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I'd like to invite everyone to create your own dungeon room for use in Dweller. The maps in Dweller are built using pre-defined blocks of 7x7 tiles, puzzled together so that exits align. A room can look almost any way you like as long as it has at least one exit. Exits are placed in the absolute middle of an edge (i.e. on the fourth tile of an edge, with three tiles to the left and three tiles to the right). Some examples of valid rooms:
Room with four exits
Corridor with two exits
Library with one exit
Room with vault and four exits
If you'd like to give it a try and design your own room please use this online map editor by Callidus Rex. Once you are happy with your room click save and send me the comma separated list of map data. Most of the available tiles should be self explanatory. If you want to use an "exotic" tile that you haven't seen in-game before please let me know.
My goal with Dweller has never been to make a commercial game. Dweller was started many many years ago thanks to my childhood passion for roguelikes (I played Moria a little over 20 years ago). I had started experimenting with mobile development (I released a commercial game for the Mophun platform available on Sony Ericsson devices) and it occurred to me that there weren't any roguelikes available for mobile devices. I really liked the thought of trying to convert the traditional 20+ roguelike key-bindings to a device with only 12 available keys and a very limited screen resolution.
Looking back at the years of development it has been a real encouragement to get so much positive feedback from players. Knowing that players have enjoyed the game and stuck by it for so long has really made me want to keep developing Dweller. Thank you!
Still, the thought of getting some monetary encouragement as well as kind words is a nice one. So far the PayPal Donation option hasn't resulted in much money, but I'm truly grateful for the donations I have received. I have toyed with the idea of providing a commercial version of Dweller with more features (new games modes, a new playable class and so on) but Dweller is not there yet. If I ever add a commercial version it will not be at the expense of the free version. My goal is still to make Dweller the best free fantasy RPG/roguelike there is.
Another idea would be to have one ad-supported free version and one ad-free version sold for a small cost. Both versions would have the same functionality but the ad-supported version would show ads at the loading screen (but not in-game). My main concern is how this would be received among the players. Would you stop playing Dweller if you were presented with an ad while the game is loading?
This post proves that I need to pay more attention to what I'm doing. Me and probably anyone else developing an Android game got approached by Opera (yes, the browser developer)/Handster in December 2011 about their new Opera Mobile Store asking me to upload Dweller to their store. And so I did (only the J2ME version) and totally forgot about it afterwards. Now when I log in again and have a look I saw that the version I uploaded 1.11.4 has been downloaded 20000 times! That's not bad but it also proves that I'm taking Dweller as a product a lot less serious than I should... I will think more about how to market Dweller (yes it's free, but it doesn't hurt to treat the game more serious anyway) and possibly also how to profit from it.
Ok, so it wasn't the use of CLDC 1.1 that caused problems when trying to run Dweller on Nokia handsets. I do however think I've found the cause now, and it has to do with signing of the Dweller.jar file. I had always thought that signing a jar file for deployment on a phone worked the same way as when signing a normal jar file, but I was wrong.
I have decided to ditch signing of the J2ME version of Dweller. The primary purpose of signing a J2ME jar is to not have to ask for permission from the user to access certain parts of the API. And I'm not using any of that in Dweller so it's safe to publish Dweller as an unsigned jar.
I have uploaded a new version of Dweller for J2ME (1.16.9). I would very much appreciate if any Dweller players using J2ME handsets would report back to me if the latest version is working or not.
I've been struggling for many versions now with problems reported by a lot of players that they can't get Dweller running on their J2ME phones. It seems like the most recent version that worked on all handsets was 1.9.1. In the next version I changed from CLDC 1.0 to CLDC 1.1 to be able to use floating point numbers for UI scale and alpha values. I believe it is this change that for some reason has been causing a lot of problems for some players. The problem seems to primarily exists on Nokia devices. Sony Ericsson is running Dweller just fine and I haven't heard of other devices that haven't been able to run Dweller.
Tonight I decided to revert back to fixed point math for scaling and alpha and by doing so it was possible to go back to CLDC 1.0 again. I also had to change my logging since something like LoggerFactory.getLogger(MyClass.class) doesn't work on CLDC 1.0 due to the fact that NoClassDefFoundError isn't included in CLDC 1.0
I am now hoping that as many J2ME users as possible out there would like to help me test the new version and verify if Dweller is running on their devices. Please try http://files.dwellergame.com/j2me/Dweller.jar (version 1.16.8) and let me know if it works or not
This is yet another bug fix and balancing release. I was hoping to be able to have some time to add new features and improve spell casting, but that will have to wait until the next release. Things that have been fixed in this release are:
#83 Fix J2ME preverification
#79 Tweak orc disarm chance
#73 Nerf troll healing
#37 Improve level text in highscore list
#84 Add an option to disable pathfinding by tapping
#92 Problem with pushable stone blocks and tap-to-move
#90 Update cursor text when target dies
#86 Prevent certain monsters from being charmed
#81 Add a batch/shell file to the Dweller for Desktops release
#88 Missing translation when buying a service from an NPC
#87 Never switch dungeon branch when falling through a trap door
#91 Double "you are standing on" messages
I had to do an unplanned release to fix some issues in 1.16.5 where keys sometimes became unresponsive. The new and fixed version is available to download on Android Market and in the Download section. Enjoy!
Dweller 1.16.5 is now available for download. The main focus of the release has been to improve the user experience. I have removed the <more> prompts (you can enable them from the settings menu if you really want them) to make the game faster. Another really great addition that many players have asked for is tap-to-move with full pathfinding to make exploration easier. Targeting feedback has also been improved and there's a new Equip menu that pops up if you pick up an item of a type that you aren't already using. Full change log:
#72 Items and monsters in walls
#50 Move buy/sell options to top of NPC menues
#57 Remove messages when selling/buying
#58 Change targeting icon when you can see but not target the selected creature
#47 Evaluate if a Equip popup should be shown when picking up an item of a type that isn't equipped
#69 Reduce amount of more prompts
#49 Remove blood splatter after a while
#30 smaller text log..
#17 Pathfinding
#42 Use Android display density to scale UI accordingly
#66 Monster sleep and idle animations not removed
#56 Improve item comparison
#77 Add "Miss" scrolling combat text (sct)
#78 EFFECT_LEVITATE_TARGET message missing/incorrect
#67 Allow buy/sell when a quest is ready to be turned in
My goal is to release the next version of Dweller during next week. I'm trying to finish up the features I'd like to have in the release and then start testing. Last night I started working on pathfinding and tap-to-move. And these are the features and fixes already done:
Please join the forums and help me shape the future of Dweller!
The Dweller forums have so far been a great success and a lot of good ideas and discussions have been started there. If you haven't already visited the forums please do so now and join the Dweller community!
Dweller 1.16.4 has been released. The version solves some issues with pushable stone blocks, adds a new user created artifact and solves a problem that prevented panning the map after the menu has been opened. Change log:
CHANGE Weapons with draining now base the chance of success on attack vs defense instead of magic vs magic
#61 Opening menu removes ability to pan screen
#44 Added a new artifact
#15 Pushable stone blocks blocked movement in some cases
The very annoying bug on Android where quests sometimes didn't complete properly should now have been solved. If you are still experiencing problems with quests please let me know!


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Ryan Braun has not homered since June 14, a stretch of nine games.
Before that blast, Braun went through an 11-game homerless span. Together, those streaks have resulted in a two home run month so far in June, after the Milwaukee Brewers slugger tallied just a pair in May as well.
It's not the worst low power stretch of Braun's career. In fact, just last year he managed just two home runs in May and none the rest of the season. But it is a cause for concern.
