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Ziptrip: North Side Siblings Develop a New Type of CTA App Leave your old CTA smartphone app in the dust, because these siblings are focused on making Chicago's commute simpler, and help with the No. 11 bus cancellation. Forget the consistently wrong bus schedules and the need to be a seasoned Chicagoan to figure out all the public transportation tricks, because two North Sie siblings have created a tool to make navigating the city a bit more – visual. Shayna Hirsch, 28, and her brother Robert, 31, of Lake View, have spent the last year and a half developing ziptrip, a new smartphone application aimed at smoothing out the sometimes wonky commutes with the Chicago Transit Authority. Unlike current apps with seemingly endless lists of bus stops or a constant need to refresh the app to update the data, the Hirsches created an interactive map that recognizes where the commuter is standing in the city and plots out all the area bus stops. “There are probably a dozen or so CTA apps out there now, most of which are terrible. Well, no, they’re all terrible,” laughed Robert, a graphic designer who created ziptrip’s look. “They’re all exactly the same, and nobody likes using them. So we thought, ‘There’s got to be a better way to do this.’” "We use ziptrip every day, and moving forward with 11 going away, (finding alternative routes) is just something we’re going to have to think about.” Robert said he and his sister Shayna would commute on the CTA every day for work, becoming increasingly frustrated with each app they tried out. Eventually they realized the solution they were looking for didn’t exist, so they created their own. With unique features like the visual map pinpointing buses in real time, as well as reminder settings so commuters can get an alert when their bus is five or 10 minutes away, the Hirsches think their app is simply more useful. And so far, ziptrip users agree. The app currently has a five-star rating in the iTunes apps store, and the duo says they’ve gotten a few hundred downloads since its launch six months ago. However, the two – who also live together – have another motive behind perfecting the app. Shayna says they personally rely on the soon-to-be-cancelled No. 11 bus, so they’ll be using their own app to discover new ways to make their daily commute downtown. “The 11 bus is going away,” Shayna said. “We live at Lincoln and Wellington, and we’re so pissed off about it… We use ziptrip every day, and moving forward with 11 going away, (finding alternative routes) is just something we’re going to have to think about.” Sign up for breaking news alerts in Lincoln Square and check us out on Facebook. Once the buses are cancelled, ziptrip will be automatically updated to not include any discontinued routes. In the meantime, the two are listening closely to the reaction from users. And with the CTA reporting more than 1.6 million riders every weekday, the Hirsches are hoping to hear even more. “The crazy part is that in the last three months, we’ve tripled our downloads and monthly users,” Robert said. “We’re kind of impressed at this point. People are truly liking it a lot.” Ziptrip sells at the Apple iTunes store for 99 cents.

Well said United Future's Judy Turner. I couldn't even be bothered blogging about this silly bunch of meddlers, the National Council of Women. But Judy Turner has given them and the 180 degree party (National) a good burst. “So a report written by the National Council of Women will tell the United Nations that New Zealand is experiencing ‘marked change for the worse’ for women,” she says. “What a load of hogwash. This is simply representatives of the women’s industry trying to justify their roles and push for more funding. They argue that sexist jokes are increasingly common, and more needs to be done. “National had a ‘PC eradicator’ two years ago. Now they are chasing the women’s vote and proposing that the taxpayer fork out to increase the funding given to the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to expand their role and mandate. “I have to say when you look around the world at countries where women are sold and traded like commodities; and rape victims are murdered by their own family in the name of ‘honour’, it’s a little embarrassing that we have a delegation heading to New York to say that sexism is an increasing problem in New Zealand and sexist jokes are common place.” Thursday, July 19, 2007 3 comments: National is a load of crap for caving in on their principles. Most women have a great sense of justice and don't want to look like victims or be teated more equal than men under the law. Who now speaks for them? Sorry to blog of topic but on Newstalk ZB on Wednesday about 2-3pm a guy rang up saying he had 5 kids and was on about $700 pw and he's recently shacked up with a woman with 4 kids on $600pw and he was going to get a job but had now made the economic decision not to go back to work. Unfortunately their recordings failed on that day but I'm trying to get a transcript. I'm sure its just the tip of the iecberg. Are the figures for income distributions of beneficiaries available (without names of course) through the official info act? would creat a hell of a stir. WFF has meant families with many children can be better off not working. There can be no doubt that the scheme will effect productivity sooner or later. Of course if this newly formed couple declare their relationship to WINZ their current incomes will be reduced. I think the big story is the one we can't know about and that is the incidence of 'illegal' shacking up/ claiming two benefits. Since a Court ruling defining what exactly is "in the nature of a marriage" (after which WINZ had to overturn thousands of cases which had previously been deemed as such but no longer were, dis-establishing debts, paying out lump sums)I don't think they vigorously pursue relationship fraud. Too hard to prove the positive. It's getting harder to elicit info through the OIA (from MSD anyway) but some questions could be framed. Hey, how do you tell there's been a blond at the computer? ... Twink on the monitor. (Do I get stoned by the WFF now?)

Being a guy, I know that if you are the hands on type (like me) we tend to define ourselves by the tools that we have. I am going to discuss which tools I think no man should ever go without because of their versatility to work on almost any job. The tools below are any man’s dream to have in his arsenal. Being in the construction business for over the last 30 years, we take our tools and their ability to perform on the job as serious business. With the large variety of power tools on the market it can be mindboggling, but these tools allow us to work faster and increase the number of different jobs that we are able to accomplish. Below, we are going to discuss power tools that will make a difference in performance and reduce fatigue. Makita BDF452HW 18-Volt Compact Lithium-Ion Cordless 1/2-Inch Driver-Drill Kit Cordless Drill No man should ever go without a cordless drill in his collection. This will be your go to tool for many projects around your home. Without it, you’ll be looking like an Amish carpenter as you hand-bore holes at a rate of one per hour. The Makita 18-volt cordless drill-driver weighs only 3.5 lbs. yet delivers up to 450 lbs. of max torque. This little beauty will give you enough oomph to get through any type of reasonable material. Its ergonomic shape fits like a glove for reduced operator fatigue and has a compact lithium-ion battery charges in only 15 minutes for less downtime. Hitachi C10FCH2 10″ Miter Saw with Laser Miter Saw A power miter saw, also known as a chop saw or drop saw, is a power tool used to make a quick, accurate crosscuts. Common uses include framing operations, cutting crown molding, chair rails or decking. Most miter saws are relatively small and portable, with common blade sizes ranging from eight to twelve inches. Hitachi’s 10” miter saw is great for a couple of reasons. It is the lightest in its class at 26.5 lbs. and also has an exclusive laser marking system which can be activated before the blade is in motion for exact alignment and predictable blade placement aiding you in achieving the old adage “measure twice, cut once”. I would recommend saving money and building your own more versatile miter saw table. Building your own will allow you to support longer stocks, frees up works space and keeps the saw at the perfect working height all the time. There are many plans and videos on the internet you can access for building your own table. Milwaukee 6509-22 Sawzall 11-Amp Reciprocating Saw Sawzall Few tools embody the raw destructive force of a sawzall or reciprocating saw. It will cut through most metals and woods like butter. It has a large blade that resembles a jigsaw. Milwaukee makes a sawzall that is the ultimate demolition tool. This bad boy can be equipped to cut pretty much anything with its dizzying array of available blades. Studs, pipes or even sheets of metal don’t stand a chance against this awesome machine. This sawzall is an 11 amp durable and super light machine weighing in at just 7lbs holding the title for the best power-to-weight ratio in its class. Don’t underestimate this small, but really tough, saw that has variable speed trigger that sends the blade from 0-2,800 strokes per minute. It has a rubber boot that provides superior gripping and exceptional accuracy. Paslode 902000 16 Gauge Straight Finish Nailer Finish Nailer A finish nailer is a specific power tool that is categorized as a type of nail gun. The finish nailer is designed to accomplish carpentry finish work quickly and efficiently. As with other types of nail guns, a finish nailer is designed for use with very specific sized nails, which are sold in strips that load into the gun. Inside, a hammer mechanism drives the nails with powered force, making the finish nailer ideal for quickly installing all types of trim from baseboards to crown molding. Paslode’s 902000 Fuel-Powered Cordless 16-Gauge Straight Finish Nailer allows you to never worry about dragging around cords,. It weighs just 4.9 pounds, so it’s easy on the arms. And with a sure-grip handle, it’s comfortable to hold, even during all-day jobs. It can drive 3/4″ to 2-1/2″ 16-gauge straight nails in even the hardest woods, so you can finish doors, molding, paneling, rails, casing and cabinetry work. When you’re tackling a big job, you’ll be grateful for the high-capacity straight-collation magazine, which holds up to 100 nails. DEWALT DC825KA 1/4″ (6.4mm) 18V Cordless XRP™ Impact Driver Kit Impact Driver An impact driver is an ideal choice for tackling a broad range of fastening applications. It is getting a lot of attention these days because it is neither a hammer drill nor a regular drill. It has a smaller condensed profile compared to a regular drill allowing it to have 1,330 inch-pounds of torque. This also means that you are less likely to strip screws and it allows you to drive long screws with minimal effort. This Dewalt driver has a textured anti-slip grip comfort grip that provides maximum comfort and control when on the job. It also has a heavy-duty impacting mechanism that directs the torque to fastener without kickbacks. You can’t go wrong with this machine. DEWALT DW366 7.25″ Heavy Duty Circular Saw with Electric Brake Circular Saw This type of hand held power saw is a basic tool in a carpenter, builder or home renovator’s tool kit. A circular saw is an electric saw that turns a round flat blade to cut wood, metal, or plastic depending on the blade selected. A good circular saw should have enough raw power to slice through everything from wet lumber to dense hardwood without bogging down. For a wide range of carpentry projects, the good old circular saw can be your best friend. Choosing one like the Dewalt DW364 is a good call, in that it has both the power you’ll definitely need and the features you’ll be thankful for, particularly if you get into making some more advanced cuts. The saw is capable of making bevel cuts of up to 50 degrees and its aluminum alloy base means enough durability to make a lot of said cuts. For safety’s sake, this saw is equipped with an electric brake for quick blade halts and features a handle layout that keeps you behind the blade. Porter-Cable 342 1/4-Sheet Palm Sander Palm Sander A palm sander is a type of power sander that can easily be held and operated with one hand. It is often a good choice for a variety of home improvement tasks. The palm sander works by vibrating in a slightly circular pattern. This motion causes a very effective sanding action to occur, smoothing the surface of the wood being sanded. They are considered very versatile and can handle both finish sanding and rough sanding jobs. The Porter-Cable Palm Sander is nice because it has a 2.4 amp motor for power and durability, rubber grip for comfort, a porous polyethylene dust canister that is much more durable than its cloth counterparts and weighs a mere 5lbs..

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LIONS OPEN HOME-AND-HOME SERIES WITH TARLETON STATE SATURDAY A&M-Commerce Lions vs. Tarleton State Texans Saturday, January 26 • 4:00 p.m. The Field House • Commerce, Texas Records: A&M-Commerce (11-7, 4-4 LSC); Tarleton State (9-6, 3-5 LSC) Live Video: LionAthletics.com (powered by Stretch Internet) Radio: KETR 88.9 FM (listen online at KETR.org) Live Statistics: LionAthletics.com Twitter Updates: @Lion_Athletics A&M-Commerce Weekly Game Notes (PDF) Opening Tip After a week-long hiatus, A&M-Commerce returns to the court to close out the first half of the 2012-13 Lone Star Conference schedule, beginning a home-and-home series with rival Tarleton State. The Lions host the Texans at the Field House on Saturday, January 26th, tipping at approximately 4:00 p.m. Lions on the Web Fans unable to make it to the Field House for this Saturday's game against LSC rival Tarleton State can still keep up to date with every A&M-Commerce basket. The showdown with the Texans will be broadcast live on KETR 88.9 FM with Charlie Chitwood on the call, while also streaming live online at KETR.org. Live video of Saturday's game will be available at LionAthletics.com, powered by Stretch Internet, with a subscription required to view the game. Live stats will be available at LionAthletics.com as well with Twitter updates throughout the game by following @Lion_Athletics. Scouting the Texans 2012-13: 9-6 overall, 3-5 Lone Star Conference (T-6th), 0-4 road Last Three Games: W vs. West Texas A&M (65-50); L at Eastern New Mexico (59-56), L at Midwestern State (50-34) Head Coach: Lonn Reisman (Pittsburgh State, 1978). 25th season at Tarleton State (519-224, .698) Key Players: • #20 Coleman Furst (Jr., G): 161 pts. (10.7 ppg), 45.7 FG%, 50.0 3FG%, 76.7 FT%, 36 reb., 28 ast., 17 stl. • #2 De'Andre Upchurch (Jr., G): 160 pts. (10.7 ppg), 39.3 FG%, 33.7 3FG%, 64.5 FT%, 30 reb. • #4 Chuck Guy (Jr., G): 160 pts. (10.7 ppg), 35.3 FG%, 28.3 3FG%, 72.6 FT%, 54 reb., 63 ast., 19 stl. • #22 Brian Word (Sr., G): 123 pts. (8.2 ppg), 39.3 FG%, 32.4 3FG%, 67.9 FT%, 70 reb., 17 ast., 23 stl. • #40 Davene Carter (So., F): 115 pts. (7.7 ppg), 83.3 FG%, 44.1 FT%, 85 reb., 8 blk. Synopsis: Tarleton State enters the weekend with a 9-6 overall record and is 3-5 in Lone Star Conference play, sitting among three teams tied for sixth. The Texans have been tough at Wisdom Gym, posting a 9-2 mark in 2012-13, but have struggled on the road as Tarleton State is 0-4 in road games. The Texans are coming off a 65-50 victory over West Texas A&M on Saturday which snapped a four-game Lone Star Conference losing streak. Series Information: A&M-Commerce and Tarleton State meet for the 56th time Saturday afternoon as the Lions hold a 29-26 edge in the all-time series. However it has been the Texans that have had the upper hand in recent years, bringing a five-game winning streak into the Field House Saturday afternoon as Tarleton State is 7-3 in the last 10 meetings. A&M-Commerce's last victory in the series was an 85-67 win in Stephenville in 2008-09, with the last victory in Commerce coming in a 72-52 decision in 2007-089. Head coach Sam Walker has posted an 8-13 mark against the Texans in his career and is 4-5 against Tarleton State at the Field House. The Week That Was A&M-Commerce went 1-1 this past week, opening with a 67-53 loss at West Texas A&M on Wednesday. As had been the case in recent games, the Lions found themselves in an early deficit in the first half and were unable to complete the comeback. The 53 points was the second-lowest output of the season for A&M-Commerce as no Lions finished in double figures. Andrew Davis and Stefon Carson led A&M-Commerce with nine points each as Davis added eight rebounds as four other Lions finished with six points on the night. A&M-Commerce was able to reverse the trend on Saturday against Eastern New Mexico, racing out to a 23-4 lead in the first half then holding off a late Greyhound rally to earn the 84-77 victory, its 11th-straight win over Eastern New Mexico. Devondrick Walker led the way with 17 points for the Lions with Davis and Quince Jackson each adding 10 on the afternoon, complemented by nine rebounds for Davis. Whitley Becomes Newest Member of Lion 1,000 Point Club While the Lions suffered a defeat at West Texas A&M on January 16th, it marked a milestone night for senior forward Preston Whitley. The Frisco native finished with six points against the Buffs, upping his career total to 1,001 points and becoming the latest member of the Lion 1,000-point club. The 2009-10 LSC North Division Freshman of the Year, Whitley leads A&M-Commerce with 219 points this season, averaging 14.6 points per game while sitting second in free throw percentage (75.6%) and third in three-point field goal percentage (37.8%). He is averaging 10.9 points per game for his Lion career, suiting up in 92 games for A&M-Commerce, and becomes the second player in as many years to join the exclusive club, joining former teammate Brad Hambrick who accomplished the feat during the 2011-12 season. Carson Emerging as Spark For Lions When senior guard Stefon Carson rejoined the team this past season, it provided a spark the Lions had been looking for. Heading into the weekend, Carson ranks among the top-three on the club in six statistical categories, including leading the Lions in minutes played (533). Carson ranks second in points (200), points per game (11.1) and steals (26) while ranking third in free throw percentage (73.8%) and assists (52). The senior from Decatur, Ill., has also notched a pair of single-game bests, including his 26-point performance in the win at Southern Arkansas on Dec. 19th. N'doye Electifies Crowd in Victory Over Greyhounds Senior center Abdoulaye N'doye has emerged as one of the fan favorites in his two seasons in Commerce as the 7-0 center from Dakar, Senegal had his best outing of the season in the win over Eastern New Mexico. While he played just six minutes, N'doye recorded three blocks against the Greyhounds, then had arguably his most memorable moment in a Lion uniform, connecting on a perfectly timed alley-oop dunk from Devondrick Walker as A&M-Commerce pulled away in the second half against the Greyhounds. Keeping An Eye on Allen We are just over a month away from the start of the 2013 Lone Star Conference Basketball Championships at the Allen Event Center. The top eight teams from both the men and women standings qualify, beginning with the quarterfinals on March 6th and 7th, followed by the semifinals on March 8th and the finals on March 9th. If the tournament were to begin today, the Lions would be the fifth seed and would face fourth-seeded Texas A&M-Kingsville in the final quarterfinal session on Thursday, March 7th. Tickets for the tournament are now available by visiting the LSC Championship Tournament Central link at LoneStarConference.org. A&M-Commerce Among Lone Star Conference Leaders With the 2012-13 conference schedule reaching the halfway point, A&M-Commerce continues to rank among the Lone Star Conference leaders in a number of categories. As a team, the Lions lead the LSC in defensive rebounds (26.6 rpg) while sitting second in points per game (76.0), rebounding (38.4 rpg) and assists (15.6 apg), third in steals (7.5 spg) and fourth in free throw percentage (67.6%) and three-point field goal percentage (36.4%). Lions Among Lone Star Conference Top-10 With the 2012-13 season back in full swing, a number of Lions continue to make their marks on the Lone Star Conference leaderboard. Five different A&M-Commerce hoopsters rank among the individual top-10 in eight different categories, led by Andrew Davis, who ranks first in defensive rebounds, third in rebounds per game and fourth in field goal percentage. Jason Smith and Tyrie Wooten also rank among the LSC leaders in a pair of categories as Smith ranks seventh in field goal percentage and ninth in offensive rebounds while Wooten sits ninth in both three pointers made and assist to turnover ratio. Preston Whitley (points per game) and Devondrick Walker (free throw percentage) round out the Lions among the conference leaders. Looking Ahead A&M-Commerce opens up the second half of the 2012-13 Lone Star Conference schedule, playing the second half of the home-and-home series against Tarleton State on Saturday, February 2nd. The Lions make the trip to Stephenville, tipping off against the Texans at Wisdom Gym at 7 p.m. For the compplete weekly release, click the PDF link above

Each part of this dessert was very easy to prepare. For the sorbet, rhubarb was chopped and cooked with sugar and water until tender. That was pureed with strawberries, chilled, and churned into sorbet in my ice cream maker. The next day, I made the custard for ice cream with whole milk, sugar, cream, a vanilla bean, six egg yolks, and vanilla extract. I’ve tried a few different recipes for vanilla ice cream, and I can now gauge how delicious the result will be based on the number of egg yolks used. Six is a lovely number of egg yolks for vanilla ice cream, and it was very delicious. The compote was a simple mix of chopped rhubarb, red wine, sugar, honey, a cinnamon stick, and ground cloves. That combination was simmered until the rhubarb was cooked and the sauce reduced, and then I stored it in the refrigerator. Before serving, I brought the compote back to room temperature. The last item was the cookie. The dough was made from mostly butter but also confectioners’ sugar, corn syrup, bread flour, and chopped pecans. Once mixed, it was rolled into a log, wrapped in parchment paper, and chilled. Pieces were sliced from the dough log and baked on silpat-lined sheet pans. I quickly learned that these cookies spread even more than you would think. The dough log I created was a little big, and I ended up cutting each slice in half before baking. The shape of the dough doesn’t matter so much because it spreads into a circle regardless while baking. The cookies baked into lacy and somewhat fragile wafers of buttery crunch. I ended up with just what I wanted for flavors, textures, fruit, and nuts, but I had no idea how to make it look nice on a plate. Should I have put the compote on the bottom, drizzled it on top, or placed it to the side? What about the cookie? I couldn’t decide how to position it either. It could have been the platform on which everything else sat, or it could have rested on top like a lacy veil over the frozen scoops, or it could have sat in a more vertical pose. I played with the plating and snapped the photos seen here well before dinner time. Then, when it was time for dessert, my final plating decision was to set out a buffet of sorts and invite everyone to help themselves. Problem solved. Tweet let me say this as clear as possible: I WANT THIS! Rhubarb was perfect to serve to "Irish" folks. I loved the spiced compote and your cookies. And of course the ice cream and sorbet. Thanks again! This looks nice and refreshing! What a splendid and seasonal dessert! I'd love some of that now... Cheers, Rosa Sounds so refreshing and looks very pretty too Lisa! Nice! I love the rhubarb in the sorbet and in the compote - delicious! The color is beautiful! It's rhubarb season. I must try me some this year!!!! I. MUST. Love the lacy cookie. I think you made a wonderful presentation. Your desserts always look "show stopping". What a great way to use spring rhubarb! Wow, this is amazing. Have a wonderful weekend. i LOVE the different shades of red and pink in this dessert! and your brittle cookie is the perfect final touch, both in plating and eating--well done! I have been on a huge rhubarb kick lately...have to eat it up while it's in season! Or freeze some. Hmmmm.... This dessert looks delicious! All of your little finishing touches (i.e. the brittle cookie, sauce, etc.) make it look like something a gourmet restaurant would serve. I've been flirting with the idea of getting an ice cream machine, and your post is not helping me resist.... :-) Wonderful! Rhubarb is in season! Nicely presented. Ha, Lisa I love this plant, and had a client who used to bring in so much of it for me to cook for him, not just pies, but with beet greens and spices...love this! You might find some humor in a piece I wrote about a rhubarb experience Hope it makes you smile... Lisa, this is a dessert I would serve at the restaurant where I work, it looks delicious! I have some rhubarb I couldn't resist buying so I might they the sorbet, it sounds delicious! Well done! Absolutely divine dessert, your picture looks so awesome, I am drooling! So Lisa. "I'll just whip up some ice cream and then make 47 other things to go with it". :) Beautiful as always. Man, I wish I have the opportunity to attend your dinner party, this just sounds incredible. I love rhubarb and strawberries, possibly one of my favorite flavor parings. Just incredible and I think your plating looks gorgeous! Oh I love strawberries. I am going to have to make this sometimes. Looks tasty! oh, beautiful, beautiful. I wonder if I could already find some rhubarb here. I will definitely try the sorbet. I'm making a noch on my ice-cream maker as I type this :D You created a beautiful dessert! I especially loved that cookie with these crunchy pecans, yum! and the plating was done fine, it looks great! A divine dessert, Lisa!! Beautiful & lovely flavours beautifully combined here! MMMMMMMMMMM,...excellent food! Gorgeous! It looks like something you'd get a fancy restaurant - well done! omg! what a beautiful dessert...so fancy and elegant....great flavors. Great solution to a presentation problem, lol... Whatever the look of the plate, the dish itselfs looks delicious!

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [libreoffice-design] Are you okay with those new default styles? [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] - Subject: Re: [libreoffice-design] Are you okay with those new default styles? - From: Olivier Hallot <olivier.hallot@documentfoundation.org> - Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:30:02 -0300 - To: design@global.libreoffice.org Hi 2012/6/12 Niklas Johansson <sleeping.pillow@gmail.com> > Stefan Knorr (Astron) skrev 2012-06-12 20:19: > > Hi Olivier, >> >> First, the choice of fonts and colors are a matter of taste, which is an >>> endless debate... >>> >> Sure, yet... staying with Arial and TNR, aping Office 2000 is not >> really an option either, though. >> >> Second, - I have not tested - LO may warn me that my legacy documents >>> have >>> new default template and ask for an update. If this is true, this will >>> be a >>> shoot in the head of document preservation. >>> >> That's an interesting (theoretical) problem – can you test, please, >> though? >> My logic says, this shouldn't happen, also, the styles are usually >> embedded within the document. >> > Nothing will happen to our current documents since none of them are based > on the > Avantgarde.ott template. Though if we want to make any changes to > Avantgarde.ott > templates later and keep the name and location of the template - then the > user will > get a question if he/she wants to update the styles. We need to avoid that. > Yes that is what I'm thinking... I just didn't know it was restricted to template name and not the "default" template. > > Hmm... Interesting, it seems that it does not even have to be in the same > location > just in one of the installed paths or set as default template. > > I have no idea what happens if we change one of the "built in styles" > which is the > long term goal as I understand it. > The only attributes you can change on the built-in styles are in Tools - Options - Writer - Basic fonts. When changing them, all new documents based on the default template will carry the changes. If we offer Avantgarde.ott as one document template (among others), that is ok for me. To offer it as default template is another story. Regards -- Olivier Hallot Founder and Steering Commitee Member The Document Foundation -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? Posting guidelines + more: List archive: All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted - Prev by Date: Re: [libreoffice-design] Are you okay with those new default styles? - Next by Date: Re: [libreoffice-design] Are you okay with those new default styles? - Previous by thread: Re: [libreoffice-design] Are you okay with those new default styles? - Next by thread: Re: [libreoffice-design] Are you okay with those new default styles? -.

ARIN-PPML Message [ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-27 - Staff Assessment - From: Member Services (info at arin.net) - Date: Fri Mar 21 14:48:33 EDT 2008 - Next message: [ppml] Revised 2007-14 - Previous message: [ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-17 - Staff Assessment Policy Proposal 2007-27 Title: Cooperative distribution of the end of the IPv4 free pool Proposal Submitted: Nov 20, 2007 Date of Assessment: Mar Staff understands that this policy will establish a mechanism for the allocation of IPv4 address blocks between RIR's once the IANA global pool of addresses has been depleted. III. Issues and concerns A. ARIN Staff 1. This policy would have to adopted as an Inter-RIR policy and would have to remain the same in each region for it to work properly. 2. There is no way of reliably predicting when an RIR is within 30 days of depleting their remaining pool of IPv4 addresses since this is dependent upon the number and size of the resource requests they receive. 3. This policy would require constant monitoring of the available IPv4 inventory of all the RIRs. To be timely, a software tool would need to be developed that monitored all RIR available IPv4 inventory and produced a daily report. This same tool would need to be used by all 5 of the RIRs for consistency and accuracy. 4. When the recipient RIR approaches the source RIR for a 3 month supply of addresses, will fees be charged to the recipient RIR? 5. It is likely that AfriNIC and LACNIC will be the two RIRs who typically would have the largest inventory of IPv4 at any given time since they currently allocate address space at a slow rate and in lessor amounts than the other three RIRs. If the three larger RIRs consistently approach them for address space, it is likely that their remaining supply will quickly dwindle. 6. If one RIR will be required to review requests from another region, all such requests must be made in an agreed upon common language. 7. Process and procedures training may be required for those parties making requests to an RIR in a region other than their own. 8. If the source RIR reviews and approves requests from the recipient RIR’s customers, there are likely to be business, legal, and other administrative issues that arise. For example: - Which RIR would the requestor pay? - In what currency would the fee paid? - Which RIR would have to report the registration fee as income? - Which RIR would the requestor sign a contract with? - Which RIR would maintain the record? - Will the requestor become a member of the source RIR and if so, will they be required to pay an annual fee to the source RIR? B. ARIN General Counsel Counsel sees no significant legal or litigation issues related to this policy. IV. Resource Impact – Major The resource impact of implementing this policy is viewed as major. Barring any unforeseen resource requirements, this policy could be implemented within 180 days from the date of the ratification of the policy by the ARIN Board of Trustees. It would also be dependent upon the policy being adopted in all other RIRs. • Tracking tool with built in metrics needed to attempt to estimate the 30 day depletion mark • Survey needs to be created to ask other RIR to estimate their remaining available space • Inter RIR coordination process needs to be established for this process of surveying and follow up actions. • New guidelines • Staff training Respectfully submitted, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) ##*## Annex A Policy Proposal 2007-27 Cooperative distribution of the end of the IPv4 free pool Author: Tony Hain Date: 20 November

ARIN-PPML Message [arin-ppml] Opposed to 2010-9 and 2010-12 - From: michael.dillon at bt.com (michael.dillon at bt.com) - Date: Fri Oct 15 05:00:05 EDT 2010 - Next message: [arin-ppml] Opposed to 2010-9 and 2010-12 - Previous message: [arin-ppml] Opposed to 2010-9 and 2010-12 Would you two please stop this!!! Either get an email client that supports proper quoting of messages or reformat the lines with > characters manually. It is all but impossible to follow what you two are saying in your fractured messages. > -----Original Message----- > From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On > Behalf Of Owen DeLong > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:06 PM > To: Mark Townsley > Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net > Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Opposed to 2010-9 and 2010-12 > > > On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Mark Townsley wrote: > > > On 10/14/10 5:02 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > Classifying 6rd as a means to an end for native IPv6 > is an architectural statement, though one that is at least consistent > with the 6rd RFC. Limiting the space which 6rd can run, however, > presupposes how the transition from 6rd to native is to be done. > > > From RFC 5969: > > The SP can choose to provision a separate IPv6 > address block for > native service, or reuse the 6rd prefix block > itself. > > > > An ARIN policy that requires moving to a different > block is, by the letter, an IETF standards-track RFC violation. > > > > However, this is not the first time the IETF has made the > mistake of stepping over the line from Architectureal > design to address policy. ARIN sets address policy for the > ARIN service region, the IETF does not. > > Another example of ARIN policy correcting this error on the > part of IETF would be 2005-1, prior to which > there was no facility for Provider Independent End User > assignments in ANY region. Today there is > policy to support those assignments in all 5 regions. > > > I'm calling this out only to underscore that there > are serious operational considerations with respect to allowing native > and 6rd to coexist within the same prefix while moving to native. > Considerations that could actually discourage movement to native by > ISPs. We want it to be as easy as possible for ISPs to move to native > IPv6 from 6rd. This is why this sentence exists in the RFC. > > > > Yes... Those operational considerations are hazardous to > address policy and would prevent any ability to > ensure the eventual deprecation of this "transitional" > technology at the expense of vast amounts of address > space which would have been distributed in an excessively > (even by IPv6 standards) wasteful manner. > > I'm all for 6rd as a temporary fix, but, as a permanent > institution, it is pretty awful. Even if we ignore the > issue of deprecation and assume that providers would switch > to native without additional motivation, > allowing them to have their native and 6rd deployments to > co-exist in the same space would result > in sparse allocation of their native blocks across the > oversized prefix granted for 6rd which would > prevent future reclamation of that oversized prefix. > > > By requiring the native deployments to go in a separate > prefix which is more appropriately sized for > the ISPs native deployment, we ensure the ability to > eventually reclaim and re-use these oversized > blocks for other purposes. > > 6rd is just getting deployed now, so precisely how to transition > it to native is still speculative. But, I know that technically it is > quite possible (with equipment that will be available in 2011, if not > today) to allow 6rd and native exist alongside one another in a very > transparent manner to the end-user. Native can be brought up (or back > down if there is a problem) one CPE, one head-end or one DSLAM at a > time in whatever order the network operations folks want without having > to alert the customer-care folks that have to deal with IPv6 being > renumbered within the house, nor dealing with the well-known issues of > multihoming towards two disparate address blocks. Once, say, a region > of the network has transitioned appropriately (something that may only > happen after the last end-user goes out and buys the right CPE, or the > operator deploys enough native gear), a move to a more aggregated space > and disabling of 6rd within the region can be scheduled appropriately. > Policy should not disallow nor even discourage such an approach. > > > > Nothing in what I have proposed prevents that. The operator can use the > 6rd space to do the transition and then renumber after the transition > is done if they want. The key is not to believe that the 6rd space is > in any way permanent. > > The policy sent to last call by the AC merely requires that the 6rd > allocations be done from a specific prefix for that purpose and conveys > that the 6rd allocations are transitional and temporary in nature. > It doesn't do anything to interfere with the approach you describe, so > long as the provider does eventually get to that renumber point. > > > Again, I'm trying to make it *easier* for the operator to move to > native. I want the operator to have tools available to make that as > easy as possible, with the fewest moving parts. The incentive to have > native v6 customers within an aggregated space will still be there, > even if native and 6rd interfaces are allowed to exist at the same > time, but that move can be staged and scheduled with appropriate > advance notice and care independent of getting the user on native as > soon as physically possible. > > > > We're in agreement there to a certain extent. However, it has to be > done with responsible address management in mind as well. Making the > 6rd prefixes permanent would be irresponsible. > > > We agree that 6rd should be temporary. I think we even agree that > it might take 10 years to move completely from 6rd to native. I'm even > be OK with asking the provider to give back the block when they are > done with it if we are demonstrably on track towards some new global > IPv6 address exhaustion problem. We aren't far away from one another > here. > > > > Agreed. > > > > Putting 6rd into a segregated block, in particular > with the threat of that block expiring, only adds to deployment > hurdles. Today, it would be one more thing that the poor person at the > ISP that actually wants to see IPv6 deployed before the CGNs take over > has to convince his or her management is not a future risk factor. > Tomorrow, it could be one more hurdle for the ISP to renumber their > IPv6 customer when moving to native. > > > > There is no threat of that block expiring. The intent is to > allow for a mechanism by which to signal the following: > > 1. Native deployments should go in a separate appropriately > sized block. > 2. 6rd is temporary and transitional in nature. It is not > to be considered permanent. > Temporary in this case may well span a decade, but, there > should eventually be an end date. > 3. The sooner you migrate your customers from 6rd to > native, the better. There is value in pressuring > your vendors to make this possible. > > I think #2 and #3 are reasonable, and you don't need #1 to make > that clear. > > > > No, but, you do need #1 to make it possible to enforce #2 and #3 later. > > > > The CGN FUD really is overplayed here. Even with this > limitation, CGN remains far less attractive to > any provider. > > Then why are so many looking to buy them? Why the policy > proposals for a shared-SP space? > > > > There are no policy proposals for shared-SP space. There is an IETF > draft. The IETF draft in question is generally opposed in the address > policy community, to the best of my knowledge. > Most of the discussions I've been involved in where it was a subject > were about the number of different ways in which said draft was a bad > idea. > > Frankly, I'm betting that the providers that buy CGNs will be very > dissatisfied with them in relatively short order. I also think that > they will be encouraging their customers to switch to other providers. > > > Even a provider which doesn't see this, I am pretty sure > that their customers will see it > in short order. > > > I heard the same argument 10 years ago about the NAT the > customers now claim they NEED. Perhaps your view is tainted by being so > close to the IPv6-enabled world. From my vantage, we are still very > much in a battle. > > > > I tend to doubt it. NAT was pretty bad, but, CGN/LSN/whatever you want > to call it is far less attractive from the SP and the customer > perspective than NAT was. It's all the problems of NAT amplified many > many times over with some additional new unique problems. > > I think that the odds of CGN/LSN making it to wide-scale deployment are > near zero. > Notice that nobody has even tested CGN/LSN on real end users yet. > > > > I'm all for facilitation. Let's focus on that rather > than assuming we know how the operator is going to migrate from 6rd to > native and encoding that in the ARIN policy. > > > > The point of this aspect of the policy is not that we are > assuming the operator will migrate. We are > requiring that they eventually do. Allowing them to hang on > to these oversized 6rd blocks beyond > the point where a switch to native is practicable is not > good stewardship of the address space. > > If you can get 6rd to fit in single /16, then, perhaps we > could consider allowing it to be permanent. > > However, if ~3,000 ARIN members deploy 6rd /24s, then, > you're talking about the vast majority > of an entire /12 just in the ARIN region. Since most of > them could deploy native and give their > > "most of them could deploy native"?? Wishing this to be true will > not make it happen. The problem is that they evaluated deploying native > and realized the could not and only then did we come along with 6rd and > turn things around. That's where we are, like it or not. But I think > you agree with this as your report on which technologies work and which > do not on this thread was quite accurate. > > > > You misunderstand me... I wasn't saying they can deploy native now. I > was saying that once native is a possibility, the required address size > for native is several orders of magnitude smaller while providing a > couple of orders of magnitude more address space to their customers. > > Please take this paragraph only in the context of measuring the > relative address consumption/ unit of customer space and not as a > statement of current abilities. > > Owen > > > - Mark > > > customers much larger (256x) assignments and fit within > 1/16th of the proposed address space > for 6rd, (IOW, a 4096x gain in addressing efficiency), I > believe that the ARIN community has > a valid interest in ensuring that this is a temporary use > of address resources. > > > > > > > Owen > > >

Author: nicholas Date: Sun Dec 7 18:45:02 2008 New Revision: 60679 URL: Log: Fixes for Visual Studio users. Patch by OvermindDL1 on llvm-dev! Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/GettingStarted.html llvm/trunk/docs/GettingStartedVS.html llvm/trunk/lib/Support/Annotation.cpp Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/GettingStarted.html URL: ============================================================================== --- llvm/trunk/docs/GettingStarted.html (original) +++ llvm/trunk/docs/GettingStarted.html Sun Dec 7 18:45:02 2008 @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ <tr> <td>Windows</td> <td>x86^{<a href="#pf_1">1</a>}</td> - <td>Visual Studio .NET^{<a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a>}</td> + <td>Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or higher^{<a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a>}</td> <tr> <td>AIX^{<a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_4">4</a>}</td> <td>PowerPC</td> @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ up</a></li> <li><a name="pf_2">Code generation supported for 32-bit ABI only</a></li> <li><a name="pf_3">No native code generation</a></li> -<li><a name="pf_4">Build is not complete: one or more tools don't link</a></li> +<li><a name="pf_4">Build is not complete: one or more tools do not link or function</a></li> <li><a name="pf_5">The GCC-based C/C++ frontend does not build</a></li> <li><a name="pf_6">The port is done using the MSYS shell.</a> <a href="">Download</a> and install Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/GettingStartedVS.html URL: ============================================================================== --- llvm/trunk/docs/GettingStartedVS.html (original) +++ llvm/trunk/docs/GettingStartedVS.html Sun Dec 7 18:45:02 2008 @@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ <p>The LLVM test suite cannot be run on the Visual Studio port at this time.</p> - <p>Most of the tools build and work. <tt>llvm-db</tt> does not build at this - time. <tt>bugpoint</tt> does build, but does not work. + <p>Most of the tools build and work. <tt>bugpoint</tt> does build, but does + not work. The other tools 'should' work, but have not been fully tested.</p> <p>Additional information about the LLVM directory structure and tool chain can be found on the main <a href="GettingStarted.html">Getting Started</a> - page.</P> + page.</p> </div> @@ -108,11 +108,38 @@ <li><tt>cd llvm</tt></li> </ol></li> </ul></li> + + <li> Use <a href="">CMake</a> to generate up-to-date + project files: + <ul><li>This step is currently optional as LLVM does still come with a + normal Visual Studio solution file, but it is not always kept up-to-date + and will soon be deprecated in favor of the multi-platform generator + CMake.</li> + <li>If CMake is installed then the most simple way is to just start the + CMake GUI, select the directory where you have LLVM extracted to, and + the default options should all be fine. The one option you may really + want to change, regardless of anything else, might be the + CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX setting to select a directory to INSTALL to once + compiling is complete.</li> + <li>If you use CMake to generate the Visual Studio solution and project + files, then the Solution will have a few extra options compared to the + current included one. when you first configured CMake.</li> + </ul> + </li> <li>Start Visual Studio - <ol> - <li>Simply double click on the solution file <tt>llvm/win32/llvm.sln</tt>. - </li> + <ul> + <li>If you did not use CMake, then simply double click on the solution + file <tt>llvm/win32/llvm.sln</tt>.</li> + <li>If you used CMake, then the directory you created the project files, + the root directory will have an <tt>llvm.sln</tt> file, just + double-click on that to open Visual Studio.</li> </ol></li> <li>Build the LLVM Suite: @@ -151,8 +178,8 @@ <div class="doc_text"> - <p>Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio .NET 2003 is fine. The - LLVM source tree and object files, libraries and executables will consume + <p>Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio .NET 2005 SP1 is fine. + The LLVM source tree and object files, libraries and executables will consume approximately 3GB.</p> </div> @@ -161,11 +188,15 @@ <div class="doc_subsection"><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></div> <div class="doc_text"> - <p.</p> + <p>You will need Visual Studio .NET 2005 SP1 or higher. The VS2005 SP1 + beta and the normal VS2005 still have bugs that are not completely + compatible. VS2003 would work except (at last check) it has a bug with + friend classes that you can work-around with some minor code rewriting + (and please submit a patch if you do). Earlier versions of Visual Studio + do not support the C++ standard well enough and will not work.</p> + + <p>You will also need the <a href="">CMake</a> build + system since it generates the project files you will use to build with.</p> <p>If you plan to modify any .y or .l files, you will need to have bison and/or flex installed where Visual Studio can find them. Otherwise, you do Modified: llvm/trunk/lib/Support/Annotation.cpp URL: ============================================================================== --- llvm/trunk/lib/Support/Annotation.cpp (original) +++ llvm/trunk/lib/Support/Annotation.cpp Sun Dec 7 18:45:02 2008 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ namespace { class StrCmp { public: - bool operator()(const char *a, const char *b) { + bool operator()(const char *a, const char *b) const { return strcmp(a, b) < 0; } };

What web server are you running on the Windows machine? And more important can you run php, I mean do you have the php module if IIS? Below recommendations are based on PHP. XHTML valid and syndication - WordPress, see the site in signature; it's all made with WordPress and a few plug-ins (not XHTML valid for the moment due to some code in the banner code, will change that somehow). But WordPress it's a pretty simple and lightweight Blogging system, not quite a CMS, but he does its job well. Since you are interested in syndication automatic pinging of services like my yahoo, technorati, my msn etc etc would interest you. It has this feature. I'd second the opinion on drupal. It's a goof CMS. Also if are looking for a heavy, enterprise level CMS, take a look at typo3. It's complex, well documented and has the precision of the Germans ;-). Or are you looking for ASP/ASP.NET CMS? On 5/7/05, Burhan Khalid <thelist at meidomus.com> wrote: > > pouncyisdead wrote: > > I know that this is a commonly asked question, but, do any of you have a > > recommendation for a low-cost, xhtml-valid, content management system? > My > > small company is looking for a CMS that includes support for versioning, > and > > syndication. > > > > About us: we are a sports information group with 4 medium sites running > on a > > single windows 2003 server. We've looked into Vignette, Cm3, Documentum > and > > Acuity, but were unhappy with the total costs. Sadly, must of the free > > offerings (DotNetNuke, Rainbow) didn't seem robust enough for the > constant > > updates and reports that we do each day. > > I also ran into a similar situation a few weeks back (posted a tip about > it too). > > A lot of people are mentioning Drupal, but I agree with Jeff that there > is no need to switch just to get a solution. Plenty of solutions are > available for all platforms, you just have to search. I do like drupal > and have used it before, but just to switch to another language for a > platform -- its not something I would do hastily. > > I don't know how far you have researched, but as I found out -- there > are different "classes" of CMS systems. For example, Vignette is an > enterprise-class system, and its not at the same level (in both price > and features) as say Microsoft's CMS Server, so it might be a good idea > to check those products that fall into the right category. > > Please post back your results, as this type of question usually comes up > once every two weeks. > > Best of luck, > Burhan > > -- > > * * Please support the community that supports you. * * > > > For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester > and archives of thelist go to: > Workers of the Web, evolt ! > -- Adi -

>Number: 122191 >Category: ports >Synopsis: [NEW PORT] graphics/pqiv - Pretty Quick Image Viewer >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Mar 28 13:20:01 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Martin Tournoij >Release: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD phong.rwxrwxrwx.net 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Fri Mar 21 20:18:47 CET 2008 carpetsmoker at phong.rwxrwxrwx.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PHONG i386 >Description: qiv (graphics/qiv) is a great image viewer, but it does not use gtk2 but imlib for image handling. This is bad, because many distributions (well, at least gentoo) do not offer this library anymore as it's quite old and not maintained anymore. When the first release of pqiv was written, I used python, hence the name. I expected somebody else to write a c-rewrite of qiv, so I didn't really care about that. About one month later nothing had happened yet, so I did this on my own. Starting from 0.4 pqiv means "pretty quick image viewer", written in pure C, using gtk+-2.0. Features include: * Fullscreen * Slideshow * Rotate / Flip * (Automatic/manual) Zoom * Move by drag & drop in fullscreen * Keep preferences in a configuration file * Rather small executable (~36k), low ram consumtion, quick * Execute predefined commands, pipe images through them or display their output * Real transparency * Fade between images WWW: >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- pqiv.shar begins here --- # This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before # this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". Note, it may # create directories; files and directories will be owned by you and # have default permissions. # # This archive contains: # # graphics/pqiv/Makefile # graphics/pqiv/distinfo # graphics/pqiv/pkg-descr # echo x - graphics/pqiv/Makefile sed 's/^X//' >graphics/pqiv/Makefile << 'END-of-graphics/pqiv/Makefile' X# New ports collection makefile for: graphics/pqiv X# Date created: March 28 2008 X# Whom: Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker at xs4all.nl> X# X# $Carpetsmoker: ports/graphics/pqiv/Makefile,v 1.1 2008/03/28 13:07:07 carpetsmoker Exp $ X# $FreeBSD$ X# X XPORTNAME= pqiv XPORTVERSION= 0.7 XCATEGORIES= graphics XMASTER_SITES= \ X \ X \ X XEXTRACT_SUFX= .tbz X XMAINTAINER= carpetsmoker at xs4all.nl XCOMMENT= Pretty Quick Image Viewer X XUSE_BZIP2= yes XUSE_GNOME= gtk20 glib20 pango pkgconfig XCFLAGS+= -DNO_INOTIFY XPLIST_FILES= bin/pqiv XPORTDOCS= README XMAN1= pqiv.1 XMANCOMPRESSED= no X XOPTIONS= SORTING "Enable sorting of loaded files" on \ X COMPOSITE "Enable support for transparent windows" on \ X FADING "Enable support for fading images" on \ X COMMANDS "Enable support for external command execution" on \ X CONFIG "Enable support for a configuration file" on X X.include <bsd.port.pre.mk> X X.if defined(WITHOUT_SORTING) XCFLAGS+= -DNO_SORTING XSORTFILE= # Empty X.else XSORTFILE= ${WRKSRC}/lib/strnatcmp.c X.endif X.if defined(WITHOUT_COMPOSITE) XCFLAGS+= -DNO_COMPOSITING X.endif X.if defined(WITHOUT_FADING) XCFLAGS+= -DNO_FADING X.endif X.if defined(WITHOUT_COMMANDS) XCFLAGS+= -DNO_COMMANDS X.endif X.if defined(WITHOUT_CONFIG) XCFLAGS+= -DNO_CONFIG_FILE X.endif X Xdo-build: X ${CC} ${CFLAGS} `${pkgconfig_DETECT} --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0 gthread-2.0 pango glib-2.0` \ X ${SORTFILE} ${WRKSRC}/pqiv.c -o ${WRKSRC}/pqiv X @${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|$$PACKAGE_VERSION|${PORTVERSION}|' \ X ${WRKSRC}/pqiv.1.template X Xdo-install: X ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/pqiv ${PREFIX}/bin X ${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/pqiv.1.template ${MAN1PREFIX}/man/man1/pqiv.1 X.if !defined(NOPORTDOCS) X ${MKDIR} ${DOCSDIR} X ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/README ${DOCSDIR} X.endif X X.include <bsd.port.post.mk> END-of-graphics/pqiv/Makefile echo x - graphics/pqiv/distinfo sed 's/^X//' >graphics/pqiv/distinfo << 'END-of-graphics/pqiv/distinfo' XMD5 (pqiv-0.7.tbz) = 0d5d77b9c25b94c015f7bbfb5c6d054b XSHA256 (pqiv-0.7.tbz) = a52c27fa11e940526e16f9c8454ab7a6be1f59c186c2a382f03d2baa16c3eb3f XSIZE (pqiv-0.7.tbz) = 30094 END-of-graphics/pqiv/distinfo echo x - graphics/pqiv/pkg-descr sed 's/^X//' >graphics/pqiv/pkg-descr << 'END-of-graphics/pqiv/pkg-descr' Xqiv (graphics/qiv) is a great image viewer, but it does not use gtk2 Xbut imlib for image handling. This is bad, because many distributions X(well, at least gentoo) do not offer this library anymore as it's Xquite old and not maintained anymore. X XWhen the first release of pqiv was written, I used python, hence the Xname. I expected somebody else to write a c-rewrite of qiv, so I Xdidn't really care about that. About one month later nothing had Xhappened yet, so I did this on my own. Starting from 0.4 pqiv means X"pretty quick image viewer", written in pure C, using gtk+-2.0. X XFeatures include: X* Fullscreen X* Slideshow X* Rotate / Flip X* (Automatic/manual) Zoom X* Move by drag & drop in fullscreen X* Keep preferences in a configuration file X* Rather small executable (~36k), low ram consumtion, quick X* Execute predefined commands, pipe images through them or display their output X* Real transparency X* Fade between images X XWWW: END-of-graphics/pqiv/pkg-descr exit --- pqiv.shar ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:

Martin Rubey wrote: > Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes: > > rischNormalize (using Risch strucute theorem) can detect that some kernels > > are algebraically dependent and forms an expression which is a constant. > > But > > simplifier is unable to see that the expression is constant. You have > > written that simplifing is undecidable, but that happens even for "easily > > decidable" classes. The problem really is that various part of Axiom use > > inconsistent conventions. rischNormalize is sound _only_ when > > sqrt(6)=sqrt(2)sqrt(3). But simplifier refuses to do such simplifications > > (they are invalid using default "real" convention) and things which > > matematically are fields turn into rings with zero divisors. > > Yes. This *really* needs cleaning up. In fact, I think we should consider to > redesign the algebra to make use of axioms like canonicalUnitNormal and the > like. Maybe Francois is heading in the right direction, too, when he tries to > choose consistent simplification rules for EXPR. However, I think that he will > need some help. > > I guess that the main problem with EXPR and friends is, that it is not clear > what the variables are. Do you know the assumptions needed for RischNormalize? I do not know what problems with variables you see here (I am aware of tread about Polynomial Expression Integer, but I think it is a separate problem). The problem I mention really boils down to definition of roots (in praticular square root): some field computations treat roots just as a particular case of field extension. So root is an abstract quantity fully characterized by its defining polynomial. But numerical functions and some real algorithms do care which of the roots is chosen. We should systematically distinguish both kinds of extensions. When convertion from "real" extension to "agebraic" in may be wise to keep extra info around so that we can convert back without loss of information. When converting from "agebraic" extension to a "real" one we need to do a case split (here conditional expressions would be usefull). RischNormalize tries to implement Risch structure theorem: ------<start TeX> \begin{theo}\label{rischstr1} Let $K$ be a differential field with derivative $D$ and field of constants $k$. Assume that elements $z_j\in K$, $y_j\in K$ satisfy ${{Dz_j}\over{z_j}} = Dy_j$, $j = 1,\dots,n$. Then either transcendental degree of $k(x, y_1,\dots, y_n, z_1,\dots, z_n)$ is greater or equal to $n+1$ or elements $Dy_1,\dots, Dy_n$ are linearly dependent over rational numbers. \end{theo} \begin{coro}\label{rischstr2} Let $K$ be a differential field with $D$. Assume that elements $z_j\in K$, $y_j\in K$ satisfy ${{Dz_j}\over{z_j}} = Dy_j$, $j = 1,\dots,n$ and that $K$ is algebraic over $k(x, y_1,\dots, y_n, z_1,\dots, z_n)$. Also assume that ${{Dz_{n+1}}\over{z_{n+1}}} = Dy_{n+1}$ and $y_{n+1}\in K$. Then either $z_{n+1}$ is transcendental over $K$, or there are rational numbers $q_j$ such that $$Dy_{n+1} = \sum_{j = 1}^{n}q_jDy_j.$$ In the second case $z_{n+1} = c\prod_{j = 1}^{n}z_j^{q_j}$, where $c$ is a constant. ----<end TeX> so basic assumption is that we are given a computable field of constants. But rischNormalize uses operations implemented by other domains to perform actual computuations, so there are extra assumptions. One is that if an expression does not depend on a kernel (which is checked using derivatives) simplifier should eliminate this kernel from the expression. For example representing 'y' as 'x - x + y' is legal for computable fields, but rischNormalize would not tolerate such representation. Of course, since expressions are represented as rational functions of kernels such simple problem can not happen in Axiom. But (sqrt(2)*sqrt(3)-sqrt(6))*exp(x) already hints towards possible problems. -- Waldek Hebisch address@hidden

