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In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to customize the workspace. The workspace controls which panels are up on screen, which are hidden, how big are those panels, where are they located and so on. So, it's another way to modify the interface here inside the Bridge. Now there is a handful of predefined workspaces. You'll see a few of them at the top of the screen. You can also, by the way, grab this little scrubby guy there. Drag it over to the left in order to see more of those predefined workspaces, or if you like, you can see fewer of them as well.
All of the workspaces are made available by clicking this down-pointing arrowhead. You'll see that they go from Essentials to Filmstrip and so on all the way down to the Folders. The first six get keyboard shortcuts; after that, they don't. You can add your own as well, as you'll see. If you want to try out any one of the workspaces, just go ahead and select it. You'll be able to come back to Essentials anytime you want just by selecting it as well. All right! But what I want to do is I want to modify Filmstrip. So, I'm going to click on Filmstrip and it's a nice idea. But at first, I think it's awful.
It shows you these dinky little thumbnails and then it will show you an expanded view of the active thumbnail up here inside the Preview. But I think we'll be able to see it better if we switch to a different folder. So, I'm going to click on the Folders tab and I'm going to switch to Lake Powell, that subfolder we created inside of the 03_open_org folder. I'll click on one of these images here, like this one. Then I'll go ahead and expand the size of my thumbnails down here at the bottom of the screen, so that I can see more of them. Now, the way I prefer to work, especially when I'm working on a really wide screen like this one, this is practically an anamorphic display here.
I'd rather have my filmstrip over here on the right-hand side in a vertical formation. Back in older versions of the Bridge, you used to have this little toggle that you could just switch between a horizontal filmstrip and a vertical filmstrip, which was very convenient. Now, it takes a little bit more work. So, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to drag over this right-hand vertical bar, so that I have a little bit of room over here on the right-hand side of the screen. I'm going to grab the Content tab and I'm going to move it over to this location like so and drop it into place. Then I'll make it narrower, so that we're only seeing a single column of thumbnails.
I think that's quite a bit better, actually. Now, I'd don't see my Metadata or Keywords panel at this point, which just is not acceptable. So, we're going to have to move things around. I'll go up to the Window menu and choose Metadata. It comes up over here in this tiny, little strip, which is completely illogical, but there it is. Then I'll go ahead and choose Keywords, and we get that as well. All right, so I'm going to go grab Metadata, just by that little sliver there and move it over here into the Filter group. Then I'll do the same thing with Keywords, move it over as well.
Then I'll move Collections up to the top, like so, not to that location though. I goofed up a little bit there. Let's go and move it down into Folders. I'll go ahead and move Export up into that location as well, because I want to keep track of Export at any given time. Now, Favorites isn't a panel that I use very often. What you can do, by the way -- here's how the Favorites panel works. You can go into a folder and you can right -click on it and choose Add to Favorites. Then it will be made part of your Favorites. There it is, 03_open_org.
You can do the same thing with the Collection. I could go to the Four stellar butterflies right there. Right-click on it and add it as a favorite, if I so desired. Well, as I say, I don't tend to work that way. You might, and if so, by all means, keep Favorites up on screen. But I'm going to get rid of it by going up to the Window menu and choosing the Favorites panel command to hide it. Now, I just have Folders, Collections and Export up here at the top. I have Filter, Metadata and Keyword down here at bottom. I'll switch over to the Metadata panel. I'll switch back to Lake Powell, so that we have something pleasant to look at here.
There we go! Now, let's say that I want to go ahead and save off what I've done as a new version of Filmstrip. Well, it's kind of already done for me. Notice, if I switch to Essentials, and then I switch back to Filmstrip, I see the last version of that Filmstrip workspace that I created. So the Bridge is constantly, temporarily updating the appearance of any given workspace. That's the same for Essentials too. I see the last version of the Essentials workspace that I've modified.
Now, that's not the way it is permanently. That's just temporary. When I say temporary, I mean, until you click on this down-pointing arrowhead and choose Reset Standard Workspaces. This command will go ahead and reset the standard version of every single one of these workspaces, which would wipe out the work that you've just done. So if you want to, you could go ahead and choose New Workspace in order to save off the newest version of that filmstrip. However, of course, I would have to first click on Filmstrip to bring it back up. Then I would go to the down-pointing arrowhead and choose New Workspace.
However, what I'd like to do instead is create a much different version of the workspace that I'm going to save off in order to demonstrate this command. So, we'll just leave the Filmstrip the way it is right now. I'm going to switch back to Essentials. I'm going to build me a custom workspace here that just has big thumbnails and nothing else. I don't need this preview. You know what I'm saying? Because, the preview is semi-interesting over here in the upper-right corner of the screen, however, there's all kinds of different ways to preview an image inside the Bridge including the Full-Screen Preview, which is the best of the bunch.
So, get rid of the Preview panel. It's just taking up space. I'm going to move Collections up here, of course and I'm also going to move Export up to this location. I'm going to go over to Favorites and I'm going over to make sure it's not visible anymore by choosing the Favorites panel command from the Window menu. Then I'm going to move the Metadata panel down here with Filter, because that's where I like to see it. I'm going to move Keywords down here as well. I'm going to switchover to Metadata, because at any given time, that's what I prefer to see on screen.
I'll go ahead and make this little taller, so that I can see more Metadata at once. Now, I've got this empty panel over here. I certainly don't need it open. So, I'll double-click on this vertical bar and it will go away. Now, I'm going to increase the size of my thumbnails to something really big and meaty like this. This is what I call, the Big Thumbs view. So, let's go ahead and save it off. Click the down-pointing arrowhead. Choose New Workspace. I'm going to name this guy Big Thumbs as l always do.
I love to have a Big Thumbs workspace. I'm being honest with you. All right! Here is my checkboxes. Do I want to save the window location as part of the workspace? Right now, it's maximized, my Bridge window, and I definitely want to save that. So, absolutely! Do I want to save the sort order? No, it's not really important to me that I always sort by filename. So, I'll go ahead and turn this checkbox off and then I'll click on the Save button. Notice that becomes my first workspace. It gets the first keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+F1, Command+F1 on the Mac. So, everybody shifted down.
The Preview workspace lost the keyboard shortcut, but I am unconcerned. All right! I'll escape out of that menu and I'm going to make this a little bit wider, so I can see all the way over to the Metadata workspace. That is how you adjust your workspace and save a new workspace here inside the Bridge.
