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Fair enough...I prefer conforming for something like this. Geograft usually only works with the body texture it's made for, and with wings that's a bad idea.
I've been thinking about this issue and was wondering if anyone had created lie presets to help blend the geografts? If it was done in the same colour as the geograft it could ease the transition from the graft texture to the character texture....
The geograft does not share the UV map of the main body, it just blends with it at the edges. So you'd need a separate LIE preset for the body and the graft, and you'd have to blend them in the same way the original was made (probably in a 3d program). That's not impossible, but it's hard enough that the people who could do it are probably just making a body texture to go with their geografted piece.
With the horse wings I took into account the UVs so the seams were hidden under the feather that way I could use the textures from the horse and use them on the wings. I had tried several months before with geografting but could never get the textures to line up I even tried the Geo Shell but had no success, so conforming was what I went with.


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Michael Howard sent the following news article to one of our internal DL's this morning. For some reason, I don't think it's going to hit the front page of Slashdot any time soon:
Serving as the latest reminder of that fact is Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, which recently disclosed that Social Security numbers and other personal data belonging to more than 60,000 students, former students and employees may have been compromised by multiple intrusions into its main ERP server.
The break-ins were discovered Feb. 13 and involved a Sun Solaris server that had not been patched against a previously disclosed FTP vulnerability, even though a fix was available for the flaw at the time of the breach, university CIO William Marshall said today.
"When we went in and did a further investigation, we found that there was an IRC bot installed on the system," Marshall said.
Serving as the latest reminder of that fact is Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, which recently disclosed that Social Security numbers and other personal data belonging to more than 60,000 students, former students and employees may have been compromised by multiple intrusions into its main ERP server.
The break-ins were discovered Feb. 13 and involved a Sun Solaris server that had not been patched against a previously disclosed FTP vulnerability, even though a fix was available for the flaw at the time of the breach, university CIO William Marshall said today.
"When we went in and did a further investigation, we found that there was an IRC bot installed on the system," Marshall said.
So Antioch's Solaris systems were (a) compromised by an old vulnerability, and (b) were being used as botnet clients. Both of which the slashdot crowd claim only happens on "Windoze" machines.
At what point do people pull their heads out of the sand and realize that computer security and patching disciplines are an industry-wide issue and not just a single platform issue? Even after the Pwn2Own contest last month was won by a researcher who exploited a flash vulnerability, the vast majority of the people commenting on the ZDNet article claimed that the issue was somehow "windows only". Ubuntu even published a blog post that claimed that they "won" (IMHO they didn't, because Shane has said that the only reason he chose not to attack the Ubuntu machine was that he was more familiar with Windows). The reality is that nobody "wins" these contests (except maybe the security researcher who gets a shiny new computer at the end). It's just a matter of time before the machine will get 0wned.
Ignoring stories like this make people believe that somehow security issues are isolated to a single platform, and that in turn leaves them vulnerable to hackers. It's far better to acknowledge that the IT industry as a whole has an issue with security and ask how to move forwards.
Edit: Ubunto->Ubuntu (oops :))
That's why a "root kit" isn't called a "BUILTIN\ADMINISTRATOR kit" :)
"My co-workers who run Windows hate Tuesdays"
Funny... On my Ubuntu system at home, it downloads new patches every second day (on average). Once a month is a blessing!
Isn't it also about scale? If there's a problem in Windows it affects gazillions of people and busineses. If there's a Linux/OSX/Solaris/Whatever problem it doesn't affect as many people or businesses.
Thus Linux/OSX/Solaris/Whatever's currently have Immunity from Bad Press. As their popularity increases any exploits etc will have a bigger affect, thus damaging their perceived "goodness".
Therefore... what? Microsoft had better get their security in order, because if they don't, they will lose market share, possibly even if they're pereceived to be "equally secure".
Oh hang on, that's exactly what they're doing. Someone made a smart decision a few years ago.
[I am not a fan of "Your computer was rebooted because of an important update." If it reopened the 26 applications I had running I'd be a little happier].
"It's my understanding that our forensics folks who have looked at customers machines that got 0wned often found the fix for the vulnerability on the customers machine just waiting for a reboot."
"The *nix patching mechanism (unlink the old binary, copy in the new binary) is "interesting", but if we adopted that, we'd still have the same problem - you don't actually close the hole in that case, because the vulnerable code is still running on the machine (until all processes on the machine get recycled)."
What about showing the user a list of tasks that the user will have to close down and restart in order to avoid the need for a reboot? (A list of tasks such as the applications list in Task Manager, or a list of processes if they don't have visible windows.)
'That's why a "root kit" isn't called a "BUILTIN\ADMINISTRATOR kit" :)'
Yeah, it needs to be a NT_AUTHORITY\TRUSTED_INSTALLER kit ^_^
Is it only me who turns his Windows machine on when he's going to use it, and back off when he's done with it? I don't mind rebooting for a patch or fix.
Maybe people should be using client OS machine (ie XP, Vista) for server work? Rebooting a client Windows machine shouldn't be too much of a problem for anyone.
Actually, I've personally seen a improperly configured (they turned off the SELinux AND the firewall... wtf......) Fedora server turned into private RO (a online game) server...
