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Vila Nova de Cerveira (, ) is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,253, in an area of 108.47 km².

The municipal holiday is October 1.

Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 11 civil parishes (freguesias):
 Campos e Vila Meã
 Candemil e Gondar
 Cornes
 Covas
 Gondarém
 Loivo
 Mentrestido
 Reboreda e Nogueira
 Sapardos
 Sopo
 Vila Nova de Cerveira e Lovelhe

General information
The town was founded by King Dinis of Portugal in 1321 and today is mainly known and visited due to the international biennial of art that takes place in the town since 1978.

Location
Between the river and the mountain, Vila Nova de Cerveira is located on the left bank of Minho River, which establishes the border with Spain, and is limited to northeast with the municipality of Valença, Paredes de Coura to the east, Ponte de Lima to the south, and Caminha to south-southwest.

The name of the village
The name of the village is explained by a legend.

"Once upon a time... there was a stag (deer) that was chosen by the Gods of Olympos to become a King. And so the stag decided to move, together with other stags, to this uninhabited territory that began to be known as "Terras de Cervaria" (Land of the Stags). Many years flew past. Fights, skirmishes, and disasters gradually devastated the colony until only the King Stag was left. According to the legend, when the noblemen from Asturias came down during the Reconquest to conquer what was to become the Condado Portucalense (Portugal), a young noblemen challenged the King Stag to a face-to-face duel. And the old Lord accepted. The duel took place among the trees and weeds on a trenched site. And, so the legend tells, the King Stag swept to victory! He kept the nobleman's flag that turned to be the King's coat of arms. But the Gods deceived the old King. He wouldn't be immortal... Tired of living and ill, the old Lord died in the loneliness of the crags and with him disappeared for good the Terra da Cervaria."

But the legend wasn't forgotten, and the coat of arms still bears a golden passant stag in silver armour standing in a green field.

History
Vila Nova de Cerveira was established by the King Dinis of Portugal on 1 October 1321, who also ordered the construction of Castelo de Vila Nova de Cerveira, the castle that still dominates the town center.

Attractions
The castle, today transformed to a pousada, was founded by King Dinis of Portugal and dates back from the 14th century. It lies on a small hill that rises next to the Minho River, thus overlooking the town and passages between Vila Nova de Cerveira and Galicia. The castle still preserves the old wall shield as well as some gates. Inside the walls, it is possible to find the old Town Hall, the old Court, the pillory (pelourinho in Portuguese), old barracks, and warehouses.
The Parish Church, or Igreja Matriz, was built in the 18th century and is dedicated to São Cipriano, the patron Saint of Vila Nova de Cerveira.

The pillory, or pelourinho, is a symbol of municipal jurisdiction and is located inside the castle in front of the old Town Hall, or Paços do Concelho. It dates back from the 15th century.
The old Town Hall dates back from the 16th century and is located inside the castle. In front of the building is the pillory.
The Misericórdia Church is located inside the castle and dates back from the 17th century.
The Manor House of the Castros Family, or Solar dos Castros, is a remarkable 18th-century structure, and it is one of the most important buildings in town. Currently, it houses the municipal library.
Lovelhe Fortress was built in the 17th century in a strategic area for defense manoeuvers on the left bank of Minho River during the restoration war (1640–1668) against Castile

Notable people
 Leonel de Lima (1403-1495) a nobleman, Viscount of Vila Nova de Cerveira.
 Paulo Cabral (born 1972) a former footballer with 238 club caps and one with Portugal
 Ricardo Alves (born 1991) a footballer with over 250 club caps

References

External links

Municipality official website

Towns in Portugal
Municipalities of Viana do Castelo District


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ECLIPSE Singer ERIK MARTENSSON Reflects on New Album and the Formula for Writing Catchy Songs: "Writing Complex Songs Is Easy, the Most Difficult Thing Is to Write a Simple Song with Hooks"
By Rodrigo Altaf November 6, 2019 No Comments
Photograph by Stephan Birlouez
In March 2019 ECLIPSE main songwriter Erik Martensson was voted one of the top 10 songwriters in the world by renowned Japanese metal magazine BURRN! In the years following the release of the 2012 album "Bleed & Scream", ECLIPSE has become one of Sweden's most prolific heavy rock bands. Together with guitar virtuoso Magnus Henriksson, drummer Philip Crusner and bass player Victor Crusner, ECLIPSE has developed a sound best described as a modern day heavy rock band with massive hooks, respectful of their roots but with no intention of looking in the rear view mirror.
Since 2012 ECLIPSE has released two additional albums ("Armageddonize" 2015 and "Monumentum" 2017). Their latest record charted in several European countries and has amassed millions of streams. The band has toured extensively around the world with shows all over Europe, Japan, the U.S and Australia. They've played some of the world's largest heavy rock festivals including Wacken, Bang Your Head, Rock Fest Barcelona (3 years in a row) and Sweden Rock. When not headlining their own shows they have opened up for acts like Aerosmith, Scorpions and Deep Purple.
"Paradigm" Album Artwork
These masterminds of melodic rock, catchy hooks and anthemic choruses are back with a new album, entitled "Paradigm". Released on October 11th, it brings everything the fans of the band can expect. According to our review (which can be read here), this album is so accessible and full of memorable hooks that it's hard to go wrong.
Whilst on tour in Belgium, singer and composer Erik Martensson sat down with Sonic Perspectives collaborator Rodrigo Altaf to discuss several aspects of the new album, as well as his collaborations on W.E.T. with Jeff Scott Soto and on Nordic Union with Ronnie Atkins of Pretty Maids. Listen to their interesting conversation below and remember to stalk us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to be notified about new interviews and contents we publish on a daily basis.
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http://media.blubrry.com/sonicperspectives/p/sonicperspectives.com/wp-content/podcasts/218.-Interview-with-Erik-Martensson.mp3

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Meridian Fields, a new residential neighborhood developed by D.R. Horton has completed the planning process and is actively under construction. Monroe Drive will be constructed as part of this project, mirroring Spring Creek Drive to the east. Meridian Fields includes 83 single family homes and will be D.R. Horton's Express Line. First home construction is anticipated spring of 2019.


This Mazda is a rotary-chimera of sorts, it's a lightweight 1974 Mazda RX-3 fitted with a triple-rotor Mazda 20B engine producing 400 bhp.
No factory-built RX-3 was ever fitted with the 20B engine as the model was replaced by the RX-7 in 1978, and the 20B wasn't developed until the late 1980s. The 20B first appeared in a production car in 1990, occupying the engine bay of the Mazda Eunos Cosmo.
Among the Wankel rotary cognoscenti, few engines are as lauded as the 20B-REW. The engine was originally developed from the 13B, itself possibly the single most famous rotary of all time, but instead of two rotors, the 20B has three. There are a few advantages to this, most notably a power increase and an improved idle.
The biggest problem with the Mazda 20B is that so few were made, this rarity means that Wankelers (why we don't call rotary fans this I'll never understand) will pay upwards of $10,000 USD for a 20B mill in good condition.
With a swept capacity of 1962cc, 3 x 80mm wide rotors, a 9.0: 1 compression ratio, twin, sequentially arranged, intercooled turbos, electronically controlled fuel injection (with two injectors per rotor), and two sparkplugs per rotor, the Mazda 20B is capable of 300 hp and 297 lb/ft of torque at 3,000 rpm.
And that's before the performance tuning wizards get their hands on it.
Mazda introduced the RX-3 in 1971 and sold it through to 1978 when it was replaced by the RX-7. In Japan the model was known as the Mazda Savanna (not Savannah), but in international markets it was sold as the RX-7.
The RX-3 was sold in three major model iterations, the Series I, Series II, and Series III. Different engines were used depending on which part of the world you ordered your car in, with the 10A rotary fitted for cars sent to Japan, Australia, and Europe, with North American cars getting the larger 12A rotary.
The Series II and Series III cars had newly designed front ends and revamped rear ends, the 10A and 12A engines remained the same however, until the 12A single distributor (12B) appeared in 1974.
In the world of motor racing the mighty little Japanese coupe punched well above its weight, winning the Japanese Grand Prix in 1972 against the formerly dominant Nissan Skyline. The model also took popular class wins in the Bathurst 1000, and multiple victories in the American SCCA and IMSA fields.
The car you see here is any self-respecting Mazda-phile's unicorn. A 1974 RX-3 with a built triple-rotor semi-peripheral port 20B producing 400 bhp. The engine was built by rotary specialists DNA Garage based in Santa Ana, California.
In order to lower weight as much as possible the interior has been completely stripped with all carpets, sound deadening, the dashboard, and rear seats removed. A custom roll cage constructed by RAD Industries has been fitted, along with a Racepak dash, wide fender flares, a subtle rear wing, and finally, it was given a distinctive green and yellow livery reminiscent of the iconic color scheme used by Japanese racing driver Yoshimi Katayama.
If you'd like to see more of this car you can actually visit in person, it's part of the Roots of Monozukuri exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. If you'd like to see more or book tickets, you can click here to visit the website.


