This morning, we all headed off early for a day out in Birmingham.
Working there made me realise what a great city it is. There's always something going on and children are particularly spoilt.
Our first stop after getting off the train today was the Town Hall to see the AMAZING Three Little Pigs musical.
This was a bit of a shock to me. I knew the girls would enjoy it, but I had no idea that it would be enjoyable for the grown ups too.
The music is catchy, actors are engaging and it's only 55 minutes long so it holds the children's attention.
The big bad wolf is played by Simon Webbe from the band Blue. He was excellent in it and his character reminded me a bit of Cat from Red Dwarf.
The three little pigs were all acclaimed actors with a musical background, really not the type of thing we're used to in children's theatre.
The story was really well told and I particularly loved the fact that the star piggie wasn't the cool one or the fit one, but the clever one that worked hard at school.
This is a great message for children in my humble opinion.
Both girls really engaged with this play but I think it would be equally suitable for older children, probably up to the top end of primary school.
This is on at the Town Hall until Sunday (2 August) and we would all highly recommend it. It's also a brilliant venue, so we'll definitely be back to see something else.
My top tip for taking a child of Lia's age to the theatre is to bring an apple. This kept her quiet for about 50 minutes and then she had a dance for the last five minutes.
After the theatre, we headed off to Wagamama for lunch at Libby's request.
It was awesome as always and Lia endeared herself to the waitress by abjectly refusing to hand over her plate until she'd eaten every last scrap.
Our afternoon was spent at the Sea Life Centre on their brilliant Lego Explorer trail. This is the second time Libby has done it. It was no less exciting.
We really are regulars at the Sea Life Centre, but the girls never tire of it.
Today, there was some Lego to play with half way round.
There's also a film to watch which is usually in 3D. Today, it was in 2D (plus special effects) which meant that Libby could see it properly (she can't see in 3D at all).
This made Libby's day – she has no awareness at not being able to see in 3D, but all she usually sees is the blurry screen that you see without the glasses so today's film was a revelation.
These little things like the Lego and the film break up the afternoon and mean that when they go back to seeing the sea creatures, they're still really exciting.
If this isn't enough to inspire you to have a day out in Birmingham, the Big Hoot is currently going on around the city.
We stopped to have a look at a couple of the owls but would love to go back and see a few more.
The owls are all there to raise money for Birmingham Children's Hospital, they will be auctioned off at some point so if you are an owl fan, this could be your chance to own one.


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British Museum to help return ancient artefacts looted from Iraq and Afghanistan
July 8, 2019, 11:07 am Updated: July 8, 2019, 11:25 am
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Ancient artefacts that have been looted from Iraq and Afghanistan after recent conflicts and illegally exported to the UK will be returned to their country of origin.
The British Museum is working with the UK Border Force and other Government law enforcement agencies to help to return the seized items, which were brought there for analysis, conservation and cataloguing.
Among the items due to be returned are Gandharan sculptures which had been illegally exported from Afghanistan and entered Heathrow Airport from Peshawar on September 5 2002.
The nine heads (Trustees of the British Museum/PA)
They consist of a bodhisattva torso made of the metamorphic rock grey schist and a group of nine heads sculptured in clay and then painted.
The heads feature a portrayal of Buddha, the turbaned heads of meditating bodhisattvas, the bald head of a monk and three larger heads belonging to female and male individuals, one possibly to be identified with Vajrapani, the spiritual guide of Buddha.
The others are thought to be lay donors or bodhisattvas.
The clay heads belong to a well-known class dating between the fourth and sixth centuries AD, the museum said.
The items will be returned to Afghanistan (Trustees of the British Museum/PA)
They are typical of the tradition of Hadda, near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, and the remainder of Buddhist sites in the Kabul region of central Afghanistan and will have adorned the walls of Buddhist monasteries.
The objects will be returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan through the British Museum after they go on temporary display in London, with the permission of the Afghan museum.
Due to be returned to Iraq is an important collection of tablets bearing cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing.
A haul of 154 Mesopotamian texts written on clay in cuneiform script was seized on entry to the UK in February 2011.
The tablets (Trustees of the British Museum/PA)
The tablets range in date from the mid-third millennium BC to the Achaemenid period.
The earliest are Early Dynastic administrative tablets and the latest are dated to the reigns of a Darius and an Artaxerxes but most date to the period between 2100 and 1800 BC and belong to the Ur III and Old Babylonian dynasties.
Some carry cylinder seal impressions and some are still enclosed in their clay envelopes.
The texts include letters and a mathematical text, but most are economic texts, and many belong to administrative archives coming from a place called Irisagrig.
(Trustees of the British Museum/PA)
The city was unknown until tablets referring to it surfaced on the art market in 2003 when the site was probably heavily looted in the immediate aftermath of the American-led invasion of Iraq.
After a long investigation by HMRC, they will be returned to the Iraq Museum, part of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq, through the British Museum.
The museum has also developed a collaborative project with antiquities authorities, collectors, dealers and law enforcement agencies called Circulating Artefacts, which aims to identify and return trafficked objects to Egypt and Sudan, with support from the Cultural Protection Fund.
Over the past year, almost 700 illicit artefacts looted and trafficked from Egypt and Sudan have been identified under the scheme.
Repatriated objects include statues, reliefs and funerary objects spotted with a wide range of auction houses and sellers, both in the UK and abroad.
Hartwig Fischer, director of the British Museum, said: "War, conflict, climate change, globalisation, poverty and migration all play a part in the threats to cultural heritage.
"The museum adopts a systematic approach, working with many colleagues across the world to help preserve, train, conserve, document and understand material culture.
"I am extremely proud of this deep and committed engagement, built collaboratively over many years and with the help of many funders.
"Sadly, this work is more essential now than ever and the museum will continue and increase its efforts to assist colleagues globally in the preservation and celebration of their cultural heritage."
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Blake C. Goldring Announces Decision to Transition to New Role as Executive Chairman Kevin McCreadie named Chief Executive Officer and Judy Goldring named President
Blake C. Goldring Announces Decision to Transition to New Role as Executive Chairman
September 26, 2018 • Announcements
Kevin McCreadie named Chief Executive Officer and Judy Goldring named President
Today, AGF Management Limited (TSX: AGF.B) announced that Blake C. Goldring, CEO and Chairman for AGF, has made the decision to transition into a new role as Executive Chairman for the firm. Kevin McCreadie, President and Chief Investment Officer, has been named as his successor and Judy Goldring, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, has been named to President and Chief Administration Officer (CAO), effective December 1, 2018.
"It is my personal belief that leadership renewal is a hallmark of great organizations, especially one that has the deep bench strength that we do at AGF," said Blake Goldring, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, AGF Management Limited (AGF). "I also get enormous satisfaction knowing that the firm is positioned for success based on my strategic decisions and AGF team efforts spanning just over 20 years."
AGF is positioned to take advantage of what the evolving investment landscape has to offer and boasts strength across its four distinct investment management platforms -- Fundamental, Quantitative, Alternatives and Private Client – each of which is experiencing organic growth from both the firm's retail and institutional client distribution channels. In an earlier release today, AGF announced its assets under management (AUM) increased 11% to $38.8 billion compared to the same period in 2017, with growth achieved across all of our lines of business.
"I strongly believe in the power of change to drive long-term growth and innovation," added Goldring. "Kevin is ideally suited to lead the new AGF given his extensive experience in investment management and his past four years of dedicated and proven leadership with AGF."
"Kevin was brought on board as President and CIO with a strategic focus on driving change within AGF's investment management platform," said G. Wayne Squibb, Lead Director, AGF Board of Directors and board member since 2009. "Critical to his success was a multi-year on-boarding plan to fully integrate into the culture at AGF while balancing the need to reorient the team for future success. Given Kevin's track record in firmly establishing disciplined processes to deliver consistent results we are confident in him as a natural successor to Blake."
"I am honoured to be appointed CEO for AGF at such a dynamic time for our company and industry. We are experiencing unprecedented and rapidly changing client and market environments," said Kevin McCreadie, President and Chief Investment Officer, AGF. "I look forward to building on the momentum AGF is experiencing today while continuing to focus on strengthening our investment management capabilities and global reach, and driving growth and profitability throughout the business to deliver long-term value for our clients and shareholders."
Over Blake's more than 20 years in leadership, as President (in 1997) and subsequently as CEO (in 2000), the firm has grown from $12.8bn to $38.8bn with a more diversified footprint -- in 1997, almost 100% of the assets were held in its traditional retail mutual fund business ($0.4B held in segregated funds), whereas today AGF has established a more diversified business with 50% of the assets in retail, 47% in institutional and private clients assets and the remaining 3% in alternatives. Additionally, in 2000 AGF took important steps toward realizing its vision to becoming a global company by opening new offices around the world – today, AGF has 14 offices with over 60 Investment Management professionals across our offices based in North America, Europe and Asia.
ABOUT AGF MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Founded in 1957, AGF Management Limited (AGF) is an independent and globally diverse asset management firm. AGF brings a disciplined approach to delivering excellence in investment management through its fundamental, quantitative, alternative and private client businesses focused on providing an exceptional client experience. AGF's suite of investment solutions extends globally to a wide range of clients, from financial advisors and individual investors to institutional investors including pension plans, corporate plans, sovereign wealth funds and endowments and foundations.
AGF has investment operations and client servicing teams on the ground in North America, Europe and Asia. With nearly $39 billion in total assets under management, AGF serves more than one million investors. AGF trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol AGF.B.
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Wow has this been a good week so far. It is Happy Day time for letterboxers and the Irish. Wednesday it was finally warm enough to get out some. I started the day with a stop at "Spudnuts" my favorite donut shop. Then it was off to collect a recently changed local seasonally letterboxing which includes a bonus stamp. Another boxer beat me to it, but left a HH which I collected. Then a stop at a craft store to pick up some St. Patrick's Day trinkets. Some for my wife to wear at school and another to use as an "Easter Egg" in my own St. Patrick's day letterbox which I will put out before the week is finished. Following that I was able to plant three new boxes near my home.
Then yesterday I got an early start. Not expecting the weather to get real warm, I went after a several drive-by boxes which are clustered close together some distance away. Before the day was done ten additional boxes had been logged. The weather actually turned out to be quite balmy. That is enough to make any letterboxer happy.
Saint Patrick's Day is just around the corner. Today I will be cooking up pot of stew, but it will probably not be true Irish as my wife does not like the odor of lamb cooking.
Here is a great Irish Soda Bread recipe that I wanted to share. It is traditional served with clotted cream (Devon Cream) and/or lemon curd. I recently found lime curd at a local store. The lime curd has a bit of a green tint so I will be using it instead for the big day.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line baking sheet with parchment or a silpat.
Whisk the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. One tablespoon at a time, work in two tablespoons of the butter with your fingers, you will end up with a coarse meal-like dough. Stir in the buttermilk and the currants and mix with a fork until it comes together. Transfer to a floured countertop and knead just until the dough holds itself together, it will be bumpy, not smooth. This will take less than one minute.
Pat the dough into a 6 inch round, 2 inches thick and place on the baking sheet. If desired, sprinkle with one tablespoon of sugar or two tablespoons of pearl sugar. Mark an "x" on top with a very sharp or serrated knife. Bake until golden brown, around 40 - 45 minutes.
Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack. Melt the remaining one tablespoon of butter and brush over the top of the loaf.