Early in the season, the health of Braun's thumb was a major question mark. He seemed to answer those questions, though, by hitting six home runs and slugging .600 over his first 20 games of the year.
But then he went on the disabled list with an oblique injury. Over 38 games since his return, Braun has put the ball over the fence just four times while slugging .428 with 17 extra-base hits and 32 strikeouts.
Braun is in a significant slump, and he's said that he wants to hit his way out of it. But that slump dates back more than two months.
Going back over his last 100 games, Braun has connected for just 12 home runs, 25 doubles and five triples while batting .285/.344/.473, well below his career slash line of .310/.379/.551.
Some critics might point to Braun's positive drug test in 2011 and say the drop off in power is related. Not likely.
Can it be attributed to the thumb injury? Not entirely, but it's certainly played a major role. More importantly, if the thumb is becoming an issue again, letting Braun swing his way out of the slump isn't likely to be effective.
onathan Lucroy is unlikely to start the All-Star Game.
But he very well could be the National League MVP.
Despite outperforming all other catchers by a wide margin, Lucroy is a longshot to be voted in by the fans. Instead, he'll have to rely on his fellow players or Cardinals manager Mike Matheny to select him for the NL squad.
Meanwhile on the field, Lucroy has been the Milwaukee Brewers' best player and among the NL elite.
Lucroy is batting .341/.405/.536 with eight home runs, 34 RBIs and a league-best 89 hits and 28 multi-hit games. Entering Wednesday, he had a WAR of either 3.9 or 3.4 — depending on your source — both of which rank third-best in the NL and considerably better than that of any other catcher in the majors.
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Lucroy also is one of the best defensive catchers in baseball, especially in the art of pitch framing.
And if all that weren't enough, he also showed Tuesday night how he can come through in the clutch.
After reliever Evan Marshall loaded the bases by drilling slugger Ryan Braun, the first pitch Lucroy saw from Brad Ziegler was crushed over the fence for an emphatic go-ahead grand slam. It turned out to be the game-winner, while making Arizona manager Kirk Gibson look silly in the process.
Lucroy may not be an All-Star starter. But he and the Brewers have their eyes on much bigger prizes.
No pitcher has given up more home runs this season than Marco Estrada. And it's not even close.
Estrada has watched 20 balls fly over the fence, five more than Rockies starter Juan Nicasio. And 11 of Nicasio's 15 have come in the mile-high thin air of Coors Field.
Command and aggressiveness appear to be among the primary issues. In addition to the home runs, Estrada's walk totals are up as well, a sign that he may not be attacking the zone the way he needs to be successful.
The right-hander has issued 27 free passes this year, including 13 in his last five starts. Over that stretch, Estrada has given up 22 runs on 29 hits — including 10 home runs — with a 6.67 ERA in 29 2/3 innings.
Remarkably, the Brewers actually won two of those games.
After giving up two more blasts Tuesday, Estrada became one of just nine pitchers in franchise history to give up home runs in 10 straight starts, putting him on a dubious list that includes the likes of Jeff Suppan and Dave Bush.
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke indicated following the game that Estrada may be relocated outside the starting rotation soon. Given the success Jimmy Nelson has had both at Triple-A and in the majors this year, he's the obvious choice as a replacement.
And Nelson should get that call.
At the very least, Nelson ought to make a start or two while Estrada tries to sort things out either in the bullpen or on the disabled list. Maybe an injury is causing his struggles. Maybe it's a release point issue. Maybe it's a mental thing.
Whatever it is, the home runs will continue to fly until Estrada figures it out.
For a manager that has a National League Central title on his resume, he doesn't get enough of it. But one of his recent moves — of which I was skeptical at the time — is paying off in a big way.
Two weeks ago, Roenicke shuffled the Brewers' lineup, moving shortstop Jean Segura to the leadoff spot and dropping Carlos Gomez from first to cleanup. Between them, slugger Ryan Braun slid up to second and catcher Jonathan Lucroy filled Braun's usual No. 3 spot.
The results have made Roenicke look brilliant.
In the first 13 games with Segura leading off, the Brewers have averaged 5.84 runs, while posting games of 11, 9 and 8 runs. Over their first 47 games this season, the Brewers averaged just 3.79 runs per game, with four games in which they scored eight or more.
Individually, each of the four batters at the top of the Milwaukee lineup has flourished since the change.
Segura, Braun and Gomez have hit between 40 and 60 points better than their season averages since relocating within the lineup. And all four batters have produced more extra-base hits, combining for 17 doubles, three triples and five home runs over the last two weeks.
Even slotting Aramis Ramirez in the No. 5 spot looked brilliant with the Brewers third baseman slugging a three-run homer in his return to the lineup Wednesday night in Minneapolis.
It's all still a very small sample size, and the results very well may be coincidental.
But the Brewers' offense has finally started to break out. And their new-look lineup seems as likely a cause as any.


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Dolly Parton's 9 To 5 tour booking opens today
Dolly Parton's musical version of the movie 9 To 5 kicks off a UK tour on October 12th at the Manchester Opera House. So far ten theatres have been booked for the tour which opens at Manchester Opera House on 12th October. It will then visit the New Wimbledon Theatre (22nd-27th October), Sunderland Empire (29th October-3rd November), Woking New Victoria (5th-10th November), Glasgow King's Theatre (12th-17th November), Stoke Regent Theatre (19th-24th November), Edinburgh Playhouse (26th November-1st December), Oxford New Theatre (3rd-8th December), Theatre Royal Brighton (10th-15th December) and Birmingham New Alexandra Theatre (17th December-5 January, 2013).
Tickets go on sale today at 9 minutes to 5! (16:51).
Dolly wrote the music and lyrics for the stage musical ranging from rockabilly to rhythm and blues. She will be heading to the UK to attend one or two rehearsals. She was in the 1980 film version, with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. 9 to 5 is about female office workers getting their own back on a sexist male boss who goes too far. The book by Patricia Resnick (co-writer of the original screenplay) tells the story of three unlikely friends who conspire to take control of their company and learn there's nothing they can't do - even in a man's world.
9 To 5 played on Broadway from April-September 2009 and was nominated for 15 Drama Desk Awards (the most received by a production in a single year) and four Tony Awards, including Best Score.
Dolly Parton said: "I am so excited that 9 To 5 the Musical is coming to the UK. I'm hoping you have as much fun watching it as I had writing the music for it. 9 to 5 the Musical is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us."
The show has been touring in the USA since 2010 and has been redirected by Jeff Calhoun, who took over directing duties from Joe Mantello.
If 9 To 5 works on tour it may well come in to London's West End next year.
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A traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained during childhood can cause significant negative consequences in not only physical, cognitive, and academic functioning, but also emotional, behavioral and social functioning. These deficits are often interrelated and can adversely affect the individuaĺ⁰₉s daily living, including interactions with others. Social dysfunction is a particularly debilitating problem for children and adolescents who have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The social effects of TBI, particularly over time, are infrequently researched and therefore are not well understood by school personnel. This study examined the perceptions of teacher, caregiver and student regarding social functioning following a TBI by 1) comparing teacher and caregiver ratings of social skills at baseline, 6 months post-injury, 12 months post-injury, 18 months post-injury, and 7 years post-injury 2) examining self-ratings of social competence 7 years post-injury in comparison to individuals who sustained an Orthopedic Injury (OI) and 3) comparing self-ratings of social acceptance to caregiver and teacher ratings of social functioning. No significant difference between caregiver and teacher ratings was found; however, a significant difference was detected between teacher ratings of individuals with OI and individuals with TBI. In addition, individuals with TBI did not perceive themselves as having any deficits in social acceptance or global self-worth; there were no significant differences in self-ratings between individuals with TBI and individuals with OI. Lastly, this study found discrepancies between self and parent ratings and self and teacher ratings. Such discrepancies suggest a lack of self-awareness in youth following a TBI.
