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This year is my first year applying for general archery. I am excited because of the number of big bucks that are taken while archery hunting.
Always have hunted the general archery hunt here in Utah. It's treated me pretty good over the years. Less people, warm weather, great challenge and it lasts longer than five days.
This year is my first year applying for general archery. I am excited because of the number of big bucks that are taken while archery hunting.
I am a NV resident, but prefer the Ut general hunt.
Like it has been mentioned, a little HW and you can find some quality spots.
Plus, the Wasatch Extended hunt is a real bonus. If you dont tag out, you can hunt that area until mid- December. That is tough country, but the rewards can be huge.
Hunted it last year and saw some nice bucks, wish I would have had more time to hunt it, but I had a mountain goat to attend too. Cant wait to go do the Utah general again.
Got the tag! Now the planning begins! Kind of excited actually... new turf!
"You can't cheat the mountian Pilgrim"
Do your homework, and you can kill a nice buck. Don't do your homework, and you'll be going home empty handing most likely, or with a little forked horn lol...
Muleyslayer will do fine, he does his home work, and will work hard to connect on a mature animal. I'm excited to see what he might end up with at the end of the season.
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Thanks Guys and thanks RUTTIN!
I have been pounding the forums and talking to my frineds at Hoyt and throughout the west. I belive it will be a physically challenging hunt (just the way I like it) but I am a firm believer in "the harder I work the luckier I get!"
With all of the great bucks showing up in EBJ last year that came form the general hunt... I am stoked.
"You can't cheat the mountian Pilgrim"
I use the opener as a camping experience and hang out with the fam. will do a few short lived hunts but just enjoy the mountains. After the opener i get serious on the extended archery range but its fairly brutal all hiking, pack it in pack it out so it helps to prepare for it but I always see a lot of good bucks its just a matter of closing the distance. This is a no brainer but scouting is key most of utahs units have good bucks you just have to stay off the atv and go a little further than the other guy. Good luck this year I cant wait!


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Truly America has become the villain here. Obama who loves his secret wars to install Islamic regimes and remove secular govs in the ME has gotten caught here. The UN asked him to stop sending arms but Hillary gleefully sent them $20 million more and Kerry is sending millions in weapons. So the US was not asked by the UN to intervene, but was asked to stop sending weapons but Obama did not. Alas, the UN says that our rebels have used a WMD in the conflict. Even after Obama was telling us Asaad had WMDs? Obama has created so much war and has used US force to remove governments that do not appear to be as hated as Obama claims. How do we arm AlQuida in Libya & Syria. Isn't that nuts? In Egypt, Obama's Arab Spring installed fundamental Muslims who crushed human rights and their is rioting again. In Libya, militias prevented a democractic election, and killed Americans. Stop killing people Mr. President in our name. Its wrong!
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Let them wipe each other out; Israel, Syria and Iran included.The whole area is not worth an American Life. They are just paracites.
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The weapons manufactures are smiling. The demand for new products from them is up. And they have another live testing ground, soon to be blown up. American, Russian and Chinese weapons shipped to the Middle East has helped bring a backward people to the modern age of killing. One thing hasn't changed. The reasons for going to war in the Middle East. The "leaders" see a chance for political gain. So the war drums stop and the bombings go on. The real question is. Will the USA, Russia and China join in for some large scale fireworks?
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The beginning of the end in the Mideast?
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Yummm! Looks tasty ! Great idea to continue the conversation about healthy choices! Thanks for sharing!
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ive been silent since i walked through the door
we sit in rolling chairs at the top of an ivory tower chapel space that
smells like the must of potential liberation that never reached fruition
and each of us are seeds
trying to crack into the meat of our heritage
and were all feeling so much at once that we cant say where god is anymore
but we try to point with smoke shots in the dark
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open ended I statements and rhetorical questions
complaints about soar arms, church politics, and abortion
childrens health and gun control,
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on race or the look in the mirror on the mornings when we truly hate ourselves
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our knuckles tap code like a hurricane our instruments dont see coming
our knuckles know what were not saying
and theyre speaking for us
along with our increasingly clenched jaw
and the eighty toes folding tight enough into the bottom of our feet to cut circulation
and its like performing a poem to a room full of drunk people at an open mic
where the rabbit ears sipping coors listen for the punchline but the other shoe never drops
and everyone starts frowning way too hard and later that night some of the couples who came to the show fight amongst themselves about truth, power, and love.
and with the alcohol still messing with their perception they shove the onus on the poet
why oh why did he have to make shit so serious
why oh why did he have to take himself so damn seriously
ive been silent since i walked through the door
but at some point I break down
to get the pressure out
and i say:
I feel Jesus
I know God
I see em in your smile
pregnant women
single father men
runners crying at a finish line
live musicians and professional wrestlers who have sacrificed everying
for a last shot at making their parents proud
I see em in your breath
I see em in your knuckles slapping the mahogany in patterns you dont recognize
because youre all worried
and youre all desperate
that you are dedicating your life to a surface narrative
that the holy would never let pregnant women face solitary confinement
that the light of the chalice drips wax at the same speed that children starve up in harlem
that you are scared that what your parents taught you isnt true
that after everything gets stripped from you
that theres this last line of faith they cant ever ever take
youre scared its not as sacred as its been advertised
youre scared gods the devil that accelerates your breast cancer
youre scared that no matter how loud you yell when you end up back in the gutter,
no matter how many times you tell your significant other that that time in your life is behind you baby please believe me,
when you end up back in the gutter yelling at the rain, scared no one will answer
but I feel jesus
I know god
each life, this world, all this shit is so serious, serious like you wouldnt believe,
every theology is a life or death struggle
each one of us is charged with the economics of the spirit,
every one of us is terrified to answer the question of why we are here, in this room,
why we as seeds are held with limited vision to see the full bloom
our knuckles betray us
i can hear them
were afraid of ourselves and afraid of one another and afraid of what we would do if god threatened our family
and we were holding a 32 revolver
dear board
were all yelling at that rain sprawled naked in the gutter
we need to face that
we need to listen to the tapping of our knuckles
we need to lock eyes with the suffocation of the cross
we own nothing in this world
we are owed nothing by this world
we do our best
we sit through meetings
we make decisions
we commit
we must breathe easy
love fully
have faith until theres nothing left
be at peace with the fact that maybe one day there will be nothing left
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|Kristie Ham wraps up 17 years at HHS
|Written by Kyle Arnoldy
With two decades of teaching business and technology under her belt, Kristie Ham has decided that she is ready to throw in the towel at the conclusion of the school year and retire from HHS after 17 years of service.
