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The waterfowl season in Mexico runs through mid March, with the vast farming Mecca of Los Mochis Valley offering up an excellent food source and plenty of fresh water along with prime marshland, where flocks of puddle and diving ducks loaf. Hunts in the Mexican state of Sinaloa are accessed by way of airboats that skim over shallow marshes and a maze of tules and mangroves to natural blinds.
Hunters have been coming down to Los Mochis and Culiacan for well over a half a century to enjoy great duck gunning and the opportunity to hunt mature bull sprig and all three species of teal. In addition to those highly prized ducks, there is plenty of opportunity to bag daily limits of widgeon, spoonbills, a variety of diving ducks and occasionally enjoy success along coastal estuaries for Pacific black Brant.
The Slater/DelMarter group and Team Osterkamp was split up by hunt master Edgar Hernandez to assigned blinds on huge marshes. If one blind is not producing good shooting, the airboat is called back in to move hunters to a better spot on the marsh. Hunters are each handed five boxes of CI 12 gauge #4 shot ammo, already having made a choice of either a Benelli or Beretta auto-loader shotgun and a back up shotgun for both morning and afternoon hunts. Duck blinds are dry and a bird boy puts out a spread of decoys and makes an attempt to retrieve all ducks killed.
There is a liberal limit of ducks in Mexico, making for exciting shooting as teal wing over a blind and mature bull sprig cup into a decoy spread. Many duck hunters, from all over America, head to the marshes of Los Mochis to harvest the grand slam of teal consisting of a green-winged, cinnamon and blue-winged teal. It is very possible to harvest these three teal in a single hunt and almost a for sure harvest when the entire day is spent on the marsh with a break for lunch. Our group of hunters took a midday break from the north marsh and enjoyed a wonderful Mexican luncheon at Roberto Balderrama's hacienda, where the meal was prepared by chefs from the Plaza Inn Hotel Deluxe. Interesting to note: Mexico is known for its great beers with Pacifico, Corona and Modelo topping the list, but local wines of Mexico are also offering an excellent selection of reds and now a very tasty new Chardonnay is being produced by Mision Cerocahui.
WON asked Slater about booking late season hunts with Sinalo Pato. "Our club, the Burbank Land Club located on the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, didn't shoot all that well this year," he said. "I don't think that the club harvested more than 1,000 ducks. Coming down to hunt the vast marshes of Los Mochis makes up for time spent in blinds state side. A waterfowl hunter can shoot more ducks in a couple days down here in Mexico than he can the whole season back home."
Not only does the Sinalo Pato Duck and Dove Club (800-862-9026) offer up excellent duck hunting, but there are hunt packages available for dove, blue pigeon and Gambel's quail. Now hunters crossing the border in San Yasidro can use the bridge that connects the U.S. with Mexico and the cost to use the bridge is only $10. The bridge connects with the airport in Tijuana for daily Mexican flights to some of the best hunting/fishing destinations in the Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa. Team Osterkamp boarded an Aero Commander at the Chino Airport and made the quick 2.5-hour flight directly into Los Mochis.
While not a new lake in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Sinaloa, Lake Huites is probably the least known of all the bass fishing lakes in Mexico, but offers up excellent largemouth bass action. Our group opted for a couple of fishing periods on this high mountain lake as part of a "Cast and Blast" trip to maximize the potential of a truly awesome hunting and fishing experience. La Estancia Fishing Lodge overlooks Lake Huites and it's just a few minutes' drive down to the lakeshore, where bass boats and guides await anglers. Peak fishing months for huge bass at Lake Huites are late September, October and early November, but due to a lack of pressure; this fishery provides plenty of action all year long. The lake record, established last February, stands at 12 pounds, 14 ounces, and many double-digit bass are caught and released every year. This WON writer had an opportunity to pass around some new Daiwa Evergreen Custom crankbaits and Daiwa's SV Concept worms, manufactured by Gary Yamamoto, and they produced fish after fish along miles of rocky shoreline. Huites is a beautiful lake with high mountain peaks jutting up from the clear water and vast green vegetation at higher elevations. Topping off a fishing trip on Lake Huites is seeing "El Chepe" rail cars cross trestles of this lake on its way up through Copper Canyon, North America's deepest canyon.
Lake Huites is about a two-hour drive from the Plaza Inn Hotel in Los Mochis and a short one-hour drive from the Hotel Posada del Hidalgo in the old Mexican town of El Fuerte. Most anglers stay at La Estancia due its close proximity to fishing. Anglers average between 50 to 100 bass a day on this lake, but there are some prime fishing periods when 200 bass, weighing in the 2- to 5-pound class can be caught in a single day. Big fish of our trip was Gus Osterkamp's chunky 8 pounder that hammered a newly introduced Daiwa Evergreen Custom CR-8 crankbait.
Considering that most of our hunting seasons close at the end of January and good bass fishing doesn't kick off until April, outdoorsmen should put a "Cast and Blast" option on their calendars for next year, as it's a destination that will offer up many good stories and memories.
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By NOAH TRISTER
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The Detroit Pistons shook up their struggling roster in dramatic fashion, acquiring star forward Blake Griffin in a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Pistons announced the deal early this morning. Detroit sent forward Tobias Harris, guard Avery Bradley and center Boban Marjanovic to Los Angeles, with the Clippers also receiving draft picks. Detroit also acquired forward Brice Johnson and center Willie Reed in the deal.
"We are serious about winning, and this is a major move to improve our team," Pistons owner Tom Gores said in a statement. "Blake Griffin is one of the NBA's elite players, and when you get an opportunity to add that kind of talent, you take it."
Griffin is averaging 22.6 points, 7.9 rebounds and 5.4 assists in 33 games this season, but the Clippers have been plagued by injuries and are ninth in the Western Conference standings. Detroit is scuffling as well. The Pistons have lost eight straight heading into tonight's game against Cleveland.
The 28-year-old Griffin has been the face of the Clippers, and last July, he agreed to a $171 million, five-year deal, ending a brief flirtation with free agency. He told his teammates, coach Doc Rivers and owner Steve Ballmer, "I want my legacy to be a Clipper."
The deal didn't include a no-trade clause.
The addition of Griffin gives Detroit's frontcourt another standout alongside Andre Drummond, but it also represents a clear change in course from the roster the Pistons had assembled. Detroit acquired Bradley in a trade with Boston last offseason, but he's in the final season of his contract. Harris has been impressive for the Pistons this season, shooting a career-best 41 percent from 3-point range.

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Hoping you had a pleasant Thanksgiving!
I haven't been online much for the past 3 weeks. My mom passed 3 weeks ago and all the confusion of my step-dad and his overwhelm, my fears of "all the stuff to go through" and knowing family would be coming I hadn't seen in 20 yrs, well...let's just say I decided to back off from being very social.
Until Thursday! My girls and sister-in-lawwanted to host this year and all I had to do was make my popular Pecan Pie made with maple syrup. I can do that!! So after mass Thursday we decided to start a new tradition and went on a short walk (some folks say a hike, but I'm not physically to that point - yet).
We took Max and he had so much fun. On our way back my husband spotted purple catcus'. I didn't know Colorado HAD cactus'. He got some amazing pictures.
|Tiny purple cactus all over the hillside. Isn't my husband an amazing photographer!
|Max wanting to know why we stopped. We didn't get much past those shrubs ahead. Bears are still out and about and it was early enough I didn't want to see any.
|This cliff side was made of a bazillion rocks. So fascinating.
|Daughter and grandchildren with her ducks. I hear they are supposed to be Christmas dinner but not sure that's going to happen.
|Making the paper chain with nephew and grandkids.
Have a lovely week!
