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Billie Joe Armstrong acted like a man with a new lease on life.
The Green Day leader was joyful, energetic and full of passion during his East Bay punk-pop band's sold-out concert at the Greek Theatre. He was happy to be home and performing for the first time in years in Berkeley. Heck, he was just happy period.
"We're all alive," he exclaimed to the 8,500 fans in attendance. "We're all still (expletive) alive!"
What we were witnessing in that moment was a man who had learned, perhaps the hard way, the importance of taking time to smell the roses.
"With so much scary (expletive) going on right now, you've got to live every moment -- every (expletive) moment."
It's safe to assume that he was referencing Monday's tragedy in Boston, but the vocalist-guitarist could've also been alluding to his own his recent experiences. His battle with substance abuse problems led him to rehab and threatened to crush Green Day's career.
It's now an older, wiser Billie Joe Armstrong who fans are seeing take the stage. Yet, one that is no less fun than the previous model.
Kicking off the show with this tour's namesake song, "99 Revolutions," Armstrong acted like a highly caffeinated kid in a candy shop for 2 ½ hours.


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The Wahama golf team started its 2012 season on a bit of a tough note this weekend after losing a Thursday dual to visiting Scott before placing seventh out of 14 teams Friday at the Wirt County Invitational.
The White Falcons were missing four of their regular six starters in the opener at Riverside Golf Club, and the Skyhawks took full advantage by posting a 63-stroke decision over the youthful hosts. Scott — which posted a winning team tally of 314 — was led by medalist Sterling Chafin, who carded a 6-over par round of 76 over 18 holes.
Chad Honeycutt and Alex Boggs both shot matching rounds of 78, and Matt Dolan rounded out the winning score with an effort of 82.
Michael MacKnight paced Wahama with an 89, while Michael Hendricks added a 92. Nolan Pierce and Preston Hudnall rounded out the White Falcons' team score of 377 with respective efforts of 95 and 99.
On Friday at Wirt County, the White Falcons again posted a team tally of 377 — led by Dakota Sisk's round of 84. MacKnight was next with a 92, Mason Hicks added a 99 and Pierce rounded out the team score with 102 over 18 holes.
Roane County won the team title with a 299, with St. Marys (315) edging Williamstown (316) for the overall runner-up spot.
Wahama returns to action Tuesday when it hosts Buffalo at Riverside Golf Club.

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The Beginnings Some 4,000 years ago nomadic hunters stopped at the islands in the shoals of the Savannah River,
Colonial Period When James Oglethorpe came to Georgia in 1733, he learned that the Creeks resented the unfair trading practices of the Carolinians. He obtained legislation requiring traders west of the Savannah River to secure a Georgia license and, on June 14, 1736, gave orders to lay out the town of Augusta after the forty-lot pattern he had used three years earlier for Savannah. The city was named for Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales. Carolina traders based in Savannah Town crossed the river and became Augustans. A fort and its garrison protected the town. When Oglethorpe arrived in the town in September 1739, after his visit to the Creek Nation, he declared it the key to the Indian country. By regulating the trade, he secured the allegiance of the western Indians. During the 1759-60 Cherokee War the Creeks and Chickasaws helped defend Augusta. In 1763 a congress of Indian nations met four colonial governors in Augusta, concluded the peace, and ceded land between the Savannah and Ogeechee rivers to Georgia. By restricting settlement to the Appalachian Mountains, the royal proclamation of 1763 fostered migration into the 1763 cession. Friction soon developed between the new settlers and the Native Americans who followed the traditional trails to Augusta. To accommodate the influx of settlers, Governor James Wright negotiated a second land cession at Augusta in 1773. Creek Indian discontent, however, erupted in a series of raids on outlying settlements in 1773 and early 1774. The perception that the royal government favored the merchants and Indian traders rather than the settlers caused many in the backcountry to join the revolutionary movement. Revolutionary Era George Walton, whose home at Meadow Garden still stands in Augusta, signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He and Lyman Hall, another of Georgia's three signers, are buried beneath Signers' Monument on Greene Street. During the American Revolution (1775-83) the seat of state government moved to Augusta in 1779. British troops occupied Augusta for two weeks in 1779 and from May 1780 to June 1781. Two important battles were fought in Augusta. Elijah Clarke's failed attack upon Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Brown in September 1780 was a prelude to the American victory at Kings Mountain. Continentals under Lieutenant Colonel Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, and militia under Elijah Clarke and Andrew Pickens, besieged Thomas Brown at Fort Cornwallis in May 1781 and forced him to surrender after a two-week battle. A hastily reconvened Georgia legislature in Augusta gave American peace negotiators cause to argue for Georgia's independence, even though Savannah remained in British hands for another year. Federal Period After shuttling between Augusta and Savannah, the state legislature convened in Augusta from 1785 to 1795 while a new capital was prepared at Louisville, on the Ogeechee River. A commission governed the town, laid out new streets, disposed of land, and in 1783 chartered a school, Richmond Academy. Classes did not begin until 1785, but Richmond Academy was the only school in operation in the state until after 1785, when the legislature authorized county academies and a state university. Jesse Peters Galphin, one of the African American organizers of the pre-revolutionary Silver Bluff Baptist Church, led the congregation to Augusta after the Revolution and established Springfield Baptist Church. Silver Bluff–Springfield is regarded as the oldest African American congregation in the country. Land speculation dominated politics while the legislature met in Augusta. Legislators were stockholders in land companies, to which they sold state land in the infamous Yazoo Fraud. Augusta town government, established in 1789, proved ineffective. The legislature granted a city charter in 1798. During the 1790s Augusta prospered as a tobacco market. After the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton took precedence over tobacco as the chief staple of trade. Antebellum Expansion Augusta enjoyed prestige as the principal market of the expanding Georgia backcountry during the antebellum period. A number of handsome residences testify to the prosperity of the period. George Washington visited the city in 1791, James Monroe in 1819, the Marquis de Lafayette in 1825, Henry Clay in 1844, and Daniel Webster in 1847. Three Augustans—Freeman Walker, Nicholas Ware, and John P. King—served in the U.S. Senate. John Forsyth was secretary of state under U.S. presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. George W. Crawford was secretary of war in U.S. president Zachary Taylor's administration. Augusta's
Augustans made distinctively southern contributions in fields from science to religion. The Medical College of Georgia (later Georgia Health Sciences University), established in 1828, studied regional diseases and issued The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. An influential agricultural journal, The Southern Cultivator, was published in Augusta. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, an Augusta native, wrote a popular series of humorous sketches entitled Georgia Scenes (1835). The Southern Baptist Convention (1845) and the Southern Presbyterian Church (1861) were established in Augusta. Civil War and Reconstruction During the Civil War (1861-65) the railroad through Augusta connected the eastern and western sectors of the Confederacy. Wounded soldiers from both sectors filled the city's hospitals, hotels, and churches.
