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When The Enquirer reported Thursday that Archbishop Dennis Schnurr, head of the Cincinnati Archdiocese for the Catholic Church, would participate in an interfaith 9/11 memorial on Sunday with a Muslim group, it raised a few eyebrows and prompted some emails.
While anti-urban Cincinnatians gripe over the twice-approved $95 million streetcar project — some going so far as to attach anti-funding amendments to federal bills that will never be included in the final legislation — authorities on the other side of the river are demonstrating just how little $20 million on transportation funding can provide. The state will widen KY 237 in Boone County using elevated ramps to allow for left-hand turns, adding a freeway-style element to the residential/corridor area. The two-year project will be paid for using Federal Surface Transportation Program funds.
Starting this fall all students in Newport Independent Schools will get free breakfast and lunch because the district is participating in the Community Eligibility Option in President Obama's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
CBS News says Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the other four conservative justices but wasn't prepared to strike down the entire health care law. Roberts wrote the court's majority opinion, which upheld most of the legislation.
Here's three ways the ruling hurt Mitt Romney, according to the Boston Globe.
The Mark Wahlberg/teddy bear film, Ted, brought in $54.1 million over the weekend. CityBeat's film dude said it was good, too.
Scientists say they are on the verge of finding a "God particle" that could explain the creation of the universe.
For particle physicists, finding the Higgs boson is a key to confirming the standard model of physics that explains what gives mass to matter and, by extension, how the universe was formed. …
Rosen compared the results scientists are preparing to announce Wednesday to finding the fossilized imprint of a dinosaur: "You see the footprints and the shadow of the object, but you don't actually see it."
Spain won the 2012 European Championship soccer tournament on Sunday with a 4-0 victory over Italy. The Spanish team is being considered one of the greatest ever, as it has won three straight major tournaments, including the 2010 World Cup and 2008 Euro.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati this week sent a letter to all local parishes warning them to keep politics off the pulpit.
The letter reminds pastors and parishioners that church leadership may not endorse parties or candidates or take any action that could be construed as endorsement, let candidates or parties use church facilities, distribute political materials in church or use church publications to promote a party or candidate.
"The Church has the responsibility to provide moral guidance on political issues; however, the Church does not wish to engage in political activity," Chancellor the Rev. Steve Angi wrote in the Oct. 24 letter.
Some Cincinnati-area parishes had placed stacks of tickets to a rally for Rep. Paul Ryan or stacks of Republican sample ballots, according to Parishes Without Politics, a group of lay Catholics.
"We think the Cincinnati Archdiocese's letter should be a model for bishops nationwide and the rest of the Church leadership," group spokesperson Deborah Rose-Milavec wrote in an emailed statement.
"Catholics should feel free to vote their own consciences without being bombarded by partisan political messages from the pulpits, on parish websites, in parish bulletins, in the vestibules or anywhere else on parish property."
CityBeat has previously written about how both major parties are using different aspects of Catholic social teaching to woo voters.
Someone really smart in Todd Portune's office warned his or her superiors that the monthly first-Wednesday siren test might scare the living hell out of tens of thousands of foreign people visiting Cincinnati for the World Choir Games, so there will be no siren test this month.
River Downs applied for some slot machines, the second racetrack in the state to do so.
Here's the latest person to write about how screwed Mitt
Romney is due to the constitutional health care mandate or, more
importantly, the similar one he passed in Massachusetts. MSNBC says the Bain attacks are hurting Romney. And
Mother Jones says this: "Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That
Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show."
And Obama is "feeling the pain" of campaign fundraising. Whatever that means.
Here's all you need to know about torture in Syria. Thanks, Human Rights Watch.
Anderson Cooper publicly announced that he's gay after a discussion with friend and journalist Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast regarding celebrities coming out. Cooper emailed Sullivan about the matter and gave him permission to print it.
"I've also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. There continue to be far too many incidences of bullying of young people, as well as discrimination and violence against people of all ages, based on their sexual orientation, and I believe there is value in making clear where I stand.
"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."
Chrysler's sales are up 20 percent, but the company hasn't specifically thanked JLo for boosting the Fiat marketshare.
Scientists are saying that recent heat waves, wild fires and other seemingly random natural disasters are due to global warming. And we thought it was only going to be our kids' problem. :(
Meanwhile, European physicists hope to find the God
particle by the end of the year, explaining the creation of the world.
Here's video of a British guy trying to explain what the particle is
using a plastic tray and ping pong balls.
The NFL is going to back off some of its local blackout
rules. Teams now must only hit 85 percent of their ticket sales goal
rather than 100 percent to avoid making local markets watch crappy
regional games instead of their favorite teams. That means more Bengals games, less crappy Browns broadcasts.
Let's start the morning roundup with a truly radical idea: How about using Paul Brown Stadium as a homeless shelter during the roughly 340 nights a year when the Bengals aren't using it?
That's just what might happen with the new Marlins ballpark or the Tampa Bay Rays' Tropicana Field in Florida if two state lawmakers have their way. They want to enforce an obscure 1988 Florida law that allows any ballpark or stadium that receives taxpayer money to serve as a homeless shelter on the dates that it is not in use. Sounds like a great idea to us.
The Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners yesterday voted to keep senior and mental health levies flat. As a result, senior and mental health services will lose funding. Commissioner Todd Portune, the Board's sole Democrat, offered an alternative measure that would have raised funding to levels providers requested, before voting with the two Republicans. Portune's measure would have increased property taxes by $5 for every $100,000 of property worth.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine released a new report detailing human trafficking in Ohio. The report found one-third of trafficking victims got involved in trafficking as minors. In all of Ohio, law enforcement officials topped the list of buyers for human trafficking. In Cincinnati, the most common buyers were drug dealers, factory workers and truckers. Forty percent of trafficking victims in Cincinnati reported being raped.
At the commissioners meeting Wednesday, a Jehova's Witnesses group clashed with Harrison Township over land. The religious group wants to build a hall that they say will attract Jehova's Witnesses to the area and bring in tax revenue, but Harrison Township is worried the building will cause too much disruption. The board will reach a decision in a few weeks, Commissioner Greg Hartmann said.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius praised Cincinnati Children's accomplishments during a visit to a local medical center Wednesday. She also said the medical progress in Cincinnati "can now be mirrored across the country."
The Ohio State Bar Association has declared opposition to the Voters First redistricting amendment. The association says it has "deep concerns" over getting the judicial system involved in the redrawing process.Local political group COAST has been misinforming its followers about the Blue Ash Airport deal. The misinformation continues COAST's campaign to stop anything streetcar-related.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio is among the top choices for presidential candidate Mitt Romney's vice presidential list, but a new analysis from the New York Times shows Portman might not benefit Romney much. Apparently, Ohio voters either don't know Portman well enough or feel completely apathetic about him.Ohio's mortgage delinquency rates are falling. The rate fell from 4.73 percent to 4.54 percent. However, the average mortgage debt for individual borrowers went up in the second largest jump in the country. The average Ohio mortgage debt holder now owes $131,701, up from $126,503.
