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A review of famous names who've made the news in recent years for owing the IRS turns up a few patterns. Tax scofflaw celebrities aren't usually the sort of figures known as "A-Listers" -- and if they are, they tend to be somewhere past their prime. Claims of financial mismanagement often figure into celebrities' financial misfortunes. There's often a significant amount of marital discord behind the fiscal issues as well.
A USA Today report headlined "Celebrities are often in debt to the tax man" was somewhat sympathetic to the plight of famous tax delinquents, explaining that "celebrities and entertainers -- unlike most taxpayers -- often have huge incomes that vary wildly from year to year -- an easy recipe for tax trouble.
Here's a roundup of some of the more infamous celebrity tax dodgers.
Hill, the former Fugee and solo artist behind The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill -- one of the most highly-praised albums of the 1990s -- pleaded guilty in 2012 to charges that she hadn't paid federal income taxes for three years (2005-2007), during which she made more than $1.8 million. On May 6, 2013, Hill was sentenced to three months in prison. Hill explained herself in a blog post, saying she had gone "underground" "in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda."Lauryn Hill
This project also entailed ignoring state taxes: A New Jersey court found Hill responsible for $446,386 in unpaid state taxes.
In April 2012, The Detroit News reported that skiing star Vonn and her estranged husband Thomas owed $1,705,437 in taxes from 2010, the year Vonn took Olympic gold in downhill at Vancouver. Vonn sounded genuinely surprised and moved quickly to settle the debt. "This is an important lesson for me," she said in a Facebook post. "Not being in control of my finances and relying on someone else who you believed had your best interest at heart was a mistake" -- an allusion to Vonn's husband, according to The Christian Post -- "and one I will not make twice."Lindsey Vonn
Vonn is currently dating Tiger Woods, so everything should be fine now.
Stephen Baldwin
The star of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) and Celebrity Big Brother 2010 was arrested in December 2012 and charged with failing to pay more than $350,000 in New York state income taxes; Baldwin apparently failed to file in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
By pleading guilty to one count of repeated failure to file -- a class "E" felony -- Baldwin avoided prison time. He has already paid the state $100,000 in restitution and has agreed to shell out an additional $300,000 before his sentencing on July 19, 2013.
Ja Rule (Jeffrey Atkins)
Ja was sentenced to two years in prison on an illegal gun charge in late 2010, and in July 2011 he received an additional 28 month sentence for having failed to pay taxes on $3 million between 2004 and 2006. The judge allowed him to serve his terms concurrently; he is set to be released on July 28.
Ja denied intentional wrongdoing on the tax evasion front. "I in no way attempted to deceive the government or do anything illegal," he said in court, according to BET. "I was a young man who made a lot of money .... I didn't know how to deal with these finances, and I didn't have people to guide me, so I made mistakes."
It's not the worst thing he's ever done, but O.J. Simpson has been a less-than-diligent taxpayer. The IRS first filed a lien against the former running back in 2011, saying Simpson hadn't paid taxes since 2007 and owed the government almost $180,000. A second lien was filed early in 2013, covering $17,015.99 in income taxes for 2011.O.J. Simpson
Though he was acquitted of double-murder in 1995, Simpson has been in prison for armed robbery since late 2008.
Lohan got good news at the end of last year, when the IRS released her from a tax lien after seizing her bank accounts. Lohan was able to pay off her 2009 tax bill -- $93,701.57 -- after Charlie Sheen cut her a check for $100,000. Other debts remain, from 2010 and 2011, but Lohan's business manager is said to be working to settle the six-figure balance.Lindsay Lohan
There was a time when Gosselin had it all: a wife, twins, sextuplets, and his own reality TV show -- a 21st century American dream. Then it all unraveled. I don't know quite how, because I've never seen Jon and Kate Plus 8, but it may involve his alleged affair with the daughter of his wife's plastic surgeon, the dropping of his name from the title of the show, and a threat to prosecute TLC camera crews if they entered his house. Gosselin's child support payments are now reportedly in arrears for $3,557.06, and the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue has filed a $39,000 tax lien against him.Jon Gosselin
The Super Bowl champion wide receiver had a federal tax lien filed against him in 2012. The IRS said Burress and his wife didn't pay income taxes in 2007 and 2009, leaving an outstanding bill of $98,064.76. Burress was also the target of a New York State lien, alleging he owed $59,241 in unpaid income tax for 2007.Plaxico Burress
Burress's standout career was interrupted in 2008 by an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound to the right thigh. According to the AP, "Burress has a history of being sued over debts a millionaire professional athlete seemingly could have paid."
