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How To Easily Pin & Access Your Favorite Folders On A Chromebook
By Daniel Golightly
Chrome OS gadgets are not the most storage-savvy devices on the market and learning how to pin Drive folders on a Chromebook is, as a result, paramount.
The problems associated with that, of course, are many. Chromebooks may be cloud-based and future-forward, often only offering a minimal 32GB or 64GB storage. But they can also, in some cases, delete locally stored data unexpectedly. That all but forcing users to make use of Google Drive integration and other options for storing data online.
Even though the Chrome OS file management system, tucked in the "Files" application, should look familiar to most who migrate over. It isn't necessarily easier to navigate. Especially since specific folders can't be moved to the home page — the Chrome OS 'desktop' equivalent — or to the dock — or 'taskbar'. Users are, instead, required to navigate the maze of folders created in Drive and representing local partitions.
That's going to be every time a file is needed. So it isn't going to be as intuitive as might be hoped, although the rest of the operating system certainly is. Users have to open up the Files app and navigate around or search to locate files, making it a hassle to rediscover and manage even files that are accessed often.
Thankfully, Google has worked to ensure Chromebook users can pin folders for quicker access and it's made doing so easy. But it isn't a feature that's often advertised and learning how to do pin a folder on a Chromebook isn't intuitive either.
Why would you want quick access to Google Drive folders in Chrome OS?
There are plenty of reasons why a user might want to pin folders for easier access in Chrome OS. The most prominent of those are all going to center around ease-of-access, better organization, and file security. Now, each of those is intrinsically woven into the others, at the end of the day. And that all comes down to how Chrome OS works.
For starters, it's a fairly well-known fact that Chromebooks are low-storage devices that rely heavily on cloud storage. The Files application does allow users to create their own nested hierarchy of folders to better organize and keep track of everything on-device. But that storage isn't guaranteed. Files saved to Downloads, for instance, are deleted automatically when space runs low. And there are reports that other files on-device can be too in the worst-case scenarios.
Google Drive is also a nested hierarchy of folders. And it will serve as the easiest fix for most users since it is extremely well-integrated into the Files app. Nested folders aren't always the best way to find things, especially when there are dozens or hundreds of folders to manage.
While not applicable to every user, most users will predominantly use just a few locations in the storage partition. Or in Drive for that matter. But finding those folders each and every time is a very real pain point. It can feasibly mean minutes wasted searching every single time the File system is accessed. Using Google Drive is better for file saving. But it isn't any better for rediscovering or quickly moving things around.
The ability to create pinned Google Drive shortcuts represents one of the best solutions for those problems. Not only does that place users' most commonly used locations a single click away. That simultaneously helps users remember and keep the most important files off-device while addressing difficulties associated with organizing files. Safer saving is a click-and-drag away with pinned folders. And so is recovery or use of files when they are needed.
Of course, files and folders can also be made 'available' offline using the Chrome web UI. But that comes with complications of its own. Particularly where spotty connections and ensuring a proper backup are concerned.
So, without further ado, let's take a look at why users would want to pin folders in the Files application on a Chromebook and how to get that done.
Here's how to pin your favorite or most used folders
For the time being, pinning folders only seems to work with Google Drive folders. That might change in the future. It isn't out of the question that Google could add support for other cloud services natively. But, for now, that limitation remains in place.
Navigate to the app launcher in the Chrome OS shelf
Locate and open the Files application
Navigate to the desired folder
Right-click with either a two-finger click or by holding "alt" while clicking — on touch screen devices, an intuitive long-press can be used, just like in Android
Tap or click on "Pin Folder"
After finishing those steps, the folder selected should appear in the directory above "My Files." That directory is separated from others via a dividing line. Chrome OS places folders that users pin on a Chromebook alongside "Recent," "Audio," "Images," and "Videos" directly. More specifically, at the bottom of that list, organized in the order in which they're pinned.
So whichever folder was pinned first, that's the one that will appear at the top. Subsequent pins will follow in order. Those files remain intrinsically linked to Google Drive and represent local temporary directories for the online folder, intermixed with the online storage itself. But for most intents and purposes they can simply be viewed as a link between online and locally stored files. Or as an easy way to edit and manage cloud-stored files.
You can remove folders that you pin just as easily on a Chromebook
Removing a pinned folder in Chrome OS is decidedly even more simplistic. That's mostly because users won't need to search for the folders they want to interact with or remove. It'll already be front and center amongst any other folders they have pinned.
Pull up the context menu via either a right-click on the folder or a long-press for users with touch-enabled screens.
Scroll down with either arrow keys or with the mouse and taps or click on the now-apparent "Unpin folder" option.
Chrome will then remove the chosen folder from that location automatically with no further interaction from users. The folder and its contained files do, of course, still exist in the Google Drive cloud. And they can still be found via standard search methods. But it will no longer be accessible in the quick access segment of the Files app's sidebar directory.
Now you can more quickly and easily access your files
Once the steps to pin folders are completed, navigating through the Chrome OS filesystem is much easier. But users should also be aware of a couple of UI quirks in the Chrome OS Files app that can be somewhat misleading.
The folders themselves work just like standard file folders on any desktop platform. Users can click and drag files to the folders or out of the folders. Or they can use keyboard shortcuts to copy or cut and paste the files. Many keyboard shortcuts in Chrome OS, including those, work just like they do on Windows or other desktop platforms. So that can be a much easier way to get the task done.
Google's platform makes it easy to see the progress of those moves when they pertain to the cloud too. But, as with pinning folders and as hinted here, it isn't intuitive. It can be easy to mistakenly think that files are finished. But shutting down before they've completely transferred can create problems of its own, forcing the system to constantly try and sync the files later on — unable to recognize that the process has already finalized.
In those latter cases, a factory reset using a powerwash is often the only answer. While not difficult, that resets the device to an 'as-new' state. So files can be lost in the process. So it's a good idea to cover how the syncing UI works as well.
In the Files app, while files are moving to the cloud, it's worth noting, a new card-style UI will appear. That's there to ensure users know that, when, and where the files are being moved. The first card to appear does only that and it only shows the movement locally. It absolutely does not represent the completion of the file being moved over to the cloud. That appears on a second card.
After the first card disappears, a separate card appears for syncing. The card denotes its purpose explicitly so that users can see what the system is doing. That way users can see when their files have been safely backed up to Google Drive. The card, like the one for the movement itself, comes complete with a figure representing how many operations remain to be completed. It also showcases a percentage to give some indication of the time remaining for the move.
Once the move is complete, the card will switch over to one showing that's the case. After just a few moments, that card will disappear too. Users should be aware that a short delay can happen between the cards showing or disappearing. So it's a good idea to watch for the UI changes while interacting with files to move them around.
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One of the current objections to Palin is that she has exaggerated her record as a reformer. For example, that she was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it.
Now, unlike all the scurrilous attacks on her and her family, at least that's a legitimate issue to raise. Comparing a politician's claims to his actual record is fair game.
Speaking for myself, I think it's a penny-ante issue. Not something I'd vote on. But I'll use it to discuss some larger issues.
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that she did exaggerate her record as a reformer. What should we make of that?
First of all, I don't necessarily blame a politician who schmoozes the political establishment and cuts some deals on the way up the ladder. I'm more interested in what a politician does once he (or she) assumes a position of power. Does the politician continue business as usual? Or does he challenge the corrupt status quo?
It's almost impossible to assume a position of power if you pick a fight with almost everyone in power. So I understand if a politician is more compromising in his rise to power. You'll never get to the top if you alienate everyone above you.
I'm more inclined to judge a politician by what he does after he's made it, and not what he does on the way up.
Of course, that doesn't justify winning at any cost. You have to draw some lines.
Then there's the question of honesty. Most politicians exaggerate. Do I have a problem with that? Depends.
I have low expectations for politicians. So it doesn't surprise me or shock me or disappoint me.
And it doesn't bother me personally since I'm not personally responsible for another man's character.
There's a reason that most politicians lie to one degree or another. The political culture punishes candor rather than rewarding candor.
Suppose a candidate for president were to say, "I'm not running as the education president. If you read the Constitution, that's not in my job description!"
Do you think he could still win?
Suppose he were to say, "I'm not running as the economist-in-chief. That's no part of my Constitutional job description!"
Or suppose he simply pointed out that a president doesn't control a global economy. That's beyond his power even if he wanted to.
Or what if he said, adjustable mortgage rates can go up as well as down. That's what makes them adjustable. It's a gamble. A roll of the dice. You win some, you lose some.
Suppose he were to say, "If you choose to live in a dangerous part of the country, you do so at your own risk. Don't expect Uncle Sam to bail you out!"
Politicians are generally dishonest in varying degrees, and that's because the electorate requires them to be dishonest to some degree. Most voters don't want honest politicians. Year after year they vote for candidates who make campaign promises which they obviously can't keep and won't keep and have no intention of keeping.
Or take judicial nominations. Senators ask nominees trip-wire questions. They want to trap the nominee into admitting that a "Constitutional right" which is nowhere in the Constitution is, in fact, a Constitutional right.
If they successfully extract that confession from the nominee, they will then use it to discredit the nominee. As a result, nominees give evasive answers to trip-wire questions.
Or suppose Bush is privately of the opinion, knowing now what he didn't know then, that if he had to do it all over again, he wouldn't invade Iraq. What if he were to admit that, with the benefit of hindsight, it may have been a serious miscalculation.
(At the moment I'm not taking a position on the Iraq war—I'm just floating a hypothetical case.)
