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ITO World, an Ipswich-based transport data company supported in its early days with funding from The Intelligent Transport Systems and Services Innovation Platform (a programme underway as the Technology Strategy Board was itself being formed), yesterday announced the fruits of a new partnership with Google, that, for the first time, enables Google Maps to offer comprehensive public transport travel data across Britain.
Pointing to World Bank data finding that more than 70% of the world's population doesn't own a car, Google Maps transit data spans six continents, 64 countries and more than 15,000 towns and cities worldwide.
As a result of the new partnership ITO World, yesterday Google were able to make the bold claim that Google Maps now includes every single public transit route in Great Britain - including bus, coach, rail, tram, metro and ferry.
Google and ITO World Partnership
The improved service is powered by ITO World's Data Management Platform Transport DMP, that provides scheduled and real-time data feeds of the British public transport network.
According to Peter Miller, Chief Executive Officer of ITO World, "The platform … (allows) us to collate, aggregate and enrich data from various open sources before converting and serving it to our clients in the format they require."
ITO World was established in Ipswich in 2006, and specialises in in open data, geo-analytics and real time data animation.
It's Transport DMP service uses complex algorithms to "enhance and enrich" open data from sources including The National Public Transport Access Node database (NaPTAN), Traveline Public Transport Schedule dataset (TNDS), Transport for London and Network Rail.
ITO World's Transport DMP project team
David Tattersall, Product Manager for Public Transport in Google Maps, says: "Today every available train, bus, tube, tram and ferry in Great Britain are joined up by Google Maps to make a comprehensive one-stop-shop for public transport. This has been made possible by the availability of open transport data from partners like Traveline and served through ITO World."
ITO has brought together data from several sources, offering scheduled and real-time data across rail, bus, coach, metro and tube, to create the most comprehensive and accurate transport data service for Great Britain.
Sophisticated algorithms are used to automatically improve the data and ensure consistency across transport modes - absolutely essential, according to the compnay, to deliver true end-to-end journey planning solutions. The data is refined using a variety of auxiliary data, for better navigation results and a richer, more reliable user experience.
Transport DMP is updated in real-time so that changes to service schedules and even individual journeys are available to present the most up-to-date data.
Winner of the 2006 Future Intelligent Transport Systems competition contributed to over 200 innovations
ITO World was supported in its very early days as a result of a grant of £206,000, received due to its its successful entry to the November 2006 Future Intelligent Transport Systems competition.
The Department for Transport (DfT), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) sponsored a small number of consortia to address research for the longer-term development of the UK transport system.
The Intelligent Transport Systems and Services Innovation Platform was part of the Transport Innovation fund launched in July 2005 to support the development of transport schemes. Its steering group was chaired by the Technology Strategy Board member Julia King.
The five year ITO World and Ordnance Survey collaborative project Ideas in Transit project brought together expertise in travel behaviour, user-centred design, data management and visualisation and open innovation.
Ideas in Transit claims to have contributed to over 200 innovations, including in:
Google Maps now has 17,000 routes across the UK
Google Maps has included public transit routes and schedules since 2007 - and claims that the bus, train, tram and subway routes included travel 200 million kilometres every day - the equivalent, it says, of driving every single road in the world three times.
Google Maps is available for iPhone, Android and desktop versions - and, as a result of the deal with ITO World, now claims to be a comprehensive one-stop-shop for public transport across Great Britain, with time and route information for millions of departures for trains, tubes, trams, buses and ferries.
In total, 17,000 different routes in the UK are featured, from Land's End to John O'Groats (a journey that will take you about about 27 hours by foot, train and bus).
In a blog post by David Tattersall, Product Manager for the Google Maps said, "You'll now know when the next trip is departing, how many stops and how far your walk is between each station. You can also pick your preferred method of travel and whether you'd rather walk less or make fewer transfers, so you can compare and choose the best option for you."
National rail data and public transport information is already available in Google Maps for some cities like London, but Google now claims coverage across the whole of Great Britain.
Googlepointed to data contributors that helped make this happen; it added schedules from National Express, and partnered with Traveline which collates the information from nearly 1,500 local and national operators like Centro.
Traveline Information Ltd is a partnership of transport operators and local authorities formed to provide impartial and comprehensive information about public transport. It operates in Scotland, England and Wales.
Traveline started operating in 2000, first providing a telephone service, then an Internet and more recently an SMS text and NextBuses mobile internet service.
Traveline's Advisory Group involves representatives of:
Getting transit information that works from your local
David Tattersall relates that his own journey with Google Maps started in a pub near Chester four years ago when he wanted to demonstrate a product he'd been working on to a friend: public transport in maps.
"Searching for directions to the town centre and even though the number 1 bus from Wrexham to Chester ran right past the pub, it wasn't even listed as an option."
Now he sates, "You can now get public transport directions for everything from cross-country trips, to timings for the local village bus, to the St. Mawes ferry in Cornwall which will save you a 55 minute journey over land to Falmouth. The number 1 bus to Chester town centre is also listed."
Crowdsourced traffic data from Android and Google Maps users
In addition to public transport travel route information, Google Maps offers driving, walking, cycling and air travel directions.
Its driving information includes traffic and roadwork delay information.
Early versions of Google Maps provided information to users about how long it would take to travel a particular road in heavy traffic conditions. Traffic information was based on historical traffic data, but in 2007, Google started to offer traffic data in real-time.
The source of this data is users of the product. Mobile devices that use Google's Android operating system are equipped with the ability to send location data to Google, while non-Android users that allow the Google Maps app to share data are also able transmit their location data to Google. Options in each phone's settings allow users not to share information about their location with Google Maps.
Google Traffic works by analysing these GPS-determined locations; by calculating the speed of users along a stretch of road, Google is able to generate a live traffic map.
According to Wikipedia, Google processes the incoming raw data about device locations, and then excludes anomalies such as a postal vehicle which makes frequent stops. When a threshold of users in a particular area is noted, the overlay along roads and highways on the Google map is marked in changed colours highlighting congestion.
Forthcoming Apple iOS8 to include public transport data
The competing Apple Maps product, by contrast, currently only provides driving and walking directions, with no traffic condition data in the desktop app version, but includes live traffic data sources from TomTom in its default mobile Maps app.
Apple is expected to include public transport information with version 8 of its mobile operating system, expected to be released next month.
The company is also reported to be working on integrating indoor mapping views and enhanced car integration for future iOS versions. Apple is likely also working on an updated version of its Maps app for OS X that adds the improved data. In addition to the new mapping software, iOS 8 is planned to include an application called Healthbook to manage user fitness activity and health information.
