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A coalition of environmental groups has once again asked Franklin Circuit Court to help them in their long-running battle with the Cabinet for Energy and Environment and a coal company which violated provisions of the federal Clean Water Act.
On Thursday Appalachian Voices, Waterkeeper Alliance, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Riverkeeper and several individuals asked the court to vacate an agreed order signed in April by Cabinet Secretary Len Peters and Frasure Creek Mining.
That settlement "lets Frasure Creek off the hook for thousands of water quality violations," said Eric Chance of Appalachian Voices. Chance said the company "for years had been submitting false monitoring reports" which the environmentalists and not the cabinet discovered.
Cabinet spokesman Dick Brown said the cabinet had "just received the document and are going through it. We will have no comment at this point."
In June of 2011 the groups threatened to sue Frasure Creek over what they alleged were 2,800 violations of the CWA during the first three months of 2011. As permitted by the CWA, the cabinet then conducted its own investigation and concluded many of the violations occurred and sought enforcement through its own administrative enforcement and hearing division.
The cabinet's administrative judge, however, granted the environmental groups intervener status, making them parties to negotiations between the coal company and the cabinet.
But the environmentalists charge in the petition for review filed Thursday that Peters and the cabinet conducted negotiations with Frasure Creek without notifying the environmental groups who were thus denied the chance to participate and then signed the order over their objections. They also say the agreement will do little or nothing to deter Frasure Creek or other companies from future violations of the CWA.
"We felt the settlement is inadequate and the cabinet entered the agreement though secret negotiations without involving us," said Pat Banks of Richmond. "It's just another backroom settlement with a coal company that broke the law."
When the environmentalists learned Peters had tendered a proposed agreement to the cabinet's hearing officer in early January they filed objections, including their exclusion from negotiations with the coal company.
But according to their petition filed in Franklin Circuit on Thursday, those objections were never heard and Peters signed the agreement on April 16 but it included no explanation for entering the order or any indication he reviewed the environmentalists' objections.
"We as citizens have the right to intervene and see and participate in this process," said Ted Withrow, a former decorated cabinet employee and now a member of KFTC who lives near Morehead. "Yet the cabinet continues to ignore the law and shield another coal company from any meaningful enforcement."
The debate between Frasure Creek, the cabinet and environmental groups stretches back to October 2010 when the environmental groups alleged thousands of CWA violations by Frasure Creek and another coal company, ICG.
Peters and the cabinet subsequently conducted an investigation and documented numerous violations by both companies and sought to enter an agreed order in Franklin Circuit Court.
But the environmentalists sought to intervene in those original cases, claiming the cabinet's agreement was insufficient to deter future violations. Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd allowed them to do so over the objections of the cabinet which argued among other things the court had no jurisdiction even though it was the cabinet which chose to file the order in that same court.
Shepherd exhorted all the parties to negotiate an agreement and eventually ICG reached agreement with the environmental groups and cabinet. But Frasure Creek claimed faces financial reversals make it impossible for it to pay proposed civil penalties or agree to terms with the environmental groups.
The court hasn't yet ruled in that case.
But when environmental groups alleged additional violations by Frasure Creek in June 2011, the cabinet went through its own administrative process avoiding Franklin Circuit Court. That is the case covered by Peters' April agreed order which environmentalists want to contest in Franklin Circuit.
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As is the current policy, firearms, knives and other weapons are prohibited within the Clinton County Courthouse. Personal electronic devices, including cellular phones, will still be allowed in the building but must be set to silent operation. Use of personal electronic devices must not interfere with the efficient operation of the court; individuals with pacemakers, or other medical devices, who do not wish to utilize the walk-through metal detector should request alternate screening.
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---- — The "Whoop-De-Doo" will return to the New Kingston Valley on Sunday at Blue Deer Center in Margaretville, just down the road from the original location.
According to a media release, the New Kingston Whoop-De-Doo was a festival that ran from 1969 to 1976. The original event was described as "a celebration of food, fun and folkways." The three-day festival featured Friday night square dancing in the street, a Saturday street fair and Sunday musical/theatrical performances. In 1976, it drew 4,000 people.
Since this is the first year of the return of the Whoop-De-Doo, the event has been condensed into a one-day family celebration. The event will combine traditional festival offerings such as live music, concessions and children's activities with demonstrations of traditional arts and crafts.
The day's events will begin at noon, with a greeting from Blue Deer Center Founder Eliot Cowan. Dr. William Birns will present a history of the Whoop-De-Doo at 12:30. Performances will begin at 1 p.m. with Pamela West of "Ms. Pam's Jamboree" on WIOX Radio, followed by drummer Marcel Smith performing "Landscapes of the Bardo" at 2:45 p.m. A family drum circle will begin at 3:30, and at 4:15, "Storey" Laurie McIntosh will perform stories and songs appropriate for children. The Catskill Mountain Boys will play live music for square dancing starting at 6 p.m.
