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John catches some rays as the fog breaks, between Avalon and San Diego.
10/22/2008, San Diego
October 20: We left Santa Barbara and headed down to Catalina Island, the night sky was just gorgeous! By night time, we arrived at Catalina Island. We could see plankton glowing in the water as we headed into the anchorage. As we lit the water with our powerful flashlight we could see the bottom.
The next morning, my brother and I got in our wet suits, put on our fins, got our boogie boards out, and swam all the way to shore. We played on the beach for a while, the, John and my mom came to shore in the dinghy to do a little shopping. After a little while, we went back to the boat. We stayed one night there. The next day, we sailed to the other side of the island.
Having arrived at Two Harbors, Catalina Island, we took a mooring in the harbor. The water is so clear, you can easily see the bottom.
The day was dedicated to getting to the bottom of projects/problems, and there have been many. In addition to the autopilot that has given up the ghost, the new Raymarine E80 display I installed has taken up the disconcerting habit of going black, at random intervals, for about a second. This was the only used piece of equipment I bought for the boat; that turned out to be a bad decision. Now I have to get a new one rather than take a chance of losing all our radar/chartplotter capability while in Mexico.
I did some tests on the autopilot, connecting the motor drive to 12v DC to see if it moves. It does, which proves the motor is good but the "course computer" electronics are burned out. In talking with Raymarine, it turns out the autopilot we have is undersized for the weight of the boat (26,000 lbs / 12,000 kg). So to just replace the electronics is out of the question. I have to upgrade the entire autopilot to something that is rated to handle this size of a boat.
This is very expensive, of course. I try not to think about the dollars involved.
I ordered new autopilot components and a new E80 charplotter/radar display from a dealer in San Diego. These will be ready for us when we arrive.
There were other obstacles to overcome today. The outboard motor wouldn't start. It turns out the cylinders and carburetor were filled with engine oil because I had laid it horizontally on the wrong side (not knowing there WAS a wrong side, silly me). A nice mechanic came out to the boat and fixed everything up for a mere $30 labor charge. That was the best $30 I ever spent.
Then it came time to make dinner. However the propane wouldn't turn on. We have a Xintex propane sniffer, and to make a long story short, the poor machine is confused. It thinks there's a second sensor connected where one isn't. I was able to modify the way the thing is wired so we could get dinner cooked.
One would think this was enough trouble for one day. But John took a shower in the aft head, and lo and behold, the sump pump for the aft shower no longer pumps water. So I have to either figure out why that pump isn't working or replace the damn thing with a new pump. I think I'll get a new self priming bilge pump in
San Diego, to carry along, even if I can get this pump working again.
I wonder, how boat owners who aren't technically inclined, manage to get through these technical challenges. I think the answer is, you have to be able to fix this stuff yourself in order to be a cruiser. Otherwise you would be helpless.
I talked to Raymarine and they say that it is a graphics drive that is having a problem. It will require sending the unit it to them for repair.
View of Avalon casino from the deck of Calou
Bruce installs a rebuild kit for the aft head while en route to Catalina Island. One of the sailor's favorite tasks!
After we left Monterey we headed towards Santa Barbara. It was a two day sail down. On the first day, we saw bottle nosed dolphins fly past us. On the second day, we saw humpback whales constantly rise out of the water. Hours later, we finally arrived at Santa Barbara at night. We then stayed another night.
You write so well Antoine! :o)
- Antoine
10/20/2008, Two Harbors
We left Santa Barbara at 7 a.m. this morning with the sunrise.
To our dismay we found that the autopilot was no longer working. I did some checking, looking for obvious things like loose wires, with no luck. My assessment is that the autopilot motor is burned out. I think this will be an easy, albeit expensive, item to replace once we get to San Diego.
So, we had to hand steer for our 14 hour passage to Catalina Island, arriving here at 9 PM. We took turns steering in 2 hour shifts, the four of us (Bruce, Pascale, John, and Francois), so it wasn't too bad. We'll have to hand steer from Catalina to San Diego as well.
While we were underway I did some projects. First was to rebuild the aft head. I removed the pump and did the installation of the rebuild kit in the cockpit, much to the amusement of everyone else.
Then I completed the wiring for the masthead video camera. The camera has a view of the bow pulpit and the water immediately in front of the boat. I'm sure this'll come in handy sometime.
Photo of crew at Santa Barbara


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The Jo Daviess County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of two antique tractors. On or about November 2, 2012, unknown person(s) stole two antique John Deere tractors from along the road side on North Scout Camp Road, just north of East Lake Road #3, rural Apple River, Jo Daviess County, Illinois.
The tractors are described as John Deere, circa 1949, Model A, green in color with yellow wheels, and rubber tires in rough condition. Authorities believe that someone using a black pickup truck with a black framed flat bed trailer may have committed the theft. A steel tub containing log chains and chain falls was also taken.
Anyone with information pertaining to this investigation is encouraged to contact Dubuque/Jo Daviess Crime Stoppers at 800-747-0117, or the Jo Daviess County Sheriff's Office at (815) 777-2141. Persons providing information that leads to an arrest or recovery of property may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000.00. Potential callers are reminded that they may remain anonymous.
APPLE RIVER, Ill. (AP) -- Police in rural northwestern Illinois are looking for suspects in the thefts of two antique John Deere tractors taken from a roadside north of Apple River.
The Jo Daviess County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that the tractors were taken last week. The Model A tractors dated to 1949 and were green with yellow wheels and rubber tires. Authorities say they think someone with a black pickup truck and a black-framed bed trailer may be responsible. A steel tub filled with chains also was taken.
The sheriff's office says anyone providing information that leads to an arrest could be eligible for a reward.


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Editor's Summary
For Thom Haller, an icy spinout in a new truck and frustration with a user manual raised the issue of perceptual affordance, design based on the perceived needs of a user. An object's design ideally serves its user, being visible and clearcut to avoid error, yet design snafus abound. The vehicle manual's verbal references to four-wheel drive were circuitous and uncertain, and the illustration was no more helpful. Both failed to provide a direct answer to the user's question about how to enable four-wheel drive or meet reasonable expectations for guidance. For information architects, usability is primary, delivered through sensible and logical placement of information and understandable terminology. Our job is to make the complex clear, and the need is everywhere.
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Bulletin, February/March 2013
IA Column
Slip-Sliding Away: Real World Challenges Await Us
by Thom Haller, Associate Editor for Information Architecture
In December, I was traveling on a one-lane road that borders a creek when I hit a patch of ice. As the rear wheels lost traction, the back of the vehicle began to skid toward the creek. I envisioned spinning out of control, gulped as I assessed the riverbank and cursed the manufacturer of my vehicle my new (used) four-wheel drive truck.
You may wonder why a truck owner was spinning on ice. A 4x4 truck is designed to power all four wheels, which provides better control. But I couldnt find a way to switch into a different gear. So as I fought embarrassment, I silently cursed the truck manufacturer, asking, Why is there no perceptual affordance?
I first learned about affordances when I read Donald Normans seminal text, The Design of Everyday Things. (I actually have an early edition entitled The Psychology of Everyday Things.)
In the book, Norman describes design based on the needs of the user, rather than focusing on preference and aesthetics. He describes the structure of tasks, how designers can make choices visible and how we can design for error by depending, in part, on what we can see or expect to see as we perform our tasks.
I am often thwarted by a lack of perceptual affordances. I will routinely pull on doors that must be pushed. Ill plug in a USB device with about 50 percent accuracy. These design snafus bug me but they are hardly as threatening as careening into a creek because you cannot find the controls.
I suspect I should have studied my vehicle guide to learn the location of the controls for my 4x4 options. But I expected the 4x4 gears to be an option close to other transmission choices.
Where were the controls? I had no idea. I turned to the manual for help, finding Four-Wheel Drive Operation in a section called Starting and Operating.
The NV233/243 is an electric shift transfer case and is operated by the 4WD Control Switch (Transfer Case Switch), which is located on the instrument panel.
How I wondered, does this content help me understand how to operate my truck? I felt thwarted. Would most readers be familiar with an electric shift transfer case? I wasnt I dont know what it is, what it does, what it looks like or where to find it. I needed a picture of the instrument panel. The manual provided no cross-reference, so I turned to the table of contents, found a section called instrument panel and controls and looked for an image (Figure 1) on which I might find the control I had not found while driving.
Figure 1. And I push what button?
Can you find the hidden control knob? If you look closely, youll see it underneath the climate controls. The illustration identifies the part as a transfer case switch.
Notice the communication challenges I faced. If I had read the manual before operating the vehicle, I would have found an illustration that pointed out transfer control switch but provided no other information. The manual did not link the content on what something is to content on how to use it. And to use my four-wheel drive, I first had to find a switch that, because of its location on the dashboard, did not fit my expectations nor was it easy to see from the drivers seat.
As humans, we encounter information and try to gain knowledge across channels. To drive my vehicle, I relied on my own expectations of where I might find certain controls. When that failed me, I turned to printed content. I shifted from relying on the architecture in the physical world to the architecture in the printed world. My task remained the same: Use 4x4 feature on truck.
My experience affects my perception of the truck manufacturer as well. Although I stayed on the road, the incident made me feel embarrassed and grumpy. Pouring through a manual that barely answered my questions further hampered my customer experience.
How can we keep customer experiences from slip-sliding away?
As information architects, we work in a profession where we strive to improve the customer experience by making the complex clear. Through our work we can influence product development and ask questions such as, Does the placement of this control make sense? We can influence content, asking questions such as, Am I using terminology my readers understand?
Our work as information architects and user experience professionals puts us at the forefront for helping people understand and act. If we hope to make the complex clear, weve got a lot of work to do.
Copyright 2005 DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Thom Haller teacher, speaker, writer and user advocate teaches principles of performance-based information architecture and usability. Thom volunteers time supporting advocates of plain language. He can be reached via email at thom<at>thomhaller.com
Articles in this Issue
Third ASIS&T Student Design Competition: The "Truthiness Challenge"
ASIS&T Online Education Initiatives: Driving the Future
James Cretsos Leadership Award: What ASIS&T Means to Me
SIG/SI 8th Annual Research Symposium a Success!
The 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: A Report
The History of ASIS&T and Information Science and Technology
Evolving and Emerging Research Methods: 2012 ASIS&T SIG/USE Symposium
From Vision to Reality: The Emerging Information Professional
Edward Chang: Mobile Opportunities
Award of Merit Acceptance Speech
A Career in Information Retrieval Research
IA: Slip-Sliding Away: Real World Challenges Await Us
RDAP Review: Looking Out For the Little Guy: Small Data Curation


