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A look at the headlines from Hollywood on years past.
1985: Whitney Houston released her self-titled debut album.
1990: Milli Vanilli won a Grammy for best new artist. The duo later gave up the Grammy in connection with a lip-synching scandal.
1992: The Run-DMC rape trial came to an abrupt end in Cleveland when the judge threw out the case. The woman who accused Run of raping her admitted she had no evidence to support her claim.
1995: Bruce Springsteen performed live with the E Street Band for the first time in seven years.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Gary Lockwood is 77. Actor Peter McEnery is 74. Record company executive David Geffen is 71. Actress Tyne Daly is 68. Actor Anthony Daniels (C3P0 in "Star Wars" films) is 68. Actor Alan Rickman is 68. Keyboardist Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads is 65. Actor William Petersen ("C.S.I.") is 61. Actor Kelsey Grammer is 59. Singer Mary Chapin Carpenter is 56. Actor Jack Coleman is 56. Actor Christopher Atkins is 53. Singer Ranking Roger of General Public and of English Beat is 53. Actor William Baldwin is 51. Country singer Eric Heatherly is 44. Bassist Eric Wilson (Sublime) is 44. Bassist Tad Kinchla of Blues Traveler is 41. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is 35. Opera/pop singer Charlotte Church is 28. Actress Ashley Green ("Twilight") is 27. Actress Ellen Page ("Juno") is 27. Actor Corbin Bleu ("High School Musical," "Jump In!") is 25. Actress Hayley Orrantia ("The Goldbergs"/former contestant "The X Factor") is 20.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Morgan Stanley is being accused of discriminating against black homeowners and violating federal civil rights laws by providing strong incentives to a subprime lender to originate mortgages that were likely to go unrepaid.
The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, was filed Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union and others on behalf of five Detroit residents and Michigan Legal Services.
The five homeowners in the lawsuit received their loans from subprime lender New Century Mortgage Corp., which has since collapsed.
The lawsuit claims Morgan Stanley pushed New Century to issue certain types of loans with no concern about risk, because it made its profit at the outset when the investment bank bundled the loans into securities and sold them.
An email was sent to Morgan Stanley seeking comment but there was no immediate response.

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Long Distance Delivery in a 1948 Chevrolet SedanWritten by on October 20, 2004 Robert Morris' '48 Chevy Sedan Delivery
It's amazing the lengths some guys will go to get the street rod of their dreams. Robert Morris lives in New Jersey. Guess where he found this '48 Chevy sedan delivery. That's right, in the swap meet at the Goodguys event in Scottsdale, Arizona. The project was already in progress; a small-block Chevy and Nova rear were in place when Robert made the deal and shipped the car back to the Northeast. His plan was to just "do a couple of things" to the car and stop there. You know that story. Shortly after tearing into the car, Robert, a sheetmetal fabricator by trade, opted for a full inside and out re-do. And it's a knockout inside and out--but the metalwork on the big Chevy is where Robert's talent got put to good use. Virtually every inch of steel got touched, from the shaved side panels to the hidden hinges and Honda door handle in the rear door. What we like best is that every modification improves the overall lines of the truck.
It took the bottom half of a '48 Buick door to create the full fadeaway fender look, completed by hammer welding the rear fenders to the body. In front, a dechromed '46 Olds grille replaces the stock Chevy piece. Robert says it took a lot of metalwork to make the grille fit, but it works perfectly with every other low horizontal line on the body. He added slots to the front bumpers for the hand fabricated parking lights, and used a similar treatment in the rear bumper for the taillights. When the metalwork was done, Bob Beatty got busy spraying the Beige Pearl and Silver Metallic two-tone paint, completing the outstanding job in a single-bay garage.
In the 4 years that the delivery has been finished, Robert has driven it every chance he gets, shows it at local events as well as national shows in the East, and thinks about small mods to continue improving the overall appearance. In fact, the white walls, Buick trim pieces, and some of the gold leaf lettering and pinstriping were some of the more recent changes made before we saw the truck at the Street Rod Nats in Louisville, where we got these shots.
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Drivetrain: The delivery was already packed with a 305 engine when Robert bought it, which was yanked out during the complete rebuild. In its place he installed a TRACO-built, blueprinted, and balanced 0.030-over Chevy 350 with cc'd cylinder heads and Hedman Tight Tube headers. The Billet Specialties valve covers and one-off air cleaner (built by Reed Ellard) were painted to match the lower body. Induction comes from a single Quadrajet atop an Edelbrock aluminum manifold. Manasquan Transmission built the shift kit for the column shifted Turbo 350 automatic.
Chassis: The stock rails were retained, with a few modifications. The front end is a Fat Man Fabrications Mustang II with ECI 11-inch disc brakes, and a one-inch anti-sway bar. The rear is from a '67 Nova, including the 3.00:1 differential and brakes. The delivery rides on Air Ride Suspension bags at every wheel, which required modificatins to the upper and lower control arms in the front.
Wheels & Tires: The delivery needed rolling stock that is stylish but doesn't draw attention from the rest of the ride. Fifteen-inch chrome steelies with bullet caps do the trick, along with P215/75R15 and P185/75R15 wide white radials from BFGoodrich.
Body & Paint: "Lots of credit should go to my Sheetmetal Workers Union #27, Central Jersey," Robert said, "as this is where I honed my metal skills and welding." He got a big headstart on the metal by beginning with fairly rust-free raw material from Arizona. The appeal of the truck is in its lines, so the trim was shaved, and stock handles and hinges were replaced with Honda handles and hidden hinges. Oval Buick port holes add a design element to the hood sides. The windshield was V-butted to complement the custom hood peak. The grille is taken from a '46 Olds and the handmade side scoops on the lower front fenders were inspired by the Pontiac Firebird. Painter Bob Beatty from Neptune, New Jersey, used '95 Lincoln Beige Pearl three-stage paint from DuPont on the lower half and two-stage Cashmere Metallic on the upper portion, plus three or four coats of clear followed by lots of wet sanding to make it shine. Notice how the color follows the curves of the Delivery without actually meeting the seams. That's a nice job.
Interior: The interior combines function and luxury. A pair of '70s-era Honda Civic buckets were rebuilt and covered in beige vinyl by Master Upholstery of Booten, New Jersey, with taupe vinyl saved for the door panels and kick panels. The padded Bitchin Products dash was modified to fit, and a five-gauge cluster from Classic Instruments' Vintage Series was installed. A LeCarra Mark 10 steering wheel was the perfect choice to cap the ididit tilt shifter column. The custom center console holds the Air Ride system controls and a 6-inch LED screen connected to a VCR hidden under the passenger seat, and camera mounted behind the rear plate. Juliano's came through with seat belts, and the A/C is from Southern Air.


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Fullerton, CA (Sports Network) - James Ennis registered a double-double of 23
points and 11 rebounds to propel the Long Beach State 49ers to an 81-71
decision over the Cal State Fullerton Titans in a Big West Conference bout at
Titan Gym.
Keala King notched a double-double of his own for LBSU (10-8, 6-1 Big West)
with 12 points and 11 rebounds to go along with seven assists. Deng Deng
contributed 15 points and six boards off the bench while Mike Caffey produced
14 points and five assists to help the 49ers tally their fifth consecutive
Sammy Yeager paced the Titans (10-8, 3-3) with 22 points and seven boards.
D.J. Seeley chipped in 17 points and nine boards, while Deuce Johnson netted
10 points in Fullerton's second-straight setback.