"I think teachers get to the point where they know it's time," Ham said. "I will really, truly miss what I am doing here. I love what I am doing here, and I love working with the kids."
While she closes the book on her teaching career, Ham will not be completely stepping away from the students. She is hoping that whoever is brought in to fill the position will allow her to continue to be a part of FBLA.
During her time in Holyoke, Ham has served as an adviser for FBLA. For her dedication to the program, Ham was recently selected to be included on the FBLA Wall of Fame at the national headquarters in Reston, Va.
"I'm really hoping that the next person will feel comfortable with me," Ham said. "I don't want them to feel overshadowed or that I am trying to step in and keep control, but if I can help supplement or be a resource to them, that is really what I am hoping for."
Business and technology teacher Kristie Ham prepares for life after teaching as she will retire at the end of the school year. —Enterprise photo
Ham explained that her experiences in FBLA have been memorable for a number of reasons. She enjoyed the opportunity to build stronger relationships and bonds with her students outside of the classroom and witness as her students developed skills that are needed for the transition from high school to college and to the workforce that cannot be learned in the classroom.
"To me, when you see the students blossom and you see that transition, that is the big payoff," Ham stated.
She may also do some work at the state and national level for FBLA.
Initially Ham, who had earned a degree in computer science from California State University, was interested in animation and virtual reality. While in California, Ham met her husband Ken, a Haxtun native, and the two eventually moved back to northeast Colorado to ranch and farm.
With the Internet gaining prominence across the world, Ham decided that teaching business courses was the best use of her degree as she believed that computers were going to become more and more a part of people's lives.
She attained her teaching certificate and student taught in Haxtun before getting her first teaching job at Lone Star High School.
"In my first class when I started teaching, I had just seven kids in it. I was so scared standing up there, my knees were knocking together," said Ham.
After three years at Lone Star, Ham joined HHS. While teaching, Ham also attained her master's degree in education and technology through Cambridge.
In the beginning of her career, Ham taught mostly typing and word processing courses. Over the years as technology advanced, Ham adjusted her curriculum to ensure outdated procedures were not being taught. The constant evolution of the field and the curriculum kept things fresh for Ham, who said she enjoyed the ever-changing world of technology.
As computers became more prevalent in society, classes that were once a high school course were moved to the junior high and even to the elementary school. At the high school level, courses such as computer applications have been replaced with website design, digital design and Photoshop and video editing.
As she moves forward, Ham will use her business knowledge to help keep books for her husband's farming and ranching work.
Aside from work, Ham plans to spend more time with her family. Her oldest daughter KrisAnna just completed her freshman year at the University of Colorado at Boulder and her youngest daughter Kaylee is finishing up her sophomore year at HHS. In the past, Ham's family schedules revolved around school schedules, and now that does not have to be the case.
With the extra free time retirement provides, Ham plans to dive back into painting, something she hasn't had time to do in recent years. She also plans to get out more socially, meet with friends and exercise. She is looking forward to attending dinner theaters and ballets with her mother as well.
To celebrate her retirement, Ham and her husband have planned an Alaskan cruise for August, and after Kaylee graduates from HHS, she said they are hoping to take a family trip to Europe.
For Ham, who stated that she has a hard time not tearing up every year when she has to say goodbye to her seniors, the transition to not having a classroom full of kids will be an emotional one.
"It's going to be really weird to me when I walk into this school and I don't know the kids anymore. That's going to be really hard," Ham said. "It's going to be hard six years from now when the kids have transitioned from the elementary school to here and the kids here now are gone."
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Thread Ornament Set 2 Crochet Pattern
These dainty snowflakes and candy cane cover make wonderful gifts and decorations. Hang them on in a window or on your tree, enclose them in a letter or give as a gift to a friend. You can even glue a magnet to the back of the snowflakes for a gorgeous fridgie!
Original Thread Ornament Set 2 Crochet Pattern Design by: Maggie Weldon
Skill Level: Easy
Size: Pineapple Snowflake: Approx. 5″ across; Candy Cane Cover: Fits Standard Candy Canes;
Beaded Snowflake: Approx. 4″ across; Poinsettia Granny Snowflake: Approx. 5″ across.
For this pattern, you will need:
Materials: Fabric Stiffener; Non-Rust Pins; Cardboard; Plastic Wrap; Tracing Paper; Hot or Craft Glue; Large Sewing Needle; Size 10 Crochet Cotton;
Pineapple Snowflake: Small amount White (W), Green (G) and Red (R);
Candy Cane Cover: Small amount White;
Beaded Snowflake: Small amount White (W), Green (G) and Pink (P); Twenty-five 4 mm Crystal Beads;
Hot or Craft Glue;
Poinsettia Granny Snowflake: Small amount White (W), Green (G) and Red (R); Four 4 mm Gold Beads.
Crochet Hook: Steel #7 or size needed to obtain gauge.
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""It's not so much a frenzy as it was before, but in the long term it's going in the right direction." "
Are Business Jets Really Cost Effective
Should you use your corporate jet for your next flight or would airline travel be more cost-effective? Given all the variables involved-the number of people traveling, availability of commercial flights, value of executive time, price of airline tickets and inevitable overnight expenses-that's never an easy question.