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- By Gwen MoranSmall Business ExpertMarch 27, 2012
- By Gwen Moran
On a cold morning in November 2009, Cannon underwent more than 10 hours of surgery to remove six of the tumors. The last one couldn't be removed because of its position in the brain, and doctors thought it might grow.
Empowered by his recovery, he embarked on a new career helping people become calmer at work and in their daily lives — and more productive at their jobs. In mid-2011, he opened a two-person consulting practice, Simple Truth, which coaches executives and offers corporate workshops that focus on the mind, the effects of stress and the benefits of meditation.
Later that year, Cannon published a book, The Simple Truth: Meditation for a Modern World (Walton Press, November 2011), based on his research and experience. He is planning a tour to promote the book and his ideas in California, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey and New York.
- Start meditating daily, even a little. Cannon concedes that trying to add meditation to a busy day can itself be stressful. So he recommends starting with just five or 10 minutes a day of "mindful meditation." This means sitting up straight, concentrating on your breathing (see below), and focusing on the present. After that, you may find you want to meditate longer, eventually building up to an hour or more.
- Identify your stress triggers. The next time you feel stress mounting, think about exactly what caused it. Focus on the emotions that were set off when that trigger was activated, then try to remember another time in your life when you had the same emotional response. The way an event affects you involves your past as well as the present, Cannon says. Use that insight to help separate a present event from past associations, and you'll keep stress from escalating.
- Practice the 8-2-8 breathing method. If your heart starts to race, take deep breaths into your abdomen and pay close attention to the expanding and contracting of your belly. Feel it move against your clothing while you slowly count to eight on each inhale, let your breath settle for a count of two, and then exhale for another count of eight. Let your breath settle for a count of two before inhaling again, and repeat the process two more times. This will center you and help you regain your mental footing.
- Ground yourself. When you're stressed, close your eyes and listen to the world around you: the hum of the lights, the sounds of nearby people and equipment. Embrace your environment, but be aware that you are separate from it. Relax in the knowledge that when you open your eyes, that environment will be there, but it will only affect you if you let it.
- Understand that stress is a part of life. Although everyone experiences stress, it doesn't have to ruin your life. Instead of running from your problems, Cannon says, find ways to face your stressors and to calm yourself when they arise.
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(I continue to be on sick leave from my broken arm. Some combination of solitude, newly living in the country with a wonderful housemate, and all the love and support my friends have been pouring out on me seems to have me reflecting on my spiritual life. Here's part of the story.)
My early life was quite religious, but never spiritual. My family life was loaded with trauma and my Catholic schooling was populated with a vengeful God – not a God of love, not a channel for transcendence.
Using marijuana in college (late 60's) and taking several acid trips in grad school, I started to dismantle my ego. Each acid trip started with an experience of such intense oneness that I just wanted to stay there – and was followed by my ego fighting back and leading me to terrifying dark places.
Also in graduate school I was exposed to Eastern religion. I was initiated into Transcendental Meditation and that first initiation took me to heaven – the freedom from the ego that I felt with acid, with none of the chaos or loss of control. But, while I had many more nice experiences during my two years of TM meditation, I never went to heaven again.
Si Chinmoy took me to heaven. I read Be Here Now by Ram Das (didn't we all?) and came away from that reading really wanting a teacher. I never had any sense that the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of TM might be my teacher, but now I was ready for one. I was living in upstate New York, but my wife and I had taken jobs in Nova Scotia. Two weeks before we moved, I went to a yoga retreat at a nearby spiritual center that I had never visited. I had heard that Ken Pillar, the director of the center, had a reputation as a psychic. When I walked into the center for the first time, Ken called to me across a large room, "You're going on a long tip – you're going to meet your teacher."
About a month after moving near Amherst Nova Scotia (we bought a little farm house on the Bay of Fundy 20 miles from our jobs in Asheville and in the neighboring Spring Hill), I was looking at a bulletin board in town. It was devoid of any reference to personal growth, consciousness or Eastern religion. Except for one poster for the Halifax Sri Chinmoy Meditation Center: "Open meditation Wednesdays at 7 p.m. and Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. No charge."
Halifax was about three hours from Amherst. I called the number on the poster and spoke with a very warm and friendly young man named Jim. We arranged that I would leave work an hour early the next Wednesday and drive to Halifax, then stay overnight in a guest room at the center and drive back to Amherst the next morning before work.
That next Wednesday I was filled with happy anticipation: I was maybe on the path to meet my teacher! I understood from Jim that Sri Chinmoy lived full-time in New York City (the Jamaica neighborhood in Queens). It was a long trip from Halifax, but the "disciples" – which the committed students called themselves – and other students would frequently pile in a car (lots of drivers) and drive the thirteen hours to New York, so there wold be plenty of opportunity to see "Guru". None of this talk of disciples or guru fazed me: I wanted a guru and I was ready to be a disciple.
I arrived at the meditation center about 15 minutes early and had some animated chatter with Jim and Harvey, who lived at the center, and about eight other people. I was told that not all of them were disciples, that there was a special process you went through to become one – and that male disciples were dressed in crisply pressed white shirt and pants, and women in saris. None of this caused even a bump for me. I was picturing myself in those white shirts and pants.
Jim explained that Sri Chinmoy's path followed a Hindu lineage called bhakti yoga – the yoga of love, devotion, and surrender. This lineage was strong in the part of Bengal where Sri Chinmoy was born, including the Sri Aurobindo ashram where he grew up. The way you meditated was to sit (everybody sat in straight-backed chairs) and look at a table with a tall lighted candle and a picture of the guru in his highest meditation. You could meditate on the candle flame or the picture. Because, in the picture, Guru was looking at the divine – the Supreme, our divine father – looking at him could take you there.
When the meditation began, I had a few minutes of restlessness, then got quiet inside. After two years of TM, 20 minutes twice a day, I did have some skill at quieting my mind. But I was not prepared for what came next: I went back to heaven! That experience of transcendence that I had experienced once only in two years of TM was right here again – and if anything even stronger. I'm not going to try to describe how happy I was.
That night I went to bed filled with peace and happiness. Even though I was sleeping in a strange place, I slipped easily into sleep – and all night long I had terrifying dreams of a strange Indian guy who was trying to steal my mind! In the morning, I dressed quietly and slipped down the hall to where my shoes would be waiting by the front door – and I could escape. When I tiptoed past Jim's room, he called out, "John!" "Yeah." "Do you want to meditate?" "Er, uh, sure." I don't remember what went through my mind as I prepared to meditate. What I remember with extraordinary vividness is that as my breathing quieted and my body got peaceful and I looked at the picture of the guru, I went right back to heaven again!