General William T. Sherman, thinking that Augusta was more heavily defended than it actually was, avoided the city on his march to the sea. As a result the city's factories and stores revived quickly after the end of the war in 1865. The enlargement of the canal in 1875 permitted the erection of huge new factories, giving employment to thousands. Some of the Chinese laborers who worked on the canal remained in Augusta to establish one of the oldest Chinese communities in the eastern United States. Springfield Baptist Church was the focal point of black activism during the Reconstruction era (1867-76). Delegates from across the state met there in 1866 and organized the Georgia Equal Rights Association, the forerunner of the Georgia Republican Party. Augustans Rufus Bullock, Benjamin Conley, and Foster Blodgett dominated the short-lived Republican state administration. In 1867 William J. White founded the Augusta Baptist Institute at Springfield Church. Twelve years later the school moved to Atlanta and later became Morehouse College. White was also instrumental in the establishment of Ware High School (1880), one of the first for black youth. The closing of Ware by the Board of Education in 1897 prompted a suit that was taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a landmark decision (1899), the court permitted the separate treatment of blacks in education. "New South" While
Progress continued in Augusta during the early years of the century. Destructive floods in 1888, 1908, and 1912 provoked the city fathers to construct a massive levee along the Savannah River under the supervision of engineer Nisbet Wingfield. Augusta played a role in pioneering aviation history. The Wright Brothers opened a flying school in the city in 1911. Augusta has served the military during most of its history. A federal arsenal operated in the city from 1819 until 1957, when the site became the campus of Augusta College (later Augusta State University). Camp McKenzie for white troops and Camp Dyer for black were located in the city during the Spanish-American War (1898). In 1911 the U.S. Army Signal Corps used Augusta for its winter training base. After two seasons of floods and heavy rains the corps removed its planes to San Diego, California. During World War I (1917-18) 60,000 soldiers of the Pennsylvania Division were stationed at Camp Hancock, in the Hill neighborhood. A veterans hospital established during the war continues to operate. The city of Augusta purchased Camp Hancock field and opened the Daniel Field airport on the site in 1927. In 1916 a disastrous fire destroyed 746 buildings, some of them Augusta's finest residences. The city spent thousands of dollars advertising its remaining amenities during the 1920s and attracted many tourists but few businesses. The boll weevil undermined the region's cotton industry, and a few years later the Great Depression settled upon the region and stifled business. Sports offered an escape. There were bright spots even in the deepest years of the depression: the renowned golfer Bobby Jones headed a syndicate that purchased Berckmans Nursery and turned it into the Augusta National Golf Club, the course where the Masters Tournament was first held in 1934. Modern Augusta World War II (1941-45) changed Augusta. Camp Gordon became the peacetime Fort Gordon, home of the Signal Corps. The Veterans Hospital expanded. An Army Air Forces training field became Bush Field, the regional airport. The Clarks Hill Dam, authorized in 1944, provided cheap electricity for postwar industry. A remarkable economic boom began in the 1950s as industries moved to the area to take advantage of the mild climate, cheap electricity, and nonunion labor. Construction of a mammoth hydrogen bomb plant on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River swelled Augusta's population. Several Augusta-area writers and musicians also came to prominence during the mid-twentieth century. Best-selling novels by Augusta authors Frank Yerby and Edison Marshall were made into motion pictures. Berry Fleming satirized the Cracker Party in Colonel Effingham's Raid (1943). Local doctor Corbett Thigpen brought the subject of multiple personality disorder to public attention in The Three Faces of Eve (1957). And soul singer James Brown and opera diva Jessye Norman rose to prominence on the world stage. In 1960 students from the predominantly black Paine College successfully challenged segregation ordinances by sitting in the front of buses and at whites-only lunch counters. In 1964 black plaintiffs filed suit to integrate schools. Little progress was made until a race riot erupted in May 1970. Finally, in 1972, a federal judge ordered the Richmond County Board of Education to bring about school integration by a massive busing program. The "magnet school" concept, in which a school specializes in a particular program of learning, has proven to be the most successful educational innovation for Augusta's public schools. During the 1950s and 1960s businesses abandoned downtown stores and moved to the outskirts. The city responded by launching a program of downtown revitalization.