Feltz, Lindsey M., "Teacher, parent, and self-perceptions of social functioning in youth with traumatic brain injury" (2016). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 1210.


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Other Foot is a card game similar to Apples to Apples, but far more fun. It requires at least three players, and at most the number of players that will fit around your card table. The only other requirement is a large stack of small blank cards. Index cards (cut in half) are perfect for this purpose, however any small pieces of paper which can clearly be written on will suffice (I have been known to use the paper fliers that accumulate at my local cafe).
The game begins with each player grabbing a handful of blank cards and writing words or phrases on them. There are absolutely no rules about what can be written on a card. There is a basic set of guidelines below for what will be more likely to make the game more fun, but feel free to write anything you want. Occasionally people will draw small pictures.
When each player is satisfied with the number of cards he or she has made (No required amount, but typically somewhere between ten and forty cards each) all the cards are shuffled together (this can be annoying since they aren't playing cards) and each player takes five cards.
Players take turns being the judge. At the beginning of the turn, the judge plays a card from his hand, face up, into the center of the table. Typically, the judge will read the card aloud, either for the benefit of players who are far away, or because many people have barely legible handwriting. Every other player then chooses a card from his or her hand which could be understood as some kind of response to the judge's card. The responding cards are played immediately (there is no time limit on deciding which card to play, although players who take too long can be ridiculed).
The judge decides which card "goes best" with his own card. The "best card" may somehow match his card, or perhaps finish a thought, or just sound strange in response to his card. Again, there are no rules for deciding. When the judge decides whose card is best, that player gets a "point", which he scores by taking the judge's card and placing it in his score-pile. All other cards from play are placed in a discard pile, which will be shuffled and returned to the draw pile when the draw pile eventually runs out of cards. If the judge decides that there is no real winner, the round is declared a wash, and all cards from play are placed in the discard pile. All players draw a card to return their hands to five cards (if they have not done so already) and the player seated to the left of the judge becomes the new judge.
The reason quotation marks are employed about the word "point" is that the points in this game are about as meaningless as they are on everything2. When people feel they have played long enough, everyone counts his scorepile, and decides upon the "winner", who gets about ten seconds of glory. The fun of this game is not in the competition, but in the human interaction during play. Points are merely an engine to drive the gameplay.
Additional Rules:
If an onlooker passes by and wants to join in (common in coffeehouses where you know a lot of people), tell them to make ten cards and place them in the discard pile. Then they can join in.
If you think of a good card you want to make in the middle of a game, make the card and put it in the discard pile.
If a card comes up multiple times and is consistently boring, and never works with anything, you can either ask for a vote to get rid of it, or you can just get rid of it. This is typically done by either crumpling the card into a ball, or tearing it into very small pieces.
If, between games, you want to go through and get rid of lame cards, you can.
There are no ultimate rules which make a "good" card or a "bad" card. Actually, even the distinction between "good" cards and "bad" cards is somewhat flawed. How "good" a card is can depend entirely on its interactions with other cards. A card may seem incredibly boring, but this fact can make it all the more enjoyable when it sounds really bizarre in the context of another card (For example, Diversify your investments with Fast Zombies vs. Slow Zombies).
That said, here are some basic guidelines for what works well, and what doesn't.
Good Cards:
Anything open-ended; if your card sounds too specific, perhaps try removing a word, preferably a word essential to the meaning of the card (Instead of Maggot-Ridden Corpses, try Maggot-Ridden).
People, places, or things, but not specific ones (Instead of Pope John Paul II try Every pope whoever lived, or instead of Willie Nelson try This one dude I met at Hempfest).
Anything incredibly violent, graphic, or sexual (The baby eater, Vaginal discharge, Booty Call).
Anything overly benign (Not as unusual as you would think, Actually quite futuristic).
By far, the best phrases sound like snippets of conversation you overheard but don't know the context for (I bet I'd do really well on an I.Q. test, needs a man, etc.)
Bad Cards:
Band Names.
Self-Contained phrases. Don't try to make a joke on the card itself. The weirdness is supposed to come out in context.
Specific People, places, or things. This rule can be completely wrong sometimes. I find The Queen of England to be an incredibly enjoyable card. However, specific people, places, and things in your everyday experience generally don't work.
The reason for the name "Other Foot" is just as unknown as perhaps the reason for the name Egyptian Ratscrew. Legend tells us that that was simply the phrase on the card that came up when they were deciding what to name the game.
Other Foot is extremely fun to play with a group of incredibly creative friends, preferably a really large group. However, be wary, as it can be extremely boring if played with a group of incredibly uncreative friends. If you have a bad experience playing Other Foot, perhaps you should reconsider what sort of people you surround yourself with.
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TOUCH OF EVIL (1958 Blu-Ray)
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Directed by Orson Welles, Touch of Evil is a film noir masterpiece whose Hollywood backstory is as unforgettable as the movie itself. Starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles, this dark portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tells the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Featuring three versions of the film – the Preview version, the Theatrical version and the Reconstructed version based on Orson Welles' original vision, Touch of Evil is a "a stylistic masterpiece!" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide) that stands the test of time.
· Includes a digital copy of Touch of Evil (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
· Bringing Evil to Life
· Evil Lost and Found
· Reconstructed Version Commentary with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Reconstruction Producer Rick Schmidlin
· Reconstructed Version Commentary with Reconstruction Producer Rick Schmidlin
· Theatrical Version Commentary with Writer/Filmmaker F.X. Feeney
· Preview Version Commentary with Orson Welles Historians Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore


Thank you for examining these issues so carefully! The article brought back memories of Princeton in the late 1960s. I have always felt extremely fortunate to have attended Princeton. Issues of class played a minor role, but the article reminded me of having been a public high school graduate when half of my classmates attended prep schools, and having to work during the summers and school years to pay for my books, clothing, and other incidentals.
During freshman orientation week, I was chatting with a classmate who mentioned that he attended Deerfield Academy. Innocently, I replied that I attended Exeter — summer school. I was surprised to see his face quickly morph from a smile to a look of disappointment when he learned I had only been there for summer school (a list of scholarship students was posted on the bulletin board).
One of the huge benefits of working at minimum-wage jobs on campus and during the summer was the motivation that provided to do well academically and have a better job after medical school. I learned to love Orgo!


Hon. Everton Chimulirenji assured the people of continuous of unlimited development.
The DPP's Running Mate Hon. Everton Chimulirenji was at MONEY MEN where he, and multitudes braved the rain.
The running mate assured the people of continuous of unlimited development to the country. He vowed that his main job is to change the lives of the poor Malawians.


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Nineteen is a pretty young age to have to navigate today's complex world completely on your own, but even more so for young people in care, since being there means they've already experienced major loss, neglect, trauma or abuse – and the foster system can be traumatizing in itself. Also, social mobility, and even survival, in today's credential-oriented world depends on having marketable skills, which usually requires some type of formal post-secondary education, whether vocational or academic. That's expensive and may not be easily accessible to youth in care, who have much lower high-school graduate rates than other students. The need for post-secondary education in order to access the job market, along with the Lower Mainland's astronomically high housing costs, are why we're now seeing about 60% of young people in BC between the ages of 20 and 24 living at home with their families.
But what if you don't have that option? With no financial support and weak (or non-existent) family ties, youth coming out the foster care system are obviously at a major disadvantage. No surprise, then, that they disproportionately end up homeless or dependent on income assistance, at least temporarily.
