I loved this program, my only complaint is that I couldn't stay longer (stayed only two weeks).
I spent 6 wonderful weeks learning and perfecting my Spanish at LIVIT. What set this school apart was the interaction and relaxed learning atmosphere. In six weeks I never used English which made it a "true" immersion program. Most schools concentrate on grammar lessons and leave the students on their own to figure out how to practice. Not at LIVIT. There were grammar lessons but, they were done in a conversational setting so it wasn't just memorization. Then, there was the lunch time at various restaurants which was fantastic practice time. The practice didn't stop though as each afternoon I had a guide (supplied by the school) that would walk around Puebla with me. Sometimes we would just sit at a coffee shop and sometimes we would go shopping. It was my choice of where to go but most important was the one on one interaction allowing me to make all of my mistakes in a non-intimidating environment. Now, for the family. I was a very lucky student. I stayed with the wonderful family of Lupita. She is a GREAT cook! The entire family treated me as if I was a long time friend. I needed some dental work done while in Puebla and Lupita not only called her dentist, but walked with me and stayed with me throughout the procedure. I have attended other schools and can say with confidence that I learned more at LIVIT than the others. My recommendation to make things easier on you. 1) Have a plan of exactly what you expect to learn and send this to the school ahead of time. 2) Understand that you are in a foreign country. 3) Accept the customs, food, and manners of your host country and do NOT compare it to what are your customs. Remember you are there to learn and absorb. 4) Take each thing (good and bad) as a new experience. 5) If you want to really learn, no matter what your level - STAY IN SPANISH! My best wishes to whoever reads this. ¡Si se puede! You can do it!
I have attended similar schools in Costa Rica, Peru, and in Oaxaca and Morelia, Mexico -- each from three weeks to a month. I rank Livit the best of all I have attended. Outstanding features are the individual tours after classes, the facilities, and the highly personalized, small group instruction. For two weeks I was a "group" of 1.
The teachers are really superb. I recommend taking 4 hours of classroom lessons in the morning, and then taking a 2 hour tour of the city in the afternoon. During the 2 hour tour with a guide, I practiced what I had learned during the morning class. The guides are really excellent. They are trained to converse with students. I was at the school for two weeks and the school had me switch around guides so that I have experience speaking with different people. I really had a great experience and I would highly highly recommend the school to everyone.
The instruction, accomodations, host family, and tours were exactly what I was looking for in an active, high powered learning language lab. The two weeks were of VERY high quality with the instructors being knowledgeable and in tune with individual student needs. The host families were very engaged with the students and allowed the program to be very affordable. I HIGHLY recommend the Livit Immersion Center.
This is was a great experience for a beggining Spanish student like me. I love the small classes and the fun teachers. Everyone was so full of life and had a passion for teaching, you can't help leaving the program wanting to come back.
I would highly recommend this school. The instructor I had, Meru, was well prepared, patient, and had a sense of humor. The classes were well organized, and used music, film and lots of conversation. The excursions were excellent. Scott was extremely knowledgeable and used only Spanish when communicating. It was truly an immersion experience. My "family" was great! They were patient and only communicated in Spanish. The food was real good, the room was immaculate. I would highly recommend staying with Pacha and her family, which was only a ten minute bus ride from the school. This was the most complete immersion experience I have had!
Excellent school which really excelled at getting you to use what you've been taught in real-life conversation. I went to Mexico speaking very minimally, and after two weeks, improved tremendously in my vocabulary, listening comprehension, and most of all confidence in speaking. I met people on my travels who had been in other schools for significantly longer periods of time but couldn't speak very well at all, and I really think the difference is that at Livit you are forced to use what you are learning--it is not some theoretical exercise but really an immersion environment. Scott and Maru are very nice people and good communicators, and particularly good at getting you talking. The guides in the afternoons are a nice addition--they were all very warm people who give you a chance to practice what you learned. I think Puebla itself is an ideal place to learn the language as it is big enough to have a lot to see and have its own things going on, but its very manageable to get around. I stayed with Pacha and family and had a really awesome experience. The room I had was comfortable and private, but I felt very much like a part of the family when I was there and they were all extremely generous with their time as I practiced. (I think in addition to the classroom work, the time I spent talking with my family was essential to my rapid improvement.) I can't say enough about my Mexican family... truly awesome. I'm a pretty demanding student and expect a lot from a school if I'm going to hand over my money, and when I think about the progress I made in the language, what I learned about the culture and people, and the quality of my home stay experience, I think Livit is an excellent deal. Strongly recommended.
Scott and Maru were very good. I really enjoyed my time at Livit.
My daughter and I were blessed to have been able to attend this school for 2 1/2 weeks. In that time I learned more than in two years of taking Spanish at a Junior College. The teachers and owners were interested in what you needed and want you to get the most out of the experience. The program was comprehensive and priced right. I have been to another program in Costa Rica and this was much better. We liked the diversity of the day, class, lunch together and then walking and talking in Spanish with a guide while you discovered the awesome city of Puebla.
I have studied at a number of different language schools in Guanajuato, San Cristobol de las Casas, San Miguel de Allende, Quetzeltenango and so far Livit is the best. I have also studied at the Spanish Insitute of Puebla. Livit is better for someone coming on their own, and this applies especially to women. It's safer because the owners are more actively involved in the school. Puebla is on all the lists of tourist cities in Mexico that have not experienced security problems. The quality of the classes at Livit is the best that I've found at any Spanish language school. The classes are tailored to you. At the moment there are relatively few foreign students and tourists in Puebla. So it's not the best time to come to meet tourists or people to travel with. That said, it's a good time to learn Spanish here. I highly recommend Livit for adults who need Spanish for professional reasons.
There are two best kept secrets in Mexico....This school and the city of Puebla. My husband and I just finished 5 weeks of classes at this school and found it to be fantastic! We had no idea what to expect of the school or of Puebla. We have been to 4 other schools in South America and Mexico and have found this one to be the best of all of them. It is a truly a immersion experience. The school is kept small and highly personalized. Really great facilities and super close to the heart of city. You are exposed to all kinds of accents and speeds of talking both in and out of the school environment. A very well thought out and personalized program. No big classes and continual talking.....this makes a huge difference! (right from the moment you walk into the school, the working lunches, the local individual guides to the excursions) Puebla is an amazing little city! Tons to see and do as well as a perfect central location to explore out of. Really safe place and culturally rich. We were really impressed with school and highly recommend it!
I spent only one week at Livit, but I wish I had been able to spend a month. The language lessons are very student-centered and were tailored to what I needed. There were not many students that week, and no one else was at my level, so I ended up with private lessons for the week. An amazing value for me, but it also meant a lot of work (which I was fine with, because I was fairly serious about improving my Spanish). Maru and Scott, the owners of the school, are involved and hands-on with everything. Lunches for the first three days of the week are spent in further conversation practice at local restaurants. The school is in a modern house with a comfortable lounge available for students, a couple of computers available (and wi-fi), and pretty little garden. Also, there is fresh, strong coffee brewed every morning (very important detail!!). My favorite thing about the program is the private guide provided for the afternoon (Mon-Wed). A lot of schools that I looked at offered other kinds of afternoon activities (salsa dancing, cooking, etc.) which might be fun, but didn't necessarily seem to offer as much opportunity for conversation practice (also, I don't really want to be salsa dancing with my compañeros :) ). The Livit program is special in that each student is partnered with a guide with whom you can explore the city, go shopping, sit in a cafe, go to a museum...whatever you want. The guides are mostly young graduate students or recent graduates and are very well trained to work with language learners and draw out conversation. On Thursday afternoon, Scott led an excursion to a local site. I did a home stay because I really wanted to challenge myself, and my hostess was lovely and very concerned for me. Also, she spoke not a word of English, so I really learned a lot just in my attempts at conversation with her. The breakfasts were amazingly delicious, and I had a private room with its own entrance and its own bathroom. Puebla is a beautiful, safe city with a lot of cultural activity and a cosmopolitan feel, but its centro is still compact enough to be easily walkable. While I was there, I heard almost no English speaking tourists (aside from my fellow students), so it is a great place to visit to be forced to practice your Spanish. There are plenty of restaurants, cafés, and museums in which to spend your free time (not to mention Lucha Libre and fútbol). In short, if you are serious about improving your Spanish and want to do so it a city setting, I highly recommend Livit. I felt I made a huge amount of progress even in the short time I was there, and I hope to return.
For me the program was a bit boring. Most of the students are older people. It was raining every day in Puebla, so be prepared if you travel during the rainy season. I was not a big fan of the restaurants we went for our lunch, I thought the food was not very good quality there. My host family was an old sweet lady but she did not cook much so I don't think I enjoyed the food as much as I should have. You do have a private tutor for a couple of hours Monday through Wednesday and you are free on the weekend. Puebla is a safe place but not many things are going on there. I realize that a lot of people like this program but I don't think it was a good fit for me.
I have a attended two other language schools and taken a number of course in Spanish. Livit is the only school I have attended that seems to develop their courses based on Adult learning theory. The four classes in the morning address grammar but in a context that promotes conversation. Lunch at a different local restaurant each day promotes conversation in an informal setting Three days a week in the afternoon each student is paired up with a "guide" that only will speak Spanish as he or she takes the student to museums and points of interest. Scoot and Maru, the schools directors, are able at a moments notice to change course content to better address a student's learning style. Wonderful school with extremely competent teachers and an outstanding program.
A fabulous opportunity to expand my Spanish skills with highly competent, flexible, creative instruction. Program design provides opportunity to share afternoons with private, Spanish speaking guides. Fellow students were fun and interesting. I stayed in a hotel, rather then with a family. All my fellow students were happy with their placements in homes. I would love to attend again.
Over the years, I have attended several Spanish immersion programs in both Mexico and Argentina, and Livit Immersion Center was by far the best. I participated in the four-hour morning instruction and my husband and I stayed in an on-site private apartment (more about that below). The full program offers lunch, two hours in the afternoon with guides to practice conversation and visit places in the interesting and historic City of Pueblo, a weekly excursion, and a homestay with a local family. The teachers at Livit are excellent. The school itself is bright and welcoming and comfortable. My husband, who speaks Spanish, and is a linguistic anthropologist, reported that he has seen a greater improvement in my Spanish than ever before. The whole atmosphere of the school is relaxed and permission is given to speak Spanish as best you can without feeling uncomfortable. At the same time, the lessons are aimed at speaking Spanish well, with a variety of activities and drills. Given that I seem to have a second language learning and speaking disability, I really appreciated the patience of the teachers. I also took the online classes offered by Livit via Skype for three days a week for a month prior to arriving in Puebla, and am currently taking a one day a week class since returning. I highly recommend these classes. They would be an excellent way for people who cannot travel to Puebla for the immersion program to learn or improve their Spanish. My instructor was very good at identifying my strengths and weaknesses and creating an individual program for me. The onsite apartment where my husband and I stayed while I took classes at Livit was great. The apartment was quite private and very quiet, especially since Mexico, in general, can be pretty noisy. It was located at the back of the main house and language school facility, all of which is on a private street. The apartment is reached from outside steps off a lovely side garden, and had an automatic light at night. While small, the space was very well designed. The lower floor has a nicely equipped kitchen with good counter space and a clever dropdown table, and a little sitting area with a comfortable couch, TV, and a good-sized worktable. The upstairs included a bedroom with lots of storage areas, and an enclosed. The apartment is light and airy and attractive, with lots of windows and a skylight, and you can see "Popo," the volcano, outside the bedroom window. There is another smaller accommodation for guests at the front of the property. The area felt very safe, and was only a couple of blocks from the Plaza del Carmen, which is a pleasant leafy place to hang out, surrounded by a couple of coffee shops and an excellent ice cream store, with a zillion flavors.
I did a one week immersion at Livit in January of 2019. There were only 2 students in the class, both of us at about low intermediate, I guess. There were several other classes of different levels, each with 2 or 3 students. Maru, who is co-owner of the school, was our maestra. She is clearly an experienced and knowledgeable teacher in her methodology. Her patience with 2 old gringos (well, one of us was old, the other 'late middle aged') combined with her sense of humor and native knowledge of the language made the sometimes grueling 4 hour mornings pass quickly. On 3 days we had a wonderful lunch in the garden of the school. The school itself is located in a large old home in Col. Carmen, a very nice area of Puebla. I am disabled but found that I could walk from near the Zócalo of Puebla. There were 3 afternoons of one on one practice with our guia and a field trip on Thursday afternoon. This is my second time studying with teachers at LivitSpanish and I intend to take another 1 or 2 week intensive sometime later this year. I give them my highest recommendation for anyone wanting to learn Spanish in a pleasant and professional environment.


