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Deciphering myriad and complex media messages is both a science and an art. To say the media misleads the public is a misnomer. The media does mislead us, by lying to us constantly. If you're one who naively accepts copy and image as dispensed by the major media outlets, you're definitely being tweaked.
How do I know the media is deceptive, you ask? That's easy…I have been a victim of the media on more than one occasion. It's likely I will be re-victimized as the mainstream outlets are constantly upgrading their trickery and tradecraft.
Liberals, socialists, and normal folks who choose to ignore the media are not as vulnerable to the media's engineered messaging. The real target for media untruth is those with a conservative leaning, a bent, or a bias toward a traditional America.
You cannot innoculate yourself to eliminate the media slant, there is simply too much of it. The sheer volume will overwhelm you if you let it. While you cannot filter all the lies the media floods us with, you can discipline yourself to spot deception and deal with it.
My Five Media Rules for Conservatives might help. These are not a comprehensive list of rules, but the core requisites. If you only practice these, you will avert a sufficient amount of media deception.
RULE 1: Assume all Stories are False
Be constantly on guard when you read or hear a headline. The headline is the first salvo designed to shape your thinking. You can get trapped in the title, whether written, spoken, or sent to you in the form of imagery is the thought framework.
Twitter is famous for directing our thought with tweet titles, news article titles, photos, and video messaging. I have made it a personal practice to read articles in their entirety before I comment on them. Clever Twitter experts know users are lazy. Therefore, the title and first sentence are designed to grip your thought and emotions, generating a quick response.
Rule 1 is foundational to understanding the media. If we assume all stories are false we tend to read more critically, looking for truth, lies, and deceptions. This is the first rule for conservatives to follow when dealing with media messages…assume what you read, see, or hear is fake.
RULE 2: Some Information in True Stories is False
We know some stories are not false. Each of us has our revered authors, who we trust. There are several dozen "conservative writers" whose messages I tend to trust based on name recognition. Yet, there have been moments when I discovered that even true stories and messages can contain information I regard as untrustworthy, even false.
As we deal with the media sources we trust, we tend to let our guard down. Why not, we've learned we can trust them. Occasionally, even the most trustworthy purveyor of truth makes mistakes. Remind yourself that they too are caught in the same information vortex as we are.
The best of conservative writers, news reporters, bloggers, social media messengers, and pundits make mistakes. Their sources fail them.
Remind yourself that some information in true stories can be false. Some information by our most trusted authors can contain false information. When digesting the truth, sift it carefully, especially critical articles containing large amounts of analytical information, polling results, or highly technical data.
RULE 3: False Stories can have Bits of Truth
The worst article is one you know is patently false. It's written with a dubious slant, by a dubious author who lacks a demonstrable history of credibility.
While I might listen to a commentary by someone from MSNBC or CNN, or read an interesting editorial in the New York Times, I will do so with skepticism. However, this does not mean there are no bits of truth in a false story.
One of the validators I apply to a false story is whether or not it names its sources. A named source is a credible bit of truth, a validation of the author's transparency. In fact, false stories with bits of truth are the most difficult to decipher.
When the truth is co-mingled with exaggerations or outright lies, it's often difficult to separate reality from fiction. A fake story may contain factual components such as names, places, events, dates, and times. These factual elements can create a mental head fake causing us to conclude, "this must be true, after all, I know the Senator was there on that date."
Tossing bits of truth into an otherwise false media message makes for tough journalistic forensics. Often, multiple reads will diminish deception. The media will co-mingle that which you can easily verify with its intended slants. We, as humans, have the propensity to believe. We want to believe that what we read, hear and see is true. It's easier to simply believe, and more difficult to critique. The latter requires deliberate and sustained discipline. Frankly, I like to be lazy from time to time.
When digesting media information, train yourself to collate fact and fiction. It is not an easy skill. Deciphering truth is a science and an art. There are rules for dealing with the media (science), and there are skills (art) necessary for the separation of truth from lies.
RULE 4: Stories are about Politics, Power, and Money
We know from history and psychologists that life revolves around a set of needs. This is also true of the daily barrage of media information we digest.
Regardless of what you hear, there is no neutrality in the media. Most information political conservatives encounter revolves around the common themes of politics, power, and money.
Dissecting and sorting media information into one or more of these three categories will enable you to engage the storyline more effectively. Ask yourself:
- What is the political message and who is delivering it? What are their motivations, historically?
- What are the power implications…who gets the leg up, who moves up the ladder, who gains prestige and position?
- What about money? What / who is the source of any money? Look at who gains what, how much and why?
Political gain and position, individual and collective power, and money are the three factors driving most of the information we deal with as conservatives.
Stories and media-generated messaging are not created or dispensed in a vacuum. Keep reminding yourself that everyone and every institution has an agenda expressed in politics, power, and money.
RULE 5: Information you get is Delivered with a Globalist Slant
Teachers never teach without bias. No one can live or communicate without being in possession of a set of viewpoints. Unless someone is in a persistent vegetative state, options drive thought and action. There is always value and world view interplay when we deal with the media. Mark this down as "fact."
Today's media is not your grandfather's nightly news. The information age has moved us beyond the confines of ourselves, our communities, and even our nation.
We live in a global media swamp. No one is innocent, no one is neutral, and no one is without opinion and therefore biased. We weren't raised in hermetically sealed environments. We, all of us, are products of thought, and even indoctrination. My use of "indoctrination" is not a negative notion. It simply means we have an origin, family, education, location, culture, and slants built-in into our existence.
We are all trapped on planet earth with an undeniable spectrum of global views. These views and their originating cultures are not all equal. When President Trump announced, as only he can, that some cultures with shitho*es, he was right.
Media conglomerates and their subsidiaries, personnel, writers, anchors, producers, photographers, and journalists are all "cultured" professionals. That is, they have world views, national views, and personal persuasions.
When conservatives deal with the media and its message bombardment, all of the information is delivered wrapped in layers of biases. Our media environment is decidedly not traditional. It is flavored with decades of personal and corporate views. The prevailing view of the vast majority of the media is global.
Almost all of the media in America delivers information to us with a globalist slant. To many in the media, America is not exceptional and its culture and history are no more significant and special than any other.
We should remind ourselves that most of the information we received is delivered with a globalist worldview.
These are five media rules for conservatives. The application of these rules is both a science and an art.


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Trade Gothic
Trade Gothic is often seen in advertising and multimedia in combination with roman text fonts, and the condensed versions are popular in the newspaper industry for headlines.
Hand made letters
Some hand made letters, painted by several designers for clients and friends.
The 10 minutes type project
The Ten Minute Type Project is a typographical exploration with a maximum time limit of ten minutes per execution. It is a project which celebrates hand drawn typography as well as the slight imperfections achieved in a short space of time.
Posters for the Jazz Festival en Claypole
Some great posters with lovely typographic integration.
An experimental headline font.
Cover design
Cover design by Olga Grlic. Z for a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.
A stencil typeface in 3 versions.
Books about Rainer Schmidt
A publication made up of six books for Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten + Stadtplaner, published by Birkhäuser Verlag.
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Congratulations to Alexa Todd for the Outstanding Young Professional award from the Intertwine Alliance. Alexa is a former Environmental Services intern who has taken her work with invasive species and the Mt. Tabor Weed Warriors to a whole new level. Mt. Tabor Weed Warriors is an important partner in restoring Mt. Tabor's natural resources. This is a goal of the Tabor to the River program. Way to go Alexa!
Also congratulations to our tree program partner Friends of Trees for their work to get tons of new trees planted along I-205.
With friends like these working for clean rivers, clean air, and healthy neighborhoods, Portland's future looks promising.
Photo (left to right): Mary Kinnick - volunteer extraordinaire who heads the Weed Warriors and chairs Friends of Mt. Tabor Park; Alexa Todd; Susan Hawes -Portland Parks and Recreation East Side Stewardship Coordinator; Darvel Lloyd - a longtime Weed Warrior Crew Leader and community advocate
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Players will assume the identity of Ethan Thomas, former Serial Crimes Unit investigator, who has been called back to duty to track down his missing partner. The disturbing events from Ethan's past have left him a broken man – a desperate burnout drifting aimlessly through society in an inexplicable decline. Fighting inner demons throughout his one-man investigation into a sinister conspiracy, Ethan will need to use anything and everything in the environment to survive as he unravels the mysteries shrouding the city in darkness.
