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As the holiday season approaches, shoppers can expect new hits on store shelves. On Tuesday, apple unveiled its much-anticipated iPad mini for the first time, and Microsoft is expected to unveil a new tablet later this week and upgrade to Windows. Host Michel Martin spoke with technical commentator Mario Armstrong.
I'm michelle Martin, NPR news. Coming soon, we'll hear the Washington post food critic Tom Sietsema's hot and hot topic in the restaurant world. Even if you don't eat a lot, it's fun. It's late.
But first, we want to talk about new technologies. Apple showed off its iPad Mini yesterday, and Microsoft will unveil its Surface tablet for the first time later this week. We want to hear more about these new releases, so we have asked Mario Armstrong. He is a digital lifestyle expert and a regular guest on the show.
Welcome back, Mario. Thank you for joining us.
MARIO ARMSTRONG, wired: thank you for letting me, michelle.
ARMSTRONG: yes. This is the confusing part, when everyone goes, oh, ah, when they reveal it. It's like, what do you expect it to be? This will be a smaller version of its larger sibling, the iPad, so it is apple's biggest expectation. They also released some other announcement, but it is very important, because it is in the 7 inch screen size, namely the tablet size, they see a lot from the Google Nexus and seven inches of them, the amazon Kindle Fire, the Nook. This particular size has many competitors.
Martin: so why do people want this? I mean I think one of the attractions of the iPad is that it has a bigger screen, why do people want smaller screens?
ARMSTRONG: you know, it's portable. No pun intended, but portability is what people are looking for. I know I recently and recently talked about others, sometimes you will make a decision, especially when you travel a lot and have to carry a laptop – no matter where you go, you will carry the 10 inches? You choose something smaller? Is it better for a backpack or purse?
Therefore, 7 inch screen size tablet really took off, I think that to let apple and others surprised, many people may like this, because if they really want to ordinary, but don't want to spend the money, this is your best choice.
Martin: is it competitive? Because some of these 7-inch tablets are very affordable. What I mean is that they are affordable, you can see many advertisements are shown the children in the use of them, and you know, obvious affordability is a problem – you know, it depends on what is your check. But the truth is, their prices are affordable, and so is the new iPad.
ARMSTRONG: apple's standard is included in price, so the price is $329, but for you, there will be other 7 "tablet, namely the Kindle Fire, starts at 159, and then from there to rise. So there's some space.
I think the price below 199 is still a huge market. I just think apple decides they won't compete on price. They will be in apple's popularity, brand, the quality of marksmanship, manufacturing methods and handheld devices to compete – I've been told that I haven't got it, but some of my very close friends tell me, I respect them – they say it than any other $200 or less 7 inch tablet computer is much more complicated.
Martin: we're talking to our digital lifestyle expert Mario Armstrong. He is talking about new changes in the field of technology. NPR news has a deeper understanding.
Yes, please introduce the Surface tablet computer. This is Microsoft's new product. To tell you.
ARMSTRONG: it's a big deal because Microsoft is rolling out its own tablet, the Surface. It's going to be around $500, so it's not cheap, but it's the right price for many other tablets. But at this point, michelle is so important that they are very interested in the success of Windows 8, because Windows 8 is this week launched a new operating system, now the new operating system will run on mobile phones, tablet computers, computer even game system and other devices.
They want to do is create a ecological system, which contains all of these different products, all of these different devices, will share the same operating system, so all the yacht will be rising, because people can share their content and more easily in the Windows of the world across different devices.
So if you've been waiting for a really hands-on Windows device, I've been playing and testing the Surface for the last few days. I was impressed. There was some buzz. I didn't see it. I think it's very impressive. I think they really took a gamble. They show some creativity and innovation, but I think they have walls, which means that Microsoft can be creative. However, they still need applications. They still need more apps to take off.
Martin: what's the good of it? So what does Microsoft tell us is good? What users tell us this is great? What can I do now that I can't?
ARMSTRONG: what Microsoft is saying, it's giving you the best of both worlds. You will be able to use the touch screen interface to use a touchscreen tablet. It has all these tiles, which they call ICONS on the screen, and they refresh with information. So, for example, you have a Facebook post. You'll see, when it happens. You don't have to open the app and see what happens. You can get this information in real time.
On the other hand, it is important that Windows still occupy an important place in our society. People use a lot of personal computers, they are used to Windows software, so in fact, this is not just a touch screen function of tablets, but you can also press a button, and the screen changes to the contents of a desktop view as they are called it will make you into a similar PC environment – it has a keyboard, it has a little feet on the back of frame, so that it can sit up correctly, you can immediately start typing. I just think it's a smart move for a hybrid computer that wants a laptop, but it wants to put a tablet together.
Martin: so you see people who have been traveling, can use a laptop computer, it may be in order to work, school, and one units — you know, it is often because you know – maybe people will use their personal finance it or they play games on it, let the children busy, do interesting things in it, see a movie. People say I don't want to carry two devices. I can carry one. Microsoft says this is one.
The question is – are they ready to really use hybrid devices, and do they have other Windows devices that they want to use and interact with? In other words, if I buy content, purchasing procedure, purchasing software and purchase in the Windows environment, so it may be a suitable products for me, because I can on top of other Windows device using the same content and software.
Martin fowler: every company thinks about their lives as they move forward as a company? I mean, obviously, you know, the company continues to adapt to the death of the founder, you know, Steve jobs, you know, to find its way, and Microsoft does not make a lot of exciting news, you know, in recent years. So what is every company betting on?
ARMSTRONG: they bet on liquidity. They're gambling, they're betting that they can create an ecosystem where people want to be part of it. And I think ultimately what I need or what these companies need to start to realize is that we can't just create technology for the sake of technology. People need to start to feel useful example can help them through technology to improve their lives, and these companies can help show their equipment, products and services to help your life or help your business and actually use what this means for you, so all of these have relationship, I think, in the future the company will definitely win.
But eventually we will know that the device is really not the stage of the problem. This is more software and experience that will follow you wherever you go. That could be your glasses. It could be in your car. This is not more information about the device, that is why now like Google and Android, with Microsoft Windows 8, apple and iTunes, the apple store and its ecosystem, letting their deep-rooted ecosystem, because we are just talking about the hands of the equipment.
Soon, it will be we will use in the field of all kinds of things, and when we really need our information or productivity, or what we need most, what ecosystem we're married? It's not just about the device, it's more about the software or the company that we're attached to.
Martin: Mario Armstrong is our digital lifestyle expert. He was a frequent visitor to the program, and he was friendly enough to join the WYPR station in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Trump's New Punishment for Countries Who Refuse To Cooperate
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it has ordered the State Department to limit certain visas for Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone because those countries have refused to accept the return of its nationals who are deported from the United States.
"International law obligates each country to accept the return of its nationals ordered removed from the United States," Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke said in a statement. "Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone have failed in that responsibility. The United States itself routinely cooperates with foreign governments in documenting and accepting its citizens when asked, as do the majority of countries in the world. However, these countries have failed to do so, and that one-way street ends with these sanctions."
"American citizens have been harmed because foreign governments refuse to take back their citizens. These sanctions will ensure that the problem these countries pose will get no worse as ICE continues its work to remove dangerous criminals from the United States," said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan.
State Secretary Rex Tillerson has told U.S. consular officers in the four countries to impose visa restrictions on certain categories of applicants. These restrictions will be determined on a country-by-country basis.
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DANNY DRINKWATER supports Manchester United and wanted to make the grade at Old Trafford.
That's according to his former youth team coach Kenny Crane who has praised the midfielder's attitude.
Drinkwater, 27, started his career with the Red Devils but didn't make a first-team appearance.
After a series of loan moves, he finally found his feet at Leicester.
The England international was instrumental in the Foxes' incredible title triumph.
And in the summer he secured a big-money move to Chelsea.
The Blues face United tomorrow and Crane says being rejected by the Premier League heavyweights spurred him on.
He told Goal: "If Drinky was playing for United, Real Madrid, Barcelona or whoever, his personality would stay the same.
"He will always be his own man.
"He's not the most outgoing person, he's not loud or brash, he's quite deep. He just gets on with it.
"I am sure that he would love to have made it at United.
"He holds no grudge against them and they were probably right at the time to release him but I think it shows his determination to sign for another top four club because he could have easily just drifted through the lower leagues at Huddersfield and Cardiff.
"It's not a case of showing that he could have made it at United by going to Chelsea.
"All the staff that were there have left anyway now.


