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What do you think is the meaning of life?
Recent research shows that people who have a sense of purpose live longer — so if you figure out why you're here, you might even have longer to pursue that purpose.
A Huffington Post piece with the headline, Sense Of Purpose Adds Years To Your Life, Study Finds, says in part:
Researchers studying longevity say those who feel a sense of purpose and direction in life may indeed live longer, no matter what their age."Our findings point to the fact that finding a direction for life, and setting overarching goals for what you want to achieve, can help you actually live longer, regardless of when you find your purpose," said lead researcher Patrick Hill of Carleton University in Canada in a written release. "So the earlier someone comes to a direction for life, the earlier these protective effects may be able to occur."
Previous studies have suggested that finding a purpose in life lowers mortality risk above and beyond other factors that are known to predict longevity. But, Hill points out, almost no research evaluated whether the benefits of purpose vary over time, such as across different stages of a person's development.
In their research, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Hill and colleagues examined data from more than 6,000 participants over a period of 14 years, focusing on their self-reported purpose in life.
I think sense of purpose can mean a lot of different things. Personally, I place love at the top of my list, both loving and being loved. After that, I'd include using my existing skills and learning new ones, as well as expressing my creativity and supporting the creativity of others.
Perhaps focusing on what gives my life purpose means I'll get to do all of these things for decades to come.
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If CHML AM900's Scott Thompson sounds a bit thrown this week, that's because his computer shut down right at the start of our segment. The poor man had to think on his feet!
No matter–asking me one question is like lighting a six minute fuse. I blab on about my recent trip to Hollywood where I attended a couple of PaleyFest cast presentations, including salutes to both Jane the Virgin and American Horror Story: Freak Show. Homeland, Glee, Outlander and Modern Family also got the Paley treatment.
It's amazing to see a large crowd of a thousand or more collectively react to a TV episode on a big screen (the PaleyFest screenings were at the cavernous Dolby Theatre in Hollywood). There's much more whooping and hollering and just general interaction than you'd find at the average movie screening.
We also talk about Dancing with the Stars, which just returned for a 20th season. Scott asks what's the attraction. I tell him to think of it as an old fashioned variety show, only more humiliating.
We also get into the recent CRTC decisions and how Canadian content requirements have been relaxed during daytime hours. Scott wonders why there hasn't been more of an outrage. That's because Scott is on the radio every afternoon and doesn't watch daytime TV.
There's more blather about things like binge watching. You can listen in here.

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The Club Penguin team has announced that they will be trying out something new for the first time next month, May 2015! There will be two different parties happening at the same time - one will be on the mobile app, and one will be online.
On the computer: Join the Fair and Amazement Park party from May 21 to June 3st.
On the app: Join the brand new Rainbow Puffle party from May 21 to June 3st!
Club Penguin is trying this since the past parties have been limited since they have to take some things out for the mobile app. Next month we'll be able to play all the awesome Fair mini-games online. And I wonder how the Rainbow Puffle party will be like? I'm excited!
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-self pronouns
Ann from Traverse City called in to complain about an increase in the misuse of pronouns ending in -self. They are being used in place of object pronouns, as in "Give the check to John or myself," or "According to herself, the price of coffee will continue to rise."
Ann has a valid point. Those sentences should read, "Give the check to John or me," and "According to her, the price of coffee will continue to rise." Of course, being of Irish descent, I make allowance for the imperial deferential mockingly used by Irish wives: "Himself wants another cup of tea."
There are some valid pronouns ending in –self; they include myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves. There are two kinds, and their type is determined solely by their position in the sentence.
The intensive pronouns are used to intensify or emphasize the subject of the sentence or another noun or pronoun in that sentence. They are placed side by side with the word they are emphasizing.
- I myself witnessed the accident.
- He himself claims to have been
abducted by aliens.
- The play itself was designed
to stir the king's conscience.
- We
wrote the letter to the Mayor
- You yourselves
are responsible for this mess.
- I witnessed the accident myself.
- You should let yourself enjoy the magic of the moment.
- We pride ourselves on superior value and service.
- She pays herself a hefty salary.
- They like to sit in the dark all by themselves.
- Please let yourself in when you arrive; the door is unlocked.
- Don't sell yourselves short.


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A man and a woman have died in a house fire in Withington which also injured three girls and a boy.
Emergency services were called to Parsonage Road shortly before 2.30am on Friday morning to a report of a house fire.
The blaze was extinguished, but a man and a woman sadly died at the scene.
Their next-of-kin have been informed but formal identification and post-mortems are yet to take place, a spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said.
Three girls and one boy aged between 10 and 17 were taken to hospital where they are being treated for their injuries.
A man was also taken to hospital and he remains in a serious condition.
A joint investigation with GMFRS has been launched to establish the cause of the fire.
Detective Inspector Tony Lea of GMP's City of Manchester Team said: "My thoughts are with the family of the man and woman after such a tragic incident and we have specially-trained officers supporting the family at this time.
"We are continuing to work closely with GMFRS to establish exactly how this fire started and I urge anyone who may have witnessed the fire, or anyone in the area in the hours before the fire.
"If you have any information at all contact police as soon as possible so we can piece together what happened."
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting incident number 140 10/02/17 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.


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Whether you're hoping to slurp Bluepoint oysters or sip a blended cocktail, Long Island's East End has the eats your summer requires.
New York's Montauk, a once-sleepy beach town on the eastern-most point of Long Island, has long been dubbed the "End of the World." And it's no wonder: the hamlet is the last stop on the Long Island Railroad, and juts out into the Atlantic, affording panoptic views of the ocean and empty horizon.
Still, despite the isolated feeling one gets staring out from its beaches and peers, Montauk is far from remote, boasting a patchwork of top-notch restaurants, bars, bistros, and coffee shops.
Since Montauk has become known as The Hamptons' bohemian, indie-chic neighbor, the food scene has been booming, offering the world in fresh seafood and culinary creativity. That's great news, because nothing sounds better after a long day of catching waves at Ditch Plains than a lobster roll or octopus tempura.
Montauk's very best restaurants and cafes offer hyper fresh fare, a breezy vibe, and with dynamite waterfront views. Read on.


