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• Thoughts From A Travelling Club Manager

    By Jim Callahan – Fun Languages Club Manager, Melbourne

    French lessons for children in Melbourne North“I have just returned from a month working in remote areas of Madagascar as an English/French interpreter and many aspects of my time there left a lasting impression.

    Principal among those is how difficult life is for the majority of the population, who struggle every day just to access those things we consider as a given in Australia (safe water, electricity, work, basic health care).

    What I also noticed was that, despite the generally low education levels (many children leave school after Yr 6 to work to help support their families) and illiteracy being a major problem, many of the people, both children and adults, could still manage a bit of spoken French in addition to their native dialect.

    It demonstrated how knowing even just a few words in another person’s language can allow you a shared moment together. It also got me thinking about the old adage ‘use it or lose it’ and how our language clubs are a great weekly environment for ‘using it’!

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Forever Breathing Blog Tour

I met Heather Allen as a teacher in South Orlando. I'm so excited for her accomplishment in publishing the Just Breathe Trilogy, which culminates with Forever Breathing. Congratulations, Heather!

Today, I'm posting an excerpt and Heather's playlist for Forever Breathing. Enjoy!

Ever Harding has finally found where she belongs, with Jack in the sea. Just when she thought she could start her new life, a new threat forms on the horizon. She must make her biggest choice yet. Is she willing to risk everything to save the love of her life and all she holds dear?
James discovers yet again that his purpose is greater than anything he could ever imagine. He thought he had it all figured out, but sometimes things can be very deceiving. Is he willing to stand up for all he believes is right?
In the final book of the ‘Just Breath’ trilogy, Ever and James find themselves not against each other but fighting together to preserve the freedoms of others. Will they be able to defend the right to choose when the odds are hugely against them?

The Teaser:

I turn a corner and find myself greeted by the point of a spear. The shock that I just about swam into this spear quickly turns to anger. I’m about to hit someone or at the very least yell at whoever would allow this when my eyes roam over the small, milky, white hands holding onto the end of the spear. My eyes follow the small arms up to meet clear, scared, green eyes. She is just about the cutest girl I have ever seen. I’m taking her in as she speaks to me in a sweet voice and all I can do is grin.
“Who are you? Why are you here?”
I just stare at her and my upturned mouth goes completely dry. How this is possible under water, I have no idea but I feel as if cotton is filling my cheeks.
She repeats her questions with more anger, “What are you doing in these caves? Who are you?”
I try and clear my throat to find my voice. I must look like such a prick grinning at her like this but it’s all I can do. She is so adorable and holding that spear that is almost too big for her.  I’m entranced and I can’t pull myself out.
As I speak, I push the point of the spear away from my face to avoid any mishaps.
Finally my voice cracks as I introduce myself, “Hi, my name is James.”
“Why are you here?”
I have to be careful with the answer to this one. If she is a Lior, I could be in big trouble. I look her up and down trying to decide which side she might be on. Her fin is an array of blues and greens shimmering with the movement of the water around us. She is wearing a blue bikini top but it’s partially covered by her long dark, almost black, hair. I look back up into her face and notice a straight perfect little nose and small pink lips.
I decide to chance it. She looks like she could be on either side.
“I’m looking for the Erebus that live here…”
She cuts me off breathlessly, “Why do you want to see the Erebus? Did Roman send you?”
And the spear swings back into my face, inches away from my cheek.
I push it away with more resistance this time and smirk at her, “Hey, watch it with that, you could put an eye out.”
She frowns and raises her voice slightly, slowly enunciating each word, “I asked, why. do. you. want. to. see. the. Erebus?”
I want to just laugh at the feistiness of this girl but that will probably get me poked with that spear. I’m truthfully not even sure she could do any damage, she’s so petite.
“I’m not a threat, I can guarantee that. I just want to talk to whoever is in charge. “
She snidely asks, “What makes you think I’m not in charge?”
I can’t help it; a small chuckle escapes my lips. The spear swings back around and sticks a few inches into my arm. I watch, shocked as blood seeps into the water. I know this is nothing to my body because of my healing abilities but she doesn’t. I’m about to go off on her when I watch as the spear falls to the floor and her hand covers her opened mouth. She obviously didn’t mean to hurt me. Her eyes are so worried.  She surprised herself more than me. I decide to have a little fun.  Putting on my best agonized look, I grab my arm as if in pain. I’m enjoying this way too much.
She swims over to me and places her hand on my arm. A jolt shoots straight through my arm causing me to fall back against the wall. The look on her face is sheer disbelief. Whether it be that she unintentionally hurt me with the spear or the obvious electricity that just seared my skin, I don’t know.
I ask, “What was that?”
She shakes her head not seeing me as if lost in thought for a moment.
Finally, she focuses on me and swims slowly toward me again. I’m reluctant to let her get closer. I take my hand off of my arm having forgotten about the spear injury and open my mouth to ask again about the shock.
She glances to my arm and her features darken.
“Were you faking that I hurt you?”
I look surprised and realize it’s all healed up.
I shake my head, “No, I…uh… it was just a tiny flesh wound.”
She comes closer still, examining my arm without touching me. She looks up into my eyes and claims, “But I saw blood, a lot of blood and…”
She reaches out to touch it and I flinch, waiting for the shock again. When her finger grazes me, a jolt shoots up my arm but it feels good and it doesn’t last. It turns into something else. I feel the energy travel to my neck and down my fin. Her finger lingers on my arm and it’s as if we’re frozen for a moment. When she pulls her hand back, I feel as if a part of me was just taken away, the warmth is gone and I suddenly want it back.
Get a grip, James. What the hell is wrong with you? Oh yeah, that’s right, you chose to follow crazy girl down here and now you’re in over your head, way deeper than ever before.
She looks at me suddenly scared and speaks up disturbing my thoughts, “Where is the cut? There should be a cut. I saw the spear go into your arm.”
I shake myself out of the moment and attribute it to stress. I’m just stressed about everything and I’m imagining things.
I answer her with as much authority I can muster, “I need to talk to someone in charge. It’s important.”
She frowns, looks down it seems as if she’s deflated and turns, swimming back around the corner from which she came. I follow her and kick myself silently for that whole fiasco. I can’t let anymore girls affect me. I’m here for a much bigger reason.
Heather Allen is the author of Just Breathe, Barely Breathing, and Forever Breathing. Heather lives in sunny Florida with her husband and three children. She has dedicated her life to education for the past fifteen years with a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership. She finally realized her dream of becoming an author only recently. She savors every moment on this new journey and continues to touch the lives of children now, not only through teaching but also her books.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

