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Jan Dash introduces the Climate Portal, for which he is the Managing Editor. The portal is part of the Climate Initiative of the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office in New York City. The Climate Portal is a massive aggregator linking to reliable information online regarding the science, politics, finance, economics, human and environmental impacts, social costs, and ethics of climate change, along with what we can do and why responsible climate risk management is vital.
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: 019-dash.mp3
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Chris Henderson is one of Canada's foremost thinkers on innovation in the areas of business, cleantech, renewable energy, and corporate sustainability. His 2013 book, Aboriginal Power: Clean Energy and the Future of Canada's First Peoples is the topic of this conversation with Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow. Other websites he speaks of are: Excel Partnership, 1000 Solar Rooftops, and 3iSummit: Collaborating for Action in Ottawa. A Canadian television station recorded a superb interview with him on his work with in helping aboriginal communities develop renewable energy sources, available online as video.
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: 018-henderson.mp3
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Sun, 26 May 2013
Jonathan Haidt is the author of the best-selling The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. A moral psychologist now at The Stern School of Business at New York University, Prof. Haidt writes, "My research in recent years focused on the moral foundations of politics, and on ways to transcend the "culture wars" by using recent discoveries in moral psychology to foster more civil forms of politics." A recent TED Talk of his is called, "How Common Threats Can Make Common (Political) Ground".
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: 017-haidt.mp3
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Thu, 14 March 2013
In this episode we dig beneath the evidence and ideas that support a modern, naturalistic perspective and seek out the patterns and emphases that propel concepts into the realm of inspiring. Our guide is Jonah Sachs, author of Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Best Stories Will Rule the Future (2012, Harvard Business Review). As the co-founder and creative director of Free Range Studios, Jonah has helped hundreds of social brands and causes create breakthrough campaigns. His work on legendary viral videos like The Meatrix and The Story of Stuff series have brought key social issues to the attention of more than 60 million people. We have entered "the Digitoral Era", Jonah suggests, in which the best of the oral traditions that supported our ancestors return, thanks to leading edge opportunities of the digital landscape.
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: 016-sachs.mp3
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Sat, 22 December 2012
Tom Clark, philosophical naturalist and consultant, is creator of naturalism.org, founder and director of the Center for Naturalism, author of Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses, and former host of the Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA. In this conversation, host Michael Dowd invites his guest to compare and constrast their understandings of worldview naturalism, how it applies to the subjective experience of freewill, meaningful interpretations of life, and why it is very helpful for those yearning to overcome addictions.
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: 015-naturalism-clark.mp3
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Thu, 15 November 2012
Deirdre Barrett is a psychologist who conducts research at Harvard Medical School. Her 2010 book, Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose, is the subject of this interview. Here she explores the practical implications of evolutionary psychology for helping us all thrive in our modern world -- despite the Stone-Age instincts we still carry.
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: podcast-naturalism-014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:00 AM
Mon, 7 May 2012
Alison Gopnik speaks about her research toward understanding how young children acquire their picture of the world -- especially the ways in which they seem to develop, test, and amend hypotheses not unlike the methods of scientists. What sparked the interviewers' interest, however, was a widely read essay she published in a January 2012 edition of the Wall Street Journal, titled "What's Wrong with the Teenage Mind". There she offers both an evolutionary understanding of why making the transition from childhood to adulthood is so prolonged and problematic today -- and what can be done to improve the situation. Gopnik is a professor of developmental psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of The Scientist in the Crib and The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life.
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: 013-gopnik.mp3
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Thu, 9 February 2012
Terrence (Terry) Deacon highlights the core ideas in his 2011 book, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. A professor of biological anthropology and neurosciences at the University of California (Berkeley), Deacon is the author of the acclaimed 1997 book, The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. As interviewers, Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd ensure that Deacon also talks about his motivation for writing this book, the paradigm shift he is aiming for, and the practical fruits that he hopes this emergent worldview (which transcends the discord between the nihilism of mechanism and the supernaturalism of traditional religions) will offer individuals and societies. Note: We also highly recommend the audio interview of Deacon by Dr. Ginger Campbell and the online book review (in Skeptic Magazine) by Sam MacIntosh, titled "Mind Matters".
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: 012-deacon.mp3
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Wed, 12 October 2011
Barlow and Dowd take an inside look at Richard Dawkins' first children's book, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True. The couple recite excerpts and discuss why this "courageous and necessary book" may indeed help evolve the religions of the world along the lines of, what Dowd calls, the Evidential Reformation.
Note: This commentary was originally recorded in video format and posted on Youtube here.
Other resources mentioned in the commentary include:
• Jennifer Morgan's Born with a Bang book trilogy for kids
• Evolutionary Parables (stories and dramatic scripts)
• Great Story Beads (13.7 billion years represented in beads)
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: 011-dawkins.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:43 PM
Tue, 6 September 2011
Barlow and Dowd engage with astrophysicist Joel R. Primack and cultural historian Nancy Ellen Abrams about their unique partnership in translating a fully scientific understanding of the universe (and our place in it) into memorable and inspiring words and images. Because this dialogue was recorded in July 2010, it focuses on their coauthored 2006 book, The View from the Center of the Universe, and their autumn 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University ("Cosmic Society"). At the time, they had just finished a manuscript version of the Terry Lectures, which Yale University Press would publish in Spring 2011, titled The New Universe and the Human Future. Reversing the widespread assumptions that science is just too difficult to understand in deeply personal ways, Nancy recounts her difficulties in Hebrew school as a second grader trying to square God's goodness with the frightening story of Abraham and Isaac, and declares, "The Bibles stories are much harder to understand than the Universe." Joel recounts an episode of awe (indeed, mysticism) he felt when, in 1992, data confirmed the theory of dark matter's role in the universe that he had co-developed in 1984. Ancillary resources mentioned in the interview include: 46 quotations from View from the Center of the Universe; Alien Wisdom (CD of Abrams songs); Bible Stories Your Parents Never Taught You (by Michael Scott Earl); and Connie Barlow's children's curricula for teaching the Epic of Evolution. See also a video profile of Joel and a video profile of Nancy.