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I think he's a good looking model, don't you? But then, I'm a little biased. I had to rip back on the pink sweater.
I think it's even less than this picture. I took it back and started some more decreases. I had stopped decreasing on the front, and I ripped back to add more. I think I was going to end up with too many. So, I'm working on it still. Once it's done though, I think it will be great. It's just a matter of getting the neckline right with the sleeves. I think I can work it out. It's getting to be sweater weather here...how about where you are?


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Valle de Ángeles is a municipality in the Honduran department of Francisco Morazán.

The local holiday is October 4, San Francisco Day.

Location
The town is bordered on the north by the municipality of Central District, on the south by the municipality of San Antonio de Oriente, east by the municipalities of Morocelí and Villa de San Francisco and west by the municipality of Santa Lucía. It is located about 22 km northeast of the capital city, Tegucigalpa in the valley of the same name, between the mountains of Los Lagos, El Carrizal, Palo Hueco and Chinacla.

Economy and tourism

The town is a popular tourist attraction for the colonial architecture, ethnic crafts and scenery, plus nearby ecotourism. Crafts include wood carvings, pottery, and contemporary art.

The road is completely paved from Tegucigalpa. A few kilometers away there is an important forest reserve called Parque Nacional "La Tigra". La Tigra is a cloud forest rich in biodiversity and there are hiking trails.  Much of the fresh water for Tegucigalpa is from this forest.

Historical data
In the 1791 population count was part of the parish of Santa Lucia, under the name of the Cimarron or the pigsty On April 1, 1862, Fray Juan de Jesus Zepeda gave it its current name, and in 1865 it was designated as a Municipality (municipio).

The region was an important mining town in the history of Honduras, with enclaves such as Las Animas and El Socorro, which produced gold, silver, copper, tin, lead and zinc.

