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A Three-Year Mirage
Posted in Feature on April 18, 2003
By Bill Rose, head of Research & Development
To talk about the Mirage set we need to go back to Magic's beginning. In 1991, Richard Garfield had a large group of gamers at the University of Pennsylvania playtesting his new game concept – Magic: The Gathering. Richard would print cards every couple months and give each playtester about 60 cards. We traded, played some cross between Constructed and Sealed Deck, suggested changes to Richard, and designed our own Magic cards. Richard would listen to our suggestions, watch us play, then make changes to his card set and give us new decks to play with. This continued for over a year, then Alpha playtesting stopped and Magic's first set was sent to the printer. The ending of the Alpha playtest didn't end the playtesters' addiction to Magic, but there were no more new Magic cards. One group of playtesters – Charlie Catino, Joel Mick, Howard Kahlenberg, Don Felice, Elliott Segal, and your author – continued to play by printing our own card set, which was a combination of Alpha and our own ideas. We called the set "the Menagerie," which would later be named Mirage.
In 1993, ideas about what Magic would become seem inconceivable now. It was believed most people wouldn't see all the rare cards. That's the way Alpha playtesting worked. If you didn't play games against a particular playtester, you wouldn't see his rare cards. You would only hear stories about great power or weirdness. It was also believed Alpha would eventually be retired and completely replaced by other sets. The first replacement set was to be Ice Age and the second, Mirage.
Some early Mirage playtest cards.
Mirage wasn't "designed" as much as it evolved. Mirage started as primarily a copy of Alpha with changes the Mirage designers wanted to see made to Alpha cards plus some new card ideas of our own. Mirage started as what the designers thought Alpha should have been. Back before Alpha was released I knew Ancestral Recall was too strong, and so Mirage would have a correctly costed Ancestral Recall. (I also thought the circle of protection red were too strong and Balance was just fine, but I prefer not to remember that part.)
Over time, Mirage continued to evolve and gained its own identity, although I'm not sure when the exact turning point was. Today's sets are designed in a couple months. Mirage was designed at a more leisurely pace – three years, from Winter 1992 through Fall 1995. Mirage was in design longer than any other set in Magic's history.
From the beginning, Mirage was built with Limited as the primary play pattern. We drafted often and many changes were made to improve Sealed Deck. Mirage went through a number of design experiments. The one I remember most is the 3/3 experiment. We made "Hill Giants" available at common in all colors. Everyone had an army of big men. That experiment only lasted a week.
As Mirage grew from Alpha, we added flanking and phasing as the two primary new mechanics. We also incorporated ideas that circled among the Alpha playtesters – Kaervek's Purge, Dazzling Beauty, and Tombstone Stairwell. Twists were added to core cards to make Mirage different from Alpha. By this stage in Mirage design, it was clear Alpha wasn't going away. We had to start thinking of Mirage as an expansion to Magic rather than a replacement for all previous sets.
More early Mirage playtest cards.
The Mechanics
Flanking was Mirage's first major departure from Alpha. The design team had a goal to make three-mana 2/2 creatures playable. The consensus among the original playtesters was that 2/2 creatures for three mana are among the worst cards in Magic. We had Pearled Unicorn, Scathe Zombies, and Grey Ogre copies in an early version of Mirage and were not inspired by their presence. With the addition of flanking, Mirage's 2/2 creatures instantly went from bad to good. As an homage to all the original bad 2/2 creatures, Mirage had a three-mana 2/2 artifact creature with no abilities called "Horrible Hordes." (At one point, we also had a 2/2 artifact creature with no abilities for four mana called "Really Horrible Hordes.") In the end, the development team couldn't stomach making the designer's version of Horrible Hordes, so they added "rampage 1."
My Favorites from Mirage
Before writing this article, I looked through my Mirage card collection. It was fun seeing old favorites again. My all-time favorite Mirage card must be Polymorph, as I love the gamble. Celestial Dawn is another favorite. At heart, I'm basically a Timmy. I play more colors than I should because I love to play the good stuff. Celestial Dawn was designed to let you play all colors without color screw. I also enjoy the "Feral Shadow, Breathstealer, and Urborg Panther become Spirit of the Night" combo. I love the flavor of Infernal Contract. One of the Mirage developers first thought Infernal Contract was the most broken card in Mirage. Now whenever I design a set, I try to put in a spell that costs half your life. I'm proud of Kaervek's Torch. I like keeping blue's countering under control. And Unyaro Bee Sting also caught my attention when I looked through Mirage. When designed it, I didn't think much of the card. Little did I know Unyaro Bee Sting would be the subject of numerous heated debates in R&D. For the record, I still think Unyaro Bee Sting is a fine card for green to have.
– Bill Rose
Phasing was Mirage's second new named mechanic. Phasing didn't turn out as well as I had originally envisioned. Give me a time machine and I'd buy Microsoft stock cheap and eliminate phasing. The concept of phasing worked when playing with Alpha cards… well, worked as well as Word of Command did. In the early days of Magic, designers relied on players playing the cards with intuition, which led to abominations like phasing and Fifth Edition rules. Mirage's expansion set – Visions – made creatures with comes-into-play abilities popular and exposed the fatal flaw in phasing. In retrospect, I still like the intent of phasing. Would you rather have a 3/3 creature every turn or a 5/5 every other turn? It's an interesting choice.
In October 1995, Mirage left design and was sent to Wizards of the Coast for development. I left Philadelphia and went to Wizards with Mirage. Mirage was a first in many ways. It was a first for me as a designer. The Mirage block was the first real Magic block. (I don't count the retrofitted Ice Age – Homelands – Alliances block, which was never intended to be a block.) Mirage was also the first set to have its creative direction headed by someone other than the designers.