"Ghost Flustered" is this year's spooky themed quest, arriving with The Sims FreePlay's 2017 Halloween update.
This is a 9-day timed quest that if completed within the time will unlock Halloween Sleepwear for all of your Sims to wear. There are 5 sets of goals to complete, each set of goals you complete earns you a prize, the first four unlock a body paint for all your sims and the last set unlocks body paint and the sleepwear.
Trick or treat with 5 Sims – 4 hours 10 minutes (can use 10 sims at the same time, at least 5 need red body paint) Note: This only takes 5 minutes if one of the sims in a pair is a preteen, so you can just use the preteen to complete this 5 times.


China's Suffers Worst Drought in 50 Years, Gov't Orders "Climate Migration"
The common expression "it flows like water," which is used to describe a supposedly limitless resource (ha!), probably never had much relevance in places like east Africa or rural China, and it certainly doesn't now. For the second week, southwest China is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years, leaving over 18 million people in fifteen Chinese provinces and regions suffering from drinking water shortages and affecting more than 130 million hectares of cropland and more than 17 million livestock. In the megalopolis of Chongqing, the water level in the legendary Yangtze river -- China's longest -- hit 3.5 meters (11.5 feet), its lowest in 100 years. According to the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources, "The severe drought will not ease up and is very likely to get worse." The situation is so bad that the government has begun to transplant farmers from the affected regions to less arid ares to the west.Suddenly, many numbers of farmers have become "climate refugees," as they are transported temporarily to the western Xinjiang region as part of an emergency government program.
Unmentioned (in a story that has already largely gone unmentioned outside of China, and been given a positive spin on news cycles in China) are the causes--like reckless agricultural techniques, nearsighted land planning and high end-user consumption, aside from high temperatures--as well as the longer-term effects of the drought. Scarce and polluted urban water supplies will be further taxed, and widespread water table depletion and grain shortage, of the sort that Lester Brown has been making noise about for years, will get even worse.
And that's not to mention the social and political implications of direct and indirect climate migration: thousands of people may have to be moved (see what happened with the Three Gorges Dam) to make way for massive water-relocation projects in the coming years, while the continued migration of Chinese farmers into Xinjiang could further indirectly threaten the Muslim Uighur minority that has long called for independence of the region they refer to as "East Turkestan." Just as it might be argued that drought in the Sudan was partly to blame for the ongoing genocide in Darfur, so it may be said that China's drought is abetting the country's unsavory minority policies.
In Chinatown, perhaps the darkest, sexiest movie on the topic of water management, the nefarious water baron tells Jack Nicholson's detective Jake, "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't." But this ain't Chinatown, and we can know. Huge environmental disasters like this aren't common, but unless we all see them as warning signs, they could be.
P.S. In addition to rainmaking, Beijing has also announced a huge environmental clean-up ahead of the 2008 Olympics. Also see : : Drought Marches on in the U.S.: On the Role of Climate Change : : 50 Ways to Save Water and : : The Long Hot Summer: When Water Matters and : : The THtv Conversation with Lester Brown. Also, Jay Z is now tackling the world's "99 [water] problems"


