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Very nice. The sheet effects seem to be a very powerful way of getting good results. I've never used any of the CC products. How difficult is it to create your own sheet effects?
Oh, and some rep for a very pretty map.
This is my first post of a finished map.
Im a keen user of all the CC3 products, and this map was created by colouring the symbols from the Cartographers Annual Black & White Overland mapping style. I added my own choice of drawing tools to draw the terrain elevations and created my own sheet effects to get the look I wanted.
The island is a location in my 4E D&D campaign setting.
Brief Background
Athil is a relatively young nation. It was first settled 90 years ago by a contingent of Iron Sentinels from the city-state of Bel-Moth who set up a penal colony at Helgaunt to house their most notorious and bloodthirsty criminals. The colony was a success until the prisoners rebelled in 1,495 CR and overthrew the governor. Within a year the rebel prisoners had established the Athilan Syndicate and the pirate state of Athil was born.
The Athilan people gained their prowess on the ocean after they were plunged into a naval war with Ithlond shortly after the prison rebellion. In a trial by fire, their naval skills were honed to perfection as they triumphed over the numerically superior Ithlons. Since then, Athilan ships have preyed on shipping in the Sea of Mists and beyond, becoming a terrifying force to be reckoned with.
Very nice. The sheet effects seem to be a very powerful way of getting good results. I've never used any of the CC products. How difficult is it to create your own sheet effects?
Oh, and some rep for a very pretty map.
Thanks, Torstan
Adding sheet effects is easy really. Its pretty much the same as applying effects to layers in any other art software. CC3 comes with a selection of effects such as bevels, shadows, glows etc. It's just a matter of tweaking the effects to suit by adjusting the associated values/colours/opacity etc.
What is quite useful is the ability to create symbols in CC3 that have elements on different sheets (layers). For example, a hill's outline goes on one sheet while the background colour and shading go on other sheets. This allows you to apply several different effects to the same symbol.
Nice job...
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Cool map. You created a pretty unique style and I know how hard that can be with CC3. Have some rep!
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The Afrobeat star Fela Kuti might have seemed an unlikely candidate for a Broadway musical.
But theatrical producer Stephen Hendel, a passionate fan, was determined to create a biographical show about the man, a musical with both artistic and mass-audience appeal.
He brought the idea to the right person: Bill T. Jones, the leader of the innovative Bill T. Jones/Arne Zane Dance Company
and a Tony Award winner as choreographer for the musical "Spring Awakening."
The resultant vibrant 2009 theater piece, "Fela!" — coming to the Paramount Theatre this week — shook Broadway out of its commercial family-musical torpor.
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"Steve didn't want a conventional Broadway director, but someone who could give Fela (as he was widely known) the treatment he deserved," Jones recalled by phone recently. "He felt Fela was the greatest musician nobody heard of. I'd been listening to him since the 1970s, and he's a staple among great jazz and pop musicians, but he had no presence in the world of musical theater."
Fela did, however, have quite a backstory.
The flamboyant composer and multi-instrumentalist pioneered the blending of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock and African rhythms into an exciting, intoxicating
Afrobeat brew. He was an outspoken political dissident against the military regime in his native Nigeria. He was also a macho polygamist who had 27 wives; he was a marijuana lover whose pot habit rivaled Jamaican pop idol Bob Marley's; and he had an enormous ego.
He was arrested and jailed repeatedly by the Nigerian authorities — often on charges (including conspiracy to murder one of his own band members) that Fela claimed were politically motivated. In 1977, his Lagos compound was burned down, and his activist mother killed, in a Nigerian army raid.
How to convey Fela's saga (he died in 1997
of AIDS) to a Broadway crowd? How to evoke his musical genius and political courage, but not sidestep the less savory, more contradictory aspects of his hedonistic life?
"We felt people needed to know in the first half of the show what a brilliant person this is, who he was, why he's important, and make that emotional connection with him," said Jones. And his character? "I was not in a position to judge Fela. Let's assume you went to a concert of his, and he revealed himself to you. You can take what you need and leave the rest. First and foremost, he was an artist."
The framework for the musical Jones and co-writer Jim Lewis devised is a late-1970s concert that Fela gave at The Afrika Shrine, his Lagos nightclub. Riffing off and through the feverish Afrobeat numbers are nonlinear biographical incidents and musings, inspired by Carlos Moore's authorized biography, "Fela: This Bitch of a Life!"
But the bedrock of the piece is Fela's infectious music — complemented by Jones' fevered choreography and executed by hip-swinging dancers who sometimes encourage the audience to get up and groove along.
"It took over four years to clear all the music rights with Fela's family," said Jones. Members of Antibalas, a Brooklyn-based Afrobeat tribute band that performs many of Fela's compositions note for note, were brought in to perform, as well as oversee the musical direction and arrangements.
"The band wanted to play the shows exactly as Fela would," said Jones. " But I wanted to deconstruct the music, change some of the instruments, because Afrobeat is really music for dancing. There's no relief from the groove, and that groove can become deadly in a theater if it's not relieved by storytelling."