External links
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References

Municipalities of the Francisco Morazán Department

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It was not until 1974 that a medium-sized camp was discovered on Air Photographs about 2½ miles east-north-east of the large camp at Blaen-cwm-Bach. The site lies just south of Blaen-cwm-Caca in the south bank of the Melin Court Brook and has a long association with the history of the area. The Glamorgan County History records a Bronze-Age ring cairn, sometimes known as the 'Henllan stone circle', an Iron-Age double-ditched drystone enclosure containing at least one substantial round-house, also two possible Roman signal stations on Resolven Mountain.
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Access Bank brings sustainability to music industry
When Access Bank and Star larger beer announced their intentions to sponsor one of Nigeria's, biggest TV shows, Access The Stars, it was met with enthusiasm and excitement. For a bank whose operational purpose is hinged on sustainability and creating an enabling environment for its customers as well as the society to thrive, it came as no surprise at all.
Their reason for partnering with Star to create a platform where musical talents can shine more is not far fetched. In fact, it is embedded in its corporate philosophy which is: 'setting standards for sustainable business practices that unleash the talent of our employees, deliver superior value to our customers and provide innovative solutions for the markets and communities we serve'. For the past decades, Access Bank has strictly lived up to its more than banking promise and has diversified its sustainability efforts towards the areas of education, sports, art, health and environment and recently, entertainment.
The just-concluded Access The Stars TV Show strongly portrays Access Bank's support for the celebration of creativity and positioning of Nigeria's talents on a global scale. At this time when Nigeria is swimming in musical talents with different sounds spring forth from different directions, it is definitely a move in due season.
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"Desserts are a missed opportunity," says Jeffrey Freehof, owner of The Garlic Clove in Evans, Georgia, and a resident expert at Pizza Today. In our September 2010 issue, he called out desserts as one of the five things every pizzeria should be making in-house. His advice is worth repeating: "Sure, there are a lot of great items you can purchase already prepared with a built-in profit margin," he says, "but you can usually double your profit (or more) if you can make it yourself." So, Pizza Today put out its feelers, looking for insight from operators who have created successful dessert programs by either going 100-percent homemade or, more commonly, using a clever combination of homemade, convenience products and prepared desserts.
At 75-seat Bella Vista Trattoria in Wilmington, Delaware, chef/co-owner Candace Roseo offers a rotating dessert menu of 12 Italian favorites. "We stay true to our brand and to our high standards, and to the way of life we knew growing up outside of Naples," she says. Much of Bella Vista's menu is produced in-house — from the bread and pizza dough to the pizza sauce and biscotti. "We have a weekly back-of-the-house prep already in place, and it's manageable," adds Roseo. "If you have the system set up, then homemade desserts can be much less expensive than those purchased from a purveyor."
But Roseo does rely on convenience products where appropriate. For the very popular cannoli, she buys the pastry shell, but makes the filling. "It's just not practical for us to make the shells. We don't want to fry them in the same fryers that we use for chicken and eggplant," she says. For the restaurant's traditional Calabrese cannoli filling, she combines ricotta with vanilla, confectioner's sugar, candied citrus and mini chocolate chips.
Bella Vista's tiramisu is made from scratch, but Roseo admits that it took them a while to get the system down pat. "We had to figure out packaging and storing, but we landed on the right equipment and method, and we're really happy with the result," she says. The prep cooks make the tiramisu in batches, then use a 13-inch by 9-inch heavy-duty resin sheet pan with a lid for storage (similar to a catering tray), freezing them until needed. They prep six trays a week, with each tray holding 15 individual servings. They thaw one tray for service, defrost one in the walk-in and have the rest on hand in the freezer.
Bella Vista tried making its granitas and ices in house, but decided to source them from an Italian purveyor instead. "It was a little more work than it was worth," says Roseo. And with the sfogliatelle, Italian pastries that look like seashells, Bella Vista moved from making them in house to bringing them in unbaked. "You make them by hand," says Roseo. "They're hugely labor intensive. We had quality-control issues — for mass production it just wasn't working." They now bring them in frozen and bake them off for service.
At Piece Brewery & Pizzeria in Chicago, most of its desserts, such as the Supreme Cheesecake with Raspberry Sauce and the Chocolate Extreme Cake, are out-sourced. But, the signature Chocolate Pizza is homemade. "We don't make most of our desserts, because they're not a big part of what we do," says Bill Jacobs, owner of this 220-seat eatery. "We sell pizza and beer." Indeed, Piece has an onsite brewery and serves very popular New Haven-style pies. The chocolate pizza, inspired by silent partner Rick Nielsen's (of Cheap Trick fame) trip to Italy, features pizza dough topped with Nutella 9 (chocolate-hazelnut spread) and mascarpone. Piece bakes it, slices it, and serves the whole pie for $11.95. It runs a 20 percent food cost. "It does really well for us and is so easy to execute," Jacobs says.
For the staff at San Francisco's Pauline's Pizza, the homemade-dessert menu is a heartfelt extension of their core branding and mission statement. The eggs used in the desserts? Sourced from the chickens raised on property. "We also grow our own produce, source organic and make everything in-house," says Mike Green, sous chef and chief ice-cream maker. "It's who we are and our customers love us for it." That customer base has been steady for the last 25 years. "Word of mouth keeps us successful," says Green.
For Pauline's seasonal sorbet trio, diners might find an expression of the season's best melons with scoops of ambrosia melon, heirloom melon and kiwano melon. This pizzeria, which serves Californian-style pizza, runs a core dessert menu of five, including chocolate mousse and butterscotch pudding. Homemade ice cream is a star at Pauline's, with seasonal favorites featuring homegrown fruits and nuts from the organic garden and ranch. "When you make homemade desserts, your customers know that you care what you're putting on the plate," he says.
Chocolate Chip Pizza
1 pound homemade pizza dough or purchased pizza dough
¼ cup chocolate-hazelnut spread
½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3 tablespoons milk-chocolate chips
2 tablespoons chopped hazelnuts, toasted (optional)
Powdered sugar for dusting
Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Roll out the dough to a 9-inch-diameter round. Transfer the dough to the prepared pan. Brush the dough with butter, then bake in a 450 F oven until crisp and golden, about 18 minutes. Immediately spread the chocolate-hazelnut spread over the pizza; sprinkle chocolate chips over top. Bake just until the chocolate begins to melt, about 1 minute. Sprinkle hazelnuts over the pizza. Dust with powdered sugar. Cut into wedges. Serve.
Katie Ayoub is a frequent contributor to Pizza Today. She lives in Naperville, Illinois.


The Ceylon Workers' Congress, headed in 1988 by Suvumyamoorthy Thondaman, originally joined with other Tamil groups to form TULF, but withdrew from the party after the July 1977 general election, when Jayewardene offered Thondaman a post in the UNP cabinet. In the late 1980s, the Ceylon Workers' Congress, with one representative, Thondaman, in Parliament, continued to cooperate with the ruling party. This was politically feasible because its principal supporters, Indian Tamils located for the most part in the central part of the country, were unresponsive to the Sri Lankan Tamils' call for an independent state in the north. In December 1986, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, based in the Eastern Province, announced its determination to become a national political party.


