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GASTONIA � When John and David Warren grew up in Gastonia, younger brother David often emulated his older brother.
So when John Warren was an All-Southwestern 4A Conference wrestler at Ashbrook High in 1989 and 1990, it was natural for David to follow in his footsteps and do the same.
Once they left Bill Eccles� program and attended college � John at Appalachian State and David at N.C. State � and began their coaching careers, it was just as natural for that competitiveness to continue.
That competition has been at its apex this season.
David Warren�s Grier Middle School team won the regular season title with an 8-0 record and enters Saturday�s Gaston County championship tournament at Ashbrook as one of the favorites. Meanwhile, first-year Belmont Middle School coach John Warren�s team finished 6-2 � and in a tie with Stanley for second place and one game ahead of five-time defending county champion Friday (5-3).
�It�s certainly fun and it�s certainly interesting,� said David Warren, in his 13th year as Grier coach and seeking that school�s first title since 2005. �I grew up idolizing my older brother and pretty much did everything he did. I guess that�s still going on.�
Ironically, John Warren�s tenure at Belmont started after he spent three years as David Warren�s assistant at Grier (2007-09) and two years as Jake Eccles� assistant at Ashbrook.
What it meant was that until this season, they had always been on the same team.
So, when Grier hosted Belmont on November 30 � a match won 60-42 by Grier � there was, at least initially, some unusual feelings on both sides of the rivalry.
�I have all the respect in the world for him as a coach,� John Warren said of his brother David. �He�s really good at teaching kids how to wrestle. So it was fun to compete, but it also was a bit strange.
�We usually talk a lot during the season and I tried to get information from him about his team before our match and he didn�t have a lot to say.�
David Warren said it wasn�t anything personal: He just wanted to keep his distance due to his competitive nature.
�It sure was different,� David Warren said. �I just told my kids that I got into wrestling because of my big brother, but I didn�t want to lose to him either.�
Grier�s unbeaten regular season finish was its first since the county went with the middle school concept in the 1997-98 school year. And the last time the Knights won a regular season title (2005), they were 7-1 and ended up also winning the postseason tournament.
But Friday claimed its fifth straight county title a year ago after finishing second in the regular season.
�Winning the regular season means a lot, but dual matches as a lot different than the tournament,� David Warren said. �So it should be a very competitive event.�
Richard Walker: 704-869-1841; twitter.com/JRWalk22


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Impeachment group crashing 9/11 Muslim march
'It seems like a lot of people like to hijack things'
The rapidly expanding grassroots effort to impeach President Obama is now turning its sights on the Million Muslim March planned for Sept. 11.
Although now, the march has undergone a public-relations makeover and the organizers, the American Muslim Political Action Committee (AMPAC), have changed its name to "Million American March Against Fear."
Fear of what?
AMPAC claims," Many non-Muslim Americans are terrified of Muslims, who are portrayed by Hollywood and the U.S. media as fanatical terrorists. Muslims, too, live in fear – of being dragged off in the night to Guantanamo and tortured, simply for the crime of being Muslim in the wrong place at the wrong time."
What bothers James Neighbors, the founder of Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment, is AMPAC is choosing to make its statement on the very day fanatical Muslim terrorists did indeed kill some 3,000 Americans, on Sept. 11, twelve years ago.
"They could've picked any other day of the year. There's 364 other days of the year they could've picked, but the fact they chose 9/11 just simply apppears to be a slap in the face to America and an insult to every American who died in attacks on those days (in 2001 and 2012.)"
"We simply could not tolerate 9/11 being hijacked like that. It seems like a lot of people like to hijack things in this country, like Obama tries to hijack the word patriot for his progressives," he added.
Overpasses had begun to organize it's own march on Washington on Sept. 9, dedicated to bring attention to its primary mission, removing President Obama from office.
But founder James Neighbors changed plans and called for a nationwide protest in the streets and on overpasses on Sept. 11. specifically to oppose the Muslim march, after he learned of it.
They won't be the only protesters, as WND reported a Facebook page has been created dedicated to bringing "2 Million Bikers to DC" to counter the Muslim march.
What Overpass protesters do is simple but effective. They merely gather on highway overpasses and wave signs calling for the impeachment of Obama or urging drivers to "honk to impeach.
WND first reported on the booming movement in July, and now the group claims it has mushroomed to 40,000 members across America to become "the largest grassroots movement in the nation" in the few weeks since it was launched in June.
The group's national website has links to Facebook pages of groups in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C.
WND asked Neighbors if he was concerned critics may try to brand his group as bigoted for opposing a Muslim march.
He said the group's message has never been about race or religion and members avoid any inflammatory statements.
"We've had people who've wanted to carry signs saying things like 'Obama is the anti-Christ' and, well, that's just not an impeachable offense."
Visit WND's online Impeachment Store to see all the products related to ousting Obama.
Neighbors says the main thing is just to stick to the issues because, "It doesn't matter what race Barack Obama happens to be. What matters is if he's performed criminal behavior and the precedent he has set for the future."
He also notes, "As a movement we have no particluar issue with Islam, but the fact of the matter is 9/11 is the day, across America, people remember planes smashing into the World Trade Center, a planes smashing into the Pentagon, and men and women willing to give their lives in another plane, whose last words were 'Let's Roll' before crashing into a field in Pennsylvania."
Neighbors says, because the hijackers of those planes happened to be Muslim, it's left a bad impression around the nation that Muslims chose this particular day for their march.
He says the fact four Americans were killed by Muslim terorists in attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11 last year makes it even worse.
"I just think their complete lack of tact to have a protest on 9/11 needs to be countered by partiotic Americans that remember that's a day of remembrance and sorrow and it shouldn't be tainted."
WND asked Neighbors, since Overpasses is combining issues on Sept. 11, what is the message he wants America to hear?
"We are combining them, but the impeachment message will be a bit muted on that day," Neighbors replied.
"The people who died in Benghazi, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Ty Woods and Sean never really had a proper day of memorial," said Neighbors, blaming all the news that followed, and all the "distractions created by Obama right after the event," including the (since discredited) claim the attack was caused by a video insulting Islam.
Neighbors noted the nation has never really stopped to remember the four people who died in Benghazi, partially because "the entire incident has been buried under a mountain of scandals."
"It's one year late, but it is the one-year anniversary. Those four deserve a day where they're respected and remebered, when people can cheer them as patriots and cry for their loss. That hasn't happened yet and that's what the whole point of our protest."
Neighbors says, even if people don't go out to a highway or an overpass to protest on Sept. 11, they can still participate in a significant way.
"If they happen to be up at midnight on that day, I just ask them to step out on the porc with a candle and say a little prayer for those lost in Benghazi. They haven't been on everyone's mind here in America and its a tragedy that hasn't happened and our president has allowed that. And we need to do that. I would just ask everybody is they are not with us on that day, if they would do this on their own."