No matter you use what OS, if the administrator(s) aren't worth their salt, being owned is a matter of time only...
Erik:While programmers are NOT exempted from these difficulties when developing on a Unix/Linux kernel, the "safety net" on *nix system when something wrong happened is used to be better than Win9X versions. Unless something serious happened in kernel level, you're not able to bring down the whole system with single badly written user mode program.
This has been greatly improved in WinXP and improved more in Vista, but I'd afraid that those ******* are unable to see now and future, just like those ******* who still claim you have to compile the packages one by one yourself in order to run Linux system... better just ignore them.
SteveG: Vista actually has an API to deal with the 26 apps that were open, it's called the restart manager - if an app crashes that's registered with the restart manager, it will restart it (and it'll restart after a patch reboot, I believe).
Norman, for many patches the list of things that need to be restarted is every process on the system. This is especially true for system components. But the system is getting better at analyzing what needs to be restarted - that's a part of the reason Vista has fewer reboots.
Drak, it's just you :).
To be fair: I'm just as annoyed at the mandatory patch reboots as everyone who's commented. I wish that they didn't happen (because they DO kill productivity). I just deal with them as a once-a-month necessary evil. And I recognise that Vista's patches have typically involved less reboots than previous OS's. But it's not perfect.
Exactly which CVE was purportedly exploited?
In my quick review I could only find CVE-2003-1075 which is a DoS - not ownership!
Perhaps the dudes running this uni are the risk? FCS who runs an ftp daemon on a high security/privacy system - period!
After an update, when I get the "Your system needs to be rebooted" message, I open the Services administrator tool and stop the "Automatic Update" service.
The messages go away. Next time I restart my computer the Automatic Update service starts up again and everything's back to how it was without the reboot your computer message popping up every 5 minutes.
This is a great argument for IBM's AIX, which (IIRC) can apply updates and even install an entirely new kernel without any downtime.
Slashdot crowd = People who speak loudly but know little.
What about hot patchability? I read about it on another msdn blog and thought Microsoft would use that so that it was possible to patch things without a reboot. Then again maybe there's some limit on it.
this post
... seems to say that only 30% of the x86 kernel is hot patchable.
But from what he says it sounds like a function is hot patchable if it starts with a two byte instruction (which can be overwritten with jmp $-6) and has six bytes of padding afterwards (which can be overwritten with jmp NewFunc). But it seems like you could make the compiler guarantee that. So you build the kernel with the new compiler and then send it out as an update, which would require a reboot. But after that, no more reboots.
Steve Yegge reminds us in this talk that it takes a full generation to change your branding:
My generation of computer experts (I'm in my mid-20's) formed its opinions of Microsoft based on Windows 95 and 98. We have helped many friends and family members clean up virus and adware infested computers and we learned to measure uptime in hours, not days or months. We tried Linux and FreeBSD and we didn't have stability or security problems. These experiences have left lasting impressions and it will take a lot of time and counter-examples to change our minds. These kinds of sour grapes posts only go to reinforce our impression that Microsoft employees are defensive and insecure about it (no pun intended).
@Norman: The only problem I see with showing the user about programs that need to be restarted: what if it's a core part of the OS? It's not like you can just stop and start the kernel... though I'd hate to see the logic that tries to identify who's running what.
@SteveG & Larry: The problem with the restart manager is that the program needs to register for it and support it in the first place, and people programming for that seem to be quite few. I have yet to actually see a program support it.
@Drak: I don't shutdown and startup every day, but I do put my machine into hibernation and turn everything else off while I'm off of work. I try to do what little I can to save energy.

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Could Raymond make the move to NYC? Earlier this week we had a look at Maxim Lapierre and whether he might be a player that follows his former coach Alain Vigneault to New York this summer. Another such candidate – and like Lapierre, a pending free agent – is Mason Raymond. The prospect of Raymond may excite fans a little more than the loyal foot soldier that is Lapierre. Raymond has skill and a scoring touch, although his recent returns haven't been impressive. This season Raymond had just 22 points (10 goals) in 46 games during the regular season, while playing close to sixteen minutes per game (1.51 P/60). Raymond, who can play both wings, has previously managed a fifty point season during the one season he played a full calendar (82 games, in 09-10). He's played 55, 70, and 72 games in each of his other seasons. Despite playing for a perennial powerhouse in Vancouver, the 27-year-old winger never fully established himself as a top six forward, although it should be argued that ...
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Information, tips, news and announcements about SQL Server Analysis Services and PowerPivot directly from the product team.
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is an awesome development suite for building advanced Office solutions, such as Excel applications that go above and beyond default features and capabilities. Even our PowerPivot for Excel add-in is based on VSTO. However, it is important to note that VSTO does not define application programming interfaces (APIs) for applying customizations on top of customizations. In other words, you can develop applications on top of Excel by using VSTO but you cannot develop applications on top of PowerPivot because VSTO does not include any APIs for this purpose and the PowerPivot add-in does not add any such APIs either. Appropriate APIs are only available with PowerPivot for SharePoint and SQL Server Analysis Services.