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"California Looks to Stationary Energy Storage as a Solution to Peaker Plants" • Central California electric utility Pacific Gas & Electric is planning to replace three old natural gas power plants in its network with stationary energy storage installations from Tesla. California is looking to add 1.3 GW of storage to its power grid by 2020. [CleanTechnica]
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There are numerous organizations within the academic, federal, and commercial sectors conducting large scale advanced research in the field of sustainable energy. This research spans several areas of focus across the sustainable energy spectrum. Most of the research is targeted at improving efficiency and increasing overall energy yields.[94] Multiple federally supported research organizations have focused on sustainable energy in recent years. Two of the most prominent of these labs are Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), both of which are funded by the United States Department of Energy and supported by various corporate partners.[95] Sandia has a total budget of $2.4 billion [96] while NREL has a budget of $375 million.[97]
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After making it easy to specify which page you want your subscribers to Like on Facebook, we've just added two optional properties to our new tweet tag to encourage more people to follow you on Twitter when using our social sharing feature.
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Q: Find regions of high density of points of the same class I have a dataset consisting of geo points of two classes. For simplicity we can call one class "successes" and the second one "failures".
What I want to do is to find regions (areas, polygons) where ratio of failures to successes is relatively high.
If I had one class, I would do something like DBSCAN or OPTICS to find clusters.
I thought about separating whole region into smaller pre-defined sectors, computing ratio of failures to successes in each of them, and then to do LISA (Local Indicators of Spatial Association) clustering on them, but then my result will depend on the way I separate region into sectors.
How can I approach this problem?
Also, what if I wanted to divide whole region into sectors of several classes ("high probability of failures", "medium probability of failures" etc)?
I generally use Python and PostGIS but open to other tools. I dont have ArcGIS license.

