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On 1/21/2022 at 7:37 PM, The Bard of Banefort said:
I would love it if someone made a documentary just about the backlash to season 8—how GOT went from being this pop culture phenomenon to overwhelmingly reviled. It would be fascinating to watch.
Is there any way to find out how many copies of Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon sold? With movies you can just look at the box office, but it's harder with books.
You could look at the bestseller lists I think
Supercuts Delight did a series on Seasons 7 and 8 on Youtube. You could check that out.
Now, since the "Your Opinions" thread has gone off the rails, to temporarily speak of our favorite topic: Jon's pecker.
In that thread I was going to begin raving about how I would've preferred that Tormund joke about said pecker rather than the clusterfuck that was "I saw him riding that thing." First off, dickhead, one of those "things" died saving your sorry ass! Second, is it smart to call them "things" WITHIN EARSHOT OF DANY?
Then we have the second clusterfuck of "He climbed on a dragon and fought! What person climbs on a ****ing dragon? A mad man, OR A KING!" First off, turd, don't you remember that you climbed on a dragon? Sure, Tormund didn't fight, but still! Tormund must've gone temporarily blind when Dany was flying by. Second, why the hell is Jon being a turd and not saying something like "Hey, kids, remember that a certain silver haired queen was also flying about!"
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36 minutes ago, Jaenara Belarys said:
Jon was bascially a jerk towards Daenerys, throughout most of Season 8.
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1 hour ago, SeanF said:
all the Starks were. and not just towards Dany. Jon was probably the nicest and most rational one.
2-3 years has past and I still don't understand how would Sansa be the smartest one and still tells a woman who has 2 dragons and has come to help them to piss off right to her face! she was downright lucky that Dany didn't kill people for being ungrateful jerks...
1 minute ago, EggBlue said:
For sure, the Stark siblings became Lannisters with different hair colour.
I'm still a bit baffled by the whole thing. Was I watching a deeply cynical tale in which Daenerys was used and betrayed by House Stark and her ostensible supporters? Was Jon played for a fool by Sansa and Bran, before being cast into the wilderness? Was Bran the ultimate villain?
Or was it all a mess?
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4 minutes ago, SeanF said:
I honestly think it's possible that D&D had a drinking and/or drug problem whilst writing that last season! it certainly explains why they kinda forgot so many details. for instance:
Bran to Tyrion in one of the earlier episodes of the season: " I am the three eyed crow , I can't be lord of anything"
Bran to Tyrion in the finale: "why do you think I came all the way here?"
see? this can neither be a normal mess nor a well thought script... it's a high-mess.
Mindwalker
So much was sloppy writing. Dany was quite clear at the end of Season 7 that she was marching North to destroy the Night King, once she'd seen the threat for herself. And without pressing her claim to the North.
Come Season 8, Jon was saying he had no choice but to bend the knee. Either that's contradicting what was previously established, or else Jon is a liar.
The White Walkers had been bigged up as a threat for seven seasons. Come Season 8, and the people on the front line loathe the army that's marching to their rescue - despite their king begging for their aid.
Dany "kinda forgot" about the Iron Fleet despite discussing them at her war council. The Dothraki were "finished as a people" before regenerating. Bells meant surrender, despite it being already established they are a call to arms. The killing of slavers and rapist Khals, portrayed as heroic in the relevant episodes, was suddenly branded as evil by Tyrion. Tyrion himself became a complete moron etc. etc.
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Well, ASOIAF is deeply cynical and GRRM wanted to show the realistic effects of situations in fantasy. Plus the fact that trying to do the right thing (trying to save kids, avert war, rescue your siblings) is always, always met with getting backstabbed.
Edited February 15, 2022 by Angel Eyes
6 hours ago, Jaenara Belarys said:
Ewww....people still call it a pecker.
That's something my dad would say and he grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s. LOL Jaenaera love, you're dating yourself.
I remember when I brought up the gigantic blooper error about Grey Worm's dick print being ABSOLUTELY visible through his clothing in the very last episode of the series and why it was such a big problem but no one paid attention.
I guess it must only be the people in the General ASOIAF section of the forum who care about penises lol
32 minutes ago, Angel Eyes said:
I completely disagree.
ASOIAF is probably less cynical than it is realistic.
Forget the politics--the medieval European world was absolutely brutal. Even so they still had standards (i.e. chivalry, honor, duty, etc.)
Trying to do the right thing does not mean getting backstabbed. That's how it is portrayed in the later seasons of the show but not in the earlier, more accurate seasons and definitely not in the book series.
I think people think that "doing the right thing in this world gets you backstabbed and killed" which is not only deeply troubling and very irritating (I consider people like that to be brainwashed by D&D) but completely inaccurate. It's a egregious oversimplification of the story.
Ned did the right thing by protecting innocent children from political assassination and exploitation. That's not where he messed up at.
Ned did not do the right thing when he:
told Cersei everything that he was planning to do
waited almost an entire week (!!!) before doing ANYTHING about it
failed to tell Robert the truth when Robert was still alive
refused to work with Renly
took way too long to send Arya and Sansa away
Edited February 15, 2022 by BlackLightning
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16 hours ago, BlackLightning said:
Selfcest?
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21 hours ago, Angel Eyes said:
Dunno if this is sarcasm or not, but I don't see ASOIF as cynical. It has a strong element of tragedy, cause and effect, the cost of the choices we make etc, but it also has heart and a sense of poetry to it.
The show was deeply cynical and mostly devoid of heart (except for the first season, and there were some strong emotional scenes in the 4th season) or poetry.
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On 2/15/2022 at 9:45 PM, EggBlue said:
On 2/15/2022 at 9:51 PM, SeanF said:
The tension between the Stark siblings and Dany was just inexplicable.
They don't like her, just because? Were D+D trying to suggest that powerful female characters will always be jealous of each other?
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Just now, Darryk said:
It could have been developed quite well, on the basis of differing political goals. It made no sense for them to hate her from the outset, even to the point of Sansa flouncing out of the post-fight banquet rather than take part in a toast to Daenerys.
they could write a season in which the tensions between Starks and Daenerys brings about chaos . but all they did was LF informing Sansa about Dany's breathtaking beauty and then Sansa and Arya teaming up playing mean girl to Dany.
between handling the hostility between Stark girls-Dany , the sentence " at the end of the day , Cersei's just a scared little girl needing to be held by her brother/lover" (paraphrase) and Sansa's "rape benefits" , I've come to conclusion that D&D's knowledge of women is that of a pair of 13 year old boys.
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42 minutes ago, EggBlue said:
I believe a pair of thirteen year old boys will have more knowledge about a good screenwrite, if they're obsessed enough. Barring that, they only need one good, solid nerd and some basic damn manners.
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seriously , I feel like D&D deceived us!
I used to watch GoT with my sister and before season 8 was released, we started watching episodes that showrunners had recommended watching before final season. assuming those episodes to be the ones with clues about WWs , we started binge watching with a silly excitement! as if White Walkers were to be remotely relevant or important in the final season! we even realized they were nothing more than the episodes with the surviving characters , yet, we hoped the final season makes up season7's mess and kept theorizing about what would happen..
fun fact is before season 8 we were actually rooting for Sansa to be Queen in the North or Lady of Winterfell , only it felt so unearned that we loathed it! so much for fan service...
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Just now, EggBlue said:
I don't actually mind fan service, if it's done well. Take Rogue One for example. Great movie, in my opinion, I loved the characters (especially Krennic, I have a thing for liking the bad guys. Plus, that cape looked so cool and it's not the idiotic sequel trilogy). Yet one of the critics called it fanservice (the full quote was "Rogue One is filled with fan service, but when it's done this well, it's hard to complain"). Season 8, while full of fanservice, was most certainly not as good as R1.
that's exactly my point. no one hates fanservice.. it's called fanservice for a reason! but it should be executed well and within the logistic of the movie/series. for example while Sansa's promotion didn't make any sense for a million reasons including her brother becoming High King , Arya/Gendry getting together was something hinted ever since season 2 . but somehow they ruined it! they had every opportunity to make their sex scene tasteful and Arya's rejection of Gendry heartbreaking but understandable (I'm not getting into the fact that proposals don't exist in Westeros!) ;yet, all they gave us was "Meh"..
In the case of Sansa, I guess it's partially what was expected that she would be Queen or Lady of Winterfell, but I think her plot would have been better served if she had found someone who loved Sansa for her, as Sansa is broken down throughout the first three books to the point that she's accepted that nobody loves her for herself, and is making up delusions to compensate for that (UnKiss).


