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Down with King Content – long live user experience!! The new focus on user experience is coming ever more sharply into the everyday lives of webmasters – and you could be forgiven for thinking that the world of image compression, CDN's, and theme optimisation is well beyond you.
However, it's easier than you might think to give your site a bit of a "superspeed" makeover!
Super Easy CDN and Website Protection
We've all heard about Content Delivery Networks and cloud servers and similar and many of you may think that implementing one is beyond you. However fear not, the good people at Cloud Flare are riding to your rescue with their FREE CDN. This system has a five minute install that just about anyone can implement and will not only superspeed your site but also protect it from internet bastards and vagabonds (as I like to call them).
Using data from Project Honeypot it protects your site against spammers, hackers, and other ratbags. I have implemented Cloud Flare on one of my sites and it has halved the download speed. So far this month it has saved my users on one small site 20.7 hours waiting for my pages to load, which also saves me bandwidth.
You can find out more about all the features offered by Cloud Flare on their comprehensive Tour Page.
Get A Speed Monitoring Plugin For Your Browser…
The Firebug plugin lets you use a whole wealth of web development and debug tools as you surf the net using Firefox. On it's own I find it very handy to nosey around other people's source code. If you're interested in how someone's done something or want to check out an element of your own site without trawling through code, it's great. You just right click on the bit you want to look at and select "inspect element". It's a great everyday timesaver for me.
You can then grab the Site Speed Addon from Google. Given that these are the guys we're all trying to impress it seems sensible to refine site performance by their standards. There's also a Chrome Addon. You can access their widget directly through your browser without any addons here.
This cool little tool gives your site performance marks out of 100 and a great big "to do" list. It also has a feature to show you versions of your images which are "losslessly compressed". You can just save these and upload to your site for improved performance.
My own worst site had a rather dreadful score of 44 / 100 – which we very quickly got up to a 93 / 100 with the help of the Firebug site speed addon.
WordPress Site Speed Plugins and Wizardry
If you have a WordPress site you can do all of the above… and also make use of some handy WordPress resources!
First of all, read Yoast's Guide to Speeding Up WordPress. He mentions you should install a caching plugin. I use W3 Total Cache which was recommended to me by my hosting company, Clook. I've found it to be excellent and regularly updated. It's recently been updated for better compatibility with Cloud Flare and Yoast's SEO Plugin. Whilst you're giving your site a bit of a makeover do download and use this if you haven't already – I think it's the absolute dogs danglies and it does all the little SEO tasks that are too easy to forget about when setting up a site.
Don't forget to grab an image compression plugin – Smushit is from the same guys who created W3 Supercache and is a great tool to squeeze that extra efficiency out of your web pages.
That's pretty much everything I've personally used recently – if any of you guys have anything to add to this resource please post in the comments below – I'd love you to add your own hints and tips!


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Welcome to the Department of Recruitment & Retention
The School District of Palm Beach County is the eleventh largest school district in the United States, and the largest employer in Palm Beach County. We employ more than 20,000 employees, which includes nearly 13,000 teachers and more than 7,000 support employees. We invite you to explore the many job opportunities and benefits of working with The School District of Palm Beach County.
Gail Williams
Search and Apply for Jobs
If you are familiar with the hiring process information and ready to begin your job search, simply click the appropriate applicant link below to immediately access our online job application. The preferred web browser is Internet Explorer. Safari, FIrefox, and Google Chrome users may experience technical difficulties.
Important News & Information
- Substitute Teacher Application
- Application is Closed
- Will open on September 5, 2017
- Application is Closed
- Physical Demand Test (PDT)
Application & Employment Opportunities
All jobs are advertised online, and no paper applications are available. Palm Beach County offers a variety of full and part time opportunities, including teaching, food service, transportation, custodial, office support staff, and many more! To access the online application, click the job category to the right that interests you the most..
Instructional Jobs
Instructional jobs include classroom teachers, resource teachers, instructional coaches, guidance counselors, tutors, and many other positions.
Non-Instructional Jobs
Non-instructional jobs include custodians, bus drivers, clerical staff, food service, teacher assistants, and many more.
Administrative Jobs
Administrative jobs include principals, assistant principals, directors, managers, specialists, program planners, and other supervisory roles.
Substitute Teacher Jobs
Substitute teacher applications are accepted periodically throughout the year. This job is advertised along with instructional positions. Steps to become a substitute teacher can be taken before submitting an application.
Meet the Recruiters
General Information
Tim Kubrick
HR Manager - Instructional
Melicia Charleston
HR Specialist
Kelly D'Aoust
HR Specialist
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Afterschool Programs
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That's it, done and dusted. No more National Trophies.
Originally uploaded by britishcycling.org.uk
Originally uploaded by britishcycling.org.uk
Finished 6th in the Rutland Cyclo cross which lifted me to 4th overall.
Pretty bloody happy with that. The series was actually pretty hard and over the races I figured out what I should be doing and when, how to get the best performance, remember to put warm up cream on my toes!
Rode Mavic R-sys and also Mavic Reflex wheels with tubs which worked a treat, in the well greasy conditions of Rutland. At first I was nervous about the course couple of technical off camber bits. I flipped myself off in the practise lap, providing much comedy value to Dan of Sigma Sport
But it was a really good season
To to review :
Best National Trophy Cyclo Cross courses:
Ipswich and Rutland
Derby - too much boring grass
What I'm sticking with next year:
Mavic Reflex rims on a Shimano Ultegra hub. Lightweight tub wheelset
What I'm sacking off:
Shimano M540 pedals - bloody things clog with mud
Best rider:
Annie Last - but Hannah Barnes is most consistent
What I'm doing next year:
Warm up cream on toes and always ride the course 3 times
Thing that changed my life this cx season:
SKINS - they are compression tights which improve blood circulation and therefore recovery. Whether it really does I dunno but makes me feel like i've not got excuses.
Going back to race 'em all next year. But I'm glad its over


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Another Indy Comic Book Fail from the esteemed, Mr. Thomas Hall is once again upon us. If you could tell your 16 year old self something now, what would it be? And what the heck does this have to do with comics?
That dynamic of "I wish I knew back then…" makes me think about not only the point of doing a column like this but of advice in general when it comes to Indy Comics. Most people who have legitimate questions about what it takes to stay involved in Indy Comics for the long haul are looking for the same "advice" that people are giving themselves on Twitter- They want to know A) "What can I do (or not do) to keep from making mistakes?" or B) "Will everything be okay in the end?"
Read the whole thing right here!
If I were to tell my 16 year old self something, I think I'd tell him to not sell his comic collection for a guitar and to stay the hell away from that Andrews girl!
Play nice!