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The Board
Moving onto the board itself and we see the micro ATX familiarity we are accustom to now with the AMD platform. While there are enthusiast boards out there, the majority of them are not going Micro ATX as AMD's place has now been settled for the time being.
As for the layout, it's quite good for the micro ATX design. The 24-pin power connector along with the single IDE channel the board supports reside behind the four DDR2 memory slots; these slots are colour coded in red for channel A and yellow for channel B. A maximum of 8GB of memory can be run on this motherboard comprising 4 x2GB sticks of a max of 1066MHz.
The 4/8 pin aux power port is located below the CPU retention mechanism towards the left side of the board, requiring some cable routing around the CPU which is not the most ideal setup. The NVIDIA GeForce 8200 MCP setup requires only passive cooling, to which a large silver heatsink is installed.
The MCP78 series is a whole new generation of chipset from NVIDIA, not a patched up one like the 780i. MCP78 has native PCI Express 2.0 support for its graphics slot and its x1 slots, making it the first to have full native PCI-E 2.0 support. Add to this a six port SATA controller incorporated to support ATAPI DVD and SATA HDDs in any combination, as well as NVIDIA's RAID system, and you get yourself a good setup here. Rather than doing away with IDE like Intel has, NVIDIA still keeps IDE on its chipset, so a third party chipset is not required and no extra cost is added to the board.
NVIDIA's main focus here with the new GeForce 8200 is Hybrid SLI. This is a new design that has been thought up to combine the power of a discrete graphics card with the extra unused power of the onboard GPU. You will require a second NVIDIA GeForce based graphics card (most likely an 8 series or newer) installed into the PCI Express graphics slot. Your monitor cable is then connected to the motherboard monitor displays.
When the system is idle the discrete GPU is shut down which allows for better power savings as well as moving all the desktop rendering to the onboard GPU, thus reducing the need for the heavy usage on the external GPU. If you start to play 3D games or any other graphics intense applications, the discrete GPU is enabled via the SMBus and voila, extra power is added to the fray. The new GPU on the MCP78 is based around the DX10 supporting GeForce 8 family with SM4.0 support.
To give the CPU its power, Palit have given the board a 4-phase voltage regulation system which is more than enough to run the current generation of Athlon 64s out there, and even better for the Phenom CPU's now starting to emerge. As for the area around the CPU, since solid state capacitors are used the space is good for even the largest heatsinks out there, making this the ideal board for a totally silent or fanless setup.
The rear I/O of the board is extremely good; there are two VGA ports, one DVI-D and one CRT, so the flexibility is certainly there. The disappointing part of this board is the fact that it doesn't have HDMI which the GeForce 8200 onboard GPU does support. This moves it out of the running for a Digital Home setup, unless of course you get a graphics card with HDMI onboard, then you're set.
Lastly we come to the expansion slots that the board comes with. Being Micro ATX based there are a limited number of possibilities. First off you have an Orange PCI Express x16 slot that is PCI-E 2.0 compliant. This is designed to work with any graphics card, however if you want to use Hybrid SLI you will need certain NVIDIA cards to make that possible. We didn't have time to test this at this point; however, we have every intention of coming back to it in another article. A single PCI Express x1 slot that is also 2.0 compliant and two PCI slots make up the remaining expansion possibilities of the board.
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VOA News reports that the American Center in Kolkata arranged a mock election on Wednesday and the polling showed Barack Obama as the winner.
Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee all praised Obama at his victory in the US Presidential election.
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I was serious. No V key. And I still have yet to receive an explanation of what happened. All I get was "I have no idea". From a 33 year old man. "I have no idea." And somehow, he's still alive.
There are four things in this house that are MINE and that everyone knows to keep their grubby little hands off: My guitars & equipment, my camera, my peanut butter granola bars, and my laptop. Everything else I own gets destryoed by the clueless husband or the monkey-like children or the smelly dog and I rarely complain. But, he breaks my laptop while I'm out and then tells me he has no idea what happened. He didn't even have enough sense to blame it on the dog. (Has he learned NOTHING?!)
And if you don't think that's enough to justify killing him, please, just take a look at my dining room table:
People! There are 37 bags and 4 boxes of Utz potato chips on my dining room table. Just sitting there. Making a mess. Making us look like disgusting, gluttonous pigs. Making us look like we're collecting welfare.
So, my husband comes in with some chips in his hands. He says, "While I was working, the Utz guy was unloading these and asked if I wanted some." Ummm, okay, whatever. Then he goes outside and brings in some more. Then he goes back outside and brings in even more. 4 more trips later, this is what my dining room table looks like. It took me 15 minutes just to be able to form the words to ask him "WHY!?!" because I was so perplexed at the fact that there are 40 bags of chips in my dining room.
His answer, "Well, he was just going to throw them away!"
My response, "Well, WE are just going to throw them away! So what's the difference?"
I've mentioned before that Ty is one of 12 children in his family. He grew up pretty poor and learned to be resourceful and, lucky me!, not waste any food. So, I guess in his head it was somehow wrong to let the Potato Chip Man throw away 40 bags of chips. But, ummmm, dude. DUDE! We do not have 12 children! We are not poor! We don't even really eat chips! I mean, we'll have a handful with a sandwich or something, but when I buy a bag, I usually end up throwing it away a third full because they've gone stale. And, if in the off chance that one of us decides that we would like some chips and we don't have any chips, I think it's safe to say that we can afford to go out and buy a bag. We're crazy like that!
Who the fuck needs 40 bags of chips? And what the hell am I going to do with them?
I mean, I guess I could take them to a homeless shelter or something like that, where they might actually get eaten. But, hey, thanks honey! Thank you for volunteering me to do charity work! (OMG!!!1 You selfish wh0Re, how can y0u c0mPlain aBouT doiNg ChaRity?!!?!1)(That's not it, people, it's the PRINCIPLE.)
I could just be lazy and throw them out. But, I've mentioned here before that you actually have to PAY to put your trash out in my township. (No, I'm not kidding.) That means, I'm PAYING to get rid of the FREE chips that my husband so brilliantly decided to bring home.
Are you understanding yet why it's so amazing that he is still alive?


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May will herald one of the most important events to be held in Ireland...
This is the full programme of events for the Kilrush Famine Commemoration, May 3rd to May 12th .
The above is just one of the many heart wrenching illustrations on the Famine Commemoration site.. to view more visit
The site is very comprehensive... you may like to read about the history, part of which is below...
CILL ROIS, meaning the church of the woods has existed since the 16th century but it was not until the 18th century that it underwent major development. This development coincided with the succession of John Ormsby Vandeleur as the wealthiest landlord in the district. Of Dutch origin, the Vandeleur Family was the most prominent landlord family in West Clare. They designed the layout of the town and many of the present day street names derive from Vandeleur family names.
John Ormsby Vandeleur built the large family home, Kilrush House in 1808 and by that stage he practically owned Kilrush. Scots businessman James Patterson, who had been a gunboat lieutenant until 1802 became a friend of John Ormsby Vandeleur and entered the oats trade in West Clare, in 1802 he got a site on the square from Vandeleur and erected a six-storey building.
The Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) lead to an improvement in agricultural prices and Kilrush and the neighbouring countryside began to prosper. In 1812 Patterson went into the shipping business and by 1817 he had a steamboat operating regularly between Limerick & Kilrush. The increasing popularity of Kilkee as a bathing resort brought many transit travellers to Kilrush.
In 1837 Kilrush was described as a seaport, market and post town. The main industries were flannels, stockings and bundle cloth. The main trade was corn, butter, pigs, agricultural products and hides. There were works for refining rock salt for domestic use, a tanyard, a soap factory and a nail factory. Branches of the national and agricultural banks opened in the town and a constabulary police force was also stationed here. A small bridewell was built in 1825 and a court house in 1831.
The famine years (1845-1849) brought much hardship to Kilrush, the evictions, fever and cholera reduced the population of south-west Clare to such an extent that it never attained its pre famine numbers. In the post famine era, the Vandeleur name became synonymous with the worst of landlord evictions, with over 20,000 evicted in the Kilrush area. The Kilrush workhouse witnessed terrible deprivation and deaths. By that stage Hector Vandeleur had succeeded John Ormsby Vandeleur.
To read more.... http://www.faminecommemoration2013.ie/node/5


