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I work in a building that isn't close to any restaurants even though it's in a downtown-ish area. There's just one exception: we have a Jimmy John's in the building. It's the only option and everyone I know is sick of it.
This building has a ton of vacancies and I know that if another store existed people would jump on it. I talked this idea through with my fiancee the other day I ultimately decided that it wouldn't be a good idea to start the business since I already have one startup and it would be dumb to have two at once. It was, however, fun to talk about and now I'm just dying to know what the start-up costs of this sort of thing would be, out of curiosity.
Does anyone have any idea? Obviously I'm looking for a very rough guess. I'm thinking we would sell candy bars, gum, soda, and maybe have a little hot dog machine or something for starters.

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Lauren Oliver is the best-selling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy. The final book in the latter series - Requiem - has just been released. It wraps up the story of Lena, a plucky young woman who lives in a future America where love is classified as an illness and young people are "cured" of the disease.
It was reported by The Telegraph recently that 'sex has been all but eradicated from Hollywood scripts over the past 18 months'. Apparently sex scenes are being shunned in favour of dazzling special effects and tellingly, only two films containing sex and nudity made the box office top ten in the UK last year. So what is the reason for Hollywood's languishing libido?
Despite the growth of online markets and digital applications the mark of success is still "getting off" the Internet and into "the real world" a gathering of publishers and tech start-ups has been told.
I had always defended the BDSM and kink communities against charges of unsound, destructive desire. Indeed, I'd already worked as a professional dominatrix - and one with stringent ethics.
In short: Fifty Shades of Grey is erotica and thus disqualified from the Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2012 (or indeed in any other year). Phew.
The rise of the ebook is crucial to the emerging success of Indie Authors. By cutting out the middlemen - agents, publishers, traditional bookshops - authors can realise better returns and connect more directly with their readers. Most notable, of course, is the phenomenon of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey - now the best-selling book in British history.
Today, girls may know more about sex but Lace's message of empowerment and equality is as relevant and important as it was 30 years ago. It's a pity that modern novels, especially informative ones that involve women's sexuality are put down as 'mummy porn', 'bonkbusters', 'bodice rippers', 'beach-reads', 'w*nk-fodder' or, simply, trash. But what has clearly been proved, and what has changed in the last 30 years, is that women are far more openly interested in having an enjoyable sex life.
No one should be forced to perform sexual acts that they feel uncomfortable with. But to blame books for creating a new and dangerous generation of sexually demanding women is ludicrous and harks back to the days when novel-reading was considered an unsuitable activity for women.
'Keep failing and fail better' says Samuel Beckett, the absurdist playwright, which has been my mantra this week.
Fifty Shades is basically Twilight with added S&M. This is not just romance, this is S&M romance, to paraphrase an advertising campaign familiar to yummy mummies everywhere.
You pay your money, stand in a field, and a man in a vest with a wispy moustache shouts at you for an hour. While this happens, your body is forced into all kinds of unnatural positions known to acolytes of the craft as "the press-up", "the star jump", the "run to the fence and back MOVE!" and - I shudder at the memory - "the burpee".
For some time the boys had talked about the summer holidays with some excitement, mainly because they were so looking forward to going to see their nanny who now lives in Tenerife.
On the whole sex/ erotica point, it's worth noting how little actually appears. It takes over 100 pages before there's actually any sex, and on the few occasions that there is it's over within a couple of pages. When it does appear it can be reasonably explicit, but it's also clumsy and evasive enough not to feel too pornographic.
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This skilfully packaged book is marketed as liberating for women (trussed like a turkey liberating?) However, in reality it actually romanticises the dangerous patterns of an abusive relationship by teaching that controlling men are sexy and women secretly enjoy being hurt.
Perhaps the beauty of the sex toy market lies in the fact that there is something for everyone whether you're single or partnered, with tastes running from vanilla to kinky and everything in between.


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Despite published reports, next week's DLC isn't actually the Pixies (that comes the week of June 24th). Instead we have two tracks from Avenged Sevenfold, a track from The Offspring, and a track from Crooked X.