THIS IS W.A.R. Blog Tour

Welcome to Lisa and Laura Roecker's blog tour for THIS IS W.A.R.! I am a huge fan of LiLa. They are fun and funny, and their books are AMAZING! (Also, click on the banner to go to a special preorder offer!)

Take it away, LiLa!

In a past life, Laura was a 6th grade language arts teacher. Every year, she’d introduce herself to the students and explain that one day, she’d like to write a book. A YA book because that was all she read anyway. Lisa wrote boring business proposals by day and read endless blogs by night. She yearned for a reason to start her own blog. But it wasn’t until we got together that our separate dreams became a reality. Laura needed a partner to do the dirty work (ie tell her what to write) and Lisa needed a reason to start a blog (ie the journey to publishing)! It was perfect. It was fate. It was fun.

While we wrote our first (doomed) manuscript in less than a month, we learned a whole lot about being writing partners and expanded on the process of team-writing when we wrote our second. The first thing we do after we have a solid idea is map out characters and plot out our emotional and physical plot. We write up a page on each character and attach pictures to get a visual. Our plot outlines take weeks to write and usually end up being at least 30,000 words. They are a very dry version of what we want the final book to look like. Once we’ve torn apart the outline and poked as many holes as we can, we’re ready to start writing.

Lisa ALWAYS has to write the first chapter of our books. Laura is never fully on board with starting a new book until she’s blown away by the first chapter. And then we’re off! Laura edits Lisa’s chapter and adds the next chapter. Lisa edits Laura’s and adds the next. The best part about writing as a team is we get to be both writers and readers. The outline is a map, but every chapter we write is unique to us. There’s nothing quite like reading a brand-spanking-new chapter your partner tacked on the night before. We’re hooked!

Wow! Thanks so much for the peek into your process, ladies!

I can't wait to read This Is W.A.R., how about you?

This is not a story of forgiveness...

The mystery of their best friend's murder drives four girls to destroy the Gregory family. Emily Thorne would be proud.

Everyone at Hawthorne Lake Country Club saw Willa Ames-Rowan climb into a boat with James Gregory, the Club’s heir apparent.

And everyone at Hawthorne Lake Country Club watched him return. Alone.

They all know he killed her. But none of them will say a word. The Gregory family is very, very good at making problems go away.

Enter the W.A.R.—the war to avenge Willa Ames-Rowan. Four girls. Four very different motives for justice and revenge, and only one rule: destroy the Gregory family at any cost.

Lisa and Laura Roecker are sisters-turned-writing partners with a passion for good books, pop culture, and Bravo programming. Not necessarily in that order. A prepubescent obsession with Lois Duncan and their mother's insistence that they read Men Are Just Desserts inspired This is WAR. The sisters live in Cleveland, Ohio, in separate residences. Their husbands wouldn't agree to a duplex. Cyberstalking is always encouraged at and @landlroecker on Twitter.

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We spent most of August in Europe visiting Germany, Austria and Italy.  I posted a video on my Youtube channel during our vacation. We found a small town in the south of Germany called Oberammergau. They have wonderful woodcrafters in this town. I wanted to share it on my blog..

I will be posting more crafting videos now that I am back on working mode 🙂

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DELIVERANCE by Vicki Hunt Budge

Deliverance, Lydia’s Story is the third volume in Vicki Hunt Budge’s Hope and Healing series though it works very well as a standalone novel. Lydia’s only child died due to a medical mishap and she has harbored ill feelings for many years toward the nurse responsible for the error. She is ready to put the past and her animosity behind her when her dying sister in Boston makes legal arrangements for Lydia and her husband to become Gracie, her grandchild’s legal guardians. The child’s mother, Nicole, is a drug addict who has served time in prison for drug related theft. The grandmother fears if her daughter takes the little girl she’ll be neglected, abused, and turn to drugs like her mother. To thwart the mother’s determination to take her child, the grandmother insists Lydia and Jim leave Boston at once, taking Gracie with them to Oregon, before she actually dies. Both Lydia and Jim love being parents to a little girl again, but they can’t help worrying that the child’s mother will follow them and attempt to kidnap her child. Their fears prove valid.

Nicole and a friend, Roxy, whom she met while in prison, have plans to travel to Oregon from
Boston by bus, buy a used car, snatch Gracie and flee to Canada. Nicole believes she can support herself and her daughter if she can make it to Canada, stay off drugs, and hire herself out as a housekeeper. She devises several strategies to grab Gracie, but Lydia is a match for her schemes and enlists her friends support to keep the child safe. Nicole is abandoned by Roxy, who is only interested in what she can get from Nicole. Devastated by Roxy’s betrayal Nicole finds other friends, better friends, who support her efforts to stay off drugs and create a new life.

Lydia is a headstrong, judgmental woman who thinks she has all the answers. She frequently ignores her husband’s advice. She loves Gracie and the child has a softening influence on her. She also has a circle of good friends who aid her in evading Nichole’s schemes. Her concern for her grandniece and her faith in God are her strongest redeeming characteristics. Her husband, Jim, is a psychologist and extremely patient. He fills a loving father’s role in Gracie’s life. Gracie is a bright, active five-year-old with a love of music.

