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Ma55ter_fett wrote:It reads like the ramblings of a Nigerian lobotomized Shakespeare typed into a cellphone with a very aggressive autocomplete function.
greatbigtree wrote:My hope would be a reboot that streamlines the game into unit vs unit rules, instead of model vs model.
I personally dislike having to resolve one attack, followed by the next, and each time needing to check range and LOS. For me, it really bogs the game down.
I would also hope to lower the entry level, rules wise, so I could get my garage group into it.
Megavolt wrote:They called me crazy…they called me insane…THEY CALLED ME LOONEY!! and boy, were they right.
hotsauceman1 wrote:Simple.
Get rid as much math as possible with this damn game. Bonuses, buffs, debuffs, adding dice rolls togtgher, factoring all this stuff together, no matter how good you are, just no...lets get rid of that.
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Overread wrote:I think they can abandon the idea of retiring models and instead approach the idea of resculpting.
Resolved with d12 + modifiers. Instead of boosting, allow a reroll of the d12.
After that effects like, roll an additional die and discard the lowest get translated into a +1 modifier. Additional die rules just add +3 instead, or whatever.
Yes, it flattens a curve, but resolves much more quickly and multiple attacks at a time.
4. Evolution of the SR scenario packet. Id even be looking for 2 separate pack to support both comp and casual play. So a pack of SR style scenarios and an pack of Oblivion style scenarios.
1. Reduction in some SKU's. Not a wholesale cutting but maybe trimming 10%
2. Porting over of the Warcaster terrain rules - Hungerford has already stated this is his wish
3. Removal of facing and front/back arcs – Hungerford has already stated this is his wish
4. Moving to an IGUG system of play?
5. Use of the Kickstarter for pre-releases and pre-orders for any new releases.
3. Moves away from metal to full time plastic and sprues
Right now I think they wish they'd got GW's machines in-house; but that's not likely to happen.
Its already IGOUGO...?
It would be nice if Warmachine had any terrain rules at all... >.> Speaking of which, what are the Warcaster terrian rules? I haven't really dug into the rules of the new game, I'm curious as to how they "fixed" the issues there and what they have done to prevent the playerbase from forcing Warcaster back into the realm of 2d cutouts.
They need to kill SR entirely. Do away with it and any other comp format. The game should be competitively playable "out of the box" with scenarios that appeal to casual/narrative players and competitive players alike. At this point the SR packet is a crutch keeping them on life support, its the reason casual players don't want to play the game and its what enables the competitive base to continue alienating them.
Sunno wrote: Overread wrote:I think they can abandon the idea of retiring models and instead approach the idea of resculpting.
I don't see why it cant be both. IMO I don't think that PP can afford the output to resculp lots and lots of models and bring them over into plastic.
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Sunno - I agree with your list of points so, so much! Where are you hearing what Hungerford is thinking, is that through Twitter or some sort of stream? Nice to see it's at least on their radar. Makes me hopeful, and want to hang onto my stuff just in case this really could happen in a year or two.
Overread wrote:I could see them retiring characters with specific forms where the old and new form have the same base size. At that point they've no so much removed a character as just consolidated them so that you could use either model.
Legion of Everblight there's 3 or so versions of Lylith that are all hard with a bow on a base that could easily just be one version then have her on her sledge as a second; that's cut the casters in half already for her.
It's a nice way to "remove" a model without actually invalidating the old sculpt. You're just changing its relationship and use in the game itself.
Overread wrote:I think they can abandon the idea of retiring models and instead approach the idea of resculpting. That allows them to release new and shiny updated models (its been over ten years for many of the early models) and sell them much in the same way as GW has managed to keep Marines going for decades with the same core block of models.
I think that is better than telling the "old guard" that half their collection is now worthless in one big swoop. If you're going to remove do it in small stages - one or two models here and there - alongside resculpts and releasing new models. If you take someone's toys all away they lose faith; if you remove one or two and replace and update they are more likely to remain and invest further.
They'd started this with their plastic shift, but it backfired as their plastics were just not popular and not suitable. Right now I think they wish they'd got GW's machines in-house; but that's not likely to happen.
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Deadnight wrote:Once they were a unique 'heavy' infantry type, as khador didn't do light jacks. Now, everyone does light Jacks, AND has multi wound heavy infantry
chaos0xomega wrote:I expect that Warcaster is a test-case for potential future updates to Warmachine/Hordes
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LunarSol wrote:The system is similar to Crisis Protocol and VERY similar to Monsterpocalypse and you're seeing those games start to enter a period of "list building" despite their sideboard nature. Both have grown to the point where there are enough options to where the sideboard nature does not preclude list building as a concept.
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1. Re: GLCD 128 *64 Psoc5HeLi_263931 Mar 19, 2015 4:08 AM (in response to userc_41497)
The Creator library for graphical display is designed more for displays without internal controller. I think you need to roll your own code.
I found some sample code here: http://www.toughdev.com/2013/11/experimenting-with-st7920-128x64.html . You can use either parallel or SPI connection - the parallel one might be easier for a start (and it can do even 4-bit-mode).
2. Re: GLCD 128 *64 Psoc5userc_41497 Mar 19, 2015 9:05 AM (in response to userc_41497)
Thanks very much for your help agradescoIt is the first time I meet some infoor something with this code on such GLCDthis invalidation is a big helpto begin with, thank you very much .

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9 Books To Ease The Pain Of Graduating
Welcome to the world, guys. Welcome to internships that pay you in stolen office supplies, 17 roommates (eight of whom are unskilled musicians and three of whom smell like sadness), and a void of meaningless. It's great! Maybe you're one of those people who majored in engineering like President Obama told you to, or maybe you're just filthy, filthy rich. Go away. This is article is not for you. No, it's for us poor fools — the English majors, the wannabe actors, the ones who chose Latin to fulfill our language requirements. People like me who graduated from college and realized in about four seconds that we had no idea what we were going to do with our lives. Or how to pay rent.
