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Brad Paisley jumped at the chance to write and record a new tune for animated sequel "Planes: Fire & Rescue" because it gave him the opportunity to pay tribute to his firefighter dad.
The country star has recorded two new songs for the film's soundtrack, but one, "All In," is extra special.
He explains, "My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters. I was really honored to pay tribute to them.
"I sat down after seeing a rough cut of the movie and it came to me very quickly. My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him.
"It's a strange and wonderful mentality that these people have. They get so excited about that opportunity to help. My favorite line in the song is, 'Where there's smoke and flames, and everybody needs out, I'm all in'."
The "Celebrity" hitmaker also voices a pick-up truck in the film.


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By Susan Cornwell and Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For most Americans who don't have health insurance, Monday is the deadline to sign up for coverage starting on January 1 under President Barack Obama's healthcare law.
For others, it's not a deadline.
There is a "hardship" exception for some that permits them not to sign up any kind of health insurance at all without facing a penalty – the hardship being problems they've encountered with Obamacare and its malfunctioning website HealthCare.gov.
There will also be a "good faith exception" for others, according to a senior Obama administration official.
"We'll have a special enrollment period," the official said last week, for "all those who make a good faith effort to get enrolled by the deadline" but fail to do so.
The official did not say how the government would determine whether or not the effort was made in good faith.
Still others may simply get a break from insurance companies, which the administration has urged to be flexible with people who miss the deadline.
Such is the uncertain state of "Obamacare" as it approaches what was originally supposed to be a defining moment – a signup deadline that would provide the first real test of the viability of the healthcare program brought into law by the Affordable Care Act.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that the original deadline for obtaining medical coverage was December 15. That was extended to December 23 after the federal government's website, HealthCare.gov, proved dysfunctional and sometimes non-functional.
The administration has reserved the right to change the deadline again "should exceptional circumstances pose barriers to consumers" enrolling on or before Monday.
Obama said on Friday that one million people had enrolled for new insurance plans under the law through HealthCare.gov, which serves 36 states, and 14 state-run marketplaces.
Many more enrollments are a major priority for Obama's signature healthcare reform, which officials are still hoping will help millions of uninsured and under-insured Americans finally to obtain medical coverage by the end of March.
It is not known how many consumers may have no insurance coverage during periods of 2014 because they failed to sign up on HealthCare.gov by Monday.
Some of the 14 states running their own healthcare exchanges have extended their sign-up deadlines past December 23.
On Thursday, the administration announced that if people's old insurance plans were canceled because of new standards under the law, they can claim a "hardship" exemption to the requirement that all Americans must have coverage by March 31 or face penalties that start at $95.
So some of these people may not sign up.
The Obama administration says it is trying to be flexible, but some Republican critics of the law say the frequent delays and changes have muddied the waters and confused people.
"With no clarity as to when people should sign up and who they should pay and when, it's a virtual certainty that many consumers will find themselves uncovered for a period of time through no fault of their own," Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, said last week.
Administration officials said on Friday there are fewer than 500,000 people who have received cancellation notices from their insurance companies and have not yet found alternatives. Some were "auto-enrolled" in other plans by their insurance companies, the officials said.
The pace of sign-ups has picked up since October and November when technical problems crippled the HealthCare.gov website. Anyone who tried the website in October and November and became stuck has been getting attention from the administration.
Officials sent more than two million emails to people who could not advance through the website. They have also made more than 600,000 phone calls to consumers and mailed notices to hundreds of thousands of people, officials said.
"We are confident that we are doing everything we can so that individuals know what their options are to get coverage, whether it is at the marketplace or seeking it through the private insurers," said the senior official.
(Reporting By Susan Cornwell. Editing by Fred Barbash and Christopher Wilson)

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Last night saw the 2011 Costume Institute Gala, the focus of which was the life and work of the late Alexander McQueen. In terms of fashion, the Gala is the red carpet event of the year. Thanks to McQueen's influence, it was also pretty exciting. Here are the evening's most regrettable outfits.
Get some positivity with the night's best dressed.
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Into the light
Novelist Anne Rice leaves the vampire Lestat and embraces Christ, "the ultimate supernatural hero"
"Into the light" Continued...
Though she is a novelist, Anne Rice sees the world the way a painter might, in subtleties of light and shadow: the pale edge of dawn, the flat ink of a starless midnight, goodness for some an elusive beacon, evil an alluring shroud.
She was known for shrouds. Mrs. Rice spent nearly three decades sculpting a reputation as literary queen of the damned-and now, at age 64, she has declared that canon closed. After rejecting her Catholic faith nearly half a century ago, she says she is reconciled with God and dedicating the rest of her life to writing only for-and about-Jesus Christ.
Her first novel of this kind, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Knopf), hit stores on Nov. 1. The first-person narrative of Jesus as a young boy follows Jesus from His family's hiding in Egypt back to Jerusalem and Nazareth, where He slowly learns His true identity. The story emanates the light of nascent majesty, in stark contrast with the gaslight gloom of Mrs. Rice's earlier work, and is the first in a projected series.
Mrs. Rice's previously celebrated series began in 1974 with Interview with the Vampire, in which a young reporter interviews Louis, an eloquent and introspective vampire who has been seduced by the cunning master-vampire, Lestat. Louis relates the tangle of desire, moral struggle, and grief that marked his transition from humanity to the undead, and other books populated with erudite witches and vampires followed.
In Mrs. Rice's books-she's sold 50 million worldwide-characters who are undeniably evil also search for significance and long for God, sometimes narrowly missing a chance for spiritual redemption. Still, her sensual and unflinchingly graphic writing is a marketer's delight: In one book, for example, Lestat drinks the blood of Jesus. That's why her literary turnabout has sparked a national discussion. As for her return to faith, Mrs. Rice said she is surprised "people are so interested, that they really care about this. I didn't know that they would."
Some longtime fans of her occult literature care so much that they are attacking Mrs. Rice's new literary direction: One complained online about "the most disturbing angle on religion that I've ever heard in my life. Anne Rice? Writing as Jesus? Would someone please commit this woman?" Another fan assured Mrs. Rice in an e-mail that he wouldn't be in line at any Christ the Lord book signings.
But those signings-in Miami, Birmingham, Chicago, and elsewhere-remain crowded as they have for decades. "The old readers are still showing up," she said, "but new readers are coming in all the time, and more with each signing." Many in the latter group are Christians, discovering Mrs. Rice and her history for the first time.
The history began with Roman Catholic commitment. Born in New Orleans in 1941, she was named Howard Allen O'Brien, after her father. But on the first day of Catholic school, she told the nuns her name was Anne and it stuck. The O'Brien family lived on the edges of the city's fabled Garden District, where young Anne attended daily Mass at a cavernous and opulent church and went to a school where boys and girls, in separate classes, studied catechism, Bible, and church history.
