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I know this is not a typical ticket request, but I promise I'm not being a troll. I am a guild leader of a Top 100 Guild in Server 1, and I am legitimately concerned about the future of this game. Players are quitting. And I'm not referring to moderate players who are trying a free app and then move on in their own way. I mean dedicated players—people who have invested money, with substantive VIP status. I am submitting a ticket, because I believe this can be fixed; but it needs to be fixed quickly, because players are leaving and doing so with increasing frequency.
I believe a majority of the problems can be summed up with one main issue: new characters/heroes are being dumped in too great a quantity, too frequently. This has then created a domino effect, negatively impacting the game in several respects. I am going to address these issues from my personal viewpoint, but rest assured, these are all issues that have been discussed ad nauseum in our private guild chat on Groupme and that have been shared to me by other guild leaders on Server 1 either in global/VIP chat, or in private chat.
(1) First, I don't care about any of your new characters. Period. Do. Not. Care. I used to care, back when there would be one monthly character and maybe one character that was trickier to obtain. But that's because there seemed to be more thought put into their release. There would be more discussion pre-release and an adjustment time once they were introduced. At the time, it wasn't too long before a campaign was released that involved those characters. Now, by the time a campaign is released, there are about 10 more characters that were released since their introduction. You aren't keeping up with the campaign. And it feels like the developers have stopped caring about the other characters that have been unleashed before you are focusing on the next exodus. Stop it. Please. We don't need 3-4 new characters every month.
(2) Second, not all characters are created equal. You say that they are all equal, all the time. Stop lying. Stop lying to yourselves as much as you are lying to us. If all characters were created equal, there would not be dozens of heroes missing a legendary quest. You also wouldn't have the same 5-8 characters being used in fight pit. It feels like you're more interested in creating something new (or 4 somethings) with all the same problems than in balancing out the game and releasing campaign and upgrade material with the characters you already have.
(3) Third, not enough time is given to understand or get to know one newly released hero (much less 4) before the next hero dump is done. Due to the success of the game, max levels have steadily increased—we are now at a level cap of 110. It takes a lot of time and energy to build a character to be competitive at that level, especially when factoring additions like equipment and runes. It doesn't help that there is no campaign to really experience the new character—instead we have to randomly pick one like a game of roulette and hope we don't strike out. Sure, you released descriptions of what a character does, but it's not the same as experiencing how the character actually works in game. But to actually experience how the character is in the game, you have to: (1) catch it up to your other characters levels (level 110 here I come!), (2) plus you have to catch it up with equipment (farming, yay!), (3) you also need to collect soulstones (more farming!), and after that (4) runes. Unless you do all four of these, the character is generally too weak to see its actual performance. Now do that with 4 characters, every month. It's frustrating, and exhausting. It's also impractical. Add that the character could go on for months and months without the equalizer of a legendary quest and it becomes just infuriating.
(4) Fourth, Crypt is ruined. Plain and simple. Everyone in my guild hates it. But because of all the soulstones we have to get trying to keep up with all of the new characters, we need all the coins and bonuses we can get. So we have to truck on and keep in there with crypt as best as we can. It used to be that a player could sign on and get crypt attacks done in 10-15 minutes. But because the number of characters have more than doubled, there are more lines and generally it's harder—players have to make a lot more attacks and it means upwards of an hour of someone's time just getting crypt done. Everyday. This isn't even getting into tackling the war. In fact I'm not even going to complain about guild war in this ticket.
The biggest complaint I'm getting from a dedicated players before they leave is that the game is becoming work, and I can't say I disagree with them. They usually message me saying the game isn't fun for them anymore, and then they are gone—not to join a new guild, but gone from the game entirely. I have several dedicated players right now who are telling me they may not play the game much longer if the game function doesn't improve. What keeps ME in the game personally is the guild I'm in and the players I enjoy it with. If they quit, In all honesty I'm probably out before too long as well. Please stop releasing new characters and please focus on the ones you have and releasing their legendary quests. And please look into balancing the crypt so it doesn't take copious amounts of time to power through it. I lost another player yesterday—he played for over 10 months and said simply that the game wasn't fun anymore. Please, start caring about current game mechanics more than you care about new content. What made this game stand out from the others was it seemed to be about the bigger picture—now it's starting to feel like you are more interested in being another disappointing cash cow. Most phone app games that try and corner you into to forking out your money die out. People will pay for a good game. Believe in that and please, make that your focus again. Sincerely, Little SnowGuild Leader, Dragon Born
I feel you on this. Our guild had quiet a few long standing players quit the game and we decided to do a revamp, to strengthen our core group again.
4 heroes every month is just silly, mostly cause gold and gear has not scaled enough to accommodate gearing your core 15, let alone catching up on new heroes even if you pick and choose. Gold is not scaling to level and skilling costs an arm and a leg. If gold and gear scaled more to keep up then fine four heroes a month w/e.
Level caps are raised too fast to keep up gearing, if gearing was easier and/or cap raises held back even just a bit, it wouldn't feel so bad. Challenges are like 75% gear you don't need that much. Boss pit, you can lower but cannot re-raise?! BS! And Where is Discs, Liger Balm, Eyes, Bunny Slipers! In campaign or Boss Pit where you probably spend a week getting just 1-3 of them in total!
Just a quick question on #4 you say that there are more lines in your crypt because there are too many characters?Crypt lines are dependent on how many people are in your guild/ what difficulty you're running at. Am I misunderstanding?
I don't mean to seem nitpicky if that's how the question comes across, just honestly curious.
Well thought out posts and agree with comments from above. I am also a guild leader on server 3 and in the last 2 weeks we've had 3 high power, long time players leave the game completely for reasons explained above. Other long time (even high VIP players) are fading out and don't play like they used to. We've had some dedicated mid-level players leave as well. All had the same complaints in common. The game has become just plain tedious and the amount of farming anything needed to simply gear heroes was not worth investing months of their time and effort to remain competitive. And you flat out need highly enhanced lineups to truly get anywhere.
Players at mid-levels have expressed high frustration because they simply can't compete during those long stretches of time while they try to get their heroes anywhere close to being able to actually win consistently. I don't care what PB claims, the matching systems for Crypt and WAR are so screwed up that it simply does not balance out and they are often SOL. That's not a challenge - it's irritating.
@Little_Snow Well Said .
I think the big issue is when a guild member contributes to crypt, they aim to use all of their characters. A few months ago, that was 20. Now it's 40 plus.
I always understood that difficulty and such was also a product of individual players power lvls, etc. Which means if that power isn't being thrown at crypt, chances increase of a crypt defeat. I may be mistaken (please correct me if I am) in this regard, but that doesn't change the issue of having way more characters to cycle through to use all your power on crypt.
I agree with all of these points. I love the game for a variety of reasons, but trying to keep up with everything and stay competitive is exhausting and getting more and more of a trudge without having to pay for a "headstart."
Agreed I've quit already still gonna kick around forums just to read people's replies but as far as login in is concerned I've removed the icon from my tablet
Yep. I'm very close to giving up myself. I left my guilds a couple weeks ago because it had become too much drudgery and I'm very close to deleting the app.
Now 11h after reset they announce expedition event... really they want us to Quit Doing shits like that?
A month ago I would have argued with most of this (I'd still probably argue with whatever you wanted to say about war, because I think war is the best part of the game). For the first time, though, I've started to feel the fun drop a little too.
Crypt is really boring. I know I'm going to win enough fights, but it just takes so long, even to get through the guild's skull limit of 6 or 10.
And the new heroes... Sure, sometimes a mistake is made and a hero ends up overpowered, but with the last batch, I was able to read the descriptions of their level 1 skills and know what a mess we were getting into. Plant removes Pixie's recent nerf. Statue has a DOT basic attack which does more than double damage with Hydra's help. And Spider is just ridiculous. Put her with Hydra and Medusa and give her 500 starting energy from runes, and she starts off the fight doing an instant, irresistible and permanent disable. There's pretty much no hero she can't kill with a single attack (3 second DOT enhanced by Hydra). Because of Medusa and her skills, she then goes right back up to 1000 energy and kills the next target. A hero who can instantly kill nine out of ten of the best heroes is just ridiculous. Everyone who managed to buy themselves a 4* spider gets promoted in Fight Pit, and no one else has a chance.
Sure, I'm whining about Spider a lot, but this has been a problem with the last several updates -- heroes who are so vastly more powerful than what came before that you're required to upgrade. That takes a lot of the strategy out of the game and turns it into a spending contest, which, admittedly, is great for PerBlue's finances in the short term, but burns people out and makes them stop spending money in the longer term.
This is getting ridiculous, server 4 has also lost some very good players and it seems like Perblue just doesnt care. events are what's pushing me away from this game, and here i was sitting trying to spend another $50 in this game. They keep changing 'free-with-purchase' chest packs. so if you're a spending player you will get screwed if other people are not buying as much as perblue wants cuz they'll double the amount of chests for the same amount of money you already payed up. Today's event is what really did it for me...... just finished going through a lot of trouble to 5 star krack, beard and thief...... and they pull this crap event. 90 stones (30,30,30 for those heroes) for $20 bucks..... not only is that the cheapest stone/$ ratio i've seen, its just plain annoying which heroes they picked.... dont even know who to complain anymore cbecause
It's true. The game really is becoming a lot of work. Its exhausting really. I used to be able to almost breeze thru crypt now I'm lucky if I get one or two skulls. I agree that the game is need of major improvements.
I want to add a pointCan you the respected team of per blueDo something about the COST of skill leveling of the heros?It's reaching level 71 and cost 50K per skill
Once we reach the cap 121 for exampleWe pay 100K per skill?!!!!
That becomes less of a problem over time. You'll get so much money from expedition, crypt, and selling excess XP potions, that you'll be able to level your top 15 heroes in a day or two. I spend millions on silver chests every week, and still have plenty of money to level my heroes, and I'm at level 99.
I disagree I always have money issues and I am lvl 100. VIP 12, and make millions daily just it goes as fast as it comes.
Strange. I must make less money than you, since I'm nowhere near VIP 12, but I never have money problems. I keep 15 heroes at max level, and update another 5-10 when I feel like it.
This post hits the nail on the head. I've seen plenty of bitching & gripes in the 6 months or so I've been playing this game, but recently-both here and on the DS reddit (not even mentioning game chat) I've noticed more and more frequent posts similar to this one; I am a guild leader on server 1 & while our members stick around, I think many are beginning to grow tired of the endless grind they've been forcing down our throats...and honestly, wtf is the point of the Mystic Closet? Does anyone even care? Sure, new skins are nice and all...but fix the current problems rather than trying to distract us with some shiny shit in hopes we will be too distracted or busy trying to keep up with what's going on to either 1)notice 2)remember we noticed or 3)complain about problems/issues going unresolved while truckloads more "content" [read: issues] is thrown in the game, so shockingly half-assed I can't believe "professionals" are employed designing/managing/developing this game. Can we end this amateur hour cash-grab already & get back to quality releases, please?
I keep up far more than 15 heroes, that's why lol. Sometimes I have 24+ And projects to level from 1-100 skills lol.
I have 38 heroes. 36 of those are already purple (2 new today). Of those heroes, 21 of them have skills maxed for level 70, and the rest have at least 30 in each skill.
I blew through 18m gold today alone. It's slow skilling during the week always, but come Monday when contest, and gw rewards come in, it's a huge jump in skills for a few more guys. It takes about a million per character to level them up this far, and that's not counting enchanting. It's about another million to enchant up, and that is where it hurts the most, because all of that gold is throw away money.


