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Aboriginal Business: Alliances in a Remote Australian Town (book review)
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"What we were doing, nobody, nobody had quite done that before," Robbie Robertson, who played guitar in Bob Dylan's touring band in 1966, says of that year's remarkable live shows. "It was a different approach to the music. It had a dynamic thing to it, and an explosive thing to it, and a raging thing to it. It had a violent quality along the way to trying to find the beauty."
The remarkable artistic path that Dylan carved for himself, and everyone else in his wake, is on full display within the 23 live shows on the 36 discs included in the outstanding new box set, Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings, out today.
Just the year before, Dylan had toured the U.K. armed only with an acoustic guitar in the guise of a beatnik troubadour, as chronicled in the documentary Don't Look Back. Now, here he was, decked out in the finest mod-inspired suits and Beatle boots, fronting a loud, loose, full-throttle rock and roll band. The Hawks—who would soon come to be known as the Band—were met with a chorus of boos, night after night. While his supporting musicians were sometimes bowed, Dylan, by all accounts, was undeterred.
"A lot of it was fueled by critical newspaper write ups beforehand, with writers stating that Bob Dylan didn't have any right to go electric," says Dylan's sound engineer, Richard Alderson, who's recently unearthed tapes form the backbone of the massive box set, and who had known Dylan since his earliest days in Greenwich Village and had even recorded his legendary Gaslight Tapes. "It was all this opinion about what Bob should do or shouldn't be doing. But I always felt like it was a logical progression in the very least that Bob would go electric. But as a result of what the critics said, many times after a great performance, members of the audience would boo."
"We were doing something that people highly objected to, and it was quite a feeling to be doing that and really dedicated to it and have it feel like the world didn't believe in it," says Robertson, who recalls those heady days in his new memoir. "I have to take my hat off to Bob for not caving, because a lot of people would have just said, 'Well, the audience isn't really liking this very much, we should change it up.' But he didn't budge, and we stuck with him, and in time it's been proven that the world was wrong and we were right. That's quite a feeling."
He didn't budge, and we stuck with him, and in time it's been proven that the world was wrong and we were right.
Still, Alderson insists that it wasn't as bad as legend would have you believe, which is evidenced on The 1966 Live Recordings and the newly remastered Martin Scorsese documentary of the era, No Direction Home.
"There was never a riotous reaction to Bob's performances, as has sometimes been described," Alderson says. "The enthusiasts didn't seem to be troubled by him going electric. The people that were excited about Bob didn't care. It was more the people who didn't know Bob, or who were deeply invested in the folk music image—in the Woody Guthrie tradition that supposedly Bob was carrying on."
There's a lot of repetition over the course of the 36 discs covering the 1966 tour, as the setlist Dylan and the Hawks played rarely varied. But you can also hear the songs develop—and Dylan's approach as a singer and performer along with them. One night Dylan would crack jokes, another he'd barely talk to the audience. The word-heavy "Visions of Johanna" morphed over the course of the tour, as Dylan tinkers with the emphasis and phrasing, and by the end of the tour "Desolation Row" went from a relatively new song, barely a year old, to a tour de force that formed the backbone of his acoustic set, and one that Dylan fully inhabited.
"There were some nights when the acoustic set was intense and beautiful, and some nights when it sounded like he was phoning it in, like he just wanted to get to the second half," says Alderson. "But those electric sets were uniformly great. He was delivering honest music, even if the audiences very often didn't accept the rock and roll half, for whatever reason, but probably because they were primed to think otherwise."
"We had our backs against the wall and were just seeing what would stick, because there was nobody to ask, 'How are we doing?'" says Robertson. "There was a purity and simplicity to the lot of traditional folk music, but he was taking things to another place, and it wasn't with that simplicity. It was more complex than that. There was no formula, so we just went for it."
Still, Robbie Robertson says it didn't feel like history in the making. "We had no idea where any of this was going, what it meant, it just felt like a good idea at the time," he says. "You don't know what's historic and what's going to live on, you're just trying to do the best of what you've got in the moment."
Beyond the raucous crowds, the wildly different conditions from town to town in those early days of rock and roll touring were the biggest challenge, says Alderson, which is evident in the recordings.
"It was louder than what most people were used to hearing, but it was never loud enough, really," he recalls. "Sometimes it was adequate, or better than adequate, in terms of volume in the hall, but most of the places we played sounded terrible acoustically, anyway. Most of them weren't designed for music and they definitely weren't designed for loud rock and roll."
Things come to a head in Paris. Alderson remembers vividly that it seemed the audience came itching for a fight that night, and it didn't help that they clearly had trouble understanding Dylan's lyrics and grew impatient as he took time to tune his guitar—one that had been damaged during the course of the tour—between songs. When he came out for the electric set in front of the "biggest American flag we could find" as a backdrop, Alderson says, things really got out of control.
"There's a lot of trouble translating Dylan's lyrics into French, or into any other foreign language, because they're uniquely American," says Alderson of the night. "The French were genuinely mystified. They knew he was a phenomenon, they knew that they wanted to be in the theater, but they were frustrated when they got there and they didn't really get what was going on. And the American flag was a provocation. The audience in Paris didn't understand Bob, and they certainly didn't get the fact that he hung the American flag up to be ironic, rather than to be patriotic. Plus, Bob was exhausted. And he had a broken guitar that he couldn't tune, and was trying to tune it for a long period of time in front of the audience, and they assumed that he was being rude. All that happened in Paris. It was a storm of events that made it all go wrong."
The first night at London's Royal Albert Hall, on the other hand, was transcendent. The tour was nearing an end, and with The Beatles and the rest of London's swinging set in the audience, Dylan and company were on fire throughout. While Dylan's earlier concert at Manchester's Free Trade Hall—including the infamous moment when an audience member called him Judas—was long traded amongst collectors as being the Royal Albert Hall show until it was released officially a decade ago, the "real" Albert Hall show is such a highlight of the box set that it's being released on its own next month.
With so much to dig into in The 1966 Live Recordings, where does Alderson recommend Dylan fans should start?
"I always loved Liverpool, and I always loved Belfast and Dublin, too," Alderson says. "Somebody told me recently that they liked the Sheffield recording, and I listened to it and it sounded very clear, but it was also very flat to me. You know, not very exciting. But like I said, even on Bob's worst night on that tour, it was probably some of the greatest rock and roll ever performed. I'm glad it's getting its due."


WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheering Democrats returned Nancy Pelosi to the House speaker's post Thursday as the 116th Congress ushered in a historically diverse freshman class eager to confront President Donald Trump in a new era of divided government.
Pelosi, elected speaker 220-192, took the gavel saying U.S. voters "demanded a new dawn" in the November election that swept the Democrats to a House majority and are looking to "the beauty of our Constitution" to provide checks and balances on power. She faced 15 dissenting votes from fellow Democrats.
It's a time of stark national political division that some analysts say is on par with the Civil War era. Battle lines are drawn not just between Democrats and Republicans but within the parties themselves, splintered by their left and right flanks.
Pelosi defied history in returning to the speaker's office after eight years in the minority, overcoming internal opposition from Democrats demanding a new generation of leaders. She will be the first to regain the gavel since Sam Rayburn of Texas in 1955.
One Democrat, Rep. Brenda Lawrence of Michigan, cast her vote for Pelosi "on the shoulders of women who marched 100 years ago" for women's suffrage. Newly elected Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia, an anti-gun violence advocate, dedicated hers to her slain teenage son, Jordan Davis.
As speaker, Pelosi will face challenges from the party's robust wing of liberal newcomers, including 29-year-old New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has risen to such prominence she is already known around the Capitol — and on her prolific social media accounts — by the nickname "AOC." California Rep. Brad Sherman introduced articles of impeachment against Trump, though for now the measures are largely symbolic.
Republicans face their own internal battles as they decide how closely to tie their political fortunes to Trump. House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy's name was put into nomination for speaker by his party's caucus chair, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the daughter of the former vice president. He faced six "no" votes from his now-shrunken GOP minority.
Many GOP senators are up for re-election in 2020 in states where voters have mixed views of Trump's performance in the White House.
Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Matthew Daly, Alan Fram, Kevin Freking, Mary Clare Jalonick, Laurie Kellman and Zeke J. Miller contributed to this report.


