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It's Friday the 13th! How's your day going? Friggatriskaidekaphobia or fear of Friday the 13th is believed to be the most widespread phobia in the US. As many as 21 million Americans believe Friday the 13th brings bad luck. Some take it so seriously that they stay home from work, won...
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Many of you enjoyed our debut Speed Scraps last month and I'm hoping I didn't scare some of you off! So we have another round this month!!
Why would you be crazy enough to scrap under pressure like a time crunch? Because it's so much fun!!! And do we ever do anything that doesn't give you participation bonuses? And you could be the one lucky random participant to win a $5 coupon to the store!
What is a speed scrap??? Everyone meets in this forum at the designated time. You receive an instruction at the start time and then a new instruction every ten minutes for a total of seven instructions/prompts. After the last prompt is given you have one hour to complete your LO and upload to the our gallery and link to it in the forum thread.
To accomodate our international community, we will have 2...yes 2...speed scraps so mark your calendars for the following:
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POTOMAC, Md. – For golfers, it doesn't get a lot better than this. The weather has finally turned, and the year's first major, the Masters, begins Thursday.
But the glory of spring doesn't automatically fix the shanks from an idle winter.
"The most important thing is to have realistic expectations when you go out," says Hank Haney, considered to be among the top golf instructors in the world.
Haney, who coached Tiger Woods and other tour pros, was at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm on Saturday to host an event for junior golfers.
"Golf is a little tougher in the spring
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GREELEY, Colo.—Weld County commissioners have given tentative approval to a local ordinance that prohibits the county from restricting residents' gun rights.
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The ordinance was drafted after commissioners said they were approached by a group of about 30 residents who said they believe recently passed state legislation is infringing on their right to bear arms.
The new state law, signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper in March, requires background checks for private and online gun sales and limits ammunition magazines to 15 rounds.
According to the Greeley Tribune ( http://tinyurl.com/cv35jts), the local ordinance outlines ways that commissioners would be prohibited from infringing on gun rights.
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One of the really great things about our home when we purchased it was that the kitchen had already recently been redone. Since our home is our "30-year-home" it made great sense to us that we wouldn't have to move in and re-do the kitchen…and then turn around and re-do it 30 years from now when we want to sell….because let's face it, no matter how nice your kitchen is, in 30 years, it will be outdated.
However, that does mean that all of the beautiful inspiration that is out there in the kitchen department falls on blind eyes around here. But that doesn't keep me from lusting after some beautiful spaces that I wish I could have in my kitchen…perhaps I save these ideas in my head for my 'beach house'…you know, that fake house that we will never have enough money to purchase but that I keep in the back of my head so that I can redecorate it at whim. What. You don't do that?
My latest obsession is open shelving. Perhaps it is an obsession because 1) I can't do it in my own kitchen and 2) it seems very impractical for my lifestyle (re: cluttered) and since I'm admittedly day dreaming I can day dream my way into believing something like this would actually work for me…(see: cluttered…also, dusty). I also really appreciate that there are different ways to 'do' open shelving that can lend itself well to multiple styles.
While I often consider open shelving to skew a kitchen to the more traditional/slightly country feel, like in the ones below…
…there are also many different open shelving options that can be quite modern…
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So what are your thoughts on open shelving in kitchens? Pretty but impractical? Or lust-worthily form and function?
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CLEVELAND — The three women allegedly imprisoned and sexually abused for years inside a padlocked Cleveland house asked for privacy Sunday, saying through an attorney that although they are grateful for overwhelming support, they also need time to heal.
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight remain in seclusion, releasing their first statements since they were found May 6 when Berry escaped and told a 911 dispatcher, "I'm free now."
They thanked law enforcement and said they were grateful for the support of family and the community.
"I am so happy to be home, and I want to thank everybody for all your prayers," DeJesus said in a statement read by an attorney. "I just want time now to be with my family."
Investigators say they spent the last nine years or more inside the home of Ariel Castro, where they were repeatedly raped and only allowed outside a handful of times. Castro, 52, is being held in lieu of $8 million bail. The former school bus driver was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.
Prosecutors said last week they might seek aggravated murder charges — punishable by death — for allegedly impregnating one of his captives at least five times and forcing her to miscarry by starving her and punching her in the belly.
After nearly a decade of being away, the three women need time to reconnect with their families, said attorney Jim Wooley.
Knight, who was the first to disappear and the last of the three released from the hospital, thanked everyone for their support and good wishes in her statement.
"I am healthy, happy and safe and will reach out to family, friends and supporters in good time." She added: "Thank you so much for everything you're doing and continue to do. I am so happy to be home with my family."
The attorney said none of the women will do any media interviews until the criminal case against Castro is over. He also asked that they be given privacy.
"Give them the time, the space and the privacy so that they can continue to get stronger," Wooley said.
Castro's two brothers, who were initially taken into custody but released after investigators said there was no evidence against them, told CNN that they fear people still think they had something to do with the three missing women.
Onil and Pedro Castro said they have been getting death threats. Pedro Castro said he would have turned in his brother if he had known he was involved in the women's disappearance.
