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text: With all of the new spotting scopes on the market, it is difficult to navigate and make a decision on this significant investment. The majority of my hunting in backcountry DIY hunting and I'm trying to decide on a quality scope, while considering weight for pack purposes. Also, I'm trying not to break the bank with a $3 - $4k scope but also don't intend to go cheap and sacrifice quality. The last scope that was recommended to me by a friend is a Swarovksi. Any thoughts/recommendations?

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These are very professional looking, uber nice. Only crit from me is too small You can post up to 4000 x 4000 and under 4.7 megabytes. I'd certainly like to see a chunk of that ISO map (the first one) and the hand drawn one...heck all of 'em
Hello everyone! I have just gotten into cartography via a game project, and it was suggested I show the maps here. Creating these was a learning experience for me, and it was fun to explore a new form of art - usually i do regular fantasy/sci-fi illustration type stuff.
I am open to all helpful crits! These were done for Kamarathin, located at
Coming Soon - Future home of something quite cool if you're interested in the game world.
this one is ink on vellum, with a texture and type added in photoshop:
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These are very professional looking, uber nice. Only crit from me is too small You can post up to 4000 x 4000 and under 4.7 megabytes. I'd certainly like to see a chunk of that ISO map (the first one) and the hand drawn one...heck all of 'em
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
I agree, these are all great.
Would love to see larger, higher-rez versions.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Great maps!
Professional and crisp. Love the ISO map.
How are you with color?
Welcome Adam.
Has to see that his artistic abilities are very good.
Very nice! Your artistic ability shows through.
-Rob A>
My tutorials: Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional Map ~ All My Tutorials
My GIMP Scripts: Rotating Brush ~ Gradient from Image ~ Mosaic Tile Helper ~ Random Density Map ~ Subterranean Map Prettier ~ Tapered Stroke Path ~ Random Rotate Floating Layer ~ Batch Image to Pattern ~ Better Seamless Tiles ~ Tile Shuffle ~ Scale Pattern ~ Grid of Guides ~ Fractalize path ~ Label Points
My Maps: Finished Maps ~ Challenge Entries ~ My Portfolio: www.cartocopia.com
Glad to see you made it over here. Welcome! These are great maps.
Hey MisterAdam, glad to see you made over here!
You guys should see Adam's fantasy illustrations - they are really awesome. I noticed a map in his list of posts at Demetia5 website, so I "made" him come here and post those above! Great stuff.
Here's a link to his illustrations on that other site:
Check them out!
Gamer Printshop - We print RPG Maps for Game Masters!
Kaidan setting of Japanese Horror (PFRPG) Google+ community
Those are indeed some nice maps.
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!
Any questions on CC3? Post them with CC3 in the Subject Line!
MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave
I love the isometric map.


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A lot of people have been asking us lately about a central place to share and download new Zimlets, Themes, or other extras/tools.
Good news- we recently added this functionality to Zimbra Gallery! Anyone in the Community can now upload cool and useful things for others to see and use (freely or try/buy, your choice).
Already there are some new themes, the Evo connectors and other scripts- so check it out.
>> http://gallery.zimbra.com/
Getting started is pretty easy, you just need to get set up with contribution status.
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May 30, 2016
The children who escaped last month's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, have been welcomed with their parents at a school in a neighboring town that was overhauled specially for them.
And their new school is being renamed for their old one.
Newtown Schools Superintendent Janet Robinson said Wednesday the change is appropriate because "they are the Sandy Hook family." She spoke after a private open house for the families at the former Chalk Hill School in Monroe.
It was the students' first time in a classroom since Dec. 14, when a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. Classes resume Thursday.
Numerous police officers were at their new school Wednesday. Monroe Police Lt. Keith White said, "I think right now it has to be the safest school in America."
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Guatemalas are back in stock!
-Guatemala Acatenango Finca San Diego Buena Vista has the balance and structure of a well-rested coffee, and 'classic' Guatemala cup characteristics
-Guatemala Alotenango Finca Candelaria has refreshing acidity, and makes for a great dual-use brewed coffee/espresso
-Guatemala Volcan de Fuego Guacatepeque has an intermingling of malt sugar, and mandarin-like acidity, that makes for a nice, approachable cup.
We're always excited when Guatemala season begins, and these 3 lots are definitely starting us off on a good foot!


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NEW HOLLAND, Pa. — An heirloom Caswell-Runyan cedar chest will be one of many one-of-a-kind items on the block when Garden Spot Village holds its 16th annual Fall Festival & Benefit Auction on Sat., Oct. 13, from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the campus of the retirement community at 433 S. Kinzer Ave.
"The chest was a group project by several members of the Garden Spot Village woodshop," said Linda Dodge, director of development at Garden Spot Village. "We are grateful for the generosity of all those who have donated items and services for our live and silent auctions."
The chest had been donated to the community's Share and Care Shop, where the woodshop members discovered a diamond in the rough.
"It was painted an ugly black. We stripped it down to the bare wood, refinished it and painted it," said Bill George, who did the repairs on the chest. Bill Neumann painted the chest a neutral cream color, and then Marie Diehl, Connie Grove and Karla Platzer each took a section of the chest and decorated it in the Pennsylvania Dutch style.
George estimates that the chest was built in the early 1920s.
"I found it listed in the company's catalog. At the time, it sold for $75. That was two weeks' wages back then," he said. "I bet now it's worth every bit of $500."
In addition to the chest, the live auction will feature a variety of hand-madequilts and textiles; handcrafted furniture, accessories and wooden toys; aswell as paintings and other artwork. Items can be previewed in the chapel beginning at 8 a.m. The auction will take place in a tent on the grounds from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
At the silent auction, theme tables will feature baskets, gift certificates and other items. Themes include food and entertainment, home and garden, health and beauty, automotive and hardware, sports and children. Bidding opens at 8 a.m. and closes at 11 a.m. Shopping opportunities also include the Village Store, craft tables, a book sale, a bake sale featuring apple dumplings, and a special Festival Day sale at the Share and Care Shop.
