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Cleveland Brown, from Family Guy, waves goodbye to Peter Griffin and heads back to Virginia with his teenage son to rekindle his romance with high school sweetheart Donna in the animated sitcom
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The fourth series of the animated US comedy sees the Brown family getting into trouble on Halloween and Cleveland hooking up with his old acquaintance Kenny West.
Episode 1 - Escape from Goochland
Cleveland and his friends visit Goochland for the annual football game against their high-school rivals. But a car accident leaves them scrambling for an escape route from their enemies' home turf.
Episode 2 - Menace II Secret Society
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When Donna reveals that she wants another baby, Cleveland realises he must keep the vasectomy he had six months earlier during a night of drinking secret from her
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At Christmas, Donna insists that the family must help out at the local homeless shelter. Roberta is hired as a Christmas elf.
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At Freight Train's birthday party, Cleveland's present for his father is upstaged by a lavish gift from Robert, Donna's ex-husband
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The adventures of the Brown-Tubbs family's various incarnations in different countries all over the world are explored
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Donna wants to renew her wedding vows with Cleveland, but when he ruins the ceremony by writing a set of vows that are a touch too honest, she drags him to marriage guidance counselling
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Cleveland accepts an offer from his boss to quit his job with six months of severance pay, but struggles to find a way to tell Donna what he's done
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When Rallo believes he's a brilliant bowler because he can score strikes when the rails are up, Donna has to deliver a cold hard truth: little kids mostly suck at everything
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Donna decides to run for a place on the school board, and attempts to keep Cleveland away from her campaign in case he embarrasses her, but her plans soon backfire
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The Brown family pack their bags and move to Los Angeles, where Cleveland pursues his life-long dream of becoming a Major League Baseball scout
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When Arianna the Bear gets into a quarrel with Donna at a silent auction, Cleveland defends his wife's honour by throwing eggs at Arianna's house
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Donna forces a reluctant Rallo to join the Freedom Squirts, Stoolbend's version of the Boy Scouts, where he soon spots an opportunity to make some extra money by selling sweets
Episode 19 - Grave Danger
Rallo goes to stay with Robert for the weekend at his flat in East Stoolbend, but he's forced to make friends with some tough kids in the neighbourhood when Robert abandons him to go to Baltimore
Episode 20 - Of Lice and Men
After an outbreak of headlice at school, Rallo is forced to cut off his beloved Afro, but when his classmates make fun of him, Cleveland Junior steps in to look after his little brother
Episode 21 - Mr. & Mrs. Brown
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Episode 22 - Crazy Train
Freight Train unexpectedly invites Cleveland to a low-rider vehicle convention. Rallo and Cleveland Junior take a broken cherry-picker from a building site.
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Roberta, Cleveland Junior and Rallo's hectic schedules leave Cleveland and Donna exhausted as they constantly ferry their offspring to and from various appointments and activities

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That's a gnarly looking buck. Love the flyer point on the drivers side.
That's a gnarly looking buck. Love the flyer point on the drivers side.
Thanks man. I didn't really know what he was when I shot. Just knew he was wide and something weird off that side ha. Blown away when I walked up on him
What a tank. Congrats on an awesome deer.
What an awesome buck. Congrats.
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Hey NorthT, I was scrambling to get back from New Hampshire in that nasty hurricane the days prior to your harvest. Was occupied for 3 days cutting up & packaging my moose in Maine. I knew I was missing out. Cashed my Iowa points the wrong year to put in a lot of days. But anyways I also ended up bowhunting south central Iowa public Nov. 2-12, but could not zero in on the toad. Took a thin 136" buck at tail end of peak rut. Only had 3 days left. I was really surprised by the quantity of nonresident hunters in my areas. We hunted several public parcels out from Lake Rathbun.
Curious how much pressure you observed? Resident or nonresident. Very nice heavy rack you got.
We got into Iowa on the oct 28-nov 8. The first 4-5 days we were the only ones hunting the areas. Starting nov 4th give or take a day people started rolling in. Our hotel filled up over night. We usually trip to plan our trips a week ahead of the rut. We hunt a lot in Missouri and the pressure nov 5-15 is crazy. While the chasing usually isn't that great alot of people is even less fun. Congrats on your deer. I'm a nonresident. From the people I talked most of the residents usually wait till the gun season. The first week we only had pressure from the dnr guys after they got off work haha
I had scouted 4 days in February, and would have bowhunted Iowa starting about October 26th if I could have. That is when I've seen good action on the public prior to heavy hunter pressure. I had some great sign identified, but was astounded at the number of NR hunters. There were no less than six guys in one group from Vermont alone! Another thing that really pissed me off was a group of 3 guys from Iowa that each had full size motor homes all parked in one parking lot! And they brought a trailer with an ATV which was not allowed in that area. They camped there for over a month, blocking all other hunters from parking there. They don't allow that at Illinois WMA's and I m glad for it. It was a zoo by us. I did get away from them by going in 3/4 mile. Just wonder how much the deer shut down due to all that activity.
That's a good question. We didn't see a lot of deer this year compare to 3 years ago. We were a little further north on river on area that had access by boat only. It was tiny but we seen 30-40 deer per day. Granted we were the only people hunting due to the extreme pain in the butt it was to access. Get up every morning and ride 30 min in a boat gets old pretty fast
Great buck! Congrats


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The ethanol industry has done more than affect trips to the gas pumps. This time of year in northeastern Colorado, farmers are stacking up cornstalk bales. In a growing trend, livestock producers use these cornstalks to mix as filler with ethanol byproducts such as distiller grain and corn gluten.
