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Ameghiniana vol.47 no.3 Buenos Aires set. 2010
Taxonomic reinterpretation of a Notoungulata Typotheria from the early Oligocene of Cañadón Blanco (Chubut, Argentina)
Esperanza Cerdeño1, Marcelo Reguero2 and Bárbara Vera1
1Departamento de Paleontología, Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), Centro Científico Tecnológico-CONICET-Mendoza. Avenida Ruiz Leal s/n, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina. email@example.com. email@example.com
2Departamento Científico de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, 1900 La Plata, Argentina. email@example.com
The Cañadón Blanco locality, in Chubut Province (figure 1), is a classical Paleogene site in Patagonia with mammals mostly collected by Dr. S. Roth. As for other classical collections, precise geographic and geologic data were never recorded, and consequently some problems arise. Reguero (1999), studying the Deseadan notoungulates, made a full revision of many of these materials and synthesized the problems with different localities. Concerning Cañadón Blanco, he explained that Roth provided scarce data on the localities where he recovered fossils. Following the inventory of the Museo de La Plata, Roth collected between 1896 and 1898 at several Patagonian localities, including a trip across the Genoa valley to the Paso de Indios, collecting at different sites, Cañadón Blanco among others. Reguero (1999: 43) deduced that Cañadón Blanco corresponds to any basin NW of Laguna Palacios in the Paso de los Indios Department. Roth (1904) described several taxa from the Lower Tertiary deposits of Cañadón Blanco, without any further reference to the fossiliferous beds. Concerning age, Cañadón Blanco seems to correspond to the "Astraponotéen plus supérieur" of Ameghino from Gran Barranca, which is currently correlated to the Tinguirirican age (Reguero, 1999; Reguero et al., 2003).
Figura 1. Geographic location of Cañadon Blanco locality (star), Chubut Province, Argentina / localización geográfica de la localidad de Cañadón Blanco (estrella), provincia de Chubut, Argentina.
The specimen presented in this work is a very interesting incomplete mandible of a notoungulate presenting a set of characters that a priori could indicate different families of Typotheria, which is why it deserves a particular study. Reguero (1999: 203) originally considered it to represent a new taxon of the Family Hegetotheriidae, but a different taxonomic interpretation is presented in this paper.
Material and method
The studied specimen, MLP 12-1530, is housed at the Museo de La Plata (MLP). It is an incomplete mandible with the symphysis and the anterior portions of both horizontal rami; it preserves right i1-i2, left i1-i3, and right and left p2-p4 (originally labeled as p3-p4-m1 and already interpreted as p2-p4 by Reguero, 1999).
A morphometric comparison was carried out, using hegetotheriid and archaeohyracid specimens of Oligocene age from Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia.
Abbreviations. In text and table: ant., anterior; H, height; i, incisor; L, length; p, premolar; post., posterior; W, width. Institutions: MCNAM-PV, Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas "J. C. Moyano" of Mendoza, Argentina -Vertebrate Paleontology collection; MLP, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina; SGOPV, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural of Santiago de Chile- Vertebrate Paleontology collection.
The mandibular rami are high (figure 2.1). The symphysis reaches the level of the posterior part of p2, and forms a strong angle with the rami (figure 2.1-2). It is narrow and the i3 is aligned with the jugal series.
Figura 2. Mandibular fragment of cf. Protarchaeohyrax intermedium, MLP 12-1530, from Cañadón Blanco, Chubut, Argentina/ fragmento mandibular de cf. Protarchaeohyrax intermedium, MLP 12-1530, de Cañadón Blanco, Chubut, Argentina. 1, Left lateral view / vista lateral izquierda. 2, occlusal view / vista oclusal. 3, detail of incisors (left i1-i3, right i1-i2) / detalle de los incisivos (i1-i3 izquierdos, i1-i2 derechos). 4, detail of premolars (right p2-p4, anterior to right) / detalle de los premolares (p2-p4 derechos, cara anterior a la derecha). 5, right lateral view showing the curved root of p4 / vista lateral derecha mostrando la raíz curvada de p4. Scale bars = 10 mm / escala gráfica = 10 mm.
The incisors are procumbent, narrow and labio-lingually flattened, with a smooth median lingual groove; it becomes more conspicuous from i1 to i3, clearly differentiating two lingual lobes on the latter (figure 2.3). The labial face is rather straight in i1-i2 and more convex in i3.
Root remains of p1 are preserved. Premolar p2 appears as a long and narrow bilobed tooth, with a well developed labial groove. The anterior lobe is much longer than the posterior one and presents two lingual sulci, shallower than the labial one (figure 2.4). In p3 and p4, the anterior lobe is relatively shorter than that of p2 (slightly shorter in p4 than in p3), though it is still longer and labially more rounded than the posterior lobe. The lingual wall is quite straight, but a smooth concavity is present. There is a little trigonid-talonid fossettid in both premolars, placed slightly posterior to the labial groove (figure 2.4). The broken area of the horizontal rami exposes the p4 roots, which are long, closed, and posteriorly curved (figure 2.5).
Dimensions of the specimen: MLP 12-1530 are presented in table 1.
Table 1. Mandibular and dental dimensions (mm) (left and right sides) of cf. Protarchaeohyrax intermedium, MLP 12-1530, from Cañadón Blanco, Chubut, Argentina. Values in brackets are approximate / dimensiones mandibulares y dentarias (mm) (lados izquierdo y derecho) de cf. Protarchaeohyrax intermedium, MLP 12 -1530, de Cañadón Blanco, Chubut, Argentina. Los valores entre paréntesis son aproximados.
Based on the specimen MLP 12-1530, Reguero (1999) established the genus and species Archaeopachyrucos ulianai as the most primitive known hegetotheriid, separating it from other Oligocene hegetotheriids such as Prosotherium Ameghino, 1897, Medistylus Stirton, 1952, and Propachyrucos Ameghino, 1897. However, the diagnosis is not comparative enough to understand the differences among these taxa, except its smaller size, and one of the mentioned characters suggests referral to the Family Archaeohyracidae. As explained below, the revision of this specimen suggests a new taxonomic interpretation, and therefore the taxon Archaeopachyrucos ulianai, being unpublished (Reguero, 1999), becomes a nomen nudum.
The first contradiction in assigning this specimen to the Family Hegetotheriidae is the absence of an enlargement of the i1-i2, which is a diagnostic character of this family. In fact, in MLP 12-1530, the i1 is slightly smaller than i2, which is smaller than i3. In Prosotherium and Prohegetotherium sculptum Ameghino, 1897, i1 is larger than i2 (Reguero, 1999). In the holotype of Sallatherium altiplanense Reguero and Cerdeño, 2005, from Salla (Bolivia), i1 and i2 are more similar in size, but i3 is reduced and separated. In Prohegetotherium schiaffinoi (Kraglievich, 1932) from this same locality (E.C. unpubl. data), the lower incisors present a slight decrease in size from i1 to i3.
In contrast to the incisor condition, the cheek teeth are apparently closer in occlusal morphology to hegetotheriids in having a flattened lingual wall. However, they also present other features that differ from this family and resemble the Archaeohyracidae, such as the presence of a fossettid in p2-p3, a similarity that was already stated by Reguero (1999) in the diagnosis of his new taxon. The presence of fossettes/fossetids in hegetotheriids is debatable. Reguero and Cerdeño (2005) described a juvenile specimen of the hegetothere Sallatherium altiplanense with fossettes, but this specimen was later recognized by Billet et al. (2009) as an archaeohyracid, Archaeohyrax suniensis. In turn the latter authors assigne to Sallatherium a young adult maxillary with M1-M3 showing small fossettes. In this case, we do not agree with this determination, and consider that it can also correspond to an old specimen of A. suniensis, whose ontogenetic variation of tooth morphology was well established by Billet et al. (2009). The rounded anterior lobe of p3 may recall hegetotheriids, but it is not so different from that observed on some archaeohyracids (see below). In addition, the p2 differs from the homologous tooth in hegetotheriids (Prosotherium, Prohegetotherium, Sallatherium) by being longer and more anteriorly pointed.