Food and fellowship
A food court, a chicken barbecue and food vendors throughout the festival area will ensure that no one leaves the festival hungry. In addition, festival goers may purchase Share-A-Meal tickets for $25 per person, which entitle them toenjoy a meal prepared and donated by a Garden Spot Village resident, staff member or friend at a future date. In past years, meals have included Shrimp Supreme, Chuck Wagon Night, Chinese New Year, an Indian vegetarian dinner, a waffle breakfast and many other mouthwatering options. Participants can purchase individual tickets to attend the meal, or they can purchase all the tickets available for a meal.
The festival offers something for the whole family. Children can enjoy face painting, pumpkin decorating, ring toss, model airplane flight simulation and other activities. Weather permitting, there will be hayrides and tethered hot air balloon rides.
For a good cause
Proceeds from the Fall Festival & Benefit Auction benefit the Garden Spot Village Benevolent Fund, which helps support residents who need financial assistance.
"At Garden Spot Village, we are committed to providing excellent service and quality of living to our residents who are unable to provide for the cost of their own care," Dodge said. "With the rising cost of health care, the Benevolent Fund is more important than ever. We hope the community will join us to enjoy a fun day for a good cause. We have activities for everyone in thefamily."
Since the 2007 fiscal year, the cost for benevolent care has risen from $364,000 to approximately $1.9 million annually. To pay for this care, Garden Spot Village relies on contributions from individual and corporate donors and fundraising events, such as the Fall Festival and the annual golf outing.
For more information about the Garden Spot Village Fall Festival & Benefit Auction, call 717-355-6000 or visit www.gardenspotvillage.org.


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I'm stumped on this puzzle.
Can you figure out the next two digits in the sequence?
31 41 59 26 ??
Hint 1: The Solution cannot be derived from the numbers.
Hint 2: The Sequence refers to a mathematical constant.
Hint 3: Try to imagine a decimal point after the 3.
I have absolutely no idea how to figure this one out and I need help!


text: LEXINGTON, Va., June 6, 2013 – Two years after it first received funding, the Clean Energy and Air Resources Program at VMI is now fully operational. The goal of the "CLEAR" lab is to find organic alternative energy sources that are bioengineered to produce the smallest amount of pollutants possible.All of the projects currently under way there are seeking this goal in some fashion, from burning llama manure to creating material for a carbon filtration system to building a self-sustaining fish-and-plants ecosystem which also uses the burned llama manure as an energy source.Cadets have been working in the lab since January, said Maj. Tim Moore '97, assistant professor of civil engineering and one of two faculty members at VMI currently involved with the project. The other is Maj. Anne Alerding, assistant professor of biology. The CLEAR lab is located in Morgan Hall, the Nichols Engineering annex.Moore is overseeing the work of eight cadets who have five projects under way.The cadets involved with the first project are investigating the use of llama manure as a sustainable source of carbon filtration for ground water that's been polluted with heavy metals.This project is intended to help people in Bolivia, where Moore has led several Engineers Without Borders trips in the last few years. There, he explained, the groundwater is contaminated by heavy metals from mining operations, to the point that livestock refuse to drink the water.In the lab, cadets Johnny Partin '14, Amber Joyner '14, Alexandria Gagnon '14, and Taylor Dowell '14 are taking manure from alpacas, a species similar to the llama, and burning it at 350 degrees Celsius, the equivalent of 662 degrees Fahrenheit, for two to three hours until all that is left is "biochar" made up mostly of carbon. The biochar is then used to filter water that the cadets have pre-treated with lead, copper, and iron to mimic what would likely be found in water near a mine."The quintessential definition of sustainability is to take the llama manure and use it as a filtration media," said Moore. "If these people can reproduce this manure-based biochar in the field and use it to filter their water, they can have a sustainable source of water."Preliminary results from this project are quite favorable, showing a 90 percent removal rate for the metals in question.A second project involves the use of soybean stems as an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels. This project has two components. Alerding, along with cadets Matthew Waalkes '13 and Garrett Parsons '15, is working to find the best soybean varieties for energy production."[Alerding] picks the best cultivar of soybean that will do the job we want it to do, which is to drop nitrogen into the leaves and leave very little in the stems," said Moore.The second component of the soybean project is analysis of the bean stems Alerding has selected. In the CLEAR lab, Parsons is measuring the energy content of different soybean varieties, with the goal of identifying the variety producing the lowest output of pollutants possible."Two of the biggest air pollutants from the conversion of fossil fuels are sulfur and nitrogen," Moore explained. "Because of that we want to look at sustainable forms of energy conversion. Lower nitrogen and sulfur in the air are goals."Moore and the cadets hope to have publishable data on the llama manure and soybean projects in the fall.A third project involves an aquaculture system in which fish produce nutrients for growing plants. The goal is to provide another sustainable project for developing countries," said Cadet Matt Harvey '14. He and Cadet Tyler Garvin '14 are working on the aquaculture project.The project includes a large tank, where the fish will live, and two smaller containers above it, which will be planted with vegetables. The biochar from either the llama manure or the soybeans will be mixed with water containing fish wastes, and that will be used as a nitrogen-rich fertilizer for the plants. The fish take in nutrition by eating the plant roots, and the plants likewise are fed by the fish wastes."It's a really cool ecosystem where the plants are feeding the fish and the fish are feeding the plants," Moore noted.The fourth project, which is being undertaken by Cadet Peerawat Charuwat '13, involves wastewater nitrogen recovery. The fifth project, air quality control, is a joint initiative of all the cadets.Funding for the CLEAR lab has come from several sources. Two major pieces of equipment were paid for by a $141,457 grant from the National Science Foundation. The lab is also funded by a $40,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation, an arm of Dominion Virginia Power, and an $86,410 grant from the Jackson-Hope Fund. Future plans include a partnership with Virginia Tech that would allow cadets to earn a master's degree from that institution after graduating from VMI, but that step will require more funding."The program is still in its infancy because we just got everything," said Moore. "But we're starting to ramp it up and really get more cadets involved, so it's really quite cool."–Mary Price


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Moho Depth Variations and vp/vs Ratio in Northwest of Zagros (Kermanshah Region) using Teleseismic Receiver Functions
N. Afsari1*, F. Sodoudi2, M. R. Gheitanchi3 & A. Kaviani4
Received: 2008 April 19 Accepted: 2008 August 30
Characterization of the detailed structure of the crust and upper mantel is an important continuing goal of geophysical studies. Teleseismic body waveforms have been used to infer crust and upper mantel structure. In this study we use teleseismic receiver function method to determine the crustal thickness and VP/VS ratio under Kermanshah network in north-west of Zagros using teleseismic data (30°<∆<95°, mb≥5.5) which have been recorded at five short-period three component stations (2003-2007). The differential travel time between the incident P wave and P to S converted wave (delay time) is used for computation of crustal thickness. Moho depth is not sensitive to crustal P velocity but there is a trade off between Moho depth and Vp/Vs ratio. The ambiguity can be reduced by incorporating the later multiple converted phases, namely, PpPs and PpSs+ PsPs. We use the method of Zhu and Kanamori (2000). This method performs a grid search through the H and Vp/Vs space and searches for the largest summed amplitudes at the predicted times of direct conversions and multiples. By stacking receiver functions from different distances and directions, effects of lateral structural variation are suppressed and an average crustal thickness is obtained. Applying this method to five short period stations in Kermanshah reveals that the Moho depth is 42 km and varies between 36 and 51.5 km. The thinnest crust was found beneath DHR, whereas the deepest crust was observed beneath VIS. We observed that Moho depth increase from west to east (from DHR to VIS) then decrease to KOM. The average VP/VS ratio as estimated is about 1.76.