PS - We went to a gathering of couples from Church and one couple bought a 30 lb turkey at the school auction, but the person that showed up for Thanksgiving was vegetarian! So she thought of me and brought a whole bag of turkey. Yeah! I love leftovers and getting creative to use them. I hear Turkey enchiladas are very tasty.


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Wild tells of a woman's solo trek across the Pacific Crest Trail, a mildly perilous but undeniably gruelling stretch of the American border reaching from Mexico to the edge of Canada. It's trudged by hipster tourists, threatening rednecks, and now, Reese Witherspoon, playing real life hiker Cheryl Strayed, whose 1995 memoir inspires Jean-Marc Vallée's latest film. Reeling from the death of her young mother (Laura Dern, in flashbacks) and seeking escape from her duelling drug and sex addictions, Cheryl commits to the 1,600 kilometre walk hoping a new, better version of herself can be forged in its crucible. Witherspoon similarly commits to the role, delivering her best, most vital work in an age.
Yet, the picture itself fails to cross the most fundamental bar in cinema: simply put, it's boring. As he did with Dallas Buyers Club, Vallée squanders fine performances on a story he simply can't convince us needs to be told. The tools he uses – elliptical, dream-like editing; naturalistic cinematography – seem to herald a story of importance, but the content underwhelms. And when something of cinematic significance occurs – in this, run-ins with potential attackers – the inclusion of fabricated drama where none was prior reeks of exploitation. Witherspoon puts in the work and gets results, but the why and the what of her trip and its spirit-saving properties are never fully conveyed. I've always believed Nick Hornby books make for better movies. Here, a Nick Hornby screenplay was probably better left as someone else's book.
It's no easy task making a person's lengthy walk entertaining, though John Curran and Mia Wasikowska managed it in Tracks. (That film's subject, Robyn Davidson, strolled 2,700km across Western Australian desert. It's not a competition. I know, because Davidson wins handily.) Strayed's spunky sense of humour strives to keep us engaged; her scribbled journal entries and swear-laden frustrations about mushy food undercutting what could have seemed like a proud, self-serious The Secret-esque screed. (One of the very first and funniest scenes has Witherspoon struggling mightily with a backpack twice her size, and it sets the tone nicely.)
Sure, there are worthwhile moments throughout, and I appreciated that the journey ends not with Strayed's head held high but at her lowest ebb. (Again, to be chalked up to Witherspoon's brave turn, perhaps guided by Vallée, I'll yield.) Dern is an ethereal, angelic presence, as she is in real life. Brief appearances by Gaby Hoffman, Kevin Rankin, Thomas Sadoski and W. Earl Brown have never been unwanted. Still, I'd be lying if I said my patience wasn't tested by Wild. The thing that truly wandered throughout it wasn't Strayed. It was my attention.
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Game controls: input and forces
Affecting bodies dynamically
Create a fisica world and combine them with the standard Processing functions mousePressed and keyPressed:
void mousePressed() { //do something } //this function is called when a key is pressed void keyPressed() { //now you have to check which key was pressed //for letters, symbols and numbers you can use the special variable 'key' if (key == 'a') { println("a pressed"); } if (key == ' ') { println("space pressed"); } //for special keys you can use keyCode and these processing constants: //UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, ALT, CONTROL, SHIFT, BACKSPACE, TAB, ENTER, RETURN, ESC, DELETE if (keyCode == SHIFT) { println("SHIFT Pressed"); } }
Find a way to:
.create a new body
.setting the position of an existing body to the mouse coordinate
.setting the rotation, the width and height of a body
.toggle the body as "static"
.remove a body
.attach and detach an image to the body
How to detect if a key is down
Processing doesn't have a function to detect if a particular key is currently pressed. You have to use state variables or arrays in combination with keyPressed and keyReleased.
This is a very important feature in games so we'll use a couple of custom functions from now on (this is not a fisica specific example).
//I use an array to store the state of all keys in a boolean array down true, up false //an array is like a table or a container of variables of the same kind boolean[] keys = new boolean[526]; void setup() { //sketch size size(800, 600); } void draw() { /* this is the function you can use to check if a key is currently down it can be used in a few ways: if(keyIsDown('a')) if(keyIsDown("a")) if(keyIsDown(UP)) UP is the constant for the arrow key others are UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT arrow keys and ALT, CONTROL, SHIFT... */ if(keyIsDown('a')) println("The key A is DOWN"); //you can also check if it's up //if(keyIsDown('a') == false) //println("The key A is UP"); } //this function is called when a key is pressed void keyPressed() { println("The key "+ key+ " just went down"); //update the state in the array keys[keyCode] = true; } //this function is called when a key is released void keyReleased() { println("The key "+ key+ " just went up"); //update the state in the array keys[keyCode] = false; } //This may be a little exotic, just leave it there boolean keyIsDown(char c) { String s = c + ""; return keyIsDown(int(s.toUpperCase().charAt(0))); } boolean keyIsDown(String s) { return keyIsDown(int(s.toUpperCase().charAt(0))); } boolean keyIsDown(int code) { if (keys.length >= code) { return keys[code]; } return false; }
Moving things: Force, Impulse, Momentum
Download the example
Different ways to move objects:
circle.addForce(2000, 0); triangle.addTorque(100); box.addImpulse(2000, 0); circle.setVelocity(100, 0); triangle.setAngularVelocity(radians(180));
Example: 4-way movement
When games moved from the paddle (knob to play pong) to the joystick, 4 or 8 way controls became popular and established genres and conventions like shoot 'em up, top-down (e.g. Zelda), or side scrolling brawler (e.g. Double Dragon).
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Example: move toward a point
Point an click movements (usually in combination with path-finding algorithms to avoid obstacles) are the basis of several genres like the graphic adventure (Maniac Mansion) or the Real Time Strategy or RTS (e.g. Starcraft).
DownloadDownload Example
Example: directional movement
The 360 degree relative movement was the among the very first type of control employed in games (i.e. SpaceWar!) and it's the basis of top down racing games. It breaks the controls into rotation and thrust, a simple interface paddle/knob + button can command very complex manoeuvres.
Implement a control system for a body that "feels good" and responsive.
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Yesterday morning didn't bring the normal ride to school for Grade 4 student Ronan Freeborn. The 9-year-old football fanatic was picked up by a limousine and escorted to class at W.T. Townshend Public School by all-star running back C.J. Spiller of the Buffalo Bills.
Ronan could barely stop grinning as he gave Spiller a personal tour of his bedroom adorned with a Pats bed spread, decals and a plush football on his nightstand.
From there, it was a limo ride to school, where the pair was welcomed by screaming classmates, most dressed in Bills red, white and blue and waving pom-poms and holding signs.
Spiller spent the morning talking to the students and running them through drills as part of the NFL's Play 60 program, which encourages kids to exercise for an hour a day. Townshend also received a $5,000 grant through the contest. The visit was one of four put on by the NFL in Canada this year.
The Florida native fondly recalls the day he met his hero. He was 10 years old when he shook hands and got an autograph from Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Warrick Dunn. In fact, Spiller wears Dunn's No. 28 with the Bills as a tribute to his retired idol.
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CHINO, Calif. --Authorities now say police killed a 23-year-old bystander during a shootout at Papa John's Pizza in Chino on Sunday night.The bystander was identified as Daniel Balandran of Rubidoux. Authorities said police mistakenly believed Balandran was one of the suspects during a shootout on the 12000 block of Central Avenue. Officers were responding to a call of a robbery in progress at the pizza shop.
More than 100 shots were fired by both sides in a matter of a few minutes.
Balandran was declared dead at the scene.
One police officer suffered gunshot wounds and is in stable condition.
The two wounded suspects, identified as Edward Cisneros of La Mirada and Joel Anthony Jaquez of Hacienda Heights, are in critical condition. Both men are 28 years old.
