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The U.S. Senate is considering a new version of the public option in an attempt to pass its version of the health care bill.
The new plan does not include a government insurance program. Instead, private companies would provide the same policies that members of Congress and the federal government receive.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is under fire from Republicans for comparing opponents of health care to supporters of slavery.
"You think you've heard these same excuses before? You're right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down. It's too early,'" Reid said Monday.
Reid neglected to point out it was actually the Democrats who supported keeping slavery in the presidential campaign of 1864, while the Civil War was still underway. Also, more Republicans than Democrats supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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USS Arizona's Last Band: The History of US Navy Band Number 22 by Molly Kent details the life and death of the members of the last US Navy band ever to serve aboard the USS Arizona. As the sister of Mus 2/c C. R. Williams, a member of USS Arizona's Last Band, Molly Kent is well qualified to write the history of this ill-fated US Navy Band.
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USS Arizona's Last Band was born at the United States Navy School of Music in Washington, DC in January 1941. It died in its entirety on 7 December 1941, a victim of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Molly Kent last saw the musicians of USS Arizona's Last Band at the Washington, DC Navy Yard. It was May 1941 and Arizona's new musicians were boarding a steamboat on their way to join Arizona. She vividly remembers how very excited they were to be assigned to the USS Arizona and to be going to Hawaii.
Six months later all 21 of those young musicians were dead.
In Hawaii, under the competent direction of bandmaster Fred Kinney, the Arizona Band soon became very popular and was known as "the best US Navy band in the whole Pacific Fleet."
Despite what you might have heard or read, Arizona's band did not participate in the second semi-final Battle of Music 1941 on December 6 at Bloch Arena.
According to the rules of the contest, the first and second place winners of each of two semi-final contests would meet in the final contest to be held on December 20.
The first semi-final contest was held on November 22. The two winners were the band of the Marine Corps Barracks and the Arizona band.
Consequently, having already placed in the first semi-final contest, neither of those bands would have been eligible to participate in the second semi-final contest.
Actually, the four bands which competed in the second semi-final contest on December 6 were the bands of the Argonne, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and the band from the Submarine Base, filling in for the Detroit band.
Although they did not play on the night of December 6, the musicians of the Arizona band and the Marine Corps Barracks band attended that contest. Naturally, they were curious to hear the two bands against which they would be competing in the final December 20 contest.
In addition, the Arizona musicians were eager to visit with their friends from the US Navy School of Music, especially the members of the Tennessee band. Since the members of the Arizona and Tennessee bands had attended the school together and had graduated from the school at the same time, they were all good friends.
This was not true of the musicians of the other bands playing that night. Those bands had graduated from the School of Music some time before and were older, so the Arizona musicians did not know them very well, if at all.
The winners of the December 6 semi-final contest were the bands of the USS Pennsylvania and USS Tennessee.
Thus, the four bands scheduled to meet on December 20 in the final contest of the Battle of Music 1941 were the bands of the Arizona and the Marine Corps Barracks, winners of the first semi-final contest on November 22, and the bands of the Pennsylvania and Tennessee, winners of the second semi-final contest on December 6.
Obviously, that final Battle of Music 1941 was never held.
Despite what you might have heard or read, the Pennsylvania band did not choose the winner of that Battle of Music 1941.
Fleet Recreation asked all the Navy bands still in Hawaii to choose by vote the band which should be awarded first place.
The USS Arizona band was chosen unanimously. As several musicians said, the Arizona band was the best band anyway.
Since that time, this trophy has been called the USS Arizona Band Trophy and now sits in a place of honor at the Arizona Memorial Museum.
And despite what you might have heard or read, Arizona's musicians were not in their beds asleep on the morning of 7 December when the Japanese attack began.
Seven battleship bands, including Arizona's, were lined up on the fantail ready to play for colors.
Immediately after the Japanese bombs began falling, all the musicians, including Arizona's, ran down below to their battle stations in their ships' ammunition holds, as they had been trained to do.
Just as Arizona's musicians reached their battle stations, the Japanese bomb struck their ship.
And in that instant Arizona died, along with most of her crew, including her entire US Navy Band.
During the five short months the band served aboard Arizona, her musicians practiced long and hard to improve both their musical skills and their Navy training.
Their reward for all their hard work has been more than 65 years of lies, ridicule and scorn.
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Molly Kent and her only brother Clyde Richard Williams were raised in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Molly worked in the Pentagon Building in Washington, DC during World War II. She now lives in Kansas City, Kansas with her husband of more than 60 years.
She has been a legal secretary, artist, author, and homemaker for her husband and their 3 children.
Molly has worked for many years trying to eradicate the lies about the last US Navy band ever to serve aboard the USS Arizona.
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March 11, 2010, 02:36 PM
Well I've been having some problems, my parents will not let me keep my guns in their home, before it was perfectly fine with them and now they will not let me keep them there at all, particularly my mother. I've been storing them in my trunk (called the sheriffs, they said it was fine) but I don't want to store them in the trunk because it doesn't seem like a good idea if someone were to break into my car and also because of rust. Being unemployed right now is also making it rather difficult but I'm not really sure what else I should do at this point. Would I be able to get a storage locker or somewhere else I can store the rifles? I've also checked the rifles for rust and there doesn't appear to be any, I just coated it down with those remoil wipes.


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Treasury 30-Year Bonds Break Six-Day Losing Streak Before Sale
U.S. 30-year bonds snapped their longest losing streak in more than four years as the U.S. prepared to sell $13 billion of the securities amid concern Europe's debt crisis threatens the global economy.
Treasuries rose, pushing 10-year yields down from almost a six-week high, as Credit Suisse Group AG analysts said at least 66 of Europe's biggest banks would fail a revised European Union stress test. Minutes of the Federal Reserve's September meeting released yesterday showed some policy makers saw "considerable uncertainty" U.S. growth will pick up and wanted to keep bond purchases under quantitative easing as an option.
"The world is not a better place," said Scott Graham, head of government bond trading at Bank of Montreal's BMO Capital Markets unit in Chicago, one of the 22 primary dealers that trade with the Fed. "Europe is kicking tires of a possible solution, but we haven't seen any credible package yet. The front end is getting a pop from what the Fed said yesterday with regard to the possibility of more quantitative easing."
Yields on 30-year bonds dropped six basis points, or 0.6 percentage point, to 3.14 percent at 11:31 a.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. Earlier they touched 3.11 percent. Long bonds had fallen for six days in the longest set of losses since May 2007. The price of the 3.75 percent securities maturing in August 2041 climbed 1 5/32, or $11.56 per $1,000 face amount, to 111 3/4.
Benchmark 10-year note yields fell six basis points to 2.15 percent. They rose yesterday to 2.27 percent, the highest level since Sept. 1. Three-year note yields decreased four basis points to 0.49 percent.
220 Billion Euros
The banks failing a revised EU stress test would need to raise about 220 billion euros ($302.3 billion) of capital, Credit Suisse analysts led by Carla Antunes-Silva wrote in a note to clients today. Eight banks out of the 90 tested failed the European Banking Authority's July 15 stress test, with a combined capital shortfall of 2.5 billion euros.
The European Central Bank said involvement of private-sector banks in euro-area bailouts through enforced investor losses would risk financial stability.
"Stress in European banks is the main driver in the market," said Carl Lantz, head of interest-rate strategy in New York at the primary dealer Credit Suisse. "It's clear that the optimism was much too strong in the market. Any negative headlines can easily be a catalyst to lower rates, and that is what we are seeing."
Treasuries pared gains after lawmakers in Slovakia approved an expansion of Europe's bailout fund, completing ratification across the 17 euro countries as the region's leaders prepare for a summit.
Treasury Auction
The 30-year U.S. bonds being sold today yielded 3.13 percent in pre-auction trading, beating the record low of 3.31 percent drawn at the last sale of the securities on Sept. 14.
The bid-to-cover ratio, which gauges demand by comparing the amount bid with the amount sold, was 2.85 times last month, the highest level in an auction of the maturity since March. Indirect bidders, the category that includes foreign central banks, bought 39.4 percent of the securities, the highest level since April.
The Treasury sold $21 billion of 10-year securities yesterday, drawing the lowest bid-to-cover ratio since November 2010, 2.86. The government auctioned $32 billion of three-year notes on Oct. 11.