Flight departments have access to sophisticated software that can track and schedule crews and maintenance, compute an aircraft's hourly and life-cycle costs and calculate optimum flight profiles based on forecast winds, en route fuel prices and other factors. But because of the complexities involved, no commercial vendor offers software that definitively answers the question of whether it makes more sense to travel commercially or on a company airplane.
Yet such software does exist. It is called Travel$ense and is available from the National Business Aviation Association.
What It Does
Travel$ense calculates the real costs of flying by business aircraft and by airline for any given trip. This is not a simple online calculator. Employing some 2,000 data points in each trip analysis and highly detailed user-defined parameters, Travel$ense provides a sophisticated, customizable solution.
"A lot of companies do their own internal analysis, very tailored to their operations," said Ed Bolen, NBAA's president and CEO. "Travel$ense represents a standardized template. Companies have to weigh a huge variety of factors, and there are a number of them that can be overlooked."
Travel$ense doesn't tell users which flight option to choose; it simply details the costs so companies can make enlightened decisions. The key to the program's comparative power is its ability to determine and factor in the value of travelers' time throughout the journey, the most critical component in determining true costs.
Program Development
Launched in the mid-1990s, Travel$ense grew out of NBAA's research into productivity-tracking tools, which was based on work done in the flight departments at Frito-Lay and Amoco/Houston. The association's initial goal was to identify the true costs of both business and commercial air travel to demonstrate the value of corporate aviation. The software quickly attracted a cadre of dedicated users.
"At that time, there wasn't anything to help you put a value on time," said Kent Ramquist, a flight operations manager and chief pilot at a Fortune 500 company who began using Travel$ense soon after it first came out. "We were trying to quantify the aircraft's value to the company," he said of what first drew him to the program, "to give some sense of what it was really costing the company if we
didn't use the airplane."
Prior to the 1990s, of course, users didn't have the computing power at their fingertips to run such a program, nor did they have a way to interface with airline databases and import real-time data on fares and flight schedules as Travel$ense does. More than a decade later, it's still the only game in town.
"Travel$ense is the only program I'm familiar with that really does the job to compare travel modes and time cost between company aircraft and commercial [flights]," said Don Baldwin, president and CEO of Baldwin Aviation, which provides operations support to corporate flight departments. "I think it does a very good job."
How It Works
Travel$ense runs on practically any Windows-based PC, accessing airline data via the Internet. New users begin by creating profiles of company aircraft and passengers. They can store profiles of multiple airplanes, so the travel costs using various business aircraft-including fractional and chartered aircraft-can be compared with those of commercial flights.
"It's not a difficult program to get your arms around," said Ramquist, "[but] it does take some time to run through a couple of scenarios. Also, a lot of information has to be input. The learning curve depends on the user and how motivated he or she is."
Once the profiles are created, users simply plug in the destinations and schedule for a prospective trip and Travel$ense retrieves information and creates itineraries using both business aircraft and commercial flights. Itineraries include a cost analysis, benefits analysis and schedule comparison. Ground travel time, lodging, dining and other expenses are automatically entered as dictated by the itinerary.
With the value of travelers' time accounted for, the comparisons can be stark. For example, the Travel$ense Web site (www.nbaa.org/prodsvcs/travelsense) features a hypothetical trip from Des Moines, Iowa, to Chattanooga, Tenn., and then to New Orleans and back to Des Moines for three people traveling by midsize business jet and by commercial flights. The biggest single cost is employee time. On this trip, total nonbusiness time away from home is 20 hours 36 minutes with the corporate aircraft and 87 hours using the airlines. The true total cost of the trip was calculated at $9,637 using the business jet and $25,068 going by the airlines. Cost saved by opting for the business aircraft would therefore be $15,431.
Ancillary Benefits and Challenges
Besides comparing travel costs, Travel$ense provides summary reports and business aircraft performance reports and tracks cumulative productivity and efficiency gains. The program is available from NBAA for $795 ($595 for association members); there are no ongoing support or subscription fees.
Bolen and other bizav advocates note that beyond quantifiable cost advantages, business aviation provides intangible benefits that even Travel$ense doesn't track: enhanced security; the ability to attract and retain key people; increased post-trip productivity concomitant with reduced travel fatigue; and the ability to keep payrolls lean by multiplying the reach of personnel. Given these attributes, it's not surprising that publicly owned companies that use business aviation have historically provided greater return to shareholders than companies in their industries that do not use business aviation, according to the NBAA.
A recognized challenge for Travel$ense users is the reluctance of some corporations to give their flight departments salary information that is needed to calculate the value of employees' time. And anecdotally at least, executives can be surprisingly blind to anything but the airplane's operating expenses in calculating travel costs.
"The companies our management team has worked for don't have any interest in validating the value of their time," said Baldwin about his efforts to introduce the "value of time factor" to clients trying to get a handle on their flight-ops accounting. "It was strictly setting up the cost per mile or per-hour cost, or some variation of that formula."
And for some users caught in the current economic downdraft, the value of business aviation-however it is calculated-may take a back seat to more immediate financial concerns.
"If the company is in a cash crunch, the value of time saved may decrease," said David Wyndham, a partner in the business aviation consulting firm Conklin & de Decker. "They may ask themselves, 'In these uncertain times, can we afford [the upfront expenditures required] to be that productive?'"
Bolen, however, thinks the difficult economic climate may make the case for business jets even stronger. "Companies are looking at ways to maximize all their capital assets, all their tools," he said, "and a number of utilization strategies involving business aircraft can help."
For anyone who wants to prove that point, so can Travel$ense.
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Detroit- Detroit police have found the 75-year-old man who was reported missing Thursday afternoon.
Robert Peoples was found walking outside by a citizen just after midnight on Friday. He received medical treatment and is listed in fair condition.
Mr. Peoples was reported missing by his caregiver on Thursday afternoon. He was last seen walking away from the home in the 194000 block of Strathmoor Street in Detroit.