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SEGA of America, Inc. today announced that Condemned 2: Bloodshot has shipped to retailers for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and will be available on the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system on March 18, 2008. Condemned 2: Bloodshot, the next chapter in the horrifying series that began with the award-winning and critically acclaimed Condemned: Criminal Origins, is a first-person action thriller that will immerse players back into a universe of unimaginable psychological terror. Read More »
Can Sega's bloody sequel provide the answers we're looking for? Read More »
David delves into the "feature creep" of Bloodshot's Fight Clubs. Read More »
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Also known as: Condemned 2, Condemned: Criminal Origins 2
Release Region: United States
Release Date: March 12, 2008
Publisher: SEGA
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Release Date: April 4, 2008
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Release Region: Australia
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Publisher: SEGA
Also available on: PlayStation 3
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From the start of Saturday's show, the Ducky Boys were focused, celebrating new record Chasing the Ghost by beginning with 2004's "Boston, USA" and ending with Operation Ivy's "Knowledge." In between, there was some accidental glass smashing when someone dropped a drink in the pit.
Ducky Boy singer/bassist Mark Lind penned a good chunk of Chasing the Ghost, the first Duckys album in almost six years, in the wake of a gnarly personal break up.
Since Lind's erstwhile old lady went splitsville, the Duckys have not only released this — one of their better albums, on their own State Line Records label — but are already planning to record a fresh EP next month, and can look forward to opening for Rancid and Dropkick Murphys in the near future. Despite how gracefully Lind has bounced back, the Duckys' merch girl still refused to sleep with him, or so he claimed before dedicating a song to her. But Lind, who a few years ago fronted the Unloved, wasn't totally without female admirers on this night.
"Mark, I want to hug you!" shouted someone in the crowd.
As for the openers, the singer in punk vets Hudson Falcons claimed to be a sibling of noted local punk personality Tommy Somerville, but I can neither verify or debunk this. Tijuana Sweetheart's Hellion wore a Plasmatics T-shirt, but unlike Wendy O. Williams, she did not frighten or gross out anyone. It was a pretty good night all around.
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18 January 2012
n.d.p. in burgundy: domaine bertrand machard de gramont, curtil-vergy
My friend J's stated plan, this past October, had been to staff a replacement at his cave in Paris and cruise down to Burgundy for three days of marathon solo tasting. All business, no sightseeing, no fancy meals, just serious professional tasting.
Then at the very last minute he must have been worried about getting bored, because he invited me along.
As luck would have it, I was able to take off work. It became a Bro-gundy road trip: we ate Pringles and listened to the recent Real Estate album on repeat in the car and had a nice bro picnic of sandwiches on a cliff in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits before our first appointment. Then we went to meet a friend of J's, Axelle Machard de Gramont,* winemaker at Domaine Bertrand Machard de Gramont, a Nuits-Saint-Georges estate that was, for me, a wonderfully atypical introduction to tasting in Burgundy.
80's hair metal,
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16 January 2012
all the right ingredients: jeu de quilles, 75014
Imagine you must throw a party. You invite your most amusing friends into a room with a balcony after sundown and open numerous bottles of sparkling wine. There is a band. Performance art. DJs. Clowns, sword-swallowers, and a man who walks around on his hands. But to your consternation, no one speaks to each other for the duration of the event.
Great party, they say, on their way out the door. Keep me in the loop for the next one.
I feel this way about certain natural wine restaurants. Like the friends in the above scenario, I sincerely appreciate the effort that has gone into getting all the right ingredients in place. Desnoyer meats, natural wines, manifestly fresh fish, etc. At Jeu de Quilles, a suberbly charming market-menu place in the 14ème, these elements are supported by that other, nigh-on unattainable Paris luxury, great hospitality. All that I felt was lacking, after a recent by-no-means-unenjoyable meal there, was a unifying vision: a reason all these good things have been gathered together.
13 January 2012
les vendanges 2011: jura: ludwig bindernagel, poligny
In defense of what may appear to be my extreme lateness in posting on my experience harvesting in the Jura this past September, I'll just say I don't give a hoot. My impression is that up-to-the-minute harvest reports are only really useful to high-end retailers who must make large purchase commitments daringly early in order to avoid losing out to, say, the burgeoning uncritical bootleg-happy Chinese market. Almost none of these large early buys are being made in the Jura, I expect.
In any case, I wasn't there for long, and certainly can't give a coherent cross-section of the vintage. What I got was just a snapshot of how one small-scale vigneron, in this case my friend Ludwig Bindernagel, manages harvest. He manages harvest with serious magnanimous grace, it turns out, making time for picnics and numerous educational asides for first-timers like myself, even while understaffed.
chardonnay rose,
pinot noir,
ranting about the biz,
12 January 2012
09 January 2012
n.d.p. in piemonte: cantina dei produttori di nebbiolo di carema
A.K.A. The other Carema, the one not made by Luigi Ferrando.
My friends and I were passing one more night in Switzerland on our way back to Paris. So on the road north from Monforte through Carema country we thought it might make for an interesting pit stop to visit the Cantina dei Produttori di Nebbiolo di Carema, whose wines none of us had tried. They have a U.S. importer - Doug Polaner - but neither my friend J nor I could recall having ever seen the wines for sale there.
Luigi Ferrando's sterling reputation as a producer of quality high-altitude Nebbiolo is partially defined in opposition to his neighbors involved in this cooperativo, so our expectations weren't exactly sky-high. Also, there was a huge lumpy novelty bottle outside of the tasting room, making the place look like some kind of Alpine saloon.
italian wine,
marketing conundrums,
06 January 2012
n.d.p. in piemonte: alessandro e gian natale fantino, monforte d'alba
On our last night in Monforte, my friends and I revisited Case della Saracca, with the aim of drinking something we hadn't had much of during our stay: mature Barolo.* A late-nineties vertical by Alessandro e Gian Natale Fantino stood out on the bar's list as unmissable bargains, and we recognised the name because every day for the past week we'd been walking by their cellars, which are located right next to the Da Felicin apartments in the old city of Monforte.
If we hadn't yet visited them, it was because the name Fantino is like the Smith of Monforte, making it difficult for first time visitors like ourselves to keep straight which Fantini produce quality wine, and which produce light fluff for cafe consumption. Alessandro e Gian Natale, we learned, fall into the former category. Alessando Fantino worked ten years for the legendary Bartolo Mascarello, before founding his own organic estate with brother Gian Natale in the early 90's.
The 1999 Barolo "Vigne dei Dardi" we drank at Case della Saracca was in the end so vivid and racy that J and I were inspired to try for an inexcusably last-minute visit before we checked out the next morning. ("Are you free in ten minutes? Yes, ten!") To our delight, winemaker Alessandro Fantino was available to give us a tour. We assured J's wife C and the Native Companion it would be a quick tour, no tasting, since that is what Fantino offered us in Italian over the phone. We probably should have known better, as it happened. C and the NC fell asleep in their hammocks by the packed convertible, and J and I tasted the Fantino range straight through to the Barolo Chinato.
04 January 2012
n.d.p. in piemonte: osteria dell'unione, treiso, then bruno giacosa, neive
After tasting the extremely ethereal Barbarescos of Cascina delle Rose with estate owner Giovanna Rizzioli, we followed her recommendation for lunch in nearby Treiso to Osteria dell'Unione, where we had a meal as perfectly enjoyable as any other we'd had in the region.
Let's be honest, though. I can only describe vitello tonnato so many times on this blog, as in here, and here, and, come to think of it, I had one here also, though I declined to mention it. The most distinctive things about the meal at Osteria dell'Unione were my friend J's nicely piquante rabbit, and the fact that the plate of cured meats he'd ordered as a starter came with what appeared to be, and actually was, a tiny omelet. (Genius!)
If I post about the experience now, it's primarily as a segue to air some thoughts on one of the meal's less interesting elements, the 2006 Spumante Brut by Bruno Giacosa. Shortly after the meal we were to visit that winemaker's winery in Neive, where my trusty iPhone camera was to totally fail me,* meaning I lost out on some useful pics of the premises and of the very intelligent, very young new winemaker Francesco, who would've been in 1st grade when I was in 3rd grade, that is how young he is. Giacosa's reds are self-evidently magnificent, from the elegant Dolcetto on up to the cru Barbaresci; I won't burden them with more praise here. I'm more curious about why the Giacosa estate goes to such efforts year after year to produce and promote what is, after all, a merely okay sparkling wine.
italian wine,
pinot noir,
sparkling wine,
02 January 2012
welsh wine: ancre hill estates
Over the holidays I spent a few days in London and a few days in Wales. This means that once I get through a backlog of observations on Piemonte (still!), Burgundy, and Barcelona, readers can expect my customary spiteful quasi-Marxist critique of all UK wine culture. Actually I will have some nice things to say about one or two London discoveries, chief among them Raef Hodgson and 40 Maltby St. / Gergovie Imports.