Would he be praised for his newfound capacity for self-criticism? Or would his moment of unguarded candor be ruthlessly exploited by his political opponents?
Do I think it's a good thing that politicians lie to us? No. But they lie to us because most voters vote for the best liar. The candidate who tells them the lies they want to hear. So there's a lot of blame to go around.
Labels: Hays, Politics
Theist 9/14/2008 4:31 PM
Mr. Manata and other Triablogue team members,
Could you please put this article on atheism in your blog roll? Google currently ranks the article #5 for the search atheism and several defenders of Christianity who have published Christian apologetic books or have earned doctorates have endorsed the article.
Antipelagian 9/15/2008 10:52 AM
Does anybody else find this post difficult to swallow? You're literally saying "do evil that good may abound". I say stick with theology/philosophy...your politics are awful.
Palin is a part of the problem when it comes to pork...that's why she's more of a pig with lipstick than a pitbull.
Palin on earmarks in Wasilla
McCain opposed Palin earmarks 3 times in past
Palin's record opposite of what McCain/Pain campaign states
She is not a reformer.
steve 9/15/2008 12:11 PM
ANTIPELAGIAN SAID:
"You're literally saying 'do evil that good may abound'."
And you're a very careless reader. Try responding to what I actually said, not your antagonistic caricature.
I already did a post on earmarks.
That's a false, all-or-nothing statement. She went along with the system in some respects, but challenged the system in others.
I'd add that NPR and the LA Times are organs of the liberal media. Why don't you try to be more evenhanded in your sources?
Antipelagian 9/15/2008 12:51 PM
I read your post carefully...and you seem to think our politicians ought to be given a pass when it comes to doing what is right...they function on a different moral code than the rest of us, apparently. That's where I got: "do evil that good may abound"?
After all, you said:
So after ascending the ladder via evil rungs, politicians ought to kick it away? How will others ascend said evil in order to oppose it?
I appreciate what you have to say in your earmarks post, but it doesn't change the fact that Palin's administration in Wasilla hired a Washington lobbyist...she got a *ton* of tax dollars. Do you think Wasilla paid that much into Federal taxes to justify it?
In regard to two liberal sources...NPR gets some things right...are you suggesting they reported inaccurate figures? Are you suggesting McCain didn't oppose Palin 3 times as the L.A. Times reports?
Even if NPR and the L.A. Times are correct, you've already said you won't blame a politician for schmoozing his way up the ladder...so really, don't you mean to say:
"So Palin got a ton of Federal money...way more than her constituents paid into...now she says she's opposed to that"
steve 9/15/2008 2:29 PM
"I read your post carefully...and you seem to think our politicians ought to be given a pass when it comes to doing what is right...they function on a different moral code than the rest of us, apparently."
i) One of my points is that it's hypocritical for pundits (or voters) to attack a politician for a lack of honesty when the same folks will reward a dishonest politician by voting for him if he makes campaign promises that he's obviously in no position to keep while, on the other hand, punishing another politician by voting against him if he's too candid. It's a hypocritical standard.
ii) There are also mitigating circumstances. Take my example of judicial nominees. If a nominee will be penalized for giving the right answer, for speaking the truth, then the questioner is not entitled to a straight answer. He's entitled to an evasive answer.
If, say, a judicial nominee believes that abortion is not a Constitutional right, and if admitting that abortion is not a Constitutional right will guarantee that no nominee with that viewpoint will ever be confirmed by the senate, then the corruption of the confirmation process has forced the nominee to be less than forthcoming about his true views.
i) Every compromise is not a moral compromise. And there's no moral imperative to pick a fight with everyone you disagree with. You need to be prudent. To pick the battles you can win.
ii) If, after you reach a certain position of power, you use your power to reform the system as best you can, then those who come after you don't have to take the same route on the way up.
When state taxpayers are forced to fork over so much of their income to the Feds, I think it's better than they get some of it back than get none of it back.
"Are you suggesting McCain didn't oppose Palin 3 times as the L.A. Times reports?"
I don't care. For one thing, McCain is a senator and Palin is a major turned governor. They were representing different constituencies at the time, with different responsibilities.
Anyway, this is not the issue I'm voting on. The McCain campaign is going to emphasize the aspects of his record and hers that make them electable.
That doesn't necessarily reflect their own priorities. And that doesn't reflect my priorities.
They may personally think other things are more important, but if that's what's important to the voter, that's what they will emphasize. There's nothing wrong with accentuating things you actually believe in to help get you elected even if you yourself might rate the priorities somewhat differently.
"You've already said you won't blame a politician for schmoozing his way up the ladder."
My actual statement was a good deal more qualified. For someone who objects to dishonest campaigning, it would behoove you to lead by example and not distort what I said.
Antipelagian 9/15/2008 8:59 PM
I actually agree with your post when it comes to principled compromises...I do not think that is a fitting description of what Palin did as mayor of Wasilla and governor of Alaska.
That's why I linked those articles. She did not "schmooze" her way to the top...in fact, it looks like she alienated a lot of people to get to the top.
You and I agree...if someone gets to the top making practical compromises (not moral ones) then that's one thing...but Palin doesn't fit this description.
Truth Unites... and Divides 9/16/2008 10:19 AM
But they lie to us because most voters vote for the best liar. The candidate who tells them the lies they want to hear. So there's a lot of blame to go around.
Excellent article Steve.
Voters should be apportioned some of the blame since they reward deceptive behavior by voting for deceivers.
LonelyBoy 9/16/2008 3:49 PM
Hi Steve ,I have been reading your blog for years now. I just created my blog today and wanted to ask you a question which is off topic, you mentioned before in your article about mother teresa that you wouldnt give much allowance to pope benedict xvi,raymond brown and karl rahner if they are saved unlike mother teresa , does that mean that it is nearly impossible for a RC clergy who is consistent with RC theology to be saved?, what about Eastern Orthodox priests?, also are all evangelicals who converted to Romanism and Eastern Orthodoxy lost ?you think there are elect RC priests even if they dont embrace solafide, I am from the Phillippines and just wanted to be clear about this since most people I talk to are catholics
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(1874-09-18) Stone and Fire
Stone and Fire
Summary: Ludovic and Alia practice against and with one another.
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NPCs: None
Glade, Hellmouth County
Lots of open space, trees, a dead campfire.
Having sent word to Alia that he has a favor to ask and would like to meet her within Hellsmouth when it was convenient for her, Ludovic arranged for her to be brought to him when she arrived. He's been doing what he normally does in the meantime and when she arrives she is soon guided a ways up several steep bridleways until she reaches the mountain meadow that Ludovic has picked out for practicing. His horse is tethered near the entrance to the meadow but Ludovic is much further inside. He's dressed no different to most days out in the saddle in his mustard yellow coat and segmented half-plate but he's not mounted instead on his feet playing with his magic. As Alia goes to approach he is trying to move a massive rock slowly from one side of the field to the other. It's somewhat erratic in its progress and when he sees Alia it thumps down. The lapse is soon covered up with a grin as he strides towards her. "Good! You made it safely. I trust you didn't have to much trouble?"
Alia had received the request for her presence, and had sent word back that she would make the journey to Hellmouth as soon as she was able. It was not quite two days, when the scouts received word that she was moving though the Pass, and bringing her usual guard with her. She'd had no trouble, as the d'Korbina men had been warned of her arrival, and so the journey to the County seat, and the escort, without her guards, had been smooth and easy. Now, she walked across the hewn grass, still dressed in her usual working attire, black riding pants, sleeveless shirt, even in the growing chill, and her lorrica. There was a curiosity in her expression as she watched Ludovic practicing from afar, but it was replaced by warmth, when he turned to meet her, "No trouble at all. The world is quiet today. It is good to see you, Ludovic."
"Lets pray that they are all quiet from here on after." Ludovic returns before grinning again and admitting. "Although. When I think on that. I see /me/ starting something." he chuckles. "So maybe I shouldn't go praying for it just yet." He reaches out to grasp her forearm in a handshake. "You look as if your new duties suit you well enough. Come. I'd offer you some tea but we're all alone up here. I have some wine hidden away though. Well." He smiles at her. "When I say alone I mean that theres nobody to brew the tea. You saw for yourself that I can't go nowhere these days without a guard. Well I'm sure I could. I'm still the viscount afterall." he gives her an amused grin at that. "But you know how people who love you will get after you lose an eye in an ambush."
"But perhaps not too quiet, or else I will have to return to Four Corners. And I have rather enjoyed being away from the city." She glanced away, taking in the valley, "There is so much more scope for the imagination here. And a fair few less flammable structures." She accepted the handshake with an equal sentiment, "You should have brought some. Perhaps next time. I have quite a talent with tea. But perhaps we will find the wine together later." There was laughter, as she moves to stand in step with him, "All the coddling, I can certainly imagine. But I don't think you brought me here to give your guard something to do. So why am I here, Ludovic?"
Ludovic chuckles at her suggestion of returning to Four Corners. "You've responsibilities now." he points out. "I don't see the Imperial Military letting you go just like that." He smiles again at her answer. "I've learned better than to take tea with me on the road. Comes out like sour sludge." He pauses a moment when she asks his exact reason for coming here and then says. "I want to show you something. Two somethings actually. One i'm hoping will help teach you to defend yourself better. The other I'm hoping will help me." He looks at her for a long moment and then chuckles again. "Hark at me being all mysterious. You ever learn how to counter another sorcerers magic? Its something I'd no idea was even possible before Teleko did it to me. I'm not sure if Darius knows. When we were fighting I wasn't trying to use my magic against him. The time I slipped I didn't do it like this either. I just used my magic to make a barrier to stop the effects of his." He frowns and then looks at her. "Guess that don't totally make sense. What I mean is that when I fought Darius all I did was make a ridge of earth to counter the flow of fire. It wasn't actually turning the magic around. I'm not even entirely sure I understand how it worked. Thought it might be good if we tried to work it out. Then, or maybe before that, I want to show you the axe from the Qatunax and ask you a favor. When I showed it to Darius he said they'd put fire inside the axe somehow. I'd like you to try and do the same thing with something I make."