I recently (well, November) attended a workshop on this topic at Housing Central, the annual conference of the BC Nonprofit Housing Association (BCNPHA). The conference is aimed at the nonprofit housing providers that comprise the BCNPHA's membership, but it also offers a wide range of workshops on various aspects of affordable housing and homelessness more generally. One of these was put on by Aunt Leah's Place, an nonprofit group that provides support to youth in care as and after they age out of the system. A staffer from Aunt Leah's led participants through an eye-opening exercise in which we were asked to remember all the types of help we received from our families between the ages of 19 and 24 and estimate the cost of that support if we had had to pay for it ourselves. Free or cheap housing is an obvious type of support that many people receive from their families after 19, but the list is much longer. The basics include groceries, utilities, transportation, medical and dental insurance, phone bills and clothing. Better-off families may spend much more to support their children as they transition into adulthood, including by subsidizing or completely paying for tuition, cars, travel and down-payments on homes. I was glad the facilitator did not ask us to share the dollar figures we came up with in public, because I thought this calculation process could trigger a lot of emotions – of everything from overwhelming gratitude to deep hurt as people reflected on the ways they were or weren't supported by their families as they became adults. While we weren't expected to share our figures publicly, those who wanted to were invited to anonymously write the dollar amount they came up with on a piece of paper, which the facilitator collected and wrote on a whiteboard. The figures from our group of about 25 participants (of widely varying ages) ranged from the negatives – those who actually helped support their families financially between the ages of 19 and 24 – to sums over $60,000. Quite the disparity.
Of course, financial help is just one type of support that intact, functional families provide their children with, and perhaps not even the most important. Youth in care also lack social support from their families of origin – and so may be lacking in life skills and just places to turn when things go wrong. Life is often not smooth when you're a young person just figuring out how the world works. Recovering from the trials and tribulations of adult life (whether that's locking yourself out of your apartment, losing a job, getting in a car accident, suffering a breakup, or worse) is harder the first time around and also harder if you have no one to reassure you that these things happen to everyone or to offer advice on how to get through the tough patches. Even when things are going well, functioning families provide a framework of support, as well as expectations, that help young adults not only find their way in the world, but also make the most of their potential. Former youth-in-care do not benefit from this type of built-in intangible but crucial social support.
This is why extending financial and other supports to youth in care beyond their nineteenth birthday makes so much sense, on both compassionate and fiscal grounds. Various advocacy groups and social agencies, including the Vancouver Foundation, have taken up this call. To its credit, the provincial government did recently make some changes in that direction. In late 2016, it expanded an existing program (Agreements with Young Adults) that provides financial support to about 650 youth in care, if they meet certain criteria. The expansion was expected to help another 500 youth. However, considering that we have somewhere between 7,000 and 8,000 children in care in B.C. and about 700 of them age out of the system every year, that program and its expansion by no means meets the extent of the need. More policy changes are needed – thus I'll be watching for news on this issue as the election approaches.
If you're interested in this issue or others related to social and affordable housing, you might want to check out the BCNPHA's conference in 2017. At the 2016 edition, I also attended interesting workshops on creating opportunities for new nonprofit housing in Metro Vancouver, land trusts, and the controversial practice of including separate doorways (sometimes referred to as "poor doors") in mixed market and social housing developments. There was also a great keynote presentation by Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Some facts about foster care in B.C.


The cell surface transmembrane glycoprotein CD 155 is expressed in many different human tissue cells. This protein has also been shown to be expressed in pancreatic cells in patients suffering from pancreatic cancer. CD 155 is also referred to as a poliovirus receptor (PVR) on account of the fact that it has been implicated in infection with poliovirus in the primate animal model. Current evidence suggests that its function within normal cells is associated with maintaining cohesion between epithelial cells.
S. Nishiwada and his colleagues from the Department of Surgery, Nara Medical University in Kashihara Nara, Japapn have put considerable effort into the study of the role CD 155 expression in human pancreatic cancer within a clinical setting.
In their study of 134 patients with pancreatic cancer, they found that those patients that demonstrated high levels of CD 155 expression also showed a poorer postoperative prognosis than those with low expression of this protein. In addition, they have found an inverse relationship between the expression of CD 155 and the body's ability to dispatch tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes to the site of the tumor in order to destroy cancerous cells. Furthermore, expression of CD 155 positively correlated with increased growth of the malignancy and angiogenesis – growth of new blood vessels towards the growing tumor. Both of these effects enhances tumor growth. As would be expected, suppression of CD 155 expression, inhibited cell division within pancreatic cancer cells.
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Terret Noir is an ancient grape from the Languedoc, but one whose footprint in Châteauneuf-du-Pape has declined to just 2 acres. We imported it in 2003 as a part of our quest to get all 13 traditional Châteauneuf-du-Pape varieties, and have been pleased to discover its combination of vibrant spiciness, pale color, low alcohol, and grippy structure.
Terret Noir is an ancient grape from the Languedoc, one that like Grenache or Picpoul has three color variants (Terret Blanc and Terret Gris are the others). It is first noted in the historical record in 1736, when it was noted for generous production ("Terret noir: produit beaucoup"). Never very widely planted (unlike Terret Gris, which a half century ago showed more than 20,000 acres in Languedoc, much of it used to distill into vermouth) Terret Noir's acreage has declined in recent years, down to some 460 acres in 2008, nearly all in Hérault, the French département that surrounds the university town of Montpellier. Even in Hérault, Terret Noir produces less than 2% of the 900,000 hectoliters of wine the region produces annually and is typically blended into the more-planted Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignan, Grenache, and Mourvedre. Although it is one of the permitted varieties in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, it is barely planted there, with just over two acres planted as of 2009.
The grape was valued for its productivity, its freshness, and its moderate alcohols. In his authoritative ampelography from 1910, P. Viala writes of Terret (translation by my dad), "it produced an abundant harvest that could reach 80 hectoliters per hectare [6 tons per acre]. It was prized on the hillsides because, aside from its fertility, it brought qualities of lightness and freshness of bouquet to the strong and acid varietals (Grenache, Espar, etc.), and to which it married perfectly".
In 2003, we decided that we wanted the complete collection of Chateauneuf-du-Pape varieties, and took field cuttings from Beaucastel of the seven grapes we had not yet imported. Terret was one of these. It spent seven years in quarantine at U.C. Davis before being released to us in 2009, propagated, and in 2010 planted in a half-acre block at the extreme western edge of our property. Our first production off of these vines came in 2013.
Terret Noir is valuable in part because it is late-budding, and therefore less vulnerable to the spring frosts that are the chief weather hazard we deal with each year. It grows vigorously, and produces large, oval, pinkish red grapes that look more like table grapes than they do like a darkly pigmented grape such as Syrah or Mourvedre. Its upright growth pattern means that it can be head-trained (and typically is in France) but we planted our small block double-cordon on trellis. It ripens relatively late in the growing season, about a week before the very end of harvest each of the last three years. This puts it in timing in synch with grapes like Mourvedre and Counoise.
At harvest, it is relatively modest in sugars (we've picked it between 21.0° and 21.6° Brix each year) and mid-range high in acids (pH between 3.6 and 3.9). The skins are light in pigment and the berries large, so it is not a grape that picks up much color during fermentation. In fact, the first year we fermented it, after two weeks it still looked like a rosé, so we kept it on the skins for another week, at which point it hadn't picked up much more color but had accumulated quite a bit of tannin. We have since gone back to a more normal 2-week maceration, accepting the lighter color but keeping the tannins modest.
Ultimately, we expect this to be a blending grape, and in fact beginning in 2016 will be using it in a blend with Syrah and Grenache (for that full story, see here). In a blend, its spiciness, herby savoriness, and low alcohols provide a moderating effect on the more powerful, deeply fruity Syrah and Grenache, while those darker grapes give to Terret substance. On its own, as we've bottled it in 2013, 2014, and 2015 vintages, it is reminiscent of pale color, fairly tannic grapes like the Jura's poulsard.