For all the early sets, designers named cards and wrote flavor text. One rule we were told was no anagrams, which means no names that are just mixed-up versions of other words. The editors hated anagrams. So what did we do? We anagrammed "anagram" when creating the story's main character, Mangara's Blessing. Other such silliness followed. One of the designers loved the football player William "The Refrigerator" Perry and suggested we each take a nickname after a household appliance. He was immediately dubbed "Mr. Toilet," after which none of the other designers took a nickname. Then we anagrammed Mr. Toilet to get Telim'Tor. In the end, almost all the cards were renamed, and for the better. We've had professional namers every since.
As for the overall look and feel of the set… Mirage was not designed with an African theme in mind. The set was designed to play Magic and the set's flavor wasn't given much thought during design. I always assumed Mirage would be classic fantasy like Alpha was. At the time I arrived at Wizards, a new director was appointed to Magic – Sue Ann Harkey. Sue Ann asked me if I had any plans for Mirage's setting. I told Sue Ann to create whatever setting she wanted. Sue Ann chose an African jungle setting, and she did a great job. Mirage stands apart of the rest of Magic with its own look and feel. I've always loved that.
As I designer I've been involved in every set beginning with Mirage – 26 sets total, including Unglued and yet to be published sets. Current Magic designs are superior to early creations like Mirage. But Mirage remains one of my favorite sets.
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Die Burg wurde auf einem steilen Felsen in der Falkenfluh erbaut.
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Geschichte
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After submitting his name for the NBA draft, Demetri McCamey anxiously is waiting to learn if he will secure any workouts with teams with the NCAA deadline looming. Thursday is the first day teams can make invitations and run players through a workout session.
Illinois guard Demetri McCamey hopes the phone rings Thursday.
After submitting his name for the NBA draft, McCamey anxiously is waiting to learn if he will secure any workouts with teams with the NCAA deadline looming. Thursday is the first day teams can make invitations and run players through a workout session.
Guys like McCamey have until May 8 to pull their names from consideration and retain NCAA eligibility. McCamey, a first-team all-Big Ten pick last season, would be a senior next season.
The NBA and NCAA calendars aren't matching up this year after the NCAA deadline moved up from mid-June to early May. The NBA's deadline to pull a name from consideration is June 14, but that's too late if a player wants to retain college eligibility.
Half of the NBA teams responded to an ESPN poll, and only Portland said it would hold a workout during the window that begins Thursday and runs through May 8. The timing might help college coaches but does little for aspiring NBA players.
Players can't skip class for the workouts, but McCamey's final class is Friday. His only semester final is May 4.
The NBA advisory committee rated McCamey as a prospect who could go somewhere in the second round, coach Bruce Weber said. Second-round picks aren't guaranteed money, and McCamey showed little interest Wednesday with the possibility of a second-round slot.
Weber called about 15 NBA teams seeking analysis on McCamey, but NBA teams haven't shown much enthusiasm for the workouts.
"Right now, it doesn't look like a lot of guys are going to get workouts,'' Weber said. "When I talked to the NBA office, their whole thing is the advisory committee. That's what it's for. They watched them all year, numerous games and practices. That's where they want the kids to make a decision. It's not a two-hour workout.
Illinois forward Mike Davis, who also submitted his name, is a long shot to get an NBA workout.
LEONARD INJURY: Robinson senior center Meyers Leonard, one of three incoming recruits, suffered a stress fracture in his left foot and will wear a boot until mid-May but won't require surgery, Weber said. Leonard attended the workout session Wednesday and met with the Illinois medical staff.
The injury occurred during the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, and Leonard hoped to return for the USA Basketball tryouts for the under-18 national team. Waukegan's Jereme Richmond, who also signed with Illinois, and Illini commitment Tracy Abrams from Chicago Mount Carmel were also invited to the tryout.
Leonard made a big impression during the Hoop Summit.


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What do you see when you look at this picture? I see a big garden full of vegetables that will help feed us for the next year. Yes there is a foot of snow…and then there is a lawn…but under all of that there is potential! Who wants to see what this is going to become?
We bought this house last November-2 weeks before the snow came and didn't leave. I don't even remember what the lawn looks like, but I know what it is going to look like. I have it all in my head and on Pinterest.
We are going to start tearing up the lawn in the lower area from this corner and just keep going from there as we see fit and have the energy to do so. I also hope to do some vertical gardening up the fences.
This adorable little troublemaker will eat anything he can get his teeth on and his brother isn't much better. Starting seeds in the house just is not an option.
We did buy some seeds that I think will be fine to just plant directly as long as we do it soon. So far we have parsley and buttercrunch lettuce (because they were on sale for 9 cents each), peas for my husband, and black beans because I was inspired by this post about growing, harvesting, and canning black beans.
For the rest of the garden, we will probably buy plants (at least for this year). We will certainly get several kind of tomatoes, peppers and squash. It kind of depend on what inspires us at planting time.
Our house in on 3/4 acre, so the yard is pretty good sized for a lot in the suburbs. This is the other side of the back yard. I am threatening to do something unusual here. I am thinking about training kiwis up the fence and/or planting pumpkins and letting them take over the yard. Maybe I will come up with something even more creative. What will happen? You will just have to stay tuned and see!
That was our situation last year and I am chomping at the bit to get started this year, assuming it ever gets warm enough. As for the picture, we always vacation near or above there. I love it up north and would much rather be a Yooper.


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Trouble at Biffer Towers?
