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During the recent Republican Presidential nomination race, focus on the 63,000-page tax code and its effect on American families became a hot-button issue. Herman Cain made it a cornerstone of his candidacy, releasing his 9-9-9 Plan for revising the tax structure in America; the eventual introduction of the "Fair Tax" (a 'National Sales Tax' based on consumption rather than income); and the eventual elimination of income/payroll taxes, the IRS, and the 16th Amendment (which in reality was NEVER legally ratified as required by the Constitution. But more on that in a minute…).
There was a desperate cry from Democrats claiming the Fair Tax would be discriminatory towards the 47 percent of Americans who pay NO TAXES and the estimated 12 million illegals who pay none as well. But wouldn't this accomplish Barack Obama's campaign mantra that "everyone" should pay their fair share? Of course it would… and that in and of itself is the reason Obama is adamantly opposed to it. It cuts right into his base of non-taxpaying constituents.
But what about the 53 percent of us who DO pay taxes and carry the burden for the generational welfare of families and illegal residents? What do we get for our money? And is it truly fair that we carry the entire burden while being asked to pay "a little bit MORE"?
I have decided that I am tired of wasting what little money I have to pay for individuals and families to sit on the sofa and do NOTHING all day except learn new ways to scam the system. Additionally, my frustration encompasses the manner in which my taxes are being squandered, through programs I am vehemently opposed to that have no substantial benefit to Americans as a whole. For example-$600 million to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, $300 million to Pakistan (a country who hid and protected America's number one enemy for some 5 years), $535 million to a bankrupt solar energy company, and $1.5 TRILLION to a stimulus program that has created NOTHING more than profits to political cronies and tax refunds paid to illegals and their families who don't even LIVE in the United States anymore, all the while cutting more and more benefits and pay for our active-duty military and veterans. Not to mention the $20+ BILLION for congressional pork-barrel projects in home districts used to buy votes for incumbent Congressmen and Senators, who live a lavish, career lifestyle on the taxpayer dime.
For these and other reasons, I made a conscious decision to STOP paying federal income taxes until an equitable, fair, and logical solution can be established that eliminates the fraud, waste, and abuse so rampant within the IRS and the federal government. I am fully aware of the legal consequences this action may bring, but they ones I am willing to accept head-on. I decided to inform IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman of my decision and await his response, which most likely will come as my front door is being kicked in by fully-armed, paramilitary IRS Agents. But I figured it was only fair to outline my reasons and wrote Doug a letter…
Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman
Internal Revenue Service
10th St & Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20004
August 10, 2012
Dear Douglas,
It is with much regret that I must inform you that I no longer feel it necessary to pay income taxes under the current system of government. This has been coming for some time, and I thought I would explain some of the reasons for my decision based on the current political, social, and economic environment within the Obama administration and Congress, as well as the country as a whole.
First, let me say I deeply understand why individuals are required to pay a federal tax for living in America. It's understood there is an elaborate infrastructure that must be financed. So much so that the United States federal government is the LARGEST employer in the world with our own Defense department employing 3.2 million people, nearly more than McDonalds and Wal-Mart combined. When you add in the remaining departments of the federal government, that number exceeds 20 million people. I mean, come on Douglas, that's a lot of people for an organization that produces not a single, tangible, consumer good. And you and I both know as well, with the Supreme Court ruling in favor of ObamaCare, that your agency alone is poised to hire an ADDITIONAL 16,000 paramilitary IRS agents to make sure every American has health insurance (but NOT identification to VOTE).
As well, I understand the federal government is tasked with protecting our vital national interests and borders, but with the issuance of Barack Obama's "Executive Policy" (which is just a 'kinetic' term for Executive Order) and amnesty for illegals, I think we've fallen gravely short in securing the borders and providing America with internal security. Wouldn't you agree, Douglas? And then there's the roads and bridges, postal service, FBI, CIA, NSA, DHS, TSA, DOJ, DHHS, VA, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, et cetera. I get all that. Infrastructure. But how about we look at the FALLACIES within this taxpayer system and how blatantly corrupt, fraudulent, and wasteful it is. Let's start with the IRS, shall we?
According to a report by Indianapolis television station WTHR-TV, millions of illegal aliens, many of whom do not even LIVE in the United States, are getting tax refunds totaling more than $4.2 BILLION from the IRS using Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITIN). As you are aware, an ITIN is a nine-digit tax-processing number assigned by the IRS to individuals who are obligated to file a federal tax return but lack or are ineligible for a Social Security Number (SSN) typically required to file taxes, mainly illegal criminals whom the Obama administration refuses to deport from this country. But to see the full scope of this scam, please read the following from FrontPage Magazine, "Illegals Get Billions in Tax Refunds."
But what's REALLY irritating, Douglas, are the number of people within your OWN parent organization, the Treasury Department (where Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had to pay up $42,000 in BACK TAXES before being confirmed as secretary). To date, 1,181 Treasury employees have been identified as owing $9.3 MILLION in delinquent taxes. That doesn't look good from my perspective. But your department is not alone.
A report from YOUR AGENCY shows that in 'Mr. Fair Share"s own administration, 36 members of his executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. And that's truly sad considering previous reports have shown how well-paid Obama's White House staff is, with 457 aides pulling down more than $37 million last year. That's up seven workers and nearly $4 million from the Bush administration's last year. Nearly one-third of Obama's aides make more than $100,000 with 21 being paid the top White House salary of $172,200 each. You would THINK they'd be civic-minded enough to pay "their" fair share. But then again, this IS the Obama administration we're talking about! In addition to the IRS and the Obama administration, let's take a peek at some other federal agencies with problem employees…
The IRS' report also found that thousands of federal employees owe the country more than $3.4 billion in back taxes. The tax offenders include employees of the U.S. Senate who help write the laws imposed on everyone else. They owe $2.1 million. Workers in the House of Representatives owe $8.5 million, Department of Education employees owe $4.3 million, and over at Homeland Security, 4,697 workers owe about $37 million. Active duty military members owe more than $100 million.
As usual, the Postal Service, with more than 600,000 workers, has the most offenders (25,640) who also owe the most — almost $270 million. Veterans Affairs has 11,659 workers owing the IRS $151 million while the Energy Department that was so quick to dish out more than $500 million to the Solyndra folks has 322 employees owing $5 million. And lastly, the country's chief law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, has 2,069 employees who are nearly $17 million behind in taxes. Like Operation Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder has apparently missed them too.
As a career Marine, I was taught that leadership is by example. Now honestly, Doug, what kind of example is the federal government showing the American taxpayer? That it's OK to just "forget" to pay your taxes? Or could it be that THEY, just as I do, believe the 16th Amendment was never LEGALLY ratified and is thus an ILLEGAL Amendment and requirement under the U. S Constitution? Let's take a look at that side of the issue for a moment…
Author and Researcher Bill Benson, in "The Law That Never Was," makes a convincing case that the 16th amendment was not legally ratified and that Secretary of State Philander Knox was not merely in error but committed fraud when he declared it ratified in February 1913. A review of the process in which many of the states purportedly ratified (or didn't) shows that their ratifications were not legal and should not have been counted. We're both aware that in order for the Constitution to be modified, an Amendment must receive ratification by three-fourths of the States, which at the time of the 16th Amendment would have required 36 out of the 48 states. Benson reveals the intricacies of how the ratification process never happened.
When Secretary Knox declared the 16th amendment ratified on February 25, 1913, he had received responses from 42 states and acknowledged that four of those states (Utah, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire) had rejected it, counting 38 states as having approved it. But did they? Let's take a look…
- In Kentucky, the legislature acted on the amendment without even having received it from the governor (the governor of each state was to transmit the proposed amendment to the state legislature). The version of the amendment that the Kentucky legislature made up and acted upon omitted the words "on income" from the text, so they weren't even voting on an income tax. When they straightened that out (with the help of the governor), the Kentucky senate rejected the amendment; yet Philander Knox counted Kentucky as approving it!