After a years-long gestation and many changes, "Fela!" was unveiled in a short pre-Broadway 2008 run at New York's 37 Arts. Though some critics felt the script was weak, Variety reviewer David Rooney pointed out that the show "aims to be less traditional musical theater than cathartic experience, lacing its communicative passion with infectious euphoria, rebellious anger and heartfelt despair."
After more revisions, "Fela!" moved to Broadway in 2009, aided by an infusion of cash and cachet from celebrity co-producers Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
In the Disneyfied precincts of Broadway, the show's white-hot music, carnality and revolutionary politics were (to my mind) a glorious anomaly. But "Fela!" ran just 18 months — though it earned Tony Awards for choreography, costumes and sound design, and many other Tony nominations, had a strong run in London, and has been on tour since last January. (The show had a brief return engagement on Broadway last year.)
The cast coming to Seattle includes Michelle Williams (of Destiny's Child), and British soprano Melanie Marshall (as Fela's mother, Funmilayo). Adesola Osakalumi and Duain Richmond alternate in the demanding title role.
Though the elaborate set had to be condensed for the tour, Jones promises this "Fela!" is as much of a thrill ride as the Broadway version. "The music is still as hot as ever, the performers are just as committed, what's onstage is beautiful as ever. Some things changed out of necessity, some out of maturity."
The prolific Jones is back making dances for his company, and he's the artistic director of a dance organization, New York Live Arts. Despite all of the compromises, lag time and financial pressures of working in the commercial theater world, he isn't done with Broadway.
"I'm considering a musical based on the movie 'Super Fly,' " he noted. "I've been working on it for about four years."
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Those of us who work without job protections beyond civil rights laws are often astonished by the system of tenure that emerged in U.S. K-12 education. We can understand why groups that represent people who have tenure fight so hard to keep it. But why did states and districts willingly adopt it, except when forced through union contract negotiations? Today, about 97% of teachers get tenure, most within a few years and in most cases with cursory review. Unfortunately, the financial costs of easy tenure-for-all combined with steps and lanes pay systems have placed a nearly universal glass ceiling on instructional career opportunities and pay for the best teachers. And we can all see the consequences.
But is getting rid of tenure the best or only solution? We wondered just that. With support from the Joyce Foundation, my colleagues Julie Kowal, Joe Ableidinger, Bryan Hassel and I at Public Impact explored tenure's various forms in higher education and the federal and state civil service in a report we released March 15. We also took a step back and asked what we think is the most important question: could redesigned tenure actually help grow the size and power of an elite teaching corps that reaches far more children with high-progress learning? We think the answer is yes. Elite tenure, for the top 10 – 25%, would confer status to the deserving, open doors to paid instructional career opportunities, and give power over future decisions to top teachers who would be motivated to maintain a high standard.
Key components of our elite tenure example are far more career and pay opportunities for great teachers, including the chance to extend their reach to more students. For more about reach extension, see Bryan Hassel's and my 2009 paper 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best. And for more about why reach extension is an essential addition to bold recruiting and dismissal efforts, see our 2010 paper Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great.
The tenure report also breaks down tenure into its component parts, and then provides a basic framework for redesigning each element of tenure to achieve better results for children and great teachers. Take a look. See if you can come up with other tenure models that might work better for better teachers and the children they serve. State policymakers need fresh ideas, fast. Too many states are stuck in the "keep it or scrap it" mode of tenure discussion, and laws of inertia indicate that "keep it" will win. That's a problem for our nation's best teachers.
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It's not really true that 97% of teachers receive tenure; somewhere around a third don't teach long enough to reach eligibility.
Thanks for sharing this article. Tenure is a big issue for teachers because it involves job security. If teachers could easily get jobs in other fields and other lines of work, they would not be so fearful of losing tenure.
Professor Robert Martin has taken the stance that if we can demonstrate the value added by quality professors, we can begin to find skills, abilities and knowledge within college professors that can be applicable to other careers and opportunities creating a simple segue from a reliance on income from higher education. Since a primary driver of college costs today is salaries for faculty, this would be a great boon to all parties involved.
I wrote an article titled "Taking Control of Spiraling College Costs" when I stumbled across these findings and proposals from Robert Martin. I am happy to see you make similar findings from a different starting point. Here is the article: http://j.mp/fjpyjI
A different way to use tenure reform: instead of reserving tenure to the top 10-25%, withhold it instead from the bottom 10%. There would be a ripple effect.
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Constantly raising our level of awareness is a core value at Quicken Loans, so we'd like to bring to your attention that it's National Identity Theft Week. Experian, one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the United States, notes that nearly nine million Americans experience identity theft each year.
When we think of identity theft, we associate it generally with adults and their finances, like when someone hacks into their bank account or rips off their debit card information. However, identity theft can impact pretty much anyone at any stage of life – and sometimes the thief isn't even interested in your money.
Medical Identity Theft
Medical identity theft means that someone stole information, like your name, birthday, social security number, or parts of your insurance information to acquire medical treatment. With this data, they might acquire prescription drugs or medical treatment on your dime. Today, since we're storing more medical files electronically, this type of theft continues to gain momentum.
InsuranceFraud.com notes that nearly two million Americans are victims of medical identity theft each year. They add that it takes a year or more to resolve most cases, costing them $20,000 on average.