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Home Energy Management with or without an Advanced Metering Infrastructure - Part 2
According to Parks Associates, approximately 45% of all U.S. households will be served by smart meters by the end of 2015. As few as 10% of those meters, however, will be enabled for two-way communications between a home area network (HAN) and the utility's back-end processing system. Other analysts predict more or less smart meter penetration and HAN capabilities, but the result is the same: Effective residential demand response programs require two-way, near-real-time communications to provide system operators with the ability to monitor demand response actions, just as they do with conventional generation.
Fortunately, there already exists a ubiquitous, reliable and secure two-way data communications network suitable for DR that is available in every utility's service area to virtually every home and is already installed in the U.S. in 63% of them: the Internet. The penetration in larger residences with the highest potential return on the DR investment is even greater. And broadband penetration will only continue to increase as digital subscriber line (DSL), cable modem, third- or fourth-generation (3G/4G) cellular communications, and satellite services are expanded, and competition among these alternatives lowers subscription rates.
All that is needed for utilities to take advantage of the Internet is a dedicated gateway, as shown in Figure 2. The gateway provides continuous two-way communications between the utility and the consumer's home energy management system devices, such as a programmable communicating thermostat (PCT) or an in-home display (IHD). The gateway establishes a secure "service entrance" into the home by connecting both to the broadband modem (via Ethernet) and to the ZigBee, Wi-Fi or other HAN. The gateway is configured for secure, encrypted communications between the utility's DR application and the in-premises system, whether a PCT and/or IHD, and if the utility chooses, optional direct load control, enabling these loads to receive dynamic pricing or direct command and control signals.
Figure 2: Shown here is a wireless ZigBee HAN served by both a broadband Internet gateway and an AMI network. Note the ability to control other loads, including the charging of electric vehicles, which will be supported in future versions of SEP.
Astute readers may be wondering what happens when a home has both a utility-provided smart meter and a consumer- or utility-provided Internet-HAN gateway? The latest version of SEP 1.1 (technically version 1.1.1) includes a provision for more than one Energy Service Interface (ESI), which is the gateways into the HAN. With SEP, in addition to the gateway function, each network must also have trust center and network coordinator functions; the smart meter (the point of demarcation between the utility and the premises) normally provides all three functions. Support for multiple ESIs enables the trust center function to have different gateways into the same HAN in a secure fashion, thereby changing the HAN from a utility's AMI-limited interface into a robust consumer platform that preserves the integrity of the utility's program while enabling shared control with the consumer. The main advantage for the utility of having an Internet gateway is the ability to implement additional applications, particularly those requiring higher bandwidth than the AMI supports.
Maximizing Customer Buy-in
With ubiquitous two-way communications over the Internet and mature home energy management standards, the only potential obstacle to residential demand response is consumer acceptance. With many consumers now willing to make the change, the real key to broad acceptance is simplicity. Since most consumers continue to have difficulty programming home appliances like microwave ovens and digital video recorders, how can they be expected to make the optimal tradeoffs necessary to balance energy consumption with personal comfort? How many degrees should they raise the thermostat during peak price periods in the summer? Is it safe to temporarily shut off the water heater, refrigerator and/or pool pump, and if so, for how long? What other loads might be shed instead of or in addition to these to achieve greater savings without sacrificing comfort? And how much will that one extra degree of comfort cost?
The best home energy management systems make these and other choices automatically and prudently based on an individual customer's general preference, while also providing a mechanism to help the consumer "tweak" that preference. For example, some customers will opt for maximum cost savings and be willing to tolerate considerable temperature variations, while others would be willing to sacrifice personal comfort for the "political correctness" of reducing their carbon footprint. And while a few will be willing to pay whatever it takes to stay cool and take a hot shower, many if not most will choose a middle ground compromise between comfort and cost. There is no "right" or "wrong" choice, of course, as consumers decide guided by both their wallets and conscious.
The ideal home energy management system would, therefore, operate something like the dial on an old-fashioned thermostat, enabling users to "crank down" the cost or "crank up" the comfort -- or chose something in between favoring one or the other. For those consumers who are enthusiastic about home energy management, optional, more in-depth capabilities are already available on some systems. These include, for example: switches and outlets for controlling other loads; opening and closing curtains to increase or reduce solar gain; sophisticated energy management displays, potentially as dockable stations; Web portals showing detailed usage information that provides energy insights; and mobile device applications that enable users to check and change settings while away from home, perhaps from a second or vacation home that also has its own remotely-controllable HEM system.
Operational simplicity combined with good customer communications works. And not just in pilots either. Oklahoma Gas & Electric had such tremendous success with its pilot that the utility is now embarking on large-scale roll-out of almost 40,000 customers by the end of 2012, with more to follow. Pike Research calls OG&E's demand response program "one of the most advanced initiatives in the industry to date" and the firm's forecast of a 38% annual growth in residential DR services over the next five years reveals an expectation that other utilities will shortly be following OG&E's lead.
Protecting the Investment
Utilities choosing not to implement AMI now may still wish to deploy effective DLC programs using paging, FM RDS or even an Internet Gateway. But what happens to the assets used to implement these DLC programs when the utility does ultimately deploys its AMI? With the right solution: nothing. These networks can continue to coexist indefinitely without stranding any assets provided they are properly designed. Existing radio-based DLC programs can continue unaffected, or optionally be transitioned over time to the HEM system by installing a new load switch or upgrading the radio. In situations where two-way HAN communications is built into the smart meter, new residential DR customers will not need a gateway to participate in DR programs. Those who already have a gateway, however, can continue to participate with no changes owing to the multiple ESI capability built into the SEP standard.