The Bronx-born rapper faces up to two years in prison, as well as a fine of $200,000 plus IRS penalties and court costs, after pleading guilty to failing to file tax returns in 2007 and 2008, when he made nearly $3 million. Joe will be sentenced in April.Fat Joe (Joseph Cartagena)
According to the AP, "His sentencing will take into consideration the government's initial allegation that he failed to pay income taxes for years 2007 through 2010," costing the Treasury $718,038. When the judge asked him if he understood the charges he was facing, Fat Joe replied, "I super-understand it."
We're not here to talk about anything else R. Kelly has ever done or been accused of doing. Not composing and performing the anthemic theme song to a cinematic teamup of Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan, nor turning a series of weirdly amusing soap operettas into an endlessly iterating urban saga. All that matters, for our purposes, is that R. Kelly owed money on taxes from 2005 to 2010, for a total of $4,848,072.71, according to an IRS filing. Maybe his accountant was trapped in the closet.R. Kelly
It's been a weird descent for Flavor Flav, from hype man for legendary hip hop group Public Enemy to serial star of VH1 reality shows. Weird but lucrative, since Flav allegedly owes $906,250.56 in back taxes from 2004-2006, according to TMZ.Flavor Flav (William Jonathan Drayton, Jr.)
Sometimes you can tell a story in numbers. Five Grammys, 100 million records, 30-plus singles, $1,000 bank account, $10.2 million owed to the IRS and the state of California. This is the tale of singer and "psychic friend" Dionne Warwick, who declared bankruptcy last week. Warwick, who still sings live, blamed her troubles on "several consecutive years of negligent and gross financial mismanagement." Here's hoping she turns things around.Dionne Warwick
There's more to Federline than backup dancing and a two-year marriage to Britney Spears: There's also a $57,615 tax lien filed by the IRS for unpaid taxes in 2009 and 2010.Kevin Federline
The former Commodore was alerted in April 2012 to an IRS tax lien to the tune of $1.1 million. He responded with characteristic smoothness: "I was recently made aware of the situation by my new team, and it's being handled immediately." It was him they were looking for.Lionel Richie
According to Australian authorities, the star of the "Crocodile Dundee" films and his business partner owed a whopping $150 million in taxes. The allegations came as part of a 2004 fraud investigation called Operation Wickenby; the government said Hogan and others used offshore tax havens. The actor was even briefly prevented from leaving Australia after he returned in 2010 for his mother's funeral. Accounting Today reported in May 2012 that the issue was resolved on a "without admission" basis.Paul Hogan
You may know comedian Katt Williams from Nick Cannon's "Wild 'n Out," ABC's "My Wife and Kids," or Comedy Central's "Roast of Flavor Flav." The IRS knows him as a delinquent taxpayer against whom they have filed two liens -- one in 2012 for failure to pay $3.2 million for 2008 and $829,352 for 2009, and another in 2010 for $284,000.Katt Williams
Williams's alleged reluctance to pony up for Uncle Sam stands in contrast with his professed love for his country. After telling a Mexican heckler to "get the (expletive) over there!" -- meaning Mexico -- Williams explained, "I don't think I need to apologize for being pro-America." The heckler, he said, had directed an obscenity at the United States.
Weezy, the man with the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100 chart -- 109 tracks, more than Elvis had (although Wayne was a guest on most of them) -- has had a lot of trouble paying his taxes. Accounting Today reports three separate liens against him: $1.13 million in December 2010 for the years 2004, 2005, and 2007; $5.6 million in 2011 for the years 2008 and 2009; and $7.72 million, paid by Wayne at the end of last year.Lil Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.)
Wayne recently wound up in the hospital after what was either an attack of epilepsy or a nasty reaction to the codeine cough syrup concoction known as purple drank. In 2010, he served eight months in Rikers Island for a gun charge.
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Thanks for this man,
I was wandering how to do it with Photoshop. I usually do this with GIMP and it's a lot more easier.
- Change the mode of your picture into RGB mode
- Menu Color -Color to alpha then Ok
Done, the white background has disappeared. You can then add a another BG background color by creating a new layer.
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Who is up for a fun word game?
I have always had fun playing the Change the Letter Game
Here is how you play:
A word is given, and the object is to change one letter ONLY, making a new word. You can add a letter, change a letter, or leave out a letter to make a new word, but you can only change one thing.
