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Next Up For Bronco Men's Soccer
After defeating Washington Wednesday night, the Santa Clara men's soccer team travels to Bloomington, Ind. for a match-up against the seventh-seeded Indiana Hoosiers, who defeated Northern Illinois 1-0 in the second round. The game kicks off from Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium at 4:00 p.m. PT. The teams have met five times in NCAA Tournament play with Indiana holding a 3-2 edge in the postseason series. Both teams are hot as Indiana is 9-1-1 in their last 11 games and SCU is 8-1-2 in their last 11.
Last Game For Bronco Men's Soccer
The Broncos pulled out an overtime 3-2 win over the Washington Huskies at Buck Shaw Stadium on Wednesday night. Jide Ogunbiyi scored five minutes into overtime to give the Broncos the win over their Pac-10 rival. Erik Ustruck and Brian Martin also netted goals for Santa Clara. The Broncos led the game 2-0 before Washington struck back for two late goals to tie the score and send the game to overtime. Ogunbiyi then headed in the overtime winner.
Head Coach Cameron Rast
Cameron Rast (Santa Clara '92) is in his fifth season at the helm of the Santa Clara men's soccer program and has a 67-26-12 (.695) overall record and a 30-14-4 (.667) mark in West Coast Conference matches. He has led the Broncos to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last four seasons and his 2003 team advanced to the NCAA College Cup, where it lost a double-overtime decision to eventual national champion Indiana. He has now led the team to two WCC titles after clinching the 2006 championship on Oct. 29. Rast has also won two WCC Coach of the Year awards (2003, 2006). After eight years as an assistant coach and four as a player, Rast has now reached the College Cup in three different capacities while at Santa Clara. He is already in the top-10 on the WCC career list for league wins. Rast is assisted by Eric Yamamoto, Rusty Johnson and Tim Martin.
NCAA Tournament
The Broncos have qualified for the NCAA Tournament 17 times including this season. They have appeared in five College Cups and won the national title in 1989. Overall, SCU has a 22-13-5 record in the tournament and are 11-2-1 at home. Last season, the Broncos defeated Ohio State 1-0 before falling to California on penalty kicks in the second round. This is the team's fourth consecutive appearance.
NCAA Records
Shawn Percell (1996-99) holds the program record for tournament goals with five in his career. Current head coach Cameron Rast (1988-91) is tied with Kyle Smith (1997-99) for second with four goals apiece. Jeff Baicher (1989-90) and Sean-Michael Callahan (1996-99) are tied for first in assists with four, while Percell leads in points (12). Current goalkeeper coach Rusty Johnson holds the record for most saves in tournament play as he made 19 saves in his career from 1998-99. Kevin Sweeney now holds the record for goals against average after posting two shutouts last season, leaving him with a 0.00 GAA.
Ogunbiyi The Hero
Forward Jide Ogunbiyi scored the winning goal in overtime Wednesday night to send SCU through to the third round. The goal was just the second of the year for Ogunbiyi, who was hampered by an ankle injury early on in the season. Ogunbiyi is no stranger to scoring overtime winners, as he scored an overtime goal to beat Stanford in 2005.
As a Frosh and a Senior
Senior Erik Ustruck scored a goal Wednesday night to get the Broncos started in their win over Washington. The goal was his first in postseason play since his freshman season in 2003 when he scored against Michigan to help the Broncos earn a 3-1 win in the Regional Final.
Broncos vs. Indiana
Santa Clara and Indiana have a long history in the NCAA Tournament. In 1989 and 1991, the Broncos beat the Hoosiers in the national semifinals to advance to the championship game. The Broncos won 4-2 in 1989 and 2-0 in 1991. Current Broncos head coach Cameron Rast scored in both of those matches, while current assistant coach Eric Yamamoto was the goalkeeper for the 1989 squad. However, Indiana has won the past three games between the teams, earning a 4-0 win in the national semifinals in 1998 and a 1-0 win in the championship game in 1999. In Rast's second season at SCU, the team lost to Indiana 1-0 in overtime in the Final Four. Both Keith DeVey and Erik Ustruck played for the Broncos in that match. Current SCU goalkeeper coach Rusty Johnson was the goalkeeper for the Broncos in 1999.
Indiana in 2006
The Hoosiers have had another strong season in 2006, winning the Big Ten Championship and posting a 14-4-2 record prior to the NCAA Tournament. The team has played nine overtime games in 2006 and has put up a 6-1-2 record in those matches. IU is currently on a good run with a 9-1-1 record in its past 11 matches. Brian Ackley and Darren Yeagle led the team with seven goals apiece while goalkeeper Chay Cain has nine shutouts and a 0.61 goals against average. The Hoosiers head coach is Mike Freitag, who, like Rast at SCU, is a former player and assistant coach at Indiana.
