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Beyond The Shore: Legacy of the Golden Horseshoe II
Gifted Dilettante
You are not the eldest in your family. You are not the greatest warrior of your many siblings, or a diligent student of the arcane arts. Rather, you have a broad range of abilities, a sharp mind, and a winning smile. You've also dabbled in some things you probably shouldn't have. You know a bit of everything, and are rather bored with your situation.
Starting Stats: You are intelligent and charming. Your Intelligence and Charisma begin at 11, and all of your other ability scores begin at 8.
Initial Equipment: Dilettante's Outfit, Leather Armor, a Dagger, a bottle of Absinthe, a Spell-Component Pouch, a Blank Spellbook, an Infiltration Kit, and 4d6s.
Initial Feats: You gain the Dilettante feat.
Free Trait: Choose one Family or Campaign Trait.
What was your childhood like?
|How did your family earn its name?
|Base betrayal. Your family is respected but not trusted.
|+2 Wis, +1 Dex, +1 Int, +1 Cha, Tempter's Tongue trait
|Strength of arms. No standard flies victoriously over more battlefields than yours.
|+3 Str, +1 Dex, +1 Wis, Ipeq Reservist trait
|Wealth. Your family's coffers are the fullest in all the land.
|+1 Str, +1 Con, +1 Int, +1 Cha, +1 Wis, Artistic Dilettante trait
|Knowledge. Your family deals in secrets and lore.
|+3 Int, +1 Con, +1 Wis, Artifact Hunter trait
|Piety. Your family has close ties to the church.
|+3 Wis, +1 Str, +1 Cha, Faithful Feedback trait
|Beauty. Your ladies are the fairest and your lords the most handsome.
|+2 Cha, +1 Dex, +1 Con, +1 Str, Sensual Graces trait
|Honor and duty. All trust your family's name.
|+2 Wis, +1 Con, +1 Str, +1 Cha, Chivalrous trait
|Defending the land from invaders.
|+2 Str, +2 Con, +1 Wis, Group Fighter trait
|Standing against a wicked would-be usurper.
|+2 Con, +1 Str, +1 Int, +1 Wis, Evident Supporter trait
|Producing the finest knights.
|+2 Dex, +1 Str, +1 Con, +1 Cha, Lightning Rider trait
|Tending the finest gardens and brewing the most helpful concoctions.
|+2 Int, +1 Dex, +1 Con, +1 Wis, Potent Concoctions trait
|Having one of the oldest names in the land and staying out of affairs that don't concern them.
|+1 Str, +1 Dex, +1 Int, +1 Wis, +1 Cha, Advocate for the Empire trait
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|How did you distinguish yourself as a child?
|Children often fight, but you never lost.
|+2 Str, +1 Wis, Blade Bravado trait
|There wasn't a game you couldn't win.
|+2 Dex, +1 Int, Inspired trait
|You were the toughest kid around.
|+2 Con, +1 Cha, Elemental Resilience trait
|No secret escaped you.
|+2 Int, +1 Dex, Collector trait
|Your empathy made you a sought after confidant.
|+2 Wis, +1 Con, Patient Optimist trait
|You never met someone who didn't like you.
|+2 Cha, +1 Str, Adaptable Flatterer trait
|You solved everyone else's problems, and never mentioned your own.
|+1 Str, +1 Con, +1 Cha, Loyal Bond trait
|Everyone has something to teach, and you learned a little from them all.
|+1 Dex, +1 Int, +1 Wis, Diabolical Dabbler trait
|The other player characters were your best friends. Who else near your family's estates befriended you while you were growing up?
|Laboring with the blacksmith took your mind off your troubles.
|+2 Str, +1 Cha, Fire-Resistant Boots, Artisan's Tools, and 3 doses of Silver Weaponblanch.
|The sailors and fishermen took a liking to you and you swapped stories with them.
|+2 Dex, +1 Wis, Fishing Tackle, a Cutlass, and an Eyepatch (just for show).
|Chafing under your family's rules, you would sneak out at night and wander the woods with a peasant boy.
|+2 Con, +1 Int, a Peasant's Outfit, a common Survival Kit, and a set of common Thieves' Tools.
|The local priest tried to instruct you in the faith.
|+2 Int, +1 Dex, an Iron Holy Symbol, a flask of Holy Water, and an Aspergillum.
|You learned the ways of the estate at the side of the cook.
|+2 Wis, +1 Str, a Cooking Kit, an Hourglass, and a pound of Chocolate.
|You had a tryst with someone beneath your station.
|+2 Cha, +1 Con, a Disguise Kit and a month's supply of Night Tea.
|Despite being of noble blood, you actually did chores with your father's slaves.
|+1 Str, +1 Int, +1 Cha, a Tabard (with your family's regalia) and a Masterwork Tool (your choice).
|The grizzled captain of the guard took a liking to you.
|+1 Dex, +1 Con, +1 Wis, a Light Crossbow, a Buckler, and a case with 10 bolts.
You learned a bit of everything. What did you do with yourself in your boredom?
|How did you learn to get your way?
|By lying when it suited you.
|+2 Cha, +1 Wis, Power of Suggestion trait
|By gathering all the information you could.
|+2 Int, +1 Con, Shadow Whispers trait
|By charming the court with your gifts.
|+2 Cha, +1 Dex, Dilettante Artist trait
|By crafting valuable goods.
|+2 Dex, +1 Str, Green of the Grotto trait
|Through strength and intimidation.
|+2 Str, +1 Con, Fiery Dominance trait
|By knowing more than your peers.
|+2 Int, +1 Wis, Arcane Dabbler trait
|What was your favorite pastime?
|Going out on fox hunts.
|+2 Wis, Nature Soul feat.
|Long rides throughout the colony.
|+2 Con, Animal Affinity feat.
|Spying on visiting nobles and learning their business.
|+2 Dex, Alertness feat.
|Climbing every wall and tree for miles around.
|+2 Str, Athletic feat.
|Spending hours reading the old tomes in the library.