Long Beach State took a 36-30 advantage into the intermission after it
outscored the hosts, 11-3, in second chance points before the break. The
Titans were lucky to be within two possessions after going 1-of-10 from 3-
point range in the opening 20 minutes.
Fullerton held the lead for a few short periods of time after halftime and
tied the score at 62 with 6:24 left in regulation, but Deng put LBSU in front
for good with a make from distance on the following play. The 49ers shot an
even 50 percent from the field in the second half to keep its winning streak
LBSU held a sizeable, 51-31 edge in the rebounding battle and outscored the
Titans, 21-12, at the charity stripe in the contest.
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Computational Approaches to Aspect-ratio-dependent Upper Bounds and Heat Flux in Porous Medium Convection, (B. Wen, G. P. Chini, N. Dianti, and C. R. Doering), Physics Letters A 377, 2931-2948 (2013).
Features of Fast Living: On the Weak Selection for Longevity in Degenerate Birth-death Processes, (Y. T. Lin, H. Kim, and C. R. Doering), Journal of Statistical Physics 148, 646-662 (2012).
Optimal Mixing and Optimal Stirring for Fixed Energy, Fixed Power or Fixed Palenstrophy Flows, (Z. Lin, E. Lunasin, A. Novikov, A. Mazzucato, and C. R. Doering), Journal of Mathematical Physics 53, 115611, 15 pages (2012).
Rigid Rigorous Bounds on Heat Transport in a Slippery Container, (J. P. Whitehead and C. R. Doering), Journal of Fluid Mechanics 707, 241-259 (2012).
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02 - Innovation - New Brunswick
The province of New Brunswick breathed new life into a dying economy by creating 20,000 new technology jobs and trained residents for them.
August 8, 2002
|Situated along the Gulf of St. Lawrence in eastern Canada, the province of New Brunswick is blessed with forests of spruce and balsam fir, hillsides rich in copper, lead, and zinc, and offshore waters filled with herring, cod, and crabs. For generations, residents made their livings in lumber mills, mines, and fishing boats, collecting and processing the natural wealth. But by the early 1990s, the provincial government's economic planners realized that the traditional way of life was no longer sustainable and, unless the economy changed quickly, New Brunswick faced a bleak future.
As the province struggled to automate, it had to shed jobs. Its old resource-based industries could no longer compete in the new world economy. "We already had 15 percent unemployment," says Leonard Weeks, an HR professional who is New Brunswick's manager in charge of knowledge industry and innovation. "And our projections showed that during the 1990s, we were going to lose at least 10,000 more industrial jobs, nearly 5 percent of the province's workforce." Beyond that, the lack of opportunity in the region was causing young educated people to move to other parts of Canada and the United States.
New Brunswick officials knew they had to find a way to reverse the unemployment tide before it turned into a tsunami that might wreck the province's already destabilized economy. It was the sort of dire plight that demanded a radical solution.
Fortunately, the province's political leader at the time, Premier Frank McKenna, was a man with an unconventional style of thinking. "Chairman Frank," as the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's once labeled him, liked to think of himself not as a politician in charge of one of Canada's poorest provinces but as a business executive running a big, diversified corporation. He was fond of applying ideas that worked in business to government—total quality management, performance benchmarking, and customer-service orientation.
Like a turnaround expert trying to revive a failing company, McKenna methodically assessed New Brunswick's prospects. The existing industries weren't going to add new workers. And the province's small size—at 750,000, its population was roughly a third that of the city of Toronto—and relatively remote location made it an unlikely choice for new manufacturing operations.
Instead, McKenna decided that the province had to reposition itself. It must develop a new, growing industry where it could quickly become a leader in a field in which initiative mattered more than location. He zeroed in on the then nascent field of information technology and multimedia. With companies increasingly relying on computer networks and the Internet to manage their far-flung global operations, it seemed like a promising bet.
Additionally, the strategy enabled New Brunswick to leverage a significant asset—1,800 miles of fiber-optic cable that its phone company, NBTel, already had installed. The project was an effort to create a digital phone network, and cost $50 million. That same infrastructure could be harnessed for high-speed data transmission, giving the rural province enough bandwidth to compete with large metropolitan workers.
But McKenna's vision contained one big if. To transform New Brunswick's economy, the province needed plenty of technologically skilled, intellectually creative people. That was no easy task in a place where the populace was more accustomed to fishing lines than keyboards, the youngest and brightest had fled, and the older workers feared new technology and change. At its core, New Brunswick's economic crisis was an HR problem that required an inspired HR approach. Weeks posed this question: "As we're building the technology base, why not use it to develop our workers?" The workforce could serve essentially as a laboratory subject for the information products that New Brunswick sought to develop.
Today, a decade later, the success of the HR strategy is obvious. Largely because of its information-technology thrust, New Brunswick's unemployment rate has dropped 5 percent. Twenty thousand people are now employed in the new sector, and the province's training infrastructure produces more than 2,500 workers skilled in software development and content creation each year.
With IT employment growing at a 30 percent annual rate, workers now are moving into the province to find jobs. Both New Brunswick's economy and its image have undergone a dramatic shift. The former rural rust belt is now considered a global leader in producing software and content for distance learning and online corporate training. Its information products are used by an estimated 100,000 companies worldwide.
In March, IBM hired two New Brunswick companies, Advanced Training & Services and CertifyOnline.com, to train Web developers throughout the world. Paul McErlean, IBM Canada's vice president of software, says the technology giant's decision was influenced largely by "the amazing amount of skills" possessed by the province's technology-savvy workers. The workers also produce much of the content for SmartForce, an Irish company that is the world's biggest provider of online learning services to businesses.
HR's leadership helped New Brunswick to reinvent itself. For its outstanding turnaround, the province wins the Workforce Optimas Award for Innovation.
Creating a high-tech training infrastructure
New Brunswick turned to one of its existing assets—NBTel's fiber-optic network. "Our telecommunications infrastructure was second to none in the world," he notes. "Literally, you could get a digital line in your hunting camp." From 1991 to 1994, the government set up a dozen tele-education centers across the province. The centers were equipped with computers, video-conferencing equipment, and digital "white board" technology that displayed an instructor's writing and diagrams to students in a classroom hundreds of miles away. Over the next five years, the province increased the number of centers to 100. Today, the TeleEducation NB program offers tens of thousands of course offerings, in at least five languages.
When the program was in its infancy in the early 1990s, instructional software and course content for retraining workers was virtually nonexistent. As a result, the province was forced to create its own offerings. At New Brunswick Community College-Miramichi, the teaching staff began developing classes, and eventually the school established the Distributed Learning Centre, which has created two dozen technology-based courses. Since there was an obvious market for courseware, the college came up with an ingenious solution. Why not train students how to create it? Funded with $15 million in grants from the province, Canada's federal government, and some private-sector partners, the college in 1994 became the first institution in North America to establish a program devoted specifically to educational technology. The Multimedia Learning Technology Center of Excellence offered instruction in virtual reality, game design, computer animation, and other technical skills. It also taught students how to use those skills to design online courses.
The learning center's two-year program incorporated other novel tactics. There are no tests or exams. Instead, in order to graduate, students show competency by actually producing a viable product. They are divided into entrepreneurial teams, which are legally incorporated as companies, and assigned to work with private-sector clients, who provide guidance and are committed to purchasing the finished product. There was a shift from watching to learning by doing.