June 28, 2015 June 28, 2015 EBFBlogger Adrian Riley, Amanda Slatter, Britain First, Demo, Jayda Fransen, Paul Golding, Steve Lewis
Hubby and I went down to Luton yesterday. We wanted to see for ourselves. And saw we did. We didn't see the 'No more mosques' banner though. That won't be anything to do with the High Court threatening Golding and Fransen with prison if they displayed it. Golding isn't really Folding is he? NFSE, and all that!
We saw about 100 Biffers. That's about 5% of the 2,000 Folding and Dutchy had promised and much less than 1% of their alleged Facebook support.
We couldn't hear very much from where we were. There was just too much noise from the anti-Biffer end but having since seen a couple of videos of the speeches it doesn't seem like we missed much. There was certainly nothing scary about this bunch of sad Nazis. Actually I was a bit disappointed when the Police diverted their return route to prevent them from coming past our group of antis. I would have liked to get a closer look at them. That should give you an idea about how formidable they weren't.
What we did hear was interesting. But I need to be honest – it's not necessarily reliable. It's rumour but I got the impression that some of the people who seemed to believe these rumours were quite reliable in themselves.
One that I'm relatively confident about is the rumour that there's some sort of coup in the offing with Steve Lewis and Amanda Slatter looking to depose Folding and Dutchy after their humiliation in the High Court. Apparently, according to the gossip in the anti-Biffer camp, this has been planned for a few weeks but Friday's court judgement imposed limitations that are seen to be the final straw. They couldn't even chant their usual abuse as they marched yesterday for fear of Dutchy and Folding going to prison. For all their bravado the Biffers have just been dealt a massive blow by the High Court and they know it. NFSE, EH? Do me a favour! Golding and Fransen are falling over each other to surrender and the rest of the Biffer bosses know it.
In fairness I'd come across the Steve Lewis power bid idea before. It's been known about by the EBF team since way before I joined. But I'd be surprised if Amanda Slatter thinks she can go up against the throne like that. Queen Dutchy seems more than able to chew her up and spit her out. But be that as it may, several people have suggested that they're trying to position themselves for power and this may explain why Slattery has shifted her affections from Adrian Riley to Steve Lewis. My thanks to Bin-Bagged for providing this picture, by the way. What was that about a thousand words? Perhaps Slattery Mandy thinks that Lewis can keep her safe from the wrath of the current deputy Fuhrer. We wouldn't bet on that Mandy.
The other rumour I heard (and it seems to go hand in hand with the first) is that there's some sort of issue between Riley and Lewis, complete with back-stabbing as each scheme to remove their rival for Slatter's affections.
I must stress that I have no proof of either of these but it'll be worth watching to see if one or both of them comes true in the future. We know that lots of people are keeping an eye on matters in the Biffer camp (we have a couple of plants ourselves) so if any of you hear anything relevant please let us know. The easiest way is through the EBF Facebook page. Just message us there.
There's just one other juicy little titbit that Lottie overheard. She lives in Luton and so she gets to hear conversations in the street during unguarded moments when the fash think the antis have all gone home. Apparently this morning she overheard two Luton locals (possibly EDL) talking about how cosily Folding Golding (yes – they actually used my original nickname for him) seems to get on with the police.
What's going on there, I wonder?
Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
June 24, 2015 June 24, 2015 EBFBlogger Adrian Riley, Amanda Slatter, Britain First, Fascist, Jayda Fransen, Jim Dowson, Paul Golding	Britain first, cronies, facism, fascist, nepotism
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders."
Britt's thirteenth characteristic of fascism is cronyism and corruption. Britain First is rife with both. Their misuse of money obtained under false pretences (including fraudulently collecting in the guise of charity work) is well known. The way they misuse other peoples' copyrights and get their supporters to pay repeatedly for the same things are just too obvious to ignore.
It's clear to even the most casual observer that Britain First isn't at all concerned about fair dealing with anyone. They regularly take money from supporters for branded merchandise that never arrives. Their reputation for double-dealing is so poor that PayPal refused to work with them anymore.
The story is just as interesting when it comes to cronyism. Their leadership is little more than an old boys network (except that Dutchy's a girl).
Founded by Dowson and Folding (latterly of the BNP), the deputy leader, Dutchy Fransen was an old mate of Fuhrer Folding from his EDL days. Yes, we know it's hard to believe but Jayda used to be an 'angel'.
The unholy trio at the top were all mates to start with. Then there are the RCOs. Broomfield (the Biffers' resident convicted paedophile) has been a mate of Dutchy for a while and Adrian Riley was also EDL at the same time as the Fuhrer. So was RCO Biffer Amanda Slatter (the asthmatic chain smoker).
What we see here is a rogues gallery of mates and mates-of-mates in charge of a group of gullible fascist 'footsoldiers' commanded (if that's the right word) by people whose only qualification for the job is racism and an old boys' network of far right wannabes.
It doesn't exactly inspire confidence, does it?
Based on the article 'The 14 characteristics of Fascism' by Lawrence Britt

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SEC Zeroes in on Investment Adviser Compensation Conflicts
By: Lilian MorvayNovember 25, 2019
On October 18th, 2019, more than a year after the launch of the SEC Share Class Disclosure Initiative and targeted enforcement activity, the SEC Division of Investment Management issued information clarifying conflicts of interest raised by different types of investment adviser compensation. In a new set of FAQs, SEC staff reviewed general conflicts of interest disclosure requirements and offered insight on the "material facts" that need to be disclosed concerning mutual fund share classes and an adviser's receipt of revenue-sharing payments. Here's a closer look.