Considering the characters just discussed, the studied specimen can be considered an Archaeo-hyracidae and not a Hegetotheriidae. Confusion among basal members of different notoungulate families is not rare and Roth (1904) commented, when describing the archaeohyraciids from Cañadón Blanco, that Archaeohyrax is intermediate between Notopithecidae (presently Notopithecinae-Interatheriidae) and Hegetotheriidae. Keeping in mind that MLP 12-1530 is an archaeohyracid, the following discussion focuses on a comparison with the members of this family recognized in the same locality of Cañadón Blanco and others (Simpson, 1967; Reguero et al., 2003). The knowledge of the Chilean Tinguirirican fauna (Flynn et al., 2003 and references therein) has greatly helped to understand and correlate different Patagonian taxa. Archaeohyracids constitute the most abundant and diverse element in the faunal assemblage of Tinguiririca. Croft et al. (2003) and Reguero et al. (2003) have determined new taxa of this group and have increased the knowledge of other taxa previously known from scarce Argentinean remains, greatly clarifying the systematics of Archaeohyracidae. New interesting Oligocene archaeohyracid material of Deseadan age comes from the localities of Salla (Bolivia; Billet et al., 2009) and Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza, Argentina; Cerdeño et al., 2009).
The small size of our specimen suggests comparisons with the small achaeohyracids described by Reguero et al. (2003) included in the genus Protarchaeohyrax: P. gracilis (Roth, 1904), P. minor Reguero et al., 2003, and P. intermedium Reguero et al., 2003. All of these come from Patagonian Argentinean localities (mainly Cañadón Blanco) and Tinguiririca (Chile). Unfortunately, comparison is limited to the lower dentition, which lacks some diagnostic characters.
Premolar size of MLP 12-1530 (table 1) is generally slightly smaller than that of P. gracilis, both in length and width, excepting the specimen from Tinguiririca SGOPV 2954 whose length is even less (not the width) (Reguero et al., 2003: Table 1). The two mandibles ascribed to P. intermedium have p3 and p4 rather comparable, especially SGOPV 5007. No lower dentition is ascribed to P. minor.
For P. gracilis, Roth (1904, as Archaeohyrax) indicated the presence of shallow internal sulci on the lower molars. The description and figures of P. gracilis (Reguero et al., 2003), particularly the mandible SGOPV 2954 from Tinguiririca, show morphological similarities with our specimen: extension of the symphysis to p2; elongated trigonid of p2; presence of fossettids in p3-p4 after moderate wear; and rather flattened lingual wall. With respect to the latter character, those authors indicated for p2 that "lingually only a short, shallow groove (obliterated by slight wear) occurs". This differs from our specimen, because MLP 12-1530 has a second shallow groove, more anteriorly positioned (figure 2.4). This condition appears instead in P. intermedium, SGOPV 3065 (op. cit., fig. 5), a species that presents flatter lingual walls than P. gracilis in posterior premolars and molars, and narrower teeth (Reguero et al., 2003). A fossettid is also present in p3-m3 (in SGOPV 2954 of P. gracilis, the fossettid is not present in p3). These differences of P. intermedium with respect to P. gracilis are instead coincident with MLP 12-1530, although P. intermedium has a shallow mandibular ramus (5.7 mm below p3, following Reguero et al., 2003) where-as MLP 12-1530 has a remarkably higher one (table 1), also a little higher than P. gracilis.
An elongate p2 with two lingual sulci is also observed in other taxa, such as Archaeotypotherium tinguiriricaense, but this is a significantly larger species, with more procumbent symphysis, among other differences (Croft et al., 2003).
The presence of a lingual sulcus on lower incisors is reported as a diagnostic character for the notoungulate families Mesotheriidae and Interatheriidae (Cifelli, 1993; Reguero, 1999), although with a different pattern of sulcus, but it is also present in some Archaeohyracidae. Among the archaeohyracid material studied by Reguero et al. (2003) and Croft et al. (2003), very few specimens have preserved lower incisors. No specimen with lower incisors has been attributed to the species of Protarchaeohyrax (Reguero et al., 2003). Among the other archaeohyracid genera, SGOPV 3043 of Archaeotypotherium tinguiriricaense shows a faint, short lingual sulcus on i3-c (pers. obs. of the cast), not on i2 as it appears in the figured scheme (Croft et al., 2003: fig. 10). Nevertheless, these teeth differ from those of MLP 12-1530 because, as described by these authors, i3 and c possess a high anterior portion and a low posterior one, similar to the configuration of the trigonid and talonid in generalized mammal lower molars. The short sulcus is present on the anterior part of these teeth. A small lingual sulcus is also observed in i3 of the specimen MCNAM-PV 3844 from Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza), assigned to Archaeohyrax (Cerdeño et al., 2009).
In summary, size and morphology of the premolars of MLP 12-1530 are closer to P. intermedium than to P. gracilis. Nevertheless the difference in the ramus height is remarkable with respect to P. intermedium, which prevents an accurate specific identification. On the other hand, a third species of Protarchaeohyrax, P. minor, was identified upon a unique specimen (MLP 52-XI-4-168a) from Cañadón Blanco (Reguero et al., 2003) with no lower dentition related to it. Consequently, if MLP 12-1530 is identified as P. intermedium, three very similar archaeohyracids would be present at Cañadón Blanco, which seems to be little justified at present.
Protarchaeohyrax minor is based on three upper teeth of dubious position (P4-M2 or P3-M1?) whose general size is not so different from P. intermedium, the development of the parastyle and the little difference in the dimensions of the three teeth being what separate this specimen from P. intermedium (Reguero et al., 2003). In fact, the parastyle of the first tooth (P4?) seems more labially projected than on the other specimens compared from different localities and taxa, even considering that tooth outline and proportions vary a lot with wear in archaeohyracids (Billet et al., 2009; pers. obs. on Quebrada Fiera material). As no lower teeth have been associated to P. minor, it cannot be asserted that MLP 12-1530 could or could not be related to MLP 52-XI-4-168a. What is well established here is the relation of MLP 12-1530 with Protarchaeohyrax, closer to P. intermedium than to P. gracilis. A definite taxonomic answer is not possible without getting further material from Cañadón Blanco. A conservative position is to consider that MLP 12-1530 represents the lower dentition of P. minor, but keeping in mind the possibility of both specimens representing an intraspecific variation of P. intermedium. In any case, the studied mandible comes to increase similarities between the archaeohyracids from Cañadón Blanco and Tinguiririca, that is between Patagonia and Central Chile, during the early Oligocene.
The revision of specimen MLP 12-1530 from the Oligocene of Cañadón Blanco (Chubut Province) allows a new taxonomic interpretation, recognizing it as an Archaeohyracidae and not a Hegetotheriidae. Archaeopachyrucos ulianai, being an unpublished taxon (Reguero, 1999), is a nomen nudum.
MLP 12-1530 is identified as Protarchaeohyrax, closer to P. intermedium than to P. gracilis from Tinguiririca (Chile), but with a higher mandibular ramus, which prevents an accurate specific determination. Considering that a third species is present at Cañadón Blanco, P. minor, only known by three upper teeth, we propose that MLP 12-1530 represents its lower dentition, but keeping in mind that similarities with P. intermedium could reflect intraspecific variation of this species. Better material is necessary to verify this proposal, but MLP 12-1530 reinforces the similarities between Patagonia and Central Chile during early Oligocene (Tinguirirican age).
The authors thanks to D. Croft for revising the draft version of the paper, to G. Farías, from the graphic design Service (MAGRAF) of the Centro Científico Tecnológico-CONICET-Mendoza, for preparing the figures, to the referees (G. Billet and D. Croft) and the editorial staff for the critical reviews, and to the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) for the financial support.
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The campaign waged to re-define the Bedouin as the indigenous people of Israel
NGO Monitor has just published the report-
"NGOs and the Negev Bedouin Issue in the Context of Political Warfare - Analysis of NGO Activity, 2010-2013".
It is worth noting that academics founded all the organizations mentioned in the report. Seth Frantzman, who holds a Ph.D. from the Geography Department at the Hebrew University and an expert on Bedouin, has sent the following analysis.
Legal Warfare Report: Israeli academics pressure Western companies to terminate business links with Israel
IAM has periodically reported on Israeli academics who participate in activities designed to pressure Western companies to terminate business links with Israel. These faculty work with a number of American denominations including American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), Presbyterian Church USA and United Church of Christ who have taken a lead in the BDS movement. Other Israeli academics operate through Who Profits from the Occupation? a project aimed at identifying Israeli companies that, according to the official website "profit from Palestinian and Syrian land." Who Profits? helps to raise awareness and organize boycotts of such companies and also works with a coalition of radical groups in the West that promote "corporate accountability." The combined efforts of these groups have resulted in dissuading a number of companies from doing business with Israel and, recently, in helping to delist Caterpillar from the MSCI-ESG index of ethical companies. The index of "progressive investment" is used by pension funds, investment funds and individual investors interested in ethical investment.
