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- 07/27/2005
Branson and Rutan Form 'The Spaceship Company'Today, Sir Richard Branson (Founder, Virgin Group of Companies) and Burt Rutan (President, Scaled Composites) announced their signing of an agreement to form a new aerospace production company. ... More
- 10/04/2004
SpaceShipOne Flies Again Within 14 Days - Wins $10M X PRIZEOn October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne rocketed into history, becoming the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within the span of a 14 day period, thus claiming the ten million dollar Ansari X-Prize. ... More
- 09/29/2004
SpaceShipOne Surpasses 100 Km on First X PRIZE FlightSeptember 29, 2004: At 8:13 this morning PDT, SpaceShipOne (SS1) coasted above the 100 km altitude point and successfully completed the first of two X-Prize flights. ... More
- 06/21/2004
SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Private Manned Mission to SpaceThe world witnessed the dawn of a new space age today, as investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Scaled Composites launched the first private manned vehicle beyond the Earth's atmosphere. ... More
- 12/17/2003
SpaceShipOne Breaks the Sound BarrierToday, a significant milestone was achieved by Scaled Composites: The first manned supersonic flight by an aircraft developed by a small company's private, non-government effort. ... More
- 04/18/2003
Unveiling of the Tier One programOur message at the April 18th 2003 unveiling of the Tier One program. ... More
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I wanted to start by showing you the first stage of my capstone project and then move on to how it progressed. First the teachers gave us the foot print of a house and then we were told that we have to pick a real family and interview them as a "client" and design the entire house including the exterior around this family, as if they were a really client.
The family I choose was Chris' aunt and uncle they have 4 family members, the husband and wife and two children a boy and girl. We had to make up that one of the family members had a disability of some sort and incorporate universal design. The family also had to have a pet so my family had a small dog.
This is the blue print of the house.
This is what I came up with....
The last step I will show you tonight is the floor plan with the mill work, fixtures, and furniture in place then you will have to wait to see the rest.
All of the floor plans were created in Auto CAD which I am so glad we learned, most of the interior decorating programs don't get to learn it. We also got the chance to learn google sketch up which I will show you some of my drawings later...so you will just have to wait!
I will be back with more!

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Batrik Medical Mfg., Inc. 9/23/13
Department of Health and Human Services
|Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
|10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20993
September 23, 2013
Mitchell Goldberg
Batrik Medical Mfg., Inc.
850 Halpern Avenue
Dorval, Canada
Dear Mr. Goldberg:
During an inspection of your firm located in Dorval, Canada, on June 25, 2013, through June 27, 2013, an investigator from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined that your firm manufactures vascular silicon ties. Under section 201(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act), 21 U.S.C. § 321(h), these products are devices because they are intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or to affect the structure or function of the body.
This inspection revealed that these devices are adulterated within the meaning of section 501(h) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 351(h), in that the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, their manufacture, packing, storage, or installation are not in conformity with the current good manufacturing practice requirements of the Quality System regulation found at Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 820. These violations include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Failure to ensure, where the results of a process cannot be fully verified by subsequent inspection and test, that the process shall be validated with a high degree of assurance and approved according to established procedures, as required by 21 CFR 820.75(a). For example, your firm has no documentation to demonstrate that the (b)(4) process for (b)(4) used to (b)(4) product, such as vascular silicone ties, has been validated.
2. Failure to establish and maintain procedures to control product that does not conform to specified requirements, as required by 21 CFR 820.90(a). For example, Non-conforming Product Procedure/PS-02, revision 8, does not address how non-conforming product will be identified and segregated. The device history record for the manufacture of lot (b)(4) of vascular silicon ties shows that (b)(4) products were not packaged due to defects. However, the non-conforming product was not segregated or labeled for disposition.
3. Failure to establish and maintain procedures to ensure that device history records (DHRs) for each batch, lot, or unit are maintained to demonstrate that the device is manufactured in accordance with the device master record and the requirements of this part, as required by 21 CFR 820.184. For example, the DHR of Vascular Silicon Ties/(b)(4) (Lot (b)(4)) does not document that all product released had been sterilized. The sterilization record shows that (b)(4) pieces of Lot (b)(4) were sterilized on (b)(4). However, the packaging records for the lot show that (b)(4) pieces were packaged ((b)(4) pieces were packaged on (b)(4), (b)(4) pieces on (b)(4), and (b)(4) pieces on (b)(4)). There is no record of the pouching operation and no documentation of the quantity of product that was pouched.
A follow-up inspection will be required to assure that corrections and/or corrective actions are adequate.
The U.S. federal agencies may be advised of the issuance of Warning Letters about devices so that they may take this information into account when considering the award of contracts. Additionally, premarket approval applications for Class III devices to which the Quality System regulation deviations are reasonably related will not be approved until the violations have been corrected. Requests for Certificates to Foreign Governments will not be granted until the violations related to the subject devices have been corrected.
Please notify this office in writing within fifteen business days from the date you receive this letter of the specific steps your firm has taken to correct the noted violations, including an explanation of how your firm plans to prevent these violations, or similar violations, from occurring again. Include documentation of the corrections and/or corrective action (including any systemic corrective actions) that your firm has taken. If your firm's planned corrections and/or corrective actions will occur over time, please include a timetable for implementation of those activities. If corrections and/or corrective actions cannot be completed within fifteen business days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which these activities will be completed. Please provide a translation of documentation not in English to facilitate our review.
Your firm's response should be sent to: Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Office of Compliance, Field Operations Branch, White Oak Building 66, Rm 2609, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993. Refer to CMS case #410595 when replying. If you have any questions about the contents of this letter, please contact: LaShanda Long at 301-796-5465 or fax number 301-847-8137.
Finally, you should know that this letter is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the violations at your firm's facility. It is your firm's responsibility to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations administered by FDA. The specific violations noted in this letter and in the Inspectional Observations, FDA 483, issued at the close of the inspection may be symptomatic of serious problems in your firm's manufacturing and quality management systems. Your firm should investigate and determine the causes of the violations, and take prompt actions to correct the violations and bring the products into compliance.
Sincerely yours,
Steven D. Silverman
Office of Compliance
Center for Devices and
Radiological Health


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Romantic drama starring Serena Scott Thomas. Hebe Rutter (Scott Thomas), a young independent woman living in Cornwall with her child, survives by working as a gourmet cook and an expensive mistress for wealthy men. However her lifestyle is almost shattered when someone from her past arrives in the town.