While it is not supported to interact with PowerPivot for Excel programmatically, you can very well interact with the usual elements of an Excel workbook by using VSTO and therefore—given that every PowerPivot workbook is essentially an Excel workbook—you can use VSTO to build advanced PowerPivot solutions. Just don't attempt to go beyond programming Excel features. The Microsoft sample solutions Calendar Analytics Tool and Analytics for Twitter highlight this limitation. These solutions rely on VSTO to pull source data into the workbook and then remind the user to update the embedded PowerPivot database and PivotTable data manually, as the following figure illustrates. It would be great to automate these steps, but this requires a PowerPivot API that isn't available, as mentioned before.
Another important limitation that you must keep in mind when building PowerPivot workbooks by using VSTO is that you cannot place datasets with more than 1 million rows on a worksheet because the maximum worksheet size in Excel 2010 is 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns. Furthermore, VSTO-based workbooks are not fully functioning without their VSTO components. For example, you cannot just copy the Analytics for Twitter.xlsx file to another computer or upload this workbook to a document library in SharePoint and expect the VSTO-based code to work. You can interact with the workbook's slicers and PowerPivot data, but you cannot import updated source data if the corresponding VSTO code isn't available. If you want to share a VSTO-based PowerPivot workbook, you must publish the workbook as a ClickOnce application (see ClickOnce Deployment Overview) or provide a Windows Installer package for deployment (see Deploying a Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Solution Using Windows Installer). (In another blog post, I'm going to show you how to redesign the Analytics for Twitter workbook so that it doesn't depend on VSTO in order to share and update it in SharePoint.)
Having pointed out these limitations, what's cool about VSTO is that it can bring data into a PowerPivot workbook even if there is no suitable data provider, such as Outlook items, tweets, or perhaps Windows Event Log entries, as I'm going to show you next. Without VSTO, you might have to export the data into an intermediary text file and then import the data into PowerPivot (see the blog post Analyzing Event Log Entries in PowerPivot). This is inconvenient. With VSTO, custom code can pull the data into one or multiple tables in an Excel workbook, linked to one or multiple PowerPivot tables, as illustrated in the following figure.
In the Analytics for Twitter solution, the data flows as follows:
This data flow is not unique to the Analytics for Twitter solution. Aaron Meyers, creator of the Analytics for Twitter solution, was kind enough to include the TwitterSearch.cs source code on the Sample Code worksheet, which demonstrates all the details to get the job done. So, let's see how these pieces fit together by building a VSTO-based PowerPivot workbook that follows the Analytics for Twitter approach but gets data from the Windows Event Log.
The first step is to create a workbook by using Visual Studio Tools for Office:
So far so good! Now, let's add a table to the workbook and populate it by using VSTO-based code. Note that Excel assigns the table a generic name of Table1. The code below uses this name. If you want to use a different name, select a cell in the table and then on the Design ribbon, in the Properties group, type the desired name in the Table Name textbox. Make sure you update the table reference in the code (Globals.Sheet1.Range["Table1"]) accordingly.
Follow these steps to add a table and populate it programmatically:
private void btnGetData_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Show an hourglass while Excel refreshes the source data table. this.Application.Cursor = Excel.XlMousePointer.xlWait; // Grab the linked table on Sheet1, named "Table1" by default. Excel.Range linkedTable = Globals.Sheet1.Range["Table1"] as Excel.Range; // Retrieve Event Log data. object[,] eventData = GetEventData(); // Replace the values in the Excel table. linkedTable.ClearContents(); linkedTable = linkedTable.Resize[eventData.Length / 11]; linkedTable.Value = eventData; // Tell the user what to do next. MessageBox.Show("Next Steps:\n" + "1. Click PowerPivot --> Update All\n2. Click Data --> Refresh All", "Next Steps", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information); // Restore the default mouse cursor. this.Application.Cursor = Excel.XlMousePointer.xlDefault; } /// <summary> /// Reformats the list of event log entries for use as content of an Excel table. /// </summary> /// <returns>An object of rows and columns.</returns> private object[,] GetEventData() { List<object[]> dataRows = GetDataRows(); int rows = dataRows.Count; int columns = 11; object[,] eventData = new object[rows, columns]; int row = 0; foreach (object[] row_ar in dataRows) { for (int col = 0; col < columns; col++) { eventData[row, col] = row_ar[col]; } row++; } return eventData; } /// <summary> /// Retrieves the event data from the local Windows Event Log. /// </summary> /// <returns>A List object with a separate row for each event log entry.</returns> private List<object[]> GetDataRows() { // Create a list object for the event log data. List<object[]> dataRows = new List<object[]>(); // Iterate through all the event logs available on the local computer. foreach (System.Diagnostics.EventLog evtLog in System.Diagnostics.EventLog.GetEventLogs()) { try { // Add the contents of the currently selected event log to the list of data rows. foreach (System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry logEntry in evtLog.Entries) { object[] dataRow = new object[11]; dataRow[0] = evtLog.Log; dataRow[1] = logEntry.Category; dataRow[2] = logEntry.CategoryNumber; dataRow[3] = logEntry.EntryType.ToString(); dataRow[4] = logEntry.InstanceId; dataRow[5] = logEntry.MachineName; dataRow[6] = logEntry.Message; dataRow[7] = logEntry.Source; dataRow[8] = logEntry.TimeGenerated.ToString(); dataRow[9] = logEntry.TimeWritten.ToString(); dataRow[10] = logEntry.UserName; dataRows.Add(dataRow); } } catch { /* On Error Resume Next */ } } return dataRows; }
At this point, the VSTO portion to retrieve data from the local Windows Event Log is finished. Now, let's engage in some PowerPivot plumbing outside of the VSTO environment. This is the tricky part. Note that you must perform this work in the customized ("compiled") version of the workbook. Subsequently, you must remove the VSTO customization from this workbook so that you can use it as the project workbook in Visual Studio. If you forget to remove the VSTO customization, Visual Studio won't be able to build the customized version of the workbook anymore. If you forget to replace the original project workbook, rebuilding the workbook in Visual Studio will overwrite your PowerPivot version. Note also that I am specifically not performing the PowerPivot work on the worksheet in Visual Studio because PowerPivot for Excel is not designed to run within a Visual Studio OLE container.