Among the academics that IAM profiled in the past few months are:
Dalit Baum, formerly of Haifa University, who now works for American Friends Service Committee West Coast office in charge of BDS. Baum, a leader in the academic lesbian community in Israel was recently invited to aconference on gender organized by Hanna Herzog (TAU).
Neve Gordon (BGU) who published a chapter in a recently released book that supports BDS.
Merav Amir (HUJ) who is involved with Who Profits published a chapter in the same book.
Anat Biletzki (TAU) gave a lecture under the auspices of the Tree of Life Foundation of the United Church of Christ that supports BDS.
Lawfare - IAM Review of "Contested Indigeneity: The Development of an Indigenous Discourse on the Bedouin of the Negev"
The burgeoning international human rights efforts have helped to create a "consciousness movement" of indigenous people. Spurred by activists, human right lawyers and scholars, in 1983 the U.N. created a working group on indigenous population. The group failed to come up with a definition of who qualifies for this category, but the U.N. adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007. The Declaration and some subsequent resolutions were also ambiguous with regard to the compensation for indigenous people, notably whether they should be entitled of their lands and resources.
Citing this vagueness of the U.N. Declaration, Canada, New Zealand and Australia reject it, stating that the "provisions of the Declaration are overly broad, unclear and open to interpretation . . . the text is not balanced, and suggests that Indigenous rights prevail over the rights of others." The three countries have subsequently reversed the decision but stipulated that the Declaration is vague enough to lend itself to different interpretations.
Rebuttal to Dr. Amir Paz-Fuchs
Israel Academia Monitor has initiated a new program aimed at tracking the contribution of Israeli professors to lawfare (legal warfare), defined as the use of international law and human rights conventions to delegitimize the state of Israel in the international arena.
IAM believes that too little attention has been paid to this highly effective strategy.
The following article is a detailed rebuttal to a lecture which Dr. Amir Paz-Fuchs (Ono Academic Center and Tel Aviv University's Human Rights Clinic) delivered at a conference co-sponsored by the Ono Academic Center and the Law Faculty at Columbia University. The lecture was posted on Youtube and widely disseminated.
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Nigeria and Iran delivered the first draw of the World Cup on Monday as they ground out a scrappy 0-0 stalemate in their opening match in Group F.
The draw at the Arena da Baixada in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba followed 12 mostly high scoring and attacking games.
After a first half in which Nigeria failed to capitalize on its dominance, chances were few and far between in the second.
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In the early passages of play, Nigeria had shown menace, with much of its attacking thrust coming down the left with Emmanuel Emenike and Victor Moses combining to cause problems for the defensively-minded Iran side.
Nigeria came closest to scoring in the seventh minute when an Ahmed Musa goal was disallowed after John Obi Mikel was adjudged to have fouled Iran goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi at a corner.
Iran grew more confident as the game progressed and came close to scoring in the 34th when a Reza Ghoochannejhad header required a sharp save from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
In the second half, both sides were guilty of sloppy passages of play, to the growing annoyance of the mainly Brazilian crowd. Players from both sides snatched at chances, and neither goalkeeper was troubled despite some frantic late pressure in the final minutes.
Both sides must now look to beat tournament debutant Bosnia-Herzegovina in a group that most expect to be won by Argentina. Lionel Messi scored one of the tournament's best goals in Argentina's 2-1 victory over the Bosnians on Sunday.
The result will be a disappointment for Nigeria, the current Africa Cup of Nations champion. Following a long slump, the team had been showing signs of some of the flair and power that had marked the country's football in the 1990s.
For Iran, the result was greeted with relief by its noisy fans.
The draw means that the winless run of both teams continues. Neither side has won a match at the World Cup finals since France 1998.


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Why is it not necessary to take into account rotational kinetic energy when using the Law of Conservation of Mechanical Energy to solve vertical circular motion problems? After all, the particle is rotating about the centre of the circle and does have rotational KE, doesn't it?
All the examples I have seen just use KE= 1/2 $mv^2$, e.g. here: http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=2312566&postcount=4


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"There is a terrible desperation to the increasingly pathetic rationalizations from the climate denial camp. This comes as no surprise if you take the long view; every single undone paradigm in history has died kicking and screaming, and our current petroleum paradigm 🐉🦕🦖 is no different. The trick here is trying to figure out how we all make it to the new ⚡ paradigm without dying ☠ right along with the old one, kicking, screaming or otherwise." - William Rivers Pitt
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I have wanted a dam ever since I bought the 'stead. I know right where it should go. I don't really think I'd get enough head to drive a turbine very often, but I sure would like to try it. The creek is named Mill Creek, and I think that means that at some point somebody had a dam that generated water power nearby. But so far I have not uncovered the history of the local mill that must have once existed.
... if your property contains a spring, creek, small stream, or other source with a flow of at least three gallons per minute (gpm) you can probably solve your problem easily and inexpensively with a hydraulic ram pump.
All that time the device has been pumping clear, cool spring water up over a 25-foot hilla distance of 150 feetand into our farm pond, without the use of any fuel whatsoever. In short, we're getting about 500 gallons of water per day at an operating cost of zero ... and we expect this to continue for ten years or more.
"Human population = 335,000,000,000 kg. This figure is based on an average human weight of more than 100lbs, though (50kg, to be exact). I don't know how accurate this estimate is, especially considering that about 1/3 of us are children. There are supposedly around 1.3 billion cattle in the world, and, put together, they may weigh almost twice as much as our species."Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba = 379,000,000,000 kg.There are more ants than krill. Also, metabolism plays a role along with biomass. A "million ruby-throated hummingbirds will consume much more food than one African Elephant, even though both have about the same biomass (3,000kg, or 3.3 US tons). Thus, ants, as a group, may actually consume more resources per year than antarctic krill, even though both may have roughly the same biomass, because ants tend to be smaller, and live in warmer environments. Although there may be about 10-15 times the biomass of termites than cows in the world, studies have suggested that termites might produce almost 30,000 times as much methane per year because of their faster metabolism."
We could completely replace all the generation in South America, he told FastCoExist. You could very easily envision a South America in 20-25 years which has an integrated grid all throughout the continent, in which Chile could be providing very cheap, clean electricity with this combination of pump storage and solar power.


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Dutch rally driver Rob de Vos and his co-driver Marcel Benning were killed yesterday while racing in a historic support exhibition for the WRC Rallye Deutschland. This simple tribute video is a fitting testament, in that it shows them doing what they loved – rallying.
The 1980 Triumph TR7 that carried the two men left the track after the famous "Gina" jump on the Panzerplatte stage of the German rally. Despite the best efforts of the emergency personnel who immediately responded both succumbed to their fatal injuries.
Lance Rutherford took this photo of the men in their Triumph just as it left the fateful crest:
Though I obviously cannot speak for the men and their families, and no words can adequately express the condolences necessary at this time, it is perhaps solace that, like Allan Simonsen before them, they were killed in the pursuit of the driving enjoyment that they were so passionate about.
We've lost too many this racing season.
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FAQ Contents
Using YAM
- User Interface
- Why does the "Colored text" gadget in the Read configuration looks …
- Menu shortcuts don't work while context sensitive menus are enabled, why?
- The gauge in the mail transfer window looks wrong, why?
- Why is keyboard selection of multiple mails not working?
- I use AmigaOS 3.9 and activated the AISS theme. Unfortunately some of …
- The graphical attachment list is displayed truncated and does not …
- Why is the mail preselection/transfer window sometimes active by …
- The menu of the write window contains strange "ramiga X", "ramiga C" …
- I changed the shortcut definition of TextEditor.mcc to use a …
- The attachment icon sometimes suddenly disappears in main mail …
- When I use the up/down arrows keys, the scrollbar of the main mail …
- Redrawing of the folder listtree is so slow that I can see every …
- Can I permanently save the position and size of a window?
- Why are some columns of the mail listview always resizing automatically?
- The toolbar buttons and other graphics are displayed in wrong colors. Why?
- The toolbar buttons don't fit in the window, the rightmost buttons …
- The layout of the prefs window doesn't adapt properly when reducing …
- Printing doesn't seem to work. What's wrong?