Need help developing insights on renter vs home owners and trends in outdoor juvenile products for yards.
Trying to undersatnd trends among renters vs. owners on how they use their yards.
Yards getting larger or smaller?
Households with young kids - what features matter for outdoor recreation and play products? And if the family rents might they not invest in the yard?
really trying to understand outdoor play patterns: sandboxes, trampolines, large wooden vs. plastic vs/ metal swing sets, pools, play houses, sports equipment, etc.
Outside of trends in the general frequency of ownership vs. renting (see OWNERSHP), the IPUMS resources are unlikely to be helpful to your specific research questions. My recommendation would be to start with the American Housing Survey (AHS), as it contains information about ownership/rental of the unit, square footage of the unit and the lot, presence of an outdoor swimming pool and investment in the property.


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Starting from January 2017, Google will be punishing the mobile pages showing intrusive and annoying ads that have smallest or unclear "Close" button for dismissing the ads.
What kind of ads will be punished?
The second category of popup ads are especially infuriating, because they often push the main content down, while loading. Some of them even lead you to accidentally clicking on them.
What kind of ads will not be punished?
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Google's own data reveals that 85% of all pages displayed on its mobile search result pages are now mobile-friendly. In order to avoid ambiguity, Google is planning to remove this label, though it is being used as a ranking signal.


The first full trailer (after a short teaser earlier this month) for Damon Lindelof's upcoming HBO show The Leftovers premiered last night before Game of Thrones. The show is based on a Tom Perrotta novel, and is centered around the world post-Rapture, and those poor heathens that didn't make the cut and are stuck here on stupid Earth. It's got all the Lindelof trademarks: mysterious happenings, screaming in people's faces, and the battle between the creepy and the angry (led by a haggard Officer Justin Theroux).
After a mysteeeerious sudden halt in production (is it Rapture-related, do we think?), the premiere date has been pushed back to June 29th.


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Episode 3 of the Fangirl Podcast is available now on SoundCloud and YouTube.
The Walking Dead Season 7 trailer leaves us with more questions than answers, but we're still pretty psyched to see it.
Watching Broadway shows via live stream is a different, but similarly rewarding, experience.


29 November 2016: Roundtable discussion on the occassion of the book publication by professor Zafiris Tzannatos entitled: "Greece of Memoranda: 2010-2012. The numbers, the programme and the international experience from 1980".
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A roundtable discussion was organised by The Crisis Observatory of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) on November 9th entitled «What is the Risk of 'Brexpulsion', and Should It Be of Concern to Greeks?». The main speaker of the meeting was Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics. The roundtable discussion was held at ELIAMEP's offices with the participation of academics and technocrats.
On May 28th at 17:00 in the afternoon, a closed conference was held at ELIAMEP for the presentation of the paper of Stella Ladi (Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University), entitled "Is it true that the Greek public sector is extremely large?", which was published on the website of the Crisis Observatory in the Unit Understanding the Greek Crisis (in Greek).