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by Blume, Andreas, et al
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by Waldfogel, Joel
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by Sohngen, Brent & Mendelsohn, Robert
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by Hallock, Kevin F
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by Avery, Christopher & Zemsky, Peter
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by Imrohoroglu, Ayse & Imrohoroglu, Selahattin & Joines, Douglas H
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by Banks, James & Blundell, Richard & Tanner, Sarah
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by Murray, Sheila E & Evans, William N & Schwab, Robert M
- 813-833 Public Education and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Quantitative Evaluation of Education-Finance Reform
by Fernandez, Raquel & Rogerson, Richard
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by Osborne, Martin J & Rubinstein, Ariel
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by Chiu, Y Stephen
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by Merton, Robert C
- 350-370 Derivatives in a Dynamic Environment
by Scholes, Myron S
- 371-387 Unraveling in Matching Markets
by Li, Hao & Rosen, Sherwin
- 388-411 Motivation and Markets
by MacLeod, W Bentley & Malcomson, James M
- 412-427 The Economics of Child Labor
by Basu, Kaushik & Van, Pham Hoang
- 428-449 A Theory of Holdouts in Wage Bargaining
by Gu, Wulong & Kuhn, Peter
- 450-477 Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size
by Angrist, Joshua D & Evans, William N
- 478-494 Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages? National Labor Markets and Global Trade
by Davis, Donald R
- 495-515 Growth Cycles
by Evans, Geroge W & Honkapohja, Seppo & Romer, Paul
- 516-536 Financial Intermediation and Regime Switching in Business Cycles
by Azariadis, Costas & Smith, Bruce
- 537-558 Stock Markets, Banks, and Economic Growth
by Levine, Ross & Zervos, Sara
- 559-586 Financial Dependence and Growth
by Rajan, Raghuram G & Zingales, Luigi
- 587-597 Unique Equilibrium in a Model of Self-Fulfilling Currency Attacks
by Morris, Stephen & Shin, Hyun Song
- 598-627 Compensating Differentials for Gender-Specific Job Injury Risks
by Hersch, Joni
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by Gray, Jeffrey S
- 643-651 Caps on Political Lobbying
by Che, Yeon-Koo & Gale, Ian L
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by Pecorino, Paul
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by McKenzie, Lionel W
- 15-21 Common Agency Contracting and the Emergence of "Open Science" Institutions
by David, Paul A
- 22-27 Revolution from Above: The Role of the State in Creating the German Research System, 1810-1910
by Lenoir, Timothy
- 28-33 Academic Science and Technology in the Service of Industry: MIT Creates a "Permeable" Engineering School
by Lecuyer, Chrisotphe
- 34-39 Federal Government Initiatives and the Foundations of the Information Technology Revolution: Lessons from History
by Blumenthal, Marjory S
- 40-45 Micro Rules and Macro Outcomes: The Impact of Micro Structure on the Efficiency of Security Exchanges, London, New York, and Paris, 1800-1914
by Davis, Lance & Neal, Larry
- 46-50 The Peace Dividend in Historical Perspective
by Rockoff, Hugh
- 51-56 Wages and Labor Markets before the Civil War
by Margo, Robert A
- 57-61 Representative Firm Analysis and the Character of Competition: Glimpses from the Great Depression
by Raff, Daniel M G
- 62-65 Survival and Size Mobility among the World's Largest 100 Industrial Corporations, 1912-1995
by Hannah, Leslie
- 66-71 Partnerships, Corporations, and the Theory of the Firm
by Lamoreaux, Naomi R
- 72-74 The New Institutional Economics
by Coase, Ronald
- 75-79 The Institutions of Governance
by Williamson, Oliver E
- 80-84 Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis
by Greif, Avner
- 85-89 Norms and Networks in Economic and Organizational Performance
by Nee, Victor
- 90-96 Technological Change in Heart-Disease Treatment: Does High Tech Mean Low Value?
by McClellan, Mark & Noguchi, Haruko
- 97-100 The Value of Health: 1970-1990
by Cutler, David M & Richardson, Elizabeth
- 101-105 Economic Effects of Reducing Disability
by Manton, Kenneth G & Stallard, Eric & Corder, Larry
- 106-111 Measuring Prices and Quantities of Treatment for Depression
by Frank, Richard G & Busch, Susan H & Berndt, Ernst R
- 112-116 Public Funds, Private Funds, and Medical Innovation: How Managed Care Affects Public Funds for Clinical Research
by Hellerstein, Judith K
- 117-121 The Demand for Medical Care: What People Pay Does Matter
by Eichner, Matthew J
- 122-126 Adverse Selection and Adverse Retention
by Altman, Daniel & Cutler, David M & Zeckhauser, Richard J
- 127-131 Payment Heterogeneity, Physician Practice, and Access to Care
by Glied, Sherry
- 132-136 What Has Increased Medical-Care Spending Bought?
by Cutler, David M & McClellan, Mark & Newhouse, Joseph P
- 137-141 Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity
by Kotlikoff, Laurence J & Smetters, Kent A & Walliser, Jan
- 142-150 Perspectives on the Social Security Crisis and Proposed Solutions
by Murphy, Kevin M & Welch, Finis
- 151-157 Social Security and the Real Economy: An Inquiry into Some Neglected Issues
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VAT registration scheme for racehorse owners: accounting for output tax by racehorse owners
Output tax
Output tax is the VAT a registered business must charge and account for on the taxable supplies of goods and services it makes in the course of its business. If an owner is registered under the scheme it must account for output tax in the ways described in this section of the manual.
Sponsorship income
All sponsorship income is standard rated. An owner must account for output tax on this income.
Prize money and appearance money
An owner must account for output tax on this income.
Prize money and appearance money is treated as consideration for a standard rated supply when received by owners registered under the Scheme. These payments are distributed by Weatherbys. They are shown on a monthly statement known as a 'Transaction Analysis Summary' which is sent to all owners.
Under approved self-billing arrangements Weatherbys includes the VAT due on prize money (other than the refund of stakes and entry fees) and appearance money where they have been notified of the owner's VAT registration number.
VAT will not be included where an owner has failed to notify their registration number to Weatherbys. Nevertheless a registered owner must still account for VAT on a tax inclusive basis on the payments received.
However, it is understood that Weatherbys will accept belated applications for payment of VAT where the owner provides details of their registration.
VAT staff should make a submission setting out all the facts to VAT Advisory Team if an owner disputes an assessment issued in respect of prize money. Once approved by the HMRC line manager the submission should be sent via EF to the VAT Advisory Team in line with the guidance set out in Indirect Tax – Getting advice about VAT and IPT.
The value of prize money for VAT purposes is the amount calculated under the Rules of Racing as receivable by the owner less entry fees or other expenses collected by the racecourse.
Sale of racehorses
This is a standard rated supply if the sale is in the UK. Otherwise the normal place of supply rules will apply. More guidance on this can be found in VATPOSG Place of Supply -Goods
Sale of a share or shares in a racehorse
The sale of a share or shares in a racehorse is a taxable supply.
However, where a VAT registered person:
- buys a racehorse;
- sells a share or shares in it; and
- becomes a partner in a new registration
they are not required to account for VAT on their retained share.
What if no VAT was charged on the purchase price?
If an owner was not charged VAT on the purchase they may use the special margin scheme for second hand goods. This allows them to account for VAT on the profit margin rather than the full selling price. More information about the margin scheme is at Notice 718 The VAT Margin Scheme and global accounting
Racehorses given away or put to non-business use
Output tax is due on racehorses that are given away or put to a non-business use. The value for VAT purposes is what the horse would cost at the time of its disposal taking into account its fitness, health and other relevant factors. If an owner is not sure of the open market value they should ask a bloodstock agent for a valuation.
If, based on the past history of the horse, HMRC considers the valuation placed on it to be low, we will normally ask the owner to explain how they arrived at the figure. If we are not satisfied with the explanation we will normally ask the owner if they hold an independent valuation for the racehorse or ask to see insurance details, either of which may provide a basis to determine the value.
Qualifying point-to-point horses
A qualifying point-to-point horse is one for which an owner has a sponsorship agreement and which is entered in a hunter chase.
Please note that:
- an owner must charge VAT on the sale of a qualifying horse if they bred the horse and recovered VAT on the breeding cost;
- no VAT is due on the sale of a non-qualifying horse if no VAT has been recovered in respect of it;
- if the horse stops being a qualifying horse, perhaps because it is put to a permanent non-business use, the owner must account for out put tax but only on 50% of the open market value.


