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A record number of travelers are expected to take to the skies this summer thanks to a rebounding economy.
A record number of travelers are expected to take to the skies this summer thanks to a rebounding economy.
U.S. stocks ended little changed Friday, with the S&P 500 closing at a record high for a second straight session after a ream of weak economic data.
From homes to cars and from boats to private jets there are many platforms designed to let owners share the pricey assets with others for profit.
Don't let fees added on to your basic hotel rate take you by surprise. Here's how to avoid, waive or mitigate them.
Thanks to lower gas prices and an improved job market, AAA expects more than 37 million Americans to travel for Memorial Day, the most since 2005.
Skiplagged is shaking up online airfare booking in a way that's giving the travel industry fits. The deals are great, but not perfect. Here's why.
Universal Orlando unveils the latest addition to its collection of theme park experiences. Skull Island: Reign of Kong -- set to open next summer.
When you rent a car, don't make the mistake of paying more than you intend to -- or more than you should.
Uber must defend against a lawsuit accusing the ride-sharing service of discriminating against blind people by refusing to allow guide dogs, a judge says.
The Internet giant supercharges its Google Flights engine into a tough competitor for online travel business.
Think flying is getting worse? A pair of university researchers who track the airline business say it's a fact.
Want to cut vacation costs and improve the experience? I have favorite websites and some offbeat ideas, including an ice chest and practical souvenirs.
I read that racking up credit card points to score free airfare and hotel stays was quite easy, thanks to a strategy called churning. And I proved it.
How to keep your cash and credit cards out of the hands of thieves, wherever you're traveling. It starts with some phone calls. Really.
The drive to keep repeat customers coming is creating a loyalty program escalation in the hotel business, just ahead of the busy summer travel season.
The summer vacation season is coming, and you want to go somewhere nice. But will they be nice to you?
To use the strong dollar, travelers should consider prepaying itinerary items, getting a foreign-currency bank account and using the right credit card.
Ryanair has retracted its statement about offering flights to Europe for as little as $15. The reason for the change of heart why is anybody's guess.
Big online travel agencies are losing customers to sweeter deals offered by hotels and airlines. Car rentals are a different story.
New York to London for $15? That could soon be a reality, at least if Monday's news concerning Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is to be believed.
Most of America's top wilderness and historical destinations offer hookups or lodging to volunteers, creating a rewarding and cheap travel opportunity.
Disney's Hollywood Studios is going in for an extreme makeover, probably starting with its name and replacing all those closed attractions.
As the sharing economy grows, piggyback services assist Airbnb hosts handle financial and booking logistics
Amazon is quietly starting to sell rooms at independent hotels, and the deals can be stunning. Orbitz and Expedia, watch out.
The key draw is that the United States offers birthright citizenship -- and the mothers can apply for a green card once their American child turns 21.
Hotel prices are highest in California, Florida and Hawaii, according to a new hotel price index. The cheapest are in Georgia and Alabama.
Timeshares are alluring, yes, but beware: There is much more to these property transactions than meets the eye.
Universal is building more hotels next to its theme parks, and a new water park is planned as well. What is Disney World doing to improve?
Amusement parks are doing great these days - unless you happen to be SeaWorld Entertainment, which posted another disappointing quarterly report Thursday.
Staples' merger with Office Depot, Expedia's purchase of Orbitz and the Dollar Tree-Family Dollar buyout suggest this year will be big for big deals.
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A lot of research has been done on the healing aspects of music, listening for most of us and some in the playing. I am a great lover of music but playing music doesn't seem to be where I'm at.
While I don't play the piano or any other instrument, I do play with color and paint. It's an inexpensive diversion and you can start for under $20 and the benefits can be unbelievable. Painting can help a person on many different levels. In the world of psychology, it has been a great revealer of what's bothering a person on the inside. Bringing up those emotions may even help relieve their power over them. Often the choice of colors can be revealing not only to the doctor but mainly to the patient.
As of late, there has been some research as to the effect it has over chronic pain. While in the doctor's waiting room, I have read several articles of pain reduction in cancer patients. While it's not a pain pill or shot, it has helped divert the patient's attention away from the pain. I personally know this to be true. When I'm painting or teaching art, I need less pain pills and actually when I am involved in these acts, I need none at all. The only problem is that at some point you have to stop painting and teaching and pain seems to let itself then be known.
As for psychological problems, I know of few people that say they haven't experienced the dark side of depression at some time during their life. So far, I have been able to paint my way out of this darkness, even so, it's not an overnight process. Sometimes it has taken months and the healing process has been slow. Some need more help than this diversion can do and seeking help is no sin. In fact, if sin is involved, it's not seeking help especially when it's available. I have always believed that seek and ye shall find, knock and it will be opened to you. The Biblical passage never said that the results would be immediate. Life doesn't seem to play out that way. Art can help with both physical and emotional problems. It is not a cure but a help to cure or alleviate the power of a crisis.
The current show at the Gallery on High in London is a good example of the healing power of art and how it changes with age and experience. The benefits of creating art are both short and long term. You paint because…you painted this subject because…you quit when…the benefits you now experience are.
Harry Croghan is an artist, photographer, writer and teacher. He can be reached at (740) 852-4906 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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the current weather presents itself with a lot of clouds… not only a nice relief from the burning sun, but they also bring spectacular sunsets..
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Many Mississippi State football fans possibly did not expect a 6-6 record coming during the 2013 football season.