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Politico's Mike Allen reacts to one year old Bill Ayers audio, and whether it will impact Barack Obama.
HH: There is no better way to kick off a day like this than with America's preeminent political correspondent, Mike Allen of www.politico.com. Hello, Mike.
MA: Well, howdy, Hugh.
HH: Let's get to the bottom line. Who's going to win?
MA: Senator Clinton's going to win, and the campaigns are expecting that her win may be bigger than expected. Who knows who's being spun, what's going on, but I can tell you that depending on turnout, she could be back to that double digit win that had been looking like in polls.
HH: Now Mike Allen, I believe your analysis was correct when you and the folks at Politico put it out there over a month ago that it doesn't matter how big she wins. She really cannot catch up, because Michigan and Florida are not revoting in the popular vote or the delegates, and they've got this screwy system. Does a big double digit win today cause the superdelegates to freeze and maybe begin to move back to her?
MA: By itself, it does not, and that's the irony of tonight, is that it doesn't really change anything. But here's the sort of two ways that it could unfold. If it's very close, the three, four, five, even six points that we've been expecting, and that the latest polls had reflected, then the way that somebody described it to me was she'll be on a slow morphine drip, the cake is baked, it's just a matter of when she realizes that there's no point in continuing with this, that she needs to think about what history's going to say about her. If it's a big win, that by itself does not help her in the math, either in popular vote or delegates, amazingly enough. Bloomberg figured out that even if she won by twenty or more, she wouldn't go ahead in the popular vote. The delegates just change by one or two because of the screwy rules, and like one of the little hiccups in this, with all the attention that's been on Philadelphia, as you know, Hugh, two weeks from now, May 6th, Indiana and North Carolina, there's more delegates together than there are tonight. So she can't move her numbers that much. But what a big move, a big win would do, would help her with this, somebody described it to me as the real politick argument, that her, she and President Clinton are making, and that's this argument, okay, take away the silly states, only look at the big states where Democrats can or could win in November. If you just look at those states, Obama's not winning. She's winning.
HH: Now Mike Allen, I think as well it buys time for more to be learned about Barack Obama. And one area of great interest, beginning with the ABC News debate, has been former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, William Ayers, professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. A very, very energetic, young Salem Radio Network producer by the name of Guy Benson, is also a Townhall.com columnist, spent the last 48 hours digging, finding stuff, and he came up with, and I want your reactions to this, a November, 2007 SDS reunion, at which Ayers gave some remarks. Now this is the guy at whom Obama's state senate campaign in 1995 was begun, he served on the board with him for a long time, he acknowledged the friendship in the debate. Here's some comments of Bill Ayers from 2007 I'd like your reaction to. Cut number 18 please.
BA: This is a time not only of great stress and oppression and authoritarianism, and a kind of rising insipient American form of fascism, and what the government counts on, what the powerful count on, is that we will stay quiet. It's the idea that we can tolerate these intolerable things without screaming, without somehow coming out, joining up and coming out and saying something. It's what they count on in terms of keeping things under control.
HH: And here is Ayers on general leftist strategy. Again, it's from a year ago. Number 19:
BA: Even though we think of ourselves as political, we weren't politicians. We were people who had a moral vision of what was possible. And when we talk, for example, about health care, about peace, we're talking a language of ethics, not a language of instrumentalism or opportunism, or what we might get. So we have to speak in a language that's large and generous and encompassing. And then we have to act.
HH: And then we have to act. One more cut, and then I'll get a first reaction. Cut number 20:
BA: Empire resurrected and unapologetic, war without end, an undefined enemy that's supposed to be a rallying point for a new kind of energized jingoistic patriotism, unprecedented and unapologetic military expansion, white supremacy changing its form, but essentially intact, attacks on women and girls, violent attacks, growing surveillance in every sphere of our lives, on and on and on, the targeting of gay and lesbian people as a kind of a scapegoating gesture to keep our minds off of what's really happening.
HH: So Mike Allen, this is Barack Obama's pal, and acknowledges as such. Does this stuff matter?
MA: Well, of course it does, and you just put your finger on it when you used the word pal. And the question will be the degree to which that's right. This was great digging by that young man, but by itself, it's not incriminating, because Barack Obama has not been arguing that Bill Ayers did not hold reprehensible views. He's more been arguing oh, he's just a law professor, he's just a neighbor. The problem for him will be if more evidence emerges that there is some close connection. As you well know, Ben Smith of the Politico, who did the first, or one of the first stories about this, you know, has documented that Mr. Ayers was present or hosted a meeting of liberal, radical activists when Senator Obama was getting ready to run for the state senate. Some termed it an organization meeting. If more details like that come together, and indicate that Senator Obama's effort to brush it off sort of the way he initially brushed off the remarks by the pastor, then that's where there's a big problem.
HH: I also tend to believe, though, and this goes back to Ben's piece as well, that when you serve on a board with someone for three years, you cannot but help to know what they believe in, and you make choices about them. One more clip from Guy Benson's digging, cut number 21:
BA: It's worth coming together forty years later and saying what is that spirit that we recognize that we can build on? What is that spirit that we want to connect to? That spirit of rebellion, the spirit of resistance, the spirit of insurgency, and spirit. It's that spirit that we should be talking about. But just to give us a little perspective, I'm reminded of something that Chou En Lai, the Chinese premier under Mao Tse Tung, Chou En Lai was asked by a European reporter if he could comment on the impact and his thinking of the French Revolution, in terms of the Chinese experience. And Chou En Lai thought about it for quite a long time, and he said the French Revolution? Too early to tell. And I think there's something to that, you know, that I mean if you take the long view, empire's in decline. If you take the long view, there's a lot to look forward to. So many of us have watched with absent horror as we've been marched, step by step, towards an authoritarianism that was unthinkable forty years ago.
HH: Now Mike Allen, his friend, Bill Ayers, who launched his campaign in his house, Barack Obama launched his first campaign in Bill Ayers' house, served on a board with him for three years, there are other ties, is quoting Chou En Lai in 2007. I think this is going to be a big issue.
MA: Well right, and in part because it undercuts Senator Obama's, one of Senator Obama's defenses, which is that Bill Ayers' outrageous statements were made when he, the Senator, was in elementary school.
HH: Right.
MA: Clearly, that's not complete.
HH: Exactly. When he was eight years old.
MA: Right. And you continue to make news through sound, just as you did with your selections from Senator Obama's autobiography.
HH: So if in fact, and hat's off to Guy Benson, I didn't make any news, he did, and Sandy Rios in Chicago was playing them today, and of course, we'll mainstream them right now. But if this gets legs, or does it…I guess it's this way. You know there was big pushback from the left at George Stephanopoulos for even bringing up Ayers. Now that we know that Ayers as of a year ago is still quoting Chou En Lai, doesn't the mainstream media have an obligation to find out just how close they are, and to publicize who Ayers is?
MA: Oh, they will. And you saw a front page editorial in the New York Times today about Senator McCain's ties, perhaps favors for a supporter and developer in Arizona. Both of these candidates, for different reasons, I think you will agree, have somewhat gotten a pass through the laundering that Senator Clinton has got, and that Governor Romney got, and Senator Obama in part was just because the media loved him so much. Senator McCain was partly because they didn't think he was going to win. But now, I think they're going through a scrub cycle. And in both cases, I think you're going to see a race among elite news organizations to provide revelatory material about these…and that may mean that it's exculpatory. But I think that people are going to try and get to the bottom of these questions that have been thrown out there. Right now, we have questions. I think Tim Russert said it well the other day. He said that Senator Obama has a big question mark over his head, and ironically, those questions have been added to rather than subtracted during this process.
HH: You're right. Mike Allen, we're going to check back with you after the results come in from Politico.com.
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Jeff Whitman of Selkirk Abbey Brewing decided it was time to release the much anticipated 2015 Guilt Belgian coffee Porter. And we collectively decided it was a good time for cigars. And we were right. Jeff and Paul sat down for several weeks prior to the event to hand-select pairings. They personally tested over a dozen options and settled upon eight cigars to pair with four of Selkirk's beers. We unveiled it all at the brewery on a slightly rainy day in May. The weather may not have been sunny, but our moods sure were! What a glorious day! Big thanks to Jeff and his crew for hosting the Bulldog!
Showing off the goods!
Good conversation with good company
Smoking cigars within Selkirk inner sanctum
The Beautiful Taproom at Selkirk Abbey Brewing
Big Hoss (Jeff Whitman) himself. He looks like he belongs in a brewery, doesn't he?
Todd Banducci & Big Hoss
He'll take this one
We're always good for a laugh
Michael Barnes, gettin' the full service
Bulldo0g & Selkirk: A beautiful pairing!
Big Hoss & Mr. Bulldog
Mr. Bulldog and both his wonderful supportive parents