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Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen , that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991 to May 25, 1999, with 204 approx. Jill makes a wager with Tim that he cannot teach the children some manners after they are kicked out of a pizza parlor. Of course this would possibly not find yourself mattering ultimately since everyone knows that Tim will manage to set off no matter technological terror he has constructed earlier than the bomb hits, and the ensuing carnage from his own device will do way more damage than a mere 2000 lb bomb as well as taking out all four of our combatants. Al and Bob Vila (and Norm) destroy the evil pressure of testerone (and lame comedy) that's Tim Taylor.
Tim and Jill buy Brad a automobile, which is finished on Tool Time the place Al drops boysenberry jelly on the manifold, however when it is stolen and stripped for elements, Tim and Al go undercover to catch the thieves-by discovering the berry stain. Tim begins to consider that his previous friends are boring after he has the opportunity to show an auto-shop class at a neighborhood faculty, so he starts hanging out with folks from the class… folks half his age.
While Heidi distracts the PBS pansies with slightly T&A as she works, Tim and Al assemble a Man's Living Room. Al doing a lot of the legwork while Tim causes accidents has resulted in pressure, however Al's emotions have usually been thwarted that now and again he would cause an accident. Jill begins pottery class, and begins to practice in the garage the place Tim is working on his hot rod.
So you see, Bob wouldn't of recognized what had hit him, and Tim wouldn't of identified what he had done. After Tim accidentally shot Mr. Art in the rear on Tool Time, Tim and Jill see Art, Tim's old store instructor who's courting his mom, at a restaurant with another girl, however Art breaks up with her and goes regular with Lucille. Tim is competing in the neighborhood's annual Christmas Decoration Contest, and is trying to outdo his rival, Doc Johnson. Tim and Jill provide Marty parenting ideas when one of many twins keeps throwing tantrums to get her personal approach.
As such Villa is probably guaranteed entry to full military cooperation, and will (after watching Clear and Present Danger to see how the federal government has beforehand taken out drug dealers) have an FA-18 fighter drop a laser guided bomb on Tim as quickly because the match begins. For one thing, as both Brian and Steve talked about, no-one on earth has the damaging power of Tim the Tool Man Taylor. Workers from the K&B Construction Site come and present tips on how to cook dinner meals utilizing tools. Tim begins to wish to have more youngsters after Marty asks him to babysit one of the twins.


