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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

AGE of Tamriel - Spells Preview (Illusion, Mysticism, Restoration)

And here are the finally three schools of magic; Illusion, Mysticism, and Restoration. << PDF Link >>

Sunday, August 6, 2017

AGE of Tamriel - Spells Preview (Destruction)

Today's post is another spell preview is the Destruction school of magic: << PDF Link >>

Out of all the schools of magic in AoT, Destruction has the largest list of spells. Most of the spells are elemental in nature, and many of them are just variations on base spell form (X Weapons, X Storm, Wall of X, etc). While that made it easier to write, it also made the school feel rather bland. So, I tried looking at the earlier Elder Scrolls games for ideas for non-elemental spells. From what I have read, most of the earlier spells also fell into that variation-on-a-spell trap. But I did add a few unique spells into the mix, so at least there is some variation within the school.

Friday, August 4, 2017

AGE of Tamriel - Spells Preview (Alteration and Conjuration)

Quick post about my AGE of Tamriel project.

It is coming along okay, if a bit slow. Spent most of the time writing out all the spells for each school of magic, as well as tidying up the specializations. I have also added some small rules for item durability and repairing items. Plus the usual minor edits here and there.

Anyway, here is a preview detailing the spells for magic schools of Alteration and Conjuration.

<< PDF Link >>

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Tools & Coconuts: A Laser & Feelings hack

Ever wondered about what it would be like to be stranded on a tropical island? Of course you have. We all have! Well, today you are in luck. Because now you can play out that little thought-experiment with:

What is Tools & Coconuts? Tools & Coconuts is a hack of Ray Otus's Sorcerers & Sellswords (which itself is a hack of John Harper's Lasers & Feelings) that whisks you away to survive on a tropical island. Will you last long enough to be rescued? Or die from exposure, starvation, dehydration, a wild animal, or a poisonous plant? Play and see!

Tools & Coconuts is the product of a night spent reading over Lasers & Feelings, Sorcerers & Sellswords, Tactical Waifu, and few other L&S hacks. During that time I kept imagining quite a few different ideas for my own L&S hack. Even as I lied in bed, I still was having game ideas; an Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider hack, a Redwall hack, Disney's Gargoyles.

When I sat at my computer this morning, I decided to write out one of my ideas: a L&S hack about wilderness survival. But as I started writing, I focused on the tropical island scenario rather than an all-encompassing survival hack. T&C uses much of the text from Ray Otus's Sorcerers & Sellswords. Except for how you create a character and rules for sorcery, T&C pretty much uses the text from Ray Otu's Sorcerers & Sellswords, just re-written to better fit the theme of surviving on a tropical island.

For a good idea on what I was going for, try watching the tv show Gilligan's Island, and the movies Cast Away and Six Days, Seven Nights. Or if you are particular to video games, try playing Stranded Deep.

Friday, June 23, 2017

5th Edition - Zaheer (Re-post)

It has been brought to my attention that I am missing my old Zaheer character write-up for 5th Edition D&D. A little over a year ago, my original site had some issues with it and I lost everything I posted. Well, the posts for my old blog, I still have earlier drafts of everything I've posted. So I spent the morning re-writing Zaheer. I also created a PDF as well.

Screenshot from Nickelodeon's “Avatar: The Legend of Korra".

Disciple of Guru Laghima, Member of the Red Lotus

Chaotic Evil Human Monk of the Elements 11

Medium Humanoid (human)
Armor Class. 15.
Hit Points. 69. Hit Dice. 11d8.
Speed. 60 ft. Initiative. +3.
STR 10 (+0), DEX 16 (+3), CON 12 (+1).
INT 12 (+1), WIS 14 (+2), CHA 12 (+1).
Proficiencies. Proficiency Bonus +4.
Saving Throws. Strength +7. Dexterity +7.
Skills. Acrobatics +7, Insight +6, Persuasion +5, Religion +5, Stealth +7.
Tools. Artisan's tools (Calligrapher's supplies).
Armor. None.
Weapons. Simple weapons, Shortsword.
Languages. Common, Celestial, Draconic, Elvish.
Feats. Athlete, Mobile, Polearm master.
Immunities. Disease, Poison.
Senses. Normal. Passive Perception 12.

Attack. Can attack Twice with the Attack action, using the following:
Quarterstaff. Melee attack +7. Damage 1d6+3 bludgeoning (versatile 1d8+3).

Martial Arts. Melee attack +7. Damage 1d8+3 bludgeoning.

Racial/Background Traits

Human (variant). Ability scores (+1 Dexterity, Wisdom). Bonus skill (Persuasion). Bonus feat (Athlete).

Acolyte (background). Skill proficiencies (Insight, Religion). Languages (choose any two). Feature (Shelter of the Faithful).

Monk Class Traits

Unarmored Defense. Armor Class 15 when wearing no armor, nor using a shield.

Martial Arts. When unarmed or wielding a monk weapon:
— Can use Dexterity instead of Strength for attack and damage rolls while unarmed or with monk weapons.

— Unarmed damage is 1d8.

— After using the Attack action with an unarmed strike or monk weapon, can make one unarmed strike attack as a bonus action.

Ki. Points 11. Ki Attack +6. Ki Save DC 14. Can spend Ki points on the following abilities:

Flurry of Blows. After using an Attack action, can spend 1 Ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.

Patient Defense. Can spend 1 Ki point to use Dodge as bonus action.

Step of the Wind. Can spend 1 Ki point to use Disengage or Dash as a bonus action, and double jumping distance.

Unarmored Movement. When not wearing armor, nor using a shield, Speed increased by 20 ft. Can move along vertical and across liquid surfaces without falling.

Way of the Four Elements (monastic tradition). Can spend up to 4 Ki points on a spell. Elemental disciplines are:
Elemental Attunement. Can spend 1 Ki point to briefly control elemental forces.

Fists of Unbroken Air. As an action, can spend 2 Ki points and have one enemy within 30 ft. make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, target takes 3d10 bludgeoning damage, plus an extra 1d10 damage for each additional Ki point spent, and push target 20 ft. away and knock it prone. Takes one-half damage on a successful save and not knocked prone or pushed back.

Ride the Wind. Can spend 4 Ki points to cast the fly spell on self only.

Rush of Gales. Can spend 2 Ki points to cast the gust of wind spell.

Deflect Missiles. When hit by a missile from a ranged weapon attack, can use Reaction to reduce damage by 1d10+11. If damage is reduced to 0 and missile is small enough to hold in one hand and have one hand free, can spend 1 Ki to make a ranged attack with the caught missile as part of the same Reaction. Treated as a monk weapon for the attack.

Slow Fall. As a Reaction, can reduce falling damage by 55 ft.

Extra Attack. Can attack twice with the Attack action.

Stunning Strike. After hitting a creature with an unarmed strike or melee weapon attack, can spend 1 Ki point to attempt a stunning strike. Target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be Stunned until the end of next turn.

Ki-Empowered Strikes. Unarmed strikes count as magical for purposes of resistances and immunities.

Evasion. When subject to an effect that allows a Dexterity saving throw for one-half damage, on a successful save no damage is taken instead and only one-half damage on failed save.

Stillness of Mind. Can use action to end one Charmed or Frightened effect on self.

Purity of Body. Immunity to disease and poison.

Air nomad robes, Quarterstaff.

Creation Notes

Starting Ability Scores. 15, 13, 12, 12, 12, 10.

Sunday, June 4, 2017

AGE of Tamriel - Special Materials

Been spending the last few days going over the rules for special materials, not to mention which materials from the Elder Scrolls games I wanted to include. Initially, I tried to give flat modifiers, but with how minimal Fantasy AGE details arms and armor, I found it quite difficult to make each material feel unique. After some time thinking (and looking into FA's magic rules), I decided to try to connect each material to a combat stunt, leaving flat bonuses to those the most powerful, or I didn't have a good idea for.

With all that said, here is what I have currently settled for:

Special Materials

The Elder Scrolls setting has several unique materials in which arms, armor, and other items can be crafted from. These special materials can be used to create Masterwork items, items that are superior to your everyday items.
Special materials come in four grades; Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Legendary. An item's grade determines how hard it is to craft, a character must have an equivalent degree in the Master Crafter talent to work with the material. The only Legendary material is Daedric, it cannot normally be crafted by characters, it is included here for completeness. Outside of crafting, Uncommon and higher Masterwork items should be acquired as loot during adventures, or as rewards.