The Economy By the turn of the twenty-first century, a half-million people lived in the greater Augusta area. A large industrial base provides employment in the production of medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, textiles, and golf carts. More than 25,000 people are employed in health care. Georgia Health Sciences University offers degrees in dentistry, allied health sciences, nursing, and medicine, and its telemedicine outreach serves patients all over the Southeast. The medical university also operates its own hospital and clinic; other area hospitals include St. Joseph, University, Doctors, and Eisenhower. Augusta Technical College provides workforce training, with especially strong programs in allied health sciences and emergency medical technology. The U.S. Army Signal Center at Fort Gordon is the largest communications training center in the world. The Savannah River Site near Augusta employs more than 13,000 workers. The Westinghouse Savannah River Company manages the site for the U.S. Department of Energy. The plant manufactured nuclear weapons during the cold war; its present mission is the cleanup of radioactive material. Attractions Augusta's Masters Tournament
The boyhood home of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, who spent almost twelve years of his childhood (1858-70) in Augusta, has been preserved and restored. Other historic structures in Augusta include: Meadow Garden (ca. 1790), home of George Walton, signer of the Declaration of Independence; the 1797 Ezekiel Harris House; the Old Government House (1801); the original Medical College (1835), designed by Charles B. Cluskey; and the tall chimney of the Confederate Powder Works, the only permanent structure built by the Confederacy. Other popular attractions are the National Science Center's Fort Discovery at the Riverwalk and the Augusta Gold and Gardens, home of the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame. Suggested Reading Edward J. Cashin, Old Springfield: Race and Religion in Augusta, Georgia (Augusta, Ga.: Springfield Village Park Foundation, 1995). Edward J. Cashin, The Story of Augusta (Augusta, Ga.: Richmond County Board of Education, 1980; reprint, Augusta, Ga.: Richmond County Historical Society, 1990). Edward J. Cashin and Glenn T. Eskew, eds., Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001). Florence Fleming Corley, Confederate City, Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1865 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1960; reprint, Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1995). Charles Colcock Jones Jr. and Salem Dutcher, Memorial History of Augusta, Georgia (Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason, 1890; reprint, Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1980). Edward J. Cashin, Augusta State University Updated 2/19/2007 |
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Remarks On Gun Rights At Sunnyside Council
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Monday night, I made the following remarks about gun rights during the meeting of the Sunnyside City Council. My thanks to the City Clerk for researching the text of Ordinance No. 15 (passed in 1902). In the future, I would like to make a visit to the city archives to see some of the other treasures our city's founders bestowed to us. It is my great pleasure to serve the people, and promote freedom everywhere I can.
Recent discussion of gun rights has prompted a public response from some officials in our state. These responses include remarks from the governor, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, our legislators, and also our county sheriff.
Some are begging for more government control over citizens, and think they should be in charge of allowing them to possess firearms, and where (if ever), they should be allowed to carry them. Others advocate for greater freedom, pushing for increased rights of individuals.
Yakima County Sheriff Ken Irwin issued a statement last week in which he cited the U.S. and State of Washington Constitutions. He later clarified that he is opposed to the proposed ban on certain types of firearms that is being put forward by the President and his allies in Congress.
Elected officials take an oath to uphold the federal and state constitutions mentioned by our sheriff. Unfortunately, some municipal government officials in Washington do not always respect that.
For example, on January 15, 2013, at a meeting of the City Council in Oak Harbor, a failed attempt to trample on the 2nd amendment rights of citizens occured. Video of the incident is making the rounds on the Internet.
During that meeting, a Councilman asked a gun rights supporter if he was carrying a firearm in council chambers. He demanded an answer even after the city attorney said the citizen was not obligated to give one. The citizen did choose to answer, and confirmed he has a Concealed Pistol License, and was carrying a firearm.
In response, the councilman made an unconstitutional motion to strip the citizen of his firearm on the spot. The motion failed, causing the Mayor of Oak Harbor to apologize to the citizen for the behavior of some of his colleagues, and spoke to the oath of office that all electeds take. The councilman who made the motion left the meeting rather than stay in a room where citizens exercise their right to bear arms.
I would like to take just a moment to remind my colleagues, and members of the public, just what our oath of office supports, as it relates to gun rights.
The 2nd amendment of the US Constitution states:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
For those that question whether that applies to individual citizens; can you imagine George Washington leading an army if citizens did not possess firearms?
The other constitution that warrants our attention, is our own Washington State Constitution. Article I, Section 24 has the relevant language on the right to bear arms:
The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.
If one is still in doubt, our state constitution is much more explicit in its language that the right to bear arms is an individual right.
This is not a new debate among the people, nor is it the first time restrictions have been proposed by politicians.
Our city founders first regulated the rights of citizens to carry weapons within three months of the city's founding. Ordinance No. 15 Prohibiting Carrying Concealed Weapons and Fixing Punishment Therefor was passed in 1902. This handwritten ordinance was signed by our first Mayor, James Henderson. One should take note that at the time, the city also did not allow gambling, alcohol, or dancing.
Times have changed since then, and I am not about to suggest we take away our citizen's guns, anymore than I want to take away their dance halls or their beer! In over 110 years as a city, our citzens have repeatedly demonstrated at the ballot box that they prefer more freedom over less freedom.
In the present day, citizens of Sunnyside may obtain a Concealed Pistol License by submitting an application through our local police department. I encourage everyone to do this, even if they do not own a firearm.
By exercising their rights, citizens can send a message to politicians that they do not want more government restrictions on personal freedoms. When more citizens apply for a Concealed Pistol License, it demonstrates that the people are serious about maintaining their rights and personal safety, as outlined by both our federal and state constitutions.