Her father worked for the post office. Her mother, Katherine, was an alcoholic who died when Anne was only 14. At age 18, while attending San Francisco State University, Anne broke with her childhood faith. Her apostasy, she says, resulted from exposure to a wider world: "I stopped believing that [the Catholic Church] was 'the one true church established by Christ to give grace.'" She also stopped believing in God.
In 1962, in a civil ceremony in Denton, Texas, she married Stan Rice, a poet, painter, and committed atheist whom Mrs. Rice calls "one of the most honorable and conscience-driven people I ever knew." In 1972, the couple suffered through the loss of their first child, Michele, who died of leukemia at age 5. Six years later, their son Christopher, now a Los Angeles novelist, was born.
In the early 1990s the Rices returned to New Orleans, where Mrs. Rice continued to write, often one novel each year. But in 1998, she gradually began to feel again the press of God: "I began to be more and more concerned with my relationship with God in my books. I wanted to be in the company of God, in the company of the drama . . . what we can know, what we don't know, what we believe."
She began attending Mass again and participating in sacraments. In 2000, her husband agreed to remarry her in the church: Despite his own atheism, "he was very supportive about my writing [Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt], and he was fine with me going back to the church. It surprised him, but not that much. I don't think I had ever stopped talking about God."
Painstaking historical research has marked all of Mrs. Rice's novels. Interview with the Vampire, for example, is set in the 18th and 19th centuries. For her new series she wanted to bring to life the "Jewish milieu" in which the boy Jesus grew up: "I had to know what people ate, what they wore, about farming seasons in Galilee, how doors were made, what type of tiles were laid, how often fig trees break into figs-I couldn't have fig trees bearing figs at the wrong time of year!"
Mrs. Rice's research took her through the literature written by those she calls "the skeptical critics," beginning with the New Testament scholars of the Enlightenment. "I expected to discover that their arguments would be frighteningly strong, and that Christianity was, at heart, a kind of fraud," she writes in an author's note in her new book.
But she plowed on, "ready to risk everything," particularly her newly recovered faith: "The skeptical New Testament scholarship tries to prove to you that the Gospels don't hold up. It takes great fortitude to subject yourself to that kind of literature, to seriously take notes, to follow the arguments, to draw conclusions. You could come out destroyed." But she came out concluding that the skeptics were wrong, perpetrators and victims of some of the worst scholarship she'd ever seen, built with poor research and reasoning on a foundation that presumed the Gospels weren't true.
She was working hard-and then, in fall 2002, Mr. Rice showed the first symptoms of brain cancer. In just four months, after 41 years of marriage, he died. Mrs. Rice fought the pain by burrowing deeper, reading archeology books, studies of the Gospels, histories by Josephus, Julius Caesar, and Philo, and exegesis by Ellis Rivkin, Lee Levine, Joachim Jeremias, and others.
She also studied the Bible itself and now owns every translation she knows of, 200 Bibles in all. They are on the shelves of her new home in Southern California, because she also left New Orleans behind last year. She compares the two: "In La Jolla, you don't have the great big old oak trees, the drowsy, shadowy ambience of New Orleans . . . but you have the light from the Pacific. I wanted that. I wanted a new start."
She continued scouring the Gospels herself, not only to absorb the unfolding life of Christ, but to delve into the how of Christianity itself: "I could see that this was a great mystery. How could Christianity bust into the Roman Empire and take over the world in only 200 years? I was looking to see how this thing worked itself out, day by day, month by month, year by year." She came to understand that Christianity achieved what it did because Jesus rose from the dead: That was what made sense of Christianity's spread.
Understanding this, for Mrs. Rice, was a turning point, and there were others, such as the dawning in her mind of the Gospels' "unique coherence, their personalities-the inevitable stamp of individual authorship."
Whether caught up in the book-tour whirl, or padding barefoot in a flannel nightgown in the master bedroom of her 11,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa overlooking the Pacific, Mrs. Rice reads day and night. Last month she was grappling with Mere Christianity: "C.S. Lewis opens the door to all kinds of wonderful thoughts I didn't consider before. . . . That Jesus wants to bring us to perfection and that there's no stopping Him . . . and that theories of atonement are not the atonement. We live in a world where people want to spell out how Jesus saved you and that isn't always so helpful. The words are fine. I've understood the words since I was 6 years old. But I wanted to go further than that. I wanted to realize it."
When Mrs. Rice writes and speaks of these discoveries, you sense her heart soaring. Holding her faith dear, like a pearl of great price, she revels in the joy of being able to embrace Christ intellectually, of not having to compartmentalize a faith at odds with history. "I've never been this happy in my life before," she said. "I never expected things to come together like this, to be so completely unified in purpose and intent."
Her previous work also dealt with the supernatural, and now she has moved up to Christ, whom she calls "the ultimate supernatural hero." It is as if, she said, everything in her life was leading her to this moment, that "all of the novels I wrote before were a dress rehearsal for this. It helps you trust in God that there's a purpose for things even when you don't know what it is. Especially if you don't know what it is."
Mrs. Rice hesitates to discuss the next installment in the Christ the Lord series, having frequently spoken about a future work only to have the finished project turn out much differently than she'd predicted. She suspects, though, that Volume 2 will be set in Nazareth and continue until the last year before Jesus leaves home. "But I really don't know," she said.
What she does know, with a simple coalescence of purpose she attributes to faith lost and regained, is that her goal is to write in the first person the story of Christ's entire life: "I feel like I have this wonderful challenge ahead of me . . . that will fill up my whole life until I die. There's so much to study, so much to ponder, so much to write, so much to know. It's like finding a wing on your house that you didn't know was there, opening the door and discovering rooms of treasure."
Perilous project
Source material for Christ's childhood is scanty, so Mrs. Rice makes use of what she has, including apocryphal books excluded from the canon of Scripture
By Gene Edward Veith
Portraying Christ in literature poses special problems. How to portray someone who is both God and Man? Some authors evoke His deity, portraying His transcendence and majesty or turning Him into a mystical inner presence. But they miss His humanity, that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Other authors evoke His humanity, portraying Him as a flesh-and-blood man, often sentimentalized. But they fall short of conveying His divinity.
But Anne Rice, in her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Knopf, 2005), hits the orthodox balance. She portrays Jesus as a 7-year-old child, but He is more than a child. He plays, He cries, He is dependent on His parents. But when He yearns to see snow, it snows. When His uncle is sick, the young Jesus heals him. Throughout the novel, Jesus tries to understand who He is, piecing clues together and asking questions. But, as a prophet tells Him, "The day will come when You will have to give us the answers."