"Yields have pushed far enough up to bring in buyers in the wake of the 10-year auction yesterday," said Ian Lyngen, a government bond strategist at CRT Capital Group LLC in Stamford, Connecticut. "The selling momentum seems to be getting tired without any material uptick in the economic outlook. Yields have backed up to a point that brings in buyer interest."
'Considerable Uncertainty'
Fed officials at their Sept. 20-21 meeting saw "considerable uncertainty" that U.S. economic growth will pick up, minutes showed. Policy makers decided at the gathering to replace through June $400 billion of Treasuries in the bank's portfolio with longer-term debt to reduce borrowing costs in a program called Operation Twist after a similar effort in the 1960s. The Fed previously bought $2.35 trillion of assets in two rounds of quantitative easing to spur the economy.
The central bank bought $4.88 billion of Treasuries today maturing from October 2017 to August 2019 as part of the program, according to its website.
"The twist operation is in the driver's seat today so far, so we should do better going into the operation," said Sean Murphy, a trader at the primary dealer Societe Generale SA in New York. "The Fed leaving the door open for QE3 sort of set the stage for a bit of a rally as it brings potential for more buying into the market, which would sterilize operation twist."
Treasuries have lost 1.3 percent this month after returning 5 percent in the third quarter, a Bank of America Merrill Lynch index shows. German bunds, perceived to be Europe's safest government debt securities, have lost 1.6 percent in October after gaining 6.2 percent from July through September.


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We were taking our daughter for her first Mediterranean cruise and joining two British couples for this much anticipated cruise. The ports were for the most part good...Cadiz was a waste and Barcelona was insanely crowded for mid September.
The food in the dining room was substandard. We were told several times that Royal Caribbean had spent 13 million dollars on a new menu. They should have left the menu alone. This was our 20th cruise with RC and by far the worst for the food. We only went to four of the shows and only one was good. We have seen the same acts time after time. Apparently they have trouble getting new entertainers. The Royal Caribbean singers and dancers are talented but the shows are virtually the same from cruise to cruise. There are two jacuzzis in the Solarium and every evening one of them was closed. There was a teapot in the room but you could not make coffee; it must be ordered from room service.
The ship was clean and well maintained and the captain was terrific. The cruise director's staff for the most part were very good. This is our second time on Adventure of the Seas and a few things need work. The miniature golf course was not in good shape and greens need to be replaced. We never found the diamond lounge and the reception for Crown and Anchor members is a waste of time. There was a sewage smell at one end of the ship the entire cruise. There are additional charges for most everything including ice cream which can be had at dinner for free. We love cruising but are looking at alternative cruise lines for future cruising.
Too crowded to enjoy. We did the hop on/off bus which took forever due to traffic. Would not return here.
A wonderful experience. A beautiful drive from Nice (Villefranche) to Monaco. Visited the wonderful aquarium, the Cathedral, the public park and saw the palace. Took the tram to Monte Carlo. Beautiful city, very friendly people and so clean!
Absolutely a waste of time.


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After releasing two album-worthy mixtapes in 2013 (The Luca Brasi Story and Stranger Than Fiction), Baton Rouge's favorite heart-on-sleeve-because-a-gunshot-splattered-it-there rapper Kevin Gates returns March 18th with By Any Means. On Friday, we deemed his sinister collaboration with late Alabama rapper Doe B, "Amnesia", one of the top songs of the week. Now Gates has dropped off "Get Up on My Level", a floating, gloating track in which the 28-year-old observes that, in all likelihood, your favorite rapper isn't hot as Gates is. Listen to it below.
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Friday morning at 7 am, we meet James and Beverly Rubio in the lobby of our hotel. They're going to lead us to one of James's favorite breakfast spots for loco moco on the Big Island: the Hawaiian style cafe called Hawaiian Style Cafe in Waimea which is up in the north central part of the island, about 60 miles from here. We follow them through Hilo and north along Hawaii Route 19 (also known as the Hawaii Belt Road or better yet as the Mamalahoa Highway.)
A few miles north of Hilo, they pull off at a roadside bakery (!) to get some malasadas to fortify us on this breakfast journey.
Malasadas are Portuguese donuts, usually rolled in sugar, big fried balls of eggy-yellow dough, brought to Hawaii by Portuguese people who came here to work.
These breakfast sweets are widely available in the islands, but we pulled in at Baker Tom's roadside place in what's apparently Papaikou, HI. I went up and met Baker Tom, explained what we are doing, asked if we could shoot James and Beverly here as they get some malasadas. Tom said he was OK with it.
So Bob and Glenn shift into work mode and start shooting the scene. At some point, I taste one of the malasadas, and I'm dumbstruck. They look as if they might be heavy, doughy treats, but they are instead airy light, hot and amazing. James ordered a variety, some traditional (just the incredible dough) and other filled with fruit. My first is an apple-filled. I am in doughnut heaven.
Baker Tom also makes savory malasadas. He tells me the Canadian-bacon-and-cheddar is the one that got his business started. His nephew (who is working in the kitchen) said that the pizza-pepperoni ones (popular with surfers and other young people says Tom) are the best, and Tom says he's sorry that his Jalapeno malasadas (a variation on jalapeno poppers) aren't ready yet. James testifies that they are maybe his favorites.
These are world-class breakfast treats, but you have to get to Baker Tom's early because when he's sold out every morning, there are no more. It's not yet 8 o'clock but already he's sold out of his biggest sellers: the peanut-butter-and-jelly ones. They are just reasons to try and get back here one day.


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When June 23rd rolls around, 60 players will immediately turn into professionals as they are selected by teams in the NBA Draft.
The majority of the NBA Draft is focused on the first round. With there only being two rounds in the draft, each team's first round pick is vital to whether a team was successful or not on draft night.
Derrick Williams and Kyrie Irving highlight this year's class, but this year is rather deep in terms of potential NBA starters.
Here is a list of the top 25 prospects, according to Chad Ford, and each of their biggest strengths.


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fire escapes and unlocked doors
what simple change might have prevented the death of some of the 146 workers who perished in the triangle shirt waist factory?
electric elevators
what invention made it practical to locate factories at the top of 10-story skyscrapers in the late 1800's?
better wages and shorter work weeks
what did the striking garment workers of the uprising of the 20,000 win?
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- No. 14
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The Money Is There, the Jenners Discover, but So Are Rude Fans and Marital Stress
"I saw Mark Spitz on a Bob Hope special right after the Munich Olympics," explains Jenner, 27. "He died, absolutely died. I think what happened to him is very sad." Jenner's post-Olympic plan was different. "I knew that if I won the gold medal," he continues, "I wasn't going to be a dummy and let it slip through my fingers. The whole ballgame is to preserve your credibility and not do something that makes you look like a fool."
So, unlike Spitz, New York-born Jenner, who was proclaimed an "instant millionaire" by the Montreal newspapers, waited to take the plunge. One-shot commercials for men's cologne and toothpaste were turned down. So was an offer to be a centerfold for Cosmo (even though Jenner was told he could be clothed and have picture approval). Equally cautious was Jenner's All-American wife, Chrystie, 26, who worked as a stewardess for four years while Jenner trained full-time. Chrystie, who quit United Airlines after the Olympics, declined book and modeling offers (and a chance to judge the Mrs. America contest).
Instead, the Jenners methodically set out to turn Olympic gold into lifetime security. They formed their own corporation, 8618 Inc., named after his world-record decathlon score at Montreal. Jenner hired sports packager George Wallach as his personal manager, who brought in Rogers & Cowan to handle publicity, the William Morris Agency for any show business negotiations and a licensing company for future products that might bear the couple's name. Bruce also signed up with a lecture bureau. His current fee: $2,500 to $5,000 per appearance.
"Bruce hates to sign autographs," says Chrystie, "but he loves to speak. And he's good at it." Jenner can talk about more than training and victory. He shares with audiences his grief when his 18-year-old brother Burt and Burt's girlfriend were killed in an auto accident only four months after the Olympic triumph.