Quite predictably, there were rather less drinking options on the Welsh leg of my trip. My friends and their families and I were holed away in an adorable cabin in Snowdonia, unable to leave or see the sun due to constant freezing rain from all directions and the associated risk of pneumonia. We kept the fires lit; charades prompts grew increasingly obscene. Wines of discernible aesthetic interest ran out after the first night. I did, however, salvage a few impressions of one noteworthy wine, though I'll admit my interest was more cultural than aesthetic: a 2008 Welsh Sparkling Wine from Ancre Hill Estates, a family run domaine of 9 acres or so in Monmouth.
seyval blanc,
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Just last week, Brett Tabke, WebmasterWorld founder and leading SEO spokesperson with connections to Google, predicted a new Google update before the year is out.
He said:
"Larry Page has been at the helm coming up on six months. According to various reports, LP has put alot of faith back in the algo nerds. I look for a Florida like update on the organic side before the end of the year."
Historically, any kind of warning of an algorithm update was merely hearsay. But when a figure of such repute as Brett Tabke mentions a new Florida-sized update is in the offing, it seems safe to assume the update will be one of significant importance. As such, given his connections, history and knowledge, it would be prudent to take this slightly sparse blog post, seriously.
Before we can begin to try to draw conclusions about what these changes might entail, we need to look at the history behind Google and its algorithmic updates. There are many excellent articles about the history of Google and its various ranking changes. So instead I'll take a quick look at just the important bits in the Dickensian manor of Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas past.
2003 - The Florida Update
By 2003, the internet was a well established platform for a wide range of industries. Plenty of businesses were already reliant on the new and exciting opportunities it offered. Search engine optimisation (SEO) was still an unknown acronym to many, even to those within the industry. However, after the Florida update, SEO became big news and an established business in its own right. The reason for this was twofold. Not only was the update a massive change to Google's previous algorithm, the timing to webmasters and site owners was inherently flawed.
On 14November 2003, the first mutterings of unhappy SEO's and webmasters began to appear in forums. At the time, monitoring multiple Google data centres was a hobby of many Webmasters and aspiring SEO's alike.
So what happened? In short, Google tried to update its ranking algorithm to weed out sites using questionable optimisation techniques to rank higher in the search engine results pages (SERPs), than they should. A huge number of websites found their rankings disappear overnight, with no idea why, right in the middle of the most important part of the year, the Christmas run in. Not only were small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) affected, a lot of well established and highly reputable companies found their rankings dropped significantly. Firms lost income, some even went bust. General outcry ensued.
Google learned a great deal from the Florida update. It decided future ones would be thoroughly tested and implemented progressively to minimise disruption.
The Present
Fast forward eight years and 12 updates on and the SEO world is a very different place. Google has engaged in a much more transparent approach using platforms like blogs, forums and YouTube, to communicate with SEO practitioners worldwide. Matt Cutts, a Google employee in the Search Quality department, acts as a public face of the company, answering and engaging with users on a wide range of subjects relating to search using his personal blog, Google's blog and YouTube.
Panda, Google's latest update, implemented in February 2011, was announced to the world on The Official Google Blog by Matt Cutts and fellow Googler Amit Singhal. In a post called Finding more high-quality sites in search, both reiterated their ultimate goal of returning results for the most relevant websites for a user search query before going on to divulge the size of the update (almost 12% of all queries) and its reported effectiveness - a stark contrast to the clandestine approach of 2003.
The Future
So what might be behind the big update predicted by Brett I hear you ask? Well, the forums are awash with theories (including conspiracies) and conjecture. However, it is most likely the 'Brett Update' will incorporate one or a collection of the following:
Exact Match Domains - The first possible change could be the long awaited decision to deal with Exact Match Domains (EMDs). For example, if you perform a search for 'blue widgets', one of the top results is almost certainly going to be www.bluewidgets.com (at the time of writing this domain was #1 for that search). Domains that contain the keyphrase are deemed highly relevant; add into the mix inbound link text and all of a sudden relatively weak domains become highly relevant.
In this video on 7 March 2011, Matt Cutts says Google has looked into EMDs and has been working on turning down their potency.
Social Signals - Earlier this year, SEOmoz compiled a survey about future ranking factors. Leading figures in SEO circles were asked to list whether they felt a particular factor, such as social signals, would increase or decrease in importance in future. Social signals were predicted to increase.
You would be right in thinking this is just the opinion of a few (non-Google) SEO nerds. However, with the recent release of Google's own social media project, Google Plus, rumours of an increased weight on social signals are entirely logical. Google Plus's data was quickly reported in Webmaster tools just in case anyone had any doubts as to how Google intends to use this new data. Given consumers spend a fair amount of online time using Social Media, it makes sense that Google should look to use data generated from these areas to help improve the accuracy of its index.
Source: SEOmoz
User Experience - Another area for the search engines to leverage for a ranking factor is user experience. This metric was indeed voted as the most likely factor to increase in importance in future algorithms in SEOmoz's survey.
If a site experiences an excessive bounce rate for a particular term, it would be logical for Google to factor this in as it clearly indicates user dissatisfaction at the visited result. With more users switching allegiance to Google's own browser Chrome, it will allow Google to generate even more accurate user experience statistics to apply to the index.
Source: SEOmoz
So what steps can you take to protect yourself from the new update?
Here are some techniques Greenlight recommends you use to position yourself for future updates.
Exact Match Domains - If you are currently experiencinga boost in rankings due to ownership of an EMD, it is safe to say your days are numbered. Whether this happens as part of a major algorithmic update or the ranking value of your domain is slowly diminished over time, is difficult to guess. Only time will tell.
Social Signals - We highly recommend adding social media buttons like those shown below, where applicable. Draw attention to and/or incentivise to encourage sharing. Whilst the amount of value social signals have currently is a matter of debate, they can, in the meantime, help generate traffic and moving forward, increase your companies' social footprint.
User Experience - Given this was voted the factor most likely to increase in importance in future updates in the SEOmoz survey, it seems a safe bet to take a closer look at the user experience you provide. Does your site take too long to load? Do you have Crawl Errors in Google Webmaster Tools? Do some of your pages have a high bounce rate? If the answer to any of the questions above is positive, then it is probably a good time to perform a little site maintenance.


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When using Spatial Analyst I regularly have issues with NoData values cropping up in the data.
Various tools appear to introduce NoData values regularly.
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How should NoData values be dealt with? Is there a simple way to replace NoData values with zero? Can NoData be avoided altogether?


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We use Vivace edition of LightStreamer.
We use our Grid (html table) as the listener.
We expect the following order of the events at the client:
1) onSubscription
2) onItemUpdate
if (command == "ADD") {
3) onEndOfSnapshot
- we set scroller
- we do another job after initial data has loaded
We have that order when we subscibe on item for the first time.
But when we subscribe to the same item again, LightStreamer returns data from Snapshot, without using Adapter, and we get the following order of the events:
1) onSubscription
2) onEndOfSnapshot
3) onItemUpdate
That way we can't do the initial job in onEndOfSnapshot event.
Another question:
When we make subsciption like this:
new Subscription("COMMAND", "Group1", cellList);
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aftre that we make another subsciption:
new Subscription("COMMAND", "Group2", cellList);
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When we want to push change in ItemB
What do you suggest:
a) for each Group where ItemB is involved
_listener.OnEvent(Group1, update[ItemB], false);
_listener.OnEvent(Group2, update[ItemB], false);
b) to force subscription at Item level, rather than Group level;
new Subscription("COMMAND", "ItemA", cellList);
new Subscription("COMMAND", "ItemB", cellList);
new Subscription("COMMAND", "ItemC", cellList);
new Subscription("COMMAND", "ItemX", cellList);
new Subscription("COMMAND", "ItemY", cellList);
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New Ontario Track Project Update
Yesterday, we published an announcement from Rob Good regarding an initiative to construct an indoor track in London, Ontario (see Daily News December 18/04). We have now had a chance to talk to Rob and get more details on the proposal.