|+2 Int, Scholar feat.
|Roughing it with the peasants who live in the colony.
|+2 Cha, Self-Sufficient feat.
|You dallied with forces beyond your ken. How did you save yourself with the help of a friend? The player to your right was there with you.
|You loosed a shadow upon the world, but hunted it and sealed it again beyond the dark. The friend to your right tirelessly hunted with you and helped you cast the great banishing spell.
|+2 Int, You and the friend to your right both gain the Allied Spellcaster feat.
|A minor spirit was playing tricks on those around the colony, but you bound it to your will. The friend to your right still helps you think of the best uses for your invisible friend.
|+2 Wis, You and the friend to your right both gain the Minor Binding feat.
|You learned of a creature of darkness who was leading a band of natives against the village. You stood against it yourself in the battle. The friend to your right slew the enemy's lieutenant in the battle.
|+2 Str, You and the friend to your right both gain the Close Fighting feat.
|A spirit whispered to you the tricks of the fae as you slept at night. The friend to your right heard the voices too and is now somewhat touched.
|+2 Cha, You and the friend to your right both gain the Echoes of the First World feat.
|A mighty sorcerer visited the keep, and you learned much from him that is strange to other men. The friend to your right sat at his feet and learned many old tales with you.
|+2 Int, You and the friend to your right both gain the Juju Way feat.
|When a visiting noble came with an odd trinket and ill intentions, you and a friend stole this most prized possession. The friend to your right helped you lift the magical bauble and banish the meddling noble from the keep.
|+2 Int, You and the friend to your right both gain the Team Pickpocketing feat.
|You have amassed an assortment of oddities throughout your life, some of which you don't even remember. What is your favorite?
|The favor of a pretty peasant.
|+2 Cha, a dried flower (functions as per the Bestow Token feat).
|A magical trinket.
|+2 Int, a single Feather Token (your choice).
|Your father's sword.
|+2 Str, an Alchemical Silver Rapier.
|A fae flower that never wilts.
|+2 Con, an everblooming Dreamer's Star (sufficient petals for 1 dose per day).
|A symbol of protection against the Drowned.
|+2 Wis, a Winged Fetish and 2 flasks Holy Water.
|A beautifully made instrument.
|+2 Cha, a Masterwork Musical Instrument (your choice).


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Koshiro combine heavy riffs with moments of true melody on debut EP "Crown of Venom".
The crushing tones are reminiscent of Soilwork and Volbeat, while vocalist Ben Errington reminds this listener of Alterbridge wailer Myles Kennedy at points - no bad thing at all.
"King Of Snakes" is the bands opening gambit with a Distrubed-esque riff pattern while dischords and changes of tempo maintain the listeners interest. The group cites Of Mice and Men as an influence and OFMAM's fingerprints are all over "Necromancer", a brutal song that expertly swaps from one bracing breakdown to another.
"Creation Theory" begins with an excellent and chilling Michael Caine quote imploring the listener to "rage against the dying light" before a sinister riff-synth combo lays the foundation of a brutal number. Finishing with the emotional "Catharsis", Koshiro show a sentimental side, and a refreshing musical versatility.
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As quoted in a 2003 article by Robin L. Wakefield of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, "The American Management Association's (AMA) 2001 Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance Report indicates that 82 percent of responding managers use some type of electronic monitoring in the workplace…monitoring Internet connections remains the predominant surveillance activity (63 percent), followed by storage and review of e-mail (47 percent) or computer files (36 percent), video recording job performance (15 percent), and the storage and review of voice-mail messages (8 percent). The top three reasons for employee monitoring are legal liability (68 percent), security concerns (60 percent) and legal compliance (50 percent)." Since those data were gathered, all evidence points to a steady and massive increase in the use of various forms of desktop, email, internet, audio and video surveillance by employers.
Many of the reasons that employers give for these practices are difficult to deny. For example, employers are vicariously liable for many actions by their employees and therefore have plenty of reason to monitor and control actions that could end up affecting the company's bottom line–theft, harassment or other illegal workplace behavior, disclosure of company information, etc. Surveillance can be profitable in other ways: gathering detailed data about employees' behavior allows companies to take steps to control processes and increase efficiency. Some of the stated reasons for employee surveillance seem downright beneficent. The CEO of "Sociometric Solutions," a company that provides companies with equipment for monitoring their employees' communication behavior at work, points to the example of Bank of America, which learned through monitoring that they could increase productivity 10% by giving employees a shared 15-minute coffee break each day.
Of course, the trend toward increasing surveillance of workers has led to concerns about privacy and a fierce debate about how much surveillance should be allowed by law. The statutory and case law in this area are yet to take shape; in practical terms, there are presently few legal restrictions on what companies can do when it comes to monitoring employees.
Where they exist, legal restrictions on employers' monitoring of employees are mostly found in state law. For example, in 2006 New York added Article 7, Section 203-C to the state's labor law, making it illegal for any employer to make a video recording of employees "in a restroom, locker room, or room designated by an employer for employees to change their clothes…" New York State law also prohibits eavesdropping, and some lawyers suggest that this law amounts to a prohibition on surveillance by employers, but this law has found few applications in these kinds of cases. So companies in New York have been mostly free to monitor their employees, with only a few specific restrictions.
But now there is legislation pending in the State Congress of New York that would require employers to notify employees in writing "upon hiring" that they engage in electronic monitoring of employee communications, and to post a notice with the same information in a conspicuous location in the workplace. This law is far more on-point than any that preceded, but it does little more than codify the message that Human Resources professionals and corporate attorneys have been sending to companies for many years: the key to staying out of trouble if your company monitors its employees' communications at work is to notify those employees.
Under the new law, if it passes, companies will face laughably small penalties for monitoring without notification: five hundred dollars for the first violation, one thousand dollars for the second, and three thousand dollars for each subsequent violation. The law would not empower employees to seek damages for violations. But it's a start.
If you are an employee and you believe your rights under the New York Labor Law have been violated, please contact The Harman Firm, LLP.