Martin and Ogunbiyi Clutch
Both Brian Martin and Jide Ogunbiyi notched a goal and an assist against Washington. The goals were the first postseason goals for both players. The pair are now tied for the team lead in assists with five each.
McCarthy's First Assist
Co-WCC Freshman of the Year Stephen McCarthy picked a good time to earn his first assist of the season. McCarthy got a pass from Keith DeVey and dropped it back for Brian Martin, who blasted home the Broncos second goal of the night against Washington on Wednesday. McCarthy has been a mainstay throughout the year in the mdifield, starting 20 out of 21 games. He was also named All-WCC Honorable Mention in 2006.
No Stranger To Extra Time
The Santa Clara men's soccer program knows all about overtime in the NCAA Tournament. SCU has played at least one overtime game in every postseason appearance since 1999. SCU had lost three straight overtime games in the tournament prior to Wednesday night, falling to California in 2005 on penalty kicks and losing 2-1 in 2004. In 2003, Indiana beat Santa Clara 1-0 in overtime. In 2003, SCU had four of their five tournament games go to the extra session, winning once on penalty kicks (4-1 vs. SMU) and beating Loyola Marymount (1-0) and Coastal Carolina (3-2), before the loss to Indiana. Overall, 17 of the Broncos 40 postseason matches have needed overtime to determine a winner.
Unbeaten Streak Snapped
The Santa Clara Broncos pushed their unbeaten streak to nine games with a 3-0 win over Portland on Nov. 3. However, the unbeaten run was snapped on Nov. 5 as the Gonzaga Bulldogs pulled out a 2-1 overtime victory in the season finale. George Josten scored the winning goal in overtime to end the Broncos run. The nine-game unbeaten run was the longest unbeaten streak since 1999 when the Broncos won 11 in a row to start the season. While the unbeaten run is over, the Broncos are still 8-1-2 in their past 11 games.
Unbeaten on the Road
The Broncos swept two road games Oct. 27 and 29 at San Diego and Loyola Marymount to finish their conference road schedule. SCU posted a 5-0-1 record on the road in conference, its first unbeaten run on the road in conference since 2001 when they went 3-0-0. Since the introduction of the double round robin format in 2004, SCU had not lost fewer than three games on the road in conference play.
WCC Leaders
Cameron Rast's squad had a number of individuals among the WCC's league leaders in the regular season. Senior Keith DeVey and Amaechi Igwe tied for eighth in points with 13, while DeVey tied for sixth in goals with six. Junior Peter Lowry and Igwe tied for ninth with five goals each. Sophomores Brian Martin and Jide Ogunbiyi tied for eighth with four assists. Goalkeeper Joseph Buttita now led the league in shutouts with seven and goals against average (0.79).
Broncos as a Team
As a team, the Broncos finished near the top of the ladder in a number of statistical categories. The Broncos finished third in goals (32), first in shutouts (8), while placing first in corner kicks with 145. SCU's corner kick total was 49 higher than the next closest team. The team allowed only 18 goals on the year, the second lowest total among conference teams. Their 0.86 goals against average was tops in the conference. The Broncos also had the second highest home attendance in the league with an average of 1,178 fans through seven home dates.
DeVey Among Top Scorers
Keith DeVey netted his sixth goal of 2006 against Portland on Nov. 3 and the 20th of his career. The Kula, Hawaii resident is now tied for eighth all-time in Bronco history for goals. He is tied with Steve Robertson. With one more goal, he would jump into a tie for seventh in school history.
Rast Moves Into Third
Cameron Rast has now passed former Bronco coach Steve Sampson and moved into third place all-time in wins at SCU. He now has 67 wins. Steve Sampson earned 64 wins from 1986-90 on the Mission Campus. The all-time leader is Mitch Murray (1991-2001), who has 143 victories followed by Dave Chaplik with 92. Rast is the second-fastest coach in school history to reach the 50-win plateau, just behind Murray.
Buttitta Player of the Month
Sophomore goalkeeper Joseph Buttitta continues to impress in his first year as the starting goalkeeper for SCU. He finished the regular season with a 0.79 goals against average and seven shutouts. He was named the WCC Player of the Month for October for his stellar play.
Tight Games
The Broncos have had 15 of their 21 games decided by one goal or end in ties in 2006.
Lowry Up Top, DeVey In Middle
Junior captain Peter Lowry has moved from his role of central midfield into the forward line for the past month, while Keith DeVey has slid into the role of attacking midfielder. The results have been positive as SCU has lost just once with that formation, while posting a 8-1-2 record.
Lineup Consistency
Despite a number of injuries and a tough schedule, Santa Clara has had great consistency in its starting lineup. Through 21 games in 2006, seven players have started every game; Joseph Buttita, Matt Marquess, Jamil Roberts, Peter Lowry, Erik Ustruck, Brian Martin and Keith DeVey. Amaechi Igwe has started 18 out of 21 games this year, while Stephen McCarthy has started 20 out of 21.