Criminal Identity Theft
Wonder why all of a sudden there's a warrant out for your arrest when you haven't committed any crime or even received a speeding ticket in your entire life? As silly as this this sounds, it's a real possibility.
Much like financial identity theft, criminal identity theft occurs when a suspect steals your name, birthday, and social security number and then creates a fake ID. If the police catch the thief red handed, they can pass off the fake ID with your information. It then goes on the police record and on your criminal record. Next thing you know, the true criminal is in the wind and you're stuck with a crime you never committed. Some people don't even find out until they fail a background check for their employer years later.
Stealing a Deceased Person's Identity
In the past few years, I've heard a few news stories about people purchasing the names of deceased people to boost petition signature. People use this technique, called "ghosting," to ruin someone's financial reputation after they've died. Not only does it damage the deceased person's status, it impacts the remaining family members – forcing them to clear their loved one's name possibly years after they've perished.
Recently, CNN Money reported that for $10 you could buy a deceased person's identity. Most thieves use this information to commit tax fraud; it's estimated that over 90,000 tax returns filed last year were under deceased names totaling nearly $25 billion.
Thieves also use this information to open credit cards and loans – racking up thousands of dollars of debt. With the person clearly not able to check their credit report for errors, a thief can take advantage of a deceased person's financial identity for years. A similar thing happens with children.
Stealing a Baby's Identity
Even your newborn baby, who can't even apply for a credit card, can fall victim to identity theft. Stories pop up daily of children declaring bankruptcy during their toddler years, or they compile thousands of dollars in credit card debt before they can read.
You're probably wondering, "How do thieves acquire a social security number before a child is even born?" A financial expert from the Today Show notes children are issued a social security number from a pre-generated list. It's made up of two sets of numbers. The first three digits of the number represent the state where the number is issued – almost like how an area code narrows down locations of phone numbers. The last six digits represent a code for their birthday.
Knowing these few pieces of information, a thief can pretty much piece together a fake identity using a social security number not even issued yet. Most financial institutions just check the credit score of the social security number and nothing else. Once the thief gets access to a credit card, they can start building a credit history and go on for years. At any time they can dump the debit ridden social security number. If that number gets issued to your child, then they, unfortunately, receive all the debt associated with it.
No matter what stage of life you're at, thieves often look for times when we're distracted or unable defend ourselves to steal from right under us. It's a shame that there are people in this world who take advantage or damage the reputation of others for their own benefits. The good news, though, is you can catch these issues early with due diligence.
Stay tuned tomorrow for part two on how to protect and prevent these particular identity thefts! We're going to give you some tips and tricks to raise your level of awareness and spot these types of identity theft early.
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I'm having problems while installing Zimbra 4.5.9 at an Ubuntu 6.06 machine.
Well, after running the install.sh script I recive a message during ldap start up.
I belive it's a problem related to perl.Save configuration data to a file? [Yes]
Save config in file: [/opt/zimbra/config.14512]
Saving config in /opt/zimbra/config.14512...Done
The system will be modified - continue? [No] yes
Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.log.14512
Setting local config values...Done
Setting up CA...Done
Creating SSL certificate...Done
Initializing ldap...Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running setuid at /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmconfigure line 22.
Failed to start slapd. Attempting debug start to determine error.
Configuration failed
Please address the error and re-run /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmsetup.pl to
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Errors have been logged to /tmp/zmsetup.log.14512
my /etc/login.defs
I do not edited that.ENV_SUPATH PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
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After a few sluggish years, network limps back
After a few forgettable seasons, there are signs of life at NBC: Net's not likely to escape fourth place this season, but it's looking like it could challenge the leaders in some weeks this fall.Of course, the net's primetime Sunday NFL package is a seasonal anomaly that makes it especially competitive at this time of year, but it's not just pigskin popping at the Peacock. One year after "Heroes" busted out at the top new show among young adults, NBC has another solid piece in "Bionic Woman." The new take on "Bionic" had the strongest bow of any new show this fall but slid about 30% in its second week, suggesting that some of the curious didn't like what they saw. Still, if it stays at about this level, the Peacock will take it. Add to this comedies "The Office" and "My Name Is Earl" and some decently performing new dramas like "Chuck" and "Journeyman," and the net just may be starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together. The nucleus of shows working at the Peacock these days are a reflection of its evolution from an older, more female-skewing net to one that, with football pointing the way, is now younger and more male. NBC finished neck and neck with ABC for the lead among adults 18-49 during premiere week (with both nets claiming four of the top 10 shows) and narrowly topped the Alphabet among adults 18-34. Its median age of 45.2 was more than two years younger than last fall (47.6) and four years spryer than the fall of 2005 (49.6). NBC also exhibited the best balance of any net, garnering a 3.9 rating in both men 18-49 and women 18-49 at the same time ABC's aud was roughly two-thirds female. The Peacock has gotten younger by jettisoning most of its crime skeins — "Law & Order" has been limited to one hour on the net's sked for the first time in nine years — and sticking with some comedies that don't do a whole lot of business among the 40-plus crowd. Also, newsmag "Dateline" has all but disappeared. There are still some causes for concern — finding the show to replace "ER" on Thursday and a strategy to program Sundays after football chief among them — but there are no longer many timeslots where the net is not at least in the ratings hunt. And becoming more competitive while getting younger is no easy feat. Remote notes Clearing out the notebook on some other early fall ratings observations:
- Game over? They were good performers at the outset, but unscripted gamers and quizzers like NBC's "Deal or No Deal" and "The Singing Bee" and Fox's "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" and "Don't Forget the Lyrics" are having a tough time in the early going this season.