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PMOs should have a helicopter view of the project portfolio. Whereas you, as project manager, your sponsor and steering committee are all project-focused, the PMO has the opportunity to make 1+1=3.
Here we're obviously not talking about the 'report consolidation' type of PMO. They may (or may not) lighten your administrative load, but what you really need is a PMO that lightens your project delivery workload, especially your external-to-the-project synchronization load. At the project level you should know your inter dependencies - to which projects you need to 'give' something and when; and from which projects you need to 'get' something and when. And you track, liaise and monitor accordingly.
The PMO, however, should be looking ahead across all of the projects to pre-empt problems - resource shortages, deployment clashes, cascading inter-dependent delays - that can or will impact multiple projects.
The PMO should also be looking ahead across the business to identify potential problems, such as re-organizations, acquisitions, new product launches, new marketing campaigns, union negotiations - anything that could disrupt the portfolio's planned schedules. And, the PMO should also be looking externally to identify any potential or planned events - such as elections, interest rate changes, new laws and regulations - that could have an impact on one or more projects.
The value for you as project manager is that you should be able to rely on their monitoring to identify external-to-your-project factors that could trip you up, delay your project or even make it unviable.
You want to focus on your project and leave the PMO to synchronize the portfolio. (Other areas the PMO can synchronize include project desired outcomes (to ensure consistency), business benefits (to avoid duplication), implementation plans (to avoid change overload on areas of the business), and so on.) But to continue with the synchronized monitoring…
What you require is a simple yet formal process by which the PMO communicates its findings and expectations, with a 'level of certainty' measure, at least monthly.
At least quarterly, the PMO should convene a session to discuss in more depth potential events and timings, to allow cross-project discussion as to the possible ramifications and opportunities. These sessions can often highlight dimensions and implications that you haven't thought of.
Be sure to also share the PMO-supplied information with your Sponsor, the steering committee and your project leadership team so as to get as broad an interpretation and reaction as possible to each event or possibility. Many minds prevent unexpected surprises.
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More than 12 arrested in crackdown
KARACHI: More than a dozen people were arrested by Rangers during different targeted operations in the provincial metropolis, ARY News reports on Saturday.
According to Rangers spokesperson, the operations were carried out at Qayyumabad, Darwesh Colony, Mehran Town, Rafa-e-Aam Society, Purani Sabzi Mandi, Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Chawla Market and Shah Wali Nagar.
Snap checking were also carried out by the Police in key roads of the city.
Police arrested a person involved in dacoity and other serious criminal offences in an operation. Arms, stolen mobile phones, motorcycles and other stolen goods were recovered during the operation.


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Where I write about travel and int'l culture on most weekdays
Forbes Traveler
Where I was senior editor, 2007-2008
100 Words
A semi-collaborative writing project I founded in 2001
The zine that started it all
Reign of Fire
Directed by Rob Bowman
Written by Gregg Chabot & Kevin Peterka and Matt Greenberg
Starring Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco
Reign of Fire is
Mad Max
by way of Dungeons & Dragons. Not
Dungeons & Dragons
the disgraceful kid movie released two years ago, but the original role-playing game. D&D: the ultimate symbol of smart-guy disenfranchisement. An evergreen punch line that calls to mind a particular breed of teen nerdboy spending his weekends rolling for damage. And
Mad Max
: second only to
The Blood of Heroes
on the list of best post-apocalypse movies, and one of the few movies with a sequel as good as its predecessor. Clearly, director Rob Bowman and his scriptwriters respect both the fantasy and post-apoc genres.
The high concept is thus: What if dragons are real and were reawakened in the modern world? The film opens when a construction team punches into an uncharted cavern deep beneath the streets of London. Quinn, the scrappy son of the forewoman, is on hand and asks to hop into the hole to investigate the dank, creepy HR Giger-inspired chamber. Inside: an honest-to-god, fire-breathing dragon. Quinn's mother dies in this first dragon encounter, with a good portion of humanity soon to follow.
Twenty years later, dragons rule the earth, and Quinn (Christian Bale) leads a small group of survivors who have turned an old castle into a stronghold. In a nearby valley, they carefully cultivate food, with Quinn trying desperately to convince his starving community not to harvest too soon. Do not feed from the crop until the seeds are mature enough, else we will all starve to death next season, he warns. They are ever watching the sky, and have no hope but to outlast the dragons as they deplete their own food supply, i.e., humanity.
In some movies, you shouldn't see the bad guys because it's a letdown. Signs fell apart completely when the mysterious aliens appeared early as lanky men in green leotards. Or take the 1998
remake. Almost every monster scene was jittery, dark and rainy because it's quicker and easier and therefore cheaper to render the computer-generated effects with less detail; somehow, the new American Godzilla was no more realistic than the original Japenese guy in a rubber suit. The
Reign of Fire
dragons are not hidden in twilight; they are full-frame, day and night. They are as beautifully rendered and as concrete as the best dinosaurs in
Jurassic Park
They're also bad-ass. These are not fat-bellied, bulky majestics, tossing riddles and verse to frightened hobbits. They are not regal and magical. They are lean and swift omnivores--fire-breathing locusts that feed on death. They killed the dinosaurs by burning them and eating the ash. They soon rendered the planet barren and starved themselves. The strongest went into hibernation.
Once awakened, the small brood reproduce like insects and spread across the globe, consuming everything in their path. The fall of mankind is told by magazine clippings from Quinn's scrapbook. The first sightings were treated like UFOs, but soon cities were in ruin. The Eiffel Tower and Big Ben are shown swarmed by dragons like bats fluttering around a gothic cathedral. They are the ultimate plague.
Enter the foil: Matthew McConaughey as Van Zan, a brusque, arrogant, cigar-chomping American rough rider, come to British soil to track down the granddaddy of all dragons. He rolls up in a tank with a unit of commandoes and a talent for dragon slaying. The pumped McConaughey--known first for
Dazed and Confused
and more recently for being arrested naked in his house for playing the bongos a bit too loudly--is pure America. He's the would-be hero who shows up without being invited, determined to rescue the locals and save the world. Van Zan and his team are heading to London to slay the only male of the species, or so they think.