To help further nurture that transformation, in 1996 New Brunswick started Miratech, a center four miles from the NBCC-M campus that serves as an incubator for technology start-ups. Within two years, the center housed 12 new information-technology companies, many of them run by graduates of NBCC-M's educational-technology program. Today, a typical Miratech tenant is HLS Multimedia, which employs more than a dozen animators to produce educational CD-ROMs for a California-based distributor.
Helping workers adjust to a new work culture
Additionally, a worker studying to switch careers faced very different challenges than the typical college student. The "re-careering" workers generally were 15 to 20 years older and had families, mortgages, and other obligations that their 20-something classmates didn't have to worry about. They had to learn how to keep up with those responsibilities, while striving to succeed in a demanding field where the workday seldom ends at 5 p.m. and travel is often essential. "When you're more mature, it's not so easy to go off for three months to work on a project in India just because there's a business opportunity there," Lobban says.
One of the keys to helping workers make such a transition, Lobban says, is helping them to understand themselves. NBCC-M makes extensive use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and other testing tools, so that re-careering workers can get an objective picture of their strengths, liabilities, and inclinations. "We're even starting to test potential students," she says.
Another important part is getting continuous feedback from the retraining workers about what sort of extracurricular help they need. Lobban meets each month with student representatives to assess NBCC-M's programs and services and how they might be improved. As a result of those discussions, the school has added services specifically tailored to re-careering workers' needs—for example, programs on how to cope with stress and manage debt load. "We started a dinner-theater outing," she says. "For the more mature retraining students, that was a more comfortable atmosphere than, say, a pub night. And it still gave them the opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs and develop the sort of relationships that are crucial when they go out into the business world."
Achieving fuller participation in the retraining process
For that reason, in the mid 1990s, New Brunswick installed Internet access in more than 230 schools, recreation centers, and other gathering places in small towns throughout the province. The Community Access program offered free e-mail accounts, Internet access, and computers and printers, as well as basic instruction on using those resources, to anyone who walked in the door. The idea was to give people who hadn't been exposed to computing a chance to become comfortable with the technology—and eventually, to use it for retraining.
But program director Gary Wood didn't leave any of that up to chance. The key to having the centers work as a retraining tool, he says, "is to make people feel as if they're in control of the program, that they own it." Before opening a center, Wood and his staff set up a meeting with town residents, to do what he calls "community asset mapping."
"Basically, we would find out what skills, interests, and other assets the people had, and get them to talk about how they might utilize those assets with the help of computers," he says. (In farming communities, for example, Wood discovered an interest in developing bookkeeping and management skills related to agriculture.)
Additionally, Wood came up with the idea of hiring unemployed or under-employed workers who were eligible for government assistance and teaching them to help other residents learn to use the technology. "Eighty-three percent of them went on to get jobs elsewhere after working for six months at a center."
As a result, the centers were immediately popular. In the working-class village of Saint-François, for example, a third of the area's 1,500 people came out to give the Internet a try, and the 34 computer stations at a local school and public library were tied up 60 percent of the time. In the first year, more than 250 people took online courses.
In another area, Sussex Corner, Angie McNabb, an out-of-work bookkeeper and mother of two, tried the Internet for the first time and within a few months was designing Web sites. She eventually landed a job with the center as a computer instructor, and went on to start her own bakery business, Angelina's Fine Desserts, utilizing cheesecake recipes she collected on the Internet. Her success story is far more humble than that of, say, the New Brunswick start-up companies that garnered lucrative contracts from IBM. But it's a sign that New Brunswick's HR efforts are reaching every level of the workforce. About half of the 20,000 new technology jobs have been filled by workers who were out of work or under-employed in low-wage or part-time jobs.
Sustaining the progress
New Brunswick's HR high-tech training strategy actually has spawned an entire new industry. There are now more Internet users throughout the world who are taking courses created in New Brunswick than there are people living in the province. That may be the surest sign that New Brunswick's innovative approach is catching on.
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A recent post on the Kojima Productions blog drops hints the company might be getting ready to reveal a long-awaited Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP surprise.
In the post, PR manager Jiro Oishi says the following after talking about touring Japan to show off the co-op play in Peace Walker, to quote:
"However, in truth, there's another ultimate charm outside of co-op play hidden in PW."
The original birth of this news came from an earlier blog entry by Hideo Kojima himself, so it is likely that Oishi and Kojima are both speaking about the same unannounced feature.
To date, there hasn't been any such announcement for the game that would make people rush out to buy a PSP, so only time will tell what surprise Peace Walker may hold for fans.
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THE WALNUT TREE by Charles Todd, William Morrow, 248pp, $16.99.
This is the story of Lady Elspeth Douglas starting in 1914 after she is caught in France when fighting breaks out in World War I. Lady Douglas is a noblewoman of Scottish descent. She has made her debut into society and has gone through the ritual of being presented at Court. Now she must find a way to get back safely to the coast of France and get across the English Channel to her homeland. After seeing all the horribly wounded soldiers on her way she decides to become a nurse, commonly called a sister at that time. So she joins Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Service, becomes trained and heads back to France to serve, and serve well.
Ah, but love intrudes in her life and she is smitten, not with just one British officer but with two. How will she carry on two romances? And especially how will she manage with the restrictions of the time. Going alone to dinner with a man without a chaperone was just not done. Having had a maid, a footman and a chauffeur since she was born she now finds herself traveling alone more often than not.
I was having a problem with this just published novel by Charles Todd. (Charles Todd is a pen name for a mother and son writing team.) Then an idea finally dawned on me. Although there is no hint in the book, this novel is obviously aimed at young teen age girls, not grizzled old men. I would guess your young daughters would enjoy the story.
NOWHERE TO RUN, by C.J. Fox, G.P.Putnam's Sons, 356pp,$25.95
From time to time, as time permits, I like to catch up on some authors that I have enjoyed and see what they have been up to. Such is the case with the novel under consideration this morning. I had read C.J. Box earlier but this novel about the Fish & Game Warden Joe Pickett working in a large stretch of one of the western states was new to me.
Basically his orders were to go into the mountains and look for a poacher. There had been reports of a dead elk just off one of the trails and this seemed to be a good place to start. Off he rides with a riding horse and a pack horse.
He finds the dead elk but he also finds more trouble than he can immediately handle. He encounters a fisherman at a lake and when he asks to see the fisherman�s license things turn ugly. The fisherman has a brother lurking in the forest and between the two of them they manage to kill both horses and rob the warden of his cell phone and his all his other gear. There is nothing left for our hero but to try to walk out. That he is able to do so is a triumph of training over circumstances. He lands in a hospital after being found injured and exhausted on the trail.
Page 2 of 2 - However the job is not finished and when our hero has recovered enough he goes back out into the forest to find the two brothers and to further see if he can find a woman marathon runner who was training in the foothills and then just disappeared. He takes Nate Romanowski, a falconer, with him and the two of them venture once more into the foothills and the mountains.
The hero of this tale is one Joe Pickett. From the descriptions of our hero and the action that is reported I have the feeling that the author knows what he is talking about when it comes to the mountains of the western states. It was a good book.
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The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority says the train carried an average of 190 passengers a day between Portland and Brunswick in November. Executive Director Patricia Quinn says the original expectation was 100 passengers daily.
Quinn tells the Portland Press Herald it's unclear which segments of riders will grow, remain consistent or shrink. She said during the Thanksgiving weekend, many students from Bowdoin College in Brunswick used the new service to go home for the holiday and then back to school. She said shoppers rode the Downeaster to get to stores in Freeport.
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I think this is looking quite good so far.
