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Amnesty International - May 24, 2012
Fearful of a protest movement inspired by events in the Middle East and North Africa, in February the authorities unleashed one of the harshest crackdowns on political activists, human rights defenders and online activists since the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. Harassment, intimidation, arbitrary and illegal detention, and enforced disappearances intensified against government critics. Ethnic minority regions were under heightened security as local residents protested against discrimination, repression and other violations of their rights. The authorities increased ongoing efforts to bring all religious practice within the control of the state; this included harsh persecution of some religious practitioners. China's economic strength during the global financial crisis increased the country's leverage in the domain of global human rights mostly for the worse.
China's economy remained relatively resilient despite the global financial crisis, raising fears that international actors would be reluctant to criticize China's human rights record, a trend already evident in the recent past. China was increasingly successful in using its growing financial and political clout to pressure other countries to forcibly return increasing numbers of Chinese nationals of certain backgrounds, such as Uighurs, back to China, where they risked unfair trials, torture and other ill-treatment in detention, and other human rights violations.
Freedom of expression
The authorities continued to abuse criminal law to suppress freedom of expression. They detained or arrested close to 50 people and harassed and intimidated dozens more during the crackdown on "Jasmine" protests that began in February in response to the popular movements in the Middle East and North Africa. An initially anonymous call for peaceful Sunday strolls spread across a growing number of cities as a form of protest against corruption, the suppression of rights, and the lack of political reform.
Amendments in March to the Regulations on the Administration of Publications added a new requirement that those who distributed publications over the internet or information networks must be licensed, or risk criminal penalties. The authorities shut down or took direct control of a number of publications that had published investigative journalism pieces on sensitive issues. They reportedly banned hundreds of words from mobile phone text messages, including "democracy" and "human rights".
Human rights defenders
Two veteran activists detained during the "Jasmine" protests were sentenced to long prison terms for their political writings. On 23 December, Chen Wei was charged with "inciting subversion of state power" and sentenced to nine years for 11 articles he had written in support of democracy and political reform. On 26 December, Chen Xi was sentenced to 10 years on the same charge, for 36 articles he published overseas. Ding Mao in Sichuan province, and Liang Haiyi in Guangdong province, remained in detention for their involvement in the "Jasmine" protests.
The authorities continued to harass, intimidate, persecute and criminalize pro-democracy and human rights activists. Activists supporting the China Democracy Party were sentenced to long prison terms.
The number of people subjected to enforced disappearances grew. Many were held in secret detention, including Hada, a Mongolian political activist. Many others remained or were placed under illegal house arrest. They included Liu Xia, wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, and Zheng Enchong, a housing rights lawyer from Shanghai.
On 30 August, the authorities released draft revisions of China's Criminal Procedure Law, the first proposed changes since 1997. Notwithstanding some positive amendments, the revisions proposed to legalize detention of individuals for up to six months without notification of their family or friends. Many legal commentators regarded this as a legalization of enforced disappearances. Prohibitions against the use of illegal evidence, including coerced confessions and other evidence obtained through torture and other ill-treatment, were incorporated into the draft revisions. However, torture remained pervasive in places of detention, as government policies, such as ones requiring prison and detention centre staff to "transform" religious dissidents to renounce their faith, fostered a climate conducive to torture.
Forced evictions
On 16 December, Gao Zhisheng, a well-known human rights lawyer who had been subjected to enforced disappearance on and off for nearly three years, was sent to prison to serve his three-year sentence for "repeatedly violating his probation", just days before his five-year probation was due to end. During his disappearance he was believed to have been in official custody.
The forced eviction of citizens from their homes and farms, without adequate due process or compensation, accelerated and was increasingly marked by violence. On 21 January, the State Council issued new regulations on the expropriation of houses in urban areas. While a step in the right direction, the regulations only covered city dwellers and not tenants or other non-owners, leaving the majority of Chinese people unprotected against forced evictions.
Death penalty
On 29 December, former lawyer Ni Yulan was tried on charges of "picking quarrels" and "fraud" and faced a possible lengthy prison sentence. Ni Yulan was herself forcibly evicted from her home in 2008, before the Beijing Olympics, and was paralysed from the waist down as a result of beatings in detention.
In February, the National People's Congress passed the eighth revision of China's Criminal Law which removed the death penalty as punishment for 13 crimes. At the same time, it added a number of new capital crimes and expanded the scope of others. China continued to use the death penalty extensively, including for non-violent crimes, and to impose it after unfair trials. Executions were estimated to number in the thousands. However, statistics on death sentences and executions remained classified.
Freedom of religion or belief
The authorities pursued their goal of bringing all religious practice under state control, including state oversight over religious doctrine, appointment of religious leaders, the registration of religious groups and construction of sites of worship. People practising religions banned by the state, or without state sanction, risked harassment, detention, imprisonment, and in some cases, violent persecution. Banned religions included underground Protestant house churches and Catholics who accept the authority of the Holy See. Around 40 Catholic bishops remained unaccounted for, and were presumed to be held by the authorities.
Falun Gong
Between 10 April and the end of the year, members of the underground Shouwang Church in Beijing were detained on a weekly basis as they attempted to hold an outdoor Sunday service in north-west Beijing. Most detainees were held in police stations or under house arrest to prevent the service from taking place. The Church had been repeatedly expelled from rented locations and prevented from taking possession of a building it had purchased years ago.
The authorities continued to pursue a systematic, nationwide, often violent campaign against the Falun Gong, a spiritual group banned since 1999 as a "heretical cult". The government was in the second year of a three-year campaign to increase the "transformation" rates of Falun Gong practitioners, a process through which individuals were pressured, often through mental and physical torture, to renounce their belief in and practice of Falun Gong. Practitioners who refused to renounce their faith were at risk of escalating levels of torture and other ill-treatment. The authorities operated illegal detention centres, informally referred to as "brainwashing centres", for this process. Falun Gong sources reported that one practitioner died every three days while in official custody or shortly after release, and said that thousands remained unaccounted for.
Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region
On 5 March, Zhou Xiangyang, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested at his home in Tangshan, Hebei province and taken to Binhai Prison in Tianjin city. He immediately went on hunger strike. He had previously spent over nine years in detention and was subjected to forced labour and torture, including sleep deprivation, electric shocks, beatings, and being stretched over a low table with his limbs anchored to the floor. The authorities continued to refuse him a lawyer. In response to an appeal written by his wife, Li Shanshan, more than 2,500 residents in and around his home town signed a petition calling for his release. She was subsequently detained in September, along with Zhou Xiangyang's older brother and at least four others.
The murder on 10 May of Mergen, an ethnic Mongolian herder, by a Han Chinese coal truck driver sparked widespread protests across the region. Relations were already tense due to grievances on the part of local herders who felt their livelihood was being threatened by land grabbing and environmental damage to livestock grazing from mining companies, many of which were Han Chinese.
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR)
From 23 to 31 May, hundreds of herders and students took part in largely peaceful, daily protests across the region. While responding to some of the grievances raised, the authorities widely deployed armed security and military forces, and detained dozens of protesters. They blocked off internet sites that mentioned the protests, restricted mobile phone access and shut down most Mongolian-language websites.
The authorities escalated security measures through a succession of "strike hard" campaigns which increased around-the-clock street patrols and involved "mobilizing society to wage battle" against acts the authorities claimed harmed state security. In Urumqi, whole neighbourhoods were reported to have been sealed off by security checkpoints.
Extreme restrictions on the flow of information within and from the XUAR left uncertain the fate of many hundreds detained in the aftermath of the 2009 crackdown on protests in Urumqi. In January, the head of the XUAR High People's Court referred to ongoing cases connected to the 2009 protests, but the authorities provided no information on the trials. Family members of detained individuals were often not informed of the fate or whereabouts of their loved ones and were often too afraid to communicate with those outside China, for fear of retribution by the authorities.