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November 26, 2003 Andy Crawford Contents, Deer Hunting
Stalking is a very effective technique during the rut, if you know what you're doing. Here are some tips from the man who creeped up on last season's largest typical buck.
The hunter leaned against a tree, intently inspecting the surrounding woods and enjoying an apple.
The fruit was instantly forgotten, however, when the splashing of steps was heard. The hunter's senses sizzled, and his eyes silently bored through the button brush to pick up movement that would give away the deer he just knew was walking through the bottom.
But there was nothing there; still, the splashing grew closer and closer.
Finally, he saw it.
"It looked like a dog or something," said Marksville's Allen Gaspard, his thick accent clearly marking his Cajun heritage.
A form low to the inches-deep water was slipping along, but it wasn't a canine.
Gaspard knew that when he picked up the crown of antlers sitting atop the figure's head.
It was massive, and Gaspard quickly realized the buck was doing something he'd heard about but had never seen.
"He was crawling through the water," he explained. "I think he caught my scent, or maybe he smelled the apple."
Breathing became difficult as Gaspard desperately looked for a hole in the tangle of button brush through which the deer was moving, but the buck veered away from him and slowly disappeared into the thicket.
"He was too far, and I couldn't get the right shot on him," he said.
Gaspard couldn't believe it, but he also smiled to himself.
He had located the haunting grounds of the biggest buck he had ever seen, and he knew that it was just a matter of time before the deer was seen again.
The hunter quietly left the area, sharing the story with only three people.
"I told my boy, my daddy and my brother, but my brother doesn't hunt," Gaspard joked.
He returned to the area again a few days later, but with no success.
Gaspard returned every three or four days thereafter, looking for his trophy.
On Jan. 1, he saw a buck.
It wasn't the big boy, but Gaspard put the nice 7-point on the ground.
Hunting protocol told him he should leave the area alone for a few days, but the draw was irresistible, so Gaspard returned on Jan. 2.
About ¼ mile from where he spotted the big buck, the 49-year-old hunter again heard something walking cautiously through the water.
Gaspard tensed, hoping that this would be the same deer.
It wasn't, but the rack was beautiful.
"He walked right up on me," Gaspard explained. "I was just standing against a tree, and he was maybe 15 yards from me."
The temptation was too much, and Gaspard's shoulder nestled into the stock of the little .30/30 Winchester.
Moments later, the deer was on the ground.
This time, Gaspard waited a few days to go back in the area.
That morning, he climbed into a stand and sat for a few hours.
But what he really wanted to do was creep through the area and try finding the buck.
Finally, he could stand it no more; Gaspard eased off the stand and began slipping through the soggy woods.
Only a couple hundred yards from his stand site, it happened.
"He saw me, and I saw him," Gaspard said.
The buck was about 50 yards away in a thicket, standing right on the edge of the cover. It gave the excited hunter a quick look before turning to move deeper within the concealing button brush.
"He was a little far away, but I decided to take a shot," Gaspard said.
The .30/30 was brought to bear on yet another deer, and the buck bolted as the gun coughed.
Gaspard didn't pursue the deer immediately, but he didn't keep still long, either.
"I waited about two or three minutes, and then I kept creeping along real slow," he said.
Amazingly, Gaspard quickly caught up with the buck.
"He only went about 100 yards," Gaspard said. "He was just standing there like nothing had happened. It looked like it had been browsing on some small branches."
This time, the hunter remained unseen. Gaspard moved ever so slowly to get into position for a second shot.
"I got broadside of him," he said.
The second shot ended the hunt.
When Gaspard found his prize, he was shocked to learn that the first shot had hit the deer. The bullet, fired as the deer turned away, had broken the buck's pelvis.
There wasn't much time to marvel at the stamina of such an animal, however.
Gaspard's next discovery revealed just how huge the buck's rack was.
The animal sported 13 scoreable points, and he could easily fit his forearm between the main beams. There was, in fact, room to move his arm back and forth several inches.
The deer was dragged back to the camp, and the celebration began in earnest.
It was the biggest deer Gaspard had ever killed or likely will ever kill again.
The 256-pound buck's antlers green-scored 196 2/8 gross Boone & Crockett points.
After drying time and deductions, the score plummeted. But it was still the largest buck entered into the state's Big Game Recognition Program.
The final score: 174 6/8 B&C points.
And no, it wasn't scored as a non-typical. The antlers form a beautiful typical rack. They're also absolutely massive.
Some hunters might shrug their shoulders, figuring anyone can kill big deer on private property that is properly managed for long enough.
However, Gaspard wouldn't know anything about that.
His buck, along with the 7- and 8-pointers, came off of public property, namely a tract of school board land adjacent to Spring Bayou Wildlife Management Area in Avoyelles Parish.
And every one of them was killed while Gaspard was stalking, a technique for which he has become known.
Stalking, or "creeping" as Gaspard calls it, is something many try and quickly discard after they spook deer or simply never see anything.
But Gaspard said it can be one of the most effective and enjoyable ways to hunt during the rut.
"I cover more ground," he said.
There's more to it than simply strolling through the woods keeping a sharp eye out, however.
First, Gaspard doesn't bother with it until the rut is in full swing.
"I don't have much luck until the rut," he said.
One reason is that bucks simply don't move around as much during the daytime when they're not searching for a mate.
The animals also are much more sensitive to their surroundings.
"They're not as aware of what's going on during the rut," Gaspard said. "They don't smell as well."
That makes them much more vulnerable to hunters.
Although Gaspard believes their sense of smell is either diminished or simply ignored to a large degree during the rut, he still pays very close attention to wind direction.
"I want the wind in my face," he said. "I usually go to the south, and try to get on the lee side of the wind."
The reason for approaching an area from the south is simple — the prevailing winds during the winter have a northerly character.
"I've only become successful in the last 10 to 12 years. I think it's because I started paying attention to that wind," he said.
To further minimize the odds of being winded, Gaspard uses Scent Block spray before he goes into the woods. He also sprays down every two to three hours.
"I take one of those little bottles with me," he said.
Gaspard doesn't just enter any old area and begin walking from the south, however.
Instead, he puts some time in scouting to ensure there are bucks in the area.
He looks for the normal rutting signs, scrapes and hookings, and throws in droppings for good measure.
While most hunters salivate when hot scrapes or a line of fresh hookings is found, Gaspard ignores them once they're located.
"Where we've got a lot of hunting pressure, you can't rely on them," he explained. "The deer are using them at night."
There's also the matter of competition from other hunters.
"Everybody's going to be hunting that sign," he said.
So why does he even bother searching for scrapes and hookings? Gaspard said the animals responsible for making the markings aren't coming from miles away.
"You know those deer are in the area. You know to look in the places people don't penetrate," he said.
So once sign is located, Gaspard begins getting the lay of the land. That means finding thickets where bucks can lay up and move about without being too obvious.
"Most of the time, they're going to follow some rough stuff or be right in it," he pointed out. "They're going to be in the thickest stuff they have."
And if there's water present, that's even better.
"I like lake bottoms with button wood, willows and cypress," he explained.
Bucks hang around this water because it provides an extremely effective security system.
"They feel secure in that water," Gaspard said. "They can hear people walking in that water."
That makes stalking in these areas very tricky, but Gaspard said the water on which deer rely to alert them of a hunter's presence can be used equally as effectively by hunters who master the art of stalking these water-logged areas.
"You can hear them walking, too," he said. "If they move through the water, you'll hear them."
This cat-and-mouse game isn't for the hyperactive hunter, though.
"You've got to be patient," Gaspard said. "You've got to like to just walk through the woods and enjoy life and gather your thoughts."
That statement belies the real skill involved.
Gaspard begins by slowly moving into the area to be hunted, and then he stops by a tree.
"Every time you make a stop, try to stop behind something," he said. "That way, if a deer walks by, he can't see you."
The wait can be fairly long, but Gaspard isn't napping or idly contemplating life.
"You look real, real good as far as your eyes can see," he said.
Gaspard uses a camouflage facemask or camo face paint to lower the risks of deer spotting him.
"I think they can see that face, especially on a white man," he said.
Gaspard searches the area, familiarizing himself with the trees, bushes and thickets so he can quickly recognize if something new has appeared or has moved.
Once he's comfortable with the fact that no deer are nearby, a process that can take five minutes or 25 minutes, Gaspard moves on.
How far he goes before stopping at another tree, however, is not set in stone.
"As long as I'm confident, I may go 25 to 50 yards," he said. "Sometimes I go 10 to 15 steps and stop."
It's all instinct, but it's designed to give the hunter a different perspective on the woods. Often, that little change in position reveals a deer that couldn't be seen before.
"You see things at a different angle. You might move a little bit, and you can see him better," Gaspard said.
This is particularly helpful when a deer is bedded down in the thickets.
"If he's bedding, you have to practically walk on him to make him move," he said.
While his goal is to catch deer unawares so he can get a look at them, his first sight of a deer is often the deer hustling away.
What he looks for in this case are antlers.
"If it's a doe or a small buck, I don't worry about going on," Gaspard said.
A glimpse of big antlers, however, piques his interest.
There are two choices at this point: give up and come back later or continue and try to catch up with the buck.
There's only one reason Gaspard doesn't continue the hunt.
"I continue creeping unless the wind is not right," he said. "They'll stay in that area. They'll go probably the farthest about 85 yards.
"They'll stop two or three minutes, and continue moseying around."
As every hunter knows, deer flee in two different ways.
The first is by walking, bounding or trotting away because they are unsure of their surroundings; the second is by vacating the area right now.
Gaspard said neither of these cases is particularly worrisome for him, as long as he's walking into the wind.
"If the wind is right, I'll make a hunt," he said. "I'll try to get in position to cut him off."
If he continues, Gaspard's decision on how to proceed depends entirely on the direction of the wind.
If the wind is blowing directly in his face, the stalk continues straight in the direction the buck fled.
"I won't change anything; I'll just keep going," Gaspard explained.
If the wind direction is blowing across him to any degree, the hunter notes the direction in which the deer escaped and makes a slight detour to the downwind side.
"I try to get at least 100 yards off the trail and continually look to (the side on which the deer's escape trail lies) in case I come across him again," Gaspard said. "I want to come against him in an area where he's out (of the thicket), and then I try not to spook him."
This can be a delicate matter.
"I just watch them and try to get in position to get a shot," he said.
Gaspard could bump a deer several times before giving up the chase for the day.
"I might keep on like that for maybe an hour until he gets my scent and takes off," he explained.
That's when the area is abandoned and left alone for several days.
Obviously, this kind of hunting is extremely slow.
"It's like squirrel hunting, only slower," Gaspard said. "In a four-hour hunt, I may cover maybe 350 yards."
And hunters should be ready to jump bucks at which they never get shots.
"Ninety percent (of the deer) you're not going to get, but there's still that 10 percent," he said.
Those might not be betting odds, but Gaspard knows some fine deer can be found in that 10 percent.
All he has to do for confirmation is look at his wall.
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Theodore A. Jacobson, más conocido como Ted Jacobson (27 de noviembre de 1954) es un físico teórico estadounidense conocido por su trabajo en la conexión entre gravedad y termodinámica. En particular, en 1995 Jacobson demostró que las ecuaciones de campo de Einstein que describen la gravedad relativista pueden derivarse de consideraciones termodinámicas.

