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How does Veena Sud create the dreamy, hypnotic tone of AMC's "The Killing"?
By writing the show when she should be dreaming.
The show runner of the AMC series, which debuts Sunday, tricks herself into forgetting her deadlines by nestling into bed in pajamas, with her nice, warm dog and a hot cup of coffee — and then writing for hours.
The series follows a female Seattle detective, Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) as she tries to solve the murder of a young girl, Rosie Larsen. The supporting characters include a boundary-crossing new investigator; Rosie's parents, Mitch and Stan; and a mayoral candidate prone to secrecy.
And then there's that other show about a young girl's murder in the misty, mysterious Northwest: For our second edition of The Writer's Room, TheWrap's new feature on writers and how they write, Sud tells us how she and her writing team dreamed up "The Killing" — but not how they'll handle the Laura Palmer Dilemma that bedeviled "Twin Peaks."
You wrote the pilot, the next episode, the tenth episode, and the finale, in addition to supervising all of the writing as the show runner. Isn't that a lot?
I think that's par for the course. I did that on "Cold Case." Usually I would definitely do the first one and then jump in in the middle of the season and then do the last one. That was 24 episodes though, and this is thirteen. So yeah, I'm tired.
It's a group process… we spend a lot of time together in the room, myself and my writers. We spent a good solid month at the beginning of the series… and just kind of built these characters from the ground up. There's this giant board with all our secrets and all our characters.
It was just saying, who is Mitch? What are her dreams? Who is Stan? Let's talk about the marriage. … We wanted to make sure that there were deep, deep, deep character stories we were telling.
When you sit down to write your episodes, when do you write?
The normal workday is just jam-packed usually… the best times are really late at night, on the weekends and really early in the morning. When the phone's just ringing and there's silence. … For one hour, two hours, three hours I can just immerse myself in the story.
Does losing sleep help you write in a way? I've been told that Kurt Vonnegut used to set his alarm so he could write when he would have entered R.E.M.
I think it must, right? Because so much of your defenses are down if you're tired. You're forced to come to your screen or your writing pad tired, exhausted, unable to distract yourself. It certainly helps me. I started to do things like write in bed, write in places that didn't feel official. Here's a place where I can just sit and relax and be myself and let the characters speak.
Does that work when you're on deadline?
You know how Dalton Trumbo wrote in the bathtub? I remember being like, that's so bizarre, I wonder why he did it. And I think it's because you trick your mind a little bit. … There's so much time pressure in a TV script and on a television show to deliver. It helps me to almost psychologically trick myself like, gosh, this is such a wonderful, leisurely place, I can be in my bed and be in my pajamas with my dog. I'm working, and part of myself knows that I have a deadline, but I don't start cramping up and start worrying and fretting about that deadline.
And you never just doze off?
Coffee has been a huge key to the last year.
The big question "Twin Peaks" had to address was what to do after the murder was solved. What do you do about the Laura Palmer Dilemma?
We'll see when we get there. [Laughs.] We'll totally see when we get there.
Do you know who the killer is?
And did you have to know when you started?
Our killer's different from the Danish series, and no. I had ideas in my head, but that was one of the great things that happened. We locked ourselves in the room and said, how could this happen? And because there weren't any kind of preconceived notions that it has to be this person, coming to that moment where the decision was made was just great.
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Hi there! I am new to these forums.
I hope everyone is having a great day so far.
I wanted to share a few ideas as what I feel could improve an already amazing game. Feel free to share your ideas here too!
1. I would love to see an expansion to the Ranch. I feel that the area behind Beatrix's house could have land placed there and be used to provide space to the Ranch.
2. I would like to see more upgrades for the Ranch and Lab. There is quite a large amount of the laboratory roof that is missing. I think it would be good to have upgrades that improve the overall appearance of the lab.
The "home" cell of the ranch is meant to be that way. It also makes it easier for new players to get rid of the Tarr, or for players in general to dispose items. The second idea however I would like to see.
Yo! I am the self-proclaimed king of the forums! Al, hail me!
But I'm Self-Proclaimed! Have I been Self-Dethroned?
Randomtangle wrote: But I'm Self-Proclaimed! Have I been Self-Dethroned?
Yes. I am now the self-proclaimed loser of the forums!
Guys, want to challenge me?
I am the self-proclaimed Noggy05 of the forums.
Can't argue with that, right?
I am the self-proclaimed self-proclaimer of the forums!
I'm the one who goes around the forums, murdering people's lore. I'm still on the run.
TheGreciansHousehold wrote: I'm the one who goes around the forums, murdering people's lore. I'm still on the run.
I'm the one making the random comments and also on the run, because in real life, I'm also quite annoying.
Randomtangle wrote: AL, HAIL ME!
Al has potential to be a new NPC who specialises in bootlegging 7Zee upgrades.
sure, why not have EmeraldPlay close the thread, or any moderator. Its the same thing as kill this thread.
I'm not a moderator, so I can't do that.
rabbitslime wrote: sure, why not have EmeraldPlay close the thread, or any moderator. Its the same thing as kill this thread. | {
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Professional surveyors spend much of their time in doing tasks such as staking out and collecting data. One item that is equally, if not more important to the surveyor is providing comprehensive reports and documentation on the data collected in the field and processed in the office.
Trimble Business Center provides surveyors with the ability to document data from various projects as well as the flexibility to create and customize reports in their own way. The latest release of TBC v3.81 includes the new Customized Reporting feature which incorporates the data traceability and accuracy of TBC with the flexibility of Microsoft Word to generate deliverables with confidence. | {
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Home > Stockport House Prices > Somerford Road
Sold House Prices in Somerford Road
This page displays sold house prices for Somerford Road in Stockport.
Somerford Road in Stockport SK5 consists predominantly of terraced houses. Properties on Somerford Road typically have values around £100,000 - £150,000, ranging upwards of £150,000 for larger semi-detached houses.
1 Somerford Road, Stockport SK5 6QA
£143,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 20th October 2006
6 Somerford Road, Stockport SK5 6QB
£95,000 Terraced house, Freehold 7th June 2013
£36,950 Terraced house, Freehold 31st March 2000
£78,950 Semi-detached house, Freehold 17th April 2003
£110,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 30th November 2011
£40,000 Terraced house, Freehold 24th November 1999
10 Somerford Road, Stockport SK5 6QB
£117,000 Terraced house, Freehold 22nd March 2005
£121,100 Terraced house, Freehold 28th April 2008
11 Somerford Road, Stockport SK5 6QA
£60,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 15th March 1999
£124,000 Terraced house, Freehold 23rd June 2006
£93,500 Terraced house, Freehold 6th April 2004
£42,500 Terraced house, Freehold 22nd March 1995
£37,000 Terraced house, Freehold 25th September 1998
£83,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 22nd November 2010
£41,060 Terraced house, Freehold 20th April 2001
£41,000 Terraced house, Freehold 9th January 1998
£42,500 Terraced house, Freehold 7th September 2001
£97,950 Terraced house, Freehold 12th July 2004
£47,950 Terraced house, Freehold 15th December 2000
£108,000 Terraced house, Freehold 23rd December 2005
£29,250 Terraced house, Freehold 19th June 2000
£64,950 Semi-detached house, Freehold 19th July 2002
£90,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 19th December 2008
£42,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 1st November 1996
£62,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 17th May 2002
£103,500 Semi-detached house, Freehold 17th March 2006
£115,000 Terraced house, Freehold 10th February 2015
£47,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 12th October 2001
£29,000 Terraced house, Freehold 31st August 1995
£49,000 Terraced house, Freehold 21st February 2002
£113,000 Terraced house, Freehold 9th November 2007
£105,000 Terraced house, Freehold 11th October 2013
£46,000 Terraced house, Freehold 3rd September 2001
£124,950 Terraced house, Freehold 4th July 2007
£110,000 Terraced house, Freehold 11th August 2006
£110,000 Terraced house, Freehold 13th June 2007
£25,000 Terraced house, Freehold 4th December 1998
£113,000 Terraced house, Freehold 5th December 2012
£120,000 Terraced house, Freehold 20th December 2007
£52,630 Terraced house, Freehold 23rd November 2001
£110,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 7th December 2011
£109,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 18th February 2005
£85,000 Terraced house, Freehold 28th February 2006
£40,500 Terraced house, Freehold 8th July 1999
£30,000 Terraced house, Freehold 14th August 1997
£108,000 Terraced house, Freehold 5th April 2007
£110,000 Terraced house, Freehold 26th July 2013
£65,000 Terraced house, Freehold 7th October 2011
£90,100 Terraced house, Freehold 28th October 2011
76 Somerford Road, Stockport SK5 6QE
£64,700 Semi-detached house, Freehold 28th June 2002
£132,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 2nd November 2007
£32,500 Terraced house, Freehold 10th March 1998
£90,000 Terraced house, Freehold 1st December 2004
87 Somerford Road, Stockport SK5 6QF
£27,500 Terraced house, Freehold 8th May 1998
£34,500 Terraced house, Freehold 31st May 1995
£110,000 Terraced house, Freehold 12th May 2005
£102,500 Terraced house, Freehold 6th May 2005
£106,500 Terraced house, Freehold 22nd June 2006
£47,950 Terraced house, Freehold 19th May 2000
£28,500 Semi-detached house, Freehold 7th February 1997
101 Somerford Road, Stockport SK5 6QF
102 Somerford Road, Stockport SK5 6QE
£65,500 Terraced house, Freehold 22nd December 2003
£98,000 Terraced house, Freehold 22nd May 2015
£45,800 Terraced house, Freehold 18th January 1995
£39,950 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 15th January 2001
£128,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 31st July 2007
£52,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 1st March 2002
£77,600 Terraced house, Leasehold 23rd May 2011
£64,000 Terraced house, Leasehold new build 2nd April 2007
£125,000 Terraced house, Freehold 29th March 2007
£125,000 Terraced house, Freehold 21st October 2013
£115,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 20th March 2015
£39,950 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 22nd February 1995
£44,000 Flat, Leasehold 19th July 2010
£24,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 19th October 1998
£37,500 Semi-detached house, Freehold 27th January 1995
£22,257 Semi-detached house, Freehold 19th August 1998
£25,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 16th January 2004
£74,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 19th December 2012
£62,950 Semi-detached house, Freehold 29th November 2002
Somerford Road
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2 Rd Best Shot Doubles Charity Event at Eagles Landing DGC located at Little Black Creek Campground & Park. This event will benefit the Homes of Hope for Children whose mission is to serve children in crisis throughout the state of Mississippi.
Come play 2 rounds at one of the best Disc Golf locations in the south and help support this awesome charity!
This event will be hosted by Southern Prohibition Brewery with Mike Munn as TD. | {
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A gorgeous and classic little flower girl basket with a soft handle ribbon wrapped. Comfortable for the flower girl's small hands. This classic flower girl basket is covered in smooth white satin with a single white satin bow at each end of the handle. Measures: 7" tall x 4.75" wide. Opening measures 3.75" x 3" deep.
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to Golden gate. Just before Golden Gate take left and walk for 50 meters to Majstora Jurja 4.
Enter through the Golden gate, this is the side away from the water. It has the huge statue "Grgur Ninski" out front for reference. Once you enter through the "gate" make the first right hand turn onto a "street" Majstora Jurja. The street will just twist & turn but keep following it going straight. Look for Portas Pizza as a reference point on the left side under a beautiful gazebo. Keep going straight with the twists in the road. Look for Teak café on the left- it's where the locals go to drink coffee. This is where one of the apartments is. | {
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Bujumbura calling: preventing and responding to conflict in Burundi
12 months on from the beginning of a violent political crisis in Burundi, a group of local activists have expanded their project to monitor and respond to conflict. Kevin McCann reports on their work from a recent visit to Bujumbura.
Kevin McCann
The road to Bujumbura. Many areas of Burundi have seen serious violence during the deepening political crisis of the last 12 months. Image credit: Dave Proffer
Since protests began a year ago – and especially since an attempted coup nearly unseated President Pierre Nkurunziza in May 2015 – the situation in Burundi has steadily deteriorated.
More than a thousand people have been killed, with the worst violence so far taking place in December 2015. Armed attacks on military installations around the capital Bujumbura, and the fighting that followed, led to the deaths of over a hundred people. With the Burundian civil war still fresh in people's minds (it officially ended in 2005), events such as the December attacks have increased fears of a return to serious armed conflict. And this, in turn, has contributed to a regional refugee crisis. More than 250,000 people have so far fled to neighbouring Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But as the international presence dwindles – the US and other governments have issued broad advice against travel – Burundians are redoubling their efforts to stop a return to war. Some of them work for Peace Direct's local partner organisation, a violence monitoring and response network. We went to visit them in March of this year.
Good morning, Burundi
I would be surprised if anything happened in Burundi without them knowing about it
At 8am on Monday morning, we are the last to arrive at the office on our first day in Burundi. Our host, Fabrice, shows us straight to the meeting room. In it are a table, some plastic chairs on a hard tiled floor, and the network's central staff. They run what could almost be described as a small news agency, with a network of volunteer 'Citizen Reporters' reporting from around the country on outbreaks of violence in their area. We are here to see first-hand how our support to their work has helped.
I'm impressed. The network has doubled in size in just three months, and their work now covers the entire country. As we listen to the team discussing their work, it occurs to me that I would be surprised if anything happened in Burundi without them knowing about it. Having driven past the burnt-out offices of the main national radio stations – the usual source of information in the country – the situation reports the network provide are a priceless source of information that only local people can access. Testament to the quality of the information are the continuing requests we receive from people who want to read the reports; probably half the UN is on our mailing list.
Local knows best: filling the information gap in Burundi
Fabrice and the team take us in detail through how the network operates. The Citizen Reporters have received training on how to assess and report information, which they send in from around the country using a specialist mobile text messaging system. Each of the messages is logged, assessed for its relevance to the developing situation, and then verified by the staff in Bujumbura. They cross-check incident reports with other Citizen Reporters, any publically available information, and the network's own contacts in the police, military and elsewhere. The reporting is risky, so they take lots of precautions.
Their operation is building a picture of violent hotspots in Burundi – an 'Early Warning' network in every province around the country. With international reporting capacity generally limited to the capital, it provides an almost unique source of countrywide intelligence, which is why the UN is so keen to receive it.
Indeed, the whole project is testament to how a local network can penetrate much deeper into society than outsiders. The Citizen Reporters all live in the areas they report on, and are respected in their communities for their neutrality. This is vitally important in a conflict which is as much about politics as anything else.
Responding to conflict: the role of the Citizen Reporters
The Citizen Reporters calm tensions when violence spikes, or prevent it happening in the first place
Later in the week, I meet with some of the Citizen Reporters. The value of their work becomes even clearer because as well as reporting on violence, they respond to it. Drawing on their background in human rights and peacebuilding, the Citizen Reporters calm tensions when violence spikes, or prevent it happening in the first place. They also support those who are arrested without charge, or are victims or other abuses. As one Citizen Reporter, Jean, told me:
"Sometimes when we ask [the police] for the charges against people, they ask us what authority we have."
"'So it's you who works with Human Rights Watch,' they say."
This is meant as a generic term for human rights groups, and it's clearly intended as a threat – one that prevents people from trying to find out what has happened to their friends and family. This is where the Citizen Reporters help.
"We try and support people to ask after their own," Jean says. "We go with them when they ask the police and the military for information, acting as witnesses in case anything happens."
"I spoke to the mother of a girl who had been kidnapped," says Jean. "She thought her daughter was going to be sexually abused, so she called the police. They arrested every young man in the neighbourhood and tortured them."
Others are presumed guilty by association, "I know a guy who was arrested three times in a week," says Claver. "If he was really involved in anything, why would they release him?"
The power of working together
The network is a powerful example of how bottom-up initiatives can help solve top-down problems
Between them, the network coordinates nearly 200 Citizen Reporters around the country – reporting on and responding to violence. They work as a team, to gather information and send it to us. We then distribute it to diplomats, journalists and other peacebuilders themselves, to try and prevent atrocities.
"When we hear of something, we communicate among ourselves. Have you heard about this? Are you able to go and find out? We have to plan, because sometimes you need to take a motorbike and there are roadblocks."
It's a reminder of the logistical difficulties that the network faces, trying to separate fact from fiction and piece together what's really happening in Burundi. Not for the first time, I'm impressed at how much a small group of dedicated people can accomplish.
And as Claver explains, help can come from unexpected sources. The situation is complex, so it is important not to generalise: "Some of the police are cooperative, and they help us. They tell us very discreetly where people are being held, and other information. We can work together."
It's an extremely worrying situation. But I leave convinced that this network is proof that bottom-up initiatives can help solve top-down political problems – building trust from the ground up. It gives me hope for Burundi.
Names and other information in this article have been changed in order to preserve anonymity.
Kevin McCann is Peace Direct's Research and Engagement Officer. His work includes helping to run Insight on Conflict, developing new publications, and supporting Peace Direct's conflict early warning projects. He has an MA in International Security.
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'The Kadambini' is the largest circulated (certified by ABC) monthly family magazine of Odisha with the largest readership. A comprehensive family magazine 'The Kadambini' has captured the mindscape of all sections of people of the state. It has also created it's space in the heart of Odias residing in the country and abroad. This attractive monthly magazine with its broad content-mix and quality printing, caters to the taste of all cultured Odias regardless of age, gender and income level. 'The Kadambini' recipe of success is simple. It offers something for everyone. Every issue contains cover-features on topical social and cultural issues; life-style and fashion trends; movies and television; fiction, poetry, serial novels; Odia translations of classics from other languages; sports; health; beauty; cookery and household tips. The monthly magazine hits the stands with unfailing regularity on the 1st of every month. Apart from the regular issues 'The Kadambini' brings out four special issues every year. Each issue, be it regular or special is a keepsake — a glossy work of art with multicoloured layouts so beautiful that it catches attention of all section of readers. Needless to say, with so much going for it 'The Kadambini' provides the dream-vehicle for all to access the Odia cultural psyche. | {
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Q: Python Tuple Class Memory Why does the use of tuple instead of list in objects below increase memory usage?
from pympler.asizeof import asizeof
class myClass(object):
__slots__ = ('l')
def __init__(self, m):
self.l = m
m = range(10)
ob = [myClass(m) for i in xrange(100000)]
print asizeof(ob)
for o in ob:
o.l = tuple(o.l)
print asizeof(ob)
The first has size 64697936
The second has size 200697784
A: In your original code, every myClass instance points to the same list.
>>> ob[0].l.append('foo')
>>> ob[1].l
['foo']
In other words: you compared the memory usage of one list to that of 100,000 tuples. Compare it to 100,000 lists instead:
for o in ob:
o.l = list(o.l)
with these results:
6424936
27224856
The original:
6424936
20024784
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GPUs are not just for images any more…
|In Machine Learning
|By Filament
As a machine learning professional specialising in computational linguistics (helping machines to extract meaning from human text), I have confused people on multiple occasions by suggesting that their document processing problem could be solved by neural networks trained using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). You'd be well within your rights to be confused. To the uninitiated what I just said was "Let's solve this problem involving reading lots of text by building a system that runs on specialised computer chips designed specifically to render images at high speed".
"In the age of the neural network, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is one of the biggest misnomers of our time."
Well it turns out that GPUs are good for more than playing Doom in high definition or rendering the latest Pixar movie. GPUs are great for doing maths. As it happens, they're great for the kind of maths needed for training neural networks and other kinds of machine learning models. So what I'm trying to say here is that in the age of the neural network, Graphics Processing Unit is one of the biggest misnomers of our time. Really they should be called "Tensor-based linear algebra acceleration unit" or something like that (this is probably why I'm a data scientist and not a marketer).
Where did GPUs come from?
One of the earliest known uses of the term GPU is from a 1986 book called "Advances in Computer Graphics". Originally, GPUs were designed to speed up the process of rendering computer games to the user's display. Traditional processor chips used for running your computer's operating system and applications process one instruction at a time in sequence. Digital images are made up of thousands or millions of pixels in a grid format. Traditional CPUs have to render images by running calculations on each pixel, one at a time: row by row, column by column. GPUs accelerate this process by building an image in parallel. The below video explains the key difference here quite well:
So I know what you're thinking… "If GPUs are so magical and can do all this cool stuff in parallel, why don't we just use them all the time instead of CPUS?" — am I right?
Well here's the thing… GPUs are specialised for really fast maths and CPUs are generalised for many tasks. That means that GPUS are actually pretty rubbish at a lot of things CPUs are good at — they've traded flexibility for speed. Let me try and explain with a metaphor.
The Patisserie Chef and the Cake Factory
Let's away from the computer for a second and take a few moments to think about a subject very close to my heart… food.
A patisserie chef is highly efficient at making yummy cakes and pastries to delight their customers. They can only really pay attention to one cake at a time but they can switch between tasks. For example, when their meringue is in the oven they can focus on icing a cake they left to cool earlier. Trained chefs are typically very flexible and talented and they can make many different recipes — switching between tasks when they get time.
At some point in history, Mr Kipling and those guys who make twinkies got so many orders that human bakers would never be able to keep up with demand. They had to add cake machines. A factory contains machines that spit out thousands of cakes in parallel. The key difference is that these machines are not flexible in the way that a human chef would be. What if we're churning out a batch of 10,000 french fancies when we get a call to stop production and make country slices instead? Imagine how long it would take to go around and stop all the machines, put the new ingredients in and then start the process again! A human chef could just throw out the contents of their oven and get started on the new order right away! The factory probably can't even handle doing lots of different jobs. I bet they have different machines for the different products or at the very least have to significantly alter the production line. In contrast, the patisserie chef can just change what they do with their hands! By the way, this post is not in any way sponsored by Hostess or Mr Kipling. I just like cake.
Did you spot the metaphor here? The slower but more flexible chef is a CPU — plodding along one order at a time, switching when he gets some availability. The cake factory is a GPU — designed to churn out thousands of similar things as quickly as possible at the cost of flexibility. This is why GPUs aren't a one size fits all solution for all of our computing needs.
Like I said earlier, GPUs are great at maths. They can be employed to draw really pretty pictures but they can also be used for all sorts of real world, mathematical operations where you need to run the same calculations on large batches of data. Training a neural network uses a lot of these streamlined mathematical operations regardless of whether they are trained to detect cats, play Go or detect nouns, verbs and adjectives in text. Using a trained neural network to make predictions is less computationally expensive but you might still benefit from running it on a GPU if you are trying to make a lot of predictions very quickly!
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We go to the Zuni Pueblo to record the sounds of a relay run across New Mexico from Taos Pueblo to the Hopi Reservation commemorating the Pueblo Uprising against the Spanish in 1680, and walk with a Zuni elder to a Runners Meditation Rock on a mountain above the village where long-distance runners meditated in preparation for competition.
As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, America's soldiers are returning home by the tens of thousands. Some of them are coming home with physical wounds and will face enormous challenges in their readjustment. Many more are coming home with wounds of the heart and mind, and are struggling with depression, substance abuse and other symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). And while doctors and researchers work to develop cutting-edge treatments for this affliction, the VA Center in Salt Lake City is offering a healing ceremony that reaches back to America's first warriors: Native Americans. Each week, a group of vets attend a sweat lodge ceremony, held in a garden on the VA campus.
The sweats are conducted by Native American spiritual leader Arnold Thomas in a dome-shaped structure called a lodge. Sweats are common in Indian country, and ceremonies specifically designed to help returning warriors heal spiritually have taken place for centuries. Over the past several years, the sweats at the Salt Lake City VA Center have drawn increasing numbers of non-Native veterans as well, who've made them an integral part of their treatment for PTSD.
Visit the Salt Lake City VA: www.saltlakecity.va.gov.
Media producer Taki Telonidis found out about these sweats while conducting research for a larger project about Native Americans in the military called Healing the Warrior's Heart.
Our story reveals how a life-changing personal experience put Supaman, a Native American Hip Hop artist, on a different course, and infused his music with a new, positive message.
His music has followed the dramatic trajectory of his life on the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana, from the early years celebrating the "gangsta" life he and his friends were leading, an existence marked by poverty, crime and substance abuse, to new messages of compassion, Christian love, and humor. Throughout, his songs still have signature rugged beats and heavy-hitting metaphors.
Supaman is part of a growing community of rappers on reservations in the West who are making music based on Native realities. Although Hip Hop was born in the inner city and originally reflected the experience of African American youth in the ghetto, it has resonated with Native Americans who face similar challenges out on remote reservations.
Our story traces the fall and rise of an animal that has been central to Navajo life for as long as anyone can remember, the Churro sheep. The Churro is woven into the tribe's creation story, which mentions that Talking God created the Churro by using clouds for the body, willows for the legs, and rainbows for the hooves and horns. The Churro was also key to the economic survival of the Navajo on the harsh desert of the Southwest, providing them with food and clothing. Yet in modern times, the Churro was hunted to near extinction by the US government. Beginning in the late 1860's with the forced relocation of the Navajo, and as recently as the 1940s these animals were hunted down by agents and shot on sight.
Then in the 1970s a Utah professor stumbled upon remnants of the once-great Churro herds and began a campaign to bring them back. He partnered with Navajo herders and elders, and together they began to systematically breed and reintroduce these animals to the reservation. The return of the Churro has contributed to a revival of Navajo weaving, and the tasty meat has meant increased income for herders.
Sheep rancher and Navajo spiritual leader Roy Kady hosts the annual celebration of Sheep is Life Celebration. This festival is organized by Navajo sheep herders and weavers to honor the central role of sheep and fiber arts in the spirituality, philosophy, and daily life of cultures throughout the world.
Hal Cannon accompanies a group of Lakota Indians on an odyssey to reclaim the remains of their ancestor, a Lakota chief who was killed at the massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890, and tells the story of past and present as those remains are brought home. This and other stories are included in our Deep West Recording, Stories From Native America, now out of print. | {
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Mets Morning News
Mets Morning News: It's a very sad Harvey Day
Your Saturday morning dose of New York Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.
By Steve Schreiber@sschreiber13 Oct 5, 2013, 11:58am EDT
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Meet the Mets
The biggest news in Metsland yesterday was that Matt Harvey will in fact undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow later this month. Both Sandy Alderson and David Wright gave their takes on the news and both said that Harvey made the right decision. It's sad news for the 2014 Mets but they still have a season to play, so what should they do? Mets fans won't accept a lost 2014 even without Harvey, says Mike Vaccaro. Luckily, Will Carroll says that it's likely that Harvey will return from the surgery as good as ever.
Even with Harvey out, the Mets still have a glut of young pitchers and that bodes well for their future. Mike Kerwick spoke to Jason Parks about the futures of Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, and Steven Matz.
Sandy Alderson says that the Mets need to add more quality arms in the bullpen.
Mike Puma reports that Carlos Beltran said he wouldn't rule out returning to the Mets for 2014. Puma also says that the Mets would consider Beltran, though his declining range in the outfield may be an issue.
Toby Hyde continues to recap the Mets' Sterling Award Winners, looking at St. Lucie winner Dustin Lawley.
The Binghamton Mets long rumored move to Ottawa seems to be officially dead, as the city is looking to add an independent league team instead.
Johan Santana has begun throwing again, which is great news for him. Of course, it remains to be seen if he ever dons a Mets uniform again.
Yesterday At AA
Eric created BringBackBeltran.com, a website devoted to bringing back Carlos Beltran. Be sure to give Carlos a high-five, too!
Should the Mets tender or non-tender Omar Quintanilla this offseason?
Jeffrey Paternostro wrote about Brooklyn righty Miller Diaz.
Around the Playoffs
There were four playoff games yesterday:
In the second game of their series, the Pirates beat the Cardinals 7-1 and evened things up at a game apiece. Rookie pitcher Gerrit Cole was excellent for Pittsburgh.
The Red Sox stomped on the Rays 12-2 in the opener of their series. Game two of that series is tonight at 5:30, as John Lackey matches up with David Price.
The Braves took game two of their series with the Dodgers by a score of 4-3, as the teams are tied at one.
Finally, the Tigers beat the A's 3-2 in the opener of their set. Game two of that series takes place tonight at 9:00, when Justin Verlander takes on Sonny Gray.
Around the Majors
Alex Rodriguez filed two lawsuits yesterday – one against Major League Baseball for pursuing him in what was termed as a "witch hunt", and a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Yankees team doctor.
The Reds canned Dusty Baker yesterday, the first move the team made after getting eliminated from the playoffs. While Tony LaRussa is said to not be interested in the job, Jim Riggleman is considered a candidate for some reason.
Despite rumors that one of them would be fired, both Mike Scioscia and Jerry DiPoto are now expected to be back for the Angels in 2014.
Executive director of the MLB players union Michael Weiner is said to have just 2-6 months to live due to a cancerous brain tumor.
Albert Pujols has sued Jack Clark over the steroids claims he made on the radio in August.
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Somalia has finally "surprised" and "shocked" the world – but predictability doesn't make the obtuse international reaction any easier to digest. The bombings in Kampala are atrocious. Yet with inane reports like "Who is al-Shabab" and "al-Shabab seeks to replace government," the setup is clearly on too.
The lights have been switched off.
Reporting from the Western media is dangerously blacked out, distorting Somalia's instability to generate the appropriate reaction in their populaces. Africa's media offers a more complete account, although it's trending in the same direction. The possibility of military retaliation has quickly arisen as Western governments orchestrate the media machine to their best ability.
But using public relations to deflect reality ends in futile strategy. Rather than illuminating Somalia's crisis, the Kampala bombings are being exploited to destroy incriminating evidence. Why single out al-Shabab and al-Qaeda when so many other factors are equally to blame? "Evil terrorists" only explains so much. All the blame is being pinned on them in the heat of the moment.
Thus less attention has fallen on the weak Transitional Federal Government (TFG), whose commendable attempt to survive merely funnels US arms to al-Shabab through Somalia's black market. Corruption of millions in US and EU aid remains rampant. Child soldiers wielding US arms go unmentioned as do heavy-handed, unpopular African Union (AU) troops untrained in counterinsurgency and responsible for scores of civilian deaths. African experts recently testified to the US Congress that supporting the TFG without oversight does more harm than good.
Meanwhile Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, al-Qaeda's former chief in Somalia, pops up sparingly and only to invoke the SEAL strike that killed him in September 2009. That al-Shabab and al-Qaeda officially allied together in February 2010 goes unsaid. It's useless for people to realize that targeted assassinations have minimal effect.
And scant reporting has downplayed Uganda's new deployment of 2,000 emergency troops to Mogadishu, as requested by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Uganda's story runs deeper than being one of two contributors to the AU force (Burundi being the other), and the deployment sparked fears that Ethiopia, generally disliked in Somalia, is on deck. Specific references that Somalia had reached a tipping point are similarly neglected; most reports opt for the standard copy-and-paste biography. Yet Blackhawk Down hasn't been referenced much either. None of Washington's sordid history in Somalia is.
All the back-story to Kampala has been edited out, leaving it the hollow shell of a "pointlessly brutal" al-Qaeda attack. A freeze frame of explosions and blood soaked American teenagers for Western consumption.
Kampala's tragedy isn't isolated, but orbits the larger tragedy in Somalia. Uganda deployed more troops without a strategy and al-Shabab retaliated. This war is ongoing and more troops beget more violence, as they've already started to do. One cannot expect Uganda or other African nations to deploy troops without consequence when blood has stained everyone's hands. Nor can one blame al-Qaeda for outmaneuvering America from Afghanistan into Somalia.
That attitude has brought and will continue to bring chaos to Somalia.
Glints of truth can still be spotted amidst the smoke of Kampala. William Braniff, a US instructor at the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point, advises, "Regionalization of the conflict is a rational strategy for al Shabaab. They are stronger when there are foreign boots on the ground, and weaker otherwise." Where he is at a time like now?
Many Somalis themselves, much as they dread al-Shabab, also fear that overreaction from the West or Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia – all US allies.
Unfortunately none of this seems to matter. The world's strategy up until Kampala and its subsequent reaction offers few reasons to expect a sound counter-response. In fact the main hope is that very overreaction. Washington officials closely monitoring the US and international media understand the threat of military retaliation is highly anticipated. But al-Shabab and al-Qaeda's actions suggest that its bombs possess dual motives: deterrence against additional forces and bait into the trap. They expect retaliation and will strike US allies if attacked by US forces; if not they continue about their war.
Either outcome serves their purpose.
The West can keep blaming al-Shabab and al-Qaeda, but that won't stabilize the conflict. Though the temptation may be to perceive AU or US troops as liberators, given that al-Shabab's popular support is low, they would likely throw dynamite on the fire. Going in is easy. Instead Somalia needs a full-spectrum exit strategy, and the countdown for a solution is running out. The smart political play thus aligns with the best counterinsurgency: fusing international and regional diplomacy into a tone-down reaction that doesn't further inflame the region.
What's needed to avert a military catastrophe is a grand political strategy – an international Task Force for Somalia. The failed state rivals Iraq or Afghanistan and yet receives a fraction of the time and resources. Not only does a Task Force appear to be the most realistic solution to the conflict (despite its apparent idealism), nearly every actor is calling for international intervention.
The same demand came from Sunni militia Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a, formerly allied with the government and now dangerously isolated after falling out with the TFG. Upon denouncing the TFG group spokesman Abu Yusuf Al-Qadi added, "We are requesting from the international community to know and see that the government had violated the deal signed." He wants international assistance too.
Now add in General David Petraeus's Special Forces directive that expanded operations in Somalia, plus the SEAL raid on Nabhan, an event which solidified al-Qaeda and al-Shabab's alliance. It becomes clear that the West's response to Somalia has remained military-centric despite a change in rhetoric. Reversing this mindset is critical to the mission.
Wetangula illuminates what a potential Task Force may look like: several US officials to act in the UN, EU officials to oversee regional initiatives, a heavy African unit comprised of high-level officials from all of Somalia's neighbors, and representation from Somaliland and Puntiland to exercise regional authority with TFG. Egyptian and Saudi Arabian officials may also be enlisted for the purpose of Islamic reintegration programs. A dozen or so members could form the team, America operating from the back and Africans up front.
Restoring the TFG to working order would be the first task, either by reforming it or disbanding and replacing it with a more solid structure. This would necessitate a deep level of participation from Somalia's local power-brokers, who must be recruited to play an active role in the Task Force. A bottom-up strategy will never succeed without assistance from the top, making it essential to promote diplomats who sincerely understand they serve the Somali people.
Among many secondary issues to address are investigations into the TFG's use – and America's arming – of child soldiers and the harassing of journalists who reported on the story. At the top of the list: a regional construct for Somalia, Somaliland, and Puntland, a peace treaty with Ethiopia, piracy (which will never be solved at sea), and proxy negotiations with militant groups. None of this will be easy, cheap, or quick.
The Task Force's ultimate objective, as politics alone won't resolve the conflict, is devising an all-encompassing framework to run potential AU/EU/US military operations through, or a more robust UN peacekeeping mission. This isn't advocation of those operations, only the acceptance of their inevitability. The Task Force must minimize the need for military action and alleviate negative reaction through the proper political and cultural knowledge. And it must act before al-Qaeda strikes a Western target from Somalia, before Ethiopian or US brigades are forced to storm Mogadishu and other al-Shabab positions.
Before the war is lost for good.
James Gundun is a political scientist and counterinsurgency analyst based in Washington D.C. Contact him in The Trench, a realist foreign policy blog, at www.hadalzone.blogspot.com. | {
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I have started watching this tv show called Revolution.
The premise? All of the power all over the world goes out. It was instantaneous. Cars stopped, communication ended, planes fell from the sky. The world went from an electronic age back to a primitive way of life. Those that were smart left cities and formed little villages where they grew their own food and each person had a job to fulfill to keep the community going. Fifteen years after the blackout, a group of people have banned together to revolt against an authoritarian regime. It is such an awesome show, full of sword fights and crossbows and revenge.
On another level, though, it is very thought-provoking. I mean, what would you do if something like that happened? Would you be able to live off of the land and go back to a pioneering way of life? Where would you go?
Craig and I talk about that fairly regularly - not because we foresee it happening but because he is a "survival" junkie. He loves researching "bug out bags" or how to make fire with a soda can or what foods work are best to eat when stuck in the middle of nowhere in a snow storm. Aside from all of that though, we actually talk about where we would go if something like that were to happen. There is no doubt. We would go to Reform, AL. You remember that place: we visit my grandmother there once a month.
My grandparents own over 100 acres of land out there and they divied up 20+ acres for each of their children. My dad's section is large enough for all of us to prosper. The soil is good for growing food and the surrounding land supports plentiful wildlife. It is minimally populated, and most that do live there are related to us in some way. It seems the perfect place. Of course we would have lots to learn like how to hunt, how to make all foods from scratch, or how to keep our home warm in the winter. But it would be ok because there is so much beauty there. And sometimes - just sometimes - you could see something like this.
Yep, that would be a horse. It made it's way into the field beside my grandmother's house. Sure it belongs to someone who eventually came and got it, but the point is it was free to roam. It was free because that is the country life. There are hardly any cars that pass through those roads, everyone knows and trusts everyone else, and life in general is just simpler. Sometimes that just sounds like heaven. Or at least it sounds like the place to go when all power goes out.
Hey, it could happen. I guess. | {
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Alan Kyle's life in farming began at the Diamond, Fintona in County Tyrone.
From here, in 1944, he moved with his parents to a 72 acre farm near Omagh. In due course, he took over the running of the farm from his father and with the support of his wife, Agnes.
From the age of 15, in a series of diaries, Alan recorded on a daily basis the trials, tribulations, rewards and highlights of more than 50 years in farming. In this book, using extracts from the diaries, Alan shares his experiences and views on the changing world of agriculture with a wider audience.
I was fortunate to work Alan and Agnes Kyle on the design and artwork of their 464 page book "A Touch of Grass." It was a pleasure to work with the couple and to have been introduced to the various events throughout their lives that have been included in this book.
The book has been a great success and has seen two print runs to keep up for the demand for the publication.
When I first spoke to Alan he expressed his passion for high quality milk production from high quality grass, hence the title, 'A Touch of Grass'.
With this in mind I decided to use the theme of grass as a page background, and subsequently pulled handfuls of grass out of my garden which I then scanned and placed onto the pages. The results turned out great and really give the design a fresh agricultural feel.
Turned out great and Alan, Agnes and their family were very pleased with the result. | {
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Completed Graduation in Visual Commmunication and Masters in Mass Communication. worked in many production houses. "Big Synergy Media Ltd. for KBC South as Contestant Head" | {
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ENG-355 Multi-Cultural Literature Blog
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Themes of Powerlessness and Choice in Literature
The works for this week are all centered around themes of powerlessness and choice. Our first work is 'The Metamorphosis', by Kafka. In 'The Metamorphosis', the main character awakens and finds himself to be transformed into a massive insect, powerless to change his fate, left with the decision of how to cope with it. The second work was "The Guest", by Camus. In this story, a school teacher is given the order to turn an Arab man over to the authorities and must choose whether or not to do so, while the prisoner is powerless to influence the decision. The third work is "Requiem" by Akhmatova, a poem about the hopelessness of war, the powerlessness of being one person amidst so much evil, and making the choice to be a witness and documentor of the tragedy. Finally, the fourth is "Faust", by Goethe, a story about a man who feels powerless choosing to make a deal with the devil.
Theme: Powerlessness and Choice
One of the best examples from these works that showcases the central themes is Faust. At the beginning of the story, Faust, the main character, feels completely powerless. He sees no point in living, and is about to kill himself until angels intervene and stop him. Then, through a series of events, he is offered a deal from Mephistopheles, the devil. In exchange for his soul, he is offered worldly pleasure and knowledge. He decides to make a bet with Mephistopheles, believing the Devil is incapable of following through on the deal. If Mephistopheles can show him something that eases his suffering and satisfies him, Faust will be his servant forever, trading his soul for that satisfaction. From his powerlessness, he makes a powerful and risky choice.
Here is an example of an activity to teach these themes to students.
Ask the students to think of an example of powerlessness in other media, such as movies and popular shows.
See if they can look in those same media and find themes of choice. For example, suppose someone chose the movie "The Lion King" for their theme of powerlessness, since Simba was powerless to save his father. If they look, the theme of choice is also present in the narrative. Throughout the movie, Simba must choose whether to claim his place on the throne, or to continue to run from his past. Or, another example, the movie "Brave", in which Merida is set to be married off against her will, and chooses to try and use magic to avoid it. There are many examples in pop culture of a theme of powerlessness and choice, and inviting students to look outside of the assigned texts may raise their interest in learning to identify themes.
Once everyone has thought of an example, either have each student explain either out loud in discussion time why they chose that piece of media and how the themes show up in it, or have them turn it in as a written assignment.
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We all recognize the importance of well-being. It's really essential to be physically healthy. But it's like nurturing only the outer layer of fruit. If the seed is not healthy, then that nourishment goes in vain. Likewise, living with just a physically fit body without spiritual fitness won't make us lead a life of a complete well-being.
When there is a lack of spirituality in the society, mental impurity begins to build up in the environment. This is known as Psychological Pollution. And this depletes the 'spiritual energy'. Meditation is a spiritual union that allows the higher consciousness of ours to bond with the collective energy of the universe.
Hence, in order to reveal the secret of spiritually fit body, mind and soul and to make people feel the magic of spiritual nourishment in their life, Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan (DJJS) - a non-profit, non-government and a leading spiritual organization, head and founded by His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj Ji, organized a program of Monthly Spiritual Congregation on Sunday, June 12th, 2016 at Nurmahal Ashram, Punjab.
The program was commenced with holy prayer at the lotus feet of Lord. Devotional bhajans and songs sung with utmost dedication mesmerized the audience. The profound sense of devoting the life for a supreme cause filled the surrounding with divinity. Thousands of people sitting in meditation generated multitudes of positivity in the environment.
The spiritual discoursers from the dais shared the necessity of spirituality by making people realize the loss by not making it a part of our life. Today when the universe is full of negative energies, it becomes our prime duty to meditate and purify it as much as we can. Don't let even a single minute of your life go waste. If you wile away this time and do not meditate, its value will be gone as your soul will miss out the most divine experiences of the Lord. On the other hand, if you meditate hard during this time, then you will become the brightest gems. | {
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The Moon in Gemini is sextile Uranus in Aries today. A perfect day to chuck everything and to do something fun.