In a recent regulatory alert, we highlighted recent actions targeting investment advisers by the SEC Enforcement Division. The noted actions were aimed at potential conflicts of interest that arose from revenue-sharing payments and other forms of representative compensation or cost offsets. In general, the actions test whether investment advisers are adequately disclosing potential conflicts of interest consistent with the fiduciary obligations owed to their clients.
These enforcement efforts follow on the heels of the Share Class Disclosure Initiative, an undertaking intended to encourage firms to self-report past violations relating to certain mutual fund share class selection conflicts, and to promptly return money to harmed clients. As Bates has cautioned, the enforcement activity sends firms a strong message to make sure that disclosure concerning revenue-sharing arrangements and other forms of compensation are consistent with SEC interpretations.
The new FAQs cover (i) general compensation disclosure obligations for investment advisers related to recommended investments, (ii) "material facts" that advisers should disclose concerning mutual fund share classes," and (iii) disclosure requirements related to an adviser's receipt of revenue-sharing payments. The FAQs also make clear that any amendments to share class or revenue-sharing arrangements made in annual updates are required to be highlighted on Form ADV.
General Compensation Disclosure
The FAQs restate the overarching principles that advisers must disclose financial incentives when recommending investments that are tied to compensation, and that the nature of the compensation affects the disclosure. Staff noted that conflicts are "especially pronounced" when certain share classes of the same funds that do not bear these fees are available.
The FAQs also describe more detailed disclosure obligations required under Form ADV, including the provision of "sufficiently specific facts" to enable clients to give informed consent. This includes "'information not specifically required by' the Form or more detail than the Form otherwise requires."
Importantly, staff made clear (i) that merely reporting that the adviser "may" have a conflict is not adequate disclosure "if the conflict actually exists," and (ii) that "an adviser should consider these disclosure obligations with respect to both recommendations to purchase and recommendations to continue holding an investment."
Material Facts on Mutual Fund Share Classes
According to SEC staff, when recommending a mutual fund share class which is tied directly or indirectly to compensation, material facts include the existence and effect of different financial incentives that may lead to conflicts (e.g. those arising from shared incentives between the adviser and a clearing broker, various limitations on share class transactions within a fund, or adviser practices concerning transactions after the initial recommendations). It is also material to disclose how the adviser addresses the conflict, (e.g. on practices related to differences between share classes with different compensation structures for 12b-1 and transaction fees; or whether the adviser "has a practice of offsetting or rebating some or all of the additional costs to which a client is subject.") The FAQs make clear that these examples are not comprehensive but rather should serve the broader message that all compensation arrangements are on the table.
Material Facts on Revenue-Sharing Payments
An investment adviser is required to disclose any arrangement they may have with anyone who provides an economic benefit for providing investment advice or other advisory services for clients. Under Form ADV, the adviser is obligated to "describe the arrangement, explain the conflicts of interest, and describe how it addresses the conflicts of interest." The FAQs highlight examples of arrangements in which there are financial incentives provided to the adviser or shared between the adviser and clearing brokers, custodians, funds' advisers or other service providers. SEC staff warns that such disclosures "should be concise and in plain English."
BATES EXPERTS REFLECT
While the FAQs state explicitly that the interpretations provided do not alter or amend applicable law nor create any new or additional obligations for advisers, the SEC is clearly sending a message that the agency will continue its focus on disclosure and adviser compensation.
Bates Group Securities Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement Managing Director Alex Russell highlights several aspects of the new FAQs. He notes the SEC staff's expansive view of adviser compensation (e.g. to include areas where a firm saved costs as well as earned fees) and the application of these staff interpretations to investments more broadly. He points out staff's expectation as to the ongoing nature of the disclosure obligation "beyond point of sale," underscoring the FAQ warning that "an adviser should consider these disclosure obligations with respect to both recommendations to purchase and recommendations to continue holding an investment."
Bates Group Managing Director of Compliance Robert Lavigne urges firms to work on the language of their disclosures to ensure not only that they are "concise, direct, appropriate to the level of financial sophistication of the adviser's clients and written in plain English," but that they also be explicit and specific (hence, the admonition against the use of the word "may" when a conflict of interests exists). Getting this right will require a deep dive into advisers' policies and practices as firms can no longer rely on longer disclosures or references to "potential conflicts" to withstand examination or enforcement scrutiny.


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10 Fun Facts You Didn't Know About London Underground's Past – and Its Future
Charlotte Luxford
Architecture & Design Editor
London Transport Museum has launched two new exhibitions, Digging Deeper and The Secret Life of a Megaproject, which delve into the fascinating history of London's incredible Underground network and offers a peek behind-the-scenes at the latest Crossrail project due to be completed by the end of 2018. Here's what we learned from the shows…
1 Marc Isambard Brunel created the first-ever underwater tunnel
Ever gone on the Tube and wondered how the Underground tunnels were actually built without collapsing? Well it was the genius idea of Anglo-French engineer Marc Isambard Brunel to create a tunnelling shield (a circular temporary support structure), which was used to build the Thames Tunnel in 1843 – the first tunnel in the world to be constructed underneath a river. Once completed, the tunnel was dubbed the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' and a million Victorians flocked to see it. It was Brunel's shield concept that paved the way quite literally for the Tube network in the future. Now, his famous Thames Tunnel has been unblocked after being abandoned for around 150 years and has been transformed into part of The Brunel Museum.
A lithograph of the Thames Tunnel
Library of Congress/Wikicommons
(Another fun fact: Brunel didn't always pull off his projects – he ended up in a debtors prison in Southwark for 88 days. It was only once he'd been communicating with Alexander I about coming to work for the Tsar instead that the British government intervened, not wanting to lose one of the country's greatest engineers to the Russians.)