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Farmer needs to get it right this time
By John DiSanto – PhillyBoxingHistory.com
Philadelphian Tevin Farmer, 25-4-1, 5 KOs, 1 NC, has a chance to get it right this week when he faces Billy Dib, 43-4, 24 KOs, in a fight in Australia for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) world junior lightweight championship. This will be Farmer's second attempt at winning a world title after letting his first opportunity slip through his hands, thanks to a long layoff, bad scoring, two injuries, an opponent on performance enhancers, and his own entitled attitude that hampered his ability to get the job done last December.
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That concoction of factors conspired to keep Farmer down among the pack of ordinary boxers, but on Saturday, he gets another chance to rise above the rest of the 130-pounders, and above all receive a rare second opportunity to prove what he is all about. However this time, he has to get it right. The bout with Dib comes on Friday, August 3.
Of course, all of us in Philly believe that Farmer should already be the IBF champ, after his controversial fight last December with Kenichi Ogawa. However, the 12-round split decision awarded to Ogawa that night was one of the worst calls in quite a while, and left Farmer beltless. That verdict was eventually changed to a No Contest when Ogawa tested positive for steroids, but the title remained vacant.
Despite most believing that Farmer had won the fight, Tevin's performance still was a far cry from his usual impressive showing. Farmer, returning after two serious injuries and eight months of inactivity, was not himself and allowed Ogawa to keep the fight close enough to steal on the cards.
In that first title try, Farmer showed little of the flash and just a sampling of the skills he became known for in the 18-fight win streak that preceded the bout. Even more troubling was Farmer's lack of urgency in a fight for all the marbles. Instead of shifting into high gear, Farmer fought as if the outcome of the bout – and the presentation of his title belt – were guaranteed to him, regardless of what he did in the ring. He would learn twelve rounds later that this was not the case.
It was a poor performance by Farmer. To be fair, it very well may have been the long layoff, or his less-than-perfectly healed arm and hand injuries, that made his showing lackluster. But Farmer still needed to do more to become champion that night. Overconfidence got him.
"People might have seen the last fight and thought that he didn't do enough," said Farmer's trainer, Raul "Chino" Rivas. "But everyone thought he won the fight. I'm happy he's getting another chance."
In some ways, Ogawa did Farmer a favor by failing that drug test. Had he not, it might have been easy to deny Farmer another title shot. Second chances – even deserved ones – don't always come.
"They might have said he didn't deserve another fight," Rivas said. "And just avoided him after that."
To claim the title this time, Farmer must defeat Dib, a more experienced foe than Ogawa (and Farmer), and he'll have to do it in Dib's backyard. It is a tall task, but Farmer seems ready for the job.
"It's going to happen," Farmer said recently at TKO Fitness in Cherry Hill, NJ, where he trains daily. "No question about it. The title is mine on August 3rd."
After a very ordinary career start, Farmer staged an extraordinary turnaround beginning about six years ago. He's been on a roll ever since, growing into a contender and title challenger. Along the way, his self-assured demeanor blossomed steadily. That tremendous confidence has reached a new peak as he approaches the encounter with Dib. Further, December's "robbery" has made him indignant and he seems driven to get what he feels belongs to him.
This reads as confidence, but to be honest, it troubled me slightly in my most recent visit to watch Farmer train. Seemingly nowhere in Farmer's consciousness was there the slightest inkling that his sub-par performance against Ogawa was hurt by over confidence and his assumption that the title was definitely coming his way.
"I was coming back from two bad injuries," Farmer said. "Both of them could have been career-ending. I hadn't fought in a long time. The judges were against me. Plus the guy was on steroids."
All of these points appear to be true. But it would have been more encouraging to hear that Farmer had learned from the experience and knew that he should have done more with his first big chance. I wanted to hear him say that HE wouldn't let it happen again. I even double checked with him, asking if the injuries, the scoring, and such were the only reasons that he left Las Vegas without the IBF belt.
"No question about it," Farmer said with certainty.
Confidence is a tricky thing. It is a critical component of a successful fighter, but it can sometimes be a veil to the truth, a trap that can allow for the repeating of previous mistakes. Still, it is hard not to feel positive about Farmer's chances against Dib. At TKO Fitness, Tevin looked to be in magnificent shape as he neared the end of his stateside training camp. As he glided around the ring and speared the air, he looked like the perfect fighter.
"The condition he is in now is going to be the big difference in the fight," Rivas said. "Last time, he wasn't 100% recovered. He couldn't throw his right hand without worrying about the injury. He had been out of the ring and he wasn't 100%. Now, he's ready. He can be more aggressive and he's sitting down on his punches better than he ever did before."
In addition to Dib, in this title fight Farmer will be facing that nagging uncertainty of how a visiting boxer will fare on the scorecards, on the other side of the Earth against a hometown fighter. That formula rarely goes well for the visitor. So, it might be best not to leave the result in the hands of the judges. However, Farmer is not really a puncher, with just 5 knockouts in 31 bouts. But such stats don't even nick the confidence of the "American Idol".
"Oh, it's going to be a knockout," he said. "I'm going to knock him out, you watch."
Famer's confidence is on point. His conditioning is on point. And somewhere down there, below that dense layer of confidence, Tevin must know that, this time, he truly has to seize the opportunity. He's been working for this moment for a long time. As third chances are even rarer than second chances, on Saturday he has to get it right. He has to prove to himself and everyone else that he is a champion.
"I'm winning that title," Farmer said. "Then what are we going to do when I come back to Philly?"
Win that title Tevin, and everything will be different. But you have to get it right this time. You have to win the fight – no conditions, no questions, and no excuses. It's up to you to overcome every hurdle put before you. That is what true champions do, and this is your chance to do exactly that.
The fight will be broadcast live on the subscription app, ESPN+ on Friday morning.
To read more about the Philly fight scene, visit www.phillyboxinghistory.com.
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Arty continues onslaught of amazing singles with 'Perfect Strangers'
There's no telling how he does it, but ARTY just keeps on churning out new singles at an impressive rate. The Russian dance music icon is continuing down the path chosen when he returned to his Progressive House roots earlier this year, this time resulting in the undeniably brilliant 'Perfect Strangers'.
An uplifting anthem with a powerful drop, big chords and beautiful vocals that perfectly complement the vibe of the track, 'Perfect Strangers' is, in ARTY's own words, "definitely one of the my favorite songs I've produced this year".
Tried and tested in several of his shows eliciting massive response from the crowd, this song truly is a step forward for ARTY, simply because of the way the melody, arrangement and vocals connect on so many levels.
Here's what he had to say about his new track:
"The idea of this record came to me a little bit after my debut album was released. I was playing around with different instruments and melodies, but never finished it and only got back to it randomly last year when I was looking for a new intro track for my DJ sets, something uplifting and powerful. I tested it out on a few of my shows and the reaction of the crowd was incredible."
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The Monsters Know What They're Doing
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Aboleth Tactics
Posted on December 23, 2016 September 13, 2018 by Keith Ammann
From their description, you'd think aboleths were among the bossest of all boss monsters, but in fact, they have a challenge rating of just 10—well within the power of a party of medium-high-level adventurers to take on, assuming they have some way to reach the creatures' underwater lairs.
The Monster Manual classes them as aberrations, but they don't originate from some other plane of existence, despite having a connection to the Elemental Plane of Water. Rather, they antedate all the gods and intelligent beings of the contemporary material world. They are the Old Ones. To me, it's cool to think of them as the product of a different, much more ancient path of evolution, like holdovers from the world-sea of the Ordovician Period in our own history, 450 million years ago, and their connection to the Elemental Plane of Water as a way they discovered of perpetuating their existence over the eons.
Aboleths have high Constitution and extraordinary Strength, but it's their exceptional mental abilities that define them. With their high Wisdom and exceptional Intelligence and Charisma, they're schemers and manipulators par excellence, with superior situational awareness. Because they can't be permanently slain, according to the MM flavor text, their self-preservation impulse doesn't manifest the same way it would in an ordinary mortal creature.
As for their physical abilities, they fit the brute profile most closely, though not perfectly, their Constitution falling somewhat short of their Strength. They have no ranged attack and engage in melee without reluctance, but their preference is for a short and decisive battle, settled by their phenomenal Strength, over a drawn-out one.
Aboleths have proficiency in Constitution, Intelligence and Wisdom saving throws, but not in Dexterity, leaving them vulnerable to damaging area-effect spells. This suggests that they have little concern for spellcasters in general, but an opponent who casts this particular type of spell will become a high-priority target.
Aboleths also have proficiency in History (not sure why—it's not like they're generous about sharing their knowledge) and Perception, they have darkvision out to 120 feet, and they can make a Wisdom (Perception) check on another creature's turn as a legendary action, so it's hard to get close to one without its noticing. Unless a player character knows Deep Speech, aboleths will communicate only by telepathy—and they're not interested in communicating with anyone they can't use to further their own interests. They come to this judgment through their Probing Telepathy ability, which grants them insight into a creature's desires if that creature answers their telepathic call, and once they deem a creature minion-worthy, they seal the deal with the Enslave feature. More on that later.
For now, let's talk about the aboleth's melee capabilities. Its tentacles and tail have a 10-foot reach, and it's surrounded by a 5-foot-thick Mucous Cloud that has the unsettling effect of infecting other creatures with a pathogen that prevents them from breathing air. Thus, it can easily reach and strike an opponent who can't easily reach it to strike back. Its tentacles transmit a similar pathogen, one that even more unsettlingly causes a target's skin to become slimy, translucent and effectively allergic to open air, and its Multiattack comprises three tentacle attacks in a single action. The aboleth's tail attack, which does more raw damage than a tentacle attack but has no pathogenic effect, isn't part of its Multiattack, but it is available as a legendary action.
Aboleths have a swimming speed of 40 feet; meanwhile, your PCs, remember, can swim at only half their base movement speeds, unless they're granted a swimming speed by a spell (such as alter self) or magic item (such as a cloak of the manta ray). Thus, it should be relatively easy for them to pursue and attack any target they choose, although it may take a couple of rounds.