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Crumb Catcher, a video game for iPhone and iPad
A video game about beards and the simple life frustration of all the crumbs that get stuck in them.
Crumb Catcher, a video game for iPhone and iPad
A video game about beards and the simple life frustration of all the crumbs that get stuck in them.
Crumb Catcher is an upcoming iPhone and iPad game by Beardo Games that's all about getting as many crumbs as you can to stick in a character's beard or other facial hair. Each level gives you a crumb goal to reach and a different character, and it gets harder to reach the goal as the levels progress.
Beardo Games is Miles Nielsen, an artist, and Chris Harback, a programmer. Founded in 2011, Beardo Games is all about bringing all their outlandishly cool, outrageously fun, and occasionally ridiculous video game ideas into reality.
Everyone knows that crumbs are an issue for any beard-sporter. Plus, anything with tiny pieces, sauces, or stickiness gets lodged in there and demands immediate grooming.
In Crumb Catcher, we turned this problem on its end: your goal is to get as many crumbs as possible to stick in your player's beard. To that end you'll be served a series of courses at the bottom of the screen. Act fast to choose up to three food items that will combine to form a super dish.
Drag that dish to your player's mouth to make crumbs that fall and (hopefully) stick in their beard. The better the food combo, the more crumbs you'll get! Or, if you chose poorly, you might get a dud item that makes almost no crumbs. Plus, each character has their likes that generate more crumbs, and their dislikes that they won't even eat, and might even have a beard that's small or hard to get stuff stuck in.
You only get so many courses per meal, and the end of each meal all the crumbs will be groomed out to fill the crumb meter. If you don't fill it to the level's minimum level, it's GAME OVER and you lose your beard!
To explain this just a little bit better, you can check out our Second Update which shows how gameplay works, or better yet, check out an animation of the game, starring the Barnacle Beard! Or, for even more technical crumb-related minutiae, you can read Update Number Three!
You get combos by doing well in each course that multiply the amount of crumbs you get in the next course, and your combo will break if you pick wrong. Sticky and greasy stuff can be chosen to make crumbs stick better! Each character has a spoiler animal that will leap in and try to steal crumbs out of their beard. Just tap it to cool its heels and keep it away from your precious crumbs! Score well in a particular level? Eat three special food items in a row? Miss all your combos? You might even find a secret path!
There will be two modes to start: Arcade Mode, where you play through the game by completing levels in an attempt to reach the Beard Boss, and Story Mode, which tells the story of beards through the ages, from Cavemen to the present day. There may be more modes added later on, or even modes that you'll have to unlock be meeting certain requirements (like... SPOILERS: Reverse Mode!!).
We pulled out all the stops in creating bearded characters to play against. A Hillbilly, a Lumberjack, Abe Lincoln, Metal Mutton Chops... and much more!
Why yes! We both have a long and storied history of playing games, and one of the most satisfying things about games is finding all of the stuff the kindly developers added into the game. There will be a truckload of things to find in the game, from achievements to a food encyclopedia, to special food combos, to unlockable characters, paths, foods, modes, and art.
Yes, it's true. We've thought long and hard about rewards to come up with an exciting option for everyone. Miles is a well known ceramics artist who makes collectible limited edition mugs as part of Munktiki (http://www.munktiki.com) and as a special reward he's created a mug of the Papua New Guinea Beard character's mask. Folks who choose this reward will get to choose from several colors for the mug and will also get an in-game code to unlock the Papua New Guinea Beard character! Chris has already begun paradoxically creating the bootleg version of Crumb Catcher, also for iPhone/iPad, called Krumb Katcher. It's an old-school, pixel art game that's all about using your video game beard to catch strangely large food items to earn points.
Just look at all the great stuff being offered:
5 bucks gets you: A copy of the game plus an iPad/iPhone background image of the beard of your choice!
$20 Pledge: A copy of the game plus a high-quality PDF of a papercraft beard for you to cut out and wear! Or you can just cut it out and stand it in the corner. The perfect gift for the beard-challenged!
$20 Pledge: Join the Beardo Club! Got a great natural beard or even a cleverly crafted fake one? We'll feature your face in perpetuity on the front page of the Beardo Games Website. Plus a copy of the game!
Pledge a tiny $25: GIANT BEARD BATTLE STAGE! A new challenger approaches! Pick this reward and you'll get the game plus a code to unlock the first Secret Character, the twin giant beard monsters! We've also posted an update that shows what these gigantic horrors look like in the game!
Throw down $35 : A copy of the game plus a Metal Mutton Chops T-Shirt. Metal Mutton Chops is Miles' favorite character so he made a special t-shirt that includes MMC's character logo, inspired by Motorhead's mascot! Metal enough to be safely worn at any fist pumping, horn throwing concerts! Available in the only true t-shirt color, black!
50 bucks in quarters gets: A copy of the game plus a copy of the bootleg version of Crumb Catcher, Krumb Katcher, a fully playable iPhone/iPad game! Sure to be pulled from the shelf sooner or later, so get your copy now! Plus, Krumb Katcher will inexplicably be available in the App Store BEFORE the game it's ripping off!
Pledge $100 for: A copy of the game and a limited edition Papua New Guinea tiki mug available in a bunch of different colors that YOU get to choose by Munktiki (http://www.munktiki.com). Limited to only 100 mugs! The mug will come with a code to unlock the exclusive Papua New Guinea Beard character below!
Pledge $500: Your face (sortof) in the game! Chris (the programmer) will transform your face into a poorly drawn character in the game! Plus he'll put a similarly poorly drawn image of your favorite foods (three regular plus one super food), a dietary specification, and a custom animal in the game too! We'll provide you with a code to access yourself in the game and to give out to your friends. It might look a little bit like you, but just to be safe don't tell your friends until you see how it looks.You'll also get a one of a kind signed print of your portrait! Plus a copy of the game!
Pledge $1,000: Your face in the Game! Miles (the artist) will transform your face into one of the characters in the game! Plus he'll put your favorite foods (three regular plus one super food), a dietary specification, and a custom animal in the game too! He'll even provide some hair augmentation to the beard-or-mustache-challenged. We'll provide you with a code to access yourself in the game and to give out to your friends. You'll also get a one of a kind signed Giclee print of your portrait! Plus a copy of the game!
Best of all, every single backer will receive a copy of Crumb Catcher when it's released!
Well, we've heard about tons of cool and exciting projects through Kickstarter. Maybe I would have heard about them otherwise, but maybe not. We want to tell everyone we can about this amazing game we're making so that more people can try it. Also, the fact that we can use funds from the game to help us take time off from other projects and focus our efforts on Crumb Catcher doesn't hurt!
Okay, so we both have businesses to run (Miles is one half of Munktiki.com and Chris runs Secret Arts) so the funding from the Kickstarter will go towards helping us take time off from other work and focus on making Crumb Catcher.
We've got a lot of stuff planned for stretch goals, if we should way surpass our modest initial funding goal. We want to cram as much as we can into the game, from extra game modes to additional characters and food items.
The weirdest beards on Earth are in the Sideshow Character 5-Pack! If we reach our first stretch goal we'll add the the Bearded Lady, the Tattooed Strongman, the Dog-Faced Boy, the Half-Man Half-Woman, and the Sword Swallowing Ringmaster to the game! Holey Moley, we've drawn back the curtain on the sideshow to reveal images of the Bearded Lady and the Dog-Faced Boy!
If we get to this stretch goal, we'll add in an extra mode to the game: Survival Mode! Time's counting down! Choose your character and keep comboing your food items to increase your crumb meter and earn time bonuses, but beware of your character's spoiler animal who will try its best to fish as many crumbs out of your beard as possible! Lose all your crumbs or run out of time and it's all over!
Reaching this insane sum will add yet another new mode to the game, Versus Computer Mode! Choose your character and compete against the rest of the cast in a tournament to see who has the best beard!
Some of the most monumental beards ever seen were sported by Communists. We'll add the Communist Character 5-Pack that includes Fidel Castro, Marx/Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Che Guevara if we reach this milestone funding amount.
Chris hears that some fighting games out there have local and wifi based Bluetooth versus modes. Reaching this goal will convince him to find out more and add Versus Local Player Mode! Choose your character and go up against your local friends to see who is the King of Beards! Combo well to dump a bunch of random foods into your opponent's courses! Use special items to throw it all back on their plate, and then some!
Risks and challenges
This is a relatively low risk project. The project has been specified in a tractable way, and the Kickstarter ensures other projects can be delayed to not interfere with development. Chris has experience fielding game apps to the app store and Miles has an extensive history of doing art to meet deadlines.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Questions about this project? Check out the FAQ
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Continuing with the established trend brings the final spellcaster: Elementalist. This is intended to offer some insights into the Discipline design. Obviously the actual progression is missing, which is found at FASA Games.
While their mastery of elemental magic has always been their thing. As they enter higher Circles, Elementalists focus even more on their connection to the elements. Whether Discipline abilities or talents.
Earth and Wind, their Warden tier ability, remains mostly the same. The circle of earth has been clarified, noting the adept doesn't need to be inside the circle, the radius is based on successes, and now only affects allies. Which should make it more useful in general and inline with other Warden abilities. The circle of air also has the same clarification and successes effect, but now acts as Dispelling effect for some specific effects. It's not going to come up as much as the former ability, but is effectively a fun bonus ability that can be incredibly valuable in certain circumstances.
Their Master tier ability, Elemental Form, emphasizes their elemental connection and also serves to highlight some of the fundamental interactions of those elements. It doesn't have quite the raw power of Nethermancer's Astral Face, but offers more versatility through bonuses to Thread Weaving as well and a free extra thread. Well, versatility at a cost to giving up a particular element for the time - nothing's free. The fun really seems to begin when paired with an active Earth Staff and the high Circle spellcasting talents.
Element Matrix, the previous Master tier ability, isn't a bad ability at all - it's quite good. However, it didn't drive home their elemental connection other than carrying around a bag of sticks and stones. Something similar to this particular ability may show up again sooner than later.
Looking at their Discipline talents, there are two in common with the previous edition: Elemental Walk and Stone Skin. The other five are new: Concise Casting, Elemental Mastery, Plant Talk, Spliced Weave, and Vine Armor. These talents either improve their spellcasting abilities (Concise Casting, Elemental Mastery, and Spliced Weave), or their elemental connection (Elemental Mastery, Elemental Walk, Plant Talk, Stone Skin, and Vine Armor). As well, Stone Skin and Vine Armor work to improve their defensive abilities
Of those, Elemental Mastery is the only talent new to the previews. It's basic effect, improving Thread Weaving tests for spells with an elemental keyword, is fairly staid. However, it designed to have knacks that enhance spells with specific elemental keywords hang off of it.
Their talent options are a similar story, with Armored Matrix, Perfect Focus, Shared Matrix, and Summoning Circle (previously a Discipline talent) being the only returning entries. As always, the reason for removing various talents runs a variety of reasons. Plant Shelter is now a spell, while Disarm Trap is much too late. At this point, the group has probably figured out some way to deal with traps. Possibly whoever has the most health. While many weren't a particularly good fit (Spirit Strike) or simply aren't talents anymore.
The talent options available all work to enhance some aspect of their primary themes, whether improving their summoning capabilities (Contest of Wills and Summoning Circle), their spellcasting abilities (Armored Matrix, Casting Pattern, Effect Pattern, and Range Pattern), their elemental connection (Burning Vigor, Iron Constitution, Shock Treatment, Temper Flesh, and Thunderous Resolve), being tough bastards (Burning Vigor, Iron Constitution, Life Check, Temper Flesh, Thunderous Resolve, Unflinching Fortitude), or their aptitude with objects (Evidence Analysis, Perfect Focus, and Suppress Curse).
There are a lot of different ways to approach these talents, depending on the direction the adept wants go and their role within the group. The result is a Discipline with quite a bit of diversity, which can build towards a variety of roles, focusing on one theme in particular, or picking up a variety of useful abilities. Which reinforces their role as a clutch supporting character, keeping the group going against all odds. Sometimes against their will - take that Recovery test. Take it and like it.


