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The Torchbearers made their way safely through the Marketplace despite catching a continued number of stares. Entering into Embers, a part of Oldgate at the western edge of Stormreach, the group made their way nearer the Temple district and The Keep of the Silver Flame. Oldgate itself seemed much more orderly and clean than the rest of the city. There was less rubble, fresh coats of paint on the buildings, and a sense of calm in the air.
The Cyrans attacked without warning. They set buildings aflame with vials of alchemist's fire and attacked the citizens of Embers with both a fury and precision. Finding themselves caught in the middle of it all, the Torchbearers could only watch as a woman burst out of a burning house and was gunned down by a crossbowman, crying infant in her arms. Her husband rushed the mob with reckless abandon, but fell quickly.
Needing no further provocation, Fane roused The Torchbearers to action and they cut through the Cyrans' front ranks. This was no ragtag group of bandits, however. Leading them was a blonde Cyran with a thick accent and acid tongue who lashed out orders and insults in company with his sword. "Dannel's Wrath will make a new home for Cyre!" he cried, "And you Thranes cannot stop us though you try! You will pay for your crimes!" Sticking together, The Torchbearers fought off the alchemical trickery of the invaders, and assuredly made the Cyran eat his own words. There was no mercy for this murderer. Duragilis managed to save the child but the mother was far beyond rescue.
As the blonde Cyran sputtered his last breath, the group looked to link up with the rest of the resistance. A group of six men clad in polished, ornate plate mail moved in tight formations against the few Cyrans that remained. Many tried to flee but the rest were spared no mercy. At the front of this group was a tall human with long red hair and a thick mustache. At his side was a sturdy dwarf who looked as if he could have fended off the entire attack by the skill with which he wielded his greatsword.
The red-haired knight moved toward The Torchbearers with caution, "Who are you? and what business have you in Embers?"
The heroes headed out to Fisher's Folly where Elynasi used his silver tongue to haggle with the smarmy fishermen. He hired a man named Habe to row the party to Shargon's Talon. As the boat left the harbor black thunderhead clouds rolled in and lightning flashed in the distance. Duragilis instructed Habe to bring them in from the side under the cover of the lengthening shadows of night.. Habe did so, but would not stay his boat for very long, fearful of the cultists and what might happen to him.
Shargon's Talon loomed before the adventurers, a 50 foot tower of worked stone, angled back like the curved claw of a gargantuan sea creature. Duragilis led the group up the stairs to the entry as thunder boomed from above and lightning burst around the tower. He cracked the door open and pale green light poured out of the doorway. They headed inward, ducking through a broken doorway to the right. Drudge and Elynasi crept into the shadows searching for signs of Sahuagin.
"There they are!" are voice shouted in slurping common. At the far end of the ritual chamber a Sahuagin priest in kelp robes pointed his trident at Elynasi. "Feast on their flesh my minions."
Water poured into the bowl-like chamber. Elynasi tapped into his eladrin heritage, teleporting across the chamber and charging the sahuagin caster. In a blink the sea-devil leader was slain. However, Elynasi was now separated from his companions by 3 gushing walls of water. Meanwhile, Naali was surrounded by the remaining sahuagin. She was the first to fall despite Nei's best attempts to heal her. Elrick went down next.
Hoping to make a quick escape, Nei began inspecting the trap's trigger mechanism: a marble cylinder depressed into the wall. Thinking quickly she set a blastpatch, jumped to the side and fired. The explosion broke the cylinder but the water continued to flow. Duragilis did his best to keep the sahuagin at bay, and keep his friends alive. He brought Naali back to her feet, and the two of them took the sahuagin down one after the other. Trying to buy everyone some more time, Elynasi jury rigged one of the stone mouths shut with a dagger; however, the other two continued to spew water at an alarming rate.
Inside the burning Riedran Consulate, Elynasi searched frantically amongst the flames for Lord Khatanavash and any others still alive. Elrick followed his path, creating an escape route with blasts of cold. Meanwhile, the others attempted to move a beam that had fallen from the 1st floor ceiling and blocked the main entrance to the building.
Elynasi found Khatanavash and two servants in a fiery meeting room. He jumped through the doorway, narrowly avoiding the flames. Elrick cleared the main stairway of fire and rushed to the second floor, but he was quickly disoriented. He did however, find the body of a Riedran servant who had succumbed to the fire and smoke. Outside, Naali cleared the doorway, allowing Nei to rush in. The flames licked out at her and she narrowly avoided her death by tapping into the magic within her compass, teleporting herself to the stairway. Duragilis unsuccessfully goaded the crowd of bystanders into helping.
The heroes rowed for almost an entire day before reaching Stormreach. To the south of the harbor stood a massive stature of a noble looking human-like figure. From it's outstretched hands, a beam of yellow light projected into the darkening sky like a beacon for incoming ships. When they entered the harbor, Rupert led them south of the Lyrandar shipyard into a tangle of ropes, pulleys, and fishing vessels called Fisher's Folly. After tying off, Fane instructed Fangrim to escort the surviving crew of The Lantern to House Lyrandar's compound in the city. He was also to take Captain Jan's dagger and return it to his family or commanding officer. After giving the orders, Fane disappeared into the Wavecrest Tavern. The others followed, and once inside ordered their first warm meal in days. Naali was even adventurous enough to try The Torchbearers quickly made friends with Elynasi "Eversun" Loralyndar, a sulking tight-lipped eladrin, and Nei, a curious human who was preoccupied with an odd-looking compass she wore around her neck.