Reign of Fire
is imaginative escapism. At times, even intelligent and imaginative escapism. You'll see a dragon and a helicopter in a dogfight. You'll see a man with an American Southern accent wielding a halberd. You'll see dragons perched on the crumbling spires of a destroyed London skyline. It's a 100-minute, pure-hearted action movie that, for once, doesn't take a dragon-sized dump on its audience.
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Online Power
I can use my online power good by ; lending a hand to the students out there struggling with school. I'm now in junior high, and I struggle with math, I could post what I learned on my blog or whatever else I have that I use. Every little trick that my teacher tells us to help us succeed in that class. Examples of the problems we did would be good to. Sometimes kids get embarrassed to ask for a teacher's help, so if I did do this; they could look here for help. In conclusion I could use my online power by posting useful and helpful information for kids struggling with a subject in school.
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How do I create lists in EBSCOhost Collection Manager?
EBSCOhost Collection Manager allows you to create lists of titles and submit them to your institution's approver for purchase if you are a selector, or add them to your cart for purchase if you are an approver.
There are two ways to create lists:
Creating a List from the Home Screen
To create a list from the Home screen:
From the My Lists drop-down menu, select New, or click the New List button under My Lists on the left side of the screen.
Enter a Name for your list in the field provided, select a Fund Code (if desired) and click the Create List button.
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Select the desired Access Model in the resulting pop-up and click the Add to List button.
Enter a Name for your list in the field provided, select a Fund Code (if desired) and click the Create List button.
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Primark Water Bottles – £1.80 each
If it's one thing I'm awful at it's drinking enough. I could easily go a whole day without having anything to drink. I used to only drink water when I lived at home with my parents but since leaving home I moved onto the sugary fizzy drinks, not only bad for my health but definitely not helping my teeth or skin. I am now on a water drinking mission!
I'm the worlds fussiest when it comes to what I consume. I only like freezing cold water, if it's straight from the tap I won't drink it. So to aid me in my quest for a healthier lifestyle I purchased 2 water bottles from Primark, one pink and one blue. The plan is to keep these full up and in the fridge. Once I have finished drinking one there will already be another cold one for me to drink. The perfect plan I think.
The recommended amount of water to drink daily is 2 litres. I'm going to start slow and build my way up to this. No point jumping in at the deep end and epicly failing. I'm hoping that in a few months time it will be second nature to me to just grab my bottle of water and hit the target of 2 litres a day without even realising.
I currently suffer from horrific headaches and migraines and I'm really hoping that upping my intake of water will help with my health problems. If it helps my skin as well it will be a dream come true!
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Dear Family and Friends Near and Far,
Another exciting year is over, and it's time to look back at the past twelve months again. Each year is successful in its own way, and even if certain aspects of homesteading are more difficult than in previous years, there is always plenty of space to learn. Each year we are getting deeper into modern homesteading practices, learning and teaching as we go, sharing the experiences and knowledge that we acquired and always being open to trying new ways. To see some of our past events and stories, please take a look at our updated website. New events and workshops will be added in the upcoming months. Continue reading


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RM225,000, 40 BOXES OF CIGARETTES STOLEN: Welding torch used to cut open ATM's safe
SUBANG JAYA: THIEVES escaped with RM225,000 after they broke open an automated teller machine (ATM) yesterday, the second incident here in three days.
In the latest case, they hit a petrol station at Persiaran Kewajipan in USJ 18. The thieves picked the lock of the glass door at the petrol station's convenience store and entered the premises at 2.58am.
They sprayed red paint on two closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras and turned two other cameras away from the ATM. Another camera was left untouched.
At 3.06am, the suspects entered the back room and cut the power supply and telephone lines.
It is believed that the suspects broke open the ATM's safe using a welding torch, based on the burn marks on the door. The suspects fled with four boxes containing RM225,000, along with 40 boxes of Dunhill cigarettes.
It is learnt that the bank had last filled the machine with RM395,000 on Thursday morning. Before that, the machine had not been working for two weeks.
The theft was only noticed at 5am after a petrol station employee arrived to open the premises. The station operates from 6am to midnight.
District police chief Assistant Commissioner Yahaya Ramli said police had checked on the station three times yesterday, with the last visit at 1.50am.
"CCTV recordings, before it was tampered with, showed that at least two men were involved," he said, adding that the cameras did not capture the vehicle used by the thieves.
The first thief wore a long-sleeved white shirt with gloves and ski mask while the other one wore a dark-coloured long-sleeved shirt with a blue full-faced helmet and gloves.
On Thursday, five thieves took less than 15 minutes to cart away an ATM containing RM230,000 from a bank in Putra Heights.
However, Yahaya said police believed that the two cases were committed by different groups.
"The suspects, as seen in the recordings from both cases, did not have the same body shape and size," he said


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Let me get this right. We are paying an agency to pay for this "social worker" to go make up a non-scientific survey with questionable numbers so the agency that we support can get more of our money to pay her some more. And, the conclusion? We need to give people housing so they can destroy it, so we can give them some more. What a bunch of crap. Get a real job, Fuentes.
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Fashion, which had started in the 50's, became inspired with its sociological and industrial advances. It was a noble time to be young, and fashion became a rip along the position of age. In the 60's people started to wear the tie dye and screen-printed cotton T-shirts. Improvement in printing and dyeing stood out for more variety and came in to fashion and it bloomed in the 60's. Tight trend of the seventies in the 1970s the disco scene was enormous, concert dancing was popular with dance parties and tight pants with T-shirts were a trend. The whole '70s trend was form-fitting - 'very tight', where the extra-large, loose-fitting, urban-influenced tees moved out and tight T-shirts with tight polyester, usually with bell-bottomed men's pants escorted by standy shoes were used to attract the young girls seeming for romance, were very popular.