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 "Charles Bearden" wrote: > > INSERT INTO pmCiteTest > (ID, PMID, MID, ISSN, Volume, Issue, PDYear, PDMonth, PDDay, PDSeason, > PDMedDate, ArticleTitle, Pagination, Affiliation, Language, > VernacularTitle, > Country, MedlineTA, NlmUniqueID, PubDate, Cite) > VALUES > (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) > > (1, 'foo', ' ', '', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', > 'foo', > 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo') > > -------------------------------------------------- > Starting log file for FreeTDS 0.62.4 > on 2004-08-09 14:00:35 with debug level 99. > > Sending packet @ 14:00:35.767385 > 0000 03 01 05 18 00 00 01 00-0a 00 73 00 70 00 5f 00 |........ ..s.p._.| > 0010 70 00 72 00 65 00 70 00-61 00 72 00 65 00 00 00 |p.r.e.p. a.r.e...| > 0020 00 01 26 04 00 00 00 63-06 02 00 00 06 02 00 00 |..&....c ........| > 0030 40 00 50 00 31 00 20 00-49 00 4e 00 54 00 2c 00 |@.P.1. . I.N.T.,.| > 0040 40 00 50 00 32 00 20 00-43 00 48 00 41 00 52 00 |@.P.2. . C.H.A.R.| > 0050 28 00 33 00 29 00 2c 00-40 00 50 00 33 00 20 00 |(.3.).,. @.P.3. .| > 0060 43 00 48 00 41 00 52 00-28 00 31 00 29 00 2c 00 |C.H.A.R. (.1.).,.| > 0070 40 00 50 00 34 00 20 00-43 00 48 00 41 00 52 00 |@.P.4. . C.H.A.R.| > 0080 28 00 30 00 29 00 2c 00-40 00 50 00 35 00 20 00 |(.0.).,. @.P.5. .| That doesn't look good. sp_prepare won't accept "char(0)" as a datatype. > Received packet @ 14:00:35.769947 > 0000 aa 8a 00 e9 03 00 00 01-0f 37 00 4c 00 69 00 6e |........ .7.L.i.n| > 0010 00 65 00 20 00 31 00 3a-00 20 00 4c 00 65 00 6e |.e. .1.: . .L.e.n| > 0020 00 67 00 74 00 68 00 20-00 6f 00 72 00 20 00 70 |.g.t.h. .o.r. .p| > 0030 00 72 00 65 00 63 00 69-00 73 00 69 00 6f 00 6e |.r.e.c.i .s.i.o.n| > 0040 00 20 00 73 00 70 00 65-00 63 00 69 00 66 00 69 |. .s.p.e .c.i.f.i| > 0050 00 63 00 61 00 74 00 69-00 6f 00 6e 00 20 00 30 |.c.a.t.i .o.n. .0| Confirming: "Length or precision specification 0 is invalid". . > 0060 00 20 00 69 00 73 00 20-00 69 00 6e 00 76 00 61 |. .i.s. .i.n.v.a| > 0070 00 6c 00 69 00 64 00 2e-xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx |.l.i.d.. ..x.x.x.| > 0080 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx-xx 00 00 01 00 aa 5c 00 |x.x.x.x. x.....\.| > 0090 89 00 00 00 02 0f 20 00-4d 00 75 00 73 00 74 00 |...... . M.u.s.t.| > 00a0 20 00 64 00 65 00 63 00-6c 00 61 00 72 00 65 00 | .d.e.c. l.a.r.e.| > 00b0 20 00 74 00 68 00 65 00-20 00 76 00 61 00 72 00 | .t.h.e. .v.a.r.| > 00c0 69 00 61 00 62 00 6c 00-65 00 20 00 27 00 40 00 |i.a.b.l. e. .'. at .| > 00d0 50 00 34 00 27 00 2e 00-xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx |P.4.'... .x.x.x.x| Complaint about declaration of "@P4", specifically. I don't know much about the placeholder code. It may be that the declared length of @P4 is derived from the data? If so, I don't know who does the inferring. I would think it would be better to derive the length from the table metadata. It must be OK to pass short values; if the column is char(10), it still should be OK to pass 'hello'. No solid answer for you, Charles, sorry. It sure looks like your zero-length parameter data is inducing a char(0) parameter declaration. Respectfully submitted, I think using zero-length strings to circumvent non-null column policy isn't the best practice. You're really saying there's no data for that column (in this row), so NULL accurately reflects reality. Zero-length strings are very mysterious in ad-hoc queries, because it's hard to see nothing. And some versions of TDS can't distinguish between NULL and a zero-length string, meaning that some clients will see a NULL arriving from a (as declared) non-null column. So, fwiw, I think you're better off making your column nullable. And you get to avoid the bug in the bargain. :-) Hope this is of some help. --jkl

[ ] Edson Tirelli commented on JBSEAM-1020: --------------------------------------- Ok, catching up with the thread: 1. I was not able to reproduce the exception in 3.0.5, but I do believe it happens. 3.0.x is not much good in handling unbalanced trees. By that I mean you have an "OR" in your rule where one side of the OR is a Role object and the other side is a User object. That is making the engine to lose itself and trying to use a User declaration/extractor to extract Role attributes. This is a bug that is fixed and working fine in 3.1M1 and later versions. If you can't upgrade to 3.1M1, I strongly suggest you to work around that creating two rules: rule RestrictNodeEditAccess1 no-loop; activation-group "permissions" when c: PermissionCheck(name == "Node", action == "edit"); Node(nodeWriteAccessLevel : writeAccessLevel, nodeCreator : createdBy) Role(userAccessLevel : name -> (Integer.valueOf(userAccessLevel).intValue() >= nodeWriteAccessLevel.intValue()) ) then c.grant(); modify(c); end; rule RestrictNodeEditAccess2 no-loop; activation-group "permissions" when c: PermissionCheck(name == "Node", action == "edit"); Node(nodeWriteAccessLevel : writeAccessLevel, nodeCreator : createdBy) User(authenticatedUserId : id -> (nodeCreator.getId().equals(authenticatedUserId)) ) then c.grant(); modify(c); end; I know this is far from ideal from a rules writer, but it is exactly what the engine does for you behind the scenes (well, at least in 3.1), so no perf implications.... just anoying for those writing the rules. As soon as it is possible to upgrade, you will stop having the problem. 2. Working memory loggers provide for now the most detailed available info of the rule engine internal workings. If that is not enough, it would be good to talk to you guys to understand the requirement and maybe add features that will comply to them. Unfortunatelly, it is not possible for now to know which LHS constraints matched and which didn't match for any given rule. You can know, though, wich rules get matched by what facts on what time, even if the rule is canceled again before firing. Hope it helps and let me know if you want more details about it. I will talk to Michael about your use case and check what we can do to help more. []s Edson >:

I think that the more important question than, "can I get MapServer to use the personal geodatabase?", is, "what data source will support the efficiency/optimization that my project requires?" Even if you can get the personal geodatabase to work, it may be that it won't perform to meet your needs. Regardless of the data format that data is acquired in, it is often recommended to convert formats or modify the data to optimize it for a Web app. Everything that can be pre-calculated, pre-sorted, indexed, etc. before the user clicks the button will make the Web app faster. The vector data optimization page is a little lean, but it is here: I am thinking that even if you can get MapServer to read the personal geodatabase, you will want to convert it to shapefile (or PostGIS if you need the relational database). You can then add spatial and attribute indexes, pre-calculate symbol classes, create a tileindex if needed, etc. David. You have to love government agencies that distribute in proprietary file formats! -----Original Message----- From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Jungmann Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:47 AM To: Dan Little Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] PGeo (Personal Geodatabases) options under Linux Responding to both of your comments: My client regularly acquires a database of property maps from a county. The database is a ESRI Personal Database. An employee of my client has been converting this database (and others like it) to MapX files for running on MapXtreme (on Windows, as you observed). I understand it to be a rather involved process. On the subject of creating a shape file from the PGeo file: one of the layer tables has almost 200,000 records. That's just for the parcel outlines. I also would need to add the text labels and other outlines as well. That would make for an unwieldy shape file. In fact, I think that employee mentioned above actually does combine the shapes into 9 MapX layers that I have been combining for display. The combined MAP files come to 221.3MB, and 351.6 MB for all layer files. I am exploring the possibility of delivering the same web application using open source software, including MapServer, on Linux. I was hoping to use the database as delivered, because it would save time and effort. Although it looked like it should have been possible to display layers from the PGeo file, I haven't had any luck. I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out if I could apply some patch, looking for insufficient buffers that I could lengthen, etc., but have pretty much come to the conclusion that using PGeo files is perhaps only feasible on MapServer for Windows, where there is native support for the MDB files. I originally asked the question because 1. I didn't want to give up too soon if someone has had some success using unixODBC and MDBTools, and 2. I wanted to know if making an exact copy of the PGeo tables in a MySQL database would allow me to use PGeo to access the layers. This seems feasible since both MDBTools and MySQL can be accessed through the ODBC layer. It would be nice if OGR wouldn't know the difference between MDB and MySQL databases because I could then run a script (that I'm working on now) that would run on Windows to make a restore file for MySQL to import the data. I hope to finish the script today or tomorrow. If it works as I hope, I'll report it here since it would answer the second question. Assuming success using MySQL, the first question is moot: MySQL would be a much more robust solution. If I can make a turnkey conversion from MDB to MySQL, it's really a no-brainer to abandon MDB. But I'm still curious, and it would be nice to document somewhere online, if it's possible to use PGeo files on a Linux-based MapServer. Chuck Jungmann On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 05:59 -0800, Dan Little wrote: > I am making the gross assumption that someone, who is producing the PGeo file is on Windows and that person(s) would be available to do the conversion... > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> > > To: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com> > > Cc: Chuck Jungmann <chuck at cpjj.net>; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org > > Sent: Sun, November 29, 2009 10:22:37 PM > > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] PGeo (Personal Geodatabases) options under Linux > > > > Dan Little wrote: > > > not that this answers the problem... but is there any reason this > > > cannot be exported to a shapefile and then served with mapserver? > > > > Good question. I think you would have to do that on a Windows box because the > > MDBTools on Linux is just not up to the task. If you could export it on Linux > > then you could also probably serve it directly via mapserver and ogr. > > > > -Steve W > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > >> From: Chuck Jungmann To: Stephen Woodbridge > > >> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org Sent: > > >> Fri, November 27, 2009 5:17:03 PM Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] > > >> PGeo (Personal Geodatabases) options under Linux > > >> > > >> I've read that page several times. I have also built MDBTools, > > >> unixODBC and GDAL from CVS sources and applied patches, etc, so I > > >> could try to trace execution to the errors. What I've found are > > >> instances where the code ultimately ends up in an empty function > > >> that simply returns SQL_SUCCESS or SQL_OK or whatever without doing > > >> anything. That seems to be why MDBTools has trouble with "SELECT > > >> COUNT(*) FROM xxx" and why it can't find a primary key. > > >> > > >> While I can see that these database features are not working, it's > > >> also possible that they are not necessary. I'm wondering if anyone > > >> has had success, either despite these errors, or by not > > >> encountering these errors, in which case I may find some success if > > >> I can duplicate their environment. > > >> > > >> Thanks for the quick reply, Chuck Jungmann > > >> > > >> On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 18:00 -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > > >>> Chuck Jungmann wrote: > > >>>> I have a Personal Geodatabase (PGeo) from which I would like to > > >>>> display layers in MapServer on Ubuntu 9.04. I have been > > >>>> fighting with MDBTools, unixODBC, and GDAL for what seems like > > >>>> forever. The ogrinfo and isql fail with Segmentation Faults. > > >>>> > > >>>> I have two questions: > > >>>> > > >>>> 1. Has anyone successfully used a PGeo file to display maps on > > >>>> MapServer under Linux? Perhaps my efforts were doomed from the > > >>>> start. > > >>>> > > >>>> 2. Since GDAL is using ODBC to read the MDB file, would using > > >>>> ODBC to access MySQL be a transparent replacement, assuming I > > >>>> copy all of the tables and indexes from the PGeo file to MySQL? > > >>>> Has anyone done this? I don't want to waste a lot of time on > > >>>> this if it's another dead end. > > >>> Chuck, > > >>> > > >>> There was a recent thread related to these problems on the GDAL > > >>> list. Frank posted the follow link and commented that there are > > >>> also probable some open bugs. Evidently, the mdbtools are not > > >>> well supported and buggy which makes using them problematic. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Check out this thread on the gdal-dev archives: [gdal-dev] mdb to > > >>> shape conversion: no geometry exported > > >>> > > >>> -Steve > > >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ mapserver-users > > >> mailing list mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org

ONTARIO-L ArchivesArchiver > ONTARIO > 2001-02 > 0981348324 From: "Goltz" <> Subject: [Ont] Newspaper Clippings Simcoe County Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 23:45 --------------------------------------------- NEARS QUARTERS CENTURY (picture here) (written below "1952") NEXT SEPTEMBER William Wilbert Wilson of Midland will complete 25 years on the road maintenance staff of Simcoe County. Mr. Wilson, 69 on Sept. 5, came to Midland as a carpenter 41 years ago, and save for 3 years in Caledonia, has lived in North Simcoe ever since. Born on a farm near Vasey now owned by Bruce Brown, Mr. Wilson operated the municipal steam roller in Midland for some years, and was with the Brennan Paving Co. before joining the county staff. Nearly every road in North Simcoe has felt his blade. Some years ago his grader in the summer and snow plow in the winter were common sights on the Elmvale-Wasaga Beach highway. He has also worked the Waverley to Hillsdale and Coldwater stretches and on to North River. In more recent years he has been stationed largely in the Penetang-Midland district of Tay and Tiny but this summer was again grading the Hillsdale section. -------------------------------------------------- MRS. ALEX MORRISON A former resident of Vasey, Sarah Jane (Brown) Morrison died March 18 in Elrose, Sask. Mrs. Morrison was in her 98th year. The last member of a family of 12, she was born in Millbrook and came with her parents to Vasey where they lived on the farm formerly occupied by the late J.B. Brown. In 1884 she was married to Alex Morrison in Hillsdale by Rev. W. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison resided in the vicinity of Vasey until moving to Hughton, Sask. in 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary at their home in Hughton on Christmas Day in 1944. Surviving are her husband and four children; Sherwood Morrison and Mrs. Joseph Jennett, both of Hughton, Leota and Wesley, living in the United States. Four grandsons acted as pallbearers at the funeral service; Keith and Sherwood Jennett, Glen and Larry Morrison, and two great-grandson, Ted Galvin and Ronald Smith. Interment was in Hughton Cemetery, March 22. ----------------------------------------- HENRY L. LOVERING Last week, Mrs. R.A. Elliott received word that a brother, Henry Langston Lovering of Regina, had passed away, April 1, in his 87th year. Previous to his retirement Mr. Lovering had been attached to the Department of Agriculture, Regina, for many years. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lovering, late of Coldwater. Of a family of 14, nine boys and five girls, four survive, Mrs. R.A. Elliott (Hattie) of Coldwater, Mrs. C.E.A. Goldham (Aletta), Miss Mary Lovering, retired nursing sister, and Judge Egerton Lovering, all of Toronto. This thread:

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Even tucked safely into his tour bus bunk, lighting director Garry "Sport" Waldie can still hear the girls screaming. At truly ear-shattering decibels, they're voicing their love for Justin, JC, Joey, Chris, and Lance--better known as 'NSync. Waldie has been handling the lighting for the band since its first club tour in 1998, and since then the joyful noise has only grown. "It's a great show with a lot of energy," he says. "Obviously, the audiences are enjoying themselves, so they just add to it." When it became apparent late last year that arenas and stadiums would be needed to comfortably fit these growing legions of 'NSync fans, the band's management brought in production and lighting designer Steve Cohen. Cohen got to work with associate Jim Day to put together a design for a new tour that began in March. "We opened up my 3D Max program and got into the design process and produced some color renderings, which they loved," Cohen says. "The style guide that I got from them included edgy, surfer-type graphics. I went to a bookstore and researched surfboard graphics, and those became inspiration for a lot of the shapes in the set and color choices in the lighting looks. We tried to evoke something of that nature. We did a couple of revisions, then All Access built it for us." Cohen also helped create the tour's original opening segment. "We had a blacklight dance sequence where they came out in costumes that glowed in the dark, battled this mysterious monster, and a did a very interesting African dance with sticks--it was really powerful," Cohen says. "But when they began the shed leg this summer, they changed it to a Mission Impossible opening that has them flying in and rappelling down to the stage at the beginning of the show." 'NSync also takes flight at the end of the show. "The guys wanted to fly into the house during the song 'Sailing.' Doing that added an additional truck and a half of rigging hardware and an additional 20-something points for the flying rig, which I had to integrate into my front followspot truss and the front truss on the stage," Cohen says. "There was a learning curve that was required in integrating the two systems. I initially tried to make it all one piece, and everyone advised me against it because number one, it would slow down the day, and number two, it was two separate structures that needed to be taken care of independently. One couldn't wait on the other, and since we were flying five stars, their safety was obviously an absolute priority. So the guys from Branam Enterprises specifically took care of that, and they were great. We ended up having a monstrous amount of cables with the trolleys out there, but it got sorted out, as things do, in a couple of weeks on tour." While the flying gag was definitely the band's idea, how it got integrated into the show was Cohen's job. "I had to take all of the structure, make it work within the show, and make it look good," he explains. "We ended up doing this five-fingered array out into the house, and the guys used the downstage edge of the stage as their launchpad. When you see the show you realize how powerful it is to have these guys fly out over your head. They're all very athletic, so they are really able to pull it off." Once the rigging points and design were sorted out, the LD put together the lighting system, which features the Coemar automated line of luminaires. The Obie Company is the tour's main lighting contractor. "Obie's high-density trusses are interesting--a lot of the gear rides in the air, so it's a very efficient system," Cohen says. "I, of course, came up with my typical vertical element, which I seem to go back to in every show. This time I built three vertical trusses that had strobes and a collection of moving lights that had to be hoisted up in the air every day, which was a pain in the ass, but they created a great background. "I used the Obie/Coemar combination again because it was really successful with Enrique [Iglesias]," Cohen continues. "We have some Wybron Colorams up there for color changers and followspots, but it's mainly a combination of Coemar wash lights, hard-edged lights, and 2.5k NAT lights, which were dotted around the show. I keep going back to the purity of color in the CF1200 because I find that it has an incredible range. It's such a bright instrument and I was able to pick a color palette that was acceptable for the type of music and the style that I wanted. There are a lot of lemon yellows, bright whites, and steel blues, which are compounded one on top of another to create a cold, icy effect that works with a lot of the colors of the surf graphics. There are also some really rich ambers and reds in there that you can pull off with this light." Programmer Arnold Serame helped Cohen create these desired effects. "I hadn't worked with Steve in a long time, so it was really cool to get that partnership together again," Serame says. "It's awesome to work for him because when he has a very specific idea, he goes for it. But he's willing to say that his idea doesn't work if that's the case. And when I've got ideas, he always tells me to run with them. He'll look at everything I have to show him, which fosters a very open communication." Cohen and Serame were joined by Waldie to create a unique FOH lighting triumvirate. "It was an interesting situation. Sport knew the music really well because he had taken this show out before, but I didn't know it at all," Serame explains. "There are programmers who like to immerse themselves in the music of whatever show they're about to do, but I'm not like that. I like listening to it when I have the light rig and after I've figured out what the light rig can do. To me, it's about whatever that first impression of the music is and what my initial feeling is about how to bring that to life. I don't like thinking about it too much beforehand because I think that's how people end up going back to their old techniques. It was a great combination because Steve knew the music and the choreography pretty well. Sport knew the music inside out and he knew the way they used to do the songs. I didn't know the music, but I knew the rig the best, and I was the one who eventually had to create it." Production rehearsals lasted about a week in Palm Springs, FL. "When you work with Steve, it's not just about putting on a great show--it's almost as if the show is another step in having a great life," Serame says. "We'll go out, have dinner, and come back and exchange more ideas about the band and so forth. By the end of each evening we had written a few more songs. Steve turns it all into a great experience." Cohen reports that Serame deserves the credit for getting the work done so quickly. "It was very interesting to work with Arnold because he's got incredible experience working with so many different lighting designers," Cohen says. "It was hard for both of us not to fall into our old tricks. We tried to reinvent some of our own gags, and he's so facile and so fast that we were able to see results, realize what we had, and move on. The work was done in record time for the amount of cues that were in it. He's a joy to have on set. Peter Morse often says that we're really the sum and substance of the people who program for us. In this situation, it was interesting to try to communicate to each other in a common language, so it was a bit of a learning curve." As lighting director, Waldie also had a learning curve to take on with the new design. "Sport was at a disadvantage at first because he had designed their first tour, and it was kind of hard for him to let go of how he had done it before," Serame says. "Steve liked leaving certain passages in a cue even though there were a lot of musical accents, to emphasize what the boys were doing onstage. Sport didn't really understand it until he saw the whole thing together with all the new choreography, music, and staging, then it made sense to him. It was amazing how he was able to get these complex songs down so quickly. "That was part of the programming challenge for me," Serame continues. "It's one thing to program for yourself if you're designing or operating, but how do you program when someone is designing and someone else is operating? So I first had to ask Sport how he wanted the cues structured: theatrically, where you've got one go button and little break-out flashes? Or do you want a cue on each handle in rock and roll style? We'd sit down and talk about the songs. It wouldn't have made sense for me to write cues for Steve's ideas if Sport doesn't feel natural to run it without thinking about it, because there is so much to keep track of. He had to know naturally where every cue was, and keep his eyes on the boys and keep the followspots straight. Sport could tell Steve and I where each guy would go during a song and which guy sang every chorus of every song, just by listening to it. It was a great partnership that way." Even Serame had trouble understanding Cohen's vision at first. "What struck me most about how Steve built the show was that there were sections with huge musical accents, and I didn't get at first why he would let other sections go without picking up the musical accents," he says. "Once I saw the choreography, I understood it. That's where the show is really brilliant. For a show that easily could have been flash and trash, Steve showed a remarkable amount of class and restraint in lighting the guys and not the event. He really highlighted and showed off the guys for what they could do. When he chose to go over the top, he did it at the appropriate moments, but it isn't a whole show of that. We had a blast." The band members also got into the production process. "The guys were very involved in all the decisions," Cohen says. "When they saw the looks for the first time Justin walked over to me and said, 'I feel kind of silly, because we're oohing and aahing like it's a fireworks show.' But when we played some tracks and ran the lighting cues, they were blown away. It was successful because they walked onstage feeling that they had something really interesting and fun behind them. They're very hardworking and very diligent." The show also featured a central video display. "We incorporated the Jumbotron (the tour has since upgraded to an LED screen) into the show, and framed it with a 50s-style television screen," Cohen says. "This is really the first time I've integrated video into a show. It's the central upstage piece and also provides a great deal of backlight." Dave Davidian is the tour's video director. "He walked into this position and not only filled the directorial shoes, but also created an incredibly exciting show," Cohen says. "It would not be as good as it is without him. This was first time I ever worked with him; I've only ever known him as a lighting designer and one of the things he brings to the plate here is an energy that comes from having done lighting cues--except here he's utilizing the camera for it. So it's incredibly musical and the shots are beautiful. It would not be the 'NSync show without him." Davidian agrees that his lighting design background has informed his video direction style for the show. "Just like with lighting, I feel the video is there to enhance the music--I'm there to intensify the background and amplify it to a certain degree and communicate what the artist is trying to do," he explains. "My job is to help themessage of the performer get sent to the whole crowd, as strongly and cohesively as possible. My lighting background helps me a lot--certainly I'm trained to follow the activity. As a lighting designer you put spotlights on the people you want to highlight. I tend to do the same with the video, which is good in an Imag situation. Some video directors go with cuts, like on MTV videos where they cut away from the prime action--certainly sometimes they do that for valid, creative reasons, but with Imag your job is to provide the people in the back with a closer look at who is doing the prominent activity and highlight the whole band when they're working together." Davidian also put together video clips to create the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s montage that backs up the band as they change costumes and pay tribute to each era. "I used the digital effects machine, and I keep developing that as the tour goes on," he says. "Mainly I stick with the Imag. The five of them are all good friends and that really comes out when they're onstage--they're having the time of their lives." Davidian handles his responsibilities from the enviable backstage position. "Being backstage is a benefit because it does protect you a little from the girls' screaming--but I felt the same way when I was out with AC/DC," he laughs. "They're very nice guys and it's a fun show. My 11-year-old daughter loves them, too. Those little girls are our employers, so they can scream all the time as far as I'm concerned." The band is currently doing promotional appearances in Europe and will resume touring this month in the US. With a new album scheduled to come out next year 'NSync has already tapped Cohen to design its spring tour. "I'm also doing Britney Spears' tour--it's all the same management," Cohen says. "They're surrounding these younger acts with high-caliber production, and Darrin Henson, the choreographer, is spectacular. They spent enough money on a production to go out there and do a great show, and young acts don't get this opportunity that often, so they come in and work their butts off to pull it off. People are going to these shows and they're getting much more value because they're being entertained in the old-fashioned way. I'm 45, and my primary clients have been rock stars who are older than me, like Billy Joel, Elton John, Don Henley, and Fleetwood Mac. To come in on this new wave and find a niche is great." Lighting design Steve Cohen Set design Jim Day and Steve Cohen Lighting director Garry "Sport" Waldie Lighting programmer Arnold Serame Lighting crew chief Storm Sollars Lighting technicians Mark "Poodle" Swartz Candida Boggs Dimmer god Bob Fry Video director Dave Davidian Production manager/FOH audio engineer Tim Miller Production assistant Flo Tse Tour manager Ibrahim Duarte Stage manager Anthony Giordano Road manager Fritz Maugile Head rigger Chuck Melton Riggers Bobby Savage, Dale Long Branam fly riggers Mark Ward, Lance Bogan Video system engineer Jon Huntington LED screen tech Greg "Grit" Fredrick Camera operators Alan Doyle, Steve Fratone, Mike Goulding, Redo Jackson Pyrotechnician Steve Aleff Flying System Branam Enterprises Set construction All Access Staging Pyrotechnics supplier Lunatech, Inc. Video supplier BCC Video Main lighting contractor The Obie Company Lighting equipment (52) Coemar CF 1200s (25) Coemar HE 1200s (15) Coemar NAT TMs (70) PAR-64s (12) Lycian Starklite 1.2k followspots (39) High End Systems Dataflash(R) AF-1000s (2) Reel EFX DF-50 hazers (40) Wybron PAR Colorams (1) Flying Pig Systems Wholehog II console

The official CAD images above, from the Advanced Projects & Technologies (AP&T) directorate of India's Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) provide further perspective on the low-observable design elements that are known to be going into India's Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), known for a while now to be a stealth aircraft concept. Serpentine air intakes (with minimum flow distortion and robust pressure recovery) and internal weapons bays, depicted in the images above, are some of the most critical nose-on low observability design elements going into the programme.. 46 comments: And like all other projects, our Sarkari company will float a tender for foreign co-operation in this also while our babus eat their tiffin. First finish the LCA mk2 and then take on this challenge! In fact this project seems like a complete waste of time and money. India should now fully concentrate on UAV technology. With whatever we have right now plus MMRCA we can easily defend our skies for a next few decades. By then UAVs will be the king of the skies. What's the point of this aircraft then? The MCA is going to be sooo good! Much like after the experience of building Dhruv, the LCH came out much better than expected! Go DRDO! People criticizing DRDO's efforts at collaboration with foreign firms have probably never been in an engineering project before. At the end of the day, what is important is the completion of the overall fighting platform on schedule, not whether it is 100% indigenous or not. The indigenization effort can't be allowed to hold up product delivery. This is what the Armed Forces have been saying for years. Thanks Shiv.....A request please add captions. Interesting that ADA has moved from a delta-wing design (look up the MCA page on wikipedia for the very first preliminary designs), to a design that is almost a copy of the F-22A Raptor. Which is a good thing. Its better to rip off proven technologies than to reinvent the wheel. when does ADA think it can roll out the AMCA ? Will the more powerful kaveri-snecma engine be ready by then? Will the AESA radar PLANNED to be developed for LCA be ready so it can also be integrated with AMCA ? Is it gonna be 100% indigenous ( avionics , etc) or will there be any foreign sub-system as in the proposed AURA programme for the UCAV ? I checked in Wikipedia ... other than being lighter than f-22 & pak-fa (if its in 16 -18 tn range) it doesn't come out even as 2nd best acc. to any of the specs. Shiv could you also give an update on arjun mk-2 & lca mk-2? Is the DRDO going to develop a future MBT or is the arjun mk-2 gonna be the future MBT ? Is the DRDO working on an APS suite for arjun mk-2? Under the AURA programme is ADA gonna develop just 1 kind of UCAV or diff type (like a whole new range of MALE , HALE UAV's & UCAV's) ? Oh, polycarbonate canopy sounds very interesting. Why the departure? Anon@9:35. Do you have any clue of the effort that has already gone into the LCA and related projects? What makes an anonymous mouse on the Internet talk about extremely well educated folks who have sacrificed careers in corporations for smaller salaries and national interest? Cheer the effort, will you? this different from the indian version of the russian fifth gen fighter right? minus all the crap, I am optimistic and I suppport the effort Thats Great... Can you give us some latest information on the AVTAR RLV project please Those criticizing DRDO's indigenous efforts should realize that even the Russian Missiles have Texas Instrument Chips!! No country can afford to develop 100% indigenous eqp. All the countries are sharing knowledge and expertise with one another. Abrams tank has tech of Britain (armor), Germany (Gun) and other countries. Israel's Merkava is also a development of a British tank. USA's latest Chopper the Lakota looks like a replica of our Dhruv. Reason for their similarity is both have been designed by the same German company! Russia collaborated with Italy for their latest subs. We are still an infant learning to crawl. What's the harm if we take the support of grown ups in this field?? After all can you learn without the help of good teachers? Anon@11.11 You are right on the dot. Ill informed bashers of indeginous efforts with a view to demoralise or scuttle them should be told off in no uncertain terms. Hiding behind an anonymous cloak and spewing sarcasm does not in any way encourage Indian scientists and engineers from weaning the country off its foreign dependence. It looks a bit like the much speculated JF-17 Mk2, except for the use of 2 engines and the use of conventional intakes instead of DSI. people seem to behave as if they understand the "design" process. well they are always allowed to ask unnecessary question. specially on the post or blog like this...which is good...it clears of the crap...and whatever goes ahead in form of doubt is much more clearer... i think its good time to start AMCA. as it'll mature with time. and give us key experience again in building future gadgets for our industry and armed forces...in recent times...if we don't push ourselves...some nations will move to such a stage that...they'll become untouchable and will start holding the destiny of many nations...so we need to push in technology sector...one more thing...if someone asks that, what about lca mk2,UAV...after AMCA launched....i think they should check the word multitasking in the dictionary....for multi role organisation like DRDO. Onle two LGB's and 4 Long range SAM's? I assume there are 2-4 IR short range SAMs. Is this loadout of much use? It seems to be too little to me. What is that in the wing, another fuel tank or a radar just like the T-50? Should this information be on public forums? (rhetorical, not literal question) 2 ton internal weapons for a deep strike aircraft? atleast 3 - 4 tons will be logical. i completly support drdo ripping of other countries technology .if the chinese can rip off .why cant we ??? after all we arent stealing .we are just reverse enginering it. :-) Just a few silly designs and the party is on. Mr. Terminator - You are looking for trouble - Sir! and you will find it in your life. You know nothing excepting choosing the right sides, and pouring English Language - of which you know almost nothing. By the way, Terminator is a great lead on your profile, than Anonymous. Focus on the article - Buddy! Why should you not permit constructive criticism against DRDO? Does "Way to Go - DRDO" help? Are you their salesman with personal profit to make? You were probably the one condemning the Arjun Tank,AGNI-III praising the LCA, Dhruv, LCH - in short being the head chief commentator and running the destinies of how Indians should behave? Keep asking those silly questions which you should attempt to find an answer to yourself. You know who I am. There are many who like to clone me. That is what you are good at - all of you. Cloning people, issuing threats which you cannot back up, and vomitting rhetoric. Let me wise you freaks on something. Keep your praises, giggles and tears for your family. If you have something to offer as information - present it forth. Rather than - "I see a shaft below the nozzle - it looks like F-22. We should not reinvent the wheel. Every nation borrows from another. USA has copied the Dhruv. The reason the designs are similar is that the company that designed the Dhruv is German." Just goes to prove what I have always maintained. Dont get too cocky if you know C#, .NET, ADO, XML, T-SQL. And remember, keep DRDO, ISRO out of it. They owe you nothing. You all are renegades like Ajai Shukla, etc. You want US weaponry and feel happy selling and buying philosphy. Enjoy making enemies and turning the Excel Pivot Table back and forth - It does pass time. Good Luck! With the inclusion of HAL Tejas, MMRCA, Sukhoi Su-30MKI, AMCA, T-50 and FGFA our forces are going to be definitely stronger. Welcome step for AMCA. Are there any indications as to when this is expected to be inducted? In neither of the 2 posts you have made, you have mentioned this. In the older post, you mentioned that there is no backup plan to the engine should the kaveri/snecma fail to arrive. what then? will we have to wait another decade or 2 while something else is retro-fitted? will they put a lightening pod in it as it is going to be a multi role aircraft. so my question is where are they goin to place it? will it be like the f 35 in the nose so the pod does not compromise the stealth. Shiv can u also give some info about the radar goin to be used. Will it be a distributed radar system. I hope it is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyways all the questions aside i give all my best my wishes to all the people working on this plane :)))))))))))) i like the project..nd its to proud.. But i'm not happy wit livefist puting all imp info online..first up al india's nuclear submarn' image nd now mca disgn...it like gavin al hint to enmz Well looking at what the engineers are developing can we expect some of these tech in the LCA mk2?????? Will the changes in LCA mk2 be similar to the changes brought in F-15SE??? as that will get the LCA somewhat near to a 5th generation aircraft and will suite the airforce better even 10 to 15 yrs down the lane. Also the fact that the aircraft rolls out in 2014 should provide the ADA sufficient time to integrate whatever 5th gen tech they develop by that time. Doing so, the 4 years time for mk2 will become more justified. just hoping that they do bring in those tech upgrades in mk2 Guys, I think there are very good people on this web site. And they come from many backgrounds. Like I come from Computers. Why not some of us think to make something which can help our nation to rise faster. We all have strong passion for defense (NO attack, but defense). We need a place where we can guide our young generation to be scientists, engineers designers and whatever which can contribute to defense. Anyone agree with me ? Anon@12.57 I was just supporting Anon@11.11. In no way did I point a finger at your drivel. Stop threatening. It does not serve any purpose. BTW I have been and am still an avid supporter of indigenous efforts, by DRDO or any other entity which would help India to save foreign exchange and at the same time provide employment to Indians instead of bailing out production houses in the west that are on the verge of closing down their assembly lines. Don't go off at a tangent and deride others of their language skills when yours is nothing to gloat about. Learn to be polite, civil and courteous even if you are not face to face with the person whose opinions differ from yours. Have a good day and chill down. P.S. I chose 'the terminator' nom de guerre not to terminate guys like you in a forum but just as a convenient handle. Shailendra@12:32AM Great thought... I agree, that this pool of talent can do a lot of good things for those who fight to save us. What the need is a platform and a leader to guide. Just 2 tons of weapon load. Will it be able fulfill the role of Deep Penetration Strike bomber? As per my best knowledge, it is slated to replace Jaguar & Mig 27. @Anonymu 10:44 AM Buddy, why not to make a web site, where we invite people for writing articles for guiding for defense ? See may be I have not all my thoughts at place right now, but I think people here can have more like me. Believe me we all have good intentions, and if we can be united we will be helping so many. I always watch videos on youtube for F35 and other things, and my family says why you do not design a fighter plan ( sometime they just pinch me :)) But why I can not ? at least I can inspire and motivate youth to do that Read this news The organisers included the US department of defence. And where the hell DRDO or MOD were ? This is what is called as talent hunt, after few years these students will fly to US and will be involved in some cutting edge tech like F 35. Why we do not have such a environment ?). Shailendra@10:06PM OK thats fine but how do you think we will be able to guide i.e how will the ideas reach the stage where the actual decision making(for the forces) takes place. I would like to know the road map for such a venture. Hi Shailendra, I am ready to develop site,decide the name, book the domain,push a message here, i will start work. thank you What do you guys think about 1) AMCA should have internal room for at least 2 more AA missiles since it is ment to penerate enemy territory deeply; 2) current plan should center around Israel AESA radar and Eurojet EJ200 engine. And later replace EJ2oo and Israel AESA radar with kaveri and indigenous AESA radar when they are ready. The biggest stealth feature seems to be the absence of a vertical stabilizer, one of the heaviest contributors to the RCI profile of an aircraft. Designing an aircraft without those though, brings about a million computing headaches, which is why indigenous agencies are going to have to come up with a much more powerful flight computer than they are used to deploying on most IAF aircraft. The Indian MCA project (now AMCA) is a joint Indo-Russian(MiG) project n NOT a wholly Indian endeavor as made out to be. Here is the Link in suuport of the above: It make me feel proud. I am sure all those people who are saying that the delay and high cost behind tejas are not aware of the level of complexity behind such a high tech flying machine. Tejas is a big learning phase in indian aviation industry. I can surely say that the next fighter craft (Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA)) would take much less time and less development cost. As happened in case of HAL Dhruv to LCH. Dhruv took a long time to come up, while LCH came within 2 years !!! because of the know how to develop a helicopter was already available for LCH. And all those who talk about full indigenous crap, should know that its not possible because of the patented technologies used in many products, u can not make them even if you are capable of !! Secondly why reinvent the wheel, use the available components and make proper use of it !!! thats intelligent. Once you have the aircraft in production line, you can gradually develop manufacturing facility of foreign origin products on your own, but first focus on get the thing to fly OKAY !!! Also best wishes to "National Civil Aircraft Programme". I have faith in Madhavan Nair :) Go India Go ! Nice. Good luck India. ADA, HAL & TEAM NEED TO OPERATIONALISE LCA WHICH IS STILL NOT IN THE FINAL STAGE (WITH DELAY AFTER DELAY) THEN THEY SHOULD WORK FOR AMCA. OTHERWISE AMCA WOULD BE FOR ANOTHER 20 YEARS BEFORE BEGINING ITS FIRST FLIGHT TRIALS. IN THE MEANWHILE, THE IAF WILL CONTINUE TO BUY FOREIGN MADE JETS/PLANES. GOOD !! The AMCA will roll out by 2014. The Indian version two-seat FGFA will also roll out in that same year (if not in 2013). IAF would induct the first of the batch of 50 Russian-version PAK FAs by 2015, FGFA first flight could be by 2013-2014, and AMCA first flight by 2016-2017, FGFA & AMCA would be inducted into IAF from year 2020. Good, real good...i think this decade in Indian skies is going to be very hot...three stealth fighters showing up...i just hope everything goes as per schedule. To make a stealth aircraft is very challenging.To make a stealth combat aircraft is a "no-hoper" if one is going to maintain any worthwhile time scale. It seems we are treading the LCA - world class- and MiG replacement-path again.As Einstein said "It is stupidity to repeat the same thing and expect different results". I thought a cranked LE is anti stealth but the model shows just that.Hmmm... Finally stealth requires internal weapons carriage which means a large draggy airframe and a large easy to hit target.Is stealth or perhaps "super stealth" ( a little cosmetic angling does no harm)another of those fashionable marketing ploy? I have been an Aircraft nut long enough to see many such come and go after being dropped like ahot potato. Prodyut PEOPLE WHO ARE JEALOUS MAKE UNNECESSARY COMMENTS.ALL THE BEST DRDO I feel it is very expensive to upgrade the mirages for 41 million dollars a piece almost same cost of the Tejas MK2 . It is equally expensive evan to but rafale , it is fourth generation technology.It is costly a lot right now and avionics upgrade is needed every 7-8 years. If Dassault is looting 41 million for mirage upgrade they would loot 100 million plus for rafale upgrade.Rafale would be made available beyond 2018 so why not to develop AMCA with GE 414 IN5S6 engines and develop it with the more advanced version of AESA radar which is being developed for Tejas MK 2. This all process can be developed in 5 years if they plan now and in 6-8 months fly the prototypes. It would be cheaper and better to upgrade the homegrown fighter.I feel it is high time take help from Japan as well as Korea as they are also in need of a fighter due to china's posturing in the china sea.Rafale has obsolete underpowered engine.Stop the production of Tejas MK1 and go directly to AMCA.The money remains at home and if a determined effort is made we can have a world beater. TIMBAKTOO

Road Trips Around Sydney Sydney, Australia. Photo credit: Destination NSW. David Elliott wrote this guest post on road trips around Sydney. He is a freelance writer who loves to get away whenever he can to immerse himself in foreign cultures and lap up the history of great cities. There are loads of things to do in New South Wales, and a road trip of the area around Sydney in particular will throw up new experiences around every corner. The landscape is rich and varied and will take you through scenery as diverse as that of the Snowy Mountains, the exhilarating coastal stretch and the fabulous outback. If you take the time beforehand to map out a proper itinerary, you’ll get the most out of your visit to this incomparably beautiful region of Australia. Mungo National Park. Photo credit: Destination NSW. If you base yourself in Sydney you can take out a cheap car rental to enjoy the famous coastal drive between here and Melbourne. This will take you ultimately to the border with Victoria and on the way you’ll pass a string of historic villages and quaint seaside towns and attractive bays to stop off at for refreshments and a dip in the clear waters. There are also more than 30 national parks along the route, along with spectacular wildlife reserves, making this a drive full of new experiences. Some of the finest dairy cheeses in Australia are made in this area, and wineries too are never far distant, with eating out one of the many pleasures of the trip. Wollongong Harbour. Photo credit: Destination NSW. Or try the Grand Pacific Drive out of Sydney, which takes you straight through the Royal National Park and along the Sea Cliff Bridge, curving out beneath the Illawarra Escarpment for some fabulous views. You can stop off for cheap and fresh fish ‘n’ chips at Wollongong Harbour and watch the sea blast up through the natural blowhole at Kiama along the way. Blue Mountains. Photo credit: Destination NSW. There’s also a popular road trip to the west of Sydney that takes you over the Blue Mountains and right across the central western plains. There is a sense of endless space here and you can almost feel the spirit of the outback. Alternatively, opt for the slower but much more scenic and less-traveled route across the mountains, the so-called Bells Line of Road trip, and relax with coffee and lunch with a stopover at the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden. Coastal walking. Photo credit: Greater Port Macquarie Visitor Information Centre. The drive between Sydney and Port Macquarie will take a leisurely five hours. You can head off the Pacific Highway just a little beyond Raymond Terrace and you’ll soon find yourself in the Buckett’s Way region of hair-bend turns and rolling hills. This country is a lot rougher than those of the other routes; with many of the roads being little more than dirt tracks. Stop off at the quaint little township of Stroud, which was largely built by convicts in the early 19th century. There are plenty of arts and crafts stores here and at nearby Gloucester and Tininee.

the U.K. “embrace the transition to open access, and accelerate the process in a measured way which promotes innovation but also what is most valuable in the research communication ecosystem.” The model it suggests is mixed, but heavily weighted toward the “gold” model, or publication in Open Access (OA) journals funded by article processing charges, temporarily supported by extended licenses for subscription journals during the transition, and backstopped by repositories with a focus on preservation and access to “grey”, or non-commercially published, literature. “It is unlikely that either institutional or subject-based repositories could by themselves provide a satisfactory model for a research communications system,” the report says. “[…] Quality assurance through peer review, coupled with the wide range of discovery, navigation, linking and related services provided by publishers and other intermediaries are […] of critical importance.” The report estimated that the cost of the transition would be an additional 50-60 million pounds per year: 38 million on publishing in open access journals, 10 million on extensions to licenses for the higher education and health sectors, and 3-5 million pounds on repositories, plus one-off transition costs of 5 million pounds. Although the report focuses on U.K. policy, David Willetts, minister for universities and science, was quoted by The Guardian as saying, .” Research Libraries U.K. (RLUK) generally welcomed the report, particularly the estimates of cost savings, but took issue with the 12 month embargo period it proposed. David Prosser, executive director of RLUK, said in a statement, “RLUK therefore strongly supports the recent OA proposals from the RCUK which incorporate a maximum embargo of six months for scientific research and sees no merit in the excessive embargoes suggested by the Finch Report.” (The Publishers Association, on the other hand, particularly welcomed the embargo recommendation, while praising the report in general; the association recently released a report claiming that a six month embargo period would cut journal subscriptions by almost half.) In addition to academic libraries, the report is of particular interest to public libraries because of a proposal to provide walk-in access to the majority of journals via public libraries across the U.K., something the report says “should be pursued with vigor, along with an effective publicity and marketing campaign.” The public library initiative is proposed to run for an initial two year trial to gather and analyze data on demand and usage. “Publishers hope to extend the service at the end of the two years if it has not led to any damaging loss of core revenues,” the Finch report says, noting, “the precise terms of what will be provided – whether access will be restricted to screens on library equipment, restrictions on copying to other devices, access to printing, and related matters – and issues such as discover-ability and whether access will be provided to all content via a single platform, have yet to be worked out. A working group of representatives of public libraries and of publishers has been established to consider these issues, and how the proposal can be implemented to best effect.” For more reactions to the report, see INFOdocket.com. FINCH REPORT, A TROJAN HORSE, SERVES PUBLISHING INDUSTRY INTERESTS INSTEAD OF UK RESEARCH INTERESTS 1.. THE FINCH FIASCO IN FACTS AND FIGURES The Finch Report, under strong and palpable influence from the publishing lobby, instead of recommending extending and optimizing the UK’s worldwide lead in providing Green OA, cost-free, through institutional and funder self-archiving mandates, has recommended abandoning Green OA and Green OA mandates and instead spending extra money (£50-60 million yearly) on paying publishers’ Gold OA fees as well as a UK blanket national site-license fee to cover whatever is not yet Gold OA (i.e., all the journals that UK institutions currently subscribe to, rather like the “Big Deals” publishers have been successfully negotiating with individual institutions and consortia): Finch on Green: “The [Green OA] policies of neither research funders nor universities themselves have yet had a major effect in ensuring that researchers make their publications accessible in institutional repositories… [so] the infrastructure of subject and institutional repositories should [instead] be developed [to] play a valuable role complementary to formal publishing, particularly in providing access to research data and to grey literature, and in digital preservation [no mention of Green OA]…” Finch on Gold: “Gold” open access, funded by article charges, should be seen as “the main vehicle for the publication of research”… Public funders should establish “more effective and flexible arrangements” to pay [Gold OA] article charges… During the transition to [Gold] open access, funding should be found to extend licences [subscriptions] for non-open-access content to the whole UK higher education and health sectors… Now here are some of the actual figures behind the above assertions. Let readers come to their own conclusions about the relative success, cost, benefits, cost-effectiveness, growth potential and timetable of mandating Green OA vs funding Gold OA: bit.ly/FinchFiasco

To link to this article, copy this persistent link: (Aug 17, 2011) On August 11, 2011, the European Commission allowed Spain to temporarily restrict the access of Romanian workers to its labor market. (2011/503/EU: Commission Decision of 11 August 2011 Authorising Spain to Temporarily Suspend the Application of Articles 1 to 6 of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Freedom of Movement for Workers Within the Union with Regard to Romanian Workers [hereinafter Commission Decision], OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (OJ) (L207) 22 (Aug. 12, 2011).) The decision involves one of the four fundamental pillars of the European Union, that is, the free movement of people within the territory of the 27 EU Member States and the right of the EU Member States to curtail such freedom of movement on certain grounds. This right of free movement – which in general permits workers to look for employment in another Member State without a work permit and also to reside there – is protected in articles 45 and 46 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. (See consolidated version of the Treaty, OJ (C83) 47-199 (Mar. 30, 2010).) This right is furthermore provided in Regulation No. 492/2011, adopted in April 2011, which replaces the 1968 Regulation on Freedom of Movement of Workers Within the Union and establishes the requirements and conditions of the exercise of the right of free movement. (Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on Freedom of Movement for Workers Within the Union [hereinafter the Regulation], OJ 2011 (L14) 11 (May 27, 2011).) Based on articles 1-6 of the Regulation, nationals of a Member State, regardless of place of residence, have the right to seek employment in another EU Member State, without being subject to discrimination and with the same priority as nationals of that state. EU Member States are not permitted to restrict this right by law, regulation, or administrative action or to impose requirements not applicable to their own nationals. (Id.) The Act of Accession to the EU for Romania, adopted in 2005, established transitional provisions for workers. Romania eventually joined the EU on January 1, 2007. EU Members had the right to defer full access to their labor markets by Romanian workers for a seven-year period, to 2014. The Act of Accession also contained a "safeguard clause" that gave EU Members the right to re-introduce restrictions, if that Member were experiencing or anticipating serious "labor market disturbances." (Press Release, The Commission Accepts That Spain Can Temporarily Restrict the Free Movement of Romanian Workers, MEMO/11/554 (Aug. 11, 2011), EUROPA.) Currently, Romanian workers have access to the labor market in 15 of the 25 EU Member States other than Spain and Romania (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden). The other EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom) still maintain work permits for such workers, with some adjustments. (Id.) Spain opened its market to Romanian workers on January 1, 2009. However, following the global economic downturn of 2008, Spain began experiencing serious disturbances in its labor market, especially an unemployment rate in excess of 20%. (Commission Decision, supra.) On July 22, 2011, Spain notified the European Commission of its decision to take immediate measures to reintroduce restrictions because of its domestic economic crisis. In connection with this crisis, on July 28, 2011, Spain requested that, with regard to Romanian workers, the Commission suspend articles 1-6 of the Regulation. (Id.) The Commission Decision adopted on August 11 authorizes Spain to temporarily suspend the application of articles 1-6 of the Regulation until December 31, 2012. (Id.) The Commission based its decision on an analysis of economic data indicating that Spain was facing a serious labor market disturbance that was reflected in its having the highest unemployment rate across the EU, "particularly dramatic unemployment among youth and a slow economic recovery." (Id.) The decision does not affect Romanian workers who are already employed in Spain and those who are registered as job seekers by the Public Employment Services in Spain. (Id.) - Author: Theresa Papademetriou More by this author - Topic: Immigration More on this topic - Jurisdiction: European Union / Sp/2011