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Though no longer manufactured, the Korg Triton Studio remains a popular item among synthesizer and workstation enthusiasts. In addition to its many high-quality presets, CD-burning capabilities and countless editing options, the Triton Studio offers complete MIDI connectivity, allowing users to hook up and transfer notes to computers and other digital instruments. Because most computers do not contain MIDI ports, you will need to use a USB interface if you want to connect to your PC.
Things You'll Need
- Computer
- Digital-audio software
Insert your USB interface software disc into your computer and install the included drivers. This will allow your computer to read music transfers from the interface.
Insert one end of your five-pin MIDI cable into the "MIDI Out" port on the back of your Korg Triton Studio.
Insert the opposite end of your MIDI cable into the "MIDI In" port on your USB MIDI interface.
Insert the USB end of your interface into a free USB port on your PC or laptop.
Set up your Triton to transmit MIDI. Turn on the keyboard and select "Global Mode" on your editor screen. Choose the "External MIDI" option on your MIDI clock settings.
Open your digital-audio program on your computer. To transmit MIDI to your computer, you will need to use a program that reads MIDI notation, such as Pro-Tools, Logic, GarageBand or Cubase.
Set up your software to receive MIDI. Click your "Options" or Preferences," select the "MIDI" heading and select your interface if applicable. In some cases, the software will receive the signal automatically, but you may need to edit your settings to allow MIDI transfer.
Begin transmitting notes from your Triton to your computer. Select a "MIDI track" or "Software track" on your program of choice and begin playing your Triton. To record, select the "Record" button on your software window.
Tips & Warnings
- To transmit pre-recorded notes from your computer to your Triton, move the MIDI cable from the "MIDI Out" port to the "MIDI In" port on your Triton, and from the "MIDI In" port to the "MIDI Out" port on your interface.
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On 5/4/06, André Marascalchi Zenun <andre dot zenun at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Hummm ok! I'll try this! I take a look in the m0n0wall webGUI and just
> in the WAN interface I'm able to change the MTU. Any one know some way
> to change the MTU in the LAN side?
WAN is the only one you need to change.


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Playing with audience's emotion while awaiting the show's return, the promo features a tagline that reads, 'Don't cry, it's back.'
HBO has released another promo for "True Blood" to tide fans over the season 5 premiere. It does not have new footage but features the characters in various crying scenes from previous seasons. It, however, tells audience not to cry, because the show is back soon.
The fifth season of the hit drama series will debut Sunday, June 10 at 9/8c. Ryan Kwanten who plays Jason Stackhouse recently gushed that the upcoming chapter is "by far our most controversial." He went on dishing, "It's pushing the boundaries even more. There's a whole host of new characters and supernatural beings."
Among the new faces is Christopher Meloni's Roman, who is the leader of The Vampire Authority. Peter Mensah, Jacob Hopkins, Valentina Cervi, Christopher Heyerdahl and Carolyn Hennesy also join the cast as the Vampire Authority chancellors.
Scott Foley, who turned up in season 4 finale as Terry's old war buddy, will return in the next season since he has an unfinished business with Terry. Meanwhile, Dennis O'Hare reprises his role as Russell Edgington, who has been released from his cement grave.


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NORCAL-L ArchivesArchiver > NORCAL > 1997-11 > 0879091895
From: Arlene Garry< >
Subject: GARRY
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:11:35 -0500 (EST)
Does anyone out there know anything about a Bert Garry about 1900 from
the State of New York or Massachusetts? My husbands father had a brother
with that name who went to California and was never heard from again. The
two brothers are supposed to have been orphaned about 1900. Bert should
have been born about 1884.
Thank you for reading this
Arlene Garry
Arlene Garry in Belleville Michigan
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Their conductor led them first to the dismal mansions of those who are in the most horrid state of incurable madness. The clanking of chains, the wildness of their cries, and the imprecations which some of them uttered, formed a scene inexpressibly shocking. Harley and his companions, especially the female part of them, begged their guide to return; he seemed surprised at their uneasiness, and was with difficulty prevailed on to leave that part of the house without showing them some others: who, as he expressed it in the phrase of those that keep wild beasts for show, were much better worth seeing than any they had passed, being ten times more fierce and unmanageable.
He led them next to that quarter where those reside who, as they are not dangerous to themselves or to others, enjoy a certain degree of freedom, according to the state of their distemper.
Harley had fallen behind his companions, looking at a man who was making pendulums with bits of thread and little balls of clay. He had delineated a segment of a circle on the wall with chalk, and marked their different vibrations by intersecting it with cross lines. A decent-looking man came up, and smiling at the maniac, turned to Harley, and told him that gentleman had once been a very celebrated mathematician. "He fell a sacrifice," said he, "to the theory of comets; for having, with infinite labour, formed a table on the conjectures of Sir Isaac Newton, he was disappointed in the return of one of those luminaries, and was very soon after obliged to be placed here by his friends. If you please to follow me, sir," continued the stranger, "I believe I shall be able to give a more satisfactory account of the unfortunate people you see here than the man who attends your companions." Harley bowed, and accepted his offer.