- In Oklahoma, the legislature changed the wording of the amendment so that its meaning was virtually the opposite of what was intended by Congress, and this was the version they sent back to Knox. Yet Knox counted Oklahoma as approving it, despite a memo from his chief legal counsel, Reuben Clark, that states were not allowed to change it in any way.
It should be noted, however, that attorneys who have studied the subject have agreed that Kentucky and Oklahoma should not have been counted as approvals by Knox, and, moreover, if any state could be shown to have violated its own state constitution or laws in its approval process, then that state's approval would have to be thrown out. That gets us past the "presumptive conclusion" argument, which says that the actions of an executive official cannot be judged by a court and admits that Knox could be wrong. We're down to the magical THIRTY SIX states approving the Amendment. But there's more… always is, ya know. If only one more state could be shown to have NOT ratified the Amendment legally, it would have been rejected, but Philander Knox was not about to see that happen!
The state constitution of Tennessee prohibited the state legislature from acting on any proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution sent by Congress until after the next election of state legislators. The intent, of course, is to give the proposed amendment a chance to become an issue in the state legislative elections so that the people can have a voice in determining the outcome. It also provides a cooling off period to reduce the tendency to approve an idea just because it happens to be the moment's trend. You've probably already guessed that the Tennessee legislature did not hold off on voting for the amendment until after the next election, and you'd be right – they didn't; hence, they acted upon it illegally before they were authorized to do so. They also violated their own state constitution by failing to read the resolution on three different days as prescribed by Article II, Section 18. These state constitutional violations make their approval of the amendment null and void. We're down to 35 states, which in essence SHOULD mean the Amendment did NOT pass by the three-quarters needed. But let's "spike the football" and destroy the Amendment even further.
Texas and Louisiana violated provisions in their state constitutions prohibiting the legislatures from empowering the federal government with any additional taxing authority. Now the number is down to 33.
Twelve other states, besides Tennessee, violated provisions in their constitutions requiring that a bill be read on three different days before voting on it. This is not a trivial requirement ~ it allows for a cooling off period. It enables members who may be absent one day to be present on another; it allows for a better familiarity with, and understanding of, the measure under consideration, since some members may not always read a bill or resolution before voting on it. (See, Douglas, things just never change. They don't read them NOW either!). States violating this procedure were: Mississippi, Ohio, Arkansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, West Virginia, Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Colorado, and Illinois. Now the number is reduced to 21 states legally ratifying the amendment.
Further review would make the list dwindle down much more, but with the number down to 20, sixteen fewer than required, this is a suitable place to rest without getting into the matter of several states whose constitutions limited the taxing authority of their legislatures, which could not give to the federal government authority they did not have.
In closing, Douglas, I hope you see why I feel no obligation to continue sending money to Washington due to the massive amount of fraud, waste, abuse, and outright dereliction of the Constitutional mandate that Congress pass a BUDGET annually, something that has NOT occurred in Harry Reid's Senate in over 3 years! This is border-line impeachable. And as I have said, leadership by example is what America needs and deserves. And until I begin to see this in all three branches of the federal government, I feel under no obligation to fund their extravagant, lavish lifestyles while nearly 20 percent of Americans remain unemployed and our national debt is at an all-time high. I realize you may say I shouldn't then take advantage of what America offers in terms of, say, our highway system ~ don't worry. You didn't build that… someone else built that for you. Like ME, and 120 million other Americans who slave on a daily basis to pay for our nation's infrastructure. It's paid for. Now it's time for Washington to pay us back through fiscal responsibility and openness. Until then, I bid you a good day, Sir.
Robert P. Dean
American Taxpayer
(Disclaimer: Statistical information contained in this article are from U. S. government sources and fully available to the public.)
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It's 3 am. Do you know if you're a man or a woman? When the red phone rings in the White House of your mind, is the hand that reaches for it broad and walnut-knuckled, smelling of food, with black hairs curling upward from the wrist? Or is it soft, slender, well-soaped, and all a-twinkle with rings given to you by a millionaire suitor?
We're all mixed up. Our most private selves have been riven by the sex war. You see it every day, all across this great nation: the fellas are trying to be more like the ladies, and the ladies are copping moves from the fellas. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times praises Barack Obama for his "feminine management style," while Hillary Clinton withdraws at the last minute from a Vogue photo shoot for fear of appearing "too glamorous." Are we offending reality with these antics? The psychologists tell us that we're all basically bisexual (the bisexual psychologists do, anyway), but it's a fact: little boys like trucks, and little girls like shoes. And when it comes to your iPod, it's every gender for itself.
Yes, we've proved it. The Phoenix, uniquely for a paper its size, is in the privileged position of having both a man and a woman on its staff, and once this fact had been pointed out to us, it was the work of a moment to get the two staffers in question — James Parker (man) and Sharon Steel (woman) — into our basement lab to perform an alt-weekly experiment. What music, we asked our subjects, makes them feel most (in his case) "manly" or (in hers) "womanly"? Their responses were shocking in their black-and-whiteness. It turns out that Parker, who is 62 and on his fifth marriage, uses old-school metal to shake up his curdled testosterone, while Steel — a Project Runway finalist and author of the best-selling fake memoir Dreams, Tweens, and Silver Machines — self-administers doses of brand-new girly pop as necessary.
The implications of this study are enormous, and when Parker and Steel provided us with their gender-based playlists, we felt obliged to share them with you, our headphone-wearing and hormonally variable readers. What did we learn? We learned that you don't mess with Mother Nature — one of our subjects was accidentally exposed to the other's "sounds" and there was some serious psychosexual fallout. So handle this information with care, brothers and sisters, because here it is: the yin, the yang, and the whang-dang-doodle.
James Parker: Songs my balls taught me
Ted Nugent, "Stranglehold"Politically piggish, a huge boor (and bore) waving a crossbow, the Nuge has in spite of this (or perhaps, as they say on NPR, because of it) made one indelible contribution to the genre of masculinity rock. "Here I come again now, baby/Like a dog in heat . . ." From 1975's Ted Nugent, "Stranglehold" 's spooky, I'm-going-to-beat-you-up-slowly vibe and shimmering sub-psychedelic guitar solo conduct the male listener deep into the bristling caverns of his psyche. And who does he find there? Himself, of course. Crouched by the ancestral fire pit. Toasting a marshmallow on the tip of a tiger's leg bone.
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Sounds very cool DustB ! Wish I had smell o vision !
Because I'm the moron I am I can't help liking my SotD thread post. So I repost it here as a thread because some scents don't get the respect their advertising demands.
Here's what the it says on the box so you guys can understand:
"Sex Appeal.
Now you don't have to be born with it.
This Provocative, stimulating blend of rare spices and herbs was created by man for the sole purpose of attracting women. At will.
More than the usual promise in a bottle. It's more like a guarantee.
Splash it on your face, your neck, your chest. The more you use, the better.
Because it is truly Sex Appeal. (And man can never have too much.)
Sex Appeal by Jovan.
For the first time in the history of the world...
We bottled it."
Perfect writing for a You Tube review too. It tells you you'll get the chicks, tells you how much you need to use, tells you how to apply it. Tells you it's never been done before. Tells you you'll be transformed like having a wish granted by a genie ("At will.")
And I'm wearing it today. Step aside and let the man go through.
Last edited by DustB; 6th June 2010 at 07:26 PM.
