer experience.
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Palau Aggressor Charter December 10th – 17th 2017
Water Temp: 80-85 deg F
Air Temp: 85-90 deg F
Crew: Scott, Shea, Ernan, Hector, Herence, Joe, and Christian
This week we welcome a group of 13 divers on the Yacht. With a good week to come the divers eagerly ready their dive gear and get settled into rooms before attending a quick safety briefing, and an amazing dinner by chef Christian. The guests go to bed to a good night's sleep before waking up to a beautiful day for diving
First light the guests get up after a good night's sleep and immediately go diving. First dive, Sandy Paradise would set the bar high. Within seconds of starting the first dive we had 2 mantas at a cleaning station for a half hour. After that we would move down the reef to see mantis shrimp and leaf scorpion's fish. Next we head out to Siaes' Tunnel where the divers would see the hielfrich dart fish, a very rare fish to see at shallow depths. Then we head back out after lunch to Siaes corner, a great hook in dive with lots of sharks and puffer fish. We would also see a few moray eels. The final dive of the first day would be to Ulong Channel. One of Palau's best dives with a beautiful hard coral wall and an amazing hook in with lots of sharks passing close by.
The next morning after a great breakfast by Chef Christian, we would take the guests to Blue Corner, here is one of the best dives in the world sporting dozens of sharks, super friendly napoleon wrasse, and tons of schooling fish of all kinds. Next we go to blue holes where we would see the disco clam and a great barracuda. After lunch we would take the divers to new drop off, another hook in dive where we would see sharks, eels, and a baby eagle ray playing in front of us. Then off to ferns wall to see this beautiful sloping coral garden. With nudibranchs, eels, and lots of sea fans. That night we would go to Alexis goral garden to see baby sharks feeding, and lots of other nocturnal creatures out on the prowl.
The next day we head off to German channel to see if we can find the manta rays again. This time we would miss them, but even without it's a perfect dive for shrimp gobies, sharks being cleaned, and feather tail rays. Then back to blue corner to see the napoleon wrasse, sharks and all of the red toothed trigger fish. Next we would go to Dexter's wall to see a pristine wall with scorpion fish and tons of turtles. Then at the top of the wall would be anemone after anemone. For the fourth dive we would go to Turtle cove to see the soft coral, numerous turtles, and again a coupe scorpion fish. That night we go to German channel coral garden. The same place as the manta dive but instead we find a plethora of moray eels, and a sleeping napoleon wrasse.
The next morning we go back to blue corner one last time to dive with the sharks and all the other fish that gather there. Next we go to big drop off, back for the hook in action, we would see the sharks of course another eagle ray and many small schools of fish. After that we got to make it to Barnums wall a gorgeous sloping wall with soft corals, white tip sharks, and shrimps of all types including the mantis shrimp. Then we would head back to German channel for an amazing dive with 5 manta's being cleaned, and then they would move into the shallows to feed for the last 20-30 minutes. A spectacular dive. That night at big drop off the divers would see lots of crabs, shrimp and a few turtles.
After a nice breakfast we would head back to ulong to go to shark city. Here the divers would see a giant school of jacks, and numerous sharks. With a strong current the divers would be ready for an awesome snack. Then we head off to Siaes tunnel one last time to see the cavern, and the perfect sheer wall. Then off to sandy paradise to again see a manta cleaning, then the many leaf scorpion fish. For the last dive on the outer reef we head back to ulong channel where we would have a great show by up to ten sharks before unhooking and quickly drifting down to see the lettuce coral wall, and then over to the 2 100 year old giant clams.
For the last two dives we would go to see the IRO Maru, a World War II wreck with a beautiful cuttlefish, and a tower of anemones and anemone fish with 2 giant clams. The last dive would be spent at chandelier cave where we would see the caves that have air pockets in them where you can breathe. Then you go outside the cave and find the elusive mandarin fish. A beautiful multicolored fish.
It's been an amazing week of diving here in Palau, seeing the mantas, cuttlefish, turtles galore and everyone has seen all they wanted. It weather has been overcast but as a final goodbye the sun would be out shining just like the amazing guests we have had this week.


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Jim Smith's column on physical theraphy issues
"No, I will not go into a nursing home" is the typical response when I recommend in-patient rehabilitation to a patient in the hospital.
It is important to recognize the benefits of rehabilitation for someone who is recovering from a medical problem such as a stroke, hip fracture, knee replacement or injuries from a fall.
Hospitals excel at managing those acute medical problems. However, once the medical crisis resolves, the hospital is not the best place for recovery; a hospital usually does not have the equipment or resources to provide the rehabilitation needed to achieve an optimal recovery.
That is when in-patient rehabilitation becomes important. And the facilities that offer in-patient rehabilitation are often, but not always, a component of a nursing home.
The team at the hospital is skilled at measuring abilities to determine who will be safe at home and who will benefit from rehabilitation. Trust them. I often hear "I will be fine once I get home and have some time to rest." The hospital is designed to reduce the demand placed on patients. The physical demands at home are much greater, and they create a risk for injury or interruption of the healing process.
Also, because of the way the body recovers from illness and injury it is important not to delay rehabilitation. Many insurance providers (including Medicare) recognize that, and it is easier and more economical to arrange coverage for services immediately after hospitalization.
There is a team of specialists that provides the rehabilitation services, including a dietician, occupational therapist, physiatrist (a physician of rehabilitation medicine), physical therapist, recreation therapist, rehabilitation nurse, social worker and speech-language pathologist. This team provides expert services designed to help people regain the functional abilities and endurance needed to return home safely.
Inpatient rehabilitation can last for a few days up to a couple of months. The team will plan an active schedule for each patient; the days will be filled with exercises and activities that foster the recovery of strength, mobility and independence. Visitors are welcome, but must accommodate the rehab schedule.
Participation is critical, and is the most powerful tool available for improving health and regaining independence. Each challenge, each activity and each exercise is selected to facilitate recovery.
The good news is that the rehabilitation team wants the patient to go home as much as the patient wants to get home.