Canadian Cyclist - This announcement came out pretty suddenly; is this a new project or have you been working on it for a while?
Rob Good - It all came together in 10 days. Albert (Coulier) called me 10 days ago to say that the building (London Gardens) was empty. We had talked about this (setting up a velodrome) for a while, and then Albert just went snooping around, gathering information on what was available.
When we heard about the old hockey arena we went and measured it out, and it's perfect. Since it's an old hockey rink the floor is perfectly smooth, there's change rooms and other empty rooms for offices, weight room, etc..
CC - So what are the plans for the track?
RG - We are looking at about a 142 metre, so 7 laps to the kilometre. The spectators will be right on top of the track. Albert has designed it - he's built over 20 tracks, including the indoor Delhi (Ontario) track that I rode on in the early 70's. He's laid it out, with all the materials requirements and costing.
CC - How did you get access to the London Gardens?
RG - Albert and I went in to have a meeting with the property owners, and they were looking for a non-profit, recreational-type use. Albert started going through the old stories about track racing, laying it out, and the landowner said to to us that this is what fits with the recreational land use permit for the property.
CC - So what is required in the way of funds to make this happen?
RG - There is $100,000 needed, but our goal is $200,000. The fund raising program will flow through the OCA (Ontario Cycling Association) charitable status, so tax receipts can be issued, but every dollar, 100%, will be invested back into the facility. We know that something like Burnaby just won't work with the funding required, it's just too much to start up or sustain. This facility is affordable and the costs are reasonable. We plan to have a fund raising meeting in the new year to get things rolling.
CC - What is the time line for the track to be operational?
RG - Our goal is to have the track program fully running by September, but some things will be running before that. The track will take 3-5 weeks to build, but we need to get the funds in place first. Since the story went up on Canadian Cyclist (about 1 hour before this conversation took place) I've had 7 e-mails, and we already have our first corporate partner, who will supply clothing and some track bikes.
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As part of the agency's continuing crackdown on scams that prey on financially distressed homeowners, the Federal Trade Commission announced legal actions against more than a dozen marketers accused of pitching bogus mortgage modification or foreclosure relief services.
FTC settlement orders ban 16 marketers from the mortgage modification or foreclosure relief business. The promoter of a similar scam has been ordered to pay $11.4 million for flouting a previous court order. And, in a new action, the FTC has charged another online marketing operation with masquerading as a government mortgage assistance program.
The FTC settled with the following defendants, all of whom charged consumers up-front fees and made false promises that they could get their loans modified or prevent foreclosure:
Making Home Affordable
The FTC alleged that the defendants impersonated MakingHomeAffordable.gov, a federal government Web site that helps eligible homeowners refinance or modify their mortgages. Defendants Sean Cantkier, Michael Haller, Alan LeStourgeon, Greg Rivera, Lisa Roye, and Jeffrey Altmire bought advertising links on the results pages of Internet search engines, and consumers looking for "making home affordable" were diverted to commercial Web sites that pitched loan modification services or sold consumers' personal information to marketers of such services. The defendants will have to give up their ill-gotten gains, ranging from $1,523 to $29,179. Separately, the Commission authorized and the court approved the addition of two counts to the complaint against Scot Lady and dismissed Kean Lee Lim as a defendant. The documents were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Complaint
Federal Loan Modification Law Center
Defendants Nabile ("Bill") Anz, Federal Loan Modification Law Center LLP, Anz & Associates PLC, Venture Legal Support PLC, and Jeffrey Broughton settled FTC charges that they hawked their so-called "Federal Loan Modification program" in a national advertising campaign targeting financially distressed homeowners. They charged up to $3,000, much of which they required up-front, but Federal Loan Modification often failed to live up to the promised results, according to the FTC's complaint. In addition to the ban on selling mortgage relief services, the settlement order against Anz, Federal Loan Modification Law Center, Anz & Associates, and Venture Legal Support imposes a $10.8 million judgment, and the order against Broughton imposes a $11.1 million judgment. The judgments are suspended based on their inability to pay. The full judgments will become due immediately if they are found to have misrepresented their financial condition or receive any money from the remaining defendants. The order was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The FTC continues to pursue its case against five other defendants. Complaint
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Derek R. Oberholtzer, Apply2Save Inc., and Sleeping Giant Media Works, Inc. allegedly charged consumers up to $995 in advance for promised mortgage loan modification services. Once they were paid, they often failed to answer or return consumers' telephone calls and sometimes falsely blamed delays on lenders, even though they had made little or no effort to contact lenders, the FTC charged. Most consumers who got loan modifications or avoided foreclosure did so only through their own efforts. The defendants have filed for bankruptcy. The order imposes a judgment of more than $4 million, which is suspended based on their inability to pay. The full judgment will become due immediately if they are found to have misrepresented their financial condition. The order was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. Complaint
New Hope Modifications
Brian Mammoccio and Donna Fisher have settled charges that they falsely claimed they could obtain mortgage loan modifications for consumers in all or virtually all cases, falsely promised a money-back guarantee, and masqueraded as part of the federally-endorsed HOPE NOW Alliance mortgage assistance network. According to the FTC complaint, in many cases, after consumers paid up-front fees, the defendants failed to return their phone calls, or falsely told them that negotiations were proceeding smoothly. In many instances, consumers learned from their lenders that the defendants had not contacted them.
In addition to the ban on selling mortgage relief services, the settlement order imposes a judgment of almost $3.9 million, which will be suspended when the defendants surrender their assets as specified in the order. The full judgment will become due immediately if they are found to have misrepresented their financial condition. The order was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
The $11.4 million contempt order against Bryan D'Antonio and three companies he controls, The Rodis Law Group Inc., America's Law Group Inc., and The Financial Group Inc., came at the request of the FTC, which charged that operators of the scam had falsely claimed they would stop foreclosures and negotiate lower mortgage interest rates, monthly payments, and principal balances. Promoters of the scam claimed a 100 percent success rate and wrongly advised consumers to pay them instead of making mortgage payments. The FTC alleged that homeowners got few, if any, loan modifications, and many people lost their homes to foreclosure after paying them up to $5,500. The operators also falsely claimed that attorneys would check consumers' loan documents for fraud and other lending violations that they would use as leverage in negotiating loan modifications, according to the complaint.
In May 2009, the FTC charged the defendants with violating a 2001 order that banned D'Antonio from telemarketing and misleading consumers about goods or services. The FTC obtained the 2001 order against D'Antonio and his former company, Data Medical Capital Inc., for operating a work-at-home medical billing opportunity scheme. D'Antonio also pleaded guilty to mail fraud for his involvement in that scam and served almost three years in prison. In addition to the financial sanctions against D'Antonio and the three companies, the court barred him from making misleading statements about refunds, exchanges, and total costs or quantity. The FTC has collected more than $1 million from the defendants' available assets thus far, and will refer the remainder of the $11.4 million judgment to the Department of the Treasury for collection. The FTC has set up a consumer information line at 1-888-398-8205. Complaint
The FTC has charged Dominant Leads LLC, MAD TJ Holdings LLC, James Rambadt, Thomas Hayes, and James Kane with misrepresenting that the mortgage assistance and debt relief programs they are marketing are affiliated with the federal or state government, and that consumers may be eligible for a federal or state loan modification or debt relief program. Some of the defendants' Web sites use logos similar to the federal government's MakingHomeAffordable.gov logo, and many of their sites feature official government agency seals or logos and links to federal government Web sites. When consumers seeking mortgage assistance or debt relief services call the toll-free numbers on the defendants' Web sites, they are connected to other companies that sell supposed mortgage assistance relief or debt relief services for a fee. The FTC seeks to stop the defendants' illegal practices and make them forfeit their ill-gotten gains. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on June 16, 2010. Complaint
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The close quarters of a rookery can be a lot like a crowded row-house neighborhood: Every now and then, there's bound to be a fight. And after a nasty squabble with a neighbor, what better way to smooth those ruffled feathers than with a kiss at home? Bill-twining, which looks remarkably like kissing, is rooks' chosen way to ease their tempers, reports experimental psychologist Amanda Seed from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Such behavior has long been known among primate species, such as chimpanzees, but this is the first time it's been documented in birds. Animal behaviorists have studied squabbling among numerous mammalian species, particularly primates, which after a fight often seek comfort through mutual grooming with an animal not involved in the row. This tactic is believed to reduce stress. Chimps, bonobos, and a few other mammals go a step further: They even engage in grooming or other forms of affiliative behavior with their opponent, which is seen as a form of reconciliation.