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Freeland's Tori Jankoska scored a game-high 29 points, helping the Falcons beat Saginaw Swan Valley and win the Tri-Valley Conference outright.
"We moved the ball well in the third quarter," Freeland coach Tom Zolinksi said of his team's 28-point quarter. "Everyone touched the ball, and five girls scored in the quarter."
Morgan Stadler of Swan Valley scored 11 points.
Freeland (17-1, 12-0) visits Ovid-Elsie at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, while Swan Valley (6-12, 3-9) visits Shepherd.
"We're not taking them for granted," Zolinski said. "We have 28 league wins in a row."
Swan Valley coach Jim Murphey said his team played hard against tough competition.
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Do you agree with the ACLU that the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect should be read his Miranda rights?
I wonder if someone didn't want him taken alive to start with? Somebody sure pumped him full of lead. He has bullet wounds in almost every part of his body. Wasn't he suppose to be hiding in a boat under a cover when they found him? Seems kind of fishy to me. Doesn't the police usually try to disable someone and take them alive and not try to gun them down?
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Of course the Justice department wants him to stop talking...they might just learn that these two actually have ties to something bigger and muslim terrorists actually exists. To admit that would show the folly in the Obama administration's effort to hug the radicals and harm America.
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phoenix Unless they were going to interrogate someone reading them their rights would be redundant.
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Concerned, sorry if I misunderstood you, I thought you were implying that someone rights were required to be read at every arrest, not just the ones that require interrogation, not every arrest does.
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phoenix you are splitting hairs. : ) They can only interrogate someone after an arrest has been made. Therefore the arrest is the trigger. That was my point. Until they arrested the kid they had no reason to read him his rights because they were not interrogating him. From what I have read on the subject I believe the supreme court ruled that police were required to read people their rights prior to interrogation. It doesn't make sense that they would charge them and arrest them and then not talk to them about it. I think it all pretty much goes hand in hand and in the proper order or the court will throw out any information obtained by the police interrogation. Why do they do that? Because proper procedure was not followed. Proper procedure is arrest, then rights read, then interrogation.
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That's correct, if they fail to read someone their rights after arrest and prior to questioning, nothing that person says can be used against them at trial. Another reason they do it, to protect their case. Oddly enough, if they bring someone in for questioning prior to arrest, any self-incriminating statements they may make can be used at trial, that's why they can hold a suspect for only so long before they must charge or let go.
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To protect their case and to protect the suspect from self- incrimination. Most police only mirandize a suspect upon arrest if they wish to interrogate them, to warn the suspect and to protect their case for possible trial. The Miranda warning is all about being protected from self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment, it's not about the arrest.
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I believe if they don't any information the person gives up or answers to any questions they ask them can not be used against them. I bet a lawyer will have a hay day with this kid. An article I read said they read him his rights but that he was under sedation and he was not able to talk due to a gun shot in his throat. So it was thru writing that they got him to say he did it. Think that reading of his rights will hold up when they read them to him while he was under the influence of sedatives? This whole case just keeps getting more bazar.
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Why do they do it? Just to be nice?
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Reading someone their rights is not required at the time of arrest.
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Well they read him his rights and at the proper time. Reading someone their rights is required at the time of arrest. They have the right to hold people for a limited time and then they have to either charge them and read them their rights or let them go. In this case the kid was/is in a hospital not in custody. I would imagine there were officers at his door or maybe even in his room for his protection just as much as ours. If there is a larger force at work someone may not want him to recover as he might expose them. That is one of the reasons why all this sensationalism that the media has done is wrong. They don't seem to care that they may be jeopardizing sensitive information.
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Watchdog, Maybe you misunderstood me. I never intended to imply his rights were being violated. I was just supporting the fact that we had to follow proper procedure. The media has this guy tried and convicted already and we don't even know if all that they are reporting is even factual. I Think there is more going on here than meets the eye. Could these guys be sacrificial lambs for something larger? Maybe,I don't know. All I know is just because the media is reporting something does not mean it is accurate. The whole thing could be a cover up for a larger plan that failed. In case you haven't noticed I don't have a whole lot of confidence in what the national media reports. Could this guy, if guilty, get off because of media bias? What ever happened to I can't comment on a case while an investigation is on going, yet the media is reporting all kinds of things as if they are fact and quoting people that should not be saying anything until the investigation is complete.
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concerned, maybe I am missing the point here and I value your input. I don't understand yet where the system or the constitution has been trashed because of this bomber. How has his rights been violated?
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Don't forget...Obama wants to aid and abet them...AMNESTY!
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"But regardless we must not let our constitution be trampled on."
It was already trampled on...we are allowing terrorists to hide behind it and use it to their advantage and safe passage into this country.
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Watchdog says: "What bothers me even more is the fact that terrorists are now using our constitution as weapon in their plans of terror against us" This bothers me too, and I think that this is something that should not be. The U. S. Constitution is the constitution of our country only not the world. It should only apply to U.S. Citizens. This idea that foreign peoples have the same rights as Americans within our borders is wrong. Especially when they are here illegally.
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watchdog we are not dealing with normal minded people. Look at 9-11 they had people willing giving up their lives to complete their mission. Who knows these guys may have been sacrifices for the cause also. But regardless we must not let our constitution be trampled on. My whole point was not in support of this guy. My support was in our system, a system that has to work in all instances or it don't work at all. Even those where we would like to by pass it. Our system must be allowed to work as it was intended or we are all in jeopardy because, if allowed to be ignored in this case, what's to prevent it being allowed to be ignored in other cases that we support? Yes he was a new citizen but rather than question the constitutional legal system I would question how at 19 years old he was allowed to become a citizen and how did he get into the country to start. Personally I think there is a lot more to this case than a couple of half baked young adults going off the deep end.
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WatchDog: "The only question we need to ask? Was we this dumb or was they just that good?"...
Or was we just focused upon O's revenge and his anti American agenda?
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So, what happens now?
We accept that the victims were sacrificed politically, we pray that we get through the next four years and we can get a leader in the White House that is of strength and respect for this entire country.