While SEP version 1.1 is fully backwards-compatible with SEP version 1.0, this will not be the case with SEP 2.0. Such situations occur often as standards evolve to add more sophisticated capabilities. But the new standard already includes a gateway function that will enable interoperability with SEP 1.x devices, which is all that is needed to avoid stranding assets. In other words: As long as the assets can continue to serve their original purpose, they need not be stranded. Of course, the new, enhanced functionality may not be available for those devices, but they can continue to function as before until being fully depreciated. The key to future-proofing is not from ensuring assets are fully upgradeable, but by ensuring that assets can continue to be useful over their entire economic life. The SEP 2.0 gateway function supporting version 1.x devices is expected to built into future PCTs, IHDs, broadband Internet gateways and potentially other devices, thereby fully protecting all utility (and consumer) investments in existing home energy management technology.
Beyond the investment protection afforded by these provisions in the SEP standards are the many techniques vendors use when designing products to accommodate change. A common one is the ability to update devices with new software, preferably "over-the-air" via the wireless HAN (a capability already specified in SEP version 1.1). Another is a modular design that lets consumers add new capabilities by plugging a new module into an open slot, or by replacing an existing module with a new one. Such "upgrades" can be about as simple as changing the battery or memory card in a digital camera.
The reality is: Utilities and their regulators no longer have any good excuses for postponing residential demand response programs, even on a large-scale. The benefits are clear, and the downside risk can be made minimal -- with the right approach. To be sure, there are numerous details to get right. In its Grid Modernization Issues with a Focus on Consumers, the Critical Consumer Issues Forum (sponsored by the Edison Electric Institute) cited 30 such considerations. And the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative offers additional guidance in its Excellence in Consumer Engagement recommendations. But the other (consumer) side of the meter, whether "smart" or "dumb", is no longer an impediment to progress.
While it is risky to claim any technology is fully "future-proof" with so many advances occurring on so many fronts, home energy management is now about as future-proof as anything can get. The standards are solid and proven in practice. Available solutions are now mature, and most have designs that will survive changes over the foreseeable future. With the consumer side of meter ready to go, the many benefits of residential demand response are now within reach of any electric utility.
Not implementing residential demand response, by contrast, will force utilities to continue to struggle with increasing demand. There will be more stress on an already-overloaded infrastructure. There will be more customer dissatisfaction from rolling brownouts and blackouts. And wholesale power rates will probably increase with little or no means to reflect those fairly on consumers who lack the ability to control their own usage without DR tools.
With comprehensive standards now supporting control of all major residential loads, the worst case scenario for utilities is that some programmable communicating thermostats or in-home displays might need to be replaced at some point in the distant future. So what? Most customers probably remember replacing that old analog thermostat with a programmable digital model they bought at the hardware store, and they will likely understand (with proper education) the need to now replace the digital one with a PCT. And ten or more years from now, after benefiting from smarter home energy management, they may even be eager to replace that (by then) old PCT with a shiny new one offering artificial intelligence or some other must-have feature.
The public seems to understand something many in the electric utility industry often overlook (or consciously ignore): times change. And they are surprisingly (or is it understandably?) willing to change when the gain outweighs the pain. Such is the case today with residential demand response as a "killer application" -- with or without AMI.
The simple reason most utility companies are reluctant to advance this stuff with their customers is cost recovery. Most utility companies are not interested in becoming the Home Depot of energy management tools for consumers willing to purchase them. Utilities would rather provide such tools to ALL their customers, with cost recovery from added charges to everyone's bill, or with government handouts. Trouble is they don't have cost recovery to do this on a wide scale.
The root of the problem of cost recovery is in utility regulation. Our politicians and regulators need to implement reforms that will permit utility companies more options for cost recovery. Until this happens, don't expect anything more than pilot programs from our utility companies.
First, the sole purpose of an electric meter should be to record consumption, and it should ideally be designed to record consumption on the smallest practical time interval (five minutes or less). There should be a way for those consumers who want data from the meter to obtain it as close to real-time as possible without having to ask permission from their utility and without necessarily having to use their local utility's web site.
Second, utilities that are rolling out AMI should have been required to use existing data communications networks instead of going through the costly and time-consuming process of reinventing the wheel. Wired telecom networks are ubiquitous and more reliable than electric distribution. There's no excuse for allowing utilities to recover the cost of a wholly duplicative network.
I also think it's a mistake to assume utilities are going to be the dominant providers of energy management services. In fact, if consumers are unwilling to spend their own money on devices that control the biggest energy-consuming devices in their homes, it's likely they won't use a cost-free device provided by their utility. I sure don't want to be paying for expensive door stoppers.
Of course, none of this works without time-varying rates. If regulators are unable or unwilling to implement sensible, time-varying rates, then they need to stop talking about demand response, Smart Grid, demand management and all of the other consumer-facing policies aimed at either increasing the utilization of existing electric plant or avoiding the need for additional electric plant, because without time-varying prices, consumers lack the information and the motivation to make more intelligent electricity usage decisions.
