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Chinese New Year, Day 1
>> Monday, January 26, 2009
Date: 26 January 2009, Monday
Venue: Family house in Sea Park
If you think that having a vegetarian meal for the 1st day of CNY is boring, do come by my place to savor the delicious & very different vegetarian dish! Every year, without fail, my family will have this dish to go with the rice.
What's so special about this dish? The taste & the variety in the entire dish itself ;)
I've blogged about this same dish 2 years ago (wow, that's long!!) & I've listed out the ingredients as well. You can check it out at the link that I've included :) All it takes is ONE dish for a wholesome meal....*yums*
We had this for breakfast, so it was a good-enough meal to last us 'til after lunch ;) After breakfast, we went visiting to my paternal grandaunt's & my maternal 6th aunt's. Driving here & there was good enough to tire me out...hahaha...my family went home to rest for the day after visiting just 2 houses :D More to go in Day 2!
- Ruth


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- Elevation: 3,371 m (11,060 ft)
- Prominence: 2,628 m
- Ribu category: Sangat Tinggi
- Province: Jawa Tengah (Central Java)
- Google Earth: kml
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- Other names: none.
- Eruptions: 1730(?)
Bagging It!
This huge mountain is separated from its similarly conical neighbour, Gunung Sindoro, by the Kledung Pass (1,400m) and is the second highest peak in Central Java. Its only known eruption was in 1730 but there is still minor volcanic activity in the crater. It is most commonly climbed from the north from the basecamp at Garung village, which is very near to Kledung where there is a decent hotel. Public transport from Yogya is frustratingly slow so the area is better approached from Semarang if you are not using a private car. There are frequent buses through Kledung which run between Semarang and Purwokerto.
Garung village is just fifteen minutes on foot from Kledung. Guides can easily be arranged at the Garung basecamp or Kledung Pass hotel. Take the road leading south from the main road through Kledung next to a mosque and BRI bank. The basecamp is on your left (1,420m) and permits can be arranged there if your guide hasn't already dealt with it. You can also ask for a basic map and route description (in Indonesian).
From Garung, the road leads up through Garung village and the trail through farmland begins at approximately 1,478m. You will almost certainly be able to get an ojek to the end of the road. There are actually two routes – old and new – that you can take ('jalur lama' and 'jalur baru') and they join together at two possible places further along the hike. The new route (baru) is more slightly more west than the old route but the distance between them is not great. However, this can lead to confusion as there are no signposts and guides have known to become lost themselves on minor farm tracks on the lower slopes! The new trail has presumably been opened to combat erosion on the old route, which is steeper and more slippery. Your guide is likely to take you up the new route ('jalur baru') which is a wise decision – even more so for the descent, which is slippery whichever route you take!
Experienced hikers should be able to reach the crater rim in 5-6 hours because although the trail is steep it is only 7 km long. 'Jalur baru' (new route) is better for water sources as a stream runs parallel to it on the west. On 'jalur baru' (new route) the last place for water is a large stream on the edge of farm plantation at 1,900m. Jalur baru has Pos 1 Malim (1,922m) and Pos 2 Gatakan (2,235m) which are both very basic wooden frames. They will protect you from rain but are of little merit as places to actually camp. There are numerous places to pitch a tent on the way up but most places can only accommodate 2 or 3 tents at most. At 2,317m is a monument to a hiker who died on Sumbing and a slightly larger camping area. Beyond this, the forest becomes thinner and thinner and views over to Gunung Sindoro become correspondingly magnificent. After the two different routes have met, the first major landmark on the hike is 'watu kotak' (stone box) at 2,983m. The trail leads along the left side of this and a second rocky cliff of considerable length (known simply as 'tebing') a little higher up at 3,000 – 3,040m. This is near the area known to guides as 'tanah putih' (white land).
As you near the crater rim there are two destinations for hikers. Almost all hikers simply continue to the top of the rim. The peak is known as Puncak Buntu (3,308m) and and in good weather conditions hikers are rewarded with the tremendous view over to Merapi and Merbabu. Down below is the large crater – smoke may be billowing from the middle section and there is a large pool of water on the eastern end of the crater complex. It is possible to explore the crater by descending into it from the rim but be very careful of the gases and do not camp there.
The highest point of Sumbing mountain is a steep rocky part of the crater rim further south-west. Most hikers are happy to consider the crater rim as their destination. Although the real summit is not far away, it is slightly difficult to reach and not often visited. Indeed, if this is your plan you must mention to your guide before setting off that you want to climb to Puncak Rajawali or 'puncak tertinggi' (the highest peak). Just below Puncak Buntu, there is a trail skirting across the mountain, just 20 metres or so below the top of the rim. It leads up to a rocky part of the rim with an Indonesian flag (October 2010). This is where hikers are most able to descend into the crater itself should they wish. From here you will be able to see two further rocky peaks on the rim, further west. The second one is the true summit. Getting to the first one is fairly easy but the terrain is dangerous because there are sheer drops and a little mistake would have terrible consequences. Indeed, by following the very crest of the rim you will encounter drops that are impassable without ropes but can be avoided slightly lower down from the top of the rim. The most difficult section which must be negotiated is an awkward step between the true summit and the rocky peak preceding it. Unless you are a very confident scrambler it is difficult and dangerous to attempt alone. However, if you are with others who can give you a hand you should be able to manage it. Please be careful.
After the tricky section, all you need to do is follow the trail round the side of the true peak and then up onto the top of it (don't attempt to climb directly up the steep cliffs!). There is a tiled cairn with Javanese Edelweiss at the very top of Puncak Rajawali and the views are – understandably – even better than from Puncak Buntu. To reach the true summit from Puncak Buntu and the main Garung trail takes about 45 minutes each way. It could also be reached from the trail from Cepit – see below – if hikers climb up to the part of the rim with the flag on it.
To descend the same way to Garung from the crater rim takes about four and a half hours., but there are lots of other options
Located just a couple of kilometres north-east of Garung is another trail starting in Sipetung (1,316m). It leads up via Pos 1 (1,717m), Kyai Santri (2,004m), Pos 2 Petai Cina (2,413m), a stream at 2,460m, Lembah Suci (2,615m) and Pos 3 Watu Ijen (3,060m) before meeting up with the Garung trail.
Sumbing is also climbed from another basecamp further east at Cepit (near Pagergunung village) which lies 7km from Parakan. This route leads directly into the crater but it is a longer trail and starts a bit lower down at 1,280m. It is requested that you register and pay a small fee at the basecamp. There is no water along this route so take plenty with you. The route (which takes about 7 hours) goes via forest and savanna before reaching Batu Kasur (Stone mattress) and Batu Lawang (Stone door). After these landmarks you reach the caldera and sulphuric gases and also some caves, the biggest of which is called Jugil. There are also local ancestral tombs, known as Ki Ageng Makukuhan.
The Banaran route leads in from the east, starting at an elevation of just 1,128m, and passing via Pos 1 Sekelenteng (1,925m), Pos 2 Siwel-Iwel (2,170m), Pos 3 Punthuk Barah (2,368m), Pos 4 Watu Ondho before reaching the crater rim on the east side.
There are two routes in from the south, both starting fairly high up and joining together halfway. The Dusun Butuh, Kaliangkrik trail starts way up at 1,708m in an area becoming known as Nepal van Java, and leads via Camp 1 (2,119m), Camp 2 (2,460m) and Camp 3 (2,613m) which has a water source. Camp 4 AKA Pohon Tunggal is at around 3,000m before the trail finally reaches the crater rim on the east side not far from the Banaran trail. Just to the south is a peak which some locals call Puncak Sejati (3,323m) but it is not Sejati in the sense of being the highest on the range (that is Rajawali at around 3,371m) so we have called it Southeast peak.
Finally, a trail from Mangli (1,475m) meets the Kaliangkrik trail at Camp 3 and leads via Pos 1 Kongsen (1,755m), Pos 2 Siruwet (2,227m) and Pos 3 Ratan Butuh by which point the trail has joined up with the Butuh, Kaliangkrik trail.
Bagging information by Daniel Quinn.
Trail Map
For a high quality PDF version of this and other trail maps, please download from our Trail Maps page.
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- Getting there: Buses between Purwokerto and Semarang run through Kledung. From Yogyakarta, take a bus to Magelang and a second bus to Wonosobo. Kledung is just under 3 hours from both Yogyakarta or Semarang by car.
- Guides and GPS Tracks: Want a PDF version for your phone? Looking for a guide? Need GPS tracks and waypoints? Gunung Sumbing information pack can be downloaded here.
- Permits: Sign the book and pay the small fee per person, available at all basecamps, take a photocopy of your passport photo page just incase.
- Water sources: According to the Garung basecamp map: Jalur baru – available fairly near the trail up to 2,350m, Jalur lama – available at 1,900m and none higher up. Available at Camp 3 on the Kaliangkrik and Mangli trails and just beyond Pos 2 on the Sipetung route.
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Hamas Hezbollah & Isaiah 17 – Plus More News
May 1, 2009
Dear friends,
Some think that a huge prophetic sign of the End is the complete and utter annihilation of the city of Damascus. It is prophesied in the Bible in Isaiah 17. The city is one of the oldest "continuously inhabited cities in the world", (Wikipedia), but God says to Isaiah that there will come a time when it will "no longer be a city, but will become a heap of ruin". It will be in a time when the nations are "raging" but "sudden terror" will come upon them because of what they have done to Israel. This is a very serious prophecy. I don't know 100% that it is a major prophetic sign, but, if you should see Damascus hit by an Israeli nuclear weapon and completely wiped away, take heart and remember Isaiah 17!!!!
Hezbollah is Paving the Way for a New War
What awaits Lebanon and the Lebanese if the opposition wins the coming parliamentary elections? The answer came in the form of a "notification" distributed by the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc to participants in this week's national dialogue session. In it, the party warns of all-out military maneuvers that Israel will carry out at the end of next month, or a week before the elections, with the participation of all of its agencies, institutions and weapons. In addition, the Lebanese state is supposed to join up completely with the resistance in preparing for the outbreak of a "surprise" war with the Jewish state.