Freedom of expression in the XUAR continued to be severely restricted, including by vaguely defined crimes of "ethnic separatism" and "terrorism", which included distributing materials or literary works with "separatist content".
The Chinese government used economic and diplomatic pressure on other countries, including Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand, to forcibly expel or hand over more than a dozen Uighurs to the Chinese authorities. Uighurs forcibly returned to China were at high risk of torture, arbitrary detention and unfair trials, and were often held incommunicado.
Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz died on 13 November, allegedly as a result of torture in prison. He was serving a life sentence on charges of "murder" and "provoking an incident" after an unfair trial. He was alleged to have thrown stones during the July 2009 protests, and was aged 17 at the time of his detention. According to a family friend with access to information from the jail, Noor Ul-Islam had been regularly beaten with electric batons in prison. His family were not allowed access to his body and the authorities buried him before an autopsy was done. The authorities failed to provide adequate evidence at his trial, except for his "confession", which may have been extracted through torture. During his trial, he was represented by a lawyer appointed by the court.
Tibet Autonomous Region
From 16 March to the end of the year, 10 monks or former monks and two nuns in the Tibetan areas of China set themselves on fire. Six were believed to have died as a result. These protests appeared to be in response to increasingly punitive security measures imposed on religious institutions and lay communities in the region, following the March 2008 protests. The first self-immolation, by Phuntsok Jarutsang, was followed by protests, mass arrests (including of 300 Kirti Monastery monks), enforced disappearances and possible killings by security forces. Two elderly Tibetans (a man and a woman) died after local residents clashed with security forces while trying to stop the arrests. A third man died from injuries sustained following a police crackdown on demonstrators outside a police station. Individuals connected to protests around the immolations were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 13 years. Despite the rash of self-immolations, there was no indication that the Chinese authorities intended to address the underlying causes of the protests or acknowledge the grievances of the Tibetan community.
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Freedom of expression, association and assembly
Security forces and police used excessive force against peaceful protesters.
Refugees and asylum-seekers
During a peaceful demonstration on 15 May, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, police threatened to arrest protesters unless they stopped dancing. Police argued that organizers including Amnesty International Hong Kong had not obtained a "temporary public entertainment license". Critics considered this harassment, having no legal basis. On 2 July, police arrested 228 participants in the annual 1 July pro-democracy march, for causing an obstruction in a public place and unlawful assembly. The Hong Kong Journalists Association said that 19 journalists were attacked with pepper spray and one journalist was arrested during the 10,000-strong march. Police also attempted to arrest Law Yuk Kai, Director of Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, while he observed them removing and arresting protesters who were blocking traffic. All those arrested were released later the same day. Several were subsequently charged with disturbing public order.
During Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang's three-day visit to Hong Kong in August, police set up "core security areas" keeping protesters and press away from him. Legislative Councillors and others criticized these tactics as heavy-handed, undermining freedom of expression. Police dragged away one resident wearing a t-shirt commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.
Legal developments
In June, the government introduced controversial proposals which in some circumstances would end by-elections as the means for replacing Legislative Council members whose terms ended early. Also in June, the Law Reform Committee issued a consultation paper on setting up a Charity Law and a Charity Commission. Amnesty International and other rights-based groups criticized the proposals' definition of charity, which excluded human rights activities while recognizing 13 other sectors, including animal rights.
On 30 September, the High Court ruled in favour of a Filipina domestic helper, determining that immigration provisions prohibiting foreign domestic helpers from applying for right of abode were unconstitutional. The government appealed against the ruling. Critics of the government's stance believed the exclusion amounted to ethnic discrimination. On 25 November, a post-operative transsexual woman lost her second appeal against a judgement denying her the right to marry her boyfriend in her reassigned sex. The Court of Appeal stated that any potential changes to law were a matter for the legislature and not the courts. The appellant said she would take the case to the Court of Final Appeal.
In July, the government introduced the Immigration (Amendment) Bill 2011, as a step towards creating a statutory framework to handle claims made under the UN Convention against Torture.
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Day1 of the 2011 Kite Slalom World Championships kicked of with light and shifting winds, causing the course to be set a couple of times during the day but not making a start possible before 1700 hours.
In winds averaging 6 knots the 23 competitors from all over the world went out to the waters of Mar Menor for the first ever ISAF recognized Kite Slalom World Championships.
Six heats could be completed before the wind died down to less than 4 knots making it impossible for the riders to head out to the starting area again, so racing was called off for the day with the mens semifinals and womens finals of round one coming up tomorrow in a stronger (forecasted) breeze.
Round one of the men saw 4 heats, with all the favourites advancing so far. Heat one kicked off with Gunnar Biniasch (GER) winning after overtaking Garcia (ESP) on the last leg in close racing. Heats 2-4 were easily won by the favourites in their heats Brian Lake (USA), Bruno Sroka (FRA) and Damien Leroy (USA). Also advancing to the semifinals of round 1 are Garcia, Garijo, Boadella and Villar.
In the womens fleet, 2 heats were run with the second one being close to be abandoned as the wind started dying, but both heats seing the favourites going through easily to the finals tomorrow. These are Boese (GER), Guerguivera (BUL) and Adrien (FRA). Two riders from the second semifinal had to be disqualified for being out of the time limit for finishing, leaving the final only go ahead with the top 3 riders.
The forecast for the upcoming two days is promising, with winds around 12-15 knots for Friday and even more for Saturday, which should be good for another few rounds of exciting action at Mar Menor.

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Ernest Wallace Held On $500,000 Bail
A man prosecutors say was with Aaron Hernandez the night the former New England Patriots tight end's friend was killed has been held on $500,000 cash bail.
Ernest Wallace appeared Friday in Attleboro District Court on a charge of being an accessory after the fact to murder.
His lawyer argued that Wallace was not a flight risk and wanted to return to his family in Florida. Attorney David Meier sought bail of $10,000.
Prosecutors said Wallace was Hernandez's ``right-hand man'' and sought $1 million bail.
Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder in the shooting death of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old Boston semi-professional football player whose body was found June 17 in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez's home.
Prosecutors say Hernandez orchestrated Lloyd's killing because he was upset with him. (Associated Press)


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Gosh – I remember the days when the pound was so strong against the dollar that I could roll on to adambeauty and buy an eyeshadow in every shade. Those days are gone, for sure.
Nevertheless, when I saw Kanebo Kate's newest gel eyeshadow offering I couldn't resist picking up 4 shades. I love cream and gel eyeshadows!
Kate's previous offering of gel eyeshadows were more of a dense mousse texture and came in a pot. They were EXCELLENT in terms of texture, pigmentation and durability.
Here is my pretty haul:
These eyeshadows obviously vary from the old gel eyeshadows because these are compacts and have quite a solid texture. They're not as rich as creams but not as light to touch as a mousse or jelly.
The packaging for these eyeshadows are cute and handy, a bit cheap feeling but perfectly acceptable.
Here are the shade range:
BR-1 is a chocolate brown with lots of gold sparkle:
GY-1 is a grey sparkle but very pale:
GN-1 is a mint green:
PU-1 is a medium purple:
My opinion on the texture of these is that they are quite hard (you need to really swirl to get the product on to your finger) and it's a little on the waxy side which I do not like.
They're all glittery – they will all leave you looking sparkly so really, it's more of a extremely sheer colour wash with shimmer, more than anything. I'd say this works better as a top coat than a base.
Also the waxy texture means it won't set – over the day it does crease although because there is barely any texture, it looks ok.
Hmm. See how sheer they are? Apart from BR-1 the rest are just slightly pigmented with lots of fine shimmer.
These are easy to blend but why would you want to spread the glitter around anyway?
These eyeshadows are good…for nothing.
Not great as a stand alone colour, bit rubbish as a base, not much of a interesting top coat, doesn't set to a crease free finish. Blah.