Theme song "Poetry of Reality" courtesy Symphony of Science.
Direct download: 010-primack-abrams.mp3
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Chapter 1: Installation of Tomcat 7
Chapter 2: Configuration and Deployment
Chapter 3: Performance Tuning
Chapter 4: Integration of Tomcat with the Apache Web Server
Chapter 5: Securing Tomcat 7
Chapter 6: Logging in Tomcat 7
Chapter 7: Troubleshooting in Tomcat
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Chapter 9: Clustering in Tomcat 7
Chapter 10: Tomcat Upgrade
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- Chapter 1: Installation of Tomcat 7
- History of Tomcat
- Tomcat support matrix
- Features and enhancements of Apache Tomcat 7
- Web application memory leak detection and prevention
- Servlet 3.0
- Improved logging
- Aliases
- Installation of Tomcat 7
- How to download the Tomcat software
- Binary package
- RPM/exe
- Source
- Prerequisites for the Tomcat 7 installation
- Installation of Java
- Configuration of OS environment variables
- Installation of Apache Tomcat 7
- Installation on a Windows environment
- Installation on a Linux environment
- Startup and shutdown of Tomcat services
- Services in Windows
- Services in Linux
- Startup script
- Shutdown script
- Verification of Tomcat status
- Common problems and troubleshooting in installation
- Error: Permission denied for the Java binary
- Error: Tomcat is not able to find JAVA_HOME
- Error: Error in the logs showing port already in use
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Configuration and Deployment
- Configuration files and their usage
- Configuration of Tomcat 7
- DataSource configuration
- DataSource
- Comparison of the datasource for common databases
- Tomcat Manager configuration
- Enabling the Tomcat Manager
- Context path
- Enabling the context path
- Deployment in Tomcat 7
- Structure of the WebArchive
- Archive Files
- Types of deployment
- Ways of application deployment in Tomcat 7
- Common issues in deployment, configuration, and their troubleshooting
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Performance Tuning
- Performance tuning for Tomcat 7
- Why we need performance tuning?
- How to start performance tuning
- Tomcat components tuning
- Types of connectors for Tomcat 7
- Java HTTP Connector
- Java AJP Connector
- APR (AJP/HTTP) Connector
- Thread optimization for Tomcat 7
- Shared thread pool (shared executor)
- Dedicated thread pool
- Shared thread pool versus dedicated thread pool
- maxThreads
- maxKeepAlive
- JVM tuning
- Why do we need to tune the JDK for Tomcat?
- JMAP (Memory Map)
- How to increase the heap size in Tomcat 7
- Garbage collection
- JVM options
- Standard options
- Non-standard options
- Parameters displayed in the logs for GC
- SurvivorRatio
- OS tuning
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Integration of Tomcat with the Apache Web Server
- User request flow (web/application level)
- Why the Apache HTTP server
- Installation of the Apache HTTP
- Apache HTTP installation on Windows
- How to monitor the Apache service
- Installation of Apache HTTP on Linux (non-DOS environment)
- Apache Portable Runtime
- Apache Jserv protocol
- Installation and configuration of mod_jk
- Installation of mod_jk
- Configuration of mod_jk in Apache
- mod_proxy configuration
- Comparison between mod_jk and mod_proxy
- IIS integration with Tomcat 7
- Prerequisites
- Steps for installation
- Common issues and troubleshooting for integration
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Securing Tomcat 7
- Tomcat Manager
- Tomcat security permissions
- catalina.properties
- catalina.policy
- System Code permissions
- Catalina Code permissions (Tomcat core permission)
- Web application permissions
- tomcat-users.xml
- server.xml
- Enabling Tomcat Manager
- How to enable the Tomcat Manager
- Securing Tomcat 7 for production
- Tomcat settings
- Connector Port
- Slimming of Tomcat application
- Disable hot deployment
- Non-Tomcat settings
- Service as a separate user
- Firewall
- Password
- SSL configuration on Tomcat 7
- Types of SSL certificates
- Process of installing SSL
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Logging in Tomcat 7
- Loggers, appenders, and layouts
- Types of logging in Tomcat 7
- Application log
- Server log
- Console log
- Access log
- Host manager
- Types of log levels in Tomcat 7
- Log4j
- Log level for log4j
- How to use log4j
- Log level mapping
- Values for Tomcat 7
- Log analysis
- Helpful commands for log analysis
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- Chapter 7: Troubleshooting in Tomcat
- Common problem areas for web administrators
- How to troubleshoot a problem
- Slowness issue in applications
- How to solve slowness issues in Tomcat 7
- Troubleshooting at the database level
- How to obtain a thread dump in Tomcat 7
- Thread dump using Kill command
- Thread dump using jstack
- How to analyze the thread dump for Tomcat instance
- Thread dump analysis using Samurai
- Thread dump analysis using the Thread Dump Analyzer
- Errors and their solutions
- JVM (memory) issues
- Database-related issues
- Web server benchmarking
- ApacheBench
- JMeter
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Monitoring and Management of Tomcat 7
- Different ways of monitoring
- Monitoring setup for a web application and database server
- Tomcat Manager in Tomcat 7
- Monitoring in Tomcat 7
- Summary of the Server Status of Tomcat 7
- Complete Server Status of Tomcat 7
- JConsole configuration on Tomcat 7
- Remote JMX enabling
- How to connect to the JConsole
- Different tabs for the JConsole and their features
- Memory overview
- Threads overview
- VM Summary and Overview
- MBeans
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Clustering in Tomcat 7
- What is a cluster?
