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The Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations is an international women's field hockey tournament governed by African Hockey Federation. The winning team becomes the champions of Africa and qualified for the FIH Hockey World Cup.

Qualification
The top two highest-ranked teams in the FIH World Rankings qualify directly for the tournament while the other teams have to play in the regional qualifiers. The top two teams from each of the regional qualifiers qualify for the tournament. The three regions are Northeast Africa, Northwest Africa, and Central south Africa.

Results

Summary

* = hosts

Team appearances

See also
Field hockey at the African Games
Men's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
Women's African Olympic Qualifier

References

African championships
Recurring sporting events established in 1990

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Orange Bowl Press Conference Quotes
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"We have accepted an invitation to the FedEx Orange Bowl against Virginia Tech. It's an exciting day here at the University of Kansas. What you see here is a culmination of a bunch of young players working hard, working together, making great sacrifices, a great staff of assistant coaches, tireless work and family sacrifices to get Kansas' football program in the national spotlight. We have support staff people that work so hard that are behind the scenes that have made this program successful. We have great support from Lew Perkins, our athletic director, who worked so tirelessly on this bowl situation. Our Chancellor (Robert Hemenway) has been very supportive. Dr. Hemenway's support for this program has been unwavering since I've been here. Today is a really exciting day. I'm so proud of our players and our coaching staff for what they have accomplished this year. We have one more to go and we are looking forward to playing a very good Virginia Tech team in the Orange Bowl."
On his feelings Saturday:
"I was confident that our team was going to get a big bowl berth. I felt like we had a very good chance to get a BCS berth and I think it's only fitting that last year we were bowl eligible and didn't get a call for a bowl. It's fitting for our players and our university to get this opportunity. I'd rather play out of conference, but if (playing Oklahoma) was the only way we could have played in the BCS bowl then fine, we'd play Oklahoma. I had a conversation at about 12:30 last night with Oklahoma's head coach (Bob Stoops) and we laughed about what might happen, but it didn't and we're very pleased with where we are right now."
On the practice schedule:
"We practiced today and we will practice Friday, Saturday and Sunday. After that, I haven't worked anything out yet. I just wanted to make sure where we were going and how we are going to do it. There are a lot of things that figure into the schedule. We have finals coming up pretty soon, but about mid-week, George Matsakis (Director of Football Operations) and I will sit down and work out a detailed schedule all the way through the bowl game."
On whether going to the Orange Bowl is a dream come true:
"Dreaming is a passive state. We talk here all the time with our players, `you can dream or you can pursue'. This is the product of our players and our coaches pursuing this goal and working hard to obtain it. We talk about pursuing and I think that's the reason why we are going to the Orange Bowl."
On whether his bowl experience will be beneficial:
"I think it will help, I know some of the pitfalls that come with it. I think I've got a good idea of what it takes to prepare for this type of a bowl game. I don't have to worry too much. Our kids are great kids. They will do the right things. They'll work hard on the field. They won't be distracted by all the attention and activities. This group is not distracted very easily. We'll have some fun. I want our players to enjoy this experience. They've earned it. I want them to have a good time, but while we're on the field and we're in meetings, it will be business as usual."
On the team's reaction when they found out:
"It was great to stand in the room and watch as they found out. (Athletic Director) Lew (Perkins) brought a bag of oranges in and threw them out to all the seniors. They were grinning from ear to ear. They earned it and I'm so proud of them. It was something to watch the smiles on their faces and the way they reacted."
Linebacker Joe Mortensen:
On the team's reaction when they found out they were playing in the FedEx Orange Bowl:
"It was a relief and it was awesome. We have worked hard to be one of the best teams in America and we're glad we're playing in the BCS Orange Bowl. It is one of the best bowls you can go to, so we are really happy."
Tight End Derek Fine:
On whether the Orange Bowl is better than the Tangerine Bowl:
"By far. I like oranges. They taste better and they're bigger."
On their BCS berth:
"This is something that we have set our goals for. Like Coach said earlier, we pursued those goals. We put all the hard work in and we deserved it. Mr. Perkins put a lot of hard work into it and we're all smiles. Anytime you go to a BCS game, it is going to outweigh anything else. Of course, there is the national championship, but the next best thing is a BCS game. We've had a successful season and we deserve it."
Quarterback Todd Reesing:
On the past week:
"It was a frustrating loss, but this past week we enjoyed our time off. We focused on some school work and we were just waiting around for today. I was confident, with (Athletic Director) Mr. Perkins and everyone that we have in the athletic department that worked so hard, that we would end up in a great bowl."
On his reaction to the news of going to a BCS bowl:
"I was rather ecstatic. To go from not getting a bowl game last year and having some disappointing losses to go into the second-latest (calendar date) bowl game was a pretty big turnaround and everybody in this program, the coaches and players have worked hard. We're very deserving; we've proven that all year. We are one of only two one-loss teams. If anyone wants to doubt us, we've proven them wrong all year and we're going to continue to do that because we've earned the spot we've got."
Defensive tackle James McClinton:
On the fan support:
"The fan support is really good. I thank the Lord for the fans that will go down to Miami. We've had good fan support this year. It's the best since I've been here."
Running back Brandon McAnderson:
On the satisfaction of making the Orange Bowl:
"Absolutely. It's been great and it's been a journey here for my five years. As a team we've grown and as a program we've grown. The opportunity in front of us is huge. It is monumental for the program and the city and the fans and the players, everybody involved. I was happy, all smiles like everybody else, seeing the joy on everybody's faces as we were rewarded."

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Bhatt Kal Sahar was a Brahmin bard in the court of Guru Arjan, whose 54 hymns are incorporated in Adi Granth. The title Bhatt is given to learned Brahmins. Traditionally, Kal Sahar is believed to a collector of hymns of other Bhatts which were later incorporated into Guru Granth Sahib by Guru Arjan.

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Sikh Bhagats


As we quickly approach the 2015 Oscars, the American Sniper controversies are far from over. The Clint Eastwood film starring Bradley Cooper as the deadliest sniper in U.S. history, Chris Kyle, may be raking in movie ticket sales and breaking box-office records, but it continues to stir the political pot. Now the tension has even spilled overseas to Baghdad, where its only movie theater has pulled the film from its slate amid various complaints.
If we show it, we will be criticized. But if we don't, we lose money. A lot of people wanted to see this film.
Many people did see the film anyway, through online channels. But there were many citizens besides government officials who denounced the film. As The Post notes, one theater screening of the film incited shouts from the audience due to harmful and insulting portrayals of the Iraqi people. Specifically, the scene in which a young boy picks up a grenade launcher was called "a lie" and "demeaning" to the culture. According to other viewers, like 27-year-old teacher Ahmed Kamal, there are many inaccuracies and one-sided retellings that form a false image of Iraqis.
As Kamal said, American Sniper makes all Iraqis out to look like terrorists and "savages," while all the American characters were glorified for their bravery. In addition, 32-year-old Sarmad Moazzem, who was one of the many Iraqis who worked with the American troops, said the film left out this entire portion of the story.
While the argument can be made that American Sniper is just a film and should be taken more as a dramatization instead of historical fact, it's important to note that Muslim- and Arab-Americans have noted a stark rise in threats made against them as a result of the film. According to a letter addressed to Bradley Cooper by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the largest Arab civil rights organization in America, the negative portrayals of these people in the film has reignited hatred and harmful stereotypes. The group's president, Samer Khalaf, called for a statement from the star of the film denouncing such actions by audience members, as he felt simply boycotting the film would only inspire more people to go see it. As of this time, the Oscar nominee has yet to respond.