Saturday, May 6, 2017

AGE of Tamriel - Birthsigns

This passed Thursday, my internet went out for day and a half after an afternoon of a heavy rain and real strong winds. So I spent that Friday and first-half of Saturday working on AGE of Tamriel, bouncing around between magic talents, spells, specializations, alchemy, enchanting, and birthsigns. I ultimately spent my time on a variant rule for birthsigns. This variant rule makes birthsigns are a special talent that can only be taken at 1st level (and only with GM approval).

In designing these talents, I used the wikis for Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, and the Elder Scrolls Online as a starting point. And as I'm constantly concerned about power-creep, I tried to steer clear of giving out flat bonuses. I tried relying on granting ability focuses, using unique stunts, re-rolls for a specific focus, and other benefits.

That said, I still feel like many of these talents are outright overpowered or too combat focused, while others will never seen much game-time or are just boring. Perhaps I will visit this variant rule again later on, but for now here is a PDF on what I have for birthsigns so far. I also have another idea for birthsigns, treating them like the racial benefits table. Each birthsign will have a table that you roll 1d6 on to determine your random birthsign benefit.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Tidying up and adding old files

Spent the morning tidying up the static pages for 5th edition, Fantasy AGE, Basic fantasy, and the Other Games, adding back links to some of the missing game materials that I've previously had around here.

One thing I have also had added a long time ago but never made a mention of (I think), was my attempt at bringing the Stargate setting to True20. To fix that, here is a link to the PDF. Enjoy.

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I've also gone and added lot more old files that I once had on my website long ago. These files are OLD! Old enough for me to feel kinda guilty about how bad they look and read. But, at the time I was having a blast writing up all those things. Still wished I had that kind of enthusiasm and energy back then, would post more often here if I did.

I've added...

... four PDFs detailing my long-forgotten Aliens vs Predator project for Alternity; covering character backgrounds, the Colonial Marines, the Yaujta, and Xenomorphs.

... a PDF detailing set of guidelines to creating starship identification codes for Alternity's Star*Drive setting.

... two PDFs detailing an insectoid race called the Waspfolk. One for True20 and one for Alternity.

... a PDF with new True20 options for adept characters.

... two PDFs detailing two monsters for D20 fantasy. The pettrin, a large flightless bird (possibly a conversion from a Dark Sun creature?), and the spider demon (basically a re-branded xenomorph).

... two PDFs concerning the divine for True20. First is the Avatar template for divinely-empowered mortals, and second is the Deity template for true divine beings.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Current progress on AGE of Tamriel

It has been nearly a year since the last time I put up the preview PDF for my AGE of Tamriel project. It is kinda crazy that it has been that long and I feel like I haven't gotten any closer to finishing this thing. With this project I have seen a tiny amount of the work required to seriously write something, let alone trying to make it look pretty. Much respect to those who do this for a living or as a hobby.

Since that update a year ago, I have made many minor tweaks here and there, had made major rules changes, and created a few more rules. What follows is a small list of the major changes since the last update:

• Completely new color layout.
• New weapon group, items, and basic rules for special materials.
• New/revised talents.
• Written the game benefits for most/all specializations.
• Created alchemy rules.
• Beginnings of the enchanting rules similar to alchemy.
• Tons of frustration in dealing with the magic rules!

And with that list, I feel like I really haven't done much in the past year. Guess I should go back to working on it.

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Friday, April 14, 2017

Fantasy AGE - The Inkvasion has come!

As I was writing up the miqo'te for Fantasy AGE, I spent time looking though my old files and trying to see if I had already done so. As I was looking I ran across my notes for a “squidian” character race. This character race was written purely for fun and not meant to be remotely serious. And I thought it would be interesting to see people think of it.

Standing four-foot-nothing, squidians are a small humanoid race that dwell under the seas and oceans of the world. They resemble half-sized humans with tentacles for hair and other traits similar to squids.

If you choose to play a squidian, modify your character as follows:

• Add +1 to your Strength.
Amphibious: You can breathe both in and out of water. However, you have a -2 penalty on Constitution tests when in a dry and/or hot environment, like a desert or in a hot spring.
Bio-Luminescence: You can produce a bio-luminescent light from your body. Your normal state is a dull glow, but with a Minor action, you can raise its intensity to light up a 6-yard radius for 1 + Constitution minutes. If you are under stress or subject to a jump-scare, you have to make a TN 13 Willpower (Self-discipline) test or temporarily lose control of your bio-luminescence for 1d6+1 rounds. Regaining control requires another Willpower (Self-discipline) test. If you are knocked unconscious or otherwise incapacitated (or sleeping), your bio-luminescence drops to a dull glow.
Ink Jet: You can spew forth an inky liquid. When underwater you can produce a 6-yard radius cloud of inky darkness that obscures sight for anyone inside. Outside of water, you can blind an enemy with ink to the face for 1d6+1 minutes. This is a ranged attack that uses Accuracy (Ink jet) focus against the enemy's Defense, and has a range of 4/8. While Blind, they automatically fail Perception (Seeing) tests and have a -2 penalty to Defense and attack rolls, but they can remove the ink with a Major action. However, each time you use this ability you lose 5 Health.
Underwater Dark Sight: You can see in the dark out to 20 yards while underwater.
Natural Swimmer: You start with the Constitution (Swimming) focus.
Speed: You have a Speed of 10 + Dexterity (minus armor penalty if applicable) while on land, but have a Swim Speed of 12 + Strength (minus armor penalty if applicable).
Tentacle Hair: Your hair is really tentacles! With a Major action, you can stretch out your tentacles to manipulate an object or perform a brawling attack out to 6 yards. When using your tentacles in this manner, you suffer a -2 penalty to any ability tests made. If used in combat, your tentacles have a Defense equal to yours -2, and Health equal to one-half your total Health. When your tentacles reach 0 Health, you cannot use them until they grow back in 1d6+1 days.
All-Thumbs: Living underwater isn't like life on land, so you suffer a -2 penalty on Communication tests when interacting with non-squidians, and on any ability tests when dealing with more complex non-squidian technology (cars, computers, etc). Gaining the Communication (Non-squidian) focus eliminates the Communication penalties, while the Intelligence (Non-squidian lore) eliminates the technology penalty.
• You speak and read Squiddle and the Common Tongue.


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Archive for March, 2008

Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2008 by depechemom

Man, Little Bear has been so impulsive today! Nearly ever other sentence out of his mouth is “I said I’m sorry!” while one of his sisters is crying over the injustice he has dealt. I’m trying to explain to him to think before he acts…but I’m not so sure it’s sinking in!

Also, Belle has decided to be baptized! A long time ago, J and I agreed that we wouldn’t baptize the kids as babies, but would instead wait until they chose to do it. This isn’t especially typical in the Episcopal church. The priest came over to discuss the service and explain it all to Belle. She (yes, the priest is a female) is so great with kids, despite not having any of her own. She carefully explained each element of the service, and she also translated the wording from the Prayer Book to modern day terms so that she would know what she was saying. My Mom will be in town this weekend so we are doing it then. She (my Mom) is so excited she can hardly stand it!

Lastly, I’m playing around with the image in my header. Feel free to voice your preferences…

That’s what I know today. Riveting, I know.

The annoying thing…

Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2008 by depechemom

about kids with strep:

their stomachs feel hungry, they will plead for food, you will lovingly fix said food, they will insist to eat it at the coffee table-not the dreaded dining room table, yet they will eat very little of it, then they will proceed to spill most of it on the floor making a nasty mess which they step all over, and they they will beg for more food because they are “So hungreen!!”

Ahhh, what fun!

It’s Official

Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 by depechemom

As I came back downstairs after tucking in the older two, I heard a strange sound. It sounded much like a loud cd player spinning. I walked around the room, searching for the source of the noise. Then it struck me. The frogs! They’re back at the pond.

Spring has officially sprung.

On another note, both Little Lamb and Little Bear have strep. We have not made it a full week without some member of our family sick in months. Babies aren’t supposed to get strep, at least not usually. But on Tuesday, Little Lamb had a rash. I didn’t think much of it, figuring it was just her funny skin. Then on Wednesday, Little Bear had the rash too. It’s tiny red bumps that are scratchy like sand paper. Classic strep rash, confirmed with a throat swab by the pediatrician. They’re both on antibiotics. I’m happy to say this is the first time LL has taken antibiotics (not counting the eye ointment for pink eye). 18 months old without a round of meds is remarkable compared to LB-he’s had just about every antibiotic approved for use in kids beginning at his 6 month well baby check.