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FarmVille login issues are common and generally related to Facebook login issues. FarmVille as a standalone application on the Facebook platform does not have a unique login for its service. The best way to log in to FarmVille is to first log in to Facebook then navigate via your apps to the FarmVille icon and start playing your game. Access the FarmVille login via the Facebook page. Background FarmVille is one of the most popular online games in the entire world! FarmVille is a leader in social gaming, meaning that the game is played wholly on Facebook and users interact on the Facebook platform to play the game. Zynga is the publisher and developer of FarmVille and is based our of San Francisco, CA. Zynga was founded by Mark Pincus, an outspoken entrepreneur which a flair for making flashy moves. FarmVille is the most popular Zynga title but has recently been eclipsed by CityVille, another Zynga title. Competitors FarmVille has a ton of competitors, including other Zynga games like CityVille and FrontierVille. Other publishers with games that compete with FarmVille are Playdom, Playfish, and Kabam, which makes strategy games. Overall, FarmVille is one of the top games on Facebook and will likely remain so unless user habits change. Common Issues The most common issue with FarmVille is finding the FarmVille login inside Facebook. The solution is actually fairly simple and just involves navigating to the apps portion of the lefthand navigation bar in the Facebook interface. They you can easily click on FarmVille to log in to the service. FarmVille login issues and interruptions can be caused by having an out-of-date version of Flash, the technology that powers FarmVille graphics. Flash is a browser-based application runtime that power a ton of rich internet applications like FarmVille. Download Flash to resolve any FarmVille issues related to Adobe Flash. FarmVille Statistics FarmVille has over 46 million monthly active users (MAU), meaning that over 46 million unique Facebook users log into FarmVille every thirty days! From a daily active user perspective, FarmVille has only 12 million daily active users (DAU), meaning that in the last day only 12 million users logged into FarmVille. See below for a chart that shows that daily active user trend for April/May for FarmVille logins. Zynga is the behemoth social gaming company behind FarmVille, with a ton of other titles like CityVille. Over the past year, Zynga login traffic to their website has increased dramatically as users attempt to login to key games like FarmVille, which is their 2nd largest game after CityVille. ScamVille Controversy In October of 2009, Michael Arrington lambasted Zynga and FarmVille for what he termed, “The social gaming ecosystem of hell” aka ScamVille. Arrington criticizes FarmVille for offering incentivized downloads for partner apps and services in an attempt to drive customer acquisition. The bulk of his fury was leveled against ringtone offers that rebill customers without their consent. Having a problem with posting for about a week , I only have half of the post and it is not the send . Help it has been at least 2 mo. since my husband or i have not been able to finish quest because they won’t post! please fix our games .He ( my husband is under a different e – mail address then me. my favorite pass time I love you bubba,michele,lilbuba,and bug bigtime you are mammas babies all of you forever!!!!! my correct e mail address. sorry for mistake Please can anyone help me with getting my farmville back! I have built a great farm and a English farm and now i can not get it to come up on my computer. Also i am having trouble with not reciving farmville cash, most of my neighbours have 10-15 plus and i am lucky if in get 1, also reciving gifts, well i mean not getting them after i have accepted them. Thank you for taking the time to read and hopfully send me a answer. hai,,, u can go to ur farm through internet explorer.. it works but little slow…. tc bye my farmville app shows my farm then goes to a white page and says error cant find page My brother recommended I would possibly like this website. He was once totally right. This submit actually made my day. You cann’t believe just how so much time I had spent for this info! Thanks! We’re a gaggle of volunteers and opening a new scheme in our community. Your website provided us with helpful info to work on. You have done an impressive job and our entire community might be thankful to you. I only get to farmville express. Why can’t I see my farm? HELP well farmville has totally made me mad.My farm will not load,I have downloaded newer version of Javescript. reallowed cookies done everything possible. This games is surely not worth all the trouble it creates. hours of trying but getting nowhere. Sorry for all my wonderful fellow farmers I guess they think I am dead by now. Maybe one of them will sell me a small plot of land to bury me on. will miss you all. keep saying close down your browser cannot load farmville – shows 3 bars flashiing and has loading on it but nothing happens bars just keep flashing – for the last 3 days All I want is neighbors for farmville that are not my friends I am limited on who is my friend. I just need Players for Farmville Can you please help I have read about non Farmville friends and having a hard time understanding how do i get this. I can bring up facebook and go to farmville and it acts like it is going to my farm then when it shows up it is just a white screen. 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Marriage & Civil Partnerships American citizens coming to the United Kingdom to marry British citizens or persons settled here, or to register as Civil Partners, generally require entry clearance from UK authorities. Clearance must be obtained in advance of arrival. If you are in the United States and need more information, consult the website of the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., at. If you are outside the United States, but not in the United Kingdom, consult. If you are already in the United Kingdom, see. Failure to comply with the requirement for entry clearance may result in refusal of entry to the United Kingdom. Civil (Non-Religious) Marriages In general, for a civil marriage, both contracting parties must: - observe the statutory residence requirements (see below); - be at least 16 years old; - obtain parental consent in writing if either party is under age 18, unless one is a widow or widower; - if previously married, produce evidence that they are currently free to marry (for example, the original or a certified copy of the former spouse's death certificate or of the divorce decree); and - arrange for two witnesses to be present at the marriage and to sign the Marriage Register. People subject to immigration control who wish to marry in the United Kingdom must: - hold entry clearance as a fiancé/e or marriage visitor, or - hold a Home Office certificate of approval, or - be a person with settled status in the United Kingdom (e.g. indefinite leave to remain). Who regulates civil marriages in England and Wales? The Registrar's Office for each district. To find the nearest Registrar, look under "Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages" in the telephone directory, or call Directory Assistance (192). The Registrar takes the Notice of Marriage (the license application), issues the certificate, and conducts the ceremony. For most visiting Americans, the most centrally located Registrar's Office is at Westminster Council House, Marylebone Road, London SW1E 6QP (Tel: 020-7641-1161). How do I obtain a certificate? There is a seven-day residence requirement for both parties; on the eighth day, both give "Notice of Intent to Marry" to the local Registrar's Office for the district in which they have been staying. A further 15-day waiting period must lapse before the marriage may take place. It is preferable that both parties give notice at the same time. Each party also is required to declare nationality and provide evidence of identification. Religious marriages in England and Wales Church of England authorities advise that marriage in an Anglican church between two foreigners or between a foreigner and a British citizen should be by ecclesiastical license arranged through the vicar of the church in which they wish to be married. For information on marriage in accordance with Anglican rites, consult The Faculty Office, 1 The Sanctuary, London SW1P 3JS (Tel: 020-7222-5381). Protestants of other denominations or Quakers should consult the clergyman or governing body of the respective denomination. Roman Catholic authorities advise that parties should give at least six weeks' notice to the parish priest prior to the marriage to allow time for instruction, collection of documents, publication of banns, and other formalities. If the parties do not reside in the parish, they will need letters from the parish priests of their home parishes giving permission for the celebration of the marriage elsewhere. Jewish marriages may be performed under the auspices of a registered synagogue and entered in the synagogue's marriage register. Further information may be obtained from the Office of the Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, London N12 0US (Tel: 020-8343-8989). For religions not mentioned, please contact the appropriate governing authority. Can a marriage take place anywhere? Marriages can be performed by a Registrar at any location, provided the venue is licensed, approved, and registered for the purpose of marriage by the local government authority. Licensed venues may include hotels, public houses, and stately homes. For a fee, the Registrar from the district where you reside may perform the marriage in another district's licensed venue. Fees vary according to the time and date you wish the marriage to take place. For a list of venues and fees, contact the nearest Registrar. Is a marriage performed in the United Kingdom valid in the United States? In general, regardless of the nationality or religion of the persons married, marriages legally performed in the United Kingdom are also legally valid in the United States. What is the role of the Embassy? The Embassy has no role in the process, other than to administer oaths on documents as a notary service. American diplomatic and consular officers may not perform marriages or serve as witnesses. Marriages may not take place at the Embassy. Is citizenship affected by marriage? No. An American citizen marrying a foreign national does not lose American citizenship, nor does he/she automatically acquire British citizenship if marrying a British citizen. Similarly, a foreign national does NOT acquire American citizenship simply by marriage to an American citizen. After marriage, an American citizen may amend his/her surname to reflect his/her married name by presenting his/her U.S. passport and a certified copy of the marriage certificate to a consular official at the Embassy. For more information, see our passports information pages. A foreign national spouse who intends to reside in the United States must obtain a U.S. immigrant visa prior to entering the United States. Civil Partnerships The UK Civil Partnership Act 2004 came into operation on December 5, 2005, and enables a same-sex couple to register as civil partners of each other. A civil partnership can be registered in England and Wales in a register office or in approved premises. For more information, see. Note that, as for marriage, entry clearance must be obtained in advance of arrival from UK authorities. Please refer to the links above. Under U.S. law (the Defense of Marriage Act 1996), a civil partnership registration cannot be used as the basis for an immediate name change in a U.S. passport, nor can it be used as the basis for a U.S. immigration benefit. For more information related to immigration, see the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service website.

suffice? 2. How did Beatport come to account for this much of the pie? 3. Is that really a good thing? I may go into more detail on this later, but for now a few thoughts… Distributors are a bit of a relic from the days of having to physically get your records into hundreds of stores around the globe. They are useful online if you want to make sure your track is in all the online stores, but if you only sell a handful of copies from those stores is it worth the 10-15% cut they take? They now also serve a purpose to the stores with the ever increasing number of labels – in the case of Beatport many smaller labels are grouped together so that Beatport just deals with the distributor rather than the individual label (the labels have no designated contact at Beatport). I think Beatport had two things going for it: design and exclusivity. Of all the music sites it is by far the best designed user interface, and for this reason i found myself returning there even though tracks cost more. The second, and most important, point is exclusivity deals. Busy DJs want to go record shopping once a week, not several times at several locations, this is why so few sales go direct through label’s websites. Once key labels gave Beatport exclusivity that meant DJs would head there by default so that they could get all the latest tracks in one place. This factor seems to even trump audio player seen as Beatport’s 2min sample is the most basic these days. I actually think they’ve consciously done that - how many times have you listened to a track and it cuts just before the drop? That leaves the listener at peak anticipation and more likely to hit the buy button. Finally, is Beatport’s pie-hogging a good thing? I dont think so. Dont get me wrong, I like Beatport, but I dont like monopolies. And as online record stores crumble around us there is something disconcerting about virtually all sales going through one store. Beatport’s margins are pretty high already meaning less money for the label and for the artist (artists generally see about 20p of each track sold unless you’re selling large volumes and can negotiate). I think Beatport is still working on an old model based on the physical record store. I think there is a better way of getting music to the DJs, putting the quality labels in the foreground and rewarding the artists. I’m still developing the idea, but I think it will be soon time for a change. Ok, time to stop talking and start listening. Here is a gorgeous mix of classic house and nu-disco sounds by the man who brought us Coma Cat… Tensnake. Enjoy it. 43m25s particularly tickles my loins, what a groove!

Stop, time Posted by lpearle on 8 February 2010 A while ago I wrote about destination fatigue; I’ve been thinking about this more and more, particularly after a conversation I had with a friend this past weekend. My friend teaches graphic design at a SUNY not far from where I live, and we were talking about preparing students for the World Out There. Their ideas of appropriate dress and behavior are different from ours but those are the things that can be changed and molded. What’s more difficult is their ideas of privacy and how best to work. In this day of Augmented Reality and games like Foursquare, with Facebook’s creator deciding that privacy is not important, how do we teach students to create a private space? How do we let them know that not sharing everything has value – it’s not just about mystery, it’s about preserving a sense of self in a world where we’re increasingly nakedly “out there”. Will there be a backlash, a move to going off the grid? As for the way in which they work, they’ve been told that their generation has mastered the art of multitasking (or continuous partial attention). They’ve had expectations lowered and distractions raised so that working on one thing, mindfully, is a novel idea. How many of my students watch tv and do homework and text and listen to their iPod at the same time? I’d venture a guess that it’s quite a lot of them. I’m guilty, too. I feel compelled to keep up professionally, so at night I read my RSS feeds and try to catch up on the links being shared on twitter and look at the elists to which I’m subscribed; all that takes about around 3 hours a night. For me to accomplish all that, I have to watch tv at the same time – otherwise, I won’t be able to spend time reading before bed. It’s difficult for me to concentrate on the tv AND the professional ‘keeping up’ at the same time, so neither get done particularly well. I think back to my life before I became a librarian, when work was 9-5 and that was it; my evenings and weekends were my own. There wasn’t a need to carve out “me” time because that was abundant. I didn’t feel guilty about not attending the Knowledge Building Center seminar tonight. I didn’t have a sense of panic about not doing the right thing by my students and school because I was missing something that could help them in their search for academic success. Getting an invitation to become part of the New Media Literacies site shouldn’t make me resent opening my e-mail. What I need – what we all need – is to stop time a little. To really think about what’s more important, ourselves or everyone else, and to find a way to balance that. All this overwhelm and scrambling to keep up just means that something is getting left behind; I’d rather it not be my life, or yours. This entry was posted on 8 February 2010 at 8:28 am and is filed under Life Related. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. barbara said You might find the following. Being able to stop time would be wonderful. I’d settle for a good filter and the ability to squash the fear that I’m missing something. What’s the buzz? « Venn Librarian said [...] Wendy « Stop, time [...]

NSF hosted a webcast todayon the special MRI-R² solicitation. I've updated a past post with other information and a link to the archived webcast. And here's something funny via Clastic Detritus. Thursday, May 28, 2009 NSF MRI-R² webcast. Posted by Steve Gough at 3:26 PM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: Clastic Detritus, fun, MRI, NSF Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Dunes and a beautiful delta in Lake Eyre. Like some other bloggers I know, I can't resist pointing to yet another image from NASA's Earth Observatory site. This one if of Australia's Lake Eyre basin. Just go read the description there. In how many places do we see a delta system and sand dunes cutting through one other? And an amazing ecosystem to boot--see the Australian Broadcasting Corp. video (referenced by the EO site) here. Posted by Steve Gough at 7:09 PM 2 comments Links to this post Labels: Australia, delta, dunes, geomorphology, Lake Eyre Saturday, May 23, 2009 A wonderful book on water lifting devices. Water Lifting Devices, by P.L. Fraenkel and Jeremy Thake. My wife Kate loves libraries, and on one of our recent trips to the newly remodeled Morris Library at SIUC, I happened to spot this book. I've done innumerable internet searches on pumps and related technology for our river model development, but had never seen this one. Score another one for books on shelves. The book's aim is a review of applied pumping theory and practice, and description of pumps suitable for, mostly, third world applications. It's amazingly comprehensive, with wonderful sections on theory and pump efficiency--even covering generation of electricity using wind, hydro, and biogas. Pumping is a difficult topic. This book does an admirable job of making it accessible. If you work with pumps or fluid mechanics, or are interested in mechanical devices (and their history) you'll enjoy this book. Many of the technologies described, such as the Archimedes Screw, are centuries old and most rely on human or animal power. You can find the most recent version (3rd edition, 2007) on Amazon.com here, and it seems the UN-FAO has an older online version with a linked table of contents here. Both are richly illustrated. I also found a wonderful collection of photographs covering this topic by Thorkild Schiöler here. A photo from this site, of a Chinese "dragons's spine" pump powered by three treaders, is shown below. Posted by Steve Gough at 9:26 PM 4 comments Links to this post Tuesday, May 12, 2009 An "inland hurricane" hits Carbondale. In Illinois, the damage covers several counties, and we're told Carbondale took the brunt of it. Hardly a home stands undamaged. I counted over 30 trees destroyed on the 3-acre lot my in-laws own. A 36-inch red oak came down on the back of our building, giving us quite a shock. Like many huge old oaks that were destroyed, it was simply uprooted. Constant rain over the last two weeks left soils saturated, and many healthy trees were destroyed this way. Bad luck. We just regained power the Internet connection today, though many of us will be without power for several days at home. Top image is the NOAA Radar, which I captured an hour or so before the winds hit us. Update: Radar imagery from the University of Wisconsin. A week after the storm, many thousands of homes (including mine) are still without power, and Carbondale estimates over 3,000 trees came down in the City. Posted by Steve Gough at 1:16 PM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: carbondale, damage, inland hurricane, meso cyclone, southern Illinois, storm Thursday, May 7, 2009 Watts Branch, Walter and Merrits From. Posted by Steve Gough at 1:12 PM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: department of conservation, Earth Magazine, fluvial geomorphology, Frank Pazzaglia, Merritts, Peter Wilcock, Science, Walter Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Grade control Part 1. I've been working on an incised urban channel needing grade control, and took the opportunity to review what's out there, and also my own thick files. Here I'll talk a bit about theory, practice, and the politics of using grade control in channel management. First, a skydiver. On leaving the plane he has huge potential energy relative to the ground thousands of feet below. After opening his chute, he slowly dissipates that energy by converting it to kinetic energy using a parachute. Water works the same way. Especially in urban channels, I use this simple conceptual approach: We have a certain volume of water entering our area of interest at a certain elevation. As this flow moves down the channel, potential energy (from the elevation difference) is converted to kinetic energy and dissipated. How that conversion and dissipation happens largely controls channel erosion and sediment transport. Grade control structures are a way to manage this. At the top of this figure we see a smooth channel. Conversion of potential (PE) to kinetic energy (KE) is more or less evenly distributed throughout the reach. Below we've added grade controls. What's important here is that we now see 1) most of the energy is now dissipated only at discreet locations (the GC structures) and 2) we pick and armor those locations. Pretty simple. And it works. In theory, you don't have to armor the channel between these structures. One of the many things about river mechanics that is counterintuitive to most people. Posted by Steve Gough at 4:17 PM 0 comments Links to this post Friday, May 1, 2009 Em2 models on a map. View Emriver Em2 models in a larger map We've been busy shipping Em2 models this month--it seems the economy is recovering, or at least agency budgets are moving past last fall's severe cuts. So we took some time to map the locations of our Em2 models. It's a nice feeling to see the impact we're having. Some of the locations have several models; Winona State has six Em2's (and an Em4). Posted by Steve Gough at 3:28 PM 0 comments Links to this post

Here is the official prize list for the Spooktacular Giveaway! The giveaway will launch 10/12 at 12:01am and run until 11:59pm 10/14. Entries will be taken via Rafflecopter here on my blog, with one winner chosen for the entire prize package by noon CST 10/15. So there you have it! Our official prize package for the Spooktacular giveaway! Be sure to check back daily for artist show cases, guests posts and shop info for each vendor, and be back first thing 10/12 to enter the giveaway!a Rafflecopter giveaway Which item are you most excited about? Which item are you most excited about? Some awesome cutness in this post. I LOVE the sock monkey. OMG! This stuff is so AWESOME! :D It's all so awesome, love the mollie dollie and the clock! Really really like the clock!! WOW!!!!! They are ALL awesome!!!! Love the diaper cover!!! The clock is SWEET!!! And the Mollie Dollie is so cute! The Mon-ster tote is ubber cute! But I think I would love the best would be the Gift certificate for the Individuality. Thanks for such an awesome giveaway! So awesome! You all are so talented I'm honored to be in this group of amazing artists! LOVE the clock! Exciting!! oh my gosh! these are all so wonderful! so very happy to be a part of such an awesome group of artist... good luck to all the entrants. Wow! So much awesomeness! So excited to be a part of this give away =) I CAN NOT WAIT TO ENTER IN THIS GIVEAWAY!!!!!! and better yet.... the 14th is my birthday!!!!!!! Oooooh! So many precious things! Especially love the Wizard by Heart Felt Designs (but i do like everything she makes!) Good luck all! and happy Halloween :) Love the wizard pillow! Love the wizard pillow! I love them all- I love the Stacey Jean skeleton sock monkey!! My all time favorite movie is the saw series. :) omg i simply adore material like this! Great time of year to have things like this to make you feel giddy. Im spazzing in my seat I like the dollie! :) This comment has been removed by the author. i dont have an all time favorite scary movie... SO AWESOME! love love love the sock monkey kit and wizard pillow! Im not one for scary movies - but that one from the late 80s with Kathy Bates... The Strangers! I love the mollie doll!

Thanks, MSM! Another cleverly executed cover-up job for His Majesty. Your fall guy is in place, and all that´s left for you is accusing anyone who doesn´t believe the cascade of White House lies a racist and/or conspiracy nut. Oh, and by the way, MSM - the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. I don´t care who hit the delete-button on Al-Quaida. I want to know who inserted the "it was the video" meme. I believe clapper is the ONLY one under oath who said he did not order a stand down. Perfect match for the legal show the dems are eager to put on thus further distracting the deaf,dumb and blind public from the story of a group of people slaughtered while our potus watched and did nothing. I suspect that this administration is going to lay this at Petraeus´ feet.He can rise up again and hurt them since most Americans seem to love an adulterer. There are still four dead Americans and this administration will not tell us why our Ambassador was in Benghazi with minimal security. The answer to that will explain everything. Why don´t we start calling it "The Black House?" Duh, Obama will "hang" this on somebody. In fact he spends more time blaming everyone else, when he alone is responsible. Anyone who works with him or for him should know that Obama will blame them for his dissasstrous mistakes and deluded thinking. Why are there never any consequences for this president and the democrats? #7--that´s what Islamists and Al Qa´ida already refer to is as, The Black House. FTA: As Senator John McCain explained: “It is the worst cover-up or incompetence I have ever observed in my life. Somebody the other day said to me, This is as bad as Watergate, [but] nobody died in Watergate.”The Republicans need to keep up this drum beat regardless of the smears by the Dems who are trying to make it appear to be racism and sexism. McCain doesn´t have to worry about running for President again.All complaints of racism and sexism have worn thin, and it will continue to become more wearisome as time goes by.The people who are crying racism regarding what McCain said about Susan Rice are showing what fools they are. Incompetence doesn´t have a skin or gender designation. I know we have a lot of morons right now, but sooner or later even those uncommitted morons are going to scratch their heads and "say what?"If the Congressional Black Caucasians (Rush´s name for the CBC) keep crying wolf, all they are doing is making themselves look even more stupid than they normally appear. They only care about their own constituents, though, so it won´t matter to them.#7´s new designation for the Executive Mansion in DC is perfect! Obama: Commander-in-Chief. m´k? Why did Hillary Clinton deny the Benghazi consulate elite armed security in a war torn Islamic nation known as fertile ground for recruiting jihadists?Why isn´t anyone asking that? For anyone who cares to read it, here is the URL of Zippy´s UN speech in September. A masterpiece of equivocation. Sorry here´s the URL 0bama = SpadePiaps = GutmanJarrett = O´ShaughnessyAxelrod = Cairo- - and Clapper = Wilmer - - the Fall Guy.Yup - - straight out of the script for "The Maltese Falcon." Sacrificing an incompetent white man in order to take the heat off an incompetent black woman. The chorus will sing that it was Clapper who made the change and poor, falsely accused Susan Rice DESERVES to be Sec State to make up for her horrible persecution. Oh, the humanity! Slavery! Slavery!Give me a break.Everyone is expected to obediently forget that by the time Rice appeared on the Sunday shows EVERYONE knew that Benghazi was a terrorist attack by an alquaeda affiliate. Either Rice was so out of the loop and insulated that she barely knew what day it was, or she appeared on those shows and deliberately and repeatedly advanced a storyline that she knew was a complete lie. That she was lying to the American people at someone else´s instructions makes her no less of a liar. Clueless or a liar. Rock and a hard place. There is no way out of it. And if she gets off the hook by being clueless, she´s a GREAT candidate for Sec State (???!!!). Yep fall guy is right on...no way Obie would accept his responsibility... “The buck stops on whomever I can get away with pinning it!” – BHO Home Page | Latest Posts | Links | Must Reads | Update Profile | Register | Rules & FAQs | Search | Post | Contact | RSS | Contribute | Logout | Forgot Password

Tone Your BLT (butt, legs, tummy and arms) with this Triple Threat workout! - 10 Pushups - 10 Squats/Squat Jumps - 10 Situps Do as many rounds as you can!! Get Your Cranberry Fix With The Live Rite Shake Of The Month Refreshing and not too sweet this quintessentially ”November” shake highlights the best of the season. Ingredients: Directions: 10 Tips To Avoid The Calorie Monster During Holiday Parties The Catwoman Workout By Celebrity Trainer Ramona Braganza Shape up with Ramona’s “3-2-1 Training Method”, which incorporates a blend of cardio, circuit and core training to build lean muscles and say goodbye to belly bulge! The next 30 to 45 minute blast workout consists of 3 cardio segments, 2 circuits of strength and 1 core element. -Begin the first cardio segment with 3-5 minutes warm up on the elliptical, bike or jogging in place. -Follow with 3 rounds of strength exercises that work on three different parts of the body, by doing 3 sets of 15-20 reps and resting for 45 seconds between the sets; for chest do pushups or use the chest press machineat the gym. For legs andbiceps do single leg lunge with bicep curl and as a compound exercise do plié squats or plié jumps. Plie Jumps: slim and tone your inner thighs and hips , and sculpt your calves. -Start with your feet wider than shoulder width apart, turning your toes out and bending your knees. -Extend your arms out to your sides at shoulder height. -While keeping your arms extended, bend your knees and drop your butt to the floor; then jump into the air. Hit the ground and return to the starting position. When landing try to land gently and keep your knees bent to prevent knee injury. -Do 15 reps. -Start your second cardio interval with 10 min of high intensity exercises such as jump rope, running or jumping jacks that get your heart rate up. Even if you don’t have a rope with you, just pretend and continue jumping. -Follow with 3 rounds of dumbbell reverse flies, (which work the back muscles for good posture), tricep kickbacks or tricep dips great for jiggly arms and shadow boxing exercises to increase endurance and speed. Again, do 15-20 reps of each set with a few seconds of rest between them. Jab Cross Punches: this type of kickboxing movements executed with weights in your hands, is great for theupper body and for the oblique muscles when you twist your trunk. -Start with the legs hip width apart and knees slightly bent, holding a 2-5 lb. dumbbell in each hand. -Hold the hands in a boxing stance at chest level with your palms facing in. -Twist your torso to the right while extending the left arm to punch; then return to the initial position while keeping your back straight and the core muscles engaged. Twist to the left side and punch with the right arm extended. -Do 15-20 reps. -For the last cardio segment, you should do quick, intense movements such as jump ropes followed by 30 seconds of kicks or walking up and down the stairs. - The core segment is what ends a vigorous workout series. Do 3 abs exercises in a row, such as 15 reps of v-ups, followed by 15 reps bicycle and plank variations. Plank with hip twists (waist cincher): it works on transverse abdominal muscles, obliques and hips, trimming the waist. -Start in a plank position on forearms, keeping your hands in line with your elbows and the back straight. -For an extra challenge, hold the start plank position for 30 sec without arching your back. -Twist your hips to the left and slowly touch the floor. All this time, keep your elbows still on the floor, rotating just your hips. -Return to the middle position and then twist to the other side. -Do 20 reps. Ramona Braganza’s fitness advice: -If you do only cardio every time when you go to the gym, you won’t have a great body. She classifies this as one common fitness mistake that women make when they want to reshape their bodies. She says that cardio alone leads to “skinny fat, looking thin but lacking definition”. -You need to combine your cardio workouts with at least 2 times a week strength workouts such as squats, lunges and pushups to build lean, sexy muscles. -Don’t take shortcuts when lifting weights: if you take too many breaks between your series and use light weights that you can lift easily, it means that you aren’t working hard enough to challenge your muscles. Your last strength training exercises should be hard enough that you are burned out after the exercises.. Studies have shown that building muscles helps to burn fat faster; in general, a pound of muscle burns 50 to 150 calories per day while 1 pound of stubborn fat only burns 3 calories per day!

WC Fraud Examples of WC Fraud NJ Workers' Compensation Fraud Act Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Penalties for Committing WC Fraud Reporting Fraud WHAT IS WORKERS' COMPENSATION FRAUD? Workers' Compensation Fraud occurs when someone knowingly makes a false representation of a material fact to obtain or to deny workers' compensation benefits or to avoid responsibility under the law. Fraud also occurs when an employer misrepresents the amount of payroll or classification of its employees. Failure to maintain the required WC insurance coverage is also a crime. All of us who live and work in New Jersey pay the price for fraud - in the loss of jobs and profit, lower wages and benefits, and higher costs for services and insurance premiums. It affects workers and employers alike and is committed by workers and employers alike. A worker commits a fraud by misrepresenting his / her job status while collecting temporary disability benefits by filing a claim for an injury that did not occur on or has no relation to the job by knowingly misrepresenting his / her physical condition to obtain WC benefits by misrepresenting previous trauma or treatment An employer commits a fraud when it misrepresents the amount of payroll or the proper classification of its employees by failing to obtain workers' compensation insurance coverage. This is in violation of NJSA 34:15-79 and is punishable by up to 18 months in jail and a $10,000 fine, in addition to substantial civil penalties. An attorney or health care provider commits a fraud when they assist an individual in fraudulent schemes, participate in double billing or intentionally billing for services not provided or are unwarranted WC FRAUD ACT Workers’ compensation fraud is governed by the NJ Workers' Compensation Statute, N.J.S.A. 34:15-57.4. This statute provides that a criminal violation occurs if a misrepresentation is made for the purpose of wrongfully obtaining benefits or withholding benefits or premiums regarding workers’ compensation. If an individual wrongfully obtains benefits, a Judge of Compensation has discretion to terminate benefits and order the forfeiture of benefits that might otherwise be properly received. OFFICE OF INSURANCE FRAUD PROSECUTOR The Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP), was created in 1998 with the mission to investigate allegations of Medicaid and insurance fraud and to develop case-specific facts and evidence. This allows the State of New Jersey to make a reasoned decision whether and how to proceed in cases involving insurance fraud, especially against those who submit false or inflated claims to private or government insurance providers. Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor website PENALTIES Workers' Compensation Employer Fraud NJSA 34:15-57.4 An employer who makes a false or misleading statement, representation or submission, including a misclassification of employees, or engages in a deceptive leasing practice, for the purpose of evading the full payment of benefits or premiums shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. A person who evades the full payment of premiums pursuant to R.S.34:15-1 et seq. or improperly denies or delays benefits pursuant to R.S.34:15-1 et seq. is liable to pay the sum due and owing plus simple interest and shall be civilly liable to any person injured by the violation for damages and all reasonable costs and attorney fees of the injured person. Failure to Purchase Required WC Insurance Coverage NJSA 34:15-120.1(c) NJSA 34:15-79 It is illegal for an employer to not purchase workers' compensation insurance. Failure to purchase the required workers’ compensation insurance coverage is a disorderly persons offense and, if such failure shall be determined to be willful, a crime of the fourth degree. Civil penalties for failure to provide such coverage are: - up to $1,000 for the first twenty days - and up to $1,000 for each ten days thereafter If a judgment is entered by a Judge of Compensation against an uninsured employer, in addition to the judgment amount, - an additional $1,000 penalty shall be imposed - as well as an assessment of 15% (not to exceed $5,000) of the judgment amount. - Civil penalties may be imposed even if the case is not prosecuted criminally. NJSA 34:15-120.1(c) If successfully prosecuted as an indictable offense, the crime is punishable by up to: - 18 months in jail - a $10,000 fine - in addition to civil penalties. (NJSA 34:15-79) Workers' Compensation Worker Fraud: NJSA 34:15-57.4 A person who purposely or knowingly makes a false or misleading statement for the purpose of wrongfully obtaining benefits shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. If that person has received benefits. The Division of Workers' Compensation may also order the immediate termination or denial of benefits with respect to that claim and a forfeiture of all rights of compensation or payments sought with respect to the claim. Health Care Claims Fraud: It is illegal to submit a false claim form to an insurance company in order to be paid for health care services which were not received or provided. This is a violation of the NJ Health Care Claims Fraud Act, NJSA 2C:21-4.2 and 2C:21-4.3 - Punishable by 5 to 10 years in prison if the person submitting the claim is a doctor, chiropractor, dentist, psychologist, nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, lawyer or other licensed professional and the claim is submitted for professional services. In addition, this person can be required to pay a fine of up to $150,000 or up to 5 times the amount of the claim. - A person submitting the claim who is not a doctor, chiropractor, etc., could be sentenced 3 to 5 years in jail for just filing one false claim. REPORTING FRAUD The Division of Workers' Compensation is committed to preserving the integrity of the system. You can also help! If you suspect fraudulent activity by a worker, an employer, a medical provider or an attorney with respect to a pending workers' compensation case, please contact the following: NJ Division of Workers' Compensation Attn: WC Fraud Coordinator PO Box 381. Trenton, NJ 08625-0381 (609) 292-2414, FAX (609) (609) 984-2515, Your referral will be kept completely confidential. If you are aware of an uninsured employer: You may provide this information to the Office of Special Compensation Funds by e-mail , by completing a "Report of Non-Compliance" form. or by writing to:or by writing to: Office of Special Compensation Funds (OSCF) P.O. Box 399, Trenton, NJ 08625-0399 (609) 292-0165, FAX (609) 633-7783 You need not identify yourself but you should be prepared to provide the name and exact address of the employer and, if possible, the names of the principle operators of the business. If you suspect that an employer is misrepresenting the amount of payroll or the proper classification of its employees: Please contact: Roland Brazda Compensation Rating & Inspection Bureau 60 Park Place, Newark, New Jersey 07102 (973) 622-6014 ext. 214 All other referrals may be directed to the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor NJ Department of Law & Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor P.O. Box 094 Trenton, NJ 08625-0094 1-877-55-FRAUD (1-877-553-7283)

This is the windmill that was just up the street from where I lived, so I rode by it every day. There’s actually a local brewery and cafe inside it that I unfortunately never got to visit. My building had an awesome rooftop with a really cool view of the city. This picture really doesn’t do it justice because my camera wasn’t the best quality. I miss this roof a lot. This is a picture of my building at night. All of the flats had these floor-to-ceiling windows with glass panes of all different colors. It looked really cool at night and during the day — very modern and chic. We had a mixer at our building where they provided like 30 bottles of wine and a bunch of beer to encourage us to get to know the other international students that we shared that wing of the building with. Some people set up a beer pong table in the hallway on the first floor, and I remember this German girl wearing a pink Yankees hat was dominating the beer pong table all evening. I also remember Allison shoving a bottle of wine under her shirt to bring back to her room so we could guzzle it down before we went out to celebrate her birthday. The rest is history. This was the view from the window of my flat. It sucked having windows that faced the train tracks because they were SO NOISY. And it was nothing like the train sounds I was used to in Springfield — distant clanking and eerie train whistles. No, no. These trains SQUEALED and SQUEAKED and clattered like you would not believe. But I got used to it, and I definitely miss the full wall of east-facing windows in my flat. I still prefer American train sounds to European ones, though. Speaking of trains, this is the historically styled train that I took with a bunch of students from my program on a day trip to the beach. I miss riding trains — I wish the Midwest had a train system. This is the Haarlem train station, which also had a historical style to it. “Haarlem” is a perfect example of one of the nuances of the Dutch language — weird double vowels that American mouths can’t quite handle. I think no matter how many years I studied it and practiced, I would never be able to speak Dutch well. There are too many insane consonant combinations and odd vowel sounds that are nothing like English pronunciations. I love the beach, so I was really ecstatic about going to the North Sea when I was in Europe. This was my first time on a west coast shore, so I insisted on staying at the beach all day, even after most of the student group had gone back to the city, so that I could see the beach sunset. A small group of us went to a grocery store and bought some beer (which was exciting in itself, because none of us were 21) and watched the sunset while drinking in the sand. We barely caught the last train back to Amsterdam, but it was so worth it. Gah! All so beautiful. And sunsets are always worth it. (And booze is usually worth it.) :)

Spicy Apple Cake27 Reviews - Prep: 25 min - Cook: 45 min - Ready In: 1 hr 10 min “An easy and delicious cake with a creamy frosting. Great for apple-spice lovers!” - by Linda Ingredients Adjust Servings Original recipe yields 1 - 9 inch square pan Directions - Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 inch square pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Set aside. - In a large bowl, cream together the shortening, brown sugar and white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, mixing just until incorporated. Stir in the chopped apples. - Spread batter evenly in prepared pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool. - To make the frosting: In a medium bowl, combine 1/4 cup shortening, confectioners' sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Beat until light and creamy. Beat in the milk, one tablespoon at a time, until desired spreading consistency is achieved. Spread over top of cooled cake. Nutrition Amount Per Serving (9 total) - Calories - 468 cal - - 23% - Fat - 19.4 g - - 30% - Carbs - 70.8 g - - 23% Based on a 2,000 calorie diet Share It Reviews (27)Rate This Recipe "Really nice recipe! I added extra apples like some reviewers before me. I also added chopped almonds and almond extract which I HIGHLY reccomend! Very tasty! My only complaint was that once I got the ..." See moreicing on there, the combination was a little too sweet for me. I think I would cut back on the sugar in the cake it's self, as the icing was really yummy. I will deffinetly make this again. Thanks for sharing this recipe! :)" NICOLES3 "This is fabulous. I made it as directed except I used slightly more than 2 cups of apples, I added some ground cloves, too, and I did not make the frosting. I don't think the cake needs it, and it wo..." See moreuld probably be too sweet for us. Instead, I made a cinnamon sugar mixture and sprinkled it on the cake before baking--it made a great crispy topping. The cake itself has a very light texture. Great recipe!" naples34102 "Great cake, great frosting. The cake is moist without being soggy or oil-saturated. Pleasantly autumn spiced with nice chunks of sweet apple (I used apples from our tree and I haven't a clue what th..." See moreey." Similar RecipesTop < previous recipe: Apple Cake IV > next recipe: Apple Sour Cream Streusel Cake Want More? Just swipe to see more like this.

Sam Hall July 14, 2012 ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA's fruitless search for a long-term halfback has hit another snag, with Roosters boss Stephen Noyce formally blocking their move for Mitchell Pearce. After missing out on Cooper Cronk in March, the Herald understands the Dragons made an all-out bid to lure Pearce to the Red V next season, a year before his contract with the Roosters expired. But Noyce rejected claims Pearce would be leaving the Bondi Junction club when contacted yesterday. ''Speculation and rumours aren't good things to comment on - Mitchell's here for this year and next year and we look forward to him fulfilling that contract, and many more years and many more contracts after that,'' Noyce said. Asked whether he still believed Pearce was future captain material, Noyce said, ''Oh, definitely''. ''We enjoy having Mitchell at our club, and certainly the plans are that he'll be very much a part of the exciting future of the Roosters this year, next year and beyond.'' The Dragons are eager to settle on a long-term pivot to succeed captain Ben Hornby, but a lack of quality halves on the open market has them going around in circles. Noyce's St George-Illawarra counterpart, Peter Doust, did not return calls yesterday. Pearce's manager, Mike Newton, said he would wait until the outcome of the NRL's broadcast rights deal before taking up the matter. ''I haven't spoken to anyone,'' Newton said. ''He's under contract next year … I'm not looking at it until we know the lay of the land in regards to the salary cap and everything else. ''We won't know that until the end of the year and I won't be talking to anyone before November 1 [when the official bidding contest for 2014 gets under way] in any case.'' The cap will rise from $4.3 million per club to at least $5 million next season thanks to the anticipated $1 billion-plus rights deal. Players such as Pearce, whose current value hovers at about $650,000 a season, could score big pay rises. Pearce's stocks have risen considerably since he last put pen to paper with the Roosters. He has now made nine Origin and three City-Country appearances. ''It's not a hidden fact that halfbacks aren't easy to come by, let alone 23-year-old halfbacks with 120-odd first-grade games and representative honours,'' Newton said. He said he had given the Roosters verbal assurances which prevented rival clubs from making an early play at Pearce, who is yet to formally discuss his future with his manager. ''I've told the Roosters I'm not interested in talking to anyone until next year - they're aware of that,'' Newton said. ''I hear the rumours and I read the rumours but I haven't spoken to anyone.''

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(ARA) - the biggest attractions of tortillas is their versatility, particularly for busy nights when a quick, fresh meal is a necessity. The same tortilla that you would use for a homemade quesadilla can also be used as a pizza crust or dessert crepe. With a little imagination, you can use whole wheat tortillas to create tasty and unexpected dishes that the whole family will love. * Tortilla pizzas. Think of tortillas as an already-prepared pizza crust that just needs a touch of your creativity. Top whole wheat tortillas with sauce, vegetables and pre-cooked meats for a healthful taste treat. Or, turn it into a dessert by adding fruit, which can take on even bolder flavors when grilled. * Crepes. Making the traditional French creation can be a real challenge, particularly if you don't have the right tools. Instead, use tortillas to make sweet and savory crepes when the mood strikes. Spiced apple filling is ideal for those with a sweet tooth, but ham-and-cheese or vegetable-and-cheese versions can make great lunches and dinners. Having easy, nutritious options for dinner, lunch and beyond is the saving grace of many pantries. Keeping a stock of tortillas, particularly nutrient-rich whole wheat varieties, makes it easy to prepare creative, delicious dinners that please all kinds of palates. Try these recipes from Qdoba's head chef Ted Stoner for a fresh, flavorful take on tortillas. For more information about Qdoba, visit. Crispy Whole Wheat Tortilla BBQ Chicken Pizza Makes one pizza 1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. 2. Place tortilla on a baking sheet and bake for 3-4 minutes, or until slightly crispy. 3. Remove from oven and top with BBQ sauce, cheese, desired amount of chicken, diced onions and diced green chiles. 4. Place back in oven for approximately 10 minutes, or until cheese is completely melted. 5. Remove from oven and top with fresh chopped cilantro. 6. Cut in to quarters and serve. *One full rotisserie chicken will make as many as six pizzas. After you've used the desired amount of chicken on your pizza, wrap and save leftovers or make additional pizzas. Whole Wheat Tortilla Apple Crepes Makes 6 - 8 crepes 6 - 8 8-inch whole wheat tortillas 1 can apple pie filling 4 large eggs 1/2 cup low-fat milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 tablespoon powdered sugar for garnish 1. Whisk eggs, milk, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg thoroughly in a bowl large enough to dip tortillas. 2. Heat non-stick skillet on medium-high. 3. Dip one tortilla in the French toast batter, coating thoroughly on both sides. 4. Place the tortilla in the heated skillet and cook to a golden brown on both sides. 5. Wrap tortillas in tin foil and place in a warm oven until all tortillas have been battered and cooked. 6. Fill finished crepe with apple pie filling. 7. Dust with powdered sugar and serve.