The number of swine flu cases in Butler County is still going up.Ohio school levies apparently struggled in the special Aug. 7 election.
The U.S. trade deficit is at its lowest in 18 months.
Apparently, the Olympic Village is a giant orgy.A new study is linking eyes to sexual orientation.
With all the blather about banning or restricting the construction of mosques in the United States because of Islam's alleged connections to terrorism, now is a good time to examine exactly what the religion is and what its central tenets are.
Scott Aiken died this month. We've been colleagues and friends for more than four decades. My wife and I moved to Cincinnati in 1967 and subscribed to the Enquirer. I called Scott to compliment the analyses of foreign events for which he'd been hired on the Enquirer editorial page. After swapping tales about our work overseas and people we knew there, he offered to introduce me to Bob Harrod, the local editor, who hired me for weekend reporting. It was the perfect antidote to grad school. That began 30-plus years at the Enquirer for me. Scott and I stayed in touch after he left daily journalism for corporate public relations. Our friendship survived my reporting of accusations of illegal wiretapping by Cincinnati Bell; Scott was head of the telephone company's public relations. Our last lunch shared stories of his and Anne's visit to Rome. Sheila McLaughlin's obit on March 9 covers his career admirably, including Scott's accidental matchmaking for a young reporter/colleague.
• Urbi et orbi. Accusations of omission and commission by Pope Francis when he was a priest and Jesuit leader during Argentina's murderous "Dirty War" demonstrate how religious leaders risk charges of collaboration when a dictatorship falls. Recent examples taint the Russian Orthodox Church and South Africa's Dutch Reform Church. But it's a rare priest who rises to the modern papacy without the historians, news media and others questioning their careers. Pius XII is accused of being too close to Nazi Germany as diplomat Cardinal Pacelli before World War II. John XXIII was the subject of debate whether, as a chaplain sergeant in World War I, he gave Italian troops the order to leave their trenches, "go over the top" and attack. Fourteen-year-old Joseph Ratzinger was drafted into the Hitler Youth near the end of World War II, something everyone learned when he became Benedict XVI.
• The 200-plus complaints about papal coverage moved NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos to admit he, too, was "pope-ed out." One listener wondered if NPR stood for National Papal Radio? Schumacher-Matos blogged that "NPR aired 69 stories since Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation Feb. 11 and Pope Francis was selected as his successor Wednesday. That averages out to about two radio magazine or call-in segments per day, not including the steady drumbeat of shorter items delivered by hourly newscasts that are not transcribed. Most of the complaints have concerned the 47 stories that aired in the four weeks between the day after Benedict announced his resignation and the morning before Francis was announced — a period during which there was less major news about the subject and more 'horse-race' speculation about who might be selected."
• Of course, there was a Cincinnati connection to the papal election: Janice Sevre-Duszynska, a contributing writer to Article 25, Cincinnati's street paper dedicated to human rights, was detained by Italian police for demonstrating at the Vatican for women's ordination. The French news agency, AFP, missed her connection to Article 25, identifying her only as "an excommunicated female priest" from Lexington, Ky., and a member of the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests. It was unclear whether Sevre-Duszynska was arrested or removed as a distraction when cardinals assembled to elect a new pope. AFP did not respond to CityBeat questions about her detention. She was dressed in liturgical robes and carrying a banner, "Women Priests are Here." AFP quoted Sevre-Duszynska as saying, "As the cardinals meet for their conclave to elect the new pope, women are being ordained around the world! There are already 150 female priests in the world. The people are ready for change."
• Much as I would have loved to be back in Rome covering the election of the pope, there was an even better assignment that kicked my envy into overdrive. The Economist sent a reporter on 112-day road trip through and around Africa. I once hoped to travel the mythic Cairo Road from Capetown to Cairo. Not going to happen. The Economist's reporter did that and more. He found more cause for cautious optimism than is reflected in typical stories of rebellion, massacre, poverty, disease and stolen elections.
• Why did Cincinnati Business Courier take down its online story about Henry Heimlich's attempts to save his reputation and that of his Heimlich Maneuver? Granted, it wasn't flattering, but it didn't go beyond what Curmudgeon has reported. Reporter James Ritchie forwarded my request for an explanation and editor Rob Daumeyer responded, "Thanks for asking, but we don't have anything to add for you."
• I like the tabloid Enquirer. I worked on daily and weekly tabloids overseas; it's a familiar format. Whether readers enjoy turning pages to find stories promoted on section covers is uncertain; with logos, ads and visuals, there's little else. Inside, long stories jump from page to page to accommodate reduced page size. I hope Enquirer editors recognize the power of the back page in each section and treat it as prime news space. And I'm looking forward to reporters and editors learning to produce sharp, short stories suited to tabloids; it still reads like the old Enquirer.
• Curmudgeon Notes on Feb. 20 shouldn't take credit for Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster over Obama's assassination by drone. However, the Kentucky Republican echoed Curmudgeon's anxieties whether Obama will use drones to kill Americans in our country. To his credit, Paul's almost 13-hour standup routine forced an answer from prevaricating Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder's letter repeated and answered Paul's question: "Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil? The answer to that question is no." Perfectly clear? No. Who defines combat? Deadly confrontations with feds at Ruby Ridge, Wounded Knee, or David Koresh's Branch Davidian Ranch near Waco, TX?
• Enquirer's Cliff Peale is probing the costs of post-secondary education and how many recent debt-burdened college grads can't find full-time employment requiring their costly degrees. Coincidentally, Cincinnati Business Courier reports how local vacancies for skilled workers threaten the region's economy. Is the conventional wisdom — everyone must earn a BA or more — undermining our economic security? Maybe Peale can probe high school curricula and counseling to see if capable students are being steered away from well-paid blue collar careers and into crippling debt for degrees of dubious value. Maybe it's time to interview welders, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, etc., to find out what their ROI (Return on Investment) is.
• It's an old problem: courtiers mistaking their privilege of emptying the king's chamber pots for royal power. Poynter.org reports this example from the University of Maryland's Capital News Service:
Rosenzweig, a staffer for Vice President Joe Biden, ordered Capital
News Service student reporter Jeremy Barr to delete photos he took at an
event in Rockville, Md., when Biden announced an anti-domestic violence initiative.
Barr quoted Rosenzweig, saying, "I need to see your camera right now." She called Barr's presence in the non-press area an "unfair advantage" over the other members of the media (whatever that meant). Rosenzweig watched him delete the photos, Barr said, and then she looked at Barr's iPhone to make sure no photos were saved there.
"I assumed that I'd violated a protocol," Barr told Capital News Service. "I gave her the benefit of the doubt that she was following proper procedures."
J-school Dean Lucy Dalglish complained in a letter, saying, "Rockville is not a third-world country where police-state style media censorship is expected." Biden press secretary Kendra Barkoff responded with an apology to Dalglish and Barr.