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We went there to celebrate my husbands birthday. Food was average, very salty and highly priced Seems like the restaurant knew better days in the past and doesnt make the effort to keep it
We went there to celebrate my husbands birthday. Food was average, very salty and highly priced Seems like the restaurant knew better days in the past and doesnt make the effort to keep it
It was like traveling back to a more gracious time. Went with a friend on a Saturday night. From the butler who greeted us at the entrance, to the waiter (Nelson), who remembered I had requested a table by a window (it overlooked the garden), this place instantly turned us into loyal customers. The lamb and veggie stew was perfect,... More
A group of us went to the afternoon tea for a special occasion. The atmosphere was nice. It's quiet because there are several smaller dining rooms rather than one large one. The service was excellent -- low-key but friendly. The food was good quality but sparse. When you look at the menu, each person gets one of each item, which... More
I only went to this restaurant because, after checking into the Morrison House hotel at 8:00 pm, I was too tired to go searching for any other. The hotel staff told me the dress code was informal but my husband, who was dressed in sweatpants and a T-shirt from our long road trip, felt very under-dressed. Other men were wearing... More
The Grille has become the place my wife and I go to for birthdays, anniversaries or times when we want an exceptionally fine dinner. We were again in the side room with its quiet background music which makes conversation easy, and it luxurious appointments. The service, as always, was very good. It is nice to have staff who are knowledgeable.... More
The food was good, but not outstanding. The service was professional, efficient and what you would expect for a restaurant of this caliber. Price tags run high. Not sure that I'd say the meal was worth every penny
We've been dining in Alexandria for years, but I never noticed this restaurant because the entrance to the hotel and restaurant are on a side path off Alfred Street--very elegant but unobtrusive behind a small fountain. We dined during Restaurant Week and are so glad to know this place. The waiter was super solicitous with great advice. The dining room... More
We reserved a table for a Saturday evening and arrived on time, only to find a wedding party being moved from the piano room to the separate dining area. We managed to catch the eye of a passing waiter to let him know we had reservations, but after a brief computer check, he disappeared and never bothered to seat us.... More
we went on NY Eve - food was wonderful but we were treated like second class citizens because we did not have a reservation. Then again, the restaurant had seating, so make a guess. This was our last try that night since we had not planned to be in town but got snowed in. We ate and went home
The quality, service and presentation are excellent. The food preparation is perfect and the sauces and sides go wonderfully with the entree. Just exceptional and a must. Halibut and scallops perfectly cooked.
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For more than a decade, American Robert Graf has combed the waters of a Seychelles island for a multimillion-dollar booty stashed by pirates nearly 300 years ago
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I've been treading water in a small, man-made lagoon for about half an hour, waiting for Robert Graf to surface. The 49-year-old American treasure hunter has cordoned off this rectangular swath of Indian Ocean in the Seychelles, and now he's somewhere 25 feet below, chiseling off chunks of granite and sucking up sand and grit with a four-inch-wide vacuum dredge. He's searching for the entrance to a stone vault that he believes contains a pirate hoard—part of what many consider the largest high-seas heist in history—stashed nearly 300 years ago. Back then, locals speculate, the area where we're swimming was dry land, the sea held back by a sand berm later destroyed in a storm.
Graf, a former U.S. Air Force technical instructor, breathes through a 50-foot-long bright pink hose attached to an air tank on shore. He wears a face mask, a tattered wet suit and 26 pounds of lead weight strapped to his waist. Every so often I dunk my head, peering through my mask into impossibly blue water. At one point a faint shadow glides over the bottom, then vanishes into a dark ravine. Moments later there's a creepy scraping sound, like someone prying open the lid of a sarcophagus.
Graf pops up on the other side of the lagoon. "I have maybe three or four feet to go," he shouts. "But I'm running out of air." The noise I heard was Graf trying to move several granite slabs, which he says appear to have been hewn by hand and stacked in a kind of capstone. He'll be back again tomorrow with a fresh air tank, and the day after that too. Off and on for 15 years he has been hauling up stone and sand in search of the prize he's confident lies beneath the waters of this rocky beach on Mahé, the largest of the 115 granitic and coralline islands that form the Seychelles.
Historians believe that cached somewhere in this far-flung archipelago are the plunders of Olivier Le Vasseur, aka La Buse, or the Buzzard, a French pirate who roamed the Indian Ocean during the early 1700s. In 1721, La Buse, along with English pirate John Taylor and their crews, ransacked the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese frigate undergoing repairs near Mauritius, about 1,000 miles south of the Seychelles. The Cabo carried gold, uncut diamonds and church regalia belonging to the retiring viceroy of Goa. At the time, Goa was a Portuguese colony on the west coast of present-day India. La Buse and Taylor made off with the treasure—then valued at more than a million pounds sterling—and divided the spoils. Most of La Buse's considerable fortune, says Frank Sherry, author of Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy, came from his capture of the Cabo. French authorities caught up with La Buse a few years later near Réunion, a rugged volcanic island south of Mauritius. In 1730, as he was about to face the gallows there, the pirate is said to have tossed a sheaf of papers into the crowd, taunting his audience with these final words: "My treasure to he who can understand."