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Report on Poas (Costa Rica) — March 2000
Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, vol. 25, no. 3 (March 2000)
Managing Editor: Richard Wunderman.
Poas (Costa Rica) Conspicuous plumes and abundant low-frequency earthquakes in late 1999
Please cite this report as:
Global Volcanism Program, 2000. Report on Poas (Costa Rica) (Wunderman, R., ed.). Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 25:3. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN200003-345040.
Volcano Profile | Complete Bulletin
10.2°N, 84.233°W; summit elev. 2708 m
All times are local (unless otherwise noted)
Comparative quiet continued at Poás; however, in addition to the fumarolic degassing often seen, seismicity was relatively high during the reporting period, June 1999-January 2000, when low-frequency earthquakes typically registered over 4,000 times per month (table 9). For comparison, a relative high in 1999 occurred in May when low-frequency events occurred ~1,400 times, and during a high in January 1998, when there were over 2,500 events. On 18 July 1999 an MR 3.1 earthquake occurred with 6 km focal depth and an epicenter 5 km NW of the active crater.
Table 9. A summary of seismic, temperature, and lake height data for Poás during July 1999-January 2000. Lake heights are with respect to the previous month and positive upwards (rising lake levels). The stated temperature for the pyroclastic cone's degassing refers to the value at an accessible point where the measurements are taken regularly. The seismic station POA2 lies 2.8 km SW of the active crater. "NR" indicates information absent and not reported. Courtesy of OVSICORI-UNA.
Month Low-frequency earthquakes Mid-frequency earthquakes Total earthquakes Crater lake temperature Surface elevation change of crater lake
Jun 1999 2,571 -- -- -- --
Jul 1999 2,996 64 3,061 32°C -47 cm
Aug 1999 4,548 184 4,736 37°C -32 cm
Sep 1999 5,264 274 5,542 40°C --
Oct 1999 4,743 190 4,987 38°C --
Nov 1999 4,142 221 4,393 33°C 101 cm
Dec 1999 4,278 405 4,679 35°C 156 cm
Jan 2000 -- -- low 40°C ~140 cm
Tremor, which was seldom reported in 1999, took place for less than about 0.5 hours a day during October-November 1999. In contrast, tremor averaged only 0.1 hours a day during December 1999. In contrast, tremor durations of 20 to 70 hours were common in early 1998. Also appearing in the month of October 1999 were 5 unusual low-frequency events in conjunction with tremor; these low-frequency earthquakes had periods of 40-175 seconds.
During August -October, the pyroclastic cone's degassing led to unusually high plumes reaching 0.7 to 2 km above the crater floor. December plume heights ranged between 0.7 and 1 km. Some of the hottest temperatures were measured near the pyroclastic cone: up to 95°C during December-January and often over 92°C when reported during other months in late 1999.
Geologic Background. The broad, well-vegetated edifice of Poás, one of the most active volcanoes of Costa Rica, contains three craters along a N-S line. The frequently visited multi-hued summit crater lakes of the basaltic-to-dacitic volcano, which is one of Costa Rica's most prominent natural landmarks, are easily accessible by vehicle from the nearby capital city of San José. A N-S-trending fissure cutting the 2708-m-high complex stratovolcano extends to the lower northern flank, where it has produced the Congo stratovolcano and several lake-filled maars. The southernmost of the two summit crater lakes, Botos, is cold and clear and last erupted about 7500 years ago. The more prominent geothermally heated northern lake, Laguna Caliente, is one of the world's most acidic natural lakes, with a pH of near zero. It has been the site of frequent phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions since the first historical eruption was reported in 1828. Eruptions often include geyser-like ejections of crater-lake water.
Information Contacts: E. Fernandez, E. Duarte, V. Barboza, R. Sáenz, E. Malavassi, R. Van der Laat, T. Marino, J. Barquero, and E. Hernández, Observatorio Vulcanologico y Sismologico de Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional (OVSICORI-UNA), Apartado 86-3000, Heredia, Costa Rica.