For us, the years after college are terrifying. Before graduation, we were interesting. We were translating Anna Karenina. We were protesting the war in/on [insert your war here]. We were fooling around with our Latin TAs. Suddenly we are living in our mother's basement. We're eating ramen for every meal. We're being turned down for jobs that pay... WHAT? SERIOUSLY? NUMBERS GO THAT LOW?
I was there once... by which I mean until about 15 minutes ago. But after a few years of staring into the void, I figured out I wanted to be a writer, and am contentedly trying to make a go of it. I promise that do find that thing that gives you purpose. But first, you flail. And if you think that flailing means you're doomed to fail, you're wrong. Here's the proof: there are thousands of geniuses who first fell flat on their faces. These are just a few.
Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer
Lucille Ball was a second-rate actress in B movies until she convinced CBS to let her try her hand at television. She was 40 years old when the first episode aired, which makes her getting I Love Lucy made an even greater accomplishment — back then older women had trouble getting acting parts. Pssh, thank God that's over....
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Alan Turing's genius knew no bounds — he was a pioneer mathematician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and marathon-runner. You know, one of those people that makes you hate yourself for existing. But! He spent much of his academic career struggling to pass and had to apply to university more than once. And you better believe he didn't come up with his spinny-wheel, code-cracker, Nazi-ass-kicking machine all in one go. He flailed like all the great ones do.
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef behind Prune, one of New York City's coolest tiny restaurants (and that is saying something, considering, well, New York.) She also won Best Chef in NYC from the James Beard Foundation, the Oscars of food. However, she spent much of her youth completely lost, angry and resisting the pull of the kitchen.
Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet by Barry Miles
He made floundering his life work! Allen Ginsburg lived and breathed the world of the beatniks. We remember them as black turtleneck-clad hipsters who liked to snap their fingers for claps. But Ginsburg was realer than that. He liked heroin, bumming around New York City and shoving unpleasant truths in his readers' faces. Ginsburg's poems are big odes to floundering. And it worked out for him — well, mostly — so why not give it a shot?
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld
It took him years to figure out he wanted to do... which was want pretty much nothing. This book tells of Gandhi's years in South Africa where he first learned that he wanted to be more than a lawyer, that he wanted to help people become free. He didn't just inherently know how to wield the power of non-violence. He learned it in his successes and failures. Becoming Gandhi took a long time.
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
So if you want to do something creative after college, you'll probably end up with a day job to pay the bills. And at some point you will serve a latte to someone you went to college with. Or pick up her dog's poop. And you'll feel like a failure. But take heart, it isn't true. Before the author of this memoir became a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, he worked in a hotel, on the docks, in warehouses, and worst of all, at the post office. Day jobs are where you'll find the suffering that inspires you later. Trust me.
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts
Let's just say he's not famous for the Model A, Model B or Model C. If you're a trial and error kind of person... you're in good company.
My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
Julia Child went from spy to master chef. During and after World War II, Child worked for the OSS (which would soon become the CIA). It was as a spy that she travelled across the Atlantic and met the man she would marry. When she left the life of the double agent, she floundered. She struggled again to find a meaning in her life. Thankfully for all of us, she found it in Paris. And butter. So I would encourage you not to limit yourself. Be like Julia — have two baller careers. Have three! You want to be the first ever interpretive dancing astronaut to make her millions on Wall Street? Do you. Just do you.
Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography by Susan Cheever
The book that made Louisa May Alcott was one she never wanted to write. She did it because her family was poor and they needed the money. So, at the behest of her publisher, at age 36, she wrote the pseudo-memoir that would enchant 7-year old girls for generations to come. You've got 14 good years to figure out how the hell to write about your crazy family. You're gonna be fine.
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Lunchtime Book Club
Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 11:00am - 12:00pmBranch: The Crossings Branch
Venue: The Crossings Branch: Meeting and Study Area
Are you a student at Chinook High School who loves to read?
Join our lunchtime book club and share what you're reading! We meet once a month (with cookies!) and talk about whatever we're reading. You'll also get first dibs on new books to take home.
Library Program: Teen Programs
Every month, we run a bunch of fun, free teen programs at the library. We do all sorts of crazy stuff: movie marathons, crafting afternoons, Wii games on the big screen, board game challenges, magnetic poetry haiku death matches, drama workshops and more!
If you're in grades 7 - 12, you should join us for our awesome events.
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Mobile phone reception on Coll
There are currently (Oct 2020) two operational mobile phone masts on Coll with a third in the pipeline.
EE operate from both masts (soon to be all three).
Vodafone and O2 only operate from the mast on the hill in the middle of Coll.
All three of EE's masts have battery and diesel generator backup. Vodafone and O2 only have short-life battery backup.
Those are the facts presented in an unbiased way, please make of it as you will.
However, that's not the whole story. Most reception on the east coast of Coll, from Sorisdale down the wilderness coast to Arinagour village and beyond to Hyne, receive mobile signals from Mull - not as many believe, from Coll's initial mast in the centre of the island.
From the airport around to the the west coast and as far north as Windy Gap is served by Coll's first mast. Many places also receive from Tiree.
Sadly, there are still many places where there isn't a signal, or it's too week (mainly a Vodafone thing), particularly on beaches and in hollows.
The new mast, about to be erected on Windy Gap, will serve the east end of Coll from Gallanach to Sorisdale but only for those on EE; and, apparently, it's very unlikely any other provider will be allowed to use this mast.
On the face of it, it may appear EE offers the best option. However, their Arinagour mast (and probably their soon-to-be-erected mast at Windy Gap) only transmit on 1800 MHz, frequencies only available to EE contract phones - and not on Pay-As-You-Go deals - and not available to other phone suppliers that piggy-back off EE towers (see MVNOs link).
Coll's first mast, in the island's centre (well almost central) transmits on 800MHz and 1800MHz .
The situation is dynamic with improvements all the time, so please keep an eye on this page. I'll do my best to update as soon as I get any information but real information i.e. not social-media gossip, is sometimes difficult to come by.