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|Sighting Report
|Occurred : 2/15/2003 14:00 (Entered as : 02-??-03 1400)
Reported: 3/29/2003 1:02:52 PM 13:02
Posted: 4/22/2003
Location: Huntington (near), WV
Shape: Cigar
Duration:4 minutes
|cigar-shaped ufo spotted .
First of all, I belong to the LORD and it is HE who guides me to write this.
My daughter and I were traveling from Huntington, on I64 headed east to our house in Putnam,co. we looked up in the sky and we saw an aluminum-sublike ufo(what you call,"cigar-shaped"-maybe). It was moving slowly(extremely)and being in the passing lane,I crossed over to pull off on the burm to watch it. It was just there moving ever so slightly and it just dissapeared. It was very large,silver and although The LORD has blessed me to see many UFO's I've never seen any that looked like this. Several days later, my daughter and I were at a food drive-thru in putnam,co and we were waiting for our order when she said,mom is that a star? I said,no, that's a ufo.It wasn't until many days later when I was telling a friend about the experience we realized the ufo we were looking at during the drive-thru, were two different ufo's because the one I saw was red and the one she saw was white(these looked like little circles and did not last long-maybe a minute). I was trying to find the CIA-UFO information to give a report of something from the past that is present now that has to do with our "visitors". I can no longer find a web site for their UFO information listed.
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Sunday Salon: Friendships. in Books and in Real-Life
We are incredibly lucky to have some of the best friends imaginable. Two out of three of them just drove 350 miles today so they could spend the day hangin' with The Husband at the Pittsburgh Pirates game this afternoon. They're the type of guys - friends since elementary school, all of them - who think nothing of doing crazy things like this, and they've done this twice now, since The Cancer struck last fall.
When her daughter Nella was born with Down syndrome, it was Kelle's close-knit network of friends and family that got her through the emotional rollercoaster of the first few days which she chronicles through words and gorgeous photographs in Bloom. I'm on the TLC Book Tour for this one on Wednesday, so be sure to check back then for my full review.
After Bloom, I have two books on deck for my freelance reviewing gig with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (Not sure if I'm at liberty to mention what they are just yet, but one is a contemporary novel that I've seen mention on several blogs and the other is a memoir that is quite new to me and looks rather intriguing.)
I also owe a poetry post about Pittsburgh Memoranda by Haniel Long. I was supposed to be part of Savvy Verse and Wit's National Poetry Month Blog Tour, but I waited too long to write my post and was sidelined by a migraine yesterday. (For those who expressed concern, it's a little better today, thanks to a batch of Vegetarian Chicken Noodle Soup I made last night. This soup was AMAZING. I made it vegan by using no-egg noodles and it held up really well for lunch today, too.)
I'm also still making my way through Little Women on my Kindle for March's read-along (it might be next March by the time I finish this) and in the car, Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor and I are still Traveling with Pomegranates.
Hope your travels - either in book form or real - are good ones this Sunday, with a good friend or two by your side.
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2 comments:
- Bryan G. said...
I was wondering what happened to you with the poetry blog tour. I'm sorry to hear about your migraines and hope you get better soon. I really wanted to read your post. :)
- April 14, 2013 at 3:50 PM
- Serena said...
I'm glad you're feeling better. I've had allergy-related headaches this past week and know how debilitating they can be. Let me know when you get to the poetry post, and I'll be sure to link to it.
- April 15, 2013 at 10:34 AM
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BooksLiterary Work of Kathryn Lasky
Horses of the Dawn: Star Rise
Get ready for a wild ride in book two of bestselling author Kathryn Lasky's brand-new middle grade animal fantasy series.
The first horses in the NewWorld, Estrella and her herd, were carried across the sea by gold-seeking men, only to be cast into the ocean when the ship became too heavy. Yet despite the odds, the horses did survive, and became the first herd to run wild across this untamed land.
But now, they're facing their greatest challenge yet. An army is pursuing the herd, eager to force them back into captivity and hard labor. Estrella wants nothing to do with men ever .again, but then she meets a boy who's been exiled .from his village- a child with a mysterious ability to communicate with animals.
If Estrella rejects the boy, he will surely die alone in the wilderness. But if she takes him in, she'll put the other horses at risk. With their hard-won freedom slipping away at every turn, Estrella must decide what it means to be a leader ... and what it means to be a herd.
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Just read someone else's goal review and they gave themselves a C- for this month and I got a feeling I am going to do worse than that.
My big failure has been POD. I haven't worked on it AT ALL. I blame my hexagons that have kind of taken over my home sewing time. Anyway Lets go through all of them
1) POD Block. I wanted to complete block 30, remake block 11 and also make the broomstick, the sword of Griffindor, the flying key, photo frame and Dobby. I did nix - nothing - zip
2) Amy Gibson Blocks. I didn't specify a number in the original post but did on my sidebar (6) and that might have freed me up cause I went crazy on these and got HEAPS of them made. - I made 11 including one that I made twice. I only have the curved piecing blocks to go on this one. Its looking great.
3) Bag for my friend Sereana. I got this made. I don't think it is quite what she had wanted (she had asked me to make it) but it was so long between when she had asked and when I did it I had forgotten. Anyway she seemed fairly happy with it in the end. (It had some of my favourite fabric in it so hope she was)
4) Pink Pizzazz. I already had the top done at the beginning of the month although I was wondering about making it bigger. Well I didn't make it any bigger but I did piece a back for it and it is ready to be pinned and quilted. I had hoped to have it pinned by now but....
5) Going Green. At the beginning of the month I had the centre completed but was still thinking about what to do with the borders. I ended up making flying geese borders and also adding a mostly plain green border. I then got the back pieced which as usual seemed to take me a while. Now to pin baste it and get it quilted.
So that is it - overachieved on one goal, completed another, partially achieved 2 more (although I don't think I put finish Going Green, just work on it so maybe that is actually achieved) and abjectly failed one. Hmmm not TOO bad. Not an overall failure... perhaps a C+ after all or even B-
How about you? Did you set yourself some goals? How did you go? Are you game to rate yourself... or then again maybe you shouldn't... its not a competition sport (at least not at home in your own sewing space. ) Are you satisfied with what you achieved this month?


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If you're a BlackBerry Z10 owner on Verizon and still waiting for them to roll out BlackBerry 10.1, we're now officially one step close to that happening. Verizon has finally updated their BlackBerry Z10 support page with the information for OS 10.1.0.2050 (Software version 10.1.0.2014) and with that updated, it's certainly only a little bit longer before folks start seeing the update arrive on their device as available for download. As we noted, earlier this OS will solve the random reboot issue some customers seeing but as the documentation highlights, there is plenty of other changes included with this release as well.
Aside from what's noted in the image above, the update will also include support and fixes for:
- Answer incoming calls while using Three Way Conference Calls, even when attendees drop off
- Toggle between calls without the call dropping or failing when using Call Waiting
- The correct number of voicemails will now display when using Visual Voicemail LED
- Missed Calls will display the correct contact's name if saved in phonebook.
- Improvements to Emergency Call Mode when using Wi-Fi
- Cut, copy and paste phone numbers into dialer screen
We've checked a few devices already and nothing as of yet but feel free to check yourself and let us know in the comments if you're seeing it as available on your device. Remember, if you're already running a leak that is higher, you might not see the update as available.