According to Dave Gibson of Anderson Alfalfa, their crews have been baling cornstalks for around 10 years but have seen an increase in the last 3-4 years due to the boom in the ethanol industry.
Because forage has increased in price due to high corn prices, corn stalks are now an inexpensive substitute for the forage or hay used for cattle rations. Cornstalks mixed with wet or dry distiller's grain make a high-protein, low-cost feed.
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After dropping its first two games of 2013, Carey's boys' lacrosse team got in the win column with a convincing 8-3 road victory over Hicksville. Junior midfielder Ray Catapano scored three goals, and junior Matt Robison and sophomore Tom Mayer each scored a pair of goals. Senior goalie Nick Fasano turned aside nine shots to earn the win.
Seahawks head coach Tom Aiello likes the makeup of his team. "There are only five or six seniors on the roster, so we're a very young team," Aiello said. "We have a lot of sophomores, but they're athletic, fast, and very coachable. The non-league schedule is going to be pretty tough, but I think it will prepare us for the regular season. I'm very excited about this team."
Among those the Seahawks will tangle with in Nassau Conference B-II are perennial power Garden City, county runner-up Wantagh, Long Beach, Mepham, Calhoun and South Side. Wantagh knocked Carey out of the playoffs in the quarterfinal round in 2012 on its way to the conference final. The top eight teams in the conference will earn playoff berths.
While the Seahawks are young all over the field, a cagey veteran gives Carey experience in net. Fasano, a three-year starter and an All-Conference honoree as a junior, is an excellent ball-stopper who is stronger and more fit than he's been in the past. He was stellar in last year's playoff win over Hewlett in the first round.
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The Seahawks are incredibly fast at midfield. Catapano, junior Dylan DeMeo and sophomore Mike De Leo can run all day, and all see the field well. Demeo had a pair of assists in the win over Hicksville, while De Leo added a goal and three helpers. De Leo also had a pair of tallies in a 6-5 overtime loss to Oceanside. Seniors Kyle Dudine and Mike Walker will both contribute at midfield.
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Thanks guys. I think I have the terrain looking okay right now. I might experiment with it slightly, but it's close to what I wanted. I think I skipped an embossing step though... I'll have to retrace my steps. I'm going to do the terrain work on the island next (should be quick). Then all the nifty little details start!
One thing I'm unsure about... does the orientation of the floating island look correct? I know with 1 or 2 point perspectives, a floating island above the horizon would be sort of "tilted upward". That's not the case with what I did. Maybe it doesn't apply in this case and I got lucky and drew it correctly?
Shouldn't the moon be black?
Like a "new moon"? I don't know, doesn't it change all the time, or would it be black viewed from such a perspective (since we're sort of "looking down from the heavens")?
Sorry for the double post! I wanted to post an update. I am a little disappointed in the water falling from the floating land mass, it doesn't look right to me but I'm not sure how to fix it yet. I'm also flipping back and forth between the slightly convex horizon vs. this straight one. Please let me know what you think....
I think the terrain looks flat on the floating island too.... I think I need to tweak the lighting.
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Inside the beautifully decorated showroom at the Host Resort in Lancaster, Pa., Gerhart was introduced as this year's 600cc Micro-Sprint Champion. The 350 banquet attendees listened as Gerhart, from Harleysville, Pa. explained how he and his family-owned team captured the title without winning a single feature.
"At one point in the season, we were 13th in points. We fought hard as a team and took advantage of our opportunities when the people (ahead of us in points) had problems. My dad has such great knowledge of these cars; he always knows what to do to make the car better."
Gerhart claimed the 600cc crown with consistency, finishing more than half of the season's features inside the top ten. Even though he failed to qualify for the main event on August 14, Gerhart somehow vaulted into the point lead by the end of that month. He secured the championship by ending the season with efforts of sixth, seventh, and tenth to record the first point title of his Micro-Sprint career.
While thanking his family, Gerhart gave credit to his brother, Brad, for fueling the passion for racing in his younger sibling. He also thanked his girlfriend, Jess, for "dealing with my insane obsession with racing for the past three-and-a-half years."
Gerhart plans to defend his 600cc title next season, armed with a brand new Hyper Chassis.
Richie Hartman, Shoemakersville Pa., received the hardware and cash for a third consecutive point crown in the 270cc Class. He began his championship address to the crowd with some words of wisdom.
"Someone once told me that you must bring your friends to the track because once you get there, you don't have any."
Hartman went on to say that he's found those words to be true, but he's proud to call two of his competitors, Chip Geib and Jesse Maurer, "great friends", and noted that, without their generosity, he (Hartman) probably would not have competed at the Clyde on a weekly basis.
Winning three of the year's first six races put Hartman in control of the 270cc point chase. He racked up 14 top-fives during the season, and finished in the top ten in 16 of the season's 19 main events.
The Mount Joy Outlaw, Jesse Maurer, notched his third championship in the 125cc Micro-Sprint division. Despite his class-leading six triumphs, Maurer had to come from behind to secure his title, finishing as the runner-up in the season finale to defeat David Ravel by 23 points.