text: By Shari FriedelTribune Staff Perkins County children who may not otherwise have a joyful Christmas can be assured of a special holiday through the annual "Angel Tree" project, now getting underway. The project is sponsored by the Perkins County Ministerial Association and organized by volunteers from various churches.How It Works Letters to parents/caregivers in the county are being sent home with the students in Perkins County Schools. The letter seeks information on each child and what their gift request might be, including name, age, gender and gift request. Letters will also be available at any church, The Grant Tribune-Sentinel office, Hatch's Super Foods, the Perkins County Food Pantry and the Thrift Shoppe at the senior center. Once information is gathered, request cards will be released to the public through the churches. Children will not be identified by name on the gift request cards. Benefactors may select gifts for the chosen child(ren), or aid the project through a money donation. Gift cards will also be distributed to families to purchase groceries for a special meal during Christmas. Donations may be given to any pastor or dropped off at Pinnacle Bank in Grant. Deadline for Requests Request letters must be completed and returned NO LATER than Friday, Nov. 15. Please mail to: Marlene Pritchett, Box 370, Grant NE 69140.


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|Flag is special touch to vets program
|Written by Kyle Arnoldy
A visibly emotional Susan Ortner took the stage at the HHS annual Veterans Day program Monday, Nov. 11 to accept an American flag and plaque on behalf of Holyoke High School.
Ortner, the Holyoke JR/SR High School principal, was genuinely surprised and touched to find out that the flag which was prominently displayed on a screen behind the speakers throughout the show came from the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron. Her son and HHS class of 2005 graduate, 1st Lt. Steven Ortner, is the maintenance officer for the squadron.
Steve Millage, pictured at left, gives Holyoke JR/SR High Principal Susan Ortner her first look at the plaque that accompanied the large flag presented to the school during Monday's Veterans Day program.
Program emcee and Vietnam veteran Steve Millage revealed that the 10-by-20-foot American flag, which is hanging in the HHS gym, had been flown over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The flag traveled on a United States Air Force Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopter and was flown on Aug. 13, Steven's 27th birthday.
Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopters were used from May 21-Aug. 3 for a search and rescue mission, which resulted in 22 lives being saved, 113 medical evacuation assists, three heroes returning with honor and two enemy prisoner war transfers.
Olson details life in the Navy during WWII
World War II veteran Don Olson had a simple, yet powerful message for the students of Holyoke—"You students, you are citizens of the greatest nation on this earth. Honor it, respect it and respect and honor our flag."
In 1944, Olson was one of 32 Phillips County boys who were heading for induction into the military. Out of the group, 29 went into the Army while Olson was one of just three to join the Navy.
After boot camp, Olson entered radar school in Hawaii to study the relatively new subject. To get there, Olson boarded a large vessel in San Francisco, Calif. He reminisced about the bunks stacked four high with narrow passageways and his surprise when several men became seasick the first evening on the ocean.
Olson remembered details as if they happened yesterday. At one point during the six-day trip in the ship, he said, there was a malfunction that allowed diesel fuel to enter the drinking water. Meals on the journey consisted of beans for lunch and rice for supper, he added.
Upon graduating from radar school, Olson was assigned to duty. Part of his responsibility included standing watch with the radar equipment. He noted that the job became especially hazardous when Japan started using kamikaze planes.
If the plane was high enough, Olson said, the radar could pick it up from about 90 miles away, determine the direction of the plane, how high it was and how fast it was traveling. Planes from that distance were taken care of by airplanes from American aircraft carriers.
The real threat was the planes that came in low. Radar sometimes would not spot the planes until they were 25-30 miles away. With them coming in at 300 miles per hour, Olson stated that there was little time to prepare, but the guns on board were good shots. Once a place was within five miles, American troops had roughly one minute to get the plane down before being hit.
On Aug. 6, 1945, President Harry Truman announced that the atomic bomb had been dropped on Japan. Olson stated that he has always believed that the choice to drop the atomic bomb saved many American lives, including his own.
Don Olson shares his story of his time in the Navy in the 1940s with those attending the annual Veterans Day program at Holyoke High School.
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VOD speeches provide optimism
Four students shared their Voice of Democracy speeches during Monday's program. This year's theme was "Why should today's youth be optimistic about the nation's future?"
Winners in this year's contest include Holyoke seniors Meg Strauss, first; Jacob Vasa, second; and Zach Roll, third; and Fleming High School junior Deborah Kurtzer, fourth. Winning speeches can be found elsewhere in this week's paper.
The program marked the second straight year that first-hand accounts of war by local veterans were included.
Millage encouraged students to get involved with Boys State and Girls State. He noted that the sessions offer students a unique opportunity to learn about the government, listen to intriguing speakers and have a good, fun time with others kids from across the state.
The HHS select choir began the program by singing the national anthem, the high school band performed "Armed Forces on Parade" and the HJHS choir sang "For the Good of the Many." Jack Wieland brought the ceremony to a close with his performance of taps.
Holyoke Enterprise November 14, 2013


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CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois congressmen are reacting with relief to an announcement by the U.S. Department of Transportation that control towers at five small airports in the state will remain open.
Friday's announcement means towers stay open at St. Louis Regional Airport, Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington-Normal, Decatur Airport, Southern Illinois Airport serving Carbondale and Murphysboro, and Waukegan Regional Airport
The control towers had been slated to close June 15 as the result of automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress.
They will now remain open at least through Sept. 30, the end of the federal budget year.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat, says closing the towers would have "at minimum, slowed down flights" to the airports. U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, a Republican, also praised the Federal Aviation Administration's decision.
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I've been trying to get Zimbra mobile working on my Samsung Blackjack (SGH-i607). There seems to be very little documentation on Zimbra mobile - i've checked the docs URL and the Wiki.
I have confirmed that my hosted account *is* configured for Zimbra Mobile.
It seems like it should be VERY simple - there are very few parameters to enter. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Here is what I'm setting up:
1. Server Address: <zimbra.voxel.net>
2. This server requires an encrypted (SSL) connection: <checked>
3. User Name: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
4. Password: <same as my webmail login>
5. Domain: <zenoss.com>
6. Choose the folders to synchronize: <all checked>
When I choose Send/Receive my phone shows "synchronizing folders", then *briefly* shows "error synchronizing", then takes me back to my empty inbox.
There are no other parameters to set than the ones above - what the heck am I doing wrong?