In the wild, rooks nest in treetops with thousands of rook neighbors. Pairs typically mate for life and return to the same nesting site each year, giving the group a degree of social permanence. A big social group has its advantages–more eyes to watch for predators and to find food–but there are also drawbacks: Every rook wants the best sticks to build their nests, and the best morsels of food. "It's like walking a tightrope, trying to find a balance between those group benefits and your own," says Seed, "and of course that leads to arguments." Seed videotaped and studied post-conflict behavior in a captive group of 10 rooks, which includes four monogamous pairs, watching to see if the birds sought solace from other birds after a fight. Although paired rooks did not fight with each other, individuals often quarreled with neighbors, squawking and flapping over a contested stick or bit of food. After such fights, the antagonists flew to their mates. The pairs preened, shared bits of food, and twined their bills, Seed reports in the January 23 issue of Current Biology. They did not make up with their opponents, however.
The rooks' kiss-and-calm-down behavior with their socially valuable mates has "remarkable similarities to behaviors among the great apes," says animal behaviorist Filippo Aureli at Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. But Emory University's Frans de Waal (who discovered reconciliation and consolation in chimpanzees) notes that the birds may not actually be consoling their mates, an act requiring that they initiate the calming kisses. Nevertheless, he's pleased to see birds added to "the long list of animals that try to manage stress caused by conflicts in their societies."
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Rowland High School
students Sherman Lam and Wesley Ru won first place with their Robot Arm at the
Science Olympiad competition last weekend.
weekend, the Los Angeles County Science Olympiad tournaments were held at Occidental College, where elementary, middle and
high school students from across the region competed individually and in teams
in rigorous competitions in the disciplines of biology, earth science,
chemistry, physics, computers and technology.
Rowland Unified sent teams from Alvarado Intermediate, Rowland
High School, Ybarra Academy
and for the first year, Hurley Elementary. All brought home medals! Rowland High School's Science Olympiad
team placed 7th out of 44 high schools.
Individual medals went to the following:
place – Robot Arm – Sherman Lam and Wesley Ru; 2nd
place – Sounds of Music – Sherman Lam and Kevin Hayakawa; 2nd
place – Thermodynamics – Kevin Hayakawa and Wesley Ru; 2nd
place – Protein Modeling – Kevin Hayakawa, Philip Chung and Jean Tan; 4th
place – Write it, Do it – Jean Tan and Philby Wang; 5th place – Anatomy and Physiology- Alexander Chan and Richard Lim; 5th
place – Towers – Philby Wang and Richard Lim; 6th
place – Astronomy – Sherman Lam and Michelle Wang; 7th
place – Experimental Design – Sherman Lam, Shuen Sun and Wesley Ru.
Ybarra Academy sent two
teams this year, one in Division A (4th – 6th grade) and for the first time,
one team in Division B (7th – 8th grade).


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The nation's drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering sum that could dwarf attempts to derail his chief domestic priority.
The White House and allies in Congress are well aware of the effort by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a somewhat surprising political alliance, given the industry's recent history of siding with Republicans and the Democrats' disdain for special interests.
The campaign, now in its early stages, includes television advertising under PhRMA's own name and commercials aired in conjunction with the liberal group, Families USA.
Numerous people with knowledge of PhRMA's plans said they had been told it would likely reach $150 million and perhaps $200 million. They spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to divulge details.
Additionally, the industry is the major contributor to Healthy Economy Now, which recently completed a $12 million round of advertising nationally and in several states. The ads were made by companies with close ties to Democrats and the White House and generally reflected the administration's changing rhetoric on health care.
In an interview, Ken Johnson, senior vice president of PhRMA, said, "We will have a significant presence over the August recess, both on television and newspapers and on radio, but we have not finalized details for our fall campaign."
Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, said the partnership with the deep-pocketed drug industry is one of mutual self-interest, even though the two groups disagree on numerous issues. "We want to achieve coverage for everyone. For PhRMA, this would improve volume for prescription sales because everyone" would have better access to medicine, he said.
Any health care bill that makes it to Obama's desk is expected to extend health insurance to the nearly 50 million who now lack it. That would mean a huge new pool of potential customers for drug companies and other health care providers. That, in turn, has created an incentive to offer concessions to the White House and lawmakers in hopes of shaping the bill, rather than simply opposing it.
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Drugmakers were the first group to reach agreement with the White House and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., announcing several weeks ago that they would absorb $80 billion in costs over a decade.
Even before the announcement, according to several individuals, the White House sought help from PhRMA in passing legislation.
Now, with the legislation under attack, the industry is providing key support during August as Republicans work to inflict a high-profile defeat on the president.
A significantly more ambitious advertising effort by PhRMA is expected to begin around Labor Day.
Jim Messina, a deputy White House chief of staff who is deeply involved in the administration's health care effort, brought Democratic senators up to date recently on the help PhRMA, labor unions and other outside groups are providing.
At the same time, the drugmakers are counting on the White House to block efforts by House Democrats to extract more than $80 billion from their industry in the legislation.
The partnership is complicated because many Democrats in both the House and Senate oppose key goals of the drug industry. Liberals, in particular, favor the importation of prescription medicine from Canada and other countries. They also want the government to have authority to negotiate directly with companies for lower drug prices under Medicare.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has been critical of drug manufacturers, and Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said several weeks ago the House was not bound by PhRMA and Baucus' agreement.
By the White House tally, overall advertising so far by PhRMA and other supporters of the bill has swamped efforts by opponents. Republican strategists concede it would be extremely difficult to match an effort of the size PhRMA is planning.
For comparative purposes, 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain was limited to spending $84 million a year ago when he accepted government money for his fall campaign.
Independent calculations show Healthy Economy Now has spent about $12 million on three ads that ran nationally and in 17 states and the District of Columbia.
The messages meshed with the White House's changing rhetoric. An ad that began in mid-June said patients would be able to choose their own doctors. Another, launched in mid-July, focused on consumer protections, including a ban on insurance companies denying coverage due to pre-existing medical conditions.
To make the ads, the group hired GMMB, a political consulting and advocacy advertising firm with close ties to the White House and Senate Democrats, as well as AKPD, top White House strategist David Axelrod's former firm.
Jeremy Van Ess, a spokesman for Health Economy Now, said the decisions were made by the organization, and not at the White House's request.
"Absolutely not. ... It's no secret in Washington that these two firms we had are the best out there," he said.
PhRMA/Families USA spent about $5.7 million in nationwide advertising for the two months ending Aug. 9, according to information compiled by a different organization.
Two weeks ago, the drug industry added another weapon to its arsenal, launching a series of ads under its own name in a few key states at a cost of about $1 million so far.
Among them is Nevada, where the industry has purchased time through Labor Day to air commercials thanking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his efforts to pass health care reform. Reid's public approval is weak in the state, although he does not yet have a Republican opponent for 2010.
While the White House and Democrats benefit from PhRMA's help, they seem reluctant to discuss it openly.
When PhRMA became the first big health care provider to agree to accept reductions as part of legislation, Obama made the announcement at the White House with the head of AARP in attendance. Billy Tauzin, the former Republican congressman who is head of PhRMA, was not invited.
More recently, Reid omitted the drugmakers from a list of outside interests trying to help pass legislation.
The drug industry's campaign is the culmination of a broader shift it has undertaken. A few years ago, the industry hired Steve McMahon, a longtime Democratic strategist, to oversee its political advertising.
Drugmakers have also funneled more money to Democrats in recent years, a trend that began soon after they gained control of Congress.
On the Net:
PhRMA: http://www.phrma.org/
Healthy Economy Now: http://healthyeconomynow.org/
Families USA: http://www.familiesusa.org/


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My experience today reading Joe Konrath's "Writers Code of Ethics" was probably exactly what he intended. From points one through three—never write or pay for reviews of your own work—I was in complete agreement. From points four through six—don't ask friends or fans to review your work—I was thinking, "wow, that's pretty strict." By point nine—"I will never allow anyone to send out copies of my books to be reviewed"— I was suspicious. Long before I got to his twenty-third and final point of ethics, I realized he had veered into satire.
What spurred Konrath's gradual escalation into ethical absurdity was a manifesto of sorts by a group of authors condemning other authors behind a recent rash of "sock-puppet," or faked, and purchased book reviews. His aim, I take it, was not to defend dishonest marketing, but to warn us against mob instincts:
"All of you pointing your fingers and proclaiming your piety? Get back to working on your books, not judging your peers."