Oh, and he still has fluid in his ears from his ear infection in Dec. Poor little guy. Or as he says it “wittel guy”.

Back to the laundry sorting. Things are nearly falling apart around here with everyone sick all the time!

Easter fun

Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2008 by depechemom

The two weeks leading up to Easter are a bit of a blur. Birthday parties, numerous egg hunts-all great fun but, WOW, so exhausting. Belle got to bowl for the first time at one of the parties. Talk about fun! Well, once I got over the back woods atmosphere of the bowling alley it was fun. I panicked a minute when we first walked in, thinking we have to touch things in here???, but I got over myself and my germ fears and we had a nice time.

Here’s Belle watching the ball roll down the alley. She actually did quite well-several 7’s and 8’s-but the kids were bowling in crazy order so we couldn’t keep score.

She had another birthday party which was an Easter theme. Perfect for those spring parties! They decorated white gift bags with stickers, foamies, and such which became their baskets. The eggs were carefully counted so that each child got the same amount.

Do you ever take a picture of one of your kids that seems to show a glimpse of what they will look like as they grow older? I got one of those of Little Bear at the Easter party:

On Friday we had an egg hunt with playgroup. I didn’t get very many shots this year without J with me. It’s hard keeping tabs on 3 kiddos running amuck in the yard (full of hills and stairs and such) and still get photos! I did manage one cute one…

Over the weekend, we dyed Easter eggs. I stripped down Little Lamb for fear that she would grab a full mug and dump it all over herself. She was actually quite cute chucking the eggs in the cups. Belle and Little Bear took things more seriously, though LB’s hands were green for a few days…

After the eggs dried, we drew on them with Sharpies and put stickers on them. I didn’t trust LL to hold the eggs, so I handed her some stickers and she set to work decorating herself!

Finally, on Easter day, we had our own egg hunt. I filled tons of eggs so the kids had a ball running around filling their baskets too full to carry.

Here’s LB in his first tie. I forgot to size the picture correctly, so you’ll have to click on it to make it bigger.

Please excuse the yucky nose. This little girl HATES having her face cleaned right now. You’ll have to click on this one, too.

Belle’s basket was so full she could barely carry it. She was quite proud of all her loot! It seems J likes taking portrait style photos…click away again!

LL’s vocabulary is growing daily. Two of her latest additions are egg and, of course, candy! 🙂 Spring is coming slowly here. The forsythia, jonquils, and redbuds are in full bloom. The peach trees in my new banner are from last year, but I noticed the date was 3/31. I think we better drive down that way soon!

I’ve spent all the time I can on here. LL is amidst a melt down-too many toys to the head courtesy of her brother. Looks like J won’t get to see her before bed afterall. 😦 I’ll apologize now for any typos. No time to proofread!

Mark this day in infamy

Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 by depechemom

It is (ok, ok, yesterday it was) March 24-the day AFTER Easter-and it snowed three times at my house! THREE times!!

For some of you in the crazy cold states (you know who you are 🙂 ), this is nothing. But for me and all you southern folks, that is just ridiculous! It wasn’t enough to turn the ground white or anything-every time it would almost stick it would switch to rain. But it was quite strange nonetheless.

I’ll get some Easter picks up pretty soon. Our camera is nearly out of battery-my husband has misplaced the adapter-so we don’t have lots of pics. But I’ll share a few cuties.

Happy Tuesday to you all!

Perhaps this will explain

Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2008 by depechemom

Oh my, oh my…how long it’s been since I last posted. It’s just plain sad! There’s much going on around here-illnesses right and left, pesky kids to feed and water, cleaning-oh the cleaning! But, I suppose the pictures below say it best.

Yes, we’re moving…we must be out by the end of May. Where are we moving? Well that, my friends, is the $64 million question! I mean, we’re staying in the same general area. We’re on a waiting list for family housing that, while not pretty, would open so many other doors for us. We’ve searched around for plan B, just in case. But wow…there aren’t not many “plan B” options around here!

So while I’ve planned MANY posts, and even taken photos for them, I just haven’t made it to the computer to post them. I have to admit, I’ve kind of enjoyed taking a back seat for a bit. Reading blogs and commenting as I please. Of course there is always the fear that I’ve lost all 3 (ha :)!!) of my readers.

Little Lamb and I are off to Little Bear’s Easter Egg Hunt today. Should be quite adorable. He’s such a stitch!

I’ll try to get back to share some cute pics.

What would you do?

Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2008 by depechemom

When I take the time to gaze about my surroundings, I realize just how easy I have it. One of the poignant, for me, elements of that movie Once is how much we have and simply take for granted. Though it isn’t at all the focus of the movie, I couldn’t help but notice moments like when she says those guys come hang out at her place because she has the only television in the building. Or how she has to raid her daughter’s piggy bank to buy more batteries and then isn’t at all scared by her surroundings on her way back home. I was freaking out for her!

This movie, as well as some other circumstances in our lives right now, has gotten me thinking…what would you do if you knew several of your “creature comforts”* would be gone soon? Would you savor what you have until it’s gone? Or would you try to teach yourself to do without in preparation for the upcoming changes?

I think I’m part of the former group. How about you?

*For me, these comforts are things like a dishwasher, disposal, washer/dryer in my home…etc.


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Posted by: Dude in the Desert | November 22, 2009

22 Nov 09

around 12–noon I was wakened by the sound of my phone ringing… normally I wouldn’t even care, but for some reason I picked it up to see who was calling…it was Chief…dammit man, some work must need to be done…so I answer and sure enough he wants me to find Joe so we can go fill up the the fuel tank on a wrecker…this is a big ass 8 wheeled tow truck–specifically designed for the military to haul big, heavy military equipment…I couldn’t find Joe so I started up the truck to head over there–thinking I might need jumper cables or something…this wrecker hasn’t been started in a while…it’s supposed to go out to a FOB somewhere, but nobody wants it, or has scheduled shipment or whatever…anyhoo, as I get in my truck chief calls back–Joe’s at the wrecker with chief…so I cruise over there and we look over the truck–the fuel tank is eemmmppttyyyyy….almost nothing but fumes…chief explains that a security patrol outside the base perimeter has been stuck in the mud, or a ditch, or something, and the big base main Army element is going out to try to recover these trucks, but they may need our truck too…so, I was waiting for this thing to build up air pressure so we could drive to the fuel pumps…well, it was taking forever…while waiting I checked out some of the other operations of the truck…then we noticed there were locks on all the compartments–where the tow controls and attachments would be stowed…also, a lock on the steering column…all these trucks are “combat start”–that means they just have a basic switch to start the engines…so the only way to lock them is put a chain around the steering wheel and lock it to something immobile in the cab…kinda like “the club” for civilian cars…well, there is always a “master key” for any kind of lock…you know them as bolt cutters…nobody knew where the real keys were to this stuff so we busted out the bolt cutters and were good ot go..well, not exactly…the air still wasn’t building up in this thing…so I messed with the brake pedal, the parking brake knobs, and the throttle pedal–all of which are operated by air…something happened–not sure what, as I was playing with all of them at the same time… finally the air started to build up properly…this was about 30 minutes later…so, the low air buzzer stopped piercing my eardrum and we headed out…well, as soon as we got to the gate of our camp the traffic on the main road came to a complete stop…nothing coming or going… there was a jingle truck dead in the middle of the road blocking both lanes of traffic…some of the smaller trucks made u-turns and took side roads…well, I wasn’t going anywhere with this giant monster tow truck I was, I put her in park and set the parking brake…we sat for about 30-40 minutes before anything started moving…if I could have gotten up there I would have towed that damn jingle truck out of the way…anyhoo, we got to the fuel pumps and started taking on fuel…it took a while…the tank took 96 gallons and was still only 3/4 full… I told the dude to stop pumping because that would be enough for us…then back the other way on the main road…more freakin traffic…it’s amazing how much traffic is on this base…there must be at least one vehicle for ever single person here…so it took us another 25 minutes just to get back to the camp–this little excursion of “getting gas” took us about an hour and a half to accomplish..and the fuel pumps are only about half a mile away…freakin ridiculous…so we got back on camp and the chief asked if we wanted to go out for this recovery operation.. I asked where it was exactly..he said outside the wire about 10-15 minutes out…and there were two trucks stuck in either mud holes or ditches…this means, full battle rattle, weapons, full combat load of ammo-7 magazines, muddy boots, maybe muddy pants, dirty shitty work hooking up the tow attachments to the tow truck and the stuck trucks, and freezing my ass off for a few hours minimum…I knew this operation was gonna last way past sunset—so I decline his generous offer… it would have been something different and something to break the monotony, but I’ll pass–thanks anyway…Joe decided he wanted to go.. I don’t even know if he’s back yet–it’s 9pm here…chief told Joe to make sure to get something to eat first…so we headed over to the BBQ…they decided to do the BBQ at lunch time today since it’s getting dark a lot earlier and a lot colder around dinner time…today they had a live band playing too–but we didn’t get to see them because we were stuck in traffic getting fuel…the band was packing up all their stuff as we rolled up…but, we did get some good steak and chili/beans–they call it beans, but it’s more like chili to me…so, I had that, and hung out talkign with some people…I met a girl that was talking about her band…she is in a “woodwind quartet”… she plays flute…she says they play for ceremonies and small services, the church, and may be doing some “carolling” around the holidays…it was a funny conversation… I was asking if they played any hard rock like Metallica or some hardcore gangsta rap–just trying to be funny, but she was serious the entire time explaining that they do Disney songs, typical classical music, xmas carol type things…we obviously had different senses of humor…then she actually asked I wanted her number or info to book any kind of show with them…I politely explained that I wouldn’t be holding any official ceremonies or xmas carol auditions any time soon, but thanks anyway…after my belly was full, and my brain was perplexed, I headed over to the chief’s office area to see if the guys headed out yet…I could see by the absence of the wrecker that they had gone out…but, I was happy to see that I got a package…it was some electric hair clippers to shave my noggin…so I came back to the room, shaved my head–these clippers rock…they chave down to the skin–almost like straight razor close…after the dome was shiny I swept up, and cleaned my room…wanted to do laundry, but the washers and dryers are all being replaced and the laundry room is shut down till tomorrow…oh well, good thing I brought plenty of drawers, socks, and t-shirts…so, I just took a shower and called it a day…I went to warm up some of the wings I had left and blew the fuse in the transformer…good thing my computer runs off the house power 220 volts…ok, well, that was my exciting weekend and day off…I’ll write more later… love you all