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tumor that develops from a nerve in a child, usually before the age of 5. It occurs in the abdomen near the adrenal glands, but it can also occur in other parts of the body. It is considered an aggressive tumor because it often spreads to other parts of the body (metastasizes).[1][2] The symptoms of a neuroblastoma may include a lump in the abdomen, pain, diarrhea, or generally feeling unwell.[3] It affects one out of 100,000 children.[3] The exact cause of this tumor is not yet known. Neuroblastoma may be diagnosed by physical examination; specific blood tests; imaging tests such as x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or computed tomography (CT) scans; and a biopsy.[1][3] Treatment depends on the size and location of the tumor within the body, as well as the child's age. Surgery is often the first step of treatment, and may be followed by chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a stem cell transplant in more severe cases.[3]Neuroblastoma is a
Last updated: 10/7/2011
- National Cancer Institute. General Information about Neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma Treatment. September, 2011; http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/neuroblastoma/patient/. Accessed 10/5/2011.
- American Cancer Society. Neuroblastoma. June, 2011; http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/Neuroblastoma/DetailedGuide/index. Accessed 10/5/2011.
- MedlinePlus. Neuroblastoma. December, 2010; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001408.htm. Accessed 10/5/2011.
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- The American Cancer Society provides a detailed overview of neuroblastoma. Click on the link above to access this information.
- The Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation provides information about neuroblastoma through a Parent Handbook. Click on the link above to access an online version of the Handbook.
- Genetics Home Reference (GHR) contains information on Neuroblastoma. This website is maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
- MedlinePlus was designed by the National Library of Medicine to help you research your health questions, and it provides more information about this topic.
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- Medscape Reference provides information on this topic. You may need to register to view the medical textbook, but registration is free.
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Each entry has a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
- Orphanet is a European reference portal for information on rare diseases and orphan drugs. Access to this database is free of charge.
- PubMed is a searchable database of medical literature and lists journal articles that discuss Neuroblastoma. Click on the link to view a sample search on this topic.
Selected Full-Text Journal Articles
- Carén H, Fransson S, Ejeskar K, Kogner P, Martinsson T. Genetic and epigenetic changes in the common 1p36 deletion in neuroblastoma tumours. Br J Cancer. 2007 Nov 19;97(10):1416-24.
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This is my first time posting here and I'm looking for some help. My Dad was an advid bow hunter for his whole life and he unexpectedly passed away 2 months ago at the age of 54. Anyways, I never got into bow hunting and my mom has asked me to sell my Dad's bows. I don't know anything about this one in particular and I was hoping you all could help me with age, price and maybe some ideas on where I could sell it.
The bow is a Groves Spitfire Magnum. 50# @ 28 in, Serial Number 4595-2, 60 in
It does not have a string on it and it is in great condition. No cracks, scratches and it is not bent. Could someone help me on this? I'm having a very hard time finding a lot of information about this bow. I know it was made by Harold Graves out of New Mexico and he is famous for holding a distance record that still stands from 1964 I think it was. I could find plenty about him, but not much about this bow. Thanks for your help!


text: By Jan RahnManaging Editor Chamber's featured spotlight business of the month is Grant Pharmacy, with owner Jorje Geisert giving a background presentation to membership during their regular monthly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 20. Geisert described the various locations taking place through the years, with the current site being in the 200 block of Central. A pharmacy has existed in Grant for many years. In the early 70s it was owned by Darold Raburn where present-day Grant Auto Parts/NAPA is located. Geisert recalled working there during high school, reminiscing about the soda fountain and the thought of pursuing a pharmacy career. A few years later, she graduated with a Doctorate of Pharmacy degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. When she decided to return to Grant to practice, other young adults from the area were setting up practices "back home" also, including Dr. Cliff Colglazier and Dr. Ruth Demmel in medicine, Dr. Tim Meyer in ophthalmology and Dr. Marvin Swan in dentistry. Geisert said she asked for a job at the pharmacy and was welcomed aboard. During that time, the pharmacy was located in the Grant Clinic and the front end was in the main street store, said Geisert. It was a big deal to have an electric typewriter back then. Even though they had commercial pharmaceuticals from all of the big companies, she still used a mortar and pestle on occasion—an item she used for show and tell to fellow chamber members during her presentation. Geisert can still visualize the products in the store. "Sy Gossard and Elaine Walrod ruled over four glass counters of high end jewelry, Este Lauder cometics, Fenton glass and a wide variety of perfumes," she said. "One product we had then that we have now is Russell Stover candy!" Out of the blue in 1980, Raburn approached Geisert with the offer to sell her the business. "I was 23 years old. Yikes!" she said. This year marks her 32nd year of practicing in her own store. In 1989 the pharmacy department was consolidated into the main street store, which made her life easier with two small children and also made it more convenient for patients. Computerization of records, many new medicines, generic drugs and insurance has vastly altered the landscape of pharmacy, said Geisert. "As pharmacists, we don't compound very much anymore, but we do provide advice and information, as well as dispense the correct dose and form of medication." In 2003 the pharmacy was updated with large windows and a new door. Geisert said she feels very fortunate to be able to serve the people of Perkins County. Even though statistically the elderly suffer more chronic illnesses and require the most medicine, all age groups become ill. Thus, a wide range of medication passes over the counter at the hands of Geisert and Pam Young, who she claims to be "the best pharmacy tech in the world." Joining them is Ashlee Smith who handles checkout, ordering and displays. At the end of her presentation, Geisert announced to Chamber members that Grant Floral and Grant Pharmacy will now be under one roof. Her daughter-in-law who ran the Grant Floral store across the street has accepted a new position following maternity leave, so fresh flowers will now be available at the pharmacy, as will a specialty area of plants.


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Hello everyone. Me and my friends are working on some fantasy world for Crusader Kings II. Hope you'll help.
Here's a sketch drawing i have been working on.
PNG files would be great.
And here's the style i would like to see that sketched map. Mountains, Rivers, Deserts, Snowy places etc.
Any size that will be big enough to zoom in to read the titles would suffice.
As it is seen, there are numbers with symbols near them on the map. I would like to clear them out. So maybe you can use different symbols for, castles and cities.