Setting aside some of the more esoteric ideas for coordinating demand and supply to mitigate the variability and uncertainty of renewable energy production, the single biggest challenge in demand management facing most utilities in North America is air conditioning load. One way to deal with the problem is by encouraging residences and commercial office buildings to run their air conditioners (or whole house fans or box fans facing outward) during the night to precool the structure. I can personally vouch for the effectiveness of this idea. It can be done with inexpensive timers or programmable thermostats that cost less than $30 and require NO communications device. I don't understand why this very simple, cost-effective idea is not being widely advertised by utilities, regulators and consumer advocacy groups. But then again we are talking about electricity, where it seems nothing is as simple as it could be.
Jack Ellis, Tahoe City, CA
I'm afraid you are right about this Jack. The best customers to provide these tools to are the ones willing to purchase them themselves. Sadly, this is not going to happen when such tools must communicate somehow with data measured by the smart meter on the customer's house, because the utility company MUST be involved to enable and permit this function. So I repeat, utility companies generally are not interested in doing this for individual customers on request. Most are not set up to deal with individual customer services this way, particularly when it comes to cost recovery of such services, because regulation prevents it. Regulation allows only uniform cost recovery from ALL customers, not just some of them.
As for air conditioners being the biggest problem for residential demand management, this has been true historically. In future however I suggest that charging of electric vehicles will become an even bigger load management problem if our governments and automakers achieve their goals of commercializing vast numbers of electric vehicles as the primary means to wean the public off volatile oil prices. And I don't think using simple timers to manage vehicle charging would sit too well with a customer when they need their vehicle batteries charged NOW, not hours later when a timer allows them to.


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Coaches' sons don't always have the answers. Frankly, most don't want to hear the questions. They're the 10-year-old and teen-age public figures in town. They're the ones who get the stares and hear the whispers, accept the pats on the back followed by the occasional knife.
When Mike MacIntyre grew up in Nashville, Tenn., his father had the coaching equivalent of the story they read about in their family's favorite book, the Bible. You know, the one when Noah tried to build an ark. George MacIntyre tried to build a winning football program at Vanderbilt, the bookworm in a Southeastern Conference full of playground bullies.
And he did it.
Now you know why MacIntyre took on the challenge of breathing life in the flat-lining program at San Jose State and why he's trying to lift Colorado out of its worst era in school history, topped by its worst season in school history.
It's the one trait he has had since he was old enough to snap on one of his dad's old, tattered chin straps.
"Confidence. He felt like he could do anything," said Carlton Flatt, MacIntyre's coach at Brentwood Academy in suburban Nashville. "Sometimes that's good and sometimes that's not good, but he has really matured in that situation.
"He's a risk taker. To go out and take that job at San Jose State, that was a risk."
Examine MacIntyre's life and career and you conclude his hobbies must include bungee jumping, shark diving and day trading.
He played safety in the SEC with a similar build as some of the SEC's place-kickers. He agreed to become defensive coordinator at Duke, another suicidal post with about as many coaching pelts on the wall as wins. He moved across the country to where he had never worked or lived and turned around one of the worst programs in the country, San Jose State. Now he's coming to the basement of the Pac-12 with Colorado in the throes of seven consecutive losing seasons.
"I think if you stay inside a box, you never accomplish anything in life," MacIntyre said. "You have to step out there and go. Go with a full head of steam. That's how I've always taken life. I've made a lot of moves.
"As a player, I tried to play as hard and as fast as I could. As a coach, I did the same thing."
And yet, if you look at his results, he has a calculation for each risk.
Duke's 4-8 and 5-7 records during his years in 2008-09 were its best back-to-back results since 1994-95, and his recruits helped lead this year's 6-6 Blue Devils to their first bowl since the 1994 season.
In his third year at San Jose State, he led the Spartans to a 10-2 record, a No. 24 ranking and a berth in the Military Bowl, a long climb up from a 1-12 record his first season.
And, if he can turn around 1-11 Colorado, then athletic director Mike Bohn's risk may have saved his job as well.
"We've had kids who've started some Super Bowl games and started for the NCAA football championship," Flatt said, "but there's nobody I'm more proud of right now."
Family and football
No, you won't find bungee jumping, scuba diving or day trading on MacIntyre's bucket list. The wife he has known since eighth grade, Trisha; his three kids: daughter Jennifer and sons Jay and Jonston; his church and some spotty golf are about all that separate him from a lifelong obsession with football.
His father's influence was as massive as God's. In high school summers, Mike would walk around the house wearing his helmet. He'd watch TV in it, dress in it.
Matt, his admittedly more laid-back brother, couldn't help but call him "crazy," knowing the physical risk he was taking being five years younger than Mike.
"Football coaching is what he needed to do," Matt said. "God gave everybody talent. That's his talent."
Matt had two coaches in the family: his father, George, who in 1979 took over a Vanderbilt team with three winning seasons since 1959, and Mike, who thought he could replace Bear Bryant at the age of 19.
Matt admittedly saw a lot of his dad in Mike. When George was off recruiting or coaching, Mike was the next best thing.
