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getting uncomfortable in Hawaii: the tourism outlook
Even if the seas don't rise too much and the hurricanes don't come through too often, Hawaii might still lose its appeal as a visitor destination.
How'sat? Turns out, Hawaii's TCI is already 'Marginal' in the summer months, according to new research on a 'Tourism Climate Index' (via Jrnl of Travel Research).
By 2020, Hawaii will fall into the 'Poor' range of the TCI.
Of course, the same holds true for other tropical locations, like southern Florida and the Caribbean.
The TCI measures things like average temperature and humidity, and this study provides both historical data and simulated results with climate change models for all parts of the planet.
The purpose of this study was to assess the potential impacts of projected climate change on the global tourism industry.
As a general rule, says the study, the TCI will worsen or improve for lower or higher latitudes.
Heck, by 2080, this study shows the Himalayas as one of the few spots with 'Ideal' TCI. Go figure.
Say the study's authors:
"Whereas destinations such as the Mediterranean may see shifts in their peak seasons from summer months to current shoulder periods, regions in higher latitudes are likely to experience a lengthening of their summer seasons."
Also note that this study only accounts for climatic conditions.
Here are the components of the TCI:
- Daytime comfort index: Maximum daily temperature (°C) and Minimum daily relative humidity (%)
- Daily comfort index: Mean daily temperature (°C) and Mean daily relative humidity (%)
- Precipitation: Precipitation (mm)
- Sunshine: Daily duration of sunshine (hours)
- Wind speed: Wind speed (m/s or km/h)
Ya gotta wonder if this might impact the boomers' buying decisions when contemplating that second home in Hawaii...
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Installing Diablo III in Wine
3 June 2012
Fab explains how to install and run Diablo III under Wine in Linux
Diablo III runs almost perfectly in Wine under Linux. The problem is that as of Wine 1.5.5, neither the game's launcher nor the installer work. This means that if you already have an installed version of the game, maybe obtained by copying it over from a Windows installation, you can run it directly with
wine Diablo\ III.exe -launch. Otherwise, however, you are out of luck with stock Wine and need to compile it yourself with a few specific patches. Luckily, if you are running Ubuntu (or an Ubuntu-based distribution like Linux Mint), there is a PPA that already includes a patched version of Wine that you can install. The PPA installs Wine 1.5.3 but that should be fine. By the time the next Wine version or two roll around, these patches should have hit the regular version anyway which will mean Diablo III support in vanilla Wine.
This tutorial will explain how to install Wine from the PPA in Linux Mint 13 (and by extension other distributions based on Ubuntu 12.04) and how to configure it to install and run Diablo III. Additionally, I will show how to compile Wine with the needed patches in case you are running another flavour of Linux or can't use the PPA for other reasons. The installation of the actual game is explained for the retail DVD version. If you are using a digitally purchased version, your mileage may vary.
Installing Wine from the PPA
The first thing we need to do is add this PPA to our system. The only file it includes is the patched wine package that makes the launcher and installer work. The following command will permanently add the PPA to our repositories and install the accompanying encryption key:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cheako/packages4diabloiii/ubuntu precise main"
Now we will refresh our package information and install the wine package. Since we have added the PPA, we will automatically install Wine from there. Execute the following command to do this:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine
Installing Diablo III
We are now ready to install Diablo III using our patched version of Wine. It turns out, however, that in order to install from the game DVD, we need to mount it with a special parameter. Otherwise, the installer will not be able to find some files and will refuse to install the game. First of all, please create the D3C1.0.0 directory in /media like this:
sudo mkdir /media/D3C1.0.0
Next, mount the DVD with this command (assuming your system's CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0):
sudo mount -o unhide /dev/sr0 /media/D3C1.0.0
We can now finally start the Diablo III install:
wine /media/D3C1.0.0/Diablo\ III\ Setup.exe
Since this is a fresh instance of Wine, we are most likely missing some of the Gecko packages which Wine needs in order to show HTML content. This is needed in almost all game installers and launchers and Diablo III is no an exception. When Wine asks you to install these Gecko components, please click "Install".
The next thing you should see is the game's installer and a big button labelled "INSTALL". Click the button. From now on, the setup should run just like it does natively under Windows. You might as well make yourself a pot of coffee now as this will take a while. Or you could just sit there and read the backstory while looking at the pretty pictures. I went for the coffee option, myself. After the install has finished, you should see an option to launch the game. The installer should now close and the main game launch screen will come up.
Running Diablo III
The game is now installed and everything should work. Chances are, however, that you will not be able to log into Battle.net and thus you will be unable to play the game. If you try to log in, authentication of your credentials will always fail with "Error 3007″. This is due to security policies in newer versions of the Linux kernel. To fix this, quit the game and issue the following command:
echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
You will have to do this after every system restart, prior to playing the game. Therefore, you might as well include it in a startup script for the game, if you use such things. Restart the game, log into Battle.net and you will finally be ready to play.
After playing for a few hours, I can indeed confirm that the game runs perfectly in Linux. Just like WoW, I actually have a feeling that it runs slightly better (once you manage to set it up, of course) due to the lower resource usage of the underlying system. In any case, it is very playable and worth a purchase to run it exclusively in Linux, I think.
Patching Wine yourself
In case you aren't running on a distribution compatible with the PPA we used so far, you will need to patch and compile Wine for yourself. This is a lot less scary than it sounds, trust me. The first thing you need to patch Wine is Git. if you haven't installed it yet — and you should, it is the best version control system ever invented by man — you can do so by issuing
sudo apt-get install git in a terminal.