Something different! A day of unexpected news and ideas, but alas ... Mercury in Capricorn is square on Uranus in Aries. We want so much, we make plans, but plans and meetings go wrong or have to be canceled. | {
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Two lost hikers rescued near Ruidoso after cold, wet night
Two lost hikers tracked and brought back safely by search and rescue volunteers
Two lost hikers rescued near Ruidoso after cold, wet night Two lost hikers tracked and brought back safely by search and rescue volunteers Check out this story on ruidosonews.com: https://www.ruidosonews.com/story/news/local/community/2018/10/29/two-lost-hikers-rescued-near-ruidoso-after-cold-wet-night/1808892002/
Tony Davis, WMSR base amp officer, Special to the Ruidoso News Published 11:37 a.m. MT Oct. 29, 2018
Terrain required communication relays
The White Mountain Wilderness covers 48,000 acres in the Sacramento Mountains of the Lincoln National Forest.(Photo: Courtesy/USDS-USFS)
Hikers located about 5:45 a.m.
Volunteers with White Mountain Search and Rescue successfully tracked and brought back to base camp two hikers in an operation last week.
At 6:38 p.m., Oct. 23, White Mountain Search and Rescue received a call to search for two hikers lost above Argentina Trailhead in the White Mountain Wilderness of the Lincoln National Forest near Ruidoso. Three members responded, along with teams from Alamogordo, Organ Mountain Technical Rescue, Mesilla Valley, Doña Ana SAR, and the Border Patrol. The teams assembled around 10:30 p.m. at the Little Bonito trailhead near the Argentina Trail. The Incident Commander was Rick Overmier from Chaves County.
Because the Argentina trailhead area is down in a valley, Overmier had the WMSAR communications van positioned high at the Crest trailhead near Monjeau Peak. Three ground teams were sent up Little Bonito Trail to search around midnight.
The two subjects left word at with a girlfriend before their cellphone battery ran out that they thought they were off the Crest Trail on Barber Ridge. She reported their situation to State Police at 6:30 p.m. They had no water, food or shelter and were soaking wet. With the rain, fog and dropping temperature, hypothermia was the chief concern, and finding them quickly was paramount.
Team One reached Crest Trail at Little Bonita first, but the team leader was feeling some distress from the altitude, so WMSAR's Mike Bilbo took over. Ocermier had them stay there, as at that point they had good communications with both Monjeau and to Incident base. This turned out to be a good move.
Teams Two and Three proceeded up the Crest Trail to the Barber Ridge turnoff, all the time pausing to call out for the subjects. At that point, suggested by Incident Base, Team Three split up, with some staying at the junction for radio communication and several joining Team Three to search along Barber Ridge.
At 4:45 a.m. Wednesday, the joint Team Two made contact with the subjects by voice and at 5:45 a.m. found them on a ridge just parallel to Barber Ridge. That information was transmitted by relay from Team Two to Team Three to Team One to the WMSAR communications van near Monjeau and finally to Incident Base. This complicated four-step relay was occasioned by the complicated terrain and poor transmission conditions.
Team Two provided dry clothes, food and water to the subjects and kept them sheltered from the rain until daybreak. They then all proceeded down the Crest Trail and Little Bonito, arriving back to the trailhead around 10:30 a.m.
In all, a successful and timely rescue under difficult conditions.
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Instead of having a launch party like many businesses, Ubuntu SBS (Pty) Ltd has chosen to be more direct, giving consumers the benefit of the money that would have been spent on a fancy party for the launch of its Small Business Management Software (Cloud Based ERP).
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A lack of conflict competence and a culture of conflict avoidance is costing the Irish economy. Civil service human resources officers in Ireland are avoiding conflict as they "do not like tackling underperformance" and fear a "backlash from unions". This avoidance of conflict is contributing to the poor implementation of the Performance Management and Development System. The Secretary General at the Department of Justice, Sean Aylward, describes an "almost congenital disinclination to confront our colleagues with the truth about their performance".
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Since late March, the White House has been on virtual lockdown. This week, however, party preparation began anew. Tables popped up on the South Lawn, installed by staff who had been cut back from in-person work several weeks earlier out of an abundance of caution, but who have returned this week to set up the White House July Fourth party.
For White House social secretary Rickie Niceta and the White House team of chefs and butlers, housekeeping staff and ushers, the slow build back to normal begins with a party in the midst of a pandemic.
The chairs for the tables, however, are not the typical eight or 10, but instead just four -- only enough to accommodate a socially distant seating plan. There will be tablecloths and flowers, some food -- including grill stations for hot dogs and hamburgers (adorned with tiny American flags attached to toothpicks) and nonalcoholic drinks -- details overseen by Niceta, herself one of the staffers who had since late March been doing her job from home.
Waitstaff, who were typically bare-handed for previous outdoor White House events and white-gloved for more formal ones, will this July Fourth be wearing disposable rubber gloves and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-advised face masks, which will be constantly swapped out for fresh ones, a White House official told CNN.
The guest list for the picnic will reflect the health trauma the country is still grappling with. "Guests will be made up of front-line workers and their families," deputy press secretary Judd Deere told CNN, "including law enforcement, doctors, nurses and others, as well as members of the military and their families."
Members of the Trump administration will also be in attendance, Deere said. Though Deere did not specify how many guests were expected, the White House says the invitation-only event, which culminates in watching flyovers of military aircraft and a large-scale fireworks show on the National Mall, will include social distancing.
"As President Trump has said, this year's Independence Day celebration will have a different look than 2019 to ensure the health and safety of those attending," Deere said.
Yet Friday evening, Trump, with first lady Melania Trump, attended a program and fireworks display at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, where several thousand were blatantly non-socially distanced, packed closely together in amphitheater-style bleacher seating. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, said earlier in the week during an interview that those who didn't want to maintain the CDC guidelines of staying at least 6 feet apart were welcome to attend.
"We told those folks that have concerns that they can stay home. But those who want to come and join us, we'll be giving out free face masks, if they choose to wear one. But we won't be social distancing," Noem said on Fox News.
Back at the White House on Thursday, boxes of face masks were being unpacked, thousands of them ready to be placed with hand wipes and sanitizer into personal pouches of protection for each guest. Passing out masks and enforcing personal space feels incongruous at the home of a President who, while publicly saying he is "fine" with the idea of face masks, has shunned wearing one of his own in front of press. In fact, Trump's anti-mask status has helped turn the decision to wear a mask or not into a political issue.
The Fourth of July wasn't always as politically charged as it is this year, with a country in the middle of a cultural and social reckoning, as well as a pandemic, and an election looming just four months away. Thomas Jefferson in 1801 was the first American President to hold a July Fourth celebration at the White House, complete with horse races on the North Lawn and the Marine Band (who will also play at Saturday evening's party) performing patriotic tunes in the entrance hall, according to the White House Historical Association's research.
In 1850, though at the still-under-construction Washington Monument and not the White House, President Zachary Taylor attended Fourth of July festivities and consumed ice water and cherries and other raw fruit. Taylor died at the White House five days later from a gastrointestinal illness that historians believe to be cholera.
Shortly thereafter, in the early 1900s, when the grounds of the White House were virtually open to anyone who wanted to stroll them, the Fourth of July made it a favorite picnic spot, kicking off the tradition of an evening on the sprawling lawn, admiring fireworks that were set off over the National Mall.
A favored photo op for many a president and first lady in more recent decades has been standing on the second-floor Truman Balcony of the White House, a spacious outdoor area commissioned by former President Harry Truman in 1947 that extends from the Executive Residence's Yellow Oval Room, looking into the distance at the fireworks.
Last year, Trump went all out for the Fourth of July, with an expansive and expensive display of patriotic firepower on the Mall. The first couple opted not to sit at the White House for the festivities, but instead watched from the Lincoln Memorial, overlooking a massive crowd who cheered in the rain as displays of military might flew overhead.
This year, with all that coronavirus continues to rob from Americans, the celebration will likely be under the weather in a different way.
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For any family seeking a private Christian education in the home, money quickly becomes an issue. While programs like K12 and other public-school umbrellas exist, they do not offer the freedom of choice so many homeschoolers are looking for. Nor do they offer a Christian education. Most homeschooling families opt to buy their own curriculum so they can truly be in charge of their child's education. When a homeschooling family has many children, curriculum buying becomes an exercise in creative frugality. Here are a few ways you can save and stretch money in your homeschool.
Every child is unique and homeschooling a large group of children with varying interests and aptitudes can be just as chaotic as it is rewarding. This article shares some tips and tricks for avoiding the chaos.
There are lots of things to love about a large family, but being agile and moving about quickly isn't really one of them. Learning in action and experiencing something first hand is one of the best things about homeschooling. It's often what really sets apart our education from that of a traditional brick and mortar school. It is worth it to make the effort for field trips, though it doesn't necessarily make them any easier!
Homeschooling can reveal many things. This article shares some insight into the thoughts of a homeschooling mom.
Sometimes, raising and homeschooling 8 kids (ages 21 to 2) seems totally manageable--even easy--especially when compared to other, larger families made up primarily of younger kids. At other times, homeschooling our brood proves to be the hardest thing ever.
Regardless of how many children you have, there will always be more on your to-do list than time will allow in any one day. Wise homeschool parents will recognize this early on and take steps to maintain their sanity by practicing these tips to enhance their homeschool productivity.
This podcast features Amy of Raising Arrows who currently has seven children on earth and one in Heaven. She shares ideas and encouragement for anyone who is homeschooling more than four children.
Some ideas to encourage those who are homeschooling many children. Discusses how to develop daily plans, integrate your teaching to different age levels, maintain your presence to give your children a sense of stability, and keep your perspective.
These tips and tricks will help you get individual time with each of your kids while everyone is engaged in learning.
Ideas for incorporating fine art education into a large homeschool family curriculum.
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Teaching six children can be a challenge. How do you prioritize? Where do you focus your time? How do you make sure they all learn to read, write and tie their shoes? It is not impossible to teach a large family. It takes thoughtfulness and flexibility. It will keep you on your toes and keep you humble.
The introvert can homeschool! Here are some tips for those whose nature is more introverted. Especially helpful for those homeschooling a large family.
Parents of several children engage in some seriously creative thinking to accomplish ordinary day to day tasks. This article is a collection of tips, gathered from 'Moms of Many', and is intended to supply helpful suggestions for homeschooling, maintaining your home, and generally keeping it all in balance.
Homeschooling is no joke. It's commitment and dedication, it's trial and error. Homeschooling many is a whole different creature. There are different learning styles, interests, strengths and weaknesses. We are going to talk about what is most important when homeschooling many children, and some tips for special situations.
For the most part, the more well ordered days are the more smoothly the day will go. Not only does it require planning on our part as homeschooling moms, it requires diligence and perseverance – daily.
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This list is to encourage and support those who homeschool many children. How many? To some 3 is a lot! If you have a large family (whether natural, adopted, foster or blended) and homeschool, you know that there are a lot of unique challenges ranging from orchestrating family harmony, dealing with multiple ages, trying to homeschool in a sometimes chaotic environment, keeping up with the never-ending laundry, transportation, cooking, chores, and more. This is a Christian list.
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This list is for moms only that are part of a large family consisting of four or more children. Large families are wonderful, exciting, and very challenging. Here you will find time and money saving tips, advice and support.
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Raising a large, Catholic, homeschooling family is a great work (Magnum Opus) and a great deal of work! Hopefully this email discussion group will be a place for parents of four or more to help each other with the nitty-gritty details of raising and educating a large, Catholic family.
This is a list for all who are pregnant for the third or more time and are having a large family by choice. Discussions include the difficulties of having several at home when dealing with sickness and fatigue, homeschooling, and more. This is a supportive list where people believe that large families are wonderful.
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In Memory of: Sharon Nobue Harris
A Tribute to Sharon Harris Sharon Nobue Harris passed away December 30, 2022. She leaves behind her husband Dave, son Cory (Karen), daughter Shannon (Tal Goettling), granddaughter Hailey, sister Joyce Hamamura (Susan Davis), aunt May Terayama, many cousins, friends and her lap-warming kitty, Missy. She was born on September 30,
BIJAEMA Hails Passage of Japanese American Confinement Education Act
December 24, 2022 Bainbridge Island, WA – The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Association commends Congress for passing a 2023 spending bill that includes the Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education Act and the Japanese American World War II History Network Act. Named after the late Norman Mineta
'We Are Minidoka' matching challenge from the Masto Foundation!
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For as much as we casually quote the figure 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWI, government rosters at the time were notoriously incomplete and riddled with errors. In order to ensure that there is a complete record and that those who were incarcerated are honored and remembered, Duncan Ryuken Williams,
Online Exhibition: Wakaji Matsumoto–An Artist in Two Worlds
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San Diego Apologizes Rescinds Support for WWII
September 20, 2022 The San Diego City Council rescinded Tuesday a resolution it had passed 80 years ago in support of the incarceration of Japanese Americans in prison camps during World War II. "This isn't simply a matter of looking backwards, but also hopefully recognizing how quickly political ploys can
In Memoriam: Teruko "Terry" Marlatt
Teruko "Terry" Marlatt passed away peacefully on May 10, 2022, age 95, in Reno, NV. Terry was born on Bainbridge Island, Washington, on February 21, 1927 to parents Zenhichi and Shiki Harui. She was 15 years old when her family left Bainbridge Island for Moses Lake in advance of the
Satoru Sakuma: October 28, 1925 – May 17, 2022
March 30th, 2022 was a very special day. As a volunteer helping to organize the extensive media coverage at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, the day was exciting and frenzied. How many would show up? Where could all the cameras fit? Would they block the view? Then, the
Watch the 80th Anniversary Video
View the Ceremony hosted at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on March 30, 2022 Watch the 80th Anniversary presentation in its entirety, featuring Frances Ikegami, survivor of the forced removal, four student leaders from Woodward Middle School, the declaration from the City of Bainbridge Island, speakers from BIJAC,
"80 Years of Healing"
Hayashidas were joined by Sakumas, Nakatas, Nagatanis, Kitamotos, and so many of the names we recognize from the carvings in the Exclusion Memorial Wall. Bainbridge Island was honored with the presence of a large turnout of survivors and their families on March 30th, the Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of
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Game 39: Devils @ Carolina
By John Fischer Jan 6, 2009, 9:00am EST
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Expect to see the same New Jersey Devils we saw over the last week or so: Gulitti reports that Colin White did not make the trip and Scott Clemmensen will start in net. How the Devils will play, well, that's not certain. The overtime win against Ottawa wasn't all that and a bag of chips; the win over Montreal was pretty good; and the two games prior didn't feature a lot of defense or smart hockey - especially after a decisive win over Our Hated Rivals. It's been an up-and-down 5 games for the Devils in terms of performance. Yet, they've come out winners for most of them and that's truly the important thing in a results-oriented league like the NHL.
Carolina, as you may not have expected, have been the same in terms of results. Check out their last 5 games.
Hurricanes' Last 5 Games
@ Tampa Bay Sat 01/03 W 3 - 2
St. Louis Fri 01/02 W 2 - 1
Atlanta Wed 12/31 W 3 - 1
Boston Sat 12/27 L 2 - 4
@ Atlanta Fri 12/26 W 5 - 4
OK, not exactly wins over the cream of the crop; but they are wins, they build confidence within a team, and they are worth 2 points regardless of it coming against Tampa Bay or coming against Boston. Believe it, or not, the Hurricanes only sit 4 points behind the Devils in the conference with a record of 20-15-5. And that they have this solid record so far is a testament to the fact that numbers don't always tell the whole story. Let me hit you with some numbers from NHL.com.
The Carolina Hurricanes have scored a total of 105 goals, the fourth lowest in the league and tied with the Islanders; while letting in 117 goals in total. That's an average of 2.60 goals per game and 2.82 goals against per game. Much worse than the Devils' 2.97 goals per game and 2.53 goals against per game.
The Hurricanes, believe it or not, are worse than the Devils in killing penalties (80.5% to 78.4%) and even on the power play (16.8% to 15.5%). Brutal.
Home record for the Hurricanes: 11-9-1. Yep, they just went over .500 at home recently.
Here's a fun stat: The Hurricanes win only 50% of the games they score first in - tied with Ottawa for the second worst winning percentage in the entire league in this case.
Have another fun one: The Hurricanes have the third worst winning percentage in the NHL when they are leading after the first period with only 53.3% The have the fifth worst winning percentage when leading after two periods: 76.5%.
Considering all this, is this really a team that's 20-15-5? They don't score a whole lot of goals, they let in a good amount, their special teams are bad, and it's definitely not a good that scoring first or leading after one doesn't necessarily lead to a good result for Carolina. This is a team that sits seventh in the conference?
It is. While they don't look so good statistically after scoring first; they win 50% of the games wherein they let up the first goal. Moreover, they shoot nearly as much as the Devils on average (31.1 to the Devils' 31.2 shots per game) while being almost as stingy in allowing shots from their opponents (Devils: 28.9, Canes: 29.3). And they are playing productive hockey recently. They are 7-3-0 in their last 10 games, and won their last 3. Eric Staal and the potentially ageless Ray Whitney are guys I would ignore on the ice were I looking to lose hockey games easily.
2008 - Ray Whitney 40 12 21 33 -9 8 2 0 1 1 120 10.0
2008 - Eric Staal 40 18 12 30 10 32 7 0 4 0 168 10.7
Basically, when you think you've figured out the 'Canes, you learn some other things about the team that make you scratch your head a second, third, or seventeenth time. All I can really conclude is that this is a game where the old cliche of playing all 60 minutes really comes into play. This is a team that isn't great with a lead, but they aren't hopeless without it; and it's a team that's won quite a few games as of late. Not to mention that Cam Ward has stepped up his game tremendously. Tremendously winning the NHL's third star of the last week. They have momentum. They have a purpose. Should they show up the Devils, it'll send a strong message to the rest of the league that the Southeast is definitely not a one-team division.
I feel that the only way you can really counter that without relying on your opponent to fail is to play smart hockey for 60 minutes. Not the first and third period, not for 10 minutes within each period, the whole game as best as possible. It doesn't have to be necessarily aggressive, up tempo, and/or playoff style hockey. It just needs to be smart. It means aiming shots instead of firing them right into the shins of the defense; blocking shots is something Dennis Seidenberg is looking forward to as he's sixth in the league with 92. The Devils would be wise to make sure those efforts hit Ward (and the net, of course) and not some other Hurricane. It means being calm on power plays and setting up the shot. Just like they did to win the game in overtime on Sunday. It requires being aware of who's sneaking in the back door when on defense. Something the Devils got caught on Sunday.
Could the Devils beat the Hurricanes. Sure, why not? But don't think the hurricanes are should be an easy two points for the Devils. They have every reason to do well Tuesday night as well. They are at home, they are playing well as of late, and they're better than what some stats currently say about them. | {
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Q: How can I create a folder dynamically during replication? While doing replication I received the following error message in Replication monitor → Agents
Access to the path 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\repldata\unc\_DEMO_SAMPLE\20160602154451\' is denied.
If the folder is manually created, then the error is solved for some time. However, after some time the error occurs again because the timestamp (20160602154451) has changed. How can I create a folder dynamically? Or can anyone suggest another solution to this problem?
A: When installing sql server I always make the UNC folder a shared folder.
You either make it RW available to everyone, not big deal for security.
Or identify the network login on which the replication agent is using and give it modify access to that folder.
This login was set during the sql server install.
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package org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.util.serialization.JSONKeyValueDeserializationSchema;
import org.apache.flink.shaded.jackson2.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import org.apache.flink.shaded.jackson2.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* Tests for the{@link JSONKeyValueDeserializationSchema}.
*/
public class JSONKeyValueDeserializationSchemaTest {
@Test
public void testDeserializeWithoutMetadata() throws IOException {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
ObjectNode initialKey = mapper.createObjectNode();
initialKey.put("index", 4);
byte[] serializedKey = mapper.writeValueAsBytes(initialKey);
ObjectNode initialValue = mapper.createObjectNode();
initialValue.put("word", "world");
byte[] serializedValue = mapper.writeValueAsBytes(initialValue);
JSONKeyValueDeserializationSchema schema = new JSONKeyValueDeserializationSchema(false);
ObjectNode deserializedValue = schema.deserialize(serializedKey, serializedValue, "", 0, 0);
Assert.assertTrue(deserializedValue.get("metadata") == null);
Assert.assertEquals(4, deserializedValue.get("key").get("index").asInt());
Assert.assertEquals("world", deserializedValue.get("value").get("word").asText());
}
@Test
public void testDeserializeWithMetadata() throws IOException {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
ObjectNode initialKey = mapper.createObjectNode();
initialKey.put("index", 4);
byte[] serializedKey = mapper.writeValueAsBytes(initialKey);
ObjectNode initialValue = mapper.createObjectNode();
initialValue.put("word", "world");
byte[] serializedValue = mapper.writeValueAsBytes(initialValue);
JSONKeyValueDeserializationSchema schema = new JSONKeyValueDeserializationSchema(true);
ObjectNode deserializedValue = schema.deserialize(serializedKey, serializedValue, "topic#1", 3, 4);
Assert.assertEquals(4, deserializedValue.get("key").get("index").asInt());
Assert.assertEquals("world", deserializedValue.get("value").get("word").asText());
Assert.assertEquals("topic#1", deserializedValue.get("metadata").get("topic").asText());
Assert.assertEquals(4, deserializedValue.get("metadata").get("offset").asInt());
Assert.assertEquals(3, deserializedValue.get("metadata").get("partition").asInt());
}
}
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A Day in the Life of a Super Mom: A Mommy Blog: "Apple Pickin"... Here's one of my favorite outfits that I designed on Polyvore!
"Apple Pickin"... Here's one of my favorite outfits that I designed on Polyvore!
I absolutely LOVE this outfit! It's perfect for fall and ensures that you look trendy while at the same time, looking like a classy mommy! | {
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Over the past 20 years, NCCN has developed an integrated suite of tools to improve the quality of cancer care. The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) document evidence-based, consensus-driven management to ensure that all patients receive preventive, diagnostic, treatment, and supportive services that are most likely to lead to optimal outcomes. The NCCN Guidelines® are a comprehensive set of guidelines detailing the sequential management decisions and interventions that currently apply to 97 percent of cancers affecting patients in the United States. | {
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package com.jetbrains.python.run;
import com.intellij.execution.filters.Filter;
import com.intellij.execution.filters.OpenFileHyperlinkInfo;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.text.StringUtil;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.LocalFileSystem;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
/**
* @author yole
*/
public class PythonTracebackFilter implements Filter {
private final Project myProject;
private final String myWorkingDirectory;
private final Pattern myMatchingPattern = Pattern.compile("File \"([^\"]+)\", line (\\d+)");
public PythonTracebackFilter(Project project) {
myProject = project;
myWorkingDirectory = null;
}
public PythonTracebackFilter(Project project, @Nullable String workingDirectory) {
myProject = project;
myWorkingDirectory = workingDirectory;
}
public Result applyFilter(String line, int entireLength) {
// File "C:\Progs\Crack\psidc\scummdc.py", line 72, in ?
Matcher matcher = myMatchingPattern.matcher(line);
if (matcher.find()) {
String fileName = matcher.group(1).replace('\\', '/');
int lineNumber = Integer.parseInt(matcher.group(2));
VirtualFile vFile = findFileByName(fileName);
if (vFile != null) {
OpenFileHyperlinkInfo hyperlink = new OpenFileHyperlinkInfo(myProject, vFile, lineNumber - 1);
final int textStartOffset = entireLength - line.length();
int startPos = line.indexOf('\"') + 1;
int endPos = line.indexOf('\"', startPos);
return new Result(startPos + textStartOffset, endPos + textStartOffset, hyperlink);
}
}
return null;
}
@Nullable
protected VirtualFile findFileByName(String fileName) {
VirtualFile vFile = LocalFileSystem.getInstance().findFileByPath(fileName);
if (vFile == null && !StringUtil.isEmptyOrSpaces(myWorkingDirectory)) {
vFile = LocalFileSystem.getInstance().findFileByIoFile(new File(myWorkingDirectory, fileName));
}
return vFile;
}
}
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A couple weeks ago my brother Brandon Graduated college with that degree in Computer Sciences! I'm so proud of him. We spent the day in Marietta, GA with family and friends having loads of fun. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the day. | {
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Payday Loans & Personal Loans in Cooter, MO.
The population of Cooter, MO in 2019 counting up to 432 people. More than 15% of employed adults in Missouri apply at least onse a year for a Payday Loans from $100 to $1,000. And as the time shows, more than 32 people, even with bad FICO credit score get approved for small-dollar loan.
Short-term Payday Loans up to $1,000 and long-term Personal Loans up to $15,000 in Cooter, Missouri. | {
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Lee Hughes name receives mixed reactions while talking about football. His illustrious career continues to be followed closely by sky sports news who have been following his career from his days as a semi professional in England C National Football team to his latest position as a striker of Notts County. Lee Hughes began realizing his dream when he became an integral part of the West Bromwich Albion to get a record fee of 200,000, the highest ever paid to a non-league player. His career continued its upward stream until the car crash that he was involved in and held responsible in the 2003-2004 season.
asserted that it had been this crash that changed Hughes life. A passenger, Douglas Graham, inside the Renault that his Mercedes hit, died in the crash and the driver of the Renault was seriously injured. Since Hughes had been drinking that night, he fled from the accident scene to avoid the breath analyzer test. Though he turned himself to the police the following day and was charged with causing death by drunken driving, he was released on bail which allowed him to finish Albions First Division campaign and subsequently be a part of the Premier League. He proceeded to becoming the clubs leading goal scorer with 13 goals.
The verdict on the crash was delivered in August 2004 where Hughes was found responsible for the death of Douglas Graham caused by drunken driving and also for fleeing from the crime scene and was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment and was also banned from driving for ten years.
It appeared like the start of his downslide when his contract with West Bromwich Albion was terminated and his appeal to get a reduced sentence refused. While in prison he found salvation in Islam, the faith which he converted to. Alongside, he also played for the Staffordshire County Senior League as part of the prison football team, Featherstone F.C.
Days before his release news surfaced of Hughes signing a contract with Oldham Athletic. He did sign a 2 year contract upon his release in August 2007 along with them at 1,800 per week, the total amount being one tenth of what he earned throughout his stint with Wes Bromwich Albion. However, by the time the season ended, Hughes has reclaimed his position as the highest goal scorer for the club, scoring 8 goals.
It has been for the upswing for Hughes since then. He joined the Championship Club Blackpool on loan and made his first goal against Charlton Athletic. He was then signed a two year agreement for League Two team for Notts County and scored a hat-trick in a victory over Bradford City with 5-0.
Though Hughes finds himself climbing up the ladder of success, he's still haunted by the demons in the past. He still seeks to redeem himself by doing community and charity work in the hope that his work in some way can help prevent another tragedy from happening.
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I was showing property on Wednesday afternoon, and several other agents in my office were showing houses to their clients on Wednesday evening (Thanksgiving eve).
We began negotiating a contract on this affordable, downtown property via fax, e-mail and telephone on Wednesday, and negotiations continued through Thanksgiving, towards what should be a ratified contract by this evening.
Erickson Avenue to Stone Spring Road Connector close to moving forward!
Among several other large road projects in the works in Harrisonburg, a new road connecting Erickson Avenue and Stone Spring Road is getting closer to becoming a reality. The City of Harrisonburg received 10 construction bids for this project, which will hopefully start in the spring, and take 18 months to complete.
One significant change will be the remove the train trestle at the intersection of South High Street (Route 42) and Erickson Avenue.
Read more in today's Daily News Record.
Where has your money been? What has it been doing?
My aforementioned clients have decided to proceed with building at Preston Lake, and they closed on their lot purchase this week. We're aiming for completion by next May, and I and they are excited to see the building process get underway.
It's been a busy few weeks, making selections at Ferguson's and designing the kitchen with Shenandoah Millwork. More details will be forthcoming as we move through the process.
If you have questions about buying or building at Preston Lake, feel free to call me (540-578-0102) or e-mail me ([email protected]).
I suppose plumbers may have been installing thermal expansion tanks (pictured above) for years, but I first starting seeing them a few years ago, and wondered what they were and why they were being installed.
A thermal expansion tank's purpose is to reduce thermal expansion that occurs when the water is heated and pressurized. Thus, if your hot water heater does not have an expansion tank, and is leaking or dripping from the pressure-relief valve, it would be wise to install a tank.
The other aspect of these expansion tanks that mystified me for quite some time is that I assumed that they would be installed on the hot water line coming out of the hot water heater, but most that I observed were installed on the cold water line.
As it turns out, the expansion tank can be installed either on the cold water line between the main valve and the water heater, or on the hot-water line within 3 to 5 feet of the water heater.
Do granite counter tops emit dangerous radon gas?
Well, in what may put your mind at ease, the Marble Institute of America released a report a few days ago (Nov 17, 2008) indicating among other things that "not one stone slab contributed to radon levels that even reached theaverage U.S. outdoor radon concentration of 0.4 picocuries per liter."
If you're eying your granite counter tops warily from across the room, and need to be further reassured, read more from Nation's Building News.
The median residential property values went up 2-3% this year in Harrisonburg.
One third of Harrisonburg's 12,000 properties did not see a change in value.
A 3% increase on the median sales price of a home in Harrisonburg would only equate to a $41 annual increase in taxes.
Comments have already begun on the DNR site, several from property owners who are in doubt of the value increases the City of Harrisonburg attributes to their homes.
So -- what say you?
Did your assessment go up or down? Do you think your new assessed value is accurate?
Buyers are lining up to buy a house before the holidays!
While shopping at Martins for half an hour this weekend I received 4 phone calls each related to a buyer (or their Realtor) wanting to view properties immediately.
Tom was answering general phone inquiries for 2 hours this morning at our office, and received 3 calls from first time buyers who are itching to buy -- 2 of them are looking at properties later today.
Web traffic so far this month (Nov 1 - 23) on our company and agent web sites has surpassed full month traffic numbers for July, August, September and October.
It will be interesting to review the market report numbers at the end of November and December to see whether all of this buyer excitement turns into closed real estate sales!
Shall we have lunch in New York today?
Exciting news from The Hook via RealCentralVA . . .
Starting next fall, Charlottesville will have round-trip service to New York City, after passing through our nation's capital. With Charlottesville just over the mountain, this may open up some exciting transportation options for us here in the Shenandoah Valley!
The real news is that this program (a three year pilot program) will be using state funds to reduce the cost of this new inter-city rail transportation option.
Of note -- the funding must still be approved (on December 17) by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Read more here.
The great mystery of showings - when and why do they happen?
Especially in our current market, it is very challenging to predict the "popularity" of a house -- in other words, how many prospective buyers will come to view the house.
This comes to mind today, because over the weekend two new prospective buyers came on the scene for a very affordable home on East Rock Street. The house has had many showings, and even an offer --- but we haven't had any showings in the past few weeks. So it was a bit surprising to receive two calls within a few hours of each other with interest in viewing the house. After weeks of inactivity, showing activity will sometimes pick up quickly and with unknown cause.
On a different note, I have seen several listings lately that have been priced appropriately (in my view), marketed well, and have seen few if any showings in the first few months they are on the market. Sometimes even the houses you are sure will sell quickly, won't even show quickly. Could it be the evil flyer syndrome?
And then there are the houses where buyers dutifully tour in and out several times a week, with no results to speak of. I know of several homes on the market right now that have had over 50 showings, and still have not received any offers.
Just as it is difficult to predict the pace of a sale in today's market, it is very difficult to predict the pace of showings!
New loan guidelines - the underwriter must approve inspection results!?
Here is some interesting news that Jon Ischinger (Wells Fargo, Harrisonburg) shared with me last week... If a sales contract is contingent upon a well inspection, septic inspection or termite inspection, the loan underwriter must be privy to any issues, and must approve how the buyer and seller choose to address those issues. And this is on all new FHA and conventional loans!
It is my understanding from talking to Jon that this won't change the loan process drastically, but it will make things slower, and may make things more problematic if there are any issues with the termite, well or septic inspections. As Jon notes, "In the past you could have worked something out with the borrower/seller and it would happen very quickly, outside of the lender's scope - now, if there is any inspection mentioned in the purchase contract, we have to see it and send it to underwriting. If any maintenance is required, it will need to be addressed and re-inspected and then that documentation will have to be reviewed."
I'm curious to see how this plays out in a real transaction --- but I'm not too surprised to see yet another tightening on the loan process as lenders become more conservative in their lending practices.
After missing the 7pm announcement of the JMU Football Playoff Schedule, I was delighted to have such a fast response when asking about the results on Facebook.
The good news --- JMU could be at home for all three playoff games leading up to the National Champtionship!
Books-A-Million moving to the Valley Mall!?
Simon Property Group, interior renovations to existing space to create retail space for Books-A-Million, 1925-400A E. Market St., $1,275,000.
It will be interesting to see who takes over the space on East Market Street where Books-A-Million currently exists.
The Virginia Resources Authority sold an unprecedented $215 million in infrastructure revenue bonds to raise funds for projects around Virginia. This was, in fact, the largest transaction in the pooled financing program in VRA history --- in what is otherwise a challenging economic time.
"Bricks and mortar projects mean jobs and income in Virginia communities," said Sheryl Bailey, Executive Director of the Virginia Resources Authority. "We can't over-emphasize the importance of such projects in stimulating the local and state economy. Infrastructure is a key to America's economic recovery. "
According to the Daily Press, the projects to be financed will include "upgrades to bridges and wastewater treatment plants, replacement of water and sewer lines, and construction of a firehouse, a library, and a public safety academy."
Affordable Housing with a LOW interest rate!
The current VHDA interest rate is already low, at 5.875%. But for first time buyers looking for affordable housing, it can be tough to finance a purchase even at that low rate. So....how about 4.875%?
If you're buying at Covenant Heights, a neighborhood being developed by Hope Community Builders (a non-profit group), depending on your income levels, you may be able to have the current VHDA rate lowered by an entire percentage point!
And these are nice properties we're talking about here -- duplexes and townhomes with three bedrooms, all of which are pre-inspected and built to EarthCraft and EnergyStar standards.
If you have a friend or co-worker who is seeking affordable housing, do them a favor and tell them about Covenant Heights!
Exciting web site changes are in the works!
I'm getting my hands dirty --- working on some exciting additions to the property search section of my web site --- to let you learn even more about each property for sale.
There are at least 5 upgrades I hope to roll out in the next few weeks --- stay tuned, and if you have any suggestions for improvements to my web site, please let me know!
How close are buyers coming to the asking price?
One issue that often seems to be on a buyer's mind these days is the question of how much they should be able to negotiate off of an asking price for a house. Let's take a look at closings from the past 30 days to provide some insight into what buyers are actually accomplishing right now in the market.
The average sale price to list price ratio is 97.39%.
The median sale price to list price ratio is 97.87%.
If you're considering buying in the near future, you should realize that this is certainly a buyer's market, but you won't necessarily have the ability to negotiate more than 10% off the asking price.
Have you eaten at Taste of Thai?
The owners will soon be opening a new restaurant downtown.
Learn more about Taste of Thai, Prasert, and more at "the state" a local blog that plans to interview many restaurant owners to provide an inside look at dining in Harrisonburg. | {
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We contacted the authorized repair company when our upper oven door fogged up when using the lower oven. We thought the door was sealed like a double pane window, and that the seal had failed. The technician confirmed the issue, but didn't know if there was a fix. He called the tech line and asked if there is a fix. The tech said the oven was "operating as designed." In other words, fogging up is to be expected with this model. We have owned other double wall ovens by other manufacturers and never experienced this issue. We are disappointed.
I used the self cleaning feature of the built-in 30" oven on the normal cleaning setting. I wiped up the excess grease and dried the oven floor before I started the cycle. It said it would take 4 hours. After about 2 hours, the entire oven area and cabinets around the oven felt very hot. I tried to cancel the cleaning cycle but all the electronics in the panel went out. It locked up and won't unlock. The control panel is completely burned out. The only way I prevent the cabinets from catching fire was to cool them with cool towels. Very dangerous situation.
When using lower oven steam escapes and infiltrates between the upper oven door glass. So much so that it blocks 70% of your ability to see inside the upper oven. Called KitchenAid and they say it's normal. They also blamed me for using my oven to braise instead of bake? They recommended using the upper oven for braising and the lower oven for baking!!! Where was that in the advertisement when I bought it? Also, there is no way to clean the upper oven glass after the steam evaporates and leaves a film unless you disassemble the door. Their customer support was almost indignant that I saw this as an issue. My last KitchenAid product...EVER!
KitchenAid 30 Inch Double Wall Oven KODE500ESS The appearance of this oven is very appealing but trying to cook with it is another story. If you open the oven door, to make cookies for instance, it will not hold an even temperature. At 350 deg start time by the 3rd batch it was 125 degrees. The technician said you need to do it fast. I have been cooking for 40 years and know how to change batches of cookies. Never have I had such frustration with an appliance. Spent 2800.00 dollars and am almost in tears any time I bake something. Many many complaints to Kitchenaid about this same thing. They have to know it is a flaw. Then there are hot spots in the back of the oven that makes it even more necessary to open the oven and turn pans around. I am not using the dark coated pans. Just normal stainless or aluminum. This oven is a nightmare and nothing is being done about it.
I have a built in KitchenAid oven and microwave. However this is the 3rd I used the self cleaning feature and all 3 times resulted in the oven not working, due to the 500F temperature and KitchenAid refused to send a techie out unless I paid for it. I called out American Shields each time and have had to pay $80. Please if anyone is filing with Attorney General, I like information. KitchenAid needs to be addressed.
The first time I used the self cleaning option lead to my oven NOT working at all! I've read hundreds of this same complaint and nothing has been done to resolve this problem! I will definitely spread the word to everyone not to buy KitchenAid! I'm appalled that they've refused to offer repair without the consumer paying for it!!! RECALL????
I have contacted the company about this issue, but they say it is over 12 months, so there is no guarantee. They know there is an issue with the oven not holding the set temperature and are doing nothing about it. We need to report this to our different states' attorney general. They need to be punished for their deceptive practices. Knowing what I know now, I would NEVER buy another KitchenAid appliance. We purchased a stainless steel wall oven and microwave combination for a new house that was finished in August 2017. Model number is KOCE500ESS05. The oven does NOT HOLD the temperature. This has been reported hundreds (possibly thousands) of times on the internet.
The company has NOT FIXED a known issue with the oven. Now, we have a unit that we purchased for thousands of dollars that is a little over a year old that will need hundreds of dollars in repairs. KitchenAid is NOT what it used to be. When I called to report the problem, it was answered by Whirlpool. I should note that I also purchased a very expensive Maytag washing machine for my house which also has major problems. Stay away from KitchenAid, Maytag, and Whirlpool. You will pay a premium price for substandard appliances.
I purchased KEBC107KSSO5 single wall oven and separate KitchenAid microwave convection oven in 2005 but the oven never heated evenly. My baked goods were always browner on one side. My Thanksgiving turkey had to be in the oven hours longer than prescribed by the turkey instructions otherwise it was not cooked on the inside or it was more cooked on one side than the other. I just thought it was all normal until now that I am baking even more and nothing is baking properly. I am tired of putting up with this so I will be replacing it with another brand that is not KitchenAid or any company that makes KitchenAid appliances.
Takes 30 min to heat to 350 degrees. I placed a thermometer in the oven and it reads 100 degrees hotter on the bottom rack. Turn the oven down and it won't finish cooking. Turn it up and it burns everything. Very loud. Fan runs forever after you use it. Just terrible.
Unlike past products from this brand, the electric double oven (24", w/ convection) is awful. Doesn't keep accurate temperature, and locks with no warning (error messages) at higher temperature. Hate using it. Should have checked the Consumer Reports rating before letting my husband buy it.
Aug 2018, the KOCE507ESS 27" convection wall oven/convection micro built-in unit was installed to replace old combo. 3 hours after the installation: 1. Microwave malfunction. EasyConvect absolutely would not start unless the door was opened and shut- 3 or 4 or 5 times. 2. Error message of F6E8 twice. I phoned KitchenAid. They were helpful in that they connected me with a tech who could come to my house in 2 days. The tech came as planned, worked on the door closing mechanism. The F6E8 error could not be duplicated so no work was done on that.
No one was home for a number of days, when we returned the microwave: 1. Door is not registering closed so microwave will not come on (thought this was fixed). 2. Mic light stays on - this is because the door will not close securely. 3. Mic fan sound is normal then increases to a loud level and sounds as tho something is broken or rattling loose inside... Perhaps the fan. 4. Convection Microwave turns itself off while pre-heating 5. Error messages: F6E8, 2 more times (thought this was fixed).
6. White plastic hook to hold heating element in microwave broke. (Appears the oven must come out of the wall to replace... Much the same as replacing the light bulb.) 7. Complaint: oven takes an impossibly long time to preheat. The same tech came out, worked on the door again, and ordered a replacement fan for the crack fan. Another week to install. The tech has been great. However, I have lost complete faith in this unit. If it is problematic coming out of the box, what grief awaits in its lifetime.
We were just happy the rattling noise was gone but the noise returned a couple of weeks later just not as loud so we notified the retailer but decided to live with it. Around Feb 2017 the oven started to randomly make rumbling/vibration noises. Again we contacted the retailer who sent Whirlpool tech only we were unable to replicate the sound.
Frustrated having paid so much for a problematic unit, all the time we lost and issues with repair when replacing the microwave fan we thought this warranted a replacement so we called Kitchenaid directly. We were met with a rude, condescending lady who only added to our regret purchasing this brand so we had no interest in dealing with them. We went back to the retailer who sent their tech 3 more times but of course each time we were unable to replicate the noises.
Earlier this year the microwave started making a random high pitched whine 5-10 seconds at a time. Once again, retailers tech came but we were unable to replicate neither oven or microwave noise. He was also here to diagnose an equally problematic KitchenAid Fridge KRFF302ESS.
Between end of March and early April 2018 I finally captured several video recordings of both Microwave and Oven noises. I also started to research and found many others online having the same issues so I contacted KitchenAid again this time via email and send them all the videos. Now that we were aware our problems are not isolated and having proof of the noises I was finally relieved thinking they would know exactly what the issue is and repairs would finally be done and this 17 months of frustration is finally coming to an end.