I can not accept that these two bombers pulled this off right under our noses. These two boys had a total of 11 pressure cookers. Do you have a clue what the price of a pressure cooker costs at any local store? Plus everything they used to build those bombs. These two were unemployed, there has to be a money trail.
The only question we need to ask? Was we this dumb or was they just that good?
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concerned the ONLY thing that bothers me is the fact that our Country has way to many bleeding heart sympathizers. Heck, Obama is a Muslim sympathizer. Thus, the reason the bomber will not be tried as an enemy combatant. Obama will not let it happen. I think it is the biggest mistake in the world. We need the intelligence to PROTECT this Country.
These two bombers attacked Americans with weapons of mass destruction to commit terror and death upon us. "US", they didn't pick and choose their victims. Even though the bomber that is alive was an American Citizen for a few short months worked with and on behalf of his "non American" foreign brother.
What bothers me even more is the fact that terrorists are now using our constitution as weapon in their plans of terror against us.
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Kozy The media will convene their court and give us a steady diet of this. Then he will probably plead guilty to a lesser charge. Just like U S Army sergeant John Russell did on monday in Washington State. He got a plea bargain deal for killing a U S Navy Officer and 4 fellow US soldiers at Camp Liberty in Baghdad in 2009. He opened fire on them and killed them in cold blood. He got a reduced sentence of life in prison instead of execution.
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Ok, he's been charged and read his rights and the administration says they are looking at this as two nuts killing people...
So, what happens now?
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Agreed watchdog we should let the system work. However the system says you are innocent until proven guilty. A media trial and a public opinion verdict is not letting the system work. If he is found guilty then he needs to get the fullest penalty the law allows. If they have enough evidence to charge him then they need to charge him and then it will be up to the court system to decide if the evidence is sufficient to bring about a conviction. Until that time he has not been charged nor found guilty of anything, he is just an American citizen with the same rights as anyone else in this country. What bothers me is with all the media exposure and investigating into his personal life by the media, I question whether they can come up with a jury that has not already decided the guy was guilty even before the evidence is seen in a light that is not being shined on him by the media.
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"I do agree with you that he should be tried as an American citizen and not an enemy combatant."
That is what is confusing everyone. He will be tried as an American Citizen. He is not going to be tried in a military court. "Enemy Combatant" is throwing everyone out of whack. They are only using that to collect intelligence "under the law of war". His criminal actions (the bombing, his actions after the bombing will be tried in Mass. under the Federal and State laws there.
They don't have to Mirandize him under that law". If people would just let the system unfold and stop rushing this process, it will all come together.
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Grant, they are under no constitutional obligation to mirandized him. If they feel the can convict him on evidence and witness testimony alone, without any incriminating statements he may make, they are free to do so, however, if he does incriminate himself without being mirandized, that information cannot be used at trial. I do agree with you that he should be tried as an American citizen and not an enemy combatant.
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New boards of honour, listing Beverley's mayors and Honorary Freemen since 1999 were received at a special reception at the town council offices last week.
The reception held by Alderman Harry Flynn on Saturday, saw two new boards of honour presented, which are both dedicated to Harry's daughter Sheilagh Suzanna, who passed away two years ago.
The reception was attended by Mr Flynn's fiancée Mavis and family, Beverley Town Councillors and the Town Clerk.
Mr Flynn gave a short speech full of humour and warmth.
The Mayor of Beverley, Cllr Martin Cox said he was delighted to receive the boards on behalf of Beverley Town Council and thanked Harry for both his generosity and his many years of service to the town.
Mr Flynn said: "Beverley's interests are best served regarding the town inhabitants as a civil entity, comprising of those in authority, who serve us and those who elect them to do this responsible duty.
"Perhaps for a happy two way partnership, we should not always be looking at what the council can give us, but for what we can do and give in return."


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You might have thought since Dick Ankiel was moving across the state and Mark DeRosa (presumably) took his wife with him to San Francisco that us Cardinal fans wouldn't have much eye candy to nosh on in 2010.
Brad Penny has us covered boys.
Wait, Brad Penny? The Pitcher?
I did a double take too, friends. But it's true. And lucky for us he decided to take his babe to Turks & Caicos last week and have her play catch.
On the beach.
In a bikini.
So go ahead and slave away in your 3′ x 3′ foot cubicle. Brad Penny will be having a soft toss on the sun drenched beaches of T & C before heading to his real job… playing baseball. (HT: WWTDD.com)
For all of you fans of Dancing With the Stars, she apparently is a dancer on that show. Or something.
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Both lanes of the Manawatu Gorge have reopened to all traffic for the first time this year.
The stretch of State Highway 3 which connects the Manawatu to the Wairarapa was closed after a large slip on August 6 last year.
The slip was cleared and the road reopened for three days, before another slip in October closed the road again.
One lane of the road has been open since August.
NZTA Palmerston North state highways manager David McGonigal said there are two small sections which are still down to one lane - at the Woodville end of the slip where crews are still at work, and also about 500m further towards Woodville, following damage caused by an isolated rock spill.
"Courtesy of Murphy's Law, we've had an isolated rock spill a few hundred metres down the road, just as we were getting ready to open the gorge to two lanes.
We've ensured that the hillside is secure, but we'll need to fix the damage which may mean briefly shutting the highway at a later date," Mr McGonigal said.
"This is the first time since the gorge closed last year that we've been able to get two lanes of traffic through the slip site. While it's not two lanes the whole way through, it's a huge leap forward and a sign that the end is near. It's been achieved ahead of schedule by a very dedicated crew, and they've earned a long holiday when all this is over."
Motorists have been forced to use the Saddle Road and Pahiatua Track routes for the past year, diverting traffic away from the town of Woodville, resulting in a drop in customers for local businesses.
"Having two lanes up and running means that everyone who has been patiently winding their way through the alternative routes can now return to the Manawatu Gorge, and save themselves time, petrol and peace of mind while they're at it," Mr McGonigal said.
Rockfall netting is being erected alongside the new section of the highway and 30km/h speed restrictions remain in these areas.
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Nobody could have predicted it.
At the beginning it did not seem like much. In 1993, The World Wrestling Federation started broadcasting a weekly show called Monday Night Raw. It started off on January 11, 1993 and became a hit with the audience that had followed the WWF for years. It started off in the Manhattan Center and then would start touring around arenas across the country. Meanwhile, down south, the National Wrestling Alliance had become World Championship Wrestling, and was still a very lowly company with some business problems during the 'Bill Watts Era.'