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Hello everyone!
This map is actually a piece of the larger, world map I came up with first (because I needed climate zones). If you like, you can see the full world map here. To make this map, I basically copied and pasted a section of the world map into a new document. (If you're wondering, it's the easternmost continent's southern hemispherical section, the bit with the peninsula)
Scale is about 1224 km by 932 km
As you can tell, it's really, really rough. So far I have the mountains, hills, and a few rivers figured out (i'll probably add more water bodies later). The varying shades of green denote what kind of climate it is... olive green is the mediterranean, dark green is forest (climate is apparently like Britain), darkest green is the coniferous forest... I'm 90% certain that as it's the taiga climate zone, it's not that green, but currently I just blocked out the climates. White, as you can probably infer, are the ice caps/tundra. To the other side of the mountains I have the coniferous forests (light green) and deciduous forests/grassland (darker olive green).
Now I've got two problems: Are these rivers realistic? I've been reading the tutorials, but I'm still not entirely sure.
What sort of climate can I expect as I go up the face of the mountains? Would it be mediterranean all the way, or would it change to coniferous forests? I'm stumped, but I'll keep looking around at resources.
Thanks for any tips and tricks you guys can offer!
I'm impressed that you started with climate zones, that sort of ground-work can really help your world take shape. I'm not an expert, but I'd guess climate changes up and over your mountains would be very dependent on how high (and how old) the mountains are. Based on what you've provided they look tall and craggy. Did you hand-draw all the mountains? This is looking good, I'm hoping to see more soon.
I have The Planet Construction Kit and since I wasn't sure where the culture would be placed to begin with (I wanted a temperate zone), I just started with the world map, and then, because I'm trying to be realistic, did the climate zones. It's simpler, to my mind, to have them than to not have them, if that makes sense.
The mountains on this particular continent are either not high enough to provide a rainshadow, or the winds are being weird. I'm not sure. At any rate, based on my interpretation of the PCK's semi-detailed instructions, the climate zones are correct enough to make me happy.
I did hand-draw the mountains... first I tried doing some sort of satellite thing (that didn't work, it felt messy, probably because I didn't seek out a tutorial to do it efficiently), then I tried creating a mountain brush, only to realize I didn't like it enough to keep. So, hand-drawn mountains.
Those look like some incredibly steep mountains! Perhaps you mean for them to just be icons representing mountains (in that case it'd be fine), but as they are, it looks sort of strange. You'd think mountains would almost always be wider than they are tall.
The climate-zones make sense, because of the mountains causing rainfall on one side, so nice job on that.
The best maps are the ones we like the most after looking at the longest.
To answer an earlier question: your rivers look alright. None go through mountains or anything :p When in doubt it never hurts to check nature's examples Keep in mind by the time they get to a mountain slope they are significantly reduced in size. Overall I like the direction your map has and that you have considered climate and rain shielding! Consider widening your mountains. If it is in photoshop take the layer and use the transform tool to widen them (ctrl t). That said mountains can definitely have very sheer and steep slopes like the matterhorn for example.
I widened the mountains as Viking and foremost suggested (and I think it looks a lot better this way, so thank you!) Also drew the hills using this great tutorial. Added some rivers (i'll add more later)-- since the mountain range has changed from the first version I decided to redo the rivers. Their style may change, but I think that these, at least, will stay where they are, though I will probably add some more tributary rivers to them.
As always, please let me know what I can fix or do better!
The hills and mountains look very good! I noticed that the coast is really... blocky. Are you able to smooth it out easily? This is an enlarged section of a bigger map, right? Keep it going, this is going to be great.
Thanks! I see what you mean by blocky, but what do you mean by smoothing it out easily? It is an enlarged section of a bigger map. I could always run a noise filter over it and then make the coastline more random and less blocky... I just forgot to do it before. Is that what you meant?
And I shall keep it going, definitely!
The coastline looks too pixellated as it is for now in my opinuon and you want to set mountains and hills at the same opacity/style to make it consistent on your map


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Comparative Constitutional Law (3910)
This course explores selected topics in comparative constitutional law. It begins with an overview of the methodologies and goals of comparative constitutional study. It then examines the establishment of constitutional regimes and the development of different forms of governmental structures and systems of constitutional review. Against this background, the course explores constitutional protections of human rights, including the rights of women and minority groups, religious liberty, freedom of expression and association, and economic, social, and cultural rights. Reading materials will include cases from constitutional courts in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas as well as a variety of scholarly commentary.
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Police are looking for the suspects responsible for an armed robbery at Walmart, 1251 Centerville Road, Wilmington, that occurred on Nov. 13.
Investigators say the suspects took clothing items from display, and placed the clothing on themselves. They say while the suspects were walking out, the store employee asked them to return to the store. The employee told police that one of the suspects threatened her with a gun; the suspects ran away.
If anyone has information on this case, call Robbery Unit at Troop 2 at (302) 834-2630 ext. 6 or Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) 847-3333 or visit www.tipsubmit.com
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|START Conference Manager
ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting
Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012
Foucault and the Bibliographic Universe: What Really Is an Author?
John M. Budd and Heather Lea Moulaison
Monday, 6:30pm
This poster will present connections that are readily apparent between Michel Foucault's concept of "author" and the "entities" in FRBR. Both Group 1 and Group 2 FRBR Entities have properties that are analogous to Foucault's ideas of authors and the works they produce. Moreover, Foucault addresses important matters concerning the apprehension of the works and how authors (or, as he phrases it, the "author-function") are perceived, both directly and as broader notions. FRBR and the entity attributes designated in FRAD have the potential to realize some of the extension of "work" and "author" introduced by Foucault. This poster will include this possible extension.


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Introducing the NEW iCandy website
We are delighted to launch our new website, and hope you love it as much as we do.
To coincide with our 80th anniversary year, we felt it was timely to update our online image to reflect the evolution of our brand.
We believe in thinking differently; about the creation of a perfect moment and realising your dreams of a pushchair that not only keeps your baby safe and snug, but also reflects your own personal style.
We balance quality, design, performance and luxury in complete harmony through all our products, and believe that this is now reflected on our new website.
As always we welcome your feedback, so please read our story, explore our collections, and most importantly, join our community and become part of the iCandy world!
You may have also noticed that our pushchairs and accessories now feature our new logo but have lost the fruit icon.
Please be reassured if you purchase one of these products that they are completely genuine, and are in fact the very latest designs from the iCandy range.
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Singer Rod Stewart has put his rare Ferrari up for sale for more than $1 million.
The "Maggie May" hitmaker is parting ways with his 1990 F40 model, which will go up for auction in Burbank, California next month by classic car auction company Auctions America.
His sports car has less than 7,900 miles on the clock, is in "excellent condition", and is one of just 1,315 F40s produced from 1987 to 1992.
Organizers believe Stewart's Ferrari could sell for up to $1.3 million.
Last month, Stewart put his Lamborghini Miura sports car up for sale for $1.4 million.