"No, I do not imagine that they will. They allow me to return when I need supplies or to do business, but I imagine when and if they return to their own lands, I will not likely see these lands again, save at greatest need." As for the estimation of tea on the go, well. "Then when we meet next, only bring the teas, fresh water, and a pot. I will provide the fire and the cups." One did not actually make a very good apprentice unless one knew how to serve their master. "I have not. Though I spent many years at the Academy in Four Corners, they did not know such things. And I am still in the very infancy of my studies with the sorcerers of the Legion." There is more than obvious interest in her expression, "I would be glad to learn what you know, and to help you as I may with what you need. I will certainly look at your axe and make the attempt."
"I studied at the academy." Ludovic tells her. "After that fire sorcerer turned up in a battle during the west war and Altair beat him through his own gifts it just seemed.. prudent. Besides my father thought it might help." he shrugs. "I think it did. Although not really at helping me use it." He smiles at her. So. I learned this when I tried to attack Teleko and he took my magic, turned it back around, and then slammed me in the chest with it. I mean I dunno if that's exactly how it worked but well, that's what it felt like, and when he attacked me later I tried doing the same thing and had some level of success. So I cant say it will work exactly because, like you'd imagine, I've not had any other experience actually fighting with magic. That's why I thought I'd ask you." He gives her an hopeful smile. "I think I gotta actually aim it at you for it to work though and you the same. So I'm kinda worried we might hurt each other."
"I think most of the years I spent at the Academy were really about learning how to hide my gift and to preserve my safety. They lacked access to proper training, and what we did learn outside of that seemed purely my happenstance. But I do not begrudge the years I spent there." Though it was more that likely that the two had met there, such dealings were always clandestine, and even when it were possible to identify someone afterwards, etiquette dictated that such secrets were kept. "I have never encountered another magic user, much less a vampire who also wields magic. That you survived, I have no doubt, is a testament to your strength and will." Alia listened, silently, as he made his proposal and then nodded, stepping back to remove the crossbody bag she always carried with her, "I have such healing supplies as might help us, if we do injure each other. I would rather make the attempt than not at all." As with most sorcerous things, they were usually a trial by fire.
"What can you do when everything that might have helped had been burned?" Ludovic asks her seriously. "And that's even assuming that those burned books help anything useful in the first place. Given what we had to work with, I think it helped a lot." he nods. "But you are right that it was almost all about hiding though. Saying that.. until you can learn not to destroy a building should you really be learning how to?" He nods at that. "Outside the academy i've met a few. I've known someone who wields lightning, someone who wields ice, someone who could crush rocks with their bare hands and Altair, you and Darius of course."
At the flattery he gives her an appreciative smile but doesn't go into it more. "Its different when you attack someone indirectly." he says. "Least I have always felt it is." he waves her towards the field. "I'm going to use this attack." he stops, furrows his brow and makes three spikes erupt from the ground between them. "But obviously I'm gonna try and make it less dramatic. Since impaling you would be bad. Maybe try to set me on fire? If I throw a rock at you or you throw a ball of fire at me. Its not quite the same."
"You go looking for other avenues of learning, if you are no so terrified of losing your life to take the chance." Which was, in a very real sense, what Alia had done when she chose to join the Vir Sidus Empire. The cost of her service was, obviously, one she had been willing to pay. There was no judgment, however, as she moves to step away from Ludovic, moving to a fair distance so that they had room to square off at each other. "I will see what occurs to me." There was actually humour in her voice, as she paused long enough to set down the bag out od attack range, as it were, before she settled into position. "Very well, then Viscount," and now, there was humour in her voice, "Let me see what you can do."
Ludovic nods and takes several steps away from her. "Sorry I can't think of anything that will hurt less if we mess up. It's kinda like training someone how to dodge by shooting arrows at them. Lets limit it to half an hour today? We don't wanna risk getting sloppy. Besides. We'll probably both be suffering shock from the efforts by then" He gives her a quick grin. "Oh. I brought a whole pot of stew. So. Ready?" He waits for confirmation and then gestures for her to make the first attack, struggling to sense the moment she grabs the Fire so that he can respond before he gets burnt for his trouble.
Sometimes it works. Mostly it doesn't.
Alia…did nothing. She simply stood, staring at the man across from her, her opponent, for the time being, though, in a way, though they two were not at war, it seemed that someone looking in from the outside that they stood in place of their kingdoms, Aequor versus Vir Sidus. And then, in an area about two feet in circumference around Alia's feet, the grass began to crisp and brown, a swath of scorching spreading out from where she stood, widening around her to about five feet in either direction, before it began to drive towards Ludovic, as if some creature, called up from within the earth seemed intent on reaching him. There was a softening, a shimmering in the air above the ground as the destruction moved in his direction, a…softening, of the bedrock that lay between them.
"Nice move." Ludovic moves away from the heated air and ground. "But that wasn't how I meant." He frowns at the hot spot. "I gotta be missing something. I don't get why everyone elses elements seem more able to do stuff with stone than me." A glance up at her. "What do you think I should do to counter that? I mean all I can think of is to build a wall between us."
Alia considered, the ground beneath her still green and unburned, though it too, was beginning to crisp around the edges, "I do not know, Ludovic, I have not encountered many stone sorcerers. My thought, in my attack, was too make the stone too soft for you to be able to form it into spikes." She looked down at where she stood. "But I am now in a sea of soft stone, on stable ground that you can still move. If you shift the ground beneath me quickly enough, I would most likely end up falling to the burnt earth, and the heat would certainly not be something that I could protect myself from." Because fire, once it left her body, was just, well, fire.
Ludovic rubs at his hair for a moment. "Ah. So you didn't understand. I wasn't talking about setting up defenses. I meant that when someone is actually attacking you, directly, with magic you can feel it and kinda use your own power against that force. Like if someone tried to freeze you then you could turn it about on them." He shakes his head. "Hard to explain I suppose. That's why I wanted you to actually attack me. So I could try and do it so you'd feel it." He looks to the area of burnt grass and earth and then back to her. "The idea of softening the ground doesn't stop me though." He licks at his bottom lip, nods to himself and then grabs the earth with his gift and forms a ridge up in the area between them both that's almost a foot high. "Honestly its easier. I guess hot rock is still rock."
"I was not attempting to set up a defense. I was testing whether or not my changing the softness or hardness of the ground would make it more or less difficult for you to use your own magic to manipulate it." Alia did not seem put off by the instruction, she simply responded to it, "In the same way that you might feign an attack to learn something more about your opponent, before you move in to press your own initial attack when you do not know your opponent's strengths and weaknesses." The earth mound that rose up before her was daunting, but Alia simply lifted her hands, flicking her wrists to catch the deadwood in the trees that had begun to appear, as fall began to settle on the land. Unlike Ludovic, she had to have the element around her to use, if she wished to be efficient. She could summon it from herself, as she had done, but it was taxing. The few flames that sprung up on the branches seemed to detach themselves from their source, darts and licks of flame darting in to attempt to shower down on him.
Ludovic needs the element around him even more so than she does given that he cant, as far as he knows, create the element. Then again he did chose to have this particular challenge on his mountain where there is more than enough rock for anyone. "Honestly I'm impressed." he admits. "I didn't know you could do that." He doesn't even seem to notice that extra fire until it's practically on top of him and at that point he grunts, reaches out for it and.. realises he has no traction on air, plant and fire. "Damn it." He growls as he bats an ember out of his beard. "I'm terrible at this." He scowls at the air for a moment then looks directly at her, narrows his eyes and makes a sweeping gesture with his hand. "Remember. Idea is to retaliate through my attack." His attack is almost subtle. There is merely the surge of his magic and then the ground beneath her starts to pull away. It seems he's changed his mind about the spikes and instead plans to simply have her fall into a knee-deep hole.
"It was Darius who gave me the idea," Alia offered, as she gathered more of the flames from the trees, the heat of them crisping even the still mostly green leaves. "When we were in the keep, he took the heat of flame that was inside of his body and channeled it into the wood to destroy the door between our forces and the Qatunax that were within." Alia felt the shift beneath her feet and the flames darted down from the trees, growing into balls that seemed intent on falling around his feet, in the hopes, perhaps of making it too hot to stand where he was. "Not terrible. Our elements simply are not ones which, I think, oppose each other well. They are too complimentary." She had no defense against the hole, of course, save to attempt to jump out of the quickly crumbling ground, even if it meant that she had to dart or land on the ground that was still superheated by her sorcery.
Ludovic gives a terse nod. "Maybe." He stops pulling the earth away as she moves to escape "I get the feeling that the best thing I can do to another sorcerer is just bury them. Let me try something? You'll have to stay put for a moment. I've not practiced doing this so its not going to be fast enough to actually trap you. We'll have to work out if it even can be that fast. And other than doing the same thing for myself I cant think of any way to protect myself." He sighs. "No that wouldnt work neither. You'd just bake me. I've no immunity to heat."
Alia did manage to get mostly clear of the heat, though there was, at least in her vicinity the smell of scorching hair as her arms took some of the brunt of the heat, before she came up to her feet on a clear patch of ground. "This is only practice. Do what you intend to do, and then see how quickly you can do it on subsequent attempts." She did not raise her hands to rub her arms, that would only make the burns worse. The flames fell, as her hands directed them, harmlessly away from Ludovic. "Nor I to stone."
"Stay still then." Ludovic takes a step to the side and then starts slowly circling her. As he does so he uses his sorcery to coax the stone beneath her into flowing out from under her and up to the sides, building walls even as the ground falls. In the end she's just stood there in a tube of solid stone a good six foot high. "That." He says from somewhere just outside the area. "Took a lot of effort. But. I'm betting your pretty much harmless right?"
Alia watched with intense curiosity, as the earth moved around her, rose high enough that she could see nothing, save for the sky directly above her head. At Ludovic's question, she nodded, despite the fact that he would not be able to see her. he was taller than the wall, but she was far shorter, "Yes. I cannot see you to call fire responsibly, and if I try to do anything within the stone, if I were to try to help it, I would roast myself before I managed it, I suspect. And the earth is too smooth for me to get a handhold to try to climb out. And you could simply throw rocks at my head as I emerged besides."