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Thank you for your prayers over the months and years of our deputation. I cannot imagine attempting a deputation ministry without knowing that there are so many praying for God's direction. Hopefully, as we continue to serve the Lord in missions, our relationship with you will continue to grow and deepen as we continue to depend on your supplication for us and our ministry. Please feel free to email us any of your prayer needs and concerns. We want to feel just as much a part of your ministry/family as you are of ours.
We are nearing the end of the break we took for Cornelia's birth and necessary family adjustment. Cornelia is adjusting to a somewhat regular schedule. And mom and I try to sneek in naps whenever possible. As we look forward to summer meetings and traveling please pray that we get the rest we need to guide our family in the ways of the Lord.
Two weeks ago we participated in Faith Baptist Church Cambridge's VBS as normal members (not missionaries). I am led the puppet ministry and was the "crew chief" for the Junior class. There were around 60 children coming. Sunday night was the closing service. Please pray that the parents that came will respond to Christ.
Below is our itinerary for the upcoming months:
July 11-14 BMM annual conference Cleveland, OH
July 17 Faith Baptist, Iowa City, IA
July 18-22 VBS Faith Baptist, Iowa City, IA
July 24 Heritage Baptist, Berlin, WI
July 31 Calvary Baptist, Union, IA
Aug 7 Calvary Baptist, Chatfield, MN
Aug 8-12 attend family camp IRBC, Clear Lake, IA
Aug 14 Faith Baptist, Brainerd, MN
Aug 28 Bible Baptist, Rantoul, IL
Sept 7 Calvary Baptist, Derby, KS
Oct 2 First Regular Baptist, Kansas City, MO
Oct 9 Shepherd Road Baptist, Mulberry, FL
Oct 12 Starkey Road Baptist, Largo, FL
Oct 19 Maranatha Baptist, Sebring, FL
Nov 6 Grace Baptist, Labelle, FL
If you or someone you know will be in the area of any of these meetings we would love to see you/them. Please pray for these meeting opportunites for God to work in the lives of those in attendance. You never know when or how God will call someone into His service. Please pray also that I can schedule more meetings to finish the year.
Thank you again for your prayers. May the Lord bless you as you pray for others.