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X-Men: First Class (2011)
X-Men: First Class SynopsisX-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magnetos Brotherhood and Professor Xs X-Men.
X-Men: First Class Release Date
In Theaters June 3, 2011
X-Men: First Class Credits
Starring: James McAvoy (Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Erick Lensherr), Kevin Bacon (Sebastian Shaw), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), January Jones (Emma Frost), Rose Byrne (Dr. Moira MacTaggert), Nicholas Hoult (Hank McCoy), Lucas Till (Alex Summers), Caleb Landry Jones (Banshee),
Written by: Jane Goldman, Ashley Miller, Jamie Moss, Josh Schwartz, Zack Stentz
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Produced by: Gregory Goodman, Simon Kinberg, Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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Everything You Need To Remember Before You See X-Men: Apocalypse
In order to keep up with where our main characters are at the start of X-Men: Apocalypse, were going over the key moments you need to remember from X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past and other movies.
by Adam Holmes May 24, 2016 comments
30 Best Superhero Movies, Ranked
With so many superhero movie entries, both live action and animated, theres more than enough to determine which are the greatest of the bunch. With that in mind, Cinema Blend has put together its definitive list of the 30 best superhero movies ever made.
by Eric Eisenberg, Adam Holmes, Sean O'Connell, Conner Schwerdtfeger May 4, 2016 comments
X-Men Had To Drop An Incredible Fight Scene Featuring Magneto And Professor X
Scenes get cut from films all the time for many reasons. Sometimes the run time needs to be tightened up. Sometimes pacing needs to be changed. And sometimes you wonder just what the hell were they thinking?
by Dirk Libbey November 19, 2015 comments
Hugh Jackman's Favorite Wolverine Scene Is Probably The One You Are Thinking Of
Over the last 16 years Hugh Jackman has portrayed the clawed Canadian X-Man in no less than seven films including two solo outings. With so much experience, and so many great moments, you would think it difficult for Jackman to pinpoint his favorite Wolverine moment of all time you would be wrong.
by Conner Schwerdtfeger October 16, 2015 comments
The X-Men First Class Characters Might Have A Much Different Future Than We Thought
X-Men writer/producer Simon Kinberg recently explained that he sees X-Men: Apocalypse as ending a trilogy that began with First Class, complete the stories of young Mystique, Beast, Magneto and Professor Xavier. These comments naturally had us worried, fearing that these four integral characters would be somehow walking off into the sunset, but fortunately Kinberg has now set the record straight.
by Eric Eisenberg October 6, 2014 comments
Bryan Singer Teases First Class X-Men Artifacts On His Busy Twitter Feed
With this artifact shot, Singers reminding us of the importance of the First Class universe, as well likely spend half of Days of Future Past in that era, where a young(er) Wolverine will have to connect to James McAvoys Charles Xavier so that the mutant leader will not give up on the human race, letting Magneto (Michael Fassbender) triumph.
by Sean O'Connell August 16, 2013 comments
X-Men: First Class Sequel Confirmed As Days Of Future Past
Published over two issues back in 1981, the storyline introduced an alternate future where mutants were under persecution after the assassination of a senator and giant robots called Sentinels were created to hunt down mutants. In order to try and fix the situation, Kitty Pryde mentally travels back in time so that she can warn the X-Men about the future.
by Eric Eisenberg August 1, 2012 comments
X-Men: First Class Sequel Plot Revealed?
Days of Future Past is the title of a two-issue X-Men comics story arc from 1981, and the plot involved, as described by AICN, is basically like Back to the Future Part II. Kitty Pryde is warned by a future version of herself from an alternate timeline that if they don't stop a specific event
by Katey Rich June 5, 2012 comments
X-Men: First Class Sequel Sets Summer 2014 Release Date
X-Men: First Class was one of the more rushed blockbuster productions in recent memory, with Matthew Vaughn signing on as director in May of 2010, just 13 months before the June 2011 release. Miraculously, it actually turned out pretty well, earning strong reviews, a whole lot of money, and of course, the inevitable plans for a sequel
by Katey Rich May 31, 2012 comments
X-Men: First Class Sequel Writer Discusses The Future Of Magneto
You may not know this, but X-Men Origins: Wolverine was not meant to be the only solo spin-off movie for the comic book franchise. For a while Fox was also developing X-Men Origins: Magneto, which would tell the back story of the universe's most famous villains. That project never came to be, of course, but the in-development script was re-appropriated for X-Men: First Class last summer and the growth of Magneto was paralleled with the growth of Charles Xavier.
by Eric Eisenberg February 16, 2012 comments
Matthew Vaughn Confirmed To Direct X-Men: First Class Sequel
Vaughn has suggested in the past that he might want to kick off the movie with the Kennedy assassination, meaning we're in for another period film, so now we'll see if he can stick with any of those promises. It will be his first time working with Kinberg, but the guy has plenty of strong credits to his name, including the first Sherlock Holmes
by Katey Rich January 30, 2012 comments
The 10 Best Movie Music Moments Of 2011
Much like 2010, this year was packed with not only amazing soundtracks, but also movies that knew how to use songs to perfect effect. From the synth sounds in Drive to the insanely happy tunes in The Muppets, this year in music moments made audiences feel unending joy and devastating sadness, but it all made for great times at the cinema.
by Eric Eisenberg December 23, 2011 comments
X-Men: First Class Sequel Hires Simon Kinberg To Write The Script
All signs are pointing to Thor, Captain America and Green Lantern getting sequels, but if there's any superhero movie from 2011 that actually truly deserves a sequel it's X-Men: First Class. Going a different direction than the other films in the franchise, the movie was a ridiculously cool period piece featuring awesome performances, particularly from Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.
by Eric Eisenberg November 3, 2011 comments
Interview: Donner On R-Rated Deadpool And Delayed Japanese Wolverine
The X-Men franchise has seen many different directors, writers, and actors, but one name that has been attached to all of them is producer Lauren Shuler Donner. Ever since 2000, when Bryan Singer first brought the uncanny heroes to the big screen, Donner has been behind the scenes making it all work and in the case of X-Men: First Class, she helped the project hit it out of the park.
by Eric Eisenberg September 7, 2011 comments
Watch Jennifer Lawrence's Arduous, Naked Makeup Process For X-Men: First Class
I don't entirely believe Lawrence when she says the atmosphere in the makeup room is like a slumber party-- that's a hell of a lot of work, and they all know it-- but she's very good at putting a positive spin on what must have been an arduous process
by Katey Rich August 30, 2011 comments
Michael Fassbender Wears A Dress In First Deleted Scene From X-Men: First Class
I am an absolute sucker for special features on Blu-rays and DVDs, but one thing I've never cared too much about is deleted scenes. While there is the occasional gem - I still can't figure out why J.J. Abrams cut the Klingons out of Star Trek - most of the scenes are fairly pointless and were left out of the final cut for a reason (it's why I'm not a big fan of studio-created "extended editions" either).
by Eric Eisenberg August 24, 2011 comments
Bryan Cranston Turned Down X-Men: First Class For His Role In Drive
Cranston does have previous directing credits, including multiple episodes of both Breaking Bad and Malcolm in the Middle, but the new project will be the first feature he has written and directed since his film Last Chance in 1999. As for turning down X-Men, he didnt specify what the role was, so thats open for speculation.
by Eric Eisenberg August 12, 2011 comments
Weekend Box Office - Green Lantern Doesn't Dazzle
Super hero movies are arriving en masse this year with four in theaters so far and one more on the way. The latest, The Green Lantern, hit screens this weekend but in brightest day and blackest night, major profits escaped his sight.
by Scott Gwin June 19, 2011 comments
Bryan Singer Says Vietnam Or Civil Rights Could Be Part Of The Next X-Men Movie
The movie's producer Bryan Singer spitballed some ideas about historical events that could come into play in an X-Men: First Class sequel, and focused on the civil rights movement as a particularly interesting story to give a mutant spin
by Katey Rich June 9, 2011 comments
Brett Ratner Tweets Box Office Numbers In Defense Of X-Men 3
This past weekend comic book fans were delivered a gift when, for the first time in eight years, a filmmaker crafted an excellent X-Men movie. Though the movie didn't perform exceptionally at the box office, it did get rave reviews from both critics and fans alike. There is, however, one person that isn't too thrilled about all of the reawakened X-Men love: Brett Ratner.
by Eric Eisenberg June 6, 2011 comments
Weekend Box Office - X-Men: First Class Flies Coach
In what could easily be described as the worst X-Men movie opening ever, X-Men: First Class hit screens this weekend with lots of fanfare but less than super-hero results. While it nabbed the number one spot, this latest in the X-Men franchise only banked a mediocre $56 million. That's consiberably less than any of its predecessors
by Scott Gwin June 5, 2011 comments
Discuss X-Men: First Class With Spoilers And Rate It
Actually we think X-Men: First Class is really good, but by now youve heard enough from us on the subject of this film. Now its your turn. We want to know what you think of X-Men: First Class. After you see it, come back here and sound off on the newest Marvel mutant prequel.
by Josh Tyler June 4, 2011 comments
X-Men: First Class Makes $3.4 Million From Midnight Screenings
While it didn't get anywhere near the $10 million made from midnight screenings by the latest hit sequel The Hangover Part II, the newest X-Men film pulled in a healthy $3.4 million,
by Katey Rich June 3, 2011 comments
James McAvoy And Michael Fassbender: Catch Up On The Work Of The X-Men: First Class MVPs
Both McAvoy and Fassbender have been turning in fierce, hugely varied performances in smaller movies for several years now, the kind that gets critics murmuring amongst themselves "Who is this guy?"
by Katey Rich June 3, 2011 comments
X-Men: First Class, Canon Or Un-Canon? An Infographic
To help you find your way through the connections between First Class weve put together an infographic, detailing which parts of this new movie fit with what weve already learned in the others (canon) and which parts simply dont (un-canon). Check out our infographic.
by Eric, Matt and Josh June 3, 2011 comments
Talking Fandom, Villains And The Relief Of A Good Movie With The X-Men: First Class Cast
Most press conferences aren't any fun, especially when large casts are assembled before a room of reporters like a line of cows in front of a tank of piranhas. But most press conferences also don't feature a group of actors just getting wind that their movie is really good
by Katey Rich June 2, 2011 comments
No Imagination Required, Why X-Men: First Class Is A Must See For Everyone
Im glad Hollywood is still willing to make movies like Thor and Green Lantern, but dont be surprised when X-Men: First Class makes more money than either of them. Imagination isnt for everyone, but X-Men: First Class walks the line between reality and fantasy well enough, that it is.
by Josh Tyler June 2, 2011 comments
See The X-Men Logo Painted On To The Skies Of Los Angeles
With more and more reviews pouring in for X-Men: First Class (including one from our own Katey Rich), excitement is at an all time high. The Matthew Vaughn-directed film currently has 20 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and has a 100% rating. Of course someone is eventually going to bring that number down, but for now comic book fans are pumped for the first quality X-Men movie since X2 in 2003.
by Eric Eisenberg May 30, 2011 comments
This Rotten Week: Predicting X-Men: First Class Reviews
Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone! Get out your BBQ tools, fire up the grill, and crack open your seventh beer of the afternoon. Its a holiday afterall. Oh and then later in the week head to the theater for what might be one of the best movies of the summer.
by Doug Norrie May 29, 2011 comments
Watch 8 Minutes Of X-Men: First Class And See Emma Frost In Slutty Lingerie
Most of what weve seen from X-Men: First Class so far has been talking, but that ends right now. Lets get down to the business of blowing things up, pulling them out of the water, and bamfing people death. We have clips from X-Men: First Class, nearly eight minutes all told.
by Josh Tyler May 26, 2011 comments
X-Men: First Class Concept Art Shows Off The Groovy Hellfire Club Design
Check out two of the concept art designs, including the one showing off the super-60s design of the evil lair the Hellfire Club, plus the Magneto image, below, and click on them for the full collection at Marvel.com. X-Men: First Class opens next Friday, June 3, and you will definitely be reading much, much more about it in the next week
by Katey Rich May 26, 2011 comments
Mutant Exchange Program Sends X-Men To Sell Insurance
Farmers Insurance has, apparently, teamed up with X-Men: First Class. In their new commercial the present a world in which theyre participating in a student exchange program with the students of Xaviers school for the gifted. This results not only in Beast sitting around in an insurance seminar...
by Josh Tyler May 24, 2011 comments
X-Men: First Class Posterizes Azazel, January Jones, And Others Internationally
X-Men: First Class shouldnt suffer just because its parent company doesnt pay any attention to fans on the internet. The filmmakers involved have nothing to do with the lawyer-run companys strange views on marketing. So enjoy these pretty awesome international character posters, and the next time you see Rupert Murdoch...
by Josh Tyler May 23, 2011 comments
Mystique And Beast Get Chummy In New X-Men: First Class Clip
While the original X-Men comics have Mystique performing the beast with two backs with Azazel and giving birth to the character known as Nightcrawler, Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class seems to be going in a different direction. While Azazel is actually in the film - played by Jason Flemyng - the budding romance seems to be between Mystique and a young Hank McCoy, played by Nicholas Hoult.
by Eric Eisenberg May 19, 2011 comments
X-Men: First Class Clip Has Hank McCoy Being Outed As A Mutant
When the X-Men comics first premiered in the 1960s, many connections were drawn between the mutant struggle and the civil rights movement in America. The impressive social consciousness in books seen largely as child's play was quite impressive and earned the series quite a lot of respect. When Bryan Singer directed the first X-Men live-action feature film in 2000, however...
by Eric Eisenberg May 18, 2011 comments
More January Jones Midriff In 40 X-Men: First Class Photos
Weve gotten our hands on forty new images from X-Men: First Class, and in addition to giving you a high-res shot of January Jones hanging around on the couch in her bra, some of them hint at what may be hidden in the movies plot.
by Josh Tyler May 16, 2011 comments
X-Men: First Class TV Spots Have Magneto Hitting Himself
With X-Men: First Class set to be released in less than a month, the last few weeks have been littered with various teasers, clips, trailers and TV spots. Compared to the last few, this week has actually been fairly low on material, so Marvel is here to close out the week X-Men-style.
by Eric Eisenberg May 13, 2011 comments
New X-Men: First Class Clip Shows The Difference Between Magic And Mutation
The marketing campaign for X-Men: First Class has been one of the strangest I've ever seen. While all of the trailers have been top notch, the posters have been godawful, be it the face-on-crotch posters from a few months back or this recent Photoshop disaster. Now clips are starting to come out and we can hope that they show off the superhero movie in a more positive light.
by Eric Eisenberg May 11, 2011 comments
Meet Mystique In New X-Men: First Class Character Trailer
It's a lot of the same footage that was part of the Beast featurette-- those two apparently get pretty close--but there's also a great scene near the end between her and Magneto (Michael Fassbender), a preview of the mentor relationship we see between the two characters in Bryan Singer's X-Men films
by Katey Rich May 6, 2011 comments
X-Men: First Class Character Trailers Re-Introduce You To Familiar Mutants With New Footage
It's been 5 years since the last X-Men film, and 8 years since there was one that anybody actually wanted to watch, and it's a little hard to keep track of all of those mutants and their powers, especially when the roles have all been re-cast for the sake of the prequels coming out this summer
by Katey Rich May 5, 2011 comments
X-Men: First Class Will Feature Music From A Boy Band
X-Men: First Class is a superhero movie, but also a period piece. The Matthew Vaughn directed prequel is set during the sixties and sees Professor Xaviers mutant team of heroes in their infancy, dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Since its set in the 60s, youd think that might mean a fantastic opportunity for a great, period specific soundtrack. Youd expect the film to use songs from artists like The Rolling Stones
by Josh Tyler April 29, 2011 comments
International X-Men: First Class Trailer Is Even Better Than The Domestic One
While I applauded the trailer from earlier for focusing on the fundamentals of the X-Men franchise, this one goes the other route and provides plenty of action and I must say that it is quite awesome. Check it out below.
by Eric Eisenberg April 27, 2011 comments
New X-Men: First Class Artwork Allegedly Drawn By Fox Lawyers
Heres a new poster for X-Men: First Class and, if I didnt know for certain that it came straight from Fox, I would have assumed this was some sort of fan art and just ignored it in favor of covering something else. But no, this is an actual piece of X-Men: First Class promotional material, and what Fox has done hear qualifies as utterly indescribable.
by Josh Tyler April 27, 2011 comments
More Talk, Less Action In New X-Men: First Class Trailer
The marketing for X-Men: First Class thus far has been fairly disappointing. From the horrendous Photoshop disasters they call posters to the repetitious trailers, the whole marketing plan seems to be based on the idea that because it's an X-Men movie people will come no matter what. Come June 3 we'll see if that strategy has paid off.
by Eric Eisenberg April 27, 2011 comments
New-ish X-Men: First Class Trailer Continues The Confusing Marketing Campaign
Stick around through what looks like the same trailer for some new action shots, set to the same bombastic music and ending on the same dialogue between Professor X and Magneto. I can't figure out why they're just reusing the same structure and putting in new snippets of scenes
by Katey Rich April 20, 2011 comments
New X-Men First Class Poster Pushes The Limits Of 7th Grade Photoshop Skills
Here's a brief word of advice to movie marketers regarding the evolution of the movie poster in the last decade or so: just because Photoshop exists, does not mean you have to overuse it. Of course its going to get used for some touching up and to add some neat text and whatnot
by Will LeBlanc April 19, 2011 comments
Close-Ups Of Mystique In Uniform And Other New X-Men: First Class Photos
X-Men: First Class is a 20th Century Fox movie, and what that means for you as a movie fan is, theyre going to be pretty stingy when it comes to showing you anything from the movie on the internet. So here we are just a couple of months away from the movies release, scrabbling around for decent still photos of the movies mutant cast.
by Josh Tyler April 19, 2011 comments
Magneto Lifts A Submarine In New X-Men: First Class Still
When the first trailer for X-Men: First Class launched in February, my reaction was fairly lukewarm, but I think everyone could agree on one thing: the scene at the very end of the trailer in which Magneto drags a submarine out of the water using his powers is pretty damn cool. Now the folks behind the film have released a new still, and while it's from the same scene, unfortunately it's not the cool looking part.
by Eric Eisenberg April 18, 2011 comments
International X-Men Trailer, In English This Time
Remember the Russian-dubbed X-Men: First Class trailer that hit almost a month ago and showed off a bunch of footage we hadn't seen before? Now the English-language version of the international trailer has shown up online-- yes, it has subtitles
by Katey Rich April 11, 2011 comments
Scope Out Three Retro Magazine Covers For X-Men: First Class
Up until now, the key behind the marketing for X-Men: First Class has been making sure that absolutely everyone knows that it's a prequel starring Charles Xavier before he became Professor X and Erik Lehnsherr before he became Magneto. But one of the coolest things about the film is that it will be a period piece, set in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Now they are finally embracing it.
by Eric Eisenberg April 4, 2011 comments