Follow these steps to create a linked PowerPivot table, finish the workbook, remove the VSTO customization, and replace the original project workbook with the PowerPivot version:
Field Area
∑ Values:
Message (automatically changes to Count of Message)
Axis Fields (Categories):
Slicers Vertical:
Log, EntryType
That's it. The VSTO-based PowerPivot workbook is now complete. What's left to do is to create a Windows Installer package for deployment, but this is beyond the scope of this blog post. See Deploying a Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Solution Using Windows Installer for details.
Can VSTO based PowerPivot Sheet be uploaded to SharePoint 2010 and viewed with PowerPivot of SharePoint ... in browser?
Hi Abhishek,
Excel Services is going to render the workbook with a yellow bar at the top to inform the user that external links and advanced features are disabled. You can analyze the data that's in the workbook. PowerPivot does not depend on the VSTO customiztions.
Hi Kay
This is exactly what I was looking for!
Great post.
Thanks Lou
Hi Kay,
Can you please provide the link to where i can find more info on APIs available with PowerPivot for SharePoint ?
Would be great to have it, no doubt about that, but, unfortunately, there is no public PowerPivot API in SQL Server 2008 R2 or in the upcoming Denali release.
Is this also possible through an Excel application-level add-in?
BTW, fantastic blog post, very well written tutorial.
Hi Dan,
I think so. Essentially, you are only programming Excel. Keep in mind that no matter what way you choose, there is no supported API to automate PowerPivot in Excel 2010. By the way, things get a lot better in Excel 2013. Check out the Excel 2013 Developer Reference at msdn.microsoft.com/.../jj238428(v=office.15), specifically those functions that start with Model, such as ModelConnection, ModelTable, and ModelRelationship. The documentation is still a work in progress, but I think once the documentation is finished you'll like the enhanced capabilities in the new version.
Hope this helps.
Any chance you can have an updated post on how to do the same for excel 2013? It should be more straightforward, since Excel 2013 provides API access to PowerPivot.


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To: the Baltimore County Council, August 27, 2014
RE: Sierra Club Objections to Patapsco Heritage Greenway draft Management Plan for a Patapsco Valley Heritage Area
Dear Board,
The proposed Patapsco Heritage Area could be certified and achieve all the goals of a Heritage Area without including the Patapsco Valley State Park. The ONLY reason to include the Park is to allow PHG, Inc. to fund projects in the Park with DNR approval via the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, without any public review. Documentation of this is given below.
In a recent conversation with Richard Hughes, Director of the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, I was told that the Patapsco Valley State Park does NOT have to be included in the Heritage Area. The Park could be added to the Heritage Area in the future.
The decision to do this should be PART OF the Master Plan developed with public participation by all stakeholders represented equally.
In the meantime, excluding the State Park would still allow certification of the Heritage Area with PHG, Inc. as the "managing entity", eligible for management grants, loans, and funding for county projects. PHG, Inc. could promote tourism, "tell the story" of the area's history, and even continue environmental stewardship programs in the Park, as before.
In fact, this will ensure that funds go to county projects for economic development, and not to supplementing the state park's budget.
The PHG, Inc. Management Plan includes a schedule for revising the boundaries of the Heritage Area in the future. If the PHG, Inc. can establish itself as a community institution with success in developing heritage tourism attractions, it will have a better chance of expanding the Heritage Area into Carroll and Anne Arundel County, as planned.
The language for excluding the Park from the Heritage Area could be inserted in the PHG Management Plan in section 7.6 and in section 1.4, replacing the sentence beginning" MD DNR has supported designation of the park…". Sample language:
The Patapsco Valley State Park is an important thematic component of the Heritage Area, but for the purposes of administration and economic development, it is excluded from the boundaries of the Heritage Area and is not subject to the provisions of the PHG, Inc. Management Plan or the supervision of the PHG, Inc. as the "managing entity" of the Heritage Area. Collaborations that affect Patapsco Valley State Park must be at the request of the appropriate state agency responsible for the Park and collaborative projects must conform to current, publicly-available state plans and regulations.
Thank you for maintaining public control over public parks and their development.