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My Life in Games
It's that time of year again when all the gaming goodies that the industry have been working on behind closed doors get their first public airing. Yes it's E3 time and the internet is fit to burst with all the shiny new things being unveiled. I've not had a chance to watch any of the keynotes yet but I've had a good look at a few of the trailers and gameplay videos coming out of the Expo. Ubisoft seem to have stolen the show with what looks to be a triumvirate of blinders: Tom Clancy's The Divide; Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege; and Tom Clancy's Assassins Creed: Unity. No wait, that last one isn't a Tom Clancy one. Yes, the man who still wishes the cold war was in full swing so he could write another thousand page action blockbuster about it is also having a very good show despite not even being there, (probably, like I said, I haven't seen the keynotes yet. Although, seeing as he died last year probably not).
Another big theme I'm noticing in a lot of the games being announced is co-op play. All of the three games I've mentioned so far have gameplay footage released of co-op action. Strictly speaking Rainbow Six is PvP, but it's intrinsically team based and seems to require a lot of co-operation between team mates so I'm including it. Then there's Far Cry 4 which has a much more limited form of co-op in that it seems you can call on a friend to help liberate an enemy fortress, but not help with any missions. There's also Evolve, the 4-guys-versus-1-huge-beastie game, which seems to be ALL about the co-op. Fable Legends is a multi-player/co-op spin off of the classic series from Lionhead studios and Crackdown is back with all of the crazy co-operative shenanigans that that entails. I like the idea of the level of co-op on offer in Assassins Creed and The Division, I just hope they don't neglect the single player element of these games as a sad-sack no-mates like me would be very disappointed!
A couple of other titles that caught my eye were Battlefield: Hardline and No Man's Sky. The former is another iteration of the Battlefield game which, despite feeling a little burned by Battlefield 4 last year, I am very tempted by simply for it's rather splendid take on cops and robbers! It's a great idea, replacing the two warring military factions with two warring law enforcement and criminal factions. Hopefully they'll have learned from the buggy mess that was BF4 and we'll get a much smoother launch with a game that actually works. No Man's Sky is a shot right out of left field. A weird kind of exploration/survival game set in an infinite, procedurally generated universe. How this is going to work in practice is anyone's guess but it looks stunning and I find the concept fascinating. Fascinating enough to possibly tempt me into getting a PS4 to play it on. Oh no, wait, it's coming out on PC too. That'll save me a few quid then.
The game that really stole the show for me though was Tom Clancy's The Division. It looks fantastic, the setting is brilliant, (love me a bit of post societal collapse survivalist stuff), it has loads of cool gadgets, (look how the map works! That's brilliant!), but there's also something else. It plays like a third person shooter, much like Watch Dogs in fact, but listen to the chatter of the players in these (obviously scripted) clips; "adds", "elites", "group heal", "group buff"... it's a bloody MMO!
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Labels: Assassins Creed Unity, E3, Rainbow Six Seige, The Division
Who Watches the Watch Dogs?
Not much blogging going on here last week, but it wasn't for a lack of games being played. Quite the opposite in fact. My usual time for writing a blog post is when I get home from work after a night shift, usually accompanied by a little mining operation in EVE Online. The hands-off nature of mining means that, although I'm still at the computer to keep an eye on things and switch to a new asteroid when the old one is depleted, I'm free to do other things on my second monitor without too much impediment, namely drafting blog posts. The thing is though, despite the release of the Kronos update for EVE during the week, I've spent very little time in there thanks to the fact I'm having an absolute BLAST in Watch_Dogs.
My fear that the missions in Watch_Dogs might dilute the pleasure of tearing up Chicago was unfounded. The missions I've run so far have been just as fun as messing about in the open world playground has been. They are nicely varied, offer a decent level of challenge, and can often be tackled in a number of ways. Need to infiltrate an enemy stronghold to steal an access code? No problem! Go in all guns blazing, or maybe ram a truck through the front gate. How about sneaking in over the fence and silently taking out the enemies one at a time with a silenced pistol, or possibly even just using the enemy's own security system against them by hacking your way into their CCTV cameras and jumping from camera to camera until you find your target and then hacking his phone for the security code without ever setting foot inside the compound? While the missions can sometimes be a little frustrating in that if you die right at the end you need to start all over again, it's usually in a way which you feel is fair, you tend to feel you failed because you failed, not because the game is unfair or badly designed which is always a good thing.
There's also plenty to do in the city. I've been mainly focusing on the main storyline missions and 23 hours in I'm coming up to being about two thirds of the way through. Obviously that's not what has taken up all 23 hours because sometimes it's just too tempting to tear around the city in a fast car for a bit. There are also dynamic events happening all the time that draw your attention away from the main story. As you drive around you will often get an alert warning you of a potential crime in progress and a prompt to set a waypoint. When you get to the area you need to use the ctOS's facial recognition technology to find the potential victim or criminal and then watch until something happens, when it does you need to intervene before the victim comes to any harm. A non lethal intervention, while more difficult, will result in a bigger reward. These are very simple little distractions that only take a few minutes to complete and can be easily ignored if you want, but I find them very satisfying little mini-games between the bigger set pieces of the main arc. There are also countless side missions, jobs, games and challenges to partake in as you roam the city, more than enough to keep you going well after the main story is finished with. And that's before I even mention the multi-player!
Labels: Watch Dogs, Xbox One
First Impressions: Watch_Dogs
I picked up a copy of Watch Dogs yesterday on my way home from work and although I haven't spent a whole lot of time with it so far my initial feeling is that it's going to be a lot of fun. From Ubisoft Montreal, creators of the Assassins Creed series of games, Watch Dogs is the latest in a long and distinguished line of open world games set in a big city. Indeed it has the feel of GTA about it initially, running about, driving, shooting, a cell phone as your access to menus and in-game abilities & services... But it is the cell phone that makes Watch Dogs stand out from all the rest.
You play as Aiden Pearce, hacker extraordinaire and general bad-ass who is on a mission to discover the identity of the man who ordered a hit on him, which he survived, but which caused the death of Aiden's niece. The city that is your playground is Chicago, a nice change from the usual facsimiles of New York us gamers get to run around in, a city which is run on a central computer network called ctOS, a network that through your 1337 haxxor skills and your cell phone you have complete access to. You can use this ability to perform hundreds of different tasks, from hacking the network's facial recognition system to find information on the citizens you see in the streets to overloading electrical circuits to cause explosions, from changing traffic lights and raising bridges to stealing bank details and causing blackouts. The number of uses for the phone seem limitless, the city is huge and well realised and it seems like a great playground with a unique and fascinating tool to create amazing moments of gameplay. I just hope the missions are as well realised as the city and that they don't contrive to ruin what promises to be a ridiculously fun game.
Comedy moment of yesterdays play: using the phone to interact with a crane causing it to drop a huge steel crate on the two goons standing beneath it. I think I'm going to enjoy this!
Labels: Consoles, first Impressions, Xbox One
Death From Above
I've been playing some more War Thunder over the past few days and I have to say I'm really quite taken with the air combat in it. I've unlocked a few tier 2 planes now, namely Spitfires - the Mk Ia, and the Mk IIa & IIb. The Mk IIb is a bit of a beast with it's four machine guns and two 20mm cannons, but pushing me up into tier 2 fights has meant my Hurricane and the Spitfire MkI are pretty underpowered against some of the other planes I'm facing. I've also unlocked a couple of bombers and while that role isn't quite as fun as the dogfighting it can be quite lucrative points wise and usually allows me to survive a bit longer, as the added altitude tends to deter enemy fighters from coming after you unless you are really tearing up their ground targets.
It's this ability to switch between dogfighting and attacking ground units that brings the game alive for me. Some of the best moments have been in a fighter plane screaming down out of the sky, all guns blazing on a strafing run against an enemy gun emplacement, seeing it pop in a burst of bright flame and then pulling out of the dive at the last possible second. The sound design is excellent; as you get close to the ground you can hear it roaring past beneath you, you can hear trees rustle as you narrowly avoid their grasping branches. More often than not as you come out of an attack run an enemy player will try to take advantage of your low altitude and you find yourself roaring back into the sky, hammering the throttle into overdrive to give you that all important extra burst of speed while frantically rolling from side to side in an effort to avoid the deadly rain of bullets cascading down from the sky. If you are lucky enough to survive your opponents initial attack run it becomes a game of cat and mouse as you both pirouette through the sky trying desperately to get on the others tail to line up a shot. It's fast, frantic and above all hugely fun, even if you lose! I've also started pottering about with the other countries starter planes and I can't help notice that those matches feel a little fairer. With my British planes I often find myself getting one-shotted out of the sky in some of the lower battle-rated ones, whereas in the starter planes the field seems much flatter difficulty wise.
I took advantage of some special offers going on over the Memorial day weekend, chief among which was a years worth of premium membership at 50% off. I bought myself 10,000 of their Golden Eagle currency for about £40 and then spent 7,600 (I think) of those coins on the reduced membership, leaving me with a couple of thousand coins to spend on converting XP in order to level up planes faster, or even just buy a premium plane or two. For the amount of fun I've had in there over the past few days I'm more than willing to give them some money. The membership really doesn't offer that much benefit over the free game, but I'm a firm believer in spending a little something in any free to play game that I actually enjoy. I'm not a whale by any means, but I'm no freeloader either, and I usually end up spending about the equivalent of a box price on most F2P games that I spend any real amount of time with.
Labels: Free to Play, War Thunder
I've just finished a particularly troublesome security mission in EVE Online that involved taking out waves of enemy ships. They were mainly destroyer class with frigates supporting, and about six cruisers. Nothing too taxing, although some of the frigate class ships, Coreli Guardian Safeguards I think they are called, were really quite hardy and took a lot of killing. By the time I was done my full compliment of drones, (a haphazard mix of Hobgoblin I, Warrior I and Hammerhead I drones), had all been destroyed and I'd chewed through over a thousand rounds of ammo. I did make almost a million ISK in bounties alone though, so coupled with the mission rewards it was fairly lucrative.