MVNOs: a guide to virtual networks (which network your mobile phone works on)


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We've been breeding American Paint Horses based on old foundation lines. The horses have been derived from famous, well-known cutting and cowhorse lines. No less than the following stallions passed on to our foals: QT Poco Streke - Mr San Dancer - Mr San Peppy - Doc O'Lena - Hollywood Dun It - TopSail Cody - Jessie James and so on .
Our main focus has always been on healthy, strong and balanced horses, that can be handled by both: the leisure rider and the ambitious show rider. Preferably, the horses would be working ranchhorses, but sometimes a cutter or reiner came through.
All our horses are tested by Etalon Diagnostics, UC Davis & Laboklin: GBED n/n - HERDA n/n - HYPP n/n - MH n/n - OLWS n/n - PSSM n/n - MYHM (IMM): n/n
All mares are registered premium broodmares. Girls and boys equal have their own performance records. They include the following titles: World Show Qualifier - European Champions - German Champions - Bavarian Champions - Grand Champions - multiple High Point Champions and so on...
We will announce the location of the stallion in November. American Paint Horse and American Quarter Horse mares welcome. Breeding terms and fee are to be announced soon!


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Following last month's sharply upward revised jobs report, whose initial negative print of -33,000 was since revised to a positive 18K, there was a sharp jump in October jobs, which while failing to meet consensus estimate of a +310K print, was still a solid +261K. But which jobs contributed the most? The answer, not surprising, is that the single biggest contributor was the same job category which was devastated in the previous month.
Readers will recall that last month we pointed out that workers in "food service and drinking places" aka waiters and bartenders, suffered their biggest drop on record, plunging by a whopping 111K. Well, one month later it's payback time, and according to the BLS, 88,500 waiters and bartenders found jobs in October, as the "plowhorse" sector of the so-called recovery found its spark. As shown in the chart below the monthly increase in waiters and bartenders was a record.
Putting this number in context, the record increase in "food service and drinking places" jobs was a whopping third (34%) of all the 261K jobs added in October.
There was another amusing observation. As we said last month, "we find it delightfully ironic that in the one month in which waiters/bartenders lost the most jobs on record is when average wages (allegedly) soared" and added that "the September drop will be revised and move higher next month. After all, many people fleeing Florida and Houston had to stay in hotels and motels, for example. And certainly eat out more."
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of course, the other implication is that with tens of thousands of minimum wage jobs coming back, average hourly earnings would tumble, and - lo and behold - that is precisely what happened, with the worst monthly wage print since June 2015, as AHE actually declined by 1 cent in October.
Some other October jobs highlights:
- Goods Producing jobs: +33K, slightly better than expected, with the last month revised higher from +9K to +18K. Much of this is due to damage repairs from the Hurricanes, which has invigorated the manufacturing sector, which added 24K jobs.
- Trade, Transportation: +6K, weaker than expected, due to an 8.3K drop in retail trade jobs as Amazon continues to decimate the bricks and mortar sector.
- Professional Services: +50K, better than expected, and driven largely by an 18.3K jump in temp workers, which traditionally is seen as harbinger of strong labor demand, however in recent years this has become a chornic component of the labor force, as increasingly more employers settle for temp workers instead of full-timers.
- Education: +7.6K, in line with expectations
- Healthcare: +21.5K, slightly weaker than expected as only 12K social assistance jobs added
- Government: +9K. No hurricane impact and in line with expectations.
- Information: -1K. A surprising, continuing decline (following -3K jobs lost in September), in what has traditionally been one of the best paying job sectors.
- Leisure/Hospitality: +106K, much higher than expected, and very hurricane impacted. The sole contributor here was the abovementioned surge in waiters and bartenders.
Below is a breakdown of the monthly changes across the main job categories in September:
And from Bloomberg, here are the industries with the highest and lowest rates of employment growth for the most recent month. Additionally, monthly growth rates are shown for the prior year. The latest month's figures are highlighted. Wage


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Insomniac Games, developers of classic franchises like Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank, and Resistance is back with a brand new explosive game called Fuse.
The third person shooter stars four misfits brought together as clean up crew called Overstrike 9. They specialize in cleaning up messes that need a specific skillset that the average janitor just doesn't have, the type that involves neutralizing enemies that shoot back.
The four members come from four wildly different backgrounds: Dalton the mercenary, Naya the assassin, Izzy the hacker, and Jacob detective. Each character carries a special fuse weapon and has access to a unique skill tree. Players are able to traverse the environment, like climbing walls and hanging from ledges, to travel or to gain the tactical advantage in combat
The game can be played alone on the single player campaign or with up to three friends on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. In single player, gamers can "leap" between characters, allowing them to control the best character for the job. In multiplayer, gamers can play the co-op campaign or fight it out against the hordes in Echelon mode. Echelon mode provides a deadly new twist on the classic horde mode gameplay by givings players a variety of objectives that must be completed. Each character's skill tree and experience is seamlessly carried across all three modes of play.
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VERO BEACH, Fla–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Watercrest
Senior Living proudly announces Carina
Saladino, Executive Director of Watercrest
of San Jose Assisted Living and Memory Care Community, as a featured
guest on First Coast Living, a live community news show airing weekdays
on Jacksonville's First Coast News.
Saladino joins First Coast Living to educate a new generation of seniors
and their adult children on senior resources and to answer questions
regarding benefits, home care, nutrition, transportation needs as well
as the much anticipated opening of Watercrest
of San Jose Assisted Living and Memory Care Community this summer.
The 79,000 square foot, 90-unit Watercrest luxury senior living
community set along Goodby's Creek in Jacksonville, is currently
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under construction at 9075 San Jose Boulevard.
"Appearing on First Coast Living has been an incredible opportunity to
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Director of Watercrest of San Jose. "As we prepare to open Watercrest of
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The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a controversial new bill that allows the US Government to comprehensively shut down websites committing online piracy.
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) will essentially allow the US government to seize the domain of any website found to be hosting copyright infringing material. The government will also hold the power to order ISPs to block access to such websites.