More than that Alia's now at least partly underground. Ludovic moves over and grins at her. "Well." he points out. "Ther'es nothing to stop me putting a roof on it. Cept the fact I don't want you to die." he offers her a hand. "I don't know about you but i'm hungry now. Besides there's still the axe I wanted you to work with."
There was something almost humourous, in the scene, as Alia offered both hands, so that Ludovic could lift her out of the hole she was in like a child being lifted out of a very odd crib, feet scrambling for purchase so that she could climb out and be handed down after. "Well, it might be a solution to consider. And you could probably practice on objects you place on the ground, to improve your speed and control." She offered a smile, as she was set back on her feet, "Something to eat would be wonderful."
"Don't think that's going to be much of an option." Ludovic tells her. "Unless someones holding them down. Suppose you could grab another fire sorcerer and then I could bury you both. Not much of an option." he admits. "But better than leaving them to torch half the army." He moves over to where he's got a campfire set up and takes some embers out of a small box to quickly restart the fire. "There's a bowl just to your right." He offers as she sits down, most of his attention already on pouring out a couple of cups of watered down wine. The cup is offered to her. "This axe was made by some combination of earth and fire magic as far as I've been able to work out. I'd like to work with you to try and recreate something like it. I thought maybe we could try and make you a copy of that." he gestures at her sword. "I was told a sword like that can be cast so I want to try casting it out of this rock I've found works. Its not the same stuff that this axe is made out of but its good and sharp. Bit light but there's not much I can do about that. Try as I might I've not been able to work with metal."
Alia was thoughtful, as she moved to retrieve her pack, carrying that over to the momentarily dead campfire, "If you did it in two runs, I suppose. But not if your aim, on the first attack was to raise the earth and cover them over with it, to encase them with it." She offered a grateful smile, as she saw him light the fire the old fasshioned way. She was too close to being at the end pf her rope to manage anything else or more. "And the objects would simply be placeholders for the enemy, to see how quickly you could form the prison." Alia retrieved the bowl, though once she reached over to retrieve it, she took the second as well, setting it one into the other, so that she could handle the serving of the stew, while he managed the wine. "I would be happy to make the attempt. As I said before, I think earth and fire are quit complementary elements. "Though…a sword for me? Should we not make something for you?"
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"I've been making a hammer for myself." Ludovic tells her. "But I can't give it to you unless I want to go unarmed - and if i just buy myself a new hammer then I might as well just get another made from lightsilver." He turns to the bundles at the back of the part log he's sat on and pulls out a czekan style warhammer - which is to say a warhammer with a long enough handle to be used on horseback with a head that is a hammer on one side with a curved, bladed 'axe' on the other - which is made from something that is technically black but has lots of brown and golden undertones, much like coffee, hidden within its glassy finish. "Here." he offers it over to her with both hands. "I did the same thing I just said. I had a smith help me with a mold. Then I used that to help me shape it. Took a long time and I'm still not entirely confident it will stand up to the normal sort of punishment. But I know it wont just shatter. It's not glass. Its." Again he goes back to his bundles but this time he picks out a chunk of dark stone and offers it to her. Whilst the axe is transparent the stone itself is a solid black although there is a nice sheen to it. "This is what I made it from."
The Qatunax axe he lifts from his belt and offers it to her too. "This is the axe that the Qatunax made. It's glass I think. Glass with fire magic in it somehow."
Alia seemed, at Ludovic's words, entirely confused, "Why would I need another weapon than this? I have no skill at wielding two swords at once. And Darius has given me the use of this one until he can have one made for me for my own. I was under the impression that the weapon we were going to be working on would be one for your use." She did set down the bowls, and the cup of wine, as she took the axe into her hands, turning it over to study the construction, setting it on her knee before she took the rock he offered her, "I am not familiar with this stone." Gems and minerals were not truly her specialty, though there were some that were used in alchemy. "But it is beautifully done." The rock too was set aside, as she took the glass axe, "Glass is melted sand. Perhaps they used the fire to melt it so that it could be crafted."
"Well." Ludovic says. "I figure that if you manage to do it. Then you'll want to keep it. So it might as well be something you can used as opposed to some random dagger or something that we use as a practice piece." He reaches to stir the stew reheating on the new fire. "I don't know if it will be any good as an actual sword unless you can 'put fire in it' since you cant, well, the reason I want it is that I can try and do some tricks like what Darius proved is possible but I cant work with metal so I needed to work out how to do it with stone."
He gives her an amused smile at the comment about the piece of stone he gave her. "it's just tin ore. I just found I could get a really nice edge off it and its not as light as the other ones I tried. It's still not as heavy as I'd like though."
"Volcanic glass." Ludovic tells her. "And I don't think it was melted into that shape. Working glass is easy."
"Besides if you feel it." Ludovic says. "With your magic. You'll be able to feel that there's two magics in it."
"You are wrong in that. Just because I managed to do something, does not mean that I would then want to have it for myself. What would be the point of that? That seems entirely selfish to me. And you forget that I am an alchemist. I have spent my life making things that are for other people to use. I do not have any particular attachment to my work, save pride in when that works is done well. "Volcanic glass I have seen before, though not in this form. But you said that you could shape rocks with your magic, making stone kittens, I think you said. I imagine that a sorcerer with enough skill could take base obsidian and reshape it to their desires. Especially such glass as has been made from fire."
"I see." Ludovic says. "I just assumed you'd want the best weapon you could make yourself but we can try with a dagger first if you want? I'm kind of assuming that we both have to do whatever is being done at the same time so its probably a good idea. Just.. that axe, the Qatunax one, it cuts at least as well as sidhe steel. Might not do anything else as well but." He gives her a quick grin. "You gotta admit its better than stone kittens." He holds his hand out. "Want me to make you something?"
Alia smiled, a softness there, as she considered, "I am not a warrior, as you are, Ludovic. I have no attachment to weapons either, or desire to craft what I use. This sword serves me well, and I feel some affection for it, because it was gifted to me by Darius, and was both a thoughtful, and a kingly gift, but if it were taken from me tomorrow, I would simply find another if I could." Alia set aside both the glass axe and the stone, retrieving the chunk of tin and handing it over. "I will help you. And…I would not know if it were better than a stone kitten. You have never made me one."
"I'm not exactly a sculptor." Ludovic turns the stone over in his hands as he talks before simply pulling it in half and dropping half down besides his booted foot. "I was practicing making shards for weapons. I'd break a piece up into sharp pieces and then try and throw them all at a target but i'd spent so long just hiding and trying not to be a sorcerer that when I needed to do it it took me forever. So I would go into the caves and make them from the stalagmites. Then I took Imogen down there to show her the lake and I made her a horse. Looked more like a lame goat but well it was the start. I'm a lot better now." he offers her a little horse made of the same coffee coloured gem-like material as the axe. "But i'm still not much of an artist. Its a good thing I can just copy stuff."
Alia watched Ludovic working with the stone, clearly impressed, despite the fact that he was downplaying the significance of what he was doing. She accepted the horse with obvious delight, lifting it to her eye to study the planes and lines of its body. But something in the act of watching him work seemed to catch her attention, and she set the horse aside, retrieving the bit of rock he had cast off, offering to him, "I would like to try making something together. You will craft the stone, and I will try to help you."
"Sure." Ludovic offers her his hands. "Just tell me what I'm supposed to do."
Alia laughs softly, as she sets the stone remnant in his hands, "In truth, I do not even know what I am supposed to do. Work the stone and I will try to focus on it and channel my magic into it, but only a little. I do not want to hurt you." So only a small thing, a trickle of will, she could try that, and hope for the best. "But if it feels warm, or dangerous, drop it."
Ludovic looks at her and then back at the piece of stone. Huh. Well.. "I'll try and make a rock shard then." This time he shapes it as slow as he can manage, which means it takes a couple of seconds, and choses to shape it into a simple spike or elongated pyramid. He withdraws his hands when he's done so that she is left holding it. "There?"
Ludovic would have been able to feel it, that trickle of her power, that heat that warmed the stone, as though some beast lay within it, blood warm and shivering with potential. Alia did not remove her hands from his, only sitting quietly, all of her attention focusing on making the fire go where she wished it, and not doing Ludovic harm. When they were finished, he would feel her magic retreating, curling back into her. And more than that, he would feel her baking, heat rising off of her in a wave, as she battled for control, "It's beautiful." And it was, for all its simplicity. "Perhaps this will be the spoke that repays the vampire for the injury he did you."
Ludovic probes at the new object, curious what if anything changed. He looks to her then. "I'm not much motivated by revenge. I'd like to take that creature down but when it happens it wont be just me that does it" He offers her the spike and then turns to his bowl and leans to ladle out some stew before gesturing her her to help herself and making himself more comfortable. "Whilst we are resting. Why don't I tell you a story about the bandit we called Redcap"
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2016 Ford GT: Old Classics Give Way to New Generation
By David Lisbonne|January 27, 2015
A new pattern in the automotive industry has been appearing: beginning in 2012, the trend of making newly designed classic cars was founded by Chevrolet when the company announced that it would remake the classic Corvette Stingray, a model originally discontinued in 1967. On Monday, January 12, Acura announced at the North American International Auto Show that they will remake the classic NSX and it will be ready for purchase in 2016, while Ford unveiled the designs for the 2016 Ford GT.
More than recent efforts by Acura and Chevy, Ford's new remake of the iconic GT40 carries the most historical prestige. The original Ford GT40 was made as a lightweight, endurance racing car for the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race in France. It was the underdog, as the car was American and competed against agile Italian and British cars. Despite the underdog status, the Ford GT won the race four years in a row, from 1966 to 1969.
Ford's announcement of the 2016 GT also included the fact that the new 2016 model will participate in the 24-hour Le Mans endurance race in the year of its production.
As published by the Dupont Registry Blog, the remake and participation in Le Mans is "a return we have all been waiting for."
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Keith Miles, né le  à Cardiff au pays de Galles, est un romancier britannique, auteur de romans policiers.