Joanne Heckman, Team Leader, Preserve Patapsco Valley State Park
Grassroots Conservation Campaign, National Sierra Club
Dave O'Leary, Steering Committee, Preserve Patapsco Valley State Park
Maryland Sierra Club
Ken Clark, Steering Committee, Preserve Patapsco Valley State Park
Howard County Sierra Club
Chris Yoder, Preserve Patapsco Valley State Park
Greater Baltimore Sierra Club
The Patapsco Heritage Greenway, Inc. proposed Heritage Area Management Plan will allow a Private Special-Interest Group to Bypass Public Review of State Park Development Projects
On July 25, 2014 the Howard County Council voted to approve the Patapsco Heritage Greenway Inc. proposal for a Heritage Area that includes the lower third of the Patapsco Valley State Park. This will allow the Patapsco Heritage Greenway, Inc. to carry out construction projects in the State Park without further public review.
This is the ONLY REASON to include the State Park in the Heritage Area. All other goals of the Heritage Area can be achieved without including the Park in the area.
The Park Service and the Department of Natural Resources, as state agencies, cannot get funding for their operations by being part of the Heritage Area. Only the PHG, Inc., as managing entity of the Heritage Area, can get funding from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, and only for projects already listed in the Management Plan for that section of the State Park that is within the boundary of the Heritage Area (1). This was confirmed by the Attorney General's office, with a note that the projects in the PHG Management Plan are "not inconsistent with the park purposes" (2).
The Sierra Club position is to exclude the State Park from the boundary of the Heritage Area until an up-to-date publicly-approved Master Plan is prepared for the State Park. Otherwise, individual PHG projects can be approved for the Park by DNR, through MHAA, without public review.
According to a DNR statement included in the PHG Management Plan (3), the PHG construction projects in the Park will be approved by the DNR Land Acquisition and Planning department. John Wilson is the Assistant Chief of the DNR Land Acquisition and Planning department and also the DNR representative on the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority board of directors. According to the Howard County Council (see work session video of July 22, 2014 at http://howardcounty.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2094), MHAA approval will therefore constitute DNR approval. This applies to the Management Plan upon certification, and to grant proposals afterwards. This arrangement explicitly by-passes any public review of these projects.
If the DNR, MHAA, and PHG are not planning to approve and fund these projects, then they could exclude the Park from the Heritage Area boundary until the Master Plan is written with public participation. If they are using the MHAA as a way to allow DNR to approve and fund the PHG projects, then they are deliberately avoiding public review in order to accommodate a special-interest group.
Annotated references. Highlights and comments by Joanne Heckman.
1) PHG Draft Management Plan June 2014, Page ii, Executive Summary
Benefits of Being a Certified Heritage Area
• financial benefits to heritage area partners and owners of heritage resources
• matching grants to support management of the heritage area (for the Patapsco Heritage Greenway), for capital and non-capital heritage tourism projects, and for heritage area marketing activities by PHG, Visit Howard County, and Enjoy Baltimore County)
• expanded eligibility for certain types of state tax credits for owners of historic buildings
• loans to non-profit organizations, local jurisdictions, individuals, and businesses for heritage tourism-related capital projects including acquisition, refinancing, rehabilitation, and predevelopment (projects must address or complete a priority activity outlined in the approved management plan and must be endorsed by the Patapsco Heritage Greenway)
- All funding goes to PHG or through PHG, including for capital projects; projects must already be in the PHG Management Plan; government agencies, such as DNR, are not eligible for direct funding. The Heritage Area status could not be used by DNR to raise funds for writing a new Master Plan.
2) The letter from the Attorney General's office dated July 24, 2014 states:
…only DNR can direct or implement development within the Park. Moreover, to the extent that DNR, as Park property owner, might seek to leverage MHAA grants for Park projects, any such project would have to further the objectives of the management plan in order to qualify for funding from MHAA. The Draft Patapsco Valley Heritage Area Management Plan identifies no projects within the existing boundaries of the Park inconsistent with park purposes,…
3) PHG Draft Management Plan June 2014, Section 7.6 Patapsco Valley State Park
The current 5,346 acres of the Patapsco Valley State Park located within the heritage area are governed by the land use designations of the MD DNR as set forth in the Code of Maryland Regulations 08.07.06.02. In accordance with these general provisions, the park area classifications, uses, and development activities are determined by the current Patapsco Valley State Park Master Plan and subsequent and more detailed plans for individual areas. The planning staffs of MD DNR's Land Acquisition and Planning Group and Integrated Policy and Review Unit are involved in all long-range planning, management, and development projects within the park. The Maryland Park Service oversees the implementation of these activities.
- The "current" Master Plan is dated 1981 and became obsolete in 2001.
- "subsequent and more detailed plans" are not publicly available
- John Wilson is the Asst. Chief of Land Acquisition and Planning, and is also the DNR representative on the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority board.
- This paragraph says nothing about public approval of the construction projects listed in the PHG Management Plan.