The new friends wined and dined, when suddenly a woman clad in bright blue robes burst into the tavern screaming for help. Duragilis was the first to volunteer, but the others all followed. Curiously, no one else in the tavern seemed eager to join them. Outside the heroes saw the reason behind the woman's anguish. The Riedran Consulate was in flames, and the last remaining guards were hard-pressed fighting a squad of half-giants. The heroes waded in, cutting down one brute after the other. When an open lane presented itself Elynasi dashed into the burning building hoping to save Lord Khatanavash before it was too late. After blasting away the flames with icy magic Elrick charged after him. Outside, the rest of the heroes dispatched the last of the half-giants only to find themselves surrounded by a crowd of spectators that were intent on enjoying the night's activities.
"Gods be damned! How do you get anywhere with a map like this?"
"It's an aerial map, Cap'n. It's meant for airship travel, not walking through the jungle." Chimes Ebenezer, failing to realize the Fane's question was completely rhetorical.
"Wouldn't matter, Eb. They say Xen'drik is uncharted. Ain't a single map of the place, to be trusted at lea-"
"Enough!" Naali cuts the crewmen short.
The hive is in a frenzy. "It's not going to be pretty, but I should have enough left in me to blast our way through to the exit." says Elrick grimly. He rolls up his sleeves, briefly pausing to whisk away the dirt soiling his bright orange robes. "Filthy creatures…"
Fane brandishes his sword in defiance, "We came here for Jan, Elrick. I'm not leaving here without him!" Naali takes a firm stance next to the warlord, hoping his
"I believe they were taken that way." Fangrim points to a tunnel at the far end of the chamber. "I was tracking them before that beast set upon me."
Drudge shakes his head. "So they may be, but the ants are coming. We cannot fight them all!"
"Nor can we outrun them." States Naali flatly. "But perhaps we can buy ourselves some time."
From a side tunnel, the party watches the passing drones as they carry bulbous larvae upward. Fane finds it unsettling how they ignore the glowing light of his shield, but he trusts in Naali's senses. Were it not for her, they would now be fending off those very ants.
Seeing no end to the line, the group slips further into the tunnel. "There are too many. We'll need to find another way." Duragilis remarks grimly. Fane nods his agreement, stretching his arms to dispel the onset of fatigue. Without a word Naali sets off down the tunnel, willing the others to follow. The path twists and turns away from the main hall until it opens into a large cavern. A stench overwhelms the group as they enter.
Against the far wall stagnates a large puddle of green slime. Countless ant carcasses lie heaped at its edges, their oozing entrails seemingly its source. "What darkness is this that has defiled these creatures so?" questions Duragilis in horror. Naali quickly silences him.
"Listen." The group hears it – the slight sound of something dragging slowly across sand. Fane scans the room and spots the source at the edge of the light. A twisted thorax slowly inches toward the puddle, a trail of slime in its wake. Fane moves closer to investigate. As the silver light of his shield fills the cavern, he notices something else above him. A patch of slime hangs from the ceiling, and it's moving…


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As the Iranian nuclear threat dominates Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's second term, nothing motivates him more than making economic history.
The son of 101-year-old Benzion Netanyahu, a former Cornell University history professor, the Israeli premier says his ambition is to overtake France and the U.K., the world's fifth- and sixth-largest economies, in terms of output per head. It's the push for growth that drives Netanyahu's policies, even as he heads to Washington next week for talks on Iran.
Since the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated Netanyahu began selling state assets and loosening labor laws as finance minister from 2003 to 2005, Israel's economy has boomed, growing at an average 4.2 percent each year. The expansion will help ensure Israel's survival, as an "island of democracy that is surrounded by a sea of troubles" in the Middle East, the 62- year-old premier told U.S. Jewish leaders at a Feb. 19 conference in Jerusalem.
"If we are to address our defense needs that we are being challenged with, we have to continue this growth," Netanyahu said at the meeting. "It is not a question of living standard. It's a question of national security."
As part of his plan to spur growth, Netanyahu has set up a committee to boost competition, introduced reforms to lower the cost of living after social protests, passed a law to free up public land for private development, maintained fiscal discipline, and introduced a two-year budget, a move praised by the International Monetary Fund.
Fischer's Stature
Israel's economy probably expanded 4.8 percent in 2011, according to the IMF, matching the 2010 figure and exceeding the 1.7 percent growth in the U.S. The Finance Ministry estimates gross domestic product will increase 3.2 percent in 2012.
With Stanley Fischer steering monetary policy at the Bank of Israel, Netanyahu says there's scope for the nation to match some of the world's most developed economies. Fischer was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's thesis adviser at MIT.
"There's no reason why we can't eventually surpass Britain and France in GDP per capita," Netanyahu said during a Feb. 20 interview in his Jerusalem office, kept warm by two free- standing electric radiators. "We have to keep growing at 5 percent."