Possibly these fans were still inebriated by the success of baseball Head Coach John Cohen and the Diamond Dogs finishing second place to the UCLA Bruins at the College World Series in June, or maybe the eight-win season in 2012 gave the Bulldog faithful a new outlook on life. Either way, not many State fans thought the Bulldogs would be fighting for bowl eligibility in the final two weeks of the regular season.


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Tubing on Salt River, Phoenix
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Imagine peacefully floating down a slow moving river in an innertube. That is the experience you have when tubing the salt river. The Tonto National Forest allows this activity as a way to raise money to maintain the park.
On quiet days (non-holiday Monday through Friday), tubing is an extremely relaxing experience. I have seen wild horses and wild pigs on the banks of the river.
On holidays (especially labor day and 4th of July) tubing turns into spring break. The water is full of drunk people and girls are flashing. It is more of a college kids atmosphere.
A bus picks you up from the parking lot and takes you to the launch site. Another bus picks you up from the arrival site.
You can (and MUST) bring water. Actually you can bring anything you want to drive (no glass bottles) and people rent an extra tube, tie it to their tube and put a cooler in it. They sell coolers that fit right in a tube or devise your own. People also like to tie their tubes together, and bungie cords are a great way to do this.
When the temperature is under 100, the water is surprisingly cold. Also, some years the water level is so low that you are sometimes scraping the bottom. When I went in 1998 that happened a few times (and the water was freezing), however, when I went this year (2004), the water was deep and nice and warm.
Make sure you are wearing sunblock (sp 30+) and bring it with you and keep applying it. This is 3 hours in the hot, arizona sun.
If you enjoy the outdoors and want to float through the desert give tubing a try.
They only take cash.
Tubing down the river is a great way to enjoy a hot sunny day in Phoenix as you have the water to cool down. Unfortunately so many other people have the same idea. The tubes cost about 10 dollars to rent including the bus ride to the drop off point. Depending on the amount of water you will be dropped off at a near or far away stop. If the flow is slow like it was when we went you will be dropped off at the near point and it will take about 4 hrs to get back. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO REMEMBER TO DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND TO WEAR LOTS AND LOTS OF SUNTAN LOTION.
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We have a prod and a test Win2003 servers running SQL 2000 SP4. I backup the prod db to the local HD and then file copy it to the test server then on the test server I restore the db. This has worked great until the last three weeks. Has anyone ran accross this issue? It doesn't make the job fail nor does it write anything to the server log as an error.
I backup/copy a 19 gig db file just fine, the one that fails is 97 gig.
Executed as user: xxxxxx\xxxxxx. G:\bcksql\xxxprod_db.BAKFile creation error - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service. 0 File(s) copied. Process Exit Code 0. The step succeeded.
This is the command:
xcopy G:\bcksql\xxxprod_db.BAK \\servertest\H$\bcksql\ /d /c /y
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28 Jan 2010 05:38 AM
That is what I thought. I already rebooted the non prod server and ran the process again and it failed. Do you think the lack of resources is on the production or non-production server?
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29 Jan 2010 09:34 AM
Thanks I will further seach on this. As a temp workaround I simply am backing up the db to a share on the non-prod server and that gets the job done.
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31 Jan 2010 03:22 PM
Are you sure it is not a problem with free space on the test server the backups are going to? How is the netowrk connectivity between the servers? You could try backing up directly to a network share you create on the test server. That will cut out one manual step for you to have to take care of.
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Gardeners make plans with no certainty in forecast
MILWAUKEE There's no question that Eric Ciula picked a bad year to get into a competition for growing the biggest tomato. The worst U.S. drought in decades was gripping two-thirds of the nation, and many gardeners were spending hours watering just to keep their plants alive.
But Ciula won his family's 2012 contest with an heirloom tomato that was just shy of 2 pounds. He credits his soil preparation and some experimental growing techniques, but he admits it was largely "dumb luck."
"I didn't know we were going to have a drought, I was just trying something new," Ciula said.
April is a planning month for gardeners throughout the middle of the country, and many are trying to figure out what to do amid rapidly shifting weather conditions. Ciula himself spent a recent rainy day going through his notes, researching tomato and pepper varieties and combing gardening blogs for new ideas.
A cold spring and recent rain helped break the drought in parts of Wisconsin and to the east, but areas west remain dry. More rain than usual is expected this spring, said Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center. But he noted last year's drought sneaked up on everyone, emerging over a couple of weeks in June.
With nothing certain, one expert said there a few things gardeners can do to foster success - regardless of weather conditions.
Mulch works wonders, according to Tim Johnson, director of horticulture at the Chicago Botanic Garden. It helps keep moisture in the soil, protects plants from extreme temperature, helps control weeds and, as it breaks down, improves the soil. Johnson said shredded hardwood bark mulch is commonly used for flower gardens where he lives, but for vegetable gardens, he would use leaf mulch or apply compost.
Many gardeners water each day, but Johnson recommends saving time by doing it once a week with a big drink. Perennials, trees and shrubs can be starved of water a bit without permanent damage, but gardeners need to watch for drooping or discolored leaves.
"If you have a perennial garden or a shrub garden, and things are starting to brown up, you probably should water to save them," Johnson said.
Jean Roach, a 71-year-old retiree from Joliet, Ill., took that approach last summer with her perennials. She gave extra water to a few new plants she was trying to get established, but unless the older ones started wilting, she left them alone.
"They survived," she said, noting that her Lenten roses have already bloomed. "Thank God. Perennials are just so hardy."