Please note: Since I am on a 64-bit system, I had to do all of these steps in a 32-bit Ubuntu VM. If you use a 64-bit version of Mint or Ubuntu, you might have to do the same. See the explanation under "Compiling Wine".
Now download the Wine source code from their repository (have some patience, Wine is a big project and this will take a while):
git clone http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git
You will now need to download four patches. Stick them into your newly created wine-git directory. These patches are:
- server: Move completion from async object to async queue
- server: Update stored completion information even after an async IO is queued (try 3)
- server: STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED does not indicate that an async operation is complete (try 3)
- ws2_32: Use STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED to indicate that the AcceptEx async is incomplete (try 3, resend)
Thanks to Erich E. Hoover for doing all of the actual heavy lifting in writing these. If you have downloaded the patches to the right directory, we can take advantage of his hard work and patch the Wine source:
patch -p1 < 86603
patch -p1 < 86604
patch -p1 < 86605
patch -p1 < 86606
That's it. We now have the source code in place.
Compiling Wine
In order to compile your patched version of Wine, make sure that you have the necessary packages installed to compile software and everything you need to get Wine assembled correctly. On Ubuntu and Mint, installing the following should do the trick:
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall flex bison xorg-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libssl-dev libpulse-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libhal-dev libtiff4-dev libncurses5-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libmpg123
If you are using another distribution, please consult their documentation on how to get the necessary packages set up. This tutorial might be useful if you are on Gentoo.
In my case, since I am on a 64-bit system and Wine is essentially a 32-bit program, I could not find an easy way to actually compile Wine on my machine. What I did was set up a 32-bit installation of Ubuntu 12.04 in a VirtualBox VM and compiled there. This is far from ideal but sadly the only working solution I could find. I basically did everything in the VM and then copied over the result to my native machine. You can of course do the same thing on another 32-bit box, if you happen to have one. To compile in a way that makes it easy to copy the result, tell the configure script where you want the compile to happen (I've chosen a sub-folder of my home directory) and then copy that directory over to your native machine:
./configure --prefix=/home/fabsh/wine-git-install
If you are on a 32-bit machine, just ignore this and simply run
./configure as usual. After that, you are ready to start compiling in earnest. If you haven't gotten any fatal errors during the configure part, everything should be smooth sailing from here on out. You better get some Jaffa Cakes and lots of coffee, though. This is going to take ages (especially in a VM). Wine is a pretty big piece of code. Just make sure you execute these commands one after the other and otherwise relax and watch the Matrix fly by:
make depend
sudo make install
After all of that, you should be ready to install and play Diablo III (see above). If you are running another distribution, things might need a bit of tweaking and you will have to find the development libraries needed yourself, as their names will most likely be slightly different. If you have tips in that regard, or if you run into trouble, let me know in the comments. I will update this article with any useful information that I'll come across or if the patches to support this game reach the Wine mainline.
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Update — 7 June 2012 ¶
It looks like Patch 1.0.2b (released on 6 June) breaks the ability to join games (even local ones) for Wine users. You can fix this by prepending the following before starting your game:
setarch i386 -3
You can do this either in the .desktop file you start Diablo III with or directly from the command line. I now start the game from the command line like this:
setarch i386 -3 wine ~/.wine/dosdevices/c\:/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Diablo\ III/Diablo\ III\ Launcher.exe
For more information on this issue and other problems with running the game on Wine under Linux, see this thread on the Diablo III forum.
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June 20, 2012
People report that Stock Wine has an issue switching video modes, though I've only seen the bug reports so it may only effect some users.
I'm using a digitally purchased version, so I'm glad to know that the retail DVD version is also working. Any one using the digitally purchased version from http://www.battle.net, you shouldn't need anything more then what's here.
All the necessary patches are in git now and the bugs have been closed. The next release of wine will make this/my PPA obsolete. When that happen I'll take it down to prevent ppl from installing the old 1.5.3 and every one using the PPA with a PIN should get the new wine 5.5.6? When the time come I'll test a few things to make sure it'll go smoothly.
Thank you for the plug, I've never been bloged before!
Using "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheako/packages4diabloiii" will work on Ubuntu precise and quantal. Previous versions of Ubuntu are unsupported by this PPA. You can still build wine from source.
These instructions skip over the part about apt-pinning as found on the PPA… Though I'm not a journalist, so I understand that what I wrote is illedgable.
Put something like the following in /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=precise,n=precise,o=LP-PPA-cheako-packages4diabloiii
Pin-Priority: 714
rob #June 20, 2012
After executing the line to begin installation, I'm receiving a Diablo III Setup error, "failed to extract required files from an archive. please try again." Error code: BLZPTS00008
Kitsab #July 9, 2012
Hi guys,
there's a workaround for doing "echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope" every time the machine is rebooted by a seperate script.
The problem is "sudo tee" won't work with the gui based gksudo in ubuntu.
just put the "echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope" line into a script like workaround_bug_3007.sh and then create your Diablo3 launcher script like this:
gksudo sh workaround_bug_3007.sh
wine /your_command_to_launch_Diablo_III
jackcy #July 10, 2012
To evade executing the command
"echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope"
each time after a reboot I made an init conf. (ubuntu 12.04)
start on local-filesystems
stop on deconfiguring-networking
echo 0|tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
end script
Gary Masson #August 16, 2012
Wow, this sir, is a fantastic post!!! I dabble in Ubuntu and recently tried 12.04, and I am very impressed with it!!