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Dr. Mas Subramanian, Milton Harris Professor of Materials Science in the Department of Chemistry, delivered his lecture on Pathways of Discovery: Designing a New Colorful Materials World to a packed house of about 200 students, alumni, faculty and friends of the College of Science on May 6, 2014. He spoke about the fascinating twist-and-turn travel through pathways of discovery leading to breakthroughs in science and how these pathways can involve conceptions, misconceptions and serendipity. Serendipity manifests when the alert and trained mind responds to an unexpected situation.
Dr. Subramanian explained his good fortune of making several internationally recognized scientific discoveries through conceptions and serendipity in his 30+ years as a materials chemist. His latest discovery: novel heat-reflecting inorganic color pigments discovered while exploring something unrelated. His research team recently discovered a new blue pigment. To put this landmark finding into context, it has been more than 200 years since the last durable blue pigment was discovered. This new generation of heat reflecting cool color pigments has far-reaching energy saving applications.
An accomplished researcher in solid-state chemistry, Dr. Subramanian is internationally recognized for breakthrough scientific discoveries involving superconductors, dielectrics, magnetism, catalysis, thermoelectrics and fluorination chemistry.Read more here.
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After The Light, Beware Of Darkness, and Kindness Of Strangers the triumphal procession of the beards continued with the fourth album Day For Night released in 1999. Highlights are: Gibberish with a four vocal movement à la Gentle Giant, the power rocker Skin and its sequel The Gypsy, the prog thunderstorm Crack The Big Sky as well as the 22 minute long cracker The Healing Colours Of Sound which is divided in six parts.
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By Cameron
I wonder how Bram Stoker the creator of Dracula would react to the modern age of Vampires, If your movie is a hit with young girls, mid-aged women, Fans of the books and to no one else, If the first movie was awful than its sequel was just as bad but both of these movies but was still a huge hit than what does the third movie have to do to top all of that? This franchise loves to over stay its welcome.
I remember how huge these movies were back in the day, the movie follows Bella Swan, she meets a mysterious young boy named Edward Cullen, painful, boring and formulaic. This maybe the worst couple I've seen in a film, she's a living breathing piece of cocaine to him. Whiteness: The movie, they're vegetation's for Vampires I guess, Jacob Black, required to do 75% of the movie without a shirt, I'm convinced hands down that Bella is the worst main character I've ever seen. Vampires and Werewolves Don't Make Any Sense; she meets The Vampire Goth Lords, she's 18 and he's 3 million years old, it's a 3/10 abs on Jacob's body.
'If you don't like it don't watch them. SERIOUSLY! Are You Serious? The Most Pointless Love Triangle Ever. Bella and Edward also have Vampire sex. 1/10 times you'll need to stare at an actual Eclipse, my final Twilight Review. Part 1, an hour of boredom. Finally the baby is born and Bella dies, Renesmee. I see the Twilight movies as this one big terrible dessert. If you've made it this far I would say just grab the second part right now.
Well here we are let's ends this.
Plot: Bella (Kristen Stewart) is a vampire now and can now do everything that her husband Edward (Robert Pattinson) can. Their daughter Renesmee starts to grow very rapidly and this scares The Volturi. So Bella, Edward and The Cullen's have to recruit Vampires from across the globe to prepare for a final confrontation with The Volturi.
Why Was It In 2 Parts: Now I've seen the two parts I can say that this movie should've been one movie. I could even say the other three could've been shrunk into two or even one movie if I was in charge of this series. So like many great two parter movies one part is really boring and part 2 is really awesome. I'm going to compare this to the Harry Potter two parter because it's the only one I've seen and it's the only one that did this right. Even though Deathly Hallows Part 1 is my least favourite of the two, but there is still enough going on to keep my interest. Unlike in Breaking Dawn Part 1 where nothing really happens besides they get married, have sex, baby is born and Bella dies which could've all been the first 40 minutes if it was all just one movie.
Then there's Deathly Hallows Part 2 which keeps the action going, it gives us an epic final battle and with actual stakes and it really means something when all these people die for Harry. Then we have Breaking Dawn Part 2 where the beginning feels like its own movie not a continuation of the last part. Then we get to Bella who and is so poorly written that I never feel like she's worth fighting for and I more feel that she's more responsible for getting all these people into danger and there is no real stakes because these guys really haven't lost anything or they seem to be able to handle everything that comes to challenge them. Then we get to the endings which all I'm going to say is there both really cheesy but Harry Potter's is better than Twilight's.
Okay now I've explained why the two parter idea is a terrible idea let's get into the final Twilight movie.
The First 30 Minutes: After the terrible opening credits we see Bella very much alive. (Which is the last thing I wanted to see) This is the filler part of the movie. Bella is a Baby Boomer now and has to learn to become a boring vegetation like the rest of them. They get their own house so they can do you know forever now and they do a bunch of other pointless stuff like arm wrestling. I think I know how to fix these issues if this was all one movie but by this point I am beyond caring. Then Jacob (Taylor Lautner) shows up to mess everything up. Bella shows some emotion for once and that leads to Jacob stripping naked in front of her dad so he can show off his wolvie powers. Too be honest Bella's dad is probably the best actor in this series followed by Edward's Sister and maybe Jacob too if he was in a better movie. Bella's baby is now 8 or something and I can see she got her acting ability from her bland boring parents.
A Bunch of New Characters and More Things That Don't Make Any Sense: So in the post credit scene that I skipped before seeing because I saw the credits and bolted for my remote. The VGL (The Vampire Goth Lords I've been calling them) want to kill the kid because Vampire kids destroy entire villages I think and these guys hate everything that's weird. So Bella and her uninteresting friends recruit some vampires. This movie brings up again that some Vampires have cool super powers and that makes Werewolves even more pathetic in compassion. Bella also has her own super power. Her Coke turns her into a Shield I think and she can put force fields on people and that's about it. This still doesn't explain how special she is and it makes it even more confusing that everyone has their own super power! If these guys all have super powers than me from 4 movie reviews ago was right. ('Why not do something useful powers like become a team of superheroes?' Me From My Twilight Review. I feel like I'm very close to breaking!!)