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Koivu Scores In OT, Wild Beat Coyotes 4-3
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Mikko Koivu scored at 2:43 of overtime to give Minnesota a 4-3 comeback victory over Phoenix on Wednesday night, extending the Wild's winning streak to seven and the Coyotes' skid to seven.
Koivu skated out from the corner and beat goalie Jason LaBarbera between the pads.
Minnesota tied it with 54.3 seconds left in regulation, with Ryan Suter scoring on a wrist shot from the left point with Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom off for an extra attacker.
Torrey Mitchell and Matt Cullen also scored for the Wild, and Backstrom stopped 24 shots.
Rob Klinkhammer, Boyd Gordon and Michael Stone scored for Phoenix. LaBarbera made 33 saves.
The Coyotes, in serious danger of missing the playoff after reaching the Western Conference finals last season, finally found some offense after being outscored 16-5 in their previous six losses.
Stone gave Phoenix a 3-2 lead early in the third period. Backstrom, who has won a career-best seven straight games, stopped Shane Doan at the edge of the crease and the puck trickled out to the top of the right circle to Stone, who let go with a slap shot that found the top corner.
Minnesota opened the scoring on Mitchell's goal off a rebound with 4:45 left in the first period, and Cullen made it 2-0 at 5:29 of the second. From behind his net, LaBarbera tried to clear the puck up the ice, but Cullen knocked it down with his stick and put it into the empty net.
Klinkhammer countered at 11:13, fighting of a check and lifting a shot over Backstrom's glove. Gordon tied it with 5:32 left in the period, tipping in Keith Yandle's weak shot for his first goal in 35 games.
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Impact of AC
Impact of AC
Hi Omar,
My experience is that range is barely effected by AC usage. I did two long trips (600 miles round trip each) with a P85. The first one I put the electonics in range mode, which modifies the performance of the AC. Temps were between 55 and 80. The second trip I left range mode off and let the conditoner do its thing at 71 degres for the entire trip. temperatures were slightly higeher on average on the second trip so the airconditioner was working more/harder. There was no noticeable difference. Ultimately, I determined that I will not be using "range mode" on long trips. The absolute biggest factor in my eletricity usage is speed as it relates to wind drag. If you want to drive fast often and hate being behind someone (very useful for drafting even without tailgating) then upgrade to the 85kwh, otherwise, AC is minimal.
Actually, I just swapped out from loaner 19s to my due bill 21s and THAT makes a much larger difference in energy consumption than the AC.
@ Omar - According to the range calculator on the Tesla website at Go Electric > Your Questions Answered > How Far Can I Go, there is a 3% loss of range at 65 MPH and 9% loss of range at 45 MPH between 70 deg F, AC off and 90 deg F, AC on. Note, that the affect of AC only is greater than that. The loss of range between 90 deg F, AC off and 90 deg F, AC on, is 6% at 65 MPH and 11% at 45 MPH.
I live in blazing hot Arizona - we hit 110F today! The impact of the AC on range is far less than I ever anticipated. Much less than the impact the heater has. I hardly notice a reduction of range caused by the AC.
Andes, approximately how much difference do the 21s make in range?
Omar - My experience has been that headwinds have a far greater impact on range than A/C use.
Just did a trip from SF Bay Area to Vegas. AC usage had very little effect on energy usage, even in the 100-108 degree heat. If I didn't know the AC was on for hundreds of miles, I wouldn't have noticed, as my wh/mile numbers were the same as my overall average.
Hi Theresa, I posted on another thread(think its private) but the difference so far is ~7% or so with about 400 miles on the new wheels. I was getting 308 wh/mi with the 19s over 2k miles and now am averaging as of tonight 328wh/mi over the last 400 on the 21s. Not a big difference but I notice it substantially more than the AC! Again, speed will be the largest energy sync.
There was speculation in another thread that the use of accessories like AC might not actually be reflected in the watt-hours/mile (whpm) numbers on the trip meter. That is, just as the trip meter does not show vampire load when the car is stationary, perhaps it shows only consumption from the power train and not the accessories when the car is moving. The use of accessories would of course be reflected in the drop in rated miles, but not in the trip meter's whpm display.
If anyone is in a position to test this theory, I would be interested in your observations. Just do your commute both with and without AC and other accessories, and compare the whpm. Thanks.
Yeah, check the change in miles and do your own arithmetic and see if it jibes.
Salams Omar, have a 60kWh in Virginia which gets pretty hot too. Not noticeable AC impact in day-to-day driving. On long range (100 miles+ highway trips), switch to range mode which puts the AC on Eco mode and again no noticeable impact.
My experience in the Denver area: A/C has minimal impact; cold weather has a significant impact. As for the cold weather impact, I'm not sure if it is cabin heat or battery heat that causes the most draw.
"There was speculation in another thread that the use of accessories like AC might not actually be reflected in the watt-hours/mile (whpm) numbers on the trip meter."
I'd agree but the heater definitely drives the dials up on the energy side of the speedometer. (Very much so, actually. Having the defroster on high makes a big difference, actually.)
I've also noticed the sliver of orange on the power meter while parked with my AC on full blast.
I also live in AZ. I pre-cool the car for about 20 minutes twice a day before I go down to the parking lot. Going from 140 interior temp to 80 eats up about 3 miles of rated range. So running the AC on max for an hour is less than 10 miles range in my experience in the hottest possible temps. While driving it appears to be a pretty low impact, but can't say for sure because it has always been on since I got the car a few weeks ago.
@Jewsh - Yes, I know that accessory use shows on the energy side of the speedometer. However, I'm interested in the trip meter, both the kWh used and the average whpm since the last charge. The trip meter numbers derive from the same base: that is, whpm is always kWh used/miles traveled. Since the trip meter registers no energy usage while the car is stationary (e.g., vampire load), I am wondering whether it simply excludes accessory use and measures only usage from the drive train.
I will try it myself, but as I don't have a daily commute, it is less convenient. I will have to set up a test drive of enough length to make the comparison meaningful, and then drive it several times to measure the difference in kWh used with and without accessories.
Go to http://www.evtripplanner.com/planner/alpha and enter a common route you'll be driving, and set the Cabin and Ext Temps to the same value, such as 73, for both. Note what the Total and Average Energy values are. Next increase the Ext Temp value to whatever your high temp would be and see what the difference is in your Energy values.
I did this for my 35 mile round trip from home to work. With no AC (both Temps at 73) my Total Energy was 9.7 kWh (278 Wh/mile). With Ext Temp set to 115 (not uncommon in AZ) the numbers were 11.7 kWh (334 Wh/mile). I was told by the show room guys to figure on a 10% drop in range from heavy AC use but these numbers equate to 20%.


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Developing enterprise mobile applications is one thing. Deploying and ensuring your staff will use those apps is a whole different ball game. Enterprise mobility can have an enormous positive impact on an organization's productivity, efficiency and overall competitiveness. But unless the solution gets high rates of end-user acceptance across your enterprise, the opportunity is lost.
In this slideshow, Margot Hoekstra, business analyst at Retriever Communications, explores six ways to ensure IT departments design and implement effective mobile enterprise apps and reap the rewards mobility has to offer.
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Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges come to Boston for 'R.I.P.D.' screening
More than a year and a half after filming the paranormal-thriller-comedy "R.I.P.D.'' in Boston, Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges were back in the city to screen the movie for Boston and Watertown police, firefighters, MIT officers, and many of the other first responders who helped after the Boston Marathon bombings. Reynolds and Bridges play deceased cops in the film ("R.I.P.D.'' stands for "Rest in Peace Department''), which features scenes shot all over the city, from the Financial District to Fenway Park. During a quick interview before the Sunday evening screening at Regal Fenway, we asked the duo to talk about the most challenging scene they filmed during the action-heavy shoot. Their response? "When I was riding you,'' Bridges said to Reynolds, who quickly explained, "Jeff at one point rides me down the side of a building.'' Reynolds added, "Yeah. He had to buy me a couple of drinks before we shot that scene.'' Reynolds also talked about his brief cameo in last year's Boston comedy "Ted.'' He explained that he happened to be in town looking for apartments before his "R.I.P.D.'' gig when "Ted'' director Seth MacFarlane asked him to play Patrick Warburton's boyfriend in the Mark Wahlberg comedy. "Who wouldn't want to make out with Patrick Warburton?,'' Reynolds joked.
Bridges, meanwhile, gave us a little dish about his film adaptation of Cambridge author Lois Lowry's classic Newbery Medal-winner, "The Giver.'' Bridges, who will play the title role, said the script for the dystopian tale is still bring written, and promises that Lowry will be involved in the project. "I'm really interested in her input,'' he promised.
Among the law enforcement officials in Sunday's crowd was Boston Police Superintendent Daniel Linskey, who called the movie night "a chance to relax, especially after everything everyone's been through in the past few months.'' "R.I.P.D.,'' which also stars Kevin Bacon and Boston's own Mike O'Malley, has its official release on July 19.
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The latest episode of the Made by Hand series profiles Martinez Cigars, a New York City-based factory and store where they've been hand rolling and selling cigars since 1974. Watching one of their craftsmen take a stack of dried tobacco leaves and effortlessly roll it into a cigar is mesmerizing, and the art is made all the more beautiful through the black and white lens of this video by Bureau of Common Goods.
And in the same way they say you should never trust a thin chef, it's particularly satisfying to see these cigar rollers puff away on the fruits of their labor while they work. Who needs a box of cubans when Manhattan's got guys like this? [Vimeo via Have you seen this?]