Not so at all, after emailing back and forth for over 2 months receiving replies from someone different each time often without a name (no accountability). As we were out of the 1 year warranty they say there's nothing they will do and we have to go to the extended warranty company we purchased although the problems started a month after purchase and additional problems all started well within their warranty, all documented.
Although they have clear video/audio recording of the noises of our unit and are aware of others who have the same oven noises they insist upon sending a tech for diagnosis charging us $159 and we would have to take more unpaid time off of work. They know we won't be able to replicate the sound when their tech is there so the extended warranty would not reimburse of the service call and we be out several hundred dollars for nothing.
As they keep claiming KitchenAid is a quality, premium brand and how they stand behind their product, even mentioning if we didn't have the extended warranty they would have assisted us I thought it was only fair they waive the $159 service call as I would have to take even more unpaid time off work. Or they arrange their tech to come on a weekend which they have before, even one Sunday but conveniently now they can will only come weekdays. It's obvious all they care about is their bottom line.
We've owned several other brands of appliances from Bosch, Miele, Fisher Paykel, even Samsung and have never once had a single issues with any of them.
We have an equally problematic KitchenAid Fridge KRFF302ESS which the retailer finally had to replace after several service calls. The freezer had excessive ice build up freezing the door shut, defective noisy fridge cooling mechanism which also built up ice and non functioning ice maker.
We finally received a replacement earlier this year and had the same problem with freezer and fridge cooler building up ice. A whole new freezer door had to be ordered when the issue was with just the seal/gasket proving KitchenAid is only interested in profit confirmed by the tech. I asked the tech what happens with the door thinking it would be returned to the manufacturer or reused/recycled but was shocked to hear it would be discarded. KitchenAid is clearly not an environmentally friendly brand.
I would not recommend this brand to anyone and will be posting a separate review for our fridge. We will continue to warn others of our experience. It's one thing to receive a defective unit but with all the time and stress this has caused and having KitchenAid do nothing about it is beyond us. Very poor quality appliances with no support.
Black Stainless - Double Oven Model # K0DE500EBS02 will not work on the Roast-Convection cooking option. They shut down after 30 mins of cooking a turkey or chicken. The steam from the oven shuts down the panel and you get the following message: "Press-Cancel-Reset Err F2E 1. Keyboard Key Stuck." I had the repairman out here about 4 times. He replaced the panel and tried to fix it. Before he ordered the panel I showed him the consumer reports on what other people had experienced and he stated that he did not know of anything that was wrong with this unit, that there not been anything reported to KitchenAid about this problem.
Installing the new panel did not work, he even wrapped the new panel with tape inside. Now when you try to roast chicken the bottom units try to come on after it shuts down the top unit. The units start beeping and now I have streaks inside the new panel. I tried using the bottom unit and it shuts down too. This is a problem! I have all these matching appliances and the ovens don't work for roasting meat.
He came out yesterday 6/18/2018 and stayed on the phone with 2 different KitchenAid techs. They told him to have me cover-up everything that I cooked so that no steam could escape. The point of the roast and convection bake options is to roast food. He left telling me to complain to KitchenAid, that he couldn't do anything else. I have a new house and I spent over 12,000.00 on this Black Stainless set thinking I would get a lot of use out of these appliances. Now I can't cook like I want. Covering it up doesn't fix the problem.
Everytime I use the cleaning cycle on the double wall oven the internal fuse blows and the oven cannot be used. If I had to buy a new oven I would never buy the KitchenAid oven again. KitchenAid is aware of the problem and said they are working on creating a heavy duty fuse.
Had KitchenAid 30" double ovens (K0DE500ESS02) installed in our new house in 2017. Noticed the upper oven had smear marks on the inner glass. I could not clean it. The ovens were still under warranty. Notified the company and a representative told me that was not covered under warranty because it was considered cosmetic. He asked me if the oven worked. I said yes. He said that was all that mattered. Then I noticed whenever I broiled anything, condensation built up in the oven. When I opened the oven door, water was dripping off it and a lot of smoke. I put off making another call to the company until 2018.
A repair person has been to our house and I demonstrated to him the problem. He said it was normal because the food is wet and the heat from the broiler creates condensation. He also concluded that the smear and streaks inside the glass are probably from the fan blowing the built up moisture through the vents onto the inside glass. Understandable and normal. He has seen this before.
I finally got an authorization for a new door. Unfortunately KitchenAid doesn't pay enough to cover the cost of putting the door together by the repair place. So I'm not getting a new door. I could get it if I were to pay the repair place $100. to cover their cost that KitchenAid won't cover. But what's the use in getting another door if the same thing is going to happen. I have never had an oven that worked like this one. The design is obviously defective. Apparently I'm not the only one having this problem. Not only that, this oven takes forever to reach the set temperature. The timer is so soft you can't hear it when it goes off. I hate this oven. Will never buy KitchenAid/Whirlpool again.
In Oct 17 paid $3k for the KitchenAid KODC304EBL. Fast Forward 4/18 - tried for the first time to self clean the oven and it totally burnt out. Would not heat AT ALL. Called the technician, he said it's common, that I should stock up on parts or cases of oven cleaner. WHAT!!! Said the oven gets too hot and the high/low thermostat burns out, that it needs "airflow." BUT THIS IS A BRAND NEW BUILT IN OVEN - IT'S DESIGNED TO WORK IN AN ENCLOSED CABINET! Still working through the nightmare -- avoid KitchenAid built in ovens - they are not designed to function.
KitchenAid Model KOSC504ESS00: This built-in oven is slow to heat - 2 hours to get to 325 degrees! The service person tested it and told me to be patient and to use it enough to figure out its temperature variance. I have 3 oven thermometers which I can see through the door. The oven does not maintain an even temperature (varies by as much as 50 degrees!), so it is impossible to cook food properly or consistently. Do NOT buy.
Things I like about the double ovens. They look nice! Things I DON'T like about the KitchenAid Double Ovens (KODE500ESS). 1. I think there should be a separate light for each oven. 2.Takes way too long for ovens to heat up. 3. VERY NOISY oven. Both ovens are way too noisy. 4. Uneven baking. Seems to want to burn everything at the back. 5. The ovens won't hold the head when you put something in the oven. 6. Timer is way so sensitive. Sometimes when I touch the timer it turns the oven off! 7. It seems the temperature is never accurate. If you are looking to buy new double ovens, I would not recommend these ovens for the above reasons. If you like baking these are not the ovens for you!
Faulty double oven - Steam gets in the panel, then it says key error and just stops working. I had 3 technicians here but there is nothing they can do to fix it. Customer service keeps telling me to cover my food. How am I supposed to cover frozen fries or frozen pizza? It gets all soggy. Last Thanksgiving we had to cover our turkey, the steam got in just 30 min after it was in, so we had steamed turkey instead of baked. Can't even roast vegetables. It still under warranty but KitchenAid won't replace it. They know all the models have this design flaw. I expected more from a company like that. Instead I was treated with dishonesty.
Shattered microwave glass door - I purchased this new oven (KitchenAid wall oven micro combo Model KEMC378KSS04) and just used the microwave 2 to 4 times a month for heating food; I used my other microwave for almost everything. I heard something shattered thinking it's the light bulb; I come to find out it is the microwave which I haven't even using it. Luckily I am not standing in front of the microwave.
We purchased the combo wall oven and microwave in April 2011. It replaced a GE similar unit that worked fine for 26 years. I paid for a 5 yr extended warranty. In Dec. 2017 the temp was only getting up to 50 to 60 degrees lower than the requested temp. We have worry free with our utility company which will repair items we put in subscription and pay for monthly. The repairman came, evaluated the situation and ordered a thermostat. He returned and installed the part. The problem was not fixed, temps still 50-60 degree off.
He left and said he would order a new circuit board. Repairman returned, installed part, but the problem continued. He called in the most experienced repairman on the road and they pulled the oven completely out. After unscrewing different panels they pulled out the heating coil from under the oven floor. The coil was cracked in several places and the insulation was peeling off the coils in several places. Upon further examination they observed the enamel was burned off the oven floor and the floor was warped.
They said the oven was unsafe to use and was possibly a severe fire hazard. Now comes the good part. I went online and found this defective oven was known since 2011. Whirlpool manufactures KitchenAid and the company has known there was a problem with this oven and other wall ovens from 2011 and on. You can read the incidents people have experienced over the years and they continue with this flawed design. There has been an attempt to bring a class action suit against the manufacturers. We do not want to repair our oven due to the safety issues.
I purchased this new oven (KitchenAid wall oven micro combo) and used it twice before it malfunctioned. The thermostat is faulty and needs to be replaced along with the circuit board. The store tried to tell me that I had a power surge which I did not. The service person told me there is a prevalent problem with the faulty thermometer. I do not recommend anybody purchase this oven as I am very dissatisfied with the oven and the service. At the very least, they should offer to compensate me for the 2 days off that I have to take for the service calls and the lack of use of my oven for a month.
Too late to send this thing back. The thermal shut off apparently went out. That seems to be the diagnosis based on other reviews. Too many electronics for a machine that gets to 550 degrees; they should build better parts. 60 year old circuit breaker for the house is fine. Now there's quality. Customer support sounds like it's in the Philippines. Don't buy one of these ovens. Issues after 20 months, the old one blew up after about 15 years, I would expect the same, or better from a new oven. How can you go to bat for made in America and Sears when they sell us junk. So disappointed.
I have to buy a new oven because the company has discontinued making the knob for the "selector". My selector knob broke and the company's only solution is to buy a new oven. Oven works fine, and yes it is an older oven... but it works fine. There are no alternatives for the knob. On the phone with company and they can not even keep straight the model number which I have. Representatives were of no value! Disappointed in this company!
I replaced my gas double wall ovens with KitchenAid Double Ovens KODE507ESS that are electric. I chose KitchenAid because I liked the look and what I read about the performance was also encouraging. First problem I encountered was that the temperature in the oven was at 100+ degrees higher than indicated on temperature display. 2 panels replaced. I now have a film on the inside window of the top oven. I called and was told that they don't do "cosmetics" and that if I wanted to ensure this doesn't happen I should buy part # 482338 which is some kind of a sealant. If they know this issue occurs, why do they not install this part in manufacturing. Totally frustrated! Any ideas how to clean the film?
The self-cleaning option on this oven is far too hot. First, it blew something because the display went dark and I have not been able to open the oven door since yesterday. Second, I have a KitchenAid warming drawer underneath the oven. The cleaning cycle got so hot it melted off the KitchenAid sign on the drawer. Called KitchenAid today, useless conversation. Have called another repair person. This oven is dangerous, it shouldn't get so hot. You cannot touch the floor underneath (which I protected during cleaning cycle). Why is this oven still being sold?
We purchased a Kitchenaid Double Wall Oven. Stainless, convection, self clean... Top of the line. Almost $3k total. Replaced a 20 year old oven that worked fine but was ugly. It came with a 12-month warranty. At approximately 13 months, it died. No lights, no power. Long story short, it failed 5 more times costing $250-$500 each time to get it fixed. I discovered that a few of these were recalled due to a design error that caused the thermal fuse and sometimes the thermostat to fail. It's either due to lack of insulation or airflow. I called the manufacturer and after multiple escalations, I got them to agree verbally that this was a lemon and that they would replace it. Fast forward 2 weeks, they call back and say they'll replace it for $800 and they are backordered so it will be 3-8 weeks. Meanwhile, this oven has been sitting here dead for 5 weeks while they figure out what they're going to do.
I researched the model number they offered to replace it with and it has the same issue. This is apparently an issue with all of their ovens. Unreal... I did some more research and thankfully, the guy who repaired the oven this last time left the old thermal fuse. I just bought one on Amazon for $14. Arrived today and I replaced it in 20 minutes. Screw you Kitchenaid. You will receive zero $$ from me ever again for anything. You build and continue to sell generation after generation of products with known issues. That is wrong and I refuse to do business with you ever again.
Several "repair" calls for $2000 wall oven KOSE500ESS. Same damned error message F2E1 since Aug. 2016. Now I get the message but can't clear it to use the oven without my husband going to the electrical panel and turning the oven off there. DO NOT BUT KITCHENAID. THEY DON'T CARE. Do they really think most people in this country would spend over $2000 on a kitchen appliance? Next time I buy the cheapest thing I can because they don't last a year!!!
I do the kitchen cooking at our church for approximately seventy to one hundred people every week. Someone donated Kitchenaid KEBS278DSS10 built-in double ovens and we had cabinets built to accommodate them. The week before reopening the kitchen the bottom oven door hinges sprung so it wouldn't close, then the switch for the lights and self-cleaning went bad and had to be replaced. The ovens hadn't even been heated up yet so fixing those items seemed to be a no-brainer. Having a background in repairs I replaced the lower door hinges and the switch assembly without much problem. We started using the ovens the next week and on the third week the bottom oven door hinges sprung again. I had my team be very careful of pushing down on the doors to avoid that specifically also.
At a cost of almost ninety dollars a pair the hinges are not cheap and shouldn't be replaced once a month. My solution is to set magnets in the frame around the heat gasket and see what happens. What makes me upset is that the replaced hinges did that same thing as the old original ones. If this keeps happening I'll have to replace the ovens with something more reliable. Unfortunately our kitchen isn't able to use commercial appliances, but we can get residential units. The invoice is at our church office and unavailable to paste below.
Bought KitchenAid KEBS177DWH6 on 4/29/2010 so it is less than 7 years old. Display started showing errors, either oven computer control board is bad or the keypad. Both parts not available anymore and they would not even get me a schematic so I could do a unit level repair on it. I have 75-year-old mechanical ovens I can still fix! Parts discontinued so may have to throw away whole oven. | {
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My brother and sister-in-law have recently tried, not very successfully, to raise a little batch of Sea Monkey's. Quite disappointed in the short-lived pets, I was asked how long they typically live for… so I decided to do a bit of research looking into this little species.
For many people, their first pet as a child was a little packet of Sea Monkey's; lovingly hatched from the eggs received in the packet, after following all the instructions to prepare the little tank for their home… what most people don't know is, what Sea Monkey's actually are. Whilst doing some research into this post, I have also come to realise that a lot of people (I'm unsure why…) did not even know that Sea Monkey's were living creatures!
Sea Monkey's are an invertebrate species, meaning they do not have a backbone. They are arthropods, meaning they have jointed legs. They are a crustacean; related to crabs, shrimp, water fleas, lobsters; with an exoskeleton, an outer shell. When growing, they shed their exoskeleton and regrow a new one to fit their larger size. Until the new exoskeleton hardens, they are more vulnerable.
They are also known as, Brine Shrimp. If you have followed any previous posts you may have come across this little titbit of information before, in Something Fishy! (1) – as they are a form of live and frozen fish food.
Size wise – females are smaller than males; females growing between 8-12 mm in length, and males growing between 10-15 mm in length.
Females have a "lump" at the base of their tail (which is where the eggs are stored), the males do not. Females have small antennae, whilst the males have large, distinct antennae (see image, below).
My sister-in-law told me that the packet informed her, that Sea Monkey's can live up to 6 months! That surprised me a bit, as from what I have witnessed and been taught through my studies, is that they typically live 3-5 weeks in the right conditions. The longest I have discovered for the claimed lifespan of the Brine Shrimp is 12 weeks; the average being about 6 weeks.
They last about a week in the fridge, in a bag of water for fish food (less if they are not refrigerated)… and approximately 48 hours in freshwater (provided they are not eaten first), as they are not designed to live in freshwater habitats.
Basically, don't be too disheartened your Sea Monkey's die before they have reached half of the lifespan given in the information booklet you got with your new pet.
Being kept in tiny tanks means that the water needs changing more often, as in such a small space, the water deteriorates quickly. Roughly a 20% water change should be done bi-weekly, to ensure clean water and enough oxygen for survival; so that your Sea Monkey's do not die from suffocation. Adding an aerator into the tank will also keep up oxygen levels, making breathing easier.
Doing a water change with such a small animal can be difficult; ensure you do not accidentally throw away any Sea Monkey's with the dirty, discarded water! The shedding of the exoskeleton during growth makes up a lot of the dirtiness of the water, with so many of them shedding around the same time!
Deteriorated, dirty water and lack of oxygen, are common causes of premature Sea Monkey death.The tank being knocked over, and therefore spilling your Sea Monkey's everywhere, is a big stress to the little creatures, and ultimately will result in the death of the little guys (and girls)! The stress, combined with not being able to breathe out of water… so ensure your Sea Monkey's are in a safe, secure place where they are unlikely to be knocked over.
Other common causes are the tank being in too warm a location; by a window in summer, in a very warm room/ next to a radiator in winter… or being in a location that makes them too cold; in a room not warm enough in winter, in the fridge because they will be fed to my Comet Goldfish within the week. Of course, being used as food is a cause of death, although this does not apply to Brine Shrimp being kept as pet Sea Monkey's!
Even though Sea Monkey's are just simple Brine Shrimp, feel free to imagine them how they were advertised in the 60's and 70's (see image, below). – as a cute little family… it may be anthropomorphic, but who doesn't treat their pet a bit human at times?!
Have anyone thought of, why sea-monkeys swim this way and not like other shrimps, legs down? | {
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Youth Speaks Rochdale District Heat at Falinge Park High School on 25.01.2018
March 3, 2018 · Rochdale Rotary Club in collaboration with Falinge Park HS organised a very successful public speaking competition for secondary school students from Falinge Park HS, Oldham Hulme Grammar, Beechwood...
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Stars Drama and Rotary help the Seashell Trust
March 3, 2018 · On 10th February, the infants/junior class of the Stars Drama Academy performed a production of Alice in Wonderland at the Parish Hall, Cheadle Hulme. The play was directed by the Principal, Cathy...
Biddulph Rotary donates to Christies
March 3, 2018 · At a recent meeting of Rotary Biddulph a representative, Nichola Doran, from Christie's hospital, Manchester, was welcomed to the club, where a cheque for One Thousand Pounds was presented to...
Lamplighter Youth Speaks
March 3, 2018 · The Rotary Club of Stockport Lamplighter recently held their annual Youth Speaks competition where six local schools took to the podium to speak about matters as various as "Graffiti—art or...
Runcorn football coach recognised with award for cerebral palsy charity football team
March 2, 2018 · Sean Bailey is being given a prestigious Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland's Community Champion award for his work in creating the Cerebral Palsy Football Club in the North West...
Manchester hero rewarded for life-saving surgery in Ethiopia
March 2, 2018 · Local hero Tony Clayson, an active member of Worsley Rotary, is being honoured with the prestigious Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland's Champions of Change award for his...
Rotary Helps the NHS
March 2, 2018 · An initiative by Rotary Clubs in the "Wigan 7" Group has been declared a roaring success! Many people have been astonished that they have not been able to return Hospital Equipment...
Wigan Rotary hold a successful collection Day for surplus NHS Equipment
March 2, 2018 · Members of Wigan Rotary Club were at Sunshine House collecting surplus medical equipment from local people who no longer had use for them. They will be returned to the NHS for refurbishment and...
Rotary Shoeboxes
February 26, 2018 · 92 Rotary Shoe Boxes were delivered to the International Aid Trust by The Rotary Club of Macclesfield Castle who wish to express thanks to the mums and children from Bollington Praise and Play Group...
Rotary Donation To Help Manx Citizen Advice Service Expand Into Castletown
February 26, 2018 · The Rotary Club of Rushen & Western Mann recently donated £250 to pay for publicity materials that will be used by the Manx Citizen Advice Service Southern Branch, when it extends its services...
Computers for Jamaica
February 26, 2018 · Bolton Daybreak Rotary joined with several Rotary clubs to supply five computers to a primary school in Montego Bay, Jamaica, at a total cost of £2,150.00 Five brand new desktop...
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Youth Speaks 2018
February 26, 2018 · Wigan President Gwyneth Millard made the following comments after the recent Youth Speaks heats, "The Wigan Heat of the District 1285 Youth Speaks Contest was held on Tuesday Feb 6th at St... | {
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On our last family road trip to Washington we stumbled on the remote town of Forks, the vampire and werewolf capitol of the world (or at least according to Hollywood). So when we packed up for a weekend of clamming near Long Beach I wasn't expecting our trip to rival the freakiness of our previous sojourn. Enter Alligator Man.
After harvesting a bounty of four razor clams near Cape Disappointment and freezing our a***es off all night in a tent, we decided to warm our spirits with a visit to a little museum a friend told us about that held Alligator Man - a disturbing mummified half-man half-alligator that may or may not be real. After driving through a few abandoned looking towns with "For Sale" signs up everywhere we arrived in Long Beach and to Marsh's Free Museum which was bustling compared with the rest of town, with a full parking lot and people milling around outside. Marsh's itself is more of a store than anything else selling tacky tourist magnets, stickers, seashells and knickknacks. The actual museum is crammed at the back and at first glance looks like a bunch of garage sale fodder.
But we'd heard about Alligator Man and by golly we were going to find him. Past the automated 50s style fortune telling machine and a few taxidermy stuffed animals we found him. He's in a big glass display case, is about four and a half feet long from head to tail and is all black and shriveled like an un-bandaged mummy. The head and upper body probably is from a real human - it's too realistic and well done to be a fake - and the bottom half is obviously from a real alligator. There's no obvious area where you can see that the two have been stuck together - it's a brilliant work of taxidermy if anything else and honestly, it's one of those things that you can't really gauge your emotions on. Did the top human half come from a mummy bought in Egypt way back when? Was someone killed or dug up to make this thing? None of these questions are answered, and Alligator Man just sits there baring his spiky teeth with a half-petrified half-aggressive gape.
The funniest part was that even though the museum was packed and Alligator Man was the star attraction, no one seemed to take any notice of him. People casually walked by, stopped to look then moved on. What was going through these people's heads I can hardly imagine: "oh there's a dead human body sewn together with an alligator," or "oh a real-life mutant alien horror movie creature, how nice." And yet, no one gave him a second glance or seemed to register that they were looking at anything odd.
Elsewhere in the museum is an even less fawned upon but very real shrunken human head and an utterly ignored taxidermy stuffed six-legged calf. Most visitors seemed to be there to shop, stocking up on "Beer, it's what's for breakfast" bumper stickers and candy. The freakish stuff was just a sideshow at the back of a room.
I studied primatology at University so it had been a long-time dream of mine to see proboscis monkeys in the wild. Bako National Park in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, did not disappoint. A proboscis family was out foraging in the mangroves near park headquarters every morning and there was a plethora of other fascinating critters to be seen as well.
Note: I have a larger article on Bako in the works and I'll post a link once it's been published. | {
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Re: Fog of war... too foggy ?
Putting Intelligence capabilities, i.e., Watching, on a Flagship, particularly a Flagship that needs a buff, risks relegating an essential capability to gimmick status. You can't rely on it being available but when you do get it the game difficulty suddenly drops significantly.
Having it on a cloakable turret, as mentioned in the post above, makes it awkward and somewhat similar to the old Scouting mechanic - only more annoying.
Capturable buildings sound good, on paper, but then it'll only be useful if said capturable just happens to be in a spot that you want to Watch. Once again, this risks relegating a very handy feature to two layers of RNG (spawn chance and spawn location).
Whatever, if ever, form this Intelligence mechanic takes the Logistics station seems to be the neatest fit.
In terms of what form the mechanic takes, being able to Watch one planet per Logistics station perhaps? Limit that to a range of not more than two hops from the station and you end up with something similar to the blanket effect of being able to Watch all neighbouring planets by default, except not as good and without it being as hands-off for the player as that. Generally, Logistics aren't front line stations, hence the ability to Watch a planet up to two hops away thus still allowing for Military stations on your front door. Maybe the hop distance could be a factor of Tech.
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Quote from: I-KP on October 06, 2019, 06:29:00 AM
In terms of what form the mechanic takes, being able to Watch one planet per Logistics station perhaps?
Umm... I see 1 as more annoying than 2.
Thing is:
- if I want to see a station 2 hops away, I can spend 10 hacking point on it. That causes me no issues. To be honest, I'm fine with "I SHOULD spend" because it's 2 hops away.
- Giving a "number" of watchable planets per station means you have to track stations, track target, and code stuff and mechanics. It's not a complex mechanic but it's something that distracts from what the game is, and would need to be really intuitive. You'd have to code something to make it visible on the UI, add buttons, add icons and so on.
- I'd have to redo the mapping when I capture some planets, eventually.
- I may have to retarget when rebuilding a station.
- Also, the "BEST" way to use this vision ability would be to NOT watch 1 planet with a station, but to switch, every 20-30 seconds or so, where you're looking so you can get the "highest" value of the station. That means a lot or micro, or some game mechanics to block players from switching targets every 20 seconds.
That's a lot of potential complexity for... next to no gain at all, IMO, in term of gameplay. If you created "10 scout hack points", usable only on scouting, that were given to you in addition of the current scouting points, and if you got a refund when you build a station where you watched before... you'd have nearly the same results, just, way simpler. But, in essence, going to a planet, click on "scout", is as annoying as going to a planet, and clicking on "build scout post". It's solution 2.
I like the "command station gives neighbour visibility idea" because it's very, very simple. And I think scouting should be as simple as that, no matter what mechanic is used.
I don't want to be faffing about popping in, dropping a cloaked turret, then popping out of a planet each time. If I was prepared to put up with that kind of nonsense I'd just detach a single cloaked ship and send that through and tell it to hide at the planet boundary each time instead - which is what AIW did.
The simplest solution is to grant vision on all neighbouring planets, but that feels too strong.
Maybe keep it the way it is now but scale the Hack cost based on distance from the nearest station, with the cost to Watch a neighbouring planet being nominal but not so insignificant to the point of making it a trivial, thus arguably automatic, task.
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The discussion is kind of confused right now because people don't distinguish between:
- Knowledge of current strength on planet (we used to have that for the whole galaxy)
- Watch i.e. see everything going on on that planet in real-time.
It would really help if you could precise which one you're referring to.
Quote from: I-KP on October 06, 2019, 01:25:06 PM
I think that's a very elegant solution, best proposed so far.
We could actually have two different hacks, let's say Survey to get knowledge of overall strength, and Watch to get full real-time vision. Survey would obviously be way cheaper, but both would scale with distance from the nearest station. Watch could additionally be discounted if you already paid for Survey for that system.
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How about keeping the scaling Hack cost the same for both types but Survey doesn't provoke an AI response whereas Watch will.
I put the whole idea on Mantis. https://bugtracker.arcengames.com/view.php?id=21752
Quote from: Asteroid on October 06, 2019, 04:41:45 PM
Far from it.
It means that everytime you want vision around a planet, on your borders, which, is, ALWAYS, you have to manually click all planets to be able to see them. It's basically the EXACT same as putting a scout there like in AI war I. It's also the same as the proposal that's "unliked", placing a cloaked stuff (check my post above for the explanation).
I'm not even going into the deep implications of such a move. Let's say you want to see planet "currently 4 hops away". It's going to cost a lot. If you're placing a station near it, it's cheaper. How many players, seeing this, will not watch the "currently 4 hops away" planet because they feel like they waste hacking points ?
Is it even useful to introduce a mechanic that will create such train of thoughts in the first place ? I don't think so. That also means that you can't introduce a game mechanic to which the player answer's is supposed to be "watch a planet far away". Finally, those hacking points then compete with whatever hacking points could be useful for at the moment. And, let's be honest, scouting is quite low on the list. Do we want a player losing a game, not scouting "far" objectives, or near objectives, because he thinks hackables are worth more ? I don't want that.
The reason I don't want that is... what is the value of such a mechanic ? I can't find any behind "the player has to manually click to be see behind his door". I can't find any value behind "the player should spend precious hacking points" so he doesn't get jumped. It's not an interesting choice. It's not an interesting decision. It's micro for the sake of micro.
I proposed this thread because, I thought that people would try to find a simple & elegant solution to scouting that's simpler than what is currently in, and that helped alleviate the issue I'm whining about. Currently, none surpass "giving watch to neighbour for free", except "limiting it by type of stations that make sense".
Everything that has been proposed is basically a variation of the scouting mechanic with no upside over the scouting mechanic, and sometimes great downsides. AI WAR II has made the move to simplify scouting for a reason.
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If you don't think that giving full vision to all neighbouring planets is too strong (which it is - much too strong) then fine, go with the Station thing. It's easy. It's simple. It requires no thought or action on the part of the player. ...All entirely aside from the issue of it being way too strong, of course.
If you want to finesse how vision works, without the solution being too powerful, then you're going to have to ask the player to interact and make a choice. That means clicking on something.
You keep saying that, but there is no argument at all about why it's "too strong", or why you call a choice. What I see in the "stations give vision" idea is a weak capacity which leaves room for AI ambushes (explained before in the thread), and how I see in most other idea is "creating chores".
About the "too strong part", if neighboring stations gave vision, the average number of planets seen in my games at late game stage seems to be about 35 to 40.
At the same point in time in AI War I, I'd have COMPLETE vision on the map. Or in any "node based" (like sins of a solar empire) or grand strategy games (endless series, all moo clones...), for that matter. In a lot of them, I'd have either complete or near complete vision on the map near mid-game, with little to no actions on my part, just by playing. The only strategy games where I typically don't have that level of coverage would be starcraft-clones or or warcraft-clones. In those, however, early to mid game, I know what is on chokepoints and bases. When I don't have vision, it's because the enemy is on this particular point and the game strategy IS about hiding what the enemy does and making the player do as many actions in a minute as possible. Resending stuff in this kind of game is ok, because the game lasts for 20 minutes or so. That ain't AI War's style, so I'm going to base the first types of games as standard.
In conclusion, what you call "too strong" (free vision on stations) would still requires 300 to 700 hacking point to reach what I see being the "standard". Complete or near complete vision on the map is strong. Less than half of that ? Nope. And, I'm ok with having bigger FoW in AI War. Just not to the point of gambling when moving to neighbour planets.
Another point is, you're competing with "going back to your fleets to send one ship on a neighbour planet" or "sending your transport back and forth, again and again", for vision. That is in the game, and ain't going to move. So, let's compare the propositions with what you call "with choices" with that.
Basically there is 2 main criterias in what is proposed. Either you can switch where you're looking or not, and they can have hacking point, or not.
If they enable switching, the BEST use of the system consist in going back to whatever causes the vision to be active every X amount of time (with X as small as possible) and switch it again, and again, and again. That's whether it has a hack cost or not. That's a chore when you have to do it for dozen of hours (typical length of a game)
If you don't enable the player to switch, first, it's going to piss some players of because of misclicks and specific situations like "but what if I conquer planets where I had vision, shouldn't I be refunded ?". Which ain't that awesome in the first place, but then you have to consider something else. Its costs.
If, for example, you make the hacking cost low enough, like 1 for neighbouring stations, that's giving the player a choice between wasting hacking points (the NOOB way) OR sending a ship from his fleet every 30 seconds to die for vision (the "PRO", but insanely repetitive, way). Or sending a transport back and forth. You're back to the chore part.
If you don't add an hacking cost, but limit the number of places you can look at, then, you're basically forcing the player to send ships from their fleets every X time for vision where you "chose" not to look. And back to the chore part.
In a game like AI War... There is absolutely no "finesse" in any of this. To me, those ain't choices, they're chores. Because it's brute-force and repetitive. Currently, my late games have all past 8-10 hours. Doing repetitive actions for that long is making me dislike the game. The worst thing is that proposed actions mechanics often LOSE to "sending ships from your troops to die" in term of how interesting they are. And this mechanic makes sense in a game that lasts for 20 minutes like starcraft. Not in long games.
Last point, the number of things that a player can keep track of is limited. Scouting for regular stuff is BORING. I've got nothing against adding new mechanics into the game, but, at least make them interesting ones. If you add this to the game, you reduce the "brain space" available for a new mechanic, for something more interesting.
The reason I like "neighboring vision on stations" is because it's "brain dead" level of complexity. And, as far as I know, most similar games to AI War have this built-in - it's like the standard FoW in all games with nodes, at least 1 node of vision, and usually 3-4 at end-game. I don't remember people calling it OP. What I do remember, however, are threads about people making the scout mechanic from AI War less grindy (and similar threads about similar mechanics in other games, like scouting in the dominions series...).
Quote from: kasnavada on October 07, 2019, 12:22:23 PM
C'mon, it's not the same at all. In AI War 1 you had to find your scouts first of all, either through the unweildly specialty ships selection bar at the lower-left, or using a filter on the galaxy map, or trying to remember where your new builds currently ended up, open planet, hunt in sidebar for tiny icon (or zoom/scroll), double-click scouts, hit key to split selection until you get the right amount, tab out to galaxy map, right-click target planet. Optionally, micro scouts around so they can dodge some decloaking stuff and survive longer.
What's proposed here is 1. Open Hack tab. 2. Click planet + click button, for each planet you wanna watch.
Are you sure it's the exact (in capital letters no less) same?
What Asteroid said.
...I kinda like the way FoW works in AIW2. It makes me feel squeezed into a tiny pocket of space at the sufferance of a cruel Landlord. The reason I say that giving vision on all neighbouring worlds is 'too strong' is because it completely removes that sense of constriction - for nothing. Granting vision like that is brain dead, you're right, and it would be a shame if that part, the most important part, of the FoW were to be lifted in such a blunt fashion.
When you say "And, as far as I know, most similar games to AI War have this built-in - it's like the standard FoW in all games with nodes, at least 1 node of vision, and usually 3-4 at end-game", you're likely thinking of Stellaris as one such example, yes? And you'd be right, the Stellaris map does do that. But here's the rub: there's no such thing as a surprise attack in Stellaris; you can _always_ see whatever's heading your way. To my mind, this isn't a characteristic that AIW2 should be seeking to emulate.
I like surprise attacks being a thing in AIW2. I like having monsters jump out from the darkness. I also like being able to shine a torch in a direction of my choice.
The only issue I do have with FoW in the game as it stands now is the cost to lift a portion of it is too high. Or at least, it's too high for a neighbouring world (which are the locations of greatest immediate importance).
Quote from: Asteroid on October 08, 2019, 02:11:09 AM
Yes... You'd know if you had read my post. Especially the section where I speak of what players would do if there was an hacking cost.
This is an issue IMO. I'm trying to have a constructive discussion here, not having you tell me your opinion over and over again while not reading what I write. While stellaris is another example of it, the games I spoke of were, I quote: "(like sins of a solar empire) or grand strategy games (endless series, all moo clones...),". So I got no clue why you think I'm thinking of Stellaris here. No clue why you look down on Stellaris though.
And, if you'd read my post, monsters can still that still works if you got vision of your neighbours. And I actually advocate FOR being able to shine light on directions of your choices. So no clue why you seem to think I don't want that. What exactly you think I'm telling, I have no clue, but it seems to be, correct me if I'm wrong, that you understand that I want to completely remove FoW. If so, please, read my posts. I don't advocate this at all. I measured the impact of the change. Have you ?
Even if I did, which I don't, cloaking, waves, CPA, and other mechanics are a thing. You can still be jumped on, surprised, and your fleets can't be everywhere at once.
Last, and again, if you had read my post, you've have seen that, with the current FoW, if you actually had done your "chores" properly as a player, you'd have vision where I propose "free vision". The way you can do so is just mind-bogglingly boring that it has, in my humble opinion, no place in a game. This is quite an important point - which I'd like to be adressed, not ignored, as is being able to go out of your doors without being wiped out. Especially in a game like AI WAR 2 where losing fleet can mean minutes of netflix time.
If you don't do an effort to actually read and answer what I'm writing, I'm out.
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Joe Howard: All right. We are live this week on the pod. Christie, what's up? How's it going?
Christie Chirin…: Hey, nothing much is up. It is the last month of 2020. So we'll see what surprises it brings.
Joe Howard: Yeah, right. What's left in 2020 to bring? It's like, please no nothing else. Can we just get to 2021 already?
Christie Chirin…: Yeah. Murder hornets, revolution, who knows?
Joe Howard: I know. Some good things. There you go. Cool. And we've also got Brad on the podcast this week, as our guest. We get to have three people on the podcast this week, which is always a treat. Brad, tell people how to pronounce your last name, and then also some of the stuff you do with WordPress.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah, sure thing. Thanks for having me guys. So, yeah. My last name is to Touesnard, but a lot of people say Touesnard because it has a D at the end that's silent. So that usually trips people up pretty good. So my company is Delicious Brains Inc. And we do several WordPress plugins. WP Migrate DB Pro, WP Offload Media, WP Offload SES, Better Search Replace Pro, and we also have a SAS app called SpinupWP, which is our new shiny product that we are putting a lot of effort into at the moment.
Joe Howard: Yep. So folks these are pretty familiar, at least in the WordPress space with your company, Delicious Brains. And yeah. I'm also very familiar because I remember reading your blog posts about how you did your rebranding for all your plugins. And I was like, oh, that company looks pretty cool. And then here a couple years later, we've done our rebrand for WP Buffs and went with the same guys, and they did a great job for us as well. So.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. Your site's looking great, man. So the branding that Tim and his partner at DOS Media did. They just did an amazing job on you guys stuff. And I'm still pumped about our branding, to be honest that they did years ago. So yeah. They're really good.
Joe Howard: Yeah.
Christie Chirin…: I remember we read through your blog post on the podcast, so it was intense. Yeah.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah, we've had since then… That first round of rebranding went really well. It was easy. But then when we were doing the branding for WP Offload SES, Tim and his partner they came up with this pigeon concept. Right? And I don't know about you guys, but a pigeon is not the most majestic bird in the bird kingdom.
Joe Howard: We're not talking of a pig or a falcon.
Brad Touesnard: No. We're talking about, yeah. Exactly. We're talking about a flying rat. It's what we're talking about. And so we were so against it right out from the outset. We even said in the initial brief, that we didn't want a pigeon. Even though we knew that carrier pigeons and messaging are very closely linked, and it would make for a good thing. We were just like, we don't want to pigeon. And then one of the first things that came back with was this pigeon. And we were just like anti pigeon.
But then we went through a bunch of other things. We went through like a St. Bernard dog thing that didn't work. There was just a bunch of other things. And it was just this lengthy exhaustive process. And I think Tim and his partner were just getting really bummed and exhausted by us. And then eventually we just capitulated the end, and we really started to embrace the pigeon, the branding that they had done for us. And so we now have a pigeon. We've got a pigeon in our branding.
Joe Howard: And this is for WP Migrate DB pro, right?
Brad Touesnard: No, no, no. That's the migrating geese which are more majestic.
Joe Howard: I knew [crosstalk 00:04:17] that's why I was trying to.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. And that's another reason we quoted why we didn't want another bird. Because it was going to be confusing. But no, we really like the pigeon. The pigeon that they came up with looks really slick, the brand, and so we love it. Yeah. We came around on it even though we were determined for it not to be a pigeon.
Joe Howard: I think that's one thing that I would definitely rely on that team at DOS for. Is they can go from a concept that sounds like, hmm, I don't know about that, and they can take it to like, whoa, this is actually really cool. And they have the design chops. And honestly kind of the creative chops I think to help you take that step, help us take that step. We were totally like lost and they totally let us on. Pretty much how to move forward with everything.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. I think the next time we do branding, we're going to just go in with a completely open mind and not put any kind of kibosh on any ideas out of the gate. At the same time, even if we hadn't done that, I definitely would have been opening that pitch deck with like, don't be a pigeon, don't be a pigeon, don't be a pigeon, in my mind. So sometimes you just go in with preconceived notions, right? You just can't help it.
Joe Howard: Yep, totally, man. Cool. We talked a little bit before we got started here. We were just chatting offline and talking about some of the stuff you're working on this year, you personally. And it sounds like you're pretty active in the hiring process, for I don't know, a few different positions, just that's where you're spending a lot of time on right now. How's that going? How's 2020 been for you?
Brad Touesnard: Not great. It kind of fits with everything else that's been going on in 2020. And I think that actually, the pandemic has actually maybe thrown us a curve ball in hiring as well. Because, one of our biggest differentiators before the pandemic, was that we were a remote company, right? That you can work from home. And all of a sudden, that is no longer a differentiation. Everyone's working from home, everyone's remote. I mean, I shouldn't say everyone, because obviously there's people out there doing difficult work during this pandemic.
But everyone in IT pretty much, right? Except for the people at the data centers that have to keep the server's running. Everyone else is kind of good to work from home. And so, yeah. I think that's been a big challenge. So our typical process involves posting a job to weworkremotely.com. And we just get tons of applicants from there. And we just pick from them. And this year, we've gotten way less applicants because there's way more companies hiring on that job board. SO-
Joe Howard: Interesting. Total applications went down a lot this year.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. Way down, way down. We used to get close to 300 applicants for developer jobs, we would post on there. And we're getting like 20 to 30 now.
Christie Chirin…: What, that's a huge change.
Joe Howard: I know it's like 90%.
Brad Touesnard: It's incredible. It's staggering.
Christie Chirin…: I'm surprised because at least in the U.S., we're hearing a lot about just our astronomical unemployment rate because of the pandemic. Right? And granted that is mostly across non-IT, but I still heard there's plenty of people. Right? Exactly. It's a lot of surface work. But even then, I've heard of plenty of people in IT who have lost their jobs. Some company's revenues that are… At least client pipeline has gone down. So I'm shocked, what?
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. I think the thing is, there's an imbalance there, though. Most people in IT haven't been affected. But most companies have stopped working in offices, right? Not most, all IT companies have stopped working in offices. So I think there's a huge disparity there. Right? And so you've got way more companies competing for job postings that are not local anymore.
And you've got just a handful, relatively speaking, of people who have lost their jobs that were kind of linked to the service sector or something, right? So yeah, I am staggered too. I feel like there might be another part of the story that I'm missing. I keep double guessing myself, second guessing myself. Like, what? Did we change something? Is our job postings repelling people now? What is going on?
Joe Howard: Yeah, it's funny because you're competing against a lot of other companies right now. So maybe not as easy for individual companies who are remote hire anymore, but definitely a good time for the remote job boards. I'm sure we working remotely is happening up here, right? There have a ton of people posting on, oh, we got to find more remote workers. Brad, do you feel like this is a temporary thing? Or do you feel like people, I don't know are starting to… I mean, everyone's working remotely this year. So I'm sure a lot of people are like, this pandemic sucks.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah.
Joe Howard: But working remotely, I could see myself doing this. Maybe I want to do this more. Do you think that you're going to probably have ongoing challenges competing with more remote companies in 2021 and moving forward?