- Why is YAM taking braces as in "http://www.example.com" as part of URLs?
- Language Support
- Reading Mails
- Replying/Forwarding Mails
- Composing Mails
User Interface
Why does the "Colored text" gadget in the Read configuration looks wrong the first time I open this sheet?
This is a bug in MUI 3.8 and can't unfortunately be worked around in any form. However, it is already fixed in MUI versions ≥ 3.9. So please update your MUI installation, if possible.
Menu shortcuts don't work while context sensitive menus are enabled, why?
Unfortunatly, the context menus for the folder & message lists may get in your way and prevent you from using the usual menu item shortcuts unless you move the pointer outside the list. Unfortunately this is a bug in MUI ⇐3.8, which can only worked around by disabling the context menus themselves or upgrading MUI to at least 3.9.
The gauge in the mail transfer window looks wrong, why?
Due to a bug in MUI 3.8, the gauge in the mail transfer window may "overflow" its container when representing very high values, typically around 8 MB and beyond. This bug is harmless, but an updated MUI (3.9 or better) is necessary to properly address this problem. No such update are available for m68k Amigas at the time of writing this article.
Why is keyboard selection of multiple mails not working?
According to the documentation and the configuration GUI of the NList.mcc class (which is used in YAM for displaying the mail list) one should be able to select multiple entries in a Listview by using the CTRL+Up/Down keys. However, when I use these keys the listview scrolls to the beginning or end rather than allowing to select multiple entries. The reason for this problem is, that the default keybindings of NList.mcc and the default keybindings of MUI itself clash. So when you use CTRL+Up/Down the default MUI keybindings will have preference over the NList settings and thus won't trigger the correct functions in NList itself. The solution is to either upgrade to NList release 0.108 or later as the default keybinding have been changed to use ALT+Up/Down rather than CTRL. Just make sure that you reset the keybinding settings in the MUI configuration pane of the NList classes after you have installed 0.108+ of the NList classes. Another solution (for older NList versions) would be to manually change the keybinding settings in the MUI configuration to use the ALT key rather than CTRL key (see all the "Select XXX" entries in the example screenshot below).
I use AmigaOS 3.9 and activated the AISS theme. Unfortunately some of the icons display an ugly black background. Why?
The AISS icons are PNG icons which use alpha channels. With AmigaOS 3.9 the transparency can not be displayed correctly because of some incompatibilities between the datatypes.library.
The graphical attachment list is displayed truncated and does not reflect all available attachments. Anything to prevent that?
For mails with lots of single attachments, the graphical display of attachments in a read window might be displayed truncated. This happens in case the attachment list object cannot enlarge itself to the required size (e.g. because the window is to small). Unfortunately it is even not possible to display/use a scrollbar for those cases due to technical reasons.
But as the attachment list is virtual group object you should be able to use the virtual scrolling capabilities of MUI for that case. Please consult the MUI configuration for setting the scroll action hotkey/mouse button. But per default, MUI should allow you to hold down the middle mouse button while moving your mouse. This should then allow you to scroll the attachment list and view the other attachments that are normally hided. Another way for displaying all attachments of a mail is, of course to use the respective toolbar buttons (Display, Print, etc.) which will present you a full list of the attachments.
Why is the mail preselection/transfer window sometimes active by default and sometimes not?
YAM can be configured to show the preselection/transfer window for downloading new mails only if certain conditions are met, for example always, never or only if very large mails are to be downloaded. Since mails can be fetched in the background while you continue your work with YAM it would be very inconvenient if the preselection window would steal the focus from the currently active window (i.e. a write window to compose a new mail). Just imagine that you press "C" in that very moment the preselection window opens. This would immediately cancel the transfer, even if you were just going to type in the word "Commodore"…
To avoid such unwanted abortions YAM will open the preselection/transfer window in inactive state for automatically initiated mail transfers (i.e. timed mail fetch or mail transfers initiated by an ARexx script). For all user initiated transfers (import, export, get/send mail) the window will be activated, because this is an action that was explicitly triggered by the user and not some automechanism triggered by YAM itself.
The menu of the write window contains strange "ramiga X", "ramiga C" shortcut definitions. Why is the typical Amiga image not used instead?
The reason for this shortage has already been adressed in version 2.5 of YAM. However, please find explainations for earlier versions and why there the menuitems couldn't use the typical 'Amiga' images to signal the shortcut: The point is, that the configuration of these shortcuts was up to the user. In fact, TextEditor.mcc provided a configuration management where a user could specify himself which key shortcuts he want to use. The "ramiga X" display was just a placeholder for that - it even was't a real shortcut definition. It should have only pointed out which default key combinations are normally used for these operations. So it was more cosmetical. But as said, in YAM 2.5 the behaviour changed and now the typical Amiga image should be used as expected.
I changed the shortcut definition of TextEditor.mcc to use a non-default shortcut for the Cut&Paste operations. However, YAM still shows e.g. "Amiga+C" in the window.
Since YAM 2.5, the behaviour for the shortcuts of the default Edit actions like Copy&Paste have been changed. This means, that like explained in the previous FAQ item, YAM now always uses the standard shortcuts according to common StlyeGuides. E.g. a Copy operation will always be mapped to "Amiga+C" whereas the Paste operation will be mapped to "Amiga+V" no matter what you have configured in the TextEditor.mcc configuration itself.
For YAM versions prior to 2.5, the situation is slightly different. There, the shortcut which is configured in TextEditor.mcc will always be used and the shown e.g. "ramiga X" placeholder in a window menu is just to show the default if you have TextEditor.mcc set to the default.
The attachment icon sometimes suddenly disappears in main mail listview, why?
In the main mail listview where all your mails in a folder are listed, the Attachment status icon (normally a paper-clip icon) is sometimes shown, but suddenly disappears as soon as you click on that mail for viewing its content. Even if that may look a bit strange and may lead to the impression that attachments are being lost when viewing the mail, this behaviour is normal and correct.
The reason why this is happening is that unfortunately some broken (old) mail clients tend to send out emails where the main content-type is set to "multipart/mixed" or "multipart/related" even if that email just contains one main mail text part without a real attachment. This is clearly incorrect according to the RFC s and can be considered a bug in those email programs. However, the reason why YAM is first showing the attachment status icon is that it just analyzes the main mail header due to performance reasons and as soon as you click on the message a depper (more time consuming) analyze is performed where it automatically recognizes that the mail doesn't really contain any binary or text attachment, but just the main normal mail text.
So the behaviour of YAM is fully correct and in line what the RFC s suggests.
When I use the up/down arrows keys, the scrollbar of the main mail list moves instead of the highlighted mail to be changed. Why?
The cause for this behaviour might be, that you have selected the main mail list via the "Tab" key gadget activation feature of MUI. MUI has a so-called CycleChain feature which allows to cycle through all existing gadgets in a window via the Tab key. In such a case, the main mail list of YAM can be activated via a numerous amount of Tab-key uses.
And as the NList-based main mail list changes it behaviour when it is directly activated via the CycleChain, this is the reason why the scrollbar scrolls when you use the up/down arrows. If an NList class is activated in such a way it will scroll down instead of changing the selection.
However, there is an easy way of solving such a situation. You just have to press "Ctrl+Tab" to signal MUI to unselect all currently active gadget and as such you will find yourself back being able to change the selection in the mail list via the Up/Down arrow keys.
Redrawing of the folder listtree is so slow that I can see every single folder getting redrawn separately. Why?
The reason for the problem you are facing in YAM is, that YAM uses the NListtree.mcc class for rendering the folder list. This class is a subclass of the NList classes and highly depends on the internals of the NList.mcc class itself.
As a matter of fact, the NListtree class is known to be somewhat unoptimized in the fields of redrawing entries. Somehow it seems to massivly redraw items if there is any other window in front of the list it wants to redraw. So, this is a known issue of the NListtree class and will hopefully be adressed in one of the future versions of NListtree.mcc itself.
However, you can perfectly try to avoid that slow redrawing situation by making sure that no other window is in front of the folder listtree in YAM as soon as it requires redrawing.
Can I permanently save the position and size of a window?
Yes, via the normal MUI 'snapshot' feature….
…start the MUI settings interface by selecting 'Settings/MUI'. Select the 'Windows' section and make sure the third of the little system gadget buttons there is activated. After saving the settings every window will have an additional system gadget in the upper right corner. One click on this gadget will snapshot the actual size and position of the window for future sessions. This is a general MUI feature and if you use it on the YAM window you should be able to "snapshot" the window size of YAM permanently.