According to PC Mag, the bill, proposed by Senator Patrick Leahy, was approved by the committee after a serious round of lobbying by the representatives of content providers like Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Motion Picture Association of America said in a statement: "We believe that Congress and the administration can make a significant contribution to that effort by turning the Leahy-Hatch bill into law and giving law enforcement significantly enhanced tools for addressing a threat that deprives American innovators of the fruits of their labours and menaces our nation's economic health."


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Comprising of entire refurbishment of an old night club, this space provides a very individual approach to a design studio. Feature mater...
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Clemenger BBDO knew what it wanted from its new office in Sydney, Australia. First and foremost, the advertising agency required a workpl...
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Last month, I bought a 320GB Crucial M4 SSD for my MSI FX603-064US notebook.Performance is excellent, couldn't ask for more, especially given the bottleneck, the SSD is designed for SATA3, my MB is SATA2.But I have a concern. I've read forum posts & articles that states that it's not good to run VM's on a SSD, even in the Data partition, where it now is. I have an XP MCE VM running via VirtualBox, mainly for testing & using XP from time to time. It also performs excellent on the SSD,boots as fast as my main install (Win 7 Pro x64) does.
First off, is it true that running a VM on a SSD is hard on it, or is that a myth? I only run it (the VM) 2 or 3 times a month.
Secondly, if so, can I run my VM on a USB3 Flash Drive, such as this one?
Can I install VirtualBox VM onto a USB3 Flash Drive?
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"Bump"! Does anyone have any answer(s) to my concerns here?Actually, I'd like to buy the USB3 Flash drive & do this, but would like to hear from anyone who has. USB3 should be faster than the original 5400rpm mechanical HDD that was in the computer when bought.
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Introduction: Sara's Diet
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I finished the manuscript, typed on a word processor with two fingers, and had it copyrighted, but Sara's story was incomplete without the additional knowledge of whether it was an 'isolated' occurrence or whether others could get the same or similar results. I received inquiries and people began to receive copies of Sara's diet: Portia Iverson before there was CAN (Cure Autism Now), Adair Renning who waited a while before she tried the diet with Asia. A woman called who had been advised to place her son in residential care - she was willing to try anything. Her son is now 'symptom free'. Jean's son improved. Debra stopped trying to feed her son all those colored vegetables. Jean and Debra went to work with Feingold Association to write articles for their Newsletter. Another parent began who had a 2½ year old son - he too is now declassified. A little girl in Iowa was started on the diet and a year later she passed the diagnostic testing to enter regular kindergarten without needing any special services. Her doctor is said to have stated "If one more parent of an autistic child says dietary intervention to me I am personally going to spank their bottom."


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SHAWNEE, KS Homes for Sale have seen steady price improvement month to month as well as year to year as inventory levels remain at all-time lows.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Cost vs Price in Real Estate
Cost versus Price
Price is really only important to a seller, and that's short‐term price. What are prices going to be the next six months; that's what a seller needs to know. What a buyer needs to know are: "What are my long‐term costs of that house?"
And there's a big difference between short‐term price and long‐term cost. Now, I know price goes into the cost equation, of course it does, but so does interest rate. As a buyer, you really need to understand the difference in costs of the house based on price and interest rate.
Now, when we talk about interest rates, we can see that they're still falling. They've been falling for two years now. That's what has made housing so affordable for so many, but things might be changing, ladies and gentlemen. As a matter of fact, at the last mortgage bankers' conference held last month, and this is a report that came out of that: "After reaching record lows in 2012, mortgage rates are expected to creep up slowly in the year ahead," the Mortgage Bankers Association had predicted. Rates on the 30‐year fixed rate mortgage are expected to average 3.8 by the end of this year, rising to 3.9 by the first quarter of next year and to 4.4 by the fourth quarter of 2013.
So what we're seeing, not gigantic jumps up in the interest rate, but a slow build in the interest rate. You need to understand what that means to your pocketbook. Because if the interest rates all of a sudden spiked up, everyone would be panic‐stricken and jumping off the fence and say "I've got to buy." But if they're creeping up, they could just get higher and higher without people necessarily noticing.
So I put together this table for you, and I started with a $400,000 house. If you have a $200,000 house, cut those numbers in half. But I wanted to show you, even in a depreciating market you should not be just interested in short‐term price, you should be worried about long‐term cost.
So in this table what you can see is even if prices decline and interest rates go up, the monthly mortgage payment, the long‐term cost of that house, continues to rise. This is a table every single homebuyer should pay attention to. I don't care if it's you're a first time homebuyer, or a move‐up or move‐down homebuyer. You should see this, because it really shows you the impact of an increasing interest rate. And what are we basing the increase on? What the Mortgage Bankers Association just predicted; that's important. Now, this again is showing in a depreciating market.
But ladies and gentlemen, there are three reports out right now. The Home Price Expectation Survey, says that this year coming up, in the next year, 2013, prices will go up 2.44 percent. The National Association of Business Economists said that prices in 2013 are going to rise 2.8 percent. And the Wall Street Journal Economic Survey, the economists they surveyed, say that prices in 2013 are going to rise 3.25 percent.
So if any of you are waiting for the bottom of the market, it's here. It might have already passed. If any of you are in rentals right now but would enjoy the benefits of homeownership you might want to get in before these prices continue to creep up. That's what I'm suggesting to you.
But let's take the smallest increase, 2.44 percent, and let's put that to a table. Let's assume a house today is valued at $200,000. By the end of next year, if we'd look at exactly what I said, the smallest increase of 2.44, that house would be $204,880. It will have gone up almost $5,000. But let's take a look at the interest rates. If what the Mortgage Bankers Association ‐ the people who deal with interest rates every single day ‐ if their projections are accurate and we do hit 4.4 percent by the end of 2013, well, now we've had an increase in price and an increase in interest rate.