  1. Seems like the US gov’t should consider using camels…they’re probably a lot cheaper and easier to manipulate through all the traffic. I don’t know how many camels it would take to pull a jingle truck out of the sand though…it might be worth a little research. And, I’m sure their food (hay) would be cheaper than gas.

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January 31, 2012

Today’s idea offers students creative freedom while also asking them to use what they have learned about art styles and history.

Ian at Art of Apex High School gave his students an assignment in which they chose an artist and then created a Google logo based on the work of that individual. Students were allowed to find an artist that interested them, as well as a medium of their choosing (paints, pencil, oil pastels).  Students at Apex High School created logos based on Monet, Warhol, and Duchamp to name a few.

To add interest to this activity, ask students to keep their artists a secret so that classmates can guess the inspirations selected by their peers.

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Random Acts… Doing the telephone tango

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It may have been an honest mistake – or not.

At the end of February, I called AT&T, irritated over the constant increases in my landline phone bill. Yes, I could just maintain a cell phone and cancel the landline. But since I don’t get a good signal inside my home, half the time the cell phone doesn’t ring.

Surprisingly, the moment I started complaining to the AT&T billing rep, she switched me to the Retention Department. The rep there immediately said he could lower my bill by $10 a month with a “special.” When I asked if I would lose any of my services, he said, “No, everything will stay the same.” So I agreed to stay with AT&T for the lower rate.Dinah Eng

A couple days later, the telemarketing calls started. Since I’ve had an unlisted number for more than a decade, and never give out my home phone to anyone but family and friends, I never got telemarketing calls… until I got on the AT&T “special” plan.

When I called the phone company to ask why I was suddenly inundated by these calls, the billing rep told me that my non-published number had been changed to a listed number. I explained that since their Retention Department rep had told me that no services would change with my lowered rate (which was a recorded conversation), he clearly lied and had made this change without my knowledge or permission. The billing rep said she’d make the number unpublished immediately, and that since it had only been a few days, “there shouldn’t be a problem.”

Six weeks since that little “mistake” by AT&T, and I was still getting three to four telemarketing calls a day from Caribbean Cruise Line, the Los Angeles Times, ADT Security, Elite Security, SRVC, and more.

I put the numbers that showed up on caller ID on my call block list, but the phone still rings once before a call is actually blocked, so the house was never quiet. I put my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, but it takes 31 days for it to take effect, and not all telemarketers honor it.

I asked everyone who called to put me on their company’s do-not-call list, a request that had to be made up to three times up the chain of supervisors before the phone stopped ringing. One day, I finally held my temper long enough to ask one of the telemarketers how they got my number, and he told me that his company bought their call list from Nationwide Marketing.

I looked up Nationwide’s website, called, and got a recording, so I left an irritated message asking them to remove my number from their database. To my surprise, a representative called me back, apologized, and said he would make sure my number was scrubbed from their various lists.

“We try hard to stay current with the Do Not Call registry, but not all our clients comply,” he said. “We’re just trying to make a living, supplying companies with numbers for people who may be interested in their products. The problem comes when some of these companies keep recycling the numbers to others who are selling things people have no interest in. Then the marketing calls just become a nuisance. Companies may keep calling for a year before they drop you off their lists.”

Nationwide isn’t the only company that sells call lists, but at least they seem to respond to complaints. So if you’re inundated with telemarketing calls, don’t just ask to be put on the company’s do-not-call list. Also ask how the company got your number, and close that loophole, as well.

In the fight against unwanted telemarketing calls, peace and quiet at home is dependent on guarding your phone number however you can. Especially since the only thing AT&T (and other telecom companies) will do is charge you for the privilege of not listing it.

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Malaysian Voters abandon Reformist Political Opposition

June 26, 2016

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Malaysian Voters abandon Reformist Political Opposition

by John Berthelsen

Malaysian voters, disregarding arguably the biggest financial scandal in the country’s history, have given the national ruling coalition conclusive victories in two closely-watched by-elections over the weekend (June 18) and handed the scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak a sweeping mandate to continue in office.–John Berthelsen

After Sarawak and By Election Victories in Perak and Selangor, Najib’s Barisan Nasional is poised for Victory in GE-14

Malaysian voters, disregarding arguably the biggest financial scandal in the country’s history, have given the national ruling coalition conclusive victories in two closely-watched by-elections over the weekend and handed the scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak a sweeping mandate to continue in office.

The victories in parliamentary seats in Selangor and Perak, both previously held by the Barisan Nasional, as the coalition is known, were by far larger margins than in the 2013 elections. They are an indication that despite allegations that as much as US$4 billion had disappeared from the state-backed 1Malaysia Development Bhd., voters, particularly Chinese ones, are returning to the Barisan fold after flirting with the opposition in both the 2008 and 2013 general elections.

The Malay vote in the two districts was split between three ethnic Malay camps – the Barisan’s United Malays National Organization and the moderate opposition Parti Amanah Negara, which split off from the rural Islamist Parti Islam se-Malaysia last year. The return of Chinese voters – many of them in strongholds more recently dominated by the Democratic Action Party – demonstrated the strength of the Barisan. It is primarily the Chinese who have served as the backbone of the opposition over the past two elections.

As much as anything, however, the vote, and a similarly decisive victory in Sarawak in May state elections, are an indication that a fragmented and frustrated opposition has blown its chance to make headway at a time when the Barisan should be floundering over the 1MDB scandal, an unexplained US$681 million deposited in 2013 in Prime Minister Najib Razak’s personal accounts, and when the country is caught in a broad economic slowdown as a result of falling commodity and crude oil prices.

With Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim in prison on sexual deviance charges that many human rights critics have denounced as rigged, his own Parti Keadilan Rakyat has degenerated into squabbling camps, one headed by his wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, and the other headed by Azmin Ali, the Selangor state Chief Minister.  Most recently Rafizi Ramli, the Party Ssecretary-General and a Wan Azizah ally, accused unnamed Selangor officials of trading favors for money and sex.

Likewise – allegedly over skillful maneuvering by Najib to split PAS into moderate and conservative factions over the issue of Islamic law for the state of Kelantan – PAS has also been divided into two parts, neither of them strong enough to take out the other, and splitting what in the 2008 and 2013 general elections had been a formidable vote-gathering machine.