The "notification," which was mostly devoted to stressing the massive Israeli maneuvers as well as their meaning, threat, background and dimensions, was clear in its conclusions: dialogue is a mere waste of time and effort; the only defense strategy that the party accepts, and strives for, is one that it lays down, according to its own thinking, in coordination with its external allies Syria and Iran, and in line with its conception of the role of the country, its institutions, its army and its citizens. In even more clearer terms, it is a consecration of Lebanon as a sole, permanent arena of confrontation with Israel. Hezbollah affirms that it is being targeted by these maneuvers and calls for a comprehensive Lebanese response at the civil, military and political level, covering hospitals, blood banks, water, telephone, electricity, the army, the security apparatuses, the media, embassies, diplomats… because it believes it necessary to confront Israel "in a way suitable to the nature of the challenge" that it represents and "be ready for the worst."
In this sense, Hezbollah is portending an inevitable new war with Israel, one whose timing depends on factors connected to both it and the Jewish state. The Lebanese state can take no action except to prepare for this war, since anything else would have no point.
Hamas* warns Abbas not to form new government alone
After failing to reach agreement with Hamas over the formation of a Palestinian unity government, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is planning to form a new government that would not include representatives of the Islamic movement, a PA official in Ramallah said Thursday.
In response, Hamas warned that such a move would be regarded as a "fatal blow" to Egyptian efforts to end the power struggle with Fatah.
Nabil Abu Rudaineh, a spokesman for Abbas, said that Abbas was expected to announce a new government soon. He did not give a date, but another PA official said the new government would most probably be established on the eve of Abbas's visit to Washington, where he is expected to meet for the first time with US President Barack Obama.
"President Abbas still hasn't begun negotiations over the formation of a new government," Abu Rudaineh said. "But he does plan to form a government with a broad coalition in the near future."
Hamas Army Preparing for New War*
The defacto Hamas government in Gaza is re-training its army and changing its tactics in preparation for what it believes will be another war with Israel, according to Staretegypage.com. Iran and Hizbullah are advising Hamas on how to overcome its failures against Israel in the IDFs Operation Cast Lead counterterrorist campaign earlier this year.
Hamas tactics in the war backfired. It told its fighters to dress in civilian clothes as a ploy to raise civilian casualties, but the IDF surprised it by pinpointing its attacks and warning civilians to leave areas before they were bombed.
Hamas has used the ceasefire, which Israel declared on condition that international monitors would be positioned along the Egyptian border to stop smuggling, to bring in advanced weapons through new tunnels that have been built. Two Arab smugglers or workers were killed Thursday morning in a tunnel collapse underneath the border at Rafiah.
*The Hamas army now includes anti-aircraft missiles that have been provided by Iran.* Israel Air Force planes were equipped with devices to deflect anti-aircraft missiles during Operation Cast Lead, but the newly-smuggled weapons are more advanced.
During the next war, Hamas's army will remain in uniform and will use hit-and-run tactics instead of directly engaging Israeli troops.
Hamas has dismissed 40 commanders of its forces, which it is re-building with more discipline. It also is developing improved communications systems to protect senior leaders, many of whom were targeted by Israel.
One tactic that worked to a certain extent was the deployment of its army in schools and hospitals, which also were used as weapons depots, forcing the IDF to delay attacking unless it could be proven beyond a doubt that the facilities no longer were functioning for civilian purposes.
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child stirs debate
U.S. and Somalia lone holdouts, but opponents see a threat to parents
NEW YORK — A global children's rights treaty, ratified by every UN member except the U.S. and Somalia, has so alarmed its American critics that some are pushing to add a parental rights amendment to the Constitution as a buffer against it.
The result is a feisty new twist to a long-running saga over the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The nearly 20-year-old treaty has ardent supporters and opponents in the U.S., and both sides agree that its chances of ratification — while still uncertain — are better under the Obama administration than at any point in the past.
Opponents of the treaty contend it would enable government officials and a Geneva-based UN committee of experts to interfere with parental authority. Its supporters view the treaty as a valuable guidepost for children's basic rights — including education, health care and protection from abuse.
"No UN treaty will ever usurp the national sovereignty of this country," said Meg Gardinier, chair of a national coalition backing the treaty. "Ratification would boost our credibility globally."
Gardinier says her coalition — with scores of partners including Amnesty International and the Girl Scouts of the USA — has learned to be patient, and hopes an all-out push for ratification will be mounted by the third year of Barack Obama's presidency.
The treaty's opponents say they will be ready to fight back, and the proposed parental rights amendment is a key part of their strategy.
Introduced this spring by Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the amendment has 80 of his fellow Republicans as co-sponsors in the House. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says he plans to introduce it in the Senate.
Hoekstra acknowledges that they are far short of the needed two-thirds support in both chambers of Congress to forward the amendment to the states, but he says the dynamics could change.
Hoekstra's brief amendment opens by declaring: "The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right."
It says federal and state government cannot infringe on that right without clear justification, and then concludes: "No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret, or apply to the rights guaranteed by this article."
Israel National News reports: "Five European nations, as well as Turkey, have ignored the economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council in the past year, according to state-run Iranian media.
The head of the Iranian Trade Promotion Agency, Mehdi Ghazanfari, told the IRNA news agency that Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France and the United Kingdom have carried out some $15.4 billion in bilateral trade with Iran over the past year.
Ghazanfari said the European states were 'keen on continuing bilateral economic cooperation with Iran,' despite the U.N. sanctions.
Turkey has gone even farther, according to Bahman Hosseinpour, the Islamic Republic's Ambassador to Ankara.
Hosseinpour told participants at a business seminar focusing on Iran-Turkey ties that trade volume between the two countries has reached a record $12 billion this year alone, according to the Fars news agency.
A delegation of 170 Iranian exporters and other business owners traveled to Ankara this week for talks aimed at expanding commercial ties between the two nations…"
In the next 3 stories, I want you to see that the connection between "peace" in the Middle East and the world's obsession has more to do with oil and money than human rights. Continue to watch the "war" among the world's powers for political, financial, and military influence in the middle east. Russia & EU relations will continue to conflict based on their international ENERGY interests in Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey, Iran, and all of the countries surrounding the Mediterranean. It will be one of the main reasons that the Antichrist will have such overwhelming power over the world financially. He will control "peace" in the Middle East and will hold radical Islam in his right hand. He will overcome them by Satanic spiritual and military means and control the world's OIL!! Keep watching the fight punch by punch and play by play and you will not be caught UNAWARE! NAT
Azerbaijan-EU cooperation is at high level: Azerbaijan President
Russia has signed a five-year deal taking formal control of its de facto borders with two breakaway regions of Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Nato said Russia was in "clear contravention" of the ceasefire ending last year's conflict with Georgia.
The deal comes ahead of planned Nato exercises in Georgia next week, which Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has described as "overt provocation".
Russia and Nato only resumed formal contacts on Wednesday.
The two rivals have been gradually rebuilding ties after breaking off contacts over the war.
But relations remain difficult. Nato expelled two Russian diplomats on Thursday over a spy scandal, infuriating Russia…
Taliban announce 'countersurge' in Afghanistan
Attacks Across Baghdad Leave At Least 48 Dead
Deadly Clashes in Pakistan's South Add to Security Woes
Ethnic clashes in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi have left at least 34 people dead and added to security concerns, as the country battles Taliban militants in the northwest…
Obama Emphasizes Sharp Departures From Bush Policies
President Reflects on First 3 Months in Office
One hundred days into his term, President Obama used a pair of public events Wednesday to chart how far he has steered the country from the course set by the Bush administration, saying, "We are off to a good start, but it is just a start."
U.N.'s Top Climate Change Official: A New Willingness to
Tackle Emissions
Major developing countries like China are doing far more to address climate change than most Americans realize, the top climate change official at the United Nations said yesterday after a meeting in Washington of ministers from the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.
The two-day meeting, requested by President Obama, brought together officials from 16 of the world's major economic powers—the United States, the European Union, China, and India, among others—for a special, intimate round of negotiations as they work toward signing a new climate change treaty with the rest of the world by the end of the year.
God Was Ugly
April 22, 2008
There's a new song out by Jordan Sparks, called "God Loves Ugly". It is such a gorgeous love song about loving yourself through the love of God and another person's love for you. It goes to the heart of ugliness. Feeling ugly is beyond the outward appearance. It is being convinced that you are unlovable. But when God showers love upon us, and He showers love from others into our barren lives, we see the beauty reflected. We are beautiful. We become more than ourselves and the outward appearance. We become who we truly are inside, a lovely, lovable, beautiful person.
Here's a quote from the song: "God loves ugly, He doesn't see the way I see. God takes ugly, and turns it into something that is beautiful. Apparently I'm beautiful."
God really does love ugly.
But I want to end with this….when Christ came to earth to save us all from this wretched ugly place, He didn't just waltz in with His shining chiseled face and flashing white teeth. Giving us all a superstar nod.
"He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him." Isaiah 53:2
God was ugly.