Finally, they have the Enslave ability. Yes, its targets get to repeat their Wisdom saves anytime they take damage. But remember, aboleths are crafty: all your party needs is one weak link, and they'll zero in on it. Are an aboleth's opponents able to roam and breathe underwater because of a spell being sustained by a single character? Fine—it will Enslave that character, then command it to drop the spell. Enslave is hardly worth using for purposes so prosaic as making party members fight among themselves. More likely, an aboleth will try to Enslave a character already poisoned by its tentacles, telling him or her that it's useless to resist: his or her prior life is over, and his or her only future now is as a servitor of the aboleth.
So who are the aboleth's top-priority melee targets? Elves, who have advantage against being charmed. Spellcasters who throw area-effect spells that require Dex saves. Anyone in possession of a magic item that threatens the aboleth. Anyone capable of inflicting moderate damage (more than 40 hp) to the aboleth in a single turn. High-Wisdom characters, who are better equipped to resist Enslavement—unless it's moderately injured (reduced to 94 hp or fewer), in which case it switches its focus to low-Wisdom characters, those with Wisdom save modifiers of 0 or less. Depending on how many such characters are within its reach, it may aim all its tentacle attacks at one opponent or divide them up among several.
Aboleths are legendary creatures; I've already mentioned two of their legendary actions, Detect and Tail Swipe. It uses Tail Swipe to counterattack on a character's turn anytime that character tries to flank-attack it, Detect on the turn of any character who tries to sneak up on it. The third legendary action is Psychic Drain, which absorbs hit points from an Enslaved creature. An aboleth uses this legendary action on any turn in which (a) it's moderately or seriously injured, (b) it has a creature already Enslaved and (c) it has the legendary actions to spare (since Psychic Drain costs two). Note that this damage gives the creature another saving throw to break free of its Enslavement, so the aboleth prefers to use Psychic Drain on unimportant Enslaved creatures—ones it Enslaved opportunistically, as opposed to, say, ones it enslaved because they were buffing their companions.
An aboleth in its lair also has access to lair actions. One is a phantasmal force spell whose only useful purpose is to distract a low-Intelligence opponent from fighting the aboleth itself, presumably while it focuses on more important enemies. One is a "grasping tide" that pulls creatures from land into a pool of water. This is useful in a situation like the "Watcher in the Water" scene in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, but it's not at all useful when a battle is taking place entirely underwater.
The third lair action is the only consistently useful one, requiring all underwater enemies within 90 feet to make a Wisdom save against psychic damage. Unfortunately, while an aboleth isn't restricted in general from using the same lair action two rounds in a row, it can't use this one a second time without using one of the others in between. Booooo! The practical upshot is that an aboleth will either use the phantasmal force lair action as a reset button or forgo the use of further lair actions altogether, because the grasping tide lair action is so wholly situational. Because it may never get a second chance to use it, an aboleth will use the "rage water" lair action only when all its opponents are within 90 feet of it.
Because its lair actions aren't nearly as overwhelmingly advantageous as other legendary creatures' lair actions are, an aboleth is more willing than they to retreat from its lair in order to preserve its continued physical existence. Having to be reborn on the Elemental Plane of Water is better than dying outright, but it's still an inconvenience. An aboleth that's seriously injured (reduced to 54 hp or fewer) will retreat from the engagement, Disengaging (action) if necessary but otherwise Dodging (action) as it moves away, and continuing to use its legendary actions as appropriate.
All this, however, relates strictly to combat. Before combat ever ensues, there's an opportunity for social interaction with the aboleth, and this should be as weird and scary as you can make it. Remember, the aboleth has a memory going back 450 million years, and its intelligence is as different from a PC's as a squid's, a sea urchin's or a lamprey's would be. Also, the PCs' gods annoy it, and at best, it considers them useful idiots. It communicates with them telepathically, knows exactly what they want most, probably finds this either drolly amusing or senseless and absurd, and considers it self-evident that they'd be better off as slimy, aquatic servant-beasts.
Finally, if you want to add some variety to an aboleth encounter, chuuls are an obvious and natural option.
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9 thoughts on "Aboleth Tactics"
mowngle says:
I found your blog a couple months back and had been hoping you'd do an aboleth writeup. Like the aboleth, you're capable of mind reading. Thanks for your writeup!
Hey quick note, the according to the MM the Aboleth must be underwater in order for the Mucous Cloud to have an effect. Conceivably, the Aboleth could attacked a creature from a pool of water and still have this effect. But if the Aboleth is for some reason not in the water, the Mucous Cloud goes away. That's my read, anyway.
Aboleths are proficient in history because of their racial memory. Every newborn Aboleth has the knowledge of his ancestors stored in his mind.
If you find the aboleth's power weaker than its lore would imply, then you could just say the ones in the MM are just young ones, with much older, larger, and powerful adults existing in the darkest depths.
Keith Ammann says:
You didn't cover the regional effects. While difficult terrain from slime and supernaturally fouled water sources (for enemies only) are really nifty and creepy, the really interesting one is creating an illusionary double of itself.
The immediate implication of appearing to talk to non-dominated creatures anywhere within a mile is vaguely interesting (I think most times it will want to not reveal itself), I read this as being able to be done in combat, as a distraction ("oh crap, another one behind us!") or even as a poor man's mirror image spell.
Also, I'm considering allowing the grasping tides to happen underwater as well, making the terrain extremely treacherous! 😈
Joshua T says:
The other interesting consideration is that while the mucus-cloud "can't breath air" disease wears off in 1d4 hours, the second disease doesn't.
The "jelly-skin that is allergic to air" disease explicitly does not show any symptoms during the time it can be easily cured. Before symptoms develop, it can be cured by anything that removes disease. After that, it needs an 11th level cleric.
That is a nasty post-combat "gotcha", that as a DM I'd probably want to telegraph in some way, and give them to have some chance of knowing SOMETHING about it before. Previous victims, that if questioned, the party could find out that it is "too late" for lower level healing. Or somehow give them an opportunity to investigate further into the nature of aboleth diseases, at some reasonable but non-trivial cost to the party.
So later, when they are loading the jellied barbarian into an wagon, swaddled in wet linen, for a dangerous 10 day journey to the nearest large city, they will at least know they COULD have taken an extra day to go to the Gnomish Library of Alchemical Medicine, or bought that 2000gp book of ancient tales which the bard vaguely remembered included "Karshabdi's Adventures in the Deep", or whatever.
In regards to its survival instinct, while it won't die on the material plane, it has no easy way back to the material plane either, lacking Plane Shift, and will be loth to give up its established empire. In addition, if cornered on the Elemental Plane of Water, its survival instinct is super keen; it's old AF with no end in sight and does NOT want to die.
This is an amazing analysis, but I'd have to disagree and say that its grasping tide is extremely tactically advantageous. Because it targets any number of pools, you could also say that, if it lived in a lake for instance, the entire lake is a pool. Therefore, if the players are attacking from land which they may be at first, or may have to, it can pull them into the water where it can attack them when they are more vulnerable.
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Q: WinAPI navigate back/forward In any web browser and in the Windows file manager and in many other applications there is support for forward and backward navigation. This always (or at least most of the time) by default works with extra mouse buttons if your mouse has any.
I want to implement this in a C++ application I'm making based on WinAPI. However I wonder how one would do this? Are the mouse buttons captured "manually" in each application that has this forward/backward navigation or is there native support for it somewhere in WinAPI?
Manually capturing the buttons is probably always an option, but if there already is an existing functionality that handles this then it seems like that should be used instead. That's probably more reliable as well.
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Murphy lay on the floor and barked. I felt myself shaking a little. I held out my hand to see if the shaking was outside or in-. In, I decided.
The veterinary technician was familiar and I like her, but I could not come up with her name. Maybe it's Chrissy. Dave might know, but he wasn't there. He was Murphy's primary caretaker, spent more time with her than anyone else. No way my husband could do this. I could, so I did.
Chrissy told me how sorry she was, tears in her eyes.
"I have a couple of things to go over with you," she said. "There are three options. With the first one, you'd take her home with you." When she offered the second option, I said, "Yes, that's what we want," a communal cremation where the crematorium scattered her ashes in a private wooded area.
Chrissy went on to the procedure. I stopped her and said I'd already discussed with Mel, the long-term receptionist, when I booked the appointment.
"Do you want me to put her on the table?" I asked.
She said yes, so I hefted our puppy's almost 15 pounds on top of the exam table. I still called her our puppy. Dave laughed at me and says "She's hardly a puppy," but her little Shih-tzu face still looked like a puppy to me.
Chrissy asked me to check and initial the preferred option and then sign permission. The initials ran off the line and I found it difficult to write my last name. Revell came out more like Reiwelll.
"No," I said and wrapped my arms around Murphy. The tech held her bottom half.
"Okay, sweet girl," Dr. O'Neill said as she did the first injection, "you'll sleep in a few minutes." She stroked Murphy's head. In sync, our hands touched. I instantly glanced at Dr. O'Neill, but she had already averted her eyes.
I held our Murphy Sweet Punkin while she drifted off to sleep. I knew she was asleep when she started to snore. She grew heavier and the tip of her tongue protruded. I smiled.
"I think she's asleep," Dr. O'Neill said.
The second injection of clear deep pink solution struck me as a good color. I'd always told groomers "She's partial to hot pink" when they asked if they could put bows on her ears.
It took three tries for Dr. O'Neill to get a good vein. They were all small and kept collapsing. When the needle found the third vein, it seemed that my little old dog's heart stopped beating within a couple of minutes. I held her tight and wept, happy to see a tissue box at the end of the table.
"Okay," I said, "I'm going to leave her with you." I kissed her head and said something like "Sleep, no more pain now." I moved her gently from my arms to the table.
I know Dr. O'Neill and Chrissy said something. I don't know what they said.
I turned to Peggy. "Okay," I said. She followed me out the door.
Past the beautiful statue of St. Francis and the animals, I remembered to pick up the bag of poop I'd left on the short wall around the clinic front patio. We didn't see a trash receptacle so I put it on the floor of the van, along with the pink harness and leash.
When we got home, I gathered my purse, my water bottle, and the leash. "Oh, let me get the poop," I said.
Peggy answered, "Whew, I'm glad you said that. It's pretty ripe." We both laughed a little.
"You mean you could smell it?" I asked.
I laughed. Peggy knew my sense of smell left with years of inhalers and other medications for asthma.
We hugged and I told her thank you, couldn't say much more. I had to get inside to Dave and his grief combined with mine.
When I walked onto the porch and threw the bag of poop in the trash, I realized I never looked at Murphy's face. No way I could look at that little face. But I'll always remember it.
I'm so sorry, Diana! Hugs!!!
I am so sorry Diana, Murphy is no longer in pain. I know you will find comfort in that knowledge….