Why are some columns of the mail listview always resizing automatically?
In fact, this behaviour is very common for NList-based listviews. The 'problem' is, that NList is per default automatically adjusting the size of each column depending on their content width. So if you have a mail with e.g. very long subject lines or if the status column contains a changing amount of status icons, it may happen that NList automatically decided to resize the columns automatically.
While this can be very annoying during normal work, it can also proof quite usefull in some cases. However, there is also the possibility to force NList not to automatically resize a column. For this to happen, you have to drag the vertical separator to the desired size (you actually have to drag it at all) and use the MUI 'snapshot' feature you can normally access via one of the top-right border buttons in the YAM main window.
The toolbar buttons and other graphics are displayed in wrong colors. Why?
This usually happens due to a bug in the 'ilbm.datatype' and only happens if YAM is running on a hicolor or truecolor screen. An update of the ILBM.datatype can be found on Aminet.
The toolbar buttons don't fit in the window, the rightmost buttons can't be accessed. How can I fix this?
Some users think that the graphics are too large, but in fact the button labels are eating so much space. If you're using topaz/8 as the label font, then some of the buttons become invisible on a 640 pixel wide screen. Solution: select 'Settings/MUI' and go to the 'Toolbar' section. Now you can either choose a thinner font (helvetica/9 works well) or switch off the labels completely ('image only' mode).
The layout of the prefs window doesn't adapt properly when reducing its size, any solution available to it?
Yes, we know about it and have already fixed the issues in newer YAM versions. In fact, it was a bug in the layouting of the prefs window of YAM versions ⇐ 2.4p1. Any newer version shouldn't contain that issue anymore.
Printing doesn't seem to work. What's wrong?
The printing engine in YAM is directly using the PRT: device of the operating system you are using. Please make sure you have that device properly configured and verified that you are able to print via PRT:. Besides that, YAM isn't doing anything special on printing.
Why is YAM taking braces as in "http://www.example.com" as part of URLs?
Despite the recommendation in RFC 1738 to encode such characters when they are supposed to be part of URLs, a number of Internet resources, entities and users keep using the "[]" braces in unencoded form, and this used to make YAM stop parsing an URL as soon as such characters were found, as in "<http://www.example.com/files[7]/myfile>". As a workaround for this problem, YAM 2.4 takes these characters as part of the URL. Parenthesis are allowed in URLs in unencoded form, which again negates the use of () to delimit URLs. You are advised to use "<" and ">" for this purpose.
Language Support
There seems to be no translation available for my language?
Well, as you might know. YAM is open source and as such is highly dependent on on the users (community) - especially when it comes to locale translation. Even if there are organisations like the ATO who are trying to organize a global and free translation service for Amiga applications, we are trying to give individual the chance to contribute their translation.
So if you find that YAM isn't yet fully translated for your language, please have a look at the http://yam.ch/Development/HowToContribute document at our main support site. There you should find information on how to generate your own translation file and also contribute to us.
We are looking forward to receive your translations.
Reading Mails
Why are some mails displayed without any text content which got displayed properly some weeks ago?
Mails may contain several "streams", like the normal text and attachments. The text however may also exist in more than just one variant. The standard allows plain text and HTML text to coexist within one mail, but in this case both parts must contain the same text, even if they are displayed differently.
Now some very smart companies, but this also applies for spam mails, decide to fill only the HTML part with their message and leave the alternative text part empty. Most mail clients on other systems prefer to display HTML text this goes unnoticed by the masses and nobody complains. Since YAM still prefers plain text over other alternatives and hence will display a mail with no body at all.
However, this can be worked around. Open the config window, go to the "Read" page and activate the options "Display all texts" and "Show alternative parts". This will let YAM display the alternative HTML part as an attachment and additionally will show this HTML part converted to text.
When displaying an email with embedded soft-styles such as bold/italic, etc. the mail will be displayed with the style markers '*' as well, why?
In versions previous to YAM 2.5+, email messages were displayed with the soft style markers in a mail. However, this cause severe trouble in case a style marker was incorrectly recognized so that text was mixed up. Especially for formatted text like stylished ASCII-art signatures or documentations this ended up in a completly mixed up display of the email. In addition, other mainstream email programs also didn't strip the soft-style markers for the very same reasons.
Example: Considering that an author of an email wrote a short ASCII-art documentation in an email to e.g. explain a bit mask that he used and where he wanted to highlight the first bit as important in bold:
0 1 0 1 1 | | | | | | | | | bit5 *bit1* | | bit4 | bit3 bit2
Due to the used '*' bold-style characters this may have ended up looking like the following in YAM < 2.5 because the '*' chars were completly replaced by the bold style only:
0 1 0 1 1 | | | | | | | | | bit5 bit1 | | bit4 | bit3 bit2
As can be seen in that example, the ASCII-art here is completly mixed up due to the removed "*" bold-style characters.
However, now with YAM 2.5+ these kind of problems were fixed by keeping those soft-style characters in the showed mail text so that the above example now perfectly ends up being display correctly with the bold style and its markers:
0 1 0 1 1 | | | | | | | | | bit5 *bit1* | | bit4 | bit3 bit2
In addition to that fix, it is now more easily possible to spot which character can be used to start writing a word in bold style rather than having to always use the corresponding toolbar button.
Doubleclicking an URL doesn't seem to popup my favourite webbrowser?
For automatically popping up your webbrowser upon clicking on an URL in a mail you are view ing in YAM, you require to configure either an external Arexx script to popup the web browser or to install and configure openurl.library and its corresponding tools. Here we are going to discuss both possibilities. However, OpenURL should be considered the default preferred way.
via OpenURL: Before we are going to discuss how to configure OpenURL correctly, please make sure you have the very latest version correctly installed and reachable for YAM. As of writing, the latest version of OpenURL is version 7.2. Please make sure that the following command outputs similar values on you shell:
1> version LIBS:openurl.library full openurl.library 7.2 (01.12.2005)
In addition, you should have a preferences program 'OpenURL' in you SYS:Prefs drawer. This is the main configuration tool for OpenURL. On a freshly installed OpenURL setup, it contains default settings. However, please note that these defauls do most likely NOT work out-of-the-box. You have to actually change them to your own iternet applications environment. As we are currently only interested in setting up a web browser in OpenURL, we take IBrowse as an example.
So, if you have the preferences application open, you will see different registers for web browsers, mailers and FTP programs you can configure. In 'Browsers' you should find an 'IBrowse' entry with some default settings. Doubleclick on it and make sure the following window shows the similar information:
Please note, that especially the "Path" setting definitly requires a change, as you are supposed to put in the correct directory/file path to the IBrowse executable. However, make sure that the "%u" part at the very end of the string remains.
Next, make sure that in the main configuration window, the 'Misc' register contains the following settings:
Now, if you have everything correctly configured and setup according to the above explainations, you should be able to open an URL even from the command line via the C:OpenURL executable that was also supplied with the default OpenURL installation:
1> openurl http://www.yam.ch/
This should, if correctly configured, fire up IBrowse in case it was configured to be the web browser with the highest priority in OpenURL. So please check your OpenURL configuration that e.g. IBrowse is at the top of your configured web browser list. In addition, if the above openurl command didn't succeed with automatically launching your web browser, try to use tools like SnoopDOS or Snoopy for tracking what OpenURL is trying to do when you execute the C:OpenURL command.
If this worked as expected, you can now try to doubleclick on an URL in a mail mesage in YAM (after having restarted YAM). If this still doesn't fire up IBrowse as the C:OpenURL did, then please have a look at the "Scripts" configuration tab in YAM. There, you have to make sure that you have NOT configured any arexx script for handling the doubleclicks on URLs. ("When double-clicking a URL" have to be empty)
via Arexx: If, for whatever reason it might be, you want to use a plain Arexx script for firing up the correct web browser, all you have to do is - go to the 'Scripts' configuration tab in YAM. There, make sure that you have the 'GotoURL.yam' script configured for the doubleclick actions on URLs. In addition, you have to make sure that - if you have YAM 2.5+ running - the script command string contains an %p qualifier at the end, like:
For YAM 2.5+:
YAM:Rexx/GotoURL.yam %p
For older YAM versions:
However, please note again, that the preferred way of configuring a doublick action on URLs is, to use OpenURL instead of the limited Arexx script possibility.