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Michal Mozolewski Turns Bland Photos Into Abstract Images Through Digital Manipulation
Michal Mozolewski takes stock images of models – you know the kind i'm talking about – and goes at them with gusto, tearing the beauty up and digitally manipulating the photos to such a degree that they become almost abstract, the bodies and faces lost somewhere beneath rich textures and light and dark. They're gothic, some look like they belong on a metal album, others like ruined murals in a dark church.
Everyone is manipulating images these days and most of the results are average at best. Mozolewski on the other hand manages to turn a bland photo into a beautiful abstract image.
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API Toolkits—Select this component to optionally install the files necessary to run the Application Program Interface toolkits like Pro/J.Link, Pro/Web.Link, and Pro/TOOLKIT.
Setting Up A Project
I found a tutorial on setting up a visual studio project at [1]. I used Visual Studio .Net 2003 and had no problems.
Hello World
The simplest method for a "HelloWorld" program is likely the following:
ProStringToWstring (UserMsg, "C:\\cygwin\\home\\Admin\\tkTest\\TKTEMPLATE\\msg_user.txt"); ProMessageDisplay (UserMsg, "USER %0s", "Hello World.");
where msg_user.txt has the following: (file starts on next line)
USER %0s %0s # # USER -HelloWorld HelloWorld # # USER -MainBtn1 -MainBtn1 # # USER New Button help. New Button help. # # USER -Sub1 -Sub1 # # USER -Sub1Btn1 -Sub1Btn1 # # USER -Sub1Btn2 -Sub1Btn2 # #
(file ends on previous line)
The path will obviously have to be changed to wherever you keep the file. These message files keep the text that is displayed in Pro/ENGINEER. A typical use will be something like the following:
status = ProMenubarMenuAdd ("HelloWorld", "USER -HelloWorld", "Utilities", PRO_B_TRUE, UserMsg);
Here, a button will recieve the text defined in the file under "USER -HelloWorld." In the above, this is HelloWorld. However, if the the text file instead had the entry
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Fashion trends are always a topic of conversation in college. Over the years, anything and everything has been experimented with – some hits, some not. We have compiled the top 5 more recent hits and misses to grace the presence of college style.
1. The Comfy Look
Let's be honest, college is a time for comfy clothes, especially with late nights and 8 a.m. classes. But pajamas? No matter how tired you might be, pjs are always a miss.
If you are looking for something fast, fun, and super relaxed, athletic shorts are definitely the way to go. There are countless colors and paterns to choose from, making it easy to express your own personaitly while feeling comfortable!
2. The Oversized Shirt
The baggy t-shirt does absolutely nothing for anyone. It simply looks like you bought the wrong size. When choosing your everyday outfit, always take in consideration what looks best on your body.
One of the more popular trends is the oversized button-up. I love this look because there are so many different styles to choose from. You can wear the shirt tucked in or left out. This particular shirt adds the perfect touch of sophistication.
3. Tube vs. Sheer
I have a rule: If you don't know whether an article of clothing is a top or a bottom, don't try to figure it out. Tube tops are a simple no when it comes to any type of fashion. They show everything, and no one wants to see that. Sorry.
Sheer that covers is always a classy choice. It's a summertime look that can be carried over into early fall.
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Simple fact: leggings are NOT pants. Thus, if you wear them, cover the needed areas.
If you are going to wear leggings, boots and chunky scarves are a must. Even though these two styles are extremely different, they are both great!
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No matter how easy, dreadlocks are never an option.
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First there is Estada at Monterra, a gated community of 149 homes with access off Pine Island Rd. The first construction of homes on this site just west of Pine Island Rd and South of Stirling Rd. was started with TOUSA homes.
After it went bankrupt, Lennar, a well respected builder took over. They are offering five models with prices starting between $399,990 for a 1 story 3 bedroom, 2 bath home to $549,990 for a 2 story 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath home.
The most popular is the Bonita model- 1 story, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths and a 3 car garage starting at $429,990.
Although models will not be available until September or October, they have sold 13 homes as of July 5 2010.
Next is Monterra, built by CC Devco, a Codina Carr Company. They have been in South Florida for a long time. They have the largest tract of land and are developing several communities east of Pine Island Rd. between Sheridan St. and Stirling Rd. This gated community has its' main entrance off of Pine Island Rd. with future entrances off University Dr. and another off Sheridan St.
Two communities are currently offered: Bella Terra and La Costa. There are 11 models available in 3 different collections.
The Monterey Collection has 3 models starting from $280,900 for a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath home to $314,900 for a 4 bedroom 2.5 bath home. These are all 2 story homes with 2 car garages.
The Santa Barbara Collection has 4 models starting from $335,900 for a 1 story 3 bedroom 2.5 bath 2 car garage home to $414,900 for a 2 story 4 bedroom 3 bath 3 car garage home.
Finally there is the Catalina Estate Collection with 4 models between $434,990 for a 1 story 4 bedroom 3 bath 2 car garage home to $514,900 for a 2 story 5 bedroom 5.5 bath 3 car garage home.
Some models are available to see and they have sold 107 homes as of July 5 2010.
The newest is Cascada at Monterra, a gatedcommunityof 148 town-homes built by Minto, another well established builder. They have 4 models of townhomes, all with a 2 car garage with prices from the $220′s for a 2-bedroom 2 bath with a mezzanine up to the $250′s for a 3 bedroom 3 bath unit. As of 7/5/2010 they have sold 20 homes. Models are open
I have previewed the models, floor plans and amenities and conclude that each of these communities have a lot to offer. Construction looks great and many features are set up for energy efficiency and lowering insurance costs.