That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.
Sounds very cool DustB ! Wish I had smell o vision !
Petty small minded people have no place in my life.
Sex Appeal is a gem. I find its herbal amber very appealing.
Aw cool, another admirer of this awesome frag! I love Sex Appeal For Men. I recently posted my thoughts on this one in the Powerhouse Users Group, but in a nutshell, I think this is one of the precursors to the 80s powerscents. I smell a ton of patchouli and spice in this, and it give the frag some real swagger and attitude. It smells to me a lot like KL Homme. Love it.
I read that on the box in 1979, my first year (A-Levels, equivalent of year 12) in a co-educational school. Those words were too much to resist by this adolescent with hormones a-raging and zits a-sprouting. Saved up my allowance and bought it. There started a love affair that endures till today. Did it attract girls then? Lets just say it masked other stuff that could have repelled them.
Nice post, DustB.
ointments and perfume delight the heart....
That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.
Sex Appeal is a really fun fragrance. I'm glad it's getting a shout out like this. Honestly, I got mine as a freebie because I thought the packaging was a hoot, but to my surprise it's a really nice, friendly herbal amber in that retro amber vein. It's never going to be an all-time favorite of mine, but I can say I like it more than any men's designer I've tried from released in the past ten years or so.
I love Sex Appeal for men!
It is long lasting on me and I enjoy it very much.
I never heard of this fragrance before, until I noticed my boss was wearing some fragrance that smelled very nice.
When I asked him what he was wearing, he said 'Sex Appeal'...
Couple days later, I bought myself some on Ebay.
Very cheap in price, but what a classy scent!
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in the world, don't seek a second opinion ---
ehhmm..one more fan here.
I love it and it's the only drugstore scent in my wardrobe and I have to have it. Wonderful ambergris, patchouli and spices. I always find it a pleasure to wear this. Don't you wish other Jovans were still available today too? Sport, Andron, Oleg Cassini for Jovan, Germany, France, etc. etc.
Thanks DustB for the thread.
I bought a bottle of it at a local pharmacy last year, applied it liberally to neck and chest when I got back in my car and couldn't resist the urge to pull over three times on the way home just to grope my own bod. Good smelling stuff.
we have seen the enemy...and he is us.-Pogo
Being a long time participant at basenotes (Ok not as prolific as Mikeperez or Kbe :-) ) I've realized that despite our best efforts some amount of fragrance snobbery does creep in. This is despite a conscious effort to evaluate a fragrance for what it is and not be prejudiced for its price.
I remember owning a bottle almost a decade ago. Then I bought one again ( I think 2 years ago) for like 10 bucks and then again that snobbery made me give it away to a friend. This stuff is good. It should be liked even more for what it sells for, not pushed into oblivion, as most of us do to cheap but beautiful frags.
Good thread DustB
I don't know this scent. I'm intrigued by your reviews, it seems to be a nice 70's sexy scent. Its package remembers a....condoms' box!
I have to admit (blushing) I actually like the way this smells on a guy. I don't own a bottle because I don't like that particular smell on me...but catching a whiff of it on someone else is a good thing. Seriously.
I can't personally attest to your claim of 'getting the chicks' but that sort of thing isn't a problem for me.
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Sounds interesting. I'm wearing Jovan Sport Scent Cologne Spray right now ( Thanks Henry !!!) and this thread had me looking up Sex appeal. I have never smelled it.
Sport Scent is a greened out lavender with a mossy patch and tabac bottom to it. Retro ? Yes indeed, but still pretty good.
Nice post, DustB. Nice scent with a silly name. I mean, really... It's like those Michel Germain scents with the word "sexual" in them. I think the most blatantly sexual scents don't even refer to sex, such as Alexander McQueen Kingdom, which is redolent of a dandy's armpit.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
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"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
I really wish I smelled anything even a little dirty in Kingdom... It was just kind of bland and transparent on me.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
I think I also saw this at Wal-Mart.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
Hey gang, it's always fun to have one of these scent adventures, and I think we're all on target here, with Shamu's observation that it's got a '70s spicy bold brashness. It was with me all day yesterday, and oh man, the laydeez just wore me out. Couldn't post about the experience until this afternoon. Anyway, no doubt Perfaddict's younger self will confirm the number of conquests this brings (especially since this is the Internet).
The drawback to the stuff is it's not very complicated. Yesterday I found hand soaps I used to be more interesting to the nose. It makes sense that it's nice to smell on someone you're near, because that doesn't mean you're smelling it all day. But smelling it all day is a bit of a letdown given the scent experiences we've all become familiar with.
That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.
love the after-shave and edc! smells wonderful... cant tolerate it in edt form....
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My joys are sampling new scents and the occasional discount store blind buy. A true fragrance journey. I was even happy to buy some D'Orsay Etiquette Bleue soaps and a soap from Richard James.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
I chalk it up to being a "generational" thing. I'm weaned on bold and much louder compositions and am quite sure if my generation had the aquatics as its flagship, my tastes would lean to lower-volume and "fresh" scents. In the end though, all that matters is......" Do I like this scent.....or not"????
hi guys! some reviewers mention an eau de toilette variant, which i find a tad confusing.
where i live, sex appeal in only obtainable through online shops, as an 88ml cologne spray.
what's its longevity and how does it project please?
would be much obliged to hear from the frag's enthusiasts.
best wishes, f
Many american companies simply write cologne spray especially on masculine fragrances. It's not about concentration.
I don't think there are different versions of sex appeal but I might be wrong.


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After writing my post about site definitions and web templates a lot of people have asked me whether you can use web templates to create site collections. The short answer is 'yes, you can'. This post will walk through the steps of how to actually do that. In this post I will build a very basic web template, the point of the post is how to use web templates to create site collections. If you want more in-depth information on how to create a web template take a look at Vesa's post.
To create a web template we start by opening up Visual Studio. We will create an "Empty SharePoint Project". I will call mine "MyTemplate" but you can obviously give it any name you like.
We will start of by deploying the solution as a sandboxed solution. Make sure the URL you choose to deploy the solution to actually points to an existing SharePoint site on the machine you are working on.
RIght-click on the project name in the solution explorer and select Add > New Item. Choose to add an Empty Element and give it a nice name. I will call mine "MyCoolWebTemplate". I would advise you to choose a name that doesn't contain any spaces.
Visual Studio will automatically add an Elements.xml file to your empty element. In here we can define the metadata of our web template. For those of you who have built site definitions in the past, this file will replace the webtemp*.xml file that a site definition uses. In order to allow us to use an elements file to specify a web template a new XML element was introduced with SharePoint 2010, the WebTemplate element. The WebTemplate element can contain a lot of attributes, but we don't need all of them.
A site created using a web template will only use that web template while the site is being provisioned. After that the site will think it is based on the site definition and configuration listed in the BaseTemplateID, BaseTemplateName and BaseConfigurationID. These attributes have to be filled in for the web template to work properly. You should base your web template on an out of the box site definition that is as close to the web template you'll be creating as possible. In my case I have chosen to use the standard Team Site site definition. This site definition won't actually be used when the site is being provisioned, but it is what the site's SPWeb.WebTemplate, SPWeb.WebTemplateID and SPWeb.Configuration will return if queried after the site has been created. I know this is confusing, but it's important to wrap your head around it, in order to understand how web templates work. A big plus of this approach is, that when at some point you want to migrate your site to SharePoint vNext you don't have to rebuild your custom site definition for vNext. The site looks like it was created based on a standard site definition and modified using the UI afterwards. This means it should be easier to upgrade the site than if you had created your own custom site definition.