YAM shows the default icon for attachments rather than the one I configured in DefIcons. Why?
YAM 2.5+ introduced a new so-called AttachmentGroup which shows all attachments of a mail in an icon/image bar at the bottom of the mail read window. For each attachment, it will show a seperate icon/image depending on the file type of the attachment. For archieving this, it uses the DefIcon system of the operating system it is runing on. This system allows (through SYS:Prefs/DefIcons) to configure seperate icons for various types of files. Unfortunately, it is limited and especially the way third-party applications like YAM can query the icon/image for a certain file isn't perfect at all. In addition, the way DefIcon identifies a file type is based on certain rules a user can configure in SYS:Prefs/DefIcons where some rules do actually try to analyze the binary content of the file in question and therefore require the actual file to exist.
Now, when YAM is going to show the user the AttachmentGroup, it hasn't decoded all different MIME parts due to performance reasons. This means, that at the time YAM tries to show the user the icon/image for an attachment, it just knows the filename, description and size of the attachment, but it hasn't actually written the binary data of it to disk. So, at the time YAM is going to ask the DefIcons system for the actual icon/image of the file it can't supply the decoded binary and therefore will only show/query for the default type based on the MIME type of the attachment.
However, as soon as the attachment was decoded either because it was viewed/printed/saved from within YAM, the AttachmentGroup will show the correct icon/image based on what DefIcons supplies.
Replying/Forwarding Mails
I can't put my initials into or change the quoting string used on reply! Why?
In YAM 2.5 we removed the possibility to add your own initials to the quoting string '>' that is normally put in front of every line when you reply to a mail. This was done to conform to common netiquettes and the so-called Son-Of-RFC 1036 and its successors.
The point is, that there are some kind of common rules when creating an email. And one of those rules is the way a text/mail should be quoted. Borrowed from the way quoting was common in Usenet, emails use the same '>' quotation character that is put in front of every replied line in a mail. Previous versions of YAM allowed to put your own initials in that quoting string so that a string like 'JD>' was added on all mails that were quoted by the user John Doe. While this seemed to be a nice and neat way of getting more order into the quoting history, it more or less ends up in more obfuscation of mails, especially in large threads. Another point why such initial quotation strings shouldn't be used is, that there is only a very few amount of mail clients that are able to identify these strings as actual quotations and strip or highlight them accordingly on a reply.
Therefore, we generally removed the possibility to add your own initials to the quote string as well as the graphical elements to change the quotation string in the YAM configuration window. We really believe that compatibility to common rules and RFC s is most important.
For further readings on the pros and cons and how a mail should be properly quoted please have a look at http://learn.to/quote. Keep especially an eye on the 'Quotationsmarks' section that pretty much sums the issue up.
Composing Mails
Is it possible to send an email to a group of recipients in one go?
Yes it is. You just have to create a new list with a suitable name in YAM's address book and add all the desired recipients. Then add this list as a regular recipient when writing a mail.
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Solar Beam necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 212 diseños de 68 diseñadores freelance.
Solar Beam (brand) smart power (tag line and assocuated text)
We sell roof mounted Solar PV systems to home oweners who purchase our products online. We use a information based selling system which steps customers through a pre purchase checklist via a series of information videos which means they don't need to deal with pushy sales people.
If after going through the pre purchase process, a customer wants a visit by a technical professional we offer this as an add on cost, rather than costing it into the sales price.
Brand positioning is we provide the best value quality mix in the market and ensure our customers have a transparent and well educated understanding of what they are buying.
Our desired perception to the customer is right advice, right products, easy to work with, great service, excellent value
We sell a 1.5 KW Solar system for $25,990. most of the competitors are between $2,800 and $3,000
There are a few competitors that market cheap deals between $2,200 and $2,500 but they use this price point to generate inquiry too up sell to more expensive product options.
We deliver the products to your home then the installer comes to install this approach saves warehousing which is one of the reasons we can deliver consistent value pricing.
Australian purchases of PV solar systems that are internet savvy and used to researching and interacting with the internet.
Interested in appearing to care about being "green" minded.
They want to do their bit for the planet!
Clean, strong design, which supports the business process. Appeals online, has a strong creative element that maybe used as a support element in ongoing branding applications.
Needs to be able to be placed on contracts, letterheads and business cards
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21 Years!Thank you. I love hearing/reading stories like yours about several generations of Sox fans attending games together. Whenever I'm at the ballpark, one of the first things I do is look around for children and their families. Seeing little ones decked out in Sox gear always makes me smile. It reminds me that the Sox fanbase will indeed continue to grow and prosper; this is something that makes me very happy.
Posted 04-04-2012 at 06:22 AM by October26
21 Years!What a great entry! The parallels you drew from your daughter to our beloved ballpark were interesting to read about. Sadly, I was only ever at Comiskey Park once - in 1987 - and have very vague memories of the night I spent there in a skybox with my family for my grandma's 65th birthday. However, I'm fortunate to have amazing, unforgettable memories of the new Comiskey Park and hope to continue adding to them in the years to come.
Posted 04-03-2012 at 09:04 PM by ChiSoxGirl
21 Years!Thank you. Your analogy is both relevant and thought-provoking. As parents, we are privileged to witness the growth and development of our children. Together, we travel on this journey called life where we encounter joy and sorrow. It is important to take time to celebrate reaching those milestones deemed memorable and noteworthy. Birthdays especially provide us with the opportunity to reminisce as well as create new memories along the way.
As you so eloquently stated, USCF has undergone a metamorphosis from an ugly duckling to a beautiful swan. When the ballpark opened, it was a painful reminder of a failed design. Certainly the renovations played a key part in altering our perceptions, but I also believe the 2005 World Series Championship White Sox did much to ease our pain. While the Championship was won in Houston, there were many memorable moments which took place at USCF. Today, those memories along with the WS Banners and WS Trophy grace our beautiful ballpark.
I hope that USCF will host many future ALDS/ALCS/World Series games and that we are fortunate enough to see the White Sox win another World Series.
Posted 04-03-2012 at 06:29 PM by October26
21 Years!It's fascinating that your daughter is a living metaphor for the ballpark. So many parallels between a person's years and those of USCF.
All of us in childhood were raw, unpolished, and bore no scars or calluses gained from experience. In adolescence we were uncertain, awkward, and prone to gaffes. In adulthood our bearing suggests that we belong in the place we are, and if not, we make changes to assure that we belong.
The ballpark went through the same stages. Those first few years it had no personality as we sat in plastic seats among freshly-set concrete. By the early '90s it bumbled along with some changes in seating and amenities that didn't stick. And now it's matured into a comfortable state after making the changes that assured that it belongs where it does.
The sheen of newness is gone. That's good because newness has no stories to tell. As is clear about your daughter, the ballpark has gracefully grown and matured.
Posted 04-03-2012 at 12:56 PM by tebman
Food for Thoughtmanders!
Now I understand why you and I connected instantly - we have both been Sox fans forever! Well, me longer than you but who's counting?
And I think it's great that your dad taught you to love the Sox. So did mine. :smile:
I laughed when you said in your post that you would get into fights about who was the better team and wanted to show who you were rooting for. This was me as well! As I said in the blog entry, there was not much logo merchandise available for purchase back when I was a kid. One time I remember cutting the Sox logo out of the newspaper and taping it to my notebook. I thought I was so cool. :cool:
Posted 03-03-2012 at 03:16 PM by October26
Food for ThoughtI come from a large family (re: my dad has 44 first cousins on my grandpa's side) that is predominately Cubs fans (they really don't like my FB profile pic in our family group :D:). But my dad has always been a Sox fan. There was never a time I ever thought about being anything but a Sox fan. That was the baseball that was on in the house so that was my baseball.
Nothing specific but something that I could wear to school to show I was a Sox fan. My cousin (from my grandma's side, lots more Sox fans over there) and I, both Sox fans to this day, were in the same class and were the only Sox fans. We'd get into fights about who was the better team. So I always wanted something that showed who I was rooting for.
I have many items I've gotten from my WSI Secret Santa's that I really love and appreciate. I also have a zippy hoodie with the WS patch on it that I love but is now so huge on me. I'll never get rid of it though.
Posted 03-02-2012 at 10:18 PM by manders_01
Daydreaming16 days? Feb 22nd? Woo-hoo - can't wait!