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History's Hunger Heroes: George McGovern
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Senator George McGovern lived a legacy of hunger relief. He was a lifelong advocate for hungry people abroad and at home – and played an instrumental role in the establishment of the World Food Programme.
McGovern was elected to the House of Representatives in 1956. In 1961, he was appointed by newly elected President Kennedy to lead U.S. Food for Peace Program. Upon assuming the role, Kennedy challenged him to find a better way to feed the world's hungry. McGovern proposed the idea of a multilateral food-aid program. Seven months later, the UN approved, and WFP was born.
In 1962, McGovern was elected to the Senate. Throughout his political career, he remained deeply committed to the issues of food and hunger. McGovern was particularly passionate about child nutrition and school meals. In the 90s, he teamed up with a Senator from across the aisle – Bob Dole – to revive and improve school feeding programs across the world.
Together, Dole and McGovern launched America's first global initiative dedicated to feeding hungry children: the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. The program put America's mark on the belief that children should never have to forgo education because they are hungry. Humanitarian agencies like WFP could now stock school meals programs overseas using U.S. crops and leverage financial and technical assistance from the U.S. government. Since the program's inception, it's reached more than 40 million hungry kids abroad.
In recognition of their achievement, Dole and McGovern were awarded the World Food Prize in 2008.
Until his death in 2012, McGovern continued to be active in hunger relief – serving on WFP USA's board. Senator McGovern truly left a legacy by making an invaluable impact on the fight against global hunger. His tireless efforts saved and changed the lives of millions of people across the world.
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Trump faces a legal reckoning this week. But are his worst troubles yet to come?
When the public fires a president before election day, as it did Jimmy Carter, Nixon and Herbert Hoover, they don't send him a letter telling him he's fired.
They just make him irrelevant. Politics happens around him, despite him. He's not literally gone but he might as well be.
It has happened to Trump. The courts and House Democrats are moving against him. Senate Republicans are quietly subverting him. Even Mitch McConnell told him to end the shutdown.
The Fed is running economic policy. Top-level civil servants are managing day-to-day work of the agencies.
Action and excitement have shifted elsewhere, to Democratic challengers, even to a 29-year-old freshman congresswoman too young to run.
Don't get me wrong. He's still dangerous, like an old landmine buried in the mud. He could start a nuclear war.
Yet even America's adversaries just humor him. Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping give him tidbits to share with the American public, then do whatever they want.
When you passed your tax bill you promised our paychecks would rise by an average of $4,000 but we never got the raise. Our employers used the tax savings to buy back their shares of stock and give themselves raises instead.
Then you fooled us into thinking we were getting a cut by lowering the amounts withheld from our 2018 paychecks. We know that now because we're getting smaller tax refunds.
Which is why more than 75% of us (including 45% who call ourselves Republicans) support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposed 70% tax on dollars earned in excess of $10m a year.
And over 60% of us support Elizabeth Warren's proposed 2% annual tax on households with a net worth of $50m or more.
You've also shown you don't have a clue about healthcare. You promised us something better than the Affordable Care Act but all you've done is whittle it back.
A big reason we gave Democrats control of the House last November was your threat to eliminate protection for people with pre-existing conditions.
Are you even aware that 70% of us now favor Medicare for all?
Most of us don't pay much attention to national policy but we pay a lot of attention to home economics. You've made our own home economics worse.
We'll give you official notice you're fired on 3 November 2020, if not before. Until then, you can keep the house and perks, but you're toast.


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30 Flood depths to about 13 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. The water levels be higher than in October 1973... when Interstate Highway I-35 washed away. Electricity to Tonkawa may be affected when the river stage reaches 28 feet. Road closures include... Interstate Highway I-35 in the vicinity of the river... Fountain Road at U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City.
29 Flood depths to about 12 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Flood levels will be similar to those in October 1973... when Interstate Highway I-35 washed away. Electricity to Tonkawa may be affected when the river stage reaches 28 feet. Road closures include... Interstate Highway I-35 in the vicinity of the river... Fountain Road at U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City.
28 Flood depths to about 11 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. these water levels be almost as high as the October 1973 flood which washed out Interstate Highway I-35. Electric power to Tonkawa may be affected by substation flooding. Road closures include... Interstate Highway I-35 in the vicinity of the river... Fountain Road at U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City.
27 Flood depths ranging up to about 10 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Private levees may be overtopped... and farmland and oilfields are flooded hours before the crest. Road closures include... Interstate Highway I-35 in the vicinity of the river... Fountain Road at U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City.
26 Flood depths ranging up to about 9 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Private levees may be overtopped... and farmland and oilfields are flooded hours before the crest. The southbound lanes of Interstate Highway I-35 may be covered by floodwaters. Road closures include... Fountain Road at U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City.
25 Flood depths ranging up to about 8 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Private levees may be overtopped... and farmland and oilfields are flooded hours before the crest. The southbound lanes of Interstate Highway I-35 may be threatened by floodwaters. Road closures include... Fountain Road at U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City.
24 Flood depths ranging up to about 7 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Private levees may be overtopped... and farmland and oilfields are flooded hours before the crest. Road closures include... Fountain Road at U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City.
23 Flood depths ranging up to about 6 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Farmland and oilfields are flooded hours before the crest. Road closures include... Fountain Road at U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City.
21 Flood depths ranging up to about 4 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Farmland and oilfields are flooded hours before the crest. Fountain Road at U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City are closed.
20 Flood depths ranging up to about 3 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Farmland and oilfields are flooded hours before the crest. The intersection of Fountain Road and U.S. Highway 77 south of Tonkawa... and State Highway 156 between Marland and Ponca City are closed.
19 Flood depths ranging up to about 2 feet move from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Farmland and oilfields are flooded hours before the crest.
18 Flood overflows are about a foot deep over unleveed agricultural lands... oilfields... and rural roads along the river in eastern Grant County... through Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City.
17 Shallow floodwaters move along the river from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Farmland and oilfields may be flooded.
16 Near bankfull flows move along the river from eastern Grant County...across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Low-lying farmland and oilfields may be flooded hours before the crest reaches Tonkawa.
15 Within bank flows move along the river from eastern Grant County... across Kay County... to the confluence with the Arkansas River below Ponca City. Some low-lying oilfields may be isolated.
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Turbo B or better known as the male voice behind SNAP! is not only known as a rapper, but also as a beatboxer and mood cannon from the 90S.
It all started in the mid-80s when Turbo B aka Durron Maurice Butler was based near Frankfurt. At that time, music producers Rico Sparx and Moses P quickly discovered that he was a top-notch rapper and beat boxer. After his military service ended, he returned to the United States, but soon returned to Germany to continue his musical career. There he became the music producer Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti for their project Snap! presented and engaged as rapper and front man.
With SNAP! followed some of the most successful Eurodance megahits like Power, Rhythym is a Dancer, Ooops Up, Cult of Snap !, Marry Had a Little Boy and much more.
Turbo also continues to act as a solo artist and has already been involved in various music projects.
Turbo B is currently very present internationally; the 90s radio festival events are definitely in focus.
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As can be seen from the chart below (click for larger image, link to original data here), the fracking of tight oil formations in the U.S. has made a major impact on U.S. crude production. The critical question is whether the current large year-on-year percentage growth rates in oil production can be sustained (click for larger image). The year-on-year increase in production peaked in October 2012 at 18.2%, but April 2013 also recorded a very strong 16.9% year-on-year jump. Currently, year-on-year oil production gains remain robust, in contrast with U.S. natural gas trends.
Given crude oil is a globally traded commodity, U.S. production numbers need to be placed in the context of world supply and demand. In its latest Oil Market Report dated 12 June 2013, the International Energy Agency (IEA) recorded global 'all liquids' production of 91.3 million bpd for May 2013, down marginally from the previous month, but up 0.2 million bpd over May 2012. The June 2013 Oil Market Report can be found here.
Full quarterly IEA world supply-and-demand figures, including Q3 2013 estimates, can be found here.