Good job these didn't cost too much and I bought them from adambeauty.com. Not really worth it but if you must have one, just buy ONE they all practically look the same anyway.


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Mike Wallace 80 yds
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**** Formerly Clevestinks!****i como enormes senos
Did Kemo not play tonight? I can't remember hearing his number being called for any stupid flags.
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This is ridiculous. Usually our offense lets us down and the defense kicks ***. Way to be guys, when your offense finally steps up and gets 2 TD's you **** everything up. 92 yards, they had to drive 92 yards past you and you let them. All on 3rd downs too.
This game was from the start
Thank you all for being in the gameday thread tonight. The last 2 minutes were horrid but you all were great talking about the game tonight!
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
Happy New Year!
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Almost done dining room
Hi friends! Adele is napping for longer than 20 minutes! (Knocks on wood.) She's usually a great sleeper at night but naps are a challenge. Anyway, since I have a little time I wanted to show you our new dining room. What I really want to show you is the kitchen, but I want pretty, the counters are not covered in breast milk and formula photos, so it'll have to wait till a weekend when I remember to clean AND take photos :)
When we added on to the kitchen, we also added about 70 square feet to the dining room. Boy, does it feel bigger! We can have our (new) 92" table in there and still have a clear walkway from the kitchen to the deck. Like most rooms, its 90% complete. We still need to caulk and paint the trim and hang art on the walls.
My laptop died and I lost a bunch of photos, so this is the best/only "before" shot I have. Its a screen shot of a video on Matt's ipad, when the chickens were living in the dining room. Sorry.
(I don't like it when he takes videos :)
As you can see, the room is sort of short and squatty. The visual appeal of the vaulted ceiling makes up for it, but whenever more than a few people were in there, it was really cramped. Now, we have room for our big families!
I'll post someday about how we framed the house, why we chose to close in the vaulted ceiling (hint: money), and how to lay the flooring, but for now I just wanted to show you a couple pretty photos and share my sources.
The best part is the added windows! There weren't any windows in here before, so I love all the added light, even in dreary November.
What I'm really looking forward to is some art on the walls! The room definitely needs some sprucing up with window treatments and art on the walls, but its come a long way!
My favorite details so far in this room full of wood are the metal accents on the table and chairs.
And of course a place to keep my wine.
Can't wait to decorate for Christmas in here!
The best part of DIYing this room was that Matt is more willing to purchase some new furniture, you know, to make the floor we laid look good :) Works out for me!
In case you're interested, here is a source list:
All construction lumber and supplies from Home Depot or Parr Lumber
Flooring: On clearance at Great Floors in Portland, $2.49 / sq ft
Table: Clayton table from World Market, $524.25 with 25% off coupon (not currently on their website but this is the coffee table in the same style)
Chairs: Avington dining chairs from Target (on sale at $159.99 for 2)
Wine rack: Norden occasional table from IKEA, $199.00
Light fixture: Drum fixture, Lamps Plus on clearance and an extra 10% off because it was the floor model, $120ish (I can't find it on Lamps Plus but here is something similar)
"Oh, we're documenting the dining room? Let me get on the table."
And for good measure, the little mohawked gal I get to hang out with when she wakes up.


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Excerpt from video transcript by Mark Koep with CampgroundViews.com:
We are here at what we believe to be the most beautiful RV park in all of North America. South Shore RV Park in Sodus Point New York sites on the shores of Lake Ontario. There are about 12 RV sites that back up to this view overlooking the lake. Stunning views from these backin and pullin RV sites of Lake Ontario. These million dollar views can be had for just over $40 per night and the folks that come here… know about it and often spend their entire days sitting out enjoying the view.
As an RVer destination Sodus Point is probably not even on your radar… it wasn't on ours, we stumbled upon it and fell in love with the area. There is abundant farming around the region and local farm stands selling fresh fruit always available and fun little playgrounds and play areas throughout the area and surrounding communities.
In the town there is 2 lighthouses, a historic one and a working one, along with docks, beaches, play areas, grass areas, and a fun little downtown. We challenge you to find a RV park prettier than we did here in Sodus Point.
http://www.CampgroundViews.com takes user submitted videos combined with professional editing to provide tent and RV campers with a first person view of a campground or RV park.
Grand Design Recreational Vehicle Company today announced its lightweight travel trailers.
The Imagine travel trailer series is the follow up to the firm's Reflection travel trailers and fifth wheels, flagship Solitude extended stay fifth wheels and popular Momentum toy haulers.
"Following the bar set by these brands, Imagine stays true to the company's commitment of focusing on the customer to steer design and fuel innovation," said General Manager Micah Staley.
With floorplans starting well under 6,000 pounds, Imagine travel trailers hit the towing sweet spot of today's medium duty trucks and SUVs, he added
"We wanted Imagine to not only hit the weight goals, but do it without the compromise that so many feel forced to in the pursuit of lighter weight. Industry leading tank capacities, 30-by-36-inch walk in shower, 60-by-80-inch queen beds and 81-inch interior radius ceilings are just a few of the areas where customers will no longer have to sacrifice," said Staley."The early buzz from dealers and customers point to another home run for Grand Design."
Imagine travel trailers debut on dealers' lots the first week of August.
For more information, visit www.granddesignrv.com.
The Mesa Spirit RV Resort, a local RV park located near downtown Mesa, has won the Mega Park of the Year award from the Arizona Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC).
"The Mesa Spirit staff takes great pride in the service and amenities we offer to our guests, and it's wonderful to have that dedication to excellence recognized by the Arizona ARVC," said Jarrett O'Neil, general manager at Mesa Spirit.
O'Neil credits both his staff and the dynamic assortment of activities offered at the resort for its place as one of four Arizona RV parks recognized by the ARVC this year.
"The property's extensive amenity facilities and the wide array of planned events, activities and clubs make the resort a fun and exciting destination," said O'Neil. "We offer accommodations for everyone, including premium RV sites and a great selection of park models for those who want to enjoy the property without an RV."
The resort has 1,600 designated lots and is located near Mesa's spring training facilities, including Sloan Park, which hosts the Chicago Cubs during off-season training. Along with everything that can occupy residents in downtown Mesa, the resort is also located near several golf courses as well as the Superstition Mountains, a popular hiking designation located immediately east of the resort.


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2009 Subaru Impreza WRX
Vancouver, British ColumbiaChanges in the automotive world tend to happen at a snail's pace. It often takes years for manufacturers to recognize and correct the problems that cause would-be customers to walk out of the dealership empty-handed. Not so at Subaru, which pulled the handbrake on its new-for-2008 Impreza WRX, flicked the steering wheel, and executed the quickest one-eighty this side of a rally stage.
Last year's WRX was known in Japan as the S-GT. Subaru thought the market for an enthusiast WRX had evaporated, so it designed the S-GT to be a cushy grand tourer. Subaru of America must have convinced its parent company otherwise, because last year's WRX gets a few extra interior goodies, loses it manual transmission, and wallows its way out of North American dealerships with a "2.5GT" badge on it.
Meanwhile, the rally-inspired, come-beat-me-up WRX is back with a profoundly enhanced suspension, more aggressive exterior styling, and a whole lot more power. Like before, it's available in two body styles: a vaguely Korean-looking four-door sedan and a four-door hatchback. All '09 WRXs receive an STI-like grille and a slathering of spoilers, splitters, and sill extensions. The hatchback gets a rear diffuser, while the sedan boasts a new dual-exhaust treatment. Standard seventeen-inch wheels are now painted gray for a more sinister look, and the cabin gets a few STI touches, too, including metal pedal covers and red stitching on the sport seats and the leather steering wheel.