Key words: Moho, Teleseismic receiver function, Stacking, Zagros
Corresponding author: N. Afsari; Email: ng email@example.com*
1 Islamic Azad University (IAU), Science & Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 Geo Forschungs Zentrum, Potsdam, Germany.
3 University of Tehran, Institute of Geophysics, Tehran, Iran.
4 Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Science Zanjan, Geophysics Department, Zanjan, Iran.


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Out to dry
Zimbabwe | With hyperinflation and election violence a (recent) memory, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe strengthens his grip ahead of coming elections despite a stalled comeback
"Out to dry" Continued...
Thomas Jefferson, we know you're there somewhere. The third U.S. president is visible only as a smudge on most two-dollar bills in circulation here, a victim of mass overuse in Zimbabwe's cash-only economy. Quaint as a $2 bill? Maybe in the United States, but here in sub-Saharan Africa $2 minted by the U.S. Treasury is sought after. "Don't you have a two?" bemoaned Amelia, a flea-market vendor in Harare upset that I tried to pay for purchases with a new $5 bill.
Two dollars will buy a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe-the highest price in southern Africa but less than just over 18 months ago. Then a loaf of bread went for 1 billion Zimbabwean dollars.
That's when government leaders, to cope with 18 months of stratospheric inflation that reached 90 sextillion percent (that's 90 with 20 zeroes after it), declared their currency dead and adopted a "multi-currency" system-in which U.S. dollars, South African rands, or British pounds are formally accepted for all transactions. For now, it's the almighty dollar that rules. What few are in circulation become so soiled, in fact, that they are regularly washed and hung on clotheslines alongside the day's laundry.
Outsiders assumed that the 2009 dollarization solved Zimbabwe's economic problems while the formation of a unity government mended its political crisis. Both are far from true. And as the unity government's two-year mandate draws to an end and the country prepares for elections in 2011, many Zimbabweans fear a return to the violence and hardship from which they have only just begun to recover.
Gone may be the days when it took box loads of Zimbabwean dollars to buy groceries. But along with overseas currency have come mostly overseas prices. Things like school fees, appliances, and real estate have in some cases gone up tenfold. Grocery stores are stocked-unlike during the height of the African nation's 2008 crisis when shelves were bare for over a year-but the price for a box of cereal rivals what American shoppers pay. Zimbabweans are increasingly reliant on imports, which are expensive, and on government control of the money supply, which is tight. And jobs, unlike food items, have not come back: Zimbabwe has the highest unemployment rate of any ranked country in the world-at a reported 95 percent.
Neither has liquidity returned. Want to buy a home in Harare? Be prepared to pay 15 percent interest on a mortgage, and to pay off the loan within two years. "We're lucky to get 12-15 month money for commercial loans," said a banker who asked not to be named because she feared the risk to her employer. "And no one can make a business start with that."
Local business startups and overseas investment are further hampered by controversial rules imposed by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF regime, which came to power in 1980 and has ruled by force nearly ever since: The state insists on at least 51 percent indigenous ownership by black Africans of all businesses. That's chased off foreign investors like Caterpillar and others who once operated mechanical, textile, and agricultural factories outside Harare. For a country with abundant natural and industrial resources, and with an average literacy rate of over 90 percent, economic rebound is awaited but slow to come, particularly as foreign debt arrears mounts-to over $7 billion.
The lesson of the hyperinflation crisis in 2007-2008 at all levels (and for other nations courting inflationary policies) was "if you have money, by all means spend it, and quickly." At that time, recalled Itai Gurira, "The money that you got paid at the end of the month was not enough to pay for transportation for one week. Inflation was so bad that people's salaries got to be not enough to pay bus fare for one day." People lost the incentive to work and learned instead to barter their way through life or turn to "suspect ways of living," he said.
The corruption that for decades has typified Mugabe's government now permeates the street: Illegal cabs and vendors make havoc as they haggle for business on Harare's roadsides. Drivers rarely stop for traffic lights, especially at night, because they fear robbery or carjacking. Rolling up the windows and locking the doors isn't a remedy: Even by daylight thugs are known to smash car windows using bricks, grab whatever's inside the car, and run.
The city's deterioration is especially tragic given that Harare (known as Salisbury in then-Rhodesia) was one of the loveliest cities in sub-Saharan Africa and that the country at its independence in 1965 managed a diversified economy with advanced infrastructure and finance. The protracted struggle from white minority to black majority government ended in 1980 when Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) took power.