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Perinatal Neuroblastoma: Expectant Observation A Children's Oncology Group Pilot Study
I. Determine whether nonoperative management of infants with adrenal masses found on
prenatal and/or neonatal imaging results in a 3-year survival rate of 95%.
I. Estimate the percentage of these patients who are spared surgical resection. II. Evaluate
the natural history and histology of perinatal adrenal masses. III. Evaluate the tumor
biology and histology of prenatal and neonatal neuroblastomas.
IV. Determine the tumor characteristics that are associated with a need for resection.
Patients undergo an abdominal CT or MRI scan on weeks 0, 6, and 42 and an abdominal sonogram
on weeks 0, 3, 6, 12, 18, 30, 42, 66, and 90. Urinary catecholamine levels are also measured
on the same weeks as the abdominal sonogram. Patients with an increase in tumor volume or
catecholamine levels undergo sonographic evaluation and urine catecholamine sampling every 3
weeks until stabilization. Patients with a continued increase in catecholamine levels or a
50% increase in tumor volume undergo surgical resection off study.
Patients are followed within 1 week and then every 6 months for 3 years.
Time Perspective: Prospective
Survival rate
Estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method.
Up to 3 years
Jed Nuchtern
Principal Investigator
Children's Oncology Group
United States: Institutional Review Board
July 2001
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EDINBURG - The University of Texas Pan American (UTPA) has expanded its online degree programs with the launch of an online Master of Public Administration.
The online degree is slightly more expensive — $13,500 — than tuition for in-state residents attending courses in the classroom. They are also designed with a more flexible course schedule, eventually allowing students to take any course during each seven-week term.
Students complete courses known as modules in seven-week intervals — close to half the length of a regular academic semester.
UTPA announced several new online degree programs in August in collaboration with Dallas-based Academic Partnerships. The MBA program put the university in a group of four other UT System schools offering such online degrees.
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text: WOODBRIDGE, N.J. � The New Jersey town where Richie Sambora grew up says Bon Jovi's lead guitarist can come home whenever he wants. On Tuesday, residents and public officials gathered in Sambora's hometown of Woodbridge to name a street in his honor. The 50-year-old Sambora has launched a fundraising effort called, "You Can Go Home," to give back to the community. The program benefits Woodbridge teen Kelly Mahon, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor two years ago. Sambora also financed the new weight room at his alma mater, Woodbridge High School. It's being named in honor of Sambora's father, Adam, who died of cancer in 2007. The street leading to the school is now Richie Sambora Way. Sambora says he's never taken his success for granted.


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Friday, September 21, 2012
A prize will be awarded to one participant whose Broadway-themed creation tickles the Bacon Bits' fancy in a hammin' jammin' way! Another prize will be awarded randomly to a hopper who comments on all of the blogs along the way. The winners will be announced on the Hambo company blog, Talk to the Ham, on Tuesday, September 25.
We love comments any time, but the deadline for prize entry comments is Sunday, September 23 at 5 PM CST. Don't miss it!
I don't know about you...but I have always loved doing Rebus puzzles. This card is my take on a rebus. It ended up being different than my brain envisioned, but I hope you will get it! I am not going to share it out loud...I want to make you work for it! LOL My card features the King Digi Stamp at Hambo. The ampersand was done on the computer and the eye is compliments of some random Google search!
Now dance on over to Kris for another great Broadway show!
Just in case you get lost along the journey, below are all the links! ENJOY!!!
Talk to the Ham -Hambo blog
Melissa ---YOU ARE HERE---
23 comments:
- Dawn Mercedes said...
oh yeah...a rebus puzzle! You're one smart cookie to put this together...clever and graphic and delightful! You're so hip!
- September 21, 2012 at 8:19 AM
- Monica Hunter said...
Yeah - what Dawn said! I love puzzles too, and knew this one immediately. Great choice for a Broadway show!
- September 21, 2012 at 9:03 AM
I LOVE it! I am a puzzle geek too...this is perfect, clever, great!
- September 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM
- Sherry Hickey said...
What a fun card, Melissa! Very very clever! Gotta love that Hambo king!
- September 21, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- Deborah Anton said...
Very clever! That is a great show! Wonderful job!
- September 21, 2012 at 10:29 AM
- Jan Hunnicutt said...
Cute, cute, cute! I love your card and it was fun to figure out!
- September 21, 2012 at 10:55 AM
- Sarah said...
Haha this is awesome! Great card---what a super fun thing to do! Love it!
- September 21, 2012 at 10:57 AM
- Shona Erlenborn said...
So, so clever! Love the color combo, so rich and regal. Just fit for a King!
- September 21, 2012 at 11:47 AM
- Loll Thompson said...
This is fabulous! I love that you're making us "work" for it. Great choice of broadway show!
- September 21, 2012 at 11:55 AM
- Hey Hey Paula said...
Fun card Melissa. Perfect for your show choice & so clever to make it a rebus puzzle too.
- September 21, 2012 at 2:50 PM
- Jane France said...
What a fun card Melissa, very cleverly put together, you have a great mind and a fabulous artistic eye.
- September 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM
- Sue said...
Got it! Love this musical, and the card is really fun!
- September 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM
- Paula S. said...
Cute and clever! that King image is wonderful and the whole idea of doing a rebus is very clever. Well done!
- September 21, 2012 at 5:07 PM
I don't believe I've ever seen this digi --- it's precious! Love the way your colors coordinate. So clever!
- September 21, 2012 at 8:47 PM
- Judy Rozema said...
I love this image and love your Rebus puzzle! So clever!
- September 21, 2012 at 9:41 PM
- Kaylee Snyder said...
Ha ha, figured it out-that's really creative. I love the king image you used.
- September 21, 2012 at 9:46 PM
- Pat said...
Oh you are a clever girl-et cetera, et cetera!! LOL Great card, thanks for sharing!
- September 21, 2012 at 9:51 PM
- Nancy said...
The King and I! Very cute rebus puzzle. I love it !!
- September 21, 2012 at 11:07 PM
- Libby Hickson said...
Figured it out immediately Melissa - how fun to do it like this! And wonderful card, as always!
- September 22, 2012 at 12:00 AM
- Mrs. O said...
Oh, so clever! And I liked it even more since I figured it out right away! Love those rebus puzzles! Terrific card!
- September 22, 2012 at 4:36 PM
- Kecia said...
You nailed it! What a great way to represent this show! SO CREATIVE, and your creations always make me smile.
Nicely done, Melissa!
- September 22, 2012 at 9:33 PM
- Carolina Little said...
Melissa, your card made me giggle. Very cute and very clever idea!!!
- September 24, 2012 at 1:37 AM
- Kris Chirhart said...
Oh, this is awesome!! How fun to do a rebus puzzle! It makes me think of the OLLLLDDDD game show called "Concentration". Great card!!
- September 24, 2012 at 8:53 AM