Settlement agreements settling trust, estate or probate disputes often contain language reciting that the trial court that heard the case retains jurisdiction to enforce an order approving the settlement agreement. In Montgomery v. Morris, however, the Georgia Court of Appeals raised questions about the scope of such provisions in Georgia.
Almost a year after the order dismissing the case, Morris renewed a motion for contempt under the same case number as the action that had been dismissed, and alleged that Montgomery had wilfully failed to comply with the terms of the trial court's prior orders. The trial court held a hearing on the motion and held Montgomery in contempt for failing to subdivide a piece of real property as required by the terms of the settlement agreement.
The Georgia Court of Appeals, however, found that, once the case was dismissed, the trial court lost jurisdiction to enter a finding of contempt with respect to its prior orders. Under Georgia law, with the exception of certain motions for attorney's fees, the dismissal of a lawsuit generally deprives the trial court of jurisdiction to take further action in a case and leaves the parties in the same position as if the suit had never been filed. Any subsequent order entered by a court in a dismissed case is null and void.
All this is not to say that a party cannot seek enforcement of a settlement agreement or consent order, only that the party may need to be more creative about getting that complaint back in front of the judge most knowledgeable about the case.


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Q: "a house to live in" vs. "a place to live"
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*"They need a house to live in." In this sentence, you can't omit "in", right?
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*"They need a place to live." In this sentence, you can omit "in", right?
Why is that? any rule, here?

A: As usual with these sentences just plucked at random and used as examples it is difficult to answer because I do not know what you are thinking.

"They need a house to live in."  means they need a "House" where they can live and it is generally accepted that you live inside a house. This sentence would pertain to a person, a family or a group of people. It is also specific that they are going to live in this house.

"They need a house to live." would not be correct as they are able to live without a house. "They need a house." is not specific as you do not know if they will live there or rent it.

Q. "They need a place to live." In this sentence, you can omit "in", right? Why is that? any rule, here?"
Firstly the meaning is not the same as "They need a house to live in." or "They need a place to live in."
"A place to live". could pertain to a person, a family or a group of people. However it could equally be used with a herd of elephants or a pack of wolves. It could relate to an area or a home. It is not specific it is just a general statement.
When you say "They need a place to live in." it implies that you are using place to mean house/apartment or some sort of structure to "live inside". With this use we now know they need some kind of property but what type has not been specified.
Therefore there is no rule, as firstly the two sentences (if both have "in" at the end) have slightly different meanings and secondly, the meaning of live is significantly different to "live in" when used in this context.
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This document is a eight page summary of the final report on arsenic demonstration project at the Chateau Estates Mobile Home Park in Springfield, OH. The objectives of the project are to evaluate the effectiveness of AdEdge Technologies' AD-33 media in removing arsenic to meet the new arsenic maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 10 µg/L. Additionally, this project evaluates 1) the reliability of the treatment system, 2) the required system operation and maintenance (O&M) and operator skill levels, and 3) the capital and O&M cost of the technology. The project also characterizes the water in the distribution system and process residuals produced by the treatment process.
APM Title: Final reports of full-scale demonstrations of arsenic treatment technologies.


