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I'm taking my dear friend Carole's suggestion. After a particularly harried day fussing over a plumbing cob job problem, Carole said, "Go get a cup of coffee and look at before and after pics of your kitchen and cheer yourself up…" Hey, who am I to pass up a cup of coffee??
So I did. And I figured I'd write about the amazing things about my new kitchen that I am SO thankful for. Our kitchen renovation was a BIG job. I don't think I'd ever tackled anything so intense, except maybe childbirth, lol. Even the 2007 living room renovation paled in comparison to last summer's big kitchen blitz. We and some folks from our church rebuilt everything on our own– electrical, plumbing, heating system, insulation, drywall, flooring, cabinets and counters, and appliances. Whew, it was a very intense year. In case you missed all the tremendous fun from last year, you can check out some of my blog posts here.
Here are 10 things for which I am very thankful.
1. We'd gutted the kitchen and dining room to the bare bones. I am thankful for that because I'm a rather fussy person. I don't like to inherit another person's "disaster." Old houses are almost never disasters– old houses are exceptional in that they are solidly built with superior craftsmanship and quality materials. In this, they have new construction beat. However, the common "disasters" that strike an old home is usually sub-par remodeling or neglect. My house has suffered from both, but especially from terrible "remodels" in some of the rooms. Much of my turmoil comes from fixing previous remodels. So I like to gut the walls and start from scratch. I don't like patching up previous owners' disasters. And I also like to see exactly what's behind the walls. I'm still looking for those gold dubloons somewhere.
2. I am thankful for my dishwasher. My daughter and I STILL give thanks regularly for it. We used to wash loads and loads of dishes by hand. When I used to babysit kids, I was washing dishes for ten people three times a day.
I got a cheap dishwasher, too– the kind without the electronic panel and no fancy features. I'd heard that fancy dishwashers break easily. I got this cheapo model in case it died early– then I wouldn't feel so bad if it broke on me. But it's been going like a champ. And we LOVE it.
3. I am thankful for my vinyl plank flooring. My first choice was hardwoods (whose isn't?!) but it was too expensive and I didn't think I could install something like that myself. So I opted for easy care vinyl plank flooring. It really is very easy to take care of, and doesn't look too bad!
4. I am thankful for my kitchen window. I love this window. It's so big, more than twice the size of the previous window. I can see the entire backyard through this thing. And when I open it, all the breezes come in. I love the woodwork and the pendant light!
5. I am thankful for my wood countertops. I bought them online and had them delivered, can you believe it?! 350 pounds of countertops! Laminate might have been a little cheaper, but it would have been too much work to custom make it to fit my large space. The wood is just so wonderful. I am just starting to relax a little about the countertops. Before, I was rather hyper about any scratch or swelling. But now I'm not as fussy, because if the wood gets a scratch or swells, I can simply sand it down and recoat the surface with oil.
6. I love my dining room. 🙂
7. I am SO thankful for insulation. Maybe that sounds kind of weird, but if you have ever lived in an old, uninsulated house, you know exactly what I mean. The insulated walls make the house so, so much more comfortable. I can't wait to have the upstairs insulated.
8. I am thankful for new electric. For several years, we had no electricity in many of the rooms. After we gutted the living room in 2007 and saw the condition of the 100-year-old knob-and-tube wiring, I disconnected it for fear of fire. We were without electric in the kitchen except for a small ceiling light and one outlet. It was a pretty miserable room to be in, so dark and ugly.
When we gutted the kitchen and dining room, I wired new electricity throughout the house. I also wired Ethernet. Of course, in some of the upstairs bedrooms we only have one working outlet and a switch-operated ceiling light, but it's one NEW outlet and a NEW light operated by a switch (before, the ceiling lights were pull-chain, ugh). I am very, very thankful for our new electric. I sleep so much better at night now.
9. I am thankful for drywall. I adore the inventor of drywall. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. There are some "hard core" old home owners who install plaster and lathe in their homes, but not me. Plaster is dusty, dirty, ugly, it cracks, it's lumpy and bumpy and did I say it's dusty? It also smells. :-p I like my drywall.
10. I'm thankful for my new cabinets. They cost me a verrry pretty penny, but I love them. They are solid plywood. Beautiful doors. I love the color and they are so durable.
Can you believe I've counted to ten already?! I could keep going on and on!
In case you're wondering, this is what the old kitchen looked like.
Now you see why I am so thankful. 🙂
It's rather easy to see only the things that go wrong when you have an old house (mostly because things are always going wrong in an old house!!). But there's a lot of marvelous benefits to living in an old home. And I am grateful to have a home. I shudder when I remember apartment living!


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A Vancouver Island hotel manager is in custody and will likely face charges after five people were injured in a stabbing at a hotel over the weekend, police say.
Police were called to the Red Lion Inn in Saanich, B.C., shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday.
Officers arrived to a chaotic scene: police said Monday that two of the victims were stabbed in the restaurant on the hotel's lower level, between shifts when the restaurant was closed. An employee working in the kitchen was stabbed next, followed by an employee who happened to enter the restaurant at that time, police said.
After leaving the restaurant, police allege the suspect then went upstairs and stabbed the front-desk clerk, who was the first victim to be found.
All five victims were released from hospital at some point overnight Saturday, Sgt. Dean Jantzen said.
Zhi Wei "Wally" Meng, 52, was arrested. Police are recommending he be charged with five counts of aggravated assault. He was scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon, police said.
The hotel restaurants — the Jade Fountain and Diego's Bar and Grill — were evacuated during the police investigation, as well as the liquor store in the hotel, the building's foyer and the front part of the building. People renting rooms in the back part of the hotel were allowed to stay, police said. The crime scene was released Monday morning and the hotel is open.
Saanich, located just north of Victoria, is the largest municipality on Vancouver Island.

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RE: Ten Reasons I'm Not a Christian28th December 2011, 16:58
(27th December 2011, 19:48)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:(27th December 2011, 19:40)Minimalist Wrote:If you believe that the bible is bullshit, why actually spend time debating on it and spend your valuable minutes in which any of you could study some astrophysics to outline the main points on why you're not a christian?Quote:rather than act like you've studied judeo-christian theology in university
Mehmet....one can study bullshit for a thousand years and it remains bullshit.
One moron once accused me of believing in the Big Bang because an astrophysicist said it was true. He equated this to some shithead theologian proclaiming his "bible" ( or koran....you aren't special ) to be true.
The thing is I know that if were so inclined I could enroll in a university and obtain a degree in astrophysics and then I would not have to listen to the reasonable explanations of Neil De Grasse Tyson ( for example ) but could instead do my own. However, were I to expend an equivalent amount of time and energy on theology it would still qualify me to do nothing except quote off a bunch of random supernatural bullshit.
Kids who waste their lives learning to recite the fucking koran are pretty much in that boat.
The reason why people study theology is akin to why people study philosophy. Either, they're interested, like me, but I do not study theology, or they do it due to their profession(priests, imams, rabbis, monks and etc.).
No one disrespects the Quran thats how its spelt not Koran. Can you tell me how the world was created and how you came in this world.Not taLKING SCIENTIFIC AND NOT RELIGION BUT WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.


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Saudi stock market sets record trading volume in 2000
Trading volumes on the Saudi bourse hit a record of $17.4 billion in 2000, a year when the correlation between oil prices and market performance weakened, Bakheet Financial Advisors (BFA) reported Wednesday, December 27.
The Riyadh-based investment specialists said the NCFEI index rose 11.3 percent over the year, but "this increase was less than expected given the usual high correlation between the Saudi stock market and oil prices."
The average price of oil, the mainstay of the economy of energy-rich Saudi Arabia, shot up 57 percent over the past 12 months, it noted.