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Tineidae » Nemapogoninae
Pale Devon Clothes Moth Nemapogon inconditella - Distribution map
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Pale Devon Clothes Moth Nemapogon inconditella
(Lucas, 1956)
An endangered species with mysterious origins in Britain. It belongs to the Tineidae family of fungus-eating moths and occurs widely, though uncommonly, across the Palaearctic, from Spain and Morocco to central Asia.
On 7 July 1979, in Chudleigh Knighton Heath, south Devon, a single female specimen was collected and documented. No records of this moth have been made on the British Isles since. Although chances are, according to Heath and Emmet (1985), this could be an overlooked species, which may turn up under another name in specimen collections.
The Pale Devon Clothes Moth has a rather unassuming appearance. Its pallid forewings are irregularly flecked with dark brown markings. The most distinctive of these markings is a near-rectangular patch extending from the leading edge of the forewing to the centre. Its hindwings are drab grey.
Not much is known about the larvae of this species, except that they are thought to live off the bracket fungus, Turkey Tail Mushroom (Trametes versicolor).
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IT Choice Points
Choice Points. No matter what role one plays in an organization, everyone has Choice Points that arise from time-to-time to which he or she must respond. A Choice Point is one of those critical strategic decisions to make on behalf of the organization. These decisions can become career-impacting in that, if the outcome goes well, the individual will likely earn high praise and may even receive more responsibility or a promotion. Conversely, if the result of a Choice Point decision falls short of expectations or completely fails, that employee may have to look for another job unexpectedly.
Choice Points commonly have the following characteristics:
The consequences of being wrong are severe. For example:
A software company's strategy ignored the Internet and security and went out of business.
A hospital failed to execute a provider network strategy and lost money and market share.
These decisions have major impact on other determinations. For example:
A move to protocol-driven care.
How will it get provider buy-in and sustained support?
What governance structure needs to be established?
How do we measure and report progress and to whom?
These decisions have a significant impact and changes to the business. For example:
Taking on contractual risk arrangements.
Implementing a true continuum-of-care strategy.
Pursuing an acquisition or joint venture.
In the world of Information Technology (IT), Chief Information Officers (CIOs) also face their own high risk, high cost, and highly visible Choice Points. The extent to which these Choice Points are assessed, understood, communicated, and executed have a critical effect upon the upstream and downstream operations throughout the organization. Decisions involving IT often touch many or all aspects of an organization.
Following are a few IT Choice Point examples that many CIOs with whom we interact are currently facing:
Cloud-Based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Architecture. Deciding to move one's EMR to or from a cloud-based strategy (either in-house or another cloud-based environment) is one of the most critical Choice Points that a CIO can make. Such a decision sets a course for at least the next 5 to 7 years.
Clinical Decision Support (CDS). Many organizations are investing in CDS systems to help providers make higher quality, more timely, and cost-effective decisions with less variability. Such a move leads to other critical determinations to address, such as who and how will decision rules be developed? How will medications, labs, procedures, problems, etc., be coded and by whom? Who and how will the providers be trained and supported? Without addressing these and related questions, providers have revolted against such initiatives, causing these projects to fall far short or fail.
IT Health and Wellness Check-Up. Before embarking on a major IT system implementation, a CIO needs to decide if the organization's physical IT infrastructure and operations, including data networking, cabling, in-house file servers, software, backup and recovery, data security and confidentiality, virtualization, and cloud adaptability are ready for such an endeavor.
Program Management, System Conversion, and Implementation. CIOs must develop and implement a strategy to convert complex core application systems to a set of new application systems (e.g., EMR, revenue cycle) including mapping, testing, and migrating data from the old to the new IT systems and training users effectively. Today's broad and complex IT implementation undertakings require a more comprehensive program management approach to manage several related projects simultaneously to ensure that the result improves an organization's performance and effectiveness.
Legacy System Support and Retirement Strategy. CIOs must also develop and implement an approach to support and decommission older IT systems and data that are superseded by new systems and/or inherited as a result of mergers or acquisitions. Ensuring data integrity, security, and archiving is a fundamental responsibility of the CIO, without which the organization cannot function in our digital society.
IT Leadership and Staff Development. CIOs must continually evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their IT organizational structure, including staff roles and responsibilities, knowledge, skills, processes, governance, and current and planned IT portfolio to help justify the value provided from the current IT spend. The development of IT leadership, communication, customer service, technical, and team-building skills must precede or be commensurate with the progress and need of the organization.
How well CIOs handle their Choice Points directly facilitates or impedes the contribution IT makes to the progress or success of an organization. Astute CIOs anticipate and recognize their Choice Points along the way. They also know when they may need a second or third opinion from a trusted fellow CIO, advisor, or another third party.
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It was almost time for him to come home, but I was nowhere close to starting dinner preparations. I had to take her to the children's park but I was in no mood albeit she was feeling crabby and needy. I wanted some fresh air too, more so to be by myself. After a brief phone call and half an hour later he eventually made it home, picked her up to the park and I, refused to go. He suggested we go out for dinner, but knowing me, I turned that down too.
I prefer home-made, I said.
After pondering for a good 15 mins, I dragged myself to the kitchen and scrambled through the refrigerator. Potatoes, Spinach, lemon and some Nalgari powder, neighbor Maami* gave me the other day! Was it the bulb in the refrigerator or the light bulb inside my head? And quickly, I was out of my blues and into cooking the green.
The very thought of Aloo Palak immediately fills me with a whiff of Garam malasa and a mild aroma of cumin seeds. Unlike that, this one tells the tale of a blend of spices so south Indian, hence named that way.
It is inexplicable just how heavenly it looked to my eyes. Almost like in the movie Ratatouille, how the critic is flown back into the memory lane, the first bite of it took me right down to a Darshini* in namma* Bengalooru, to the taste of the Potato palya* on Masala Dosa, a taste you can only taste in hotels (as it is called there), comforting me like no other. When Maami handed me the Nalgari powder, I seldom imagined that I could use it to rouse such a nostalgic taste. Anyways, here's the finger licking good recipe for it.
I've used red potatoes and I keep the skin as it adds so much to the visual appeal apart from its taste and nutritional benefits.
Microwave the potatoes in a bowl of water covering them for 5 mins or until semi cooked and let cool.
Dice the potatoes when cooled.
Heat oil in a medium size kadai or skillet over medium to high heat. Add in the mustard seeds and let splutter.
Add in the methi seeds, urad dal, green chillies and hing in that order.
When the urad dal turns golden brown, add the turmeric and onions and sauté until onions turn translucent.
Sprinkle in the salt, Nalgari powder and Kobri and stir well.
Switch off, squeeze in the lemon juice, mix well and serve hot with Chapati, Roti or Puri.
Alternatively, the potatoes can be diced raw and cooked in the skillet till done. Microwave method reduces the cooking time in half.
It looks delicious! I saw your blog from the foodie blog roll and I like what you have here.if you won't mind I'd love to guide Foodista readers to this post.Just add the potato widget at the end of this post and it's all set, Thanks!
Hope you'll find more recipes of your interest here.
I like the addition of spinach to this dish – makes it an easy way to eat spinach. Also, the mix of colors with potato, sauted onions and green spinach make it look very mesmerizing. Veggies love it!
I am glad you like it. Yes, it is indeed a yum way of sneaking in Spinach!
Can't wait to try your recipes. After 11 years in London, I love curry! I'm very happy I found your site, and all thanks to Shira's post.