Terret Noir is pale garnet red, with spicy, lifted aromatics of dried herbs and wild strawberries. On the palate it shows a persistence surprising for such a pale red wine, with crunchy red fruit like pomegranates and red currants, complex notes of black tea and dried roses, good acids, and some grippy tannins on the finish. We have no idea how it will age, and the literature doesn't provide much insight here.


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The late Michael Broadbent was not directly involved with Broadbent Selections but he was an enthusiastic supporter. Other than encouragement and pride, his main contribution to Broadbent Selections was when his son, Bartholomew, sent Michael and his mother, Daphne, to the island of Madeira to help develop the blends for Broadbent Madeira.
In 1960, Michael became the 24th Master of Wine. He trained as an architect, but at age 25 changed his career to enter the wine trade. He started with Layton's, then Saccone and Speed before becoming the National Sales Director for Harvey's of Bristol. In 1966 he established the Wine Department at Christie's. As an auctioneer he pioneered wine sales in Amsterdam, Geneva, Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and the United States, including founding the Napa Valley Wine Auction with Robert Mondavi.
Receiving France's second highest honor, Chevalier dans L'Order National du Merite from the French Government, his other awards are too numerous to list but they include Decanter's 'Man of the Year' and Wine Spectator's Distinguished Service Award. He held many important and prestigious positions during his career, including being the first Hon President of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust [WSET], President of The International Wine and Food Society, Chairman of The Institute of Masters of Wine, Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers, Chairman of The Wine & Spirit Trades Benevolent Society, Wine Consultant for British Airways and for Cunard.
He was a columnist for six publications, including writing 433 consecutive monthly columns for Decanter magazine. He wrote 14 books and contributed chapters to many others. His first book, Wine Tasting, has been continuously in print since 1968, translated into 8 languages. The Great Vintage Wine Book was the first ever book published with tasting notes. He won 16 major literary awards including a James Beard award for Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine.
He was twice married. In 1954 to Daphne until her death [1931-2015] and then to Dr. Valerie Smallwood in 2019. In addition to his son, Bartholomew, he has an older daughter, Emma, The Lady Arbuthnot DBE, a High Court Judge in the UK. Michael died from natural causes in 2020 at the age of 92.


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WWE Network: 24/7 Streaming and Live Programming
At CES 2014, WWE announced details on the WWE Network, a streaming-video service that offers live and on-demand videos. WWE Network will feature live programming — including all 12 WWE pay-per-view events — and on-demand viewing of classic wrestling. Additionally, it will have a number of original shows that will be exclusive to the service. WWE Network will launch on February 24, 2014 at a cost of $9.99 per month with a six-month commitment required.
WWE Network will be available on a number of popular devices. According to the press release:
WWE Network, the first 24/7 network delivered directly to fans through over-the-top digital distribution, will be available on desktops and laptops via WWE.com. WWE Network will also be available through the WWE App on: Amazon's Kindle Fire devices; Android devices such as Samsung Galaxy; iOS devices such as Apple iPad and iPhone; Roku streaming devices; Sony PlayStation 3 and Sony PlayStation 4; and Xbox 360. Availability on additional devices, including Xbox One and select Smart TVs, will follow this summer.
Original WWE Network programming includes pre- and post-show commentary on Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown, NXT Wrestling, WrestleMania Rewind, The Monday Night War, and WWE Legends House. I'm particularly excited about that last show, which features "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Tony Atlas and Hacksaw Jim Duggan living together and doing goofy things.
The press release notes that classic WWE, WCW, and ECW matches and pay-per-view events will be available for on-demand viewing — uncut and uncensored. I hope that WWE's immense archive of the "territory" days of wrestling will be included as well. There are so many tremendous Mid-South Wrestling, World Class Championship Wrestling, Florida Championship Wrestling, etc. matches that I'd love to see. Hell, it almost makes me wish that I had a son, just so that I could show him how awesome Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Ricky Steamboat, and Harley Race were in their primes.
Assuming that the streaming service works well, WWE Network is a fantastic value. The monthly cost is cheaper than ordering a single pay-per-view event and you get tons of other content to enjoy at your leisure. As a fan of current WWE programming and a huge mark for older wrestling shows, WWE Network is a must-buy for me. On paper, it looks like I would get way more than $10 of entertainment out of the service every month.
I know that several of you RPadholics are (wisely) WWE and pro-wrestling fans. Are you excited for WWE Network? Will you subscribe? What questions or issues do you have about the service? Kindly layeth the smacketh down in the comments section!
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[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified] [circa 1874]. First Edition. [1], [1-blank] pages, [25] leaves of plates. Covers 13 x 10 inches (oblong 4to). 3/4 leather over pebbled cloth boards. "Schreiber & Son's Portraits of Noted Horses of America" in gilt embossed on front cover. Recently recased with new endpapers. Boards stained (old dampstaining with some recent coloring). Original brass clasp at foreedge. Following that are 50 mounted album prints on 25 cards. Each side contains an 8 x 5 3/8 inch albumen photograph in the center surrounded by a printed yellow border (8 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches), letterpress horse's name centered in the yellow border, and "Schreiber & Son's Photo" in white within the yellow border lower right. Outside the yellow border, and centered on the page below is a letterpress history of the horse pictured. On one case (ELMO) there is a cancel description pasted over the original. Most of the photographs have copyright notices for Schreiber & Son's Washington DC printed in the negative, dated variously dated from 1871 through 1874. The tonality of the images vary, from faded (most prominently at the beginning and end of the album) to strong and crisp. Most of the later dated images are much stronger and darker images. Given that some of the letterpress descriptions note future dates that had already passed by the time this work was published, we suspect that the publication was compiled with a combination of earlier stock photographs and newly printed images. Very Good. Boards. [27046]
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By Hunter Camp | August 19th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
This week, DC Comics and Warner Home Video announced something that all the fans of their popular animated series franchise have been dying to get their hands on. For the first time in its history, every episode of The Dark Knight of Tomorrow, Batman Beyond, will be collected and sold to you in a single boxed limited-edition set coming November 23, just in time for the holidays!
Batman Beyond: The Complete Series box set comes loaded with 9 discs with all 52 episodes for a suggested retail price of $99.99, and is packed full of extra goodies to make that price tag seem like chump change. The set includes all new bonus content and an art book that opens your eyes to the creation of the series.
See the breakdown of the details on the bonus features and packaging here below.
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Comic Review: Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1
By Henchman21 | @ | May 25th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1
Penciler: Chris Sprouse
Inker: Karl Story
Colorist: Guy Major
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
I suppose I should talk about this issue, since it is about to show how Bruce Wayne returns to our time following the events at the end of Final Crisis, but honestly, it's hard for me to get that excited about it. This is a fine issue, but I think I was expecting the story to get off to a stronger start, and this wasn't what I was expecting.
As the cover shows, most of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1 is Batman as a caveman fighting other cavemen at the dawn of man. Bruce Wayne joins up with a bunch of cavemen and then fights a bunch of evil cavemen lead by the immortal caveman himself, Vandal Savage, gaining a caveman Robin (who somehow finds a domino mask in the bush apparently) before getting sent further into the future.
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Bruce Wayne Heading Back To The DC Universe
By Tom Cheredar | December 9th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Bruce Wayne has had a rough couple of years in the DC Universe. He was brainwashed, which caused his mind to switch to Batman auto-pilot mode, adopted a green and purple costume, apparently got killed, got replaced, and later misplaced in time.
But Bruce is on his way back, according to writer Grant Morrison, who will pen Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne, a six-issue mini-series due out in 2010 with a rotating cast of artists.