Turning that steering wheel while cornering at speed no longer results in Buick-style body motions, and the WRX's overall grip has been greatly improved thanks to 225-series summer performance rubber in place of last year's 205-mm-wide all-season tires. The extreme suspension makeover comes courtesy of springs that are more than 40 percent stiffer, revised dampers, and STI front upper strut mounts. The antiroll bars are significantly firmer, too-22 percent stiffer in the front and29 percent in the rear.
Last year, we complained so much about the suspension that we barely mentioned that there was also lots of room for improvement under the hood. Subaru didn't wait for us to bring it to their attention. For '09, the 2.5-liter flat four is force-fed via a larger turbo and produces 41 more hp, for a total of 265 hp. More important, the bigger blower dramatically changes the engine's personality, trading a little extra lag down low for huge gains at high revs. Last year's WRX ran out of breath above five grand, but the new engine pulls like the STI's, yanking the tach needle right into the red with virtually no drop in thrust. Helped by a curb weight that is some 220 pounds less than that of the STI (the WRX lacks the STI's fender flares, front and rear limited-slip diffs, sixth gear, Brembo brakes, eighteen-inch wheels, and driver-adjustable AWD systems), the WRX is only about half a second slower to 60 mph.
The WRX isn't perfect-its five-speed manual transmission is vague and rubbery in its action, which is especially disappointing because the STI's six-speed is superbly precise. It still suffers from occasionally violent steering kickback over midcorner bumps, its brakes fade easily, and like other 2.5-liter turbocharged Subarus, the laggy engine surges noticeably under acceleration. The revised suspension gives the WRX a magic carpet ride, but insufficient rebound damping still lets the car float around when driven quickly.
Nevertheless, the '09 WRX is a vast improvement over the '08-and for about the same price. Few cars in this price range are as capable, quick, or fun. In fact, it seems the only thing faster than the new WRX is Subaru itself.
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I really like Eternal.
Eternal is a plot oriented game. Although if you were to convert Eternal into a book, the cliff notes would be fantastic but the book would suck.
Meaning all the plot points of whats happening in the story book are compelling and captivating, but the depiction of how each plot point plays out (i.e. the protagonist's actions that forward the plot points) would make the book terrible.
Perhaps a lazier route would be better. 1 good level for each chapter.
You have so many missions to depict one event. Hathor turns out to be a psycho-bi***, Tycho becomes assimilated by Tycho, Leela enters the fray, etc. etc.
5-6 levels could be 1-2.
What I do like about Eternal though; its curves!
Some levels are curvy, organic almost. Most if not all scenarios are turning towards rigid, ribbed, and no-2-polygons can be the same elevation if they touch designs.
Or my favorite, some one thinks a level looks plain, so they insert a ton of 1024x256 polygons in the walls and put that well-known computer wall texture inside and thinks YEAH ARCHITECTURE!
I personally think that no one who designs square-esque maps should be able to judge Eternal's curvy levels. Because they don't know how to do any better themselves.
Eternal is one of the only scenarios that makes proper Pfhor ships.
Other scenarios just say: "Oh its a converted UESC ship" or "There is no standard in Pfhor design, and this ship just happens to be squarish."


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How much does it cost to trim a tree?
The national price range for tree trimming is $270-$450. Tree trimming is often done by a professional arborist who is trained to safely trim and prune trees for both the health of the tree and the safety of the residents and their property. Trying to do your own tree trimming is not advisable unless you have the proper know-how. Tree trimming companies may charge an hourly rate for their services. The hourly rate may be higher or lower for different trees to reflect the relative safety measures, skill, equipment or people power needed to handle the job. For this reason, most tree services provide free estimates.
One example of an hourly rate for professional tree trimming services is $150 per hour. Costs may be under $100 or could be higher than $300 per hour, depending on variables such as proximity to buildings, health of the tree, height and diameter of the tree, and type of tree trimming desired. Geography and regional cost of living and regional costs to do business will also play a role in your tree removal costs.
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When you're ready to have a tree on your property come down, it's time to call an arborist. The national average price range for tree-trimming costs is $270-$450. Tree removal costs can vary based on the height, diameter, location and health of the tree, and on whether you want to remove the stump. Height plays a major role in tree removal costs. Small trees, no more than 30 feet tall, are usually thinner in diameter and easier and safer for an arborist to manage. Removal of a small tree can cost anywhere from under $150 to over $450. Removal of medium-height trees, from 30 feet to 60 feet tall, could cost anywhere between $150 and $850 or more. Tall trees, typically 60 feet to 80 feet tall, may start at $500 or cost more than $1,000 to cut down. As the height and diameter increase, so does the cost.
Location is critical, too. Removing a tree in an open space is quicker and presents fewer obstacles than removing a tree that is growing flush to your house. Arborists can assess your tree and provide you with quotes based on the variables involved. For example, removing a medium-size hackberry tree that was growing too close to a home — the roots were damaging the home's foundation — cost $1,500. This price included rope-down, house protection, tree quartering and stacking, and stump removal.
How much does it cost to remove a fallen tree?
If you need to have a tree cut down, have you planned what will happen next? Arborists often charge an additional fee to quarter and remove the fallen tree from your property, so anticipate this as part of your tree removal costs. You can elect to have the wood cut for use in your fireplace, or you may prefer to have it hauled away completely.
Tree removal costs may vary based on the height and the width of the felled tree. Size affects the labor required for removal, which will be reflected in the cost. For example, a tree service company may charge an additional $100-$120 to haul away the pieces of a felled tree. The service may cost as little as $75 in some regions and more than $150 in others. Regional labor rates, the cost of living and the cost to do business in your area will be reflected in your tree removal cost.
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Once you have a tree cut down, you'll probably want to remove the tree stump as well. You may want the stump removed for aesthetics, the tree stump could be diseased, you might want to prevent regrowth, or you may find the roots are causing problems and need to be removed. Tree removal costs don't always include the cost to grind out or dig out a tree stump after the tree has been felled and the trunk removed. The national average cost for stump removal ranges from $150 to $200. There are two main methods for dealing with tree stumps. In grinding, pros use a chipping machine to grind away the above-level tree stump until it sits just below the soil surface. Tree stump removal entails lifting the entire root ball of a tree out of the soil. Removing the stump will leave a hole in the ground and also take more time, labor and money than stump grinding. Here are some examples of average tree stump removal costs:
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I saw this question on Stack Overflow asking to highlight FIXME (and similar strings) in your code, but only in comments and strings.
The current
fixme-mode.el found on the Emacs Wiki is kind of clunky (it's really a major mode) and awkward to read. So I took the challenge to write a new minor-mode which answers the question.
I give you
fic-mode.el. It's named
fic as an acronym for Fixme In Comments.
To use it, add something like the following to your .emacs:
(require 'fic-mode)
(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'turn-on-fic-mode)
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-fic-mode)
Or, you can manually start it with
M-x fic-mode.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Emacs Tip #37: fic-mode.el
I saw this question on Stack Overflow asking to highlight FIXME (and similar strings) in your code, but only in comments and strings.
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Can you please explain how to use it?
- October 10, 2010 at 9:32 AM
I wonder if one would be able to do something similar using wcheck-mode.
While I have not looked into the details it is possible to use regexp to identify chunks and mark them with a given face.
Anyway, thanks for providing fic-mode :)
- October 10, 2010 at 4:05 PM
Your post has been truncated in planet.emacsen.org.
- October 11, 2010 at 1:57 AM
- dfphil said...
just a quick note that in your .el file you write "To use... (require 'fic-mode.el)" which ought to be - as it is in the blog post (require 'fic-mode). That should teach me to cut and paste without reading carefully.
- October 11, 2010 at 9:54 AM
- Unknown said...
@david Thanks, I've updated the comment in the .el file.
- October 11, 2010 at 2:47 PM
- Unknown said...
@Anonymous Regarding wcheck-mode, that's new to me. I happen to use flyspell, and there's a sub-mode called flyspell-prog-mode, which spell checks in comments and strings only.