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Which was first...the Apple iPod Sock or the foofpod? Mac Observer readers tell us if anybody copied the iPod blanket, it was Apple.
An Australian company has been selling for a few months now the foofpod, 17 different iPod fabric sleeves. Although not in as many colors or styles, Apple Computer announced its set of iPod Socks in late October.
As one TMO reader stated Thursday, "My Foofpod arrived yesterday from Australia after almost a month of waiting and I had been looking into them for a few months before, long before Steve unveiled his socks. You might want to give credit where credit is due...foof was first.
A foofpod spokesperson was not immediately available to discuss how long their product has been on the market or reaction to Appleis iPod Sock.
The foofpod comes in a variety of colors and fabrics, including spotted faux fur, zebra faux fur, corduroy pink, purple and blue, Kimono blue and gold and tweed dotted fabric of 100% wool (see photo below). The company said new designs and fabrics will be added on a regular basis.
The company said it will make a foofpod for the iPod mini on request. The product is currently handmade using a 1953 Pinnock sewing machine in Sydney, Australia. Because there is only one machine, the company is warning delays in filling orders could increase.
The foofpod retails for US$10.50 to $16.50, not including shipping.
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LAKELAND – Coral Springs Charter's surprising, unprecedented run to the boys basketball state semifinals ended Tuesday night.
The Panthers had hoped to reach Wednesday's Class 4A state championship, but their hopes were extinguished by a 70-67 loss to Jacksonville Ribault.
But the 2013-14 season was undoubtedly a spectacular success for a program that dreamed big – having playoff brackets with the Lakeland Center logo printed on the back of its warm-up shirts before the season – even when it hadn't yet ever experienced the regional playoffs.
How will the Panthers view this season?
"I look at it as hopefully the start of something we're going to continue with our program," Charter coach Alex Groothuis said after the loss. "Our program has never been here. We finished 18-11 and it's a step in the right direction, playing against anybody we could play. Half of our schedule was against teams that have been to Lakeland, and we're going to do it again next year.
"We're going to be battle-tested and we only lose [senior point guard] Alonzo [Taylor]. We've got everybody else back and we expect to be back here as well."
Taylor was a major reason Charter was able to repeatedly rally from deficits Tuesday. He finished with 17 points on 6-of-13 shooting, as well as seven rebounds and two assists. Austin Vaughn led Charter with 20 points on 6-of-10 shooting and grabbed nine rebounds before fouling out midway through the fourth quarter.
Taylor and Vaughn "have been the heart and soul for us," Groothuis said.
He continued on about the two players.
"I can't say enough about Alonzo. He's been the floor leader for us. His basketball IQ is very high. He can run a team. I think these colleges are crazy that no one has pulled the trigger yet. Hopefully, that will happen," Groothuis said.
"Our program is going to miss him incredibly. And Austin is the hardest working kid I've ever coached. He's the heart and soul, never stops playing. His motor never stops. I'm blessed to have him back another year."
With Vaughn, junior center Karl Hylton, junior guard Kajuan Kinsey and sophomore forward Trevor Lee back, Charter should be able to make another long playoff run next season.


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Friday The 13th Randoms
Today is Friday the 13th. Here are some things you may or may not know about the superstition that surrounds today.
The curse that surrounds Friday the 13th goes back a long time and ranges from sailors and fishermen being afraid to head out on the water to people being afraid of hearing bad news on this day for fear it would add a wrinkle to their face. In 1913, a pastor in New York named Charles Reynolds offered to marry couples for free if they dared to challenge superstitions. In France, there were citizens known as quatorziens or fourteeners who made themselves available as a 14th guest for dinner parties.
One extreme superstition is that if you eat dinner at a table set for 13, one will die within a year and throughout history, many serial killers had 13 letters in their name including: Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson.
Pope John Paul II was shot on May 13, 1981; then Vice President Richard Nixon was attacked May 13, 1958 and Winston Churchill promised to, "Wage war, by sea, land and air with all our might and strength that God can give" May 13, 1940.
Many high rises, hospitals, apartments and hotels don't have a 13th floor; airports don't have a gate 13 and airplanes don't have a 13th row. Italy doesn't have the number 13 in their lottery, and in Florence, they don't have house numbered 13 either. If there's a house between 12 and 14, the street address is 12 and a half and many cities don't have 13th Avenue or 13th Street.
By the way, the fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia. A specific fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia.