Soon enough, a little-known man named Eric Bischoff took the reigns of WCW and became the Executive Vice-President of the company. This company ran Pay Per Views and also ran a show called WCW WorldWide which was produced at the Disney MGM Studios. One day, while they were taping there, an exuberant Eric Bischoff took the first steps in turning World Championship Wrestling into a juggernaut promotion. He would convince Hulk Hogan to sign to a lucrative contract with WCW. WCW started to make some noise.
Soon after this signing, Randy Savage, another former member of the WWF, signed with WCW. A war was practically declared between the two wrestling promotions, and it was a war that would soon turn ugly. 1994 came and gone and through the year 1995, WCW was still just doing syndicated television, while Monday Night Raw was still running on the USA Network each week. Eric wanted to compete with the WWF to show that WCW was good competition. As it was told, he would be granted his wish.
On September 4, 1995, World Championship Wrestling debuted Monday Nitro, what would become a live weekly television show on Monday nights, from the Mall of America in Minnesota. On its first show, a shocking appearance by a man who was thought to have still been with the WWF, Lex Luger, created shockwaves around the wrestling business. Nobody saw it coming, except for Eric Bischoff and WCW management.
This was the first set of bombshell moves by Bischoff and WCW that would help make them an alternative to those who were tired of the gimmicky style that the World Wrestling Federation presented each and every week. Wrestling fans got their fill of the familiar talent of WCW, as well as the little known talent that they had that could actually get things done in the ring. As 1996 came along, so did the fateful birth of the New World Order which saw the beloved Hulk Hogan turn heel and turn against the fans that followed him for years. This move would provide WCW all it needed to be the catalyst in this war and soon enough the momentum had shifted.
WCW would beat the World Wrestling Federation in what was the 'ratings war' for 83 straight weeks. Hostility was stirred during this war as segments bashing the WWF were made by WCW, and in turn, segments were made by the WWF bashing WCW were made as well. The WWF was losing ground, and in 1997 it seemed like the train was derailing for the WWF. But Vince was determined not to let his father's creation go in the ground and die. He decided to implement 'Attitude' into his product, and 'The Attitude Era' was born.
But as the product was turning around, what would have been called a severe blow was made to the WWF. Its top star for years, Bret Hart, was presumably to the belief of many screwed by Vince and the WWF and then left for WCW after the infamous Montreal Screwjob at Survivor Series 1997. One wondered if this was going to be the one thing that would kill any chance of the WWF turning things around. But they started to do something that WCW didn't do, and that was create new stars.
Guys like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ken Shamrock, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, The Rock all started to become big in late 1997 as 1998 was approaching. The mainstays were all there still, such as The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels and after WrestleMania XIV, the torch had been passed as Steve Austin became the World Wrestling Federation Champion. Over at WCW, the storyline between Sting and Hulk Hogan had ended with Sting winning the WCW Title, albeit with controversy, and then things started to get very confusing and troubling for WCW.
The stars were the top guys in the company, and those alone. Due to the friendships and cliques made backstage, none of the guys who felt they deserved a shot at the top billing were given fair chances. This caused unrest in the locker room and the morale was falling, as WCW lost its control of the ratings on April 13, 1998 when Raw had finally gotten a victory in the ratings war. This monumental day lead to several trades in the ratings war until late 1998, when the WWF started a run at ratings victories that they would never lose control of.
WCW was becoming a failing company. Horrible booking, odd storylines and misuse of performers was becoming a huge problem. Much like in the early 1990's stars started jumping ship, but it was vice versa this time. Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko were the first major names to jump ship to the WWF getting off what was the sinking ship known as World Championship Wrestling.
The abysmal WCW ran its course through all of 1999 and all of 2000, until the fateful day of March 23, 2001. The day that the dust settled; the day that everything changed, the day that WCW was sold to Vince McMahon and the WWF. It was the day that Vince McMahon won the war and it was the day that the World Wrestling Federation became victorious and stood alone by themselves as the top dog in the industry.
There are no what-ifs. There are no what could have beens. This is the story of what would follow the ratings war. This is 2001, The World Wrestling Federation… begins The Monopolized Era…
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Random Number
The concept of a "random number" is a difficult one. Related: Chaitin, chaos theory,
s. Exact definitions that fit all purposes are difficult to come by, and intuition is misleading.
Perhaps someone would care to fill this page out properly? There are already many references to random numbers here and elsewhere.
There's not really such a thing as a random number in the real world. It's an idealization that can only truly exist in pure mathematics in the context of infinite sequences, despite the existence of random quantum processes in the real world.
Chaitin/Kolmogorov complexity required to reproduce a sequence of numbers is more to the point.
But still far from encompassing the topic.
The subjects mentioned so far on this page are vast and deep; a single page couldn't really cover them adequately, so the real question is, what's the motivation for this page, since no addressably-narrowly focused question is asked? Keeping in mind that
Moved from
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."
Don't live in sin...
Here are some sources for generating real random numbers (as opposed to using a pseudorandom algorithm).
Flip a coin - 0 for tails, 1 for heads. Repeat as needed (unless you are Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, or you're using a
Buy some
dice - you can get them in 4-sided, 6-sided, 8-sided, 10-sided, 12-sided, 20-sided...
ad nauseum
. Roll and repeat as needed.
Check out HotBits
Check out RandomDotOrg
But note that even real world random numbers like this
are always biased
and must have corrections applied to them for any serious (e.g. strong cryptographic) applications. E.g. you can correct a biased coin by tracking its state transitions rather than its states. To give a simple but powerful example, given a stream of 0's and 1's that are independent but biased you can generate a sequence of 0's and 1's that are independent and unbiased as follows:
pair them up
discard pairs that are 00 or 11.
discard the second bit in each pair
What remains is unbiased.
The underlying source may be truly random, if you're lucky (e.g. it is with hotbits), but (1) the distribution isn't what you want, because there are no true white noise generators in nature, and (2) bias is introduced in the sampling process (e.g. by the sampling aperture, amongst many other possibilities). Always.