- Benefits of clustering
- Disadvantages of clustering
- Clustering architecture
- Vertical clustering
- Advantages of vertical clustering
- Disadvantages of vertical clustering
- Horizontal clustering
- Advantages of horizontal clustering
- Disadvantages of horizontal clustering
- Vertical clustering in Apache Tomcat 7
- Installation of the Tomcat instance
- Configuration of a vertical cluster
- Configuration of instance 1
- Configuration of instance 2
- Apache web server configuration for vertical clustering
- Horizontal clustering in Apache Tomcat 7
- Installation of the Tomcat instance
- Configuration of the cluster
- Configuration of instance 1
- Configuration of instance 2
- Apache web server configuration for horizontal clustering
- Testing of the clustered instance
- Monitoring of Tomcat clustering
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Tomcat Upgrade
- Different types of environment
- Development environment
- Quality Assurance environment
- Staging environment
- Production environment
- Life cycle of the upgrade
- Tomcat upgrade from 6 to 7
- Prerequisites for Tomcat 7
- Installation of Tomcat 7 for the upgrade
- Configuration of Tomcat 7
- JVM configuration
- Database connection settings
- Application migration
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- ITIL process implementation
- Availability management
- Capacity management
- Service Transition
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Advanced Configuration for Apache Tomcat 7
- Virtual hosting
- Name-based virtual hosting
- IP-based virtual hosting
- Virtual hosting in Tomcat 7
- Hostname aliases
- Multiple applications hosting on a single Tomcat 7 instance
- Multiple Tomcat environments—Development/QA/Stage/Production
- Tuning cache
- Optimization of Tomcat 7
- Running Tomcat 7 as a non privileged user
- Summary
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MySQL: The following mentioned code describes the datasource parameter for the MySQL database:
<Resource name="jdbc/tomcat7" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver" url="jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/tomcat7" username="tomcat7" password="tomcat" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="-1"/> Should be: <Resource name="jdbc/tomcat7" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/tomcat7" username="tomcatuser" password="tomcat" maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000"/>
Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
What you will learn from this book
- Learn to install Tomcat 7 on Windows/Linux step-by-step and resolve any issues faced during installation
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- Implement best practices in the production environment and learn tricks to reduce your day to day work load
- Dig deep into high availability architecture configuration (load balancing and clustering configuration) using front end web server like Apache and IIS
- Become an expert in tuning the Tomcat for performance
- Upgrade to Tomcat 7 successfully from the previous versions
- Configure Tomcat for Dev/QA/stage/production environment and indulge into maintenance tips
- Get familiar with thread dump analysis, monitoring JVM, database and OS related issues, and diagnose Tomcat 7 issues
In Detail
Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat) is an open source servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The latest major stable release, Apache Tomcat version 7 implements the Servlet 3 and JavaServer Pages 2 specifications from the Java Community Process, and includes many additional features that make it a useful platform for developing and deploying web applications and web services.
Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials follows a practical approach to teach installing, configuring, and maintaining Tomcat. It helps you to understand the middle architecture for hosting multiple websites and also provides the confidence to implement middleware support. It imparts to you the capacity to resolve migration issues and also provides regular maintenance solutions. This is the first and only book to cover upgrading to Tomcat 7 from previous versions.
The journey of the reader starts at the beginner level and ends at the expert level. The content is designed in such a way that it balances the theory and practical approach for understanding concepts related to handling middle ware and web issues.
In this book, you will go through a three-phase life cycle. The first cycle consists of installation, configuration of Tomcat 7 on different OS, and other configurations related to JDBC, port, deployment etc.
The second phase deals with the building of enterprise application setup and high availability architecture (clustering load balancing). The third and critical phase will teach you to handle critical issues, performance tuning, and best practices for various environment stacks like dev/QA/stage/production.
This book gives you a wider vision of using Tomcat 7 in web technologies and the skill to optimize their performance using Apache Tomcat 7.
This book is a step-by-step tutorial for anyone wanting to learn Apache Tomcat 7 from scratch. There are plenty of illustrations and examples to escalate you from a novice to an expert with minimal strain.
Who this book is for
If you are a J2EE administrator, migration administrator, technical architect, or a project manager for a web hosting domain, and are interested in Apache Tomcat 7, then this book is for you. If you are someone responsible for installation, configuration, and management of Tomcat 7, then too, this book will be of help to you.


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A VERY CURIOUS thing happened to me about 15 months ago. There I was, coming on home about two o'clock one Saturday morning feeling a little...well, perhaps relaxed is the most appropriate word.
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Unfortunately the records available do not throw any light on this mystery and the message to me is a strong one - DO NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS!
I have the family history bug for researching both my own family history and that of friends. If your interest is in families of the Fylde in Lancashire, this site is for you, with many photographs to enhance interest. I'll also be looking at my Scottish Donaldson connections, hints and tips, and stories that appeal. So read on, or even better, sign up as a follower. Do get in touch - I would love to hear from others who share my enthusiasm for family history fun.
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Which Ellen Danson married Ralph Dewhurst? Mystery Monday
Three Ellen Danson's in the 1790's in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire - but which one married Ralph Dewhurst?
