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Today is a fun day for me: We're releasing Drupal Commons as a 1.0 release. Woo hoo! Time - once again - for open source to go blow the doors off another proprietary software cathedral.
Drupal Commons is Acquia's project to create an open source social business software solution for enterprises deploying a community site - either externally-facing, or for an internal community.
Most Drupalists already know that Drupal has gobs of social capabilities. In fact, Drupal is the most widely used social business platform on the web: most of the hundreds of thousands of existing Drupal websites use Drupal's social features for user-generated content, including discussion groups, content ratings, user profiles, and other social features.
Yet despite the widespread use of Drupal for social stuff on the web, I've watched with frustration every time an enterprise deploys a proprietary social business software solution. On a regular basis, the hallways at Acquia were filled with me howling "But there's nothing those solutions are doing that Drupal can't do!"
There was one important dynamic, though: the people parting with big bucks for the proprietary solutions were not the same people in enterprises who were accustomed to building corporate websites from Drupal building blocks. Thing is, typically Drupal is considered a development framework - not a packaged solution. And these buyers were primarily software users who sought something that a) arrived, fully functional, but still b) could adapt to their particular community's needs. Enterprises were calling us because of Drupal's reputation for freedom and flexibility; but they were making the proprietary software choice - with all its downside - because there wasn't a fully-functional, off-the-shelf Drupal solution for social business use.
That era comes to an end today. With the release of Drupal Commons, enterprises have an open source alternative to social business software. They are free to choose Drupal as the safer alternative, because it provides both:
- A finished product. Drupal Commons is a fully-functional social business software solution that frees your community to assemble and grow. It full-on rivals any proprietary alternative.
- Open-source freedom. Drupal Commons frees you of the limitations of proprietary APIs and roadblocking "Product Roadmaps". It lets you leverage Drupal's unrivalled flexibility, and any of the thousands of community-provided modules to connect your site with your CRM, or SSO or any other integration point needed.
You can get ahold of it two ways: either join the Commons community site at commons.acquia.com and "just use it" to see how it works, or download the code and try out some of the features we don't have enabled for you at that site (such as the ability to create new groups.)
We at Acquia believe a lot in the freedoms that come with open source. Even our name for this distribution - "Commons" - is born from the spirit of the nearby Boston Common - a space open to all for the benefit of all.
And the way I see it, Drupal Commons embodies three important freedoms:
- Freedom of assembly, giving your community members easy, familiar ways to connect with one another, and participate in your community;
- Freedom from technology limits, liberating you to extend and adapt your social community site the way you need - the very core of the open source value proposition;
- Freedom from software license costs, sparing you from spending half your community-building budget on expensive software licensing fees.
Bottom line: the web is free and ready-to-use; shouldn't your social software be, too?
The last few months our crack Acquia team has been working with customers to get Drupal Commons assembled, and we're very pleased to announce its availability. To go along with this release, Acquia has assembled a wide array of products and services to support enterprises who want their community site to be based on Drupal Commons. If you're one of these organizations, call us - we've got your back.
Drupal Commons means freedom from functional limits; you can customize to your heart's content. So if you want Drupal Commons customized for your installation, Acquia has a full range of partners who know how to adapt Drupal Commons to your specfic needs. We also have partners like Community Roundtable that can help you with the human side of getting your community running well.
And finally, we know in our DNA what huge advantages are gained by making sure all Drupal Commons code is open source, so that others can contribute. We already know there's a TON of smart Drupal contributors who want to extend Drupal Commons, and submit code patches back to get them incorporated. To you, we hope you'll jump in and use the normal Drupal way to contribute your additions to the project over time.
If you're looking to build a community site, and considering any of the proprietary social business software solutions, stop looking there and look at Drupal Commons instead. Then, Acquia is here to help you along the way; we'll help you gain the freedom to build your community, your way, with open source Drupal Commons.
Since drupal.org itself supports fully packaged Drupal distributions, will we be seeing a Drupal Commons distribution on d.o? Especially since you're asking Drupal contributors to use "the normal Drupal way" to contribute to the project.
Our goal is to maintain the distribution on drupal.org. Unfortunately, the packaging script on drupal.org needs a bit more work before it can support a distribution like Drupal Commons. Specifically we need support for external libraries. See Development Seed's blog post at http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/apr/23/more-distributio ns-drupalorg for details. We'll investigate if we can help improve those packaging scripts.
PS: thanks for all your feedback during the beta!
Btw I love the new Drupal Commons logo but it still needs to be updated on the Products & Services pages. It might also be a good idea to tag this blog post with the 'drupal commons' term.
There are still some issues for a complex installation profile to be fully hosted in drupal.org
Wim, http://drupal.org/project/com mons is the proposed installation profile.
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Baseball Sundays are just the best, aren't they? The Giants won very tidily in Arizona today, by a final of 7-3 and got loads of hits in the process. 14, to be precise. Is that the best or is that the best? After such an up-and-down couple of weeks, a game that just goes down nicely is an anomaly and a welcome one, at that. Gregor Blanco and Brett Pill were the stars of the show and Barry Zito squeezed out a quality start, too. It is games like these that make you think – or, at least, hope – that the squad can work things out. It may not be neat, but it may work. They are back at .500 with 17 wins and 17 losses and they are six games out from the first place Dodgers. Not terribly shabby for May 13th. I think we may make it out alive, after all.
I am watching the Rangers (hopefully) rip through the Angels on ESPN, so I have to get going, but I would like to leave you with this two Mother's Day stories. This first one comes from the Giants official blog about former Giant Eugenio Velez and it's a smile-worthy story.