There are also algorithms which are expected to generate
numbers indistinguishable by any efficient algorithm from real
This may be correct for the individual numbers, but is wrong (I think) for distributions of the numbers. That is, the distribution of an infinite number of truly random numbers within a range {0, 1} or {0, N} is flat, but the distribution of an infinite number of pseudorandom numbers is not flat (some numbers are
generated [
How come?
- because PRNGs have some periodicity to them, even if that periodicity is very large eventually the same sequence of numbers generated is repeated with no new numbers appearing]). -- AndyPiercel
This mixes up several issues in an unnecessarily confusing way. Take some finite-state PRNG modulo a limit N. It can have no more than N-1 distinct values, regardless of any details, by simple number theory, indeed by simple logic, and in general will reach N-1 only for prime N.
For non-prime N, (actually, for prime N as well) the number of possible distinct values will be Euler's totient function phi(N), or more specifically, phi(PRNG(N))
The number of distinct values is, by Lagrange's Theorem, the product (actually LCM) of the size of of each subgroup modulo N, see Carmichael Lambda function.
Generally the set of values of any f(N) modulo N will (again by Lagrange's Theorem) equal the product of the size of each unique subgroup times the number of subgroups.
Each distinct value appears exactly once in each subgroup modulo N.
That distribution is as flat as it gets.
The distribution of a random or PNRG is not even close to being "(pseudo)-random" for many applications, but is exactly what is needed for other applications. In other words, the definition of "random" depends on the application, different statistical tests are necessary for different goals, and in general there is no perfect test of randomness, it depends on the current goals.
The distribution of several algorithms is flat, but only within the limits of a finite computer. The "pseudo" is because any real computer has finite limits, and the sequence will by necessity repeat when those limits are reached. Wolfram showed, for example, that building a very wide 1-d CA, programming it with one of the class-4 rules, and then forming a bit sequence from the center bit of the CA for each generation results in a stream of bits that satisfies randomness tests -- at least until a repeat happens, based on the limits of the machine. He also showed that the period of that repetition is a billion billion times the age of the universe, even on a fast machine. The sequence is repeatible, by seeding the generator with a pattern at the first generation. I think the point here is that randomness does NOT require a "random source". It emerges from looking at the results of an iterated deterministic process in quite specific ways.
I added
efficient algorithm
above. Does this answer your question?
See also
- 20040415; archived at
One time, I designed that old classic game of Guess the Number on my TI-82 in high school. I had the range be 0-100000 or so. I had a friend guess the correct number on the first time, every time. To this day, I don't know how he did it. We speculated that he was just inputting the variable back into the guess, but we tried it and couldn't get it to work. Any ideas?
Was each "guess" made
you had seen the number? If so, your friend could probably see the calculator display reflected in your spectacle lens or in the window behind you, or was having the number signed to him by someone else who could see the calculator. A schoolfriend and myself once both guessed 2.506 as a "random number", but "every time" suggests a simple method.
Nope, I hadn't seen the number first. I wish I had written down everything back then... I recall trying to figure out how he was doing it... but I don't recall sitting over his shoulder while he typed in the numbers. I may or may not have. I was gullible back then.
From your account, all that's relevant (unless the program was seriously flawed) is whether anyone could see the number produced by the calculator before the prediction of that same number occurred. One trick is simply to prevent you from verifying any predictions until a whole group have been made. By that time, it may be possible to make you think the numbers were announced in advance, although they were actually written down afterwards. To accomplish this, the guesser merely pretends to write his first prediction, then announces it as correct! He is then one prediction short, but slips in the final number when you aren't looking! It helps if the guesser has an accomplice who pretends to confirm all the predictions.
Perhaps your friend knew how to reset the seed of the random number generator. Then he memorized the first few "random" numbers that were generated. Imagine how easy that "Simon" 4-color memorization game would be if you could reset the seed.
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When I joined uni in september, I was so eager to please everyone (and thus make friends) that I think, looking back, I may have played the clown a bit. I was happy to laugh at myself and be laughed at. I don't know--when I feel awkward I go a bit manic, it covers up the quiet you know? Anyway, we all got on.
Roll on some months. The flat is quite hierarchical. It's like a dictatorship but one whose subjects are sort of half blind to it. Maybe they don't want to admit it. This one girl, H, has risen to the top with her loud voice, her opinions but ultimately I feel, her ability to put everyone in their place. She has picked and chosen people she doesn't like--our friends--and everyone guffaws in agreement. I just hate this, I feel like I've been rebelling. Cheesy metaphor, I'm a kind of resistance group to her dictatorship (ha! I know right ). We've fallen out and we just don't click.
Anyway, I can cope with this. I deal very well in straight talking. But she has a thing about making me look stupid. Sometimes I am a bit ditzy and lacking in common sense but she makes out I'm genuinely stupid. And the worst thing is, she does it with a smile: it's all banter to her. And when I get pissed off, I just don't get the banter.
So I'm stupid and I have to smile and make some kind of joking retort, and meanwhile concede to her, or else I look 'boring'. It's just so tedious, all of it. it's so much harder because she has everyone else. we all get on but I feel like everyone still expects me to be playing the court jester role, a hangover effect from freshers. And when she repeats what I say in a silly voice, accentuating my 'posh' accent, or makes some really unfunny, predictable quip, everyone sniggers and I just feel LIKE A FOOL. There's laughing at yourself but then there's having to do it all the time. And if you give her a taste of her own medicine, she cannot take it, and everyone's so busy tip-toeing around her...
It's just good to get this out there. It's got to the point where I can't be arsed socialising with my flat. But any advice? xx
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Punch her in the face and use the subsequent fear to become ruler of the flat.
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Punch her in the face and use the subsequent fear to become ruler of the flat.
Any advice people? Have you been in this situation before?
Ive had girls belittle me when i was at school, the best policy is to just do a giant cheesy smile every single time you see her be nice overly nice the whole 'hey how are you!' that will wind her up the wall dont let her see it bothers you
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Ive had girls belittle me when i was at school, the best policy is to just do a giant cheesy smile every single time you see her be nice overly nice the whole 'hey how are you!' that will wind her up the wall dont let her see it bothers you
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Four stocks have been identified by the FAO (2001) according to the nature of the coastal shelf and prevailing currents which thereby affect recruitment. These stocks detail the major lobster producing countries, although there are many other countries that also utilize this resource:
Southern Stock: Brazil, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Lesser Antilles.
South Central Stock: Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras and Jamaica.