"It seemed as though we had some sort of problem every week," stated Maurer. "The engine, the car...you name it, we had trouble with it. But we always got it together for the feature. Hopefully next year we can do it again, but without all the problems."
After his third championship in the 250cc Four-Stroke Class, Chip Geib decided it was time for a break. He sat out for two seasons before the desire to mash the gas returned. Geib's parents supported his idea of a comeback, purchasing another Micro for the 2010 campaign. And the Manheim wheel-twister came back in style, winning his fourth point title and accumulating eight feature triumphs in the process.
A couple of early season DNF's, caused by mechanical gremlins, had Geib mired deep in the point standings. He climbed out of the hole quickly, however, as the victories and top-five efforts piled up. Trailing Peter Michael by ten points heading into the final night of the season, Geib recorded his eighth feature triumph and in the process, leap-frogged over Michael to claim the championship.
"Without my crew, there's no way we could have done what we've done this year," said Geib. "After a bad night, I'd get a call from the crew on Sunday, saying they'd fixed the car and now we needed to start it and see how it runs. They were just fantastic, all year long."
Ken Miller capped off his championship season in the Sportsman Class by registering victories in the final two main events of the year. He wound up with seven feature wins, one less than his teammate, Jason Swavely.
The championship is Miller's second in the Sportsman Class; he also earned the title in 2008. He gave the credit to his car owner, Pete Rozmus, and his uncle, Curt Miller, who built the motors that carried him to the Sportsman crown.
"A champion isn't a champion without his team," noted Miller, who then mentioned every member of his crew. He gave a special "shout out" to his wife, Kim, who he said, "pushes me to race each and every week."
Along with the five champions, the top fifteen in the standings in each of the track's weekly classes were introduced as they came forward to receive trophies and point fund checks.
Receiving the Championship Car Owner's trophies were: Donald Gerhart (600cc); Richie Hartman (270cc); Gary Gorski (125cc); Chip Geib (250cc Four-Stroke); and Pete Rozmus (Sportsman).
The recipients of numerous special awards are listed below:
Rookie of the Year: Zachary Fisher (600cc); Jared Esh (250cc Four-Stroke); Curtis R. Miller (125cc); Michael Heiser (Sportsman). There was no Rookie of the Year in the 270cc Class.
Most Improved Driver: Tyler Ross (600cc); Dave Grube (270cc); Matthew Swift (250cc Four-Stroke); Bradley Brown (125cc); Kelby Stauffer (Sportsman).
Sportsman of the Year: Jamie Kostic (600cc); Nick Skias (270cc); Peter Michael (250cc Four-Stroke); Derek Ecenrode (125cc); Brett Wanner (Sportsman).
Viper Chassis Heat Race Challenge: Brittany Brown (600cc); Zack Fouse (270cc); Chip Geib (250cc Four-Stroke); Jesse Maurer (125cc); Ken Miller (Sportsman).
Best Appearing Car Awards: Tyler Esh (600cc); Nick Skias (270cc); Jared Esh (250cc Four-Stroke); Cody Drace (125cc); Dave Kemp (Sportsman).
Hard Luck Award: Brent Ely (600cc); Kerry Lengle (270cc); Jessica Mohler (250cc Four-Stroke); Mark Yoder (125cc); Robert Shanaman (Sportsman).
The President's Award went to Bonnie Goshert for her efforts in organizing the annual Kids Fun Day for the past several seasons. The activity is held on Saturday of Labor Day weekend, during the track's annual two-day Labor Day Shootout. Goshert also served as the track's handicapper for the last few years.
Fifty-six drivers were inducted into the Lanco Upside Down Club on Saturday, receiving t-shirts to commemorate their tumbles during the recently completed season.
The 2011 racing schedule was released during Saturday's banquet, with the season opener slated for April 16. There are 21 events penciled in, with all of the annual specials back on the schedule. The Memorial Day Open Show will be presented on May 28, and Micromania is back on the calendar; it's set for July 2nd. The Clyde Martin Memorial Race will be run on July 30, and the Labor Day Shootout will be held on September 3rd and 4th.
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In 2009, Cristian Von Koenigsegg set out to purchase Saab from GM, bringing the brand back into Swedish ownership. Koenigsegg planned to bring the brand back to its Scandinavian roots as well as bring the Saab brand to a more premium standing. With that the Scandinavian Luxury Sedan concept is meant to set a benchmark for Koenigsegg and Saab interiors.Automotive Design2013
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In response to the NASA Moonstream, Epoch Films, who had plans for a Bridgestone commercial with a space theme, concluded that a smaller version of the Moonstream would be optimal for their commercial. Upon contact, a dune buggy was provided as a template for the commercial's design.Automotive Design2013
The Mazda Tanken is a tribute to the American landscape. Following the lines of Mazda's Nagare form language, the goal was to create a fearless explorer for the US market.Automotive Design2013
Small car, explosive personality. Many compact cars today are designed to be friendly and non-threatening. Being a brand with an active sport background, its smallest product, the 3 door, should be a more aggresive and threatening competitor.Automotive Design2013
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Ned Yost media session: June 26
Take it from media relations intern Hillary who was dripping after two minutes into this interview…it's hot! Yost said that unlike the old days when he was a player, the team is taking valuable precautions to stay healthy in this summer heat, such as by eating right and staying hydrated. In particular, Yost is helping catcher Jason Kendall take special precautions by giving him a day's rest. Though Kendall nearly always wants to play, Yost is keeping the big picture in mind so that Kendall will be strong and healthy late in the season. Members of the media asked when Jose Guillen might have a day off, but Yost responded that he doesn't want to remove Guillen from the lineup because he is currently on a 19-game hitting streak, the longest of his career.