The Chino Police Department released a statement which said, "This is a tragic event that is still under investigation, our deepest sympathy goes out to the Baledran family during this difficult time."
The parents of Balandran are seeking the help of an attorney in the wake of the tragic death.
Eyewitness New Reporters Lisa Hernandez and Rob McMillan contributed to this report.
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About AuthorAndrew Ralls Woodward is a doctoral student and junior fellow at the University of Toronto's Trinity College. He is writing a thesis about how the philosophy of science might be used as a model for religious knowledge. Woodward holds degrees in engineering chemistry and theological studies. For additional information about Woodward's work, see www.andrewwoodward.ca.
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Tonight I did a test trying to shoot some photos for a 360 image viewer.
It's working fine as you can see below. But I feel I still have to do some experiments with the code to make something better. And maybe shoot some better images 😆
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- You may not recognize the name Hillcrest Waterbugs, but you'll likely recognize the shirts they make.
In this 'Made in Arkansas' story, Amanda Jaeger tells us how one t-shirt became a national sensation and paved the way to changing the lives of people all across the state of Arkansas.
You may have seen the shirts while walking down the street or maybe on national television shows.
"…Good Morning America, The Today Show, MSNBC, CNN…a lot of people have been wearing them when they go on the show. There's been celebrities spotted wearing the shirts."
It was a viral sensation on social media, but it all started in the Hillcrest area of Little Rock.
"Hillcrest Waterbugs became an item when I decided to make a shirt for just some friends and myself. It was basically a shirt with a cockroach on it talking about living in Hillcrest. It became pretty popular in that local neighborhood and we started made a lot more shirts," said owner of the company, Jen Cox.
Cox spends many of her days traveling the country representing celebrities. But the rest of her time is spent constantly making new shirts with inspiration from "current things in the news, maybe it came from a songs, maybe it's a movie quote or something plays off of something like that we try to do things that remain really relevant."
Some of the shirts are often flirting with the controversial, and not afraid to make a statement.
"It's important for us to be who we are and stand up for what we believe in we're very, very, at least I am extremely outspoken about my beliefs," said Cox.
The shirts are always on trend by letting their fans have a say in what they create.
"People will email, message, text, or tap me on shoulder if they know me wanting shirts made every single day."
But Cox says there is one type of shirt she will never make.
"We do not do anything negative. There is not one shirt that we would put out that's negative towards a candidate, negative towards a cause or negative towards any individual or entity."
That's because their goal is to spread positivity, like with the new 'Be Kind' shirts.
"Those are really doing well because in this kind of interesting time people are trying to take a step back and figure out what they can do and move forward."
Each 'Be Kind' shirt funds 20 meals for Arkansans in need. Others provide a month of feminine products, and a safety pin shirt raises funds for Planned Parenthood.
The heart of the company always remains at home.
"I do travel a bit for my job but I also really like to be here. This is home for me. It always will be. This is where all my friends are and where I've grown up. I really believe in this state and I believe in the people that are here," said Cox.
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In the new era of low oil price, it is pertinent that oil and petrochemical operators are able to contain cost of operations.
It is important to ensure that pumps work efficiently, maintenance personnel have to regularly visit all the pumps to ensure they are properly serviced and running. A better understanding of when a given pump might fail will allow maintenance personnel to ensure they are addressing the critical issues to drive pump uptime.
Understanding that there are many sophisticated processes in both the upstream and downstream processing industry is also important. Twin-Screw Pumps and Progressive Cavity Pumps are the perfect solution for conveyor tasks in plants in which low and highly viscous products have to be conveyed. All media – neutral, alkaline or acid, aggressive, abrasive or gaseous – are safely suctioned, dosed and pumped. Another important process in the oil & petrochemical industry is the injection of drilling fluids. Drilling mud is used for drilling boreholes to extract gas and oil. Progressive cavity pumps are well suited for this process. The oil and petrochemical industry is a very complex industry with a wide range of applications and challenges.


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Originally named William's Gap, Snicker's Gap (elevation 1100 feet) is located in Virginia along Route 7, about 16 miles west of Leesburg. The commuter parking lot on the southwest corner of Route 7 and Route 601 is a popular spot for bird watching.
The Appalachian Trail passes through Snicker's Gap. Bear's Den Rock, providing a panoramic view of West Virginia and the Shenandoah River valley, is a popular stopping point for hikers.
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Challenge: Design an identity that represents the vibrant energy of a multicultural festival.
The Southwest Washington International Festival is inspired by local cultural organizations that are working together to create a celebration of diversity and cultural traditions. Flags are often used in worldly celebrations to represent pride for each nation. We reference this tradition by selecting common flag colors and merging them to establish an all-encompassing palate; a little something for everyone. We also wanted to capture the energy of the festival by incorporating a dynamic use of lines that reference movement and direction. The combination of bright colors and bold pattern provide a visually energetic brand for the festival.
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Hello friends and happy spring! I am proud to share the news that my "Labyrinth" image was featured in the Brilliant Studio's ad in the current issue of The Photo Review. This quarterly journal has earned a reputation as one of the best serious photography publications being produced today. You can learn more about this amazing publication and interpretations of what's happening on the photography scene at http://www.photoreview.org/. I am honored Brilliant used my work to promote theirs. Thank you, Bob!
Speaking of this intriguing view of light weaving its way through staggered stone doorways at Humayan's Tomb gardens in Delhi, India, this palladium-colored image will be included in the upcoming Chester County Art Association Members' Open Exhibition. The event will be held in the CCAA West Chester gallery from May 22 - June 19, including an opening reception on Thursday evening, May 21, from 5 - 8 p.m. Stop by to enjoy this annual free exhibition featuring many different talented artists using a variety of artistic mediums. Details online at: chestercountyarts.org.
I am also excited that this image won a blue ribbon in Chester County Camera Club's April 2009 competition in the small print 'open category.' It is always an honor to be recognized in alongside such a talented group of local photographers (and friends!). Of course, if you would like to add this image to your own art collection, please visit my online store at millaclick.etsy.com or email me directly!
Here's to enjoying the beautiful spring weather! Cheers!
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Millaclick Fine Art Photography at the Eagle Gallery ('til April 14th!)
Bon jour! On Friday the 13th (of March), I joined two dozen, extremely talented, fellow photogs as we kicked off our month long exhibition at the Eagle Gallery. My inaugural collection is entitled "Quintessence" with each of the 12 images available at the gallery or through my online store at millaclick.etsy.com. A special thanks to all who have supported my photography hobby for the past 30 years, as well as my fantastic friends who took time out last week to share a special evening. xox
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Upcoming Chester County Camera Club Photography Exhibit
Hi friends of Millaclick! Two dozen Chester County Camera Club members will be showing and selling chosen photographs at this local gallery. Please stop by for the opening reception to see the amazing work my colleagues create---everything from landscapes, animals, graffiti, children, architecture, to you name it! My featured works will be intriguing images from Paris, Delhi, San Francisco, Barcelona, Mexico, Shanghai, and Maine (buoy image above is mine!).
The wine and cheese reception will be held on Friday, March 13, 2009 from 5 - 8 p.m. at the Eagle Gallery (www.theeaglegallery.com), just north of the Exton/Downingtown Turnpike interchange. Hope to see you that night, or else, please stop by at your leisure anytime before April 10th! :)
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Monday, May 5, 2008
Hey Hey Taipei!
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NATO+4 in Seoul
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Singapore--my new favorite city!
