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About the Playshare Scheme
The scheme is an answer to the problems many teachers experience finding suitable material for performance in examinations at all levels and the large cast demands of the school play. It aims to build up a stock of suitable plays written by teachers, who understand the demands and needs of schools and colleges.
Teacher / writers receive a quarter of the amount for each sale. The rewards will not be enormous financially but will be satisfying nonetheless. Teachers retain their copyright and are free to seek for sale with a mainstream publisher should they wish. The only proviso is that if their work should be accepted by such a publisher, then Dramaworks must be informed and their play will immediately be withdrawn from the Playshare Scheme. This is to avoid infringement of copyright laws.
Please note that Playshare Scheme plays cannot be ordered/downloaded online.
- A Christmas Carol
- A Good Cause (pdf 55kb)
- Adam and Eve (pdf 112kb)
- Adventure on Algenib
- Alexander
- All about Jenny (pdf 45kb)
- All Change (pdf 75kb)
- Beautiful Inside
- Behind the Wire (pdf 40kb)
- Being a Grown Up (pdf 60kb)
- Big Hair Day
- Breath
- Bully Boy
- Bully for You
- Closing Me In (pdf 35kb)
- Coming Closer (pdf 90kb)
- Devil in the Shadows
- Dirty Money
- Dracula
- Famous and Forgotten
- Flat Spin
- Flat Spin 2
- God Rest Ye Merry Businessmen (pdf 45kb)
- Ghosthunters
- Inside Sam's Head
- In the Shadows of the Attic (pdf 65kb)
- It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To
- Lysistrata
- Marked
- Mary's Story
- Monkey
- Pinocchio (pdf 185kb)
- Punching Judy (pdf 65kb)
- Sheherezade
- Shadows of an Outlaw
- Sindrella
- Small World (pdf 77kb)
- Suspicion (pdf 47kb)
- Terror (pdf 35kb)
- The Changeling Princess
- The Chance of a Lifetime
- The Cuckoo Clock (pdf 87kb)
- The Fame Thing (pdf 62kb)
- The Female Mind< (pdf 90kb)/li>
- The Joker (pdf 40kb)
- The Lasses of the Haaf Gruney (pdf 67kb)
- The Lost Ones (pdf 72kb)
- The Reunion (pdf 117kb)
- The Revengers (pdf 45kb)
- The Snow Queen (pdf 40kb)
- The Story of Maggie Reid
- The Village that Killed a Man
- The Watchers (pdf 60kb)
- Tontine
- Video Nasty (pdf 105kb)
- Waiting
- When Willie Comes Marching Home (pdf 65kb)
- Why Must I be a Teenager in Love?
- Woman in the Moon
- Working for the Company
- Year of the Strangers (pdf 42kb)
Click to see extracts on certain plays.
What You Get
With each order you will receive, in a nicely designed wallet file to keep everything together:
- A teacher's copy of the script presented as a Stage Management Book, with ruled facing pages for directions, FX cues, etc.
- A further unbound copy of the text, for photocopying whatever you will need for your cast.
- Detailed Production Notes and Suggestions which include: character notes; notes on style and the play's intentions; lighting, sound and FX cues; lists of properties and stage furnishings; practical suggestions on set, lighting, sound and costumes; practical suggestions, for the inexperienced director, on style and on tackling problems posed by the script.
All the above are in the Production Notes book, plus perhaps the most useful section of all, especially if you are not experienced in direction: a page by page breakdown of implications, practical suggestions and alternative ways of tackling the problems posed by the script. For instance, where the writer has suggested a blackout, the Production notes might suggest a piece of physical theatre to take the cast from one part of the script to the next, avoiding breaking up the flow of the piece with a black-out. Of course, for those unused to physical theatre, the notes will also suggest what form this physicalisation could take.
In addition, the cost covers the Performance rights, which can be very expensive if you are undertaking a public performance of, say, a school play.
Add all this to the fact that you do not have to buy multiple copies of the script, as you normally would for each member of the cast at, say, £6.00 per copy, and the price begins to look begins to look better and better!
Special Offer while Stocks last!
£6.00 Only:
THE LOST ONES by Jo Hardy. 4F, 2M. A private house in WW1 becomes a school in the 50s, then a modern correction-centre. Two WW1 ghosts and their diary link the three periods. approx 30 mins.
ALEXANDER – SON OF THE GODS by Damian Brant. min 6F, 12 M +M/F extras. approx 1hr. story of Alexander the Great, in classical verse style with physical theatre opportunities.
BULLYBOY by Joe Maingot. 6M. approx 25 mins. a sensitive boy regrets bullying a younger boy and runs away from boarding-school. serious subject but plenty of humour along the way.
INSIDE SAM'S HEAD by Marsali Taylor. 14F chars. approx 25 mins. about the experience of being deaf and other peoples' perceptions of it within a school environment.
MARY'S STORY by John Tarrant. 4F. approx 45 mins. Injustice and punishment in a school setting. Set in 1955 to discuss corporal punishment.
MONKEY by Damiam Brant. min 2F, 1M +6 either/or. better with larger cast. approx 40 mins. a troop of apes [played as humans with some ape like moves] discover the importance and dangers of individuality.
SUSPICION by Marsali Taylor. 13F chars. doubling poss. approx 30 mins. theme of gossip and the damage it can do in a school environment.
CHANCE OF A LIFETIME by Jo Hardy. 3F + 1/2M, or 4F + 1 M. approx 20 mins. what if you could just glance at a news page in the future, which shows the winning lottery numbers…?
THE FAME THING by Jo Hardy. multiple roles, min.2M,5F. Fame and how some make it, others don't. The inflated importance we give to celebrities. Thought-provoking. approx 25 mins.
THE LASSES OF THE HAAF GRUNEY by Marsali Taylor. 4F, 1M. Old Shetland Isle story of two sisters lost at sea who fetched up in Norway. Dialect play. Some flexibility in cast. approx 25 mins.
THE STORY OF MAGGIE REID by Marsali Taylor. 5F, 3M. approx 30 mins. ture tale of a 19th century girl who killed herself when her sailor fiance, believed dead, turned up after she had married his father.
VIDEO NASTY by Michael Theodorou. 3F, 7M + extras. approx 45 mins. naturalistic dialogue round youth/street crime, linking it with video violence. includes follow-up work/ resource pack.
WHEN WILLIE COMES MARCHING HOME by Joe Maingot. 4M. What is heroism? A father loses both sons in the 2nd World war. Were they heroes? Strong well-developed characters. approx 25 mins.
£8.00 Only:
ADVENTURE ON ALGENIB by Marsali Taylor. – 44 or more mixed cast, can double. full length. suit Yrs 5/6/7. astronaut explorers think they are the most advanced beings in space – but are they?
£12.00 Only:
BEING A GROWN-UP by Chris Walker. adaptable cast numbers and sexes. Can be a full-length script, or with scenes covering separate subjects could be used for exam purposes.
FAMOUS AND FORGOTTEN by Andrew Colley and Fiona Ross [music]. 20 plus mixed cast. full length docu – musical. true story of a Preston ladies' football team team in the First World War.