With Kendall out of today's lineup, second baseman Mike Aviles will move into the two-hole. Yost knows that there is a lot more to a successful two-hole hitter than what shows up in the box score. Rather than only looking at hits, the manager looks for someone who can move runners and hit ground balls when needed.


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Detailed Message About the Challenge (@ICME 2014)
Update History
- April 23: Evaluation result is available here. Congratulations! Paper notification will be sent on 4/26(New!).
- April 7: Password-protected test set is avaliable for downloading. Please check your email (sent from CMT).
- April 1: Trial set is available for download (see details below)
- Mar 27: CMT System is up
- Mar 24: Announce evaluation rules
Evaluation Process
To enable more team to participant the grand challenge, we will change the evaluation method from online to offline:
You will be asked to download one compressed file (evaluation set) which contains two files in text formats. One is a list of query-key pairs, and the other is a list of key-image pairs. You will be running your algorithm to give a relevance score for each pairs in the first file, and the image content, which will be Base64 encoded JPEG files, can be found in the second file through the key.
The evaluation set, which is encrypted, will be available for downloading 3 days before the challenge starts. A password will be delivered to all participants to decrypt the evaluation set when the challenge starts.
One full day (24 hours) will be given to the participants to do predictions on all the query-image pairs in the evaluation set.Before the end of the challenge, participants need to submit the evaluation results (which is a text file containing a list of triad: query, key, score) to a CMT system (will be available soon). The order of the triads in the text file is not important. Running prediction in parallel is encouraged.
The evaluation set will be different from what we used last year. The number of query-image pairs will be increased significantly this time. A trial set will be available around one week before the start of the challenge.
One team can submit up to 3 runs in 3 text files, and each file corresponds to the results of one run.
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- The trial dataset can be downloaded here (13.6M).
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- The password will be sent to registered users via emails.
- We will follow the sampe process to deliver final test set.
- You can try uploading your prediction results and then email firstname.lastname@example.com to confirm the submission format.
Important Dates (Updated)
April 1: Trial set available for download.
April 2: Deadline for the participants to register on the CMT system for submitting evaluation results. April 7: Encrypted evaluation set is available for downloading.
April 10: Challenge start 0:00AM PDT, password will be sent to emails that are registered in the challenge CMT system.
April 11: Challenge ends 0:00AM PDT. Submission system closes.
April 16: Challenge paper submission deadline (4-6 pages following the same guideline of the main conference).
April 23: Notification.
April 30: Camera ready.
Prediction Result Submission Entrance:
Participants are required to register their teams by April 2. Please note the prediction submission site share the same main entrance with ICME 2014 workshop papers. Please choose "MSR-Bing Image Retrevial Challenge" to submit you results (by the end of April 10) and papers (by the end of April 16.
Useful Links
- Past: 2013 Grand Challenge Result (with 1M datasets)
- Current: 2014 Grand Challenge @ ICME (with 1M dataset)
- Next: 2014 Grand Challenge @ ACM Multimedia (with 1M dataset and optionally 40M dataset)
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Can someone please help clarify / verify on the following?
MTA Settings
Under Configure -> MTA -> Network, I'm seeing a few settings here but am still not very clear what to do with them.
Web mail MTA Host name
Is this for delivering local mail only (ie not for external mails)?
Relay MTA for external delivery
My understanding after reading the doc is that if my ISP doesn't force me to relay outgoing mails through them, and I have enabled DNS lookup, I can leave this blank?
Inbound SMTP host name
Sorry I know this is explained as "If your MX records point to a spam-relay or any other external non-Zimbra server, enter the name of that server in the Inbound SMTP host name field." but I'm not following. Can someone provide an example?
MTA Trusted Networks
The admin doc says "To set up MTA trusted networks on a per server basis, make sure that MTA trusted networks have been set up as global settings and then go the Configure > Servers > MTA page and in the MTA Trusted Networks field enter the trusted network addresses for the server." However I see out of the box it has default networks setup for the server whereas on a global level it's blank. Does this mean there is a bug with the install software and I have to copy the setting from the server to the global setting?


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New York, NY (Sports Network) - The New York Rangers have agreed to terms on a
new contract with forward Carl Hagelin, the team announced Wednesday.
According to Newsday, the pact is for two years and worth $4.5 million for
Hagelin, a restricted free agent who had 10 goals and 14 assists while playing
in all 48 games for the Rangers last season. He added three goals and three
assists in 12 playoff contests.
The 24-year-old has played the first two seasons of his NHL career with the
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Because like you said she was animated in two episodes.
I don't get why this thread is limited to unreal girls... i feel like there are women 10 times more beautiful in real life than a digitally rendered image could ever match up to.
Our generation is highly sexualized. You see kids game having more and more sexy characters, same with cartoons, its just the way it is. Hell i was looking at porn at age 11, and master baiting by 12. Its just companies appealing to what people want.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Washington gingko tree that was more than 100 years old was mistakenly cut down.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Gov. Rick Snyder says lawmakers should keep aiming at job-related issues that will improve the state's economy and not gun legislation that includes exempting Michigan-made guns and ammunition from federal regulations.