Brad Touesnard: Yeah, I think so. I think a lot of companies are not going back to offices. Especially in IT where a lot of the workers are introverts anyway, right? Now, if you're an extrovert and you thrive off of, you get energy from other people, and you're sitting in your office by yourself at home, that's going to be a problem long term. Right? It's going to be difficult. And so I feel like there's certainly some companies like an agency, for example, right? An agency with Client Services people, that thrive off that, I don't think they're going to be able to-
Christie Chirin…: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about that one. I mean, it's probably true, honestly. But at the same time, right? I'm a pretty extroverted person. And so a lot of the nature of work from home is a sacrifice to me. But the sacrifice is still totally worth the benefit, right? I just have to work really hard to fill that other part of what I need to be happy and thriving. So I think even then, we're going to see those people be like working from home is great.
Brad Touesnard: Have you taken a personality test though? Do you know that you rank as extrovert? You do?
Christie Chirin…: I have taken a personality test. And the shocking thing is that, depending on how I'm feeling that day, I get introverted or extroverted. So I'm right in the middle, I'm right in the middle, right? So I might not be the super extroverts. I definitely know people who are extremely extroverted, right? Who coordinate everything, and love to put events together and stuff like that. And I can definitely see those folks really struggling in a fully remote environment.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. I had my whole team take a… it wasn't Myers-Briggs, I don't think. It was some variation or something. Anyway, I don't think one person in my team ranked as extrovert.
Joe Howard: Wow.
Brad Touesnard: And that sort of, I work 12, 13 people, right? So it's not surprising that… Especially the way we hire, we hire, we try not to do video interviews till the very end. And we don't use that as a decision. So we don't. The video interview at the end, it's really just a meet and greet. Just for fun. We've already made a decision by that point, one way or another. And the reason for that is a bunch of… There's a bunch of reasons for that.
But the primary reason is we don't do a lot of video calls as a team, right? We primarily, we do one once a week video calls for updates. And we don't really need to do that. We just do it because we want to get some face time and so that we don't turn into complete social idiots.
Joe Howard: So just to clarify for your hiring process. So you only do one video meet with the person you're hiring at that point, you've already decided if you're going to hire them or not? And the rest is
Brad Touesnard: That's right.
Joe Howard: … communications emails or slack right or something?
Christie Chirin…: That's mostly your job anyway, right?
Brad Touesnard: Exactly. Exactly. Writing clearly, and concisely is a big ranking factor for us. And, yeah. So yeah, we actually have been doing text-based chat interviews over Google Docs. So the interesting thing with Google Docs is that you can actually see them, every letter they type you can see as they type it, whereas typically with like a slack chat or something like that, they have to hit enter after they've typed their whole message and then you see it all. But you can see their thought process and they're backspacing and everything as part of the chat when you use Google Docs to do the interview.
And so it's a little nerve wracking, I think for the candidates. But we haven't had any serious complaints about it, and I feel like we glean a lot. We know we really get the cadence of their thought processes and just how quickly they type. And there's a bunch of information that comes from doing it that way. So yeah, we found that pretty effective way of doing things. It's really bizarre.
Joe Howard: Did your team come up with that? Or is that something you've [crosstalk 00:14:32]
Brad Touesnard: I think I came up with that idea myself as part when I was developing the hiring process. Yeah.
Joe Howard: Yeah. That's a cool idea. I like that a lot. I like the idea of not doing a lot of video through the interview process, especially if your job is based on written communication. It also is a nice way to take pressure off of people who may be more of introverted maybe not as much video people, and want to showcase their skills in a different way.
Brad Touesnard: Exactly. Exactly.
Joe Howard: Also, that means there's always going to be some kind of pressure in a job interview. I mean, it's a job interview. So it's, it can't be, no pressure. And there probably should be some pressure because, working a job to get some kind of results has some kind of pressure too, right? The Google Doc sounds like a nice happy medium, because it's, you can write, and someone can be there hanging out with you and chatting with you.
But you get to glean a little bit into that process. And I totally get the backspacing, or the speed of typing, and looking into people's thought process. I bet you see people like, oh, I really liked that he or she deleted that little part and rewrote it, because I think that how they rewrote it was better. That glean in those little things are, a lot of times can be helpful. Is this the right candidate or not?
Brad Touesnard: Yeah, totally.
Joe Howard: I mean, still[crosstalk 00:15:54]
Christie Chirin…: I would find [crosstalk 00:15:54]
Brad Touesnard: What do you do? Do you guys, yeah, do you do interviews over video early on or?
Christie Chirin…: I can talk about Caldera, because Liquid Web has a very traditional hiring process, right? But we used to do slack interview. We'd bring them on as guests, and they would have a time and things like that. But we would do a slack interview, right? Because, again, we're testing for your skills about what you're actually going to do here, not your interviewing skills, right? So we're going to be talking over slack a whole lot more than we're ever going to be talking on video. Right? So that was how we started. Yeah. And then the rest of it was pretty traditional. But we started with a slack interview, because that's the basic skill, right?
Almost anything else, depending on the role, of course, but almost anything else we can teach you when it comes to tooling. And that's the one thing I can't teach you, or at least don't have the resources to. What just can you effectively communicate asynchronously in short messages? And I don't know, I'm kind of curious. And I want to come back to this thought, right? But I'm really curious about what both of you think about how the current moment presents an opportunity to teach people stuff. To bring on the people who maybe aren't currently IT workers, but could reasonably switch now that we're going to be focused more on online work from home and things like that. So I'm kind of curious.
Joe Howard: Yeah. I think that's super challenging. I've had a couple WordPress friends reach out to me, like, hey, I have a friend, or someone I know who's looking for a job, they're looking to get into a tech job, or technology job, or WordPress job. And they have been the manager of a clothing store for three years. And I've had reservations about potentially hiring those people. And I think my reservations stem from having to do a ton of teaching and education. And that's a big commitment. I don't know if we have the systems built out to… We can teach people how to do basics of most things, but around the WordPress community.
How does the WordPress community work? How does WordPress work? How does open source software work? That takes a lot of experience. I think, took me a lot of time to figure that stuff out. And to bring someone who's like, what's WordPress? Or WordPress with a lowercase p? It's like, okay, there's a lot to dig into here. So I've been hesitant actually to hire people from outside of kind of at least some experience in working in a technology coming or working in here. But Brad, I'd be interested to hear what your thoughts are there too.
Christie Chirin…: Yeah.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. My biggest reservation there would just be digital communication. I mean, I see this on a daily basis, with the other people, non-IT people that I interact with. Is they're just, they can't even do email right. They're replying all saying, thanks. And just breaking all the rules of like digital etiquette, right?
Brad Touesnard: And I'm just like, oh, man, this would be so painful to try onboard someone like this, and to just train them up on basic things like, how to email properly. I'm not saying-
Joe Howard: I think [crosstalk 00:19:37] when someone posts a new post and doesn't reply to the other post about the same topic, don't start a new post reply to that. And that's even another level. Yeah.
Brad Touesnard: Right. Right. But I mean, they wouldn't even… Potentially they would have a hard time even getting their head around slack. Right? If they're having a hard time with email, right? And the etiquette there. So everything would be new to them, or a lot would be new to them at a basic level. And I think that would be very difficult for a small company to absorb someone and have to train them up at that very basic level. I could see larger organizations being able to do that, and having the processes in place to handle that. Because larger organizations tend to take on more junior people anyway, as part of their whole growth strategy and hiring strategy.
For us, we don't even take on intermediate and junior people, because we felt like we would be spending so much of our resources, the little resources that we have, just training those people up and getting them to a point where they're going to be a valuable member of the team. And then they might leave. Right? Is the other thing. And we've only got 13 people. So yeah, I feel like you need to be a much bigger company to take on some of the basics. I would say at least 50 people you would have to be… I think that's kind of the number I have in my head anyway.
Joe Howard: Yeah. I feel like I want an academy or a training section of my company, right? It's you see a bunch of big Fortune 500 companies doing a ton of technology education for youth around the world. A lot of that is they want to be a good company, and maybe make the world a better place. But there's also the advantage of, hey, in 10 years, that person could be an employee here, because we helped bring them up. Right?
Brad Touesnard: Exactly.
Joe Howard: There's that thought process. So yeah, Christie, I'd be interested to hear it Liquid Web, like you said, you have a more traditional approach. Do you all have, or have you this year, you may not be super privy to all the hiring stuff, but have you seen folks come into Liquid Web who have not had traditional backgrounds? Or is it mostly people who have had some experience?
Christie Chirin…: It goes either way. With Liquid Web in particular, I mean, we're 1000 person company. So-
Joe Howard: You don't know every single person [crosstalk 00:21:54]
Christie Chirin…: Well, the thing is I probably know more people on the average part of that 1000 person company, right.? And that just has to do with my role and my personality.
Joe Howard: Extroverted, yeah.
Christie Chirin…: But in the middle, right in the middle. But it depends, right? I think that even a company like Liquid Web isn't going to hire someone with absolutely zero tech skills, right? And I also think that today in particular, there really aren't that many people with zero tech skills. I mean, there's a lot of people with zero tech skills. But a lot of the technology skills that you need to come in with are now things that more of us are practicing. Right? Just for daily life, especially now that we're living in this weird, topsy turvy post apocalyptic pandemic world, a lot of people have had to learn how to communicate online.
Have had to learn how to use Zoom, right? Have had to learn how to write. So I think the tides are changing a little tiny bit, right? And I don't want to be discouraging to anybody in that position. For the most part, though, Liquid Web is traditional in it's hiring. And so part of that means that you don't see a whole lot of sort of career switchers, right? You see, roles being posted, and people with experience coming in. Some of the roles are deliberately posted as entry level roles, right? And the company is still looking for the relevant credentials for an entry level role, right?
And so with Liquid Web, it's more in the traditional. And I definitely agree with you both that for a small company, the amount of resources that training requires, is massive. And training is a skill, right? I don't think that everyone who is a CEO, or an owner, or a technology lead is necessarily going to be the best teacher. And that alone brings on a level of complexity that is not going to be easily approachable to most small companies. The other thing too, is it's not the best thing for the entry level person, right?
You mentioned that they might leave. But it's really hard to start out in a position in which you don't have mentorship. And you don't have a lead in whatever you're trying to do to learn from and grow from. Right? And I think that that can also be a disadvantage, but is that disadvantage heavier than the disadvantage of getting your foot in the door? I don't really know.
Joe Howard: Yeah, interesting. Also this kind of transitions into something else that Brad you put as maybe a potential topic we could talk about today, which is, when you're rating potential candidates for a position, there's this intuition versus scorecard, I don't know, conversation. Some people may do more of a formal scorecard. We used to do pretty formal scorecards around what we thought about answers to certain questions. Was this a 7 out of 10 answer?
This seemed like a 7 out of 10 answer. Actually, I remember we specifically didn't do 7 out of 10, we weren't allowed to give 7 of 10s because 7 of 10 is like a total awful answer. It's not good and not bad. But it's just in the middle. So we were like either six or eight, or any other number out of 10 besides seven.
Christie Chirin…: No 7s.
Joe Howard: But anyway, you could give… Yeah, no sevenS. But we'd like go into a Google Doc, or a sheet. And we'd like go and average the numbers and, okay, this person got like, an 8.2. And this person got like an eight. So was one person better than the other? And don't really do that anymore.
Brad Touesnard: My point too. Clearly he's better.
Joe Howard: Yeah, exactly. But we've kind of transitioned to more, I think, intuition based. And we think you're going to be good. We've done some qualifications on you. Let's do a trial period. But and see how this actually works. And that's, I think, worked out better for us. But I'd be interested to hear Brad what, your thoughts on there? Because you had this as a point you want to chat about it? I don't know what you guys do over there.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah, man, I feel like our hiring process has gone from, so the approach was just throw them in the deep end and sink or swim, we would literally just take several candidates that we barely even vetted and just throw them at the project, and just add them to GitHub and everything and just say, here you go pick up some issues, start contributing to this project, right? Kind of almost an open source kind of mentality, right? And the problem with that is, super disruptive to our team, right? Because you've got all these other people in there just fiddling around and trying to learn on the fly, and they're asking questions, it was a mess. So we do a lot more vetting now before we get to the stage where we bring them on into a trial.
But our trial now is still based on our product. So it's like a fork, we just make a copy of our product repo. And we just copy some issues into there that we feel like this person, or that the role would be revealing for the role. And things we want to see. And then they just do that. They open a pull request for that stuff and commit some code, and we review it, and we give them feedback and they fix it. And we just go through the process that we normally would. And that's been the best trial project. We've in the past also come up with these conceived trial projects for people. And that's been a really false positive signal in the past. Because we could try this project, and it was too simple for the person to get their head around.
And so they did great on that project, but then they get into our actual plugin, and they can't get their head around it, the concepts are eluding them. And so yeah, we've really kind of gone back to the old way of like throwing them in the deep end in a way, but just in a way that's less disruptive to our team. And that's been pretty good. One other problem we've had, though, is that so what part of our process is to review sample code upfront, as part of kind of the application process we ask in your in the application.
Can you provide some sample code that we could quickly review to see if you're in the same arena as what we're looking for here? Right? And a lot of people especially when we're hiring Laravel developers for spin up, a lot of people say they don't have any code to share. Everything's under NDA or whatever, right? And I think that's just the difference between Laravel world and the WordPress world, whatever WordPress world is GPL everything right? So it's kind of all open source if you're working on WordPress stuff. So you should be able to share pretty much anything you work on there. Whereas Laravel is much more private and protected stuff. So now with Laravel developers, we have to have this kind of code challenge project that is contrived, that allows them to do something that can show us, can you cut it?
Will you be able to cut it when you get into our application? Right? So we have to contrive something there just for those people. But then we still bring them into our app and try them out sometimes, right? If we're still not sure. So our process is really fluid. And it really if we're not feeling sure about something, we'll figure out a way to squash that uncertainty before we make a commitment, especially if someone is employed full time and has to leave their job to come and work for us. Right? In those situations, you don't want to say, yes, you're hired and then find out two weeks in that they're not a fit. And then they're out at sea. You just let them go. Right? It's tricky, man. It's so tricky.
Joe Howard: It's tricky is like the number one word I use for hiring stuff. Because it's a huge challenge. It's no matter how good or bad, I feel that someone's almost it's like anything could happen, right? As someone who's hired a good amount of people successfully, but also had a lot of issues hiring in the past, over the past three years, like I've probably had, we've had, I'll say we, I have personally had like three or four people who I've hired who just didn't work out very well. And usually I can look back, in the moment it's hard to say I need to let this person go. It can be difficult to say that.
Brad Touesnard: Sure.
Joe Howard: But then after it's done, I can always look back even to the application process, even to their first week. Obviously, there's more stuff we could always do for onboarding and helping people get better at that. But there's usually something I can look back at to say, hmm that was maybe a red flag for something that could have turned into something bigger. Brad, I don't want to call you out. Maybe you've had some hiring that's worked out. Maybe some it hasn't worked out. Any arounds hiring it hasn't worked out where you've seen something like that? Anything specifically you've seen that you look back and like, oh, that wasn't, I should have listened to myself more and notice that, that might have been an issue?
Brad Touesnard: Yeah, I feel like in the past I've given up that is the hiring decision to my team without guidance. I mean, that was a huge mistake. That was probably the biggest mistake I've made hiring in the past where it's just I said, you guys hire this person. And just like, you're on your own, you've never hired anybody before, but I'm sure it'll work out. Is basically the approach I took, which is terrible in retrospect, right? Everything that doesn't work out is always terrible and retrospect. But at the time, it didn't seem like that big of an ask that they would just figure it out. But in retrospect, the hiring is super difficult. Of course, I'm not very good at it still. And I've been doing it for years.
Joe Howard: That's my thing. I was like, I'm not very good at it. Someone else should probably help him please.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah, yeah. So yeah, that that was probably the biggest thing. And then, like I said earlier, we contrived of a project that didn't actually test their skills very well to test kind of all the important parts. And so in retrospect, we look and say, oh, yeah, that project is a bad project to actually use as bedding. So yeah, that's true. I'm sure there's a dozens of others if I… I'd rather not sit down and make that list though.
Joe Howard: Yeah. Exactly. It's a stressful list to put together.
Brad Touesnard: And I feel it's kind of whack-a-mole too. I feel like there's going to be something new next year that's never happened that someone gets in through the cracks. And then we find out, oh, shoot. Yeah, we got to-
Joe Howard: Another thing.
Brad Touesnard: … watch out for that in the future.
Joe Howard: Yeah. How about well, maybe we could talk about the other side of the coin? The positives people who have worked there for a long time. Anybody or your best team members, people who've been there, and you can really lean on and trust in a really core members of the team, maybe some positives from some of their, I don't know, because there's kind of hard skills and soft skills. There's obviously technical chops that your developers need. But then there's also soft skills around communication.
How do you use slack? Like, okay, they can just do it. Anything specifically that comes out to you as things that… I usually think about it, the people I manage directly, if they can make my life easier as a manager, I don't have to sit over their shoulder, they get their stuff done, they're good team members. To me if they can do that they're 80% of the way they are, right? So anything from your perspective, though, where you're like, this is what tells me this person is the bomb.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. Well, I mean, our retention has been excellent. We just had our first team member leave that's been with us for a long time, which is sad. But he was moving On to new exciting things. And so we kind of celebrated it. But there was a somber mood to it too, right?
Joe Howard: Once you get to 10 plus people statistically speaking at some point.[crosstalk 00:35:11]
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. So he had been with us since 2015, so five years. We still have five people that have been with us for at least that long. And we got two more that have been with us, I think, for three or four years. And then the rest are newer ones, been with us for two, and the others are much newer. So yeah, retention rates are really good. We had one person stay for two years and leave, our marketing manager. That happened.
But I think largely what happened there is that she hired someone under her to help her with a bunch of tasks, and it kind of replaced a lot of the work that she was doing. It kind of filled her role a little bit too much, if you know what I mean. So she kind of made herself obsolete.
Joe Howard: She was stuck between manager and individual contributors. She was just kind of like, [crosstalk 00:36:24]
Brad Touesnard: Yeah, yeah. I think that's a bit what happened there. And I mean, the idea there was to grow. For her to become more of a high level person. Right? But she was having difficulty doing that, I think. And so she ended up leaving the company. Which is fine. We've been fine ever since. So it wasn't like, oh, this is devastating. We're not going to be able to keep going here. That would be bad. Right? If you lost that key person.
Joe Howard: Yeah. Yeah. I feel like honestly, at this point most people on our team, if they quit or had to leave, things would be okay. But there are definitely probably two or three people who I would be stressed if they left. Because they're really core to the team, which is good, right? They're really core contributors. But if they left, that would be a challenge for us. Which is, that's a challenge too. So you want to have people it's like, where do you want people? You want people to be dependent on but not too dependent on? Yeah.
Brad Touesnard: Right. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I feel the same way. I just promoted, I mean, promoted it's a weird word. Change the role is probably a better word. He went from being a developer primarily to be a manager. So he's managing a development team. He's doing almost no coding, actually. Yeah, he's doing little tiny bit of coding still, here and there. And doing some PR reviews. But other than that, he's just managing the projects, and the products, and eventually going to be doing some UX work and stuff like that, product managers stuff. And then we have another person, again, this person's been with us for over five years. And he's kind of taken on a lead developer role within one of the teams.
And so yeah, if for one of these… The whole reason for this was to take a bunch of stuff off my plate, right? There kind of stepping into a new role and taking away a bunch of stuff that I've been doing, right? So yeah, if they were to leave, it would really, really suck because I would have to inherit all those things again, until I could find a replacement. And one of the only reasons that I felt confident in giving up these responsibilities to these people, because they've been with me for so long. They know everything so well. And I trust them. Right? And so yeah, if they were to leave, it would be really difficult, so.
Joe Howard: Yeah. Totally. The one other other thing I wanted to chat about here, in this podcast actually is based on what we all started talking about, which was how you're seeing fewer leads come in for new hiring prospects. So top of the funnel. And I wanted to talk a little bit about that, because as someone… I personally, I've adjusted my hiring structures somewhat from just basing it on these websites where I post a job, and I get candidates, to actually doing more, "recruitment."
That sounds really formal, but it's more just using my network to reach out to people. Allie Nimmons is on our team now. That started from a Twitter DM where I DMed her a project I think she was helping her coworker Michelle raise money for a laptop. And I Dmed her and was like, this is a really cool project, super cool. And that eventually turned into now she's our community person and rocking it.
Brad Touesnard: Nice.
Joe Howard: And I'd be interested to hear also from you Christie around… I mean, Liquid Web is 1000 person company, right? So you probably have an HR department that does outreach and has a certain candidate quota every month. But Brad is a smaller company, wondering if you do any outreach for people like Slack, DMs, and the making WordPress channel, reaching out to some educators in the space, we have a collection of like 100 freelancers they work with, hey, anybody, you know who could do this? Yeah, and thinking about that as kind of to support your process of getting candidates on the top of the funnel.
Christie Chirin…: Out button real quick. I want to hear Brad's answer. but I will let you know that, that recruitment process never really goes away. Yes. Liquid Web has an entire HR department. And they do all the HR things. Like wellness programs, and paperwork, and onboarding, and all this stuff that you associate with a larger company. But, my job still came from a Twitter DM from Chris. So it never goes away. Right? [crosstalk 00:41:19]. I don't think that, that process ever becomes like hiring is completely disassociated, and 100% outsourced to HR. It's always going to be about networks. And that's true for people looking for jobs, too, right?
You have a better chance when you know someone who works in the company, even if it's not someone who works in hiring, why? Because they could talk to a hiring manager, because they can make your name relevant in a stack of resumes, blah, blah, blah, all the regular sort of employment advice. Right? So that's a bit about Liquid Web. I can definitely talk to how things were at Caldera. I mean, a lot of the things that you all are talking about are different for me. And that was because we did bring on entry level people. And that was because it wasn't difficult for me to teach. Right?
And that just sort of comes with again, it's a skill and people are different levels of knowledgeable and also interested in it, right? Because it does take a lot of patience. And it does take a lot of effort and investment, right? But for me, I mean, a ton of my job responsibilities now is to teach the product catalog to sales, to the partner team, to new support people to things like that, right? So this is just sort of, I hate these words, too. But kind of a natural competency, right? And so when you're looking at entry level roles, that funnel is just going to be bigger, it's just going to be bigger.
And that sometimes helps if you have the structures or the time to put into bringing someone on and then documenting all that stuff, and then reusing all that stuff for the next person, which is more of what I have been doing here at Liquid Web. But outside of taking on that strategy, it's hard to get qualified people. When we were looking for roles that were intermediate to senior, it was really hard to find people. A lot of recruitment was required. A lot of people didn't make it through even if they weren't entry level, just because there were key pieces of information that we just couldn't teach. And I don't have a great answer. But I do want to add that at no point does active recruitment go away.
Brad Touesnard: Yeah. Totally, totally. I mean, so my second hire Ian Polson, who's still on the team, and he's actually the product manager I was talking about earlier. He was hired because he replied to a tweet. I had posted that I was hiring. So we already had a relationship because he had bought WP app store from me. And he still runs WP app store today, which is now it's just a deal site, right? And that's what it was when he bought it from me. It's kind of like, app Sumo, but for WordPress products, right? And he still runs that today. And anyway, yeah. He reached out to me on Twitter, and he said, hey, I might be interested in this.
I think it was around the post that I'd written where it's like, come work for me, and I'll teach you how to launch your own product. Or something like that. It was kind of an apprenticeship kind of thing except paid. You actually get paid for your time. So he reached out to me for that. And then I think I reached out to Matt Shaw, who's also with us still and had a conversation with him. And then it turned into an acquisition. So he had his own product, Better Search Replace. And it was basically turned into an aqua hire. And so Matt came to work for us. And that product rolled into our catalog.
And the rest is history. So I agree. And I have been talking to people who know us from our content and our products. Some of the best candidates that we get applying, by far actually are people who know us already, right? Know our products and want to work for us. And are very enthusiastic about it. And they demonstrate that in their application. Right? I would say active recruitment has never been a thing for us. And we've only really been considering it lately, because it's been so difficult to hire lately, but yeah.
Joe Howard: Those are all interesting anecdotal stories. Very interesting we've all had Twitter experience of a hiring process. I'd second what you said about people who know your product or good potential hires. I've talked to the team at Beaver Builder, and Anthony is their marketer over there. He was just a Beaver Builder power user. And they hired him because he just knew Beaver Builder so well and had marketing chops. Like boom, easy hire, right?
Brad Touesnard: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Joe Howard: And then for us, I hired Alec who's our head of growth. And he was a WP Buffs' white label partner before we hired him. And so he knew the white label process. He was a white label partner, he was using it to grow his business. So he knew the benefits of it. He knew the ins and outs of it and obviously had learned from our side, but. He talked about Christie listening to us on podcast episodes during when he was applying. And it's a small thing, but it's an impactful thing. You know about the company, you know about us. And he's been fantastic so far. So I think these little gold nuggets are important. Yeah, cool.
Brad Touesnard: [crosstalk 00:47:42] Yeah. Speaking of HR, oh, sorry.
Christie Chirin…: Oh, no, no. It's okay. I was just shining in that what Joe just described with Alec happens a good amount at Liquid Web too. Especially when it comes to sales posts.
Joe Howard: Sales post, a lot of Liquid Web. Totally.
Brad Touesnard: Oh, yeah. I would imagine. Yeah. Speaking of HR, though, we are now, after this year of, basically, I spent so much time hiring this year, I'm starting to consider a part time HR person to really do some of the heavy lifting around hiring. Because I feel like we've probably hit the point now where we are just going to be hiring kind of perpetually. And if I don't have help with that, then I'm just going to be the one doing it perpetually.
So a recruiter or someone to like filter applications, and maybe do initial contact with applicants. I've been doing all of that myself this year. And I really need to give that up. I need to get over the idea that I'm some kind of special evaluator of these applications. I don't think I am. I know I am not. But yet when I'm doing it, I'm feeling like, oh, I'm so good at this.
Joe Howard: Brad after we wrap up here, we'll do some [inaudible 00:49:04]. Because we just hired a People Ops manager, part time People Ops manager.
Brad Touesnard: Okay.
Joe Howard: It's changed a lot of what we do and made things a lot easier for Nick and I in terms of hiring process. So I will help to push to help you find someone, if you could connect me, this is a nice trade here, right? For HR stuff. I would love to talk to quid pro quo.
Brad Touesnard: It's a quid pro quo.
Joe Howard: It's a quid pro quo, here we go. I would love to talk to your designer, because I would be interested in not hiring that person. But I would love to maybe cook into their network, and to find help them help me find a designer because, I see all the stuff you guys put out at Delicious Brains. And everything is… beautiful, impeccably designed, and you can tell that you have an in house designer, and not just a design firm helping you out. I can tell it's all works together really well. So yes, quid pro quo. Sorry. But like I want to[inaudible 00:50:01].
Brad Touesnard: I don't know how much Louis is going to be able to help you. I mean, first of all, Louis is an incredible designer, and I'm so fortunate to have him on the team. And it was a pretty difficult hiring process to find him, though it was only one round. I feel like how good Louis is, it should have taken three rounds to find someone like him, right? So I don't know how a day he was working at an agency. He saw our job posting and he applied. It was really that simple. I don't know how much he's going to be able to help you there. It's probably going to be luck, Joe, I'm afraid to say.
Joe Howard: Turns out usually that's the case. And so, yeah. I'm with you there. But cool. Well, let's wrap it up. We've been doing like 50 minutes or so. So yeah, appreciate you being on Brad. Why don't you tell folks websites, Twitter handle,-
Joe Howard: … places they can find you online?
Brad Touesnard: Yeah, @bradt on Twitter, and you can find our products at deliciousbrains.com and spinupwp.com.
Joe Howard: Yes. Cool. And last thing Brad, we ask guests to do, on the show is ask our listeners, for a little iTunes review. So if you wouldn't mind asking our listeners right now for a little five stars here, we'd appreciate it.
Brad Touesnard: All right, folks. It's time to do a little work. Not really, though, is it? It takes like than five minutes to do this, right? You go to iTunes and… Actually do you have to go into the iTunes app to do this? Or can you go to the website? Or where do you go?
Joe Howard: You can go to the website. My computer has a little pop up window when I go to the website. It says, do you want to open this in iTunes? So then I just opened it in iTunes but we also have a redirect so people couldn't just go to wpmrr.com/itunes and whatever your devices does with that, it'll take you to that view area. Yep. Super easy.
Brad Touesnard: So wpmrr.com/itunes. That's easy. Just do that. And then two minutes later, you're done. And you've done a really nice thing, for Joe and Christie. I mean, that should make you feel good. Right?
Joe Howard: Oh. There you go. So, as always, we appreciate those. Leave a little comments with something you learned from this episode, and then we can shoot the screenshot to Brad's Twitter. Thanks, Brad, appreciate you getting helping us get a review. And will also help us choose what other episodes to do if we get a bunch of reviews about a hiring episode. Hey, we'll talk more about it in the future and bring other folks on to talk about it too. So cool. If folks are new listeners, we got a few older episodes. Right Christie?
Christie Chirin…: We have hundreds of older episodes. Is it hundreds? I think it's 100, and then some 10s.
Joe Howard: 100 with maybe a super small, s or something. 120 or so. Maybe not multiple 100's, but 100 plus 10's. Yeah, there we go.
Christie Chirin…: There we go.
Joe Howard: … of episodes in the bank. So go and check out some older content specific to challenged. We have a search on the website. So hey, you're having trouble with pricing, search pricing, we got a bunch of episodes on that kind of stuff and everything else under the sun. If you have questions for us at the show, Christine I always want to do more Q and A episodes. So shoot your questions into where? Christie.
Christie Chirin…: Into [email protected].
Joe Howard: I just had that inbox redirected to my team to help me handle that because I'm not very good at checking email. So they'll be checked even better now that inbox. So that's another reason to send those in. Or you can just hit us up on Twitter @JosephHHoward, @xtiechirinos.
Christie Chirin…: Yeah. X-T-I-E Chirinos. That's C-H-I-R-I-N-O-S. Yeah. I got an email from [email protected]. Allie forwarded it to me. It was very exciting.
Joe Howard: There you go. Perfect. Makes it easy. All right, that's it for this week. We'll be in your podcast players again next Tuesday. Brad, thanks again for being on man. It's been real.
Brad Touesnard: Thanks, folks. Appreciate it.
Joe Howard: See you everybody. Bye.
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Myth and the Russian Pogroms, Part 2: Inventing Atrocities
May 11, 2012 /80 Comments/in Anti-Jewish Writing, Anti-Semitism, Featured Articles, Historical Anti-Jewish Writing /by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.
Having grounded ourselves in the history of Russia's Jewish Question, it is now time for us to turn our attention to the anti-Jewish riots of the 1880s. The following essay will first provide the reader with the standard narrative of these events advanced by Jewish contemporaries and the majority of Jewish historians — a narrative which has overwhelmingly prevailed in the public consciousness. The latter half of the essay will be devoted to dissecting one aspect of the Jewish narrative, and explaining how events really transpired. Other aspects of the Jewish narrative will be examined in later entries in this series. While a work like this can come in for heavy criticism from certain sections of the population who may denounce it as 'revisionist,' I can only say that 'revisionism' should be at the heart of every historical work. If we blindly accept the stories that are passed down to us, we are liable to fall victim to what amounts to little more than a glorified game of Chinese whispers. And, if we taboo the right of the historian to reinterpret history in light of new research and new discoveries, then we have become far removed from anything resembling true scholarship.
The Jewish Narrative.
In 1881 the 'Russo-Jewish Committee,' (RJC) an arm of Britain's Jewish elite, mass-produced a pamphlet entitled "The Persecution of the Jews in Russia," and began disseminating it through the press, the churches, and numerous other channels. By 1899, it was embellished and published as a short book, and today digitized copies are freely available online.[1] By the early 20th century, the pamphlet had even spawned a four-page journal called Darkest Russia – A Weekly Record of the Struggle for Freedom, ensuring that the average British citizen did not go long without being reminded of the 'horrors' facing Russian Jews.[2] The fact that these publications were mass produced should provide an indication as to their purpose: It is clear that these publications represented one of the most ambitious propaganda campaign in Jewish history, and combined with similar efforts in the United States, they were aimed at gaining the attention of, and 'educating,' the Western nations and ensuring the primacy of the 'Jewish side of the story.' Implicit in this was not only a desire to provoke anti-Russian attitudes, but also copious amounts of sympathy for the victimized Jews — sympathy necessary to ensure that mass Jewish chain migration to the West went on untroubled and unhindered by nativists. After all, wasn't the bigoted nativist just a step removed from the rampaging Cossack?
The first element of the narrative advanced by the RJC is essentially a manipulation of the history of Russian-Jewish relations. It holds that the Jews of Eastern Europe have been oppressed for centuries, their whole lives "hampered, from cradle to grave, by restrictive laws."[3] It was claimed that the Russians had an unwritten law: "That no Russian Jew shall earn a living."[4] Russian Jews, according to the Russo-Jewish Committee, have wanted nothing more than to participate in Russian society, but have been rebuffed time and again as "heretics and aliens." The Pale is an impenetrable fortress, where every Jew "must live and die." Implicit in this interpretation of the history of Russian-Jewish relations in the belief that "the fount and origin of all the ills that assail Russian Jewry" has nothing to do with the Jews themselves, but everything to do with the Church, the State, and the Pale. In essence, the plight of the Jews was the result of nothing more than irrational hatred. Jews adopt a meek and passive role in this narrative, having committed no wrong-doing other than being Jews. They are also presented as the only victims of Russian violence. There is no acknowledgement of failed Russian efforts to break down the Jewish walls of exclusivity and claim the Jews as brothers. In fact, there is no reference at all to the walls of exclusivity. The pogroms themselves, according to the Jewish narrative, broke out following the assassination of Alexander II, when shock, anger and a desire for revenge brought this irrational, rootless hatred to the surface.
The second element of the Jewish narrative is that the government and petty officialdom had some role to play in organizing and directing the pogroms. Much disdain is heaped on the government, and petty officialdom, which was said to have been afflicted with "a chronic anti-Semitic outlook." It was claimed that when the riots began, the government was "not altogether sorry to let the excitement of the people vent itself on the Jews."[5] In reference to the restrictive May Laws, the authors were forced to concede they had never really been enforced, but maintained that "whether moderately or rigorously applied, the May Laws still remained on the Russian Statute Book."[6]
The third element of the Jewish narrative is that the pogroms were genocidal, and that they had been organized and perpetrated by groups seeking the extermination of the Jews. The 1899 edition of "The Persecution of the Jews in Russia" included a copy of a lengthy letter written to the London Times by Nathan Joseph, Secretary of the RJC, dated November 5th, 1890. In the letter, Joseph claimed that in the present circumstances "hundreds of thousands could be exterminated,"[7] and that Russian legislation in relation to Jews represented "an instrument of torture and persecution." In sum, the Jews of Russia were claimed to be living under "a sentence of death," and it was further claimed that "the executions are proceeding." The letter ends with an appeal to "Civilized Europe" to intervene, chastise Russia, and aid the victimized Jews.[8]
The fourth key element of the Jewish narrative is that the pogroms were extremely violent in nature. Contemporary media reports especially were the source of most of the atrocity stories, reportedly gleaned from newly-arrived 'refugees' who had given statements to the Russo-Jewish Committee about the pogroms they had fled. In these reports, which were carried very regularly by both the New York Times and the London Times, Russians were charged with having committed the most fiendish atrocities on the most enormous scale. Every Jew in the Russian Empire was under threat. Men had been ruthlessly murdered, tender infants had been dashed on the stones or roasted alive in their own homes. During a British parliamentary consultation on the pogroms in 1905, a Rabbi Michelson claimed that "the atrocities had been so fiendish that they could find no parallel even in the most barbarous annals of the most barbarous peoples."[9] The New York Times reported that during the 1903 Kishinev pogrom "babes were literally torn to pieces by the frenzied and bloodthirsty mob."[10]
A common theme in most contemporary atrocity stories was the brutal rape of Jewish women, with most reports including mention of breasts being hacked off. There are literally thousands of carbon-copy reports in which it is claimed that mothers were raped alongside their daughters. There is simply not enough space to cite extensively from these articles, but they number in their thousands and are available to anyone with access to the digitized archives of any major newspaper, or the microfilm facilities at major libraries. In addition, these articles claim that whole streets inhabited by Jews had been razed, and the Jewish quarters of towns had been systematically fired.
The 'atrocity' aspect of the narrative has continued to be advanced by Jewish historians. For example Anita Shapira, in her Stanford-published, Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948, claims that "each series of new riots was worse than the one preceding, as if every bloodbath provided a permit for an even worse massacre."[11] Shapira further hints that the murder of Jewish babies was common during the pogroms, stating that a common worry of Russian Jews was "Will they take pity on the small babies, who do not even know yet that they are Jews?"[12] She concludes one particular section on pogrom violence by stating, without referencing any evidence, that there were "numerous acts of rape," and that "many were massacred — men, women, and children. The cruelty that marked these killings added a special dimension to the feeling of terror and shock that spread in their wake."[13] Joseph Brandes, in his 2009 Immigrants to Freedom alleges, without citing evidence, that mobs "threw women and children out of the windows" of their homes, and that "heads were battered with hammers, nails were driven into bodies, eyes were gouged out … and petroleum was poured over the sick found hiding in cellars and they were burned to death."[14]
Another crucial element to the Jewish narrative is that Russia is barbaric, ignorant, and uncivilized compared to the Jewish citizens of the country. Russia is said to be lingering in the "medieval stage of development,"[15] and in comparison to the "ignorant and superstitious peasantry,"[16] Russia's Jews are presented as an outpost of Western civilization — they are urban, and "intellectual." The RJC publication argued that university quotas allowing 5% of the student body to be made up of Jews were insufficient for "an intellectual race." Astonishingly, it is claimed that "the root of the whole matter is racial arrogance,"[17] though this arrogance of course is said to emanate from the Russians.
The RJC charged the government with criminal sympathy, the local authorities generally with criminal inaction, and some of the troops with active participation. The situation, they argued, was simply so hopeless and the possibility of extermination was so great, that the only way out was for the civilized nations of the West to throw open their doors and let in these poor 'Hebrews'.
And to a great extent this is exactly what the churches, the politicians, and the media agreed to. This capitulation to manipulated conscience ushered in the greatest migration in Jewish history, with profound consequences for us all. But there was just one small problem — the vast majority of this narrative was a calculated, designed, and expertly promoted fraud, furthered by the willing participation of Russian-Jewish emigrants who wished to ease their own access to the West and obtain "relief money from Western Europe and America."[18]
The 'Atrocities'
Let us first turn our attention to the atrocity stories. Prior to any major reports of violence, the British public was already being primed to hate the Russian government and accept the Jewish narrative. John Doyle Klier points out that the Daily Telegraph was at that time Jewish-owned, and was particularly "severe" in its reports on Russian treatment of Jews prior to 1881.[19] In the pages of this publication, it was stated that "these Russian atrocities are only the beginning. … [T]he Russian officials themselves countenance these barbarities."[20] Around this time in Continental Europe, Prussian Rabbi Yizhak Rülf established himself as an "intermediary" between Eastern Jewry and the West, and, according to Klier, one of his specialities was the spreading of "sensationalized accounts of mass rape."[21]
Other major sources of pogrom atrocity stories were the New York Times, the London Times, and the Jewish World. It would be the Jewish World which furnished the majority of these tales, having sent a reporter "to visit areas that had suffered pogroms."[22] Most of the other papers simply reprinted what the Jewish World reporter sent them. The atrocity stories carried by these newspapers provoked global outrage. There were large-scale public protests against Russia in Paris, Brussels, London, Vienna, and even in Melbourne, Australia. However, "it was in the United States that public indignation reached its height." Historian Edward Judge states that the American public was spurred on by reports of "brutal beatings, multiple rapes, dismemberment of corpses, senseless slaughter, painful suffering and unbearable grief."[23]
However, as John Klier states, the reports of the Jewish World's "Special Correspondent," "raise intriguing problems for the historian."[24] While his itinerary of travel is described as "plausible," most of his accounts are "flatly contradicted by the archival record."[25] His claim that twenty rioters were killed during a pogrom in Kishinev in 1881 has been proven to be a fabrication by records which show that in that city, at that time, "there were no significant pogroms and no fatalities."[26] Other claims that he witnessed shootings of peasants on his travels have been entirely discredited due to the vast number of minor inaccuracies in those accounts.
Furthermore, Klier states that the atrocity stories compiled by the Jewish World correspondent, which went on to be so influential in manipulating Western perceptions of the events, must be treated with "extreme caution."[27] The reporter "portrayed the pogroms dramatically, as great in scale and inhuman in their brutality. He reported numerous accounts where Jews were burned alive in their homes while the authorities looked on."[28] There are hundreds of instances where he references the murder of children, the mutilation of women, and the biting off of fingers.
Klier states that "the author's most influential accounts, given their effect on world opinion, were his accounts of the rape and torture of girls as young as ten or twelve."[29] In 1881 he reported 25 rapes in Kiev, of which five were said to have resulted in fatalities, in Odessa he claimed 11, and in Elizavetgrad he claimed 30.[30] Rape featured prominently in the reports, not because rapes were common, but because rape "even more than murder and looting" was known to "generate particular outrage abroad." Klier states that "Jewish intermediaries who were channelling pogrom reports abroad were well aware of the impact of reports of rape, and it featured prominently in their accounts."[31] The two most dramatic and gruesome accounts came from Berezovka and Borispol. In fact, as the year neared its end, the reports became more and more gruesome and brutal in the details they conveyed.