Nicole is a lot like Lydia in many ways. She’s headstrong, stubborn, and me-oriented. She first became involved with drugs as a rebellious teenager. She quickly finds quitting is harder than expected and her friends from the drug culture aren’t dependable. Making new friends and setting new goals requires overcoming fears and getting help from a higher power. It also involves assistance from those with experience in leaving that world of drugs.

A few short comings struck me as I read this novel. Nicole’s chance meetings with people who have overcome drug dependence and who can help her seem a little too coincidental. Jim and Lydia’s marriage is not the most exemplary marriage relationship. Harry, Nicole’s friend who seems destined to be more than a friend, is a little too good to be true. These are all minor questionable points in an excellent story of hope and healing. The story’s strong points include show casing characters who aren’t all good or all bad. It also takes a good look at the frequent link between drugs and crime, the dangers of pre-judging others, and the value of true friendship and family loyalty.

Vicki Hunt Budge grew up in Idaho, lived for many years in Oregon, and now makes her home in Utah. She attended both Idaho State University and the University of Utah. She and her husband are the parents of four children. They also served as missionaries in the LDS Addiction Recovery Program. She has published two previous novels and many stories and articles in LDS Church magazines.

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DELIVERANCE, LYDIA’S STORY, Book Three of the Hope and Healing Series by Vicki Hunt Budge, Published by Eastwood Press, 284 pages, soft cover $11.99. Also available for eReaders.

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Ben Ellis Wins Double Award At
Bears Presentation Night

One of the hardest workers on the field this season, Ben Ellis has won both the Player of the Year and Players' Player awards at the Bears presentation night on Friday 14 October. Held at the North Sydney Bowling Club and MC'd by General Manager and Bears legend Greg Florimo, the night was attended by an enthusiastic crowd of players, coaches, officials, and supporters.

In his opening address, Flo expressed his appreciation to the players for their efforts throughout the year, starting with the pre-season training drills in the sandhills at Cronulla last October. A lot of effort went into the season, culminating in the Premier League finishing just short of a place in the finals. This was a big improvement on recent seasons, and augurs well for the future.

Flo pointed out that while the NRL denied the Bears the opportunity to participate in the elite competition, North Sydney nevertheless continued to foster and develop talented players, many of whom have been signed by NRL clubs for 2006. While it was disappointing for the club to lose players, he wished them every success with their new clubs. He looked forward to members of the 2006 squads also using the club as a stepping stone to the NRL via the feeder club arrangement with the Melbourne Storm, with which North Sydney began an affiliation in 2005, which will continue next season.

Finally Flo thanked the support staff who get the sides on the park each week, but who often don't get the accolades that go to the players and coaches. Flo also thanked the supporters for remaining with the club and hoped to see bigger numbers at the games in 2006.

Coach Gary Freeman also acknowledged the efforts of the players. Wizz has stood down as coach due to his broadcasting commitments, but hoped that the Bears would build on the achievements of 2005.

A final comment from Flo was the fact that North Sydney won all their games where Michael Pobjie filled in for Wizz, suggesting that Pobje should retire with his 100 percent record intact.

The highlight of the evening was the presentation of the player awards. Flo said that the awards were an important way for the club to honour players who had excelled during the season, and how the winners would join the ranks of some exalted company in North Sydney's long history. Ben Ellis received both the Premier League Player of the Year and the Players' Player awards. Getting both awards was a tribute to the young forward. Ellis said he was the fittest and strongest he had been since he moved to Australia from New Zealand, and gave credit to trainer Jamie Papa for that. He also thanked Gary Freeman for doing extra training sessions with him to work on his game. In presenting the award, Flo commented that Ellis had made 63 tackles in one game, which was more than Gary Freeman made during his long career.

Richard Retimana received the award for Highest Pointscorer - 4 tries and 46 goals. As Ritch was in New Zealand playing for the Maori team, the award was accepted on his behalf by team mate Matt Thurston who gave the funniest acceptance speech of the night, including the observation that the award would have been his had he been given more opportunities.

In Jersey Flegg, Ryan Verlinden was named Player of the Year, and Anthony Beare Players' Player. Beare played all 24 games for Flegg, a side which improved enormously over the season. One of the youngest sides in the competition - the side was competitive against such teams as the Sharks and Parramatta. Norths is looking forward to a successful Flegg season in 2006 and a repeat of the finals berth achieved in 2004.

Also in Jersey Flegg, Pat Galea received the Most Improved award. Pat was called into the Premier League team mid-season to play prop and never took a backward step. Pat Allendorf accepted the award on his behalf As Pat Galea was in Malta with the national team.

Captain Kyle Arnold was a popular choice as North Sydney's Clubman of the Year. Coach Freeman spoke highly of Kyle's abilities both on and off the field, including his work in helping the team bond. The award is a great recognition of a popular clubman.

The Supporters' Player of the Year award is Sponsored by Votes were recorded after each game by supporters in a 3-2-1 format. David Choy had the honour of making the inaugural presentation which went to halfback Aaron Heremaia. As Aaron was in New Zealand with the Maori team Gary Freeman accepted the award on his behalf. Wizz spoke about Heremaia's determination to bounce back from a mid season lapse in form which actually saw him dropped from the side, and how he lifted his game to be one of the standout players in the second half of the season. Wizz believes Aaron will play for New Zealand within a couple of years.

The final comment from Flo was a thank you to the sponsors the Mighty Bears for their support during the 2005 season - Norths Leagues, J.J. Lawson, the Rag & Famish Hotel, the Cienna Group, Taragon Constructions and Di Mare Seafood Cammeray. Also to the players sponsors; Allied Pickfords, Coverforce, the Dural Country Club, Foster Raffan,,, Michael Tonello Typography and The Old Bears Club. And a successful 2006 will position the club for the League's 100th Premiership in 2007 and the Centenary Year Premiership in 2008.

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Ben Ellis accepts his Player of the Year (Premier League) award flanked by 1st grade legends Gary Freeman and Greg Florimo. Photo: Steve Little


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One last set of TextExpander symbols

As a followup to this post and this one, here’s my last set of simple TextExpander snippets for inserting special characters.