The game will keep going until no one can make another new word.
For example:
Other than that, proper nouns /names aren't allow and you can't reply to the word you just created. Try not to keep using the same words -- for example if the word is dog and that gets changed to dogs, please dont change it back to dog again.
When nobody can come up with a new word, the game ends,
and if you like the game, we can start a new round.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- A heads up to weekend drivers in Northern Virginia.
Part of the northbound George Washington Parkway will be closed. It will be shut down between Spout Run Parkway and Chain Bridge Road.
Crews will close the road Friday night at 7. You'll have to get off at Spout Run and follow the detour signs.
The road should re-open by Monday morning.
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Message PassingThe Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) once competed for the title of "Most Successful Message Passing Library." MPI seems to have won the title, though PVM still exists and is used in some places. MPI is primarily for distributed-memory systems, although advanced MPI implementations attempt to be a bit more efficient on shared-memory systems. Each process has its own memory space and makes calls through MPI to tranfer data to and to synchonize with other memory spaces. Ideally, this can mix with threads in interesting ways, but there are few (if any) thread-safe MPI implementations.
- MPI, The Complete Reference -- a good text, available online
- The MPI Forum -- the source for MPI information
- The MPI-1.1 Specification -- though MPI 1.2 and MPI 2.0 supercede this document, there are still a lot of 1.1 implementations out there
The (mostly) standard portable threads interface today is POSIX threads. POSIX threads (or pthreads) implementations generally support the basic functionality, but if you get fancy and try to do signal handling, you might have problems. You might also have problems with cancellation. Also, you'll need to take care with the standard library functions; the default routines aren't always thread-safe.
Microsoft, naturally, has its own flavor of threads. I know little about MS threads; I do know that there is an alternative, a pthreads package that runs under Windows. Most of the high-performance computing work I know about runs on some flavor of Unix machine, though, so perhaps it's a moot point.
Some programming languages explicitly support threads; Java is popular example. Because there is support for concurrency in the structure of Java's language design, it's often a lot slicker to use than a package like pthreads. The functionality, however, is effectively the same.
Threads can be used to achieve parallelism, but sometimes they are useful simply as an organizational technique. This is often particularly the case in network applications. Thus, not all threads packages need actually give you any parallelism. The GNU Portable Threads library, for example, supports concurrency, but not parallelism. Only one thread can run at a time. The GNU portable threads library is also cooperative, which means that control must be yielded explicitly by one thread. Windows 3.1 and the old Mac systems also used cooperative multitasking for processes, which occasionally led to problems -- if one program went into an infinite loop and never yielded the processor, the computer would hang.
- comp.programming.threads FAQ -- fairly general, has some good pointers.
- Code from "Programming with POSIX threads" -- an outstanding book, BTW. I recommend this one over the pthreads book from O'Reilly.
- Sun tutorial on Java threads
- OpenMP ARB -- source for the OpenMP specs and the FAQ
Parallel languages
It's natural to want the compiler to do some of the work in building a parallel program. Parallel languages often provide a more pleasant syntax for dealing with parallelism; even with a nice interface, though, the actual practice of extracting good performance often remains arcane at best.
Library interfaces like MPI and pthreads tend to be more widely available than most parallel programming languages. Still, you should try writing parallel code in a language designed for the task at least once.
- UPC -- makes distributed programming a bit easier by hiding message passing under the language.
- UPC Tech Report -- describes and defines UPC's additions to C
- UPC at George Washington University -- a source of additional UPC information and tutorials
- Split-C -- one of the ancestors of UPC.
- Titanium -- high performance parallel code in Java. A local project.
- Co-Array Fortran Fortran based language with similarities between UPC and Titanium.
- HPF -- High Performance Fortran was a set of extensions to Fortran 90. Many of the main ideas have since been folded into Fortran 95 and 2000. Modern Fortran dialects actually have a data parallel syntax. Unfortunately, most of the Fortran users in the US are still stuck to Fortran 77...
Local Resources
If you're hard-pressed for a project idea and aren't inspiried by anything in class, these people have more ideas than industrious grad students. They might be willing to share some of them. There are faculty besides those listed below who also may do interesting research in (or related to) parallel computing.
- David Culler -- One of the primary researchers of both the Millennium and Ninja projects. He co-authored the text used in CS258: Parallel Processors. The lecture notes may be handy.
- Jim Demmel The initial developer of CS267, Dr. Demmel's primary research areas include parallel algorithms for both dense and sparse linear algebra.