When I arrive on Mahé, it's easy to spot Graf in the crowd at the airport. He's the only guy wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the classic pirate ensign—a skull and crossbones. Tanned and fit, the treasure hunter seems relaxed—hardly what you'd expect from someone who has spent a third of his life obsessed with a long-dead pirate. Yet Graf is no laid-back islander. He's in-your-face intense right from the start. I'd barely heaved my suitcase into the trunk of his rusty compact car when he launched into a breathless retelling of how he'd voyaged some 10,000 miles from his Colorado home, married a Seychellois hotel reservations manager and spent more than $450,000 of his own money looking for a treasure that others have failed to find here for nearly a century.
"In 1923 a rare storm came through the Seychelles," Graf says as we wind through the streets of the capital, Victoria. "It eroded many of the beaches." One particular beach was in Mahé near the home of Rose Savy, a local landowner. Thrashing wind and waves had exposed boulders on her property with mysterious markings. According to one version of the story, Savy wrote her nephew, who worked at the national archives in Réunion, with news of the discovery. He thought the markings might be related to a set of 200-year-old papers kept in the archives—the papers, it's believed, that La Buse had flung at the crowd before his execution. The nephew sent the papers to Savy. There was a cryptogram and four letters, each thought to offer different clues to the treasure.
Graf, who moved to Mahé in 1984 to manage a satellite-tracking station for a U.S. defense contractor, first learned about La Buse from a magazine article. By then copies of the La Buse papers were in the hands of another treasure hunter, John Cruise-Wilkins, who was resuming work started by his father, Reginald, a British soldier who'd acquired the papers in 1949 from Rose Savy and squandered 27 years looking for the treasure.
Graf agreed to help fund Cruise-Wilkins' project, and the two toiled together in the rocks for four years before Graf broke with his partner over where to search. "Cruise-Wilkins gave me copies of the papers," recalls Graf, "and told me to figure it out for myself." Graf then negotiated an exclusive agreement with the Seychelles government to dig on his own, which he did until 1998, when a license to continue was given to Cruise-Wilkins for two years. In April 2003, Graf once again obtained permission to dig.
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I personally know Bob and I believe he is on the right track. I think he has to figure out a different way to reach his treasure.
Posted by Patrick Orphee on August 5,2013 | 02:50 PM
Anyone interested to find out about La Buse's treasure? Please let me know I have a lot of concrete information
Posted by Liz Englert on January 14,2013 | 05:35 AM
Don't be fooled the name in the forest was made by a crazy guy to divert people from looking at the right spot. The treasure is where the Bel Ombre site is near the beach, where they found the skeletons
Posted by Marisa on June 1,2012 | 10:18 AM
How do you get authorised to look for treasure? I too am interested in Mauritius.
Posted by Ryno Swart on December 29,2011 | 02:31 AM
I think I have an idea of where Le vassue hid its treasure. The treasure is not at Bel Ombre as was originally through but its somehwere in the forest. I have evidence that Olivier Le Vasseur visited the place because his name is engraved in a large boulder.
All famous pirates used to do this. Furthermore, the cryptogram is more than just a few letters to decipher. Its actually a map hidden in the words. Why do you think L:e Vassue said, he who can understand can find my treasure???
I will be going for the hunt because I have already seen a few other areas where potential hidden treasure can be found.
Posted by Eddy on June 18,2011 | 03:28 PM
I understand totally the frustration Graf feels concerning finding the treasure of La Buse. My Grandfather native of Mauritius also ruined himself looking for the treasure in Mauritius.
Posted by Jean Francois L'Homme on March 13,2011 | 06:19 PM
My maiden name was LeVasseur so this pirate may be a distant relative. My ancestors came from Paris, his homeplace. I think a tidal wave did a lot of damage to the area during the time of this search. Has anything more been done to find the treasure?