Vegetable gardens, however, are another story. Johnson said those need more water and on a regular basis. To help, till in compost to add nutrients and break up the soil so roots can more easily push down to moisture below the surface.
Ciula, a 40-year-old civil engineer, said he put peat moss into his 12-by-22-foot garden in Cottage Grove, Wis., and then layered mulch and straw on top to help hold in moisture. He let his tomatoes - the focus of the family competition - get 6 or 7 feet tall, but only caged them to 4 feet. The tops flowed over and created a canopy that he believes also helped hold in moisture.


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I started the thread only about size and safety. ...
I also did not bring up that when we finished up in Mexico, we came home going to weather at 55 MPH.
And last March, we towed to Napa Valley for some wine, and cruised the San Francisco Bay & Delta for months. Saw the Americas Cup boats on the water. Then towed back here to Az. Now planning to tow to the New Orleans area next Feb. for Mardi Gras, then cruise on over to the Tampa Fla. area and haul back out just at hurricane season.
Do that with a 50 footer!
And what as that to do with being a bigger boat safer than a smaller boat?
Nobody says that your boat is not the perfect boat for you and it is perfectly safe for the type of cruising you do. If we were considering a circumnavigation crossing the big austral desert at 50º latitude I would say that it was not a safe boat to do that and a bigger boat would be required if safety was taken seriously. Seaworthiness is not an absolute term. A boat can be seaworthy in some conditions but not in others.
As a good example in what regards size and seaworthiness regarding the same type of boat sailed by a solo sailor we can look at solo racing boats and to a mini-class racer (22ft) a 40class racer and an Open60 class racer. All those boats are very seaworthy boats for its size and all designed to be solo sailed and they are so easy regarding an experienced sailor that even a 60ft boat can be sailed solo non stop around the planet.
If you said to a mini racer skipper that is boat is as seaworthy as an Open 60 boat he would think you were not serious about the question and that you were joking. There is no possible comparison.
Even in what regards 40class racers (hugely seaworthy for a 40ft boat) I remember that, when the boat was new, the sailors and designers had some doubts about if the boat would be suited to race solo on high latitudes. Now, after having tried they consider it is and the boat is also used on circumnavigation races but contrary to the Open 60's if there is a big storm going on they delay the departure to increase the safety margin.
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Further Notes on Recording "Talkin bout the Weather"
My article in the March 2005 issue of Linux Journal, "Introducing Ardour", left out some details regarding the production of "Talkin' 'Bout The Weather". That's the song I composed as an example for my article. These notes are intended to fill out that article, so please refer to it if you don't understand what I'm talking about here.
In addition to the equipment listed in the article, I used a Shure SM58 microphone for recording my vocal and harmonical parts. The strummed guitar was a cheap Alvarez electroacoustic. I didn't care for its sound when recorded directly--that is, plugged into the mixer--so I recorded it instead with a Yamaha MZ160s mic. The Tascam TM-D1000 mixer was a godsend. Thanks to its digital I/O, I recorded all acoustic parts from the mixer into the digital ports of the Delta-66 audio interface. The final stereo mix was routed to the Yamaha DMP11 digital mixer and out through a QCS power amplifier to a pair of good near-field studio monitor speakers. As expected, the recorded sound was clean and clear.
I wrote the simple bass and drum parts in Voyetra's Sequencer Plus Gold (Seq+), a MIDI software sequencer dating from the late 1980s. Its written for MS-DOS and without graphics other than the extended ASCII character set. So why would I want to use such software in my otherwise modern Linux audio arsenal? Well, I've used Seq+ for most of my MIDI sequencing for almost 20 years, so I know the program well and can work with it rapidly. Of course, I'm not running it under MS-DOS anymore, I'm running it under DOSemu, a DOS environment emulator for Linux. Thanks to the care and talents of the DOSemu developers, the emulator supports the basic SoundBlaster audio services, including MIDI I/O, and runs well with the emulator. Seq+ was a highly successful commercial product into the middle 1990s, but eventually production and support were discontinued. Recently Voyetra decided to give away Seq+ as freeware, not software libre. Actually, the company is giving away almost all of their MS-DOS MIDI software, without support, but even the proprietary MIDI interface drivers are now giveaways.
As I wrote in my article, I wrote some of the songs tracks originally as MIDI tracks and later converted them to WAV format audio files. Here's the magic formula I used with TiMidity:
timidity -Ow filename.mid -o new-filename.wav
Actually I used -OwM to create mono tracks for everything except the drums, for no other reason than I thought the drums would sound better in stereo. I did things this way because I could quickly reconfigure TiMidity for different sets of soundfonts, giving me more flexibility with my sound combinations. Here are the contents of my ~/timidity.cfg file:
soundfont /home/dlphilp/soundfonts/FluidR3_20GM.sf2 # soundfont /home/dlphilp/soundfonts/PC51f.sf2 # soundfont /home/dlphilp/soundfonts/8mbgmsfx.sf2 # soundfont /home/dlphilp/soundfonts/GS_Roland_Sound_Set_16_bit_Bank.sf2
Thus, I could select from four different realizations of the same MIDI file, making it an easy matter to re-orchestrate my recording. Each MIDI file included the same tempo track, guaranteeing accurately coordinated playback. However, to offset the rigidity of untreated MIDI playback, I often write an asymmetrical tempo track with a series of looping values, in 16th notes or smaller, moving back and forth between t+2 and t-2 to create an underlying gentle instability in the feel of the tempo.