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So my third serious novel, Shemlan: A Deadly Tragedy is only available online, there's no Middle East edition. Don't you just loathe people who start sentences with 'so'? Me too.
You can buy Shemlan as a paperback from Amazon.com (and the various Amazon dots), Barnes and Noble, The Book Depository or order it from any independent bookshop in the world by citing the ISBN number 978-1493621934.
It's a rather smashing book. I strongly suggest you do one of the above. The kitten might just make it through, see? This here handy link to the buy links for the book shows you where to get it as a paperback, Kindle ebook, Nook, on your iPad or, in fact, as any other ebook reader format ebook. But the paperback can be yours wherever you live, from Alaska to Kamtchatka. The Book Depository even ships it FREE OF CHARGE!
Do it now, you'll feel better. It's okay, I can wait. Here: I'll even do a reminder link.
Right? Great, thanks. Anyway, the reason you can buy Shemlan as a paperback anywhere in the world is because of a clever little Amazon owned operation called Createspace. Createspace allows authors to mount their book online and then prints out books to order using POD technology - Print (or Publish) On Demand. So they put an ISBN number in one end and a printed paperback with a nice glossy cover filled with wonderful words comes out, gets put in a shipping box, addressed to you and arrives a day or so later.
So when you hit that 'buy' link on Amazon or any other serioo book website, Createspace prints your book to order and despatches it to you.
A POD book is barely different enough from a booky book printed on novel paper for most readers to notice a difference. The quality is just fine.
It's all pretty marvellous, really.
However, there's trouble in paradise. People in the UAE hate buying books online - and Amazon hates selling ebooks to the Middle East. So most people don't bother buying the thing, they wait for me to have stock and buy 'em direct from me or just don't bother at all. For this reason - including a couple of upcoming events I'm doing - I bought 20 from Createspace earlier this year. They're more expensive to print than booky books, no surprises there, really, and so cost about Dhs30 a copy landed. That's too expensive to make traditional book distribution make any sense, 'cos disties take 50% and so with a cover price of Dhs60 dufus here doesn't make any money. Not, incidentally, that I have to. But I sell 'em direct and at signings and so on.
My books never turned up. I kept popping up at Sharjah Post Office so full of hope and optimism it was starting to remind me of back in the day when I used to go there to pick up the inevitable wodge of rejection slips. Months passed. Nada.
So I eventually told Createspace about it this week. And within the hour they'd mailed me back, said terribly sorry and promised to ship me a replacement batch out priority. I have to admit, I was impressed.
But that was nothing to how I felt today when DHL rocked up at the office with a box of 20 books. They DHLed them to me! How beyond the call of duty is that? I got my 20 books FOUR days later!
I emailed them to say thank you. They mailed back:
It is because of comments like yours that we strive to be the very best. Thank you for your very kind feedback! Without members like you, we could not continue to provide the service you have come to expect from us.
Your comments are greatly appreciated, and I sincerely thank you for choosing us for your self-publishing needs.
Best regards,
Abu-BakrNow you might call me easily impressed, but I'm blown away. Totally. I'm grinning like a Cheshire Cat who's just done a major hit of Amyl and found out in that very instant he's won the Lotto and Kate Bush is coming to tea naked.
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If you want to buy a book, BTW, be my guest! Just hit me up at the usual @alexandermcnabb. I'm off to see if I can eat dinner with this grin in place.


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Okay so how many of you have heard of Snapguide? If you haven't you NEED to. I am so in love with this site. Makes doing tutorials so darn easy! Check out the Graphic 45 blog today for tons of tutorials. Including my little candle votives. G45 is also sponsoring an up cycling contest on the site. HUGE prize. Check it out:)
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Here are PW best dressed starlets, it is hard to pick the best dress because all of them had something special, and picking just one as my favorite is harder then i actually thought.
|Naomi Watts stuns in cut-out Armani Prive silver dress
|Jessica Chastain arrives in Armani fishtail gown
|Samantha Barks looks stunning in Valentino
|George Clooney and Stacy Keibler in a Naeem Khan
|Amanda Seyfried arrives in silvery Alexander McQueen halter-neck
|Real Housewife of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville, was one of the first to hit the red carpet and she was certainly gooing for maximum exposure in this eye-catching gown
And here are the dresses with who we weren't that impressed
|Anne Hathaway splits opinions in this simple pale pink Prada dress
|Louise Roe
|Kristin Chenoworth shimmered in sparkles Tony Ward
|Jennifer Garner arrives in plum strapless Gucci dress
|Kelly Osbourne in a Tony Ward Couture dress
|Nancy O'Dell
|Robin Roberts in blue velvet Marc Bouwer
|Amy Adams looks like a princess in stunning Oscar de la Renta dress
|Alicia Vikander in lovely Elie Saab
|Gloria Reuben
|Sally Field chose Valentino dress
|Jennifer Hudson flashed some leg with a thigh high split in her blue Roberto Cavalli gown
|Jane Fonda makes a bold statement in a canary yellow Versace gown
|Helen Hunt in H&M, the most economic gown on the red carpet but upped her glitzy value of 700.000$ worth of jewelry
|Adele arrives in black embellished Jenny Packham dress
|Queen Latifah in white Badgley Mischka
|Kristen Stewart was elegant in white and silver feathered Reem Acra gown
|Georgina Chapman
|Renee Zellweger in Carolina Herrera
So who was your favorite this year?
Keep Being Provocative.


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Survey Says...
Over four hundred Marshfield trails surveys have been filled out by residents and received by town officials. This information, as well as a map of trails and possible future connections, was discussed at a recent town meeting with representatives of BL Companies. BL was hired by our town to help us chart Marshfield's existing trails, their condition, consider possible connections between trails, maybe create new trails and aid us in discerning usage, improvements and maintenance of our trail system.
Our geography is of a similar size to the Blue Hills Conservation area. Blue Hills is well mapped, marked and provides ample parking by trailheads. Hiking end to end and back covers 18 miles and only crosses three streets. My friend and I like to do that woodsy marathon-like endeavor around this time of year as a kind of annual pilgrimage. It feels like an act of devotion to a sacred place. I feel similarly with most any long physically challenging journey that requires my full attention, especially if it is in a predominantly natural environment. With those pilgrimages, physicality and spirituality seem to mutually cultivate each other. The physical exertion raises the spirit and the spirit motivates the physical. Those endeavors have a carry-over effect to other aspects of life. Getting out in the woods appears to be a necessary ingredient in order to evolve as a human.
Like our trails in Marshfield, the Blues' trails attract a range of people and interests. Walk and talkers, naturalists, runners, bicyclers, horse riders, dog walkers, et al appear to have high gratitude and low impact usage. It is as though the outdoor natural environment beckons us with its' calling to nurture us as well as to use it well. Most users, by nature, refrain from abusing and even want to give back. It is especially common to witness groups from such organizations as DCR, AMC, Friends of Blue Hills, meet-ups and other groups involved in volunteer trail work. I've made it a habit of picking up random trail trash ever since I introduced my children to the love of our outdoors. However, in Marshfield, our trails do not, as yet, seem to attract the types of groups that lead to the r-e-s-p-e-c-t of our geography that I witness in other more well organized and utilized trail systems.
Intelligent design relative to our gorgeous geography gets groups to catch our coast, wind through our woods, revel in our rivers and hail to our hills. Marshfield's range of natural attractions, when well connected, can create more caudal commuting, re-creating opportunities and even cleaner citizen craniums and community. I've witnessed the behaviors of disrespect transform to respect often enough to believe that if we bring beings to the beauty of our natural land in a new way, they will have an experience more in accord with their true nature and will then shift limiting beliefs. Newly nurtured and natural noggins necessarily act nice.
I thoroughly enjoy a relatively uninterrupted run and fun through the Blues, Greens or Whites. However, Marshfield has the unique opportunity to have a comprehensive, connected community through recreational trails. Capitalizing on community brings better business. Let's make community our business.