- Big Easier: New Orleans-set cop drama "K-Ville" hasn't done much opposite brutal competish on Monday, but the net may be thinking of shifting it on Friday after skedding repeats on that night in place of the yanked reality show "Nashville."
- Critical mass: It's been a hit-and-miss start for the fall's best-reviewed new shows.


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MUSKOGEE — A former Muskogee County juvenile detention worker was being held in jail Wednesday after being charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, authorities said.
Nancy Kaye Scraper, 39, of Muskogee, is charged in Muskogee County District Court with lewd molestation, a felony.
She is also charged with two misdemeanor counts of harboring a runaway child.
Scraper was terminated from her position with the Muskogee County Regional Juvenile Center in August, said Joe Washington, director of the center.
"She had contact with the female after the juvenile left the center," Washington said, referring to the 15-year-old victim.
A photograph on Scraper's cellphone of her and the juvenile kissing was sent to a state Department of Human Services employee located in Wilburton, according to an arrest affidavit.
Deputies found the victim and another juvenile in Scraper's bedroom on July 27, the affidavit states.
The two teens were reported missing on July 16 and had been staying with Scraper since running away from their foster home, the affidavit states.


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There are over 83,000 full-length DVDs featured on the site and that means you get access to something like 440,000 scenes. You should know though that you'll find the exact same content on the AEBN website, so if you already frequent that one, then this site is going to look very familiar.
There are no pictures on RentAdult or AEBN, but with thousands of scenes at your disposal, you'll be too busy to care. You can pay to play them in either Silverlight or Windows Media player and some offer a new pop-up Flash player as well. Or you can drop a little more cash to download them or burn them to DVD. There are also a couple of other streaming options, including a five-day rental and a "streaming for life." The prices are different for all these choices (obviously) and it really comes down to you and what you would rather do and what you want to spend.
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(Well, I guess the moderator didn't release with two 1M fits files. I'm posting it without them. Jumping down to HERE might be best. The first part of this discusses the two files, but maybe it strikes a cord with some. The most important part might be about comparing two files. I'm attaching a small file of the barred image I discuss. I think if I keep it down to 40K, it'll pass through to the list. )

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 If I remember, you know how to use pyfits to load FITS files, so load the 2 files and compare (as desired) the (primary) data units (DUs) of each file. Since pyfits returns the DUs as numpy arrays (ndarray), the full power of numpy is at your disposal for the comparison.

HERE
 Perhaps more importantly here, and this I had no immediate plans of
 discussing here, since it was currently less important to putting in a
 "save to fits" ability; how does one get rid of those vertical lines
 (bars)? They are from the video camera working at high gain, I'm pretty
 sure.
 I did not see the vertical lines in the attached jpeg, but you may want to take a look at scipy.interpolate.Rbf and or the topic of image inpainting in general.

 -- jv

Dark frame subtraction doesn't help. Although removing the lines
 is interesting here, it gets to be important in the situation where I've
 stacked 256 images of the sky (which does show many stars--and noise).
 BTW, the unstacked image is a 1/30th sec exposure. The purpose there is
 to bring out dim stars. It works fine, but those lines probably won't
 help star identification. I would think if it can be done with this
 image, it could apply to the stacked images. Comments?

 I'm attaching two fits files. Note that in the fitss file provided that
 something of a coordinate system, 3 lines, is shown. That's pure
 experimentation from some other interests.

 Interestingly, in DS9, the image is upside down (neither file is the
 display screen of the DS9).

 * BTW, this is the first time these images have been available to
 ccdsoft or ds9. ccdsoft does have IP capabilites, and sentinel has none.
 As a consequence, they are seldom seen as provided by ccdsoft or any IP
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I've just posted an article on my experiences with Linux on my shiny new Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11XN notebook. Hopefully it's useful to other Linux users who own or are considering purchasing this laptop.
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freshfoo.com now using rest2web
I've now converted 2 popular articles [1] on freshfoo.com so that they are generated via Michael Foord's excellent rest2web. Previously one of these articles was in plain HTML and the other was on the site wiki. I've got a few other articles in the works so I decided it was time to migrate the articles to a clean, consistent format. reStructured Text fits the bill perfectly.
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Glenn and I discovered markup.py today. It's a lightweight, simple Python module for generating HTML and XML. Tags are generated using Python objects, with calls to methods on those objects dynamically creating child tags (using __getattr__ trickery). A useful feature is that repeated tags of the same type can be blatted out by passing sequences of values.
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markup.py is worth adding to your toolbox if you ever have to generate bits of XML from Python. For simple jobs, it beats using a complex XML library and is less error prone than plain old string interpolation.