- Sue Graham -- Programming languages, including Titanium.
- Paul Hilfinger -- Programming languages, including Titanium.
- W. Kahan -- Numerical software.
- Jonathan Shewchuk -- Geometric and numerical algorithms.
- Kathy Yelick -- Programming languages, including Titanium. Also the Intelligent RAM (IRAM) project.
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'Breaking Bad' and other shows ponder spin-offs
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A "Breaking Bad" spin-off staring Bob Odenkirk's shyster lawyer Saul Goodman has been mentioned before, but only in a speculative way.
In recent weeks, though, the buzz has grown louder as the project has gone from hypothetical to possible. There's nothing at all concrete in place, but the spark is there. Industry website Deadline reported there have been talks between AMC and Sony TV (which owns "Bad"), and Vince Gilligan and Saul's co-creator Peter Gould are in charge.
As much as I love "Breaking Bad," I'm not crazy about this idea. Odenkirk is great as Saul, but part of why Saul works so well is that he's used in small doses. He's the main comic relief in an otherwise serious show.
It's true that other shows have spun off lesser characters to great success. For instance, MTV's "Daria," a favorite of mine, was a spin-off of "Beavis and Butt-head" (not a favorite of mine) and ran for five seasons.
But that show easily fit in with programming MTV already had. A Saul Goodman show would be different in both tone and, I would imagine, format from the rest of AMC's scripted slate.
For starters, by virtue of the character, it would have to be a comedy, and all AMC's other shows are dramas. Also, the format would almost certainly be a case-of-the-week one -- I can't imagine any other way -- which doesn't mesh with the intensely serialized nature of the dramas.
I could see Saul Goodman fitting in on USA with its penchant for offbeat characters, but his clientele and cases undoubtedly wouldn't fit with the network's vibe. AMC also owns IFC, which has several original comedies, so it could be a good fit there, but the channel is a premium one that many people don't have.
Lower on the dial, in network land, two other shows I watch are eying spin-offs: ABC's "Once Upon a Time" and NBC's "Chicago Fire." "Once" is filming a short test presentation, and "Fire" will introduce the potential new show's characters in its season finale.
The "Once" spin off, called "Once: Wonderland," takes place, obviously, in Alice's world. It will be missing Sebastian Stan, though, who originally tied Wonderland to the "Once" world as the Mad Hatter. Tentatively, Barbara Hershey could return as Cora/the Queen of Hearts, but if not, the only tie to the original will be in the title.
The "Chicago Fire" spin off will focus on the city's cops, which is just what we need -- another cop show. Plus, I find it a little ludicrous, seeing as how "Fire" is only in its freshman season. It's doing very well for the network, but a spin-off after only one year seems a little premature.
It was nine seasons before "Law & Order" spun off "SVU" and six before "NCIS" spun off "NCIS: LA." Even "CSI" waited two seasons before launching "CSI: Miami."
It's not a guarantee that any of these shows will be picked up, but if they are, the popularity of the originals means nothing. After all, for every "Frasier," there's a "Joey."
Scripted series premiere: "The Bletchley Circle," 10 p.m. Sunday, PBS (female codebreakers investigate murders in 1950s London).
Series premieres: "Blade Brothers," 10 p.m. Friday, Discovery (knife makers); "Raising Whitley," 10 p.m. Saturday, OWN (Kym Whitley and friends raise a kid); "Guntucky," 9:30 p.m. Sunday, CMT (family-owned gun range); "Ice Cold Gold," 10 p.m. Sunday, Animal Planet (mining competition in Greenland); "I'm Married to A...," 10 p.m. Sunday, VH1 (unconventional partnerships); "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?" 10 p.m. Sunday, E! (the Olympic swimmer's life); "Backyard Oil," 10 p.m. Tuesday, Discovery (oil drilling in Ky.); "Girl Code," 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, MTV (comedians riff on womanhood).
Season premieres: "Sons of Guns," 9 p.m. Friday, Discovery; "Four Houses," 9 p.m. Saturday, TLC; "Married to Jonas," 10:30 p.m. Sunday, E!; "Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta," 8 p.m. Monday, VH1; "Brain Games," 9 p.m. Monday, National Geographic; "Breakout," 10 p.m. Wednesday, National Geographic.
Returning: "The Vampire Diaries," 8 p.m. and "Beauty and the Beast," 9 p.m. Thursday, CW; "Once Upon a Time," 8 p.m. Sunday, ABC.