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'Anchorman 2' super tickets for $33: Absurd or shrewd?
Take your family of four to the movies or make your monthly car payment?
That's not as absurd a choice as you might think. Theaters are ramping up the moviegoing experience, offering advance film screenings and lots of extras - for those willing to pay roughly three times the regular admission price for something called "super tickets."
A super ticket allows buyers to see a film a few days before its release date while offering other extras, such as digital downloads and alternative endings. In the case of the wildly hyped "Anchorman 2? - which hits theaters next week - for $33 per person, AMC is screening the film two days early, plus offering a digital download and an alternate ending to the first "Anchorman." Theaters offered the same kind of deal earlier this year for "World War Z" and "Pacific Rim."
On the surface, this sounds like a logical way to thin opening-night lines while making the film industry - in which tickets sales have been down in recent years - a few extra bucks. But the question is whether it stops there, or if it's the beginning of price escalations akin to those seen in professional sports a couple decades ago, when moderate-income fans were priced out of the live entertainment they loved so an industry could recoup its runaway expenses.
The gap between the haves (corporations willing to spend far more than the rest of us for seats to wow clients) and the have-nots when it comes to watching live sporting events may also become the norm for watching hotly anticipated films on the big screen. And, like professional sports, the rising costs for moderate-income moviegoers may result from bad decisions made at the top of the film industry.
According to Variety.com, directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas even predicted their industry's dire future during a June 12 panel discussion at the University of Southern California.
"There's going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen megabudget movies are going to go crashing into the ground, and that's going to change the paradigm," Spielberg said. "You're gonna have to pay $25 for the next 'Iron Man,' but you're probably only going to have to pay $7 to see 'Lincoln.' "
Well, that's good news for fans of "Lincoln." But bad news for the dad of three boys who want to dress up as Iron Man for Halloween.
"There's eventually going to be a big meltdown," Lucas agreed. "You're going to end up with fewer theaters. Going to the movies will cost 50 bucks or 100 or 150 bucks, like what Broadway costs today, or a football game."
Go ahead, say it isn't so. Not when big-screen offerings have to compete with so many choices on our fantastic, ever-growing giant televisions at home. Not with all the ways carriers are competing for our moviegoing attention through Netflix, On Demand, midnight screenings, fan club incentives and more. All those options would, in theory, lower prices by providing more competition for your well-earned buck.
Then again, options may be why theaters can raise their prices.
When Regal Cinemas offered its $50 "megaticket" for "World War Z" earlier this year, the company's Chief Marketing Officer Ken Thewes told Entertainment Weekly: "This isn't us trying to sell an individual ticket for 50 bucks. The objective is trying to bring more value to the moviegoing experience for the consumer."
Uh-huh. The question is which consumer: the one who has the corporate connections to sit up-close at a Warriors-Lakers game? Or the middle-class parents just trying to take their kids to a movie? It sounds like some of those kids may be seeing a lot more "Lincoln," and a lot less "Iron Man."


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With a part in "Finding Bliss," adult movie legend Ron Jeremy is still seeking to show the world that he can do mainstream movies.
Even as "Bliss" depicts the life of a aspiring director (Leelee Sobieski) who is forced to edit adult movies for a day job, Jeremy manages to stay fully clothed on camera -- while mainstream actors like Jamie Kennedy take it all off.
"In 'Finding Bliss' I spend my entire scene on stage in a tuxedo," Jeremy tells PopcornBiz of the moving opening on Friday. "I actually kind of prefer it that way."
Jeremy has consulted Hollywood cast and directors during the odd foray into the adult world. On "Boogie Nights" he received a consulting credit and recalls that most every cast member sat in on one of his adult film sets to get an idea of the real world they were about to portray.
"They all showed up except for Burt Reynolds. He didn't think he needed to," Jeremy laughs. "Julianne Moore was a good sport. She was in this small hotel room and had to keep moving out of the way of camera so she wouldn't end up in the shot."
He even gave consulting time to Jamie Kennedy who plays a dimwitted porn star in "Finding Bliss."
"I gave him the ins and outs of the business," says Jeremy.
"Bliss" director Julie Davis says she wanted to give Jeremy a bigger part in the movie, but he's actually too well-known to play a adult film character other than himself. "There wasn't a part for him, because he's so famous," says Davis. "He has to play himself."
But Jeremy points to at least three films that he's appeared in with his clothes fully intact which live on -- "Detroit Rock City" (1999), "Orgasmo" (1997) and "Boondock Saints" (1999).
"These are three films I did that I kept my clothes on and they are huge films," says Jeremy. "They are cult films."


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In the early years, a large number of primary industries are needed to generate enough product for secondary and tertiary/consumer industries
Many, many farms are created and many of them are basically useless, because created so close to each other that they have little space, thus also little production. Most of the farms in the above screenshots would need to be removed through the map editing tool because they provide no meaningful production plus block the route to the few farms that have useful production.
It sure would be nice if farms (anything with Fields), as they are built, would build a road of the lowest current capacity (e.g., bridleways in 1820) at least to their boundary (or, dare one hope, perhaps as far as the nearest road) to make it possible to connect farms to our player stations without having to spend 10 x 5000¢ bulldozing fields (or resorting to switching to the public player).
... I have not looked in any detail at the manual industry creation tool. You write that such industries are usually out of staff: have you checked whether the staff demand is different from automatically generated industries?
Can I check - did you link the manually placed industries?