[B][I]LEGEND (my emotions)[/I][/B]
Presently - :(:
Late February/March/Spring Training games - :smile:
Sox Opening Day/Weekend - :bliss::wooty:
Seriously, thank you very much for your kind words. They mean so much to me, especially coming from a great Sox fan like you. You already know that I hold you in high regard and admire your devotion to our Sox. And now I'm looking forward to seeing you and the rest of our White Sox brothers and sisters at Sox games this summer in the playground known as U.S. Cellular Field. Go Sox!
Posted 02-08-2012 at 08:44 AM by October26
DaydreamingWow! Great blog entry! You eloquently said what so many of us are feeling at this time of the year.
And, by the way, pitchers and catchers report in 16 days.
Posted 02-07-2012 at 08:43 PM by ChiSoxGirl
Food for Thoughttebman,
I enjoyed reading your post. And you're absolutely right, that Bill Veeck exploding scoreboard was something else. I remember the feeling of excitement that would overcome me every single time I walked up the stairs onto the lower deck at Old Comiskey Park and looked up and saw those pinwheels. And when the scoreboard exploded, lookout, I was like a kid in a candy store! :bliss:
Like you, I am also a White Sox pack rat. Funny how I can easily part with old items I no longer use, but my husband will ask me to throw out a 1975 Sox program book/scorecard and that conversation is immediately over. The older I get the more I realize, however, that my "historical Sox artifacts" have value only to me. And that's okay. As I type this, I'm looking at an autographed photo of Billy Pierce, which brings a smile to my face along with the wonderful memory of the day that I met Billy. :D:
Posted 01-16-2012 at 05:51 PM by October26
Food for ThoughtMy dad and my older sister were both Sox fans. He because of his industrial-workplace experience, she because she had a crush on Nellie Fox. I became a bigger fan than either of them and I don't know why, except that baseball rings a bell in me that other sports don't, and I was a sucker for Bill Veeck's exploding scoreboard.
I'm not a collector as much as a pack rat. I keep (or try to keep) baseball-related stuff and I've got several boxes in my basement with scorecards, programs, magazines, ticket stubs, and other paper goods. Pennants, bobbleheads, and other stuff occupy space on shelves. My wife thinks it's clutter; I think it's a priceless collection of historical artifacts that generations hence will study carefully and hold in treasured esteem. Or not.
Posted 01-16-2012 at 11:00 AM by tebman
Food for ThoughtDaver,
I enjoyed reading the story about your uncle (it's wonderful) and how he played such a key role in you becoming a Sox fan.
It's also interesting to read your perspective on memorabilia and I appreciate that we're different types of people in that regard. I have a small alcove in the second floor of my house where I keep all of my White Sox treasures. I wish I could say that it is something spectacular, but it's not. It is simply my collection of Sox stuff. My favorite item is a scrapbook I made of my family & I celebrating each milestone the Sox reached in October 2005.
I see that you are the Administrator for WSI. Thank you, again, from the bottom of my heart for everything you do to keep this wonderful website running for everyone. I appreciate it!
Posted 01-13-2012 at 08:20 AM by October26
Food for ThoughtNo one in my immediate family liked baseball besides me, I played it, my uncle, who was trying to help a single parent home by watching the kids in the evening got me hooked on the White Sox.
I'm not a big fan of team merchandise, I don't collect it, and give away the things that I do run across to actual collectors.
I have an authentic 2005 Man Soo Lee jersey that was an anniversary gift from my wife, it is the only memorabilia I own aside from a few t-shirts that I wear for work.
Posted 01-13-2012 at 12:10 AM by Daver


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Denny Hamlin throws HANS device at Kevin Harvick's car
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Add Denny Hamlin to the list of drivers who have thrown things during a NASCAR race.
Hamlin hurled his HANS (head and neck support device) up the track toward rival Kevin Harvick's No. 4 Chevrolet after Harvick spun him.
Hamlin was leading the race Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway when the incident occurred on lap 161.
Hamlin got the lead through pit strategy, but Harvick had been hounding him for several laps. As Hamlin drove into Turn 1, Harvick lost control of his car and slid up into Hamlin's No. 11 Toyota, sending him spinning.
After Hamlin bounced off the inside wall, he was hit by Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose No. 88 car lost one of its sides and all its safety foam.
Hamlin waited on the safety crew before getting out of the car, following the new protocol set last week by NASCAR.
But after gathering items from inside his car, he heaved the HANS device up the track toward Harvick's car as it came back by under caution as safety workers stood by. Hamlin remained on the apron when he made the toss.
NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said after the race that it's unlikely Hamlin will be penalized for throwing the device.
VIDEO: See the crash between Hamlin and Harvick
Last Friday, NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton announced the sanctioning body was adding a rule to keep drivers in their cars after accidents and when races were under caution until safety crews arrive. Drivers cannot walk onto the track or toward another car.
The rule came in the wake of a sprint car accident in upstate New York on Aug. 9 in which driver Kevin Ward Jr. was struck and killed by Tony Stewart's car when Ward exited his car and walked down onto the racing surface.
Harvick, who started from the pole but finished 11th after a pit-road speeding penalty, took blame for Saturday's wreck on his team radio.
"We got a speeding penalty there at the end," Harvick said after the race. "I knew I was close, but I tried to get everything I could on pit road and wound up biting us. … Raced hard all night – just made a mistake there on pit road speeding."
Harvick also tweeted after the race: "Apologize to my team for the speeding penalty to ruin our night & to @dennyhamlin for ruining his."
Hamlin had calmed down a bit after visiting the infield medical center for a mandatory checkup.
"I was so mad," he said. "Trying to think when I've been that mad in the past, but it's been maybe never. It's just the circumstances. I'm okay with wrecking on the white-flag lap but not lap 100 and something.
"He (Harvick) thinks he knows everything and probably thought he knows everything again. I wish I had some kind of car left to show him the favor back. I mean we're not even halfway. We're racing for the lead. It's just a misjudgment. He knows better. He made a mistake."
Hamlin said the early part of the race convinced him he had a potentially winning car.
"It just didn't work out," he said. "Mistakes happen in racing. I believe Kevin made a mistake tonight. That's part of it. I was just on the short end of the stick.
"He's not just going to take somebody out early in the race [on purpose]. I've got no problems with Kevin. He was trying too hard too early. These short tracks are about patience. You have to show patience."
In last year's Bristol night race, Harvick parked in Hamlin's pit stall after a crash and Hamlin shoved the No. 29 car out. The two then had a discussion about what happened.
Follow Gluck on Twitter @jeff_gluckand Hembree @mikehembree
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Halloween Faces
Posted by Rot at 11:29 AM
Labels: aliens, flickr.com, masks, phaedra0069, spider, witches
5 comments:
- crudedoodle.com said...
what IS it about those alien faces??? I saw this here and got this immediate pang of horror.
- January 17, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- Sara said...
How come more people don't dress up as Aliens for Halloween? How come you have never done an alien-esque haunt? Is it because that sounds like the worst possible idea ever? LOL. Whatever.
- January 17, 2011 at 5:48 PM
- Pam Morris said...
boy, I bet Frog Queen liked that second one...
- January 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM
- MorbidMariah said...
ACK! Something about a spider coming out of a gaping mouth is just......BLECH! Makes my skin crawl!
- January 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Chris 'Frog Queen' Davis said...
*&^%! There was a spider picture in that set.....a warning would be nice.
- January 19, 2011 at 6:50 AM
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The California Teachers Assn., which supports an effort by Gov. Brown to extend tax increases on Californians in order to pay for California schools, held its "Issues Conference" over the weekend.
In Las Vegas.
To be fair, CTA holds plenty of conferences and big meetings in California, there are many good reasons to host a gathering in Vegas (especially for unions, since the Vegas hotels have become a source of union strength nationally), and all sorts of California groups do conferences and meetings there. The California Correctional Peace Officers Assn., the state's prison guards union, met in Vegas last month.
But: Would it be too much to ask that California interest groups, at a moment of economic and fiscal crisis in the state, hold their conferences and spend their money in California? This is a state with countless locations for a big, fun conference. There's no need to go to Vegas.
CTA and the prison guards should be especially careful about the signals they send, since prisons and education receive far more protection than other government services in Gov. Brown's budget proposals. In his inaugural speech, Brown urged interests to be loyal to California, and put the state's needs above their own. Here's one area where showing such loyalty should be an easy decision.