Biographie
Keith Miles fait ses études dans le sud du pays de Galles puis obtient un diplôme en histoire moderne de l'université d'Oxford.

Il est scénariste pour plusieurs séries télévisées britanniques comme Crossroads, Z-Cars ou Cosmos 1999.

En 1986, il publie son premier roman, Bullet Hole, premier volume d'une série mettant en scène Alan Saxon, un détective professionnel devenu golfeur amateur.

En 1988, avec La Tête de la reine (The Queen's Head), il débute une série se déroulant pendant l'ère élisabéthaine dans le monde théâtral de Londres. Pour cette série, il utilise le pseudonyme Edward Marston, en référence au  dramaturge élisabéthain, John Marston. Le héros de cette série est Nicholas Bracewell, régisseur du théâtre. Avec le septième roman de cette série, Le Mauvais Génie (The Roaring Boy), il est nommé pour le prix Edgar-Allan-Poe 1996 du meilleur roman.

Une autre série commence en 1993 avec The Wolves of Savernake se situe sous le règne de Guillaume le Conquérant; avec deux personnages principaux, arpenteurs du Domesday Book, Ralph Delchard, un soldat normand, et Gervase Bret, un ancien novice devenu avocat, à moitié saxon et à moitié breton.

Avec The King's Evil, il entame une autre série en 1999 mettant en scène l'architecte détective Christopher Redmayne et l'agent puritain Jonathan Bale.

En 2004, il crée deux autres personnages, l'inspecteur Robert Colbeck et le sergent Victor Leeming. Cette nouvelle série se déroule au milieu du 19e siècle dans le contexte de "l'âge du chemin de fer". Colbeck est un ancien avocat fasciné par les chemins de fer et épouse la fille d'un cheminot. Leeming, en revanche, déteste les voyages en train et aspire de revenir aux jours de transport à cheval.

Keith Miles a utilisé quatre autres pseudonymes: Martin Inigo, Conrad Allen, David Garland et Christopher Mountjoy.

Il est président de la Crime Writers' Association en 1997 et 1998.

Il fut marié à Rosalind Miles et l'est ensuite avec une autre écrivaine de roman policier, Judith Cutler.

Œuvre

Romans signés Keith Miles

Série Alan Saxon
 Bullet Hole (1986)
 Double Eagle (1987)
 Green Murder (1990)
 Flagstick (1991)
 Bermuda Grass (2002)
 Honolulu Play Off (2004)

Série Merlin Richards
 Murder in Perspective (1997)
 Saint's Rest (1999)

Romans signés Edward Marston

Série Nicholas Bracewell
 The Queen's Head (1988)
 La Tête de la reine, 10-18   (1999)
 The Merry Devils (1989)
 Les Joyeux Démons, 10-18   (2000)
 The Trip to Jerusalem (1990)
 La Route de Jérusalem, 10-18   (2001)
 The Nine Giants (1991)
 Les Neuf Géants, 10-18   (2001)
 The Mad Courtesan (1992)
 La Folle Courtisane, 10-18   (2002)
 The Silent Woman (1992)
  La Femme silencieuse, 10-18   (2002)
 The Roaring Boy (1995)
 Le Mauvais Génie, 10-18   (2003)
 The Laughing Hangman (1996)
 Le Rire du bourreau, 10-18   (2004)
 The Fair Maid of Bohemia (1997)
 La Belle de Bohème, 10-18   (2006)
 The Wanton Angel (1999)
 The Devil's Apprentice (2001)
 The Bawdy Basket (2002)
 The Vagabond Clown (2003)
 The Counterfeit Crank (2004)
 The Malevolent Comedy (2005)
 The Princess of Denmark (2006)