text: TV / VideoEmilio Romano to Leave NBCUniversalTelemundo Media president is gone effective immediatelyBy Sam Thielman|October 4, 2013 ShareBy Sam Thielman|October 4, 2013 Share Joe Uva, NBCU's chairman of Hispanic enterprises and content, told staff this morning that Emilio Romano will be leaving the group, where he headed Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo and cable network Mun2. "I want to personally thank Emilio for his contributions to Telemundo Media," Uva said. "His focus on positioning Telemundo to take share from Univision, and mun2 to better resonate with the rapidly growing Millennial population has established a foundation for growth." Romano's departure is effective immediately. "A formal search," according to Uva, will begin immediately, with Uva heading down to Hialeah, Florida where the network is located to manage the day-to-day of the two networks in Romano's absence. "In the coming days I will reach out to each division to touch base directly." Romano, a veteran of the Hispanic TV world, ran the mergers and acquisitions division at Grupo Television, the TV production juggernaut that in many ways formed the basis for Univision's massive market share. His arrival in 2011 at Telemundo, Univision's direct competitor, was seen as a coup for the network; Romano reported to Lauren Zalaznick, then-head of a large division at NBCU that oversaw both digital and Hispanic content. Zalaznick, however, is leaving the company, and she hasn't overseen the Hispanic networks in months. Uva was promoted to leadership of the Hispanic group in April, and now it's anyone's guess as to who Uva's pick to assume Romano's duties will be. The U.S. Hispanic TV world is small, and NBCU and Univision have many of the major players sewn up, including Cesar Conde, who made the leap from Univision to NBCU corporate, where he works on business development. The exec will be difficult to replace; his tenure at Telemundo was marked by large changes to the network's strategy and lineup from the era of his predecessor, Don Browne, and it remains to be seen how the network will fare with three leaders in as few as four years. Sharehttp://adweek.it/16nB8qt copy Adweek Adweek