"He was probably my coach in every sport," said Matt, now in medical sales in Nashville. "Not literally, but on the sideline my coach would say something to me as a little kid and I'd look to Mike, who was usually there. Even in Little League, my coach would tell me not to steal, and Mike would say steal and I'd steal second base."
In high school, Mike started at safety on state championship teams his sophomore and junior years, then added quarterback to his duties as a senior when they lost the state title game.
But off the field, as his good friend at San Jose State, deputy director of athletics John Pochs, said, "Mike is the most down-to-earth man you could meet."
At Brentwood, a posh private school that got the best and the richest, Mike drove around a beat-up 1969 Ford pickup, the one he used to haul his mower to summer lawn jobs.
Besides breaking down at nearly every red light, it became Brentwood's parking lot dumpster for every passing student with fast food trash they needed tossing.
"I'm glad it blew up before I turned 16," Matt said.
Mike went to Vanderbilt, where his father two years earlier had become a hero on the level of some of Nashville's country western stars. His 1982 Commodores went 8-4 to end six consecutive losing seasons and went to the Hall of Fame Classic Bowl, which they lost to Air Force 36-26.
"My dad is my hero," Matt said. "Mike will say the same. My dad is the kind of dad where he probably yelled four or five times his whole life. You just didn't want to disappoint him."
Mike didn't start at Vandy, so he had a good seat for the slow deterioration of his dad's career. As Vanderbilt went back to its losing ways, Mike started hearing the whispers around campus and town. He also saw the stares.
"The thing that's commendable is it didn't affect how he represented himself or the effort he gave," said Chris Gaines, an All-America linebacker on that team. "I can only speculate how difficult a situation that was. That's his father you're talking about."
Commodore still
After 5-6 and 3-7-1 seasons, George was forced out. That morning he told his sons, and Matt and Mike made a point to show up at the news conference. Yet to this day, while George suffers with multiple sclerosis, he still has as much Commodore gold in his blood as he does in his wardrobe.
"I went with Mike to the meeting, and it was very sad," Matt said. "It was almost like death. He loved Vanderbilt so much."
George held up his head and walked out the door after the firing. And Mike followed him — right to Georgia Tech. He started for Bobby Ross, but as a player, his best coaching days were ahead of him.
His Kodak moment quickly yellowed when he intercepted a pass at the goal line and only had 100 yards of green in front of him — and one stumbling referee.
"I jumped up," Matt said. "I knew he was going to score, and he ran right into the official and fell down. The whole stadium all came up and went, 'AW!' He still blames that official for stopping him."
Obviously, pro football wasn't in his future, but he didn't think coaching was, either. He married a week after graduation and went to work for Micros Systems, Inc., which supplied food for Shoney's restaurants.
"He thought he needed a job," Matt said.
That lasted six months. Then MacIntyre began his slow climb up the coaching ladder. He made seven stops in 17 years before he left the New York Jets for Duke, the first of three consecutive reclamation projects.
"Mike is intense," Duke coach David Cut cliffe said. "He is persistent above all else. That goes to one of my favorite words: relentless. Mike goes after something until he gets it done. He was like that as a player."
He won't let anything — or anyone — stand in his way. Pochs hosted MacIntyre when he first arrived in San Jose and remembers one time when his relentlessness spilled over onto the golf course.
They were both lining up 8-foot putts at Clint Eastwood's course in nearby Carmel, Tehama Golf Club. Pochs' putt went in. As MacIntyre's rolled toward the hole, Pochs jokingly dropped the flag stick and blocked the ball.
MacIntyre said it would've gone in. Pochs said it didn't.
"Then we heard a guy behind us say, 'No, it didn't go in,' " Pochs said. "And we looked. It was Clint Eastwood."
And there was San Jose State's new coach arguing with Dirty Harry.
CU hired a risk taker who looks at risks as opportunities. Taking over a 1-11 Colorado team? MacIntyre has faced worse.
"I tell you, Colorado hired a winner," Cut cliffe said. "All these special people who win consistently? He's one of those people."
On the sideline, in the booth
The career of Colorado's new football coach, Mike MacIntyre:
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According to northern tradition, Gendel was also killed in battle, as he was surrounded by all sides: Starks to the south, Umbers to the east and the Watch to the north. However, the Free Folk believe that Gendel survived the battle and, cutting his way through the ranks of the Night's Watch tried to return beyond the Wall through they same route the wildlings had come through. However, Gendel didn't know the way as well as Gorne and he and his followers got lost trying to find his way out. The Free Folk believe that during the night the sobs of Gendel's children can still be heard and that those who venture into the caves and go too deep will be devoured by them.


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Height maps are not my favorite kind of maps but it's a fine job though. Congrats.
What are the final sizes of each one?
I recently had the privilege of being asked to recreate a world map for the twentieth anniversary of a Hungarian role playing game called M.A.G.U.S., produced by the company Delta Vision. The main continent of this fantasy world, Ynev, has had an extensive history (multiple novels have been published on the matter), and there have been many different iterations of this map. As such, the geographical specifications for this map were very detailed and precise. This posed an exciting challenge for me as I was asked to do this map in the same style as my Eriond map, and the techniques I use for creating geographical features using that style is somewhat less than precise, to say the least. However in the end the commission was completed to everyone's satisfaction.