To insert Type

As you might expect, I don’t use these nearly as much as the fractions or keyboard symbols, but they come in handy when tweeting. It’s annoying that the ballot box character (☐) is often rendered larger than either the X’d ballot box (☒) or the checked ballot box (☑). Makes it hard to use them as way of showing votes.

If you don’t like my use of the semicolon to prefix every abbreviation, you can change it to whatever you like using the teprefix script, which is in this GitHub repository.

Update 6/29/11
You’re not crazy; I forgot to add a link to the library. Try this.


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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Vote 1 for King Oak

                                                                     King Oak

I am called many things. One of the least offensive is tree-hugger! As anyone who really knows me will tell you I love trees. I even grow trees although this year has been busier than usual and hasn’t left a lot of space to gather up the seeds and plant and pot them.

In my travels I have picked up seeds here and there. I have Holly trees from Hillsborough Castle and Rowans I picked up at Chequers once upon a time while visiting Tony Blair.

Most of my trees are local. Not surprising when you realise how much a part of Irish history and culture and sport and mythology are our trees. Many of our place names and towns and town lands and some of our counties derive their name from local trees. My home county of Antrim is associated with Aon Trim or Elder. Derry or Doire is connected to the Oak. Mayo or Maigh Eo is the plain of the yews and so on. Indigenous trees also encourage our native wildlife, whether birds or insects.

So, in the interest of promoting Irish trees I am asking readers everywhere to take a few minutes and log on to and vote in the European Tree of the Year competition for Ireland’s entry - ‘King Oak’.

This is a huge Oak tree – a pendunculate Oak (quercus robar) - from the Charleville Forest estate at Tullamore in County Offaly. It is estimated to be aged between 400 and 800 years old. Locally it is well known and it is said that generations of Tullamore inhabitants have climbed its branches. It stretches 50 meters from the tip of one branch to the tip of another.

I heard about the Charleville Oak and the competition while listening to Derek Mooney’s excellent show on RTE 1. The person speaking about it claimed that romances began and some ended in the shadow of that great oak.

The European Tree of the Year is not about finding the biggest tree or the smallest or the oldest or most beautiful – however interesting these facts may be. The organisers say they are searching “for the tree closest to your heart, a tree with a story that can hold the community together.”

It’s about the connection between a tree and the community it lives in. According to Hana Rambousková of the Czech Republic who is one of the organisers of the competition; “these trees, many of them hundreds of years old, have witnessed important history in their community. They are tightly bound to a group of people, sometimes even the whole village.”

The closing date for the competition is February 28th and the results will be announced on March 1st. King Oak is currently lying in third place so let’s make an effort and help it win the competition.

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What is one to say about June? The time of perfect young summer, the fulfilment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Gertrude Jekyll
A swarm of bees in May
Is worth a load of hay;
A swarm of bees in June
Is worth a silver spoon;
A swarm of bees in July
Is not worth a fly.
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DUTCH style in the interior

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The Dutch style is unusually organic and simple. It combines natural materials and colors with artful paintings of Dutch masters.

Together they create an elegant, sometimes somewhat rustic style.

Design features of the Dutch interiorThese are: the windows are large, separated by racks on several glass, the ceilings are decorated with beams, painted either in the color of the ceiling or in the color of the floor, often there are stoves or fireplaces that are decorated with tiles with Dutch paintings.

Such tiles adorn the walls, often onlyHalf, instead of tiles you can take wallpaper with a similar painting. Even for the finishing of walls, plaster is used, painting. Brick and wood, also favorite materials for walls, boards are painted, and the brick is left unchanged.

Traditional Dutch colors are white(Predominant), blue, red and yellow. The floor is made of a board, parquet or stone. The tree can be either dark, or light or colored. Instead of a stone, you can choose a ceramic tile.

Dutch-style windows are often left behindOpen or use light tulle, perfectly fit the lace. For upholstery upholstery choose natural fabrics, monochrome or with ornament. The furniture itself is made of wood, the form of furniture is strict, sometimes rough. For decoration of furniture use carving, painting and glass. The invention of the Dutch is a slide for dishes, on the shelves of which porcelain sets are decorated.

As accessories, dishes withDutch painting, copper candlesticks and jugs, lacy napkins, engravings and mirrors in simple frames. Characteristic for Holland are miniature statuettes of Dutch houses, mills, Dutch shoes. Since Holland is the world's eternal leader, its interiors are often filled with flower bouquets.

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How to make a lamp from a baking dish

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Sometimes old things are not as useless as they seem, and all needlewomen know this perfectly. Even the old form for baking, they found use: made of her shade.

I suggest you also create such a miracle.

You will need

  • - old form for baking-
  • - electric wire-
  • - electric cartridge-
  • - incandescent lamp 40 W-
  • - conical part from the old lamp-
  • - silver aerosol paint-
  • - drill-
  • - Screwdriver.

From the very beginning, we need a drill. Install a 5 mm diameter drill bit on it, then drill a hole in the center of the bottom of the baking dish. It is needed in order to then insert an electric wire into it.

Then, using an aerosol paint,Give the appearance of all the details of the future lamp, that is, you need to paint both the shape for baking, and the cone-shaped part. Allow the paint to dry.

Now it is necessary to insert the electric wire into the hole intended for it, then string all other parts of the lampshade.

Then continue to collect the electrical part of the lampshade by connecting the electrical wire to the cartridge. This part of the work is best provided to the representatives of the stronger sex.

It remains only to check the lampshade in practice, that isPlug it into the mains. The lamp from the baking dish is ready! Now you have in your house one more original thing made by yourself.

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A cat that does not walk into the tray, but cope with its need throughout the apartment, can become a real problem for the owners.

The smell of urine is very corrosive, and even after a general cleaning the rooms will not smell fresh.

If you do not want to bump into puddles in the most unexpected places, try to wean the animal from this addiction.