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I was scrolling Instagram and came across a headline that stopped me dead in my tracks: "Jonathan Majors Made Glen Powell Pitch Him Devotion While Completely Naked in a Russian Bathhouse." I need to know more. How did this happen?
What's so crazy about that headline? That doesn't seem that crazy. I guess I've just been pitching that way my whole career, and finally, somebody wrote about it. No, the funniest part of that… Well, there are two parts to that story. One is that I knew that I wanted Jonathan Majors to star in this, and I'm such a fan of his work that I was like, "Where can I meet Jonathan?" And they said, "Go to New York." So I was like, "Okay, cool. I'll meet him in New York. Where does he want to meet?" And they said there is this bathhouse. I think it was in the West Village or something like that, and I was like, "Alright, cool." They were like, "Is that okay?" And I was like, "Yeah, sure. That sounds fun. We will steam and pitch." So it was really funny in the fact that we walk into this Russian bathhouse, and yes, very quickly you get completely undressed. I think two minutes into knowing each other we were completely naked. Did I pitch him naked the whole time? No. But were there times we were talking about the movie while [naked]? Yeah, sure. It bonds you together. It's all honesty. It's all on the table—metaphorically, literally, the whole thing. It was an appropriate start to our relationship. We had to be in the trenches together, so you might as well just put it all out there and know who you are in the trenches with, I guess.
Amazing! So it's safe to say Devotion wouldn't have happened without you. You were the one to recommend Black Label Media option the rights to the 2014 book Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice about the friendship between naval officers Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner during the Korean War. Why were you so invested in bringing Brown and Hudner's story to the big screen?
First off, it was a story nobody knew about that I thought was such a beautiful story of how far you are willing to go for a wingman. Also, my grandfather was a Korean War veteran, and there were no movies that had been made about it. It's literally a forgotten war. Nobody talks about the Korean War. So to do service to every person wearing uniform during that time period, I think [it] is really important. But I also think the racial conversation that happened because of this movie [is important]. When I read the script or when I read the book, I immediately was like, "What a complicated relationship between these two men." It was one that didn't boil down racial dynamics like a lot of movies in the '90s or early 2000s did, where it simplified it down to "Oh, I didn't like you, but now, I like you." There was something so modern about the story. For instance, modern-day racial conversations. During the Black Lives Matter protests, it was "Post a black square," and I was like, "What does that do?" Solidarity is such an important thing, but how do we do it in a way that's real? How do we put skin in the game? How do we change the conversation? All of these things are at a much different level than just things that make you complicit or things that make you not feel guilty. And this movie felt like all those things that were going on in my head and conversations I was having with different friends. It really felt like it explored a modern-day conversation with a classic friendship. And I think that's what drew me to the story, and over the course of developing it, the nuances of it just became more and more exciting. I'm really proud of what it is and how it exists.
How did you come across the original book?
I had a friend that recommended the book to me, and then my uncle recommended the book to me, and I ended up reading it on this fishing trip with my family. We all ended up reading it and being like, "Wow, there is a movie here." And the more I thought about it, it's not an obvious movie because the ending is a certain thing and the dynamic between the two of them. They are not like best friends, but they are really like soulmates, and the Korean War is not necessarily like a war that a studio goes, "Let's make a movie about the Korean War!" So there were all these kinds of things against it, and that, for me, was when it started feeling more obvious—when the chips are down. When something is too obvious, sometimes it blends in with the filmography of every other thing, and it doesn't rise to challenge the filmmakers or the actors to make something special. And because there were so many things against this, I go, "Everybody on board is going to have to rise to the occasion to make this thing really special," and everybody did.
You play Tom Hudner and actually had a chance to meet with him shortly before he passed away. How did your meeting with him influence your role as a producer on the film and your portrayal on-screen?
It's a really great question because it's really tough to meet the person you are playing. I've played real-life people before, but I think this is the only time I've actually gotten to meet the person I'm playing. And to look a family in the eyes—the Hudner family, the Brown family, Tom Hudner himself—and say, "If you give me the rights to this book and your life, I'll tell the story correctly," it's a promise that you just hope you are able to keep, and it really does put a lot of pressure on you to do it right.
In terms of the character, you actually have to separate yourself a little bit. I've become such great friends with the Browns and the Hudners, but you really have to separate yourself and go, "This was a man who was flawed. This is a man who had insecurities and wants and needs and was disappointing to people close to him and all these things." That's what you have to do as an actor. You have to throw rocks at your characters, and because I love this man so much, you don't want to throw rocks at him. But if you don't throw rocks at him, you don't have a movie. So it really made it very interesting and complicated to play, but [Tom] Cruise on Top Gun always said this one phrase that has really become a big compass for me, which is "pressure is a privilege." When you make something that has a lot of pressure on it, especially something with familial pressure [and the] pressure you are putting on yourself to tell the story right, it means you are doing something right. Showing this movie to those families was so nerve-racking for me. They loved it. They are obsessed with it and such supporters of it. But it's a thing. This is the legacy of these two men, and to show that on-screen in front of the world was more naked than I felt in front of Jonathan Majors at a bathhouse.
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Let's get the Funk out of Winter! Please join us for a great ParTay! 10$ and a dish to share gets you into this great disco themed party! DJ Smiley will be here playing our favorite tunes to help us dance the night away!! This has become a great event at Parker-Binns! It's our 4th year and we plan on making it better than ever!! RSVP on here, so we know you're coming and we can prepare enough food for you!!
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Q: Facebook connect integration error I am integrating facebook into my iPhone application.
Single sign on method works when i sign in via safari.
But after i install facebook app and click "Connect to Facebook", app taking me to Facebook app. And there is a error message on top
" is misconfigured for Facebook login. press okay to go back to the application without connecting it to facebook"
What might be the problem?
Please advice, Thank you.

A: So, this is probably going to sound like two of the lamest potential fixes ever, but I just had this problem...

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*I went from using the previous version of Facebook iOS SDK to the newest one, and one of the few things changes I made was adding the FacebookAppID && 4*******7. So, I deleted the APP ID and tried again and it worked. I recommend you check the AppID and spelling of FacebookAPPID in your plist.