But suffering under his increasingly repressive rule reached a low point in 2007 with hyperinflation. Mugabe lost general elections in March 2008 to rival Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) but neither party won a majority, forcing a runoff. Scarce commodities and extreme violence led up to the runoff-with human-rights groups documenting over 350,000 election-related injuries, including rape and torture.
At one point Tsvangirai himself was arrested, forcing him to drop out of the race. With the government imposing wage and price controls, workers-including doctors, teachers, bus drivers, and other city workers-went on strike and stores could no longer afford to stock goods. For more than a year, stores were empty, transportation halted, and even hospitals closed. By November 2008 prices were doubling on average every 24.7 hours (rivaled in economic history only by a similar period in 1946 Hungary).
In 2009 a regional coalition led by South Africa negotiated a unity government, with Mugabe as president and Tsvangirai as prime minister. The arrangement was momentous, considering that during one of Tsvangirai's arrests Mugabe's thugs beat him to the point of collapse and threw him out of a window. But instead of leading the country toward democracy, the configuration has saddled what was the opposition with joint responsibility for Mugabe's policies.
Memories of 2008's daily hardships are fresh: "Buying bread was a chore everyone dreaded," said Gurira. "You'd start queuing at 5 a.m. and five hours later you might have one loaf. Then you had to queue at the bank to get enough money to go back home." Gurira, who lost his job during that time and is now studying to become a teacher, keeps at home a stack of 100 trillion dollar notes issued by the government during the crisis, he says to remind him of what could happen again.
Few Americans realize they have a vested interest in what happens next in this southern African nation. The U.S. government is Zimbabwe's biggest donor-providing more than $1 billion in aid since 2002, including an additional 10 percent pledged for next year for development and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
How much government-to-government aid reaches the street is hard to say, but churches and local charities continue to play a large role bridging the gap for Zimbabweans who live below the poverty line-by some estimates over 80 percent of the country's 12 million people. Gurira has been working with the Social Concerns program at Central Baptist Church, a downtown Harare church with roots reaching back to the British colonial era, when it was an all-white congregation. Now the congregation is mostly black. At the height of the food crisis in 2008 the church was feeding over 2,000 families a month; today its food program continues to feed 350 families on a monthly basis, in addition to also running a vocational training program for young women and helping to launch microfinance programs in the city.
Many continue to come to the church for regular food distributions. On Saturdays Gurira and other young workers travel the city to deliver food parcels to those who can't make it and to check on the living circumstances of others they help. On the Saturday that I made visits with them, our first stop was the home of Annie Joseni, whose brother-in-law had just died of AIDS. Joseni lives in a "high-density area" called Mufakose, helping to support her now-widowed sister and three children, along with her mother and a mentally disabled cousin. The only food evident in their two-room home when we arrived was a struggling plot of kale and okra in the front yard. The church provided cooking oil, maize, and other staples, and Joseni promptly slumped down on her slab floor to pray in thanksgiving.
"I feel overwhelmed," Gurira said of such outreach. "We are a little sandbag in the middle of a flooding river."
The Social Concerns group makes regular rounds to other high-density areas, where slum-like conditions prevail and ZANU PF youth gangs often predominate. One week after I made rounds with the church workers, police barred them from delivering food or visiting clients in Mbare, a restive area where housing once built as dormitories (to house black male workers) now is overcrowded with extended families living in dilapidated one-room dorms.
Officers told the group they would need to apply for permission to visit Mbare, which would take three to five days and be valid for only one day. "The police did not seem to be convinced of our good intention despite evidence to the contrary," reported Social Concerns head Tom Rakabopa.
Many fear that such roadblocks signal a return to election-year harassment and intimidation. Instead of regarding the charity work as much-needed help, ZANU PF zealots often see it as a threat to the regime, or an instrument of the opposition. "There are always threats, and people go along out of fear," said one Zimbabwean who asked not to be identified-out of fear.
"Nobody would dispute the statement that in free and fair elections Morgan Tsvangirai would emerge as the clear winner. Our difficulty is getting free and fair elections," said Eddie Cross, a member of Parliament and economic adviser to Tsvangirai. Cross, who is white, opposed the white rule of Ian Smith but joined the MDC in 1999 over the corruption and decline under the black rule of Mugabe.
"Yes, we are part of the government now," he said of the MDC, "but we don't have any hard power. And the only real power to change our circumstances lies with regional leaders, like South Africa . . . but they are ambivalent." One reason for that, Cross believes, is that regional leaders are themselves tied to their own revolutionary parties that led their countries out from colonial-era rule to black rule, and they are unwilling to turn against ZANU PF: "We have mixed feelings about democracy in this part of the world."
Earlier this month a coalition of church groups issued a strongly worded statement in light of increasing reports of intimidation by security forces, calling for an election delay. "The political environment remains highly volatile, uncertain, and tense," the groups said, and "does not favor the holding of elections," which Mugabe wants to take place next June. The joint statement by the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the Christian Alliance, and the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe warned that 2011 elections will lead to violence. It also said free and fair elections aren't possible unless laws and institutions set up to favor Mugabe's party are changed.
"I believe the church is the strongest force in Zimbabwe next to ZANU PF," one Harare pastor told me. And in recent years it has grown in its opposition to Mugabe, a shift not lost on the president. Mugabe not only has increased pressure on church ministries, the Catholic president also has distanced himself from traditional church activities in favor of a growing sect known as Vapostori, or apostolics.
In July Mugabe made an unexpected appearance at a Vapostori gathering wearing a long white robe and carrying a long stick typical of the group. Vapostori congregate usually outdoors and sometimes for days at a time, dotting the hillsides with their starched-white head coverings. Some wear or carry crosses, but the group is syncretistic, blending tribal worship with Christian teaching along with charms and potions.