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William Twisse (born near Newbury, England, 1578–1646) was a prominent English clergyman and theologian. He became Prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly, putting him at the head of the churchmen of the Commonwealth. He was described by a Scottish member, Robert Baillie, as "very good, beloved of all, and highlie esteemed; but merelie bookish".[1]
His parents were German.[2] He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.[3]
He was appointed chaplain to Elizabeth of Bohemia, by her father James I of England, in 1612. This position was short-lived, and he returned to England from Heidelberg around 1613.
He was then given a living at Newton Longueville.[4] He was involved with Henry Savile in the 1618 edition of the works of Thomas Bradwardine.[5] He was vicar of Newbury from 1620.[6] There he was known as an opponent of William Laud.[7]
He was buried in Westminster Abbey, but exhumed in 1661.
He was a strong defender of a Calvinist, supralapsarian position.[8] In his Vindiciae gratiae of 1632 he attacked Jacobus Arminius, and in Dissertatio de scientia media of 1639 adopted certain Dominican arguments,[5] on justification. His views were in a minority at the Westminster Assembly.[9]
A premillennialist,[10] he wrote a preface to the 1643 English translation, Key of the Revelation, of Joseph Mede's influential Clavis Apocalyptica. Mede was a friend and correspondent.[11]
- A Discovery of D. Jackson's Vanity (1631) against Thomas Jackson
- Vindiciae Gratiae (Amsterdam, 1632)
- Dissertatio de scientia media tribus libris absoluta (Arnhem 1639)
- The Riches of Gods Love (1653),[12] with Henry Jeanes and John Goodwin
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- The Five Points of Grace and of Predestination[14]
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- Of the morality of the Fourth Commandment, as still in force to binde Christians : delivered by way of answer to the translator of Doctor Prideaux his lecture, concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath (1641) OL14032019M
- ^ Description of the Westminster Assembly – Robert Baillie. Reformation Scotland. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
- ^ William Twisse at the Wayback Machine (archived September 28, 2007). Ligonier Ministries. ligonier.org
- ^ The Life and Work of William Twisse – Presbyterian Reformed Church. Presbyterianreformed.org. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
- ^ Rectors of the Parish Church of St Faith, Newton Longville. Met.open.ac.uk (2001-01-06). Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
- ^ a b William Twisse. Scholasticon (in French).
- ^ "Twisse, William". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.; [1].
- ^ Newbury in the first of the Civil Wars in England. Newbury-society.org.uk. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
- ^ (Japanese) John Milton: Supralapsarians, Sublapsarians, and the Incompetence of God
- ^ Report on Justification, presented to the Seventy-third General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Committee on Christian Education Orthodox Presbyterian Church, p. 71.
- ^ Reformed Theology and Premillennialism. Theologue.org. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
- ^ Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra | AHR Forum: Entangled Histories: Borderland Historiographies in New Clothes? | The American Historical Review, 112.3. The History Cooperative. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
- ^ William Twisse; Henry Jeanes; John Goodwin (1653) The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the vessells of wrath, or, An answer unto a book entituled, Gods love unto mankind ... . Oxford : Printed by L.L. and H.H..
- ^ William Twisse, A short Survey of the ninth Chapter to the Romans, so farre as it treateth of the Doctrine Of Predestination. Truecovenanter.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
- ^ William Twisse, THE FIVE POINTS of Grace & of Predestination Defined and Defended Against an Arminian Remonstrant. 5solas.org. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
Further reading[edit]
- Sarah Hutton, Thomas Jackson, Oxford Platonist, and William Twisse, Aristotelian, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec., 1978)
- Vernon, E.C. (2004). "Twisse, William (1577/8–1646)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27921. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
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Personally, I find 538's current set articles way more interesting than yet another update of "who do we think is gonna win today!!!!1"
Agreed. The World Cup series was fantastic.
538 needs a sports section, and it definitely needs a Life/Science section.
They have an affiliation with ESPN--even though most of the FiveThirtyEight articles probably fly over the heads of a large share of ESPN's viewership.
Their sports section could probably be stronger--Nate first got people's attention by developing PECOTA, and has repeatedly exhibited that he's incredibly knowledgeable about baseball. However, their NFL season previews are pretty thorough, as was their article about Tim Duncan's value to the Spurs over the course of his career.
But, articles about measuring the speed of NFL teams, and then going on to say that it really isn't all that important, is kind of a head-scratcher.
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I do like that FiveThirtyEight is currently covering more than just politics - I also really loved their World Cup series - but I'd much prefer they release an official model similar to the one they had back in 2012. The unscheduled updates on the midterms are a little underwhelming to be honest.
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on: August 27, 2014, 08:16:00 am
Quote from: Dixiecrat on August 27, 2014, 07:07:25 am
Quote from: Robb the Survivor on August 27, 2014, 07:00:54 am
This new 538 is really made of fail. And I say this as one of Nate's earliest fans.
Are you only saying that because it doesn't show Democrats to have an advantage?
I think he's saying that because the new 538 has still not launched their official model of the 2014 midterm elections - yet they still have time to run articles about the statistical accuracy of tarot readers and the effects of binge-watching the Simpsons on the human brain.
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Re: Millennials Up For Grabs?
on: August 02, 2014, 08:59:33 am
Quote from: Never on August 01, 2014, 09:44:03 pm
Quote from: Clarko95 on August 01, 2014, 09:04:11 pm
So what is everyone's definition of the Millennial Generation? Just so we know each other's viewpoint.