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Managing photo collections with Album Shaper
In the age of digital cameras, home computers are essential for editing and archiving photos. In fact, computers are gradually replacing the good old photo album. However, some photographers are not interested in wrangling feature-bloated applications like GIMP just to edit holiday or family snapshots. Furthermore, archiving photos in directories with a hierarchical structure is complicated.
The free Album Shaper [1] program intends to change this, letting even in-experienced users create a digital photo album in just a couple of steps. Additionally, the software offers simple image-manipulation functions, meeting users' needs while making other specialized graphics programs superfluous. In this article, I'll show you how to get started with this useful program.
Because it is a KDE application, Album Shaper requires the Qt libraries – as do Gnome and other desktop environments – to set up the software. Using your distribution's repository to install the application is the easiest method to avoid installing the Qt libraries manually and resolve other dependencies. If your distro does not include Album Shaper, you might find a suitable package online [2].
Collector's Passion
After launching the program, you will see a clear-cut – but slightly unusual-looking – interface. Album Shaper distinguishes between albums and collections. This distinction is based on the reality that a single photo album can contain holiday photos from several years. At the top of the window, start by typing a name and a description for the album and the collection.
The main panel below this is divided into two columns: The small column on the left contains a list of various collections, and the larger column on the right is reserved for the images, which Album Shaper shows as thumbnails.
To group photos in a collection, change to the Organize tab. At the bottom of the program window, now click Add images. In the file dialog that appears, choose the images you would like to add; Album Shaper will then display thumbnails of the photos in the program window. Alternatively, you can drag and drop individual photos from other applications into the organization window.
If you hover the mouse over one of the images and click on the small letter i, the program will highlight this image by displaying it at a slightly larger size than the others. If needed, you can now add a comment below the image.
Right-clicking pops up a dialog in which you can select an image as the lead image for a whole album or the current selection.
If you go to the Edit tab, the program switches to image-manipulation mode. Album Shaper has basic image-manipulation functions that let you change photo size and quality, and rotate and mirror images.
The software helps the user with intelligent functions that even some professional image-editing programs lack. For example, if you crop an image and scale it to a point that image quality suffers, the program will draw a red border around the selection.
Polishing Photos
The Color and Contrast selections in the Quality area work amazingly well. One click on the corresponding icon enables automatic color, brightness, and contrast correction. An algorithm improves the image quality automatically. In our lab, this function produced perfectly acceptable results.
Another special function that you don't often see is automatic red-eye correction: Even GIMP needs more information to be able to edit red-eye in portraits (Figure 1).
Album Shaper performs this task without any user assistance. In our lab, the software corrected red-eye without having to select the affected areas of the image.
Also, with Album Shaper you can correct the focus and modify the color manually. Pressing the Level or Grain icons pops up a window in which you can see the current photo in its two halves. The original image is on the left, and you can verify the results of your changes on the right.
The Effects area lets users apply special effects to the photo (see Figure 2). For example, you can convert a color photo to black and white or artificially age your images by applying a Sepia effect. This makes your pictures look like images from the early days of photography. When you select an effect in the drop-down menu, a small preview helps you check the results before applying the effects.
After modifying all the images in a collection and selecting the images you need, you can store your collection. Album Shaper does not have an internal slide show program, but it stores your photos in thumbnail format in a separate directory.
The parent directory includes an HTML file and an XML file, which allows you to view the photos in practically any web browser. In Firefox, for example, you would just open the HTML file.
This also means that you can use photo collections and albums that you create with Album Shaper on any platform. The software has a sophisticated Save dialog that lets users save their photos in visually attractive frames. Users can select a presentation template in the form of the theme and just leave Album Shaper to embed the images in it. When Album Shaper is done, you just specify where to save the HTML file.
Themes also contain ready-to-run navigational elements for browsing the photo collection (Figure 3). When you present your slide show, note that the web browser must support script execution; if it doesn't, your screen will stay blank.
Album Shaper offers photo fans a whole range of new options for archiving and presenting digital images in attractive frames. The program's controls are oriented on legacy photo albums and extended by adding the PC's abilities. Users will appreciate the ability to group photos topically in collections, just as in a paper album, and also enjoy the program's neat functions that help to improve image quality or apply special effects. The image manipulation features are point and click, and you do not need to be an expert in image manipulation to use them.
Album Shaper also offers an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Inexperienced users in particular will enjoy the ability to create and share photo collections easily in Linux.
- Album Shaper: http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/
- Binary packages for various distributions: http://www.rpmseek.com
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Research Evaluates Emissions-Reduction Scenario
Aug 08, 2011
New computer modeling work shows that by 2100, if society wants to limit carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to less than 40 percent higher than it is today, the lowest cost option is to use every available means of reducing emissions. This includes more nuclear and renewable energy, choosing electricity over fossil fuels, reducing emissions through technologies that capture and store carbon dioxide, and even using forests to store carbon.
Researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute introduced the work, called the RCP 4.5 scenario, in a special July 29 online issue of the journal
Climatic Change
. The scenario is one of four that scientists will use worldwide to independently study how the climate might respond to different increases of greenhouse gases and how much of the sun's energy they trap in the atmosphere. It can also be used to study possible ways to slow climate change and adapt to it.
The team used the PNNL Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to generate the scenario. GCAM uses market forces to reach a specified target by allowing global economics to put a price on carbon. And unlike similar models, it includes carbon stored in forests, causing forest acreage to increase -- even as energy systems change to include fuels generated from bioenergy crops and crop waste.