This experience of visiting heaven repeated many times over the next three years on the Sri Chinmoy path – and very seldom in the forty years since I left it. I've had many wonderful experiences, but not that. As my friend Tom Kilby said to me tonight when I described some of this to him, "Dude, you've been to heaven! What's up now? Why are you not going there?" In this time of solitude and no work and all this love and support flooding in to me, I think I am meant to explore this question.


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Mark Daub: Amber's dad has a need for speed
Local speedway coupe driver, Mark Daub, or better known as Amber's dad to his friends and family, can't get enough of old cars and the speed on the race track.
Local speedway coupe driver, Mark Daub, or better known as Amber's dad to his friends and family, can't get enough of old cars and the speed on the race track.
He is known as Amber's dad because his daughter Amber Daub has been well known at the track for some years.
"I have been at the track since I was little and everywhere we go my friends would come up to him and say, 'Oh you're Amber's dad." So they just know him as that," she said.
Mark has been a big fan of racing ever since he was 10 years old. At that time, he just could not get enough of drag racing.
"I have been into hot rods, street racers and drag racing for a lot of years," he said.
He moved to Pahrump 10 years ago and fell in love with the dirt track at the Pahrump Valley Speedway.
"We met a lot of nice people out there and decided to get into the racing and last year we were able to finally get into it financially," Mark explained.
Amber's dad is racing in the Coupe Division at Pahrump Valley Speedway. He loves racing on the dirt track as opposed to drag racing.
"You have to have a lot money to go fast in drag racing," he said. "These classes here are pretty much budget classes that you can easily get into rather cheaply. What I like about the difference between circle track and drag racing is you spend a lot of time for a 12-second run in drag racing, but for the dirt track I spend all week getting my cars ready for the race track and we are out there five to six hours. The difference is we get to race twice that night and it is a bit more fun," he said.
Amber loves what racing has done for her dad.
"Honestly it's the only thing that I have seen that makes him happy. The way his face lights up when he wins is priceless and he is just so happy," Amber said.
Mark believes dirt racing is different than anything he has ever tried and because it is different he is still learning how the car drives and how to set it up.
"I bought my car from Donnie Berger, who is a great builder. He knows how to build these cars and he really knows that track. So I really listen to what he says. He is a proven winner with a proven car. I am not changing a thing. I am running it the way he has got it. I am learning. It is all about setup and not about horsepower. If you got full throttle and brakes, you have to learn how to use what's in-between. Dirt tracks just can't handle full throttle and brakes," he said.
For Amber's dad, it's any kind of racing that floats his boat. He has fun with quads, sand rails and even boats. He likes anything with speed and horsepower.
The Coupe Division is more his speed than Modifieds. He thinks no one really wants to hit each other in this class and he said the class has cleaned itself up since last year.
"We have a lot of rookies out there," Mark said. "I think it's great that a lot of the older guys have moved away right now and the rookies are kind of playing and learning their thing. When those faster guys come back, maybe it won't be such a dangerous track."
The nostalgic look of the coupes attracted him to the class. He said he would rather lose a race than "put my car into to the wall just to take someone in the corner." Racing to dad is all about fun and spending time with his wife and daughter who both enjoy the sport as much as he does.
Mark also likes the limitations put on the class so it's easy to keep a lid on expenses. The coupe class limits the drivers what they can put into the engine. The class starts with a 305, a small block Chevy, and according to Mark you can punch it out twice (boring out the cylinders) which gives you 315 cc and this is the max. There are also limits to the size of the pistons you can use.
Daughter Amber spent years selling raffle tickets at the track. She loved racing so much that she took a job with Auto Zone and works in a store in Las Vegas. Daub and his daughter have not missed a drag race in Las Vegas since the speedway opened its doors.
Amber has the racing bug just like her father and has been working on cars since she was a little girl she said. She tried to race in this year's Powder Puff Race.
"I will not be racing in the Powder Puff because I was not able to find a car in time, but I am building a Mini Stock right now and it will be ready for next season," she said.
Mark said his daughter can work on engines too and has no problem getting her hands dirty.
"Dad has taught me everything I know. I work as a manager in Las Vegas for Auto Zone. I have always been the only girl who knows what is going on. I pride myself on knowing a lot and this has been because of him," Amber said proudly.
He does his own work and can work on everything but transmissions. He is a self-proclaimed-backyard mechanic and is proud of his abilities. He even has a paint room to paint his own cars. He said his daughter likes helping him out whenever she can.
"I always like doing things on my own and if I can't do it I will learn how to do it. I do a lot of things because I don't like paying someone else to do it. There is no reason to pay someone if you got the will to try," dad said.
Amber is also his crew chief whenever he takes his car onto the track.
"When I am on the track racing, what relaxes me is knowing my family and friends are on the track with me," he said. "It keeps me grounded. There are a lot of things to do and my family keeps me from freaking out. They help me with my car. My daughter Amber is the best crew chief ever. She checks everything for me. She does everything to make me safe."
Fixing cars is now a full time job for Dad, who is a retired landscape contractor. He now flips cars for a living and is working on a 1963 Chevy Nova SS.


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"The Night" was the motto of the Lucerne Summer Festival 2011. Under Sir Simon Rattle's direction, the Berliner Philharmoniker explored in their Lucerne series Moving to Modern Times, the phenomenon of the night by pairing up in an outstanding concert the late romantic Anton Bruckner with England's greatest modern composer, Benjamin Britten.
While Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony involves an inner journey, Benjamin Britten's Nocturne extends into a trance-like meditation on dreaming, the latter presented by acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge, whose "particular gift for lighting texts from within, and projecting so immediately their images, comes into its own arrestingly in the Nocturne", stated the Gramophone Magazine.
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There is nothing better to yours truly, Obsessive Sweets, than smooth peanut butter. There has never been a situation in which crunchy peanut butter was preferred. Never. Thus, this is a biased review. How could a Crunchy Reese's Peanut Butter Cup come close to the classic smooth Peanut Butter Cup? There's no way. Not possible. That said, for those who prefer some crunch to their peanut butter, this Reese's Crunchy Big Cup may be a delight. Heavy on the chunks of peanut, I found the crunchy peanut butter to err on the dry and crumbly side. You never have that issue with a classic peanut butter cup. That said, a large size peanut butter cup is a terrific idea. No size is too big when it comes to Reese's!
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War, what is it good for?
While War's story has already been told, THQ and Vigil Games are back to tell Death's side of the tale. Taking place at the same time as the first game, Darksiders II promised more, more, more. Death is out to redeem his brother War for a crime he's convinced the more honorable of the two didn't commit.