Posted by Charlotte McDaniel on February 8,2011 | 03:01 PM
Why hasn't anyone decided to build walls in the water around the area where the openings are to the caves? Sealing the area off from the water will make the digging so much easier, and the pumping of the water out of the caves would only take a few months more. I really do think this adventure can turn out a worthy one, provided the markings and papers give a very positive reason to build and dig through the muck and suck out the water. Come on, you say you have the funding. Now you need to talk the Seychelles government into accepting your new plan to build and drain the land. Do you need a certified open water diver to help?....I know one!...lol call me!
Posted by kevin richardson on March 15,2010 | 10:04 PM
The article is very interesting. I think the Smithsonian should support him in his jounery,to find this treasure. Just think $500million thats a lot of money Even if it is only 5million its still money and histroy!Just wanting to be found we all spend money on junk. This seems more worth wild to invest in.
Posted by jack pistole on March 15,2010 | 06:49 PM
No he didnt the treasure is still out there. he was looking in the wrong spot.
Posted by hellen on June 1,2008 | 08:10 AM
What was the final outcome of the search by Robert Graf as written up in the Decenber 2004 issue of Smithsonian ?At the time of the article, he felt he was very close to a discovery. Did he succeed ??
Posted by Richard Sweetser on February 28,2008 | 01:09 PM
I just re-read the article Treasure Quest in the 12/04 Smithsonian. What was the outcome of Robert Graf's treasure hunt?
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I'm very interested to know how you came to the church you're at – it's messianic jewish, correct? Was this the church (denomination) you were raised in? it is jeremy's background? Or did you somehow find yourselves there?
I'm almost 100% sure the cloud is made of nanobots.
Juliet's confiding in Jack is just another method of confusing/controlling him. Fortunately, he seems to be the smartest of the three kidnappees, so i think he'll be aware of that. Either way he will try to save Ben's life, because that's who he his. He always needs something to fix. - 11/03/2006 3:14 PM
I can understand where you're coming with on joining your church, because I'm in the process of doing the same thing, except that I need to wait for the next quarter of Sunday school for the discipleship class. Sometimes its alittle sobering to realize that yes, I am an adult, and yes I don't believe the same things as my parents and yes, I can choose my own church now.
I guess I'm alittle two trusting of Juliet then...I thought she was honest...I was more paranoid that someone was watching what she was doing as well as listening, and that her clever little video didn't work after all. And really, if they supposedly know so much about Jack, why go to all the trouble to capture them in the first place? If they'd asked weeks ago, we prolly would've done the surgery without all the phyical and emotional manipulation.
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I don't trust Juliet and I don't think Jack does either. He knows there is a camera and he probably assumes that it works. On the other hand, though, it does seem like Juliet is sick of Ben, like there is some sort of power struggle going on there even when the Losties are not around.
Apparently, the next episode is supposed to resolve a lot of the stuff that's gone on in the first five, like a mini-season...I'm excited to see what it is. - 11/04/2006 8:39 AM
Did your husband attend church with you? In all your adventures and trips he never seems to be with you? Is he ill? I always feel sad for you after reading your entries. This Blog of yours seems to be therapy for you. Sharing all your thoughts with us strangers. I hope it helps you but I get a sense of lonliness coming from your writing.
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Tropical Storm Conditions Has Ended Across the Brazos Valley
All tropical weather advisories has been discontinued across the Brazos Valley. Southwesterly winds will continue at 10-15 mph from Bryan/College Station and 15-30 mph northeast of the Twin Cities. The winds should diminish areawide Satuday night.
Rain chances will remain in the forecast and the threat for flash flooding will continue over the next 12 hours. A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for locations east of I 45 through Sunday morning.
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Ike Downgraded to A Tropical Storm
Ike has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it continues to move northeastward through east Texas. A Tropical Storm Wind Warning remains in effect for locations east of Bryan/College Station as winds of 40 mph or greater are still possible.
Flash Flood Warnings continue for Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker, Grimes and Waller counties until 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Up to 10 inches of rain has been estimated by our Fastrac Doppler radar in southern Montgomery county. Over 2.5 inches of rain has been reported in Bryan/College Station.
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Hurricane Ike Update:
The eye of Hurricane Ike continues to press inland. As of the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, the sustained winds have dropped off to near 90 mph making this a category 1. Winds gusting to 70 mph across much of the Brazos Valley can be expected over the next couple of hours. Ike will continue to weaken as it pulls off to the north and eventually northeast. Hurricane Wind Warnings are in effect all the way to Corsicana, TX with Tropical Storm Wind Warnings all the way to the Ark-La-Tex and the Red River.