SHADOWS OF AN OUTLAW by Andy Limd and Roy Civil [music]. 30 plus mixed cast. full length musical. wheel-chair bound Wild West outlaw sends his 3 daughters to complete his unfinished tasks…
THE FEMALE MIND by Chris Walker. 8F, 6M min, adaptable cast, multiple roles. What makes women tick? A humorous investigation into the female psyche and attitudes. Enormous fun! Full-length play
Smaller Cast Plays Suitable for Examination Scripts or Festivals
|All Female Cast
|FLAT SPIN by Marsali Taylor. 6/7 F. approx 25 mins. an unselfish act amongst University students sharing a student flat. Realistic setting and situation.
|FLAT SPIN 2 by Marsali Taylor. 8F doubling poss. approx 25 min. the same students try to persuade their difficult landlady they are fit tenants for another year. Comical Fun.
|IT'S MY PARTY and I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO by Jo Hardy. 5F. approx 30 mins. snappy role-swapping, physical piece about the dark and light sides of being a teenager. Challenging but fun.
|BEAUTIFUL INSIDE by Jo Hardy. 5, 6 rr 7F. approx 25 mins. the dangers of peer pressure and its effect on personal image. Anorexia.
|*WORKING FOR THE COMPANY by Andrew Shakeshaft. 4F. approx 30 mins. futuristic idea – what if the cultivation of drugs was government funded and big business? Serious piece.
|*WOMAN IN THE MOON by Jeni Whittaker. 8F. approx 45 mins. the female role and differing views of marriage. Useful piece for Performing Arts exams, involving music and dance opportunities.
|*COMING CLOSER by Jeni Whittaker. 4, 5 or 6 F, flexible cast, 30 mins approx. A tale in a physical and narrative theatre style about the murder of a young girl. Don't trust even female strangers.
|THE WATCHERS by Jeni Whittaker. Half hour play 5F, but flexible. Spooky neighbours harass a new arrival to the neighbourhood. Role-swapping and physical/ chorus work throughout.
|All Male Cast
|*DIRTY MONEY by Joe Maingot. 5M. approx 25 mins. when big business clashes with personal integrity, who is the winner? Bush and the Iraq war the background for the play.
|CLOSING ME IN Jeni Whittaker. 30-40 min play. 5M. Rebellion in a modern-day big corporation, where pressure and expectations have become too high. Physical theatre and strong characters.
|Mixed Cast
|A GOOD CAUSE by Marsali Taylor. 5F,4M or more, approx 40 mins. A story of family and
political conflict as we follow Janie Sandison and the Women's Suffrage Movement from 1910 onwards.
|ALL ABOUT JENNY by by Jo Hardy. 3F, 2M, OR 4F, 2M. approx 20 mins. Good exam script.
Jenny struggles with self-image issues. Boyfriend killed in London bombing.
|BIG HAIR DAY by Fiona Baddeley. 9F, 2M. approx 45 mins. comedy set in the 1970's in a hair salon, exploring the hopes and dreams of those who work there.
|BREATH by Nikki Atkin-Reeves. 4/5F, 2/3M. approx 20 mins. physically based piece which uses fairy-stories and nursery rhymes to explore the issue of stalking.
|*PUNCHING JUDY by Jo Hardy. 2F/1M. a teenage pregnancy ends tragically. accompanied by moving or still projected images and/or puppetry, this is a challenging, thought-provoking piece
|THE REUNION by John Tarrant. 7F, 3M. approx 30 mins. the contrast between the aspirations of a group of pupils and what has happened to them ten years after leaving school.
|ALL CHANGE by Jo Hardy. 2M, 3F. Making us aware of the consequences of our actions . If we had a chance, is it possible to alter what we have set in motion? Strong characters. approx 30 mins.
|THE JOKER Jo Hardy. 23F/2M, 4F/1M or 4F/2M, 5F/1M approx 30 mins. The dangers of on-line gambling. Interesting characters and some physical theatre opportunities.
|*BEHIND THE WIRE by Jo Hardy. 4F/1M approx 30 mins. Set around a women's labour/concentration camp with echoes of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Strong characterisation.
|ALL ABOUT JENNY by Jo Hardy. min 3F, 2M. approx 20 mins. Jenny struggles with no confidence. She changes when James, her boyfriend, is a victim of a train-bomb. Physical theatre opportunities.
|TERROR (pdf) Jeni Whittaker, 30-40min play. flexible cast, approximately 4F, 4M. The build up to a terrorist bomb placed in a busy shopping mall on a Saturday morning. Physical style, role-swapping, Chorus work.
Of the above, most are more suited to GCSE level.
* Could be used at A level. They have sufficient character depth and/or impact through presentation style.
|Large Cast Plays and Musicals – Festival-length to full-length[Includes Plays for Younger Students. These are indicated.]
|BULLY FOR YOU by John Tarrant. mixed cast of 18, could be all F, could be less cast with doubling. approx 40 mins. ages 11 – 14. bullying and how to cope with it.
|A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Michael Theodorou. 9F + 24M or up to 22F + 11M. approx 45 mins. a charming new rendering of the well-known story. ideal for Xmas end of term.
|PINOCCHIO by Jeni Whittaker. mixed cast, or single sex. 14 – any number. suit Yrs 5,6 or 7. approx 25 mins. physical theatre re-interpretation of trad. story, including whole cast all the time.
|THE CUCKOO CLOCK by Michael Theodorou. mixed cast 30 plus. adapted from Victorian childrens' book. Suit Years 5,6,7,8. Could involve even younger children. Full – length. Lonely orphan Griselda is shown a magical world by the cuckoo clock.
|TONTINE by Marsali Taylor. 14F / 3M. approx 35 mins. the appalling facts about the young women who worked in the French silk manufacturing businesses in the 18th century.
|SHEHEREZADE by Jeni Whittaker. 41 mixed cast speaking cast, much doubling possible. suit Yrs 7/8. approx 1hr. how our heroine tricks her husband to save her life through telling stories [Arabian Nights].
|WAITING by Nikki Atkin-Reeves. mixed cast, min. 18, of which at least 6M. approx 1hr. teen and life issues in a physical theatre format – waiting for life, death, good or bad news, or just queuing!
|WHY MUST I BE A TEENAGER IN LOVE? by Michael Hatfield. – mixed cast of 31, doubling possible. approx 1hr. fun script about gangs, acceptance, boy-girl stuff and rock'n'roll!
|THE DEVIL IN THE SHADOWS by Andrew Shakeshaft. all M cast. min 15 M + extras. approx 1hr. suit Yrs 8/9. different `take' on the Grendel/Beowulf story. mix of drama, physical theatre poss. and humour.
|GHOSTHUNTERS by Jeni Whittaker. – 55 speaking parts, mixed or single sex [orig. for M], doubling poss. approx 1hr. suit Yrs 6/7. 5 plays within play. spoofs Harry Potter, James Bond etc.
|THE CHANGELING PRINCESS by Marsali Taylor. 38 or more mixed cast, can double. full length. suit Yrs 6/7/8/9. humorous fun panto-style play without lovey-dovey bits.
|MARKED by Nikki Atkin-Reeves. 18F, min 6M with doubling. full length. explores attitudes to the mentally disturbed and care in the community. thoughtful, often funny. strong characters.
|DRACULA by Michael Theodorou. up to 40 mixed cast, min. 6F / 7M with extras. full length play. serious adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel. needs strong technical effects.
|LYSISTRATA by Michael Theodorou. 12F / 9M, + chorus of men and chorus of women. full length play. an accessible modern English version of Aristophanes' original. Fun, lively and lewd!
|THE VILLAGE THAT KILLED A MAN by Michael Hatfield. min 1OF / 13M or more. full length play. strong, physical a, passionate – and often funny adaptation of 'Fuente Ovejuna' by Lope de Vega.
|SINDERELLA, QUEEN OF THE NIGHT by Chris Walker. mixed cast of between 37-50! can be just 3M, the rest F. very good fun Vampire version of Cinderella story with a difference – a spoof.
|YEAR OF THE STRANGERS by Marsali Taylor. 8F, 6M suitable for upper primary or middle schools. approx 50 mins. Follows the assimilation of a Polish family into a British school.
|THE SNOW QUEEN by Jo Hardy. Large mixed cast, or can be doubled down to 15-20. Suitable for Years 7-10. A fun modern retelling of the traditional Hans Andersen story. approx 1 hr 15mins
|GOD REST YE MERRY BUSINESSMEN by Jo Hardy. 10-15 chars, mixed cast mainly F. Could be all F. Very good modern take on Christmas Carol story. Suitable for Year 10 upwards. approx 45mins
|THE REVENGERS (pdf) by William Meadows. Full-length play. 21 fairly evenly mixed cast. Excellent fun based on the best-known of Shakespeare's characters and scenes. Ideal school play.
|ADAM AND EVE (pdf) by Terence Brady. Full-length play. 2M, 1F with poss. chorus. Very witty dialogue. A talented trio of young actors could pull this off, or plunder it for good exam dialogues. Based on Mark Twain's story.
