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The Darkness of Grimrock - an emotional live journey
The few of you who follow my Twitter have seen this, probably. :P
A slightly rewritten, mostly spoiler-free account of a band of hapless prisoners being thrown into the darkness of Mount Grimrock.
Dramatis Personae:
Shay Faeslayer, a human rogue specializing in Daggers and Evasion.
Szazk Splitsword, a lizard warrior wearing heavy armor and trained with shield and sword
the Silent Man, a human mage, alchemist and poisoner
Vrix, an insectoid mage specializing in the destructive arcanas of fire and ice.
Before the Descent
Shay attempted to swallow her fear. Less than three quarters of an hour until she and her equally unwilling companions would meet her doom. The rogue turned to look at them, as far as the chains binding her ankles would allow. Next to her, Szazk, a shifty looking lizard warrior.
She didn't trust him. The cold-blooded reptile had murder in his yellow eyes. But still, he was a less unwelcome companion than the insect. Vrix' cold, multi-facetted eyes regarded its co-prisoners without betraying any emotion. She felt... like prey before its sharp intellect, a deeply unsettling feeling.
And these were the companions she was to travel with. Chained to them, literally. At least, she sighed, the journey would probably be a short one. One way or the other. The lizard, the Insect and one more - a silent, hooded human who had not spoken a single word, only kept smiling mysteriously. Despite the lizard-warrior's cold-blooded fierceness or the insectoid's aura of perpetual hunger, the Silent Man was the one that worried her most. The one who actually seemed to look forward to entering the dark and deadly passages of the death-trap ahead of them.
The prisoner's airship begins its steady ascent, buffeted by the sharp winds.. No turning back now. Mount Grimrock awaits. Shay closes her eyes. What will they find?
Voices. Voices in the Dark.
Shay screamed as she and the other chained prisoners were hurled into the darkness below. She was the only one. Her companions remained silent. The fall is a short one, and they find themselves surrounded by complete darkness. A flickering torch in the distances illuminates a single barren gate. This is it. There is no going back now. Only forward. Into the dark.
Her companions making no move but the those they are forced to by the chains, Shay takes the torch from the holder. The gate, by hands of ghosts, opens. A few steps later, a chain opens another portcullis in the dark. There are cruel and barbed hooks at the wall. Shay shudders as the party supplies itself with another torch, their only weapons for now.
Who left these torches, flickering glimmer of hope and life in this darkness? What was the purpose of these hooks? What... is that sound? There is a slithering noise ahead, but it disappears. For all purposes and intent, they are alone in the darkness... and with each other.
A few ragged linen lie discarded in the corner. Szazk hisses at them in disdain, but Shay wraps herself against the dungeon's chilly breeze. The torches may be plenty, but they do not give much light. A crude cudgel lies next to the blankets. The first weapon they find, not counting the fragile torches.
There are more sounds coming from the distance. Szazk grabs the cudgel and hisses, his training with Swords useless. Something ahead is glinting in the flickering torchlight. Shay grabs a loose rock and throws it, missing whatever is hiding in the darkness ahead. A giant snail rears its head, but is quickly dispatched by a panicked Shay wildly swinging the torch in panic at it, followed up by a sharp and precise blow from Szazk' cudgel that shatters the beast's carapace, revealing some foul-smelling meat that Vrix, the insect mage, rips free from the body. Shay shudders violently and suppresses the desire to be sick at the disgusting noise, but knows that they have little choice of what kind of nourishment they would find down here.
The party makes its way deeper into the forgotten but not entirely abandoned dungeon, dispatching more snails and covered with bruises. The lizardman sits down, weary, their first rest in the darkness. Shay attempts to protest, but Vrix' reflective insect-eyes silence her. She crawls up to a wall, huddling herself in the dirty rags they found earlier, as far away from the others as their chains allow her.
Voices. Those beautiful voices in the dark. Whispers of freedom inside these claustrophobic halls. There is a way. There must be a way. A dream. Just a dream?
Into the Darkness
Szazk was taking point. Somewhere, the lizardman has found a rusty blade and a shield looted from an undead skeleton. Shay held a slim knife, the small blade not doing much to increase her confidence.
The Silent Man proved to be adept at weaving spellshields, protecting the rest of them from the poisons of the strange creatures they encounter. Walking funghi, half tree half shambling mound haunted them for a while. There was good eating on their remains, fried over their diminishing torches. Again, Shay tried not to think of the alternative.
And all the time, the Silent Man never utters a single word. Him alone, the darkness of Mount Grimrock suits well, and he wears a smile as they descended further. Aloof, distant yet competent, a magical staff in his hand he channels his energies through.
Vrix looks dispassionately at his dead comrades. The mage's mandibles skittered quietly in the rhythm of the arachnid in front of him as it retracts its poisonous fangs from Shay's lifeless body. This fleshlings were nothing but trouble. Vrix wished it was not chained to it. But at least, it thought, it would not starve, even if its companions' flesh was too soft for his taste, more suited to laying eggs than food. But they did have their uses.
An absentminded wave of the insect mage's hand turns the spider into a flaming, skittering sphere that twitches convulsively a last time before dying, filling the narrow chamber with acrid stench.
Vrix would rescue them. Drag them back to the healing stone they discovered a few rooms back. But first - and Vrix skittered excitedly - it would get its mandibles on the Silent Man's staff before resurrecting his body. And rest, first.
...to be continued...
I'll be reading this once I finish the game, as I really want the freshest experience possible.The Medallion of the Imperial Psychopath, a Napoleon: Total War AAR
The Red Blades, a Battle Brothers AAR
Vrix looks as smugly as its insect eyes would allow. The party is alive again, and only the Silent Man glares at the mage wielding the staff that was formerly his. But still, the Silent Man does not utter a single word as they continue down the dark passages, more careful now that they know what they are up against.
The party continues exploring, dispatching spiders easily now they know how, the minions of Grimrock unable to defeat them. The Silent Man's mastery over Earth becomes increasingly more powerful as he weaves shields to block the spiders' poison. Shay and Szazk barely flinch anymore when stabbing and slashing the vile nests spawning more of the foul creatures.
A pillar, similar to one they found earlier. The shadows again move as if on their own, animated by some terrible puppeteer hiding in the flames of Vrix' torch. Shay smiles, for the very first time since their descend, as she detects the pattern. Light. The solution is so obvious, and while her companions look at her quizzically, she begins to put the torches into the appropriate holders to cast the shadows JUST so.... yes, just this way. The dancing shadows touch a section of a nearby wall, which slides open.
Shay finally discards her peasant garb and wraps herself into the tunic hidden away, not even asking herself anymore who left these items behind. The Spiders will not find her easy prey ever again, she thinks, twirling her dagger and feeling the tunic's magic enhance her movement.
The Tomb
Traps. Only Szazk's inhuman reflexes saved them as the lizard warrior pulled his unwilling companions away from the trapdoor about to open under them, his timing enhanced by his newly aquired skill to move at ease in heaviest armor. Shay edged closer to the pit in front of them, staring down into the darkness. The Silent Man invokes a complicated gesture, and the darkness below dissipates slightly in the cold magelight emanating from him. Shay sighed. The peasant garb would not make a good rope. But they needed to progress down there, and the note they found indicated more useful items awaiting them.
With a feral grin, Szazk takes a leap and plunges into the darkness, dragging the rest of the party cursing and hissing with him.
Catching themselves after the fall, Shay looks around and whistles softly. This place was no longer a simple dungeon. This... this was a tomb. The voices in her head. The whispers. Was this the reason for them? Ghosts of the fallen, of the lost? Did they originate from here? What WAS this place?