Unfortunately the records available do not throw any light on this mystery and the message to me is a strong one - DO NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS!
My four times great grandfather John Danson had a daughter Ellen Danson, baptised at St. Chad's Church in 1763 (Poulton Parish Register) In searching for a marriage I came across an Ellen Danson marrying a Ralph Dewhurst - and made the basic fatal family history mistake. I assumed this must be my Ellen.
Some years later I had contact from a fellow Danson researcher who thought that that my John and his Richard were brothers, both sons of Peter Danson. Richard had six daughters including an Ellen. born 1768 who it was believed married Ralph Dewhurst.
In my favour is that Ellen and Ralph appeared to name their eldest daughter Margaret,(the name of "my" Ellen's mother) and second son John after her father - so following the traditional naming pattern in the north of England and Scotland. On the other hand these are Christian names in popular use, and "my" Ellen would have been 33 years of age on marriage, which seems quite old for the time. I was also slightly sceptical on the John and Richard link, as Richard is not a Christian name that featured in any of my family Danson lines.
This is very much a sideline to my main research, so I did nor pursue it any further at this stage.
I was surprised last week to find in the listing of members' interests in the Lancashire Family History and Herladic Society magazine a reference to Danson and Dewhurst. I made contact and recevied an e-mail from a fellow member who had in her family an Ellen Danson (daughter of Raplh Danson) and guess what - this Ellen married Ralph Dewhurst.
According to the website http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ the population of Poulton in 1801 was 2938, and a search today on Family Search for the names Danson and Dewhurst brought up plenty of entries, so identifying who is who is not easy. Entries on the Public Trees on http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ are equally a minefield - many cite Ellen Danson, daughter of "my" John Danson and Margaret Fayle, but most (geneabloggers will not be surprised to hear) are short on source citations. Much more unravelling is called for here!
What is certain is that an Ellen Danson was born to my ancestors John Danson and Margaret Fayle, and that an Ellen Danson married a Ralph Dewhurst at the same church in 1796, but which Ellen was she?
Unfortunately the records available do not throw any light on this mystery and the message to me is a strong one - DO NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS!
Mystery Monday is a daily prompt from http://www.geneabloggers.com/, used by many bloggers to help them tell stories of their ancestors.
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[See How to Research a Hiring Manager Before an Interview.]
Ready to start researching? Here's what you should look for:
Conversation starters. Looking through this person's bio: What do you have in common? Did you work at the same company, go to the same college or university, or are you members of the same professional association? Finding commonalities can make the interviewer seem less scary and help you relate to him or her during the interview.
Interview style. What type of questions will the interviewer ask you? Have they written on the topic of interviewing before, and what do they emphasize the most? Has anyone else written about his or her experiences with this interviewer? Were they good or bad? Once you know the type of interview questions they may ask, don't forget to practice your answers to those questions! (Hint: You might want to look at Glassdoor's Interview feature.)
Important skills and qualifications. The job description should be a good indicator of the skills and qualifications desired by the company, and make sure to emphasize your experiences so the interviewer knows why you're best qualified for the position. But is there anything else you can gather from your research that might be important to talk about during your interview? Perhaps the company website emphasizes teamwork on the job; if so, remember to discuss your experiences with working in a team at previous workplaces.
[See How to Determine What Salary to Ask For.]
Potential questions to ask. Make note of anything interesting about the organization or the interviewer that you'd like to ask during the interview. People love to talk about themselves, so an interviewer is often pleasantly surprised when a candidate has done enough research to ask thought-provoking questions about them.
Friends or colleagues in common. Did you find the interviewer on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter? Who do you both know or follow? How does the interviewer know this person? Friends in common can be a good way to start the conversation and potentially make the interviewer remember you better.
What else should job seekers look for when researching an interviewer?
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April Fools joke or not this IS a fight that could happen in the not too distant future particularly if Gegard loses and Wandy feels like another scrap at 205.
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According to newer reports Wandy is not fighting Mousasi. It seems like this event went from better to worse ugh.
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According to newer reports Wandy is not fighting Mousasi. It seems like this event went from better to worse ugh.
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Wamp, wamp, wamp... Poor Ariel.
LOL, Ariel has been covering for Dana haaaaaaard today and just kissing his ass moreso than usual with the whole Swedish thing, especially when exactly Dana knew Goose couldn't fight(since he kept kayfabing and maintaining that the fight was still on....).
The only thing Ariel is good for is to give reminders as to when the UFC prelim shows start.
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Wamp, wamp, wamp... Poor Ariel.
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Consumer spending on Halloween costumes, decorations and candy is expected to rise this year as a record 170 million people are projected to spend as much as $8 billion.
According to the National Retail Federation, 71.5 percent of Americans will be in the haunting mood this year - up from 68.6 percent in 2011. The NRF's survey found that the average person is expected to spend $79.82 on decorations, costumes and candy, up from $72.31 last year.
Jennifer Adams, store manager at Party City in Whitehall, said Halloween is now second only to Christmas as far as retail holiday spending is concerned.
If you haven't started shopping yet it's not too late. Most trick-or-treating is expected to take place this Friday - in both South and North Whitehall Township it's scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 26 (no rain date for North Whitehall and an Oct. 27th rain date for South Whitehall).
Some of the best sellers for kids' costumes this year at Party City are Monster High. In fact, Adams said it's been that way for the past three years.
Monster High is a line of toys from Mattel that features the children of well known monsters. Kids can choose from names like Draculara and Frank E. Stein.