I employed the Snd soundfile editor for a variety of utility tasks, such as fades, normalization and patching together fixes for poorly recorded segments. For example, the rhythm guitar part was recorded badly, but instead of replaying the part, I removed the affected regions--Ardour has excellent region definition tools--and used Snd to replace seamlessly the bad parts with sections copied from elsewhere in the track. Again, Ardour made it simple to re-insert the corrected region. As I learned more about Ardour, I discovered that I didn't need to rely upon Snd for my utility edits. However, my version of the editor is customized heavily for my own use, and you already may have noticed I have quite a retro streak when it comes to software I know and love.
The LADSPA plugins were another blessing. I used Steve Harris's plate reverb for the vocal and harmonica parts. The MIDI guitar patch was treated by Tom Szilagyi's TAP Equalizer, and the entire mix was processed by the SC4 compressor, once again from Steve Harris. Plugins are saved in their current state when an Ardour session is saved, and I also could save my parameter settings as presets for use in other sessions.
By the way, the vocal was a first take. I'd practiced the song for quite a while before recording it. However, the harmonica part took some practice: I hadn't really played blues harp for many years, so I was conservative about its part in the sound. Fortunately, my initial efforts weren't so bad, so I practiced over the recorded tracks for a while and came up with the part heard in the released mix.
Mixing and balancing only seven tracks may seem to be a straightforward task, but with Ardour's flexibility it easily was the lengthiest part of the process. Auditioning the various combinations of tracks took time, as did testing and retesting them with the LADSPA plugins. Fortunately, I was having a lot of fun, and it was a pleasure to hear and consider the possible arrangements. Ardour makes it easy to mute and solo tracks, individually or in user-defined groups. I balanced my bass and drum parts first and then added the other tracks one by one, auditioning until I was satisfied with the overall mix.
Incidentally, I wrote the melody and most of the lyrics more than a year ago. The dominant seventh riff was something ultimately borrowed from years of playing blues guitar. I debated whether I should add a vocal bridge, but I couldn't come up with anything that satisfied me. Finally, the pressure of writing the Ardour article forced me to come up with the harmonica break, a happy circumstance.
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Mitt Romney Campaigns In Des Moines
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Epstein defends Soler after incident: 'This is a great kid'
Forty games into his professional career, Jorge Soler wound up on Deadspin. That might be the last place in cyberspace the Cubs wanted to find their potential franchise player.
Imaginations ran wild on Twitter for a fan base and a press corps that has witnessed the Carlos Zambrano and Milton Bradley meltdowns in recent years. Those are unfair comparisons now, but this incident will shadow Soler as he tries to work his way up from Class-A Daytona to Clark and Addison.
The Cubs accepted the five-game suspension handed down by the Florida State League while insisting that the bench-clearing confrontation was an isolated incident. Standing in the back of the Wrigley Field press box, team president Theo Epstein defended the Cuban defector who signed a nine-year, $30 million major-league contract last summer.
"This is a great kid who's already overcome a lot in his life and someone that we're not worried about at all for the long haul," Epstein said Thursday. "But it's clear that he's been thrust into a very high-profile situation very suddenly. And it's our job as an organization to make sure he has the tools to make good decisions, even in the heat of the moment."
Epstein indicated there was a "back and forth" throughout Wednesday night's game in Daytona before Soler finally lost control once an opposing player said something about his family.
[MORE: Cubs: Soler has to handle his emotions]
Epstein watched the clip and communicated with Soler over the phone through Alex Suarez, the team's bilingual assistant director of player development and international operations. (The Cubs had installed cameras at their minor-league stadiums so club officials can access video on their laptops.) Soler got into it with Clearwater infielder Carlos Alonso after a slide into second base. Alonso landed on Soler awkwardly and both benches emptied.
Moments later, Soler grabbed a bat from the Daytona dugout and motioned toward the Clearwater side. He had to be restrained -– Cuban left-hander Frank Del Valle sprinted over -– as teammates and coaches defused the situation.
"There was no swinging of the bat whatsoever," Epstein said. "There was no physical contact. There was no violent act."
Epstein described Soler as "tremendously remorseful," apologetic and having trouble sleeping the night before, up thinking about what he had done. The team president declined to directly answer a cryptic question about possible anger-management counseling, saying that would remain private between the player and the club.
"It's our job to work with him," Epstein said. "Just as we provide help for players on the field and with instruction, we have to provide them the proper tools to channel their emotions.
"Clearly, there's a new challenge for us to embrace and Jorge to embrace and find a way to make sure that this doesn't happen again."
Signing Soler became one of the top priorities during the first year of the Epstein administration, before a new collective bargaining agreement imposed severe restrictions on how much teams can spend on the foreign market.
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In the last talent grab, there was so much mystery surrounding Soler, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound five-tool outfielder. Now 21, he wound up missing almost two years of game action as he defected from Cuba, worked out in the Dominican Republic, established residency in Haiti and gained clearance to the United States.
Soler made a strong impression in spring training, putting on shows in batting practice and demonstrating surprisingly good instincts after that layoff. Through six games at Daytona, he had hit .435 with two homers and a 1.258 OPS.
"He seemed like a very poised young man that came to play every day," manager Dale Sveum said. "Very quiet, very unassuming guy, but you could tell he had a lot of poise and he was very mature for his age."
Epstein said Soler's father is in the country, but the assimilation process clearly isn't over yet.