"Pura Eugenia Vancamper named her son after herself, and they always had a particularly close bond. She knew early on that baseball had a hold on him. When she let her three children choose a toy one day at a store, her older son chose a truck, her daughter a doll and Eugenio, still just a toddler, went straight for the plastic bat and ball. She tried to talk him into a tricycle but he insisted on the bat and ball."
This story, about Texas' Alexi Ogando, is also wonderfully heart-warming.
"It took five years for that second chance to come, but it did come, and there came a day last July when Fefa Ogando was not cooking in San Pedro de Macoris. She was riding in a truck through Phoenix streets that were lined with baseball fans. Her son was on the back of the truck during the Red Carpet Parade on his way to his first All-Star Game at Chase Field, and the fans were shouting 'Ogando! Ogando!'
Fefa Ogando turned to Rangers broadcaster Eleno Ornelas and said, 'They know my son's name! I can't believe it. Thank you so much for talking me into coming here!'"
Lastly, of course, our very own Gregor Blanco dedicated his fantastic game to his mother, who passed away six years ago. Bittersweet, but mostly sweet. A very lovely day around Major League baseball. Totally talking about the mother stories, but did I also mention that Nelson Cruz just hit a grand-slam in Texas? Yes. A lovely day.
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Andy Carroll is a man under pressure at the moment; with only 1 league goal since October 2011, he's desperate for a goal, but but he's not going to help himself by cheating to try get one.
As the video below shows, Carroll dived to try and win a penalty in the first half, and was deservedly yellow carded for it.
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"It's wonderful to hear fire deaths are down," said Gene Bishop, Cleveland fire inspector.
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Bishop believes this is due to the fact that fire safety codes are better than they were 10 or 15 years ago.
Because of code improvements Cleveland is now able to reap the benefits of that.
"There is also a better public awareness. More people have smoke alarms," said Bishop.
According to the article, in 2009, the state fire marshal's office began partnering with local fire departments and community groups in an effort to install working smoke alarms in homes throughout Mississippi.
The alarms were made available through three fire prevention and safety grants received through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in an amount totaling more than $1.9 million.
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"We also have smoke detectors for the hearing impaired that include an audible alarm but also flashing lights. We even have the ability to install a bed shaker between the mattress and bedsprings," said Bishop.
Lee Teddor, fire chief of the Bolivar County Volunteer Fire Department, also said he was pleased to report there have been no fire deaths in Bolivar County.
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After Shelby Harmon's death on Oct 20, 2012, many Cleveland residents began to reach out in efforts to find "Justice for Shelby."
While a walk-a-thon was talked about last year, it wasn't until this year that it was possible.
Shelby's Voice, a non-profit organization that brings awareness to domestic violence, will host a "walk to the end of domestic violence."
The walk-a-thon will be Oct. 19 at 1 p.m. at Bear Pen Park.
"All proceeds will go to the shelters. There is one in Greenville that we've been working with and there's a new one we've been talking with in Batesville. "Unfortunately, there are no other ones any closer to the Bolivar County area," said Angie Harmon, Shelby's mom.
The cost to participate is $15 for an individual and $30 for a family or organization. Shelby's Voice T-shirts will be available at the walk-a-thon and if an individual registers and wants a T-shirt as well, the cost is $20.
Non-walkers can purchase Shelby's Voice t-shirts for $10.
"October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and we wanted to do something this year to remember and honor her and to reach out and help people that are going through the same thing that she went through," said Harmon.
Shelby Harmon, 20, died early in the morning of Oct 20, 2012, on U.S. Highway 61 N. near the Bolivar-Washington County lines.
A pedestrian at the time of the accident, Harmon was struck by multiple vehicles, including a pickup truck allegedly driven by her boyfriend, Rodney Shelton Fulgham, 23.
While Fulgham remains at the Bolivar County Regional Correctional Facility awaiting trial, Harmon's family continues to reach out to the community to spread awareness and make sure Shelby is remembered.
"We feel like we have to be proactive and do something so we just can't sit by on our hands and do nothing," said Harmon.
"Hopefully there will be many other things going on after this. We're trying to do something positive. The reason we chose the 19th is because Shelby died on the 20th.
"We chose it because that was her last day alive and we wanted to honor that—her life, not just her death," said Harmon.
Participants may register the day of the walk or go to "Justice for Shelby" Facebook page and get more information about registration and forms.


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A message posted on the door of Jaycee Foods, a wholesale food distributor at 751 Lincoln Ave., thanked customers for their business and informed them that it closed Monday.
The message cited increased costs of doing business and declining margins as reasons for the closure and also noted that it has made arrangements for another vendor to fill customers' orders.
The company's website also carried the word "Closed" across the top of its page.
A message on the answering machine at the company's business number said, "We are not taking any new business at this time. If you currently have an order with us, please leave a message after the tone."
According to the website, Jaycee Foods began doing business in 1981 as a new entity created from the former Mon Valley Provisions. The business was started by Joseph Caruso, who was joined by his daughter, Dana Caruso Slagle, in 1990.
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I have small feet (Size 3)and struggle to find sandals that are narrow fitting and don't have bulky straps. I've worn these sandal for a 1 week summer holiday and very comfortable. Although you can adjust various straps on the sandals, I found that I didn't need to adjust any of the straps which was a bonus. They look great with jeans and shorts and I would recommend them to anyone who struggle to find petite sandals that fit. The only thing I am confused about is why these sandals are called "covertible". I presume it's because you can remove the back strap. As an aside note, I'd love to see more Size 3 shoes & sandals from Merrell as most of their ranges start from a Size 4.