For this commission I was only asked to create the geographical features. The labeling, borders and other such details are going to be handled in-house. One thing to bear in mind is that this world has magical origins, and as a result, some of the geographical features do not make sense by the standards of the actual world. All in all, I had allot of fun working on this commission. Thanks again to Delta Vision for allowing me to be a part of it all.
Height maps are not my favorite kind of maps but it's a fine job though. Congrats.
What are the final sizes of each one?
Thanks Max. The final size for the main Ynev map is 4270x6000px and the others are each slightly smaller.
Very nice, arsheesh! Too bad i am not able to read and understand hungarian. I also love the older maps you linked to. Now i am very curious about this world.
Have some Rep.!
I'm trapped in Darkness,
Still I reach out for the Stars
A really good piece of artwork arsheesh! I like the way you controlled the heightmap.
Some rep. added!
Thanks guys, much appreciated!
I'm from Hungary, and i'm playing this RPG
Thats a very, very good map. Lots of people done the world already, but this is my favourite one.
Those who don't know it, it's some kind of fantasy world, mostly with humans, halfelves, elves, dwarwes, orcs, wiers (like vampires), and lots of other creatures with two whole Bestiarium full of monsters for the game.
For example this is the biggest city in the game: Erion (with 3 days walkthrought and with 1 km wide wall, palace quarter, necropolis...)
Again i love yout work, they all amazing!
Best wishes:
Thanks Vya, I'm really glad you like them; as you say, there have been many different versions of this map, some of them quite good, so it is high praise that you like these ones best. Out of curiosity, do you know if these have been published yet? For some reason I haven't heard back from the people over at M.A.G.U.S. recently to here where things are at. I'd definitely be keen to know if my work has appeared in print though.
I've never seen your work before, so i think it wasn't printed, or just weren't published on official website.
You inspirated me, so i just done a globe, with atmosphere and shadow, not as good as yours, 'cause i didn't use all 3 continens, just the main, Ynev.
Oh and i forgot to mention the name of the planet is Satralis Just if you interested.


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Vol State Signs Agreement with Western Governors UniversityVolunteer State Community College and WGU Tennessee, http://tennessee.wgu.edu/, announced today the signing of an articulation agreement that allows Volunteer State graduates and staff to receive application fee waivers and discounted tuition to WGU Tennessee.
"We're looking forward to growing this collaborative partnership with WGU Tennessee," said Dr. Jerry Faulkner, president of Volunteer State Community College. "We believe that teaming up with WGU Tennessee will greatly enhance the opportunities available to our students and staff."
The agreement between the two institutions also facilitates the seamless transfer of credits from Volunteer State to WGU Tennessee.
Launched by Gov. Bill Haslam earlier this year, WGU Tennessee is an online, accredited, nonprofit university aimed at expanding Tennesseans' access to higher education. Established to meet the needs of working adults who wish to complete a bachelor's or master's degree and advance their careers, WGU Tennessee offers accredited bachelor's and master's degree programs in business, K-12 teacher education, information technology, and health professions, including nursing. WGU Tennessee was created through a partnership between the state of Tennessee and nationally recognized Western Governors University.
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Another day, another prospect removed from Florida's commitment list. In what is becoming an all too familiar narrative for those who make up the Gator Nation, on Wednesday yet another prospect was dropped from the list of those who are publicly committed to the University of Florida. This time, the victim is St. Petersburg (Fla.) Lakewood four-star wide out Rodney Adams. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF announced on Twitter), Anonymous declared its own war as part of #OpIsrael. Among the casualties are thousands of email addresses and passwords, hundreds of Israeli Web sites, government-owned as well as privately owned pages, as well as databases belonging to Bank Jerusalem and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Anonymous @YourAnonNews
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs database has been deleted | mashav.mfa.gov.il | #OpIsrael
16 Nov 12
Anonymous @YourAnonNews
Bank of Jerusalem database has been deleted | bankjerusalem.co.il | #OpIsrael #Anonymous
16 Nov 12
While the hacktivist group doesnt appear to be anywhere near satisfied yet, the YourAnonNews account, which has over 686,000 followers, did just send out this message:
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Israel, all your base are belong to us.
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If thats not a declaration of success, I dont know what is. There have so far been hundreds of takedowns and defacements of sites by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks; one Pastebin trying to list them all includes 659 Web sites. Not all of them are still down, but some are, and others are still defaced.
Another AnonPaste includes 2,004 email addresses, the majority of which appear to have corresponding passwords, allegedly stolen from an MySQL database belonging to dirotmodiin.co.il, a site for finding real estate in Israel. Many of them are hosted on Israeli domains, but there are also the usual Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo accounts.
Yet as already mentioned, were talking about more than just DDoS attacks that are overloading Web sites, such as tel-aviv.gov.il, the municipal site for the second most populous city in Israel (after Jerusalem). There are also plenty of defacements, and, as of a few minutes ago, databases have also been wiped.

Apparently, they SAY it is in response to the Israeli plan to disconnect internet service to Gaza.
BTW, anyone else see this story anywhere? This was courtesy of a link from Little Green Footballs, and I hadn't seen it elsewhere, personally.