Jenner began signing contracts in December. ABC was first. It hired him for two years of sportscasting, then offered to extend it to four when NBC acquired the rights to broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics. (He is thinking it over.) Meanwhile, the network signed both Bruce and Chrystie to do special interviews on Good Morning America. "Lots of people think we are a team," she says, "but lately I've told them that if they want me to appear, I need a separate contract." She has also been typecast in a bit part as a stewardess in an ABC made-for-TV movie, SST Death Flight. After subordinating herself to Bruce's Olympic ambitions, Chrystie is keeping her long-delayed plans for law school on the shelf for a while longer (she still needs 30 credits before she gets her B.A.). She also frets that the ABC deal was just a ploy to keep Bruce happy. Children will have to wait until, as she puts it, "our lives are a little less crazy—although Bruce and I want them very much."
As for endorsements, Jenner has signed a two-year contract with Norelco, and Buster Brown will soon be putting out a line of Bruce Jenner sneakers. The biggest deal so far will be announced this week: for the next five years, Bruce's picture will appear on packages of Wheaties for which he will also do TV commercials. Even the Jenners' celebrated golden Labrador, Bertha, who received so much publicity at the Olympics, is under contract to General Mills. The Jenner family's take from all sources in 1977 will be about $500,000.
With that kind of money moving toward their savings account, the Jenners can afford to be fussy. Long chided by Chrystie for being too passive off the athletic field, Bruce has refused to pop out of a box of Wheaties for a commercial. He also walked out of a photo session rather than throw Norelco fluorescent light bulbs like javelins. "Both of these things were hokey," explains Jenner, adding that "the Norelco people later said they were surprised I cared so much—none of the other athletes were that way."
Not surprisingly, the Jenners have moved out of their cramped apartment in San Jose and into a new $200,000 house in Malibu. "What is your collateral?" asked the banker. "One gold medal," replied Jenner. It proved to be enough for the house, but J.C. Penney has turned down the Jenners' request for a charge account, and Bank Americard won't raise their charge limit beyond $500.
"Bruce has not put me on any kind of budget," smiles Chrystie, who is merrily knocking out walls in their new home for added window space. "It's great fun doing exactly what you want." For Jenner, success also means occasional time with his "toys"—three dirt-bikes. On order is a small catamaran and a Porsche Turbo Carrera.
The rewards are high but so are the demands on time and energy. (Missed meals have dropped the 6'2" Jenner's weight to 193 pounds, five less than Montreal.) Recently, for instance, he covered The World Superstars for ABC in Georgia, flew to Tampa to accept the AP award as Male Athlete of the Year, caught the red-eye to Los Angeles, then slept a few hours before rocketing up to Monterey for a weekend workout with aspiring young Olympians. In one two-month period, the Jenners' tab for air fares alone came to $11,000. Bruce also must put up with increasingly belligerent fans. In one airport, a slightly drunk young woman grabbed and kissed him and then admitted, "I did that for a bet." When a passenger woke up Chrystie on an airliner to get Bruce's autograph, Chrystie complained mildly. The woman snapped, "You asked for it." Bruce's invariable politeness may be wearing a little thin. "I'm not getting any harder," he says, "but I am getting a little more respect for people's rights."
Jenner gets home about 10 days a month and says he misses it "more than anything else. I have to be more selective," he adds, "or I couldn't survive and have a marriage." Speaking for them both, Bruce adds, "Chrystie wants what I want, but the schedule pulls us apart in a lot of ways. When we do get together, we're so dead tired we both just fall asleep."
Between flights, he sits in the elegant restaurant at the L.A. airport munching Famous Amos cookies while Wallach, his manager, runs over several new proposals. The Franklin Mint wants to strike a coin of Jenner. ABC wants him to report to a circus to fly on a trapeze and later to climb Mount McKinley. Jenner groans. "You could have come in second," Wallach reminds him.
Jenner is bemused. Later, he leans back in his first-class seat en route once again to JFK and marvels: "I was in Georgia recently, and the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce had scheduled me as a speaker for that night. They sent a private jet down, and I sat there next to the pilot thinking about the extent people will go to just to see me." Glancing out the window at the landscape below, he reflects softly, "Just think, in Montreal I might have fallen in the hurdles."
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can take some credit for spawning the heavy metal genre (the term came from the "heavy metal thunder" phrase in "Born to Be Wild"), they remained, at heart, a hard rocking bar band, and this reissue of their 1995 double-disc live set bears witness to that. Now billed as
John Kay & Steppenwolf
, the band's lineup for the late '90s included original vocalist
Michael Wilk
on bass and keyboards, lead guitarist
Rocket Ritchotte
, and
Ron Hurst
on drums.
Live At 25: Silver Anniversary
is a well-paced run-through of their classic hits, which are stretched out a bit, but remain close to their original structure, and
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This tutorial is written with Photoshop in mind, but it can easiliy be adapted to other paint programs.
Introduction: A little background
A image file is a series of dots called pixels.
In a RGB file each dot has entries for which value of red green and blue will be used at each location. The amount of available colors in an image depends on the range of values allowed for each seperate R G and B value. Most common is 8 bits each. Each bit is +/- so this gives you 2^8 or 256 "shades" for each seperate R G and B value, and every pixel may be unique. So each pixel has (2^8) x 3 or 2^24 in color information. This is called 24bit graphics and has 16,777,216 colors. It is the most common type of image data. There is also 32bit color, but this is in reality 24bit color with either a padding or with a seperate alpha (transparency) channel. The real reason for 32bit color is that it is faster for a CPU to process 32bits at once rather than to handle 24bits, which while smaller does not align with the CPU as well.
In an indexed image it is a little different. Instead of color information, each pixel stores which entry in a color table it should use. So instead of 24bits per pixel there is 8bits. Each bit corresponding to the entry in the color table or palette. The color table dermines what those colors will be. The range of color per entry is the same 2^8 x 3 as a RGB image allows per pixel. The only limitation is the number of different shades in the image.
So, in a 24bit image, you change a pixels color by changing the information in the 24bits of color data. In an indexed one, you do it by changing the color in the color table (palette). So if you have a pixel that is 128,128,128 (50% gray) and you want it to be 0,0,255 (pure blue). You can not change the color of the pixel directly. You change the color in the palette. But, this changes the color of ALL 128,128,128 pixels to 0,0,255.
Also, if you apply a palette to an image and the same color appears in the palette twice, the paint program (or whatever imaging software) will not know which entry to use and will instead just pick the first one it finds.
This is why certain locations in the palette are reserved and why certain colors are reserved. For example with a Tech Icon (in civ3) the first two entries are reserved. This is fixed and can not be changed. By convention these first two colors are pure magenta (aka magic pink) and pure lime green (255,0,255 and 0,255,0) respectively. If you need an image with those two colors, you can in fact use any two colors in those slots. But, the colors used MUST not appear anywhere in the image. It is this fact that keeps us all using the same two reserved colors. No sober person is gonna want an image with those two shades in 'em.
note: the Photoshop and Paint Shop read an images palattes opposite of one another. So, when you look at the tech icon in Paintshop you will see that your palette looks backwards compared to these images.
Here is a tech icon I released last month with the palette used in that image.
Now with a unit the number of reserved slots goes up. The first two entire rows are shadow and smoke. The last four entire rows are civ colors (blues) and army colors.
You can use the Army colors in a unit and it is ok. But, you should probably not change these colors. If you read the unit making tutorial, it refers to a specific shade of blue as civ color. But, you can use alot of different shades of blue. Look at the palette of a unit. Look at the different shades of blue. You can even use multiple shades on the same unit. For example on my Norse Axeman, I have 4 dark and light blue stripes. The dark stripes are a couple of dark shades of blue, the light stripes are several lighter shades. In game this translates into a nicely textured shirt of the tribes colors no matter what color that might be.
If you do need different Civ colors, it is very easy to set this with Civ3FlcEdit and not worry about doing it manually. But, you still have to take care not to use the same colors elsewhere.
here is the palette of that norse axeman side by side with the palette of my Hummer Avenger. (The Norse Axeman is the one with only lime green for smoke)
Again, Paint Shop will show the palette the reversed from this.
But, the RULE is the same as with the tech icon. It is not the actual civ color which is reserved. It is the location in the table. And, the color can be changed to any color so long as that new color is not used anywhere else in the table. So, if you need a unit which is always going to have some blue, you can open a palette and change the civ colors to the same shade of RED or GREEN. (again only to make it easy on yourself).
Once you eliminate the 2 rows for smoke and shadow colors and the 4 rows for Army/Civ colors, you are left with 160 colors to work with.
Keeping these things in mind, we can now design a units color palette.