26/29 April 08 -- On Saturday morning, we arrived in Singapore on a red-eye flight from India. If you haven't been to this amazing country, go find a calendar and pick a vacation week and start making plans. I'll join you if you need a travel companion. I've seen 14% of the world (according to my Facebook map), and this place tops my list. This unique city offers a blend of people, cultures, cuisine, and architecture from both East and West; all set in a perfect tropical setting. Clean, modern, friendly, efficient, and big fun. But don't bring chewing gum, it's illegal there!
We had one night off during our two week tour of duty, so we decided to spend it in the Clark Quay area. Great food, music, dance clubs, people watching. On Sunday afternoon, we went to East Coast Park to wander along the beach path with the locals. Adam and Matt spent about four hours trying their luck at cable wakeboarding/kneeboarding/waterskiing at a cool watersports complex (while I got my MBA from a touring ESSEC professor from Paris). We finished our perfect day off with barbequed stingray from a local food stall. Yum!
On Monday, we visited the U.S. Embassy (BTW, good job Bill Clinton---this fortress was the nicest of our trip!) and then had dinner with our new partners TME Systems. They picked the restaurant with the most stunning view of Singapore--the Swissotel's 69th floor Equinox Restaurant. The food and company were both fantastic, as we overlooked the tallest Ferris wheel (the Singpoare Flyer at 165 m) and the site of the first Formula 1 night race being held this September.
Tuesday was our all day meeting with TME, then off to the airport that evening for a red-eye to Seoul. Two more countries to go!
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110 Degrees in New Delhi
23/25 April 08 -- Our flight arrived late evening in India followed by a 45-minute chaotic car ride to our New Delhi hotel. Any normal person would have been scared to death being driven down the road with no painted lines six vehicles wide (built for three vehicles wide), horns beeping, cows wandering, people crossing, rickshaws meandering. But growing up riding with my brother Greg, I found the scene comical and almost fictional.
Matt and I had our all-day partner strategy meeting with ITGlobe on Thursday ending with cocktails and conversation with Brig Sabarwal and Col Raju, and dinner at the Officers' Club. Good stuff!
On Friday, it was a stifling 110+ degrees. After our US Embassy visit, we took a quick tour with a guide to a few local landmarks, including the Lotus Temple and Humayun's Tomb. We even saw an elephant in the traffic mix that day (can you spot it below?)!
Next up, red-eye to Singapore to meet up with Adam again...
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A Wind in the Willows (and Cedars, Firs, Maples…)
How some trees react to high winds.
1) Pseudotsuga menziesii Douglas Fir
- The detritus lying on the ground following a wind event in the Pacific Northwest provides ample evidence of how P. menziesii defends itself against wind.
- The wood of P. menziesii is brittle and can snap. When a strong wind acts on a Douglas Fir, the tree sacrifices small pieces of foliage to shed the wind's energy.
2) Thuja plicata Western Red Cedar
- In contrast to Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar limbs are fibrous and tenaciously strong. Long, bendable limbs whip and swing in the wind, but rarely break.
- The wind's energy is transferred to the trunk and the cedar relies on its massive girth and extensive root system to keep it upright.
3) Populus trichocarpa Black Cottonwood
- In growth, P. trichocarpa sacrifices strength for speed.
- Just to the northwest of our Overlook Pond, a massive black cottonwood demonstrates how weak wood tends to shatter under stress.
4) Salix spp. Willow
- Often growing in wet bottomlands, the roots of willows can be shallow mats that are relatively easy to peel up when a strong wind levers a tall tree.
5) Acer macrophyllum Big Leaf Maple
- The wood of Acer macrophyllum is strong but heavy. The massive, reaching limbs can shatter mid-limb when wind pulls on the sail-like leaves.
- A recent example is located at the east end of Loderi Valley just above Arboretum Drive, although many of our big-leaf maples are festooned with "storm stubs."


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DeRubeis/Baron/Rescorla: Dr. Frisch has experienced a self-reinforcing iterative sequence of diatheses and stresses. The proximal stress - a fight with Jeff Goldstein on his blog, Protein Wisdom - was the result of increasingly disfunctional behavior following a negative tenure decision by the quacks (psych+oregon=quacks) in 1994.
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Rozin/Sabini: Moral disgust is a powerful emotion that can lead us to engage in irrational behavior just like any other powerful emotion. Is this really news?
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The following places are extant in the Anarchy Period. (For forests and other terrain features see map from p. 23. I posted it on the map link already).
Amans: This little kingdom is on the edge of the Pen- nine Mountains. (See Cumbria map in Chapter Four.)
Arden Forest: Arden Forest fills the area between Wuerensis (on the Avon River), Galvoie (on the Severn) and Cameliard (on the Trent.)
Arroy Forest: This forest divides northern Cameliard and southern Cheshire and Orofoise from each other.
Bangor Fawr: Castle guarding the crossing of the Meneii Straits, subject to Gomeret. It is a boat port. A famous monastery is here, overseen by Saint Deiniol.
Beaumaris: Castle guarding the crossing to the Isles. It is a boat port.
Black Mountains: Steep and difficult mountain chain in southeastern Gales.
BRYCHEINIOG: One of the "Mountain king- doms" in the southeast Cambrian Mts. Its chief settle- ment (not a city) is Brecon. From among the vales and dales come five tribes.
BULITH: This mountain kingdom in the Central Cambrian Mts. includes two tribes. Its chief settlement (not a city) is Bulith Castle.
Caerwent: This city in Escavalon was one the trib- al capital of the Silures. It has strong fortifications and a castle. It is also a seaport.
Cambrian Mountains: Whereas all the mountains of Cambria can be said to be the Cambrian Mountains, there is a high and impassable spine of them that are, in
truth, the real Cambrian Mountains. The chain runs north and south in western Cambria.
CAMELIARD: This kingdom centers upon the uppermost Trent River. It includes the castle of Pen- kridge, Carohaise and the city of Stafford.
Cardiff: This city in Escavalon in a seaport, and is protected by walls and a castle.
Cardigan: A castle on the Cardigan Shore, the southernmost and largest. It is also a thriving seaport.
Carlion: Also called Carlion-on-Usk, this was a Ro- man military fort. It is still fortified and has a castle, as well as a church to Saints Aaron and Julius. It is also a seaport.
Carmarthen: This city in Estregales is the largest of the kingdom. It was a Roman capital of the Demetae tribe. It is well fortified and has a small castle.
Carohaise (Wall): This is a small castle guarding the border of Cameliard. It is a regular stop between Lambor and Stafford.
CHESHIRE: The Duchy of Cheshire is a wide plain between the Cambrian Mountains and Pennines, and the Arroy Forest to the south. It includes the City of Legions and the Wirral.
Conway Vale: Hugging the Conway River, this steep pass is the narrow and dangerous way to bring an army into Snodonia, the secret heart of Gomeret where the Gomeret army regularly hides.
Dean Forest: This forest surrounds the city of Hereford and it's "the Lost Kingdom" of Ergyng. Also therein is the healing temple of Lydney.
Degannwy: This is a very strong castle and the ma- jor fortress of the King of Gomeret.
Dinas Bran: This is the Hill of the Raven, once home to the giant god Bran before humans roamed the hills. Of old it was a hill fort, long abandoned but recently resettled by a new pagan community eager to reclaim its ancient power.
Dinas Emrys: The tyrant Vortigern built this castle the first time, on the slopes of Mount Snowdon. Here it was that Merlin, then called Emrys, revealed himself to the world with his prophecies. Vortigern later aban- doned it, and in time it was occupied by troops of Am- brosius. Now it is a castle of the King of Gomeret.
DYFED: The westernmost southern part of Gales is the county of Dyfed, and includes Pembroke Castle, Carmarthen and Menevia; and Roevant Forest.
ELFAEL: Mountain kingdom in central eastern Cambrian Mts. rules over two tribes.