The next person they came up to had scrawled a variety of figures on a piece of slate. Harley had the curiosity to take a nearer view of them. They consisted of different columns, on the top of which were marked South-sea annuities, India-stock, and Three per cent. annuities consol. "This," said Harley's instructor, "was a gentleman well known in Change Alley. He was once worth fifty thousand pounds, and had actually agreed for the purchase of an estate in the West, in order to realise his money; but he quarrelled with the proprietor about the repairs of the garden wall, and so returned to town, to follow his old trade of stock-jobbing a little longer; when an unlucky fluctuation of stock, in which he was engaged to an immense extent, reduced him at once to poverty and to madness. Poor wretch! he told me t'other day that against the next payment of differences he should be some hundreds above a plum."
"It is a spondee, and I will maintain it," interrupted a voice on his left hand. This assertion was followed by a very rapid recital of some verses from Homer. "That figure," said the gentleman, "whose clothes are so bedaubed with snuff, was a schoolmaster of some reputation; he came hither to be resolved of some doubts he entertained concerning the genuine pronunciation of the Greek vowels. In his highest fits, he makes frequent mention of one Mr. Bentley.
"But delusive ideas, sir, are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination of the power by which their actions are incited: the world, in the eye of a philosopher, may be said to be a large madhouse." "It is true," answered Harley, "the passions of men are temporary madhouses; and sometimes very fatal in their effects.
From Macedonia's madman to the Swede.""It was, indeed," said the stranger, "a very mad thing in Charles to think of adding so vast a country as Russia to his dominions: that would have been fatal indeed; the balance of the North would then have been lost; but the Sultan and I would never have allowed it." — "Sir!" said Harley, with no small surprise in his countenance. — "Why, yes," answered the other, "the Sultan and I; do you know me? I am the Chan of Tartary."
Harley was a good deal struck by this discovery; he had prudence enough, however, to conceal his amazement, and bowing as low to the monarch as his dignity required, left him immediately, and found his companions.
He found them in a quarter of the house set apart for the insane of the other sex, several of whom had gathered about the female visitors, and were examining, with rather more accuracy than might have been expected, the particulars of their dress.
Separate from the rest stood one whose appearance had something of superior dignity. Her face, though pale and wasted, was less squalid than those of the others, and showed a dejection of that decent kind, which moves our pity unmixed with horror: upon her, therefore, the eyes of all were immediately turned. The keeper who accompanied them observed it: "This," said he, "is a young lady who was born to ride in her coach and six. She was beloved, if the story I have heard is true, by a young gentleman, her equal in birth, though by no means her match in fortune: but love, they say, is blind, and so she fancied him as much as he did her. Her father, it seems, would not hear of their marriage, and threatened to turn her out of doors if ever she saw him again. Upon this the young gentleman took a voyage to the West Indies, in hopes of bettering his fortune, and obtaining his mistress; but he was scarce landed, when he was seized with one of the fevers which are common in those islands, and died in a few days, lamented by every one that knew him. This news soon reached his mistress, who was at that time pressed by her father to marry a rich miserly fellow, who was old enough to be her grandfather. The death of her lover had no effect on her inhuman parent: he was only the more earnest for her marriage with the man he had provided for her; and what between her despair at the death of the one, and her aversion to the other, the poor young lady was reduced to the condition you see her in. But God would not prosper such cruelty; her father's affairs soon after went to wreck, and he died almost a beggar."
Though this story was told in very plain language, it had particularly attracted Harley's notice; he had given it the tribute of some tears. The unfortunate young lady had till now seemed entranced in thought, with her eyes fixed on a little garnet ring she wore on her finger; she turned them now upon Harley. "My Billy is no more!" said she; "do you weep for my Billy? Blessings on your tears! I would weep too, but my brain is dry; and it burns, it burns, it burns!" — She drew nearer to Harley. — "Be comforted, young lady," said he, "your Billy is in heaven." — "Is he, indeed? and shall we meet again? and shall that frightful man (pointing to the keeper) not be there? — Alas! I am grown naughty of late; I have almost forgotten to think of heaven: yet I pray sometimes; when I can, I pray; and sometimes I sing; when I am saddest, I sing: — You shall hear me — hush!
"Light be the earth on Billy's breast,There was a plaintive wildness in the air not to be withstood; and, except the keeper's, there was not an unmoistened eye around her.
And green the sod that wraps his grave."
"Do you weep again?" said she. "I would not have you weep: you are like my Billy; you are, believe me; just so he looked when he gave me this ring; poor Billy! 'twas the last time we ever met!—
"'Twas when the seas were roaring — I love you for resembling my Billy; but I shall never love any man like him." — She stretched out her hand to Harley; he pressed it between both of his, and bathed it with his tears. — "Nay, that is BIlly's ring," said she, "you cannot have it indeed; but here is another, look here, which I plated to-day of some gold-thread from this bit of stuff; will you keep it for my sake? I am a strange girl; but my heart is harmless: my poor heart; it will burst some day; feel how it beats!" She pressed his hand to her bosom, then holding her head in the attitude of listening — "Hark! one, two, three! be quiet, thou little trembler; my Billy is cold! — but I had forgotten the ring." — She put it on his finger. — "Farewell! I must leave you now." — She would have withdrawn her hand; Harley held it to his lips. — "I dare not stay longer; my head throbs sadly: farewell!" —— She walked with a hurried step to a little apartment at some distance. Harley stood fixed in astonishment and pity; his friend gave money to the keeper. — Harley looked on his ring. — He put a couple of guineas in the man's hand: "Be kind to that unfortunate" — He burst into tears, and left them.