The ones with (*) near them are castles.
The ones with (') near them are cities.
The ones with (#) near them are landmarks.
Symbols for castles and cities and also the names of them would be good. Only names for landmarks would suffice. Here's a list:
1* =Crezaj = Around this castle are islands and a name in the map for them would be great. ''Güneş Adaları''
2* =Revar
3* =Beloton
4* =Vujdavir
5* =Alomour
6* =Karabul
7* =Cinkirai
8* =Kırmızı Limanlar
9* =Elebor'un Deniz Feneri
10* =Scheis
11* =Tij
12* =Vuvanor
13* =Kist
14* =Jist
15* =Aj
16* =Sajerel
17* =Gelâhar
18* =Sivavos
19* =Zikaril
1' =Kargadöj
2' =Küçük Korsan
3' =Büyük Korsan
4' =Alendar
5' =Philador
6' =Cinkiradel
7' =Cinkiradon
8' =Ilk Dönüş
9' =Ölüm Limanları
10' =Donmuş Deril
11' =Nehirveji
12' =Art Heykelleri
13' =Vijdanor
14' =Yüksek Tapınak
15' =Ikinci Dönüş
16' =Krakdol
17' =Ana-Lur
18' =Sivazdorel
#1 =Kızıl Yamaçlar = Mountains, kinda red mountains.
#2 =Kara Kafes Daglari = Mountains
#3 =Art = A temple, but there is no need for any symbol or something.
#4 =Viradokre Gölü = A lake.
#5 =Scheis Nehirleri = Rivers.
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That's really amazing! Uhm. At the north of the wasteland near the Scheis, those rivers name is Scheis Nehirleri, i think you saw the same name of the lake. Also the village at north of the Küçük Korsan was meant to be Büyük Korsan, except the name problems it is really great. I see that you've add some rivers too, and that is just amazing! Title is ''Selante'' no need for ''Map of the land of...'' or anything like it, only Selante would do. Thank you so much man! If you change your mind about the payment, i would gladly pay it.
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That one is Tear's. The WIP thread is here: http://www.cartographersguild.com/re...-tutorial.html
And yes, it is awesome.
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text: Mega: Inside the mansion and the mind of Kim Dotcom Business 01 January 13 by Charles Graeber At its peak, Kim Dotcom's company Megaupload carried 50 million passengers a day, four per cent of global internet trafficWilk Kim DotcomKim inside his New Zealand mansionWilk This article was taken from the December 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.Please choose one of the following statements:A) Kim Dotcom is not a pirate. He's a hero. The saviour of my online liberties. A visionary digital entrepreneur. His company, Megaupload, was a legitimate data-storage business used by hundreds of millions of individuals. The raid on his New Zealand home was excessive and illegal. Hollywood is terrified by the digital future, and an innocent paid the price. Kim is a martyr. But Kim will triumph. You'd like him, he's cool.B) Kim Dotcom is a pirate. A megalomaniacal gangsta clown. His Megaupload enterprise wilfully made hundreds of millions of dollars from stolen movies, songs, video games, books and software. Oh yeah, AND he couldn't be more obnoxious about it. He wanted Wired to write a nice story about him, so he manipulated its writer by providing exclusive access and even a few tears. Like any pirate, the only freedoms he cares about are the ones he can exploit to make himself rich. If you think he's cool, you don't know him.C) Kim Dotcom is rich enough to work however and wherever he wants. And what he wants is to work from bed.His bed of choice is a remarkable piece of custom Swedish craftsmanship made by a company called Hästens. Each one takes some 160 hours to produce and is signed by a master bed-maker who lays out the most perfect matrix of horsehair, cotton, flax and wool. Price after custom framing: £64,000. Kim has three such beds in his New Zealand mansion, one of which faces a series of monitors and hard drives and piles of wires and is flanked on either side by lamps that look like, and may well be, chromed AK-47s.This is Kim's "work bed" and serves as his office. It was here that he returned in the early morning of January 20, 2012, after a long night spent down the road at Roundhead Studios, laying down beats for his album (one of many side projects) with songwriter Mario "Tex" James and Black Eyed Peas producer Printz Board. They finished around 4:30am. On the ride back to his mansion in his Mercedes S-Class, Kim noticed headlights behind them. He said to his driver: "I think we're being followed." They pulled into Kim's rented palace around dawn. His wife and children were long asleep in another wing. Kim walked to his upstairs chambers, showered and changed into his customary all-black sleeping costume, grabbed his customary chilled Fiji water from the upstairs fridge and settled before the monitors of his work bed. Then he heard the noise.Kim guessed it was his helicopter. He didn't bother with details, he had a staff for that, but he did know that VIPs from the entertainment world were expected in from LA in celebration of his 38th birthday. Maybe they'd arrived early and Roy, his pilot, had been dispatched to meet them. The helicopter theory was confirmed by the sound of rocks from the limestone drive raining against the windows. Fucking Roy! He'd been told not to land too near -- the thought was interrupted by a boom, echoing and close.This noise was coming from the other side of his office door. It was heavy hardwood several centimetres thick, secured by stout metal bolts in the stone casement. Kim struggled to his feet as the door shook and heaved on its hinges. Someone or something was trying to break through. Now Kim heard other noises, shouts and bangs and the unmistakable stomping of boots on stairs. Intruders were in the house. Kim Dotcom realised he was under attack.Across an ocean, hours before Operation Takedown began, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) had already tipped off a select group of journalists about the raid's planned highlights. If you know nothing else about Kim Dotcom, about the federal case against him and his former online business, Megaupload, you've probably heard about the raid. The story played out like a Hollywood blockbuster. The scene: New Zealand. Lush and green and far away, home to the villain: Kim Dotcom, né Kim Schmitz, aka Tim Vestor, Kim Tim Jim Vestor, Kimble, and Dr Evil.A comic-book baddie, an ex-con, expatriate German ex-hacker lording over his own personal Pirate Bay just 30 minutes north of Auckland. Kim Dotcom was presented as a big, bad man, larger-than-life, larger than his two-metre, perhaps 160kg frame. We saw him pose with guns and yachts. We watched him drive his nitrox-fuelled Mega Mercedes, throwing fake gang signs at rap moguls, making it rain with $175 million (£110 million) in illicit dotcom booty.His alleged 50-petabyte pirate ship was megaupload.com, a massive vessel carrying, at its peak, 50 million passengers a day, a full four percent of global internet traffic. Megaupload was a free online storage locker for files too bulky for email. It generated an estimated $25 million a year in advertising revenue and