A tomb. Maybe their tomb. Would they join these shambling mockeries of life that are pursuing them for the better part of an hour? Vrix' mastery over fire is proving most adept at dissolving the dark magic animating the skeletal bones that are hunting for them. The Silent Man watches the insectoid mage's moves and gestures as it dispatches another pair of skeletal archers with a firey blast. His own mastery of poisons and alchemy was not proving very efficent in these battles, and he has run out of rocks to throw. He stares intently at the insect mage, as if memorizing the gestures, bending the forces of Fire to his will in addition to those of Earth and raw Magic.
Cautiously, the party continues exploring the tomb-like environments. With two spellcasters able to burn the bones of the creatures, progress has become more easy. An eerie light ahead illuminates a room full of life-like statues, casting strange flickering shadows that give the statues a sense of disturbing life, shifting the stone faces from anguish to hatred to fear. Even the stoic lizard warrior is visibly unsettled by this.
The statues appear to offer no threat, though. The party decides to use this relatively safe spot to rest. The light might keep monsters at bay - indeed, the room is quiet. Eerily so, as if the blueish persistent light swallows all sound. Shay is getting hungry, but her hunger quickly turns into disgust as she observes Vrix devouring a baked maggot with an excited skitter of its mandibles.
An uneasy sleep overcomes them, and in the unnatural silence of the tomb and under the stony glares of the statues, the voices speak up again. "We can escape. Together." Even the Silent Man shifts in his light sleep. "Together..." the voices whisper, caressing the party like remembered echoes as they rest in the stony tomb for the night.
...to be continued...
Into the Prison
"I do not need you asleep anymore", the voice whispers in their head. The four prisoners turned adventurers look at each other. Only the Silent Man is still smiling, drinking in the darkness and oppression around him. Noone has come this far before. A while ago, they found the corpse of the adventurer leaving the helpful notes. And warnings.
Tentacles from the darkness block their retreat from the strange tentacle-faced monsters, but the prisoners are no longer the weak and naked creatures that were thrown into this death-trap. While there is still a strong tension between the Silent Man and Vrix the Insectoid, the four prisoners are much more closer to resembling a team. Shay barely even flinches anymore when accepting a potion from the poisoner's stash, and the caretakers of the prisoner are nothing but minor obstacles.
But the voices. Or rather, the one voice. While there are countless whispers in the haunted stones, only one voice makes a semblance of sense, and Shay knows it is speaking with the desperation of a failed liar. She knows, for when the King's Guard came to escort her away, she used the same urgency, desperation, pleading. Back then, she had failed. Would the voice fail them before they reached it? Or after?
They are well-equipped. The ice lizards' meat is tasty - more tasty than the baked maggots Vrix appears to prefer, and certainly more tasty than the dusty but edible bread they find in odd corners of the dungeon. The Silent Man has provided a variety of potions mixed with the rare ingredients found in the darkness. Szazk wears a shield enchanted by the elements themselves, and an armor once worn by a hero - a faint irony the lizard, imprisoned for banditry and murder, does not seem to notice. The Silent Man wields a new staff from black oak, enhancing his mastery of poisons and earth tenfold. And Vrix' skill in frost-based magic is a fearsome thing that literally chills the heart of the toughest opponent.
Shay does not dare to think about what comes after. If they manage to escape - each prisoner's equipment is worth three fortunes, and she has not forgotten the Silent Man's glares at Vrix after it took the Silent Man's magical staff from his corpse. There would be blood, she knows. And she would do everything she can to survive. As she has always done.
Into the Light
The final explosion shakes Mount Grimrock. The voices are silent, or drowned out from the crash of stone on stone and metal on metal as the foundations of the dungeon are shaking and coming apart. None of the four prisoners, bruised and battered after their last desperate battle, has time to stop to think about what is going on. The Silent Man raises a magical shield, protecting the party from the poisonous rubble and smoke.
A wall tumbles down, and Shay narrowly dodges a massive piece of stone falling from the ceiling. Szazk the lizard-man deflects another chunk with his shield. A fresh breeze stirs the ageless stale air in the ancient prison-chambers. Shay has always known that, when the king's guards came for her, she would die in prison one day. She just didn't think it would be today, or in THIS kind of... prison, for a lack of a better word.
With inhuman reflexes and strength, the lizardman warrior Szazk hastens towards the breach in the wall, pulling the other struggling prisoners with him. After days in the darkness and traps of Grimrock, they were used to the lizardman's murderous strength and followed quickly. Vrix hisses as another large boulder misses its insectoid, chitin-covered body.
Another violent rumble from the very roots of the mountain, and everything goes dark.
And then, after an eternity, there is light.
What an awesome game. What a strange ending. I really disliked level 12 and all associated fights/puzzles, but loved everything else.
I can't wait to see what the four guys from Almost Human do next.
Initially, I was about to reroll my party. Shay kept dying and dying and dying, but once she hit level 11 or 12, she became a veritable powerhouse and usually the last person standing when things got really bad. Her equipment definitely helped, but Evasion really paid off towards the end. Thanks to her, I was able to take on one of the wood golems head on after I got foolishly pushed into a nook - I was very impressed.
The two mages were a lot less difficult to manage than I was afraid off. They both alternated between three spells. The Silent Man did poison shield, poison bolt and Flame Burst (and very rarely poison cloud), while Vrix alternated between frost burst and frost bolt, with a flame burst thrown in for those bloody lizards. As I didn't have any archers, there was never a reason to enchant any arrows.
The triple-strike Sword from Szazk was doing most of the damage. He hit up to an average of 70 points of damage, with a 20% chance of making three strikes in a row.
For future playthroughs, I'll do one fire/air mage - the ice resistance provided by Vrix' mastery was pretty useless. Poison resistance was neat though. Air seems to be the most useful spellschool, so of course I didn't take anyone with points in it. A splash of 2 points of Fire are recommended for any mage.
I also want to do more with strafing. In the endgame, I just fought everything face to face - Shay was dodging like a goddess, and Szazk' armor meant he had to drink a potion every three to four fights.
This was Normal difficulty.


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San Juan Range > Wilson Peak > Climber's Log
Wilson Peak Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Woodie Hopper
|From Rock of Ages
Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2017
|Climbed with Greg Jagielski from SLC. Warm day; headed to Gladstone next via the ridge. Still a bit of snow on the trail. Great day.
|Posted Jul 3, 2017 11:25 am
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2014
|With my son. He did great.
|Posted Dec 13, 2016 11:57 pm
|Wilson Peak and Gladstone
|Fun ridge traverse
|Posted Oct 16, 2016 5:37 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2016
|Fun solo trip. Saw only one person while coming down. Broke the internet with my #dicksoutforharambe sign
|Posted Sep 13, 2016 1:49 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2001
|Climbed alone on July 4 2001.
|Posted Nov 19, 2015 2:07 pm
|Rock of the Ages
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2015
|Perfect day!!
|Posted Sep 14, 2015 6:55 pm
|Via Rock of Ages
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2015
|Climbed via Rock of Ages - Accessed saddle from side slope instead of hiking all the way through basin and climbing up scree. Back down the same way. Climbed with MoapaPk (Harlan)and one other.
|Posted Aug 3, 2015 11:24 am
|Sarah Simon
|Silver Pick
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2015
|The weather was pretty terrible this weekend, even by San Juan standards, but we hiked through the drizzle and made this summit. Once again, Mt Wilson has a forcefield around it preventing my successful passage to its summit. I was impressed by the sustained scrambling / weaving / navigation on the higher reaches of Wilson Pk past the small saddle. I enjoyed this peak! With Mikey.
|Posted Aug 3, 2015 9:12 am
|Scary weather!
Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2015
|From Rock of Ages TH, we had to wait one hour for weather to move out, it wasn't fun getting rained on at 13K but patience pays off.
Beautiful mountain.
|Posted Jul 6, 2015 8:11 am
|I love this area!
|Posted Nov 1, 2013 7:53 am
|Wilson Peak from Kilpacker
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2013
|Climbed standard route from Kilpacker Creek (16 miles RT) - long day but a great climb!
|Posted Oct 4, 2013 11:29 pm
|SW Ridge w/ Gladstone
Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2013
|Just under 3 hrs from Rock of Ages for the first 14er of the year. Bagged Gladstone while waiting for friends to summit Wilson.
|Posted Jul 1, 2013 11:49 am
|Paul McClellan
|First visit to Wilson Group
Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2013
|From the Rock of Ages TH. Joined 5 friendly locals from Telluride to climb from the upper saddle to the summit. Saw fire plumes to the east.
|Posted Jun 30, 2013 2:46 pm
|12 hr day in the snow
Date Climbed: May 26, 2013
|Long day with big packs and ugly conditions. Had a mini melt down, but held it together... Marmots up there are vicious...
|Posted May 27, 2013 9:50 pm
|Great day
Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2012
|Finally a sunny day. Climb is very nice and a little spicy at the summit.
|Posted Oct 21, 2012 5:40 pm
|With Gladstone
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2012
|Climbed along with Gladstone on a trip to Navajo Basin.
|Posted Aug 28, 2012 10:02 pm
|First SJ 14er!
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2012
|Solo ascent from the Rock of Ages TH. Great day with fabulous views. Definitely need to get down there for more!
|Posted Aug 3, 2012 4:23 pm
|in the rain
Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2012
|11th 14er this year.
Pretty miserable conditions reaching the summit.
|Posted Aug 2, 2012 11:54 am
|via Rock of Ages & Peak 13,540
Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2012
|Started at the Rock of Ages TH at 6:50am and entered the first basin. Semi-confusing trailsign mislead me to head up the basin with Silver Pick Mine. I then climbed up the end of the basin to the ridge, and followed it over Peak 13,540 (summit log tube at top) to the Rock of Ages saddle. Climbed peak via Southwest Ridge route. Was off the peak by noon, in time for intense T-storms at 13:00. Back to the TH by 2:30 after getting pelted by pea-marble sized hail. Another use for the climbing helmet!
|Posted Jul 22, 2012 2:11 pm
|Great peak!
Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2012
|with Faith, via new Rock of Ages trail (#429). New trail (props out to the forest service!) made it possible to take a trail to circumnavigate cockroach Nichols' private property. Well-marked trail to Rock of Ages col. Left TH @ 13.15 following long & late previous day (back @ TH/camp 23.31 after LONG day ascending/descending Lizard Head). Weather cooperated, though, & trail very easy to follow (easy route-finding from Rock of Ages col as well). Great day! Glad for your company, F.
|Posted Jul 22, 2012 1:18 am

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text: mklingen 162 Report post Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) In AI, it seems very common to want to make some kind of "Behavior Architecture" for ordering and building different ways that agents can interface with the world. I see a lot of state machines, Behavior Trees, HSFMs, etc. I've implemented these for many different projects (and for my research in robotics as well), but recently I'm starting to doubt their usefulness. What benefit do I get out of using such an architecture over just coding the entirety of the behavior using modular, native functions and built in control structures (or, if we're concerned about compilation or runtime modification, with simple scripts in a scripting language?) Am I missing something conceptually here? EDIT: And by the way, what I mean by this is literally interpreting the concept of a behavior architecture as a series of explicit "State" or "Behavior" nodes that interact with each other dynamically as opposed to just straight code calling and evaluating functions in any way the programmer desires. I've been on so, so many projects where development starts with "class Behavior ..." or "class State ..." and then proceeds to link them up in data files dynamically or (much worse) using C macros. Edited September 2, 2013 by mklingen 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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A memorial in Watford is set for a makeover after a £5,167 grant has been awarded by a heritage body.
The three bronze figures and stone base of the Peace Memorial, next to Watford Town Hall, will get a deep clean and repairs, after the borough council made a successful application to English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation.
The Grade II listed memorial's condition has suffered over the course of several decades.
Elected Mayor of Watford, Dorothy Thornhill said: "The unique Peace Memorial is a very well known landmark for residents and visitors to Watford.
"This grant enables us to lavish the care and attention that this wonderful memorial deserves."
The work has an estimated cost of £10,335 and is scheduled to take place over the next few months.
The bronze statues were originally made in plaster during the First World War by local sculptor Mary Pownall Bromet, and were offered to the Peace Memorial Hospital during the 1920s.
The community raised money to cast the figures in bronze and erect them on a base of Portland stone in front of the hospital, with an unveiling by the Earl of Clarendon on 18 July 1928.
The memorial was then moved to its current location in 1971.


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Last week, Greenbrier confirmed a rumor that had been swirling through the county when Jason Osborn was named as the new head baseball coach. And while many folks in Columbia County may not know the name, and although Osborn has never coached or played at Greenbrier, this was a move made to bring back tradition. Osborn knows all about the baseball tradition in the CSRA. He played for Westside in the early '90s for Gerald Barnes, the all-time winningest coach in Georgia history. He also served as an assistant for four seasons under Columbia County coaching legend Terry Holder at Thomson.
WJBF News Channel 6 is set to begin its third season of broadcasting high school football. The station's "Game Night Live" has aired on Thursday Nights the past two seasons. However, this season the games will be moved to Friday.
According to WJBF's Scott Skadan, the move was made to help provide the best matchups possible. "We were just having a tough time getting some schools to play on Thursday," said Skadan.
With a 2-0 victory over Dudley Little League out of Dublin, Ga., the 10- and 11-year-old All-Stars from Martinez-Evans Little League completed an incredible summer run.
The squad has been simply dominant. They started by outscoring the opposition 50-1 during district play, which included a 33-0 pounding of Elbert County.
The competition level was expected to rise as they entered state tournament play. Even so, they recieved a very tough draw in the opening round as they squared off with the Northlern Little League from Columbus.
The CSRA boasted a large group of golfers in the field for this year's Georgia State Amateur Championship. The local contingent included more than a half-dozen players from Columbia County. Five players who hail from Columbia County made the cut on the difficult course at Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw. Par was at a premium all week long at Pinetree, a course that produced the event's first over-par finish in 20 years. The winner was Columbus native and Kennesaw State University golfer Jimmy Beck. He shot a final round 2-under 69 to finish 1 over par for the event and win by 2 shots.
Columbia County product Rodney Tyson received some good news this week. Tyson, an All-County running back who went by "D.J." during his prep career at Greenbrier and Grovetown, was named to the College Football Performance Awards FCS Kick Returner Watch List.
The CFPA compiles a list of the country's best kick returners, among other awards. The organization prides itself on having the most scientifically rigorous standards for their awards.
These athletes will have a chance to earn the distinction of being named National Kick Returner of the Year.
It may not get the national attention of the Cape Cod League, but the Coastal Plains League has gained a solid reputation with baseball scouts across the country. The league gives college players a chance to hone their skills against top-flight competition each summer, using wooden bats. Several former Columbia County standouts have participated in the Coastal Plains League. Former Greenbrier and University of Georgia star Rich Poythress is the most notable.