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GM Rednal Jun 30, 2017, 08:17 pm
If it helps, third-party publishers are definitely going to be providing stuff. Heck, Legendary Games is setting up something that's pretty much perfect for Starfinder, albeit with more warp gates and fewer starships. XD I don't think you should worry too much about the default setting if you don't like it - other options can and will be available.
Aberrant Templar Jun 30, 2017, 10:30 pm
Mashallah wrote:
...and with one published Pathfinder module (Doom comes to Dustpawn) even featuring an elven spaceship the players can visit and explore, explicitly meaning elves even had spaceships.
Well ... one single group of elves living in Lirgen, sponsored by the Saoc Brethren, built a magically-powered spaceship. The Lirgen's Glory was more "Lirgen spaceship crewed by elves" than "elven spaceship". It's not like there was a Sovyrian starfleet orbiting Castrovel.
As a side note, the Azlanti also had magical spaceship technology. One of their aetherships, King Xeros, appears in an early Pathfinder Society Scenario. That makes Azlant and Lirgen the only two nations on Golarion to have developed some form of space travel, both of which were powered by magic (bottles of air, bound demons, magical crystal) and both of which were developed in the final days of their respective civilizations.
Personally I rather like the Gap, because it gives an interesting twist to the Precursors and Lost Technology tropes that are so common in SciFi. I'm neutral on the Drift. It just sounds like a twist on hyperspace from Star Wars, which fits the Space Opera vibe. I guess you could accomplish a similar effect by having spaceships travel through astral space or whatever, but this is a little more technology-oriented.
I also don't really mind having the standard stock fantasy races take a back seat. It's not that I think there's anything specifically wrong with elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, etc. It's just that they end up being the standard races in pretty much every fantasy game ever. I kinda like it when designers freshen things up a bit. I appreciated Earthdawn, for example, because it gave me Obsidiman and T'skrang and the like. I really enjoyed Dark Sun. My favorite parts of Pathfinder are still Numeria, Alkenstar, the other planets in the solar system, and everything else running in a non-traditional fantasy direction (heck, in my home campaign I turned Nidel into a BDSM Film Noir land of private detectives pounding pavement for silver pieces, arcane femme fatale, and mafioso with spiked chains).
I guess at this point in my life I've grown a little blasé toward Tolkienesque pseudo-medieval stuff. I'm excited about Starfinder specifically because it seems like it will scratch a new itch.
Benjamin Medrano Jun 30, 2017, 10:38 pm
Voss wrote:
Benjamin Medrano wrote:
I'm going to try one last time.
To those of you who don't understand why I'm irritated about elves: Take your favorite race, I don't care what race it is, one with a history. Now, take it and base the entire society on the worst tropes of the race in media, save for a handful of outcasts, and have that be the society in the game.
Not following you still. Those 'tropes' are what makes that race a 'race.' If they weren't elitist isolationist blaggards, they wouldn't be elves. They'd probably be kender.
Alternately: fantasy and sci-fi races are defined by their tropes. Even not following them (which you see occasionally in star trek with ferengi psychopaths or klingon scientists) still works with the trope to create something interesting.
I said 'the worst tropes', not 'all the tropes'. Because they aren't using all the tropes, at least not from my perspective.
Opsylum Jun 30, 2017, 10:54 pm
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I'm interested to see how elves are portrayed in Temple of the Twelve, as it appears we will be running into Starfinder elves in this chapter. My hopes tend to align more with Mashallah and Benjamin's here in wanting to see some depth or variety beyond the "reclusive xenophobes" to them. It does kind of bother me that elves are prone to having a negative reputation; I've always been rather enchanted by elves myself, and would like to see them remembered by some of their better attributes again. Less Mirkwood, more Rivendell and Lothlorien. I'm hopeful we'll see a lot of this especially in the Forlorn.
Fardragon Jul 1, 2017, 01:17 am
Indeed. Consider the Protoss. They are generally considered "space elves". Why is that? They don't have pointy ears. They don't live in trees. They don't use longbows. They don't sing jolly songs in the moonlight. What they are is arrogant isolationists. Those are the tropes that define what people understand a (post-tolkien) elf to be.
A race that is friendly, extrovert and humble isn't an elf, it's a tall kender.
Mashallah Jul 1, 2017, 01:21 am
Tacticslion wrote:
Is it canon that a god was entirely responsible for the drift? Did I not read somewhere recently that the secret was collected by some, so it was spread to mortals to level the playing field or something? I could be wrong, and/or it could have just been fanon speculation, but I just recall seeing that, recently, somewhere.
As far as I can tell, it is, which breaks my suspension of disbelief entirely.
According to the Geekdad preview on Drift:
Geekdad wrote:
The Drift was gifted to the races of Starfinder by Triune, an AI that ascended to godhood. See, no science necessary!
This was also mentioned multiple times in multiple other places.
The problem with this is that giving mortals a device that shreds the multiverse should have angered literally all other deities, resulting in a coalition of everyone against Triune alone, which would have been quick and bloody.
Gilfalas Jul 1, 2017, 02:03 am
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To remove it from the setting, I'd have to rewrite half of it, at which point using a different setting is simpler.
Seems a pretty strong condemnation from someone who has never even read the setting.
Would you not be better served to hold off such strong and vehement condemnation on the entirety of the setting until such time as you've actually seen it?
Browman Jul 1, 2017, 06:51 pm
Fardragon wrote:
Since starcraft was originally supposed to be a warhammer 40k game, Protoss are based on Eldar. And Eldar are space elves.
Which changes nothing about what I have said. They took away the ears, kept the arrogant isolationism, and they remained elves.
Euspa Jul 2, 2017, 02:03 am
After reading about the first page of posts, I feel that a lot of the issue stems from the lack of knowledge surrounding the Gap. Perhaps the Devs are in some ways mirroring the Mournland from D&D's Eberron campaign setting.
In Eberron a cataclysmic event, likely magical, completely wiped a country off the map. Keith Baker, the creator of Eberron, has said to this day that the purpose of not giving canon answers to the cause of the Mourning was to allow Dungeon Masters to come up with their own cause of the event, thus creating a mystery for the players to potentially solve. The Forgotten Realms Setting has tons of books that are considered canon unlike every novel written for Eberron, which are definitively not, so maybe we don't need an answer from them specifically.
Writing in amnesia on a galactic scale for Starfinder is probably not the route I would have gone, but I must admit that it still presents the opportunity for potential epic level adventure hooks, provided some tweaking to the PF/SF story. If anything, instead of saying "amnesia," you could follow Keith Baker's canon by saying that "people just don't know."
ENHenry Jul 2, 2017, 07:53 am
...Unless the gods know something that mortals don't (which is already proven true) and the access to the Drift is the ultimate key to Golarion's return.
...Unless the gods need something from the Drift themselves, and their mortal vessels are the only way to get it. They might not like what Triune did, but it ultimately serves a majority of them.
...Unless direct intervention by the gods is still forbidden. All Triune did was show a secret to the mortals; the mortals still make the choice to do what they do.
There are plenty of good reasons why the gods don't act, with sufficient explanation which we don't yet have.
Odraude Jul 2, 2017, 08:05 am
I always do my own setting, good or not. I like world building.
The only thing I don't like about the Starfinder setting is the gap and making elves even more exaggeratedly aloof and xenophobic than before. The gap as a concept bores me because it's a mystery that will never be solved, yet I'm sure we'll have plenty of adventures dealing with it. And making elves even more insufferable, especially given how cool the other races are, is very disappointed. It's like they asked players what were the worst things they hated about elves, then turned it up to eleven.
Opsylum wrote:
Hopefully we won't have another Second Darkness on our hands. That was not a fun part of the adventure path.
graywulfe Jul 2, 2017, 09:31 am
Distant Scholar wrote:
The Gap: the universe needs a big mistery, and this one keeps things compatable with the Pathfinder universe.
The Gap isn't a mystery; mysteries can be solved. The Gap is a secret.
Both serve to add a bit of darkness and paranoia to the universe.
I prefer less darkness and paranoia in my game universes.
Yeah, a mystery isn't interesting when it's a base assumption that there will never be any answers or anything resembling answers.
See Aroden. Noone cares what happened about him because the "mystery" surrounding him is one of the least interesting parts of Pathfinder as a setting and falls flat.
Says you. From what I have seen there are tons of people who are still interested in what happened to Aroden.
Seisho Jul 2, 2017, 11:05 am
graywulfe wrote:
And so the paths split: I (and in extensiom my girlfriend) think Aroden is boring af and we don't give anything about him
But well, I wish your players good luck discovering what happened to the old fart :P
Benjamin Medrano Jul 2, 2017, 11:11 am
*jokes* Who's Aroden?
More seriously, I just don't care about him, once they said they finally told us that there's not a canon answer of what happened to him. In my opinion, it isn't a mystery if there isn't even an answer.
If the Gap actually had no effect on current races, as I'd originally heard it described, I wouldn't mind. For the most part I don't care about it, though.
I suppose my biggest problem in a lot of ways was that, while one of the designers goals was to bring in new races to be center-stage rather than the classic fantasy races, I didn't want that. I don't care about any of the new races, save for dislike in the case of the... can't remember their names, the ratfolk.
It's a design philosophy difference, really.
Ring_of_Gyges Jul 2, 2017, 11:23 am
...they said they finally told us that there's not a canon answer of what happened to (Aroden).
Do you have a source for that? I had thought there was an answer some inner circle of designers had settled on but resolved to never tell anyone. Is that not the case?
Yeah, most of the core races simply don't interest me at all. Shirren have the cute baby jars that I appreciate, but, other than that, I'd strongly prefer the old race cast to be at the forefront over the new one.
Ring_of_Gyges wrote:
Let me see if I can find it. It's in the 'What's your opinion on the Aroden Mystery' thread...
Erik Mona's Explanation
Here's a quote, though.
Erik Mona wrote:
Because I don't have a personal theory.
I do not know how Aroden died, or why, or who did it, or in which room it happened. I don't find those things to be the interesting parts about him. In fact, it's kind of the one aspect of the character that I don't find particularly interesting.
The interesting thing to me is more in the "what now" aspect of what happens to the campaign world when "God" dies. What happens to institutions, to culture, etc. Add to that the idea that this also casts prophecy in doubt, and you've got a bunch of inherent questions that are more interesting to me than "who did it."