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Rating agency Moody's warned it may cut the triple-A ratings of France, Britain and Austria and it downgraded six other European nations including Italy, Spain and Portugal, citing growing risks from Europe's debt crisis.
Moody's move was less aggressive than rival agency Standard & Poor's, but its action puts London's prized top credit rating in jeopardy for the first time.
It said it was worried about Europe's ability to undertake the reforms needed to address the crisis and the amount of funds available to fight it. It also said the region's weak economy could undermine austerity drives by governments to fix their finances.
The euro and sterling fell after the announcement, with pound falling 0.4 percent to $1.5703 and the single currency dipping 0.3 percent to $1.3154. European and U.S. equity index futures were also lower.
The U.S. rating agency said it changed the outlooks for the ratings of France, Britain and Austria to negative due to "a number of specific credit pressures that would exacerbate the susceptibility of these sovereigns' balance sheets."
Germany's top-tier rating was described as "appropriate" by Moody's, and it affirmed the triple-A rating on the euro zone's bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF).
Moody's, which said late last year it was reconsidering its European ratings, cut the ratings of Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta by one notch. It downgraded Spain by two notches.
Moody's said the scope of the downgrades was limited due to "the European authorities' commitment to preserving the monetary union and implementing whatever reforms are needed to restore market confidence."
The announcement came a day after Greece's parliament approved a deep new round of budget cuts in the hope of securing new bailout funds and avoiding a chaotic default in March.
Bart Oosterveld, managing director at Moody's sovereign risk group, declined to comment on the state of the negotiations between Athens and its creditors, but said that if Greece were to leave the European Union the impact on financial markets and credit ratings "would be quite profound."
And he warned that European credit markets may still deteriorate despite efforts by the European Central Bank to ease financing pressures with its three-year refinancing operations.
"The markets are better in the short term but probably not in the longer term," Oosterveld told Reuters in an interview. "We think the markets remain quite fragile."
The rating outlooks of the nine countries affected by Moody's action was set to negative, "given the continuing uncertainty over financing conditions over the next few quarters and its corresponding impact on creditworthiness," Moody's said.
Britain's finance minister responded by saying the country must keep its promise to slash its large budget deficit.
"This is proof that, in the current global situation, Britain cannot waver from dealing with its debts," Finance Minister George Osborne said. "This is a reality check for anyone who thinks Britain can duck confronting its debts."
The government in Britain has come under increasing pressure to soften its austerity measures to give a stalling economy room to breathe.
The French government said it would press ahead with its policies to improve competitiveness and growth while reducing the government deficit.
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The precarious state of European sovereign finances was underlined on Monday, when the head if China's sovereign wealth fund brushed aside an appeal from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to buy European government debt, saying such bonds were "difficult" for long-term investors.
Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor Guy Debelle said on Tuesday that net purchases of Australian debt by foreigners over the first three quarters of 2011 amounted to more than 3 percent of gross domestic product, markedly larger than Australia's current account deficit.
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One of the things that can drive PLM user adoption is ability to provide solution to a bigger user audience. As enterprise software, Product Lifecycle Management needs to think how to extend horizons of their applications. This is, in my view, will extend PLM user base in organization. For those companies that adopted PLM vision and technologies, there is no question about what is foundation of their engineering departments. Outside of engineering departments, I think, situation is completely different even for companies that embrace PLM completely.
So, what technologies can be used to support this goal? From technological standpoint PLM products (CAD, CAE and others) produce significant portion of data, information, knowledge if you will, but this IP is not distributed well. There are few technologies I followed to see how they can be helpful for this purpose.
Let see, first, what traditional PLM companies are proposing today. I think all major PLM providers have Technical Publishing and Technical Documentation solution on board today. Siemens PLM recently announced enhancements of their Technical Publication product line to support S100D. PTC have Arbortext product to support technical documentation. Dassault Systems acquired Seemage to extend and develop DS 3DVIA enterprise brand.
In addition, I want to mention technologies that basically successors of something we traditional calling Data Visualization. Some of them were acquired by bigger enterprise providers and some of them continue as standalone companies. Focus of these companies is mostly about how to transfer 3D geometry to formats that can be distributed widely in organization. From a technological standpoint, I want to mention XVL technologies from Lattice3D.
I also have to mention Adobe 3D PDF as extension of de-facto standard, in my view, PDF format.
I want also to mention few technologies on my radar that not necessarily belongs to PLM /CAD niche, but in my view can provide very decent support for PLM publishing needs. The technologies developed around XSQL, allows mixing power of SQL and XML to create database independent query.
Another interesting company and technology to see in context of publishing and content distribution is Marklogic. Marklogic is creator of XML Server (native XML Database) with full support of CRUD and XQuery. This technology, in my view, can come in good combination with publishing efforts around CAD and PLM IP. In the same area, I'd mention Oracle XSQL publishing frameworks focused on Web Content publishing. I had chance to read a good book about Oracle publishing framework.
So, I'm sure will not be able to mention all possible combination, technologies and effort around publishing in my short post. However, my point is that PLM needs to go way beyond just translation 3D Models to some tessellated formats with animation capabilities. PLM needs to think about how to distribute knowledge and content in organization. In my view, this will be space where PLM products be able to show additional values and benefit more users in organizations. What do you think about it?


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Q: how do i catch SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error python? I am using urllib3.PoolManager to make http requests. And in some part of my code I use this code to make a request
resp = h.request(self.method, self.url, body=body, headers=headers, timeout=TIMEOUT, retries=retries)

and I get the error SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED. Below is the full stack trace.
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/request.py", line 69, in request
    **urlopen_kw)

  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/request.py", line 90, in request_encode_url
    return self.urlopen(method, url, **extra_kw)

  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/poolmanager.py", line 248, in urlopen
    response = conn.urlopen(method, u.request_uri, **kw)

  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 621, in urlopen
    raise SSLError(e)

[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED]

The error is expected. But the problem is I cannot catch the error in try except block.
I tried to use
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but that does not catch this error.
I also tried ssl.CertificateError but no results.
I can catch it by using the Exception class but I need to catch the specific errors and handle them differently. Can someone please find me a solution to this?

A: I found the solution. The exception class that was being raised is urllib3.exceptions.SSLError.