The IMF calculates Israeli GDP per head was $32,300 last year, compared with $39,600 in the U.K. and $44,400 in France. Unemployment was 5.4 percent in Israel in the fourth quarter, the lowest since at least 1985. The jobless rate was about 9.3 percent in France and 8.4 percent in Britain.
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Having never fully resolved the state of war with its neighbors that accompanied Israel's founding in 1948, the country produced better risk-adjusted returns than all other developed stock markets in the past decade, according to the Bloomberg Riskless Return Ranking.
The Tel Aviv TA-25 Index returned 7.6 percent in the 10 years ended Feb. 17, after adjusting for volatility, the highest among 24 developed-nation benchmark indexes. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was the next-best market with a risk-adjusted gain of 6.7 percent, followed by Norway, which had the highest total return.
"This is a great achievement," Netanyahu told the Knesset, Israel's parliament, on Feb. 20.
It's one that the premier argues can help ward off the challenges such as the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, set to be the key theme of his talks with President Barack Obama at the White House on March 5.
Iranian Sanctions
In the run-up to the meeting, Obama has sent emissaries to Jerusalem, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and Middle East envoy David Hale, to assure Netanyahu that the U.S. won't allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Netanyahu sent Defense Minister Ehud Barak to Washington on Feb. 27 to meet with Vice President Joe Biden.
Netanyahu remains skeptical about the effect on Iran of international economic sanctions. Barak has suggested that time is running out to stop Iran by staging a military attack on suspect nuclear facilities as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government presses ahead with the enrichment of uranium.
An Israeli attack would have precedents. The country staged an air strike in September 2007 to destroy a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor under Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert. Menachem Begin ordered a similar operation against an Iraqi reactor 26 years earlier.
Netanyahu's family background has equipped him with a sense of history. His father, an expert on the Spanish Inquisition, appeared with him in a 2009 election campaign commercial, showing the two playing chess at home.
Chess Board
"You need the steadfastness to act, to do the unpopular thing that may ultimately save the country," Netanyahu said in the ad after his father moved a piece across the board.
When it comes to policy discussions, it's the economy that moves the premier most. The former commando gets positively electric when he talks about strategies for growth, jumping away from his desk and grabbing a marker to sketch plans on a white board built into a wall of his private office for, say, cutting taxes or deregulating the real-estate market, according to his spokesman, Mark Regev.
In the Feb. 20 interview, Netanyahu highlighted the strength of Israel's technology companies such as Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the world's No. 2 software security firm.
First Term
"Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country," he said.
Israel, whose population of 7.8 million is similar to Switzerland's, has about 60 companies traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market, the most of any country outside the U.S. after China. The nation also is home to more startup companies per capita than the U.S.
During his first term as prime minister in the 1990S, Netanyahu encouraged foreign investment and helped the growth of software, telecommunications and other technology firms. He liked to refer to the burgeoning industry as "Silicon Wadi," using the Arabic term for a dry river bed. His government lightened restrictions on trading the shekel, narrowed the budget deficit, slowed inflation and limited the scale of wage increases by standing up to organized labor.
Suez Challenge
In Netanyahu's 30-month stint as finance minister, the economy rebounded from the recession of 2001 and 2002 as he instituted spending cuts, sold off state-owned companies and introduced deregulation. Netanyahu oversaw the sale of El Al Israel Airlines Ltd., the country's largest airline, Israel Discount Bank, the No. 3 bank, and Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp., the biggest telecommunications provider. He also started the sale of Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd.
"How can we get the great Asian economies interested?" Netanyahu said in the interview. "First of all, with our technology. And we have that. We can also build a train line from the Red Sea to Ashdod to link Asia and Europe. And we can pump gas the other way, from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea."
That rail line would link Ashdod on the Mediterranean with the southern port of Eilat on the Red Sea, enabling Israel to compete for cargo traffic with Egypt's Suez Canal. Another line Netanyahu is planning would run from the northern port of Haifa to the eastern border town of Beit Shean, potentially giving the Palestinian Authority and Jordan rail access to the Mediterranean.
Gas Find
Confidence in Israel's economic future has been bolstered by the discovery of offshore natural-gas deposits by a group led by Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. and Netanya, Israel-based Delek Group Ltd., which could make the country both energy- independent and a gas exporter.
Israel's Leviathan gas field may hold as much as 20 trillion cubic feet of gas, Noble, a partner with Israeli companies in the site, said in a Dec. 19 statement. The field is Noble's biggest find. Noble operates Leviathan and has a 39.66 percent interest. The second-largest Israeli gas find is the Tamar, which is estimated at about 9 trillion cubic feet.
Sending gas and other Israeli products to China and India, the world's most populous nations, are among Netanyahu's highest priorities in building the economy, he told the Jewish leaders last month.
"We have to be like a nimble mammal that finds its way in a perilous world," Netanyahu said.
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Gayle King is a lot more than Oprah Winfrey's best friend — the journalist coanchors CBS This Morning and is an editor at large for O, The Oprah Magazine. Despite her hectic and often bicoastal schedule, Gayle attended The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment breakfast at the Beverly Hills Hotel in LA on Wednesday to applaud and support Oprah as she accepted the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. It's been a big day for Oprah, who was getting her hair and makeup done with Gayle as she found out about her Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her critically acclaimed performance in Lee Daniels' The Butler. Gayle told us all about Oprah's reaction to the nomination and spilled the beans on the media mogul's upcoming 60th birthday bash.