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An organization must meet all requirements below to apply for a CAC Grant:
Funding Priorities
General Mills Foundation grants will focus mainly on four areas:
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To be eligible for funding from the General Mils Foundation, non profits must be located within a 50 mile radius from the plant facility and must serve communities within area as well. Additionally, the Community Action Council grants program is by invitation only. Please review our Community Action Council locations for additional information.
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DC Launches Digital 'Fringe' Comic Tie-In Series 'Beyond The Fringe'
The last season of Fringe left fans yelling stuff like "Whaaaaaa?!," meaning the show's season four kickoff this Friday has been a long time coming. As nice as it will be just to hop back into the show, viewers also have the chance to fill in the gap between seasons with a new digital comic series, Beyond the Fringe, available at DC's digital storefront and apps for $0.99 a pop. Much the way Fringe has been alternating between different worlds, so too will the new comic. According to DC, "The new series will alternate every two weeks between "A" and "B" storylines for a total of 14 chapters. "A" storylines will explore events tied directly to the Fringe show canon, while "B" storylines will take a "what-if" approach and look at how things might change if certain elements are out of balance."
Show star Josh Jackson will make his comics debut writing the first three "A" issues, with more creators to be announced. Drew Johnson will be handling covers throughout series.The issues will be dropping bi-weekly through the fall and contain 13-pages each, meaning DC will more or less hold the line at $1.98 for what typically constitutes a single issue comic these days. $13.86 for 182 pages? Not too shabby, provided the story and art satisfies Fringe fans.
This marks DC's second Fringe comic, following Wildstorm's 2010's Tales from the Fringe six-issue miniseries.
See the full cover to Beyond The Fringe #1A below:
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Today's "countdown to Conference" message comes from a sermon given by apostle Ezra Taft Benson at the April 1971 General Conference. Continue reading
Tagged with Ezra Taft Benson …
Putting God First
If we are following what God wants us to do with our lives, then everything will work out right. I have seen this first hand in my life many times. Most recently, through my parent's mission service. Continue reading
Fourteen Fundamentals Spotlighted at Conference
Every talk today was marvelous, inspiring, motivating and exciting. I have pages and pages of rapidly scribbled notes and impressions that I plan to make sense out of [and write subsequent brilliant blog posts of course]…soon! However, I want to quickly post about one of today's "extra-ordinary" Conference moments! . . . Continue reading
Fourteen Fundamentals Of A Prophet
Conference Countdown: Learn The 14 Fundamentals! Watch this powerful video about knowing and following a prophet, taught by President Ezra Taft Benson. Continue reading
US Bailouts Face Prophetic Warning
For some reason, the subject of politics always seems to wake the "raging beast" within people. I find this unproductive, and completely contrary to my site's theme. Therefore, it is with soft footsteps I venture into recent government decisions. That said, if something endangers individual and collective spirituality, then I feel it is within the … Continue reading
PROPHECY: World Destruction, Change, Fear, and Hope
This video highlights prophetic words of modern Latter-day prophets and apostles spoken over the past 30 years, up to the present. Our world is undergoing rapid change, much of which is destructive, catastrophic and devastating. People everywhere are suffering pain, discouragement and fear. However, there is HOPE, even in these dark and troubled times. God … Continue reading
Everything But The Kitchen Sink
Yesterday I wrote about Finding Light In The Darkess of our lives, and had the amazing good fortune of announcing that after our dark and dreary wait, Mr. MoSop received a job offer!! However, the Lord in His infinite wisdom made sure we didn't get too uppity about it. (explanation momentarily).


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Here's another e-reader that combines a traditional LCD screen with an e-ink display: the enTourage eDGe. Unlike the Barnes & Noble Nook or the Spring Designs Alex, the eDGe positions the screens side by side and opens like a book. You have a full e-ink screen (9.7 inches diagonally) on one side and a full LCD screen (10.1 inches diagonally) on the other. Like the Nook and Alex, the eDGe is running Android under the hood.
Netbook News' Nicole Scott got some hands-on time with a prototype at a recent trade show, and I'll embed that video below. She was obviously exploring the device with no help from a booth attendant so the video is a little rough, but towards the end you can get a look at a production candidate. The prototype she uses looks a little chunky but the production candidate is quite sleek.
enTourage is billing this as both a netbook (sans keyboard) and an e-reader. The hinge between the two screens lets you fold the device back on itself to offer a tablet-profile with just one screen showing (though I'd worry about scratching the screen I wasn't using if I had the device sitting on a desk; perhaps there's enough of a bevel that this won't be a concern). There's some interaction between the two screens. Entourage gives a couple of examples: clicking a link in a PDF on the e-ink side will open that link in a web browser on the LCD side. Ditto searching for a phrase on the e-ink side; again a browser opens on the other screen with your search results.
In some ways the eDGe is reminiscent of the Microsoft Courier, though the Courier has two LCD screens.
enTourage is taking pre-orders now, with a planned ship date of February 2010. The price? $490. That's high for an e-reader, even with a screen this big, but I suppose not a bad deal if you look at the device as both an e-reader and a netbook.
Update: Here's a second video, this one with someone who knows the product doing the demonstrating.