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This bill comes after a New York newspaper published the names and address of local gun owners.
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NEW YORK (KSDK) - The Chaddick Institue for Metropolitan Development of DePaul University released its 5th annual study on intercity bus travel on Thursday.
The findings show that city to city bus travel has increased 7.5% between 2011 and 2012, its highest rate in four years.
"Bus travel - now it is a cool thing, a happening sector," said Joseph P. Schwieterman, Professor, School of Public Service and Director of Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University.
The bus remains America's fastest growing form of city-to-city travel by a comfortable margin. The sector's growth outpaces the 3.0% expansion of rail service (in seat-miles) and the less than one percent growth being reported by both airlines and agencies tracking automobile travel.
The study also shows that service by city-to-city express operators such as megabus.com surged by 30.6% during 2012.


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My New Not So CGEM
Posted 12 March 2011 - 06:52 PM
So far I am not happy
Posted 12 March 2011 - 06:58 PM
I do not see your picture?
Posted 12 March 2011 - 07:06 PM
I was looking at the picture of the CGEM mount that showed the mount head and a warning to make sure that the clutch is tightened. In that picture it shows the CGEM with setting circles.
Am I an idiot or what?
Now to figure out the fleeting hand controller holder haha
Posted 12 March 2011 - 07:15 PM
I am curious about the HC holder, mine has a serious grip on the tripod leg once snapped into place!
Posted 12 March 2011 - 07:18 PM
What tiny screw are you referring? The one on the setting circle as shown in the picture?
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Posted 12 March 2011 - 07:38 PM
Soak the HC holder in very hot water (not quite boiling) for a few minutes. Then pinch the ears on the holder together long enough for the the plastic to cool. It may take a few tries to get the fit you need.
Posted 12 March 2011 - 08:32 PM
So I went to pick up my CGEM today. Assembled easy enough but its missing things, things that are important like RA a DEC setting circles and seems to be missing a tiny screw (seen in the picture) and also the hand controller holder slides alllll the way down the leg, whats the point on that?
So far I am not happy
I own a CGEM and I can tell you definitively that it has no setting circles. Like the previous poster said, GOTOs don't have them.
Posted 12 March 2011 - 09:09 PM
Posted 12 March 2011 - 09:47 PM
IMG-20110312-00066 by AstroJeff, on Flickr
Now I am trying to figure out how to adapt an ADM DC8 to my orion 8" f4 astrograph's tube rings and the Vixen guidescope kit. I am sure I will come up with something.
Posted 12 March 2011 - 09:59 PM
I don't think ADM DC8 will work with your Orion 8" F4 because DC8 is a dovetail for Celestron 8" scope. You probably need something like this:
You mount the tube rings onto the holes of ADM universal dovetail. Before you buy it, there are two versions, one is for standard size and other is for metric. Measure the hole spacing distance underneath the tube rings. It's either 2" or 60mm.
Posted 12 March 2011 - 11:18 PM
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Posted 13 March 2011 - 09:22 AM
My scope looks exactly the same in regard to the screw holes. I used a flashlight to have a look, I can see the bottom of the hole, but I can't tell if it's an allen head or flat head screw. In fact, I can't tell if there is a screw in it. It looks like there could be nothing there. I understand your concern. But, my mount seems to work fine, so I'm assuming whatever is down there, or not, is correct.
So I guess what I'm saying is that you're CGEM seems fine.
Hope that helps, clear as mud huh?
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Posted 13 March 2011 - 02:27 PM
IMG-20110313-00067 by AstroJeff, on Flickr
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Posted 13 March 2011 - 06:54 PM
It now works perfectly for me.
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Posted 21 March 2011 - 09:19 AM
I had my first night out last week and I was dissapointed to say the least. Tracking was nowhere even close, balancing issues to boot I was frustrated. I did a noob thing, I guess at polaris, which I now know was my mistake.
Thankfully a member of my RASC Chapter helped me with my Balance issue. I can now balance perfectly, but, big BUT my Dynamic balance is way off when the guidescope is attached. Short of the story is, I can't mount the guidescope in a piggyback fashion. I am going to create an aluminum plate to mount it on the side, which should help with my dynamic dec balance issue.
I setup around 8PM, made sure balance was as perfect as I could make it, making sure I am as close to polaris as I could be without a Polar Scope then I did a two star alignment and added 1 calibration star, then a All Star Polar alignment, to my amazement it was centered in the field so I made no adjustments. I ran a few Gotos and it centered it in the field each time! It was working so good I decided to try taking a few images of M42 and it was then I noticed dec drift and ra drift, not bad but I definitely need to work on polar alignment
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ASHEBORO, N.C. -- A 21-year-old male polar bear at the North Carolina Zoo has died.
Zoo officials said Aquila was found in his off-exhibit holding quarters Tuesday morning.
Ken Reininger, general curator at N.C. Zoo, said in a statement Aquila appeared to be in good condition when workers left Monday evening. He added that the bear had no previous signs of illness.
A necropsy - an autopsy for animals - showed Aquila died from a ruptured stomach.
Aquila returned to the N.C. Zoo in April after a two-year-stay at the Detroit Zoo while the polar bear exhibit was being renovated.
This is the third animal to die at the zoo this year. A newborn gorilla died in July; zookeepers believe the baby's mother rolled over on it while sleeping. At the beginning of September, zoo officials had to euthanize a 21-year-old gorilla who was ill.