Tonight's guests include: Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for The Washington Post Gabriel Arana, reporter and web editor at The American Prospect and author of the piece “My So Called Ex-Gay Life” While watching tonight's video preview, take a listen to tonight's soundtrack. (Just be sure to allow the ad below to play out entirely before starting the song) Executive producer Bill Wolff shares a preview of tonight's show: It is important for us progressives to acknowledge that members of the NRA run the full spectrum of mental stability covering; Avid sportsman... Normal family man and occasional hunter ... redneck hunter.... rabid redneck hunter... frothing klansman hunter.... certifiable loon .... and at the extreme far end Ted Nugent. Senator Inhof is crazy about Nugent the nut or nuts about Nugent the crazy; you decide which is more accurate. Senator Inhof is in urgent need of a remedial lesson dealing with the English grammar, specifically context. The following is a demonstration of the impotance of context. Pay close attention to the words in italics. I love baseball bats for killing people. I will be dead or in jail in one year if Obama is reelected United States President. The first part represents despair or depression, but couple with the second part it suggests psychotic malevolence. Mr. Inhof, certainly you can see that these two phrase coupled together screams for the question, Why, Why, and once again why!begs an explanation Rachel - first you are my favorite and most informed and intellignet reporter - I want to defent Ms Rosen - she used the wrong first few words but the truth in what she said is quite obvious - Mrs Romney never had to worry about finances, housekeep , child care etc - no comparison to the average homemaker in this country - Keep up the good work in revealing the truth about this Romney compaign - Your devoted Fan! Paul Romney HAS to separate himself from this maniac. Nugent may as well have a pitchfork and torch leading a mindless lynch mob. TRMS - my favorite evening activity. It might be educational to run something about the following. ALEC's Patriot Act caused the Great Recession. Real estate value represents over half of accumulated US wealth, and real estate value depends upon population, and ALEC policies reduced the population from 2006 to 2009. This wealth is destroyed when real estate abandonment becomes common, and that is caused by population decline. The most important changes are periods of unusually high unemployment and poverty. California personal value dropped from 2007 for the first time since 1938 (Legislative Analysis Office, California, 2009). Every period of economic decline corresponds with population decline. These are as follows. Prior to 1873 This is a period of enormous economic expansion with the exception of 1837 to 1843 and 1857 to 1860. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the US in 1803. Ethnic cleansing takes place in Louisiana Purchase territory from 1837 to 1843 due to actions taken by Andrew Jackson. This reduces the Native American population by 50% or more. While most Native Americans are nomadic at the time, they provide migrant labor, trade goods, and consumer demand for manufactured goods (firearms and hardware). This consumer demand was terminated when Native American genocide began and survivors were forcibly removed to the Oklahoma territory by Andrew Jackson. The US calvary is the first modern military organization to engage in biological warfare by providing blankets to Native Americans that were obtained from smallpox wards. Most surviving Native Americans migrate south and west. The Mexican American War added the remaining areas of the continental US in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The California Gold Rush begins in 1848, and the killing of Native American people legalized to gain mining rights. Many Native Americans living in the west began to flee south to Mexico or north to Canada to avoid being murdered. Gold production propped up the California economy until 1855. The economy collapsed again in 1857. Systematic Native American ethnic cleansing began during the collapse in California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho as miners cleared the native population to gain access to farmland. Population statistics were not maintained for Native Americans and the US government did not maintain good financial records, so root cause analysis cannot be done. US economic growth resumed in 1860 at the same the Civil War began, which implies Native American genocide is linked with the collapse. Long Depression The "Old West" period of cowboys and indians begins in 1865 with the end of the Civil War. About half of cowboys are African American, and the remainder a mix of Civil War veterans and civilized Native Americans. The Long Depression begins in 1873 with genocide and ends with immigration of millions of Europeans and Mexicans beginning in 1897. This is actually two events that follow the Civil War - the Panic of 1873 and the Panic of 1893. Veterans begin slaughtering buffalo for hides following the Civil War. As many as 100,000 buffalo are killed daily during the Great Buffalo Massacre, littering the Great Planes with skeletons. Native Americans populations were reduced by starvation. Most states and territories legalize the murder of starving Native Americans that kill cattle to survive. This collapses consumer demand and real estate value, bankrupting almost 20,000 businesses, almost 100 railroad companies, and dozens of banks. The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) accelerated depopulation by deporting most of the 300,000 asians living in the US, with over 200,000 of those deportees coming from California. The Geary Act (1892) required an internal passport for asians. Passports were not issued to most asians, who were deported. Tens of thousands of Native Americans are murdered across California, Oregon and Washington. This collapses consumer demand and real estate value, which bankrupts most of the remaining railroads and hundreds of banks. Great Depression The Immigration Act of 1907 reduces consumer demand, triggering a 50% contraction in the money supply that causes a recession. This is blamed on immigrants, and KKK membership grows to dominate Washington politics by 1915 when a second minor economic collapse is caused by World War I. Work visas are unlimited with a price under $10 at all border crossings and ports with arriving ships. There is no such thing as illegal immigration. The Mexican Revolution causes a large influx of dark skinned people across the southwest border of the US. This leads to the Immigration Act of 1917 after white supremacists gain control of both houses of congress, the presidency, and the supreme court. Thousands of citizens with asian or latin appearance are deported from 1920 to 1929. This reduced the depopulation, which increased vacancy and property abandonment. Most of the economic value of banks is tied up in real estate loans, which triggers a foreclosure boom. On average, more than 600 banks failed each year between 1921 and 1929. The economy utterly collapsed after the National Origins Act of 1929, as follows. This empowered counties and cities to round up people at gun point based on appearance and deport an average of 200,000/year from 1929 to 1939. About 2 million US residents are forced out of the country. [1] The same banks making real estate loans routinely lent money for stock market speculation during the 1920s. Money was lent "on margin", which means a small amount of collateral (real estate) was used to obtain a much larger business loan. Margin lending produced a housing and stock market bubble, where more money was lent by banks than the total amount of available money. A growing economy is stable only so long as increasing demand continues to force prices upward, and increasing demand requires increasing population. An unprecedented number of US citizens and immigrants stopped paying rent and mortgages when they were forced out of the US, which triggered a foreclosure boom in June 1929. A vast number of foreclosure sales triggered a precipitous decline in real estate values that collapsed the housing market by September 1929, which reduced bank assets. The maximum real estate declines occur in California. Decline in bank asset triggered an unprecedented number of margin calls requiring immediate payback of business loans by the end of October 1929.[2] These events caused the stock market collapse on October 29, 1929. Most The states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and New Mexico have bumper crops during 1930 and 1931 as stock market and real estate values plummeted. Crop prices fall so low that farmers cannot afford transportation costs required to move crops to market. Famine beings on the east coast. Hoover does not interfere as farmers begin to destroy the harvest in an attempt to raise prices, which triggers a mild artificial famine. Mass migration from the east coast to the west coast begins. Ocean temperature changes from 1931 to 1939 cut off moisture to many states, resulting in a drought so profound that dust blizzards become common [4]. The prevailing view in Washington DC politics is that there is insufficient money available to assist farming states, and famine begins in the dust bowl region. Farming failures increase the foreclosure rate, which peaks in 1933. Foreclosure rate declines after banking regulation changes in 1933. Depression era unemployment remains high until 1942 when unemployment drops below 10% at the same time as the beginning of the Bracero Program. Savings and Loan Crisis The Mexican economy collapsed in 1982, which triggered mass immigration to the US of 1 million or more every year up to 1986. Savings and Loan deregulation allowed low-interest loans during this period. This allows borrowers to afford larger loans. This combination of high real estate demand and low-interest loans created a massive increase in real estate prices in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, and California. Mexican immigration ended abruptly with the Immigration and Reform Control Act, which eliminated demand for new construction. At the same time, interest deductions for real estate investments became non-deductible from primary income, so investors began selling real estate. At the same time, there was a major drought that reduced agricultural productivity. This combination of events created excess capacity, high vacancy rates, and a foreclosure boom that collapsed real estate value. Excess foreclosures collapsed over 700 Savings and Loans, and activated requirements for over $80 billion in insurance by RTC. The Immigration Act of 1990 increased immigration, which ended the downward spiral of real estate prices. Great Recession Illegal immigrants contribute about $200 billion in GSP across the entire US. That consumer demand employs about 10 million US residents. Three important events occur from 2000 to 2006 during the Bush presidency. These regulatory changes cause real estate prices and stock prices to skyrocket as investors borrow as much money as is possible. This is intended to restore economic losses that followed the attack of September 11, 2001. This deregulation does create rapid economic growth, and illegal immigrants flood into the country at the highest rate since the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1920. This fuels a construction boom in the American south and west as hundreds of thousands of excess dwellings are constructed. The following begins in 2006. The Mexican economy improves in 2007, and the US population begins to decline. Population decline creates over a million extra dwelling vacancies by 2009. Real estate prices plummet in 2007 and a foreclosure boom begins in 2008 as foreclosure rates increase by 400%. Pres. Bush realizes the magnitude of the coming disaster caused by eliminating depression era financial regulations. Bush signs the Emergency Mortgage Loan Modification Act of 2007 in an attempt to prevent the coming banking system collapse, but it is too late. Real estate value depends upon people to demand dwellings in which to live (US Census Bureau). Immigration departing the US accounts for a drop of about 1.6% in the population in less than 2 years. Each US resident creates consumer demand for real estate, vehicles, food, and consumer goods, and that consumer demand includes illegal immigrants. The illegal immigrant population of Arizona produced $42 billion in GSP during 2008, and immigrant population decline is one of the underlying causes for economic collapse in the American south and west (Immigration Policy Center, 2011). Birth nearly equals mortality during this period, so this population change is entirely due to migration that contributes the following to the US economy. The following shows how migration contributed to part of the decline in US real estate values, which collapses real estate value in the American south and west. The resulting foreclosure boom and real estate collapse in 2007 leaves inadequate asset recovery from foreclosure sales, which reduces bank assets to dangerously low levels. Banks issue margin calls for stock market investments to cover lending losses in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy. Margin calls result in rapid trading that collapses the stock market. Over 60% of value is lost from 2007 to 2009 as the population declines. Investment firms, banks, and businesses lose sufficient capitol that they cannot cover the losses, and the US government is forced to issues loans in order to prevent total economic collapse and double digit unemployment. This chain of events halts the startup of new businesses, at the same time that millions of jobs are lost in manufacturing, real estate, construction, finance, and investment. Departure of 5 million immigrants raised unemployment by about 4 million from 2007 to 2009. A return of 2.6 million immigrants reduced unemployment by about 2 million from 2009 to 2011. [1] Kevin R. Johnson, September 1, 2005, The Forgotten "Repatriation" of Persons of Mexican Ancestry and Lessons for the "War on Terror", Pace Law Review, [2] J.K. Galbraith, 1954,The Great Cra$h 1929 Wednesday, October 23rd 1929 (ch. VI, end of 4) [3]Walden Slew, March 8, 2008, Banks face "systemic margin call," $325 billion hit, JPM, [4] Anonymous, NASA Finds Source of 1930s Drought in Tropical Waters, Goddard Space Flight Center, March 18, 2004, [5] Esmeralda Rodriguez-Scott, Patterns of Mexican Migration to the United States, Center for International Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, [6] I watched the show tonite and got the impression that you thought it might be a good idea to make and use a license plate with the word vajayjay on it Kind of like, yeah, I want my vajayjay in as many faces as possible everywhere I go This seems disturbed and disturbing, and not in a good way to relate to a crowd---kind of like sexual harrassment; or desperate attention seeking No, I'm not a doctor, but I know when something seems over the top and inappropriate, and just wrong; again, like freedom without restraint, license to act mentally disturbed, and my license plate proves it. I think you might be the one that needs a "check up", and remember, not all doctors are created equal Not long ago, I heard a well known bishop state that the reason same-gender-loving people are the way they are is because of spiritual and emotional brokenness. Because this minister is highly regarded and esteemed by thousands worldwide, it wasn’t long before other copy-cat-wanna-be bishops and aspiring televangelists picked up the phrase (coined it) and began to spread it on the internet and throughout the country like wildfire. Instead of arraying themselves in the fruits of the Spirit or putting on the full armor of God, they armed themselves with weapons of misinformation that perpetuates intolerance and preserves heterosexual privilege. The manifestation of their labor bred only suffering, self-hatred (in same-gender-loving people) and dwindling congregations with no power, influence, and wasted gifts. By ignoring the true message of the Gospel, they continuously drive people away from Christ rather than to Him. Additionally, they imprison themselves in hatred, anger and ignorance and miss out on God’s amazing message of unconditional and life-giving love. How sad for those teachers of hate (or should I say of the LAW). Moreover, how sad for all the victims of lies and intolerance whose lives have been devastated! To be honest with you, I did not realize how prevalent this type of spiritual malpractice was until I conducted a Google search on the subject and to my dismay, I discovered how widespread this ideology is in Christendom today. Even though it is said that same-gender-loving people are broken, current literature and most scholars in the field state that one’s sexual orientation is not a choice; that is, individuals do not choose to be homosexual or heterosexual. There is no scientific evidence that proves that dysfunctional parents, sexual abuse, adverse life events, or early childhood experiences dictate and determine sexual orientation. However, negative life experiences may influence them to a certain degree, but they cannot override them! Those assumptions are now understood to have been based on misinformation and prejudice. No major mental health professional or organization has sanctioned efforts to change sexual orientation, and virtually all of them have adopted policy statements cautioning the profession and the public about treatments that purport to change sexual orientation. After pondering the myth that one’s sexual orientation can be changed, I couldn’t help but think to myself, “I wonder how the heterosexual community would feel if someone told them that the reason they were black or heterosexual was because they were spiritually broken!” Trust me my brothers and sisters, if anyone dared make an outlandish statement like this, every African-American would be up in arms and ready to crucify the offenders! I realize that this comparison enrages many African-Americans who feel that the gay community has hijacked the Civil Rights movement to champion their cause and that I have no right to make such a comparison. The interesting thing to note however, is that the Bible makes it very clear that ALL OF HUMANITY, IN GOD’S EYES, ARE BROKEN and in need of a REDEEMER! I find it amazing that the heterosexual faith community foolishly believes that God somehow excludes them from the fold because of some special heterosexual privilege. My heart breaks year after year, as I witness my same-gender-loving brothers and sisters leaving the church by the thousands because of the spiritual blindness that handicaps our spiritual leaders and those who subscribe to their punitive legalistic doctrine. What is even worse is their refusal to acknowledge the fact that thousands of same-gender-loving people sit in their congregations and live in their communities. These are severe consequences that eventually hurt and in some way impact us all! This dogmatic denial and disfranchisement of same-gender-loving people without a doubt is a prime reason why, as previously mentioned, many congregations dwindle each week and multitudes turn away from Christ because Christians have misrepresented Him out of their own prejudice, misinterpretation of Scripture, and homophobia. When I consider the fact that 48% of African-American women between the ages of 14 and 49 could possibly be infected with the Herpes virus and that approximately 1.1 million adults and adolescents are living with HIV in the USA, including those not yet diagnosed, and those who have already progressed to AIDS (according to the CDC), I just want to scream! I just want to say to them, “Are you so blind that you cannot see that the very people you say you care about are being destroyed before your very eyes while you misappropriate your time and millions of your parishioner’s tithes and offerings to prevent same-gender-loving people from possessing equal rights. That very money you squander should be used to provide services that truly minister effectively to the real needs of people!” Now here is the most tragic and ironic result of this misguided and misdirected thinking: Hundreds, if not thousands of the church’s parishioner’s access HIV/AIDS services primarily from the gay community because they are unequipped to provide these same services. It is literally safe to say that the gay community has effectively and compassionately saved the lives of thousands of their members for many years. Yet Sunday after Sunday, pastors and priests mount their pulpits without reservation, and without good sense, and boldly declare before all that these same caregivers are all hell bound because they are gay; not knowing anything about their personal relationship with the Creator at all! Because same-gender loving people are considered “broken” by Christians and most of society, it is assumed that our relationships are also certainly broken in the eyes of God, and that we are the main cause for the deterioration of the family unit today, and are seen as the main culprit responsible for the high divorce rate among Christian heterosexual couples. But when you really consider what people are really saying when they make these kinds of unfounded claims, one cannot help but agree with Pastor Romell Weekly, a same-gender-loving man, who recently said, ?” These are just a few reasons as to why I was inspired to write my first book, Love Won’t Let Me Be Silent and now, They Say That I Am Broken! Like Love Won’t Let Me Be Silent, this new literary endeavor didn’t just come to be as a result of intuitive or Divine inspiration alone, but was also birthed in the hearts of men and women around me who sacrificed their time, shared their hopes and dreams for a better tomorrow, expressed their concerns, and contributed their resources out of love for me and for all of humanity. Terry Angel Mason, Global Author link: the thing about Rachel that's so aggravating, is that she is so obsessed with proving that she is just as important as men that it negates her credibility; and her one sided biased views are so narrow it's just obvious she doesn't see the big picture, I'm not sure how she thinks she's helping America except to make sure everyone's happy; "let's open our arms to the world and just let everyone come on in..we'll have a welcome cake ready for them" she's so obsessed with her women are equal and equal rights for everyone agenda that she can't realize that sometimes you need to just assume your role in life... How could she care about the future of America when she will never have children of her own; while most of us can see where America's headed these people that are so obsessed with being different can't see what's really at stake; this is selfish and ignorant, but I don't think too many people take her that serious as her words pretty much put her in her own place, people can sense intuitively what's really going on and this is a woman obsessed with proving she's just as good or better than a man when no one ever said she wasn't in the first place. Her own agenda is skewing the reality of the real issues at stake..

For more than 200 years, life at the College has been centered at its Cistern Yard. Here, in a sacred spot both at the heart of campus and downtown Charleston, magnificent buildings surround an incredible urban garden of live oaks and a large lawn. This is where generations of students have come to sit, paint, converse and study. This is where countless visitors have snapped pictures and thousands of graduates have skipped over a stage, donned in white dresses and white dinner jackets, their hands eagerly outstretched to accept hard-earned degrees. This past May, more than 1,600 students and their families crowded the yard for the spring commencement ceremony. While the graduates’ achievements made the day significant enough, the audience was also able to take special delight in their surroundings. The College had just finished a nearly four-year project to restore and preserve the buildings of the Cistern Yard – and Randolph Hall, Towell Library and Porters Lodge have never looked better. It’s perhaps most accurate to describe the painstaking work on these landmark buildings as artistry, plain and simple. Tradesmen were challenged to make repairs to the buildings while preserving the weathered patina on each façade. In areas where new stucco was applied over brick walls, workers scored the patches by hand and carefully painted the area with varying shades of lime wash to achieve a seamless blend. Each and every door, window and shutter on the buildings was removed, restored and re-installed. Additionally, each light, or pane, of glass was removed from the windows to enable wood repairs. On Randolph Hall alone this meant the removal of more than 120 windows. Some of these windows had accumulated more than 35 layers of paint and featured sashes of 25 panes over 25 panes. Other important work on Randolph Hall included the repair and partial replacement of the building’s terra-cotta capitals. Shipped down from Massachusetts in the 1850s when Charleston architect Edward Brickell White designed a southern portico for Randolph Hall (known as Main Building then), the capitals are some of the earliest pieces of architectural terra cotta in the country. Repairs were also made to Randolph Hall’s slate roof, as well as to the slate roofs above Towell Library and Porters Lodge. New copper gutters and downspouts were installed on all three buildings, and deteriorated brownstone was replaced and repaired as needed. All three buildings also received new tension rods, otherwise known as earthquake bolts, to provide enhanced structural support. These repairs and more were accomplished using a $3.7 million appropriation from the State. This money, in addition to resources from the College, was also used to improve the landscaping within the College’s historic campus, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971. A new lawn and plantings, dramatic nighttime lighting and improved irrigation systems and walkways now complement the showcase buildings. The upkeep and maintenance of these buildings, as well as the scores not listed on the National Register but of historical significance, is one of the top priorities for the College. “The College of Charleston has 80 buildings over 100 years old and several that are over 200 years old. They have stood the test of time through natural disasters, wars and economic turmoil,” says President P. George Benson. “These buildings truly represent the rich and interwoven histories of the College and the City of Charleston. And as the city’s largest historic preservationist, we take very seriously our obligation to preserve and protect them. “Restoring these national treasures,” President Benson adds, “ensures that they will be enjoyed by students, faculty, staff and visitors for generations to come.”

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 07:39:20PM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:07:36PM -0400, diro@nixsyspaus.org wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:40:00PM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 12:42:00AM -0400, diro@nixsyspaus.org wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I looked through the sources for azalia.c, azalia.h, and azalia_codec.c and > > > > reviewed some private correspondence from another NetBSD user. I am making time > > > > in my schedule to work on this; however, it's difficult as i am running 3.1 > > > > instead of -current, so i don't think i'd be able to test any of the code other > > > > than for syntax. > > > > > > > > Also, i wasn't sure if it was an issue with the driver or something with the > > > > motherboard. I would like to start working on these sorts of issues in NetBSD. > > > > In a situation like this, what's the best place to start? What's most likely the > > > > cause of the problem? Please advise. > > > > > > It's a BIOS bug. More precisely, the BIOS doesn't support 32-bits OSes, > > > at least those that don't do PAE. > > > > > > Check the motherboard's vendor site for upgrades or use NetBSD/amd64... > > > > Hmm, it's strange that the BIOS would be 64 bit and the processor 32bit. I tried > > Well, it might just be unfriendly to non-PAE systems. > > > booting with amd64 and that was not possible. Do you think swapping the > > processor with a 64bit processor would make this work? Is there another way to > > modify the BIOS to support PAE? Strange that it doesn't, because it's a fairly > > new board. > > NetBSD is the one thing not supporting PAE here. Oh, i thought NetBSD had PAE :0 > > The US representative of the company says that no firmware upgrades are > > available for the motherboard. It's very difficult to find firmware for this > > particular model, the Durabook S14D (D14RI). > > You might have some setting in the BIOS regarding PCI memory spaces and > where they should be mapped. I'll check again, but the BIOS is so featureless. It's like they used the oldest possible version of AMIBIOS available. > Otherwise you'll have to ask nicely for someone to finish the work of > merging amd64 and i386 pmaps so that i386 can have PAE support almost > for free :-) > > -- > Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org > "You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks > Owe it to yourself not to fail" > Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005. I'd love if that was pulled into 3.1.1 or 4.0. The place i work is making everyone transition to a VoIP system very soon and i need audio to work on my laptop. The thought of running some other OS in a VM just to get audio is just horrifying to me. Please, save me from such a fate! :)

- Willamette - College of Liberal Arts - Studio Art Studio Art Mission Statement The Studio Art Program at Willamette University aims to introduce students to a wide variety of media, materials and genres. In keeping with goals of the Liberal Arts Education, Art is taught in an interdisciplinary way, and our curriculum emphasizes the development of technique and craftsmanship as well as theory and conceptualization in the context of the Fine Arts. Our program is designed specifically to encourage students to question and expand their understanding of what art is, how it affects the viewer, and how it is made. Students are guided towards seeing the arts as a means of exploring the world around them, a way of finding and defining their own place in that world, and a vehicle for communicating that understanding to others. Students develop skill in using art as a visual, symbolic, formal and expressive language. The department sees an awareness of an appreciation for process as being a key component of art practice. The program addresses both the artistic and verbal/written skills students need to succeed in the arts, and supports student development with introductory to advanced courses, culminating in a thesis project. The following information describes expectations for the Studio Art major at Willamette University: - The Studio Art program is designed to provide both breadth and depth in your development as an artist. The program places emphasis on an understanding of general art concepts through a variety of courses including foundation studies, drawing, and two- and three-dimensional studies. In addition, students are required to take art history courses. Later in the program, students focus their development in an area of specialty. The program prepares students for their final thesis project created in Senior Seminar, the apex course for the Art Major. See the course catalog for the specific requirements of the major and variety of subjects and media available for exploration. - Students who declare a Studio Art major are asked to take a foundation course their first semester, Advanced Media and Design in the spring of their junior year, Writing for Artists and Senior Seminar their senior year, and balance the remaining program requirements with guidance from their advisors. It is highly encouraged that students declare their major by the beginning of their sophomore year and have at least three studio courses taken by the start of their junior year. - Course projects are regularly displayed in the Art Building and elsewhere on campus. In addition, the Student Art Coordinator facilitates special group exhibitions each semester. Art Majors are encouraged to regularly exhibit their work on campus and beyond. - In conjunction with Student Scholarship Recognition Day and the Senior Art Majors exhibit, all junior Art Majors participate in the Spring Review Exhibition in the Student Gallery in the Art Building in April. Students formally present their works for review by their peers and the studio faculty. - Studio Art Majors enroll in Senior Seminar in the fall and spring of their senior year. Students and faculty members meet as a group in weekly classroom sessions to develop senior thesis projects and discuss current issues in the arts. The thesis project builds upon art skills and strategies developed during the years in the program. Regular meetings with advisors encourage students to move beyond ordinary coursework to a new level of commitment and originality for the thesis project. Senior Art Majors present their final thesis project in the Senior Exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art each April. This is one of the most popular and heavily attended museum exhibitions of the year. A final group critique session is scheduled in which students present their work to faculty and peers. - The Department strives to maintain contact with alumni in an effort to track our graduates' on-going work in the arts or other fields. Please keep us informed of your experiences beyond Willamette. Further questions may be referred to faculty advisors and the Department Chair. Featured Event ARTS 121 Introduction to New Media with Visiting Instructor Bethany Hays March 4 - 12, Open 8am - 5pm, M-F View the Student Art Gallery

? I think painting the mirror white or the darker green would pop quite nicely! I very much like the fixtures you chose for your lighting! I very much like them too. Those were from Schoolhouse Electric. I think a shiny dark green on the mirror would look great! I love it so far! that print is super adorable!! The mirror frame would look fabulous in black! I concur….. A matt black would be lovely and picks out the black in the zig-zag accessories and light fixtures. :O) What about the Light blue you painted the basement door? It would be a little bit of cheer to brighten the space up. Not a bad idea… Are the stripes on the little lamps black? If so I’d say black. Looking good! Yes, and on the towel too. This is what I was thinking. What’s that little first aid kit? Does it mount on the wall? It does. I agree with the above posters that the mirror would look great in black, but how about a pale pink to reference the other areas of the basement space. Or a similar pinkish-beige to reference the background of the art? I vote for a deep peony pink on the mirror! Or maybe a fun clock like this one: Fun! That was my thought. A deep, bright pink. jbhat Normally I love pink and green, but I’m not sure I’d like it with a green as olive-y as the one in here. Super cute shoes! Where are they from? J. Crew, last year. yes, great shoes! That is the first thing that popped into my mind. I was going to comment on the shoes too – love them! Why is your tiny basement bathroom so much cuter than any of the ones in my house? The basement bathroom is the cutest one in the house now. We should start sending guests down there if they need to use the facilities! where is that first aid kit from?? its adorable! I wrote about it here. BLACK! Shiny! I think light pink for the mirror to tie in with the pink walls just outside. Though white would look great, too. I’m not thrilled with a dark green. I think you need more contrast (and lighter accessories). I like the pink idea (always a fan of pink), and stevie’s suggestion of light blue in a comment above too. Love how the bathroom is turning out! (And also love your shoes!) Love how the bathroom is coming along. I vote for a black mirror. I am loving your shoes though! Where are they from? J. Crew. They’re a little tight now though — I’m hoping my feet go back to their former pre-pregnancy size so I can continue to wear them. I vote black for the mirror frame! Just found this blog and LOVE it! Where did you get the print that says “you look lovely today”? I absolutely adore it. Also, I think a white would look awesome on that mirror. Thanks for sharing your journey! Thanks! I wrote about the print here, jokingly saying that it would take the place of a mirror.. Oh my goodness I love that print! Off to purchase it now… I came to the site from my reader just to comment that you should most certainly paint the mirror black…but then I read the other comments and I was swayed by the deep peony pink! or what about a metallic finish? just to brighten it up in there without totally bringing in another color? so, silver? (maybe it’s your shoes that inspired me!) I’m totally distracted by the sparkly goodness that’s going on down by your tootypegs. Where, oh where did you find those??? I love that shade of green with light blue. Maybe light blue is an option for the mirror and a few accessories? love that print, especially for the bathroom! whatever color you choose for the mirror, have you considered martha’s new metallic paints? I was honestly thinking a metallic silver color would look good. i love the color it is now in that photo! I think the mirror would still look really great painted yellow. It would be a nice pop of color! my first thought was that color that the Youngsters at Young House Love painted their built-ins…Dragonfly by Benjamin Moore. although I think the peony would be awesome. Def. black for the mirror. I vote for the laundry room blue, just a little touch of Tiffany :) Paint the mirror Peony!! Pink has never been a bad choice for you *it’s your signature color!* A must say that a peony pink mirror would make me swoon a little. It would be so you! :) Have you not considered white for the mirror? I like the idea of a lighter color with the green, although black would look nice too. i vote the light blue or black. white would be nice, but think of all the dusting in those little nooks and crannies. >.< Wow – so many good suggestions. Are you feeling overwhelmed? I think whatever you choose, it will look great and all will be envious. Another commentor suggested white and another pink. What about a super pale, pale blush pink? Mmmm, can’t wait to see! I am not always a proponent of black but I think it would look very sharp in your adorable bathroom. The mirror frame in black would looh very sculptural and match nicely with the other accessories. black. it would bring out the details in your sconces so nicely. Shiny silver! Is there such a thing as silver leaf? i vote white or black. How about silver? I vote for a bright medium blue color. Sounds crazy at first, but look at this color palette from Emily Henderson: Its blue with green, but you could do something of the reverse and I bet it would look great! It’s coming together nicely. I vote silver for the mirror because of the fixtures. What about red? Silver, blue or red (especially if they are near your washer/dryer. Black Love that frame! Wherever did you find it? And your sparkly shoes are too cute! :)

The following information was supplied by the Nassau County Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. DWI - Lesly Rosemond, 52, of Hempstead, was arrested on Nov. 25 on Front Street in West Hempstead and charged with DWI. - Ilian A. Vasco, 35, of Uniondale, was arrested on Nov. 22 at the intersection of Westminster Road and Hempstead Turnpike in West Hempstead and charged with DWI. - Kevin Jones, 23, of Garden City South, was arrested on Nov. 22 on Yale Road in Garden City South and charged with DWI. - Joseph A. Alloca, 22, of Long Beach, was arrested on Nov. 22 on Austin Boulevard in North Long Beach and charged with DWI. - Jervis A. Hillaire, 24, of Rosedale, was arrested in Valley Stream and charged with DWI. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF - An unknown person threw a rock at the rear window of a vehicle on Woodfield Road in West Hempstead on Nov. 20, causing it to shatter. - An unknown person threw an egg at a passing vehicle on Nov. 21 at the intersection of Gordon Road and Peninsula Boulevard in Valley Stream. PETIT LARCENY - Ayana Richardson, 22, of Brooklyn, was arrested on Nov. 20 for shoplifting at the JCPenney store in Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. - Faatima N. Falber, 23, of Freeport, was arrested on Nov. 14 for shoplifting at the Modells Sporting Goods store in Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. - Mona Sachdeva, 35, of Valley Stream, was arrested on Nov. 21 for shoplifting at the Walmart located at 77 Green Acres Rd. in Valley Stream. - Henry T. Thom, 32, of Baldwin, was arrested on Nov. 21 for shoplifting at the 7-Eleven store located at 910 W. Merrick Rd. in Valley Stream. - Shawn Williams, 26, of Saint Albans, was arrested on Nov. 23 for shoplifting at the Home Depot store located at 600 Hempstead Tpke. in Elmont. - Rahena Y. Ahmed, 46, of Ozone Park, was arrested on Nov. 23 for shoplifting at the Kohl's store at Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. - Claudel Dor, 33, of N. Valley Stream, was arrested on Nov. 24 for shoplifting at the Kohl's store at Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. - Elieus D. Walthrus, 22, of Brooklyn, was arrested on Nov. 24 for shoplifting at the Kohl's store at Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. - Chidi D. Chizor, 19, of Queens Village, was arrested on Nov. 25 for shoplifting at the JCPenney store in Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. For questions about this crime report, email Tara.Conry

This week has seen me spending a lot of time in front of the computer with a weird cold (It’s weird because I felt awful but it was never a full-blown cold). I’ve been catching up on silly achievement things that Millya hadn’t done yet. For instance, I had to get Vidyala the reputation to buy the schematic to make this bad boy: In actual fact, I don't think Millya would ever have a license plate that says "pwn" because it's not grammatically correct. So I’ve been having fun creating noise pollution and generally looking badass (come on, you can’t tell me that doesn’t look badass) and not really writing anything of my own… But I have read some blog posts lately that are worth a look if you’ve missed them! Heavy Wool Bandage wrote about Intellect Issues – not the stat. To me, this post is a reminder to have patience with everyone who is playing and think about the things you say. We’re all playing for different reasons and with different skill-sets, and sometimes it’s easy to forget. That’s different, not “better.” I’m not linking to a specific post, but in case you missed this news, Jaedia is blogging again at Jaedia’s Menagerie after a hiatus. Drop by and say hi! Kamalia posted an image of a curly-haired Tauren I just love. You may have guessed from my own character, but I like curly hair. It’d be great to see some new Tauren hairstyles in general. Akabeko at Red Cow Rise wrote a short fic about an archaelogy item that’s bothered me, too. I found it poignant and sad. Finally, Shintar shares some of her pug stories from recently. They aren’t horror ones, either, further reminder that sometimes pugs are just fine. (I think we all need that from time to time). Voss and I booked our hotel for our trip at the end of June. We’re not going to Blizzcon, but we are going to Vancouver and we’ll meet three guildies/WoW folks during the trip! I don’t usually do this, but I’m trying to build a buffer of posts to schedule for while I’m away. If you have any requests or ideas for posts or things you’d like to see here, let me know in the comments and I’ll see what I can do! No promises, but the muse could use a bit of a hand right now. Thank you for the link! I’ve been sitting on that post for a while and finally decided it was time to share *Big hugs* for the link love! Thank you Thanks for the link! As for post suggestions, well, you know I always enjoyed reading your pug stories as well… You still need to be allowed to say “Aaaayy!” like The Fonz when riding that chopper, but that’s just me. Thanks for providing the links! Grats on getting your chopper! Woo-hoo! Thanks for the link! X!

A severe thunderstorm may have brought relief from high temperatures, but it also left thousands without power in Monmouth and Ocean counties Saturday evening. Over 50,000 customers had lost power by 8:45 p.m., according to Jersey Central Power & Light and Atlantic Electric. Toms River was among the worst hit, with over 11,000 without power. Howell Township had over 8,600 customers in the dark and Brick had more than 2,800. Wall had nearly 800 in the dark. Atlantic Electric reported than more than 3,000 customers lost power in Manhawkin. The company's outage map is here. Berkeley Township was relatively unscathed, with minimal power outages in some sections of town, Mayor Carmen F. Amato Jr. said. However, township parks and recreation department workers were out shortly after the storm, helping to clear roads where trees had fallen, the mayor said. Residents can call the Berkeley Township Police Department to report power outages or downed trees at 732-341-6600 or JCP&L at: 1-888-544-4877 In the eastern part of the Monmouth County, Bradley Beach was most impacted, with 3,200 customers without power--nearly all JCP&L's customers in the borough. Eatontown had 1,340 households without power and Red Bank had just over 1,000. JCP&L makes information on outages available on its Web site. Patricia A. Miller contributed to this article. paddler 9:57 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012 What a great storm! Love NJ 10:23 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012 it did break the heat, must be 20 to 30 degrees cooler , Kathy 10:23 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012 May it's me but the Berkeley patch should report power is off in parts of Bayville. Traffic lights along rt 9 blinking. No power in parts of Sylvan Lakes. Susan 10:49 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012 I think every emergency vehicle went flying down Drum Point - any idea what happened down there? Kim E 12:00 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 We have a pole with electric wires down on Cedar Island but still have power. Can't get out they closed, the street only way out. grandma6 10:06 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 transformer got blown out, off drum point into cherry quey area, /// that area still has no power until they get a new transformer up Ortley 11:03 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012 It was unreal watching it come from the north across the bay....then after many lightning strikes it shifted from south to north ! We watched it from the windows at Xina. Mr. ? 11:05 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012 You bet TR was hit hard! On my block, large trees down trees down in several neighbors yards including three of mine. Never seen anything like it. Had to be one of those micro bursts as the winds were incredible! Would love to know what the wind speeds were. Lots of cleanup tomorrow! Kim E 12:09 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 The temp in TR 101. 3 and wind 59.5 here in Brick I heard wind was 80 Matt 11:39 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012 Thank you Berkley for keeping the power on. Lost power for about 5 minuets. Gino De Lucia 11:58 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012 Wind speeds reached 75 mph in Toms River & in Brick and that's hurricane force! Dave Sleeper 12:00 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 Forked River was hit soft. Lots of lights on throughout the town and my T.V. and computer remained on during the event. Kaity Kusner 2:22 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 channel 7 ABC said winds were 78 in Brick and 75 in TR P.L. 3:44 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 Winds were strong in Brick.... My backyard gazebo was torn and two chairs were blown into my pool... No power one block away from me..... gabriella 7:37 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 We have no power been sitting in the car all night for the cold air could be worse at least we are all safe jon 8:14 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 Wind in brick was unreal...and very sudden. It came out if nowhere. Everything got real dark and then all our furniture and umbrella in the backyard went airborne. The news said brick had the highest winds from.this.....78 mph, they said anything over 74 is considered hurricane strength. Crazy storm.....glad no trees came down here. Dave Sleeper 8:25 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 Thousands of people still have their electricity on in Forked River. Wind speeds reached 23.47 M.P.H.! Two large trees remained in place on Route 9. Kathy Bottone 9:02 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 We were on a lagoon in Normandy Beach. We watched the storm come across the bay and it was amazing. Wind was blowing heavy outdoor furniture across decks, inflatable pools were flying (one was caught in the wires on a pole on 35!) and the lightning was spectacular. One side of the lagoon lost power and then our side did. The rain was fierce and for a while you just couldn't see out the windows. Then it was over the ocean and the sun was setting over the bay in a bright orange sky and their was a rainbow over the ocean with lightning bolts all around it. It was absolutely amazing! Mr. ? 10:21 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012 Four large trees down, big dent in quarter panel of car when large fence gate let go, busted up umbrella and patio table and several days of cleanup and large trees, 75 footers to cut up.Yuk! Cat is OK though! Neighbors very large tree took the pool heater and filter out. Other neighbor lost 9 solar panels. 75 mph winds? I think much more than that where I am in TR. ponysmuse 8:56 am on Monday, July 9, 2012 what kind of treees? we're looking fro anything thats not pine.. my husband can come help cut Kelli Clark 4:05 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012 Live in Silverton, saw the clouds started to roll in and closed everything up. Lots of lightning, a few short bursts of really heavy wind and rain, but overall the storm didn't seem too bad. Lights went out for a split second and came right back on. I have not seen any damage from the storm. All our outdoor furniture stayed put, no trees came down or lost limbs, wires are all intact. Susan 9:04 am on Monday, July 9, 2012 It was VERY bad in Normandy Beach, never saw anything like it! John P Spiak 9:43 am on Monday, July 9, 2012 If anybody has wood from fallen trees from the weekend storm and they want to get rid of it, I will be more than happy to come get it from you. Just send a reply

Archive for July, 2011 Sugata Mitra’s new experiments in self-teaching0 PBS: 10 minutes with Ron Paul0 A great interview from PBS that covers the common objections to the man, why his solutions are more efficient and effective than those proposed by government and what a Ron Paul presidency might look like. Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. Anonymous…Enlightenment1 For me, this again comes back to the tale of Barabbas and Jesus. Barabbas was a brave man and zealot of Roman-occupied Jerusalem. A caring man and a patriot he dealt with a daily menace of pain, corruption, thievery and much worse at the hands of the Roman occupiers who reigned over Jerusalem. We too have modern “Romans” all around us; a mixed bag of mega-corporations, control-freak politicians, “the illuminati,” the vatican and a multitude of others. They have wronged and sinned and abused us for a very long time—thanks to the internet more people are aware of their crimes now than in any time in history. The group(s) that can steer these “aware” people will have their hands upon the controls of a massively powerful weapon with the dangerous cloak of self-righteousness draped around its hulking shoulders. As history has shown, many of the worst atrocities have been carried out with the best intentions… While most people today associate “enlightenment” with buddhism, new age ramblings or meditation; the words of Christ still ring with more clarity, peace and wisdom than I have heard from any other source: “love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you!” His eyes saw a different world; his mind didn’t react like the mind of men, his heart didn’t beat with the violent passion of ours—he surpassed all of that… Luke 23:34 “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Matthew 18:21-35 “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.” Mathew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” With these thoughts in mind, I don’t know what action I can now take and I don’t know what action you should take; all I know is that there is a perfect Creator, the most powerful channel I’ve yet found to the source is Jesus Christ, and no matter how bad things might seem in the short-term, God is playing chess and everything is being worked steadily and precisely to The Good and like iron being forged into steel burned by fire for our perfecting. So if your heart still beats with righteous indignation and anger, hungers for offensive action to “take ‘them’ down” by any means necessary, and you think the time for forgiveness has passed then fare thee well, perhaps our paths will cross again someday. I don’t pretend to know The Will of God, or what the right action to take is; but starting off your movement with “We do not forget, we do not forgive” is a very dangerous thing indeed. Their latest video… State of the Union2 There is a great and terrible kingdom being brought to the ground while the next age of our humanity is coming into focus. What will it be like? How can we remain harmonious with the will of God in bringing it to fruition? Obviously there have been a lot less posts on here lately, frankly I’ve been at a lack of words while trying to find what it is that I want to say. I used to find anything intriguing or inspiring and make that an article but now I find myself torn between angles, philosophies and spiritual ideals… I’ve been thinking long and hard about what Jesus was meaning when he said he had a much different way than what the religious/political zealots offered through political action. In my limited understanding, Jesus proposed and offered this “different way” that could create the Kingdom of Heaven here on Earth. In part, this different way was a working of peace in our hearts and minds that transcended the hatred, fear and angst the political landscape of his time was causing. A different way that involved forgiving our enemies, coming to peace with them, and even loving them and wishing them well—a very difficult task! The strongman Barrabas continues to play in my mind as the passionate patriot striving to better the world with his good intentions but remaining far away from the true kingdom: love and self-sacrifice. How do we effect change while remaining within the good Graces of God? Is this too high of a goal? Let’s dare to dream it is not. A “Sovereign Man” in court0 As I continue my journey into the strange world of admiralty law and common law I am forced to deal with situations far beyond my comprehension. The below video is a major example of my dilemma. I can’t see how they are fakes—and they bring up major debates on how our court system operates and the possible abuses taking place. Jesus or Barabbas?3 I’m going to say just briefly here, that Jesus and Barabbas can be seen as two very different types of “Christians” to be revealed in the end of the age; those, who in the midst of great persecution and tribulation will demonstrate the love of the Father through the wisdom of the Cross (the laid down life of Jesus Christ), and those who will rise up as Barabbases – even as “Christian” militant zealots of the day who will think that their ungodly actions and behavior are justified in their fight against a distinctly antichrist system of government. Even now, by the Spirit, we can see a polarization of these two very different types of people; those “Christians” who are heavily “churched” and who have much zeal and religious ambition but who bear not much fruit of the Spirit in their lives, and those who are really taking up their crosses, so much so that they are coming to a place where they love people with the whole of their hearts, and that, even to the extent that they will lay down their very lives for others when it is the lead of the Holy Spirit to do so. Beloved, even now we are seeing many people who claim to be “Christian” but who, by their words and actions, show more of Barabbas than they do of Jesus. With their mouths these say “Give us Jesus!” but with their hearts they clearly express, “Give us Barabbas! We choose Barabbas!!” I’ve seen some pretty awful things done and said in the name of Jesus Christ before, but even those things, I’m afraid, are nothing when compared to what is coming. It was the spirit of religion at work in unsanctified hearts that crucified our Lord Jesus Christ, and I imagine that it will be the very same spirit at work in men that will crucify us also (in whatever form that might come). Beloved, look to the left of Barabbas in the picture below, and there you will see a very small figure with the glory of God upon Him. He is demonstrating there the wisdom of the Cross to rulers and authorities in heavenly places, which is our destiny too, beloveds, IF we will just walk this thing out in the very footsteps of the Lord Jesus Christ. — D

NAME xawtv-remote, v4lctl -- control video4linux devices SYNOPSIS xawtv-remote [ options ] command v4lctl [ options ] command DESCRIPTION xawtv-remote and v4lctl can be used to control a video4linux driven TV card. xawtv-remote passes the command to a already running xawtv or motv instance using X11 properties. v4lctl sets the parameters directly. OPTIONS xawtv-remote knows the following options: -h print a short help text -d dpy Set the X11 display -i id Set the Window ID. v4lctl understands these options: -h print a short help text -c device Set video4linux device. -D driver Set video4linux driver. -v n Set debug level to n, where n = [0..2] COMMANDS Both tools basically use the same set of commands. Some of them are useful for xawtv-remote only (fullscreen for example). setstation [ <name> | <nr> | next | prev | back ] Set the TV station. This selects on of the TV stations which are configured in the .xawtv config file. The argument can be the station name or a number (the first one listed in the config file is 0, ...). next/prev jumps to the next/previous station in the list, back to the previously selected one. setchannel [ <name> | next | prev ] Tune in some channel. setfreqtab <table> Set the frequency table. See the menu in xawtv for a list of valid choices. setnorm <norm> Set the TV norm (NTSC/PAL/SECAM). setinput [ <input> | next ] Set the video input (Television/Composite1/...) capture [ on | off | overlay | grabdisplay ] Set capture mode. volume mute on | off mute / unmute audio. volume <arg> color <arg> hue <arg> bright <arg> contrast <arg> Set the parameter to the specified value. <arg> can be one of the following: A percent value ("70%" for example). Some absolute value ("32768"), the valid range is hardware specific. Relative values can be specified too by prefixing with "+=" or "-=" ("+=10%" or "-=2000"). The keywords "inc" and "dec" are accepted to and will increase and decrease the given value in small steps. setattr <name> <value> Set set the value of some attribute (color, contrast, ... can be set this way too). show [ <name> ] Show the value current of some attribute. list List all available attributes with all properties (default value, range, ...) snap [ jpeg | ppm ] [ full | win | widthxheight ] <filename> Capture one image. webcam <filename> Capture one image. Does basically the same as "snap jpeg win <filename>". Works also while avi recording is active. It writes to a temporary file and renames it when done, so there is never a invalid file. movie driver [ files | raw | avi | qt ] movie video [ ppm | pgm | jpeg | rgb | gray | 422 | 422p | rgb15 | rgb24 | mjpeg | jpeg | raw | mjpa | png ] movie fps <frames per second> movie audio [ mono8 | mono16 | stereo ] movie rate <sample rate> movie fvideo <filename> movie faudio <filename> movie start movie stop control xawtv's movie recorder. fullscreen Toggle fullscreen mode. showtime Display time (same what the 'D' key does in xawtv). msg text Display text on the on-screen display (window title / upper left corner in fullscreen mode). vtx line1 line2 [ ... ] Display subtitles. It pops up a small window at the bottom of the screen. It is intended to be used as an interface for displaying subtitles (often on videotext page 150 in Europe, that's why the name) by external programs. Every command line argument is one line, zero lines removes the window. You can colorize the text with the control sequence "ESC foreground background". foreground/background has the range 0-7 (ansi term colors). Example: "\03347 hello world " is blue on white. "\033" must be a real escape character, the string doesn't work. With the bash you'll get it with ^V ESC. vtx does also understand the ANSI tty escape sequences for color. quit quit xawtv keypad n enter digit 'n'. That's the two-digit channel selection, entering two digits within 5 seconds switches to the selected station. Useful for lirc. vdr command send "command" to vdr (via connect on localhost:2001). SEE ALSO xawtv(1), motv(1), xawtvrc(5) xawtv-remote(1)

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Wikis Quiz Facts Map Search The Full Wiki Search: More info on Law school Wikis Encyclopedia Wiktionary Simple English Related links Related topics Quiz Quiz Facts Did you know Map Maps Law school: Map Categories: Law schools > Types of universities and colleges Wikipedia article: Map showing all locations mentioned on Wikipedia article: A law school (also known as a school of law or college of law ) is an institution specializing in legal education . Law degrees United States Law school in the United States is a postgraduate level program which typically lasts three years and results in the awarding of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. Some schools in Louisiana concurrently award the Graduate Diploma in Civil Law (D.C.L.). In order to be admitted to a United States American Bar Association (ABA) approved law program, a prospective student must take the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) and have graduated with a minimum four-year undergraduate (bachelor's) degree in any major. Currently, there are 199 ABA-approved law schools. Canada The typical degree to practice law in Canada is the Bachelor of Laws , which requires previous college coursework and is very similar to the first law degree in the United States, except universities such as the University of Toronto , Osgoode Hall Law School , Queen's University , The University of Western Ontario , and University of British Columbia have changed the name of their degree to that of a J.D.., education,. . Some universities have developed joint Canadian LL.B and American J.D programs, such as York University and New York University, the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy, and the University of Ottawa and Michigan State University program.. Asia China. Japan In Japan, a law degree is usually an undergraduate qualification, with the LL.B. being the most common. To practice law, passing the National Bar Examination and attending judicial training (or work experience as legislator, government official, professor, etc.) are required in Japan. While ‘Graduate School of Law’, which confer LL.M. and LL.D., has long been for few students pursuing academic career (partly for policy career), ‘Law School’ with much larger capacity was additionally introduced for students pursuing legal career in 2004 by legislation according to Recommendations of the Justice System Reform Council, and it is now in its transitional stage. LL.M. degree usually requires two-year study. Philippines. South Korea On July 3, 2007, the Korean National Assembly passed legislation introducing 'Law School', closely modeled on the American post-graduate system. Moreover, naturally, since March 2, 2009, 25 (both public and private) 3-year professional Law Schools that officially approved by Korean Government , has been opened to teach future Korean lawyers. The first bar test to the lawschool graduates will be scheduled in 2012. Taiwan. Controversies United States. For example, the starting salary at nearly all large law firms in several cities across the country in 2008 is US$ 160,000 plus bonus. and the New York. As more students choose where to work based on the firms' diversity rankings, firms face an increasing market pressure in order to attract top recruits. Increase in law school tuition fees Furthermore, there has been some controversy regarding the recent increases in law school tuition fees, at a time when salaries in the legal services sector are growing much more slowly than the U.S. inflation rate. Some attribute these issues to insufficient regulation of law schools by the American Bar Association. The total number of Juris Doctor degrees awarded has been on the rise in recent years, at least partially due to the accreditation of new schools by the ABA. Continued increase in number of law schools The United States continues to open new law schools at a time when it already has more than 900,000 lawyers, risking an excess of supply. In addition, to become a licensed attorney in California , one need not have attended law school. Yet California has 69 law schools (20 ABA-approved, 18 California-bar approved and 31 unaccredited schools). California serves as the headquarters for some of the more well-known online law schools, such as California School of Law and Concord Law School . There are 11 law schools in the Greater Chicago Area (Loyola, DePaul, NIU, U of IL, U. of Chicago, Notre Dame, IIT, John Marshall, Marquette, Valparaiso, Northwestern). New York was recently described as having a 'glut' of law schools,). Alternative legal education systems Many potential law students cannot attend a residential law school due to work or family commitments, not to mention the financial burden of tuition and travel. An online law school may be a good option for such students. For a balanced discussion of the pros and cons of an online legal education, and a comparison of the pedagogy and First Year Law Student Exam results of the online law schools "registered" (not "accredited") with the California State Bar, go to.. Australia In Australia , law schools such as the Sydney Law School and the University of Melbourne have emphasised a combination of the British and American systems, prominently known in Australia for their prestige and proliferate employment rate. However, other universities such as the University of New South Wales, the Australian National University, Monash University and Deakin University are known for their intensive and practical work. List of law schools See also Juris Doctor Legal clinic Legal education Madrasah Paralegal Law School Admissions Test References [1] The practice of law in Canada . FLSC . Accessed September 16, 2008 University of British Columbia. Requirements for Graduation and Evaluation of Work (LL.B.) . Accessed June 28, 2008 Canadian law school concentrations, certificates and joint-degree programs [2] . Law Society of British Columbia PLTC [3] . Law Society of Upper Canada Law Licensing Process University of British Columbia Board of Governors approves request for LL.B to be renamed J.D. [4] . University of Toronto J.D. admissions FAQ [5] . University of Toronto. law . Accessed April 7, 2008. Queens University. Memorandum, Law Students Society . Accessed April 7, 2008. University of Toronto. Faculty of Law: Prospective Students . Accessed April 7, 2008. NYU/Osgoode Joint LL.B/J.D. [6] . [7] Assembly okays shift to law schools from state bar exam , The Hankyoreh , Retrieved on July 4 , 2007 Korean Law School List Announced , Korean Law Blog, January 31, 2008 Further reading Duncan Kennedy : Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy , New Edition, New York Univ Press, 2004, ISBN 0814747787 External links Lawiki.org LawSchool.com The Law School 100 U.S. News Law School Rankings Ranking US News (A collection of various criticisms of the US News Law School Rankings)

- AP: . … Industry estimates show the Marcellus boom could offer robust job numbers for 50 years. … U.S. Steel will add 100 jobs with a $100 million upgrade of a plant that makes seamless pipe for the construction, oil-gas exploration and production industries. (Associated Press, 11/27/11) - Marcellus Multiplier Having a “Driving Force” on Local Economy: continue to do so. “There were a number of businesses that took advantage of the opportunity to be servicers to the natural gas industry,” Culp said. “There are a lot of examples of company expansions.” … As a result of the expansion to service the natural gas industry, Culp said Bolus’ company has also grown. “He’s gone from 80 people, in the early part of the year, to 160,” Culp said. “Most of it is directly related to those (Marcellus shale-related) operations.” …Culp said the “area of impact” of the shale industry is also continuing to expand. (Standard Journal, 11/26/11) - Ohio Co. Official: “America Needs American-Made Energy and Jobs”: A new ethane gas pipeline that would come through Licking County would create jobs and help stimulate the economy, county Commissioner Tim Bubb said. “It’s a big construction project,” he said. “It will create jobs. … America needs American-made energy and jobs.” … The proposed Enterprise pipeline is expected to generate as many as 4,000 temporary and full-time jobs along the route as it is being built. … “The bottom line is that we all need energy. Natural gas energy is a safe energy,” Bubb said. “It creates jobs in America.” (Newark Advocate, 11/27/11) - Most Ohio Residents “Think It’s Important for the Area to Embrace Drilling”: The negativity surrounding oil and gas drilling doesn’t appear to be coming from western Mahoning County. It seems to be coming in the more heavily populated areas, among “city folk” as some residents described it. Most residents, including Harless, think it’s important for the area to embrace drilling. “I think this is needed,” he said, “for American jobs and the economy.” (Youngstown Vindicator, 11/27/11) - Ohio Mayors:. (Associated Press, 11/27/11) - U.S. News & World Report Editor in Chief: Thanks to Shale, “We Have a Chance to Remake Our Energy Future”:. (Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, 11/25/11) - Ohio Small Business Owner: Community Morale “Is All Positive,” Thanks to Shale:.” (Associated Press, 11/27/11) - “Oil and Gas are Boosting U.S. Employment”:. … The beauty of the oil and gas boom is that multipliers aren’t needed to predict job growth. It’s happening right before our eyes. (Wall Street Journal Editorial, 11/28/11) - “Even Old-Line Industries Like Steel are Benefitting” from Shale Development: As the New York Times’ David Brooks wrote earlier this month: “Already shale gas has produced more than half a million new jobs, not only in traditional areas like Texas but also in economically wounded places like western Pennsylvania and, soon, Ohio. If current trends continue, there are hundreds of thousands of new jobs to come.” Even old-line industries like steel are benefitting, with the Cleveland Plain-Dealer recently reporting that Republic Steel is investing $85 million to create 450 new jobs at a plant it was shutting down just three years ago. The plant will make steel pipe needed for the Marcellus gas wells. (Washington Examiner Editorial, 11/27/11) NOTE: Click HERE to watch our video, “Building a Stronger, More Secure America.” And please follow us on twitter (@MarcellusGas) for the latest news and updates.

A few years ago, a vacation was a vacation if you were a voice talent. It had to be. Away from your home studio or the professional studio that you did all your recording in, you had no choice but to enjoy some time off. Things are different today. To record a voice over on the road these days all you really need is a mic, a laptop and preamp to connect those two pieces. I have a Shure X2U. It’s tiny and very portable. Don’t Miss An Opportunity As a professional voice talent you’re a solopreneur. That’s to say, you’re responsible for your own destiny. There are no two weeks worth of paid vacation days written into your employment agreement. Being on the road and away from the office means you’re going to miss out. You’ll have to pass on auditions. You’ll have to pass on jobs. It can be a tough pill to swallow. But everyone needs a vacation! Now that recording on the road is so easy, I know more and more voice actors are packing their equipment right along with the rest of their luggage. After all, you can’t afford to miss an opportunity right? Or can you? Working Vacation I’m heading out tomorrow for a few days. A somewhat last minute adventure to Vegas. I thought long and hard about whether or not I should bring my gear with me. I reasoned with myself that I’d only use it for an emergency. I wouldn’t spend any time auditioning or looking for work while I was gone. I’d just have my gear in case a client called and needed something done before I return on the weekend. That’s just good business. Right? I was justifying all of this in my head. A rather convincing argument, I might add. I talked to my friend that I’m traveling with. She agreed to the proposal. She said she understood the pressure of working for yourself and not wanting to miss out on opportunities. She was genuine. If I brought my gear, she wouldn’t hassle me if I had to stop and record. She was giving her blessing for a working vacation. Vacation Vacation Here’s the thing. A vacation, by it’s very definition, isn’t supposed to involve work! Vacation: : A period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation. (Source: Merriam Webster) I’m supposed to be getting away from business. Not bringing business with me! I thought about it some more over the weekend and decided my gear wasn’t coming with me. Instead, I was going to get away for a few days, have some fun, enjoy the adventure, and not worry about whether or not I was missing any work. We all need time away. Time to reset. Time to recharge. Time to renew. It makes us better people. It makes us better voice actors! I decided that time time, I’m going on a vacation vacation! Recent Comments

On Monday Patch published an article about the response of Cobb school officials to the Connecticut school shootings. The following is a statement issued by Cobb County School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa about the same topic. Dear Cobb County Schools Community, We all are in shock and disbelief at the tragic event that occurred last Friday and our hearts pour out to the community of Newtown, Connecticut. As a result of this terrible, senseless act, many concerns about safety have carried over to our own community. I want to reassure parents that Cobb County schools are as safe an environment for your children as you will find anywhere. We have state-of-the-art security resources available, including: - Police officers assigned to every high school and middle school, and available to every elementary school on call; - Electronic access control systems for all elementary schools; - Surveillance cameras in every school. In addition, all of our schools have safety plans that the principals review with their staffs at the beginning of the school year and as needed. They will be revisiting those plans this week. Finally, the school district’s Public Safety Department has requested assistance this week from all police agencies in Cobb County to step up patrols around our school buildings, so do not be surprised if you see an additional presence of police near your school. Of course, no security measure available can protect against every conceivable threat, whether caused by nature or the rage of a disturbed individual. We must keep this random act in perspective, employ the resources we have, and be vigilant as we carry on with educating the students of Cobb County. In the aftermath of this horrible news, I want to thank our parents for reassuring their children that school is a safe place to be, and I want to thank our teachers and administrators for doing a wonderful job of comforting students and maintaining a positive and welcoming spirit in their schools. I wish everyone a happy holiday season and a restful break, even as we grieve for those in Newtown, Connecticut. Respectfully, Michael Hinojosa, Ed.D. Superintendent Keep up with news by subscribing to our free email newsletter, liking us on Facebook and following us on Twitter. Pam J 12:43 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 I am disheartened that the world has become such that we have to have armed guards at schools. When I was in high school, the only things they had to worry about were kids smoking in the school and kids trying to leave the school grounds during school hours. I remember my last year in Osborne High School in 1970-1971, we had a new principal and he would stand at the entrance to the parking lot during lunch periods so nobody could leave without permission. We thought that was horribly mean. Now, we have armed guards in the schools. Yep, we have evolved.