With the war between Heaven and Hell to be decided by the four horsemen of the apocalypse, are we to welcome Death's coming, or was his brother War the better? Will THQ and Vigil live to tell another tale or does Death become them?
It's an undeniable fact that Death is cooler than War. He's mouthy, he struts around like he owns the place, he's the grim reaper and a living embodiment of the end of all things… the list goes on. So it's fitting then that Darksiders II is most definitely a better game than the first.
For one, Death is more nimble and faster than his brother, War. I felt at odds with War's hulking mass, but Death is lithe, acrobatic, and somehow just as brutal. Players will rely heavily on the the dual scythes our hero carries, while also mixing in arm blades, hand-maces, axes, glaives, and the occasional blunt instrument.
All of Death's weapons come with unique stats and abilities. My favorite scythes were a pair of frost-inducing blades that slowed enemies and provided more opportunities for executions than other weapons. I complemented them with arm blades of shock for persistent, impeding damage. I certainly preferred the faster, more combo-prone light-secondary weapons to the heavy glaives and axes.
Of course, Death's arsenal doesn't end there. Throughout Darksiders II, players will obtain more tools that are both practical and combat-ready. Early in the game, players obtain a pistol and a ghoulish claw that extends their reach for platforming sections. The pistol's in-combat use is obvious (you shoot people with it) but the claw acts as a grappling hook that can pull small enemies to Death for an extended combo (or vice versa).
Not every dungeon has a new tool for Death, unlike those found in the Legend of Zelda series, but Darksiders II successfully mixes gameplay in a much more satisfying way. (Watch an example of dungeon-puzzle-solving in the video above.) I kept thinking back to Arkham City's expertly paced hideouts.
Throughout temples, arenas and puzzles are mixed and matched. Some temples rely heavily on combat to urge players forward. Some temples are strictly platforming affairs. Regardless of the mix, both have been designed to perfection.
The Zelda team at Nintendo would be foolish to ignore the way Darksiders II encroaches on their territory. The dungeon design here is so perfectly paced, so deep, and so entertaining that it's nearing the pitch-perfect work that's made Ocarina of Time and other Zelda titles classics.
What's more, Death and Vigil have achieved a truly mature, dark, and violent level of visceral combat that will not be matched by Link and the Master Sword. (Check out the arena combat video above.)
Boss battles take a massive scale, with many baddies towering stories above Death. One such boss requires death to mount his trusty stead, Despair, just to avoid attacks and projectiles. It can feel like Death crawls around like an insect, waiting to be crushed…. That is, until you put your scythe right through the breast of your foe.
THQ claimed that Darksiders II would encompass a world roughly double in size to the first game, and that's true, but the real advancement in the overworld is that elements of the temples have been drawn out and scatter across the landscape. Now, as you ride through the map, you'll come across the off-hand chest, but the small gameplay loop it takes to obtain that chest is its own reward.
New copies of the game also come with the challenging Crucible Mode and eager gamers can loop back around with Death to play New Game+, complete with all the loot and skills they've obtained in previous playthroughs.
The stats page alone has compelled me to pick up the controller again. Any game that measures the gallons of blood spilled by your hands makes a strong impression in my book.
There's frankly very little to complain about in Darksiders II, and that's a great sign for those disappointed with War's outing in early 2010. It's a huge leap forward for the series and I'm left with a promising outlook on the (upcoming?) tales for Strife and Fury. Still, a word of warning for Vigil in the future.
If it weren't for the grace of Wikipedia, I would have absolutely no clue as to what exactly is going on in the universe or why Death is so intent on saving his brother, War. In fact, nothing told me that Darksiders II was taking place before or even at the same time as Darksiders I.
I can't be bothered to guess at these things, and other overlapping characters in the game don't illuminate the player, either. All of this bears on the game's abrupt conclusion. After a 20-hour investment, I'd like to know what it is I've done and what effect it has on the world.
That said, Darksiders II is fantastic, well worth your money, and even more worthy of your time. Death is an investment that pays back dividends, in coins, gems, armor, and blood. It's high praise that Darksiders II is comparable to Batman: Arkham City and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Won't you join me on a stroll in the shadow of Death?
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With the intensity of a laser, Lasell's growth and prominence has continued its boom for over 157 years, and in all that time, our torch has never dimmed -- our flame of knowledge has never stopped burning brightly -- and our seniors continue to pass the torch to those they leave behind, as through their actions and deeds they bring light to the world wherever they go.
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It's that time of year again…Valentine's Day.
I used to be the girl that pretended that I'm not super into Valentine's Day or anything to do with it to be 'relatable', but, in full honesty, I'm a hopeless romantic and love the thought of the holiday. However, on one hand, I do believe you should show your love for the people in your life every day; but, on the other hand, I'm an 'extra' kind of person and I love days where I can shower people with my love and appreciation for them. In my humble opinion, Valentine's Day is kinda like birthdays – you love someone every day, but you just make them feel extra special for a day.
But this year, I'm focusing on my best friend for Galentine's Day because ladies celebrating ladies is the wave of 2018, hop on! I've never really done anything like this before, but as I was planning this post out I was getting pretty excited about it.
I feel like it's easy to get caught up in the hype of the holiday surrounding the person you're romantically involved with, but no one said you can't get your friends together and have just as good of a time. So, I've compiled a few things you and your best gal pals can do together to celebrate Valentine's Day.
Single or not, you can always celebrate Galentine's Day!
Do Brunch
I don't know about your girlfriends, but my best friend and I absolutely love breakfast foods. Between that and Steak n Shake that's basically all we ever eat when we're together. And I am 100% okay with that. Plan your own brunch or make reservations for somewhere. Whatever you do, just make sure you eat some kind of breakfast food because it's the best kind of food.
Shop, Shop, Shop!
We live in a town where there really isn't much to do but shop and eat, so that's what a typical day without set plans together looks like – that and driving around. But there's nothing quite like a bit of retail therapy mixed with endless laughing to make for a great day with your best friend. Honestly, most of the time I just walk around saying how much I want to buy something that I see and never actually buying it, but hey it's still a fun day!
Bake Together & a Movie Marathon in PJs
Who doesn't like to make desserts with their best friends while watching movies IN their PJs!? Plus, you get to stay home this way and that's always my most favorite thing. Roll up some sleeves, crack a few eggs, and turn on the tv for an egg-cellent day (I'm sorry, I had to).
Try Something New
My best friend is a lot more of an adventurous person than I am, so sometimes it's good that she balances me out because I honestly prefer to stay home 95% of the time! Take Galentine's Day and extend it into a long weekend away with some friends of somewhere close by that you've been meaning to check out.