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Regrettably the back strap broke at the stitching on first wearing of my new sandals. I am surprised at this fault. My husband and I have usually no problem with our Merrill footwear. Disappointed with the sandals.
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Don't blame Waldorf Hotel's owner for the closure of its tenants' venue
"The mean condo developers have brutally destroyed the Waldorf, WAHH!"
Take a deep breath. Now another. Find some inner calm and let's talk about the demise of Waldorf Productions like grown-ups.
Look, I'm not here to mount a white-knighted defence of gentrification and condo developments; hell, I'm drowning in debt and harbour no delusions of ever owning property.
But let's stop ignoring the fact that a venue is a business.
No one is entitled to a venue. Businesses are under no obligation to provide people with free space.
Fact: Waldorf Productions couldn't pay its rent for a while. They asked their landlord if it would be okay if they could temporarily avoid paying rent.
Fact: When I don't pay my rent, I get evicted.
So why is this scenario any different?
Real estate is expensive, but people bemoaning the lack of venues and dynamic arts spaces in Vancouver need to start pooling their money to become owners instead of tenants.
When promoters don't have permanent spaces, they're at the mercy and whim of landlords who, at the end of the day, are there to make money. They want their fucking rent.
Why did Waldorf Productions sign a 15-year lease for space in a building surrounded by development properties? That whole stretch of East Hastings Street is being prepped by developers for condos. Was there really a reasonable expectation that a former motel lodge on a dirty stretch of Hastings would still be there in 15 years?
Richard's on Richards met with a similar fate but, let's be honest: the building was a falling down wreck with mysterious leaks coming through the bathrooms' ceilings. Am I glad the venue was replaced by condo towers? Not particularly. Do I harbour an unyielding belief that the end of Richard's on Richards was an unsurvivable tragedy? Not in the slightest.
If you build it, they will come. The clever minds at Waldorf Productions proved that handily. Yes, it's sad that their business failed. But the fiscal reasons their business failed are just as important as the always-changing nature of a major metropolitan city.
People are calling the Waldorf the lifeblood of Vancouver, but that's a tad melodramatic. How many venues have closed in this city over the years? How many will open in the future? Do we cling so desperately to closing venues because they are truly amazing places or out of nostalgia, a desperate longing for a past that is not longer here?
Culture is not static; it is a continually evolving entity. Some of the most challenging, thoughtful, creative, and meaningful art comes in the face of adversity, in the wake of destruction and change. Nothing is permanent; three years ago, the Waldorf as a reputable venue didn't even exist. And now people are wringing their hands as if the big bad wolf has come in, blown houses down, and eaten their pets.
The closures of the W2 Media Café and the Waldorf clearly show that there is a serious disconnect between culture and business in Vancouver. I see a lot of people with great ideas overextending themselves and their resources—and inevitably failing in their pursuits. It's shitty, but the fact of the matter is that you can't get something for nothing.
I'm seeing a lot of people desperate to create community and putting in untold hours into fostering that. So why are these endeavours failing? You can't keep falling back and blaming the corporate boogeymen or ineffectual politicians or the economy. Eventually you have to take a serious look at what you are doing—or not doing.
People make community, not production companies. Over 4,500 people have signed a petition asking the city not to rezone the Waldorf property, great. Now what are those thousands actually going to do?
This isn't simply a battle between developers and the poor, helpless arts community. This is a struggle to marry creativity with the business sense to capitalize upon and effectively market those ideas. This is a gulf between artists' good intentions and their ability to flourish in a money-driven culture.
So the Waldorf closed. What I want to hear is: what is the community going to do next?
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- Union president hopes Waldorf Productions can reach a deal with owner
- Waldorf Hotel operator seeks meeting with purchaser as city evaluates heritage value
- Waldorf Hotel owner and leaseholder differ over recent history of site
- Cory Monteith of Glee urges followers to sign Waldorf petition
- Don't blame Waldorf Hotel's owner for the closure of its tenants' venue
- Waldorf makes international music news
- Fearless lunacy characterized the Waldorf
- Waldorf Hotel operator pulls plug; owner's lawyer says it will be business as usual
Are you nuts?!
What is this, the 1620s? Who's the prime minister? Attlia the Hun?
The only venue that should be denied is the venue the Georgia Straight gave for your crazy rant.
Oh right, it is the 1620s, and Thomas Hobbes lives in our midst, writing op-eds for Vancouver's most popular weekly:
But what you're forgetting here is that the amount of capital that artists are able to mobilize versus the amount that developers and landowners are able to is also a "serious disconnect" ie. artist do not have access to the funds that developers do. Even if artists 'pooled' their resources, they would not be able to afford the lengthy and expensive process of rezoning a site or to have a building put into the heritage register.
And why is this scenario any different than you not being able to pay your rent? Because our politicians--who I voted for based on their promises--created a policy document that stated support for these very types of spaces. (https://votevision.ca/sites/all/files/platform-VV-2011-creative-web.pdf). They stated that making cultural spaces was a "city priority" and that they would, "Identify "creative zones" in which by-laws and zoning requirements are used to
encourage and protect creative activity." None of which seems to have happened at this point. Quite the contrary, it seems that cultural spaces (The Red Gate, W2, the Waldorf) are dropping like flies under this current government....
In this case, we need to see real leadership from our elected politicians. Vision Vancouver came out with a policy and they need to stick to it. If they really supported arts as a priority they would step in and help those without the power of capital to preserve important venues. Vancouver wants to see itself as a vibrant, "world city", but sits by as the things that make an interesting city get quashed. We'll only continue to be a seaside outdoor Disneyland until we are ready to support and fight for cultural spaces that make the city unique and dynamic.