The only potential problem with Mrs. Rice's novel is the project itself. She tells the story of the 7-year-old Jesus in the first person, from Christ's point of view. Entering into the mind of Christ, even when He was so young, might seem disturbingly presumptuous. So is making up episodes in His life. This project is indeed fraught with peril. But those objections are softened by the author's reverence and her care to be biblically and theologically correct. Out of Egypt can best be appreciated as the work of a skillful writer meditating on the Incarnation and the Person of Jesus Christ.
Source material for Christ's childhood is scanty, so Mrs. Rice makes use of what she has, including apocryphal books excluded from the canon of Scripture. This too is fraught with peril. But Mrs. Rice told WORLD that she herself considers the accounts to be "legends," and she uses the details while draining them of any heresy. For example, in an apocryphal gospel, the Christ child strikes a bully dead. Lots of schoolchildren would like to do that, but it feels uncharacteristic of the New Testament Jesus. In this novel, a bully hits Jesus, who feels "power go out of Me." The boy dies, like Uzzah touching the ark, but then later Jesus, sorrowing with the boy's family, raises him from the dead.
Instead of gnosticism, what we get in this novel is a richly textured imagining of historical reality. Mrs. Rice synthesizes the findings of historians, archeologists, and anthropologists to give us a vivid portrait of everyday life in Bible times-household customs, the observance of Jewish law, what it was like to worship in the Temple. Her portrayal of life in a large extended family-which does characterize tribal societies-is particularly charming. It also makes at least imaginable Mrs. Rice's Catholic conviction (shared by many of the Reformers) that Jesus' "brothers and sisters" were not Mary's children, but a product of adoptions within the kinship system.
Scripture says that Joseph and his family left Egypt when Herod died, but feared his son Archelaus and so moved to Galilee. Mrs. Rice fills in the history, recounting the horrific bloodbaths and insurrections sparked by this change of rule. She portrays the rebels not sympathetically but as plundering bandits. In this anarchy, the Romans are welcomed at first as restorers of order, though they often crucify the innocent with the guilty.
Through these tumultuous times, Jesus grows in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man. We see Him being exposed to things He would later use in His ministry-lilies of the field, living water, moneychangers, weddings, crucifixions. When Jesus, now 8, finally learns that He is the Son of God, He realizes at the same time that He is "born to die." The setting for this epiphany is significant: He is in the Temple, standing in front of the altar of sacrifice.


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Is it possible to set up Zimbra to accept mail for defined useres and forward mail for non-local users to another server?
Basically we would like to set up Zimbra and have the ability to migrate users one at a time to it. Users who are not set up on Zimbra would continue to receive their email as they always have in the past.
I know how to do this in a Sendmail installation. I believe there is a similar Postfix config file setting for this, but I'm not sure what it's named or where the Postfix config lives in Zimbra.


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Chairman of the Board
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Quick facts
Dr. Charles Geschke co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. John Warnock, driving technology innovations that forever transformed how people create and consume content across every screen. A respected and inspiring industry leader, Geschke was instrumental in developing some of the software industry's most pioneering technologies.
Through his vision and passion, Geschke helped build Adobe from a start-up into one of the world's largest software companies. Today, he and Warnock are co-chairmen of Adobe's board of directors and continue to shape direction for the company with more than $4 billion in annual revenue.
Geschke has served as chairman of the board with Warnock since September 1997. He was chief operating officer of Adobe from December 1986 until July 1994 and president from April 1989 until his retirement in April 2000. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke formed the Imaging Sciences Laboratory at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and was a principal scientist and researcher at Xerox PARC's Computer Sciences Laboratory.
Among many awards, Geschke, along with Warnock, was the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation's highest honors bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors. Geschke holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University as well as a master's degree in mathematics and an A.B. in classics, both from Xavier University.
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ST. CHARLES COUNTY (KSDK) - Around 10,000 Ameren Missouri customers lost power in St. Charles County Tuesday morning.
An Ameren spokesperson says that a piece of equipment failed at a substation in Pointe Prarie that supplies St. Charles County, causing the large outage.
Ameren restored power by 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
According to Ameren's website, the bulk of the outage occurred in the Wentzville area.


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Stimulants can be dangerous to your health, especially in large quantities, but they're what give energy drinks their "punch." You may already know caffeine is a major stimulant found in energy drinks. But do you know that energy drinks often contain other stimulants? These can include "hidden sources" of caffeine (such as guarana, green coffee bean, green tea, and yerba mate), yohimbe, and synephrine (bitter orange).
Many energy drinks, however, aren't labeled with the amounts of caffeine or other stimulants in them. Some or all of these ingredients are often part of "proprietary blends," so it's impossible to determine from the label the exact amount of each ingredient you would be taking. Furthermore, energy drinks might be mislabeled or marketed as sports drinks, causing even more confusion.
Remember, stimulants come in many different forms, so Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) put together a list of stimulants found in dietary supplements to help you identify these potentially harmful ingredients. And to help you understand what's in your energy drink, check out the OPSS infosheet on energy drink labels, which includes helpful notes about ingredients.
It's the peak of summer, which means barbeques, picnics, and other food-filled events. But especially in summer's heat, don't forget about food safety, or it might just spoil your fun. Let the good times roll this summer with these food safety tips:
- Wash your hands. Washing your hands often is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of bacteria. Remember to use warm water and soap, and wash your hands for at least 20 seconds.
- Marinate meat safely. Marinate your food in the refrigerator, and keep it there until you're ready to cook it. If you want to use the marinade as a sauce, set aside a portion before adding your raw meat or poultry, and don't reuse marinade.
- Cook food thoroughly.Use a thermometer to ensure your food is cooked to the right minimum internal temperature:
- Steaks and pork—145°F
- Hamburgers and sausages—160°F
- Poultry—165°F
- Keep cold food cold. Don't let your cold dishes sit out on a counter for more than 2 hours, or one hour outdoors when temperature is above 90°F. Otherwise, keep it chilled at 40°F or less in a cooler or place directly on ice.
Always remember: "When in doubt, throw it out." A foodborne illness is not worth the risk. For more information on food safety during the summer, visit "Summer and Vacations" at Foodsafety.gov.
Skin cancer is a major public health issue, but with proper precautions you can decrease your risk considerably. Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is the most important risk factor for both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. Exposure to these rays also can result in deeper facial wrinkles, skin discoloration, burn, and skin aging.
Athletes who practice outdoor sports are especially at risk for skin cancer. Sweating increases the skin's sensitivity to the sun's rays, magnifying the risk of sunburn and skin damage.
Remember: The weather does not have to be sunny and hot for you to get sun damage! Whether you're training for the PRT, patrolling, road marching, or participating in a summer league softball game, follow these tips to stay safe during all outdoor activities.
- Avoid burning
- As little as a single sunburn can increase your risk for developing skin cancer. Getting burned 5 or more times doubles the risk over your lifetime.