In August, the NCFEI climbed to 2,392.8 points, another record in the 15-year history of the index, but it took a U-turn in the final quarter under the negative influence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
BFA said 2001 performance would depend on "the speed of implementing previously announced economic and financial reforms, the start of the privatization process" and diversification from oil as the key driving force of the Saudi economy.
The NCFEI is the most capitalized in the Arab world, at more than $60 billion, but it operates only on an interbank market system.
Finance Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf called last week for the rapid creation of a formal stock market to improve transparency and boost private sector investment.
"The project has been delayed a lot and will be relaunched" after Muslim holidays which run into next week, he said.
But a formal bourse "will not necessarily lead to a halt to Saudi capital flowing abroad, as the kingdom has long been an exporter of capital funds because of the limitations of its economy to absorb them and its openness to the world."
Financial analysts in the Gulf state estimate that a staggering $600 billion in Saudi funds are invested abroad.
On the back of high oil prices in 2000, Saudi Arabia achieved economic growth of 15.5 percent and a budget surplus for the first time in 18 years, amounting to $12 billion. King Fahd has announced a balanced budget for 2001.
But the government's domestic debt tops $160 billion, almost as high as the gross domestic product for this year, Assaf revealed.— (AFP)
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ESO's Very Large Telescope
Looking Deep into a Huge Storm on Saturn
The latest such storm was first detected by the radio and plasma wave science instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft [1], in orbit around the planet, and also tracked by amateur astronomers in December 2010. It has now been studied in detail using the VISIR [2] infrared camera on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in conjunction with observations from the CIRS instrument [3] on Cassini.
This is only the sixth of these huge storms to be spotted since 1876. It is the first ever to be studied in the thermal infrared — to see the variations of temperature within a Saturnian storm — and the first ever to be observed by an orbiting spacecraft.
"This disturbance in the northern hemisphere of Saturn has created a gigantic, violent and complex eruption of bright cloud material, which has spread to encircle the entire planet," explains Leigh Fletcher (University of Oxford, UK), lead author of the new study. "Having both the VLT and Cassini investigating this storm at the same time gives us a great chance to put the Cassini observations into context. Previous studies of these storms have only been able to use reflected sunlight, but now, by observing thermal infrared light for the first time, we can reveal hidden regions of the atmosphere and measure the really substantial changes in temperatures and winds associated with this event."
The storm may have originated deep down in the water clouds where a phenomenon similar to a thunderstorm drove the creation of a giant convective plume: just as hot air rises in a heated room, this mass of gas headed upwards and punched through Saturn's usually serene upper atmosphere. These huge disturbances interact with the circulating winds moving east and west and cause dramatic temperature changes high up in the atmosphere.
"Our new observations show that the storm had a major effect on the atmosphere, transporting energy and material over great distances, modifying the atmospheric winds — creating meandering jet streams and forming giant vortices — and disrupting Saturn's slow seasonal evolution," adds Glenn Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA), another member of the team.
Some of the unexpected features seen in the new imaging from VISIR have been named stratospheric beacons. These are very strong temperature changes high in the Saturnian stratosphere, 250-300 km above the cloud tops of the lower atmosphere, that show how far up into the atmosphere the effects of the storm extend. The temperature in Saturn's stratosphere is normally around -130 degrees Celsius at this season but the beacons are measured to be 15-20 degrees Celsius warmer.
The beacons are completely invisible in reflected sunlight but can outshine the emission from the rest of the planet in the thermal infrared light detected by VISIR. They had never been detected before, so astronomers are not sure if they are common features in such storms.
"We were lucky to have an observing run scheduled for early in 2011, which ESO allowed us to bring forward so that we could observe the storm as soon as possible. It was another stroke of luck that Cassini's CIRS instrument could also observe the storm at the same time, so we had imaging from VLT and spectroscopy of Cassini to compare," concludes Leigh Fletcher. "We are continuing to observe this once-in-a-generation event."
[1] The Cassini–Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, a division of the California Institute of Technology, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC.
[2] VISIR is the VLT spectrometer and imager for the mid-infrared. VISIR was built by CEA/DAPNIA/SAP and NFRA/ASTRON.
[3] CIRS stands for Composite Infrared Spectrometer, one of the instruments on Cassini. CIRS analyses heat radiation and is capable of discerning an object's composition.
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Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other senior State Department officials engaged in "negotiations" with the Islamic Republic of Iran over its illicit nuclear weapons program have made clear they would be willing to accept continued Iranian enrichment of uranium as long as the Iranians agree to certain limits and to international monitoring.
This is a fatal negotiating mistake, which could have deadly consequences.
Iran enriches uranium hexafluoride gas in fast-spinning centrifuges. Spin the centrifuges for a certain period, and you get low-enriched uranium, which can fuel a nuclear power plant. Spin them a bit longer, and you get weapons-grade uranium to make a bomb.
As long as they have the centrifuges and the enrichment plants, there is no inherent stopping point in the technology to prevent Iran from spinning up to weapons-grade uranium. It's a bit like giving a teenager the keys to the Mustang on a Saturday night and asking him not to push it beyond 30 mph. Are you kidding?
Just like the teenager, all the Iranians have to do is step on the gas, and they will turn the corner to becoming a nuclear weapons state in little time. They don't need to make any changes in their existing technology.
Over the past two years, Iran has made great strides in its enrichment capabilities. According to the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, the regime now has 19,000 centrifuges, including several thousand high-performance, new-generation machines they are still testing.
To date, they have produced more than 10,000 kilograms (22,000 pounds) of low-enriched uranium. With further enrichment, by most estimates, that is enough for roughly 10 bombs (or "significant quantities," as the agency calls the amount of highly enriched uranium needed to make a crude, Hiroshima-generation weapon). If Iran used a more efficient bomb design, it would be enough for many more.
One of the most respected nongovernmental experts on Iran's nuclear programs, former Atomic Energy Agency inspector David Albright, has consistently argued that technological and management bottlenecks have slowed the Iranian bomb program considerably. Just two years ago, he questioned whether Iran's main enrichment plant at Natanz was for real, or just an expensive "boondoggle."
Now Albright thinks the program is for real, and that Iran has the capability of producing enough uranium hexafluoride for a bomb in less than one month.
His Institute for Science and International Security released a report Thursday that examined the various estimates for the amount of time Iran would need to produce weapons-grade uranium at its declared enrichment facilities, and at a covert facility using the new-generation centrifuges. He concluded that the only way to prevent an Iranian "breakout" capability would be to require that Iran dismantle at least half of its 19,000 centrifuges.
Given Iran's record of cheating and dissimulating its capabilities from international inspectors, I think allowing Iran to retain any enrichment capability would be a mistake.
The Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty grants non-nuclear powers access to civilian nuclear technology only if: 1) they open all their facilities to international inspection, and 2) they forswear all nuclear weapons research or activities.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been caught violating the treaty on both counts, and has been sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council five times because of these violations. Thus, Iran has no "right" to nuclear technology, period.
Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican, recently introduced the United States-Iran Nuclear Negotiation Act (H.R. 3292), which would set negotiating parameters for the administration, including a ban on enrichment.
The bill also calls for the United States to demand a halt to Iran's illegal pursuit of a heavy-water plutonium production plant in Arak. This nuclear reactor, incapable of producing much electricity, is nothing but a bomb plant.
Iran's foreign minister and lead nuclear negotiator, Javad Sharif, reiterated in Geneva the long-standing positions of his government. For Tehran, the "right" to enrich uranium is a "red line" they do not intend to cross. So is completion of the Arak bomb plant.
While talking about talks — which is all the Geneva talks were about — might satisfy some deep-seated need in the psyche of career diplomats, Kerry must place a clear time limit on how long he will allow the Iranians to procrastinate. Every day we continue the talks, the Iranian centrifuges are spinning. Every day they continue to spin, Iran gets closer to nuclear capabilities no international agreement will be able to control.