Although some election analysts have said the victories were more for UMNO than for the candidates, they are an indication that Najib’s strength is deeper than among just the 192 UMNO district chiefs who refused to vote to remove him as party head during the height of the crisis late last year over 1MDB, when an almost daily drumbeat of scandal found its way into the opposition press, which survives online. The victories are a clear indication that calls for reform have crested and sentiment is receding.

Unless Najib is indicted in one of the seven international jurisdictions investigating money-laundering charges over 1MDB, and perhaps not even then, he is likely to remain at the head of the country for an indefinite period. He has nullified opposition within UMNO, neutralized two powerful media voices in The Edge Group and Malaysian Insider, and threatened a wide range of civic leaders and groups with sedition charges to shut them up.

The Prime Minister’s strength raises two other issues – first, whether Najib, emboldened by the victories, will call a snap election ahead of the 2018 parliamentary deadline while his opponents have been badly weakened. The other question is whether he will go ahead and allow PAS to push through a private member’s bill that would allow for the implementation of hudud, or harsh Islamic law, in the state of Kelantan, which it holds as an opposition party.

Many political analysts believed the government fast-tracked the measure at the end of the most recent parliamentary session as election bait in the two Malay-dominant districts.

PAS had also pushed hard for the hudud introduction ahead of the two by-elections and is expected to use the Kuala Kangsar result despite the UMNO win, where two-thirds of voters are Muslim, to push ahead for the measure.

UMNO-BN candidate Mastura Mohd Yazid, the widow of Wan Mohammad Khair-il Anuar Wan Mohammad, who was killed in a May helicopter crash, drubbed opposition candidates from Parti Islam se-Malaysia and Parti Amanah Negara without campaigning in the Sungai Besar constituency in Kuala Kangsar in Perak.

In the Sungai Besar constituency in Selangor, UMNO state assemblyman Budiman Mohd Zohdi, 44, won with a 9,191-vote margin in a district that barely ended up in the Barisan camp in 2013, beating the PAS contender’s 6,902 votes and Amanah’s 7,609. Some 74 percent of the voters turned out in Sungai Besar and 71 percent in Kuala Kangsar.

The winning margins were far larger than the narrow 1 and 4 percent in Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar respectively that were notched in the 2013 general election, and they also are an indication that the sway is severely diminished for former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has made it a personal campaign to drive Najib from office. At age 90 – 91 on July 10 – his followers are increasingly concerned that his decades as a powerhouse and kingmaker may be coming to a close.

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  1. It’s not accurate to say voters have abandon opposition but it’s accurate the voters are fragmented and in the face of broken opposition, some have returned to BN.

    It’s not simply about opposition failures. Hadi’s PAS mostly responsible but truth also, they cannot do what they do if not for the voters dependency nature. It is a reflection of the Achilles heels of our Malaysian character and the true face and failures of ruling elites, Malay elites and Malay society.

  2. We have opposition members who have no interest to find the middle of Malaysia and therefore they will never position themselves to the middle. The only exception is probably Anwar, who is in jail. PAS with Islamism and DAP with Socialism (or hushed social democrat or their synonyms) are hopelessly at the fringe, to which they proudly proclaim as their principles.

    A true challenge to BN has to be on a platform attempting to be at the middle, which is of course forever shifting. Whatever the middle is, it is neither characterized mainly by anti-corruption nor shouting 1MDB scandal. About 50 year ago, Lee Kuan Yew tried “Malaysians’ Malaysia” and he scared the shit out of the ruling regime. Had LKY put his focus on corruption of Alliance coalition, PAP would have been in no position to challenge Alliance coalition and Singapore would still be just another state in Malaysia now.

  3. Can see the crook’s smile so brightly lighted on his face after one year of this massive scandal. He has maneuvered his craftsmanship very well from the day one and now he can say, “Fuck You and hell with you > go and fly kites”. What can you do with all your litigation or otherwise.

    So what next?

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D-Day Glam-Up in less than 10 min

Three days til my induction whooo-hoooo! 🎉🎊 James seriously woke me up this morning and said “Call me if you go into labor”… Like I’d forget to let him know… haha I guess crunch time leaves us all a little flustered and mindless

Anywho, I’m fully intending on looking my best when I meet my son for the first time. Granted I can’t really make decisions on what I’m wearing when I deliver, but I like to control what I can so I’m for sure wearing some nice make-up. I know that I will be in pain and also sweating a lot so I don’t want to overdo it, but I’ve composed a simple 10 minute glam look that I could breeze through on my way to the hospital!
This is how awesome I look when I wake up:

Obviously a #nofilter isn’t even necessary lol. These are the items I’ll be using:

To start I smooth the topical collagen moisturizer over my whole face, it helps even my tone, fill lines (I don’t have many, but it’s preventative as well, better to be PROactive than REactive), and creates a nice base to allow my foundation to stay on longer.

Then I apply a very cheap concealer to the few areas of my face where I have problems with redness

Like the bow hair?! Lol I also put my hair up and twist it while I’m doing my make-up to give it some volume, but it does look silly I know.
Then I apply an all over tinted moisturizer with SPF. Just basic and protective.

Then I dust a little powder over my whole face. It seals the look, and soaks up any excess oil you may have on your face.

Next I blend Creme highlighting blush to my cheeks and the corners of my eyes to brighten my face.

Next we add eyeshadow, I like to just skip the middle one, I blend the lightest color all over my lid, then carefully blend the darkest color from my crease down to the lash line. This technique works best for me, it looks more natural.

Next I use a liquid liner, just barely above my lash line and I drag out the corners just a tad to open my eye up.

Now it’s time for mascara!! I use a lengthening and a volumizing one, two coats of each, alternating between the two different kinds with each coat.

Finishing up my eyes I fill in the bottom with a plum pencil to pop the green in my eyes.

Finish off the look with some fabulous tinted lip gloss, and that’s it for applying make-up!!!

To finish my look I let my hair down and spritz it with some hair spray! This probably took 4 times as long to post as it actually does to do, but I promise it’s really easy and fast. Just one way to ensure I keep my fabulousness throughout motherhood!

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Milan’s Music Midweek Must Pick-me-up

This isn’t just a playlist, its his life. Life on the road can be grueling, long, tiresome and boredom can set in at times. Our friend & Fort Wayne Komets bad boi on the blue line , Dan Milan knows how to get down on and off ice.  What helps push him through and lifts the mood to level 7?Its  his custom playlist, ( StylinMilans Eardrum Dreams )

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Wether your week is at a hault like traffic on I75 on the way to see the wings make the Playoff………….JUST KIDDING!!!!!

Wether your tinder date stood you up, you just got laid by Shannon from accounting or you know its almost Friday….pump these jams and i guarantee you’ll be on blast off to audio euphoria.

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John Wade Agan,Unluckiest Man Or Luckiest Man Alive? TAMPA ,FL

Four years ago, John Wade Agan told deputies he was robbed at gunpoint in his taxicab, roughed up and stuffed into the trunk of the car.

Three years ago, he drove to a fire station with a butcher knife sticking out of his chest.

Two years ago, in a news conference from his hospital bed, he told the world he’d been bitten by two different snakes at the same time, a claim experts doubted.

He told Said he might have been the unluckiest man in the world.

Now, Agan occupies another hospital bed, befallen, he said, by yet another freak calamity: lightning.

He said it happened Tuesday evening during the severe storm that hit the area. He was leaning over a metal kitchen sink, holding a corded phone up to his ear, when he heard a loud boom. He said he blacked out.

His 26-year-old daughter, Misty Agan, was standing just feet away from him and said she heard the phone drop. “Oh! Oh! Oh!” she said she heard her dad say before he crumpled to the ground and began to shake.

Agan said he awoke surrounded by paramedics, finding his right shoe off and a big hole in his sock. “It felt like it was on fire,” he said.

He was propped up in a bed at Tampa General Hospital,While being interviewed by a local newspaper, picking at a chef salad.

He knows what people say about him — what they said after reading about his snakebites, what some will say when they read this story — that he’s lying or somehow hurting himself, maybe to get pain medicine.

“I don’t care what people say,” Agan said. “Any day of the week, I’ll go take a drug test.”

But not today, he said. Today, he was on pain medications.

There’s no way to prove someone has or hasn’t been struck by lightning, experts say. John Agan doesn’t have any obvious burn marks. Most victims don’t.

He was sore, he said. He had a ringing in his ear. According to a hospital spokesman, his condition was good.

Two lightning experts said a strike while using a corded phone didn’t sound unusual.

“It’s certainly possible,” said Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, a widely cited expert in the narrow field of lightning injury research.