I would like to give this a try but I am worried about people saying running Diablo under Wine is getting them banned. Are you guys running Diablo now for some time, under wine, without getting banned?
I have read Blizzard is allowing us to do this, but the issue is clouded by people getting banned, but claiming to be doing nothing wrong.
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback.
Mike Mestnik #September 8, 2012
I've taken down the PPA, use this one now:
I'd like to report, no I am reporting. That Diablo 3 works great now, after a new video card and an updated copy of wine from the winehq PPA. I don't believe the grfx drivers were updated, but they might have been as I'm pulling from xorg-edgers. Thanks a bunch this rocks now.
Ryan Smith #October 10, 2012
Could you update the original article with the new address? I've been getting errors when I tried to download wine, among them
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/cheako/packages4diabloiii/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
Thanks very much for doing this!
– Ryan
Joe #October 18, 2012
Hi folks,
Can anyone report the FPS numbers you're getting running under this version of wine and which architectures/distributions on each case?
Extremely low numbers for both 1.5.5 and 1.5.8 with around 15-30 FPS during gameplay.
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Here is my cover of "Get To The Choppa" by Austrian Death Machine. This song is really fun to play and pretty funny as well. The backing track is fairly loud (camera was next to surround sound speaker), but I can assure you that I am really playing it. You can hear my guitar if you listen closely. Like My Fan Page on Facebook!!! https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-ShredMaster/238201459534224 DISCLAIMER: This song and all of it's rights are the property of Austrian Death Machine. This video is used for entertainment purposes ONLY and is not intended to be used as profit.
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The story of the lie detector takes us straight into the dark recesses
of the American soul. It also leads us on a noir journey through some
of the most storied episodes in American history. That is because the
device we take for granted as an indicator of guilt or innocence
actually tells us more about our beliefs than about our deeds. The
machine does not measure deception so much as feelings of guilt or
shame. As Ken Alder reveals in his fascinating and disturbing account,
the history of the lie detector exposes fundamental truths about our
culture: why we long to know the secret thoughts of our fellow
citizens; why we believe in popular science; and why America embraced
the culture of "truthiness."
For centuries, people searched in vain for a way to unmask liars,
seeking clues in blushing cheeks, shifty eyes, and curling toes...all
the body's outward signs. But not until the 1920s did a cop with a
Ph.D. team up with an entrepreneurial high school student from
Berkeley, California and claim to have invented a foolproof machine
that peered directly into the human heart. In a few short years their
polygraph had transformed police work, seized headlines, solved
sensational murders, and enthralled the nation. In Chicago, the capital
of American vice, the two men wielded their device to clean up
corruption, reform the police, and probe the minds of infamous killers.
Before long the lie detector had become the nation's "mechanical
conscience," searching for honesty on Main Street, in Hollywood, and
even within Washington, D.C. Husbands and wives tested each other's
fidelity. Corporations tested their employees' honesty. Movie studios
and advertisers tested their audiences' responses. Eventually,
thousands of government employees were tested for their loyalty and
"morals" -- for lack of which many lost their jobs.
Yet the machine was flawed. It often was used to accuse the wrong
person. It could easily be beaten by those who knew how. Repeatedly it
has been applied as an instrument of psychological torture, with the
goal of extracting confessions. And its creators paid a commensurate
price. One went mad trying to destroy the Frankenstein's monster he had
created. The other became consumed by mistrust: jealous of his cheating
wife, contemptuous of his former mentor, and driven to an early death.
The only happy man among the machine's champions was the eccentric
psychologist who went on to achieve glory as the creator of Wonder
Yet this deceptive device took America -- and only America -- by
storm. Today, the CIA still administers polygraphs to its employees.
Accused celebrities loudly trumpet its clean bill of truth. And the
U.S. government, as part of its new "war on terror," is currently
exploring forms of lie detection that reach directly into the brain.
Apparently, America still dreams of a technology that will render human
beings transparent.
with conventional wisdom, the author argues that our current
understanding of contract is not the outgrowth of gradual refinements
of a centuries-old idea. Rather, contract as we now know it was shaped
by a revolution in private law undertaken toward the end of the
nineteenth century, when legal scholars established calculating
promisors as the centerpiece of their notion of contract.
Women are completing MBA and Law degrees in record high numbers, but
their struggle to attain director positions in corporate America
continues. Although explanations for this disconnect abound, neither
career counselors nor scholars have paid enough attention to the role
that corporate governance plays in maintaining the gender gap in
America's executive quarters.
Mining corporate governance models
applied at Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of Title VII discrimination
cases, and proxy statements, Douglas M. Branson suggests that women
have been ill-advised by experts, who tend to teach females how to act
like their male, executive counterparts. Instead, women who aspire to
the boardroom should focus on the decision-making processes nominating
committees—usually dominated by white men—employ when voting on
Filled with real-life cases, No Seat at the Table
opens the closed doors of the boardroom and reveals the dynamics of the
corporate governance process and the double standards that often
characterize it. Based on empirical evidence, Branson concludes that
women have to follow different paths than men in order to gain CEO
status, and as such, encourages women to make flexible, conscious, and
often frequent shifts in their professional behaviors and work ethics
as they climb the corporate ladder.