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Web Apps are HotJune 23, 2004
An ongoing conversation about web applications is highlighting key points about the future of computing, the web, and the industry.
While Joel Spolsky's seminal article on Microsoft losing the API war appears to have been the first drop in this torrent, it echoes conversations that go back least as far as the W3C's Workshop on Web Applications. (which is the same workshop that people like Opera employee Ian Hickson came away from, disillusioned, just prior to the announcement of the WHAT WG [which was covered on this site earlier this month]).
A Technorati search reveals the interest in web applications in general (and Joel's article in particular), but what has been particularly interesting to me is how the conversation has morphed as it continues.
The beginning, or at least where I came in, saw discussion of which technologies future web applications would be built on. HTML and CSS are great for documents, but not so good for applications. Microsoft has XAML on the horizon, the W3C offers XForms and SVG, and the WHAT WG aims to offer an extension of basic HTML that's backwards compatible with IE6. Two of these technologies require radical change in end-user technology; one does not.
Whether Joel's article was written in response to, or prior to these discussions is largely irrelevant — whatever the case, the publication shifted the entire tone of the conversation. Instead of discussing the technologies themselves, it moved web applications into the spotlight as being an important way forward and a threat to traditional software business models.
John Gruber picked up at this point and wrote yet another tone-setting piece, The Location Field Is the New Command Line. Arguing that web applications provide different, less comprehensive, but easier methods of interaction, Gruber rightly points out that Google's mega-popular GMail is light years ahead of the competition in the webmail space but almost non-competition when compared against desktop mail clients. Gruber concludes that "… web apps don't need to beat desktop apps on the same terms. What's happened is that they're beating them on an entirely different set of terms."
Steven Garrity goes on to compare Gruber's reasoning with yet another article buzzing around the web, Cory Doctorow's presentation on Digital Rights Management given to Microsoft last week. Ian Bicking throws two cents in the ring with his list of features web applications offer that traditional desktop apps do not.
Of course, nobody seems to be talking about Macromedia's Flex and the continuing application development capabilities within Flash itself. Hindered by stigma that Flash is evil and purely about animation amongst developers that should be buying into Flex, it's hard to see this combination taking off; however, as a dark horse, it's a hard one to ignore on sheer numbers alone. Ninety-odd percent of web users have Flash installed, and Flash renders consistently cross-platform. Remember what Joel reminds us though: it's all about developers.
An incredibly thought-provoking article in April speculated Google is building a massive, global platform for distributed computing. Microsoft has renewed an interest in developing Internet Explorer. And don't forget that mobile and wireless devices are reaching incredible saturation levels — the global mobile phone subscription base is expected to hit 2 billion in 3 years. All these things are related.
It's a lot to digest and that's only scratching the surface. The obvious trend is the key to understanding the future of computing: the web is it. Servers are becoming more important than clients. While raw processor power will remain useful for applications that need it, simple and general purpose data management — including email, scheduling and time management, office applications, and all other text and information manipulation tools — will increasingly move to a globally shared environment that makes it easier to collaborate and easier to access. The recession is over, the slump is ended. Web development is in demand, and the demand is only going to increase.
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Your last two sentances are what every web developer wants to hear. I hope it's true.
I think you're last two sentences are going to be proven to be true, and it's good to note that even though Web applications are a big (huge) part of the Web's future (along with content publishing and the informational Web) they have huge room for improvement in many areas. Designers and developers rejoice. Heh.
It is quite a bit to take in, and thanks for the post. I really enjoyed Gruber's piece. I think in many ways the location bar IS the new command line.
It's kind of scary now that i think of it, the server based world Sun predicted a few years back really is the way thing seem to be headed. Though it doesn't seem it will be the Java only solution they propsed.
The real advantage the web really has is that it's there. Wherever you are, if the nearest computer is connected you can jump on and use that App you need. No installing it on every computer you need it on, no inability to work outside the office.
*Loves the WEB*
I strongly agree with Spolsky's position, but I think it doesn't exactly apply completely to all Web Applications.
Look at the most successful Web Applications of today - Amazon and EBay. They work very well in pretty much any browser on any OS. I'm sure there are things the developers of those applications wish they had access to, but the fact remains that they were able to get their job done and make a lot of money on an amazing application. This type of development is so successful, as Joel and everyone else has noted, that I can't see it changing for a number of years even if WHAT develops some nice extensions to HTML that are implemented in 2% of the world's browsers. The developers already have enough trouble fighting their management for the right to make their code work at all in Mozilla and Opera (e.g Gmail which doesn't yet support Opera), let alone code to some specific extensions that those two companies have invented.
So, my position is that today's Web Applications are doing mostly ok, and there isn't a need to cry for help yet. This is how I read Spolsky's article.
However, there are a whole set of Web Applications that can't be done with HTML/CSS/JS. For example, anything with interactive graphics, multimedia or complex network interactions. This is the market that Flash is addressing, and this is the market that XAML is attacking. I can't see anything in WHAT proposes that will lessen this threat.
If you look at the Spolsky's followup article, you see he asks for a bunch of features that are incompatible with HTML, CSS and IE and *will* require a radical change in end-user technology.
I guess I just get the impression that the W3C is fighting with XAML, while the WHAT group are a bunch of casualities from the browser wars trying to relive their glory days. As Joel commented, the Microsoft/W3C approaches won't replace today's Web Applications. This is a good thing. I'm not sure they'll even be used. The same applies to WHAT to some extent. But let's not confuse who is fighting who. Today's browser wars are over, and as Gruber says, the browser was the wrong war for Microsoft anyway. Microsoft realise the war is about technology now, not about a particular implementation. Let's hope that enough people keep their heads out of the sand to be able to fight the new war if it happens.
Maybe it is just this week's blogging trend?
Sorry for ranting :)
People are right in saying that web applications are already possible with the tools we have: HTML, javascript, and the DOM. That combination has been able to produce web applications (like Gmail for instance) which are just good enough for their convenience factor to outweigh the advantages of a truly rich client (like a client-side e-mail app).
There is only so far you can go with HTML though and companies like Microsoft and Macromedia know this. Not only is there only so far you can go, but HTML was not even meant to go further. HTML is a language with which to mark up documents, not to create applications. The fact that it has come this far is a testament to work workers' creativity.
If you're wondering why Microsoft stopped updating IE years ago (yes, the decision was made years ago – not when it came out in the press), it's not because they won the browser war. It's because they lost interest in HTML. I can't say how but I have first-hand knowledge of this… just trust me. Their recent renewed interest in IE does not signify a renewed interest in HTML. It's a good thing, yes, but it's only an admission that Longhorn may take a little longer than they originally planned and that Longhorn won't be able to wean people completely off of HTML.
Microsoft has moved on to true web applications in Longhorn and that is what Macromedia is trying to beat them to the punch with. Rich clients which display XML data in very rich ways. There are clearly standards-related things to worry about such as who's XML-dialect will win out (Macromedia's, Microsoft's, W3C's, etc), but what standards junkies will love is that the XML data going into these applications will look A LOT prettier than XHTML. A pure separation of style from content.
In light of comment 4, it's useful to distinguish between Web *Services* and Web *Apps*. While the line is somewhat blurry, Web Services are things like Technorati and eBay (and every blogger's RSS feed). Web Apps are things like GMail and Intuit's "TurboTax for the Web".
IMHO, the direction in Web Services is moving *away* from the browser and toward specialized clients which are more lightweight and whose user-interfaces are more finely-tuned to the Service at hand. My poster child for this is Watson
but yours might be as close as your favourite RSS Aggregator.
When it come to Web Apps, the story is more mixed.
Some things are very naturally-suited to being packaged as Web Apps. Webmail is a prime example. Much of the infrastructure associated to the desktop email client (POP3, IMAP, … ) is an unhappy kludge associated to the fact that you want your email to collect in one central location with good 24/7 internet connectivity, whereas you want to be able to access your email from many different location, some of which may have only sporadic internet connectivity (like whenever your laptop joins a WiFi hotspot). A really good Webmail App *solves* that problem once and for all.
Other things are less obviously suited to being packaged as Web Apps. Intuit's Web App version of their tax preparation software has only one advantage (price) and a host of disadvantages, relative to its desktop cousins.
And that, despite the fact that Intuit's App is, in a certain sense, also a natural candidate for the new paradigm.
The current hype about Web Apps is just another aspect of the general push, from some sectors of the IT industry, towards a subscription model for software (Sun's "free hardware" pitch is another). Rather than buying a shrink-wrapped desktop application, which is then yours to use until the vendor can coax you into upgrading, you'll now pay an annual subscription fee to use the software. And if you stop paying, … there goes your data.
I suggest a little thought-experiment: go through your most-frequently used desktop apps and decide how many you would willingly trade for an (even significantly cheaper) Web-based version.
That many, huh?
I really hope Flex doesn't take off. From what I've seen, its very similar to XAML in its ability to take us right back where we started;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml">
<mx:Label text="Hello World!"/>>
<mx:Label text="Hello World!" fontSize="40"/>
That code above is from the Flex example repository on Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/example_apps.html#), notice the way they apply fontsize. Oh dear. I actually believed Eric had managed to enlighten them too.
Hey dan,
i disagree with you on the 'lash is not evil' comment.
Flash disables anyone wothout a flash player to view your website.. it adds those splash pages, because people dont understand that i dont need distracting flashes and annoying sounds. I honestly believe, that flash has never contributed to the "spreading" of information. I agree, it looks nice.. sometimes it is beautiful.. But i have never thought: "Wow! That's so great! It's good that the flashing light in the top left corner flashes, else i would have never seen … "
This is an amazingly well-timed piece for me - I've been involved in several "discussions" on this very topic this week. Despite the fact that for several years we've been successfully creating complex, open and compliant web apps, some people have been driving hard to return to Windows-locked approaches. I'm not sure where the desire is coming from; atho' I could make a few guesses. ;-) All I do know is everything they showed us that "just has to be win-locked" doesn't. Not even a little bit. Thanks for sharing this info - I'll add it to the conversation and see what happens!
Certainly the interest in web applications is there - from the vendors and the developers. There's a handful of different projects assembling the right building blocks for web applications - so at some stage developers need to start plumping for which toolset they will use. The groups are: WHAT WG, Mozilla, RICHIE, W3C web applications, XAML.
I feel that WHAT WG and Mozilla fit in well with the Web, Mozilla is better right now because web apps are deployable right now.
Nice roundup of the current thinking on web apps Dave. However you mention, XAML, XForms and the WHATWG HTML forms extensions, without mentioning Mozilla's XUL.
XUL offers fully rich client applications which can be deployed over the web. Plus unlike XAML, XUL is cross platform, open-source, and is available and working today (if you're using a Mozilla based browser, you can run this rich web application right now http://www.infodraft.com/~faser/mab/content/mab.xul ).
More? Web reference have a good intro: http://www.webreference.com/programming/xul/
Jan, thats a very good point, one which I had forgotten about. I think that definitely gave web apps the 'in' the needed to get going.
The problem was then corporates caught on that employees could access all this cool 'non work' stuff from ebay to personal emails to blogs.
Now I the majority of my friends are banned from at least one website, blog or web mail page, and the majority from most of them. So when you can't blog, or read a blog, or read webmail because they are all web apps, and it doesn't take much to block them on a firewall, what then?
The very thing that makes web apps great (the easy to get to bit) is being blocked by immature corporates. That could kill or slow down web apps enough to mean it never gets a decent foothold outside the home. Which means the critical mass needed to make something pervasive, and too have enough of an effect to get browser developers to include the functionality in them is reduced.
I'm not saying this is the way things will go, but it is a concern
One thing I don't understand is why Microsoft decided to go with a web interface for their windows update utility rather than a standard API?
Its clunky at best and I believe that to be able to use the web interface they needed to poke open a lot of security hole in Internet Explorer.
Would it not have been easier to develop an "updater" as a Windows App rather a web page? Maybe I'm just missing the point here, but 98% of the software that I have used that has "automatic updates" uses a standard API to achieve this.
I guess you could write a whole book on questionable Microsoft business practices.
web: the updater really is a windows app - it dld's an ActiveX control from the page which does the heavy lifting. The web pg is simply a convenient location to see the available updates and trigger the control.
It uses the "holes" that already existed to good effect IMO.
man, what a great read…! lots a good links and you drive home the overall point of it all…. and i loved the last paragraph.
web-apps will start to rattle the cages once again, and the slump is over. heh.
I heavily use the browser as a platform for applications, and it is just plain stupid only Mozilla and IE (or Konqueror CVS) are able to handle XML.
It's a shame that the stigma of bad animation is going to be around Flash for a while to come. I've used it, along with Central (http://www.macromedia.com/go/central), to create several in-house apps for maintaining our company's website and customer data.
The designer in me loves it because you can actually place objects *anywhere* you want by just drag and drop rather than try and figure out the CSS for the exact placement. You can customize any element to look exactly like you want, and you never have to sacrifice your typographic sense since you can use any font you want. You can be as creative as you want and not have to sacrifice because of the limitations of the medium you're designing for.
The developer in me loves it because you don't have to worry about statelessness - you can take user interaction, feed it to a server, return something different and the user never has to know (with page reloads, redirects, etc.) It's a beautifully seamless experiece, much like a regular ol' desktop app.
The idea of Flex is basically to provide the best of both worlds - the rapid development of webpages with the interactivity of Flash. For me, a big drawback is the cost. The last estimate I heard was $12,000 for the server software! And it's not even standalone - you need to run it ontop of a Java server! Yikes!
(Perhaps off-topic, but related on implementation terms..) Safari 1.2 in fact does support the XMLHTTP object. To quote, it's "a welcome addition" even though it hasn't yet been sanctioned by the W3C.
I think Web Apps will be that much easier if all browsers can implement XMLHTTP (or a future W3C equivalent), allowing dynamic TX/RX of XML data/forms, received data being transformed via XSL (perhaps also client-side.)
Gmail for example makes good use of XMLHTTP on their registration page - you can check for the availability of an e-mail address without refreshing the page.
Once this "dynamic transaction" restriction is reliably overcome, I think the biggest remaining issues are mostly behavior-related (layout, CSS etc.)
I must say Dave, this was a very interesting article. I found it most interesting. I currently work at my university in the web development department and I am seeing that web apps are being used and are definitely becoming an integral part in the way things are done on campus. And I agree with Jim that those last two sentences are what every web developer wants to hear. My eye's have been opened even wider after reading this article. Keep up the good work.
Have a nice day.
I must say Dave, this was a very interesting article. I found it most interesting. I currently work at my university in the web development department and I am seeing that web apps are being used and are definitely becoming an integral part in the way things are done on campus. And I agree with Jim that those last two sentences are what every web developer wants to hear. My eye's have been opened even wider after reading this article. Keep up the good work.
Have a nice day.
Great read yes!
But the entire I couldn't get it out of my head….
"Flash is evil"
It is not :(. Everything has its place, and I think although not so accessible(for the time being), it is amazing for creating apps. Especially when you mix it with cold fusion components. Now that MX 2004 is full blown OOP, it's just a matter of time before people realise it's power… and all under 10kb!
I think the biggest problem with flash is as much as we are trying to seperate content and functionality, we need to remember that most of the time we need to keep the designer separate from the developer.
Isn't a web application pretty much the ultimate expression of seperation of content and presentation? Content is usually stored in a database and the app itself becomes the container for presenation. For some apps even behavior is seperated in that it's being handled by web services or other server software …
Interesting article, and there defiantly are changes to what the web signifies afoot.
Personally I can't wait till the web can change content on a page without changing the page itself. That's the true power of Flex really, without that it's really just flash and is something you can do on WebTV which runs the equivalent of version 3 browsers.
There is however a problem with the location bar being the new command line. You can't block a command line. You can block a address bar. Webmail (the most common example of web apps) is a great example. My client (I'm a consultant, work at the client) is a major company and for 'security' reasons have blocked hotmail, gmail, yahoomail etc, as they fear access to non work mail means virus.
I can bring my laptop in because it has a virus checker and run any application I like. However the clients I work for can block with their firewall any application I want. until companies mature about their thinking of the web, major and big companies are still fairly old school. I'm sure the banking sector is ever worse, and blocks a lot more.
The web as an application medium is great if you have unrestricted access. But I cannot shift to web apps for the most part until I can guarantee that they wont be blocked when I arrive at a client
I like what Tim Bray had to say about a year ago:
"…all application interfaces (VB, win32, X Windows, Mac OS) used to be 'richer environments,' and the users abandoned them by the millions, in favor of the browser, the moment they got a chance (granted, the browser was an advance on previous online-service interfaces).
"I said millions and I meant millions: tens of millions, hundreds of millions of browser downloads from the Netscape that was, and the software vendors fighting the rearguard actions to defend their 'richer,' 'more responsive,' 'higher-performance' client software; and losing, losing.
"Hey, I cashed in on it. Open Text got to be a successful vendor of content management software largely because we were the first to do it all through the browser, with no client software. Our stuff didn't do all that much more, but given a choice between client and browser, the people wanted the browser.
"That's why […] flexibility and usability […] is so completely 100% wrong. Browsers are more usable because they're _less_ flexible.
"I think I've told this story before here, but it's a good one; at a content management conference, a woman from the Tandem-that-was saying 'It was so wonderful when the browser interfaces came on; the vendors had to discard all those stupid sliders and cascaded menus and eight-way toggles, and only leave the stuff that mattered.'"
—– start digression ——
"Jan" wrote "I doubt XAML or Flex will take off very soon. As the articles say, being able to run anywhere, anywhen is the core feature of the web. These 'rich webapps' wont run everywhere until well into the next decade, if ever"
I think you may be confused on terms here… Macromedia Flex is an XML-based way to create SWF files, which the majority of consumers can already view today, on their current machines, without downloading anything new. It doesn't require a new round of plugin downloading, much less OS installation, much purchase of new hardware to support the new OS.
Flex is just another way to create SWF, not a new type of deliverable format itself.
John Dowdell
Macromedia Support
—– end digression ——
Continuing on Derek's reiteration of what Tim Bray had to say about the web browser. The fact that the web browser has such a limited set of controls is (I feel) the major reason why it has been such a success to deliver 'applications'.
You only have to watch an average user, and by an average user this is someone who is just using the computer as a tool to get things done (and is not interested in the computer/software itself), to them even a tree control can be an odd concept. This may sound strange to developers but go and watch average users working with computers. These are the people who will use multiple spaces in word to align columns of text as they don't know about tabs.
This in a round about way is the crux of the problem (bear with me on this) to understand about tabs you have to be taught/learn and build a mental model of tabs and aligning text. With more 'advanced' controls available in traditional applications you have to learn how the control operates/build the mental model. With the limited set of controls provided by the web browser which are all very clear (limited?) the learning curve is very low and once those few controls are learnt they are applicable to all web forms on every site everywhere.
These limited controls have also forced web developers to rethink how to display information. Whereas before you might have used component 58 from your Super Developer Pack of 256 components, now you have to rethink how the data is going to be displayed and how you are going to ask the end user for their response.
So remember when you look at the controls available in a web browser you may only see limitation - your users will see instant familiarity and understanding.
Adrian: On the other hand, one of the reasons webapps have done so well is that they let you bypass (for good or ill) firewalls which block anything but port 80.
I doubt XAML or Flex will take off very soon. As the articles say, being able to run anywhere, anywhen is the core feature of the web. These "rich webapps" wont run everywhere until well into the next decade, if ever.
(Dave: when you forget to fill in an email address, you get sent to page which still uses the old design. Is this intentional? And if you hit preview on _that_ page, you get an unstyled page!)
I've been involved in designing and developing behind-the-firewall financial webapps for the past few years. Given the conservative culture surrounding these things, I doubt XAML is going to take off anytime within 2-3 years of being released, as it is tied to Longhorn. I doubt Flex will ever become anything but a "boutique" platform, either - it has the stigma of being associated with Flash (which makes corporate developers wet their pants in fear) as well as a VERY hefty pricetag for a platform with very little markut saturation. I'm really hoping that XUL takes off, it seems to have a lot of promise, the major thing that is lacking at this point is a "plugin" style browser install of the required libs. The little XUL documentation that does exist is 100% geared towards creating Mozilla extensions, very little attention has been given to enabling developers to create standalone XUL webapps.
As far as creating web-apps goes, this is where IE5.5+ still definitely beats Mozilla - it has basic but functional (and very easy to code) drag 'n drop events, the .htc extensions are really cool, and the MSXML4 DOM tools are fucking AWESOME, and blow Mozilla's XML handling out of the water. For chrissakes, it pretty much has full XPath support from Javascript. That's powerful stuff, and it's very very useful for rapid, iterative prototyping.
There seems to be three technologies emerging in this discussion:
1)Classic DHTML web applications using JavaScript/HTML /DOM/CSS, etc centered on the client; 2)Flash based web apps like Macromedia's Flex and Central plus Laszlo Systems centerd on a rich-client based Flash Player with ActionScripting 3)Microsoft's Longhorn XML based rich client entry modeled after Mozilla's XUL. Whats interesting is that these are ALL client side technologies.
One other major client side technology, Java, in the form of J2ME and other trimmed down JVM players is emerging from players like Altio, Droplets and Nexaweb and they are very powerful client side alternates as they support offline AND online operations as well as being cross-platform and cross-browser.
The other cross platform technology that seems to be ignored is the huge, server-side JSP/PHP/PerlCGI community of applications that are all getting major upgrades this year. JSF-Java Server Faces, despite Tim Bray's arguments to KISS it - does allow for much improved Web UI sophistication as appropriate. Java Studio Creator and Oracle 10g JDeveloper will probably be first to market but lots more to come. Meanwhile PHP 5 is at release candidate 3 and has added some deceptively nifty touches including much easier and faster XML parsing, client side CLI-Command Line Interetation (just needs trusted app security model) and much smoother OO implementation. Finally Perl 6 should also emerge with a much better and cross platform runtime engine - Parrot which can purportedly execute JVM and CLR code.
So if Dave is right about the up tick in Web and Application development - there will be an absolute wealth of newly empowered tools to choose from - and all of them incorporate Web Services as just another component.
Everyone I know is switching to Mozilla (or some variation of it), accelerated by the terrible IE viruses that have come out this week. This is probably a good time for the progressive developer to wrap their brain around XUL. Does anyone have a simple example of XUL in action to improve a Web app? (That Amazon example is way too weird and all the other documentation I've read starts too small; this is a window, this is a button..) Maybe if we rally behind XUL it will have a chance while Microsoft is asleep at the wheel w/ Internet Explorer.
Couple of points here:
- It's not clear the recession is over. Look at the Feds comments after each major meeting; they are very cautious about the 'recovery' and so should everyone else.
- Web applications built via CSS/HTML are crude and almost always very difficult to use, even with the best intentions (here I'm talking about B2E and B2B business applications and not consumer sites like Amazon or eBay). I don't think the software developers or UI designers are at fault, it's just a byproduct of the GUI elements and metaphors used when building web applications with this technology.
- Flex is very promising and I think the future leader in the web app UI space in terms of interaction design.
- Bottom line is that browser interoperability is still a big issue and in turn why web standards (or using CSS/XHTML) are still important. When the browser become ubiquitous, I think true interactive GUIs will emerge - as Usability and UI specialists our hands are still, unfortunately, locked.
I am surprised there are not more rich-client applications being developing in dhtml. Mozilla and IE are now similair enough - and powerful enough - that developing a desktop-alike application that works in both browsers isn't technically difficult.
See oddpost / webfx for examples.
My contribution to the rich client world is LivePhp:
Which is a php library trying to wrap some of the complexities of developing rich client apps.
I have a few fairly trivial questions:
First, isn't Joel Spolsky's article not really "seminal" if it is based on previous ideas? The definition [1] seems to imply that a seminal article generates the idea, and your description implies the contrary (i.e. echoing other conversations).
Secondly, Microsoft doesn't really seem to be trying to position XAML for the world wide web - at least that's the idea I get from reading the developers' blogs. XAML seems to be just a fancy way of instantiating .NET classes. While the implementation often generates a GUI, I get the feeling that XAML is useful in other situations too. In fact, I think XAML's non-W3C-language syntax is mainly due to the layout of objects and classes in Microsoft's .NET frameworks like Windows Forms. Is this right? If so, then I don't see how XAML could displace XHTML and company. Different strokes for different folks, after all.
Again, I'm sorry about the tangent. These issues just bother me a little.