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Three students traveled to San Francisco in December to present original research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall conference, the largest earth and space science meeting in the world. They did so with funding from Dickinson's Kenderdine Student Travel Grant, which supports student travel for research and development.
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This data demonstrated that females enjoy science most early [in their pre-college careers] and when working with others, whereas males most enjoy science later, and when they work alone. From this study we determined that in order to reach a broad audience, we need to educate people about science issues, such as climate change, early on and in a variety of ways.
This research was funded through a grant from the Center for Sustainability Education. I am collaborating with Professor Reed on publishing a manuscript for this research that will be submitted for publication this spring.
Will Kochtitzky '16: The Nevada Coropuna ice cap in Peru is host to the largest amount of ice in the tropics and also poses hazard to surrounding communities from volcano-ice interactions. In collaboration with the Peruvian Volcano Observatory, I worked with Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Ben Edwards to characterize glacial evolution on Coropuna.
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Home made *Pasta Affair*
Something along the lines of a previous post "Pizza a la **Pazzala**", heres some instructions for making your very own pasta....so easy and most delish!
Ingredients for Basil Pesto Pasta
500g cake flour
5 eggs
(makes enough for 5 people, work on the basis of 100g flour & 1 egg per person)
200ml Basil Pesto (1 1/2 packets of Ina Parman's works well!
100 g mushrooms
50g fresh basil
100g fresh rosa tomatoes
1 onion
olive oil (for frying)
pinch of salt
Step 1: Get yourself a pasta machine (@Home for R250 or see your nearest Antique store)
Step 2: Mix Flour & Eggs together and knead.
Step 3: When mixture reaches an even consistency, wrap in cling-film and put into the fridge for 30 minutes
Step 4: Break mixture into smaller, more manageable balls and start putting it through the machine. Use the setting to thin out the pasta mixture (usually has settings 1-7, start with the thickest and work your way to the thinnest).
Step 5: Start putting the thin sheets of pasta through your choice of spaghetti/linguine settings, making sure to keep flouring each side of the pasta. Once the pasta is in "strings" use a stick/broom to wrap the pasta over to dry
If your feeling a little more creative, add some food colouring to the mixture :)
Step 6: Begin getting your sauce ingredients ready. Chop the basil, mushrooms and tomatoes and fry in a pan with a little olive oil. Keep aside to add to the final product:
Step 7: Fill a large pot with enough water for the pasta and leave to boil (add some salt and olive oil). Add the pasta and cook for 5 minutes, or until al dente (throw a piece agains the wall, if it sticks, the pasta is ready!)
Step 8: Drain the pasta & add the basil pesto and the rest of the ingredients and voila! Pasta at it's finest! :)


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1. Paint the plain wooden house using an acrylic craft paint in Antique White.
2. a. Cut a strip of paper the height of the main 'body' of the house and punch a hole for the bird-perch.
b. Mod podge the back of the paper strip and adhere it to the birdhouse.
c. For the large hole in the birdhouse, I simply cut a starburst pattern into the paper and folded the points inwards.
d. Finally, coat the paper with Mod Podge.
3. a. Punch out a heck of a lot of leaves - I used the Martha Stewart Rose Leaf punch.
b. Curl the edges of the leaves- I used a thin paintbrush.
c. Attach the leaves in graduating layers using liquid glue.
4. a. Brush the tips of the leaves with mod podge and sprinkle on glitter. I used DecoArt Glamour Dust - it is so pretty and very fine (and unfortunately doesn't show up well in the photos).
b. "Stamp" the perch and white edge of the base with Perfect Medium and Brush on Perfect Pearls (I used Green Patina).
c. You'll also notice that I wrapped some ribbon around the edge of the birdhouse where it meets the base - I thought this gave it a nicer finish at the edge. I used the same ribbon at the top of the birdhouse for the hanging loop.
5. a. Fussy Cut a fairy from an 8x8 sheet of the Once Upon a Springtime paper.
b. Coat Fairy with Mod Podge and adhere to birdhouse with 3D foam adhesive.
c. Add floral embellishments - I used the Spellbinders Shapeabilities Bitty Blossom die to create the roses for the fairy house. I simply wrapped them around a paintbrush to roll them into the size/shape I wanted and then used a glue dot to keep them together. I added a pearl bead to the centre of each flower.
d. Add other embellishments using Mod Podge - I used the "Once Upon a Springtime" tag elements for the tag, "title" piece and round postmarks.
Here are a couple of photos of the final Fairy House from different angles!
Thanks so much to Pam for having me as a guest on her blog! I had so much fun with this project that I think I might make a couple more and create a little set!
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Fifteenth Century Printing
While few records remain pertaining to the daily operations of the early printing workshops of 1450-1500, it is possible to reconstruct a general picture. Early printing was a complex process involving many different kinds of materials and skills. In order to print written material on paper, a printer needed to create or obtain type, compose the text by arranging the type into lines of words, placing the arranged type onto a wooden press, and using this intricate mechanism to apply pressure on the inked type to impress it into dampened paper. Print shops housed one or many presses, depending on the size of the operation, with each press requiring two pressmen for optimal production. The variety of tasks called for many workers, including typefounders, typesetters or compositors, ink makers, and printers. It is estimated that the work day consisted of 12-14 hours of grueling physical labor under poor conditions in comparison to current standards. Estimations about printing output vary, but it is thought that 300 sheets or 600 folio pages could be printed in a shop each day. In addition to books, print shops printed ephemera, including broadsides and indulgences.