I never really considered "who did it" when I created Aroden. I left that to be determined later, to be woven into other stories by other authors, very likely stories that hadn't been considered yet, left for future development if we decided to develop it at all.
The "working theory" is more something James and others have pieced together in the time since Aroden's creation, tying in the few clues that I left with other cool stuff that they're planning to have a "maybe this is how it went down," but as I mentioned earlier, even that's flexible until we actually decide to address the issue. If we do.
I could outline an entire Aroden-focused Adventure Path with all kinds of insight into his life, his cult, and the ruins of his influence, but to be perfectly honest I'm not certain even that would answer the question of how he died.
I like that the people of Golarion don't know. So long as there's no "official" answer, the answer is free to be whatever you want it to be.
Odraude Jul 2, 2017, 12:13 pm
Count me as one, but while true, now that we know it'll never be solved, I don't really care too much about it anymore. Even some of the adventures that are focused around his disappearance don't feel all that fun because in the end, they don't really mean much.
The main fun in mysteries and investigation is finding clues, putting them together, and trying to find the solution. But now it's been released that there is none. In a way, the mystery is solved by saying there is no solution, so there really isn't a point in delving into it for me. I'd rather do other adventures about exploration and discovery, which is more my jam.
I feel the Gap will be the same thing. A background setting event to give it some color, but ultimately, it will be unsolvable in PFS. Nothing wrong with it as that, but as a mystery, it just won't catch my eye.
Starbuck_II Jul 2, 2017, 12:45 pm
phantom1592 wrote:
You don't think there is anything mysterious about the Force?!
Nope. It's not something that gets solved... it's not something that people sit around all day wondering what it is or where it comes from... It's just something that's 'there' and for people like Han Solo and Lando it's never influenced their lives in any way.
For the jedi, they get the 'it's created from life' speech which later is stupidly retconned to midichlorians and then ignored again.
That's like taking Pathfinder and claiming 'why does magic work' is the overall mystery of the setting.
Actually, Han has the force (or rather a sizable amount of midichlorians, which is why his kids are good at the force). He uses for minor luck and all, but the doesn't realize he is using it.
Owen K. C. Stephens Developer, Starfinder Team Jul 2, 2017, 01:41 pm
For those who care, there is a canon reason for why and how the Gap happened. We worked that out very early in our worldbuilding. It's in a file the Creative Director maintains.
I don't expect we'll ever go into details as to the why or how, because those seem unlikely to be the most interesting stories to tell (though it is literally not my decision to make). But if we did, we'd have kept consistency with that reason from the beginning.
Benjamin Medrano Jul 2, 2017, 01:46 pm
Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:
While I may not be a fan of your setting at this point, I will say this makes me happier overall. I personally found the Gap far less concerning than Aroden's death overall, though, so take that with a grain of salt.
Remy P Gilbeau Jul 2, 2017, 04:03 pm
... soooo, what I'm hearing is that if some enterprising young rogue were to break into the Creative Director's filing cabinet, we could have all the answers. Not that any of us would do that, of course. *wink, nudge* Say no more!
*begins humming Mission Impossible theme*
Starbuck_II wrote:
Or his kids can use the force because they are Anakin's grandchildren.
Remy P Gilbeau wrote:
We'll you'd have to get past the warehouse raptors, defeat the Redemption Engine Security Device, avoid Blue Rover, figure out WHICH pile is the "filing cabinet," manage not to bury yourself in a stuffslide, recognize a Packet of True secrets in a slurry of Rejected Crud...
But sure!
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JRutterbush Jul 2, 2017, 06:35 pm
Actually, Han has the force...
I've never liked this idea. It's like the martial/mage divide all over again. "Y'know that one guy who was really badass even though he wasn't a magic space wizard? Turns out he actually was a magic space wizard, which is why he was so badass."
No. Han is a badass because Han is a badass, not because of the Force.
Aqua Zesty Man Jul 3, 2017, 09:37 am
So would you argue Leia's genetic parentage actually diminishes her? because an unknown amount of her skills and innate ability as leader and freedom fighter comes from latent force sensitivity from Dear Old Dad?
The Sideromancer Jul 3, 2017, 09:41 am
Leia becomes full Jedi in the EU. I wouldn't call that latent.
Imbicatus Jul 3, 2017, 09:48 am
But the the eu doesn't exist anymore. And even then she didn't become a Jedi until after the yuuzhong vong invasion, which was a good 30 years after Endor.
For the purposes of the original trilogy, Leia may have had better luck than normal from latent force sensitivity, but not enough to define her character or be responsible for her successes.
I found the yuuzhen vong thing weird
I like the Idea of Leia and Han beeing more or less Force sensitive
both of them are not more or less badass because they used the force or not
since EU is non longer canon you can decide for yourself and make a headcanon
this thread has gone off the rails
what did you guys originally speak about
The Raven Black Jul 3, 2017, 11:49 am
Padme was no Force-user AFAIK. She was still extremely talented and her daughter definitely takes after her
Lanitril Jul 3, 2017, 12:24 pm
I think not using The Gap in a game will be pretty standard. I mean a lot of characters will obviously have knowledge that it happened, and some of the longer lived races might have a large chunk of their lives missing, but hasn't it been a few hundred years since the gap ended? Most people probably have lives that aren't really all that effected by it. Like, society is, but so far, not even any of the iconics have referenced it.
IonutRO Jul 3, 2017, 01:01 pm
That's why lots elves are still really paranoid compared to other races, because most of them are from before the gap, while most other intelligent beings were born after the gap, and don't really see the big deal.
Archmage Variel Jul 3, 2017, 01:07 pm
IonutRO wrote:
Dwarves have it even worse. Not only have many of them lived during the gap, but their races god has vanished too.
True, but they live such short lives that none alive today were born before his disappearance/the gap.
Their maximum age is 250 + 2d%. I'm pretty sure there are a good amount of dwarves alive from before the end of the gap.
Yes, but the gap happened/ended 300 years ago, so any dwarves who were born before the end of the gap would be in the twilight of their lives, and none would actually know how life was like back when Torag was around.
Do we know for a fact that at the setting's start it has been 300 years since the Gap?
Milo v3 Jul 3, 2017, 05:54 pm
I still don't even understand why it would it the elves harder than other races... shorter lived races have a larger chance of having their entire lives erased which is somehow less traumatic?
Milo v3 wrote:
Elves have to live with the trauma for centuries and most elves around today are gap survivors. Most other humanoids alive today are several generations removed from the gap and were unaffected by it.
Gilfalas Jul 3, 2017, 06:20 pm
If something does not happen in your memorable lifetime it usually has nearly no emotional impact on you.
Those races who have had generations come and go since the gap will most likely have the most adjustment to the fact it ever happened. Shorter lived races have to adapt faster since they have less overall time to live.
If your a super long lived race like the elves, and you lived through the gap and cannot remember it, it would be unnerving for as long as you live. Not knowing what you did, where you were, what happened, who you loved or hated, if you had children who grew up and left and now you have no idea of them, if you spent a century curing cancer and not only forgot you did it but the cure never became known, etc.
If in real life you suddenly could not remember the decade from when you were 11-20 and never could again how would you deal?
Your kids and their kids would only know it as a story, but you would be wondering about that decade all the time you lived. And if you lived for 800+ years that is a long time to think and your species most likely has not even had a full generation happen since the Gap. Your people are still in essence 'dealing with it'.
Gilfalas wrote:
Except it was never said to have any effect on any race outside of elves. Why were elves the only ones to go paranoid hermit when they're the race Least affected?
I'd deal better than me and three generations back of my whole species losing our entire lives worth of memories.
Because of the races detailed the elves live the longest by far, the closest race after them are dwarves and they live only about half as long.
To the elves the gap only just happened about half a generation ago, to the rest of the universe it was something as far removed from them as the tragedies and famines 18th century are from us.
Hell, it's been less than two centuries since the Irish potato famine, and I doubt you'll find any modern irishmen traumatised by it. Just like I doubt you'll find any humans or kobolds crying about how the gap robbed people over 10 generations of their memories.
Do you know anyone who feels affected or really cares about what tragedies befell their ancestors 10 generations ago?
The Raven Black Jul 3, 2017, 10:14 pm
Napoleon's wars
Wiping out Native Americans and Incas
Jewish diaspora out of Israel
And those are only the first that came to my European mind
There's nothing saying that elves were the only ones to go paranoid hermit, but they're the only ones that are still paranoid hermits, because so many of them were actually directly affected by the Gap. With each new generation of the shorter-lived races, they cared less and less because it hadn't happened to them directly, they moved on and started anew. But the elves haven't had those generations to recover, so they're still freaked out by the whole thing.
IonutRO Jul 4, 2017, 05:37 am
The Raven Black wrote:
Do their descendants really think about those things? I never once knew a jewish person who lamented about how his ancestors had to live in Poland or Romania instead of Israel, in fact, most of them were happy they themselves didn't have to live in Israel.
Also never knew any french people who ever talked about or thought about the french revolution or the napoleonic wars, just as I meet no romanians crying over how their ancestors were second class citizens in their own lands when they were under foreign rule.
The public are not crying about Hungary and The Ottoman Empire using our country as their battleground in 1717, no. What they're crying about is what's happening now, all around them. They're crying about the poor funding of our healthcare, about the brutal job market, and about mass immigration. They're crying about how s+%&ty their leaders are, and about how corrupt the police force is. And they're crying about their loved ones, not the dead cousins and brothers of their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers who were killed as part of a war that happened centuries ago.
avr Jul 4, 2017, 06:02 am
There are those that do care about, say, their ancestors being merchandise. It's much more common in those whose ancestors were slaves in the 19th century than in Slavs whose ancestors gave us the word 'slaves' in the middle ages.
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Q: When adding an item to my canvas my object cannot convert I've created an assembly of lines, as an object, which i want to add to my canvas. When i try to call the method I'm being told it cannot convert, at the point of calling it using children.add
My code looks like this:
        TimberMember first = new TimberMember(38, 2000, "Horiz");
        first.DrawMember();
        SimpleCanvas.Children.Add(**first**);