ERGYNG (Kingdom of Dean): This small king- dom with the Dean Forest has not been heard from in years, due to the enchantment of the forest. Its center was the city of Hereford. It's also known as the Kingdom of the Au Circle D'or in my Pendragon game.
ESCAVALON: This rich and prosperous kingdom in- cludes the counties of Gloucester, Morgannwg and Gwent. ESTREGALES: Estregales is a land ruled by Irish
conquerors whose ancestors came over a hundred or more years ago. So many Irish tribes people came that the region is now Irish rather than Cymric. It includes the counties of Gower and Dyfed
GALVOIE: This little kingdom sits upon the fer- tile Severn River, entirely surrounded by the forests of Arden that effectively cut it off form the outside world.
Gloucester (City): This seaport is a city with a castle and walls, and a regular road stop upon major trade roads. It is the largest city of western Britain, and subject to the Duke of Gloucester.
GLOUCESTER (Duchy): The mouth and lower Severn River goes through Gloucester County, a fertile region centered on the city of Gloucester.
GOMERET: Six strong, warlike tribes live on the north west coast of Gales. They generally unite as the Kingdom of Gomeret [Gwynedd], which includes the castles of Degannwy, Sinadon, and Bangor; as well as the territory of Snodonia.
GOWER: This county is part of the Estregales kingdom, and includes the city of Gower and the castles of Kynke Kynedonne.
GWAELOD: A wealthy cantref of northwestern Galis, independent of all other political rule.
GWENT: The coastal plains of Escavalon com- prise the County of Gwent. The county is wealthy and includes the cities of Carlion and Caerwent.
Hereford: This is a castle and small city located in the middle of Dean Forest, and the center of the Ergyng Kingdom. It is also the seat of King Faron and known as the City of Gold).
ISLES: Three tribes occupy the fertile island of Môn, all subject to the kings of Gomeret. This coun- ty includes the much smaller Holy Isle, once a sacred stronghold of the druids until the Romans sacked it completely.
Kynke Kynedonne (Neath): This castle in Gower guards the border.
Legions (Chester): This city used to be a Roman fort. It is now the largest city around, with a castle, and the center of trade for all of northern Cambria. It is also a seaport.
Llan Illtyd (Llanwit Major): Large monastery of Saint Illtyd, a famous site of learning for the isle of Brit- ain. It is a site of one of the three Perpetual Choirs of Britain.
Llandaff: Monastery of Saint Dubricus.
Lydney: This famous Pagan temple from the Ro- man times is still active as a place of healing. It is dedi- cated to the god Nodens.
Menevia: Saint Dewi returned from his pilgrimage to the far east and founded the monastery here. It is for Benedictines, or the black monks. Dewi is a strict, severe man, gaunt and nonetheless vigorous.
MERIONYDD: Small mountain kingdom in west- ern Cambrian Mts. centered on the Dyfi River. The two Pagan tribes there worship horrible and terrifying gods from the nearby Idres Mountain.
MORGANNWG (Escavalon): This county in- cludes some settled lands on the middle Usk River, but most of the region is the hilly trees of the Nain Forest. It is part of the Kingdom of Escavalon.
Mount Idris: A prominent peak in Merionydd, sacred to the Old Gods and a mist-shrouded place for poets and madmen.
Mount Snowdon: The tallest mountain of Gales is sacred to the Old Gods and covered with enchanted places.
Nain Forest: This name means "Dwarf Forest," be- cause the king of the dwarfs has been met here. It is be- lieved that a kingdom of dwarfs lies within its thickness.
NORGALES: The six tribes of this small moun- tain kingdom in northern Cambrian Mts. are often part of Gomeret, and sometimes they are independent king- dom, and sometimes its king rules over Gomeret.
OROFOISE: Orofoise County includes the settled areas of the northern Severn River. It is far enough away through forests to not be part of Arthur's realm, but subsequently fell subject to the hill king of Powys. It includes the city of Oroquelenes.
Oroquelenes (Wroxeter): This used to be the capi- tal city of the Roman Cornovii tribe, called Viroconi-
um. Now it is a small city sitting on the upper Severn River. It has a small castle.
Pase (Manchester): A small castle, the center of a tiny independent kingdom at the edge of he Pennine Mountains. (See Cumbria map in Chapter Four.)
Pembroke Castle: This castle is the best stronghold for the kingdom of Estregales. This is the coolest castle in Britain, thanks to its underground sea cave.
Penkridge: This is an old Roman fort, still main- tained by the king of Cameliard. It is a regular road stop between Cheshire and Logres.
Pennine Mountains (South): The Pennine Moun- tains are impassable by knights, save by the established paths, and then preferably with a guide. They are steep, and their tops covered with moors. Pase and Amans are castle-kingdoms at the edge of these mountains.
Pleure Castle (Aberstwyth): This is the "Castle of Tears" because of the custom practiced here by its evil lord and lady. (See the adventure of the "CASTLE OF TEARS".) Though it is a seaport, no one lands there. The British monks from the abbey at the only road into the land always warn people not to go in.
POWYS: This is the most powerful of the several mountain kingdoms in central Cambrian Mts. Includes ten tribes.
Prescelly Mountains: These rugged mountains are covered by the Roevant Forest.
Rhun Castle: This castle is the stronghold for the King of Powys.
Roche Sanguine: The "Bloody Rock" is an ancient castle, the center of the lost kingdom of Galvoie. It is now ruled by women.
Roevant Forest: This forest in within the kingdom of Estregales and encompasses the Prescelly Moun- tains.
Sinadon (Caernavon): This sea port city is guarded by an impressive castle, built by Emperor Macsen Wle- dig long ago. It also guards the Meneii Straits, and is subject to the King of Gomeret.
SNODONIA: The hidden area of the mountains in Gomeret where their kings regularly take refuge. It is not a single place, but a series of little farms, small valleys and pastures where an army can hide and eat for a long time.
Stafford: A small city with a castle on the Sau River, in Cameliard.
Terrabil: A castle in northern Cameliard.
Whitechurch: This town is a regular road stop be- tween Cheshire and Logres.
Wilderspool: Border town, a ford from Cheshire into the trackless wilderness of the Forest Perilous.
Wirral: A thick wilderness area that nearly fills the entire peninsula of Cheshire.
YSTRAD TYWI: Cymric mountain kingdom in the southwest Cambrian Mts. consisting of two tribes.
People sometimes get confused when looking at King Arthur Pendragon. They wonder, "How can my knight matter is the story is already foreordained? How can my knight matter with all these big name knights running around? Should we change the story? Should we replace Lancelot and Gawain with our knights?"
I think those questions are worrying about the wrong things. Here's why.
I see the game (and I've talked about this with Greg Stafford and he concurred) that the game is more like walking The Stations of the Cross in the Catholic Church, if you will. Or, to get less denominational, like the stages of a Hero Quest in HeroQuest. The game asks the Players to sink into the story of Arthur's rise and fall and experience it as participants who don't get to change the big story.
Now, contemporary audiences are used to T.H. White's The Once and Future King and the musical Camelot (based on White's book), and other recent novels that deal with the "primary players." But Thomas Mallory and the French romances are really inspiration for Stafford's game.
If you've had a chance to read Thomas Mallory's Le Morte D'arthur, you'll notice, strangely, that there's a lot of Arthur and Guinevere and Lancelot, but there's a lot more about a lot of other characters. The book is really a collection of stories about lots of knights, of how they stand in relation to each other and how they stand in relation to Arthur.
Seen this way, you and your players are adding tales to that tradition (which I think is an utterly cool and wonderful thing), tales taking place in the foreground of Arthur's rise and fall. Arthur's rise and fall and the love triangle take place in the background of the Player Knight's lives. That's a huge shift in perspective as people usually think of it, but it's very important: Arthur isn't where the action is. Where the Player Knights are is where the action is.