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Summit Seeks New Focus on School Reform
The nation's governors and top corporate executives will trumpet standards and technology as medicine for what ails the nation's schools when they gather next month in New York state for an education summit.
Details of the summit began to emerge last week at the National Governors' Association's winter meeting here.
Led by Gov. Tommy G. Thompson of Wisconsin and Louis V. Gerstner Jr., the chairman and chief executive officer of IBM, summit organizers said that as of last week 37 of the governors already had pledged to attend. The March 26-27 event likely will be the most high-powered discussion of state education policy since 1989, when the 50 state governors met with President Bush and agreed to set national education goals.
But unlike at that meeting in Charlottesville, Va., state leaders will not be focused on a comprehensive list of reform targets. Next month's meeting will be a narrowly focused effort to galvanize support for school standards and wider use of computers and other technology in precollegiate classrooms.
"We will examine the evidence that high standards increase student achievement," Mr. Gerstner told the governors last week. "We will see how technology can multiply a teacher's power, speed the education process, and draw increased numbers of students into learning activities."
The summit will be at the International Business Machines Corp.'s conference center near the Hudson River in Palisades, N.Y. IBM, based in Armonk, N.Y., is the world's largest computer maker.
Though deliberations on federal Medicaid and welfare reforms overshadowed any discussion of the summit at last week's NGA meeting, governors working behind the scenes to plan the March meeting said many of their colleagues are eager to focus new attention on school issues.
"We made some big breakthroughs here, but we would really like to turn the attention of the country back to schools and a more positive set of reforms," Nevada Gov. Bob Miller, a Democrat, said at the end of the NGA meeting.
Emphasis on Standards
What Gov. Thompson, a Republican, conceived last fall as a "small, intense meeting that will produce action" has set its sights on a pair of school-improvement topics that have risen on states' agendas this winter. (See Education Week, Oct. 4, 1995.)
Many governors and legislatures have seized on the promotion of state and local academic standards.
And they have signaled that they will open their pocketbooks wider than ever to buy computers and other technological accessories while school spending otherwise seems tight.
The summit agenda likely will vault academic standards and classroom technology into a higher orbit.
A discussion paper prepared for the NGA meeting stipulated that the governors would agree to adopt "world-class academic standards, assessments, and accountability systems in each of their states over the next two years. The governors would also pledge to make curriculum and technology decisions based on reaching those standards.
The document describes computer technology as a tool that will equalize classroom offerings, boost family involvement in schools, improve students' employability, spur creativity, boost grades, expand teacher professionalism, and customize student learning.
Standards are envisioned as a means to push teachers to reach more students, open a local debate over what schools should accomplish, reinforce effective teaching practices, and set a high-stakes measure for school performance.
"Standards must be in place in our schools and must be in place quickly," the document says.
Mr. Gerstner promised the governors that the summit will showcase existing standards in schools, states, and several foreign countries.
"We will not argue about whether a problem really exists or how serious is the crisis," he said. "We will examine the depth of the public's support for standards, using results from polls and focus groups. We will look at the practical and political barriers to adopting standards, and identify strategies to overcome these barriers."
Who Will Make the List?
With the summit agenda taking shape, the biggest hurdle facing planners may be breaking the news to those who are not invited.
The organizers expect up to 130 participants. Each governor can invite one corporate representative, and planners have drawn up a tightly held list of 30 other invited guests--a number that is sure to leave many education organizations feeling shortchanged.
Meanwhile, the list of expected corporate leaders reads like a who's who of the New York Stock Exchange. The leaders of the Aluminum Co. of America, the Ameritech Corp., the Ashland Oil Inc., the McDonnell Douglas Corp., and the Prudential Insurance Co. of America are scheduled to attend.
They will join the corporate bosses on the event's steering committee representing the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the BellSouth Corp., the Boeing Co., the Eastman Kodak Co., and the Procter & Gamble Co.
"Historically, education has been approached singularly by government," said Gov. Miller of Nevada, one of the summit planners. "It's time that we step aside and realize there is some valuable input to be received from business leaders. It's important to see if we can learn from them as they will learn from us."
'Goals Not Enough'
The governors acknowledge that an elite crowd or a pared-down agenda will not guarantee success. Their planning paper criticizes the unmet promises of the 1989 summit and pledges that next month's gathering will not set expectations that cannot be met.
"While we remain committed to the national education goals, it is clear that simply setting goals is not enough," the document says, conceding that none of goals set at the 1989 summit will be reached by 2000--the year they were supposed to all be realized.
This time, instead of challenging themselves to find ways to reach a set of goals, the governors say they will devote themselves to a strategy.
"We believe that efforts to set clear, common, and community-based academic standards for students in a given school district or state is a necessary step in any effort to improve student performance," the governors' document says. "We are convinced that technology, if applied thoughtfully and well-integrated into a curriculum, can be used to boost student performance and ensure a competitive edge for our workforce."
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If a target enemy Normal Unit or Hero fails a Resistance roll at -1, control of this unit is transferred to the casting wizard for as long as Possession remains in effect.A possessed unit is always destroyed at the end of the battle.
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|As of Master of Magic v1.31, Possession is known to be malfunctioning in at least one way. Please read the Known Bugs section below.
Unless Possession is dispelled before combat ends, it will destroy the unit at the end of the battle (if it reaches the end alive at all). Possessed units will never carry on back to the campaign map.
Effects Edit
Possession warps the very mind of a target enemy Normal Unit or Hero, making them little more than puppets in the hands of Possession's caster. They will fight for this wizard like any of his other units, and will be executed at the end of the battle.
Control Exchange Edit
When Possession is cast on a target unit, that unit must make a Resistance roll at a penalty of -1. If the unit succeeds its roll, then Possession fizzles harmlessly. However if the unit fails its roll, control of this unit is transferred to Possession's casting wizard.
That wizard gets to move the unit as though it was his own, and make any attack or use any of the unit's other abilities (if it has any). The unit may now attack its former friends, and its friends may now attack it. It has effectively switched sides.
Unless Possession is dispelled, the unit will remain a part of the enemy army for the remainder of the battle - whereupon it is immediately and automatically destroyed. There is no way to save a Possessed unit from being destroyed - even pulling it out of battle with the Word of Recall spell will not result in it appearing on the overland map after the battle. In this way, Possession is effectively a death sentence, which can only be averted if it is dispelled!
Note: The -1 penalty is not mentioned anywhere in the game manual or in-game tooltips. However it is demonstrably true, as the spell will occasionally affect units with 10, but never those with 11. Testing also shows that the ratio of success for this spell corresponds with -1.
Usage Edit
Possession may only be cast during combat, for a Casting Cost of 30. It must be targeted at an enemy Normal Unit or Hero. It cannot affect creatures mutated by Chaos Channels nor the Undead.
The enemy unit receives a chance to Resist this Curse. However it must do so at a penalty of -1. Any unit that succeeds this roll will not be affected by Possession. Units with 11 are completely immune to the spell.
Once Possession is successfully cast on a unit, it will immediately switch sides. If the unit has any Movement Points left over from the previous round, it may move, attack, or use any special abilities immediately after falling under this curse.
There is no visual indication on the battlefield that the unit is Possessed. Of course, if you can select the unit, then it is part of your army now. Also, its details panel will show the icon for the Possession spell.
Acquisition Edit
As an Uncommon Death spell, Possession may become available to any Wizard who possesses at least one Death Spellbook. However, its availability during the game is almost never guaranteed.
Customized Wizards possessing 11 Spellbooks at creation time may choose this spell as one of their default spells before starting the game, in which case the spell will already be researched and available for casting immediately on the first turn.
Wizards who possess at least 8 Spellbooks, or Wizards with 11 Spellbooks who did not select Possession as a guaranteed spell, will be able to Research this spell at some point during their campaign. Wizards with fewer than 8 Spellbooks have a random chance of being able to Research it. The chance for this spell to appear increases with the number of Death Spellbooks the Wizard possesses or obtains during gameplay.
Possession has a base Research Cost of 350.
With at least 1 Spellbook, the Possession spell may be acquired as a reward for winning encounters in creature Lairs, Towers, et cetera, or when conquering the Fortress of a rival wizard who has already researched this spell.
Strategy Edit
Possession is quite a powerful spell - if it can get through the target's Resistance. Aside from adding an extra unit to your force (and reducing the enemy's force by one unit), it also spells death for the Possessed unit as it will be destroyed by the end of the battle.
Try to target a strong unit with a low Resistance score, as this will increase the chance of the unit changing sides. Alternatively, you can repeatedly attempt to cast Possession on a high-value enemy unit, such as a Hero. While this doesn't always work (such units usually have high Resistance), the payoff is usually very significant.
Bugs Edit
The Possession spell is afflicted by several different bugs, glitches, and exploits.
Valid TargetsEdit
The documentation for this spell indicates that it can only affect Normal Units. In fact, it can also affect Heroes.
The Possession spell can only be dispelled by its caster - who has no real reason to want to do so. It cannot be dispelled by the target's original owner. This is because the Possession effect is classified as a hostile effect, and hostile effects on a unit can only be dispelled by that unit's controller. With Possessed units, the caster of the hostile spell becomes the controller of the unit, leading to this illogical situation.
Note however that dispelling Possession is entirely useless regardless, as it does not cause the unit to return to its original owner's control anyway.
Army Size LimitsEdit
Since the size of an army is normally limited to 9 units, and no more than two armies can participact in any battle, the game is normally designed to handle only up to 18 units on the battlefield at any given time. It also preserves this limit by preventing players from summoning additional units if they already have 9 units on the battlefield.
Possession, however, allows a wizard to control more than 9 units in combat, by taking a unit from the opponent's army. The 18-unit limit remains unbroken, because no new unit is created - one is simply transferred from one army to the other. However, if both players had 9 units each on the battlefield before the spell was cast, Possession now leaves one army with 8 units, and the other with 10. The problem is that the game now believes that the player who has 8 units now has room in his army to summon an additional combat unit. Doing so will increase the number of the units on the battlefield above 18, which will then immediately crash the game.


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I´m finally back with a new post here after a long Christmas break!
I decided to give my self a challenge to get mu mojo starting again. The challenge was to only use what I could find on my desk! I had some scrap, bits and pieces from my last Christmas cards. Not my proudest moment ;) but hey I managed to get together a card and finished my challenge!
I used a die from Marianne Design called Christmas Tree. I´m not sure were the chipboard is from. It was already painted red and not in it´s package.
The Poinsettia is handmade by me and I used Foamiran from Woc. The snowflakes are from Snipart.
All flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. I sprinkled a lot of fake snow on the card to get a sparkly and snowy feeling. My papers are from Melissa Frances and Maja Design.
It feels good to have already started my Christmas cards for 2018 :)


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Deregulation Has Helped Us to Save Money in My State
As someone who has spent most of their life in Texas, I'll say I love my state. I originally grew up in the west where it's hot, dusty and the people are somewhat friendly. Where I am now, it's hot, green and the people are friendly. But I have always wished we had more choice when it comes to where we buy our electricity from. I spent some time reading through http://www.texasenergycompanies.net/electricity-company-rates-texas/r/round-rock/ lately, and I was reminded that I once had little choice in the matter.
If you lived in the Austin/Round Rock area over ten years ago, you had no choice but to purchase your electricity service through the city itself. While people in other states found themselves getting to choose from a variety of companies to go with for utility service, people in my area felt powerless. If we were unhappy with pricing, there was nothing that we could do about it.
Over time, people began demanding that something be done about it. It was then that the local government passed a law that allowed deregulation. Soon after that, a variety of companies moved in to purchase electricity through he city's generators and sell it to customers at great rates. Thankfully, this also helped with bringing about even better competitive pricing.
Now, if I'm unhappy with the service or pricing with one particular company, I can move on to another company that makes me happy, rather than the other way around. It is true that the city government is still responsible for delivering the electricity to our homes, and they are also responsible for maintaining our power lines, but we are not beholden to them for our monthly bill anymore. I would say that most people I know are really happy about the fact that we can now buy through reseller companies.