We're about an hour and a half from Chicago but hardly go there honestly. So, a day at a museum or walking around would be so fun for us! There are also a bunch of fun places to try there and cute places to take pictures. I, personally, think it's fun to be a tourist in your own city.
Get Creative
I'm awful at verbally expressing my love for people without getting embarrassed and red, so I prefer to write and make things for them instead. That way I don't have to get awkward saying things they should know, and they still get to know that I really appreciate them. My personal favorite things to do are cards, letters, or printing pictures to put in something the other person really wanted.
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Length of US Coastline
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What is the length of the perimeter of mainland United States and that of Alaska and Hawaii?
Re: Length of US Coastline
Answered By: dscotton-ga on 10 Apr 2002 12:04 PDT
The CIA World Factbook lists the land boundaries of the United States as 12,248 kilometers (7612 miles), and the coastline as 19,924 km (12,383 miles). These numbers include all US territory. The Factbook doesn't break these numbers down except to say that 2,477 km (1539 miles) of the land boundary consists of Alaska's border with Canada, and that 29 km (18 miles) consists of the border between Cuba and the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. The rest of the land boundary is presumably part of the perimeter of the contiguous 48 states. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html The Learning Network has a breakdown of coastline length by state. According to their web page, Hawaii has 750 miles of coastline (which should be the sum of the perimeter of each of its islands). Alaska has 5,580 miles of coastline. That would make the total perimeter of Alaska 7,119 miles (5580 miles of coast + 1539 miles of land boundary). Subtracting Alaska and Hawaii, the contiguous 48 states have 6053 miles of coastline and 6055 miles of land boundaries, for a perimeter of 12108 miles. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001801.html
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Re: Length of US Coastline
From: bonzo-ga on 20 Apr 2002 03:10 PDT
Using concepts from fractal geometry, mathematicians make the argument that the US coastline is of infinite length. Imagine two poles separated by 50 meters of rope. If two men grab these poles, stretch out the line between them, and "walk off" the distance around a lake, they might find that it required 20 lengths of this rope to circumnavigate the lake. Thus, they would calculate that the lake has 50 x 20 = 1000 meters of shore. Now, if the length of the line is reduced to 20 meters, the men would be able to map the shore more accurately, as fewer rocky outcroppings would be skipped in the measuring process. Using this shorter rope, the men might require 70 lengths to go around the lake. Thus, they would calculate the coast to be 20 x 70 = 1400 meters in length. Now, if the rope were 10 cm in length, the men would catch the individual rocks that make up the coast, but they would miss the pebbles. If the rope were 1 cm in length, they would catch the individual rocks, but they would miss the pebbles. If the rope were 1 mm in length, they would catch the pebbles, but they would miss the grooves in the edges of the pebbles.... and so on down to subatomic particles. In short, the closer you trace the coastline, the longer it gets. Some sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A425972 http://www.msri.org/activities/jir/bwachtel/MeasuringtheCoast.html http://www.calresco.org/fractal.htm http://www.earthsky.com/2000/es001104.html Google search: ://www.google.com/search?q=fractal+%22infinite%22+coastline
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From: sickbird-ga on 16 Jul 2004 17:51 PDT
It appears that the answer above contains an error. According to the source referred to (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001801.html) the coastline of Alaska is 6640 miles not 5580. This is the total of Alaska's Pacific coast (5580) and its Arctic coast (1060). The answer omitted the Arctic coast and the totals are off by this amount.
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VANCOUVER - Second-hand testimony that suggest the uncle of a so-called honour killing victim from B.C., was the all-powerful decision maker in the family should be admitted in court, a lawyer argued Wednesday.
Prior to her murder in India in 2000, 25-year-old Jaswinder "Jassi" Sidhu told her friends she feared for her life because her family disapproved of her secret marriage to a rickshaw driver in India.
Sidhu's mother, Malkit Kaur Sidhu, and uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha, are facing extradition to India, where they have been charged with conspiracy to murder.
Even though hearsay evidence is not typically admissible in court, lawyer David Crossin, who represents Sidhu's mother, said testimony that indicates Badesha was the patriarch who controlled the family should be considered assertions of fact.
Crossin also said testimony that points to the relationships between Sidhu, her mother, and her uncle can shed light on whether there was a motive to kill.
Several of Sidhu's coworkers and friends have testified in the extradition hearing, saying Sidhu had confided in them about having fallen in love in India, and having secretly married a man there named Mithu Sidhu.
The co-workers, with whom Sidhu worked at a beauty salon in Coquitlam, B.C., said that Sidhu told them she was threatened and beaten by her family once they found out about her union.
They also said Sidhu was forced by her uncle to sign a legal document, saying Mithu had coerced her to marry him.
The co-workers testified that they then helped Sidhu with the writing of a letter to say she married on her own free will.
On Wednesday, Crossin pointed to testimonies by co-workers who said Badesha seemed to control Sidhu's family. Jody Wright told the court that, "He was the stern one. He was the one who made all the decisions for the whole family." Crossin recalled.
Another co-worker, Belinda Lucas, said Badesha was very influential in the family, and had told Sidhu's mother to freeze her daughter's bank account after she fled the family home, Crossin told the judge.
A tenant who lived in Sidhu's basement suite also testified earlier that she often heard fighting upstairs, and called the police twice because she was concerned.
Sidhu's beauty school teacher, Deborah Devos, also told the court in May that Badesha on two occasions interrupted a class and grabbed Sidhu to take her away.
"First hand observation of Scott (Sidhu's tenant) and Devos are independent evidence that corroborate Jassi's hearsay statements about her family's dynamic, specifically the control exercised by Mr. Badesha," Crossin said.
Federal government lawyers argued earlier this week that evidence given by Sidhu's friends should be admitted in court, saying the young woman had no reason to lie about her fears to people she trusted.
"In this particular setting...there were a group of young women working who had become friends, so the assertion that Jassi was somehow indiscriminate or telling everyone is, in fact, not the case," said Deborah Strachan, the lawyer for the federal Attorney General.
But Crossin disagreed with the Crown's application for the admissibility of one of Lucas's statement regarding a conversation she had with Sidhu about her relationship with her mother.
Lucas testified that she knew "it was very difficult for (Jassi's) mom to take sides," and that Jassi's mother loved her a lot. However, her mother had said to Sidhu on one occasion that she wished she had aborted her, Lucas told the court earlier.
Crossin argued since it is unclear whether the abortion comment was made within the context of Sidhu's forbidden marriage, it should not be admissible as evidence.
Sidhu was found dead in a village in Punjab in June 2000 after being kidnapped and murdered. Her husband was also severely beaten, but survived.
Her family has denied involvement in the murder.