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Updated 10:00 pm, Thursday, September 9, 2004
There's a feeling of time warp in Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny." As the landscape of America rolls past the bug-spattered windshield of a van traveling across the continent, it's as if you've stepped into an American art-house road movie from the 1970s.
The plot is simple, more of a mood piece about physical and emotional isolation than a story. Vincent Gallo plays a scruffy motorcycle racer hauling himself back home to California after a losing race in New Hampshire.
Alone and haunted by the memory of his old girlfriend, Daisy (Chloe Sevigny), he blankly drifts through the landscape and stumbles through a series of sad attempts at brief connections with lonely women along the way, only to abandon them abruptly. Finally he tracks down Daisy and exposes the story behind his pain and guilt (and himself) in the film's notorious, sexually graphic climax.
The most evocative encounters on his odyssey are an awkward conversation with Daisy's mournful, disconnected parents and brief interlude with a haggard rest area denizen, played by the almost unrecognizable '70s supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. She doesn't say a word, but her weatherbeaten face and eyes reveal a vulnerable, emotionally battered woman desperate for human contact, no matter how brief.
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Gallo unveiled his '70s flashback in a 132-minute rough cut that Roger Ebert (summing up the hostile reaction) called the "worst film in the history of the Cannes Film Festival." The 92-minute finished version is lovely and lolling and painfully sincere, a visually and narratively uncluttered film, full of long, lazy takes of lonely highways and edited to a gentle, pleasing rhythm. It has a handmade beauty to it.
There is a streak of vanity to the project that includes Gallo's bizarre exhibitionism in the bluntly unromantic sex scene (a degrading scene for actress Chloe Sevigny, even if Gallo makes it work dramatically). But for all its notoriety, "The Brown Bunny" is an honorable and often enticing piece of personal filmmaking.


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An angry Republican representative is investigating whether the Obama Administration hoodwinked Congress by merely renaming the role of "Public Advocate" for illegal immigrants rather than eliminating the position after it was defunded.
Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., wants to know if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) circumvented the law by changing the title of the agency official who was named as the agency's "public advocate" while keeping him on the job.
In February 2012, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait was named to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement's first Public Advocate, but he now serves as Deputy Assistant Director of Custody Programs and Community Outreach after Congress defunded the position in March.
Black is investigating whether Lorenzen-Strait is actually still serving as public advocate even though it is no longer his official role. According to her office and Judicial Watch, a non-profit government watchdog group which originally uncovered the advocacy position under ICE, the description of his role remains the same despite the name change.
Black sent a letter to ICE Acting Director John Sandweg on Tuesday and is asking the agency to answer questions as to why the position, which has been defunded, appears to be continuing under a different name.
"I write with serious concern that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ignored current law that prohibits your agency from funding the position of Public Advocate," said Black. "Additionally, it appears that Mr. Lorenzen-Strait was retained and assigned a new title with no substantive changes to his job function. If true, this represents a serious violation of the public trust. ICE has a moral and legal responsibility to comply with the law and the will of Congress.The sudden creation of a new position within your agency for Mr. Lorenzen-Strait casts further doubt on the idea that ICE has acted in good faith to comply with the law."
ICE spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez told The Blaze that Lorenzen-Strait, a career civil servant "has helped lead the agency's public engagement and detention reform portfolio" since being hired by ICE in 2008, "during the previous Administration."
Gonzalez said community outreach remains a necessary function at ICE in order to explain the agency's mission and to be responsive to the needs of the public. "ICE's detention reform efforts, initiated in 2009, prioritize the health and safety of detainees in ICE custody as well as the security of ICE employees and staff, while increasing federal oversight and conditions of confinement within the system," she said.
However, Tom Flanagin, spokesman for Black's office told TheBlaze "it took us two weeks to get ICE to tell us when they changed the name on the position."
He said ICE officials eventually told them the position title was officially changed on April 1.
"Not sure if it was an April fools joke or what," he said. "What we want to know as well is whether the five days in between the time they changed the name, were they still paying this position."
The "public advocate" position was created in February 2012, but the role is contrary to the law enforcement policies dictated by ICE, said an DHS employee, who is familiar with the position. The official spoke on condition that they not be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter.
"This is the biggest joke," the DHS official said. "We know that many times public advocate means the illegals are getting all the information they need to circumvent our laws and stay in the country. So basically we have a position in the department that works against the ICE officers who are trying to do their jobs."
In the letter Black is asking ICE to answer several direct questions that need to be answered by Oct. 7,"to better understand how ICE is working to follow the law and the will of the American people."
"What was the employment status of Andrew Lorenzen-Strait between March 26, 2013 and April 1, 2013," she asks. "What substantive differences, if any, exist between Mr. Lorenzen-Strait's current position and his previous one as Public Advocate?"


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OKLAHOMA CITY, April 28 (UPI) -- The FBI said it is investigating vandalism at an Oklahoma City mosque as a possible hate crime after profanities were spray painted on the building.
Vandals sprayed "Hale Satan" and other profanities along with what appeared to be a penis on the Grand Mosque overnight and the imam, Hassan Ahmed, found it early Saturday, The Oklahoman of Oklahoma City said.
"We are certainly aware of that incident [Saturday] morning, and we have been notified, and are investigating to determine if it does fit the criteria for a hate crime," FBI spokesman Rick Raines said. "We're investigating it as a potential hate crime."
It was unclear if the incident was in retaliation for the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Two brothers of Chechnyan descent who are Muslims are suspected of carrying out the Boston attack.
The mosque enhanced security by installing surveillance cameras in 2011 after vandals sprayed it with paintballs. Hassan said the vandals this time avoided detection by cameras, leading him to believe they had studied the building beforehand.


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Dave Cogdill, in his six years in the California Assembly and two in the State Senate, has been a good friend of Tuolumne County.
Now that he's been elected senate majority leader by his Republican colleagues, the Modesto legislator will be a powerful friend as well.
"He'll have access to all the important people and all the key meetings," said Tuolumne County Administrator Craig Pedro. "He'll be the same capable legislator we've worked with for year, but his new position will give him a lot more clout."
Yes, John Garamendi represented Tuolumne County in the State Senate during the 1980s, served a term as majority leader and helped secure funding for the original Sonora Bypass. But it has been more than 15 years since one of Tuolumne County's legislators had that kind of clout.
Although the lion's share of Cogdill's senate district is in the San Joaquin Valley, he has taken an interest in foothill and mountain interests and has been a frequent advocate for Tuolumne County.
He has hosted a series of natural resources summits in Sonora, helped win funding for the East Sonora Bypass, defended the Williamson Act from potential cuts, wrote a bill setting weight limits on the steep, tortuous Old Priest Grade, sponsored naming a 70-mile stretch of Highway 108 "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway," helped keep the Nelson family operating Columbia State Park's venerable Candy Kitchen, sponsored a Columbia College forum on rural health care and arranged for the U.S. Forest Service's national leaders to be in Sonora to answer questions about logging and fire protection.
Cogdill is a Republican, but many of the issues he has championed cross party lines and are simply good for Tuolumne County and other communities along the western slope of the Sierra.
Voters and the percentages make it clear his support includes more than a few Democrats have appreciated what Cogdill has done:
? After winning election to the Assembly in 2000 with 60.7 percent of the district-wide vote (and 60 percent of Tuolumne County's), he won reelection two years later with 62 percent support, both from here and the rest of the district.
? In 2004, his reelection support both here and in the valley rocketed to 68 percent.
? Termed out in the Assembly, 14th State Senate District voters in 2006 put him in the upper house with 67 percent support (64 percent in Tuolumne County).
With impeccable conservative credentials, legislative experience dating back to 2000 and six more years in office before he is termed out, senate Republicans made a good choice in Dave Cogdill.