Let's take a look at how that affects the long‐term cost of that home. You'll be paying for the same exact house. You'll be paying an extra $127.87 a month. Multiply that out, ladies and gentlemen; that's more than $1500 a year. Over a 30‐year mortgage, that's $45,000. On a $200,000 house you can buy today, if you wait one year, that house can cost you an extra $45,000.
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There's allegations over on Bristol Indymedia that Bristol City Council may be attempting to transfer its council housing stock by stealth to the private sector.
The allegations centre around the role of the council's new Housing Management Board, which supposedly plays an advisory role in the formation of Bristol's public housing policy.
This board currently consists of four councillors, four council tenants and a couple of independents. However it has already run into criticism because the tenants weren't elected to this board by other tenants but selected instead by councillors.
It's also been criticised for taking over the role of the council's own Area Housing Committees, which – while viewed as ineffective and deliberately mired in council bureaucracy – do at least consist of properly elected tenant representatives.
Now the council want to increase the powers(pdf) of their Housing Management Board to provide it with similar powers to an ALMO (Arms Length Management Organisation) or RSL (Registered Social Landlord). Both are considered soft forms of or halfway houses to privatisation.
The fact that the future of Bristol's council housing will soon lie largely in the hands of four unelected council tenants selected by councillors should be cause for considerable concern. The Blogger will be reporting more on this in the coming weeks.


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We had to have one final {flooring} fiasco of course, but it's done. The new flooring is in and we learned how to pull & re-install a toilet -- a skill to last a lifetime :)
In case you can't tell which is before & after, I labelled them ;-)
What we got when we moved in ... stick on vinyl tiles with black goo constantly seeping up in between them. Ick.
Toilet pulled and Dad always has helpers right at hand :)
We had a professional lay the new flooring - hurray! We really wanted something {on the cheaper side} that went with the vintage of the house ... this seemed to sort of fit that. The design includes "distressed" markings. Not totally sure what we think about that, but our motto -- it is better.
I was looking back at photos from when we had a pre-purchase walk-through ... not awful, but I have to admit, I like what we've done :)


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If a tongue appears in any painting to be found throughout history, he has studied it. He is so familiar with the artistic portrayals of the tongue that people say that just by licking a painting he can tell you what year it is from and where the paints were bought.
Professor Blacksy discovered his passion for the art when he was very young with a French kiss. The experience of the contact between tongues seemed so exciting to him that he thought that something that beautiful should be kept forever. Since then, finding the definitive artistic depiction of this feeling has become his life's work.


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In this in-depth conversation, Paul Fremantle - one of the best known middleware innovators and gurus, shares his take on PaaS - the new middleware in the Cloud. Topics covered include:
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This was the first all-white cover that I remember seeing in the science fiction section. Yes, there had been some spy novel and thriller covers that were all white. (James Bama comes to mind. Another artist I'll get to soon.) Even some racy murder mysteries. But none that I felt were as unforgettable as this one.
I'll admit, I didn't read this book. It works so well, this cover still makes me want to read it. That's the goal, of course, but Jeff Jones has gone beyond just giving a taste of the novel. He's taken us somewhere special: to a mystery world that, when given just enough of the right imagery, we start daydreaming about. It's enough to keep us coming back to the cover.
He's taken three items and woven them together—while they are floating. Where's the light source? Doesn't matter here. Jones has portrayed the idea of floating in endless white space through not only the placement of the elements in relation to each other, but in the way they are angled. The body language of the figure tells us he's swimming through ether. The angle of the boots adds a ballet balance to the gesture, while the hand suggests a tenuous need to reach the approaching vessel.
Facing the character away from the audience is usually a cardinal sin in the world of staging, but Jones has only added to the mystery by facing him away. We don't even get to see the astronaut's accoutrement, as his gun is holstered and hidden.
And look! He brought his cat. Even the cat snubs us, as cats are known to do.
This is one of my all-time favorites from Jeff, but perhaps I'm biased. I'm a sucker for astronauts in bubble helmets. Especially with an antennae.
Greg Manchess is an artist living and working in Portland and New York. He is currently writing his first novel.


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The room was a sea of black marble. Black marble floors, black marble walls, black marble ceiling. Paintings adorned the sleek walls, hanging by some invisible thread. The room was immaculately and delicately designed. So delicate that the designer must have known that no child would ever enter this room. In the centre of the room was a statue. A statue of a woman, made of white marble. It stood upon a small tower of black marble. The woman was hunched over and naked.
Her hands clutched her face as her mouth seemed to let out a silent shriek. The finesse of the marble showed her fingers digging into her face, as if the woman was in such agony that she might claw her face asunder. Her hunched body made her breasts hang and come to a point, almost pointing towards the floor. The slim figure had rolls of skin that if she was standing straight up would disappear. The woman's pubic hair was neatly trimmed. Her legs stood shoulder width apart, the folds of her sculpted vagina sitting between her thighs. Her legs were firmly planted upon the black marble. Upon the black marble sat a small gold plaque with the title of the piece 'Object'.
Moving away from the sculpture, behind her some feet away sat a video camera. The camera was pointed upward at the sculpture. Looking through the viewfinder revealed that the camera was pointed directly between the sculpture's legs. Whoever had placed the camera had also attempted to capture the breasts in shot and had just barely managed it. The face was avoided profusely, carefully avoiding the agony of the woman, instead focusing on her body. It was as if her head had been removed from her body. Stepping back revealed the name of this piece to be 'male gaze'.
Moving to the walls, there was a portrait of another naked, young woman screaming. She stared intently at the viewer, whip in her left hand. Her right hand steadied her upon the brick of the well, from which she was emerging. The little white plaque next to it read: 'Truth coming from the well, armed with her whip, to chastise mankind'. The French title followed in brackets.
Turning to see the room again, an old man stood before the 'Object' statue. He looked to be in his nineties. He looked as if he hadn't shaved in ten years and the hair recedes from his bald head and curled around his temples. He had piercing blue eyes and walked with a cane. He wore a ragged, three-piece suit made of tweed.
The old man spoke.