A judge for more than twenty years, Robert Dierker has
enjoyed a distinguished legal career. But now that career may be on the
line. Why? Because he is breaking the code of silence that has long
kept judges from speaking out to present a withering account of how
radical liberals run roughshod over the Constitution, waging war on the
laws of nature, the laws of reason, and the law of God.
those outraged by America's courts will be shocked by Judge Dierker's
story of activist judges, deep-pocketed special interest groups,
pandering politicians, and others who claim to stand for tolerance,
equal rights, and social justice, but actually stand for something
quite different—something closer to totalitarianism.
The specter of the sacred always haunts the law, even
in the most resolute of contemporary secular democracies. Indeed, the
more one considers the question of the relation between law and the
sacred, the more it appears that endless debate over the proper
relationship of government to religion is only the most quotidian
example of a problematic that lies at the heart of law itself. And
currently, as some in the United States grapple with the seeming
fragility of secular democracy in the face of threatening religious
fundamentalisms, the question has gained a particular urgency.
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One thing I have always loved about homeschooling is taking those serendipitous days to tie "school" into the particular events or seasons. In fact, when I was a child, I remember fondly my grandmother (a former teacher) pulling out weather and holiday related books and activities to share with me. As a homeschool mom of younger children, I kept a notebook with printed pages from magazines and websites that I could pull out when the occasion lent itself to a "theme day". Since most of the country is experiencing extreme winter weather, I thought I'd share some ideas for having a weather themed school day.
Read poems about cold or snow!
Here is a link with many of the poems I remember, book links and wonderful illustrations. Look down the list and you will find the poem Jack Frost with an illustration from an old book. I remember my grandmother reading that poem from a book with that exact illustration over 45 years ago! (With insulated windows we don't get to talk about "Jack Frost" much anymore. Last week, in the mountains we observed 'hore frost' at the top of a mountain in our view.) In any case -- there are also directions for writing poems inspired by the cold weather.
Write your own poems. The hardest part about writing for many children is thinking up something to write about. Cold and snow are sensory experiences that lend themselves to the employment of descriptive language. Check out your language art resources or any online free guides to help you get started with writing poetry with your children.
This link has examples of poems children wrote as well as a list of books that inspired them:
short poems written by school children printed.
Read books about cold and snow - the above link has a list of books. A few of my personal favorites:
The Mitten by Jan Britt which can be turned into a craft activity for preschoolers with a simple internet search. Make a paper mitten and cut out paper animals to recreate the story from memory.
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
High schoolers can enjoy these poems and books written for younger children. However, a short story for the older children at your table is To Build A Fire by Jack London. It is a tragic tale and of course, Jack London was a naturalist writer; still it gives you much fodder for conversation and families in the North will appreciate the realistic portrayal of minus 30 degree weather.
That story would also segue into a discussion of safety during cold weather making the extreme weather events an opportunity to teach practical skills to your children. Let them help you prepare the house, talk about ways to "be prepared" if you lose power etc.
How having a campaign to vote for the most cold invoking writing from your selected poems and from the lines they write. Older students can challenge their friends through whatever social media you embrace to the same contest.
Illustrate the winter scenery. I love the products I have used in the past by Harmony Art Mom. Her website has changed quite a bit, but you should check it out. In any case, there is a ton of free material right at your fingertips online. The particular beauty to winter landscape invites different artistic techniques.
Assuming you have power, make some special treats. We always tried to bake "Mrs Johnson's Snow Cookies" when we got a snow (which wasn't often in NC). They are just spice cookies cut thin and covered with "snow" icing (white sugar icing). I don't even know Mrs Johnson, but the recipe and tradition was handed down to me by a friend when my children were small. I bought snow flake cookie cutters a few years ago.
Tell your children stories of cold and snow in your childhood.
My children always loved to hear about the time an ice storm closed down Pitt County for 15 days. We lost power for the duration, but since we heated the house with oil, we were at least warm while we missed Gilligan's Island and played Parcheesi by candlelight for two weeks! My dad had the only truck that would traverse the roads, so he delivered water from our old hand-pump well (at the barn -- not the house) to all our country neighbors every day; we cooked soup on a home-made gas cooker and eventually my dad had to bury the freezer goods in a snow bank to preserve them. By day 8, tired of soup, my mom cooked up a big platter of fried steak. We were all so excited to eat meat you had to chew for a change, imagine our horror when she tripped on the way to the table and those steaks when flying all across the kitchen! After a stunned moment, the four of us kids plus my uncle who lived with us jumped up and began rescuing the steaks off the floor. I guess the funny part for my sons was the image of their mother embracing the 10 second rule.
They always wanted to hear the story their father recount the time my he and his brothers challenged each other to run around the house in their skivvies during the snow (thankfully it wasn't as cold as today when I don't recommend that activity). Children love to hear when their parents were silly or even a bit foolish and it sure was funny to hear about how grand-father locked the door forcing the boys (the oldest of whom was 19 at the time!) to knock on the front room door where their sister was entertaining her beau!
What stories can you share with your children of cold childhood days? Take a break from the regular school routine and liven things up while making memories, sharing memories and exploring themed topics.
[Thanks to a blog friend Mindy, posted a link to an audio recording of To Build A Fire. I should also mention that even if you don't have some of those classic winter tales on your shelf, you could probably find them with a free KINDLE reading app or other free online literature source.]


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I write for Boxing World Magazine which is published out of Ohio and has been around for quite some time. It comes out quarterly and is a neat mag. Tom Huff is the editor.Twenty dollars per all 4 editions. It does not try to compete with The Ring but stands on its own independent thrust.
That disclaimer out of the way, there are very few other boxing mags out there. Of course, The Ring is the main one. Some of the posts on a recent thread stated that The Ring was now pretty much irrelevant. I will say this, if you go to a Barns and Nobel magazine section, you will likely find a host of UFC/MMA magazines but no boxing ones. Given the internet, that's not very surprising.