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Music with Friends Club Draws Big Stars to Small Venues
October 31, 2013
Nashville is the new home to a private music social club where members pay a premium price to see top artists give three performances per year at an intimate venue in town.
The first performance for the new club, called Music With Friends, was on Monday and featured Diana Ross at the new CMA Theater inside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Music With Friends founder Larry Farber, a music industry veteran from Charlotte, N.C., said members pay a one-time permanent seat fee of $500 and then $1,500 annually in exchange for three shows that feature a preshow cocktail party and a post-concert event.
As of Monday, Music With Friends had garnered 400 members in Nashville using a word-of-mouth marketing strategy featuring in-home events at the homes of prominent Middle Tennessee residents.
Music With Friends started in Charlotte in 2007 and expanded to Charleston, S.C., in 2010.
"I had a dream to create a music club, if you will, a country club for music lovers," Farber said.
After the program's first year, the approximately 660 seats in the Charlotte venue have been sold out, as have about 420 seats for the Charleston club. The CMA Theater, where the plan is to hold all the Nashville shows, seats 777, Farber said.
"You want to give fans the chance to see artists like Diana Ross, Willie Nelson, major acts at a small venue they otherwise wouldn't play," Farber said.
Less risk for artists
Billboard magazine live music business expert Ray Waddell said the Music With Friends model could appeal to artists, because it gives them a healthy payday without the inherent risk that comes with trying to fill a larger venue.
"The live music industry is inherently a narrow margin business, always seeking a way to balance the market for higher-end 'ueber fans' while not alienating or outpricing mainstream, or less well-heeled, fans," Waddell said. "The most appealing prospects for the former are exclusivity and proximity, whether it's premium seating or meet-and-greets, and Music With Friends seems to provide both."
To lure members, Music With Friends made its pitch at private events at the homes of notable Nashville-area socialites.
Fletcher Foster, industry veteran and manager at Red Light Management, hosted one such event at his home. Foster said the first show with Ross was a success, and he anticipated the club doing well in Nashville. The challenge for Music With Friends in Nashville, where industry events frequently feature top-line artists, will be to book other acts whose status is comparable to Ross's.
"I can't think of a better artist to kick it off," Foster said. "The energy was insane; people were dancing and energetic about it. To see an artist of that caliber sing for an hour and a half, hit after hit, it's the songbook of our lives.
"I think in Nashville, we do get spoiled based upon having so much access (to top artists). I think the key is going to be bringing the right talent to the venue, because it is a beautiful venue."
For the full article with slideshow, please visit the Tennessean.


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Mos Def Track Produced by Kanye West Track Surfaces Online
In 2006, when Yasiin Bey was the Mighty Mos Def, he worked with in-demand producer Kanye West while recording his third album 'Tru3 Magic.'
Although the LP was released without much fanfare, none of Yeezy's productions were featured on the album. At a concert performance in Chicago, Bey performed the unreleased song 'The Light Is Not Afraid of the Dark' from the 'Tru3 Magic' sessions. Afterward, the Brooklyn rhyme-spitter released the track on the Internet (via Okayplayer), much to his fan's enjoyment.
The song is rather subdued with its soul-sample groove, dusty vinyl sound and bopping beat. Bey raps some cool punchlines on the joint and a call-and-response line on the chorus. "My voice like magic / My flow fantastic / In summary I'm real, ordinary, elaborate / But check the profile, this is lyrically handsome," he raps.
The song is a nostalgic reminder of how good Bey sounds over West's productions. If you need a reference point, check out his blistering verse on 'Two Words' off 'College Dropout.'
After listening to his previously-released Mannie Fresh collaboration 'Black Jesus,' we are now anxiously awaiting Yasiin Bey's 'OMFGOD' album.
Listen to Mos Def's 'The Light Is Not Afraid of the Dark' (Produced by Kanye West)
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The CIRSA situation
Your Lookout Colorado correspondent has a for-the-record story in the paper today about a public records argument The Denver Post is having with the Colorado Intergovernmental Risk Sharing Agency.
I thought I would provide more context here for any public records junkies out there who might be interested in this little tussle.
Here's the response from CIRSA's private attorney to the newspaper's Colorado Open Records request for travel documents.
The letter provides the section of statute Dawes cites in denying a fuller response under CORA. The link includes summary information for every board member and executive staff member and breaks out the total travel in aggregate year by year from 2006 through 2010.
A warning, the PDF is difficult to read if you don't print it out. Also, I've done a little reporting to help make sense of the current board members in order to provide their day jobs:
Cindy Morse, chairwoman
Woodland Park City Clerk
Martee Erichson
Risk Manager, Westminster
Houssin Hourieh
Supervisor, Lamar
Light and Power
Dave Roper
Risk Manager, Grand Junction
Sharon Day
Town Administrator, Meeker
Michael Bestor
City Manager, Golden


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Move over super models, moms are taking over the runway at this year's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. The first-ever Strut: The Fashionable Mom Show, hosted by mom and model Iman, debuted with a collection of designers who are realistic for today's moms. Denise Albert, originally from Port Washington and Melissa Gerstein of The Moms, a multiplatform lifestyle brand that is featured on television, online and in print, wanted to showcase everyday fashion for moms with different styles, different jobs and different lives.
Designers and top consumer brands couldn't agree more. T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, Matrix and Clorox were the top sponsors of the event. The show, catering to the modern mom, highlighted creative ways to transform outfits from "mommy" to "meeting" to "moms' night out." Real moms strutted their stuff on the runway, sporting comfortable on-the-go blazers, jackets and jeans as well as hip work attire and stylish maternity clothes from designers such as Tory Burch, Rachael Roy, Vera Wang, Gap, Laundry, Michael Kors, BCBQ, Pea in the Pod, Coldwater Creek, Bela Bum Bum and Ingrid & Isabel, which revealed fall trends for moms.
"We came up with this idea because as entrepreneurs, business women and moms who love fashion, we have very little time to worry about what we're going to wear but love to look our best and keep up with the trends every day," said Albert. "So, we decided to put together a fashion show for moms with looks from a wide range of brands we love to wear." Together with Mom-entum, a division within social media agency, Big Fuel and Getting Gorgeous, two top fashion and beauty bloggers, as partners, The Moms brought the idea to Lincoln Center fashion director and IMG consultant Stephanie Winston Wolfoff, also a mom, who loved the concept.
So if you're a mom who is looking to be stylish, comfort is key, said Albert. "If you're dropping your kids off at school in the morning, running to a meeting, going back to a kid's activity, then back to work, then home, then back to a work event, like I often do, there's nothing more important than having staple items in your closet," she said. Here are Albert's top five must-have things every working mom should have in her closet:
1. Wedge boots. "For me, it's all about the shoes," said Albert. "Wedges and platforms, no heels. This is worth spending a little extra money on -- you need to be able to walk in them all day. My favorites are Stuart Weiztman.
2. Leather biker jacket. "Gap has great ones, and wait for sales," said Albert.
3. Black skinny jeans. "Anything form AG Jeans works for me," she said.
4. White tank top. "The Gap is where I buy these classic items," said Albert.
5. Accessories. "You don't have to spend a lot," she said. "Baublebar.com is my new favorite for earrings, chunky bracelets and necklaces that can transform any outfit."
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Hawaii high school and college students invited to study abroad in France this summerKapiʻolani Community College
Department of Languages
HONOLULU — Graduating high school seniors age 18 and University of Hawaiʻi students are invited to apply for an exciting summer study abroad program in the South of France, presented by Kapiʻolani Community College (KCC) and offered through Cultural Experiences Abroad (CEA).
The one-month program in July in Aix-en-Provence, France, includes an intensive French language course for beginner and intermediate French language students, excursions, cultural and social activities, and a KCC cuisine activity with a local French chef.
Students will earn 6-8 credits studying French while immersed in the culture. Housing is provided in an apartment or in a family homestay setting. Students will participate in two excursions in the area with students in other CEA programs and will be accompanied and tutored by KCC faculty.
In order to participate in the study abroad program, students must have completed high school, be accepted into one of the University of Hawaiʻi's 10 campuses, and have a current minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5. Program dates are June 28 — July 29, 2006, with a tentative departure date from Honolulu of June 26, 2006.
The deadline to apply for the program is March 10, 2006. For more information, contact Renée Arnold at 734-9704 or visit www.kcc.hawaii.edu/page/studyinfrance .
For more information, visit: http://www.kcc.hawaii.edu/page/studyinfrance