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import random
import math

class MCT():
  def __init__(self, parent, game, active_player=0):
    self.parent = parent
    # if parent is None:
    #   self.player = active_player
    # else:
    #   self.player = (self.parent.player + 1) % 2
    self.player = game.active()
    # self.player = (self.player + 1) % 2
    # print self.player
    self.game = game
    self.total_value = [0.,0.]
    self.trials = 1
    self.children = []

  def __str__(self):
    lvl = 0
    s = 'node:\n' + str(self.player) + '\n'
    p = self
    while p.parent is not None:
      p = p.parent
      s += str(p.player) + '\n'
    s += 'end\n\n'
    return s

  def add_child(self, child):
    self.children.append(child)

  def expand(self):
    val = self.game.payoff()
    if val[0] != 0 or val[1] != 0:
      return
    moves = self.game.moves()
    for m in moves:
      g = self.game.copy()
      g.move(m)
      child = MCT(self,g)
      self.children.append(child)

  def get_score(self, t, c):
    if self.parent is None:
      return 0
    val = self.game.payoff()
    win_rate = self.total_value[self.parent.player] / self.trials
    exploration = math.sqrt(math.log(t) / self.trials)
    score = win_rate + c * exploration
    if val[0] != 0 or val[1] != 0:
      return val[self.parent.player] + c * exploration
    # if t == 400:
    #   print 'self.player',self.player,score
    return score

  def random_traverse(self,t,c=None):
    if len(self.children) == 0:
      return self

    if c is None:
      c = math.sqrt(2)

    scores = map(lambda child: child.get_score(t,c), self.children)

    # total_score = sum(scores)
    # r = random.random() * total_score

    # for i in xrange(len(self.children)):
    #   r -= scores[i]
    #   if r <= 0:
    #     break

    # return self.children[i].random_traverse(t,c)

    m = []
    for idx in range(len(scores)):
      if scores[idx] == max(scores):
        m.append(idx)
    m = m[random.randint(0,len(m)-1)]

    wr = map(lambda child: child.total_value[0]/child.trials, self.children)
    # if self.parent is None:
    #   print 'rt0',wr
    #   print 'rand trav',scores,m

    return self.children[m].random_traverse(t,c)

  def simulate(self):
    '''Plays the game until the end. Returns a tuple of results (p0 net, p1 net).'''
    g = self.game.copy()
    moves = g.moves()
    val = g.payoff()
    while len(moves) > 0 and val[0] == 0 and val[1] == 0:
      mv = moves[random.randint(0,len(moves)-1)]
      # print 'about to perform', mv
      # print 'current game state',g
      # raw_input()
      g.move(mv)
      moves = g.moves()
      val = g.payoff()
      # print 'new game state',val[0], val[1],g
      # raw_input()
    # print g.payoff()
    # print self
    # print g
    return g.payoff()

  def prop_up(self,sim_value):
    '''Propagates a simulation all the way to the root of the search tree'''
    self.total_value = map(lambda a,b: a + b, self.total_value, sim_value)
    self.trials += 1
    if self.parent is not None:
      self.parent.prop_up(sim_value)

    # if self.parent is None:
    #   pass
    # elif self.parent.parent is None:
    #   print 'sim_value:',sim_value
    #   print 'self.total_value:',self.total_value

def mcts(game,max_sim=1000,c=None):
  '''Assume game has the following:
  * game.active() returns which player is active.
  * game.moves() which returns a list of valid moves
  * game.copy() which lets you copy the game
  * game.move() which takes an element from the list returned by game.moves()
    and makes that move in the game.
  * game.payoff() returns a tuple that is the gain and loss of each player.
    When the game is not finished, this tuple will be all zeros.
  '''
  g = game.copy()
  ap = g.active()
  mct_root = MCT(None,g) #,(ap + 1) % 2)
  # print ap,g.active(),mct_root.player

  for t in xrange(1,max_sim):
    # print 'mcts sim #',t
    curr = mct_root
    curr = mct_root.random_traverse(t,c)
    # print game
    # print mct_root.game
    # print curr.game
    # if curr.game.g.pot == 0 and curr.game.g.p0.bet == 0 and curr.game.g.p1.bet == 0:
    #   print 'ERROR'
    #   print curr
    #   print curr.parent.game
    #   for m,c in zip(curr.parent.game.moves(),curr.parent.children):
    #     print m,c.game
    #   raise Exception
    # print 'parent',curr.parent
    outcomes = curr.simulate()
    curr.prop_up(outcomes)
    curr.expand()
  # print 'OUTCOMES AND CURR.GAME'
  # print outcomes
  # print curr.game

  if len(mct_root.children) == 0:
    return 0

  # points = map(lambda arr: arr.total_value[ap]/arr.trials, mct_root.children)
  # max_points = max(points)
  # best = points.index(max_points)
  points = map(lambda arr: arr.trials, mct_root.children)
  players = map(lambda arr: arr.player, mct_root.children)
  scores = map(lambda arr: arr.total_value[ap]/arr.trials, mct_root.children)
  max_points = max(points)
  best = points.index(max_points)

  # print points, max_points, best
  # print players
  # print scores
  # print game.moves()

  return game.moves()[best]

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Former F1 champion Jenson Button announced his full-time racing return in 2018. He will race with Honda in the Japanese Super GT Series. The announcement is made during the Honda Racing Thanks Day at Twin Ring Motegi, where Button signed a deal with Honda. For which team he would drive and who will be his co-driver, will be announced later.
Button made a Super GT Series debut in August 2017, participating at 1000 km of Suzuka, the biggest Japanese GT endurance race. He was driving the #16 Honda NSX-GT for Team Mugen, sharing a car with Hideki Mutoh and Daisuke Nakajima. They finished in 12th place.
"I'll be racing for Honda and have a contract to race with Honda in Super GT in 2018. It's been a dream for the last couple of years, I love the category. I did one race in Suzuka this year, and it got me very excited. I'm very excited about the new season. There's a lot of testing to be done to feel comfortable and hopefully improve the package and go out next year and be competitive," Button said.