! Duval teacher tells 4th graders to give up constitutional rights By Stephanie Brown (WOVK) * * * (Ohioans for Workplace Freedom) And if its "likely" then why didnt ole stan greer get the exact numbers ? Maybe because they wouldnt be "likely " enough ! Sounds an awful lot like another right-wing conspiracy !!! And really , ole Stan Greer the right -wing gas bag ! * * * Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism (CEAFU) * * * Ohio Workplace Freedom Amendment It’s Likely That ‘a Lot’ of Wisconsin Workers ‘Didn’t Want to Belong to a Union in the First Place’ By Stan Greer "right to work for less". Co m And still wrongriki cant answer the truth that as workers , all have the CHOICE whether to CHOOSE to No#1 work at a union shop or No#2 CHOOSE to work at a non-union shop ! THATS CALLED MAKING A CHOICE !!No matter how much you puck out that stale ole republican lie , the truth remains ! "right to work for less". Co m Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism (CEAFU) Ohio Workplace Freedom Amendment "right to work for less".co m An idiotic parroting republican mouth piece seems to be stuck in the same anti-labor, anti- freedom , anti-people propaganda loop !"right to work for less".co for less " .co m Legislature divided over education funding penalties tied to right-to-work By Kathleen Gray (Detroit Free Press) "right to work is wrong".c om Republican super PAC's are the largest donor for everything the party of NO is trying ! Their propaganda has had an effect on those who are weak minded ! Their problem is , most by now know what their doing and why and most of these obstructionist will fall in the mid term elections !"right to work is wrong".c om Surprise, surprise, whenever you see “Munster” that means he is in part funded by a teacher of 28+ years. Now let us see how many times “Munster” cut and pastes his non-stop name-calling and insults. (Ohioans for Workplace Freedom) And surprise , surprise, when ever you see this(Union Conservatives is a 501(c)4 non-profit )that means they are in part funded by a republican super PAC ! Now lets see how many times wrongriki cut and pastes this bag-o-crap ! This is no #2 ! Are trying to cover this up with your 5 cut & paste posts? . . . “Have you ever been afraid to speak the truth due to a hostile work environment?” . . . SEE: “Union Conservatives” website And surprise , surprise, when ever you see this(Union Conservatives is a 501(c)4 non-profit )that means they are in part funded by a republican super PAC ! if this fact is correct ( and it is ) then wouldnt that make your whole right-wing bullsh#t fest a lie ??•The 700 Channel Lane , Marietta, OH 45750 | 740-373-2121 © 2013. All rights reserved.| Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

If you have found yourself in the (un)fortunate position of having to use LinkedIn's shareArticle API to share a URL, you may notice that there is around zero articles detailing exactly how to utilize the API correctly. Even LinkedIn doesn't have an official developer support page which details exactly how to use their shareArticle API. Too Long, Didn't Read: Use proper meta tags and image combinations and just give LinkedIn the url parameter to their shareArticle API Lucky for you I recently had to deal with this horribly under-documented share functionality at work and am going to outline exactly what to do to get it working! Theoretically the shareArticle API should work like this, and actually this is how you want to use it: You may notice that if you try this with your webpage, LinkedIn doesn't gather all the correct information about your page, or possibly it doesn't gather any information about your page except for its title and url. Where is the thumbnail? And where is the description? Lucky for you there's no documentation describing how you can get LinkedIn to pull that information save for a couple forum postings...that have no helpful information. But the shareArticle API also allows you to pass some GET params to the shareArticle API - to trick you, you see, into doing it the wrong way. For example, you can specify title, description, source and a couple other things (ooh this looks like it solves our problem!):... Except...that if you try sending that URL to LinkedIn and your url-encoded URL is longer than approx. 700 characters, the LinkedIn script throws a Javascript error on IE6&7 on Windows XP, only! Because this is a Javascript error on the LinkedIn side, you have zero control over how it can be fixed, and if you are dealing with a dynamic length description or title, or source url, constructing this URL can be extremely problematic. Solution Ignore LinkedIn's red-herring extra GET parameters, and just specify the url GET parameter. This will cause LinkedIn to ping back on your URL and look for these tags (title, meta description, img...): <html> <head> <title>The Title!</title> <meta name="description" content="This is the description of your linkedIn Article!"> </head> <body> <img src="/my/img/path.jpg"> <img src="/my/img/path2.jpg"> </body> </html> If you're having trouble getting the images to work because your page is so cluttered, you can setup your page to skim the browser user-agent and look for 'LinkedInBot', and display an altered form of the webpage for LinkedIn specifically.

. Just reading Jimbo Wales' comment on the home page of the Search Wikia project which states that "search is broken" and then goes on to say: Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will change all that. Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will change all that. We're going to see a lot more of this in the coming years where people flock to non-proprietary, collaborative systems (think Wikipedia, Linux, Flickr). If you don't know a lot about the economics of mass collaboration I'd really encourage you to grab a copy of this book: I purchased the CD audio version and have listened to is a few times in the past couple of weeks - it really has my mind stirring with new ideas. posted on 6/30/2007 7:53:18 PM ( 0 Comments ) This is good to see... Brad Abrams : Visual Studio in Second Life Brad Abrams : Visual Studio in Second Life I wonder how long it will be before Readify has an apartment in there? See you in there! posted on 6/29/2007 10:15:03 PM ( 0 Comments ) There on 6/29/2007 2:37:49 PM ( 1 Comments ) An interesting read: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - RE: Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - RE: Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective Make sure that you follow the link from there through to the full phatbits article. Something that each of us may be confronted with at some stage I guess. posted on 6/29/2007 2:22:18 PM ( 0 Comments ) Quite often I'll hear Readify referred to as a virtual company. The 'virtual' tag is applied to us by both internal as well as external observers - but what does it actually mean? And is it an accurate tag to apply to us? To me the term 'virtual' means "not real" or "almost real" - certainly not something that I equate with our company. After all, it was only last week that I sat down for a meal with a bunch of our guys at Darling Harbor in Sydney. Heck, it even set me back 70 bucks... what could be more real than that? To me "virtual" is more of a SecondLife type of experience. Actually I believe that as mechanisms such as Ideagoras and Crowdsourcing start to play a bigger part in how we share knowledge that will start to see true "virtual" organizations start to take shape - maybe virtual organizations that look nothing like organizations of today but which look more like virtual swarms that exist to solve important problems and then disassemble and vaporize just as soon as they formed. But this is not anywhere near where we are at today. I prefer to think of Readify from the viewpoint that we are highly distributed and decentralized. In this sense we are more like a "remote" (although I prefer the term "distant") company. Another, probably better term is that we are a highly mobile organization. You see, to me, "mobility" means that we are able to work from anywhere. This is closer to my real working model where I work from wherever I am at any given point in time. The slight (although significant) difference from "remote/distant" is that the latter implies that you are simply working offsite. A minor differentiation but one which is important when you live and work how I do each day! Actually, according to this article, many more of us are at least migrating away from our ties to working from a central location. If the statistics quoted in that article are correct, 14% of the US workforce currently works "from home" at least 2 days per week. This is up from 11% in 2004 and is expected to rise to 17% within 2 years. Certainly worth considering in terms of the opportunities that will arise from this new growth. The trick with a mobile organization is having the right tools to enable key scenarios - such as collaboration as well as communication at a human level. This article touches on some aspects of these key points. At Readify we're experiencing all of these exciting new developments in our daily lives and it's an exciting place to be. Moving forward I can see further evolution in the mobility model. Increased mobility - and hence less dependence on location - will lead to us having: posted on 6/27/2007 9:52:27 PM ( 1 Comments ) Phil writes about the fact that Microsoft appears to be getting more behind open source development: Christmas For .NET Open Source Came Early This Year Christmas For .NET Open Source Came Early This Year This is going to be really interesting to watch. Is this the beginning of Microsoft opening up? posted on 6/27/2007 8:44:09 PM ( 0 Comments ) At home I have this habit where, whenever I purchase a new article of clothing, I turf out an equivalent number of old items. Buy a new shirt - turf an old one. In with new socks, out with some old ones. New hanky in - old hanky out. You get the picture. The idea is to drive towards a wardrobe of clothes that always represent a current set based on what I prefer to wear. It's like survival of the fittest where each article of clothing has to compete to remain in the fold - although old jocks can only survive for so long . I've started to actively do the same with my RSS subscriptions. I use the trigger of new subscriptions as a point of evaluation for items in my current subscription list. I don't unsubscribed from feeds on a pure 1-1 basis. What I do is to look at the number of items that the new feed will add to my reader each week and look to unsubscribe from a number of feeds that is representative of that number of individual reading items. This helps to ensure that the signal to noise ratio is always being fine tuned on a proper comparative basis. Over the past 6 months I've started tuning in much more to feeds that focus on the theory knowledge management and less on individual technologies and implementation related blogs. As an example I've added blogs such as: At the same time my interest in low level details about implementation has waned somewhat. In recent times, to match the intake from the blogs that I've listed above I've unsubscribed to some really excellent blogs about CRM, SharePoint, and design patterns: It's not that these blogs are not a good read - they've served me extremely well in the past. It's just that, beyond a certain point, reading stuff can interfere with doing stuff. So hence the need for constant pruning and vigilance in maintaining the right level of signal to noise. By the same token, there's a couple of blogs that I've kept - mostly because they are friends - but who seldom update me with their articles these days: Although they tend to clutter my reader I've kept a hold of them in the hope that they may one day again inspire me with their tales from the trenches posted on 6/27/2007 1:35:51 PM ( 1 Comments ) I was having lunch with a colleague today and we were talking about the economics of mass collaboration. I was talking about how knowledge is the new commodity that is driving the phenomenon of mass collaboration. My colleague mentioned that this all sounded very socialistic. We continued to bash that thought around and I knew where he was getting at... he was looking for the weakness in this model (he's very good at doing that ). The questions were taking a familiar line, basically - what is the motivation for participation? Why do people give up their spare time to contribute on these community collaborations? And can we be sure that the motivations will always be there? Then he asked a question from a viewpoint that I hadn't considered before: Isn't it unfair on the people who are investing their time and knowledge that there are leeches who take without putting knowledge into the ecosystem? This is a great question and one that I'm not sure that I have a great answer for straight off the bat. I'll gladly listen to the thoughts of others on this question. I guess that the real question might be... do you think that this phenomenon is nothing more than an interesting social experiment and that it will last for as long as it can capture the imagination of its participants? Or do you think that all of this new found time and exchange of intangible goods is actually coming from a true and long-lasting source of economic activity? posted on 6/26/2007 5:00:58 PM ( 4 Comments ) Here's an interesting article by Danah Boyd which talks about the growth of these 2 social networking sites and the battle that is currently raging between them to gain an ascendency: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace Some of the really important points that Danah raises are over whether these sites represent different classes of American youth. Could it be true that MySpace is the blue collar portal and that Facebook is for the white collar mob? Interesting discussion. Here's a snippet taken from the article to give you a taste for on 6/26/2007 7:02:07 AM ( 0 Comments ) I hadn't seen this before: Current TV // The TV Network Created By The People Who Watch It Current TV // The TV Network Created By The People Who Watch It It's a global, public TV network where you can filter and vote for content. This is surely the future of TV where we can choose our own content and have much more of a say in how content is personalized for us but also with enough emergent behavior to influence what other people watch by voting for the most popular content. posted on 6/25/2007 8:45:06 PM ( 0 Comments ) Here's a link to an on-demand copy of the Enterprise 2.0 debate between Andrew McAfee (he is credited with coining the term Enterprise 2.0) and Tom Davenport (he doesn't think we need the term) which took place at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston: Enterprise 2.0 Live Debate Enterprise 2.0 Live Debate The debate is useful for uncovering some of the major topics behind Enterprise 2.0 including: There's a lot of good stuff in there about emergent technology and enlightened leadership. The beauty of this piece is that it looks at the topic from both sides of the argument. posted on 6/25/2007 6:02:13 PM ( 0 Comments ) A while ago I mentioned the new themes that have been added to Google Portal and I thought that I'd write a quick note to talk what one of my standard days looks like these days... In the morning I love to get up early and have a coffee with Paul Stovell while I read the paper and check my emails... In the Dev Centre there's plenty of time in the morning for goofing around. Often Paul and I shoot water cannons at one another before we get stuck into our work... ... or practice a bit of karate... ... on other mornings it's nice to just kick back with a nice, gentleman-like game of badminton... ... the weather in Adelaide has been great so we tend to grab our sandwiches and head outside for lunch... In the afternoon's Paul's favorite activity is water-sliding... ... but I much prefer a quiet game of croquet (Stovell never beats me at this )... ... anyway, when the day is done it's time to start preparing for the night. It's been a bit cold at night this winter so we generally prepare a bit of a fire... ... which, of course leads to marshmallows and Stovell's endless stories about his data binding feats! .... then it's time to Sleep... ... and Dream - although I've been having some weird one's lately... It's a busy life posted on 6/20/2007 8:32:56 PM ( 0 Comments ) Leadership is the buzzword of today and as a member of the management team at Readify, I can confirm that it's been one of our most discussed topics of the past year. We've constantly looked for ways to both reward leadership behaviors and to provide better incentives for people to exhibit them. The pursuit of leadership is not only limited to management. This year I've been given the role of managing our Professional Development (PD) program at Readify and I've already observed that it's a hot topic among the rest of our staff too. People everywhere are demanding better leadership and at the same time they want to become better leaders themselves. This has led me to try and learn more about leadership in the hope that I might better understand the role of PD in satisfying people's hunger for leadership. Overall I suspect that the emphasis on leadership is somewhat misleading. All the talk of leadership has served to distort people's own understanding of what they are truly after. I suspect that what people really want is to achieve a sense of empowerment as well as an ability to more fully realize their own true potential. Because of this, my emphasis for the PD program so far has been to work with people to understand their goals and what motivates them. By focusing on goals it becomes easier to tailor a program of activities that leads to the ultimate goal - to allow a person to self-actualize goals and visualize growth in their own capabilities. posted on 6/19/2007 7:34:53 AM ( 0 Comments ) Recently I managed to awaken myself to what I had previously overlooked about Web 2.0. As much as respectable magazines such as Time had tried to remind me, I'd managed to drift off into this state of Ajax'y unconsciousness. And so it was as I was using Twitter to monitor the activity of my social network when I totally jumped the shark and entered the following text into my Twitter account: My last entry on Twitter My last entry on Twitter All that 1337 speak and talk of cats drove me to this moment of insanity and it happened. I just typed those words, closed my browser, and moved on. And in that single moment I proved it... I had missed the whole point of Web 2.0 applications like Twitter - which is that they are "Me" focused! To remove the noise I simply adjust the channels that I'm subscribed to and voila, problem solved. So Web 2.0 == You. Don't like something remove it; find something new of interest, add it; then rearrange the order of things until the information fits you. Then take that information and mash-it up with something else to turn it into a higher level of information and you start the process of turning raw information into knowledge. When you think about knowledge and its value you immediately start thinking about "the enterprise" - and hence the concept of Enterprise 2.0 has come to the surface quite a bit in recent times. Mind you there's also Commerce 2.0, B2B 2.0, Security 2.0, IT Manager 2.0, and a whole raft of other * 2.0 idioms. While I haven't explored the entire * 2.0 family my attention of late is very much centered around the concept of Enterprise 2.0 and its value to businesses. Currently there are many ideas and theories washing around in my brain about the kinds of applications and mash-ups we need to create "Me" centered applications within the enterprise. The prospects are very exciting indeed! Imagine the value to business around having an Enterprise 2.0 knowledge framework that was so powerful that employees dared not leave it for the fear that they would lose access to valuable knowledge. posted on 6/16/2007 1:16:55 PM ( 0 Comments ) I've written about Shared Items on Google Reader before but wanted to re-post because they are so cool and I wonder how many people are making use of that feature. This has drifted back to my attention after yesterday, having had a chat about them with Warren Schaefer at Melbourne airport who agrees about their coolness. How it works is that as I'm reading items within Reader, there is a "Share" button at the bottom of each item: As I come across articles that I think are of exceptional value I click on that button and the item is then available to be shared. By sharing the item it is available via the following link which also exposes itself as an RSS feed: There is also a nice web part that they make available so that I can present a view of my shared items on my blog: I'm firmly of the opinion that each of us must read some incredible articles each day and without a sharing experience such as this, then this knowledge sharing opportunity is either lost or just poorly translated as time passes waiting for me to blog about it. Clicking on a share button means that the "cream of the crop" is always shared though and so the things that I read that are valuable are available as a filtered list for people to view. If you are interested in * 2.0 (Web, Enterprise, etc) discussions, team based development, .NET, then I'd highly encourage you to subscribe to my shared items feed because that's where you will find the best knowledge that I see each day about those topics. And if you have a Shared Items link please add it as a comment to this post so that I can subscribe to yours - in your comment please let me know what content categories your shared items are likely to contain posted on 6/16/2007 9:57:21 AM ( 1 Comments ) Yesterday I wrote an article which questions whether or not the daily Scrum meetings stifle creativity. Thankfully Richard added a comment which pointed me to an article by Martin Fowler about the Patterns of Daily Stand-up Meetings. Having been on a couple of highly functional teams in the past I can relate to much of what Martin is saying but some of it was a revelation to me and, although it's a rather lengthy article, I'd highly recommend downloading it and reading it over a coffee in an appropriately quiet place. Reading the article actually made me wonder about the suitability of Scrum daily meetings to the Dev Centre. After all, the Scrum daily meetings are very much targeted at teams who are working on the same project whereas the Dev Centre is often a very different world. For one, the teams in the Dev Centre tend to be highly disrupted; people tend to come and go all the time. You might be working on a project in the Dev Centre today but in 2 weeks time you may not be there at all. Another significant difference is that it's actually quite common to have either very small teams or, even more commonly, just an individual developer working alone. How do you have a Scrum with just 1 regular developer? It's a highly disruptive environment and not one that I'm certain is well addressed by the "manifesto" laid out in Martin's article - particularly when you lay "remote/virtual" over the top. I actually wonder whether the model that I'm working with is more of the norm - let's call it the "long tail" - as opposed to the large to mid-sized teams that Martin's article (and the daily Scrum meeting itself) is targeted at? Having said all that I do know one thing... I definitely want to tap into the goodness that teams get from Scrum meetings. Shared ownership, better visibility, help with removing obstacles, team building. However this would all exist within the scope of the members of the group as opposed to distinct project teams. Maybe there is another process which is targeted at these highly disruptive groups but which is similar to Scrum? Obviously I have more research ahead of me :-) posted on 6/13/2007 6:46:04 PM ( 3 Comments ) For the past few years nearly every project that I've been involved with has run a Scrum-like meeting. I say Scrum-like rather than Scrum because none of these projects have had a certified Scrum-master... and I don't want to weaken my argument for the rest of this article on a mere technicality Anyway, regardless of the Scrum'ness of the meetings, we do stick to those well known 3 questions that are associated with Scrum meetings: The idea of the Scrum meeting is that you get in, ask your questions, and get out. Very robotic and very focused. In nearly all projects I've noticed a gradual decline in the level of interest that the team has for these meetings as time progresses and I think that it has something to do with the low level nature of the information that is exchanged during these meetings. They've tended to be very task-oriented. For example: It seems to me that the repetitive, constant, daily grind of reeling off facts breeds apathy for the process and before long these Scrum meetings become "yet another meeting". When this happens I find that teams simply go through the motions and become less agile in their thinking about raising important issues or giving you information that could change and assist the process. So how do you change it so that you get the goodness that the Scrum meeting is designed to deliver while getting good information from your team about how things are going and what needs to be done? Up until this week I've been running daily SCRUM's in the Dev Centre but as of this morning I've decided to change it so that the weekly meetings will look more like this: Having meetings that are structured in this way will allow senior, responsible developers to become a little more self-managing and hopefully introduce enough creativity to produce a more creative culture. Bottom line... take the blinkers off of your team. The opportunity to gather should be a learning experience. Use those precious moments together to learn from each other as to how you can improve... who knows, maybe you'll end up with a better culture because of it! posted on 6/12/2007 2:23:47 PM ( 4 Comments ) Over the weekend I purchased 2 new books. I grabbed this one: I'm hoping that this book will provide me with some useful tips for inspiring creativity within teams. I also grabbed an audio CD version of this one: I'm so in love with Wiki's at the moment that I simply had to buy this one. This is also the first audio book that I've purchased so I'm hoping that it will provide me with many hours of relaxed learning on my travels posted on 6/12/2007 9:38:30 AM ( 0 Comments ) Another good news story for BlogML as the CCNetConfig blog is migrated from DasBlog to SubText: Made the move to SubText Made the move to SubText posted on 6/11/2007 8:46:16 AM ( 0 Comments ) The Dev Centre was created by Readify to manage the software development requirements of the business as well as to harvest IP from our existing processes. Last week I started the process of setting the goals of the Dev Centre for the coming year. One of the major goals for next year is to turn the Dev Centre into much more of a factory for creating software by standardizing on processes and increasing the levels of automation. Above all of the process and automation stuff, you also have to think about the things that are at the human level - such as creating an environment that people enjoy working in. Happy, mentally-active people are productive people, and it's these people who will add the most to the culture of your business. One of the things that comes up in this area on a fairly regular basis is pair-programming. That is, people regularly ask for pair-programming to be implemented as a standard part of how we do things. I always find this to be an interesting request because I've long been a fan of pair-programming and I can attest that my most significant programming victories have taken place through pair-programming sessions. Within Readify I can immediately recount some major pair-programming victories with Francois Beaussier, Mitch, and Paul Stovell. So the fact that there's no sign hanging above the (virtual) door of the Dev Centre certainly doesn't mean that I don't want to encourage it - I really do. Pair programming leads to the following highly desirable benefits: The challenges in implementing pair-programming are almost never technology or environment based but are more than likely people based. So if it's that difficult to get workers to pair-up in a standard office environment, what about when you have teams which operate within a virtual environment? Virtual pair-programming requires not only the trigger for the developers to connect but also a set of tools that enable a rich collaboration to occur. One of the tools that we've been playing with recently that might enable richer remote pair programming scenarios is Microsoft's new SharedView Beta. This is a very exciting tool in how it provides collaborative experiences and I can easily see it becoming very often used within the Dev Centre at Readify. posted on 6/10/2007 10:43:30 PM ( 1 Comments ) posted on 6/9/2007 10:10:49 AM ( 0 Comments ) Update: FrankArr tells me that the actual numbers of MS staff as at now is more like 72,000 full time staff and another 30,000 contractors... do the math on that! Last night I wrote a post titled "Where did the time go?" In that article I did some maths to highlight just how many hours are worked each week by a small 7 person team. After writing that article I went to bed thinking about the size of Microsoft and ran the maths over their bulk. I'm not sure exactly how many employees Microsoft actually have - but for the purposes of my exercise I used 60,000 as a number for the total pool of employees and contractors. So let's look at it: Microsoft Each day: 60,000 * 8 = 480,000 hours Each week: 480,000 * 5 = 2,400,000 hours Microsoft Each day: 60,000 * 8 = 480,000 hours Each week: 480,000 * 5 = 2,400,000 hours This company has access to 2.5 million hours of time per week! What could you do with that? Well think about it... let's say you live to be 80: You Your entire life: 80 * 365 * 24 = 700,800 hours You Your entire life: 80 * 365 * 24 = 700,800 hours If you live to be 80, and you never sleep, and you never stop working, and you are productive for every day that you are alive... you will have access to 700,000 hours. So each week, Microsoft has access to a pool of resources which represents 3.5 times the sum of your entire existence! posted on 6/8/2007 7:37:40 AM ( 0 Comments ). I used to write that way. Lots and lots of words. Hard to read Let's take another crack at that opening paragraph... Be clear in your writing. Remove unnecessary words and write in a positive tone. Your readers will thank you! Be clear in your writing. Remove unnecessary words and write in a positive tone. Your readers will thank you! That's better posted on 6/8/2007 6:52:28 AM ( 1 Comments ) I'm a DHSB Take the test Take the test posted on 6/8/2007 6:23:51 AM ( 0 Comments ) Time is an interesting resource. There's no way to get more of it and so we have to make do with the time that we have. You can use your time in any way that you choose but remember that whatever you choose to do with your time, that's all that you'll get. It's very easy to get caught up with the business of things and in the process believe that you are making good use of your time - but do you ever stop to analyze what you do with yours? How much time is spent on things that don't matter? How much of the time that you spend is spent actually moving away from your goals? As a manager of people I believe that time is something that you should always be acutely aware of. Each week I stop to think of the pool of people that I have working with me and I stop to do a quick check of the numbers: "7 people, that's 56 hours per day. 56 hours per day multiplied by 5 gives me 280 hours this week." "7 people, that's 56 hours per day. 56 hours per day multiplied by 5 gives me 280 hours this week." For a team 7 people that's 280 hours per week that can be used to move closer to the company goals... or to fritter away on email and drinking coffee. Stop and think about those numbers for a moment and the impact should dawn upon you. 280 hours is 35 days. At an average of 21 working days per month, that means that 1 week of a team of 7 people equates to nearly 2 calendar months of your time if it were laid out linearly. Now think of the conversations that you've had recently about the "things I'm gunna do", or "I thought about doing that but..." and you start to realize what a valuable asset such a block of time amounts to. So I suggest that each week when you arrive to work to meet your team of 7 that you should think about that week in the context of what you'd like to achieve if you had 2 months of focused time to work towards achieving your goals. To truly maximize that 2 month block of time invest a little effort in working out what that activities that you do are which don't help you get closer to meeting your goals. Is it reading email? Is it surfing the web? Or is it the greatest time killer of all... procrastination? Whatever it is, you must change your environment to assist you in maximizing what you get out of your allotment of time. I'll say it again... "CHANGE YOUR ENVIRONMENT" to assist you in maximizing what you get out of your allotment of time. If email is your killer habit - unsubscribe. If it's the Internet and the vast distractions of Web 2.0 - unplug. If it's procrastination - change your location. It's your time. You have 1 shot at what you will do with it. Whatever you do with your time is what you will be remembered by. posted on 6/7/2007 10:35:55 PM ( 0 Comments ) The other day I wrote about creating a new website and mentioned that I was favoring a move to Squarespace. I've continued to think about what I want to get out of this new web home and have decided that a pure blog product won't meet my needs... I really need a Wiki to do what I want. I started looking around for a hosted Wiki offering and none really stood out. I've applied for an account with JotSpot although they are currently offline after acquisition by Google and so I now have to wait until they let me know that I can proceed. Oh well, this will give me more time to really think about what I want my Wiki to be Or maybe the world is ready for SUW... sorry, bad joke, just kidding posted on 6/7/2007 8:45:11 AM ( 3 Comments ) One of the customs that we have in the Dev Centre at Readify is "the daily SCRUM". This involves everyone who is working on a Dev Centre project to submit an email by 10AM with their answers to those 3 well-known questions. Paul Stovell is a little different in that he tends to submit 2 SCRUM's - 1 which reflects the stuff that he does during his mild mannered daytime hours and another one which reflects the activities of his better known night-time alter ego SuperPaul. Recently while Paul was working on one particular project he started spewing out colorful charts which reflected the level of testing that his code had achieved when measured against Requirements. On those few evenings a couple of weeks ago was born "Scenario Coverage Analyser for TFS" and you can/should learn more about it by reading Paul's post on it here: Scenario Coverage Analyser for TFS Scenario Coverage Analyser for TFS Cool stuff! We've now released this and you can grab it from our website at the following location: Who knows, maybe soon your automated builds will be producing lovely charts such as this: posted on 6/6/2007 10:45:27 PM ( 0 Comments ) posted on 6/6/2007 10:04:13 PM ( 0 Comments ) If there's one thing that I've been really crappy at over the years it is documentation - but it's definitely something that I'm getting better at! It's when I go back through all of the 1300 or so posts that I've written over these last few years that I realize what an unstructured gaggle of information I've created. Contrast the tangled web of data that I've created with other more valuable online resources such as Wikipedia and you soon get a good feel for the potential that lies behind information that is properly maintained and structured. The cool thing about Wiki's is their organic nature and how they tend to grow outwards. This gives you the ability to link articles in a manner which allows a reader to pivot around on a piece of information. In addition to my growing admiration of wiki's I've also been giving a lot of thought to what I can do to improve the value of what I post online. This thinking has been greatly aided by the timely reading of the following two articles: Scott Hanselman's 23 way's to keep your blog from sucking The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs Scott Hanselman's 23 way's to keep your blog from sucking The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs All of this thinking has made me realize that I need a website which: So I've decided that I'm going to start a new blog and start adding articles to it on a regular basis about a more narrow range of topics and with all of the rants removed (that's what this blog is for ). I initially thought that I might start up a Subtext blog and host it on my server but then decided not to head down that path so that I'm forced to only focus on the content management and not on the technology. Last night I started playing around with a few of the major online blogging providers to see how they work and to get a feel for them. Here's some screen shots of what I tried out - you can actually click through to see them for yourself if you like: Squarespace WordPress Blogger Squarespace is the blog provider that Grant uses and so far it's the one that I like best. I've set it up in such a way that my name is more prominent and it will use keywords, tags, and themes that better represent the types of topics that I'll be writing about. Hopefully over time this will pay dividends in the way of better Google page rankings. I'm going to leave all of those blogs up and running, but if you are interested in my thoughts about Knowledge Worker topics then please subscribe to my Squarespace blog. posted on 6/6/2007 2:22:38 PM ( 10 Comments ) In the past week Google has announced Google Gears, an offline data storage solution for web applications. This has been implemented by Google Reader so I can now take my blog reading offline to read offline: In addition to adding offline reading support for Google Reader, Google have added cool new themes to their portal. Here you can see that I've added the theme called "Seasonal Scape". During the daytime the little critters can be seen at play... But at nighttime things are much quieter... posted on 6/4/2007 7:22:24 PM ( 1 Comments ) Here's a great quote found via this link:. This is another core requirement for all projects within the Dev Centre at Readify. Having systems that ensure that your projects are always in a known state is the thing that will allow you to sleep peacefully at night... trust me on that! posted on 6/3/2007 9:03:30 PM ( 3 Comments ) Hrmm, just found this entry from a blogger who says that BlogML failed him. I'll have to do a bit of research into this: Five Years Blogging at Theoblogical at Theoblogical Five Years Blogging at Theoblogical at Theoblogical posted on 6/3/2007 8:19:23 PM ( 2 Comments )

Edition Two Hello all! And Welcome to the second edition of Yankee Yapping. I hope you all enjoyed my last rant about the Hall of Fame game, but now it’s time to do some Bronx Bomber blabbering. Away we go! My thoughts on… This Past Weekend It was a bad weekend to be a Yankee fan, that’s for sure. It was disgraceful. Coming off that sweep in Minnesota, I had a good feeling about our chances in Anaheim. The Yankees were certainly carrying momentum, and it showed in the first few innings of Friday night’s game. When the Yanks took that early 4-1 lead, I felt like they were going to win. But of course, Joba Chamberlain had to toss too many pitches and get himself taken out, not pitching past the fifth inning. Then the bullpen just couldn’t get the job done. Saturday and Sunday were just as bad. Saturday was another game like Friday–getting a lead and squirreling it away. And Sunday we just kept trying to come back from deficit after deficit and couldn’t do it. After this weekend, I truly know how it feels as a baseball fan to be burned by a former friend. It seemed every time Bobby Abreu was stepping into the box against us he was either hitting an RBI single or double. We just couldn’t get our former teammate out. Abreu went 6-for-14 this weekend with six RBIs and three runs scored. I couldn’t stand it. Every time he got a hit I kept saying to myself, “we should have just re-signed him. He could be doing this for us rather than against us.” Even the guys who aren’t hitting this season killed us. Robb Quinlan was batting .219 with no home runs and four RBIs, and yet he managed to start hitting in the series against the Yankees. The Angels just seem to have the Yanks’ number. They eliminated us in the first round of the playoffs in 2002 and in 2005, and no matter what we do we just can’t seem to take them out. What’s done this weekend is done. But I hope the Yanks can figure out a way to beat the Halos before October, because God help us if we’re facing the Angels in the first round. They have not been very kind to us in the past. All Star Break Despite the Yanks’ recent struggles against the Angels, they have played some incredible baseball to this point. They find themselves at 51-37 this year, 14 games above .500 at the half way point. They are three games behind the Red Sox for first place in the American League Eastern Division, and the leaders by two-and-a-half games in front of Texas for the AL Wild Card. Last year they were 50-45, only five games above .500 and six games out in the division race. As compared to last year, they are in a much better place. If the season ended today, we would be in the playoffs, and it has to stay that way. Historically, the Yankees have great numbers after the All Star break, and usually come out of the gate swinging, so-to-speak. CC Sabathia and Robinson Cano are two Yankees I can think of that are “second half players,” usually putting up their best work after the All Star break. I’m expecting both of these guys to continue that this year. It’s safe to say the Yankees are doing a lot better than last year around this time, still in the hunt for a division crown and the leaders in the Wild Card. They have to make the playoffs this year, because Joe Girardi might be done as manager if they don’t. Home Run Derby Since it first began in 1985, the Home Run Derby has provided an enjoyable night for every baseball fan, and I am no exception. In recent years I have kept score of who hits how many home runs in each round. It’s a little nerdy, but I am baseball fanatic, so I guess it’s normal. The only thing I usually don’t like about the derby is the lack of pinstripes. There have only been two Yankees that have won the Home Run Derby, and ironically enough they have both been first basemen. Tino Martinez (my favorite player during the Yankee Dynasty years) blew everyone out in 1997 at Jacobs….errm…Progressive Field in Cleveland. He put on such a great display of power and beat out the likes of Ken Griffey, Jr., Jim Thome, Mark McGwire, and Chipper Jones. Martinez even said he was more nervous about competing in the Home Run Derby than the actual All Star Game because he didn’t feel he was really a home run hitter. He didn’t want to compete in the derby and not hit a home run, but wound up winning the contest. Jason Giambi became the second Yankee to win the Derby in 2002 at Miller Park in Milwaukee. I remember watching it, and just being happy another Yankee won the contest. I never really liked Giambi as a player, but I’ll give him his due. Giambi beat out his future teammate Alex Rodriguez, the current home run king* Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa–all of whom were amazing home run hitters at the time. And he did it wearing pinstripes. This year Brandon Inge (Detroit Tigers), Joe Mauer (Minnesota Twins), Ryan Howard (Philadelphia Phillies), Nelson Cruz (Texas Rangers), Adrian Gonzalez (San Diego Padres), Carlos Pena (Tampa Bay Rays), Prince Fielder (Milwaukee Brewers), and Albert Pujols (St. Louis Cardinals) will all be taking their hacks for the Home Run Derby crown. If you want my prediction, Pujols wins this easily. He is leading the majors this year with 32 homers and 87 RBIs, and some people are going as far as saying he could win the Triple Crown. He is also playing in his home park in St. Louis, thus giving him a distinct advantage over the other participants. Earlier this season, Pujols smashed a home run that went so far, it knocked out the “I” on the electrical McDonald’s “Big Mac” sign at Busch Stadium. He can hit and hit comfortably at his home park. In my view, Pujols wins it by a landslide. All Star Game The mid-summer classic is always a fun night. The fans get to see the best-of-the-best playing on the same field at the same time. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend the game last year at Yankee Stadium, but at least the American League won it. The AL always seems to hold down the National League in this game. The last time the NL won the All Star game was 1996 (If you don’t count the 7-7 tie in 2002). These last few years have showed the AL’s dominance over the NL, and I expect the same this year. My prediction is the AL over the NL, 5-3. The only thing that would make this great would be to see Derek Jeter or Mark Teixeira or Mariano Rivera win the All Star Game’s Most Valuable Player Award. The last Yankee to win it was Jeter in 2000, and it’d be nice to see a Bomber take it home to New York again. I’d also love to see Rivera close out the contest and get the save. He has saved three All Star Games in his career (1997, 2005 and 2006) and is tied with Dennis Eckersley for most All Star Game saves. There would be nothing more special than to see the greatest closer in baseball take first place for most All Star Game saves the same year he recorded his 500th career save. Whichever way it goes, I have a feeling the AL will have home-field advantage in the World Series this year because of an All Star Game win. Roy Halladay to the Yankees? Why? As most baseball fans know, rumors have been swirling about Roy Halladay. Blue Jays’ General Manager J.P. Ricciardi put Halladay out there saying that he would be accepting offers for the ace. ESPN’s Buster Olney reported that the Yankees, Red Sox, and Phillies are the only three teams that could possibly wind up with Halladay if he is dealt. Olney said the Yanks and Sox have the prospects to trade for Halladay, but not the interest and the Phillies have the interest, but not the prospects. The Yanks should generate some interest, seeing as how two of their starters could not make it out of the fifth inning this past weekend. Joba Chamberlain is too unpredictable. He can give you seven innings with eight strikeouts, a couple walks, and maybe two runs. Or he can give you four-and-a-third innings with no strikeouts, four walks, and five runs. He can either put us in a hole or dominate the opposition. As good as Pettitte has been this year (8-4 is not a bad record) he often struggles at home, and in that start against the Angels this weekend, he looked bad. Then there’s Chien-Ming Wang, who was once an ace but now an injury-ridden nobody. Alfredo Aceves took his spot in the rotation, but Girardi doesn’t want Aceves to be in the rotation. He said they will need to make a decision on what to do about that fifth spot. In my view, the Yankees need to make a trade here. They are contenders and struggling a little bit with some pitching. Although certainly not as bad as the makeshift rotation last year, they could use one more solid pitcher. If I were Brian Cashman, I would think about packaging some minor leaguers and maybe some back-end bullpen pitchers to Toronto for Halladay. There are a few guys that I’d be willing to part with, namely Sergio Mitre, Kei Igawa, Edwar Ramirez, David Robertson, and Brian Bruney. If you gave up some of those guys, the Yanks would be a lot safer, and here’s how: If they give up Mitre, it’s fine. They’re not losing anyone important to the Major League team. Igawa is the same way, and so is Ramirez. Robertson has been useless, a la walking two batters with the bases loaded in Minnesota and pitching even worse against the Angels. Bruney could go and we could ‘pen Chamberlain again. If he is going to be as unpredictable as he is, he should go back to where he was lights out: the bullpen. We could then use Chamberlain as the eighth inning set-up man and put either Phil Hughes or Aceves into the fifth spot. So let’s say for hypothetical the starter goes six innings. The Yanks can put Hughes/Aceves in for the seventh, Chamberlain in for the eighth, and Rivera for the ninth. If they received Halladay in a trade, they wouldn’t have to worry about re-signing him until the end of the 2010 season when his contract expires. I think that was the reason the Yanks waited on getting Sabathia and Teixeira. Both Sabathia and Teixeira were traded mid-season last year, and both players’ contracts were up at the end of the year. If the Yankees had traded for both guys, they could’ve lost them to free agency after giving up their best prospects to get them. When Sabathia and Teixeira went to the Yankees, both the Brewers and Angels lost. Milwaukee and Los Angeles lost Sabathia and Teixeira, respectively, and the players they gave up for Sabathia and Teixeira. The Yankees wouldn’t have to worry about losing Halladay at the end of the season because he’d be locked up for at least another year before having to worry about re-signing him. Even if you don’t have an extraordinary fifth starter, you have four guys that can carry you through a playoff series with Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Pettitte, and if we were to get him, Halladay. I hope they do make a decision and opt to negotiate for Halladay. But they have to make up their mind soon–the trade deadline is at the end of the month. Well that’s all for this week’s edition of Yankee Yapping. I’ll be back next week with more analysis. Enjoy the Home Run Derby and All Star Game, everyone!