There is, of course, a reason for this. As the non-Jewish public began to tire of the reports and switched their minds to the coming Christmas festivities, Klier states that records show the RJC made a conscious and calculated decision to "keep Russian Jewry before the eyes of the public."[32] A key component of this strategy was to take the accounts of the Special Correspondent and publish them in a more widely circulated and respected newspaper. They settled on the London Times, which was already predisposed to "critical editorial faulting of the Russian government." Klier further states that these evidently false reports "garnished with the prestige of The Times and devoid of any attribution, subsequently published as a separate pamphlet, and translated into a variety of European languages … became the definitive Western version of the pogroms."[33]
As increasingly lurid atrocity tales again captured the attention of the Gentile public, the British Government found itself under pressure to intervene. The British Government, however, adopted a more cautious approach and undertook its own independent investigations into events in the Russian Empire. Its findings, published as a "Blue Book," "presented an account of events at great variance with that offered by The Times."[34] The most notable aspect of the independent inquiry is the outright denial of mass rape. In January 1882, Consul-General Stanley objected to all of the details contained within reports published by The Times, mentioning in particular the unfounded "accounts of the violation of women."[35] He further stated that his own investigations revealed that there had been no incidences of rape during the Berezovka pogrom, that violence was rare, and that much of the disturbance was restricted to property damage. In relation to property damage in Odessa, Stanley estimated it to be around 20,000 rubles, and rejected outright the Jewish claim that damage amounted to over one million rubles.
Vice-Consul Law, another independent investigator, reported that he had visited Kiev and Odessa, and could only conclude that "I should be disinclined to believe in any stories of women having been outraged in those towns."[36] Another investigator, Colonel Francis Maude, visited Warsaw and said that he could "not attach any importance" to atrocity reports emanating from that city.[37] At Elizavetgrad, instead of whole streets being razed to the ground, it was discovered that a small hut had lost its roof. It was further discovered that very few Jews, if any, had been intentionally killed, though some died of injuries received in the riots. These were mainly the result of conflicts between groups of Jews who defended their taverns and rioters seeking alcohol. The small number of Jews who had been intentionally killed had fallen victim to unstable individuals who had been drunk on Jewish liquor — accusations of murderous intent among the masses were simply unfounded and unsubstantiated by the evidence.
When these reports were made public, states Klier, they represented "a serious setback for the protest and aid activities of the RJC."[38] The Times was forced to backtrack, but responded spitefully (and bizarrely) by stating that the indignation of the country was still justified even if the atrocities were "the creations of popular fancy."[39] (Reminiscent of the JewishGen response to Ukrainian discoveries mentioned in Part 1 of this series?!)
The revelations came at a bad time for the RJC, which was at that time attempting to move the British Government to "act in some way on behalf of persecuted Russian Jewry."[40] It resorted to republishing (in the Times) its pamphlet on persecution in Russia twice in one month, presumably in the belief that blunt repetition would suffice to overcome tangible evidence. Klier states that the pieces were examples of "masterful" propaganda, as they attempted to undermine the credibility of the Government consuls, while sycophantically appealing to "the wise and noble people of England," who "will know what weight should be attached to such denials and refutations."[41] The RJC offered its own "corroborative evidence of the most undeniable kind," though of course the exact source of this evidence was not specified beyond "persons occupying high official positions in the Jewish community" and "Jewish refugees."
In essence, the people of western nations were being asked to trust an anonymous Rabbi on the other side of the world rather than identifiable representatives of their own government. The pieces, states Klier, "painted the familiar picture of murder and rape," and despite the debunking statements of the consuls, "a number of mother/daughter rapes, which had already done so much to outrage British public opinion, were again repeated."[42] Although the move for British government intervention failed, in the battle for public opinion "the RJC clearly won the day," and the Times and the RJC remained good bedfellows.
The Consuls were outraged. Stanley reiterated the fact that his intensive investigations, which he carried out at great personal cost with a serious leg injury, illustrated that "The Times' accounts of what took place at each of those places contains the greatest exaggerations, and that the account of what took place at some of those places is absolutely untrue."[43] He related the fact that a Rabbi in Odessa had "not heard of any outrages on women there," and that the object of almost every pogrom he had investigated was simple "plunder."[44] Enraged by the lies circulating in Britain and America, Stanley "went right to the top," interviewing state rabbis and asking for evidence and touring pogrom sites. In Odessa, where a wealth of atrocity stories had originated, he was able to confirm "one death, but no looting of synagogues or victims set alight." There was no evidence that a single rape had taken place. One state Rabbi admitted that he had not heard of any outrages of women in Berezovka and further assured Stanley that he "could with a clear conscience positively deny that any deaths or any violations had occurred there during the disturbances of last year."[45] He again sent this report to his superior in London, with a note saying "This is in accordance with all the information I have received and forwarded to your Lordship, and which I think more credible than anonymous letters in The Times."[46]
Despite Stanley's best efforts the Jewish narrative advanced by the RJC, imbued with atrocity tales, has remained unalterably attached in Western perceptions of the pogroms. The Blue Book was smothered by the more visible, and oft-repeated, tales of the RJC and organisations like it around the globe. Only with the decade-long research of John Klier has some revision of this narrative, grounded in scholarship and archival evidence, been possible. In light of this evidence, one can only conclude that stories of rape, murder and mutilation were "more legendary than factual."[47] However, the task remains to further dismantle and analyse other aspects of the Jewish narrative, and to seek the true motives behind its creation.
[1] http://archive.org/stream/persecutionofjew00russ
[2] Max Beloff, The Intellectual in Politics: And other essays, (London: Taylor and Francis, 1970) p.135
[3] The Persecution of the Jews in Russia, (London: Russo-Jewish Committee, 1899), p.3.
[4] Ibid, p.4
[5] The Persecution of the Jews in Russia, (London: Russo-Jewish Committee, 1899), p.5
[7] Ibid, p.36
[8] Ibid, p.38.
[9] Anthony Heywood, The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2005) p.266.
[10] "Jewish Massacre Denounced," New York Times, April 28, 1903, p.6
[11] Anita Shapira, Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), p.35
[12] Ibid, p.34.
[14] Joseph Brandes, Immigrants to Freedom, (New York: Xlibris, 2009) p.171
[15] The Persecution of the Jews in Russia, (London: Russo-Jewish Committee, 1899), p.4
[16] The Persecution of the Jews in Russia, (London: Russo-Jewish Committee, 1899), p.30
[18] Albert Lindemann, Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) p.291.
[19] John Doyle Klier, Russians, Jews and the Pogroms of 1881-82, p.399
[22] Ibid, p.400
[23] Edward Judge, Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom (New York: New York University Press, 1993) p.89.
[26] Ibid
[31] Ibid, p.12
[34] Ibid, p.405. (Correspondence Respecting the Treatment of Jews in Russia, Nos. 1 and 2, 1882, 1883)
[38] Ibid, p.405.
[43] John Doyle Klier, Russians, Jews and the Pogroms of 1881-82, p.407.
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Diagnostic Medical Systems SA (DGM) - Medical Equipment - Deals and Alliances Profile
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Jolt Capital and Ambrosia Investments Acquire 42.94% Stake in Alpha Mos from Diagnostic Medical Systems 11
Equity Offering 12
Diagnostic Medical Systems to Raise Funds in Public Offering of Shares 12
Diagnostic Medical Systems Raises USD2.5 Million in Private Placement of Shares 13
Diagnostic Medical Systems Raises USD10.4 Million in Public Offering of Shares 14
Alpha MOS Raises Additional USD1.25 Million in Private Placement of Shares 15
Diagnostic Medical Systems Acquires STEMCIS 16
Diagnostic Medical Systems Acquires AXS Medical 17
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Having fished on a Berkshire pit on and off for three years I had one remaining member of the A-team left to catch, the big one known as the Brute.
I felt that the Brute was more likely to trip up to a bottom bait and was using a new rig, which is very similar to one that I saw Adam Penning write about a few months back and had already had two good mirrors using it on the first two trips.
The bait is mounted on a soft hair made from 18lb Gravel Super Natural and trapped on the bend of a size-8 Choddy hook with a small length of silicone. I tie this to a two-inch length of 25lb Mouth Trap, which is then joined to a six-inch length of coated braid. Lastly, the Mouth Trap is gently curved.
I found the Brute along with three other fish in the bay enjoying the Autumn sun and spent all afternoon up and down a tree waiting patiently to cast in.
I'd tied one of the rigs, helicopter style onto five feet of leadcore with a 2oz lead to cut down on disturbance.
My chance came when they drifted out of the bay and casting the marker float long to the far side of the bay I wound it back to the middle and let it drop. A good thud was felt. I then drew it back over the sandy area that I knew was there and popped the float up at the smoothest point.
A single cast with a three-bait parachute stringer was good enough as it landed behind the float and a nice 'dink' was felt as the lead hit bottom. Fifteen baits completed the trap.
The take came just before 8am and was a ripper. I was on it straight away it took 40 yards off me straight away before I could tighten the clutch. The fight was all out in the lake and when, about five minutes in, I got it in close, up she popped and that huge scale on its flank identified that my quest was nearly over. She carried on wallowing to the net and a "Yeeeessss!!" echoed over the noise of the motorway, followed by the 'Brute' shout once I was 100 per cent certain.
At a personal best 48lb 2oz, she looked immaculate and a couple of hours later, after making tea for the lads, I closed the gate on that chapter of my angling. Job done! | {
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Q: How do I find the path of a file on another computer on my network? I would like to access files from another computer on the same network in the Terminal. But I am not sure of the path to those files. How do I find it?
A: It would depend on how you want to access the file. Here's what I do:
*
*Initiate the connection to the remote computer (I do it via Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server [or Command+K]) but you can also do via terminal using the mount command
*Connect to the shared folder/volume available to your user
*When connecting to those in Terminal, you would now use the path /Volumes/[name of folder]/[rest_of_path_here] to access them.
For example, if you connected to a folder called Stuff with a subfolder called Things, and ultimately file jackpot.txt on ip 10.10.1.5, first connect via smb to the server (10.10.1.5), choose the folder Stuff, and then reference that path in Terminal as /Volumes/Stuff/Things/jackpot.txt
EDIT: You can also run a Find command (Command + F) inside of Finder while you are connected to the share if you still don't know where the file is. Do the following:
*
*Open Finder, connect to the server/volume (Steps 1+2 above)
*Run Command+F to Find, enter your search term
*Above the Finder section where files display, switch the search to "Shared" - this will run the search against connected volumes
*Locate the file you want, and then drag+drop it into an open Terminal window
*The path will be shown in Terminal
A: In addition to drag and drop, you can right click on any Finder window, select "Customize Toolbar," and add the "Path" drop-down button.
It won't show a path you can copy-paste like in Windows, but it will give a better idea of the path to a folder you're in.
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If you are looking for a relaxing screensaver or video for your TV and computer screens; this is a great choice. The setting is a simple English stream. The camera is focused in on the mini waterfall and the grass at the edges is allowed to go out of focus. This creates a simple but effective background video which has an artistic effect because we used our aperture setting to alter the depth of field view.
The sound is simply the water trickling down the rocks and along the stream. Sometimes the best things in life are the most simple ones. This download is a great way to de-stress. The 20 minute MP4 video can be set to loop on media players or SMART TVs, and the self looping screensaver comes in both Windows and Mac versions. The footage is full HD so the video can be played on even a large HDTV or SMART TV.
The Lake District in England is one of the most beautiful places in the country and a must see if you ever visit. I have been lucky enough to take a few trips there in my life and this time I was there on a day trip with some friends. I brought my camera with me on a lovely walk and had the opportunity to take a couple of videos of some quaint little streams running through the hills.
We started out at a lovely little pub called The Pheasant in Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth. After a good hearty meal we decided to take a walk through the hills and came across a great little spot leading down to the lake. My friends went ahead whilst I stayed behind to film a little brook that we passed along the way. I really loved this spot as I knew I would not be disturbed thanks to the remote and quiet location. It was a warm summers day with a touch of scattered cloud and all the insects were buzzing around the water, a perfect place for a relaxing screensaver. It felt completely idyllic and I settled down along the lush grassy banks with my Canon 5D Mark III.
I really wanted to do something different with this video and spotted a few small falls where the water was tricking over the rocks. A small aperture seemed wrong for this setting as the focus was most certainly these lovely little water falls on the stream. I knew I really wanted to open up the iris so I pulled out my 100mm macro, a perfect lens for sharp detail and a shallow depth of field. I wanted the grass to feel dreamy whilst at the same time capture the crisp clarity in the water and rocks.
I lay down perching the camera within the grass and pulled focus onto my perfect spot. It looked just like I imagined, perhaps even better and the sound of the water was Zen like. I honed in my settings and began to film. As I lay there in the sun in this blissful setting, the light faded in and out as the clouds passed over. I almost fell asleep I was so relaxed and as I packed up my things and walked briskly down the stream, I felt at one and in harmony with nature. | {
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As a homeowner, you'll sometimes want lots of air and a place to lean on while watching the sunset. Other times, you'll want to keep the wind at bay and your neighbors' eyes away.
Regardless of your needs, the Infinity from Marvin's ultrex fiberglass tilt turn and hopper windows are the solution. Designed for multiple scenarios, they are some of the most practical, flexible and ingenious devices your house must have.
It can be swung like a door, or its top of the sash can be tilted into the room for ventilation under the control of one handle. The Tilt Turn is perfect as an emergency exit access and ensures easy cleaning, while the Tilt-In Hopper by Marvin completes the package by offering additional air and light.
We provide variation to our Tilt and Turn products. You can pick what best suits your needs by visiting our Amazing Exteriors office. Each window is customized to your exact specifications.
The Tilt Turn opens like a door when you turn the handle. Turn it some more to tilt the top in and allow generous air exchange by locking the bottom sash into the frame. The Standard Tilt Turn with Keyed locks brings a bonus by allowing stationary unit security along with in-swing convenience.
The Simulated Double Hung, having the Tilt Turn function incorporated, will provide a more traditional look. However, if you strive for an extra ounce of elegance, add a Round Top Tilt Turn to your windows mix.
No matter what your main choices are, you just have to add a Hopper window in the equation. The Tilt-in Hopper can successfully be used as a ventilating transom. If you have a big space intended for large openings and the traditional double hung windows are not practical, opt for the Clad Simulated Double Hung Hopper.
You won't be short of natural light and fresh air. Last but not least, we present to you the Inswing Hopper. It can be used as a unique solution on its own or as part of a creative series, although most of our clients preferred it as a venting transom over one of their doors.
Multiple design possibilities are open for all of the above products. So, pick between bronze, white, satin chrome, and brass for your Tilt Turn Handle. On the other hand, choose between bronze and white for your Keyed Handle.
However, if you want to add some extra personality to your project you should direct your attention to the designer handles provided by the Marvin Architectural Hardware. Even those come in diversity as you can get either one of the four finishes: Solid Dark Silicon, Natural Nickel, Charcoal Black Nickel or, Light Antique Nickel.
At Amazing Exteriors, we provide a range of glazing options so that our windows can meet the performance challenges of any climate. We ensure that you make the optimal and cost-saving energy-efficiency choice by ordering your Tilt Turn & Hopper Windows with argon insulating glass from our office.
With this type of glass on your windows, the amount of UV rays that get into your room will decrease significantly. This factor will ensure the temperature in your home will arrive faster at an optimal value. And that level will be maintained for a longer period thanks to the mix between Infinity by Marvin's Ultrex Fiberglass and our new and improved argon insulating glass.
Don't be too surprised to notice more color in your house. Those pesky UV rays were fading away the coloring in your furniture. By opting for a Low-E glass, you simply protect your health and the beauty of your belongings.
Extremely common in the continental Europe, the tilt and turn windows have made their way to the United States of America. They are practical and easy to clean. They are the ultimate in versatility as the special hardware allows you to easily operate them as a top-venting hopper window or an inswing casement.
Enjoy an increase in air circulation with the Infinity Tilt Turn & Hopper Windows by Marvin. Your home will have a nice and cool interior thanks to windows such as the transom types. They can safely be left open throughout the night to let in the cooler evening air.
The durability of the Ultrex Fiberglass transmits its qualities to the final product. Therefore, your new Tilt Turn & Hopper Windows will be strong, stable, low-maintenance and efficient.
They are sure to outperform other similar products such as those of the Andersen company in virtually every measurable category. Other windows might bend or break over time, Integrity windows by Marvin will perform under great stress without showing wear.
The Tilt Turn & Hopper Windows do more than "shed light". They bring in cool breezes and let hot air out. Ample fresh air can pass into the room when the window is opened like a casement.
The tilt function comes handy as a precaution against small children falling through the window or against intruders willing to enter the room. One cannot climb out the window and fit through the small opening, but the ventilation function is entirely preserved.
Due to its many benefices and its versatility, this type of window can be used for almost any room in a house or apartment.If you have a window project in mind, Amazing Exteriors of can help you design the perfect windows to help meet and exceed all your design requirements. For more information on how we can contribute to improving your home, visit our office or schedule a no obligation in-home appointment.
If you have a window project in mind, Amazing Exteriors of can help you design the perfect windows to help meet and exceed all your design requirements. For more information on how we can contribute to improving your home, visit our office. | {
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Costa Rica News – Three San Jose markets are preparing for a great change.
They will, over some time, become an attractive tourist loop. The circuit for visitors to travel will connect the Borbón, Central and Coca Cola markets.
The idea to refurbish them is part of an ITCR project called Strengthening Territorial Urban Public Management.
Each will be transformed, all the while respecting their history and culture and making sure they don't end up looking like malls.
They will attract tourists as cultural epicenters where one can eat a local meal and take a part of the country home.
Borbón will get a central lobby and an elevator so as to get more people to the infrequently used second floor. The corridors will be made more accessible and surfaces made uniform. At Coca Cola, the work will be done on the building and the mobility around it.
The Central Market's updates are still unknown, as there is no budget yet. | {
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Dr. Vivek Kesharwani is a Consultant Homeopathic Doctor who is practicing since several years in Allahabad (Prayagraj), India at his clinic Dr. Kesharwani's Holistic Homoeo Clinic (An ISO:9001:2015 Certified Organisation). Patients consulting him from all over India. He is not only kind and polite doctor but he is doing lot of public services.
Awarded as Best Homeopath in Allahabad (Prayagraj) In Event "India's Most Prominent Health Awards 2018" and the award is presented by Mr.Mohammad Azharuddin (Indian Crickter)..
Homoeopathy is a natural form of treatment. Homeopathy helps in stimulating body's own immune system to fight disease & thus minimize the chances of recurrence & offers long lasting relief. Western medicine still does not have measures for many chronic diseases which can be treated effectively by homoeopathy. Even in many conditions that have been termed acute, 'Homoeopathy' has proved to be effective.
Increasing usage of Automobiles these days, has given rise to pollution levels. This leads to an increase in people suffering from Bronchitis & Asthama. Infants & children are also seen having allergies due to dust, climate change etc. These patients if treated with Homoeopathy increase their own resistance, to face exposure to the known allergens. Dr. Kesharwani's Holistic Homoeo Clinic (An ISO:9001:2015 Certified Organisation) specializes in treating Asthama, Bronchitis & Children related ailments.
Homoeopathy is becoming popular among the masses. In situations of surgery or emergency, there is no alternative to Allopathy. But post surgery homoeopathic medicine speeds up the healing process.
Homoeopathic treatment has proved to be effective even on problems like Corns and warts. Usually Corns are removed surgically, but are known to recur. They are best treated permanently with Homoeopathic medicines. Similarly, many skin conditions like allergies, eczema, psoriasis, dandruff, hair fall, acne have shown excellent results with Homoeopathic medicines.
Providing Holistic Homoeopathic Treatment Skin Diseases, Allergies, Renal Calculi, Breast Tumour, Sinusitis, Joint Pains (Arthritis, Gout), Uterine Fibroids, Male Sexual Problem, Colitis, Migraine, Spondylitis, Headaches, Female Sexual Problem. | {
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Driving distance between Pinesdale, MT and Cameron, MT is 248.76 miles (or 400.35 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Pinesdale, MT you would reach Cameron, MT in about 3 hours 56 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.
This is a map overview of the best driving route from Pinesdale, MT to Cameron, MT in which you can see the origin and destination points marked with A (Pinesdale) and B (Cameron) respectively as well as blue line along the road route you can take. You can zoom in to see more details, including road numbers and even street names both in Pinesdale, MT and Cameron, MT as well as every other town you may pass by on your way.
To cover the 248.76 mi that separate Cameron from Pinesdale you are going to need between of fuel, considering you drive an average car (30 mpg) and , if you drive an SUV or a heavy car (20 mpg). If you drive a fuel efficient car (45 mpg), your consumption will only be .
Depending on the fuel efficiency level of your car, driving from Pinesdale to Cameron will cost you between and . An average car would make the trip for . We calculate the route cost using real time average gas prices for the US and other costs such as tolls are not included in this calculation.
To help you plan your trip from Pinesdale to Cameron, we offer a detailed map together with full, turn by turn, driving directions from Pinesdale, MT to Cameron, MT.
The flying distance represent the straight distance from Pinesdale to Cameron, the length of an hypothetical flight trip between the geographic center of Pinesdale, MT and the geographic center of Cameron, MT. We also offer nearby airports to both Pinesdale to Cameron and a flight ticket price comparison form, in case you want to make that hypothetical flight real :). | {
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Bloomfield over North Bergen - Wrestling - NJSIAA N1G5 1st round
Updated: Feb. 10, 2020, 11:50 p.m. | Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 10:27 p.m.
For NJ Advance Media
By Ryan Patti | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Fourth-seeded Bloomfield defeated fifth-seeded North Bergen 48-28 in Bloomfield in the quarterfinal round of the NJSIAA/Rothman Orthopaedics North Jersey, Section 1, Group 5 Wrestling Tournament.
Bloomfield (22-5) will take on the winner of top-seeded Passaic Tech and eighth-seeded Passaic in the semifinal round on Wednesday. | {
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505, boul Arthur Sauvé, Saint-Eustache, QC, J7P 4X4, Canada
505, boul Arthur Sauvé, Saint-Eustache, QC, Canada, J7P 4X4
Gaby Style et Passion
1255, boul. de Périgny, Place Chambly, Chambly, QC, J3L 1W7 , Canada
1255, boul. de Périgny,
Place Chambly, Chambly, QC, Canada, J3L 1W7
La Douce Pensée
520, boul. Arthur-Sauvé, Hôpital de Saint-Eustache, Saint-Eustache, QC, J7R 5B1, Canada
Hôpital de Saint-Eustache, Saint-Eustache, QC, Canada, J7R 5B1
459, boul. Saint-Luc, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, J2W 1E7, Canada
459, boul. Saint-Luc, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, J2W 1E7
290, boul. Saint-Luc, Local 28, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, J2W 2A3, Canada
290, boul. Saint-Luc,
Local 28, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, J2W 2A3
Bijouterie Renaissance
814, boul. de l'Ange-Gardien, L'Assomption, QC, J5W 1P6, Canada
814, boul. de l'Ange-Gardien, L'Assomption, QC, Canada, J5W 1P6
G. D'Aoust et Cie
73, rue Sainte-Anne, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, H9X 1L9, Canada
73, rue Sainte-Anne, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada, H9X 1L9
145, boul. Saint-Joseph, Local 96, Halles Saint-Jean, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, J3B 1W5, Canada
145, boul. Saint-Joseph,
Local 96, Halles Saint-Jean, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, J3B 1W5
Boutique L'Antilope
934, rue Monseigneur-De Laval, Beloeil, QC, J3G 4E7, Canada
934, rue Monseigneur-De Laval, Beloeil, QC, Canada, J3G 4E7
Mers & Monde – Boutique Mode Voyage
418, boul. Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC, J3H 3N9, Canada
418, boul. Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC, Canada, J3H 3N9
Pensée Pour Vous
286, avenue Saint-Charles, Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC, J7V 2L8, Canada
286, avenue Saint-Charles, Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC, Canada, J7V 2L8
Boutique Amandine Joliette
21, place Bourget Nord, Joliette, QC, J6E 5E3, Canada
21, place Bourget Nord, Joliette, QC, Canada, J6E 5E3
Simplement Célyne
51, rue Grande-Île, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC, J6S 3L9, Canada
51, rue Grande-Île, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC, Canada, J6S 3L9
Boutique Amandine
1305, rue des Cascades, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, J2S 3H3, Canada
1305, rue des Cascades, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada, J2S 3H3
Fleurs du Village
61, route 338, Les Coteaux, QC, J7X 1A2, Canada
61, route 338, Les Coteaux, QC, Canada, J7X 1A2
Le Marché Vert
75, avenue de la Gare, Bloc K-1, Les Galeries des Monts, Saint-Sauveur, QC, J0R 1R6, Canada
75, avenue de la Gare,
Bloc K-1, Les Galeries des Monts, Saint-Sauveur, QC, Canada, J0R 1R6
Les Choix de Mimi
260, rue Principale, Saint-Sauveur, QC, J0R 1R0, Canada
260, rue Principale, Saint-Sauveur, QC, Canada, J0R 1R0
2347, rue de L'Église , Val-David, QC, J0T 2N0, Canada
2347, rue de L'Église , Val-David, QC, Canada, J0T 2N0
L'Échoppe de la Montagne
725, rue Shefford, Bromont, QC, J2L 1C2, Canada
725, rue Shefford, Bromont, QC, Canada, J2L 1C2
Vert Partout
19, rue Principale Nord, Sutton, QC, J0E 2K0, Canada
19, rue Principale Nord, Sutton, QC, Canada, J0E 2K0
Rien ne se perd tout se crée
91, rue Principale, Saint-Sévère, QC, G0X 3B0, Canada
91, rue Principale, Saint-Sévère, QC, Canada, G0X 3B0
814-2, rue de Saint-Jovite, Mont-Tremblant, QC, J8E 3J8, Canada
814-2, rue de Saint-Jovite, Mont-Tremblant, QC, Canada, J8E 3J8
La Grange des Artisans
284, rue Lindsay, Drummondville, QC, J2B 1G3, Canada
284, rue Lindsay, Drummondville, QC, Canada, J2B 1G3
Fleuriste Savard
1833 Boulevard Louis Fréchette, Nicolet, QC, J3T 1M4, Canada
1833 Boulevard Louis Fréchette, Nicolet, QC, Canada, J3T 1M4
Bijouterie La Perle Rare
3905, rue Bellefeuille, Trois-Rivières, QC, G9A 6K8, Canada
3905, rue Bellefeuille, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada, G9A 6K8
Boutique Cinq Continents
1468, rue Notre-Dame Centre, Trois-Rivières, QC, G9A 4X5, Canada
1468, rue Notre-Dame Centre, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada, G9A 4X5
300, rue Barkoff, Les Galeries du Cap, Trois-Rivières, QC, G8T 2A3, Canada
300, rue Barkoff,
Les Galeries du Cap, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada, G8T 2A3
Bijouterie PierLyn
107, rue Galipeau, Thurso, QC, J0X 3B0, Canada
107, rue Galipeau, Thurso, QC, Canada, J0X 3B0
Belle et Rebelle Sherbrooke
90 rue Wellington Nord, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5B8, Canada
90 rue Wellington Nord, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, J1H 5B8
Atours du Monde
87, rue Notre-Dame Est, Victoriaville, QC, G6P 3Z8, Canada
87, rue Notre-Dame Est, Victoriaville, QC, Canada, G6P 3Z8
Shepherd's Fashions
145 Trainyards Drive, Unit 4, Ottawa, ON, K1G 3X8, Canada
145 Trainyards Drive,
Unit 4, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1G 3X8
Magpie Jewellery
799 Bank Street, Glebe store, Ottawa, ON, K1S 3V7, Canada
799 Bank Street,
Glebe store, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 3V7
50 Rideau Street, Unit 220B, CF Rideau Centre, 2nd Floor, Ottawa, ON, K1N 9J7, Canada
50 Rideau Street,
Unit 220B, CF Rideau Centre, 2nd Floor, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 9J7
Boutique Moi
355, boul. Gréber, Gatineau, QC, J8T 6H8, Canada
355, boul. Gréber, Gatineau, QC, Canada, J8T 6H8
National Gallery of Canada Boutique
10 Lady Grey Drive South End, Ottawa, ON, K1N 9N4, Canada
10 Lady Grey Drive South End, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 9N4
Musée Canadien de l'histoire
100, rue Laurier, Gatineau, QC, K1A 0M8, Canada
100, rue Laurier, Gatineau, QC, Canada, K1A 0M8
Boutique Le Local
144, rue Eddy, Gatineau, QC, J8X 2W8, Canada
144, rue Eddy, Gatineau, QC, Canada, J8X 2W8
Clothes by Muriel Dombret
1258 Wellington Street West, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 3A5, Canada
1258 Wellington Street West, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1Y 3A5
430 Richmond Road, Westboro store, Ottawa, ON, K2A 0G2, Canada
430 Richmond Road,
Westboro store, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K2A 0G2
La Nomade
103, rue Principale, Gatineau, QC, J9H 3L9, Canada
103, rue Principale, Gatineau, QC, Canada, J9H 3L9
Bijouterie Signe B
220, rue du Collège, Suite 102, Pont-Rouge, QC, G3H 0C6, Canada
220, rue du Collège,
Suite 102, Pont-Rouge, QC, Canada, G3H 0C6
A. Setlakwe
600, avenue Champlain, Disraeli, QC, G0N 1E3, Canada
600, avenue Champlain, Disraeli, QC, Canada, G0N 1E3
188, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Thetford Mines, QC, G6G 1J6, Canada
188, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Thetford Mines, QC, Canada, G6G 1J6
Groupe Jacobus
2700 Boulevard Laurier, 2e niveau, Place Laurier, A/s de Diane Lacasse, Québec, QC, G1V 2L8, Canada
2700 Boulevard Laurier,
2e niveau, Place Laurier, A/s de Diane Lacasse, Québec, QC, Canada, G1V 2L8
Musselli
1329B, avenue Maguire, Québec, QC, G1T 1Z2, Canada
1329B, avenue Maguire, Québec, QC, Canada, G1T 1Z2
Accessoires Mode Elle & Lui
8500, boul. Henri-Bourassa, Carrefour Charlesbourg, Québec, QC, G1G 5X1, Canada
8500, boul. Henri-Bourassa,
Carrefour Charlesbourg, Québec, QC, Canada, G1G 5X1
Boutique du Musée des beaux-arts du Québec
179, Grande Allée Ouest, Grand Hall, Québec, QC, G1R 2H1, Canada
179, Grande Allée Ouest,
Grand Hall, Québec, QC, Canada, G1R 2H1
1191, avenue Cartier, A/s de Kathy Dion, Québec, QC, G1R 2S9, Canada
1191, avenue Cartier,
A/s de Kathy Dion, Québec, QC, Canada, G1R 2S9
Boutique Exil
714, rue Saint-Jean, Québec, QC, G1R 1P9, Canada
714, rue Saint-Jean, Québec, QC, Canada, G1R 1P9
La boutique Artisans Canada (Québec)
30, côte de la Fabrique, Québec, QC, G1R 3V7, Canada
30, côte de la Fabrique, Québec, QC, Canada, G1R 3V7
Boutique Fairmont (Le Château Frontenac)
1, rue des Carrières, Niveau du Grand Hall, Québec, QC, G1R 4P5, Canada
1, rue des Carrières,
Niveau du Grand Hall, Québec, QC, Canada, G1R 4P5
39, rue du Petit Champlain, Québec, QC, G1K 4H5, Canada
39, rue du Petit Champlain, Québec, QC, Canada, G1K 4H5
Atelier La Pomme
47, rue Sous-le-Fort, Québec, QC, G1K 4G9, Canada
47, rue Sous-le-Fort, Québec, QC, Canada, G1K 4G9
29, rue Notre-Dame, Place Royale, Québec, QC, G1K 4E9, Canada
Place Royale, Québec, QC, Canada, G1K 4E9
Boutique du Musée de la civilisation
85, rue Dalhousie, Québec, QC, G1K 4A5, Canada
85, rue Dalhousie, Québec, QC, Canada, G1K 4A5
Bijouterie du Vieux Fort
7777, boul. Guillaume-Couture, Local 29, Lévis, QC, G6V 6Z1, Canada
7777, boul. Guillaume-Couture,
Local 29, Lévis, QC, Canada, G6V 6Z1
Bittersweet Fine Craft and Art
5 Leckie Lane, P.O. Box 14, Burnstown, ON, K0J 1G0, Canada
5 Leckie Lane,
P.O. Box 14, Burnstown, ON, Canada, K0J 1G0
32 Dundas Street East, Napanee, ON, K7R 1H6, Canada
32 Dundas Street East, Napanee, ON, Canada, K7R 1H6
Massothérapie Manon Dufour
955 Boul. Auger Ouest, Alma, QC, G8B 2B9, Canada
955 Boul. Auger Ouest, Alma, QC, Canada, G8B 2B9
Le Moule à Sucre
248, avenue de Gaspé Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, QC, G0R 3G0, Canada
248, avenue de Gaspé Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, QC, Canada, G0R 3G0
Autour du Pot
42, rue Saint-Jean Baptiste, Baie-Saint-Paul, QC, G3Z 1L9, Canada
42, rue Saint-Jean Baptiste, Baie-Saint-Paul, QC, Canada, G3Z 1L9
Véronique Fortier Joaillière
341B, rue Racine Est, Chicoutimi, QC, G7H 1S8, Canada
341B, rue Racine Est, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada, G7H 1S8
Miss Priss
215 Front Street, Belleville, ON, K8N 2Z4, Canada
215 Front Street, Belleville, ON, Canada, K8N 2Z4
Boutique Indigène art et culture (Séguin)
40, rue du Quai, La Malbaie, QC, G5A 2Y1, Canada
40, rue du Quai, La Malbaie, QC, Canada, G5A 2Y1
Talk O' The Town
19555 Opeongo Line, Barry's Bay, ON, K0J 1B0, Canada
19555 Opeongo Line, Barry's Bay, ON, Canada, K0J 1B0
Zihua Boutique
22A Bridge Street West, Bancroft, ON, K0L 1C0, Canada
22A Bridge Street West, Bancroft, ON, Canada, K0L 1C0
Boutique Le Coquill'Art
356, rue Saint-Jean-Baptiste, L'Anse-Saint-Jean, QC, G0V 1J0, Canada
356, rue Saint-Jean-Baptiste, L'Anse-Saint-Jean, QC, Canada, G0V 1J0
The Clan Shoppe
47 Main Street, Brighton, ON, K0K 1H0, Canada
47 Main Street, Brighton, ON, Canada, K0K 1H0
Trentmendous
33 Main Street, Unit 3, Warkworth, ON, K0K 3K0, Canada
Unit 3, Warkworth, ON, Canada, K0K 3K0
Eclectic Mix
13 Main Street, Warkworth, ON, K0K 3K0, Canada
13 Main Street, Warkworth, ON, Canada, K0K 3K0
13 Main Street, P.O. Box 414, Warkworth, ON, K0K 3K0, Canada
P.O. Box 414, Warkworth, ON, Canada, K0K 3K0
Fragrances d'Alex
295, boul. Armand-Thériault, Rivière-du-loup, QC, G5R 5H3, Canada
295, boul. Armand-Thériault, Rivière-du-loup, QC, Canada, G5R 5H3
Boutique Nomade
382, rue Lafontaine, Rivière-du-Loup, QC, G5R 3B4, Canada
382, rue Lafontaine, Rivière-du-Loup, QC, Canada, G5R 3B4
Brittany N Bros
35 King Street West, Cobourg, ON, K9A 2M1, Canada
35 King Street West, Cobourg, ON, Canada, K9A 2M1
392 George Street North, Peterborough, ON, K9H 3R3, Canada
392 George Street North, Peterborough, ON, Canada, K9H 3R3
Bijouterie Baribeau
775, 3e Avenue, Val-d'Or, QC, J9P 1S8, Canada
775, 3e Avenue, Val-d'Or, QC, Canada, J9P 1S8
Esthétique Florilège
2366, rue Commerciale Sud, Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac, QC, G0L 1X0, Canada
2366, rue Commerciale Sud, Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac, QC, Canada, G0L 1X0
The Kawartha Store
30 Colborne Street, Fenelon Falls, ON, K0M 1N0, Canada
30 Colborne Street, Fenelon Falls, ON, Canada, K0M 1N0
Oxtongue Craft Cabin & Gallery
1073 Fox Point Road, Dwight, ON, P0A 1H0, Canada
1073 Fox Point Road, Dwight, ON, Canada, P0A 1H0
241 Queen Street, Port Perry, ON, L9L 1B9, Canada
241 Queen Street, Port Perry, ON, Canada, L9L 1B9
Eclipse Art Gallery
1235 Deerhurst Drive, Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville, ON, P1H 2E8, Canada
1235 Deerhurst Drive,
Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville, ON, Canada, P1H 2E8
96, rue Saint-Germain Ouest, Rimouski, QC, G5L 4B5, Canada
96, rue Saint-Germain Ouest, Rimouski, QC, Canada, G5L 4B5
255 Boul Ste-Anne, Rimouski, QC, G5M 1E7, Canada
255 Boul Ste-Anne, Rimouski, QC, Canada, G5M 1E7
Optimus Jewellery & Watches
13 Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, L0S 1J0, Canada
13 Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Canada, L0S 1J0
33, route du Fleuve Ouest, Sainte-Luce, QC, G0K 1P0, Canada
33, route du Fleuve Ouest, Sainte-Luce, QC, Canada, G0K 1P0
Thompson Landry Gallery (Cooperage Space)
6 Trinity Street, Distillery District, Toronto, ON, M5A 3C4, Canada
6 Trinity Street,
Distillery District, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5A 3C4
223 Carlton Street, Toronto, ON, M5A 2L2, Canada
223 Carlton Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5A 2L2
Bijouterie Lingot D'Or
100, rue du Terminus Ouest, Promenade du Cuivre, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X 6H7, Canada
100, rue du Terminus Ouest,
Promenade du Cuivre, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada, J9X 6H7
Options For Her
163 Cumberland Street, Toronto, ON, M5R 1A2, Canada
163 Cumberland Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5R 1A2
Shop at Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, M5T 1G4, Canada
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5T 1G4
Freda's
86 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5V 2P5, Canada
86 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5V 2P5
494 Lawrence Avenue West, Marshalls Lawrence Square, Toronto, ON, M6A 1A1, Canada
494 Lawrence Avenue West,
Marshalls Lawrence Square, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6A 1A1
Petroff Gallery
1016 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON, M6C 2C5, Canada
1016 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6C 2C5
Made you Look Jewellery
1338 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON, M6K 1L4, Canada
1338 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6K 1L4
100 Fourth Avenue, Unit 25, Ridley Heights Plaza, Saint Catharines, ON, L2S 2J2, Canada
Unit 25, Ridley Heights Plaza, Saint Catharines, ON, Canada, L2S 2J2
Joni's Fine Clothing & Accessories
48 Ellen Street, Barrie, ON, L4N 3A4, Canada
48 Ellen Street, Barrie, ON, Canada, L4N 3A4
Haven's Clothing
4242 Dundas Street West, Kingsmill Shopping Centre, Etobicoke, ON, M8X 1Y6, Canada
4242 Dundas Street West,
Kingsmill Shopping Centre, Etobicoke, ON, Canada, M8X 1Y6
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg, ON, L0J 1C0, Canada
10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg, ON, Canada, L0J 1C0
Objects To Desire
1 Livingston Avenue, Grimsby, ON, L3M 1K4, Canada
1 Livingston Avenue, Grimsby, ON, Canada, L3M 1K4
The Shop For All Reasons
228 Queen Street South, Village of Streetville, Mississauga, ON, L5M 1L5, Canada
228 Queen Street South,
Village of Streetville, Mississauga, ON, Canada, L5M 1L5
147 Water Street, Saint Andrews, NB, E5B 1A7, Canada
147 Water Street, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada, E5B 1A7
Art Gallery of Burlington
1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON, L7S 1A9, Canada
1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON, Canada, L7S 1A9
Pippa & Prue
312 Dundas Street East, Unit 1, Waterdown, ON, L0R 2H0, Canada
312 Dundas Street East,
Unit 1, Waterdown, ON, Canada, L0R 2H0
Shop at Art Gallery of Hamilton
123 King Street West, Hamilton, ON, L8P 4S8, Canada
123 King Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8P 4S8
Dragonfly Arts on Broadway
189 Broadway Avenue, Orangeville, ON, L9W 1K2, Canada
189 Broadway Avenue, Orangeville, ON, Canada, L9W 1K2
Ladies Designer Fashions
10 Keith Avenue, Suite 205, Cranberry Mews Plaza, Collingwood, ON, L9Y 0W5, Canada
10 Keith Avenue,
Suite 205, Cranberry Mews Plaza, Collingwood, ON, Canada, L9Y 0W5
Pavlo Pottery Studio and Shoppe
776 Old Highway 8, Rockton, ON, L0R 1X0, Canada
776 Old Highway 8, Rockton, ON, Canada, L0R 1X0
Carrington & Co.