North Central Stock: Mexico, Belize and southern Cuba.
Northern Stock: North Cuba, USA (Florida), Bahamas, Turks and Caicos and Bermuda.
Landings of this species over the last 50-60 years, have fluctuated significantly, peaking at 37,500 tonnes in 1995/1996. Both the Northern and Southern stocks have shown an increase in landings, while the South Central stock appears to have stabilized, and the North central stock has shown a decline (FAO 2006). The biggest producing countries include Cuba, the Bahamas, Brazil, Nicaragua and the USA, which in 1998 accounted for over 88% of the global landings. This species is harvested using a number of gear types including traps, gill nets, by hand (divers), and aggregating devices known as 'pesqueros' or 'casitas' (FAO 2006).
Bahamas: Stock biomass abundance (as estimated from length cohort analysis) is reported to be showing a declining trend of 33% between 1992 and 2001 when it peaked at 24 million pounds and declined to 16 million pounds. There has also been a decline in the average size of lobsters since 1991/1992 when average tail weight peaked at 7.95 oz and declined to ~7.45 in 2001/2002 (Gittens and Braynen 2002).
Bermuda: Between the 1950s and early 1970s catches of this species fluctuated between 150 and 200 tonnes with a peak in 1968 at 250 tonnes. As of the 1970s there was a decline in catch to between 10 and 40 tonnes per annum. This decline in landings is likely a result of a conservation program started in 1975 which prohibited the removal of individuals less than 92 mm (CL); a closed fishing season between 1st April and 31st August over the breeding season; prohibition of the removal of berried females; protection of juveniles in nursery areas around the North Shore and inshore waters of the sounds and harbours (Evans and Evans 1995). Catch per unit effort (CPUE) is seen as an appropriate index of abundance when studying the Bermuda population, as annual sea temperatures fluctuate very little in this region and thereby have little effect on the catchability coefficient. During the period 1975-1986 there was an overall increase in CPUE from just 0.4 lobsters trap/ haul to above 0.6 lobsters trap/ haul (Evans and Evans 1995). During the period 1996-2001 CPUE was reported as relatively stable for the offshore fishery while the inshore fishery has shown a declining trend. In 2001/2002 fishing effort was reduced; total landings were still down in this season but CPUE was significantly higher (2.29 in 2001/2002 compared to 1.70 in 2000/2001) (Trott, Luckhurst and Medley 2002).
Belize: There has been a significant decline in the CPUE in the spiny lobster fishery in this region from ~1.2 kg/trap in 1965 to 0.6 kg/trap in 1997. There are also reports that 10% of the landings consist of undersized individuals (Carcamo 2003).
Brazil: Since 1959, there has been a significant increase in the landings of this species from 1,000 tonnes to over 10,000 tonnes in the early 1990's. There has since been a subsequent decline to annual landings ranging from 6,000 to 8,000 tonnes (FISHSTAT Plus 2000). During the period 1974 to 1993 CPUE declined from ~0.30 to ~0.15 (FAO 2001), a decline of ~50%. Abundance estimates (estimated by tuned length cohort analysis) show a significant decline since 1993 from ~25 to 30 million down to around 15 million in 1997. During this period there was a number of new fishing vessels entering the fleet, as well as an increase in the use of gillnets, traps, scuba divers and free divers. However the stock abundance of this fishery is largely driven by variable levels of recruitment which are brought about by environmental changes such as ENSO events. This in combination with a growing intensity in the fishing fleet could result in ongoing declines in abundance (FAO 2001).
Cuba: There are four lobster management zones in Cuba: North Western which accounts for approximately 2% of the landings; North Eastern which accounts for approximately 15% of the landings; Gulf of Batabano which accounts for approximately 60% of the landings; South Eastern which accounts for approximately 23% of the landings (Cruz and Adriano 2001). In 1953, landings of this species increased from approximately 1,000 tonnes per year to a peak of 13,578 tonnes in 1985. There has since been a subsequent decline to 4,401 tonnes in 2006. This species is of huge economic importance to Cuba and represents approximately 60% of the country's gross income from fisheries (Baisre and Cruz 1994). The particularly high landings from 1978 to 1988 was largely due to an increase in fishing effort. Cruz and Phillips (1994) found the number of pesqueros deployed on the fishery rose from 440,000 in 1975 to 856,000 in 1983 and 1,230,600 in 1987, as well as strict compliance with minimum legal size limits, and the closed fishing season (Puga et al. 1992). The decline in catch as of 1988 may be in part due to hurricane Gilbert which is thought to have affected lobster nursery grounds (Cruz Font 2002). Ninety percent of the lobster catch is comprised of lobsters aged 2 to 6 with 55% aged 3 to 4 (Cruz Font 2002). In the report by Cruz Font (2002) their calculations indicate that an increase in current fishing effort could result in higher catch as actual fishing mortality is lower than maximum yield, however this does not take account of the resulting effect on spawning stock biomass. The authors recommend that instead of defining a biological reference point (BRP) based on yield per recruit such as Fmax and F0.1 , they recommend adopting a view which focuses on spawning stock or egg production in order to preserve reproductive potential (calculated as reference fishing mortality Fx% representing a spawning stock biomass per recruit that is x% of that with no fishing). A BRP of 35-50%, based on spawning biomass, is recommended.
Jamaica: There has been an ongoing increase in the landings of this species since the early 1980's. Landings then peaked at ~700 tonnes in 2005. During this time intensity of the fishing fleet has increased significantly, however CPUE data is not available due to lack of cooperation from fishers (Kelly 2002).
Nicaragua: Over the history of this fishery, effort has increased linearly. Rates of fishing mortality (F) have reached levels of 0.53 per year while natural mortality is calculated at 0.35 per year. Regulations include annual fishing quotas which are defined by changes in annual recruitment; prohibition of fishing during periods of maximum recruitment and egg-laying (May-June); prohibition on removal of berried females. However at present there is no effective means to monitor or control these regulations. There has also been a decline in the mean length of individuals being harvested from 163 mm in 1990/1991 to 159 mm in 2002/2003 indicating growth-overfishing. Biomass estimates were obtained by means of length cohort analysis and indicate considerable fluctuations over the period 1990 - 2002. In the season 1998/1999 abundance fell to below 3,636 tonnes, while in season 1999/2000 it exceeded 5,454 tonnes but subsequently declined to below 3,636 tonnes in 2001/2002. The decline in 1998/1999 could be related to the effect of hurricane Mitch on nursery grounds and thereby affecting recruitment (Navarro 2002).