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First introduced at CES 2011, the Samsung Infuse 4G finally reaches AT&T's network on May 15 for $199.99 with a two-year contract. The Infuse 4G is the carrier's latest Android device, and it sure is getting a lot of fanfare. Not only is it being marketed as the thinnest smartphone available in the U.S., but AT&T says the Infuse is also its fastest 4G handset. Is it all hype or does the Infuse actually deliver? Read on to find out.
On the opposite end of the size spectrum from the petite HP Veer 4G, the Samsung Infuse 4G has a massive 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus touch screen. The rectangular slab of a phone is admittedly large at 5.2 inches tall by 2.8 inches wide, and its size will certainly be a turnoff for many. That said, it's only 0.35 inch thick, which Samsung claims makes it the thinnest smartphone available in the U.S., so despite its looks, the phone feels rather manageable once in hand.
Plus, the Infuse 4G weighs just 4.9 ounces, so it also feels light. This is largely due to its plastic construction, and though we've been very critical of Samsung in the past for putting too much plastic in its Galaxy S phones, the company at least added a textured surface to the Infuse's battery door to give it a more high-quality feel.
The 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display is the main attraction of the Infuse 4G. It offers 50 percent more subpixels than the previous generation of Super AMOLED touch screens, so you get better contrast and outdoor visibility. The display is indeed stunning, with its rich and vibrant colors and deep blacks, so videos and images looked exceptional. Plus, it offers good viewing angles and is still readable outdoors.
There's also the fact that the Infuse 4G has one of the biggest screens available on a smartphone. As you would imagine, the extra screen real estate helps when viewing Web pages and enhances the multimedia experience. It also makes for a spacious onscreen keyboard (you have a choice of using either the Swype, Samsung, or Android keyboard), and the extra-large text makes for easy reading. That said, with a WVGA resolution (480x800 pixels) stretched across such a large screen, text and Web images can look a bit pixelated. It's certainly not a deal breaker, considering the other benefits of the Super AMOLED Plus display, but it's something we definitely noticed.
Below the screen, you get four touch-sensitive buttons for the menu, home, back, and search functions. The top of the device houses the headphone jack, while the Micro-USB port is located on the bottom. There's a volume rocker on the left side, and the power button is on the right. We've said it many times before and we'll say it again, but it would be nice if there were a dedicated camera button. The smartphone's 8-megapixel camera and flash sit on the back, and on front just above the display on the left side is the 1.3-megapixel camera.
The Samsung Infuse 4G comes packaged with an AC adapter, a USB cable, a preinstalled 2GB microSD card, a wired stereo headset, an MHL-to-HDMI adapter, and reference material. We should note that the first 500,000 Infuse customers will also receive a $25 voucher to use with Samsung's Media Hub video store from which you can rent and buy movies and TV shows.
The Infuse 4G uses Android 2.2.1 with Samsung's TouchWiz user interface. A majority of the smartphones shipping today run Android 2.2 so we're not particularly surprised that the Infuse does the same, but still, it would have been nice to see Android 2.3 Gingerbread on the smartphone. Samsung would not comment on future updates (perhaps after learning the hard way about sticking to update plans), but we expect to see Gingerbread come to the Infuse in the future.
You get a total of seven home screens that you can customize with various widgets and shortcuts. TouchWiz now also has a feature similar to HTC's Leap screen in which you can pinch the screen to get a thumbnail view of all your home screens or menu pages. The main menu of applications is shown in a simple grid layout with bold icons. It's a very simple presentation of Android and definitely makes the OS easier to use for newbies, but we're sure Android purists will have a very different opinion of TouchWiz.
The Samsung Infuse 4G offers quad-band world roaming, a speakerphone, speed dial, voice commands, conference calling, and text and multimedia messaging with threaded chat view. The smartphone can handle video calls using its front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera. The handset doesn't come preloaded with a video chat client, but you can find options such as Fring in the Android Market.
The smartphone is equipped with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS. It's also the first HSDPA Category 14 4G phone for AT&T. This means the phone is capable of reaching theoretical download speeds of 21Mbps, whereas the carrier's previous 4G smartphones maxed out at 14.4Mbps. In addition, the Infuse's HSUPA radio (Category 6/5.76Mbps) will be enabled at launch, so customers shouldn't run into any of the problems that Motorola Atrix 4G and HTC Inspire 4G owners did with upload speeds. We detail our experience with the "4G" data speeds in the Performance section below, but for now, let's just say they were disappointing.


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"An interview with…" — survivors of genocide
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Remembering the Past toward Healing our Future
A six event commemorative film series featuring the stories of survivors and their children
Living Ubuntu, in collaboration with Amnesty International – Irvine and six local academic institutions, presents a six-event commemorative film series featuring the stories of survivors and their children. April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, and each film commemorates a genocide that started during April. Living Ubuntu provides education about global traumas as part of its mission to heal trauma in order to promote peace. All films are free and open to the public. All details are here.
As part of featuring the stories of survivors and their children, Living Ubuntu volunteer, Alicia Buly, has been conducting a series of interviews. Most of these survivors will speak at the April film series events. To date, there are five. They are listed below.
Cambodia's Past Shapes America's Future – An Interview with Zaklin Phat (April 3 – Cambodia)
Second Generation Survivor, First Generation Activist – An Interview with Martina Knee (April 17 – Sudan)
Giving Back to Sudan, from San Diego – An Interview with Wai John Wai
Finding Strength in Testimony – An Interview with Edith Umugiraneza (April 1 – Rwanda)
Activism Through Education – An Interview with Levon Marashlian (April 2 – Armenian)
[Ubuntu] n. Every human being truly becomes a human by means of relationships with other human beings.


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Obama. A new age. Koa was excited about Obama's "eggnogration." Elliott proudly corrected him. It was Obama's "ignoration." I corrected them both. Inauguration. There is power in the spoken word, Hawaiians believe. And we want to give President Obama all the power he needs to bring light back to the world on the eve of the dark ages. It can"t just be yes we can. It must be yes we will...
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Cheshire man pleads guilty to sexual assault of Fairfield student
BRIDGEPORT >> A former youth fencing coach faces up to four years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a high school student.
The Connecticut Post reports that John Tejada of Cheshire, who had coached fencing at Fairfield Ludlowe High and the Wakeman Boys & Girls Club in Fairfield, pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual assault.
The 36-year-old Tejada faces a four-year prison term under the plea bargain. The judge will permit his lawyer to argue for a lesser term when Tejada is due to be sentenced March 14.
Police say the assault took place last year when Tejada was coaching a fencing team.
The arrest warrant says the student's parents found sexually graphic text messages from Tejada on the girl's cell phone.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Coca-Cola is raising its quarterly dividend by 9 per cent.
The next dividend is payable April 1 to shareholders of record as of March 14. Coca-Cola says raising the dividend to 30.5 cents from 28 cents reflects the confidence it has in its long-term cash flow.
The Atlanta company returned $9.8 billion to shareholders in 2013 through $5 billion in dividends and by buying back $4.8 billion in stock. It says it has returned $34.7 billion to shareholders since the start of 2010.
In addition to its namesake brand, Coca-Cola Co. also sells Spite, Dasani water, Minute Maid orange juice, and Vitaminwater.


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Species: Wolverine (Gulo gulo) Sex: The Detroit Zoo is home to two wolverines, 11-year-old male Jigi, and newcomer Anna, a 5-year-old female.
Type: Mammal. Home: Forests, mountains, plains and grasslands. Range currently extends from northern Europe and Siberia through northern North America. Although Michigan is known as the 'Wolverine state,' wolverines no longer live in Michigan.
Diet: Omnivore. Wolverines are fast (reaching speeds up to 30 miles per hour) and ferocious and often feed on small mammals. They can also kill animals much larger than themselves, including deer, moose, and elk. Wolverines also eat roots, eggs and berries, as well as carrion (even frozen!), which it tears apart with its large, strong teeth and powerful jaws. Wolverines are very territorial and have large home ranges, which could account for their voracious appetites. Its scientific name – gulo gulo – means 'glutton.'
Average life span in the wild: 7-12 years.
Height: 13-17 inches. Length: 31-44 inches.
Weight: 20-45 pounds, males are larger than females.
Birth: Wolverines mate in late spring and summer, with the possibility of both males and females mating with more than one partner. Females usually give birth to two or three kits (babies) in snow dens in late winter or early spring after delayed implantation and a 40-day gestation period. Delayed implantation assures that the kits are born with the best chance of survival by holding undeveloped embryos dormant until conditions are ideal. Kits, which are born with a white coat to blend in with the snow in their native environment, sometimes stay with their moms for up to two years. Anna's arrival May 10 from the Minnesota Zoo is part of a cooperative breeding agreement to jump start the captive population of wolverines. There are currently less than 50 individuals in accredited U.S. zoos. 'Anna is young, curious and energetic, and we think she's a good match for Jigi,' said Robert Lessnau, Detroit Zoological Society curator of mammals.
Protection status: Protected in many areas. The wolverine's population and range have shrunk due to hunting and habitat loss.
Adaptations: Wolverines have long, thick, water-resistant fur, which makes them resistant to frost. They also have large claws and padded feet, which help them walk in the snow.
Now you know: Although wolverines have garnered the nickname 'skunk bear,' they are actually members of the weasel family. They earn their nickname because of a stinky musk they spray on caches of food to keep other animals away and to mark territory. Wolverines can climb trees and are also good swimmers. Wolverines cannot see well, but compensate with a keen sense of smell and hearing.
Detroit Zoo information: (248) 541-5717, www.detroitzoo.org.
Note: Animals of the Zoo is a weekly series. Next: Giraffe encounter.
- Joe Ballor, Daily Tribune Last week: Red kangaroo.


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In John Dies at the End, it's all about the Soy Sauce, a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. Users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John (Rob Mayes) and David (Chase Williamson), a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.
Adapted from David Wong's audacious trans-genre horror novel, John Dies at the End is written and directed by Don Coscarelli (Bubba Ho-Tep, Phantasm and The Beastmaster) and also stars Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman and Paul Giamatti.