Cleanliness is the guarantee of health

What to do if the cats shit on the beds
First, you need to understand what motivatesYour pet shit in the wrong places. First check the tray. Cats are clean animals, and if they are not cleaned in time, they will simply find another place for the toilet. Also make sure that the cat constantly has access to the tray, none of the domestic forgetfulness closes the door to the room where it is located, and does not block it with their belongings. There is a possibility that the cat simply does not like the filler or the place where the toilet is located - there may not be enough safe in the opinion of your pet. Experiment and probably you will be able to choose an option that will appeal to both you and the animal. The apartment itself should be washed with a cleanser, preferably with a citrus or lavender aroma. In those places where the cat was celebrating its need, arrange bowls with water and food. The animal will not shit where it eats, and the cat will have to agree to your option.
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Adult non-castrated animals are oftenLeave tags in the apartment that will tell any stranger that this territory is occupied. The reasons for this behavior can be different: moving to another apartment or buying new furniture, the birth of a child, the arrival of guests, the presence of other cats in the neighborhood. You can either eliminate the source of your animal's anxiety, or try to wean it from this habit. A painless, but very effective punishment will be spraying with water. Buy a water gun and always keep it close. As soon as you saw that the animal intends to leave its mark, release into the intruder a jet of water. A few days later, most cats understand what is required of them. If you do not plan to receive offspring from your pet, castration can become an effective way to solve the problem.
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by Jonathan

This lure has been around now for several years and at the moment is having something of a comeback. It has always been a good early season lure for the ‘stockies’. It was one of the first flies to use chain beads for the head. Once you have tied a couple it gets easier and is worth the effort.

  • Hook – Wet or long shank hook sizes 10-6.
  • Thread – Black 6/0.
  • Tail – Black marabou ( fairly sparse)
    Silver/gold holographic 6-8 strands.
  • Butt – Fluorescent green wool.
  • Rib – Silver wire.
  • Body – White micro fritz or silver lurex.
  • Hackle – Grizzle cock palmered.
  • Head – Chain bead in either silver, gold or red.

If you intend tying up several flies I would suggest that you tie on the heads in advance and secure them with either varnish or epoxy and give them time to set.

Remember the heads sit on the underside of the hook.

Regards Dave C and The Team

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Tam January 18, 2017 at 11:30 am

Hi Dave thank you for teaching me what I have been wanting to do for years (40) your videos are amazingly well put together and with your skill at teaching and tying I have almost completed all your flys after 3 months my own flys are looking pretty presentable I hope I find you in good health

Craig March 18, 2013 at 9:02 pm

I would just like to echo what everybody else is saying, your videos are excellent to watch, and extremely educational. I am about to start tying my own flies as you have inspired me to do so.
Many thanks,
Please keep on with the teaching.

All the best,

Keith March 17, 2013 at 8:44 am

Hello David,
You have inspired me to tie flies again after quite a long break. I am certainly no pro, but I tie pretty well. Unfortunately there are no trout near my fishing spots (southern U.S.) Most of my fly fishing is for largemouth bass. So I would love to see a video or two (or 20) on largemouth bass lures such as streamers ot terestrials.
Thank you and keep up the great work.

betterlatethannever July 19, 2012 at 5:26 am

David, you have inspired me to start tying flies! I remember watching my dad create flies & I wish I had had the time to learn from him. I happened on your lessons & fell in love with your calm, down-to-earth approach to fly tying. I have started on the Beginner Lessons and look forward to making all the flies you have demonstrated. I hope you’re back on your feet soon & teaching us more patterns.

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DaveC April 1, 2012 at 8:45 pm

Hi Peter,
Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately we have not been able to make any additions recently due to health problems. The Cardiologists look like they have got me on my feet again and hopefully we will be able to make additions. As for thewhip finish tool I have never used one so I am the wrong one to ask for help. I am sure that someone out there will be able to help.

Peter deLiddiard March 29, 2012 at 1:34 am

What a lovely site, great for the beginner and the more experienced. I have only recently got into tying flies, but I am already hooked and this site in just simply a delight, please continue, I have already learnt a great deal from your advice and videos. Any chance David, you could demonstrate how to use a Whip finishing Tool, I just cannot seem to get a hang of it. Thank You.

Kaylan June 19, 2011 at 12:33 am

Really love the fly. I find that the big uglies as i call them always leave me satisfied no mater where i am. I recently started steelhead fishing and was wondering if you knew any steelhead patters you could show me. Thank you

Calum June 10, 2011 at 6:48 pm

Great fly dave, love the green butt, a really good variant is black marabou tail, black fritz body and -palmered pink grizzle hackle

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Along with being a nazi racist child abusing misogynistic homophobic anti-semitic fascist Hitler, psycho-neurotic sources newly reveal that the archfiend monster demon is also a spy!!!!

Now that the conventions of both the Brainless Con and Spineless Lib wings of the ruling party are over, the worst campaign for president in American history can officially begin even though it’s actually been in process for months now. The two candidates, gushingly beloved by many and loathsomely despised by most, have already been slinging cancerous mud at one another for some time, but now the putrid atmosphere promises to get even worse. Barf bags ready?

Getting an early start, the neo-liberal high command of America’s electoral sewer introduced a new low to our political toilet by making a sarcastic remark made by Trump into still another incredible charge that makes the anti-communist idiots of the 1950s sound like freethinking liberals by comparison.

After a wikileaks release of party emails revealed the central committee of the democrats were against the insurgent candidacy of Bernie Sanders - who knew? – and were doing all they could to help Her Highness Clinton and harm His Gallness Bernie – who could have imagined? - the counter attack ran that it was evil Russian hackers behind the leak. Booga Booga!

Anyone remember the cold war? The communist menace? The nuclear arms race? Long after those were supposed to have ended and Russia has gone capitalist, they’re still such major moneymakers there are daily reports from consciousness control and central mind management about the dreadful threat of Russians, Putin and the danger to us all if Ukraine falls to the former evil empire. It seems the Ukraine borders right on New Jersey, or Kansas, or Miami, or someplace dangerously close to us here in Disneyland.