Postage & Packing is included in the prices shown above.
Further Questions Answered
Before I commit so much money, how do I know what I am getting and whether it will be suitable?
Click the title of any play on this website and you will receive:
cast list; character notes; an idea of what the play is about and its themes; sample pages of script from different parts of the play and sample pages of production notes.
Will Exam Boards accept these plays as texts in a scripted performance examination?
The answer is 'Yes.' These plays are 'published' by DRAMAWORKS. All of the plays accepted – and they are chosen carefully from the many sent by teachers – have been performed successfully [so we know they work] and many have won awards in festivals for new scripts.
Are more plays needed?
YES!! Please keep sending them to me. We need plenty more – especially plays for single-sex casts, short and full-length.
Dramaworks is looking for short plays of around 15-20 minutes duration, with either all female, or predominantly female characters with a view to publication and distribution. Plays of a similar length for an all-male cast are also welcome. Also for new plays and musicals of any length, suitable for school use.
Most questions will be answered if you look at the details given for each play. Otherwise, Jeni will be happy to answer questions if you contact her.


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In every statistic you would want a young pitcher to improve upon, Arrieta has done so. Strikeout rate? He's striking out 8.07 batters per nine innings after striking out 5.94/9 in his first two seasons. Walk rate? He's slashed his walk rate from 4.39 BB/9 in his first two seasons to 2.49 BB/9 this season. As a result, his FIP has gone from 5.08 in his first two seasons to 3.88 this year.
As long as Arrieta continues to pitch as he has this season -- the same way that's gotten him a 3.88 FIP and 3.65 xFIP -- he may just become a consistent, #3 starter that the Orioles desperately need behind Jason Hammel and Wei-Yin Chen.
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Interesting. The fact that rpm STILL locks up is enough to make me reconsider installing it. Perhaps it's another Debian system for my next box.
This is a fair and somewhat lenghty review of Fedora Core 1, Red Hats free version of Linux."Fedora Core 1 has been out now for a few days now and many faithful Linux fans have already installed it. Red Hat's Linux is still one of my favorite distributions because of one main reason: compatibility with Linux software. Red Hat is a market leader and following the market leader assures the least trouble for most users. But is this the case with Fedora Core?"
Interesting. The fact that rpm STILL locks up is enough to make me reconsider installing it. Perhaps it's another Debian system for my next box.
A review coming from the one person on earth who refuses to believe that BeOS was flawed and worse yet still lives on..
Personally Fedora is one of my personal favorite OSes, it's very polished and the biggest problem is that which plagues all rpm distros, due to the format you need every binary to be compiled against the very same dependencies you have on your PC, thus the software poll is smaller than on Debian or something like Gentoo.
I did find that Fedora caused some problems in that the rhn-applet would crash when facing a large task, but other than that Fedora is largely a fine OS. I have yet to see RPM crash under the taskset I had for it, that included installing Mozilla and a JRE for Mozilla (using the semi official rpms).
Eugenia blames Fedora for stuff they can't help:
Lack of mp3 support - that's a legal issue, every distro should consider removing this malfeature, and encourage the use of ogg vorbis... lawyers will cause problems at some point if we do not take precautions.
Lack of nVidia driver - legal issue as well, nVidia doesn't allow anyone to supply packaed drivers, not even microsoft are allowed this, you have to download the drivers seperately (using windows update on Windows if detected)
Lack of popular plugins - legal issue, cannot be distributed in most cases or depends on stuff that cannot be distributed.
eugenia doesnt know shit, shes a lil bitch :-X just something i have picked up on watching osnews and her comments
eugenia is a girl
[quote author=burntash link=board=19;threadid=8116;start=0#msg73783 date=1068713054]
eugenia doesnt know shit
I'd be inclined to agree. The girl has really good taste in desktop aesthetics and themes and such, but her reviews are for the most part useless.
Anyway I'll be holding back on Fedora until they get that RPM thing fixed. That plagued me to no end in RH8 and to some extent in RH9. Plus I've thought it through, and for the time being I'm extremely happy with Debian. Things are working just perfectly, it's easy to maintain, and quite fast. Next step is assembling an old 233 MHz box and randomly experiment. I take it Fedora wouldn't run so hot on one of those babys?
I thought she had some really good points. I can't remember who, but someone on the board had a similar if not same problem with flash on Fedora.
In Fedora's defense it is a beta Linux distro and isn't really ment for people to use out side of fun-and-games desktop.
[quote author=Ashcrow link=board=19;threadid=8116;start=0#msg73798 date=1068742498]
In Fedora's defense it is a beta Linux distro and isn't really ment for people to use out side of fun-and-games desktop.
Actually if you want to parallel it to something, its really RHL 10. The betas were severn and shit.
But anyway, I actually find my self agreeing with LC. The broad is a moron, and for the most part crying about things that exist in most distros, much less the most popular ones out there.
I ended up in the end using SuSE instead of fedora (for reasons I won't go into here) but I have to agree with the popular consensus here, Eugenia doesn't know very much. She is a chick though so she gets cut a lot of slack.
The biggest complaint I see is the RPM issues, which are not unique to RPM at all. "Dependency Hell" is a package issue, not an RPM issue. Anytime you package things up with dependency checking you introduce the possibility of "Dependency Hell". The reason is simple, different people package software differently. Mandrake might compile a small program that includes some libs as program-1.0.rpm and program-dev-1.0.rpm, whereas RH maybe packages it all togethor. (This is a made up example obviously.) Now, I program something that uses that programs libs, and make an RPM, and I use RH so in my rpm I require program-dev >= 1.0, and suddenly it breaks on Mandrake.
Now, before the debian guys jump up and down with glee to bash RPM, you can remove every instance of RPM up there and replace it with DEB because the problems are potentially the same. The reason .deb's haven't had them as much (they have had them) is because how many .deb distributions are there and how is their market share? Debian is by far the largest, and the debian based distributions are relatively close to debian. As more debian based distributions emerge, there will be an increasing chance the packaging will seperate. Someone will compile all their packages against a cutting edge release glibc that won't run on the older, Eugenia will review debian and try to install the .deb compiled on the wrong distribution and whine about deb packages being broke.
My own strategy is to grab .src.rpm's and modify the .spec when needed. (I then throw them on an apt repository and apt-get them from my computers.)
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eugenia is a girl
51% of the worlds population is statistically women, if you haven't run into oneyet I would suggest looking out the windows once in a while - I can really recommend them, they are cuddly like fluffy penguin toys.


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I promised a video to go with last month's recipe for this fantastic mushroom and potato pizza from Provence (Rustic Wild Mushroom and Potato Pizza), a recipe from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. I did it outside, on the grill with a stone, so here it is. A few things:
- Grill temp: Though some of the stones say to crank the gas grill as high as it can go, we've found that pizza done this way scorches on the bottom before the toppings are hot. I used about 500 degrees F by by grill's thermometer (250 C). Today I used the Emile Henry Flame Top Pizza Stone, which worked beautifully (give it a 20 to 30 minute pre-heat)
- Baking without a stone: That works too; follow the directions here if you want to go for a crisper, smokier effect. We'll have much more on that in our upcoming pizza book (pre-order on Amazon).
- Advantages of the Emile Henry stone: Really liked this product; one very nice feature is how light it is– much lighter than traditional ceramic stones or cast-iron. Despite that, it retains and transmits heat just like traditional materials. The glazed surface is easier to clean than the rougher traditional ceramic. Also, unlike traditional, you can put this into the dishwasher after scraping it off.
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wow, thanks a lot...
This is the second time I experienced this problem and it has become quite a bother. Two of my computers (old and a new one I got a while ago) are now suffering from what I can only describe as a "distorted desktop".