The encounter deadspace just so happened to contain a load of asteroids, including the elusive Pyroxeres which is one of the only sources of Nocxium in High-Sec space. So once I'd dealt with all the hostile NPC's, I bookmarked the site and nipped back to the station to pick up my Mackinaw in order to get back out there to hoover up some of that good stuff. Shortly after I arrived a couple of belt rats showed up so I launched my shiny new Hobgoblin II drones to deal with them. I only finished training the skill to be able to use them yesterday and this was their maiden flight, needless to say I was excited to see how they would perform compared to their tech 1 counterparts. I wasn't disappointed! They tore off at break neck speed and obliterated the first ship in one volley, the second followed swiftly after. Just as they were making their way back to the ship my first mining laser reached the end of its cycle and as it started it's second cycle there was a loud explosion and I noticed my ships shields take some damage. Before I could figure out what was happening my second laser finished it's cycle and there was another loud explosion, followed this time by five smaller ones as my shiny new drones simultaneously exploded. Two million ISK they cost me not an hour ago and now they were gone. Why were they gone?! Turns out deadspace asteroids can be booby-trapped with smart bombs and nobody told me. That's what I get for flying solo I guess. Still, I snagged about 5.5 mill's worth of ore before the server shut down for maintenance, so despite my costly loss I'm still up over all.
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Labels: EVE Online
A Quick Round Up
It's been a quiet week for me game wise, hence not much updating going on here. Saturday night saw my usual static group in ESO which was good fun, as always. More questing with my little static group, including ticking off a few more dungeons and slaying a few named beasties out in the wild. We finished up at level 14 by the end of the evening which means not far to go now until unlocking the alternate load-out granted at level 15! That'll make a nice difference to me, being able to spec for ranged or melee combat at the flick of a switch. I'm considering using the second set of powers to augment my healing abilities by slotting a Restoration Staff and some of it's attendant powers, and moving the healing powers currently in my main skill bar over there and replacing them with more melee damage abilities. That would mean that my secondary skill set is incredibly Magicka dependant though, and I think I'd have trouble with running out of juice all the time. So my other option is to keep my main skill bar as it is, (which I'm finding very versatile and useful at the moment anyway), and augmenting that with a secondary skill set made up of bow skills which will keep a similar balance of Magicka and Stamina use that I'm already used to and my character build is set up to handle. I'll have to have a chat with the rest of the group before I decide I think, get some advice as they are both a lot more experienced with the game than I am. Saying that though, I have spent a little solo time in there this week. I spent a fun hour or two running around with my Nord Dragon Knight smashing things over the head with a two-handed hammer the other morning, and then last night I rolled up a new Sorcerer and got her to level 6. I'm finding jute much harder to come buy than iron ever was in those areas. I've managed to keep both my Templar and Dragon Knight in full suits of level appropriate armour all the way up so far, but my level 6 Sorcerer is currently stuck in 2 pieces of level 1 gear appropriate for her class and a few odds and sods I've looted on my travels! I think next time I go in with that character I'll ignore the quests for a bit and concentrate on some resource gathering. It's a fun class to play though. So far I've played three of the four class types available and each is a lot of fun in its own way. Zenimax has done a good job in that regard, the combat feels quite meaty and fun no matter what type of role you choose to play.
There's been no PlanetSide 2 to speak of yet this week, despite a big patch that has brought quite a few changes to the medic profession, including a nice new gun that seems pretty good and has seen the introduction of implants as a way of tweaking your soldiers abilities. This is the second time the implants have been introduced, they were taken out almost immediately first time around after a massive outcry from the player-base after it was felt they were massively overpowered. I haven't heard any crying about them yet this time around, so maybe they've had a more thoughtful implementation now. My outfit is looking to have a bit of a get together in there on Friday night, so i'm looking forward to that.
As the last post makes clear there was a little War Thunder as well, which I haven't had much time to play since so I won't go over that again here, which just leaves an hour or two in EVE to round out my list. Very little done in there to be honest. I'm currently umm-ing and ahh-ing over weather to buy a Battle Cruiser or just keep saving up and training until I can properly fit a Battleship. I can probably pull off a Battle Cruiser now, but as my current standings mean I can't do Agent 3 missions yet, I'm not sure if there's much point. I would like to get a Brutix at some point though, because I love how they look, even if the Myrmidon is probably the smarter choice.
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War huh? What IS it good for?
The latest game I've been taking a look at is War Thunder from Gaijin Entertainment. I'm a long time fan of Wargaming's World of Tanks and I also spent a little time with World of Warplanes while it was still in it's Alpha phase, and as such I've been very sceptical about War Thunder. Pretender to the throne or massive cynical rip-off? It started life as World of Planes, which didn't help it's claims to be it's own entity so they changed the name. Unfortunately at the same time they announced they would also be introducing a version of tank warfare and warship combat, just like Wargaming's World Of series. Needless to say, I wasn't convinced and so stayed well clear.
That was until I started reading a few pieces by wing commander Zoso over on the Killed in a Smiling Accident blog, he too was a fan of World of Tanks, but even from an early stage, War Thunder had him hooked. Another deciding factor was the fact that Wargaming came out and said that although they were going to unify accounts across the whole World Of series, there were no plans to mash the three games together and have player controlled tanks, planes and ships on the same maps, despite what many fans had hoped for. Gaijin however were planning on that from the very beginning, and it was this grand scheme that was the reason behind dropping the World of Planes moniker, War Thunder was going to be much more than just planes!
At the moment it's still mainly the planes that make up the bulk of the game, but with the recent 1.41 update the first player controlled ground vehicles were introduced. The air and ground vehicles are being kept separate for now as they fine tune the ground vehicle gameplay without the added distraction of a fairly balanced and working air game just slaughtering all those defenceless tanks right off the bat. The air vehicle game is fully fleshed out despite still being in an open beta and the planes are very fun to fly. I'm still in the first tier of planes at the moment and only playing on arcade mode with mouse and keyboard control. Upping the realism will make the game way harder and I'm already crashing a lot without being able to rip my wings off simply by diving too fast! The matches are usually fairly short, ten to fifteen minutes or so and usually require a number of ground targets to be killed in order to win the round. The matches are fun, the out of match system of upgrading and researching new planes and attachments is very unintuitive though and I feel it lets the game down a little. The add a friend system is still quite flaky and Welshtroll and I had a few problems getting our first squadron set up. We got there in the end though, and flying with a friend makes for an even more fun experience.
I won't say too much about the tank game yet as it's still very early days and I've only actually played one match with them so far, but my first impressions are World of Tanks has nothing to worry about yet. It has promise, but the tank I was in felt a little light and floaty and the way the aiming reticule works makes it quite difficult to line up a shot on anything at any sort of range. Maybe that's just something I'll have to get used to. Still, it's all looking very promising and I can't wait for them to get the tank battles fully fleshed out and to let the fly boys in the same map as them. I just hope they include some AA tanks in the roster.
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Cyber security is a volatile issue in APAC. APAC is the home for some of the world's least networked countries such as Myanmar and Cambodia plus some of the most networked countries including South Korea, Japan, Malaysia & Singapore. Lack of Infrastructure and weak supporting legislation severely impedes the growth in the information security sector. The cyber security market is estimated to witness a growth of $170 billion (USD) by 2020, with the increasing awareness from the private sector, military competition in cyber space, political turmoil, and increasing cybercrime, APAC organizations will spend $22 billion on critical infrastructure technologies by 2020. Emerging economies such as China, India and South East APAC countries are one of the most potential destinations for Cyber security solution providers with an inducing need to safeguard cyber space. Sectors such as aerospace, defence, financial institutions, telecom companies are facing cyberattacks on a day to day basis making APAC as one of the most vulnerable and easiest to hack.
According to the H1 2014 report released by Trend Micro Incorporated for the APAC Region. It found that threat actors targeting the region are continually refining their targeted attack tactics, which allows them to remain undetected. At the same time, old vulnerabilities resulting from unpatched software and applications are being exploited to the fullest. With Trend Micro's 2015 security predictions further predicting targeted attack campaigns in APAC to increase in size and scale, 2015 may very well become the year where targeted attacks come of age.
According to the report, spear-phishing emails are still the most common infection vector for infiltrating networks, with almost 80% of the targeted attack malware arriving via email. Typically sent to employees in target organizations, spear-phishing emails convince recipients to either click a malicious link or download and execute a malicious file. Some of the most common email attachments used to deliver payloads include Microsoft Office documents (57%) and RAR files (19%), as they commonly change hands in any organization. Another method used to infiltrate target networks is compromising the websites an organization's employees commonly visit. When their target employees visit these compromised sites, their systems get infected.
Cyber security is recognized as an important issue in the Asia Pacific Region. The Asia Pacific Cyber Security Market is expected to grow to $32.95 billion by 2019, with an expected CAGR of 14.1 percent for the period 2013-2019, according to International Data Corporation (IDC) and the National University of Singapore. Cyber Security market in the Asia-Pacific region has grown at a CAGR of 15.15 percent over the period 2014-2019. Spurred by private sector awareness, political turmoil, and cybercrime, Asia-Pacific organizations will spend $22 billion on critical infrastructure technologies by 2020.
The private sector – highly developed, economically lucrative, and a prime target for the theft of intellectual property, blackmail, phishing, and identity theft – is investing in cyber security in nations such as China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. These markets have been slow to produce comprehensive national cyber security strategies and to implement the necessary legal frameworks for security and critical infrastructure protection. In order to achieve high levels of cyber security, public and private stakeholders need to be equipped with the capacity to effectively prevent, mitigate and respond to cyber-attacks and incidents and also have the proper legal frameworks and necessary infrastructure to implement them.
The health care industry has a firm responsibility to defend the security of its clients' data. With most health care data stored online that means hospitals and other health care facilities need to have top-tier cyber security standards in place. Right now, that's not happening – and that's a real problem.
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center's data breach information – current as of Dec. 1 – around 176.275 million records have been breached so far this year. Of those breached records, more than 120 million of them – or 68.1 percent – have come from the health care sector, making it by far the most-breached industry in terms of number of compromised documents. The incidents are wide-ranging, and include health care organizations of all sizes and types, from local hospitals to massive insurance providers. The common denominator between all the breached institutions is that their networks are far more vulnerable than they should be. While many health care-based breaches involve accidental information exposure, there are plenty of malicious incidents as well.