- October 11, 2010 at 2:49 PM
- tw33dl3.dee said...
Hey Trey,
I have extended your mode to highlight TODO(author) syntax: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/fic-ext-mode.el
- October 20, 2010 at 8:18 AM
Indeed, wcheck-mode can do that. It can use external programs as well as Lisp functions for checking text.
- December 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- Michael King said...
Very cool, this is now to be a staple in my .emacs file. Works great for C/C++ and python.
Thanks for sharing this!
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Hill Mechanical Group relies on engine drives, inverters and SuitCase® wire feeders from Miller Electric Mfg. Co. to meet tough HVAC demands on the renovation of Soldier Field in Chicago.
Hill Mechanical reported the following advantages:
To busy Chicagoans motoring along Lake Shore Drive, venerable Soldier Field looks like it's become a landing pad for a huge spaceship. Climbing out of the historic monument to Illinois war heroes is a gleaming glass and steel structure that looks otherworldly.
Patrick Kelly, a fabricator with Hill Mechanical Group, checks the settings on a Miller Electric Bobcat® 250 D NT engine driven welding generator during construction of the new Soldier Field sports facility in Chicago. Five Bobcat generators strategically placed throughout the stadium provided reliable welding power for Hill's fabricators.
Officially, the project is called "The Adaptive Re-use of Soldier Field." In reality, it is a masterstroke by the Chicago Bears National Football League club, city of Chicago, and state of Illinois to keep the team in the city and on Lake Michigan. "When this project was conceived; there was no way Mayor (Richard) Daley was going to allow the Bears to leave Chicago," said John Principe, sheet metal foreman for Hill Mechanical Group, Chicago, the contractor for all HVAC systems in the new stadium. "Once that was decided, re-using Soldier Field was the most doable alternative."
Hill Mechanical's sheet metal workers - at the peak of construction the crews included 50 sheet metal workers and 30 pipe fitters - turned more than 1 million lbs. of metal into the ductwork that runs throughout the stadium. That meant welding and fabricating the complete heating, air conditioning and ventilating system, from the lower levels of Soldier Field that contain the team locker rooms and offices, through the 144 luxury suites and 70 concession stands on three seating levels.
Hill Mechanical fabricator Patrick Kelly welds a connecting ring for exhaust pipe from the concession stands at the new Soldier Field stadium in Chicago. Workers used Miller Electric XMT® 304 CC/CV inverters to weld the 14 gauge steel ductwork
According to Principe, the welding demands of the project were enormous. Fabricators had to be literally everywhere at the same time to maintain the project's ambitious construction schedule. "It was common to have guys welding exposed stainless steel duct work for the concessions on the upper level, while other fabricators were welding the structural steel of the HVAC system down in the stadium's lowest levels," he said.
With those demands on his fabricators, Principe said it was critical that Hill Mechanical use welding equipment that was highly portable and very reliable. "Soldier Field is one of those high-profile jobs where everything has to perfect," he said. "Millions of people are going to see our work, so we want it done right."
The welding equipment used by Hill Mechanical on the Soldier Field project - inverters, wire feeders and engine drives - is all manufactured by Miller Electric Mfg. Co., supplied and serviced by Miller's Chicago distributor, Welding - Industrial Supply Co (WISCO). "We are 100 percent Miller Electric on this job," Principe said.
Roy Kuzmin, Hill Mechanical sheet metal worker, welds 20-inch round ductwork for the HVAC system in the new Soldier Field stadium in Chicago. In the background is the Miller Electric SuitCase® 12VS wire feeder, which Kuzmin carries with him from job to job throughout the stadium.
The equipment includes Miller XMT® 304 CC/CV multiprocess inverters placed strategically in the stadium to give Hill's fabricators the voltage they need at all times. "We placed three XMTs at mid-stadium on either side, and one in the north end zone," said Principe. "The most important aspect of this job is being flexible, getting welders from one spot to another quickly and knowing they'll have adequate power when they go to work."
Weighing just 76 lbs., the XMT 304 CC/VC is lightweight and portable enough to allow fabricators to carry the machine to their work. Each XMT 304 includes a 22A wire feeder for MIG welding with both .035-inch wire for all inside work and self-shielded .045-inch flux cored wire for outside welding.
Hill Mechanical fabricator Roy Kuzmin welds ductwork for the HVAC system in the new Soldier Field stadium in Chicago. Kuzmin used a Miller Electric XMT® 304 CC/CV inverter to weld the 14 gauge steel ductwork.
The XMT 304 features Miller Electric's Auto-Link® circuit, which automatically links the power source to the primary voltage being applied, either 230/460 or 460/575 VAC, single- or three-phase. That ensures Hill's fabricators have the power they need no matter where they are in the stadium.
Roy Kuzmin, a sheet metal worker with Hill, is putting the finishing touches on the exhaust network stretching upward from the concession stand grills. Using an XMT 304, he MIG welds with .035-inch wire along a seam to connect 20-inch round ductwork. "We've had to weld on our backs, on our knees, even upside down and inside some of the ductwork," he said. "I can't say enough positive things about the Miller machines; whether we are welding with gas - such as now with all of our work inside - or with self-shielded flux cored wire, when we were outside battling high winds."
For the portability and flexibility critical to the Hill Mechanical fabricators, Kuzmin called the Miller Electric SuitCase 12VS wire feeders "the ideal tool for this project. We get called from job to job, anywhere in the stadium, and you can just disconnect from the Bobcat and take the wire feeder with you (it weighs only 28.5 lbs.) to the next job. The second most important part of the job for us, after the quality of the welds, is flexibility. Those wire feeders are as flexible as you can get."
Five Miller Bobcat 250 D NT engine driven welding generators are placed strategically throughout the stadium to provide reliable power. A sixth is mounted to the back of a John Deere utility truck for even more flexibility. "We run everything off the Bobcats, especially the 12VS wire feeders," said Principe. "You can set the engine drive for either MIG or flux cored welding and be assured of a rated output of 250 amps at 28 volts, the highest in its class."
Another Hill Mechanical fabricator, Patrick Kelly, said the Miller SuitCase 12VS impressed him for another reason - its ability to operate under the most adverse conditions: Chicago in the dead of winter. Kelly was one of the fabricators who did the final welding on the stainless steel exhaust pipes that extend out from the top of the new stadium.
Much of the HVAC ductwork in Chicago's new Soldier Field is exposed to the public, which put a high premium on quality welds. Hill Mechanical fabricators used Miller Electric welding inverters on the project.
"That work took place last January, and it was cold - 12 degrees below zero, with wind chills to 30 below on some days," Kelly recalled. "We worked in a 150-foot Condor crane that had to fit in the tight space between the columns of the actual monument and the top of the stadium."
The stadium rises at a 31-degree angle, so Kelly and his partner - only two welders could fit in the gondola with the Miller XMT 304 and SuitCase 12VS -devised a brace which allowed them to lift the sections of pipe at precisely the same angle. "In those conditions you could not lift and hold the pipe for very long, trying to get the fit right," Kelly said. "We could fit the section into the brace on the ground and lift it right into place for the weld."
Still, welding in those conditions - 10-15 mph winds and numbing cold - will test even the most accomplished fabricator. Principe said he was amazed at what Kelly and the other Hill fabricators accomplished. "Every one of them credited the Miller SuitCase 12VS," he said. "It operated flawlessly in one of the most difficult applications you could imagine."
Dan Olah, Hill Mechanical's support manager, pointed out that the Miller SuitCase 12VS machines, which became the 'most valuable player' for the fabricators - to borrow a term from the Soldier Field gridiron - were not part of Hill's equipment when the HVAC installation began.
"The SuitCase 12VS' were recommended to us by Darrin Bax, our representative from WISCO, the Miller Electric distributor," recalled Olah. "We were using a different machine at first and the duty cycle was just too small; the guys were constantly stopping to wait for the machine to reset."