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The Bon-bonnets arrived just in time for me to take them with me to the beach so that Maggie, my favorite little toddler, could model them for us. Isn't she as sweet as she can be?
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Unfortunately, during this little photoshoot, Maggie's little bon-bon fell off (it's a magnet) and we never did find it. It made me think to tell you that it's not permanently afixed and that such a thing could happen, especially if you have a toddler who is the wiggly sort (and aren't they all?)


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La Sen Bistro, 2002 Salvio St., Concord. 925-363-7870; www.lasenbistro.com. Berkeley's beloved La Rose has moved to a prime spot off Todos Santos Plaza. The name may be new but the menu offers classic dishes, like steak tartare and soup l'oignon, for Francophile foodies. $$. (* * * on 2/21/13)
Gianni's Italian Bistro, 2065 San Ramon Valley Blvd., San Ramon. 925-820-6969, www.giannissanramon.com. The founder of the beloved Incontro restaurant has returned to his roots — and the Italian restaurant's original venue. Cozy surroundings, great gnocchi. $$-$$$. (* * ½ on 2/14/13)
Padi, 2965 College Ave., Berkeley. 510-841-1608; www.padibayarea.com. Indonesian restaurants are rare here, but Padi offers authentic, fiery Sumatran comfort food. Don't miss the spicy "smashed" chicken thighs with sambal, and considerably tamer perkedel (mashed potato pancakes). $. (* * * on 1/24/13)
Bull Valley Roadhouse, 14 Canyon Lake Drive, Port Costa. 510-787-1135, www.bullvalleyroadhouse.com. This retro, rustic marvel mixes farm fresh, seasonal fare with pre-Prohibition era charm, Bee's Knees cocktails — and a staff that hails from Slanted Door. $$-$$$. (* * * ½ on 1/17/13)
Slow Hand BBQ, 1941 Oak Park Blvd., Pleasant Hill. 925-942-0149, www.slowhandbbq.com. A popular barbecue-centric food cart goes bricks and mortar at this new eatery that showcases smoky brisket, ribs, pulled pork and a terrific craft beer list. $-$$. (* * * on 1/3/13)
B-Dama, 4301A Piedmont Ave., Oakland. 510-420-1578, www.b-dama-geta.com. This cozy izakaya offers plenty of small plates, yakitori, kushiyaki, udon and sushi to savor, but it balances the bar-noshing scene with family friendliness too. $. (* * ½ on 12/27/12)
Plate & Vine, 1970 Diamond Blvd., Concord. 925-680-1700; www.plateandvinerestaurant.com. The Hilton has completely revamped its dining room and turned it into an organic, sustainable farm-to-fork venture with reclaimed barn wood decor and winery riddling racks, and dishes such as butternut squash risotto, braised short ribs and divers scallops in brown butter. $$. (* * ½ on 12/13/12)
Johnny Garlic's, 4920 Dublin Blvd., Suite 265, Dublin. 925-248-2347, www.johnnygarlics.com. Guy Fieri's popular, family-friendly Dublin eatery boasts flavorful steaks, ribs, pasta dishes and burgers. $$-$$$. (* * ½ on 11/22/12)
Opa!, 1532 N. Main St., Walnut Creek. 925-891-4700, www.opawillowglen.com. This loud, spirited taverna offers authentic Greek souvlaki, moussaka, mezzes and enough flat-screen TVs to delight any sports enthusiast. $$-$$$. (* * ½ on 11/1/12)
Blackhawk Grille, 3540 Blackhawk Circle Plaza, Danville. 925-736-4295, www.blackhawkgrille.com. A gorgeous redesign and new, modern tavern menu — including blue crab cakes, steak frites and a killer butterscotch bread pudding — have given new life to this Blackhawk classic. $$. (* * * on 10/18/12)
District Oakland, 827 Washington St., Oakland. 510-272-9110. This stylish uptown eatery sets the bar as the whiskey lounge by which others will be judged. Flavorful tapas, such as Moroccan lamb meatballs and spinach and fontina arancini, and fine service round out the experience. $$. (* * * on 10/11/12)
Lokanta, 443 Main St., Pleasanton. 925-223-8074, www.eatlokanta.com. This bar and grill offers cocktails, mezes and Mediterranean entrees — moussaka, pistachio-crusted snapper, grilled salmon and kebabs — in a brick-lined bistro setting. $$. (* * ½ on 10/4/12)
Hopscotch, 915 San Pablo Ave., Oakland. 510-788-6217; http://hopscotchoakland.com. This trendy, tiny eatery serves up great cocktails and inventive American food with a Japanese sensibility. Don't miss the beer-steamed clams and the sweet potato gnocchi. $$. (* * * on 9/6/12)
Skates on the Bay, 100 Seawall Drive, Berkeley. 510-549-1900, www.skatesonthebay.com. This freshly renovated waterfront restaurant features a new raw bar, reliable seafood classics mixed with inventive new eats, and gorgeous bay views. $$$. (* * * ½ on 8/30/12)
Comal, 2020 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. 510-926-6300, www.comalberkeley.com. This Berkeley Arts District eatery boasts a stylish warehouse-chic interior, mezcal flights and terrific regional Mexican food from Oaxaca and the Yucatan, including street tacos, ceviche and lamb barbacoa. $$. (* * * ½ on 8/23/12)
Sauced, 2300 First St., #120, Livermore. 925-961-1300, www.saucedbbqandspirits.com. More upscale than your typical BBQ joint, Sauced pays homage to the nation's barbecue hot spots, with St. Louis cut spareribs, Carolina pulled pork, Texans' favorite beef brisket and Kansas City-style sauce. Plus, cocktails. $$. (* * * ½ on 8/9/12)
Barbacoa, Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda. 925-254-1183, http://barbacoaorinda.com. Adorned with Day of the Dead murals, this laid-back neighborhood restaurant offers antojitos, street tacos, barbacoa and other regional Mexican fare, as well as a tequila bar and patio dining. $$. (* * * on 7/12/12)
Honor Bar, Grill & Cocktails, 1411 Powell St., Emeryville. 510-653-8667; http://honorbar.com. This modern speak-easy specializes in artisanal cocktails, local microbrews and terrific pub grub, including a crawfish boil and grilled steaks. Table service is limited and sound levels are high. $$. (* * * on 6/21/12)
The Corners Tavern, 1342 Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek. 925-948-8711, http://cornerstavern.com. Upscale comfort food — don't miss the ale-battered fish — plus a hip, eclectic vibe and massive roll-up doors make this New American tavern the place to be on a warm, balmy evening. $$-$$$. (* * * on 5/31/12)
Terra Mia, 4040 East Ave., Livermore. 925-456-3333, www.terramialivermore.com. This popular Italian trattoria delivers fresh Calabrian flavors, thin-crust pizzas, flavorful pasta dishes and plenty of neighborhood charm. $$. (* * * on 5/24/12)
Incanto, 1550 Church St., San Francisco. 415-641-4500, http://incanto.biz. Chef Chris Cosentino is known for his way with offal and his salumi-making skills. The Italian menu features sweet breads, tuna heart, lamb neck and other nose-to-tail fare. $$-$$$. (* * ½ on 5/17/12).
Santorini, 105A Town and Country Drive, Danville. 925-743-1035; www.santorinidanville.com. Despite its name and Aegean decor, Santorini — which is run by the same people behind Walnut Creek's Silk Road — showcases a broad array of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes, including pomegranate chicken, skewered meats, Persian stews and truly addictive house-made pita and dipping oil. $$. (* * * on 4/26/12)
Lone Tree Thai, 5401 Lone Tree Way, Brentwood. 925-516-3343; www.lonetreethai.com. Fast, friendly service and a few enticing, flavorful dishes are the hallmark of a great neighborhood Thai place, and this one delivers. The Name Kow Tod salad is a stunner, kids will love the satays, and vegetarians will be delighted to know that every dish can be tweaked for them. $$. (* * ½ on 4/19/12)
Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Ave., Berkeley. 510-704 0174; www.himalayanflavors.com. There's considerably more than the usual vindaloos among the savory offerings here. This fare will open your eyes to the cuisines of Bhutan and Nepal, from momos and noodles to vegetarian dishes. $-$$. (* * ½ on 4/12/12)
Rumbo al Sur, 4239 Park Blvd., Oakland. 510-479-1208; www.rumboalsurrestaurant.com. Pan-Latin American heat, bold flavors and a cozy dining room add up to a memorable evening at this small-plates place, the newest venture from the people behind A Cote. $$. (* * * on 4/5/12)
YiPing, 2416 San Ramon Valley Blvd., Suite 140, San Ramon. 925-838-7188; http://yipingrestaurant.com. Bold and spicy Sichuan specialties, local, organic ingredients and a smartly crafted wine list set YiPing apart. Among the memorable dishes: stir-fried cumin lamb with red bell peppers and jalapeños, house-made pot stickers and incendiary Dan Dan noodles. $$. (* * * on 3/29/12)
Kobe Japan, 1918 Oak Park Blvd., Pleasant Hill. 925-705-7065; www.kobejapanrestaurant.com. This teppanyaki restaurant provides plenty of tasty fare, as well as Benihana-style spatula acrobatics and fiery spectacles, making it a winner for families and the after-work crowd. $$-$$$. (* * ½ on 3/8/12)
Faz, 1111 Broadway, Oakland. 510-272-1111; www.fazrestaurants.com. The newest in Faz Poursohi's chain of Mediterranean restaurants brings Persian, Italian and Greek specialties — including cannelloni, kebabs and pasta — to Oakland's City Center. $$. (* * ½ on 3/1/12)
El Sacromonte, 2062 First St., Livermore. 925-371-1173; http://elsacromonte-usa.com. This artsy, romantic newcomer to Livermore's dining scene offers fabulous decor, artwork from Guadalajara and authentic, gourmet Mexican fare that's the polar opposite of Tex-Mex. Sip a high-end margarita or a little pinot noir as you sample the ceviche, artistically plated entrees and delicious desserts. $$$. (* * * on 2/23/12)
Haven, 44 Webster St., Oakland. 510-663-4440; www.havenoakland.com. This Jack London Square restaurant is Daniel Patterson's follow-up to his popular Uptown spot, Plum. With executive chef Kim Alter at the helm, the menu features artfully prepared, nouvelle California fare, with an emphasis on gorgeous, seasonal vegetables and creative technique. $$$. (* * * ½ on 2/9/12)
Coco Cabana, 4500-C Tassajara Road, Dublin. 925-556-9055; www.cococabanadublin.com. This tapas, tequila and wine lounge sways to a Latin-American beat, with flavor-infused small plates, south-of-the-border-inspired entrees and a lively vibe to match. $$-$$$. (* * * on 2/2/12)
Creek Monkey Tap House, 611 Escobar St., Martinez. 925-228-8787; http://creekmonkey.com. In a city that practically rolls up its sidewalks when the courthouse closes, a casual gastropub with extended hours is pretty darn heavenly. Add in locally grown farm-fresh fare, burgers, mac and cheese. $-$$. (* * * on 1/5/12)
Kadupul, 8939 San Ramon Road, Dublin. 925-556-3170; www.kadupul.us. Pakistani and Indian curry joints abound, but Kadupul is on a mission to introduce the cuisine of Sri Lanka — along with all its Malaysian, Thai and Dutch influences. There's classic biryani for less adventuresome diners, but don't miss the banana leaf-wrapped lamprais with spiced meat and saffron rice. $-$$. (* * * ½ on 12/15/11)
Cypress, 1388 Locust St., Walnut Creek. 925-891-4197; http://cypresswc.com. With its masculine decor, killer wine program and old-school dishes, such as oysters Rockefeller, this retro brasserie puts contemporary spins on classics, such as roasted chicken and grilled New York steak. But the winning dishes are the ones with chef Rick Delamain's French touches. $$$. (* * * on 12/8/11)