After copying an image from Microsoft Paint to Microsoft Word, I began adjusting its brightness and contrast. After I was done, I copied the newly edited image (in Microsoft Word) and pasted it to my desktop. A window popped out and asked me to specify a title for this image, so that it could be saved to my desktop. The next thing you know, my entire wallpaper worsened in quality (distorted if that's the word) and looked like my resolution was reduced or something. Now no matter what wallpaper I use I get this distorted version of it, and changing the resolution does not help at all.
This is not the only thing thought. All the icons on my desktop acquired these auras, or shadows of a color that can be set by clicking the Right Mouse button Properties/Desktop/Color.
I can't get rid of these things, and they are bothering me very much, especially that I basically just bought my new monitor and get to see this poor quality image on my desktop.
This is a Microsoft forum and this problem occurred because of a Microsoft program and on Windows XP, so I really hope to receive an answer here (I failed elsewhere).
Thank you in advance,
These are two images of my desktop, two different versions, so that you can see the persisting problem I am experiencing.
Wallpaper and Desktop Style N1
Wallpaper and Desktop Style N2
wow, thanks a lot...
If I were you, I'd create another user account, and see if the problem persists on the new user account. If it doesn't, then just move your files and bookmarks over to the new account.
You might want to watch the attitude, though. Keep in mind that this is a forum manned by volunteers, and everyone reponds if thye have the time and inclination. A response like your second post just makes people less likely to help you.
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Here's a recipe for disaster:
1 part novelty
1 part hype
1 part economic efficiency
The result? The open office floorplan!
Yes, the once revolutionary solve-all for workplace collaboration, innovation and cultural reinvention has fallen on hard times. FastCo.Labs recently ran an article under the title, Death to the Open Office Floor Plan! which does a pretty good job of outlining what many people already know – sitting in a giant room, within earshot (and virus shot) of 40 co-workers may not be best for, well, much of anything. Last month Fast Company ran a piece on the Top 10 things people hate about open office which, after reading it, will likely lead you to utter aloud, "no kidding." It all seems pretty obvious really. So how did we in the creative world get here? Blame Jay Chiat. Wired certainly did.
Ok, not really, but certainly his legendary office transformation in L.A. kickstarted the trend. Opened in 1994, every employee got a laptop and a cell phone and entered the workplace, left to fend for themselves. Only a couple of years later, this concept was abandoned "to combat employees' overwhelmingly negative response." But Chiat was finished yet, the move ushered in a new era of creative workplace design. Chiat/Day moved to […] a vast warehouse designed for 500 employees by Clive Wilkinson Architects, are a microcosmic "Chiat town" of private and group work spaces and public "streets" and meeting places that provide for every kind of company activity. Staff members enjoy kaffeeklatsches in a "Central Park," mingle on a "main street" and have a work space they can call home in surrounding "neighborhoods."
That 1998 New York Times piece was followed two years later by an essay in The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell. Now this is pre-Tipping Point Gladwell, but it's got all the elements of a great Gladwell piece. He brings in some arcane reference points, niche experts and weaves an fascinating story on workplace design, referencing the Chiat/Day office evolutions. Gladwell, as Gladwell does so well, writes convincingly about group dynamics, psychology and human behaviors, all the while lacing it with expert testimony from people like an M.I.T. researcher who found that if colleagues were stationed too far apart, they rarely interacted, and in fact were more likely to engage with someone outside their office (and this was before email and the Internet!) than a co-worker on the other side of the building. And so Chiat's Office Reinvention 2.0, an urban city concept seems an intriguing one. How we got from there to people staring at screens and wearing headphones is another story. [You can read the full Gladwell piece here].
In a more recent New Yorker piece, Maria Konnikova writes: In 2011, the organizational psychologist Matthew Davis reviewed more than a hundred studies about office environments. He found that, though open offices often fostered a symbolic sense of organizational mission, making employees feel like part of a more laid-back, innovative enterprise, they were damaging to the workers' attention spans, productivity, creative thinking, and satisfaction.
And so creative agencies in recent years have looked for other ways to promote creativity and innovation. Jorge Barba of the Game Changer blog recently wrote about office design and innovation, noting, "Up there with "innovation", "lean startup"and "design thinking", the latest word to make it to buzzword-bingo is "Lab".
Writing for the Influx Insights blog in 2010, Ed Cotton notes that, "[h]aving a "lab" mentality is a must for agencies today." He cites efforts by BBH and Ogilvy in this area, noting their different approaches to the idea. Creative Bloq takes an even deeper dive into agency labs in this piece, concluding, "If we can learn anything about labs from the agencies we spoke to, it's that without them you can easily miss fantastic opportunities – not just to identify emerging technology and ideas, but to find brilliant people willing to push your agency to the next level."
But ultimately it's not the office layout that determines collaboration. Christening an area as your "Lab" doesn't guarantee superior creativity. Those attributes are the result of culture and that's determined by who you hire and the people in charge of leading the organization. Every agency is different – location and clients being just two factors – and who (and how) you hire is a far greater influence on culture that office design. But even more important is the mindset and actions of the people at the top. They set the tone and if innovation and collaboration are not just what they talk about, but who they are, then the rest of the agency will take their lead.
Is that enough however, or is there another factor at play? More so than office design, is the size of the agency an inhibitor to great work? Maybe it's not open floor plan per se that is the problem, but rather than agencies try to fit 50 or 60 people into that model. Does open floor plan work better with 10 people or less? Does collaboration in general have an equivalent to Dunbar's Number? Perhaps, rather than putting the entire planning department together, or an entire agency, in one big room, the answer is to create a series of smaller open areas where teams can congregate is the right option. I'm sure this happens at many agencies, I've certainly been a part of ad hoc 'war rooms' for big pitches or other temporary projects, but maybe that should be instituted on a more formal, permanent basis.


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Ready to return to the final frontier?
The full teaser trailer for "Star Trek Into Darkness" was released over the weekend in front of "The Hobbit" -- but if you missed it then, we've got it for you now!
Starring Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto, the sequel to the 2009 reboot follows Captain Kirk as he "leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction."
Many have speculated Benedict Cumberbatch's villain will be Khan (of "Wrath of Khan" fame) ... but the new trailer doesn't do much to confirm the online rumors.
It is, however, packed full of explosions, erupting volcanoes, a Spock/Uhura kiss, one bloodcurdling scream and J.J. Abrams' signature lens flares.
The movie opens May 17, 2013. Are you as excited about this flick as we are?
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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, ten times the size of the earth. With its permanent storms, great red spot, axial rotation of approximately ten hours and its family of Moons, everything about Jupiter is larger than life, active, turbulent, stormy and grand. In Greek mythology, Jupiter-Zeus was king of the Gods and ruler of Mount Olympus. As the youngest and most fortunate of all his brothers and sisters, who were swallowed at birth by their father Saturn-Cronos, Jupiter was protected in his youth, leading a charmed existence. When he grew up he became his father's cup-bearer and gave him a brew which caused Saturn-Cronos to vomit up all his previously swallowed brothers and sisters. From this moment on, Saturn was banished to the outermost reaches of the solar system and Jupiter became king of the Gods, ruling on Mount Olympus.
An image of Jupiter releasing his eagles into the world, from Atalanta fugiens (1618), an alchemical text by Michael Maier.
In the horoscope, Jupiter expands whatever it touches. Jupiter describes what we believe in, what we have faith in, where we are optimistic, confident and expect things to go well for us. Jupiter is our personal cornucopia, the horn of plenty which never runs dry. It is playful, restless, fertile, easily bored, always seeking new adventures and wider horizons. Jupiter is imaginative and creative and likes to do things in a big way. It lends conviction. As the planet of faith, Jupiter describes our belief system, our philosophy and our sense of what makes life worth living, indicating where we seek to grow, to expand and find meaning in our lives. Jupiter describes our sense of abundance and our spiritual wellbeing. Like a balloon, Jupiter tends to go on expanding until it bursts dramatically. However often it crashes and burns, there is normally enough faith to begin again and repeat the expansion all over again.