So the question is this: Do you find The Ring relevant or irrelevant given some of the recent content therein? And also given the recent change in ownership?
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To work around this issue, you can create a POST SHUTDOWN script to export the command prompt settings from the Virtual Registry when you exit the Command Prompt window. You can then create a PRE LAUNCH script to import these settings into the local registry when you open the Command Prompt window. This action lets the window use the Virtual Registry setting from the local registry.
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Kyburz Fire west of South Lake Tahoe downsized to 160 acres; Highway 50 partially reopened with controls
Submitted by Editor on Mon, 07/08/2013 - 8:02pm
The size of the Kyburz Fire burning in El Dorado County has been adjusted from 600 acres down to 160 acres as of 9:53 p.m., according to the U.S. Forest Service. Highway 50 has been reopened under controlled measures between South Lake Tahoe and the Meyers area and Pollock Pines, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
Firefighters are trying to get the upper hand on the fire that began Monday west of South Lake Tahoe in the Sierra. The Kyburz fire was downsized after better mapping, reports Laura Hierholzer, spokeswoman for the Eldorado National Forest. The fire, at the time of this report, was zero percent contained.
The Kyburz Fire began at 12:41 p.m. and is located 1/2 mile east of Mile Post 29 off of Highway 50. Six air tankers worked the fire before being grounded for nightfall; seven helicopters, 14 engines, and 6 hand crews have responded. More firefighters and apparatus and a Type 2 Team has been ordered, she said.
It is burning in steep terrain with a mix of timber and brush, she said. One small outbuilding has been destroyed. No other structures are threatened at this time.
The Forest Service reports it was a vehicle-caused fire. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports it may have been a blown tire. The Forest Service could not confirm this.
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Galloway rolled his ankle in the Falcons' game...and the article you refer to is about Galloway being frustrated with his injuries...I deduce Galloway is whom Gruden speaks...just a hunch
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A Hickory mother and her boyfriend are charged with abusing two young boys.
Police say Alison Hullett and Jeffrey Sumpter abused the boys over several days.
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Police say the children are in the hospital with serious injuries but should recover.
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Updated: Three men killed in River Tyne kayak tragedy named by police
Updated 10:11am Tuesday 13th May 2014 in News By Bruce Unwin, Chief Reporter (Durham)
THE three men killed in the River Tyne kayaking tragedy have been named by Northumbria Police.
They are brothers Darren Thorpe, 41, of Madeira Terrace, and 39-year-old Mark Thorpe, of Froude Avenue, both South Shields, and their cousin Gavin Bradley, 36, of Lulworth Avenue, Jarrow.
Northumbria Police said inquiries are continuing into the circumstances leading to their deaths and a report will be prepared for the coroner.
The men died after apparently getting into difficulties in the swollen river, near Riding Mill, in Northumberland, as they were attempting to kayak between Hexham and Wylam, on Sunday.
Concerns were raised late on Sunday when the men failed to return to their South Tyneside homes, and a full air and riverbanks search was made, involving the Coastguard, police and an RAF rescue helicopter from the Boulmer base in north Northumberland.
Over several hours early yesterday the cars belonging to two of them men were found, parked near the river at Tyne Green, Hexham, and in the railway station car park, at Wylam, before two of their kayaks were recovered.
The bodies were located and recovered from the river near Riding Mill, Corbridge and under Broomhaugh A68 bridge, by 1pm yesterday.
Police described the conditions as "unpredictable" and due to heavy showers the river was higher and faster flowing than usual on Sunday.
A canoe pulled from the River Tyne near Ovingham, Northumberland yesterday
An ambulance leaving the scene near Riding Mill yesterday
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Fred Dockins, CEO of The Dockins Broadcast Group of Missouri and Florida made history on February 22, 2011,
The Dockins Broadcast Group was granted a construction permit from The Federal Communications Commission to construct a new full service television station.
The new television station, KDKZ, is located at the current location of The Dockins Broadcast Group at 900 East Karsch Blvd. in Farmington, Missouri and operates on Digital Channel 18. KDKZ is the first and local television station in Farmington.
Dockins said that "There was a definite need in the market for a local television station and that Channel 18 will fill a void that is not currently being served by other television outlets in the market."
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Its about the time people start to evaluate different units. Just a few short weeks away from the start of the season and here's my take on the FSU defensive line in 2010. I'll call myself cautiously optimistic but as we all know the odds of us being worse than last year are pretty slim. The question is, how much the Noles will improve up front. We are still at the very least, a year away from being dominant/elite at the point of attack, but in 2010 I expect that we'll at least be effective.


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He is survived by his daughter, Kim (Tony) Holland of Cordova; sons, Tim (Donna) Reed and Gary (Eugenia) Reed; sisters, Alice Reed, Betty Kellum and Geneva Royster; brother, Levi Reed; grandchildren, Lori Matterson, Holly (Mike) Clark, Beth (Carlos) Augusto, Megan (Jason) Hunter and Adam (Amber) Holland; and five great-grandchildren.


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Theme: Everyday Life - Extraordinary
Bucharest, Romania
November 11th, 2011
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What one might've overlooked, another might've noticed. What one might've thrown away, another might've used. What yesterday might've been unknown, might very well fascinate and become known to many today. Because the bottom line is that everyday surprises us, everyday we impact hundreds more and everyday we are part of something extraordinary. TEDxBucharest 2011 will be a celebration of everyday life and of those who put it to value.