1. 160 colors to work with
2. Do not use colors in your palette that appear in the 6 rows of reserved colors. This is especially important with Civ colors.
3. A unit with out civ coloration is effectively useless in most games. It is part of the game. Including it is often the hardest part of making a unit.
Step by Step Tutorial
Steps I take in Photoshop, adjust as needed to fit your own paint program:
Creating an image with essential colors
A. Create the palette.bmp
B. Use Desaturate to eliminate un-needed colors in palette.bmp
C. Use the paint brush to reduce the colors in palette.bmp (Optional, can be skipped)
D. Change your RGB image to an index image.
E. Reduce the colors in your indexed image.
F. Save your palette both as an image and as a palette.
G. Create the PCX storyboard blank.
H. Add your custom colors to the blank PCX.
I. Add your storyboard to the PCX with the correct palette
A. Creating the palette.bmp (Creating a single image out of many storyboards. )
1. Open as many storyboards as you need to be certain you are getting every color your unit is using. Normally this will be just your most colorful storyboard, but it could include Death, AttackA, AttackB, etc... just be sure you get all the colors.
2. Select one of the storyboards.
3. Select the entire image. (ctrl + A).
4. Place this image in your copy buffer (ctrl + C)
5. Select NEW image.
6. It will propose a size based on what is in your copy buffer. Multiply this times the number of storyboards you are going to be using.
7. One by one Paste the storyboards into this common image taking care to not over lap the images (as this will reduce the colors displayed)
8. Save this image as palette.bmp
B. Eliminating un-needed colors from a RGB palette image
1. Open palette.bmp
2. in photoshop go to you the IMAGE\Adjustments\Hue/saturation. You may need to go to a different menu if your paint program is Paint Shop or GIMP.
3. Change the EDIT item from MASTER to BLUES
4. Change the Saturation and Lightness to the minimum values. In Photoshop, this is -100 for both.
5. Do the same for Magenta.
C. Eliminating un-needed colors from a RGB image with the paint brush
1. Use Magic Wand (or other method which allows the selection of specific colors).
2. Select the areas that used to be civ colored or magenta (background, shadow and smoke)
3. Select black, white, and other colors which either exactly or almost exactly match the other colors in the Army/civ portion of the palette.
4. Change the paint brush to an important color to your unit. It can be any shade at all that you wish to be certain is in your final unit. In photoshop, click on the top color of your paint brush twice. Use the eye dropper to pick up a color in your palette.bmp to paint with.
5. Paint over all your extra colors.
6. Save this as palette2.bmp
D. Changing your RGB image to an indexed one
1. In photo shop, select \image\mode\index
2. In the dialog box select 256 colors.
3. Make sure the option to force colors is set to NONE
4. Uncheck the transparencies box
6. Set the palette to either local selective or local perceptual. The first uses the actual colors by color weights in the image. The 2nd tries to sort the weights by which colors can be replaced based on similarities to other colors. The first is import if you have a dominate color theme (battleship) the second is import if you have a varied color table (humans)
E. Reducing the colors in an indexed image.
1. You need to eventually get to 160 colors. You should begin by testing. So open a couple of your original storyboards.
2. Paste a storyboard in your indexed palette2.bmp (or palette.bmp if you skipped that step).
3. Look for color discrepancies. Areas which are not displayed correctly and are not some shade your intentionally removed.
4. (optional) Look at the color table for obvious colors to combine. In photoshop \image\mode\color table
5. reduce the color in stages and optionally test along the way until you get to 160 colors.
F. Saving your palette.
1. Save your palette as .act file (just in case). In photoshop, image\mode\color table click on save, and save it as palette2.act
2. With the palette still open (from step 1), press Ctrl + Alt + Print Screen. This places a screen shot of that window in the copy buffer.
3. Close the palette
4. Select File\new and accept the default size
5. Select the new window and paste the contents of the copy buffer in to it (ctrl +V)
6. Save this as palette2.jpg
G. Creating the PCX storyboard blank
1. Open Civ3FlcEdit
2. Select the file menu \ new storyboard
3. Click on the Output tab and change the save to location to where you want your "in progress unit files"
4. Click on the frame tab and change the frame size and frame count to match your rendered images. Note Frame count is per animation, not total.
5. Click on the palette tab examine the settings and select civ color, palette type (I like ACT files) and so on to best suit you.
6. Click on the CREATE tab.
H. Adding your custom colors to the blank PCX.
This can be done with either your paint program or Pedit. I prefer Photoshop, but will cover both.
>> With Photoshop
1. Open your palette2.jpg and your bank PCX storyboard.
2. Resize your PCX so you can easily see the screen shot of the 160 colors you have in your palette.jpg screenshot
3. Select the PCX and Go to \image\mode\color table
4. Use the eyedropper and one by one add the 160 colors to the color table.
5. Save the PCX
6. Save the PCX's palette to the external palette file Civ3Flc Edit created.
>> With Pedit (alternative method, do not do this and the photoshop method as they are redundent)
1. Open your palette2.jpg and the palatte file Civ3FlcEdit create.
2. Use the eyedropper and one by one add the 160 colors to the color table.
3. Save the palette
4. Open the PCX in your paint program.
5. Go to image\mode\color table and click on LOAD and load the palette you adjusted with Pedit
6. Save the pcx
I. Adding storyboards to indexed PCX files.
1. Open the PCX file and the storyboards
2. Select the first Storyboard (click on image, and ctrl + A)
3. Place the image in your copy buffer (ctrl + C)
4. Paste this copy buffer in the PCX file (ctrl + V)
5. Save the PCX with a different name.
6. Save the palette with a matching name (image\mode\color table\ click on SAVE)
7. Repeat for each storyboard
Tips and Tricks
Note that you do not need to create storyboards for each animation so long as they are the same length and can use the same palette.
You do not have to have the same palette for each animation. So, if you are cramped on colors, ignore my advise on the single BMP for all animtions. And instead do this. Create as bas set of colors for all animations and a variable list. The variable list can be different sets of colors for attack and deathm for example. I had to do this for my BC303 unit.
You can control how dark or light the shadows are by using the 0,255,0 lime green trick I did above. As you see, I moved the shadow from the very dark image I accidentically rendered it with to the more mild one I released it with. Also, since I was cutting down on the shadow values, I did not want any of them bleeding over and becoming smoke. So, I just deleted all the smoke values.
If you review both palettes, you will see that I skipped the "paint over the army colors" step, and in fact I duplicate a couple of the army shades in my 160 colors without any problems. For some units this is cool. For those few where every color counts, than I did explain how to get every last possible color in your unit.
if your unit is mostly a monochrome (like ships) or has a dominate color you can shorten this a bit by using a color spread. In photoshop go to the palette. Select the first palette entry you want to include and drag yout mouse to the last entry. Photohsop will then prompt you for the first color and the last color and evenly spread the colors in between.
Do not be Lazy or sloppy with the tough parts. A unit with out civ coloration is effectively useless in most games. It is part of the game. Including it is often the hardest part of making a unit.
Do not forget the pedia icons. The same rule on colors as I mentioned on the tech icons are used.
Do not freak out if some minor thing goes wrong with the render. Post-process it. This means, you can edit out some issues in the BMP without re-rendering 800-1000 frames of animation.
Do not forget the "free" colors in the lower 4 rows. If a unit is getting tight on colors, using some of these is a great work around.
Take your time and be extra careful on the first few. It gets easier. Once you have done 3-4, it goes so fast you don't really even think about it.
Gray smoke works better than "civ" smoke. if you use Civ smoke and some of it touches your unit, that part will be erased in game. Gray smoke does not have this issue. The downside is that it can easily get too much of a cotten ball look.
Also, while I reccomend using your Paint program to create the palette. Or using PEdit if you have problems with your paint program. I uploaded a few palette tools you can play with if you think you need other options. You can get those here
included are:
Pal2Act.exe -> converts palettes from PAL format to ACT format.
Act2Pal.exe -> converts palettes from ACT format to PAL format.
pcxact.exe -> extracts an ACT formatted palette from a 8bit PCX
pcxpal.exe -> extracts a PAL formatted palette from a 8bit PCX
pcxclean.exe -> strips a PCX of all colors not specified in an external palette file
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The Civil War was perhaps the most tragic and heroic chapter in American history. So not surprisingly it has inspired countless artists, including many filmmakers, notably D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic "Birth of a Nation," Victor Fleming's "Gone With the Wind" in 1939 and Ken Burns' documentary "The Civil War."