Jupiter gives us a feeling of omnipotence, and describes how and where we 'play god', riding roughshod over other people's feelings and sensitivities. There can be a remarkable hubris and arrogance where Jupiter is in the chart. It describes where and how we are likely be become inflated and where we can be boastful, patronising and condescending. Jupiter can't bear limitation and as such can describe where we are discontented and greedy, always wanting more. An inflated or fanatical Jupiter reveals a distortion of the archetypal quality of this planet. At root, Jupiter is the gift of enthusiasm and faith.
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David has a Jupiter-Mars connection. How would you interpret this?
Audience: Could he have a philosophy or belief in war?
Clare: Absolutely. He may be very interested, for example, in war games. He may be one of those people who dresses up in uniform and re-enacts the scenes of historical battles. At any rate, he is likely to be someone who fights (Mars) for a cause (Jupiter), a crusader. He will have a strong belief (Jupiter) in strength and potency (Mars). There is something larger than life (Jupiter) about his need to assert and defend himself (Mars).
Sally has an interesting combination of planets connected to Jupiter - Sun, Moon, Venus and Mars. Let's look at these separately. The Jupiter-Sun aspect tells us something about Sally's innate personal (Sun) faith and optimism (Jupiter). There will be something larger than life (Jupiter) about her, and she is likely to be generous and gregarious (Jupiter). She will have experienced her father (Sun) as a larger than life character, exciting and adventurous, perhaps even godlike (Jupiter). Depending on the other chart factors, she may even have found him overwhelming (Jupiter). She is generous, buoyant, enthusiastic, and possibly arrogant, unrealistic and over-optimistic.
The Jupiter-Moon combination describes Sally's expansive and exaggerated (Jupiter) feelings (Moon). She can easily find herself on an emotional (Moon) rollercoaster (Jupiter) as her feelings expand and contract (Moon) dramatically (Jupiter). She will be instinctively (Moon) optimistic (Jupiter), and needs (Moon) plenty of freedom, adventure and opportunity (Jupiter). Her mother (Moon) is likely to be generous, optimistic or philosophical (Jupiter), someone who taught her that life is an adventure to be explored whenever possible (Jupiter).
Jupiter-Venusindicates that Sally will have a love (Venus) of travel (Jupiter) and an appreciation (Venus) of other cultures and religions (Jupiter). She has a great capacity (Jupiter) for enjoyment (Venus), and is likely to be attracted to (Venus) people who can help her develop her knowledge and experience (Jupiter) and to any new adventures (Jupiter).
As with David's chart, the Jupiter-Mars combination indicates that Sally is likely to have enormous (Jupiter) physical energy (Mars) and will believe in (Jupiter) fighting for a cause (Mars).
Now that we have looked at each of these Jupiter connections, are you getting a sense of Sally's personality?
Audience: Yes, she certainly seems larger than life. I am not sure I like her, though. Too over- the-top for me.
Audience: This is a tremendously enthusiastic person. I expect she is very generous and loving, the sort of person who would leap in to rescue you if you needed her. But could you trust her at the end of the day?
Clare: Well, it is perfectly possible that the next time you phoned her you would probably find she had left the country on another adventure.
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Going-South, cycling through the Americas
Despite great technological advancement, an environmental crisis still threatens this planet. Four adventurous people from Sweden, Spain and the UK take on the challenge of a lifetime. In eight months they cycle through the American continents, covering 16,765 miles and 17 countries in search of solutions to combat climate change. Along the way they find mesmerising beauty, endure hardship and face reality. Will their quest succeed? Their adventures will be shown in the documentary film Going South, cycling through the Americas.
From the most Northern point of Alaska 'Prudhoe Bay' to the most Southern point of Argentina 'Ushuaia' we encounter the effects of climate change. The four cyclists look for innovations that contribute to the situation where humankind lives in equilibrium with the natural environment, by following the motto of: People, Planet and Profit. They visit solutions from individuals, multinationals and NGO' s. Initiatives that already contribute to this new way of living.
They found Katadyn to be the perfect partner for their project. We sponsored them with a Katadyn Pocket filter and they love it. Read their blog entry on bottled water to know why.
One of our cyclists:
"I look forward to this exciting and wonderful journey. I want to show the appalling environmental issues, but also the social problems in the many regions that we will pass through. I am convinced that this project will make it possible to show all the small, and mostly anonymous, environmental projects that are contributing to a better world. They deserve to be heard. "
Along our journey we meet inspiring people, innovative projects and exhilarating landscapes. Every region has its own uniqueness and distinctive marks. From isolated areas like deserts and tropical rain forests, to fizzing cities and agricultural industries. The contrasting landscapes bring us into contact with the different inhabitants on earth. We search for innovations in six themes: land use, food chain, waste, energy, redesign, and mobility.
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Tanu Weds Manu
"Tanu Weds Manu" is based on the age-old belief that marriages are made in heaven. It is a love story of two completely opposite people -- Tanu and Manu. Manu is a seedha saadha Doctor from London. Intelligent, temperate and from a respectable family, the perfect groom which every parent wants for their daughter. Family pressure leads him to Kanpur to meet Tanu the quintessential small town girl who has studied in Delhi.
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Have any of you been following this hashtag lately? It's absolutely brilliant!
What started with one neuroscientist, dr_Leigh, venting her frustration (and sense of humour!) with her student by tweeting that ' incubation lasted three days because this is how long the undergrad forgot the experiment in the fridge #overlyhonestmethods', has snowballed into loads of other scientists around the world revealing the often-hilarious realities of life in the lab.
For any of us who have been there, rigging up experiments with make-do-and-mend equipment (I used to call it the 'scotch tape and toothpicks method') the tweets ring true and will make you laugh (with agreement and relief). For those who haven't been there, reading these tweets brings a refreshing blast of honesty to sweep away some of the misconceptions that laypeople have about scientists.
Guess what- they are just like everyone else!
Their work is often confusing and messy. They are overworked, underpaid and fuelled by caffeine, sometimes they cut corners, like anyone who gets tired of repeating the same lengthy process a dozen times over. Occasionally that corner-cutting leads to a new method, and better results. Sometimes they spend far too long thinking of witty titles for their papers, because it might mean getting published in a higher-impact journal- just like the newspapers favour attention grabbing headlines. Sometimes they set off explosions just to see what happens!
The real nature of science is not perfect experiments designed to demonstrate an unequivocal point, carried out by stern geniuses who never crack a smile- scientists are not just their job- they are people like any of us, who mess up all the time, but try again and learn something from it- even if its just to set a timer on their experiments!
Your students might be amused, and pleasantly surprised to see some of the tweets… Hooray for #overlyhonestmethods- keep it rolling!


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Bridgeforth, a freshman at Grand Haven High School, has been at the center of some race-related incidents at the school.
Hall and several other parents spoke out about the incidents at Monday night's school board meeting in Central High School's gym.
The Grand Haven school district is under local and federal investigations following a series of incidents at the high school involving KKK-like apparel and a racial slur written on a school bus window.
In September 2012, Bridgeforth said a student wore a KKK-like mask after school before a fight broke out. Later in the year, Bridgeforth said she and a friend overheard a conversation on a bus ride home in which a girl said the world would be a better place if all African-Americans went back to Africa and all Hispanics went back to Mexico.
After those incidents, Hall filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. In December, the agency launched an investigation into the incidents.
In February, Bridgeforth and her friend were the direct subjects of harassment as they rode the bus home from school. According to Bridgeforth, some male students on the bus said, "Look at those n----s over there. I'll give you $5 if you (have sex with) one of them."
Hall told the school board the district has let her down in the way it has handled the incidents.
"There's no excuse for it," she said.
Hall said she hoped the school district's staff will become better educated about racism, and programs are set in place for students to come forward and report incidents.
"I want you to feel her pain," Hall told the board.
School board President Chris Houghtaling thanked Hall for her comments.
Megan Rohn also expressed her frustration to the board regarding the lack of notification when her son, Patrick Gardener, was brought into the school's office and falsely accused of writing a racial slur on the side window of Bus No. 1. Gardner, a freshman, previously said he was accused of writing, "Kill all n-----s."