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This is a Student Assistant A, Step 6 $9.75/hr Labor Pool at KBC. Hours are 4-5 per week.
Duties/Responsibilities: Assist Lab Technician in inventory/organization of laboratory equipment and materials for Ceramics, Art, and laboratory classes; organize and label equipment; wash, organize and put away glassware; return materials to appropriate storage location; set up lab stations for classes; assist with stockroom inventory, filing and data entry; other duties as assigned.
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The Cambridge Agreement[1] was an agreement made on August 29, 1629, between the shareholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company, at Cambridge, England. Under its terms, shareholders who intended to emigrate to the New World purchased shares held by those who did not want to emigrate. The agreement led directly to the foundation of Boston, Massachusetts.
The Cambridge Agreement decided that the Massachusetts Bay Colony would be under local control in New England, rather than under the control of a corporate board in London. Not all the shareholders of the Company were actually interested in emigrating, even if they were sympathetic Puritans. In return for guaranteeing local control over the colony, the non-emigrating shareholders were bought out by the emigrating shareholders. John Winthrop became leader of the emigrating group as a result of the negotiations; he was elected the company and colonial governor in October 1629.
The agreement guaranteed that Massachusetts would be a self-governing colony, answerable only to the English Crown. The Colony and the Company were now, for all intents and purposes, one and the same. Winthrop's Puritans carried their own charter, as well as the agreement, on their journey to New England in 1630.
12 Signers:
- Richard Saltonstall
- Thomas Dudley
- William Vassall
- Nich. West
- Isaac Johnson
- John Humphrey
- Thomas Sharp
- Increase Nowell
- John Winthrop
- William Pynchon
- Kellam Browne
- William Colbron
- Jones, Augustine (1900). The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley, the Second Governor of Massachusetts. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin. OCLC 123194823.
Further reading
- see http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/agreement-of-the-massachusetts-bay-company-at-cambridge-england/ for text of the agreement


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Wyndottes are both good quality for their meat and also for the lovely pale brown or tan coloured eggs that they produce.
These hens are devoted mothers and brood well.
You can find a wide variations of this breed from the Silver Laced, Golden Laced, Blue Laced Red, Buff Laced, Columbian, Partridge, Silver Pencilled, Mille Fleur. Overall there are approx. 17 colours.
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Read More: celebrity sexuality, Kristen Stewart
In an interview with Nylon magazine, actress Kristen Stewart went into details about her sexuality and the conversations around swelling in the tabloids about her personal life, particularly photos of her holding hands with Alicia Cargile:
Google me, I'm not hiding… If you feel like you really want to define yourself, and you have the ability to articulate those parameters and that in itself defines you, then do it. But I am an actress, man. I live in the fucking ambiguity of this life and I love it. I don't feel like it would be true for me to be like, 'I'm coming out!' No, I do a job. Until I decide that I'm starting a foundation or that I have some perspective or opinion that other people should be receiving…I don't. I'm just a kid making movies… I think in three or four years, there are going to be a whole lot more people who don't think it's necessary to figure out if you're gay or straight. It's like, just do your thing."
Stewart has long been the subject of lesbian rumors (or attacks), a topic the actress has tried to avoid. But one doesn't have to tumble too hard to realize she's got a massive female fanbase.
Her 2010 move, The Runaways, involved a kissing scene with fellow actress Dakota Fanning and the press around the movies release chose that to be the focus of the otherwise highly-rated film:
Last April, Stewart candidly discussed her sexuality with Nylon magazine:
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Now that we have two boys - the bar is a distant memory and a house party is now called a dinner party!
We didn't get up to much this weekend. Friday was a normal Friday for us. I made homemade Taquitos again - They are Chris' favorite right now. Not SUPER difficult to make, but does take some work.
Homemade Taquitos:
What you will need:
- 3 Chicken Breasts cut into small cubes
- 1 large Green Pepper chopped
- 1 large Onion chopped
- 1 1/2 cups of frozen Corn
- 2 packages of Taco Seasoning
- Package of Medium sized Tortillas
- Grated Cheese
- 2 cups of Oil
- Toothpicks
In a large skillet, brown the chicken. Add the peppers, onions and corn and saute for 5 minutes. Follow the Taco Seasoning instructions (1 cup of water per packet of seasoning) Cook down till there is little to no fluid left.
Heat another skillet with oil in it. The oil should be at about 375* - you can test it out by cutting a small strip of tortilla to see if it fries.
Take a tortilla, add a small amount of the chicken mixture and some grated cheese and roll TIGHT. Secure the roll with a toothpick.
Place into oil and fry on both sides (about 3 minutes each side)
Take out of oil and drain on paper towel.
Serve with salsa or sour cream.
James' Unkie Keegs stopped by as well! James has a lot of 'Uncles' and he loves each and everyone of them. James and Keegs built a LARGE tower with Jimbo's Lego Duplo. He was so proud of it!
Saturday was another relax kinda day. We had to go to Walmart to get a few things, so we did that. Graham was great in the Ergo - he is starting to really like being in it. THANK GOODNESS! We ordered Pizza for dinner as I wasn't keen on cooking and just spent the night in.
Yesterday was OSCARS night! I love award show season! We went the Chris' parents for appies and to watch the show. I loved seeing all the dresses and what not. Chris and I got to see quite a few of the best Picture nominees so we were rooting for out favorites. Silver Linings Playbook was one of our favorites as well as Beasts of the Southern Wild. I was SO happy when Anne Hathaway won for best Supporting Actress and also when Jen Lawrence won Best Actress. I will say I was shocked that Argo won Best Picture - it was a good one, but I thought maybe Lincoln would take it. Lincoln was hard to get through. I couldn't finish it!
We didn't get the boys home till well after 9:00 which is late for both of them. But we all had a great time and James even 'slept in' this morning!
Here's to starting the week off on a good note!
Hope you all had a great weekend!