I think you're fine using multiple roof colors (my opinion), it helps to 'break things up a bit' so it's not a big blob of 1 color.
This would be a major city in my world (see: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...illustrator%29 the city would probably be in the south of the large island in the north of the central "inner" sea).
It is my first attempt (again) so I am particularly open to suggestion and critique.
In particular I am concerned with:
- size: the city should be big for an ancient standard, but not enormous. More like Athens than Rome. Notice that the small buildings in the five "circles" are all 1-story houses, mono or bi-familiar, while the other houses are generally taller (2-4 floors) and more densely populated. Would you say that roughly 100thousand is appropriate (I still have to add some buildings, and other stuff around the city, like more trees, gardens, villas, cultivated fields, etc)
- streets-buildings ratio: most of the city has very narrow streets, because of population density, but perhaps I exceeded in that, what do you think?
- scale: at this resolution 2px = 1m (it is 1px=1m in my working file). Perhaps this makes most buildings too big, do you think I should say 3px=1m (1px=0,75m in my file).
- colours: I believe that most pre-modern cities have nearly every roof of the same colour, perhaps because they had limited access to different materials. Do you think I should conform to that? I used different colours because I wanted to emphasise the difference between the five "circles", the tower and the big central building (currently used as a big library/arcane university) which where built in an immemorial past by some kind of "precursors" http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Precursors) and the rest of the city, which is more recent and more "mundane". But perhaps the difference would be obvious enough without using different hues.
Let me know.
I think this is looking quite good so far.
I think you're fine using multiple roof colors (my opinion), it helps to 'break things up a bit' so it's not a big blob of 1 color.
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This is looking pretty amazing. My only critique would be to avoid using triangle-shaped buildings, or at least those with really acute angles. But that is the only thing I can think of. Oh, and your sea texture looks a noticeably repetitive. It might be worth adjusting it slightly so it looks a little more random.
Larb, you are very right. I was lazy in both cases. Will correct both.
How do you the coloring of the single houses? Each separately?
Great looking map!
However in the beginning I drew each house as a poligon (very wrong, don't do it that way), rasterised, and then filled each one with a pattern. Later I started filling larger squares with patterns, then erasing streets and other blank spaces, and finally filling some houses with different patterns to differentiate. In other cases, for larger building or isolated houses, I drew each one with the square or round brush, and then coloured separatedly with the desired pattern. So, for the most part, I did the colouring each separately but with some shortcuts.


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Added Nov 23, 2011
by Rosy1964
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DescriptionA variation of the dress Burdastyle 10/2011, # 116. I am very happy with this dress for two positive reasons, the first … absolutely all the materials come from my stash, do not buy anything … everything, including the laces are remnants of other projects that are perfectly integrated into the idea of dress I had in my mind when I started working on it. The second reason is that this is the dress of my dreams, I remember blue cloth dark sky at night and the effect of contrasting white lace "enlighten" the dark … so I called it "Moonlight." BLOG
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1.5m. poly-wool, lace fabric, lace straps, buttons, invisible zipper
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May 4, 2012, 06.08 PMby kaa79uk
Love your dress, very 60s. :-)
Feb 11, 2012, 09.54 PMby fastidiouscat
Jan 11, 2012, 11.35 PMby Steph Lord-Harman
Love the navy and white together!
Dec 7, 2011, 12.34 AMby lexicooks
This is so 1960s chic! I love it.
Nov 26, 2011, 09.18 AMby KazztheSpazz
Brilliant Rosy, lovely to see you on here too.
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This is fantastic! The colours, the trim, everything!
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Nov 24, 2011, 12.38 PMby sewingfan1
It's really stylish, gorgeous finish!
Nov 24, 2011, 12.00 PMby mokosha
i really really like your take o this dress.. it's one of my favorites from this burda issue.. but you took it to another level
Nov 24, 2011, 07.47 AMby apfelbluete
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He tenido un momento de sorpresa al reconocer una foto de mi ciudad aquí en Burdastyle ;) el vestido precioso! me encanta ese tono de azul.
Nov 23, 2011, 11.07 PMby schnui
Your dress is lovely and you look great in it. Yes, it is very satisfying to make a dress from your stash and leftovers. Somehow you have more freedom with the final result and feel that if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter. And that is when some of your best creations come to life. Well done.
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I love the details of the lace hem and the contrast of the blue and white. I also made this dress but I haven't posted yet. Let's just say your dress just came out soooo much nicer than mine! Can't wait to see your next creation!
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The documents and briefcase are not being pulled down from my account. When I add a document or item in my briefcase, it pushes up to the server but if I make changes in the web client they do not sync back down again to Zimbra Desktop. In the mailbox.log on my local machine I found the following line during sync:
I turned up logging to debug in log4j.properties, but I didn't find anything there either. Has anyone else seen this?Code:
2008-07-25 10:35:17,129 WARN [btpool0-8] [email@example.com;firstname.lastname@example.com;mid=5;ip=127.0.0.1;ua=ZimbraWebClient - PRISM (Mac)/0.0;] index - Possibly corrupt index: 0 indexing operations failed in mailbox transaction.
The server is 5.0.4 NE and client runs on OS X 10.5.4.
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Georgia Bulldogs: Three Keys to Spoiling Auburn's National Title Run
Published by Wes Holtzclaw | Filed under Georgia
The Georgia Bulldogs enter the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" this weekend with two goals in mind. One is to become bowl eligible for the 14 consecutive time and two is to spoil the National Title hopes of the Auburn Tigers.
It would not be the first time Georgia came into this game and ruined Auburn season. The latest was 2006 when the Dawgs went into Jordan-Hare unranked against the No. 5 ranked Tigers. The Dawgs left with 37-15 victory.
You can throw out records, rankings and home field advantage in this series. The Dawgs own a 14-9-2 record in Jordan-Hare while the Tigers own an 18-11 record in Athens.
It seems as though anytime these two teams meet it is for the right to win or play for the SEC Championship. This year if Auburn wins they clinch the SEC West title and set up a championship game with either Florida or South Carolina.
Sitting at 5-5 on the year, will Georgia catch Auburn looking ahead at Alabama or even Atlanta for the title game?
Will the Cam Newton investigation be too much of a distraction this week as more and more news comes to the forefront?
The following are three keys that Georgia will need to spoil Auburn's National Title run and save Georgia's season with what will become their signature victory of 2010.
1) Aaron Murray vs. Auburn's Secondary: Aaron Murray has had one of the top freshman seasons in Georgia history. Currently Murray sits at a 61.5 completion percentage, 2307 passing yards, 18 touchdowns and six interceptions. He is the top freshman in the country when it comes to his 155.33 efficiency.
Auburn's secondary has been toasted all season long. They give up 241 yards a game through the air which ranks 11 out of 12 in the SEC and 91st in the country.
They have given up over 200 yards passing to Clemson, Louisiana-Monroe, Kentucky and Tennessee-Chattanooga. They have given up over 300 yards passing to Arkansas State and South Carolina and over 400 yards against Arkansas.
Auburn's corners have stated several times in the media this week that "Georgia has the most skilled receivers that they will or have faced this year". If Murray is able to get the ball to Green, Durham and King consistently down field it could be a big day for Georgia.
2) Georgia's Front Seven vs. Cam Newton: Cam Newton has been a huge surprise for the Auburn Tigers this season. If anybody knew that Newton would put up the kind of numbers he is putting up this season, they would have to wonder why Tebow started ahead of him at Florida. He has destroyed all of Tebow's stats that made him so special during his Heisman campaign.