"The RCP 4.5 scenario assumes that action will be taken to limit emissions. Without any action, the emissions, and the heat trapped in the atmosphere, would be much higher, leading to more severe climate change," said lead author Allison Thomson, a scientist at JGCRI, a collaboration between the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., and the University of Maryland.
"This scenario and the other three produced in this project will provide a common thread for climate change research across many different science communities," Thomson said.
The Forested Future
Five years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asked the climate science community to provide scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions and land use change to guide computer models that simulate potential changes to the Earth's climate.
Researchers decided on four possible targets that span a wide range of possible levels of man-made greenhouse gas emissions over the next century. These future scenarios are currently being used by climate modeling groups worldwide in a coordinated effort to compare models and advance the science of climate projections.
The researchers assigned each of the scenarios a specific target amount of the sun's energy that gets trapped in the atmosphere, a property called radiative forcing. Because of differences between the scenarios, each one will produce slightly different degrees of warming.
The RCP 4.5 scenario shoots for 4.5 watts per square meters radiative forcing in 2100 and lets economics reveal how to achieve that goal the cheapest way possible. The scenario's 4.5 W/m2 means roughly 525 parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (currently, it hovers around 390 parts per million). It also means approximately 650 parts per million carbon dioxide-equivalents, which includes greenhouse gases besides carbon dioxide.
Unlike the other three scenarios, RCP 4.5 includes carbon in forests in the carbon market. This affects how people use land, as cutting down forests emits carbon dioxide but expanding forests stores it. An earlier modeling study showed that without placing such a value, forests could get cut down for use as biofuels and the land on which they stood used for crops.
The Greenhouse Race
Starting with the world as it looked in 2005 and setting the endpoint at 2100, the team let the model simulate the greenhouse gas emissions and land use change over the next century. They also ran the model without any explicit greenhouse gas control policy or carbon price to compare how such a future might turn out.
Without any emission controls, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere doubled by 2100. By design, RCP 4.5 limits them to about 35 percent higher than 2005 levels.
The conditions to limit emissions did not specify how to go about doing that, only that carbon from all sources had economic value. Under limiting conditions, carbon dioxide prices rose steadily until they reached $85 per ton of carbon dioxide by 2100, in 2005 dollars.
In the scenario, the price of carbon stimulated a rise in nuclear power and renewable energy use. Also, it became cheaper to implement technologies that capture and store emissions from fossil- and bio-fuel based electricity than to emit carbon dioxide. Buildings and industry became more energy efficient and used cleaner electricity for their energy needs.
Additionally, carbon dioxide emissions from man-made sources peaked around 2040 at 42 gigatons per year (currently, emissions are at 30 gigatons per year), decreased with about the same speed as they rose, then leveled out after 2080 at around 15 gigatons per year.
Resolving Power
Also, the team converted the results of the scenario to match the resolution of the climate models that are using the results. That way, scientists can more easily integrate RCP 4.5 with climate models. Economies, for example, occur on national scales, but chemical reactions of gas in the air occur in much smaller spaces.
This change in scale to accommodate climate models reveals important regional details. For example, although globally methane emissions change little over the century, their geographic origins shift around. As the century wears on, South America and Africa put out more methane and the industrialized nations less.
In addition, the percentage of people's income that they're spending on food goes down even though food prices rise. The researchers attribute this result to a shift from agricultural practices with high carbon footprints to lower ones, as shown in previous work.
While introducing this scenario to climate researchers, the PNNL researchers provide comparisons to other scenarios with similar emissions limits, as well as to scenarios of the other three radiative forcing targets covered by this community activity. The special issue of Climatic Change features papers documenting those other three scenarios as well as several papers reviewing specific parts of the entire scenario exercise.
"It's very important that the climate community has this resource so that they all work from the same data. This common thread will help researchers and policymakers address the problems that climate change will bring us," said Thomson.
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The standard features of the Chevrolet Spark LS Manual include 1.2L I-4 84hp engine, 5-speed manual transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st and 2nd row overhead airbags, rear side-impact airbag, driver and passenger knee airbag, airbag occupancy sensor, air conditioning, 15" aluminum wheels, ABS and driveline traction control, StabiliTrak electronic stability, and power windows.
Remotely releasing our Spark's electric door lock and climbing in, we were prepared for anything from a tight, disciplined small car to a fizzy little imitation trying to make it in the big league. The miniscule four-cylinder started up crisply and sounded quiet and well engineered.
Our first drive would be in the wilds of New York's bumpy, crowded, no-mercy Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Keeping in mind this was an 11-second zero-to-60 vehicle, we drove it on Brooklyn surface streets first before facing the Expressway. The 1.2-liter four-cylinder seemed responsive and game, so picking our moment, we joined the Expressway.
But as soon as we hit the deep dips and bumps at 60 mph, something was very wrong. The Spark was rebounding harshly, turning each impact into two or three impacts. When we got to the Chevrolet engineer we were meeting 10 minutes later, we complained, and he immediately began checking tire pressures. But how could it be? Tire pressure! He found the front tires were five pounds underinflated, and the rear tires were two pounds overinflated. He said they all must be at 38 pounds.
Sure enough, back on the Expressway, the Spark cruised smoothly across the cratered surface, problem solved. Tire pressures are as critical to the Spark as they are to a race car.
From then on, it was a surprisingly impressive little car. Its power was minimal, but its compactness gave it a kind of sportiness only small cars ever achieve. Impressive when cornered forcefully, its little 15-inch tires did their work bravely. The Spark has electronic steering, which could be a terrible thing if engineered poorly, but in the Spark, feedback and road feel left little to grouse about. Though the brakes were an old-fashioned combo of discs in front and drums in the rear, the light Spark stopped firm and true.