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Plumes Deconstructs Grimes Many Visions: Plumes Deconstructs the Music of Grimes is a genre-spanning music collaboration that seeks to explore and ultimately blur the lines between classical and pop. Thirteen contemporary classical composers have been asked to reimagine and rework the thirteen tracks on Grimes'[...] Read more
Anna Pidgorna's Invented Folk Songs With its balance of bold colour palettes, strong melodic profiles, and unexpected performative elements, composer Anna Pidgorna's work has been catching eyes and ears of late. Her chamber opera On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo recieved a 2013 SOCAN Foundation Award, and Light-Play through[...] Read more
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Music from the New Wilderness What can sound tell us about a place? Listen to British Columbia, and it might sound something like Music from the New Wilderness, a multimedia performance work that conjures B.C.'s past and evolving present by incorporating historical and current field recordings into new compositions[...] Read more
Anna Höstman Tunes In To Her Roots There's no place like home. For Anna Höstman, winner of the 2013 Toronto Emerging Composer Award, home is the Bella Coola Valley, a remote wilderness wonderland on British Columbia's central coast. Its rich cultural history dates back 10,000 years to the Nuxalkmc people (now[...] Read more
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Makoto AsakuraBlame her absent father for the accident suffered by his mother and his brother and his injuries that are discovered when killed.
Who really mistreated she was his mother, who went on to mistreat her brother when he was born. She is killed by Kuroe
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Junior Sales Representatives - No sales experience needed
- Recruiter
- NonStop Recruitment Ltd
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- Negotiable
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- Jun 13, 2018
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Junior Sales Representatives - No experience needed
I am currently working with a major player within the cell manufacturing field, looking for their new Sales Representatives to cover the German market. You will be able to work autonomously, and develop your own network of clients throughout the country, ensuring your progression now and in the future. Additonally, the company prioritises its employees' developments very highly, and as such is able to ensure that you continue to develop from Day 1.
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- Life science degree (PhD. or MSc., ideally with a focus on cell biology)
- Solid communication and writing skills in German and English
- The ability to present scientific and technical concepts to diverse audiences.
You will become part of the German cluster, and work together with the rest of your colleagues to ensure overall success. Personally, you will be homebased, and be the sole person responsible for your area in Germany. You thus get to plan your very own working day, and can fit this role around family and social life. For this reason, it is however essential that you do have the abovementioned experience.
To apply for this opportunity contact Andra Korb at +49 (0) 8921 0933 63 | Int Ext: 3482, or Email a copy of your CV in Word Format to email@example.com
I am a specialised recruiter within Sales and Marketing in the Diagnostic industry. I therefore have access to a wide network within the industry, which is not available otherwise. If the above opportunity doesn't have your interest, but you would like to hear more about potential opportunities, then you are welcome to contact me for a noncommittal, confidential chat.
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So when last we left our footgear, we were most of a foot short of a full sock. And silly me, I thought my biggest issue was going to be what other yarn to choose to make up a full order. The first skein of Trekking came from Webs, you see, and their sliding discount (not to mention shipping charges) is powerful incentive to buy more than just one ball of yarn.
But I'm currently already six or seven projects ahead of myself, which I know makes me a piker. But I really was really having trouble thinking what additional projects I wanted to do. So I went online to look and found...Webs was out of my colorway. Back-ordered. Hope to have more in several weeks. (Let me say here, that Webs' customer service is quite excellent, and it's not their fault they were unable to help in this instance.)
I was crushed. Despondent. Had to cast on a pair of mittens to take my mind off it. (We'll get into the issue of why, when you have a Christmas list full of stuff with deadlines, one feels the need to start something completely new in another post.)
So I idly googled Trekking, wondering if by any chance anyone else had it. Preferably someone else who wouldn't charge me an arm and a leg in shipping. I knew that my local yarn store doesn't carry Trekking. I looked at sites for several other stores in the area, noted one possible to call. And then. Up pops the name of a store a few towns over that I'd never heard of. That I drive right by every week on my way to karate. "Nah," I said. "That would be just too convenient. Still, I should check it out."
They had one skein left in the right colorway.
And here they are- the Fools Rush sock by Cassiana. Very charming pattern, clearly written. I had to size it up considerably, between the 00(!!) needles, the fine yarn, and the large feet, but I quite like the results.
Now maybe I should knit something on the Christmas list, eh?
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Someone Watches Over Fools
Labels: FO, fools rush sock, trekking fools socks
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Good save.ReplyDelete
Still I understand the need to get completely away from the situation with the mittens. They had no baggage such as place in line.
So glad you found the yarn! Thanks for the nice shout out about our service. We really try hard to take care of things and I so appreciate your understanding. I'll pass this along to our Customer Service Team - they will be tickled.ReplyDelete
Beautiful socks! (I can only admire when other people make wondrous socks; I love'em, hands can't knit'em. I stick with bigger needles pretty much.)ReplyDelete
Nah--it isn't December yet.....:)ReplyDelete
You know, I keep saying that too, about knitting something from the gift list. Hmm...wonder when people actually DO that?ReplyDelete
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Este post se publicó el 27 de Noviembre en inglés. Tras escribirlo me di cuenta de que el motivo más poderoso para dar marcha atrás y replantearme el idioma es que, finalmente, la tarea que pretendo llevar a cabo es local y el alcance no es tan importante cuando se pierde parte del mensaje por la barrera del idioma.
El post original queda abajo, para referencia.
The combination of two totally not related events has pushed me over the edge to finally start a blog.
The first is my latent interest to restart a forgotten passion in 28 mm wargaming, since now the University days are long gone by and the group that used to gather has scattered Derived from this interest I have accumulated quite a collection of material in the shape of miniatures and terrain, as well as (re) discovered techniques and procedures.
Here is were the entropy part comes from, since what I have from those days are mostly big boxes of material and trashed things.
The second one is my (rather weak, looking back on what I've done so far) final push to get over the last credits on Aparejadores (let's call it Architectural Engineering). And specially an interesting class in Free Software, that being true to its conception, can be easily accessed via You Tube.
Why in english?
Because I don't seem to get enough practice anyway, and it should reach a bigger audience (heh).
Why a blog?
Because while a blog is not the ideal "database" format, which would suit more a collection of items and techniques, it does help to gain some insight on the growth and evolution of projects with time. As all stuff done via brush and xacto takes quite some of it, moreso when the free time is limited.
It does also help to archive certain "design decisions", and coming from an Engineering field, I can't but help to try and standarize certain procedures (we're mostly talking colours here).
Why Entropy and Glue?
Because what's turning these boxes of trash into a whatever-scape is nothing but these trusty bottles of PVA, white, contact and CA glue.


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Redshirt freshman K'Len Morris left the Michigan basketball program today because of a family situation and will transfer.
"This has been a rough week for my family," Morris told The News in a phone interview. "One thing I told coach (John) Beilein was that I wanted to stay and help the team, but I don't think it's fair for my teammates and the coaches if I can't put 100 percent of my focus on the court if I'm thinking about my family problems."
Morris, a wing who averaged 2.2 points in 11 games this season, talked to Beilein about leaving two days ago and said the reasons were "completely non-basketball."
"He understands where I'm coming from, understands the situtation," Morris said. "He's supporting everything I'm doing, offered any type of help I needed. ... He understands what I have to handle being a part of the family."
Morris' father, mother and sister moved from Grand Blanc to Mississippi over the summer. Morris is unsure if he'll stay in Ann Arbor for the winter semester or relocate to Mississippi. And picking another school isn't a priority right now.
If Morris stayed at Michigan for the winter semester, he'd remain on scholarship.
"Right now I'm just kind of dealing with personal issues," Morris said. "That's the thing that's on my mind rather than what school I go to. ... I'd like to get down south to deal with stuff."