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RICHLAND, MI -- Four goats and a hoophouse have landed a young farmer in court and put the future of his budding farm on hold.
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that Ben Martin's operation on Martin's uncle's property at 7030 EF Ave. is not protected by Michigan
The judge said Martin had failed to provide evidence that his goats and his greenhouse conformed with the Generally Accepted Agricultural Management Practices of the Right to Farm Act, and therefore he must pay the fines levied by a Richland Township zoning official.
A recent food and consumer packaging graduate from Western Michigan University, Martin, 23, had argued that local township ordinances should not trump his right to do business unfettered by local regulation that conflicts with accepted farming practices.
Martin's attorney, who learned of the ruling Tuesday, said his clients are considering their options, including the possibility of an appeal.
Martin told the Kalamazoo Gazette that he has spent the past three years growing food, and building a business, on 3.3 acres of his uncle James Nieuwenhuis's rural property in Richland Township. The property is zoned A-1—agriculture-residential.
He sells produce such as tomatoes, cucumbers and watermelons to local restaurants and at a food stand in Richland, and sells goat meat as well, generally raising three or four goats at a time.
On May 12, 2014, a Richland Township zoning enforcement officer issued Nieuwenhuis a ticket for "owning and maintaining" more than three goats on the property after warning him to stop, the court records show. The next week he returned with a second citation, this time for the portable hoophouse-- a raised tunnel set up over rows of plants, that functions like a greenhouse to protect and warm plants. Martin erected the hoophouse after a special use permit to do so had been denied by the township, a ruling upheld by Kalamazoo Circuit Court.
The township argued that it has the right to require permits for construction of such large outbuildings prior to construction. The township also requires a permit to raise livestock on parcels with a minimum size of five acres.
In considering Martin's request for a special use permit, the township surveyed neighbors, and found many who did not want the permit approved, afraid of the hoop house's possible effect on their own property values, the court documents show.
The issue is whether Right to Farm protects every farmer's every action, said Roxanne Seeber, attorney for the firm representing Richland Township. "...Does that mean that the farmer gets to do whatever he wants or does the zoning control?" Seeber said.
She argued that there was no applicable GAAMP for the hoop house and that Martin never verified that his goat operation was in compliance with provisions of the livestock GAAMP, either.
"The township says that the zoning ordinance applies," Seeber said. "That means he needs to get a special use permit for the greenhouse/hoop house. This permit was denied by the planning commission more than a year ago."
Martin's attorney, Christopher E. Tracy, believes his client's commercial operation is, indeed, protected by the state's Right to Farm Act, and argued the citations should be dismissed.
Right to Farm Act says, in part: "It is the express legislative intent that this act preempt any local ordinance, regulation or resolution." The law bars local governments from enacting any regulations that conflict with the management practices Right to Farm has developed, Tracy said.
In the ruling dated Aug. 15 the judge said that while there was no question that Martin's farm is a farm, it was questionable whether it complied with the specific management practices that would afford it protection under the state law.
In March, Martin's was one of 33 farms in the state of Michigan recognized by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development's Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program for implementing appropriate pollution prevention practices, a verified farm in the Farmstead and Livestock Systems, according to an April 15 announcement by the program.
That verification was based on an on-farm inspection by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development "to verify program requirements related to applicable state and federal environmental regulations, Michigan Right to Farm guidelines, and adherence to an action plan," according to the announcement of the farm's verification.
But MEAAP verification is not the same thing as proof that Martin's operation is in current compliance with the applicable GAAMPs, the judge ruled, and without that proof "he has not established the RTFA affirmative defense and he is responsible for the ordinance violation," the judge ruled.
Tracy said his clients are trying to set up a time for GAAMPs inspection by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.


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Solution to the Lunch Box Stink
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Finally. A more smell proof lunch box. No need to brace yourself for impact when opening at the end of the day.
I really hate bad smells. Which sounds funny, because I am sure everyone hates bad smells, but I am particularly sensitive to bad smells and they can make me crazy.
One of my top personal odor offenders, is the smell the girls' lunch boxes get after the school year gets underway. You know what I am talking about, right moms, that stale, gross stink that seeps into the plastic lining?
The plastic really starts to retain the stink and no matter how thoroughly we wash it, the smell always returns. Therefore, when I discovered these Under Armour lunch boxes that are lined with plastic, I thought they would be worth a try to see if the plastic helped make it a smell proof lunch box.
I guess the official word for the plastic is PEVA lining.There is a pocket on the interior lid for an ice pack and there is plenty of room for a thermos and your reusable lunch box containers.
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Here is the 5th episode of our Arctic Voyage video series!
This episode brings us to the very top of America at Point Barrow, Alaska in the Arctic Ocean in August 2015. We sail through high winds and seas, reach Barrow in similar conditions, and then explore the area when the weather finally moderates. We visit a climate scientist on his lonely islet, accompany Barrow's last sled dog team on their summer exercises, and sail among brash ice at the edge of the polar ice cap.
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We get a lot of rabbits around here, kind of in cycles that occur every couple of years or so.
I've always thought they were pretty neat, and ridiculously cute as babies (which, I just learned the other day, are called kittens. Weird, right?) and this leads me into another long tale of 'how I met my neighbours'. Check this out:
So I am sitting around my palatial mansion last Friday; because my life is such a laugh-a-minute thrill ride, and I decide to go outside for a cigarette.
(The palatial mansion is a non-smoking building, you see).
Anyway, I go out back into the alley and right away notice that a couple of neighbours are out on their balcony, yelling at something. They spot me and start yelling down, and I'm all "Sup?"
They tell me that a couple of magpies have gotten ahold of a baby rabbit (or 'kitten', as we have learned) in the yard of the building next door, and are fixing to croak it.
I go round a small hedge that is the only barrier to the yard, sure enough, two magpies are dragging the little animal around by his legs, getting really pecky with the terrorized critter.
Frightening the birds off with the time-tested technique of waving my arms and yelling obscenities at them, I find myself alone with the rabbit as the magpies settle on the roof of a garage and sit there watching us.
So I can't really leave, and the rabbit has compressed himself face-first into a curb around the house and is huddling there quaking.
It kinda reminded of that last scene in The Blair Witch Project, you know? With the guy standing in the corner? I loved that film.
Incidentally, this is not the first time I couldn't leave a scene because I watching out for something, and not the most unusual object.
At this point my neighbours from the balcony have come down, and now three of us stand around looking at the rabbit. One of them calls 311 and gets an opinion on what to do (and those options were: leave the animal there, as its parent may be around, or box it up and take it inside, but then you gotta whole 'nother problem).