Season finales: "Project Runway," 9 p.m. Thursday, Lifetime (part one of two); "The Ben Show with Ben Hoffman," 10 p.m., and "Nathan for You," 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Comedy Central; "Big Rich Atlanta," 9 p.m. Sunday, Style; "Lost Girl," 10 p.m. Monday, Syfy; "The Bad Girls Club," 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oxygen; "Robot Combat League," 10 p.m. Tuesday, Syfy; "The Rachel Zoe Project," 9 p.m., "It's a Brad, Brad World," 10 p.m. and "Dukes of Melrose," 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Bravo.
Specials: "Bon Jovi: Inside Out," 10 p.m. Saturday, VH1 (concert film); "Remember Sunday," 9 p.m. Sunday, CBS (romantic drama with Alexis Bledel and Zachary Levi); "Lovestruck: The Musical," 8 p.m. Sunday, ABC Family (musical comedy with Jane Seymour, Tom Wopat, Chelsea Kane and Drew Seeley).
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Faculty Profile
Bruce Gillies, Psy.D.
Assistant Professor of Business; Director, MBA Online; Director of Organizational Leadership Program
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Bruce Gillies comes to CLU with a varied career. After 22 years of active duty in the Navy-- spending time on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, engine rooms on destroyers, and several years in human resources, he retired in March of 2000 as a Master Chief (E9). Bruce has also held leadership positions in colleges and universities as Faculty Advisor and Acting Dean of Adult Education. He holds a Doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University. His research interests are in career and leadership development as well as Sport Team development. Bruce Teaches courses in Business Statistics, Organizational Theory, Business Ethics, Leadership Theory and Practice, Behavior in Organizations, Foundations of I/O Psychology, and Organization Development.
Bruce was the director of the Adult Degree Evening Program (ADEP) from 2005 to 2010. During that time, the ADEP grew three new majors, expanded to two satellite sites, and experienced a 10% growth in admissions. He is currently the chair of the California Lutheran University Organizational Leadership Bachelor of Science major. He has conducted scientific and applied research in organizational leadership, sport psychology, and organization development, and career development.
He has been a consultant to Fortune 500 companies in Leadership Development programs, organizational change initiatives, career development programs, organizational culture, and downsizing.
- Doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Alliant International University
- Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, United States International University
- Master of Arts in Psychology, United States International University
- Bachelor of Science in Sociology, University of the State of New York
Executive Coaching, Team Building, Sports Leadership. As an Organizational Development consultant, Bruce has worked with organizations ranging in size from 35 to 500,000 helping them developy systemic methods to improve retention, develop managerial leadership programs, and conduct intelligent downsizing endeavors.
Bruce has provided organizations with several training sessions on values based leadership, retention of key employees, career development processes and procedures, tuition reimbursement accounting, and shifting organizational cultures. He has worked with athletic teams ranging from recreational sports to professional teams in improving mental skills.
Survive the recession, Thrive in the Recovery, Pacific Coast Business
Times, June, 2010
Job Search in a Slow Economy, Pacific Coast Business Times, March 2009
Kantor, J, Costantino, M., & Gillies, B. (August 28, 2004). Problems at
home may cause sick leave use. Paper presented at the Annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.
Time Management, Memphis Business Journal, October 2002
Change Management, Memphis Business Journal, December 2002
Various articles on Career Transitions, Blue Jacket, Millington, TN 2001
Reducing Turnover, Memphis Business Journal, October 2001
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A history of the metropolis devastated and invaded by powerful hell forces. Among the survivors, there are The Templar, a group of followers of ancient rites. They use powerful, futuristic weaponry mixed with artifacts and magic. As a player, you are one of them and your goal is, of course, to destroy the evil powers. Hellgate combines various game styles, there are quest systems, spells and skill points and fast first person shooter action. Also, there is a system of randomized events, places and items which makes the game unique. Definitely an atmospheric and interesting title.
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WACO, Texas (AP) -- A soldier accused of plotting to bomb Fort Hood troops is wearing a mask during jury selection at his federal trial -- the first time his face has been covered in court.
Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo is accused of biting through his lip and spitting blood on authorities escorting him after a recent hearing. He's also accused of spitting blood on a jailer.
In court Monday, several U.S. marshals standing near Abdo wore protective glasses. Abdo wore an oval mask covering his nose and mouth.
McLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch says he can't comment on why Abdo is wearing a mask. A gag order prevents attorneys from discussing the case publicly.
Abdo is accused of planning to bomb a Killeen restaurant filled with Fort Hood soldiers last summer.