- Apply sunscreen
- Use water-resistant, broad-spectrum (UVA/UVB) sunscreen, with SPF 15 or higher, every day. Apply it 15–30 minutes before you're exposed to the sun to give it time to absorb. Also, reapply sunscreen after swimming, sweating, or toweling off. Be sure to check out the FDA regulations regarding sunscreens and their effectiveness.
- Seek shade
- Whenever possible, stay in the shade under a tree or tent. Especially try to avoid sun exposure during midday (11 a.m. to 3 p.m.), when the rays are strongest.
- Cover up
- Wear protective clothing—including hats, long-sleeved shirts, and pants—when you go outdoors. Keep in mind, though, that protection decreases when clothes are wet.
- Use extra caution…
- …near water, snow, and sand. Ultraviolet rays can reflect off these and other surfaces, increasing your chance of sun exposure and skin damage.
- Wear sunglasses
- Protect your eyes when you work, drive, participate in sports, take a walk, or run an errand. Solar ultraviolet B radiation can increased your risk of cataracts and cancer of the skin around eyes without proper cover.
Service members should be careful about taking dietary supplements because many of these products contain hidden active ingredients that can result in harmful effects.
The most common types of dietary supplements found to contain "undeclared" ingredients (that is, substances not listed on the label) are those marketed for weight loss, sexual enhancement, and bodybuilding. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has identified over 600 tainted dietary supplements. FDA specifically warns against the use of products that claim to be "alternatives" to FDA-approved drugs or "legal" alternatives to anabolic steroids.
Dietary supplements don't require approval by FDA before being put on the market, and without laboratory testing there is no way to know the contents of a product. If you're considering a dietary supplement, be sure to check the label to see if the product has been evaluated by an independent third-party organization.
For more information, please visit Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS), including the OPSS High-Risk Supplement List.
An "adverse event" can occur as a result of taking some dietary supplements. Learn how to identify an adverse event from the Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) FAQ, and find out where you can go to report one. And for healthcare providers, HPRC has a helpful video, "How to probe for dietary supplement use and report adverse events." (Click on the "Video" tab to access the link.) Documenting adverse events is an essential part of how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) evaluates potentially dangerous dietary supplements, so it's very important to report potential problems.
Service members and their families relocate a lot, and moving to a new home is hard enough without adding injury. Here are some tips on how to properly handle heavy objects such as moving boxes and furniture, and how to take care of yourself if you do sustain an injury:
- Wear less-restrictive clothing such as looser-fitting pants or workout clothes.
- Wear closed-toe shoes.
- Take breaks when necessary. Stretching and reassessing your mechanics can help you maintain proper posture when lifting. HPRC has tips on how to maintain flexibility and remove tension in your body.
- The U.S. Army has fact sheets on Lifting Techniques for handling heavy objects and How to Safely Perform Pushing and Pulling Tasks.
- Remember to keep your core tight, and use your leg muscles rather than your back to lift heavy objects.
The best way to prevent back injury is to strengthen your back and core muscles. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has suggestions and exercises to help build your back.
If you're sore from all the lifting or think you may have pulled something, you can treat the pain with ice and rest—and perhaps an over-the-counter pain reliever—for the first 48 hours. Follow NIH guidelines on how to further treat your back pain if it's acute. However, if the pain persists, consult your doctor to rule out a more serious back problem or injury before you do any more heavy lifting. If all seems well, consider core-strengthening exercises to support your back. Another option is a yoga class to relieve your pain, build your muscles, and return your back to normal function.
For more about how to protect your back, please visit HPRC's Injury Prevention Series. Good luck with your PCS!
BMPEA is an unapproved amphetamine-like substance that has been appearing in some dietary supplement products. BMPEA (also known as β-methylphenylethylamine, R-beta methylphenylethylamine, beta-methylphenethylamine, and others) was first made in the 1930s as a possible replacement to amphetamine (a central nervous system stimulant), although it never became a drug because human studies on safety were not performed.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tested 21 supplement products with the ingredient Acacia rigidula listed on the label and found that 9 of the 21 products were found to contain BMPEA, which is not derived from the plant Acacia rigidula. Some dietary supplement products actually list BMPEA on their labels. FDA recently issued a warning stating, "…BMPEA does not meet the statutory definition of a dietary ingredient." Therefore, dietary supplement products with BMPEA are misbranded and cannot be sold as dietary supplements.
The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned BMPEA. For more answers to questions we've received about ingredients in dietary supplements, please visit our Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) FAQs.
Bitter orange is an extract from the immature green fruit of the Citrus aurantium plant, also known as Seville orange. It is sometimes used in small amounts in food as a flavorant and often used in weight-loss supplements. The terms "bitter orange," "bitter orange extract," or "Citrus aurantium" are often used interchangeably with the ingredient name "synephrine," but bitter orange (the extract from Citrus aurantium fruit) is actually a complex mixture of many compounds, including synephrine and octopamine. Although both synephrine and octopamine occur naturally in the Citrus aurantium plant, they also can be made in a laboratory.
Many safety concerns have been raised with regard to synephrine and octopamine, which are both stimulants. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) bans both of them, but the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) bans only octopamine. Bitter orange is frequently used in "ephedra-free" products since 2004, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned ephedra for its association with serious adverse cardiovascular effects. Combinations of stimulants—such as bitter orange and caffeine, commonly found together in weight-loss and bodybuilding products—can cause hypertension and increase heart rate in otherwise healthy adults. A major concern with products that list bitter orange (or synephrine, or octopamine) on the label is that the amount of stimulants in the product is sometimes very difficult—if not impossible—to determine. Service members should exercise extreme caution when considering whether to use supplements containing bitter orange.
No conclusive, peer-reviewed, scientific evidence clearly establishes that bitter orange is any safer than ephedra. For more information on bitter orange and ephedra, read the monographs in HPRC's Dietary Supplement Classification System series.
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To avoid potential problems, talk with your healthcare provider or dietitian before using dietary supplements. Also, see FDA's list of tainted bodybuilding products, which includes important public notifications.
In a new Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) PSA video, Gold Star mother Ms. Terri Bellamy-Coleman urges service members to seek out information and guidance on dietary supplements from the appropriate sources before taking them. Ms. Bellamy-Coleman's son, who was attending the NCO (Noncommissioned Officer Academy, WLC (Warrior Leadership Course) in Fort Benning, GA at the time of his death, had been taking dietary supplements when he exerted himself during physical training, suffered a heart arrhythmia, and died. He had the sickle-cell trait, which may have aggravated the situation. She wants others to be aware of the possible risks associated with dietary supplements, especially when certain medical conditions are present, and urges service members to seek information to help prevent possible harmful health effects. Please watch the video, "A Mother's Plea."


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The phone call could not have come a better time. I had just spent a wonderful weekend helping my friend celebrate her 50th birthday at Wine Country getaway, cooking for her with spouses and friends, wine tasting the next day, laughing and hot-tubbing, and then spending a cozy, intimate evening with my boyfriend.