The 2019 Dundee Medal competition will take place on Wednesday 1st May in Malone House, Belfast. Entries are welcome from anaesthetists in training in Northern Ireland and we will consider any research, audits, QI/service improvements or interesting cases for presentation.
The closing date for entries is by the end of Thursday 25th April.
If you are attending this meeting, it helps us plan numbers for catering if you please let us know. Note that catering numbers for the buffet supper at this venue are limited to 40 and this is always a popular and well-attended event in the NISA calendar.
For further details please visit the Dundee Medal page.
Many thanks to all speakers, chairpersons and the fantastic number who participated and contributed to a great NISA Annual Study Day on 1st March.
Attendance certificates have been emailed out to the address used for registration - if you have not yet received your certificate, please contact us.
That's it all over for another year - ideas for future meetings (speakers/topics/venues) are always welcome.
Thanks to all for the great numbers registering for the NISA Annual Study Day.
The early bird registration rate is no longer available, but there's still time to register for the NISA Annual Study Day on Friday 1st March 2019.
All the latest information is at the meeting web site.
The 2019 NISA Annual Study Day will be held on Friday 1st March 2019 in the Hilton Hotel, Templepatrick.
Registration is now open and an 'early bird' registration rate is available for active NISA members.
Please visit the meeting web page for further meeting details and registration information.
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Morality Adjustment
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We have the Face–Heel Turn, when a hero changes sides and becomes a villain. We have the Heel–Face Turn, when instead a villain abandons ship (no, not that kind of ship) to become a hero. We even have the Heel–Face Revolving Door, where they keep changing sides at the drop of a hat. But what about the part in between, when a character becomes more of either a Heel or a Face, but not far enough to leave the team?
That's what we call a Morality Adjustment. It comes in all different variations based on direction and extent, but we'll break it into four main flavours.
A villain becoming more of a Heel. (eg: from Villain to Complete Monster)
A villain becoming more of a Face. (eg: from Villain to Anti-Villain)
A hero becoming more of a Heel. (eg: from Hero to Anti-Hero)
A hero becoming more of a Face. (eg: from Hero to Ideal Hero)
Compare Villain Decay, Badass Decay, Messiah Creep. Contrast Heel–Face Turn and Face–Heel Turn. A subtrope of Character Development.
In Naruto, this happens to Kakashi. He changes from a by-the-book and cold-hearted (if loyal) Child Soldier who'd leave a friend to die in a heartbeat if he thought it'd be better for the village, into a man who is known for never leaving anyone behind, no matter the costs.
Xellos from the Slayers franchise. Although we're never exactly sure where he stands, he does skirt back and forth across this line while still facing the "I'm still evil but currently in a trend of doing good/evil things" line.
Justified by Mind Rape in The DCU: The villain Dr. Light was extensively brainwashed by Zatanna. She attempted to bring out his good side, but was ultimately only capable of turning him into a Harmless Villain. After Identity Crisis, the brainwashing unstuck and he reverted to his old nasty self.
The Seventh Doctor in the Doctor Who New Adventures tie-in novels changed from an enigmatic though sympathetic "Dark Doctor" to a full-on Knight Templar Doctor.
Live-Action TV
Doctor Who:
The First Doctor goes over the course of Season 1 from being the Token Evil Teammate (his original intended role) and a Sociopathic Hero, to being a Guile Hero and Loveable Rogue. Most of the time.
"The Waters of Mars" has the Tenth Doctor snapping and temporarily becoming a Knight Templar who declares himself "Time Lord Victorious" and decides that the Laws of Time are his to do with as he wants before a woman he saved snaps him out of it by killing herself. And it is deeply unsettling. Adelaide, the woman in question, straight-up calls him a power-mad despot.
In Legend of the Seeker, Cara has a morality adjustment, makes a Heel–Face Turn, and then has another Morality Adjustment. She becomes an Anti-Vilain (a kind of Noble Demon) to save her friends, and then, after a Heel Face Turn, she becomes, first an Anti-Hero (type 3 bordering the next type), and then a just, compassive and determined heroine with great strength of will (and shades of Anti-Hero type 2).
With the introduction of rogues and vigilantes in the Going Rogue expansion, characters in City of Heroes can go from hero to vigilante, from villain to rogue, from vigilante to villain or back to hero, and from rogue to hero or back to villain.
Characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic are locked into supporting either the Republic or the Empire, and since they are given objectives by their class and faction quests, their overall support of freedom vs. tyranny can't change. However, they are allowed to embrace the Light or Dark Side as they so choose, so a member of the Republic might be The Cape or an Anti-Hero willing to embrace Imperial tactics if it means winning the war. On the other hand, an Imperial character might be a traditional villain, or a Consummate Professional who eschews unnecessary cruelty and senseless violence. For instance, it is possible to rise to the Dark Council of the Empire as a Sith Inquisitor by taking an exclusively Light Sided path—and yet every LS choice will come across as a shrewd scheme that, first and foremost, advances the Inquisitor's agenda, and just happens to have an unintentional side effect of making life better for the others.
Arnie started out somewhat of a douchebag in Super Robot Wars UX, but after being captured by UX and seeing Richard, he realized there needs to be a justice outside of the laws like UX and aspires to become like Richard. The fact that he was willing to pilot the Orphes, knowing what it could do to his body is telling.
The titular antihero Shadehawk of Antihero for Hire has been making a slow but steady crawl towards the Disney Antiheroes. These days the real antihero of the strip is Crossroad, who's accused Shadey of "rampant idealism".
Maverick (i.e. future Kaycee Jones) in Magellan moved from Hero towards Anti-Hero after her mother's murder .
Lampshaded in Mandatory Roller Coaster with Tiger Pope declaring "All that stuff we told you was wrong and gross is actually pretty cool."
Characters in Ménage à 3 (and its spinoff, Sandra on the Rocks) are normally admirably resistant to anything as boring as learning lessons, but here, Tatiana realises that she may have gone too far. (She's just finished conducting an improvised psychosexual experiment on one character, and she's been bullying another for a while.) Admittedly, it's a small adjustment, and it may not stick.
The Order of the Stick:
Discussed Trope when Roy's moral compass is assessed after his death to decide which afterlife he should go to. Though he'd identified himself as Lawful Good through the story up to that point, the assessing angel points out his more questionable decisions, such as hiring Belkar, and suggests that his mixed bag of motivations and methods would make him fit better as Neutral Good. In the end, he's still found Lawful Good.
Belkar has one: while still Chaotic Evil, his tactics shift from Stupid Evil to Pragmatic Villainy as a result of meeting Lord Shojo (a Chaotic Good Chessmaster) and gaining an appreciation for his style. He later shows signs of Becoming the Mask and shifting towards Chaotic Neutral, even talking with Durkon about the concept of a Heel Realization.
Our Little Adventure is set in an RPG-Mechanics Verse with Character Alignments. The Chosen One's husband Lenny starts out as True Neutral, helping Julie on her quest out of loyalty, but comes to care about doing the right thing for people and shifts to Neutral Good.
Western Animation
David Xanatos of Gargoyles never quite did a full Heel–Face Turn into being a good guy, but he did tone down the ruthlessness of his methods, start a family, and mend his bridges with the gargoyles.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: After getting fired from the Separatists by Count Dooku, Asajj Ventress slowly becomes more antiheroic over the course of the rest of her time on the series and the novel Dark Disciple. This culminates in a Heroic Sacrifice to save Quinlan Vos from Dooku's Force lightning.
Mirror Morality Machine
Heel/Face Index
Motive Decay
Moral Event Horizon
Morality Tropes
Morality Ballad