The Name attribute of the WebTemplate element will have to exactly the same as the name of your Empty Element in Visual Studio. If these two don't match the web template won't deploy properly.
The Title, Description and Display Category is what the user will see when he uses your web template to create a new site, so make sure those are clear and descriptive.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<WebTemplate BaseConfigurationID="0"
Description="A cool site for cool people to share cool stuff"
DisplayCategory="Cool sites"
Title="Cool Site">
The next step is to add an ONET.xml file to the empty element in Visual Studio. You can use the ONET.xml from a standard site definition as a base, but you will have to make some adjustments to work around the fact that not everything you can use in a site definition is supported in a web template. I will be using the ONET.xml from the standard Team Site. You can find this in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\sts\xml folder. If you copy the ONET.xml file into your empty element make sure the Deployment Type is set to ElementFile. Depending on how you copy it in there, it might set to NoDeployment by default.
Now open up the ONET.xml file to clean it up.
You might have noticed that when you added the empty element to your project, Visual Studio automatically created a feature for you. If you started with an empty project the feature will be called Feature1. The empty element will be automatically added to the feature as well. In my case the title of the feature is MyTemplate Feature1. I will change this into "Cool Web Template Feature". If you want to you can also add a description. By default, the scope of the feature will be Web. Adjust the drop down to change the scope of the feature to Site. Now rename the Feature1 file to something more descriptive. I will rename it to "Site-CoolWebTemplateFeature". Notice how I'm prefixing the feature with the scope it will be deployed at. You don't have to do that, but I find that if your solution grows a bit bigger it is helpful to do so.
That's it for now, we are ready to deploy our solution. Right-click your project's name in the solution explorer and click Deploy. Visual Studio will now package your solution for you and because we chose to deploy it as a sandboxed solution it will deploy it to the Solution Gallery of the site collection you set at the deployment target when creating the project. Open up your browser and browse to that site. Go to Site Actions > Site Settings and click on the Solutions link in the Galleries section. The gallery should contain your sandboxed solution and it should be activated.
Now go back to Site Actions and choose New Site. You should now see our Cool Sites category and in it should be the Cool Site template.
This confirms that we can now create a sub site based on our Cool Site template, but that wasn't what we set out to do.
Open up Central Administration and go to Application Management > Create site collections. Fill in a title and a URL. You will notice that from the Template Selection control you can't choose our Cool Site. That makes sense, because we deployed it as a sandboxed solution to a single site collection. That means it won't be available when creating a new site collection from Central Administration. If we are using a hosted environment like Office 365 we will only be able to deploy sandboxed solutions, so we will have to make do with that. However we still might want to use our own templates for creating site collections.
Go ahead and select the Custom tab in the Template Selection control and choose < Select template later… >. Fill in a primary site collection administrator and click OK. A new site collection will be created.
Browse to the newly created site collection. The site collection wasn't fully provisioned, because we never selected a template for it. Because of that, browsing to the site will redirect us to the Template Selection page right away. Click on the Solution Gallery link on the page.
Select the Solutions tab in the ribbon and click on Upload Solution.
Click on the Browse button and select the .wsp file from the Debug or Release folder in the bin folder of your Visual Studio project. Activate the solution straight away.
Use the ribbon to browse back to the site collection. You will now be able to select the Cool Site from the template selection control.
If you do so and click OK, the Cool Site template will be used to fully provision our newly created site collection and you will be able to browse to it.
This is one way to use web templates to create site collections. However if you are working in an on-premise SharePoint environment where you can deploy full-trust or farm solutions and you have to create multiple site collections based on the same web template you might want to consider another approach.
Go back to Visual Studio and first clean up by right-clicking on your project's name in the solution explorer and choose Retract. This will deactivate the feature and remove it from the site collection you deployed it to. Retracting the solution using Visual Studio won't remove it from the site collection where you uploaded it to manually.
Next click on your project's name in the solution explorer again and in the Properties pane change the value for Sandboxed Solution from True to False. Click Yes when you are challenged by a pop-up.
Now click on the feature you created earlier and change the scope from Site to Farm. If you want to be precise you should also rename the feature, to give it a farm prefix.
Deploy the solution again by right-clicking on your project's name in the solution explorer and selecting Deploy. Visual Studio will re-package your solution and because we chose to deploy it as a farm solution this time it will deploy it to the Farm Solutions Gallery in Central Administration. Go to Central Administration and click System Settings > Manage farm solutions. The manage farm solutions page will show your solution and it will tell you that the solution has been deployed.
Now go back to Application Management > Create site collections and fill in a Title and a URL. You will now notice that you can select your web template straight away from the template selection control on the create site collections page.
Basically from a user interface perspective the web template now behaves exactly like a site definition would. Not only can you create site collections based upon it, but because the web template was deployed using a farm scoped feature site owners will also be able to use the web template to create sub sites from any site collection in your SharePoint environment.
So there you have it. You can create site collection based on web templates, both in a hosted and in an on-premise environment, using either a sandboxed, or a farm solution.
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Great article.I have a little query, you wrote - "You should base your web template on an out of the box site definition that is as close to the web template you'll be creating as possible. In my case I have chosen to use the standard Team Site site definition. This site definition won't actually be used when the site is being provisioned, but it is what the site's SPWeb.WebTemplate, SPWeb.WebTemplateID and SPWeb.Configuration will return if queried after the site has been created."Do these site templates have Id's in the same way a defintion would? So that within code you can identify what template the site is? Rather than what it's been told it's based on.Cheers,Wes
Hi Wes,Thank you!You can create a site based on a web template by using custom code. You simply use [Feature Guid]#[Web Template Name]. Spaces in the web template name are no problem. Mirjam
Hi Mirjam,In my solution, I am trying to provision the customWeb Template "TestTemplate" (Created using save as site template) on a site only if the parent site is also of the type "TestTemplate".So I am using the code :if(Web.WebTemplate == "TestTemplate"){ // Code to add TestTemplate in the web's Template collection}The problem is , Since "TestTemplate" is based out of 'STS' I get Web.WebTemplate's value as "STS" and not the template I am looking for.Is there a way to determine if a web was created using a custom Web Template ?As per msdn documentation (link below) it may not be possible...msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms436902.aspx Is there any way you would suggest for this ?Looking forward to your reply !Thanks,Pallavi
Hi Pallavi,There is no way to determine whether a site or web template has been used to create an existing site, the only thing that's stored is the site definition they were originally based on. If you create a web template it's a best practice to add a feature that stores the web template used and its version in the property bag of the site, but if you are using save site as template to create your template you can't really add your own feature to that. Theoretically you could import the saved site into Visual Studio to add the feature, but I would advise you to recreate the template using Visual Studio to create the web template and then add the feature to add the necessary data to the property bag.Hope that helps.Mirjam
Hi Mirjam, small question: Is it possible to hide te webtemplate from te user interface in case you only want a administrator to use him with scripts? Thanks, Rutger
Hi Rutger,There is not "hidden" property for the WebTemplate element, like there is in the webtemp.xml files, but you can use the SharePoint user interface to hide web templates from it. You can do this by going into Site Settings and browsing to Page layouts and site templates under Look and Feel. In here you can select templates that can be used to create sub sites. Be aware that using this feature means you will have to enable new templates that can be used manually. Mirjam
Hi Mirjam,Thank you for this nice walkthrough...it is georgous!!!One samll question....;)<!--Property Bag Feature--><Feature ID="{4dc959fb-eaad-4286-8df0-e7404c4635c2}" Name="Property Bag Feature"><Properties><Property Key="GeneratedBySaveAsTemplate" Value="1" /></Properties></Feature>Do I have to delete this lines from the Onet.xml also??Special thanks for your article again.Have a nice dayby Christian
As a side note, you can create your web template within SharePoint and then use it to provision Site collections. This is pretty much as you said in your original article - once you've got your WSP it's just the same as above - but I thought it might be worth highlighting as it's a nice way of avoiding Visual Studio while making your Site Collection templates...