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Ever feel like that?
My kitchen table is chuck full of projects I am working on, some new, some old, most however, are not close to being done.
Don has been working on a new mantle, it's pretty impressive.
He built it from looking at a picture online, I'll post before and after's when it is done.
Which reminds me, I still need to post pictures of our kitchen remodel.
I will add it to the list of things to do...
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"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
― Guillaume Apollinaire
Day 26 – Old 27 Ice Cream and an old time ice cream shop. Their best thing….Hot Fudge Milkshake
Day 27 – My puppy wuppy….Roxie Doxie and one of her favorite toys
Day 28 – We had a girls night out with Kpuff and her beautiful daughter. We saw Malifcent. I didn't think I would like it, but I did. Go see it!
Day 29 – And the following day I had the two most beautiful girls in my town for a date. Their favorite place, El Camino, which is amazing and if you ever make it to Decatur go there. It isn't your average Mexican restaurant. NOMS!
Day 30 – Baby girl # 1 after a whole lotta games. She had a huge tournament that weekend. As in played 8 games all together. I decided to snap her picture because I have never ever seen her sunburned in her almost 13 years of life. EVER. The girl normally just tans and get dark. Nope she got red even with 50 sunscreen.
Day 31 – I love this place and it almost feels like a second home. You know that feeling you get when you come home after a long vacation. Yea, I get that when I head in on Mondays. Ahhh!
Day 32 – Baby Booties. Baby girl # 3's baby booties knitted by Kpuff. I found them in a garage sale pile and in no way shape or form are they garage sale worthy. I have two knitted pieces that Kpuff did for my Banana girl and they are in my special place beside my heart (my closet).
Day 33 – Baby girl # 2's 10th birthday. She wanted a vintage type writer. She has got it! 🙂
Day 34 – Baby girl # 3's birthmark on her leg. Early on in her life Kpuff pointed out it was the shape of a heart. I have loved it since. Well I loved it before, but how cute. A heart!
Day 35 – The girls bracelet/lemonade stand for trigemenial neuralgia. They raised 9 dollars in $ and we are giving half our garage sale funds so a little over $50 dollars to TNA Facial Pain Association. It wasn't a huge money making garage sale, but I was so proud of them.
Day 36 – Puppy and my guy (can you see him back there…those are his fingers toward the top). As soon as we cleaned up the garage sale both all three of us needed a little nap. I woke up smooshed up against my guy and with a furry dog smooshed in between us. I love afternoon naps.
Day 37 – Yesterday was the first time I have seen # 1 play softball in nine games. It sounds like a lot but it was really just a travel tournament. It was so ridiculously hot that we tag teamed parented and I stayed back with girls and my guy and # 1 stayed in a hotel where the tournament was. So I was super stoked to see a game yesterday. I just the anticipation before a game. Everyone excited and warming up. It always takes me back to my travel ball days. Those are definitely some of my best memories of my childhood.
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Debbie Williams-Hoak: Legendary athlete dazzles off the field, too
Debbie Williams-Hoak is arguably the best all-around female athlete in the city.
Her credentials? She was a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour and a hall of fame track and field performer at the University of Michigan.
In high school, she was an All-American in basketball, a stand-out in tennis and had the highest bowling average in Ohio in her age group.
Oh, and she's a local legend on the diamond playing her favorite sport: softball.
But her proudest accomplishment has nothing to do with sports: It's making sure underprivileged kids have something under the tree on Christmas morning.
She started the
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Those who know Debbie aren't surprised at the program's success. She's proven many times that she can accomplish her dreams.
Growing up in Euclid, Ohio, Debbie wanted to be a Buckeye. But when it came time for college, the coaches at Ohio State University wanted her to choose between basketball and track and field, where she was the three-time state discus champion.
She couldn't choose, so she looked elsewhere. She wanted to go to the University of Southern California, because her two brothers and two sisters all lived out West.
In the meantime, however, she was being recruited by U-M's legendary track coach Red Simmons. When Simmons learned that Bo Schembechler was going to speak at an athletic banquet at Debbie's high school, Simmons asked Bo to give Debbie a recruiting pitch. He did, and Debbie bought it. She committed to the Wolverines the next day, thus becoming, in Michigan lore, "the only female athlete ever recruited by Bo Schembechler."
She played basketball at U-M for only two months. She quit because she, and a lot of other players, couldn't get along with the coach. "One of the big regrets in my life was that I didn't get to play college basketball," she says.
She played nearly everything else. She won four Big Ten titles throwing the javelin, qualifying for three Olympic Trials along the way. She missed qualifying for the 1984 U.S. Olympic team by 5 feet. She was a track and field All American, finished second in the NCAA finals, and was voted into the U-M Women's Track Hall of Fame.
She went to six U.S. Olympic Festivals; five for track and one for softball, where she specialized in showing off her arm by throwing out runners at first base from her position in the outfield. (She once threw a softball 288 feet.)
One of Debbie's goals was to become a pro athlete. When she graduated college in 1982, there were few professional opportunities for women in track, basketball and softball, but she refused to let the dream die.
She'd never played golf, but figured she'd be good at it and saw it as a way to reach her goal. As she puts it, "I had never failed at anything athletically in my life, and I wasn't going to start."
So, at age 30, when most athletic careers are winding down, Debbie set about learning the game of golf. She eventually moved in with a family she barely knew in Boynton Beach, Fla., sleeping on the couch at night and hitting golf balls all day.
In 1991, a year after taking up golf, she won the Michigan Publinx championship. In '93 she was Michigan amateur champion, and repeated in '94, when she was the Golf Association of Michigan female player of the year.
She turned pro in 1995 at age 35, playing on the Futures Tour, but she kept her eye on the big prize: the LPGA. Finally, in 1999, she made the cut and played the LPGA Tour in 2000 as a 40-year-old rookie.
She lasted only one year on the LPGA, as real life got in the way. The year she joined the tour she got married, her father had a heart attack, her brother was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and doctors found a lump on her thyroid. But she'll never forget playing with Annika Sorenstam at the Jamie Farr Classic in her native Ohio, matching Sorenstam shot for shot for two days.
In pursuing her own dream, Debbie never forgot about the dreams of others.
Growing up, Debbie experienced some "tough Christmases. More than one Christmas, when I got up there wouldn't be a tree or any presents. I wondered, what did I do wrong? Am I a bad child?"
She didn't want other kids to have the same worries. In 1996, when she learned that the Ann Arbor Police Department "adopted" one family every Christmas, she set about expanding the program.
These days she helps hundreds, with the help of the Ann Arbor, Saline and Chelsea police departments, the Washtenaw County Sherriff's Office, the University of Michigan Athletic Department, WTKA, Key Bank and lots of other local individuals and businesses. They get "wish lists" from various organizations and do their best to fulfill those wishes. It's grown to the point that, last year, Debbie began the process of starting the Magic of Christmas Adopt a Family Foundation.
When the program began, Debbie said, the wish lists were all about toys. These days, kids are asking for things like socks and winter boots and underwear. Even in homes where both parents are working, Debbie said, there's sometimes not enough money for anything beyond the necessities.
To offer help, financial or otherwise, contact Debbie at email@example.com.
In her regular life, Debbie is the head boys' golf coach at Saline High, the assistant girls' golf coach, the head teaching pro at Lake Forest Golf Club, works in golf fitness and also serves on the executive board of the Letterwinners M Club.
Meanwhile, Debbie has another personal dream yet unfulfilled. She wants to become a great piano player. Based on what she's accomplished in the past, those who know her are already thinking, "Watch out, Carnegie Hall."
Kyle Poplin is publisher of The Ann magazine, which is inserted monthly in various print editions of AnnArbor.com. The next issue comes out Oct. 23. He's also searching, through this column, for the most interesting person in Ann Arbor. If you have anyone in mind, email your idea to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 : 2:21 p.m.
What a great lady! She is also very involved in the SafeHouse organization. I have no doubt that she can do anything she puts her mind to and do it well. What an inspiration to people of all ages. Keep up the good work, Debbie. I admire you!
Sun, Oct 23, 2011 : 11:23 p.m.
Debbie is wonderful- a great coach! I'm not surprised to hear she has many other pursuits.
Sat, Oct 22, 2011 : 10:23 p.m.
Great article on Debbie. She really is a gem for the entire Ann Arbor area community.