The Waldorf is not just any motel - it is a historic East Van icon and the developer should have known this.
By the way, except for the interior renovations, the Waldorf building is a complete dump and eyesore, just like all of the buildings around it.
The Waldorf is private property. If the owners and the venue operators can't make a deal to mutual benefit, that's how it goes.
The answer lies in much higher use of land ALREADY owned by the government. There is ample space in ample buildings that now sit idle or grossly underused.
Consider the old Salvation Army / Buddhist Temple at Hastings and Gore, built in 1947. It is owned by Coastal Health. They use its 22,000 sq ft to store used filing cabinets and old dental chairs. It has a full kitchen, a 600-seat auditorium, two gymnasia, a dozen office and meeting spaces, and great public transit.
The arts uses to which it could be put are stupendous.
It's one of a dozen such properties. Those who complain about the Waldorf (also built in 1947) need to get their act together, organize an artists co-op, and acquire it.
The DTES is coming back from its long oblivion, artists already roam those streets like pigeons, and the Temple would be a great place to make and see and experience art of every sort.
Those complaining about the Waldorf need to get organized and acquire the Temple -- and a dozen other sites like it.
"Don't mourn. Organize."
I would rather have a mildly run down hotel occupying that space than yet another unaffordable condo hi-rise sitting there.
Oh well.
To clarify, however, the W2 community-owned model (still being restructured) is different than the Waldorf's private business deal.
W2 was an outcome of the Woodsquat and City and developer commitments to the community and was chosen from a democratic selection process. W2 is not a market player like the Waldorf so your comparison is not accurate. It may be that in 2-3 years Waldorf becomes reconfigured as an amenity re-emerging from a rezoning at its current location, but that's when the comparisons could start.
Woodward's community amenity was a commitment from the City to enable a $400M development and ensure community space as a community benefit. Since W2's approval back in 2006 by the community selection process, City staff and Council, it has been a struggle to get that commitment fully realised.
The NPA wanted the civic-owned space leased out as commercial real estate, then COPE/Vision was elected and community space was allowed if the community groups paid millions to complete construction... W2 survived that obstacle too. No one had bothered to finance any community-access amenity from the massive redevelopment despite all the great storytelling.
Two years late on construction, finally opening in Sept 2011, W2 then faced regular hostility from the Woodward's property management company who do not want the poor DTES residents in W2's community-access spaces which are operated as a community centre (free public bathrooms, lounge, meeting rooms etc).
Expected to pay $85,000 for strata fees to the City for this property mngt company (while little to no servicing of its ground and basement spaces takes place), W2 refused to pay these fees and communicated this fact to the City in February 2012. Rather than resolve negotiations over these fees and W2's "sustainability," the City's Legal Dept served an eviction notice for Feb 28 - a surprise to City Council and W2 alike.
W2 is not dead - and while the property mngt changed the locks - W2 is alive and well and waiting to get back in and deliver its exciting mix of innovative inclusive programming. More info here: www.creativetechnology.org or email@example.com


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Being a large fan of Arkham Horror, I am extremely excited to hear about a co-op LCG, escpecially since it lists as playable in 30 - 90 minutes. This sounds like a great way to have fun co-op play when I don't have time for Arkham Horror.
Co-Op LCG
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Posted 03 August 2010 - 07:27 AM
The only issue I have with this idea is will tournament structure be at all possible?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I do love just playing kitchen table and all, but I enjoy playing in a large gathering tournament style.
Posted 03 August 2010 - 07:31 AM
If there is a method of scoring your game you could still do a tournament, it just wouldn't be as directly competative.
Posted 03 August 2010 - 09:03 AM
One possiblity that has me intrigued is the possiblity that tournaments would be between teams of players competing to achieve the best or highest-scoring victory against a tournament scenario.
Posted 03 August 2010 - 09:07 AM
Or possibly maybe time based to see which team can defeat a common tournament scenario in the shortest length of time.
Posted 03 August 2010 - 09:25 AM
Are you kidding me? A cooperative living card game? This is ingenious! GOD, I can't wait.
Posted 03 August 2010 - 11:50 AM
I have to say I am incredibly intrigued by the co-op aspect of this game, and the length of time for a game. There is a prt of me that is worried about how this game is going to actually work, but I am sure that FFG has spent alot of time working on this game, and has worked out any problems that might have arisen. I will definitely have to give this game a shot when it comes out.
Posted 03 August 2010 - 03:32 PM
This game is going to be a first-day buy for my roommate and I. We both love how LCGs work, both like Tolkien, and both enjoy co-op games.
Posted 03 August 2010 - 03:44 PM
A brilliant concept....which will hopefully be brilliantly executed. Time will tell.
As to those who are itching for tournament play....there are plenty of other card games out there that are based around tournament play.
Posted 03 August 2010 - 03:47 PM
sure, but no reason this one can't be as well. Just would be different, which isn't a bad idea.
Posted 03 August 2010 - 04:24 PM
I think I can die for this one.
I'm not a big LotR lover, but I do like the general environment and the co-op idea. Let's see...
Posted 03 August 2010 - 11:16 PM
Singleplayer LCG constructible card game. Just what a guy whose wife doesn't like card games needs.
Posted 04 August 2010 - 01:06 AM
The co-op part is indeed intriguing.
All I know is that this is going on my must buy list for theme alone. I wanted this to be the next LCG for a while now. Thanks FFG.
Posted 04 August 2010 - 01:47 AM
I hope this game makes it to Essen 2010, it will be a must-buy for me.
Posted 04 August 2010 - 03:21 AM
I can't see myself not buying this game. Even on the half-assed chance that I'm not fond of it...