Traditional super hero costumes and Disney Princess outfits are also popular - anything based on blockbuster movies and popular culture ranks up there as well.
Adams said anything related to zombies is also flying off the shelves as people plan "End of the World" parties and zombie costumes.
For men, Adams said the morph suit - think Blue Men outfit - is a popular costume. A new, less frilly Disney Princess costume for women has also been popular.
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North of the Moonsea lies the Great Gray Land of Thar -- a broad moorland stretching a hundred miles from the shores of the cold blue lake to the snowcapped peaks of the Galenas Mountains. This windswept upland is good for little more than grazing scrawny goats and sheep, and breeding hard, cruel warriors with a taste for plunder. Dozens of tribes of orcs, ogres, goblinkind, and other such savage warriors live in this wild and desolate land. Most are quite small -- thirty or forty orcs claim an old ruin as their "keep," or perhaps a dozen ogres lair in a cave they found amid one of the rocky outcroppings that dot the moorland. But some of the tribes are quite large and can muster hundreds of ferocious warriors.
Thar's humanoid tribes spend much of their time (and blood) battling each other, but they also pose a threat to nearby settlements. Melvaunt and Thentia are much too large to attack directly, but bands of raiders sometimes prey on caravans bound to or from Glister or winding along the coastal track. Others occasionally plunder the smaller villages and homesteads in the upper reaches of the Stojanow Vale, or lonely mining camps in the Galenas foothills.
The evil tribes would likely cause even more damage, but several factors keep them in check. First, various merchants and lords of the nearby cities strike deals with one tribe or another to let their goods pass in peace. Such bargains are often short-lived and uncertain, but a few are usually in force at any given time. Second, small bands of rangers and scouts patrol the borders of Thar, hunting down orc or ogre marauders, while the barbarians of the Ride viciously slaughter any such creatures they find out on the open steppe. Finally, any tribe that succeeds in some bloody or spectacular feat of plunder often earns deadly retribution -- the human cities nearby hire adventuring companies armed with powerful magic or simply bribe rival chieftains to punish a tribe that goes too far.
Fanatical worshipers of Kossuth, the elemental god of fire, the Burning Daggers are murderous, intolerant zealots even by orcish standards. The apex of their existence is the opportunity to build a mighty bonfire and hurl their captives to fiery death one by one. Each Burning Dagger orc is branded horribly in the center of his face with a dagger-shaped mark (point to the chin, crossguard above the eyes, pommel in the center of the forehead) as a sign of devotion... once every year, the new mark seared right over the old. The cumulative effect for an old chieftain is absolutely gruesome.
The Burning Daggers make their lair in a deep set of caverns about twenty miles from Glister. A natural rift to the Elemental Plane of Fire exists at the bottom of the cave, creating volcanic conditions in a place where none should exist. In the heart of the rift, a dagger of hot black iron floats in the air, wrapped in ebon flames. Sacred to Kossuth's holy assassins, the dagger has been sought by the Black Flame zealots for many decades.
A crude palisade surrounding a dozen huge lodges made of fieldstone and turf, Fangjaws Hold is named for its barbaric gate, where hundreds of bulette teeth have been driven into the wood to give it the appearance of, well, a fanged jaw. This is the lair of the Skullsmashers, a tribe of unusually fierce and strong ogres. The Skullsmashers have captured many slaves from weaker tribes around them and their raids against neighboring lands, and so Fangjaws is home to a hundred or more goblin "thralls" who fight for their ogre masters, and scores of human and dwarf wretches who are simply worked and bullied to death in the most callous and careless manner imaginable. Few Skullsmasher captives last more than a few months.
The chief of the Skullsmashers is a hulking, two-headed ogre named Zar-Umak. Whether he has ettin blood in him, or is simply some freak of nature, none can say.
A large tribe of goblins and hobgoblins, the Red Claws lair in the cyclopean ruins of an old ogre hold from the days when Thar was a kingdom. Cunning half-floors and quarter-steps of fieldstone and timber divide the huge ogre doorways and towering ogre vaults into spaces more suitable for goblins. The Red Claws are allied with a powerful pack of worgs, and Red Claw worg-riders range all over Thar (and the lands about) in search of easy plunder.
The Red Claws are currently the tribe of Thar causing the most trouble to the most people. The Red Castle stands about twenty miles north of the coastal track between Phlan and Melvaunt, and marauding worg-riders have made travel along this path dangerous even for large and well-armed groups. The hobgoblin marshal Hashrad is warlord of the tribe, and he has been gleefully extorting tolls, bribes, and tribute from anyone within reach. As you might expect, Hashrad is not particularly scrupulous about staying bribed, and so he frequently "loses control" over raiding parties or "doesn't receive" tribute offerings -- both timeworn excuses to take a bribe, and then plunder passers-by anyway.
This grim keep in northwestern Thar is home to the Bloody Skull orc tribe. In the keep's great hall, hundreds of red-dyed skulls are affixed to the walls, each a trophy of the tribe. Most are human, dwarf, or orc skulls, but ogre, giant, and wyvern skulls are also in prominent places. The Bloody Skulls carelessly mix the skulls of their own fallen champions with the skulls of noteworthy enemies those champions slew.
Caravan Guards
It's not glorious, but it's work. The player characters find that there's always a demand for sellswords in Melvaunt, since caravans bound to and from Glister require heavy escort. Food staples, wine and beer, clothing, mining tools, and other supplies are shipped to Glister, in exchange for gold, silver, furs, and timber cut from the nearby mountains. The journey takes about ten days in good weather. Each guard typically earns about 5 to 20 gold pieces for a one-way trip (experienced characters may make a lot more), and the caravan outfitter normally provides mounts, meals, and bedrolls -- but the player characters are hired by a dwarf merchant named Umthorn for ten times the going rate, because this caravan's cargo is "vitally important."