Those lawmakers may not have known they were also making a good choice for Tuolumne County, but we nevertheless appreciate their votes.
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i am having problems saying the wrong words. This has been going on for a while now. For example, today I told one of my kids here is my elmo instead of here is my email. This is common for me lately. I use the wrong words inappropriately in a sentence. Another example is I often get August and April confused and other words on a daily basis. Simply put the wrong words come out and don't make any sence.
I also lose my train of thought. And I forget when I ask things and I have to reask. My wife gets quite impatient with me. She constantly tells me she just told me that about a topic we just discussed.
Little concerned.
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Brain Fog...
What you are talking about could be what is called "Brain Fog".
* Loss of mental acuity
* Forgetfulness â decreased short-term memory
* A feeling of spaciness and inability to think clearly
* A feeling that youâre in a fog or a dark cloud is over your head
* Decreased attention span
* Mild depression and/or anxiety
* Lack of spatial awareness
* Difficulty concentrating or a lack of focus
You might want to look into taking some supplements for a little while.
Good luck, hopefully this helps!
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interesting, what supplements would you recomend?
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[WIP] IPL Editor
Posted 23 November 2005 - 05:10 PM
I've added a couple of extra tools, such as TXD viewer and DFF Object viewer
Also, it seems to work quite well with user mods such as the Liberty City mod for San Andreas
You can drag using the mouse, however it acts very strangely sometimes, and I need to find a better way of doing it. If any OpenGL programmers out there can offer any advice then please do. I haven't done much work on the image archiver, I will work on it after I have an alpha release out. I've got a couple of things to tidy up and troubleshoot, and then I will post a download link
Posted 23 November 2005 - 05:17 PM
Hopefully the main thing works, adding a custom object to the game like moomapper used to do. and then placing it on the map.
Posted 23 November 2005 - 05:37 PM
Posted 23 November 2005 - 08:26 PM Edited by Cerbera, 06 December 2005 - 09:43 AM.
The new toolbar and menu bar have neatened up the top of the program a lot. It will be a lot easier to discover the program functions when they are placed in the familiar structure of a menu bar. However, the order of the items is not particularly conventional. I'd suggest the unconventional "Items" menu be placed after the conventional sequence of "File, Edit, View" so they don't click the "Items" menu expecting to see an "Edit" menu.
I'd suggest using a larger gap between the dropdown for Time and the label for Distance. I would also suggest using text or using icons in the toolbar as it currently seems like the icons are a control and the text is a label, or some type of status message. Using native graphics and button styles will help users understand the interface faster. Flat buttons with custom icons are pretty but are not as practical as having 3D Windows buttons with Windows icons. Command buttons shouldn't really have icons, imho, since it confuses their design with the toolbar buttons.
You don't need to repeat the active tab bar title inside the tab bar area, imho. It just takes up space. Since it doesn't match the tab bar title and there are no other entitled sections in the tab area, it's a bit confusing. I would suggest using frames if controls need to be grouped up inside a tab area as that is the more conventional way to do it. Well, in Windows it is and that's what all but a few users will be running.
Your dialogue windows are very large, although they are resizable. I'd suggest setting up all the default sizes so the program is comfortable to use on an 800 x 600 desktop at the largest. That way people using smaller desktops won't have the windows falling off the edge of their screen. By saving any window size and position changes to a preferences file it prevent users of bigger desktops having to put up with resizing tiny windows.
(EDIT) Oh, just noticed the XYZ position in the status bar. Amongst other GTA mapping programs, the XYZ position is usually aligned to the right of the window. It is normally written in a single panel using standard coordinate notation: (x,y,z) This is how common programs like MS Paint handle current position, so it seems like a pretty solid convention.
I would remove the colons from grid titles as they just waste space. Removing them allows the columns to be resized a little smaller without the title getting truncated. They also make the titles look a bit cleaner and it's one less character to worry about if you have any grids whose titles are set in the code.
Posted 24 November 2005 - 05:04 PM
Thanks for all your input, it's much appreciated (I've added an acknowledgement into the about dialog box along with a few others). I've taken your advice and altered the interface a little, as shown in the screenshots below.
Again, as a matter of taste, I simply prefer to have icons in the standard dialog buttons, but I can see your point. Toolbar icons have labels by default, and I think it makes it easier to know what your clicking on. Saving Dialog box positions and sizes is definitely a good idea, and I will be adding this to the todo list. All buttons and toolbars have tooltips and status tips to make navigation easier.
Item selection is working a little bit better now, as long as you always select the bottom of the object and drag it, example in Ocean Drive (Vice City), you should always drag the lighthouse from the bottom as opposed to the top. I am sure there is some mathematical work around for this, but I am yet to discover it. I've tried all sorts of different techniques and this one seems to work best.
I am no longer developing this on a Mac, as it was getting too much of a pain in the arse converting endian, adjusting dialogs ,etc. Although it still compiles and runs, some dialogs are a funny size.
I'm nearly there, a couple of minor things need adding and then I will post it.
P.S. Anyone know a good place to host this!!
Posted 24 November 2005 - 05:40 PM
Maybe a small piece of news for the network wouldn't go amiss, as it would be nice to finally see a map editor released for San An etc.
Posted 25 November 2005 - 07:20 AM Edited by Alizee, 25 November 2005 - 10:57 AM.
www.webfile.ru - best place for this
or gtagarage.com
Posted 25 November 2005 - 01:18 PM Edited by Cerbera, 25 November 2005 - 01:25 PM.
The interface tweaks are looking good; making the dialogue buttons use 3D button styles makes them look a lot more clickable. I'd suggest changing the location of the buttons for editing the Control Panel lists, though. It is conventional to place edit buttons for lists to the right of the list, so they are next to the data they are editing. In that sidebar there isn't space for this but placing them below the list would mean they are next to the data. Placing them above the list makes them seem somewhat unrelated to the list - particularly the set of buttons below the first list but above the tabs of the second list.
I would also suggest giving those elements a bit more spacing. Filling all the space with controls makes the interface feel crowded and prevents controls from seeming to be associated with other controls. Your dialogue windows use clear space nicely, although they are perhaps a bit too generous with it vertically? 120 twips is the standard spacing for Windows controls.
Another minor point is the alternate shading of the sidebar lists. In such narrow lists, shading does not make much difference. In some themes, that shading will make it seem like a multiple selection of every other item has been made, which could cause confusion. In very wide grids (full screen width) with narrow columns it is useful, but in normal lists it might not be.
These tweaks could wait until after the first release, as they are pretty minor. BTW, don't stress too much over item dragging. MooMapper and KEd had pretty dodgy item dragging but people managed fine with it. It's extremely complicated to calculate 3D movement from a 2D input and people don't mind a little innaccuracy.
(EDIT) Have you thought of a name for it? How about "Tony's IPL Editor" or "TIPLE" for short.
Posted 26 November 2005 - 09:22 AM
Posted 29 November 2005 - 05:30 AM
Posting this in russian journal this cite
Posted 29 November 2005 - 05:31 PM
You have thought a windows version?
Posted 29 November 2005 - 08:31 PM
Just creating an installer, expect v0.1 in the next few days, I'll try and post it on gtagarage.com.
Posted 29 November 2005 - 08:40 PM
Posted 30 November 2005 - 09:56 AM
Posted 30 November 2005 - 10:30 AM
|QUOTE (paul gilbert @ Nov 30 2005, 09:56)
|i have never created any mods (i just install them), so will this editor be easy to use for a guy like me ,i mean will it be like using the warcraft 3 editor for ex?
For a newbie, short answer is No. Especially in this release, because you will need to know how to add objects to an image archive, convert models into DFF format, create your own TXD, and COL files. There are some excellent tutorials throughout this forum.