*Do you have multiple versions of your App on your simulator or device? Delete the old one and it might fix it, it was kicking me over to an older version of my app, and trying to resign me into the app when I was already signed in.
Hope it works for you,
Eva


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Greek film on male ego wins London Film Festival top award
AFP• 17 October 2015
London (AFP) - Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari scooped the top prize at the BFI London Film Festival Awards Saturday, while Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett was honoured with a fellowship.
Tsangari's film "Chevalier", which deals with the male ego and macho rivalry showcased by six men on a boat competing in wacky masculinity contests, won the praise of Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski, president of the official competition jury, who called Tsangari a "brave and original filmmaker".
It beat diverse competition from entries including Cary Fukunaga's "Beasts of No Nation", a chilling portrait of child soldiers, and "Office", a "financial world-set musical" from Hong Kong crime director Johnnie To.
"With great formal rigour and irresistible wit, Athina Rachel Tsangari has managed to make a film that is both a hilarious comedy and a deeply disturbing statement on the condition of western humanity," Pawlikowski said.
Blanchett, meanwhile, received her fellowship award from Lord of the Rings actor Ian McKellen at a ceremony hosted by musician and former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.
The 46-year-old Australian actress's latest film "Truth" -- a story about investigative journalism and politics -- had its European premiere on Thursday, a day after the star walked the red carpet at the festival to promote the much-praised "Carol", in which she plays a married woman embarking on a lesbian romance in 1950s New York.
"The pedigree and the list of people who come before me is rather daunting but I'm really excited," Blanchett had said days earlier, after being told she was to receive the accolade.
Previous winners include Al Pacino, Tim Burton and Ralph Fiennes.
American filmmaker Robert Eggers won the Sutherland award for "original and imaginative first feature" with "The Witch", about a 17th century New England family torn apart by accusations of witchcraft.
The Grierson prize for best documentary went to Australia's Jennifer Peedom for "Sherpa", a film about "tragedy and mayhem on Mount Everest", while the best short film award went to India's Shai Heredia and Shumona Goel's "An Old Dog's Diary", a film portrait of Indian artist Francis Newton Souza.
The BFI London Film Festival is in its 59th year, and closes Sunday with the gala screening of Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, a film about the late boss of tech firm Apple starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet and Seth Rogen.
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Women & Children's Health Research
The Women & Children's Health Research Unit (WCHRU) is a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, members of the public and academics; conducting research across many areas of Women's Health: from Reproductive Health and Gynaecology, through Antenatal care to Childbirth; and also the follow on care of mothers and new born babies.
Our research is supported by the Department of Health and a range of charities, with our research projects encompassing a wide breadth of both laboratory-based and clinical work, to improve health, wellbeing and patient care.
We collaborate with colleagues nationally and internationally to develop and deliver ground-breaking, high-quality research and care, which benefits our patients here in the NHS but also increases care standards globally.
The Women & Children's Health Research Unit is led by a multi-professional senior research team with support from North Bristol NHS Trust, the University of Bristol and the Prompt Maternity Foundation. (www.promptmaternity.org)
The team has a wealth of experience conducting research studies and trials, and improving training, guidelines and patient outcomes.
Our key areas of interest and expertise include:
Multi-professional Obstetric Training
Bereavement care following baby loss
Improving antenatal care
Improving education
Operative vaginal births
Core Outcome Sets
Global obstetrics
Our staff work in close collaboration with University partners, as well as a number of other NHS Trusts. We also have fundamental links with organisations such as the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Clinical Research Network, the National Simulation Network, International Stillbirth Alliance, and many more.
Contact Women & Children's Health Research Unit
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Web: www.nbt.nhs.uk/wchresearch
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In 1986, several Southern Gospel music leaders decided the industry needed an organization to foster the growth of the Southern Gospel music genre. Through the years, the Guild has grown to include every facet of the Southern Gospel music industry, encompassing artists (full-time and part-time), record companies, radio, promoters, publishers, distributors, talent management, media representatives, and booking agents. Looking beyond the needs of today, the Southern Gospel Music Guild hopes to affect the future of the industry. Through communication and education, we hope to significantly impact the image and awareness of Southern Gospel music for generations to come. This is accomplished by a variety of means: getting Southern Gospel music introduced to new audiences and promoting quality and professionalism within the industry. By working together we can learn how to better utilize our skills. Through extensive, persistent efforts, we can increase the visibility of and appreciation for our music, thereby touching tomorrow… today.
With Jesus Christ as our cornerstone, to create a cooperative environment designed to encourage excellence, education, awareness, and growth, while preserving the essence of Southern Gospel Music.
Guild members represent companies from all areas of the southern gospel industry, including record companies, booking agencies, artists, radio, concert promoters, and music publishers.
In 1986, several Southern Gospel music leaders decided the industry needed an organization to foster the growth of the Southern Gospel music genre. Through the years, the Guild has grown to include every facet of the Southern Gospel music industry, encompassing artists (full-time and part-time), record companies, radio, promoters, publishers, distributors, talent management, media representatives, and booking agents.
The Guild board, made up of all Participating members, meets at least four times a year, usually in Nashville. Meetings usually are held on Tuesdays. Most of the actual work of the Guild is handled by committees, which meet in conjunction with those quarterly meetings and additionally as may be called by the committee chairperson. Committees report to the full board for final action on committee proposals.
Looking beyond the needs of today, the Guild hopes to affect the future of the industry. Through communication and education, we hope to significantly impact the image and awareness of Southern Gospel music for generations to come. This is accomplished by a variety of means: getting Southern Gospel music introduced to new audiences and promoting quality and professionalism within the industry.
By working together we can learn how to better utilize our skills. Through extensive, persistent efforts, we can increase the visibility of and appreciation for our music, thereby touching tomorrow….today.


On March 1st we will be celebrating World Book Day by visiting Moor Allerton Library. We will have a story session with the librarian and we will choose some books to borrow for our reading areas at school.
On Wednesday 7th March, a team of lifeguards from the RNLI are coming into school to teach KS1 about the dangers of water- both inland and coastal waters. This should be a really informative morning, which will help us all to keep safe around water.
On March 13th, 2T will visit Pizza Express in Headingley and they will work with the chef to make their very own pizzas. Meanwhile, 2L will cook a balanced meal at school using a variety of fresh vegetables that are grown in the UK.
Our eggs are also due to start hatching on March 13th...I wonder how many chicks we will have this year? Check the chick section on our Y2 page for chick updates.
We will have a special surprise visitor to help us celebrate British Science Week, which is 12th-16th March.
In the final week of March, we will take our chicks back to Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, where they will live for the rest of their lives.