"Jorge is probably dealing with more transition than anyone in our system, being in a new country, away from his family, away from his culture," Epstein said. "So he's adjusting to a lot of things. It's not an excuse for what happened. It's just a reminder of how important it is for us to support him and help him make these adjustments."
Epstein inherited a relatively strong network in Latin America and believes in the background checks that compelled the Cubs to make that investment in Soler and put him front and center in their rebuilding plans.
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We are trying to connect 2 x 24" LCD's to each of these for the people using large spreadsheets.
We have connected the DVI and VGA Cables to the separate monitors, but it seems only 1 works at a time. The Nvidia Software recognizes both monitors but I can't get it to display video.
When I switch to Samsung 1 and Samsung 2 mode, the VGA screen goes alive, the other remains dead, and it would seem that if it were on, the multi screen thing would be working ok
Is there a specific driver, or piece of software or update I need to apply to make this work?
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What resolutions are you trying on the monitors? You may be hitting a resolution limit per monitor set by the video card or technological limitations. If you exceed a certain resolution on a particular monitor, then the card disables the use of a second monitor because it isn't able to handle the total number of pixels across both monitors.
For reference, Single-link DVI is limited to about 2.75Mpixels @ 60Hz (e.g. 1920x1200) - higher resolutions will require a Dual-link connection. Since Dual-link is essentially linking two video "portals" (or "desktops") to one monitor, you may lose the ability to connect a second display as both "desktops" are combined to generate the higher resolution requested.
Try lowering the resolution on both monitors to something all modern video cards can handle - say, 1024x768 - and see if both monitors light up. If so, then bump both up to a 1600h resolution (such as 1680x1050 or 1600x900, depending on aspect ratio) and see if both work. Continue until you reach the limits of the video card.
For reference, as I understand it, both the nc8430 and 8530w's should support dual external monitors when docked (with an appropriate dock) - one via DVI and one via VGA - make sure the internal LCD is disabled (close the lid).
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SOURCE: "A Black Gumshoe in 1948 L. A.," in Chicago Tribune—Books, July 1, 1990, p. 6.
In the following review, Dretzka praises Mosley's debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, and anticipates comparisons of the author's work to other black writers of the detective fiction genre.
A couple of months back, just after books by Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton and Nancy Pickard hit the nation's bookstores, there was a flurry of articles about a boom in mysteries by American women writers.
The reporters, for Newsweek and other mass-market publications, finally had observed something readers of crime fiction long have taken granted: that our women could kill people off and solve crimes every bit as convincingly as Brits P. D. James, Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers and such American male counterparts as Tony Hillerman—and that, in fact, they had been doing so for years.
I wonder if a similar kind of fuss will be made when critics start oohing and aahing about Walter Mosley's sparkling debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress.
The 38-year-old Mosley is black. And, thus, the inevitable comparisons to the great Chester Himes (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Blind Man With a Pistol, etc.) and Los Angeles' Gar Haywood (Fear of the Dark) almost certainly will be made—although, unfortunately, there are many fewer black mystery writers out there to build such a trend story around.
But there's really no need to go to all the trouble. Devil in a Blue Dress would be worthy of special notice whatever its author's race. (And, trust me, no one should wait for the bandwagon to arrive before jumping on Himes' and Haywood's work.)
Mosley's novel is set in Los Angeles in 1948, a time when many blacks were migrating to Southern California from the South to escape its twin treadmill of segregation and poverty.
The area's booming post-war aircraft industry especially lured those black World War II veterans who had first met white people on a relatively equal footing in the armed forces and were unwilling to return to the conditions they'd left behind.
Easy Rawlins, Mosley's hero, left Houston's rough 5th Ward for the army and, later, Los Angeles when he came perilously close to being implicated in a couple of murders committed by his running partner, Mouse. By 1948, Easy had a good job at Champion Aircraft and a house with a mortgage in a neighborhood full of other folks from Texas.
Mosley is drawing from the real-life story of his father when he establishes the fictional environment for Easy:
"[I]n L. A. people don't have time to stop; anywhere they have to go they go there by car. The poorest man has a car in Los Angeles; he might not have a roof over his head but he has a car. And he knows where he's going too. In Houston and Galveston, and way down in Louisiana, life was a little more aimless. People worked a little job but they couldn't make any real money no matter what they did. But in Los Angeles you could make a hundred dollars in a week if you pushed. The promise of getting rich pushed people to work two jobs in the week and do a little plumbing on the weekend. There's no time to walk down the street or make a bar-b-q when somebody's going to pay you real money to haul refrigerators."
As we meet him, Easy has just been fired from his job after lipping off to his supervisor and is nervous about where he'll get his next mortgage payment. He's visiting a bar owned by his old friend, Joppy, who introduces him to a dapper white man who immediately offers to help Easy through his financial problem—if he locates a certain beautiful blond woman known to frequent after-hours nightclubs in Watts.
Easy proves immediately adept at the gumshoe game, but, as in all mysteries, one seemingly routine encounter leads to something unexpected and violent.
Soon, bodies and racist cops are littering Easy's path back to respectable society, and he's embroiled in an investigation that leads him to the offices of one of L. A.'s most influential businessmen.
As Mosley admits in the biographical notes that came with the book's galleys, his writing owes much to the stories handed down from his father and "thousands of his 'cousins' who moved to Los Angeles" from Houston. That rich storytelling legacy is constantly and wonderfully present in Devil in a Blue Dress.