Confirmed Speakers
Cristian Lascu
Cristian is a speleologist and the chief editor of National Geographic Romania, constantly promoting natural heritage, supporting exploration, research and conservation efforts. He discovered about 35km of cave galleries together with his teams. One of his most recent explorations (2003) is in the Park Buila Vînturariţa, probably deepest and most beautiful cavity in the area.
Toma Coconea
Toma is a full time paragliding adventurer. His first paragliding adventure dates back to 1991. Ever since he has taken part in many competitions , both national and international: Red Bull X-Alps, Rimetea Paragliding Festival, European Paragliding Championship in Abtenau Austria, Trofeo Montegrappa in Bassano Italy, the Romanian PG Open and many others.
Vlad Grigorescu
Vlad combines psychological techniques, suggestion, misdirection, sleight of hand and a lot of intuition to create the illusion of a sixth sense. He is a true showman, an entertainer in the real sense of the word and his shows capture even the most skeptical spectators attention. He is the first to bring the concept of mentalism and stage hypnosis to Romania and he's renowned for his skepticism regarding the paranormal.
Steven D'Souza
Steven is author of the bestselling book 'Made in Britain', which was sponsored for schools throughout the UK to inspire positive role models. Ria Bintan Golf Resort Complex in Bintan, Indonesia, Regent Heights Condominium complex in Singapore and Monte Casino Entertainment Complex in Johannesburg amongst others, his experience is a variety of large developments which have broad cultural influence from a worldwide perspective.
Christian Busch
Christian is Co-founder and Head of Sandbox Live! at Sandbox, the leading global network for the most inspiring innovators below 30.He acts as Special Advisor for social entrepreneurship and community matters at the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), and has been selected as one of The Daily Beast's "300 world class influencers to reboot America". Related to a PhD on the dynamic interplay between social networks and (social) enterprise performance in emerging markets, Christian teaches entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Joe Liske
Joe is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany, working in the E-ELT Science Office. He is also the host of the ESO video podcast. Previously, he was an ESO Fellow and before that a postdoc at the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews. He obtained his PhD from the University of New South Wales. Joe spent half of his time working on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). This (future) giant telescope will be Europe's premier ground-based optical and infrared facility in the coming decades.
Mru Patel
Mru has a successful track record investing in various real estate investment projects, in the social media and health industry.He has personally invested in, developed and portfolio managed project in Europe, UK, USA, and India. Following 1.5 years of detailed research into EU emerging markets, Mru established a real estate investment fund for Romania in June 2004. He was responsible for deal sourcing, co-insting, operating and managing that fund as chairman/advisor to the fund and has since built significant asset base, deal flow, SPVs with project, market knowledge and contact networks.
Edmund Batley
Edmund is the founder of Batley Partners, an architecture, interior and graphic design consultancy, with offices in Johannesburg, Dubai, Jeddah, London and Abu Dhabi. From KNSM Eiland residential complex in Amsterdam to Mega Mall shopping centre in Jakarta, Indonesia, Steven has also written 'Brilliant Networking' which was featured by the Independent in their 'Success at Work' series and recommended by the Telegraph and the Times. He is currently an Executive Fellow at the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid, Spain.
Dan Perjovschi
Dan is an artist, writer and cartoonist who over the past decade has created drawings in museum spaces, one of which in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.The drawings present a political commentary in response to current events. Another exhibition of Perjovschi's within a Portuguese bank consists of several comic strip style drawings which address more European issues such as Romania's acceptance to the EU and abortion legalization in Portugal.
Horia Colibasanu
Horia is the first Romanian to reach the summit of K2, Manaslu, Dhaulagiri and Annapurna and receiver of the "Spirit of Mountaineering" award. In 2010 he was awarded "Athlete of the Year 2010 at Climbing" granted by the Romanian Federation of Mountaineering and Climbing.
Alex Rotaru
Alex is the director of several award-winning documentaries – including the New York Times Critic's Pick THEY CAME TO PLAY, and KIDS WITH CAMERAS, chosen by the US State Department to be part of its American Documentary Showcase in countries all over the world. His most recent project, SHAKESPEARE HIGH, a feature documentary executive produced by Kevin Spacey and starring Spacey, Richard Dreyfuss, Mare Winningham and Val Kilmer, is about teens improving their lives through theater and has just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Feliks Vainik
Feliks is the co-founder of eVigilo, a company with the mission to enhance emergency responders' mass notification capabilities by using a geo-targeted multi-channel alert and notification system reaching millions of people within seconds. The solution that has been successfully deployed by multiple countries around the globe, among others by the Israeli Home Front Command and the Chilean Emergency Management Authority.
Dumitru Popescu
Dumitru is the founder of the Romanian Cosmonautics and Aeronautics Association. In 1998, together with a group of students, he created ARCA and soon, rockets as Demonstrator 2 and 2B were build.In 2003 ARCA joined the X Prize Competition and Dumitru represented the team to the major XPF events, such: X Prize Teams Meeting (2004), X Prize Gala (2004) and X Prize Cup (2005, 2006). In 2004 Dumitru was designer and coordinated the launch of Demonstrator 2B rocket from Cape Midia Air Force Launch Base. Demonstrator 2B was world first rocket equipped with completely reusable composite materials monopropellant rocket engine, ever to fly. Dumitru was designer for ARCA's X Prize class vehicle Stabilo and coordinated the Mission 1 and 2 flights as well as all ground tests of this vehicle. During the ARCA's Google Lunar X Prize program Dumitru will be the team leader as well as the propulsion engineer.