Newton leads the SEC in rushing, yes that's correct, he leads the entire conference in rushing. He has led the Tigers to become the 4th ranked run offense and 6th ranked offense in the NCAA.
Georgia comes into this game with the 13th ranked run defense and 15th ranked defense in the NCAA.
This has to be the best matchup and most crucial aspect of this game. Auburn's 307 rushing yards a game vs. Georgia only giving up 108 rushing yards a game. Whichever one wins this battle will come out on top.
3) Special Teams play: Special teams could play a major role in this game for Georgia. Blair Walsh enters the game making 17 out of 20 of his field goal attempts. If the game is close at the end he has the ability to kick from beyond 55 yards for a game winner.
Drew Butler has been amazing once again with his ability to change field position. The defending Ray Guy award winner has 41 punts this year with 17 inside the 20, 14 fair catches and six touchbacks. That means only four of his punts have even been returned this season. This could be huge if Newton and the Tigers have to drive the entire field with each possession.
Auburn's kickoff coverage unit has given up over 120 yards of kick return yards in eight of their games and over 150 in six of those contests. Brandon Boykin could be licking his chops when he gets his hands on the ball. He is sure to break Georgia's school record for return yards for a career in this game. If he is able to take one back for a touchdown in this one it could be a big enough boost to send Georgia to a victory.
Notes to Ponder:
Coach Mark Richt has had good success with a 4-2 record against ranked teams on the road.
Georgia has won the last four in this series with a chance to ruin Auburn's SEC and NCAA title hopes if they can make it five in a row.
Auburn has been in some tight games against teams you would not think they would have had trouble with this year. They have had to come back and defeat South Carolina, Clemson and Kentucky.
Three of the Tigers wins have been by three points (Mississippi State, Clemson and Kentucky).
Should The Dawgs Start Preparing for 2011?
Published by Wes Holtzclaw | Filed under Georgia
At the beginning of each season, Mark Richt and the Georgia Bulldogs set a list of goals for themselves to accomplish by the end of the year.
Goals such as going undefeated and playing for the national title, playing in a BCS bowl, winning the SEC championship, winning the SEC East and the list goes on.
With each week of the season, you either continue moving towards no. 1 or you start to scratch the goals off that are no longer attainable. With the loss to South Carolina, the undefeated season was scratched off the list. The loss to Arkansas scratched off the National Title goal.
Even after four straight losses several goals were still attainable, including winning the SEC and playing in the BCS.
But with the 34-31 OT loss to the Florida Gators on Saturday, the Georgia Bulldogs can now officially cross out the SEC championship, the BCS bowl, and the SEC East championship.
Is there anything left to play for this season? Should the Bulldogs start to prepare for 2011?
2011 will be a year where the Georgia Bulldogs will set up for a possible National Title run for several reasons.
1) The Schedule – gone are the cross country trips and tough out of conference games, in are Louisville, Coastal Carolina, and New Mexico State.
Their SEC schedule also sets up nicely with Ole Miss, Tennessee, Vandy, and Kentucky all set to have so-so years once again to go along with seven out of Georgia's twelve games being played between the hedges, including the South Carolina, Miss State, and Auburn games.
2) Starting Depth Chart – even though the Dawgs will lose talent on both sides of the ball, they will also bring back eight or nine players on offense and defense that are or have been starters at Georgia.
The offense will more than likely be with out A J Green (The only thing Georgia fans can hope for is a lockout in the NFL in 2011 so that Green could stay for his senior year) and Kris Durham at wide outs but players such as Tavarres King, Rantavious Wooten, Logan Gray, Israel Troupe, and Marlon Brown have all played the last few years and will be looking to step up to the challenge.
The Dawgs will have Aaron Murray, WaShaun Ealey, Caleb King and Carlton Thomas also returning in the backfield with their sights on improving how the Dawgs moved the ball this season.
Even though two starters (Clint Boling and Josh Davis) will be gone off an offensive line who will consist of all seniors next season. Former starters, Trinton Sturdivant and Tanner Strickland, will fill the holes left by Boling and Davis with out the team missing a beat.
Defensively the Dawgs will lose seniors DeMarcus Dobbs, Darryl Gamble, and Akeem Dent. Even though these players will be missed, coach Todd Grantham has rotated players in and out all year long giving the back ups just as much playing time as the starters.
3) Bye Week – The 2010 season has provided the longest stretch before a bye week in years. The Dawgs bye week is the week before their rivalry game with Georgia Tech, the 12th game of the year.
In 2011, the bye week will be where it should be, in front of the Florida game. Georgia needs to be able to be fresh and healthy when they play the Gators and the best way to accomplish this is for the bye week to be before this game.
Should the Dawgs worry about any of this now?
I say NO!!
Georgia still has a few more things on their list that they can play for during the 2010 season.
1) Auburn Game - Georgia can still win out and finish the season 8-5. They would have to defeat Idaho State, Auburn and Georgia Tech during the remainder of the regular season and then win the bowl game to accomplish this feat.
This would also keep Georgia's streak of at least eight wins in a season going at 13 straight years.
Also, how special would it be to go into Jordan-Hare Stadium and beat no. 2 ranked Auburn, in their house, to ruin their National Title hopes?
2) Bowl Game and Winning Record – to accomplish this Georgia has to defeat Idaho State and either Auburn or Georgia Tech. If they are able to win two out of their final three games they will finish the regular season 6-6 and will be offered a lower tier bowl invitation with the chance to finish the year 7-6.
However this year ends, Georgia should never concede the rest of their season just to focus on the next.
My bet is that the Dawgs pull together, win out and finish 8-5.
Georgia Bulldogs: Five Keys To Victory In The "Cocktail Party"
Published by Wes Holtzclaw | Filed under Georgia
Entering the 2010 version of the "Cocktail Party" the Georgia Bulldogs are on a 3-game win streak and the Florida Gators are on a 3-game losing streak.
Both teams trail the SEC East leading South Carolina Gamecocks by a half of game in the standings. Depending on what the Gamecocks do over the next few weeks, this game is considered an elimination game from the East race giving the losing team four losses in conference.
On paper this game is a even match-up, but considering where both of these teams are at this moment, the Bulldogs are considered the favorite to leave Jacksonville with the victory.
With that said, there are five keys Georgia must accomplish if they want to leave Jacksonville as a team gunning for a spot in the SEC championship game.
1) Stop the Run - the Bulldogs enter the "Cocktail Party" ranked no. 12 in the nation against the run giving up an average of 99 yards a game. With all of Florida's struggles on offense this season, the run game has been there bread and butter.
With RBs Demps, Gillislee and Moody banged up with nagging injuries, the Gators may turn to recently reinstated Chris Rainey to share the load with freshman Trey Burton. Burton has been Meyer's "Tebow" like option, running the zone read play, but has been unable to muster the type of game that he had against Kentucky.
Can Georgia's front seven play disciplined football and slow down Florida's run attack?
2) Preventing the Big Play - the Bulldogs secondary has been susceptible to the big pass play all season long. One reason the Gators have lost three straight games has been their inability to post big plays in both the run and pass game.
If the Dawgs can prevent the Gators from plays over 20 yards, they will be able to keep the momentum on their side. Two players that coach Richt will count on to make plays this Saturday will be Justin Houston and Akeem Dent.
Houston leads the SEC in sacks and Dent has been the most consistent player on the defensive side of the ball. If both of these players continue to play at a high level it could be a long day for Brantley and the Gators.