Of course, we then find the rest of the rabbitlings. Almost invisible, five more of them are huddled in a pile at the base of the weedy little hedge. They had probably escaped the notice of the magpies by not moving around; while the original rabbit was perhaps an 'early hopper'.
Trouble is, the others are beginning to try to hop as well, but being as they were probably born, literally, yesterday, they weren't very good at it and also didn't exercise good judgement. The three of us keep gathering them up and returning them to the rabbit-pile.
Long story short: as the sun starts going down, the magpies leave and the kits become less active and remain in their huddle. And, fortunately, some adult rabbits (or maybe they're hares, I don't know to be honest) begin to show up on the perimeter. We all figure this is a good thing, and go back inside.
And thither, my friends, is how I met a couple of my neighbours, Josh and Sarah.
PS: I checked out the hedge the next morning and the whole group was gone, so it looks like they got on with wherever rabbits go when they aren't hanging out with us.


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Williams is closing in on a deal to extend its engine supply deal with Mercedes beyond the end of next year, deputy team principal Claire Williams has revealed.
The Grove-based outfit's current contract runs out at the end of 2020, and discussions have already taken place about finalising details to keep the partnership intact into the new era of F1 that begins from 2021.
While there were reports last week that the team had been considering a switch to Renault, Williams is clear that there has been no contact with the French car manufacturer regarding a future engine deal.
Asked by Autosport about the recent rumours regarding the team's engine plans, Williams said: "I saw the speculation. We aren't talking to Renault. We are talking to Mercedes, as you probably expect, and those conversations are going well.
"We hope to be able to conclude a new partnership with them going into 2021. They have been a fantastic partner of ours.
"They have been very, very supportive and everybody knows that Toto [Wolff] started his F1 career at Williams, and as such we have a great relationship with him. I would like that relationship to continue."
She added: "We have always had a great history with Renault but our future is with Mercedes."
One aspect of the partnership that remains to be sorted is whether or not a new deal with Mercedes expands in to the supply of other car components - such as the gearbox or suspension.
Williams did consider taking the Mercedes gearbox for this year but in the end elected to continue using its own version
"We went through a process of evaluation last year," said Williams.
"We are doing the same thing this year, off the back of what happened to us in testing, to work out what we should make versus buy.
"That is a really important piece of work that we have concluded.
"We will now make our decision around what we will do ourselves versus outsourcing - whether that be with Mercedes or alternative suppliers.
"But it is all just dependent on the capacity we have at Williams and what we do best versus what other people may do better.
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community and charity
At Dersingham we believe in the importance of charity and of teaching our children to care for others. We teach and encourage our children to be responsible British citizens with mutual respect for all. We regularly participate in national charity days and donate to charities as much as possible. So far this school year we have donated over £800 to charities, plus collected and distributed care packages for Christmas.
We also encourage our children to participate in events in our local community. This has included attending Remembrance Day memorial services on behalf of the school, paying our respects at the site of the Grenfell Tower inferno, singing Christmas carols for the elderly at a nearby retirement home, singing as part of the Commonwealth Choir and visiting the Houses of Parliament. Our children are very busy little bees!
Save the children christmas jumper day
On Friday 15th December 2017, we wore our Christmas jumpers to raise money for Save The Children.
We raised £___ in total. Mrs Akinfie definitely won the 'Best Effort' award for her numerous Christmas decorations!
children in need
On Friday 17th November 2017, we raised £282.82 for Children in Need. Many thanks to our very generous parents for adding coins to our buckets, just one day after our Go Green day!
Our school staff wore their pyjamas to school for the day - much to the children's delight! Lando's Superman dressing gown was a particular highlight!
nspcc - go green
On Thursday 16th November 2017, we held a fundraising day in aid of the NSPCC. We had visitors from the NSPCC into school on the day to lead workshops on keeping ourselves safe. The children and staff all wore Green and donated £1 to the NSPCC. In total we raised £280.14. Thank you to all who donated.
macmillan coffee morning
On 29th September 2017, we held a coffee morning here at Dersingham in aid of Macmillan Cancer charity. Staff donated cakes and biscuits for parents to enjoy (for a £1 entry fee) and we even held our very own Great Dersingham Bake Off competition! The standard was very high but Emma G's chocolate concoction was the ultimate winner.
We raised a total of £170.58 for MacMillan
Grenfell tower
Our School Council members attended the site of the Grenfell Tower infreno to lay flowers and pay their respects, on behalf of us all at Dersingham. As a school we were deeply moved by the tragedy and started a collection of essentials to donate to the families affected by the fire. The children visited a memorial site and spent some time reading the messages left by others, as well as adding their own messages of hope.


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Okay, it is actually spelled "Echologie", but it is not entirely incorrect to say that ECOCERT is synonymous with ecology in France.
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Zipper Pouch Swap
We had a zippered pouch swap among participating members. You can see the personalities of our members come out in the pattern choices. Everyone enjoyed their new pouches!
Quilt Bingo
This quilt was made from blocks created by participants at our recent quilting retreat and quilted by M J Snyder. It will be given as a prize at the Guild's Quilt Bingo scheduled for October.
Show & Share
Twenty members participated in Show & Share. See some of their beautiful work below.
|Laura Rieben
|Erin Neuland
|M J Snyder
|Kathy Schwabland
|Shelli Smith
|Maria O'Haver
|Carol Rubin
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TWO industry experts from Singapore made a fact-finding visit to Huddersfield Media Centre.
Baey Yam Keng and Toh Kai Ling are senior officials in the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts.
They have special responsibility for building up creative industries as a source of economic development.
They are in Huddersfield to learn how the town has been able to create new jobs and businesses in subjects such as design, digital media and the arts and how this has led to the regeneration of redundant buildings.
They toured the Northumberland Street centre, meeting people who run small businesses and learning how the facilities help them to stay ahead of the competition in other towns and cities.
They also looked at the work of Huddersfield Business Generator, run by the university, which helps people in the first months of starting a creative business.
Media Centre chief executive Toby Hyam said: "It is fantastic when experts from the other side of the world recognise the importance of what has been going on here in Huddersfield.
"While the international credit is important, I would also hope we can turn connections like this into trading opportunities for our clients."


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"Nightmare" for Halloween!
Just in time for Halloween! The late night live action/horror movie thriller Nightmare was KTVT Channel 11's (Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX) contribution towards frightening kids and adults alike. Bill Camfield, of Slam Bang Theatre fame, starred as Gorgon, the master of an evil black & white celluloid domain. As the show began, the camera would zoom down a forbidding corridor while Gorgon would introduce the premise of the film with a related live action sub-plot. Whether it was pretty girls being threatened by a swinging pendulum, killing vampires, or just general mayhem, Gorgon set the mood!