2 The world's first-ever tube tunnel was built in 1870
It was called the Tower Subway, which was built with the aid of a machine designed by James Henry Greathead. Just like the Thames Tunnel, the Tower Subway was a commercial failure, but lead to the Greathead Shield, which dug the first electric railway in 1890. Subsequently, similar machines were used for the entire central London tube network over the preceding 50 years.
The giant audio-visual tunnel projection in the Digging Deeper exhibition in London Transport Museum
© London Transport Museum
3 Eight giant tunnel boring machines burrowed beneath London to create 42km of tunnels for the new Crossrail
The tunnelling machines have got a bit more high-tech since Brunel's day – the latest tunnel boring machines weigh 1,000 tonnes and 20-person 'tunnel gangs' have been working together around the clock to average around 100 metres of tunnelling a week. More than 200,000 tunnel segments were used to line to the 42km of tunnels for the new Elizabeth Line.
The tunnel boring machines used for the Crossrail project that have evolved since Brunel's first shield concept
© Crossrail
4 All sorts of artefacts were unearthed during the Crossrail excavation
From the jawbone of a medieval mouse to the left leg of a Roman horse, there were plenty of human and animal bones turned up during Crossrail's excavation, including plague victims discovered under a road near Charterhouse Square in Farringdon dating back to the 14th century.
Mass burial uncovered at the Crossrail Liverpool Street site
5 More than 3 million tonnes of excavated material is being used for a nature reserve
A new 1,500-acre RSPB nature reserve called the Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project is being created in Essex out of the 3 million tonnes of excavated earth from the tunnels. The new saltmarsh, lagoons and mudflats, known as Jubilee Marsh, has been made by raising the land above sea level in order to create a wildlife-rich environment for birds. It's the perfect place to brush up on your bird-watching skills – look out for marsh harriers and short-eared owls.
Wallsea Island Nature Reserve in Essex
6 There are 10 new Elizabeth Line stations being built as part of the Crossrail project
The brand-new stations include central locations Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Paddington and Farringdon, as well as Liverpool Street, Whitechapel, Canary Wharf, Custom House, Woolwich and Abbey Wood. Of all the stations, Farringdon will become Britain's busiest, with 140 trains per hour passing through the station – a sevenfold increase in commuters. The entire line will stretch more than 60 miles from the east, including Shenfield and Abbey Wood, all the way to Reading and Heathrow in the west.
Paddington Station's proposed ticket hall
7 A unique piece of artwork has been commissioned for each of the new Elizabeth Line stations
The Secret Life of a Megaproject reveals some of the new artworks that have been created specifically for Crossrail, including one of the largest artworks ever to be produced in London. A Cloud Index by acclaimed artist Spencer Finch consists of 60 hand-drawn panels to create a collage of clouds, installed into the roof of Paddington station. In addition, it's just been announced that Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama will be designing her first permanent UK installation for Liverpool Street's Elizabeth line station at Broadgate, while a bronze sculpture by British artist Conrad Shawcross will be erected outside of Moorgate station. In fact, all of the artists' works can be seen in a new exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery called Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth line, which runs until May 6 2018.
Digital rendering of Infinite Accumulation by Yayoi Kusama
© Yayoi Kusama, courtesy Ota Fine Arts
8 The 500 Elizabeth Line roundels are made by craftsmen on the Isle of Wight
Working in collaboration with Exeter's Wood & Wood, which has created signs for the likes of John Lewis and the BBC, a relatively small company in the Isle of Wight called A. J. Wells & Sons Ltd has been working on creating the 500 new Elizabeth Line roundels that will sit alongside the iconic red and blue Edward Johnston design. The very first roundel was designed as far back as 110 years ago, but it wasn't until 1972 that it became the officially recognised symbol of the London Underground.
The new Elizabeth Line roundel on display in The Secret Life of a Megaproject exhibition
9 Faster services mean 1.5 million more people will live within a 45-minute commute of the city
The new line will increase central London's rail capacity by an impressive 10%, with many commuters being able to get to work much quicker. The journey time from Heathrow airport to Liverpool Street will fall from just under an hour to 34 minutes, while a trip from Paddington to Liverpool Street will take just 10 minutes, as opposed to the 23 minutes it takes at the moment.
Display of the Crossrail route from Secret Life of a Megaproject
10 More than 90,000 new homes will be created by 2021 off the back of the Crossrail project
Those already living in London around the 41 stations along the Elizabeth Line are also reaping the benefits – the 'Crossrail Bump' means house prices have gone up dramatically, with prices around stations such as West Ealing and Forest Gate increasing by as much as 40% since work began on the line in 2009. In 2012, a study commissioned by Crossrail stated that house prices around new stations were predicted to rise 25% more than the average price rise in central London by 2021.
Architect's impression image of Woolwich's Crossrail station with adjoining new homes
Find out more about London Transport Museum's new permanent exhibition, Digging Deeper, here, and its temporary exhibition, The Secret Life of a Megaproject, here. Both exhibitions open on March 23 2018 at London Transport Museum, 39 Wellington Street, London WC2E 7BB. The nearest tube station is Covent Garden.


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Dinner at Molly's Reach was fine, but we didn't see any of the "Beachcombers" hanging out. Thanks to Karen & Mike for the nice scenic run up to Pender Harbour through some of the West Coast rain forest. The weather was fabulous for both ferry sailings, which gave us time to relax and stretch out.