brought in another $150 million through its paid-for Premium service.The DOJ maintains that the legitimate storage business was a front, that Megaupload was a mega-swapmeet for some $500 million of pirated material. The FBI also believed Kim possessed a special portable device that would wipe his servers across the globe, destroying the evidence. They called this his doomsday button.Operation Takedown was carried out by armed New Zealand special police and monitored by the FBI via video link. Descriptions of the raid varied from one news outlet to another, but most included the cops' dramatic helicopter arrival and their struggles with a security system fit for a Mafia don. News reports would later claim that police were forced to cut their way into Dotcom's panic room, where they found him cowering near a sawn-off shotgun. [There was, indeed, a shotgun stored there, but in a safe about ten metres away. And Kim wasn't hidden - his frame was easily visible behind a pillar.]This was justice on an epically entertaining scale: the boastful pirate king brought down. That same day, similar raids took place in eight other countries where Megaupload had servers or offices. Kim was cuffed and put in jail, his booty seized, his business scuttled upon the reefs of anti-racketeering laws. If all went as planned, he and his six generals would be extradited to the US to face a Virginia judge and up to 55 years each in prison. The message was, if it could happen to him, it could happen to anyone. Justice was served, the end, roll credits. Yes, it was a great story.The only problem was, it wasn't quite true. The £15 million Dotcom Mansion is said to be New Zealand's most expensive home, with a security system fit for a Mafia donWilk Kim Dotcom's head of security is waiting for Wired at Auckland Airport on a grey day in July. Wayne Tempero is easy to spot. Amid the limo drivers and families with Mylar balloons is one deadly serious shaven-headed New Zealander with a lantern jaw -- a tattooed wall of muscle wearing a tight black hoodie. He specialises in military hand-to-hand combat and looks like a very nice person who'd be very handy with a knife.The car is waiting just outside. Not the Lamborghini or pink Series 62 Cadillac or any of the three retrofitted Mercedes CLK DTMs with extra-wide seats -- the cops had impounded those. This is just a modest black Mercedes G55 AMG Kompressor with the licence plate KIMCOM. "I think I was followed on my way here," says Tempero. In fact, everyone in Kim's entourage assumes everything is monitored, including all their communications. Tempero is the one facing gun charges after the raid - the shotguns were registered in his name - and he doesn't need any more problems with the police. "Maybe we're all a little paranoid these days," he says with a grin as he edges up to the speed limit for the drive. The Dotcom Mansion is impossible to miss, mostly because of the chromed industrial-park letters spelling out DOTCOM MANSION across the gatehouse in blue backlighting. It's said to be the island nation's most expensive home. The limestone drive winds up to a £15 million suburban castle with ponds, a tennis court, several pools, a Vegas-style stairstep fountain and a maze. The surrounding lawns are manicured and impossibly steep.Until just two months ago, Kim couldn't live in his own home, as a condition of his house arrest following a month of jail time. For three months he was confined to the guesthouse, a prison of black lacquer, black leather, black Versace tables and wall-sized LCD flatscreens. The walls are adorned with poster-sized photographs of Kim and his beautiful 24-year-old wife, Mona, but mostly just Kim: Kim reeling in a great fish, Kim on the bow of a luxury yacht, Kim in front of a European castle holding a shotgun and a limp duck, or straddling a mountaintop, eyes pinned on the distant future. The effect is more Kim Jong-Il than Kim Dotcom. Dotcom -- or the iconic character of Dotcom -- is everywhere here, but most of the 53 members of staff that maintained the larger estate are gone, along with his seized fortune. Self-promotion machine Kim Dotcom poses with former girlfriend Janina Youssefian and megayacht Amnesia in the British Virgin Islands Wilk Tempero says that the boss had just gone to bed shortly before I arrived at dawn. There's no telling when he'll be awake. Kim has surrounded himself with luxury, but what he prizes above all other indulgences is pure, deep sleep. He simply doesn't always like to get up in the morning, and he doesn't always like going to bed at night, and -- here's the kicker -- he doesn't have to. The Sun is up or down -- who cares? It is always dark somewhere. And it is always night in the Dotcom Mansion. Great black curtains shut out the light, thick stone walls block the sound. In his sleeping chamber there are no electronic things, no humming or beeping devices, no leaking of LED. For sleep of the finest quality, for pure luxury slumber, total silence is required. The gardeners do not mow, the cleaners do not clean. The cooks chop quietly in other wings, the nannies tend the children in another house. When he sleeps the mansion holds its breath. Kim can't provide a schedule."I usually just watch his Twitter," Tempero says. It's late afternoon before Kim's tweets start pouring forth. He announces updates on the coming court hearings, plugs his new pop single -- a catchy duet with his wife called "Precious" -- and a music video featuring home footage of the five Dotcom kids, including hospital shots of the arrival of his new twins only months before. Other messages in the stream address Julian Assange or internet freedom or the tyranny of the FBI.A few minutes later Tempero is at my door. The boss is up.I find Kim behind the wheel of his golf cart, layered in his usual uniform of black fleece over diaphanous black shirt and three-quarter-length trousers, a black scarf and heavy black leather ball cap. Despite his blue-tinted Cartier sunglasses, his eyes squint against the sunlight. Spotting me, he motors over and extends a fist bump."Wow, you look like a Viking," he says, meaning probably that I'm blond and tall like him. His English is precise and tinged with a German-Finnish accent. "Cool!" Then he zips away on a golf cart that has been hacked to top 50kph. I follow to what Kim calls his hill, where he can soak in a few minutes of precious winter sunlight.At this time of year Kim and family would usually be based out of their floor-wide residence in the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, or on a rented yacht off the shores of Monaco or St Tropez. The raid has enforced a Hotel California-style house arrest. But Kim has reason to hope that his adopted home might aid his cause. In a few days he will be in court for a much-expected showdown with prosecutors about the excesses of the raid on his home. It's a sideshow ahead of the extradition hearing in March -- but a sideshow that might determine Kim's fate.In recent