Puerto Rico: Over the period 1988-2001, landings of this species rose from ~150,000 pounds to 250,000-300,000 pounds per year (Matos-Caraballo et al. 2007). During this time CPUE for each gear type has also shown an increase. Average size of individuals has increased from the period 1988-1994 to 1995-2001 perhaps as a result of good enforcement of the minimum size limit (Matos-Caraballo et al. 2007).
Florida, United States of America-Since the 1970s the landings of this species have been fairly stable with some fluctuation occurring. Prior to this CPUE peaked at over 100 lbs/trap and then declined to ~10 lbs/trip in 1975. Since the fishing season of 1990/1991 the catch rate per trip has been steadily increasing from ~0.75 pounds/trip to ~1.12 pounds/trip in 1999/2000. Spawning stock biomass of females has also increased during the period 1993/1994 - 1999/2000 from ~2.5 million pounds to ~3 million pounds, while male biomass has shown some variability between ~1.8 and ~2.3 million pounds (Muller et al. 2000). Recruitment levels appear to be higher following the Trap Reduction Program which was implemented in 1992/1993, with numbers of age 2 lobsters rising from an average of 9.1 million lobsters, to 12.6 million lobsters (Muller et al. 2000). In 2000, Matthews considered the fishery to be in a stable state.
Venezuela: During the period 1950-1977, the landings of this species fluctuated between 100-200 tonnes per annum. Between 1977 and 1993 the landings then showed more dramatic fluctuations between 250 and 1200 tonnes per annum. This was followed by a subsequent decline to approximately 100 tonnes from 1998-2001 but has since shown an increase to approximately 1,100 tonnes. There is no formal data on fishing effort in Venezuela although sporadic reports have been made by Parque Nacional Archipiélago los Roques (PNALR). From 1994 to 1997, free divers CPUE is said to have decreased significantly (5,157 kg per diver per season to 2,966 kg per diver per season), while trap catches are thought to have increased during this same period from 80.2 kg per trap per season, to 93.2 kg per trap per season in 1996, and 90.8 kg per trap per season in 1997 (FAO 2001). At present ~95% of the landings of this species are derived from Los Roques Archipelago National Park (Yallonardo et al. 2001). Size frequency of lobsters taken during the period 1986-1988 and 1998-1999 did not differ significantly indicating that growth overfishing does not appear to be a problem. Mean CPUE by trapping increased from 2.29 kg/trap/month in 1986-1988, to 2.31 kg/trap/month in 1998-1999, and CPUE by diving increased from 133 kg/diver/month in 1986-1988, to 155.65 kg/diver/month in 1998-1999 (Yallonardo et al. 2001). While a decline in the landings was noted in the trap fishery (158,363 kg to 93,555 kg) this is likely related to a decline in the number of traps being used over this time period (275 traps to 225 traps) (Yallonardo et al. 2001). While the conclusion of this study implicates stability in the fishery, the authors note that only a single data point was used for the period 1986-1988.
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Hi all! Headbanging (*゜◇゜)y I & my sis went to see the "The big 4" metal copy-band gig on Jan. 15th Sunday; the "big 4" refers Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer! Believe it or not, we have a copy band for all of them in Japan!! and they do this get together gig once a year I guess.
The opening was a copy band of Testament; another favs of mine! It was quite cool, buttttt the following Megade-cyu was... oh no!!! Maybe I expected too much? or that Metallica copy band was so perfect?
Anyways, the whole thing lasted for 5'30" hours, quite fun!!! I think, each member of the band has their own original band (except Metallica? dunno) and they do this as a promotion or something. I sure want to go original bands, but it's quite rare they come to Japan! and it's so pricy!! so we go there to blast from time to time v(≧∇≦)v
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DALLAS -- When Jason Terry's shot bounced out and time expired during a scramble for the rebound, Jameer Nelson jumped on Dwight Howard's back and rode off.
There was a lot to celebrate -- the Orlando Magic's first victory in Dallas since 1997, and a win they probably had no business pulling off.
The Magic were down by as many as 15 and by 11 early in the fourth quarter. They were outshot, outrebounded and crushed on points in the paint and fast-break points. Basically, they lost every category but the one that mattered most, beating the careening Mavericks 102-100 on Friday night.
"We didn't do much well," Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy said. "What we did was hang in there and made plays at the end. To get this win says a lot about our team. I'm as proud as I've been of them all year. This was outstanding, even though if you look on paper we didn't play very well."
Dallas appeared to have protected a slim lead in the last half-minute when Terry rebounded a miss, but he lost the ball out of bounds. Jason Kidd then fouled Rashard Lewis and he made the tying and go-ahead points on a pair of free throws with 10.9 seconds left. The Mavericks blew their next possession when Josh Howard threw an inbounds pass right to Nelson, who then made one of two foul shots with 7.6 seconds left.
With one last chance to tie or win, Dallas went with Terry instead of star Dirk Nowitzki. He got a good shot over Nelson in the lane, but it went in, then out - the kind of bad break that happens to slumping teams. The Mavs have lost five straight and are 0-4 at home.
"Once you're in a funk, everything seems to go against you," said Nowitzki, who scored 17 of his 24 points in the first half, but hit a tying jumper and a tough go-ahead basket in the final minutes. "I think once we get a win, the bounces will go our way. ... Losing streaks are never fun to go through, but it's better to go through it in November than January or later."
Dallas (2-7) is in its longest losing streak since a six-game rut from Feb. 29 to March 9, 2000, a few months after Mark Cuban took over. That also was its last non-playoff season.
The misery is putting new coach Rick Carlisle in the wrong kind of crowd in team history. For instance, they're off to the worst home start since the 1993-94 club that went 13-69 under Quinn Buckner, and the home loss to Orlando is the first since the 1997-98 team coached by Jim Cleamons that went 20-62.
"We were just about there and it didn't happen," Carlisle said. "We were right there."
Howard, coming off his first career triple-double, had 18 points and 13 rebounds but only two blocks. Two more swats were whistled as goaltending.