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ROCHESTER — Rochester School District recognized several people for their outstanding work in Rochester schools in September.
Student — Nate Hobbs, Spaulding High School; Nate was cited as having a "� commitment to community service and outstanding efforts to improve the Spaulding High School Snack Shack."
Volunteer — Mark Dumais; McClelland School was awarded the Lowe's Heroes Project. They utilized the funds from this grant to beautify the gardens in the front of our school. Mr. Dumais was instrumental in making this project happen!
Elementary — Diana Dean, East Rochester School paraeducator; According to the Rochester School District, of Diana, "� when we characterize someone as 'going above and beyond,' Diana is who we are talking about� (she) has the initiative and takes the time to help make East Rochester a wonderful place."
Middle School — Brandy Sanger, Rochester Middle School paraeducator; Brandy is "� a dedicated member of the RMS community. (She) constantly works towards building relationships with students in order to help them achieve their goals. (She is) an important and indispensable member of the RMS community as well as the Rochester School District."
High School — Mark Blaisdell, Spaulding High School science teacher; Mark "� shares his love of and expertise with technology with his students and colleagues. (He) continuously dedicates his time and talent in order to move our students and faculty forward (and is) always willing to help."
District Collaborative Group — New Teacher Orientation Team: Deb Hoyt, Lynda Baita, Greg Riley, Sarah Nice, Caitlen McCarthy, Cheryl Hanscom & Maegan Roussin. The team is "� an outstanding group of educators who through their remarkable collaboration have established a stellar program for new teachers in our district. Their tireless efforts to support new teachers have a direct and positive impact not only on the teachers, but the students in their classrooms."
Thanks for helping Rochester schools
ROCHESTER — Rochester School District recognized several people for their outstanding work in Rochester schools in September.


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Francisco mulling adjustments in winter ball
MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers are recommending winter ball for Juan Francisco as an opportunity to implement some changes at the plate and continue working defensively at first base, a position he manned this season for the first time in the Major Leagues.
Francisco plays for Licey in the Dominican Winter League. The idea is for him to play first and third base.
"We talked about it a couple of weeks ago and he asked me again a couple of days ago. I think he needs to go play," manager Ron Roenicke said.
Brewers hitting coach Johnny Narron has some adjustments in mind for Francisco, whose playing time has diminished lately as he entered Sunday in a 7-for-51, 27-strikeout slump. The Brewers are intrigued by Francisco's power (18 home runs in his first 285 at-bats this season for the Braves and Brewers) and still consider the 26-year-old one of the options to man first base next season.
"It's very difficult to ask a guy who comes over to you in a season to say, 'Hey, this is what you need to do,'" Roenicke said. "Because he is trying to make an impression on us, he wants, obviously, a job with us next year -- a starting job if it can be. And to make him change and all of a sudden he doesn't perform well and then you don't keep him, that gets a little difficult."
Compounding that difficulty is the fact Francisco will be arbitration-eligible for the first time this winter and will be paid based on his statistics relative to peers.
"If it's your guys that you've had, and you know that you're bringing them back next year, they know that you're bringing them back, it's different," Roenicke said. "You can ask a guy to do some things. That's the thing we've been caught with this year, is what's fair to him? Is it fair to have him change, and if he doesn't succeed, then we don't bring him back? I don't know, I've always had trouble with that."