Trump has not run with this particular pack of the warfare party, given his personal egotistical arrogance, which somehow balances that of the nation but drives its owner - rulers up the wall because his perverse individualist idiocy often contradicts their degenerate social madness. This has led the sources of real power in america to oppose him, and arrange for supposed “progressive” opponents of entrenched power to not only swallow every tale told about him but worse, to have his sometimes twisted logic further twisted by mind managers to result in an alleged “left” political opposition to entrenched minority power in america operating as front line volunteers for entrenched minority power in america to defeat Trump. With rebels like this we’d still have slavery.

Since Trump has expressed previous disdain for foreign warfare engagements which waste money – no anti-war moralist he, but almost sounding like a peacenik by comparison to the neo-lib mass murderers opting to circle Russia with nato puppet armies and american missiles, all in the interest of peace and democracy, of course – he is seen as a real enemy of the warfare state. That has led to his depiction by puppets as a menace to us all if he gets his hands on the nuclear button. This, while america moves closer to a nuclear confrontation with Russia and all we have to rely on, if we have any sense, is the leadership of Putin which is mature and worldly by comparison to the infantile warheads running our reality tv farce.

Thus, the latest and possibly most idiotic charge of his collusion with a supposedly evil foreign power by making a joke and urging Russia to find out more about his opposition’s emails. Somehow these buffoons on what is called a left (by crackpots who think Groucho Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto) have created a formidable opponent out of an intellectual lightweight multi millionaire egoist who, shockingly, with outspoken honesty often makes the supposed intelligentsia seem the homicidal crackpots they are. What’s a voter to do?

The truly thoughtful seekers of real and not just genital change in leadership have an opportunity to vote for such, though not in every state since this still very anti-democratic system makes it next to impossible for real democracy to work. But Dr. Jill Stein - a brilliant, accomplished and compassionate woman who has achieved her high status on her own! - and the Greens are on enough ballots to tally enough votes and attract the attention of the real majority; americans who have not succumbed to being reduced to helpless minorities but demand majority unity in creating a political economy that works for all and not just the richest and their paid staff. And that 20-25% still enjoying privilege beyond what the majority 75-80% experience will be under increasing stress soon enough to see that their “identity” is the same as those beneath them economically: we are americans, of all shapes, sizes, beliefs, cultural and ethnic origins and histories, but americans who will not have a better life for ourselves and whatever slice of the population we are made to believe is “our” people until we unite as a democratic force to reorient our politics and economics to benefit all of “our” people: Americans.

Disregard the fear mongers and their often well meaning and sincere but sadly mislead minions who sometimes question authority and then do exactly what authority orders them to do. The choice (?) offered between Clinton and Trump is a lesser evil one of cancer or polio. Choose Jill Stein and the Greens and begin the process of ending the politics of terminal and crippling disease and starting an economy of humanity and health for all of us.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Bulletin! . . . Adam Smith Says Only Government Intervention Can Protect Workers From Being Reduced to Mindless Automatons by the Capitalist Division of Labor

"In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a very few simple operations, frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become (italics added). The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life. Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging; and unless very particular pains have been taken to render him otherwise, he is equally incapable of defending his country in war. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, and makes him regard with abhorrence the irregular, uncertain, and adventurous life of a soldier. It corrupts even the activity of his body, and renders him incapable of exerting his strength with vigour and perseverance, in any other employment than that to which he has been bred. His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expence of his intellectual, social, and martial virtues. But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it (italics added).

"It is otherwise in the barbarous societies, as they are commonly called, of hunters, of shepherds, and even of husbandmen in that rude state of husbandry which precedes the improvement of manufactures, and the extension of foreign commerce. In such societies the varied occupations of every man oblige every man to exert his capacity, and to invent expedients for removing difficulties which are continually occurring. Invention is kept alive, and the mind is not suffered to fall into that drowsy stupidity, which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding of almost all the inferior ranks of people (i.e., the lower classes - ed., italics added)."

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Sunday, July 10, 2016

An Alternative To Grexit, Brexit, Frexit, Etc.

"There is a thirst and a hunger for something extremely radical to happen in Europe, for instance, democracy."

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A Womp Rat is a Star Wars animal that lives on the desert planet Tatooine. The Womp Rat appears in two video games published by Traveler's Tales; which are LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy and its follow-up LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga. In the games the animal comes out of large grey and black trash bins and simply runs around. It doesn't harm the player and merely serves as a background character.

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Andre Gamez was born in Guatemala City in the late 1980s. He started playing guitar at an early age, and joined several bands while still in his teens. By the time he was 20, he was singing, playing guitar, bass, mandolin and drums, and had begun recording, mixing and producing his own music. Success came at 21 when, with Uty Roldan, he formed a psychedelic rock band called Republi-k, who went onto to play over 400 shows together, releasing two EPs and an album, and made appearances on television, radio and in magazines. Now releasing records under his own name, his talents as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer can be given free rein. He doesn’t disappoint.

“White Magika” is his third solo release (“Untitled Orange Book”, a seven track mini-album came out earlier in the year, and prior to that there was an EP release) and it provides a showcase for Gamez’ psychedelic approach to contemporary rock. He lists Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin as influences, though “White Magika” isn’t as spacey as the former, or as bombastic as the latter. It’s very much a song-based album with an emphasis on melodic structure. He’s a fine guitarist; on “A Fool's Spell” his precision is admirable and contrasts beautifully with the flyaway vocal. “Days of the Blood” applies an industrial sheen but not at the expense of emotion, and “Black Silhouettes” isn’t unlike second phase Cure jamming with Jane’s Addiction.
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She is the daughter of Slovakians Michal and Marianna Cmelik Tomko and has represented Slovakia for the past four years.

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During her time at university, she returned to her parent’s home country, which led to her representing Slovakia.