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DFU SONG: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Johnny Chung had to get 50 grand to Maggie Williams)
DFU News of the Day in Song ^ | 2-11-08 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland
Posted on 02/11/2008 2:52:17 PM PST by doug from upland
MIDI - FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chung; hillary; hillaryscandals; johnnychung; maggiewilliams; vincefoster; whitewater
1 posted on 02/11/2008 2:52:35 PM PST by doug from upland
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Vince Foster was not only deputy White House counsel but also the personal attorney to Bill and Hillary Clinton. On the night of Foster's death, top Clinton aides made a frantic effort to enter and remove documents from his West Wing office. In the days that followed, federal investigators were stymied in their investigation of Foster's office and strange death.
The following happened within weeks of his death. Vince Foster finally files the missing Whitewater tax returns. On July 19, FBI director William Sessions is fired. Clinton personally orders him by phone to turn in his FBI property and leave headquarters.
That evening, Clinton security aide Jerry Parks' wife Jane says she overhears a heated telephone conversation with Vince Foster in which her husband says, "You can't give Hillary those files, they've got my name all over them."
On July 20, Clinton names Louis Freeh as Sessions' successor.
That same day, the FBI raids David Hale's Little Rock office and seizes documents including those relating to Capital-Management.
Just hours after the search warrant authorizing the raid is signed by a federal magistrate in Little Rock, Vince Foster apparently drives to Ft. Marcy Park.
Foster was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound to the head in Ft. Marcy Park. His unoccupied car, a 1989 Honda, was found in the park's parking lot. Several witnesses - before and after the arrival of the park police - have claimed they saw a briefcase in Foster's car.
A so-called suicide note was found in an office briefcase that had been searched and found to be empty after Foster's death. The note was torn into 27 pieces. Yet an FBI examination found no trace of Foster's fingerprints on the note and three independent handwriting experts determined that Foster's suicide note, was a forgery.
The Raid of Vince Foster's Office
While the U.S. Park Police studied the body, Foster's office at the White House was being looted.
Secret Service agent Henry O' Neill watched as Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, carried boxes of papers out of Vincent Foster's office before the Park Police showed up to seal it, yet the official identification of Vincent Foster's body by Craig Livingstone did not take place until 10PM!
Another Secret Serviceman saw Craig Livingston remove items from Vincent Foster's office in violation of the official seal. Witnesses also saw Bernard Nussbaum in Foster's office as well. Three witnesses noted that Patsy Thomason, director of the White House's Office of Administration, was desperate to find the combination to Vincent Foster's safe. Ms. Thomason finally opened the safe, apparently with the help of a special "MIG" technical team signed into the White House in the late hours. Two envelopes reported to be in the safe by Foster's secretary Deborah Gorham, addressed to Janet Reno and to William Kennedy III, were never seen again. When asked the next day regarding rumors of the safe opening, Mack McLarty told reporters Foster's office did not even have a safe, a claim immediately shot down by former occupants of that office.
The next day, when the Park Police arrived for the official search of Vincent Foster's office, they were shocked to learn that Nussbaum, Thomason and Williams had entered the office. Conflicts channeled through Janet Reno's Department of Justice resulted in the Park Police merely sitting outside Foster's office while Bernard Nussbaum continued his own search of Foster's office. During this search, he opened and upended Vincent Foster's briefcase, showing it to be empty. Three days later, it would be claimed that this same briefcase was where the torn up suicide note was discovered.
The boxes of documents removed from Foster's office by Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, were taken to the private residence area of the White House! Eventually, only 54 pages emerged.
One set of billing records, under subpoena for two years, and thought to have originated in Foster's office, turned up unexpectedly in the private quarters of the White House, with Hillary's fingerprints on them.
So, who ordered the office looting?
Bill Clinton was unavailable, being on camera with Larry King. But Hillary Clinton, who had only the day before diverted her planned return to Washington D.C. to Little Rock, was on the phone from Little Rock to someone at the White House in the moments before the looting took place.
The death of Vince Foster is very unsettling. There is an amazing amount of inconsistent information surrounding his death, the investigation and the autopsy. And, of course, his close relationship with Hillary was intriguing. Many books have claimed that the two were lovers for several years.
To date, several unanswered questions still remain. What did the White House know and when did they know it? Another question: If Foster was not identified as a White House official until at least an hour and a half after police arrived, why were police officers associated with an elite federal unit on the scene within 45 minutes? Evidence suggests that White House officials were informed of Foster's death, at least an hour before they claim to have been initially notified.
The FBI never officially investigated the case but simply signed off on the Park Police "probe." The bureau had little choice.
2 posted on 02/11/2008 3:29:43 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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You would think that the Clintonistas would have given some thought to asking Williams to run the campaign. They should have been aware of the fact that this would be picked up on immediately. Are they trying to hand the election to Hussein?
3 posted on 02/11/2008 3:43:16 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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What this indicated is Hillary's hubris. She is so far above the law that she believes this will have no effect. The mainstream media will not hold her feet to the fire.
You know since the Senate did not have the balls/spine to convict Clinton... I have had Demoncraps tell me that HE WAS INNOCENT of all charges..... sheesh
5 posted on 02/11/2008 3:56:13 PM PST by buffyt (Hillary, picking up other women's underwear off the bedroom floor is NOT presidential experience!)
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Slovenia presents collection on Google Arts & Culture portal
Published by The Slovenia Times on Fri, 12/03/2021 - 22:36
Ljubljana – A collection of Slovenian cultural and natural heritage, folk tales, stories and traditions was presented on Friday as part of the Google Arts & Culture portal. "This project will give many people around the world the opportunity to hear about Slovenia's natural beauty, culture and unique features," said president Borut Pahor.
Slovenia is a small but diverse country, both naturally and culturally, and Pahor believes that the Stories from Slovenia collection within the Google Arts and Culture project is of great value for Slovenia and its people.