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Designing and casting metal type was often carried out at the print shop during the early years following the invention of printing. The punch-cutter first carved a letter in reverse and relief on top of a steel bar. The resulting punch was then struck into a soft metal such as copper, creating a sunken, right-reading impression, called the matrix. The matrix was fitted onto a casting instrument and used to cast individual letters. Molten metal, likely an alloy of lead, tin, antimony, copper, and iron, was poured into the matrix, casting a reverse-reading letter in relief, situated at the end of the thin piece of metal. Multiple copies of these letters were cast to assure that a full folio of text could be composed and printed at once. As the art of printing spread, not all printers could afford cutting their own punches, requiring the purchase of matrices from larger printing houses before casting their type.
Composing the Type
Before the type was printed, it was assembled into pages, or composed, by compositors who sat near tilted wooden cases divided into compartments for each letter. It is generally assumed that four compositors worked on the Gutenberg Bible, and their duties included setting type, proofing pages, and returning or distributing type back into the cases after printing.
Following a manuscript text, the compositor placed individual letters onto a small wooden holder called a composing stick, forming words and sentences. Spaces between words and sentences were made of metal pieces, called spaces and leads, which were shorter than the letters and therefore did not print. Once the composing stick was full, the contents were transferred to a small tray or galley which held the type in waiting. A proof was taken by inking the type, setting a piece of paper on top of it, and applying pressure with a brush. The resulting proof was checked for errors, and after all corrections were made, the text was locked into a frame called the chase.
The Printing Press
Prior to Gutenberg, blocks of image and text were printed by rubbing against paper placed on a carved, inked woodblock. Early printers instead utilized the wooden screw press, variations of which were used for printing into the nineteenth century. Although no images of Gutenberg's original press remain, it may have been modeled after any of the various presses used for wine, textiles, papermaking, and bookbinding. The wooden press consisted of two upright slabs joined by horizontal slabs. One of the horizontal slabs, the platen, was situated underneath a large wooden screw to which lever or bar was attached. Underneath the platen was a platform, or bed, which held the type and slid back and forth on a carriage. A pull of the bar turned the screw, lowering the platen onto the type.
Hinged to the press bed was frame called a tympan which protected the damage-prone type while creating an evenness of pressure. The tympan consisted of inner and outer frames which held soft cloth covered with vellum or linen. A second hinged frame was attached to the edge of the tympan. This frame, or frisket, was a protective sheet of parchment with windows cut out, allowing the type to print while protecting the margins of the paper from excess ink.
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Generally, two or more pressmen worked at one press. First they placed the block of text in its chase, or forme, onto the press bed. A pressman called the beater inked the forme with thick ink composed of varnish and lamp black, applied in circular motions using leather balls stuffed with wool or horsehair. The dampened paper was attached to points jutting out of the tympan, the frisket was folded over the paper, and the tympan then folded over the forme. The entire press bed was pushed into place under the platen, and the bar was pulled by the other printer or puller. This action lowered the platen onto the forme, creating an impression of type on paper. In some cases, one folio was printed, the forme was turned around, and the other printed, while in others, both folios were printed at once. The printers then opened the hinged tympan, removed the printed sheet, and stacked it carefully on top of the others, to await printing on the reverse side. Upon completion of printing, the paper was dried under weight then likely hung on lines for a final airing.


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I've finished this Which Witch's Boot embroidery (pattern by Crabapple Hill) and I'm extremely happy with it. I was taking a big chance on the white embroidery showing up enough on the black background, but it worked out really well, I think. I was also afraid that the black fabric might run (since I forgot to wash it first) in the soaking, but the perle cotton stayed nice and white. Yippee!
I've also got all of my orange peel blocks (I'm not following the pattern in this regard) done for the border, so it's just a matter now of assembling the whole thing and getting it quilted. And... it will be done waaaaaaay before Halloween. That's the best part! :)
My inspiration came from a finished panel I saw when I was visiting In Between Stitches in Livermore year before last. They had done the crayon-colored version on a white/light background, and I loved it the moment I saw it even though I knew I wanted it on a dark background.
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There was one Lotto jackpot winner in the draw on Wednesday 5th August 2015, snapping up a mighty £5.8 million rollover jackpot. In addition, five players scooped £32,715 for matching five main numbers and the Bonus Ball, with 50 ticket holders winning £20,000 each on Lotto Raffle.
The winning line was 5, 8, 12, 28, 39 and 41 with Bonus Ball 18 and other prizes pocketed on the night ranged from £25 for matching three main balls, up to £715 for matching five main numbers. There is a full prize breakdown, including the winning Lotto raffle codes, at the Lottery Results section.
Saturday's Lotto draw will offer a £3.9 million jackpot on the first day of the new football season. With emotions already flying after the afternoon's action on the pitch, bagging a seven-figure Lotto prize would help boost the celebrations, or drown the sorrows. You could easily afford to splash out on a season ticket, if you fancied.