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It's Friday! I'll be honest, not that my brain or body knows it... I have been living on borrowed time. In other words, I have been staying up to hours that I have no business staying up to... working, of course. :0) I have been working on several projects simultaneously... the plight of the Artist, right? Among these are several pieces for some Threadless competitions. Also I wanted to do something for IF Friday this week. Tired though I was and still am, I chose to persevere through the week and still participate.
This week's topic is TALENT. At first, I really wasn't being inspired by the topic and then as I was sitting at my desk in the studio, I was flipping through my Idea Journal to see if I could pull anything out of that to use for this IF challenge. I had one of my old promo cards stuck in the Journal. It was a Fatman Illustration, the one of him as an old fashioned Sailor. I remembered that many people fell in love with the octopus character that made her debut in the background of this illustration.
A friend even suggested that I should give the Octopus her own illustration(s). I was immediately inspired to prepare something special for this weeks IF Friday. I thought that the Octopus Character could display her many talents and interests in a vaudeville style kind of performance. I spent a bit more time than I normally do on these illustrations, mainly because I wanted it to be exactly how I would want to present the idea. Not to mention there were several drawing problems to work out before I could make a final sketch to ink then take to full color.
First I had to figure out what kind of talents she would have, I then did research as I usually do.
I then developed a very loose thumbnail sketch to kind of figure out a general idea/clue of how I wanted to compose the illustration. I then took that thumbnail sketch and kind of "blew it up" and began to figure out which arms would be doing what and where and just how they would weave in and out of each other. Once these questions were answered and the drawing solutions figured out and drawn out, the illustration at that point tends to kind of draw itself.
I had a lot of fun creating an illustration where the octopus could be upfront and center stage. She has many talents and now she can show you. ;0) As always, I have included some development photos to show my process. I hope you enjoy her and perhaps will be inspired to work on your own special talents. It's Friday, a great day to get out there and do it!
Until next time, have a fantastic weekend, Everyone, and...
Keep sketching, keep thinking, keep laughing and most important of all, keep making art.


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I'm back again.
I'm back once again. I've missed everyone. Just wanted to let you all know that I've had a rough time with my diabetes. I've gained weight which I hate. My medication hasn't been working well and my A1c isn't very good. Anybody have any advice on weight loss? I've cut back on a lot and started using sensa with my mom but it doesn't seem to be working. Any advice would be helpful! You guys always know how to put a smile on my face with your advice. Some amazing people on here :)
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Carbs! Know which ones are good carbs and which ones go right into your system immediately. Try to eat whatever you would stick between two pieces of bread, without that bread. Avoid white bread, white potatoes, and white rice. Divide your plate. 1/4 for 4-6 oz of protein (the size of a deck of cards) 1/4 of GOOD starch (sweet potato the size of a computer mouse, brown rice, Quinoa (also a protein). Never eat any bread or flour that refers to the flour as enriched. That word means the sheath has been stripped of all the good "stuff". 1/2 of your plate can be cooked veggies and/or salad. The darker the green the better. But remember you want fiber like squash. If you haven't tried spaghetti squash with a little butter or spaghetti sauce, give it a try. Be adventurous. Try veggies you've never tried before. Listen to Nick. Portion control is a BIG part of losing weight. Ride a bike, start walking. I lost 50 lbs this way. Watch your salt intake. It makes you retain water. Drink lots of water or ice tea. Don't drink your calories. Good luck!
Good to see you again Brandijean.
As far as weight loss goes, the only real effective way is to take in just slightly less calories than you burn. You'd be surprised just how little you need to keep going during the day. Now your needs will be far different than your mother's because of age and activity level, so here's a handy calorie calculator to figure out at least a ball park number for the both of you. http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator....
How you get those calories is important too. Sure you could get them just eating butter by the stick, but that's not real nutrition. Things I would think important for you and your mother would be calcium, potassium and vitamin D – and obviously protein. Also remember, fat is necessary to a diet also, so eating lean meats is a good idea, but there's really no need to strip your chicken naked of its skin unless you plan on eating chicken every day.
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In November my son celebrated his 4th birthday! We went for a planes party because he had just seen the movie and was all about planes:)
Sorry for the lack of pictures this time, I didn't realize until now that I had taken so few pictures. The happy birthday banner is a paper banner this year but I made a whole bunch of black and white checkered fabric buntings that we put up, you can kind of see them in the mirror if you look closely...
I made two larger racing flags and whole bunch of small ones as well as a couple table runners. We went for the colors sky blue and orange.
One of Isaac's gifts was a little die cats Dusty plane, last year for his cars party I put Lightning Mcqueen on his cake and he loved that so this year I decided to also put a little die cast on the cake, it's his favorite part:)
I made the sign with 'Isaac' on it using modeling chocolate once again and I printed out some templates off the computer making them the size I wanted, I then cut them out and laminated them. after I rolled out my modeling chocolate and placed the laminated template on the rolled out chocolate I traced around it with a knife. So there is a gray layer, then an orange layer on top of that and I have little alphabet cookie cutters I used for his name and the star.
Osborn paper airplanes fold and fly book and then I used a large roll of blue kraft paper with holes in it for the kids to practice aiming their planes in.
We played pin the propeller on dusty:)
And of course finished off with a pinata in our garage (dont mind the mess...)
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The search for a cover for my new album, "Paradiso" is an interesting story. Here's how it unfolded: My idea to use Paradiso originally came about when Gretchen Peters and I were touring Germany and Holland in March, 2011. We played one night at the famous Paradiso venue in Amsterdam for the first time, and I premiered a new, as yet untitled instrumental song at that show. After I got through it, I spontaneously told the audience that since they seemed to like the song, I would name it "Paradiso" in their honor. It seemed like a good song title, and later on I decided it would make a great album title as well. I didn't think much more about it as the year wore on and I began recording the album. When the album was finished and I had to start thinking about artwork, I began to think about Dante, his classic "Divine Comedy" and part three of that book, "Paradiso", which I own but have never read all the way through. Now I'll just have to... I did a Wikipedia search on "Dante Paradiso", and a page came up with some great images. Scrolling down the page, I was immediately smitten by an illustration from a medieval manuscript with bright colors that seemed to leap off the page. This could be my cover, I thought. When I showed it to Gretchen, she agreed right away with me. But how to use it? I had just started working on the package with a Nashville graphic designer named Karen Cronin. Between the two of us, we tracked down the image to the British Library on Euston Road in London. Karen sent a query there, explaining our desire to use the image for a CD cover. Licensing fees were quickly arranged, and a digital copy 24 inches wide of this magnificent piece of art was soon crossing the ocean at the speed of light via email to Karen, who took the image and created the cover that you see today. The image was created in the 15th century by Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia (c. 1403 – 1482). He was an Italian painter, working primarily in Siena, and was a prolific painter and illustrator of manuscripts, including Dante's texts. The print is a miniature of Dante and Beatrice before Folco, who inveighs against the corruption of the Florentinians. Satan is seen dropping gold coins into the hands of the Clergy. I love the yin and yang of it. Right and wrong, good and evil, spiritualism vs. materialism. Dante and Beatrice heading to the heavens vis-a-vis the corruption of church leaders and public officials here on earth. This was painted over 500 years ago. Some things never change...
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Nobody ever said Astoria Bike was out there breaking the latest news.
Six weeks behind the times I give you this:
See the Gothamist's first and second store for the whole old story.
And the source: Made in Queens.
So cool. Check out the trailer for the documentary. These are cool bikes and I love Indians with Caribbean accents, but, er, I'm glad they don't go blaring through my neighborhood. Actually, I might love it if they came through here about once a month.