I have a new cult of Arkham Horror friends (who had all given up gaming) that have been reawakened by the appeal of cooperative gaming. Defeat the GAME, not each other. Most of them aren't what I would call Lovecraft fans, and they still love Arkham Horror. However, many of them ARE Tolkein fans. If THEY are going to love this more than I do, I will totally take a chance on buying this game.
And I was just daydreaming about the possibilities since I read the Death Angel rules...
Posted 04 August 2010 - 03:24 AM
how much is this like the original lord of the rings collectible card game??? yes it was cooperative too..
Posted 04 August 2010 - 05:25 AM
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how much is this like the original lord of the rings collectible card game??? yes it was cooperative too..
I used to play the old ICE Middle Earth game and that wasn't co-op and I never saw a co-op game if the Decipher LotR game either.
Posted 04 August 2010 - 06:17 AM
Deciphers and ME ccg were both competitive games, I know I own both of them.
I hope this one draws from the books more than those movies.
Posted 04 August 2010 - 06:36 AM
Dear FFG:
I've come to the conclusion it would just be easier to send you my actual credit card. That way, you could just keep it on the desk and run it through the machine for every new release. I see it as a great time-saver.
Posted 04 August 2010 - 06:46 AM
Just when you think it can't get any better....it does! FFG is just an unbelievable gaming company. I had totally given up on buying card games...it always turned in to an "arms race" with my friends resulting in the spending of massive amounts of money. The LCG format has solved that problem. First, it's Warhammer Invasion, now this, a solitaire, co-op LCG. There is no doubt in my mind that FFG has the brightest and best minds in the gaming business today. Keep it up!
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The original boat is a Santana 22 that has served us well for the last year. But we've outgrown it in a lot of ways. The problem is that we just love it so much so we're not going to get rid of it. The Santana Story Boat is rigged just right for sailing safely and Single-Handed around the bay. This boat is going to be moved into being the boat that I use to raise awareness for the campaign in (with our new giant flag). I also think it's going to be used for the trips where I can't find any crew to come out with me on a book seeding weekend. Plus, while we fix up this new boat, there will be times where we won't be able to sail it. In which case, this little boat is going to be perfect. But enough about the Santana, let's talk about the new boat.
The new boat is a Coronado 35. We bought it about a month ago, but wanted to take it out for some test sails and fix it up a bit before we announced its existence and showed pictures. The best thing about this boat is that it's HUGE. Because it has a center cockpit, it has two private cabins so we can take more people comfortably on our trips. There is bunch of storage on this boat so we can deliver even more books and finally start bringing enough to install our Guerrilla Libraries too. In fact, it's almost big enough to host an entire library on the boat itself (almost).
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We're all trying to help with a possible diagnosis.Correct, picture is always 100% crystal clear.
Yes it occurs again with DVR at same exact spot.
DirecTV has sent a tech 5 times and he checked the ground and all good according to him. I'm no expert.
DirecTV has known about my issue for 3 months and they have known from day 1 that all TVs are affected.
The tech is case management certified. Take it for what's it worth.
DirecTV has stated they will NOT be sending a tech again. That was from a supervisor in case management.
I have no wall plates and I have no clue what a barrel connector is.
@Carl Spock That what is driving me crazy about this. And I'm not alone.
Others are reporting it at the DirecTV forums that litzdog911 linked to before.
The added information seems to reinforce that the source of your problem is NOT device-specific, rather, it is something in the "infrastructure" of your setup. It becomes a process-of-elimination road to the answer.
Since you indicated the techs were out multiple times...it's safe to assume that your Dish and multi-switches were checked one or more times as well.
The only other remaining variables are your audio system (which you indicate does not have this issue for Blu Ray sourced content) or your home cabling. The cabling is the only remaining item unique to the DirecTV source in contrast to a Blu Ray source. A simple short somewhere could corrupt the signal itself, but the audio and video would likely be affected.
Only the cables to and from the HD DVR to the audio system or audio system to the HDTV remain, and it appears those have been checked thoroughly.
So eliminating all of those possibilities based on your reports...I'm out of ideas at this point.


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Gorgeous snowy kit! Love how the snow glistens and is all sparkly.
We have LOTS of snow here in Western Canada....love it with warm temperatures....hate it when it gets to below minus 10 degrees celsius!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thirty-seven hours after the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, owner Rocky Wirtz rolled through the Hyatt Regency doors with an orange tie, a yellow shirt and a smile that betrayed none of his exhaustion.
Since Monday's win in Boston, Wirtz (an investor in Wrapports, the parent company of Grid and the Sun-Times) said he's gotten little sleep and more congratulatory messages than he knows what to do with — a "couple hundred" texts and 150 emails (the senders of many are a mystery, he admits).
Six months after a prolonged lockout, Wirtz again has the hottest sports brand in town. And with fans and advertisers jumping at the chance to be associated with a winner, business has never been better.
That demand is being driven in large part by the same type of raucous young fans who filled city streets after the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup-clinching victory. Wirtz said the Hawks have roped in the hard-to-understand millennial demographic without really knowing how.
"They're discovering it, they're talking about it, they're watching it together, they're meeting at their favorite watering holes to view it and to celebrate," he said. "It's part of the whole lifestyle of what younger people are looking for."
The team has courted other nontraditional hockey demographics. Wirtz said the Hawks have a 40 percent female fan base and plan to do more to speak to that group.
"We're not properly marketing to enough women. Many times advertisers are looking at this as a '21- to 54-year-old male,' " he said. "We've gone a long way in knowing who our fan is, but we have a long way to go still."