3) Turnover Margin - Last season Georgia struggled in the turnover margin category in every game. Most notably was the four interceptions Joe Cox threw in the second half against the Gators.
So far this season the Dawgs are at +8 in turnover margin on the year and +9 over the last three victories. Florida is +4 in turnover margin on the year, but they are -6 over the last three losses.
The turnover battle will definitely be a deciding factor in who will come out the victor.
4) Special Teams Play- Georgia has arguably the top special teams unit in all of college football. They currently have the reigning Ray Guy award winner (P-Drew Butler) and a kicker who was a finalist for the Lou Groza award (K-Blair Walsh).
Most importantly they have the top returner in CB Brandon Boykin, who returned his fourth kick return for a touchdown against Kentucky. His 100-yard return tied him for the SEC record for kick returns for touchdowns and he is only a sophomore.
If Butler is able to switch the field position and Boykin is able to give the Dawgs good field position on kick offs, it could be a good day to be a Georgia Bulldog.
5) Aaron Murray - the deciding factor for Georgia in this game will be the quarterback play from Murray. He has shown game after game that he is solid quarterback even though he is a freshman. He currently is the most efficient freshman quarterback in the country.
He has continually made right decisions in the pass game and his athletic ability has given him the ability to escape pressure and run for first downs, with many of his runs resulting into touchdowns.
If Murray is able to continue to play at a high level and not make mistakes the Dawgs will win this game big.


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Ohio Players frontman Sugarfoot dead at 70
I am extremely sad to report that Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, the colorful and flamboyant lead singer for the Ohio Players, died yesterday at the age of 70.
UPDATE: In an official family statement released by Scott Hanover the family said, "Yesterday, Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner passed away quietly in his hometown of Trotwood-Dayton, OH. While his family, friends, colleagues, and fans mourn his passing they celebrate fondly his memory, music, and legacy."
The statement continued, "Humble yet charismatic, soft spoken and of few words, the weight of his thoughts, lyrics, and music has influenced countless other artists, songs, and trends. He will be missed but not forgotten as his legacy and music lives on. More details and an official historical perspective of his career will soon be forthcoming.
His Facebook page is available to all to post comments, reflections, and testimonials of this wonderful and gifted man: https://www.facebook.com/sugarfootsohioplayers."
The Ohio Players were originally formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1959, and were known as the Ohio Untouchables. After a brief breakup the band regrouped in 1963 adding Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner on lead guitar and eventually he went on to front the band.
The band's first big hit single was "Funky Worm", reaching #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and made the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1973, selling over one million copies.
The band had seven Top 40 hits between 1973 and 1976 including, "Fire," "Love Rollercoaster" and "Who'd She Coo?"
Recently the master of funk brought the Ohio Players to Thunder Valley Casino Resort (read review). Sugarfoot was helped onstage and appeared frail. However, backstage he was jovial and very friendly to the staff and fans as they lined up to meet the '70s icon.
Thunder Valley Casino catches fire with Ohio Players
Sugarfoot's Ohio Players took it old school Saturday night at Thunder Valley Casino Resort and turned Pano Hall into party central, or should I say funk central.
The 69 year old master of funk Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, along with eight of his friends, brought the house down as they played hit after hit from their massive collection of songs from the 70's and 80's.
Looking frail and using a cane from time to time, Sugarfoot started out with "Who'd She Coo," and "Skin Tight." The mixed crowd, of both young and old, were on their feet for most of the performance.
Joining Sugarfoot onstage was Grammy Award winning and longtime band member Trae Pierce (Musical Director/Bass), Derwin Daniels (Sax), Courtney "Big Luv" Girlie (Drummer), Emmanuel Cook (Keyboards), and Earl Fleming (Keyboards). I know that's only five, but I didn't catch all their names "" so if anyone knows who they were, I would love to hear from you.
This was funk at its finest with a tight three horn section, a phenomenal drummer, keyboards, and of course one of the greatest bass players. The band weaved their way from one song to another, making for some wonderful transitions between songs.
Sugarfoot's voice was no worse for wear. Granted he doesn't sound the same as he did in his younger years, but he can still bring it. His signature sound came through as he continued with "Fopp," "Jive Turkey," and "Honey."
The crowd erupted into cheers, and anyone not standing was soon on their feet, when the band started playing "Love Rollercoaster," leading into a superbly performed bass interlude.
As the band left the stage, you could feel the tension in the room as everyone cheered for Sugarfoot and his team to come back out onstage and play just one more. Of course they came back out and finished with everyone's all-time favorite "Fire."
The funk doesn't stop here!!
Catch George Clinton at Thunder Valley Casino Resort on March 25th.
Who'd She Coo
Skin Tight
Jive Turkey
Let's Love
Sweet Sticky Thing
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I've a question, I've searched but i don't kwnow how to search for this cuestion, my English level isn't enough ^^.
The cuestion is:
Can I have some accounts in Open Source, some in Standar and some in Professional Edition?
And if I buy Zimbra Mobile can I also use it on the open accounts?
Thanks (and sorry if this thread was answered before or if this isn't the place for this).


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Washington, DC (Sports Network) - John Wall had 27 points, nine assists and
eight rebounds, as the Washington Wizards defeated the Chicago Bulls, 90-86,
on Tuesday.
Wall shot 8-of-17 from the field and 11-of-13 from the foul line for the
Wizards, who have won two straight. A.J. Price scored 13 points off the bench.
Nene, Trevor Ariza and Emeka Okafor each scored 10 points, with Okafor also
grabbing nine boards in the victory.
Carlos Boozer recorded 19 points and 12 rebounds for the Bulls, who have lost
two of their last three games. Nate Robinson scored 17 points, Luol Deng and
Jimmy Butler scored 13 points apiece and Nazr Mohammed had 12 points and 12
rebounds in the setback.
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Pete DeBoer, who coached the New Jersey Devils to the Stanley Cup finals in his first season in 2011-12, was fired Friday, with his aging and diminished team in danger of missing the playoffs for a third straight season.
Devils president and general manager Lou Lamoriello would not say who will be the next coach until he speaks Saturday with the players, who are on a three-day Christmas break. The Devils play the Rangers in New York on Saturday.
New Jersey has been hit with injuries in a 12-17-7 season. It has not won consecutive games since early last month, going 3-8-5 in its last 16. The Devils were missing six regulars to either injury or illness Tuesday night when they lost 2-1 in a shootout to the Carolina Hurricanes, the NHL's second-worst team.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith will miss Sunday's game against the San Diego Chargers because of a lacerated spleen.
Team trainer Rick Burkholder said Friday that Smith was hurt on a hit during the third quarter of last weekend's loss to the Steelers, but the injury was not initially obvious.
Smith will not need surgery.
If the Chargers beat Kansas City on Sunday, they make the playoffs. The Chiefs would need to win and have Baltimore and Houston lose to earn a postseason berth.
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Rookie quarterback Connor Shaw will come off Cleveland's practice squad and start the season finale on Sunday against Baltimore.
With Brian Hoyer still slowed by a sore right throwing shoulder, Shaw will be behind center when the Browns (7-8) conclude another disappointing season against the Ravens, who still have a shot at the playoffs.
"I'm excited about it," Shaw said following practice. "It was a good week of practice and I had a lot of support from coaches and teammates and I'm confident going into this game with the game plan. We'll see what happens on Sunday."
An undrafted free agent, Shaw is the third quarterback to start for the Browns this season and the 22nd for the franchise since 1999.