"Some of the churches have very beautiful buildings but go against the Bible. Could that be God's church?" Mugabe said, referencing the Anglican Church, which he said "condones marriages between men." Mugabe and the Anglican Church have long tangled: In 2008 the church excommunicated Nolbert Kunonga, the former bishop of Harare and an ally of Mugabe, for trying to withdraw his diocese and seize church property. Mugabe in return gave Kunonga a farm confiscated from a white farmer (see sidebar). Recently, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said Anglican bishops in Zimbabwe have been threatened with assassination.
John Bell, senior pastor at Central Baptist, believes that despite the circumstances, the church continues to have an important role to play. "I am not hopeful in terms of the country. I think it is going to stay bad or get worse. But I am very hopeful about the church. If I didn't think the church makes a difference, I wouldn't still be here. And the church as people of God are doing well. This is what God does in bad times-He does good for His people."
Losing the land
Mugabe-led farm confiscations continue
By Mindy Belz
Gary and Jane Sharp have spent over 10 years trying to hold onto their 3,000-acre farm at Shamva in northeastern Zimbabwe, which they moved to with government permission in 1987, but in September-following a lengthy court battle and the seizure of their home that left their son trapped inside-they gave it up.
Sharp had successfully diversified a traditional cotton, maize, and wheat operation to include tomatoes, citrus, and bananas, earning buy-in from Malaysian investors and gross crop revenue of $1.5 million a year. He employed 500 black workers. "But early on we were given an ultimatum, either give up half or lose all of it to the state," he said.
Commercial farming in Zimbabwe was majority white-owned until just over a decade ago, when President Robert Mugabe launched a policy of land confiscation to forcibly turn farm management from successful white owners to black, politically connected farmers who in most cases proved agriculturally illiterate. Zimbabwe's farm population-including blacks employed in white-owned operations-a decade ago totaled 2 million. Today it is 350,000. Of nearly 5,000 white commercial farm operations, less than 600 remain.
"It's almost impossible to hold a rational discussion about land in Africa," said Eddie Cross, a member of Parliament from MDC, the opposition party now in a unity government with Mugabe. "If you are white and a farmer and you own land, then you are part of the colonial past, even if your family has been here for generations. You are naked in a snowstorm." Cross (who is white) said land reform has been needed to allow blacks an agricultural stake, "but what's emerged in Zimbabwe is criminal land reform."
Extensive media coverage of violent confrontations between white farmers and black ZANU PF units sent to chase them from their farms has recently subsided. But the violent confrontations have not.
Sharp agreed to divide his farm because he had seen the protracted battles other farm owners endured with the government. But that didn't stop armed Zanu PF youth gangs from harassing his workers, and at one point for three weeks surrounding the Sharp home with the couple's 23-year-old son locked inside, able to get food only through neighbors. During that time the government besiegers also did extensive crop damage.
The Sharps went to court and eventually won their case, but despite the ruling authorities tried to arrest Sharp earlier this year and eventually succeeded in forcing the case back to court. "We were carrying on believing we had the blessing of the authorities, but we had nothing," he said. After another court proceeding attended by Mrs. Sharp in June to secure the family's personal belongings, she was arrested upon leaving the court and held in the Shamva jail overnight. That was enough to convince the Sharps to give up the battle (leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and crops on the property) and begin looking for an alternative form of income. Continued confiscations ironically are uniting many blacks and whites in opposition to Mugabe as it becomes clear that black farm workers suffer, too, and commercial farming is on its heels. As Sharp said, "It's destroyed our community."


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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - The problem with a lot of younger managers
these days is that they don't seem to rely on their gut enough. New York
Yankees skipper Joe Girardi is a prime example of a manager who relies heavily
on his trusty binder of stats.
So much so that there is an actual Twitter account named GirardisBinder and
in its bio it states, "I control Joe Girardi's life. All decisions made on the
field are approved by me. I don't care if they make sense. I'm The Binder, and
it is what it is."
As funny as that may be, it's how a lot of Yankees fans and the media, for that
matter, view Girardi.
That is until now.
Girardi pulled off one of the gutsiest moves of all-time on Wednesday when he
sat the struggling Alex Rodriguez in the ninth inning in favor of pinch-hitter
Raul Ibanez, who made his manager look like a genious with a game-tying home
Then if that wasn't enough, Ibanez homered in the 12th inning to give the
Yankees the victory, a 2-1 series lead and a chance at closing out the
Baltmore Orioles on Thursday to secure their third trip to the ALCS in the
last four years.
"I just felt I had to do what was in my gut, what my stomach was telling me
and what I thought was the best thing to do," Girardi said. "As a manager,
sometimes you manage different in these types of games than you would
necessarily during the course of the season because you have a long time to
deal with it. But today, I just felt like this is what my heart is telling me
to do, and I'm going to do it."
As bold a move as it may have seemed to pinch-hit for Rodriguez, a three-time
AL MVP with 647 career home runs, it was the right call. A-Rod has looked
lost this postseason, hitting a mere .083 (1-for-12) with seven strikeouts.
"Well, (Joe) knew Raul was going to hit a home run and that he was going to
come back up ... and hit another home run." Yankees captain Derek Jeter said
Now, of course, Ibanez makes Girardi look even better because it did work, but
can you imagine the radio airwaves on Thursday had the move not paid off?
"You are going to be asked a lot of questions if it doesn't work," Girardi
Regardless if it was the right move or not. Rodriguez was the perfect teammate
after the game on Wednesday. You have to wonder, though, what his reaction
would have been had Ibabez not come through.
Keep in mind Rodriguez's relationship with former manager Joe Torre was never
the same after the skipper dropped him all the way down to eighth in the order
back in the 2006 postseason.
"Maybe 10 years ago, I would have reacted in a different way," Rodriguez said.
"I'm at a place in my career where the team is everything."
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Oakland starter A.J. Griffin (5-3) fanned seven and gave up four runs on five
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BAGHDAD/ARBIL (Reuters) – Barack Obama threatened U.S. military strikes in Iraq on Thursday against Sunni Islamist militants who have surged out of the north to menace Baghdad and want to establish their own state in Iraq and Syria.