It is extremely easy to move objects around, or to add existing objects like a new tree. But inserting your own objects requires a fairly good understanding
At its most basic, all this program enables you to do is select an Item Definition and place it on the map. It also will allow you to create your own Item Definitions with files that are already in the image archive. It isn't very user friendly at the moment, and there are several things that sometimes just don't work.
I find it works best with Vice City, everything looks as it should and its fast. In San Andreas, you can move Binary IPL entries around, but they won't be saved. Also, the San Andreas engine does alot of its own effects like reflection and shadows, so the models look a bit plastic.
It took me around 5 minutes to add a house into the middle of Grove Street and surround it by lights and trees. It also took me around 10 minutes to add new roads to Ocean Drive in Vice City.
I also have a feeling that alot of people will complain about the way you move around the map. In MooMapper you dragged and rotated the map using the mouse, double-clicking on a object would focus on it. In MapEditor, you navigate the map like you navigate around the game, or Steve-M's mapViewer. You look at the position you want to go to and hold down W or S to move forward or back. It works really well when you get used to it, and allows you to get really close up to the objects you are editing and view them exactly as you would in the game. Also, inserting objects, and copy and paste work really well, simply right-click on the area or object and you get a context menu, allowing you to create new, copy, paste or delete objects at the current mouse position.
One or two problems with blending in San Andreas at the moment, so some objects may flicker. Sorry, I am fairly new to programming in OpenGL
Posted 30 November 2005 - 12:12 PM
from people responses and from my understanding this looks like a great editing tool.
good job &goodluck
Posted 30 November 2005 - 07:30 PM
Posted 30 November 2005 - 07:35 PM
Posted 30 November 2005 - 09:18 PM
Posted 30 November 2005 - 09:29 PM
|QUOTE (wiredwizardz @ Nov 30 2005, 21:18)
| First a big pat on the back for such hard work this tool will open a lot of new doors for the mod scene. I was wondering what other potential it could possibly have such as wiping out all of SA and then uploading say the Liberty City Islands or Vice City or combination of the 2 or even all 3. I am sure there would be other coding issues and or programing that would have to be done but still its a thought. Either way great job in making this tool and thank you as well for doing so.
Thanks for your comments. It would require a hell of alot of programming to upload another city, since the 3D File formats are different. You could easily change the IPL and IDE file formats. What I would love to add is a 3DS file import, but I can see this being alot of work.
I hope this meets peoples expectations, it is not as stable and as feature rich as I would like it to be at the moment. But it's still early days
Posted 30 November 2005 - 09:40 PM
Posted 30 November 2005 - 09:46 PM Edited by Cerbera, 06 December 2005 - 08:55 AM.
I'm very excited by the development of this tool. So many editors for GTA are created without much thought to the practicalities of real humans having to use them that it's refreshing to see folks like Tony creating professional quality programs with a great attention to detail.
Names which can be abbreviated are great for forums, since people will be more willing to mention them by name. I might start calling "MapEditor" just "MEd" because it's a bit longwinded otherwise.
Posted 30 November 2005 - 09:55 PM Edited by tonywob, 30 November 2005 - 10:04 PM.
|QUOTE (Cerbera @ Nov 30 2005, 21:46)
| For people not familiar with the GTAGarage navigation, here is a link directly to Tonywob's IPL Editor/MapEditor. I'm very excited by the development of this professional standard tool. So many editors for GTA are created without much thought to the practicalities of real humans having to use them that it's refreshing to see folks like Tony creating professional quality programs with a great attention to detail.
Names which can be abbreviated are great for forums, since people will be more willing to mention them by name. I might start calling "MapEditor" just "MEd" because it's a bit longwinded otherwise.
Okay, file is uploaded. Hope you all enjoy it. Please post bug reports, questions and suggestions to this topic.
A couple of hints for using the program:
* Make sure you drag an object from the bottom as opposed to the top, e.g. Select the bottom of a tree rather than the top
* Save regularly and always backup your files.
* You will need to add your own files to the image archive. This should be fixed in the next few days. Try using imgtool available on the same site as this.
* Only work with one IPL visible at a time (including your own IPL file) to help keep the program running fast.
* In GTA III, if you add extra roads its seems to crash the game. Must be something to do with paths
* If you create a new object as an LOD, it will not visible until you switch your distance to LOD, same goes for Time Controlled Objects
* Disabling 2DFX will speed up rendering, but is useful to take screenshots. Wireframe mode is extremely slow
* Sorry, no binary IPL editing at this moment.
* You cannot edit LODFlags in IPL files yet, this will also be addressed pretty soon.
Tonywob's IPL Editor/MapEditor
Posted 30 November 2005 - 10:29 PM Edited by Cerbera, 20 December 2005 - 08:25 PM.
When you select the folder you want to use from the installer directory list, it appends "\MapEditor" onto the path you choose. If the user wanted to install it in a folder called that, they would have created that folder themselves.
The program filename is called ipleditor.exe but the actual name of the program given in the installer is "MapEditor". These are just some small points but you might look into them for a future release?
(EDIT) It doesn't seem to like my machine. I loaded up GTA3 and it displays objects as a sparse pattern faint grey dots:
1600 x 1144, 169kB.
System specs:
AMD Athlon 1400
512 MB DDR RAM (2x 256MB)
64MB GeForce3 Ti 200
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! (sound card)
Windows XP Service Pack 2
I found the mouse sensitivity much too strong. This mouse has quite a stiff middle button, which makes it doubly difficult to fly around accurately. The general idea of 1st person movement is fine, it's just a bit twitchy with this mouse. Could you add a slider for people to change their mouse sensitivity in this program? I tried holding down CTRL when flying around but it seemed to ignore the mouse input.
On the plus side, the loading bars are very accurate and the objects are actually getting loaded. It's amazing how much is already in place considering this is such an early release!
Posted 30 November 2005 - 10:36 PM
|QUOTE (Cerbera @ Nov 30 2005, 22:29)
| Could you change the installer so the default install path is the installer's current location, or the current location of the ZIP file it comes in? That would save users having to click through several layers of a lengthy directory list just to tell it to install to where it already is. Users will tend to download editors to where they want to install them. If they don't want to install the program to where it already is, they can use the directory list to set where they do want it.
When you select the folder you want to use from the installer directory list, it appends "\MapEditor" onto the path you choose. If the user wanted to install it in a folder called that, they would have created that folder themselves.
The program filename is called ipleditor.exe but the actual name of the program given in the installer is "MapEditor". These are just some small points but you might look into them for a future release?
I haven't actually chose a name for it yet , so that filenames, etc will change. I will probably just create a zip archive containing the executable and it's DLL file as well as an installer, so people can choose either option.
Posted 30 November 2005 - 10:45 PM
this certanly will open doors for new mods to appear
Posted 30 November 2005 - 10:52 PM Edited by tonywob, 30 November 2005 - 11:26 PM.
I forgot to change the instructions, it's actually the Alt key to rotate instead of Ctrl.
Good idea about the mouse sensitivity, I will add that in.
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While waiting: four days ago Nikon started their own official blog. Check it out @ http://blog.iamnikon.com/en_GB/.
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NR is better.
This site rules
Except D7000 is up on Dpreview before NR – but with some typos
Hope they push those Coolpix cameras to the very bottom of that page when they announce the D7000.
I'll need a Blog "I am Broke" if Nikon announces the 25mm 1.4
make that 35mm
It's my first time to get such close with admin
If only they blog the d7000 annoucement as it happens
Crap Pete…If Nikon keeps the same schedule for updating the 35mm 1.4 and I'm 51 years old now, I might be dead the next release of the 35mm 1.4 🙁
Nikon Rumors is better, it keeps our adrenaline pumping by keeping us excited everytime there is a rumors . That the I AM Nikon Blog site looks like run by an advertising agency.