Olah said he told Bax of the situation. "Darrin went down to the job site, talked to the fabricators, observed their work, and told John that he might have a machine that would solve the problem," Olah said. "The 12VS was brand new at the time and Darrin brought one out and gave it to John to demo. Well, everyone loved it and now that's all the on-site fabricators will use - not only at Soldier Field but every other project Hill Mechanical is involved in."
Chicago's famous skyline rises above construction of the new Soldier Field stadium. The $632 million project was completed in time for the 2003 NFL football season.
"That's the kind of support we've come to expect from WISCO and Miller Electric," he continued. "That is why Hill Mechanical is all blue."
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Revised figures are out from the U.S. Census Bureau on same-sex couples in the U.S. These figures are officially released at the state level, but researchers at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA's School of Law have further boiled the numbers down to get a picture of the geography of same-sex households in cities.
These figures, more precise and much lower than those released in August, show many of the same cities in the top places. Provincetown, Massachusetts, still ranks highest, with about 148 same-sex households per 1,000, or 14.8 percent of households. Wilton Manors, Florida, has 125 same-sex households per 1,000, or 12.5 percent, and Palm Springs, California, has 107 same-sex households per 1,000, or 10.7 percent. Overall, the figures are about 28 percent lower than previously reported, as the Census Bureau has corrected for reporting errors.
"We've been telling the Census for 10 years that they've got a problem here," says Gary Gates, a scholar at the Williams Institute and author of the report. He says reporting on the mailed form and through follow-up enumerators often mislabeled the gender of spouses, which skewed the numbers.
Overall, the geography of same-sex couples is spreading. Cities with populations under 100,000 tend to have much higher rates than larger cities. All 25 of the cities in this smaller category have higher rates of same-sex couples than the top ranking cities with populations between 100,000 and 250,000 and those cities with populations above 250,000. This smaller category includes places like Oakland Park, Florida, Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, and Ocean Grove, New Jersey. For larger cities, Gates says, the usual suspects are all there.
"The large city lists doesn't surprise me at all," he says. The top ranking big cities are San Francisco, Seattle, Oakland, Minneapolis and Atlanta. "St. Louis coming in 11th probably surprised me a little bit."
The report finds a total estimate of 646,464 same-sex couples in the U.S., with a distribution mainly along the Pacific coast, the Southwest, in Florida and in the upper Northeast. The figures reported in August estimated 901,997 couples.
The report also looks at same-sex couple raising children, and this geographic distribution is much more spread out. The numbers suggest that same-sex couples raising children don't only locate in cities or areas with high rates of same-sex households. The metropolitan areas with the highest rates of same-sex households raising children are San Antonio, Jacksonville, and Raleigh. Neither of these areas ranks in the top 25 cities for same-sex couples.
But as Gates points out, the numbers might be deceiving.
"People read these lists as preferences of where gay people want to live. But most people don't get to act out on their preferences of where to live. The maps show where people feel comfortable reporting," Gates says. "The geographic distribution is probably much more flat than these numbers would indicate."
He is seeing this flattening out happening, and expects it to continue as conditions change. There will always be enclaves like Provincetown and Palm Springs, but there will also be increasing self-reporting in what we might currently think of as unlikely places.
"As time goes on, the overall distribution isn't as driven by the extremes," says Gates.
The decennial Census data is slow to mark these changes, but Gates believes they are currently happening, and that they'll become even more clear in the coming years.
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There was nothing Daniel Nava could do afterward except state his case.
DETROIT — There was nothing Daniel Nava could do afterward except state his case.
"I know I made the catch," the Boston right fielder said. "Sometimes calls go your way, sometimes they don't."
Nava was charged with an error in the eighth inning when second base umpire Mike DiMuro ruled he dropped a fly ball, and the Detroit Tigers went on to score three runs en route to a 7-5 victory over the Red Sox on Sunday. Boston actually made two errors in the eighth — and that was after the Red Sox let Detroit tie the game at 4 in the seventh on a hit batter with the bases loaded.
Boston was convinced afterward that DiMuro had gotten the game's key call wrong.
Nava, in right because Shane Victorino left the game with lower back tightness, went back toward the wall and tried to make an awkward-looking basket catch on Avisail Garcia's fly ball. A replay showed he might have lost the ball while transferring it from his glove to his throwing hand.
"To have a catch, you have to have complete control and voluntary release," said crew chief Ted Barrett, the third base umpire. "(DiMuro) had him with control, but did not have the voluntary release. When he flipped the ball out of his glove, he never got it into his hand. That's not voluntary release."
Boston manager John Farrell was ejected for arguing the call.
"When you spend the rest of the game in the clubhouse, you probably have a difference of opinion," Farrell said. "Clearly, the call was missed. He caught it, he went to transfer to his throwing hand, dropped it at that point."
Garcia ended up on second, and Bryan Holaday's bunt also worked out nicely for Detroit when pitcher Andrew Miller (0-2) threw wildly to first for another error, putting runners at first and third with nobody out in a tie game.
Austin Jackson walked, and Alex Wilson came on and allowed Torii Hunter's sacrifice fly that gave the Tigers a 5-4 lead. Miguel Cabrera was intentionally walked, and Prince Fielder hit a two-run single off Craig Breslow.
Joaquin Benoit (2-0) got the final four outs for the Tigers, although he allowed a run in the ninth.
The Tigers were fortunate just to tie it in the seventh. After Jackson's leadoff single, Hunter hit a line drive that second baseman Dustin Pedroia dropped. It appeared the Red Sox might get a double play out of it, because Hunter was slow getting out of the batter's box, but Jackson retreated to first.
Pedroia threw to first, retiring Hunter while Jackson was still standing on the base. When Boston retired Hunter, it meant Jackson was no longer forced to second, so he remained safely at first.
"I probably should have threw it to second, because I think Torii kind of stopped," Pedroia said. "You don't know what to do. There's a lot of stuff going on."
Cabrera and Fielder followed with singles to load the bases, and after Victor Martinez struck out, Jhonny Peralta was hit by Miller's pitch to tie it at 4.
The Red Sox took a 4-3 lead in the fourth on Victorino's run-scoring groundout.
Detroit ace Justin Verlander allowed four runs and seven hits in five innings. He walked three and struck out four, and his ERA went up to 3.90. It was the second straight start in which he lasted only five innings.
"That's sports. There's ups and downs. Nobody's at the peak of their game forever," Verlander said. "I'll get back there. I will. It's just, like I said, finding that click — finding that rhythm."
Detroit led 2-0 after the first inning, but Verlander gave up two runs in the second.
The Tigers scored a run in the bottom of the second, but Verlander again couldn't hold the lead. Pedroia reached on an infield single in the third, and David Ortiz's single put runners on first and third. Mike Napoli's grounder tied the game at 3.
Boston starter Felix Doubront was in trouble at the start, walking the first two Detroit hitters and then allowing Cabrera's double that bounced over the wall in center field for the slugger's 75th RBI of the year.
Fielder's RBI groundout made it 2-0, but Jacoby Ellsbury made a nice sliding catch in center on Peralta's drive for the third out, preventing any more scoring.
Detroit loaded the bases for Hunter with two outs in the fourth, but Victorino made a nice catch and held on while slamming into the wall in foul ground in right.
Boston is giving Andrew Bailey a break from closing after he lost Thursday's game at Detroit in the ninth inning. He came on with a one-run lead in the seventh Sunday but allowed singles to Jackson and Cabrera before giving way to Miller.
NOTES: Boston did not put LHP Franklin Morales on the DL after he exited Saturday night's game with discomfort in his throwing shoulder. Farrell said Morales would be evaluated thoroughly on Monday. ... Both teams are off Monday. Boston returns home and sends RHP Ryan Dempster (4-8) to the mound against Colorado RHP Juan Nicasio (4-3) on Tuesday night. Detroit's homestand continues Tuesday night. Tigers RHP Rick Porcello (4-4) faces LHP C.J. Wilson (6-5) of the Los Angeles Angels.