Thanks a ton !!I added a property bag to the site collection's root web and my solution now works fine!
Hi Christian,I never succeeded in adjusting a site that was saved as a template in Visual Studio and deploying it again, but I would assume you can savely remove that property from the ONET.xml. If you remove it and it breaks you can always put it back...Mirjam
Mirjam, Is featureactivation allowed. I need to bunch of thing after a site is provisioned. I follow ur article and everything works. Now i need to do something on feature activation. Please suggest.
Hi Amber,I'm assuming you are trying to use feature receiver. Feature receivers can be used in features in web templates. Be aware that only features in the ONET.xml of your web template get activated. Anything in th ONET.xml of BaseTemplate site definition or stapled to that site definition won't get activated.Can you provide more information if this wasn't the information you were looking for?Mirjam
Hello Mirjam,Is it possible to target only SiteCollections with a WebTemplate (= not listing the template when creating Sites)?Thanks,Bernhard
Hi Bernard,I don't think it's possible to target a web template to just be available for site collection creation as there is nothing similar to the WebTemp.xml file's RootWebOnly property available for a WebTemplate. Sorry for not being able to help.Mirjam
I'm beginner in SharePoint 2010. I read articles related to web templates but no where I found how can I create web template using my own site which I already customized.
Hi Mirjam,Great articles on WebTemplates, thanks.I have one issue, when I deploy my WebTemplate solution to the Farm Solutions, I see it is deployed but I cannot see the template when I come to create a new site collection or sub site.Do you know any common reasons why this might be?ThanksMark
Hi Mirjam,Ignore my question. In my stupidity, I hadn't enabled the feature!!Thanks for the great article.Mark
Very nice and useful article for me!Thank you very much!
Hi,Is it possible to deploy a web template to only one web application in the farm? If not, how would you recommend that i activate features for a web or site template inside of a single web application? Please note, i cannot create custom site definitions.Thanks in advance!Carlos
Hi Carlos,Unfortunately is't not possible to deploy a web template to a specific web application. The best thing you can do is to create your web template in a site collection scoped feature and then create a solution that activates that feature on all sites within that one particular web application. It's far from ideal, but I don't really see any other way.Regards,Mirjam
There are several ways to do site provisiong in SharePoint for instance: Custom code Create site from web template Create site from site definition Create site from site template Vesa Juvonen has written a good article comparing different site...
There are several ways to do site provisiong in SharePoint for instance: Custom code Create site from web template Create site from site definition Create site from site template Vesa Juvonen has written a good article comparing different site...
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can i get the same thing in sharepoint 2007.create a new templates tab at template selection. under new tab custome templates.how can i do this?
Hi mohiuddin,In SharePoint 2007 web templates didn't exist yet. If you are working with SharePoint 2007 you can either create a site template by saving a site as a template from the UI (in 2007 this will create a .stp file), or you can use Visual Studio to create a site definition. You can find some information on site definitions here msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms434313.aspx. Hope that helps.Regards,Mirjam
Hello mirjamthaks for the reply.i fixed this issue by using Wsp builder.regards,Mohiuddin.
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I would be cool to post the contents on the ONET.xml up here to see. I keep getting errors when deploying my Solution.
I had created site templatecan you guide mehow to attach property bag value to site definition
In general There are several ways to do site provi
Will you do the same with SP2013 and VS2013?
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This year many of us are using packages from down south due to winter losses in area. If the package queen doesn't lay, how long until laying workers develop? Or said another way, how long until it will be hard for a new queen to be accepted.?
To help a friend with this problem (four weeks after package install), we are trying the "add a frame of open brood each week" for 3 weeks, and if they don't raise a queen by then we will have received a replacement queen -- but the package bees are obviously older than average at this point.
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A critical incident is "An event that overwhelms a person's usual coping mechanisms"(Mitchell, 1999).
Examples of critical incidents on a college campus include:
Responding quickly and in an appropriate manner can make the difference between healing and long-term psychological distress.
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Note: all services are provided free of charge to the GVSU community and are designed to respect the confidentiality of those involved.
The GVSU Critical Incident Response Team is ready to assist you, your staff, your residence hall, you department or your fraternity, sorority, or other student organization. Whether it is one-to-one crisis counseling or small group interventions, our team will consult with you to help plan what is best for your students and staff. For more information about our services contact the GVSU University Counseling Center at (616) 331-3266 or email@example.com.
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I'm headed into the hospital for some surgery tomorrow. Please add me to your prayer list!!!
I'm headed into the hospital for some surgery tomorrow. Please add me to your prayer list!!!
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good luck!
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You got it.
To everything there is a season....
May God bless you and the medical team.
Will do.
Don't provoke a hive full of angry bees.
I pray for the good lord to watch over and protect you during your time of need, and that he would have his hand on the doctors and staff as they do their work.
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May the Holy Spirit guide the hands of your surgeon.
Greg, you are in my prayers. Please give update as you can.
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In The Lord Jesus Name we ask this. Amen.
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I hope the surgeon performing the operation is skilled and things turn out okay. Be sure to thank the person responsible when you wake up. I'm sure it'll be someone who spent countless hours studying and practicing to perform skills acquired over several decades...
We the willing have done so much with so little for so long we can now do anything with nothing
Praying for you.
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Thanks for all the throughts and PRAYERS!!! After spending a week in hospital I've been home recovering and getting stronger and stronger each day. Hope someday soon to get out and check on the bees!!
Thanks again everyone!!!
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It is hard to put into words the thanks and gratitude to the people of this city and county for your generosity and support of the Harrison County Food Pantry. You just out did yourself again this year. Over 4,000 pounds of food was collected. A great big thank you goes to our postal employees that collect and weigh all this food. I know this is extra work, time and effort on their part, but without them, this would not be a success.
This is a first for me - a letter to the editor - but there's something I need to say to our city and county officials after the last flood. I'm very proud of the job that our current recreation director, Rick Chasteen, has and is doing at River Road Park. However, we're still at River Road Park and not moving very fast, if at all, to the new park we have on Oddville Avenue. Let's do what's best for the kids and residents of the county - move to the new park and empty space we have there.
I want to thank everyone who has made a contribution of any kind to the Berry Festival, which is scheduled for June 5, from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Without the support of friends and businesses around the county, we would not be able to have our festival each year.
I'm wondering what has happened to our town. My caretaker, Angie Dawson grows flowers and sells hanging baskets. She had been trained with the Farmers Market, but did not want to sell at the park this year, so she went to the Mayor and County Judge and purchased her license to sell here in town.
I would like to address the problem that working people have when it come to getting any kind of government help.
Harrison County High School National Beta Club chapter is in need of your assistance in providing a memorial scholarship in honor of a late classmate. Kayla Poteet's young life ended tragically her junior year, in an automobile accident, devastating her classmates, school and community.
Hats off to all 15 contestants who competed in the first round of the #3 Cynthiana Idol competition. I invited two of my grandchildren to accompany me to the Rohs Opera House Friday evening and we were thoroughly entertained.
I want to thank the Rohs for being creative and coming up with family fun events. I encourage our Cynthiana community to support the Rohs by their attendance.
Once a week my husband meets with a friend to talk sports while I stay at home, close to the computer, to look up obscure sports trivia such as "When was the last time a Canadian hockey team won the Stanley Cup?" (Montreal, 1992.)