If i'm Nikon, i'll justy buy NikonRumors for $200 million dollars so Peter can retire and that way he can afford to send me Christmas present. ( I want a new D3s or D4, plus 24mm f1.4, 70-200 and 85mm 1.4 g, and 500mm f4 for birding).
Grant my wish Lord Nikon.
But then we won't have any more rumours. Rumours are sometimes better than the real thing lol 😀
They can hire Peter as adviser that way he can enjoy his retirement.
almost there just 5 mins left
not sure if they annouce exactly at 12 est or around that time..
It's here :
Chase Jarvis D7000 Roadtest!
Looks like Chase Jarvis just posted about the new D7000: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/09/nikon-d7000/
14 bits NEFs….
SHIT! Where are the manual controls in video?
Where the hell are the dpreview samples?
1/8000! stereo jack! wiiiiiiiiiiiii
supports and metters ai lenses! YES!
Nikon has it on their website.
According to the D7000 menu screens shown on the DPReview preview, it appears the D7000 has both AF fine tune and manual controls in movie mode. Sweeeeet!
Where is that screen???
It's under "other screens".
here we go!
NR rocks! I bet the Nikon blog won't let us comment with rumors.
the Nikon blog doesn't even blog the D7000 yet.
Funny…. the D3100 announcement on the IAmNikon blog is tagged with "Pro Photographers", while the D7000 announcement is not…. I get the feeling they lost it already…
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I know what you are all thinking. "SNOW!! Wow, I've been waiting for this for such a long time!" Good joke right? Of course, that's exactly what I'm thinking.
It's been snowing for about a week, but it has finally stayed on the ground for more than two hours. I am absolutely thrilled. Skiing has started, cross country has come to an official close, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. (And so are my mashed potatoes.)
The first snow of the season fell on the day that I was sent home sick. A teacher told me that I had to leave the building. You know, I could contaminate everybody if I stayed. So as I was at home, I noticed that it was snowing. I absolutely freaked out. I was as giddy as a little child. Laughing to myself, I went out and let the snowflakes fall on my tongue. I even twirled around in my yard.
It didn't stay, making my very sad. For a couple days, it came and left over and over again. Finally, it stayed. The lake even froze over. Winter is finally here.
With winter here, fall is obviously over. The leaves are gone and the roads are slippery. Cross-country is over too. The cross-country banquet was on Sunday night, and it was filled with laughs and some tears. It was hard to watch the coaches start to lose it. It was just so darn sad. It seems as though everybody is leaving, which kind of stinks.
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My friend, Veronica, almost didn't join, but we eventually convinced her to stay in it. It's strange not having my brother Dylan here to ski with me. He has always been there to motivate me to go and ski with him. Usually he pushes me to actually get up and do something. It's definitely weird, but I'll just have to get used to it.
Well, the snow is finally here and I am more than overjoyed, as you can all tell. Winter brings new things that I know we all love. (That was sarcasm by the way.) Even though some of you may find the snow annoying and too cold, I absolutely love it. Go out there and enjoy it!
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AT 5 p.m. on a Wednesday evening, a Ford Ranger outfitted with a camper shell pulls into the parking lot at the Baldwin Park Animal Shelter. Ardis Munck, a fit, energetic, 40-ish woman with a crown of gray-flecked dark curly hair, emerges from the truck talking on a cell phone. The trucks personalized license plate reads, DOBE RSQ.
Ardis passes the front counter in the shelter, where she is greeted by three uniformed, female animal-control officers. She pauses to chat before continuing on to the kennels. Once in the minimaze of runs, she carefully checks the cages, talking to the dogs as she goes. Are you friendly? Youre cute. Oh, youre sick, arent you? Despite her interaction with the dogs, she doesnt touch them for fear of infecting one dog with anothers ailment.
Slowly making her way down a row of cages, she pulls a small spiral notebook out of her purse and checks notes she made during her visit the previous Wednesday. She methodically compares her notes with the white, typed kennel cards (in effect, booking slips) that sit in plastic slipcovers on each cage. If the animal is fortunate enough to be licensed, or wearing an ID, or is simply desirable, there may be a hold notice on the slip.
The cages this evening are crowded. Some contain five dogs. Shelters run by both city and county agencies are currently operating at 150 percent of capacity, and Baldwin Park, largest of the six county-operated shelters, has 192 animal runs, which translates to 300-plus animals on any given day. Ardis sorts through the kennel cards, trying to figure out which dogs are running out of time.
The shelter this evening seems overrun with guard dogs -- chows, shepherd mixes, Akitas, rottweilers, pit bulls, Doberman pinschers. And as the kennel cards attest, not all are strays. Many have been turned in by their owners. In the weeks following the mauling death in South Los Angeles of 14-month-old Fily Araujo by the family pit bull, city shelters averaged an intake of 40 pit bulls per day. Most owner-surrendered animals, however, are handed over for less dramatic reasons: A dog bites or someone moves, gets a divorce, retires, is arrested, dies or simply tires of the animal.
Another revelation this evening is the surprising number of pedigreed animals in the shelter. Oftentimes a high presence of forsaken purebreds follows by some months the appearance of a particular breed in a movie or commercial. Tonight, Ardis records the impound numbers and availability dates of six Dalmatians. This Dalmatian population is probably attributable to the live-action 101 Dalmatians movie. Todays Taco Bell commercials may fill the shelters with Chihuahuas at some future point. Frasier may prompt a flood of Jack Russell terriers. Unfortunately, screen images often dont reflect a breeds true personality. Thus the Dalmatians -- a breed that is cute, but notoriously prickly, and not necessarily good with children.
Ardis primary goal in visiting between one and six different shelters every Wednesday is to rescue Doberman pinschers. Tonight she will recover just two, one of whom is visibly sick, possibly with distemper. In addition to these Dobermans, Ardis sees that there are five smaller, mixed-breed dogs about to be euthanized. Because these dogs are all cute and friendly, she feels confident that she can place them. So they are going home with her as well. As she double-checks the impound numbers, her cell phone rings. She confirms that later that evening she will pick up two more Dobermans from a foster home in Highland Park.
As she walks back out to the front desk, an animal service officer carrying a Pomeranian asks Ardis if she can estimate the dogs age. Using the tip of her pen, Ardis exposes the dogs toothline and says, Five years. She is then intercepted by Maggie Cecil, a volunteer who has driven in from Riverside. When Ardis is ready, Maggie has two more Dobermans for her in the parking lot. At the front counter, Ardis does the paperwork on her seven adoptions, writing the shelter a $250 check. Sometimes the check is $500.
With a Metrolink train running in the twilight behind the shelter, Maggie unloads two beautiful and surprisingly docile Dobermans from crates in the back of her own minipickup. With the expertise of a professional packer, Ardis arranges and fits pet carriers into the back of her camper shell. She quickly stows Maggies charges, then addresses the first two dogs the animal-control officer has walked out to her. Because she still has the two Highland Park Dobermans to pick up, Ardis doubles up a pair of smaller dogs in one carrier, then when the match doesnt seem to be working, shifts one of the mixed breeds in with a Doberman. Serendipity.
When the Dobie with the runny nose is brought out, Ardis is careful to put him in the cab with her; she doesnt want him infecting any other dogs. With all her adoptees secure, Ardis is off and running. Its going on 7:30 p.m., and she wont see home for another two hours.
In the classified section of the Sunday L.A. Times under Pet Adoptions, Ardis runs an ad reading Dobermans -- Acres of Rescued Adults. Her rescue operation is located on a 19-acre citrus and avocado ranch in Fillmore, about an hour northwest of downtown Los Angeles, under a stand of sprawling oaks. In a beautiful stone-facade house, Ardis and her husband of one year, Eric, live on an island surrounded by an ocean of canines. On an average day, the runs dotting the property will contain 80 Dobermans, plus a swell of cute placeable dogs.