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Mocking the French for getting it right
Tue, 11/02/2010 - 16:27 — Dave Culver
Everything the American public has been told by the corporate news media about the anti-austerity uprisings in France, England and other European countries is a lie.
There's No Place Like Europe
James Clay Fuller, Evergreene Digest
The picture we've been given by our big newspapers, magazines and television – as always, especially television – is as phony as a photograph showing Sarah Palin sitting on Barack Obama's lap and nibbling his ear. It's a picture so false as to make Fox News domestic political coverage look fair and objective by comparison.
This is important. The real story hidden by the fakery is enormously important to the people of the United States.
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Stallman says, "Agriculture has a great story of sustainability to share. Conventional and organic alike--we're keeping America fed and preserving our valuable resources for generations to come. People need to hear it straight from the ones who know it best."
Richards & Son agrees, getting the word out is important and there is nobody better suited to share that story than the ones who are living it daily. We hope you will continue to follow us as we keep you up to date on what is happening at Richards & Son and in the farming community. But we also hope you will share your own stories as well.
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Alabama GOP senate candidate says 'homosexual activities' have ruined TV, country's moral core
By Owen Daugherty - 07/16/19 02:28 PM EDT
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R), a 2020 Senate candidate, says that Americans are too "preoccupied with homosexual activities" and "the wife swap shows," ruining everything from TV to the country's moral direction.
Merrill, one of multiple Republicans looking to challenge Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) made the comments over the weekend at a town hall event in Dekalb County, according to the Yellowhammer News.
As he took questions from attendees, one asked about the culture shift and how the country's principles have allegedly been eroded, prompting Merrill to point to what is being shown on TV, among other things.
"How have we allowed it to happen? There are no more good TV shows on like 'Gunsmoke,' 'Bonanza,' 'The Virginian,' 'Andy Griffith,' 'I Love Lucy.' We don't have those shows anymore. We're too interested in homosexual activities," Merrill said.
"We're too interested in seeing how this family's finding a way to mess on this family or to see how people are trying to date on TV, or having wife-swapping on TV. That's what we watch. When we push back against that, and we quit allowing it to be in our homes — that's how those changes have occurred because we've allowed them to slowly but surely come into our lives," he said.
Merrill confirmed his comments to Al.com Monday night in a phone interview, though he did not point to specific examples of the "homosexual activities" he was referring to.
"The foundational principles which we have grown up as a nation are no more," Merrill said.
He said there are no longer TV shows "that are based on biblical foundations. … shows that promote family and culture with a father, a mother and children based on biblical teachings and biblical principles on which our nation was founded."
Merrill is one of five current Republican candidates looking to unseat Jones, who is considered one of next year's most vulnerable senators. The other GOP candidates include former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore Roy Stewart MooreAlabama zeroes in on Richard Shelby's future Long-shot Espy campaign sees national boost in weeks before election Ocasio-Cortez slams Tulsi Gabbard for amplifying ballot harvesting video MORE, Rep. Bradley Byrne Bradley Roberts ByrneLobbying world Lawmakers grill Pentagon over Trump's Germany drawdown Bottom line MORE (Ala.), former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville and state Rep. Arnold Mooney.
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Q: Sum of Joda Money split into 2 columns with Spring Data JPA I'm trying to use JODA money class with Jadira types to handle mapping to Hibernate 4.
It's working okay (except that I'm getting too many currency fields).
But I need to build an aggregate query to sum some totals.
This is the type declaration.
@Columns(columns = { @Column(name = "total_currency", length=10), @Column(name = "total") })
@Type(type = "org.jadira.usertype.moneyandcurrency.joda.PersistentMoneyAmountAndCurrency")
private Money total;

And I'm trying to define a query, something like:
@Query(value="select sum(oi.total) from OrderItem oi where oi.order = ?1")
Double calculateSubtotal(Order order);

Is there a way to aggregate query against a Money field using the JPQL?
Thanks.

A: There is two ways , but they are limited and I doubt you will really like them :(
The main limitation is that in Hibernate HQL you can not invoke methods unless they are mapped properties - end of story. Hibernate does not support Method Invocation
On the other hand you can Map one column as many times as you want as long as you remember that only a single mapping can be updatable. Having this in mind The first step is that you need to do the Hibernate aware of the joda Money. Obviously you can not just annotate it. There are two ways for you to do this:

*

*You can use XML to actually annotate the Money class as @Embeddable class. XML hibernate configuration can be used to configure something that is closed source. From what I see in the Money joda - time configuration.

*The second solution. Probably the one I would use. Is to wrap the Money class in a Wrapper that is declared as @Embeddable.  This embedded wrapper you can define multiple mappings for you existing database columns. When you set a value to the WRAPER this value will be pushed to the soda time Money that is inside.
Once you do this you can expose through the wrapper any attribute of the Money class that you want and do any aggregation you want.
@Embeddable
public class MoneyWrapper {

    @Columns(columns = { @Column(name = "total_currency", length=10), @Column(name = "total") })
    @Type(type = "org.jadira.usertype.moneyandcurrency.joda.PersistentMoneyAmountAndCurrency")
    Money totalmoney;

    @Column(name = "total",updateable=false,insterable=false);
    BigDecimal total to agregate;

    @Column(name = "total_currency",updateable=false,insterable=false);
    BigDecimal totalCurrency;
}

As a result of this mapping you can do a query like:

@Query(value="select select sum(oi.total.totalCurrency) from OrderItem oi where
  oi.order = ?1")

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It is very important for your hair to look fresh, thick, voluminous, large and shine. You have tried so many shampoos, so many homemade treatments, you have visited so many different salons and clinics just to have the hair of your dreams. At the end of the day, you still feel that something is missing and your hair is not according to what you have dreamed of.
Well, the problem is not with the clinics, shampoos, and the salons you are visiting, the problem lies with the diet that you are taking. It is very important for you to have proteins, vitamins and minerals in your diet to have good hair growth.
Vitamin supplements are basically made up of right quantity of vitamins and minerals. Only their consumption can give you good growth of hair.
Omega three can be obtained from Solomon, oyster, soy, sardines, Cod liver oil, Flax seeds, Chia seeds and from many other sources. Omega fights with depression and inflammation along with this it helps in the growth of new hair follicles. So you can have your volume of hair back.
Proteins can be obtained from eggs, meat, beef, chicken, beans, milk, lentils and etc. As hair themselves are made up of proteins, so, the food full of proteins will give a boost to your hair follicles.
Nuts, seeds and rice are full of magnesium, the more you eat this stuff the more hair you will have on your head.
Spinach, sweet potatoes, chickpeas, oyster are highly rich in zinc which is essential for the long and healthy growth of hair follicles.
To make your hair strong like iron you need the uninterrupted supply of iron that can be provided by eating more and more red meat, poultry, eggs, raisins, apricots, spinach, dark chocolate, etc.
Vitamin A can be obtained from egg yolk, milk, spinach, dried apricots and from mangoes. It helps in the production of sebum in the hair scalp which is basically natural oil, it also prevents hair from drying out. If you take Vitamin A-enriched diet regularly you will never find dryness and dandruff in your hair.
Vitamin B71 or biotin helps in the production of fatty acids within the cells in the hair and helps in their growth. They work in line with the amino acids and fats, and they are building blocks of proteins. Many hair products in the markets are using it as their important ingredient. So, imagine if your hair will get the natural supply how faster it will grow. Mushrooms, avocados, eggs, raspberries, peanut butter, salmon, bananas, and almonds are rich with Vitamin B71.
This vitamin can be obtained from cheese, milk, yogurt and eggs. The hair growth is slow due to the absence of vitamin B12. This vitamin helps with the cell growth and division in the hair follicles and if its intake increase the hair growth will increase.
Vitamin C and E are essential for the body including the hair, they can be obtained from citrus fruits, eggs, almonds, peanuts, fish and from many other numerous sources. They add shine to your hair, give them strength and help your hair to last for long.
Folic acid helps in making your hair growing thicker and shiny. It is very difficult to find the natural source of folic acid but usually, it comes along with the Vitamin B in different foods. The alternative is that it can be consumed in shape of supplements because it is very necessary for hair growth.
Growing and sustaining thick and long hair will not be a problem when you will have diet enriched with vitamins and minerals.