The folkways of the Catskills and beyond will be on display as artisans and craftspeople demonstrate leatherworking, water dowsing, stone knapping, yogurt-, candle- and soap-making, stone carving, alpaca yarn spinning, Huichol art, mushroom crafts and wool felting. A seed exchange will also be set up, where those in attendance can share seeds from their gardens. Vendors will offer face painting and local crafts. There will also be a slide show presentation on golden eagles by Peg and Mike DeBenedetto. Food will be served from 3 to 6 p.m., including a natural chicken barbecue and Latin street food.
Children will be admitted free, where activities will include train rides, an art table and children's music. Admission will be $5 for teens and $10 for adults, with senior citizens admitted free. The event is sponsored in part by a grant from the O'Connor Foundation.
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Then 3 months ago I turned over in bed and my back cracked, I have never felt pain like it. I called an ambulance and was admitted to hospital, I had an MRI and a specialised nerve test. The results of the MRI showed that the operation was sound and the nerve tests came back normal. I should mention that I have had 4 epidurals, 1 before each of my ops over the 4 years for the sciatica and the latest one has seemed to have stopped the sciatica for now. Over the next 2 weeks I lost control of my bladder and could not stand, the pain in my back was excruciating, another week down the line and I had lost all control of my legs, I can feel them but cant move them. I am sending this message 3 months after I turned in bed and my bladder has returned to full function and I can wiggle my toes and ankles but still cannot move my legs. A spinal specialist diagnosed me with Central Sensitisation Syndrome. She said as there has been so much trauma to the base of my spine and after each of my operations I pushed maybe a little to hard to recover, my brain has taken over and stopped me using my legs as a defence mechanism. Is she right? Just a note but I have always had a strong mentality to be able to put mind over matter in most instances but this I can't control.[br>[br>What is the best treatment to able to give me a chance of rewiring my brain to get the use of my legs back? I'm on multiple pills and potions which helps with the pain but doesn't help the fact that I am in a wheel chair and have been for 3 weeks now. Help Please! I am currently in a Military Rehab centre but getting treated as though 'it's all my head!!!'. I hate that term.
I am not medically minded in the slightest so please be gentle with me.[br>[br>Thank you [br>[br>Wildy
For everyone who has pain, there are physical factors as well psychological factors to consider as part of the recovery process. I think the military is becoming very aware of this and is trying to offer this type of comprehensive rehabilitation pain treatment.
The brain is very adaptable and this characteristic is called neural plasticity.
With the right treatment or program your brain can start to work with your body again in a way so that you can regain normal movements and functions. Sometimes this can be a slow gradual process.
I am in Rehab Centre now and hopefully things will start to change soon. I will repost a comment after the new year and let you know if things are progressing.
If there is anything you can think of that might help in the mean time I will be checking on this site.
Thankyou again for your time.
Why do all vets hate it so much when told something is "all in my head." I don't know you at all, but maybe it is???? Maybe not???
I would seek out several opinions from qualified neurologists with spinal expertise. See what they say. Compare their opinions, and make your own. But be open to all their opinions. Also, talk to whatever other specialists are available to you, make a place for their opinions too.
You cannot go to war, or even be trained to go to war, and expect that nothing in your brain will change. We are not killers in our natural state, except under extreme circumstances. But the military must basically change that so that you will protect us and your brothers in the service at once, without even thinking about it. Then when they are finished with you, they do not claim responsibility for what they have created. They train you to serve through your own pain, mind over matter.
It is probably harder to get military people to accept mental health treatment than it is anyone else. It is OKAY if it is all in your head. It is also fine if it is not. Become "medically minded", study hard, and do your own research. You will figure this one out.
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I am sorry for all you have had to go through at War and now all this!I 'm gratful to you too for your service!
I know how frustrating Pain is !I have several major issues too!I just know that we al need deach other because somddays it just does'nt seem like I can keep going,but My God pulls me through once more !I will keep you in my Prayers!
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First of all, thank you for serving for our country! You are a true hero in my books.
Sorry to hear of your back problems. I had L5S1 fusion, 2 times, in 2008. They both have failed. I have been told I need to have another one but I refuse to let them cut on me again. The last back surgery really messed me up. I was wondering if they did an incision in your pubic region? If so, did you develope Retrograde Ejaculation? I did and now not only do I have to deal with relentless pain all of the time, loss of bladder control at times, hard to walk sometimes, I also have to deal with feeling less of a man for the rest of my life. I was told there is nothing anyone can do since the nerves have been damaged.
Once again, thank you for serving our country and hopefully you will get some kind of relief and your legs will work again for you soon.
I too want to thank you for your service. And I too am really indignant that you should be told that your pain is all in your head!
I have some experience with problems being "all in my head". I was not told that in so many words, but it was not too difficult to figure our what they meant. ADD, fibromyalgia, and pelvic pain were all things that were "all in my head". Well as I understand it brain chemistry does have something to do with the ADD and the fibromyalgia, doctors were refusing to believe that either one even existed. The pelvic pain was also real, and it took finally finding a doctor who was willing to figure it out to solve the problem. One even told me that I should just "calm down". That is not easy to do when you are having unexplained pain that no one is willing to figure out.