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On Friday I had a job interview, my first one in about 6 years. You know what? Interviews aren't fun. They are painful, agonizing, worrying, stress-inducing, anxiety-provoking...and the punch line, it wasn't even for a promotion, it was for a lateral move.
This is my best, in fact, my one and only hope to escape the department of The Stupidest Man Alive. Will it happen? I won't know for about a month.
If I were to get this job, my supervisor would be 13 years younger than I am. This would be the first time I have a boss who is younger. Fortunately, compared to my current numbskull of an idiot of a moron of a boss, this fellow is known to be exceptionally bright. So he could be 12, as far as I am concerned, as long as he's smart and knows what he's doing, I will respect that.
Cross your fingers and toes for me, and pray to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes because my sanity is on the line here, so I need to pull out the big guns, prayer-wise.
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Sometimes "Joycean" just means painful.
Sometimes "Joycean" just means painful.
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
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Poet finished 12th in the Big West in the hammer and 13th in the javelin in his first season throwing for the Matadors ... posted a best of 156-1 (47.58) in the hammer and a season-best of 147-7 (44.98) in the javelin ... threw a season-best 161-11 (49.36) in the hammer at the USC Trojan Invitational (Mar. 20) ... posted a season-best of 161-6 (49.24) in the javelin at the Cal-Nevada Championships (Mar. 28) ... also had season-bests of 43-9 (13.33) in the shot put and 135-11 (41.44) in the discus ... did not compete during the indoor season.
Spent two seasons (2007, 2008) as a thrower at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Calif. ... earned All-America honors was was a two-time team MVP ... also earned All-Western State Conference accolades ... best mark in the 16 lb. hammer was 49.21 and best in the discus was 42.57 ... threw for coach Jason Bender.
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Last week I was shown a small egg-shaped fruit that had a bitter soury taste. At the first glance, I didn't know what it is. I ate it with the skin on, that was hard and bitter along with it's loads of inner seeds. As I searched to know what is this fruit, I was amazed by the information I got and all the delicoius recipes used with it.
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John Furlong's accusers are asking the federal government to listen to them.
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Just as it's getting ready to make its debut in the USA, the UK's TVWise is reporting that Sky1 has cancelled its fantasy series Sinbad, after just one season.
Impossibe Pictures had been hopeful of landing a second season order for Sinbad, especially since international distributor BBC Worldwide has sold the series to numerous international broadcasters […] Impossible Pictures had set a team of writers to come up with ideas for a potential second season and that those were pitched to Sky, however, executives at the broadcaster felt that the series had run its course.
Well, better to end on a high note after one season, rather than extend to successive seasons that may or may not catch on. I recall reading an article on the UK's channel 4 website I believe it was, in which they stated their intent to continue to showcase new talent in new series (both in front of and behind the camera), and extending series past 1 or 2 season gets in the way of doing that.
In a statement, Sky1 said: "As a broad, family entertainment channel, Sinbad was the perfect drama to showcase Sky1's ambitions for long-running, blockbuster series. We were thrilled with the cast and the production team at Impossible, however, we feel that Sinbad's story has now been told."
The BBC/Sky 1 HD production of Sinbad – that features performances from the likes of Elliot Knight, Sophie Okonedo, George Harris, Ashley Walters and Estella Daniels – aired its 12-episode first season in the UK starting on July 8, 2012.
French network Canal+ and Canadian broadcaster Bell Media were both pre-sold local rights to air Sinbad in their territories, and those of you in the USA, the Syfy channel finally picked up stateside rights to Sinbad, last September, with plans to air the 12-episode season beginning on April 12 this year.
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On the run from his home town of Basra and under a curse for a killing that led to the death of his much-loved brother, the streetwise Sinbad finds himself cast out to sea. Surviving a violent and magical storm, both Sinbad and his intriguing fellow ship-mates are forced to band together to face their inner demons, hopes, loves and fears. Our flawed hero embarks on an epic and emotional quest to rid himself of the curse and embrace his destiny. When mystical meets muscle anything can happen.
Elliot Knight stars as the legendary Sinbad, while Lost star Naveen Andrews plays Sinbad's nemesis Lord Akbari; Black brits Sophie Okonedo plays Razia, Queen of the Water-Thieves, Ashley Walters is Abdul-Fahim, George Harris stars is Zalelew, and Estella Daniels (in the photo above with Knight) portrays a character called Nala.
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The lifetime of a structural component is usually determined by the interactions between the defects within the component and the stresses to which it is exposed. These stresses are a combination of those applied in service and those which develop during manufacture and processing, namely the residual stresses. These may be beneficial and/or detrimental to the service performance. For example, they may be deliberately introduced (e.g. by shot peening) to improve fatigue performance. Whilst applied stresses can be accounted for in the design of a component, it is more difficult with residual stresses because they are difficult to predict and measure reliably.
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Kia Ray Concept teasers – Click above for high-res image gallery
Kia has been teasing us over the last few weeks with the Ray concept car bound for next week's Chicago Auto Show, and today the Korean automaker has lifted up the skirt just a few more inches to show off what appears to be the concept's front fascia and headlights.