But fans of the hard-boiled genre will recognize other voices, as well, as diverse as those of yesterday's hard-boiled Raymond Chandler and today's no-nonsense Andrew Vachss. And Mosley, who now lives in New York, certainly has no problem creating believable action and ethical challenges for Easy:
"Somewhere along the way I had developed the feeling that I wasn't going to outlive the adventure I was having. There was no way out but to run, and I couldn't run, so I decided to milk all those white people for all the money they'd let go of.
"Money bought everything. Money paid the rent and fed the kitty. Money was why Coretta was dead and why DeWitt Albright was going to kill me. I got the idea, somehow, that if I got enough money then maybe I could buy my own life back."
As a cover blurb attests, Mosley is already at work on a follow-up to Devil in a Blue Dress, so it's no secret that Easy finds a way out of his predicament. But it doesn't look as if he'll be spending much time back at Champion Aircraft, either—sleuthing may not be the most lucrative of professions, but, in books at least, it's rarely dull.
I, for one, can't wait to find out where Easy Rawlins' hard life is going to take him next.
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February 24th, 2008 #1
IDW #62: Ancient Automaton
Topic: Ancient Automaton
Background: No long briefs or background this time If you're not sure what an Automaton is: Automaton - Wikipedia.
Please note that this is not necessarily a robot as such, and I challenge you not to make it Steampunk
1. Design and draw an Ancient Automaton!
2. That's it... now draw!
Deadline: Saturday March 1
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WOW, thank you lord.. if i have time haha
great topic.. and i hope THIS time i do make it to the finish line
February 24th, 2008 #3
Gahh! No slacking off this round.
Great topic!
February 24th, 2008 #4
mannnn this one sounds reall good
I wish i could do this one so bad........ I just dont have any time
It'll be interesting to see the results
February 24th, 2008 #5
i will probably continue my streak of being AWOL to this one as well. im graduating in one day and job spamming/working on personal projects, so atm i just don't have enough loving to go around... that being said this one would be awesome!
February 25th, 2008 #6
hmm.. good ideas coming to mind here... ill endeavour not to rush this one so horribly
please tear apart my sketchbook! http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=118570
February 25th, 2008 #7
Here's a question: Can the automaton be 'gifted' to an ancient race, like the Egyptians, by, say, aliens? Hence the technology could be more advanced than water and levers but 'look' sort of Egyptian? Or is that cheating? Only my second IDW so I want to be clear I'm staying in the rules. Thanks.
February 25th, 2008 #8
great topic, im in!
February 25th, 2008 #9
When you say ancient, do you mean looks, is from an ancient time (100 years plus)?
February 25th, 2008 #10
Vorp: As long as its clear it isn't something futuristic with a retro look or something that'd be okay. It's been done a couple of times already though so try to find an original way in I suggest.
Pixie Trick: Yep at a first glance it must be clear we're not dealing with a shiny new one or some futuristic moon exploring android.
February 25th, 2008 #11
This is the first really quick, really bad sketch of my idea - Oracle of Delphi a la carnival fortune teller machine.
I know there is lots wrong. I go all squiggly at first.
Back to the battle of the pencil...
Madeline Carol Matz
February 26th, 2008 #12
Not sure if this'll fit the bill for ancient automation or not, but here goes...
Supposed to be an unearthed ancient personal computer from days long past... It floats, not a blowup.
February 26th, 2008 #13
February 26th, 2008 #14
mcmatz: Take care not to make it too humanoid, right now it looks more like a character design to me to be honest
Kuth: What exactly makes it 'ancient'? All I see at the moment is a futuristic bot.
Tsujni: Like where this is going, you might want to check on the proportions of the legs though. Also, it reminds me a bit of the movie Metropolis
February 27th, 2008 #15
I was thinking of adding texture and color to it, but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort in the end. Might have to think about it further or bow out for this week if I can't think of something better
February 27th, 2008 #16
wip β, changed some stuff
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February 27th, 2008 #17
I had idea of making some kind of loom that works by itself, back to doodling
February 27th, 2008 #18
For those of you having trouble with the ancient part - you need to check out Keith Thompson's work- he does some great stuff in the ancient area - like his clockwork Geisha. I don't have his main page info handy but you can check him out at keithwormwood.deviantart.com
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February 28th, 2008 #19
Hendric VII: Yep I did a quick search, his website has a lot of images as well. Check it out here: Keiththompsonart.com/robots. The Geisha is a nice example. The rest of his gallery is cool too.
Tinfoil (check his featured art by clicking his thumbnail image on the top of this site) has some great inspiration as well, especially his puppet fighters. Check it out here: Tinfoil - Puppet - Arena Net
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February 28th, 2008 #20
wip γ
February 28th, 2008 #21
Mhh this will be my first try of participate in these activities
I'll try to get it finished in time...my ancient automaton.... A serve-automaton *g*
I will work in b/w first and color this, when it's enough time for it..my first try of doing first the b/w thing and color later....
I'll use aztecan designelements on it....
Edit: next version (wont start new post)
and a try to color... I like this technique....I guess
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February 29th, 2008 #22
Here's my quick SketchUp wip, I'll use it as perspective guide when painting in Photoshop, hope I'll make it look and feel old. Still haven't decided on which camera angle I want it to be, lower angle makes it look large and intimidating, higher view shows more details :
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March 1st, 2008 #23
Some 26-28 hours to go before I close this round, make sure you've posted your finals by then.