Jacobson es profesor de física en el Centro de Física Fundamental de la Universidad de Maryland. Más recientemente, su trabajo se ha centrado en el problema de la energía oscura y la expansión cósmica.

Véase también

 Gravedad entrópica

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Enlaces externos

 Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS): artículos escritos por Jacobson. Universidad de Nottingham.
 "Jacobson, Theodore - Professor", University of Maryland. Contiene un enlace a su currículo.
 Perfil de Jacobson en la Universidad de Maryland.
 Marco Frasca, "Ted Jacobson's deep understanding", The Gauge Connection, 5 de marzo de 2009.

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Previously registered as VH-TFW with TAA.
This old Friendship started life in 1964 with All Nippon Airways as JA8631, after that went to Trans Australia Airlines as VH-TFW in 1972 and to Rio Sul as PT-LDJ in 1982. Finishing up in Pakistan means it has seen action all over the world.
The skies in New Zealand are just like Australia.
In this shot the Governor of Queensland Sir Henry Abel Smith and Lady Abel Smith are seen at the christening ceremony of VH-FNE at Eagle Farm.
Having been rolled out of the paint shop with incorrect registration N507AW (see here), a few hours later it had been corrected to the correct registration of N504AW as seen in this photo.
This aircraft was ex Air Wisconsin. On 1991-11-19 it was registered N724FE. To Sky Service Belgium 1992-01-16 as OO-FEK, although that lasted only for a couple of months when it went to Mountain Air Cargo / Fedex again as N724FE. Note '731' on the nosewheel door.
Ex Air Wisconsin N504AW. This was rolled out of the paint shop incorrectly painted as N507AW, but this was corrected to N504AW later on the same day (see here). By 1991-11-19 it was re-registered N724FE. Note '731' on the nosewheel door.
This F.27 was originallly delivered to Garuda as PK-GRE in August 1969. It flew with CNET (Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications) for almost 13 years but is now I-FSTK and wfu and stored at Bergamo.
Wearing the revised TAA livery minus "The Nation's Jetline" under the window line.
Ex KLu C-2. Sold as N32180 in 2008 and now in use as an instructional airframe in Malaysia.