My comment: Dalglish is a lawyer. Before taking the dean's job she was executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It's ironic that her student reporter didn't know there is no "protocol" or "proper procedures" that required him to give up his images. He should have held on to his images and phone and told Rosenzweig to fuck off.
• Intimidating a student reporter (above) wasn't a first for Biden's staff, jimromenesko.com added. "After the vice president made a remark during the presidential campaign that Republicans would put voters 'back in chains,' Politico's Jonathan Martin reported the veep's staff 'tried to edit media pool reports for any potential landmines that could be seized on by Republicans and even hovered at close range to eavesdrop on journalists' conversations with attendees at Biden rallies'."
• Republicans evince an unnatural fascination with our dead ambassador at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Often, in their frenzy of blame, Obama critics mistakenly call the torched facility the "Embassy." Ignorance now appears to be nonpartisan. Maybe repetition has warped liberal minds. For instance, in her blog on the thedailybeast.com, Caitlin Dickson repeated the error. In Libya, our embassy is in Tripoli, the capital.
• Jimromenesko.com says media worldwide were suckered by a satirical column on the Internet about Nobel-winning economist, professor, columnist and blogger Paul Krugman declaring bankruptcy.
The Boston Globe's boston.com wasn't immune. Under the headline, "Paul Krugman Files Chapter 13 Bankruptcy," someone using the nom de plume "Prudent Investor" wrote that "Paul Krugman, the king of Keynesianism and a strong supporter of the delusion that you can print your way out of debt, faces depression at his very own doors. According to this report in Austria's Format online mag, Krugman owes $7.35 million while assets to his name came in at a very meager $33,000. This will allow the economist and New York Times blogger to get a feel of how the majority of Americans feel about their dreadful lives . . . "
Romenesko says Globe editor Brian McGrory told Washington Post's Erik Wemple, "The (Krugman) story arrived deep within our site from a third party vendor who partners on some finance and market pages on our site. We never knew it was there till we heard about it from outside." The paper, McGrory says, did "urgent work to get it the hell down" from boston.com. McGrory adds, "The idea that we'd have a partner on our site is actually news to me" and the Globe plans to "address our relationship with that vendor."
My comment: the editor of New England's dominant daily has a "third party vendor" who provides content for business pages and the editor doesn't know what that content is?
• Paul Krugman, who isn't bankrupt (above), responded tongue in cheek on his New York Times blog, The Conscience of a Liberal. "OK, I'm an evil person — and my scheming has paid off. On Friday I started hearing from friends about a fake story making the rounds about my allegedly filing for personal bankruptcy; I even got asked about the story by a reporter from Russian television, who was very embarrassed when I told him it was fake. But I decided not to post anything about it; instead, I wanted to wait and see which right-wing media outlets would fall for the hoax. And Breitbart.com came through! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go give a lavishly paid speech to Friends of Hamas."
• Weekly Standard senior writer Matt Labash's March 18 column suggests he'd be a great guy to meet in a bar. Here's a sample: " . . . there are enough headline-hunting researchers making enough questionable discoveries (about health) that the four shakiest words in the English language have come to be, 'a new study shows'." And here's another: "I am a professional journalist. It's my job to pretend to know things that I don't."


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Here's video of the Davis Cup draw for the Spain versus Serbia tie in Benidorm today.
The press made sure to get the "money shot": Rafa + Nole hand in hand on stage. Good thing I wasn't invited because an entirely other shot would've been requested and it has nothing to do with money (though I'd take that too.)
Can I die now?
*circuit overload*
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
VIDEO VAULT: Spain + Serbia get drawn, press get their "money shot"
7 comments:
- johanneMarch 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Man would I seriously love to jump Rafa (AND the entire team for that matter)....VAMOS you sexy boys you!!ReplyDelete
*frantically searches for ticket to ride Spanish train*
If you want to make DC popular in the US, they should require the players to play shirtless and their choice of speedos or "free-ballin" in tennis shorts....I am sure ticket sales would double :) Just a thought.ReplyDelete
*disguises herself as Rosana Romero*ReplyDelete
*requests private, "one on one" time with Rafa*
*sneaks past security*
*waits in locker room*
I like the way you think, Terry Lee! (Except, someone please lock up the worm before they put these changes into play!)ReplyDelete
LOL you guys!!ReplyDelete
That DC clash between Spain and Serbia sure will be a hotfest. :P
- AnonymousMarch 5, 2009 at 4:14 PM
matches are postponed till Saturday because of bad weatherReplyDelete
Seriously, can i die now?ReplyDelete
*readies obituary*

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ATLANTA -- One person was reported dead and another person injured in a one-vehicle accident Friday afternoon at a Walgreens store in Buckhead.
Atlanta Police said the driver of a pickup lost control of their vehicle and slammed through a retaining wall into the parking lot of the Walgreens store on Roswell Road at about 3 p.m.
Police said Calvin Sims, 59, was walking out of the Walgreens store and headed back to his car when the truck careened through the retaining wall and hit him, killing him.
The driver of the pickup, police said, had suffered from a medical condition when the truck went out of control. He was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) _ Former Kansas State football captain Nick Leckey is graduating and speaking at the university's December commencement nine years after leaving for the NFL without a degree.
Leckey earned a Super Bowl ring in 2009 as a center with the New Orleans Saints. He also played for the Arizona Cardinals and the St. Louis Rams.
But he remained 46 credits short of the college degree he'd promised his mother and his aunt he would finish. After leaving pro football and moving from Phoenix to Kansas City, he began taking classes at Kansas State as a distance student.
Now, he's about to receive a bachelor's degree in hotel and restaurant management. Leckey also will give the student commencement address Dec. 8 for the College of Human Ecology.


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How could Fox News resist attacking Duke Nukem Forever? After all it's a game aching to court controversy – for reasons real or imagined. Fox News writers Jeremy A. Kaplan and Patrick Manning get together to take Gearbox to task for the multiplayer mode of the game, "Capture the Babe." They open by describing the multiplayer mode:
"A new videogame that requires you to abduct women and give them a "reassuring slap" if they freak out has gamers and women's rights-groups crying foul. Brace yourself for the awfully sexist world of Duke Nukem Forever."
Brace yourself for comments from people who know nothing about the game, save the ten minutes of video they found on YouTube:
"It was offensive then and it's even more offensive now," Jamia Wilson, vice president of the Women's Media Center, told FoxNews.com. She is referring to the 1996 game from 3DRealms as well. "These depictions of women are extremely harmful, especially to young women," she added.
How are they harmful? She does not elaborate, but I suspect she believes that men will get together to recreate this game in real life. As ludicrous as that sounds, what she really believes based on cursory research of the game is probably far worse: that somehow this kind of in-game activity has some sort of real-world consequence. At least she did not say it causes rape..