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Way cool. Lets get another one.
Last weekend I drove a few miles from my desert home and did some predator calling......archery style. On my second stand location, this dog came in to 12 yards! One arrow dropped him where he stood. If you look closely, you can see my call (FoxPro Spitfire) under the tree beyond where he's down. Not a bad morning......made it home in time to do some chores around the house. Hope you enjoy!
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Way cool. Lets get another one.
Looks like it was a good morning for some preditor control for you. 12 yards with a bow is awesome. Having the opportunity to hunt them a few miles from home, well that sounds awesome and a blessing too. Good work BOHNTR.
Very nice BOHNTR, way to getr' done.
Way to get it done BOHNTR. How many does that make with a bow now?
That sounds like a great day...and with your bow too boot!!!! Nice job!
very nice my friend, quite a task with bow as well i mite ad.
Thanks guys...
That's 16 with a bow now.Way to get it done BOHNTR. How many does that make with a bow now?
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16 is impressive. I killed my first with a bow this year, definitely not an easy task. Lip squeeked him while deer hunting.


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Alabama Governor Fob James: leader of the resistance
The upcoming clash with judicial tyranny
Try to take the Ten Commandments out of this courtroom, Gov. Fob James declared to Alabama Circuit Judge Charles Price, and you'll be staring down the barrel of a few dozen M-16s. Even though he is fighting on a different issue with a very different moral base, Gov. James's position evoked the memory of George Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door more than 30 years ago. The governor has planted his feet, crossed his arms, and dared a judge to enforce his ruling that the Ten Commandments must go. The governor promised that the National Guard and the Alabama State Police would be there to greet the judge or his enforcers, unless President Clinton federalizes the guard.
This declaration of solidarity with an Alabama circuit judge is the latest escalation in a battle that Judge Roy Moore has been waging for no less than the right to acknowledge God in public life. This simmering set-to has been on the back burner for months, but with the governor's defiant statements, the eyes of the nation have been drawn once again to the Heart of Dixie, nerve center for so many events from the birth of the Confederacy to the Civil Rights revolution.
The governor, whose actions often are ridiculed and lampooned in the state press, has joined Judge Moore as a folk hero of sorts to those who believe a liberal reading of the Constitution is illegally eliminating God from daily life. The governor's renown--and with it support for his cause--is spreading. In the four days after Gov. James uttered his fighting words, he and Judge Moore went on national network television; big papers like the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times called; the state's attorney general appeared on James Dobson's radio program.
Already, Judge Moore had said the judge could take his job or jail him for contempt, but as long as he was in the courtroom, the Ten Commandments would stay. And now the governor and the judge wait for whatever is next. Will Judge Charles Price call their bluff? And--important for the judge to consider--is Gov. Fob James bluffing? Not likely.
The stage for this round was set on Feb. 5, when Gov. James attended a Southern Baptist Convention prayer luncheon in Montgomery. Richard Land of the SBC's Christian Life Commission was a guest speaker.
Gov. James didn't go to utter fighting words about prayer or the Ten Commandments. He was there to discuss his legislative agenda. He listened to Mr. Land talk about the bad effect of the Supreme Court decision to ban prayer from school, and how the lack of Christian response had facilitated the change.
As he listened, the conservative former Democrat's mind turned to the battle raging in his own state over whether Judge Moore should be allowed to hang the Ten Commandments on his courtroom wall and invite local clergy to lead prayers in his courtroom.
Judge Price had ruled that the Ten Commandments could stay--only temporarily, it turned out--but that the prayers had to stop immediately.
Mr. Land, the firebrand executive director of the Christian Life Commission, told the group that America is in danger of collapsing into amorality. He encouraged people to work through government to keep the country on a moral path. As Mr. Land exhorted his listeners to become involved and stymie the unwarranted intrusion of the government into spiritual affairs, Gov. James thought to himself: "We've been down this road before, and enough is enough."
So when the two-term Republican governor stood to speak, he took his cue from Mr. Land and drew his line. "It is not often in our lifetime that you can heed a lesson of history," he said, "but I say to my fellow Alabamians at this moment, the only way those Ten Commandments and that prayer will be stripped from that court is with the force of arms. Make no mistake about that statement."
Fob James says now that he didn't expect his words to go much beyond the room, but go they did, and within 24 hours newspaper and TV reporters were calling from all corners of the country. "I thought I was just stating a plain, constitutional principle," he says, "and a duty of any office holder to uphold the constitution."
Roy Moore, the man who originally ignited this debate, is a district judge in the northeast Alabama town of Gadsden, in Etowah County. (See WORLD's profile, Sept. 21, 1996.)
In 1980, he made a wooden plaque to resemble two stone tablets and, with a wood-burning tool, etched the Ten Commandments into the wood. He displayed the plaque in his home and later in his law office. When he became a judge in 1992, he hung the plaque in his courtroom.
The ACLU and the Alabama Freethought Association sued. Judge Charles Price in Montgomery ordered Judge Moore to stop the prayers, but said the Ten Commandments could stay. Both sides won a point. In losing, however, Judge Moore said he would go to jail before he stopped the prayers. And both sides appealed the decision.
The Alabama Supreme Court issued a stay on the prohibition of prayer. Two days after Gov. James promised to defend the courthouse, Judge Price journeyed from Montgomery to Gadsden to view for himself the Ten Commandments on the wall.