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The purpose of this web site is to set out all of the Christian writings that are believed to have been written in the first and second centuries, as well as a few selected from the early third. I have also included non-Christian documents that may have special bearing on the study of early Christianity in order to make this web site a comprehensive sourcebook. I have provided links to English translations for all of these documents. When available, the work has also been provided in the original language, usually Greek. I have also provided information and scholarly opinion regarding the background, authorship, dating, and provenance of these documents. These comments are intended to provide an introduction. I did not want to follow the common scheme of organizing early Christian documents into the canon and apocrypha, which is simply anachronistic. Because it is the most intuitive and useful, I have ordered them based on one possible chronological scheme. My judgments concerning the authenticity and dating of the documents concerned are made in the best tradition of biblical scholarship. Nevertheless, the ordering is almost certainly wrong in some part. To provide some bearings, a range of probable dating is provided for the scheme, but this range of dating can be disputed. All dates are approximate. An alphabetical listing is also provided as an easier way to find a specific text.
Into His Own is designed as a tool for the historical study of Christian scriptures. Since the works in the New Testament were composed in implicit & often explicit dialog with first century champions of Jewish tradition, the bulk of the passages included here have been excerpted from works written by Jewish authors, especially those composed after the Hebrew scriptures that can be found in any Christian "Old Testament." But there are also selections from non-Jewish sources that help bring the writings of Christian authors into a clearer cultural perspective.
I am grateful for all of the web links. I will be compiling them into a list. However, I want to reemphasize my original post in this thread. My main search if for software that I can use to compare, contrast, etc. the various books. I have been able to locate many of these holy texts online in the past, but it is difficult to study them in the manner I desire, and hence my request for a particular type of software application.-tinjaw (January 09, 2008, 09:13 PM)
Are you really wanting to find something in print or a program?-cmpm (January 10, 2008, 09:20 PM)
Do you really want to do some searching?It's not hard. You have to think.But no one can control the wind.If you want to 'see' look for Abraham.The Father of many nations-religions.-cmpm (January 10, 2008, 09:20 PM)
If all you want is to compare texts of different religions, It's already been done.Search within searches, is not hard to do.Gathering all the many texts would fill your hard drive.And a few more.Especially since they are still being written.-cmpm (January 10, 2008, 09:20 PM)
The ReligionFacts Big Religion Chart is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart. Yes, this is impossible. As we always warn with our comparison charts, this is no substitute for reading about religions in greater detail, talking with religious adherents, etc. But this religon comparison chart can (hopefully) be a useful and accessible way to "get the gist" of some unfamiliar groups and compare basic beliefs and practices of the world's religions and belief systems.
There isn't anything anyone has that you don't tinjaw.-cmpm (January 11, 2008, 05:46 AM)
The thread already discusses the xian ones I have found useful. I used the http://www.onlinebib...e.net/downloads.html for a long time. Much of it is free, but there are versions of the bible under copyright, those can be bought and unlocked relatively cheap ($5-$12). Some christians I know swear by http://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html , but I found it a bit light. The UI for e sword is a bit friendlier, but it is capable of less. As far as other texts, I have not found them united under one program. There are various Qurans etc, but my experience using them was typically little more than basic searching and reading.-Vladd44
Another great resource for comparative studies of the multiple versions of the bible is Bible Gateway. Alternatively, if you want to delve back to the ancient Greek and Hebrew, an excellent resource is HtmlBible.com which contains Strong's Dictionary and Hebrew and Greek Concordance. While neither of these sources provide software, they are exhaustive and functional nonetheless.-Knot4Prophet
I just took a look at the links submitted by Knot4Prophet and on the htmlbible.com page is listed a few MS Access public domain databases for 3 different bible translations, for download. It's provided for anyone that wants to write their own software.It's a place to start. -app103 (January 12, 2008, 12:38 AM)
First of, thank for the link to the film. It looks very interesting. I'm going to try an view it when I get the opportunity.I do understand that what I am asking for is quite huge, but only if you look at it as me trying to "understand" everything about all of the religions. What I seek is only slightly more than a surface level understanding, a foundation, that will provide me with a proper perspective with which I can view related issues. I do not wish to do this as a Doctoral Thesis, I just want an educated layman's understanding - something beyond hearsay and propaganda.-tinjaw (January 11, 2008, 05:25 AM)
Human beings cannot endure emptiness and desolation; they will fill the vacuum by creating a new focus of meaning. The idols of fundementalism are not good substitutes for God; if we are to create a vibrant new faith for the twenty-first century, we should, perhaps, ponder the history of God for some lessons and warnings.
I think (for now) your solution is best served by finding texts you are interested in, whether in html or plain text, and find a full-featured text viewing/searching software to load it into.Something that allows full-search indexing, keyword tagging, marginal note-taking and markups for cross-referencing between two or more texts, stuff like that.This functionality exists for many of the Bible study apps mentioned, it is the texts themselves that are not available because the text must be formatted for the software, which is a time-consuming process to say the least.If such software (a more generic text indexing/markup/comparison tool) does not exist, I think it would be a fantastic project for someone to start as it would be a great research tool for texts of any persuasion. Perhaps the discussion should now turn to finding such a software if it exists, and what it should look like if it doesn't.-Edvard (January 14, 2008, 10:26 AM)
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Evolution Hoax
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Adnan Oktar: Actually, this is a religious obligation for Muslims, the Turkish-Islamic union is an obligation. Because seperation is unlawful for Muslims... For example, why should we seperate from Azerbaijan, Turkestan, SYRIA AND IRAQ?...Everything has a master, doesn't it? For example in a bakehouse, there is a kneador. There is a master of blacksmith. There is a master of leadership too, and this is the Turkish people. In Turkish Islamic world, Turkey is considered as the leader. A leader must show its position clearly. When the leader is searched for, that is a fitnah and there appears disorder. But leader is clear and obvious, that is the right of Turkey. Sacred relics of our Prophet (saas) are here (in Istanbul). The experience is here. Thanks be to Allah, we have a great cadre of intellectuals who are well-educated and have fear of Allah. We are reasonable people, moderate, merciful, compassionate, resistent to pain and patient. We are nation that enjoy people's happiness. If you notice, currently whereever we go, we endeavor to establish peace and understanding. People say "come and mediate us". For example, Israel calls us, SYRIA CALLS US, ALGERIA CALLS US. WHY DO THEY CALL US? Because they know that Turkey is the natural leader of the region. Of course, we will then say, Turkey will have to lead the union. We will say Turkey must be the leader. Turkic countries are seperated artificially. We are a family. This is a work of a family. We lay claim to this way, to the Turkish Islamic Union, as a family. It is natural that we will unite with Turkic countries, our brothers, Islamic countries and we will embrace our family and we will protect them insha'Allah.
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Freehold, NJ --- Only once during his current 10-race win streak has Sweet Lou trailed other horses at the halfway point, but trainer Ron Burke wouldn't mind seeing it happen again in Saturday's C$634,000 Canadian Pacing Derby (CPD) at Mohawk Racetrack.
Sweet Lou won his CPD elimination last week by a length over stablemate Foiled Again in 1:48.1, ending a record streak of six consecutive victories in less than 1:48, but still good enough to give his connections the opportunity to pick his starting spot for the final. Sweet Lou, with regular driver Ron Pierce, will leave from post three and is the 4-5 morning line favorite.
In his last six races, Sweet Lou has reached the half-mile point no slower than :53.3. The only time he trailed during that span came in the William R. Haughton Memorial final, when he followed Thinking Out Loud in the outer flow and got by earlier leaders Bettor's Edge and Captaintreacherous in the stretch to win by 1-1/4 lengths in 1:47.1.
"I wouldn't mind seeing that trip in the Canadian Pacing Derby," Burke said. "I've got a feeling you're getting to the point now where people are trying to leave real hard with the intention that if they make the front they know they're not going to have to cut it because (Sweet Lou) is coming.
"In a way, I'd like to see him race off the back a couple more times because he seems to race that way just as well. It's tough going these halves in 53 (seconds) every week.
"This race really concerns me in that everybody now is trying to race the same way and all of these horses, one of these days, will end up stringing a half in 51-and-a-piece. I have all the faith in the world in Ronnie that he'll get us in the right spot, but the right spot, I've got a feeling, might not be on the front this week."
Sweet Lou has won 10 of 13 races and $934,700 this year for owners Burke Racing, Weaver Bruscemi LLC, Larry Karr, and Phil Collura. For his career, the 5-year-old son of Yankee Cruiser-Sweet Future has won 32 of 68 races and $3.05 million.
"I was a little bit worried last week because he was bearing out a little bit late in the mile, but Pierce didn't seem to be too concerned," Burke said. "He said he kind of let him drift and he was fine, so we'll see."
Foiled Again, who won the Canadian Pacing Derby in 2012 to become the richest pacer in harness racing history, is the 6-1 second choice in this year's final and will start from post seven with driver Yannick Gingras. Foiled Again, a 10-year-old gelding who now is the richest harness racing horse in North American history, with $6.37 million, has won 80 times in his career.
"He was vicious in his elimination, 25-(seconds)-and-a-piece out and 25-and-a-piece home," Burke said. "He couldn't have been any better. I think he's as sharp as he's ever been. He keeps drawing bad in the (finals) because he can't beat Lou in the eliminations. That really hurt him a lot.
"Now from the seven hole he's got to go out and earn it. But Yannick always seems to get you in the right position, no matter what."
Burke also sends out elimination winner Clear Vision and Bettor's Edge in the CPD. Clear Vision and driver Brett Miller will start from post two and are 8-1 on the morning line while Bettor's Edge and driver Matt Kakaley will leave from post eight and are 7-1.
Following is the field in post order with drivers, trainers, and morning line: 1. Modern Legend, David Miller, David Drew, 20-1; 2. Clear Vision, Brett Miller, Ron Burke, 8-1; 3. Sweet Lou, Ron Pierce, Ron Burke, 4-5; 4. Domethatagain, Tim Tetrick, Rene Allard, 10-1; 5. Captive Audience, James MacDonald, Corey Johnson; 6. State Treasurer, Chris Christoforou, Ian Moore, 9-1; 7. Foiled Again, Yannick Gingras, Ron Burke, 6-1; 8. Bettor's Edge, Matt Kakaley, Ron Burke, 7-1; 9. Thinking Out Loud, John Campbell, Bob McIntosh, 20-1; 10. Ellis Park, Steve Condren, Brad Maxwell, 20-1.
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World's most livable city is...
Melbourne is the world's most livable city for the second year in a row, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Global Livability Survey.
The top cities remained the same as last year, with a slight reshuffle in order and Australian and Canadian locations continuing to dominate.
Vienna came a close second while Canadian cities Vancouver and Toronto took third and fourth; Calgary tied with Adelaide for fifth place.
The top spots are mostly "mid-sized cities in wealthier countries with a relatively low population density," said the EIU.
A total of 140 cities were surveyed under five categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
Japan hosts Asia's most liveable city
Osaka, ranked 12th overall, scored the highest in Asia. Tokyo came second at 18th while Hong Kong nabbed 31st.
Honolulu is the most livable city in the United States, coming in at 26th; Pittsburg was just behind at 30th.
Abidjan, Tehran, Douala, Tripoli, Karachi, Algiers, Harare, Lagos, Port Moresby, together with the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka languish at the bottom of the list. Conflict was the main reason for many of the lowest scores, according to the survey.
Civil unrest was one of the reasons Olympic host London slipped from 53 to 55.
More on CNN: 50 reasons Melbourne is the world's most livable city
Global Livability Survey
Top 50 most livable cities:
1. Melbourne, Australia
2. Vienna, Austria
3. Vancouver, Canada
4. Toronto, Canada
=5. Calgary, Canada
=5. Adelaide, Australia
7. Sydney, Australia
8. Helsinki, Finland
9. Perth, Australia
10. Auckland, New Zealand
11. Zurich, Switzerland
=12. Geneva, Switzerland
=12. Osaka, Japan
=14. Stockholm, Sweden
=14. Hamburg, Germany
=16. Montreal, Canada
=16. Paris, France
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20. Brisbane, Australia
21. Berlin, Germany
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25. Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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29. Munich, Germany
30. Pittsburgh, United States
31. Hong Kong, China
32. Dusseldorf, Germany
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41. Boston, United States
42. Seattle, United States
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MFI ID (Monetary Financial Institution Identifier) is a code, unique to each institution in the MFI list provided by ECB (European Central Bank). MFI ID is hence applicable to MFIs resident in the European Union.
The code is alphanumerical, with the first two digits representing the two-digit ISO code for the country of residence of the MFI and the remaining number of digits (no limit has been specified) is any combination of alphanumerical characters.
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There is one action that's lacking in the CVS command set. You cannot rename a file other than manually modifying the repository and the admin files. This is troublesome if many developers have checked out the module.
You're right, there is no way of renaming a file while keeping track of this change in cvs, but instead of manually messing around with the administration files, you (AFAIK) would (in your working dir):
This is one of the few ugly parts of CVS; but while your starting to use it, you may give meta-cvs a try. I did not, because of my high workload there's no time for such improvements :-(, but it seems to be worth a try.regards,
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KSU seeks Board of Regents approval for football | News
KENNESAW, Ga. -- The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia will consider Kennesaw State University President Dr. Daniel S. Papp's request to launch a football program and additional Title IX women's sports at the university at the board's Tuesday meeting.
The BOR's consideration will be the final step in a six-year process of studies, student voting, and fundraising aimed at exploring the possibility of bringing NCAA Division I football to the state's third-largest university.
President Papp and KSU's Director of Athletics Vaughn Williams will conduct a briefing on the Regents' decision on Wednesday, Jan. 9. The event will be held at noon, in the Convocation Center on the Kennesaw State University campus.
The possibility of bringing football to Kennesaw State has been the subject of a detailed process that began in March 2006, when the KSU Foundation contracted with Turner & Associates to conduct a feasibility study about the future of Kennesaw State's athletics program. Among the study's findings was a determination that adding football would "significantly enhance KSU's prestige, visibility, and fund-raising potential."
Papp broached the possibility of adding football to KSU's athletic program to the Board of Regents in September 2008 and in August 2009 when he made presentations to the Board that culminated in the development of the 88-acre KSU Sports and Recreation Park - which includes an 8,300-seat stadium built primarily for women's soccer.
In December 2009, Papp appointed a 33-member Football Exploratory Committee, chaired by legendary former University of Georgia football coach and athletic director Vince Dooley, to study the pros and cons of establishing a football program at KSU. The committee announced its findings in September 2010, concluding that there was solid support for a collegiate football program at Kennesaw State, but that external funding sources were requisite.
Following the release of the exploratory committee's report, KSU's Student Government Association (SGA) and the Office of the Vice President for Student Success in November 2010 conducted an SGA-led vote to assess the level of student support for a fee of $100 per student per semester to initiate a football program and additional Title IX women's sports at KSU. The students voted to support that fee request. Fund-raising efforts began soon thereafter. In October 2012, as fund-raising efforts progressed, the KSU Student Fee Committee then voted to support the fee increase, allowing Papp to move forward with a formal request to the Board of Regents.
"We are grateful that the Board of Regents will consider our request to add football and additional Title IX women's sports," Papp said. "Many of KSU's students, friends, and supporters are enthusiastic about the possibility of adding football and more women's intercollegiate sports at the university. We appreciate everyone who has encouraged us, and we eagerly look forward to the board's decision. Whatever the Board decides, it will have a tremendous impact on the future of KSU's intercollegiate athletics program and the future of this university."