MIA: Comintern Archive: CP Great Britain: The Communist Review Contents By Issue Volume 1, May 1921, No. 1 Books and Pamphlets: Explaining the Communist Position The Heroic Sailors of the Russian Revolution, Larissa Reissner Ireland and the Social Revolution, Fred Willis What Are the Soviets? (Part I) W.E. Harding The Class War in Germany, Charles Rappoport Power or Persuasion?, Wm. Paul The Practical Problems of World Revolution, F. Maharadze How Lefebvre, Lepitet and Vergeat Were Drowned?, Frederick Strom The Communist International (Report from the Executive Committee) The Third Congress of the Communist International (Copy of the Agenda) Reports and Manifestos from all over the World: A Circular of the Russian Central Committee A Decision the Executive of the Communist International An Appeal of the Communist Party of Georgia France: Propaganda By Word Georgian Workers and the R.T.U.I. Summary of the Resolution adopted by the United Communist Party of Germany The United Communist Party of Germany and the Trade Unions Volume 1, June 1921, No. 2 Review of the Month Our Imperial Responsibilities, John Langland Russian Biographies in Little What Are the Soviets? (Part II) W.E. Harding Art and the Worker, W. McLaine One Step Back, Two Steps Forward, L. Petrovsky Capitalist Mexico Manifesto of the Communist International The Crisis in the Communist Party of Germany Book Reviews The World through Communist Spectacles Volume 1, July 1921, No. 3 Review of the Month America and Europe, Louis C. Fraina What Are the Soviets? (Concluding Article) W.E. Harding Martial Music (Poem) Communism in South Africa, David Ivon Jones Book Reviews A Communist History, Charles Roebuck Gaol for a German Comrade Towards the Socialist Republic International Review Volume 1, August 1921, No. 4 Review of the Month Tactics of the Russian Communist Party, Lenin The Irish Situation, Wm. Paul W. Hewlett’s Last Speech Revolutionary Tactics The Communist International and the Organisation of Trade Unions, G. Zinoviev Communism in South Africa International Review Some Leaders of the Communist International Volume 1, September 1921, No. 4 Guns, Bombs and Benzine, Norman Matson Origins of the 1914 War, Rene Marchard Progress of the Revolutionary Movement in South Africa, David Ramsay Revolutionary Socialism in Action Allies Attempt to Crush Russia (translated from Pravda) Initiative in the Class Struggle, Umberto Terraccini International Capitalism and the Third International Congress, Professor Varga Clara Zetkin’s Birthday Book Reviews International Review Volume 1, October 1921, No. 5 Review of the Month Rosa Luxemburg, Eden and Cedar Paul Capitalism in the Near East, J. T. Walton Newbold Report on the Communist Party of Great Britain, T. Bell The Communist Party Conference at Jena, M. Philips Price Lenin’s Letter to the Jena Congress The Problem of Communist Organisation, G. Lukacs Earth Bound, Lydia Shield Vicious Pacifism Clare Sheridan on Russia Women’s Work in Germany, Bertha Braunthal France and Germany, Paul Frolich Trade in Soviet Russia, Prof. E. Varga Report of Red Trade Unions Congress, J. T. Murphy Aggressive Tactics, Bukharin International Review Volume 2, November 1921, No. 1 Review of the Month The Realism of Revolt, R.M. Fox The Soviet Republic in the Capitalist Encirclement, L. Kameneff Women’s Movement in Soviet Russia, Ellen C. Wilkinson The Solidarity of Anarchism and the Fight against the Left, D. Ivon Jones The Young Proletarian Movement: Its Origins, Character and Aims, Alexandra Leontieff Observation on Scientific Education and the Proletariat, B. Fogarasi Statement of the Executive Committee of the Communist International on the Washington Conference Communist Tactic, Victor Stern The Rift in the Entente, J. T. Walton Newbold Theses on Unemployment International Review Volume 2, December 1921, No. 2 A Personal Testimony Radek’s Criticism of the Communist Party of Great Britain The Intellectuals and the Russian Revolution, S.J. Rutgers The Conquest of Mexico, Louis C. Fraina Songs of the Revolution Direct Action in Finance, C.H. Norman The Struggle for Central Europe, Walter and Margery Newbold International Review Volume 2, January 1922, No. 3 One Year Old White Guards in America: Truth About the American Legion — A Warning to Parlimentary Democrats, Arthur Warner Women’s Review Unemployment: The Responsibility of the Labour Party, Wm. Paul The Present and Future Prospects of the South Wales Miners, John Thomas Communism & Christianity, Mark Starr Review of the World Situation, Karl Radek Britain, Holland & Germany, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P. Poland: The Fight Against Communism, L. Georges Volume 2, February 1922, No. 4 Review of the Month: Legacies from the Past, Wm Paul Communism and an International Language, Mark Starr On Leading the Masses, J. T. Murphy Communism or Reformism—Which? Maurice H. Dobb Russian Women at Work, Henriette Roland Holst The International of Money Bags, J. T. Walton Newbold Book Reviews International Review Volume 2, March 1922, No. 5 Review of the Month The Single Front, J. T. Murphy The New Theses Women and the Two November Revolutions, Clara Zetkin Hidden Hands, C.H. Norman The Moplah Rising, Abani Mukherji Belgium—Lawn or Player? J. T. Walton Newbold Book Reviews International Review Volume 2, April 1922, No. 6 Review of the Month Dynamics of Social Change, R. M. Fox The Struggle in Scottish Coalfields, A. Ritchie Water, Water Everywhere, Wm. McLaine Investigations of Famine Conditions in the Region of European Russia Programme of the African Blood Brotherhood The Engineerings Crisis and the United Front, J. T. Murhpy Book Review: Property and Political Power International Review Egypt Russia, Moscow Conference Red Calendar Index to Volume 2 Authors Subjects Volume 3, May 1922, No. 1 Wm. Paul, Editor Review of the Month: Our Birthday May-Day is Labour Day, T. O. Wiginton Revolt of the French Fleet in the Black Sea, Maurice Paz The Industrial Heroes of “Don Bas”: What We Saw in the Ukraine, Ivon D. Jones Does the World Need More Money?: A Reply to Major Douglas, Maurice H. Dobb A “Red” Book to Be Read, H. Wynn Cuthbert German Trade Unionism Since the War, J. Walcher The Comintern: Resolutions on the United Front Volume 3, June 1922, No. 2 Wm. Paul, Editor Review of the Month: Genoa, Wm. Paul The Lesson of May Day, L. Trotsky Politics in “The City”, J. T. Walton Newbold We Have Paid Too Much: Regarding the Berlin Agreement, Lenin The Fall of the Paris Commune, R. W. Postgate Lenin’s Wife, Henrietta Roland Holst Book Reviews Review of “Left Wing Trade Unionism in France”, J. T. Murphy “The A.B.C. of Communism”, William Paul “The British Empire” “In a Russian Village” “The Restoration of Agriculture in the Famine Area of Russia” The Fourth Anniversary of the Red Army in Moscow, E. Roy A Discussion on the Douglas Proposals: A Reply to Dobb, Hilderic Cousens The 11th Conference of the Russian Communist Party Volume 3, July 1922, No. 3 Wm. Paul, Editor Review of the Month: The Real Conspiracy Against Labour, Wm. Paul A Day in Moscow, A. Rosmer The Struggle Against New Imperialistic Wars, Clara Zetkin Current Phases of the Class Struggle in the United States, William D. Haywood The Asiatic Revolutionary Movement & Imperialism, Kinsic Kim Implications of the Transition Period, T. Bell High Finance and Foreign Politics: Putting the Ottoman Empire into Pawn, J. T. Walton Newbold Book Reviews: Social Struggles in Antiquity, by M. Beer Between Red and White, by L. Trotsky More Production and More Poverty, by J. P. M. Millar Communist Cartoons, by Espoir and others Les Responsables de la Guerre, by Alfred Pevet and Un Livre Noir International Review: Japan To the Soldiers of the Japanese Army in Siberia, Sen Katayama Volume 3, August 1922, No. 4 Wm. Paul, Editor The Rising Tide of Revolution, A. John The Famine in Russia: How the Capitalist States Helped, E. Roy Pacifism or Class War, E. Varga The Crisis in Germany: Responsibility of 2nd International, Wm. Paul Bolshevism & Church Property, D. Ivon Jones An Anarchist on Russia: A Reply to Emma Goldman, William D. Haywood Egypt & the Entente, J. T. Walton Newbold Book Reviews International Review Volume 3, September 1922, No. 5 Wm. Paul, Editor Review of the Month: Freedom and Justice, Wm. Paul American Imperialism and the Negro, D. Ivon Jones On the Role of Criticism During the Revolution, Karl Kreibich Questions to Vandervelde & the Second International, P. Stuchka, President of the Latvian Communist Party Indian Labour Movement: A Review of the Situation, Abani Mukherji The Cauldron of the East: I. The Greek Grain Kings, J. T. Walton Newbold II. The Fight in Constantinople, A. Rosenberg American Coal Strike: Peace Reigns at Herrin, K. Haessler Soviet Russia at the Hague: Report of Russian Delegation to its Government International Review Volume 3, October 1922, No. 6 Volume 3, November 1922, No. 7 Wm. Paul, Editor The Fifth Year The End of the Romanovs The Spoiling of Turkey, J. T. Walton Newbold The Debacle of Gandhism, E. Roy The Forum: On the Theory of the Social Revolution: Reconsideration of a Marxian Prediction, David S. Reiss Re-birth of the French C.P., E. Verney Why Lloyd George Fell, R. W. Postgate International Review: I. The Split in Italian Socialist Party, G. Zinoviev II. The Significant of the Split, A. Bordiga Book Reviews Volume 3, December 1922, No. 8 Wm. Paul, Editor The Election and After What Will Happen in Europe, E. T. Whitehead The Negro Problem in America A Cold Inferno, O. W. Kuusinen The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement in S. China, H. Maring The Contradictions of the Soviet Policy, L. Trotsky The Class War in Japan, G. Voytinsky Volume 3, January-February 1923, No. 9 & 10 Wm. Paul, Editor The Old Year and the New, Wm. Paul British Capitalism in 1922, M. H. Dobb Red Petrograd, Charles Ashleigh The Heritage of the Bolsheviks, G. Allen Hutt Five Years of Revolution in Russia, Clara Zetkin Franz Mehring, J. B. Askew Discipline and Centralised Leadership, Bela Kun Survey of the Class War, G. Zinoviev Volume 3, March 1923, No. 11 Wm. Paul, Editor The Old Revolutionist & the New, Wm. Paul London Residences of Karl Marx, John T. Winter How to Help Russia, E. T. Whitehead The Crucible of Revolution, Karl Radek The Re-birth of the French Communist Party, E. Verney The 4th Congress: A Special Report on the Recent World Congress of the Comintern, J. T. Murphy The Forum: A Reply to David S. Reiss, B. Tamarkin Book Reviews: Among the Books Volume 3, April 1923, No. 12 Wm. Paul, Editor Review of the Month: The Betrayal, Wm. Paul The Party Organ: What it Can Do for the Movement, C. M. Roebuck Communism and the Co-operative Societies, Karl Bittel Henry Ford’s Methods, John T. Winter A Workers’ Government: The Need for a Programme, W. E. Harding Georgia: A “Free” and Social-Democratic Republic, G. Allen Hutt Book Reviews Volume 4, May 1923, No. 1 Wm. Paul, Editor A Chance for May Day, Wm. Paul Erratum, John T. Winter A Great Marxian Party, N. Bukharin The Sverdlov University: The Russian Communist Party & Working-Class Education, Wm. Joss The Political Situation in Great Britain, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P. From Kraal to Goldmine, L. A. Motler The Reaction in Bulgaria, Ch. (Khristo) Kabakchiev International Review: Against Fascism Communism & the Labour Party, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P. The Red Calendar Volume 4, June 1923, No. 2 Wm. Paul, Editor Curzon’s Chance, Wm. Paul The Work of the Health Authorities in Soviet Russia, N. A. Semashko The Indian National Congress, M. N. Roy The New Economic Policy, D. Ivon Jones Canterbury Cant, Wm. Paul Russia’s Reconstruction, G. H. Allen Strategy and Tactics of the Russian Communists, I. Stalin Volume 4, July 1923, No. 3 Wm. Paul, Editor Russia Pays for Our Cowardice, Wm. Paul The Baldwin Ministry, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P. The Anti-Communist International, R. Page Arnot The Crisis of the French Communist Party, P. Vaillant-Courturier Russia in 1905, G. H. Allen Where Labour Rules, J. Fineberg The Soviet and the Peasant, D. Ivon Jones Sverdlov University and its Lessons, Winifred Horrabin, Hon. Sec., Plebs League Industrial Co-Orgination and the New Organisation, S. Francis The National Union of Journalists, John S. Winter Struggle of the French C.P. Against Poincare Volume 4, August 1923, No. 4 Wm. Paul, Editor The Labour Party Conference, Wm. Paul Five Years’ Struggle, Victor Serge Under Kemalist Rule, Eric Verney The English Parliment: Its Origin, Growth and Functions, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P. The Labour Party Conference, J. T. Murphy The Norwegian Labour Party The “Workers’ Life Page”, D. Ivon Jones Book Review, G. A. H. Volume 4, September 1923, No. 5 Wm. Paul, Editor Special Number A Workers’ Government and Food Supplies The Dockers’ Strike, Wm. Paul Democracy and the Second International, C. Rappoport Tasks of a Workers’ Government: Two Contributions I. Agriculture & Food Supplies, Wm. Joss. II. Fishing Industry & Food Supply, James Johnstone A Polish Prison, Thomas Dombal The International Red Aid, W. Budich An Impression of the New South Wales Annual Labour Conference, Annonymous Book Review Volume 4, October 1923, No. 6 Thomas Bell, Editor The Editorial View The United States of Europe, Leon Trotsky Ourselves and the Labour Party, Thomas Bell Lessons of Plymouth: Its Challenge to our Party, Harry Pollitt The Gang Behind the Steel Trust, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P. The European Crisis and British Labour, J. T. Murphy A Mass Party in America, O. Carlson Co-operatives & Trade Unions Victims of the Class War, By the Information Bureau of the C.I. The Forum, A. D. Vertise Volume 4, November 1923, No. 7 Thomas Bell, Editor The Editorial View, Thomas Bell The Empire Conference and the Workers, J. T. Murphy Nikolai Lenin: A Brief Biographical Sketch of a Great Leader, Thomas Bell Unemployment and the Coming Winter, M. H. D. Soviet Russia and the World Crisis, Wm. Paul The Crisis in Agriculture, William Joss. The Tasks of Communist Education, L. Trotsky The Case for the Y.C.L., J. J. 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The short answer is that they want it to fail. There seems to be an underpinning of glee to get to deadpool it, and no one has told them it's no longer trendy to call podcasting a failure anymore. The long answer has to do with a lot of factors. The subject is brought to my attention by Ian Lamont, who's written another weekend article that takes a hit out on podcasting as an industry due to the failings of a few. In an editorial published today, Ian talks about the black eye podcasting as a whole has recieved as a result of the failure of PodTech to sell for more than half a million. Just as I predicted at the end of that article, the myopic analysis on the "death of podcasting" is beginning anew. Ian pontificates: "...[M]y original thesis: Podcasting is failing as a business platform, and has failed to make a mainstream impact [...] But even if the stars had stuck around to the end, and the management and board problems were addressed earlier, I have to wonder how well this venture would have done. This was a hyped business built on one of the most hyped technologies of 2005. Once the." When it comes down to it, though, Ian only has a few points to prop up his diagnosis of podcasting: PodTech more or less failed in the end, podcasting was overhyped and his analysis of a podcasting survey from two years ago shows that there's no growth in podcasting. The problem is that his analysis has little basis in reality. Podcast). Even for those wanting to start from nothing in the business, there are a number of established podcast companies that are out there. Some of them have some very impressive revenues, and some are squarely profitable. There are even a number of folks outthere doing a full-time living just with indie podcasting alone, many of which we've covere d here at Mashable. In case you need to review proof podcasting isn't dead: Wizzard has a great 2007, and a superb Q1 2008. In 2007, they grossed over $5 million, and in the first quarter of 2008, they increased revenues by 130%. Leo Laporte hauls down a chunk of change. In June, we reported that Leo Laporte landed a $100,000 contract with video streamer Stickam. Leo left us a comment to correct us - it wasn't a $100k check, as we made it sound, but a revenue sharing agreement that he had hopes would bring down much more than that (this, of course, in addition to all the other money he brings in with his podcasting mini-empire). BlinkX Hits $60 CPM on Video. Granted it's a select segment of the market, but showing hard proof that podcasting can be big business is harder to better exemplify elsewhere.better exemplify elsewhere. Smartassed Ninja Makes $50,000 in Eight Months. Everyone's favorite wise-cracking ninja made a nice chunk of change before going on to make the millions with official sponsorship and millions of video views per episode. Podcasting isn't dead, it isn't a failure, and it isn't impossible to build a business around. It isn't necessarily what we thought it was when we first started up with it. A lot of us early adopters got stars and money signs in our eyes when we first started playing with podcasting. PodTech did a lot of adapting to the realities of the business, and the VCs ultimately didn't care to make those adaptations with them, which is a big reason why it failed. Again, though, to say that PodTech's ultimate failure is somehow an inherent failure to the concept of podcasting is about like blaming the hammer for fall of London Bridge and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Imagine a world in which a convocation of observers made your every decision — from what you eat to what job you hold to who you date. Well, there's a cadre of people out there who are currently living in such a state, and they're not players in some lost Orwellian drama. No, they're members of a burgeoning social media trend: Crowd sourcing your life. Over the past few months, several projects have emerged that play upon the theme of relinquishing control of one's life as a form of entertainment: From amateur productions to professionally produced web shows. Each is fascinating in its own right — an intimate glimpse into someone's life that you as a viewer can actively participate in. Living in the public eye is nothing new when it comes to web trends. Folks like Justin Kan — of Justin.tv — have been launching projects like this for several years, and reality shows have carved out a sizable niche in the realm of TV programming. Still, the added element of strapping on the puppet strings and turning over one's life to the masses makes this trend different from the Jennie Cams of old. So why the proliferation of projects that tap into the ethos of the masses in order to create entertainment? "We are naturally inclined to like the idea of living someone else's life or controlling someone else's life or physically being inside of someone else's body," says Jamie Wilkinson of Know Your Meme. "That even goes back to the spookiness of ventriloquism. That theme of control and possession is a really common storytelling trope that touches on human nature." Also, the accessibility of the necessary technology has aided in the spread of average people becoming "Internet famous." Still, novelty is always an issue when you're aiming to cut through the clutter and emerge as a legitimate addition to the viral firmament. "Things like that are interesting only when they're unique," says Justin Kan. "It's becoming a lot easier to produce this content. For us, we had to produce [on] this 25-pound broadcasting device [to film Justin.tv]. Now we're releasing an app that will broadcast from your iPhone or Android. Now more people are able to do this. I think there's going to be a trend of more people creating video mobiley, on the go." We've taken a look at four instances of crowd sourcing one's life — all of which launched around the same time, but include their own set of hardships and rewards. We've included glimpses into each project below, demonstrating the stresses and oddities inherent in handing over the reins to the world wide web. 1. David on Demand David on Demand launched back in June, when David Perez put his life in the hands of his Twitter followers in order to snag the chance to attend the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in France. Perez works for the ad agency Leo Burnett, who promised to send him to the fest if he undertook said task. The 29-year-old recruiter agreed to don a pair of glasses complete with webcam, and follow the commands of his Twitter follows via @davidondemand for a full six days, during which he posted video of the proceedings to his website. The most challenging task? "Have you seen my tattoo? That was a trying challenge," Perez says. The recruiter got a tat of the Twitter Fail Whale at the behest of his followers. "In all seriousness though, there were more than 3.5 million Tweets coming in through @davidondemand, so it was challenging to keep up. I ended up completing about 20,000 requests. I also drank enough pink wine to kill a small horse." Despite the permanent reminder of the whole experiment now scorched into his arm (see the video above), Perez found the experience to be less trying and more eye-opening: "The Internet –- as I affectionately call all the people following the project –- surprisingly treated me wonderfully," he says. "I went into this guided by the assumption that they would be my tormentors. Quite the opposite. They tweeted me water, a massage, naps, food and a chance to visit the seminars — which was why I was in Cannes.... I am continually floored at how the Internet personified itself. It's amazing to me that something so deceptively cold could turn itself into a very real and human thing." Of course, the whole project was not just about personal discovery — it also served as a form of advertising for Perez's company (he completed tasks during the conference itself). The idea of hitching one's wagon to a viral trend is becoming more and more commonplace these days (see: The Old Spice Guy, etc), and Perez sees real promise in such endeavors. "Crowd sourcing programs like David on Demand are effective for brands because they let people actually interact with brands," he says. "People are starting to demand more spontaneous, real-time relationships with brands and these types of projects do just that. I think the world also likes being 'talked to' and not 'talked at.'" 2. Dan 3.0 Dan Brown has achieved a goal that many can only dream of: He has leveraged his YouTube presence into a career. Brown first hit the video-sharing scene back in 2007 when he posted a tutorial to YouTube that showed viewers how to solve a Rubik's Cube. "That won the 2007 YouTube Award for best instructional video; I was 17 years old at the time," says Brown. "I decided to try to turn video blogging into a career after that and I guess it's worked." This past August, Brown partnered with Internet television network Revision3 to launch a new web show called Dan 3.0, during which the 20-year-old (yup, he's only 20) plans to record a daily log of his life for one year, the path of which will be left up to the whims of his followers. Revision3 fashioned a "decision engine" for the project, which allows viewers to submit tasks for Brown to execute. So where did this idea come from? Back in January, Brown found himself in a kind of limbo when it came to novel vlogging ideas. It was 2 a.m. and he was in his customary blogger’s uniform — half-naked in a Snuggie — when he came upon a documentary called Us Now, which detailed the state of the Internet, looked to its future, and the collaborative nature of the online space. Struck by this concept, Brown decided to follow suit, launching a web show where he would take suggestions from viewers on how to live his life. “The more control you can give to communities, the better,” he said, explaining the prudence behind letting a gaggle of strangers run the show. Brown didn't have that many rules in place when it came to what he was willing to do. "There are a few hard and fast rules," he says. "1). Can't change my girlfriend, 2). I'm not going to change my family, 3). They can't change where I live permanently. 4). I'm not going to break any laws, 5). I'm not going to do anything that has a significant impact on others. We decided that I have veto power, but the agreement is, obviously, if I veto something that the viewers don't think should be vetoed, I lose credibility." "We wanted to show the viewers that I am committed to this," he says. "It's not just a fleeting thing. It's not just a cute little idea. I really am seriously excited about this and it's a project that I consider to be deeply personal." Since the project launched this summer, Brown has hit a few bumps in the road. At one point, he disappeared for a stretch of time, which raised concern and ire among his followers (see above), and he doesn't exactly update daily. Still, he's been faithfully documenting of late and has even scored advertisers like Netflix and GoDaddy. The videos that Brown has been creating, though rather lengthy in web terms, have been captivating. Yes, there's a hefty amount of complaining and angst in the first few videos but Brown ultimately manages to present a unique coming-of-age narrative — moving into his own place, visiting his girlfriend and muddling through the (perhaps overly ambitious) project that he has locked himself into for an entire year. Brown doesn't hide the fact that creating a daily web show is a huge undertaking and that a less-than-polished aesthetic makes the show worth watching. It's more honest than your average reality show. 3. Dating Brian We introduced the world to Brian Moore back in July by making fun of his pants. The 23-year-old had just launched a video announcing his intent to date 30 girls in 30 days, all chosen by Twitter and Facebook. "Even negative press is good press. [My capris] became like a talking point for the project," Brian told me, after I apologized for the ill-fated crack once the project had wrapped. "It became one of the main talking points, and my [fellow] interns and I laughed about it constantly. There were drawings made of it in the office. Some guy drew a mood chart between sad to happy, and it would show different stages of how far up my pants would be rolled. Sad would be all the way down." His pants weren't the only thing that went viral; the concept of a month of crowd sourced dating spread across the web post haste — which was a good thing for Moore, considering it was part of a project to be completed during his internship at ad agency BBH. The goal of the project? Make something — anything — famous. Needless to say, Moore and his cohorts succeeded. Still, it wasn't all about fame for Moore. "I had been in a long relationship that had ended about just over a year ago now," he says. "So I was single, I had just come to New York. So I thought, why not do something crazy like that?" "It started as a joke," he says. "I was with a couple of friends, a couple of my fellow interns, over brunch one day, and I think I actually tweeted it: 'What if I crowd sourced my dating life?' Like reality show meets Web 2.0, meets dating, meets performance art, meets me." Although Moore — like Brown — got sidetracked a few times during the experiment (he didn't manage to make a video for every date), he was successful in the end. Still, it was taxing to go on dates, hold down his internship and create videos of every single one of his outings. "If you're going to be doing something almost reality show-like, and there are people's integrities on the line, get somebody in between you and that person," Moore recommends for would-be life bloggers. "I did everything. I did all the video. I did all the web — the design of everything," he says. "If it's going to be something so personal like that, get someone in between that. Because I don't want to say anything bad about any of my dates or anything like that. You might need to be a bigger a**hole than me to make it more interesting, to keep the drama going — because I just don't like drama too much." And that's the element that made this experiment so genuine: It could have been a hell of a lot bigger. Moore was even approached by VH1 and MTV, but he preferred to keep the project going on his own terms. "I wanted to keep it as real as possible," he says. "Because, sure, it's online, I'm in this internship and everything like that, but behind it all, I'm actually myself. I mean, I wasn't being anyone different than who I am. Because I know how reality shows are — I wanted to distance myself as far from that personally and the project as a whole as I possibly could." Although Moore didn't actually find love during this endeavor, he did take a lot away from the experience. "The first question that people ask me is: What was the worst date? But there really wasn't one," he says. "I got to see all these different parts of New York that I had never seen before and meet a lot of interesting people." Moore would even do the whole thing all over again — for someone else, that is. If you're looking to have a slew of digital matchmakers at your beck and call, hit Moore up. 4. ControlTV If you're still hungering for some crowd sourced action, you're in luck — there's currently a professionally made web show on the scene in which a hapless 20-something has relinquished his life to you, the viewers. The show, which launched on October 6 and will run for six weeks, follows Tristan on his quest for self-improvement... at the hands of the voting public. Tristan's life is live streamed 24/7 on the ControlTV website and then edited into 3-minute webisodes, which run on the site and across co-producer DBG’s content network of 2,600+ sites. Viewers can sign up to be informed of polls that will sway Tristan's life, and have the opportunity to vote throughout the day on his decisions. Before the show was even cast, we chatted with executive producer Seth Green about the goal of this project. "This is not Aldous Huxley, this is not Animal Farm. This is a lighthearted premise and we are trusting the audience not to tread dark," he told us. "It's comedic, but we want to offer people the opportunity to help this guy improve his life. Find a job, find a girlfriend, figure out who he is in the world and we're looking for people to offer their opinions and help him." So far, episodes have centered around finding a personal trainer, a girlfriend (via Skype conversations with various girls) and a profession (perhaps something in the music business). Tristan, like Dan et al., certainly has his moments of anguish, but the show mostly presents the whole thing as a positive experience. Still, it is a much slicker production — what with the blatant product placements for Snickers and Ford. (Tristan eats a Snickers after every workout, like some kind of highly caloric granola bar.) The fact that there's actually a super polished EdTv-esque show out there only contributes to the idea that projects of this nature are gaining traction. "It's relevant in this moment in time because we as a culture have become judge, jury and executioner of our fellow man in a really interesting way," says Green. "If you look at the way pop culture has extended and the way the tabloid culture has been [taking] life, people are very interested in the public and private comings and goings of any celebrities and they take on a collective point of view... There's an interest in making someone do what you want and holding them accountable for what the public feels are the moral standards. So this kind of concept is really relevant in my opinion — in that sense, people are very interested in having some control over another person. Having their opinion be rewarded. Having their perspective and their insight being the law, in a way." "We're just really excited to see what happens," he says. "This is one of those moments where you stand on the precipice and you hope for the best, but we really just don't know. And that's kind of what's so exciting about it. We have no idea how the audience is going to react to this guy. We have no idea how much they're actively going to take an interest in making his life better. And we have no idea — within reason, because we'll have some degree of control of how much this guy is tortured or not — we just don't know what he's going to take away from this experience and neither does the guy. And that to me is really exciting." 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Removing Red Links: See below Supporting links or images: Other NotesEdit So I'm sick of seeing red links. There's no reason to have them because they are removed on sight anyway in main space articles, but there are a bunch sitting around that no one can get to because of current restrictions. As it stands, all users are prohibited from editing the user pages and talk page comments of other users for any reason except to revert obvious vandalism edits, making it impossible for many red links to be removed. This proposal is meant to change that. I believe that it's reasonable to give administrators, who already have a wide range of powers and the implicit trust of the community to use them, the power to remove any red link anywhere. I realize that this is an invasive power for admins to have, but someone has to be able to do it and I don't see any other solution to the red link issue. Hence this proposal; nothing ventured, nothing gained. -- Commdor (Talk) 03:11, August 9, 2010 (UTC) VotingEdit SupportEdit - As proposer. -- Commdor (Talk) 03:11, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - Sounds good to me. Arbington 03:22, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - I now also fully support. SpartHawg948 03:34, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - Here is my support to this as well. Lancer1289 04:34, August 9, 2010 (UTC) NeutralEdit OpposeEdit DiscussionEdit Change the 'registered users who've commented within 30 days must be notified and given 7 days to comply' to 'all users must be notified and given 7 days to comply' and you'll have my vote. SpartHawg948 03:20, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - Done. -- Commdor (Talk) 03:33, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - Rog-o! SpartHawg948 03:33, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - Maybe this will prevent needless articles from being created over and over, and then we have to deal with deleting it. Lancer1289 04:35, August 9, 2010 (UTC) I'll support this if instead of deleting the link the admins simply adds the <nowiki></nowiki> tags. It leaves the comments as they were originally written but without any obnoxious red links. Bastian964 05:10, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - But the current proposal would leave the comments the way they were originally written. All we'd be doing is removing the brackets, so basically turning (for example) Omega to Omega. I would have to oppose a proposal to do it with tags, as I hate using those tags. Just removing a set of [[]], on the other hand, is A-OK in my book. SpartHawg948 05:19, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - Indeed why add the nowiki tags when removing the brackets is much easier, faster, and instead of adding code, removes it. Lancer1289 05:23, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - (edit conflict)I guess we differ slightly on a semantic issue. I would like them how they were originally written with <nowiki></nowiki> added, whereas you want the comments to look how they originally did but without the links. I'm not horribly against your method, I just think my suggestion is more in keeping with the spirit of the current policies. Bastian964 05:27, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - But again, the way Lancer and I (the people who would actually be doing this) are proposing would, as you say, keep the comments looking like they do originally. How is that not in keeping with the spirit of the current policies? SpartHawg948 05:30, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - Like I said we differ slightly on semantics. If that is the way people want that is fine with me, I'll just remain neutral. Also please note I said "more in keeping" indicating your way was in keeping with the original policy, just that I didn't think it followed the spirit as well as my option. Bastian964 05:37, August 9, 2010 (UTC) - I dunno. I think the option more in keeping with the spirit of the current policies is the one that keeps the comment looking as nearly identical to the original as possible, which would seem to be the one that only changes the color of the text from red to white. SpartHawg948 05:39, August 9, 2010 (UTC) And the voting period has concluded. The final vote is four in favor, one neutral, and zero against. The proposal passes. -- Commdor (Talk) 00:41, August 17, 2010 (UTC)

Let? I'm not talking here about characters with a mental illness. Depression is technically a mental illness. (All right, it's a mental disorder, but you get the idea.) You feel sad with no actual reason; you don't say up at night painting the walls with honey so that the bees can hear you and sing your songs of praise to the bee-mother. The relevant point is that this is big, dramatic madness, not the sort of thing that you add to a character after you've taken an Introduction to Psychology class. We're talking about characters who don't perceive reality in the same way as everyone else, characters whose fundamental ability to deal with the world is broken. They're not quirky, they're not funny, and they sure as heck aren't there to dance for the amusement of anyone else. These are characters that give you a skin-crawling sensation and a sense that something is very, very wrong here. In other words, this is about cinematic insanity, not the ever-growing and important field of mental health. (If you have to be told not to use this stuff as a key to understanding real mental issues, I'm very disappointed.) Your character's mental disorders aren't under discussion, just the fact that he or she is now several cards short of a full deck. Why do I want to use it? For starters, madness provides an important function by giving other players a problem that they cannot punch out of. This is kind of a big deal because most MMOs take place in a setting where problems can be dealt with via weaponry, and player characters carry obscene amounts of weaponry. Giving players a problem that doesn't go away with a few determined rounds of combat is a major asset, and "the one person who knows something important is completely crazy" is certainly such a problem. But there's also the very simple fact that William Shakespeare understood: Madness is dramatic. Mad characters lead allies on wild goose chases, cause harm to others more or less at random, and start rumors inadvertently. Plus, sometimes the maniac turns out to be completely right in the end, which is even more of a mind screw. A character with altered perceptions of the world makes for a lot of interesting conflict, provided that the character is used for conflict and not just wacky antics. I'm glad you asked, section header. Madness for dramatic purposes tends to have one of four sources mostly because the fact that "aberrant brain chemistry controllable via pharmaceuticals" is a really boring conclusion. He hurts too much: There's a certain amount of loss that the human brain can cope with, but too much damage throws it into tumult. Get hit with enough trauma at high enough speed, and a mind might just shatter from the impact. Characters like this have been dealt a horrendous blow, either through tragedy or malicious torture, and as a result, they've broken off ties with reality altogether. In most fiction, this is the sort of blow dealt to a character seen as being particularly solid, a sound mind in a sound body. Expect to have a character talking to dead friends, lost relatives, or even going from a titan of a man into a sniveling wreck within moments. It's not pleasant. He knows something he shouldn't: Also known as Lovecraft Syndrome, this is when your character picked up more knowledge than he could handle. Maybe he learned some horrifying fundamental truths about the universe, maybe he found out his real father is someone awful, or maybe he just isn't prepared to deal with the truth of point nine repeating. The point is that he's become a babbling shell as a result. Usually, this works best in a setting that allows for sanity-blasting revelations, but you can also do just as well in more benign settings by overfilling a character's head. Imagine if your character in Guild Wars 2 managed to absorb the entirety of all human knowledge over the past 200 years at once. He's going to go crazy because the human brain simply can't process that much information. There's an external force: This reason is blessedly simple. Aaron has gone crazy because Ben used the Crazy Macguffin to make him crazy. Stop Ben, and Aaron goes back to normal. Or doesn't. Technically, trauma counts as an external force, but here we're talking about a much more push-button madness. Some external set of circumstances is basically entirely behind everything, and removing those external circumstances either negates the condition or makes it curable. He's just like that: In some cases, there's no reason to be found. The character is just plain mad. He might not have always been like that, but at this point, trying to untangle the path back to a reasonable human being is a fruitless endeavor. He's out of his mind, and the best you can do is cope with all the crazy. Mad but north-northwest I've got a lot more to say on this topic -- as it turns out, enough to put it into another column. I hope the anticipation doesn't drive you batty. Feedback is welcome in the comments or via mail (eliot@massively.com), just as always. Next week, I'm going to talk about the oddity of roleplaying with people who know you better than they know your avatar, and then I'll finish up the madness column.

Who we are MathTeamHosting is a web hosting and application development service taylored to the unique needs of math leagues. Considerable secretarial and data-entry work goes on behind the scenes to make a math league run. Our developer will work with your league to reduce that work and get score reports to schools more quickly. To discuss a web based data solution for your league, contact LaSpina@mathteamhosting.com Why does a math league need a web site? - Organizations are expected to have some on-line presence. The question has shifted from "What do we need a web site for?" to "Why don't we have a web site yet?" - Students and teachers want to see results. After a contest, most students naturally ask "How did I do?"How long does it take to see how students and teams scored relative to each other? With MathTeamHosting, the answer is about 3 days, because that's how long it takes most coaches to send in their scores. - Statistics on item difficulty are easy to generate when the scores are in a database. Contest authors, students, and teachers all benefit from this information. - Students and coaches will appreciate having an archive of past contests to use. What will it look likeThe result tables will look similar to the Mandelbrot competition with a few differences: - On the results table, the coaches will be able to sort students by name, graduation year, school, or score. - Coaches can download results as an excel (CSV) file - Statistics are generated for each contest. View the Nassau County Interscholastic Math League stats.Here what you see is just plain text, but a nice histogram can also be created. Next year's version will look even better. Would you like your site to look like The Math League? We think their data entry form is poorly designed and time consuming to use, but if you want a bad design we will make it for you (after we try to talk you out of it)! Would you like a site like The continental math league? No problem. MathTeamHosting is a hosting and application development company, so everything will be customized to meet your needs. You decide what you want and we build it. We take care of hosting the site, whcih means setting up usernames and passwords and deciding what parts to restrict access to. How does on-line score reporting work? Each school in the league will be given a username and password. Coaches log-in to register students and teams before the first meet. They can type the names into a web form or upload a list from a spreadsheet. Once the names are in the database, scores can be entered in a matter of minutes. The Nassau County league appreciated having an eMail reminder sent a few days after a contest was given. After all, the system can only report results if the teams send them in. A number of leagues have had problems with this and an on-line system can help.

Deploying and running Django apps on Heroku is really a no-brainer, except for one thing — serving static files via collectstatic. I run collectstatic as usual, using heroku run command just like how I did it for syncdb. It worked but I’m getting 404 error when serving static files. It turns out that running collectstatic via heroku run spins up a new dyno and collectstatic is running in an isolated environment. So, all the collected static files are deployed to that location and only for this new dyno and the dyno attached to our Django app can’t access that. — Heroku support staff Solution The dead simple solution would be to run collectstatic as part of the Procfile before starting the app. We need to “chain” together our Procfile commands for the web process, like so: OK there you go, no more 404 error when serving static files from your Django app on Heroku. Plus, every time you deploy your app, newly added static files will be collected automatically. Update There are a lot of questions about the configurations. Cross check with my settings.py here Important thing here is your STATICFILES_DIRS. Make sure to include your project_name/app_name/static here. In my case, I have project_name/staticfiles for the STATIC_ROOT. Change STATIC_URL = ‘/static/’ if you want to serve from Heroku, same goes to ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = ‘/static/admin/’ Finally add this to your urls.py in order to serve from Heroku. urlpatterns += patterns(”, (r’^static/(?P.*)$’, ‘django.views.static.serve’, {‘document_root’: settings.STATIC_ROOT}), ) Files could be access as such: /app/project_name/staticfiles/style.css >. Pingback: Django Static Files on Heroku — elweb Pingback: Managing Django Static Files on Heroku | Програмиране I’ve just been looking into Heroku for hosting myself… I had read that the Cedar filesystem was ephemeral, i.e. wiped whenever the dyno is restarted. I thought that would preclude serving Django’s static files. But do your commands above automatically run collectstatic when the new dyno is spun up, to reinstate them? So it would just be user-uploaded files I’d need to run from S3 instead? Sorry for the late, late reply. It will run every time you do git push heroku master. FYI, I’m using django storages & django compressor to serve static files via Amazon S3. In order for compressor to work, you’ll need a temp file system cache on Heroku, thus the solution above. Hi there, am running into the same problem. I wonder how you’ve setup your STATIC_URL, STATIC_ROOT and STATICFILES_DIR as I’m almost hitting my head on the wall now Post has been updated. Check the settings.py I have a question. I tried your snippet to get static but for me it doesn’t work. What do you have in settings file? What is STATIC_URL and STATIC_ROOT? With regards Kamil I’ve included a sample of my settings.py. Cross check with yours Thanks It’s working now. Founded solution. So I have: In Debug: STATIC_ROOT = ‘static/’ STATIC_URL = ‘/static/’ and in urls.py urlpatterns = patterns(”, …#### #### urls urls urls… ) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT) And it’s working great Bingo! Even with Kamil’s writeup, I’m not sure what you’re proposing here. Sure, running collectstatic gets all the files in one place. But have you configured gunicorn to serve that directory separate from the Django staticfiles app? (If you’re willing to run the staticfiles app with DEBUG on, there’s not even a need to collectstatic; it seems to serve things fine from wherever they are. But that’s “probably insecure”, says the Django docs. So I’m trying to figure out if what you Kamil is describing somehow gets heroku-nginx or gunicorn to serve the collectedstatic directory…) With more research I’m guessing you’ve each settled on some variant like this in urls.py: if not settings.DEBUG: # screw the vague FUD and django doctrine against non-DEBUG static-serving urlpatterns += patterns(”, (r’^static/(?P.*)$’, ‘django.views.static.serve’, {‘document_root’ :settings.STATIC_ROOT}), ) The comments for ‘django.views.static.serve’ include more of the usual admonitions about how one ‘SHOULD NOT’ do this in a ‘production setting’. But these similarly-worded-but-never-explained warnings have echoed across Django comments/docs so much they’re beginning to look like superstitions to me rather than actual best practices. Yup. Check my updated post. Thanks for this post! It was very helpful in getting django static files on heroku running. However, I’ve noticed that every time I deploy a change, even without adding any new static files, collectstatic has to run every time and causes the app restart to be longer. This is sort of annoying because any users on the site would experience a long response if they made a request while this process was happening. Do you have any advice for this problem? This is because the collectstatic command is part of the Procfile. Quick solution will be creating two versions of Procfile, one with the collectstatic command. I can’t think of other cleaner solution. Nice post but I have a problem. I can’t get this done. I’m getting: unknown specifier: ?P. My urls.py looks like: admin.autodiscover() urlpatterns = patterns(”, … … ) if not settings.DEBUG: urlpatterns += patterns”, (r’^static/(?P.*)$’, ‘django.views.static.serve’, {‘document_root’: settings.STATIC_ROOT}), ) Ok I did it. But still, heroku can’t find my static files Make sure your STATIC_ROOT & STATICFILES_DIR are pointing to the right place. Pingback: Heroku – Django app static files – Stack Overflow | Programmer Solution I replace ’^static/(?P.*)$’ for just ’^static/(.*)$’ and now is working. Don’t forget to import your settings file in your urls.py. from yourapp import settings Pingback: Heroku – Handling static files in Django app Pingback: Your first Heroku Django app « Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve » Observations on life, tech and web design from a slightly misanthropic mind. Hey Mathew, I followed what you have suggested, but I’m hitting an error: Could not import settings ‘my_django_app/settings.py’ More details here. Would appreciate any help! Check my answer here Pingback: Heroku Django: Handling static files. Could not import settings ‘my_django_app/settings.py’ Hi! Thank you for the blog post. However, I encountered this issue when running ‘foreman start’ 13:59:40 web.1 | started with pid 2060 13:59:40 web.1 | Usage: manage.py collectstatic [options] 13:59:40 web.1 | 13:59:40 web.1 | Collect static files in a single location. 13:59:40 web.1 | 13:59:40 web.1 | manage.py: error: no such option: –noinput; 13:59:40 web.1 | process terminated 13:59:40 system | sending SIGTERM to all processes I used this line in my Profile: web: python manage.py collectstatic –noinput; gunicorn_django –workers=4 –bind=0.0.0.0:$PORT It seems to be an issue with chaining the commands together on one line…any idea? Seems like it’s an issue with foreman only. I pushed it to the Heroku repo and the app ran fine..very strange. Yup, the chaining is meant for Heroku only. Pingback: Heroku – Handling static files in Django app | PHP Developer Resource Thanks for the post!! Question– how would I handle serving just a handful of static files on Heroku, and the majority via my main backend on Amazon S3? There are just a few files that I need on Heroku (to be on the same domain name… it’s related to browser compatibility issues), but I still want the rest of my files to be served via S3. Any suggestions on how to go about this? Hey Janelle, I think that is possible. Just don’t use the {{ STATIC_URL }} template tag on the files that you want to serve from Heroku because it points to S3. Instead, use the absolute URL for these files. For example: /app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/css/login.css > I wrote a bit about how to do this here: So what’s stopping you from committing the changed static files after running a collectstatic locally? Seems to work for me so far. In my settings.py I have: PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__) Then I use that in settings.py and urls.py to set the static directory… (Rather than a path starting in / as the manual insists on using…) STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, ‘static’) for example… Also, the procfile didn’t work. I got it working with: web: python manage.py collectstatic –noinput; gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:$PORT -w 4 [project name].wsgi:application [project name] is the folder containing wsgi.py The following was enough if I committed the static files: web: gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:$PORT -w 4 [project name].wsgi:application Pingback: Django non-rel on Heroku with less and coffee-script compilation « Be Amity Pingback: Deployment of static files to Heroku | Web App (B)Log Thanks, I wonder how you would handle static files versions, the best I could have come up with is – Sorry but after updating your urls.py to serve the static files doesn’t that mean that every static file requested will have to be served by both the Dyno and the Django app instead of just the Dyno. This will push extra load on your app and that is the reason why it is marked as not good for production in the docs.

Profiteroles are one of the most popular desserts at Cafe du Soleil, especially during the hot summer months. They have the elements of any great ice cream dish – ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate sauce. The French add a nice crisp “pate a choux” (which literally translates to “cabbage pastry” , based on the shape of the cooked product). It’s an easy dough to make at home once you get the hang of it. There really are few pitfalls so please try it with confidence. Even though the recipe may look complicated – it’s not. At Cafe du Soleil we serve them with two sauces – white and dark chocolate, but you can just as easily serve it with one. After seeing the beautiful photo above done by Philippe Touitou I dare you not to try this recipe!! Profiteroles aux Deux Chocolats Serves 6 – Pastry recipe makes about 12 large “Choux Puffs” so you will have an extra 6 for another round of profiteroles, or fill with whipped cream and dust with powdered sugar for cream puffs! They freeze well but you should “recrisp” them in oven after defrosting. Pastry: 1/2 cup water 2 ozs butter, unsalted pinch salt 1/2 cup (about 2 1/2 ozs) all purpose flour 2 large eggs Profiteroles: 6 large scoops of your favorite vanilla ice cream 2 cups whipped cream strawberries, powdered sugar, and mint for garnish Chocolate Sauces: Dark: 4 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped (better quality chocolate = better sauce) 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/4 cup light corn syrup White: 4 ounces white chocolate 1/2 cup heavy cream Method: Choux pastry: Preheat the oven to 450°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. spatula or wooden spoon until the dough pulls away from the sides of the pan and the bottom of the pan is clean, with no dough sticking to it. Enough moisture must evaporate from the dough to allow it to absorb more fat when the eggs are added. Continue to stir for about 2-3 minutes, adjusting the heat as necessary to prevent the dough from coloring. A thin coating will form on the bottom and sides of the pan. When enough moisture has evaporated, steam will rise from the dough and there will be the nutty aroma of cooked flour. Transfer the dough to the mixer bowl and mix for a minute to release some of the heat from the dough. With the mixer on medium speed, add the eggs, one at a time, beating until each egg is completely incorporated before adding the next one; scrape down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Place the dough in a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip. Pipe 12 disks about 2 1/2 inches across and about 1/2 inch thick on the baking sheet, leaving about 1 inch between them, as they will expand when baked. You may need an additional baking sheet in order not to crowd them too much. Sauces: Technique is the same for both sauces (minus the corn syrup in the white chocolate sauce) - Place the chocolate in a metal bowl. Combine the cream and corn syrup in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer. Pour the liquid over the chocolate and allow it to sit for 3 to 4 minutes, or until the chocolate has melted. Whisk to combine. Allow the sauce to cool slightly, then pour into a bowl or other container. To serve: Preheat the oven to 300°F. Warm the chocolate sauces in a double boiler or a microwave. Split each profiterole in half, and warm on a baking sheet in the oven until crisp. Place bottom half of each puff on serving plate. Place a large scoop of ice cream in the bottom half of each profiterole and top with the lid. Spoon the sauces over and decorate each plate with a generous amount of whipped cream, a few strawberries, powdered sugar, and mint. Now tell me what could be bad about that?!!!

Worldcon 2012: FragmentsSeptember 12, 2012 at 5:17 am | Posted in Essays | 10 Comments Tags: Worldcon Last week, I flew to Chicago for the 70th World Science Fiction Convention. It was my first Worldcon. Among other things, I was looking forward with the chance to talk to other people who read science fiction. It’s Wednesday evening and my roommate, a veteran of more than ten previous Worldcons, is unpacking the books he hopes to get signed. He has brought 10 Robert Silverberg books. I break the bad news about the signing policy (only 3 books per trip through the line) and then, with some embarrassment, I admit I haven’t read any Silverberg. He suggests a novel that would be a good place to start, then asks what I’ve been reading lately. I tell him I read and enjoyed Kameron Hurley’s God’s War on the flight to Chicago. He’s never heard of it. A week and a half later I am writing the first draft of this post and trying to figure out what novel he recommended, but I didn’t write it down. I have Silverberg’s Wikipedia article open in another tab. My monitor is not even close to large enough to display the published novel list on one screen. Reading Silverberg’s backlist would probably take me multiple years. Just reading the ten books my roommate wanted signed would put a substantial dent in a year’s reading schedule. According to a post by Gary K. Wolfe, in 2008 alone Locus recorded the publication of 254 science fiction novels and 436 fantasy novels. The rise of electronic publishing and the erosion of barriers to self-publishing seem sure to increase these numbers by an order of magnitude or more soon if they haven’t already. For the most part this is a good thing. As the genre fragments, readers can find novels aligned to their specific tastes, novels that wouldn’t be viable if less SF was published. Although more bad novels are published, more great novels are published as well. None of this is in any way unique to SF, or even literature. The same process is much further along in music and not as far along in movies and television, but entertainment of all kinds is moving in the same direction, or rather, is moving in all directions simultaneously. Yet if you like talking about genre fiction as much as reading it, shared context is harder and harder to find. As Wolfe puts it elsewhere in the same post: “To claim a title as the best SF or fantasy novel of the year seems to me to imply a core readership with a common set of values and assumptions, but as far as I can tell that readership has been dismembering itself into various caucuses for several decades now.” It is Wednesday afternoon, the day before the convention starts, and I have just registered and am putting mental breadcrumbs between important locations in the labyrinthine hotel. As I walk the hall, I hear the words “fen” and “mundanes” used unironically for the first time in my life. The big nametags make it easy to identify other people here for the convention, but in most cases it isn’t necessary. Convention people dress differently, talk differently, and act differently from ordinary guests. I’m amazed that people from all over the country, and indeed in some cases all over the world, seem much more like each other than they are like the people I see every day in my normal life. From the outside, Chicago’s Cloud Gate presents a coherent (if in places distorted) skyline. Over the next few days I will revise this first impression. Certainly the sample was skewed by the day of the week, as for a variety of reasons the people I saw on Wednesday afternoon crowd were older and much more “fannish” than the actual convention average. But also I soon realize fan culture isn’t as monolithic as it seemed at first, something I should have realized just from reading the program. How many people at the convention were interested in filk? In costuming? In table gaming? In anime? These and many more hobbies could be pursued to the exclusion of anything else if the attendee desired. Alternatively, one could (and I did, I’m afraid) ignore them entirely. Beneath Cloud Gate the image splits into diverse but overlapping fragments. In the convention’s pocket program, the convention chair’s welcome message included the following reassurance: “I promise you, there are several folks you haven’t met yet who are *exactly* the kind of geek you are.” In this day and age there’s no need to settle for being friends with someone who is almost the same kind of geek you are. It’s not just entertainment that’s fragmenting, it’s culture. On Sunday morning, I am listening to a panel titled “Historical Reality in Fantasy”. Two of the panelists turn out to have run pen and paper roleplaying games. When they spend a few minutes discussing fantasy roleplaying game settings and answer a question about them from the audience, another audience member raises his hand and objects that while he enjoys roleplaying games, he comes to Worldcon to hear about literature. I sympathize, but he is one person out of an audience of a hundred or more. Should his concept of the panel prevail over that of the person sitting next to him? By the relentlessly democratic logic of Worldcon his opinion is, by itself, without import. Had he asked for a show of hands, the panel might have paid attention. It’s Sunday evening and I am sitting in a room with several thousand people waiting to hear the results of the genre’s most prominent show of hands, the Hugo Awards. The Hugo Awards ceremony is the only event without anything programmed against it (on Thursday I went to a panel instead of the opening ceremonies), yet the entire convention population isn’t there. Not even close. Still, it’s a large group, and toastmaster John Scalzi uses this to make an appeal to unity. The Hugos, he says, bring everyone together. He then builds a description of the breadth of the genre community out of allusions to the nominees. It’s a clever and well-delivered little speech, but do the Hugo Awards really bring everyone together? Is that even possible? It’s earlier on Sunday evening and I am in the same big room with almost the same number of people twenty minutes before the Hugo awards ceremony will begin. I am saving the seat beside me for my sister, but on the other side of me are two middle-aged men. When I notice they are talking about Ken Liu’s short story “Paper Menagerie” I begin eavesdropping on their conversation. They seem like old friends, and after they both agree Liu’s story was their favorite, they go on to discuss this year’s Hugo-nominated novels. Deadline is faintly praised, Among Others is agreed to be fantastic, but then it turns out one of them hasn’t read a single China Mieville novel even though Embassytown is another of the ballot’s novel nominees. It is the Friday after the convention and I am back home plowing through an enormous Google Reader backlog. I get to popular British blogger Adam Whitehead’s short post about the Hugo awards. After listing the winners of some of the categories, he takes a backhanded swipe at the fact 2,000 people voted, a number he seems to feel is too small to justify the awards’ reputation as the most prestigious in the genre. In fact, not everyone votes in all categories. Only 1664 votes were cast for Best Novel, for example. We can’t know how many of those votes were cast by people who, like the man sitting next to me at the awards ceremony, have only read some of the nominees, but it seems safe to assume it was a significant percentage. The numbers are even smaller when one considers ballots cast for nominating works to the short list: only 958 in the novel category. The novel nominated the most times, Jo Walton’s eventual winner Among Others led the field with 175 votes while Hannu Rajaniemi’s debut novel The Quantum Thief received 70 nominations and missed the short list by a single vote. So Whitehead actually overstated the size of the voting population, but that’s not to say he’s right that the small scale of the voting, and the small breadth of the voters’ reading, should decrease the awards’ prestige. It is Sunday evening again and the Hugo ceremony is nearly over. Jo Walton is accepting the award for Best Novel. Afterward the talk about her speech will center on her thanks to disgraced Readercon volunteer Rene Walling for suggesting “Among Others” as the title for her novel, but her first words at the microphone are an apology to George R. R. Martin, as if she has received the award through some irreversible clerical error and not the will of the voters. People laugh as if this is a joke, but she may not have been joking. If the Hugo voting population was greatly expanded in the way Whitehead implies would provide greater legitimacy, it seems safe to say A Dance with Dragons would have won. In sales of actual books, the most democratic measure of a book’s worth, there would be no contest. Longtime genre award watcher Nicholas Whyte noted in April that even among users of the site Goodreads, a group surely biased toward reading more widely than the general population, four times as many people owned A Dance with Dragons than the other four nominees combined. The only possible solution to this tangle is to be content to have multiple awards for the best genre novel of the year, each determined by different means. Prestige can then accrue organically. Happily this is already the case. One could argue that the Nebula Awards, given to authors by other authors in a manner similar to the Oscars, ought to in fact be the most prestigious awards, but strange choices and an even more problematic voter pool make them a distant second to the Hugos. As a side note, as easy as it is to point to a few books and call them bestsellers, it is preposterously difficult to determine what the bestselling genre books of a given year actually are, and someone with access to those numbers could do the field a service by providing the answer. Unfortunately Amazon treats sales numbers the way dragons traditionally treat treasure, so this may be impossible. It is Thursday evening and I am in the hotel bar surrounded by people with access to at least some sales numbers. My sister, a fantasy author whose first novel was published last year, arrived in the afternoon and has been introducing me to her friends, almost all of whom are authors here primarily to promote their writing and network with other people in the industry. There are exceptions in any group but for the most part they rarely attended conventions before they were published, have few of the cultural tics of longtime fans, and when pressed most admit that since they began writing they hardly have time to read. One might think that being an author at a literature-oriented convention would be glamorous. Perhaps it is for superstars, but I don’t meet the superstars. Most people I meet are authors who have published their first novel in the last three years or so. These are the 99% of authors, the ones for whom the exposure of sitting on a panel, even if it’s a panel about writing attended almost exclusively by authors and people aspiring to be authors, might make a noticeable difference in sales. Although the names often strike me as familiar, in almost every case I haven’t read anything they have written. Introductions work differently in this networking-oriented population. People don’t merely say the person’s name, they add something to indicate why people should care about them. Typically it goes “X, author of Y” but there is a “spouse of” present in addition to me, a “brother of”. After an hour of this, I use the fact I have published all of four reviews with Strange Horizons to promote myself to “Matt, reviewer for Strange Horizons“. My sister deservedly laughs at me for being status conscious, but I think I detect a change. Not in the willingness of people to talk to me, for everyone is surprisingly friendly and easy-going, but in their comfort level at the initial introduction. An author’s brother could be anyone: a writer, an agent, an editor, or…just a brother. A reviewer is known quantity. Later, I am introduced to SF Signal’s John De Nardo. I don’t really know him, but I feel like I do, for his links to SF Signal content made up 90% of my Google+ feed even when I still checked it regularly. Unlike everyone else I’ve met so far, he at least pretends my name sounds familiar. Perhaps it does: I commented on one or two of those Google+ items, and while I’m not sure I think he might have linked to my blog once or twice. But even at Worldcon this blog is obscure enough that I expect to meet no one who reads it. It’s Friday night, and I’m waiting for an elevator with Strange Horizons editor Niall Harrison. While vacationing in the USA he has been rereading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy and tells me that he was reading my review of it on my blog. He very much disagrees with it, he adds, in the friendly manner of someone hoping for a stimulating discussion. I blink. I reviewed the Mars trilogy? I know I read it in the late 90s, and thankfully for all of us I wasn’t reviewing books online at the time, but all I recall is that I enjoyed some of the political machinations but found the prose drier than I would have liked. Ever courageous of my convictions, I mutter that I’ve been posting reviews online since 2003, that I’ve become a lot more sophisticated as both a reader and as a reviewer since then, and in general I throw my past self and his opinions directly under the bus. On Saturday morning I am using Google to locate the review Niall mentioned, half-expecting he had me confused with someone else. It turns out I did review the Mars trilogy in 2006. Reading the review in 2012, the language is recognizably my own but much of the content is new to me, in particular the half-hearted discussion of the role of executives in the story. I think I was trying to say that no matter what one thinks of executives, accurately presented most of their activities make for dull reading, but I can’t say for sure. The review reads like something dashed off in thirty minutes and posted without being read over, which was generally my practice at the time. In one sense, I “know” Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy. When it comes up in conversation I have things to say: I have read it, I can describe features of its narrative and style, I can name elements that some people find attractive and elements that some people find alienating. But it is a shallow knowledge, the sort of knowledge people write guides for faking at dinner parties. The details are lost to me until I reread it. In cognitive science there is a concept of a working set, the amount of information we can hold in short-term memory at once for use in solving problems. How many novels can I recall enough about to discuss in depth? Not very many. It was to avoid the loss of this information that I began to write reviews. By writing down what I think, I can have access to those thoughts in the future! The brief, incomplete nature of this site’s older posts derives partly from their intended use merely as notes to stimulate recall. But whenever I revisit my reviews from before the last couple years, I run into the problem that I am no longer the same person. Six years ago I was someone else, a person who remembered different books than I do today. It’s not easy for us to have a conversation. It’s Friday night and I am at the Night Shade party having the most free-flowing conversation I will have at the convention. I am talking with reviewer and anthologist Rich Horton, and I can cite stories and novels by name and continue to make my point without worrying he might not have read them. Eventually while discussing K.J. Parker I bring up historical fiction author Dorothy Dunnett. Even this succeeds, for like many genre readers he’s also a Dunnett fan, and we talk about her Lymond and Niccolo series. It’s only when we move still further from the genre that we run aground on the contextual rocks: I haven’t read Raymond Carver and he hasn’t read Faulkner. It is Monday and I am flying home. I am thinking of the conversation with Horton, and how while I was able to toss out the names of short stories and be perfectly confident he would know what I’m talking about, he was not in the same position. Me talking to Rich Horton about short stories is like the friend at work who talks to me about science fiction having only read Ender’s Game and Dune. This line of thinking develops into the beginnings of an idea for an unusual sort of convention wrap-up post, a present tense narrative that jumps around in time while following thematic threads. I have a hazy idea this is a standard form for feature articles in magazines, but I don’t read enough conventional magazines to have a good feel for the way such stories are written. I know that if I write it, I will end up aping the Doctor Manhattan issue of Watchmen more than respectable journalism. I decide that while this resort to genre is slightly embarrassing, it’s also more than a little appropriate. Doctor Manhattan’s narrative is intended to underscore his inhumanity by illustrating his nonlinear experience of time, but this is not as foreign from the human experience as we tend to think. First person novels typically present us with a linear narrative, but this is a conceit that is nothing like how the human memory functions. Not only can I not reproduce the exact words of a conversation I had last week (the way first person narrators often authoritatively provide exact words for conversations taking place years in their past), I have trouble even remembering when in the sequence of half-remembered events a conversation happened. In writing this post I frequently had to resort to the convention program just to determine the day on which something happened. The experience was linear, but the memories that endure are only fragments. It is Monday morning, the last day of Worldcon, and I am packing. “How was your con?” my roommate asks me. His phrasing is considered. We have been at the same convention, yet my con is not the same as his con. In five days of programming I ran into him outside our room exactly three times: twice at the only two panels we both happened to attend and once in the aftermath of the Hugo awards. In almost all respects, we have been at two different conventions superimposed on one location: different panels, different readings, different conversations, different parties. And there are far more than just two: each attendee experiences a different convention. But how could it be otherwise? Each attendee has been reading a different genre, though they are all called science fiction. 10 Comments » RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Blog at WordPress.com. | Theme: Pool by Borja Fernandez. Entries and comments feeds. While there’s plenty to unpack out of that post I just wanted to say that that was an astonishing piece of writing. Thank you. Comment by Ian Mond— September 12, 2012 # Thanks for the thoughtfull post about your worldcon expierence. I’m very aware that, even at much smaller conventions, the convention I attend is very different then the same con a writer or fan attends. Your emphasis on the splintering of the genre/culture is an important point that I grapple with daily, both as a publisher, and as someone who feels deeply engaged in the genre’s “long conversation.” It was nice meeting you, if only briefly. Hopefully you will find your way to other conventions, and be able to provide compairsons and contrasts to world con. Id love to read your impression on world fantasy, and/or readercon, or wiscon… all of which are radically different than worldcon and each other. Comment by jlassenjlassen— September 12, 2012 # Thank you, Matt. I particularly like the photos of Cloud Gate, too. I’ve been curious about it ever since SOURCE CODE. Comment by Paul Weimer (@PrinceJvstin)— September 12, 2012 # Wonderful post. I feel cons have always existed in a kind of fragmented continuum (how’s that for an oxymoron) in which the gamers might never meet the costumers who might never meet the filkers, and yet somehow it all weaves together to make up conspace. There’s just enough crossover from subgroup to subgroup and just enough commonality of sources to make it one fabric and not just a patchwork quilt. Comment by ctanwriter— September 12, 2012 # Wow, what a fantastic read. I’m three-quarters of the way through, and it occurs to me, “This is reading just like the Doctor Manhattan issue,” (I just read WATCHMEN for the first time last month) “I should write a comment about that.” Then I read the next section and laughed. And only as I type this do I notice it fitting right in with your theme of commonality… Comment by Chris ("Salt-Man Z")— September 12, 2012 # As everyone else has said, this is a fascinating account: thank you for writing it. (It reminds me of some things I wrote about my first cons, particularly the point about having a role, being a known quantity.) And so far as the Mars trilogy goes, I think your write up is still worthwhile, or I wouldn’t have mentioned it! You put your finger on some things about the trilogy that are worth discussing — not just the executives and transnats (which I’d argue don’t feel so outdated now, post financial crisis), but the strong sense of national types (which is disconcerting, but which I’d argue is there so that there is something obvious to break down and leave behind as the characters become more natively Martian). So there. Comment by Niall— September 12, 2012 # Paul: I went to Cloud Gate expecting to be aloof and unimpressed. After all, it’s just a big mirror. But it is really is cool, and in a way that pictures (though I did take a lot; put two more on Twitter) can’t really capture. I haven’t seen Source Code yet but I’ve been meaning to check it out. Jeremy: I may go to Capclave next month since it’s so close to where I live and that certainly would be quite a contrast. However, close though it is, I don’t think I know anyone else going, and I’m the sort of person who needs introductions to meet people. Niall: “It reminds me of some things I wrote about my first cons” Links? Niall ctd: “You put your finger on some things about the trilogy that are worth discussing.” I just wish I’d done more to discuss them then, since I can’t today. Well, can’t do so with any accuracy. I won’t let that stop me, though! About the executives, I guess what I would say now is that if you are writing a novel about how humans on Mars evolve toward new and hopefully superior forms than what exists on benighted old Earth, you should put forward and defend a thesis about what those problems on Earth were and why they are no longer controlling on Mars. I don’t remember to what degree KSR did this, but at the time I thought the villains caricatures. The national stereotypes are also caricatures, and in both cases I don’t think they are necessary. This isn’t a short story, it’s a trilogy, quite a long trilogy even by modern standards, I believe. Surely there’s time to give the bad guys and the bit characters–and therefore the problems they represent–some depth? I guess the answer, to be blunt, is probably no, not when there are massive descriptions of sand taking up so much space. But while I would have liked the books a lot more without so much scenery, I’m sure many people who loved the books wouldn’t love them without it. Comment by Matt Hilliard— September 13, 2012 # Really enjoyed the way you framed write-up; it captures the way cons always feel so dissociative to me. I find the transition from convention time to post-convention time jarring. At the con, I have my schedule grid, highlighted in multiple colors, a clear path through the day, A then B then C then D. Afterwards, it all blurs: did I have that conversation Friday or Thursday? When did I play that game or see that costume or have that book recommended to me–or was it at a different convention altogether? Having the schedule grids on hand to reconstruct my memory is less helpful than I think it should be; so much of what happens is interstitial, not on the page. And the moments of connection–”Oh, you’ve read THAT!”–stand out against a backdrop of almost-but-not-quite-my-tribe. By the next con, they’re all I remember, and I’m enthused again. But immediate after, they feel too sparse, too few. If you’re going to a con not knowing anyone, you could do worse than Capclave. It’s at least small enough that you’re likely to run into the same people over and over again through the weekend. Comment by ambyr— September 13, 2012 # [...] genre. Where was it twenty years ago? Where is now? People’s answers will differ, for they haven’t read the same stories. In 1960 people at least agreed about what science fiction was, allowing them to productively argue [...] Pingback by No More Falconer: Science Fiction’s Past and Present « Yet There Are Statues— September 19, 2012 # Belatedly, I wanted to echo what other commenters have said: I really enjoyed this piece. Thanks for sharing it. Comment by Nic— September 19, 2012 #