Morrison did an interview with USA Today about the character's return to regular story continuity in which he explains that the series will chronicle Bruce's journey through different periods in time so that he can reach the present day.
From the interview…
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'Batman: Battle For The Cowl': Who Will Take Up The Mantle?
By The Geeks of Doom | @ | November 4th, 2008 at 9:47 am
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Who is going inherit the Bat mantle?
With Batman RIP heading towards its dramatic (and long awaited for some!) conclusion, Bruce Wayne may be going bye bye. Is he gonna die? Is he gonna retire? Will he descend into madness, never to be heard from again? Grant Morrison knows, but he ain't telling.
With all controversy going around, aren't we forgetting one major dilemma? With the Bat mantle vacated, who is going to step up and take control of Gotham?
Following Batman RIP is the much hushed "Battle For the Cowl" arc. The title suggests that there is a slugfest on the horizon between the Bat boys to see who gets the cape. Who can even pretend they are qualified to replace the Dark Knight? A few are real contenders, but there are a few underdogs that could potentially take the title.
Here are a few of the folks we think just might take it. But don't listen to us! Sound off with your own theories in the comments!
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Northern Territory's education policy hands remote Indigenous students an impossible dilemma
Marnie O'Bryan and Jessa Rogers
Teens face the choice of a distant boarding school or staying on country without access to secondary curriculum
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The Northern Territory's education policy is for Indigenous high school students from remote communities to be sent to boarding schools. Photograph: Wayne Quilliam
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Trent is from a community of 400 people in the Top End. Arrive by road and the first thing you see is the red dust air strip, but closer to home, great spreading trees create oases of cool in the tropical heat. Under them, ceremonies are planned, card games played, yarns shared.
Trent didn't leave his community because he wanted to. On the contrary. He went to boarding school because he, his mum and his nana value education and because he had no alternative. After a year, the Indigenous student coordinator at his school 4,000kms to the south described him as acutely homesick.
Trent could be from any one of 78 communities in the Northern Territory where young people face the same dilemma. Since 2015, sending teenagers away to board has been the official policy position of the Territory government. The NT's Indigenous education strategy 2015-2024 stipulates that if children want access to a high school program, it will need to be away from home. Those who elect to remain close to country, kin, language and culture during their teenage years will have access to rudimentary "post primary literacy and numeracy", but not to a secondary curriculum. The policy was launched with a schedule of promised evaluations, but six years in, none have been made publicly available.
Australia's lockdown rules ease for boarders but Indigenous students still face barriers
Despite parliamentary and other inquiries exposing the complexity of Indigenous boarding programs and calling for greater transparency, reliable data remains near impossible to access.
In 2019, a study was conducted in Trent's community by researchers at the Australian National University. It is the only in-depth investigation of the NT's Indigenous education strategy. Over a 10-year period, this community's 100 young people had been sent to 38 different schools in towns and cities all over Australia. 90% dropped out, more than half in their first year. In 2019, 22 of 80 secondary aged kids were enrolled in 10 boarding schools spanning five states. For the 58 who elected to remain at home, their only option was to attend the local primary school, but that school only received funding for 11 students, which begs the question of what investment was being made in the other 47.
None, as it turns out.
Indigenous boarding programs attract significant media attention. Typically, articles celebrating a young person's enrolment or completion of school are accompanied by photos featuring smiling faces and crisp new uniforms. Narratives of courage, hope and opportunity. We all want Indigenous students to flourish in education, and it is right and proper to acknowledge individuals' efforts and achievements. But support for the Indigenous boarding industry cannot come at the cost of the invisible majority of children in remote Australia in whom no investment is currently being made.
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Our respective research projects reveal how complex the experiences of First Nations boarders are, and this is borne out in Trent's community. Some young people had tried two, three and even four new schools, but none had lasted a full year in their subsequent school. When Covid-19 hit, all boarders came home. Border closures and different state and territory regulations made the operation a logistical nightmare.
Six of the 22 returning boarders presented at the local primary school gates. They were welcomed in, provided with breakfast and lunch, included in school activities and supervised in their learning. This strained staff and a system already woefully under-resourced. The six came with a range of learning profiles but with no funding or resource allocation to ensure their needs were met.
Similar stories are emerging from across Australia. We know of one young woman attending a boarding school in Melbourne when the pandemic hit. She returned home to her Aboriginal community in far north Queensland. The local shire website notes her town has chronically low internet speeds and black spots. Her family has no computer or iPad and she is struggling to complete year 11 on her mother's prepaid mobile phone. This has eaten into data allowance which the family relies on to complete all banking and Centrelink transactions, to connect with social services and, most importantly, to communicate with family. Here too, there is no high school, and the local primary school, already struggling with high staff turnover and low internet reliability, has had to pick up the slack with no additional funds to help.
In one study, 90% of boarding school students from remote Indigenous communities dropped out. Photograph: Wayne Quilliam
In the 2021-22 budget, the federal government announced that $16.6m would be spent to assist boarding schools with high numbers of Indigenous boarders to remain financially sustainable during recovery from the Covid pandemic. Propping up the Indigenous boarding industry is one thing. Ensuring the money is spent where it is really needed is another.
Covid has not created an education crisis in remote Australia. It has exposed one. Some visitors to remote communities laugh when they see little kids running around in discarded private school hats, shirts, bags. These are artefacts of a broken system that fails to serve remote community needs.
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Far too often, boarding schools are no more than a revolving door: community students enter, are chewed up and spat out, rapid fire, with no alternative to pick them up. The vast majority lose faith with the education system and never return to school. Support for the Indigenous boarding industry cannot come at the cost of silencing their stories.
The pandemic has exposed the real cost of failing to develop place-based and culturally responsive education in remote Australia.
The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) provides that states shall provide the means for Indigenous peoples, particularly children, to access education which supports their culture and language. The federal government adopted the declaration in 2008. How will our nation now seek to honour it?
Dr Marnie O'Bryan is a research fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University and co-chair of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Her book Boarding and Australia's First Nations: Understanding how residential schooling shapes lives will be released by Springer later this year.
Dr Jessa Rogers is a proud Wiradjuri educator, consultant, researcher and board director. Her PhD Boarding School Business: The Voices of Aboriginal Girls Attending Boarding Schools focused on the experience of Aboriginal students in boarding schools in Australia and New Zealand. Jessa is the First Nations Senior Research Fellow at QUT's Digital Media Research Centre and managing director of Baayi Consulting.
Wayne Quilliam is adjunct professor at the school of media and communications at RMIT University, and one of Australia's pre-eminent Indigenous photographic artists. He was part of the research team investigating the impact of the NT's Indigenous Education Policy 2015-2024. His book, Culture is Life, is a modern, photographic celebration of the diversity of Indigenous Australians.
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I. Preparations II. Shakedown III. The Island IV. Under Way V. Wind and Waves VI. Land
All Themes The Passage of Time Men and Women Dreaming vs. The Real World Family and Personal Identity The Mysteries of Life and Death
All Characters Sophie Cody Bompie Brian Mo Dock Stew Rosalie Frank Joey
All Symbols The Wave The Open Ocean The Little Kid
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I. Preparations
II. Shakedown
III. The Island
IV. Under Way
V. Wind and Waves
VI. Land
The Passage of Time
Dreaming vs. The Real World
Family and Personal Identity
The Mysteries of Life and Death
Bompie
The Open Ocean
The Little Kid
Cody Character Analysis
Cody's log entries make up one half of The Wanderer's narration, with Sophie's diary being the other. Cody's journey across the ocean is less defined than Sophie's—whereas Sophie know she wants to see Bompie, Cody just seems to be along for the ride. The way he acts aboard the ship fits this description, too, since he never seems to take anything too seriously, always calling different parts of the boat by the wrong name (sometimes deliberately, it seems, to frustrate Brian) and goofing off in general. This gets him in trouble with his father, Mo, quite often. Cody's relationship with Mo transforms, however, aboard The Wanderer. While Mo begins the book constantly yelling and bickering at Cody, after the crew encounters a nearly fatal wave on the ocean, Mo begins to ease up on his son. Cody is also changed by the wave; shocked by the kindness his father begins to show him, Cody starts to see his father in a new light, as someone he doesn't really know all that well, and as a fellow human being with his own unique history, not merely a brooding, cold authority figure. Cody's own sense of identity—his sense of self-worth and independence—changes when his relationship to his father evolves.