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In another determined effort, the Huskies down Colorado 64-54.
There was a time, not too long ago, when you judged the Washington men's basketball team by its flash and flair. You looked at three-pointers made and the degree of difficulty on dunks. You watched games wondering how quickly the Huskies would reach 80 points.
It was fun. It wasn't always fulfilling, though.
Over the past few seasons, the cost of talent and offensive brilliance was often toughness and defensive tenacity. And so the Huskies were frustrating because, for all their ability and explosiveness, they were always a few defensive stops or rebounds or floor burns from becoming something special. They were almost too stylish for their own good.
Now, seemingly out of nowhere, the Huskies don't have that mentality anymore. They're gritty over pretty. They prefer hustle stats over style points.
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They didn't begin the season this way, and they struggled greatly because they don't have the talent to win without dirty work. But now that Pac-12 Conference play has begun, a season that once seemed destined for mediocrity suddenly simmers with possibility. The Huskies have transformed into a team willing to play with the kind of toughness and defense that will keep them competitive against any opponent they play for the rest of the season.
Actually, they're much better than competitive right now. They're undefeated in the Pac-12 and unconcerned about the notion that this isn't their year.
After three consecutive conference road wins, the Huskies returned to Alaska Airlines Arena on Wednesday night and improved to 4-0 in the Pac-12 with a 64-54 victory over Colorado. The game followed a familiar, ugly script.
Ugly is the new pretty for Washington.
"We take pride in our defense," point guard Abdul Gaddy said. "We don't like it when people score on us."
It isn't always fun to watch. It's fulfilling, though.
Washington coach Lorenzo Romar is starting to get the best out of this team. It's too soon to make grand declarations about the Huskies turning into an NCAA tournament squad or a conference champion. But if they keep playing defense like this, they won't be a middle-of-the-pack afterthought. There's just enough talent and experience on this basketball team to make this season far more interesting than previously thought.
The Huskies have long, slender, finesse players, but they are now playing physical, challenging defense. They aren't blessed with great individual defenders, especially on the perimeter, but over the past few weeks, they have played some of the best team defense in college basketball.
On Wednesday night, I watched Washington live for the first time in a month, and the Huskies don't even look like the same team. They're challenging everything. They would've made it difficult for the Buffaloes to tie their shoes if Romar had requested it.
For the fourth straight conference game, the Huskies limited their opponent to a shooting percentage under 40 percent. Colorado made just 36 percent from the field, helping Washington overcome its own awful shooting night (34 percent). The Huskies are playing a solid, tough, in-your-face, man-to-man style with all five players trusting in the system and helping whenever there is dribble penetration. With center Aziz N'Diaye and power forward Desmond Simmons anchoring them, the Huskies have changed their identity.
"We get our identity from those guys," Gaddy said of N'Diaye and Simmons. "They love playing defense, and it just amps us up."
It's a style of play born out of necessity. Perhaps if the Huskies could score as effortlessly as some of their past teams, they would relent. But in losing five nonconference games, the Huskies (12-5) learned all about their limitations. And they're tired of hearing about what they aren't.
Here's what they are, though: A squad with a veteran starting lineup that features three seniors, a redshirt junior and a redshirt sophomore. Romar has always figured out a way with veteran teams, and it appears that this group is no different. The ability to make adjustments and heed the scouting report is paying huge dividends.
So is this team's maturity. It realizes what it must do to win.
"I think we've made a lot of progress," Romar said, smiling.
Is he satisfied with the improved defense?
"We can get a lot better," he said, smiling wider.
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WEST BEND – West Bend-Mallard/Gilmore City-Bradgate evened its girls' basketball record at 2-2 on the season with a 39-30 victory over Clay Central-Everly on Nov. 30 in West Bend.
Kayla Banwart and McKenzie Grimm led the Wolverine scoring with nine points each. Emily Jobst (11) and Blair Montgomery (10) paced the Mavericks.
The Wolverines also got eight from Cassie Gearhard, six from Ashley Schmidt, five from Courtney Bargmann and two from Sarah Mader.
WBM/GCB fell to GT/RA in a close contest on the road on Nov. 27. The Knights posted a 41-40 victory over the Wolverines.
Kayla Banwart scored 19 points to pace the Wolverines, who trailed 17-14 at halftime. Sarah Mader was next with seven and Harrison Schmidt added six.
North Iowa 52, WBM/GCB 44
North Iowa withstood a third quarter rally by the Wolverines and held off West Bend-Mallard/Gilmore City-Bradgate, 52-44 in non-conference basketball at Buffalo Center on Nov. 26.
Paige Hassebroek scored 20 points and Rachel Boekelman had 13 to pace the Broncos. Kayla Banwart scored 12 to lead the Wolverines. She was backed by Ashley Schmidt with eight and Courtney Bargmann with five. Scoring four each was McKenzie Grimm, Sarah Mader, Cassie Gearhart and Portlind Schmidt.


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Thursday, November 12, 2009
SIGHTING: NaturAna and the Adam Scott Support Tour take Melbourne
Ana Ivanovic and her WAG ways were spotted taking part in the Adam Scott Support Tour, this time in Melbourne.
The Aussie is competing at the 2009 Australian Masters being held at the Kingston Heath Golf Club. In October, they traveled to Singapore where Adam was playing in the Barclays Singapore Open.
Not much to say here, actually. I'm sure NaturAna is happy doing what she's doing at the moment - being a good girlfriend. I just hope to see some training shots soon.
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Labels: Adam Scott, Ana Ivanovic, celebrity, gossip, tennis, WAG
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Ana has odd fashion taste at times, but I actually like this look. Not sure how walking around the golf course all off-season will help that awful serve though. But I have to admit, she makes a great WAG though, even though she looks confused out of her mind and bored to death most of the time. LOLReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM
I actually really like the hat (a lot), but not with a T-shirt, and NEVER with a "heather gray" one.ReplyDelete
That thing is so wrinkley too -- wonder what she was doing in it??? I'd guess not practicing tennis. ;)
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM
yeah...2010 isn't looking to bright is it?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2009 at 8:46 PM
she needs to support her has been bf just like her....after all, its nice to be photographed still, right Ana?Just carry on,and soon you'll be fading from tennis fans memory.ReplyDelete
Isn't she still injured? She'll be back. Like A-Chak.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Let her be, no?ReplyDelete
She must have read these comments :) So, to convince us wrong she's written on her website she's already practicing for the next season...
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I am bitterly disappointed.
We asked our readers, and the community, to send us photos of their moms, as well as nominations for our Mother of the Year contest.
We got four responses.
Well...five, if you count the person who sent one in late that was about 250 words instead of the 25 words or less we asked for.