'TimberMember' is my object, the word 'first' gets the red squigly line and the argument says 'cannot convert from 'Mapping.TimberMember' to 'Windows.UI.Xaml.UIElement'
Any help would be appreciated,
thanks,
Matthew

A: A Canvas is a XAML control that presents other XAML controls. TimberMember is not a XAML control. XAML controls are objects of type UIElement or they must inherit from type UIElement. TimberMember will need to inherit from UIElement or a type derived from UIElement, like ContentControl, for example.
public class TimberMemeber : ContentControl
{
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This will allow you to add it to the Canvas, but it's not going to help you much because none of its properties will translate into UI content. You haven't told us what TimberMember is or what it's supposed to do, let alone provided the class definition. I can almost 100% guarantee that making it a custom XAML control and adding it to a Canvas is not the correct approach to achieve whatever it is you're trying to do, nor is trying to create a custom XAML control a good idea for someone still learning about OOP fundamentals.

A: Actually i managed to figure it out in the end. If I reference the Canvas class alongside timber element then i can add it as a child and then it is being drawn correctly within my canvas.

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City preps for investigation of raid
Jordi Gassó & Danny Serna 1:26 am, Oct 08, 2010
Chief Administrative Officer Robert Smuts '01 and captain of the New Haven Police Department's Internal Affairs unit Denise Blanchard fielded questions at a meeting that packed the Dwight Hall Library Thursday afternoon.
Around 30 students present at the meeting handed in official complaint forms for what they claimed was police misconduct during a Saturday morning raid of the Morse-Stiles Screw at Elevate Lounge, Blanchard said. Detectives will try to contact all students filing complaints by Monday, Smuts said in an interview after the meeting. The meeting followed up onMayor John DeStefano Jr.'s promisesearlier this week to foster a dialogue between upset students and city officials,
Investigation intoclaims of police brutality was originally slated to begin today, but because ofschedule conflicts with students who were supposed to be interviewed, investigators will instead begin conducting interviews in the middle of next week, Blanchard said.
"It will help us piece the night together," she said.
Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry is also compiling student complaints and forwarding them to Blanchard's unit.
Despite the large outcry from students and attention from national media, including CBS, ABC and the New York Times, Blanchard said Internal Affairs will follow standard protocol throughout the investigation. She disputed claims that the number of complaints received will influence the investigation in any way.
In contrast, DeStefano said Tuesday that if more students voiced their complaints, the city would investigate the incident more thoroughly.
Even if student claims of police brutality are vindicated after the investigation, Police Chief Frank Limon's maximum authority is to suspend an officer for 15 days. The case would then be sent to the seven-member Board of Police Commissioners, who are appointed to three-year terms by DeStefano.
Smuts said the Internal Affairs investigation could yield several outcomes. For one, he said, detectives could conclude that no improper behavior took place during the compliance check. The other possibility, he added, would be to discipline individual officers who are found responsible for misconduct.
After Thursday's meeting, though, many questions remained unanswered. When one student asked why he, an underage student, was not asked to take a breathalyzer test after an officer checked his ID, Smuts was unable to respond. Many answers, Smuts and Blanchard said, won't be available before official arrest records are released and the investigation is completed. They added that they have not established a timetable for the investigation.
Morse Freshman Counselor Tully McLoughlin '11, who has been involved with coordinating the student body's response to the raid, said he thought city officials responded too generally to students' questions and wanted more specific answers.
"One of the biggest questions we have is knowing how to get beyond the process of filing complaints and more into a way of addressing a pattern of possible misuse of force," he said.
Ward 1 Alderman Michael Jones '11, who organized Thursday's meeting, originally meant for students to meet at Phelps Gate and walk to the NHPD headquarters on Union Avenue, complaints in hand, to deliver their forms to Internal Affairs. Instead, Jones said he decided an intimate meeting would be more conducive to starting a dialogue between students and police department officials. The walk would not have afforded students the opportunity to speak with those responsible for the investigation, he added.
DeStefano said he, too, is working to keep relations between students and city officials amicable during the investigation. After meeting with city officials Tuesday night, DeStefano met with Jones, six students from Stiles and six from Morse so *they could express their concerns directly with him, he said. He called the tensions between students and the NHPD after last weekend's raid "an opportunity to get to know one another better."
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Everett Rosenfeld contributed reporting.