Iraqi Kurdish forces took advantage of the chaos to take control of the oil hub of Kirkuk as the troops of the Shi'ite-led government abandoned posts, alarming Baghdad's allies both in the West and in neighbouring Shi'ite regional power Iran.
"I don't rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria," President Obama said when asked whether he was contemplating air strikes. Officials later stressed that ground troops would not be sent in, however.
Obama said he was looking at "all options" to help Iraq's leaders, who took full control when the U.S. occupation ended in 2011. "In our consultations with the Iraqis there will be some short-term immediate things that need to be done militarily," he said.
But he also referred to longstanding U.S. complaints that Shi'ite prime minister Nuri al-Maliki had failed to do enough to heal a sectarian rift that has left many in the big Sunni minority, ousted from power when U.S. troops overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003, nursing grievances and keen for revenge.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke to Maliki by telephone on Thursday. The White House signalled on Wednesday that it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one U.S. official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.
With voters wary of renewing the costly military entanglements of the past decade, Obama last year stepped back from launching air strikes in Syria, where Sunni militants from the same group – the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – are also active. Fears of violence spreading may increase pressure for international action, however. The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said international powers "must deal with the situation".
In Mosul ISIL staged a parade of American Humvee patrol cars seized from a collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since its fighters drove out of the desert and overran the northern metropolis.
At Baiji, near Kirkuk, insurgents surrounded Iraq's largest refinery, underscoring the potential threat to the oil industry, and residents near the Syrian border saw them bulldozing tracks through frontier sand berms – giving physical form to the dream of reviving a Muslim caliphate straddling both modern states.
At Mosul, which had a population close to 2 million before recent events forced hundreds of thousands to flee, witnesses saw ISIL fly two helicopters over the parade, apparently the first time the militant group has obtained aircraft in years of waging insurgency on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian frontier.
It was unclear who the pilots were, but Sunnis who served in the forces of Saddam have rallied to the insurgency.
State television showed what it said was aerial footage of Iraqi aircraft firing missiles at insurgent targets in Mosul. The targets could be seen exploding in black clouds.
Further south, the fighters extended their lightning advance to towns only about an hour's drive from the capital, where Shi'ite militia are mobilising for a potential replay of the ethnic and sectarian bloodbath of 2006-2007.
Trucks carrying Shi'ite volunteers in uniform rumbled towards the front lines to defend Baghdad.
The forces of Iraq's autonomous ethnic Kurdish north, known as the peshmerga, took over bases in Kirkuk vacated by the army, a spokesman said: "The whole of Kirkuk has fallen into the hands of peshmerga," said peshmerga spokesman Jabbar Yawar.
"No Iraqi army remains in Kirkuk now."
Kurds have long dreamed of taking Kirkuk and its huge oil reserves. They regard the city, just outside their autonomous region, as their historic capital, and peshmerga units were already present in an uneasy balance with government forces.
The swift move by their highly organised security forces to seize full control demonstrates how this week's sudden advance by ISIL has redrawn Iraq's map – and potentially that of the entire Middle East, where national borders were set nearly a century ago as France and Britain carved up the Ottoman empire.
Since Tuesday, black-clad ISIL fighters who do not recognise the region's modern frontiers have seized Mosul and Tikrit, Saddam's home town, and other towns and cities north of Baghdad.
The army has evaporated in the face of the onslaught, abandoning bases and U.S.-provided weapons. Online videos showed purportedly a column of hundreds, possibly thousands, of troops without uniforms being marched under guard near Tikrit.
Security and police sources said Sunni militants now controlled parts of the town of Udhaim, 90 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, after most of the army troops left their positions and withdrew towards the nearby town of Khalis.
"We are waiting for reinforcements, and we are determined not to let them take control," said a police officer in Udhaim. "We are afraid that terrorists are seeking to cut the main highway that links Baghdad to the north."
ISIL and its allies took control of Falluja at the start of the year. It lies just 50 km west of Maliki's office.
The U.N. Security Council was expected to meet later on Thursday. Iraq's ambassador to France said it would call for weapons and air support: "We need equipment, extra aviation and drones," Fareed Yasseen said on French radio.
The Council "must support Iraq, because what is happening is not just a threat for Iraq but the entire region".
The global oil benchmark jumped over 2 percent on Thursday, as concerns mounted that the violence could disrupt supplies from the OPEC exporter. Iraq's main oil export facilities are in the largely Shi'ite areas in the south and were "very, very safe", oil minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said.
ISIL fighters have overrun the town of Baiji, site of the main oil refinery that meets Iraq's domestic demand for fuel. Luaibi said the refinery itself was still in government hands but late on Thursday police and an engineer inside the plant said insurgents were surrounding it.
Militants have set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. "They came in hundreds to my town and said they are not here for blood or revenge but they seek reforms and to impose justice. They picked a retired general to run the town," said a tribal figure from the town of Alam.
"'Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there,' – that's what their leader kept repeating," he said.
Security was stepped up in Baghdad to prevent the Sunni militants from reaching the capital, which is itself divided into Sunni and Shi'ite neighbourhoods and saw ferocious sectarian street fighting in 2006-2007 under U.S. occupation.
By midday on Thursday insurgents had not entered Samarra, the next big city in their path on the Tigris north of Baghdad.
"The situation inside Samarra is very calm today, and I can't see any presence of the militants. Life is normal here," said Wisam Jamal, a government employee in the mainly Sunni city, which also houses a major Shi'ite pilgrimage site.
The million-strong Iraqi army, trained by the United States at a cost of nearly $25 billion, is hobbled by low morale and corruption. Its effectiveness is hurt by the perception in Sunni areas that it pursues the hostile interests of Shi'ites.
The Obama administration had tried to keep a contingent of troops in Iraq beyond 2011 to prevent a return of insurgents, but failed to reach a deal with Maliki. A State Department official said on Thursday that Washington was disappointed after "a clear structural breakdown" of the Iraqi forces.