And just as winning smoothed things over with fans who were demanding an apology after the lockout, it's likely to make next season's 16 percent ticket hike an easier pill to swallow. "We had the second-lowest ticket price in the league in '07," he said. "We knew we had to raise ticket prices but we had to do it very carefully. So much of our sport is derived from local revenue, unlike other sports that have very lucrative TV packages."
Wirtz is fine with one group getting squeezed out by higher ticket prices — the brawlers, whom he said he's seen fewer of as ticket prices have risen and the makeup of the crowd has shifted from casual viewer to more upscale, serious fan.
"As the tickets are more valuable, our fan behavior is becoming better," he said. "When the tickets didn't have the same value or they didn't look at the team as much, many times it would be an element of people who wanted to come to the United Center just to cause trouble and get in fights. We don't have that."
As for next season and beyond, Wirtz said the company has a commitment to something he calls the "Blackhawk culture."
Nurturing that culture has already yielded two Cups and what Wirtz sees as parity with the Bears, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox. "We [were] always fifth man on the totem pole as far as other sports," he said "I think we're looked at in the same light now."
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Joined: 02 Jun 2008
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:31 pm
Post subject: Ammon gets discin'!
Announcing a new concept in disc golf. Play, then ride your bike or walk or run, then play some more.
nine-hole, recreation skill level
course has been installed in McCowin Park on Midway Street in Ammon. (Sunnyside, past Hillcrest HS, about a quarter mile, then left on Midway, 1/2 mile to McCowin Park) The baskets and signs are in. Concrete tee pads and a few landscaped elements (a crater, a couple berms, a bunker or two) will be installed in the spring. Park between the tennis courts and the pool. First tee is just to the south of that lot.
For all you big arms, leave your drivers in your bag and take an approach disc and a putter and practice your short game skills.
Just a mile away, in Peterson Park, at the end of Samuels Street (1/2 block north of Sunnyside and Ammon Road 4-way stop), there's a new
. This has three Discatchers, Red, White, and Blue, and three tees from which you can play nine different combinations. Some shots are blind, some are risky for rollaways. A good test of your accuracy and finesse.
was finished yesterday at Hillcrest High School. This one has Red, White, and Black Discatchers, and it's in the flood control basin to the southwest side of the campus. Enter through the pass gate above the softball field and walk to the south on top of the hill to get to the first tee. This course has playing distances from 95 to 340 feet. The hillsides of the basin introduce some interesting putting situations. In the spring there will be some landscaping and tee planting to introduce some risk and reward elements.
A third
will be installed in Spring 2009 at another small park in Ammon. The three Micro's and the McCowin Park course will then be linked by marked and signed bike paths, so you can play 18 (or more) and get some exercise at the same time. The likely distance for the loop will be around 3.5 miles.
Thanks to the City of Ammon and Hillcrest HS for bringing disc golf to their community.
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Joined: 22 Aug 2006
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:51 pm
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So, ones a really short 9 hole course and then there are 3 3-hole courses within like 2 miles?
I dont get it.
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Joined: 14 Mar 2008
Posts: 348
Location: Poky
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:03 pm
Post subject: This sounds awesome
Mook - that 's what it sounds like.
I think this sounds like a great idea - I'm inclined to strap a bike to the roof rack and head to Ammon to try this out. Get in some disc golf and also a bit of additional exercise. Better than a bike, it'd be easy to take a roc (or a buzz, for all you discrafters), play a course, then run to the next course. It sounds like this would be a perfect candidate for some kind of biathalon - where you play golf for low score and try to complete X number of holes in the shortest amount of time. Then, add golf score and time and lowest total wins. It's an idea....
I could see where a configuration like this promotes both the sport and exercise. I think it's great!
Way to think outside the box!
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Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 34
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:26 pm
Post subject: More on Ammon.
mook wrote:
So, ones a really short 9 hole course and then there are 3 3-hole courses within like 2 miles?
I dont get it.
I thought it was pretty well explained. The city of Ammon wanted disc golf. They don't currently have the parkland to support 18-holes, nor anything longer or more complex than a true recreational level course. So, we gave them:
9 holes (Recreational skill level, call it short if you want) in McCowin Park.
3 holes in Peterson Park
3 holes at Hillcrest HS.
3 holes
to be installed in the spring
at a third location.
Once all are in, there will be a striped bike lane and signs to get you from one to the next to the next. Approximate 3.5 mile loop. The 3-hole MicroCourses can stand alone as 9-hole challenges by playing each basket from each tee.
The thought is to: 1) introduce disc golf to the Ammon area; 2) take some recreational pressure off of Freeman Park; 3) integrate other recreation with disc golf (bike, walk, run).
Also, the schools in the Ammon area (Hillcrest, Sandhill Jr. High, and three elementary schools) will be starting to teach disc golf as part of the PE curriculum, through EDGE. There's already talk about a home to home disc golf league between Hillcrest (playing at Freeman) and Soda Springs. Other schools are discussing this opportunity too.
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:04 am
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So, can we abreviate this from bike and disc golf to bfrolf or disc gafiking?
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:09 am
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I went out to look at the McCowin Park course today. I didn't look at the "micro-courses." The idea of playing a micro course has the same appeal as wearing a micro brief to me. This is Idaho- if anything we have empty spaces. A more developed/urban area would need micro courses.
Respect to Jon for all that he does and I am a small pissant in the DG universe, but I had to laugh and cry when I saw the McCowin Park set up. I went in with the idea that it would be a rec course, like Ross, Blackfoot, Stebbins are rec courses. McCowin is to DG like miniature golf is to ball golf. When you get to the park, you see 3-4 of the 9 holes all clustered in the center of a small part of the park. There is a 333' hole, but everything else is about 200' or less. I laughed because it was weird to see a bunch of brand new baskets clustered together like giant yellow mushrooms.