Here's a bit of sports trivia: How many points did Football Hall of Famer Ed "Too Tall" Jones score during his career? The answer: none.
He played in 245 games, made 1,032 tackles, blocked 86 passes, was credited with 57 quarterback sacks and 19 fumble recoveries, but not one touchdown and not even one field goal.
Tuesday is the primary election.
To say it's an important primary election would be an understatement. Many Harrison County political offices will be on Tuesday's ballot, including sheriff, jailer and some magistrate and constable positions.
It might be May, but for some of those running, it feels like November.
Over 12,000 voters are registered in Harrison County. In the 2008 primary, only 33.9 percent of those registered voters came to the polls and cast ballots.
We are nearing the time where many young people will celebrate a lifetime of accomplishments as they graduate from high school and move toward their life goals. Family and friends will gather together for a festive occasion to commemorate this awesome milestone.
Traditionally, this is also a time when alcohol enters into the mix and brings tragic results for all involved. Alcohol is the most commonly used drug among American youth and it kills 5,000 teens every year.
I have a small box in my room that is filled with cards.
I save every note and letter I receive - those wishing me 'Happy Birthday,' those thanking me for something, those just saying 'hey' and those that say more than we're ever capable of saying face-to-face.
And I treasure them all, especially those that showcase my niece's newly developed cursive writing, or my grandmother's distinct print or my mother's even and predictable letters.
On May 18, Harrison County residents will be going to the polls to cast their votes for a vital office within the law enforcement community.
I know all three candidates and am friends with all three as well.
I am supporting Roger Fuller to be our Sheriff and ask you to do the same. Roger began his career as a teenager dispatching for the Cynthiana Police Department and then became a dispatcher for the Kentucky State Police/Dry Ridge until his acceptance to become a State Trooper.
The other day I told a pastor friend about the time God put me in Time Out.
I had gone to speak at a church women's event, and at the time I thought I was the second coming of Beth Moore, a superstar Bible teacher with an almost cult-like following.
I went expecting that, after the event, I'd be hoisted onto people's shoulders and carried through the streets to shouts of "Hooray for Nancy!"
This year the Saint Edward Altar Society will conduct their fourth annual yard sale. It will be at the Florence Tobacco Warehouse at the junction of Oddville Ave. (U.S. 62 East) and Republican Pike (Ky. Hwy. 392) on Thursday, May 6, and Friday, May 7, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturday, May 8, from 9 a.m. until noon.
Everyone knows about March Madness.
But now there's "April Sadness."
While UK fans are still crying over the Wildcats' loss and Duke fans are still throwing confetti, city crews are picking up a basketball for a good cause.
Next week, city crews will battle one another for the crowning reign of "April Sadness" champions.
The city fire department and police department will take the floor at City Hall gym first on Tuesday, April 20 at 7 p.m.
As a reporter, I've heard of many crazy things. But for the first time, I actually sat in my Democrat office and laughed out loud.
It was a Friday morning call from Jo Banks. A coordinator for the Youth Livestock Club, Jo keeps me updated on the goings-on of the organization.
I wasn't surprised to hear from her. But I was surprised to hear what she had to say.
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Promise Neighborhoods Round 3 Competition Announced
The U.S. Department of Education has released the 2012 application for the Promise Neighborhoods program, which will provide $60 million to continue support for existing implementation grants and award new planning and implementation grants. Adult education providers are eligible. As part of the White House Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative, Promise Neighborhoods seeks to direct federal funding to transform neighborhoods of concentrated poverty into neighborhoods of opportunity. Applications are due July 27, 2012 and must be fully uploaded and submitted, as well as date and time stamped by the Grants.gov system, by 4:30 p.m. EST. Awards will be made in December 2012.
Planning grants will support cradle-to-career services for high-need communities. Implementation grants will support efforts to enlist and coordinate better education, health, and safety services; provide young people the opportunity to be successful in school and everyday life; and boost family engagement in student learning and access to learning technology. Funds may be used to improve learning inside and outside of school; build support staff; secure additional and sustainable funding sources; and establish data systems to record the community's development and progress.
Nonprofits, institutions of higher education and Indian tribes are invited to apply for funds to improve educational outcomes for students in distressed neighborhoods. We encourage interested parties, particularly adult education providers, to review Proposed Implementation Grant Priority 8: Family Engagement in Learning Through Adult Education, a priority when plans are coordinated with adult education providers serving neighborhood residents.
The Department will provide $27 million for up to seven new implementation grants with estimated first-year awards of $4 to $6 million. Implementation grantees will receive annual awards over three to five years. An additional $7 million will fund up to 14 one-year planning grants estimated at $500,000 each. Remaining funds will provide year-two funding to the five 2011 implementation grantees.
Adult Education and Immigrant Integration Procurement
OVAE seeks a contractor for the new procurement, Adult Education and Immigrant Integration, to develop a technical assistance model based upon the three pillars of immigrant integration: linguistic, civic and economic. OVAE requires technical expertise in designing an integrative and innovative approach to reduce barriers for skilled and low-skilled immigrants and refugees, and integrate them into the U.S. workforce. OVAE is engaged in market research to identify potential offerors, clarify OVAE's requirements, and remove barriers to maximize competition. Interested parties are invited to participate in a webinar on Wednesday May 9, 2012, at 1:30 p.m. If you're interested in the webinar email firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com. For additional information on the webinar, visit www.fbo.gov solicitation number EDVAE12R0058.
Alignment at Work in CTE
As indicated in the April 19 OVAE Connection discussion of the Blueprint for Transforming Career and Technical Education, the principle of alignment is focused on ensuring that CTE students are enrolled in high-quality programs offering a streamlined, structured sequence of rigorous, blended college-preparatory and career-oriented instruction that prepares them for the high-demand, high-skill occupations of the 21st century. The administration's proposal anticipates that such programs will be more responsive to labor market demands and increase state involvement in assuring that. The proposal also calls for secondary school teachers and college faculty to work together to integrate academic, career, and technical content to enable students to both grasp the material and appreciate its connections to real-life career scenarios and choices.
Alignment was a featured subject in a recent national press call that Secretary Duncan, OVAE Assistant Secretary Dann-Messier, and Stan Litow, IBM's vice president for corporate citizenship and corporate affairs and president of the IBM International Foundation, hosted for reporters. Litow began his remarks by applauding the blueprint because it will "better prepare America's youth for college and careers." Litow noted, however, that a crisis is upon us, saying, "We often talk of a jobs crisis, but when you look at the data we really have a skills crisis and we really need action." Litow also pointed out that the demand for skilled workers already exists. "Fourteen million jobs will be created in the next ten years for students with strong associate degrees [sic]. If more students get these skills, businesses will benefit, the individual students will benefit, and the country will be more competitive."
Litow described the efforts that IBM is making to address the skills crisis. Through its partnership with the New York City Department of Education and area colleges and universities it has launched the Pathways in Technology, Early College High School, or P-TECH. This new model incorporates grades nine through 14 into one school that culminates in students receiving high school diplomas, associate degrees in computer technology, and an agreement that they will have priority consideration for jobs at IBM. P-TECH prepares students with the academic and workplace skills that they will need to transition from training programs directly into high-paying careers in the IT industry or to pursue additional postsecondary education. Said Litow, "A major component of IBM's commitment to P-TECH has been to align job skills to the school's curriculum." As IBM determines the skills that will be needed for tomorrow's jobs, it will continue to align the P-TECH curriculum with those skills to ensure that students are preparing for existing or future careers and high-paying jobs. According to Litow, the P-TECH model is now being replicated in Chicago, where five new P-TECH schools are scheduled to open in September 2012. New York City also will be opening more P-TECH schools. As Litow avers, "You really need to move to scale."