These t-shirts also come in a variety of designs and patterns. Hence, you can choose them according to the occasion. There are sports t-shirts that are so comfortable that they can be used while playing sports, doing exercises, or going out for a morning jog. They are also ideal for working out.
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As the tour went on things seemed to get worse and worse. Nick hated watching things unwravel to the point where he overheard Kevin and Howie saying this would be their last tour. Feeling stressed, Nick went and bought a bunch of Jack, keeping to his room that night and listening to Nirvana. Brian was on the balcony talking to his girlfriend again as they did every night, Nick found himself turning up the volume twice to drown out the kissy noises. It was bad enough he was single, he didn't need to hear them having phone sex too.
"Gag me." Nick muttered, swigging from the bottle again. It burned his throat but he didn't care, all he could think about was how his life was so fucked up it led to this.
Nick thought about a lot while he drank, especially about Chloe, a girl he'd been seeing. They met at some coffee shop in California, he hardly remembered the name of the place. Nick didn't even know why he thought of her at all, but he did. He took his black book from his backpack and flipped through…..but there was no Chloe there. Only numbers of numerous other booty calls and girls who were an easy lay when he came to town. When Nick drank, he always wanted to apologize for things he did, but he couldn't this time.
Brian came into the room shortly after Nick put his little black book away, looking at the empty liquor bottles. He turned off the stereo and shook his head at Nick.
"Would you mind lowering the decibels for one night? The hotel staff already complained about the noise in this room."
"Okay Kevin." Nick rolled his eyes, draining the remnants of the bottle. He moved onto another glass, mixing it with Coke.
"Nick what is wrong with you? You usually aren't like this. Where's that kid who played Mario Kart all night with me?"
Brian looked at him, but all Nick did was let out a huge belch and take a bite of pizza.
"He grew up….he grew up a long time ago and nobody cared to notice." Nick replied, licking his lips.
Brian sat down on the bed across from him, sighing as well. He hated how things had gotten between the two of them, but in a twisted way Nick was right. Nick wasn't that kid anymore but he had changed…..the light was gone from his eyes just like the other guys.
Nick stayed up until he finished eating, before crying himself to sleep. Brian didn't bother with him anymore that night, he knew it was a lost cause.
"Where is everyone? We were supposed to meet down here a half hour ago." Howie asked in the hotel lobby, which was pretty barren for mid morning.
"Hey, I made it. Are you the only one down here?" Kevin asked. Howie sipped at his coffee, he sometimes thought he and Kevin were the only ones who still gave a damn. Even Brian had stopped showing up to things on time which was unusual.
AJ walked into the lobby from the street, smelling like smoke and Jack Daniels….wobbling as he passed his two older bandmates with a girl at his arm who was equally if not more drunk than he was.
"Sup fellas? I'm taking….um…"
He stopped to think of the girl's name.
"Where the hell were you all night, AJ? We are checking out in an hour." Howie asked. Kevin felt his blood pressure going up already and had walked away for a moment before coming back.
"Stephanie." the girl said, annoyed.
"Sorry babe." AJ chuckled.
"You didn't tell me you were leaving town today." Stephanie snapped before slapping AJ and walking out. AJ went to follow her but Kevin stopped him.
"You're wasted at ten thirty in the morning…" he said with more astonishment than disappointment.
"It was one hell of a party. You sure the three of you weren't there?" AJ slurred. Kevin and Howie managed to get him up to Nick's room, to Nick's protest. He was also hungover, pizza boxes littered the floor around his bed.
Kevin also noticed the TV was gone.
"Where the fuck is the TV?" Nick said, scratching his head. Howie was busily trying to wake up AJ, passed out on the bed and all Kevin could do was scream.
"Yo, calm down Kev. It's too early to be yelling like that, dawg." Nick exclaimed. Kevin grabbed his shirt, about to hit him for suggesting it.
"You are both fucking drunk and it isn't even noon! Where is Brian?" Kevin yelled as he dropped Nick.
Brian smiled, happy to hear Leighanne's voice that morning.
"Just wanted to say good morning, I'll call you tonight baby." he said just when Kevin came out onto the patio.
"Where the fuck have you been? AJ is drunk and we all need to check out in an hour…..is that a damn TV in the pool?"
Kevin stopped mid yell and blinked….sure enough at the bottom of the pool was a television set. Brian couldn't hold it in anymore, he started giggling and Kevin joined in, the two of them walking back into the room.
"That's it….you've done it Nick. Kevin has lost his mind." Howie exclaimed.
After sobering up AJ by running his head under the water, paying damages to the hotel, and being thrown out then banned….the boys were back on the bus again.
"You have to admit that will make a fun story in ten years." Brian said. Kevin just nodded and took an aspirin….it was gonna be a long week. He could feel it already.


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A new episode of Riverdale airs Thursday, April 27th and we've got a preview.
The episode is called "To Riverdale and Back" and here's the synopsis via The Futon Critic:
Betty (Lili Reinhart) is slammed overseeing Homecoming and Reunion weekend, but Alice (Madchen Amick) wants her to help with the Jason Blossom investigation. Alice turns to Archie (KJ Apa) and Veronica (Camila Mendes) for help, but when Betty discovers they are working with her mom, she is not happy. After seeing his father FP (guest star Skeet Ulrich) start to clean up his act, Jughead (Cole Sprouse) wonders if it's the right time to give him another chance. Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) and Polly (guest star Tiera Skovbye) have both decided to go to Homecoming in Jason's honor, until a revelation waylays their plans. Meanwhile, Fred (Luke Perry) and Mary (guest star Molly Ringwald) attend the Homecoming dance, leaving Fred to possibly reconsider the divorce.
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Riverdale airs Thursdays at 9/8c on the CW.


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As of this year Roger Payne, Iain Kerr and our headquarters, the Paint Factory, can be seen on the Annenberg Foundation 25 Year Leadership Wall of Fame at their headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. Read More
Dear Friends,
From space the Earth is blue. That's because the seas cover 71% of it.