“Just for fun I tried out a tournament in Slovakia because my parents are Slovak and back in the day we used to go there skiing there. Since I started playing golf we never went back there. We went for fun to play the Slovak Amateur and I won. It was a very fun atmosphere I’ve never been around Slovak young people too much and I really liked the atmosphere. It was friendly and fun,” Tomko said.

“They proposed if I wanted to play for them, because they needed some representatives and I represented them for three or four years. They took me to the World Amateurs in Sydney in 2008 and to Argentina last year. I got a couple of wildcards and played the Allianz Ladies Slovak Open last year and this year so it was fun to play for Slovakia too. I won the Slovak Amateur three times, the international title and once I got Slovak citizenship too, the national three times.”

Tomko has resided primarily in Lontzen, Belgium, for 15 years, but spent time in the United States.

“I was 16 when I went to the Leadbetter Academy in Sarasota. The first year I really loved it and went back for the next year in 2005/2006 and played a bunch of junior events. I didn’t plan to go to college. I didn’t know anything about the system but went there to improve my English and golf. In the senior year of high school I got a couple of offers and UCF was the best: 100 per cent scholarship.

“I must say I went quite downhill in the States. I didn’t have a good coach and I lost it somewhat. After university I wasn’t sure since my golf wasn’t there but now I’m working with a new coach I’ve seen a lot of improvement and I know that I want to do this.

“When I came home in May 2010, I got a new coach near to Brussels, an English guy called Carl Ledbury, and it takes me one hour and 20 to drive to see him every week. I improved a lot under him.”

Tomko turned professional in March and added: “I’m playing all the LETAS events and hope to get in to a few LET events. I will prepare for LET Q-School in January. I want to play on the LET next year. I went last year but I wasn’t ready.

“This year that’s the goal: to be ready. I saw that you need to have a good caddie and be ready. It’s a war out there. The atmosphere is crazy.

“It’s difficult for me, since I’m not on Tour, to play events. This year I played Portugal and Slovakia and the two Access Series events. All summer I played one event: the Belgian Championship and I played very well. I was the best pro there.

“It’s hard to stay competitive. I played Terre Blanche and La Nivelle and made my first cut. It’s a good experience and my first year as a pro. Teeing off in Portugal and Slovakia I was really nervous and every tournament I feel more comfortable.”

She was inspired by watching Zuzana Kamasova make history as the first Slovakian winner on the LET when she won the Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco in March, with no full card on the LET.

“It was definitely an inspiration seeing her win because she has been trying for so many years. It really gave me a boost and showed that you have to keep trying and trying and some day it will click. I know her, but not too well since I live in Belgium.”

Aside from golf, Tomko’s hobbies include going to the gym and she said: “I am obsessed with fitness, good food. I used to run every single day but I started getting some issues with my hips and pelvis. I lift a lot too to get stronger and hit the ball better. I feel better about myself and enjoy working out.”

Her next appearance on the LETAS will be at the Murcia Ladies Open in November, before she heads back to La Manga Club in Spain for LET Qualifying School in January 2012.

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Saturday, 13 April 2013

What is a funeral for?

There's a good article here at The Catholic Herald prompted by Lady Thatcher's forthcoming obsequies. The author,  Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, is surely right in his view that funerals have become in recent years  tributes to the life of the deceased person to the greater or lesser exclusion of the proclamation of faith in the Resurrection.
Obviously, in some Anglican circles one runs very quickly into the ongoing reformation disputes over the efficacy and the validity of prayers for the dead; we won't resolve that issue, yet whatever one's tradition, the increasing absence of a 'God-centred' funeral liturgy is surely another sign of the Christian faith's fading influence on the lives of many, not only just 'occasional' worshippers but including some of  those who would number themselves as committed Christian believers. The work of catechesis is never ended, and some direct teaching on this subject from the pulpit is absolutely essential. Do we as clergy do enough to encourage the saying of funeral masses, for example? Do we promote in the parishes the work of  the Guild of All Souls?
It is possible, of course, to combine in a sensitive way both the need (from the perspective of bereaved families) for some kind of  public recognition of the lives of  those who have died with a clear proclamation of the hope that looks beyond death and judgement to eternal life. What worries me, is that all too often, we tend now to err on the side of  a mere recitation of the significant events of a past life rather than to offer needed prayers for the departed soul.  - Not only, then, 'what is a funeral for,' but for whom is it really meant?
"...The usual answer given is that a funeral is a ceremony (and this can cover non-religious funerals too) for the dignified disposal of the body of the deceased. It goes further: a funeral is an occasion to mark the end of a life, allowing for reflection and thought. After all, death is a major event in all our lives, or ought to be. For a Christian, a funeral would be a moment for prayer, and for a Catholic, a moment of prayer for the repose of the deceased’s soul.
What bewilders me about modern funerals is the concept of “paying one’s respects”. I know what this means, but I simply do not understand it. Allied to this is the idea of making a funeral into “the celebration of the life of X”. Again, I am at a loss to understand this. When I die, as die I must, I do not want my life celebrated, and I want no eulogies; I just want prayer, and more prayer. Neither do I want people to pay their respects – at least not to me; I would like them to show respect for God, however, by behaving properly in church.
In fact a funeral should be, horrid phrase, God-centred, just like any other act of worship. A non-religious funeral can hardly be that, but if it is to be existentially meaningful it should, to my mind, involve a deep long look into the abyss of nothingness that is death: it should honestly face up to the reality of personal extinction, if that is what the non-religious believe. It should not resemble an episode of ‘This is Your Life”..."

  1. I have made provision for my funeral to be a Requiem Mass with as much music and as many of my favourite hymns as possible – and for there to be no homily, address or eulogy of any sort. Through the Mass they should either be rejoicing with me in heaven or offering the Mass for my poor tortured soul.

    I fully intend to return if these provisions are not honoured…

    1. A very Anglican response! What's the point of offering a Requiem Mass for a soul already in heaven? Or one already in hell? One is not needed, the other useless.