Ardis traces her dog obsession to childhood. Her dad was a serious dog lover, but her mother, whom she describes as a clean freak, limited their household dogs to non-shedding poodle mixes. So as a grade-schooler, Ardis felt compelled to pick up the gauntlet, telling her mom, When I grow up, Im going to have a whole house full of big dogs.
Nevertheless, Ardis admits she didnt really bond with a dog until much later. The first dog that was my own didnt happen until I was in my early 30s. It was partially responsible for the breakup of my first marriage. Previously I had been too unstable, in apartments, moving here and there. When my husband outlawed dogs at home, I answered an ad to be a volunteer at the Orange County Shelter . . . [where] the inevitable happened. One Saturday, a woman turned in her Australian shepherd mix because of problems with her husband. She was the most beautiful dog Id ever seen, and the shelter was going to put her to sleep immediately, because they had no room. I named her Gretchen and took her home. We loved each other. I had her until she died, eight years later.
Problems developed between Ardis and the Orange County Shelter over her candor in answering questions from the public that the shelter preferred not to have answered. So, in 1992, after 12 years of volunteer work, Ardis left. By the time they released me, I was already living at the ranch, she says, and I had lots of room to put kennels and start my own shelter. I had a new husband by then who traveled a lot and thought it would be smart to have a couple of personal protection dogs. I rescued two Dobies, and that was the beginning of my love affair with Dobermans.
To Ardis, Dobermans are the essence of canine elegance. And she has no trouble further enumerating the breeds attributes: They are, she says, beautiful, protective, low-maintenance, sensitive and easy to train. Whats more, their inherent loyalty means they dont run away -- which was a key consideration in the operations early days, when Ardis ranch wasnt fenced.
Focusing primarily on rescuing Dobermans was also practical. Ardis realized that people wouldnt travel all the way to Fillmore to see an assortment of animals akin to what they could find at their local shelter. So she specialized, without fully realizing the eventual scope of her project. It kind of grew into a full-time occupation, one dog at a time she says. I have a hard time saying no, so its a good thing Ventura County Animal Regulation licensed me for a maximum number of dogs, or Id probably get in over my head.
Adopting a Doberman from Ardis begins with a phone interview. A common concern among rescuers is that they will place an animal with the wrong person and that the dog will wind up back with them. So great pains are taken up front to screen adopters. Many rescuers, hardened by years on the beat, take on characteristics of a homicide detective -- their avocation has made them into professional interrogators. They might ask the same question three different ways looking for inconsistencies, and they are keenly attuned to character-revealing slips. One rescuer waits to hear what personal pronoun is employed when an interviewee describes an animal: He or she is fine, but it is a no-no.
Ardis has no set method, but she tries to match available dogs with adopters needs. I dont necessarily use the same criteria for all adopters. I can be a lot more choosy placing a 1-year-old housebroken, social Dobie with cropped ears than I can with an 8-year-old uncropped dog who has never been in the house and needs to be an only dog. As for potential adopters, Ardis is not as militant as many rescuers. Some wont adopt to people unless they work at home. Others wont consign a pet to a home with small children. Pre-adoption visits are de rigueur among many rescuers, who keenly assess family members, existing pets, yards, fence heights, etc.
Ardis attitude is far more laissez-faire. Still, she prefers not to place dogs with students, because they are seldom home and tend to move a lot. And when people tell Ardis they are looking for a guard dog or watchdog, she is likely to suggest they get an alarm system instead. I do the best job I can, without ever placing them where I feel the dog would be unhappy. I feel the dog would be better off dead than in some environments. When an inquirer does pass muster with Ardis on the phone, she extends a weekend invitation to the ranch between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., or schedules an individual weekday appointment.
A visit to Ardis Doberman rescue quickly sobers one to the depth of the animal crisis in Los Angeles. Whereas other major cities such as Miami and Chicago have seen a decrease in their unwanted-animal populations, its estimated that there are 44,000 loose dogs running the streets in Los Angeles. The feral-cat population of L.A.: 3 million. The total intake of strayabandoned animals into L.A. shelters is around 190,000 annually. Seventy-three percent of unclaimed animals are euthanized. On a good weekend, Ardis might find homes for 15 dogs, a number roughly equivalent to what she takes in during the week. Meanwhile, she still has a large inventory of dogs awaiting homes.
The economics of running such an operation are staggering. The annual budget for Ardis operation is $100,000, which the $100-per-dog adoption fees dont begin to cover. So the deficit is made up in donations and underwriting by Ardis. Expenses break down something like this. A Doberman eats a pound and a half of kibble every day. Every three and a half weeks, a truck delivers 204 40-pound sacks of kibble to the rescue at a cost of $2,500. Vet bills, which do not include vaccinations or spay-and-neuter fees, start at $300 a month. Fees paid to shelters that initially pick up dogs: up to $2,000 a month. Full-time employee who lives in a guesthouse on the ranch: $20,000 a year. Dobie Doings, the quarterly newsletter published by the rescue, 4 grand a year. Yearly mileage on Ardis Ranger: 33,000 to 50,000 miles. As the dogs pour in, the money pours out.
Like most animal-rescue workers, Ardis is swimming in front of a tidal wave of abandoned animals. Even with one full-time employee and a floating staff of six volunteers, she literally runs from task to task at the ranch. As Ardis husband, Eric, an automotive designer, observes: Her life is hectic! Its endless scenarios of evaluating dogs, prospective owners, feeding, shelter runs, vet visits, rearranging dog social groups, medicating . . . and on and on.
On this particular Sunday, between fielding calls on her mobile, she meets with a family to ascertain what dog might be right for them, then changes gears to mix a tick bath on an outgoing Dobie before having a one-page adoption agreement completed by another couple. Someone else is uncertain how the dog hes chosen will interact with the aggressive small dog he already has at home. Ardis bolts through the maze of kennels that surround her home and pulls a feisty test dog from a run. When she places him in with the Dobie, the hyper little dogs teasing doesnt even faze the pinscher. Meanwhile, Ardis is watching another pen to see how the dance between a Dobie and his potential adopter plays out.
Ardis says that one of the toughest problems she faces is what to do about dogs that arent adopted. Some rescue people keep the unadoptable dogs, then dont take on any new animals. Others euthanize unplaceable animals. But for Ardis, unless there is a temperament or health issue, she keeps the dog, launching a concerted adoption campaign on behalf of the animal. A photo and an article detailing the dogs history may appear in Dobie Doings, and the same will be posted on the rescues Web site (www. dobierescue.org). Every now and then we get lucky, says Ardis. I consider placing one lifer better than placing two or three more adoptable dogs.
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In light of a devotion that has placed 4,000 animals in 12 years, Ardis remains remarkably levelheaded about her work. Many rescuers develop a jaundiced view of the general public based on their firsthand experiences of pet abuse and owner irresponsibility. In order to psychically survive, rescuers develop a them vs. us attitude. Its a cocktail composed of exhaustion from overwork, chased by a shooter of distrust from having seen too much of the terrible things people can do to dogs. Ardis assesses the rigors of rescue like this: It has its rewards and its heartbreaks, plenty of both. Many if not most rescue people burn out after a couple of years because of the heartbreaks. It gets tough when you concentrate on a few sad things rather than on the multitude of good ones, and thats what has to be kept in perspective.
When things get tough, Ardis relies on her husband to keep her grounded. Whereas I have always loved animals, he says, I never have thought of myself as a rescue person, and have in the past looked somewhat askance at those who would forgo a normal life in order to save lost or unwanted animals. Ardis is an exceptionally dedicated, giving, caring and loving human being. While I respect and admire her passions and commitments, I think being married to me applies certain checks and balances to ensure that her life is not entirely dictated by dogs and their needs.