Cody Quotes in The Wanderer
The The Wanderer quotes below are all either spoken by Cody or refer to Cody. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the HarperCollins edition of The Wanderer published in 2011.
II. Shakedown Quotes
Sophie talks about my aunt and uncle as if they are her real parents, even though they are only her adopted parents and she's only been with them three years. Brian says Sophie lives in a dream world, but I think it's kind of neat that she does that. At least she isn't sitting around moping about being an orphan.
Related Characters: Cody (speaker), Sophie, Brian
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Page Number and Citation: 23-24
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V. Wind and Waves Quotes
Last night I dreamed about Sophie, and this morning I asked Uncle Dock if Sophie knew what had happened to her parents. He said, "At some level, Sophie must know. But consciously? That's something only Sophie can answer."
Related Characters: Cody (speaker), Sophie, Dock
Page Number and Citation: 178-179
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There's a little kid. And the little kid doesn't know what is going on. The little kid is just cold or hungry or scared and wants Mommy and Daddy. And when other people tell the little kid that Mommy and Daddy have gone to heaven . . . the little kid feels bad and wonders why they didn't take their little kid with them . . .
And everywhere the little kid goes, people ask what the little kid remembers about the grown-ups, who have gone away to the beautiful place, but the little kid doesn't want to remember that painful thing. . . . The little kid wants to be right here, right now . . . not back at those times the little kid got left behind.
But no matter what the little kid might want, something inside pushes the little kid ahead while something or someone pulls the little kid back.
Related Characters: Sophie (speaker), Cody
Related Symbols: The Little Kid
Page Number and Citation: 204
Last night, Cody and I got into this very serious talk about Life. We wondered if maybe people never die, but simply live on and on, leaving other planes behind. When you come near death, you die on one plane—so to everyone you are with, you are dead, but you—the you in you—doesn't stop existing. Instead, you keep living the same as always and it just seems as if you've had a close call. We wondered if maybe we're not each just one person, but many people existing on millions of different planes, like a line that branches off and branches again and on it goes, but it always has one central trunk.
Related Symbols: The Open Ocean
What I wonder is this: how come you don't notice the time going by, and you don't think you are changing in any way, but then all of a sudden you realize that what you are thinking today is different from what you thought yesterday and that you are different from what you were yesterday—or last week—or last month?
Related Characters: Cody (speaker)
Everyone is talking about reaching Ireland, but I feel weird, as if we're not really going to get there, or as if I'm not ready to be there. And what will happen with Sophie when we do reach Bompie? Maybe that's part of the reason I don't want to get there. I'm afraid for Sophie.
Related Characters: Cody (speaker), Sophie, Bompie
VI. Land Quotes
I reached across the bed and touched her hand. "Sophie," I said. "Maybe that's not Bompie's story. Maybe that's your story."
Bompie whispered, "Sophie, he's right. That's your story, honey."
Sophie stared at me and then at Bompie. She looked so scared and so little sitting there beside Bompie. And then she put her head down on Bompie's chest and she cried and cried and cried.
Related Symbols: The Wave, The Little Kid
It was strange reading the ones about the car in the river, and leaping off the train tracks, and Bompie's baptism, and Bompie in the swimming hole, and Bompie at the ocean. Most of what Sophie had told us was pretty much the way he had told it to her in his letters, except for the parts about struggling in the water. He was in the water all those times, but he hadn't written about struggling in it.
Those parts had come from Sophie.
Cody ripped off the wrapping. Inside was a pen-and-ink drawing of Cody juggling. He was standing on The Wanderer, and the boat was leaning way over, but Cody was perfectly balanced, and he was juggling not pretzels—or socks—but people. Each of us was a little wee tiny person up in the air, and Cody was juggling us.
I've been thinking about the little kid. I think that one day the little kid got lucky and she landed in a place where it was okay if she couldn't remember all the time, and because it was okay if she couldn't remember all the time, and because it was okay not to remember, she started to remember. And along with the painful things came the good things to remember and maybe she felt as if she'd found some things she'd lost.
Related Characters: Cody (speaker), Sophie
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Cody Character Timeline in The Wanderer
The timeline below shows where the character Cody appears in The Wanderer. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
...to join them, arguing that she knows more about boats than her two cousins—Brian and Cody—combined. (full context)
...and always lying around tanning instead of helping with the boat, yet nonetheless barking orders. Cody, his son, is "fit and muscular," and always attracting the attention of girls who pass... (full context)
6. Slugs and Bananas. Chapter 6 marks Cody's first log entry. He says that his father (Mo) is driving him crazy—all he does... (full context)
7. Wildlife. Another journal entry from Sophie comes next, and she says that she, Cody, and Brian took the dinghy to land after anchoring The Wandererin the harbor at Block... (full context)
8. The Dolt and the Orphan. Cody then writes about how he, Brian, and Sophie were walking along the island they visited... (full context)
Cody also says that Sophie went up high in the bosun's chair (a sling which lifts... (full context)
...an entry saying the crew has left Block Island and is headed for Martha's Vineyard. Cody, she adds, annoys his father (Mo), Brian, and Uncle Stew by never saying any of... (full context)
10. Ahoy. Cody writes an entry saying that he's starting to enjoy "this sailing stuff." He also says... (full context)
11. Juggling. Sophie writes another entry, and says that Cody is still getting on Mo, Brian, and Stew's nerves by refusing to use the proper... (full context)
12. Blah-blah-blah.Cody says that it's been a stupid day. Brian was "blah-blah-blahing about points of sail"like a... (full context)
14. Bompie and the Car. Cody writes an entry about the first Bompie story Sophie tells aboard The Wanderer. Bompie lived... (full context)
...by imagining what it would be like to live the life of a fisherman, while Cody thinks she's bizarre for being excited about something so seemingly boring and laborious. (full context)
16. Stranded. Cody writes an entry in his log saying that he asked Uncle Dock what happened to... (full context)
...cooking and cleaning, but none of the actual sailing and handiwork. When Sophie says that Cody does most of the cooking, Frank starts calling him Mr. Mom, and tells him that... (full context)
18. Bompie and the Train. Cody writes in his log that he can't figure Sophie out. She's amazed by the smallest... (full context)
Cody then writes about another Bompie story Sophie tells. When Bompie was young, he lived near... (full context)
When Sophie and Cody return to Grand Manan, Uncle Mo scolds them for getting themselves into potential danger. They... (full context)
20. The Little Kid. Cody writes his own entry about his trip with Sophie to Wood Island. He says that... (full context)
21. The Baptism. In Sophie's next journal entry, she describes how she, Cody, and Brian all went to a boat-building shop owned by a man who specializes in... (full context)
22. Bompie and the Pastor. In Cody's next journal, he says that he came up on Dock having another serious conversation—this time... (full context)
Cody then retells another Bompie story from Sophie, this time about when Bompie was baptized. When... (full context)
24. Oranges and Pizza.Cody writes that it's unbelievable that the crew is finally getting under way. He says that... (full context)
26. Code.Codywrites that his dad gave his first lesson in radio code. While Cody thought it was... (full context)
28. Charlie-Oscar-Delta-Yankee. Cody again writes that The Wanderer is really moving along, with no detours, but that the... (full context)
...and Brian were looking for someone to blame. Naturally, they both pointed their fingers at Cody. When Cody described what had happened to the sails, instead of using the proper sailing... (full context)