Blake Mathews
Updates Warning/Watch Info:
As of 5:15 a.m. the following advisories remain in effect for the Brazos Valley:
Hurricane Wind Warning -- Winds over 74 mph
San Jacinto
Tropical Storm Wind Warnings -- Winds over 40 mph
Tornado Watch -- Through 10 a.m.
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A Flash Flood Watch also remains in effect for the entire region through Sunday.
Rodney Harris
Hurricane Ike Makes Landfall:
At 1 AM this morning, Hurricane Ike took a small jog to the west and slammed full force into Galveston Island. As of 1:45 AM, conditions in Galveston are calm. The damage reports coming in are unbelievable. Roofs torn off, trees down, numerous windows broken, massive storm surge to name a few. The eye will continue to press inland toward downtown Houston, The Woodlands, Conroe, and Huntsville. The eye should pass east of the Bryan/College Station area, but tropical storm conditions with winds over 75+ in gusts are likely as we push into the 4-6 am hour. This is not the time to venture outside. Gusty winds of 30+ mph are already being felt here in Bryan. The weather team and I will be here all night long to keep you up to date. The next on-air update will be at 2 AM.
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New Ike Wind Estimates -- Friday Afternoon Update
We have brand new wind estimates for the Brazos Valley as Ike moves east of Bryan/College Station on Saturday. The big change with this update includes hurricane-force winds -- 74 mph -- which are now expected in Bryan/College Station Saturday morning.
The orange shading represents tropical storm-force winds -- at least 40 mph. The red shading represents winds of at least 60 mph. The white shading represents hurricane-force winds -- at least 74 mph.
The wind threat should end across the Brazos Valley by Saturday night. The threat for flash flooding will last through Sunday.
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Hurricane Ike remains a very large and dangerous hurricane...
As of 11am, Ike was located at 27.2 N and 92.6 W. The winds were still clocked at 105 mph. Ike is headed WNW at 11 mph and is approximately 195 miles east southeast of Galveston. All warnings as seen below are still in effect. Ike remains a very large and dangerous category 2 hurricane.
The Brazos Valley remains under hurricane and tropical storm wind warnings. Deteriorating conditions are expected to settle in around 8pm tonight. Winds sustained at 40-60 mph will be possible here in Bryan-College Station with gusts to hurricane force. The further south and east you are, the higher the winds. Flash Flood watches also remain in effect as 2 to 4 inches of rain is likely across the region. The extent of the damage should be limited to vegetation, such as trees and branches. Power lines may also be an issue. Power outages may be a problem, so keep the batteries handy. All preparations should be rushed to completion. If you have not prepared, there's still time. Make sure you secure all lawn furniture and loose items around the yard. Stock up on nonperishable food items, batteries, water (enough for everybody for 72 hours), and a manual can opener. Keep gas tanks full and cash on hand.
A storm surge not seen since Carla is threatening to wash over Galveston Island and many coastal communities are facing certain destruction. Waves are now crashing over the seawall and much of the island is now under water. Communities in Zip Zones A and B are under mandatory evacuations as the surge is expected to swamp the seawall and many bay communities including Galveston, Texas City, Tiki Island, Baytown, Dickinson, League City, La Marque and Kemah to name a few. Much of Galveston Island is already flooded, including the Strand. Hurricane warnings are hoisted and hurricane conditions are expected well inland to Huntsville. A quarter to half of all gabled roofs will fail and millions will be without power, some for weeks.
The Surge:
The upper Texas coast is facing a storm surge not seen since Carla back in '61. A storm surge of 20-25' can be expected. This is far larger than what would normally be expected for a category 2 hurricane. Unlike common belief, the low pressure in the eye does not cause a dome of water to form. Much like blowing on a cup of coffee causing little ripples on the surface, the force of the wind essentially does the same thing. And it's the huge expanse of the wind field that is pushing in a much larger storm surge to the coast. T
The Storm:
The storm is huge! It is bigger, not stronger, but bigger than Katrina. Tropical storm conditions will be felt here in the Brazos Valley long before the eye make landfall. The only difference between a 105 mph category 2 hurricane and a 115 mph category 3 hurricane is the nomenclature. There is no detectable difference in the strength and therefore the expectations here in the Brazos Valley is the same. The storm will continue on its trajectory and will make a direct landfall on or just west of Galveston Island. The storm is expected to follow the I-45 corridor pretty close. As the eye passes east of us, expect a stiff northeast wind, as we will be on the clean side of the storm. If you are east of 45, winds will be from the southeast and the tornado threat will be much greater. If you have not taken preparations, there is still time. Please stay tuned to kbtx and kbtx.com for the very latest.