Agan, who plans to seek county aid as an indigent to pay his medical bills, said he didn’t want to be in the hospital.

A nurse checked on him.

“I’m having some discomfort again,” he told her.

“I’ll see when you can have something,” she said. “You want the oxycodone?”

“The last one you gave me,” he said. “I feel like I’ve been hit by a car.”

A reporter asked: Had that happened to him, too?

His response: “Don’t go there.”

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The Day After Yesterday

Thursdays have often been at the top of my list of great days of the week. Thursdays are just, I don’t know, cool. They’re much better than Mondays, obviously, and often make Fridays seem like just a rich man’s Monday.

Today is not one of those Thursdays. It’s not that I’m in a bad mood, because I’m not, or that it’s raining, because it’s not, or that I saw a car completely engulfed in flames on the way to work this morning, which totally freaked my shit out. It’s just, today happens to be the day after Wednesday, the day I got a bikini wax.

It wasn’t the first bikini wax I’ve ever endured. In fact, I’ve had about a half dozen bikini waxes. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, used to the ripping and the tearing and the rending of my loins into shivering, hairless flanks.

But anyone who’s ever had the hair stripped from her groin with rectangular strips of hot wax knows that you’ll never get used to it. I mean, come on, it would be like getting used to being chased down and clobbered with a lead pipe every three to four weeks, only to have to tip the motherfucker who did it to you.

I happen to like the woman who administers my bikini waxes. Her name is Jeanette and she has a great ass. She’s appropriately gentle and attentive, often stopping between yanks to make sure I’m not dead yet.

Last night, however, I happened to be her last appointment of the day and my needy bikini area was the only thing standing in the way of her going home. I can understand how anyone in this situation would want to hurry things along; I, too, get antsy toward the end of the day wanting nothing more than to speed home, take off my shoes, and slam back a couple shots of tequila.

I’m quite certain, though, that if it had been her nether regions lying there helplessly on the operating table, she would never have so recklessly skinned those areas that needn’t be skinned.

Today, a Thursday that had all the potential to be one of The Greats, I’m left limping and bruised, stripped quite literally of my dignity.

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Scene; HiGH&LOW Ep 6

Usually there’s some kind of content-based reason why I love any particular scene but the reason why I loved this one was because it was so visually RIDICULOUS. The Rude Boys fight scene was just packed with sweet camera and editing work.

Right off the bat when Smoky runs off with the bag we get an inkling of things to come, which is, the shot is filmed from such a low angle that it’s like we’re lying on the ground seeing him kick the door.

It sets the tone right. Smoky bursts in from above, placing him in a visual position of power, the dust flies like a kungfu movie, the two guys fly to the side and you know instantly that parkour boy’s got the upper hand.

This is one of the things I love about this scene. They switch it up constantly between high angle and low angle shots.

First this actually helps to expand the setting a little. Because some shots are shot specifically to make it seem like you are looking up, and down at other times, it seems like the area they cover is huge.

There’s also a sense that action is happening EVERYWHERE, which is the point really. You look up, something’s happening, you look around, a fight’s definitely going on, you look down and someone’s running. It’s exciting.

Many of the shots are also sped up or slowed down so monotony is avoided. I tried to think about how it would be like if they just used the same cuts but didn’t change the speed. It just wouldn’t be as impactful. Stating the obvious a little here, but sped up shots emphasize the guys’ speed, which in turn makes the slowed shots much more powerful. They are like an exclamation mark at the end of a sentence, packing a punch.

It also lends a video game feel to the whole thing.

Then let’s talk about the use of what I believe to be a steadicam (sorry not a film pro, just an enthusiast) in this because I think this is one of the best things about this scene. The lack of stability and the constant movement makes it like we’re part of the scene. It thoroughly engages.

Take for example this part with Smoky. It’s like we are standing right by him avoiding punches and watching him go. When the camera tilts up and down it’s like we are literally watching the bad guys fall. The close-up shots also help to make us feel physically close to him. (P.S. I slowed this gif down a bit so you can see the camera movement better).

When he finally beats of the bad guys the camera stops moving and while that gives fangirls some time to just oogle at him (cough), it also carries on the illusion that we were fighting alongside him but now have stopped.

Also how amazing is it when they tracked this guy and edited the speed of it after. Not only does this help to pinpoint and identify one member of Generations (remember, we are selling the LDH groups here), but it also creates a sense of exhilaration, like we’re running alongside him.

Another favourite of mine is when we suddenly switch to a POV shot. In this scene we know that it’s not us but because of the way it’s shot it’s kind of ‘us’ holding that bag. But then the camera cuts and suddenly we’re thrown back out to a 3rd person perspective. That couple of seconds is enough to draw us into the action in a tactile sense. As I hear the sound of the bag landing in ‘my’ hands, and as I watch as ‘I’ run with ‘my’ shadow below me. So it wasn’t enough that we’re already experiencing the heady experience as if we were watching the action up close. Nah, we quite literally embody it for a few seconds too.

Same thing happens at this jump.

Of course what pulls everything together is the skill of the actor/performers. All that jumping, swinging, breakdancing, whatcha-ma-call-it…I mean…The street gang genre is the perfect one in which to play up physicality, and play it up they did.

I haven’t gotten around to watching the 2nd season of HiGH&LOW but I’m hoping it’ll step it up and give me more of this.

Scene; HiGH&LOW Ep 6

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colored crayon rings

Industrial designer Timothy Liles has gained something of an online reputation for one particular project – a simple, creative, inexpensive and interactive design idea well deserving of praise … but he has other designs that are worth a closer look as well.

coloring crayon rings

The pivotal creation in question fun, whimsical and a sure-fire hit on the open market – cast coloring-crayon rings that let the wearer draw wherever they go in any one of a number of colors or combinations. A child’s toy, perhaps, but a great and easy-to-understand accessory.

coloring rings design

Beyond these colorful ring designs, however, he has experimented with other curious castings and colored object hybrids. The above stool is the product of various pieces of ‘found’ household tools cemented in place and flipped to form a simple stool that shows its origins.

creative furniture design

This chair is a critique of the increasingly ‘health-conscious’ public. Do we take notions of hygiene too far? What would you think were you to find a public seat with a paper roll designed to let you clean the slate from whoever had sat in the same furniture before you?


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He Loves to Taunt Me, That Rascally Roadrunner

roadrunner taunting me

He knows I am here; I’m sure of it. He makes his clattering noise and jumps up onto the top rail of the fence, almost close enough to the birdhouse, for his nearly-daily visit. Fortunately for me, I had my camera at hand, so I grabbed a quick shot through the recently-cleaned window, hoping he would pose for long enough for me to get out onto the deck. But, nooooooo! By the time I got to the door, he was off. He sprinted down the open space towards the campground and disappeared behind a bush. I’m sure he was sticking his tongue out at me as I snapped away.

My attention was soon grabbed by a big something that flew into the gigantic mesquite tree that is between where he was and where I was standing in the yard. I’m wondering if a new nest is being made in that huge tree. I zoomed out the camera lens and tried to use it as binoculars to see if I could see anything, but was unsuccessful in locating anything useful.

I don’t think that location is as safe as the extant nest in the hedge beside our deck, but both eggs are gone out of there now, so maybe they don’t consider it as secure.

Stay tuned for more roadrunner adventures.

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8 Responses to He Loves to Taunt Me, That Rascally Roadrunner

  1. It reminded me of the roadrunner cartoon… Beep, Beep! 😀

  2. Bev says:

    LOL! He is certainly laughing at you! 🙂

  3. bjdewell says:

    Great picture with his beak open – “Ha, ha, ha, come and get me.” I can’t wait for more pictures and details of the goings on.

    • judilyn says:

      I wouldn’t be surprised! It really is like he is taunting me. He can’t see me when I am in the house, but I can hear him making that clattering noise, and I’m off like a shot. The grounds around here are so lush now during the monsoons that the animals don’t seem to come up to “civilization” as much. If it doesn’t rain for a day or two, though, we see a big influx in birds. They sit on the rail of the fence, and then jump down to the pond as if on bungie cords! So cute! Two little finches just took refuge on the deck to get out of a surprise rainstorm just now, but the rain didn’t last long, and they were gone. A hummingbird comes up a couple of times a day because there is a red lamp on the table out there. He never seems to remember that there is no food in a lamp! ;->

  4. LFFL says:

    He does look like Roadrunner.

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On the Possibility of Global Shalom….

On the Possibility of Global Shalom….

Peace is Life. Those who find it will have life and flourish.