So There's A Girl Who Can Taser People, A Guy Who Rips Off Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Some Jungle women with hallucination drugs, two acrobat twins and a Vampire Hunter guy who eats humans with no real loyalty to anyone. Then they mention the bad guys only have Dakota Fanning who can torture people and a guy who eats people with black smoke. Okay so just take those two out and you'll win. Do you see now that none of this makes any sense? So there are a few pointless training montages and more boring scenes that go nowhere interesting. Then we get to Edward's sister cryptic plan which we'll discuss in more detail in a bit. She leaves Bella cryptic clues and how all of this leads to a book that makes Bella think that this battle will make her never see her daughter again or something. I… I…don't… I…..Forget it let's get to The Battle.
The Battle: So we get to the epic final showdown where our boring heroes stand on one side of the snow with their pack dogs then on the other has the red cloaked British dudes. (Even though they said they're Italian) So they just stand there in the snow for 10 minutes trying to get the head VGL to touch the kid. This would be the last thing if I was them because the guy is clearly deluded and is going to kill everyone no matter what they say. What happens next is exactly what I've predicted expect Future girl shows up and tries to calm the guy down, but that doesn't work then Edward's dad does something stupid and dies. The Battle commences all your favourite nobody characters get killed, Jacob runs away with the kid, there's a lot of bloodless decapitations, Earth bender guy makes a crack in the floor killing all the Wolves, Dakota Fanning dies Bella is still useless and Head Dude is beheaded by the boring lovers. It's a pretty awesome battle and for once in this series I was actually engaged with the story. It's a moment where I was interested and wanted to see what happens. So well done Twilight you made me care about your dumb story. So anyway after the Head VGL dies this happens…
The Ending: The battle never happened. It's just a vision that Edward's sister gave to the head VGL. So that convinces the guy to call off the attack and they all go home and forget this battle ever happened. 'What The ………………………………………….. ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!' It's cool twist don't get me wrong but all it does is it makes this movie entirely pointless! So we've building up to an epic battle for 5 movies the last 2 were all disappointing then this one manages to be the biggest middle finger of them all!
Firstly I thought she could only see the future not make up alternate realities. Secondly if she didn't run away and just told everyone her plan from the beginning that could've solved the quest to recruit everyone and just had a short one on one chat with the VGL in a club or a cafe, thirdly This ending ruins the entire series, fourthly with the villains still alive at the end they could still come back if you mess up again also they'll still kill people because you morons and lastly this is the biggest cop out I've ever seen in a film!
For most of the movie it was just tolerable same with the other 4 movies. But this ending actually made me angry I was mad! There's still anger in me right now. I actually despise this ending because the little love I had for Twilight is gone now I hate everything about this series now it's a cancer on our society and Twilight deserves to burn at the stake for putting me through this torture! But whatever they all live happily ever after and it ends with reminding you about the terrible 5 movie drug trip you just went on and then it ends and I want to burn everything Twilight related in sight.
Conclusion: The Twilight Saga is a series that shouldn't have even had a franchise and shouldn't have spawned a following and shouldn't have been printed in on piece of paper. But at least the pain is finally over and I've been thinking about what to give it and I think it deserves a 2/10 it just escapes a one thanks to some good performances, the CG is decent and the fake battle was pretty awesome.
At last we've reached the end. The Twilight movies have been painful to sit through but I'm glad I had 'you' faithful reader by my side. Once the credits role I'm always excited to jump onto this computer and write a review that I hope makes someone's day. If you've joined me on my Twilight journey from the beginning I'm very grateful for and it's you people that motivate me to continue writing these reviews. So thank you so much for walking with on this dark path I call my Twilight Series Reviews. (I promise there will be no corny speeches in any of my other reviews from this point on)
Those are my thoughts on Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 if you agree or disagree please let me know in the comments and share it with your loved ones.
I'm a bit lost on what movie franchise I should review next so let me know on what I should review next.
Thanks for reading this review and I'll see you again in the next review.
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Hinchinbrook Farm is always looking for new volunteers who like to work with children, with horses or both! We also have some places for people who would like to work on therapeutic riding skills with adults who have mental or physical challenges. Here are some of the current 40 volunteers who call us their Tribe.
Nikki (Nicole) Ali is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at Dalhousie University. Se already has degrees in Sociology, Applied Psychology and Elementary Education. After completing her PhD she would like to use her education and experiences to work as an autism specialist. Her current research involves the study of sleep issues and neurodevelopmental disorders. Her interest in the world of autism started with working with a girl with autism about five years ago and since then she has been seizing every opportunity to work with other wonderful children on the spectrum. In summer 2013, Nikki went to New Trails in Texas to train with Rupert Isaacson learning the Horse Boy Method™. Nikki is on the Board of the Society.
Emma Baker…
Elizabeth Bhagan has been a rider since early 2015 and became a volunteer in 2017. Her main mount is Dandy and she can now train others how to lunge and groom the horses.
Mary Bhagan is a mom and pharmacist/owner at Kinley Drug Co. Ltd in Lunenburg. She sponsored Hinchinbrook Farm long before she came onto the Board of Directors from 2016 to 2017. Although less involved, Mary is pleased to help out when needed and at special events.
Brianne Boudreau has been a regular volunteer since early 2016. She helps with lessons, is a regular at the Horse Boy play dates and will do any of the chores that pile up quickly with 12 critters at the farm. Brianne is a student at Parkview and a favorite mentor to all the horse boy families. Extra bonus: She rides like a dream!
Tom Burt…
Lucrecia Castillo hails from Ontario but has travelled the world and settled in Blockhouse. Lucrecia came to the farm in 2014 to critter sit and stayed to volunteer for a couple of months. We were very happy when Lucrecia returned to the area and immediately signed up to volunteer again. Lucrecia helps on Wednesdays and makes delicious nutritious snacks for the Horse Boy play dates. Lucrecia has another life as a permaculture enthusiast. She sets up the Farmer's Markets and loans her expertise and energies to tree lot farmers.
Stephanie Chipman is a mom with two awesome daughters and who works hard for the Bridgewater Elementary school; but since 2016 Stephanie has found Tuesday mornings to help riders and to do chores at the Farm as well as helping at some playdates. Stephanie signs up to help out at special events too and is a great resource for parents when she shares her insights and solutions. Stephanie owns "Quietude Polly" whois sister to our Delilah. Stephanie is a member of "Bluenosers Who Care", a local group that provided funding of the 2017 summer camp.