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Buchholz may get second opinion on neck, back
BOSTON -- After being looked at by the Red Sox's medical staff, right-hander Clay Buchholz resumed playing catch on Friday after a brief shutdown period over the All-Star break.
There was no MRI given to Buchholz, and the club continues to hope that the discomfort he has been feeling in his neck and the upper portion of his back shoulder subside in the near future.
General manager Ben Cherington mentioned that Buchholz could get a second opinion.
Buchholz last pitched for the Red Sox on June 8. He had been on the best run of his career, going 9-0 in his 12 starts.
Several times, Buchholz has ramped back up by playing catch and advanced to bullpen work. But when he gets to the mound, he usually starts to feel the symptoms recur.
"I think Clay is frustrated, because he wants to be out there pitching and competing," said Cherington. "Obviously he was having a great year. When a guy is doing that well on the field, there's no way he doesn't want to be out there.
"I know he's frustrated; I think, secondarily, we're frustrated, because we want him out there, too. As much as we want him out there, we've got to continue to be patient, listen to what he's saying.
"He may get another opinion. just try gathering more information and hopefully put his mind at ease as to what's going on. He knows his body better than anyone else, and he's going to tell us when he's ready to ramp it up, and we hope that's soon. And based on everything we know, we still think that will be soon. It hasn't happened yet, and that's a source of frustration for him, and to some degree, for all of us."
With less than two weeks before the non-waiver Trade Deadline, the uncertainty with Buchholz is just another uncertainty for Cherington.
"I think we're 20-14 since his last start, so again, getting back to the point before, a lot of good things happened with the team. We've proven we can win without any one particular guy," said Cherington. "But obviously we'd like to have him back earlier. We're a better team with him. And we still hope he is out there for the better part of the remainder of the season.
"If for some reason that doesn't happen, then again, we'll just have to adjust. We've had guys who have stepped up before. We've had guys that we think are capable of stepping up and being good starters at the Major League level. And we just have to see how it goes. We hope to have more clarity on that in the next couple days."


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Chinese automaker SAIC will unveil a hilariously literal "green" car at the upcoming Beijing Motor Show. It's called the "Leaf Concept." It has in-wheel turbines and a leaf-shaped oxygen-emitting solar panel as a roof. Physics be damned!
The SAIC Leaf Concept, whose name we're pretty sure Nissan might have an issue with, is a complete flight of fancy and thumbs its stubby white nose at reality and the laws of physics. The car is powered through a combination of the leaf-shaped solar panel roof and wind turbines mounted on the wheels. Two things here will make every science nerd cry foul. Unless the Chinese company has greatly advanced solar voltaic technology there's no way a panel of those dimensions would provide sustained power, and there's no explaination of how it emits oxygen in the process. Second, apparently nobody ran the wheel-mounted wind turbines past the engineering department before kicking the concept out the door because the law of conservation of energy forbids creating power for free. The props would consume more energy in drag than they would generate in making energy. But hey, GREEN CAR! LEAVES! CHINA! (H/T to Keir)


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The secret is out, the Heber Valley is the place to be for winter steam photography! Annie Bruehl waits at the Edwards Lane crossing for UP 618 to pass by her completely original 1953 Buick.
After Picture. Support leans about 30 degrees. CSXT locomotive hangs by a thread as only rails support loaded Centerflow.
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Darwin Award candidates on the Kaalfontein to Tembisa run. Trainsurfing has become an often fatal fad around Johannesburg and the ultimate macho thing is to ride on the roof, standing upright whi... (more)
Several engines on this train derailed in the early morning hours.
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the dead line in Colton is about 150 locos long - some SD40-2's or C40-8's but also a lot of newer SD70M's are sidelined due to lack of work ...
Big Boy on static display-currently displayed at Omaha's Kenefick Park.
Burr A wind chill of -30 made for a cold shoot, M337 is punching some small drifts.
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There's a point while watching the video of Ethan Swanson's unbelievable rooftop leap when the camera pans down to the ground and two words suddenly come to mind: "Don't jump!"
But jump he did -- without a parachute and little protection -- from the roof of a Chicago apartment building onto the peak roof of a vacant building far below. The 24-year-old slides down the shingles of the neighboring roof, partially lands on an outdoor spiral staircase and keeps sliding until he lands, slightly less than unscathed, onto a sidewalk.
It's all captured using a couple of GoPro cameras, and in the two days since being posted to YouTube, the James Bond-esque jump has gone viral, garnering more than 1.7 million views.
"I got banged up," admits Swanson, a native of Chicago's suburbs. "No broken bones, nothing serious."
The roof's shingles did tear through the areas between the four shin guards he taped to himself before the jump and pulled away some skin. Oh, and he bruised his right heel a little, but it goes with the territory for Swanson.
"I've been doing this my whole life, since even before I can remember," he said. "My mom says I was climbing before I could walk."
Swanson is a part-time professional stuntman and former gymnast who feels most comfortable being up high and spends his free time cliff diving, rock climbing and scouting out his next urban stunt. By day he works for an investment company as an actuary, which comes in handy for Swanson's hobby.
He never goes into a jump blindly and takes weeks, even months to prepare for a leap before he completes it.
For the rooftop jump, Swanson took measurements of everything at the site and practiced for a month to get it all perfect, from the timing and speed of his run to the jump and landing. He even postponed the jump once because of rain.
"That's one thing I wish I could tell people more about because I don't want someone to see [the video] and go out and do it and not prepare," he said, noting, "I've dedicated a lot of my time to have the training and the skills to do these things."
Swanson was contacted by GoPro in the spring about partnering with the company for the jump. He already had this one planned, so he went for it. The jump is all his, the video editing is all GoPro, he says.
He never expected it to go viral, but this surely isn't the last you've heard of him.
"Whenever I'm out or walking around," he said, "I'm always looking up."
Check out Ethan's other YouTube videos here.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) LaMarcus Aldridge had 27 points and 10 rebounds, and the Portland Trail Blazers handed the Orlando Magic their ninth straight loss with a 125-119, overtime victory on Monday night.
Wesley Matthews finished with 24 points, including a dunk that all but sealed it with less than a minute to go in overtime, and J.J. Hickson added 20 points and 15 rebounds for his 20th double-double this season.
Portland has won three straight and 11 of its last 14 games.
Aldridge hit a layup and a free throw that put Portland ahead 112-108 with 3:38 in overtime. After the Magic tied it at 112 on J.J. Redick's hook shot, Blazers rookie Damian Lillard made a pull-up jumper to reclaim the lead.
Lillard added a floater to extend it, and Hickson had a fast-break dunk for a 118-112 lead. Matthews punctuated the run with his dunk and Portland cruised the rest of the way.
Redick led the Magic with 29 points, while Arron Afflalo had 24. Nikola Vucevic had 17 points and 13 rebounds.
Orlando held a slim 97-95 lead but Matthews hit a 3-pointer that put Portland ahead and Nicolas Batum padded it with his own 3 with 3:01 left in regulation.
Jameer Nelson's rainbow 3-pointer kept the pressure on the Blazers, but Batum hit another 3-pointer to make it 106-101 with 1:14 to go.
Nelson made a pair of free throws and Nikola Vucevic added a jumper to close the Magic to 106-105. After Batum hit two foul shots with 16.8 seconds left, Nelson nailed a 3-pointer with 8.9 seconds left that tied it at 108 and sent the game into overtime.
It was the opening of a four-game road trip for Orlando, which has been mired in injuries along with its losses.
The team was again without power forward Glen Davis, who dislocated his left shoulder on Dec. 19 against Washington and has missed nine games. The Magic have not won a game without him. It was hoped that he may return at some points during the trip.
Point guard E'Twaun Moore missed his fifth game with a left elbow sprain. Reserve center Gustavo Ayon was not with the team because of a right thigh contusion.
Blazers rookie center Meyers Leonard missed his fifth game with an injured right ankle.
The Magic went up 19-12 in the first quarter after Andrew Nicholson's dunk. But Aldridge made a 7-foot jumper and Matthews added a 3-pointer to narrow it, and Aldridge's turnaround jumper tied it a 21. Victor Claver's pull-up jumper gave Portland a 25-24 lead going into the second quarter.
Aldridge had 12 points in the first quarter alone.
But the Blazers had trouble maintaining any kind of lead throughout the game. After going up 46-43 with 4:03 left in the half, Orlando's Josh McRoberts hit a 3-pointer that touched off a 14-2 Magic run. Afflalo capped it with a layup that gave Orlando a 57-48 lead at the break.
Aldridge's layup with 4:53 left in the third that gave Portland a 71-70 lead. Wesley Matthews extended it with a layup.
But again, it was short-lived. Reddick hit two straight 3-pointers to hand the Magic back the lead at 88-87 with 10:51 left in the game.
Aldridge's layup pulled Portland into a tie at 93-all with 6:52 left. Afflalo kept the Blazers at bay with a layup and Nelson added a pair of free throws for the Magic.
NOTES: The Blazers assigned guards Will Barton and Nolan Smith to their D-League affiliate, the Idaho Stampede. ... Orlando's Jameer Nelson had 12 assists, surpassing Scott Skiles as the Magic's all-time assists leader with 2,787.