Though I was admittedly rooting for former Evans and Georgia Southern slugger Michael Holder to get the head coaching post at GRU (he was a finalist), it is hard to argue with the credentials of GRU's selection.
Jason Eller, 40, was introduced as the new coach of the Jaguar baseball program at a press conference last week. Eller, who played at Georgia State University, spent the last 11 years as an assistant at the University of Georgia. From 2007-12 he served as the Bulldog recruiting coordinator, and was pitching coach the last two seasons, as well.
North Greenville University football coach Jeff Farrington recently made a decision that will affect his life and team in a great way.
Farrington hired former Lakeside standout Brian Bratton as his wide receivers coach. Farrington probably knows he is getting a young, energetic coach with a great résumé as a player. After all, Bratton was an all-American at Furman University and helped lead the Paladins to a pair of Southern Conference titles.
Georgia Regents University-Augusta recently announced that 96 of its student athletes were named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll for the 2013 spring semester. To earn AD Honor Roll status, student athletes must maintain a 3.0 grade point average. GRU-Augusta, formerly Augusta State University, fields eight women's and six men's athletic teams. Among the student-athletes honored were a dozen from Columbia County high schools. Congrats to the following athletes for their solid work in the classroom.
Name Sport High School
Eunice Yi just completed a tremendous senior campaign at Lakeside High School. Yi took home low medalist honors at the state finals, and, in doing so helped guide the Lady Panthers to the school's second straight state crown. Yi's 70 on Jekyll Island's Indian Mounds Course propelled the Lady Panthers to a four-shot victory over Cambridge. Since that victory Yi has captured numerous awards.
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Are the following URL's too long or complex from a Usability standpoint...
They follow this simple pattern...
Category > Sub-Category > Article
My website is very complex from a Content-perspective, but in my opinion, the above scheme has helped me whittle things down to something very manageable.
Unfortunately, I have one person who is protesting, and says that my URL's are way to long?! :-/
(Apparently he hasn't been to Amazon.com lately...) :lol:
What do you think?
No they are not. That's the way everyone does them now. They do them that way primarily for google. If it was just for you or the user you could get away with many less characters to get across the same meaning. Anyways longtail urls is how I do it also.
They look fine, but if you were to regulary spread links on social media etc;, then it would be a good idea to buy a short url. This makes it easier for your visitor then. The best site to find available short urls is - /domai.nr/
ie your domain could look something like
or whatever
I agree with both posts above me. A short url that you own/control is not a bad idea, and no I also don't see your URLs as too long, mostly because they're made up of human-readable words and theses are easier to remember/recognise than if they were that length but full of LinkedIn-style gobbledygook.
Thanks for the feedback.
Glad to hear a few people think that I'm on the right track!! (DaveMaxwell and MackBrown4 didn't seem to agree here...)
Mark has a good idea about having your main subcategories work... not all sites do this, but for example our e-commerce sites do (if it's something like domain.com/toners/p/some-particular-toner, you can get to a general list of all toners at domain.com/toners/ as well). I think what he might have meant about removing subcategories was if you have more than a handful of them, or have pages that are kind of individual and don't necessarily fit under any particular category.
Dave said try to make them as short as possible: of course this is a good thing, but it's just something to generally strive for if you can. Of course shorter would be easier for someone to remember, but we know from user testing that if it's somewhat longer, yet composed of human-readable phrases, that it's still easier to remember than either a long or short URL composed of garbage.lavluda.com/2007/07/15/how-to-enable-mod_rewrite-in-apache22-debian/ is an example of an admittedly long URL, very typical of wordpress. His subdirectories work as well, so if I only remembered his domain name and the year (2007) I can type that in, get a list of everything he's published in 2007, and scan until I see the one about Apache2.2 and Debian. I don't think it's a bad URL at all. Would it be even easier to remember if it were shorter? Sure. But shorter doesn't work with how his WP setup does URLs (turns titles into unique page links). shrug
You asked, "So how long is too long?"
How many camels does it take to drink a lake? The answer is very subjective. Sometimes our e-commerce URLs are kind of deep because we have some product categories with 2 or 3 levels of subcategories, because that's simply how the databases from the clients are set up. Eventually the URLs are rather too long to expect someone to remember them (but with URLs there's also a benefit in recognition which most humans do much easier than recollection), and that's unfortunate, but we live with it. In fact at some point we got some clients to agree to remove some levels and make a "special" category for what really was miscellaneous stuff that simply each didn't need some subcategory. Now those are domain.com/special/ for the special things page and domain.com/special/p/product-name for each product. Still pretty okay.
Mark did think having 3 levels of subcategories is a bit too long. It's kind of long, but if users can use those category names as end-links like Lavluda's "2007" does, it's not necessarily bad.
You also aren't required in any way to mimic your back-end folder system. It might be easier, or not, but don't twist yourself up too much about rules. Also, while your subdirectories make some sense, the longer your URL gets, the less sense they'll make to more people. The links you've posted in this thread are maximum two categories deep and some are just one. That's why they look fine to me and the length of the actual page part is a semi-readable sentence, which makes it look long but is still doable for many people. At worst someone will vaguely remember your page name and type it into a search engine, where it will probably come up pretty close to the top.
Also, some of your subcategories might be redundant: for example if you have a subcategory called "accounting", having that listed as under "finance" might be kind of useless. However if some of your accounting articles are about using software tools, while others are about legal implications, then domain.com/legal/accounting/name-of-page and domain.com/tools(or software)/accounting/name-of-page might be useful (because users who navigate by category, which I do but don't know how often most normal people do, can get to all legal or all tools/software based on that URL). Meanwhile general accounting would be better off in just domain.com/accounting/name-of-article.
My above paragraph makes it start to get complicated, so don't let it bug you-- the last thing you want is a complicated URL system. It'll be a pain in your butt and a pain to maintain. But if you've got lots of chained subcategories now and are looking to shrink them, something like the above might help you figure out where to cut.
I might agree with Dave also that your physical site menu and breadcrumb structure are probably more important to average users. I mean, i use URLs to navigate sites, especially with structures like a typical WP site has... but I'm also a web developer, so I'm probably weird. I also know what the SysReq key does, while I doubt most of the visitors to our e-commerce pages have any idea. I personally find chopping off ends of URLs to find parent pages really really nice and convenient. I don't know if 99% of your visitors will though. People do however use breadcrumbs and do benefit from stuff seeming to be structured sanely when they visit the site, but they totally don't care about how your backend is structured. You care about that, because you're maintaining it. But they don't.
As Dave says in that other thread:
This sounds nice to me. I think showing a level is good, and maybe because I'm a developer I personally prefer something there instead of all pages coming directly off the domain.com part. But indeed a few of the examples in the other thread started to get real weird real fast (though you also had them as examples of what you wanted to avoid... good). Again, what you posted above, here in this thread, are awesome in my point of view. They're long in number of characters, but they feel pretty simple and they look doable to me.
You might want to do some user-testing on friends and grandmas or with your site's own analytics to see how people are dealing with them. Your sever logs will tell you how a hit got to your site (no referrer means either they typed it in by hand, had it bookmarked in their browser, or possibly are so paranoid that they've turned off all referrer headers from their browser). That will be useful information, as well as, are there many hits to domain.com/subcategory by themselves. If so, it would mean many people like going to the subcategory pages, and again if those didn't have a referrer (as in, they didn't get there by clicking a link on your site or in your menu) then that might suggest people are using your subcategories, and you might get a better idea if they're as useful as you think.