Iraq's parliament was meant to hold an extraordinary session on Thursday to vote on declaring a state of emergency, but failed to reach a quorum, a sign of the sectarian political dysfunction that has paralysed decision-making in Baghdad.
The Kurdish capture of Kirkuk overturns a fragile balance of power that has held Iraq together since Saddam's fall.
Iraq's Kurds have done well since 2003, running their own affairs while being given a fixed percentage of the country's overall oil revenue. But with full control of Kirkuk – and the vast oil deposits beneath it – they could earn more on their own, eliminating the incentive to remain part of a failing Iraq.
Maliki's army already lost control of much of the Euphrates valley west of the capital to ISIL last year, and with the evaporation of the army in the Tigris valley to the north, the government could be left with just Baghdad and areas south.
Iran, which funds and arms Shi'ite groups in Iraq, could be brought deeper into the conflict, as could Turkey to the north, also home to a big Kurdish minority. In Mosul, 80 Turks were held hostage by ISIL after Ankara's consulate there was overrun.
Maliki described the fall of Mosul as a "conspiracy" and said the security forces who had abandoned their posts would be punished. In a statement on its Twitter account, ISIL said it had taken Mosul as part of a plan "to conquer the entire state and cleanse it from the apostates" – meaning Shi'ites.
Militants were reported to have executed soldiers and policemen after their seizure of some towns.
ISIL, led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, broke with al Qaeda's international leader, Osama bin Laden's former lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri, and has clashed with al Qaeda fighters in Syria.
In Syria, it controls swathes of territory, funding its advances through taxing local businesses, seizing aid and selling oil. In Iraq, it has carried out regular bombings against Shi'ite civilians, killing hundreds a month.
(Additional reporting by Ghazwan Hassan in Tikrit, Ziad al-Sinjary in Mosul, Mustafa Mahmoud in Kirkuk, Raheem Salman and Isra al-Rubei'i in Baghdad and Jeff Mason, Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton in Washington; Writing by Peter Graff and Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Philippa Fletcher and Will Waterman)


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|Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: 1982
|With Dan Curley and Rock Horton. Perfect ice!
|Posted Oct 16, 2005 1:04 pm
|Route Climbed: Feather couloir Date Climbed: 2-October-2005
|Camped around 11,100' below the Royce Lakes, then climbed couloir the next day.
Fresh snow on the glacier and lower couloir, up to 50cm in some places. No bergschrund. We simulclimbed up to about the level of the rock island in the middle of the couloir. David led a pitch of snow / neve / ice patches, then I led the 2 pitches of hard, brittle water ice to the top, mostly on the right side. Split the last pitch into two smaller ones to make it a little easier. About 50-55 degrees, classic Sierra couloir climbing.
Rock scramble at the end was easy - solid class 3 in my opinion. After descending the class 2-3 ledges on the southeast slope of the peak we slogged up the sand on the other side of Feather-Royce col and rapped twice on 60m double ropes.
The first rap anchor was from good webbing / slings on a rock horn on the climber's right about 100' (?) below the col proper - there was a dirt/snow path down to it. This got us down to a patch of good water ice, where we used a v-thread to get down to some easily-downclimbed fresh snow.
Don't underestimate the descent - the class 2-3 ledges are probably treacherous in the dark. Probably also good to recon the rap route.
|Posted Oct 4, 2005 11:42 am
|Route Climbed: SW Ridge Date Climbed: August 14, 2001
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|Did a car to car trip from the Pine Creek trailhead with Neil Satterfield. It was a long day (13.75 hours) but under perfect conditions. About 7 hours of the time was spent getting to and from Royce Lakes. The ice in the couloir was in great condition with very little rock fall. The last Class 3 bit up to the summit was easy going and the views from on top were outstanding. The descent down the notch between Feather and Royce was loose although the ice could be mostly avoided. Found an old biner on the descent with CP engraved on it. Guessed it may have belonged to Craig Peer....
|Posted Sep 21, 2003 4:48 pm
|Route Climbed: west ridge Date Climbed: aug 99
|great fun, part of a 5 day backpack with good friend dan asay.
|Posted Nov 28, 2002 8:20 pm
|Route Climbed: Feather Peak Couloir Date Climbed: October 27,28 1994
|I climbed the Feather Peak Couloir on October 28,1994 after hiking in from Pine Creek Pass. I remember some rock fall from the right side of the couloir, where it ends in the sharp rock ridge. Worrying about the rock fall made me climb the extreme left side of the gully on solid blue ice. The descent was unusual. One downclimbs the ridge toward Royce Col(?), then downclimbs the couloir between Royce and Feather Peaks on 40 degree ice. I liked this ice couloir very much. Its way out there in the backcountry (10 miles +), the area has a lot of lakes and the view of Merriam Peak's buttress is really great.
|Posted Nov 10, 2002 2:44 pm
|Craig Peer
|Route Climbed: Feather Couloir Date Climbed: July 2000
|Russ Faure - Brac and I climbed the Feather Couloir under perfect neve conditions, and found it one of the most enjoyable ice gullies in the High Sierra. Highly recommended.
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Posted 20 April 2009 - 10:08 AM
I am new to this forum and would like to say hi and ask my first question.
I spent the last couple of days soaking in all the info but seem to be missing a definitive answer on something.
To that end what are peoples thoughts/opinions and/or experiences on using the EQ5 mount for astronomy and astrophotography.
I plan to use this mount with my existing scope (a 5" Celestron Reflector, as I feel this scope is ok at present but is currently on a very flimsy mount - possibly an EQ1) However in the future I plan to upgrade this to either a skywatcher 150PL or 200P.
So would this mount (with dual axis motor drives) be adequate to either mount my D200 for Prime focus or for a direct mounting of my D200 and appropriate lens for widefield?
Peoples thoughts and opinions will be greatly apprecited.
Posted 20 April 2009 - 11:57 PM
I don't see any problems with using the Nikon @ prime focus either. This mount should handle the weight.
Posted 21 April 2009 - 02:21 AM
Thanks for your comments. Do you have either of these mounts?