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VC Oil & Gas Report: 5 Current Pending Applications
The following projects are currently pending at the Ventura County Planning Office as of Jan. 21, 2014:
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http://www.ventura.org/rma/planning/pdf/projects-pending-approved/jan2014_pending.pdf
1)VENOCO PROJECT: PL13-0016 located at 1815 Harbor Blvd. Ventura, application submitted 2/8/13
Project Description: 1380080075
Applicant: Bruce Carter / County Planner: Jay Dobrowalski 805-654-2498
Quick Summary: Re-enter 2 existing wells, and drill 3 new wells. With plans to plug & abandon 3 wells that are currently idle. Proposed for oil field area along ocean shores. Potable water as needed will be trucked to the site. Note: Many well locations onshore may be directionally drilled to offshore/undersea locations, no disclosure requirements.
Permit Adjustment to CUP 12, which was recently modified via LU10-0009, is a proposal by Venoco, Inc. (Venoco) to re-enter 2 existing wellbores (DOGGR Well Numbers 1212 and 1214A) to access oil reservoirs in State 3314 Lease from Ventura County's CUP 12 Permit Area and drill 3 new wells in exchange for the plugging and abandoning three idle wells (DOGGR Well Numbers 1112, 1114, 1215A). The drilling locations are located on the west side of McGrath Lake, in an area of several active wells arranged in a roughly north-south linear array. This area is bounded by oil field facilities (including the Lease 735 Tank Setting) and Harbor Blvd. to the east; open space and McGrath State Park to the north; open space, dunes, beach and the Pacific Ocean to the west; and oil field wells and facilities to the south. Access is via a partially paved private road from Harbor Blvd. Potable water will be brought onsite for workers during the drilling operations as well as portable toilets. Temporary trailers for the the drilling supervisor and workers are proposed to be onsite while the temporary drilling is taking place. If the drilling is permitted operations would occur 24 hours a day for approximately 60 days per well.
The following is from the Executive Summary of the project description as provided by Venoco, Inc.:
Venoco, Inc. (Venoco) is the Operator of the West Montalvo Field, including State Tidelands Lease PRC 3314, with surface facilities in the beach lease area of CUP 12, located west of Harbor Blvd. Venoco proposes to continue the previously approved development plan for State PRC 3314 by re-entering two existing wellbore bottomhole locations (1212 and 1214A), and drilling three new wells (12XX, 12XY, and 12XZ – actual names tbd by DOGGR) in exchange for the plugging and abandoning of three idle wells (1112, 1114, 1215A). The new wells would be drilled in the already existing beach lease development area.
2) DCOR PROJECT: PL 13-0046, submitted 4/3/2013 / status = environmental doc. prep.
Applicant: Andrew Prestridge of Bearing Resources and DCOR / County Planner: Jay Dobrowalski 805-654-2498
Quick Summary: Major Modification to CUP: drilling of 3 new "test" wells in areas with existing pads. Temporary production facilities will be set up, and a "production fluids pipeline" installed between pads.
Major Modification to CUP LU08-0100 for exploratory oil drilling operation.The project is a request for a Major Modification to Conditional Use Permit LU08-0100, which involves the drilling of three test oil wells at two existing sites to determine the commercial viability of reactivating the Modelo Area of the Piru Oil Field. The project involves two existing well pads; 1) an upper one (1) acre pad that was the location of former Well Crocker 1-D where one new well will be drilled and, 2) a lower one and a half (1.5) acre pad that was the location of former Well Crocker Fee 16 where two new wells will be drilled and temporary production facilities will be set. A production fluids pipeline will run from the upper pad to the lower pad. This Modification request is for expansion of the lower pad only, by approximately 3,000 square feet for pad area (total of 8,361 sf) and approximately double the grading limit area (total of 20,246 sf). No other changes to the previously reviewed and approved permit and plans will occur. Additionally, no exploratory drilling or operational changes are proposed as part of this Modification.
Ventura County granted a Conditional Use Permit LU08-0100 for this project on March 1, 2012. On December 10, 2012, DCOR submitted a revised lower pad grading plan to Ventura County, and a revised Biological Assessment Report was submitted on December 14, 2012 (updated on February 13, 2013) to evaluate the impacts of the proposed change. The original lower pad Grading Plan proposed a level pad that consists of cut and fill operations and construction of a 1:1 gradient cut slope to a maximum height of approximately 33 feet. The grading plan was revised to minimize the height of the 1:1 gradient cut slope to approximately seven feet. The dimensions of the pad site have been changed from 70.7' X 171.0' (original expanded proposal) to 51.8' X 161.5' (revised proposal). The revised grading plan will require some native vegetation to be removed in previously disturbed areas.
Access Roads – The existing maintained dirt access road from Piru Canyon to Modelo Canyon is 12 feet wide. This access is required to be graded and improved to a minimum of 20 feet wide. This impact has already been analyzed as part of the original project approval.
3) Booher Consulting Project: PL13-0122 / submitted 8/02/13 / status = Environmental doc prep /
Quick Summary: 12 new oil and gas "exploratory" well on 4 existing pads near Tapo Canyon.
Any water needed will be trucked in.
Applicant: Bob Booher (Robert Booher Consulting) / County PLanner: Becky Linder - 805-654-2469