However, is world peace possible in this present age, in which global terrorism, violations of human rights, child slavery, victims of rape and sexual abuse, wars, rumors of wars, and other forms of violence, human degradation, and oppression have become global phenomena?

Can the people of Syria and Afghanistan, and the victims of rape from the hands of U.N. soldiers in Haiti confidently and honestly say:

“We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame”–Romans 5:3-4

In the midst of our despair and discontentment, we have to train ourselves to think about the possibility and promise of global peace and healing. God is not impressed by your “head knowlege theology” about him or your academic acumen. He delights in you & is praised when you honor him fully with your mind & heart, ❤ and use what you know about God and human nature to foster forgiveness, peace, unity, reconciliation, and human flourishing in your community and in the world.

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What to Do When Your Request for SAT or School-Based Supports is Denied

Have you ever found yourself in the situation where a student with whom you are working has received a denial from the CollegeBoard regarding a request for accommodations on the SAT or from a child study team for in-school supports?

If so, you probably know that since the expansion of the SAT, more and more students have requested extended time accommodations and an increasing number have been denied. While some students have disabilities or deficits that should make them eligible, the reviewers are now enforcing a stricter interpretation of who needs extra time than they had previously. For example, having this accommodation in high school is not, by itself, a sufficient reason for granting it on the SAT. Even having a diagnosable condition is no longer a “free pass” to receiving extended time accommodations. Similarly, public schools have tightened their requirements regarding eligibility as their budgets have shrunken.

What do you do when you have a student who you feel really requires this support and has been turned down? The CollegeBoard has an appeal process as is true of the child study team. However, if you decide to go down this road, there are some things that are extremely important to consider. First, it is crucial to carefully read the denial letter to determine the reasons for the rejection. Second, if you disagree with these reasons, you need to revisit the documentation that was sent in support of the request. In this context, it is of utmost necessity that the evaluations upon which the request was made were comprehensive enough in scope. For example, when requesting extra time, you may find that the WISC-IV or WAIS-IV processing speed score is not sufficiently reflective of a student with slow processing speed. Since data regarding any deficit should be gathered from multiple sources of information, it is important that other instruments that have a timed component be administered to see if slow speed can be supported. For instance, if a student earns a high score on the WAIS-IV Arithmetic subtest, one of two processing speed tests, this, on the face of it, may invalidate your request. However, it is not unusual for students with slow speed but good math skills to earn high scores on this subtest, and still have slow processing speed in other areas. A good evaluator can uti

lize many different instruments to demonstrate the presence of a valid deficit. Next, the report that is written must be organized as a kind of legal brief. That is, the data must be discussed in connection with the reason for the evaluation, and concrete, specific, and measurable evidence of a deficit must be presented in clear fashion from multiple sourc

es. Simply reporting results with no connection to the request being made will not do the job. The reviewers will not connect the dots for you and the report must do this clearly and strongly. Of greatest importance is the need to demonstrate via the evaluation data and actual school and home-based functional data, the functional deficits that exist and interfere with students performing to their actual abilities. Ma

ny evaluations omit functional data from teachers specific to the deficits in question. This becomes even more important when the test data do not support the request and the functional data do. The same is true when dealing with the child study team.

An increasing rationale given for denying requests is that the student shows no significant discrepancy on the test data or has a high IQ or good grades on the report card. Under the law, none of these scenarios should automatically disqualify students from receiving accommodations. It is essential that the evaluator performing the

When a denial is received, additional testing may be required to demonstrate a valid deficit. A gentile, but clear reminder about the laws may also be necessary to support your student. Answering a rejection must also be done in a skillful manner resisting the urge to expres

s anger, and, instead, presenting a solid case to support your cause. When all else fails, the evaluator you choose should have experience in teaming with a special education attorney to make your case. However, the appeal process should go in a stepwise manner. Jumping to getting an attorney without first having solid data to support your request may backfire and generate bad feeling in those who are reviewing your appeal.


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Is The Common Core Just Misunderstood?

commoncorelogo-color2Please forgive me if you hate the words Common Core. I don’t try to go out of my way to write about something controversial, but I know the potential firestorm for this topic. My first question to all those that abhor the Common Core is:  Do you every wonder why the Common Core came to light? Although I have background knowledge, I quickly did an Internet search to see what explanations abounded. Terms popped up like, ‘college ready’, ‘consistent expectations for all regardless of zip code,’ ‘national standards,’ etc.

There are a lot of people, both in and out of the education field that hate that explanation, so it is not one that I will support in this entry. Preparing students for the real world, yes, obviously that is something that we focus on as much as possible, but what does that even mean? The meaning probably depends on whom you are speaking with. All I can offer is my interpretation. I want to prepare students to think critically and deeply about any problem, whether numbers are involved or not. My hope is that students analyze problems carefully and reflect seriously about all options before trying to attack any problems in the “real world.” I think the Common Core actually helps with that objective.

Please allow me to offer my classroom perspective. I have been teaching math to students for 15 years. 10 years was in an elementary setting, and the last 5 have been in the middle school.  Within that 15 year span, teaching philosophies (as well as several math programs) have come and gone. Throughout all of the math trials and tribulations, one consistency remained; students were not retaining the math. I know this is not just a phenomenon I have witnessed, because if it were, there would be no Common Core. The traditional way of teaching math would involve students learning an isolated concept. After learning it, students would study it for several weeks with lots of practice examples. The examples might be peppered with some derived textbook problems and culminate with a test. This is how I was taught and I know how many of you were taught as well.

Immediately after the test, many students would promptly forget about the past concept(s) and move on to another topic. Some of the details would re-emerge as necessary, but many students would notice that previously learned concepts drifted out of their minds after moving on to another topic. There was little transfer of knowledge from the temporary memory to long-term memory storage in the brain. Some students would retain rote procedures, and be promptly labeled as math people. Those who were unable to remember were labeled another way.

This was and continues to be a huge problem. Math concepts build on one another. They only have the opportunity to do so when students actively make connections from one concept to another in experiences where they witness the fluidity. For those who label The Common Core as fluff and not real math, please allow me to assure you that it was not designed to eliminate the algorithms. In everything I have studied, the algorithm (procedures we all learned growing up) is still the goal.  The difference between direct procedural teaching and problem based learning is that students receive the opportunity to investigate the why first.  The investigation allows students the chance to actively make mathematical connections with the ‘why’ to the procedure. Often, when students are given a problem, it creates the interest in the procedure that would never have been there if it were the only teaching point. What does this mean for our students? Instead of promptly forgetting procedural math, visual and problem based learning allows students to double down on their understanding and have the option to not only solve a specific problem in a unit, but provides students with tools to figure out how to solve all problems as efficiently as possible.

One of the largest obstacles of this philosophy is the incredible push back against it. This does not just come from parents, but also from fellow teachers. Change is hard, no doubt about it, but I have seen with my own eyes the difference between students memorizing a procedure versus deeply understanding why they are using it. The difference is stark. The reality is that the transition has not been easy and we all feel the growing pains together. But fear not…

I truly believe that I am a much better math teacher today than I was 5 years ago. I can imagine and hope I will be that much more effective in 5 years compared with the way I teach today. This means my students will be better prepared for that scary real world we love to discuss. I credit my continued improvement to the Common Core because of my virtual colleagues. Math superstars like Jo Boaler, Dan Meyer, Robert Kaplinsky, Fawn Nguyen, Yeap Ban Har, and Andrew Stadel were likely brought together by The Common Core initiative. Thanks to social media and passion, we now have resources that allow us to collectively and positively impact our students’ minds.

I accept that challenge. The question is…do all of you? If the answer is yes, please stop picking apart The Common Core or shuddering at the mere mention of the term as if it were ‘Voldemort’ from Harry Potter. The Common Core’s evolution came from student necessity. It is time that we work together to address the ongoing needs of our students, parent communities, and even the frustrations when we fall short. Two words should not undermine our purpose nor our passion that were actually developed to ignite them both.

Rediscovering Lessons

One of the reasons math teachers often get a bad rap is because we fail to provide opportunities for students’ deep understanding of concepts. Ever since my wake-up call and recognition of just how tricky integer mastery was, I have tried finding ways to reach students at a deeper level. The algorithm is there, it is always there and usually discovered eventually by students. Nowadays, students visually see the concept by using integer tiles, the number line, and/or creating their own model that makes sense.

Every summer vacation I dedicate most of my time to researching the latest and greatest in math instruction. This past summer was no exception. Sometimes in my research, I rediscover a lesson I had seen before and then promptly forgot about. The task I just completed with my students is one such lesson.