225 Woodstock Road, Fredericton, NB, E3B 2H8, Canada
225 Woodstock Road, Fredericton, NB, Canada, E3B 2H8
Urban Threadz
103 Church Street, Fredericton, NB, E3B 4C8, Canada
103 Church Street, Fredericton, NB, Canada, E3B 4C8
Women's International Gift & Gallery (YWCA)
55 Dickson Street, Cambridge, ON, N1R 7A5, Canada
55 Dickson Street, Cambridge, ON, Canada, N1R 7A5
Karger Gallery
14 East Mill Street, Elora, ON, N0B 1S0, Canada
14 East Mill Street, Elora, ON, Canada, N0B 1S0
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery Shop
25 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, ON, N2L 2Y5, Canada
25 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 2Y5
Xclusive Elements
7 Front Street, Saint Jacobs, ON, N0B 2N0, Canada
7 Front Street, Saint Jacobs, ON, Canada, N0B 2N0
The Butcher's Daughter
47 Charlotte Street, Saint John City Market, Saint John, NB, E2L 2H8, Canada
Saint John City Market, Saint John, NB, Canada, E2L 2H8
Boutique Zekara
47 Clark Road, Rothesay, NB, E2E 2K8, Canada
47 Clark Road, Rothesay, NB, Canada, E2E 2K8
Kisses Ladies Wear
247 Durham Street E, Walkerton, ON, N0G 2V0, Canada
247 Durham Street E, Walkerton, ON, Canada, N0G 2V0
The Touchmark Shop
137 Ontario Street, Stratford, ON, N5A 3H1, Canada
137 Ontario Street, Stratford, ON, Canada, N5A 3H1
Le Serpent à Plumes
756, boul. Perron, Carleton, QC, G0C 1J0, Canada
756, boul. Perron, Carleton, QC, Canada, G0C 1J0
The Flight of Fancy
1869 Clementsvale Road, Bear River, NS, B0S 1B0, Canada
1869 Clementsvale Road, Bear River, NS, Canada, B0S 1B0
MUSE (Museum London's Gift Shop)
421 Ridout Street North, London, ON, N6A 5H4, Canada
421 Ridout Street North, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5H4
Gifted at Applegate
49 South Sharpsville Avenue, Sharon, PA, 16146, USA
49 South Sharpsville Avenue, Sharon, PA, USA, 16146
Studio Style
215 Main Street, Port Stanley, ON, N5L 1C4, Canada
215 Main Street, Port Stanley, ON, Canada, N5L 1C4
Catherine & Company
173 Main Street, Bathurst, NB, E2A 1A6, Canada
173 Main Street, Bathurst, NB, Canada, E2A 1A6
The Urban Nest
3 Renaud Street, Miramichi, NB, E1V 6T2, Canada
3 Renaud Street, Miramichi, NB, Canada, E1V 6T2
Eccentricity Designs
135 E Main St, Carnegie , PA, 15106, USA
135 E Main St, Carnegie , PA, USA, 15106
The Cameleer
125 East Davis Street, Culpeper, VA, 22701, USA
125 East Davis Street, Culpeper, VA, USA, 22701
Judy's Art Gallery
17 Main Street, Suite A, Bayfield, ON, N0M 1G0, Canada
Suite A, Bayfield, ON, Canada, N0M 1G0
Objects Art and More
4462 Irvington Road, Irvington, VA, 22480, USA
4462 Irvington Road, Irvington, VA, USA, 22480
Sophia Boutique
7578 Fredle Drive, Painesville, OH, 44077, USA
7578 Fredle Drive, Painesville, OH, USA, 44077
Folies Féminines
431, avenue Brochu, Sept-Îles, QC, G4R 2W9, Canada
431, avenue Brochu, Sept-Îles, QC, Canada, G4R 2W9
Stile Fashion Accessories
801 Main street, Moncton , NB, E1C 1G1, Canada
801 Main street, Moncton , NB, Canada, E1C 1G1
Robert & Gabriel
5244 Mayfield Road, Lyndhurst, OH, 44124, USA
5244 Mayfield Road, Lyndhurst, OH, USA, 44124
Maddie & Sofia
250 Champlain Street, Unit 1B, Dieppe, NB, E1A 1P3, Canada
250 Champlain Street,
Unit 1B, Dieppe, NB, Canada, E1A 1P3
Boutique Jolie Eve
445, boul. Saint-Pierre Ouest, Place Saint-Pierre, Caraquet, NB, E1W 1B2, Canada
445, boul. Saint-Pierre Ouest,
Place Saint-Pierre, Caraquet, NB, Canada, E1W 1B2
Fine Points
126202 Larchmere Blvd, Cleveland, OH, 44120, USA
126202 Larchmere Blvd, Cleveland, OH, USA, 44120
Cleveland Museum of Art Store
11150 East Boulevard, Ames Family Atrium, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
11150 East Boulevard,
Ames Family Atrium, Cleveland, OH, USA, 44106
Lilieth Boutique
220 Main Street, Liverpool, NS, B0T 1K0, Canada
220 Main Street, Liverpool, NS, Canada, B0T 1K0
Evie Lou
2509 Professor Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44113, USA
2509 Professor Avenue, Cleveland, OH, USA, 44113
Don Drumm Studios & Gallery
437 Crouse Street, Akron, OH, 44311, USA
437 Crouse Street, Akron, OH, USA, 44311
Laura of Pembroke
3119 Whipple Avenue Northwest, Canton, OH, 44718, USA
3119 Whipple Avenue Northwest, Canton, OH, USA, 44718
Herbin Jewellers
453 Main Street, Wolfville, NS, B4P 1E3, Canada
453 Main Street, Wolfville, NS, Canada, B4P 1E3
Northern Sun Gallery & Gifts
8 Edgewater Street, Mahone Bay, NB, B0J 2E0, Canada
8 Edgewater Street, Mahone Bay, NB, Canada, B0J 2E0
Caico-Mae Clothiers
138 Montague Street, Lunenburg, NS, B0J 2C0, Canada
138 Montague Street, Lunenburg, NS, Canada, B0J 2C0
30 Church Women's Clothing
30 Church Street, Amherst , NS, B4H 3A7, Canada
30 Church Street, Amherst , NS, Canada, B4H 3A7
Lamia Lamia Salon and Day Spa
19653 Mack Avenue, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, 48236, USA
19653 Mack Avenue, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USA, 48236
3011 West Grand Blvd, Fisher Building, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA
3011 West Grand Blvd,
Fisher Building, Detroit, MI, USA, 48202
Studio Sandra
415 East 4th Street, Suite B, Royal Oak, MI, 48067, USA
415 East 4th Street,
Suite B, Royal Oak, MI, USA, 48067
Trinity Jewellers
6226 Quinpool Road, Halifax, NS, B3L 1A3, Canada
6226 Quinpool Road, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3L 1A3
FireWorks Gallery
1569 Barrington Street , Halifax, NS , B3J 1Z7, Canada
1569 Barrington Street , Halifax, NS , Canada, B3J 1Z7
Barbara Boz Boutique
205 East Maple Road, Birmingham, MI, 48009, USA
205 East Maple Road, Birmingham, MI, USA, 48009
Timeless & Twist
219 Highway 2, Unit 1, Enfield, NS, B2T 1C9, Canada
219 Highway 2,
Unit 1, Enfield, NS, Canada, B2T 1C9
Island Beach Company
1 Bell Boulevard Extension, Halifax Airport, Enfield, NS, B2T 1K2, Canada
1 Bell Boulevard Extension,
Halifax Airport, Enfield, NS, Canada, B2T 1K2
Wanda's Perfect Stitch
6449 Inkster Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 48301, USA
6449 Inkster Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA, 48301
Marta's Loft
115 South Saginaw Street, Holly, MI, 48442, USA
115 South Saginaw Street, Holly, MI, USA, 48442
Maynard's Fashions & Cosmetics
2123 South Linden Road, Flint, MI, 48532, USA
2123 South Linden Road, Flint, MI, USA, 48532
Details Past & Present
166 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, PE, C1A 1H9, Canada
166 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, C1A 1H9
ModeAlise
7227 North High Street, Suite 122, The Shops at Worthington Place, Worthington, OH, 43085, USA
7227 North High Street,
Suite 122, The Shops at Worthington Place, Worthington, OH, USA, 43085
Sherrie Gallery
694 North High Street, Columbus, OH, 43215, USA
694 North High Street, Columbus, OH, USA, 43215
129 East Main Street , Midland , MI, 48640, USA
129 East Main Street , Midland , MI, USA, 48640
Night Gallery - Branching Out
201 South Estes Drive, University Place, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA
201 South Estes Drive,
University Place, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 27514
Ameublement BrandSource du Havre
1280, rue de la Digue, Havre Saint-Pierre, QC, G0G 1P0, Canada
1280, rue de la Digue, Havre Saint-Pierre, QC, Canada, G0G 1P0
Mackerel Sky
211 M.A.C Avenue, East Lansing, MI, 48823, USA
211 M.A.C Avenue, East Lansing, MI, USA, 48823
Devils Lake View Living
200 Devils Lake Hwy, Manitou Beach, MI, 49253, USA
200 Devils Lake Hwy, Manitou Beach, MI, USA, 49253
Carolyn Todd's
1826 Pembroke Road, Greensboro, NC, 27408, USA
1826 Pembroke Road, Greensboro, NC, USA, 27408
Katalyst
1214 Turner Street, Lansing, MI, 48906, USA
1214 Turner Street, Lansing, MI, USA, 48906
139 State Street, Harbor Springs, MI, 49740, USA
139 State Street, Harbor Springs, MI, USA, 49740
The Plum Tree Gift Shoppe
225 Main Street, Antigonish, NS, B2G 2C1, Canada
225 Main Street, Antigonish, NS, Canada, B2G 2C1
Lavoie Designs Artwear
9076 Helena Road, Alden, MI, 49612, USA
9076 Helena Road, Alden, MI, USA, 49612
Juliaetta's Trunk
100 Corry Street, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, USA
100 Corry Street, Yellow Springs, OH, USA, 45387
Eve Avery Boutique
131 Northeast Broad Street, Southern Pines, NC, 28387, USA
131 Northeast Broad Street, Southern Pines, NC, USA, 28387
126 East Front St., Traverse City, MI, 49684, USA
126 East Front St., Traverse City, MI, USA, 49684
1121-G Military Cutoff Rd. , Wilmington, NC, 28405, USA
1121-G Military Cutoff Rd. , Wilmington, NC, USA, 28405
Monroe Hair Design
8720 Gull Road, Richland , MI, 49083, USA
8720 Gull Road, Richland , MI, USA, 49083
YT Galleria
966 Cherry Street Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI, 49506, USA
966 Cherry Street Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 49506
Eve's Leaves
1129 Main Street, Blowing Rock, NC, 28605, USA
1129 Main Street, Blowing Rock, NC, USA, 28605
Pomegranate & Lime
6804 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, OH, 45227, USA
6804 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, OH, USA, 45227
Cockerill Gallery
2700 Erie Avenue , Cincinnati , OH, 45208, USA
2700 Erie Avenue , Cincinnati , OH, USA, 45208
MiCA 12/v
1201 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, USA
1201 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 45202
Moving Spirits
429 River Street , Manistee, MI, 49660, USA
429 River Street , Manistee, MI, USA, 49660
Patchouli Accessories Boutique
503 Chebucto Street, Unit 5, Baddeck, NS, B0E 1B0, Canada
503 Chebucto Street,
Unit 5, Baddeck, NS, Canada, B0E 1B0
Judee's
1205 East University Drive, Granger, IN, 46530, USA
1205 East University Drive, Granger, IN, USA, 46530
Pawleys Island Wear
10880 Ocean Highway, The Hammock Shops Village , Pawleys Island, SC, 29585, USA
10880 Ocean Highway,
The Hammock Shops Village , Pawleys Island, SC, USA, 29585
Desirant
34 Broadway Street, Asheville, NC, 28801-2917, USA
34 Broadway Street, Asheville, NC, USA, 28801-2917
23 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC, 28801, USA
23 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC, USA, 28801
Scout Boutique
10 All Souls Crescent, Asheville, NC, 28803, USA
10 All Souls Crescent, Asheville, NC, USA, 28803
Classic Couture
109 E Rutherford St, Landrum, SC, 29356, USA
109 E Rutherford St, Landrum, SC, USA, 29356
Talloni, A Shoe Salon
43 Town Square Blvd, Suite 110, Biltmore Park Town Square, Asheville, NC, 28803, USA
43 Town Square Blvd,
Suite 110, Biltmore Park Town Square, Asheville, NC, USA, 28803
Banana Moon (Moon on Main)
329 North Main Street, Hendersonville, NC, 28792, USA
329 North Main Street, Hendersonville, NC, USA, 28792
Laura's Fine Clothing & Gifts
1502 West Sycamore Street, Kokomo, IN, 46901, USA
1502 West Sycamore Street, Kokomo, IN, USA , 46901
9341 Spring Road, Building A, Unit 10, Top of the Hill Shops, Fish Creek, WI, 54212, USA
9341 Spring Road,
Building A, Unit 10, Top of the Hill Shops, Fish Creek, WI, USA, 54212
Indianapolis Museum of Art Store
4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN, 46208, USA
4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 46208
Christopher Park Gallery
608 South Main Street, Suite A, Greenville, SC, 29601, USA
Suite A, Greenville, SC, USA, 29601
468 Main Street, Highlands, NC, 28741, USA
468 Main Street, Highlands, NC, USA, 28741
101 West Kirkwood Avenue , Suite 107, Bloomington, IN, 47404, USA
101 West Kirkwood Avenue ,
Suite 107, Bloomington, IN, USA, 47404
Northern Lights Gallery
423 Main Street, Racine, WI, 53403, USA
423 Main Street, Racine, WI, USA, 53403
1640 East 87th Street, Chicago, IL, 60617, USA
1640 East 87th Street, Chicago, IL, USA, 60617
Arts & Artisans
321 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60601, USA
321 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA, 60601
Mary Walter
33 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL, 60654, USA
33 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL, USA, 60654
35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, 60601, USA
35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, USA, 60601
720 South Michigan Avenue, Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, 60605, USA
720 South Michigan Avenue,
Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, USA, 60605
Accents Plus
601 Davis Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
601 Davis Street, Evanston, IL, USA, 60201
500 West Madison Street, Ogilvie Transportation Center, Chicago, IL, 60661, USA
500 West Madison Street,
Ogilvie Transportation Center, Chicago, IL, USA, 60661
Picardy Shoe Parlour
11035 North Port Washington Road, Mequon Pavilions Shopping Center, Mequon, WI, 53092, USA
11035 North Port Washington Road,
Mequon Pavilions Shopping Center, Mequon, WI, USA, 53092
Milwaukee Art Museum Store
700 North Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, USA
700 North Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 53202
1515 Sheridan Road, Suite 25, Plaza del Lago, Wilmette, IL, 60091, USA
1515 Sheridan Road,
Suite 25, Plaza del Lago, Wilmette, IL, USA, 60091
241 North Broadway, Suite 1B, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, USA
241 North Broadway,
Suite 1B, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 53202
4161 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60618, USA
4161 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA, 60618
DeBerge's
2008 63rd Street, Kenosha, WI, 53143, USA
2008 63rd Street, Kenosha, WI, USA, 53143
Hoypoloi Gallery
2140 Monroe Street, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
2140 Monroe Street, Chicago, IL, USA, 60612
Mattie M
990 Green Bay Road, Winnetka, IL, 60093, USA
990 Green Bay Road, Winnetka, IL, USA, 60093
1882 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL, 60035, USA
1882 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL, USA, 60035
Citywoods
651 Central Avenue, Highland Park, IL, 60035, USA
651 Central Avenue, Highland Park, IL, USA, 60035
The Villager Gift Shop
2007 Ridge road, Homewood, IL, 60430, USA
2007 Ridge road, Homewood, IL, USA, 60430
7532 West State Street, Wauwatosa, WI, 53213, USA
7532 West State Street, Wauwatosa, WI, USA, 53213
Team Blonde
7442 West Madison Street, Forest Park, IL, 60130, USA
7442 West Madison Street, Forest Park, IL, USA, 60130
Robin's Nest
16389 Main Street, N89, Menomonee Falls, WI, 53051, USA
16389 Main Street,
N89, Menomonee Falls, WI, USA, 53051
3626 Walton Way Ext. Suite 500, Augusta, GA, 30909, USA
3626 Walton Way Ext. Suite 500, Augusta, GA, USA, 30909
Chicago O'Hare International, Terminal 2, Concourse E, Gate E-3, Chicago, IL, 60666, USA
Chicago O'Hare International,
Terminal 2, Concourse E, Gate E-3, Chicago, IL, USA, 60666
Hinsdale Adventist Hospital Gift Shop
120 North Oak Street, Hinsdale, IL, 60521, USA
120 North Oak Street, Hinsdale, IL, USA, 60521
Old Sautee Store
2315 Highway 17, Sautee Nacoochee, GA, 30571, USA
2315 Highway 17, Sautee Nacoochee, GA, USA, 30571
Gia Haute & Home
45 South Washington Street, Hinsdale, IL, 60521, USA
45 South Washington Street, Hinsdale, IL, USA, 60521
Alexian Brothers Medical Center Gift Shop
800 Biesterfield Road, Elk Grove Village, IL, 60007, USA
800 Biesterfield Road, Elk Grove Village, IL, USA, 60007
Grace & Glory Uptown
1029 Boundary Street, Suite A, Beaufort, SC, 29902, USA
1029 Boundary Street,
Suite A, Beaufort, SC, USA, 29902
St. Alexius Medical Center Shop
1555 Barrington Road, Main entrance, Hoffman Estates, IL, 60169, USA
1555 Barrington Road,
Main entrance, Hoffman Estates, IL, USA, 60169
Willow Gift & Home
3500 Hulman Street, Terre Haute, IN, 47803, USA
3500 Hulman Street, Terre Haute, IN, USA, 47803
1600 Main Street, Hilton Head Island, SC, 29926, USA
1600 Main Street, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA, 29926
Evernia
219 West State Street, Geneva, IL, 60134, USA
219 West State Street, Geneva, IL, USA, 60134
Naked South Boutique
9924 Davis St #4, Braselton, GA, 30517, USA
9924 Davis St #4, Braselton, GA, USA, 30517
13 Secrets
426 East Oglethorpe Avenue, Savannah, GA, 31401, USA
426 East Oglethorpe Avenue, Savannah, GA, USA, 31401
Aurum Jewelry and Art
1051 Parkside Commons , Suite 101, Greensboro, GA, 30642, USA
1051 Parkside Commons ,
Suite 101, Greensboro, GA, USA, 30642
Wild Flower Boutique
2809 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 124, Evansville, IN, 47714, USA
2809 Lincoln Avenue,
Suite 124, Evansville, IN, USA, 47714
Potpourri of Sandy Springs
227 Sandy Springs Place Northeast, Suite 374, CityWalk Sandy Springs, Atlanta, GA, 30328, USA
227 Sandy Springs Place Northeast,
Suite 374, CityWalk Sandy Springs, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30328
Squash Blossom Boutique
113 E Court Square, Decatur, GA, 30032, USA
113 E Court Square, Decatur, GA, USA, 30032
22 E Church St, Cartersville, GA, 30120, USA
22 E Church St, Cartersville, GA, USA, 30120
Pearl Luvs Earl
2308 North 3rd Street, Wausau, WI, 54403, USA
2308 North 3rd Street, Wausau, WI, USA, 54403
1017 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32204, USA
1017 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL, USA, 32204
Jule Collins Smith Museum Of Fine Art Shop
901 South College Street, Auburn, AL, 36849-0001, USA
901 South College Street, Auburn, AL, USA, 36849-0001
Beverly Ruff Antiques and Linens
2417 Canterbury Road, Beverly Ruff Antiques and Linens, Mountain Brook, AL, 35223, USA
2417 Canterbury Road,
Beverly Ruff Antiques and Linens, Mountain Brook, AL, USA, 35223
2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd., Birmingham, AL, 35203, USA
2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd., Birmingham, AL, USA, 35203
6 North Main Street, Rice Lake, WI, 54868, USA
6 North Main Street, Rice Lake, WI, USA, 54868
The Queen Bees
2732 North Highland Avenue, Jackson , TN, 38305, USA
2732 North Highland Avenue, Jackson , TN, USA, 38305
Northcutts On Main
1774 West Main Street, Dothan, AL, 36301, USA
1774 West Main Street, Dothan, AL, USA, 36301
Modernism Museum Shoppe
144 East 4th Avenue, Mount Dora, FL, 32757, USA
144 East 4th Avenue, Mount Dora, FL, USA, 32757
Coco's Gallery and Boutique
402 Brevard Avenue, Cocoa, FL, 32922, USA
402 Brevard Avenue, Cocoa, FL, USA, 32922
Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art Shop
445 North Park Avenue, Winter Park, FL, 32789, USA
445 North Park Avenue, Winter Park, FL, USA, 32789
Peacocks and Pearls
404 North Gloster, Tupelo, MS, 38804, USA
404 North Gloster, Tupelo, MS, USA, 38804
Luya shoes and other fine things
236 S Main St, Zumbrota, MN, 55992, USA
236 S Main St, Zumbrota, MN, USA, 55992
524 2nd St, Hudson, WI, 54016, USA
524 2nd St, Hudson, WI, USA, 54016
6150 Poplar Avenue, Suite 116, Regalia Shopping Center, Memphis, TN, 38119, USA
6150 Poplar Avenue,
Suite 116, Regalia Shopping Center, Memphis, TN, USA, 38119
Paper Patisserie
366 Selby Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, USA
366 Selby Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, USA, 55102
957 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, 55105, USA
957 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, USA, 55105
Fawbush's
3420 Galleria, Edina, MN, 55435, USA
3420 Galleria, Edina, MN, USA, 55435
Suzette's on the Rocks
400 Indian Rocks Road North, Belleair Bluffs, FL, 33770, USA
400 Indian Rocks Road North, Belleair Bluffs, FL, USA, 33770
2725 Ingersoll Avenue, Des Moines, IA, 50312, USA
2725 Ingersoll Avenue, Des Moines, IA, USA, 50312
Sunbug
141 West Venice Avenue, Venice, FL, 34285, USA
141 West Venice Avenue, Venice, FL, USA, 34285
The Art of Fashion and Moore
2267 First Street, Suite 12, Fort Myers, FL, 33901, USA
2267 First Street,
Suite 12, Fort Myers, FL, USA, 33901
Nichole's Collection at Town & Lake
25148 East Main Street, Nisswa, MN, 56468, USA
25148 East Main Street, Nisswa, MN, USA, 56468
Cybele's
382 Fairhope Avenue, Fairhope, AL, 36532, USA
382 Fairhope Avenue, Fairhope, AL, USA, 36532
M & F Casuals
17070 Scenic Highway, Suite 98, Point Clear , AL, 36564, USA
17070 Scenic Highway,
Suite 98, Point Clear , AL, USA, 36564
EPS - Dorothy Maynard D 6257
8260 NW 14th St., Miami, FL, 33191, USA
8260 NW 14th St., Miami, FL, USA, 33191
Jami's
26811 South Bay Drive , Suite 136, The Promenade at Bonita Bay, Bonita Springs, FL, 34134, USA
26811 South Bay Drive ,
Suite 136, The Promenade at Bonita Bay, Bonita Springs, FL, USA, 34134
Johnny Ruth
181 Water Street, St. John's, NL, A1C 1B1, Canada
181 Water Street, St. John's, NL, Canada, A1C 1B1
Scarlet Pearl Casino
9380 Central Avenue, D'Iberville, MS, 39540, USA
9380 Central Avenue, D'Iberville, MS, USA, 39540
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Blvd, Kansas City, MO, 64111, USA
4420 Warwick Blvd, Kansas City, MO, USA, 64111
Blue Monarch
120 West Main Street, Suite 102, Vermillion, SD, 57069, USA
120 West Main Street,
Suite 102, Vermillion, SD, USA, 57069
749 Saint Mary's Road, Winnipeg, MB, R2M 3N6, Canada
749 Saint Mary's Road, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R2M 3N6
Tara Davis Studio Boutique
246 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 0S5, Canada
246 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3B 0S5
House of Broussard
100 West Main Street, Broussard, LA, 70518, USA
100 West Main Street, Broussard, LA, USA, 70518
Shelmerdine Garden Center
7800 Roblin Blvd, Headingley, MB, R4H 1B6, Canada
7800 Roblin Blvd, Headingley, MB, Canada, R4H 1B6
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Shop
3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX, 76107, USA
3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX, USA, 76107
Feather your Nest
3500 Jefferson Street, Suite 120, Austin, TX, 78731, USA
3500 Jefferson Street,
Suite 120, Austin, TX, USA, 78731
Blanton Museum Shop
200 East Martin Luther King Junior Blvd, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78701, USA
200 East Martin Luther King Junior Blvd,
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, 78701
Meyer's Department Store
200 Main Street North, Watford City, ND, 58854, USA
200 Main Street North, Watford City, ND, USA, 58854
Studio S Fashion House
3221 Quance Street East, Regina, SK, S4V 3B7, Canada
3221 Quance Street East, Regina, SK, Canada, S4V 3B7
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
505 Main Street, Windsor, CO, 80550, USA
505 Main Street, Windsor, CO, USA, 80550
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, CO, 80204, USA
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, CO, USA, 80204
Jillian's Design Elements
621 Main Street North, Moose Jaw, SK, S6H 0W6, Canada
621 Main Street North, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada, S6H 0W6
Mixx Projects Atelier
307 E Colorado Ave P.O. Box 3567, Telluride, CO, 81435, USA
307 E Colorado Ave P.O. Box 3567, Telluride, CO, USA, 81435
7039 North Oracle Road, Contact: Moriah, Tucson, AZ, 85704, USA
7039 North Oracle Road,
Contact: Moriah, Tucson, AZ, USA, 85704
5001 50th Street, Camrose, AB, T4V 1R3, Canada
5001 50th Street, Camrose, AB, Canada, T4V 1R3
8787 North Scottsdale Road , Suite 222, The Shops at Gainey Village (Contact: Sue), Scottsdale, AZ, 85253, USA
8787 North Scottsdale Road ,
Suite 222, The Shops at Gainey Village (Contact: Sue), Scottsdale, AZ, USA, 85253
6560 North Scottdale Road, Suite 115, Scottsdale, AZ, 85253, USA
6560 North Scottdale Road,
Suite 115, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, 85253
Arizona Biltmore Resort
2400 East Missouri Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
2400 East Missouri Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 85016
Virtu Boutique
5004 50th Street, Beaumont, AB, T4X 1E6, Canada
5004 50th Street, Beaumont, AB, Canada, T4X 1E6
2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB, T5J 2C1, Canada
2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5J 2C1
Blu's Womens Wear
4719 101 Street NW, BDC, Edmonton, AB, T6E 5C6, Canada
4719 101 Street NW,
BDC, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6E 5C6
C'est Sera
8239 104th Street Northwest, Edmonton, AB, T6E 4E7, Canada
8239 104th Street Northwest, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6E 4E7
Harlow Crestwood
9676 142 Street, Crestwood Centre, Edmonton, AB, T5N 4B2, Canada
Crestwood Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5N 4B2
Side Street Fashion & Accessories
3310 50 Avenue, Cambridge Red Deer Hotel & convention center, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3X9, Canada
Cambridge Red Deer Hotel & convention center, Red Deer, AB, Canada, T4N 3X9
Blue Moon Accessories
10816 Macleod Trail Southeast, Suite 210, Willow Park Village, Calgary, AB, T2J 5N8, Canada
10816 Macleod Trail Southeast,
Suite 210, Willow Park Village, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2J 5N8
BraTopia West Inc.
206 1409 Edmonton Tr. NE, Calgary, AB, T2E 3K8, Canada
206 1409 Edmonton Tr. NE, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2E 3K8
Glenbow Museum Shop
130 9th Avenue Southeast, Ground Floor, Calgary, AB, T2G 0P3, Canada
130 9th Avenue Southeast,
Ground Floor, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2G 0P3
313 19th Street Northwest, Calgary, AB, T2N 2J2, Canada
313 19th Street Northwest, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 2J2
Something2Wear
326 Aspen Glen Landing Southeast, Unit 118, Calgary, AB, T3H 0N5, Canada
326 Aspen Glen Landing Southeast,
Unit 118, Calgary, AB, Canada, T3H 0N5
The Best Little Wordhouse In The West
7 Balsam Avenue, Suite 208, Calgary, AB, T0L 0K0, Canada
7 Balsam Avenue,
Suite 208, Calgary, AB, Canada, T0L 0K0
Boutique Nine
5005 Dalhousie Drive Northwest , Suite 135, Dalhousie Station Shopping Centre, Calgary, AB, T3A 5R8, Canada
5005 Dalhousie Drive Northwest ,
Suite 135, Dalhousie Station Shopping Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada, T3A 5R8
210 8560 8A Ave. SW, Calgary, AB, T3H 1T1, Canada
210 8560 8A Ave. SW, Calgary, AB, Canada, T3H 1T1
Eclectica Fashion
5012 50th Street, Sylvan Lake, AB, T4S 1M5, Canada
5012 50th Street, Sylvan Lake, AB, Canada, T4S 1M5
Toccata for Her
721 Main Street, Suite 108, Canmore, AB, T1W 2B2, Canada
Suite 108, Canmore, AB, Canada, T1W 2B2
Whyte Museum Of The Canadian Rockies Shop
111 Bear Street, Banff, AB, T1L 1A3, Canada
111 Bear Street, Banff, AB, Canada, T1L 1A3
La Quinta Resort Resort & Club
499 Eisenhower Drive, Unit 49, La Quinta, CA, 92253, USA
499 Eisenhower Drive,
Unit 49, La Quinta, CA, USA, 92253
1500 Orange Avenue, att. Accounts Payable, Coronado, CA, 92118, USA
1500 Orange Avenue,
att. Accounts Payable, Coronado, CA, USA, 92118
Marla June's Clothing Company
5215 W Clearwater Ave #101, Kennewick, WA, 99336, USA
5215 W Clearwater Ave #101, Kennewick, WA, USA, 99336
Lady Chadderton's
8318 Main St. , Box 984, Osoyoos, BC, V0H 1V0, Canada
8318 Main St. ,
Box 984, Osoyoos, BC, Canada, V0H 1V0
KoLu
1950 Harvey Avenue, Suite 115, Spall Plaza, Kelowna, BC, V1Y 8G6, Canada
1950 Harvey Avenue,
Suite 115, Spall Plaza, Kelowna, BC, Canada, V1Y 8G6
447 Bernard Avenue, Kelowna, BC, V1Y 6N8, Canada
447 Bernard Avenue, Kelowna, BC, Canada, V1Y 6N8
Autry Museum of American West
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, USA
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90027
Craft & Folk Art Museum Shop
5814 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
5814 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90036
Sass Boutique
10118 Main Street, Summerland, BC, V0H 1Z0, Canada
10118 Main Street, Summerland, BC, Canada, V0H 1Z0
1130 State street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, USA
1130 State street, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 93101
Birkenstock Midtown
2612 J Street, Sacramento, CA, 95816, USA
2612 J Street, Sacramento, CA, USA, 95816
320 Broadway St., Chico, CA, 95928, USA
320 Broadway St., Chico, CA, USA, 95928
Museo Gallery
215 First Street, Langley, WA, 98260, USA
215 First Street, Langley, WA, USA, 98260
212 Homer Avenue, Contact: Diane, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA
212 Homer Avenue,
Contact: Diane, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 94301
Marita's Boutique
551 Lighthouse Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, USA
551 Lighthouse Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 93950
Jolie By The Sea
South Ocean between MonteVerde & Lincoln, South Ocean, Carmel, CA, 93921, USA
South Ocean between MonteVerde & Lincoln,
South Ocean, Carmel, CA, USA, 93921
2108 Vine Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, USA
2108 Vine Street, Berkeley, CA, USA, 94709
2111 Vine Street, Contact: Sherry, Berkeley, CA, 94709, USA
2111 Vine Street,
Contact: Sherry, Berkeley, CA, USA, 94709
1799 Fourth Street, (store) Contact: Kay, Berkeley, CA, 94710, USA
1799 Fourth Street,
(store) Contact: Kay, Berkeley, CA, USA, 94710
Edge Fashion
15223 Pacific Avenue, Unit 7A, White Rock, BC, V4B 1P8, Canada
15223 Pacific Avenue,
Unit 7A, White Rock, BC, Canada, V4B 1P8
J. James Sonoma
122 East Napa Street, Sonoma, CA, 95476, USA
122 East Napa Street, Sonoma, CA, USA, 95476
Bison Country Life
1341 Main Street, St. Helena, CA, 94574, USA
1341 Main Street, St. Helena, CA, USA, 94574
Mara Shoes and Fashion
824 Grant Avenue, Novato, CA, 94945, USA
824 Grant Avenue, Novato, CA, USA, 94945
3080 Edgemont Blvd, North Vancouver, BC, V7R 2N4, Canada
3080 Edgemont Blvd, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, V7R 2N4
Artina's Jewellery
387 Water Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1B8, Canada
387 Water Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 1B8
Vancouver Art Gallery Store
750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2H7, Canada
750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 2H7
Mia Bella Boutique
1666 Johnston Street, Unit 3, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3S2, Canada
1666 Johnston Street,
Unit 3, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6H 3S2
Eclectic Gallery
2170 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, BC, V8R 1E9, Canada
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Football All-American Gage Larvadain having immediate impact for Southeastern hoops
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13-year-old boy struck by falling bullet dies at Chicago hospital
4 years 6 months 1 week ago Sunday, July 09 2017 Jul 9, 2017 July 09, 2017 6:30 PM July 09, 2017 in News
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CHICAGO - Authorities say a 13-year-old Indiana boy has died after being struck by a falling bullet that was likely fired into the sky by someone in a nearby community.
WMAQ-TV reports that Noah Inman was playing basketball on July 1 when he suddenly fell to the ground in Hammond, Indiana. The city is about 25 miles south of Chicago.
Witnesses called an ambulance, thinking he'd suffered a seizure. Hospital workers soon discovered he'd been hit by a falling bullet.
Noah was flown to a Chicago hospital. On Friday, he was pronounced dead by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
Police say an investigation determined the bullet had likely been fired skyward, like fireworks. It's illegal to discharge a weapon within Hammond's city limits.
The case remains under investigation.
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Latest News About Black Holes
In a typical star, nuclear fusion is liable for generation of vitality and pressure. This is an outward strain that neutralizes the gravitational pull created by the star's personal mass.
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But the mathematics of black holes was extremely complex. Many researchers believed they have been nothing greater than mathematical artefacts, current solely on paper.
Two gaseous clouds resembling peacocks have been found in neighboring dwarf galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. In these photographs by the ALMA telescopes, purple and inexperienced spotlight molecular gas while blue exhibits ionized hydrogen gasoline. A shut-up view of an interstellar comet passing by way of our photo voltaic system may be seen on the left. On the best, astronomers used an image of Earth for comparability.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the Tarantula Nebula in two wavelengths of infrared mild. The purple represents sizzling fuel, while the blue regions are interstellar dust. This is an artist's impression of two white dwarfs within the strategy of merging. While astronomers anticipated that this may cause a supernova, they have found an instance of two white dwarf stars that survived merging.
This type of explosion is referred to as a fast blue optical transient. The afterglow of brief gamma ray burst that was detected 10 billion gentle-years away is shown right here in a circle. The purple supergiant star Betelgeuse, in the constellation of Orion, skilled unprecedented dimming late in 2019.
The more telescopes within the array that are extensively spaced, the higher the image decision.
Learning about mysterious constructions in the universe supplies perception into physics and permits us to test observation strategies and theories, such as Einstein's principle of basic relativity.
Its unique capabilities are revolutionizing astronomy as Hubble continues humanity's quest to explore the universe.
With imaginative and prescient that spans the ultraviolet by way of visible and into the near infrared, Hubble investigates every thing from black holes to planets round other stars.
After the supernova explosion, fusion response is totally absent. When a star dies and this explosion occurs, the majority of the whole mass of star is thrown out into the void of the house whereas solely a chilly remnant stays back. This remaining part of the star doesn't experience any fusion reaction that used to provide it life. The imaging methods used to capture the photograph reveal that the supermassive black hole has a hoop-like structure and a shadow, which is represented by a darkish central area.
Planets round a photo voltaic-mass stars can develop until they start accreting gas and turn into large planets similar to Jupiter, in a couple of millions of years. But we thought that small stars such asProxima, TRAPPIST-1, TeegardernÕs star and GJ 3512, could not form Jupiter mass planets. This is an artist's illustration of what a Neptune-size moon would appear to be orbiting the gasoline giant exoplanet Kepler-1625b in a star system 8,000 mild-years from Earth. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array captured this unprecedented image of two circumstellar disks, in which child stars are rising, feeding off material from their surrounding birth disk.
It took researchers a long time to realise they might persist in the actual world. With the new 'black hole Sun' having the same mass as the original Sun, the gravitational pull on Earth will stay the same. Black Holes are very very similar to spheres and not funnels as illustrated in many text books.
This image was taken in January utilizing the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. For greater than 50 years, physicists had suspected that there could also be a black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. But the know-how needed to catch up earlier than this idea might be demonstrated.
Hidden Sources Of Mysterious Cosmic Neutrinos Seen On Earth
This is an artist's illustration of a brown dwarf, or a "failed star" object, and its magnetic field. The brown dwarf's environment and magnetic subject rotate at different speeds, which allowed astronomers to find out wind pace on the item. A bright yellow "twist" near the center of this picture reveals where a planet may be forming around the AB Aurigae star. The image was captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. A new kind of explosion was present in a tiny galaxy 500 million gentle-years away from Earth.
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After the final whistle blew on senior Katie Briglia's season during the field hockey team's 5–2 loss to Massachusetts in the first round of the Atlantic 10 Conference Championships on Nov. 2, she said more good than bad came out of the year.
With a 12–9 record, the 2012 season proved to be one of the program's best years under coach Amanda Janney.
Since 1992, the field hockey team has had three seasons with 12 or more wins and all three years Janney was the coach. The 12-win total from this season was the most since 2007 when the Owls went 15–6.
But having a winning record would be tough with a schedule that had Temple facing seven teams ranked in the Top 20 nationally.
There to answer any doubts Janney had about having a winning season was sophomore forward Amber Youtz.
As of Oct. 29, Youtz led her team and conference with 21 goals, ranking sixth in NCAA Division I with 1.05 goals per game, and her team and conference best 52 total points ranked seventh in the nation with 2.60 points per game.
When she scored two goals within a minute of each other in Temple's season opener against No. 8 Virginia, Youtz began her breakout season.
The Dauphin, Pa., native went on to have a record-breaking season that was highlighted on a weekend late in September when Youtz had back-to-back hat trick performances.
By the time playoffs rolled around, Youtz was ranked amongst the top scorers in the nation.
Youtz's 22 goals and 54 points this season are the fifth highest single-season totals in Temple history.
Beyond Youtz's breakout year, other young players were able to step up as well.
Both Janney and Briglia said sophomore midfielder Nicole Kroener and freshman midfielder Taylor Schronk, were integral parts of the team.
Kroener and Schronk started in all 21 games for the Owls, and Kroener was tied for second on the team with 10 assists.
Youtz was named as the A-10 Offensive Player of the Year, and both Youtz and Briglia were given A-10 First Team honors. Freshman forward Alyssa Delp and Schronk were named to the A-10 All-Rookie Team.
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Good friend Stacey requested some photos of our new home. I thought that would be a great blog post idea, until I realized that this would require the house to be in a state worthy of having pictures taken that I was willing to post to the Internet. Let's just say that this level of tidiness happens, um, not every day.
So instead Markus, Annie and I headed out for a short walk behind our house and took some photos. I just love the views from our neighbourhood, Arzl.
Much of our view from our yard is blocked by an old house, but you can see a couple of mountains if you stand in just the right place.
Select view from our yard.
A short walk up the lane begins a path that first snakes through the cow pastures and then merges with the larger mountain system of trails.
This last picture turned out to be a bit boring. I was trying to capture the awesome hill that I think will be perfect for Annie to slide down on her plastic Rutschblatt. (What do you call it is English? Magic carpet?) I'm hoping the path leading through the pasture is kept up, as I can see many afternoons of Annie and I climbing up and sliding down, and climbing up and sliding down. Repeat until one of us loses the feeling in our toes or bum.
I do miss the views of the ocean, but the mountains are a close substitute in terms of beauty. For all of our personal trials, it is hard not to feel blessed to live in this part of the world. Maybe not forever, but I'm enjoying it while we are here.
When Ryan read that I was posting every day, he must have been thinking about his upcoming visit because his request was for a post about bread. Because really, the bread here is something to look forward to. It is fantastic. And it is everywhere. I've found good bread in Victoria and Winnipeg and London (Wildfire, Tall Grass Prairie and the Portuguese Bakery respectively), but you have to look for it and sometimes go out of your way for it. Bread here is very important and very available. There are bakeries every few blocks. (They are like 7-Elevens in Winnipeg.) Even in the airport they have mini-ovens so that the bread can come out fresh for the tired travelers. It matters here. (I've never heard an Austrian talk about a low-carb diet.) This isn't true everywhere in Europe either. Italy, home of fantastic food, serves mostly white bread. Tasty, but white.
When Ryan and Renata come, they slip out to the bakery every morning and pick up a warm loaf. One of Ryan's favourites is a sunflower bread called Sonnenkraftbrot (sun-strength bread). It has a chewy crust and a soft but dense center.
We've also tried, and like, potato bread, walnut bread and even the Bauernbrot (farmer's bread) is great with cheese and cold cuts.
Although I've branched out more lately, the first year I was here I was addicted to Wurzelbrot ("root bread" because of the shape), which I guess technically is a white bread but tastes so lovely. And it even tastes great toasted the next day, as bakery-fresh bread here does not stay fresh very long. No preservatives.
Often times Austrians (including this little family) will have a simple dinner of good bread, cheese, and cold cuts. Delicious.
So we are looking forward to your visit Ryan and Renata. Your bread awaits.
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Photocopies, Patents, and Knowledge Transfer: "The Uneasy Case" of Justice Breyer's Patentable Subject Matter Jurisprudence
Dmitry Karshtedt
One aspect of Justice Stephen Breyer's discomfort with patents, as expressed in his opinion for the Supreme Court in Mayo v. Prometheus and his dissent from the order dismissing certiorari in LabCorp v. Metabolite, is strikingly similar to one of his critiques of copyright law in The Uneasy Case for Copyright, a well-known article he wrote as Professor Breyer more than forty-five years ago. In The Uneasy Case, Breyer argued that the burdens on duplication of technical articles imposed by copyright law restrict the flow of information and prevent scientists from enjoying spillover benefits of published research. His patent opinions on the Supreme Court, too, talk of diminished access to information resulting from intellectual property protection. In this Article, I contend that the parallel that Justice Breyer implicitly draws between the harms of copyright and patent is a questionable one. In particular, Justice Breyer's opinions on patentable subject matter do not address the notion that inducement of disclosure and dissemination of information is one of the very purposes of patent law, nor the idea that there are many noninfringing uses of information contained in patents. I argue that these omissions may provide an insight into Justice Breyer's patent law jurisprudence-particularly, the recent reinvigoration of limits on patentable subject matter in his opinion for the Court in Mayo.
Dmitry Karshtedt, Photocopies, Patents, and Knowledge Transfer: "The Uneasy Case" of Justice Breyer's Patentable Subject Matter Jurisprudence, 69 Vanderbilt Law Review 1739 (2016) | {
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New to the gym? We speak to a personal trainer in Western Sydney, Nabil Touma about the benefits of resistance training and how to implement it into your training routine when you're just starting on your fitness journey.
Resistance training is also commonly referred to as strength training or weight training. It's a type of physical exercise which uses resistance through weight to build strength, anaerobic endurance, and increase muscle mass.
It can be done using weights, or even your own body weight.
Nabil, Planet Fitness Personal Trainer in Western Sydney, says there are many benefits to resistance training.