Condtional Use Permit for Oil and Gas Exploration to entitle the drilling of 12 oil and gas exploratory wells on a 4 existing well pads on a site that is approximately 4.8 miles north of the Highway 118 and Tapo Canyon Road intersection above Tapo Canyon Park at the terminus of the improved portion of Tapo Canyon Road. The project is located on a 447.25 acre parcel within the AE-40 Zone District and the Open Space General Plan land use designation (APN 615-0-060-195) which is part of a larger land holding commonly known as Big Sky Ranch. Access to the pads is provided by an existing dirt roads off of Tapo Canyon Road with secondary access provided by the Salt Creek Fire Road. Three of the four well pads will be improved to accommodate the drilling rigs: Pad "2X alt." is proposed to be 33,600 square feet and requires 3,000 cubic yard cuts and 2,525 cubic yards of fill; Pad "5x" is proposed to be 36,259 sq. ft. and will require 6,480 cubic yards of cut and 5,600 cubic yards of fill; and Pad "16" is proposed to be 20,570 sq. ft. and will require 7,000 cubic yards of cut and 7,000 cubic yards of fill. Pad "15" will not require additional grading and will be utilized in its current size and configuration. Three new oil wells and an emergency flare are proposed to be located on Pad "2X-alt". Three new oil wells and an emergency flare are proposed for Pad "15." Four new oil wells, 3 oil stock tanks, a flow treater, 1,000 bbl produced water tank, a L.A.C.T. unit, a tranfer pump, a containment berm around the tanks, and an emergency flare are proposed to be located on Pad "5X." All of the wells would be connected by a flow line leading from the wells to the tanks located on Pad "5X." Any water necessary for proposed use would be trucked in.
4) Vintage/Oxy Project: PL13-0150 / submitted 10/10/2013 / status = Completeness review in process
Applicant: Jim Robinson (Vintage/Oxy) / County Planner: Jay Dobrowalski 805-654-2498
Quick Summary: Renewal of CUP for another 30 years on a parcel located near Thomas Aquinas College in Upper Ojai/Above Santa Paula. Includes a request to allow a previously approved 18 wells, which have not yet been drilled, and whose approval expired on Oct. 29, 2011. Applicant requests that the CUP continue to include those 18 wells for the life of the CUP, which if renewed will be Feb. 7, 2045. All wells would be drilled on existing sites. "Vintage will not use hydraulic fracturing for the undrilled wells unless and until regulations addressing potential hydraulic fracturing impacts are adopted and in place. "
Minor Modification to Conditional Use Permit 3344 (CUP) entails renewal of the CUP with the current boundary and current operations, including the existing wells operations, for another 30 years for a site located north of Thomas Aquinas College. The majority of the project area is within the Open Space 160 acre minimum Zone District and the Open Space General Plan land use designation though a smaller portion of the project area is within the Agricultural 40 acre minimum Zone District and Agricultural General Plan land use designation. The modification also includes the renewal of the term for drilling, testing, production and maintenance of 18 previously approved wells as illustrated on the project plans. Drilling period for the remaining approved 18 wells which expired on October 29, 2011 is requested to be extended for the same time period as the CUP, to Feb 7, 2045.
All of the undrilled wells will be drilled on the existing four Drill Sites, as approved. No new grading or removal of vegetation outside of the existing Drill Sites is required to effectuate the proposed modifications.
Vintage will not use hydraulic fracturing for the undrilled wells unless and until regulations addressing potential hydraulic fracturing impacts are adopted and in place.
Gross production from the existing wells is transported out of the CUP boundary via existing pipelines and seperated and stored off site. It is anticipated that these existing pipelines will be sufficient to accommodate production from the remaining approved 18 wells for transportation of produced fluids off the CUP boundary. Thus no new pipelines leading off the CUP are proposed. The installation of pumping units, gathering lines, electrical connections and ancillary equipment will be necessary to operate the remaining wells.
Access to the project site is provided by a private gated all weather surface driveway that forks off of the common drive that leads to Thomas Aquinas College at 10,000 Ojai Santa Paula Road (HWY 150).
Additional project details have been provided by the Permittee in the application package.
5) Mirada Project: PL13-0158 / submitted 11/06/13 / status = awaiting resubmittal
Applicant: Scott Price, Mirada / County Planner: Kristina Boero 805-654-2467
Quick Summary: Request to extend existing CUP for an additional 25 years and to allow 3 new wells and one re-drill over the next 10 years. The applicant seeks permission to use Koenigstein Road in Upper Ojai for access. "Mirada is not planning any hydraulic fracturing to the new wells or the re-drill at this time. we will come back to the County for additional permitting, should the need for hf arise in the future."
Minor Modification to Conditional Use Permit 3543 to extend the CUP for an additional 25 years, and to expand the CUP to include the drilling of three additional wells and one re-drill, to be completed over the course of the next ten years.
No other change is needed in the CUP, except for adressing access. The current CUP allows access over the "alternate" route that used to extend from about one mile up Koenigstein Road to Highway 150. That alternate route washed out many years ago, and all traffic will have to utilize Koenigstein Road to access Highway 150. Koenigstein is a public road, leading to Highway 150, also a public road. The road to the well pad is private, but is contained entirely within land owned by the Applicant, and is lightly gravelled.