weeks, New Zealand Crown judges have pushed back against the DOJ, ruling that the search warrant on Kim and the removal of his personal hard drives under the guidance of the FBI were illegal. Still, the jeopardy is daunting -- up to 55 years in jail for alleged crimes including conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering. "They're treating us like a Mafia, man!" Kim says. "It's unbelievable. It's only because they cannot extradite us to the US just for copyright violation. If they treat us as some sort of international criminal conspiracy, they can. The "us" Kim is referring to are his six codefendants, his partners in Megaupload. Andrus Nomm, a resident of both Turkey and Estonia, was captured in Holland; Sven Echternach escaped to his home in Germany (which does not extradite its citizens); and Julius Bencko of Slovakia remains at large. The other three -- Bram van der Kolk, who oversaw programming; Finn Batato, the company's chief marketing officer; and Mathias Ortmann, its chief technical officer, cofounder and director -- were, like Kim, caught in New Zealand.At this point, all that stands between the men and their fate are legal teams and Kim himself. Sure, the Department of Justice case cites a handful of seized emails that sound damning, but it was Kim who got them here. Dotcom has in the past compared himself to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Martin Luther King Jr. He was the visionary. Now he'll need to think his team out of this jam. And he promises he will.He has a plan -- something even bigger and better is in the works. It's more mega than Megaupload. A technology nobody can touch. One that will change the world. They'll beat the Department of Justice. They'll humiliate them. And then, Kim promises, they shall have their vengeance.The sun sets in early winter. We file back down the hill to the warmth of Kim's house-sized kitchen beside a five-metre-long fish tank. A young Filipino maid brings Kim a facecloth and water. Kim (far right) with his Megaupload team (left to right) Bram van der Kolk, Finn Batato and Mathias Ortmann, in the dock at North Shore District Court, Auckland, New ZealandWilk Kim maintains that the real issue is a lack of understanding of the internet. He was simply operating a hard-disc drive in virtual space. There's no arguing that Megaupload wasn't a legitimate cyberlocker, storing data for millions of individuals. Megaupload server logs show addresses that trace back to Fortune 100 companies and governments around the world. It's also obvious that Megaupload was one of many websites that stored, and profited from, copyright-infringing material. The question is whether Kim and company bear criminal responsibility for that duality.The law addressing this balance between the rights of copy-right holders and internet service providers was signed by President Clinton in 1998. The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides ISPs with "safe harbour" from liability, so long as the provider doesn't know for certain which, if any, of its stored material is copyright-infringing and "expeditiously" removes infringing material following a takedown notice.The act was tested in June 2010, when a US district court ruled that YouTube was protected by safe harbour against a $1 billion suit by Viacom; Google employees simply could not be expected to make tough, and often impossible, calls as to which clips of, say, Jersey Shore, had been uploaded without permission.The DMCA was intended to clear up the grey areas of internet law. But by making ignorance of its own business a cloud storage provider's only defence, the law created a brand-new grey area, leaving in place an internet where piracy was blatant big business.The world still hadn't worked out how to have data storage that was both private and policed. Lawmakers attempted to tackle that issue this year with the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) measures, but millions of internet freedom advocates shouted it down and on January 20 the legislation died; Kim was raided that same week. "The US showed they don't need SOPA or a trial to control the internet," Kim says. "They did it with guns."The DOJ claims Megaupload was anything but ignorant of the pirated material on its site. In fact, the indictment claims, Megaupload's generals engaged in illegal file-sharing themselves, encouraged it with an incentive programme that paid cash for popular content, and were slow and selective in complying with takedown notices, only pulling infringing content and dropping the incentive programme when the company was at the peak of its power. Megaupload counters that policing the billions of files on its service would be both impossible and a violation of their customers' privacy, that they did their best to comply with takedown notices as the law required, and that they had reasonable expectations of the same DMCA safe harbour afforded to YouTube. But unlike the Viacom versus YouTube case, the charges against Megaupload are not civil but criminal; the key players aren't being sued, they're facing jail. Does safe harbour even apply in a criminal case? It's not clear that a criminal statute against second-party copyright violation even exists. Welcome to the greyest grey zone on the internet.At the heart of the DOJ's case is the concept of "willfulness". It's a question of whether the Megaupload boys knew they were criminals. And for that reason, much of the focus has been on the character of Kim Dotcom himself.Dotcom does have several criminal convictions in Germany and a bad-boy reputation. What's less clear is whether this patchwork description makes Dotcom a Don Corleone or a Da Vinci. "They probably thought, this guy's fucking crazy and illegal, and we will find so much shit on him once we open it up," Kim says. "They thought I was an easy target. But they underestimated me, man. Everything they're saying about me is ten years old. I'm the cleanest guy out there."Dotcom wipes the sweat from his forehead and refolds his black facecloth. "That's the funny part of all this. Everyone thinks they know me. But nobody really knows me at all."The first time Kim was sent to jail he was just 19. The charge was handling stolen goods, but it wasn't as simple as that; the German court simply didn't have a word for this new crime of hacking.He grew up in the northern German city of Kiel with his mother and alcoholic father, who would beat his mother while drunk or dangle young Kim over the balcony, Michael Jackson-style. The kid who emerged from this childhood was smart, wilful, unafraid of adults and unimpressed with their authority. He didn't have much interest in school, preferring to sleep late and skip class. He says his difficult behaviour landed him in a psychiatrist's office. The man gave him some tests; Kim stole the doctor's wallet and took his friends out for ice cream. He was around 11 when he saw his first Commodore C-16 in a shop window, running a demo of some pixelated