30. Knots.Cody writes that he learned how to tie a new kind of knot from Sophie. When... (full context)
32. Bompie and the Swimming Hole. Cody then writes a log entry that records another one of Sophie'sBompie stories. When Bompie was... (full context)
...if he always gets in trouble whenever he goes into it. Sophie doesn't answer, and Cody writes that she suddenly looks incredibly fragile after hearing Brian's question. Cody replies to Brian's... (full context)
34. Little Kid Nightmares. Cody writes the next entry, and says that he's been sleeping poorly because his father's been... (full context)
36. Bouncing. Cody writes a very brief entry about the sea rolling and bouncing, saying he wants to... (full context)
38. Howling.Cody writes another brief entry saying that "it's all wind and walls of water," and that... (full context)
...As the crewmembers of The Wanderer find themselves in the middle of a vicious storm, Cody writes that he told his father he didn't want to die. Mo replied by telling... (full context)
...she gets told to take the helm instead. Further, she says that when Dock chose Cody to help fix one of the sails instead of her, she "threw a little fit."... (full context)
42. Battling. As the storm gets worse, Sophie and Cody's journal entries become short and terse for several chapters. In Battling, Cody says it's better... (full context)
44. The Son. Cody then writes that his father told him he'd been a good son, but that he,... (full context)
...saw Uncle Stew with his arm around Brian, and Uncle Mo with his arm around Cody, and then Uncle Dock holding the rail, looking out at the sea. She says that... (full context)
46. Bompie at the Ocean. Cody writes another entry about one of Sophie's Bompie stories, which she told to Cody while... (full context)
48. Night. In Cody's next entry, he writes that he tried to get a message to his mother last... (full context)
...wave. Sophie says she was stationed on lookout, with Uncle Dock in the cockpit and Cody at the wheel, when she noticed a wave approaching that was about fifty feet high,... (full context)
...Mo, Brian, and Stew are also below deck; Brian lets her know that he's seen Cody and Dock still on board—they're just up on deck. Cody's head had been banged up... (full context)
51. Limping.Cody writes that the crew is "limping along by the seat of our pants." He says... (full context)
53. Bompie and his Father. Cody writes an entry about another Bompie story Sophie tells—she mentioned it after Cody asked if... (full context)
54. Mr. Fix-It.In her next journal entry, Sophie writes that Cody has been very active in making boat repairs, working non-stop while the rest of the... (full context)
56. Useful. After Cody writes that The Wanderer has sails again (in Wet), Sophie writes an entry saying that... (full context)
58. Little Kid: Push and Pull.Cody writes an entry about another story Sophie tells him—but this time, it's not about Bompie.... (full context)
...In Sophie's next journal entry, she writes that Mo is trying to be kinder to Cody—Mo's stopped barking at him and calling him names. She says that Cody doesn't seem to... (full context)
Sophie then mentions a discussion she had with Cody about life. They wondered if people actually ever die, of if they just leave forever,... (full context)
60. Questions. Cody writes the last log entry of the fifth section of the book, saying that he... (full context)
Cody adds that he's still not sure how Sophie knows Bompie'sstories, or if they even really... (full context)
...opens the last section of the book with a journal entry announcing that she and Cody spotted land—the coast of Ireland. Cody then writes his own log entry (Land) about his... (full context)
62. Land. Cody adds that Uncle Stew and Mo got into a big argument. Stew was wondering who... (full context)
64. New Body.Cody then writes his own account of the pub, and realizes that Sophie was mixing up... (full context)
67. Phone Call. Cody then writes, in his own journal, that he and Sophie were able to phone home... (full context)
Cody ends his journal entry saying that everyone is on a ferry crossing the Irish Sea... (full context)
69. The Little Girl. In Cody's next entry, he says that the crew has stopped at an Inn in Wales. While... (full context)
...arrives downstairs, everyone stops talking and stares at her. Then, the whole crew has dinner—and Cody writes that he could barely eat, because all he could do was look at Sophie,... (full context)
Cody then writes that the crew just crossed the Severn River on a bridge, and has... (full context)
71. The Cottage. Cody'snext entry details the crew's arrival at Bompie'scottage. When they arrive, a nurse greets them, and... (full context)
...Jonah is away at camp. He says the same thing to Mo and Stew. When Cody and Brian step forward, Bompie identifies them as Mo and Stew; when Sophie steps forward,... (full context)
73. The Story. Cody's next entry begins a week after they've arrived at Bompie's. On the second day there,... (full context)
...that the story is her own, Sophie puts her head on Bompie's chest and cries. Cody says he left them there together, and about an hour later, Sophie came to him... (full context)
75. Oh, Rosalie! Cody then writes an entry and says that Rosalie left Dock. She had plans she wasn't... (full context)
...taking up a list; a watercolor for Uncle Dock of The Wanderer; a drawing for Cody of him juggling; and a drawing for Sophie of her up in the bosun's chair,... (full context)
77. Remembering. In Cody's last journal entry, he says that it was difficult saying goodbye to Uncle Dock and... (full context)
Cody then writes that, while walking on the beach, he tried to suggest that the grandfather... (full context)
Cody adds that Dock called and said that The Wanderer had been repaired and that he'd... (full context)
...In her last journal entry, Sophie says that she's happy to be home, and that Cody and Brian are staying with her for a couple of weeks. She says that her... (full context)
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One of the first things people notice when they begin low-light training is exactly how much smoke is created when you discharge a firearm. The amounts are magnified when firing high-velocity rifle rounds. Plug a flashlight into the equation and the smoke becomes even more apparent from all the reflection created by the light. Depending on what type ammo you're shooting and how many rounds you fire the smoke can become dense enough it starts to limit your vision, which drastically affects your capabilities.
There are a variety of different ways to deal with this problem, and as always the situation determines your best option. An easy, quick technique to apply is simply stepping off line from where you were firing. Taking a step or two laterally away from the location you were firing puts gives you a different view of the area without having to look through as much smoke. The circumstances determine whether you leave the light on, maintaining visual contact with the threat as you move, or turn the light off so it doesn't attract fire from any additional sources you haven't located yet. When you have a good covered position or the situation doesn't allow you to move then after firing a few shots you may need to turn off the light, let the smoke clear, then turn the light back on to see what's going on downrange.
Even with a weapon mounted light there are a lot of reasons to have a hand-held with you. For example after firing using the weapon mounted light you can use a hand-held light, holding it off to the support side like the old F.B.I. technique so the light is shining from a different angle and isn't creating as much reflection off the smoke and penetrates more into the environment. A capable partner works really well in low-light situations. They can light the threat from another location while you fire, or you can light the target up, fire and cut your light off. As you kill your light they turn their light on to keep a visual on the target. Obviously this takes some planning, practice, and communication.
There are all type tricks or techniques for dealing with the fog of war that results when you start firing off rounds in low-light environments. For example you may figure out that while your red-dot works great on setting "X" for using the flashlight once the smoke pops it needs to be a little brighter. The key, as always, is to figure out how to use your gear properly what techniques work well in advance so it's not a distraction when you have to deal with it for real.
Since we know that the majority of confrontations occur in low light environments it's up to you to make sure you're ready. The only way to get this experience is to hit the range for live fire practice, in the dark, using both hand-held and weapon mounted lights.