A noise study was completed to address the drilling of the new wells which includes proposed noise mitigations. Those mitigations should be considered part of the project description.
Mirada is not planning any hydraulic fracturing to the new wells or the re-drill at this time. Much will depend on the development of the wells and analysis of the geology, something that cannot be predicted with reasonable certainty at this time. Therefore, we will come back to the County for additional permitting, should the need for hf arise in the future.
All pending projects as of Jan 21, 2014.
Vintage facility on Topa Vista Road in Upper Ojai, CA, taken fall 2013.
In North Dakota: The Job Boom revisited - is it really worth it?
Another story, another perspective of the Job Boom the industry says comes with the enhanced production of oil and gas. This short film from the NY Times, focuses on one woman's experience in North Dakota. California is estimated to have many times more oil under our soil.
"Running on Fumes in North Dakota," NY Times.
Ventura County residents gather outside the state EIR scoping hearing held Jan. 8 at Ventura College.
Ventura Residents join a chorus in the state saying no to more oil drilling. State Dept of Conserv. holds hearing today in Santa maria.
VCInFocus will be at the DOGGR hearing today in Santa Maria. State regulators from the Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources will be hearing from the public on what their new regulations should include and cover. DOGGR is beginning the formal rule making process in order to comply with the Pavley Bill, SB4, passed in Fall of last year, that puts regulations on the books specifically covering well stimulation processes, including fracking and acidization.
Hearing will take place, today, Jan. 13. from 3 to 7 p.m. Santa Barbara County Supervisors Hearing Room, 511 East Lakeside Parkway. In Santa Maria. Comments regarding the proposed regulations can be submitted via email to DOGGRRegulations@conservation.ca.gov; via FAX to (916) 324-0948; or via regular mail to the Department of Conservation Office of Governmental and Environmental Relations, 801 K Street MS 24-02, 95814, Attention: Well Stimulation Regulations.
Last week residents of Ventura County protested in front of the State scoping hearings. THe common theme was NO MORE. Residents are concerned about potential impacts of increased drilling and well stimulation processes that will be used and how the environment will be affected. During the hearing residents spoke about water quality, water usage, air pollution, risk of spills, risk of inducing earthquakes in a fault heavy area, and climate change. The protest was the idea of James Hines, a resident of Ventura and spokesperson for the Los Padres Chapter of the Sierra Club.
A handful of speakers spoke in support of the increased activity, all in favor had close connections with the oil industry, including James Hill from Camarillo who said that while the industry should be able to do what they are proposing they have done a poor job of informing the public and should go after a "social contract" in order to garner public support. Hill is President of CalTerra Energy LLC, an oil and gas exploration company based in Camarillo.
In Los Angeles, residents spoke out regarding their concerns related to increased oil production in their neighborhoods and old conditional use permits. This continues to be an issue for residents of Ventura County as well.
The LA residents are concerned over the use of acidization, a well stimulation process that uses acid to "melt" away the rock allowing the oil to flow.
click below to read the full article:
South LA residents worried about oil drilling in neighborhoodsStephanie O'Neill | January 11th, 2014, 3:43pm
"A standing-room-only crowd of more than 300 South Los Angeles residents and community leaders gathered Saturday morning at the Holman United Methodist Church to express concern about new oil wells proposed for a site in the Jefferson Park neighborhood that would use a potentially dangerous extraction technology.The Murphy Drill Site, operated by Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas, is located west of USC in a dense neighborhood where residents say it's unsafe to use a new technique of injecting chemicals — including toxic hydrochloric acid and benzene — deep into the earth to dissolve rocks and shale in order to extract oil.
The modern-day technology, called "acidization," is different from conventional oil extraction that relies upon vertical, relatively shallow wells. Acidization, by contrast, requires deep, horizontal drilling that spiderwebs beneath neighborhoods.
Ventura County residents protested in front of last weeks public scoping hearing held by the California Department of Conservation. REsidents from Simi Valley, Oxnard, Ojai, Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Carpinteria spoke out in favor of a ban and/or moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
State Scoping Hearing for Envir. Impact Report & Protest
Wednesday, January 8, 4 to 8 p.m. is the Ventura scoping hearing for the State Environmental Impact Report that will take place at Ventura College, Performing Arts building. The State, Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGG) is conducting these public hearings to gather information from the public about what the EIR should include as DOGGR moves forward with meeting the requirements of SB4. For more information on the process, hearings and DOGGR - visit their website HERE
PROTEST AT 3 PM: Outside of that scoping hearing The Sierra Club of Ventura County will be hosting a protest with the intention of sending a message to state officials to "ban fracking now." The protest will begin at 3:00 p.m.