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"Your film was beautiful. You both and all involved did a wonderful job. I love to see women rise up. It was difficult to watch Davida, as I grew up with a similar mom but had to watch it plus an abusive addict father.... I am many of those women .... But then to have become the very people who hurt me... and do similar damage. But the common thread women who rise up and work through the change is that they CHOOSE ...... to do so regardless of the pain or lack from the past...so that we may too break the cycle. Love it! I am a curse breaker, a cycle breaker. Bless you and Davida!" - L.M.
"I was personally very moved by the documentary, 'Breaking the Silence'. These are very bright young women who have struggled with serious issues including physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, living in foster care, having a parent with a mental illness, etc. In this documentary, the young women discuss their past and share the pain they have had to go thru as well as their ability to become triumphant over their circumstances. This is an extremely encouraging documentary that should be shown to anyone growing up in similar circumstance as it could offer them hope about their future and a vision of themselves as the great heroes of their lives as the women in this documentary embody! This documentary could also be the centerpiece for a course in high school that could encourage all young people to overcome any adversity in their lives! Well I can tell you--it's already encouraged a lot of teens in South El Monte giving them tremendous hope!!! My therapist showed it to her kids in a group and they were incredibly inspired--she wanted to do a group around the video! Our other clinical Supervisor whom I deeply respect just showed it to her group therapists and said how moved she was by it and immediately asked me to get her a copy--she see's teens in at a high school in San Gabriel. So you see, it's already begun to cause waves of healing for many people! I have about 13 therapists signed up to get a DVD so far." - Nancy Miller, MFT, Program Manager, The Almansor Center
"I am a therapist and clinical supervisor at Almansor Center. I provide individual and group supervision with pre-licensed therapists at this agency. Nancy Miller provided me with a copy of your video to utilize in group for training purposes. The response to your video was very positive. Our agency works with youth from approximately age 3 to age 21. After we viewed the video many of the group members expressed how beneficial the film would be showing it to their adolescent females. Many of the young women to whom we provide mental health services have experienced significant losses, domestic violence and substance abuse in their families of origin, gang involved families and/or communities, parents who present with mental illness, parents who are emotionally unavailable, are rigid, domineering or lack appropriate boundaries. Our young women may be able to relate to the struggles to the women you interviewed. Your subjects present as real and available and with significant self-knowledge. They provide a message of hope, that women can rise above the challenging circumstances of their childhoods. They serve as positive role models, letting our young women know that they possess the capacity to rise above their circumstances, that they can gain confidence and comfort with who they are. One therapist showed your video to a group of adolescent women. These young women, many who may otherwise present as guarded about their lives were able to discuss similar circumstances that occurred in their lives with their peers. They appeared eager to engage in further conversations. According to the therapist, they said the video provided them with a sense of hope about their own lives ad about their potential. The film became a barrier breaker. Thank you for providing us the opportunity to view your video. Your video will serve as a tremendous resource in our work with our population." - Larry Lyons, LCSW
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These five women are the reason we made this film. Their stories are examples of the triumph of the human spirit, the power of making purposeful decisions and taking complete self-responsibility for one's life. In these very difficult times, when more and more people are faced with challenging circumstances in every area of their lives, these women demonstrate that even the most severe, even brutal, circumstances can be overcome with the right attitude.
While they are certain to face many more challenges in their still young lives, all of these women are remarkably free of resentment and self-pity. They have all tapped into their essence, and developed internal strength in response to the adversities they've faced.
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Michael Fresco is an Associate in the Firm's Litigation department. From 2014 to 2015, Mr. Fresco served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Cathy Seibel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. From 2013 to 2014, he served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Paul J. Kelly, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
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Represents a charitable foundation in appeal of civil asset forfeiture proceedings before the Second Circuit.
Serving on the Monitoring Team for the Newark Police Division, led by Peter C. Harvey, responsible for overseeing the NPD's compliance with a Consent Decree issued by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Represents a not-for-profit religious corporation in connection with a New York Attorney General investigation into the corporation's investment practices.
Represented a charitable foundation in connection with a Department of Justice investigation into alleged bribery and honest services fraud.
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Represents a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in civil RICO class action alleging off-label marketing of a prescription medicine.
Represents a financial guarantor in breach-of-contract and common law tort disputes involving mortgage-backed securities.
Defended a major supplier of surgical aesthetic products against breach of contract claim in connection with drug development program.
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Defended a law firm and an attorney against malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty claims in New York State Supreme Court stemming from a multi-year litigation over a call option.
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Obtained a favorable settlement for art advisory firm in connection with title dispute over multi-million dollar sculpture.
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Represents veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces in administrative discharge upgrade proceedings.
Represents an individual convicted of drug smuggling in appeal before the Second Circuit.
Drafted and filed an amicus brief on behalf of labor organization in the U.S. Supreme Court case Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project, addressing the constitutionality of Executive Order 13780's suspension of the United States Refugee Admissions Program.
Drafted and filed an amicus brief on behalf of non-profit human rights organization in the U.S. Supreme Court case Jennings v. Rodriguez, addressing the Government's authority to detain certain categories of non-citizens without providing periodic bond hearings.
Drafted and filed an amicus brief on behalf of 119 religious organizations in the Ninth Circuit case Regents of the University of California v. United States, addressing the Government's authority to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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Northern Law Blog discusses the benefits of responding to class action settlement notices.
Thanks for the mention of my post about Professor Scheuerman's forthcoming article.
On a related note, my blog receives the trackback link pings that you send when citing to my blog, but I don't see a way to provide the same trackback when I mention a post on this site. Is there a way to trackback that I am missing?
I'll be interested to see if this works. Thanks so much for your comment and for your own thoughtful commentary on The Complex Litigator.