-Blake Mathews
NEW Advisories for the Brazos Valley -- Thursday Evening Update
A Hurricane Wind WARNING is in effect for Grimes, Houston, Madison, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker and Waller counties through Sunday morning.
A Tropical Storm Wind WARNING is in effect for Austin, Brazos, Burleson and Washington counties through Sunday morning.
A Tropical Storm Wind Watch is in effect for Lee, Leon, Milam and Robertson counties through Saturday night.
A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for Leon, Milam and Robertson counties through Sunday evening.
Rodney Harris
Conditions for Bryan/College Station -- Thursday Afternoon Update
At this point it's still pretty difficult to nail down exactly what will happen where, but general conditions across Bryan/College Station and most of the Brazos Valley are as follows for Saturday:
- A near 100% chance for rain Saturday morning and afternoon.
- (*) Sustained winds at 40-60 mph. Winds over 74 mph are possible during the same time period with higher gusts.
- (**) Isolated tornadoes.
* Winds will initially blow from the northeast. Once the storm passes, the winds will shift around from the southwest.
** The tornado threat can change significantly depending on where Ike tracks. Gusty winds and heavy rain can be expected regardless of where Ike tracks at this point, but the greatest tornado threat will be east of where the storm tracks -- which looks to be from Bryan/College Station eastward. This is the part of the forecast that could change significantly over the next 24 hours.
The National Weather Service posted a Hurricane Wind Watch for much of the Brazos Valley Thursday morning. Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker, Waller and Washington counties are under this watch through Sunday morning.
This watch basically means that hurricane-force winds -- up to 74 mph -- are possible on Saturday. While computer models still converge on the storm moving near Bryan/College Station, the official forecast track now puts the storm east of the Twin Cities, which would mean the worst of the weather would be east of the region.
At this point, the storm is still forecast to track through the eastern portions of the Brazos Valley and close enough to Bryan/College Station that tropical storm and/or hurricane-force winds are possible. We will continue to monitor the track of Ike as this will be a very important element in your forecast for Saturday.
As of Thursday morning the forecast will still call for cloudy skies with a near 100% chance of rain on Saturday in Bryan/College Station. Winds are forecast to initially blow from the northeast, then turning from the southwest at 40-60 mph, with higher gusts. This could change -- for the better -- if Ike does in-fact track further east of the region.
Rodney Harris
We have added computer models to our on-air weathercasts to supplement the official forecast from the National Hurricane Center. The official track is represented by the bold, white line.
As of Wednesday morning, landfall is forecast to take place around Port Lavaca (or between Corpus Christi and Matagorda Bay). The cone of uncertainty still covers the entire Texas coast, but the computer models are starting to converge a bit on the middle Texas coast.
The forecast track is being influenced by a ridge of high pressure over the southeastern United States. Any small changes with this ridge -- from what is forecast -- can mean big changes in the eventual track of Ike. But as it stands, we do believe the ridge will guide Ike in more of a westerly direction, before it makes a sharp right turn towards Central Texas on Saturday.
Since we will be to the right of the storm, we've increased your rain chances significantly over the weekend. Breezy conditions can also be expected on Saturday. Remember to keep up to date with the latest on Ike -- small changes in the storm can mean big changes to your weekend forecast.
Rodney Harris
As Ike continues to move westward, most of the computer models have now shifted landfall towards south Texas, which is also the official forecast from the National Hurricane Center.
We do want to stress the the "cone of uncertainty" -- represented by yellow cone at right -- which shows where Ike could track by the weekend. This cone still covers the upper Texas coast and Louisiana, however, with the official track south of the region our local effects from Ike should be minimal. We have your rain chances at 40% on Saturday and Sunday and those could go up or down depending on where Ike eventually tracks.
Rodney Harris
Hurricane Ike has weakened -- as forecast -- to a category two storm over Cuba. The storm will continue to weaken until it re-emerges over the southern Gulf of Mexico later this week.
As of now, the National Hurricane Center has Ike making landfall in southeast Texas as a category three (major) hurricane Saturday morning.
The biggest question -- other than Ike's second landfall -- is how strong the storm will be. It will be interesting to see how much Cuba will weaken the storm before it moves into the Gulf of Mexico.