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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is the national trade organization of the U.S. book publishing industry. Its Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division is composed of AAP members who publish books, journals, looseleaf, and electronic products in technology, science, medicine, business, law, humanities, the behavioral sciences and scholarly reference. Professional societies and university presses also play an import role in the division.
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Disney announces big-screen 'Frozen 2'
Olaf of "Frozen" will be one of the returning characters in the Disney Animation Studios sequel. Such sequels usually go straight to video.
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By Daniel Miller,
Rebecca Keegan
Reporting from SAN FRANCISCO —
Breaking with tradition, Walt Disney Animation Studios will make a sequel to its blockbuster animated film "Frozen," marking a rare instance in which the company will release a theatrical follow-up to one of its movies.
Walt Disney Co., the parent of the animation company, used its annual shareholder meeting Thursday to announce "Frozen 2," which follows the 2013 smash hit about the adventures of princesses Anna and Elsa that grossed more than $1.2 billion.
The Burbank entertainment giant also revealed details about two planned "Star Wars" films, while investors reelected all 10 members of the company's board of directors and voted down two proposals brought by shareholders.
But "Frozen 2" was the surprise star of the event, a polished affair emceed by Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Iger that featured clips from several forthcoming movies and a video montage that touted various media properties in the company's stable.
"Frozen" was the highest-grossing animated picture of all time, spurred a merchandising craze and collected two Oscars. At most movie studios, including Disney Animation's corporate sibling, Pixar, such a film would be an obvious candidate for a big-budget sequel.
But Disney Animation has historically relegated most of its sequels to DisneyToon Studios, the company's direct-to-video arm, where they were produced more inexpensively and viewed as lesser in quality to the main studio's product.
"It used to be that if Disney had a hit they would turn the sequel over to the second-string team," said Tom Sito, a professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts who was an animator and storyboard artist at Disney Animation in the 1990s. "The reputation of sequels was never very good."
Even as DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek" movies and Blue Sky Studios/20th Century Fox's "Ice Age" films proved massive hits, and Pixar produced successful sequels to the "Toy Story," "Cars" and "Monsters Inc." movies, Disney Animation was the lone holdout to not make sequels.
However, the company's recent success has been partly attributed to its efforts to create new intellectual property and not turn to sequels — which are sometimes maligned by Hollywood's creative community but can be lucrative because audiences are already familiar with the world and characters of the follow-up films.
Besides "Frozen," a string of successes — "Tangled" (2010), "Wreck-It-Ralph" (2012) and "Big Hero 6" (2014) — revitalized Disney Animation after a slump in the early 2000s that saw the company release duds "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" and "Treasure Planet."
Disney Animation has produced only a few sequels, among them 1990's "Rescuers Down Under," a follow-up to 1977's "The Rescuers."
After Disney acquired Pixar in 2006, and Pixar executives John Lasseter and Ed Catmull took over Disney Animation, they expressed concern that DisneyToon was undercutting the value of the main studio's features. Lasseter and Catmull canceled Disney Animation's in-progress direct-to-video sequels, redirecting that studio to focus on spinoffs and original films such as the "Planes" series. By that point, home video sales also were becoming less lucrative due to the rise of new platforms including video-on-demand services.
Even Walt Disney himself had a well-known disdain for sequels.
After the success of his 1933 cartoon "Three Little Pigs," exhibitors demanded a follow-up, and Disney produced several, none as successful as the original. In a speech to exhibitors in the 1960s, Disney asked whether any of them remembered the "Three Little Pigs" sequels. When none did, the animation mogul said, "See? You can't top pigs with pigs."
Given this, there had been considerable internal debate over the decision to make a "Frozen" sequel, according to a person close to Disney Animation.
But JP Morgan analyst Alexia Quadrani said "Frozen's" success must have swayed Disney executives.
"'Frozen' is in its own category, in the sense of breaking all records for animated films and having incredibly long-lasting success," she said. "That would make anybody revisit a historic policy."
Iger was joined on the stage of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Theatre by Lasseter and "Frozen" actor Josh Gad to make the sequel announcement. "Frozen" filmmakers Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, as well as the character Olaf, who was voiced by Gad, will return for the sequel, Iger said. No release date or other details were revealed.
"Frozen" fans won't have to wait for the sequel to get their fix of Anna, Elsa and Olaf: On Friday, A new short film, "Frozen Fever," will screen ahead of all showings of Disney's live-action remake of "Cinderella."
Iger kicked off the meeting with a bit of "Star Wars"-related news. He said that the first in a series of spinoffs in the franchise would be titled "Rogue One." He said the picture would begin filming this summer and would be released in December 2016. Also, Iger said that "Star Wars: Episode VIII" would be released May 26, 2017.
But Iger had little to share about "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," the first new film in the franchise since Disney acquired Lucasfilm, the production company behind "Star Wars," for about $4 billion in 2012. "Secrecy is a long-standing Lucasfilm tradition," Iger quipped.
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" will be released in December.
Iger, dressed in a blue suit and white open-collar shirt, also addressed matters of corporate governance. The 10 board members were reelected handily and investors also followed the board's recommendations to reject two proposals brought by shareholders.
The first asked shareholders to consider a policy that would have separated the chairman and chief executive positions after Iger departs the company. In the second measure, shareholders voted on whether to limit accelerated executive pay.
There were several lighthearted moments during the question-and-answer portion of the meeting.
One self-professed Disney "super fan" asked Iger to name his favorite theme park ride. (He singled out Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean.) Another man told Iger they were distant relatives, drawing guffaws. (Iger said they should chat after the meeting.)
Disney's stock closed at $107.17 on Thursday, a new all-time high.
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4/8/18 – SD Business Journal: Holocaust Memorial in Bauska Wins Award
Yehudi Gaffen, CEO of San Diego-based Gafcon Inc., announced that after more than 15 years in the making, the Memorial Synagogue Garden in Bauska, Latvia, was opened and dedicated last fall. This month, the memorial garden has now been recognized with a "Latvian Construction of the Year Award" in the public outdoor space category. The Building, Design and Construction Council and the publications: "Latvian Construction" and "Latvian Architecture" present this national award with a decision made by an awards panel which includes members of state institutions, non-governmental organizations and design and development professionals.
Gaffen led the fundraising and development process, along with his sister Beverly Gaffen Altman and Jehuda Feitelson, a former Bauska resident, concentration camp survivor and a retired doctor of chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Bauska is a town in southern Latvia where Gaffen's family's roots stretch back to the 1750s. In 1941, 830 Bauska Jews, including Yehudi's grandparents and great-grandparents, were marched to the woods and shot by Nazi forces and local collaborators.
"My ancestors lived in Latvia for many centuries and my lineage traces directly back to the people murdered in Bauska during Nazi occupation," Gaffen said. "Working on this memorial with the people of Bauska has been an honor unlike any other project in my career and a deeply personal memory that I will carry with me for the rest of my life."
The memorial garden was conceived as a monument in celebration of the Jewish community that once lived and thrived in the town.
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CB1 Feedback - What to expect & changes
IMPORTANT - REACH US IN THE NEW FORUM 05/04/2017
Ladies and gentlemen ATTENTION please:
It's time to move into a new house!
As previously announced, from now on IT WON'T BE POSSIBLE TO CREATE THREADS OR REPLY in the old forums. From now on the old forums will be readable only. If you need to move/copy/migrate any post/material from here, feel free to contact the staff in the new home. We'll be waiting for you in the NEW Forums!
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feedback CB1 Feedback - What to expect & changes
Started by Fudgetruck, 22 Dec 2015
cbt1
CBT1 118 votes
1. What did you enjoy most about BDO CBT1
The daily CM team events
Horse riding/taming
Leveling/Grinding
Social/RP
Fudgetruck 49
Posted 22 Dec 2015 (edited)
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great CBT1 and got to dig your heels into what the game has to offer. I'm sure most of you know, but this is only the tip of the ice-berg when it comes to classes and content.
In this post I will be going over my experiences with CBT1 while highlighting some things I liked, and some things that could be changed.
To start the adventure I decided to play a Tamer (See the picture below) I didn't go into much customization this time around because... well... i've done it before on the KR version and didn't want to waste any time with a character that was going to be deleted anyways.
The leveling experience is very typical to a normal KR game. Grind... grind...grind... that is, if you want to level up quickly. But that isn't all BDO has to offer. In addition to the combat, pvp (At later levels) and economy, there is a lot for you to do even sub level 30.
When I started this CBT I didn't want to go for leveling, because I knew I would be spending a lot of my time grinding to the highest level available. Instead I decided to go for a different goal, and that was to tame and raise horses. But in order to do that I needed to make some money. So for a while I spent some time fishing in order to get the funds needed to raise about 20+ horses.
To do that I decided to fish, when you're first starting out it was the best, quickest, and easiest way to earn money. Most of the fishing spots were depleted and I needed to find a way to make money quicker, people were going to start to out level me. So... after a good 3-4 hours I finally figured out how to make a raft.. there was a lot of trial and error involved. The game didn't spend much time teaching me how the worker and node system worked, but I knew it was important.
FINALLY after figuring out how the node system worked, and having some workers in Velia, I was able to create a raft and sail the open seas for fish. (See spoiler)
After gaining some 300k from fishing I went out and started to tame horses. Mind you i'm still fairly new to the game. Up until this point I have just been riding around on a horse leveling it up to get my training points. First I tried to figure out where I could find horses in the world. I'm not sure how many of you know this, but the game actually has a map filter that will show you where various things are in the world. Note though that it's a totally different map than the one you get from pressing 'M', and I don't have a screenshot of that (yet) sorry!
So I used this map to find various locations where the horses spawned. It was pretty apparent when I tamed my first T5 horse that many people didn't know about this location, possibly because it wasn't ever showed to them how they could even find it.
After A LOT of time riding and taming horses I started to climb through the ranks and eventually began to reach rank 1 in training. (See picture below)
Literally.... I spent almost all of my time running around. Better yet I rarely used auto pathing (Which is probably why my rank was so high) It took me about 2 days after launch to really start training horses, so I was at a disadvantage... I needed to constantly be there and keep my horse running at full speed.
Work did get in the way for a bit (I edit videos on YouTube) so I had to stop playing for a bit, which made me have to play catch-up when I got back online.
Overall the horse taming experience was a blast. The only complaint I have about it is the fact that none of my horses ever sold because the price of them was way too high. My T5 horses were defaulting to 400k+ minimum.
Now then! That's what I did the whole CBT1
If you're interested here are some screenshots from the Lantern Events that the CM team did (Thanks for that guys it was a blast)
Things I feel need to be changed
Alrighty! So there are a few things I thought needed to be changed after playing the CBT1.
- Archer (Character Class) The Archer's damage seemed to be very low compared to the other classes.
I found Archer to be very fun, and possibly the class that was the most fun for me. However their damage compared to other classes is almost laughable. Now then, that being said their damage may get better at higher levels, but speaking from the experience I had, archer needs some kind of damage buff to stay competitive with other classes. To give an example; if I was killing 5~ things with pretty much any other class it would take let's say 5 seconds. If I was killing the same 5~ mobs with the archer, it would take about 10 seconds.
Now that's not only because of the skill set that I have, even killing 1 monster is a notable difference. Now some people could argue that I had no idea what I was doing with the class compared to the others. But in all honesty I feel like I understood the archer class more than the others, and the others STILL did way more damage in comparison.
- More guidance for new players
I didn't suffer from this too much. I still had to learn most of the mechanics myself during this beta, but I have played the KR version and had a small idea of what I was doing from the start. For players new to the system I feel there isn't enough there to help guide them along. (Yes I realize this is a sandbox game :P)
When it comes to things like Node management and training I feel like there could be more to tell new players what they are, and why they're important. I've already noted this in my survey, but I think it would do every a great justice if you were to code in a new screen that pops-up giving people information about these things, or at least code in a trigger that will bring up the help menu with that information there already.
- Experience gain (How fast you level)
From past experiences it seems that the leveling has slowed from it's KR cousin. I heard people mentioning that the leveling won't match up to the quests you'd be getting (I would assume this is because the exp gains had been slowed down. (maybe for testing)
For CBT2 I would recommend trying to raise the exp gains to see what works best.
- Increase horse spawn rates, or add new spawn locations
Since the game isn't live (And I haven't really played around with taming(Training) in the KR version) I can't really say if it's a good thing to have the horse spawn rate where it is. But I was an individual that took advantage of all of the horse spawn locations, and still had trouble finding horses sometimes (as I believe others did as well) This is only CBT1 imagine when the game launches and there are a lot more people to deal with, you might never see a horse spawn. (Even T1 horses because they are still training experience)
For CBT2 may I suggest increasing the spawn time in all locations, and/or adding more locations for horses to spawn at (AND reflecting that in the game maps)
Darker Nights Please Keep them
I love darker nights. I'm talking about everywhere and not only where the test is happening. It's my hope that you will continue to keep darker nights in the game. I want it to be dangerous to go outside in the wild at night. Whether it be bandits, other players, or the new-found strength of the monsters in the night, I want people to make that decision on whether or not to go back to a city for the evening. It adds additional depth to the game. Let the people complain about not seeing anything, we have lanterns that's good enough to see.
My only gripe about the darker nights is that when it's dark we can still see the fog in the distance as bright white light. Consider adjusting all of the graphic settings to reflect a truly dark night.
- If you want more people to be interested in the game at launch, consider adding Blader instead of Valk first - Just my 2 cents
That's all for now as I think (And remember) about more I want to say I will add it here
Edited 22 Dec 2015 by Fudgetruck
Climhazzard 167
VeraSteel
I'd rather play Valk first.
Edited 22 Dec 2015 by Climhazzard
It was just a thought
Vorling 8
What level did you get to on your ranger? Its pretty bad till 41, one of the worst classes for levelling though it does ease up a bit at 20 with explosive evasive. However at 41 you get the skill Extreme Evasive shot, allowing you to animation cancel a ton and bounce around like a bunny. I would advise looking up a video of some high level gameplay or a guide such as Hakurai's on youtube to see what I mean. That might be the reason you feel such a large difference between ranger and other classes in damage. Another reason is that the classes released later such as Wizard/Witch were given stronger early games in order to allow them to catch up to the people who kept playing classes that had been in the game since release, and as we are now getting both those classes and the first classes such as Ranger at the same time, that early game weakness is now highlighted even more so.
AFK 39
The reasons Archer have lower early game damage have been highlighted, so I wont touch on that too much but I will add: Don't you fret young Padawan, late game you become a bit of a beast that excels at, well, everything.
As for node management, I agree with you to a certain degree about having explained better, although there are a lot of external sites with all the information you would need. I understand the need for them to be a part of the actual game though. I don't think it should be laid out bread and butter style, it's detrimental to the sandbox experience in my eyes.
I wholeheartedly agree with your opinion on the Darker Nights, although I am not sure how I feel about it happening, everywhere. I think the further away from civilisation you get, the darker it should get. Much like how it happens in real life, less street lamps/ambient light.
Once CBT2 goes live, i'll be updating this post to contain more information about my adventures.
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It's 8:14am and he is late. I know he will still be in his flip flops and I know he was still in the office at 8pm last night and only left home at 10pm when I sent an urgent text saying "Uncle Malcolm thinks we are leaving at 8am……sorry forgot to say! In the late night phone call as he drove towards our home village, Paul informed me of his recent abdominal surgery, his lack of training and that any food stop on our ride had to be at a Waitrose, along with the fact that he had calculated how many carbs he needed per hour, it is going to be a mobile picnic, and that he was going to call his mum to come get him at half way..
We are all assembled, Uncle Malcolm (UM) the Road Captain, Paul aka the Ringer, Rafal the Bike Boss ready to take on our longest training ride for Manchester to London. 212km are planned and an early start is needed. Paul appears from the drive over the road with a bagel pushed onto his right handle bar (bagel holder don't you know). This is a 2nd breakfast as the first has been impacted by his mother's labelling of home made jam and his poor eyesight resulting in chilli jam on the first bagel. His bike is approaching its 20th birthday and is proud to be from an era before carbon, there is a significant amount of paint missing after his attempt to jet wash it this week. Ma cautions Paul that UM is grumpy due to the delay in a tone you can only use with a 46 year old man if you have known him since they was just the 6. Paul's response in a similar tone is "I will raise him" …..could be an interesting start to the morning!
Our start point is Charlbury and if you have ridden the Wiggle Cotswolds ride or the Rapha Prestige you will know that the way out of the village (officially a Town …Charlbury Town FC carry the name with pride) is up a hill. After posing for a photo we roll out and enjoy the minute of down hill before we climb out of the village. The 7 miles mostly uphill is passed by discussing our drives to school in the purple Morris Marina van, the friends that used to live along the route and what we remembered and knew of them now. By the time we reach our old school, I am asking if we are nearly there yet?
The views over the Evenlode Valley are stunning, not a view that even registered on our daily school run but despite the low black clouds, the lavender fields and heat scorched hay fields make a beautiful patchwork stretching over to the Wychwood Forrest tree line. As we pass through Chipping Norton we recount the places we used to frequent as under aged drinkers and skivers from school!
Today is not going to be a day where I spend much time on the front. There is a stiff wind that is helping us along for now but looks ominous for the return home. You can tell when you reach Warwickshire just by the road surface (chapeau Warwicshire CC) the pot holes disappear and the surface smoothness is noticeable. Paul's longest ride this year is 42 miles so as we see signs for Stratford and tip over 45 miles he declares he may fall apart. Now people feel no sympathy here!! This boy has some serious muscle memory and raced bikes from the age of 18. The time is passed with conversation about races on these roads and the valuation of quarries that we see (his job). As the latter is discussed I mysteriously get dropped. Fear not, there will be a happy ending as he sprints up the final climbs with 200km in the legs! Any suggestion of calling his Mum to pick him up is ignored. The Bike Boss and I tuck into our cold pizza from my new handle bar bag.
We are allowed a "short stop" after 100km at a small corner shop where I commit two deadly sins. I buy a drink for the Bike Boss containing sugar and then proceed to drop his bike in the road. Narrowly avoiding being punched in the face and with only the death stare we set off again to find that we are in the place that we always pass through on a ride of the Cotswolds but no one knows what it is called.
There is no joy like Snows hill with 130km in your legs. Compared to the dreaded Peaks it's not as bad as I remember, Paul encourages me up the hill with wise words and positivity about my progress.. Snows Hill is always worth it for the fast decent the other side. We take the scenic route back to Burford, dodging tourists in Bourton-on-the-Water and explaining to the Bike Boss about the creepy model village. When we reach Burford there is an option to cut short and be home in 10 miles. Like a horse passing the entrance to the ring I struggle to get past the turn knowing there is another 60km to go. It's a long straight road out from Burford to Farringdon and one where I learn a valuable lesson. The gusts of wind are buffeting me and Lucy and with UM and Paul taking valiant turns in the head on wind I try to hide, head down power on to hold the Bike Boss' wheel. Rubber on rubber as our wheels touch, a huge jolt sideways and I am in the middle of the road, somehow still on Lucy. Rodney is upright and the Bike Boss is cross "this is what happens when you don't concentrate and get tired Susan" Thankfully my skills of staying on skittish ponies whilst Paul was racing bikes may have saved me. I concentrate very hard for the next few miles . In the thousands of miles I have ridden centimetres from his wheel I have never before done this, however, I fear it may be marked down and mentioned again!
Farringdon Fete is a welcome distraction with a band playing Paranoid by Black Sabbath loudly which we all have in our head all the way home. So far my visits to summer fetes on my bike this summer have bizarrely all included heavy rock music – quaint old England! With a tail wind and UM's advice that I need to be able to separate brain and body we charge for home. 'Charging' at this point requires the Bike Boss to push me up some hills. The last 10km is familiar territory for Paul and he insists we empty the tank ….why on earth is his tank not empty!!!!
8 hours 15 mins 212km done at 26kmph meaning there would just be 140ish km to go…….maybe I can do this. Fuelled by cold pizza a great tip from the fabulous long distance cycling club mate Lorna. I may get there!
……….I also discovered there is no age at which taking your friends home to meet your parents is not mortifyingly embarrassing. So sorry Bike Boss.
Nice words Soo, you'll be fine on Manc to London, just don't start off with black Sabbath in your head, could ruin the pacing!!
Is the photo of you & UM being saved for a later blog? Hope the weather is good to you at the weekend.
It was not passed to the photo editor. It will be used!