My opinion is that "all in your head" simply means "I don't know what to do but I am not going to admit."
Good luck!
A spine surgeon has had 3-4 years of specialized training at one of the few hospitals or universities that have a fellowship program. That is 3-4 years of training AFTER a residency and general practice. No physician on the planet is better trained or more experienced in helping patients with spine-related problems. These fellowship-trained spine surgeons can be found at or near teaching hospitals. Please take my word for this, because I've been dealing with the same problems as you have for the past 40 years. I will never again allow anyone to recommend treatment for my spine unless that person is a fellowship-trained spine surgeon. You can take her or his recommendation to the bank. These people are at the very top of the field of spine surgery. They use the latest surgical techniques and rehabilitaiton processes. They are light years more experienced that your run of the mill ortho or neurosurgeon. Nothing is more important than your health. So why trust it to anyone but the most experienced and talented physician? Right?
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A spacer that big would put an incredible strain on the lug studs and front hubs, it would be grossly dangerous! And, if ANYONE sold them to you, they should be arrested for gross negligence.
I'll assume your 'Rado is a 2 wheel drive? I say that because the factory Z-71 4x4 equipped Canyon/Colorado came from the factory with a 265/75/15 tire on a 15x7 rim. No clearance issues. The 265/75 and 31/10.5x15 are very close in dimensions. If your truck is indeed a 2 wheeler, and you're set on a tire that big, you'll need a suspension lift kit.
redbullrider Posts: 1will Pro Comp Radial Mud Terrain 32x11.50R-15 fit on stock rims without rubbing or are they to wide, I have an 04 GMC canyon 4x4 3.5ltr L5 engine, i'm not sure exactly what suspension is on it but i know it had 31x10.50's on it origionally. it does have the 4x4 offroad decal on the bed if thats any help lol, if the 32's dont fit stock i'll just go with the 31x10.50's cause i know those shouldnt have any problems, until i get the front torsion bar lift and rear leveling blocks then i should be able to fit 33's or something. but hey if bigger tires will fit stock setup with no problems why not, right. i plan on adding a brush guard piaa driving lights window vent shades n get the front driver and passanger windows tinted to match the others, its an extended cab btw.
tazrebel Posts: 2Vehicle: 2008 Colorado
In under 15k miles my tires began to separate.
3 of the factory 4 had "impact wounds" with no sign of the implement that made them separate.
The fourth one just does not hold air for more than a week.
I replaced them all with a set of Coopers. 15k miles later and No more "impact wounds". hhmmm
First, you need to decide "how big" you want to go. If it were my truck, I'd want to consider that the computer reads the vehicle's speed electronically, and in turn tells the tranny to shift, the ABS to function, etc, therefore, if you deviate too much from the OD of the original tires, you could have drivability issues.
Having said that, you'll also need to consider new wheels, to go along with your new tires, since the OE wheels are barely wide enough for the OE tires, let alone anything wider/larger.
The problem is this....Yes, you'll probably get a 15x10 rim to "fit", but it won't work well.
The Canyon/Colorado twins use wheels that have a large amount of positive offset, in essence a FWD wheel. The "backspacing" on an OE wheel is approximately 5.25". Most 10" rims out there on the market have 3.75-4" of backspacing. The added rim width itself, PLUS the amount that will be "pushed out" due to the lesser backspacing, make it impractical, from a clearance standpoint, as well as a little risky, by putting the additional strain on the hubs and bearings, with all that rim/tire further out.
txtrkfan Posts: 1I bought my son a new 2010 Colorado LT for Christmas in 2010. Currently he is stationed overseas, but will return to his base in New Jersey in a couple of months. Prior to his return, I want to "beef" up his truck. If it were here in texas, I would know what to do. I don't have access to the truck, but want to have a lot done to it. Any of the 4x4 buffs out there that can tell me what to do with this thing to make it bad [non-permissible content removed] would be appreciated. I want to lift it (suspension lift), PUT BIGGER TIRES AND RIMS ON IT, put some skid plates on it, grill guard, rear bumper, and maybe even a winch. The V-8 should handle all of the extra weight easily. Give me your ideas please.
I've had 8" wheels on my Canyon, both 15" rims and 16". While offset is indeed a legitimate wheel design parameter, backspacing is easier to calculate/understand. Having said that, the place where the backside of the wheel comes closest to hitting anything is the upper ball joint.