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All signs still point to a successful 2012 camping year at Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA).
KOA reported Tuesday (May 29) in a news release that camper check-ins for the May 26-28 Memorial Day camping weekend were up about 7 percent from the same period in 2011.
"We're seeing nothing but positive signs for the 2012 summer camping season," said KOA President Pat Hittmeier. "Our annual Come Kamp & Care With Us Weekend on May 11-12 was up nearly 10 percent from last year, and our winter camping season in the Southern states was also very strong."
Advanced reservations for the rest of the summer camping season are running about 6 percent ahead of the same period last year.
"North Americans are rediscovering the benefits of the outdoors," Hittmeier said. "There is no better place to reconnect with family and friends, and no better way to do it than camping."


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Indian River
Mackinac City
Home>Your Interests>Blueways>Sturgeon Point - Harrisville Blueway
Route: CEDAR LAKE TO HARRISVILLE STATE PARK
Distance: 6 Miles
Access Sites: 05-01 & 05-04
Shoreline Land Use: Residential
Points of Interest: Community of Greenbush
Waypoints: 05-02 (Main Street Road End) & 05-03 (E. Springport Road End
Hazards & Cautions:
Route: HARRISVILLE STATE PARK TO STURGEON PT. STATE PARK
Distance: 5.5 Miles
Access Sites: 05-04 & 05-08
Shoreline Land Use:
Points of Interest: Harrisville, Harrisville State Park, & Sturgeon Point Lighthouse
Waypoints: 05-05, 05-06, 05-07
Hazards & Cautions: Boat traffic from marina
Comments: Camping at Harrisville State Park
Route: STURGEON POINT LIGHTHOUSE TO BLACK RIVER
Distance: 9 Miles
Access Sites: 05-08 & 05-09
Shoreline Land Use: Low density residential and undeveloped lands
Points of Interest: Sturgeon Pt. Lighthouse. Marine City shipwreck, and pine and cedar forests along shoreline.
Waypoints: There are two US Forest Service parcels along the shoreline. The parcels are not identified from the water.
Hazards & Cautions: There are shoals extending into the lake on the south side and north side of the Black River Outlet.
Comments: The Alcona Township Park at the mouth of the Black River has a picnic area, parking and boat launch. Day use only.
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marketingsolutions brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 11 Designs von 7 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I need a cutting edge design for a newly launching web 2.0 site where users come to create list style articles, rate content, add items to each others lists, share, and make money.
I am looking for someone to help design / skin a website that is currently under development. The website's purpose is to allow users to generate "lists" much like those that are often seen on the home page of digg.com, cracked.com, etc. Rather than the typical list which is compiled by one author and then commented on, these lists are rated, item by item, by the community, and they can be expanded upon with additional items from the community.
The site has two main pages that I'll need designs for:
Home / Category pages (same design)
List page (Lists can include images, video, and text).
An example of an existing list can be seen here:
Please read through the features because there are some functions that aren't seen yet.
Please click on the item titled "design mockup" to see an example of something that uses elements of Rotten Tomatoes and Digg.com to illustrate a potential design choice for the site.
- Design of home page / category pages (this is the same page, just different breadcrumb / title)
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I've been having trouble proving the following: Let $B$ and $B'$ be local rings, essentially of finite type over $k$, having isolated singularities at the closed points. Suppose that they are analytically isomorphic, i.e. have isomorphic completions, then the deformation theory modules $T^i_{B/k}$ and $T^i_{B'/k}$ are isomorphic for $i=1,2$ as modules over the completions of $B$ and $B'$.
A good answer would only use the definitions and basic properties of these functors, and/or would give a reference where this is worked out in some amount of detail, i.e. not where it is just stated as a fact.


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Just want to hit and practice serving
Looking to play in Palm Desert area
Hopefully early morning weekends or evennings to avoid heat...
thank you
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I would love to get back into it, but I'm moving to San Fracisco this week.
Hope you find someone!
I am interested, but I haven't played in about 5 or 6 years, so will be rusty. I played in a 3.5 league back when, so will be able to get back up to speed fairly quickly, Let me know. Thanks!
HI there... I would be interested in hitting. Please call me at 949-573-4006.
My name is Frank and I will be in PSP (Cathedral City) for a week starting Jan 2. I am looking for 3.5- 4 level players for single matches around Cathedral City or such. I am 42 and would love to play! Let me know. email@example.com or 403 764 9890 in YYC.
Thanks, Frank
I'm around 3.5 and would love to hit with anyone around that level that's up for it. Feel free to call or text...760-285-9895. Looking forward to it!
Hi Rob:
I'm here for about 6 weeks. I'm older but in great shape. Would love to hit with you. I'm about 3 to 3.5 and working on my game.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
*CT Tags for TADD - Dark Night*
I made two tags from this stunning kit by TADD:
Dark Night
It has 111 elements, 5 frames and 20 papers.
So many possibilities including Goth or Halloween themes.
Done in various shades of black/grey and vivid red.
Perfect for your beautiful dark tags and projects.
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I used two different tubes for my tags:
Both can be found at PicsForDesign
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Summer WoardArt
I made this for a Challenge
over at Pimpin PSPers
13 Summer Wordarts
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Friday, April 15, 2016
How To Make Masks in PS and PSP
If you can't find the right mask for your creation
You may just want to make your own.
Here is an easy way to do that.
First, you will always have a black background.
Second, you will be working with white
and different shades of grey.
Let me explain this.
Anything in your mask that is colored black
will completely wipe out anything beneath it.
Like this:
This is a mask I made
I placed this mask over a blue layer.
This is what happened to the black area.
See? The black part completely removed any color
that was in the layer that I applied the mask to.
White and Grey:
When you use white in a mask
that area will show through 100%.
Look at my mask above.
The white parts (the flowers and parts of the clouds)
allowed the color of the blue layer,
to show completely with 100% opacity, or visibility.
Using different shades of grey will affect the opacity too.
The lighter the grey, the more visible color beneath it.
Darker grey will show less opacity.
Look up at my mask again.
The darker grey areas of the mask
(like in the center of the mask)
reduce the visibility of the blue layer.
This gives it a softer look.
Ok. Now let's do this.
Open a new canvas.
Make the canvas at least 800x800 pixels.
Flood fill your first layer black.
This will be your background for your mask.
Now create a new layer.
Choose white or a shade of grey for color.
Browse through your brushes.
Find one you want to use for your mask.
Size the brush to fit your canvas.
Now use this brush to begin your mask.
This part is totally up to you.
Only you know what you want.
Play around with your brush until you like what you see.
In the mask above,
I started with a cloud brush
and placed it in several places on one layer.
This is my mask with only two layers:
the black background and the cloud layer.
I decided it needed more.
So I added another new layer.
I found a different brush and played some more.
This is the new layer I made.
(I've hidden the first cloud layer so you can see this more clearly)
Again, I placed the brush in several different places.
Now I have three layers:
black background
cloud layer
flower layer
When I was completely happy with it,
I saved it as a psd.
Then I merged all layers together by saving it as a jpeg.
Viola! A mask!
You can find free brushes all over the net.
Just do a search for free PSP brushes or PS brushes.
Please read the TOU before using the brushes.
Some are for personal use only,
others can be used for commercial use.
You can also use preset shapes.
You can also use preset shapes.
Play to your hearts content!
You can make as many layers as you want.
Some of my masks started out with over 10 layers.
I always make a new layer for each brush I use.
I also save my masks as psd before merging.
That way, I can go back and play some more if I want to.
Then I save the mask as a jpeg.
That will automatically merge all your visible layers into one.