Carolyn Collicutt, the President of the Hinchinbrook Farm Society, is a mom who has served on the Board since 2011. She came to HF in 2008 through First Steps Intervention and is a founding member of the Society (in 2010). She has created a resource list for special needs families and arranges special visits by local resources such as the RCMP, Search and Rescue Canine and EHS ambulances at play dates. Carolyn is also a leader with the local Sea Cadets and the Scouts.
Jaime Collicutt started at Hinchinbrook Farm as a rider when she was just eight years old, and we were just starting up. At 16 Jaime still rides but also volunteers at Horse Boy Play Dates and events. Jaime is in grade 10 at Parkview and has been a sea cadet for several years. Her organizing skills are very welcome in a tack room that gets tossed after just one lesson!
Megan Daniels is a new mom and an aspiring therapeutic riding instructor and has been volunteering with Hinchinbrook Farm since 2014. Megan has travelled to Horse Boy Central in Elgin Texas. She was raised around and with horses and still competes while working as a care assistant. Megan's goal is to work in therapeutic riding. She is an amazing asset to all the volunteers. She is always ready to share her horse knowledge.
Peter de Vries lends his time and energy both on the Board of Directors and at the lessons and events. Peter travels from Liverpool where he has settled in to retirement from a career in medical writing. This makes Peter a great resource for information too. Peter has taken on some poster making and event photographer work for the farm. He comes faithfully to Tuesday lessons and fills in for other volunteers when needed. He has also been known to do a few chores around the Farm.
David Friendly joined Hinchinbrook Farm Society as the grant writer and fund raiser in 2013. He took over as our Webmaster in April 2014. After a career in the oil industry as a safety and emergency response professional, David and his wife relocated to Lunenburg to take in the quality of life the area offered to retired people looking to stay active. David has volunteered over recent years with the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society and the Lunenburg Doc Fest. He is a former trumpet player and currently band leader for the Mahone Bay Legion Swing Band and plays flugelhorn in the Chester Brass Band. David has been Technical Director for the South Shore Players and Producer for several productions. He also created the slide show used in the Summer Troupe production of Glimpses and produced the official DVD of the show in 2017. In addition to our web site, David manages the sites for the Mahone Bay Legion Swing Band and The Bluenose Opera House Syndicated Radio Show. A former hobby was leading groups to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands. It had a brief re-emergence in 2012 when he took a group of 15, mostly from Lunenburg County, on their 'trip of a lifetime' for their own private tour of Ecuador and chartered yacht excursion in the Galápagos. While living in Calgary, David made a point of taking a 3-day horse trip into the Rockies at least once a year. He likes the fact that, at Hinchinbrook, he will be able to keep a link with these gentle creatures.
Sebastian Haumering began volunteering at Hinchinbrook Farm as a Grade 9 student at Bluenose Academy in September 2017. He will be completing his high school education at Parkview Education Centre in Bridgewater. Sebastian is a skier, mountain biker and junior firefighter with the Lunenburg Fire Department. He is planning on becoming a paramedic and work for life-flight air ambulance.
Darryl Hirson…
Denise Humphrey joined HFS as a volunteer in March 2017 and comes to both play dates and lessons.
Cicely Smith is a student at Dalhousie University, majoring in sociology and social anthropology with a double minor in law and society and psychology. Cicely wishes to join the school of Social Work in 2018. Cicely began volunteering in the spring of 2016 and found herself with Canadian Summer Student job grants both the summer of 2016 and 2017. Cicely learns new facts and creates memories with the horses of Hinchinbrook as often as possible. Cicely thinks that the goats, Rosie and Sissy, are enough fun and stubbornness for a lifetime. Although bonding with horses comes relatively new, she finds herself attached to the mysteriousness that links her and Delilah, and to the softness that holds her to eating lunch with Silverbell in her stall.


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Saturday, June 4, 2016
People Hate "X-Men: Apocalypse" For No Real Reason
"X-Men: Apocalypse" came out last weekend, to a surprising amount of middling reviews from critics and audiences alike. Some of it isn't much of a surprise in all honesty (the X-Men movies have usually wavered in quality ranging from "pretty good" to "pure shit"), but I didn't think "X-Men: Apocalypse" was all that bad. Actually, I thought it was pretty good. It wasn't anything too special, and it wasn't better than the preceding "X-Men: Days of Future Past", but it was pretty good regardless.
Now, in case you haven't noticed by now, it seems any comic book movie not directly from Marvel Studios (yes I know, X-Men is Marvel, but Fox owns the film rights, as they do with Fantastic Four) gets destroyed by critics. How well it does box office-wise is a different story, but critically these movies get savaged. Don't believe me? Look at Rotten Tomatoes; and while you're there, look at the scores for recent Marvel flicks like "Civil War" and "Ant-Man". There's a damn huge difference.
Saying that there's not some kind of bias with critics for anything non-Marvel is saying it lightly. It exists, and we all know it. I watch Marvel movies, and I watch the non-Marvel Studios-produced flicks as well (except Fantastic Four, because I have no desire to whatsoever and never really have). One thing I can tell you is that with "X-Men: Apocalypse", I never felt bored. The stakes legitimately felt high in terms of its story, even if there are plot holes aplenty and non-sensical leaps in logic abound. "Civil War" had some fun moments, but given the gravity of the situation presented in the film's story, the stakes never felt high to me. That however is usually how I feel with all the Marvel movies: there are some genuine shattering events happening, and the stakes just never feel high. Because of that, more often than not, I just get bored to tears. You can shit all over films like "Man of Steel" and "Batman V Superman", but at least the stakes feel high in those films, and one thing they're definitely not is boring.
In terms of the "X-Men" movies though, "Apocalypse" is far from perfect, but it's far from being the piece of shit that everyone is labeling it. I saw some fanboy online saying it "sets superhero movies back 20 years". How do you figure? It does pretty much what every superhero movie does, and it's damn sure better than "X-Men: The Last Stand" or the first Wolverine movie. If X-Men's film rights were owned by Marvel Studios instead of Fox and this movie came out the way it did, everyone would be somehow praising it instead.