game. He hectored his mother until she bought it for him. It sat on his desk, a puzzle asking for his solution in BASIC, interesting in a way that school never could be. A friend had a tool called ICE on a floppy disk. It allowed him to make copies of games, simply by removing a line of code.Nobody called that piracy. The point was unfettered access. The point was the possible. One of Kim's schoolmates had described an online Shangri-La called X.25 -- basically a pre-internet closed network. Kim bought himself a 2400-baud modem, the kind where you stick a phone handset into a rubber coupler. "X.25 was quite hard to get into," says Kim. "You needed the code, but once you got in, the people there were very open about how to hack various things, sharing access numbers, speaking freely." Kim sat lurking, absorbing the information. But before long he started his own attacks.One of the recurring hacks was a backdoor attack on corporate PBX systems -- a company's internal phone and data exchange. "Back then, very few admins even knew how to change the default passwords," he says. "It never occurred to them that a kid might try to break in. It was like moving to some little Swedish village with no locks on the doors. You got in, became a super-user, and basically owned the network."Kim's exploits made him seem dangerous and cool to his friends, a hero. And the hacker scene fed perfectly into his sense of the world as being us-versus-them.The scam that got him arrested focused on the pay-by-the-minute phone chat-lines popular in the early 90s. Kim set up his own party line in the Netherlands Antilles. Then he generated massive caller traffic using stolen calling-card numbers from the hacker bulletin boards. He made more than 75,000 Deutschmarks (or about £120,000 today) but in 1993, three years into the scam, got caught. He was arrested and spent four weeks in jail as a juvenile. Kim says he was "scared to shit" in jail but found it interesting too. "I had all these visitors, grown-ups from MCI and AT&T, coming just to talk to me." He was shocked that these so-called experts from major corporations had no idea how a PBX operated, much less how it could be hacked."It was like I was speaking Chinese," Kim says. It was also a potential business.He joined up with fellow hacker and coding genius Mathias Ortmann to form Data Protect, one of the world's first whitehat consultancies, charging hundreds of dollars an hour to tell businesses how to protect against people like themselves. Their former colleagues in the hacker community thought of them as traitors. Kim and Ortmann thought they were growing up.The German media quickly discovered the teenage wunderkind, and Kim discovered he enjoyed the spotlight. "They treated you like you must be a fucking genius, man. But all I did, I scanned message boards. I got passwords. Any monkey could do that. There was nothing genius about it. But you get addicted to the headlines, people saying nice things, telling you you're smart."The gun was loaded: Kim had the needs of an outsider and the cred of a rock star. He had contempt for the system and the tools to beat it. By 1997 Kim took it upon himself to make his own headlines, launching a website about his life and philosophy. He called it Kimble, for his hacker name, Kimble -- as in The Fugitive's Richard Kimble. "The internet was just ugly fonts with underlined blue links," Kim says. "People would come to my site, see it moving and animated and colourful, and think -- what is this? They'd never seen anything like it." There were videos of Kim, photos of Kim. Kim as an icon of success, an inspiration. Kim with women. Kim in a black suit. Kim in a white suit. Kim on a jet. He rounded out the site with motivational lists such as "Ten rules of success".By 2000, Kim had sold most of his stake in Data Protect and started a private capital investment fund. He had particular interest in a company called letsbuyit.com -- a sort of proto-Groupon, ten years early. Kim invested in shares of the company, believing that he could simplify its interface and make it a success. Then he announced his plan to raise another $50 million to fund it. The company stock jumped 220 per cent, and Kim sold some shares at a profit.He was accused of insider trading (he says he didn't consider acting on his own plans to be insider trading and was committed to the company) and the story of yet another crazy caper by Kim Schmitz created a media frenzy. A German TV station sent a team to interview the famous genius in his presidential suite at the Bangkok Grand Hyatt. "I told them that if this is how Germany treats their entrepreneurs, I don't know if I ever want to be in Germany again. And that was a mistake."The German embassy in Bangkok revoked his passport. Now Kim was an illegal alien. Thai police cuffed him in his suite and led him to an immigration prison. "This wasn't a normal jail," Kim says. "This was fucking crazy. I'm thrown into a place, 18 guys sleeping on a concrete floor, it's 40 degrees Celsius and smells like shit. I've got mosquitoes eating me, the food comes in a bucket."Kim's lawyer told him he could fight in court and win - he'd be out in a month. Kim hoped he was kidding. Germany was offering a two-day travel document if he'd agree to come home. Kim said, "Let's go." He was escorted on to a plane by two German policemen. The press were waiting. This was big news in Germany. "My lifestyle and kimble.org had painted a target on my back." They called him a megalomaniac, a swindler, the "hacker king". Kim was considered a flight risk and spent five months in jail before being offered probation and a small fine if he'd plead guilty. "I was tired," Kim says. "I knew I was finished in Germany anyway." And he knew kimble.org was finished as well - there was no chance of his being an inspiration to anyone now. "So I took the deal. And there's nothing I regret more. Because if I hadn't pled, I wouldn't have had that 'career criminal' label. And I wouldn't be here today." 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Zack Greinke wins MLBPA's A.L. Outstanding Pitcher Award
Kansas City Royals pitcher Zack Greinke picked up his third major offseason award today, being named the A.L. Outstanding Pitcher as part of the Major League Baseball Players Association's Players Choice Awards. Greinke designated the cash prize associated with the award to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City.
Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals took home the N.L. honor. Toronto's Roy Halladay and New York's CC Sabathia were the other finalists in the American League.
The Royals right-hander has already been named The Sporting News American League Pitcher of the Year and the American League "Bullet" Rogan Award winner as the A.L.'s top pitcher by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
The American League Cy Young award, as voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America, will be announced on November 17.