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When the Cadillac XTS goes on sale in late spring, buyers will be treated to a free iPad. It will come loaded with an application for CUE, the carmaker's multimedia system, with the goal of getting owners acquainted with the system.
That's sounds to us like an expensive little teaching tool, especially when it's not being used for much more than a tutorial. Hyundai was giving away iPads with its then-new Equus luxury sedan -- the gimmick was that it was being used in place of the paper owner's manuals -- but stopped the practice. Hyundai's U.S. CEO John Krafcik told Drive On at the time that so many Equus buyers already had smartphones, iPads or other digital devices, they didn't need another for information that could be easily downloaded from the Internet.
The Cadillac XTS is one of the first Caddys to come equipped with CUE, or Cadillac User Experience. The CUE app on the iPad will allow owners to "test-drive" the touch-sensitive system, according to Cadillac. The app mimics many of the controls and features that owners will see in the center display console on their XTS, says the luxury-car maker.
The iPad also comes preloaded with other apps such as OnStar RemoteLink and MyCadillac App, which lets you locate a dealer, schedule service and call roadside assistance. For folks interested in what type of iPad you get, it's the latest generation with Wi-Fi, according to Cadillac spokeswoman Jordana Strosberg.
--Colin Bird/Cars.com's Kicking Tires and Chris Woodyard/Drive On
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


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We're reading our way across America…one romance at a time.
ILLINOIS: Finding Home (Quinn Security, Book 1) by Cameron Dane
I have no real explanation for how this is my very first M/M (Male/Male) romance novel. After all, I have long been a fan of the love that dare not speak its name: I number movies like My Own Private Idaho and Jeffrey among my favorites; adore the poetry of Walt Whitman and—as will already be obvious—Oscar Wilde; have watched all five seasons of the US Queer as Folk at least ten times; and count Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Kriss) as far and away my favorite couple on Glee. So why has this interest in the complicated love lives of beautiful boys not translated over to my love of romance novels before now? Oh, sure, occasionally there has been a little background guy-on-guy action, whether in an historical novel dealing with Alexander or Achilles or in a paranormal dealing with the omnivorous appetites of assorted vampires, cf. Anita Blake's Jean-Claude, Sookie Stackhouse's Eric or the BDB's Vishous. (And, yay, bring on Qhuay!) But before this one, I had never taken the plunge into reading an all-out man-love-apalooza, and I can only hazard guesses as to why that might be, my current theory being that it's a hangover from a traumatic (and quite accidental) teenage foray into online slash fanfic, in which some beloved TV characters started behaving so contrary to all I knew of them that I was left, quite simply, aghast. I mean, I think Kirk and Spock, I do not think KY Jelly. It was all highly illogical, and I really think turned me away from the entire M/M literary subgenre from that moment on.
But at the exhortation of H&H's Tori Benson, offering up posts like the recent Man Oh Man! The Top Five M/M Couples and last year's Why Do Straight Women Read Gay Male Erotica? (which made me think, at the time: Yeah, why do they? And why aren't I?), I decided the day had finally arrived for me to shed the shameful shackles of that outraged teen Trekkie, and at last give it a try. And so, in honor of Illinois—the twenty-first state to join the Union, you know—I chose to tackle Finding Home, the first in Cameron Dane's Chicago-based Quinn Security series, featuring the Lovers of Friends tale of the handsome Rhone Quinn and his foundling/employee/roommate, the also-handsome Adam Reyes.
It was the blurb that got me:
Picking pockets and stealing cars, Adam Reyes does what he must to survive. Working Chicago's O'Hare airport, he feels pretty confident when he spots his next mark.
Security expert Rhone Quinn can't believe the wiry kid who grabs his cell phone almost gets away with it. Logic says turn the teen over to the cops, but Rhone is a man who trusts his instincts, and his gut tells him to offer the young man a job and a chance to begin a new life. Little does Rhone know that when he makes this choice it will forever change his life, too.
That there is pretty much the Prologue, and I have to tell you, I almost didn't get past it. The dialogue therein is all kinds of peculiar, with Rhone sounding like a redneck Henry Higgins, and Adam a low-rent Eliza. I persevered, however, because a) I had bought the book already and b) I really like the My Fair Lady-esque trope… and I am so glad I did! Because once you escape the clunky, clearly over-edited wording of the novel's opening pages ("Don't brag about your myriad of successful crimes. It's not something in which you should feel pride."—who talks like that?) things really pick up. And how!
So, clearly teenage runaway and would-be pickpocket Adam gets reformed with the help of Rhone, who, along with his brother Canin, runs the fledgling Quinn Security. In a series of vignettes set across almost a decade, we see the youngster grow into a man, eventually becoming a partner in the business. He and Rhone share an apartment for most of that time, but as we near present day happenings, Adam finally gets a place of his own because his passionate feelings for Rhone, long held in check, threaten to overwhelm him. A gay man from a strict Catholic family, he turned to his life of crime when they disowned him; now, having found a new family, he is terrified of losing them, too, should he ever betray his secret.
Oblivious to Adam's sexual orientation, let alone the intensity with which he is adored from that quarter, Rhone dates a variety of women, bringing them home and having his wicked, noisy way with them (in which Adam, in the next room, would often find that fine line between pleasure and pain). But a year after he is left alone in the apartment, he considers it cold and empty, missing the domestic harmony he shared with his best friend. He spends every day with Adam at work, but it's still not enough for him, and he doesn't understand why…until, that is, he walks in on Adam and their co-worker Kasey, a dominatrix in a power suit, playing some rough sex games with some Rhone-sized equipment, and he realizes that despite the fact he'd never even been bi-curious in all of his thirty-five years of life, he's now desperate for Adam's hot and hairy lovin'. Cue hot and hairy lovin'. Lots of it.
Oooh, boy, the sex stuff in this book is major. I mean, blush-on-my-cheeks, hand-to-my-mouth, eyes-wide, I-cannot-believe-what-I-am-reading major. The frankness with which Adam's painstakingly-described, Rhone-fuelled self-love is articulated hit at my delicate sensibilities like a sledgehammer, and I found the several chapters worth of mutual discovery after Rhone comes over all gay (er… that sounded less dirty in my head) likewise more than a little startling. But—and this is odd—where usually, in any of your racier romances, I hurriedly skip past all the heaving bosoms and throbbing members to get back to the plot, such as it might be, here I was glued to every word of every act, every position. I think because it was all just so new to me, and so very alien to my own experience, that I found it fascinating. Kind of like watching a documentary on, say, a daredevil attempting to jump the Grand Canyon on a moped, or whatever. You know you'd never be able to do it yourself, but it's an intriguing thing to witness nonetheless.
But for all that was different, for me, about this book, there was a lot that was quite satisfyingly the same. As noted, it's a classic Lovers of Friends story, though it also incorporates more than a few other standard category romance archetypes: Rhone is a good deal older than Adam, spends much of the book as his boss, and never saw him in a romantic light until one blinding moment of epiphany changed everything, showing Rhone that his soul mate had been right under his nose the whole time. Change the name Adam to, say, Amy, and that could be the plot of any number of Harlequins. I like that. (But then, I'm not a gay man. For all I know, they may think this is taking sexual equality just a little too far.)
I mentioned this book is set in Chicago, right? Not that it matters, it really could be set in any major American city—or, at least, any in which there are bedrooms. It doesn't really pay any kind of tribute to its setting, as is usually our hope for novels dubbed Perfect Unions-worthy, but I enjoyed Finding Home so much that it's hard to care. Probably the most telling thing I have to say about this book is that, upon concluding it, I immediately dashed off to order Quinn Security, Book 2: The Ultimate Kink, though I did feel some trepidation, since it is the story of Canin and Kasey, which therefore makes it good, old fashioned M/F contemporary erotica—and I usually have no truck with that kind of thing, especially if there are no supernatural creatures involved. But Cameron Dane (she's a woman, by the way; as, indeed, most authors of M/M erotica seem to be) has the touch, that certain something that makes me want to read on even when I don't really want to read on, and with Books 3 and 4 of the series reverting to what can only be her M/M specialty, obviously they had to be added to my order as well. Indeed, I am now suddenly such a convert to this style of storytelling that Tori's plentiful recommendations in the field will doubtless also find their way onto my Wishlist – to think, all the fun I could have been having all this time, were it not for that one, utterly confounding Kirk/Spock link upon which I clicked so innocently, lo these many years ago.
Damn you, slash fanfic! What evils you have wrought.
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There has been a silence in here for almost two months now but with a good reason: I've been very sick for this entire time getting a new virus after another and am having my second batch of (extremely disgusting) antibiotics which gladly have apparently started to work, since I'm starting to feel that life is somewhat worth living again. Fingers crossed it's only going up from here forth.
On to these lovely things. Went to Monki on Thursday because I was on a hunt for new sunglasses because the sun has actually started to shine up here and it feels really weird but I'm sort of enjoying it. And as I don't know where I have put my favourite ones (my room is under reorganization) and only had tortoise shell ones I had gotten from my little brother years ago. These were sooo lovely but they didn't have them at the first Monki I went (got them later at another one) so I just checked the sales racks and noticed this cool print they had in some clothes.
First I grabbed the t-shirt and then I found the blouse. The t-shirt was instantly a go when I put it on: soft 100% cotton and the hem is so nice and long. With the blouse I had to ponder a bit because it's quite short yet baggy. But the viscose feels so wonderful on and the print just matches with my hair and colours so damn well I just needed to have it. Apparently I'm trying to incorporate at least some colours into my outfits because they make me look a bit more alive, even though I still adore all black ensembles to the skies.
Babbling on but I've missed this so much but as I've felt like a limp spaghetti or covered in bruises I've mostly just laid on the sofa trying to keep my mind set.
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On a sleepy spring afternoon in a small Nebraska town, 17-year-old Anne Sluti (Sara Canning) is abducted from a mall parking lot. The harrowing six days that follow are the subject of this gripping Lifetime docudrama. As her captors tote her from state to state, Sluti leaves clues behind for search teams and eventually devises her own rescue. James Van Der Beek co-stars as convicted kidnapper Tony Zappa. LeVar Burton also stars.