In the meantime for you Marvel fanboys that keep your assholes greased up nice for that big fat Marvel cock y'all can't keep off of, try giving something a chance, even if it isn't directly from the studio you all worship.
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Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, Paris 2018
The aim of the PPT is to identify and judge the chain of responsibility for human rights violations throughout the entire migration trajectory "from below", based on the experience of the most involved and directly affected people, migrant and refugee organizations, and solidarity and human rights organizations. The inaugural session took place in Barcelona on July 6 and 7, 2017.
PPT on the violation of the human rights of migrant and refugee persons and its impunity Paris, France
FOCUS – European Union and European states policy on migrants and borders; particularly the case of France
The Paris session will focus on European Union and European states policy on migrants and borders; particularly the case of France. The Tribunal will be a platform where cases of violations of the rights of migrant and refugee people made visible to:
- register proposals from migrant and refugee communities;
- analyze jointly the causes of forced displacement of migrant and refugee persons;
- determine the responsibilities of governments, European Union and other European bodies included.
The tribunal will be held at the International Center for Popular Culture, CICP, 21 ter rue Voltaire in Paris. The conclusions and the sentence will be read Sunday, January 7, 2018 at the closing of the Moussem Festival of Immigration and Tricontinental, in Gennevilliers.
The Paris session of the PPT is organized by the Transnational Migrant Platform Europe (TMP-E), TNI (Transnational Institute), FAL (France Latin America) and CEDETIM (Center for Studies and Initiatives of International Solidarity). The indictment will be prepared and coordinated by GISTI.
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Within 300 metres from Gargarou Beach in Messinia, Tassos Apartments offers self-catering accommodation with free Wi-Fi and views over the Messinian Gulf. It is set amidst an olive-tree garden with sun terrace and BBQ facilities.
Opening to a furnished balcony, the apartments of Tassos have a seating area and a fully equipped kitchen with dining area, fridge and stove. Facilities include air conditioning, a fan and a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. The bathroom comes with shower or bath tub and free toiletries.
Guests will find a variety of taverns and mini markets at the centre of the scenic Koroni, within 7 km from the property. The seaside Foinikounta is 16 km away, while Pylos Town is at a distance of 36 km. Free on-site parking is possible.


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Champagne Gourmet Odyssey with an Arriva London Heritage Fleet Routemaster
Arriva London are proud, once again, to be the providers of the mode of transport to deliver London's most original gastronomic road trip - the London restaurant festival's Champagne Gourmet Odyssey.
The Odyssey comprises of your first course in one top London restaurant, your main in another and dessert in a third – with Champagne with each course - travelling between restaurants on one of our iconic Heritage Fleet Routemaster buses. Visits to Trullo, Noble Rot and Aquavit are just some of this year's highlights.
Now in its ninth year, with Arriva London's Heritage Fleet buses part of the festival since its inception, the London Restaurant Festival, with over 350 restaurants taking part, runs right through October with this last coming weekend being the final opportunity to celebrate with Gourmet Odyssey this year.
The four buses involved - RML 901, RM 6, RM 2217 and RM 1124 - are all historic vehicles in their own right, and give participants in the Odyssey the opportunity of experiencing a moving history of London's transport, whilst at the same time delivering them some of the most exciting culinary delights at some of the most modern gourmet restaurants.
It's not too late to have a Gourmet Odyssey this year; if you hurry, you can still get on board.
However, if you miss the opportunity, then maybe start planning for next year and if, in the meantime, you'd like to experience our Heritage Fleet buses for any of your special occasions or celebrations, then call our Commercial team on 020 8271 3411 or send us an e-mail.
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"The Night Bus" community on Arriva London busesA three part Channel Four documentary series "The Night Bus" has its first episode airing tonight.
Back to school for an Arriva London Heritage Fleet bus
Arriva London were invited to The Crescent Primary School in Selhurst, a suburb of Croydon, to show some young school children what it's like to ride on a big red double decker bus.
Cyclists Exchange places with Arriva London bus drivers
The Exchanging Places programme is an initiative between TfL and the Metropolitan Police, in which London's cyclists are invited to experience what it is like to sit in the driver's seat of a London bus or a large truck.
London emergency services accident simulation on the New Routemaster at Arriva London's Clapton GarageThe idea of the exercise, which had been three months in the planning, was to give these services the opportunity to test out their recovery skills from a simulated accident of a New Routemaster.
Arriva London Night Controllers win the M.A.D 2014 Team of the Year award by making a difference
Every night in London, the Arriva London iBus control centres manage the efficiency of the Arriva routes throughout the city, and none more so than the Arriva London North Service Control team.e
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Certain enemies in the Tribunal expansion seem to be much tougher than any in the unexpanded game so far. I attribute this to their increased use of spell reflect. I'm in the upper 40s in level now, and although I haven't yet finished the main quest in the original game, I've started doing some of the Tribunal quests, including the main quest. There was a boss lich that I had to fight in the sewers for one quest, who I found very tough for the reflection reasons, as well as the lich having a very hard-hitting spell with wide range that killed me in one shot every time, if she managed to land it near me. Also, Gaenor, who I mentioned before.
I ultimately dealt with the lich by using my Ring of Equity, a very late Telvanni quest reward, which made me immune to everything she cast at me for 30 seconds, then, since she was just reflecting any spells I was casting at her, I went in with my Devil Tanto and hacked at her until she died. I think possibly she may have also gotten a bit of one of her spells reflected back at her, though I'm not sure.
Thie same strategy didn't work with Gaenor, though. I'm not sure what did, really. Gaenor is a very lucky wood elf grifter who hits people up for money, using a lot of hard-sell techniques (seriously, read the dialogue on this page to see how persuasive this guy is), and you can't exit conversation with him once it begins. Eventually, no matter what you do or say, he'll fly off the handle and vow revenge for either not giving him enough, promising ridiculous amounts, or refusing him outright, and after he's had a day or two to think about it, he'll return to the area in full ebony armour and attack you on sight. I had been sneaking around him whenever I needed to go to the temple, because the several times I tried to kill him before had all ended in failure (he walks up and challenges you if you get too close to him).