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As promised at the end of the talk, I've just put the slides and code online for my Python on Openmoko presentation. I'm hoping this stuff is useful to anyone looking to develop Python apps for Openmoko phone.
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Restaurant Ends 'Praying in Public' Discount After Public Backlash
"It's a gift we give at random to customers who take a moment before their meal."
Mary's Gourmet Diner may or may not have attracted that rush of prayerful poseurs that seemed inevitable when the world found out its servers chop 15 percent off the bills of patrons spotted "praying in public," but, lo and behold, there was a lot of Facebook hate and a sternly worded Freedom from Religion Foundation release issued, which argued the practice is tantamount to religious discrimination, per the Civil Rights Act. Restaurant receipts with sometimes nebulously religious messages are something that cause mass outrage these days, and now proprietor Mary Haglund has decided to pull the plug on the discount altogether.
Previously, the restaurant explained in a Facebook post that there's no underlying rhyme or reason to how or to whom it's given, and that the discount wasn't even denominational or official policy, at that.
"It's a gift we give at random to customers who take a moment before their meal," the diner explained, for a "prayer or just a moment to breathe & push the busyness [sic] of the world away. Who you talk to or meditate on etc. is your business." This presumably left the door wide open for Flying Spaghetti Monster adherents and Church of Satan supplicants to get pennies off their home-fry scrambles, but apparently the ordeal got too messy, too fast: After Haglund reportedly learned of FFRF's history of suing others for this kind of thing and winning, the discount has now gone on to a better place.
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By Jan Rahn Managing Editor
Wallace students will put in their first full day of school on Monday, Aug. 17 with regular hours. The bell rings at 8:05 a.m. and dismissal is at 3:38 p.m.
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• Derek Hutchison—Social Studies/Coach: New 7-12 social studies teacher Derek Hutchison joins the district from Banner County Schools where he taught and coached for the past two years.
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• Dean Franzen—Business/Coach: Teaching 7-12 business and assisting in football is Dean Franzen who moved his family to Wallace from Arlington.
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• Gregory Skeen—K-12 Art/Coach: Having completed student teaching in David City, Neb., and in Houston, Gregory Skeen joins the faculty roster as art insructor, assistant football coach, assistant girls basketball coach, and annual sponsor.
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I think the calendar makes it pretty clear Arsenal will only have a squad of 12 players next year.. disgrace, Wenger out etc!
Arsenal for life not for a player!!!
arsenal 4life ,well said i support the badge not the player, they will cum and go till da end the badge stays
If he wont commit by the 1st of January then take the reported 15m for christ sake.
People blaming it on Wenger . . . what do you want him to do, keep him till he walks for free? Get a grip. If he won't sign (for 80 thou a week no less!) sell him . . .


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I'd just like to apologise to everyone for the recent downtime over the last 24 hours or so. I've been informed by my server provider that a system logging script was runing on the server which caused it to overload, however I have also been informed that the problem has been fixed and should not happen again. Having said that, if you've got anything to say regarding the uptime of this site, keep it shut. I don't care one bit, and I'm getting so annoyed by people complaning that I might take measures to prevent the amount of traffic I recieve. After all it's not "me" who is making the server crash, it's the thousands of visitors I get, and due to the fact I'm not hosted by some network with tons of advertising, I can't afford a server which will be way more than enough to host a site of this size and popularity.
As for what you missed while the server problems disrupted things... Nothing at all. Rather cool, don't you think, that Rockstar tell us the game has been delayed, then fail to give us ANY new information for the last 2 weeks or so... I for one have had enough of waiting around for news about a game, so you can expect other admins to be keeping the site news updated while I play the best game out at the moment, Call Of Duty: United Offensive. Obviously we're told the official site will be updated 'soon', but god knows when that will be. Stay tuned for updates, but don't expect them any time soon.
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hi psy i would like to say you are doing a great job on this site and it must be frustrating 4 you when your server gose's down on the site as for rockstar i agree with you they are not telling us the whole picture of why there has been no updates on the san andreas site 4 2 weeks and there exscuss of why the game has been delayed i think there is something rockstar is keeping from us they might reveal all the weeks running up to its relases or they might not we will see .This might not be ture but it might have something to do with a more quieter and smaller version of the ps2 bundled with gta san andreas which is realsed wait for it oct the 26 the same week as san andreas is relased do you think this is sonys idea of making more money out of us or a tactic due to the fact that halo2 for the xbox gets relased 2 weeks after san andreas let me know what you think pm me or anyboady else who reads this reply
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Microsoft is very supportive of employees' professional development, and that includes the pursuit of Microsoft certification.
Regular readers of our blog recently heard from Larry Kaye about his journey toward MCSD. Larry's day job is to manage the certification portfolios related to software development and SQL Server. Check out his blog post, and ask questions in the developer certification study group.
In January 2014, Microsoft employees from around the world attended an internal training conference called TechReady. Microsoft Learning team was there to provide certification path information, deliver exam prep sessions, and offer onsite testing. This year, attendees took 753 exams to help them demonstrate technical readiness.