Stomme poes, you are beautiful!!
But since I backed things off to just 2 levels, that should be okay.
You also aren't required in any way to mimic your back-end folder system.
All of my Articles are stored in MySQL, and my "article.php" template is stored in /articles/article.php
Also, while your subdirectories make some sense, the longer your URL gets, the less sense they'll make to more people. The links you've posted in this thread are maximum two categories deep and some are just one. That's why they look fine to me and the length of the actual page part is a semi-readable sentence, which makes it look long but is still doable for many people. At worst someone will vaguely remember your page name and type it into a search engine, where it will probably come up pretty close to the top.
Right. Just 2 levels.
Finance is about "making money". Accounting is about "counting money". They are different concepts, but since "Finance" implies "Financials" and "Money", I decided - for now - to roll in "Accounting" under "Finance".
Time will tell what to do with particular one. Thanks for the tips, though.
Valid point.
Once I get my back-end Data Model figured out, and all of the other hideous PHP and mod_rewrites I have to tackle, then if I think I can program Breadcrumbs, I'd love to add them.
But since I have a home-grown, pseudo-CMS, and since not all of my content is in my database (e.g. Home Page, Section Landing Pages, etc), it could be a lot of work to get Breadcrumbs working with my current architecture.... :-/
Glad to hear!!
Good idea.
As always, THANKS for your long and detailed response!! :tup:
No , they are not . These Long links are good for seo as they contain number of keywords
I hate SEO
I find that the only people that care about the URL is the content owner and SEO "experts", not your non-geek/dev user. I usually can get the content owner to quiet down fairly well by point out I am the dev, aka the guy that holds it together. SEO: yeah it helps some, but if you're that dependent on URLs, you are probably doing something wrong.
That being said, I would make the URLs: domain/category/article-title, but chop it off after 4/5 words. If you are concerned with overlapping URLs, throw in the article id in prior to the title.
I don't understand it either. To spend so much time on something that is really so insignificant is a complete waste of effort and money in the real world. I have never hand typed any URL. I always copy and paste so could really care less how long or short they are. I guess it is kind of nice to have a human readable URL but it doesn't really matter imo. Much better spending the time on other features.Unless you really see yourself printing URLs to these pages lets be realistic *most people are going to copy and paste URLs to inner pages.
I find that the only people that care about the URL is the content owner and SEO "experts", not your non-geek/dev user.
I've heard non-geeks and non-devs complain about how crappy and horrid and hard to send to other people the LinkedIn URLs are. They're usually filled with *'s and 1's and login information, none of which belongs in the URL at all.
Why spend the time??
Because I have ALWAYS looked to the URL to help me know where I am in the website. (Think "Breadcrumb".)
Come on, man, would you rather look at this...
Or this...
Just goes to show we all approach life differently!!
But for me, I cannot fathom building a website that didn't make a decent attempt at making the URL sensible.
I always look to the... breadcrumbs. If you don't have breadcrumbs than perhaps that is the feature that the time should have spent on. Visual cues on the page are far more relevant than the URL for that problem. Many people don't even know what a URL even is.
My guess about LinkedIn is that they started to use a hokey CMS or something, then the beast got too big to be able to fix.
See my comment, you're a dev. Go to a relative, or a neighbor, ask them. I bet 9/10 they will just think you're nuts.
I can't, either. Why the hell would one ever prefer a crappy human-unreadable URL to one that makes sense?
It's true those of us who know to use internets use URLs for navigation, and is indeed likely most people don't. Still no excuse for crap like foo.com/?=aslkdjkadsjfbjasbdfkjasdkjnaf. That crap's insane. I believe that, within reason, a URL should either tell you where you are or where you're going, along with the breadcrumbs and good link text.
If you read the other threads it's been a long hard slog trying to get breadcrumbs to work, so yes, she's already spending time on them.
Thanks, Stomme poes.


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Rahm Emanuel also appears to have profited from the gun industry. According to his latest available disclosure forms, for calendar year 2009, when he was White House chief of staff, he had up to $15,000 in the JP Morgan Market Expansion Index Fund. That fund is currently a major shareholder in Sturm, Ruger. The Chicago Tribune reported last week that Emanuel has asked Chicago's city pension funds to examine whether they have investments in assault-weapons companies and, if they do, to divest. He also said he would "lead a charge of mayors across the country urging them to do the same." When it comes to his own investments, though, it's clear he may not always have acted according to the same priorities.
Senator Chris Coons (D., Del.), awarded an F by the NRA, has more than $30,000 in the Oppenheimer Main Street Small- and Mid-Cap Fund. That fund is a major shareholder in Smith and Wesson.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) also supports reinstatement of the assault-weapons ban. Klobuchar's connection to the gun industry is through her husband, John Bessler, who has up to $50,000 in a Vanguard Small Cap Growth Index fund, which holds 1.15 percent of Sturm, Ruger's total shares, making it the fund with the eighth-largest share in the company, according to Morningstar.com.


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CLEVELAND -- It was a pitch Lucas Luetge wanted back as soon as it left his hand, but Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis wasn't in the mood for second chances Friday as he ripped a three-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Mariners, 6-3.
Luetge had two outs and runners on second and third when he tried to waste an 0-1 pitch on the outside to see if Kipnis would bite. Instead, the ball wound up being deposited in the right-field seats at Progressive Field and Kipnis ended up in the bottom of a pig pile at home plate as Cleveland spoiled Seattle's recent surge.
"I was just trying to throw a slider for a ball, and I just hung it," Luetge said. "Right away, you can ask any pitcher, sometimes the ball leaves your hand, and you just think, 'Oh man' in different words in your head. You're just hoping he pops it up and misses.
"I was trying to throw it off the plate. I had a base open, so I wasn't trying to throw a strike there. I just left it over the middle."
Even with slugger Michael Morse sidelined at the last minute by an eye irritation, the Mariners played some long ball of their own as Raul Ibanez and Kendrys Morales both hit home runs. But this one swung the Indians' way in the 10th against Luetge after Seattle pitchers had retired 15 in a row prior to the winning rally.
"That was the matchup we wanted, the left-on-left there," manager Eric Wedge said. "Lucas does a nice job against left-handers. He's been in those situations before and done well. He just spun one up there."
The Indians set up their game-winning blast with some impressive speed. Right fielder Drew Stubbs drew a two-out walk, then appeared picked off for what would have been the third out. Instead, he bolted for second fast enough to beat the throw from first baseman Justin Smoak to second.
Leadoff hitter Michael Bourn then rolled a slow grounder to second on a checked swing, but breezed to first in time to easily turn it into an infield single.
"Right there, it shows why speed kills sometimes, and speed never slumps," said Kipnis.
Luetge said those situations didn't disrupt him, however.
"Not really. I wasn't really concerned with them," Luetge said. "We picked him off, he was just a little quicker than we were. We did what we were supposed to do. He just beat us."
As for Bourn's infield roller?
"It's a little frustrating," Luetge said. "Just the ball not bouncing our way. It happens. Unfortunately, I didn't get the next batter out. If I get that guy out, it doesn't matter."
Seattle has still won 12 of its last 19 games, but saw its record drop to 20-22 with the loss in the opening contest of the four-game series.
Ibanez ripped his fifth home run in the past six games with a two-run shot off reliever Rich Hill in the sixth inning, the 397-foot blow tying the game.
Morales provided Seattle's early offense with a mammoth solo shot in the fourth inning, the ball carrying an estimated 429 feet into the second deck in right field.