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package edu.gemini.spModel.test;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public final class TestFile {
    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(TestFile.class.getName());

    private TestFile() {}

    // Finds the StackTraceElement of the client of TestFile so that the temp
    // file can contain the calling class and method in its name.
    private static StackTraceElement findCaller(StackTraceElement[] stack, int pos) {
        if (pos >= stack.length) throw new RuntimeException("Couldn't find caller!");
        final StackTraceElement candidate = stack[pos];

        final String className = candidate.getClassName();
        if ("java.lang.Thread".equals(className) || TestFile.class.getCanonicalName().equals(className)) {
            return findCaller(stack, ++pos);
        } else {
            return candidate;
        }
    }

    public static File create() {
        final StackTraceElement[] ste  = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();
        final StackTraceElement caller = findCaller(ste, 0);
        final String className         = caller.getClassName();
        final String methodName        = caller.getMethodName();
        final String fileName          = String.format("%s.%s", className, methodName);
        try {
            final File f = File.createTempFile(fileName, null);
            f.deleteOnExit();
            return f;
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Couldn't create temp file: " + fileName);
        }
    }

    public interface Arm<T> {
        public T apply(File f) throws Exception;
    }

    public static <T> T arm(Arm<T> a) throws Exception {
        final File f = create();
        try {
            return a.apply(f);
        } finally {
            if (f.exists() && !f.delete()) {
                LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "Couldn't delete test file: " + f);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Serializes the given object out to a file then reads it back and returns
     * it.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static <T> T ser(final T tOut) throws Exception {
        return arm(new Arm<T>() {
            @Override
            public T apply(File f) throws Exception {
                final ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(f));
                try {
                    out.writeObject(tOut);
                    out.flush();
                } finally {
                    out.close();
                }

                final ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(f));
                try {
                    return (T) in.readObject();
                } finally {
                    in.close();
                }
            }
        });
    }
}

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First Listen: The Autos – "Trespass" feat. Elliot Martin
By	Dave Shiffman on Dec 30, 2020 •
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The Autos is comprised of Ian Gastl, Nick Wimer, Taylor Kaufman and Pancho Tranmer. Mixed by Ian Gastl, and mastered by Danny Kalb, the single was produced and recorded at The Autos' headquarters Turbo Snail Studios in the mile high city, Denver, CO.
American reggae trailblazers John's Brown Body may be on indefinite hiatus, but then, who isn't right now? Nevertheless, when the band made that announcement during the summer of 2016, many fans of modern reggae music winced at the news.
Thankfully, band members have been continuing to put out great music with other projects. Guitarist/singer Jay Spaker recently released his second awesome album as Double Tiger. Bass player Dan Africano has been laying down the low notes with jam band Ghost Light while continuing to bless us with reggae basslines as Death By Dub. Likewise, drummer Tommy Benedetti has been holding down the beat with Dub Apocalypse and Organically Good Trio. Keyboard player Jon Petronzio has his Road Man solo project while performing around his home base of Ithaca with funkmasters The Comb Down alongside trombone player TJ Schaper, who also has been playing with world music collective Nahko and Medicine for the People.
Last but not least, of course, JBB visionary and vocalist Elliot Martin recently collaborated with Iya Terra guitarist Nick Sefakis on a full-length album, and will be among the first reggae artists to put out new music in 2021 with his single, "Trespass," dropping on New Year's Day. However, reggae fans can hear the song today, right here, right now.
Martin's song will be the first release by The Autos, a Denver-based production group including former Tatanka vocalist/guitar player, Ian Gastl, Nick Wimer of local reggae rockers Project 432, former Tatanka guitar tech Pancho Tranmer and Taylor Kaufman, both of whom will be putting out music later this year as part of a new reggae outfit produced by Gastl called Massif.
"The Autos started as a way to create music with no boundaries, focused on collaboration culture and capturing moments in a studio atmosphere," Gastl described. "Not a band, but more so a production environment that is open to working with all types of artists and players." Asked why they decided to create music as a production team rather than as a band, Gastl said that they didn't want to pigeonhole themselves creatively and also wanted to give the group the opportunity to work with artists all over the world.
2020 has been a doozy for most people, but few more than Gastl, who, at the onset of the pandemic, was diagnosed with cancer.
"I was touring in Tatanka when I started experiencing pains above my stomach. Really, I chalked it up to bad lifestyle choices," Gastl said.
The pains got so bad while touring over the last three years that at times he could barely move. He would drink and party to dull the pain, but that just made things worse, causing friction with his band and of course, further damaging his health. Eventually, the demands of the band became too much given his compromised well being, so he decided to quit to focus on production work. He had aimed to get to the bottom of his symptoms, but put off seeking help because he was very scared of what the doctor was going to say. He continued to drink to numb his pains while producing a string of rap records, but he finally forced himself to go in for a scope after a trip to the mountains during which he could barely ski due to perpetual exhaustion, and having noticed that his skin was starting to turn yellow.
The doctor knew immediately that he had cancer. He was rushed into emergency surgery that Monday. He spent a week in the hospital, a stay that was cut in half due to Covid.
Now, nine months post surgery, he has only recently begun to feel "kind of normal again."
"When I was diagnosed it did not feel real at all. My world stopped," Gastl related. "Nothing really mattered anymore except health, family and music."
He immediately told himself that his lifestyle had to change if he wanted to live to have kids or experience grandchildren one day. "Family is super important to me, so I also stressed about how much they were hurting, knowing what I was going through."
The hardest part about all this was coming to terms with the fact that he has an incurable disease called Lynch Syndrome. "I'll be in and out of hospitals for the rest of my life, but if that means no more cancer, I'm fine with that."
For others going through similar challenges, Gastl recommends moving at whatever pace works for each individual, whether that means day by day or even minute by minute. "Rest when you need to rest, grind when you need to grind," he advised.
He also vouches for the power of positive thinking and said it helped to put his ordeal in perspective by considering the plights of others. "There is ALWAYS someone who is worse off than you. Know that we are on our own paths for a reason," he said.
With the worst of this frightening tribulation behind him, Gastl expressed his gratitude. "I feel so blessed to be alive and to work on records with my best friends and mentors like Elliot Martin. So lucky to take breath after breath."
Speaking of Martin, his tune premiering today as The Autos first single evokes the work of post-Kevin Kinsella John Brown's Body in a big way. This comes as no surprise, given the fact that Martin's unmistakable voice was at the forefront of their signature sound. While the tune is strongly reminiscent of his longtime band's output, notable differences include the addition of synthesizer to enhance bass tones, and the absence of the signature JBB horn section. Nevertheless, this bona-fide banger should please the JBB massive and fans of progressive reggae through and through, while propelling The Autos out of the gate with a burst and setting the tone for what promises to be an exciting 2021.
Lyrically, Martin uses his unique wordplay to call out the widespread greed and corruption plaguing our society today while at the same time bigging up reggae music as a voice of the people and a tool of rebellion, a classic characteristic of the genre that makes it even more endearing.
Gastl commented, "I think the lyrics are very relative to today's struggles. The United States is in a very fragile state. These are classic Elliot lyrics in my opinion. Speaking on uplifting and coming together but also not backing down to the people who are considered oppressors. We need unity while we also need action."
For their part, The Autos intend to put that action in motion by donating portions of proceeds from all releases to a charity in Denver that helps fund music education in Colorado public schools. Additionally, Gastl has dedicated all of their 2021 releases to two people who had been very influential to him over the years that recently passed: Drew Keys of Haze St. Studios and Common Kings and Dan Sherill, the well regarded South Dakota musician who garnered a lot of fans, friends and admirers in the American reggae rock community.
Keep an eye out for The Autos next record slated for February with Ruff Scott from Easy Star All Stars titled "Boom Shakalak."
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Ever since becoming deeply moved and then essentially obsessed with reggae music as a teenager, Dave has always strove to learn as much as possible about the history and culture of reggae music, Jamaica and Rastafari, the ideology and lifestyle intertwined with reggae.
Over the years, he has interviewed many personalities throughout the reggae world including Ziggy Marley, Burning Spear, Lucky Dube, Bradley Nowell and many artists in the progressive roots scene.
Dave has also written and published a novel, "The Cosmic Burrito," a tale of two friends who drive across the USA in search of the ultimate burrito. He plays ice hockey weekly for a recreational team he founded and manages, Team Rasta.
Reggae music has filled his life with a richness for which he will forever be grateful, and he gives thanks to musicians far and wide, past and present, whether they perform roots, dub, dancehall, skinhead, rocksteady or ska, whether their tools are analog or digital, as well as the producers, promoters, soundsystems, selectors and the reggae massive at large who comprise the international reggae community.
You can follow Dave on Instagram at @rootsdude and Twitter at @ElCosmicBurrito.
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This plugin was built from scratch to give something to those role play servers that can't afford to buy the jobs plugin from Trojaner.
Some ideas (like the admin command to control the jobs) were taken from Trojaner's jobs plugin.
AnnounceJobJoin Self-descriptive. This setting will allow to announce when a player joins a job.
EnablePlugin Self-descriptive. This setting will enable or disable the plugin.
PublicJobs Set or group of jobs that are "public", that meaning anybody can join and leave them at any time.
PrivateJobs Set or group of jobs that are "private", that meaning that a player in the LeaderPermissionGroup specified has to accept them.
JobName (private and public) Self-descriptive, the name of the job.
PermissionGroup (private and public) Self-descriptive, the group in the permissions file that this job will use.
LeaderPermissionGroup (private only) This is the group of the leader of the private job. The leader should be able to accept players when they request to join, so make sure that this is not the same as the PermissionGroup for the job.
For this plugin to work you MUST create the permissions/commands for the jobs in the permission file of rocket FIRST.
Build #4 fixed errors with ALL of the commands. If one of them doesn't work please make sure you have everything CORRECTLY set-up. I've tested this plugin on my own server with correct configuration and it works. I would love if people could report issues with incorrect configuration so that I can make sure on future builds to fix the issues.
Since Build #3, anyone who used build #1 and #2 SHOULD regenerate the translations file due to a change in it.
Example plugin config file linked to the permissions file above.
Fixed most of the bugs that happened in the plugin.
Fix error when group doesn't exist.