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Just beneath the radar of formal diplomacy and strategic talks, the largest peace conference in the history of the Middle East took place Monday and Tuesday on Facebook.
Thousands of Palestinian, Israeli and Arab youth joined together for the virtual peace summit where real world leaders, like Hillary Clinton, Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, congratulated their efforts.
YaLa, the Young Leaders movement on Facebook with over 50,000 participants, is sponsored by the Peres Center for Peace with the goal of motivating Middle Eastern youth through social networks and technology to feel a stake in their region's future.
The Facebook site was the brainchild of Uri Savir, a former chief Israeli peace negotiator who is president of the Peres Center. "If we leave peace to the current leaderships, we will go nowhere," he said. "We have to give an opportunity to a much younger generation on social networks. I want to translate Tahrir Square, the social process (of the Arab Spring) into a peace process."
(READ the story in the Washington Post; READ more in the Global Post)


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Donald Trump's behaviour last weak appeared to be absolutely insane. Some commentators have taken to calling him the Kamikaze Candidate. But Tom Walkom warns his readers that there is a method to Trump's madness:
The billionaire realtor may be the privileged scion of a wealthy family. But he can win only if he convinces enough disgruntled Americans that he, like them, is an outsider — that he stands aloof from the power elite, that he is not a slave to political correctness and that he tells it like it is.
Up to now he has succeeded by defying the experts, confounding the pundits and doing everything a politician is supposed to avoid.And so the outrageous behaviour continues. Do the grieving parents of a fallen Muslim soldier challenge him? Then Trump must double down — first by suggesting the wife's religion forbids her from speaking publicly, second by hinting that Clinton, who brought this couple to public attention, cares only about non-white soldiers.Does the president of the United States accuse him of being unfit to lead? Are the media on his case? Do his own party's bigwigs take him to task?To the self-declared outsider, none of this matters. Indeed, such attacks only prove his point that this election is about Donald Trump versus the elites.


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ODENVILLE, Ala. — A riot involving 200 inmates at a state prison here ended after about 12 hours Monday night as the rebellious prisoners surrendered their weapons and released 22 hostages, including the warden and deputy warden.
No lives were lost in the uprising; but seven persons were hospitalized, including the deputy warden, who was beaten unconscious, and four other prison employees. Two inmates who broke into the prison pharmacy also were hospitalized after apparently overdosing on drugs.
The rioting, which broke out at 9:20 a.m., was brought to an end after lengthy negotiations involving state Corrections Commissioner Freddie Smith and FBI agents.
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"The hostages are all out, the inmates are all back in their cell blocks and the officers are now securing the prison," Corrections Department spokesman John Hale told reporters as mop-up operations got under way.


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Hello again! So today I would like to show you guys two YouTube videos, both by PBS. They are this one and this one.
The first one is an overview about what a 3D printer is and how it can change the world. They talk a lot about different copyright issues that could come up with 3D printing, which I find is a really important topic. We all have this ability to create whatever we want, and make unlimited copies of it. So where do we draw the line? How do we know when someone is abusing another person's Intellectual rights? This will be a defining moment of the 3D printing industry. The video states that 3D printing should take a hint from the music industry. We should look at what worked and what didn't with the music industry with the introduction of download programs like Napster.
The other video, from the PBS Idea Channel, talks about how Minecraft and The MakerBot could bring about the post-scarcity economy. The PBS Idea Channel takes a look at many different elements of Pop Culture, and creates "ideas" about how they can affect the world. They also go over how they affect us as humans, and backgrounds for many interesting topics rooted into our society. This video talks about the popular video game Minecraft, and the MakerBot and 3D printing. They say that these are the beginning of the "post scarcity economy" where we can create unlimited anything without wasting any resources.
Minecraft is a computer game created by the Swedish game developer Mojang. The game is based as a "sandbox" game, where there is no true story to follow, or set goals you need to accomplish. There are two modes to the game: survival and creative. In survival, you can harvest materials, create tools, discover rare ores, and fight monsters. Creative, however, is something entirely different. There are no monsters, and all of the resources in the game are available to you infinitely. This means that you do not need to do any work. You have everything you need. You could harvest resources, but why would you? All of your time and energy are free for whatever you want. This allows people to use the game to create anything they could imagine. People have created the Taj Mahal, a scale model of earth, the Eiffel Tower, and a life size replica of the star ship Enterprise from "Star Trek". I believe this game is revolutionary. Schools have started implementing it to use in their curriculum. The open world allows all kinds of classes to be taught with it. Mojang has even given people permission to modify the game, and add programmable computers, machines, and other systems into the game to make it more challenging.
The video says that the ideas of Minecraft show that once we are able to have unlimited materials, our true creativity will be able to blossom, and we will be able to make great strides in technology and design.
The video says that MakerBot is the first step to achieving this goal. A machine that can create anything digital and make it real in a matter of hours could change the world. This means that I could email you a spoon. I could have an idea for a toy, and in a day, I could actually have to toy and be playing with it. The MakerBot does use materials, but according to Moore's law, as long as we keep using this, it can only become faster, better, cheaper, and easier to use. He says that we should think that Minecraft is a "proto-post scarcity caricature, and the MakerBot is a proto-whatever that machine from the Jetson's was." This is completely true. We need to look for ways to constantly improve our technologies. For though it might not happen in our lifetimes, we might just be able to make a post-scarcity world.


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Mavin Records First Lady , Tiwa Savage is out with the official visuals for her track 'Get It Now' off her Sugarcane EP which was released late last year. It Was directed by Meji Alabi. Check on it and share your views on the comment section of the site
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Fallout isn't a record that revels in subtlety, and its strongest moments are when Shively wrestles with a fistful of ideas. In "Can't Shake Loose" it's when his gnarly acid squelch almost becomes a hardcore hoover, as drums clomp beneath police sirens, speeches and cheering crowds. On "Tare" it's when a groovy electro bassline is subjected to bongo breakdowns and a stilton-strong jazz funk riff. Closer "Judy Judy Judy" loops its title over warehouse-ready stabs, and then suddenly ups the ante with a throbbing bassline.
It's the same trick on "Fallout" and "Call Me You." Both seem like they're going to be rote garage-house jams, but Shively can't keep his face straight for long. The former morphs from Croydon basslines into shrieking rave synths, all stitched to a two-step shuffle, and the latter's sudden whistles betray a sense of humour. When so much house is narrow-focused and po-faced, an injection of anything-goes fun should be gratefully received.
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Wed / 4 Dec 2013
Words /
Tom Banham
Tracklist /
01. Can't Shake Loose
02. Tare
03. Fallout
04. Call Me You
05. Judy Judy Judy


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