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Rebels maintain strong league form
Slough Town
Burnell (5, 32), Smith (57)
Fleet Town
Pilgrim (2)
Date: Saturday, October 27th 2012 | Competition: League | Attendance: 227
Man Of Match: David Deeney
Starting Line Up
- James Warrington
- Sean Fraser
- Dominic Rhone
- Alex Brown
- Nathan Bowden-Haase
- David Woozley
- Jake Parsons
- David Deeney
- Danny Burnell
- Edward Smith
- Adam Logie
Slough conceded an early goal to Fleet's James Pilgrim, but recovered to claim a comfortable win over the Hampshire side.
Just two minutes in, Pilgrim fired past James Warrington and into the bottom corner of the goal to leave Slough supporters contemplating the words 'after the Lord Mayor's show' following Tuesday night's FA Cup win at Gosport - but Slough were soon back on level terms just three minutes later.
Dan Burnell, in a rich vein of goalscoring form at present and the recipient of the September player of the month award before the game, drove forward with the ball and unleashed a left-footed rocket from 25 yards which flew into the top corner, leaving Ryan Pryce with no chance.
After Fleet's promising start, Slough were now in the ascendancy and applied pressure which almost resulted in the home side taking the lead. Ed Smith, also highly influential as Burnell's strike partner of late, did well to hold up play and was unlucky not to be able to lay the ball off to a team-mate on the edge of the box.
Burnell, clearly in confident mood, tried another audacious effort from distance but this time sent the shot well wide, and later was unlucky not to latch on to a clever defence-splitting ball through from David Deeney, Pryce getting down quickly to claim the ball.
An unmarked Smith put a header wide after excellent work from Dom Rhone our wide on the left, but Slough found the second goal their play had deserved on 32 minutes. Burnell was again the scorer, heading Jake Parsons' corner into the net after beating Pryce to the ball.
Parsons, unable to play in the Rebels' fantastic FA Cup run, looked a real threat and was influential in the build-up play which saw Adam Logie played in with a sight of goal, but he poked well wide from the edge of the box.
In the second half, rain disrupted the flow of the game somewhat, but Slough wrapped the game up against a Fleet side which offered little on 57 minutes - Smith scoring a third with a neat finish high past Pryce after good work from Parsons.
Pryce made another double save from Burnell and then Smith after spilling the initial shot, with Slough looking much more likely to add to their lead.
Fleet, including 16-year-old Jack White in attack, battled gamely but the best they had to offer was a flicked effort from Garath Byres which Warrington claimed comfortably, and in the final minute captain Patrick Cox's attempted header at goal came off his shoulder and safely into Warrington's hands.
Slough travel to Leighton Town on Tuesday for another important league game before Saturday's trip to Mansfield.
Fleet Town: Ryan Pryce, Philip Moore, Nick Hutchings, Louis Wilson, Patrick Cox (c), Craig Davis, James Pilgrim (John Symons), Marc Vockins (Danilson Vicente), Jack White (Gavin Miller), Garath Byres, Danilo Cadete. Subs not used: Daniel Egan, Chris Smalley.


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Here we are jogging along nicely in to week two of the A to Z Challenge in which I am writing about music and the seemingly random memories it can throw up.
It occurs to me that so far little of what I've written about reflects my musical tastes, but then as I keep pointing out this is about memories as much as music. This particular memory features Captain Dim, a real person, I assure you.
So, Fleetwood Mac and principally their gazillion-selling LP Rumours. I don't mind them and I quite, but only quite, like the LP. However, play the album on the slightly tinny sound system of a very tinny Ford Escort - this was in 1979 - as you drive around Sheffield desperately trying to look cool and the music becomes so much better.
The Ford belonged to Captain Dim, someone who lived in the same seedy lodging house as me and my friend, Brian. I think Captain Dim's real name was Roger, but he definitely had Captain Dim on the toolbox he used to take to work. Anyway, he lent us his car while he was away for a while and we charged around in it listening to Rumours. There is a certain dissonance between Sheffield in the late 1970s and the California rock of Fleetwood Mac, but that didn't stop us having a good time - and then the car broke down. Story of my life all over.
Nobody needs to see a video of Fleetwood Mac so instead here is some video featuring someone called Captain Dim. Not the same one from all those years ago, but a very athletic substitute.
Also-rans: Four Tops singing Reach Out, I'll Be There. Just reminds me of being dragged around Chatham town centre by my gran while she went shopping. An utterly great song to be dragged around to.
For more on the A to Z Challenge go to: http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/


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What can you do to reduce the risk of heart disease?
Since you can't fight genetics in keeping you safe from heart disease, at least you can do something about reducing the risk of having to deal with cardiovascular disorders. It's no secret that it has a lot more to do with the healthy life habits then genetic predisposition.
Making the Best of Your Genetic Predispositions
Healthy eating and physical activity have a high contribution in minimizing cardiovascular disease risk by fighting diabetes and obesity. These unfriendly consequences of a high cholesterol level can be credited with the majority of medical problems facing today's population.
Changing your lifestyle can be easy and fast on a conceptual level, but putting it into practice takes a little more time, sweat and perseverance than imagined. Those who are weak at heart (don't take it literally) get discouraged and give in before any changes might have been observed.
It is not supposed to happen that way. Take it easy, think about your physical, mental and financial possibilities, put them in balance with the necessary changes and develop a long-term plan of action. Gradual, long-term change, for that matter, is far more efficient than sudden, intense and exhausting actions. It is true that the sooner we begin to practice our healthy lifestyle the better, but cheating on ourselves counts as a start over every time we find ourselves sucked back into poor health habits.
What you basically need to do is NOT to go for a drastic change of diet or a sudden, exorcising of all your vices (including alcohol and smoking) at once. Take it easy and do one thing different at a time until it becomes a habit. Then approach the next bad habit.
What Can You Do to Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease?
Since you can't fight genetics in keeping you safe from heart disease, at least you can do something about reducing the risk of having to deal with cardiovascular disorders. It's no secret that it has a lot moreto do with the healthy life habits then genetic predisposition.
However, before even considering that gradual change in your life, you need to know which are the factors that favor heart disease, and then start a bit by bit elimination.
Heart Disease Risk Factors
There are some heart disease risk factors that we can control, and some that are beyond our current ability to fight against. In the U.S.over seven million people have suffered heart attacks and there is evidence that small factors could reduce that by three fourths.
The risk factors for heart disease that are not controllable are sex (men are more predisposed to heart diseases than women), aging process, family background and racial features (Caucasians apparently have a stronger heart than Mexican Americans, African Americans or American Indians).
You can proceed to a heart disease risk reduction by controlling your smoking habits, anger, stress, obesity, diabetes, physical activity, blood pressure and the cholesterol levels in your blood.


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Enjoy this recipe from Christmas Cookie Jar Cookbook.
Submitted by: Vickie from Gooseberry Patch 2 c. all-purpose flour1-1/2 c. butter, divided1/3 c. whipping cream2 c. sugar2-1/3 c. powdered sugar1 t. vanilla extractseveral drops of red food coloringCombine flour, one cup butter and cream; mix well. Chill for one hour. Roll out dough to 1/8-inch thick; cut out cookies with a 1-1/2 inch round cookie cutter. Carefully dip both sides of cookies into sugar; place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Pierce cookies lightly across top with a fork. Bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 9 minutes. Cool completely. Beat remaining butter for 30 seconds; gradually beat in powdered sugar, vanilla and food coloring. Sandwich cookies in pairs with frosting. Makes about 5 dozen.


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Friday, August 02, 2013
So Happy Together - Scraptastic LO
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What a wonderful layout! Such a great anniversary to commemorate!ReplyDelete
how i LOVE this layout my friend, every last detail, you can feel the love!~ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your Family Day/adoption anniversary!ReplyDelete
This is such a sweet, meaningful layout. The heart borders are my favorite detail.
I seriously love those joined people with the hearts in the middle wonderful touch to a GORGEOUS layout!ReplyDelete
Adorable layout with great photos Patricia!:)ReplyDelete
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This project aimed to explore the school based assessment of levels of student performance on the constructs nominated by the Mayer Committee in their report 'The Key Competencies (1992)'. In a trial assessment 110 teachers in 10 schools across the country were asked to give global assessments of each of the key competencies for a total of 629 Year 11 students they were currently teaching using the key competencies framework developed for the purpose during the project. Also surveyed were the reactions of employers to a report format including the summary levels of performance developed in the assessment trial. At the end of the trial assessment, participating teachers were interviewed, and they were also asked to complete a written survey.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_bryce/18/


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In addition to the empty chair in Norway, internet users in China found empty content online. People in China who are looking to find accurate and timely access to news and information have it pretty tough these days. Radio Free Asia is always blocked by the Chinese government and people have to use proxies to listen to or view news. The BBC is reporting today that their website is back up and running in China, after it was blocked beginning around the time of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo last Friday. CNN and the Norwegian broadcaster NRK were also blocked during this time.
Texts with the words "Nobel Prize" or "Liu Xiaobo" were blocked in China as well over the past few days.
Liu's wife has been under house arrest, with her telephone and internet cut off, since it was announced in October that her husband was awarded the prize. Police blocked the entrance to her home on Friday, barring journalists from speaking with her.
At the award ceremony, Nobel committee chairman Torbjorn Jagland said, "Liu has only exercised his civil rights. He has not done anything wrong. He must be released." The audience rose and gave Liu a standing ovation.
Liu was unable to accept his award because he is serving an eleven year prison sentence for "inciting subverstion of state power". You can read Liu's final statement before his incarceration in December 2009 here and watch a video on his view about "freedom" of expression in China.