As we continue to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, here are four memorable movies and one TV drama about the bloody conflict that redefined the nation.
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Now considered one of the greatest films from the silent era, this 1927 Buster Keaton Civil War comedy didn't impress critics or audiences upon initial release. The subject matter was not the typical fare, and it left audiences confused. "The General," which cost a then-exorbitant $400,000, is based on the true story of a Confederate train engineer (Keaton) who goes to extreme measures to save the love of his life as well as his beloved locomotive, "The General," from Union spies. "I took that page of history and I stuck to it in all detail," Keaton said long after he made the film. "I staged it exactly the way it happened."
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Every Valencia girls basketball game since the winter of 2009, there has been an antithesis in the gymnasium.
On the sideline, the Vikings head coach is pure fire.
Animated at times.
Passionate all the time.
Wears his heart on his sleeve.
A great example of Jerry Mike wearing his heart on his sleeve, and a moment he regrets to this day, is during a basketball game about five years ago.
Mike was frustrated, for one reason or another, and put his shirt over his face.
That picture was snapped and shown in this very newspaper the next day.
"I'm driven to win and I'm meticulous I think, and I respect the game a lot," is how Valencia head coach Jerry Mike describes himself. "I can be intense somewhat."
On the floor is pure calm.
Eyes of innocence.
Soft spoken.
You never know what she's thinking.
"I'm kind of quiet, but once you get to know me I'm a little loud," is how Valencia senior guard Kalia Summerlin describes herself.
It's a unique mix, but one that works for Valencia basketball.
And it's one reason why Valencia basketball is the frontrunner for the Foothill League title.
Mike understands that he can be hard to play for.
He's demanding and extremely competitive.
And sometimes for his message to be truly effective, he has needed a girl like Summerlin to convey it to others in someway.
The quiet Summerlin does it with her play.
She's one of the Santa Clarita Valley's premier guards — part distributor, more part-scorer with a basketball IQ and ball-handling ability that is beyond those of most of her peers.
The last two years, prior to the season's start, Mike has been ultra-complimentary of Summerlin.
After all, she was a Signal All-Santa Clarita Valley and All-Foothill League first-teamer in 2012, having averaged 14.0 points, 2.7 assists and 1.8 steals per game and an honorable mention as a sophomore.
She is also a four-year varsity player.
"She's always there. She's reliable. She's always putting us first," Mike says. "Not everyone's like that. If there's a harder worker in my 13 years, the hardest-working, most-reliable girls have been Kelley Tarver, Lauren Spargo and her."
That's special company in Vikings' lore.
Tarver is arguably the greatest player in Valencia history — the Foothill League Player of the Year in 2005 and a two-time All-CIF selection.
She went on to play at Cal State Bakersfield.
Spargo was a notorious hard-worker at Valencia and a four-year star for the Vikings who is currently playing for Long Beach State.
Those two were Mike's kind of players.
Summerlin came in as a freshman and played with Spargo, but was admittedly timid about her new coach.
"I was definitely scared of him. It was really intimidating coming in," Summerlin says. "It was probably my sophomore year by the time I was OK."
One advantage Summerlin had coming into the Valencia program was that she has basketball in her genes.
Her mother, Marli Sacolles, played basketball at Ventura College and Cal State San Bernardino.
Sacolles still plays basketball to this day and has played in the backcourt with her daughter in a league at the local Spectrum Club.
"If I make a bad pass, she's like, 'Mom?'" Sacolles says.
Sacolles agrees that her daughter was better prepared for a demanding program than most because of her basketball background, but her ability to get on the same page with a fiery coach is a credit to something else.
"I think it's part of her personality. She's always had an even temper," Sacolles says. "She was never an emotional child to begin with. Not overly passionate. That helped with her composure on the court."
Says Summerlin of her coach: "I think we balance really well. He's always energetic and into the game. I try to balance that out and calm the team down and focus on what we're trying to do."
Summerlin's career has been stellar at Valencia.
Three years, three playoff appearances, individual honors and she is receiving interest from four-year schools.
But she says the career is not quite complete without that elusive Foothill League title — a championship Valencia hasn't won since 2005.
Valencia is in first place in the Foothill League today because of a Jan. 15 40-38 win against three-time defending Foothill League champion Canyon.
The Vikings hadn't beaten Canyon since Jan. 22, 2010.
After the final buzzer, Mike smiled wide and pumped his fist.
"I had Jan. 15 marked on my calendar for a long time," he says. "It's that mountain to get over, the game to win, it's their title, they've done it. It's hard. My teams have been close for so long. I wanted it bad, and it came out a little (after that game)."
Meanwhile, Summerlin smiled and high-fived her teammates.
Happiness was evident, but not in abundance.
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high school Wyman's Hall, r. ns. Pine, b. 5th & 6th
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Avery, John, salesman at Pomeroy, Benton & Co. , r. ns.
Pine, b. 13th and 14th
Pine, b. 13th and 14th
Avery, John A., clerk , ns. Pinee.east of 13th
Avery, John H., r. ss. Pine, b. 14th and 15th
Avery, S. M., clerk 2n.north Front, r. ss. Pine, b. 14th & 15th
Avery, Samuel, r. ss. Pine, b. 14th and 15th
Avis, Charles B., clerk , 135n.north Main,r.residence Monroe house
Avis, Elizabeth, teacher , r. ns. Wash. av., b. 4th and 5th
Avis, Wm. H., clerk 18 Pine,r.residence 89 Washington av
Axt, George, trimmer of coaches, 238n.north 5th, up stairs
Axtell, Stephen D.dept. coll. , r. ss. Walnut, b. 8th & 9th
Ayers, Adin W., clerk , 132n.north 3d
Ayers, Andrew, laborer , r. es. 8th,n.north Biddle
Ayland, Wm., bricklayer , r. al. b. Ashley and O'Fallon
and Collins and Broadway
and Collins and Broadway
Ayres, Elijah S., ship carpenter , r. ss. Mound,w.west. 10th
Ayton, John, second hand iron store, 221 Market.
Babage, Francis, r. al. b. Menard and Buel and Marion
and Carroll
and Carroll
Barbaro, Bartell, laborer , r. es. 13th, b. Franklin avenue
and Wash
and Wash
Babcock, Leicester, attorney and deputy county recorder ,
r. ss. Lafayette square
r. ss. Lafayette square
Babcock, Rev.Wm. R., (M. E. Clergyman,) r. ne. cor-
ner 16th and Monroe
ner 16th and Monroe
Babes, Charles, cigar store, 208 Market
Babington, Charles, printer , r. ss. Clark av. b 12th & 14th
Babington, Geo. L., bookbinder , r. ss., Clark avenue, b.
12th and 14th
12th and 14th
Babington, Sidney, widow, r. ss. Clark av. b. 12th & 14th
Babka, Charles, tailor , es. 7th, b. Carroll and Soulard
Bach, John, shoemaker , ss. Franklin av. b. 10th & 11th
Bach, John, shoe manufactory, ns. Franklin avenue, b.
10th and 11th
10th and 11th
Bach, Louis, real estate agent , 11n.north 4th r. ns. Greene, b.
7th and 8th
7th and 8th
Bach, Martin, laborer , al. b. Jackson and Easton,n.north of
Bachelder, William, (B. Sc Boggett,) r. es. Collinsn.north of
Bachenstose, Joseph, clerk , r. ss. n. Market,w.west. of Br'dway
Bachman, William, carpenter , r. ss. Franklin avenue, b.
23d and 24th
23d and 24th
Bachnidi, Joseph, shoemaker , al. b. 12th and 13th and
Wash and Carr
Wash and Carr
Bacigalupo, Victoria, widow, ne. corner of 2d and Vine
Backer, M., (Mauntel, Bulte & Co.,) 73 s.south Main
Backhaus, August, clerk , r. ss. Geyer avenue, b. 7th and
Carondelet avenue
Carondelet avenue
Backhaus, August, clerk , 113 n 2d, r. cor. 7th & Greyer av
Backhaus, Bernard, laborer , ss. Geyer avenue, b. 7 th and
Carondelet avenue
Carondelet avenue
Backhaus, Henry, laborer , ss. Geyer avenue, b. 7th and
Carondelet avenue
Carondelet avenue
Backof, Frank, bricklayer , ns. Franklin av. b. 11th & 12th
Bacon, A. M., wire worker , 49 Market
Bacon, Charles K., clerk , 201 Morgan
Bacon, E. F., clerk , 49 Market
Bacon, E. H., agent for Hughes' bran duster bds.boards. , U. S.