A 15 or 16" rim, with 5.25" of backspacing will clear the ball joint. A 17" rim, due to its larger diameter, will have a little more room here, and possibly more backspace can be tolerated. My suggestion would be to go to a wheel/tire shop that actually stocks rims, and try a wheel on the truck in person. You want to get a wheel that's as wide as possible, to accomodate the larger tires, yet with the most backspacing, in order to work as well as possible, without putting undue stress on the hubs/suspension parts.
blkmrkt Posts: 1I have a 05 colorado crew cab LS
its level (torsion bars) and its pretty much same height as a z71 from what I've noticed
I have stock wheels now 235-?-16"
I have 31-10.5-15 and im going to order black steel rims
I found 15x7 rims with3.75" of backspacing
Think ill be safe with that? Think I can get wider rims with more backspacing? Or should I just stick with what I found
dgrmuxb Posts: 2I just got my '05 colorado to haul my bike and it has been back to carmax 4 FOUR times. I explained to them that it was almost a grinding feeling as I used the brakes in traffic, a jerking grab as i coasted to a stop and a wobble at Hwy speeds ( I use cruise control for my commute to and from work). The second time I was told they couldnt find anything. (The Tech has me drive the car with him to try and explain what I was feeling) But, it might be the tire out of balance and they would go ahead and get all four balanced for me, lost he truck for a few days. I got the truck back had the same issues. call them back to set up another appointment. The third trip they told me the rotors were warped and they would have to replace them, lost the truck for about a week. The customer service rep assures me that they've nailed the issue and the truck is good togo. No more than a week later I'm setting up another appointment due the same wobble shaking the truck so bad you'd think a tire was going to fall off, absolutely driving me insane with the grind making me think I'm going to kill myself trying to get home one night when the breaks fail. Back to setting another appointment (fourth), the service Rep tells me that the tech ( a different one from the last) would like to drive the truck with me to see if they could "recreate" the issues I'd been having. sure enough the truck wobbles and grinds before we get out of the parking lot. We continued the test drive and I point it out to him as we ride and he give me the story of how hard the truck is to work on and how it still might be a balancing issue. I leave the truck with them. Day two the service rep calls me and says they have to turn the rotors. I ask could this be because when the put the new rotors on the didn't replace the pads? he had NO CLUE! the kicker that makes you want to freak out is the machine to turn the rotors was broken and they were trying to get it up so they could get me fixed up. OUTSTANDING! Now the question is when will I actually get the truck back. Three days, (3) days later I get the call the truck is ready and all issues have been resolved. I rearrange my wifes schedule and make plans to pick up the truck and once again before I can get out of the parking lot we ahve the same issues. My scheduled wouldnt allow for me to head strait to the Chevy dealer to have the people who built the damn thing tell me what was really wrong with it. and after reading these post, sound like they have no idea how to correct the problem either. The Christmas gift (purchase date DEC 21, 2011) to haul the motorcycle around and allow us to not be tethered to on car when we haed out of town has turn into a pain in the A##. Three months I'm working on and the truck still runs like S%^& and I just got an email from a Carmax manager asking my how was my last how my last visit went after seeing I had been in for service. I emailed him back asing if would cold talk about my visit(S) this friday and i"ve yet to hear from them. Of course the 30 day warranty is up and it nothing buy a up hill battle now. Shame on Chevy for neglecting a design flaw, not standing behind its brand and issuing a recall to fix this. Easy to see why they needed a bail out! a sad shame. If anyone can help I thank you in advance. :confuse:


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Smith was flying from Oakland to Burbank and was already seated when a Southwest flight attendant said that the plane's captain deemed him a "safety risk."
He had no problems when flying into Oakland, and took a later Southwest flight to get back to Burbank!
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Bahaa Sam, 47, appeared before Judge Robert Livas via a closed circuit video feed from the Will County jail. Livas allowed the public defender's office to withdraw from the case so Palos Park attorney John Eannace could enter his appearance to represent Sam.
An interpreter translated the proceedings into Arabic for Sam, who is being held in lieu of $5 million bond. Sam allegedly bludgeoned his wife, 38-year-old Nermeen Sam, to death Dec. 19, clubbing her in the head at least 10 times with a weightlifting bar.
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Less understood than anorexia and bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder will soon receive an official diagnosis.
By age 6, Chevese Turner had already begun binging. It started with a box of ice cream cones she snuck into her bedroom. She then proceeded to devour them all. "I was always sneaking food. I would hide it. I would store it," says Turner, founder and CEO of the Binge Eating Disorder Association. "It wasn't necessarily that I even ate more than most people, but I was preoccupied with food. I was essentially learning to use food to cope with life."
Her eating pattern of binging, followed by restriction – the latter a form of compensation and punishment that actually set her up for more binging – continued into adulthood. Eventually, Turner, now 45, conquered the disorder by accepting herself and learning healthy coping skills to handle stress.
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But it wasn't until receiving the right diagnosis that she could begin to recover, a process that only fully began in 2010. And that's why Turner and others are celebrating the fact that binge eating disorder will receive an official diagnosis in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, the standard reference book for mental health professionals, scheduled to be released later this month.
"It's recognition that what we have experienced is an eating disorder," Turner says. "What that means on a larger scale is that people with issues around food, and a lot of the feelings that go along with it, will finally have all of that validated, that this is something that they're not alone in."
The move also paves the way for more research, treatments and, potentially, insurance coverage. However, payment hinges on parity laws, which call for equal coverage of mental health disorders, but vary by state.
[Read: How to Talk to a Friend About an Eating Disorder.]