Escaping the city jungle (never a bad thing), the little Chevy stretched out, delivering a pleasant ride at highway speeds. Its shock absorber damping was everything it should be, and wind noise was nothing obtrusive. The only thing you need to get used to is the people in bigger cars smiling and waving at you, expecting a dozen clowns to climb out.
Carmakers like Chevrolet have offered a long, mildly successful cavalcade of small cars, but nothing as small as the Chevrolet Spark, which is a genuine mini car two inches shorter than a Mini Cooper. Chevrolet isn't expecting to sell millions of Sparks in the U.S., but it has already sold 600,000 of them in the Spark's true home market, Korea, and neighboring Asian countries. Built in Changwon, Korea, the Spark is popular in the Far East, where getting the most out of a pint of gasoline, providing four adult seats and taking up minimal space is considered brilliant citizenship.
Spark's overhead costs for design and development have already been paid up. But Chevrolet believes there will be a sampling of Americans who are curious about this fairly extreme little car. It uses a tiny 1.2-liter four-cylinder engine, weighs a miniscule 2237 pounds, and gets EPA-rated 38 mpg Highway fuel mileage, which is both very good, and in these hybrid-aware days, not spectacular.
What is spectacular is the Spark's upright, one-box package. It allows ample seating for four adults in this very concise five-door. (If you look at the pictures and see only front door handles, the rear two are hidden in the rear trim.) Rear-seat passengers will not want to ride all the way to Patagonia in a Spark. There are limits. But if you replace these two passengers with supplies, the rear seats fold down, providing 31 cubic feet of storage, enough for all the inner-city Nathan's hot dogs you need on the trip.
By comparison with the Smart two-seater of a few years ago, the Spark actually is smart. Spark offers infinitely greater interior space and practicality, combined with a surprisingly good driving package. Spark corners with unexpected aplomb, stops straight and true, and accelerates with a willing spirit that makes it fully competitive in the inner-city grand prix. Entering onramps and merging with freeway traffic requires planning ahead but no more than with any other vehicle that takes 11 seconds to reach 60 mph.
All in all, the Spark is an interesting small car for special tastes, special needs, and a trim budget between $14,000-$17,000. Equipped with all the mandated airbags and a number of additional advanced safety provisions, it might be just the right choice as an urban guerrilla, a college car or a first-ever new car. What its low price delivers is a surprisingly spirited, useful entry-level five-door/four-seat sedan.
As an Asian-born world car, Chevy's Spark is furnished with diminutive 14-inch wheels, but it's been dressed up for America with big (at least, bigger) 15-inch wheels. These alloy wheels are dressy and handsome, giving the vehicle a deluxe gleam.
To grasp the Spark's real-world scale, it's eight inches narrower and three feet shorter than the Chevrolet Cruze. Put another way, it is five inches shorter than a Fiat 500, yet it has four doors and four full-sized seats, as neither the Fiat 500 nor the Scion iQ do. In its segment, the little Chevrolet is number one in space efficiency.
To stay in tune with the Spark's playful character, it's available in a bright pallet of finishes that will make it stand out wherever it goes. Among these are Salsa, Denim, Lemonade, and Techno Pink. Our test car was a brilliant red Salsa, which seemed to make everyone who saw it happy. One particularly winsome mannerism of the Spark is that this exterior paint is carried into the car's interior. Our dashboard was bright red and gleaming.
Spark comes with dressy looking luggage racks on its roof for strapping down what won't fit inside. As elsewhere in this little world car, its luggage racks are a practical and unexpected inclusion, and crossbars are available.
The speedometer is minimalist but entirely legible. An electronic tachometer is located to the right in the form of a circular trace that curiously has no redline. This space is very busy, containing a fuel gauge in a vertical trace and an information center that delivers average mpg, trip time, trip mpg, trip miles, range and average speed. Very complete for such a car.
The wheel itself is small, sturdy, very nice. It contains cruise control tabs on the left of the hub, audio channel change tabs and, yes, a phone control on the right hub. Audio volume on two separate tabs is located conveniently behind the front two audio tabs. Well done.
The wiper controls provide the full range of intermittent, low and high frequency, as well as the safety of a rear wiper for the large, near-vertical back window. The latter is indispensable in such a configuration. The running lights do not include an Automatic option, one of the few conveniences the Spark lacks. But the climate control system is first-rate, using big, easy-to-use radial knobs for fan level, as well as controls for front and rear window defrost and heat and cool. Straightforward and flawless. The German luxury brands could learn from this elegant simplicity.
The Spark 2LT we drove had a handsome 7-inch full-color MyLink touch-screen infotainment system that is a startlingly advanced component in all LT models. Our unit did not include a navigation system, though Chevrolet says an app will be available late in the Spark's first sales year. MyLink provides excellent graphics, and a touch of the screen dials-in the audio system, though the targets on-screen for dialing the volume up or down demand too much marksmanship while driving. The same controls on the steering wheel, however, handled the same duty painlessly.
The audio was surprisingly good for this class of car. The additional capabilities of the system, in meeting the needs of advanced inner-city connectivity mavens, were very powerful. In addition to AM/FM, XM/Sirius Satellite Radio and a digital clock, Bluetooth streaming audio for music and selected phones is available, voice recognition is available for compatible phones, and compatible apps for Pandora and Stitcher are supported. OnStar is also available, with collision notification, a good safety feature.
Perhaps the Smart interior's most startling characteristic, however, is how roomy it feels despite its very small exterior package. The front seats give quite good lateral support and snugness. Upholstered in black leatherette, with high-back design and adjustable head restraints, the seats were not quite sporty. And even leaving space for a six-foot two driver, the left-rear seat had plenty of comfort space for an adult. The rear seats, however, were flat, hard and not very comfortable over the long haul. Yet even with the rear seats in place, a small grocery-storage space was available behind the back seats.