Ibanez now has seven homers on the season -- second on the team behind Morse's 10 -- and Morales has hit five as the Mariners' offense continues to improve.
Ibanez went 3-for-5 and has gone 12-for-31 over his past 10 games to raise his batting average from .148 to .235.
"I'm feeling pretty good at the plate," Ibanez said. "Unfortunately we came up short tonight, but it was a good battle by both sides, and we'll come back tomorrow and do it again."
Rookie right-hander Brandon Maurer turned in a quality start with six innings of three-run ball, giving up five hits with four walks and six strikeouts before turning a 3-3 tie over to the bullpen.
Maurer's no-decision leaves him at 2-5 with a 5.75 ERA after throwing a season-high 102 pitches.
"I thought he made some great strides against the left-handers today," Wedge said. "It was impressive for him to get through that sixth inning. I wanted to give him the opportunity to do that, and it was big for him and us. He's hard on himself out there. He needs to back off himself a little, but he's learning a great deal every time he goes out there."
The Indians scored twice off Maurer in the second on a sacrifice fly by Jason Giambi and a wild pitch that scored Carlos Santana from third, then added a solo home run by Stubbs in the fifth.
Cleveland packed its lineup with seven lefties or switch-hitters, not surprising given lefties were hitting .358 against Maurer compared to .243 for righties. But he held the Indians to five hits in his six innings and gave his team a chance to win.
"I threw a lot of two-seamers with those lefties, just trying to get it outside and let it kind of drift off the plate and see if I can get a swing at it," Maurer said. "I used it quite a bit more today than I had throughout."
Brendan Ryan continued his recent offensive uptick as he went 2-for-4 with a double. The veteran shortstop has a four-game hitting streak going during which he's gone 6-for-16.
Third baseman Kyle Seager went 1-for-3 with two walks and is now batting .500 (15-for-30) in eight games at Progressive Field.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Did you know there are more small breweries in the US now than before Prohibition? And with over 25 of them calling Chicago home, there's yet another reason to love this city! Just in time for Craft Beer Week, join CitySwarm on a beer-venture to some of Chicago's newest and best beer bars and breweries!
Our hoptastic evening kicks off at Fatpour Tap Works, the newest beer bar to hit Wicker Park. With over 50 beers on draft and 150 bottles, it's no wonder Fatpour took home the title of #1 Beer Bar in the Nation from the 2013 Nightclub and Bar Awards.
While Fatpour carries multiple local beers on tap, our first tasting focuses on one of the fastest-growing microbreweries in Chicago - Finch's Beer Company - which grew at 130 percent in 2012 and plans to add five additional 30-bbl fermenters in 2013! Led by Finch's Regional Brand representative, guests will enjoy a tasting of four Finch drafts, like the Threadless IPA and the Fascist Pig Ale.
Fatpour's food isn't to miss, so we'll enjoy hot signature pizzas and salad before heading out on our private, BYO trolley.
Our next stop is Lake Effect Brewing Company, nestled under the junction of the Edens and Kennedy. Founded by former home brewers Clint Bautz and Lynn Ford, Lake Effect is the epitome of the craft beer spirit in Chicago. Inside their modest facility, the small team is slaving away to produce beer of the utmost quality. We'll get a private tour of the facility as the owners themselves offer you four tastings of staple and seasonal brews alike.
Our final stop is Atlas Brewing Company located in Lincoln Park. Taking the name from a historical Chicago brewery which closed shortly after Prohibition, Atlas is the newest brewpub in Chicago, brought to us by a pair of South Side brothers and an industry professional from Spare Time, Inc. Enjoy four more tastings from Atlas's small-batch repertoire, like the spring wheat ale or a limited-edition like the hibiscus-infused cask Saison.
Our beer tour will conclude...but what a coincidence...you're still at a brewpub. Enjoy Atlas's pub grub and brews galore for as long as you desire. After all, this beer revolution is cause for celebration. Can I get an ALE YEAH?!
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Little Mad Ade, son of Mad Ade, leaves home in the morning to go to school. As he leaves the house he looks at the clock in the mirror. The clock has no number indication and for this reason the boy makes a mistake in interpreting the time (mirror-image). Just assuming the clock must be out of order, the Little Mad Ade cycles to school, where he arrives after twenty minutes. At that moment, the clock at school shows a time that is two and a half hours later than the time that Little Mad Ade saw on the clock at home.
At what time did he reach school?
AnswerThe difference between the real time and the time of the mirror image is two hours and ten minutes (two and a half hours, minus the twenty minutes of cycling). Therefore, the original time on the clock at home that morning could only have been five minutes past seven:
The difference between these clocks is exactly 2 hours and ten minutes (note that also five minutes past one can be mirrored in a similar way, but this is not in the morning!).
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The Associate Director of Communications is a key position within the central IT division and works in partnership with leaders in other University departments and other external partners to develop and deliver a broad, campus-wide communications program that promotes, supports, and aligns with the Northwestern's goals. The incumbent directs, and is accountable for, a comprehensive, cohesive, and effective communications and marketing strategy, delivered via web, print, video, digital, and social media, as well as accessibility services, all in support of an exceptional service delivery standard. Reporting to the Vice President for IT / CIO, the incumbent directs the day-to-day administration of the central IT communications function and staff.
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Partnership and Alignment : Coordinates initiatives designed to promote the organization and its services. Creates and sustains a supportive and collaborative partnership with key University Offices and other external partners to develop and deliver a broad, campus-wide communications program that promotes, supports, and aligns with the organization's goals. Acts as an advisor to operating managers and assists in developing major project support materials, such as briefing documents, talking points, brochures, FAQs, fact sheets, organizational charts, and web site content.
Strategic Communications and Marketing Planning : Develops, implements, and maintains a comprehensive, cohesive, and effective communications and marketing strategy for Northwestern IT, including the development of short- and long-term goals. Conducts reviews of the communications function to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities and to evaluate operational effectiveness and continually assesses emerging communications technologies and seeks new ways of using existing communications technologies to promote NUIT
Administration Management : Directs the day-to-day central IT internal and external marketing, communications, social media, and Web site activities. Writes, edits, and reviews electronic and print materials that effectively communicate IT systems and services, including but not limited to: website content, customer support materials, internal staff communications, feature stories and articles for multiple venues, press releases, brochures and other collateral materials, digital media, and presentation slide shows. Establishes an ongoing process to ensure continuous improvements in and updates to the website, maintaining a customer-focused perspective.
Project Management : Provides project management support for Communications initiatives, including strategic communications planning, timeline and milestone development, and tracking of deliverables needed for successful communications. Vets and approves communications strategies and materials for these and other central IT projects prior to distribution.
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Red Branch Theatre Company Presents PINOCCHIO, Dec 8-16
Red Branch Theatre Company is bringing childhood favorite Pinocchio to life December 8-16 at Drama Learning Center in Columbia. Jennifer Spieler directs a unique interpretation in the commedia dell'arte style that will be sure to engage even the most familiar audiences.
Says Spieler, "the framework of the play is centered around a travelling theatre troupe presenting the story of Pinocchio, so that the aspect of theatricality is never hidden. Probably one of the most exciting things is that the style of this piece involves the audience to participate in certain moments - to engage actively in the make-believe that's being created."
RBTC will host several family-friendly holiday themed events in conjunction with the production.