"In most states, parity law only encompasses anorexia and bulimia, so what that has meant is that these conditions typically receive more comprehensive coverage for treatment," explains Jennifer Lombardi, a marriage and family therapist and executive director of Summit Eating Disorders and Outreach Program in Sacramento, Calif. The new classification of binge eating disorder could come under parity laws that offer people more treatment options, Lombardi says. "Hopefully this will begin a dialogue [and help health care officials] work with insurance companies to provide better care and more comprehensive care."
Binge eating disorder was included in the current DSM, released in 1994, as an "eating disorder not otherwise specified" – a catch-all category – requiring further study. Since then, more than 1,000 articles have been published on the subject. The articlesreveal the "significant distress," anxiety and mood disturbances associated with the disorder and the effictiveness of psychological treatments and medications, says Timothy Walsh, chair of the DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group of the American Psychiatric Association. "It was widely agreed that mentioning binge eating disorder only as an example of an eating disorder not otherwise specified was of limited help to individuals who suffered with the disorder and to the professionals attempting to assist them," he says.
Diagnosis requires more than the occasional binge, but frequent excess consumption as well as distress and dysfunction, Walsh says.
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These parameters are critical for treating a condition that has been less understood than anorexia and bulimia, even though it affects more people.
In 2007, researchers at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Ma., an affiliate of Harvard University, found that 0.9 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men experience anorexia during their lives, and 1.5 percent of women and 0.5 percent of men experience bulimia. Binge eating disorder, meanwhile, affects 3.5 percent of women and 2 percent of men.
"Everybody knows about anorexia and bulimia. However, binge eating disorder affects more people, is often associated with severe obesity and tends to persist longer,'' stated lead author James Hudson. "The consequences of binge eating disorder can be serious, including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke. It is imperative that health experts take notice of these findings."


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I just heard that The Dark Highlander, read by Phil Gigante won the 2009 Audie Award for Romance.
I couldn't agree more! I think he does such a sexy Scot!
I just heard that The Dark Highlander, read by Phil Gigante won the 2009 Audie Award for Romance.
I couldn't agree more! I think he does such a sexy Scot!
Yay! Congrats to Phil, and to you for providing the words that helped him win!
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"Seduction begins with the promise of touch, not touch itself. The deliberate withholding of it until the moment is exquisitely right. I've been known to devote days to heightening the tension to the perfect pitch. To seduce a woman using just one thing? My mouth, I confess, for selfish reasons. I adore slow, hungry kisses, trailing them over every inch of her body. Where sex with me can sometimes be demanding, my tongue is always gentle. Relentless, but gentle."
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As the self-appointed Head of Phil's Eargasmic Pri-ya Harem... may I just say.... it's about time and ...
You both soooooo deserved that!!! Now, Ummmm... how do we get awards for all other six???? LOL They all soooo deserve it too????? Is there a place where we can make nominations???
i definately am not suprised...he is a fantastic reader and of course, he had the best to read from...i just love all my Highlander audios because he sounds so wonderful and Scottish!!!!...Congratulations to you both....bap
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Dear Ms. Moning,
Hello. I hope I'm not intruding, but I had to break my long standing fear of contacting authors whose work I read and greatly admire, to let you know that The Dark Highlander was awarded the Audie Award for Best Romance of 2009 in NYC last night.
I LOVED bringing your wonderful characters to life on audio. The stories, beautiful prose and dialogue, and passion of your writing have forever changed and enriched my life and, frankly, spoiled me for other works in the genre. (In truth, before your work, I wouldn't have read the synopsis on the back of a Romance title. Now, I can't wait for the next Fever book!)
Karen, thank you. And again, thank you. Your work is marvelous, and I am honored and thrilled to have been a small part of it. I wish you health, happiness and continued success always.
Sincerely and humbly,
Phil Gigante
PS I'm sure you know this, but you have the best and most fervent fans I've ever seen. And I guess I'm Alpha Man enough now to count myself among them.
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Why less is more
One of the core principles that underpin what we're trying to do with MATTER is that less is more.
What do I mean? Well, all over the web, and all over the media in general, we've seen a gigantic, supernova-sized explosion of stuff. We joke about information overload, but it's real: a while ago Google's Eric Schmidt said that we now produce as much information in two days as we have managed in the previous 12,000 years of human history.
For publishers, that vastness has caused its own pressures. What do you do when the world is shouting a million times louder than ever before? The answer for many seems to be to shout back: publish more stories, about more things, and try and distribute them to more and more people.
But does that really make sense? There may be an apparently infinite supply of material; there is certainly not an infinite supply of attention. Being bigger and carrying more stories may not always be the best way to get that attention.
When we were trying to understand how MATTER might work, we quickly realized that it wasn't just a case that we couldn't publish big stories every day — it was that we wouldn't.
We think that publishing a careful, discrete amount of stories is a strength, rather than a weakness, because it allows us to focus on doing the best possible job in all kinds of ways.
For example, we've done a lot of thinking about what happens when you aren't trying to build an online publication that produces 5, 10, 50 or 100 stories per day. What stories become possible that weren't before? What can you do that turns that lower frequency to your benefit? What can you do that everybody else struggles with? How can you promote the stories you produce? How can you talk about them?