The trip changed his mind. In reversing himself, Judge Price said the plaque is "purely religious." Mr. Price wrote that Mr. Moore "has unequivocally stated that the plaques are not in the courtroom for a historical, judicial, or educational purpose, but rather, and clearly to promote religion."
The plaques violate both the U.S. and Alabama constitutions, Mr. Price said, and Mr. Moore could either add nonreligious items to create a larger display incorporating the Ten Commandments or the plaque must go.
Gov. James received news of Mr. Price's decision a short time before his weekly, call-in radio show. He wrote out a statement that reiterated his intention to defend Mr. Moore's courtroom and read it on his program.
"I am sworn to uphold the United States Constitution and I will.... Judge Price's order stripping Judge Moore's courtroom of the Ten Commandments clearly prohibits the exercise of religion. I would use all legal means at my disposal, which includes the National Guard and the state troopers, to prevent the removal of the Ten Commandments from Judge Moore's courtroom."
Fob James is no stranger to the national spotlight, and the light shed on him generally is not a kind one. He is a businessman who served his first term as governor as a Democrat. By the time he ran for a second term in 1995 (beating the son of legendary Gov. Jim Folsom), Gov. James had switched to the Republican Party.
The governor made national headlines and became the target of many editorial cartoonists when he re-instituted the prisoner chain gang, an image that evoked memories of Alabama's cruel segregationist past.
Gov. James not only endured the nation's scrutiny, but he never withered under vicious verbal attacks and Southern slanders. He vigorously defended the decision, and within a year he was vindicated to a degree as other states followed Alabama's lead.
He stole headlines during the debate in Alabama over the teaching of evolution in school books. The state school board was debating whether or not to put labels in the front of textbooks that would say that evolution is only one theory on the origins of life.
In explaining that he believes the biblical account of creation, Gov. James mimicked an evolving ape. It was meant as comic relief, but he became the butt of many jokes for his act. In another scene-stealing act, Gov. James borrowed a gun from a state trooper to make a point. Nobody, not even aide Alfred Sawyer, remembers the point he was making. But most people remember the gun.
It is with that brass and bravado that Gov. James has waded into this fray, not acting like a monkey but as the governor of Alabama, brandishing the guns of the national guard, warning the judges not to trespass.
To hear Fob James speak is to know he's from the South, if not Alabama. He speaks slowly, and some words are undecipherable to outsiders. Not only does he have the accent, but he speaks the language of the generally conservative state, where many of the major statewide offices now are held by Republicans and where many Democrats at all levels are switching to the GOP. So when he stands up for God, Fob James is in friendly territory with the populace.
Gene Owens, political editor at the Mobile Register, says Gov. James's actions are consistent with his beliefs. "He is a guy who will shoot from the hip. I think he really believes he is right in what he is doing," Mr. Owens says. "That accords with his basic way of thinking. He has read enough law journals to believe he has the legal basis for what he is doing. He's also enough of a politician to know what he is doing accords with the majority of grass-roots Alabamians...."
In rushing to Judge Moore's side, Gov. James is simply acting out long-held beliefs. The governor sees this as a classic confrontation between the judiciary, which has overstepped its constitutional authority, and the executive and the legislative branches. In making that statement, Gov. James says, he is standing in a historical tradition that started with Thomas Jefferson, when Jefferson expounded on the doctrine of non-acquiescence. If the courts exceed their constitutional authority, the other two branches of government must draw the line.
The governor believes that prayer--in court, in schools, in other public settings, at government functions--is legitimate and supported by history.
There may be no better pairing for this battle than Roy Moore and Fob James. Judge Moore weathered a nasty run for judge in 1982 in which his opponents took umbrage at his characterizations of the influence of money on the local judiciary. Their complaints landed him before a judicial review panel. The Alabama Supreme Court ultimately upheld his right to say what he said.
And Fob James has survived and prevailed in two campaigns for governor; he also has survived assaults from a press that is critical of his decisions and often paints him as a redneck, back-room politician who is an embarrassment to the state. The political writers and cartoonists never let him forget his evolutionary monkeyshines. But the criticism doesn't faze him, an aide says. "He's a tough guy. He's not bothered at all by that."
Now Judge Moore and Gov. James are shoulder to shoulder in the courthouse door to defend the courtroom from the rulings of a judge who says that God is not to be acknowledged inside the hallowed halls.
David Smolin, a professor at Samford University's Law School, believes the judge is on firm ground, constitutionally and historically.
This case, he says, highlights an "apparent oddity of the [U.S. Supreme Court] justices' claiming that government had to be religiously neutral, and then participating in the inaugural ceremony, which is clearly a Christian ceremony from the point of view of a Christian Bible being used, and an oath of office.
"It's pretty clear that the inauguration sends a message of religious endorsement of government and government endorsement of Christianity, because it's a Christian Bible that's used, a Trinitarian prayer. And it's rather odd that the justices then go and and claim to impose this rule that government and all its dealings shall appear neutral between religion and non-religion.
"My own view," he says, "is that the justices would be out of line in striking down what Judge Moore is doing, but it's hard to say what they would actually do based on what they say.
"I imagine from Judge Moore's perspective it's a very simple matter. He envisions himself like Daniel, being ordered not to pray. Or like Peter in the book of Acts being told not to preach in the name of Christ."