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That's the game, son - it's life and death!
Exactly. That's why if Mubarak does hang, we should get the points and, furthermore, we should get the unnatural death bonus.
We have someone who was a dictator for nigh on 30 years. Think about it, there might have been a chance that one day he may get overthrown. Comes with the territory.
That is a fairly weak argument. Are you suggesting that we should shy away from dictators because there is always a possibility they might be overthrown? I think you know that argument is bullshit.
We all know that the "no execution" rule was brought in specifically to prevent participants from choosing candidates who they knew were likely to be executed in the near future. This does not apply to Mubarak who was sitting safe in December 2010. The fact that he had managed to hold on to power for 30 year, more or less with the backing of the West, showed that he knew what he was doing. Furthermore, had his actions not led to the deaths of protesters - something which happened in February 2011 - the likelihood is that he wouldn't be facing execution today.
I'm not suggesting you pick anybody. You pick who you bloody well like as long as they are not already dead and not under 18. I'm struggling to understand what your point is. Besides, Hosni Mubarak isn't even fucking dead yet. He could a) die of starvation die naturally of cancer c) get murdered in prison or on bail d) executed after a trial e) get eaten alive alive by hermit crabs. Even if he was on trial, we don't know the intricacies of Egyptian justice. There may not even BE a fucking death penalty, particularly if the whole system is turned on it's head. So he was fucking safe and dandy, so was Eric Honeker, so was Rupert fucking Murdoch! You can't predict with any certainty what exactly is going to happen. So you picked him, what did you want to happen? That's he stays in power and dies in his sleep just so you get a few points. Try telling that to the people in Cairo...
Your argument is fucking bullshit. You can't predict the future with 100% certainty. If you did, you'd win every year and what a boring load of shite that would be. Take Amy Winehouse. It is not a given at this stage that she died unnaturally. Yes, she undoubtedly contributed to her demise by consuming a load of drugs, but until that coroner gives his verdict I cannot give any extra points at this stage. Most on the DDP picked her because there was a chance that she's either do herself in or overdose. There's a chance there might be neither. Thems are the breaks mate, take it or leave it, and I'm sure not bending the rules on the spurious notion that you didn't know what was going to happen to some pick or other. You could still pick him even if he did face execution, because he might croak before the hangman comes to town.