Série Ralph Delchard et Gervase Bret
 The Wolves of Savernake (1993)
 The Ravens of Blackwater (1994)
 The Dragons of Archenfield (1995)
 The Lions of the North (1996)
 The Serpents of Harbledown (1996)
 The Stallions of Woodstock (1997)
 The Hawks of Delamere (1998)
 The Wildcats of Exeter (1998)
 The Foxes of Warwick (1999)
 The Owls of Gloucester (2000)
 The Elephants of Norwich (2000)

Série Christopher Redmayne et Jonathan Bale
 The King's Evil (1999)
 The Amorous Nightingale (2000)
 The Repentant Rake (2001)
 The Frost Fair (2003)
 The Parliament House (2006)
 The Painted Lady (2007)

Série Robert Colbeck
 The Railway Detective (2004)
 The Excursion Train (2005)
 The Railway Viaduct (2006)
 The Iron Horse (2007)
 Murder on the Brighton Express (2008)
 The Silver Locomotive Mystery (2009)
 Railway to the Grave (2010)
 Blood on the Line (2011)
 The Stationmaster's Farewell (2012)
 Peril on the Royal Train (2013)
 A Ticket to Oblivion (2014)
 Timetable of Death (2015)
 Signal for Vengeance (2016)
 The Circus Train Conspiracy (2017)
 A Christmas Railway Mystery (2017)
 Points of Danger (2018)
 Fear on the Phantom Special (2019)
 Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel (2021)

Série Daniel Rawson
 Soldier of Fortune (2008)
 Drums of War (2008)
 Fire and Sword (2009)
 Under Siege (2010)
 A Very Murdering Battle (2011)

Série Harvey Marmion et Joe Keedy
 A Bespoke Murder (2011)
 An Instrument of Slaughter (2012)
 Five Dead Canaries (2013)
 Deeds of Darkness (2014)
 Dance of Death (2015)
 The Enemy Within (2016)
 Under Attack (2017)

Série Peter et Paul Skillen
 Shadow of the Hangman (2015)
 Steps to the Gallows (2016)
 Date with the Executioner (2017)
 Fugitive from the Grave (2018)

Romans signés Conrad Allen

Série George Porter Dillman
 Murder on the Lusitania (1999)
 Murder on the Mauretania (2000)
 Murder on the Minnesota (2002)
 Murder on the Caronia (2003)
 Murder on the Marmora (2004)
 Murder on the Salsette (2005)
 Murder on the Oceanic (2006)
 Murder on the Celtic (2007)

Recueils de nouvelles signés Edward Marston

Série Robert Colbeck
 Inspector Colbeck's Casebook: Thirteen Tales from the Railway Detective (2014)

Autre recueil de nouvelles
 Murder, Ancient and Modern (2005)

Filmographie

Scénarios
 1967 - 1980 : 2 épisodes de la série télévisée britannique Crossroads
 1970 : 2 épisodes de la série télévisée britannique policière Z-Cars
 1970 : 2 épisodes de la série télévisée britannique de science-fiction
 1970 - 1971 : 10 épisodes de la série télévisée britannique pour la jeunesse
 1974 : 3 épisodes de la série télévisée britannique Rogue's Rock
 1976 : 1 épisode de la série télévisée britannique de science-fiction Cosmos 1999

Prix et distinctions

Nomination
 Prix Edgar-Allan-Poe 1996 du meilleur roman pour The Roaring Boy

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Site de Edward Marston
 Bibliographie
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Naissance à Cardiff
Naissance en mai 1940
Écrivain gallois du XXe siècle
Écrivain gallois du XXIe siècle
Romancier britannique du XXe siècle
Romancier britannique du XXIe siècle
Auteur britannique de roman policier
Scénariste britannique de télévision
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Every year I take part in Four in February. It's a month-long event meant to help people focus on, and hopefully finish, a tiny chunk of their backlog by choosing at least four games and getting through as many of them as possible by the end of February.
These are all pretty old games, but there will be spoilers below!
This was the Collector's Edition on Wii. I had already beaten all three games separately, but when this came out I wanted to play them all again. However, due to my life situation at the time I was never able to get through all three games. I tried several times over the past eight years, but each time I would only be able to finish Prime and for whatever reason stop in the middle of Torvus Bog in Echoes. Now my life is significantly improved, and this year I was able to finish all three games and can finally remove the disc from my "Unfinished" shelf. I enjoyed all three games, and they were mostly how I remembered them from my original playthroughs: Prime is still perfect, Echoes is still too slow, and Corruption is still too fast.
I don't hate FFXIII. I originally played it together with my best friend when it first came out, and if there were any flaws we were able to laugh at them and struggle through them together. That is, until we got to Vanille's eidolon battle. We alternated attempts to capture it, but eventually gave up. We tried a few years later just for fun, but still got nowhere.
I decided to play the whole game again when I found it on sale on Steam. I was playing solo this time, but I was still able to enjoy it by streaming it for my best friend and having the same commentary as before. I eventually got to the same point we had stopped years ago. It was just as frustrating, but I did eventually break through. Unfortunately, almost everything since that point was even more frustrating. I can see why some amigos hated FFXIII. The game took a huge difficulty spike. I would get through all of the enemies easily, but get stuck on every boss for hours. In the end I got stuck on yet another frustrating boss. But I don't hate FFXIII. Except Hope.
I played through Final Fantasy X last year and loved it. After I finished I immediately started up X-2 and all my excitement completely tanked. I had no idea what was happening or why. Everything was so different and nothing like what I expected would happen in two game years. I set it aside and tried to forget about it. I decided to give it another chance only so I could finish it. It slowly got slightly better as I played, but I can't say I enjoyed it. I will finish it as soon as I can though.
I switched out of Legend of Legacy because I just wasn't feeling it. I also wanted a game that I could breeze through and enjoy during my lunch breaks. This is the only Pokémon game I hadn't finished, also due to life situation awfulness at the time it came out. I had originally played through to the legendary pokémon, then restarted, then only got to the second badge and never got around to finishing it. I probably didn't enjoy it as much as I could have since I was semi-rushing through it and also had already played Moon, but I'm glad I was finally to experience the whole game.
On one hand, I knew it was silly trying to fit four pretty lengthy games into one month. On the other, I really thought I could since I was decently far along in all of them, and I even made it through most of each game. Either way, I still made progress on my backlog!
Normally I would also participate in More in March, which is the same idea for an extra month, but Breath of the Wild was finally released and I'm already playing it non-stop. If I somehow get tired of it, then I'll try to finish up the last bits from my two failed games.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Sailor Zebes also does Four in February. Hopefully more people join us next year!


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Thermocouple error correction for measuring the flame temperature with determination of emissivity and heat transfer coefficient.
V Hindasageri, R P Vedula, S V Prabhu
Department of Mechanical Engineering, I.I.T., Bombay, India.
The Review of scientific instruments 2013 Feb
transfer coefficient (3)
Temperature measurement by thermocouples is prone to errors due to conduction and radiation losses and therefore has to be corrected for precise measurement. The temperature dependent emissivity of the thermocouple wires is measured by the use of thermal infrared camera. The measured emissivities are found to be 20%-40% lower than the theoretical values predicted from theory of electromagnetism. A transient technique is employed for finding the heat transfer coefficients for the lead wire and the bead of the thermocouple. This method does not require the data of thermal properties and velocity of the burnt gases. The heat transfer coefficients obtained from the present method have an average deviation of 20% from the available heat transfer correlations in literature for non-reacting convective flow over cylinders and spheres. The parametric study of thermocouple error using the numerical code confirmed the existence of a minimum wire length beyond which the conduction loss is a constant minimal. Temperature of premixed methane-air flames stabilised on 16 mm diameter tube burner is measured by three B-type thermocouples of wire diameters: 0.15 mm, 0.30 mm, and 0.60 mm. The measurements are made at three distances from the burner tip (thermocouple tip to burner tip/burner diameter = 2, 4, and 6) at an equivalence ratio of 1 for the tube Reynolds number varying from 1000 to 2200. These measured flame temperatures are corrected by the present numerical procedure, the multi-element method, and the extrapolation method. The flame temperatures estimated by the two-element method and extrapolation method deviate from numerical results within 2.5% and 4%, respectively.
V Hindasageri, R P Vedula, S V Prabhu. Thermocouple error correction for measuring the flame temperature with determination of emissivity and heat transfer coefficient. The Review of scientific instruments. 2013 Feb;84(2):024902