But even so, we placed those names in a basket, written on little pieces of folded up paper, and we had our bookkeeper draw a winner. And I attempted to contact the winner right away...last Friday afternoon, in fact.
On Saturday afternoon a little boy at Quincyfest was doing what little kids do, running, flipping and generally using up a lot of energy. I watched him for a few minutes. His mom tried to get him to sit still but all of that fresh air and the grass, seemingly begging to be wallowed in, was too much for the kid.
Mother celebrated her 89th birthday a fortnight before Mother's Day. Her little hands look a tad on the frail side now. Her eyes don't see like they use to. Her legs are not as strong. Her ears don't catch everything. Her hair is pure silver.
"My mind, son," she can still grin, and does, about it "and the rest of me is not what it used to be!"
But, oh, let me tell you, there was a time…
I have a question that perhaps someone can answer. It's something that has bugged me ever since I hit the road in my teens for the first time as a licensed driver.
Why is it that law enforcement officers can drive way over the speed limit, operating their vehicles at speeds that they'd pull me over and ticket me for?
None of us would step on a crack. We believed we'd fall plumb to the center of the earth! Or one of those Loch Ness monster things would reach up and get us. Nobody was gonna take that kind of chance! We'd catch up to where the sidewalk started in front of the elementary school and run, skip and jump the half mile on into town…careful as we pushed and fought our way to the Parke Theatre that we didn't let one little toe stray over a crack. We weren't superstitious mind you, we were afraid!
This is a happy time of the year for high school seniors. Their journey in life has just passed another milestone and for most of them the future seems bright. Some will go to the military, some will go to college and others will opt for the world of work. Whatever their choice, the decisions they make now will, for the most, shape their lives.
A friend of mine – not from the South – recently asked me, "If I were a Southerner, what are the things you would recommend I do? Those 'musts' that every Southerner should not miss out on..."
I thought about it, and decided to google. Lo, and behold, Southern Living magazine beat me to it. So, with their permission, here's some of the 40 things they list...space doesn't permit us to list them all. But I picked the best of the best...at least, in my opinion. Enjoy...
I think I know what the problem is with the automobile industry. They are all making the same car! A Buick Lucerne pulled in front of me at the four way stop at Stonewall and Magnolia and it looked just like a Toyota Avalon or a Chevy Monte Carlo or a Kia Amanti. These days you can't tell who is driving what. It reminds me of an old Pete Seeger song, "and their all made out of ticky tacky and they all come out the same."
One of the most entertaining – and frustrating – pastimes out there right now is the "Would You Rather...?" game. One person asks the question, and the other has to answer it. You must answer. No passing, no saying, "Neither." You have to pick one. Sounds easy enough. But what if the questions were really hard? Like these...
Live without music or without TV?
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Be blind or deaf?
In a fire, save a sibling or a stranger?
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News: Three PCC Football Players Headed To Next Level
Pasadena City College 2012 football lettermen Jase To'omalatai and Keyon Austin and 2011 alum Khambrell Gomez will each continue their education and playing careers at the 4-year university level.
To'omalatai, who earned the PCC athletics Thomas O. Mallory scholarship and was a starting offensive linemen this past season, will attend the University of Sioux Falls (South Dakota), a NCAA Division II institution. Sioux Falls finished 9-2 last season, making the jump from NAIA when it was a four-time, national champion. To'omalatai, a 6-foot-2, 285-pounder, attended Kahuku High (Hawaii) before coming to PCC.
Austin and Gomez are joining three other Lancers' alumni after gaining scholarships to Adams State University (Colorado), also a Division II college. Austin, a two-year performer under PCC head coach Fred Fimbres, made 32 tackles and led the Lancers in pass breakups with four during his sophomore season. Austin attended Miami Carol City Senior High (Florida) and is the younger brother of former PCC 2011 defensive back Tyrell Austin, now a senior at Virginia Union U.
Gomez, a defensive lineman who originally signed with Virginia Union last year, will now join Keyon Austin and fellow former PCC gridiron teammates--linebacker Grant Haggard, defensive back Cariel Brooks, and offensive lineman Dante Moses--on the Grizzlies' 2013 roster.
Five sophomores (out of 12 overall) and one freshman have now earned university scholarships from the '12 team. Fifteen players have moved on thus far in the past two seasons under Fimbres' watch despite low sophomore numbers in each season.
"It's a process to not only try to move players to the next level but bring our program a consistent flow of returning players," Fimbres said. "We had to rush to put a team on the field in 2011 as I got the job late. Last year was my first true recruiting season, and now we are establishing a larger group of returning talent. Ultimately, we will have a larger 4-year signing class each year and return PCC back to its rich history of sending players to universities throughout the nation."
[Photo--(from left to right)--Lancers' 4-year football signees Jase To'omalatai, Keyon Austin, and Khambrell Gomez.]
Sports information assistant Sara Medina contributed to this release
Release Date: 07/12/2013


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1! I'm disabled and must use speech recognition which should never be confused with text-to-speech because it makes the disabled person more cranky than they already are. Zimbra is a great example of software created by developers that appear to hate disabled folks. the layout of the UI is not variable in size, there is apparently no API so that speech recognition and text-to-speech based interfaces can create their own UI, the visual indicators are sufficiently vague that it makes it difficult for a person with normal eyesight to see what's changing (read versus not read), and related to the scale of the UI, the various targets for doing things are very small making it difficult for someone with mobility impairments to accurately consistently hit the right target.
2! Calendar is very frustrating because I need to link with other calendars with full bidirectional synchronization and it hints it's possible with caldav but I find these partial hints in the forums and other things like that over and over again for the past six years and yet there's no definitive word? On the other hand, Google isn't all that forthcoming on their own caldav Implementation but still, don't be evil.
3) calendar is also very frustrating because I need to partition my calendars according to personal and professional needs. I have one calendar layer per customer because if they need to see my calendar, all I want them to see is my busy/free layer and their calendar events.
4) control panel layout is very confusing at times and wonderfully intuitive in others. For example, the refresh rate for various services when polling externally really belongs with the account using it. I spent four hours yesterday looking for something and I probably stumbled across it twice but by that time I was so frustrated I couldn't see straight and missed it. I knew it was there but I never quite found it even when searching with various keywords etc.
5) account inclusion. I've been struggling try to include an IMAP account from a client on the desktop and it's just not working. This is something that Thunderbird solved moons ago.
6) Why are you building a new multiprotocol client. Why aren't you fixing up Thunderbird which is just fine in many ways. Yes it still sucks for the disabled but it's known, it works and it also has a calendar and task management system on the side. Create plug-ins for briefcase and social and you are done. Seriously, it's got a much better UI, it's familiar to more people and it does a lot of things right. You don't need to show people how big your technical manhood is. You've already done a fantastic job with the server. That's good enough and recycling open source projects that need some TLC is even better karma.