And there you go.
I hope this helps you in creating your own unique masks.
♥Thanks for looking! ♥
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Drizzy plays home and brings friends
Drake performed at the Molson Amphitheatre last night in hometown Toronto.
"I love this city with my entire life."
It was the last stop on his Away From Home tour and he was joined onstage by Rick Ross, Fabolous, Young Jeezy, Kardinal Offishall and...
Well can you imagine the reaction for Drizzy + Shady? HOT. And then later on, Drake and Jay-Z? What a f-cking year. The hype is crazy, the sales are crazy, he'll be making movies, he's writing for other artists too, he rolls with a huge entourage, there's some attitude now because he's on top and it's all happening all of a sudden, which is always good for drama, great for drama, and material too – just ask Kanye West whose Twitter has now become a world wonder and who had dinner with Jay at Nello in New York just before Jay's trip to Toronto. See attached.
Drake teased a little West appearance last night but couldn't make it happen because, apparently, Kanye was too busy trying to sleep on a fur pillow.
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Soundcheck: The Wedge Jam, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, Jam, My Sweet One, Dog Log
SET 1: The Landlady, Chalk Dust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, Rift, Guelah Papyrus > Split Open and Melt, The Lizards, Mound, Divided Sky, Sweet Adeline[1], Uncle Pen, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Poor Heart, Tweezer, Reba, I Walk the Line, Reba, Sparkle > Maze, Lawn Boy, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[2] -> Hold Your Head Up > Whipping Post[3] > Hold Your Head Up, Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Memories[1], Good Times Bad Times
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March 27, 1993
25 years ago
Warfield Theatre
Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
[1] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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Borderline CF diagnosis / treatment
My 3 1/2 year old son was diagnosed with CF based a borderline sweat test in the lower 40âs and a genetic test with the most common gene and a very rare gene. He has been totally healthy with average growth. And I should add he is pancreatic sufficient. My question is should the standard approach to CF treatment be used? Or is there a less "aggressive" alternative? I could be more specific if necessary. Thanks.
This is an excellent question and one that I think any CF expert may answer differently. I want to start by stating that you should discuss this with your CF specialist or primary doctor as I am sure he or she will have a good answer as well.
Atypical CF is a term that has become more synonymous with patients who have the genotype (genetic mutations) but very mild symptoms (or no symptoms) related to CF. They may or may not have a positive sweat chloride test. Many, like your child, have a sweat chloride level that falls in a borderline range. Because the symptoms are so mild it, makes it hard to know exactly what to do for the patient.
All CF patients are different and even within the group of atypical CF patients, there are some that need more treatments than others. Many of these patients are pancreatic sufficient and require no enzymes though I would be careful to watch your child's growth closely as good nutrition appears to be very beneficial in the long run for patients with CF.
It is hard to say what treatments should be offered as this can be a very individual approach. In my experience at our CF center, we ask to see the atypical patients at least four times yearly to follow their clinical symptoms, pulmonary function testing, cultures, and growth. We follow these patients in a separate clinic so we do not expose them to the bacteria that many typical CF patients harbor in their lungs. Some of these patients require the aggressive treatments (or I should say standard treatments) used daily by the majority of the CF population. There are many we follow who have no symptoms and require no treatment though we still would like to follow them.
My best advice is to speak with your CF specialist and ask this same question as many CF centers are set up to follow the atypical patients as I have described. I am sure you have been on the web to the CF Foundation Website (http://www.cff.org/), but this is an excellent website with the most up-to-date information about CF, CF-related research, and the foundation itself.
For more information:
Go to the Cystic Fibrosis health topic.


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Vanderbilt University
The battle for work-life balance among female white collar employees, especially those with children, is something women have struggled with for decades. Though past studies have found little evidence that women are opting out of the workforce in general, first-of-its-kind research by Vanderbilt professor of law and economics Joni Hersch shows that female graduates of elite undergraduate universities are working much fewer hours than their counterparts from less selective institutions.
"Even though elite graduates are more likely to earn advanced degrees, marry at later ages and have higher expected earnings, they are still opting out of full-time work at much higher rates than other graduates, especially if they have children," said Hersch.
Hersch's research finds that 60 percent of female graduates from elite colleges are working full-time compared to 68 percent of women from other schools.
The presence of children strongly influences how much a woman works. Labor market activity is lower for women with children, but the gap between those women with and without children is largest for elite graduates. Among elite graduates, married women without children are 20 percentage points more likely to be employed than their elite counterparts with children, while among non-elite graduates, the difference in the likelihood of employment is 13.5 percentage points.
Hersch found that when comparing graduates from elite and less selective schools, the largest gap in full-time labor market activity is among women who also earned a master's in business degree.
"Married MBA mothers with a bachelor's degree from the most selective schools are 30 percentage points less likely to be employed full-time than are graduates of less selective schools," said Hersch.
The full-time employment rate for MBA moms who earned bachelor's degrees from a tier-one institution is 35 percent. In contrast, the full-time employment rate for those from a less-selective institution is 66 percent. The gap remains even after taking into account the selectivity of MBA institution, personal characteristics, current or prior occupation, undergraduate major, spouse's characteristics, number and age of children, and family background.
Hersch contends these statistics show that the greater rate of opting out by MBA moms with undergraduate degrees from elite institutions has implications for women's professional advancement.
"Elite workplaces, like fortune 500 companies, prefer to hire graduates of elite colleges," said Hersch. "Thus, lower labor market activity of MBA's from selective schools may have both a direct effect on the number of women reaching higher-level corporate positions as well as an indirect effect because a smaller share of women in top positions is associated with a smaller pipeline of women available to advance through the corporate hierarchy," said Hersch.
Hersch found a similarly large gap among women who later earned a master's in education. 66 percent of tier-one graduates are employed full-time compared to 82 percent of graduates from non-elite institutions.
Other factors also contribute to which women are working more hours.
"Estimates show greater labor activity among women with a bachelor's degree in a field other than arts and humanities; those with graduate degrees; those in higher-level occupations such as management, science, education and legal; and women who are not white," said Hersch.
A common question associated with opting out is whether highly educated women are willingly choosing to exit the labor force to care for their children or whether they are 'pushed out' by inflexible workplaces. But Hersch said this hypothesis of inflexible workplaces does not explain why labor market activity differs between graduates of elite and non-elite schools.
"Graduates of elite institutions are likely to have a greater range of workplace options as well as higher expected wages than graduates of less selective institutions, which would suggest that labor market activity would be higher among such women," Hersch writes.
"Without discounting the well-known challenges of combining family and professional responsibilities, increasing workplace flexibility alone may have only a limited impact of reducing the gap between graduates of elite and non-elite schools."
Hersch gathered her data from the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, which provided detailed information for more than 100,000 college graduates. The survey was conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the National Science Foundation.
To identify schools considered elite and to put these schools into tier levels, Hersch used both the Carnegie classification and the Barron's Profiles of American Colleges. The Barron's Profiles look at quality indicators of each year's entering class (SAT or ACT, high school GPA and high school class rank, and percent of applicants accepted). Barron's then places colleges into seven categories: most competitive, highly competitive, very competitive, competitive, less competitive, noncompetitive, and special.
The Carnegie classifications are based on factors such as the highest degree awarded; the number, type, and field diversity of post-baccalaureate degrees awarded annually; and federal research support. For example, Research I universities offer a full range of baccalaureate programs through the doctorate, give high priority to research, award fifty or more doctoral degrees each year, and receive annually $40 million or more in federal support.
Hersch's full working paper, titled "Opting Out among Women with Elite Education" can be read here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2221482 or accessed here http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-personal-sites/joni--hersch/publications/download.aspx?id=8801.
For more research news from Vanderbilt, visit http://news.vanderbilt.edu/research. For more on Vanderbilt Law School visit http://.www.law.vanderbilt.edu.
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