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Roadrunner Days: Fall Convocation and college orientations on Monday
By Patricia Graham
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(Aug. 17, 2006)--The Fall Convocation, an assembly for the entire university which launches the new academic year, is set for 10 a.m., Monday, Aug. 21, at the Convocation Center at the 1604 Campus. All members of the UTSA family--students (particularly new students), faculty and staff from the UTSA Tri-campuses--are encouraged to attend.
The theme of Fall Convocation 2006 is "Your Journey Begins" with George C. Wright, Prairie View A&M University president, as the keynote speaker.
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Students will sit with their colleges. Faculty and staff are encouraged to march in the convocation processional, wearing either academic regalia or UTSA colors. The processional will form in the University Center west wing first floor at 9:30 a.m. The convocation will be followed by college orientations.
In academia, the word "convocation" refers to a ceremonial assembly of the members of a college or a university. Traditionally, academic convocations celebrate special events or launch a new academic year.
In its 37-year history, UTSA has held six convocations, beginning with the Silver Anniversary Convocation in 1994. At the 1999 convocation, Ricardo Romo was inaugurated as the university's fifth president.
Fall Convocation 2006 is UTSA's fifth annual ceremony to launch the academic year. An academic convocation can be a significant occasion for student participation, marking a first step in the higher education adventure. Fall Convocation 2006 will be a wonderful opportunity for the UTSA family to celebrate the Class of 2010's first step.
Following the convocation, students will eat lunch at their colleges and meet with key faculty and staff at the college orientations from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.--a great opportunity for students to become familiar with their colleges and professors.
Students of the College of Public Policy and the College of Architecture, located at the Downtown Campus, will take special charter buses to the Downtown Campus following the convocation. Students will eat lunch, attend college orientation and then return to the 1604 Campus following orientation.
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SSG Spencer Anderson, a team player
Honoring a hero
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo - Our Wear Red Friday segment by definition are those who are in the military or those who support them. This is a case of two for one in this story. The Warrior Games just ended at the Air Force Academy. These are military from all branches who've been wounded in body, but not in spirit are competing in various athletic competitions. This week we are honoring them and those who made the games possible as our Wear Red Friday Heroes.
SSG Spencer Charles Anderson is a Fort Carson soldier among this group of men and women. He was badly hurt in 2007 in Iraq but as he put it, "We rule our injuries, we don't let them rule us." SSG Anderson competed in cycling, track and seated volleyball. This is his second Warrior Games but he told me he'll be back next year to go for the gold. I caught up with Spencer at the pool before races. Even though he wasn't competing in this event, he said he had to be here, "It's 100 percent team focus so it's important to be here for one another. I don't want to just show up to my event and leave."
NFL Great Herschel Walker was also at the Warrior Games motivating and inspiring these athletes. He told me it's important to be here to honor these brave men and women who've given up so much, "It touched my heart to be here. They have sacrificed so much and to see their resilience in competing in something like this is well, this is the least I can do."
When it comes to the term heroes being tossed around, SSG Spencer Anderson shrugged off that word for him and others, "You don't have to be a soldier to be a hero. If you work your job everyday and are part of the solution and not the problem you make America what we are."
That selfless philosophy of life is why SSG Spencer Charles Anderson, the other Warriors at the games and those who made it possible are our Wear Red Friday Heroes.
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There's something beautiful in the annual molting of feathers in birds, just as deciduous trees have a yearly fall-out of colorful leaves.
Ironically, Ilene Hill Bernhardt photographed an owl's feather in a Chico park , and Jayne Locus saw it on Facebook and said she had photographed the same feather a week previously. That's the photographic benefit of leaving feathers where you find them for others.
In fact, it is the law, especially for bird of prey feathers as well as all songbird feathers. Don't even think of keeping an eagle feather.
Since most birds are protected by the Migratory Bird Act of 1918 and local laws, it figures that a feather in your possession from a protected bird becomes evidence in case of arrest by California Department of Fish and Wildlife agents. Generally, a warden is not going to break your door down over a feather, but they are on the watch for banned feathers involved in boutique-shop sales. We have some turkey feathers on display in the Feather River Nature Center, and exhibit bird taxidermy via permit, but none for sale.
The list of protected birds and bird feathers includes just about every native bird in America, except English sparrows, starlings, and pheasants which were introduced. If you're an artist who paints on feathers you best be sure you are using chicken feathers.
Even though I at one time found a red-tailed hawk tail feather as a boy and unknowingly stuck it in my hat as a tribute to John James Audubon, present-day enforcers would not approve. At one time before the Audubon Society was formed in the late 1800s, women found it popular to adorn their hats with all types of wild bird feathers. Before laws were enacted, egrets were nearly wiped out because of plume hunters supplying ladies' hats.
When I walk in our neighborhood, I see black feathers, mostly from crows and vultures. Crows are extremely successful and abundant (and smart), multiplying to the point that flocks of thousands join forces in winter. Yuba City has been called the crow capital of the world. But still they are protected native birds.
Once a few hundred roosted in my maple tree over our house in Oroville, and were white-washing the roof until I used noisemakers to send them winging into the night.
The Yankee Doodle Dandy stuff — "He stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni" — is a thing of the past. But still, people are attracted to feathers, not only because they are on birds, but even when apart are singularly beautiful with color, iridescence, and ethereal spirit. There was a time in the doodle days when the plentiful primary feathers of large birds were used as ink writing pens. "Pen" comes from a Latin word, "penna" which means feather.
At various times during mid-summer, after most of the nesting work is over, birds undergo the annual molt. All of the feathers are replaced by new growth, generally in a gradual manner that allows some flight ability throughout the molt. Canada Geese take it straight on, and all the wing feathers are dropped at the same time, causing the geese to be flightless for about two weeks.
I have seen uncountable feathers while working for 32 years at the oldest waterfowl refuge in America. Lake Merritt Refuge in Oakland was established in 1870. Migrant diving ducks descend on the city-surrounded lake every winter, but the Canada geese flock of nearly 2,000 are residents, born and raised at the lake.
In June those geese graze on the watered lawns and molt, dropping countless tempting feathers all over the park. It's a feather clean-up for the naturalist staff, but even so kids and the uninformed carry away many irresistibly beautiful feather-treasures.
"The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward—from an eagle in his flight."
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hope is the thing with feathers—/That perches in the soul—/And sings the tune without words—/
And never stops at all..." —Emily Dickinson


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Through CT scans that can show sub-millimeter details, an imprisoned fossil reveals its secrets
Pat Shipman
Most readers of this magazine will have heard of the computed tomography, or CT, scans used in healthcare settings. CT scanners use x rays to take pictures from many different angles, and a computer then combines those pictures to create a three-dimensional image. The micro-CT scanner applies the same principle on a smaller scale. It was developed largely for industrial purposes and is able to show features smaller than the width of a single hair—much more detail than a physician needs. Most "patients" studied with micro-CT are inanimate. Recently, these subjects have included fossils of animals dead for millions of years.
Paleontologist Nick Fraser of the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia, has gotten to know all about micro-CT scans in recent years following the discovery of a unique fossil from the Solite Quarry in Virginia, a trove some 220 million years old. Fraser collaborates with Paul E. Olsen of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, who found the site in 1975.
The Solite Quarry is famous as a Konservatt Lagerstätte, a fossil site that shows exquisite preservation of an entire ecosystem, including the smallest and most fragile specimens. Excavations have yielded a wealth of fossilized insects, even showing the veining on the delicate wings of waterbugs or caddis flies. The rocks also contain fish, including the very primitive coelacanth, and plant remains from the damp waterside habitat, such as conifers, ferns, cycadophytes and gingko-like trees. You can find winged seeds, the kind that children often call "helicopters" or "pollynoses," that look almost as if they could have fallen from a maple tree today.