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If you want to party with a celebrity during the winter, New Year's Eve is likely your best opportunity. That's when celebs who normally would avoid Chicago during the colder months brave the frigid temperatures to make appearances at the city's various New Year's Eve parties.
Last year it was Lil Wayne, T-Pain and Pete Wentz (with then-wife Ashlee Simpson at his side) who hosted New Year's Eve parties in the area. Here is a look at which celebs will be ringing in 2012 in and around downtown this year:
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Enclave is offering guests an opportunity to party with (and like) a celebrity at its "Everyone's Famous" party. The celebration will be hosted by "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member Taylor Armstrong and will include a red carpet — complete with paparazzi and autograph hounds.
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"American Idol" winner and Mount Prospect native DeWyze is coming home for the holidays (well, at least New Year's). DeWyze will appear at "A Starry New Year's Eve" party at the Hard Rock Hotel. "Malcolm in the Middle" actor Chris Masterson will DJ the party — but he's billed as his alias, Chris Kennedy.
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Playboy's annual New Year's Eve celebration will again take place at the Hilton Chicago hotel. But unlike in past years, when Pitbull and T-Pain took the stage, this year's festivites will feature lesser known acts Baby Bash ("Suga Suga") and Eva Simons ("Take Over Control").
Jay Cutler probably won't spend New Year's Eve in Chicago (his Bears face the Minnesota Vikings on the road New Year's Day), but it looks like his fiancee might. Cavallari, who rang in 2011 with Cutler at Mercadito and Cuvee, recently tweeted, "In chicago for the next 3 weeks. So excited!"
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Standardization is a key part of preventing costly quality-control issues on press.
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If there is one component of the screen-printing process that has a greater impact on the quality of the finished product than any other component, it is the screen. The truth of this statement lies in the number of facilities that have made the investment to maximize the quality of the screens. While some still get by with whatever they have available, a majority of garment screen printers have either upgraded their frames, mesh, or stencils, or they've or completely revamped their screen departments altogether.
Among the greatest challenges that screen printers face are understanding the importance the role of the screen plays in their shops and adopting the philosophy that the screen is the key to producing the quality that customers demand. It is this philosophy that drives the shop manager or owner to make the required investments and changes to assembling a screen department with the sole purpose of producing the highest quality screen from production run to production run.
Art preparation
There are few things in the world more frustrating than discovering an error in your artwork after you have already exposed your screens—or worse, set up your press and printed a strike-off. The work required to fix this type of mistake means a loss of time and money.
Let's look at artwork separation from two different angles: outputting to film and direct-to-screen (DTS) imaging. In either case, you should always have a second pair of eyes to review a separation prior to it being sent to film or your DTS system. There are numerous aspects to a set of separations that have to be reviewed to ensure that there are no errors when the art is ready for the screenroom. The simplest and most common error that should be double checked is spelling. It's easy to catch and correct while still in the art department.
For film-output separations, you should be able to review the finalized art on the computer monitor and be able to ensure that all is correct prior to sending the art to the film-output device. Once you've reviewed and finalized the art and it has been properly reviewed and approved, it can be sent to the film-output device and the films sent to the screenroom.
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Favorable weather and increased plantings may yield the largest corn crop in U.S. history, according to the most recent report from the USDA.
Based on favorable early-season weather throughout much of the Corn Belt, USDA Monday estimated a 2007 yield of 12.84 billion bushels - more than 1 billion bushels higher than the record 2004 crop.
The report also noted that as of July 5, advance sales of the corn crop had reached 5.1 million tons, more than twice the level of sales at this time last year.
A smaller-than-expected corn crop in Ukraine led USDA to increase its projection for exports by 1 million bushels, to a total of 2 billion bushels during the 2007-2008 marketing year. Demand for food and industrial uses (including ethanol) is up sharply, to 4.79 billion bushels, while demand for feed declined to 5.7 billion bushels.
If these projections hold up, the market for livestock feed will total 44.4% of the entire U.S. corn crop, with exports accounting for 15.6% of the total crop use.
Ethanol production will use slightly more than 25% of the crop while slightly more than 10% of the crop will go for food and beverage uses.
USDA also notes that livestock will consume a greater amount of distillers dried grains this year.
Ending stocks for the 2007-2008 marketing year will increase by 365 million bushels, according to the report.
The report cites crop conditions from July 9 as one reason USDA's higher estimates.
According to the July 16 Crop Progress Report, 32% of the corn crop has reached silking, compared with a five-year average of only 18%.