What is a healthy school community?
I was born in Edinburgh, raised in New Zealand and settled in Canada. My work experience began as a personnel officer in industry.
As there was not a rosy future for a woman in industry, I decided to use my teacher training (Geography, Social Studies, English) in New Zealand then Edinburgh. I next worked in London as an Education Welfare Officer.
My first permanent teaching position in Canada included Social Studies, P.E., English, Interpersonal Communication Skills and finally in Student Services as a Counsellor/Department Head in Victoria.
I took a two-year sabbatical in 1993 and taught in the Brunei government water village school (Sekolah Menengah Awang Semaun). My two children attended an international school.
Growing up with 5 younger brothers and as a parent, I have had plenty of life experiences. One of my brothers was bi-polar. My first daughter died. My second daughter has a "diversability." She tells me this is the new term. My daughter lives independently, works part-time and is on the British Columbia Board for Self Advocates.
My son has a Bachelor of Science from New Zealand, played rugby for Canada and is presently working on a start-up app.
There is a tendency in schools to be reactive, have a patchwork of approaches and to parachute in an "expert" or a "special program" to fix things.
Such a focus on piecemeal and ad hoc initiatives for addressing barriers to learning, development and teaching (e.g. drug/alcohol use, sexuality, suicide prevention, bullying prevention, mental health) doesn't change anything and can make matters worse.
This gives an illusion of treatment. A planned, integrated strategy with coordinated services is necessary to produce better health and education outcomes. Strong, consistent connections and united themes do make a difference.
To be able to cope, students need to develop meaningful relationships in their school community. Social-emotional factors affect learning so school should be a protective force in students' lives. The school culture, classroom climate and peer relationships are critical to the whole.
In 1979 I attended a workshop that introduced a Wellness Wheel Model that could be incorporated into health education. Finally there was something that made sense and could be adopted by a school community.
Over a number of years, I built curriculum around the Wheel centerpiece, in-serviced staff at my school and staff in the neighbouring elementary schools, gave workshops at the district and provincial level and to community partners. I believed that a whole school approach to health would make a difference. This was a challenge. A paradigm shift takes a long time to implement.
Colleagues requested materials so I began to develop the "Wellness: A Question of Balance" curriculum package. I have spent 30 years designing, testing and revising the curriculum. The result was a comprehensive school health approach supported by solid curriculum.
How to make a difference–what works!
My instinct on how to make a difference in a school community in the promotion of health and wellness was supported by the Comprehensive School Health framework. I started to use this approach in the 1980s and to provide in-service.
I dovetailed in the "Wellness: A Question of Balance" materials to implement health promotion principles. Such a process requires educators and their partners to constantly address health matters to enhance the health and well being of the school community as one that "constantly strengthens its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working" (WHO). The big picture also involved the need to ease and support students' transition to high school.
After trial and error, I designed a program that would address this challenge for students and parents and would introduce the Wellness Wheel concept as integral to the process.
less likelihood to drop out of school.
Research supports the need for addressing transitions, the importance of home and school connection, and that student engagement is all about relationships to someone or something.
There is significant experiential evidence from a wide range of sources that describes the successful use of the Transition Guides and the "Wellness: A Question of Balance" Resource.
Recently I had contact with two colleagues from my past. Jim and Zoe reminded me of the Wellness Wheel Model and related activities from the in-service I had presented on health and wellness. They illustrated changes made and maintained in their health management over time. That is what one can hope for.
Field Guide/Practicum Supervisor – Supervision provided for students from the University of Victoria schools of Social Work, Child and Youth Care, Nursing, Psychology, Education and Counselling.
Masters swimming (medalist at World Masters Games), travel, friends, writing, art.
"It is a wonderful assessment tool".
Thank you for sending your recent updates of your action and research plans. I am glad to see the results are being used.
I found the results of the Asset Checklist to be very interesting. It doesn't surprise me that most adolescents feel loved and supported by their family. That goes along with other research findings – and is good news.
I think I can see the real value in the Asset Checklist (ref: "Teens and Transition: A Parent Guide"). Good work.
For more information on these resources, please contact us.
"Finally we have a framework into which all our work fits like a glove! The Wellness Resource has provided both philosophical and practical threads that logically and creatively tie together the many varied themes we develop in our program."
"As a First Nations Counselor I have adopted the Wellness Wheel Model to address the diverse needs of my students. It encompasses all aspects of life and is not specific to any one culture or society. I not only encourage the students to use the Model, I use it in my own life as well."
"The Model speaks to young people about taking responsibility for their own health and well-being. The Wheel metaphor is practical and easily understood by any age and could be adapted to a wide range of learning styles. The student-friendly ideas can easily be integrated into curriculum and extra-curricular health promoting lessons and activities. It builds on all of the principles of health promotion."


Jaywon and one of his followers have dragged each other on Twitter after the singer declared support for Beverly Osu's controversial nun photo.
Jaywon said he sees nothing wrong with Beverly wearing a Catholic religious habit while smoking. In reply, the follower told him the reason why he sees nothing wrong in it is that he has a low IQ and that also explains why his music career wasn't successful.
Jaywon slammed him back and the follower replied in kind.
See the Twitter squabble below.


Quizfreak - Can You Complete The Names Of 12 Famous Comedy Duos?
Can You Complete The Names Of 12 Famous Comedy Duos?
These comedy duos have given us a good chuckle or two over the years, but how well do you remember them? Take this quiz and fill in the blanks!


The Tri-State family is growing! - Tri-State Marketing Associates, Inc.
The Tri-State family is growing!
So far, 2016 has been a big year for us. Along with our first ever Symposium, we welcomed two new team members!


2 Days till the Diana Stickpin drawing! – Snappy Tatter-land!
It's coming fast! Diana will soon be on her way to her new home. She is very excited fluttering around my studio over here! The contest ends at noon on this coming Friday so there is still time to get your entry in. And for those of you who have already entered you can like this post, leave a comment, like this on Facebook and/or retweet this post and you will be entered each additional time you shout it out! The official entry RULES.
Welcome to Mary Ann M., Brian S., Tara R., Sandi B., and Hannah M.! You have all been entered at least once in my Give-away! Good luck! The winner will be announced Friday evening.
And it's 9 days till I go on vacation to the Bahamas! In the meantime, everyone can enjoy Free Domestic and International shipping in my online shop, Snappy Tatter! Use the code SNAPPYSHIPPING at checkout to reduce the shipping.
My shop will be on vacation from the 17th to the 26th and from the 30th to April 2nd. When I return I will be preparing for an Arts Festival at the end of May.
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Israel's Ambassador to Britain Talks about Judaism, Israeli Society, and Diplomacy
Aug. 30 2021
After the U.S., the Jewish state's closest collaborator in matters of security and intelligence-sharing is the United Kingdom—which is also its third-largest trading partner. Thus the position of ambassador to the court of Saint James is an important one. It has since August of last year been held by Tzipi Hotovely, the child of immigrants from Soviet Georgia and a devout Jew, who previously served for eleven years as a Knesset member for the Likud party. In a wide-ranging conversation with Eli Spitzer, Hotovely discusses Anglo-Jewish relations, the future of the ḥaredi community in Israel, the British media, a virtual audience with Queen Elizabeth, and the ways Israeli politics really do end at the water's edge. (Audio, 45 minutes.)
Read more at Eli Spitzer Podcast
More about: British Jewry, Haredim, Israel diplomacy, United Kingdom
Why, Despite Good Intentions, Ken Burns's "The U.S. and the Holocaust" Fails


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Bloodshot Eyes, Red Rashes: What Zika Virus Infection Looks Like
Amit Garg, MD / Department of Dermatology, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
As mosquito season starts in the U.S., local outbreaks are possible in areas where Aedes aegypti mosquitoes circulate and a team of New York doctors who treated a Zika patient said they want doctors around the country to know what they look like so they can be on the lookout, NBC News reported.
In a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Dermatology, doctors said a 44-year-old patient infected with Zika started with a headache. Within days, a red rash started forming on his hands, arms and spread to his body. By the third day, the rash had moved all the way down his body and his feet were on fire.
"The patient also noted that his eyes appeared 'bloodshot.' As the eruption faded on the upper body, it became more apparent on the lower body," they wrote.