The performance will kick off on December 8 with a 'Shop 'Til You Drop' Day. Parents can drop off their children for an afternoon or evening of theatre, games and crafts while they finish up their holiday shopping. Visit with the big guy himself during one of Red Branch Theatre Company's 'Santa Sightings' on December 9 and 16 or bring the kids to another 'Shop 'Til You Drop' PJ Party on December 14.
Creative Staff & Cast:
Directed by Jennifer Spieler; Stage Managed by Hannah Fogler; Lighting Design by Jon Rubin;
Scenic Design by Carrie Loughry
Lorenzo/Coachman…………………………………………………………………………………………………Susan Porter
Alberto/Puppeteer/Lampwick ………………………………………………………………………………Kate McNichol
Hickory Cricket………………………………………………………………………………………………………Kristala Pouncy
Pinocchio…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Caroline Wolfson
Geppetto…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Kathy Marshall
Pepperoni/Puppet/Assorted Others………………………………………………………………………Tegan Williams
Macaroni/Puppet/Assorted Others…………………………………………………………………………Kelsey Painter
This adaptation is by Kathryn Schultz Miller and performed with permission from ArtReach Children's Theatre.
Show Dates/Times and Special Events:
December 8: 2:00pm & 7:30pm
('Shop Til You Drop' PJ Party: Kids aged 4 to 12 years can stay from 2:00-6:00pm, 7:00- 11:00pm, or 2:00-11:00pm for the show, games and crafts)
December 9: 2:00pm (Santa Sighting)
December 14: 7:30pm
('Shop Til You Drop' PJ Party: Parents can leave kids aged 4 to 12 years at Drama
Learning Center from 7:00-11:00pm for the show and an evening of theatre fun)
December 15: 2:00pm
December 16: 2:00pm (Santa Sighting)
Tickets are on sale now at www.redbranchtheatrecompany.com or by calling 410-997-9352. $12*-14 in advance; $15 at the door; $25 Shop Til You Drop PJ Party; $50 Both Sessions of Shop Til You Drop PJ Party; $11 Groups of 10 or more. *Student/Senior price
Drama Learning Center is located at 9130-I Red Branch Rd., Columbia, Md.
Red Branch Theatre Company has been entertaining theatre-goers since 2008. The company strives to bring together artists and audiences in the Baltimore-Washington community and beyond by providing theatrical productions that are exciting, affordable, powerful and thought provoking. Red Branch Theatre Company produces 4-5 shows each season featuring a mix of family and adult themes.


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Welcome to Tuesdays' The Crap We Missed which hopefully you can still read through the spittle covering your monitor from that George Zimmerman post. Let's just leave Fish alone, three conservative gun nuts who still inexplicably read this site, and get behind making fun of the people we all agree to hate, like Kim Kardashian, who's apparently spent way too much time with her nephew Mason. Then there's John Stamos trying to remember the name of that pussy fixer that Clooney gave him, Anais Zanotti getting out of her car which apparently also took her back in time to 1993 and Miley Cyrus eating dick-shaped stuff on German TV because inertia.
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Austin Bailey Jr., MD, selected for 2013 Joseph Jabaily Public Health Hero Award
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Release Date: Apr 24, 2013
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The Larimer County Board of Health is pleased to announce that Austin Bailey Jr., MD, will receive the 2013 Joseph Jabaily Public Health Hero Award. The award is given yearly in honor and remembrance of the many contributions to improving health and commitment to public service of Dr. Joseph Jabaily, a Loveland neurologist who died tragically in a charity bicycle race in the summer of 2004.
Dr. Bailey has served as a faculty member and a director of the Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program for more than two decades and has played a major role in ensuring access to primary care for many low-income patients and pregnant women who otherwise would have gone without needed health services. In the 1980s, the Fort Collins Family Medicine Center was the major source of "safety net" clinical services in the county, since there were no federally funded clinics in the county at that time. Dr. Larry Kieft worked with Dr. Bailey and others to establish the Poudre Valley Prenatal Program for low-income mothers and teens to make sure every woman in the community had access to prenatal services, delivery and hospital services, and post-partum care. This effort required a significant expansion of the Family Medicine Residency Program to be able to provide services to these additional patients.
Dr. Bailey has a long history of collaborating with the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment, both in accepting patient referrals when other sources of care could not be found, and in providing county Family Planning Program clients with affordable surgical options.
Dr. Bailey has trained a generation of primary care physicians, not only in the specialty of Family Medicine, but also in how to provide a patient-centered medical "home" for families and how to focus on prevention at both the individual and the population level.
The 2013 Joseph Jabaily Public Health Hero Award will be presented to Dr. Bailey at the Larimer County Board of Health meeting at 6:30 p.m. on May 9, 2013, at the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment, 1525 Blue Spruce Drive, Fort Collins in the clinic waiting room area on the first floor.
Former recipients of the Joseph Jabaily Public Health Hero Award include environmental scientist Frank Vertucci, Ph.D., 2006; local obstetrician/gynecologist Larry Kieft, MD, 2007; Jane Higgins, MD, Physician at CSU's Hartshorn Health Service, 2008; Lupe Harbison, 2009, an outreach worker and women's health promatora in the Latino community; Carol Plock and the Health District of Northern Larimer County, 2010; Ginny Riley, director or Larimer County Human Services, 2011; and Jennifer Anderson, PhD, retired Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at CSU in 2012.


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Picture this:
A group people gather on the riverbank to hold a brief ceremony.
There are tears, hugs and a few words before one of them opens a container to scatter the cremated remains of a deceased loved one into the flowing river current.
There are a few more words. The mourners then leave.
Then another group arrives. The same scenario repeats itself.
The secluded spot where the ceremonies take place is appropriately marked that ashes can be scattered in the river. There's a guardrail to allow mourners get close to the riverbank without risking falling into the water below, and an adjacent area where they can gather before and after the ceremony.
Such a spot hasn't been chosen yet, but that's the long-term goal of the city's Hindu community, NDP MLA Mohinder Saran says.
Saran says it's an issue of religious rights, particularly among Hindus whose religion mandates cremation.
In a recent resolution put forward in the legislature, Saran said cremation is controlled under the province's Cemeteries Act, but there is no mechanism to guide what can be done with the ashes.
Saran said many jurisdictions, including Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario, allow cremated remains to be scattered on waterways and Crown land.
Saran asked for all-party support to acknowledge the significance of the religious custom of scattering cremated remains and to consider adopting a policy similar to Ontario's. It would be the first step in the province acknowledging families are not breaking any law when scattering ashes.
Ontario has several options:
- Ashes can be buried or scattered in a registered cemetery.
- Ashes can be placed in a columbarium, called a niche. A columbarium is an above-ground structure that houses a number of niches.
- Ashes can be scattered on private property with the consent of the land owner.
- A cemetery, crematorium, funeral home or transfer service can scatter the cremated remains on a family's behalf.
- Cremated remains can be scattered on unoccupied government-owned Crown lands or Crown lands covered by water, including provincial parks and conservation reserves and the Great Lakes without government consent.
- Ashes can be scattered on municipally-owned lands, but municipal by-laws must be checked first.
Saran's resolution did not pass, but it is still being studied by government to see how to best to accommodate all Manitobans who wish to lawfully scatter the cremains of a loved one.
Manitoba's Public Utilities Board administers the Cemeteries Act, but to date has not dealt with the specific issue as raised by Saran.
The PUB only says on an online FAQ:
Q: Can I scatter cremated remains myself?
A: Yes, but only at a location with the owner's permission and discretely.
The board did deal with the issue, in part, in 2006 and found that the increasing practice of the scattering of cremated human remains was not adequately addressed in legislation.