A: Late answer, but you can catch SSL Errors using requests.exceptions.SSLError
import requests, traceback

try:
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except (requests.exceptions.SSLError):
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except Exception as e:
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Output:
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Which leads us to:
import requests

try:
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except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as e:
    print("Caught correctly")

Output:
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Marc Gousse, superintendent of the MDI Regional School System. Gousse hopes that people will report bullying in the schools, and said that "bus drivers, food service workers, custodians and secretaries ... are the eyes and ears of our schools." ISLANDER FILE PHOTO
Bullying addressed by MDI school officials
March 4, 2017	by Dick Broom on Education, News
BAR HARBOR — There is no indication that bullying is more prevalent in area schools than it is anywhere else, but Superintendent Marc Gousse wants to make sure that when it occurs, it is dealt with swiftly and appropriately.
"Bullying is a very, very serious issue," he told the policy committee of the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) board on Monday.
"I always want it reported. I would rather have (an incident) reported and investigated and then determine whether it's bullying or not.
"I don't want folks wondering, 'Should I or shouldn't I?' Yes, you should."
Every school in Maine is required to have a policy on bullying.
The MDIRSS policy committee endorsed several, mostly minor revisions to the school system's current policy. Some of the changes were recommended by the Maine School Management Association. The proposed amended policy now will go to the full school system board for consideration.
Policy committee member Teresa King-LeClair said students and parents may hesitate to report bullying because they fear the bullying will escalate.
"Sometimes they are afraid of retribution," she said.
Gousse said he understands that reticence, but that is what bullies are counting on.
"If a kid is being teased incessantly or assaulted, I get that parents or kids don't want to say anything because they fear it will get worse," he said. "But does it ever get better? It doesn't get better until we as schools do some things to address it. And that means all of our principals and administrators and counselors are trained."
Gousse said that once the revised policy is adopted by the school board, "I will be holding a workshop with the principals, and I will expect them to go back and do that with their staffs."
He said it isn't just administrators, teachers and counselors who need to be aware of what constitutes bullying, how to identify it and to whom to report it.
"Bus drivers, food service workers, custodians and secretaries, they are the eyes and ears of our schools," he said. "They are the people who are more likely to see things, and we want to cultivate that awareness."
He said administrators in some school districts may think that if bullying doesn't occur at school, then it isn't the school's problem. But he feels differently.
"If it happens involving students off school grounds, it's still a school issue," he said. "Bus stops are an extension of the school campus. If a kid takes a school computer home and sends something that is not nice to another kid, it's a school issue."
Gousse said that if parents have concerns about bullying, they should speak directly to the principal of the child's school.
Dick Broom
Reporter at Mount Desert Islander
Dick Broom covers the towns of Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor, Mount Desert Island High School and the school system board and superintendent's office. He enjoys hiking with his golden retriever and finding new places for her to swim. dbroom@mdislander.com
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The sifting of human creations! —nothing less than this is what we ought to mean by the humanities. Essentially this means biography; what our colleges should teach is, therefore, biographical history, that not of politics merely, but of anything and everything so far as human efforts and conquests are factors that have played their part. Studying in this way, we learn what types of activity have stood the test of time; we acquire standards of the excellent and durable. All our arts and sciences and institutions are but so many quests of perfection on the part of men; and when we see how diverse the types of excellence may be, how various the tests, how flexible the adaptations, we gain a richer sense of what the terms "better" and "worse" may signify in general. Our critical sensibilities grow both more acute and less fanatical. We sympathize with men's mistakes even in the act of penetrating them; we feel the pathos of lost causes and misguided epochs even while we applaud what overcame them.
Such words are vague and such ideas are inadequate, but their meaning is unmistakable. What the colleges—teaching humanities by examples which may be special, but which must be typical and pregnant—should at least try to give us, is a general sense of what, under various disguises, superiority has always signified and may still signify. The feeling for a good human job anywhere, the admiration of the really admirable, the disesteem of what is cheap and trashy and impermanent—this is what we call the critical sense, the sense for ideal values. It is the better part of what men know as wisdom. Some of us are wise in this way naturally and by genius; some of us never become so. But to have spent one's youth at college, in contact with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this indeed should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.
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There's a lot of people who choose to sit on the couch and do nothing, while there are others achieving their dreams. Those of the latter have excuses why they can't be the former but little do they know they can do it too, but only if they try. Be the ones who achieve their dreams by trying, don't even think about wether it's possible, just think about trying.


Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's third most populated city.
Christchurch is a vibrant ever-changing city and was named by Lonely Planet as one of the top 10 cities to visit. This beautiful garden city is the perfect hub to explore the natural wonders of the South Island, with wineries, beaches, ski resorts, mountain ranges and national parks all within a few hours' drive.
Whether you're soaking up the greenery Christchurch Botanic Gardens, culture of Canterbury Museum or panoramic views from Mt. Cavendish, Christchurch has something for everyone.
Christchurch is known as the 'Garden City' due to the number of public parks and gardens.
It is also the dynamic home to trendy retail precincts and boutiques. Food lovers will rejoice with numerous pop-up cafes, restaurants and bars, as well as an array of world-class wineries a short drive away. Whilst visiting, bask in the urban spaces of Hagley Park, art scene of Christchurch Arts Centre or colourful sight of Re:START, a funky mall build from shipping containers.
If you love the outdoor lifestyle Christchurch offers a number of beaches and a diverse range of sports and activities.


[SatNews] SpaceCom, the Space Commerce Conference and Exposition, today announced a new partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) for the November 17-19 event at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. In support of NASA's goal to create a sustainable, commercial space market, SpaceCom will unite global business executives with international space leaders to explore ways for the medical, manufacturing, energy, communications, and transportation sectors to utilize space technologies and achieve competitive advantage. SpaceCom will also examine ways to optimize the use of the International Space Station (ISS) and other Low Earth Orbit (LEO) applications, as well as suborbital commercial activities.
SpaceCom also unveiled that the event will make an annual financial investment to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs produced by CASIS.
SpaceCom is a dynamic three-day event that combines an in-depth conference program with a vibrant technology exposition. The event will feature a keynote from NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr., as well as interactive panel discussions and roundtable sessions. The show floor will encompass more than 100 exhibiting companies showcasing the latest technologies. In addition, the Innovation Theater and market-specific Industry Centers will spotlight market round-ups, sponsor presentations, product demonstrations and VIP meet and greets. The event will also include tours of the Johnson Space Center and the Young Entrepreneur's Technology and SpaceCom STEM Awards.


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The Nick Mardon Trio performs at the Seabrook Sunset Concert Series in Seabrook, WA on Saturday September 17 at 6:00 pm!
The trio is led by Nick Mardon on Guitar and Vocals with Adin Pennington on Bass and Vocals and Andy Emery on Drums. The trio has performed hundreds of shows at bars, music venues, and festivals throughout the pacific northwest including Hard Rock Cafe Seattle, Highway 99 Blues Club, The Historic Everett Theatre, The Sunset Tavern, The Washington Beer Festival, Jazz in the Valley Ellensburg, and many more. Their music blends the sound of 60's and 70's blues-rock power trios with the Seattle sound of the 1990's. The Nick Mardon Trio has a setlist of over 200 songs including original music and timeless covers. Covers include Sublime, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Al Green, Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, and more.
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Beach Ambassadors is a 501(c)(3) organization that plans, coordinates, and oversees social and sporting events to help raise money and awareness for Hampton Roads-based charities. Our main fund raiser each year is the "757 Battle of the Beers", a unique event that pits local, Hampton Roads-based breweries against each other to determine who has the best beer in Hampton Roads. In 2016, over 1000 patrons attended the event at Hunt Club Farm, raising over $20,000 for local charities (over $14,000 went to St. Mary's Home, and $2,050 went to charities of the winning brewers' choice).
For more about the Beach Ambassadors, visit www.BeachAmbassadors.com.