Those who work around Microsoft technologies are always sharpening their skills, too. Brad Groux, a Microsoft Premier Engineer in Houston, Texas, recently started a new series on his own blog: "How to Become a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer." Brad is going after MCSD: Windows Store Apps, starting with HTML5 and then moving onto C#. You can read part 1 of his blog series here and follow him on Twitter @BradGroux. (Update: Brad has published part 2 of this series.)
Coming up in March 2014, Microsoft Learning will be hosting a Test Fest for Microsoft employees on campus, offering the opportunity to take Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) and Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) exams onsite. (If you're a Microsoft employee in the Redmond, Washington vicinity, you can take these exams on campus from March 24 to 28, 2014. For details and to schedule your exams, please visit https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/teams/MOSMTAtestfest .)
These are just a few examples of the passion and dedication to ongoing training and certification among the thousands who work at Microsoft. Most of the time, you hear me talk about the value of certification here, and I wanted to tell you about these examples today so you know there are Microsoft people who know and demonstrate that value on a daily basis. In fact, some of them are doing the certification challenge now. Join them today!
Need help figuring out where to start? Download the Microsoft Training and Certification Guide onto your Windows 8 or RT device today.
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Nice blog! Good to know lots of learning and certification are ongoing!
I was hired during 7 years as Technical Account Manager (2006-2014) depending of the Microsoft PREMIER support. Working previously as consultant and trainer with 53 certifications passed in 12 years most of them recent acquired I thought that I could deliver workshops or training to the clients and keep my skills active. It has not been the case at all. To deliver at this level if you are not a PFE (PREMIER FIELD ENGINERING) or MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services) you are just able to sale the previous resouces to your clients.
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HURRELLCANE HITS THE COAST | The Gold Coast Titans have confirmed the signing of former Vodafone War...
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Melbourne Storm has signed a new three year with deal with its star centre Matt King. King has become one of the NRL's hottest properties, and his new deal will see him stay in Melbourne with Melbourne Storm until at least the end of 2008.
King has enjoyed an extraordinary ride of success since being given the opportunity to join the Melbourne Storm in 2003. He was unable to crack reserve grade with Cronulla in 2002 but was offered a start by the Storm the following year.
"I'll be wrapped to play the next three years in Melbourne," King said.
"Craig Bellamy, the coaching staff and my team mates have been a massive part of my development and I look forward to exciting times ahead. I love Melbourne and the Storm supporters are the best in the competition. I can't wait to play in front of a packed house in our new stadium," he said.
Since making his NRL debut for the Storm in 2003, King has become one of the most popular and best performed players in the Storm line-up. His signing comes at a particularly exciting time too for Storm officials because he will be an important part of the team which will enjoy the use of its spectacular new home in 2008, the new rectangular stadium.
King has also become one of the heroes of the NSW Origin team after his outstanding debut in Origin I and his selection in the Origin II team.
Storm CEO Brian Waldron is pleased that King has made the commitment to the Storm.
"We are thrilled that Matt has made this commitment to us. He has developed into an elite NRL player throughout his time with the Storm and we are all pleased that the effort made by the Club to assist him to become the player he is, has been rewarded by his commitment to us," Waldron said.
King has been one of the most consistent performers for the Storm in 2005 and coach Craig Bellamy is very pleased to have secured his services for the future.
"I'm very, very happy," Bellamy said. ?It?s great news that he?ll be with us for the next three years. He?s playing that good at the moment and he?s broken into the Origin team, so it?s an important signing for us.?
?He?s playing great footy. It?s the sign of a good player when he can play for NSW in State-Of-Origin and come back and perform for his club the week after," he said.
In other Storm news;
Melbourne Storm front rower Ian Donnelly has accepted the offer of a two week suspension for a contrary conduct charge stemming from unnecessary head and neck contact in the game against Wests Tigers at Leichhardt Oval on Sunday.
The charge is worth 131 points for an early guilty plea. However, the charge ballooned past the 200 point threshold and a subsequent two week penalty as Donnelly had 80 points carried over from prior offences.
Donnelly will miss this Sunday?s game against the New Zealand Warriors in Auckland and next Saturday?s (June 18) home game against the Panthers.


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The Green Party welcomes moves to increase renewable electricity generation in New Zealand but has concerns that the National Policy Statement for Renewable Electricity Generation, which goes into effect tomorrow, will facilitate the development of environmentally harmful projects.
"We are fortunate to live in a country rich in renewable energy sources, and the Green Party wants to make the most of our natural assets, but we must ensure that we do so in the best interest of New Zealanders and the environment," said Green Party energy spokesperson Kennedy Graham.
Dr Graham was providing comment on the National Policy Statement for Renewable Electricity Generation (NPS), which comes into effect tomorrow.
"We welcome the intent of the NPS, but are concerned that it lacks a clause that would direct councils to consider competing proposals, and where costs were similar, to choose the lowest impact projects," said Dr Graham.
"The lack of this clause means we will continue to have projects driven by energy companies in the interest of profit, rather than projects developed in the best interest of the public and the environment.
"For example, on the West Coast of the South Island, Meridian Energy was granted a resource consent for an 85m dam on the pristine Mokihinui River, despite alternatives that were better for the environment and met the electricity needs of the West Coast for the foreseeable future."