7) on the other hand the Web client is pretty darn good. All it needs now is the ability to work with multiple accounts at once. If I had my druthers, I would ditch the desktop, use a Web client only that can work with multiple e-mail accounts at the same time and include non-zimbra residents accounts as independent standalone accounts, not the inclusion thing you use which is such an abomination I don't even want to think about it.
8) community support is thin. Either the product is so reliable that nobody bothers to check into the forums or is suffering the general malaise of nobody can afford to give their time away. I would love to see a community plus low cost pay for option for support if answers that work get recorded so that question doesn't need to be asked again.
So today I think I'm going to delete the zimbra desktop off of my machine so it won't torture me anymore with hints of wonderful goodness and work strictly with Thunderbird and lightning with syncing to Google. Zimbra is just going to be my e-mail platform until these other things get fixed. all that's left is figuring out how to tell Thunderbird where to put spam when you press the junk button.


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West Virginia Picked Eighth in Poll
July 19, 2013 Staff and Wire Reports IRVING, Texas — Oklahoma State has been picked as the favorite to win the Big 12 title in a preseason poll of media members who cover the league. more »»
Title at stake (maybe) for K-State against Texas
November 30, 2012 MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — There will be a time not long from now that Kansas State's players will gather to reflect on the season, one that's brought unimaginable joy along with soul-crushing heartach. more »»
Stewart at the center of No. 24 Cowboys' pass game
November 30, 2012 STILLWATER, Okla. more »»
Big 12 could see 4-way tie for BCS berth
November 19, 2012 If college football fans think the BCS picture got all shook up with those losses by Kansas State and Oregon, they might want to look at the potential chaos in the Big 12. more »»
Kansas State's clear run to BCS title game blocked
November 19, 2012 WACO, Texas (AP) — For coach Bill Snyder and Kansas State, there was a clear path to the BCS championship game and a likely Heisman Trophy for Collin Klein. more »»
Iowa State blasts Kansas 51-23
November 19, 2012 LAWRENCE, Kan. more »»
Oklahoma State rips No. 23 Texas Tech, 59-21
November 19, 2012 STILLWATER, Okla. more »»
Mountaineers Fall Short
November 18, 2012 MORGANTOWN — Landry Jones threw six touchdown passes, including a 5-yarder to Kenny Stills with 24 seconds left, to lift No. more »»
Austin's Effort Not Enough For WVU
November 18, 2012 MORGANTOWN — He juked with his hips and shoulders, accelerated with his legs, and set up blocks by with pointed fingers. In short, Tavon Austin put everything into this one. more »»
Fresh OSU Rivalry Starts To Heat Up
November 14, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio — It used to be that Ohio State players despised their longtime enemies to the North, Michigan, and abided everyone else on their schedule. No more. more »»
Cowboys Lasso Mountaineers
November 11, 2012 STILLWATER, Okla. — First string, second string or third string, Oklahoma State's quarterbacks have produced this season. Clint Chelf is just the latest exampl. more »»
Familiarity the Story for Mountaineers, Cowboys
November 10, 2012 STILLWATER, Okla. — Dana Holgorsen's stay at Oklahoma State was brief. His impact was immens. more »»
No. 6 Edinboro Pulls Away Late From Lady Hilltoppers
November 10, 2012 GLENVILLE — The West Liberty University women's basketball team saw a gallant upset bid short-circuited by a poor shooting night as No. more »»
Sports Briefs
November 10, 2012 Feds drop case against Fine SYRACUSE, N.Y. more »»
Condensation Cancels Classic
November 10, 2012 MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — The game between No. 4 Ohio State and Marquette aboard the USS Yorktown at the Carrier Classic on Friday night was canceled because of unsafe conditions on the court. more »»
No. 1 West Liberty Too Much for Urbana
November 10, 2012 CEDARVILLE, Ohio – The No. more »»
Home Not So Cozy for Big 12 Teams
November 6, 2012 NORMAN, Okla. — There's proving to be no home-field advantage in the Big 12 this season. more »»
Klein hurt while leading No. 3 K-State to win
November 4, 2012 MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Third-ranked Kansas State's perfect season remained intact Saturday night. So did its national title hopes. more »»
Texas upends No. 20 Texas Tech 31-22
November 4, 2012 LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas coach Mack Brown finally got a glimpse of the team he's looked for all season. "I thought it was the best team win we've had all year," Brown said. more »»
Mountaineers Have the Bye-Week Blues
October 24, 2012 MORGANTOWN — The defense stinks. The offense is stuck in neutral. Every game from here on out is a must-win or No. 25 West Virginia will likely fall short of its preseason goal of going to a BCS bowl. more »»


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I like it. Goodjob!
For my Exalted rpg I am running, the next couple of sessions will be taking place in a caravansary that acts a way-point between the capitals of two major nations. This caravansary is run by an independent 3rd party, as it is a favorite hangout for traveling merchants, mercenaries, and people who are just looking for the next caravan out of town.
I modeled the caravansary after those found in the Middle East found along he Silk Road. A small town of merchants and other services travelers might need has sprung up around the inner and outer walls, with nearly everyone trying to set up a market stall to sell whatever goods they have for sale. Slaves, drugs, rare spices, precious stones, mercenary contracts and whatever goods and services the weary traveler might need can be found here. Also a safe night sleep for those affiliated with a caravan passing through can also be bought here. For the less discerning customers, or the unaffiliated, can find a place to rest in one of the dodgy brothels and hotels surrounding the caravansary. Souks and bazars make up the inner market within the walls, which cater to the wealthy caravaners. Here the more expensive commodities can be bought and sold with relative safety, while the outside in the travelers market and the exodus market more common items can be traded for. Slave trading inside the caravansary is against policy, thus all the slave trade takes place in front of the slave citadel as part of the exodus market. Silver is the main currency here, but jade and even Realm script is accepted and can be exchanged at steeper than usual rates. The towers, especially the outer towers are armed with mercenaries, and the double towers at each end of the caravansary are armed with massive Fire dust cannons taking advantage of the elevation.
This is nearly a finished project. Although I am looking for any minor modifications to improve it.
I started by drawing with paper and pencil and then scanning the image. I did the line work in Adobe Illustrator, and the exported the file to Photoshop to do the color work. In all I think I ended up with over 50 layers for this project. Total time it took me (so far) was 10 hours spread over 2 weeks.
I would greatly appreciate any feedback and comments on this map. After getting a sketch book and sketching pencils and a tablet (and learning how to use it) I feel that my technique is improving.
I like it. Goodjob!
I like it. I have only one criticism. It took me ages to find the 1900 mark on the topography, with it on the other side of all the other numbers.
Agreed, the 1190 elevation mark should be on the other side. Also, a pass is usually the *lowest* point between two peaks, not the highest (as here) - although the scale might be too low to show that.