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2012 NFL Mock Draft: Full Green Bay Packers Mock Draft Version 1.0
Evan McDonielsCorrespondent IFebruary 17, 2012
Amid the Packers great success, General Manager Ted Thompson certainly has caused some headscratchers in Packer nation over the years.
Trading down to get relatively unknown, unhyped receiver Jordy Nelson? That move wasn't too popular on draft day, but if you had told fans you'd have the Jordy Nelson of today back in 2008-09, they'd be delighted.
Over the last year or two fans were demanding a compatriot to aid Clay Mathews in the pass rush.
And of course Thompson picks the unglamorous first round choice of two offensive tackles (Derek Sherrod and Bryan Bulaga).
This year, Thompson will surely make some surprise moves in the offseason with the draft as his main franchise building tool.
In my mock draft, I'm considering defenders to be not only needs but also the highest quality players from the late first to the mid rounds. This mock discovers it may be possible to get not only 1 impact player for the defense to improve its pass rush but possibly 3 or even 4 great talents to fit the Dom Capers system.
Note: each selection is listed as "selection" (except round one) rather than by round because the Packers will be receiving compensation picks and could trade their standard picks up or down. In other words, this is a mock draft based on the likely total of picks, where some could be found in the same round-- not based on a round-by-round mock. Capeche?
Now let's begin...
Surprise First Round Selection: Vontaze Burfict, ILB Arizona State, 6'3" 250
This scenario would be almost like history repeating itself, except the Packers would gain the spoils of a highly-touted, aggressive inside linebacker instead of the Baltimore Ravens.
What I am referring to is then-general manager of the Packers Ron Wolf's desire to pick Ray Lewis only to fall short by one pick. This year's mock drafts have Burfict being the perfect fit with the Ravens as Ray Lewis nears the end of his career.
The similarities in the two linebackers (if you think about Ray Lewis as a college athlete) are uncanny.
At their respective primes both are hard-hitting, powerful sideline-to-sideline speed demons capable of making huge plays.
By the same right, both have had their share of off-field issues and on-field personal fouls that can hurt a team.
Few (if any, aside from Burfict) defensive picks likely to be available late in the first round are described by scouts to be "explosive" and "plays like a downhill missile," as CBSSports.com describes him.
There may be no greater risk-reward pick in the draft than Burfict but the Packers organization has an excellent supporting cast of high-character coaches and players to help nurture Burfict's growth as a ambassador of the game.
Furthermore, as linebackers coach Kevin Greene would say in his prophetic Super Bowl talk with Clay Mathews, "it, is, time" to add a new dimension to the defense and pick up an early-round, big-time playmaker to compliment Clay Mathews, B.J. Raji and Charles Woodson.
On the character side of things, Burfict seems to be gaining self-awareness of his mistakes, even if he has a long way to go.
Burfict sought out the help of Lewis to amend his over-zealous, warrior mentality with a healthy on-and-off-field character. That suggests he wants to take the steps necessary to be both an elite linebacker and quality locker room presence and community member (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/players/1664141/vontaze-burfict).
Many of these young men exhibiting signs of trouble are younger than 23, suggesting they simply may have lacked a quality mentor or role model in the "win-at-all-costs" recruitment of kids for their football talent.
The Packers don't have to generate pass rush solely from a new outside linebacker or defensive end. Coupling Burfict with inside linebacker Desmond Bishop would bring an imposing attitude to a defense that was made meek last year.
Instead of playing on their heels, the potential quarterbacks of the defense in Bishop and Burfict would fit Dom Capers' table-turning desire to dictate to the offense how they need to play against the Packers defense.
Both Burfict and Bishop would be hammers in defending the run and are adept as pass rushers, too, for the Capers' cross-blitz and other exotic looks Burfict would enable. Pass coverage has been an issue for all the current linebacking corps, so I don't see Burfict as a net loss there, to say the least.
Assuming Burfict learns the defense quickly, defensive coordinator Dom Capers' tool box of exotic looks and ways to generate rush with only four defenders would grow with another elite playmaker.
Unloading incumbent A.J. Hawk for a mid-to-late round draft pick would give the Packers a chance to improve on defense in order to regain their elite 2010 form.
Burfict by no means fits the Ted Thompson prerequisites for character, but his scouts will define the difference between a potential cancer and a guy who just needs to learn how to channel his aggression. There are worse problems to have than a defender who is too intense and too aggressive—the question is how the intensity is utilized.
Second Selection: Brandon Thompson, DT Clemson, 6'2" 311
While Burfict gives the defense a renewed imposing, nastiness, Thompson would potentially transform the weakest pass rush into one of the strongest in the NFL as it was in 2010.
With opposing offenses enamored by Clay Mathews' golden locks as flocks of triple teams bore down on him, all Thompson (and Burfict) would have to do is consistently beat one-on-ones. With his athleticism and powerful frame, Thompson would add another dimension to the defensive line.
Imagining the Claymaker, Burfict, Thompson, B.J. "The Freezer" Raji and Charles Woodson influencing the pass rush on a team that had one of the longest winning streaks in NFL history is scary.
Mocks vary on where Thompson would end up being picked, but if the Packers can find him at their second round slot, it will be a great choice. If not, I think Thompson is worth trading up for in the second (if the price is the prototypical amount associated with the number of slots moving up).
Third Selection: Billy Winn, Boise State, 6'3" 300
The thought here is that BIlly Winn slips due to his poor Senior Bowl week showing. If that does happen, the Packers may strike gold by landing Winn in the third round. Big men with Winn's athleticism don't grow on trees.
Winn's versatility along the line at Boise State will enable him to adapt quickly to either side of Green Bay's 3-4 line primarily as a defensive end, but possibly even as a defensive tackle in passing situations.
Dom Capers would no longer be expected to make pass rush magic from solely Clay Mathews if the Packers managed to score Winn, Brandon Thompson and Vontaze Burfict in one draft. The scary thing is, it's not entirely unrealistic if this scenario took place if many expert projections are fairly accurate.
Fourth Selection: Shaun Prater, CB Iowa
Depending on whether Thompson stands pat, trades up or down, I see someone like Shaun Prater being either the Packers fourth round selection or a compensation pick depending on what the Packers get for losing Cullen Jenkins.
Prater is a small cornerback (5'10", 185 pounds), but has played special teams gunner at Iowa and doesn't back down from any bigger tight ends or wide receivers. He'd add more speed and ball skills to the depths of the cornerback position early.
Also, he could blossom into a talented nickel corner if he has the will and dedication to learn from top-notch cornerbacks coach, Joe Whitt.
This isn't a glamorous or eye-popping pick, but it would be a quality insurance addition of talent to the cornerbacks position to turn the page on the Pat Lee experiment.
Ideally, the Packers (and probably all 32 NFL teams) would want a cornerback with the length and athleticism of Montana's Trumaine Johnson (6'2", 204 pounds), but there are few, if any, of those types of cornerbacks that come around from year to year. Johnson, untested at Montana, may end up a reach pick in the fourth round solely for his size.
Fifth Selection: Derek Wolfe, DE Cincinatti
Call it over-kill but Ted Thompson won't take lightly to overhauling the front seven in titletown.
Derek Wolfe and Brandon Thompson would likely become the top pass rushers on the defensive line immediately out of training camp. Since Thompson prefers the draft-and-develop path to building a franchise, I think the defensive line picks would be warranted.
That said, it would mean saying goodbye to a few current defensive players (most likely Jarius Wynn and C.J. Wilson) and adding a spot on the depth chart for defensive linemen that may reduce the stockpile at other positions.
All things considered, Wolfe projects as a steal in the mid-rounds, who could prove to be a top 3-4 defensive in his career.
Sixth Selection: Eddie Whitley, FS Virginia Tech 6'1" 184; 40 Time: 4.56
Eddie Whitley is described by CBSSports.com as an intelligent player with playmaking abilities. He was a leader in the Hokies defense.
The Packers will know a lot more about Nick Collins' status in March. Considering it's always good to add new competition in the secondary, Whitley would have a reasonable shot to make the roster with or without Collins.
Ted Thompson has some trade pieces or the ability to trade down to get more picks, so I could see Whitley being the Packers sixth selection despite being picked in what I project to be the 5th round.
Seventh Selection: David Molk, C, Michigan
"[David] Molk doesn't look like much, but he is very aggressive and plays bigger than he appears -- lacks elite physical tools, but you can't measure heart and desire." CBSSports.com states in its draft profile of him.
If you substituted Scott Wells' name in this same description several years ago you'd probably find the same is true for Wells, who is now a top center in the NFL.
Molk may have Wells' ceiling and the Packers need to find a replacement for Wells (if he signs or not) for the long term now that the incumbent center enters his mid-30s.
I think Ted Thompson could accumulate more picks through compensation and trading, so I see Molk being picked in the sixth round.
Eigth Selection: Austin Davis, QB Southern Mississippi
Austin Davis finds ways to win in the clutch, an intangible that many of his higher-rated peers rarely faced or excelled at this past year.
Davis would be seen by Ted Thompson as a winner, similar to how he viewed Matt Flynn (also a seventh round selection). Both Davis and Flynn are undersized, too.
The likelihood of grooming a gem signal-caller in the seventh round again may be small, but the Packers will continue to bring in new quarterbacks for insurance and future trade-bait, compensation-pick development purposes.
Expect Davis to be a project both in terms of mechanics and developing NFL awareness over a two- to three-year timeframe if he gets the chance to learn behind Rodgers. Davis is an athlete at quarterback, capable of running for big gains as well.
This Southern Miss star would be the Packers seventh round draft pick. Though many fans might still be in a tizzy over another Southern Miss quarterback's burned bridges in titletown (Brett Favre), the comparison between these two Southern Miss products begins and ends at their alma mater.
Last Pick or Undrafted Free Agents
The guys in this category would be competing for a roster spot on an already-deep roster.
Others listed below would be happy to work their way up on Green Bay's practice squad.
Knowing the Packers staff gives every player in camp the chance to compete, the talents of these young men at the bottom of the 2012 draft could prove to be upgrades to some of their competitors in training camp.
Matt Conrath, DE, Virginia, 6'7" 280: He's a special teams pick with knack for blocking field goals. Can really run for a defensive lineman which also helps his stock on special teams. Has the frame to develop as a 3-4 defensive end, too.
Antonio Fenelus, CB, Wisconsin, 5'8" 193: He will be undersized against NFL receivers, but Fenelus is an elite athlete with 4.49 speed and the accomplishment of being First Team All-Big Ten in 2010. You don't find that kind of resume in the seventh round very often.
Sean Richardson, SS, Vanderbilt, 6'2" 215: He has the size of a linebacker and was considered among the best safeties in the SEC. This would be another great find at the end of the draft. Think Aaron Rouse of a few years ago but without the risk associated of Rouse's third round status.
Ryan Houston, FB, North Carolina, 6'2" 245: Though he's not a polished fullback technique-wise, Houston was a top RB recruit out of high school and a former basketball star. This would be a goal line, short yardage back in need of development in pass-catching and blocking skills.
Darron Thomas, QB Oregon, 6'3" 215: Since Thomas left Oregon as a redshirt junior and is only 21 it raised a lot of eyebrows in Eugene. Though Thomas is raw, his ceiling and results in an elite BCS program can't be ignored. Thomas is projected as a seventh rounder or undrafted free agent with top athletic measurables for a quarterback.
The Packers would be in no rush in developing this potential diamond in the rough.
Joe Looney, OG, Wake Forest, 6'3" 320: He gained four years of starting experience, despite being only 21 years old. Would be a project in terms of NFL-technique and strength training that fits the Packers' luxury of time for development on a talented roster. CBSSports.com said he's considered to have excellent intangibles and incredible punch.
Scott Wedige, C, Northern Illinois, 6'4" 300: Wedige is a classic small-school talent Ted Thompson will surely investigate.
Darrell Scott, RB, South Florida, 6'1" 240: Giant backs with 4.48 speed are rare breeds in the NFL. Given Ryan Grant's age, James Starks' injury history and Alex Green's unproven status, a sturdy, big back could give Green Bay's offense another wrinkle down the road if Scott pans out as a zone blocking, one-cut runner.
Mike WIllie, WR, Arizona State, 6'2" 212: Willie has ideal NFL wide receiver size, good speed, and would be a practice squad project much like last year's Tori Gurley (now on the practice squad).
Devon Wylie, WR, Fresno State, 5'9" 182: Teams looking for their Wes Welker-lite will pick up players like Wylie who may have more upside than his tiny frame suggests due to the wheels and ellusiveness Wylie displays. This may be a silly mantra but think: "If Willie is Gurley, Wylie is Shaky" (in the mold of Shaky Smithson of the practice squad).
Jeff Adams, OT, Columbia, 6'6" 305: An Ivy League standout with elite athleticism? What's not to like for a zone-blocking team?
Nicolas Jean-Baptiste, DT, Baylor, 6'2" 335: Finding a 3-4 nose tackle body with production on a top college team this late in the draft is a steal. The big man would need time to develop NFL skills. It's possible other teams would reach for Jean-Baptiste long before his projected seventh round grade.
Analysis of Results
Making a mock draft isn't as easy as it looks.
In the end mock draft creators are reducing some 200-plus talented college players down to a few selections. The great part is none of us will be right on these educated guesses, yet we love to see the predictions.
This mock clearly focuses on the pass rush and defensive help. I feel the Packers are one defensive playmaker away from hoisting another Lombardi trophy. This mock provides a few picks likely to make the immediate impact needed in the ever-finite Super Bowl window.
Furthermore, there just aren't many openings on offense to make it worthwhile to invest in a top pick there and have to cut an established talent (last season, a second-round wide receiver in Randall Cobb was the Packers fifth receiver).
If my draft became reality, I bet one man would be particularly happy: defensive coordinator Dom Capers.
For my first ever mock draft for the Packers, I did leave some questions unanswered:
1. If star-in-the-making tight end Jermicheal Finley isn't given the franchise tag, will the Packers look to draft another tight end even after fielding five tight ends in their 53-man roster last year?
2. How can defenders be picked in the first six (out of a likely eight) selections?
3. Do the Packers need another hulking defensive tackle now that Howard Green is likely to depart in free agency? Or are Pickett and B.J. Raji enough?
4. Could the offensive line be improved with early picks? If Scott Wells isn't re-signed, suddenly the interior of the line looks very flimsy. It's always a healthy policy to keep finding more guys to protect your franchise quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Look for my second mock draft to try an alternate approach that may answer some of these questions.