Rodney Harris
Sunday Afternoon Update:
There's good news and bad news with Ike. The good news is the fact that the storm will move over Cuba tonight, which will likely result in significant weakening. The bad news is the official forecast track from the National Hurricane Center -- which continues to show a gradual shift towards Louisiana or Texas.
Computer models are becoming consistent on the aforementioned forecast track so the big question as of now isn't necessary where Ike will strike, but how strong it will be! Even though the storm is forecast to weaken as it passes over Cuba, the waters over the Gulf of Mexico are warm and wind shear is forecast to be light. So, how much strengthening will Ike undergo once it enters the Gulf and takes aim somewhere along the Gulf coast? Stay tuned.
Rodney Harris
Hurricane Ike -- the ninth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic tropical season -- could turn into the Gulf of Mexico by the middle of next week.
The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center, along with the latest computer model output, suggest that the storm may not make that all important "right turn" quick enough to avoid the Gulf. The official forecast track takes the storm west of Florida into the eastern Gulf of Mexico, while the "cone of uncertainty" has the storm as far west as the central Gulf and as far east as the Central Atlantic.
Right now, Ike -- still a major hurricane -- is sitting in the Atlantic ocean and will have no impact on the Continental U.S. this weekend. You can track Ike at the KBTX.com Hurricane center.


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"Null User" - or a way to log out in general
March 21, 2009, 01:59:58 am »
The User system badly needs a way to log out. Currently, somebody is always logged in as a user for a particular orbiter. For example, lets say I'm logged in to the on-screen orbiter of my hybrid. I go to work, but at home, my user is still logged in to that orbiter. If I had the hybrid set so that only I could log into it, then my security scheme would fail, as I am the only user that can log in, but yet I can't log out of the orbiter, so while I'm at work my hybrid remains wide open to anybody.
What I am proposing is a "Logout" button on the select user screen. The action of this button would be to take to to a "logged out" screen. This "logged out" screen could, in turn, be the select users screen, with the home button removed and the logout button removed. Then when someone wants to log back in, they just have to touch their name, enter their pin, then they are back to the home screen.
Also, while the above proposal takes care of the "visual" end of things, internally LMCE needs a member varialbe to track the logged out status of each orbiter, set the current user to null, and not allow any orbiter screen except for the "logged out" screen to be shown if it is set.
Anyone agree? Anyone have a better idea of how something like this could be implemented?
Last Edit: March 21, 2009, 02:08:34 am by jondecker76
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
Reply #1 on:
March 24, 2009, 07:44:08 pm »
Sounds wonderful. I like the idea.
Should the "null user" be able to do anything? Power down MD's? Or might this be accomplished using a "guest" user if one wanted?
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
Reply #2 on:
March 24, 2009, 09:01:07 pm »
A guest user would be nice for other things too, when you have friends over etc...
But I agree with the basic concept of being able to log out. The guest user could really just be selected using the normal login method.
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
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March 25, 2009, 03:00:13 am »
good suggestion guys... the "Guest" user could be added behind the scenes... Now just to figure out what a guest user would be allowed to do.....
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
Reply #4 on:
March 25, 2009, 05:15:22 am »
I agree 100%
Hybrid core Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R m/b 2.8Ghz 2 gig ram. HVR1600 on the core. 2 Orbiter on Android for control 1 phone the other tablet. Running 10.04
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
Reply #5 on:
March 25, 2009, 08:54:49 am »
Yeah, a sensible default for what the guest would be allowed to do would make sense.
Not sure how much access control there is in lmce today. Besides the media files of course.
Maybe just a simple (dis/)allow per scenario, and perhaps a (dis/)allow for advanced also (be able to reload, restart, regen etc.) would be enough?
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
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March 31, 2009, 11:27:22 pm »
A winblows style permission would be nice, and maybe a timeout that would log out a user after time/inactivity. The guest account, or "logged out" can only play public media on the MD, use the phone, and arm/disarm the home (with a 4 digit code of course). A restricted user could do everything today's user does EXCEPT reload, regen, delete/move media, power up/down MD, or any other setup/configuration. Then an admin user can do everything. Obviously a new function would need to be added to the user page, to select the type for each user.
Basically I would want my kids to be restricted, and any other bonehead that may use my system. It ws very painful when I went to watch a tv show only to find that my kids had deleted it. They can delete anything in public right now, which is not a good thing. Even my guest account can delete media, change settings, and reload the router.