I personally ascribe to the 1982 starting point view, but think the end year is more 2000 - 2005.
And what are we calling the generation after?
I feel that the Millennial generation began in the early 80's (so 1982 is definitely a good year to start) and between the late-90's and 9/11.
Some are referring to the generation after the Millennials as the Homeland generation (from the Strauss-Howe theory) or Generation Z. Either one would work.
I'll generally agree with a start date of 1982, and suggest 2001 as an end-date.
With that in mind, the
Reagan/Bush cohorts (1982-1991)
are almost certain to be at least leaning Democratic for the foreseeable future. These are the "young voters" that are so often referenced as being heavily Democratic. Despite being born under the most popular Republican administrations in the modern era, the major political figures of their childhood were President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Assuming that most people start to became politically aware and political active in their teenage years, this would mean that the first election that many Reagan/Bush cohorts truly paid attention to was the election of 2000. Indeed, some of the oldest '80s children would have been eligible to vote in 2000. The animosity that the controversy of that election generated towards George W. Bush in the minds of many younger voters was then certainly only exacerbated by the rest of his administration, which proved exceptionally unpopular.
The combination of the Early Millennials entering their teenage years - their first politically active years - with the unpopular Bush administration ultimately led most of them to vote strongly for then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008, an election in which nearly all of them were eligible to vote. This, along with Obama's successful re-election campaign in 2012, probably sealed the Democratic lock on these voters.
So then comes the matter of the Late Millennials, or the
Clinton cohorts (1992-2001)
. I am actually one of them, so my analysis of them may be biased slightly towards my own experience. However, based on their political history, I have to agree that they'll probably end up being politically malleable compared to their older counterparts. The Late Millennials were born either under the last days of President George H. W. Bush, or during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, and in all likelihood, they don't have many memories of either president. The first election that most of them were old enough to experience in a politically aware context was the election of 2008, when Barack Obama won in a wave of popular support. In 2012, most of them seem to have voted for Barack Obama - it's difficult to tell, as most sources only display the data for 18-24 year olds, or 18-29 year olds. However, considering Barack Obama's declining popularity, and the current ineffectiveness of congress and government in general, they are probably more politically independent than other age groups that have already been won over. We must also remember that the majority of the Late Millennials haven't even voted in a Presidential election yet. Those born from 1995-1998 will be voting for a Presidential candidate for the first time in 2016.
The first election in which all of the Late Millennials will be eligible to vote will be 2020 - we'll probably be able to make a more concrete statement as to party preferences after that election. But the Republicans will almost certainly not win them over if they continue to nominate socially conservative candidates who appeal to their base. They need to find a moderate candidate, who can unite swing voters and independents under a conservative message, without getting bogged down in the culture war issues of yesteryear. If they do this, they'll have a good shot at uniting the Late Millennials into a new, electable GOP coalition.
"New Silents" or "Homelanders"
- those born after 2001 - will be entering their teenage years over the next couple of political cycles. If the GOP were to become a little more forward-thinking, they could begin winning over the youth vote of the 2020's. If any group is up for grabs, it's this generation, and considering the current antics of the GOP, it may be too late to fight for the Late Millennials.
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Re: Chris Christie is out after Bridgegate?
on: January 11, 2014, 04:25:17 pm
If this was January 2015, then totally. Christie would be done if this was a year from now. However, it's January 2015, he's got plenty of time for it to blow over and for the media cycle to move on. It's certainly a devastating stain to his future ambitions, but he's not going anywhere, certainly not since his scandal made national news for multiple days.
However... if we get a "smoking gun" in this scandal, then Christie is Done with a capital D. If we get a concrete smoking gun, Christie should begin his campaign for a really good lawyer rather than a campaign for the Presidency.
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Re: Time to face facts, the GOP is NOT a national party
on: December 31, 2013, 07:08:44 pm
Let's face facts. The Democratic Party just is not a national party anymore.
I mean, come on guys. Twice now, in the past five elections, they've lost in tremendous landslides and have only managed to continually win the District of Columbia. Come on, you
- just try to tell me I'm wrong.
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Re: Christie/Huntsman
on: December 16, 2013, 03:54:25 pm
Quote from: NewYorkExpress on December 16, 2013, 01:25:25 pm
I see a Tea Party third Party running if Huntsman gets anywhere near the GOP ticket...
A possible outcome. However, I doubt that such a third party bid would have much of an effect on the race. Assuming Christie/Huntsman was the outcome of a successful primary victory by Chris Christie, and not a brokered convention, the class of candidates who would go through with such a primary bid are not exactly top-tier. Think Michelle Bachmann, not Ted Cruz. If the race is Bush v. Gore close, then it is certainly possible that a tea party bid could have an impact.
But if Huntsman is Christie's running mate, I have to assume Christie didn't veer to the right very much. Maybe enough conservative candidates split up the vote enough to allow Christie to win on a "moderate outsider" message, who knows.
I expect against Hillary, a Christie/Huntsman ticket would be formidable.