This is all part and parcel of the Traits and Passions mechanics, as well as the bits about disease and aging and death. As Stafford wrote in an earlier edition of the game: "The game tries less to adapt the milieu to the modem mind than to instruct the modern mind to the milieu." To this end, the Players are placed within a world where they are not the movers and shakers, where magic is outside of the control and understanding, where Passions and Traits and Disease and Death impress themselves upon the Player Knights — and the Players– in ways that would be unthinkable in other RPGs. The Players are both participant and witness, storyteller and shaman telling the tale. (Okay, flowery, but I think I'm being pretty true to Stafford here!)
Another important — really important — point. The Great Campaign is NOT a metaplot as we know it from game lines past. The differences are vital:
In a "metaplot" from most game lines the Players (and even the GM!) had NO idea where the story is going. In Pendragon everyone knows where the story is going. This gives the Players a chance to have their character knights stand in ironic relation to the larger back story of Camelot and Arthur's rise and fall. This is a HUGE difference. It gives the Players immense creative possibilities to create amazing moments where the choices they make for their knights are fully informed by the story that everyone at the table knows, though their characters do not.
Because everyone knows the backstory, there is either complete buy in or there isn't on the part of the Players. You never reach that moment when Great Uza (or whomever) dies when supplement #14 comes out, and one or more Players go, "What? That blows! Great Uza is why I was playing this game.") With the Great King Arthur Campaign, what matters is how the Players choose to plug themselves in events that the know are coming. Will they side with Lancelot or Arthur when the split comes? Well, that's something to anticipate and plan toward — not be surprised by later on.
There are no railroad tracks. Unlike most metaplot games, where the GM has to keep tearing up and laying down new tracks to make sure the Players don't get to far afield of what's really going on. Here is what's really going on in Pendragon is the lives of the Player Knights. It's like setting a story against the back drop of World War II and having the Player Characters be the GIs working their way across Europe. Sure, someone might say, "Hey, If your not playing Churchill, Stalin and Hitler, what the hell's the point?" But most folks can see how playing those GI will be full of drama even if the GM sticks the events of history and the PCs make choices and live out their lives within that drama. But this works in The Great Campaign (maybe counter-intuitively) because all the facts and history are known. In most of the metaplot games, the uber-NPCs really could move and shake everything the PCs had been doing into useless shambles because who the hell knew what the game company was going to publish next month. And the metaplot really was about the Churchill's and Hitlers of the game world. In Pendragon all the stuff of the Arthur and Camelot and the love triangle is a given. Okay, then — that's that that's a given, what is left to explore and discover? The lives of the Player Knights!
So, I wouldn't want the Players to replace the famous knights — though it's certainly possible they'll be sitting alongside them at the Round Table. The story that matters, however, is the story of the Player Knights, a new cycle of tales of men and women caught between the tension of inspiring ideals and grounded realities; the stories of how they conducted themselves as citizens, warriors, lovers, fathers and servants of a king in a land of god, war, fairies, and family.
First the current KAP year that ended was 513 AD!
When we last saw Sir Adolphus (played by Jimmell Akers), he had just inherited his fathers castle that he needs to desperately fix up, he needs to play through the adventure of Wormegay Castle (Gay in this game means happy by the way). King Farion has ordered him to fix his castle and dig in to buy him some time,, so Sir Adolphus is spending the winter in his castle, and is playing through his castle adventure for his winter phase solo getting his castle ready for the coming winter!
Sir Miles (Played by Chris Z) was courting the beautiful Ahvielle Alarch ferch Amren and is currently courting her at her estate of Stoneleigh and thus he is spending the winter phase on a lovers solo Adventure!
Mean while King Farion (Played by Earl C. Hedges Jr). rallies his knights and prepares for war this winter next spring he will make a surprise strike on Bulith with Sir Fritz Roy (Played by Earl C. Hedges Jr) and Sir Darrow (Played by Darrell Newman). they will be taking back the Kingdom of Bulith. in the Adventure of The Bulith War helping their King, Tathal. The King of Bulith, Tathal , is an information source for the player knights, who are fighting his cause!
Duke Morvid of Gloucester had to retreat into the Kingdom of gold after The Duke Galantis of Clarence Invaded his lands with King Arthur Pendragon The City was besieged and the inhabitants fled leaving behind only a small garrison to hold arthur at bay while the woman children and knights retreated only the Soldiers were left behind with archers!
The Clarence/Gloucester War
The constant war between the rival dukedoms
of Clarence and Gloucester is a result
of the author's own campaign and research.
It arose from three motivations:
1. A Game Need
I wanted to have a place where mercenaries
and adventurers could always find
work. It is a place where player groups
can always go if they have no other events
of interest available. It also serves to illustrate
the types of war which Arthur has, or
allows, in his kingdom. In early days it is
savage and unbridled. Later, only chivalrous
battles take place.
2. Humor
The constant war gets pretty ridiculous
after a while. The constant need for good
knights gives the gamemaster a chance to
make up various excuses and extravagant
promises which recruiters use to coax men
for their battles. It often ends up to be rival
recruiters promising each others' lands to
those who will join them.
3. Confusion
I had a terrible time trying to figure out
where Clarence was, or might be. I was
also confused about what the status of
Gloucester was, or could have been. When
I finally learned that the dukes of Clarence
and Gloucester both held the territory
which, in Pendragon is called Clarence and
Gloucester, I finally understood where
this constant war came from: my own confusion their!
In this Period, King Arthur takes the throne of Britain and fights a series of fierce battles to hold his claim. He is aided by Merlin in many ways.
Historical Comparison
The Boy King Period is roughly equivalent to
12th-Century England in terms of culture and warfare.
In many ways, the coming of King Arthur parallels
the end of the Norman dynasty and the coming
of King Henry II of England and the Angevin
dynasty (whose monarchs are commonly called the
Plantagenets). Think too of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine,
the strong wife of Henry, as Queen Guenever.
Our Campaign
This campaign is largely scripted throughout this
Period. The role of player knights is to participate
in the events and to acquire Glory from the many
battles. Of course, they can choose to find some way
to go off on adventures, but if they do there is the
chance that they will miss much of the action. Remember,
refusing a lord's command to muster causes
a loss of honor, is a sign of cowardice, and if continued
deserves degradation.
King Arthur fights first to acquire his throne in
Logres, then to attain the High Kingship of Britain.
He follows the route of conquest, not acclamation, to
become the High King, and thanks in large part to the
recklessness of the other kings of the land, succeeds.
The component power blocks in Britain at this
time are as follows:
Logres: Logres is still broken up into its counties.
The two remaining duchies of Lindsey and Silchester
dominate the lowlands.
Saxon Lands: The south has five kingdoms and
many small chieftains (such as Chief Port or the Haestingas).
Two strong kingdoms encroach upon Malahaut.
Malahaut: The Kingdom of Malahaut is still a
strong kingdom with several cities around Eburacum,
plus the Catterick lands. Numerous hill tribes and
peoples are allies, such as Elmet, Rheged, and the
Pennine tribes.
Norgales: King of Norgales also rules Gomeret,
Snodonia and nearby hill tribes, plus the plain of
Cameliard: Cameliard is nervously independent
between aggressive Norgales and protective Lindsey.
The king plays a key part in the upcoming royal story.
Escavalon: The strongest kingdom in south
The city of Carlion, in this land, plays a key part in the upcoming
Arthurian story.