"Resistance training can help you increase muscle mass and muscle fibres, regulate the sugar level by helping insulin sensitivity, increase your bone strength, build self esteem, create more lean body mass, improve flexibility and balance, protect you from injuries, and much more," Nabil says.
In addition, the more muscle mass you have, the higher your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is too, which means you are burning more calories even at rest.
Strength training is beneficial for women as well as men, and Nabil says it is essential to include it in your exercise program – regardless of your age or ability.
There are many misconceptions around resistance and weight training, and Nabil, personal trainer in Western Sydney says he hears a lot of first time gym goers, and even those who have been working out for years mention the same concerns.
"Some people think resistance training will make them gain fat, which is not true," Nabil says.
Women in particular worry that weight lifting will make them 'bulky'. But, unless you are doing very heavy weights and following a calorie-dense diet, it is very unlikely.
Muscle and fat are completely different structures, so it's not possible for one to turn into the other.
When it comes to injury, while it is essential that weights are used properly, and it's best to speak to your personal trainer in any of our locations if you're not sure, building muscle will help to prevent injury to joints – which is especially important as we age.
What Exercises Should I Start With?
If it is your first time attempting resistance training, our personal trainer suggests some simple exercises using body weight to start: push ups, squats, and walking and reverse walking lunges.
These simple exercises are easy, as well as highly effective, targeting all areas of the body.
If you're in the gym and still unsure, any one of our personal trainers in Western Sydney, Newcastle and the Central Coast can show you these basic moves.
How Frequently Should I Be Doing Resistance Training?
Our Personal Trainer in Western Sydney, Nabil, says three times a week is ideal.
Want to Speak to a Personal Trainer and Get Started with Resistance Training?
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Silver Leaf Costumes is a lovely boutique specializing in quality handmade costumes and run by fashion designer, Laura McCraw. Laura was so relaxed throughout the entire design process; she knew exactly what she wanted and it was a delight to create it for her!
Having used many different typefaces, colors, and styles to represent her company in the past, it was an exciting challenge to sit down with Laura and unify it all to craft a lasting brand she could love.
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Package contains 0.5 grams, approximately 4,500 Oregano, Greek Herb Seeds.
Germination: 12 - 18 days. Sprinkle seeds on well- prepared, light soil.
Greek oregano is a hardy herb that is native to the Mediterranean. This variety of oregano forms into a bush naturally, but it can be cultivated so that it grows lower to the ground. Because of this Greek oregano can be used successfully as a ground cover in your yard.
Oregano is a perennial herb that sports lovely flowers and aromatic green leaves. It works well in a garden or in a container. This herb has become very popular in cooking, particularly in Italian dishes, although is has also been known as a medicinal plant. Some also find oregano helpful in companion planting.
Oregano is a hardy plant that is drought tolerant and fairly easy to grow. It can spread out or grow into a bush shape, depending on how you cultivate it. Plant oregano in a sunny spot with well-drained soil. You can trim it back as needed.
The leaves of the oregano plant can be harvested often. Cut stems from the pant right before it is ready to bloom, since this is the time when the taste will be the strongest. You can use the herb fresh, or dry the leaves and store for later. You can also refrigerate fresh leaves or store them in the freezer.
Use oregano in sauces, on meats, on vegetables, in Italian and Greek dishes, and even as a tea.
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Q: Error converting large size image to base64 string cordova android I am implementing some functionality in my hybrid app where I am capturing image from camera using cordova api. I get the path of image, which I convert to base64 for uploading to some server. I used file reader api's readAsDataURL method to convert local image path to base64. Everything works fine until the image size exceeds some particular limit in this case it fails for more than 2MB size images. I get following error in my logcat
Refusing to load URL as it exceeds 2097152 characters
which is I think my base64 string which is large. Can anybody give me some idea how to overcome this issue.
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Category: Sons of Sol
What a crazy year! For the world, for the game industry, for games culture, in my own personal life and for RetroNeo Games.
I really can't pick a topic for this month so I'm free-styling a bit.
There's no shortage of topics to choose from.
It's been the year of the Loot Crate, but that's been done to death. Even my blog of lost month dealt with it indirectly.
Relatedly, EA has been seeing nothing but negative headlines all year even apart from the Loot Crate issues, due to Mass Effect Andromeda, closing Visceral Games (and shutting down the single-player Star Wars project), and more, but I don't really see the fun in rehashing that out.
Reportedly, the new Assassin's Creed was great and sold twice what its predecessor did (proving the benefit in breaking the yearly release cycle), but I haven't played it so I can't really talk about it.
Horizon: Zero Dawn is one of the top games of the year, but I haven't a PS4 so I can't speak about that either (borrowing one is top of my to-do list though).
The Nintendo Switch is doing far better than anyone expected, and Zelda and Mario are another two game of the year contenders, but I've no Switch so I haven't played them either.
One thing I can say is that I was wrong in my predictions of this time last year that the big shooters would be 50% off again this Christmas. The sale prices this season on Battlefront "2" (it's 4, really) and Call of Duty are decidedly more conservative, with only Wolfenstein 2 being discounted all the way down to 50%.
Today's news that a man was killed in Kansas during a swatting "prank" is very newsworthy but I don't exactly want to end the year on that note. Though I will link to the PC Gamer article. An arrest was made, at least. Conventional wisdom is to keep your business channel quiet on anything political or controversial, but I don't fully subscribe to that idea. If something is plainly wrong and needs opposing, then staying silent helps the offenders, not the victims. I hope the perpetrator goes to prison for a very long time. I personally can't believe that the 'set an example' harsh sentencing of another swatting case last year didn't stop swatting in its tracks. In that case, police non-fatally shot the swatting victim. The perpetrator, a teenager, was charged with domestic terrorism and given a heavy sentence (if I recall correctly. I can't find the older articles today as the current tragedy is dominating the search results). He cried for his mother as he left the court room.
Anyway, now a man is dead, and we have toxic gaming culture and manchild streamers to thank.
That segues into a personal note. I like coding, and I like creating, so making games is a great fit for me, but looking at the problems of the world this year, and then looking at the types of people I'm creating disposable content for (whiney sexists & racists and swatting scumbags) really turned my stomach all of a sudden. I've struggled with feelings of anger, frustration, and depression on and off for years. While I'm coming through it, I used to use playing games as escapism, and making games as my way of fitting into the world productively.
Lately, though, I've felt an urge to help the world more directly. To stop contributing to distractions and start taking positive action – whether that be for charity, fighting toxic gamer culture, or something else. I've wrestled with the idea of leaving this industry (that I've fought very hard to become a part of – more on this next month) and beginning a coaching practice to get unhappy young men out of their gaming escapism and give them meaning and purpose. Then, as fate would have it, a couple of amazing opportunities came my way from the games industry and so I've stayed – though I still feel the call to do more. As I said, more on this next month.
I want to update the world on what all of that previous bullet point has meant for Sons of Sol, but, next month.
I've also barely played any games in the last 5 months (reasons next month, again) and when I do I've only managed to enjoy the ones that I know I can beat in an evening, like What Remains of Edith Finch or Tacoma. Just why this is, I've a few ideas on, but that's a blog I'll write another time.
I was seriously looking forward to Wolfenstein 2 as I loved the original remake, but after a few hours playing it over Christmas, I was just stressed by playing it, which defeats the purpose. Great game though, and I'm all for its themes and marketing. Would like to hear if other non-parent gamers (because the reasons for parents not having time are obvious) experience the same thing.
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My main goal for Christmas (and my reward for the year) was to play through XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, along with several other games, but with it more than half over I feel I've barely started.
I asked a friend who's staying over what I should blog about, and she said to write about "how to find more time to play games". Together we joked that the first thing in the article would be "stop writing blogs"!
So, I'm actually just going to go with that and stop this one here!
Happy New Year to all of you fine readers, especially the regulars. Thank you. Your support is greatly appreciated, especially the notes or the comments when we meet in person. They keep me going.
I've a lot more life changes coming up shortly and some Sons of Sol questions to be resolved in the next month, so I'll fill in all the blanks next time. It'll be a sort of a follow-up to the quite-popular first blog I wrote after starting full-time development on Sons of Sol.
So, until next time…
Author Kevin MurphyPosted on December 30, 2017 Categories Announcements, Development, Industry, Sons of Sol, ViolenceTags Game Industry, Sons of Sol, swattingLeave a comment on 2017's over! So… games…
Greenlight turning red!
It's February 28th, 2017. Last day of the month, second day of GDC (the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco), and our Greenlight campaign for Sons of Sol (please vote here) is 15 days old, but was born prematurely. The original due date was approximately February 26th.
So this month's blog is a bit more personal than usual as a major industry change affects RetroNeo Games directly.
What is Greenlight?
If you already know, consider skipping this section, but to sum it up quickly; Valve are the company behind Steam, an online digital storefront responsible for 90+% of all PC games sales. If you want to have a business that develops PC games, you need to be on Steam, basically.
Up until 2012, it was very hard to get on the store because each game was vetted on its way through to the platform. This takes time and so the bigger titles from bigger studios/publishers were prioritised. That's probably an oversimplification, but it'll do..
In August 2012, Steam Greenlight launched. It's a process where first-time developers pay $100 to place a game on a community voting subsection of Steam, called Greenlight. They can't sell their game from here, but instead throw up early videos, screenshots and a description of what the game will be, and the community vote on whether or not they would buy the game if it became available on the actual store.
To this day, nobody really knows what it takes to get through. A few thousand votes and waiting a few weeks is a virtual guarantee, but a few hundred can get a completely fake scam game up as well, or see real games languish in limbo.
Even Valve said that it was an imperfect system, and was basically a stop-gap, but it's taken them nearly 5 years to move past it. The theory of crowd-sourcing some quality control and democratising access to the platform was solid enough, but in practice it allowed all sorts of scams and asset flips (where you buy a functioning game prototype or several assets, intended for learning or fast prototyping, then try to sell that as an original game on Steam with a minimum of effort to get from A to B) to flood the store and give Greenlight a bad name.
Broforce was one early Greenlight mega-success.
To be sure, Greenlight is also how the real indie successes got through to Steam as well ("over 100 Greenlight titles that have made at least $1 Million each" – do the math on that!), whereas before they may never have had a platform to be noticed, but the rubbish gets through as well. Greenlight has done a lot of good, but it's broken, with all sorts of workarounds (trading game keys for votes, for example) gumming up the gears of a well-intentioned system.
There are community groups and YouTube channels like Jim Sterling dedicated to highlighting the scams.
Red Light for Greenlight
On Friday February 10th, Valve announced that it would be shutting down Steam Greenlight forever "this Spring" and replacing it with Steam Direct, a system that does away with the community involvement in favour of a verification process "similar to setting up a bank account" and then a recoupable fee for each game submitted. Greenlight used to allow the same developer to submit additional games for free once their first had passed through.
This is intended to reduce "noise in the submission pipeline", which most would agree is a desirable goal. The problem is how much the fee will be set at, and how exactly it can be recouped. It has to be high enough to dissuade the scam artists, but low enough that legitimate small-time studios (and especially ones based in countries with lower average incomes) can still manage to get their games on Steam.
To be blunt, there is going to be no good number here. Valve are taking feedback and mentioned that they'd been advised on fees ranging between $100 and $5,000! No matter what it is, some scams are going to get through, and some developers are going to fail to get on the store. Since profitable games are meant to be able to recoup the fee, perhaps less well off developers who believe in their game could borrow to pay the fee, but frankly, game development is already very expensive and risky. A high fee here is quite an unwelcome added expense for the little guys.
In true Valve style, they seem to be prepared to make sweeping changes and "listen to the community" (which is good, but also points out that they don't really have a solid plan) just to see what breaks, and fix it later.. well, that's one way to do it, and it's their platform so what can I say?
They're throwing the baby out with the bathwater and waiting to see what the next baby looks like, basically.. and it's not actually the worst idea..
Re-emphasis on publishers
..for them at least. They can set this fee quite high to try and clean up their store. This just means that serious indies will have to go to people with deep pockets to get their games published. Re-enter the publisher!
The Kickstarter revolution (also circa 2012 – for games anyway) meant that games could raise lots of capital from the public, without needing to be beholden to a publisher. But with the success rates for Kickstarter campaigns (for digital games) falling off in the last couple of years, and with a potentially high barrier to entry to the commercial storefront in this Steam Direct fee, we may see the power back in their hands.
Kickstarter changed the way that games are made.. well, some games… a little bit… for a while..
Publisher Raw Fury announced just days after Valve's statement, that they would cover the Steam Direct fee for developers who couldn't afford it, without obligation. They won't own part of the game or anything. Their aim is to develop closer ties with talented developers, and to garner good will and make a bigger name for themselves, generally. That's a great idea, since personally I hadn't heard of them before, and now I think of them as quite a forward-thinking publisher who isn't gunning for your back pocket. Good will earned!
How many others will do the same, or similar? That's when I realised..
Valve's Genius
Raw Fury will obviously be vetting the submissions that they get to try and put through the games most likely to recoup the Steam Direct fee. That means they will be doing quality control for Steam!! Think about that! Valve have just outsourced their quality control department, and Raw Fury will pay Valve for the privilege!
People were long arguing that Valve, a multi-billion dollar corporation that employs approximately only 360 people (2016 figure) should hire more staff to oversee Greenlight submissions. They could most definitely afford it. The number of new Greenlight submissions averaged just a few dozen per day normally. That's certainly something that a small new department could handle. Valve just don't want to say 'no' to anyone truly deserving, or 'yes' to any hate speech or copyrighted material that sneaks by a human worker. They'd prefer instead to let their automated systems take the blame for any missteps.
Again, that's probably fair enough, though.
How this all affects RetroNeo Games
RetroNeo Games' plan was to launch our Greenlight campaign to coincide with our new 'vertical slice' demo of the game that shows off our home carrier, some characters, new sound design and music, and a bit more gameplay. This same demo would be ready for GDC for any publisher or press meetings we might stir up.
But with Valve's announcement that Greenlight would be gone during Spring (when I was in school in Ireland, I was taught that Spring was Feb – Apr, so we were already in it by my count..) and that it would be replaced with a potentially very high pay wall, the team had a quick emergency meeting over Skype on Saturday and decided to shift focus to doing a Greenlight trailer and page, sprucing up the website, and launching by Monday. The trailer would basically be the one we'd released just weeks before but with a Greenlight logo at the end. Previously the plan had been to shoot new footage from a playthrough of a newer demo and put that on the trailer.
We chose to move up our timeline because we knew that hundreds of other developers would be thinking the same way as us, and that the Greenlight servers would be absolutely flooded in a matter of days. We were only a few weeks from our intended launch anyway, so we figured we had an advantage in terms of the quality of the submission that we could make.
It's a pity because I've done a lot of research in the past year (one 2016 Gamasutra blog stood out in particular) as to how to maximise your launch on Greenlight. This included having a playable demo ready, having YouTubers play said demo, try to get press to talk about it, translate the page into multiple languages, and hook up Google Analytics.
Now, just two weeks shy of accomplishing all of this, we had to go off half-cocked. Seeing the green light turning red, we basically had to rev the engine to try and make the amber, because the red might be too expensive to… eh.. this metaphor is falling apart, sorry!
So, without translations, a press mailing list, a MailChimp campaign, or a demo, we launched. About the only thing we did get from our list (because it was the quickest thing to set up) was the ability to take some preorders on the site to prove to certain legal bodies that we're "in commerce". They're still available at the time of writing, heavily discounted, but limited in quantity.
How have we done so far?
Well in the first week we got about 300 votes and made it 18% of the way to the top 100. There's no specific target to meet, but thousands of votes and being in the top 100 is certainly desirable (and normal for games getting through in the past).
The problem is that now, after a second week, we've gotten almost no further!
The reason we wanted all our ducks in a row was to maximise the 'yes' votes while Steam's algorithms were still sending natural traffic to our site. Just by launching, you'll get a certain number of referrals from normal Greenlight users browsing, but after that you're on your own to generate your voting traffic. In normal circumstances, the Steam algorithms send people your way for a few days.
Our natural traffic died off in under 12 hours. That's a measure of just how many other new Greenlight games were going up just 3 days after Valve's announcement. At that stage we were closer to 200 votes. The next 100 votes we got during the first week were basically from friends and colleagues through Facebook and Twitter shares.
I've heard similar stories from many developers who are struggling with the campaign because they were forced to launch early and are just drowned out by the noise.
Our votes after 24 hours
What did we try?
Since the launch I've been working every day for at least 12 hours, but not so much on the Greenlight campaign. Getting the demo ready for GDC to wow press and publishers was still a better priority – after all, nobody knows how many Greenlight votes you really need anyway, nobody knows when Greenlight is actually shutting down, and we had a request from a publisher to see a new build of the game. So, after launch and until yesterday, a new demo was priority number one!
I suspect that once Valve stops taking new submissions for Greenlight, they'll probably let through a lot of what remains in the following weeks, though they have kept their options open by declaring that anyone who has paid the $100 Greenlight fee and who doesn't get through will be reimbursed. So, who knows?..
That doesn't mean that I've ignored Greenlight either, though. Not at all. Over the coming days I ran a tentative €5 Facebook and €5 Twitter ad campaign (well targeted, with video) to see what happened. We got about a dozen clicks total and about 2 new votes. So, probably not worth investing too heavily there, then. One issue is that you have to log in to Steam (if you even have an account) and often have to be emailed a security code for a 'new device' (so sick of doing that!), so anyone clicking a mobile or browser link would not likely be logged into Steam, and probably wouldn't bother doing so.
I got the Greenlight page translated into Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and German. Even though the algorithms had stopped sending us traffic, I hoped that a new language detected might send us users from those territories. It didn't. Absolutely nothing! So I decided not to proceed with French, Spanish and Italian.
I also contacted about two dozen Greenlight community user groups who exist to highlight legitimate Greenlight games. I especially targeted groups interested in space games. We did get included in four collections, but I saw no corresponding increase in traffic to us, unfortunately.
Well, with the GDC demo complete, I now get to turn my attention to contacting proper press outlets and YouTubers. I'm a big fan of grassroots marketing and using your own networks, but having tapped the social circles and developers that I know already we seem to have reached the limits of what that can offer us – namely, 320 votes.
Contacting press and YouTubers is a very low probability game, but one good bit of coverage can do wonders, and there are some existing relationships that I can leverage. That's now the stage that we're at to try and get more votes.
I have confidence in our game, our trailer, our demo, and our team, but we're fighting in an oversaturated market.
This has felt like a bit of a weird blog to write. I often write about the industry somewhat abstractly, but I'm right in the middle of this one, and it's an incomplete story. Greenlight isn't gone yet, we haven't yet been accepted for or refused press coverage, and nobody, including Valve, knows much about Steam Direct yet.
I do hope I can do a positive follow-up to this blog in the near future. Until then, I can just thank you for reading, ask that you vote for us if you haven't yet, and consider sharing our Greenlight campaign with your friends.
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Author Kevin MurphyPosted on February 28, 2017 Categories Announcements, Industry, Marketing, Sons of SolTags Greenlight, Sons of Sol, Steam, Steam Direct, Valve7 Comments on Greenlight turning red!
Making Crow's Nest (part 4 of 4): "Sons of Sol" & "Crow's Nest"
I'm still looking for an artist. Can you tell?
Hi! This is Part 3 of me offering some insight into the development of my game, Sons of Sol: Crow's Nest.
In Part 1 I explained my pitch "Asteroids meets Total War".
In Part 2 I talked about the games that are influencing the design of Crow's Nest.
In Part 3 I discussed a design challenge that the game faces.
Now we've reached the final post of this 'Making Crow's Nest' series. You may recall from Part 1 that these four posts were written together and scheduled to post while I was on some down time. Next week I'll be back to blogging on more mainstream game topics.
Today I'm talking about what Sons of Sol and Crow's Nest actually are. This will be a more autobiographical post than normal, so you have been warned. This tale will interweave a little bit with my previous blog on how I got into game development, which I was uneasy about writing but which people seemed to respond very positively to. This won't be as much of downer, though, promise!
Together, "Sons of Sol" and "Crow's Nest" are the working title for the game that I'm working on, which is my (and RetroNeo Games') first game ever. Hopefully there'll be no need to change those names, but these things happen sometimes in development. Better names come along or products with similar names get released before yours.
An Evil Empire
Sons of Sol actually began in 2012 not long after Disney bought Star Wars from George Lucas. I was a life-long Star Wars fan. The films, games, and especially the books. My brother bought me one of the Expanded Universe (EU) novels in 1997 for my 10th birthday; a Han Solo trilogy one. From then and for the next 15 years, 4 out of every 5 books that I read were probably Star Wars books. I loved how the stories interconnected. I loved that a character could be introduced in one book, and survive fifteen fictional years, then be killed off when you least expect it.
There were a lot of bad books in the Expanded Universe, but far more good ones. I loved how you were rewarded for your time by seeing threads of stories affect each other decades apart. The rebels eventually take Coruscant, Han and Leia have three kids, these kids get dozens of their own books and become their own proper characters, grow to adulthood and war with each other, for example. There's a book for more than every year of their lives. You can observe their whole character arcs from birth to… well.. if you put the time in. The EU was all internally consistent, and all canon. It all worked together.
There are a few early exceptions and a few game stories that don't fit, but otherwise the EU really rewarded fans for their time. In 2012 I finished reading to the end of the Star Wars chronology. That's 40 years of story after Return of the Jedi, not to mention the Clone Wars books and books set between and during the movies. I didn't read all the books, but read most from the timeline of Episode 1-6 and beyond. None of the Old Republic stuff, though.
Anyway, I felt I'd achieved a monumental reading goal that I set myself in 2007 (before that I'd read the books a little randomly). Five years of reading little but Star Wars, and the stories I got out of it were great. No other franchise could achieve this (well, maybe Star Trek).
Then Disney bought Star Wars, and soon announced that there would be a new trilogy, but that they'd be throwing away all of that canon. The EU didn't count any more. Timothy Zahn started with Heir To The Empire in 1994. 18 years of work and some great stories now didn't count because Disney felt there was more money in movies and merchandise.
I'm not naive. I know there is. I know entertainment is a business, but I'm just trying to convey my disappointment at the news. They could have set new movies inside the EU, easily. Instead they threw it away for.. well, we don't know yet. This blog is posting 1 month before the release of JJ Abrams' Episode 7. We've no idea if the new movies will be good or if the stories will be better than the ones discarded. I'm still totally reserved at the time of writing this.
I also know that I now have two timelines. More Star Wars! Yay! Well, that's just not how I feel about it. I'm allowed to feel disappointed, particularly after the loyalty I showed the franchise.
A Great Journey
Anyway, also around this time, I moved back to Ireland after unsuccessfully attempting to get a permanent visa in Australia. So I was back in Ireland and unemployed with no decent chances of starting a career any time soon. I decided to start writing science fiction to fill the Star-Wars-shaped hole in my soul (okay, I'm being overly dramatic. I'll watch it. Sorry).
I was going to write a universe of my own that I would promise to keep consistent with itself. I didn't believe that this would become a big thing, or even necessarily that I would get a single book published, but it occupied the time.
Building a Galaxy
I started watching tonnes of science fiction movies and documentaries and designing my universe. This took a long time. You have to design whole new physical rules for your world. You have to say "you can do this, but not this" and consider if that statement even makes sense. If you have one technology available, like artificial gravity without rotation, then you have to consider what else you can have. With that, for example, you're kind of saying that the theory of 'gravitons' existing is correct, and that we've managed to develop technology to manipulate them. Well, keeping someone fixed to the deck in a spaceship (as seen in almost every sci fi movie and show ever) means that you can cause attraction towards a point. In that case, you can probably cause repulsion in the opposite direction. This would make hover technology a reality. Did I want hover cars and hover crates in my sci-fi? Because if not then I have to solve the artificial gravity problem in another way.
How long does it take to travel from one star system to another? That's going to have a major impact on stories later on. Armies can't reinforce one another in the middle of a battle if it takes two weeks to travel to the nearest star.
In the end, I came up with rules I was happy with. It's a lot like Battlestar Galactica with some Mass Effect and Starship Troopers thrown in. A cold-hard-metal feel to things but with certain sci-fi tropes like artificial gravity. Warp speed is accomplished assuming that Alcubierre's (real) theories are correct and realisable. There's no light swords, weapons fire hard projectiles, and there are no shield technologies. Armour and photo-chromatic materials are all that you've got in battle. There's also ABSOLUTELY NO TIME-TRAVEL OR ALTERNATE DIMENSIONS, EVER!!
Next I was writing broad story arcs and setting up so that the universe could grow wide, and so that you could have human factions appear in all parts of the galaxy. After all, it's easier to dress the actors as humans than aliens. You've got to think forward! 😉 Look at Stargate!
I sketched out a 3 part story that told the tale of Earth's first expansion beyond our solar system, our first contact with aliens, and our introduction to the wider galaxy. I designed alien races called the Cestral and the Skulaari, the latter being the villains, themed on terrifying sea creatures like giant squid and crustaceans. I even wrote a little language for these factions.
I Need a Name
This all took several months, and I got a job for a few months which led me to drop the writing project for a while. Then I lost the job and took the writing back up again. I started writing the real story, finally, and decided to call the story at large "Sons of Sol", after conducting extensive web searches for similarly named things.
At the time, I found none. I bought the .com address and set up a wiki to lay some sort of claim to the name. I've since found some similarly named games, a Korean TV show called "Sons of Sol Pharmacy" and a hoody company with the very same name. Apparently, I'm still fine to be using the name, so for now I'll keep it unless I can think of a name I like more.
In early 2013 I started studying tax in Ireland, believing this would be my route to eventual (permanent) employment. I worked hard at it, but I was unemployed and it was a part time course, so I still had some time to give to writing and designing the world. I also had been writing down game ideas as they came to me and designing them out in .txt files for fun. I never expected to make a game, though, as I didn't want to study another degree course just to go into a risky profession.
A Flirtation with Games
One day I was very sick of studying this boring topic and posted on the forum Boards.ie to see if any game developers needed somebody with "great ideas" (I know, right?! haha) but who could also record audio, compose music, write, and manage the business/marketing side (okay, that's a little better).
A guy called Rob Reinhardt in Dublin got back to me and he was actually interested in doing some collaborating. We struck up a friendship and met a few times, talking about games and what we might make together. I was only going to be involved part time as I was studying and hopefully going to get a normal job, but I'd help with the writing and other stuff as much as I could. I wasn't looking for pay or anything.
Eventually, we decided to use Sons of Sol's universe as a setting for a game. It would be a prequel for the book I was writing. The book focussed on the people of Earth (at first), but the game would focus on a lost human civilization called the Kolrir and how they came (secretly) to Earth, setting up the events of the book I was writing.
Nothing came of the game ultimately, but we'd designed a lot on paper for Sons of Sol: Exodus (that name would have to change if we'd done it because Sol: Exodus came out from somebody else).
An Earth-shattering Kaboom!
2014 rolled around. I got a job in tax.. for 6 weeks, then lost that one too. Rob and others had told me that Unity was easy to pick up and start using, so with game design now on the brain and no tax to work at or study, I started at Unity and learned how to do some basic programming through their tutorials. It was only a couple of months before I had a very early version of a space game up and running. I later returned to this very first game for Crow's Nest.
I started going to gaming events in Dublin and meeting the great community here, as well as improving my own skills and looked into starting a company through the unemployment enterprise scheme.
The game that Rob and I had designed was still well beyond my skills still (probably his too. We weren't good at 'scope') but the space game currently on my screen could work inside the Sons of Sol universe too. After all, I'd designed it very openly. I can plug in new civilizations wherever I like and the story still all holds together. I'd put a lot of time into the 'Exodus' story (with Rob) and thought it was solid, so I wanted to keep it in tact. I decided to write a prequel to the prequel and tell the story of the characters that you would meet in Exodus and call it "Crow's Nest".
My very own Game
The game would be ostensibly about a private military company from Kolrir protecting their territories from pirates. The 'Crows Nest', the lookout spot on a sail ship (like a pirate boat) sounded suitably pirate-y for a name. In space, though, particularly in another non-Earth culture, the crow's nest wouldn't really be a term in use, both because you can't sit outside a spaceship, and the Kolrir culture may never have had sailing ships as far as we know. So in this case, the "Nest" would refer to a pirate base hidden inside a large asteroid, and "Crow" would be the pirate villain in question who owned that base.
I'll fully admit that I didn't finish a book, didn't finish a game, and am now starting another game, but bear in mind that I saw writing the book as just killing time while unemployed. The first game was killing time in between studying. With the current game, I've formed RetroNeo Games as a company. This is now my job, and that's a hell of a difference. I also now have the skills to make a game (or at least prototype it) by myself, without just being in a position where I'm giving ideas to other people. I have the time, ability, and drive to deliver Sons of Sol: Crow's Nest.
The Future of Sons of Sol
I plan to release in early 2017. This will then be the first Sons of Sol product to exist, almost five years after I first created the universe. I hope people will like it!
I could take the same game and abandon the Sons of Sol name. It'll make no difference to the players. They don't know what Sons of Sol is! But I've a whole universe worth of stories to tell and why shouldn't I make the game a Sons of Sol title? It fits. It works. But what if it's bad and I wreck the name before I even begin?
Well, then I released a bad game, I guess. That's the risk with any creative work. And it's still better than releasing no game at all and Sons of Sol never getting its chance in the public domain. But I've worked too hard for years for no reward to approach this half-assed. Sons of Sol: Crow's Nest is going to be my absolute best effort, and nobody can ask fairer than that. I'll be a very proud daddy the day I finally release the game. And who knows, maybe I'll get to those other story lines some day, either through game sequels, or finishing the novel. The novel was only a couple of chapters in, though, when I last left it. If that were to be finished now I'd be better off having a different writer do it while I make a game. And I could only do that if a Sons of Sol game were wildly successful and there was the interest in a book.
That's extremely unlikely, I know, but it doesn't bother me either way. I feel that if I can release one Sons of Sol title at this stage, I'll be happy and it will all have been worth the effort.
Is he done yet?!
If you read this far, well done, and thanks very sincerely for your interest! Especially if you read all 4 parts. Sorry for the lack of images today, also. I've really got no pictures of this topic, though. Next week we're back to non-Crow's Nest gaming topics for the blog.
Author Kevin MurphyPosted on November 15, 2015 Categories Crow's Nest, Development, Sons of SolTags Crow's Nest, Development, Sons of Sol, WritingLeave a comment on Making Crow's Nest (part 4 of 4): "Sons of Sol" & "Crow's Nest"
Making Crow's Nest (part 3 of 4): A design challenge
Last week in Part 2 I talked about the games that are influencing the design of Crow's Nest.
This week I want to talk about one particular design challenge I'm facing: Meaningful Character Death.
Crow's Nest is a space combat game meets a strategy game. You fly missions like Wing Commander or X-Wing missions (but in 2D) and then go back to a strategy map like XCOM or Total War. I spoke last week about how I'm very fond of the attachment to your soldiers that XCOM can create for the player. It adds a real tension and a greater range of emotions for the player when a soldier dies or barely escapes.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Not Billy-Bob!
I decided very early on that I wanted meaningful character death in my game. So I thought "fine, I'll have you play as one character, and you have wingmen. Those characters can live or die or get captured by the enemy. After that they could stay captured or you could rescue them".
That sounds reasonable enough, but there was something that I didn't take into account. In my game's battles, you control one character directly. You can give orders to your other wingmen but you have very little control over what they do beyond that. In XCOM, you're the commander. You're not on the field. You control every one of your soldiers individually, one at a time. You are responsible for everything that they do. Therefore, the consequences are yours alone to deal with. You can't blame the game or the AI for making your beloved soldier do something stupid (usually) and getting themselves killed.
I only realised the full importance of this distinction when I watched the following interview. In it, Adam Sessler brings together Jake Solomon (lead designer on 2012's XCOM: Enemy Unknown and 2016's XCOM 2) and Julian Gollop, the designer of the original XCOM from 1994. The whole interview is very interesting, but if you don't want to watch it all, skip to 12:32 and watch for about two minutes.
Jake Solomon made the point that without turn-based gameplay you can't have meaningful character death. I saw this and I thought "oh crap! He's completely right"! If the player isn't directly accountable for the decision that led to a soldier dying, then they won't feel survivor's guilt, or the guilt of having ordered somebody to their death. They'll probably feel nothing, or worse, they'll blame the game for the consequence. If that happens, the system may as well not be in the game. As I said, I think it's a very powerful feature of XCOM that I want to try and emulate insofar as possible, so I have a problem.
Now, I haven't built the system into the game yet, so it hasn't been play-tested, but I am at the design stage for it, and I'm left considering what I can do for the best results.
Poking a hole in that theory
If I'm to bother implementing meaningful character death into Crow's Nest (a real-time game), I need Solomon and Gollop to be (at least somewhat) incorrect. They're far better game designers than me, so maybe it's not possible, but if I could poke a breathing hole in the design-bag they've placed over my head, then I might be okay.
My starting point for designing around the problem is this: We know that we can develop strong emotional ties to fictional characters. This is why we can cry when Bambi's mother dies or celebrate when Luke blows up the Death Star. Empathy is real, even if the character isn't. Game of Thrones in particular proves that the unpredictability of death can have a great impact on fans and really raise the tension.
Real-life battles happen in real time (obviously, hence the word "real"), and while the commander's soldiers will have been trained, they operate of their own volition. A commander doesn't control them with their mind, or decide whether they run left around a barrel instead of right. But the tension they feel at ordering their troops into danger is no less real for the lack of direct control.
Perhaps, then, you don't need total control over your units in a game in order to feel something for them. They are your team mates, after all, whether they're AI or not. Maybe it's possible to bring the emotions of XCOM to a real-time game, then. Maybe meaningful character death for Crow's Nest is possible.
XCOM lets you make an awful lot of decisions, and it gives you the time to make them so that you'll feel (if it goes wrong) that you didn't think the problem through well-enough. You'll feel that it was your fault!
If XCOM shows us a formula for meaningful character death, then, it might look like this:
Quantity of player decisions + Time to make them = Meaningful Character Death
Time to make them
Let's look at this part first. A real-time game doesn't really offer you time, typically. But it can! Many RPGs will let you paused the action to give orders and then resume it to see them play out in real time. There's an option! The problem with this is that is interrupts the action, and in Crow's Nest, if you spend too long paused, you might forget that you were literally a half a second away from smashing into an asteroid before you paused.
So how about a compromise? The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (2013) was a real-time cover-based third-person shooter that tried to implement meaningful character death. It utterly failed because it was so story-driven that the main character (you) couldn't die. If you did, you just went back to a checkpoint. Your squad mates could die, permanently, but if they did you could just get yourself killed, reload the checkpoint to before they were hit, and everybody's happy again. That's what they did wrong.
What they did right was their 'pause' system. Like the RPG system I mentioned, you could pause the action and issue orders, but it wasn't really paused. Time was still moving, albeit very slowly. You had more time to make decisions, but the tension remained as you saw an enemy moving (very slowly) to flank your sniper and you tried to decide whether to order your him to move back or to take a headshot on the enemy before it was too late! That's one way I could buy the player the "time" part of the formula.
I could just acknowledge that in real time you have to make quick decisions and just live with that, however, this will then allow the player to make far less decisions in the same amount of (game) time and so the formula is less healthy looking.
Quantity of Player Decisions
There's a lot that I could do to give the player more decisions. In the combat demo I have currently available (see video above) there's a lot that will be changed. In this demo you have infinite fuel, infinite (bullet) ammo, and recharging health. The enemies also come in equal waves each time.
First off, I intend that when you encounter the first enemies of a battle, they'll call reinforcements, who'll take a certain amount of time to get there, but who will be stronger that the first group. Think of it as a wave system, but where you don't have to beat one to spawn the next one. It's a truer reinforcement system. You want to deal with one problem before the next arrives.
Of course, different mission types could have different rules and spies might disable enemy communications, etc, but imagine that some missions as they go on get harder and harder, to the point that waves will spawn that you couldn't possibly beat. This is one option that opens a lot of doors.
This set up would force you to chose to flee at some point. That choice alone means that if you or your allies die, you know you stayed one wave too long.
If I then make ammo, fuel, and health limited, then you have to choose if you and each of your wingmen have enough of those three resources left to take on the next set of reinforcements, or just run whenever you get the chance. That's at least three choices that you make for each of three (or more) craft, every couple of minutes. That's a lot of opportunity for the player to start blaming themselves if something goes wrong.
Other decisions would have been made before the battle. Do you take the more experienced pilots or train up rookies? Do you arm missiles, or save the weight to make the craft more agile? Did you invest in an armour upgrade last month or did that money go to set up a spy drone in an asteroid field where you suspect the enemy to be?
I could go on, but you can see that quantity of decisions shouldn't be a problem, even in a real-time game.
The Real Trick; AI
Can I make you care about these guys?
Assuming we can get the formula balanced correctly, the whole thing hinges on whether or not the player will accept that, if a wing mate dies, the fault lay with their decisions. According to Gollop and Solomon, the player would blame the AI. I think that the more you stack decisions and input from the player, within an interface that allows them to make decisions in good time, the greater the chance you have of the player accepting the consequences of those decisions and arriving at our goal of meaningful character death.
Balancing the AI is the key ingredient, and this is where so many games have failed in the past. I may well fail here, too, but I don't plan to make meaningful character death my game's only selling point, so it wouldn't be a fatal failure.
Your wing mates have to be good enough that they can survive on their own for a while against reasonable odds, but they can't be so good that you can just let them beat the whole mission for you.
In the demo at the moment, because the Arrow Fighters are harder to hit, turn faster, and have recharging health, they're actually capable of taking all of the kills if you do nothing. There aren't enough enemies on the map at once to stop them, usually. This is an unbalanced demo, however.
The AI will run if they're damaged, usually saving their lives. They'll call to you for help, and if you don't give it, the enemy might just catch up and kill your ally. This is already more intelligent behaviour than many games would bother giving to computer-controlled characters, and it's essential to meaningful character death in a real-time game, but it's not nearly enough.
Alien Isolation is known for its brilliant AI.
To be honest, I haven't figured out the balance yet, and it will require a lot of play testing.
I'd like to caveat that all of the above is assuming that you actually do things to give those wing mates a personality. They have to have a face, a voice, a backstory that you are spoon fed during quieter moments, as well as skills, abilities, a record of confirmed kills, and a rank that progresses as they gain experience. They have to taunt the enemy when they get a kill. They have to call you for help. They even have to react to incoming enemies believably; either with confidence, or the realisation that they're truly outmatched.
Some of those latter points are observable in the demo already, but most have yet to be implemented, and I only have one voice pack so far.
This is an open problem, not a post-mortem. Moreso than with any other blog that I've posted, I'd really appreciate your opinions in the comments below. What do you think of my problem? What do you think of my proposed solutions? Have you anything you might recommend as other player decisions or wing mate behaviours? What pitfalls should I avoid? Are there games I should be looking at to see how they handled this problem? Thank you in advance.
Next week is the last of these posts focussing on Crow's Nest (for now). I'll be talking about what Sons of Sol and Crow's Nest actually are (fictionally speaking) and how they came to be.
Author Kevin MurphyPosted on November 8, 2015 Categories Crow's Nest, Development, Sons of SolTags Crow's Nest, Development, Sons of SolLeave a comment on Making Crow's Nest (part 3 of 4): A design challenge
Making Crow's Nest (part 2 of 4): Influences
Hi! This is part 2 of me offering some insight into the creation of Sons of Sol: Crow's Nest. In Part 1 I talked about my "Asteroids meets Total War" pitch and what, exactly, the hell that meant.
This week I'll be basically talking about some of the games that are having a big influence on the development of Crow's Nest. If you're a space and/or strategy game fan, this may be of interest to you. Fair warning; there's going to be a lot of Star Wars games in here!
These aren't "games that are similar to my game", but instead they make up more of a history of the games that I have personally played that influence Crow's Nest in some way.
First up..
Asteroids (1979)
Last week I talked a bit about this and Total War as influences so I'll be brief. Here is one of the very original space shooters, and a classic game. There's the three-life formula with a single hit and you're dead. There's extra lives, speed, intensity, high scores, and great use of limited technology to deliver imaginative graphics. The key ingredient to itss addictiveness is the quick restart. You can instantly hop back in for another round to try and beat your previous high score. It's a simple, but proven method of keeping players pumping in quarters (or nowadays, playing and seeing advertising).
The computer room in my school when I was a kid had this on some machines so I'd race through our typing lessons so that I could play. In years since I see it every now and again as a web link and I always click in for a few rounds. The thrill of dodging through asteroids at high speeds and evading incoming laser shots never gets old, and it's a mechanic that I'm endeavouring to capture in Crow's Nest.
Total War series
Shogun: Total War (2000)
Again, I talked about Shogun specifically last week, but to reiterate, I loved the two-sided approach to a strategy game. Until Shogun, I'd only played strategy games like Command & Conquer (C&C) where you fight one battle at a time and it never influenced the next battle. It didn't matter how many losses you took in exchange for victory, and if you lost you would just restart the level. In Total War, you finally could say "we may have lost this battle, but we'll win the war" and it would mean something.
At the time, I was unaware that XCOM had been doing this since 1994, and there were probably several other games too, but this was my first and the experience of playing Shogun for the first time shaped how I would view games forever more. Now, as a designer, the strategic depth of Total War and games like it is something I want to incorporate into my games whenever possible.
I also liked how special units could affect the war. Diplomacy and assassinations could drastically change the course of the war. I've always kept in mind the influence that special units could and (I think) should have on a strategy game.
X-COM series
X-COM: Ufo Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) (1994)
There were a whole bunch of XCOM games starting with 1994's original, but the series wasn't well managed, wasn't always in the hands of the original creators, and really took a dive until the 2012 remake by Firaxis and 2K, 'XCOM: Enemy Unknown'. When the latter was announced, it was the first time I really noticed the series. I'd never played it. I picked up the original before the release of the remake, and played both games in 2012. My world changed!
I'd always avoided turn-based strategy games. I just had never liked the few examples I'd played. I thought they were too unrealistic because you wind up with two soldier just looking at each other instead of fighting. What I didn't appreciate was that in the moments between the action, when you're making your decisions like in a chess match (ironically, I loved chess), you're getting a whole different type of gameplay. Instead of trying to simply react quickly like in an RTS, you're really trying to solve a problem in the most efficient way possible (like a puzzle game) but with the added element of random chance getting in the way of your best laid plans. RTS games have this plus speed, but turn based games forego the speed in favour of really making you think about the consequences of your actions.