OXM describes the mode as more goofy than offensive. As the ESRB points out to Fox News, the game is rated "M" for "Mature."
"This game carries a Mature rating indicating that it's intended for ages 17 and up, and retailers overwhelmingly enforce their store policies requiring that M-rated games not be sold to a customer under that age without a parent's consent," said Eliot Mizrachi, a spokesman for the ESRB.
In the article that appeared in OXM, Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford defended the new mode:
"Our goal isn't to shock people, but I think there's some stuff that'll be just a bit uncomfortable," he said. "We try to get right up to that edge and then relax enough so people don't reject it."
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In early September, D. Zachary Misko was packing his bags for Shanghai and Singapore while also looking ahead to a trip to London. Misko, 39, is in demand as a speaker, having built a global reputation as an expert in human resources and recruitment. In Shanghai he was to address the American Chamber of Commerce about his annual research report on global recruitment trends.
Misko credits the leadership of Kelly Services' Outsourcing & Consulting Group for allowing him to become a globe-trotter, attending conferences, delivering speeches, writing reports, and generally getting the KellyOCG name out there, along with information about its services.
Misko calls himself the company's "brand differentiator," and to him it makes sense that an expert in the field would be asked to spread the word about his company's services, rather than a marketing manager who may not know as much about the ins and outs of the business.
As a board member of the Best Practice Institute, chair of the HR Outsourcing Association and a recognized expert in Lean methodologies, he stays on top of trends and enjoys opportunities to exchange ideas with other industry leaders.
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Charge your HD HERO camera(s) while on the go in a car:
Dual USB port quickly charges up to two cameras at once
1 amp per port for a quick charging solution
Simultaneously record video or photos while charging
Works with most devices that charge via USB
What's Included:
1 Dual USB Auto Charger
2 USB Cables
GoPro Auto Charger Cable Length
Two 38-inch USB cables are included with the GoPro Auto Charger.
Using the Camera While Charging
You can simultaneously charge and record with the HD HERO Original and HD HERO2 cameras. To do this, you can use the supplied USB cable. Use that to connect your camera to a USB wall charger or auto charger that outputs 5V and 1A. You cannot record while the camera is connected to a computer.
HERO3 Camera Battery-life
Here's a list of the average run times for the HERO3 cameras with a fully charged battery.
Avg. time for camera only Avg. time for lowest power consumption setting Avg. time for highest power consumption setting Avg. time for Camera + LCD Touch BacPac Avg. time for Camera + Battery BacPac2
Black Edition 1.5 hrs 1.5 hrs (1080-30) 1 hr (WVGA-240) 1 hr 2.5 hrs
Silver Edition 2 hrs 2 hrs (720-30) 1.5 hrs (WVGA-120) 1.5 hrs 3 hrs
White Edition 2.5 hrs 3 hrs (WVGA-60 and 720-30) 2 hrs (1080-30) 1.5 hrs 3.5 hrs
Please note there are a variety of conditions that can affect run times, such as:
Cold weather, which will reduce battery-life.
Enabling Wi-Fi, which will reduce battery-life
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Wow. That's gorgeous. About the only suggestion I could offer might be to fade your border linework right under labels.
Hmmm - maybe instead of removing rivers, just emphasize the main ones with another pixel or so of width?
Hello, fellow map lovers.
1. You won't remember me; I've not posted on these forums for years, though I do pop beck in every now and then to check out other people's work.
2. I've had a fair amount of spare time over the past year, so I've been re-working my main map to make it look a bit more professional. It's still a work-in-progress, so comments and critiques are very welcome -- for instance, the rivers need some tributary trimming, but should I trace main rivers deep into the mountains?
(Warning: map file is around 2.6Mb -- click with care)
3. I'm also developing a website to go with the map - it's very much at the late-alpha stage ... The Lands of Ewlah. Feedback on the website would be very useful to me.
Best wishes,
Wow. That's gorgeous. About the only suggestion I could offer might be to fade your border linework right under labels.
Hmmm - maybe instead of removing rivers, just emphasize the main ones with another pixel or so of width?
The mountains are rather odd. The "spine down the middle" structure makes sense for islands, but not continents. Continents have mountains along boundaries, either coastlines (Like the Andes), or boundaries between "lumps" (like the Himalayas between Eurasia and India)
Using the projection indicated by the graticule over that extent would lead to significant and very noticeable distortion (everything at the top of your map would be stretched out east-west by a factor of 2), which your features don't show, and that means that the features themselves are distorted the opposite way (pinched in east-west) to compensate. No real life cartographer would use this projection for this map. They would probably use a Transverse Cylindrical projection (Most likely Transverse Mercator), or maybe something more exotic like a Two Point Equidistant (Often used for Asia), or Chamberlain Trimetric (Often used for Africa). As it doesn't extend too far south of the equator, a conic projection like Lambert Conformal Conic could also be used although I think that would be pushing it. Unless you've committed to things being where that graticule says they are, say be working this into a larger global map, you could most easily solve this by just changing the graticule and leaving the features alone.
"Meridian" is a term for any great circle through the poles, not just the one we choose to use as the basis for a coordinate system. That basis one is the "Prime Meridian" and in modern cartography we largely agree to use the meridian through Greenwich Observatory. You seem to have dropped yours in the middle of the map and it doesn't seem to run through any major cities. The only really practical concerns are established usage and the discontinuity on the far side which means it's desirable to have it avoid populated land. Otherwise it tends to amount to running it through something important like a capital or religious site. If you haven't already, you might want to think about where it should be and why. Picking this to fit your particular map extent can lead to it looking artificial. It's also not that common to highlight the prime meridian the way we highlight the equator, and even the equator tends not to be emphasized so much on maps with restricted extents compared to global maps.
Well, I think your map looks really great. The amount of detail is stunning. Don't let Hai-Etlik's constructive criticism overwhelm you, just make the best of it without having to change the whole map. ^^ It's fantasy cartography after all (we can always come up with an otherworldly explanation for the weirdness of those odd terrain features^^) and there are a few of us here who can actually call themselves professional cartographers. There is always a second version to consider as well... We have to remember that it's knowledge about real life cartography among other things that makes us better at what we do here. Don't be afraid to try mapping your world again. After all we all learn from our mistakes. After what you've learned from Hai-Etlik I'm sure your next map would be truly awesome.
I had a look at your website and it seems that you have a major world building project going on. I admire you for your perseverance. Keep at it and may your maps look more realistic in the future! (If that is your wish of course^^)
Hi, Hai-Etlik. Many thanks for the detailed feedback. I do understand your concerns, and will try to respond to them.
You're right that the current map doesn't show the real shape of the continent. I had a software program on my old computer (can't remember the name of it now) which could convert this sort of map into various projections. The continent is, as you say, a lot slimmer at the top:
I try to explain the mountains by claiming that Ewlah is a relatively new continent formed from a number of colliding microcontinents and island arc chains -- sometimes I almost believe this fiction myself, though the truth is that I first drew the map almost 4 decades ago, complete with very unrealistic orogeny. It does lead to some head-scratching mountain formations, but I kinda like them ...