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Barbara Bosworth
born Cleveland, OH 1953
Photographer Barbara Bosworth focuses on landscape photography and is particularly interested in the interrelatedness of man and the natural environment. Subdued and ironic, her work often reveals the sacredness of the land and the effects of human encroachment. She has frequently photographed the stripping of the land for suburban and agricultural use, documenting the construction of golf courses, cemeteries, and farming tracts over unspoiled lands. Bosworth's keen observation has also captured many quiet moments in nature, through images of Yellowstone National Park, Niagara Falls, and the National Champion trees of Ohio, among others.
Bosworth received her MFA in 1983 from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has taught at the Massachusetts College of Art since 1984. Her work has been included in many exhibitions across the United States, including the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She has been a recipient of Guggenheim and Ruttenberg fellowships. She resides in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Merry A. Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico: The National Museum of American Art in association with the University of New Mexico Press, 1992)
Works by This Artist (45 items)
Untitled, from the series The Bitterroot River
National Champion Singleleaf Ash, Colorado, 2001
Untitled, from the series Meadow, Carlisle, Massachusetts
National Champion Western Redcedar, Washington, 1993
National Champion Coast Redwood, California, 1994
National Champion Saguaro, Arizona, 2001
National Champion Elliottia, Georgia, 2002
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Birds have long been a source of mystery and awe. Today, a growing desire to meaningfully connect with the natural world has fostered a resurgence of popular interest in the winged creatures that surround us daily. The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art examines mankind's relationship to birds and the natural world through the eyes of twelve major contemporary American artists, including David Beck, Rachel Berwick, Lorna Bieber, Barbara Bosworth, Joann Brennan, Petah Coyne, Walton Ford, Paula McCartney, James Prosek, Laurel Roth Hope, Fred Tomaselli, and Tom Uttech.
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June 19, 2008 — November 11, 2008
Nature's strength, endurance, and fragility are captured in the dynamic work of Barbara Bosworth (b. 1953).
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Bean sprouts are usually found in a variety of Asian dishes and have outstanding nutritional value. So why not grow your own bean sprouts at home? These are containing vitamins A, B and C as well as Calcium, Iron and Potassium.
Any seed that germinates falls into bean sprout category. Bean sprouts can be grown throughout the year. They are rich in taste and nutrition; bean sprouts are immensely popular in restaurants all around the globe. Bean sprouts are a rich source of vitamins, proteins and starch. And for a balanced healthy diet these are the vital elements, so why wait to grow this nutrient enriched bean sprouts yourself! Here are a few facts about bean sprouts plus a few different methods that you can try to grow bean sprouts at home.
They have a crunchy and nutty flavor; they are enriched with water content. Mung beans have silvery white and delicate shoots.
Along with above nutritious elements, bean sprouts also have carbohydrates, iron, Vit.B1, Vit.B2, niacin and Vit. C, and enzymes.
Bean sprouts can be used to prepare delicious soups, sandwiches, bread etc. You can also enjoy them stir-fried.
• Use seeds that are small and soft, as larger beans can get moulds and therefore are inedible.
• You can try growing lentil, cabbage seeds, fenugreek, alfalfa and mung beans.
• Mung beans are the easiest to grow and they are quicker too.
• A major portion of bean sprouts are the healthy enzymes, needed for healthy functioning, however, cooking bean sprouts at high temperature can denature the enzymes and render the bean sprouts with negligible health benefits.
• It is better not to cook them too much or to eat them raw.
• Get pathogen-free, certified seeds.
• Heat the seeds in a 3% solution of Hydrogen peroxide (preheated to 60 degree centigrade) for 5 minutes.
• Use a thermometer to check the temperature; you need to keep the temperature constant during heating.
• You can also take small seeds and put them in a mesh strainer, now immerse them directly in the heated peroxide solution.
• Swirl the strainer, giving one minute interval.
• Caution: use small volumes of seeds and always discard the peroxide solution after each seed batch is treated to ensure its effectiveness.
• Rinse the seeds for 1 minute in the running tap water.
• Place the rinsed seeds in a container and pour water so the seeds are soaked one inch deep.
• Carefully skim off all the floating seeds (dispose off any debris). It is a bit more hard work but it is worth the health safety.
• Take a clean container to sprout the seeds in it.
• Keep the sprout beans away from household food items.
1. Use plain laundry bleach.
2. Take 3⁄4 th cup of bleach per gallon of water.
3. Soak the container to be used in bleach-water.
4. Leave it for 5 minutes, then rinse with clean water.
Young children, elderly people or people having weak immune system should avoid eating raw sprouts and/or homemade sprouts.
• Take clean a plastic or glass jar.
• A moderate sized piece of clean cloth (muslin or cotton) to cover jar's top surface.
• An elastic band to secure the cloth on jar top.
• Some certified (pathogen-free) seeds to grow.
• Wash the seeds well before use.
• Pour tepid water over the seeds and swish the jar for sometime.
• Now cover jar's top with cloth, tie around the elastic band and drain off the water via the cloth.
• Now place the covered jar in a warm and dark cupboard (approximately 75 degrees).
• Twice a day with a 12 hour gap in between, pour warm water over your seeds, then swish the jar for a few seconds and drain off the water.
• Then replace the jar in cupboard.
• Usually the sprouting starts within 2-6 days, it depends on the type of seeds you use.
• Use the sprouts as soon as they are one-three inches long.
• Tip: if you like a white sprout bean, keep the seeds in a dark place, but keep it in lighter place if you desire green seeds, once the seeds start germinating.
• Take half cup of washed beans (wash with cold water before use), and soak them in clean cold water for an hour or whole night (for better results).
• Take a flat bottom strainer, and place a paper towel or handkerchief on it.
• Pour the rinsed beans on the strainer.
• Now place another paper towel or handkerchief to cover the beans.
• Shower the covered beans with cold water.
• Put this bean laden strainer on a bucket and place it in a dark corner.
• Put the bean laden strainer on a bucket and place it in a dark cupboard.
• You need to change the towels and cover the beans again and then shower them with cold water, twice daily (after 12 hours) for 4-5 days.
• The sprout beans should be ready for use after 5 or 6 days.
• Once they grow to one-three inch, you can use them.
Enjoy the fresh and healthy bean sprouts made by you under your own supervision and health check!
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Q: MySQL INSERT SELECT FROM multiple tables if record doesn't already exist I am trying to run a query that essentially looks like this:
INSERT INTO lessons_skills_xref (lessons_id, skills_id)
SELECT id FROM lessons, (SELECT id FROM skills WHERE title = "title 1")
/* PSEUDO CODE - Where the ids for both lesson and skill don't already exist */

Not sure how to accomplish the last part. Any ideas?

A: Assuming lessons_skills_xref has a unique key on (lessons_id,skills_id), an easy way would be to just use INSERT IGNORE
INSERT IGNORE INTO lessons_skills_xref (lessons_id, skills_id)
SELECT id, (SELECT id FROM skills WHERE title = "title 1") FROM lessons

The INSERT IGNORE syntax will insert the record if it doesn't already exist, or ignore it if it's already there.

A: INSERT INTO lessons_skills_xref (lessons_id, skills_id)

SELECT lessons.id, skills.id FROM lessons
inner join skills on <join criteria here>

where not exists (select 1 from lessons_skill_xref x where
                  x.lessons_id = lessons.id and x.skills_id = skills.id)

and skills.title = "title 1"

A: Are you trying to generate a Cartesian join between every lesson.id and the skills.id for the "title 1" skill?  I'm not sure your SELECT clause will work.  This may:
    INSERT INTO lessons_skills_xref (lessons_id, skills_id)
    (SELECT l.id, s.id FROM lessons l, skills s
        WHERE s.title = "title 1"
        AND NOT EXISTS
            (SELECT * FROM lessons_skills_xref
                WHERE lessons_id=l.id
                AND skills_id=s.id)
    );

Note that this is untested.


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