I wonder if Jon was under some type of area restriction, because McCowin park is pretty big. I cried because some nice signs and brand new baskets were all jammed into a tiny little space that I wouldn't even drive across town (and I'm as big a DG junkie as they get) to play again. All this investment by the city and I suspect the course will appeal to a very narrow range of golfers and they will quickly outgrow the course.
McCowin Park seems to have a ton of potential. Before the tee pads are poured, it would be great if they would consider a different layout. I look at what Shelly did with North Bingham County Park as a great example that of what can be done. Lots of 250'-280' foot holes, a couple longer layouts and presto, a course that has broad appeal.
Maybe I am spoiled living so close to Freeman and I support the idea of growing golf, but don't take your buzz/roc to McCowin. Take a putter and a teebird (for hole 3 only) or better yet, unless this is the first time you have every played and just got a new Frisbee with your happy meal, go to Freeman. I have never had to wait to get on @ Freeman (I don't know what "pressure" exists there). If this was an "EDGE" course at an elementary school, then o.k., I get it, but it is in an everloving PUBLIC park with lots of space, most of it wasted.
Jon, I love the Soda course and I have a good time at Blackfoot and even @ Stebbins, but I will not be visiting McCowin again with it's current layout.
This is the longest post I have ever made. And for what it is worth, a poll on this forum voted that I am condemned to hell.
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Joined: 02 Jun 2008
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:47 am
Post subject: Explaining McCowin...not that i should have to.
While I respect your right to an opinion, Kerry (and everyone else that will chime in on this), you don't know what the master plan for the park is. While it looks like there is a lot of space there now, within five years there will be a larger swimming pool, a senior citizens center, a realignment of the athletic fields, yada yada yada. I was specifically asked by the client (City of Ammon) to
design a short, beginner friendly course in that corner of the park.
If you will read my initial post, there will be several major landscaping features built in the spring that will 'trick up' some of the holes. Berms, bunkers, a crater (hole 6 at Blackfoot), raised tees, and at least one raised green.
As to 'pressure on Freeman,' you've been lucky not to have to follow a group of a dozen or more teens playing date golf with promotional frisbees, clueless as to courtesy or what the game's about. We will be promoting McCowin as a place for those groups to go.
I also stated in the first post that
big arms should leave their drivers in the car and play with a midrange and putter
. Or better yet, if the course isnt to your liking...stay away.
One thing I've learned while designing and buliding courses is that the client get to choose what kind of course they want...and then you work with them to make sure it's safe, fun for the intended audience, and economical.
As to North Bingham Park, that course is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Two holes play very near an unguarded playground (one throws right at the thing), several holes have tees in line with the fairways of previous holes, and two holes play across roads or parking lots. But the two Eagle Scout candidates that did the thing convinced the county that they were experts and wouldnt take advice from anyone. C'est la vie.
When the McCowin course is completed in the spring, it will be a good, safe, challenging course for young and beginning players
. It was never intended to be a tournament course, a course for advanced players, nor to satisfy everyone that hucks a disc in southeast Idaho.
Since you've not seen the Peterson Park MicroCourse, I won't try to convince you to give it a shot. But for those less jaded and more open to something new, there are several challenges there that you might like to try. The portion of the park used is quite hilly and there are some interesting problems awaiting.
As big as the city land area is, Ammon is NOT rife with large park areas. It is primarily farm land with no trees or terrain. The Parks Director specifically wanted the citizens of the city to get to experience disc golf, within the current park system. He's also building bocce courts, a croquet lawn, and other less traditional recreation opportunites. If significant park land opens up, he is committed to building a quality 18 hole disc golf course, but that is several years off.
Why I feel I have to defend this project, I don't know. But there you go. I'll not discuss it further. Play it if you want, stay away if you want.
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:47 pm
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Jon, I am just concerned why the disc golf community in the area can't have 2 cents in on the course design before you install them. I just fear that these courses have far better quantity than they do quality. I believe in EDGE. I think it will build a great future for disc golf to embed it into the school system. Where I get concerned is when its more than the school's funds that are used. Then you're effecting the community and why can't we, the community, have a say on what kind of course we want? Why can't we even know beforehand that you are designing and installing a course? Maybe this isn't your intention, but it feels like to me that you are setting us, the disc golfers, aside.
I have been on both sides of the issue. The player and the designer. Ross Park was played many times before installation, and changes were made multiple times to my original design. Now, on a clear day, the entire course is full of golfers. Lava Hot Springs courses are being installed this weekend. I didn't come out and say, "Here's your disc golf course!". I allowed almost 30 disc golfers to come and play it. Due to that fact, there was a hole removed and many other changes made that will make them far better courses. We can't just stick baskets up on any piece of grass or dirt sitting on the side of the road.
I don't mean to be rude and I don't stand alone on this. Thank you for your disc golf enthusiasm. I am not asking you to stop installing courses. We just want a say. I am really concerned. This is not the only course you installed that we have felt this way about.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:13 am
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Posts: 258
Location: Pocatello ID
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:26 am
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Wow!!! And people on here were telling me my posts were bad for the club........
I do think this is funny! Sorry but after I have read that I cant belive all the politics in "The Disc Golf Area"! I though it was just a game... Oh and Brandon does a great job on all the tornys and events he has put together. I will be sad If you go Brandon, because I belive no one will step up to the plate to take over.