Bacon, Fulton, clerk at Triplett McFadin & Co. , r. nw.
corner 6th and Locust
corner 6th and Locust
Bacon, Henry D., (Page & Bacon,) r. se. cor. Mor-
ton and Morrison avenue
ton and Morrison avenue
Bacon, Hyde & Co. , wholesale druggists, 73n.north Main
Bacon, James H., attorney , office ne. corner 4th and
Olive, r. ws. 10th, b. Pine and Chesnut
Olive, r. ws. 10th, b. Pine and Chesnut
Bacon, James L.tobacconist , 8 s.south Front,r.residence Centre, b. Mar-
ket and Clark avenue
ket and Clark avenue
Bacon, Jane(c) wash woman , al. b. 7th and 8th and
Morgan and Franklin avenue
Morgan and Franklin avenue
Bacon, Mrs., private boarding, nw. cor. 6th and Locust
Bacon, Sherman J.(B., Hyde & Co.,) non-resident
Bacon, Wm. M., watchmaker , ws. 16th n. Carr
Bade, Johanne, widow, es. 3d in rear of 235
Bader, Xaphir, laborer , es. al. b. Provenchere and 7th,
Rutger and Park avenue
Rutger and Park avenue
Badger, Alex., pilot , r. ws. 14th, b. Franklin av.avenue & Gay
Badger, Benj. G., (Walace & B.,) wood dealers, r. ws. 10th,
b. Jefferson and Monroe
b. Jefferson and Monroe
Back, Michael, tailor , r. es. al., b. 7th and Fulton, Park
avenue and Barry
avenue and Barry
Baensiger, Mrs. Anna, midwife , 76 s.south 3d
Baeppler, Gustavus, grocer , se. cor. 5th and Elm
Baer, Charles, blacksmith shop,ws.west side. Carondelet avenue, b.
Barry and Mirion
Barry and Mirion
Baer, Christina M., widow, es. 10th,n.north of Warren
Baer, George, tailor , ne. cor. 2d and Wood
Baer, Martin, teamster , se. cor. 7th and Barry
Baerellsmann, John H., drayman , al. b. 7th and Proven-
cheren.north to s
cheren.north to s
Baeuerlein, John sr., watchmaker , r. es. Carondelet avenue, b.
Carroll and Marion
Carroll and Marion
Baeuerlein, John jr., shoe store, es Carondelet avenue, b.
Carroll and Marion
Carroll and Marion
Bagels, Frederick, carpenter , ss. Victor, b. Columbus &
Bagga, Stephen, omnibus driver , ss Jefferson, b. 2d and
Bagging Factory (JohnBlaine, ,) nw. corner Mullanphy
and Front
and Front
Baggs, Emilie, (c.) wash woman , ns. Cedar, b. Main & 2d
Bagley, Edward, salesman 134n.north 4th
Bagley, Mary, widow, ns. Florida, b. Main and 2d
Bahan, Patrick, laborer , ns. Myrtle, b. Main and Front
Bahlmann, Joseph, cooper , nw. cor. Picotte & Carond. av
Bahrenpohl, , painter , ws. 16th, b. Franklin av.avenue &
Bailey, Bernard, blacksmith at (Fallon & Wright's,) r.
ss.south side. Franklin avenue, b. 6th and 7th
ss.south side. Franklin avenue, b. 6th and 7th
Bailey, Catherine, widow, ns. Monroe, b. Main and 2d
Bailey, Charles C., salesman , 133n.north Main,r.residence Virginia
Bailey, George, carriage repository at State Tobacco
Warehouse , r. Virginia Hotel
Warehouse , r. Virginia Hotel
Bailey, George, machinist , 198n.north 2d, r. ns. Myrtle, b. 6 th
and 7th
and 7th
Bailey, Geo. S., dry goods and groceries, 14 s.south Front
Bailey, Henry, confectioner , corner 2d and Locust, r. se.
corner 6th and Washington avenue
corner 6th and Washington avenue
Bailey, Isaiah L., bookkeeper at Finley and Dougherty's
Bailey, Jemima, (c,) chambermaid nw. cor. 9th & Morgan
Bailey, John, laborer , 94 Washington avenue
Bailey, John C., clerk 244 Broadwayr.residence 173n.north 3d
Bailey, Mary, teacher in Webster's school
Bailey, Richard A., blacksmith , 41n.north 3d
Bailey, Samuel H., wholesale confectioner , nw.
cor.corner 2d & Pine, r. se. cor. 6th & Washington avenue
cor.corner 2d & Pine, r. se. cor. 6th & Washington avenue
Bain, Collin, moulder , r. al., b. 9th & 10th & Carr & Biddle
Bain, John, boarding, 202n.north 2d
Baine, Thomas, carpenter , r. ns. Clark avenue, w 10th
Baine, Wm., laborer , 66n.north 7th up's
Baird Rev.E.Thompson, , editor St. LouisPres. , 88½
Baird, Mary, widow, ss. Warren, b. 9th and 10th
Bak, Herman, matchmaker , r. al. b. Menard and Buel,
Marion and Carroll
Marion and Carroll
Baker, Adam, barber , 82n.north 3d,r.residence 78½n.north 3d
Baker, Alexander H., clerk , ne. corner 5th and Franklin
avenue, r. ne. corner 13th and Morgan
avenue, r. ne. corner 13th and Morgan
Baker, Alexander H., clerk at Judds & Leeds
Baker, Ashley C., carpenter , r. 84 Franklin avenue
Baker, Charles, engineer, r. es. Broadway, b. Spring &
Baker, Charles, engineer , r. ns. Benton, b. Broadway & 2d
Baker, Charles, tailor , ws. Broadway s.south Warren
Baker, Charles C., carpenter , r. 84 Franklin avenue
Baker, Charles F., salesman , 34n.north Main, r. es. 12th near
Baker, Dorsey, carpenter & builder , nw. cor. 13th & Morg'n
Baker, Frederick, barber , 139 Morgan
Baker, Geo. R, clerk 124n.north 2d,r.residence City Hotel
Baker, Hermann, shoemaker , al. b. Franklin avenue and
Wash and 10th and 11th
Wash and 10th and 11th
Baker, H. R., M. D., cupper & leecher , office 94 Wash
avenue, up's
avenue, up's
Baker, Isaac S., clerk in Surveyor Gen. Office , r. country


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I just got back from my 24 week appointment and my blood pressure was 164/74 and I had an 8 pound weight gain since my last appointment. My OB is concerned that I may have Gestational Hypertension and has me doing a 24 hour urine collection and coming back next Tuesday. I'm just really worried that if something is wrong, that there is a lot that could happen between now and then. Should I be worried or looking for any other signs that something is worsening?
Not to freak you out, but I'd be really careful. That's a rather high BP and along with the weight gain could mean preeclampsia. Watch for the symptoms PP mentioned, along with extreme swelling in the face/hands/feet. Take it easy and keep an eye on things and call the doctor if you need to. I hope it turns out well!!
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I had to go through this same testing.. First they did a blood test to be sure I didn't have pre eclampsia, and when I passed but my BP was still high (roughly mid-high 130s over mid-high 80s), they asked me for the 24hr urine collection. (FUN, by the way.. lol) But I passed that test as well. In between those two tests was my 3 hr gestational diabetes test and I passed that one too! So on paper everything looks perfect with my pregnancy, but they really don't like where my BP is at.
A couple days ago, my midwife called me and asked me to go on modified bed rest, an additional 4 hours a day of just laying down doing nothing.. and if I could cut my hours back at work. Right now it seems like this is precautionary, b/c I have tested negative for everything and have none of the symptoms listed above.. but it's still scaring the bajeezus out of me..
Here's to hoping that you pass your test as well, good luck! One more symptom not listed was floaties or stars in your vision along with the blurred.. if you find out any ways to bring your BP down, please let me know!! If I can't do it with this bed rest, they'll kick me out of midwifery care, and I REALLY don't want to go to a hospital!