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Welwyn Garden City bus users left sitting in the rain
Published: 12:29 PM May 7, 2009 Updated: 8:02 PM November 3, 2020
PEOPLE are being made to sit in the street while they wait for a bus – after the shelter was removed in a row over payment. Regular users of the bus stop in Chequersfield, WGC, either have to stand without cover or sit on the kerb after Adspace 2000, the
PEOPLE are being made to sit in the street while they wait for a bus - after the shelter was removed in a row over payment.
Regular users of the bus stop in Chequersfield, WGC, either have to stand without cover or sit on the kerb after Adspace 2000, the company in charge of bus shelters in Welwyn Hatfield, removed it due to lack of payment for its upkeep.
The cost of meeting the bus shelter is the responsibility of developers Taylor Wimpey, which owns the land the bus shelter stood on.
Victor Simons lives in Scholar's Walk, Chequersfield.
The 63-year-old, who is registered disabled, said: "I now have to sit on the kerb and wait for a bus.
"It's a public facility and it was part of the planning conditions that they [Taylor Wimpey] had to provide the bus stop, and they have clearly failed to do that.
"This is an example of a large company taking unfair advantage of a small contractor, not just to the detriment of them, but to the public as well."
A spokesman for Taylor Wimpey said: "All contractors engaged on Taylor Wimpey sites have a legal responsibility to ensure adequate insurance is in place to carry out their works," a spokesman said.
"We are waiting for the company which built the bus shelter to forward to us its policies.
"The decision to remove the shelter was taken by others, and we are sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused."
A spokeswoman for Welwyn Hatfield Council said: "The provision of a shelter on the Chequersfield site is a requirement of the developer Taylor Wimpey on the planning agreement.
"The contractor informed us that due to lack of payment by Taylor Wimpey, the shelter has been removed."
She added the council was working with Hertfordshire County Council in order to resolve the issue.


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Constantly variable transmissions (CVT): Commonly found on lighter passenger autos, CVT transmissions are relatively new functions concerning the American automobile market place, but they supply a Unique established of benefits.
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Transmissions complications are high-priced repairs, so just take preventative measures by understanding how to shield your automobile from transmission harm.
Typical frequent transmission servicing products may perhaps incorporate inspecting and adjusting the clutch pedal on handbook transmission automobiles, and inspecting, topping off or flushing the transmission fluid in the transmission scenario for automatic and handbook transmission autos.
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Indeed, This is often an ambiguous description, but you will discover a wide range of indicators which you have to have an auto transmission repair. Probably the most prevalent yet subtle signs of required transmission repair is once the transmission slips or hesitates; even though driving, you press on the pedal and also the engine revs up, but there's no corresponding increase in velocity or a hesitation in between whenever you drive the pedal as well as the automobile quickens. This may take place specifically when very first beginning the vehicle try this over a colder morning for The 1st time.


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Федосеевка — село в Старооскольском районе Белгородской области, административный центр Федосеевского сельсовета.

География
Федосеевка расположена в центральной части России, на южных склонах Среднерусской возвышенности. Оно является северной окраиной Белгородской области, северо-восточной окраиной города Старый Оскол. С севера на юг село тянется вдоль междугородней автострады, с востока на запад — вдоль реки Оскол. Расстояние до Старого Оскола составляет 7 км.

История

Свое название село получило по имени сына боярского Федосея Никодимовича Малыхина, и в течение второй половины XVII века именовалось «Федосеевское поместье Ездочной слободы».

В XIX веке входило в Старооскольский уезд Курской губернии.

Советская власть в Федосеевке была установлена в декабре 1917 года. Летом 1918 года начали организовывать комитеты деревенской бедноты (комбеды). В 1929 году на территории Федосеевкого сельского Совета начали организовывать колхозы. В 1929—1932 годах было обобществлено 125 лошадей и 15 быков. Земельная площадь составила 1500 га.

С июля 1928 года Федосеевка стала центром Федосеевского сельсовета только что образованного Старооскольского района.

Летом 1942 года Федосеевка подверглась оккупации, а 27 января 1943 года сёла Каплино и Федосеевка были освобождены от немецко-фашистских захватчиков. Освобождая село, погибли 150 человек из 2-х дивизий.

После войны началось восстановление разрушенного хозяйства. В 1950 году по решению ЦК КПСС было проведено укрупнение колхозов. В селе Федосеевка был образован один колхоз «Завет Ильича». В 1970 году колхоз «Завет Ильича» был переименован в совхоз «Старооскольский».

В 1950-е годы Федосеевка входила в Каплинский сельсовет; в 1970-е снова была центром Федосеевского сельсовета, куда также входили 5 сел, хутор Липяги и посёлок Набокино.

Дальнейшее развитие села связано с образованием Оскольского водохранилища, которое обеспечивает жизнедеятельность Лебединского ГОКа. До 1974 года на месте водохранилища были расположены сёла Жуково, Красные Кусты, Луги. В 1974 году эти сёла были снесены, а их жители переселены в Федосеевку. Для жителей этих сёл были построены новые дома, количество населения в Федосеевке увеличилось.

В 1974 году в селе Федосеевка был построен детский сад, в его строительстве принимала участие советско-болгарская бригада. Финансировал стройку Лебединский ГОК. В 1982 году в селе Федосеевка была построена музыкальная школа.

С 1997 года Федосеевка — центр Федосеевского сельского округа (2 села, хутор и поселок) Старооскольского района Белгородской области.

11 октября 2009 года архиепископ Белгородский и Старооскольский Иоанн освятил закладной камень в честь будущего храма в честь Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы. Инициатором строительства выступил известный староосколец, спортсмен Федор Емельяненко. 11 октября 2012 года, в преддверии большого церковного праздника Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы, митрополит Белгородский и Старооскольский Иоанн совершил освящение Покровского храма в Федосеевке.