Is it, or isn't it?
Strange memories abounded when I came across this now infamous Sears ad from 1975.
Suburban housewives all across the country beamed with various degrees of muted laughter as they called and told their friends to "Look at the new Sears catalog on page 602." Sure enough, there it was…just to the left of item #6. Those women who took time from their domestic chores to peek at the mystery were rewarded with a familiar sight indeed! Familiar? Well, these women lived through the end of the Baby Boom you know.
Air Force photo analysis sections were much too busy dealing with Cold War reconnaissance imagery to settle the dispute once and for all, so the mystery continued.
The question that remains is did clever corporate advertising wonks deliberately place "it" in the photo to seduce women (who were the purchasers of the family's clothing) into becoming loyal Sears customers? We'll never really know, but I suspect that many a Patio kid chafed against crisp new Sears underwear elastic for years to come.
In Pursuit of the Goat Man–A Suburban Tale
What ever happened to the Goat Man? Recently, I was telling some kids about my childhood adventures in the woods behind our subdivision. During the late 60's and early 70's there were mysterious rumors of cattle mutilations in our area. Our local kid folklore dictated that these deeds must have been the work of the Goat Man, a half-man, half-goat creature that supposedly roamed the woods looking for fresh beef on the hoof (or maybe even a kid). Needless to say, if we found ourselves in the woods as darkness began to fall, we made a beeline for the security of the city street lights.
Once, we got brave and decided to make a torchlight expedition into the woods to catch a glimpse of the Goat Man…at night! My scouting experience equipped me with the knowledge of how to make the torches, so we decided to give it a go. As the sun went down, we began soaking our torches in kerosene. Soon after, we lit them and proceeded into the dark woods.
We were familiar with the first band of trees that followed along a creek, so we weren't too scared at first. This opened onto a big plowed field, which soon turned into another band of trees. We had never been that far before and these woods were quite unfamiliar. On top of that they were mostly ugly, snarling, scary bois d' arc (horse apple) trees…the kind that an impressionable mind would form into macabre shapes if given half a chance. You know the kind of place…real Sleepy Hollow stuff. It was about that time that the first torch flickered and went dark. We began debating if we should be heading home when the second torch flickered out leaving us with only one torch lit. That settled it! As we made our way back towards the open field the last torch began its slow death flicker and then unceremoniously went out. When I noticed the rest of the group passing me at a full run, I thought it would be a good time to also beat a hasty retreat. After all, the Goat Man was on the loose and I'm sure he was hungry! As we all started to get winded, my friend Dan and I slowed down to catch our breath. It was at that point that we noticed a strange form moving towards us. The silhouetted shape was quite unfamiliar and clumsily continued its relentless advance. We were frozen with terror as the dark shape came right up to us…it was at that time we heard a reassuring…moooo! We were instantly calmed when we realized that our would-be assailant wasn't half-man or half-goat…but all cow! Still, the woods were dark, and the real Goat Man might spy us standing next to this bovine delicacy, so we continued our advance towards the city.
As we crossed the first city street, we all decided to go straight home and leave daring midnight explorations to the professionals. The Goat Man was in no danger of being exposed any time soon, at least by this band of weary suburban commandos!


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Discussion in 'Contests' started by zpqrei, Aug 4, 2009.
When you upload a map, do you need to provide the .txt files for the soundscapes and particles?
I would like to know the answer to this question as well.
I wouldn't think so.
Actually you probably would... those are map specific. But they should be packed into the map, not seperate.
More progress pics. I'm trying to mix both swamp and original tf2 styles. Anyone up for some critique?
I don't generally think of swamps as being areas with cliffs, but it's a nice scene anyway.
+1 for being different.
I like this pic the best. Just vary the curvyness of the top of the cliff and add some well-placed foliage and trees there and it will look awesome.
something like this?
Sadly that's pretty much all I can do to curve the cliffs without destroying them completely. Thanks for the advice though.
Seeing these pictures makes me wish i could map right now, currently at a hotel
Step 1: create 128x128x4 brush.
Step 2: clone brush to fill a 2048x2048x4 area.
Step 3: transform all brushes into displacements.
Step 4: set noise to -10/+10
Step 5: sew all displacements
Step 6: subdivide all displacements simultaneously
If Hammer finishes Step 6 before the contest is over, I'll let you know what step 7 is. ::
Seriously though, I've got what I think is a great idea. We'll see what everyone thinks of it when it's done.
Also, if you want a larger jetty, I suggest taking the bridge supports from 2fort and using some of the wood patches from Sawmill after you've reskinned them to better match up.
Ive only looked at a few, lots of good entries. I think mine will stand out a bit from the norm will post pics tommorow.
some screens from my entry
*snip (nevermind, didn't know it was this big already...)*
Edit: For those of you having problems with particles or soundscapes, I suggest you look at http://swamp.tf2maps.net/instructions.php
And... Wait.. what!?!? You don't need to make the map playable?! I was making a CTF map, but it's gonna be scraped if I can do like, only scenery ... Then mine might look a lot better.
Frosty you should read the contest thread before making contest entries lol.
Ok heres my pics.
Others attached.
Eerie -
<3 the fireplace
great one vigilante, awesome use of the haze-sky
damn, forgot about the lillypads :/
i toyed around a bit with entities, the buoy is rotating off-center and the goobubbles pop up randomly, plus a crackling fireplace ^^
detailing contests rock
I decided to go with this:
Hopefully I didn't miss anything. Too bad I didn't think of moving props like eerieone.
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United's U18s extended their unbeaten run to four games after a draw against Ipswich Town at the Steelphalt Academy.
Reon Potts opened the scoring from the spot, but the Blades were pegged back and were forced to settle for a share of the spoils.
The hosts made a bright start as Ompreon beat a number of defenders down the right wing but his subsequent effort flew just over the bar after 10 minutes.
Ipswich responded with an effort of their own which was saved excellently by Kelly, tipping a long-range shot round the post.
And it would be United who took the lead on 24 minutes from the penalty spot as Capello was brought down inside the area. POTTS stepped up to smash home.
Just before half time the Tractors Boys restored parity though as a left-wing corner caused a scramble and the ball volleyed home from very close range.
The Blades came out after the interval looking to re-take the lead as substitute Kelly broke down the right and crossed for Capello, but his lopping header was too high.
As the clock ticked down, goalkeeper Kelly was required to ensure United a point, as he made an excellent reflex save.
Blades: S. Kelly, Williams, Boyes, Neal, Weaver, Gordon, J. Kelly (Viggers 60), Carvery, Potts (Stainrod 75), Ompreon, Capello.
Unused: Chapman.