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Alex Cates: Bullied for Being Dyslexic, Youth Found Love for Boxing
"I was born in a pretty rough area in England called Swinden, and when I was still a baby, my family moved to America for about three years because my father's work required him to travel a lot. We then relocated to China which was obviously a very different environment.
I didn't understand the people there very well and never really fit it. I also remember not seeing my dad a lot as he was working all the time, but my mum made sure I was a happy and active kid in China. She put me in a lot of clubs and I even did taekwondo for a while.
When we moved back to England, I got bullied a lot. Because I'm dyslexic, I got judged for being very behind in class. I was mentally and physically abused by the other kids in school; but, it doesn't matter anymore because I've worked hard to be at the level where I'm at now.
We eventually moved to Singapore during the economic crisis when it was hard for people to get jobs in England. At that point, my dad also wanted to spend more time with the family; he wanted to make sure he was more available for us.
As I didn't know how to defend myself in school, I joined a kickboxing gym in Singapore. I was the only kid there and I'd box and spar with bigger, older people all the time. When my parents saw me getting beat up one day, they decided to take me out of the gym.
Even though that experience hardened me, I still enjoyed boxing a lot. When we returned to England, I really missed it. I did a lot of other sports like football and rugby, but none of them compared to boxing. The sad part was that my parents told me I shouldn't box again.
I also had to shift my focus more towards learning and books because of my dyslexia. School was not easy for me. I wanted to improve my reading and vocabulary, so I had to spend more time studying to catch up with the other students.
What got me back into boxing was an incident in college. Two huge guys who looked like they were in their thirties were picking on my friend. My friend was autistic and I told them it wasn't fair to be picking on him, and the next thing I knew, one of them threw a punch at me.
I wasn't expecting it, and his punch really hurt me. I was brought up to be a kind and good person who respects others, so I didn't like the idea of punching someone outside the ring. Especially with your bare knuckles; it's very dangerous.
And I know what I did was wrong, but in that moment, I just punched the guy back and immediately dropped him. I hit the other guy too and he was immediately dazed. They both quickly got themselves together and walked away.
That was when I decided that I really wanted to go back to boxing to see how far I can go and develop. When I'm not at school or part-timing at a pastry kitchen where I help to bake cakes, I've been training at a boxing gym in England.
I'm currently in Singapore during the holidays to visit my parents who'll be staying here for about five years. I decided to join Legends after looking for boxing gyms in Singapore. I did a trial and I just fell in love with the place, you know?
Thanks to my dyslexia, I do get confused every now and then when I'm being told what to do. I'll mess up my combinations and get my left and right mixed up; but, the coaches would come around to ask if I was doing alright.
That's what I really like about Legends. Even though we're in a group setting, the coaches pay attention to everyone, so you never feel ignored or overlooked. The boxing partners are great too. You see the same faces everyday and everyone's just so nice.
There's a mutual respect between the people here; even those you exchange punches with. If things get too intense, we'd tell each other to slow down because we're all just learning. It might sound a little strange to say this, but it's almost like a family here.
I'm gonna miss this place when I go back home at the end of August. But who knows, I might end up staying in Singapore with the rest of my family one day, and I'll just come back here to continue boxing." – Alex, 18
Interview by: Arman Shah
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Sinkhole claims: This trend could bury Floridians
Michael Carlson
Florida homeowners have a new insurance crisis to contend with, and this one isn't caused by the usual culprit. While the state has remained virtually untouched by hurricanes for more than five years, an onslaught of sinkhole claims has turned the state into a ticking time bomb, and Floridians will be forced to pay the bill should this troubling trend continue.
The Florida Senate insurance committee recently reported sinkhole claims nearly tripled statewide from 2006 to 2010. Some 24,600 sinkhole claims were filed in that period, with almost 70 coming from "Sinkhole Alley" in Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando counties. In the past, claims were concentrated in this area but more recently have extended across the state to areas traditionally unaffected by sinkhole activity — including South Florida — accounting for $1 billion in losses.
Is the entire state on the verge of catastrophic ground collapse?
Geologists have found no geological explanation for the increase in claims and it's extremely rare for a sinkhole to actually engulf all or part of a home. Rather, a combination of manmade factors is to blame, such as unscrupulous public adjusters and trial lawyers who are fueling questionable claims over minor settling cracks in walls and foundations, and homeowners don't actually have to use claims proceeds to fix their homes.
While geological activity has remained relatively steady, the spike in sinkhole claims corresponds with a 330 percent increase in public adjusters in Florida between 2003 and 2009. Dishonest public adjusters and attorneys — who are paid about 20 percent of sinkhole settlements — often use misleading advertising that implies they work for government agencies or that homeowners are entitled to higher settlement amounts.
Faced with vague legal definitions of what actually constitutes a sinkhole, insurers are often forced to make the determination that it is better to pay out tens of thousands of dollars to settle sinkhole claims than face the risk of costlier litigation and the accusation that they've acted in "bad faith" — a fact some deceitful trial lawyers are all too willing to exploit.
If the current trend isn't disturbing enough, current law doesn't require homeowners to use sinkhole claims payments they receive to fix their homes — many are using the money to pay off mortgages, cars or boats, or simply walking away from properties with a cash windfall. One insurer recently reevaluated 110 sinkhole claims and found only 27 percent of homeowners used the money to repair their properties.
The sinkhole trends are alarming state policymakers and regulators because claims payouts far exceed the premium insurers receive for sinkhole coverage, causing big losses for the state and threatening the solvency of property insurers.
State-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. incurred $84 million in sinkhole losses in 2009, yet received $19.6 million in premiums to cover those costs. Taxpayers pay the difference.
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty identified sinkhole claims as a major factor in driving up the cost of insurance and recently said that even if state lawmakers fix the problem this spring, at least two or three private insurers will likely become insolvent from the crush of claims they've already received.
With sinkhole claims spiraling out of control, lawmakers must address this new catastrophe during the upcoming legislative session. While Senate Bill 408 is still evolving, a balance can be struck that protects consumers who truly have a sinkhole while eliminating abuses that are driving up insurance costs for everyone.
It's important for Floridians to call on their elected leaders to improve the law by more clearly defining what constitutes a sinkhole, putting new controls on public adjusters, and requiring that homeowners use claims payments to actually fix their homes. These common-sense steps will help rein in the sinkhole claims crisis before losses grow larger than a major hurricane and honest consumers are forced to foot the bill.
Michael Carlson is the executive director of the newly-formed Personal Insurance Federation of Florida.


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