"This is the only way I could capture her. I tried to draw her pretty and resigned, but she resisted. I had to accept the way she wanted to be portrayed"
He walked around behind the sculpture and viewed the pedestal upon which she stood.
"They have the plaques the wrong way around. Subject should be her face, Object should be her back. Though, looking back, even that feels duplicitous. A quiet resignation to Descartes and the art world that followed him. All those bloody drowned Ophelia's, accepting their fate, resigned to the river"
The old man made his way to the camera. Somehow effortlessly he lifted the camera from its place, tripod and all, and began moving the camera to face the woman. He planted the camera on the ground facing the statue. Looking through the viewfinder he adjusted the camera. On the display screen, it now showed the face of the woman, screaming harshly down the lens. The old man did not bother to move the name of the camera exhibit from its original place. Rather he approached the plaque and bent it out of shape. He then went to the pedestal of the statue and removed the 'Subject' plaque. He did so with deft hands and a previously hidden screwdriver.
He then placed the 'Subject' plaque by the camera.
"Subject. Object. Object. Subject"
The old man began to pace between the two plaques.
"Object. Subject. Subject. Object"
The old man then ran from the room as fast as possible. Impossibly fast for a man of his age. He returned just as soon as he had left, sledgehammer in hand. He ran, weapon aloft, seemingly at the statue. Then, on a dime, he stopped right beside the camera and delivered a mighty swing out to his side, smashing the camera. He began beating the camera to a mushy pulp. As he did this, he spoke a mantra of sorts.
"The camera is the problem. The camera creates the image. The image cannot respond. The image is object. The camera is the man. The image is the woman. The only solution is to destroy the camera."
Black plastic debris hit the black marble with furious force. The marble remained unscratched. Despite their similar colour, when the plastic rested on the marble the two could not look more different. The marble deep, the plastic shallow. The old man continued his rage at the camera.
"Subject. Camera. Object. Woman. Subject. Woman. Object. Camera. The object must be destroyed and the subject must take its place."
The old man stopped his crusade against the camera and exited the room quickly again. Returning quicker again he has disposed of the sledgehammer and returned behind the wheels of a wheelie bin. He stopped by the camera and threw away the 'Subject' plaque. He moved to the statue and removed the 'Object' plaque, again with deft hands and hidden screwdriver. He disposed of the 'Object' plaque into the grey-green wheelie bin. Then, from somewhere behind the wheelie bin, he pulled a dustpan and broom. He began to sweep the camera pieces into the dustpan. Soon as it was full he would dispose of it in the wheelie bin. The broken plastic thudded against the soft metal of the plaques. The old man swept and swept, searching the room for any trace of the destroyed camera. Once the marble floor was as clean as it could be, the old man departed.
As the old man exited, he passed the Curator.
"My mess, my art. I clean it up. Fix the broken art" he said to her.
The Curator gave him a nod of understanding and walked into the black marble room. She walked slowly, with the intention of someone who had seen the art a million times and never tired of it. She approached the place where the camera had been moments ago. There was no trace of the camera where she stood. She merely looked up at the sculpture of the woman. Her eyes staring straight into the blank eyes of the sculpture. She smiled.
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Well, Tova has been fine during the days and coughing a little in the colder hours of the morning eg: from 5am onwards.
Once she is up, she stops coughing pretty much.
We have had a heater and humidifier in her room during the night, perhaps that is helping somewhat.
So, no hospital for now.. maybe this really is the beginning of a new non hospital going Tova!
Nissim has been asking how to sign lots of words as Tova mostly communicates with Auslan (she can hear, but for one reason or another does not talk, well she does say aba, ipad and umbrella). He has been asking how to sign 'Nissim', rather than teach him how to finger spell (which Tova knows how to do) Yuval and I looked up the sign for the meaning of his name in English = Miracles. That is now going to be his sign name. We will show him tonight when he gets home from creche.


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I did the above and get the same result.
Any advice?
I'm under the impression I don't need to install the Linux driver just the windows one. It is either not needed or already in the container. Also per your above list I don't need to load the bootrom. Please let me know if I'm wrong on either of those and that is my problem.
You should start another post to ask about firmware flashing problems, this thread is about NTAG213 Simulation
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I'm using the iceman fork in the docker container. I have successfully gotten the hf mfu dump to get me a file ..... test.bin. I successfully got the dumptoemul-mfu script to work to convert my test.bin to test.eml. I figured out how to copy that file from the client folder to just the proxmark3 folder.
I then use the hf mfu eload u test.eml and it gives me the following:
.............................................File reading error
And advice? Is there any way to check the file?
The issue I ran into was that the .eml file had a extra line it. I opened a text editor and removed the line and resaved and then it would load into memory.
hm, Didn't I fixed that one in the converting script? Have to look into it.
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Did you run a lua-script to convert it to eml? Which one?
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I used dumptoeml-mfu.lua
from my fork?
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From your fork inside the docker container if that matters.
I thought I fixed that last new-line in output file in the dumptoemul* scripts,
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Funny, I went through the exact same issue yesterday but I was surprised to see that the dump produced by mfu dump on the official repository ("Dumped 20 pages, wrote 80 bytes") and iceman's fork ("Dumped 32 pages, wrote 128 bytes")
The card is a MIFARE Ultralight EV1 48bytes (MF0UL1101), and I was not able to emulate it successfully.
The second dump contains additional "special block data", placed at the beginning of the file.
I don't precisely know how the emul format works (ASCII representation of the plain memory ?).
There is a default password on the Ultralight card (FF FF FF FF).
Why did the emul format change, and do the emulator needs these "special block data"?
Thats because the icemanfork is special
Naw, that is only part of story, full story goes like this, @marshmellow did some changes in one of his branches on his fork when we were working on MFU commands. Where we wanted to make a "complete" emulation of a UL-EV1 tag, i.e. even GetVersion, GetSign commands is all written in to the dumpfile. Hence it became bigger. So as I took everthing and fixed some other stuff, into my fork.
So @marshmellow never merged his changes into the PM3, so thats why PM3 master is kind of old and has less functionality.