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Participants in the eCornell webinar gave an upbeat assessment of the cruise industry's prospects.
Royal, Norwegian see resumption of cruises in near future
CEOs' upbeat mood signals a careful transition to restart of sailings
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After a year in which the cruise lines were hemorraghing $1 billion per week with the shutdown of cruise operations, the top executives of Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line predicted on Wednesday a resumption of sailings from U.S. ports in the near future.
"We are hopeful that we can resume cruising over the summer," said Frank Del Rio, CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, during an hourlong webinar organized by eCornell, Cornell University's online learning platform. Consumer demand is through the roof, he said, with bookings for 2022 departures that are "substantially better" than during the same time periods in 2018 and 2019, which set records.
The joint webinar appearance turned out to be a mostly upbeat affair, even as the cruise sector grows increasingly impatient (deservedly so, in our view) with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slow-walking its new guidelines for the cruise sector, seemingly applying a different standard than it applied to air travel and hotel vacations.
Richard D. Fain, CEO of Royal Caribbean Cruises, and Del Rio both pointed to their cruise lines' decision to appoint a Healthy Sail Panel last summer as the first step toward the safe reopening of the cruise industry. The panel, made up of health experts and former government officials, issued a set of 74 recommendations that the cruise lines have been busy implementing.
"While we can't eliminate risk, we wanted to make sure that the risk on a cruise ship was lower than the risk of walking down Main Street USA," Fain said.
Norwegian Royal Caribbean are requiring that cruise passengers as well as crew receive COVID-19 vaccinations before boarding, while Carnival has yet to make a public pronouncement.
CEO Frank Del Rio: Norwegian's goal is "to provide the safest place on earth" to take a vacation.
Asked by dean Kate Walsh why Norwegian arrived at that position, Del Rio said, "Society is going toward vaccination. We're all racing vaccinated. These 74 protocols are good, solid protocols, but there's no substitute for vaccinated people. It is the best line of defense.
"And so, for both competitive reasons and to stimulate the CDC's reluctance to get us back into service, we put forward a proposal to the CDC back on April 5 that said, 'Look, you're showing all these guidelines, they're difficult for us to implement. Many of them are impractical. Many of them don't make sense. You're trying to prevent [mandating vaccinations for passengers].' So we said we'll commit to everyone on board being fully vaccinated — crew and passengers — which meant children under the age of 16 or 18, depending on which vaccine you're talking about, couldn't come on vessels. That's a blow, because at the Norwegian brand, roughly 20% of annual customers are families, people with children. But I was willing to forgo that 20% ... in order to protect the 80%," Del Rio said.
Norwegian's goal is "to provide the safest place on earth" to take a vacation, he added. As a result of the safeguards being put into place, "a cruise ship becomes the safest place on earth. You can't point to a factory, an office building, a grocery store, any place where you're guaranteed that everyone around you is fully vaccinated. And so we think it's an ironclad proposal to the CDC. I feel we're moving in the right direction. And hopefully we'll get some good news."
While neither Del Rio nor Fain put a time frame on it, it's likely that the CDC will act soon to lift its prohibition on sailings out of U.S. ports, due to the continued economic impact that the shutdown is imposing not just on the sector but on related businesses.
Royal Caribbean has been operating ships out of Singapore and Israel for several months now, safely carrying 125,000 passengers with 21 total cases of COVID infections and no widespread breakouts, despite guests who didn't have access to the vaccine in those markets.
Royal Caribbean CEO Richard Fain: "We control who everyone is who comes on board."
"The thing that makes the cruise ship different is, yes, there are a lot of people together so that is an issue that you have to deal with," Fain said. "But the other side of it is that we control who everyone is who comes on board. ... Testing is amazingly effective. Now we can test everybody, so we can create that barrier at the beginning to vastly reduce the chance that someone gets on the ship [with the virus]."
Should someone test positive, he added, the smart wristband that guests now wear on board will record their movements. "We don't have to guess as to who you've potentially infected," Fain said. "We can go to them and we can test them right away. So the result is we can contain it."
By the end of June, Fain said, Royal will have 11 new itineraries in Greece, Italy, the United Kingdom, Barbados, the Bahamas and Bermuda — with more coming. "By the end of June, we'll be taking guests on at a rate of 500,000 a month," he said.
Del Rio noted that Norwegian will begin new itineraries out of Jamaica and the Dominican Republic in addition to six vessels that plan to operate in Europe starting in late August. "One of the risks to the US economy is that if we find by happenstance or necessity that we can operate profitably or perhaps even more profitably out of the DR and/or Jamaica than we did out of US ports, we're gonna keep our ships there," Del Rio said. "So there is real, real economic risk if this continues much longer."
At Cruiseable, we can't wait for cruising to resume. Guests have signaled a strong desire to return to the seas, as they've demonstrated by their pocketbook, and the cruise lines have made that possible with their rigorous execution of safety protocols. It's only a matter of weeks now before cruising resumes, one way or another.
I'm Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Cruiseable. Follow your cruise bliss to any land where it may lead. Let's connect! I'm @jdlasica on Twitter.
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archer reacted to Lord Liaden in Coronavirus 30 minutes ago
Given German history within living memory, that had to be a very difficult decision to make, politically and ethically. I hope it doesn't come back to bite them in one way or another.
archer got a reaction from BarretWallace in Coronavirus 1 hour ago
I understand the moral hazards involved but there's very real balancing act to be done here. And I really can't think of any nice or delicate things to say at the moment.
My great-niece is a nurse in an ICU covid ward, primarily taking care of people as they're gasping out their last breaths of life.
She finally got the first dose of her two-dose vaccination three days ago.
The US hasn't yet taken care of its doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers, teachers, nursing home workers, and people in nursing homes.
And that's before the US is taking care of people in meat-packing plants, prisons, the elderly, first responders, frontline workers, and all the other people who are vulnerable due to health reasons according to CDC guidelines.
The US is getting hit harder by covid than most countries. I'd argue that's due to mismanagement of the crisis but the reason why is irrelevant at this point. From a medical standpoint, it's difficult to argue for taking vaccines from a country which is being hit hard and using them instead in a country which isn't being hit as hard. The UK strain is in the US and spreading which is making the problem worse at a very fast clip. The current rate of vaccination, even if it is stepped up, isn't likely to keep pace and get ahead anytime soon.
The UK is in worse shape than the US.
The EU is needing to use the vaccines it's producing to try to get ahead before the UK strain overwhelms them.
Canada will do what it can to be charitable.
So India and China are the two other big producers of drugs in the world that I'm aware of. They both have their own very large populations to vaccinate.
Who the hell knows what China's policies might be? I'd expect them to try to buy favors with doling out their vaccine supplies, maybe even ahead of vaccinating their own people. That's pretty much what they've been doing with the money from their trade surpluses so it's probably not a terrible guess that they'd do the same with their vaccines. But they might surprise us.
I'd expect India to have to use the vast majority of the vaccines they make internally. They have racial and ethnic strife at the best of times. If they add "who gets the vaccine and who doesn't" on top of that, they'll have India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka all trying to burn themselves down to the ground due to all the anger and grudges.
And honestly IMO, every country that can produce the vaccine has an obligation to keep itself intact first. If the country falls apart, vaccine production and distribution will fall apart there as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_pharmaceutical_exports
That's a link to give you an idea of which country both makes and exports drugs regularly. Doesn't give a full picture, obviously, since places like China makes a lot of drugs but uses them internally and additionally makes a lot of precursors for drugs and exports those.
archer got a reaction from GhostDancer in On This Day in History 6 hours ago
In this day in history was officially my last day of being able to work at a paying job: 15 years ago.
Still thankful that I managed to drive myself home from work without an accident.
(I say "officially" because my workplace lost the paperwork of my exact last day and the Social Security Administration said to call it January 2nd. The actual date was sometime at the beginning of January. I nearly killed myself trying to drag myself to work when I wasn't really able to drive, couldn't do the work after I got there, and had to leave early to drive myself home in a harrowing experience...for several days in a row before I finally had to give up and admit that I wasn't capable of physically or mentally doing my job anymore.)
archer reacted to Pattern Ghost in Do you feel....lucky??? 11 hours ago
If I had the same luck with the lottery as getting weird ass medical conditions, I'd already be a millionaire.
archer reacted to Lord Liaden in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules) 20 hours ago
I think part of it, as I wrote earlier, is that they were treating the whole thing like a game, not seriously thinking about being killed. They were also caught up in the passion of the moment. Now they've cooled off, and reality is knocking very hard at their door. They were also part of a pack, and probably felt safety in their numbers. But each of them is facing these charges alone.
archer reacted to Cancer in Superdraft: The completely unasked for "I want to be a -" fantasy (?) draft 20 hours ago
Threat to the World: They're out to steal our air!!
Dark Helmet, from Spaceballs
archer reacted to Certified in Free Adventure Seeds 20 hours ago
This was one of the hardest adventures I've written in some time. That is to say, it was difficult for me, not that it's a brutal dungeon crawl. Although, the events are of course dangerous, and the stakes continue to escalate as this is weirdly the third part of a trilogy I didn't know I was writing. Quadrilogy if you include our 2019 Christmas adventure.
Adventure Seed: Empire America
https://housedok.com/empire-america/
archer got a reaction from wcw43921 in Funny Pics II: The Revenge Yesterday at 08:51 AM
I'm sure you're aware that a lot of people hit the sauce during wartime.
Even in peacetime, its about the only way to get the last bit of the sauce out of the bottle.
archer got a reaction from TrickstaPriest in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules) Yesterday at 05:24 AM
They've willfully ignored everything about Donald Trump since spring of 2015 unless the facts just happened to fit in with what they want to think about Donald Trump at any particular moment.
If you go on to social media right now, you'll find posts from real US citizens saying "Trump is the best president the US has ever had", "Trump is a good Christian man, why are they persecuting him?", "Donald Trump is the most honest president the US has ever had".
I'd wager that 90% of them aren't aware that Trump has ever thrown anyone under the bus and that the other 10% only think Trump throws people under the bus because they did something to deserve it.
So why would any of them even vaguely suspect that there's the slightest possibility that Trump would throw them under the bus?
I haven't tried to go on to Parler but I wouldn't be shocked if the people who marched from the Trump rally to Capitol Hill were telling each other, at this very moment, how that they saw Trump right there in the crowd next to them marching to the Capitol, just like he told them that he was going to while standing at the podium.
archer got a reaction from Duke Bushido in Question Yesterday at 05:13 AM
Yeah, I've learned to not Google "Adult Fantasy" when I'm looking for literature which isn't "Juvenile Fantasy".
archer got a reaction from Pariah in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules) Yesterday at 04:44 AM
archer reacted to Lord Liaden in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules) Yesterday at 04:28 AM
Legally, no. Open and declared conflict between the armed forces of two or more states or nations, is the legal definition of war. The actions of these people could certainly be argued to be a rebellion or insurrection.
I don't like to sound nit-picky, but the problems the US is experiencing now have been complicated by people throwing terms around without clarifying their literal meaning. And literal meaning is vitally important in American jurisprudence, which strives to restrict the possibility of abuse of the law by setting a clear standard for a particular charge to be met.
EDIT: Also, what unclevlad said.
archer reacted to unclevlad in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules) Yesterday at 04:28 AM
And it fits the definition of sedition, and seditious conspiracy, perfectly. I also agree that this didn't come close to what I'd call "levying war." No one's going to be charged with treason.
Trying to overthrow the government is NOT an act of war. It is an act of insurrection. That one's not even close.
Besides, for the worst provocateurs, you've got seditious conspiracy and felony murder. Felony murder is itself a death penalty offense.
Might sound like we're being pedantic but this is law. Words have very specific legal meanings, and tests for what qualifies for certain offenses. This is not treason.
archer got a reaction from unclevlad in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules) Yesterday at 04:06 AM
They're, by the legal definition, engaged in a seditionist conspiracy. 20 years maximum sentence on that charge alone.
Treason would be almost impossible to prove unless it could be proved that they were knowingly working as tools of the Russian government to overthrow the US government and give control to Trump.
archer reacted to Pattern Ghost in Superdraft: The completely unasked for "I want to be a -" fantasy (?) draft Yesterday at 03:23 AM
We all need Samantha Carter, my friend. Unfortunately, the wife won't permit it.
archer got a reaction from Duke Bushido in Jokes Yesterday at 03:03 AM
Joke Noir:
I was working on a case. It had to be a case, because I couldn't afford a desk.
Then I saw her through the window. This tall blond lady. She must have been tall because I was on the third floor.
She rolled her deep blue eyes at me. I picked them up and rolled them back.
We kissed. She screamed. I took the cigarette from my mouth and kissed her again.
There was a tap at the door. I thought "funny place to put a tap" so I turned it, and to my surprise, the door opened.
There stood a redhead. Nothing more, just a red head. Then up the stairs strode a brunette, she took my hand. I asked for it back.
She told me of a friend who was dying, so I decided to go and see him. We took the lift to the ground floor. It was rather heavy, but we got there eventually.
I said to the porter, "Call me a taxi." So he said "Sir, you're a taxi." The taxi pulled up with a jerk. The jerk got out and we got in.
We arrived at the dying man's house, where I discovered he had swallowed a chicken bone. I said "does it hurt?" and he said "only when I laugh." So I told him a joke and he died laughing.
archer reacted to zslane in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase Three and BEYOOOOONND Yesterday at 01:59 AM
Thor could have spent his days building an Asgardian-style "fortress of solitude" for himself somewhere in Scandanavia. I would have preferred a Thor single-mindedly obsessed with building some giant structure in homage to his lost people and lost realm than a Thor wallowing in pity and serving as the focal point for farce.
archer reacted to Jhamin in Champions Universe reference help Yesterday at 01:56 AM
He was always a bit outlandish, but I always thought he was fun in a Rocket Racer/Vibe/Dazzler/"way too topical hero" kind of way. Ninjas were cool, Crocodile Dundee was popular, why not combine them?
Love him or hate him, He is a *ton* more memorable than some of the other 4th edition Champions like Jaguar or Quantum.
archer got a reaction from Christopher R Taylor in Human Torch Yesterday at 12:05 AM
She's a known mutant.
Maybe that's her Distinctive Features.
archer got a reaction from IndianaJoe3 in Better ways to do Tractor Beams? Saturday at 11:49 PM
Obviously not familiar with the definition of "typically".
One of the Star Trek books, the non-bridge crew heroes were stranded on an over-powered towing ship which technically didn't have any weapons. The bad guys had hijacked the Enterprise and were about to escape.
They grabbed one of the warp nacelles of the Enterprise with one tractor beam and grabbed onto the planet with the other. And let the Enterprise twist it's own warp nacelle sideways as it tried to leave.
Of course they had to later explain their actions to Captain Kirk, and worse to Scotty. But still better than letting the bad guys get away.
I've always thought that was a real RPG maneuver which you rarely see written up in fiction.
archer reacted to Christopher R Taylor in Talents Saturday at 11:46 PM
Honestly that is a real concern for me with my Jolrhos stuff. I want to present a full campaign, without the rules on the assumption that everyone has FHC to start with. But its gonna be like 6 big books total to get everything. I mean you get all that and you're set with a full fantasy world and campaign with everything you need to build anything, plus a half dozen adventures in print but... that's a lot of money to expect people to invest in, too. I try to keep the cost down, but there's a limit to how low I can price stuff, especially the print.
Once I get it all out, maybe I'll do a Jolrhos Lite thing, one book with the very basics stripped way down, and the rules. But Hero changed how they allow rules reprints, I don't think you can do them solo, it has to be an official Hero product. Like Western Hero, where its one book for everything
archer got a reaction from Spence in Better ways to do Tractor Beams? Saturday at 11:43 PM
archer got a reaction from Spence in A ship-building system? Saturday at 11:17 PM
One thing I saw recently, I think on JmOz's website, was a hero's motorcycle defined as Running bought through an OAF.
Frankly I've disliked dealing with small vehicles like motorcycles using vehicle rules and really like the idea of dealing with them as being a special effect.
Yeah first edition FH was a self-contained campaign and game. It was distinct from D&D, feeling more like DragonQuest from SPI, where there is magic, but its more a low fantasy Medieval setting. I liked the feel of it, and was strongly pulled in that direction when thinking about publishing a game but renaming basic powers feels unnecessarily complicated no matter how good a Fantasy sense it gives.
archer reacted to Lord Liaden in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules) Saturday at 09:17 PM
Patriotism is supposed to be loyalty to a country, to the best interests of the whole. Too many Americans today seem to think it means loyalty to one man. And it's even more misguided for it to be to that man, of all people.