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Q: Find the Jordan forms of a matrix from just the ranks of matrix Let $A$ $\in$ $R^{20\times20}$.

*

*rank($A$) = 18,

*rank($A^2$) = rank($A^3$) = 16,

*rank($A −E$) = 18,

*rank($(A − E)^2$) =16,

*rank($(A − E)^3$) = 14,

*rank($(A − E)^4$) = 12,

*rank($(A − E)^5$) = 11,

*rank($(A−E)^6$) = rank($(A−E)^7$) =10,

*rank($A+5E$) = 17,

*rank($(A+5E)^2$) = 15,

*rank($(A+5E)^3$) =rank($(A + 5E)^4$) = 14.

Find Jordan form of matrix $A$.
I don't really know what to do with this. I think the eigenvalues should be $\lambda=1$ and $\lambda=-5$, but after that I'm pretty much lost. I know how Jordan matrices work, I just don't know how to use them in this problem.

A: Hint: For any $\lambda \in \Bbb C$ and integer $k \geq 1$, $\operatorname{rank}((A - \lambda E)^k) - \operatorname{rank}((A - \lambda E)^{k-1})$ is the number of Jordan blocks within the Jordan form of $A$ that have size $k$ or larger.
Note: the sequence $\{\operatorname{rank}((A - \lambda E)^{k-1}) - \operatorname{rank}((A - \lambda E)^{k})\}_{k\geq 1}$ is sometimes called that "Weyr characteristic".


Naagin 3 Star Cast, Characters Real Names, Promo, Serial Timings, HD Images. Hello friends today i am going to share some interesting facts and full serial cast of upcoming colors hindi tv serial Naagin 3. Ekta Kapoor is gearing up to launch the third installment of Television's most popular show Naagin on Colors. TV actress Mouni Roy (aka Shivanya/Shivangi) and Adaa Khan (aka Sesha) who who played the lead role in the supernatural series, made the world fall in love with their scary avatars.
The show that received love, appreciation and ruled the TRp charts with Naagin season 1 & season 2. After two successful seasons, the makers of the show are now gearing up for Naagin 3. Mouni Roy is busy in Bollywood film. Mouni will soon be look in Bollywood film "Gold" with Akshay Kumar and after that, she will be part of ALT Balaji's upcoming web series Mehrunisa post which she will begin with her next Bollywood project Brahmastra alongside Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan. Ekta Kapoor, confirmed the news by teasing her fans with an interesting post on Instagram.
The show will start will Karishma playing the Naagin who gets killed. So she will be reborn as Surbhi Jyoti, as her daughter who will be avenging the killers. Anita Hassnandani will be playing the antagonist Naagin like Ada Khan in the previous two seasons. Naagin 3 will be one big comeback for Pearl Puri. Pearl will be the main guy who will Romance Surbhi.


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Glee's Fifth Season Gets UK Transmission Date
Show to return to small screen at beginning of next month...
The fifth season of Glee is set to hit UK TV screens on Friday, 4 October, it has been revealed.
The new series of the hot show will open on Sky 1 with a two-part special featuring the music of The Beatles, which will be followed by a tribute episode in memory of the late Cory Monteith.
There will then be a break before more episodes are aired.
It has been confirmed that the exit of Cory's character Fin Hudson will deal with the drug abuse that claimed his life, although his character will not pass away from an overdose.
Season five will also see Demi Lovato join the cast as a love interest for Naya Rivera's Santana.
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Glee Creator Ryan Murphy Remembers Cory Monteith And Shares His Final Words
Glee Star Mark Salling Arrested On Child Porn Claims
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During my trip to Nanaimo I was not able to get as much cloud cover as I wanted for these sorts of waterfall and river photos, so I did the majority of my photography in Bowen Park in the evenings. For the most part this allowed me to have even light across my compositions with only the odd brighter spot in the sky. This worked quite well due to the density of the surrounding forest. Evening was also a nice time to be in the park with cooler temperatures, though the mosquitoes felt the same way. There is an extensive trail system in Bowen Park, and you are able to walk along the Millstone River for much of its run through the park. Just remember to bring some bug repellant!