[Obvious selfish brag here]
As is with icemanfork you can make funnier stuff and more stuff and it is make stabil with all code fixes from the Coverity scans. Never mind, just read the changelog and you'll see how much more it can do.
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Ahah, I knew it
(and BTW you guys did a really great job! I hope I could be as helpful and useful as you)
More seriously, the existing script dump2emul-mfu.lua doesn't seem to work properly with these new binary dumps, cf for instance the UID doesn't get dumped in the script (https://github.com/iceman1001/proxmark3/blob/master/client/scripts/dumptoemul-mfu.lua#L94). I will investigate when I find time to see what is going wrong (where are the data placed in the file).
Do you confirm we are able to emulate an Ultralight EV1 (48 bits) as mine?
The process being mfu dump > dumptoemul-u2f > mfu eload u > mfu sim ?
The original though was like that, to make "perfect" emulation, not just data part.
At that time I made some toy-token-readers belive that the PM3 was an exact copy and they were UL-ev1
But that was over a year ago, or it feels like that, so there may be bugs in it still. If you find them, do raise an issue or fix them and make a PR. I usually merge it quite fast.
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And since we "broke" the original dump format, I'm guessing, and didn't have a proper discussion about it here on the PM3 master, is the reason for @marshmellow not to make a PR.
Personally, I would like to a json format style, but thats a complete different matter and topic and should not be discussed here.
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Yeah, the script, dump file format and sim changes were a quick hack. So i never pushed it to the main. Iceman cleaned it up a little for his fork. I think my original ntag fork still exists and was working at the time. I'll look around.
Just want to say a quick thanks to everyone involved in making this emulation happen. I successfully emulated an NTAG213 off the PM3 with a machine that provides a unique key, verifies a unique pack from the tag, then both reads and writes to the protected area of the tag. And all of this worked perfectly to let the machine do its thing without knowing I was emulating.


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Are you considering studying a PhD, but worried about the impact of a disability or chronic illness on your research? If so, it's important not to feel discouraged. Completing a doctorate whilst managing an existing condition can be challenging, but you won't be the first to do so.
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Dyspraxia (a condition affecting motor coordination and sometimes affecting speech) as well as self-diagnosed anxiety difficulties.
I have experienced many challenges as a result of my difficulties. I struggled throughout school and was very uncertain at the beginning of my PhD whether it was 'for me' and I'd be able to cope with the workload.
The first year in particular I found very tough, as I constantly felt like I didn't know what to do (throughout my undergraduate and master's courses there had been a lot of structure, with taught classes and set deadlines for classwork, which suited me). I also worried that everyone else in the department was more intelligent than me. I struggled with the practical elements of the programme and worried constantly that I wasn't making enough progress.
It didn't help that I started the PhD at an odd time, in January, when most of my fellow PhD students had already begun to settle down and make friends, which left me feeling very socially isolated. I was also self-funded for the beginning on the programme, although later gained funding, meaning that I had to try to combine a full time PhD with part time work and I was very concerned about not having enough money.
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I still have my bad days (doesn't everyone?) and sometimes feel intellectually inferior as I think I have a while to go and so much to do before I finish. I also worry that it will never get done, but generally enjoy the excitement and challenge that the PhD brings. Getting to travel to nice places to conferences, publish papers in international journals and know that I am making a significant contribution to a research area which fascinates me makes up for all the bad times.
Things that have helped me include: trying to stick to a routine as much as possible, 'breaking' tasks down into smaller chunks (it sounds – and is! – a massive thing to try to write a thesis, so to make this less daunting I try to focus on smaller tasks, like writing chapter by chapter, or writing the introduction to a chapter if this is too big a task), writing 'to do' lists and ticking these off when done to help me meet my targets and setting myself realistic but challenging targets.
Although I sometimes feel guilty when I'm not working, it's good to take little breaks when I can. I usually try to get some fresh air around lunchtime and this can help get me thinking some more about my PhD ideas. I also try to get adequate rest and sleep, although in practice this is sometimes difficult when I have a lot of work on.
Although I feel I've suffered as a result of my difficulties, there are also times when I think that my problems can have a positive influence on my studies; as I don't enjoy social activities such as clubbing and shopping, this gives me more time to focus on my writing, as I am good at picking up on small details, this helps me spot errors and glitches that other people tend to miss and look at things from a slightly different angle. Also, as I have experienced difficulties myself I think I have more empathy when teaching undergraduate students.
For the first eighteen months I constantly felt like just giving up. However, as time went on, I was able to 'settle in' a bit more, and work out a structured work routine that suited me.
In terms of support, I don't disclose my difficulties to many people, although I went to see the disability service for both my MSc and PhD. They were quite helpful in terms of exam arrangements for the master's, in terms of the PhD, but I felt that there wasn't really much they could do to help me as they seemed more orientated to people on taught courses.
I also disclosed some of my problems to my supervisors, when I felt like I was struggling during the first year of my course, and had some counselling support. It was really daunting for me to see a counsellor as I'm a private person but having some time and space to talk through my difficulties with someone who was understanding and not involved in my life in any other way really helped me.
I'm probably not the best person to give advice, as I find it hard to be open about my difficulties. However, try to take a few breaks if you can, that's really important. Even just a ten-minute walk or something if you have a lot on. You won't miss a lot in ten minutes, and it might refresh your mind and help concentration in the long run.
If you get bogged down with everything you have to do, set yourself little goals and reward yourself when you accomplish them. If you're uncomfortable about disclosing your disability, maybe do so on a 'need to know' basis, even having just a few people who know and understand can have a positive impact on your mental health. Don't be afraid to seek counselling if things get too bad for you to cope with alone (most universities have free services, at least for the short term).
Most importantly, learn to celebrate the successes that you achieve. Doing a PhD is a major achievement for anyone. It can be incredibly stressful, but also incredibly fulfilling.