I tried everything, buffing myself up with potions, spells, and items, using summoned creatures (I used Aryon's Helper and Gothren's Cephalopod Helm, as well as my Golden Saint ring, so I had 5 summoned creatures attacking him at once, and they were having no effect on him), as well as a bunch of poisoned darts I picked up from the Black Dart gang, again, with no effect. I had my luck buffed up a decent amount, but of course his luck is off the charts, which is why he's so hard to kill. I had also buffed up my own reflect and spell absorption, but I couldn't see that it did any good. I don't know if a double-reflect is possible or not (such as I cast a spell, they reflect it back on me, and I reflect it back on them), or if reflections are one time only.
Finally, and I don't know why this worked at this time, I used a few Lightning Storm rings, and was surprised when they took his health down noticeably. 3 or 4 hits with those rings, and he died. But I tried it again later on an earlier save, because it was a shame to have wasted all those great poisoned darts on him, and it didn't work that time, so it's a good thing I also kept a save from after I killed him. I probably wouldn't have used those darts on anything anyway.
I had so many things going on, I can't tell what may have contributed to his demise, but it could have been some kind of skill damage that the summoned creatures landed on him, or possibly the fact that he was swimming in the canal at the time I shocked him, or possibly some buff I was using helped. I think by the time you have a chance of defeating him, the ebony stuff isn't really worth the trouble, and the luck-boosting Gaenor's Amulet isn't really all that powerful or worthwhile as loot, considering how lucky you'd already have to have been to finish him off.
Almalexia and Tribunal quests
I also got to meet the lovely Almalexia. Well, she's lovely if you've installed Better Almalexia, anyway, which I did. She seemed nice enough, for a god, though a bit patronising, especially considering who she used to work for. But still, she spoke with kind words, and the five fawning men she likes to surround herself with seem to like her, too. Everyone is particularly impressed with Her Hands.
The way Tribunal's main quest is set up, you can either start out working for the smug, sneering Tienius, captain of the guard of the recently crowned Imperial King Claudius -- er, I mean Helseth (who is very obviously the one who ordered an assassination attempt on you), performing tasks for him that make you feel like a fascist informant turning in your fellow citizens for the glory of the State and getting no reward, or you can work for the Temple, curing people of diseases, fighting goblins, cleansing a shrine, and fighting the aforementioned tough lich boss to stop a plague, and getting good gold, item, and spell rewards. I'm not sure why anyone would keep working for a king who ordered his or her own assassination, not even those who are roleplaying an evil character, or a diehard Imperial loyalist, unless perhaps they're hoping to get close enough to him to slip a blade between his ribs.
Perhaps not really much of an either/or choice, as you have to do most of the Temple quests anyway at some point, it's just that the Imperial quests and the lich/plague quests are optional and can be skipped. I did a couple of the Imperial ones, but they really felt dirty, and it only strengthened my anti-Imperial feelings. When I refused the third quest, Tienius unsubtlely remarked that I should change my mind if I knew what was good for me, as I wouldn't like to be on Helseth's bad side. I think he forgot that Helseth already sent the Dark Brotherhood after me. I would think he might reconsider threatening someone who shows up wearing the armour of the assassins who were sent to kill them.
Main quest progression
Back in the vanilla game, I think I'm pretty near the climax of the main quest. I've been sent through the Ghostgate to retrieve the artifacts Keening and Sunder in preparation for facing the big evil bad guy, who as of yet I still haven't met. All I know about his looks is from the descriptions from the dreams that he wears a golden mask. At this point, I just want to take care of it to get rid of those annoying ash storms where I can't see anything and my mana won't regenerate (that's a feature of Regional Mana).
So I've been to one of the vampire citadels so far. I decided to go counterclockwise among the markers that were put on my map, and found the first artifact there. The cliffs were steep, and I couldn't find a pathway leading up to it, but that was no problem with my high acrobatics and Tinur's Hoptoad, or the wide range of levitations available to me. Judging from the steepness of the cliffs, and the fact that I found a bridge leading off in the opposite direction once I got up there, I'm thinking I was "supposed" to find this place last, because I found one of the artifacts in there -- Keening. The dagoth who came to say hello when I was looking around the place claimed that it was "well-hidden" and that I'd never find it even if I got past him. But his idea of "well-hidden" actually meant "on display in an easily-accessible tower room". A bit anticlimactic after getting me ready for a challenge. The whole place was anticlimactic, really. It was called a Dwemer training academy, so I thought there would be some kind of theme to that effect inside, but it was just a standard, very small dwarven ruin. I've been disappointed in those in general after the high standard set by the first one I experienced outside Balmora, which was much bigger and had large cave areas combined with it. The rest have just been small building interiors, for the most part, without even any caverns. What I really wanted was something to make me think "Wow, what were they doing in here?"
Keening is a very nice shortsword, probably named for both having a keen (sharp) edge, and after the kind of ritual wailing the people of some cultures do over the bodies of dead loved ones, which is also called "keening". It has five constant effect fortification enchantments on it, and a unique look, and better attack stats than the bound daedric dagger that comes with my trusty old Devil Tanto from Ra'virr's shop, except without the short blade skill fortification and 10-second fire shield, and it's 5 pounds heavier. I suppose the fire shield was too short to be useful anyway, and if I need the blade skill fortification I can just make a spell to do it anyway, so I might as well retire the Devil Tanto to one of my storage cabinets at this point.


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LIVE on LIVE The Gamers Roundtable
Topics include…
Taking a walk around Shadowrun: Was it the negative hype that demised this innovative FPS?
"The word on the Street": Better know as hype. How loyal are we to it and is it losing credibility?
Playstation Blog: Watch out Major!?
Manhunt 2 captured but not released? And wii were looking fwd to this one too!
Rock Band: For the price, it better include groupies.
The Darkness brought to light with great detail.
Will we ever see the end of the $60 game era?
YAY or NAY: Overloard, Two Worlds, Project Sylphed, Bio Shock
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You can be on LIVE.5, but please keep in mind it's a WAITing list.