Since many types of kanji in shikona are related to the nature as we have seen so far, several of them stand for plants. Rikishi whose shikona is associated with plants don't look so powerful but look stylish and elegant. Rikishi who are good-looking or do grandstand wrestling often used this kanji as part of their shikona. In other words, many of popular rikishi liked to use this kanji. Their flowery shikona gave a great influence on their own popularity especially among female fans. It was 1957 when the monthly salary system was adopted by Professional Sumo Association and rikishi started to take fixed monthly salary. Before this system, the income of rikishi depended on their own capability of attracting people to the venues. Good-looking and popular rikishi among ladies tended to use kanji for beautiful flowers or plants as part of their shikona regardless of their actual strength.
"花" is the kanji which directly expresses the beauty of flowers. This kanji also represents all forms of plants. This kanji was most commonly used as part of shikona before, but now is less often used. This may be because kanji for animals has become more popular as part of shikona than that for plants.
Cherry blossoms are the representative flowers of Japan. This kanji has been traditionally very popular among rikishi and so often used as part of shikona. As you know, rikishi wear a topknot on their head just like samurai as they are supposed to follow "Samurai Spirit". Cherry blossoms fully bloom in a short time and fall very soon after that. Thus the life of cherry blossoms is short and has something in common with that of samurai.
"桜" is a new Chinese character form while "櫻" is an old one.
Pine tree is culturally defined as a good-luck inviting plant here in Japan. You can see Japanese houses decorated with bamboo branches at the gate for praying for good luck on New Year's Days. Most Japanese people customarily like to follow good-luck inviting activities and so do rikishi. Until a little ago, many rikishi liked to use this kanji as part of their shikona, but now just only a few rikishi use this kanji. This may be because an idea that this kanji represents good luck has become out-of-dated.
You may think that leaf ("葉") sounds too plain as kanji for shikona. Leaf doesn't bloom just like cherry blossoms. However, this kanji reminds us of one of the historically great rikishi, "双葉山" (Futa-Ba-Yama). This Yokozuna accomplished a monumental and unbreakable record of 69 straight victories in 1939, and so he has been regarded as the strongest rikishi in the history of Professional Sumo. Thus, he was excellent in strength and also splendid in graceful carriage and courtesy on dohyo. Later, people have attributed the long-lasting popularity of Professional Sumo to Futabayama.