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Marking the day in 1973 when the final American troops left Vietnam, the Kent County Chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the conflict with a ceremony at Memorial Park in Dover.
The event was well attended by veterans, families and local politicians.
The service included music, award presentations and a speech by Sam Chick, an Iraq veteran who served with the 101st Airborne. Chick touched on how welcome the VVA makes returning veterans from feel – regardless of the conflict they fought in.
"Whenever my unit returned from deployment the VVA was always there when we got home," he said. "I know my generation like the vets of the past will stand together to support the vets of the future."
The event also featured several unveilings. A memorial featuring a brass plaque with the names of the major contributors to the original memorial was unveiled. So was as a brick dedicated to Sr. Airman Elizabeth Loncki, who was killed by an IED in Iraq.
"She joined the military because she wanted to prove to herself she could do it, she wanted to prove to people that she wasn't the typical blonde," said Jennifer Gawinski, Elizabeth's Aunt.
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To remember those lost in Vietnam, two wreaths were placed in front of the Vietnam memorial and the 28 names of the Kent Countians who died in that conflict were read.
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Rows and rows of books greeted visitors at the annual Heginbotham Library Book Bonanza, put on by the Friends of the Library Saturday, Sept. 14. Farrah Koberstein peers over sister Ava's shoulder at their quick finds at the Book Bonanza. —Enterprise photo
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Gwen Stefani has recruited her husband, Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, as her top adviser on "The Voice."
The No Doubt star will be standing in for pregnant Christina Aguilera when the TV talent show returns later this year and she has asked her man to help her make stars out of her group of wannabes.
Confirming the news in a tweet on Monday, Rossdale wrote, "This fall (autumn), honored to be part of #TheVoice w/ (with) the lovely & talented @gwenstefani."
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Our McKinney hotel's accommodations offer a prime location for business travelers, as we are less than five miles from several major corporations, including Torchmark, Emerson Process Management, Encore Wire, Simpson Strong Tie and Raytheon. Nearby event venues include Myers Park and Event Center. TPC at Fields at Craig Ranch Softball, Soccer and Baseball, is also just three miles away.
Leisure travelers will find a wealth of dining, shopping and entertainment options within a short drive of our McKinney hotel. The downtown area offers eclectic shops and wineries. You can even spend a day outdoors at the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, enjoying the beautiful trails. Plan to take a day trip into downtown Dallas to see the zoo or the botanical gardens.
Our hotel near Dallas offers several amenities for your use during your stay. Our free high-speed Internet can be accessed outside on our outdoor patio or inside your beautiful room. Our Health & Fitness Center is open 24 hours a day, so you can workout at your convenience. Book your room at the Holiday Inn McKinney - Fairview today and take advantage of our McKinney hotel's great deals and rates.
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Apple Bread Pudding
from the kitchen of Joann Vaile
6 slices of dried out bread
½ cup raisins
4 – 5 apples, pared, cored and slices
½ cup sugar (divided)
1 sprinkle of cinnamon
2 cups milk
2 eggs
1 Tblsp. soft butter
Butter casserole dish and sprinkle with about 2 Tblsp. of the sugar. (from the ½ cup) Layer bread, apples, raisins, ending with apples.
Cut bits of butter over the top of the casserole.
Beat eggs slightly, add milk and remainder of sugar. Blend well.
Pour mixture in casserole.
Bake at 375 degrees for about an hour, until set and golden brown.
Serve with vanilla or lemon sauce, or a drizzle of caramel! Serves 6-8.
Terri's notes:
~ What great comfort food and a good use for leftovers!
~ I like Joann's recipe with dried out French Bread, great use for party or Italian leftovers!