So, what do we know so far about the Kia Ray? Pretty much nothing other than the fact that it will be a plug-in hybrid of sorts, and that it looks pretty small. There may or may not be solar cells on the roof – naming it the Ray may have something to do with the sun, right? – and it may use the underpinnings from parent company Hyundai's Blue-Will concept.
So, now that we've gone over what we don't know, take a gander at the two teaser images that Kia's provided so far and try your best to wait patiently for the rest of the goods next week.
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Do the police try to track down lost/stolen mobile phones?
If a phone is reported stolen and someone is using it, do the police try to track it down, or would it be too expensive/time-consuming?
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CTPAHHIK Jul. 6, 2011 at 13:48
Only if you run up a huge bill on stolen/lost SIM card.
If there is proof that phone was stolen.
Otherwise, there is no crime and not a police job.
JanSt / MOD Jul. 6, 2011 at 13:54
We had a phone stolen here in a bookshop a couple of years ago. Colleague reported it stolen - purely for insurance purposes. Surprisingly, a day later cops actually showed up, checked cctv footage across the road and nailed the ****!


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Road Trip (Pt 2: Bryce and Moab)
The trip to Bryce was long and when we finally got there and settled in we learned that much of the park that we came to see was closed due to damage from high winds the day before. Trees were down and crews were working. Luckily, the main attraction, Bryce Canyon itself, was accessible and as spectacular as expected. We were hoping to hike down some of the trails but arrived too late to start the first day and decided to wait until the next. We were told that the thing you simply must do is be at one of the highest lookouts at sunrise so that you can see the lighting effects on the hoodoos, the distinctive rock formations found there. So despite not being early risers, except for my wife, we stumbled out of bed and arrived on time at the lookout before sunrise. One other photographer was already set up and awaiting the sun. Did I mention that it was 16 degrees? And windy? The boys tried to hold out as best as they could but eventually gave up just as the sun rose over the horizon. I had brought my GoPro camera and had decided that a time-lapse sequence was a must to capture the experience. I have been cold before, but standing there on the cliff edge, essentially not moving, was overrated at best. By the time I got back to the car, my hands were in pain despite my ski gloves. Soon the sun had warmed the area bit and we had a chance to walk around quickly before heading back for breakfast.
The cold weather had turned us off of any trail hikes in the canyon and we decided to get an early start on our trip to Moab. The trip was to be another several hundred miles through some amazing terrain unlike anything that we are used to in the east – sometimes snow covered and sometimes resembling where you might expect to find Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner, the environment is stunning. At times, the road follows a flat landscape edged on both sides by enormous mountain ridges. Along the way we notice a small sign indicating a rest area with a view, so we stopped. This was Devil's Canyon and in my opinion its signage does not do it justice. It is well worth a more than a quick look.
As we neared Moab, the landscape changed once again. The rock formations were now distinctly reddish, steep and impressive. Our lodging for the next few days was the amazing Red Cliff Lodge, which is found on a narrow, winding road that straddles the Colorado River and is flanked on both sides by scenic buttes. My 9 year old son drew a representation of our arrival route later that day. The lodge itself is beautiful and somehow both modern and rustic at the same time and features a horse corral, Western film museum and the Castle Creek Winery. Once the boys saw the horses in the center of the lodges landscape and the bungalows radiating around it, they wanted me to take detailed photos so that they could reconstruct it in Minecraft. I told them that this would be very difficult as Minecraft is not so good with curves and circles. We'll see what they come up with.
The boys were as impressed as my wife and I with the landscape and repeatedly equated it to exotic landscapes in games that we have played. The connection to Red Dead Redemption with its Tex/Mex environs, for example, is not surprising. Borderlands and Forza Horizon also were mentioned. That day and the next were spent exploring Arches National Park and the town of Moab. Arches is a stunning and enormous place full of impressive geological formations of various types. I can only offer a few of the hundred or so photos that we took there to attempt to illustrate its grandeur.
The town of Moab reminded me of New Hope, Pennsylvania with sand. Artsy and new age, but replace the Harley Davidsons with ATVs and inject more outdoor sports. The boys, always on the lookout for souvenirs scoured the local stores and found some tiny rubber animals that they had to have. These became fixtures in some photos that we took in much the same way that a cardboard circle with a face drawn on it was in last year's trip to San Francisco. This circle was known as "Epic Face" and was a central figure in many photos from that trip.
The next morning at breakfast we overheard one of the waitresses speaking to another customer and recommending a drive not far from the lodge that promised impressive views of the terrain outside of the park. We headed out in the Yukon to find the road. I am not sure that the one that we ultimately took was the one that was recommended to the older couple sitting at the next table, at least I hope that it wasn't. I doubt that they would have made it back alive. The path that we took was called La Sal Mountain Loop Road and on its own, this is a steep and winding road with no guardrails, despite drop-offs that would mean certain death. (In fact, I found this to be the norm in Utah. In New Jersey, we put up Jersey barriers at the edge of a three foot drop, but in Utah they must laugh at our overly safety conscious ways.) La Sal Mountain Loop Road is a challenge in the enormous Yukon any day, but the morning that we went the clouds descended on the mountain and just when the road got the narrowest, visibility dropped to about twenty feet. Did mention no guardrails? Usually I am a very confident driver, but I must admit that I slowed to a crawl and took it very easy. Adding to the whole experience was the music that my wife had selected from my iPod, from Brian Eno's Ambient series, Ambient 1: Music for Airports and Ambient 4: On Land. It added the perfect otherworldly audio expression to the visuals that we were experiencing.