I'll be talking next week about a design challenge that this posed to my game. The turn-based element buys you gravitas insofar as the player has made every move and so they have nobody to blame for the consequences. In any real-time game where you have allies, they'll likely by controlled by the AI, and if they die you may be inclined to blame the designer or the AI, and not your own command skills.
Chances are they're not all coming back!
What I love about XCOM is the same thing that I love about Total War: persistence! The game allows you to fail and recover, not just restart. What XCOM does that Total War doesn't really do is make you care about individual soldiers. In dealing with small squads over dozens of missions (and especially if you choose to name and customise them yourself) you get to form relationships with individual soldiers. Sending your best veteran sniper into a risky situation to try and rescue your best medic is a weighty decision that C&C or Total War can't really deliver. The tension is immense because the consequences are permanent. That means that success is vastly more rewarding here than in normal games. You're always glad to see troops come home alive. The range of emotions you can evoke in the player is what earns the XCOM series such devoted fans.
I also loved the base management, particularly in the original game (or the fan-made Xenonauts (2014)). Having to actually buy replacement rockets, bullets, grenades, and med packs may have been too heavy on the micromanagement side, but then again, a shortage of finances really affected your tactical options when you went into battle. You might fire a rocket to keep your troops safe from an ambush, but you wince as you see thousands of credits go up in smoke! Also in those games I loved that your home base could be attacked, but may not be. 2012's XCOM and its expansion Enemy Within didn't have this. EW had one mandatory base attack mission. In the other games you could attack enemy bases or leave them be, and they could do the same to you. Each side could have more than one base, but they were expensive to run. The decision was up to you!
I haven't decided how many of these design influences will appear in the strategy layer of Crow's Nest, but some of them definitely will.
Star Wars: X-Wing series (1993-1999)
Now we get to the combat influences! I've said before on this blog that 1993's X-Wing was my first ever game. I played the hell out of it! Its sequels TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, and X-Wing Alliance were also hugely influential for me.
I must acknowledge that, like many of the Star Wars games, these were cashing in on the popularity of other games. Wing Commander (1990) paved the way for X-Wing. Lucasarts said "we could do that, but with iconic Star Wars ships, music, and sound. People will go insane for it!" So my influence's influence was really Wing Commander, but I never actually played any of them until I backed Star Citizen and started looking up Chris Roberts' older games.
Tragically, X-Wing Alliance (1999) remains the last game in this series, but it's one of my favourite games of all time. The series centred around dogfighting in the Star Wars ships, exclusively in space. Alliance was the first one where you could fly bigger ships like the Millennium Falcon, jump sectors in hyperspace during a mission, or dock with craft to rearm or "board" them (you just sat in the turret while other people on your ship supposedly did the boarding, but it was still cool).
X-Wing Alliance (1999). Fly the Millennium Falcon against the second Death Star !
It had over 50 missions and (what I thought) was a great story set alongside the events of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, culminating in you (changing characters to Lando) flying the Millennium Falcon in the Battle of Endor, all the way inside the second Death Star!
Wing mates would take your orders, get chatty with you, call for help, and taunt the enemy! That's not unique to this game, or anything, but it adds greatly to the atmosphere and it's in Crow's Nest too!
The briefings, the mission types, the dramatic set-pieces, the in-game reinforcements and dramatic turnings of the tide of battle are all fresh in my memory and are heavily influencing the way I'm designing the combat missions of Crow's Nest. While Alliance was a linear game, and mine is more dynamic, I feel I can still deliver a lot of the same drama, action and intensity but with the added benefits of the tension gained from the possibility of loss.
The one major thing I wanted to change is that in 3D space you see very little of the battle. When an enemy goes past you you lose sight of them. When a big ship explodes spectacularly, you may not be looking in the right direction at the right time to see it. I wanted to take 3D space combat games and put them in 2D so you have greater situational awareness and can see more of the action! That's my big departure, but otherwise, the combat in Crow's Nest is heavily influenced by the X-Wing games; far more so than it is by your average top-down space shooter.
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998)
The original was out on the N64, and later the PC. Two sequels came out on the Gamecube too. These were also 3D Star Wars ship combat games, but now mostly focussed on planetary combat, against TIE Fighters & ground units, instead of TIE Fighters & Star Destroyers.
If you played these games and the current Crow's Nest demo, my big take-away from Rogue Squadron should be obvious: The orders system.
You have two wing mates with you most of the time and they can largely take care of themselves, but you can give them a few orders on the D-pad. D-up is to "Form Up" and they increase your overall fire power by flying on your wing and shooting when you shoot. I've used this order directly (it's not stealing if you declare the influence, right?) as well as the ability to keep your wing mates safe by telling them to retreat. Beyond that, the orders system starts to differ, but feeling like you're not alone is important to a game where you play a fighter squadron, and Rogue Squadron handled it well!
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014)
Can anyone have played this game and not loved the nemesis system? This Lord of the Rings game has you play a human Ranger & elven ghost (sharing the same body) and travel around Mordor… eh, doing things.. revenge, mostly. It played a bit like the Batman Arkham games in the fighting systems and like many open world games otherwise, but the nemesis system stood it apart, and it even won a few Game Of The Year Awards.
In the picture above, you can see one of dozens of enemy commanders. These exist in a ranking hierarchy. You can "ally" with some of them and assist their rise to power in order to get rid of certain other nemeses in the game.
Each nemesis (as long as they're alive, anyway) will remember having met and fought you, and they'll comment on the result of that battle. As seen above, they all have different strengths and weaknesses. At first, these are unknown to you but you can interrogate underlings and rivals (forgive me if I'm not exactly right, there) to learn these traits. For example, a nemesis might have beaten you down the first three times you tried to fight him, then you learn he's afraid of a 'caragor', so you show up riding on the back of one and he'll flee with his tail between his legs! Another nemesis might hate caragors, and so this same tactic would only enrage him, boosting his stats!
This latter part of the system is something I'm interested in implementing into Crow's Nest. You will benefit from spying on enemies by learning things about their movements, or what types of ships they favour using. You could just approach the battles blind, but intel gathering will pay off.
I don't necessarily plan to have you ally with factions or control pirate groups, but I'm at least taking inspiration from the nemesis system insofar as learning about your enemy and having them remember you goes.
Star Wars: Empire At War (2006)
This is one of my favourite strategy games ever, especially the two player competitive campaign, but there's not so much I'm taking from it that I didn't already credit Total War for.
Your armies persist across a galaxy map, space map, AND individual planetary maps. It's very unlike Empire at War, though, because you control fewer units. The loss of the only Star Destroyer you may have in your fleet really hurts, even if you win the battle. You can steamroll the enemy for a while, but you're taking losses as you go and will run out of steam, thus having less units left to defend your new territories from counter-attack.
The land maps also host buildings like Ion Cannons or Hypervelocity Guns which can be used by the defending team in the space battle above that planet. If you are wise, you might raid the planet with a small force (small raid forces can bypass the space battle) with the sole aim of destroying that one building before launching your space battle. If you hold the space above the planet, you can hit the land battle with bombing runs and orbital strikes. This interplay of systems is another great example of what multi-layered games can achieve.
X-COM: Interceptor (1998)
I only played this for the first time in 2015, and development on Crow's Nest was already well underway. It's not far off what I'm doing, as it turns out, but nobody thought this game was all that it could be either.
You command a base on a strategy map and manage its resources, as with other XCOM games, but instead of the turn-based battles you have a fighter ship battle. The problem is that these battles were nearly all the same and they got very repetitive.
The only influence I'm taking from this game is in what not to do. I need to ensure missions in Crow's Nest are varied enough, and that there are real characters and stories playing out during the campaign. To what extent, I don't yet know, but this is a good example of a game relying 100% on its systems producing all the gameplay.
Star Citizen (20??)
How can I make a space game in 2015 and not be influenced by Star Citizen/Squadron 42? That said, my game is a single-player war game, not a multiplayer space-everything game. I'm very excited for Star Citizen, but even moreso for the single-player side, 'Squadron 42'. If we get to play S42 early next year I imagine it might influence Crow's Nest somewhat, but probably not in many ways that X-Wing and Wing Commander haven't already. If the game takes longer than that to come out, Crow's Nest may already have been released. Time will tell.
I could also mention FTL for its art style, actually, but the art in Crow's Nest so far is just my placeholder stuff and I don't believe that I can draw. I certainly won't be the final artist, so it's not worth mentioning visual influences at this stage, really.
I've found that when making a game, a lot of people will come and say "oh, you must have been influenced by this" or "have you played that"? There are so many games out there that chances are the answer will be "no, actually. I haven't heard of that one". I've listed my main influences here, and very few of them are actually 2D space games.
If there's anything you think I should check out, either because it's similar to what I'm doing or just because it rocks, please let me know!
Next week I'll be focussing on a design challenge posed by trying to do some of what XCOM does in a real-time action game. If that sounds interesting to you, please subscribe to the RetroNeo Games Facebook or Twitter accounts (link icons at the top and bottom of this page).
Author Kevin MurphyPosted on November 1, 2015 Categories Crow's Nest, Development, Retro, Reviews, Sons of SolTags Crow's Nest, Development, Sons of Sol1 Comment on Making Crow's Nest (part 2 of 4): Influences
Making Crow's Nest (part 1 of 4): My "Asteroids meets Total War" Pitch
At work in Unity
I'll be away over the next few weeks so I've decided to do a four-parter and schedule it to post at my normal times so my one-a-week blog goal remains unbroken. I've been going now for over 6 months now and wanted to at least see out the end of 2015 with an 'undefeated streak'.
To that end, I'll be turning the blog's focus a little more inward and talking about how my game in development (Sons of Sol: Crow's Nest) came to be, what its influences are, the features of the game and certain design challenges that I'm facing. As it's still in development and still just me on the team, this is all still in motion, but there should be good insights and new information for anyone who's interested in reading. It will be interesting to compare these posts with a post-mortem for the game once it's finally out, too.
So, with that out of the way..
What is Crow's Nest?
I won't wax lyrical here, you can check out the game's page yourself, and either play the demo or watch the gameplay footage. Briefly, Sons of Sol: Crow's Nest is an upcoming tactical space shooter with a strategy layer. I've described it as "Asteroids meets Total War".
You can see some gameplay from the playable PC demo below. It's early in development and due out in Q1 2017.
How Does Asteroids meet Total War, exactly?
So my pitch for Sons of Sol: Crow's Nest is that it's "Asteroids meets Total War" and I've found that this can get people interested quite effectively. How does a top-down space shooter from the 1970s tie in with one of the largest, most successful strategy game series in the world; one which, until Total War: Warhammer was announced, was set exclusively in historical Earth periods with swords and spears and massive armies?
To be fair I could also describe the game as "Wing Commander meets Xcom", but a pitch has to be as catchy as possible, n'est pas?
The similarities between Asteroids and Crow's Nest are pretty plain to see. They both have a small, triangular space fighter flying around an asteroid field, and, quite importantly, the ships are driven by Newtonian physics, meaning if you stop accelerating you will keep drifting. There's no drag in space so you can turn on the spot and shoot backwards, and to slow down you have to turn around and thrust in the opposite direction.
The similarities really end there, though. In Crow's Nest the goal is not to kill asteroids for points, the screen isn't locked in position, and both you and the asteroids can take more than one hit.
Then from here I started building up more of a squadron-based thing, adding wing mates, squad orders, and reasonably intelligent enemies, as well as the ability to communicate with your fleet for reinforcements. Here, I was taking inspiration from Star Wars games like Rogue Squadron and X-Wing. I'll talk about games that influenced Crow's Nest in a follow-up part.
The important take-away is that Crow's Nest has an action/combat layer presented in a classic arcade-like style.
The trailer above is for Shogun, the first Total War game in 2000. I haven't played them all, but I beat this one so I know it represents some of the ideas I'm going for. You command your chosen family dynasty in feudal Japan during the Sengoku Jidai period of history. It's a game of two halves. There's the tactical combat side where you command individual army units in a single battle. This half of the game is represented in Crow's Nest as the 'Asteroids' part.
The other side of the game is the strategy layer, where you have a map of all of Japan and time passes months at a time. You move your armies around the country to reinforce or attack territories (Risk style) and then fight the tactical battles for those areas using only the units you brought with you. No Command & Conquer-style building during a battle! But in addition to this, you could send spies, assassins and emissaries around the world. You could negotiate for peace or assassinate an opposing general the night before a battle, weakening his forces when you face them in the tactical layer.
You could also bring your own character (the Daimyo) into battle for big morale bonuses, but if you died in battle, you were dead. If you didn't have an adult male heir, it was game over! If you did, you basically had an 'extra life'. Similarly, if you won a battle but lost all of your cavalry, they were gone! You no longer had them to move around the strategy layer. This interplay leant real gravitas to every little decision, and to every death. I love these mechanics and knew I wanted them for Crow's Nest.
An early prototype for the strategy map in Crow's Nest.
My original idea was that you would control several fleets (as many as you could build/afford) in Crow's Nest and defend a territory from pirate marauders. You would also send spies on missions to gather intel and attempt assassinations or to sabotage the enemy. When a tactical battle occurred, the losses and gains would persist back to the strategy layer. This is why I chose "Total War" as a suitable descriptor for my pitch.
As development went on, I decided that it might be better for you to control just a single fleet. This would make your flagship all the more precious to you, and prevent you from using steamroll tactics to the same extent. This way, even in the late game, battles would stay tense for the player. It would also limit the amount of pilots you have to dozens, not hundreds, and make their lives and progression matter more to you. This means that Xcom might be a better descriptor than Total War now, but as the strategy side in Crow's Nest is still very early in development and prone to change, I haven't decided whether to change the pitch yet.
Obviously, those four words aren't my whole pitch, but they're the short version.
What do you think of the pitch? Have you any experience pitching? Any advice? Would saying "Xcom" be better than "Total War"? Both franchises are currently doing well and get the point across to anyone who knows games.
Next Sunday, I'll be posting Part 2, where I talk about the other games that have influenced the development of Crow's Nest in a mini-review sort of way.
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Author Kevin MurphyPosted on October 25, 2015 Categories Crow's Nest, Development, Sons of SolTags Crow's Nest, Development, Sons of SolLeave a comment on Making Crow's Nest (part 1 of 4): My "Asteroids meets Total War" Pitch | {
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I define professional claustrophobia as a feeling of being kept in the same role, performing the same mundane tasks, turning in the same redundant reports with no challenges. I would wager that the majority of workers feel stuck in their current role, at least one time in their career. After-all, if you do the same exact thing every day for 5 days a week, 50 weeks out of the year, you are almost guaranteed to get bored.
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Notre-Dame du Breuil és una església catòlica a la localitat d'Albi, (departament del Tarn, França).
Història
L'església es va construir entre 1959 i 1962, amb els plans dels arquitectes Georges Mas i Gérard Sacquin, per a satisfer les necessitats dels feligresos dels nous barris de Breuil i Mazicou. L'edifici està registrat com a monument històric des del 3 de juny de 2005.
Arquitectura
L'església és un edifici de formigó armat i maons. La seva estructura massissa i reforçada està inspirada en la catedral de Santa Cecília d'Albi. A l'interior, el formigó es deixa aspre al voltant de les vores. Els vitralls són de Raymond Clercq-Roques.
Referències
Vegeu també
Llista de monuments del districte d'Albi
Monuments històrics d'Albi
Esglésies de la regió d'Occitània
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Petraliella är ett släkte av mossdjur. Petraliella ingår i familjen Petraliellidae.
Kladogram enligt Catalogue of Life:
Källor
Mossdjur
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The Hello Bitches Tour (stylized as Hello Bi+ches Tour) was the debut concert tour of South Korean singer CL. The tour visited nine cities in 2016 in the United States and Canada, kicking off in New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom on October 29 and concluding in Toronto at the Sound Academy on November 14. The tour was promoted by SIVA Entertainment Group. The setlist consisted of her solo songs along with many of her previous works with K-pop girl group 2NE1.
Background and development
On September 23, 2016, YG Entertainment announced that CL would hold her first American tour. She will visit nine cities in North America, with a total of nine shows. The tour's name derives from CL's 2015 Korean language single "Hello Bitches". The tour's announcement followed the release of CL's debut American single "Lifted" on August 19, amid news of an upcoming English-language debut EP. The sold-out show at the Hammerstein Ballroom made her the first Korean female singer to play a solo concert at a major venue in New York City. An unreleased music video of "Hello Bitches" was also played during the tour.
Controversy
On November 7, fans and concertgoers had noticed that CL had been using the "controversial" version of her song "MTBD (Mental Breakdown)" since the tour started. CL apologized on her Twitter account stating that her "engineer [had] sent the old version for [the] tour". CL performed the alternative version for the later shows.
Set list
"Fire" (Intro)
"Can't Nobody"
"Scream"
"I Am the Best"
"Come Back Home"
"I Don't Care (Reggae Ver.)"
"Gotta Be You"
"Falling in Love"
"Lonely"
"Missing You"
"If I Were You"
"I Love You"
"The Baddest Female"
"Doctor Pepper"
"Dirty Vibe"
"MTBD"
"Lifted"
"Hello Bitches"
Encore
"Do You Love Me"
"I Am The Best (Remix)"
Tour dates
References
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A new report from the Anti-Defamation League says white supremacists have increased their recruitment efforts at colleges like never before under President Trump's watch.
According to the ADL, 290 incidents involving posters, banners and other materials featuring racist propaganda were recorded in 2017.
In 2016, that number was 56.
"White supremacists are targeting college campuses like never before," said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in a statement.
"They see campuses as a fertile recruiting ground, as evident by the unprecedented volume of propagandist activity designed to recruit young people to support their vile ideology."
With the report including every institution from Ivy League schools to community colleges, Texas and California saw the most incidents by far in 2017, with 61 and 43 respectively. Pennsylvania is third with 18.
However, only six states in the entire country were without any incident.
Of all the incidents that have occurred over the last two years, the ADL claims the white supremacist group Identity Evropa was responsible for nearly half of them.
Discussing their style of propaganda, the organization says Identity Evropa prefers to avoid messages that are immediately recognizable as hate-filled, instead employing "black and white images of classical sculptures, including Michelangelo's David or Nicolas Coustou's Julius Caesar."
Meanwhile, groups that more openly embrace Nazi ideals such as Atomwaffen Division, which has ties to as many as five murders in eight months, "use blatantly violent and offensive imagery like blood-splattered swastikas."
Trump has more than struggled to condemn the rise of white supremacists during his time in the White House.
On the night of Aug. 11, 2017, when tiki torch-wielding racists marched near the University of Virginia, the usually loquacious Twitter user was silent.
The next day, after a morning in which white nationalists clashed with counter-protesters and violence overtook the streets of Charlottesville, Va., Trump finally made a statement on social media, saying, "We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!" and later adding, in part, "Charlottesville sad!"
In preparation for President Trump's upcoming visit, Identity Evropa members in San Diego went to the Mexican border to check out the wall prototypes and demonstrate against ANY form of amnesty.
Tragically, just moments after posting that last message, one of the "alt-right" attendees aimed his vehicle at a crowd of anti-Nazi demonstrators, injuring dozens and taking the life of 32-year-old civil rights activist Heather Heyer.
Given the opportunity to address the nation later that day, Trump decided against singling out white supremacists, saying instead, "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides — on many sides."
The President has continued to receive support from prominent racists such as former KKK leader David Duke, who just Tuesday lauded the State of the Union address and how it declared, "Americans are dreamers too."
Also picking up on that specific line was one of the leaders of the Charlottesville white supremacist rally, Richard Spencer.
Thank you President Trump. Americans are "Dreamers" too.
After the State of the Union, Spencer tweeted out a picture of a smiling white family along with a caption quoting Trump.
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Q: Flask: button to update value in database so I currently pull a value from a database and display it on the screen. I have a HTML button right next to it that is supposed to increase the score on the screen by 1 every time I click it. Currently, when I click the button nothing happens. The number on the screen stays the same.
Python file
@app.route('/')
def layout():
db = get_db()
try:
cur1 = db.execute('SELECT score FROM {tn} where name="Tyler"'.format(tn="Score"))
score1 = cur1.fetchone()
if request.method == 'POST':
db.execute('UPDATE {tn} SET score=score+1 WHERE name="Tyler"'.format(tn="Score"))
db.commit()
except:
flash("This person doesn't exist in our database!")
return render_template('layout.html', score1=score1)
HTML file
<form action="{{ url_for('layout') }}" method="post">
<p align="center">Tyler</p>
<div align="center">
<tr>
<td>{{ score1.score }}</td>
</tr>
<button type="button">+1</button>
</div>
</form>
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
Edit: updated view and HTML. Same issue.
A: Your two view functions are mapped to the same route; but a URL can only be served by one view.
Either map your increaseScore1 function to a different route, or combine the logic in one function which checks if the method is POST and updates the score if so, otherwise just displays it.
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Domenico Codispoti is an Italian man under house arrest for a variety of crimes, including petty theft and drug dealing. Signor Codispoti, 48, is homeless.
Every night at 9pm, he settles down in front of number 22 Via Vittor Pisani in Milan and arranges his blankets and sleeping bag. He isn't allowed to move until 7am the next morning. Police patrols check after sunset to make sure he's "at home."
"I have always done my stealing at night," he says. "That's why the court gave me this sentence. Since I don't have a house, there was no other solution left. During the night I can't move, I have to stay here, stuck on this sidewalk."
The unusual punishment was first imposed on Codispoti in 2006, when he was sentenced to two years of surveillance and house arrest. After a few more run-ins with the law, Codispoti's sentence was extended. He must now sleep in this particular spot near Milan's Central Station until April 2014.
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Toribio Marín, Carmen (2016). The Fourfold Water Garden, a Renaissance Invention. "Gardens and Landscapes of Portugal", v. 4 (n. 1); pp. 1-15. ISSN 2182-942X. https://doi.org/10.1515/glp-2016-0001.
The different combinations between the "classic" fourfold pattern and water in the garden have produced a high number of varied solutions since the distant past. However, during the Renaissance a new model emerges: a crossaxial garden with four basins arranged symmetrically around its center. The composite analysis of the related examples is addressed in this paper, which attempts to find an explanation for the different models as for the appearance of the contrasting solution at the same time in two different locations: the Villa Lante (Bagnaia, Italy) and the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo in El Escorial (Madrid, Spain). | {
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September 30, 1954: USS Nautilus commissioned
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Previously posted at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uss-nautilus-commissioned
The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy.
The Nautilus was constructed under the direction of U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover, a brilliant Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946. In 1947, he was put in charge of the navy's nuclear-propulsion program and began work on an atomic submarine. Regarded as a fanatic by his detractors, Rickover succeeded in developing and delivering the world's first nuclear submarine years ahead of schedule. In 1952, the Nautilus' keel was laid by President Harry S. Truman, and on January 21, 1954, first lady Mamie Eisenhower broke a bottle of champagne across its bow as it was launched into the Thames River at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned on September 30, 1954, it first ran under nuclear power on the morning of January 17, 1955.
Much larger than the diesel-electric submarines that preceded it, the Nautilus stretched 319 feet and displaced 3,180 tons. It could remain submerged for almost unlimited periods because its atomic engine needed no air and only a very small quantity of nuclear fuel. The uranium-powered nuclear reactor produced steam that drove propulsion turbines, allowing the Nautilus to travel underwater at speeds in excess of 20 knots.
In its early years of service, the USS Nautilus broke numerous submarine travel records and in August 1958 accomplished the first voyage under the geographic North Pole. After a career spanning 25 years and almost 500,000 miles steamed, the Nautilus was decommissioned on March 3, 1980. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982, the world's first nuclear submarine went on exhibit in 1986 as the Historic Ship Nautilus at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut.
September 29, 2005: Reporter Judith Miller released from prison
Previously posted at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reporter-judith-miller-released-from-prison
On this day in 2005, New York Times reporter Judith Miller is released from a federal detention center in Alexandria, Virginia, after agreeing to testify in the investigation into the leaking of the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame. Miller had been behind bars since July 6, 2005, for refusing to reveal a confidential source and testify before a grand jury that was looking into the so-called Plame Affair. She decided to testify after the source she had been protecting, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, signed a waiver giving her permission to speak.
The Plame Affair dates back to a July 6, 2003 op-ed piece for the New York Times written by former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson, Plame's husband. In it, Wilson questioned the Bush Administration's reasons for going to war in Iraq. Later that month, on July 14, undercover agent Valerie Plame's identity was revealed in a newspaper column by Robert Novak. Wilson's claim that the disclosure was retaliation by the White House for his op-ed piece sparked an investigation in December 2003 led by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. A 1982 law made it illegal to reveal information about a covert agent to anyone not authorized to receive such classified information.
Fitzgerald interviewed President George W. Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials, along with various journalists. Although Miller hadn't written an article about Plame, she did meet with Libby shortly after Wilson's op-ed piece was published and Fitzgerald believed Miller had information that was relevant to his investigation.
After 85 days in jail, Miller was released and testified before a grand jury that prior to the Novak column, she had several discussions with Scooter Libby in which he talked about Plame. On November 9 of that same year, Miller announced her retirement from the Times after a 28-year career with the newspaper.
On March 6, 2007, Scooter Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements to federal investigators in the Plame investigation. In June, he was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $250,000. However, one month later, on July 2, President George W. Bush commuted Libby's prison term before the ex-White House aide served any time.
September 28, 1941: Ted Williams becomes last player to hit .400
Previously posted at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ted-williams-becomes-last-player-to-hit-400
On this day in 1941, the Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams plays a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics on the last day of the regular season and gets six hits in eight trips to the plate, to boost his batting average to .406 and become the first player since Bill Terry in 1930 to hit .400. Williams, who spent his entire career with the Sox, played his final game exactly 19 years later, on September 28, 1960, at Boston's Fenway Park and hit a home run in his last time at bat, for a career total of 521 homeruns.
Williams was born on August 30, 1918, in San Diego, and began his major league career with the Red Sox in 1939. 1941 marked Williams' best season. In addition to his .406 batting average–no major league player since him has hit .400–the left fielder led the league with 37 homers, 135 runs and had a slugging average of .735. Also that season, Williams, whose nicknames included "The Splendid Splinter" and "The Thumper," had an on-base percentage of .553, a record that remained unbroken for 61 years, until Barry Bonds achieved a percentage of .582 in 2002.
In 1942, Williams won the American League Triple Crown, for highest batting average and most RBIs and homeruns. He duplicated the feat in 1947. In 1946 and 1949, he was named the American League's Most Valuable Player and in June 1960, he became the fourth player in major league history to hit 500 homers. He was selected to the All-Star team 17 times.
Williams played his last game on September 28, 1960, and retired with a lifetime batting average of .344, a .483 career on-base percentage and 2,654 hits. His achievements are all the more impressive because his career was interrupted twice for military service: Williams was a Marine Corps pilot during World War II and the Korean War and as a result missed a total of nearly five seasons from baseball.
Williams, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966, managed the Washington Senators (renamed the Texas Rangers in 1972) from 1969 to 1972. In 1984, the Boston Red Sox retired his uniform number (nine). Williams died of cardiac arrest at age 83 on July 5, 2002, in Florida. In a controversial move, his son sent his father's body to be frozen at a cryonics laboratory.
AF-093: How Much of the Original White House is Actually Left?
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September 27, 1779: John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British
Previously posted at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-adams-appointed-to-negotiate-peace-terms-with-british
On this day in 1779, the Continental Congress appoints John Adams to travel to France as minister plenipotentiary in charge of negotiating treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
Adams had traveled to Paris in 1778 to negotiate an alliance with France, but had been unceremoniously dismissed when Congress chose Benjamin Franklin as sole commissioner. Soon after returning to Massachusetts in mid-1779, Adams was elected as a delegate to the state convention to draw up a new constitution; he was involved in these duties when he learned of his new diplomatic commission. Accompanied by his young sons John Quincy and Charles, Adams sailed for Europe that November aboard the French ship Sensible, which sprang a leak early in the voyage and missed its original destination (Brest), instead landing at El Ferrol, in northwestern Spain. After an arduous journey by mule train across the Pyrenees and into France, Adams and his group reached Paris in early February 1780.
While in Paris, Adams wrote to Congress almost daily (sometimes several letters a day) sharing news about British politics, British and French naval activities and his general perspective on European affairs. Conditions were unfavorable for peace at the time, as the war was going badly for the Continental Army, and the blunt and sometimes confrontational Adams clashed with the French government, especially the powerful Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes. In mid-June, Adams began a correspondence with Vergennes in which he pushed for French naval assistance, antagonizing both Vergennes and Franklin, who brought the matter to the attention of Congress.
By that time, Adams had departed France for Holland, where he was attempting to negotiate a loan from the Dutch. Before the end of the year, he was named American minister to the Netherlands, replacing Henry Laurens, who was captured at sea by the British. In June 1781, capitulating to pressure from Vergennes and other French diplomats, Congress acted to revoke Adams' sole powers as peacemaker with Britain, appointing Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay and Laurens to negotiate alongside him.
The tide of the war was turning in America's favor, and Adams returned to Paris in October 1782 to take up his part in the peace negotiations. As Jefferson didn't travel to Europe and Laurens was in failing health after his release from the Tower of London, it was left to Adams, Jay and Franklin to represent American interests. Adams and Jay both distrusted the French government (in contrast with Franklin), but their differences of opinion and diplomatic styles allowed the team to negotiate favorable terms in the Peace of Paris (1783). The following year, Jefferson arrived to take Adams' place as American minister to France, forming a lifelong bond with Adams and his family before the latter left to take up his new post as American ambassador to London and continue his distinguished record of foreign service on behalf of the new nation.
September 26, 1960: First Kennedy-Nixon debate
Previously posted at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-kennedy-nixon-debate
For the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential candidates is shown on television. The presidential hopefuls, John F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator of Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon, the vice president of the United States, met in a Chicago studio to discuss U.S. domestic matters.
Kennedy emerged the apparent winner from this first of four televised debates, partly owing to his greater ease before the camera than Nixon, who, unlike Kennedy, seemed nervous and declined to wear makeup. Nixon fared better in the second and third debates, and on October 21 the candidates met to discuss foreign affairs in their fourth and final debate. Less than three weeks later, on November 8, Kennedy won 49.7 percent of the popular vote in one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history, surpassing by a fraction the 49.6 percent received by his Republican opponent.
One year after leaving the vice presidency, Nixon returned to politics, winning the Republican nomination for governor of California. Although he lost the election, Nixon returned to the national stage in 1968 in a successful bid for the presidency. Like Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Nixon declined to debate his opponent in the 1968 presidential campaign. Televised presidential debates returned in 1976, and have been held in every presidential campaign since.
September 25, 1957: Central High School integrated
Previously posted at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/central-high-school-integrated
Under escort from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, nine black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration. After a tense standoff, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the court order.
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in educational facilities was unconstitutional. Five days later, the Little Rock School Board issued a statement saying it would comply with the decision when the Supreme Court outlined the method and time frame in which desegregation should be implemented.
Arkansas was at the time among the more progressive Southern states in regard to racial issues. The University of Arkansas School of Law was integrated in 1949, and the Little Rock Public Library in 1951. Even before the Supreme Court ordered integration to proceed "with all deliberate speed," the Little Rock School Board in 1955 unanimously adopted a plan of integration to begin in 1957 at the high school level. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed suit, arguing the plan was too gradual, but a federal judge dismissed the suit, saying that the school board was acting in "utmost good faith." Meanwhile, Little Rock's public buses were desegregated. By 1957, seven out of Arkansas' eight state universities were integrated.
In the spring of 1957, there were 517 black students who lived in the Central High School district. Eighty expressed an interest in attending Central in the fall, and they were interviewed by the Little Rock School Board, which narrowed down the number of candidates to 17. Eight of those students later decided to remain at all-black Horace Mann High School, leaving the "Little Rock Nine" to forge their way into Little Rock's premier high school.
In August 1957, the newly formed Mother's League of Central High School won a temporary injunction from the county chancellor to block integration of the school, charging that it "could lead to violence." Federal District Judge Ronald Davies nullified the injunction on August 30. On September 2, Governor Orval Faubus—a staunch segregationist—called out the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School and prevent integration, ostensibly to prevent the bloodshed he claimed desegregation would cause. The next day, Judge Davies ordered integrated classes to begin on September 4.
That morning, 100 armed National Guard troops encircled Central High School. A mob of 400 white civilians gathered and turned ugly when the black students began to arrive, shouting racial epithets and threatening the teenagers with violence. The National Guard troops refused to let the black students pass and used their clubs to control the crowd. One of the nine, 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, was surrounded by the mob, which threatened to lynch her. She was finally led to safety by a sympathetic white woman.
Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann condemned Faubus' decision to call out the National Guard, but the governor defended his action, reiterating that he did so to prevent violence. The governor also stated that integration would occur in Little Rock when and if a majority of people chose to support it. Faubus' defiance of Judge Davies' court order was the first major test of Brown v. Board of Education and the biggest challenge of the federal government's authority over the states since the Reconstruction Era.
The standoff continued, and on September 20 Judge Davies ruled that Faubus had used the troops to prevent integration, not to preserve law and order as he claimed. Faubus had no choice but to withdraw the National Guard troops. Authority over the explosive situation was put in the hands of the Little Rock Police Department.
On September 23, as a mob of 1,000 whites milled around outside Central High School, the nine black students managed to gain access to a side door. However, the mob became unruly when it learned the black students were inside, and the police evacuated them out of fear for their safety. That evening, President Eisenhower issued a special proclamation calling for opponents of the federal court order to "cease and desist." On September 24, Little Rock's mayor sent a telegram to the president asking him to send troops to maintain order and complete the integration process. Eisenhower immediately federalized the Arkansas National Guard and approved the deployment of U.S. troops to Little Rock. That evening, from the White House, the president delivered a nationally televised address in which he explained that he had taken the action to defend the rule of law and prevent "mob rule" and "anarchy." On September 25, the Little Rock Nine entered the school under heavily armed guard.
Troops remained at Central High School throughout the school year, but still the black students were subjected to verbal and physical assaults from a faction of white students. Melba Patillo, one of the nine, had acid thrown in her eyes, and Elizabeth Eckford was pushed down a flight of stairs. The three male students in the group were subjected to more conventional beatings. Minnijean Brown was suspended after dumping a bowl of chili over the head of a taunting white student. She was later suspended for the rest of the year after continuing to fight back. The other eight students consistently turned the other cheek. On May 27, 1958, Ernest Green, the only senior in the group, became the first black to graduate from Central High School.
Governor Faubus continued to fight the school board's integration plan, and in September 1958 he ordered Little Rock's three high schools closed rather than permit integration. Many Little Rock students lost a year of education as the legal fight over desegregation continued. In 1959, a federal court struck down Faubus' school-closing law, and in August 1959 Little Rock's white high schools opened a month early with black students in attendance. All grades in Little Rock public schools were finally integrated in 1972.
September 24, 1789: The First Supreme Court
Previously posted at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-supreme-court
The Judiciary Act of 1789 is passed by Congress and signed by President George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices who were to serve on the court until death or retirement. That day, President Washington nominated John Jay to preside as chief justice, and John Rutledge, William Cushing, John Blair, Robert Harrison, and James Wilson to be associate justices. On September 26, all six appointments were confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
The U.S. Supreme Court was established by Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution granted the Supreme Court ultimate jurisdiction over all laws, especially those in which their constitutionality was at issue. The high court was also designated to oversee cases concerning treaties of the United States, foreign diplomats, admiralty practice, and maritime jurisdiction. On February 1, 1790, the first session of the U.S. Supreme Court was held in New York City's Royal Exchange Building.
The U.S. Supreme Court grew into the most important judicial body in the world in terms of its central place in the American political order. According to the Constitution, the size of the court is set by Congress, and the number of justices varied during the 19th century before stabilizing in 1869 at nine. In times of constitutional crisis, the nation's highest court has always played a definitive role in resolving, for better or worse, the great issues of the time.
September 23, 1875: Billy the Kid arrested for first time
Previously posted at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/billy-the-kid-arrested-for-first-time
On this day in 1875, Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time after stealing a basket of laundry. He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West, eventually earning a reputation as an outlaw and murderer and a rap sheet that allegedly included 21 murders.
The exact details of Billy the Kid's birth are unknown, other than his name, William Henry McCarty. He was probably born sometime between 1859 and 1861, in Indiana or New York. As a child, he had no relationship with his father and moved around with his family, living in Indiana, Kansas, Colorado and Silver City, New Mexico. His mother died in 1874 and Billy the Kid—who went by a variety of names throughout his life, including Kid Antrim and William Bonney—turned to crime soon afterward.
McCarty did a stint as a horse thief in Arizona before returning to New Mexico, where he hooked up with a gang of gunslingers and cattle rustlers involved in the notorious Lincoln County War between rival rancher and merchant factions in Lincoln County in 1878. Afterward, Billy the Kid, who had a slender build, prominent crooked front teeth and a love of singing, went on the lam and continued his outlaw's life, stealing cattle and horses, gambling and killing people. His crimes earned him a bounty on his head and he was eventually captured and indicted for killing a sheriff during the Lincoln County War. Billy the Kid was sentenced to hang for his crime; however, a short time later, he managed another jail break, murdering two deputies in the process. Billy the Kid's freedom was brief, as Sheriff Pat Garrett caught up with the desperado at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on July 14, 1881, and fatally shot him.
Although his life was short, Billy the Kid's legend grew following his death. Today he is a famous symbol of the Old West, along with such men as Kit Carson, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, and his story has been mythologized and romanticized in numerous films, books, TV shows and songs. Each year, tourists visit the town of Fort Sumner, located about 160 miles southeast of Albuquerque, to see the Billy the Kid Museum and gravesite.
September 22, 1862: Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
Previously posted at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-issues-emancipation-proclamation
On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, shortly after Lincoln's inauguration as America's 16th president, he maintained that the war was about restoring the Union and not about slavery. He avoided issuing an anti-slavery proclamation immediately, despite the urgings of abolitionists and radical Republicans, as well as his personal belief that slavery was morally repugnant. Instead, Lincoln chose to move cautiously until he could gain wide support from the public for such a measure.
In July 1862, Lincoln informed his cabinet that he would issue an emancipation proclamation but that it would exempt the so-called border states, which had slaveholders but remained loyal to the Union. His cabinet persuaded him not to make the announcement until after a Union victory. Lincoln's opportunity came following the Union win at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862. On September 22, the president announced that slaves in areas still in rebellion within 100 days would be free.
On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, which declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebel states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The proclamation also called for the recruitment and establishment of black military units among the Union forces. An estimated 180,000 African Americans went on to serve in the army, while another 18,000 served in the navy.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, backing the Confederacy was seen as favoring slavery. It became impossible for anti-slavery nations such as Great Britain and France, who had been friendly to the Confederacy, to get involved on behalf of the South. The proclamation also unified and strengthened Lincoln's party, the Republicans, helping them stay in power for the next two decades.
The proclamation was a presidential order and not a law passed by Congress, so Lincoln then pushed for an antislavery amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ensure its permanence. With the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865, slavery was eliminated throughout America (although blacks would face another century of struggle before they truly began to gain equal rights).
Lincoln's handwritten draft of the final Emancipation Proclamation was destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871. Today, the original official version of the document is housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
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It's Monday. Politics is more vicious than ever. So here's something a little lighter.
You can check it out, here.
Here's something that's been happening since the beginning of gay time. Not big deal.
Over 3,000 people participated in the survey, which was conducted earlier this month. One if four respondents admitted they had lied about their age at least once while chatting with a potential new hookup.
Here's the link. Lucille Ball once said that she couldn't lie about her age because she told too many people her real age when she first went to Hollywood. But she wished she hadn't told the truth back then.
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'Right to push transgender people around in clubs? Right to humiliate, intimidate and threaten them online?
Here's more. Good for them. | {
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package p01_Geometry.Abstract;
import p01_Geometry.Interfaces.AreaMeasurable;
import p01_Geometry.Interfaces.PerimeterMeasurable;
import p01_Geometry.Vertices.Vertex2D;
public abstract class PlaneShape extends Shape implements AreaMeasurable, PerimeterMeasurable {
public PlaneShape(Vertex2D[] vertices) {
this.coordinates = vertices;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return String.format(
"Shape Type: %s\r\n\t" +
"Area: %.2f\r\n\t" +
"Perimeter: %.2f\r\n",
this.getClassName(),
this.getArea(),
this.getPerimeter());
}
} | {
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assembler source code. There are also a few sample programs available in the net.
Hopefully this document will help to increase their number.
not an AVR assembler programming tutorial. It's not a C language tutorial either.
refer to avr-libc and assembler programs for this.
4. Clobbered registers, left empty in our example.
In the code section, operands are referenced by a percent sign followed by a single digit.
%1 refers to 'I' (_SFR_IO_ADDR(PORTD)).
statements. The compiler selected register r24 for storage of the value read from PORTD.
and your flash memory is able to hold.
The available assembler directives vary from one assembler to another.
creates it's own assembler code.
You may also make use of some special registers.
case a new compiler version changes the register usage definitions.
we will see how to pass multibyte expression results to the assembler code.
constants to the range 0 to 7 for bit set and bit clear operations.
used in the assembler instructions.
then the output value would have been destroyed on the first assembler instruction.
select any register for the output value, which is used for any of the input operands.
asm volatile("mov __tmp_reg__, %A0" ""
to two different 8-bit registers, both containing a part of value.
on. The next byte of the first operand will be %B0, the next byte %C0 and so on.
needs to be stored before interrupts are enabled.
temporary register tmp_reg defined by the compiler.
help of a local C variable.
everything has to be reloaded again after this code.
whenever used and store it whenever modified.
asm instead of asm and volatile instead of volatile. These are equivalent aliases.
create L_1405 or whatever. In any case, the labels became unique too.
"1: " "sbic %0, %1" ""
containing nothing other than your assembler code.
local variable to hold a temporary value.
bit value read from two successive port addresses.
inw() is supplied by avr-libc.
symbolic names in the assembler code. However, local variables may be held in registers. | {
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