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The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles sought public help Friday in identifying anyone involved in killing peafowl in Rolling Hills Estates.
About 40 of the birds have been found dead in the community, some near Dapplegray Lane, according to the society, which did not disclose over what period of time the deaths occurred.
Twelve of the peafowl were shot with pellets or BBs, 15 were killed by vehicle strikes, five were poisoned, one was shot with a bow and arrow and another was shot with a gun, according to the spcaLA.
"Peafowl in many areas of Southern California are considered pests. But, it doesn't matter if you think an animal is a pain or a pet, maliciously injuring or killing an animal is criminal,'' spcaLA President Madeline Bernstein said, adding that a conviction on felony animal cruelty charges can lead to imprisonment and fines of up to $20,000.
Anyone with information about the peafowl deaths is urged to contact spcaLA's Cruelty Tipline at 800-540-SPCA.
— City News Service


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This is a story.
A Karate champion was walking down a dark street at night. Out from the bushes jumped a mugger. Before the champion could even take a ready position, the mugger beat the crap out of him. The champion crumpled to the ground as the mugger took his wallet.
"But, but... I'm the best Karate competitor in the state," moaned the champion. "I've never been beaten."
"I guess they did not invite me to that tournament," replied the mugger.
Whether you are the county, state, regional, national or world champion, that only means that you were declared the best of those who competed. There are almost 7 billion people in the world. Do you really think that anyone can say that they are the best Karate competitor or fighter of all those people?
I was thinking about having a tournament at my dojo. I would not tell anyone about it except my two sons and my daughter. We would all compete. I would be the dojo champion, my daughter would be the state champion, my third son would be the national champion, and my second son would be the world champion. And of course, my wife would be the universal champion because we all listen to her!
Just be a champion of your own life. That is enough.
Charles C. Goodin
The Champion
This is a story.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Wednesday, November 25, 2009