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Hesco has laid off 30 workers from their factory in Leeds after a lull in demand.
Fears for Remploy workers over possible factory closure
Remploy workers are at risk Credit: Remploy
A union representing staff at a North Derbyshire Remploy factory fears they could lose their jobs by the end of the month after being told the site has now been sold. The factory in Chesterfield employs more than fifty workers with disabilities.
Not all of them, says the union, will be offered work by the new owners. It's been under threat after the Government announced wave of closures - claiming that Remploy factories faced a shortfall of around seventy 70 million pounds last year.
Fire at historic York building
Emergency services have been called to a fire at the old Terry's chocolate factory in York. It's reported plumes of smoke can be seen across the city. The fire broke out at the derelict site just after half past eight. More to follow
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TSA: Man attempted to rush through Sky Harbor Airport checkpoint, attacked security officers
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PHOENIX (FOX 10) -- Authorities say Transportation Security Administration officers were attacked by a man who attempted to rush through Terminal 4's security checkpoint "D" at Sky Harbor Airport on Tuesday morning.
Phoenix police and transportation security officers were able to subdue the man and arrest him. According to TSA officials, five officers were injured, one had to be taken to the hospital. The rest were taken to urgent care. All five, however, have since been released from medical care.
TSA statement:
"This unprovoked and brazen physical attack against our workforce is unacceptable. We are grateful for our committed workforce and for the role they play in protecting the traveling public every day. We continue to monitor the safety and health of the TSOs involved in this incident and will cooperate fully with the ongoing investigation."
The man accused of attacking the TSOs is currently being booked into jail. The suspect has been identified by Phoenix Police officials as 19-year-old Tyrese Garner, and he is being charged with felony criminal trespassing, felony resisting arrest, and five counts of misdemeanor assault.
It is unclear why the man tried to rush through the security checkpoint. An investigation into the incident is ongoing.


As I already mentioned in a previous post about 35c3, I was part of a vintage computing assembly showing a C64 running GEOS and how it was programmed and could still be programmed today with modern tools. As part of that I was approached by 'smtw' if I was interested in an SX64 in good condition that he would give away for free into good hands. I could hardly believe it because the SX64 is the 'portable' version of the Commodore C64 and thus a rather rare item. I don't have a lot of space at home but I couldn't say no to this gift, I would have to make space for it!
The SX64 being rather bulky and heavy (10.7 kg), it was a bit of an effort getting it home in my suitcase by train as it wasn't exactly empty on the way to Congress to begin with. But I managed to get almost all my stuff in and get it home safely. One thing to do with my 'new' computer that immediately came to mind was to have a look if an old 5.25″ floppy disk I found last year in the attic that contained a program I wrote 30 years ago was still working. Not that the program would still be worth anything but it is the first program I wrote that could perhaps have survived. I couldn't do this before because, again for space reasons, I did not have a real 5.25″ floppy drive and used an SD2IEC floppy drive emulation with modern SD cards with my C64. The SX64 has a built in 5.25″ floppy drive, however, so I could finally give it a go.
And indeed, the SX64 could still read that 30 year old floppy disk just fine and I could load and list the source of my program. I couldn't run it directly, however, because the program was written in 'Simon's Basic' which I had on a cartridge at the time. I don't have the cartridge anymore but it's still available as a '.crt' file for the 'Vice' 6502 emulator. So lets run it there. Copying the file over from the real floppy disk to a virtual floppy file on an SD-card was not quite straight forward because the SX64 does not have a tape port from which the SD2IEC floppy draws its power. But the cable was long enough so I could connect the SD2IEC tape connector to my C64 for power and the serial cable to the SX64 for the data transfer. Fortunately, the SD2IEC can be programmed to act as second drive and once done, I had my program copied into a virtual floppy file in no time.
On my Linux notebook I then started the 6502 emulator, 'inserted' the virtual Simons's basic cartridge and then loaded and ran my program. And it ran just like that, 30 years later and after being copied from a real floppy disk to a virtual floppy disk drive in an emulator with a virtual Basic cartridge inserted on top. Virtually Magic!
Funny time of this article, Martin. I was just scanning and archiving the User's Guide to Geoworks' Ensemble 2.0 office suite. It is still amazing how much it could do back in 1993!
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Praise the Lord! Our Pre-K to Grade 3 Sunday School class has been praying for Yklas!!! This is absolutely tremendous and I cannot wait to share this with the kids! Praising God Yklas is reunited with his family and for Yuri's recent release. Will continue to pray for these men and their families. Thank you for the update!