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Secret Wars Toys As A Parable of Design, Detail and Giving People What They Want
This is a design-is-not-engineering parable:
It should've worked perfectly.
Mattel--fresh off the success of He-Man--decided to make some superhero toys with Marvel.
You know Marvel, right? The company that currently dominates the entire entertainment market with a gloved fist?
So they gathered ten-year old boys together in a focus group. They said to them "Listen, ten-year-old-boys, what is it that you desire?"
The ten year old boys spoke:
1-Weapons
2-Vehicles and bases
3-The word "secret"
4-The word "war"
That's what tested well.
So they went to Marvel Comics and said "Listen, Marvel, you make the comics, we'll make the toys. Just make sure it has that stuff." Thus was born a comic book called Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars, (over in the UK, a little earlier, the comic anthology 2000AD polled its readers about the themes they liked and they voted for "future war" and thus the comic Rogue Trooper was born). Marvel head Jim Shooter wrote a 12-issue battle royale in another dimension featuring all of the company's most popular heroes: the Avengers, the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Hulk, etc. Mattel made toys in the now-mandatory Star-Wars-like scale. Sales reps went to comic shops and toy stores and hyped them all up and down.
...it didn't work. Well, the comic worked: the first issue sold 800,000 copies. Which is a lot. But the toys, they were not that popular. Again: they should've been. Marvel Comics at the literal height of their popularity with kids (they had recently turned down an offer to buy DC) plus toys, in the middle of The Original Toy Tie-In Decade. It didn't take.
First off you'll notice or remember--the toys sucked:
But it's important to remember what they sucked compared to--it was 1984--two of the most toyetic properties of the late 20th century had just arrived:
Marvel had vehicles! And weapons! And twenty years of good will! Plus a best-selling comic and yet the Marvel toy line wasn't a patch on these newcomers. Why?
Well Transformers and GI Joe had their own cartoons, but the toys were also cooler--and more detailed. And it's important to recognize what that detail meant. Marvel put very little effort into the design of the vehicles and weapons and stuff:
...it's like a...War of the Worlds walker thing that two guys can sit in? With...rays? There is no love in that war walker. But maybe more important it doesn't mean anything. And here's what I mean by that:
Look at GI Joe and Transformers: Roadblock has a fully-automatic machine gun, because he's a big guy and the only one strong enough to carry it, Snake-Eyes has an uzi, because Snake-Eyes is the mysterious cool guy and uzis were cool back then, Soundwave turns into a tape-player and he has tiny other robots that come out of the tape-player, Megatron has a giant cannon on his arm because when he transforms hsi whole body into a gun it's the scope on the gun. And the robots turn into these mundane things because they're hiding on Earth in disguise. Every visual detail builds the world and also has a clue to the narrative (a narrative echoed in the cartoons, comics and the little data-files on the back of the toy box). That gun platform in Secret Wars? It just tells you they're in space. And would like to shoot you.
Of course Marvel had visual world-building: Captain America has that stars-and-stripes shield because he was created as a patriotic propaganda tool in WW2, the Hulk's pants are ripped because he transforms unwillingly from human into monster, etc. but the foundational mistake of Secret Wars--from a toy-selling perspective--was to have the story take place on another planet, light-years away from the world Marvel had already built. The characters were all Marvel, but the focus-grouped selling-point--those vehicles and weapons and bases--didn't have anything to do with the ongoing Marvel story that dozens of creators had already put decades of work into.
If the toys had come with the X-Mansion, Avengers Mansion, the Fantasticar, and Doom's Castle, the line might've done better, but I think the real nail in the coffin might've been the shields.
Every Marvel character came with a shield and this was a terrible idea. Somewhere a toy exec is going "But we're giving these kids more stuff? Who doesn't want more?". But, to a kid, nothing marks this toy line as some off-brand ignorable just-a-cut-above-Hulk-shampoo tat as these shields--they announce immediately that this toy line is detached from the story of Marvel. Why would the fucking Hulk have a shield? With his secret identity head on it? The shields don't even appear in the Secret Wars comic--but even if they did, they would just point to these toys being part of this inessential, skippable, temporary pocket-universe. The shields:
-tell you nothing about the Marvel world and its story, and
-tell you that the toy line is going to be characterized by stuff like this instead of things which do tell you the details of the world and its story
With GI Joe and Transformers you had to look at the toys because every inch of them told you something about the character. Where does Grimlock's T-rex head go when he transforms into a robot? Go to a friends' house and look at him. The Marvel toys tell you less than the art you've already seen.
Marvel trading-cards--something with way less genuine play value than these toys--did way better. Because they promised some contribution to the story--one series had each heroes win-loss percentage ont he back, f'rinstance.
The broader point is no ten-year-old boy is going to go "I want toys with distinctive details that feed my sense of exploring an alternate world as large and imperfectly-knowable as our own". They're going to go "I like detachable weapons" and end up with Iron Man holding a fucking lenticular shield with Tony Stark's head on it.
Most people who saw all these toys as a kid could probably tell you now that they weren't going to trip over themselves to get the Marvel toys (even if they couldn't tell you why)--but the toy execs couldn't. And this was even though the design principles they were using ("toy guns good") were solid. You can't really design from the outside-in. You have to have ideas about why what you want people to love should be lovable.
Moral of the story: beware of "design principles". Love what you're doing and build out from there.
Posted by Zak Sabbath at Friday, February 26, 2021 12 comments
Cesaire
A place of great waterfalls, green-blue jungle and wide, bloodstained savannah.
The Gods in Cesaire
All gods have visited Cesaire, but when they visit, they must walk on two legs. When in Cesaire the gods may only be the size of their worshippers. For this reason, many have died there. In death, they grow again, and mingle with the stone which makes up the Cube.
Currently the most widely-worshipped are:
Vorn, god of iron, rust and rain, who is known locally as Vorgun, and, when in Cesaire, is female.
The Leopard God.
Tiamat, The Glistening One.
Rangda, Queen of All Spiders.
As the gods walk among their worshippers, it is common for those on sacred business (the businesses of ritual, treasure-hunting, murder, great questing or war) to go about masked or in strange disguises, so that the gods may not know them. Conversely, sometimes costumes are worn to attract or enlist the aid of particular gods.
The Hour of Knives
Despite this, human lives may only be taken between the hours of 3 and 4 am, lest the dreaded Hybrid Curse of All Gods be summoned on the murderer. This prevents a great deal of open warfare.
Death's Parade—Death, the Second God, visits Cesaire once per year, and takes a tour throughout the entire continent. His skull-face luridly painted, he walks in a tattered blue robe and carries a staff made from the bone of an unknown animal. The dead rise from their graves and follow, then follow. As the parade approaches their homes, the living paint their own faces white so as to be mistaken for the dead.
The Gleam Tide—Each summer, the tides bring in the cargo from sunken ships. Coastal villages and port cities open the Gleaming Season with a childrens' festival dedicated luck and beach-scavenging.
Feast of All Heroes—Once per year, all civilized cities of Cesaire throw a feast, to which all the heroes who have rendered great service to the city-state or the nation are fed and feted.
Night of the Vampire—On the last day of the harvest, all cities and villages are visited by one vampire each. Lines of sacred salt are drawn around the perimeters of civilized areas, of every home, and around the cribs of all children. Bold boys and girls dare each other to challenge the vampire, though, tragically, more fail than succeed.
Days of Testing—Most human societies within Cesaire have Days of Testing, where those youths who wish to embark on dangerous life-paths are challenged. Those who succeed act as waitstaff at the Feast of All Heroes