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How to book your accommodation (Retiring Rooms) in advance through internet (Online)
Indian Railway introduced the facility of advance computerised booking of Retiring Rooms to avoid manual interference in major railway stations from November, 2011.
Online booking of Railway Retiring Rooms
As a part of developing the passenger amenity, on line booking of Retiring Rooms at Chennai Central has been commissioned w.e.f. 02.11.2011.
Indian Railway has developed a system of on line booking in association with Centre for Railway Information System duly computerizing the entire operation there by avoiding manual interference.
A passenger seeking accommodation in retiring rooms can do so at the time of reserving their journey ticket itself .
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A passenger reserving tickets at Madurai or New Delhi for journey to Chennai can book retiring room for Chennai at Madurai or New Delhi itself by quoting PNR No. of the ticket to the matron of the retiring room of the respective stations.
The passenger seeking accommodation at Retiring Room at various stations can do so by approaching and quoting the PNR number to the matron of Retiring Room of the station at the time of reserving the journey ticket. This facility is open to all passengers 90 days in advance as applicable in normal reservation by trains.
In case, the passenger cancels the journey, the retiring room reservation can also be cancelled and refunds will be made as per extant rules on par with reservation of tickets.
This system also enables the passengers to know the vacancy position of retiring rooms at various location where on line booking was already been commissioned. This facility is extended initially to 18 stations in Indian Railway including 3 stations namely Chennai Central, Madurai and Rameswaram.This will be extended to Chennai Egmore shortly.


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Monday, June 11, 2012
Allow Me to Introduce Myself, My Name is Mud
--Bugs Bunny
Leveling an Affliction Warlock via BGs has been --for the most part-- an exercise in patience.
You die a lot. And I do mean a lot.
You also lose a lot.
Yes, I do realize that when you run as many BGs as I have, you are going to have your share of losses, but in the low level BGs especially, clothies are Rogue and Hunter chow. When that happens in a 10/10 game such as Warsong Gulch, you're essentially giving the other team a few more players advantage.*
In the current environment of random BGs, unless you've managed to use cross realm grouping or you've got a bunch of guildies with alts at the right level, you're pretty much stuck with what you draw. Most of the time you get players with different strategic and tactical ideas, and that can translate into shouts and recriminations on BG chat.
Sometimes, however, you get lucky.
I ported into Eye of the Storm in time to hear someone ask what the map was about. "I haven't done this one before," the Warrior said.
Oh oh, I thought.
A DK and myself ran over the basics --capture your bases, try for a third and to control the middle to get the flag-- and I mentioned to call out incs.
"Incs? Sorry, I don't know the lingo."
"Incoming." Didn't this person know anything? Well, I'd been there before, so I wasn't going to judge, but this certainly didn't look good.
The game started out... well... very badly. We were quickly overwhelmed at the Draenei Ruins while most of the team went to the Mid. Then, when everybody from the Mid came running to DR, the Horde swept into the Mage Tower.
We very quickly found ourselves down by 500 points before we stabilized things.
"Go to FR! FR is empty!" another DK was yelling. "We need bases to catch up!"
I found myself at DR at that point, so I could only watch at first while three people got ahead and managed to take the FR to gray. The Horde then moved en masse from the Blood Elf Tower to FR.
"Let's go!" I yelled. "BE is empty!"
Turned out that was a temporary situation, as a Horde Rogue and Shaman reached there just as I did. I feared them as much as I could, but I got swept under by too many CCs from the Rogue. Fortunately, 3 or 4 fellow Alliance had followed me over, and we were able to capture that base.
The situation remained fluid. The Horde had built a lead with three bases and capturing the Mid, but they abandoned that to try to farm kills over on our side of the field and capture both MT and DR. The Horde got DR and the FR briefly flickered back to Horde Red.
"Let's go get MT!" the newbie Warrior yelled.
"We've got MT," I corrected. "We need DR back."
"Sorry, this is still new to me."
It was then that a Rogue piped up. "This BG has been around since patch 2.1. How can you not know about this BG?"
We still had a chance at this game, but if we were going to dissolve into BG drama, it was going to slip away. "Look," I said, "the dude is probably new."
"I'm not a dude," the warrior replied, "and I am new."
I looked at the Warrior's masculine name, and decided to let it go. I thought about mentioning the number one rule of MMOs**, but I decided it wasn't even worth it.
We weren't able to retake DR, but suddenly FR flickered to gray and then to Alliance Blue. We had a 3:1 edge for the first time, and we also had the flag.
But the Horde also had less than three minutes remaining, and we were down by 300 points.
"We're not out of it yet," I called out from MT as we captured the flag. "If we capture the flag a couple more times, we may pull this off."
Our Shaman picked up the flag again and took off toward MT, with two Horde hot on her heels. I mounted and intercepted them all, using Howl of Terror to scatter them as she slipped free to capture the flag. The rest of the crew at MT swept onto the two Horde as I climbed back to MT and cast my DoTs from there.
Down by 100 points, and we were closing fast with a minute and a half left.
Then FR flickered into gray.
"Crap! FR!" The newbie warrior led the charge to dislodge the Horde from FR as our Feral Druid picked up the flag and raced toward the same area.
40 seconds.
"Don't cap until we get FR back!" I yelled.
30 seconds. 20.
I could only watch from Mage Tower as the drama unfolded. "Come on," I muttered. "Come on...."
FR turned blue, and the Feral Druid captured the flag.
Cheers erupted on our side.
"We did it!"
I whispered to the newbie Warrior that she did a good job, but she'd already ported out. Well, if a certain newbie Warrior happens to come across this post, I'll raise a pint to you. You acquitted yourself well, and didn't rise up and take the flamebait, either.
I'm also not too proud to admit that my initial impression of that team proved to be wrong. After all, I've never been happier to be called 'mud'.
*Unless they have Locks that can be Rogue chow too, and your side has Rogues who aren't afraid to take advantage of that.
**Nobody knows your gender unless you volunteer it, and sometimes, not even then.
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- AliPallyJune 11, 2012 at 10:20:00 AM EDT
I find as a Warlock in random BGs at level 85 that I am 'chow' to most classes one on one.ReplyDelete
Rogues in particular seem to go for me at every opportunity, but any decent melee will beat me, whether it's Enhancement Shammy, DK, Ret Paladin, Feral Druid or Warrior.
When it comes to ranged classes, Mages have so many tricks that they are very hard to kill, and a decent Hunter can take you to pieces without effort. Enemy Warlocks are mostly just a nuisance, and not something to be scared of sadly.
WSG or Twin Peaks I really dislike if not outright hate in random BGs. Quite often you are lucky to get even one healer in the group, and you know half your team is going to be farming honour in mid-field and putting no effort into actually winning the BG, so it feels like you are either tied into a lost game lasting 15-20 minutes, or you have the option to /afk and then get the deserter debuff. My win ratio in those 2 BGs is probably 1 in 10, I kid you not!
I think where a Warlock shines in most battles is CCing healers and getting them away from Flag Carriers for example, allowing your team mates to kill them. In WSG I have 60 EFC kills and only 2 flag returns, which I think is indicative of that.Replies
The secret to getting a Mage (and I play a Frost Mage Hordeside) is persistence. If there's only one, you can wear down their CDs and then they're a sitting duck. They also don't have the capability to drop all of the DoTs an Aff Lock has once they've used Iceblock, so as long as you can manage to stay alive, a Mage will suddenly turn brittle.Delete
A Lock is at it's best when it's in a support role, much like a Mage. Wreaking havoc with the enemy healer is a specialty of a Lock, and if a healer isn't paying attention it can very quickly get rendered impotent.
I hate WSG for the lack of coordination, but also for the many times I've had Rogues and/or Hunters corpse camp my Lock to the exclusion of all else. (Arcane Mages too, especially at low levels, are OP.) I think that if I leveled a Rogue I'd have a different opinion, but that's just me.
enjoyed the post, keep 'em coming!ReplyDelete
ps - i've been out of the game for a year now, have they really nerfed 'locks that bad? i used to hate the sight of a 'lock in a BG more than anything.Replies
If you get a Lock player who's a real virtuoso, they're still a thing of terror. For the most part, however, they're reduced to a support role.Delete
If you're up for a detailed read, Cynwise did a multi-part series on the Decline and Fall of Warlocks in Cataclysm that really explores why Locks are the least played class in WoW at the moment. Here's the link: http://cynwise.wordpress.com/warlockery/decline-and-fall/
I find that your number 1 rule of MMOs looks more like "Everyone assumes you are a man until stated otherwise." It gets tiring after a while!ReplyDelete
It's sweet that the newbie was comfortable asking for explanations, and that you were nice enough to give them. I'm always nervous about speaking up, but if you don't know the general atmosphere of BGs it must be easier to ask questions. Hopefully that warrior goes on to learn and dominate in PVP :)Replies
You could say that the two rules are corollaries of each other. Hell, when I've been on Neve, I've been mistaken for a woman. Or a mom.Delete
I wouldn't have called it sweet, but bold. There's a certain subset of BGers that is a win-at-all-costs crowd (kind of like what you see in sports), and I think we were just lucky that we didn't get the "YOO SUCK NOOBZ!!1!!" people in our BG. I'm pretty sure that Rogue was warming up to that level, but he wasn't quite there yet.
My first character back in vanilla was pretty much clueless but was having a fine time in Arathi in spite of it until I saw chat, I got the "YOO SUCK NOOBZ!!1!!" people instead of your group, I was so traumatized it took me until now to start slowly getting back into BGs, lol.ReplyDelete
Oddly it never bothers me when I'm called dude, mate, buddy, etc. I'm always so happy they aren't yelling OMG, it's a Mommy! If I talk too much I'm pretty sure it would be evident.Replies
I was lucky in that the first BG I was ever in, WSG of all things, I didn't run into the "YOU SUCK NOOBZ!!1!!" crowd. (Having your side steamroll over the other side helped.)Delete
Still, I got introduced to it big time when I started playing BGs in earnest. By then I'd already gotten used to that attitude in PUGs, so it kind of rolled right off me.
I have been tempted to occasionally post in BG chat that "This ain't XBox Live, Dude!" But I realize that it just won't matter.