Nelson scored 21 points and Mickael Pietrus had 20, including two huge 3-pointers down the stretch. Hedo Turkoglu had 12 before fouling out.
"Everyone stepped up offensively and a lot of guys made big defensive plays," Lewis said.
Dallas had seven more rebounds, five more assists and two more steals than Orlando. The Mavericks made 44 percent of their shots, the Magic only 39. They had a 44-22 advantage on points in the paint and a 24-14 edge in fast-break points.
"We didn't do anything but get the win," Nelson said. "That's all that counts."
Howard scored 25 points and Kidd had 13 points, seven rebounds and six assists. Kidd also had six turnovers and fouled out on the play that sent Lewis to the line for the winning points.
"We have to stay positive and keep playing," Howard said.
Terry scored 20 points off the bench, having been dropped to a reserve while Gerald Green moved into the starting lineup as part of Carlisle's latest attempt to get this team going. Before the game, he answered five questions with variations on the line, "We just got to get a win."
Both teams were dreadful early on, with Dallas' 5-of-17 start actually better than Orlando's 3-of-17. The Magic got on a little roll, taking a 25-23 lead early in the second quarter on an alley oop from Anthony Johnson to Courtney Lee, but the Mavericks soon answered with a 13-0 run that turned into a 10-point lead at the half.
"Somehow we got it done," Pietrus said. "We didn't play very well, and we have to get better. But a win is a win."
- Dampier got a technical foul in the third quarter for a shove of Howard. Lewis also got a tech.
- Green is the fourth different player to start at shooting guard. He's started at small forward several times.
- Nowitzki was 7-of-10 in the first half after going 5-of-17 each of the last two games.


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"It is remarkable that in a world of such dreadful suffering so many people should persist in believing in a good and loving God. It is in spite of the evil, and not because of it, that people hold on to such a faith. The fact of suffering is the strongest and the loudest argument against there being a God at all."
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It's fitting that after two less-than-stellar X-Men movies, the man who launched the franchise is once again the mouthpiece. Bryan Singer, the director of the first two X-Men films, is a producer on the upcoming X-Men: First Class and has emerged as sort of the behind-the-scenes face of the big screen X-Men. As a follow-up to the first trailer for First Class, which is directed by Matthew Vaughn, Singer spoke to the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex about some of the characters we finally saw in the trailer and Blastr was quick to point out that there is plenty of room for interpretation between the lines of Singer's quotes. Read what he said after the jump. Read More »


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NORTH BEND - The city held a ground-breaking ceremony last Wednesday for its new public works facility located in the 1100 block of North Bend Way, a few blocks north of the downtown corridor.
Construction will begin on the facility in the next few weeks with its completion date to be within one year. The city needed a new public works location because the current facilities are 50 years old, including an old house that was never intended for such use and is now dilapidated. Mayor Joan Simpson said the public works crew has labored in "less than desirable conditions for years." The crew has had to use outdoor restrooms and deal with holes in the facility's walls. Also, the current site, at 400 Bendigo Blvd. N., does not provide adequate parking for machinery and equipment. In addition, remodeling the facilities was not an option, because the site must be vacated for additions to the city's wastewater treatment plant.
"We've been needing this for about 15 years, so this is exciting," Simpson said.
The 9.3-acre parcel on which the new works facility will be built was purchased by the city in March 1992 for $475,000. Only 4.7 acres are suitable for construction. The new facility will consist of three buildings. One pre-engineered metal building will be 9,566 square feet in size and will house equipment and be a maintenance center. A wood-framed office for staff will be attached to the metal building.
The second structure, 1,793 square feet, will house the offices for public works administrative staff. Materials will be stored in the third structure, which will be 1,200 square feet.
The site will have 25 parking spaces and access to Southeast North Bend Way and Southeast Cedar Falls Way. The project was vested before the city's water moratorium and is eligible for water services. The new buildings will run on a septic system until a sewer line is available.
"The site development will fit in really nice with the existing environment," said Mark Alde, project manager for Premium Construction Group Inc., the company handling building construction. He said there will be landscaping and other physical elements of the project that will prevent it from looking like a plain industrial building. A Bellevue company, Lawhead Architects P.S., completed the design.
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And another new Zepto laptop gets available, this time a model optimized both graphics and work productivity on the, called after the Greek word referring at "the connection in a group or something that stands in the middle.â€
With the same simplistic design line that all Zepto notebook tend to follow, the 15.4-inch Nexus A15 is an eye-catching model sporting the Zepto illuminated logo, soft feel, aluminum connectors, and a keyboard with 2.8 mm key movement for precise typing response and comfort.
Running with the upgradeable Nvidia MXM platform, the notebook supports high-demanding graphics with the Geforce 9600M GT 512MB DDR3 (600/1600MHZ) card, which provides increased memory speeds and graphics power, as well as support for Nvidia PhysX and CUDA, the latter in charge with boosting your application speeds up to 12 times.
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WARREN - The message the Rev. Joseph Walker offered Sunday night at the Greater Apostolic Faith Church was one of endurance.
Walker, the keynote speaker at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Worship Celebration, reminded the hundreds of people gathered at the service that "when you make the decision to stand, you must be willing to endure the battles that come ... If you want to be a good soldier you're going to have to endure."
The program, "Witnessing the Dream," was sponsored by the Trumbull County Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance. Walker, pastor at Restoration Christian Fellowship in Warren, cited events that have struck the Warren community including shootings, fatal fires and tragic deaths of local young people.
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"With all that we have faced, all that we have gone through, if you look back, we're still standing," exclaimed Walker.
The program was among several area events held during the past few days in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The service included Scripture readings, prayer, the reading of the Negro National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," songs performed by the TCIMA Choir and an excerpt from King's "I Have A Dream" speech.
Walker told the people that the church of Jesus Christ is the only institution that can help them overcome. He said there is a unity being birthed, a community coming together.
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"Even in the midst of tragedy, the God we serve is able," Walker said. "When you look at all we've been through, with all that we've faced, we're still standing."
He said many of the situations the community has had to face have the potential to "take us out."
However in the midst of it, people including the youth have "prayed a little bit more," he added.
"How is it that we're able to stand at such a time as this?" he asked as the people stood in agreement.
"If God allows you to go through something, the same God that saw you get there is the same God that will bring you up out of there," he said.