The field of animal rescue tends to be dominated by women like Ardis. A pamphlet available at the Pasadena Humane Society lists 141 Southern California dog-rescue operations. Close to 90 percent of them have a female contact person. Ardis hypothesizes that this imbalance may speak to a misplaced maternal instinct. But she feels it doesnt matter. What matters is saving animals. Sallie Perkins, who has been doing poodle rescue for 16 years, doesnt mince words when questioned about the time and effort she spends. I always say to people, What living thing have you saved lately? Have you even saved a tree? People tell me, Sallie, you cant save the world. I save what comes into my sphere.
For Ardis, where she ended up seems somehow inevitable. I guess Ive always been a dog person. There are pictures of me at age 3 or 4 holding court with dogs, my own and other peoples. Somehow I ended up being a businesswoman [a human-resources executive] for 20 years, making great money, but it wasnt fulfilling, wasnt my lifes work. Now Im a citrusavocado rancher, which isnt fulfilling either, but it does provide a great spot for the rescue kennel. You can go broke in rescue, but the other payoffs are enormous.


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CottonCitySlim wrote: »same shit windows and pc games already does...microsoft finna follow suit and soon other like movie companies will follow suit
Guess the developers want their money. Sucks for the consumer but it's great for them.
that's backwards hustling. they thought they were losing money before, console gaming will really be on the decline if they decide to use this technology. they about to put a lot of companies out of business as well. gamefly is goat so that's some bullshit.


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You're never too young to learn something new.
With computers becoming a new hit in Equestria, Twilight and Spike travel back to Canterlot so that she can learn all she can about these new devices and how they work. Meeting the colorful staff and students, Twilight slowly starts to learn that not all problems can be solved with a solution in the book.
Maybe she should try a video tutorial.


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Several information sessions will be available during the open house, including individual advising, financial aid, career and support services, credit transfer and technology at Rider. Participants are encouraged to bring their transcripts from all schools attended and/or work-related or military training certificates as there will be an opportunity for an instant admission decision.
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In the end, they finally got the clutch hit.
When Matt Wieters came to the plate with runners on second and third and two outs in the bottom of the tenth, the O's trailed the White Sox 3-2 and they were 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position for the day.
But Wieters delivered a two-run, walk-off single to right and the O's frustrating day ended with a win, 4-3 over Chicago.
The Orioles have their first three-game winning streak since Aug. 6-9 and improve to 76-65 while the White Sox have now lost nine in a row. It was also just the O's second one-run win in their last 11 such decisions.
The White Sox had taken a 3-2 lead in the top of the 10th as pinch-hitter Conor Gillaspie hit a solo homer to right off Tommy Hunter to break the 2-2 tie.
Earlier, the Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a Chris Davis RBI double. With his 124th RBI, he moved into a tie for fourth most with Eddie Murray (1985) on the O's single list. Still ahead of him are Jim Gentile (141 in 1961), Rafael Palmeiro (142 in 1996) and Miguel Tejada (150 in 2004).
Chicago moved ahead 2-1 on Wei-Yin Chen with single runs in the fourth and fifth innings before the Orioles tied it 2-2 in the fifth on Brian Roberts' fifth homer. At that point, 18 of the last O's 20 runs had come via a home run.
Chen did not get a decision, but threw six innings allowing six hits and two runs with no walks and eight strikeouts.
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Hello all,
Thanks in advance for your help!
I have gotten the warning message that my hard drive is failing and needs to be replaced. I have bought the replacement and just wanted to know how to do the replacement, or steps I need to follow? I have already backed everything up as far as my documents, my pictures, desktop and emails go. Do I just disconnect the old failing drive and then hook up the new one, or do I hook up the new one first? Many thanks for your help and I really appreciate it. The more detailed and steps you could provide would be great. Thank you, take care
You got it right the first time: take the old hard drive out, put the new on in.
From there you'll want to locate your Dell recovery media & put the disc in the drive (should be labeled as Dell Windows 'XP/Vista/7' XX-bit). This will walk you through loading Windows back onto the OS.
Once done, you next need to run your "Drivers & Applications" disc (may say Utilities instead of Apps); should be grey colored. You can see which drivers you need installed by going to Start>right-click My Computer>Manage>Device Manager.
Once done, run updates. Should be good after that.Let us know if you need further assistance.
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You need to replace the IDE hard drive, followed by reinstalling windows and loading the the drivers.
The procedure for replacing the Dimension 8100 Hard Drive is HERE <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>
Note: Set the drive's Jumpers to the Cable Select [CS] setting.
As you did not post the version of windows, being used, I'll assume it is XP.
How to carry out a reinstallation of XP.
First, disconnect all the peripherals from the system, except the keyboard, mouse and monitor.
You can use the Dell's Guide for a Manual Reinstallation of windows HERE
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and maybe this interactive guide for a clean reinstall of XP HERE
can help.
While installing, remember to delete all existing partitions when you are prompted, then recreate the partitions and format the hard drive, following by installing XP.
After installing XP, you should install the drivers and applications in the following order, Desktop System Software [if applicable]Chipset Video Network Interface Card [NIC] Audio Modem Then all other drivers and applications.
Followed by installing the Anti Virus utility, updating the definitions, then all the critical Microsoft updates.
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Hi there, Many thanks for all the great help. I am having some trouble here though. I placed my new hard drive in my pc and then placed the windows xp home edition disk into the cd rom drive and it gave me the screen to reformat the drive which I believe it did after probably 2 hours or so. I finally got a black screen showing me disk read card error, click control alt delete to restart, after doing that tons of times it just gives me the same ol screen every time. It also says primary hard drive not found or secondary etc. I only have the new hard drive installed and cable on cable select. Im not sure how to get the windows xp disk to even work now. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much
Is your new hard drive on the primary connector? When looking at the ribbon cable (thin, wide & grey) it should be the connector all the way at the end, not the one in the middle. You often see the primary connector as black or blue; the slave connector is often grey.
Hello. Thanks. Well I was really careful to make sure I did hook the hard drive back up the way it was originally and the hard drive is hooked up with the connector on the end of the ribbon. The jumper is on the cs prong, cable select. I can not get any other screen now except the black one asking me to click control alt delete to restart my machine. I am just not sure what to do.
Thank you very much for your continued help. Take care
I have the same issue. In the past I have replaced hdds with no issues. This time I get "HARD DRIVE NOT FOUND". It is NOT listed in the bios, "UNKNOWN DEVICE" "AUTO MODE". The setup process confirms that with a similar message. How to fix it? 8100 Dimension, upgraded to XP PRO, up graded to 512 ram, too much?, 1.3 gig, p4 INTEL 850. I need help please. I need to reload the OS as this drive is empty.
See if your BIOS has the option to set the hard drive to "AHCI" or "EIDE" mode & see if that makes a difference.
I assume you've replaced the hard drive already from your statement: "In the past I have replaced hdds with no issues."


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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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Wild Horses There are about 33,000 wild horses on the open range. To control the herds and keep land open for cattle grazing, the federal Bureau of Land Management has rounded up many more horses and tried to put them out for adoption. But adoptions are not keeping up, and some 30,000 horses remain in holding pens. Until the past few days, the bureau had been planning to cull another 6,000 horses from the wild by killing them. Fortunately, the bureau has halted that rush to euthanasia after Madeleine Pickens — the wife of T. Boone Pickens, the oil tycoon — offered to create a one-million-acre refuge for the wild horses already in captivity. Mrs. Pickens plans to sterilize the horses on her land and says she will take any additional horses the federal government wants to cull from the wild herd. Sterilization is the best solution for long-term wild horse management. The federal Bureau of Land Management is finally coming to understand that and is now working with the Humane Society on very promising contraception studies in two herds. The bureau also needs to consider buying back some of its range permits from cattle ranchers. We suspect that in this economic climate, some ranchers would be glad to part with them. The bureau then could leave wild horses on the range — instead of capturing them and paying to feed them — until aggressive contraception comes into play....
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