A Can of Ham (aka Canned Sham) is a Canned Food that can be looted from many of the various houses and Shamway Grocery Store. As with all Canned Food, Canned Sham has the advantage of being ready to consume immediately without the need to be cooked first. Eating a Canned Sham will have a positive effect on your Fullness as well as a negative effect on your Hydration.
The only use for a Canned Sham is as a source of Food. After consumption, the player will have an Empty Can added to their inventory providing there is sufficient space available. If no space is available then the empty can will be dropped on the floor near to the player to be picked up.
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Zhang Yongfei and his wife, Tian Xiao, play with their son at their home. Wei Liang / China News Service
As is customary in China, Zhang Yongfei and Tian Xiao held a family celebration this month to mark the 100th day since the birth of their son. Unlike most new parents, however, Zhang will never see his child, and Tian will never hold him.
"You are my eyes, and I am your hands and legs," Zhang, 32, who was born blind, told his wife at the party in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.
Tian, 27, has Lou Gehrig"s disease-also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS-which is a progressive condition that attacks the nerve cells that control muscles. Over time, it leaves patients struggling to walk, speak, swallow, and even breathe. So far, there is no cure.
For the past few years, Tian has been paralyzed except for some movement in her right hand. Yet in May, she became only the second woman with the disease to successfully deliver a child in China.
"Were it not for doctor Zhang Yanli, I would not have become a mom," she said.
Zhang Yanli, an obstetrician in her late 50s from the No 1 Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, first met Tian when she was three months" pregnant in November.
She warned of the dangers of going ahead with the pregnancy, but Tian was resolute. "I told her that I was placing two lives into her hands: my baby"s and my own," she said. "I knew that this was coming, and it was not something that could be driven away. It was probably my maternal instinct."
Zhang Yanli, who has 38 years of experience, later told the media that it was a difficult decision to become Tian"s doctor. "I was shocked after learning about her condition and her dream," she was quoted as saying.
But the obstetrician was moved by Tian"s determination and courage. She studied her new patient"s medical records, going back more than 20 years, and researched many academic documents.
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The hard work paid off. Tian gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 2.9 kilograms on the morning of May 3. His parents have nicknamed him "Miduo", which means "lots of rice", in the hope he has a plentiful life.
Having a son has brought the family happiness, hope and an important challenge, according to Zhang Yongfei. He said the couple will do their best to create a good environment for Miduo.
After graduating from a nursing school for the visually impaired, Zhang Yongfei opened his own massage clinic, employing six people.
Tian began studying graphic design at age 16 and opened her own recording and animation studio in 2010, before she lost the ability to move. Now, she works by controlling a computer with just the little finger on her right hand.
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Kanye West's on something of a roll this week. After dropping the mastered version of "All Day" — which features Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom, and Ye's new partner-in-crime Paul McCartney — the rap god headlined a last-minute concert in London during which he brought a coterie of rappers diverse enough to populate a small country. There was Big Sean, who popped his head in for his Dark Sky Paradise cut, "Blessings," and CyHi the Prynce for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's "So Appalled." British grime rapper Skepta made an appearance for his own single, "That's Not Me," before Kanye invited Wu-Tang legend Raekwon out for "C.R.E.A.M." and Ye's own "Blood on the Leaves."
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Breathe for a second, because we're not done. Late in the night at his Koko show, Yeezy brought out Chicago upstart Vic Mensa — who's already featured on new album So Help Me God's "Wolves," which Kanye premiered at New York Fashion Week last month — for "U Mad," (also rumored to be titled "Why U Mad," not to be confused with the Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and Birdman track of the same name) yet another new song from the upcoming album which is hopefully already on your iPhone and your Android and your mom's tapedeck that she keeps in the basement for special occasions.
"U Mad" is a horn-heavy trap banger that sounds like a King Louie production much in line with Chief Keef's "Don't Like." It's got hints of Drake's "Trophies" and a smack upside the head by way of A$AP Rocky's "PMW." Watch it above (beware of the awful sound quality), check out the set list below, and look for this Kanye album to impact any day now.
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Kanye West's Koko set list (via NME):
"That's Not Me"
"German Whip"
"96 Fuckries"
"So Appalled"
"CyHi Freestyle"
"All Me"
"New Slaves"
"U Mad"
"Can't Tell Me Nothing"
"I Don't Fuck With You"
"Jesus Walks"
"It Ain't Safe"
"Don't Like"
"Black Skinhead"
"C.R.E.A.M."
"Blood On The Leaves"
Brennan Carley
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Posted on 6 Jun 2021
Respect For The Performer
We spent a lot of time last weekend looking at our old photos of Faire, and topped it off with videos on YouTube. The videos in particular reminded me of the shape of the illusion we all created. While it is true that LHC made the playground, we made the Faire.
Over my desk there's a collage of images. They cover much more than Faire. In the center is a woman made of branches, her heart of fire green in her breast and her face uplifted to the sky among her leaves. An enhanced computer image of Long Meg, with all her cup-and-ring decorations towers over her, scarred by the passage of time and floating in a black background. My backpack, outer clothing and bodhran case are grouped around a tree on the shore of Llyn Tegid, in Wales, but the image I look to now is of myself, bodhran in hand, in leine and wool bonnet in Witches Wood, at Black Point.
Back then things were far from perfect, but I walked into another time and place every morning. My bodhran and basket were on my back and the day was there for the living. I started my journey as a matter of fact, the same way I started my day at Dickens, with a cup of Chai at the Mullah's and conversation with good friends. Kenny Millikan might regale us with the tale of the Dawn Haggis, a creature we could only glimpse in his words. He had a jar of soft sculpture backsides, which he swore were pixie butts. The Pixie would take up the story at this point, telling us how they fell off in the fall, and that each Pixie had a special dance that sent them flying.
We carried stories like this into the streets and told them to Travellers. Some embellished them further or spun off wild tales of their own. There were a pair of Celts who came to Faire every year and found me busking on the streets. They would persuade me to take a trip to an alestand with them, and we would roar through the Faire. I would drop off after a while to play another set, and let them continue their colorful ramble through the playground they visited once a year. You may remember them, or you may not, for they were an ornament to the time and place we all created together, and while they were the very picture of uproarious revellers, they never, to my knowledge, caused a problem. Would they be welcome today? I don't know. They chose their level of participation, and had complete freedom on the day per year they chose. They would not have been out of place backstage, though of course they were never seen there. Some lines, it has been made quite clear to me, are not to be crossed.
As a busker, I walked until I was tired, kept my tankard full of water when I played–both singer and bodhran found song a thirsty business–and told tales in rhyme to the beat of the drum. I stopped when asked, as some of the vendors would want me to grace the area around their booths with my music, and also when the Faire beckoned. While I had specific places I favored for a set, I was not in any one of them for longer than an hour or so. I made it a point to never repeat a song within a set lest I cease to please and begin to grate on those whose trade kept them in one place.
To me, that endless round through the streets is now missing. Every nook and cranny is filled with a booth or a stage, and there is nowhere to stop without stepping on the perfectly timed shows. Performers run from one to another, rarely stopping to play in streets too small to build a world in! We are watched, and our flaws marked. While there do of course have to be certain standards, we are no longer trusted to want to uphold them, not because they render a world deeper and more colorful than the one we return to after the last chorus is sung, but because we have people working to reveal our flaws instead of praising our glories.
There are still good times to be had, and bright spots in days growing ever longer, but as a busker I have been chased from these streets. I am no longer Jeremy's messenger, part of the web of the underworld of London. While I miss Roisin, or Lucy, as she was called in London, I take heart in the knowledge that Jeremy's girls were only a temporary shelter for her. In the end she did manage to join her family in America where they fled from An Gorta Mor. Perhaps Lucy's story will fork, as did Jeremy's and Jenny's. Perhaps not. The characters I played never were wholly confined to the Faire. They came from somewhere, and kept going after it was over. Knowing who they were and in the end where they went was a part of their living presence on the streets, and the memory they leave for me when they move on.
An Ever Narrowing Stage
A Family Goes to Pleasure Faire, 1968
I unearthed a lot of photos last weekend. The long look back over forty-plus years of Faire was useful. It gave me perspective on the current situation. I had forgotten just how big Faire used to be. I'm not just talking about size, though there was a lot more space, and there were a lot more of us. No, the quality of the spell we cast collectively created an energetic container that we filled with a place that never was, and always will be. Back then we were a community, trusted to play our part in the act of creation. There were fewer rules and more magic.
I was told by a dear friend "If you're not having fun, it's on you." It was meant well, more the Zen master with the rod than Bill Sykes with a bludgeon, and I did try seriously to follow the core of truth in that advice. Maybe it is me. I'm older, and perhaps not as easily amused. My old friends are fewer, and there are new faces among them, but that isn't it either. I play on the streets, but with the determination of the lone salmon fighting its way to the source instead of the player grabbing an outstretched hand, leaping effortlessly in the dance, trusting the magic will be there to catch me. I even tried creating a new character and going back to busking to see what would happen. There are bright spots. Singing choruses in the afternoons with great and generous people in an environmental area that is open for the public to join us is tasting the past. It's good to see the friends that are left. It is still possible to catch the edge of magic, and just for a moment lose oneself in Faire. Spirits still move between worlds. I can't expect things to be the same as they were years ago and they shouldn't be. Time marches on, change is part of life, but the river flows from the same source.
The magic has been squeezed into such a tiny space! The eyes are always on us. What are we wearing? What are we doing? Must be sure not to step out of line, to draw focus from a performance or break a rule. Above all, if you do, don't get caught! Now we sit in neat rows in Mad Sal's, singing along at the right times to prompt the crowd and create the proper soundscape. We take our gigs and conversations outside, the designated place for background color and noise. Living your character all day long is the exception, not the rule, and enough people drop character at the curtain to make it the boundary of the lovely illusion that is only half there as it is. We work Faire, instead of play. Disney has replaced Dickens. Our passes must be shown without exception to pass back and forth past the guards hired for the event. There is no more security and crew, people who knew us, were part of us.
Safety is an issue, I understand that. Trust has long ago been broken. Space is at a premium in a venue we have long outgrown. There have always been broken stairs and differential treatment that mirror the society we live in, but the sharp separation between customer and Faire folk was never so stark, and we looked after each other far more than we do now. The constant carding at the door and in the venue by strangers jerks us back into the present we are supposed to be casting a temporary spell on and we can't pull the willing visitor into the dance any more.
Faire was always a dance on the edge. We played with time, with language, with the energy. It was never safe, and things have always happened that shouldn't. Yes, it is past time to change some of those things, but never before were we ever so powerless that our only real option was to strike. We let union be, a song instead of a movement. We were a community, that family that management–for they have become management–keeps talking about.
Faire was a dance on the edge, but it wasn't just physical. For a few short weeks we were part of another time and place, and the people who paid to get in came to taste it, and sometimes become part of it. You could get in free of charge if you did the thing Faire asked of you that day. Perhaps it was wearing a specific costume or the reciting of a Shakespeare sonnet. You played Faire and were let through the magic door to play your part. There were more participants and more room. Every inch was not sharply delineated for stage and booth and alestand. The village or London Town had twists and turns and places where magic could happen. The streets did not run in straight lines. There wasn't a microphone to be found on the site and silence was not required at the sharp barrier where street now becomes stage. Players did not demand absolute attention because they knew how to take and hold stage, and when to release it. Our allegiance was to the illusion, not the script. Mad Sal's roared with laughter and song, and you could play skittles inside, drink and converse in what was for a brief moment a real dockside alehouse, not a stage set with a bar outside.
Faire was always trying to rein us in, but back then they never succeeded. Danse Macabre could get away with tiptoeing across Main Stage and the players adapted instead of objected. A whole procession could disappear into a magic privy because the crew built the privies and one of them had doors on both sides. It was years ago before rented plastic boxes became the norm, before people of color were hired to clean the bathrooms and pick up the trash, no longer part of the crew, part of us. Yes, times have changed, the books balance much better than they did back then, but where is the magic that flowed like water and carried us halfway to Faerie? The ragged heroes have long disappeared around the last bend. The day has died like a rose. The Faire has come to a close.
Times change and so do we, the spirit of Faire a sleeping Beauty lying somnolent in the bed of Procrustes. Black Point has become Patterson Abbey. We are more concerned with the distance between plate and cutlery than we are with the people who spin a continuous reality out of the whole cloth of history. It is more important to have a costume, pattern carefully selected from an ever-dwindling range of years that matches the palette of the show than to wear clothes that suit our characters and their stories. We will be measured and photographed, the garb we provide at our own expense cleared in every detail before it can even be made. A tart may not wear a tattered ball gown she purchased at the old clothes market no matter how careful the research the participant has done to build the backstory. Like goes with like, the regimented sections of the stage will be respected. We will have Fagin and Oliver Twist, but Sikes must not kill Nancy. It's a family show, after all.
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The health care sector continues to lead all other industry sectors in incidence of nonfatal workplace assaults with 48% of all nonfatal injuries from violent acts against workers occurring in this sector. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, mental health workers experienced the highest rate of simple assaults in the health care sector, with 43.2 assaults per 1,000 workers. According to research studies, psychiatric nurses report among the highest violent victimization rates among all types of nurses.
Review current workplace violence policies, reporting procedures, scheduling procedures, and assault prevention training.
We present here 2 key themes from our study findings, illustrated by quotes from interview participants, and recommendations for each theme.
Schedule control includes concerns regarding low staffing levels, long hours due to mandated and voluntary overtime, inconsistent teams from floating or pulling staff, and unscheduled absences. Many of the control issues are linked in a positive feedback loop. For example, low staffing levels lead to mandated and voluntary overtime. Working long hours through mandated or voluntary overtime results in stress, exhaustion, illness, and work-family conflict which lead to unscheduled absences. In turn, a high rate of unscheduled absences leads to increased mandated and voluntary overtime. Workplace violence and incivility are an additional stressor that contributes to this spiraling cycle of events.
The following causal loop diagram illustrates the study findings on schedule control in a systems feedback loop where plus (+) signs indicate increasing levels. In this diagram, constraints on when vacation time can be scheduled with pulling staff to other wards, mandated overtime, incidents of workplace violence and incivility, and unscheduled sickness absence contribute to conditions in the system that are positively reinforcing, resulting in work stress and exhaustion.
"When you have to move staff around a lot, it just creates dangerous situations."
In addition, long hours, psychologically demanding work, inflexible schedules, and low schedule control contribute to employee excessive use of unscheduled absences to recover from stressful work conditions and illness, and to manage their work and nonwork lives.
"This is a 24/7 service. So that requires probably the majority of the nursing staff to work antisocial hours. They're working either evening shift or night shift. And they don't have regularly scheduled weekends off. So the question is, does that contribute to excessive unscheduled absences?"
Increased schedule control can contribute to direct care staff well-being and will likely reduce workplace violence.
Limit use of mandated and voluntary overtime.
Reduce pulling staff to other wards and maintain stable work teams on each ward.
Create a float pool of permanent workers who have the ability and desire to function in this capacity.
Identify options to increase schedule flexibility for direct care nursing staff.
Create a system and culture of schedule control.
Social support from the immediate supervisor and coworker-teams is a component of organizational culture. Social support in organizations is defined as employee perceptions that their supervisor and coworkers value their contribution and care about their well-being. Incivility can occur in workplaces with low social support from supervisors and coworkers.
Supervisor support and leadership are extremely relevant for patient and staff safety. In the psychiatric hospital setting, unit supervisors are influential on the wards through their occasional presence. The charge nurse is also influential in the role of immediate supervisor to floor staff.
"I talk to people about, 'Hey, you did a good job with that patient. Thank you for talking to him that way.' That changes people's minds. You have to make that one-to-one connection with somebody."
Direct care nursing staff must be equipped with the competencies and skills needed to effectively and efficiently organize and design patient care delivery practices. One skill of great importance to workplace violence prevention while delivering quality care is working together as a team. Teamwork was a theme of importance to direct care staff workers in particular, because their safety depended on coworker support and teamwork to safely manage agitated patients on the ward. At all levels of interviews teamwork was valued and reported on as, in some cases, successful and in others, tenuous or less successful.
"When an RN2 or 3 engages their people in decisions in which they have a stake, they feel included and they feel safer. Every time you put somebody in restraints or take them out, you have an opportunity to build team, or you have an opportunity to really strongly undermine the sense of, 'We're in this together.'"
Incivility is low-intensity counterproductive behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target and is in violation of workplace norms for mutual respect. Examples of incivility include hostility, inappropriate or loud tone of voice, nonverbal gestures such as glaring, failing to pass on information, exclusionary behavior, intimidation, put downs, and gossiping. Bullying is a more intense form of negative behavior and occurs when a target is exposed to negative acts, from unconscious incivilities to blatant emotional abuse and physical assaults; negative acts are repeated and there is a prolonged experience over time, 6 months or longer. The Joint Commission (TJC) published a Sentinel Event Alert on intimidating and disruptive behaviors in health care organizations that undermine a culture of safety - this document includes requirements for a new leadership standard (LD.03.01.01) effective January 1, 2009 and suggested actions for organizations.
"When you have staff who is bullying other staff, the whole team breaks down. And when the team doesn't work together, the patients pick up on it, and then you really have a problem. It's very unsafe."
Train upper level management, unit directors, and supervisory nurses on the role of support in psychiatric settings, supervisor and coworker-team support behaviors, and how to foster these in the organization to create a culture of nonviolence and support for safety.
Develop and implement a "Respect in the Workplace" hospital incivility policy that defines and addresses incivility including the organizational response to uncivil/bullying behavior. Refer to TJC Standard LD.03.01.01 for guidance.