We've learned a lot and listened a lot, and we think that less can most definitely be more. I'll share some more on the ideas of how to make that happen in the next post.
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The Birthday Party for the World
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Ever since I moved to Newton, Mass., I have found services to be just boring. Maybe it's because now we go to a bigger, less personal synagogue, or when the rabbi talks, I often find myself dozing off. This year I was determined to make Rosh Hashanah meaningful for my family, especially my three year old little boy, Ariel.
I decided to make a birthday party for the world. By making Rosh Hashanah a birthday for the world, I felt my son would truly understand the meaning of the day or at least think it was really cool that we were all dressed up wearing birthday hats and eating sweet food.
For each of the two days of Rosh Hashanah we invited Ariel's friends and their parents over to our house. We had a mix of families with guests who originated from New York, Canada, China, Ukraine, and Australia. We started each meal with apples and honey and a new fruit. It is a tradition on this holiday to try an unusual fruit for the first time in the season and recite the Shehecheyanu, a prayer of thanks that is said on many occasions including when something new happens,".
We then moved on to the typical fare of homemade gefilte fish, brisket, noodle kugel, and carrots but we were all wearing birthday hats. Each meal was finished with birthday cookies; We keep kosher and don't mix diary and meat, and I had a hard time finding a pareve birthday cake (one that is not dairy) and am not the type to bake it myself!
We also talked about how G-d created the world with all of the animals and plants on Rosh Hashanah. Then we talked about how nice it would be if we did good deeds or mitzvahs all year because G-d was nice enough to create the world for us. (I figured that as Ariel and his little friends are only three, we could include a discussion on evolution a few years down the road.)
It was the best Rosh Hashanah we'd had in a long while and I hope it will continue for many more years.
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Today's Election Day Experience Around Lower Macungie Patch
* Forty people were in line when the polls opened this morning at Macungie Memorial Park. It was cold, but they all waited. Robin Hamilton said it took about 20 minutes to vote at that time.
* Darla Malik of Macungie said she was asked for ID, but didn't really need it. She was not completely comfortable with being asked to show ID, but didn't make an issue of it, she said.
* At 3 p.m. St. Anne's Episcopal Church was buzzing. Up to that point almost 900 voters had passed through the doors, according to Edna Lucas, judge of elections.
* Leslie Tobin Smeltz, judge of elections at Church of the Good Shepherd in Alburtis, said around 4 p.m. that 265 people had voted there before 8 a.m. double that voted during that time period in 2008. Of that district's (Lower Macungie -- 6th) 3,000 registered voters, 1,340 had been in to vote as of 4:15pm.
* Voter Terri Kernechel said she didn't wait long to vote at Good Shepherd. It was important to her that her voice be heard, she said.
2012 ELECTION RESULTSRace Democratic Candidates Results Republican Candidates Results U.S. President
Obama-Biden8,086 Romney-Ryan 10,113 U.S. Senate
Bob Casey8,405 Tom Smith 9,439
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Rick Daugherty6,716 Charlie Dent 11,339 PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane 8,332 David Freed 8,820 PA Auditor General Eugene DePasquale 6,919 John Maher 10,020 PA Treasurer Robert McCord 7,571 Diana Vaughn 9,290 134th State House John Reynard 6,753 Ryan Mackenzie 11,028
Area Voting Trends
Polls have shown the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney tightening in the days before the Tuesday election.
In the last two presidential elections, Republicans dominated Lower Macungie, although their margin of victory was slimmer in 2008 than in 2004, when President George W. Bush was triumphant in all voting precincts.
Elsewhere, Alburtis proved to be a Democratic stronghold in both elections, while Macungie went for the Republican in 2004 and the Democrat in 2008.
President George W. Bush won Lower Macungie in 2004, defeating Sen. John Kerry by almost 2,500 votes, 7,665 to 5,259. Bush won in all six voting precincts.
In 2008, the number of precincts increased to 10, with Republican Sen. John McCain winning eight of them. The exceptions were the 6th and 9th districts, won by then-Sen. Barack Obama.
The 6th district's voting place is the Church of the Good Shepherd, 135 Quarry Road. The 9th district's voting place is the Village of Willow Lane, 6488 Alburtis Road.
The 2008 totals in Lower Macungie were McCain, 8,023, and Obama, 7,684.
Alburtis voters went with the Democrats in both years, although they gave Kerry just a six-vote margin of victory, 452 to 446. In 2008, Obama won more substantially, 591 to 449.
Macungie, meanwhile, favored the Republican Bush, 797 to 723, and the Democrat Obama, but by a wider margin, 839 to 666.
For a look at all the candidates in all the races, check out our Lower Macungie Patch Election Guide.
Stay with Patch all day as we update this article with news and information from the polls and live election results after 9 p.m.
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They do have a separate GF menu, I can always find something good to eat. Staff is typically helpful and relatively well informed.
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Great choice for GF food.
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The food is hit and miss. the pulled pork is GF. But taste quality isn't always great. sometimes it's just bland. thank goodness for the sauce.