"Those who are curious about Slovenia will now have the opportunity to see what they might be interested in, and then actually visit our country," Pahor said at Friday's presentation of the project at the Cankarjev Dom cultural centre in Ljubljana.
Google Arts and Culture Director Amit Sood explained that Google's new service was available free of charge, online or as a smartphone app. The Stories from Slovenia collection has been in the making for almost a year and, according to Sood, would surely inspire people to visit Slovenia.
The project presents Slovenia's culture, nature and its many unique features. The collection contains more than 60 different stories, folk tales and virtual tours, while visitors can also admire more than 1,200 photographs, artworks and frescoes.
Google was supported in the design and implementation of the project by the Slovenian Tourist Board, the Computer Museum, the National Museum, the Posavje Museum Brežice, the Slovenian Mountaineering Association, the Slovenian Mountain Museum, the Beekeeping Museum in Radovljica, and the National and University Library.
More than 2,000 cultural institutions from 80 countries around the world are participating in the Google Arts and Culture project.
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Cabaret for Life celebrates its "25 Years of Giving" Gala on Saturday, November 13, 2021, with a gala celebration at the Eatontown Sheraton at 7 p.m. Join us for this cocktail reception and dinner celebration honoring six individuals who have made a significant impact on Cabaret for Life and the community we serve: Cindy & Brian Buck, Meg Fisher, M.D., Frederick Mayo, Joseph Wajda and Ken Wasser.
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New housing should be built near transportation centers, along transportation corridors
Manuel Minjares
Special to Ventura County Star
You could accuse Gov. Newsom of coming to a nice sit-down family dinner with a chip on his shoulder. No doubt he was heavy-handed in his first address as governor when he said cities that do not build enough housing could have their share of local road improvement funding withheld. The governor has picked the correct issue, but has chosen to levy the wrong punishment.
The governor is right about one thing: we need more housing. Years of under-building have created a backlog of need throughout the state. Scarcity of housing has driven prices so high that the price of an average home is out of reach of many Californians and particularly so in coastal areas such as Ventura County. The median income for families in the county is about $77,000. Less than a third of the households in the county can afford to buy a home.
The same "out of reach" costs apply to rents as well. We have not built enough apartments in the county.
This is not just a home affordability crisis but also one that directly impacts our local economic prosperity. Recently, several large employers have announced they are laying off employees and relocating to places with a lower cost of living. When women and men who work hard for a living cannot afford to live in or within a reasonable distance to the communities where they work, there are negative consequences for the environment, our economy and for all those who stress in the congested traffic. Many families double, triple or quadruple up in a home that was built for one family.
Ventura County needs to build more homes, and we can do it the right way.
All one has to do is look around the rest of Southern California to learn the lessons of over-building. Our voters and elected leaders have, and have opted on taking a smart, slow-growth approach. We are protecting the greenbelts that separate our cities, feed our families and fuel our economy. In our plans for moderate housing growth, we need to plan better and build housing that meets the needs of young adults, young families and seniors.
Our new housing should be built near transportation centers and along transportation corridors where regularly scheduled buses can take them to work, school or appointments.
One of the most common complaints about additional housing is that it brings additional traffic. But building housing along transportation corridors and encouraging residents to take the bus or ride Metrolink or Amtrak provides the opportunity to not be sitting in traffic, gripping the steering wheel with white knuckles.
The new housing plans that lead to lifestyles preferred by young families and seniors today are higher-density apartments, condos and townhomes. Again, this is part of the new urbanism that cities are starting to encourage from home builders. Our electorate has seen to it that we not build out, so we must look at building up. Our cities will become more compact and when that happens, there are certain to be shifts in how we move around.
Some say, "You'll never get people our of their cars." Sure. And some people said, "You'll never get shoppers out of the mall." Look at the significant shifts in our society's approach to telecommuting, to banking, to entertainment. When consumers are given choices that conveniently cater to them and are a better alternative, they embrace those changes.
Building a transit system that makes it more convenient and less costly for them to get from Point A to Point B will attract more riders. We are seeing it already. Despite an increase in fares, bus ridership in Ventura County, which had been dropping like a rock, has stabilized and is actually starting to grow, fueled in part by growth in college students taking the bus to school.
The governor has thrown down the gauntlet to cities and most political observers believe this was a political move by the governor. He wants action. Ventura County wants action, too, but we believe that local government knows best what local citizens want.
Our county can grow modestly and intelligently. We can preserve greenbelts, create opportunity for good, clean job growth, provide the type of housing our county needs and keep it all moving with a modern, Ventura County-tailored transportation system.
Manuel Minjares is the chairman for the Ventura County Transportation Commission.


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TfL promises greater transparency of sponsorship contracts
TfL's secretive approach to sponsorship could be coming to an end. Photo: MayorWatch
Fare and taxpayers will be able to better scrutinise Transport for London's sponsorship agreements after a senior manager announced plans to drop the routine signing of confidentiality clauses.
TfL currently has sponsorship agreements in place with Barclays and Emirates for the capital's cycle hire scheme and cable car.
The body has repeatedly hindered scrutiny of both contracts by delaying answers to FOI requests and refusing to answer others on the grounds that it had agreed confidentiality clauses with the sponsors.
In August 2012 TfL said revealing the amount of money received from Barclays "would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of Barclays and TfL."
It also claimed that: "Disclosing the precise terms of payment would be detrimental to future tenders for the Cycle Hire scheme sponsorship, and would make it more difficult for TfL to maximise the value of other sponsorship opportunities."
Despite claiming that transparency would have an adverse affect on public value, TfL later backtracked and revealed that only £13.43m out of the promised £50m sponsorship sum had been paid by March 2012.