After years of revealing the litany of species in that ancient marsh, the Solite Quarry recently yielded a surprise: two specimens that preserve the features of a creature never seen or suspected to exist before. As Fraser tells the story, "It was touch and go for the specimen—certainly it was seconds away from biting the dust! I was on my own in the quarry splitting through the shale on a very hot, sultry day. Often, once the shale is split and exposed to air, the black surfaces become instantly covered with a layer of calcium carbonate, making it almost impossible to discern any fossils. This is exactly what happened with this specimen. I actually had it poised over my shoulder to throw, when the light just caught the ribs and threw them into relief. I took a second look, thought it was a coelacanth tail and put a field number on it. It was only at the end of the day when I was going through all the specimens with my field notes that I realized the 'tail' was right at the end of a small skull and long, slender neck!"
Fraser then remembered another enigmatic find he had made in 1994, which he almost threw away as unimportant. After twisting the slab of rock back and forth to get oblique lighting, he had decided there were faintly visible limbs on the slab and kept it.
"At that stage," Fraser recalls, grinning, "I thought I might have a gliding animal. Paul, on the other hand, thought I had been out in the sun too long and even questioned whether there was a fish there, let alone a glider!"
He and Olsen had never identified and studied the 1994 specimen because it was too difficult to prepare. They hoped this new specimen would answer their questions, but its preparation proved just as intractable. The surrounding stone, or matrix, was very hard and nearly the same color as the delicate fossilized bones. The danger of damaging the fossil was too great, leaving Fraser and Olsen with a serious problem. If the specimen could not be seen, then according to science it didn't exist.
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Lead Game Designer
1 - Two great factors of freedom in FC PC were the incredible view distance and the wide spectrum of weapons, allowing the player to choose between long range shooting and close combat melee …Have you managed to keep this element of freedom on Far Cry Instincts?
Absolutely. Our goal was to stay true to the PC version for all the best aspects even with the long and short range shooting.
2- Was the freedom of movement and approach (ie combining straight-up combat with stealth) a move to get beyond the feel of earlier FPSs?
I think we have an edge over most FPS on that matter. In general, FPSs are straightforward shooters. Far Cry Instincts' setting gives us an opportunity to really give the players the tools to play the way they want.
3- Will the game favor stealth gameplay, or is Far Cry more action oriented? What kind of tactics and inventory management will there be?
FCI is more of an action shooter. The first part of the game (~ 2-3 maps) is more stealth oriented. We'll progressively give the player the tools to play it more frantic. And even though we're giving a lot of freedom to players as tactics are concerned, all the choices will result in simple actions. There is not much inventory management to deal with per say. We kept it very minimal.
4- Far Cry must have the largest environments we have ever seen in any game. How was the game designed to achieve this? Could you tell us a little about it, and how you have managed to make it work?
The challenge was more technical than anything else. So, obviously, FCI maps have been created with the console limitations in mind which means less polys, lower textures resolution, etc. The largest maps were created in this optic so we were carefully thinking about where to put the goods or not.
I'm not the most technical person on the team but let's say that LOD tricks were among our best friends.
5- What types of environments will we see, and what is the approximate ratio between indoors and outdoors gameplay? Also, will there be day and night gameplay?
You'll see a variety of lush environments. From beach landscapes to the depth of the jungle, from cliffs to caverns, players will never battle in 2 similar levels although they'll look consistent from the beginning to the end. Since gorgeous landscapes are central to the FCI experience, I would say that outdoor environments make up for around 70% of the game. Some areas will be played at day while other at dawn or night. It will create various levels of tension.
6- There are many weapons available in Far Cry Instincts…but there are also plenty of vehicles…could you please give us some details on them?
We have around 15 weapons to choose from. It goes from the simple butterfly knife to grenades, machine guns and rocket launchers.
For vehicles we got 7 of them. We have land vehicles such as the ATV, water vehicles such as the water scooter and we have an air vehicle, the glider.
7- How much of a role will vehicles play in the game?
Vehicles are mainly used in chase sequences although players will be able to find some other creative uses out of them.
8- In addition to this large array of weapons and vehicles it was revealed at this year's edition of E3 that you added an innovative trap system to Far Cry Instincts…. Could you please present it briefly to us? What will it bring to the gameplay in your opinion?
We got the branch whip to install on trees and the claymore mines which are not a trap per say but we might come up with an interesting twist for it. J
The goal with the traps (especially the branch whip) was to give the player a stronger sense of being trapped in a wild environment where he must use the best of it to overcome the challenges. Traps can be installed almost everywhere in the maps.
I think this will give some spontaneous fun back in the FPS type of games, not only for solo play but for multiplay as well.
9- In terms of enemies and enemy tactics, what can we look forward to? Do enemies have business to go about, or are they generally just on guard duty?
It's a mix of both. We want our enemies to look like they're real men. They will complain about their conditions or even tell jokes; they will be scared by things, they will guard, etc.
In combat, they might try to flank you; the leader will give orders, etc. We want them to feel organic as much as possible. We'll also have some scripted behaviours in some places to create more spectacular stuff but in the end, the goal is to make players believe they're fighting people instead of robots.
10-finally would you say that Far Cry Instincts' huge, open-ended levels offer a new type of gameplay to FPS gamers?
To me, it feels fresh. And when you play it, you'll see that it has some cool toys to experiment with that expand on the gameplay possibilities. Far Cry Instincts is not your average shooter.
Finally, is there anything else you'd like to add?
If you want to play a shooter that really feels and play different while keeping the classical stuff intact, get Far Cry Instincts end of next September. J


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Adam Lanza Was a Killer, Not a Goth
Liisa Ladouceur | Posted 02.16.2013 | Canada
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The Newtown, Connecticut killer is not a Goth. And so I shouldn't even be writing this. The fact that the most media outlets who have run with this are generally tabloids or right-wing is not a surprise. That's what they do best, inflame and demonize. And so they picked up on one comment from one rather dubious source. I have something to say about what happens when you link a criminal, especially a mass murderer, with an entire subculture of people he or she has absolutely nothing to do with. How it not only doesn't help to answer the question "why?", it actually causes more hurt, more harm.


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fabulous fabrics.
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health - Voltaire
I'm not sure and I like them all but the red set made my eyes and brain hurt. Something about their pattern really does something to me. Does anyone else feel that?
They are all beautiful!!! The reds are so great!!!
All these fabric are so beautiful. I like the red, also like the green and brown.
Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Picasso to paint your garage.
i like all of them but the butterflies. i'd find some heart pattern to use the reds on... valentines day is coming. i'm thinking of churn dash for the others.
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T is it True? H is it Helpful? I is it Inspiring? N is it Necessary? K is it Kind?
I had the same reaction to the red - it made me wince. I think its the one on the far right that sets me off it. Not sure why, other than the pattern is very busy & makes me uncomfortable -- maybe cut that one up into smaller pieces so its used more sparingly? The browns are too close together in color/all are busy patterns - need a little variety in color, texture, etc. Love the green & brown and the blues & blacks! I see a D9P or a churn dash for the green and brown, the black/blues I see in a simple 9 patch with alternating blocks in the floral print (its too large a print to cut up much or you'd lose the pattern). You have some lovely fabrics.
Look at the connecting threads most recent catalog for ideas for the reds! They have some great red quilts
I really like your fabric! In fact, I have a couple of them What about Robert Kaufman "Bundle of 10" ? I think they'd look great in some fashion of a more contemporary look. Fun!


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