Ah uhm my bad, I put the deadline on Saturday March 2 but since February had an extra day this year it should've been Saturday March 1. Hope this doesn't cause trouble for anyone, but if so please let me know.
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March 1st, 2008 #24
wip δ - not going to finish
March 1st, 2008 #25
Power loom that works on the ancient source of energy, operated by control panel on the front.
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March 1st, 2008 #26
Wow, artistpavel, I love the textures you've got on your piece! I'd like to see some less perfect looking wood posts, but other than that it's fantastic
March 1st, 2008 #27
tsujni-Looks great man! Those loose sketchy lines are sweet. I hope you do have time to tighten it up just alittle
artistpavel- Woah, awesome render and design.
Built deep in the jungles by a elusive and ancient civilization this automation served two purposes. It's first purpose was used to scare off intruders trying to enter the villages. The automation itself was entirely harmless however it's sheer size could easily frighten anyone. It's main and more important purpose was to hold and preserve water supplies. The automation itself was a vital instrument for water to the villagers and could hold vast amounts of it for long periods of time.
March 2nd, 2008 #28
FINAL: Avoiding "long briefs and background", hopefully this image conveys the concept on its own.
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March 2nd, 2008 #29
final - courier automata
March 2nd, 2008 #30
Alright, time to close this round.
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There are signs of possible movement in attracting potential investors and filling some large, empty industrial buildings, including decisions regarding improvements to the town zoning ordinance and the water system.
ADDISON COUNTY — The anecdotal reports from Main Street this year are promising: A last-minute influx of shoppers, and an uptick of interest in the "shop local" movement, meant many local retailers saw sales increase in December over the same month in 2008.
That good news came late in the month, though, following what was for many businesses a sluggish two weeks at the start of the holiday season.
"It was pretty soft the first week and a half to two weeks," said John Wallace, the owner of the Autumn Gold jewelry shop in Middlebury. "The end just burst wide open the last two weeks."
BRANDON — Hannaford Supermarkets has announced plans to buy two Grand Union grocery stores located in Brandon and Swanton.
The Maine-based chain has reached an agreement in principle to buy the two stores and the deal is expected to be finalized in early 2010, Hannaford spokesman Michael Norton said on Monday.
MIDDLEBURY — The Fashion Bug women's clothing store, a fixture in The Centre shopping plaza on Route 7 South for more than two decades, will close its doors by Jan. 31.
The Fashion Bug, along with the Lane Bryant and Catherines stores, are owned by Charming Shoppes Inc.
Company officials said the Middlebury Fashion Bug is one of 25 such stores nationwide scheduled for closing in the near future. The demise of the Middlebury location coincides with the expiration of its lease in The Centre, according to Chris Hunt of Myron Hunt Inc., the company that owns the shopping plaza.
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Riding with Cancer; looking to ride in the Hollister, California area
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I can identify with you in many ways. I have Multiple Myeloma. It is a cancer in the bones and bone marrow. I have lost 90 lbs now and 5 1/2 inches in height due to 11 collapsed vertebrae. The bone marrow makes your red and white blood cells. So a real danger for me is the inability to fight disease and becoming extremely anemic. I have had several blood transfusions like you. In the last three and one half years I have had radiation to remove legions on my spine. Kemo to fight the cancer. Stem cell transplant. None of which have worked very well. I am currently in a research trial involving being infused every two weeks with modified anti-bodies from mice. This is cutting edge and only about 50 people in the country are in the trial. The good news is that where nothing else has worked well, after about two months in this trial my numbers have turned around and seem to be improving. Now the question is, how long will this trend last? I am glad to hear your surgery went well and I will pray for your continued improvement. Yes I do ride a 2013 KLR. I have been riding all my life on almost every kind and style of motorcycle. I would like to form up the cancer fighter riders with you. The areas you suggested riding sound great as I have not ridden that area at all and I am always looking to ride new areas. Let's keep in touch and try to set something up. I am trying to establish some way for others in our situation to get in touch with riders in their area to ride with so they can ride with less concern about the dangers of riding alone. Hope to hear from you soon.
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Mike, have you ever ridden through the Clear Creek area? It's not far from Hollister and is a great place for a day ride. It takes me about two hours to get over there from Visalia. When I'm able we will get together for some rides.
Be sure to checkout the threads I mentioned, you will get a good idea of the riding we do over here in the Sierra/Sequoia area. You have been through alot, makes me feel lucky, hang in there and fight.
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Thanks Dana.
We've narrowed our planning down to ten days of camp, ride, repeat. Or possibly finding a nice campground in NH, setting up a base camp and from there doing several day rides. Last night we ditched the camping idea and looked a staying in a motel in Gorham NH and do day rides from there. This morning we scratched that idea and now we're looking at maybe traveling into Canada a bit.
I guess we'll spend the next couple of weeks driving ourselves nuts, flip a coin and get serious about what we'll actually be doing.
Hey kevin,
Check with eddie bolted, we did a similar trip last year in July (i think).
we did like 6 or seven states in 6 or 7 days. He had some good routes. ask him about the road were Someone was cathing air on their GS1200 while two up pullling a trailer.
the person that gave him the route just said "be careful it's a fun road".... we hit man on the mountian, Mt washington, weirs beach(for a second)
. we even hit a couple rallies on the way for a one nite stay. we stayed in primitve camp grounds. we found its nice to plan a rest day where you just camp/hotel one nite at a place and hold up and relax for a half day/day or so. to give a breake from get up at 6 am break camp ride all day and set up camp and reapeat for 7 days strait...