After learning he'll start, Shaw tweeted: #22.
It's the third straight season and fourth time in five seasons that Cleveland's No. 3 quarterback has started the finale.
DALLAS (AP) — Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki has passed Elvin Hayes for eighth place on the NBA's career scoring list and 10th on the combined NBA-ABA list.
The highest-scoring foreign-born player in league history hit a long jumper early in the third quarter against the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night to put him at 27,314 points, one ahead of Hayes. The 7-foot German passed Hakeem Olajuwon for ninth and the top spot among foreigners on Nov. 11.
Nowitzki's latest milestone came with Kobe Bryant watching. Bryant, who passed Michael Jordan for third on the scoring list this month, missed his third straight game for rest.
The 36-year-old Nowitzki, in his 17th season, was questionable before the game with a stomach ailment.
Hayes spent most of his 16-year career with Washington and finished it with Houston in 1984.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers center Anderson Varejao has had surgery to repair a torn left Achilles tendon, an injury that ended his season and altered Cleveland's title hopes.
The Cavs said Varejao's operation was performed Friday at the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. Brian Donley, who was assisted by team physician Dr. Richard Parker. There is no timetable for his return.
Varejao injured himself Tuesday night in a win over Minnesota as he was battling for a rebound.
The Cavs lost their first game without Varejao in Miami, and his injury will likely accelerate the team's search to find inside help. Tristan Thompson took Varejao's spot in the starting lineup against the Heat.
Varejao has missed 166 games the past four seasons with injuries. Still, he was one of the team's best rebounders, which is why the Cavs signed him to a three-year, $30 million contract in October.
MONTREAL (AP) — Jack Eichel and Chase DeLeo scored in a shootout to help the United States beat defending champion Finland 2-1 on Friday in their round-robin opener in the World Junior Championship.
Eichel is a freshman at Boston University, and DeLeo plays for Portland in the Western Hockey League.
Mikko Rantanen scored for Finland, and Boston College's Alex Tuch tied it on a first-period power play. Boston College's Thatcher Demko made 29 saves for the Americans, and Ville Husso stopped 36 shots for Finland.
In the other Group A game Friday night at Bell Centre, Canada faced Slovakia.
In Group B in Toronto, Russia beat Denmark 3-2 in a shootout, and Sweden faced the Czech Republic.
HOBART, Australia (AP) — American super maxi Comanche and seven-time and defending champion Wild Oats XI continued their Sydney to Hobart duel on Saturday, approaching the first 24 hours of the annual ocean race to the island state of Tasmania.
Comanche, which was launched in October and is being tested in race conditions for the first time, led Wild Oats XI by just over a nautical mile. Both had covered about 200 nautical miles of the 628-nautical-mile race.
Super maxis also held the next two positions. Perpetual Loyal was in third place, about 13 nautical miles behind Comanche, with Ragamuffin, sailed by 87-year-old skipper Syd Fischer, in fourth.
Brindabella, the 1997 champion, was one of seven yachts which retired due to rough weather on the first day.
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All is silent as the wooden boat appears to be floating through the air, but in fact is slowly moving along the shallow waters of the Iboih Beach: the waters are so calm and crystal clear that it feels as if it is floating in the air. The beautiful and natural beaches at Iboih will surely change your perception of a boat coming in to dock at the pier.
Pantai Iboih, also known as Teupin Layeu, is located opposite the west bank of the legendary Pulau Weh, or Weh island, in northern Aceh, Sumatra's most northern province. When compared to a U-shaped horseshoe, Iboih lies left of the arch. Its geographical location facing the wide Indian Ocean signals openness for anyone to come or leave at any time, but the memories and experiences received here will not be forgotten soon.
The town of Iboih, located on Pulau Weh is the most westerly point of Indonesia. Pantai Iboih (Iboih Beach) will bring your expectations of 'natural beauty' to a whole new level. This small, hidden paradise has remained largely untouched by much of the tourist traffic, giving it a more relaxed and laid back atmosphere. Its forests are well protected by Iboih's charming coastline of golden sands that is strewn with giant boulders. The shallow ocean water which is so clear that you can see the ocean bed, has a bluish-green hue which exudes a feeling of peace and relaxation. The coast which appears to be curved, resembles lips, smiling and welcoming passersby to come and partake in its warmth and see the exotic flora and fauna of the tropical rainforests that are part of Indonesia's natural wealth.
Near the town of Iboih is a large protected forest reserve. It is no exaggeration when this protected forest is described as a paradise, as noted by many visiting tourists. You can explore the forests which has a lovely beach nearby that is available for when you want to cool off and swim among the small fish and colorful coral. The tropical forest trees also give shade to many parts of the sandy beaches.
Accommodation in Iboih village is bungalow style - either on the beach, in the center of the village or just behind near the jungle.Bungalows in Iboih have greatly improved their standard over the last few years. Inexpensive bungalows are still there, but there are also now more bungalows with private bathrooms, even with air-conditioning and hot water. The majority of the bungalows at Iboih are in a row along the coast. Below is a list of several coastal bungalow accommodations along with their contact numbers.Yulia's Bungalow & RestaurantPh: +6285270706003, +6285260850400Iboih Inn & RestaurantPh: +62811841570, +628126991659
O'Ong Restaurant & BungalowsPh: +6281360700150 Iboih Hill BungalowPh: +6285260904101 Erick's Green HousePh: +6282167899876 Fina BungalowPh: +6285262111366
Banda Aceh Airport is the gateway to Iboih, lying 40 km. to the south on the tip of Aceh Province. Flight time from Jakarta to Banda Aceh Airport is approximately 2 hours, 40 minutes. There are daily flights to Banda Aceh from Jakarta and Medan with Garuda Indonesia , Sriwijaya Air , and Lion Air.
From Banda Aceh, make your way to the Ulue-lue port where you have the options of either a ferry or speedboat to Sabang, on Pulau Weh. The speedboat costs Rp. 50,000 and takes about 45 minutes to get to Sabang Port with departures twice daily. The ferry ride will take around 2 hours and costs Rp. 18,000. When you get to Pulau Weh, you can catch a bemo (minibus) to Iboih which is about 40 minutes away via a picturesque, hilly drive through a number of rustic villages.


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A right triangle is formed in the first quadrant by the x- and y-axes and a line through the point (9,5).
Write the length L of the hypotenuse as a function of x.
I have no clue how to do this at all. Help.
i seem to remember this is pretty early trigonometry but on account of being an english major i have forcefully forgot how to maths
the triangle is formed by the x axis and y axis. since it's a right triangle, the y intercept and x intercept are equal and the slope of the hypotenuse is -1.
use the point slope form of the equation of a line:
wait what?
just because its a right traingle doesn't mean the middle piece is sloped in any specific way. The x axis leg could extend far longer than the y axis leg, meaning the slope of the line connecting the two(hypotnuse) would be really small making the line really big.
there is no way to solve this without more information
hm im not sure immediately. i thought about constructing a function for y based on its limits but i dont think that'll work.
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wait a second no it cant abifucwgofnqpegvfqwwd
im 99% sure im right.
The legth of it is based on the slope(the only unknown factor( so x) and a point on the line. I simplified a bunch of formulas into one easy formula, i can't believe i'm not correct.
Really someone explain how my formula doesn't work for every single slope value ever(slopes have to be negative btw)


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SILVER SPRING, Md. (WUSA) -- As Washington prepared for Hurricane Sandy last weekend, Matt McKelvey managed to hurt his leg and end up on crutches. Thursday afternoon, leaning on the crutches and wearing summer shorts to accommodate the leg cast, he stood in 50 degree weather in a slow moving line here to take advantage of Maryland's early voting law.