If basic training is in your near future, you are probably concerned about improving your physical fitness level. You may have even set some physical fitness goals for yourself while you prepare. However, finding motivation can sometimes be the hardest part of getting yourself into your best physical shape. If you find yourself wanting to improve your Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) score, but never seem to move forward in your Army fitness goals you may want to consider setting S.M.A.R.T goals for yourself. Read on to learn more!
Wait, an acronym is going to help me achieve my physical fitness goals?
Stick with us! Have you ever made a New Year's resolution, and realized within a few weeks of the year that you hadn't made any progress towards achieving it? It is probably because you made a general goal.
Experts have found that the key to creating achievable goals and resolutions is to avoid general goals like getting fit, eating better and reading more. Instead they recommend setting specific goals, which you have a much higher likelihood of actually achieving.
Now this is where S.M.A.R.T. goals come into play. Standing for: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-Bound﹣ this framework includes all of the qualities that a successful and achievable goal should have.
Specific: In order to set specific goals for basic training fitness, review the APFT standards. You can find details here. As you can see, your goals should center around pushups, situps and running.
Measurable: When you review the 2016 APFT standards you will find measurable goals like run times and pushup totals to give you something to strive for.
Attainable: Are you overweight, out of shape or just getting into fitness? If so, be sure to start with achievable goals that you can actually accomplish! If you set a goal of running two miles in 15 minutes, you will most likely not be able to do so in the near future. Instead, set small goals to work up to, and re-evaluate them to make them more difficult as your level of fitness improves.
Relevant: This is where you make sure you goal is relevant. Obviously in this case you are trying to set physical fitness goals and improve you APFT scores, so your goals should align with these efforts.
Time-Bound: If you have a basic training start date this should be the easy part! Once you know your start date, you will have a tangible deadline in sight, which will help you focus and keep on track. With time ticking away you are less likely to get distracted, and more likely to reach your desired level of fitness before training starts!
As you can see, setting clear, specific and measurable Army fitness goals isn't so hard after all. If you follow this process and focus, you will be ready for basic training in no time. You can always check out more resources on the UAB website as well.


Over a period of five months while living and working in Jaipur, India, we ventured into the traditional technique of block printing, discovered incredible fabrics like Khadi and fell in love with the vibrancy of our surroundings and the people we met. All these things form the basis of our Made In India collection.
Below are a selection of images and text, giving you an insight into the inspiration and processes behind the collection.
Our Made In India collection consists of cushions, drawstring bags, tableware and pouches.
All these items take advantage of the beauty of block printing and khadi, showing off the textures, prints and colours to the fullest.
Khadi is a handwoven organic fabric that can be made out of cotton, silk or wool and we instantly fell in love with it for many reasons. It's the worlds most sustainable and eco-friendly fabric as it does not require any electrical support or fossil fuels. It supports millions of people living in rural India as artisans and micro-level weavers, still dependent on traditional skills and techniques to make their living through handmade products. The process of creating Khadi is very slow and delicate. In fact, spinning the yarn used for Khadi is a completely manual process, done on a spinning wheel called a charkha. The irregularities in the weave give it a beautiful texture full of character and charm.
The master carver starts from a drawing of our design on paper, traces it onto a Rosewood block and carves out the pattern by hand. The block represents the single repeat, which is then stamped in rows across the fabric creating the seamless pattern. Each colour in the design has to be carved into a separate block, with each colour being printed separately.
We welcome wholesale enquiries from any stockists who appreciate ethically designed, beautifully handmade products.
Write to us at hello@allthefruits.com or use the contact form below.


The presentation of the Sean O'Riordan Scholarships for MPhil in Christian Theology took place in the Loyola Institute on 29th September last. Fr Dan Baragry CSsR (Provincial of the Irish Redemptorists) attended a reception to welcome students at the commencement of Loyola Institute's new MPhil in Christian Theology. At this Fr Baragry presented two scholarships named in memory of Redemptorist theologian Sean O'Riordan. The winning MPhil students are Beverley Collins and Edith O'Nuallain.


Having had a chance to address directly the reader (who, I have always hoped and imagined, would be female in at least half the instances), I take this opportunity to address you and to thank you straight off for all your help in bringing this book to an English-speaking reading public.(1) Your response, with its wealth of complementary and new information in relation to your book and my Afterword, not only sheds additional light on the background and motivations of this thesis turned into a briefer volume, but also offers the occasion for carrying out something that I, as a professional translator, have dreamed of accomplishing for two decades: transforming the traditional translator's foreword format into an experimental dialogue between translator and author in order to provide the reader with a glimpse of the difficult but important process whereby a volume's ideas, references, and very language are themselves transformed so as to render them accessible to and practicable by users in another section of the International Republic of Letters.
Similarly, I had not thought that the Merleau-Pontean epigram contrasting "geography" with "countryside" (wherein, one would always already be familiar with "what a forest, a prairie, or a river is") could be the last word for you. You are indeed that urban and urbane writer on the expressive poetry found in people's narratives of their daily municipal treks who would contrast himself with the lyric sylvan German world of Heidegger (or even with a French pastorale). Your book's subtitle [which properly translates as "An Essay on Everyday Walks in an Urban Setting"] announces your intention as well as depicts your self-representation. The opposition between a conceived space and lived experience comes to a head in a cityscape; and we are moved, in this urban setting, to explore how social significations containing an imaginary element circulate between those two poles.
As I informed you on the phone, the full quotation in question from chapter five reads: "And yet, spanning affectivity, feeling, and motor function, these same symbols produce imaginary resonances that are capable of mobilizing the presently lived act." We concurred that "produce" is unfortunate here, as it would lead the reader to believe that you see the imagination as produced instead of producing, let alone creative. You helpfully explained that you speak more often now, in such contexts, of "inducing" rather than of "producing." We agree, as I stated, that not only have you "articulate[d] the imaginary in terms of a 'spanning'" (enjambment) here but that these "imaginary resonances" are indeed "mobilizing." It was the word "resonances," with their own resonance of Merleau-Ponty's ambiguous way of discussing the imaginary, that had unfortunately reinforced the false impression that you would somehow want to view social imaginary significations ("strewn . . . garbage" was another "symbol[ic]" example besides "graffiti") as mere secondary byproducts.
A last point, on science, lived experience, everyday life, and their conditions of communicability within the International Republic of Letters. I believe that I was able to render audible and to communicate to the reader some of the issues involved in your own struggle to make yourself heard and understood in a French scientific community that was, a quarter century ago, indifferent or hostile to the specific kind of contribution you wished to make to the reasoned investigation of the role everyday experience can play in creating and transforming the urban world. In a translation, however, it cannot be assumed that the audience will be the same, or even "similar" in some orderly, univocal, one-to-one transformative fashion. For example, the idea that hermeneuticians and phenomenologists would be working in "laboratories" might strike many an English-speaking reader as either bizarre or funny. And the CNRS has no exact equivalent in the United States, where the very fact of public funding for social research produces periodic scandal.(7) Neither can it be assumed that the exact sciences/human sciences distinction is articulated in the same way in America as it is in France: several of the techniques and disciplines employed in your book are often those employed, instead, by the "humanities"--which are, still today, strongly contrasted with all "the sciences."(8) Published in North America, your new English-language volume on Sonic Experience will therefore be an interesting test of how "audible" your later work can become there today as well as a gauge of how much, over the past twenty-five years, change has also occurred in what the French call the "Anglo-Saxon" scientific world. Nor can we predict in advance who the readers of the present volume will be. At best, one can attempt to call into existence a broad and varied readership by endeavoring to welcome a wide variety of people. For a translator, even as he endeavors to render ideas accessible in another language, that does not mean fooling with the meaning of the original or tampering with its language. My examination of the existence of "scientific jargon" was not meant as a criticism of you but intended as a way of highlighting, by way of contrast, two other domains: that of the everyday life you wish to remain close to via study of walking narratives (along with the implicit political implications of such an endeavor) and that of potential readers in another language--who, we hope, will come from a wide variety of fields and disciplines as well as include many members of that category we call the general reader. For, I believe that your work constitutes a significant departure from many of the usual "social scientific" ways of analyzing behavior and can offer a positive contribution of interest to various specialists, but also to people in many other walks of life.
And thank you, finally, for your breathtaking commentary on my seventeenth footnote and your introduction of a "motive principle" expressed in terms of "the essence of being in a situation." For you, student of everyday walks, "being is moving." The "cosmogenetic point," therefore, is not to be conceived as stationary. Would this "motive principle," which you do not dissociate from Derridean "purity," be Aristotle's primum movens, the first cause or mover, who/which is an "unmoved mover"? Or might the radicality of your assertion entail that being contains in/as itself its own principle of movement, starting right in/as the messiness of everyday effective actuality? These questions, inspired by the profundity of your thought, leave us in anticipation of further books written by you that might also be made available to English-speaking readers.
1. In translating your response, I have condensed it slightly after having incorporated certain minor suggestions and corrections into the final version of my Afterword. In the François Dosse book you cited, Michel de Certeau was quoted as saying that "Pas à pas is one of those books that are not prefaced." In accordance with your wishes, Françoise Choay and I have now doubly challenged that assertion.
2. This was a sly reference to Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks, written by my teacher of Alfred Schütz's sociological phenomenology, Maurice Natanson.
3. Another reason Castoriadis seemed an appropriate reference for comparison was that he often described the individual human being as a "walking and talking fragment" of society and of its institution.
4. See François Cusset's French Theory: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Cie et les mutations de la vie intellectuelle aux Etats-Unis (Paris: Découverte, 2003). Just recently (in the issue dated February 10, 2006), Le Monde des Livres--Le Monde's weekly literary supplement--devoted two pages (VI-VII) to such importations from America of "French Theory."
was not the equivalent of something "random." Depending upon the walker's mood in his actual conduct, while there is still a "game," it is no longer played on the field of some overall probability but, rather, within the competition between indetermination and anticipation; it plays itself out through all that the walker's temporality can offer that is different and unforeseen within the fore-seen space to be traversed, through all that the conduct of the walk may have anticipated, and it throws the order of perspective off its game.
Perhaps in the imaginary act of anticipation, and even more in its "competition" with "indetermination," we might find a source for representation as an imaginary positing of "unnoticed qualit[ies]" within everydayness that would go along there with affect and intention. No more than a Heraclitean river, should a "stream of representations" be taken as establishing a fully coherent and independently graspable sameness.
6. I had already dealt with this problem of représentation/representation at length in my Translator's Foreword to Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Pierre Lévêque's Cleisthenes the Athenian. An Essay on the Representation of Space and of Time in Greek Political Thought from the End of the Sixth Century to the Death of Plato, trans. David Ames Curtis (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996), now available at: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/www.kaloskaisophos.org/rt/rtdac/rtdactf/rtdactfcleisthenes.html . This book is itself a useful contribution to the study of the building and experiencing of an urban space wherein political thought and representation play a major role from the outset.
7. On the other hand, one of the top domestic political issues in France the past few years has been inadequate public funding for the CNRS and other research institutions, occasioning and indeed being spearheaded by large petition efforts as well mass protests and demonstrations on the part of scientific researchers themselves.
8. A French-to-English translator of all but the most strictly technical texts must today, in the aftermath of the Sokal Hoax, be acutely aware of such conflicts. Alan Sokal's successful skewering of unwarranted pretensions and sloppy thinking in the contemporary humanities is an important lesson, even if some of his own contrasts and claims might prove too stark and unreflective.