Although a resource consent has been granted, the project is on hold as this consent is being challenged in the courts.
Green Party conservation spokesperson and West Coast-based MP Kevin Hague also expressed concern about the implementation of the NPS.
"The current system by which we grant resource consent for hydro schemes is not good practice, and I am disappointed that the NPS does not direct councils to improve this system," said Mr Hague.
"While the water in the Mokihinui River may be a renewable resource, the habitat that will be flooded by the dam is not."
"The Mokihinui River is a wild pristine river which is home to the western weka, blue duck, and twelve species of native fish including the chronically endangered and endemic longfinned eel."
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The global video game community comes together in early April to show its love for Japan and to raise awareness for relief efforts via a special project called "Gamers Heart Japan." Gamers Heart Japan is a 60-minute special which will premiere on April 3 and will offer interviews with veteran game industry journalists from all over the world as well as some of the top video game developers on the planet. Game journalists and game makers participating will share their thoughts on the incredible work and talented creators from the Japanese videogame development scene and show how much love they have for the country that brought us some of the most iconic game characters and systems in history.
In Gamers Heart Japan interviewees will talk about the past, present and future of Japan and remind viewers that the country needs every game around the world to donate whatever they can to help the country as it struggles with the worst natural disaster in the history if the world. Donations for The Red Cross in your area can be made through the GamersHeartJapan.com website.
Gamers Heart Japan will feature interviews and support from over 30 outlets and publications (starting April 3) including G4 (US & Canada), SCI FI Australia, SPACE (Canada), Musique Plus (Canada), Gametrailers.com, IGN.com, Gamespot.com, GameInformer.com, Joystiq.com, Kotaku.com, Destructoid.com, Elecplay.com, G4tv.com, Reviewsontherun.com, MTV.com, TheEscapist.com, Wired.com, Games.Yahoo.com, Wired's Game | Life, TheECA.com, TotallyRadShow.com, Shacknews.com, EGMNow.com, USAToday.com (GameHunters), Bitmob.com, TheTorontoSun.com, UGO.com, Metacafe.com, Youtube.com, Facebook.com, and more.
Game developers confirmed to give interviews for Gamers Heart Japan include Jade Raymond – Ubisoft Toronto – Assassin's Creed/Splinter Cell, Dr. Greg Zeschuk – Bioware – Mass Effect/Dragon Age/Star Wars: The Old Republic, Dr. Ray Muzyka – BioWare – Mass Effect/Dragon Age/Star Wars: The Old Republic, Tim Schafer – Double Fine – Brutal Legend/Costume Quest, Cliff Bleszinski – Epic Games – Gears of War, Ted Price – Insomniac Games – Ratchet & Clank/Resistance, Siobhan Reddy – Media Molecule – LittleBigPlanet, Maxime Beland – Ubisoft Toronto – Assassin's Creed/Splinter Cell, Todd Howard – Bethesda – Fallout 3/Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Peter Molyneux – Lionhead – Fable, Alex Rigopulos – Harmonix – Rock Band, Robin Hunicke – That Game Company – Flower/Journey, Jenova Chen – That Game Company – Flower/Journey, Evan Wells – Naughty Dog – Uncharted, Ed Boon – Netherrealm – Mortal Kombat and the legendary Sid Meier – Firaxis – Civilization. More are to be announced.
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On the notoriously fast track out in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Cowboys wide receiver Justin Blackmon reportedly ran two separate 40-yard dash times, both coming in near 4.4 seconds.
ESPN's Josina Anderson reports that Blackmon's first attempt saw him record as low as a 4.45 seconds, with the second attempt improving within the range of 4.41-4.46 seconds. Blackmon, who could be targeted as early as third-overall in the upcoming NFL Draft, opted to not run at the recently conducted NFL Scouting Combine.
Last season's top wide recevier selection, AJ Green, ran the 40-yard dash in 4.48 seconds. Sixth-overall selection, Julio Jones, was clocked at 4.34 seconds. Greg Little, who was selected by the Browns in the second round, recorded a time of 4.51 seconds.
Blackmon, who stands at a reported 6-feet even, recorded a vertical jump of 35 inches with a broad jump of 10-feet-4-inches. Scouts in attendance allegedly compared the Oklahoma State product to current NFL receiver Anquan Boldin based on their "similarities in stature."
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China Box Office: Ning Hao's NO MAN'S LAND Stakes Claim On Charts
Finally released after a four year battle with the censors, Ning Hao's No Man's Land makes a huge debut at the Chinese box office, while The Four 2 and The White Storm ensure local product dominates.
Originally shot in 2010, Ning Hao's darkly comic story of a struggling lawyer (Xu Zheng) who becomes embroiled in a bizarre caper when he journeys to a remote desert community, has only now seen the light of day after four years of tinkering to appease the Chinese censors. Audiences were happy to wait, it seems, as No Man's Land scored an impressive RMB133million in its first 6 days on release. Gordon Chan's fantasy sequel The Four 2 also had a strong opening, netting RMB86million in its first 3 days, almost as much as Benny Chan's starstudded thriller The White Storm managed in its first full week in cinemas.