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Roy Halladay outpitched Stephen Strasburg in a marquee matchup that became a bit testy as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Washington Nationals 6-3 Wednesday.
With one out and runners on the corners in the third inning, Washington's Strasburg hit Chase Utley in the lower left leg with a pitch. After getting two quick outs in the fourth, the Phillies' Halladay threw a pitch behind Tyler Moore.
The Nationals won their first NL title last season, ending the Philadelphia's five-year run atop the division.
The 36-year-old Halladay allowed two hits, a walk and struck out two in four scoreless innings for Philadelphia. The 24-year-old Strasburg gave up two runs, five hits and a walk in 3 2-3 innings. He had one strike out.
Tigers 4, Blue Jays 1
LAKELAND, Fla. — Torii Hunter hit his first home run with the Detroit Tigers, Justin Verlander allowed one hit in four innings and the Detroit Tigers beat the Toronto Blue Jays.
Cardinals 7, Marlins 2
JUPITER, Fla. — Jake Westbrook showed no ill effects of the bruised knee that forced him to leave his first spring start after one inning, limiting the Miami Marlins to a run and four hits over three innings of the St. Louis Cardinals' win.
Dominican Republic 8, Yankees 2
TAMPA, Fla. — New York right-hander Hiroki Kuroda temporarily slowed down the heavy-hitting Dominican Republic World Baseball Classic team, allowing two hits over three scoreless innings in the Yankees' loss.
The Dominican Republic opens WBC play Thursday night against Venezuela at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Jonathon Niese struggled against Venezuela's All-Star lineup , allowing four runs in the New York Mets' 14-10 loss to the World Baseball Classic squad playing its final tuneup for the World Baseball Classic.
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SARASOTA, Fla. — Jake Arrieta allowed one unearned run in three innings and Russ Canzler had two home runs and drove in six runs as the Baltimore Orioles routed Spain's World Baseball Classic team.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Angel Pagan led an All-Star lineup for Puerto Rico's national team by going 2 for 3 with an RBI in a victory over the Minnesota Twins in a tuneup for the World Baseball Classic.
Indians 4, Dodgers 0
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Jason Giambi drove in two runs and Justin Masterson outpitched Hyun-Jin Ryu, leading the Cleveland Indians to a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The 42-year-old Giambi signed a minor league deal with Cleveland just ahead of the start of spring training with hopes of playing one more season in an 18-year career. He singled and hit a sacrifice fly to pace the Indians offense.
Royals 8, Diamondbacks 1
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Alex Gordon hit a grand slam, James Shields pitched three scoreless innings and the Kansas City Royals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks to remain unbeaten in spring training.
Gordon also doubled and scored two twice, and Alcides Escobar and Jeff Francoeur each drove in a run as Kansas City improved to 11-0-1 in the Cactus League.
Pirates 9, Red Sox 3
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Boston starter Jon Lester pitched four innings of two-hit ball as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Red Sox.
Lester allowed one run and three walks while striking out three. He is projected to start on opening day for Boston.
Pirates starter Jeff Locke also gave up one run in four innings. He walked two and struck out three.
Andrew McCutchen drove in two runs for Pittsburgh.
Rangers 3, Cubs 2
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Lance Berkman hit his first home run of spring training, helping the Texas Rangers beat the Chicago Cubs.
Mitch Moreland had a run-scoring single and Ian Kinsler drove in the other run with a sacrifice fly for the Rangers, who have won three of four.
Texas starter Robbie Ross, a candidate for the fifth spot in the rotation, allowed one run on four hits with a walk and a strikeout. Alexi Ogando, the Rangers' projected fourth starter, went three innings and gave up a run on two hits and two walks. He struck out six.
Brewers 7, Mariners 6
PEORIA, Ariz. — Rickie Weeks got three hits and roster hopefuls Khris Davis and Hunter Morris homered as the Milwaukee Brewers beat Seattle, ending the Mariners' 10-game winning streak.
Kendrys Morales hit a two-run homer and Michael Morse also connected for the Mariners. Seattle's winning string had been its longest ever in spring training.


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TheFind Builds Consumer Marketing Team Around Seasoned Executive Hires Fastest-growing shopping search engine adds key talent from Yelp! along with Shopping Expert and TV Spokesperson Alison Deyette San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 3, 2010 TheFind.com, the fastest growing top-tier shopping engine, today announced the hiring of Marketing Director, Nish Nadaraja and Creative Director, Michael Ernst, both of whom were instrumental in building and growing Yelp's community of active users.
How MyLifeRank Breaks the Online Stronghold and Gets People to Go Out and Interact Social networks are all designed to incent the users to spend more time online engaging with their peers, activities, games, etc. all so they can monetize you against that time.
Kaplan Continuing Education Launches New CompTIA and Dental Assistant Certificate Programs Kaplan Continuing Education Launches New CompTIA and Dental Assistant Certificate Programs Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) November 3, 2010 Kaplan Continuing Education (KCE), a leader in online career education, announced the addition of five new online certificate programs: four for CompTIA training (CompTIA A+ Certificate, CompTIA Network+ Certificate, CompTIA Server+ Certificate, and CompTIA Security+ Certificate) and one for administrative dental assistant training.
Health Care Connect Announces Graduation of Jacqueline O'Doherty Health Care Connect, a private patient advocacy practice, proudly announces the recent graduation of Jacqueline O'Doherty, from the Alfus Patient Advocacy Program at the University of Miami.
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