"That said, the board also concludes that the (Cemeteries) Act is outdated, and has failed to stay current with the changing preferences of consumers with respect to cremations and the scattering of ashes. The board will conclude that regardless of the definitional deficiency as to what is meant by "human remains" and "ashes", ashes resulting from cremation are, from a general understanding perspective, the remains of deceased humans. Where and how they are scattered or otherwise disposed are matters of importance to families and society.
"In short, the Cemeteries Act neither provides regulatory oversight over the scattering of ashes, nor assures perpetual care of the sites where ashes have been spread, other than, and by extension, when the site is a cemetery."
In past discussions on the matter, a number of statutes have been singled out as potentially treating cremated human remains as harmful to the environment.
The Canada Water Act defines waste as:
(a) any substance that, if added to any water, would degrade or alter or form part of a process of degradation or alteration of the quality of that water to an extent that is detrimental to their use by man or by any animal, fish or plant that is useful to man, and;
(b) any water that contains a substance in such a quantity or concentration, or that has been so treated, processed or changed, by heat or other means, from a natural state that it would, if added to any other water, degrade or alter or form part of a process of degradation or alteration of the quality of that water.
The federal Fisheries Act is similar. It defines "deleterious substance" as:
-any substance that, if added to water, makes the water deleterious to fish or fish habitat or any water containing a substance in such quantity or concentration or has been changed by heat or other means, that if added to water makes that water deleterious to fish or fish habitat. Currently there are regulations that authorize the deposit of pulp and paper liquid effluent, metal mining liquid effluent, petroleum liquid effluent, and effluents from other industrial sectors.
Manitoba's Litter Regulation under The Environment Act and Winnipeg's Anti-Litter By-law both prohibit the distribution of "ashes", but the definition of "ashes" in both laws does not include human ashes.
There is also some discussion that cremated ashes are rich in calcium and phosphorus that can affect alkalinity and act as a fertilizer, which could restrict in some circumstances where ashes are spread. More information is on the website Scattering Ashes.
Taken altogether, the law is woefully unclear on the spreading of cremated human remains.
What Saran is trying to do is bring more clarity to an issue hundreds if not thousands of Manitobans will participate in in their lifetimes.
And rightfully so.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Five Saint Leo men's and women's cross country runners have earned a spot on the Fall 2011 President's Club list, it was announced by Saint Leo administrator's.
Freshmen Tereza Novotna and Connor Callahan, in addition to sophomore Melissa Goldstein, made their first appearances on the distinguished list, while Lee Ann Antuna is a two-time honoree.
Elyse Snyder was selected for the third time, and junior Eric Dirth continues to make an impression in the classroom, being praised for the fifth-straight time.
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I have previously written columns about two of my grandsons, Jonathon and Brady. Those two have taught me many things about myself, about life and about the future. I have a third grandson, Cole. Cole is still a baby, 9 months old, but I am already learning some special lessons from him.
Cole is just starting to show some of his personality, and I look forward to him developing in the months and years to come. The thing that he, as a baby, is teaching me, is to observe and listen.
As a newborn, he had pretty basic needs — food, love and a dry diaper. But, now, as he becomes more aware, it is wonderful to watch the world through his eyes.
If I am holding Cole these days, his head is constantly moving. He sees and is enthralled by everything. If he sees a tiny piece of paper on the floor, he can spend 10 minutes trying to pick up that little piece of paper and then another 10 minutes feeling the texture and trying to see what he can do with it.
A computer cord lays along the floor next to the couch at my house. He will work diligently to put his small face and tiny hand through a small opening just so he can touch and taste that cord. Of course, his efforts are to no avail as he would chew on that cord with his two little teeth and neither he nor the cord would be better for that tactile investigation. Grandma stops him before he gets that far. But, I do have to say, I enjoy watching his efforts.
The thing that I notice the most with Cole is that he is constantly looking up or looking down. I try to follow his gaze up and see just what it is that he is looking at. It could be the sunlight shining on the wall, the blades of the ceiling fan or the stripes in the curtains. Sometimes it is hard to be sure. He is thrilled with the images on my IPad screen, especially the bright colors and the pictures of he and his other family members. His observations are never ending.
If I feed Cole his lunch or dinner, his head is on a swivel. He watches every movement of other people around and twists and turns at every noise. Oh, he wants to eat, don't be fooled, but hitting his mouth is like chasing a moth.
Carrying Cole anywhere these days is a new experience. As you carry him, he is leaning over your arm looking at whatever is on the ground or the floor. He sees the cracks in the sidewalks, the blades of grass, the gravel in the driveway and everything else. His family all asks him what he is looking at. As of yet, he doesn't respond.
What is he seeing? He is seeing the world, the world through the eyes of a 9 month old. A world that, to him, is all shiny and new — a world that is full of wonder. I watch him, and I think to myself that I want to look at the world like he does. I want to look at everything as if it is the first time.
I'm not sure that I can go back to looking at the world as Cole does. I think I am too "mature," but I can try my best to enjoy the world around me just a little more. I am trying to look at the simple things and actually see them.
For example, I recently walked up the granite front steps of the Bureau County Courthouse. The leaves had fallen and stacked up on those sparkly steps were leaves representing every color of autumn. They were beautiful, laying there before they were all trampled by those coming and going. I wished, at that moment, that I was an accomplished photographer. I would have taken a picture of those leaves, so I could always remember them.
I stood at the window in the front of my house and watched the first snowflakes of November fly. You know, those snowflakes are amazing. Just as amazing, when I stop to look, as I felt they were when I was a child. I held Cole, and we watched those snowflakes together — it helped me to see the wonder in them as I did my best to look at them through his eyes.
I listened to the joy in my daughter's voice and watched the happiness on her face as she talked to me about the house into which she and her family will soon be moving. She is so pleased that they will all be enjoying more indoor space and more outdoor space too. It was special to share that with her and take the time to listen and see that excitement.
I thank Cole for helping me remember to observe and enjoy the simple things. I am trying, each day, Cole, to look at everything with the same wonder that you do. I hope I can continue to do that, that I can remember, as is said on one of the daytime talk shows, "Take time to enjoy the view."
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Welcome to Tuesday's The Crap We Missed, brought to you by Pube Beards™ — Now available in Welcome To Whole Foods! We've also got two straight dudes just doing straight dude stuff, as well as Russell Simmons continuing his Eastern European humanitarian mission, and finally, oh snap, did Jaleel White do that?
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The National Geographic March 2000 issue has come and gone (and so has April) with almost no sign of the promised "article" - "retraction" - "explanation" - concerning the fictional feathered fossil 'link' between birds and dinosaurs which they labelled Archaeoraptor, and which has been exposed as a bird body with glued on tail. The best they came up with was a letter in the 'Forum' section from Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in China, entitled "Feathers for a T.Rex". Xu states that he compared a dromeosaur fossil with Archaeoraptor and concludes that Archaeoraptor is a dromeosaur tail and a bird body. National Geographic printed the following comment under the letter. "Xu Xing is one of the scientists who originally examined Archaeoraptor. As we go to press researchers in the US report that CT scans of the fossil seem to confirm the observations cited in this letter. Results of the Society -funded examination of Archaeoraptor and details of new techniques that revealed anomalies in the fossil's reconstruction will be published as soon as the studies are completed."
Editorial Comment: Researching new techniques seems a "good" excuse for not admitting the real problem is evolutionists desperate to prevent their dinosaur-bird theory being exposed as the real fake. (Ref Archaeoraptor, frauds, dinosaurs, feathers, fakes)