After reviewing the bus' surveillance videos, school officials determined Gardner was innocent.
High school Principal Tracy Wilson said she couldn't say what was written on the bus because of the open investigations, but it didn't contain the word "kill."
Rohn said she felt like the school was failing the students during these situations.
Joni Dunn, the mother of Bridgeforth's friend who was with her during both bus incidents, told the school board that her daughter has been through more than any child should.
Dunn said she drove her daughter and Bridgeforth to school on Monday because the girls didn't want to ride the bus. When they arrived at the school, both girls put their hoods on like they were ashamed, Dunn said.
"They are girls, not colors," Dunn said.
Amber Love told the board that her son, Isaac, reported an incident to her and she contacted the school about it. Love said she felt nothing was done and the school failed her son.
"These acts are appalling," she said.
Love said students need to receive stronger consequences for their actions to learn that their actions follow them.
Paula Kendra, a member of the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance Board of Directors, urged the school board to expand beyond training for administrators and optional programs for students. She challenged the board to make it a mandatory aspect of the curriculum for all grades.
On Monday, Wilson e-mailed the school's parents a copy of the announcement she read over the school's public address system to staff and students that morning. Her announcement addressed current educational aspects the school participates in — including Calling All Colors, Restorative Circles, Capturing Kids Hearts, Anti-Bullying/Bucs Above Bullying, Team GH and Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance's Institute for Healing Racism.
Wilson also addressed the ongoing investigations, and said the district is cooperating with the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department and the Office of Civil Rights.
"We do not take any of these types of situations lightly and will continue to uphold our Student Code of Conduct," she said in her statement.
Andre Daley, associate executive director of the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance, told the school board that it's a challenging and complex issue. He said the good news is that the agency is working with the school district to address the issues through educational training and providing students with the resources to speak up.
The bad news, Daley said, is that such incidents still arise. To combat that, Daley said it needs to be looked at beyond the school campus.
"We need to look at the broader community context," he said.
Grand Haven Area Public Schools Superintendent Keith Konarska said he appreciates the community's input, and it is important for the board and himself to hear their heartfelt and sincere comments.
With the help of the diversity alliance, Konarska said they are bringing the issue to the community for resolution. He said they plan to engage residents through a committee to begin a broader dialogue about expecting tolerance.
"If one child feels harassed or threatened, it's one child too many," he said.
Houghtaling said they will continue to educate students and staff about combatting racism, and will do whatever it takes to make sure all children feel comfortable attending school.
"It's my goal to make sure that happens," he said.


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Knoll enjoys brand recognition throughout the world for its modern classics as well as groundbreaking new products formulated under new designer partnerships. Few companies can match the array of Knoll products, which combine a modernist aesthetic with residential appeal. This point of view nurtured by Florence Knoll, has become the trademark of Knoll design. Today, it connects to a new generation seeking workplaces and homes that are comfortable for and beautiful for everyday living.
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Ball fields in Carbon County are filled with youth almost daily in the spring and summer months. Currently, Cal Ripken Little League, Babe Ruth Baseball and American Legion are using the various ball fields for either games or practices. This past season, between the three organizations (including Cal Ripken softball), there were 661 participants in the county. The leagues are designed to play teams from each city which means local teams are traveling between Helper, Price and Wellington for their games. In addition, between Babe Ruth and American Legion, there are now over 20 teams traveling into the county for league and tournament play.
All three affiliations are proactive in a tobacco free environment. Each league has adopted the official rule banning the use of tobacco products by the players, coaches, team representatives, and umpires. An ordinance prohibiting the use of tobacco products around the perimeter of the field would support the efforts to maintain a healthy lifestyle, promote proper role models by the supporters, diminish the littering of cigarette butts and make the experience at the ball fields more enjoyable for the players and their supporters.
We strongly urge our city councils to establish an ordinance that supports the tobacco free rule established by our league affiliations and protects our youth and their families from the dangers of tobacco use at the ball fields.
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Welcome to the forums! We have been seeing a lot of spammers recently, so it is good to have a real person join up!
Hey folks,
Guv here from Guvnr.com.
Can't believe I didn't come across LHN before. Have been dotting i's and crossing t's at the sheer comprehensive brilliance that is this site's networking guide, wanted to say thank you somewhere and then found this forum with 130k's ... so that's a lot of hellos.
I've been buggering up pc's for years but only made the break to Linux a couple of years ago, and properly more recently when I made the break for an unmanaged VPS .. I was so impressed with my shiny new Nginx box that I blogged the process in noob-speak, and hopefully that's handy to some, easily Googled...
Set up an Unmanaged VPS for Newbies - The VPS Bible
(... I am always grateful for feedback and suggestions as this is a kind of living animal, not something written/forgotten.)
Since then I've written an intensive Karmic setup guide, encouraging terminal use, and am currently writing a bunch of proxy guides, again all with a newbie slant.
... I guess my small contribution to opensource, having been helped myself *so much* over the years by onliners, is to help wean people off proprietary using simple language, which generally is all I am capable of anyhow.
Tx again .. I've not explored far here yet but, Christmas came early, that network guide alone is an absolute corker.
Welcome to the forums! We have been seeing a lot of spammers recently, so it is good to have a real person join up!
My sites: Linux Home Networking - Linux Quick Fix Notebook
tx Peter .. appreciate that.
Hello and welcome also! I will agree that the tutorials here are top-notch! We have Peter to thank for that, I am not totally sure if he wrote all of them, but I am positive that it was no small amount of work to get them all here.
...one thing guv, 'corker', thats a new one
Valencia and London? You must travel a bit then?
tx jro .. and a mighty tx to Peter if he wrote that networking guide. have been tying myself up in knots trying to configure a broken network, bridged with openvpn .. must have surfed close to 100 pages.
i saw nothing remotely as comprehensive as this guide. an especially tricky topic spelled out simply, quite rare.
I'm, well, not the model geek, and truth is it feels rather odd to have become quite so excited about NICS and whatnot. Comprehension is a wonderful thing.
Valencia and London, yes, long legs no quips .. my manor may be Med-side, but my landlord pours only the beloved barleyed Thames. And after all, some biz just oughtn't to be done online - and the missus agrees!
Must excuse my diction .. went astray somewhere or other (quite possibly down the pub.)
Wow, I almost didn't understand anything in that second-to-last paragraph
What is Med-side? (if you don't mind me askin)
aah, yes, sorry jro .. I mean, beside the Mediterranean, that's where Valencia is, and me with it. Then again, my local pub remains in London, together with enough clients to form an excuse to shuttle about a bit.
You're in PA, huh, I imagine a beautiful place. I used to live very close, a few miles, from Penn, north-west of London, and William Penn's village. I guess he managed to leave just before Suez!
I know the States well (tho not your neck of the woods), and fondly, was even in the phone book for a while in a delicious little place called Ashland, in Oregon. But how our languages are splendidly different. When I turned up there, in '84, everyone thought I was Australian (no relation, but was actually born in Windsor) .. after about a year and with my accent sounding strangely kind of mid-Atlantic, which is pretty much Australian, then everyone decided I sounded English!
Guess it's darn cold there now, huh? Europe too, chucking down snow. They picked a poor week for a climate summit.
gday the_guv, welcome to the forums! Good site to find some friendly help!
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@guv, yes Pennsylvania is very beautiful and kudos for knowing some of the history of 'Penns woods'!
We are getting whalloped by a storm right now, lots of snow and cold, but I live this kind of weather.
Looking forward to getting to know you better on the boards in the future, hopefully you stick around :-)


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First it was airports. Then it was bus and train stations. Now, under the Transportation Security Administration's Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) program, even the highways aren't safe from the TSA's prying eyes and probing fingers.
"Tennessee is now the first state ever to work with the TSA to deploy a simultaneous counterterrorism operation statewide," according to Nashville's WTVF-TV. That operation, which involved the TSA along with the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDSHS) and state and local police, was deployed at "five weigh stations and two bus stations across the state," the station reports.