The prime meridian shown in this map runs through an observatory on top of a mountain in Pesan Aframig, and also (by chance) passes through the middle of a town in the Land of Raman, not too distant from the second largest city on the continent. Previously I had the meridian running through the southern-most tip of the largest continent, which had the unfortunate effect of putting the dateline through the middle of Ewlah, so I count this as an improvement. I take your point about the heaviness of the lines on the map - easily changed as they're on their own layer.
Nice explanations for the oddities. May I ask in what program have you made this map? Despite their unrealistic placing I really like the look of the mountains. Rivers look great too.
That is impressive!
How have you achieved the relief look of the mountains though? Have you drawn rivers by hand or have you generated them somehow? I'm really curious about your technique Would you share it with us?
Most of my time on this iteration of the map has been spent on developing a detailed greyscale elevation map thingy of the continent - after which it was dead easy to use a mixture of emboss and blur functions to generate the mountains. Then I added some layers to make the map more colourful.
I've drawn all the rivers by hand, using the elevation map thingy as a guide to ensure water only flows downhill. I admit to getting a bit carried away with the tributaries; I'm planning to cull a lot of them at some point ...
Nice update to this map. Believe it or not, I have an older version saved in my "inspiration" folder, locally on my PC.
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Cool map, Great story. Fantastic way to start an adventure. Kaia stumbles out of the woods just as the party passes by begging them to save her brother. What is down the well? An ancient evil, a long forgotten curse, or a Medusa? Or all three?
Probably past time I post my 2nd map here. This one was made entirely in GIMP. (really should move WoodHaven over here someday)
I guess you would call this an encounter map, or battlemap. Inspired by a well I created using an arch from CGTextures. Just learning GIMP and mess around with dimension, and perspective, with vines, steps and shadows led to this. Was never happy with the white lines around the vines in blown up mode, but since then found out it was part of my cutting the background process that did this, just havent found the urge to recreate it all
The story/intro, well basically, I hadnt written anything, other than a small bio for an upcoming anthology, in the month I have gotten into digital mapping or art, so I was glad to see something pop out of my head. It is only first draft. It revolves around characters for stories I have written for my daughters, who always ask me when I write, "Why can't girls be heroes? Why are they always rescued?"
Free for personal use, non-commercial.
Garden of Stone
Kaia slid from her saddle, and let her fingers trace along her mare's neck, seeking comfort in the quiet strength that trembled within. The stout mare was born to the wilds, her lineage traced for generations, for strength and speed.
Everything that Kaia was not. Found beneath the Steppes of Sadness, she was adopted into the Kings family. A gift from the Gods they said, to silence his tears at the loss of his one true queen. But she was far from royal. She slid over the tangled roots and vines, her lithe frame making no sound. This is where she belonged, out here in the wilderness, not in her chambers, not in court.
Her brother dismounted behind her. "Kaia, wait."
"Because this is someone's garden. We don't know who lives here, but someone lives here?"
Kaia nodded, and forced a smile to her face. Yeah, like a hundred years ago. "Whose ever it is, they're long gone. No one has been here in years."
"It's not just that. It just feels wrong." Aiden slid his sword from his scabbard, sending chills chasing up Kaia's spine. She loved the sound of that.
She never understood it. If she was half as good with the blade as he was, she wouldn't be afraid of anything, nothing at all.
She shook the chill free, feeling the excitement rise inside her, and laughed. When had she ever let fear stop her before? Never. And she wouldn't this time.
She crept down the stairs; sending debris tumbling down the vine covered treads, to land softly on the carpet of moss in the sunken garden below. Her brother was right. It was all wrong. So green and full of life, only it reeked of death. As if the moss and vines in their fight for survival had devoured the true beauty of the world beneath.
Trees broke through the stone covered patio, sending their roots, twisting, turning, like hands reaching from the decaying earth beneath, only to dive back into the darkness below.
She stopped. "Aiden." She lifted a trembling hand. A head and arm reached from the layers of moss and vines.
The older boy knelt. "It's alright," he laughed, his voice catching. "It's-it's just a statue."
He pulled the moss back, prying the vines free of their death hold around the statue's legs. "It must have fallen." He rose to his feet and continued searching, his voice trailing off, "This place is unreal, all the trees, the vines, pushing through the stone…"
Kaia ran her fingers along the statue; it was exquisite. She had never seen the like. Each link of armor chiseled deep and true. And his face, twisted in horror as if looking back. His knees bent.
She shook her head. This was wrong. He hadn't fallen. He was crawling! Trying to escape. She lunged to her feet. "Aiden!"
She ran for him, tripping on the gnarled vines hidden beneath the moss as if refusing to let her go. Rolling to her feet she grabbed Aiden by the shoulder. "Aiden! We have to go."
He didn't look back, instead parted the vines in front of him. "It's another statue. She's beautiful." He slid his hand along the porcelain goddess standing before him.
And she was beautiful. Tall, and elegant. Young. She couldn't have been much older than Aiden, sixteen winters, no more.
Tears traced down his face. "Who? I mean, how could anyone catch her essence so? So real. So beautiful."
Kaia grabbed his arm and jerked him back. "They didn't! Statues have pedestals. These don't. They were once flesh and blood. The same as you and me." Even as she said the words, she could barely believe them. But it was true. It had to be. They were too perfect. And the goddess? She touched her. She was warm, as if she was still fighting the magic that sought to claim her. But she was wrapped tight in the vines grasp. Vines didn't grow that fast. A sick feeling swept over her. How long had she been fighting? Days, weeks, years?
"Aiden we have to go! Now!"
But he wasn't listening. He stumbled to the once magnificent pool in the center of the garden, and fell to his knees. Vines clung to the sides, dropping into the darkness below. "Do you hear her? She needs me."
"Aiden, no!" He was going to go down. She lunged for him.
He spun and hit her across the face, sending her reeling to the steps. He had never hit her before. Pranked her, and tricked her, often leaving her in tears. But never before had he struck her.
She bit her lip, tasting the blood in the mouth, and rose to her feet.
Aiden had already swung his feet over the side.
She dove for him grasping his sleeve for a moment, before he jerked free. He stared up at her. She flinched expecting hatred, anger, contempt, anything, but there was nothing behind those eyes, nothing at all.
They were void of life as the garden itself.
Slowly he descended into the darkness.
Cool map, Great story. Fantastic way to start an adventure. Kaia stumbles out of the woods just as the party passes by begging them to save her brother. What is down the well? An ancient evil, a long forgotten curse, or a Medusa? Or all three?
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Really pretty stone there.
I like the look, but some of the trees? cover the stone so it would be a little hard to use as a battle map.
Love the stone, too!