Rusty's final thoughts about Rock Band.
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Top 10 current games, are your favorites in there?
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This Friday, February 14th, TechSoup's NonProfit Commons in Second Life meeting features Harold W. Becker (HB Eternal in SL) and John T Goltz (JT Christos in SL) of the Love Foundation, who will share the vision of love as it relates to their nonprofit, The Love Foundation, their programs, and presence in Second Life. The Love Foundation organizes Global Love Day – an international celebration of humanity – which takes place each year on May 1st. Global Love Day events occur around the world and are also hosted virtually in Second Life.
The Love Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with the mission of inspiring people to love unconditionally. Our vision is to assist people by building a practical foundation and understanding of unconditional love within individuals and society as a whole. Established in 2000, we have become an international leading resource for sharing the awareness of unconditional love.
Harold W. Becker is the author of several books including, Internal Power: Seven Doorways to Self Discovery, Unconditional Love – An Unlimited Way of Being, and Unconditional Love Is... He holds an MBA from the University of Tampa and since 1990 has devoted his energy to raising the awareness of humanity through his consulting company, Internal Insights. In 2000 he founded and is President of the nonprofit, The Love Foundation, Inc., with the vision of "inspiring people to love unconditionally." He also founded Global Love Day for May 1st each year. Harold shares his powerful understanding about life through books, PBS television specials, workshops and living his own high ideals.
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Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting
Friday, February 14th, 8:30 AM PT / SLT
Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater
AGENDA (all times below PT)
The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions.
Friday, February 7th, TechSoup's NonProfit Commons in Second Life will be recognizing National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a nationwide HIV/AIDS testing and treatment community mobilization initiative designed to encourage people across the United States to get educated, get tested, get involved and get treated around HIV/AIDS, as it continues to devastate Black communities http://nationalblackaidsday.org
"AIDS continues to claim the lives of too many African American men and women. Blacks account for almost half of all those have died from AIDS in the United States since the beginning of the epidemic. African American youth continue to be one of the groups most severely affected by HIV infection in the United States. In fact, black youth represent more than half (57%) of all new HIV infections among young people aged 13 to 24. These numbers underscore the need to reach a new generation with effective HIV prevention programs and messages. We simply cannot afford to lose the next generation to this potentially deadly, but preventable disease."
(Centers for disease Control and Prevention-CDC)
Friday, February 7th, 8:30 AM PT / SLT
Friday, January 31st, TechSoup's NonProfit Commons in Second Life will feature Jayne Cravens of Coyote Communications. She is a long time volunteer and community manager who has worked managing communities of volunteers everywhere from the UN to TechSoup. Jayne will be presenting on online communities like TechSoup's forum, engaging with online volunteers, and share wisdom from her upcoming book The Last Virtual Volunteering Handbook.
Jayne Cravens is an internationally-recognized trainer, researcher and consultant. Her work is focused on communications, volunteer involvement, community engagement, and management for nonprofits, NGOs, and government initiatives. She is a pioneer regarding the research, promotion and practice of virtual volunteering, including virtual teams, microvolunteering and crowdsourcing, and she is a veteran manager of various local and international initiatives. Jayne became active online in 1993, and she created one of the first web sites focused on helping to build the capacity of nonprofits to use the Internet. She has been interviewed for and quoted in articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, as well as for reports by CNN, Deutsche Well, the BBC, and various local radio stations, TV stations and blogs. Resources from her web site, coyotecommunications.com, are frequently cited in reports and articles by a variety of organizations, online and in-print. Women's empowerment and women's full access to employment and education options remains a cross-cutting theme in all of her work. Jayne received her BA in Journalism from Western Kentucky University and her Master's degree in Development Management from Open University in the U.K. A native of Kentucky, she has worked for the United Nations, lived in Germany and Afghanistan, and visited more than 30 countries, many of them by motorcycle. She is currently based near Portland, Oregon in the USA.
Friday, January 31st, 8:30 AM PT / SLT
The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions.
Friday, January 17th, TechSoup's NonProfit Commons in Second Life meeting will feature Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres in SL) who will present on his newly launched weekly podcast series.
About the Drax Files Radio Hour [with Jo Yardley]:
Broadcasting without permission from an attic somewhere in Berlin [about the metaverse - naturally!] We are very excited to bring our passion for virtual reality and the creative people who make it all happen everyday – the creatives, the explorers, the techies and everyone in between – to the airwaves.
A big part of the show is community involvement – we want your voices, your input, your participation, the more the merrier! To contribute, contact us via Skype (by adding draxfiles) so you can phone in, IM us via our avatar in Second Life - draxfiles or email@example.com with suggestions and critique.
Bernhard Drax aka Draxtor Despres creates interactive audio/video content and devises new media concepts for corporate and academic clientele. In addition to producing music for film, television and the web Bernhard has a solid background in radio news production and print journalism.
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Friday, January 17th, 8:30 AM PDT / SLT
Friday, January 10th, TechSoup's NonProfit Commons in Second Life meeting will feature Elijah van der Giessen, community manager of TechSoup's NetSquared community, who will present on creating community for nonprofit technologists.
NetSquared Local (Net2Local) connects the nonprofit and technology communities. Powered by a network of volunteers, we hold monthly meetings in cities around the world where people can come together to share best practices, case studies, and support each other's projects.
Sounds a lot like the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life, doesn't it?
Join us for a short overview of Net2Local, followed by a discussion of how these two nonprofit communities are both similar and different.
Learn more at http://www.netsquared.org
Eli strives to be a connector - the interstitial tissue that holds the muscle of a community together. He's been a volunteer manager, an event organizer and a digital campaigner. Basically he'll take any gig that allows him to enable a group of passionate people to create things they love.
Currently he's the NetSquared Community Manager supporting a global volunteer network of 50 monthly meetups for the nonprofit technology sector. Together they hold over 450 events per year. You can follow Eli on twitter at https://twitter.com/elijah and read more on his site at http://www.vandergiessen.ca.
Friday, January 10th, 8:30 AM PDT / SLT
In celebration of another year of TechSoup's NonProfit Commons in Second Life, for our last meeting of 2013 we will be hosting several short presentations from some of our community members.