Wales includes The Marcher Lands of Builth, Brycheiniog, Elfael, Ergyng (City of Hereford Capital of KOG), Estregales (which includes Carmarthean, Menevia, Neath, and Pembroke, Pembroke, Gloucester, Gwent, Lamber, Manchester, Kinteton, Warcester, Warwick. All can be found on the cambrian map located in the maps section!
However a Hidden Kingdom Known as the Circle of Gold exist's to challenge Arthur and His knights, This Kingdom Plays an Important part in the Cambrian War That the players will be taking Part in! For Behold the Secret is revealed that the Kingdom of Gold, The Cercle of Gold, Ergyng with the City of Hereford is Capital of KOG,It is the same kIngdom Big and powerful!
What's New
The standards in the Boy King Period are slightly
advanced from those of the earlier two Periods. If
something's not mentioned here, it doesn't exist at
this time.
The following equipment is currently available.
Armor: Better armor becomes commonly available
to most knights who can afford it: 12-point reinforced
chainmail, worn with a closed helm.
Weapons: The newly available weapons are the
jousting lance, morning star, and warflail.
Horses: Chargers become widely available. The
result is that the mounted sergeantry are mounted
upon them as well as all knights.
Clothing: Clothing during this Period shifts
from 5th- or 6th-Century dress to later medieval fashions.
Men wear both a long-sleeved undertunic and
an overtunic of fine wool or linen. The overtunic has
no sleeves, and is fastened at the waist by a belt. Legs
are covered with chausses, which are thick stockings.
Thick leather shoes are common. The cloak is knotted
and pinned at the right shoulder. Hair cuts are
short, with a soup-bowl style being popular among
knights, in part because it suits the type of helmets
being worn. Men are clean-shaven.
Women wear sleeved undertunics
like a man's. The overtunic, called a
bliant, fits tightly at the waist and flows
into a skirt. The neck is cut low to reveal
the undertunic beneath and is laced up
the sides. Belts are worn around the
waist, and the cloak is attached with a
cord across the neck.
Knighthood is recognized as having
special privileges and rights, and
one of those is to have individual coats
of arms. Personal designs cannot be duplicated
by anyone else in the kingdom,
and in this early period fights and feuds
may occur when people discover someone
else has chosen the same design.
Heralds also make their first appearance
at this time, their job being to
advise and to keep track of the increasingly
complex arms.
Chivalry is instituted as a real
phenomena in Year 511. Starting three
years later, in 514, King Arthur uses it
as one method of qualifying for membership
in his Round Table, the most
prestigious club in the world.
Women acquire more social status in
this Period. Everyone is quite impressed
that King Arthur marries Guenever for
love rather than (just) politics.
The first tournaments are established
as a method for knights to show
their prowess and practice their skills. It
is also a way to win Glory and, just as
importantly, money.
Three types of events occur: animal
fights, the bohort, and the melee.
The first two are not for knights.
Animal fights are meant for peasant
entertainment; either animals fight each
other (bulls versus bears is popular), or,
occasionally, men fight against beasts.
The bohort is a rough-and-tumble
fight of non-knights seeking to prove their
prowess to overlords, perhaps so that an
individual might be chosen as a squire.
The melee is the primary knightly
event. It is fought between two teams
of knights. An area, often of several square miles,
is marked off as the combat area. It overruns fields,
towns, and vineyards. A safe area, wherein the knights
may not be attacked, is marked for each team. A time
limit is set, usually half a day, and the event begins
and ends only when the marshal's bugles are blown.
Only sword and lance may be used in the melee.
At first, the sponsor may choose to allow either
blunted or normal weapons, though after a short
while only rebated weapons are used to preserve the
lives and limbs of the combatants. Only fair fighting
is allowed — no attacks from the rear, no multiple
opponents on one, no tricks such as tripping horses
or using dogs to panic steeds. However, there are not
yet any judges to oversee this, so honor is required
from all participants to follow the rules.
Any knight may participate, and he may be assisted
by his squires, servants, or even masses of footmen.
The object is to capture enemy knights and
bring them to the refuge, whereupon they are captured
and forfeit their horse and armor. This is very
expensive for the losers and very lucrative for the
winners. Prisoners who have been captured but not
yet returned to the safe area may attempt to escape
without besmirching their honor.
Fiefs are still grants of land, or perhaps of some
other right (such as raising a toll booth on a bridge,
or taxing part of the income from a town), in return
for fealty and service. However, landlords naturally
still prefer to retain all their income and reluctantly
make such grants. They much prefer temporary gifts
that are not inheritable.
Commoners start to build their houses with
chimneys. While the army is gone, many new manors
are built with them. This greatly improves the
standard of life inside these buildings.
Motte-and-bailey castles are common because
they are cheap and quick to raise, but stone begins
to replace timber for castles in this Period. The Pendragon
finances many such keeps and stone walls for
his holdings.
The following components become available, at
the given costs, during this Period:
Curtain wall (DV 7): £20 per area
Curtain wall, double (DV 9): £30 per area
Gate and gateworks (DV –1): £6
Gate and gateworks, large (DV –2): £7
Gate and gateworks, postern (DV 0): £6
Starting in January 2000, I began a chronicle of my one-on-one run of Pendragon Campaign, played by myself. This page collects all the game reports and analysis produced over the three-and-a-half years this campaign solo campaign!
Ah, here we are in 2000 all of a sudden. Hello and happy New Year everyone!
I have returned with an ambitious plan to kick off the first post of the new year. It all started a couple weeks ago when, for reasons I'm still not too clear on, I pulled out the character I ran in my Pendragon campaign last summer. There were a couple things I wanted to check on for whatever reason, but I ended up just sort of going over the character sheets and remembering how much fun that campaign was. It was a short one, especially by Pendragon standards, covering only about 10 years of game time in the span of maybe a dozen or so sessions, but even in that short amount of time some great stories were woven, epic moments sprang up, new legends were born. It's really almost alchemical how Pendragon just…generates epic moments, almost like some kind of weird mystical engine clanking and puttering away, randomly dropping out gold nuggets.
Quite subtly, almost imperceptibly, I started thinking about Pendragon again, like a recovering alcoholic contemplating just one more sip of the sweet stuff. "Why not run a little one-shot over the holidays?" I thought to myself. Why not indeed. I came up with a modest little scenario idea, and decided to play the adventures of Prince Farion!
By the time KAP 4th came out I was having personal issues it would soon turn out to be a sad christmas this year though we had a christmas dinner cooked and presents under the tree it was not a happy time for me nor my dad!
His dad my grandfather who I played the Pendragon game with died! On December 25th 1999 he passed away! Me and my grandmother tried playing it with out grandpa to entertain her but she missed him in tears would come in her eyes a short time later she had a stroke from the stress and my Aunt put her in a home!
Things would get worse during our churches new years party of praying in the new year my mom suffered a stoke feel and hit her elbow on the piano bench she was taken to the hospital, we would later find out that her diabetes had gotten worse and eventually it would cost her in more ways then one! She lost the use of her legs due to diabetic neuropathy and would suffer from it for the next 14 years! It was left to me to look after her with dad helping out when he was not working!
At this point I was determined to play by my self while looking after mom!


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- comrade or chum (often used as a term of address).
- bud2.
- to be a companion; be friendly or on intimate terms.
- buddy up,
- to become friendly; be on friendly or intimate terms.
- to work closely together: to buddy up with a student from another high school.
- buddy up to, to become friendly with or curry the favor of: He was buddying up to the political bosses.
Origin of buddy
- a male given name.
- CharlesBuddy, 1868?–1931, U.S. cornet player: early pioneer in jazz.
Related Words for buddycrony, comrade, associate, chum, confidant, companion, mate, peer, co-worker, sidekick, pal, intimate
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Willingham soon suspected his buddy was involved in bad stuff.A Black Cop's Tough Words for Mike Brown
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December 3, 2014
So the Beatles had recorded that Buddy Holly song many times?