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Hi Ker'ion, just so you know, I make an app which does the zoom and pan for large collections of tiles - see sig. Its a VTT (virtual table top) style app so its not web browser based but for other users of the same app they can get the map transferred across the net. It does have a web interface to it so you can get at bits of it but thats more klunky.
We have what we call the CWBP here - the community world building project - which is where members here can map bits of a common world map in various styles. So a demo of the app running that is here.
There was a zoomable version of Randalls map here - XKCD 1110 in a zoomable version - visualization created by dividuum or here Map of xkcd #1110
You can use GeoServer or something like WorldWind to do it too but in all of the solutions I have seen they all use a static set of backdrop images to do the map which is different to my app. So if you change the map then you need a complete set to redo the map again. Ok for hosting with occasional updates but no good for something more dynamic.
Anyway - hope thats useful.


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Don't cut anything. Go to the sidestand, follow the wire that goes up from it. Within a foot of the switch is a connector. Unplug the connector and your sidestand switch is disabled and won't cause any trouble.Scott
Thanks Scott - I've now established that the side stand isn't my problem. I'm looking in and near the left toolbox for loose connectors. There is a small square connector ( on a wire in the bundle above the battery) that's loose. Trying to figure out what it may have popped out of.
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UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (WUSA) - A worker at an unlicensed day care center has been arrested and charged with child abuse in the assault of a 2-year-old, according to Prince George's County Police.
Johnathan Desmond Cummings, 19, of the 13600 block of Wood Ember Drive in Upper Marlboro, was arrested on January 7, 2013. He is charged with physical child abuse and second degree assault.
Police were called to the 13600 block of Wood Ember Drive in Upper Marlboro on Monday for the report of physical child abuse. The investigation revealed that an unlicensed residential day care was operating at that location and Cummings, employed as a caregiver at the residence, assaulted a 2-year-old boy under his care.
A witness captured the incident on video, which alerted parents to the assault.
Cummings is charged with physical child abuse and second degree assault. Cummings, who admitted to kicking the child, has been released on a $35,000 bond. Detectives believe there may be additional victims.
The Maryland State Department of Education's Office of Child Care has issued the unlicensed day care center a cease and desist order. The owners were informed they can not provide day care services until they have been properly licensed.
Anyone with information on this case is asked to call (301) 772-4930 or 1-866-411-TIPS (8477), text "PGPD" plus your message to CRIMES (274637) on your cell phone.


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Ranch Run 2003Written by on July 1, 2003 Jim and Carrie's Mid-Winter Mountaintop Run
On the freeway, it's about 65 miles from Temecula to El Cajon, California. On the Ranch Run, it's closer to 100, and a whole lot more fun. It's only taken one year for the Ranch Run, organized by Jim and Carrie Benitez from San Diego, to evolve from a first-time event into a tradition.
We got to the meeting place (a public parking lot in Temecula's Old Town district) early, and there were already a couple dozen rods ready to go. The event is open to '54-and-earlier iron, and it was mostly traditional-style stuff--a bunch of early Fords, an assortment of customs, and a lot of variety. By the time we got rolling, there were probably 50 cars in the pack, led by Mike Van Zetten in his red '52 Chevy. Jim and Carrie had driven the route a few weeks earlier. It was about twice as long as the '02 Ranch Run and took us through the winding mountain roads of San Diego County. Robert Ianello, owner of Midnite Motors Web site (www.midnitemotors.com), was in town from Detroit, delivering a body to Jim, and came along on the Run. Good thing. His truck and trailer came in handy a couple of times along the way.
The first half of the Run was a long climb around a series of hairpin switchbacks. We stopped for breakfast at a cafe near Palomar Mountain, up around 5,000 feet. From there it was down the hill through Santa Ysabel, Ramona, Lakeside, and on to El Cajon, east of San Diego, where Rudi Van Zetten (Mike's dad) hosted a barbecue.
Before the day was over, Jim and Carrie were already making plans for Ranch Run '04. The route will be a little different (and maybe a little shorter) but every bit as much fun.
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Front and center coming down into the flatland is Joe Ferris' channeled A roadster, which features a load of cool pinstriping.One of the most attention-getting rods on the Run was Jay Dean's severely chopped A sedan. The flathead-powered rod has seen a number of modifications and improvements in the last year.There were a few customs in the group, including a couple of great-looking sleds. This two-tone '49 Merc, owned by Chuck and Janie Berry, is an absolute knockout.The Hideout Saloon on Highway 76 is a popular destination for rodders and riders. Derek De Heras and his dad Charles drove this '40 Ford, getting a look-over from a biker who went home and sold his Harley to build a rod. That's our guess.We knew we'd see Don Dillard here. His suede-brown '30 five-window shows up everywhere. Don's got a few dozen Ranch Run photos posted on his Web site at drd57.hypermart.net.The weather was perfect for driving a roadster, and Chick Koszis' '32 was one of our favorites. The grille shell barely hides the Mooneyham-blown small-block with dual quad carbs.There's more than one way to do a T-bucket. The flamed job with the whitewalls and webbed grille is owned by Alex Ortez, a member of the Lifters. David Eltzholtz drove his bare metal car for the first time on Ranch Run '02 and celebrated its birthday on RR '03.


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Story by Ada Tseng. Photo by Deborah Nagai-Cromer.
Like many children of immigrants who have worked hard to provide for their families, Komal Ahmad remembers being taught not to waste food at her daily family dinners. "It was always like, 'Finish your food!'" says Ahmad, imitating her parents' stern Pakistani accents. "'People are starving in Africa, and you're not even finishing your food? Who do you think you are?'"
Ahmad, the 23-year-old CEO of the nonprofit organization Feeding Forward, grew up in the suburbs of Las Vegas, where homelessness was neatly tucked away. But when she began to study at the University of California, Berkeley, the problem was impossible to ignore. Just across the street from Crossroads, the university's popular dining hall that served much of the student population, was People's Park, a public park that acts as a daytime sanctuary for Berkeley's large homeless population.
"As college students, our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and there were various initiatives to try and reduce food waste, like getting rid of trays so you only take what your hands can carry," says Ahmad, who graduated in 2012 with degrees in international health and development and global poverty and practice. "But at the same time, it was frustrating when I asked the dining managers what they did with the excess food, and they said that, due to liability reasons, they can't donate it, so they have no choice but to throw it away. And it was so absurd to me, because I felt like they could just walk across the street, and I guarantee the homeless people at People's Park won't sue you."
While for many of us, these moral frustrations are fleeting, Ahmad made it her mission to do something about it. She's always been devoted to public service (Gandhi's "Be the change that you wish to see in the world" is a quote she lives by), and as a naval medical officer for the U.S. Navy during her four years at Berkeley, she deployed to Tanzania to help launch a mobile HIV clinic during the summer after her second year in college. What she found was that treating people was one thing, but without greater public health education and effective systems in place, patients would be back in a week with the same problems. After her return to the United States, she felt helpless, unsure whether any of the initiatives she started would be continued — and knowing that, as a college student, there was no way she could realistically go back to Tanzania to sustain them herself. She realized that even if her goals were global, she needed to start local.
So she turned to her own neighborhood. While she was skeptical about giving money to Berkeley's homeless, she was always happy to give food. And when she would periodically strike up conversations with them, she realized that many of the homeless people around campus were former veterans in their mid-20s and 30s who had served their country but were now on the streets.
She soon discovered that the ingrained concern about liability that was keeping Cal Dining (and many other organizations) from donating excess food was based on a misconception. In 1996, President Clinton passed the Federal Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, that has been renewed since, which allows individuals and corporations that donate food to a non-profit organization in good faith to be free of any liability as long as they don't engage in any gross negligence.
Once the Cal Dining managers understood this, they were quickly onboard to donate their extra food to people in need. By starting the organization Bare Abundance (a play on words referring to the Cal Bears), Ahmad mobilized her fellow Berkeley students to volunteer to redistribute food from campus dining halls and events. She essentially started a movement that spread to other universities also interested in reducing food waste and eventually co-founded the Food Recovery Network, an overarching nonprofit that united all the campus organizations. By the end of this December, Ahmad expects that 100 universities across the United States will be fully functional with food recovery programs embedded in their dining halls.
"There is more than enough food to feed the entire population over three times, but the problem is that we have an inequitable distribution of food," says Ahmad. "And it's staggering that even in a wealthy and powerful nation like the U.S., we still have so many people begging for it."
While giving surplus food that would otherwise go to waste to people who would otherwise go hungry seems self-explanatory, facilitating this trade is not without its struggles. Often, once restaurants are relieved of their liability concerns, they are quickly onboard, but it's the receiving organizations that are skeptical of the good will. Connecting with charities and soup kitchens on a personal level was necessary to build familiarity and trust in the beginning, and the next crucial step involved figuring out how to streamline the process in order to respect the time of workers and volunteers. Ahmad remembers one day when the Cal Dining manager had called, alerting her of a university catering event that no one showed up to, leaving 500 sandwiches that needed to be picked up within two hours. "We're dealing with perishable foods here, so I drove there, loaded up my car, and immediately started calling a list of agencies everywhere from Oakland to Berkeley to Richmond," says Ahmad. "One-third of them didn't answer their phones, one-third of them said they didn't need food today, and the last third said, 'Thanks, I'll take 20 sandwiches,' which left me thinking, 'Great, but now I have 480 sandwiches left!'"
At that moment, it became clear that even though she wanted to do something good for society, no one has six hours to drive around aimlessly with 500 sandwiches. She yearned for an iPhone app that would automatically locate the supply and demand for food and link the two sources together. Though computer science was not her forte, she sought out programmers who would help her create a program that would steer the market. This past January, Ahmad and her team placed fourth out of 88 teams at Foursquare Hackathon 2013 and won a mentorship that helped them develop their software platform and matching system. Feeding Forward, an online and mobile interface that facilitates communication between food service organizations and charities in the San Francisco Bay Area, was born.
"Now, say you have 100 sandwiches to donate," says Ahmad. "You can go into the mobile app, upload a picture, list a pick-up time, give your contact, and when you post, you enter a virtual marketplace. The algorithm matches the amount and type of food you have with the needs of soup kitchens and homeless shelters and matches you with a nearby volunteer who's available to deliver at that particular time. The volunteer confirms the food's been received, the receiving agency sends back pictures showing the donors the people they've fed, and that's Feeding Forward."
Officially launched in April 2013, Feeding Forward's food recovery programs have altogether recovered more than 250,000 pounds of food to date. Earlier this year, they won the prize for outstanding social entrepreneurship venture at Innovation Alley, a pop-up tech area at the Jewish Community Federation's Israel in the Gardens event in San Francisco.
Now that Ahmad is confident the organization can make a sustainable impact, she's passionate about accelerating and expanding their movement. "The Bay Area is our case study. Our goal is to implement Feeding Forward in cities nationally, and from there, I've already initiated conversations with other countries, in Hong Kong and Israel, so we can eventually go global," says Ahmad. "Because ultimately, inequitable distribution is a global issue in both developing and developed countries."
For more information about how to support and donate to Feeding Forward, visit Feedingforward.org or their Facebook page.
This story was originally published in our Winter 2013-14 issue. Get your copy here.