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Top Diamond Jewellery Designs Images | Engagement Ring is the embodiment of eternal love and commitment that a couple feels for each other, a way of forging closer ties and commemorate the event which marks the decision to build a life together.
The shape, size, designs and patterns of engagement rings should reflect not only personal choice and taste, but also the intimate sense of commitment that a person feels for his / her beloved. Through the centuries, the preferred engagement rings designs have changed to adapt to changing times, preferences and tastes of the people who buy and use them.
Fashion, after all is fleeting and styles to catch the imagination of people for a while before changing to suit the sensibilities of the times. Diamond solitaire rings – classic, simple but elegant remains the favorite of women worldwide.
Solitaire diamonds are what most men opt for while shopping for engagement rings but in recent decades fancy colored diamonds and gemstones have become popular choices among both celebrities and ordinary people.
When Jennifer Lopez flaunts her pale pink diamond engagement ring 6 carat given by actor Ben Affleck began a fashion trend whereby Luxury pink, blue and canary yellow diamonds even became the hottest peaks in the global markets.
Diamond jewelry designs have certainly reached a new meaning in this design. From pale pink engagement ring to actress Jennifer Garner canary yellow worn by Paris Hilton for a few days, celebrities love colored diamonds.
Rubies, emeralds bright fresh green fiery, sapphires and amethysts have also emerged as popular choices for engagement rings in recent times however; diamonds are still the most popular stone able to bring that special spark in the eyes of the woman love.
Long ago diamonds set in gold was the tradition even today if you visit any store bridal jewelry is the combination of platinum and diamonds found in greater numbers. Cold plated platinum is the best way to show the brilliance of diamonds and therefore have become favorite scene in the world for diamond solitaire rings.


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How to be fully renewable in 10 years
Posted by Big Gav in australia, beyond zero emissions, renewable energy, zero carbon australia
The SMH has a look at Thursday's launch of Zero Carbon Australia's plan - How to be fully renewable in 10 years.
AUSTRALIA could switch completely to renewable energy within a decade by building a dozen vast, new solar power stations and about 6500 wind turbines, according to a major new study.
The Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan - a collaboration between Melbourne University's Energy Research Institute, the environment group Beyond Zero Emissions and engineers Sinclair Knight Merz, puts the cost at $37 billion in private funding and public investment every year for the next decade.
The price tag may make it sound like a pipedream but the scheme earned the endorsement of the federal Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull who added his support at a forum at Sydney Town Hall last night. ''The work they have done is important,'' Mr Turnbull said. ''It provides the most comprehensive technical blueprint yet for what our engineers, our scientists, can begin to do tomorrow.''
Mr Turnbull contrasted the Coalition's ''direct action'' plan with Labor's policy, which he claimed would lead to longer delays in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. ''I believe our long-term global goal is to very substantially reduce our emissions, a goal that will require almost all of our stationary energy to be produced from zero or near-zero emission sources,'' Mr Turnbull said. ''This report demonstrates we could already be technologically ready to do that.''
The plan has also been endorsed by Australia's former chief scientist Robin Batterham, and a senior official at the International Energy Agency's renewable energy division, Cedric Philibert.
However, the National Generators Forum, which represents power station owners, and the office of the federal Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, were decidedly lukewarm about the plan when asked about the findings last month. Under the plan, 60 per cent of the nation's electricity would be sourced from 12 huge solar thermal power plants, which use Australian-developed technology to store heat in molten salt, allowing them to operate for long periods when there is no sunshine.
The remaining 40 per cent of the power grid would be filled by about 6500 wind turbines at 23 large-scale wind farms dotted mainly around the coast.
The plan would generate 325 terawatt hours of electricity a year, meeting the nation's entire power demands in the year 2020, if a comprehensive energy efficiency plan is also factored in. Any shortfalls could be made up by biomass energy generation, using a portion of the stubble from the nation's wheatfields.
To properly harness all the renewable energy, the report calls for the unification of Australia's three separate electricity grids and some new transmission lines to link the new power stations to capital cities, at a total cost of $92 billion.
If the cost of completely transforming the energy sector was passed directly on to households, it would add 30 per cent to the average utility bill.


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Listen to If I Should Die, the latest track from Big K.R.I.T.. The cut dropped on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010. Big K.R.I.T.'s future brightens with every new release, and If I Should Die certainly isn't an exception. It's a fitting addition to a solid catalogue that Big K.R.I.T. has been developing since stepping foot in the game. We're excited to hear more.
Hear more of Big K.R.I.T. on Moons & Stars (Remix), featuring Currensy & Killa Kyleon. If you dig this, visit Big K.R.I.T.'s profile for the latest info, news, songs, and mixtapes. Check out Big K.R.I.T.'s Facebook and Twitter.
Can you appreciate the bars here?
Quotable Lyrics
"If I should die from this rap shit
On a plane to a show for the masses
The media will say it's oh so tradgic
A king lost, shed tears for my passin'
Remember I was happy here that's what I'm askin'
When I was with ya, yea, you always kept me laughin
Forgive me for the plans we never made
And I the things I wish I could but I never say"


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(Atatürk and Kazım Özalp)
The establishment of The Turkish Economic Association goes back to the 1920s. On the suggestion of Atatürk, The National Economy and Savings Society was established on December 12, 1929. Among the founders of the Society, there were statesmen and politicians of that period such as Kazım Özalp, Hasan Saka, Celal Bayar, Saffet Arıkan, Fuat Omay, Rahmi Köken, Hakkı S.Tarı, Mahmut Soydan and Yusuf K.Tengirşek. The founding President of the Society was Kazım Özalp, who served successfully for 20 years.(*)
The purpose of the Society was to minimize the devastating impacts of the 1929 Depression, on the one hand by encouraging savings in the struggle against extravagance, on the other hand by promoting the domestic markets to use products made in Turkey. On June 12, 1939, the name of the Society was changed as The National Association of Economy and Savings.
The Turkish Economic Society was established in İstanbul in 1931 and moved its headquarters to Ankara in 1939. The National Association of Economics and Savings and The Turkish Economic Society were merged under the auspices of the Turkish Economic Association on January 18, 1955.
The Turkish Economic Association transferred its assets to the Foundation of the Turkish Economic Association by an act dated December 12, 1973. This Foundation provides financial support for the activities of the Association.
In order to instill awareness and knowledge of economics in Turkey, The Turkish Economic Association has been producing economics publications; organizing seminars, symposiums and conferences; providing scholarships to outstanding economics students and giving awards to young economists with successful theses on the Turkish economy.
The Turkish Economic Association carries out its activities in Ankara and at present has no branches. The Association is loyal to the Principles of Atatürk and is a member of the International Economic Association.
(*) Kazım Özalp was born in Köprülü, Macedonia in 1882. After he graduated from the Military Academy and the Academy of General Staff, he served in several battles in different areas during World War I. Balikesir was one of the areas where he organized the National Forces. He became a member of the Grand National Assembly in 1920, representing the province of Balıkesir. He worked as Minister of Defense in the government of Fevzi Çakmak. He was elected President of the Grand National Assembly in 1924. He retired from the army a year after he received the title of General in 1926. Kazım Özalp served as the President of the Grand National Assembly from 1924 to 1935 and was appointed National Defense Minister between 1935 and 1939. Özalp retired from politics in 1954 and died on June 6, 1968


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You can book flights to the Maldives from either London or Manchester, and there'll be a stopover on the way. When you arrive at the Maldives you'll get a 30-day visa upon arrival if you have a valid passport and ticket for your return flight (plus enough funds to cover your trip). The Foreign & Commonwealth Office have more information about entry requirements if you're still unsure!
The resort itself is actually quite far from the main island of Malé – after all the Maldives are the most dispersed island nation in the world! Fret not though, the hotel will arrange transfers from the airport. There are two options you can take. The first is a transfer via a domestic airport called Kooddoo. From there it's a 55 minute flight and a 7 minute speedboat ride to the resort. You might also have the chance to fly directly by seaplane – this will take around 90 minutes, provided the service is available.
This resort is undoubtedly the pride of the Maldives – and it's absolute heaven if you're the kind of person who really loves to pamper themselves! Have you been here before? Tell me about your experiences and it may make it into another article in my magazine!


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Beautiful Views of Angel Fire Ski Mountain - minutes to the slopes!
3 bedrooms/beds, 3 baths, sleeps 6-8 (8 inc sofa beds)
Our vacation home is a great way to enjoy a ski vacation....panoramic view of the mountains and the ski slopes from the deck (if you dare brave the cold) or from the comfy living area after a day on the slopes! We have an additional living area w/ TV, pull out sofa, pool table and bar area. Great place to enjoy family time after a long day at the slopes!