Ours should be called planet "Ocean," not planet "Earth."
Of the thousands of organizations working to save nature, only a small fraction focuses on the sea. A group tackling one of the most unglamorous but dire issues for ocean life – pollution – is Ocean Alliance, which is why I have supported their work for the past 22 years. It is Ocean Alliance that made the first global survey of how polluted the oceans have become. Their work shows that human activities now threaten not just life on land but ocean life as well. Ship strikes, captivity, entanglements, commercial whaling – all of these are threats to healthy whale populations and deserve our attention, but it is pollution that could lead to extinction.
Knowledge is the basis of all intelligent action, so Ocean Alliance takes the time to learn enough about the creatures it protects to make sure that its actions, whatever they may be, will be what is most needed and most effective. Ocean Alliance doesn't strike at the branches of global problems; it strikes at the roots.
I hope you will join me in supporting this little-known group, for times are tough, and it is now up to individuals like you and me to help organizations like Ocean Alliance continue their critically important work.
My very best wishes for the holiday season.
And thank you.
Patrick Stewart
As the President and founder of Ocean Alliance, Dr. Roger Payne has been a spokesperson for whales for most of his life. But he wants you to know that it's not the obvious threats to whales — commercial whaling and ship strikes that will lead to their extinction, it's pollution. Read More
Collaboration. Inspiration. Influence. Three of the words Ocean Alliance CEO Iain Kerr will focus on in a talk he gives today at A.W. Hastings, who generously helped to provide the Marvin windows at our headquarters, the Paint Factory. The annual meeting is called "Sphere of Influence," which could easily describe our metamorphosis as an organization from our former incarnation of the "Whale Conservation Institute" to Ocean Alliance.
Competitiveness will only get you so far, but collaboration will open doors in ways you never thought possible. Consider how our collaborators inspire us: Read More
Delegates from the United Nations were educated about the state of the oceans yesterday, as activists including Ocean Alliance CEO Iain Kerr gathered for World Energy Day. In a session called "A Vision for A Sustainable World" organized by Parley for the Oceans, the speakers included Paul Watson and representatives from Sea Shepherd Society, Louis Psihoyos from the Ocean Preservation Society and "The Cove," Daniella Russo and Dianna Cohen, founders of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Lewis Perkins from Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, and Ghislaine Maxwell, founder of the Terramar Project. Read More
On Tuesday October 22nd Ocean Alliance CEO Iain Kerr will have the honor to speak at the United Nations as part of World Energy Day. Read More
Working in a historic landmark – the Tarr and Wonson Paint Manufactory, we receive lots of visitors with stories about the buildings and what they mean to the community. One of the things we've learned is that the buildings not only served as a "Welcome Home" symbol to the city's fishermen coming in from sea, but the 60 ft. chimney also served as a navigational aid. While the chimney is not functional, it became clear that it needed to stay for historical and architectural interest. Read More
The documentary "Blackfish" is receiving the kind of buzz we haven't heard since the release of "The Cove," which ended up winning the Oscar for Best Documentary. So we're very pleased to say it's coming to Gloucester for a one-night-only screening to benefit Ocean Alliance. Read More
As we follow our team at whale camp in Argentina studying the southern right whales, we're reminded that it was on this beach that two young backpackers looking for adventure met the scientist who would change their lives. Read More
In this Marvin Windows video Ocean Alliance CEO Iain Kerr and Gloucester builder Geoffrey Richon explain the challenges of renovating a historic building exposed to everything a New England winter can throw at it. We're very grateful to AW Hastings for their generosity throughout this project. Enjoy the tour of this Gloucester icon.
On Wednesday, August 28th, I departed from the airport in Toronto in Canada and initiated a journey that ultimately would transport me 6000 miles south to Argentina. Fifteen hours later, I arrived in sunny Buenos Aires, referred to by some as the Paris of South America. Read More
Right whales are the most endangered of great whales. When Dr. Roger Payne started gathering data on the Southern Right whale in Peninsula Valdez, Argentina in 1970 he was concerned that this species might be lost forever and so Ocean Alliance's Southern Right Whale Program began.
For centuries, right whales were hunted mercilessly. Early whalers called them "the right whales to kill" because they are slow, have a thick blubber layer that produces abundant oil, and float when dead. Southern right whales were protected internationally in 1935. As whalers stopped hunting right whales, the populations in the southern hemisphere have recovered substantially, although they are still below their pre-whaling sizes.
Over the last 43 years we have conducted aerial surveys monitoring the right whale populations, our catalog now contains over 3,000 photo-identified individual right whales from Península Valdés, Argentina. Important findings on the biology of right whales were obtained using benign, non-lethal techniques. Among other things, we now know that females reproduce on average once every three years, their mean age at first parturition is 9 years, the annual rate of population increase is 5.1%, juveniles use breeding grounds to socialize with other juveniles and to potentially learn important behaviors, and right whales can shift their distribution along the shorelines of Península Valdés over decades.
The documented growth of the population of southern right whales in Argentina has been regarded for several decades as a sign of hope that recovery can occur in a whale species, but recent mortality events suggest that this population of whales may be less healthy and robust than previously thought. This reinforces the importance of continuing our research and monitoring efforts to help understand the population trends and their causes.
The great whales are important indicators of ocean health because they consume such large quantities of food and occupy home ranges that span thousands of miles. The Patagonian right whale population is recognized as one of the best indicators of the response of baleen whales to climate change in the Southern Ocean because the reproductive histories of so many of its individuals have been recorded continuously for four decades. Continuing the annual aerial surveys of the Patagonian right whale population is essential for understanding the health of this population and its extremely important western South Atlantic ecosystem.
"The (Right Whale) data you (Ocean Alliance) hold would no doubt be the single most valuable source of information on whales and their environment available… there really is nothing else out there quite as good."