Spark LS comes standard with a 1.2-liter DOHC four-cylinder, 5-speed manual transmission, air conditioning, electronic power steering, power windows, high-back bucket seats with adjustable head restraint, split-back folding rear seat, air-filtration system, folding driver armrest, tilt steering column, 6-speaker audio, USB port, outside temperature display, four cup holders, rear seat map pocket, rear center console with storage tray, rear cargo compartment lamp and security shelf.
Spark 1LT upgrade with MyLink 7-in. color touch-screen linking compatible smartphone and stored media via Bluetooth, plug-in outlet or USB, Sirius/XM radio, steering wheel-mounted audio and phone controls, keyless entry, power locks, power mirrors, cruise control. Spark 2LT upgrade with heated leatherette front seats, leatherette steering wheel, chrome accents, foglamps, machined-face 15-inch aluminum wheels.
Safety features include all 10 mandated airbags, OnStar directions with automatic crash response and turn-by-turn navigation, tire-pressure monitor, rear wiper, rear defroster, LATCH child seat system, theft alarm/theft deterrent system, ASC stability control, ATC traction control, four-wheel ABS antilock brakes, brake assist.
Ted West filed this report to NewCarTestDrive.com after his test drive of the Spark LT around New York City.
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Bareknuckle Brawler - FinishedBareknuckle Brawler - FinishedLast edited by bean on Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:33 pm, edited 38 times in total.
Re: Bareknuckle BrawlerBetter be able to back it up...
"Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."
Re: Bareknuckle BrawlerOh yeah! Make my day!!!
Re: Bareknuckle BrawlerRight turn, Clyde...
Re: Bareknuckle BrawlerTime for some real pics.
I'm using a Repco branded department store frame. I've picked up a few of these when they come on special........It's about the cheapest way to get a cantilever frame here in Australia. I've been wanting to do a bare metal build for a while, so this will be it. The plan is for a low, fat tired, tough looking bike with not much extra stuff hanging off it. I'm sure it will find it's own direction once I start putting the parts together. The frame Some of the parts to go on it Fork New Velosteel coaster hub NOS Sachs front hub Tires Last edited by bean on Sun May 01, 2011 3:12 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Bareknuckle BrawlerFor a retrobike that's a pretty nice frame you've got... Looks like a custom stretch job right behind the steeringtube.
Good luck and have some fun!
Re: Bareknuckle BrawlerGot the front laced up and tire fitted..........rear is nearly done. I used a pair of SunRims Rhyno Lite rims. Pretty happy with the look.
Re: Bareknuckle Brawler (did some work!!)Keep it coming! Cheers, Dr. T
Re: Bareknuckle Brawler (did some work!!)Rear done. "Borrowed" the valve caps from the RRBBO5 bike.
It was a holiday (Labour Day) in the state I live in, so I took advantage of the day off to get some bike work done.
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Yeah, we're pretty happy with the look also! Have fun!
Re: Bareknuckle Brawler (did some more work)I always planned to use two stems on this bike - one on each of the fork legs with split bars. I had previously fitted the fork to another bike, and had cut down the fork legs, and when I fitted them to this frame, I found that the fork legs didn't have enough length protruding through the top plate to be able to clamp a stem to. I could have fittted the stems under the top plate, but it's not the look I'm after.
Mmmm...........look at it for 30 minutes..........look in the parts bin...........look at the bike again........start to think I'm gonna have to buy a new fork for the longer legs (don't want to weld on extensions, as it will ruin the chrome), then ......where did I put that quill adaptor??? Found it!! Perfect . Just have to pick up another one, find two stems the same and trim the fork legs
Re: Bareknuckle Brawler (problem and solution)That is an awesome idea!! cant wait to see it finished!
Re: Bareknuckle Brawler (problem and solution)How good are quill adapters?
Re: Bareknuckle Brawler (problem and solution)Cool idea, I have very little experience with threadless setups. But, if you're running the stems in the forks, how will you secure the steer tube? Doesn't the stem typically 'pull it all together'?
Cheers, Dr. T
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The rescue of an injured skier, who broke his leg in an avalanche at Strathcona Provincial Park, stretched into the early-morning hours Wednesday due to challenging conditions.
He was one of four backcountry skiers, all Comox Valley residents, who ran into trouble Tuesday afternoon about five kilometres southwest of Mount Washington. The group made a cellphone call for help about 2:10 p.m.
It was after 3 a.m. Wednesday by the time the injured skier has transferred to a waiting ambulance at CFB Comox, where a Cormorant helicopter had taken him. He was in stable condition.
The other three skiers were brought out of the area by ground crews.
The cellphone call brought a response from Comox Valley search-and-rescue and Comox Valley RCMP, along with help from Mount Washington Alpine Resort. Capt. Greg Clarke of Victoria's Joint Rescue Coordination Centre said it was slow-going over tough terrain for rescuers using snowmobiles and snowshoes, so military assistance was requested after they got to the skiers.
The ground crew was able to tend to the injured skier, then waited for a Cormorant helicopter and Buffalo aircraft sent from CFB Comox at 11:30 p.m.
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High-intensity flares from the Buffalo helped the Cormorant safely lower two crew members 52 metres to the skier, who was at the bottom of a 7.5-metre cliff where nearby snow was chest-deep. Winds of about 50 kilometres an hour and low visibility posed problems, and chunks of snow falling from trees also hampered the rescue.
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