It was a two-pronged approach, the report adds. Government agents were "recruiting truck drivers … into the First Observer Highway Security Program to say something if they see something." At the same time, "the Tennessee Highway Patrol checked trucks with drug and bomb sniffing dogs during random inspections."
One might expect the searches to make recruiting more difficult; but at least one truck driver, Rudy Gonzales, seemed willing to assist the TSA just the same. He told WTVF reporter Adam Ghassemi: "Not only truck drivers, but cars, everybody should be aware of what's going on, on the road."
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Dairy farmers in the north country long have found hiring reliable farm workers challenging. But that task soon could become less daunting, thanks to a retooled guest worker program being considered by Congress as a part of a larger immigration reform.
U.S. Rep. William L. Owens, D-Plattsburgh, said overhauled guest-worker legislation could allow immigrant workers to stay here three to five years before having to return to their native countries; current visa programs, by contrast, allow workers to stay less than a year and are fraught with red tape.
Right now, Mr. Owens said, dairy farmers who hire migrant workers know their work visas expire in less than a year, making them highly transient. By enabling the workers to stay here longer, he said, the proposed guest-worker program would allow farmers to count on some continuity of the workforce
Workers would need to stay for that period of time, Mr. Owens said. And if a farm can prove an established need, I think the program should be renewable.
Mr. Owens said obtaining a reliable, sufficient workforce is a hurdle that most dairy farms here face.
Farmers have difficulty expanding their businesses when they frequently need to hire local workers due to the high rate of employee turnover, requiring them to spend excessive time training new hires. Farms are reluctant to invest in expansion projects without knowing they will have enough workers to support those plans.
We clearly need to be able to give farmers certainty about the workforce, he said. If I was now ready to expand my business, I would be reluctant to invest because of workforce concerns. We need to be able to secure workers for farms to grow, especially with the expansion of Greek yogurt facilities in and around the district.
In Jefferson County, local workers who are hired at dairy farms often leave those positions after a short time because they are not accustomed to the long hours and manual labor, said Jay M. Matteson, Jefferson County agricultural coordinator. Low interest in these positions has made the launch of educational programs aimed at recruiting local workers for dairy farms largely unsuccessful.
Weve made concerted efforts to find local labor at farms, but they might hire 20 to 30 people over the course of a year or two just to keep a position filled, he said. Many farms arent excited about growing their operations because they dont know if theyll have a reliable workforce to milk their cows, Theres a big reluctance to grow, but with a reliable workforce we would see more farms interested. When these jobs are filled, theres going to be jobs created throughout the dairy chain because of it.
Immigrant workers, Mr. Matteson said, usually relish the opportunity to work long hours, earning money to support their families. Guest workers will seek to work at farms where they will work the most hours. If a retooled guest-worker program enables these workers to stay at a farm for five years, he said, it would provide reliable labor farms need to expand.
Mr. Owens called the current H2A visa program, which permits seasonal immigrant workers to harvest crops, is a bureaucratic nightmare for farmers, especially for those in Oswego County who grow fruits and vegetables and need the extra labor. He said participation in the H2A visa program is lower in Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties because of the relatively low number of vegetable and fruit crops.
The H2A program, which is overseen by processing centers based in Chicago, misunderstands farmers labor needs and is riddled with redtape, Mr. Owens said.
The guest-worker program has to be expanded to a large extent to do away with the H2A program, he said.
Asked whether hed vote on an immigration reform bill without a guest-worker provision, Mr. Owens called it a tough call that he would probably lean against.
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I just added a Logitech Squeezebox Boom to my bedroom. I can't say enough good about the Logitech (formerly Slim Devices) Squeeze products. I already had a Squeezebox in the living room, and decided that the Squeezebox Boom would be a great addition for the bedroom.
It has a line-in jack so I can take the audio from my LCD TV and jack into it for much better quality than the TV's internal speakers.
I doubled-up on the upgrade and added a Logitech Harmony 610 universal remote. My cable box remote refused to control the volume on the Squeezebox Boom since it acts much like a DVD player. I already had one of the Harmony 510 for the living room TV so it was a natural step. I love how configurable these things are.
Surprisingly, the Harmony wouldn't do the "stop" command for the Squeezebox. You'd think that with both being Logitech products you'd get full button support. I used the learning feature to teach it the JVC DVD remote equivalent that works for the Squeezebox interface.
Well, it seems that Renovations Rants has been going through some virtual renovations of it's own. I've replaced my old blog software with Drupal. I was able to import all the old posts, but the path to those posts has changed - feel free to use the Search feature in the menu above to find what you were looking for.
A bit of wizardry helped me save my old images and actually sort of make most of my internal links between posts work. Unfortunately I wasn't able to migrate all the old comments over.
I still have a bit of trim work to finish up on the porch (and hang one door) but for the most part the expenses are done.
What did it cost to tear down and rebuild my porch?
That's just materials. Imagine if I hadn't done all of the work myself! Average cost my research showed for having a contractor do the work was around $8000 plus the stone work.
In addition, I spent another $571 on tools this year (cordless drill, nailgun.) And another $97 fixing the electrical damage I did to the power line for my washer while reattaching a downspout. lol.
Well out of my 'which project should I do next' post I've already tackled the Entertainment Center and Porch. Now I'm working on the Dining Room. That just leaves the upstairs bedroom. I know everyone voted for the bedroom first, but my daughter never could move out her stuff so I could redo the room, so it'll just have to wait until she goes off to college next year.
You may remember the before picture of the dining room:
Well I tried to remove wallpaper and paint, but the room didn't want to cooperate. Much like the upstairs bedroom I renovated back in 2005 it had seven or so layers of wallpaper and at least two layers of paint. I elected to just throw drywall up on top of it all. This time I didn't remove the trim first, and I think it was a very good decision both for time and look.
Here you can see the wallpaper layers peeled back. I've already removed the top layer or two of paper, and got down to the first layer of painted wallpaper, and behind that another layer of dark patterned wallpaper, and behind that a layer of green painted wallpaper that extended behind the trim.
Today the kids and I hung three of the ceiling panels for the porch. It was a much bigger deal to do than I had hoped, but I think it's going to turn out just fine.
This also means I got to use my nail gun for real for the first time! It was certainly fun. I can't even imagine trying to install a wood panel ceiling without a nail gun. We'd probably still be on the first panel.
Some of you may recall my scathing review of Washington Mutual titled 'How Washington Mutual Wants To Screw You'.
Looks like I get the last laugh.
The stone work is underway, and it's turning out better than I had hoped. It's certainly more art than technical skill. Once I figured out the proper mix for the mortar things started going pretty smoothly.
I'm using 'manufactured stone' which is basically concrete poured into forms and tinted. It's about half the weight and half the cost of real stone, and much easier to work with. No, I didn't get it from Lowe's - there's a local concrete supplier who got me everything I needed.
I found that mixing less than a gallon of mortar at a time was best, because my skill level is low so I'm slow at it and that keeps the mortar from getting dry.
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Wow, this has been a long road. It started at the end of May when I tore down the old porch due to structural issues, while saving 85% of the original roof. I also had the concrete slab removed that was in the yard leading to the porch and installed a nice little paver walk.
I framed in a new porch. This allows me to have any dirt/mud splash on the bottom two feet and have screen above that. It also keeps little fingers from tearing the screen once it's installed. Then I got a wild hair and installed low voltage lighting, placing three walk lights and two lights mounted inside the framing of the porch itself for mood lighting. It looks great, by the way! Next I tore out the electrical for the old over door porch light and ran a new 20 amp circuit from the breaker box that handles the new overhead porch light (now mounted in the ceiling), a new GFCI outlet on the outside back wall and a new set of floods with a switch inside the porch for late night grilling.