– Steve Reilly, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The Patagonian Right Whale Program is now a collaborative effort of Ocean Alliance and Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas (ICB), an Argentine nonprofit founded by Roxana Schteinbarg and Diego Taboada, based in Buenos Aires. For more information please visit the the ICB website or the English version.
We look forward to sharing with you our 43rd field season in Argentina in the coming weeks.
This video is a final update from the 2013 campaign onboard the RV Odyssey and features Paul Watson, Dr. Roger Payne and Dr. Iain Kerr. Operation Toxic Gulf is a collaborative campaign between Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Ocean Alliance.
This campaign has focused on Gulf sperm whales because they are at the top of the Gulf's food chain and, as such, they can act as a bio-indicator of the health of the entire ecosystem. Ocean Alliance, its scientific partners and Sea Shepherd will be able to put any discoveries they make in the Gulf into a global context due to the fact that from 2000 to 2005 the RV Odyssey circumnavigated the globe collecting baseline data on the levels of pollutants and metals in sperm whales.
We hope to return to the Gulf in 2014 so this winter we will be fundraising and working with our scientific partners to analyze the data that we and the Wise Laboratory team have collected in the Gulf over the last four years. Since we are looking at the chronic effects as against the short-term effects of this disaster this analysis will take years.
Your support makes this all possible. Please bookmark our website, like us on Facebook and any financial support helps us move forward with research, education and capital investment. From the crew of Ocean Alliance, we thank you!Read our blog posts from the Gulf of Mexico
This spring I was deeply concerned that Ocean Alliance would not be able to return to the Gulf of Mexico to continue the work Dr. John Wise and I started in 2010 looking at the effects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on marine mammals. Around that time I was talking with my good friend Alex Cornelissen (Shepherd Global Executive Officer) about another mutual concern and the Gulf came up in discussion. Less than a month later Alex told me that we would be returning to the Gulf with the full support of Sea Shepherd Global and so Operation Toxic Gulf was born. Read More
Here's a once in a lifetime opportunity to help the whales and own a campaign shirt that is signed by Dr. Roger Payne, Erwin Vermeulen and Hillary Watson of Sea Shepherd and "Whale Wars," and the Odyssey crew. Help a great cause and get a cool shirt. 2 XL shirts available, each auctioned separately. Place your bid for shirt #2 in the single thread on www.facebook.com/oceanalliance in $5 increments beginning with $25. Auction ends at 8:00 pm EST on Friday August 16th when the winner will be announced. Good luck!!
As the RV Odyssey battles 6 foot seas on its homeward passage to Key West this weekend we'd like to share the very last "Meet The Crew" video for Operation Toxic Gulf…
Introducing Lauren Paap, Ocean Alliance crew member aboard the Odyssey. Over the past year Lauren has been from Gloucester to Tahiti, and Operation Toxic Gulf will be her third campaign. Lauren is a Dutch-American who calls Boston home. Aboard the RV Odyssey she fills the role of marine coordinator, visiting galley cook (when others are too seasick to work) and all-around wonder woman – spending more time up the mast spotting whales than the other crew combined.
RV Odyssey Captain Bob Wallace has been with Ocean Alliance for over 20 years, has circumnavigated the globe three times, and has more whale stories than all the crew combined. In this video he shares the reasons why he does it.
Sunset from the porthole of the RV Odyssey…
Last night the crew on the RV Odyssey sailed out of the port of Pensacola for their final leg of the research phase for Operation Toxic Gulf. They would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to the Gulf Coast states that have hosted them over the summer and especially to the locals in Pensacola who have shown enormous support for their work.
Over the next week they look forward to sharing with you the last couple of Meet The Crew videos and some more photos from their voyage, stand by…
In a recent interview with the Birmingham News, Dr. Iain Kerr sums up his concerns for sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Read the interview here.
Introducing Hillary Watson, the cook aboard the RV Odyssey for Operation Toxic Gulf. Animal activism runs in the family – Hillary's uncle is Sea Shepherd founder, Captain Paul Watson.
Andy Rogan discusses the science behind Operation Toxic Gulf and the importance to the wildlife and people of the Gulf of Mexico.
This Sunday, August 4, Open Books will host the final presentation of the summer from the Operation Toxic Gulf crew, who are currently wrapping up the last leg of their 2013 study. Representatives from Ocean Alliance and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will present photographs and results of their work at the event, which begins at 7 p.m.
On Monday, August 5, the Ocean Alliance-Sea Shepherd team will open their boat, the Research Vessel Odyssey, for tours from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Palafox Marina. This will be the third and final time the public will be able to check out the ship. Like Sunday's presentation, the ship tours are free, but donations are accepted. Read More
This video is the first of a series that we will be sharing with you over the next couple of weeks introducing the crew members of Operation Toxic Gulf.
In this video you will meet Dr. Roger Payne; a very special crew member indeed. Dr. Roger Payne is a world renowned whale scientist, the Founder and President of Ocean Alliance and an old friend of Sea Shepherd Founder, Paul Watson. Dr. Payne was onboard for the second leg of campaign and the crew counted themselves lucky to have such an accomplished biologist and inspiring presence among their ranks.
-Eliza Muirhead, Sea Shepherd Australia
Dr. Roger Payne – Meet The Crew aboard Operation Toxic Gulf from Sea Shepherd Australia on Vimeo.
Just before we head to the Gulf of Mexico, we are happy to announce our new website! We will be integrating new features in the upcoming months but most importantly we upgraded our site to be "responsive"; which really means our site will be easy to view on your smartphone and Ipads. Please add our new website to your favorites and stay tuned to fresh news from the Gulf!


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" In 1666, Johann Friedrich Schweitzer, physician to the Prince of Orange, was visited by a stranger who was "of a mean stature, a little long face, with a few small pock holes, and most black hair, not at allcurled, a beardless chin, about three or four and forty years of age (as I guessed), and born in North Holland."
Before I finish the story, it needs to be pointed out that Dr. Schweitzer, who was the author of several medical and botanical books, was a careful and objective observer and was a colleague of the philosopher, Spinoza. Schweitzer was a trained scientific observer; a reputable medical man, and not given to fraud or practical jokes. And yet, what I am about to describe is, in modern understanding, impossible.