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I'm glad they caught it early! I saw a dr in one state and then moved and saw doctors in another state and no one tested me and they caught it at 37 1/2 weeks. by the time i was being induced my pressure was 190/something minimum!
Definately listen to your body and rest with your feet higher than heart level and on your left side a lot. keep cool. and stay away from fast food and take out which are high in sodium.


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Big ups to everyone involved with last nights fight, EXCEPT...
Major props to everyone who took part in last nights big fight, except Bob "fuckface" Arum.
First off I want to say last night was an amazing fight. People may scoff at the crowd of only 20,000 but in my eyes, it was a big success for boxing. I had never been to a boxing event outdoors and I have to say it was a great experience. The weather held up very nicely and just being under the night sky made the fight just that much more special.
Next, big props to the Yankees. The stadium is something amazing, just stunningly beautiful. They conducted the event with such class and everyone that worked for them did a wonderful job and was very helpful. They truly are a first rate organization. Great scoreboard screen btw.
Also, much love to the fighters. Yuri Foreman, I'm sure won a lot of fans over, me being one of them. The main event was exciting and both fighters fought with a lot of heart. Most of all I want to thank Arthur jr for being a great ref last night. One thing I have always hated about boxing is they are so set in the past. What Mercante did was something that should be applauded by all fans. When I seen the towel get thrown in I was a bit upset but happy because Miguel won but I didn't want it to end like that. Mercante went against the grain and that's what we need in the sport. We need people that are worried about the fans of the sport and not their pocketbooks. Major props to all three men for a wonderful job.
Lastly, major props to the fans for showing up. The crowd was very pro Cotto, as expected, but the atmosphere was so much fun. A Cotto fight is always a party but last night I think the outside brought the best out of the whole crowd. There was no fights that I seen and everyone was just in a friendly Cotto attitude. So much fun and seeing Miguel win was amazing. My favorite fighter and always will be.
Now for the bad part of the event, aka Bob Arum. I am so sick of this scum bag. Although I knew the undercard was a joke going in, I am still upset. Bob pretty much could of took a great event and could of put it over the top if he had cared about the sport. The undercard was pathetic and the co main event was an awful scrap. If he had put Lopez or another good PR in there, no doubt fans would of shown up. The disappointing thing was that everyone in attendance loved the fight and couldn't stop raving about it, imagine what a packed house would of done for the sports well being.
All in all, this was a great event. I loved the fight and everything about it. Miguel fought like a true champion and I got to say I was very proud of my warrior. Look forward to traveling to see his next fight. I also hope boxing goes to other open air stadiums so more fans can experience it. It was well worth the trip. Anyone else attend? Tell me what you thought about it. Even if you didn't, what did you think about last night?
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it was closer to 30,000 so it was a great success really
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Some friends was complaining that they couldn't hear a thing on the 2nd or 3rd floor.but besides that everybody loved it
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I was in the second deck and couldnt hear a thing Buffer was saying because the PR fans were SO loud
Great fight tho
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Oh one more thing I forgot to add. Major props to the young lady that sung the national anthem. She had an amazing voice.
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Star of the Garden State
Gov. Christie's ability to make the case for reform—and to defend his positions bluntly—has endeared him to GOP donors.
Public-sector unions are suffering historic defeats, and Mitt Romney is looking for a running mate. Now we have the biography of a man who figures in both plotlines. "Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to Power," by veteran reporters Bob Ingle and Michael Symons, chronicles the life of the New Jersey governor whose battles with state employee unions have made him a Republican star.
Mr. Christie's ambition appeared as early as the second grade, when he told a neighbor, "I'm going to be president someday." At age 10, he asked his grandmother for a law book for Christmas. He would go on to serve as class president in high school and student-body president in college.
This part of Mr. Christie's background probably won't delight his supporters in the tea party, who don't care for candidates drawn to politics as a career. But they may feel reassured when they learn that his up-and-down pursuit of local offices—state assembly, county freeholder—was marked by ugly fights with established pols whose pay or power he was trying to cut.
Similarly, voters attracted to Mr. Christie's reform agenda probably won't be impressed with the way he became the U.S. attorney for New Jersey. His main qualification for the job, the authors imply, was that he raised a lot of money for George W. Bush's 2000 campaign. A securities lawyer and lobbyist, Mr. Christie had no experience in law enforcement. He might have faced a tough fight for Senate confirmation, but he received the job offer on Sept. 10, 2001.
After the terrorist attacks the next morning killed more than 2,000 Americans, including more than 700 New Jersey residents, the state's Democratic senators, Jon Corzine and Robert Toricelli, decided that the president should have the personnel he wanted. Though Mr. Corzine later regretted this decision, it seems to have been the right one for the state.
Chris Christie
By Bob Ingle and Michael Symons
(St. Martin's, 302 pages, $25.99)
Along with prosecuting antiterror cases, the U.S. attorney's office under Mr. Christie secured more than 130 convictions of elected and appointed public officials. Every year from 2002 to 2007 his office secured more criminal convictions than the year before. "The guy that many laughed at in late 2001 and early 2002," write the authors, "departed as the longest serving and arguably most successful U.S. attorney in New Jersey history."
A key to that success was Mr. Christie's nonpartisan approach. He inherited a team of able prosecutors and helped them to do the people's work. An early target was a Republican, Essex County executive James Treffinger, who would be sentenced to 41 months in prison for covering up the awarding of contracts in return for campaign contributions and paying campaign workers with taxpayer funds.
By 2009, successful prosecutions and equally successful media relations put Mr. Christie in a position to challenge Mr. Corzine, whom he soundly defeated in the governor's race. As Messrs. Ingle and Symons remind us, Mr. Corzine had spent much of his tenure snuggling up to the public-sector unions. He dated a local union boss named Carla Katz, whose Communications Workers of America represented many state employees. He also delivered what became known as his "Norma Rae speech," when he shouted at a union rally: "We will fight for a fair contract!"
Mr. Christie, for his part, understood that the interests of state residents and the interests of union leadership often conflict. He sparred frequently with the New Jersey Education Association, the teachers union that he said "has been used to getting its way every time. And they have intimidated governors for the last 30 years." In 2011, Mr. Christie pushed through a series of reforms projected to save taxpayers more than $120 billion over 30 years by requiring state and municipal employees to cover more of the costs of their retirements.
Of course, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's reforms—revoking collective-bargaining power for government unions—go further, but Mr. Christie helped lead the way, showing that a governor can pick a fight with such unions and survive. Mr. Christie's ability to make the case for reform—and, when challenged, to defend his positions in blunt language—endeared him to GOP donors, who urged him to campaign for president. The leader of this effort was Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone, the first person that Mr. Christie called when he decided not to run. According to the authors, Mr. Langone responded by shouting: "Don't tell me that! . . . Oh, I'm crushed."
Soon after, Mr. Christie received a call from Mitt Romney. Mr. Christie laughs as he tells the authors that the former Massachusetts governor told him, "Thanks for not running. I think it was the right decision." Mr. Romney then asked whether he and his wife, Ann, could visit the Christies at their home the next Saturday.
What most impressed Mr. Christie about the visit, Messrs. Ingle and Symons report, wasn't anything that Mr. Romney said about politics. It was the ease with which Mr. Romney, the father of five, conversed with the Christies' four children. It may seem odd that a meeting with a party front-runner ended up being all about the kids. But family is a recurring theme in Messrs. Ingle and Symons's readable and fact-filled book.
Mr. Christie and his brother count each other as best friends, and Mr. Christie is known in the family as a second father to his younger sister, Dawn. The strongest relationship of all appears to be the one Mr. Christie shared with his mother, a straight-talking Democrat who had no tolerance for complaints from her children about their modest circumstances. She passed away in 2004 but once offered excellent advice for a politician being considered for a national ticket, and for anyone else: "Christopher, do the job in front of you as well as you can do it, and your future will take care of itself."
Mr. Freeman is assistant editor of the Journal's editorial page.


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just watch.... I'm in line.
And just like Exxon you'll collect in about 20 years. No individual business will be stupid enough to sue and wait that long for money. Just like the shrimpers they'll take their $5k today and go away. Exxon is still in court to this day on all these little businesses thinking they'll get $10M for a few cancellations at their B&B. Have fun, LOL


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Once kneaded, place into a large, greased bowl. Place dough inside, and turn over to grease top. *NOTE* Again, dough will be sticky so you may need to grease your hands to handle while putting dough in the bowl to let rise. Cover, and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size.