And now, I've finished painting so all that's left is ceiling, screen, stone wall on the outside and tile floor:
I was planning to just move the porch light to the center of the ceiling, but when I pulled off the siding to take a look at the wiring I was amazed the house hadn't burned down yet with the multiple splices. I ended up rewiring it all the way back to the panel. I disconnected the original wires inside the wall and drilled a hole through the side of the house to run a new electrical line to the porch light switch inside. A little bit of spray foam sealed the hole back up.
I installed a new breaker in the box and ran the porch light, a weatherproof GFCI outlet on the end of the porch, a floodlight set on the back side of the porch and a switch to turn the floods on and off. I cut a channel in the wood siding behind the vinyl siding for the new wiring to run, and replaced the vinyl siding to cover the wire.
I'm not an electrician but I have enough experience with this and have done enough studying that I am comfortable opening the main breaker box without frying myself (or others) and am reasonably confident that everything is done perfectly to code, even though there's no inspector way out here.


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Looking interesting, signed up for your site. Hope to see more info
Signed up on the site. Hope that also counts as beta registration or I'll get a heads up for that.
Hope to be able to get my hands on it soon. :3
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Update 3 - 22/09/2713: Initial player to NPC chat dialogue system is in place. Multifunctional based upon situation and dialogue needs. Will be tied into upcoming mission implementation first phase.
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Ok folks, our newest website design is now up and running at - http://exile-online.com/. Forum and account integration will be done very soon. All users will need to recreate their account as we had major problems porting over the user database from our old site host. Testing signup opt in will be included in the registration forms.
Hey guys, the new Dev Journal section is now up on our site. Be sure to check regularly to get a glimpse of the crazed inner workings of the minds of our team.
We have been hard at work behind the scenes, making some great looking art assets. Check them out here. These represent the final or near final vision of what our games art style and quality will look like. We have a lot of stuff being made now, our new nightclub zone is nearing completion and we cant wait to show it to you guys.
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Kirsten Dunst is having an incredible year thus far. She's the stunning face of Bulgari's new Mon Jasmin Noir perfume, was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Lars von Trier's Melancholia (it debuts in the States this November), and have we mentioned that she's been killing it on the red carpet lately? The stunningly chic Patrik Ervell tux she picked for the CFDA Awards slayed us, but she also knows how to wear wonderfully feminine frocks in sophisticated ways too. Even more impressive: she's been putting these memorable looks together herself, yet another reason as to why she deserves to be in the Style Spotlight!
It really says a great deal about Dunst that so many highly in-demand brands want to work with her. In addition to having a slew of Chanel moments at Cannes--more on that in a moment--she's often photographed in the latest looks from Rodarte, Chloe, and Miu Miu. Dunst displays an equally interesting roster of styles, and vacillates between confectionery frocks, cool-girl staples, and menswear-chic ensembles. Speaking of the former, we were truly wowed by the sheer-skirted Chanel gown she wore to the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Gala during the Cannes Film Festival in May (top row, center). We love the way she paired the delicate dress, which is from the French fashion house's S/S 11 Haute Couture collection, with a bright fuchsia lip; it's the perfect combination of sweet and strong. Dunst opted for another ethereal Chanel frock, also from the S/S 11 Haute Couture collection, later that month for the Istancool Gala Dinner in Istanbul (bottom row, far right). Once again she balanced a diaphanous dress with a strong lip and pulled-back hair, resulting in a perfectly on-point party look.
Dunst's fondness for interestingly textured pieces and sheer details can also be noted in the Proenza Schouler ensemble she selected for the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles earlier this spring (bottom row, center). On this occasion, she combined a lace top and tweed skirt with a contrasting waistband (currently on sale in black and white)--both from the S/S 11 collection, and styled them with Chanel heels and a rose gold Bulgari Serpenti Watch ($29,900). Though the silhouettes are decidedly simple, the combination of intriguing materials makes this a must-try outfit.
While Dunst is definitively drawn to diaphanous materials and loves a sheer detail, she also executes sober and sleek looks perfectly too. For example, at another dinner in Istanbul, this one celebrating writer/director/actor Terry Gilliam, she picked a simple black Chanel sheath dress (top row, far right). She kept the rest of her look understated-yet-luxurious by accessorizing with a Bulgari Serpenti Bag ($2100) and a pair of Isabel Marant bow-embellished pumps. Dunst was snapped in an equally chic daytime look a few days later on a boat trip in Istanbul (far left image), this time in a pair of slim cropped pants and a structured black blazer. Of course our spotlightee added some characteristically feminine accents, including a polka-dot blouse, Chloe Triple-Strap Ballet Flats ($495), and Ray-Ban Clubmaster Sunglasses ($145), resulting in a very Parisian ensemble.
If you're feeling inspired by Dunst's mix of downtown nonchalance and fancy femininity--we're right there with you--all you need is a handful of sweetly unfussy pieces and you can emulate her look with ease. For starters, you should pick up some slim, suit-like pieces with abbreviated silhouettes, like Warehouse's Luxe Cropped Blazer ($207) or ASOS' Tailored Cropped Boyfriend Blazer ($86) and Theory's Okelina Pants ($244) or even Siwy's Hannah Slim Crop Jeans ($154) for a more casual option. Pair any of these items with a spotted blouse--we like Forever 21's Polka Dots & Lace Crop Top ($11) and Sonia By Sonia Rykiel's Polka Dot Blouse ($314)--and multi-strap flats, like RAS' Ballet Flats ($149) or Marc Jacobs' Flats With Double Ankle Straps ($333), for a very Dunst-like look.
To emulate our Style Spotlight star's fancier ensembles, you have many options as well. To create a Proenza Schouler-inspired outfit, try combining American Apparel's Stripe Lace Tee ($38) or Red Valentino's Lace Puff Sleeve Top ($295) with Tory Burch's Linia Skirt ($179). If you're searching for a LBD instead, do check out ASOS' Tulip Dress with Pleat Waist ($69) and Oasis' Pleated Neck Belted Dress ($69). Finally, for those readers who are looking for dainty white dresses, we'd like to direct you to Anna Sui's Vintage Lace and Poppy Dress ($532) and Free People's Point D'Espirit Maxi Slip ($98). The latter can be worn over a body-conscious pale slip for a sheer-skirted effect, similar to Dunst's stunning amfAR selection, albeit in a much more casual way!
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Helper's Jake Nichols tries to tag out a Utah Perfect Game player at first base during a game earlier this season. Nichols led the offense with a multi-hit game including two doubles and also pitched in the final innings in Helper's 4-3 loss to Taylorsville on Monday evening.
Carboon High junior Dakota Cisneros received 3A First Team All-State honors for the Dinos after a successful junior session
Senior Julian Tamallos was also named to the 3A Second Team All-State.
In another tough nail biting game which went down to the wire, the Helper American Legion baseball team couldn't get the big hit when it needed one falling 4-3 to Taylorsville on Monday evening.
Helper held a 3-2 lead heading into the sixth inning but was unable to keep Taylorsville from scoring runs to take the lead and eventually the game.
Head coach Jeff Cisneros said his team left too many players on base throughout the game, counting over 12 players that reached second or third base before being stranded.
"We just left way too many players in scoring position in the game," Cisneros said. He noted that Helper outhit Taylorsville throughout the game but couldn't get the big hit with runners in scoring position in the late innings.
Jake Nichols led the Helper offense with a multi-hit game including two doubles.
Because Helper's game against Taylorsville was their only one this week, Cisneros said he went with multiple pitchers to help keep their arms loose. Dakota Cisneros started the game and was later relieved by Brandon Oliver and Nichols.
Helper's lead in the game was hampered by two errors in the game, including one hit by a Taylorsville player that took an unlucky bounce over Seth Tryon's head which led to an inside-the-park home run, Cisneros said.
With the loss, Helper's record in the Salt Lake Valley region is now 6-3 with an overall record of 11-8, which puts them two games back of first place West.
Cisneros said the team will need to play better on the road as Helper's record is now 1-8 on the road, compared to a perfect 10-0 record at home.
Helper will resume play on Monday evening when they will host Westlake for a game at the Carbon High baseball field at 6 p.m.
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