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Today onQ123 has uncovered details on an interactive content patent that Sony has filed for an in-game advertising scheme presumably for PlayStation Network.
To quote from GamePlox.com (linked above): "Like That Free PSN? Better Get Used to Advertisements - Recently discovered on Google Patents, a patent that Sony Computer Entertainment America filed on November 10, 2011 shows that they plan to interrupt game play to bring advertisements.
The premise is like this: you'll be enjoying your game, and then it will start to gradually slow down, until an advertisement pops-up on your screen telling you about some great offers, and then your game will resume."
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Robbers Fire spreads to 1,157 acres between Colfax, Foresthill
UPDATE 7:40 A.M. JULY 13 - A small army of firefighters was working on the ground and in the air to rein in the wind-whipped Robbers Fire late Thursday in densely wooded canyon land between Colfax and Foresthill.
The fire footprint was reported by Cal Fire to have grown from 200 acres Wednesday night to 1,157 acres Friday morning as it burned outward from below a ridge between Shirttail Creek and the North Fork of the American River.
A total of 1,821 firefighters were being deployed Thursday in an effort to contain the fire footprint and keep flames from moving through the forest toward the small, mountain community of Iowa Hill to the northeast. As of Friday, that number dropped to 1,368.
By afternoon, the fire had also crossed Shirttail Creek and spread to 40 acres of land on the eastern slope of the canyon.
Signaling the serious danger of the fire, the number of firefighters had grown from Wednesday evening, bolstered by crews from as far away as Marin County.
Winds picked up from 4-8 mph in the morning to gusts of 18 mph in the afternoon, while shifting direction in the canyon and pushing the fire upward along Yankee Jims Road on the Foresthill side. Winds moved the fire away from the North Fork of the American River near the Yankee Jims bridge crossing.
In the morning, most of the concern was directed at the fire's potential path toward Iowa Hill, Cal Fire public information officer Jo Ann Cartoscelli said Thursday.
What's the impact to Auburn's air quality?
By the afternoon, strike teams were being sent to homes near Yankee Jims Road that were believed to be threatened by the spreading fire, Cartoscelli said.
Priscilla Daniels, Iowa Hill Store owner, said residents of the isolated community of about 100 were on tenterhooks as shifting winds moved the direction of the fire away from the town and then closer to it - and then away again.
The store, the center of Iowa Hill resident communications, was working with Cal Fire to ensure the community was informed about a potential evacuation later in the day, she said. Evacuation would depend on the direction the fire was traveling, she said. The blaze's northeastern edge was an estimated four miles from Iowa Hill.
"It (the threat of evacuation) changes every half-hour," Daniels said. "As the winds change, conditions change."
The fire was first reported just after 3 p.m. Wednesday. Cartoscelli said no injuries or loss of structures had been reported by late Thursday. The fire was 10 percent contained by Friday morning.
Reports of the fire being started by fireworks were not being confirmed or denied by Cal Fire. Cartoscelli said that Cal Fire can't comment on the reports.
"There has been a lot of speculation but we are making no comments while it is under investigation," Cartoscelli said.
People who may have seen or heard something that could help in the investigation can contact Cal Fire, she said.
ARD cancels programs because of smoke
Six people spent the night at the Foresthill evacuation shelter, located at the Veterans Memorial Hall on Harrison Road. Mike Fitch, a public information officer for Placer County, said several more people who had evacuated visited the Foresthill center on Wednesday but didn't stay. The Colfax Veterans Memorial Hall was available as a second evacuation location but was not being used.
Foresthill evacuees remain hopeful
On Wednesday, the Placer County Sheriff's Office issued an evacuation order for residents in the Kings Hill Road and Bushy Bear Ridge areas. The Sheriff's Office also made an emergency broadcast notice for residents within a one-mile radius of Iowa Hill to be ready to evacuate.
Evacuations were in effect for homes off Yankee Jims Canyon and Shirttail Canyon areas, as well as parts of Iowa Hill, Cal Fire reported 150 residences were threatened.
Seventeen streets had been evacuated and evacuations were in progress late Thursday for Spring Garden Road, Pine Grove, Log Cabin Lane, Pine Mountain Road, Small Hope Mine Lane and Owl Creek Road in the Yankee Jims Road area.
As well as about 1,368 firefighters on the ground, the Robbers Fire effort was bolstered by nine air tankers and nine helicopters.
Auburn residents were also expressing fire fears Wednesday. Auburn Fire Chief Mark D'Ambrogi said the city's emergency dispatchers started receiving reports of the billowing cloud of smoke soon after the blaze erupted.
A second wave of concern gripped the community starting around 10 p.m. Wednesday when smoke from the fire began to drift down into the city. Residents alerted to the smell called dispatchers. But D'Ambrogi said that there was no immediate threat and no fires were reported within city limits or nearby overnight.
"We were inundated (with calls) up and down the I-80 corridor," D'Ambrogi said. "Inversion sucks the smoke to the ground but there were no fires were reported in the Auburn area.
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CLEVELAND -- A local priest has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
Bishop Richard Lennon handed down the statement today, saying that Reverand Robert Marrone has decided to disassociate himself from the Church.
Marrone is the leader of a breakaway Catholic congregation, who started their own parish, after the Diocese shut down their church in 2009.