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Here are this week's list of blogs/sites that I've added to my huge list of resources and blogs covering search engine optimization, new media public relations and marketing with social media.
Timboy – Tim Converse at Yahoo offers a great sense of humor and is sometimes referenced as Matt Cutts' alter ego. One of my favorite posts of Tim's, "Search Engine Optimization from Black to White".
SpinThicket is a sort of Fark for public relations and advertising created by PR Firm Idea Grove,who also publishes the excellent Media Orchard blog.
Online Business by Brian Mark – An active WebmasterWorld member, conference speaker and SEO guru for ToolBarn.com
Marshall Clark SEO Consulting Blog – Seven Years In SEO / From Term Vector to TrustRank. Offers a handy post on, "Sun Tzu'Äôs Guide: Dominate Google in 5 Easy Steps" and other useful how-to's.


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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
King Diamond
Here's a clip of Metallica being joined on stage by King Diamond for a medley of Mercyful Fate songs. This is truly awful. Note the exceedingly low-quality air guitar chops of Diamond. No metal singer should ever be permitted to play air guitar. Ever.
Prepare to be bored.
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I wonder how many readers of this blog can appreciate King Diamond's resemblance to Chicago TV legend, the Son of Svenghoulie.
- August 12, 2008 at 6:08 PM
King Diamond's "No Presents for Christmas" though is still a bit of a classic.
- August 12, 2008 at 6:09 PM
- Spiros said...
The best part about "No Presents" is the title. The lyrics suck stank ass. Lots of wasted potential.
But nonetheless, don't break the oath....
- August 12, 2008 at 8:56 PM
Yeah, I admit, I do look stupid up there.
- August 12, 2008 at 9:41 PM
You fuckwads intellectuals are just jealous.
- August 12, 2008 at 10:20 PM
- The Brooks Blog said...
I have been a longtime fan of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond, although his latest work isn't half as good as "Abigail" or "Them" --- this all despite the fact I thought the Mercyful Fate reunion quite good (with "Thirteen Invitations" my favourite of the bunch.
What you have here are some tired rockers. If only they played when Cliff was aroud....
- August 13, 2008 at 6:20 AM
- Spiros said...
And let's not forget about Metallica's highly sophisticated articulation of retributivism on *Ridde the Lightening*.
- August 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM
- The Brooks Blog said...
It was a damn good thing the Popular Culture series exists to disseminate such world class scholarship! ;)
- August 14, 2008 at 5:27 AM
You're full of shit, spiros. Listen to Abigail or Melissa or "Doomed by the Living Dead" -- and you better put on an ass-belt or else your ass is going to be rocked right off into the wild blue yonder.
- September 13, 2008 at 11:37 AM
- Spiros said...
What's an ass-belt?
- September 19, 2008 at 11:04 AM
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Three Oklahomans die in separate wrecks on state roads
Three Oklahomans die in separate wrecks on state roads
Three men are dead after separate wrecks on state roads, Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers said Monday.
James Gordan Fulton, 67, of Elgin
Fulton died about 4 a.m. Monday on Interstate 44 in Grady County.
He was driving near mile marker 76 when his vehicle ran off the road, hit a concrete drainage ditch, went up a bridge wall, overturned and crashed off the bridge onto the roadway below, troopers said.
Fulton was thrown from the vehicle, which then caught fire. The vehicle was burned beyond identification.
Troopers said it is not known whether Fulton was wearing a seat belt.
Mark A. Cozad, 24, of Locust Grove
Cozad was driving east on County Road 590 two miles south and a mile east of Locust Grove when he failed to negotiate a curve about 11 p.m. Sunday. His pickup hit a tree and caught fire, troopers said.
Cozad was pinned in the pickup for an hour and a half. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two passengers survived. David A. Jackson, 25, and Elizabeth A. Hoskins, 20, were taken to St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa.
Jackson and Hoskins were not wearing seat belts, troopers said. It is not known whether Cozad was wearing a seat belt.
Tommy L. Taylor, 46, of Eucha
Taylor died in a wreck on a county road three miles east and two miles south of Salina.
Taylor was driving east when his pickup left the road, hit a tree and caught fire about 7 p.m. Sunday.
Taylor was pronounced dead at the scene. He was wearing a seat belt.
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Don't Miss: November Events
by nycgo.com staff , 10/16/2013
(from left) Pendant brooch (ca. 1900), by Tiffany & Co. photo courtesy of Museum of the City of New York • Justin Timberlake photo by Tom Munro/RCA Records
The holidays are (nearly) upon us, and New York City is the best place for tree lightings, train shows, one-of-a-kind gifts and more. Take the world-famous Radio City Christmas Spectacular, where the Rockettes have been performing for more than 85 years, or the wonderfully intricate and beautiful New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show. And, of course, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is one of the City's greatest traditions. But November isn't all about the start of the holiday season; it's also a time to laugh, with performances taking place all around Manhattan as part of the New York Comedy Festival, and two stand-up shows starring Kevin James in Staten Island. View the slideshow for further details on these and other events. For more, visit our weekly "Free in NYC" and "Top Five Events" features, check out our monthly sports calendar and our roundup of annual events or search for an event in our calendar.


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Enjoying Your Latte WIthout Worrying About Dying Penniless
If you read enough advice columns, one fact will come through loud and clear: Personal finance experts hate lattes. But you don't have to give up your favorite addictions to reach your financial goals. And if you turn cutting costs into a crusade, you risk cutting into your quality of life.


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