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They have a large gluten free menu. The waitress was very helpful and the good was great!!
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Very nice was able to have ribs and baked potato. Been here many times!
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Server worked to make meal right. Lots of options.
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Smokey Bones is a national restaurant chain and has a gluten free menu. The food is really good. It is one of my favorites.
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They say gluten free...THAT'S A JOKE! After my wife and daughter ordered off the "gluten free" menu, they both spent the majority of the afternoon on the toilet. Do not go here if you are even the slightest gluten sensitive!
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I've ordered the sliced turkey, broccoli, and plain baked potato a few times. It's always delicious and I've always felt fine afterwords.
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Seperate gluten free menu made choices easy. Pulled pork was amazing.
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Have GF menu not bad better than most.
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Great service and very knowledgable.
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Can't find their GF items on menu. :(.
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This regular column is for Dungeon Masters who like to build worlds and campaigns as much as I do. Here I share my experiences as a DM through the lens of Iomandra, my Dungeons & Dragons campaign world. Even though the campaign uses the 4th Edition rules, the topics covered here often transcend editions. Hopefully this series of articles will give you inspiration, ideas, and awesome new ways to menace your players in your home campaigns.
If you're interested in learning more about the world of Iomandra, check out the wiki.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The heroes have declared war on the Magocracy of Vhalt, a secret kingdom of Vecna worshipers who haunt the skies of Iomandra in flying citadels guarded by warforged soldiers. One of these citadels has just attacked a ship in the party's fleet, and the heroes have no choice but to launch a counter-assault. It looks like they're in for one hell of a fight, too. Then, out of the blue, three renegade warforged arrive to lend the party a hand and deal a crushing blow to their evil Vhaltese masters. These warforged are played by special guest stars Jeff Alvarez (VP, Paizo Publishing), Brian R. James (of Forgotten Realms fame), and Richard Whitters (Magic: The Gathering senior concept illustrator). The following week, when Richard is unable to resume in his guest-starring role due to a last-minute scheduling conflict, he's replaced by Tom LaPille, one of our D&D and Magic game developers. Half way into the session, the Vhaltese lord of the citadel completes a ritual that subjugates two of the three warforged renegades, forcing them to turn on the party. Time for my special guest stars to go to town!
ven the most hardcore D&D player can feel daunted by the suite of options available to high-level characters. It's not so bad if you've been playing the same character for twenty-odd levels, because at least there's an element of familiarity that comes with advancing a character. But jumping into the campaign with a new character can be intimidating, particularly for players who don't have the time or wherewithal to digest every rules element and nuance of the game system.
As I've mentioned before in a previous article, I like to invite "special guest stars" to my gaming table from time to time—players who aren't part of the regular group. Sometimes they play villains, but usually they play supporting characters that provide the party with extra resources and firepower. Sometimes they're hardcore D&D players, and sometimes they're casual players at best. (Personality, not rules knowledge, wins me over every time.) They rarely have time to create full-blown characters, and they have even less time to optimize them or to memorize complicated suites of powers and feats.
I try to ease my players' burdens by offering them alternatives to the standard character sheet, namely a tall glass of what I like to call "Character Lite." One way to create a simplified character is to avoid choosing complicated powers and feats, or to simply ignore them once chosen. However, the 4th Edition system offers a tempting alternative in the form of companion characters.
The rules for creating companion characters are nestled in the Dungeon Master's Guide 2 (pages 27-33). You can create a companion character in a matter of minutes, and if you follow the rules to the letter, the end result is a simplified character with fewer options and poorer statistics than a standard character of the same level—an all-around weaker option. This is deliberate, since companion characters are meant to be used as NPC henchmen and followers to bolster smaller-than-average adventuring parties. They forgo the plethora of options for a handful of powers, and as a consequence they might seem underwhelming, but it sure makes them easy to run. And if that's not enough of an incentive, let me add that it doesn't take much effort to "pump up" a companion character if you really want to.
Switch to Monday night: After suffering through the experience of playing a fairly complicated 27th-level dragonborn rogue, Stan! shuddered at the notion of creating a brand-new epic-level character from scratch when poor Baharoosh bit the dust. Once he settled on a character concept that fit the party gestalt, I set about to create a companion character for him. Since Stan!'s not a power gamer, the prospect of playing a simple, straightforward character was very attractive to him. However, I didn't want Stan!'s new character to be feeble, either, so I compared his defenses and damage numbers to other characters and made some ad-hoc adjustments to guarantee that his dwarf paladin wouldn't get laughed out of the party. I also broke one of the rules of companion character design by applying magic item bonuses to his statistics.
At the end of the companion character-building process, what you get is something that looks like a monster stat block, which, once you get used to it, is a fairly intuitive and easy way to present character information. Key statistics such as hit points, initiative modifier, and defenses are presented at the top, and all of the character's powers are organized by action type—standard actions first, triggered actions last. All I can say is after two weeks of practical use, Stan! isn't looking forward to going back to a standard character sheet any time soon.