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The humoral theory of Sydenham, and the threefold action supposed by Broussais, were further advances in the right direction.
humoral theories, less easy to test, preserved an appearance of generality and were easily admitted.
Soon after that, Behring discovered antitoxins, and this seemed to favour the chemical or humoral theory of immunity.
These diseases were those of a humoral type, especially such as are characterized by issues and ulcers.
These results having been established, it seemed as if the last rampart of the humoral theory had been taken by storm.
According to humoral doctrine, fever demanded a purging, not the intake of additional substances.
Galen strictly followed Hippocrates in the latter's humoral theory of pathology, and also in therapeutics to a great extent.
Those were the days of humoral pathology, when disturbances of secretion were supposed to be the basis of all disease.
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More elitism from academia and the ruling class:
"The institute has also been very good to Berwick personally. He received $2.3 million in compensation in 2008 (a figure that included retirement funds), and was paid $637,006 in 2007 and $585,008 in 2006. On top of that, investigators discovered a little-noticed paragraph in an audit report revealing that in 2003 the institute's board of directors gave Berwick and his wife health coverage 'from retirement until death.' Millions of Americans worry about securing coverage and paying for it. Berwick, who advocates rationing for the masses, will never be one of them."
Spread the wealth around (except theirs, of course.) Ration healthcare (except theirs, of course.) They are so morally and intellectually superior to the rest of us. Don't challenge the ruling class. Amazing to observe. Read more here.
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Chromatic sedition abounds in that photo…
The children of the future have lost perspective!
Funny, that one on the left doesn't look much like Kanye West.
Are those the "Back to the Future 2" glasses that you could get at Pizza Hut?
I'd forgot sbout those! Myself, I got one of those prismatic rainbow caps Marty wears in 2015. I still wish some of those gaudy fashions had caught on. We still have 7 years for kids to start wearing their clothes inside-out.
Actually, this is a still photo from the new "Speed Racer" film. Check boinboing tv for an interview with John Gaeta, the mastermind genius, don't-you-wanna-be-just-like-him behind these brilliant, seemingly cheesy photoshop-like 'cutting edge special effects'.
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"Heat" and "Northern New Brunswick" don't easily fall off the tongue together. But for a few months each summer, the Baie des Chaleurs - literally, the Bay of Heats - gets warm enough to turn this quiet corner of Acadia into a natural resort. For the tourist, New Brunswick's north shore and Acadian peninsula offer pleasures for the body and soul, with few of the crowds and at a small fraction of the price of other beachside destinations. It also serves up a couple of special treats that get locals to agree "dere's no shore like da' nort' shore."
The hub, and the best base from which to start your trip, is my hometown of Bathurst, a half-English, half-French city of 12,000 at the foot of the bay. Whether or not Bathurst's Youghall Beach is the "warmest saltwater beach north of Virginia," as some have claimed, it rewards in full. The beach is wide and sandy at low tide and can be walked and swum in for miles. The bay is shallow and relatively isolated from the rest of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, keeping its water warm. The Youghall area is also home to the Gowan Brae Golf and Country Club, lush and pristine and among the best-kept in the Maritimes, with holes 13 through 17 running along the water.
The seafood, as should be expected, is fresh and cooked with care. My aunt and I sampled the fare at La Fine Grobe sur Mer, just 15 minutes north of Bathurst. Chef Georges Frachon, a French immigrant, does most of the cooking himself, so be prepared to make an evening of it in his house by the beach. The scallops, salmon and trout were expertly prepared, but since Georges is always experimenting, ask what's not on the menu.
Seafood in Bathurst, however, doesn't require fine dining. A lobster or clam roll from the Pabineau Seafood Market (on the Pabineau First Nation) is flaky and tasty and costs just $6, and the bun comes lightly toasted with just the right amount of mayonnaise.
And don't stop at seafood. Northeastern New Brunswick offers three particularly sweet opportunities, starting with the region's superior maple syrup. George Riordon of Pokeshaw, 30 minutes east of Bathurst, sells his at the Bathurst Farmers' Market. Although maple syrup may be maple syrup (there's no real recipe, says George's wife, Jeanne-Mance - it's all about temperature control), one technology may give smaller producers like the Riordons an edge: Wood-fired stoves heat the sap more slowly than the gas-fired ones used in larger operations, and that keeps more flavour in.
To really experience the flavour of the Maritimes, you have to try a donair and, particular to Bathurst, a Dannyburger. Some confuse donairs for a local take on the gyro. But the rich and sweet donair sauce, made mostly from sugar, milk and vinegar, makes the conventional pita/meat sandwich a Maritime specialty. Two chain outlets, Greco and Pizza Delight, are the best sources and well represented throughout the region; an undersampled delight is the donair pizza, with donair sauce acting as the base the way a conventional tomato-based sauce would.
The Dannyburger tops the sweetness sweepstakes. It consists of a cut-up cheeseburger, served on its side, waffle fries and coleslaw, but only becomes a Dannyburger when topped with a tangy sauce, a three-generation-long secret of Bathurst's DeGrace family. It's the kind of meal that makes locals yearn for home. The Big D Drive-in on St. Peter Avenue is devoted to the Dannyburger - servers don't rollerblade up to your vehicle any more, but they do offer the choice of takeout (drive away with your meal) or eat-in (in your car, that is).
A drive up the Acadian peninsula, east of Bathurst, along highways 134 and 11, offers great sightseeing, especially at sunset. One beach, 30 minutes east along the highway, is at the foot of Pokeshaw Rock, better known locally as "Birdshit Island." This one is but a quick stop, though; if the guano doesn't drive you away, the chirping of the nesting cormorants will. After this earthly encounter, the next site east along Highway 11 is more heavenly - the Musée des Papes, or Popes' Museum, the only one of its kind in North America. It's part hall of fame (every pope, including those from the rival papal seat at Avignon during the medieval schism, gets a plaque) and part curio gallery (featuring such items as a life-sized Pope John Paul II puppet with his Swiss Guards and a Bible written in reverse) - displayed without a hint of irony.Report Typo/Error
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The online Book Club is back.
Readers chose the book Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat. We've had two weeks to read and think about it. Discussion starts on Monday with a special guest.
I've invited John Mundy, an expert on the modern history and culture of Iran, to help us explore the background to Nemat's bestselling and controversial memoir.
Mundy, Canada's former Ambassador to Iran, will take your questions on the book club blog beginning at 2 p.m. EST on Monday March 5.
A senior diplomat, Mundy was in Iran during a very troubled time in Canada's relations with that country. After his appointment in 2007, he travelled throughout the country, meeting Iranian people from all walks of life. At the end of that year, when attempts to agree upon a reciprocal exchange of ambassadors between Iran and Canada failed, he was expelled by President Ahmadinejad. Diplomatic relations between our two countries were down-graded.
Mundy worked for the Federal Public Service for more than 30 years. Before retiring in 2008, he held senior diplomatic appointments in Trinidad and Tobago, Iran and Australia. A frequent commentator in The Globe and Mail and other media outlets, Mundy is writing a book about his experiences in Iran.
In addition to reading Nemat's memoir, Mundy suggests seeing the film A Separation for a look at how the contemporary legal system affects ordinary people's lives in Iran. The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards last Sunday.
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The Massachusetts Bar Association announces the formation of the
Task Force on Peremptory Challenges to study the history of such
challenges in selecting juries and the implications of their use in
the state courts. Peremptory challenges can be made by either
side in a criminal or civil case to help choose a jury
without stating a reason, except where an impermissible bias (such
as racial or gender bias) may be inferred. The task force will
issue a report of its findings next spring.
The MBA consulted key groups in the formation of the task force,
including the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Massachusetts
State Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the
Boston Bar Association, the Committee for Public Counsel Services,
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A panel of three associate justices of the Massachusetts Appeals
Court will hear oral arguments in five appeals in a special session
to be held on the campus of Berkshire Community College, 1350 West
St., Pittsfield. The Pittsfield sitting will be held on Monday,
Sept. 21 at 9:30 a.m. and is part of the Appeals Court's continuing
outreach to communities outside Boston, where the court generally
holds its sittings. It also coincides with Berkshire Community
College's 50th Anniversary Celebration. The session is open to the
public. Teachers and students from local area high schools and
members of the college's community, including the local chapter of
the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, are expected to attend.
Oral arguments for each case take approximately 30 minutes.
Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The SJC rule for
cameras in the courtroom will apply.
Immediately following the session, the justices, Hon. Joseph
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informal question and answer period for the students on general
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appellate court. (Pending matters will not be discussed.)
Chief Judge Sandra Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
First Circuit has announced the formation of a Bankruptcy Merit
Selection Panel to screen and review the qualifications of
applicants for a bankruptcy judge position for the U.S. District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, headquartered in
Worcester. The successful candidate will fill the vacancy created
by the retirement of the Hon. Joel B. Rosenthal, who has served as
the bankruptcy judge in Worcester since 2000.
Under the statute providing for the appointment of bankruptcy
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have the duty of filling vacancies on the bankruptcy court in each
circuit (28 U.S.C. § 152). The Merit Selection Panel will recommend
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experience and commitment to equal justice under the law fully
qualify them to serve as U.S. bankruptcy judges. The Judicial
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Bankruptcy judges are appointed to 14-year terms by the Court of
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Massachusetts School of Law, 500 Federal St., Andover
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Wednesday, Sept. 16, 5-7 p.m.
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Operating the Profitable Immigration Law
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 4-7 p.m.
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Western New England College School of Law, Springfield
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Val d'isère is justifiably ranked up there with the best resorts in the world. Lift linked with Tignes with which Val d'isère makes up L'Espace Killy, there are 300km of varied pistes to please everyone from beginners to pros. Expert skiers and snowboarders are particularly spoilt for choice in Val d'isère with the 1992 Olympic course, the 'Face', plenty of off-piste (remember to take a guide) and a world class snow park.
Val d'isère has not only world class skiing but also boasts some world class après ski. The Folie Douce at the top of la Daille gondola is probably the most famous of Val d'isère's après haunts but is far from the only one. Restaurants on and off the mountain are pricey but good, which added to a good range of accommodation and lot's to do for the non-skiers makes it easy to see Val d'isère's attraction.