One of the most frequently asked questions I get is, "What kind of workout should I be doing for MMA or BJJ?" This same question, of course, could apply to any sport. Sometimes you'll see magazine articles by strength coaches outlining workout programs for various sports and martial arts but I have a problem with this cookie-cutter approach: these programs end up being one-size-fits-all...but-me! Creating workout programs is as much an art as it is science. Before slapping numbers into arbitrary sets and reps on paper you have to know something about the athletes with whom you're working because, in many cases, the wrong exercise prescription can do more harm than good. Martial arts and grappling are especially strenuous activities and the people who participate in them tend to be extremists already prone to falling into the dreaded overtraining. Participation in these arts provide, for the most part, the specific conditioning needed for same, i.e., if you want to be a good grappler, you've got to grapple; if you want to be a good boxer, you've got to box, etc. The smart strength coach analyzes his athlete to find the chinks in his armor. For example, if I have a BJJ player demonstrating better-than-average flexibility, with good muscular endurance, but lacking strength, it makes no sense to put him on a yoga-based conditioning program or endurance training. What makes sense is to bring his absolute strength up as high as possible. By the same token, if I have a fighter with great strength but no gas, and worse, tight connective tissue, I'm going to put him on an endurance-building program and work on freeing up his joints and increasing his mobility. This is how it's done, and following a program from a magazine may not suit your particular set of weaknesses. I want to work to the athlete's weakness--not his strengths--and no two athletes should have the same exact program (unless they happen to be twins.) I'm going to give you another example: a program I created for myself. I've been in Philly for the past month, training at Maxercise in BJJ and submission wrestling. The workouts have been brutal. Lots of sparring and live drills. In the team practice sessions, there are times when everyone in the room has placed in the top 3 in the world, in their respective categories--we're talking about some truly elite training. As a 55-year old athlete, training with these kids takes a toll and I must be very careful in the way I add supplementary training. I noticed my shoulders and elbows were bothering me, in fact, both my shoulders were tweaked. I decided to create a program that would be shoulder-strengthening while simultaneously mobilizing, brief in time, without overtaxing my recovery and still allow me to practice the basic kettlebell skills needed for my upcoming seminars. Here's the prgram I settled on, which met my specific weaknesses: 1) Screw Press aka Bent Press *this is an old-time lift that really hits the upper torso and works the shoulder at an odd angle you might just find yourself in when training BJJ. It's the only press I know that thoroughly works and stimulates the lats, which are major shoulder stabilizers. 2) Clubbell 3-Movement Kinetic Chain: a) shield cast b) mill c) 45-degree angle lockout *this kinetic chain puts your wrist, elbow and shoulder into all the submissions you might find yourself in during a jiu-jitsu match, thus strengthening the tendons and muscles at odd angles and producing freedom of motion, as well as strength. 3) One-Arm Long-Cycle Clean and Press *this adds a whole-body element of conditioning. It's shoulder/arm intensive but with repeated, explosive leg drive, thus providing an overall metabolic effect. None of these exercises are especially strenuous, when compared to double-kettlebell drills, so they don't interfere with my recovery from the heavy, live-grappling sessions. They specifically mobilize and strengthen my joints where I need it and allow me to recover from a heavy training schedule. In other words, this workout is basically a form of active recovery. The sister workout is a heavy, low-rep, strength-based workout consisting of two movements: 1) a super-slow reverse Turkish Get-Up * a standing, one-arm clean and press, then very s-l-o-w-l-y lying down, taking an entire minute to get down on the floor, then getting back up, taking a moment to pause in each position. Included in this super-slow get-up were a side-plank and, once in the recline, an arm-bar. One repetition of the entire exercise, using the 24 kg, took 2 minutes. I super-set this with a set of: 2) Weighted Pull-Ups * done slowly from a dead hang with a 10-second pause at the top with the throat over the bar. I alternated these two exercises for three sets of each. When I finished, I felt refreshed and recharged. My shoulders felt worked from every possible angle and I felt what I can only describe as a healing circulation of blood flow through the joints. I didn't need any more endurance work (I'd already had it with over an hour of live training, including takedowns and throws) so doing swings, snatches, and so forth would have been redundant. In weeks previous, I'd been doing sprints and stair sprints but the sudden increase in BJJ volume and live matches also made that type of training unneeded. This is how I also analyze each of my personal training clients. In my next blog, I'll share how I analyzed my own son, world-class BJJ fighter Zak Maxwell, and the specific program with which he currently trains. Yours in Strength & Health, Coach Steve 9 comments: Fantastic Blog Steve, I just recently found it after reading the "Naked Warrior" and searching your name. I spent the rest of that morning reading all the past entries. Thank you for taking the time to write it and for sharing your vast experience and expertise. It was great to see the accomplishments of your son, who is of course mentioned in TNW. A wise man once said you can judge a tree by its fruit and you can see the good fruit produced by the training methods you have developed in both you and your son. Looking forward to your thoughts on training kids as I am a father of three with another on the way. Thanks again, Scott Hi Scott, Thanks for writing and the especially kind comments. I'm very proud of my son. Keep reading, we've got got a lot of ground to cover...Steve I'd say great post Steve but I don't want to repeat myself all the time ;) Just kidding - fantastic work. And I have some BJJ related Q for you - could you write something about your work with Saulo? How did your cooperation look like. What was your job exactly? Was he low-carber that time? BTW - did you work with Xande too? - have you ever worked/trained/fight with Rickson? Is he really THAT good? I remember - I guess Roleta while visiting Poland - said that Rickson is like from outer space and all those black belts from Gracie Barra didn't really know what he is doing to them. I wonder if that's true thank you for your fantastic blog Rafal Hi Rafal, Sorry, I can't tell any details about the private training I did with Saulo and Xande because I was under contract with them and there are privacy issues. Re: Rickson, I saw him in action at the Gracie Acadamy during the early 90's and yes, he's every bit as amazing as what the people say. Thanks for reading, Rafal.-Steve OK, thank you Steve I was asking about Saulo's diet coz I wonder if you know some other athletes who use some sort of low-carb dietes. We all know you do. I've heared dr Ellis worked with some good triathlon guy. Aajonus states he did it with some Karate guy too. But it's very hard to shift that paradigm that carbs and carb loading are essential for any athlete. And I was kinda surprised reading here " If you're low-carbing, be sure to replenish glycogen with a post-workout carbohydrate/whey solution." I thought you dont do loading of any kind Once again best regards from Warsaw, Poland Hi Rafal, I've been using post-workout carbs for over a year now. My gf turned me onto it and I really liked the results. Very low carb diets make it near impossible to do HIIT but with PWO carbs it's not problem. I spoke to Ellis about it and he doesn't approve but it works for me. Read Anthony Colpo's suggestions. How's it going in Warsaw? I'm in Reykjavik right now. Steve Iceland? Cool! What are you doing there Steve? Do you know that Icelandic men have the longest life expectancy in the world, living an average of 79.4 years. And it's funny that you are there, 'coz on polish low-carb forum we were talkin' like a week ago about Iceland and there native diet - and it looked a bit like Inuit I guess. Do you know what they like to eat and how it looked like in the past? And Iceland is on my list of future visitations ;) About carb loading - I'm in touch with one guy who is cyclist and low-carber. Every day he goes like 120km with average speed over 30km/h. He states he can generate 5,7W per kg for 30min! But - he eats 1gr of protein per kg of his body, coz over 1gr makes him weaker and fatigue kicks in. So his diet looks like that - 50-60gr of P, 30-40gr C and rest from saturated fat. Every time he tried to go like 100-120gr of protein he felt worse. Do you know anything about this more protein > fatigue thing? PS - It's ok in Warsaw and weather is getting better :) Hi, Steve! How heavy is your clubbell ? Best, Rainer Hi Rainer, 15#-Steve

We're eating dinner outside again! We've had two days in a row of nearly 90 degrees! Phew! Because it's still May, the evening air cools down quickly. It's wonderful to have a breezy meal at the picnic table, rather than in a hot kitchen. Sometimes I'll prepare dinner in the morning, so that I'm not stuck at the stove at 5pm. This is the same salad I served to my printing class for lunch on the barn deck. A one bowl meal my entire family is excited about! I've been making variations of it since I managed a vegan restaurant in Marin County (California) 17 years ago. Did I just say 17? Is that possible!? Well, I guess I can honestly tell you that it's tried and true! Cold Miso Noodles with Asparagus Ingredients Make Miso Cream Sauce Blend on high speed: any leftover sauce can be diluted with a little more vinegar and used to dress salad greens. I'll be back on Tuesday (Monday is Memorial day in the states)... hope your weekend is all that you want and need it to be! - soba (buckwheat) or udon noodles - favorite vegetable in season (tonight we had asparagus from a farm down the road) - cubes of baked tofu - carrot matchsticks - mung bean sprouts - chopped green onions (or chives) - miso cream sauce- recipe follows - Prepare noodles according to package directions. Add fave vegetable in the last minute of boiling to blanch it. Drain and run under cold water to prevent overcooking. - Add all other ingredients and pour on miso cream to taste. Blend on high speed: - 4 heaping tablespoons white miso - 3 tablespoons olive oil - 2 tablespoons maple syrup - 2 tablespoons rice vingar - zest of fresh ginger and a clove of garlic - 1 1/2 cups water I'll be back on Tuesday (Monday is Memorial day in the states)... hope your weekend is all that you want and need it to be! This looks and sounds delicious. I will definitely give it a go. A manager of a vegan restaurant , very cool and just goes to show there is so much we still don't know about each other. Have a super long weekend. It looks like you guys lucked out with the weather. Our long weekend was the last one when it was almost snowing . Sounds very yummy! That looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing the recipe. And the red tablecloth looks beautiful - perfect for an outdoor dinner. What a beautiful picture. I've never had miso, but should give it a try. Your meal looks delicious. I also adore your sewing machine. What a dream find. mmm, that dish looks divine, and eating outdoors is the best! Just curious..where in Marin (I'm from there), from vegan restaurant, I'm guessing Fairfax? happy weekend! Amber, the restaurant was called Garden of Eatin' (affiliated with the organic chip company) and was located in Larkspur. It was open in the early 90's. I loved Fairfax when I lived in Marin... vague but happy memories of seeing Zero play in some little park there. The farmers' market is this afternoon--we are definitely having this for tomorrow's lunch! yum! i always mean to make more cold noodle-y salads for dinner, and making it in the morning is a great idea! i'll have to try this; the sauce sounds divine... yummm, this is SO on my list for dinner next week. Thanks for sharing it! Lovely - I am sooo adding this to the summer din-din rotation...especially as most of the ingredients are floating around the kitchen anyhow. Amazing - that never happens. Thank you! This looks delicious!! Thank you for sharing a recipe that stands the test of time :) Happy Memorial Day weekend Maya!! Thanks for sharing the recipe! I can attest that it is one of those meals that is light but also satisfying, and very easy on the tummy. Mmmmmmmmm, lovely twist on the Japanesey! XXxx Oooh YUM. Have a gorgeous weekend Maya. It's cold & dark here. YUM...these have always been my favorite....I remember you making these when I was little!! It's so pretty with the chive flowers in it. Ana- you remember them! You were 13! love you! xox I found you in the Artful Bloggers Mag. this weekend. Way to go!!! Marin huh? Not far from me now. yummy! cooking is the last thing i want to do when it's 90+ outside; soba noodles are very tasty cold though. i'll have to give this recipe a go. your lavender sachet is very easy on the eyes, the blue with the natural linen looks striking and goes along beautifully with the bee print. What a blog filled with vital and important information this is .. It must have taken a lot of hours for you to write these yourself. Hats off from me for your hard work. Please come visit my site telephone companies when you got time. That is some inspirational stuff... Never know that opinions could be this varied. Thanks for all the enthusiasm to offer such helpful information here. Please come visit my site answering services and give me any valuable feedbacks. Thanks again for posting this recipe! I made it last night. Delicious and perfect for a warm summer day, ahhh. So, I've never commented on your crafty posts but I love reading your blog and look forward to your updates. Thanks for sharing! This sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing it and I'm super jealous of your warm weather! Just made a variation of this sauce last night. The only difference is a little toasted sesame oil and a little less water. Yummm!

Rebecca Ambrosini's invitation at the Creamery. Windows on Main St opens next Saturday, August 8. Installations have already started going up. I caught up with Will Walker on Friday as he was installing his work at M&T Bank. (editor's note: I can't express how pleasant it is to have August roll in, and not have to be scrambling about with WOMS related tasks.) I will, however, be participating in a panel discussion organized in conjunction with the Windows exhibition that will focus on the topic of public art. "Public Art, the Economy and Our Community is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Aug 8 at 2pm at Dia:Beacon. I don't know this for a fact, but I imagine the talk will take place in the Learning Lab above the bookstore. I'll verify that detail. The other panelists include: Steven Evans, Assistant Director of the Dia Foundation at Beacon, Sara Pasti, Director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and Beacon City Councilwoman, Garin Baker of the Orange County Arts Council, Cabot Parsons, Chairperson of the Beacon Arts & Cultural Committee Dan Weise of Open Space Gallery, and Electric Windows here in Beacon. A peak into the office area at M&T Bank which will be bathed in an elecctric emerald glow for a month, courtesy of Will Walker and Jesse Lebwohl-Steiner. Later in the evening, there will be an opening reception for WOMS on Saturday at Chill wine bar at 173 Main St. from 6-9pm. The exhibit will close on September 12. On that day, there will be a panel talk featuring some of the exhibit's participating artists speaking about their projects. The talk will take place at Zuzu's (453 Main St) at 12pm followed by a closing reception from 2-4pm. Here are your 2009 Windows on Main St Participating Artists: - Rebecca Ambrosini - Muddy Cup Coffeeshop, 129 Main Street - Kathleen Anderson - Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, 324 Main Street - Elizabeth Castagna - 500 Main Street - Carla Goldberg - Beacon Rivers for Estuaries & Rivers, 199 Main Street - Theresa Gooby - 259 Main Street - Elia Gurna - 502 Main Street - Beth Haber - River Winds Gallery, 172 Main Street - Jason Hahn - 504 Main Street - Peter Iannarelli & Keisha Luce - Moxie, 544 Main Street - Jesse Lebwohl-Steiner & Will Walker - M&T Bank, 200 Main Street - Beth Lewis-Jackson & Edward Vermehren - Hudson Beach Glass, 162 Main Street - Teresa Marra - Chill Wine Bar, 173 Main Street - Eileen McTiernan - Mount Beacon Fine Art, 155 Main Street - Dana Devine O’Malley - Zora Dora, 201 Main Street - Joe Pimentel & Melissa Toth - Fire Lotus, 474 Main Street - Keely Sheehan - Echo, 470 Main Street - Vickie Raabin - Mixture, 209 Main Street - Steve Rossi - Artisan Wine Shop, 180 Main Street - Dan Rigney - BEAHive/American Burnish, 291 Main Street - Emily Sylvester - Poppy’s Burger’s & Fries, 184 Main Street - Catherine Welshman - Jacqueline’s, 478 Main Street

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Posted: 1/29/2013 8:02 AM KylMss wrote: If the kids are worthy of playing, they'll have no problem beating out a bum like Cedeno. You can't just hand over a roster spot to Kozma or Jackson. They haven't earned that privilege. If they want to open the season in the big leagues they better show up and take a roster spot. One the things LaRussa and Jocketty always did well was creating camp competition by bringing in seasoned veterans. Cedeno's been in the big leagues for several years. I'm sure he knows how to prepare for spring training. We'll see if any of the Cardinals younger infielders have been putting in their work in the off season. Posted: 1/29/2013 8:17 AM Posted: 1/29/2013 2:31 PM Posted: 1/29/2013 2:40 PM pugsleyaddams wrote: ------------------------------------------------ nathanleopoldjr wrote:If all you can do is sign mediocre bums then just let the kids play.---------------------------------------------Lol!!! For all of you new posters who have joined us here at The Cardinal Nation this winter, this funny fellow was only joshing.....as he will do often once the season commences. His name is Nathan, or as many of us around here refer to him as, Homer. Nate here may be the biggest Cards homer east of the Mississippi River as you will see once he gets into full swing come April. The Redbirds....and especially Mo and Mr. DeWitt can do no wrong in Homer's eyes. And speaking of the season that looms just right around the bend now, all of this joking around that you see out of guys like Homer, CardinalNationHouston, Bling, Booyah and a host of others, comes to a screeching halt once that first pitch of the regular season is hurled.....so hang in there. Posted: 1/31/2013 6:27 AM Posted: 1/31/2013 10:44 PM pugsleyaddams wrote: ------------------------------------------------ cardinalnationhouston wrote:Did i ruin my shot at the Homer award by pointing out some of Hollidays shortcomings back in November?---------------------------------------------Nope you're still a homer, CardinalNation. "Homer" is not a bad word. I know that Slappy had aspirations of jumping ship to become a Cardinal fan and then in turn a Cardinal homer.....but I think he blew it by accusing the above mentioned player of being a roider. Posted: 2/17/2013 1:21 PM Posted: 2/17/2013 1:46 PM Domeboys wrote: Cedeno told Rick Hummel that no other club really had expressed interest in him this off-season. Tough times don't last long but tough people do - Darryl K|

If you are planning a meeting for the year 2000, you need to address the so-called Y2K problem. In brief: Most computers cannot properly process a post-1999 date field. The result is that without significant reprogramming, most computers could reject a date such as February 1, 2000 altogether, or erroneously interpret it as February 1, 1900. In comparison to its potential impact on national defense or air-traffic control, the Y2K problem for the meeting planning industry is relatively minor. Nevertheless there are plenty of nightmarish scenarios to consider. If the software used to track hotel reservations or meeting registration is not Y2K compliant, registrations could be lost, housing records could be wrong, and overbooking and/or undercounting could result. Indeed, hotels simply might not be able to process reservations accurately, which could lead to room-block errors, mistakes in food-and-beverage calculations, and erroneous attrition charges. Billing software glitches could lead to confusion over payments and credits. The more complex the meeting the more likely it is that Y2K problems could increase exponentially. While you can be thankful you're not an air traffic controller, you've still got your work cut out for you. Y2K Assurances It is increasingly common for customers to demand--and receive--written assurances that their suppliers are compliant, and that Y2K problems will not prevent them from performing their obligations. An unwillingness or inability to provide such assurances, particularly at this comparatively late date, is a red flag. Assurances or representations concerning Y2K compliance also can be incorporated into written contracts. For example, meeting planners should try to get written assurances that the vendor: * has reviewed its operations for Y2K compliance; * has developed, or is developing, a program to address Y2K problems in a timely fashion; * has made a related inquiry of its relevant suppliers and vendors; and, based on such review, * is satisfied that Y2K problems will not cause material adverse effects on the performance of the contract. Such representations should be backed up by a clause in which the meeting planner is indemnified against any losses arising from a Y2K problem. What Goes Around Of course, turnabout is fair play. Meeting planners should be prepared to respond to similar requests from their own customers or others with whom they have contractual agreements. If it hasn't been done already, now is the time to review computer operations, determine Y2K compliance, and identify and address potential problems. When responding to requests for Y2K compliance assurances from third parties, be sure only to make representations that are completely accurate. Ideally, any such responses should be reviewed by legal counsel. Whenever possible, seek to limit your organization's Y2K liability to third parties by excluding certain types of damages (e.g., lost profits) or, better yet, by excluding potential liability for Y2K problems altogether. Late last year, President Clinton signed into law the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act. Its purpose is to encourage companies to share Y2K compliance information about their products and services. Thus, the act limits the circumstances under which Y2K disclosure statements can be used against the persons making them and imposes strict proof requirements in legal actions claiming fraud or defamation from a Y2K statement. For the protections of the act to apply, the Y2K disclosure statement must be specifically identified as a "Y2K readiness statement." In addition, the act provides that exchanges of information that take place before 2001 and are designed to correct or avoid Y2K problems are not subject to antitrust laws. Neither the meeting industry nor any industry that relies on computer-based information systems (and what doesn't?) is likely to make a completely trouble-free transition into the year 2000. With some planning and preparation, however, the Y2K bug's impact can be kept to a minimum.

The new $500 million Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman hosted two programs for insurance and financial services planners in early January: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.'s first insurance advisory board, held January 4 to 8, followed by an educational event January 8 to 11. Both included a variety of educational sessions and gave attendees the opportunity to experience the spectacular 365-room resort, targeted for high-end meetings and incentives. Concurrent with the eagerly awaited gala opening, 10 industry veterans gathered for the insurance advisory board. “We deliberately kept it small and intimate so participants could share their thoughts,” says Pam Ferguson, director of insurance sales, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC. Rather than listen to formal presentations, the advisory board met in closed-door sessions to talk about their perception of luxury in the hotel marketplace. Led by professional facilitator Bob Joselyn, president and CEO, Joselyn Tepper & Associates Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., they participated in various interactive exercises, including one that involved designing their ideal hotel chain. Also, they discussed such industry issues as the new seller's market and the challenges of flat-line budgets. “Interacting with a group of such seasoned professionals is an education in itself,” says advisory board member Sharon Chapman, CMP, CMM, travel and corporate events planner, Berkshire Life Insurance Company of America, Pittsfield, Mass. The program concluded with an update by Ritz-Carlton's Bruce Himelstein, senior vice president, sales and marketing (see sidebar, below). “Educationally, it was very helpful to learn about Ritz-Carlton's strategic direction for the future,” notes Chapman, “and good to hear how much they value financial services and insurance business.” Program Highlights A larger group of industry planners (including some advisory board members) met January 8 to 11 for an event that included presentations by property developer Michael Ryan; General Manager Jean Cohen; renowned tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, who developed the resort's tennis center; and Alynne Hanford, global sales manager, group and meeting travel, American Airlines. In her airline industry update, Hanford noted the rising cost of fuel — the greatest challenge to all carriers — as well as initiatives by American to “streamline the group process so it is easy, efficient, and productive.” American still offers refundable, changeable, zone group fares, she said, with a 154-person department dedicated to group sales, and another roughly 200 group reservationists. Among recent technology enhancements is a new online booking feature for groups that gives 5 percent discounts off the cheapest online rates. In other highlights, planners toured the resort's 13,000 square feet of event space, experienced the 20,000-square-foot, $10 million Silver Rain spa; and learned about Ambassadors of the Environment by Jean-Michel Cousteau, an eco-educational family adventure program that introduces children to the natural wonders of the island. They also had a bit of their own adventure, sailing to Stingray City and swimming with the stingrays. Participants enjoyed learning about the new resort, and learning from each other. “As a meeting planner, I am often invited on fam trips,” says Leanne Acton, CMM, director, conference planning and travel services, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Horsham, Pa. “Generous offers to beautiful places, but who has time? Attending the Ritz-Carlton educational event was time well spent outside of the office because of the educational components — not just the speakers, but the opportunity to interact with my peers. My company benefited from my participation.” In the Pipeline at Ritz-Carlton Bruce Himelstein, senior vice president, sales and marketing, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. L.L.C., shared company news at Ritz-Carlton's first insurance advisory board in early January, and at the educational event that followed. The events marked the opening of Ritz-Carlton's 60th hotel. By 2008, Himelstein said, 14 more Ritz-Carlton properties will have opened, primarily in Asia and Europe. All will reflect a local “sense of place” in their design. Himelstein also reviewed new company standards for guest rooms, already incorporated into new hotels and to be included in upgrades of existing properties. Among them are “rainforest” shower heads, 400-thread-count sheets, flat-screen televisions, and Bulgari amenities.

New Hera: Layer 1a: University District The district located in Top Triangle of New Hera, top floor #81 Posted 13 March 2012 - 09:29 AM Mercury watched the exchange with a knowing grin. She'd picked up on Ryuta's comment, and was amused by it. Was he afraid she'd be going bonkers right there and then? A viral Maverick, perhaps would- though they'd started way earlier than that. She, however... Had more self-control than that. "No worries: I'm free-will. I could even shake hands with one of them if there was any reason to," she stated when he stepped back and turned to address her again. "Might chat with them a bit if I don't find enough data elsewhere- that girl sure looks like she knows a lot," she added casually. It was clear by this Reploids behaviour he was no Maverick and knew her to be one. Mercury's face stilled into a blank one when she was told what was happening. Bits and pieces, only? From His DNA? That was so... Underwhelming. It was a far cry from the real Sigma coming back, more powerful than ever, ready to rally all Mavericks into an all out war. To fool the Hunters into fighting one another, or further destroying themselves in an elaborate scheme. "... I guess that's the next best thing..." she conceded, releasing a sigh. This was the answer to the question she was prioritizing; but not the answer she would have liked to hear. The nanite colony blinked in confusion, her head snapping to the side. "What the...", she hissed. Something was wrong. She'd just received a bunch of nonsense data from her smaller colony, before the connection was lost altogether. Had her backup just been attacked? Jammed? Downstraight malfunctioned? Each possibility was grimmed than the prior, and she strode purposefully, wanting to check on what the hell had gone wron with that parked taxi. She was... Upset, angry. If it was those feds shooting randome EMPS at anything that moved, she'd mess them up this time: it wouldn't do to have such dangerous weapons being shot so randomly. #82 Posted 13 March 2012 - 07:26 PM Still he had little more reason to be here other than waste time needed to get more of the city out of the line of fire and possibly awakening themselves to their mistakes. He also wants to see what the colony would do once she encounters the culprits responsible for screwing with her loose pieces. Taking one more look at the fair, he starts to wander off after the colony, making sure not to cause more stress to her than what she was already witnessing from her own kin. #83 Posted 13 March 2012 - 07:52 PM "Attention all festival goers, anybody who went to the Amusement Park today and can prove it by providing the mandatory bracelet admitting entry OR the stamp shall receive VIP Tickets to an exclusive event. The following people are admitted based on the fact they can prove their ID's when asked by the bouncer at the Lobby of the University: Mr. Teech Ordarium, Mr. Pen Cloud, Mr. Akamachi Tenzo, Mr. Ryo-Zero, and Mr. Kenji Nobuyuki. That's free admittance to the University district's exclusive event that happens in 30 minutes. Have a nice day." the speaker shut off. It was obvious. IT was a sheer call out to five individuals. Teech Ordarium was way obvious, but after... Pen Cloud was "Penber Stratus", Akamachi Tenzo was "Chiba Masato", Ryo-Zero was Ryuta/Bionic Zero and Kenji Nobuyuki was Nobuyuki Kazuo... the soul-bound Reploid. It wasn't an actual invitation, but a call out to discuss something. Dr. S knew Ryuta was still in New Hera and had to speak to him from his remote location. Quote Quote #84 Posted 13 March 2012 - 09:16 PM She arrived where she'd left the smaller colony... Only to find that the taxi wasn't there anymore: it'd gone away, leaving behind a small puddle of silvery liquid where it'd been parked, and drops of a similarly colored liquid along the road. It must be that new fuel that most machines and Reploids in this city used... Ordanium, right? Supposedly, it was a very efficient fuel... Mercury, thus far, had avoided coming into contact with any of it, though. Frowning, she walked over to the puddle, and knelt down beside it, watching the inert nanites. She could scan some pretty high residual energy reading from them: they'd been in the middle of helping themselves to the taxi's energy source when they'd been deactivated... Mercury tilted her head and dipped her left hand's index finger in the middle of the pool, attempting to restart some of the nanites and have them join up to her again. Slowly, the liquid rose, enveloping her finger, then the hand... ... Error. ... Error. ErrorErrorErrorErrorErrorErRoReRrOrErRoReRrOrErRoReRrOrErRoReRrOr ErRoReRrOr$%(&/)/(=@#~€@#¬€~·&/#¬¬~#€ Her entire forearm fell off, segmented as if it'd been cut clean, just as Mercury shrieked and jumped back, her eyes wide and her light trims flaring in alarm, watching as the puddle of inert nanites had grown, the empty carcass that'd been her hand now liquated aswell. What was that about? Shocked, the Maverick didn't even think about readjusting her arm again, craddling it like a wound instead. That... Wasn't good: her own nanites had just been used against her: she didn't know how, but it had just happened: she'd lost more, by simply attempting to retrieve and restart the lost ones. She was in danger. Anything and everything could be a threat. #85 Posted 13 March 2012 - 09:29 PM #86 Posted 21 March 2012 - 11:03 PM Quote Quote #87 Posted 21 March 2012 - 11:51 PM Keeping neutral to avoid enticing such attention, Ryuta makes his way towards the person, expecting something to happen upon arrival to where he stands. #88 Posted 22 March 2012 - 01:52 AM Quote Quote #89 Posted 27 March 2012 - 09:58 PM Making sure not to raise suspicion from the unfamiliar passerby, he waits for the guard to take him to the location of the "event". #90 Posted 28 March 2012 - 12:28 AM "Uh, stop Maverick scum." he said, exactly like a bad actor before yanking Ryuta into the doors. Quote Quote #91 Posted 03 April 2012 - 06:25 PM #92 Posted 03 April 2012 - 07:03 PM "You either have a lot of balls, are stupid, or have an amazing plan but the doctor has one task to ask while you're in New Hera. He apologizes he can't be here, but he's yet again fixing his Maverick creation up." the guard said. "The task is pretty simple. If you EVER see Elzareth again, in the next ever, give him this note." he said, handing a small note over to Ryuta. It read "羨望は自尊心を打ちます。 嫉妬深いか。". He looked around, noticing the others openly talking smack about Sigma and on top of that, actually plotting against him. Quote Quote #93 Posted 03 April 2012 - 07:19 PM "If you're done telling me what to expect, could you please let me go, or at least act like you're kicking me out of the University?" he mutters low enough for the guard to hear, "I may be mostly machine, but I still need to breathe normally." #94 Posted 05 April 2012 - 07:27 AM Quote Quote #95 Posted 18 April 2012 - 11:59 PM Keeping an eye out for anymore unwanted encounters, he eventually makes his way towards the university exit and back into the near insecure population of the city. [Leaves University] #96 Posted 11 April 2013 - 06:42 AM Ryuta stayed at the outskirts of the University, remembering their earlier warning to stay away. It probably didn't matter anyway as the bleeding had stopped and his cybernetic implants were busy mending the wound caused by the glowing prop. Figuring it best not to risk the life and plans of the University for the sake of his own recovery, he turns around and leaves, deciding to find the detective and keep a distant watch to make sure no other hooligan attempt to ruin his investigation into Kazuo's true origin. The attempt, however, was going to be hard due to how limited his spiritual senses were. He can sense the detective still within the city, but can't figure out where he wandered off to this time, or if he even left the area where he encountered that overblown anime adaptation. The best chance he has of staying on the detective's tail was to find out where Kazuo lived and head there to see if he was snooping around there. He was certain Kazuo's abode was somewhere in the city, given the amount of presences that were familiar with him as a regular human being, so it would only be a matter of stumbling about until he found the place to get what he needed for the remainder of the time before Sigma comes bursting into the city. As much as he wants to stay focused on getting the civilians out of harms way, he knew not everyone was going to willingly choose their own life over that of a genocidal war machine, and forcing them was only going to cause more turmoil than maintaining the happiness of those who want more out of the upcoming future than to become another stain under his foot. Keeping this in mind, and hoping Dr. S would at least understand his reason for not wanting to force the entire city to accept an offer they would rather not be apart of, Ryuta continues back towards the city, deciding to start with the outer ring and work his way inward to find where Kazuo originally lived. [Leaves University] #97 Posted 06 May 2013 - 04:23 AM Some minutes later, Lion was at the entrance to the school district. He could see people coming and going, something quite unusual compared to the quietness that left the rest of the city in a near-deserted state. "Movement here is different from the rest of the town. Maybe I can get some real information?", Lion thought, as he stepped to the gate of the Top Triangle. #98 Posted 06 May 2013 - 04:32 AM Quote Quote #99 Posted 06 May 2013 - 04:41 AM "Well, if I have to look like I'm not from here, now seems to be the perfect time.", Lion thought as he approached one of the students. "Excuse me", he said, "I came to visit the city today, and I'm curious about the theme of the festival you guys seem to be setting up here." If it went pulled out the right way, Lion could get some explanations about the events around the city. #100 Posted 06 May 2013 - 04:52 AM Quote Quote

Dec 2012 Sunday Sweeties- Recipe Linky #29 – Christmas Feast Christmas has been and gone for another year, though it still feels like Christmas to me. This year we celebrated my side of the family’s Christmas on Boxing Day, due to people working, and everyone having the in-law sides to visit and spend time with. So rather than make everyone rushed and some people missing out, we moved our celebrations to Boxing Day. Presents were first, with Santa (AKA Poppy) making a brief appearance with a gift for the three children. Then it was time for lunch. There was the usual overflowing table of food that was thoroughly enjoyed by all. And with full tummies, it didn’t matter how much time we left before dessert, there wasn’t a lot of room for more. Do you think that stopped us though? Tradition was followed. There was Pavlova, Christmas pudding, ice cream and custard. My mum made an amazing Trifle, and my Sister-In-Law made some White Christmas. There was also a sneaky Chocolate Bavarian in there somewhere. A plate of fresh fruit salad and a bowl of cherries helped us to feel a little better about our indulgences. Did you make anything spectacular for your Christmas feasts? What was on your table? We love reading what you share with us. ‘); // ]]> Here is our button if you share with us: <div align="center"><a href="" title="Melting Moments"><img src="" alt="Melting Moments" style="border:none;" /></a></div> ; ; AnnDecember 30, 2012 at 8:23 am (140 days ago) Dessert is my favourite part of any meal! Yours looks amazing!Reply AngDecember 30, 2012 at 12:19 pm (139 days ago) Thanks Ann. How was your dessert on Christmas day? Did you do some over indulging yourself? AliciaDecember 30, 2012 at 5:50 pm (139 days ago) Your desserts look delicious. I didn’t have any dessert after christmas lunch, the sight of it made me feel sick lol. I was so full!Reply Alicia recently posted..Green Bean Salad AngDecember 31, 2012 at 4:09 pm (138 days ago) Yeah I felt like that after dinner that night. I never eat so much as I do at Christmas time. Evelyn @ My Turn for usDecember 31, 2012 at 7:56 am (139 days ago) Thanks for hosting!! Hope you have a Very Happy New Year!!Reply If you get a moment would love for you to drop in, Jamie @ Love Bakes Good Cakes and I have teamed up for a “Lets Get Social Sunday” Party where you are able to link up all your social sites and your blog to make new friends and gain more followers. So hoping to see you there! Evelyn @ My Turn for us recently posted..Let’s Get Social Sunday #1 AngDecember 31, 2012 at 4:10 pm (138 days ago) Hi Evelyn. I will try to find some time to stop by. Thanks for the invite.

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"My favorite little mountain town." Rollinsville by caffeine_induced78 Rollinsville Travel Guide: 1 reviews and 2 photos It's not hard to find the quiet little mountain towns in Colorado. You just have to pick a place on a map that does not have a ski area close by. Rollinsville is a town like this. For me it is the start of my favorite little corner - the Upper South Boulder Creek valley. If you think that only the big cities have anything to do in them then this is not the place for you. Here you will find some small workshops, a post office, a bar / restaurant, and a general store. In the future I would love to visit the town called Wingello that Jen (craic) has made famous on VT. In the meantime this is how I imagine Wingello - except Rollinsville has more snow and less horses. - Pros:Just the right size, very friendly locals. - Cons:It can get very windy. - In a nutshell:a quiet Colorado mountain town. Reviews (1) An awakening! Between staring at the bottom of a pint glass through gold colored beer I can get an education. It was... more travel advice Have you been to Rollinsville? Share your travels with the world! caffeine_induced78's Related Pages Rollinsville Travel Guide Member Travel Pages - "My favorite little mountain town." - Create a Rollinsville Travel Page Categories - Restaurants in Rollinsville - See All... Explore the World - Member Rank: - 0 0 8 6 0 - 194 Reviews - 252 Photos - Add Friend - Send Message Badges & Stats in Rollinsville - 1 Reviews - 2 Photos - 0 Forum posts - 10 Comments - 551PageViews - See All Stats - See All Badges (16) Have you been to Rollinsville?Share Your Travels Latest Activity in Rollinsville - Posted in Miscellaneous Forum "Nor' easter Nemo." - Wrote a Review the best restaurant in Rollinsville! in Rollinsville Restaurants - Uploaded a Photo to "the best restaurant in Rollinsville!" - created a Rollinsville Travel Page "My favorite little mountain town." Photos in RollinsvilleSee All Photos (2) Sorry to say, but as of May 2008, the restaurant has been closed and it is for sale. Too bad, hopefully there will be new owners soon, it is such a great location for this bar/restaurant. yes there is way too much snow for it to be Wingello.....BTW you`ll love it there, especially when it rains and the frogs sing (303) 258-3270... I dialed this number and some Jennifer Compton answered the phone. I´ve order couple of dozens of Buffalo Wings.. extra spicy... They are DHL´ing them over here. I think she was blonde. you would probably like Donaghadee! I thought this page might give something.sure did, outright down to earth perceptions...like that Quite a rave review for the chicken wings! Chicken wings and a beer. Mmm. Must be dinner time.... that sounds good. yea, dude, i dig your philosophy on that. what's with everyone adoring the urban environment, like we all forgot where we come from Cool place. I could use a drink right now. wings beer snow lol awesome looking hillbilly ville Golly. I felt like I was right there. And right at home.

"Jan's Birthday Present" Budapest by ChrisnJan Budapest Travel Guide: 7,462 reviews and 17,200 photos This is a beautiful city with plenty to see and do; we really enjoyed our stay here. The first two days were really quiet, everything was shut, we guessed it must have been a public holiday but we never found out for sure. On the third day everything came to life, the city became a busy metropolis and the visitor attractions were open to the public. As with any major city there are plenty of places of interest to visit and anyone who is reasonably fit could reach most of them on foot. We bought a 72 hour Budapest Card from the hotel reception which cost HUF 6,500, this gave us unlimited travel on public transport and free or discounted entrance into many attractions, although to be honest, most of them were museums which were free anyway. Getting around the city was very easy with the card, the buses and trams are very frequent wherever you are aiming to go. Budapest is not in the same league as Prague when it comes to nightlife, but it does have a good variety of restaurants and bars. I always like to try the local dishes when I am visiting a foriegn country and I am happy to say I thoroughly enjoyed every meal I had here. Every restaurant we went into concentrated mainly on traditional Hungarian dishes which we were more than happy with. There are a lot of boats moored along the river that have been turned into bars and restaurants, we had a very nice meal in one of them, unfortunately I cannot remember which one it was. - Pros:Lots - Cons:Can't think of any - In a nutshell:Really enjoyed our visit, happy to go back! Reviews (8) Budapest's oldest and most popular ice-rink is located in Városliget (City Park) on the lake next to Vajdahunyad castle.... more travel advice The exterior is very impressive and very imposing; the interior is nothing short of magnificent. I could go into detail... more travel advice The largest building in hungary, Parliament is a wonderful example of architecture. My biggest regret about our visit to... more travel advice This amazing little church was established in a holy grotto, for the Pauline monks in 1926. Be sure to take a look while... more travel advice ChrisnJan and Dangers in Budapest - See All... Nearby Travel Guides - Budapest Travel Guide - Obudai-sziget Travel Guide - See All... Explore the World - Member Rank: - 0 1 9 8 4 - 106 Reviews - 310 Photos - Add Friend - Send Message Badges & Stats in Budapest - 8 Reviews - 19 Photos - 0 Forum posts - 2 Comments - 594PageViews - See All Stats - See All Badges (5) Have you been to Budapest?Share Your Travels Latest Activity in Budapest - Posted in Miscellaneous Forum "Re: Regrets" - Wrote a Review Open Air Ice Skating about Ice Skating in Budapest Things to Do - Uploaded a Photo to "Open Air Ice Skating" - updated a Budapest Travel Page "Jan's Birthday Present" Photos in BudapestSee All Photos (19) FriendsSee All Friends (2) Travel InterestsSee All Travel Interests (5) Latest Budapest hotel reviews - Mercure Budapest Korona - 344 Reviews & Opinions Latest: May 16, 2013 - To-ma Apartments Budapest - 7 Reviews & Opinions Latest: Jan 2, 2013 - Mercure Budapest Duna - 76 Reviews & Opinions Latest: May 17, 2013 - Hotel Hold - 13 Reviews & Opinions Latest: Jan 12, 2010 - Belvedere Hotel - 48 Reviews & Opinions Latest: May 3, 2013 - Art'otel Budapest, by Park Plaza - 634 Reviews & Opinions Latest: May 17, 2013 - Stadion Hotel - 49 Reviews & Opinions Latest: May 17, 2013 - Senator Apartments Budapest - 37 Reviews & Opinions Latest: Apr 23, 2013 - Berlin - 4 Reviews & Opinions Latest: Jan 8, 2013 - Leda Apartments - 8 Reviews & Opinions Latest: Mar 15, 2013 - Hotel Queen Mary - 27 Reviews & Opinions Latest: Apr 12, 2013 - Unikum Panzio - 2 Reviews & Opinions Latest: Nov 3, 2011 - Hotel Bristol - 130 Reviews & Opinions Latest: May 12, 2013 - Centrooms House - 47 Reviews & Opinions Latest: May 14, 2013 - Holiday Inn Budapest-Budaors - 44 Reviews & Opinions Latest: Apr 8, 2013 I'm on my way to Budapest tomorrow. I can't wait to see the sights. Thanks for some great photos, they have only increased my interest. ~M That`s what I call a night pic! I`ve also tried to photograph from this place the Chain bridge and the Royal palace, but your one is much better>;-)

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I stopped into Brass Door for lunch one afternoon. It’s one of those places that everyone seems to have tried except for me. I have heard great things about both the food and the atmosphere, so it was time to give it a try. Since I went in during the week and on off hours, it was pretty slow. Other than one table of lingering businessmen (who obviously didn’t want to go back to work), Scott and I were the only people sitting in the place. You could tell immediately this was an Irish Pub. Other than one or two beers, all the drafts were Irish. There was Celtic music playing over the loud speakers, and, with the decor, you feel like you just walked into Ireland. Someone obviously did their research before opening this place up. Our server greeted us immediately, told us about the specials and got our drink order. He was very sweet. I ended up choosing the I opted for the Grilled Chicken Sandwich, described as “Grilled marinated chicken breast, with lettuce, tomato and onion on toasted Ciabatta with Guinness mayonnaise”. They had me at Guinness mayonnaise. Instead of “hand-cut chips”, I opted for the sauteed veggies as a side. The sandwich was great. The chicken seemed right off the grill, and the Guinness mayo gave the sandwich a different kick than other traditional chicken sandwiches one may consume. It tasted fresh, and the bread was warm and soft. My only qualm were the veggies. Yes, they were sauteed. However, they were sauteed in copious amounts of oil. I couldn’t even taste the veggies due to so much oil. After a couple of bites, I quit. These couldn’t be any healthier for me than fries, and, if that’s the case, I would rather have the fries. Scott ordered the Tam o’ Shanter, which is their traditional Irish sandwich. It is describes as, “Warm ham and smoked turkey on toasted brioche bread with Swiss cheese, Mornay sauce, tomato and bacon.” He opted for the chips. That is one big sandwich. There was so much to it, that it was almost impossible to eat. It was also greasy to the max. Translated, that means this is the perfect hangover sandwich. The fries were great. They were crisp and had a fresh herb seasoning on them that made them different than normal fries. After we ate, our server invited us to their Wednesday Open Mic Nights. He says the artists are usually pretty good. There is a big turnout, and they have great drink specials during that time. I have not had a chance to go back yet, but I plan on it soon. Overall, Brass Door is the place to go if you are looking for a good pint or some greasy bar food. The nightlife also seems to be kicking, but I have not experienced that first hand yet. The service is snappy and friendly, and they make you want to come back. For more information on The Brass Door, visit their website, Facebook page, or Twitter. You can also check out other write-ups about them in Memphis Daily News, Eat Local Memphis, Paul Ryburn’s Journal, and Travel Host. Find more reviews at Yelp and Urbanspoon. You mentioned that someone must have done their research about the Irish Pubs. The reason it seems so genuine and spot on is because it is – the investors hired a guy named Seamus that organized the place, menu, everything – he runs it. He’s the real deal. So better than research, someone that actually knows Irish Pubs. Well, that totally makes sense! It is definitely the most authentic place in town. It reminded me very well of my trip to Ireland. Now, if only they hired a wait staff with accents.

11 Word of the Year Candidates That Didn't Catch On Mobile out-of-office workers earned their own noun in 2008, when "moofer" was a candidate for the Oxford American Dictionary (OAD) Word of the Year. The suggested verb form? Moofing, as in "I won't be at the meeting Thursday, I'm moofing from Starbucks." 2. Deleb Voted 2009's "Novelty Word," a deleb is a dead celebrity. It was listed by OAD alongside the arguably more useful "tramp stamp." 3. Googlegänger Lots of people have a Googlegänger. That's the person with your name who shows up in search results when you google yourself. ("Google" as a verb was recognized as 2002's "Most Useful Word" by the American Dialect Society.) 4. Mellencamp A woman who is too old to be a cougar can be called a mellencamp, thanks to 2011's ADS "Most Outrageous" Word of the Year, inspired by singer John Cougar Mellencamp's multiple name changes. 5. Sardoodledom This selection from Merriam–Webster's Word of the Year list in 2004 is a one-word noun which describes a stage play with an overly dramatic or morally objectionable plot, derived from the name of French dramatist Victorien Sardou. 6. Infobahn Just as the autobahns are Germany's coordinated federal expressway system, the infobahn is the information superhighway (the winner in 1993). The term was voted 1994's "Most Promising" Word of the Year by the ADS. 7. Blamestorm Another M-W pick from 2004, blamestorm describes a meeting or discussion held for the sole purpose of assigning blame for a failure. 8. Pecksniffian From Charles Dickens' character Seth Pecksniff, a pecksniffian is a person who hypocritically affects a high moral standing or practices pecksniffery, the universally irritating art of being sanctimonious. "Pecksniffian" and its derivatives were chosen by Merriam–Webster as one of 2007's Words of the Year. 9. Heaven-o Because 80% of "hello" is from H-E-double-hockey-sticks. The entirely useless "heaven-o" was elected "Most Unnecessary" by ADS in 1997, never to be mentioned again (until now). 10. Flog "Flog" has been a verb meaning "to beat or to whip" since the 17th century, but in 2006 it was a runner-up in the Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year list as a noun: fake+blog, or a website that appears to be real but is actually just a form of marketing or advertisement for a company. 11. Carrotmob A carrotmob is the opposite of a boycott: A group of people gather to support a business by descending upon it en masse and shopping there all at the same time. The word was one of those shortlisted by Oxford Dictionaries in 2008; it comes from the name of the website used for organizing such things.