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The gis branch intends to add a contrib app implementing geographic support.
What's GIS?
- Series of blog posts giving intro to GIS; choice quote from an early post: "If you feel like ending a conversation with a developer then simply bring up the topic of character encodings ... [o]r ... coordinate systems. ... So in the spirit of Tim Bray's and Joel Spolsky's wonderful writeups of character encodings, I thought I'd put together a basic survival guide to coordinate systems over my next few posts and then tie it back to Google Maps."
- More on map projections, including why people can't agree on just one (utf-8).
- geodesy the field of science for this stuff.
Useful code
- PostGIS, the OpenGIS SQL Types (pdf) implementation for Postgresql
- GEOS, low-level C++ port of Jave Topology Suite, used by PostGIS
- PyGEOS, now outdated due to PCL, below, and shedloads more stuff on "python, geospatial, and the web"
- Python Cartographic Library - actively maintained, huge GIS package, GPL.
- There are direct SWIG Python bindings in GEOS 3.0.0RC1 and above.
- GeoTypes is a type (and conversion) library for PostGIS via psycopg.
- Geopy calcs distances using (very accurate) Vincenty, and uses the WGS 84 datum by default. Also has utility functions for UOM conversions.
- GDAL/OGR, a library for fiddling with raster geo images.
- Has a Python interface. A SWIG interface is in development, but not yet stable.
- GeoRosetta, CC-BY-SA licensed, quality-controlled, collection of geocoding data. Not yet released to public(?).
- When dealing with points (say, degrees) from, do they need to be converted to be useful on the back-end data, assuming -that- data is in degrees? Is it enough to have the same datum and origin? (Reading the intro above is likely to answer the question.)
- My (JDunck) reading indicates yes. Given the same coordinate system (i.e. datum, origin, and axes), degrees are useful without conversion.
Phase 1
Assume existing data and columns, and that the UOM given is same as backing data. Support a custom manager (and queryset) to support lookups.
GeoTypes 0.7 supports both psycopg1 and psycopg2. Upside is conversion from type params to SQL. Simplifies (avoids?) QuerySet modification. Maintainer of GeoTypes has been responsive as of Feb 26 2007 on the psycopg mailing list. Example code, where point and box are types from GeoTypes.OG*:from django.db import models from django.contrib.gis import db as gis_db class School(meta.Model): name = ... objects = gis_db.Manager() Assume a location column has already been added to the DB, e.g. select addgeometrycolumn('','schools_school','location',-1, 'POINT', 2); Then this would work: from django.contrib.gis.geometry import Point x = Point(-95.36819458007812, 30.2184318620219) School.objects.geo_near('location', point=x, radius=1.0) This could construct a LinearRing approximating the circle around x and issue something like: poly = "POLYGON (...points from curve approximation...)" _where.append(""" where schools_school.location && %s and within(schools_school.location, %s) """) _params.append(poly, poly)
I'm not sure how we can use GEOS without also doing something like GeoTypes down in the QuerySet. Ideas?
Phase 2
Field Types
- To allow update through ORM, new fieldtypes would be needed.
GIS utilities
wrapper for geos, have the ability to do something like
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A Sandwich a Day: Merguez Aiolissa at Harissa Cafe in Astoria
A new sandwich every day.
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
It's cafés like Harissa Cafe that make me never want to leave Astoria. The small, narrow spot offers some breakfast classics, a few Mediterranean salads, sandwiches, and a couple tagine-style plates—the kind of casual and casually-presented dishes that you'd expect to find at a small café in a European village.
Except there's nothing casual about the Merguez Aiolissa ($7.95), a foot-long lamb sausage with spicy mayo on a lean baguette. The tender merguez comes in a snappy casing that gives way to a well-spiced interior, with strong notes of cumin, coriander, and wily harissa. Caramelized onions and harissa mayo add sweetness, texture, and more spice, but this really is all about the sausage, one of the finer merguez renditions you'll find in this city. Okay, it's also about the baguette, which comes from Balthazar Bakery. It's the perfect contrast of sturdy crust and tender crumb.
The sandwich comes with a huge—and I mean covers-a-dinner-plate huge—serving of fries. Pro tip: slide some into the baguette for some more textural contrast and a little starch on starch action. It's a traditional sandwich move, and a good one.
Harissa Cafe
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PVT Mixtape
To celebrate playing this year's Camden Crawl (on Camden St IN DUBLIN... the London one will take place later in the year), PVT aka Pivot featuring a chap who was in Prefuse73, have put together this mix of stuff they're loving at the moment. If you like the likes of John Maus, Modeselektor, Nathan Fake and Liars, then you'll like this mix and probably wanna catch them live at the festival.
The festival organisers have kindly given us a pair of tickets to the festival to give away, and all you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is share this mixtape with your friends on Twitter by clicking this button: Tweet
We'll pick a winner at random on Monday 22nd April 2013.
Festival Info
Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin takes place from 3rd – 5th May 2013. Which is the May Bank Holiday weekend. The line-up includes DiS favourites Darkstar, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Heathers plus The Black Lips, Holy Other Prince Rama, Paws, Dirty Beaches and plenty more will be joining PVT who are obviously playing too, hence this mixtape.
Irish artists already announced include: BANTUM, BOUTS, THE CASANOVA WAVE, CIAN NUGENT & THE COSMOS, CLOUD CASTLE LAKE, DAITHI, DOGS, ELAINE MAI, FAUNE, FIGHT LIKE APES, FORRESTS, GIRL BAND, GROUSE, HIDDEN HIGHWAYS, THE HOLY ROMAN ARMY, INNI-K, KID KARATE, KOOL THING, LE GALAXIE (DJ SET), LEMONADA, LOW SEA, MARGIE LEWIS, MIRACLE BELL, MOSSY NOLAN, NANU NANU, THE NOTAS, O EMPEROR, ORLA GARTLAND, ORQUESTA, OWENSIE, PETER DELANEY, SHIPS, SKELOCRATS, SLEEP THIEVES, SOIL CREEP, THE SPOOK OF THE THIRTEENTH LOCK, SQUAREHEAD, SWORDS, UNWINDING CABLES, WE CUT CORNERS, WHITE COLLAR BOY, and YAWNING CHASM.
For tickets, up to date news, line up and festival information head on over to camdencrawldublin.com.