"Voting is our responsibility and our right. I wouldn't miss it for anything . Since I've been 18 I've never missed a vote yet and early voting is making it easier for me. I clipped my leg last weekend and I know it's going to be a long line on Tuesday, so I figured I'd take advantage of early voting," he told 9News as he waited his turn.
Montgomery County election officials said that by the close of polling hours Wednesday night, more county residents had voted early than in the entire 2010 election season.
Statewide, more than 255,000 voters had cast ballots by Wednesday evening.
Why stand in those lines?
"Because I want my vote to matter and I've been so eager to vote and get this election out of the way and just having my vote casted.
"And I want to set an example for my friends so what I will do is vote early and I will go post it on my social network, Facebook, Twitter, whatever the case is, encourage other people like I've done. I've gone out in the cold and I've voted because I want my voice to matter and I want them to do the same,"
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We're all ecstatic with Gomes' walk off HR. I'm giddy that we're on top of the baseball world right now, and particularly when you consider where we were in 2011-2012.
But we still have to figure out how to beat Baltimore. We have to figure out how to do a few things better so that a team like SD won't take us to the 9th tied 1-1 after a fine performance by Lester.
The 1 for 13 RISP bugs me. It's the kind of thing that Baltimore does better than we do, day in and out. It's why they have been the king of close / late / extra inning baseball.
In the 8th vs SD, with 1st & 2nd and no outs, a sac bunt by Nava sets up Peedy to score on Carp's sac fly.
In the 4th, with Salty on 2nd and no outs, a sac bunt by Snyder sets up a potential Salty score, running on contact with the shortstop throw to get Iggy close at 1st base.
The Birds have just tightened things up trading for Feldman, and we play them nine more times.
And: I know we're leading in extra base hits, but someone is going to have to parse this for me:
While the Birds lead baseball with 117 homers on 780 Ks, we're tied for 13th in MLB at 87 HRs / 701 Ks. And yet we've outscored them by 21 runs on the season ...
A few more dingers would be nice, but I'm sure that'll come in the 2nd half.


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With the 141st Map of the Week we take a look at the Equatorial Gate outpost on the southwesternmost tip of the Barony of Desert's End, Grainland County and the Kingdom of Slovania. All of the details regarding this area can be found in the description beginning upon Page 552 of the free PDF accessory "The Northwest, Volume I," available for download from the Jörðgarð (TM) website (address below).
Key to the Map of Equatorial Gate
1. Well at the End of the World Inn.
2. Well at the End of the World Inn Brewhouse.
3. Lenka's Tower.
4. River Fjörm.
5. Tax Station.
6. Equatorial Gate.
You can get this map in two versions:
1. The Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 version in FMP format, fully editable (8 MB) from the Jörðgarð website.
2. As a JPG flat map of 3000 Pixels x 2400 Pixels, (2.5 MB), available above.
Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Jörðgarð website at:
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|Snuggle-Up Storytime
Event Type: Childrens Library Programs
Date: 11/27/2013
Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Time: 7:30 PM
A special family storytime suggested for children older than 3 years old. Parents are encouraged to attend and participate, and children are encouraged to wear their favorite pajamas and bring a favorite cuddly toy.Library: East Library - 5550 N. Union Blvd.
Location: East Childrens Story Room
Contact: Betty Mcdonald
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St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Jake Westbrook tossed his fourth career
shutout in the St. Louis Cardinals' 10-0 rout of the Cincinnati Reds in the
finale of a three-game set.
Westbrook (1-1) surrendered just five hits and four walks in the gem for the
Cardinals, who have won four of their last five games.
Matt Carpenter smacked a two-run homer among his four hits, while Carlos
Beltran and Matt Adams added two-run shots. Jon Jay smacked a solo blast in
the triumph.
Homer Bailey (1-1) allowed seven runs on nine hits and three walks over five
frames for Cincinnati, which dropped the final two games of the set after
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I like my 65mm and think its the better option for me. I have more power and clarity then the smaller ones yet not as big and bulky as the 80+mm ones. I did check out the new 50mm Razor the other day and it was pretty sweet. I still would prob grab my 65mm Swarovski out of the safe though when it came time to head to hills.
I have the 20-60x eyepice right now, but I would really like the wide angle 25-50x.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) -- A D.C. judge Friday ordered two suspects held without bail in that brutal Capitol Hill beating and armed robbery of a young father last August.
He said he could find no circumstances under which it would be safe to release the defendants back into the community pending trial.
The victim's shaken wife was watching in the courtroom. Abby Maslin said she wanted to stare down the men. "I want to look them in the eye and I want them to know who I am and what they've done."
Her husband, TC Maslin, 30, has no feeling on the right side of his body. He is unable to walk or feed himself. He's unable to even remember his wife's name.
Sunny Kuti, 17, of Southeast Washington, Tommy Branch, 21, of Fort Washington, and Michael Moore, 18 of Landover are accused of beating Maslin in August as he walked home on Capitol Hill from a Nats game.
He lay in a park for hours with a severe brain injury, until he finally crawled across the street and someone found him.
Detectives say Branch and Moore have admitted they participated. Branch allegedly hit Maslin with a baseball bat. Kuti allegedly hit him in the head with a "fake 'em out" BB gun.
Kuti put his hands together and seemed to pray during the hearing. But it did not appear he ever looked back into the audience, and it's not clear the defendants even knew Abby Maslin was in the audience.
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Flagler man charged with molestation in Ocala area
Published: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 4:12 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 4:12 p.m.
OCALA - A 24-year-old man accused of molesting a 4-year-old girl was picked up on a warrant Tuesday and brought to the Marion County Jail.
Casey J. Plummer of Flagler Beach has been charged with lewd or lascivious molestation.
According to Marion County Sheriff's Office report, the allegation was made locally in late December 2012. Sgt. Jerry Bevan was assigned to the case.
Bevan was told that Plummer had been seen bending over the little girl and was startled when he was asked what he was doing. The girl told at least one person in the household that Plummer touched her, and pointed to her private area, according to the report.
Plummer claimed he was moving the girl to look for his deodorant, noted the report.
Bevan interviewed Plummer over the phone and the man denied touching the girl inappropriately. Bevan then sought a warrant for his arrest.
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I noticed a while back on a different (and not nearly as well supported) board that the members there were trying to put together a fantasy world to support gamers and enthusiasts, mapping everything from world map to the cellar below the quick eel tavern. At the time I thought it was a brilliant idea, although hopelessly ambitious, with the member numbers and (to be honest) skill levels exhibited by members on that site.
I thought the Cartographers Guild would be the perfect group to attempt something like this. We have great mappers, good people and a committed group of community leaders. We could create a game world on various levels in maps. Starting at global/continental level, regional level, Local level (eg. Towns) and finally floorplan level. It could be a continuous project with a community leader in overall supervision and various community leaders each in charge of one of the levels of mapping to give guidelines at to what needs to be mapped and to make sure of continuity between maps.
Maybe there should even be an entrance requirement eg. 20 posts before you can be involved (just to ensure that the people mapping are generally ones who stay). The project could be under the auspices of Arcana, and he should, in my view, have the final say as to how it is used.
There are so many great maps on this site, I would love to see them coordinated into a single realised game world with its own back story, characteristics and cultural background.
I think its a great idea, but I would love to know what other members think.