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Oh yeah, and the copyright for the maps on davidrumsey.com allows them to be reused and adapted, as long as it's not for commerical purposes
Okay first of all, I found this map quite a while ago and was absolutely blown away by all the extra information that's contained on it, beyond just a simple world map.
So I've blatantly borrowed the layout of that map, and I'm using it to create a map of my own world, which will eventually be similarly filled with charts of my own moon, solar system, descriptions of the tides, etc, etc.
Updates will be slow going, as I'm pretty much only working on this map while I'm at work but I have every intention of seeing this thing through to the bitter end. Currently, the latitude and longitude lines are only guidelines and will eventually be redrawn more appropriately to the style of the map.
I'm working in photoshop, and I've also used Hugin to convert my original map into a stereographic projection.
I've decided to also add a thumbnail of the current state of completion, so any newcomer to this thread doesn't have to wander through 10+ pages to find the most complete WIP
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Oh yeah, and the copyright for the maps on davidrumsey.com allows them to be reused and adapted, as long as it's not for commerical purposes
Good luck my friend; you've just taken a bite of the most difficult type of map to make. Difficult because of the vast amount of text...naming all of that stuff will take quite some time. The style is also pretty difficult as well but you seem off to a good start. So keep on chuggin along
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Really looking forward to watching this one progress.
And I've never seen that map site before, what an amazing place.
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Thanks for the wishes Ascension, I do have a plan in place for naming, but it's still going to be a long time before I get any names on the map... I'm actually pretty excited about mapping the surface of a fictional moon. And actually figuring out what all the data on that map means so I can accurately reproduce it in reference to my world.
Ramah, hopefully I don't let you down And yeah, davidrumsey.com is an amazing website, lots of fantastic stuff on there!
this looks like an amazing approach to world building...
would you be able to post a blank template for folks to use for their own world mapping?
thanks for your work
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Interesting...looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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wow.. quite a challenging project but it looks like fun
Figured I'd throw an update out, since I'm really pleased with how the continental outline turned out. I'm still only about 90% happy with the country borders - I'd like them to be a little less evenly spaced over the dotted borders, but they're still good enough for pancakes I guess.
@phillipstephen - I've already merged a bunch of layers in an attempt to my file size at a somewhat manageable level, but I'd imagine it shouldn't be too hard to borrow my first image and hit it with a magic wand a few time to get a serviceable template.
That's coming along nicely...can't wait to see wjere this goes.
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Prep roundup: Valley boys defeat Man at Hometown Invitational
Class A No. 9 Valley raced out to a 31-12 first-quarter lead as the Greyhounds downed visiting Man 90-62 in a Hometown Invitational boys basketball contest Tuesday.
Raeshawn Breckenridge netted 19 points for Valley (9-3) while Keyshawn Payne and Zac Warden chipped in 16 and 14 points, respectively. The Hillbillies (4-12) were paced by Jake Adkins with 22 points.
Austin Hill added 14 for Nicholas County (8-6). Mackenzie Martin netted 24 points for Chapmanville (8-6) while Kenny Plumley chipped in 19.
Monday's girls games
Senior Jessica Brown turned in 34 points and 14 rebounds for the host Pirates. Alvina Sedlock added 16 points for Fayetteville (9-3). Sophomore Abby Buchan netted 21 points Valley (8-4) and Kelsey Bird added 11. Greyhounds senior Alexis Payne, who was averaging 25.9 points, was held to nine.


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Can you believe it's been 20 years since Soundgarden's "Superunknown" hit store shelves and shot the band to fame? Yeah, neither can we.
Soundgarden plans to mark the anniversary in June with a reissue of the album that will include unheard tracks like the "Black Hole Sun" demo.
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Thai Island Hopper East
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Grand Southern (Start New York City)
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Eastern Discovery (Start New York City)
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Contiki's Eastern America tour will give you action and adventure, as well as time to chill out and unwind. From the relaxed beauty of the Southern States to the fast-paced lifestyle of the Northern hotspots, get a good taste of America! While you're up north, why not get consumed by the city that never sleeps, New York. And down South, get charmed by some traditional southern hospitality. Stil...
LA to the Bay
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Spanish Spree
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Winter Wanderer
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Living Room Pendants
Suspending a pendant from your living room ceiling adds unique flair and color to your living room design. Living room pendants are an alternative way to brighten your living room. If you want to break from tradition, consider installing pendants. Pendants are a great match for your free-flowing presence.