The caravan's cargo includes several large, locked chests that radiate magic. In the middle of the journey, a warband of orc berserkers and a manticore attacks the caravan. But in the aftermath of the fight the heroes learn that someone set them up: The orcs learned where to find the caravan, and the chests are empty. Umthorn is a black-hearted rogue who has secretly partnered with the orcs for months, but he's already stolen the loot for himself and plans to blame its loss on the orc raid he arranged. The trouble is, nobody told the heroes.
The Bloody Skulls are a numerous and aggressive tribe, but they have been embroiled in vicious infighting for many months now. They were known as the Black Spears only a few years ago, a tribe dominated by the clerics of Gruumsh; they took their name from the orc-god's fearsome weapon. When the old chief died, the Gruumshites moved to take over the tribe altogether and rule it in the name of He Who Watches. The orc warriors soon grew restive and resentful of the clerics' rule and rallied behind a young half-orc warchief named Wertha. Wertha overthrew the clerics of Gruumsh and captured Bloodskull Keep, but Gruumshite devotees remained in control of various outlying lairs and secret holds. Wertha has been engaged in reducing these strongholds one by one and making himself the master of the new Bloody Skull tribe. When he finishes, the Bloody Skulls -- formerly the Black Spears -- will reclaim their spot as one of the strongest tribes in Thar.
Most Moonsea natives have heard stories of the ancient ogre-kingdom of Thar and its surprising sophistication. Long-ruined watchtowers and roads of well-built stonework, powerful ogre-sized magic weapons, and black curses that still linger over ruined holds all suggest accomplishments beyond the capabilities of the notoriously dull-witted ogres. And in fact all these things were not the work of ordinary ogres. Ancient Thar was a kingdom of oni (or ogre mages), not common ogres. While most of the old realm's common folk were indeed ordinary ogres, oni lords and captains were responsible for building Thar's keeps and holds, laying its spells, and crafting its arms. Common ogres were little more than laborers and loyal (if dimwitted) troops whose activities were closely supervised by oni masters.
The player characters are hired by an agent representing the Double Moon Coster (a local merchant's guild) to track down a band of ogre marauders from the Stoneclub tribe. The Stoneclubs sacked a Double Moon caravan on the coastal track to Melvaunt and carried off goods and captives back to their lair in Thar. The heroes' job is simple: Save the captives, recover whatever Double Moon property can be saved, and teach the Stoneclubs a lesson they'll never forget. When the heroes track the Stoneclubs to their lair, they discover that the Stoneclubs have taken up residence in an old Thenturan watchtower, and a clever oni is leading the ogres with far more intelligence than the heroes might expect an ogre chieftain to demonstrate.
Most of the oni vanished into history a thousand years ago when Thar fell, but a few oni still linger in buried strongholds or the ruins of Thar's ancient fortresses. They call themselves the Kur-Tharsu, or "Overlords of Thar." The Kur-Tharsu are not really a tribe, per se -- they consist of a few score scattered individuals, none of whom would admit to owing allegiance to any others. But they still exert an influence over the lesser savages who roam their ancient homeland. For example, some of the oni still enslave common ogres and rule over ogre bands. Tribes such as the Jade Skull, the Falling Star, or the Crystal Sphere are bands of common ogres under the sway of one or more oni.
For the most part, the Kur-Tharsu oni have little desire to rebuild their old kingdom. While they are far more clever and ambitious than their minions, they simply are too few and too jealous of each other. Instead they use their ogre servants to bring them food, plunder nearby ruins and caravans or weaker tribes, and guard their lairs.
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A former officer in the US Navy, Rich Baker has been a game designer since 1991. He has written or contributed to more than 70 game products, including 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons and Axis & Allies Miniatures. He is also the author of eight Forgotten Realms novels, including the New York Times bestseller Condemnation.
Rich married his college sweetheart, Kim, in 1991; they have two daughters, Alex and Hannah. Rich's interests include Golden Age SF, military history, hiking in the Cascades, wargaming, and the Philadelphia Phillies.


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Dalton High School will be isolated from the area's athletic programs and North Murray and Murray County are expected to have an official rivalry, according to classification divisions released Monday by the Georgia High School Association.
Dalton will be in Class 5A, moving away from Whitfield County schools and current Region 7-4A rivals Northwest Whitfield and Southeast Whitfield — both of whom remain in Class 4A. Coahulla Creek, Murray County and North Murray are in Class 3A, while Morris Innovative — which has varsity athletic teams for cross country, boys basketball and soccer — drops from Class 2A to A, where Christian Heritage will remain.
For Dalton, the nearest Class 5A schools are Rome in Floyd County and Cass in Bartow County. The distance from Dalton to Cass is about 43 miles, while a trip to Rome is approximately 45 miles. The Catamounts will be in a similar situation to Northwest during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years, when the Bruins were in Class 4A and Dalton and Southeast were in Class 3A. Murray County was also in an isolation position before the opening of North Murray, forcing the Indians to play in a region with Cherokee County and Cobb County teams.
"We knew that we would have a change, so I am not surprised about moving up," Dalton athletic director Jeff McKinney said. "Our concerns are the travel and the missed academic time in the classroom. For football, you are talking about at most five games in a season. For the other teams, it is a lot more travel."
Travel is the main concern for Dalton boys basketball coach Mike Duffie.