Now, what happened was that the stranger made small talk for awhile and then, more or less out of the blue, asked Dr. Schweitzer whether he would recognize the "Philosopher's Stone" if he saw it. He then took out of his pocket a small ivory box that held "three ponderous pieces or small lumps... each about the bigness of a small walnut, transparent, of a pale brimstone colour." The stranger told Schweitzer that this was the very substance sought for so long by the Alchemists. [....]
The guy leaves at this point and promises to return the next morning to show Schweitzer the correct way to perfom the transmutation but,
"The next day he came not, nor ever since. Only he sent an excuse at half an hour past nine that morning, by reason of his great business, and promised to come at three in the afternoon, but never came, nor have I heard of him since; whereupon I began to doubt of the whole matter. Nevertheless late that night my wife... came soliciting and vexing me to make experiment... saying to me, unless this be done, I shall have no rest nor sleep all this night... She being so earnest, I commanded a fire to be made - thinking, aslas, now is this man (though so divine in discourse) foudn guilty of falsehood... My wife wrapped the said matter in wx, and I cut half an ounce of six drams of old lead, and put into a crucible in the fire, which being melted, my wife put in the said Medicine made up in a small pill or button, which presently made such a hissing and bubbling in its perfect operation, that within a quarter of an hour all the mass of lead was transmuted into the ... finest gold."
The famous philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, who lived nearby, came the next day to examine this gold and was convinced that Schweitzer was telling the truth. The Assay Master of the province, a Mr. Porelius, tested the metal and pronounced it genuine; and Mr. Buectel, the silversmith, subjected it to further test that confirmed that it was gold.
And then there's this:
Twenty years before Schweitzer's meeting with the mysterious stranger, Jan Baptista van Helmont, who was responsible for several important scientific discoveries, and was the first man to realize that there were other gases than air; and who invented the term "gas," wrote:
"For truly I have divers times seen it [The Philosopher's Stone], and handled it with my hands, but it was of colour such as is in Saffron in its powder, yet weighty, and shining like unto powdered glass. There was once given unto me on fourth part of one grain [16 milligrams]... I projected [it] upon eighty ounces [227 grams] of quicksilver [mercury] made hot in a crucible; and straightaway all the quicksilver, with a certain degree of noise, stood still from flowing, and being congealed, settled like unto a yellow lump; but after pouring it out, the bellows blowing, there were found eight ounces and a little less than eleven grains of the purest gold."
Remember it's the Philosophers Stone that makes this purported transmutation possible and the study of alchemy is about creating the Philosopher's Stone. It has struck me that the whole business of actually turning lead into gold and all that could be a way of validating that the mystical goal had been achieved. We westerners do like confirmation of things, after all.
With that in mind, we come to Fulcanelli, supposedly a real live nineteenth century alchemist, living and working long after the Age of Reason was supposed to have banished alchemy to the realm of myth. In the article "The True Identity of Fulcanelli and The Da Vinci Code", by Laura Knight-Jadczyk, she proposes among other things, that not only was Fulcanelli a real person, that he was prominant French scientist engaged in the study of the sun. One of Fulcanelli's books is dedicated to "The Brothers Heliopolis". Her acquaintance with Patrick Riviere provided an invaluable set of clues to identifying Fulcanelli. Msr. Riviere is a most credible source, as he was a long-time student of Eugene Canseliet, the disciple of Fulcanelli. Further, Msr. Riviere has documentation attesting to the idea that Fulcanelli is still among the living. Not surprising since, those who achieve the Great Work are supposedly able to step in and out of the flow of "time" at will.
These ideas are discussed more fully in a new book "The Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive". Msr. Rivere has written a forward to the book:
The Secret History of The World
This book of revolutionary importance is essential reading. With this
original work, Laura Knight-Jadczyk shares with us her prodigious
discoveries that put into question History as well as our habitual
observations concerning the myth of the "Grail". She does this by revisiting
the Bible and comparative mythology, looking closely into parallel universes
and hyperspace, and penetrating into quantum physics, genetics, and the
mysteries of the diverse creations populating the hyperdimensions of the
Throughout her expose, Laura Knight-Jadczyk refers to two powerful works of the scientist-alchemist Fulcanelli: The Mystery of the Cathedrals and Dwellings of the Philosophers. She applies her vast knowledge to the continuation of his work.
Thus, following in the footsteps of Fulcanelli (citing Huysmans) when he
denounces the constant lies and omissions from official History over the
course of time, Laura Knight-Jadczyk, citing numerous examples, exposes the manipulations in the official history of ancient civilizations of which
humanity is the victim. She strives to re-establish the truth, and her
answers are often enlightening.
According to Laura Knight-Jadczyk, the mysteries of the Holy Grail and the
Ark of the Temple refer to a particular, very advanced "technology" - with
the aim, for example, of teleportation and changing between space-time
dimensions - a secret and sacred science of which only a few great
"Initiates" have remained custodians. Christ Jesus was the surest guarantor
of this precious legacy, and, although it might displease Dan Brown (author
of The DaVinci Code), the genealogical lineage of the "Sangréal" (the "Sang
Royal" or "Holy Blood"), is not at all as he believes it to be!
The reader of this important work by Laura Knight-Jadczyk will realize that
there are completely different conclusions to that mystery. Her erudition
cannot but impress the reader during the course of an assiduous reading of
this quite astonishing book. As to her inspiration, what can we say, and,
from whence could it come, if not the Light of the stars?
Patrick Riviere
Patrick Riviere is a writer and author of numerous works that have been
published in France and that have been translated and published in many
languages. He is a specialist on the '"Grail" (On the Paths of the Grail) and of Alchemy following the path of Fulcanelli
I still can't wait to get my copy. Maybe one for my old chemistry teacher too!
Blue Ibis
Ancient Science
New Books
Friday, March 18, 2005
Physics and Fulcanelli?
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