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Melissa (nee Rice) and Adam Miller of New York City announce the birth of their son, Ryan Finn (Yakov Chaim), on Feb. 20.
Sharing in their happiness are grandparents Linda and David Rice of Rivervale, N.J., and Lynne and Lee Miller of Yardley, along with great-grandmothers Maxienne Rice of California, and Thelma Miller of King of Prussia.
Joining in welcoming the new addition to the family are Aunt Teri and Uncle Jeff Rice; Aunt Carina and Uncle Matt Miller, along with cousins Jack, Max and Sam Rice; and Henry and Ethan Miller. Thrilled great-aunts are Rosalie Friedberg, Randi Geller and Kathy Hufnagle.
Ryan Finn is named in loving memory of his paternal great-grandmother, Reba Weinraub, and his maternal great-grandmother, Frances Friedberg.
His Hebrew name is in loving memory of his maternal great-grandfather, Jacob Friedberg, and his paternal great-grandfather, Herman Weinraub.


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Nigar, Shaheen (2006) An Analysis of Governmental and Non-Governmental Rural Development Programme with Particular Focus on Rural Women In NWFP. ( A Case Study of three Union Council in District Peshawar). PhD thesis, University of Peshawar, Peshawar .
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agm_ultimatex replied to Ansman's topic in For BeginnersMy advice is to go with objective-c. Not only are you more comfortable with it, but it's generally what a lot of the iOS community uses as well. So searching for information, asking questions on stackoverflow might be more relevant to use the language of choice for that platform. The benefits for learning C++ would be if you want to use that language for other projects as well. Such as building a desktop 2d game. Though if you target Mac only, you can build desktop games using objective c as well.
agm_ultimatex replied to ms75214's topic in For BeginnersDepends on the language or platform. If you want something that can potentially go into the mac app store, then I would say XCode and Objective-C is your friend. Though I believe something like mac ruby will work for that as well. I have mess around with C++ using XCode, which i managed to get a very basic side scroller working just fine. For when I would toy with Java, Eclipse does the job for me. Though I recently started porting a sidescroller (same one i had in C++) from the Java version I had, into JRuby.
agm_ultimatex replied to agm_ultimatex's topic in Math and PhysicsWorked like a charm, thanks very much. Really need to brush up on my math to get better at this stuff .
agm_ultimatex posted a topic in Math and PhysicsI'm working on getting a grid using hexagons in a honeycomb pattern. Thanks to the work of the previous developer, here's where it stands in terms of layout: http://imgur.com/BBDZB The code is: [code] generateTiles : function(f) { var xyz = [0,0,0]; var radius = 7; var max_out = 14; var deltas = [[1,0,-1],[0,1,-1],[-1,1,0],[-1,0,1],[0,-1,1],[1,-1,0]]; var output = "" for (var i = 0; i < radius; i++) { var x = xyz[0]; var y = xyz[1]-i; var z = xyz[2]+i; for (var j = 0; j < 6; j++) { for (var k = 0; k < i; k++) { x = x+deltas[j][0] y = y+deltas[j][1] z = z+deltas[j][2] f(x,y,z); } } } }, [/code] The f function that is called passes an x and y value for coordinates: [code] var coords = [0,0,0]; this.x = function() { var x = (Math.sqrt(3) * (radius + 1) * (coords[2]/2 + coords[0])); return GridInterface.HexGrid.x_offset + x; }; this.y = function() { var y = (3/2 * (radius + 1) * coords[2]); return GridInterface.HexGrid.y_offset + y; }; [/code] The x/y offset values is the center of the grid. What I want to achieve is to have it work when the hexagons are rotated 30 degrees, so the sides are flat at the top and bottom. When i rotate them now, the points are touching as supposed to being directly side by side. Any suggestions on how i can make this happen would be greatly apprecated.
agm_ultimatex replied to nullsquared's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingI know you dont want to ask users to register, but maybe implementing something like OAuth wouldn't be such a bad idea. A lot of people have either facebook or twitter accounts. Can authenticate them through that.
agm_ultimatex replied to dievo's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingThat's pretty cool. I'd love to read a blog post on how you set it up more specifically. The most i've done with websockets is a pub/sub setup where you draw with a pencil tool on the canvas, and release the mouse. The other users connected then see that drawing.
agm_ultimatex replied to sooner123's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingArt director at my work mostly uses photoshop. I'm not much of a designer myself, but I often do the designs for mobile versions that we do for our clients. I generally just do that using HTML & CSS, maybe using or resizing a logo and an image via pixelmator.
agm_ultimatex replied to CC Ricers's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingI think your best bet is to show employers what you can do. Start building something in your language of choice, or look to contribute to some open source projects. Skill building on your spare time will not only better prepare you for another job, but you also send the employer some of the stuff you built to show you have the skills they're looking for.
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agm_ultimatex posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingHello. Im using raphaeljs to generate 2d svg graphics in a web browser. I currently draw a few ovals, where the x radius is 92% of the y radius. For example, i call the ellipse function of raphael: [code] ellipse(x, y, this.r * 0.92, this.r); [/code] I am then drawing an arc around this oval. The problem is, I can't figure out how best to keep it to the path of the oval. This function works 100% when it's a perfect circle, but otherwise there's a bit of spacing, and it's not aligned correctly. [code] // radius is this.r from above, x & y are same values. The scale is used to draw different sizes of ovals. arc([x-1,y-2], radius, 0, 250, scale); var arc = function(center, radius, startAngle, endAngle, scale) { if(!scale) { scale = 1 } angle = startAngle; coords = toCoords(center, radius, angle, scale); path = "M " + coords[0] + " " + coords[1]; while(angle <= endAngle) { coords = toCoords(center, radius, angle, scale); path += " L " + coords[0] + " " + coords[1]; angle += 1; } return path; } [/code] [code] function toCoords(center, radius, angle, scale) { if(!scale) { scale = 1; } var radians = (angle/180) * Math.PI; var x = center[0] + Math.cos(radians) * radius; var y = center[1] + Math.sin(radians) * radius; return [x, y]; } [/code] Any ideas? Here's an example of what's currently rendering: [url="http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7863/ovalt.png"]http://img98.imagesh.../7863/ovalt.png[/url]
agm_ultimatex replied to reaper567's topic in GDNet LoungeQuote:Original post by Evil Steve I play Guild Wars a fair bit (Feel free to add "Cyss The Moist" to your friends list if you like), and I'm definitely looking forwards to GW2. I'm also one of the sad individuals who bought Aion just for the shiney /aion emote in Guild Wars, I've not actually installed Aion since I bought it... Quote:Original post by jpetrie I work on it. It's fun.I did not know this. Get me in on the beta when it eventually comes out kplzthx. yeah aion is way too much of a grind, not that great to play.
agm_ultimatex posted a topic in GDNet LoungeJust asking, as it always looks quite nice :)
agm_ultimatex replied to biggjoee5790's topic in For BeginnersThe simplicity of AWT allows you to create things like shapes and a GUI really easily. You still need to the same amount of math and calculations regardless. Slick2d and JME have nice classes you can extend from to get a game going. I think it really is a better idea to dive into one of them sooner than later, to get familiar with the classes and how to use them. There are some decent tutorials out there for getting started with such frameworks. When I was learning SFML with C++, I created a pong clone then. Worked pretty well for me to learn the library.


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LONDON (Jan. 27)
All shops in the Whitechapel district, London's Jewish quarter, will be closed tomorrow when King George V. is carried to his final resting place.
Every shop window in the section displays a portrait of the late King together with a message of sympathy.
Memorial services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon by Chief Rabbi J. H. Hertz at the Great Synagogue. Other memorial services will be held in the evening in all synagogues throughout England.