My Wednesday night guest stars were handed stat blocks for their warforged characters at the start of the session. Before the game got underway, I took them aside and walked them through the stat block format, which proved fairly intuitive and easy to reference. Thankfully, I only needed to create one companion character to represent all three of them, since the three warforged were statistically identical. (What differentiated them were their personalities.) However, to make them a genuine threat when the time came for them to betray the party (as special guest stars often do!), they needed some statistical boosts. I gave them hit points and damage numbers commensurate with elite monsters of their level, which made them much more powerful and resilient than normal companion characters. The hit points were easy to calculate, the damage numbers less so. Fortunately, I have a spreadsheet that tells me how much damage a monster should deal on its turn based on its level and role (brutes have a higher damage scale than other monsters). Here's the spreadsheet I use:
Monster Damage by Level
If you're a DM, you'll find this damage spreadsheet helpful if you like to create monsters on the fly. (In fact, I suggest you keep copies of this spreadsheet tucked away between the folds of your DM screen, in your campaign binder, or some other easy-to-reference location.)
Here's how the spreadsheet works: Imagine you're creating a level 5 skirmisher and want to know how much damage its basic attack should deal. Let's look at a snippet of the spreadsheet to find out:
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The average damage for a level 5 non-brute monster is 13 points. That's the amount of damage it should be dealing on its turn with an at-will (standard) attack. The spreadsheet provides several different damage expressions that yield the same average damage result: 2d4 + 8, 3d4 + 6, 1d6 + 10, 2d6 + 6, and so on. Simply choose whichever damage expression you prefer or makes the most sense. If you want the monster to attack multiple times on its turn, reduce the damage for each attack proportionately. For example, a level 5 skirmisher might deal 2d8 + 4 damage with a single longsword attack, or it could make two claw attacks for 1d8 + 2 damage each. Either way, it's doing the right amount of damage for its level on its turn (average 13 points).
The spreadsheet doesn't provide damage expressions for elite or solo monsters. Elite monsters basically deal damage equal to two monsters of their level, and this damage is usually spread over two or more standard attacks. A solo monster is basically four standard monsters rolled into one.
Because my Wednesday night game includes several highly optimized characters, I inflated the warforged damage numbers even more than my spreadsheet allows, just to make them scary. It just goes to prove that all the rules, formulas, and spreadsheets in the world sometimes can't give you exactly what you need. That's where a little DM intuition and guesswork comes in handy.
Do you have a player who finds the sheer number of character options overwhelming? If so, I urge you to experiment with the companion character rules in the DMG2. As with many tasks that fall upon the Dungeon Master, it's more than a simple mathematical exercise. There's a certain amount of art involved. I don't recommend lightweight characters for everyone, but if you have a player who's willing to trade a space shuttle for a hang glider, the companion character rules are a pretty good alternative to the multi-page character sheet.
What a companion character offers is well worth the effort it takes to create one, namely:
A streamlined character with fewer options
A quick, ready-to-play experience
However, here are two things to keep in mind when building a companion character using the rules in the DMG2:
Companion characters are, by design, weaker than regular characters.
A few additional DM tweaks might be required to ensure player happiness.
Until the next encounter!
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Continue adding all of your hosts as managed servers to the console until they have all been added. You then can import any pre-existing VMs on your hosts by right-clicking the managed server and selecting Import Virtual Machine Config Files. You also might notice from this same menu context that you can move servers between pools. This feature is useful during organizational changes or when moving test servers into a production environment. Be aware that moving a server between pools also moves any that reside on it, so be aware of any configuration changes that might be applied by moving your server/guests into the new pool. You also are required to power down any running guests before moving the server.
Because I already have covered how to add existing guests to managed servers, let's create a new guest from a template (this also is called provisioning). To get a feel for all of your options, let's provision a guest VM from CD as well as clone a guest from a golden image using a reference disk.
Out of the box, ConVirt has two pre-configured templates for use with provisioning. These templates contain common configuration settings for a specific OS installed from a CD. Provisioning from the built-in templates is easy. Simply right-click a template, and select Provision to create a guest on your selected managed server.
For this example setup, let's create a Linux desktop from the existing Linux CD template. After clicking on Provision, you are asked on which server to place the new guest VM, and then you're prompted to provide a name for the it (Figure 5). ConVirt then creates a guest based on your name and creates a 10GB virtual hard drive and maps the guest to the physical CD/DVD of the host on which it's provisioned.
Figure 5. Provisioning a Guest from the Linux Template
Next, insert your physical install media on the host's physical drive. Once the guest VM appears under the host, power it up by right-clicking on the new guest and clicking Start.
If you do not want to use CDs, you also have the option to boot from an .iso file. To do so, change the path of your /dev/cdrom to an accessible .iso file (Figure 6) in the settings of a template or the guest itself. Once the VM has been started, right-click on it and select View Console. If you have a Java-enabled browser, you can access the new VM's desktop via the Web console, or if you choose another VNC client, ConVirt will display the IP and port required to access the VM. If you prefer to administer your host via SSH, you also can launch a session from the guest's right-click context menu.
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