Community presenters:
The presentations will be followed by an extended Open Mic and chance for every one to share upcoming 2014 projects, resources and inspirations for the new year.
Friday, December 20th, 8:30 AM PDT / SLT
Friday, December 13th, TechSoup's NonProfit Commons in Second Life meeting will feature Evelyn McElhinney (Kali Pizzaro in SL), who will present a snapshot of her findings from her first study which explored the health literacy skills of people who accessed health information in 3D virtual worlds and the influence on physical world health behavior.
Kali will go onto discuss her second study of her PhD with the aim to raise awareness and recruit participants. The study is investigating how participating in virtual world communities/groups influences peoples ability to 'live with' or 'cope with' their long term health condition in the physical world. A long term health condition is defined as a condition which lasts more than one year and impacts on a persons life and may require ongoing help and support (Scottish Government).
Kali Pizzaro/Evelyn McElhinney is a Registered Nurse and Registered Nurse Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. She is also a part time Doctoral Student at Glasgow Caledonian University. She was in clinical practice for 13 years and has been full time at the University for 8 years. She has presented at national and international conferences and published in peer reviewed journals.
Friday, December 13th, 8:30 AM PDT / SLT
Friday, December 6th, TechSoup's NonProfit Commons in Second Life meeting will feature Randy Hayes, who is the president of Baltimore GiveCamp and the CMAP (Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals) group that produces GiveCamp. From inception to the production of three GiveCamp events, Randy has been a cornerstone to the technology contribution in the Maryland Area Nonprofit Community.
Baltimore GiveCamp has provided over 60 nonprofit organizations with over $1 million worth of technical services and support through its GiveCamp weekend events each year. The GiveCamp is a weekend-long technology development marathon; over 200 technical volunteer developers and engineers come together to help nonprofit organizations realize their dreams by providing much needed development efforts.
Friday, December 6th, 8:30 AM PDT / SLT
World AIDS Day @ NonProfit Commons in Second Life, November 29, 2013
This Friday, November 29th, Nonprofit Commons is happy to feature members of the nonprofit Protect Yourself 1 (PY1), Executive Director Monique Richert (Chayenn in SL), Social Media Director Ricky Davis (Tank Thibedeau in SL) and PY1 Development Consultant Tom Kujawski (Incarn8 in SL), who will commemorate the 25th annual observance of World AIDS Day 2013.This year we are coming together under the World AIDS Day theme, "Shared Responsibility: Strengthening Results for an AIDS-Free Generation."
World AIDS Day brings together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and to demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the ongoing pandemic. Marking the day provides an opportunity for public and private partners to spread awareness about the status of the pandemic and encourage further progress in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment everywhere around the world. World AIDS Day also offers each of us the opportunity to show support for people living with HIV, remember loved ones and colleagues who have died from the disease, and renew our commitment to combat HIV-related stigma in all its forms.
The Protect Yourself 1 team will share information about their program Safe2Live and how we can all contribute to an AIDS-Free Generation.
About Protect Yourself 1
Protect Yourself 1, Inc. (PY1), a non-profit 501 (c) (3), was founded in April 2004, and began operations in Maryland in August 2005. PY1 has been working for eight years to perfect a model of community empowerment aimed at enabling minority and other disenfranchised populations to address fear, stigma and other barriers to preventing and mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS.
PY1 uses innovative media-driven strategies to disseminate effective messages on HIV awareness, education and prevention to targeted groups; promote skills building to reduce risk behaviors; and conduct culturally inclusive social marketing HIV media campaigns.
PY1's mission is to increase precautionary awareness and individual responsibility with respect to HIV/AIDS through music, art, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and other media via educational events, programs and activities. PY1 strives to eliminate the taboos, myths and stigma associated with HIV, and to reduce risky behaviors and new infections.
Friday, November 29th, 8:30 AM PDT / SLT
Also, on December 1, 2013. PY1 invites you to join "The Red Party" and celebrate togetherWorld AIDS Day withDJ Steele and a live performer with Adusay Imamuat Protect Yourself 1, Inc., (PY1) SL office (235, 165, 29) http://goo.gl/VARZL
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President Obama to 'Evaluate' Bill to Ban Online Ammunition Sales
White House spokesman Josh Earnest, on Monday, was asked whether President Obama supports the new bill that would end sales of unlimited amounts of ammunition on the Internet and other mail order, in light of the shooting massacre in Aurora, Colorado.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), also would force ammunition dealers to report large sales of bullets and other munitions to law enforcement authorities, reports the Washington Times.
Earnest said: "The president's view that have been relayed quite frequently over the last few days, you know, is that he believes in the Second Amendment of the Constitution, in the right to bear arms but he also believes that we should take robust steps within existing law to ensure that guns don't fall in the hands of criminals or others [who] shouldn't have them."
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Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi
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May all beings everywhere be happy and free
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for Computer Science
Associated Faculty and Staff:
Prof. John deFigueiredo, MIT Sloan School, Behavioral Policy Science
Prof. Charles Fine, MIT Sloan School, Operations Management Group
Sharon Gillett, MIT Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial
Dr. William Lehr, MIT Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial
Dr. James Short, MIT Sloan School, Information Technology Group
The Communications Futures Program (CFP) is a partnership between
university and industry at the forefront of defining the roadmap
for communications and its impact on adjacent industries. CFP's
mission is to help our industry partners recognize the opportunities
and threats from these changes by understanding the drivers and
pace of change, building technologies that create discontinuous
innovation and building the enablers for such innovation to be
meaningful to our partners.
The Communications industry is witnessing
emerging and destabilizing events where an industry structure
built around centralized intelligence and control is being challenged
with intelligence and control in many instances shifting to end
users and vice versa. Just as the Internet, the PC wave and Digitization
of Multi-media were transforming events, this trend in communications
is likely to have an even greater impact on industry. An example
of this trend is VoIP, where control over a centralized switching
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will shifting control between the edge of the network and vice
versa, play out?
CFP believes that while the role of technology in industry transformation
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CFP's working group structure allows industry participants
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2. Last Mile Broadband Infrastructure,
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