CityCo and Manchester BID have a new location on the corner of Albert Square and our new building offers a range of impressive spaces to host your corporate events.
We can cater for a range of meetings from 2 – 80. Whether it's for a small conference, seminar or training session, pitch or presentation, celebration or away-day, bring your colleagues to a heritage venue in the heart of Manchester.
The spaces are on the top floor of Lloyd's House. The building sits where Southmill Street meets Lloyd Street and extends along Lloyd Street and Jacksons Row.
It has a fascinating and unique history; designed by the architectural practice of Speakman & Charlesworth in 1867 the site was originally for the 'Manchester Shipping Office and Packing Company Ltd' and was the city's first purpose-built packing warehouse.
When the Manchester cotton trade was enjoying its last boom, the firm built some of the largest and most ambitious warehouses in Manchester. It owned and administered merchants warerooms and office space – and supplied labour, machinery and space for loading, unloading, storing and packing within the same building.
Drop us a line to take a spring tour of our three meeting rooms for hire.
A large, stunning room with heritage features, original pitched ceiling and bay window overlooking Manchester Town Hall.
80 with flexible room layouts from theatre to cabaret.
10% discount for CityCo and BID Members.
Varied Catering Options at additional cost.
To book an appointment to view the room, please email events@cityco.com.
A Board Room with original heritage features.
14 with board table layout.
10% discount for CityCo and Manchester BID Members.
A Meeting Room with original heritage features.
12 with board table layout.
Talk to us about your needs and arrangements, bespoke requests and special rates.
Our venue is on the Third Floor of a Grade II-listed building and, although CityCo make it a priority to be as accessible as possible, in historic buildings such as ours full accessibility is not always possible. We do have lift access, but not all wheelchairs fit in the lift. For those of you with wheelchairs, who have mobility restrictions and/or for whom this may be a concern, please email events@cityco.com and we will be happy to offer help and assistance in any way we can.
Disability access will be via the entrance on 18 Lloyd Street. We will make a static chair available in the lift for those with wheelchairs that cannot fit in the lift and, on arrival at our floor, we will have a foldable wheelchair available for use during your stay at the event. We will have trained staff available to support and engage with you if you have accessibility needs.


Welcome to the Holland Hall Parents' Association!
The Parents' Association (PA) is comprised of Council groups for the Primary, Middle, and Upper Schools and an all-school Parents' Association Board. Parents' Association holds monthly meetings in each division as well as all school gatherings each quarter. All meetings are open to the entire Holland Hall community and provide an opportunity to share current information and communicate with school administrators and other parents. In addition to meetings, Parents' Association sponsors Parents' Association Continuing Education (PACE) events quarterly. Check the calendar on the school website for meeting times and dates.
Parent volunteers are a vital part of the Holland Hall community. Holland Hall provides several opportunities, both inside and outside of the classroom, to help Parents' Association volunteers become more engaged in their child's education and the success of the school. These volunteer efforts can include assisting in the classroom for a particular project or as the homeroom parent, making phone calls or writing letters for the Annual Fund, or helping to plan an event that will continue Holland Hall's rich traditions, like the Book Fair and the Auction. We encourage your unique contributions of ideas, talents, and time to the Parents' Association. Please consider all of the opportunities to join us and become involved this school year.


of recent original compositions from the Jesse Powers songbook.
Terry has worked with musicians from coast-to-coast since the early 1970's.
A promo photo session with Terry is more affordable than you would imagine.


Advances in server hardware, network infrastructure, and virtualization allow for a range of IT architectures, including the use of computing clouds. Clouds are collections of computing, storage, and network services that can be rapidly allocated for particular jobs and then easily released to be employed for other tasks when the jobs are completed. The adoption and continued use of public cloud services demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of this computing model. Businesses and other organizations with underutilized server capacity may be well served by redeploying their hardware in a private cloud configuration.
An obvious question you must first answer in this process is, Why use a private cloud?
Each of these characteristics is a product of the cloud architecture.
Traditional methods of deploying a single server to run a single application often result in underutilization of server capacity. Servers designed to maintain acceptable throughput during periods of peak demand waste computing capacity during non‐peak periods. Running multiple virtual servers on a single hardware server can help to improve utilization, but because these configurations are relatively static, there may continue to be periods of low utilization.
Consider an example. A finance reporting server experiences peak demands in the middle of the night and early morning as daily reports are generated. A human resources application server experiences the greatest demand during normal business hours, especially the late morning and early afternoon. These two applications could run on a single server using virtualized hosts, improving the overall utilization rate. There are still, however, periods when the CPUs and other server resources are significantly underutilized.
As we see in Figure 1, even with virtualization, there are times when another virtual machine could make use of the physical server. A drawback of virtualization is that it requires significant effort to install, configure, and monitor each new virtual machine. Although we have available CPU capacity, the time and effort required to install another virtual machine outweigh the benefits of more efficient server utilization. Cloud computing software eliminates this type of administrative overhead and allows for rapid deployment of virtual machines.
Figure 1: Virtualization can improve utilization but there may continue to be periods of underutilization.
With a private cloud, IT departments can establish catalogs of virtual machine images, sometimes referred to as a service catalog. End users can select an image from the service catalog and have it run on one or more virtual machines in the private cloud. A systems administrator is no longer needed to start a new virtual machine. End users decide when to start and stop their virtual machines. As a result, hardware can be more efficiently utilized while at the same time reducing support costs through self‐service management.
More efficient use of server hardware can quickly lead to reduced capital expenditures. In the past, a new business service may have required additional hardware to support that service. Using a private cloud, an IT department can pool its server resources and allocate virtual servers as needed. New business services can tap into the same pool of servers without having to purchase hardware based on peak demand expectations. Cloud administrators monitor usage and plan for expansion based on the aggregate needs of all users—not on the peak demand periods of each individual application.
Eliminating or reducing the need to tightly couple hardware to applications can also reduce the time required to deploy new applications and services. Application owners and system architects can design and deploy new services to the cloud without having to wait to procure, install, and configure new hardware.
The advantages of cloud computing are compelling reasons to shift to this model, but is it always the right choice?
A private cloud may not be the best option if the hardware you plan to deploy is not standardized. A common hardware foundation will make deployment and management much easier. If different platforms require different drivers and separate versions of machine images, the cloud will require additional management and undermine some of the cost advantages of a cloud.
If jobs are not easily divided among virtual machines, a private cloud may not be appropriate. For example, a business intelligence application that generates a large number of reports can be split over several virtual machines with each instance generating reports for different departments. In contrast, an optimization problem that requires a large amount of shared memory on a single machine or a graphics rendering application that requires specialized graphics hardware are best run on dedicated hardware.
Another requirement that is easily overlooked is having proper management tools in place. Clouds require monitoring to ensure services are running as expected in the short term and to provide data for longer‐term capacity planning. If appropriate monitoring tools are not in place already, they should be included in the plans for deploying a private cloud. This is just one of the requirements that you should assess before migrating to a private cloud.
Each of these represents important elements for successfully delivering private cloud services.
Existing infrastructure includes servers, storage systems, and networking infrastructure. Ideally, private clouds make use of similar servers. They have the same CPU cores, amounts of memory, types of power supplies, and network interface components. As you inventory your hardware, determine how many of your existing servers can be used in a cloud. Servers that are at or near the end of their useful life should not be included in a cloud.
Older hardware may still be useful for less demanding applications, such as print servers.
Similarly, plan to deploy storage arrays based on similar technologies. The more we use standardized hardware, the more we can reduce the management overhead of the cloud.
Assess network capacity. Are there segments of the network with high latency? Is existing bandwidth sufficient for current needs? It is important to understand if any parts of the network infrastructure will need to be upgraded prior to moving to a private cloud. It is possible that a shift to a cloud model will not significantly alter the demand for network services, but monitoring is essential to understand the requirements for your particular environment. For example, it may be difficult to estimate the growth in demand for network services when deploying a private cloud. With reduced costs to deploy new services and greater self‐management, business units may begin to experiment with new applications and increase the number of jobs they run.
Formal policies and procedures should be in place prior to migrating to a private cloud. Many aspects of these policies will be embodied in systems that implement the cloud. User authentication policies, for example, must be in place in order to control access to cloud resources. Similarly, billing and cost recovery policies must be defined so that users can make choices about the types and amounts of cloud services to use. Procedures should be in place to automate as much as possible the accounting and billing aspects of delivering cloud services.
Identify hardware and applications that can be moved to a private cloud. Again, not all jobs are suitable for a cloud environment, but many business applications are.
Determine the utilization levels needed to support an initial set of cloud applications. Use monitoring logs on existing servers to understand peak demand levels, the duration of peak demand periods, as well as average CPU, memory, storage, and network utilization over an extended period of time.
Establish a monitoring program to capture data about how the cloud infrastructure is used.
Once a private cloud is deployed, you will still likely have non‐cloud resources operating as part of the broader IT infrastructure. It is important to continue to monitor these resources as well. As business users migrate their applications to the cloud, additional resources may be needed in the private cloud. Some of this need may be met by servers that operate outside the cloud. A comprehensive monitoring program will help to optimize the allocation of resources between cloud and non‐cloud deployments.
Private cloud computing environments offer a number of advantages for optimizing the use of servers, storage, and network services. Although cloud architectures are not appropriate for all requirements, many business applications are well served by cloud computing. Organizations planning a move to a private cloud should conduct a readiness assessment prior to deploying a private cloud. As part of the implementation, ensure policies and procedures are in place to effectively manage the cloud and have monitoring tools in place to collect the data that will be needed to ensure both the short‐term availability and long term efficiency of the private cloud.