All three films performed well enough to push previous Hollywood title rivals Gravity and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire into fourth and fifth place respectively, and the former has now crossed the RMB400million mark in under three weeks. Thor: The Dark World and Escape Plan continue to keep their places in the Top 10, and the week's only other new release to make any kind of impact in the chart is UK crime thriller Welcome to the Punch. The film, which pits James McAvoy against Mark Strong, managed a modest RMB4million in its opening weekend, but was enough to see it claim 8th place in the charts.
This week sees another crop on local product hitting screens, and the smart money will be on Andy Lau cleaning up with his latest action thriller, Firestorm, which opens in both 3D and 2D on 12 December, a week before it arrives in Hong Kong. What will be more interesting is to monitor the staying power of No Man's Land, and whether or not it will grow into a legitimate box office success.
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Soils, in many roadside safety applications, require large deformation capabilities. This requirement is difficult to meet for Lagrangian-based codes. However, it is possible to implement a material that would allow large deformations while maintaining stability. For example, consider material type 126, a modified honeycomb material. This material was specifically developed to handle extremely large deformations for modeling the honeycomb typically used on moving deformable barriers (MDBs). MDBs are used by the automotive industry for side-impact testing. An example of the stable large deformation capability of material type 126 is shown in figure 20.
Another possibility within LS-DYNA is to use the Eulerian capabilities for modeling materials that undergo large deformations. There are several possibilities available, two of which are: (1) using the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation or (2) using the multimaterial Eulerian formulation with Lagrangian coupling.
The ALE formulation basically works by re-meshing the material throughout the simulation so that the mesh stays relatively uniform. A uniform mesh can prevent local instabilities caused by highly distorted elements. A classical problem used to demonstrate the ALE formulation is the Taylor problem, shown in figure 21.
Multimaterial Eulerian formulation is an approach that allows multiple materials to exist within each solid element and lets the material flow from element to element. The solid element mesh is fixed in space in this approach. Lagrangian coupling allows structural elements to be placed within the Eulerian mesh. Interaction between the fluid-like elements (Eulerian) and the structural elements (Lagrangian) is handled by contact algorithms. A contrived example of a post in soil using this method is shown in figure 22.
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Figure 20. Lagrangian approach: Stable large deformations, modified honeycomb material.
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Figure 22. Multimaterial Eulerian formulation with Lagrangian coupling.
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text: Lincoln's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3010's mission is cut-and-dry – veterans helping veterans. "It's really that simple," said Jon Hodson, the post's quartermaster. Oftentimes, Hodson said, veterans aren't aware of the benefits they are eligible for, and the VFW post helps them find those benefits, usually through contacting the county's veterans services officer. "Most commonly, he helps them cut through the bureaucracy," Hodson said. One recent success story happened after a veteran, a former Vietnam medic, living in poor conditions in Roseville was put in contact with the Lincoln post. The man now has his own trailer, receives medical care and works for a man in trade for free trailer parking, according to Hodson. Although the VFW is for helping veterans, Hodson said cash handouts are almost nonexistent. Rather than paying cash, the VFW will buy groceries, pay an electric bill or another bill that the veteran is having a hard time paying, said Vic Ioppolo, commander of VFW Post 3010. One example of that, according to Ioppolo, was when a local veteran couldn't make ends meet last year and his children were days away from going to school. VFW members bought school supplies, clothes and backpacks for the children, ensuring they had what they needed for school. "They were just thrilled," Ioppolo said. VFW Post 3010 celebrated its 75th anniversary in April and is still going strong with 76 members, Hodson said. Monthly meetings are held at the post, located downtown at 541 Fifth St. In addition to helping veterans find the services they are entitled to, VFW members provide funeral details by showing up with a color guard, rifle team and presenting the flag to the next of kin; honor the dead at local cemeteries on Memorial Day and help with other community events. The VFW teamed up with the Lincoln Hills Rods and Relics group to host the annual car show at the beginning of summer and about $8,000 was raised and donated to the music program at Lincoln High School, Ioppolo said. In December, Ioppolo said, Post 3010 hopes to hold a memorial service for Pearl Harbor survivors and the group is actively seeking survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack to be honored on the steps of the VFW hall. Another program the VFW partakes in is Poppy Day twice a year to coincide with Veteran's Day and Memorial Day. Poppies made by veterans in hospitals are given out to local residents and donations are accepted. Helping the veterans is the VFW Auxiliary, which is made up of family members of the veterans. To join the VFW, a veteran must have served in a combat zone in his or her career. Recently, two Iraq War veterans became members – a husband and wife team. Dina Flower, who now serves as junior vice-commander for the post, is the first woman to join VFW Post 3010. Membership dues are $23 per year but Post 3010 covers the first year's dues for first-time members. Veterans interested can call Vic Ioppolo at 622-3254 or Jon Hodson at 300-5394. Quick Details: Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3010 Goal: Helping veterans Location: 541 Fifth St. Membership requirements: Members must have served in a combat zone Dues: $23 yearly, with life memberships available Contact: Vic Ioppolo at 622-3254 or Jon Hodson at 300-5394 - The Lincoln News Messenger profiles a nonprofit organization every week. If you would like to see an organization featured, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call 774-7967.