"We did it before, and it is a lot of fun," Duffie said sarcastically. "It is what we have got to do. It is no choice. The biggest factor for me is the time and the travel. The thing that will really hurt is our B-team programs in all sports. That is something that people don't think about. How are you going to have a B-team game now? You can't leave at 1 o'clock to have a B-team game."
The loss of close rivals in the region could also hurt financially in terms of gate revenue, depending on the way the region alignments shake out in the next round of the process.
From 2008 to the end of the school year in 2010, Dalton was in Region 7-4A in what was then the second-highest classification. The Catamounts were in a sub-region with Cass, Woodland-Bartow, Cherokee County's Sequoyah and Rome. However, they also had natural rivals Northwest and Murray County in the sub-region as well.
"It is going to be back similar to what we had then," said McKinney, who is in his first year as athletic director after previously leading the school's girls basketball and softball programs. "I am sure there was some kind of financial strain. I know there was a strain on gates. But we also had some great rivals. Dalton and Rome used to be a real strong rivalry."
The GHSA's reclassification committee met in Thomaston on Monday to divide member schools into six classifications based on population numbers at the schools. The schools with the highest population numbers were placed in Class 6A, with the remainder divided among the other five, with roughly 70 schools in each classification. Class A has 101 schools, but some of those schools have limited athletic programs.
Schools have until Dec. 2 to submit their intent to play in a higher classification, and the reclassification committee will meet on Dec. 3 to place schools in regions. The final reclassification plan will be submitted to the full executive committee on Jan. 14, 2014, after schools have had a chance to request lateral moves from one region to another.
Dalton High's October full-time enrollment (FTE) count, which is reported to the state Department of Education for funding purposes, was 1,640. That number puts Dalton firmly in the middle of Class 5A, with Winder-Barrow projected as the largest school in the classification with 1,795 students. The smallest school in the class is Woodland-Henry, with an enrollment of 1,413.
Reclassification is done every two years. In the 2011 reclassification cycle, Dalton's FTE was 1,428.
One of the consequences of realignment is that it appears Murray County and North Murray will be in the same region, forcing the two schools to face each other regularly in athletics. Since North Murray opened in 2009, the two schools have rarely met in athletic competition and have never faced each other in the regular season in football or basketball.
"I think since the split we have settled into separate schools, and the split years are behind us," said Greg Linder, Murray County High School's athletic director and boys basketball coach. "Murray and North Murray can look forward to having a great rivalry."
North Murray athletic director Roger Rainey said he looked forward to meeting the Indians.
"That is going to be different. It is a unique situation, but I think that it is something that our fans on both sides of the county has wanted," Rainey said. "I have always said that if we were in the same region, I would be rooting for Murray County in every sport and every game except when they are playing against us."
Coahulla Creek would most likely be in the same region with the Murray County schools. Adairsville, Calhoun, Cedartown, Ringgold and Sonoraville could be in the region as well.
"It is pretty similar to where we were the past two years," Coahulla Creek athletic director Rhett Parrott said. "We feel like we are in a good spot and have an opportunity to be competitive. It is nice to play those local teams. It creates that rivalry close by."
In Class 4A, Northwest and Southeast are geographically close to Heritage-Catoosa, Ridgeland, LaFayette and Cartersville.
Complete classifications are available at ghsa.net.
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Dalton moving up to Class 5A
Dalton High School will be isolated from the area's athletic programs and North Murray and Murray County are expected to have an official rivalry, according to classification divisions released Monday by the Georgia High School Association.
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When high school football coaches look for events to take their teams to during the summer, they are looking for three things — top competition, organization and hospitality.
For The Daily Citizen's Southeastern 7-on-7 Championship, the Dalton community and local business leaders take care of the latter. The tournament officials work tirelessly to provide the organization. And the two combined assure the top competition will show up.
In the lineup again
When Northwest Whitfield repeated as the Georgia High School Association Class 4A softball state champion last fall, that appeared to be the last time the majority of the Lady Bruins' senior class would be teammates on the diamond.
Now, thanks to the Stump on Sports All-Star Softball Classic, five of those six seniors will reunite to play together one more time.
Junior golf: Hicks able to hang for final round
Despite giving up a few strokes from Monday's opening round of 4-over-par 76, Dalton's Landon Hicks was the only local competitor to advance to the third round of the Georgia Junior Championships.
All-Area Spring Female Team: Salinas hoping things keep getting better and better with age
Isabel Salinas' freshman season for Southeast Whitfield High School's track and field team wasn't up to her standards, and she really isn't sure why it ended up that way in 2013. It could have been her injuries. It could have been not being in proper shape.
One thing Salinas, nicknamed "Izzy" by friends and coaches, does know is that her sophomore year went a lot better.
All-Area Baseball Team and Player of the Year
As a freshman at Northwest Whitfield High School, Seth Pierce came out of nowhere and was as dominant a pitcher as the area had. Finishing his "rookie" season with the Bruins, the left-handed Pierce led the area with nine victories — he also had one save — and showed overpowering dominance with a 9-3 record and 89 strikeouts in 73 1/3 innings. He finished his first season on the hill in Tunnel Hill with a 1.71 ERA while allowing 61 hits and 23 walks. Those numbers were also recorded against competition in a higher classification as the Bruins were playing Class 4A ball when the state had just five classifications. His performance earned him honors as 2012 The Daily Citizen All-Area Baseball Player of the Year.
NW to continue established offense with new OC Brown
There may not be anyone better than Greg Brown to continue the Northwest Whitfield football team's fast-paced, fifth-gear style.