Eventually, we found our way back down the mountain and into the center of town. We had a delicious lunch at the Ekleticafe, which we heartily recommend and then headed back to Arches to hike some of the areas that we had missed the first day.
The soundtrack for this part of the trip was Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for the "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". A good time was had by all. We decided that we needed to see the film again soon.
It is hard to do justice to the distinct natural beauty of Arches National Park with words. The scale of stone formations is enormous and the seeming playfulness of some of the configurations is fantastic. It is no less impressive when you understand the science behind how these forms came to be. There are so many different examples, each more impressive than the next. I found it hard to limit the number of photos from the park. The whole trip just reinforced my impression how beautiful and varied the landscape of the United States is and how important it is to put the controller or mouse down every once in a while and get out and experience it in person. There simply is no substitute.
Road Trip (Pt 1: Snowbird)
Sorry that I have been a little quiet lately. I was on vacation with my family in Utah. I had never been and it was time that my boys learned how to ski. Allow me to share with some of the highlights of the week.
My wife planned the trip and did a fantastic job. We had three main destinations; Snowbird, Bryce Canyon and Moab. Being a Jersey boy, the distances between these locations seemed enormous, but things are relative (especially when the speed limits are as high as 85 MPH) and although this trip was about the destinations, much of the trip was the journey getting there. There being five of us and having considerable luggage for the various climates that we would be visiting, the trip would call for a large vehicle. Our rental did not disappoint. We upgraded to a 2013 GMC Yukon XL. For those of you not familiar with it, in its Chevy guise, it is called the Suburban. It might as well be called the suburbia. I will not compare it to my Subaru STI which sits several stores lower that this beast SUV, but I am accustomed to sitting fairly high in our Honda Odyssey and was surprised to be looking down on minivans that we passed.
The truck is also large on the inside, although apparently no vehicle is large enough to prevent my boys from annoying, hitting and just messing with one another. Choruses of complaints such as "he's taking another picture of the back of my head" were heard often. But let's start at the beginning. We skied at Snowbird for three days. The weather was great, sunny most of the time except when it snowed. We got a few inches of fresh powder which was desperately needed, especially on the bottom runs. All three boys had two days of ski school and all three took to it very well. By the end, we went on a few real runs on the main mountain. A good time was had by nearly all. My wife was not fully confident and took a lesson as well leaving me on the first day to hit the slopes alone. It was my first time in more than ten years. I am happy to report that you do not forget and I fully enjoyed the incredibly beautiful mountains as well as the modern ski gear.
When we all met up the boys were excited about skiing and commented that the mountain was just like the skiing/snowboarding game that we played a few years back, "Amped 3". This was top be another recurring theme on the trip. As one of my favorite Laurie Anderson lyrics goes, "Paradise is exactly where you are right now, only much, much better." We all relate to what we know and my boys really know games. Après ski was excellent as it always is, with my wife and I enjoying a relaxing drink and the boys cuddling up with iPads and their current favorite games. These days the list includes Pocket God, Subway Surfers, CSR Racing and Roblox. They all also dove even deeper into The Simpsons game Tapped Out, of which I am also a devotee. My Springfield has gotten rave reviews from neighborhoods kids who say things like "We play that game too. But our town is nowhere near THAT big." How could a father be more proud? My sons are 9 and 11 years old and this is proving to be an interesting age. They are one foot in innocence and the other starting to move towards teenage interests. Their choices in games follow this as well. They still enjoy plush but now exhibit interests of a more mature nature. On one of the nights after skiing we all watched the end of "For A Few Dollars More". I am a huge fan of that series of films and have shown them to the boys before, so their interest was not a surprise, but the next night, my oldest son watched "Lawrence of Arabia" with me. For those of you not familiar with it or who haven't seen it recently, the film is over three and a half hours long and includes an overture at the beginning and an intermission midway. I am not sure how much of the film he truly understood and frankly, I am not sure that I understand a good part of the second half myself. But the film held his attention and not only during the epic battle scenes that help make this film a classic.
Having had a chance to experience a real mountain and the skiing atmosphere including dips in the heated pools and Jacuzzi while it snowed, it was soon time to move on. We removed several inches of snow and ice from our family truckster and headed down the mountain.
As I mentioned before, the distances between our destinations were large, especially by our standards. My friends from Texas always pointed out that a drive of several hours was a regular occurrence and, back in the day, typically required a six-pack to be drank over the trip (which you could apparently purchase at any gas station). How some things change. Needless to say, drinking and driving was not part of our equation, so we amused ourselves the modern and electronic way. When we got on the first highway, our GPS indicated that the next turn was in 200 miles. So we listened to podcasts of WNYC's "Here's the Thing" with Alec Baldwin (highly recommended, surprisingly the kids are riveted to it) and discussed ideas for new games. My eldest was especially good at this, coming up with many interesting ideas. I told them of a new concept that a friend and I had discussed based on an old Dada era parlor game. We riffed on this for an hour or two. Hopefully, more on this soon as we develop the concept further.
More from our trip in the next post, Road Trip (Pt 2: Bryce and Moab)