The First Test of the Priest and Shaman: Typically involves taking something of value to a distant temple of the same faith.
The Second Test of the Priest and Shaman: Typically involves finding a god somewhere and asking them a question of importance to the local priesthood.
The First Test of All Thieves: Typically involves stealing something of great value from another nation.
The Second Test of All Thieves: Typically involves stealing something of great value from the gnolls, vervets or chameleon women.
The First Test of All Warriors: Typically involves hunting down an dangerous animal that has been plaguing the village or city.
The Second Test of All Warriors: Typically involves rescuing a prisoner of another faction.
The First Test of Wizards: Typically involves entering the Dream Jungle and surviving three sleep-cycles or a fixed number of hours of sleep (usually 24).
The Second Test of Wizards: Typically involves bringing back a rare item from the Dream Jungle or from a rival wizard.
The First Test of Warlords: Given to older warriors just before they are given troops to command, this test involves defeating defeating at least ten gnolls out on the open plains of The Place of Screaming with a force no larger than half their size.
The Second Test of Warlords: This test involves defeating at least ten chameleon women in the Dream Jungle with a force no larger than half their size.
Typical Adventures, Quests, and Assignments for Adventurers, Native and Local
Gnolls have enslaved an entire village and have them building a stronghold high in cliffs. Free the slaves and take vengeance.
A star has allegedly fallen deep within the Dream Jungle: investigate.
Find and defeat a platoon of enemies somewhere in the Dream Jungle during the Hour of Knives.
Enlist a distant group of rebels to aid a local faction against their enemies.
Find the leaders of an opposing faction and negotiate a temporary alliance with them against a horde of gnolls or foreigners.
Find an obscure god in the Dream Jungle and enlist their aid against another faction.
Something is making the animals around the Lake of Translucent Mist hostile—investigate.
*For foreigners only: A faction enlists you to pretend to make "first contact" with another faction, acting as merchants from another land. You will be asked to sabotage the target faction's war efforts or liberate a prisoner or artifact.
Note on sourcing/appropriation/complaining etc:
You can have one of two opinions on African-inspired game stuff--
1-Nobody who isn't black or African should make it ever
2-Well, they can but only if they did their research.
On the first criteria, I obviously fail. On the second: if you insist I name-drop who I read and talked to before writing my game stuff I can, but it would be hard to name a hurdle I didn't jump. I am 100% sure I talked to more contemporary African artists than you think I did. And at least know where Cesaire got its name before asking.
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Posted by Zak Sabbath at Wednesday, February 24, 2021 4 comments
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To Shanna Malcolm (re: muppet tits)
I saw the news that you're going to be in a D&D show--congratulations! I hear there will be muppets.
I'm also scared for you because you're about to be extremely harassed a lot by assholes online. These are assholes I know. The reason is because you wanted your D&D muppet to have big tits:
So, first: I'm sorry. I tried for a long time to point out these folks were a problem, it didn't work. These folks aren't random 4chan trash--Orion Black is a former WOTC freelancer with one of the largest twitter followings because, in addition to participating in all the usual clout-building-via-harassment-exercises, they got hired by- and then yelled extensively at-, official D&D, Hans Cumming was a big deal in organizing RPG awards and has actual pull in the industry, etc. These people are actually taken seriously.
Since I have extensive experience with running a D&D-themed show with women who wanted their characters to have big tits and then being attacked by them about it, here's what to expect:
1. You will be harassed. This goes without saying: you're a woman of color on the internet and you've made a choice about tits that a very nerdy group of mostly-men don't like. However, this harassment might be different than what you've experienced before...
2. You will be erased. Michael Phillips up there is a good example--your decision about what to do with your character has been reduced to a "half-assed attempt to justify" something your Evil Corporate Overlords want to do. This is because it is morally inconvenient for this white nerd to acknowledge that marginalized people they allegedly want to defend don't care about all their dumb nerd shit.
3. Your friends and allies will be harassed. You'll notice some of them up there do acknowledge you exist. Some of the harassers will be self-aware enough to do that, which means they will default to simply pretending you don't exist and attacking the first not-obviously-marginalized people connected to you and pretending your muppets' tits was there idea. The puppeteer, the DM, but probably mostly the people at D&D.
Ah, it's starting already:
4. Your muppets tits will be considered an important datapoint. Since all indie RPG people are pathologically worried about what the Coca-Cola of the ttrpg industry is up to, your muppet's tits will be used to raise the stakes in any conversation about representation. Your muppet boobs will be used as evidence in arguments about D&D being bad that you will never see.
5. Lots of these harassers' friends will be fine with your muppet's tits, but they'll stay quiet. Basically tabletop RPG people have to pretend that women don't have varied and nuanced ideas about how they want to be represented because sacred crackpot Ash Kreider says boob armor is bad and other people in the indie scene can't be seen to public disagree with them. The internet dynamics where the people with the most reasonable take participate least in the discussion unfortunately apply here as well. You will have customers, fans and supporters. They will not help you.
6. These raised stakes will result in a conversation, from which you will be excluded: This is the saddest, stupidest, and most self-defeating part. Your decisions will be fought over, but no-one will talk to you.
Since there is:
A) Tremendous subcultural pressure on respected RPG commentators to agree that boobs are bad or else be quiet and lose work, and
B) Tremendous subcultural pressure not to admit they're disagreeing with the black woman whose choice they are attacking, and
C) You're dealing with online nerds who conflicting needs to always complain and always avoid confrontation with whoever they're complaining about even when it's not someone from a marginalized group they want to speak for and over...
...there will be a raging discussion of the meaning of your muppet's tits and you will be ignored during it. The idea that you are a person who might have had reasons for your decision or might even have already thought about its socio-cultural implications and come to your own conclusions before they did will be ignored. The nerds casually assume they are smarter than you--so much smarter that it does not even occur to them to consult you when complaining about your decision.
The idea that you are even a human who can be consulted when discussing your decision will be quietly swept under the rug so that the idea that you should be consulted as part of any discussion about your decision isn't even on the table.
Despite the mob's insistence that "debate" is an icky masculine-coded strategy for discussing issues, the idea of employing some alternate soft-coded strategy like inviting you in to have a conversation about their ideas will not so much be dismissed as literally never considered. Repeat: It does not occur to them to treat you as a person.
Seriously--why would this white genius not simply talk to you if they had a problem with your decision?
Hopefully none of this will matter. With luck, your show will be popular enough that these nerds will see the fight they're picking isn't worth it and will just ignore you altogether and this can be treated as the unbelievably terrible internet trash that it is. If not, it will suck and you will continue to be discussed and ignored unless you eventually stop working on the show and start saying things the scoldy mob already agrees with.
Although you probably will never see this, I am genuinely sorry we haven't been able to fix this problem for creators down the line. I tried, but not hard enough. I hope your show does well.
Posted by Zak Sabbath at Tuesday, February 02, 2021 33 comments
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