Texas Roadhouse Rolls and Cinnamon Honey Butter
Once kneaded, place into a large, greased bowl. Place dough inside, and turn over to grease top. *NOTE* Again, dough will be sticky so you may need to grease your hands to handle while putting dough in the bowl to let rise. Cover, and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size.
38 comments:
- Lizzy said...
I love when copy cat recipes work! These rolls look excellent~
- August 7, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- Whitney & McKayla said...
I'm SO excited to try these! I live in Kentucky now and Texas Roadhouse is huge here. I'm not the biggest fan of just mixing honey and butter because of THIS recipe: http://jamiecooksitup.blogspot.com/2009/11/lion-house-honey-butter.html
I'm originally from Utah and the Lion House has THE BEST honey butter ever.
- August 7, 2011 at 9:01 PM
- Michele said...
I can hardly wait to try these! I have a lot of good roll recipes, but I think this will be THE one! Thanks :)
- August 7, 2011 at 9:06 PM
- Muriel Miller said...
Holly these look absolutely DELICIOUS!!!! I so wish I could reach through the screen right now and eat like 5 of these with that delicious butter! YUM-MY!
- August 7, 2011 at 9:10 PM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
I just love the smell of homemade rolls rising and baking. I've never been to a Texas Roadhouse, but these rolls sound really good! :)
- August 7, 2011 at 9:30 PM
- sliceofsouthern said...
Carboholic that I am these are KILLING me! These are going on the "must do" list right now!
- August 7, 2011 at 9:33 PM
- Barefeet In The Kitchen said...
Those are beautiful rolls! I love making honey butter. I keep it in my fridge almost all of the time.
- August 7, 2011 at 9:36 PM
- Wanna Be A Country Cleaver said...
Holy Moly - I just died and went to heaven!!
- August 7, 2011 at 9:39 PM
- marina {Yummy Mummy} said...
woah. The rolls look perfect, but with that cinnamon honey butter? Over the top delish!
- August 7, 2011 at 9:44 PM
- I♥naptime w/ Chocolate Sundaes said...
Oh my goodness NO WAY! I LOVE these rolls!! I cannot wait to try these! New follower here. Can't wait to try all your yummy recipes!
I ♥ Nap Time
- August 7, 2011 at 10:03 PM
- Kelli said...
Oh Yeah! Texas Roadhouse's rolls are basically dessert. SO sweet and tender I almost feel guilty eating them, but I'm sure going to try out this recipe. Thanks!
- August 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- Julie said...
I'm a major bread-aholic, and these look amazing!
- August 7, 2011 at 10:55 PM
- Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life said...
Thanks for posting these recipes. There is no better comfort food than hot rolls, right out of the oven.
Your blog is a wonderful place to visit.
- August 7, 2011 at 10:58 PM
- Sinful Sundays said...
I fricking love rolls! Well, just bread in general, lol. I love that honey butter---probably going to be making that pretty soon!
- August 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- Angie's Recipes said...
Those buns look so great! Must be really wonderful served with cinnamon butter.
- August 8, 2011 at 1:05 PM
- Carolinaheartstrings said...
Yum. These are my fav and the butter. I say no more..delicious.
- August 8, 2011 at 7:34 PM
- Karen Xavier said...
The cinnamon honey butter looks gratifying, will definitely try these out... they look great and the ingredients are already at home.Love your blog... my first time here.
- August 9, 2011 at 1:05 AM
- Inspired by eRecipeCards said...
Very nostalgic for me, Honey Butter was my very first blog post (not as good or as pretty as yours)
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- August 9, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Megan said...
I am SO making these! My family LOVES these rolls!
- August 9, 2011 at 11:33 AM
- Val said...
I love any form of bread and top it with cinnamon butter and life is GREAT!! I make cinnamon butter all the time. It's an addiction in my house!! YUM
- August 9, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- The Country Cook said...
Wait - how did I miss this recipe?!?! Girl, you know I love me some rolls! My thighs are just begging for these little babies. LOL
I just love bread oh and that cinnamon butter is perfect sounding!!
- August 10, 2011 at 8:16 AM
- Linda said...
This looks like a great recipe! I love the shape and the easy way to achieve it.
- August 10, 2011 at 9:47 AM
- Teri@thefreshmancook said...
I love Texas Roadhouse rolls. They are so addicting. I can't wait to try these. I am always looking for a new roll recipe! I linked over to you from This Chick Cooks! Thanks.
- August 10, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- Katie @ This Chick Cooks said...
Those rolls look amazing. Love the cinnamon butter!
- August 10, 2011 at 7:07 PM
- Sarah E. said...
OOh I love their rolls and the cinnamon butter! Thank you for sharing :)
- August 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM
- Lauren Anslee said...
Can't wait to try these! I agree Texas Roadhouse rolls are pretty much the reason we go too!
- August 17, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust said...
I am so totally going to make these! I LOVE LOVE their rolls but we don't have a Texas Roadhouse near us. Thanks for the recipe!
- August 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- Kj said...
I am so glad I found your recipe for Twix ice cream cake on Pinterest because it means I found your blog! Wow you have the most delicious looking recipes and I can't wait to try ALL of them!
- August 20, 2011 at 6:03 PM
- Simone Collins said...
Yummy! Would love if you added this to our Thanksgiving Recipe Blog Hop and we are offering a prize to the recipe with the most votes! http://is.gd/4G4FKm
- November 16, 2011 at 12:13 PM
My husband just made these rolls and they are DELICIOUS!!!
- December 15, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- Bridget said...
These look great! I love your blog. Lots of yummy looking things i can't wait to try. I'm your newest follower I'd love it if you checked my blog out sometime, maybe even followed me back :) http://bridgetbakes.blogspot.com/
- January 12, 2012 at 5:22 PM
- The Daily Smash said...
Yum Yum Yum I want this now lol. Great blog check out my food blog.
Have a great Day :)
- January 13, 2012 at 9:43 PM
Is it okay to do everything BUT bake the rolls the night before? Have the raw rolls in the fridge overnight? Thanks!!
- April 6, 2012 at 7:35 AM
- Susan said...
I agree with you on Texas Roadhouse being all about the rolls. I have been craving these since I can't find a single one in the northeast! Thank you so much for the recipe!
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- April 18, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Can they be frozen after baking? They are in the oven now! I'm excited, but in my excitement I forgot that my husband and I probably can't eat 24-48 rolls (although I'm sure we will try).
- May 27, 2012 at 1:22 PM
- Holly said...
Anonymous- I've never tried freezing them, but I would imagine they would be fine to freeze. Let me know how they turn out if you do. Hope you love them as much as we do :)
- May 27, 2012 at 2:47 PM
- David said...
Does this recipe work well if you halve it?
- August 4, 2012 at 8:17 PM
- Alayna said...
I have made these rolls so much! Everyone loves them and I love that they make so much. Still trying to get them all the same size, though. Can't seem to ever do that:)
- January 10, 2013 at 6:58 PM


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Kansas' Three-Point Shooting Woes Continue to MountPosted by Brian Goodman on March 13th, 2015
At one of the most important times of the season, Kansas continues to go cold from deep. The Jayhawks pulled out an ugly, foul-plagued, over-officiated win versus an improved TCU team on Thursday, but their prolonged slump from beyond the arc also hit a new level of futility. For the second time in 10 days, the Jayhawks failed to hit a single three-pointer, making Bill Self's club the only power conference team this season to go without a long ball in two separate games. Kansas' dip hasn't been confined to just those two outings, though. Over the Jayhawks' last five contests, they've converted just 8-of-56 attempts for a ice-cold clip of 14 percent. With all due respect to Division I's low-majors, you're practically guaranteed to see eight threes find nylon if you flip on one of their games.
What's especially confounding is that Kansas is supposed to be a team stacked with shooters. Even amid its current streak of ineffectiveness, Self has six players who are hitting 35 percent or better on the season from distance. In the press conference following yesterday's quarterfinal win, the head coach tried to spin another tough shooting day however he could, saying that this kind of a stretch can lead to sharper focus on defense and rebounding. To the Jayhawks' credit, they defended well against the TCU offense and won the rebounding battle for the first time in three games against the Horned Frogs. Read the rest of this entry »