The Mathematics Assessment Project offers some wonderful lessons and tasks. Students really benefit from the structure of the lessons themselves, and the built-in peer collaboration. The lesson I used can be found here:

In a nutshell, students consider temperature changes that result from traveling from one city to another.  The collaboration occurs when students work with others to connect one city to another through temperature changing arrows. In some cases, the destination city’s temperature is provided, in others, the change in temperature is provided, and in the last scenario, the departing temperature’s city is provided.  In a lot of ways, it works like a crossword puzzle where students will figure out one answer, which will provide them the ability to find the next. Students also organically begin to discover why the algorithm works the way it does.

I followed the lesson with fidelity as I started with a pre-assessment, provided feedback, completed some whole class instruction to get students ready for the group task, and even conferenced briefly with those children who still needed some additional assistance after the activity was completed. The MAP writers recommend following the lesson the way they designed it. Before sharing their work with the world, the lessons are tested to ensure that they are effective.  I would be lying if I claimed that every lesson I created that I believed would be a rewarding experience for students in my mind turned out to be so in reality.  In other words, instead of experimenting with a lesson that I hoped would be  successful, these lessons have been tested so there is no risk involved. Amazing!

There are some resources that are worth revisiting out there in our global math world. Teachers who share their ideas with the world are pure gifts to educators and most importantly, to all of our students.  This experience reminded me that sometimes we might need to rediscover these educational treasures on another day to appreciate their value.


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Title: Selectivity in binary fluid mixtures: static and dynamical properties
Authors: Roth, Roland
Rauscher, Markus
Archer, Andrew J.
Issue Date: 2009
Publisher: © The American Physical Society
Citation: ROTH, R., RAUSCHER, M. and ARCHER, A.J., 2009. Selectivity in binary fluid mixtures: static and dynamical properties. Physical Review E, 80 (2), 021409.
Abstract: Selectivity of particles in a region of space can be achieved by applying external potentials to influence the particles in that region. We investigate static and dynamical properties of size selectivity in binary fluid mixtures of two particles sizes. We find that by applying an external potential that is attractive to both kinds of particles, due to crowding effects, this can lead to one species of particles being expelled from that region, while the other species is attracted into the region where the potential is applied. This selectivity of one species of particle over the other in a localized region of space depends on the density and composition of the fluid mixture. Applying an external potential that repels both kinds of particles leads to selectivity of the opposite species of particles to the selectivity with attractive potentials. We use equilibrium and dynamical densityfunctional theory to describe and understand the static and dynamical properties of this striking phenomenon. Selectivity by some ion channels is believed to be due to this effect.
Description: This article was published in the journal, Physical Review E [© The American Physical Society].
Sponsor: A.J.A. acknowledges financial support from the British Council, funded under the ARC program, and also from RCUK. M.R. acknowledges financial support from the priority program SPP 1164 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeintschaft. M.R. and R.R. acknowledge financial support from DAAD funded under the PPP program.
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DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021409
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Join us Sunday afternoon @ 32 Castle Harbour Drive in Port Perry between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and take a tour of this wonderful and unique home.

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At just over 2600 square feet on the main floor this home has so much to offer almost any buyer. There are 3 Generous sized bedrooms on the main level and 1 additional bedroom on the lower level. You will also find 4 Bathrooms throughout the home, 3 on the main level and 1 on the lower level. A couple of the unique features of this home are the dual entrance ways and 2 staircases leading to the finished lower level.

You will also find this home has a unique sitting area with 2 skylights and Large Windows overlooking the back yard. A huge living room you simply wont find anywhere else and will  accommodate every family member for those special celebrations and Holidays. The screened in porch is situated along the backside of the home and is IMG_4839overlooking the pool and lush gardens for those more relaxing an quieter moments. A  Massive 27′ X 27′ – 2 Car Garage has direct access to the home and plenty of room for each car and additional storage.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

BEST READS OF THE WEEK! April 18 - 24, 2015

Welcome back to the Best Reads of the Week! Every week I read through more than 370 blogs looking for the best rpg related articles to bring them directly to you. This week we've got new magic spells; the old school roots of 5e; an interview with Shanna Germain; inspiring art; a lexicon for aspiring war gamers; and so much more! If you see a post that you like be sure and tell the author how much you enjoyed it!

If you've got any questions about this month's lists be sure and check out the FAQ. And as always, thank you for your comments, shares, plus 1s, and for taking the time to read this list. See you on the next set!

APRIL 18 - 24, 2015!

The Compleat Spell Book of The Blue Album by +Jensan Thuresson, from the blog The Acorn Afloat: One of the things that I can never get enough of is creative spells that make instantly make me think of how they would be used in my games, and this post from Jensan that's exactly what you get. Honestly, if you aren't watching for Jensan's updates you're missing out.

The Dragonwrack Series Part 1, by J.D. Jarvis, from the blog Aeons & Augauries: Have you ever hesitated to drop a dragon into your Old School Dungeons & Dragons style game? Well if you have then this series by J.D. is perfect for you.

Every Adventure is a Dungeon by The Angry Game Master, from The Angry Game Master: Sometimes one of the hardest things about creating an adventure is understanding how to build one with a solid foundation which is why this article is so good.

The Old School Roots of D&D 5e by Al, from the blog Beyond the Black Gate: One of the things that I love about 5e is how easy it is to really get into, and this article from Billy examines those roots directly from the man who had one of the biggest hands in it's development, Mike Mearls.

Interview with Shanna Germain, Co-owner of Monte Cook Games by Liz, from the blog Contessa: Shanna Germain is a fascinating person. Her interests are varied and she often offers a refreshing take on every issue she touches. Naturally this interview with her is fantastic.

Castles in the Sky Part 1: History, Mechanics, and Trade by +Emily Dresner-Thornber, from the blog Critical Hits: It is arguable that there is no more astute mind in rpg blogging right now than Emily "multiplexer" Dresner-Thornber. Everything she touches is graced with an economy of words and a brilliant intellect. Castles in the Sky, Emily's exploration of a setting filled with floating castles, is just the latest in a long line of excellent posts.

The Rules are Not the Game by +Jens D., from the blog The Disoriented Ranger: There is a question that occasionally surfaces in our hobby: what constitutes the game? What is its essence? Is it the rules? Or is it something more abstract? Jens works on this issue and his thoughts on the subject are provoking.

The Livid Fens - Color Maps by +Gus L, from the blog Dungeon of Signs: If you're looking for a great place to launch a campaign than this evocative map is a perfect place to start. Plenty of adventuring possibilities, and not to much civilization to mess it all up. Just the way I like it.

Defeat and Running Away by Archon Shiva, from the blog Further Up the Spire: I always find it interesting how little we run away in modern role-playing games. I'm not alone in that I don't think. So this post by Archon Shiva really hit my sweet spot as it explores the topic in a way that few others have. Well worth checking out.

Violent Resolutions - Never Tell Me the Odds Part 1 by +Douglas Cole, from the blog Gaming Ballistic: In this first of a two parter Douglas takes a look at the math of crunchy systems, like D&D, and how to properly gage your chances of success. I'm always amazed when someone can take something that can quickly become dull, like math, and make it an interesting read that gets your mind working for hours afterwards.

Henrique Alvim Correa - War Of The Worlds Illustrations, 1906 by Aeron Alfrey, from the blog Monster Brains: My games tend to be a bit more along the lines of a pre-WWI time period so this collection of War of the World illustrations really hit in my sweet spot.

Taking 5e to the Con Circuit by +Baz Stevens, from the blog Treehouse: One of the great stress tests for any system is to put it into a pressure situation; and playing in a convention game is a perfect place to find the weaknesses of any game. What's better? Having a professional game designer look into it.

MOAR GREYHAWK! by +Charles Akins, from the blog Dyvers: a series of eight covers created to help spread the good word about one of the oldest settings in the history of RPGs.

Of Strategy in RPGs (Also: Simplify) by John, from the blog The Wandering Gamist: Let's say that complexity in role-playing games is there biggest barrier. How then do we fix it?

The Art of War Gaming: A Lexicon by +Stelios V. Perdios, from the blog The Word of Stelios: If you're new to war gaming, or are just contemplating getting into the hobby, then this short post by Stelios is an invaluable aid.

The new D&D survey has gone live and it's mostly about new settings for the game to explore. GET YOUR GREYHAWK VOTES IN NOW KIDS! ...