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Home Arts & Culture Screen Three things that mattered this year in film
Three things that mattered this year in film
by Neil Morris
Silverspot Cinema, one of the Triangle's new boutique theaters
State film incentives were gutted.
North Carolina's tax incentive program for film, television and commercial productions paid out more than $60 million in credits in both 2013 and 2014, a boon to the state's film industry. According to the N.C. Film Office, production companies spent more than $316 million and created more than 3,000 jobs in North Carolina during 2014 alone24 percent more than in 2013. More than 50 productions registered with the film office and shot in North Carolina in 2014.
In September 2014, Gov. Pat McCrory signed the 2014–2015 state budget, which eliminated the tax credits and created a grant program where productions receive up to 25 percent of their qualified in-state spending. However, the grant program was funded with only $10 million, and, as a result, productions dried up. Only three qualified for grants before the funds were exhausted. TV series like Sleepy Hollow and Secret and Lies left for Georgia and California, respectively. At least five feature films shot in N.C. during 2014 or earlier were released into theaters this year. In 2015, no major motion pictures were produced in the state.
Recognizing the devastation wrought on an industry that benefits both urban and rural regions, the General Assembly increased grant funding to $30 million for the 2015–16 fiscal year, plus another $30 million for 2016–17. The additional funding may lure smaller independent productions, short-run television series and commercials. But motion pictures like The Hunger Games and Iron Man 3, both partly filmed in North Carolina, won't be coming back anytime soon. The former tax incentives, already proven to work, were not revived.
Luxury cinema reached the Triangle.
After years of gestation, the boutique movie theater movement finally reached the Triangle. Three new so-called luxury theaters opened this year: CinéBistro in Cary's Waverly Place shopping center, CineBowl & Grille in Cary's Parkside Town Commons and Silverspot Cinema in Chapel Hill's University Place. Each offers plush reserved seating and upscale food offerings.
To keep up with the times, the Raleigh Grande renovated its theaters to include the sort of comfy seating and food tables found in these new premium movie houses. The Carolina Theatre in Durham crowdfunded $60,000 for new seats. Even the North Carolina Museum of Art got in on the act with its newly renovated SECU Auditorium, which opened in November with all-new seating and a 2K digital projection system.
However, with such seeming progress comes casualties. Ambassador Entertainment will close the two-screen Colony Theatre in Raleigh, which has operated under various formats and owners since 1942, this month. Ambassador owner Bill Peebles says part of the savings from shuttering the Colony will go toward improving the also-venerable Rialto Theatre in Raleigh's Five Points area. No word if reclining chairs and mahi soft tacos are in the works.
Local filmmakers and festivals shined.
The Triangle's cultural and academic landscape makes it a hotbed of filmmakers and festivals. Raleigh native Peyton Reed padded his directorial resume with the Marvel Studios summer hit Ant-Man. Durham-based filmmaker Cynthia Hill enjoyed another breakout year, as her popular PBS program, A Chef's Life, won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary/Travel Program. Meanwhile, Hill's latest documentary feature, Private Violence, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for a news and documentary Emmy.
Burgeoning and established fests dotted the area in 2015, with several enjoying notable anniversaries. The North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, one of the largest and most enduring LGBT movie events in the country, celebrated its 20th anniversary in August. The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, one of the largest doc-only festivals in the country, held its 18th edition in April. The Carrboro Film Festival turned 10 in November. The 16th Nevermore Film Festival returned to the Carolina Theatre, as did the popular RetroEpics Film Festival, screening classic cinema for more than a decade. A newcomer to the area's festival scene was the Longleaf Film Festival, which debuted at the N.C .Museum of History in Raleigh.
The Strange Beauty Film Festival explored the quirkier side of short film for its sixth year, and, most important for experimental cinema, the new Unexposed series brought challenging fare and the people who make it to intimate spaces in Durham. Look for big news about Unexposed in the new year.
The Year in Film Film film incentives N.C. Film Office Silverspot Cinema CineBistro Cinebowl and Grille Full Frame Ant-Man Cynthia Hall Carolina Theatre Unexposed Issue: 2015-12-23 Movies