  2. I chose my provision carefully, and also the words of my response.

    If I am already in heaven, through the Mass (I did not at that point use the word ‘offer’) they will be rejoicing with me. If my soul is tortured in Purgatory with the vision I cannot yet attain, they will be able to offer the Mass for my soul.

    That seems to me to be a Catholic response in every sense…

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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Not so much a recipe, just sharing this steel head picture with you, maybe bragging a little too. It is a record breaking season for steel head numbers this year, it's even making the news. I talked to a river biologist and he says there was good ocean conditions and the heat wave pushed all the fish to the cooler rivers. But it is so delicious, and we have one for the freezer. It just came out of the oven, and Tallu is scarfing it down as I write. This is half of the fish, I put fresh thyme and green onions from the garden and garlic and lemons. And it is very very tasty.

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Jaime said...

Nice catch o' the day! You can really see what a large marger the fish is with the lemons laying on top...and of course it looks delish!


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Friday, September 6, 2013

The Influence of Professors

The most interesting article I read this week (and the best headline) was "Majoring in a Professor."  It was the report of a forthcoming book from Harvard University Press titled How College Works.

Sociology research on how students choose a major concluded that professors are very important and that the first professor you encounter in a degree program may be the most important.

"Faculty determine students' taste for academic fields by acting as gatekeepers, either by welcoming them into an area of knowledge, encouraging and inspiring them to explore it, or by raising the costs of entry so high so as to effectively prohibit continuing in it," authors Christopher Takacs and Daniel Chambliss write.

This affirms my experience.  Dr. James Cagley may not have been my very first business school professor, but I encountered him early in my studies.  A former advertising executive and University of Minnesota Ph.D., his passion for the discipline changed me, stirring something within me that I didn't know was there.  More than three decades later, I am still excited by the same psychological, sociological  and economic theories of business that inspired him.

LeTourneau faculty are the most influential people on our campus.  As I write, they are changing eternity for our students by the way they inspire, encourage, and direct.  When they have a bad day, our students have a bad day.  But when our best faculty are at their best, living an energized passion for their field of study and the God who is Lord of that discipline, our students are transformed; perhaps even redeemed.


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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Leveling - Can We Get Rid of It?

I just got through listening to the “Shut Up. We’re Talking” podcast, hosted by Darren from the Common Sense Gamer. In the latest show, the podcasters bring up some interesting concepts about flawed game mechanics in MMOs.

Their discussion delved into pre level cap gameplay and post level cap gameplay, and how games change drastically after achieving player caps. Some players seem to live for grinding, questing and progressing in levels while others only begin to have fun after hitting their maximum level.

The problem a lot of players face during pre level cap gaming is that it can be very difficult to find PUGs (pick up groups) to play with. A difference of ten levels often means the complete lack in usefulness of the lower level character. Thus, if you cannot find a group of equally leveled players you may be stuck soloing your quests. Even if you're really good at the game, your talent is often considered secondary to your character level.

To make matters worse, games are so easy these days any idiot can progress to the higher levels. This allows a level forty player to utterly destroy a level thirty player during combat even if the level thirty is more talented. Levels, currently, only resemble the amount of time one has been playing a game and do not in any way guarantee player skill.

The only solution to this problem, that I can see, is to drastically reduce the bonuses of leveling up. Eve Online has come fairly close to accomplishing this. Skills in Eve do help to improve combat effectiveness, but it doesn’t mean that someone with eighty million skill points will always win against someone with six million skill points. Talent and strategy are still the biggest determining factors in when it comes to winning battles.

I now find myself asking the question “is it possible to design a fantasy MMORPG where a level one warrior can defeat a level sixty warrior, and still be a successful title?” The traditional level up system has become so engrained in our idea of what makes an MMORPG that I fear we may not be able to brush it off so easily. It also provides a great medium for addictive gameplay which developers are not going to toss out unless they have something else to replace it.

I think one way of solving this is, letting players level up in a way that opens up more styles of gameplay rather than just making them flatout tougher. I find that this feature appears in games like Call of Duty 4 and Planetside. In my very first multiplayer match of Call of Duty 4, I was able to place first with a level one character because of my skill with first person shooters. This was extremely rewarding, however, when I faced off against more skilled opponents I quickly became aware that some of the perks I could achieve through the leveling system would introduce valuable methods for outsmarting my opponents.

I think, if developers were to enable a similar leveling system in MMORPGs, they could still retain the addictiveness of a leveling system and at the same time allow low level characters to play a valuable role in all situations.

  1. CCP's Dust is a fine contender, if you want to see what an unusual approach can do to a now somewhat common gamemechanic. Double interesting is how it will tie into it's counterpart Eve.
    currently a lvl 1 should not be able to kill a lvl 20/30/80/xx. It's just out of reach. However considdering if you could in fact add a scaling balance that favours this somewhat more (less resistence/miss/recieved crits) a good underdog can become a victor. It's a philosofy that the desingers choose and stick with.
    Eve's designers chose a slightly different approach and they hold a fairly large playerbase that appreciate the systems. You can evolve into bigger ships and die because you flew something you were not ready for. You can specialize in one type and lay waste to pilots with allot more experience even if you are not that long in the game yet.

  2. The one advantage of a level system as opposed to the Eve system is that the truth of any system is simply that 50% of everyone is below average. This essentially means that system designed around player skill only or twitch will eliminate at least 1/2 if not more from experiencing a victory condition in your game of choice. Eve is a great game and so are many of the FPS shooters that produce very high levels of competition but a significant number of people willing to spend their cash simply won't achieve in those settings. Level systems have the advantage of providing players at different ability points the oppurtunity to either compete or cooperate in an enviroment where the differences in skill or natural ability are reduced.

  3. Definitely one of the strengths of Eve ... leveling is not necessarily better, but rather you are allowed to do MORE.

    Requires depth however.

    I imagine that's what they'll do with DUST 514 as well ... won't be as much making the RAMBO death warrior level, but rather, what your career military footsoldier will be able to accomplish over time.

    I agree that just becoming more powerful over time gets rather stale.