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Detroit Autorama AwardsWritten by Brian Brennan on July 1, 2010 Detroit Autorama Is The Home Of A Handful Of Special Awards
The Detroit Autorama is known for a lot of memorable moments. The presentation of the Don Ridler Memorial Award, sponsored by GM Performance Division; the Pirelli Great 8 Finalists; Autorama Extreme, presented by 89X; Pinstripers Charity Auction, brought about by the Motor City Auto Art Mavens (who raise money for Leader Dogs for the Blind); and a handful of individual awards given out by a legendary customizer and car company, and two hot rodders who just happen to work for STREET RODDER.
Mike Alexander, one-half of the legendary tandem brothers (Larry and Mike) of the Alexander Brothers (or A-Brothers, as each or both are often called), is present each year to award the A-Brothers personal one-of-a-kind trophy to a custom car. As Mike explained it to me, he and Larry are looking for a custom built along the lines of something they might have found themselves involved with back in their day. It should be noted aside from building numerous customs, which include a handful of iconic efforts, the pair designed and built three Ridler award winners.
Larry was unable to attend but Mike, as enthusiastic and energetic as ever, did show up and walked the aisles many times until he settled in on Tony Feil of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, with his '40 Pontiac coupe, named "Super Chief." Other Jersey-based shops involved in the build are J&R Auto Body in Morristown for the paint and stitched at Master Upholstery in Newton. Ram's Rod Shop handled the construction at their place in Dover, Delaware. The Super Chief was customized using Pontiac parts from 1935-65.
Next up in the iconic category is Ford Racing Performance Parts as they enter their second year sponsoring STREET RODDER's Best Ford in a Ford award, presented by Ford Racing Performance Parts. This year the individual award winners will receive a custom jacket and a pair of FRPP valve covers.
Taking home the honors at the '10 Detroit Autorama is John "Jessie" James, from Racine, Wisconsin, for his brilliant Competition Orange Shadow Rods XL27 highboy roadster. Its debut was a winner for his roadster as it shows off the 351 Windsor crate engine beautifully detailed through the liberal use of paint and brightwork.
Ron Lasker of East Aurora, New York, brought out his 1931 Ford Model A coupe that was just too good to pass up and not take home an Editor's Choice award from Brian Brennan. The five-window has all the elements of a traditional East Coast hot rod with the obligatory deep channel and top chop; look closely and you will see a rollbar peeking out of the top. Aside from the striking use of color and scallop paint, the folding soft top insert is an eye catcher.
The Flathead is fed by a pair of reversed Holley 94 carbs resting between Edelbrock heads. We asked Senior Editor Ron Ceridono about the intake and reversed carbs and he came up with the following information: "It appears to be a Hexagon Tool and Die intake. The advantage of turning the carbs around is they could be moved further forward for better-balanced runner lengths with the generator in the stock position."
Ray Williams of Rhode Island showed up for the Basement festivities with his five-window highboy Deuce coupe. You can never go wrong with a highboy '32 when looking for a hot rod and Williams' coupe gets the job done with the striking use of louvers-everywhere. Other hot rod attire includes hairpin suspension, a dropped axle, and Buick finned drums. We aren't sure how many louvers there are but our first guess is something north of 400 louvers punched into the hood, roof, and decklid. For his efforts he received an Editor's Choice award from STREET RODDER Senior Editor Eric Geisert.
Every year the Detroit Autorama is the place to go and see some of the greatest hot rods ever built. It is also the place to go and see great examples of everyday hot rods-something we can all identify with. It's also great to know that the efforts of everyday hot rodders are rewarded.
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We just had to show this popular (in its time) "Fatman" steering wheel that popped out of the way allowing economy sized individuals to slip behind the wheel of their Model T.Ron Lasker (left) of East Aurora, New York, took home STREET RODDER Brian Brennan's Editor's Choice award for his Model A, which is handed out to a hot rod from the Basement.The Model A is all early hot rod in appearance and components as it sits chopped (Darryl Stahura) and channeled over its frame. Of particular interest is the retractable soft roof insert.A '49-53 8BA Flathead plus Edelbrock heads and Holley 94 carbs reverse mounted on what looks like a Hexagon Tool and Die intake; Darryl Stahura gets the nod for the side exit exhaust and Holley 94 carbs.The five-window features a nifty two-tone paint accented by its scallop presentation aptly handled by Jay Taylor and Ray Giester. They also get credit for the bodywork.Tom King, Roger Atwood, and Stretch from the Detroit Poor Boys invested lots of time, effort, and creativity to produce this and many other Basement trophies.Can you say channeled?! The body is channeled over the frame but the floorboard is also recessed allowing driver/passenger to sit between the 'rails and maintain some stimulus of comfort, thanks to the efforts of Rick and Brian of Upholstery Unlimited and Joe of Z-Best Upholstery.Hiding underhood is a '74 Pontiac 455 topped with '58 Rochester fuel injection, producing 500 hp and torque. The hardtop was removed and restyled as a Carson-esque top; A-pillars were chopped 4 inches and laid back 5 degrees. The hood was nosed and made into a single piece, filled cowl vent, and rear fenders extended, lowered, and re-contoured.
The wheels are the coveted eight-lug from a '62 Pontiac. The front suspension is based on a Fatman's stub with power steering and disc brakes. Oh yes, Mike is presenting Tony Feil with the A-Brothers award.STREET RODDER's senior editor was on hand this year to hand out his first Basement award to Ray Williams of Rhode Island for his '32 Ford highboy coupe.Dirt track rear tires, military-esque wheels, loads of louvers, hairpin suspension, Buick finned brake drums, and, of course, the obligatory top chop make this five-window a winner before taking home the honors.


text: Hey guys, I'm new to the forum but have been reading it for a while, some great info here. I drew my first Colorado mule deer tag this year for unit 55 second rifle in the gunnison basin. Just got back from a week long vacation/scouting trip in the area and found some good bucks above timberline. does anyone have any advice on where to start looking for them in October? I've hunted the unit for elk in the third season for elk twice ('08 and '10) and have seen the deer are generally down lower by then. Not looking for specific area as much as insight into what types of terrain/habitat the deer are in that time of year. (probably anywhere they can dodge the elk hunters?) thanks in advance for any advice!


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Tallahassee, FL- Jacob Grozier says he has spent the past three Thanksgivings working and he is not alone. According to a new survey by CareerBuilder, one in five workers in the U.S. planned to spend their Thanksgiving with co-workers in exchange for family time.
The survey showed the lesiure and hospitality industry had the most workers on the clock Thursday with 44%, followed by retail and health care with 31%. Transportation and information technology rounded out the list.
"It's a little depressing, especially being this far away from my family. Obviously I'm a student up here, so not being able to go home got to me a little this morning, so it was a little depressing," said Grozier, an employee at Hotel Duval in Tallahassee.
Some employees say they don't mind putting in the time.
"I mean at least you're making money, that's just how I look at it, you know," explained Humzah Mohyuddin, an employee at Dairy Queen. "I mean there's some holidays I'd like to spend at home, but some of them, like Thanksgiving, we'll probably just eat tonight."