Bishop Lennon says that Marrone violated the terms of his leave of absence and took a leadership role in another church.
Marrone was the priest at St. Peter's Church downtown.
Here is a portion of Bishop Lennon's statement. You can view his entire statement by downloading the attached PDF.
"After numerous unsuccessful attempts requesting his reconciliation with the Catholic Church, it is with sadness that in accordance with Canon (church) law I publicly declare that The Reverend Robert J. Marrone has elected to disassociate himself from the Church.
By violating the terms of his leave of absence and by taking a leadership role with a group that has removed itself from the governance of the Bishop of Cleveland, he has incurred the penalty of excommunication for the delict (canonical crime) of schism.
It is important to emphasize that a person who is excommunicated is still a member of the Church. Excommunication is meant to be the Church's way of informing a person that he or she is doing something that harms the Church and also harms his or her relationship with God. The desired effect of excommunication is not to ban someone from the Church permanently. Rather, it is a temporary status meant to be medicinal and to encourage the person to reconcile with the Church."
Marrone said he had no comment on the Diocese's action beyond what he has already stated in a church newsletter:
"The recent action of the Diocese of Cleveland reflects the continuous pattern which has marked the process of clustering, consolidation, closing, suppressions and reopening of parishes.
I must, as I have stated repeatedly in the past, follow my conscience in this matter.
I am so very grateful to be a part of the life of the Community of Saint Peter. It members have shown courage and commitment through this long and difficult journey.
Through it all they have remained focused on their mission to give witness to the gospel through their service to others. It is a vibrant, generous, and loving community, and it is a great privilege for me to have been called to serve with its members.
I will continue to serve the Community of Saint Peter as long as they call me to do so and as long as I am able to fulfill the responsibilities of the work entrusted to me."


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Looks AMAZING work Ali!!! really love it.. Congrats!!! if I could promote it more than once, I would
Thank you Jacqueline. Wish you could :)
great job
what a great idea!!! brilliant work Ali!!!
Thank you guys.
Very nice and nasty picture! Great work! ;)
This is genius-like Ali, really great!
great work! :)
amazing concept, great execution
Absolutely fantastic piece!
Love the concept. Looks great!
Thank you all, for the motivating comments.
Awesome artwork!!
Thanks Fabian.
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Thanks Hugo.
This is great! I love the double meaning too.
You totally didn't screw it up!
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the title made me chuckle :)
The tone of red that you chose is flawless!
Love through keyhole! Looks great with all products!
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- Spout Reach: 10-1/16" (measured from center of faucet base to center of spout outlet)
- Number of Holes Required for Installation: 1
- Flow Rate: 1-3/4 gallons-per-minute
- Installs onto decks up to 2" thick
- 1 handle included with faucet
- Designed for use with standard U.S. plumbing supply bibs
- All hardware needed for faucet installation is included
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Mirabelle is a luxury private-label brand developed by North America's largest and most-respected plumbing distributor and showroom network: Ferguson. As a showroom line, Mirabelle products must compete in an environment where every purchase is heavily considered; showroom shoppers aren't the type to take shortcuts or fall for knock-offs. For this reason, quality is the cornerstone of Mirabelle's design philosophy; their products live longer in one place than most people do. And because they do not have the high marketing overhead shared by the name brands, the pricing of Mirabelle products is surprisingly attractive.
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- Mirabelle MIRXCPS100CP
Polished Chrome
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Stainless Steel
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Comments On Apr 24, 2014:Did some reading on different paddle tires and decided to give them a try. Really disappointing! My friend has the 900 as well and went with the sand stars and he out climbs me constantly and gets a better jump out of the hole. Even on the stock big horns he passed me on a hill climb. Probably be a better tire if you have a turbo or more power but you can do better for less.
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Comments On Feb 11, 2014:These fit my 900 XP4 LE great with the STI Pro-lite wheels 14X7 wheels on front &14X9 wheels on the rear, with this set up I can get just about anywhere in the sand with an otherwise stock machine. I was able to get to the top of comp hill @ Sand Mountain NV with one passenger and to the superbowl with a full load of adults, and was also able to go straight up all but the steepest stuff at Coos Bay OR around the Horsfall camping area. Some other reviewers claimed to have rubbing issues with the V-Roll paddles but I have yet to have any problems.
Rear wheels with paddles mounted weighed in @ 31pounds while the fronts with tires mounted weighed only 28 pounds.
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Comments On Jan 09, 2013:They sure do look good, but I bought these as a set brand new, front steering tires and rear paddles with the STI spun aluminum wheels. For the SMALL dunes they are pretty good, but when coming down a dune or hill and to start back up, the front tires rub the fenders pretty bad. And when you need to go up a hill, plan on it taking awhile or a less of an angle route to make it back to the group, as you will loose horsepower because these are ALOT of tire and wheel for the SXS's to push up the hill. Just my honest opinion as I traded mine back in. Go for the smaller tires so you have the horses to make it up those hills everyone else is going up. Better yet if they made a 25.5" tall tire with a 12 or 13" wheel that would be ideal !! One good thing is they do have a higher stance, but you are in the sand you are not rock crawling.
Good luck !!
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Comments On Oct 18, 2012:Nice Product fit great.
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