In the recent uproar over the apparent multiple plagiarisms and fabrications by Jonah Lehrer and one instance of plagiarism by Fareed Zakaria, I've sensed a disquieting rush to judgment. In each case, the acts are indefensible. But for those of us striving to be ethical, unreservedly condemning them, as Barry Eisler puts it, is a dead end. That lack of reserve leads all too readily to overreactions and unfair accusations.
Viewing ethical mistakes in black and white makes life simple. But we can learn more, and become better people and better writers, by trying to understand the complex intentions and motivations behind those errors.


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It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Robert Siegel. For days, forecasters had predicted that today had the potential for dangerous weather. Those predictions turned out to be correct. Seventeen states - from Mississippi to Virginia, Indiana to Alabama - have had tornadoes on the ground. At one point, there were 25 different twisters churning across six states. Reports on deaths and injuries are beginning to trickle in. One hard-hit area is in southern Indiana - at least eight people there have died.
And reporter Erica Peterson, of member station WFPL, joins us now from Sellersburg, Indiana. Erica, you were earlier in Henryville, I believe, a town that had significant damage, including the high school, which was destroyed. What were you able to see there?
ERICA PETERSON, BYLINE: Well, not a lot. It's nighttime now, and pretty much all you can see when you drive through Henryville are police flashing red and blue lights. There is significant damage. You can see right off the road - I saw a gas station that was totally demolished, a semi on its side. But most of the worst damage is behind police barricades, including - it's not only the high school. I've actually learned it's the elementary, middle and high school, where everyone in the area did go to school. And that, according to some of the people I talked to, is just - it's just totally - it's gone. They're going to have to rebuild the high school.
SIEGEL: And what did emergency responders tell you they were focusing on most right now?
PETERSON: Well, right now, they're focusing on going from property to property, looking for people who could be trapped in their homes, making sure there's nobody injured that needs medical attention. And that's what I think they'll be focusing on the rest of the evening. It's - there's a pretty wide amount of area that was hit, especially because it's a rural area, so the houses aren't super close together. So that's what they're focusing on. They've set up a couple of places for people who don't have homes to go in the basements of a church and community center. And they're ferrying people there as they find them.
SIEGEL: Erica, did you get a chance to talk to any residents of Henryville?
PETERSON: I did. I spoke to several people. I talked to Kevin Guernsey. He was driving by on a four-wheeler and stopped to talk to me. He's 57 years old. He's lived in Henryville his whole life. He said he's never seen any kind of tornado that's caused this magnitude of damage. But he was driving around on a four-wheeler because the roads were very clogged. It's a small town. It's got, you know, two-lane roads going throughout. And even the roads that are open are just - are totally crammed with emergency vehicles and people trying to get to their homes. So he was going around to check on his rental properties. He said...
SIEGEL: Now...
PETERSON: ...have suffered significant damage.
SIEGEL: Earlier today, you were in Marysville, Indiana, a town of about 2,500. Initially, reports said the whole town was destroyed. What did it look like to you?
PETERSON: Well, it looked like a lot of the town was destroyed. Right off the road, there were still buildings standing, but there was significant destruction. There were houses that were just missing. There's foundation there and no home. But more common was just severe damage - trees fallen into houses, houses had actually been picked up and moved several feet off of their foundations. So, a significant amount of damage and rebuilding that's going to have to take place there, too.
SIEGEL: OK. Well, thanks for keeping us updated, Erica.
PETERSON: Thank you.
SIEGEL: That's Erica Peterson, reporter of member station WFPL. She joined us from Sellersburg, Indiana, where she's tracking storm damage all across the state of Indiana. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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We have taken a community approach to what we call "Thumper Patrol." The city of Reynoldsburg has initiated a "Noise Ordinance 509.11,"Sound Limitations. The ordinance states:
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Why should I control my pet?
Controlling your pet is a courtesy to others. Imagine how your neighbor must feel when your pet runs through his garden, leaves unwanted messes in his yard, knocks over his trash can, or bites a child. As a pet owner, it is your responsibility to control your animal.
You are responsible for your pets at all times. Reynoldsburg City Ordinance 505 specifies that all pets must be either kept confined to your property or be under reasonable control at all times. Example: Letting your pet outside to ram the neighborhood would not be considered reasonable control. However, taking your pet for a walk on a leash would be considered reasonable control.
No Person shall keep or harbor any dog or other animal within the Municipality which, by frequent and habitual barking, howling, yelping, screeching, or cawing, creates unreasonably loud and disturbing noises. Violation of this ordinance could result in a minor misdemeanor.
Any person being the owner of or in charge or control of any animal shall immediately remove all feces deposited by such animal from another person's property, including public parks or other public places
When there are large vehicles parked on the residential roadway it makes it very difficult to maneuver around them. In addition to vehicles trying to maneuver around them, children have a difficult time seeing to cross the road. For the reasons stated above the City of Reynoldsburg initiated an ordinance that prohibits the parking of such vehicles. The ordinance is summarized below:
351.16 Parking of Commercial Vehicles, Trailers, Recreational Vehicles, and boats.
No commercial vehicle, motorbus, motorbus home, recreation vehicle, house trailer, travel trailer, or other trailers as defined in Ohio R.C. 4501.01, and no boat or boat trailer shall be parked or be left standing on any street or alley within the city limits at any time.
Commercial Vehicle: means any vehicle with the current state-issued license plates attached with the designation "truck" or "commercial" or any vehicle including a trailer, used for the hauling of any machinery, device, materials, or equipment in connection with a commercial enterprise, whether such vehicle is marked or identified by lettering, symbols, or signs relating to such commercial purpose or enterprise or not having attached thereto a state-issued license plate with the designation "truck" or "Commercial vehicle."
351.13 Continuous Parking in the same location.
No person, except as proved in Section 351.16, who is the owner, agent, operator or other people in charge of any vehicle shall permit the vehicle to remain parked, standing, or abandoned upon any street for a continuous period longer than forty-eight hours. The purpose of this section is to prohibit continuous long time parking and the storage of vehicles on the streets of the city
Visit our fingerprinting page.
Bring proof of ownership, current registration, and a photo ID/driver's license to the police department to get a vehicle released.
Visit our Retrieve Police or Accident Report page.
Visit our police department page.
The Reynoldsburg Police Department only addresses dog-at-large-related complaints or animal-related noise complaints such as "barking dogs". The local Humane Society or your county of residence has an Animal Control Agency you may also contact for dogs, cats, and most other domestic animal/pet issues such as running stray or lost.
Wild animal complaints need to be directed to a varmint control business (for problems such as squirrels or raccoons in your attic) or the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Wildlife Division at 1-800-WILDLIFE (800-945-3543 or by email Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm EST (if a large wildlife animal such as deer or a coyote is the issue).
County Animal Control and Humane Society phone numbers:
*All of these organizations have websites for more information.
Reynoldsburg is known as "The Birthplace of the Tomato". The tomato was 'born' in Reynoldsburg in the 19th century with the help of local favorite son Alexander W. Livingston. Livingston developed the 'Paragon Tomato', billed as the first ever tomato bred for commercial use. His legacy lives on in the Livingston House and Museum on Graham Road, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Homes.


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TechRadar Verdict
Simply put, if you're looking for a versatile communication solution that doubles as a Bluetooth headset for your mobile device as well as a subtle headset for PC-based communications you'll be extremely pleased with the Jabra Supreme UC.
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High quality wired and wireless headsets for mobile phones have become ubiquitous. With technology like Beats Audio becoming mainstream, mobile phone users have grown to expect a different level of quality from their mobile headsets. Of course, this is mostly in response to people dashing their stand-alone MP3 players for smartphones that do double duty as mobile communication devices as well as mobile media players.
But what about folks who prefer the classic on-ear Bluetooth headset? That's where the Jabra Supreme UC Bluetooth headset comes into play. While we prefer stereo Bluetooth headsets like the Plantronics BackBeat Go for music while commuting or working out, the Jabra Supreme UC is actually a much better headset for straight-up communications.
With the ability to pair with up to two devices simultaneously, the Jabra Supreme UC is designed to work with mobile devices like mobile phones and tablets as well as PCs. At first glance this may sound strange, but the Jabra Supreme UC is designed for a world where folks typically communicate via mobile phone as well as PC-based apps like Google+ Hangouts and Skype. In fact, the Jabra Supreme UC works with most Unified Communications (UC) applications including those by Microsoft and Cisco.