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The survey also showed 90% of workers would rather spend Thanksgiving at home with their families, 2% said with their co-workers and the rest said neither.
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Dave Grohl and members of the Sound City Players performed on Late Show With David Letterman last week after the ensemble played in New York City. Joining Grohl on the program was Stevie Nicks, who sang the song "You Can't Fix This" from Grohl's new documentary Sound City. Grohl also spoke with Letterman about the film, which tells the story of the famed Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California where Nirvana's Nevermind and many other rock classics were recorded. He recalled, "We walked in, and it was a dump . . . a terrible place. But if you put the drums in this spot in the big room and hit 'record,' it sounded like 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.'"
Grohl directed the film and interviewed dozens of musicians who recorded at Sound City, including Nicks, Neil Young, Lars Ulrich of Metallica, Rick Springfield, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor and many more. We asked him if any artists actually turned him down.


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ATLANTA -- Atlanta Police have launched a new investigation into the infamous House of Prayer.
It comes amid brand new allegations of physical and sexual abuse of children.
So 72 hours after such disturbing accusations, we can't help but wonder - what is happening to those children inside the church?
We contacted APD Monday and they wouldn't comment.
Meanwhile, the church's leader, a convicted child abuser himself, remains defiant.
Pastor Arthur Allen, did agree to talk with 11Alive's DeMarco Morgan.
Allen's been the pastor here at House of Prayer, for half a century.
But it was back in 2001 that Allen made national headlines when more than 40 children were removed from his church by the state for accusations of abuse.
In the end, Allen and another church member would be arrested and charged with cruelty to children for the beating of two young boys. Allen served 2 years in prison.
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The Manager in Training will learn the essential tools necessary to succeed in the role of Store Manager. This position will learn the following: Operational Management, sales initiatives, report maintenance, product merchandising and human resources. This position will require flexibility to travel (commute) within the region to different locations. The ability to relocate is a definite asset.
The Manager in Training will be responsible for learning all aspects of the Store Manager position which includes:
Customer Service
•Effectively execute the sales plan to achieve maximum sales and increased customer base – plan and implement sales promotions
•Promote TSC within the community by participating in local/regional trade shows, community events and support for various local charities.
•Establish and maintain effective inventory control, includes: supervision of ordering and merchandise handling
•Ensure that all merchandise is properly displayed and priced and that all shelves are refilled regularly from backroom stock.
Employee Relations
•Work with Human Resources to develop and maintain a competent store organization through hiring, training, performance appraisals, constructive discipline and problem resolution
•Promote a strong, cohesive team and encourage staff suggestions and ideas.
•Maintain proper staff communications and encourage staff development and understanding of store operations.
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•Comply with all Health and Safety Legislation and internal TSC policies to insure that physical and health hazards are eliminated.
•Ensure that employees are trained in proper work practices and follow TSC health and safety policies and procedures.
•Report all accidents and near misses to the Human Resources Department.
•Ensure that all sales and receipts are properly recorded and that a daily deposit is prepared and taken to the bank each business day.
•Maintain all required records and reports as required for accounting, auditing, and management purposes.
•Comply with all corporate policies and procedures as documented in the TSC Operations Policy and Procedures Manual. Ensure compliance and understanding of staff.
•Monitor and control all relevant store expenses including payroll.
•Ensure that store security systems are always in proper working order to minimize loss
•Provide feedback and regular communications to the District Manager and senior management to promote growth and profitability for TSC Stores.
Financial and Inventory Management
•Responsible for the profitable operation of the store, through cost control, loss prevention, inventory control and return on investment to accepted company standards.
•2 years retail experience in a management or supervisory capacity.
•Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
•Demonstrated leadership and motivational ability.
•Solid organizational skills and proven ability to handle multiple priorities.
•Focused on enhancing a team environment and customer service orientated.
•Strong problem solving and conflict resolution skills
•Flexible schedule that is able to change with operational demands.
•Strong computer skills (POS, MS Office, Outlook).
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I'm really conflicted on which unit to apply for this year. Myself and a buddy are looking to do the January archery deer hunt. We don't need to kill monsters, anything around or above P&Y mins would be great. Really mostly looking for good opportunity, if we were trophy hunting we would be not be looking in any of these units.
I'm looking at 34, 36, 37 and wondering about 32 and 30. Here's what I can ascertain so far.
34 has a lot of public land. It can be rough and has some high mountains, but the elevation change within the unit means you are going to have to move around a bunch depending on snow fall amounts. The downside is they issue 800 tags for this unit! This means there could be a bunch of competition in the woods to find deer. There are also a lot of deer near town, but they probably don't venture far enough to get ventilated.
36 less public, state issues 300 tags. Both 34 and 36 border the Mescalero indian reservation. Less tags, less public land less people, still can be rough terrain.
37 has not much public land and only 200 tags. The advantage here is you have smaller isolated mountain ranges, so you can work a variety of elevations on the same mountain. Possible all the deer will be off public and on private.
These late hunts are around the time of the rut, so if you find does, you should be able to find bucks if the timing works out.
32 and 30 both are lower, flatter desert country. Both will have scattered deer that may be tough to locate.
Anyone late season archery hunted these units? What advantages/disadvantages?


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I've been trying to come up with a way to easily identify the bugs that are known to exist in a given version of Zimbra, and so far I haven't found any good solutions.
E.g. if I search bugzilla for open bugs by that version, I'll miss bugs that were found in earlier versions and not yet fixed. If I look in pm.zimbra.com for (open issues in the major release + issues that are resolved in later versions) I'll be including any regressions that were introduced in later versions and not yet fixed.
The fact that some bugs are found pre-release and then fixed in the same version (sometimes via a post-release patch) also complicates things.
Any suggestions? Otherwise I'll put in an RFE. E.g. if someone running ZCS 5 needs if they should upgrade to ZCS 6.0.5, 6.0.6, or wait for 6.0.7, they need this info.


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Labor unions, public and private, have been as loyal as any faction of the Democratic Party; so it seemed a good omen for future repeal or de-funding when the Obamacare-supporting AFL-CIO lost 40,000 ILWU members over that support. But then we discover that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union are only upset that the Affordable Care Act doesn't grant their particular union a tax-waiver and | Read More »


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Arkansas antievolution legislation dies
According to the March 17, 2005, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, House Bill 2607 died in committee. The bill, introduced by first-term legislator Mike Martin (R-District 87), would have required the state Department of Education to include "intelligent design" in its educational frameworks and also encouraged teachers in the state to include it in their lesson plans.
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The htaccess Rules for all WordPress Permalinks
Update 2012/07/15 all code updated with the new .htaccess rules (changed in WP 3.0). The code in this article should work with all versions of WordPress.