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•Concerned with the acquisition and protection of means of livelihood.
•Also a means to ensure the well-being of men in general
•Two fold aims
–Palana: administration and protection of the state
–Labha: conquest and acquisition of territory
•Hence it is a science dealing with internal as well as external spheres.
•Concentrated on the practical aspects of administration
Origin of the state
•Might is right
•Matsyanyaya: Law of the fish
•Hence they chose Manu as the king
•Gave him taxes in return for protection
•No explicit theory of social contract in the book
•Attaches an element of divinity to the king
•Monarchy seems to have been the accepted norm
•Other forms:
–Dvairajya: joint rule of the kingdom by the males of the same family
–Vairajya: rule by a foreign ruler
•Disapproves of Vairajya
Qualities of the ruler
•Should be a native of the territory
•Follow the teachings of the shastra
•Strong and of noble birth etc
•Trained in philosophy, economics and political science (dandaniti)
•Difference between Kautilya's king and Plato's philosopher king
–Kautilya doesn't mean that the king should lead the life of a saint or an ascetic.


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Roy Chanslor had a long and interesting career in Hollywood, but he's probably best known for two western movies made from his novel. One of them was Johnny Guitar. Quick, what was the other one? Don't know? Cat Ballou. The novel was The Ballad of Cat Ballou, which in the movie becomes the song sung by Stubby Kaye and Nat King Cole.
I'd wanted to read Johnny Guitar for a good while, but copies were too hard to come by and too expensive. Not long ago, though, one appeared on eBay and I snapped it up. The book's dedicated to Joan Crawford, and as you can see from the page I've reproduced here, she was ready to star in the movie from the beginning. She'd obviously seen the novel before even the hardcover was published, since the movie came out only a few months after the novel.
I'd hoped the novel would have something of the goofy charm of the movie. No such luck. It's basically a sappy love story, so whoever wrote the screenplay (there's some dispute, I believe) and the director (Nicolas Ray) deserve a lot of credit (if that's the word) for what the movie became. I'm not going to do a point-by-point comparison, but it might be fun if someone had the energy. The book has its moments, but they're few and far between. Given the choice, you should watch the movie.


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Back in April we gathered up Norah's closest friends in Maryland & got together for a birthday party at the gymnastics center!
We had the big move to Texas right around the corner & with packing & planning the trip I just didn't have the time to put something together, so we decided since she loves her gymnastics classes so much, why not just throw a party there! It made life easier for everyone & was so much more fun than any party I could have ever thought up!
Right before our move my laptop was malfunctioning. I had uploaded all of my pictures from this big day onto my laptop, but when it kept crashing I had very little time to transfer them all over to an SD card before it called it quits.
I shipped my laptop out for repairs & when we hit San Antonio I wanted to double check that the pictures were still on the SD card, but my camera kept informing me that the memory card was empty.
I cried.
Brad kept telling me to stop worrying...
...they would show up, but I had my doubts.
I had checked EVERY memory card I own... MULTIPLE TIMES praying they would show up, but they never did!
When my laptop arrived yesterday, I went to upload all of my photos from our travels & guess what... THEY WERE ALL ON THERE!
I still haven't figured out why my camera didn't see them, but I'm just happy I was able to retrieve them. :)
For my birthday/Mother's Day, Brad bought me a new photo editing software.
I'll admit, I'm clueless & not very good with it{and the lighting in the gymnastics center was HORRIBLE}...
but I'll keep on trying to figure out the software & all of this photography stuff.
In the meantime, I don't care how horribly edited they are... I'm just glad we have these memories captured!
I searched the entire town for a gymnastics theme cake... when I came up short there I started looking for Frozen theme cakes. Again, no luck, so we went for her next favorite movie... Tangled. Norah loved it!!
We had such a great time celebrating turning 2! We miss you all so very much!
Thank you all for coming out and making Norah's birthday so special!


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One Less Gun: Call for Loud Party Leads to the Recovery of a Loaded Firearm and the Arrest of Two Suspects/
At about 12:52 AM on Sunday, November 29, 2015, officers from District C-11 (Dorchester) recovered a firearm and arrested two suspects after responding to a call for a loud party and disturbance in the area of 42 Norton Street in Dorchester.
On arrival, officers observed a large group of males drinking alcoholic beverages outside the above mentioned address. While approaching the group with the intention of asking them to disperse, officers noticed and observed one individual, later identified as David Avelino, 27, of Boston, bending over and moving in such a way as if to suggest he was attempting to hide or conceal an object, potentially a firearm. In light of the individual's suspicious behavior, officers promptly exited their cruiser to further investigate their observations. Once outside their cruiser, officers immediately observed a black firearm on the ground in close proximity to Avelino. As a result, officers immediately unholstered their department issued firearms and ordered all individuals to the ground. While the majority of the group adhered to the officer's lawful instructions, one suspect, later identified as Joshua Teixeira, 20, of Boston, chose instead to resist and ignore the officers by refusing to get on the ground or to allow officers to see his hands. In addition to the above, Teixeira made several efforts to incite the crowd while instructing them to video the officers on scene.
Officers arrested David Avelino, 27, of Boston and charged him with the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Possession of Ammunition and the Unlawful Possession of a Loaded Firearm.
Officers arrested Joshua Teixeira, 20, of Boston and charged him with Being a Disorderly Person and Resisting Arrest.
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RANCHI, India (Reuters Life!) - Get good grades, stay in school and the sky is the limit, an eastern Indian state government told schoolchildren on Wednesday, promising free glider rides to kids who stay the course.
"The students leave school after studying for two to three years. Our aim is to cultivate poor students' interest in study," said Bandhu Tirkey, Jharkhand state's human resource development minister, told Reuters.
About 720 state school students aged between 8 and 16 will win a one-hour ride in a glider provided by the state's Civil Aviation Department.
Students need an attendance records of at least 75 percent to be shortlisted for the prize.
The move aims to slash high dropout rates, particularly among tribal communities, in Jharkhand, where the literacy rate of 54 percent lags behind the national average of 65 percent according to the country's last census in 2001.
A 2008 state government survey found 40 percent of students studying in government schools drop out before they are 15.
A free birthday bash or haircuts are among other initiatives given to poor students in the state's 16,000 government schools.
Jharkhand is one of India's poorest states and has a large tribal population.
Writing by Matthias Williams; Editing by Gillian Murdoch


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text: Three Ballard Memorial High School students were among 26 from Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton and Hickman counties who submitted artwork for a logo contest. The hand-drawn logo by BMHS was chosen to represent the new four-county Western Kentucky Alliance for a Vibrant Economy (WAVE), and was unveiled at the group's first major conference, held in October at Columbus-Belmont State Park in Hickman County. Shown from left are BMHS sophomore A.J. Ross, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, and BMHS juniors Grant Dunning and Connor Brooking. The three are students in visual arts II and III classes taught by Jenny Bittner. The final artwork, show here, was displayed on a banner as the backdrop for the many state and national speakers at the meeting, and will be used going forward on promotional materials associated with the WAVE organization.


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I worked in London for 10 years & really enjoyed it, but when I worked there I don't think I really appreciated what a great city London. Now when I go into town for pleasure rather than work its really nice... I have time to look around rather than rush from train to work, work to train & home.
I have a routine when I go to hospital appointments in Holborn (an area where I used to work) & do things so that the day isn't just about going to the hospital - it generally goes like this: I go to the hospital, then I pop to Blade Rubber Stamps which is a great rubber stamp shop very close by (the only one of its kind in London)... sometimes I pop into Cornelissens (http://www.cornelissen.com):
During my last visit to London I had to go further West up to Bond St - I like travelling around London on the bus if I have time - more interesting than the tube/underground as there's lots to see and it seems to change such a lot... but this stands firm:
Well worth a read.
I wandered down Bond St/Old Bond St - very posh with shops with doormen that 'buzz' you in - to Piccadilly - & look at Fortnum & Mason!! Most shops just put up sheeting when they're having work done - but not Fortnums who covered themselves in this:
I find being in London really inspiring, my next planned visit is in July - hopefully the weather will be better.
So, that was my little day out - I had thought of going to the theatre but couldn't decide what to see.. (too much amazing choice!)


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When the nights are long in Finland (and they can be very, very long) there's much more to do than huddle inside with a vodka or two. You can ski across vast frozen lakes or relax in a sauna, beating yourself ever so gently with a fragrant branch of birch leaves to loosen the travel grime. During the months of the midnight sun, coastal regions, including the Turku archipelago and Åland Islands, are a sailing and fishing paradise. Inland, the largest unspoilt wilderness in Europe attracts thousands of trekkers every year.
In the south the capital Helsinki has over 30 art galleries and museums, while in the north Santa Claus kicks back 364 days a year. Where else in the world can you take a reindeer tour or an icebreaker cruise then hit the green for some midnight golf?