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Location: Pokytella
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:44 pm
Post subject: wow too
well, I'm glad I got to read that thread before it went away.
crazy stuff.
My summary:
Jon does good stuff for the PDGA and EDGE. Installing courses involves working with a lot of entities whose interests and goals do not always match. Budgets, land and time are limited things and fought over tooth and nail. I'm sure these projects cost Jon money, all things considered. Jon is passionate about the sport and a force to be reckoned with in the PDGA.
Brandon runs great tournaments, at a loss, and is the dirving force behind an awesome local disc golf community. His tournaments are well run and promoted in a fair way.
No one else wants his job because no one could do it better (or at all the same)
Blake wrote a funny response
there are some misunderstandings and disagreements about disc coursres, setup tournaments and finances. BUT we all throw the same discs at a bunch of chains for fun. I can't understnad why there wasn't any mention of this project earlier. the club has considerable resouces and has been very successful in getting good courses up and running so far.
I will withhold judgement on the ammon project for now, maybe forever if I was diplomatic.
I have long thought about putting a basket in each of 9 small parks and setting up a "course" that you had to bike/run between holes and make a day of it. the baskets would be great practice for those who live nearby.
Freckleton park by the rec center has the sweetest hole possibility (2 actually) and I wouldn't mind having a basket 50 feet from my lunch spot. It will never happen, but the idea is valid for a traveling course.
There are now more baskets permanantly in place in Idaho. Yeah. If it was truly a terrible idea I'm sure Jon would have had the compass to say "Ammon, thanks but this is not going to work. let's consider..."
My suggestion for moving forward on the ammon stuff is simple enough. if the course is too easy/short for you make it harder. Scott Wardian made up Ross Park Black, Kerry plays Freeman Gold. Add you own mandos, OB, throw all rollers. throw all tomahawk. learn to forehand approach (Or backhand if you are me).
I haven't seen it but I cannot imagine a course bad enough that I wouldn't play it if it was convenient to the area I was in and I had time to spare. I'm a big fan of micro briefs.
Can I get better and have fun at this course? If the answer is yes than I am in.
When Ross park was going in I got really frustrated with the process at times. No one was ever totally happy, a few people thought it was awful. Some people even still complain about portable baskets. but as has been pointed out: it is constantly full, holds great tournaments and has grown the sport tremendously in poky. Time will tell with Ammon.
Jon and I still have our own misunderstadings about EDGE in my program, but I can sympathize with him as the coordiantor for this. it sucks when you try your best and it isn't good enough.
If you are still reading this you either really care about disc or do not want to get back to work.
Look at the size of that pill, I can't swallow that.
Good news everybody! it's a suppository.
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Joined: 05 Sep 2006
Posts: 148
Location: Spokane Valley, WA
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:21 am
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Wow, I read through everyone's response and this is an interesting topic. If I lived in Ammon, and thank God I don't
, I would love to live near one of those parks. I love the idea of a disc golfing-exercising loop, even if it does cater to beginner players. To be able to go out and play any combination of the holes at one park (and with only 1 or 2 discs) then be able to run to another park and do it again and again and be able to play disc golf and get in a jog, or a long walk, or an easy bike ride would be great. That would strike a great balance for my wife and I since I am always trying to get her to play more disc golf and she is always trying to get me to run more. What a great compromise
I like it. I think this is a good discussion from everyone since everyone is maintaining civility and stating their opinion in a constructive manner whether they like it or not. I like the idea and brought it up on the North Idaho Recreators Disc Golf Club forum to see what others thought, with a link to this topic. A very interesting idea. Don't forget courses that target beginners are just as important to the sport as those that target experienced players. I do understand the thoughts of others wanting to be kept in the loop to lend a hand to make a great course. That is what we did with Cherry Hill in CDA, we made the best course we could with the land we had because we got all the opinions that we could. Those who couldn't preview the course and form an opinion when it counted didn't help the process and are now the ones complaining about it.
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I and a small and growing group are looking into starting a Chapter in Southern WV. Area may include Mercer, Raleigh, Monroe, Fayette and Greenbrier Counties. This will, of course, be coordinated by The WV Council. We are just beginning to plan for the initial meeting. Time and date TBD, location... [ READ MORE... ]
Posted in Seneca Creek, West Virginia - 9WV
By TU's Potomac Headwaters Home Rivers Initiative Coordinator - Dustin Wichterman
Seneca Creek……….These words role off of an angler's tongue with pleasure and desire. One of four intact native brook trout streams in West Virginia (Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture Conservation Strategy, 2006),... [ READ MORE... ]


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Simon Cowell to Become Muslim?
April 15, 2010 by TMO · 3 Comments
Adapted by TMO from a report in Sabili, an Indonesian newspaper
New news from America, that artist and tycoon Simon Cowell might convert to Islam.
The rumor is that before marrying his girlfriend Mezhgan Hussainy he wants to convert to Islam according to a report.
The Hussainy family is reportedly very Westernized, but nobody in their families ever married a non-Muslim – and they do not want their youngest daughter to be the first to do that, as quoted from 'digitalspy.co.uk from sources Hussainy parents, Mary and Sayed. Hussainy's sister-in-law, a woman named Erlene Garcia, also converted to Islam before marrying Mezhgan's brother Zahid.
According to friends, 'Mezhgan was very reluctant to ask Simon to Islam … because she knows how to be a controversial news will be.
"Simon may be a great man in England, but there are other people in the Afghan community living in Los Angeles whose parents are more afraid to offend. This will bring shame on their families and their communities if Simon does not respect their beliefs with Islam, "says a friend of Mezhgan's. (voai / SBL)