In September 2000, ECPAT groups from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK began research into the trafficking of children from Eastern Europe to their respective countries. What the Professionals Know: The trafficking of children in, and through, the UK for sexual purposes was the UK's first piece of research into child trafficking. Its aim was to build an evidence base child trafficking, as past research on trafficking had primarily centred the trafficking of women. The project was developed by the ECPAT European Law Enforcement Group, and coordinated by Defence for Children International, the Netherlands Section. The project was largely funded by the STOP Programme of the European Commission and the Oak Foundation.


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It has been determined that the Men's Championship, by virtue of identical records, will be shared by Columbia University and Harvard University. Harvard actually won the head-to-head match up today, 14-13, to force the tie, but Columbia had carried an undefeated record into the 2nd day of competition, whereas Harvard was defeated in their first bout of the South championships.
The tie meant that Harvard would retain a share of the title that they won outright in 2006, and Columbia would also join the discussion as Co-Champions.
Congratulations goes out to the men at both schools.


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using Terraria;
using Terraria.Graphics.Shaders;
using Terraria.ModLoader;

namespace ExampleMod.NPCs.PuritySpirit
{
	public class PuritySpiritScreenShaderData : ScreenShaderData
	{
		private int puritySpiritIndex;

		public PuritySpiritScreenShaderData(string passName)
			: base(passName)
		{
		}

		private void UpdatePuritySpiritIndex()
		{
			int puritySpiritType = ModLoader.GetMod("ExampleMod").NPCType("PuritySpirit");
			if (puritySpiritIndex >= 0 && Main.npc[puritySpiritIndex].active && Main.npc[puritySpiritIndex].type == puritySpiritType)
			{
				return;
			}
			puritySpiritIndex = -1;
			for (int i = 0; i < Main.npc.Length; i++)
			{
				if (Main.npc[i].active && Main.npc[i].type == puritySpiritType)
				{
					puritySpiritIndex = i;
					break;
				}
			}
		}

		public override void Apply()
		{
			UpdatePuritySpiritIndex();
			if (puritySpiritIndex != -1)
			{
				UseTargetPosition(Main.npc[puritySpiritIndex].Center);
			}
			base.Apply();
		}
	}
}

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New England Vise Tour Final Day
My final day on The Grand Tour began with a drive down through the heart of Boston from Andover to Quincy for a delightful three-hour sessions with JohnC, a retired historian who is doing some really heavy lifting for this project. I assure you that his fingerprints will be all over the Studley history section of VIRTUOSO:The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of Henry O. Studley.
We started with an hour long discussion of the project and research directions for the future, allowing ourselves free reign when it comes to rabid speculation about Studley the man and his life and tools. With that out of the way John drove us to the site of the home Studley shared with his wife and the Stetson family. That site is now the home of the Crane Library, a stunningly beautiful public building.
We followed that with an extended walk around the outside of the Quincy Masonic Temple. Studley was a member of that Rural Lodge housed in that building, but we do not believe that he ever saw the current building which was dedicated shortly after his death. The building appeared to be completely unoccupied, and we had no luck trying to call (the phone number had been disconnected), emailing, or knocking. There was nobody home.
A short stop at the Studley grave site and the Quincy Historical Society wrapped up the business portion of the day, and John took us to his favorite burger joint where I ate a hunk of bison. We parted shortly, and I drove non-stop ten hours to home base. Or should I say, I drove stop-and-go, and stop-and-go, and stop-and-go. I have been told that New England has two seasons – winter and road construction – and I am now a believer.
Four days after my return I received from John the astounding news of a catastrophic fire at the Quincy Masonic Temple, apparently destroying much of the interior and all of the Masonic memorabilia and Lodge records. Thus what we hoped would be a rich resource for John's research will remain lost forever.


The most fun you'll have in a bun!
It may be time to unbuckle your pants as Cold Rock launches new Ice Cream Sliders!
With an abundance of food trends and fads taking over our screens, Cold Rock's latest addition will well and truly capture your attention. Boasting a fusion of ice cream – made with Australian dairy milk (of course) – and a tasty brioche burger bun; Cold Rock welcomes their latest, most innovative offering yet, which is now available at all stores nationally, in time for winter: the mouthwatering Cold Rock Ice Cream Slider.
Filled with your choice of any Cold Rock Ice Cream flavour and Mix Ins, all of which are smashed together on the unique 'Cold Rock' and served up on a warm, toasted brioche bun – Cold Rock's Ice Cream Sliders are then lovingly wrapped and placed in a burger box for you to take away and enjoy (or eat right then and there, if you simply cannot wait)!
Like any burger, Cold Rock's Ice Cream Sliders are also served up with your choice of deliciously sweet, premium 'sauce.' With three flavours to choose from – rich chocolate (BBQ), sticky caramel (Mustard) and sweet raspberry (Tomato) – there's sure to be one to tantalize every taste bud, giving you even more power to create your very own individual Ice Cream Slider … just the way you like it!
A modern take on the once humble burger, Cold Rock's Ice Cream Sliders provide a truly innovative and unique offer for all ice cream aficionados and burger lovers alike! For the past few years and with no signs of slowing down, 'designer' burgers have been a food fad staple, and it seems Australian consumers' love burgers in any form – be it the fast food or healthy gourmet variety, and now, sweet treat style!
Cold Rock CEO Stan Gordon says the brand is more than just a delicious treat; it's about bringing new and fun experiences to customers with a theatrical twist.
"Taking our inspiration from Italy, the true home of ice cream, we have really tried to arouse our customers' imaginations and make our Ice Cream Sliders unique, by offering a variety of tasty and entertaining flavours and textures to enjoy. The Cold Rock Slider has a crispy, warm brioche bun which is then paired with the customer's choice of creamy, cold ice cream, crunchy Mix Ins and premium sweet sauce filling.
And, we only use Australian dairy milk when we make our ice cream," said Gordon.
With the cooler weather well and truly here, Cold Rock's Ice Cream Sliders will be available in-store from June 1, 2016.
Head into your nearest Cold Rock store to create your very own Ice Cream Slider and indulge in a rich, feel-good dessert and sweet warm tasty treat. Prices start at $6.50 per Slider.
Cold Rock Ice Cream Sliders: So hot, they're cool!