In our tests we connected the Jabra Supreme UC to an HP Envy Spectre laptop, as well as an HTC Radar 4G and an iPhone 4S.
When at your workstation, you simply pair the Jabra Supreme UC with your Bluetooth-enabled PC and your mobile device. If your PC lacks Bluetooth support the Jabra Supreme UC ships with a Jabra LINK 360 Bluetooth USB adapter. Switching between sources was as simple as holding the "answer call" / "end call" button for two seconds. After that you'll hear a beep that indicates that you have switched sources. It sounds super simple and in our tests it actually was. Additionally, in our tests we seamlessly switched between Skype, to a mobile call, and then to a Google + Hangout.
The Jabra Supreme UC charges via the same micro-USB plug that charges pretty much every device in the world that isn't made by Apple. And Jabra made sure that you'll always be able to charge this thing as it ships with the requisite micro-USB cable, a car charger, and a wall charger. It also ships with a carrying case.
Jabra claims that you'll get about six hours of talk time from the Jabra Supreme UC and about 15 days of standby time. Since we didn't use the Jabra Supreme UC for music, what with it not being stereo, we actually did experience similar talk and standby times.
Of course, you can stream music to it, you just can't control the media player functions with the headset. For what it's worth, the Jabra Supreme UC isn't really made for that. This is a serious, no-nonsense headset. To that end it did a great job of picking up our voices. We tested it while driving to and from work and the collapsible boom mic did a bang up job. We also tested the Jabra Supreme UC while walking around outside of the Future US offices in windy South San Francisco, and while the wind has proven to be a problem with other headsets, the device's active noise cancellation did a great job of making sure that our voices broke through the gale force winds.
The Jabra Supreme UC is designed to be worn on either ear and the faux leather ear pad is nice and comfortable. That said, it doesn't feel quite as stable as in-ear headsets. This thing is designed to be used when stationary.
One area where the Jabra Supreme UC really shines is with its voice guidance technology. Simply put, anything that you can think of you can do with voice commands. Boasting A2DP technology, the headset uses voice commands for everything from caller ID to GPS announcements. When you flip the boom mic open the headset announces "power on." This is a nice feature, especially when driving. When you close it you're told "power off."
Simply put, if you're looking for a versatile communication solution that doubles as a Bluetooth headset for your mobile device as well as a subtle headset for PC-based communications you'll be extremely pleased with the Jabra Supreme UC.
Wil (Twitter, Google+) is a technology editor and journalist who has written for a variety of outlets over the last 16 years, including CNET, Computer Gaming World and Incite. Wil also spent two years as the on-air gadget correspondent on G4TV's live daily show, Attack of the Show. Before joining TechRadar, Wil was the editor-in-chief of @GAMER, The Official Games Magazine of Best Buy.


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出版日期: 11th century 文学时期: Anglo-Saxon 类型: Epic heroic poetry
Beowulf is one of the earliest surviving literary texts from the English-speaking world. At 3,000 lines, it is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest in 1066. Beowulf tells the story of the exploits of its eponymous hero and his battles with a monster named Grendel; with Grendel's revengeful mother; and with a dragon, guardian of a hoard of treasure.
A story of good and evil
Beowulf is a classic tale of the triumph of good over evil, and divides neatly into three acts. The poem opens in Denmark, where Grendel is terrorising the kingdom. The Geatish prince Beowulf hears of his neighbours' plight, and sails to their aid with a band of warriors. Beowulf encounters Grendel in unarmed combat, and deals the monster its death blow by ripping off its arm. There is much rejoicing among the Danes; but Grendel's loathsome mother takes her revenge, and makes a brutal attack upon the King's hall. Beowulf seeks out the hag in her underwater lair, and slays her after an almighty struggle. Once more there is much rejoicing, and Beowulf is rewarded with many gifts. The poem culminates 50 years later, in Beowulf's old age. Now King of the Geats, his own realm is faced with a rampaging dragon, which had been guarding a treasure hoard. Beowulf enters the dragon's mound and kills his foe, but not before he himself has been fatally wounded. Beowulf closes with the King's funeral, and a lament for the dead hero.
The British Library holds the only known medieval manuscript of this epic saga. This manuscript committed to parchment a tale that (in some modern scholars' opinions) had been passed down for centuries.
When was Beowulf written?
Nobody knows for certain when the poem was first composed. Beowulf is set in the pagan world of 6th-century Scandinavia, but it also contains echoes of Christian tradition. The poem must have been passed down orally over many generations, and modified by each successive bard, until the existing copy was made at an unknown location in Anglo-Saxon England.
The medieval manuscript bears no date, and so its age has to be calculated by analysing the scribes' handwriting. Some scholars have suggested that the manuscript was made at the end of the 10th century, others in the early decades of the 11th, perhaps as late as the reign of King Cnut, who ruled England from 1016 until 1035.
The story of the manuscript
The first recorded owner of the manuscript of Beowulf is Laurence Nowell (d. c. 1570), a pioneer of the study of Old English, who inscribed his name (dated 1563) at the top of the first page. The manuscript then entered the famous collection of Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631) before passing down the generations to his grandson Sir John Cotton (d. 1702), who bequeathed the manuscript to the nation. The Cotton Library formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753, before being incorporated as part of the British Library in 1973.
During the 18th century, the manuscript was moved for safekeeping to Ashburnham House at Westminster. On the night of 23 October 1731 a fire broke out and many manuscripts at Ashburnham House were damaged, and a few completely destroyed. The manuscript of Beowulf escaped the fire relatively intact but it suffered greater loss by handling in the following years, with letters crumbling away from the outer portions of its pages. Placed in paper frames in 1845, the manuscript remains incredibly fragile, and can be handled only with the utmost care.
Besides Beowulf, the manuscript includes some texts from St Augustine, 'The Homily on St Christopher' (now incomplete), the 'Letter of Alexander to Aristotle', the poem 'Judith', and 'The Marvels of the East'.
Beowulf's legacy
Despite being composed in the Anglo-Saxon era, Beowulf continues to captivate modern audiences. The poem has provided the catalyst for films, plays, operas, graphic novels and computer games. Among the more notable recent versions are the films The 13th Warrior (1999), adapted from the novel Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton (d. 2008); the Icelandic-Canadian co-production Beowulf & Grendel (2005); and Beowulf (2007), starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie.
Beowulf has also been translated into numerous languages, including modern English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Telugu (a Dravidian language spoken in India). Perhaps the most famous modern translation is that by Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate in Literature, which won the Whitbread Book of Year Award in 1999. A children's version by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Michael Foreman, was published in 2006.


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Asus's followup to the popular Eee Pad Transformer tablet maybe be set for a launch early next month. The LambdaTek Component Shop currently lists the Asus Eee Pad Transformer 2, referred to as model number TF201-1I020A, for £537.85 including VAT. Other details on the retailer's site are limited, though the Transformer 2 listing mentions a quad-core Tegra 3 processor from NVIDIA, 32GB of storage, 1GB of RAM, a 10.1-inch display and Android 3 Honeycomb. LambdaTek also lists an in-stock date of November 7th, suggesting we might finally see an official unveiling in the coming weeks. Asus CEO Jerry Shen reportedly said recently that the Eee Pad Transformer 2 will launch by year-end and will retail for $499, about 40% below the slate's listed price on LambdaTek's website.
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Today we get a chance to look at OCZ's newest refresh of the Vertex series with the Vertex 3.20. The update is actually hidden in plain sight as this update utilizes 20nm NAND. Now let's see what the drive has to offer.
With SSD's always changing we are seeing a constant shift in production and styles along with anything a manufacturer can do to increase performance or value for a SSD model. Here with the Vertex 3.20 OCZ has transitioned to 20nm NAND from Intel which replaces the previous 25nm NAND for the unit. This is an interesting move as this is also when the Vertex 3 is transitioned to the more mainstream or value segment of drives fro OCZ's consumer based products. This does not mean anything bad for the Vertex 3 but with the recent shake up over the past couple years we have observed a shrinkage in OCZ offerings in the consumer segment so it was interesting to see this model retained while the others such as the Agility have been dumped. Now with the Vector and Vertex 4 in the limelight for the top performance or enthusiasts class SSD's it leaves users to get on excellent value in the Vertex 3 series. This is very much like the recent Kingston V300 model we received.