A new design for my Alchemy Collection, Elemental bracelets come in 3 versions; semi-precious peridot, cherry quartz or iolite. As you can see, they look gorgeous on their own, or stacked together.
I have used an unusual long-link sterling silver chain which I have oxidized.
length: 18.5cm, they are designed to be closer fitting than a normal bracelet, but please ask when ordering if you would prefer a longer length.


Modern Family Does it ever say why they are being filmed?
The show is similar to The Office in that it seems like a documentary kind of, but, in the show, it never says why they are all being filmed, nor do you get any hints as to why other than just researching the lives of people, if that makes sense. Did I miss something in one of the episodes? Also, while comparing it to The Office, doesn't it seem like Phil is heavily based on Michael Scott? Just an observation. I love the show!


Discussion in 'Full Timers' started by Rose Royce, Dec 17, 2007.
A little help please from you intrepid full timers. We hope to join your ranks early next year and are in the middle of our research. We are currently looking at renting out our house, and would prefer to do this without any involvement from ourselves.
Would those of you who do rent out their houses be kind enough to relate your experiences?
How did you find your managing agents?
Are they responsible for everything?
Would they look after refurbishing your house?
Thanks, in advance for any help.
You really need to speak to a couple of letting agents. I know you are spoilt for choice in Epsom as it is a very popular area for lets, what with the college and all the hospitals as well as the commerce that is around the area now. There are loads of options, whereby the agents will do everything, even the maintenance and may even guarantee occupancy etc, but prices vary wildly as does the standard of service you can recieve.
There are plenty of disadvantages to letting, and leaving everything to the letting agent gives you peace of mind but you also get big bills which come out of your rental income. Remember also that as soon as you rent the house, there may be a tax issue on the income. So it pays to take your time and consider carefully all the options carefully.
I know of a couple of people who found that after doing the sums, they were better off selling than renting, but of course there are so many differing factors that everybodies circumstances can be very different.
Presently, with rates as they are now, coming off the roperty ladder would not worry me, but to have been off of it between 2000 and 2005 would have lost me a whopping rise in equity.
A few years ago, we rented our house out and did it all ourselves - it was a nightmare.
We now have a couple of flats and use an agent - ours charges 11% plus vat.
TBH, they aren't fantastic and I find I have to double-check just about everything they do - but at least it is them doing the groundowrk etc (I can just check at my leisure).
They advertise for tenants and do the background and reference checks etc. We get 6 months free rent insurance (which is only 4 months in reality as the deposit and 1 months rent in advance count for 2 months).
They go round and do six-monthly checks on the properties and they liaise with our builder for things that needed correcting.
They also have a list of tradesmen for any repairs but Ive been careful to put a limit of £250 on anything. They wont admit it but you can bet they get back-handers etc for using certain firms. Any more than £250 and I would want to get my own quotes.
At the moment, we pay £130 per month in agents fees.
I do keep looking at letting agent software (which has timelines for issuing forms and has legal guidelines) with a view to doing it myself.
But I would still have to pay for newspaper adverts etc etc so Im not sure yet.
You can visit www.landlordzone.co.uk who have some great links and a useful forum too.
I would love to full time once my caring days are over but my wife would just not do it.
Even if we could go to Spain for the winter would be superb just for the warmth and my health.
I've considered getting a holiday static in Bordeaux but Irina wants property.
I so want a life without problems now (the last ten years have been hellish sadly) and that not all to do with looking after Dad but sure any ideas of relaxing as I get older are out sadly.
A few years ago I rented out my house for a year and went to live and work in Spain. I did it through a letting agent. I didn't make any money on it but neither did I lose any, the mortgage was paid and after a year I returned to live there.
I would recommend it, especially after my own experience where I decided that Spain was in fact great but I didn't want to live there!
No one has mentioned Tax! both income and capital gains need checking out before you sign anything!
If you can afford to keep the property and full time it's your safest investment.
We set our properties up as Tenants in Common with unequal shares - Ann-Marie owned 90% of the properties and me 10%.
This is because we planned that I would work and Ann-Marie wouldnt.
We completed the forms to have our rental income paid to us gross (otherwise the agent is forced to withold tax on your behalf).
So, Ann-Marie can earn upto her annual allowance in rental income before we have to start paying any tax on it.
Also, with regard capital gains tax, we wrote to HMRC to advise them that each property (just for 1 week each when we bought them) was our main home - this helps with capital gains.
I would seriously point people to the forum at www.landlordzone.co.uk - where there are a lot of very knowledgeable people.


Slovenia is a mountainous nation state in Central Europe. It is marked with significant biological diversity and is one of the most water-rich countries in Europe. Over half of the territory is covered by forest. Slovenia's Karst Plateau is a limestone region of underground rivers, gorges, and caves, between Ljubljana and the Mediterranean. The best known caves are Postojna Cave and the UNESCO listed Škocjan Caves.
There are 24,000 animal species, among them marmots, Alpine ibex, chamois, deer, roe deer, boar, and hares. It is believed that Slovenia has one of the largest brown bear populations in Europe with around 400 bears. Among the 13 domestic animals native to Slovenia are the Karst Shepherd mountain dog, the Carniolan honeybee, and the Lipizzan horse, which is associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria.
Maribor, Slovenia's second-largest city, is home to the oldest vine in the world. The grapevine of Žametovka is about 440 years old and still produce 25 litres of wine every year, however the wine is not available for public sale and has been described by the The Daily Telegraph as "virtually undrinkable".
Ljubljana City Museum is home to the oldest wheel in the world. The Ljubljana Marshes Wheel is approximately 5,150 years old, has a radius of 70cm and is made of ash and oak.
Slovenian cuisine is a mixture of the Central European cuisine (especially Austrian and Hungarian), Mediterranean cuisine and Balkan cuisine. Recipes I came across include Jota (meat and vegetable hot pot), Ričet (Slovenian Barley soup), Idrija Žlikrofi (dumplings), Čompe s skuto (potatoes with cottage cheese), Prekmurska gibanica (layered cake), Potica (nut bread), baked mushroom with cheese and Kranjske Klobasa (sausages). I opted to make Belokranjska pogača (salted cake), which although quite doughy it was really tasty.


Personal Details – Kent Huffman: Marketing. Branding. Strategy. Tactics. Results.
Although he didn't serve in the military, Kent Huffman has a lot of respect, admiration, and appreciation for our veterans. Over the last few years, he's worked as a fundraiser and volunteer for AUSA's annual Wounded Warrior Golf Classic, which benefits Operation Once in a Lifetime. Kent's former employer, BearCom Wireless—along with Motorola, BB&T, Cabela's, PGA Tour Superstore, ClubCorp, 18 other sponsors, and 200-plus golfers—helped to raise more than $100,000 in 2012 and 2013 to support wounded veterans and their families in North Texas.
Kent also is an enthusiastic supporter of Animal Preservation of East Texas (APET). This SPCA facility in Mineola seeks to provide refuge and adoption options for a multitude of homeless dogs and cats in East Texas. APET also strives to reduce the number of unwanted pets and diligently work toward the goal of reducing animal cruelty—including neglect and abandonment—through a comprehensive, low-cost spay/neuter program.
In the past, Kent has served as a volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas and a route driver for Meals on Wheels of Collin County. These two fine organizations work tirelessly to help improve the lives of children and the elderly.
Kent and his wife, Judy, love spending time with their family and friends in beautiful East Texas. On most any weekend throughout the year, you'll find them boating, jet skiing, fishing, and enjoying the incredible sunsets at their cabin on Lake Holbrook near Mineola.
Kent and Judy also enjoy exploring the Caribbean, especially snorkeling, SCUBA diving, and mixing with the locals. One of their "bucket list" goals is to eventually visit every island in the archipelago. So far, they've made it to 19, including multiple trips to their favorite destination in the U.S. Virgin Islands: St. John.