Just when you think you’ve got it all sorted out in your head – and just when you’ve been nationally recognised! – there’s a curve ball thrown at you!? Typical. Incidentally, this has happened to me before … I spent a year writing a proper mental health policy for my force in 2005/6. In doing so, I solicited officers’ views about ANY and ALL questions and queries on mental health so that I could ensure they were addressed in the policy. I carefully listed everything they asked to ensure that what they wanted addressing in operational guidance was included. I considered it a job well done when I published it until a sergeant rang me up to complain that the situation he wanted advice on wasn’t mentioned at all and that my new policy “wasn’t very much use, really”. Thanks, Sarge! Today, an AMHP presented a situation to me that I’ve never encountered before, albeit I have read about “guardianship”. I read about it partly to try to understand why the police never seem to get requests in connection with it. By definition, guardianship involves patients who remain at liberty and therefore a reduced need for coercion reduces the need for the police. << That’s one of the saddest sentences I’ve typed on this blog, as the police should not be just the coercive arm of the mental health system. In fairness to the AMHP who I know well, he hadn’t dealt with this kind of situation before either and his need for police support caused me to think I should cover the subject, in case some officers across it. WHAT IS GUARDIANSHIP? It may be that some think of the legal status of mental health patients as being either “inpatients” or “outpatients”. Inpatient in a psychiatric hospital, either voluntary or detained under the Mental Health Act; OR “outpatients” under community mental health teams. Guardianship is something in between, but in my experience, the police service hear of this very rarely indeed – probably because by definition of it, patients are prepared to engage with it and considered able to live in an arrangement where their physical liberty is not totally restricted. It should be noted in particular, that guardianship is totally different to Community Treatment Orders, and should not be confused with it, although both are options for community care which impose restrictions or limitations of various sorts. Under Section 7 of the Mental Health Act, a person may be placed in to guardianship upon the application an AMHP or the patient’s nearest relative if they have received the medical recommendations from two doctors. A criminal court can also instigate guardianship under section 37 of the Act, if two medical recommendations suggest it is appropriate after a conviction for an offence or a finding of the act being done. A patient received into guardianship may be required by the guardian to do certain things: “reside at a specified place, attend specified places at times for medical treatment, occupation, education or training; to ensure access for any registered medical practitioner or Approved Mental Health Professional.” TRANSFERS AND WARRANTS AND AWOLS Where a patient is received into guardianship in one local authority, it may become necessary to transfer them to a new guardian in a new area, much like inpatients are occasionally transferred between hospitals. All of this is covered in s19 of the Act and if need be, that transfer can be effected by the use of reasonable force. Where access to a premises is not enabled, a warrant can be sought under section 135(2) to force entry in order to transfer a patient under guardianship. << This is what the AMHP was asking for, in the example which gives rise to this post. If a warrant is secured for this purpose, then the police will need to be involved because only the police can execute the warrant. Of course, any conveyance which is subsequently necessary, should be done in accordance with the Code of Practice which presumes ambulance transfer. If a patient absents themselves from the care of the guardian, then they become AWOL for the purposes of the Mental Health Act and may be re-taken by a police officer, an AMHP or anyone authorised in writing by the guardian or the local social services authority. If entry to a premises must be forced, in order to re-take someone received into guardianship, then a warrant under s135(2) is required. This is no different to the re-detention of an inpatient AWOL from hospital under the MHA. Of course, guardianship being less restrictive on a patient’s liberty, having been re-detained and returned to the guardianship from which they were AWOL, they cannot be then compelled to remain there, unlike an inpatient under a section like 2 or 3. REFERENCE MATERIALS - Mental Health Act reference guide from the Department of Health - Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act - MIND – an outline guide to the Mental Health Act 1983. The Mental Health Cop blog won the Mind 2012 Digital Media Award, in memory and in honour of Mark Hanson. The Awards celebrate the “best portrayals of and reporting on mental health in the media.” Devil’s Advocate; An ungrateful relative who may be ‘Acting In Bad Faith’ could provide embellished/misinformation to police regarding the relatives mental health. Police on the side of caution may take the person in question for a mental health assessment. If that detainee is refused call to lawyer & refuses to see psychiatrist until call provided to lawyer, the medical staff may deem that as non co-operating and force the detainee to remove clothes, force them to take medications against their will. Think it doesn’t happen, guess again. Police need to ensure they are not taking the wrong person for a psychiatric examination. This article on “Guardinship” scares the hell out of me when I vision capable seniors.citizens attempting to defend themselves without a call to lawyer against someone presenting misinformation to police for personal gain, be it to gain control over the person’s estate, financial affairs, or have control over where they are to live and what medications they are forced to take. A citizen’s life could be adversely affected needlessly. Nothing like opening a can of worms, but if it gets people talking together in forums and Blogs I’m all for it, we all learn, I hope! If it gets people talking together in forums and Blogs … well, here goes. As a mental health service user, it comforts me that due to presumably to limited funds there are less psychiatric beds than many ‘carers’ and healthcare workers would like. I won’t get a knock on the door by the police and three people sent by my consultant psychiatrist if there aren’t any beds! It is, however, of concern that psychiatrists can control citizens in the community, through the police. What is the upper limit of the numbers affected other than the unsatisfactory criterion of their being deemed a ‘danger to themselves or to others’? “deemed a ‘danger to themselves or others’” there lies the problem, at least in Canada, not sure about policy where you are, here in Canada some provinces like British Columbia where I reside, police are not required to see a citizen do anything, they can just rely on information provided to them from a caller or rely on verbal information from another person. We take no issue with police involuntarily detaining and treating incapable citizens who may be at risk of harming themselves or others. Even if the police are unsure, and erroniously assume the person is incapable and a risk to self or others, the detainee (which could be capable and not at risk) could in fact be institutionalized and drugged because they refuse to meet with psychiatrist, (because medical staff refused them their requested call to lawyer to determine if detention is lawful and to inform lawyer where they are, and for lawyer to inform a family member to make arrangements for their (the deatinee) obligations in caring for family members etc.). I hear so often from police that it’s not a police decision to have the proposed patient detained and treated, that’s up to medical staff to decide, then police leave hospital and are finished with the person, not knowing what exactly happed to that citizen. No person with a mental illness, or a person being treated as such can be discriminated against. So when society allows criminals a call to lawyer without delay, and refuses detained citizens being held under mental health law their requested call to lawyer, then I see that as clearly discriminating against that person. Maybe to treat everyone as equal we should deny criminals their call to lawyer, but then what kind of Society do we want to live in. Please don’t misread this comment, Citizens at Risk of Harming Themselves or Others Must be Detained and Treated if Necessary. I did mention in my last post it’s a can of worms. I live in the UK and have had contact with more than one British police force in connection with the Mental Health Act. I should like to acknowledge firstly that the police officers I have met have almost without exception been very helpful and good humoured, despite their patience being occasionally tried). Given my respect for the police it is embarrassing to have had them involved. On one occasion I was watching TV and there was a knock on the door. I opened it to find two policemen, a psychiatrist who worked for my consultant, a social worker and a GP from a neighbouring town. The latter GP explained I didn’t seem to be quite myself. I replied that her observation surprised me since I didn’t believe we had met before. This she conceded but went on to assure me that she had read my file. That exchange was almost the full extent of the ‘assessment’ and I was left to be driven in a police car to a psychiatric ward (all obviously pre-arranged). The whole thing was farcical or would have been except that it was a waste of police time. (The waste of time they might have expected because on a previous occasion I had been escorted to hospital, just as reluctantly, by my community psychiatric nurse on the bus and over my entire history I have never physically resisted involuntary detention). I am not convinced that citizens at risk of harming themselves should always be restrained (but that view is probably too risky for professionals to abide by). I certainly agree that society has a right to protect itself from persons at risk of harming others. But then surely you might as well lock up everyone who has had a few drinks too many! Hi, I have always thought your posts were both thoughtful and thought provoking, as is this one. However one slight disagreement,you state that the situation described is no different to the AWOL of an inpatient from hospital. But such an AWOL patient would still be “liable to be detained”,this is not the case with a person under a Guardianship. Which is a bit weird as they can be compelled to return but not to stay? Unless they have also been made subject to the DOLS prevision of the Capacity Act. Alex Davis I can see the point you are making and I will ammend the wording to reflect what I meant – I meant “liable to be detained by the police in order to be returned.” You are obviously quite correct that they cannot be required to then remain detained. The wording was intended for the police officers managing a re-detetention, as opposed to the Guardian themselves keeping the person detained. Good point, well presented! Thanks,hope to see you at the Mental Health Action Group meeting on Monday. Cheers Alex Davis.

Number of books read in July: 19 Number of books read in 2012: 85 Number of books read in 2012: 85 ■ The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker) Fiction. I loved this quiet work of post-apocalyptic fiction, even if others didn't. There is something about summer reading for me, though: It's more... forgiving. ■ The Group (Mary McCarthy) Fiction. Robin at 52 Books challenged folks to read a NYT bestseller from the week and year they were born. As it happens, The Group was #2 during my week. It was a dated but compelling read. ■ Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Joshua Foer) Non-fiction. This was our audio accompaniment for our ill-fated trip to the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Related entry here. ■ Amped (Daniel H. Wilson) Fiction. Entertaining if thin sci-fi from the author of Robopocalypse, which I enjoyed last summer. ■ Happy Endings Are All Alike (Sandra Scoppetone) YA fiction. My Chapter 8 -- "Him She Loves: Romanced, Rejected, Affianced, Dejected" -- choice for Girl Detective's "Summer of Shelf Discovery" reading project. Related entry here. ■ Falling for Hamlet (Michelle Ray) YA fiction. I wanted this to be better than it was. Sigh. ■ A Thousand Cuts (Simon Lelic) Fiction. "But trust me. Being bullied: it bites." Quite possibly the best book I've read this year. Related entry here. ■ The Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem by John Milton (Nancy Willard) Fiction. With the Misses. This abridgement has both fans and foes. I will simply say that it's serviceable. ■ The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need (Andrew Tobias) Non-fiction. Rudimentary but helpful. ■ Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age (Michael J. Gelb and Kelly Howell. Non-fiction. A repetitive retread of the same ol' "feed your mind, eat right, exercise" advice you've heard before. Neat bit of synchronicity, though: Tony Buzan, whose memory empire is featured in Moonwalking with Einstein, penned the introduction. ■ Things We Didn't See Coming (Steven Amsterdam) Fiction. I know I've heaped superlatives on this month's reading, but Amsterdam's collection of related short stories set in utterly recognizable and believable post-apocalyptic world was, in a word, brilliant. ■ Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? (Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D.) Non-fiction. Read this as "research" for a piece You know what? This book actually frightened me. Apparently, some teenagers are really quite awful. Note to self: You won the parenting lottery. Thank you, LCpl M-mv and Misses. ■ Pariah (Bob Fingerman) Fiction. Gratuitously violent and crass. Cardboard characters. A thinly explained "twist." The illustrations were the most compelling aspect of this otherwise mediocre bit of zombie fiction. ■ The Paleo Diet (Loren Cordain) Non-fiction. ■ The Primal Blueprint (Mark Sisson) Non-fiction. Others have probably already observed that these seem like a rehash of Atkins. If, like me, you're late to the low-carb discussion, The Paleo Diet was the more readable text. Sisson's presentation was repetitive and poorly organized. ■ How to Retire Overseas (Kathleen Peddicord) Non-fiction. ■ Where to Retire (John Howells) Non-fiction. I keep returning to this topic, making new and improved (tentative) plans, running the numbers with all sorts of scenarios in mind. It's not so much that I read such books as pore over them, adding notes to my "Retirement" file, daydreaming, and reading sections aloud to Mr. M-mv. ■ The Outsourced Self (Arlie Russell Hochschild) Non-fiction. Related articles here and here. The Time Bind and The Second Shift fascinated me, but this one... not so much. It may be partially my fault, though: I've been reading it in fits and starts for about six weeks. ■ Epic Fail (Claire LaZebnik) YA fiction. Loosely patterned on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, this was almost painfully cute. 4 comments: I requested Things We Didn't See Coming, A Thousand Cuts, The Wave, The Project, Wool Omnibus, and The English Teacher from the library. Thank you. :-) Heather Based on the above, check out Maureen McHugh's AFter the Apocalypse story collection, and The Four Hour Body. Get Out of My Life has been recommended to me for years. I own it, got it for 50 cents at a library sale years ago, but never read it. Yesterday while unpacking I found it and put it aside to read, finally. Funny you mention it here. I have no clue what the book has in store for me, can't wait to see if after reading it I will think I hit the parenting lottery also. Heather, you're welcome. :o) Kristin, I loaded the collection onto the Kindle when you first mentioned it on your site. Christine, you did. Hey, and best wishes in your new home. MFS

While your handbook is your primary resource, the links below can help you learn Swimming Skills. See the Disclaimers. ► Videos show you key skills. While your handbook is your primary resource, the links below can help you learn Swimming Skills. The only resources recommended by the BSA are those in the BSA materials. See the Disclaimers. ► Swimming Lesson Videos - How to Swim ► Backstroke (Back Crawl) ► Video: Elementary Backstroke ► Breaststroke ► Butterfly ► Freestyle (Front Crawl) arm action - breathing - Step-by step Instruction ► Sidestroke ► Trudgen ► Float - Teaching kids to float ► Survival Floating ► Tread Water Only U.S. Coast Guard-approved equipment (types I, II, or III) is acceptable for use in Scouting aquatics. Ski belts are not acceptable. Scouts and unit leaders should learn which type is appropriate for each specific circumstance and how to wear and check for proper fit. ► How to Pick a PFD for Canoeing ► Flutter Kick (or Freestyle Kick) - Frog Kick (or Breaststroke Kick) - Dolphin Kick (or Butterfly Kick) ► Diving Safety - Racing Dive. ► Snorkeling ► SCUBA Diving ► Swimming Underwater ► Open Turns - Flip Turns ► Reach, Throw, Row, Go (with animation at the end) - Reach - Throw How to Swim with an Unconscious Person - How to Use a Tired Swimmer Carry Websters Dictionary states that Hydrophobia is "the mortal fear of water" literally being scared to death of water. Hydrophobia is not a fear of swimming but a fear of all water. Hydrophobia is a mental disorder, specifically a Specific Phobia Anxiety Disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association classifies a Specific Phobia as 300.29. If a Scout is diagnosed with Hydrophobia or other physical or mental disabilities, his Chartered Organization notes this on his youth application. The Scout's Medical Record should reflect any disabilities as well. His local council reviews any Medical Record, Individualized Education Program (IEP), and other resources and can certify that the Scout has Special Needs. The Council Advancement Committee can then approve Alternate Requirements for this Scout. See Special Needs for details. Aquatic-related awards Disclaimer: This information is not intended as a substitute for professional advice or training. Please note that the only Swimming, Lifesaving, First Aid, and CPR materials recommended by the Boy Scouts of America are those found or listed in official BSA materials such as the current Swimming or Lifesaving Merit Badge Books or Boy Scout Handbook. Swimming, Lifesaving, First Aid, and CPR guidelines are constantly being revised. See the Guide to Safe Scouting. Neither MeritBadge.Org, nor its contributors make any recommendations. Categories: Shortcuts | Aquatics | Skills

Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Access2Research Final draft of blog post [edit] This is a draft for a blog post that the Wikimedia Foundation published on May 25, 2012 to support the Access2Research petition. The FAQ is available on enwiki and has been reviewed by the communications committee. The Wikimedia Foundation endorses mandates for free access to publicly funded research [edit] Scholarly information is often too expensive to access. Academic publishers sell journal subscriptions for thousands of dollars per journal per year. Typically, only universities and large libraries, not individuals, are able to pay those fees, which limits access to researchers and others affiliated with institutions with money. Are these costs justifiable when the underlying research is publicly funded and the underlying goal is public knowledge? If you're a taxpayer you've already paid to fund the research, so why should you pay essentially another tax to read the findings of that research? On May 20, a team of longtime advocates for public access to scholarly information launched a campaign to urge U.S. President Barack Obama to "require free access over the Internet to journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research." Opening up publicly-funded research will "provide access to patients and caregivers, students and their teachers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and other taxpayers who paid for the research." This is consistent with Wikimedia's non-profit mission "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally." Wikimedia project volunteers, who are among the taxpayers, should not be denied free access to this information. They should be empowered to read it, report on it, and cite it. Wikipedia and its sister projects depend on the energy and unselfish dedication of this team of contributors—volunteers, researchers, and amateurs—who read and investigate sources as they work to compile accurate, up-to-date, verifiable knowledge. Each month, hundreds of millions of global readers view, and have the opportunity to evaluate and contribute to, Wikimedia content. Many do not have the means (nor should be required) to pay for knowledge, including useful economic, health, and scientific information, when their taxes fund the research. We believe in open access and free licensing as fundamental forces to disseminate knowledge, support education, and accelerate discovery. Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is endorsing this petition, joining thousands of individuals and organizations expressing support for free access to taxpayer-funded research articles. We hope you will join us, too—anyone over 13 can sign. Please consider signing this petition to mandate that all research funded by U.S. taxpayers be made freely available to the citizens of the Web. Dario Taraborelli, Senior Research Analyst, Wikimedia Foundation Geoff Brigham, General Counsel, Wikimedia Foundation Kat Walsh, Member of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees

! M v. NMU BBall replay on BTN at 4pm today....(the more you know) Man, now only 4 hours of tailgating. UM vs osu 2011 bring your keys and make noise (get it keys!)? You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.. You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course. why would you want to talk to flirty drunk girls once they sober up? You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia - but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!. You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course. Everyone on the West coast? The world looks better through maize mirror tint.. Blank.....Blank......You're not looking at the big picture here. I hope this post is a troll. The November night game issue has been covered ad nauseum. There is no such B1G rule. This is MICHIGAN I was hoping one of the last two games would be 330 -UM class of 2018. "Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake." Follow the random tweets of a Michigan alum -. HAIL.. Blank.....Blank......You're not looking at the big picture here. We've had enough 3:30 starts for the year to make me happy. Much better than last season. "Ohio is like a giant turd that Michigan just can't pinch off" Considering how late I've been showing up for work lately on saturdays I guess this ensures they won't fire me for showing up late once again this year. So yay! "I can pick leaves of tree in the backyard." -Tom Strobel. When the ADept sells special jerseys and gear, you'll see my picture next to the targeted customer crowd. A sheep.....but a Blue one..... on a black and white 13" Zenith TV with tin foil around the rabbit ears right? Cuz that's the way Bo would want it. You're so off base. If Bo recognized both the recruiting advantage and the crowd advantage of later games, especially under the lights, he'd play them all at night. To assume otherwise proved to me you've never met Bo, nor do you understand the intricacies of college football. FWIW: LSU has played 37 home night games since 2005, and have averaged a top 5 recruiting class ever since. Les knows Bo! I prefer noon games. And we've had too many 3:30 or later games this year anyway. Also good news not having this on the BTN. Go Blue! Always! I prefer noon home games and 330 road games. If an OSU fan divorces his wife are they still brother and sister?

October 19, 2007 D. Scott Fritchen GoPowercat.com Kansas State coach Ron Prince has taken a liking to his black cowboy hat. But it was probably buried underneath play charts and statistics this week as the No. 25 Wildcats prepare to face Big 12 South co-leader Oklahoma State at 6:05 p.m. Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium. Prince knows his team must be on top of its game as the Wildcats seek their fourth-straight win against a South opponent. "We're going to play an opponent at a place that is always very tough," said Prince, the second-year coach who will travel to Stillwater, Okla., for the first time. "From what I can ascertain it's getting tougher and tougher with the way they're building their environment." While Oklahoma State students spent the week pomping floats for their Homecoming celebration, construction crews were finishing up concrete work to connect the newly-erected bowled western section of the stadium with the north stands to form a unified look for the stadium. At 46 percent complete, a project manager told The Associated Press earlier in the week that construction was ahead of schedule, thus making it only a matter of time before the 44,700-capacity stadium grows into one of the largest in the league. Meanwhile, the Cowboys, 4-3 overall and 2-1 in the Big 12, who come off a historic win at Nebraska, hope to be on schedule for a massive three-game homestand. K-State, 4-2 and 2-1, will mark first of three ranked foes as the Cowboys host No. 19 Texas and then No. 15 Kansas. "Everybody's glad to be home because obviously we enjoy playing here and there's just generally a comfort zone when you're not traveling, not in airplanes, not in hotels," said Gundy, who has won nine of his last 11 home contests. "But when they watch tape of this team, they won't have any problem looking past this team." K-State has already made two strong showings on the road in a 23-13 loss at then-No. 18 Auburn and in a 41-21 win against then-No. 7 Texas, which marked the program's first-ever road win against a Top 10 opponent and the Longhorns' worst home loss since 1997. The Wildcats will try to do something they have failed to do in their last three opportunities (2005, 2003 and 2001) and beat two South teams on the road in the same season. They last did so by beating a ranked Texas team and Oklahoma State away from Manhattan in 1999. The Wildcats' three straight wins against South opponents is the longest current streak by a North team. Colorado has won its last two against the South. K-State has won 10 of the last 11 against Oklahoma State, including four of the last five in Stillwater. After posting a 44-21 victory there in 1999, the Wildcats lost 38-34 in 2003. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial Already a member? Click here to sign in

First Version Due: November 11 Second Version: November 18 Third Version: December 9 What is an Annotated Bibliography? The Annotated Bibliography, or A.B., is the written record of your research process. Without a continuously updated A.B., you can't show that you're actually conducting research. The A.B. is always longer than your References page at the end of an APA-formatted paper. This is because you include everything you have considered in your research - it is a full record of your research. The References page at the end of an APA-formatted paper includes only those sources you "reference" or use. You will hand in an A.B. with every draft along the way to the final research project. How do I do the A.B.? The A.B. is fairly straightforward. Like the References page to an APA Style paper, it is organized alphabetically. In fact, you follow the same format as you do on the References page. If you're on the ball, you'll simply paste your formatting from the A.B. to the References page as you complete a draft. In other words, just paste the reference for the sources you use in the paper from the A.B. to the References page. >You should have a clear heading for your A.B. It should have your name, the course, the title for your paper/project, and Annotated Bibliography. >For each source you look at in your research, you'll include the reference (the citation) in APA format. This is the "bibliography" part in the annotated bibliography. >In addition to the "bibliography" part, you need the "annotated" part. An annotation is 6-12 sentences that does two things. First, it provides a basic overview of the source - a brief summary or distillation. Here, it is often helpful to indicate key terms or concepts in the source, particularly if they might come in handy later. Second, and this is very important, it indicates how and why you think the source might prove useful for your project (or why it won't prove useful). You must have these two elements for each annotation. Each research assignment in the course asks you to prepare the material that goes into this kind of annotation. You could simply paste the relevant text from your research assignment into the A.B. >That's all. (You might put each source on its own page if you like, but it isn’t necessary. Also, annotations can be single-spaced to save room!)

The Global Argument for the Keystone Pipeline March 2, 2013Posted by geoff in News. trackback Reading about the latest environmental impact report for the Keystone pipeline (no effect on global warming) made me wonder why the President and his administration hate other countries. You see, the report apparently goes on to say that we don’t really need Keystone to meet America’s energy needs:. Let me just outline the following argument: - We’re teetering on global recession - Lower oil prices help economies - More oil generally means lower oil prices - Building Keystone makes more oil available - …and creates US jobs and increases exports - …which I thought was part of the master plan - So WTF? Build the damn pipeline and promote other oil projects, and help the world dig itself out of this recession while lining our own pockets along the way. Unless you hate those other countries, that is. Added global argument: we import more oil from Canada than from Saudi Arabia. Canada is our largest energy importer. And also the United State’s hat. If the US was as hot for invading countries for their oil as the liberals have claimed for the last 20+years they’d be speaking American in Toronto by now. Teetering? I’m pretty sure we’re already inside the rabbit hole now. So WTF? Build the damn pipeline and promote other oil projects, and help the world dig itself out of this recession while lining our own pockets along the way. If there’s a chance that human beings will benefit generally, or the US will benefit spefically, it is wrong and evil and not gonna happen. Environmentalism is just Marxism with pimp threads and a walking stick. Comment of the year, Dave. Michael? Also, one of my comments went to spam bucket. Did it get fished out? That’s why I never trusted the climate change/global warming/ice ager goal post movers. They have the same agenda, it’s always been the same. Junk science and outright lies. Same answer: hobble capitalism and control the serfs. No it is still missing. It was that article on how cheap oil is good for poor people. Couldn’t find it, Laura. By any chance are you “whole house filter system”? Well, at least I got Comment of the Year. And yes, cheap energy is the best weapon there is to fight poverty. Hmmm. I wonder if this was one of those comments that I started in another window then got interrupted by work and accidentally closed out. Never mind. hmmmmm So, we can meet our energy needs without this pipeline. Does that mean that the 20,000 jobs that would be created by building his pipeline are superfluous? We could totally do without mid-east oil if this was built. Whose ox is being gored? Follow the money….” He sure talks gloomy, doesn't he? We can burn less carbon based fuels if we restrict electricity to the environmentalists. First, they have to be registered…kind of like what they want to do to gun owners. Next they can only have electricity generated by solar and wind and when the wind stops blowing or the sun goes down the electricity stops flowing. That has to be worth millions of tons of unburnt coal and natural gas. Of course the enviros wouldn’t be able to have reliable cable television, hair dryers, air conditioning and refrigerator thingies. That’s a small price to pay to keep Canadian oil in Canada. Bunch of woosies wouldn’t last a week with warmer temperatures in July!

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Don’t look now, but the Middlesboro Yellow Jackets are closing the season on quite a hot streak. Wednesday’s 10-8 win at Clay County was Middlesboro’s fifth straight victory and tenth in their last twelve games and the Jackets are now 20-9 on the season. Coach John Smith said more players taking on leadership roles has been a key to the team being able to sustain their success. “We pulled some different guys over and talked to them, some guys that had played last year as sophomores. We just told them that they have to step up and be leaders for the team — whether that means being vocal or leading by example,” he said. “I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging or anything, but we’ve got a really good coaching staff. All of us played college baseball and we’ve got quite a bit of knowledge about the game we’re trying to pass along. The big thing is just getting them to buy into what’s going on. They’re doing that and they’re starting to believe in what we’re telling them.” The game at Clay was originally scheduled for Thursday, but with a chance of rain in the forecast the teams moved it up a day. Jake Brock led off the game with a base hit to right and just never quit hitting. He went 4-for-4 with four singles and four stolen bases on the night. Middlesboro led 6-0 after two innings. The Tigers took advantage of a few errors and rallied to take a 7-6 lead. But Yoakum held his own in a tough environment and the Middlesboro offense came through to pull out the win. “We jumped on them pretty good and got up 6-0 after two innings and then we kind of relaxed and kicked the ball around a little bit in the third and fourth and they took a 7-6 lead,” Smith said. “Our defense didn’t help him out a whole lot, but Tyler Yoakum threw a heck of a ballgame for us. He went the distance and we wound up winning 10-8.” Yoakum’s effort continued a string of strong pitching performances by the Jackets. Last Friday he went seven strong in a 6-1 win at Whitley County. Monday it was Lucas Crawford firing a shutout in an 8-0 win at Williamsburg. One recent change that has paid dividends for Middlesboro is moving junior Jesse Hoskins up to the number two spot in the batting order. Early in the year, Hoskins served as a kind of super utility player for the Jackets. He saw time at second base, shortstop, third and the outfield. “We had a couple of guys leave the team early in the season that were outfielders. Jesse has played some at second base and filled in at shortstop when Brian (Hale) was pitching. Now he’s pretty much our everyday left fielder and has done a great job out there for us,” Smith said. The coach added that having Hoskins hit second has been a boost both to him and the entire offense. “First of all, Tyler (Yoakum) was struggling a bit in the two hole and we talked about what we should do there. Jesse can bunt and do some other things with the bat when Jake gets on base, plus he’s got quite a bit of speed himself. We’ve moved him up there for the last four or five games and it’s worked in our favor.” Hoskins had four hits as the Jackets swept a double-header against Barbourville and Bell County last Thursday. Brock’s bat has also taken off over the last couple of weeks and Yoakum has taken well to hitting lower in the order. Middlesboro has won the first three of their four-game road swing to close out the regular season. “We’ve pitched well. We’ve played good, solid defense for the most part. On offense, we’re just doing a much better job of hitting the ball behind runners,” Smith added. The Jackets finish up the regular season at North Laurel on Friday. The 52nd District Tournament starts on Monday with Middlesboro taking on host Harlan in the first game at 5:30 p.m.

Jay Compton Sports Editor HARROGATE, Tenn. — The Cumberland Gap Lady Panthers evened their record at 5-5 with a 13-3 win over Claiborne Friday. Five different Lady Panthers had two hits each and all nine batters had at least one as they pounded out 13 hits in the game. Oliva Price tripled, singled, reached on an error as she drove in two runs and scored three. McKayla Hamilton drove in three runs with two singles, including a bases-loaded shot to right-center to bring the 10-run rule into effect in the bottom of the fifth. The Lady Bulldogs jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead as Davidson walked ahead of an RBI double from Ickes in the top of the first. With two down, Williams tripled and Walker reached on an error to push the Claiborne lead to 3-0. Cumberland Gap’s Danielle Caldwell held the Lady Bulldogs to just two base runners the rest of the way as Williams walked and Walker reached on an error in the fourth inning. Caldwell allowed three runs, two earned, on two hits over five innings while striking out nine and walking two to get the win. The Lady Panthers rallied to take a 4-3 in their half of the first. McKenzie Miracle led off with a single and stole second. Price reached on an error to put runners at the corners and Kaitlyn McCarty brought Miracle home with a ground out to second. Lindsey Elliott reached on an error as Price scored and with two out, Genna Lake singled, Jordan Thacker walked and Hamilton followed with a two-run single to left. In the second, Miracle singled and scored on Prices’ triple. McCarty reached on an error as Price scored and Elliott followed with an RBI double to make it 7-3. Cumberland Gap made it 8-3 in the fourth as McCarty singled and stole second and third. With two out, Lake blooped an RBI single into shallow center. The Lady Panther put the game away with five runs in the bottom of the fifth. Chelsey Williams started the rally with a double and scored as Miracle reached on an error. Price singled and Miracle scored on the front end of a double-steal to push the lead to 10-3. With one out, Elliott walked and Caldwell singled to bring Price home. Walks to Lake and Thacker forced in another run and Hamilton followed with her walk-off single. Cumberland Gap (5-5) will play at West Greene on Monday.

January 16th, 2010 Top 10 UltraSuperNew Projects of 2009 This was originally going to be a new year post, but was delayed because of some happy distractions for me personally. So now we have an even better day to release this, the 3rd Anniversay of UltraSuperNew Inc! Back in January 16, 2007, me and Marc started up USN in some shared office space in Shibuya. 3 years later we have grown to a good sized team working with some great clients and getting more and more opportunities to “do our thing” from our office in Harajuku. So, as we get kicked off into 2010 and start on a fresh year with many new opportunities and expectations, we have taken a moment to reflect on all that was achieved in 2009 (ie. Year 3) at UltraSuperNew Inc. On our final day in the office for 2009, we spent a little time discussing our favorite projects for the year and for me, this past year was really something to be proud of. We managed to step it up to the next level this year, and even though some days it seemed like a tornado of different things all demanding attention, we managed to achieve a lot. In the end, keeping the list down to 10 projects was actually very hard, this could have been a much longer list. So, without further ado, lets get the list going. 1. Missing Wheels (client : Red Bull) In order to promote the call for entry for the Red Bull Box Cart Race, we bought 70 second hand bicycles, took off parts and placed them around the city with obvious signs that read “We have borrowed your wheel. We needed it to build our box cart for the Red Bull Box Cart Race and will return it to you after the race.” We managed to create a new type of media with the bicycles, utilizing something that is in plain sight all over the place in busy shopping areas of Tokyo. Even though we had to answer some questions from the police since they were wondering why all these bicycles had no wheels, they found we were behaving completely legally and even complimented us on the idea. The result was a lot of attention for the race, discussion online and off and in the end we managed to get about three times our goal for the number of entries for the race. 2. Crowdcast (client : Red Bull) Red Bull Crowdcast is a new platform we developed for Red Bull to get people attending their events more involved with the brand and create a new source of media surrounding events. Attendees at events can use a simple mobile application to upload photos of the event to a central server. The Red Bull Crowdcast website then publishes the content and provides a combined stream of images in real time back to mobile and PC users at the event or at home, as well as digital screens at the event. When watching in slideshow mode, images can take just a few seconds from submitting to appearing in the slideshow. The images submitted are more spontaneous than the general material that is collected around events and are published much faster. We did everything on this project from the concept to the programming to the running of the system, and have many more plans for the next year to take this to the next level in 2010. 3. Pump 20th Anniversary Party (client : Reebok) We created a 20th anniversary party with a difference for the Reebok Pump at Mado Lounge on the 52nd floor of Roppongi Hills building in central Tokyo. Apart from the general logistics, branding and planning, we had three key special features for the event that made this one a special one for me. The shoe display, projection screen and dance performance. Reebok made 20 collaboration models with select specialty sneaker stores around the world, and we needed to display them in an interesting way at the event. The solution in the end was a special vacuum pack that we ended up doing by hand at the office because nobody had machinery the right size to do the sealing of the vacuum. The vacuum packed shoes were then hung on a custom built display. This one took a lot of hard work to execute, but ultimately an incredibly satisfying result that people really took notice of. For the main space I wanted to make sure we had an interesting way to show the shoes as well, so we designed a special screen in the shape of a shoe silhouette that we then projected images of the 20 collaboration shoes on to. The footage was also programmed on a cycle with sound reactivity and some special tweak controls. The end effect was a floating shoe that pulsed to the beat sitting over the room with a backdrop of Tokyo city lights stretching out below. Finally for entertainment, in addition to headliner Captain Funk, we had a dance performance by what I term “The ghosts of 1989″. Three guys in neon costume pulling off crazy b-boy dance moves. We had a packed event and generated a lot of press and buzz around the 20th anniversary. By the end I was so tired from putting everything together I couldn’t even make it to the after party, but slept one of the most satisfied heavy sleeps I ever had. 4. pecha-kucha.org Renewal (client : Pecha Kucha) This year marked the second major iteration of the Pecha Kucha online platform that we have put together in as many years, and this years version is really pushing towards the big vision. Pecha Kucha is a presentation style and an event format, Pecha Kucha Night, that is now held in over 260 cities globally, and still growing. We have been involved with Pecha Kucha Night for a few years and have known the founders, Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, since the beginning back in 2002. In 2009 our goal was to set Pecha Kucha for the expansion that it has already experienced and also what is still to come. The complete overhaul included an extensive redesign and an expansion to allow presentations to be viewed online with its own custom player via the presentations portal. It also saw a formalizing of the special event platform where one off Pecha Kucha events can be tied up with larger conferences or events and the integration of Creative Commons licensing on presentation content. The new platform was soft-launched in late October, in time for Tokyo Design Week. 5. 100 Years of Life (client : Audi) For Audi’s 100 year anniversary we put together two short documentaries and an exhibition at the Audi Forum Tokyo. The documentaries featured two Japanese centenarians. Tateoka-san still plays the koto and we were able to arrange a special reunion for her family where she was able to meet her great grand-daughter (just a few months old) for the first time. 103 year old Shouchi-san still travels Japan and the world lecturing and holding workshops for both adults and children about how to live life well and stimulate your mind at both a young age and when you are in your later years. For the exhibition we collaborated with photographer, Shouichi Ono, who specializes in photographing 100 year olds, to show the life and strength post 100years. 6. Easytone Pink Bomb (client : Reebok) In one of our last projects of the year we put together a guerrilla campaign in bustling Ginza with the special pink Christmas edition of Reebok’s toning shoe, Easytone. We assembled 100 women wearing the bright pink Reebok Easytone and coupled that with some promotional trucks and sample girls giving out present gift cards, all driving people to one of four stores in the area that stocked the shoes. Even on a cold winter day, we made a lot of people take notice and managed to dominate the area with pink. 7. Pump Atmos Billboard (client : Reebok) This is a fun, impactful billboard that we put together for the Atmos store in Harajuku for their special 20th Anniversary Reebok Pump collaboration shoe and the anniversary in general. We wanted to make something a little tactile, so placed a great big three dimensional pump in the middle of the board and added shading on the billboard surface to make it look three dimensional. 8. Audi Live (client : Audi) We created a live blogging platform for Audi press conferences so that a larger audience of press members could be reached. The platform consists of a live updating page that is updated by someone at the event and a live video stream. The text portion is also directly updated to the Audi Japan Twitter account. Also on the page is a question form so reporters online can ask questions and receive a real time response, extending the press conference past the duration of the press event. The innovative use of Twitter made news on TV Tokyo’s Morning Satelite, and featured our own Toyo Yokota. 9. Jetset UK, Claska (client : MINI) To provide an impactful space for MINI at the Jetset UK event at Claska in Meguro, we created a massive 8m x 3.5m window sticker to make sure MINI put their stamp on this UK themed event. To execute, we worked with a UK based photographer to get some original scenes from Mayfair (the namesake of one of the new release MINI models) in London, then put together a design utilizing the Union Jack flag and some Minis. The design managed to dominate the main space of the event, providing a strong thematic element for the event and also present MINI well for attendees. 10. E-City (client : Expedia) E-Cities was what we term a “passive game” that we launched all the way back in January 2009. The concept of a passive game is that the user just needs to sign up to get their page (their city in this case) and then doesn’t need to do anything other than get people to visit their page in order to play the game. The more people that visit, the higher the population of your city and the more your city evolves and adds features and buildings. We featured Paris, New York and Honolulu as the key cities that you could grow. We added some special giveaways as incentives to play the game. Visitors to the cities were rewarded with coupons for discounts on Expedia travel and hotels, while city owners had the chance to win the trip to their favorite city. BONUS. New Office Not really counting as a project, but quite significant to us for 2009 was the move to our new office in Harajuku. In our Shibuya office we were bursting at the seams, all in one room, some people even working off the meeting table. We spent more than 6 months on the lookout for new space before finally lucking out and discovering the gem of an office we have now in Harajuku. Other than space and a great environment to work in, we are treated by working each day surrounded by the key people (young and fashionable) that we spend most of our time creating for. The only thing we have to worry about now is that we don’t fill up this office too Other things As I mentioned earlier, we had a lot more projects to be proud of in 2009 that couldn’t fit on the list, and for me personally, this past year of work speaks for the hard work that the whole team at USN has been putting in. As we are approaching our 3rd anniversary of the company, its incredibly satisfying to look back at the progress we have made. Especially in the face of trying times financially for the industry in general, we are very happy to have had our most successful year and have finished on an upswing. 2010 has a lot more in store and we are looking forward to an exciting year ahead. If you want to follow updates about UltraSuperNew, you can follow us on Twitter at @ultrasupernew or just check out our website from time to time at. Follow me at Twitter on @mikesheetal Mike, Congrats on a great year. We are looking forward to following you and your team’s leading creativity and ballsy approach to communications over the coming year. One tiny suggestion, “impactful” is not an English word and has probably seeped into your vocabulary from previous years as a common AD vocabulary misnomer. Maybe something like memorable, catchy, remarkable, extraordinary might fit? You’ve continued to raised the bar on what’s possible. I hope to draw on the same spirit for the inspiration of our team as well. -Jason Thanks Jason. On the use of “impactful” … what can I say, language is not static. For a nice mini essay on the matter .. Nice projects, I really enjoy Pump Atmos Billboard. I follow USN for more than 2 years Hope to meet you when I will be in Japan and why not work with you Ocelyn. I guess “impactful” isn’t as made up as it sounds then. My first search attempt before posting led me to the Urban Dictionary, but goes to show we shouldn’t believe everything we read I guess… Sorry to distract, but couldn’t resist. Cheers, looking forward to a great 2010!

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Stephanie – I’m not sure where the animosity is coming from here, but SideReel doesn’t rip video content and pass it off under their own player. They, just like the blogs and news sites that embed episodes for coverage, use the official video player for the show. So pre-roll ads, overlays, product integration and other branding are all coming through in the video embeds just as any YouTube or blip.tv video is. And it’s the creators that make the revenue on those video views, not the sites that embed. And for the record the creator of the show in question, Sons of Brotherhood, reached out to us last week asking to be considered for the Tubefilter picks on SideReel. While they are also on MMTV, they are not exclusive and were looking to distribute their show broadly. They have asked us to keep the show up on SideReel. Ultimately I think the key getting web series out there and seen by as many people as possible. And that’s the fundamental advantage of having a player like blip or YouTube or Rev3′s that allow for all of those views to drive real revenues directly to the creator no matter where those views happen. Mark, You should take time and read my post and the point of using my BRAND to drive traffic to SideReel.com where I don’t get paid nor do the creators. Unlike some creators, I am web savvy and I do know about content farms and site scrapers. For the sake of the interested web series creators thinking this will help them, let’s dissect this scientifically: From SideReel’s ABOUT Section on their site: SideReel’s library includes more than 24,000 shows and 530,000 episodes. SideReel also creates and distributes original video recaps, recommendations, news, reviews and gossip for popular TV shows. SideReel.com visitors spend about 36 seconds on each pageview and a total of six minutes on the site during each visit, and visitors to Sidereel.com view 7.6 unique pages each day on average. (Data from Alexa.com) Of course these are averages but there are over 5 display ads on each page that the visitor goes to to get to the “content to watch” which as one reviewer put about the site as “After they upgraded Sidereel I must say looks better but too complicated for my taste. I have to click a lot to get my damn show to watch. And for Christ sake someone remove the horrible generic sites they put as external links, like tehcake… omg… horrid. Some are good, but most are flooded with dead videos and tons of ads. Shouldn’t there be some quality approach system?” Your reference to series having the official player drive real revenues to the creator? Really, how many YouTube webseries creators are making money on the prerolls, overlays etc.? Yes, they do on Blip.TV and Rev3 but not YouTube… unless they are a partner. How many are there? Let’s be clear hereI wrote a post about use of MY BRAND to promote another site that is a scraper site. If you disagree with me, I suggest you ask Matt Cutts from Google what a scraper site is. YOU also told the creator that I said “to take the series down from SideReel” – that is not true. That is between SideReel and the creator. My point is that you guys are LINK-BAITING my Brand to serve ads to unsuspecting people thinking they are going to seeing “Mingle Media TV” content. I’m not getting paid and YOU and SideReel.com are. You are also making money off of the creator and are not partnering with them to share revenue like MMTVN OR Koldcast does. It would be really great if Tubefilter supported the sites like MINGLE MEDIA TV who promote and support INDIE creators – you guys don’t mention us or publish any of the info on new shows or news we have sent in the past. So I guess going to a site like SideReel where you know there’s a payday for you as they will get tons of traffic for all the content they have on their site is a better option than supporting the sites like ours who help the community with not only hosting their series, but supporting their efforts in learning the business side of making web series? You can also see what other creators are saying about Sidereel/Tubefilter/Howcast and other “sites that embed content” here at Web Series Network. It’s not just my opinion – others who have been there didn’t see the benefit that those sites are seeing. Wow. Lots of information to digest here. Thanks for sharing. As we move forward with Causality, we’ll definitely be careful about where we give permission to display our content. And I hope when it’s all done that Mingle Media will consider adding it to your site, since you are one of the most open and honest sites, and actually support creators.

Page added on July 8, 2012 Police yesterday arrested a third suspect in the murder of lawyer Ahmed Najeeb for allegedly assisting to hide the deceased man’s body. Police, who have not revealed the name of the suspect, confirmed a 31 year old man had been arrested during their investigations, while claiming further arrests could yet be made concerning the case. Maafannu Masroora House, the location where Najeeb is believed to have been murdered, is still under observation with a police media official telling local newspaper, Haveeru, that officers are “still trying to find more evidence to support the case.” Speaking to Minivan News today, Police Spokesperson Sub-Inspector Hassan Haneef confirmed the arrest, though declined to reveal any more information on the suspect’s identity. “We are now in the investigation process. At the time we do not want to reveal the name of the arrested man as it is a policy of ours to not to reveal the name of a suspect at such an early stage of an investigation,” he said. Haneef added that officers were presently investigating if any other suspects had involvement in the murder case. Two suspects already charged over the case, Ahmed Murrath and Fathimath Hana, are currently facing trial. Case details Veteran lawyer Najeeb was found dead on July 1. His body was discovered in a dustbin bag in a second floor apartment of Maafanu Masroora house in Male’. The 65 year-old man’s body was found supposedly gagged, badly beaten and stabbed in the throat. Police at the time revealed that 29 year old ex-convict Ahmed Murrath had been charged with Najeeb ’s murder and had confessed to killing him, claiming the lawyer attempted to sexually assault his 18 year-old girlfriend Fathimath Hana. Hana of Rihab house in Shaviyani Goidhoo island, was identified as a second suspect and also faces a charge of murder in relation to the case after she confessed to “helping” her boyfriend kill Najeeb. During the first hearing of the trial, both suspects testified separately. Hana noted that Najeeb had arrived to Maafanu Masroora on the night of June 30 at around 10:00pm over, she did not know that the victim had been killed until her boyfriend woke her up and told her about it around 4:00am the following morning. At the time Hana if something was wrong. Hana. Demand for public execution During the trial, currently taking place in the Criminal Court, all eight heirs of Najeeb refused to accept blood money and have asked the Judge for qisas (equal retaliation) – the death penalty. Initially the court summoned the six heirs following the confession of both the suspects implicated in the crime, while the two others were not present for the session. The court stated that out of the two heirs not present at the hearing, one was living abroad and the court would be making arrangements through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to collect his statement. The other heir was said to work in a resort out of Male’. In the two seperate hearings held on Thursday (July 5), statements of the two remaining heirs – Shashma Najeeb and Jinaan Ahmed – both refused to accept blood money and asked the Judge for ‘qisas’ similar to the other six family members. Shashma Najeeb who gave her statement at the Sri Lankan High Commission through a telephone conference, said three times in the court that she wanted the death penalty imposed, asking the presiding judge to implement the death penalty and ensure the killing was carried out in public. Jinaan Ahmed also followed Shashma Najeeb in demanding the death penalty, refusing to accept blood money. The Criminal Court Judge has announced that if there are any other heirs remaining which the court has not come to know of, they should inform the court before July 10, and if there remain no further heirs, the trial would be concluded during the next hearing..” A perceived rise in criminal-related deaths has this week seen growing public debate and media coverage over the issue of implementing capital punishment in the Maldives. 5 Comments on "Police arrest third suspect in Najeeb case, claim more may follow" LOL on Sun, 8th Jul 2012 5:01 PM I said it before too there will be more secrets. When you see a murder like this you are not suppose to put the victim on trial in 24 hours ! First you build a case against them, investigate do some detective work and then you go to the court dumb asses !! chohkaley on Sun, 8th Jul 2012 5:17 PM We are pleased that a corrupted fellow has left his seat. Hey Why didn’t Murrath killed Abdulla Gazi – someone has to do something to this junk b”£$%^d – maybe someday this judge also will face a similar fate…. Ahmed on Sun, 8th Jul 2012 5:54 PM I thought the idea was to sell tickets and kill 2 people inside the centre circle of the fully packed national stadium in front of the cheering Allah Akbar crowd. Why arrest more people. Kill anyone who’s ever committed any crime. Serve blood in coffee shops. Paint the whole country with blood. Celebrate victory. mohm on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 1:01 AM Open your eyes, keep it simple : we live in a backward country – as too many Muslims all over the world. We are kept like that by sheikhs and mullahs who pretend to speak on behalf of God himself : nijab, burqa, music too lustful … but some still refuse to see that reality. genocidal_maniac on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 8:43 AM please kill the two victims of your society before you find out the truth about it. just shoot their had off, maybe it’ll fulfill your sick f**k bloodlust disguised as shariah law. just kill them and then maybe you can go have a drink in a resort and get some teen girl to have fun with. and the you will come home pray and be harudhanaa. do it soon! before the truth ruins it for you.

All About Target Field Twins fans show up early for Opening Dayby Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio, Sunny Thao, Minnesota Public Radio Minneapolis — Fans are showing up at Target Field hours ahead of the Minnesota Twins' afternoon home opener to take in the sights, grab a hot dog and snap pictures of the new stadium. Today's game isn't the first time baseball has been played at Target Field, but it's the first home game for the Twins in the 2010 regular season. "I'm excited for outdoor baseball, especially this game" against the Boston Red Sox, said Nate Walker, 32, of St. Paul, before heading into the ballpark. The game against Boston wasn't to start until 3:10 p.m., but downtown Minneapolis was the place to be -- especially as the forecasted rain held off. Street vendors sold hot dogs and State Fair-style food outside, while street musicians entertained fans decked out in red, white and blue. "It's the most amazing experience," Valerie Crowell, 29, of Cottage Grove, said of attending one of the Twins' exhibition games last weekend. Crowell, wearing a Twins jersey, said the team's new digs are "awesome." "I've seen baseball played inside my whole life, and it's great to see it played outside," she said. Some fans arrived for the game several hours before the gates even opened at Target Field. That included Mike Clark, who was at Target Field as the sun came up Monday morning, well before the gates opened at noon. Clark lived in the Twin Cities 10 years ago and became a Twins fan before moving to San Jose, Calif. "Me and my buddy always came to games when I lived here," Clark said. "I moved away in 2003, and as soon as I heard they were opening this park, I knew I'd be here today." Many fans took pictures at the Hall of Fame area outside the stadium. Others admired the architecture, including the limestone facade that came from Minnesota. "It's done right," said Nick Capra, 27, of Blaine. "There's a Minnesota flavor to it, from the limestone to the Twins Logo to the State Fair food inside the stadium." While a Gophers baseball game and Twins exhibition games have been played at Target Field already, the home opener will perhaps be the first true test of everything from transportation and traffic, to food stands inside the stadium. Twins spokesman Kevin Smith said some things will just take some getting used to at Target Field. "A lot of our food is kind of made-to-order stuff," Smith said. "Our fans are used to going up and getting stuff that's been precooked and pre-wrapped, and then out they go. But lines are going to be longer in places where we do the made-to-order food." Metro Transit is also watching to see what happens at the Metrodome light rail station. Staff will be on hand to encourage people to take a bus if trains are too full, spokesman Bob Gibbons said. "We had a number of fans park there, and then come to the station to ride light rail to Target Field, and those trains were awfully full," Gibbons said. "Our intent on putting staff there is to encourage fans to step right across the street on 4th Street and consider using a route 3, 16 or 50 bus that comes along there." Right-handed starter Carl Pavano will throw the first regular season pitch at Target Field, and left-hander Jon Lester will take the mound for the Red Sox. The Twins' series with Boston runs through Thursday. The Twins will then host the Kansas City Royals this weekend and the Cleveland Indians next week. Tim Nelson• Reporter Tim Nelson is a general assignment reporter for MPR News.