If you're at Blockbuster and all the Oscar contenders are checked out, and you're reduced to considering a Pauly Shore marathon, then I have a movie suggestion for you: "A League of Ordinary Gentlemen," released on DVD last year. Yes, "ordinary" gentlemen. I know how ridiculous this is going to sound, but it's about the revival of the Professional Bowlers Association and it's terrific stuff. Really. It even has an intriguing business/management backstory.
In 2000, three former Microsoft executives bought the PBA for a mere five mil. (That's probably less than the rounding error when figuring Bill Gates' net worth.) They immediately hired a Nike exec, Steve Miller, to be the CEO, and the filmmakers are there to document many of his meetings and speeches, making him one of the stars of the documentary. Sure, the plot revolves mostly around the bowlers, but I was riveted by the CEO. I kept wondering how anybody, especially some former Microsoft guys, could pick this blathering egomaniac.
OK, so maybe it was just me. After all, I was feeling a smidge testy because Mrs. Dauten repeatedly opined as to how the PBA's leading bowler, Walter Ray Williams, a guy with a degree in physics, was "so incredibly boring" and "a personality gutter ball", remarks that put me off, commencing as they did just as I had been thinking that he reminded me of me.
That statement, however, was an improvement over his remarks in his first pre-season meeting with the bowlers, where he builds to these final sentences: "Let me close with one last comment. Together, we got a chance. Separately, we have no [bleep]ing chance whatsoever. So either we're in this together, or you can kiss my [bleep]. Thanks. Have a good day, fellas." He immediately received a "standing ho"; that is, scattered ho-hum applause as people stood up and looked for the bagels or the exit.
Gifted bosses know how to separate themselves from the performance, and know that their success is what they communicated, not what they said. There's a philosophy of business in that, of life.
So while the movie worked toward bowling's World Championship, I was waiting to see it they had those "what became of" title cards at the end. While I won't impinge on the main plot by telling you what became of the bowlers, I will tell you that the epilogue includes this: "Under Steve's leadership, the PBA's ratings continue to climb. However, pro bowling has yet to reclaim the cultural prominence it once enjoyed." Ah, the power of "however." And I can add another one: However, while Miller is still on the PBA's board, he has since resigned as CEO.
Dale Dauten is the founder of The Innovators' Lab. His latest book is "(Great) Employees Only: How Gifted Bosses Hire and De-Hire Their Way to Success" (John Wiley & Sons). Please write to him in care of King Features Syndicate, 300 W. 57th ST, 15th Fl, New York, NY 10019, or at dale@dauten.com.
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