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What are polymyositis and dermatomyositis?
Myositis means inflammation of the muscles (myo = muscle, itis = inflammation).
Polymyositis affects many areas (poly = many), mainly the larger muscles like those around your shoulders, hips and thighs. When polymyositis develops alongside a skin rash, the condition is called dermatomyositis (derm = skin).
Both conditions are autoimmune diseases, which means your immune system attacks your body's own tissues.
Who gets polymyositis and dermatomyositis?
Polymyositis and dermatomyositis are rare diseases, affecting only 6–8 people out of 100,000. They mostly affect adults, although children can be affected by a type of dermatomyositis (juvenile dermatomyositis).
Most people will only have mild and short-lived symptoms. These can include:
- weak and tired muscles – making normally easy tasks very tiring
- inflamed muscles – causing pain (known as myalgia) and feeling tender to the touch
- generally feeling unwell (malaise)
- weight loss
- night sweats
If you have dermatomyositis, you may get some of the above symptoms as well as:
- a red/pink rash on your upper eyelids, face and neck, and on the backs of your hands and fingers
- swelling of the affected skin, causing a characteristic puffiness and colouring around your eyes.
Other conditions can sometimes mimic polymyositis. These include:
- side-effects of some medications (for example, steroids or statins)
- toxic effects of long-term alcohol excess
- hormonal conditions such as under or over-active thyroid
low vitamin D levels or abnormal calcium or magnesium levels
- infections
- rarer nerve–muscle diseases such as muscular dystrophies.
Polymyositis and dermatomyositis are autoimmune diseases where your immune system, which normally protects your body against infections, attacks your body's own tissues. This causes inflammation in your muscles and skin. We don't yet know why this happens.
How will polymyositis and dermatomyositis affect me?
The outlook is good for cases of polymyositis and dermatomyositis. Symptoms aren't usually severe and in most cases can be eased fairly quickly with drug treatment. Even severe cases respond to treatment. The condition frequently becomes inactive.
Muscle strength will take longer to recover, but once the condition is controlled you'll be given exercises to counter any wasting and to improve the strength of the recovering muscle.
Your doctor will talk to you about your symptoms and examine you. Because the symptoms of polymyositis and dermatomyositis are similar to many other conditions you'll probably need some tests.
Blood tests
Creatine phosphokinase
Creatine phosphokinase is an enzyme that leaks out of damaged muscle cells. It's likely that you'll have a high level of this in your blood if you have polymyositis or dermatomyositis, but the level should fall as the condition is treated and brought under control.
You'll need to have repeat tests to tell your doctor how well your condition is responding to treatment.
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
ESR detects and measures inflammation by assessing how quickly blood cells settle at the bottom of a test tube. Inflammation occurs in other conditions, so a high ESR alone won't confirm polymyositis or dermatomyositis.
Antibodies are part of the immune system and usually help us to fight off infections by recognising and attacking viruses or bacteria. Some people's immune systems develop autoantibodies, antibodies that attack their body's own tissues. This can contribute to causing autoimmune diseases like polymyositis and dermatomyositis.
An anti-nuclear antibody test (ANA) tests whether your blood contains antibodies to the nucleus (the central part) of cells. About 80–90% of people with polymyositis and dermatomyositis test positive for ANA, but people without either condition can also test positive so it's only helpful alongside all the other information about your symptoms.
Other autoantibody tests include ENA (extractable nuclear antigens) and the anti-Jo-1 test. These tests are sometimes positive in patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis.
Other tests
These tests may not be able to diagnose polymyositis or dermatomyositis, but they can help to rule out other conditions.
Electromyography (EMG)
A thin electrode is inserted into your muscle to record electrical discharges from nerve endings that cause your muscles to move. An unusual pattern of electrical activity in a number of different muscles suggests you have polymyositis or dermatomyositis. This test isn't painful but may be slightly uncomfortable.
Muscle biopsy
A small sample is taken out of one of your larger muscles (for example at the front of your thigh) and examined under a microscope. The site of the biopsy might be chosen using an MRI scan to assess the area. The part of the muscle that looks most badly affected on the scan will be the site of the biopsy. You'll be given a local anaesthetic to numb the area while the sample is taken, but you may feel some discomfort for a few days afterwards.
The biopsy may show white blood cells sticking to the covering of your muscle and damaging the proteins that make your muscles contract. This causes weakness and fatigue.
You may need to have a repeat biopsy if your condition doesn't improve with standard treatments. This is to check for the proteins found in people with inclusion body myositis (IBM).
Learn more about the different treatments for polymyositis and dermatomyositis.
The first choice of treatment for polymyositis and dermatomyositis is steroids, which are usually given in high doses to begin with. They can be given as tablets or injections. This should reduce the inflammation very quickly and settle muscle pain and the feeling of being unwell.
High doses of steroids can have side-effects so your doctor will reduce the dosage as quickly as possible. You may be given bisphosphonates, calcium tablets and vitamin D tablets to guard against osteoporosis.
Sometimes the inflammation can flare up when the steroid dosage is lowered. Your doctor may prescribe other drugs to help reduce the inflammation, for example methotrexate, azathioprine and ciclosporin. Cyclophosphamide may also be prescribed. A newer drug now being used is mycophenolate mofetil. These are all types of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), and you'll need regular blood tests to check for any possible side-effects.
Occasionally the drugs mentioned previously don't control the condition. A small number of people with severe muscle disease and complications have been treated with biological therapies like infliximab and rituximab. These work by blocking the process of inflammation.
Alert card – Steroids
When taking steroid tablets you must carry a steroid card, which records your dose and how long you've been taking them. If you become ill, or are involved in an accident in which you're injured or become unconscious, it's important for the steroid to be continued. The dose might also need to be increased because the treatment may prevent your body from being able to produce enough natural steroids in response to stress, as normally happens in this situation. Your doctor or rheumatology nurse can give you a steroid card, and they're usually available from pharmacies as well.
Other types of myositis
Post-infectious reactive myositis can occur after some viral infections. After killing the virus, your immune system may cause inflammation in some parts of your body for a few months. If the inflammation occurs in muscles, it causes myositis.
The symptoms are similar to those of polymyositis (muscle pain and weakness) and you may get positive results in some of the test used for polymyositis. But post-infectious reactive myositis is usually mild and settles without treatment. If you have this you may also get positive results for some tests that diagnose polymyositis.
Inclusion body myositis (IBM) causes muscle weakness. Tests to diagnose IBM show similar results as tests for polymyositis and dermatomyositis. In IBM the weakness usually affects muscles in your hands, forearms or calves.
The key difference in IBM is the abnormal lumps of protein (inclusion bodies) found in muscle cells. These lumps are so tiny that they can only be seen with special microscopes.
IBM doesn't respond well to steroids, so if you're diagnosed with polymyositis and steroids aren't working you may need further tests for IBM.
IBM only rarely causes muscle pain and it generally affects people over 50.
Possible complications
In a few cases drug treatment doesn't work fully and your muscles can remain weak. It's not yet clear why this happens, but moderate exercise (so you start breathing faster but aren't straining yourself) will still help to improve muscle strength.
Occasionally polymyositis can also affect breathing and swallowing. This may happen at the start of severe cases, when the muscles used become very weak. It may also cause weakening of your heart, and inflammation of your lungs may cause scarring. This affects how your lungs work. Lung and heart conditions can cause long-term breathlessness.
Children with dermatomyositis may develop painful calcium deposits in damaged muscles. These deposits, combined with immobility, can occasionally result in the joints becoming permanently bent (flexion contracture).
Polymyositis occasionally occurs in people who also have another autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and scleroderma.
On rare occasions, myositis can be associated with cancer. Most people with polymyositis and dermatomyositis don't develop cancer, but your doctor might arrange tests such as a chest x-ray or an ultrasound scan of your abdomen and pelvis to be on the safe side.