Alexis Bonte
Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of eRepublik Labs. eRepublik (one of the top 25 European start ups according to TechCrunch) is transforming the way strategy games are created, distributed and played by leveraging the power of communities and the Web. Prior to eRepublik, Alexis was with lastminute.com for 6 years right up to its 1b$ trade sale to Sabre in 2005. Alexis is also the non-executive chairman of the video and music centered online community trilulilu.ro, the n'1 Romanian website.
Cristian Pascu
Cristian is the creator of FlairBuilder, a prototyping and wireframing tool for websites, RIAs and iPhone applications. You can check Flairbuilder at http://www.flairbuilder.com. Cristian is 30 years old and has graduated from the Faculty of Physics. He is passionate about programming, guitar, piano and the physics of elementary particles.
Kobi Levi
Kobi graduated from Bezalel academy of art & design, Jerusalem 2001, specialized in footwear design and development & working as a freelance designer eversince. "In my artistic footwear design the shoe is my canvas. The trigger to create a new piece comes when an idea, a concept and/or an image comes to mind. The combination of the image and footwear creates a new hybrid and the design/concept comes to life. The piece is a wearable sculpture. It is "alive" with/out the foot/body. Most of the inspirations are out of the "shoe-world", and give the footwear an extreme transformation. The result is usually humoristic with a unique point of view about footwear. Another aspect of the creation is the realization. All the pieces are hand-made in my studio. The challenging technical development is the key to bring the design to life in the best way."
Gerry Hadden
Gerry was born in New York City. His first job he actually liked (besides driving a taxi) was an unpaid internship at public radio station KPLU in Seattle, WA. In 2000 National Public Radio hired him as its Mexico, Central America and Caribbean reporter. It is in thie period when he wrote his memoir, NEVER THE HOPE ITSELF: Love and Ghosts in Latin America and Haiti. In 2004 Hadden moved to Barcelona with his partner, Mouche. Since then, he's been the Europe Correspondent for Public Radio International's The World. He and Mouche have two children, Lula and Nino.
Ionut Florea & Ana Hogas
Ionut and Ana are architects who decided to meet their dream of seeing the world. For over 150 days they are crossing Africa on a motorcycle. They have also traveled independently in Europe, Turkey, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka by car, scooter and other means of transportation. They are passionate about snowboarding, diving, photography and biology. You can find out more about them at http://blog.intotheworld.eu/.
Sasha, Laura & Florian
They are a Romanian family living at the ocean in an eco-village in Brazil. Not breathing the dust of the city, no everyday problems, bills, meetings or crowds. You can find out what they are up to at http://viataprinbalonulroz.ro/.
2x architect + environment engineer + journalist + sociologist + ambulance + 16000km= Paramongols. To climb into a "resurrected" ambulance and to drive it halfway around the world is undoubtedly a great adventure. Between adventure and charity, Paramongols enriched both Mongolia and our souls.
Teo is the co-founder of the 99 Comedy Club. He talks with black humor about the small things of everyday life that happen to all of us. He dissects various behavioral automatisms and stereotypes and acknowledges them, puts them in a slightly ironic light, with a frankly astonished air and makes people laugh.
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The Denver Nuggets have one of the best home court advantages in the NBA, but the Golden State Warriors stole Game 2 in the Pepsi Center before returning to the Bay Area to take a 2-1 series lead. On Sunday night, Game 4 in ORACLE Arena gives the Nuggets the opportunity to return the favor by stealing their own road game.
If they don't, George Karl's team will be facing elimination and a serious dissection of their issues upon a return home.
So what will be the keys for the Nuggets to tie the series versus the Warriors putting themselves on deck for a first round victory?
Can Denver pick a poison?
The Nuggets have been giving up points in the paint and three-pointers. To be successful, they need to cut off one of those sources of Golden State's points. The best scoring team in the paint during the regular season, Denver allowed 52 points in the paint to their 54 in Game 3, making one of their usual advantages negligible. The Nuggets won the battle 50-44 in a Game 2 loss, and in their Game 1 win had more significant 52-40 advantage.
Stopping Golden State in that regard might be hard to do with a smaller lineup that Karl implemented in Game 3 -- Kenneth Faried, Wilson Chandler and Andre Iguodala made up the frontcourt. That said, the small lineup should allow the Nuggets to play better perimeter defense because it allows for more switches.
Golden State has shot 44.8 percent from three-point range in the series, and that accuracy must dip for Denver to pull out the series.
Who wins the turnover battle?
The Nuggets and Warriors have opened up their respective offenses through three games, and the Warriors have gotten caught up in the Nuggets' fast pace. They've handled it well. So far, they've shown that they have the horses to compete and win, but both squads have turned the ball over, especially in the last two games.
In Game 3, the Warriors coughed up the ball 23 times, resulting in 30 Denver points. They escaped 110-108, but that high turnover rate can't become a habit.
Will Carl Landry keep it up?
While the highlights and the success of Golden State has centered around its bevy of shooters in Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes, Landry has quietly averaged 14 points and been one of the most active offensive rebounding forces in the three games thus far. Especially because the Warriors lost starting power forward David Lee for the season, Landry's consistent efforts have allowed Golden State room for error.
In Game 3, Thompson's 3-for-10 shooting night and Golden State's loss of bench production with Jarrett Jack's move into the starting lineup wasn't enough to stop the Warriors from winning. Landry scored 19 points off the bench and grabbed four offensive rebounds.