With an aggressive judiciary changing the intent and meaning of the Constitution, and taking elections out of the hands of the voters, as judges in Colorado and California have done, Gov. James and Judge Moore are not alone in their fight to keep powers separate.
In the November issue of the journal First Things, Chuck Colson cautiously broached the subject of civil disobedience. Citing the judiciary's "systematic usurpation of ultimate political power," he warned the church may be headed for a direct confrontation with the state. The subject was a perilous one for Mr. Colson to raise; it was so controversial that two members of the First Things editorial board resigned.
"A court empowered to judge a statute's constitutionality by that court's own inference of the animus of the statute's sponsors is a court set free from any limitations on its power.... The free exercise clause of the First Amendment," he wrote, "poses no obstacle to a judge with any creativity, and--given the demonstrated animus of the current judicial regime against believers--a showdown between church and state may be inevitable."
Mr. Colson was careful to say he neither advocates nor hopes for an open rebellion. However, he said, we should be aware we may face the same sort of decision facing Gov. James and Judge Moore. Mr. Colson thus concludes his essay: "We must--slowly, prayerfully, and with great deliberation and serious debate--prepare ourselves for what the future seems likely to bring under a regime in which the courts have usurped the democratic process by reckless exercise of naked power."
From the moment that Gov. James mentioned the national guard, the comparisons to his wrongheaded political forefather, Gov. George Wallace, have been numerous. In the light of history, of course, we know that Gov. Wallace's confrontation with the feds was scripted, a cynical ploy, some say, for white votes.
The comparison of the present governor to the former is one that Gov. James rejects. "Gov. Wallace was wrong, and he admits he was wrong," he says. Gov. James told WORLD he sees his action in the line of Abraham Lincoln: "Prior to the Civil War, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott case that slavery was legal. President Lincoln refused to obey that order, and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.... If you just read a little history, it's as clear as the nose on your face."
While many have come to the side of Gov. James and Judge Moore, neither needs help talking. In his own way, each is articulate, Judge Moore in a scholarly fashion, Gov. James in a more colorful way.
And neither harbors doubt about his positions. Judge Price's rulings are "clearly unconstitutional, clearly illegal," Gov. James says. "If we accept all such court orders as being law, we no longer have a government of law, we have a government of men, namely a few judges. Most of the time judges and courts respect separation of powers, and leave the lawmaking to the legislature and the administration to the executive. When you have an abuse of this power, the legislative and the executive should respond to protect the Constitution and protect the rights of the people. And I believe it is the Constitution that I am sworn to uphold, and I will uphold it to the best of my ability."
The governor doesn't want an armed confrontation, and he doesn't believe this will go that far. But he's bound to take whatever precaution is necessary to protect the principle.
"What we're concerned about is unless this case at the state level is fully understood, it'll get in the federal courts, and we'll have a repeat performance of the 1962 prayer decision. We don't need that," he says. "I think Judge Price was acting totally outside of the law and the constitution. We will certainly resist that within the full legal framework.
"If the Supreme Court issued an order to me to strip the court of the Ten Commandments, I would refuse to do it. And then at that point, the president--and this is way down the line--could force that by nationalizing the national guard. So you'd have an American president taking an executive action to strip the Ten Commandments from the court. I don't think an American president would do it, nor do I think Congress would allow that.
"I have been wrong before. I never thought we would see a Supreme Court decision like the one in 1962.... It just seems like there is an insidious effort judicially to strip any vestige of religion or recognition or acknowledgment of God from every aspect of American life. We think that is categorically unconstitutional. That is why we've decided to resist it."
When Judge Price issued his ruling on Feb. 10, he gave Judge Moore 10 days to remove the Ten Commandments. Bill Pryor, Alabama's attorney general, has asked for a stay. So in the next weeks, both the question of prayer and the Ten Commandments will be before the Alabama Supreme Court. And people on both sides have said they will appeal this to the highest level.
In the end, it's not just about the right to acknowledge God in public. Judge Moore and Gov. James are fighting for the very principle of self-rule and freedom for religion established by the Constitution, trying to turn aright a document dumped upside down by American judges.
"If we accept on blind faith that 100 percent of the time every court order had to be obeyed," Gov. James says, "then you have absolutely given up your democracy, you have become subservient to one judge, or at the most, five of nine judges sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, and that is not what our Constitution is about."
And the governor reminds us once again that this fight is not original with him and Judge Moore. "Throughout our history--George Washington, John Adams, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln--absolutely, on occasion, refused to obey court orders," he says. "So don't argue with me. Argue with Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Jackson. That's kind of the way we are."


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Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF)
IUCN is a member of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), an interagency group of 14 key international forest-related organizations and agreements and other major international players including the ITTO, CBD, UNEP, UNFCCC, UNEP, UNDP, UNCCD, FAO, GEF, World Bank, CIFOR, ICRAF and IUFRO.
CPF supports the work of the UNFF and its member countries, particularly in the implementation of the IPF/IFF Proposals for Action, and foster increased cooperation and coordination on forests.
For example, IUCN together with PROFOR and the World Bank (PROFOR), and in consultation with the Secretariat of the CBD and other CPF partners, has undertaken an analysis of the relationship between the ecosystem approach and sustainable forest management, pursuant to the decision of UNFF-3 and as a contribution to the work of the CBD.
In 2011, the collective efforts of the CPF will be underpin international efforts towards the International Year of Forests (IYF)


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