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Thursday, October 15, 2015
Madison Avenue ruining the countdown to October 21 2015
Never underestimate the power of money. With a
week to go until October 21 2105, and as fans around
the world wait with anticipation of a actual hoverboard
and back to the future day, the money people have been
trying to steal the day.
Advertisers have been firebombing every website, spending
tens of millions with news stories, promotion and generally
BS about that ugly pathetic segway and having the
nerve to call it a Hoverboard.
I knew the buildup would be bad, when every news site were
cheering justin beiber on, as his dancers danced on a segway, and
they called it a Hoverboard.
I never thought it will be at this level though, even if you googled
"Back to the future hoverboard" you basically come up with webpage
after webpage after webpage for stories about a "segway" yet the
news report calls them hoverboards.
Its really a hijacking of the upcoming back to the future day.
Heres hoping at least some websites will make a stand, "Vanity"
already has.
So deep breaths, as we countdown to Back to the
Future day, with the slimmest of hopes, that Hendo
or maybe Lexus or someone, somewhere
has invented a real hoverboard, and hoverboard
means no wheels.
Time well tell.
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Two University of Washington political science professors offer a rigorous scholarly investigation of the tea party.
Parker (Fighting For Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South, 2009) and Barreto (Ethnic Cues: The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation, 2010) make the case that tea party supporters are driven above all by "anxiety incited by Obama as President." Intuitively, this may already make sense to many readers, but the authors muster the evidence in support, dividing and subdividing different categories of political activity and belief to arrive at a firm basis for their conclusion. They support the steps of the argument with bar charts, regression analysis and a methodological appendix. They identify the tea party's racism and commitment to the policies of a bygone age with reactionary, revolutionary conservatism, as opposed to the evolutionary type. For them, the tea party is the latest in a series of organizations and movements that include the Know-Nothing movement, the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society. Parker and Barreto established frames of analysis by studying 42 tea party websites over two years and comparing them with the more orthodox conservative publication the National Review Online. The authors then employed a multistate survey of race and politics to "tease out" differences between the supporters and sympathizers of the six different tea party formations. The belief that Obama is destroying the country, held by more than 70 percent of tea partiers, shows they are out of step with the mainstream of conservatism, where only 6 percent hold that belief.
A dispassionate, academic account supported by reasoned facts in place of political passions.


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Posts tagged with 'hastings'
1066 and all that!
13 October 2016 by Liz
Friday 14 October 2016 marks the 950th anniversary of the most famous date in British History: 1066, the Battle of Hastings. The event took place in East Sussex, near the town of Battle, where Battle Abbey was established to commemorate the clash between the Normans and the Saxons. The date 1066 is very well-known, and the battle is recorded in detail in the Bayeux Tapestry, but did the events of that year have any impact on people's lives in Merseyside?


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See, this is more like it. I liked this episode of The Big Bang Theory. I wouldn't say it's one of the show's all-time greats, but I thought it moved well, and the ideas behind it sort of made sense to explore in the show's universe. I daresay I'd call it "zippy," if I didn't feel stupid using such a word. It had a story to tell, and it told that story well. Again, it's a pretty classic sitcom setup, but that's the sort of thing this show does well, and when it finds its own spin on that sort of thing relative to its own characters, it can come up with some very, very winning stuff. Whether or not you like this will depend on how much you like the show's broader episodes, but I tend to think the cast sinks its teeth into the broader material much better than most of the other stuff, so I enjoyed.
It's a bit odd to have The Big Bang Theory suddenly taking Leonard and Penny's relationship as seriously as it is after a full season where it was often difficult to explain just why the two were together. There's been some argument in comments during the last few episodes about whether or not the show has done a good job of explaining the relationship, with some falling on the side that from what we've seen of Penny's dating life before this, it would make sense that she'd look for a safe guy she could not have to worry about being in a relationship with (just like that XKCD strip!). And while I can see that point of view, I'm not sure we've ever gotten enough of a glimpse of Penny's dating life beyond seeing Leonard insanely jealous of her boyfriends to make it work as well as it might.
See, here's the thing: The reason that the Penny and Sheldon relationship is so integral to the show is that it just might be the only thing that is keeping her from being a character defined entirely as a lust object. (Before I get too much farther, it's worth pointing out that Jaime Weinman is barking up a very similar tree to this one in this post.) Penny is a funny girl, and she's bright and brassy in a way that the cute girl is rarely allowed to be on a show like this, but she's also the girl that Leonard has always had a thing for. Now, because she bounces off of Sheldon so well - in what's likely the show's best relationship - none of this really matters. But can you define her as a character in relation to the other characters, outside of a few perfunctory adjectives? What could you REALLY say about, say, the Penny and Howard relationship? It exists, but it's mostly a one-dimensional one. The mutual antagonism between her and Sheldon not only gave both characters lots to play, but it also more or less defined what the show was going to be about: friendship, yes, but also the ways our friends drive us nuts.
Anyway, tonight's episode has a nice emotional continuity with the last episode. "Continuity" is not often a word that can be applied to this show, but I like the way the show is digging into the way that this relationship's crumbling reaches out and hurts the other friends. In particular, the show is focusing on just how Sheldon reacts to seeing the couple break up, and while the idea of having Leonard and Penny play out a goofy split custody battle over the guy wasn't the most original one in the world, I still enjoyed the way everyone involved in the plotline played it. It feels a little cliche at this point to say that adding Sheldon to a storyline makes it better, but I liked this one, for the most part.
I say "for the most part" because I don't know that the episode needed to make the child custody comparisons so explicit. By the end, Leonard and Penny were pretty much just playing out the idea that Sheldon was literally their son. If it was meant to be taken seriously, it had the effect of infantilizing Sheldon a little more than he probably should be. If it was a joke between two friends, I'm not sure the two would have jumped to that point as soon as this episode would have occurred. It's a minor nitpick, but it keeps most of the stuff after the scene where Sheldon comes to talk to Leonard while he's in bed from fully working for me. That said, though, I do like the idea of Sheldon and Penny going to Disneyland together, and that more or less kept the thing from falling apart for me.
But this is a good episode, one that deals with the fallout of a long-term relationship falling apart well. People in sitcom world are always dating coworkers or next-door neighbors or the best friends of their little sisters. Any time they find a new girlfriend or boyfriend outside their normal circles, they have a tendency to ditch that person as soon as a series regular comes around on loving them. It seems obvious that Leonard and Penny will bounce back and forth between being a couple and being strained friends for the remainder of the series, and whether or not you like that will sort of determine just how much you like The Big Bang Theory. This is a show that is firmly set in sitcom world, but when it makes peace with that fact, it can be very funny indeed.
Stray observations:
- I kind of think there could have been a better side-plot about Raj and Howard than just having them sit around with Leonard, but I'm hard-pressed to think of one. The best I can do is having a plot where the two fight over whether or not they're going to be on Team Leonard or Team Penny and that is a.) awful, b.) cliche and c.) something that could take over the episode. But I still wanted to see them get something more to do.
- At the same time, Sheldon's walk with Howard was very funny. So maybe I just wanted to see more for Raj to do than look at comical pornography we could not see.
- What was up with the audience hooting and hollering when Sheldon said he'd like to erase the memory of Ben Affleck as Daredevil? I get that the movie is one of those things that isn't very good and is also much derided by geeks, but it seems odd that it would have graduated to the status of the studio audience equivalent of "Oh no you didn't!"
- It's rare to find something as jarring as the dialogue patch in the scene where Howard and Sheldon were walking and the woman called to her dog out of nowhere. It was clearly there to set up that Sheldon was going to meet a dog with the hot dogs in his pants, but I think the whole encounter would have been funnier (though it was funny in its own right) if the dog had just shown up.
- I DO sometimes feel like the show underlines its jokes with a black marker a few too many times. "Is it possible he said bros before hos?" asks Leonard. I don't know that anyone needed him to spell it out like that.
- "It was a lot of work to accommodate you in my life. I'd hate for that to ever have been in vain."
- "You're just coitus-ing with me, aren't you?"
- "You're in for what my mother calls 'a real eye-talian treat.'"
- "Jews don't have Hell. We have acid reflux."
- "I'm pretty sure Martha Stewart never got naked with a room full of big, fat Japanese guys."
- "And now, as promised, the tangent. Sheldon and the Hell-hound. Or. How I Lost My Hot Dogs."
- "Don't let Goofy near him. He'll have nightmares, and I'll have to deal with it."
- "Do you think Elastigirl in The Incredibles needs to use birth control, or can she just BE a diaphragm?"


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Dear Secretary Clinton:
As you prepare to become the 45th President of the United States, this broad coalition working with all
levels of government to solve our nation's infrastructure deficit, including business and labor, shares
your concern about the condition of our nation's transportation infrastructure. We thank you for your
commitment to provide additional resources for infrastructure. Our industries stand ready to work with
you to ensure any new infrastructure investment proposal you offer has the greatest possible impact on
our nation's economy and transportation network.
On December 4, 2015 President Obama signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act
authorizing federal highway and public transportation programs through September 30, 2020. While
the FAST Act and its predecessor, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), have
greatly improved the effectiveness and efficiency of our federal surface transportation programs,
neither piece of legislation made any progress towards ensuring the long-run solvency of the Highway
Trust Fund. Instead lawmakers ignored the problem by making a series of last-minute transfers from the
U.S. Treasury General Fund to the Highway Trust Fund to the tune of $140 billion since 2008.
Additionally, these laws failed to increase the federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel or create
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consequence, the economy has missed an opportunity to increase good paying jobs and has hampered
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