I recently performed a series of tests on a fresh installation of WordPress 2.8.6 to determine the exact htaccess rewrite rules that WordPress writes to its htaccess file for various permalink configurations. Under the WP admin option menu, WordPress lists four choices for permalink structure:
- Default:
- Date and name based:
- Numeric:
- Custom:
The "default" option is to not use permalinks. The "date and name based" setting invokes the
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ rule pattern. The "numeric" setting invokes the
/index.php/archives/%post_id% rule pattern. And the "custom" setting invokes whatever pattern is specifically chosen. For our "custom" option, we chose the
/%category%/%author%/%postname%/ pattern.
For the test, we began with the common "date and name based" permalink configuration. Then, after invoking the chosen permalink structure, the htaccess file was downloaded and the new WP rules were recorded. After this, the admin permalink settings were switched back to the "default" configuration. Finally, we deleted the new rules and uploaded the htaccess file. This process was diligently repeated for each different permalink configuration. It should also be noted that blog performance was checked during each round of testing.
The results indicate conclusively that WordPress uses the exact same set of htaccess rules for all permalink configurations. Surely this information is available elsewhere on the internet, however we were experiencing several inconsistencies related to permalink structure that inspired us to determine for ourselves the precise htaccess rules for WordPress permalinks.
Without further ado, the htaccess rules for all WordPress permalinks1 are precisely either #1 or #2:
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# BEGIN WordPress
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
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# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /foo/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
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|'Wholly' moly! February is whole grains month
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Students at Holyoke Elementary School got a lesson in whole grains Tuesday, Feb. 19, with kitchen manager Maggie Busch explaining all the great nutritional benefits of whole grains and whole wheat. She said that was their focus for the month of February, while other months focus on foods like squash, citrus foods, legumes and berries.
Along with the lesson, kindergartners got to dig in and learn about the focus food by making whole grain bagel pizzas for their afternoon snack. Michel Vega Juarez, Vanessa Vega and Evan Vigil, pictured above, have fun assembling their mini pizzas. Pictured below, Fatima Castillo is excited for her healthy bagel snack, and Maggie Busch, at bottom, picks up the pizzas, ready to be popped in the oven.
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Follow the Skyby Bianca Green
Choose from a variety of frame styles, colors and sizes to compliment your favorite Society6 gallery, or fine art print - made ready to hang. Fine-crafted from solid woods, premium shatterproof acrylic protects the face of the art print, while an acid free dust cover on the back provides a custom finish. All framed art prints include wall hanging hardware.
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Thank u Ingz & Beth! Yeah, the zig zag can dance if you let it :D
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I thought of almost the same thing when I looked at this ;)
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Thx so much Angela, Anna, Gotman, Nick & Lisa!! So glad y'all like this!
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This is really cool Bianca! It's making my eyes go funny but it's really nice! Simple and effective!
Haha, thx Mat! I know it does something to you, especially when you move it :D
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Hi Bianca, just saw this iPhone case on Glamour magazine January 2013...just wanted to let you know :-)
Oh, that is so cool! Do you happen to have the magazine and could scan the page in for me? That would be so fab! Or just let me know in what country this was released and I will try to get a glimpse ;) Thx so much for letting me know Yasmina!
Hi Bianca, sorry, I missed your answer, of course I can scan this for you. I will do that today and send it to this email address. contact: firstname.lastname@example.com this the correct email address?
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Have a great day:-)
no worries! Yes, that's my email, that would be sooo great! Thx so much Yasmina! You have a great day too ;)
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CAMP SPRINGS, Md. (WUSA) -- Prince George's County Fire Department Spokesperson Mark Brady says a commercial double-wide trailer in Camp Springs that caught fire was used by Metro maintenance staff.
Firefighters responded to the trailer in the 4300 block of Auth Place on Thursday at approximately 12:15 p.m. Fire was showing through the roof when firefighters arrived at the trailer, according to Brady.
No one was in the office at the time and no one was injured in the fire.
Firefighters extinguished the fire in about 15 minutes, says Brady.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Officials say the preliminary fire loss is estimated at $25,000.


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Actor Jeff Bridges has reprised his classic movie character "The Dude" from "The Big Lebowski" for a new advertisement promoting the stoner icon's favorite cocktail.
The Kahlua commercial pays tribute to the vodka-based drink the White Russian, which Bridges, as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, famously slurped throughout the 1998 cult comedy, and the Oscar-winner insists he was more than happy to revisit "The Dude" and take part in the shoot.
He tells People.com, "As a short film entirely inspired by a simple classic cocktail, this story is creative, enigmatic and beautifully shot."
The White Russian ad, directed by Ivan Zacharias, follows "the unlikely meeting of two men from different worlds, as told by a man reminiscing about his past adventures".


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"If we reduce the execution clocks in these successful processors by a half, reduce the cache sizes by four or eight times, eliminate the L3 cache completely, reduce instruction execution width to one, remove any branch prediction, can we expect spectacular server consolidation performance with these nearly chocked processors? Not a chance! This characterizes the SPARC T processor. To be fair, there are applications that lends themselves to a processor that switches available thin thread contexts on L1 cache misses, but those are generally associated with applications such as specific web farms and functions such the UNIX dd command."
Sun-cum-Oracle predicated their SPARC T1-T3 Chip Multi Threading (CMT) architecture on a wishful perception of the modern commercial work load. From 2005 to more or less a couple of weeks ago (Hot Chips 23), they claimed modern data center applications as having: (verbatim)
A high-degree of thread level parallelism (TLP)
Large working data sets resulting in poor locality of reference leading to high cache miss rates
Significant data sharing among threads resulting in coherence misses
Low instruction level parallelism (ILP) due to high cache miss rates, difficult to predict branches etc...
Performance bottle necks due to stalls on memory access
Addressing these perceptions defined the architecture of Sun's family of CMT SPARC T1 to T3 processors. These processors were characterized by poor, single "thin" thread performance, yet rather excelled in copying and moving data. The cores were very simple with a handful of stages. Sun claimed single thread, ILP-centric, high clocked processors did not address the demands of the modern data center, for performance was limited by memory access latencies. Sun essentially covered up memory latency by switching to another available thread at a cache miss.
At Hot Chips 23, August 19, 2011 (Stanford University), Oracle took the covers off the next generation of "CMT" SPARC processors. The SPARC T4 has a "feature" called the critical thread API, allowing a single thread to use all the resources of an entire core. Sound familiar? Yes, it's called maximizing the execution of a single ILP-rich thread, and it will do this at clocks around 3GHz. Each core is now a superscalar with 16-stage integer and 11-stage floating point pipelines – and does so with the addition of an L3 cache!
One should wonder what was going on with Sun-cum-Oracle's 6 years of telling the world single threaded, thick ILP, high clock speed processor designers were confronting a technological barrier. What other stories does Oracle want us to believe now? Now that the SPARC has been reset to address real world data center applications, it will have to play catchup with IBM, Intel, and AMD who, for some reason, never had such a technological barrier to overcome!