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Gotham could end up being a decent show.
Smallville got around a Superman who wasn't for years but it didn't take itself so seriously and honestly CW audiences are a lot more forgiving than most. I fell out of love with that show after Clark lost his powers for the tenth time.
I guess you have to ask yourself how long you think you can watch Jim Gordon fail at his job? Because that's what this show is ultimately about.
As imperfect as it may be, I think Arrow has come closest to getting it right and I'm slightly optimistic about the Flash series coming up. Again both of these shows handle themselves as more soap-operatic, if that's even a term, where there is a little more gravity given to things than they deserve but it helps to temper the outrageousness of a world of superheroes and costumed villains.


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Movember in Essex
How to Support Movember in Essex in 2020
Grow a Mo, Make a Move or Mo Your Own Way
Movember are encouraging the people of Essex to 'Grow a Mo', 'Make a Move' or 'Mo Your Own Way' in support of their annual fundraising campaign this month.
In previous years, Essex grassroots football players, clubs and officials have shown huge support for the Movember men's health movement, many by growing their own moustaches. During November, many individuals rally to support the cause, get people talking and raise funds for men's health projects. This year's ideas on the Movember website include:
* Grow a Mo: Patchy, lopsided, itchy or epic - whichever Mo you grow this Movember, your face will raise funds and awareness for men's health.
* Make a Move: Run or walk 60km over the month. That's 60km for the 60 men we lose to suicide each hour, every hour across the world.
* Mo Your Own Way: Whether it's a gruelling test of physical endurance or some other wildcard idea. Whether it's a day, over several weeks or across the year - take whatever Mo Your Own Way means to you and run with it.
Since 2003, Movember has funded more than 1,250 men's health projects around the world, challenging the status quo, shaking-up men's health research and transforming the way health services reach and support men. Essex football clubs have played a part in this success, helping to share men's health information with their players.
Movember also have a proud legacy addressing World Suicide Prevention Day. In September, they launched their 'Be a Man of More Words' campaign, aiming to shift men's attitudes and behaviours as to their role in suicide prevention. Using real stories, they inspired men to connect before things reach a crisis point, whether concerned about themselves or someone else.
If you'd like to find out more about supporting Movember, please follow this link. Men's mental health and wellbeing information is also shared elsewhere on this website, by following @EssexCountyFA on Twitter and by searching for 'EssexFootball' on Facebook.