A rather important thing I'd also like to point ous is that it's spelled "caravanserai" not "caravansary". A minor spelling point: unless it's the market of just one traveller, it should be "travelers' market", not "traveler's market".
Other than that, the style looks good, clear and concise, so it's rather simple and easy to use this map - which is, of course, the point.
Last edited by Lukc; 01-01-2012 at 11:21 AM. Reason: Some more notes
Thanks for the input. I made the suggested changes, and I think it looks better now.
Oof. I double checked ... Caravansary is actually also a legitimate alternate spelling. The things one learns every day! I'd never come across caravansary before, only caravanserai, but I guess it might be one of those British/Americanish spelling dilemmas.
That's what I initially thought, that is why I originally spelled 'caravansary'. However, this spelling gives it a more exotic feel. My intent was to give this map a desert/spice road theme, hence the palm trees, souqs, and earthy/desert color palette, and now the more exotic spelling of 'caravansarai'. I hope I was able to get that feeling, it was my intent anyway. thanks for your input.
As a funny aside - the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia was founded by the Ottomans and the name actually means "Sarai's" (as in "of the Sarai").
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Woo! Exalted love! This is a great addition to the South.
This is beautiful work; I wish I had as much talent with texture and shapes as you do, to say the least. Keep at it..this style would be a joy to behold scaled up to a larger environment, like a town.


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Tool: GIMP 2.6.4
1) Use the freehand selection tool to draw a cityblob.
2) Use the Selection, "Border" option to turn the selection edge into a wall.
3) Fill the wall with a pattern or color.
4) Now... use the modified color mosaic plugin ( text included below- I modified it to support tile divider thickness).
5) Create LARGE tiles, these will dominate your city-- and the dividers form your major walls.
6a) Fill the large tiles with a reasonably grey brown building color.
6b) Fill the dividers with a nice street color.
6c) Select each of the resulting large tiles and use the mosaic tool to fill it with smaller tiles.
7) Choose the flood fill bucket tool. Select a reasonable roof color and set it to 30% opacity.
Randomly dot some of the small house tiles with 0,1,2,3 roof fills to make a natural variation.
9) emboss everything. emboss is about 58-78, depth is about 10-20 but you have to noodle with it.
10) Now- with the "similar color tool" select the roofs.
11) Apply a motion blur filter-- very light- should create the illusion of a sloped roof.
12) Mildly blur it.
13) I created a layer of "clouds" and merged it.
14) I created a lower grassland with roads and merged it.
Should work for any size image.
The main idea is recursively going from large mosaic tiles to house sized mosaic tiles.
Oh yea-- I also used the perspective tool to tilt everything when it was done. Also, note the foreground road is brighter while the background roads are grayer. I tossed in a couple park areas and a lake while filling large tiles.
The brown areas are reserved to put a castle in. The parks need to be darker.
Entire image took me about 50 minutes to finish. I've been using GIMP for about a month so any one should be able to get similar effects. Give it a whirl.


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McLeish: Jenas is a "man on a mission" for Villa
Alex McLeish insists Jermaine Jenas will be a "man on a mission" as he gets set to launch his career with Villa this afternoon against Norwich.
McLeish hopes Jenas will bring his "experience and quality" to the fold - and thinks the player himself will be eager to show what's he got to offer.
Jenas has suffered a series of injuries since arriving at Villa on loan from Tottenham and McLeish is now eager for the dynamic midfielder to impress in claret and blue.
He said: "Jermaine has trained well. He is an experienced player. I see him going up the pitch and getting us more goals and the difference you'll see with Jermaine is the quality he has got and the experience he has got.
"So he will be very welcome back in the fold because of those added elements.
"He knows the game, he is an England international and I am sure he will show Villa fans right away, as soon as he gets into action, just what he is capable of.
"He is lean, he has got tremendous lines about him and he has got an inherent fitness - it shouldn't be too long for him to catch up.
"He should be coming into his peak years now and I'm sure the motivation for him will be to show people what he is capable of and what they have missed.
"He has got great incentives there to play for the next five or six years and not let them go by in a flash and think where has my career gone?
"That's the same for all the players. I feel he will be a guy on a mission.
"We know the potential is there, we know the history of the guy and how well he can play."
The only question that remains is whether to start the midfield ace or have him in reserve from the bench.
He added: "He is the squad. He has trained well. Whether he goes straight into the team will be something we consider.
"He is an experienced player. If he plays I would expect that experience to shine through.
"He will obviously be a little bit short of match fitness but in the coming weeks we will work hard on that to get Jermaine to a level where he goes on a roll, steers clear of injury and gets himself to top match fitness."
Meanwhile, McLeish has rubbished internet rumours linking Darren Bent with a move away from Villa.
McLeish poured cold water on stories circulating on forums and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook suggesting that the club could sell Bent in the January transfer window.
The rumours have been branded "utter nonsense" by the Villa boss.
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Fans add comfort to Hope Plantation
At Historic Hope Plantation, large diameter, low-speed fans circulate the equivalent of nine standard ceiling fans, providing air movement that can be felt from floor to ceiling and wall to wall, at a monthly operating cost of pennies per day.
Historic Hope Plantation, a 50-acre site featuring the restored 1803 mansion of Gov. David Stone, offers insights into the late 18th- and 19th-century rural life in eastern North Carolina. In 1992, the 13,000-square-foot Roanoke-Chowan Heritage Center was added to the site. Serving as a visitor's center, museum and gathering space, the Heritage Center presented a challenge when it came to keeping visitors comfortable.
Heritage Center staff members were having a difficult time efficiently heating the space in the winter, as the small amount of warm air available would rise to the top of the two-story central atrium, leaving visitors in the cold below. Two 8-foot diameter Isis fans by the Big Ass Fan Company provided the solution. Heat rises to the highest reaches of a building, far from the occupant level, which tends to be cooler. A large-diameter, low-speed fan efficiently pushes hot air down to the floor, enhancing visitor comfort.
"I keep the fans on all the time to redistribute the heat in the area," said Bill Smith, Hope Plantation treasurer and bookkeeper. "Guests in the atrium were previously either too cold or too hot, or both. The fans have smoothed things out. People appreciate that, and we have had more attendees as a result."
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(YouTube.com) -- You would think penguins could keep their balance on any type of surface, especially while walking in a group formation.
Well, some video of a penguin slipping on YouTube has gone viral (more than 1,000,000 views).
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The Feature looks like it was lifted out of Giro's snow-helmet line: The dial-fit system and three-point visor retention (no more visor rattle!) are right out of the company's winter catalog, and the styling is very reminiscent of the G10MX. But whatever the inspiration, we've been mightily impressed with the Feature. It is 36 grams lighter and 55 bucks cheaper than Giro's top-of-the-line Xar dirt helmet.
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