Posted 21 April 2009 - 11:52 AM
I am using an 8" SCT with a 80mm guidescope, and 8 x 50 finderscope along with a webcam (autoguiding) and an Orion StarShoot CCD and this seems to work fine for me. I wouldn't put any more weight on it though. This payload totals about 22 lbs..just right fo the HEQ-5 Pro.
In Canada it still is selling for around $1,000.00. The motors are very quite until you start "rapid" slewing beyond 6X, then it's only a tad noisy.
I take my mount out from my entry level basement and I can easily take the tripod with the head attached with no difficuty.
The SkyWatcher HEQ6-Pro (Atlas) is another story. It can be done but it's fairly heavy. This is a very sturdy mount and built like a brick "you-know what".
If you are planning to do astrophotography at a later date, I wouldn't put anything more than a 6" or maybe a 7" reflector on the HEQ5-Pro, but an 8" SCT, with its shorter physical length, with all the trimmings, (ie. guidescope, finderscope & camera(s) will do nicely.
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Posted 22 April 2009 - 12:04 AM
I have a SkyWatcher EQ6PRO - beefier mount and GOTO. Haven't had the ability to use it that much yet (poor weather, too tired due to work commitments & problems with the OTA/focuser).
From what I've read both here & elsewhere, it's best to have no more than 75% of the load capacity on the mount. So, if it's rated at 30lb, then no more than 22.5lb or thereabouts. If you load the mount to its capacity, you can get tracking problems, which doesn't help with astrophotography etc.
From memory, the EQ5PRO mount is rated at 30lbs. That should be sufficient for your intended setup, but won't give much room for growth. That's why I'd suggest maybe forking out a bit more money and considering the larger/heavier EQ6PRO.
It's heavy, but it's most definitely manageable. I have a bad back and I can manage.
Hope this helps.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your comments. Do you have either of these mounts?
Posted 22 April 2009 - 10:00 AM
Does anyone know what the payload is of the EQ5? i just cannot seem to find it anywhere, not even on the skywatcher website.
Posted 22 April 2009 - 10:27 AM
Posted 22 April 2009 - 10:32 AM
From what I understand the EQ5's payload is definitely under 30lbs and may be only 20 but check around on the web. Hence the "H" in the HEQ5-Pro...Heavy Duty/Heavier Load.
I wondered what the H stood for in the HEQ5.
From what I can gather I think its about 20lbs, I need to see how heavy my current scope is, and what my camera would weigh as well.
Posted 22 April 2009 - 07:14 PM
As far as payload goes, mine only holds an EON80ed, a ST-80, a CCD cam, and autoguider. Add in the rings a bars and it still handles it.
Good luck...hope we have helped you.
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Posted 23 April 2009 - 02:50 AM
I double checked SkyWatcher's website and it omits the capacity as well. Something as important, and obvious should not be omitted. I've tried EMailing them in the past, they never reply to EMails. That seems to be the experience that I've seen a lot of other users report as well...
Posted 23 April 2009 - 04:03 AM
I though I might have been missing something on their website!
Ive been looking at First Light Optics as a place to get my mount and tried emailing them but havent had a response to date (its been nearly a week now) and its really frustrating when companies do that!
Posted 23 April 2009 - 05:50 AM
The EQ5 mount you mention should be adequate for use with lenses up to about the 300mm range, and still keep most of your shots. For anything much longer than this, you will need an autoguider capable mount, and the extra hassle this brings along...
Posted 23 April 2009 - 07:40 AM
Whats the difference between a mount with dual axis motors and autoguider? I was planning to get a dual axis drive with the mount, are they the same thing?
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Posted 11 May 2009 - 01:49 PM
thanks for all the help up until now. Ive been a bit busy lately moving house, hence no replies.
I think I have decided to go for the HEQ5 mount and give the widefield astrophotography a go, presumably I need to get a dovetail mount with a screw thread for the bottom of my camera.
Thanks again for all your help guys.


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Also, this is my first map.
The large font ("Head Hunter Bay" and "Pot Boiler Lagoon") have lots of artifacts that I find distracting, and a mountain that is a fraction of a mile wide is probably a hill.
Everything else looks good so far.
Agreed with atpollard regarding the title font with the artifacts - I think it's the strange vertical lines in the font that's distracting.
Also agreed regarding your 'mountains' as your scale shows what a mile is. I'd probably advise replacing the mountains symbols with 1 or 2 hills on top and bottom, rather than your socalled 'peaks' - mountains make sense at this scale.
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Thanks! The scale isn't something I'm married to. What if it was 10 miles rather than 1 mile? Would that be reasonable?
I really like this map! It feels self contained and complete. I like the Fractur font (apart from the artifacts already mentioned) which gives it an old school feel as does the architect handwriting font. Looks like something you'd see in an 80's fanzine (in a good way!). The boiling water pattern works for me too.
The mountain / hill scale thing doesn't really bother me at all. This isn't the sort of map which gives an overall impression of setting out to be geographically accurate to start with - it's more of a sketch map, and I think it works really well as that. So hills that look like mountains are OK (for me) - I read it as poetic license.
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Thanks! I really appreciate everyone's feedback. I've replaced the initial attachment with one that has a revised 10-mile scale. I think that works with the mountains, anyone have an opinion?
Yar! It's a fun map. Agreed about the font...wonder why it's doing that. It's an artifact, not design right? I like the boiling lagoon concept. Haven't heard that one before but it's super cool (or hot). You've got dinos and pirates and ninjas...add some robots and zombies and I say you've got a saleable concept!
Thanks everyone! I hadn't noticed all the artifacts in the font -- as far as I know that's the font's design, so I turned all the text elements into images and retouched them, and it looks much better like this. I updated the attachment in the original post with the new version. Appreciate the time and attention.


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This is because when I built the Zimbra box back in October 2005 as a test/trial, I configured it with an "internal" domain: avmax-internal.net that has no presence on external DNS servers.
However now that I am in love with Zimbra and am slowly weening my users off of Outlook, I have simply set up "aliase" domains, I.E.: avmax.ca and a few others.
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