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
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April 01, 2009, 12:57:54 am »
Just my 2 cents....
Administrator - all aspects of LMCE
Family member 1 (aka parents) - all non administrative aspects (media (public and private), telecom, alarm, cameras, HA) excluding Webadmin
Family member 2 (aka kids) - media (public and their own), telecom, camera, HA, excluding Webadmin and Alarm (so they dont trigger it accidently)
Guest (aka any house guest, friend) - media (just public), telecom, camera, excluding HA, Webadmin and Alaram
Null user (default user logged automaticlly after certain period of inactivity of logged user) - media, telecom
I have to say i dont have any LMCE programing expirience but this seems a logical hirerachy to me. Hope it helps
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
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April 01, 2009, 03:07:23 am »
I think this thread has evolved somewhat from jondecker's original post and maybe should be split into another one discussing a role based security model (which is effectively what is being suggested).
Back to the original idea which is to have the ability to logout of a an orbiter - I think it is a great Idea and setting the logged in user to NULL or unassigned is probably preferable as it could also equate to logic to determine if an orbiter is actively being used. Additional functionality could logout the user after a specified period of inactivity which would then improve the reliability of 'finding' where users are in the house (this is assuming you are not using mobileorbiter events to track users and their phones)
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
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April 01, 2009, 03:10:59 pm »
I agree, but we should also be able to arm/disarm the house in "logoff mode". There should be a default alarm code that is not tied to a specific user. I think the security system should function more like what people are used to with panel alarms. I myself find it hard to accept the user/alarm function since when my wife is logged in, I have to first select myself, enter pin, then select arm and enter pin again. And my 6 year old who can easily use my panel alarm, has a hard time with the LinuixMCE alarm due to it being tightly tied to the user who is on the orbiter.
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
Reply #10 on:
April 03, 2009, 09:09:12 pm »
we can add a user selection in the panel, for one possible solution....
But a global PIN is not going to be implemented.
We can make the panel agnostic to the logged in user as well, so that any user's PIN is valid.
It is also worth noting that with mobile orbiters, the right user is always logged in.
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
Reply #11 on:
April 07, 2009, 06:03:40 pm »
Quote from: tschak909 on April 03, 2009, 09:09:12 pm
We can make the panel agnostic to the logged in user as well, so that any user's PIN is valid.
That seems like the best solution, and provides an interface identical to what people have become used to. A simple change? Hopefully it will be in 8.10 beta.
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
Reply #12 on:
April 07, 2009, 06:15:43 pm »
yeah, sure. somebody wanna implement it?
It'll take changes to the orbiter's screen handler I believe to do it.
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Re: "Null User" - or a way to log out in general
Reply #13 on:
April 08, 2009, 07:24:42 pm »
I'm not sure my solution/configuration is the most elegant. But for a year I have been doing as follows to fit with my network scheme and household members.
My first created user is Administrator, then Guest, then my personal account and other household accounts follow. I use the same uid scheme on my workstations so NFS derived permissions are consistent, as I use the NFS exports across my network's Linux workstations. Then I configure my orbiters to select certain users by default. My common areas, Living Room TV, Dining Room PC, etc, are set to select user Guest by default. And bedroom orbiters preselected to that user. Configure your orbiters permissions settings and your there. The Administrator account, once the other users are configured, I hide from the orbiters, and is only configured for consistency within my network, and to provide the Administrator samba share.
Not important to LinuxMCE, but I follow this same scheme, with uid's startiing at 10000 for my workstations, including Guest at 10001. This method/configuration I use, has been the same for a year or so, works well, gives me "anonymity" at common orbiters by default, and fits with other common network user schemes. This also fits with Windows Server 2003 providing Active Directory. And would fit with this feature request scheme:
The only thing I could see that you may want to integrate into the default install of LinuxMCE is maybe to configure uid 10000 as Administrator, uid 10001 as Guest, and then ask the user for their household member accounts to follow. But a individual network plan for your network would suffice.
As I read this threads comments a few more times, I get some further ideas on this subject. That may alter my user scheme. I could see use for a "household wide" or global user, that each orbiter is preselected too. That user could have security mode access. And a user would not have to be selected to change security mode. This last thought I have not deployed, as my described configuration has worked for me. This is interesting to consider options for. If advanced features, like Samba domain server is to be implemented, a consistant user scheme, with Administrator and Guest accounts will be important.
Last Edit: April 08, 2009, 07:35:41 pm by khonshu
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