Present market price for this drive is $219.99 directly from Newegg. This places it at well below the $1/GB mark while still holding some definitely aggressive specs on paper.
As you can see even though this is now considered a value model, it is definitely packing some heat capable of 90K max IOPS. Utilizing a LSI/Sandforce 2281 Processor means there is the standard high performance and reliability you can expect from a 2281 based drive, now the only thing left to question is how does the NAND change affect the performance and for this lets take a quick look at the drive then its on to testing.
Pictures & Impressions
The Vertex 3.20 comes in a standard plastic clamshell which is interesting considering most SSDs we have received come in a box which adds size and also houses accessories. For this SSD, OCZ decided to keep it simple and to the point so nothing is hidden away here.
The front simply shows product name and capacity with very little else, while the rear shows some basic spec data and a small back story as to what the Vertex 3 series is and why it was made.
Here we see what comes in the package, as it is fairly simple and to the point the previously seen spec info is a folded insert which contains the warranty data sheet and also a "I love my OCZ SSD" Sticker. Nothing to write home about but if it helps reduce cost we don't think anyone will complain. One thing to note is that there is not 2.5 to 3.5″ adapter included which I have seen in some bundles and this could raise issue for some users but where there is a will there is a way so we're sure most can figure out a way to mount it, Especially since many chassis now days have a mounting position specifically for a 2.5″ drive.
Here we see the Vertex 3.20 drive itself and it looks just like your standard Vertex 3 with just a .20 added to the label. The size is standard thickness although it would have been nice to see a 7mm thickness for this drive to allow fitment in some smaller enclosures such as those in ultrabooks as this would have opened the usage model for this drive up to a wider user group as thinner devices are growing in popularity.
Here we get a look inside. Straight away there are 16 total NAND chips which one is reserved for provisioning and firmware for the SF2281. The NAND chips are produced by Intel and look to be your standard fare but in new 20nm flavor. soon we will see if this has any affect on function.
The controller is your standard SF2281 which we have come to know and love. Although OCZ has its new Indilinx controllers you simply cannot look past the massive popularity of the SF2281 and the massive popularity of the Vertex 3 line alone which is a good explanation as to why this model was kept around and unchanged to keep from hurting one of its most popular and highest selling models.
Testing & Methodology
SSD testing can be a bit subjective as a lot of times they are not tested on similar components or at different times. We test our drives as the boot drive with a fresh OS image to ensure all the same drivers updates and OS conditions are observed. Testing with the drive as the boot drive with the OS residing on it will result in a much more realistic experience for the end user as just using it as a secondary drive and running benches on an empty drive will likely skew results and deliver different performance than you will see when using it in your system.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the tests are done on as clean of an OS as possible as a Secure erase was performed before installation.
Test Rig
Test Rig | |
Case | Thermaltake Level 10 GT |
CPU | Intel Core i7-3770K/Intel Core i7-2600K |
Motherboard | ASUS Maximus V Formula |
Ram | 16GbpsB Patriot Viper Xtreme 2400MHz + |
CPU Cooler | Swiftech H20-220 Edge |
SSD | OCZ Vertex 3.20 240GB |
Optical | ASUS BD-ROM |
GPU | ASUS GTX 680 DirectCU II TOP |
Additional Cards |
PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower XT 1275W Platinum |
Mouse | Tt eSPORTS Black gaming mouse |
Keyboard | Tt eSPORTS Meka G1 mechanical gaming keyboard |
Test Suite
We will use the following applications to test the performance of the SSD. Benchmarks
Benchmarks |
IOMeter |
CrystalDiskMark |
PCMark 7 |
Startup/Shutdown |
Random Read and Write
We start off by looking at the Vertex 3.20's random read and write performance. The Vertex 3.20 shows lower average reads at a very low Queue depth and even at QD3 it is about 33% behind that of the original Vertex 3.
The Vertex 3.20 does very well with the Random write operations at both low QD and QD3 falling only behind the Vertex 4 at QD3 write operations.
While most desktop workloads do not use more than a few queue depth, we always include the higher queue depth to show the drive's potential. Here we can see the Vertex 3.20 still shows a much lower 4K read while the write is very high even eclipsing that of the previous Vertex 3.
Sequential Read and Write
The sequential performance shows quite high performance right in line with the Vertex 3 model and even eclipsing all of teh tested drives at write operations which is very good considering the value level for this consumer part.
Random Read and Write
We use AS SSD benchmark to test a drive's performance at handling highly compressed and incompressible data. The random read and write for the Vertex 3.20 shows similar to the results we saw in IOMeter in that the reads fall back quite a bit while the writes are stellar.
At higher queue depth, the Vertex 3.20 falls inline with the other Sandforce drives although once again reads are a bit behind previous gen 25nm Vertex 3.
Sequential Read and Write
Just like the Iometer result, the Vertex 3.20's performance is right in line with a very close to top spot here which places it in a nice place above many offerings and in the mix with the best Sandforce drives.
Crystal DiskMark
Here with CrystalDiskMark it is more of the same as it seems the move to 20nm NAND offers very good performance but at the expense of 4k reads.
PCMark 07
As always, we include the PCMark 07's storage benchmark as a way to gauge how a drive performs in typical workloads. Here, the Vertex 3.20 scores 5311 which is among the top contenders and even surpasses many strong contenders.
The rest of the PCMark testing has the Vertex 3.20 placing in the top 5 of every single test and even in the top three for three of the seven tests. this is something to keep in mind as OCZ may have inadvertently made a contender to its enthusiasts class Vertex 4 in a value drive format without meaning to. This definitely fogs the lines between the models and even adds a little confusion to the mix as we simply don't know what to make of this as the drive is blowing away many competitors.
Startup/Shutdown times
Startup and shutdown times are probably some of the most noticed differences with a SSD upgrade. When you start your system getting it to the boot screen as quickly as possible is the goal of most users and overclocking has always increased productivity and even some boot speed for a long time now but there has always been the old platter drive which was the big bottleneck. With SSD's this has all changed as we have seen some systems that can now power up from a resume state in a matter of seconds thanks to a super fast SSD.
Here you can see that the startup time which was timed with a digital stopwatch app on my phone from the time we pressed the power button to the time it was at the desktop and nothing else was loading. Now mind you this is a fresh OS with no other programs such as steam or anything else loaded, so your results may be slightly longer but we can only imagine that time difference would be marginal and completely dependent on programs you have running at startup. Shut down time is extremely fast as all services are stopped and system, is powered off. We used the same method to test which was starting a timer from the time we pressed the Shutdown icon to the time the system powers off. As you can see this is extremely fast.
The OCZ Vertex 3.20 is a refresh of the previous 25nm version drive and with that we expected decent performance but since it is now the value model we never expected what we received. The performance is great with this drive and in some cases offering performance meeting or beating the top drives out there.
The one area hurt from this is the 4K reads which we can only take as a property of the NAND being used as we have tested many SF2281 based drives and this one drops off pace in some tests in regards to 4k reads.
The Price point of the drive is quite nice but it does put it in with some tough competition as the Force GT 240GB can be had for 10 dollars cheaper or for the same price the HyperX 3K. It really does come down to which brand do you prefer and what does it offer for your loyalty, some may have higher sequential or 4k.
We look at things as what will you see in the real world and even though the 4k writes take a hit in the benchamarks I have a tough time seeing any issues in real world usage of the drive over the past couple weeks. So we guess if you benchmark all day just to look at numbers it might make a difference but overall this is one fast drive and at a sub $1/GB a nice value as well.
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Summary: The Vertex 3.20 is a refresh with smaller 20nm NAND with very nice performance and value for this, it earns the Bjorn3D Silver Bear Award. |


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I've got a little site I built for myself and a friend that let's us run our tiny little March Madness pool. Functionally, it works great. But for the display of the brackets, it's, well, just plain ugly.
Quick NCAA Bracket Explanation in case anyone doesn't know. There need to be 64 total teams on the outside, divided into 4 quadrants. Inside each quadrant there are 4 more levels of games (16 teams down to 8, to 4, to 2, to 1). After that the winners of the 4 brackets each play 1 other, then those winners play each other
Each team is "clickable", and for me, each little colored square has to be in its own selectable elements based on id. Currently it's a table design (boo!), and, as you can see, so ugly.
Any ideas for making this look a little nicer? The rest of the site is ultra plain (I call it clean) with gray/black/white, but I could change this easily.