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I could figure out how mother might be able not to see anything but good in Buddy.
Just about then, though, Buddy seemed to have got a bulletin over a special wire.
He was an Irish buddy tae, but there were severals converted.St. Cuthbert's
Robert E. Knowles
You know, buddy, somebody ought to teach guys like you a lesson.Pagan Passions
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It wasn't fair to kick your buddy in the face or get on his ear.The Delta of the Triple Elevens
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- mainly US and Canadian an informal word for friend Also called (as a term of address): bud
- a volunteer who visits and gives help and support to a person suffering from AIDS
- a volunteer who gives help and support to a person who has become disabled but is returning to work
- (intr) to act as a buddy to a person suffering from AIDS
Word Origin for buddy
- Buddy, real name Charles Bolden . 1868–1931, US Black jazz cornet player; a pioneer of the New Orleans style
1850, American English, possibly an alteration of brother, or from British colloquial butty "companion" (1802), itself perhaps a variant of booty in booty fellow "confederate who shares plunder" (1520s). But butty, meaning "work-mate," also was a localized dialect word in England and Wales, attested since 18c., and long associated with coal miners. Short form bud is attested from 1851. Reduplicated form buddy-buddy (adj.) attested by 1952, American English.
Lenny Kent, a long-time fave here, is really in his element. ... After four weeks here he's got everone in town saying, "Hiya, Buddy, Buddy" with a drawl simulating his. [Review of Ned Schuyler's 5 O'Clock Club, Miami Beach, Fla., "Billboard," Nov. 12, 1949]
Buddy system attested from 1920.
1931, perhaps originally U.S. underworld slang, usually with up, from buddy (n.). Related: Buddied; buddying.


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In the early days of the Russian intervention in Ukraine mass media reported that, having talked to President Vladimir Putin by phone, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel told U.S. President Barack Obama that his Russian counterpart "lost contact with reality" and was "living in another world".
But why is she sure that the Western leaders are still in touch with reality? One didn't need to be an outstanding analyst to predict this exact scenario was highly probable the very day Putin entered the Kremlin. That day, the democratic public's hopes to see Russia democratic and prosperous were crushed against its prospect of turning into the Soviet Union's shadow. Since then, the Western leaders shamelessly shook hands with and indulged the KGB officer leading Russia. Now, they have got a logical result of those activities, but it surprises them.
They would be insulted even with a hypothetical assumption that a Gestapo officer could rule present-day Germany. However, when it comes to Russia, they are ready to suppose and accept anything. As a result, Russia's democratic forces are destroyed institutionally, marginalized and silent.
The West, concerning economic sanctions against Russia, has provoked similar discussions in the Russian establishment regarding the possible confiscation of foreign companies' assets if sanctions are imposed. In my view, such a confiscation would be fair and justified. The Western "fat cats" should take political and social responsibility for their investment policy and not invest in potentially aggressive states. They should not follow hunger for profit, greed and avarice.
Nothing has changed ever since. The time has come to regulate this aspect of international business activities somehow. The (hypothetical) confiscation of Western assets in Russia could be a good "vaccine" for a political intelligibility, primarily for the Western transnational corporations. Businesses must know and understand: a viper coiled around one's neck will surely bite.
In 1994, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom guaranteed Ukraine its territorial integrity in return for its voluntary renunciation of nuclear weapons under the terms of the Budapest Memorandum. The Russian political system, in considering blaming Moscow for violating the agreement, is actually blaming a jackal for being a jackal. But the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as France who joined the Memorandum later, should answer the question: how do they intend to fulfill their guarantees regarding the territorial integrity of Ukraine? If what they are doing now is what they intend to do to carry out their commitments, a couple dozen countries worldwide would fairly and justly wish to immediately start developing their nuclear weapons.
So, what is the West's reaction to Russia's intervention in Georgia and Ukraine? The Western public opinion seemingly puts these developments in line with ethnic conflicts somewhere in the center of Africa, which has no global consequences. Even despite the fact that some Western analysts compare Russia's policy towards Ukraine and Georgia to Germany's actions on the eve of World War II, the Western public, however, stubbornly refuses to see a parallel between these present-day issues and the historical chain of events from the German annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia prior to the occupation of Europe, the bombing of London, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In terms of such an historical analogy, the negotiations concerning fate of Crimea are also reminiscent of the peace talks Chamberlain, Daladier, and Hitler had that concluded with the Munich Agreement in 1938.
Long-lasting anti-Ukrainian hysteria in the Russian media has formed a background for the invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian revolution has been presented as a fascist, extremist, and terrorist activity aimed at the persecution and destruction of the country's Russian-speaking population. And Ukraine itself, especially Crimea and the southeastern regions, have been considered and treated as broken parts of Russia. Looking back, it is clear that this was a sign of invasion preparation.
Since Vladimir Putin came to power, the Russian media systematically and regularly has resorted to aggressive, almost hysterical anti-Western rhetoric, especially against the United States. In the course of preparations to pass the law banning Americans from adopting Russian orphans, mass media would constantly broadcast spots and reels about orphans murdered, abused, and raped by their American foster parents.
The collective image of an American, implanted by mass media into the mind of the average Russian, looks like an all-hating, greedy, and cruel moron seeking to dictate, mock, and kill. Put it simply, it is a beast that needs to be destroyed.
Surprisingly, the American media do not properly inform their people about these facts of Russian propaganda! Meanwhile, it is worth considering what are practical goals and objectives of such anti-American propaganda.
For instance, in the News of the Week broadcast by Russia 1 TV channel on March 16, this year, a threat was announced to turn the U.S. "into a radioactive ash." One can say the distance between Mr. Putin's finger and Russia's strategic nuclear forces push-button has been shortening through the years of his presidency. If this trend persists, the button will once be pressed.
Therefore, trying to understand Western, primarily American public opinion and reaction to the events in Ukraine and Georgia, I have come up with the question formulated by an American writer Ernest Hemingway: "For Whom the Bell Tolls?" And it seems to me I have the answer. An English priest John Donne has given it: "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee!"
This is a guest post by the Russian author Dr. Igor Gorkiy
For Whom The Bell Tolls
In the early days of the Russian intervention in Ukraine mass media reported that, having talked to President Vladimir Putin by phone, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel told U.S. President Barack Obama that his Russian counterpart "lost contact with reality" and was "living in another world".


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That very first moment when you realize "hey, the caffeine finally kicked in," because we all know that when you first start drinking that *insert caffeinated drink of choice here* it feels like eight eternities before you begin feeling the initial effects.
And then, once you feel that wondrous feeling that tells you you'll be able to keep your eyes from drooping for a few more hours, you have approximately five-ten minutes before you start feeling hyper.
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Thanks to a generous gift, NFTY-EIE now known as URJ Heller High: Isaac and Helaine Heller EIE High School in Israel is able to provide substantial need based scholarship support for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 to ensure that many more students are able to participate in the program.
Building on the existing Heller Family Scholarship Fund, which has provided more than 1,000 student scholarships over 40+ years, the gift will provide significant annual scholarship funding for greater program participation with a focus on underserved Jewish communities and those without other sources of scholarship support. To extend the impact of this gift, the URJ is launching a comprehensive scholarship campaign to raise additional funds necessary to meet significant student needs.
The new funds will also provide for continued programmatic excellence, and investment in marketing and recruitment to elevate awareness and understanding of URJ Heller High as a premier personal and educational development opportunity for Jewish youth. The gift celebrates the program's 55th anniversary and honors the family connection of Helaine and Isaac Heller with EIE, beginning with their daughter Audrey's transformational experience as a participant.
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