It also revealed the frequency and terms of payment previously refused under FOI exemption.
In a letter to the London Assembly's Budget and Performance Committee, TfL's Commercial Development Director Graeme Craig has now signalled a more open stance to publishing information.
Mr Craig's letter confirms TfL is developing a new sponsorship code in line with recommendations in the Committee's 2012 report 'Whose brand is it anyway?'
The report called for a "clearer, more consistent and transparent" approach to sponsorship and for TfL to make "greater transparency a requirement of the sponsorship tender process."
Mr Craig's letter suggests the new code will drop the routine use of confidentiality clauses, ensuring the public has more information about the contracts TfL enters into.
His letter states: "TfL supports the recommendations made by the Committee; indeed they align with TfL's proposed plans. The one caveat is that TfL's pre-existing sponsorship contracts contain confidentiality clauses that hinder our ability to retrospectively publish information that we would aim to share in all future contracts."
Future sponsorship deals are expected to start with a prospectus setting out the specific rights bidders could expect in return for their funding, with "on-line information" supporting the process.
There would also be a "template sponsorship agreement" to ensure all deals start from a common position, although the agreement would be open to amendment as part of the negotiation process.
TfL is also looking to increase non-fares revenue with new property development, retail, vending and ATM initiatives.
Mr Craig will appear in front of the Committee on Tuesday morning when he'll be questioned about the new sponsorship code and TfL's selection of future sponsors.
The meeting will take place on Tuesday 16 April from 10am in Committee Room 5 at City Hall. A webcast of the meeting will also be available via london.gov.uk.
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The Good Earth
by: Pearl S. Buck
Wang Lung
O-lan
Wang Lung's oldest son
Sample A+ Essay
Summary: Chapter 7
Wang Lung chastises his uncle's wife for letting her daughter, who is of marriageable age, run free in the streets. The uncle's wife complains that they have no money for a dowry. O-lan gets pregnant again, and when she becomes sick, Wang Lung works the fields alone. One day, his uncle approaches Wang Lung for money. Unable to restrain himself, Wang Lung criticizes the laziness of his uncle and his family. His uncle slaps him for insulting an elder and threatens to tell the whole village. To placate him, Wang Lung loans him the money, ostensibly to pay for a matchmaker for his daughter.
The quarrel with his uncle makes Wang Lung concerned that his run of good luck is over, and when O-lan gives birth to a daughter, Wang Lung worries that this unlucky event—unlucky because the baby is not a son—is another omen of impending unhappiness.
The rains are late in coming, and the drought destroys most of Wang Lung's crops. The drought drives the House of Hwang further into financial ruin, and Wang Lung is able to purchase a tract of land from the Hwangs that is twice as large as the last one. His own troubles, however, are not over: the harvest is scanty, and O-lan is pregnant for the fourth time. Finally, hunger forces Wang Lung to kill his work ox for food. His uncle complains to the villagers about how little food his nephew gave him, alerting the villagers that Wang Lung has money and food stored away. One day, a group of desperate villagers, convinced that Wang Lung is hiding a fortune, bursts into Wang Lung's home and steals his small store of food. When they try to steal the furniture, O-lan chastises them because they dare to criticize Wang Lung when they themselves have not sold their own furniture. Ashamed, the thieves slink away from Wang Lung's house carrying with them the little food they could find.
A famine settles across the land. Wang Lung's neighbor Ching reports that some people are eating human flesh. Ching took part in the attack on Wang Lung's home, and now, feeling guilty, he gives Wang Lung a handful of beans. O-lan gives birth to another daughter. This time, she strangles the baby so that it will not be an impossible burden on the family. Wang Lung goes to bury the tiny corpse, but a ravenous dog lies in wait to eat the body and refuses to leave. So weak from hunger that he is almost unable to support himself, Wang Lung leaves the body to the dog. Wang Lung's uncle comes with men from town to ask Wang Lung to sell some of his land; the uncle thinks that he can force Wang Lung into selling for a low price, even though the uncle himself gave Wang Lung a great deal of advice about the importance of helping one's relatives. Wang Lung refuses, but he does sell them his furniture. In despair over the death of his infant daughter and the disloyal behavior of his uncle, Wang Lung decides that the only way for the family to survive is to move south, away from the famine.
Analysis: Chapters 7–9
As Wang Lung's previously good fortunes take a turn for the worse, Buck underscores the differences between Western and Chinese cultural values, asking her Western readers to understand how moral values and desperate circumstances might drive the novel's characters to act as they do. It might seem strange to Western readers, for instance, that Wang Lung lets his lazy, wasteful uncle exploit him. However, in traditional Chinese culture, respect for the elder generation and filial piety are extremely important values. Wang Lung has been raised with these values, and he recognizes that his society will judge him harshly if he breaks with tradition. He must allow himself to be exploited by his uncle if he wants to maintain his reputation within the community.
It might also seem unthinkable that O-lan could bear to kill her daughter. However, both circumstances and cultural values lessen the horror of her choice. She has two sons and an older baby daughter, and the family is suffering from desperate poverty. The baby will likely die of malnourishment eventually anyway, and to feed it would take food out of the mouths of her husband and children. Just as the threat of starvation drives Wang Lung's neighbors to raid his home, the same threat drives O-lan to kill her own child. Culturally, too, whereas it was unthinkable to kill a male infant, killing a female one was a common practice. This does not excuse O-lan's deed, but it shows that there was a social precedent for it. Buck was a lifelong critic of the Chinese practice of killing female infants, but she was also aware that poor Chinese families facing starvation do not have the luxury of refusing all but the morally acceptable path.
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