Time: 9:30 p.m. ET
Odds: Denver opened as 1.5-point favorites.
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A couple who punished a 12-year-old girl in a cruel and bizarre way have been sentenced to jail. Darnell Landrum, 34, was sentenced to 120 days in jail after pleading guilty to malicious punishment of a child. The girl's mother, Stephanie Broten, 38, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to 90 days in November. The two were accused of shaving the child's head and forcing her to run around outside wearing a diaper. They said she was being punished for bad grades. Landrum had previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic assault for hitting the girl with a belt. He is ordered to have no contact with the girl.
The Fridley, MN, couple were arrested in May after concerned neighbors called the cops, reporting a 12-year-old girl running up and down the street wearing only a diaper and a tank top. When police arrived, the girl was crying hysterically and begging to be allowed inside. A crowd of about 50 people had gathered to watch. The child, whose head had been completely shaved, had reportedly been forced to perform what her parents referred to as "diaper duty," which Fridley Police Lt. Mike Monsrud says meant she had to pick up trash outside while wearing the humiliating garment. According to a criminal complaint, this incident was the third time the girl has been punished with "diaper duty." Broten and Landrum were both arrested, but did not appear to understand why police were involved in their parenting practices. According to Monsrud, Broten and Ladrum were laughing the whole way to the police station. They were booked into Anoka county jail, where they were held until their first court appearance. Both were charged with malicious punishment of a child and released on bail. The girl, and three other children found in the home, were placed in foster care.


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It's a wonder what kind of information is suddenly available when the media is allowed to watch the Vikings practice. Yesterday we got little bits of info from Vikings.com, but today Tom Pelissero and company were in full force reporting live on Twitter and simulcast on their 1500ESPN website. If you missed it live, you can still catch the play-by-play here.
Starting with injuries, none of this is serious at this stage in the game, but it's still worth mentioning:
-John Sullivan, didn't participate because he's still rehabbing after surgery
-Michael Mauti, ditto
-Greg Jennings, twisted an ankle yesterday and didn't participate today
-Greg Childs, made a brief appearance during warmups, and then went back to rehabbing
-Chris Summers, tweaked his hamstring and didn't participate
Adrian Peterson says he's 100% after the hernia, and everyone was in attendance except for Jared Allen; pretty impressive indeed!
There were a ton of storylines to follow for these practices, as outlined down in the fanshots from all over the web, but here are some that were addressed by Pelissero and Wobschall:
1. Linebackers
Erin Henderson played the MLB position as expected, and called the defense during practice, but it was Marvin Mitchell taking his old spot on the weak side, not Gerald Hodges. Henderson got beat up the seam by Rudolph on one play, not that it means much. Greenway gave the media his support of Henderson saying, "I'm telling you, he'll be fine." Even so, Frazier said that Audie Cole and Michael Mauti will compete for MLB during training camp. This will probably be fluid all off-season as they try various looks with different personnel. My guess is that the MLB job is Henderson's to lose. Also, the Vikings filled their last training camp roster spot by signing linebacker Stanford Keglar, a Titans 4th rounder out of Purdue in 2008. He never caught on and played 2010 with the Texans before playing in the UFL. He has experience as an outside linebacker in a 4-3 scheme, so has a shot to compete with Hodges and Mitchell, or potentially Dean and Cole for special teams. It would be shocking to see him make the final 53, but he's got his last chance to make it in the NFL.
2. Quarterbacks
We probably shouldn't read too much into it, but Ponder didn't have a particularly great day at practice. According to Pelissero here were the QB stats at the end of the day: Ponder 6-for-12 (INT), Cassel 6-9, Bethel-Thompson 3-5, Vandenberg 1-1. It's just one practice, during OTAs, so we can't overreact, but I think this still qualifies as a minor disappointment. He missed Rudolph up the seam and was picked off by Harrison Smith.
3. Wide Receivers
CP84 was returning punts today along with a host of others: Sherels, Randle, Jerodis Williams, McCoy, Robinson. Joe Webb, after not dropping a single pass yesterday looked good again today. Practice ended with a Joe Webb reception over the middle of the field. Jarius Wright and AJ Jefferson must have gotten a little heated during 1-on-1's as apparently Greg Jennings had to step in and serve as "peacemaker". It happens…just shows they're passionate and getting after it.
4. Secondary
As I mentioned above, Harrison Smith tallied an INT. Cook and Robinson lined up at CB in the base defense with Rhodes coming in during the nickel (and Robinson sliding into the slot). It will be interesting to watch this develop during the off-season to see if Rhodes eventually overtakes Robinson in the base defense.
Vikings.com still has some of the best coverage of OTAs, even though I expect to see some more stuff from other media outlets later tonight. In the meantime, check out these videos:
Ponder Discusses Offensive Improvement
Greenway, Simpson, Floyd and Others
Erin Henderson OTA #2 Interview
So, what are you all looking to see from the players in these OTAs?


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Thursday, 6 November 2008
Happy Birthday To Me!
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- Sibylle7 November 2008 06:15
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- Anonymous7 November 2008 11:54
Happy Birthday! to you and the Carbon copy or as we say it in Sweden: Grattis på födelsedagen!!ReplyDelete
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We're all November birthdays, the whole family - 1, 15, 21, & 27 - _three_ Scorpios(!!) & a Sagitarius - only the first two of us left under the home roof.
Hope you had a spectacular day, Simon!!
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Your sketch is rather nice :)
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