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Lady Gaga visits abused girls on Thanksgiving
LADY GAGA marked America's Thanksgiving Day on Thursday (22Nov12) by visiting a centre for sexually abused girls in Peru.
The pop superstar is currently on tour in South America and she was in Peru for the festive holiday ahead of her Born This Way Ball show in Lima on Friday (23Nov12).
Gaga's family flew out to the country to spend the special day with her, but the singer also made time for some charity work by visiting a poor district of Lima to meet girls at a hostel for abused young women.
The Poker Face star greeted 45 girls at the Happy Faces centre and shared snacks with them before a leading a sing-along of some of her hits.
Thanksgiving Day went on to end on a bizarre note for the singer after 35 fans broke into the garage at her rented home in the Peruvian capital.


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This Reuters report on how the city of San Bernardino, Calif., drove itself off the fiscal cliff makes for bracing reading. Excerpt:
Yet on close examination, the city's decades-long journey from prosperous, middle-class community to bankrupt, crime-ridden, foreclosure-blighted basket case is straightforward — and alarmingly similar to the path traveled by many municipalities around America's largest state. San Bernardino succumbed to a vicious circle of self-interests among city workers, local politicians and state pension overseers.
Little by little, over many years, the salaries and retirement benefits of San Bernardino's city workers — and especially its police and firemen — grew richer and richer, even as the city lost its major employers and gradually got poorer and poorer.
Unions poured money into city council elections, and the city council poured money into union pay and pensions. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers), which manages pension plans for San Bernardino and many other cities, encouraged ever-sweeter benefits. Investment bankers sold clever bond deals to pay for them. Meanwhile, state law made it impossible to raise local property taxes and difficult to boost any other kind.
No single deal or decision involving benefits and wages over the years killed the city. But cumulatively, they built a pension-fueled financial time-bomb that finally exploded.
In bankrupt San Bernardino, a third of the city's 210,000 people live below the poverty line, making it the poorest city of its size in California. But a police lieutenant can retire in his 50s and take home $230,000 in one-time payouts on his last day, before settling in with a guaranteed $128,000-a-year pension. Forty-six retired city employees receive over $100,000 a year in pensions.
Almost 75 percent of the city's general fund is now spent solely on the police and fire departments, according to a Reuters analysis of city bankruptcy documents – most of that on wages and pension costs.
Remind you of anything? Here's a statement from the final report of the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission:
Over the long run, as the baby boomers retire and health care costs continue to grow, the [US budget] situation will become far worse. By 2025 revenue will be able to finance only interest payments, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Every other federal government activity – from national defense and homeland security to transportation and energy – will have to be paid for with borrowed money. Debt held by the public will outstrip the entire American economy, growing to as much as 185 percent of GDP by 2035. Interest on the debt could rise to nearly $1 trillion by 2020. These mandatory payments – which buy absolutely no goods or services – will squeeze out funding for all other priorities.


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Respect Landowners
- Ask landowners for permission to hunt.
- Follow their restrictions on when and where you may hunt.
- Treat livestock and crops as your own.
- Offer to share a part of your harvest with the owner.
- Leave all gates the way you found them.
- If you notice something wrong or out of place, notify the landowner immediately.
- Never enter private land that is cultivated or posted, unless you have obtained permission first. Some states require written permission from landowners.
How to Ask Landowners for Permission
- Make contact well ahead of the hunting season.
- Wear street clothes—no hunting gear or firearms.
- Don't bring companions—a "crowd" could be intimidating. Don't bring your dog.
- Don't bring a firearm unless requested.
- Introduce yourself and tell where you're from. Tell your occupation if it will build credibility and that you are a hunter education graduate.
- Explain how you will respect the property if permission is granted.
- Be polite, even if permission is denied. Your courtesy may affect the outcome of future requests.
Landowner Complaints About Hunters
- Don't get permission to hunt.
- Don't tell the landowners when they arrive at or leave the property.
- Make too much noise.
- Leave litter behind.
- Carry loaded firearms in vehicles.
- Drive off the ranch roads.
- Don't leave gates as they were found (open or shut) when the hunter arrived.
- Shoot too close to neighbors or livestock.
- Leave fires unattended.
- Violate game laws.
- Drink alcohol to excess.


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The next Pope: What direction for the Catholic Church?
Date created : Latest update :
What makes a good leader of the Catholic Church in 2013? François Picard's panel comments on the first round of voting and the unofficial battle lines between reformers and conservatives, Europeans and non-Europeans.
- Vincent CABANAC, Assumptionist Priest from the Augustinians of the Assumption and Author, 'Walking in the Light: 30 Days with Pope John Paul II'
- Matthew BUNSON, Senior Correpondent for 'Our Sunday Visitor'/ Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Bibical Theology
- Douglas HERBERT, France 24 International Affairs Editor -Ulrike KOLTERMANN, Independent Journalist/ Doctorant in Catholic Theology
- Ulrike KOLTERMANN, Independent Journalist and theologian, author of 'Vatican Diplomacy in the Middle East'
watch the second part
Programe prepared and produced by Christopher Davis, Anelise Borges and Mary Colombel


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cellocgw wrote:rhomboidal wrote:I so hope this isn't the real reason behind Hitler dragging out the war, refusing to surrender.
Oh, wait: what if we include all the y**t*b* shorts redubbing "Hitler Finds Out..." ?
Doubt these would make a difference. The most prolific parody maker, Hitler Rants Parodies, has made about 1000 parodies and while some of them last several minutes most of them are actually 20 second skits based on the "Hitler is informed about Fegelein" scene, and the others weren't that creative either, so I'm going to assume 1 minute per parody (that's 1 serious 5 minute parody for 6 "Hitler is informed about Fegelein" parodies). There are other parody makers, but they're considerably less prolific than HRP, so 10,000 parodies is a good upper bound. 10,000 parodies = 10,000 minutes = 7 days.