The Base Map:
Clinton/Warner - 221 Electoral Votes
Christie/Huntsman - 176 Electoral Votes
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Re: Mideast Voting Both: May 2013 Elections
on: May 17, 2013, 04:13:52 pm
Executive Election:
[ 1 ] Clinton1996/Siren
[ ] ZuWo/Cathcon
[ ] Drj101/Write-in: __________
Legislative Election:
[ 1 ] Odysseus
[ ] Inks.LWC
[ 4 ] HoosierPoliticalJunkie
[ 5 ] MilesC56
[ 2 ] a Person
[ ] LumineVonReuental
[ ] Oldiesfreak1854
[ 3 ] Shua
[ ] Gass3268
[ ] Write-In: __________
[ ] Write-In: __________
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Re: What will Obama's final Approval Rating be on Jan 20th 2017?
on: May 11, 2013, 03:32:36 am
Assuming he's viewed as a relatively successful president, probably around a
. If the American public has decided that he has failed as president, then probably he'll have about a
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Re: Mideast Voting Booth: Constitutional Amendments
on: May 10, 2013, 02:34:29 am
Aye on both.
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Re: Mideast Assembly · Townhall Debate
on: May 07, 2013, 11:03:18 pm
Quote from: ZuWo on May 07, 2013, 02:47:39 pm
I would like to ask a broad question about the topic of game reform at the regional level. Are there, in your view, parts of the regional constitution which should be amended? Or more generally, are there any aspects of the game which we should change?
I think the game itself is fine, and game reform has a history of failure in Atlasia. Time spent drafting bills for game reform might very well be time wasted, in my opinion, however interesting the reform concepts might be.
Quote from: Wisard Ekstraordinær Maxwell on May 07, 2013, 02:32:10 pm
I would like to ask all of the Mideast Assembly members what they would do with the current surplus that is available via the budget, and why you would do so?
I agree with LumineVonReuental that some of our surplus should spent on transportation and high speed rail, but I also believe that we should place some of our money into the Mideast's education system. The education system, the transportation system, and the information and infrastructure systems of the Mideast should be given more money from this excellent surplus that we currently have due to our budget.
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Re: Mideast Voting Booth: Power To The People Amendment
on: May 04, 2013, 02:42:58 am
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Re: Odysseus for Mideast Assembly (Campaign Headquarters)
on: April 30, 2013, 02:34:14 am
OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN STATEMENT (April 30, 2013)
As we move closer to the elections for the Mideast Assembly this May, I'd like to do a few things that any good and honest politician might do. I'd first like to wish everyone luck in the upcoming elections - both my opponents and my colleagues. This has been a very fun and enjoyable experience on Atlas, and I've conversed with a lot of people I would not have even seen or heard from other wise. I'd also like to remind everyone of my presence and existence by bumping this thread, of course. In recent days, things have become far less cynical on a number issues.
Most notably: the Mideast budget amendment crisis. I'm happy to report that following two votes on this issue, I've become fairly satisfied with the situation. I believe that the amendment that has most recently been passed is a fine addition to the Mideast constitution. Hopefully, it will settle this matter for quite some time.
Finally, I've been notified by some that a debate might be held between the Assembly hopefuls, including myself, my opponents, and my colleagues. I would be happy to attend such a debate, in order to both provide the people with a venue for the varying beliefs of the candidates, and to meet with the candidates themselves to discuss the issues.
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Re: Elections if Kennedy Lives
on: April 29, 2013, 09:15:31 pm
Rockefeller would never be on the ticket with Goldwater under any circumstances.
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Re: Should drug users be put in jail?
on: April 27, 2013, 11:06:53 pm
Quote from: TNF on April 27, 2013, 10:52:41 pm
Quote from: Representative Wyodon on April 27, 2013, 09:11:00 pm
God no. Addiction is an issue of mental health, not criminal justice.
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Re: TNF for Mideast Assembly
on: April 25, 2013, 10:07:36 pm
Quote from: Captain Cathcon on April 25, 2013, 08:55:47 pm
Quote from: Odysseus on April 25, 2013, 08:51:19 pm
As a fellow friend from AH.com, I wish you the best of luck!
You're on ah.com?
Yeah. Under the same username as here.
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Re: TNF for Mideast Assembly
on: April 25, 2013, 08:51:19 pm
As a fellow friend from AH.com, I wish you the best of luck!
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Re: Who has NO chance?
on: April 23, 2013, 10:38:01 pm
Quote from: nolesfan2011 on April 23, 2013, 04:31:22 pm
GOP: Santorum, Gingrich, Huntsman, Perry, everyone in the tea party caucus, Steve King, Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn etc., Palin, Ted Cruz, Allen West, Rob Portman, Ben Carson, Herman Cain and I'm tempted to say Chris Cristie as well.
Dems: Napolitano, Biden, Mike Beebe, Elizabeth Warren, Jerry Brown, Bill Richardson, Howard Dean, Kerry, Villagarosia, Wasserman-Schultz.
Man, who does that even leave as possibilities? Like three people?
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Re: How long until Florida and Texas go solidly Democratic?
on: April 20, 2013, 11:38:10 pm
Never - The GOP will begin to become competitive with Hispanics before Florida (a swing state) and Texas (a solidly Republican state) are solidly Democratic.
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