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Some observers of the Catholic theological scene are saying that a personal meeting between Pope Francis and Dominican Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez could mark a thaw in decades of frosty relations between the church's hierarchy and liberation theologians.
Gutiérrez, a Peruvian, coined the phrase "liberation theology." The theology is marked by its concern for liberation of the world's people from unjust economic or social conditions. It was developed in Latin America during the region's military dictatorships in the 1960s and '70s.
The Vatican did not list Francis' early September meeting with Gutiérrez among the pope's official audiences, but a Vatican spokesman confirmed the meeting to NCR, describing it as "a strictly private visit."
L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's semi-official newspaper, published an essay on the event Sept. 3. With the election of the first pope from Latin America, liberation theology can no longer "remain in the shadows to which it has been relegated for some years, at least in Europe," the essay said.
A U.S. theologian with a personal connection to Gutiérrez agreed that the election of the Argentine pope may have brought a certain openness to liberation theology.
According to Michael Lee, associate professor of theology at Fordham University in New York, the reality of the Latin American experience "is present in the person of Francis and in the Vatican now in a way that it never has been before."
"What only makes sense is, then, a reopening of the door to this theology that emerged from that context and spoke so powerfully to it, and continues to do so," said Lee, who is of Puerto Rican descent and was a graduate assistant for and taught with Gutiérrez.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1981-2005 before becoming Pope Benedict XVI, issued official critiques of liberation theology in 1984 and 1986. He expressed particular concern that some theologians had inappropriately mixed Marxist critique of the global economic system with Catholic theology.
While Gutiérrez was never officially sanctioned by Ratzinger, other theologians who followed the Peruvian's strain of thought, like Brazilian Leonardo Boff and Sri Lankan Tissa Balasuriya, were.
The visit between the theologian and Francis came the same week Gutiérrez held a public event with Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the current head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation. The two were in the northern Italian town of Mantua, launching a book they co-authored.
Titled On the Side of the Poor: Liberation Theology, Theology of the Church, the book is an Italian edition of a book they wrote in German in 2004.
Benedict appointed Müller, formerly the bishop of Regensburg, Germany, to head the doctrinal congregation in 2012.
In On the Side of the Poor, Müller describes liberation theology as one of the "most significant currents of Catholic theology of the 20th century" that helped the church bridge the divide between "earthly happiness and ultra-earthly salvation."
During the book launching in Mantua, Müller also announced that the Vatican doctrinal office has given the green light to proceed with the sainthood cause of Archbishop Oscar Romero, a hero to many U.S. and Latin American Catholics. Romero was assassinated in 1980 after condemning violence by the military dictatorship in El Salvador.
Lee, who is also president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States, said that announcement goes "hand in hand" with whatever thaw might be taking place in Catholic theology.
"It's a recognition that liberation theology and the kind of Christian action it inspired and that fed it is something very valuable and something our world needs today," he said.
Seconding Lee's idea is Paul Farmer, the U.S. physician and Harvard professor known widely for humanitarian health care work in some to the world's poorest countries.
Farmer, who is Catholic and says liberation theology inspired him, said he hopes that Francis' meeting with Gutiérrez does mean an easing in the Vatican's stance toward liberation theology, because that would allow the theology to spread more widely.
In particular, he said, he hopes that agencies, nonprofit groups, and governments that provide assistance to the world's most impoverished people would adopt Gutiérrez's ideas about a "preferential option for the poor" and his work on issues of structural violence.
Those groups "need this kind of inspiration," Farmer told NCR.
"They need to understand that it's wrong not to use these ideas," he said. "That if you don't understand structural violence, for example, you're grasping around in the dark in public health, public education [and] poverty reduction. These ideas really warrant not just rehabilitation but widespread dissemination."
Farmer, who is the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, is also a co-founder of the nonprofit group Partners in Health, which has received numerous awards for its work connecting doctors and patients in the developed and developing worlds.
Farmer too has co-authored a book with Gutiérrez. Titled In the Company of the Poor, it is set for release by Orbis Books in November.
Farmer said that he became aware of Gutiérrez's writings while working as a physician in Haiti some three decades ago.
When he and several colleagues -- including the current president of the World Bank, Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim -- started Partners in Health in 1987, he said, they "extremely explicitly" borrowed from liberation theology.
The group's website (www.pih.org) states: "Our mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care."
"These ideas should be all around us and available to everyone," Farmer said.
[Joshua J. McElwee is NCR national correspondent. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @joshjmac.]
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Call for deer shooting inquiry
Gamekeepers have urged the Scottish Parliament to endorse an independent inquiry into the shooting of red deer out of season.
The gamekeepers have described the practice as cruel and immoral and they plan to petition the parliament for action.
Gamekeepers and stalkers have permission to shoot red deer over the winter to help control their numbers.
The season ends later this week but the Deer Commission for Scotland does allow some out of season shooting under licence.
Archie Dykes, who works as a gamekeeper on Glen Dye in Aberdeenshire, said some deer are shot, under licence, out of season due to a lack of manpower during the shooting season.
He said: "More and more people are complaining about the number of deer shot out of season.
"Heavily pregnant deer are being shot in June and July which means deer calves are being left to starve to death.
"It's a pretty horrible job to do but there are not enough people on the ground to control the deer in the recognised open seasons."
In 2001, 76,000 red deer were culled, about 1,400 of them out of season - less than 2%.
The commission's director, Nick Reiter, said its policy is for people to shoot responsibly, preferably within the season.
He said: "Any responsible stalker knows how to cull deer, knows that if it is necessary to cull a deer with a calf that you do not leave the calf to suffer and die a lingering death.
"I don't know that coming at it from an emotive, subjective, and in many cases inaccurate point of view, helps anyone."
The Scottish Gamekeepers Association wants the Scottish Parliament to order an independent inquiry into the issue as soon as possible.
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Principal Investigator: Karthik Balakrishnan, MD
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Nasal Turbinate Reductions and CPAP Outcomes for Sleep Apnea: A Sham-Controlled RCT
Principal Investigator: Edward M. Weaver, MD, MPH
Co-Investigator: Richard A. Deyo, MD, MPH; Patrick J. Heagerty, MS, PhD; Vishesh Kapur, MD, MPH; Nathaniel F. Watson, MD
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome afflicts at least 2 4% of adults and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy is the primary treatment for sleep apnea in adults, but non-adherence to CPAP limits its effectiveness. Even with maximal medical therapy, nasal obstruction is common in sleep apnea patients and may hamper both CPAP adherence and efficacy. However, nasal obstruction (turbinate hypertrophy) is surgically correctable, and treatment of nasal obstruction may lead to more successful use of CPAP. The long-term goal of the proposed research is to develop a novel, multi-disciplinary, multi-modal approach to therapy, in order to improve clinically important treatment outcomes for sleep apnea. The short-term objectives of this proposal are to: 1) Quantify the effect of nasal turbinate reduction on the nasal airway; 2) Determine whether turbinate reduction increases CPAP use or efficacy; and 3) Determine whether turbinate reduction positively influences CPAP treatment outcomes. We will employ a single-site, randomized, double-blind, sham-placebo-controlled trial to test the hypotheses that turbinate reduction: 1) increases nasal airway cross-sectional area; 2) increases mean nightly objective CPAP use; and 3) improves sleep apnea quality of life 3 months after CPAP titration. We will use the radiofrequency turbinate reduction surgical technique, which allows ethical randomization and effective blinding. Three, six, and 12 months after turbinate reduction and CPAP titration we will measure the change in the minimal nasal cross-sectional area, level of CPAP use, and improvement in sleep apnea quality of life. Secondary outcomes will capture this treatments broader impact on the nose, CPAP, and sleep apnea. If turbinate reduction can be shown to improve sleep apnea outcomes through increased use or efficacy of CPAP therapy, this trial will demonstrate the value and effectiveness of a novel, multi-disciplinary, combined medical-surgical approach to the management of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
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RUNNERS will be under starters orders from the Mayor of Dudley when she gets a popular charity race under way.
Councillor Margaret Aston will be officially starting this year's Great Black Country Run through Halesowen on September 21.
She is also hoping some of the runners will be raising money for her chosen charities – Guide Dogs and Action Heart.
Hundreds of runners have already signed up to the five and 10 kilometre races, organised by the Rotary Club of Halesowen and Rowley Regis.
Cllr Aston said: "I took part in last year's run and it was wonderful to see so many people giving up their time to help raise money for charity.
"This year is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever before and I'm really looking forward to seeing all those keen fundraisers on the starting line."
The 10k race gets the event underway at 9am and starts in Birmingham Road, followed by the 5k run at 11am.
To sign up to this year's race visit www.theblackcountryrun.com.


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While I live up in Sacramento, I would out at this awesome little studio called Healthy Habits. I started working out there a few months after I transferred up to Sacramento State (back when Sac State didn't have gym on campus) and have been there ever since.
There are four trainers that teach all the classes and they all make an effort to learn everyone's name and any limitations they have due to injuries. For example, I have messed up lower back and both my wrists are obnoxious, I left for about a year and when I came back they still remembered who I was by name and my injuries. Seriously awesome.
They have spin, sculpt, boot camp, Pilates and Zumba classes and you've never laughed your way through so many exercises. Most days the hour goes by very quickly and everyone who works out there are very friendly and inviting. Not only do they have workout classes, but they also offer lifestyle/food workshops.
Probably one of my favorite aspects of Healthy Habits is that since the classes are so small you can ask the trainers things like "what are you having for dinner?". A few months ago I was able to get a few recipes and I've just started to get around to making them.
The first one I made was the apple pie oatmeal since I just want it to fall already. Cooler weather! Yeah! The recipe called for chopped pieces of walnuts which I knew we had, but they have somehow wandered away so I sadly didn't get any walnuts. But even without the walnuts, the oatmeal was very satisfying and definitely had an apple pie like flavor that put me in the mood for fall.
I had never thought of putting cinnamon on oatmeal before; my family does oatmeal, raisins and brown sugar with milk. The cinnamon added a nice spice and the apple bits added a great crunch to the oatmeal.
Apple Pie Oatmeal
1/2 c. cooked oatmeal (made with water or skim, almond or light soy milk, if desired)
4 apple slices cut into bite sized pieces
sprinkle of cinnamon
1 tsp. chopped walnuts
Cook oatmeal, add in apples and walnuts and sprinkle with cinnamon.


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