I'm Vivienne Dunstan. I completed a history PhD at Dundee University 2003-2010 (just under 6 years including a medical break in the middle), researching reading habits in Scotland circa 1750-1820. I've been an honorary research fellow there since, which helps me publish new research in book, cultural, social and urban histories in the 17th to 19th centuries.
I was a science PhD student before then, studying software engineering at St Andrews University, 1994-1996. But I had to leave that science PhD as the illness got too bad, as I'll explain. I then retrained, studying part-time, as a historian.
I have cerebral vasculitis, which is a 1 in a million incidence disease (literally!) causing inflammation in the blood vessels in my brain, and strokes as a result. Day to day the symptoms are similar to multiple sclerosis, which is the easiest way to explain it to people. Problems include severe fatigue, sleeping for up to 18 hours every day, difficulties with confusion, memory, speech, hearing, eyesight, mobility problems including using at least a stick if not my wheelchair, and inability to control my bladder properly. Oh and it makes it very hard for me to read print now. With my Kindle adjusted to large well spaced print I'm ok. With lengthy printed textbooks, not so good.
This disease struck as I was just 22, starting a science PhD. It was very hard to diagnose - there aren't definitive tests a lot of the time for it. Initially it looked like ME, but I was diagnosed properly 3 years later, and discovered that I had a progressive neurological disease. Incurable, but we can try to slow down the progression with aggressive permanent chemotherapy drugs and steroids.
Well I had to leave one PhD because of it. We didn't know exactly what was wrong with me then, but I was finding it harder and harder to put in the hours for a full-time funded PhD. I wanted to switch to part-time study, but the funding body EPSRC couldn't support that. They said take a break, come back when you're better. I had a strong suspicion whatever was wrong with me wouldn't work that way. It didn't. In the end I had to walk away from the science PhD, which was very painful.
After retraining part-time as a historian, picking up bachelors and masters degrees, I had another go at a PhD. The biggest problem I had was putting in the hours. Towards the end of my nearly 6 years part-time I could do no more than 5 hours study total a week, in 1 hour chunks spread throughout the week. I'd be so brain tired after working for just an hour that it would often take me 2 days to recover before I could do any more on my PhD. But I kept going. And I finished. My first supervisor said that he was always impressed by what I did in very little time. I had to work that way. No messing about, no procrastination. It was get on with it, or don't finish a second PhD. I couldn't bear that thought.
As a history student it's normal to spend extended hours - months / years! - in an archive, working through old documents to find evidence and primary sources. I couldn't do that, especially as the disease was worsening over time. I didn't have the stamina to travel to an archive and work there for long periods. Even working in my local university archive wasn't practical. So, instead, I would bring the records to me. I got a lot of photocopies, I arranged microfilms, and my husband digitally photographed old records. This meant I could work on transcribing and analysing these records at home, in my limited good patches. In pyjamas! And then go straight back to bed and rest.
In the science PhD that I left my supervisor was very supportive, but rather helpless in the options available to him. My funding council weren't flexible enough in their policies to help me complete and back then there was little support at my university - though I gather things are better now.
In my history PhD things were much better. Best of all was the support I got from my two supervisors - both main supervisors, the second one taking over after my original supervisor left Dundee to move to Oxford. They didn't need to understand my medical situation, which is rare and complex. All they needed to know was how it affected my study, and what they could do to help. I don't think I could have had better supervisors and support for this second PhD.
I also got help from disability support services at Dundee. Much of this was really just about setting up formal support, if I needed. For example by the end of my PhD any meeting over an hour was impractical: I'd get very tired, slurred speech, confused, and would need to lie down fast! Disability support arranged for my final viva to be restricted to an hour for disability reasons. And they also helped to arrange for it to be in a wheelchair accessible venue, with a nearby toilet if I needed that urgently. Normally the viva would have been on the 4th floor of Dundee's Tower Extension building - the main history location - which is lovely, but has a tight lift, and I'd have to take the lift down to the ground floor to get to the toilets, then back again up to the viva venue. Instead, my viva was held in the basement archives area, which is much more accessible and was much more appropriate for me.
The AHRC, who funded my second PhD, were also very supportive. They permitted me to take a 5 month break for medical reasons, when I was really struggling to cope with what I was trying to do, and needed a break to recharge my batteries and get through to the end. Thank you to them very much. And of course thank you to them for funding me part-time.
I also found Dundee's university chaplain really helpful to talk to when I was going through a very difficult life and death situation. I'm agnostic, so talking to the chaplain may not seem an obvious approach. I said to her I wasn't there for religious reasons, but she respected that, listened, and supported. And because she had a PhD herself she understood what I was going through with that, as well as being able to offer support with life and death issues. I got more help from her than from the university's counselling service, who seemed to struggle to grasp how serious my situation was.
Firstly declare your disability formally with the university authorities. Whether it's physical or mental health, or a mix of the two, don't try to cover it up and cope on your own. You'll probably hit a crisis, and if you've declared it properly - including registering with the university's disability services - you are in a better place to get the help you need. Declaring the illness or disability will also make it easier to arrange a medical break if you need to, and have special circumstances taken into account.
Also be honest with your supervisors about how you are doing. They are there to help you, and they can't help you if you're covering things up.
Finally, be realistic about what you can do. Don't plan based on just your best patches, or how perhaps you were before you fell ill. Make a realistic plan, and work towards completing that way. And adjust your studying style as need be if things change for you along the way. All so you can complete.
And good luck!
Dr. Vivienne Dunstan is an honorary research fellow at Dundee University. You can read more about her experience with cerebral vasculitis at the website of Vasculitis UK and in a specific blog about completing her PhD with the condition. Vivienne also blogs about her research in history and related matters on her personal website.
If you'd like to speak to other students about your experiences or concerns, why not try the helpful community on our postgraduate forum?
You can also read our general guide to studying a PhD with a disability or chronic illness or learn about your legal rights and the availability of disabled students' allowances.
FindAPhD is very grateful to all students who've shared their experiences and advice here. If you'd like to contribute to this page with your own experiences of studying a PhD with a disability, chronic illness or learning difficulty, please get in touch.
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