Greg Brown, the girls basketball team's head coach, will be Northwest's offensive coordinator for the 2014 season after Crane accepted the Greenville (S.C.) High head coach position earlier this week. Brown has been an assistant football coach at Northwest for five of the past six seasons.
Dalton girls finish second in Class 4A
In the Class 4A girls state golf tournament last year, the Dalton High School team finished third at Nob North Golf Course. Monday, playing in the state championship at Waynesboro Country Club, the Lady Catamounts finished second by just two strokes.
"There is just one more place left to win," Dalton coach Nancy Hallsworth said. "They have the time ahead of them to do it."
Good day sends Dalton boys to state golf tourney
With a spot in the Class 4A state tournament on the line, Dalton High School's golf team put together one of its best rounds this season on a course coach Hunter Johnston said was as demanding as any the Catamounts had played this year.
Sectionals for sisters
TUNNEL HILL — When you consider all of the hours of practice, all of the years of gymnastics training and the physical demands of being a cheerleader, the last word you would expect to hear an athlete use to describe herself is "lazy."
Whatever it takes
Northwest Whitfield High School's baseball team has been successful this season. But at the same time, no one said success would be easy.
Several times this year, the Bruins have fallen behind early in the first few innings before answering with a rally to ensure the wins keep coming. On Friday, that formula delivered a Sub-region 7B-4A championship for the second year in a row.
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Oct 08, 2012 | WMFE - Florida still may not have enough money to pay off hurricane insurance claims if a big storm hits, according to a new report.
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Florida created a backstop for insurers after Hurricane Andrew slammed into the state nearly 20 years ago. However, the fund has to borrow money if claims exceed its cash reserves.
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— By BRIAN SMITH
A fixture in the community for 132 years, First National Bank of Weatherford is expanding from their location near the downtown square with another location.
The new location at 139 College Park Drive, has officially been open since Nov. 1, according to Senior Vice President for Marketing Evon Markum. An official ribbon cutting for the facility was held last week, part of a very busy time for the bank and its employees.
"We wanted to do something special for the new location, so we kind of kept the opening quiet until we could do the ribbon cutting and grand opening," Markum said. "(The new location) gives us a chance to better serve our customers south of the square."
The new location will have six to eight employees and is led by Senior Vice President Fred Werner, according to bank president Lin Bearden. Bearden said Werner is the "dean of Weatherford banking."
Werner will celebrate his 50th year at First National Bank Weatherford in 2013, Bearden said.
"He came to us right out of high school," Bearden said. "Everyone in town knows Fred. He grew up here."
The new location has everything the original location has, Bearden said, including a drive thru, ATM and the ability to offer loan services.
Bearden said wanting to expand the bank to the south side of town was planned for several months.
"We're excited about having a location on the south side of Weatherford and we felt it's been necessary for quite a while actually," Bearden said. "We realize that it's not very convenient right now because of all the construction but the growth in town has been on the south side for a while and we are proud to be able to have a location on the south side."
Bearden said the expansion isn't finished yet as the bank plans future branches around the county.Werner being well known around the city isn't surprising.
Markum said bank employees take their community activities very seriously and are involved in many things, including "ringing the bell" for the Salvation Army, which they took part in all day Thursday at the Weatherford Walmart.
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The holidays have been a busy time at the bank after a number of activities last week. After the ribbon cutting Thursday, the bank opened its doors early to the public Friday with a Breakfast Before Business, sponsored by the Weatherford Area Chamber of Commerce. For 90 minutes, business leaders had the chance to network and meet before getting down to business for the day. Music was provided by Kyle Williams.
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Kyle27 Jan 12, 2013 at 9:11 am
Wow! Thanks Adam! It's an honor to be on the CrackBerry home page! I hope you guys like the set! :)
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Sorry, how do I download the images and apply them to my twitter account? When I hit the links, it only takes me to a screen with the images. Pls advise...
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Download the images to your desktop. Point your browser to your Twitter account, tap the gear in the top right corner, then select 'Settings'. Go to the 'Profile' tab to change your header, go to the 'Design' tab to change your background.
BBVegasGirl80 Jan 12, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Awesome! Going to show my BB love on @ACEntVegas_org - thanks, @KyleRyan_ and CB! :-)
dnottingham4 Jan 12, 2013 at 2:16 pm
@dnottingham4 - BB!0 all the way. Thanks!
Thanks for this Kyle27 and Adam!. I am so pumped for BB10. I already told my wife we will be late on the rent so I can buy my phone!! HA, joke! You guys are rockstars!
OctavianCroitoru Jan 12, 2013 at 4:39 pm
@KyleRyan_ Thanx ! Looks awesome :)
sam299 Jan 12, 2013 at 8:26 pm
Thanks @KyleRyan_! My Twitter is all decked out now just like my Facebook profile! Can't wait for BB10 #BlackBerrybychoice
kbeard26 Jan 12, 2013 at 8:50 pm
i'm showing my BlackBerry support also.
Superfly_FR Jan 13, 2013 at 7:27 am
Amazing ! Just done. Thanks !!!
tfrankson Jan 15, 2013 at 8:04 pm
Thanks, looks great. Loving it.


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The Daily Iowegian
---- — Dixie Davis, 69 of Centerville passed away Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 at Mercy Medical Center in Centerville.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 at Lange Funeral Home and Crematory in Centerville. Burial will follow in the Confidence Cemetery. A visitation will be held Saturday at Lange Funeral Home from 1-2 p.m.
Memorials have been established to the family and may be given to Lange Funeral Home and Crematory, 1900 S. 18th St., Centerville, Iowa, 52544.
Condolences may be shared online at www.langefh.com.