Balanced Attack
The Broncos attack has been very balanced in 2006 as 13 different players have scored goals and 15 different players have notched at least one point.
Iron Man
Broncos defender Matt Marquess has proven to be a rock on the back-line for SCU the past two seasons. After appearing in all 20 regular season games this year, Marquess has now played in 42 consecutive games for SCU. This season, he has started all 21 games and played 1,942 of a possible 1,977:44 minutes. Jamil Roberts, who has also started every match, leads the team in minutes with 1,952 minutes played. The pair has started every game together in central defense.
Ustruck And DeVey - Last Ties to College Cup
In 2003, Cameron Rast led the Broncos to the College Cup in just his second season as head coach. Two members of that team remain as SCU attempts to make a return trip to the Final Four. Erik Ustruck was a freshman on that 2003 team, while Keith DeVey was a redshirt freshman. That team lost to Indiana in double overtime in the semifinals.
NCAA Goals
Coming into the 2006 postseason, three current Broncos had scored goals in the NCAA Tournament in their careers. Erik Ustruck scored a goal as a freshman in 2003 against Michigan in the Regional Final to help SCU advance to the College Cup. Keith DeVey scored a first half goal against Cal in 2004 in a first-round overtime loss. Also, Peter Lowry scored on a free kick against Ohio State in the first round last year at Buck Shaw on Nov. 15 to give SCU a 1-0 win.
NCAA Experience
Entering this year's College Cup, Santa Clara had nine players with NCAA Tournament experience led by Erik Ustrcuk with eight NCAA games under his belt and Keith DeVey with six. Overall, the team had 31 games of NCAA experience. Brian Curry (3), Matt Hatzke (3), Peter Lowry (3), Matt Marquess (2), Jide Ogunbiyi (2), Jamil Roberts (3) and Scott Sweeney (1) had all played in the tournament.
Home Sweet Home
Buck Shaw Stadium has provided an excellent home-field advantage for the Broncos over the years. They have posted a 194-72-25 record good for an incredible .710 winning percentage. The team has lost only six home games in Rast's tenure at SCU.


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From: Larry Miller ([email protected])
Date: Tue Aug 15 2000 - 09:33:33 PDT
I think Pat's points are well-taken.
Unless you are using ECL I think that you will find the situation
self-limiting. For example, with BGAs it is not unusual to have on the order
of 1 nH of inductance on the spreader board between the actual chip and the
PCB (which brings up other problems, but never mind....)
You certainly need to be thinking in terms of matched impedance PCB traces.
I have had very good luck considering 100 MHz-ish parts to have 10 to 30
ohms driving impedance (gotten from a least-squares fit to some IBIS data).
This seems to hold up retty well over a number of vendors and geometries in
the 0.25u range.
Since most PCBs are set up with 50 ohm traces these days, that says you need
source terminator resistors. This can also get out of hand, and I have had
good luck making the PCB traces lower impedance. Unconventional, but try it
with SPICE. You do end up with 10 to 15-mil wide traces, but in a tight
layout thsi is OK if you have lots of layers.
Bear in mind that if you end up with calculated values that won't fit you
have a situation where the chip vendors could not sell their wares! (See
Pat's example below)
My experience on this has been in the gigabit Ethernet area. (PHYs and MACs,
switch fabrics and SDRAMs)
I have found that if you
1) put a ring of 0603 caps outside a BGA ball pattern on the bottom side
2) put another ring inside (between the BGA ball pattern for signals and the
group of balls in the middle used for thermal grounding, if present), also
on the bottom side
3) use a 50-50 mix of values of .01 uF and .001 uF, and
4) add a few bulk tantalums near the corners of the BGA
you will be all right if
5) you have good ground and power planes in the center of the stackup with
close spacing (.005" or so) between them.
If it takes more than this, let's face it, you have a real problem....
Larry Miller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zabinski, Patrick J. [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 8:41 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] : Decoupling capacitors (again!)
> Martin,
> I can't offer much advice, but I can possibly offer some
> comfort in that I've had the same problem. For one design
> I was recently involved in, I tried to follow the same
> approach/theory, and the end result was that I needed
> 80 decoupling capacitors per ASIC (to maintain 10%
> dV), and I had 32 ASICs per board (>2500 caps per board!).
> After having others verify
> my numbers/calculations, I took close look and realized
> the caps would consume more board space than the ASICs.
> I could not justify, believe, or afford this, so I
> ended up backing down and relying on my old rules of
> thumb (BTW: I hate rules of thumb, but I sometimes
> use them when I have no better way). The board works
> fine with only 12 caps per ASIC.
> Looking back, I can see three possible reasons why the approach you
> and I took is not quite complete:
> * component packaging effects are not taken to
> account. Not definite on this, but I believe
> a poor package would probably negate any capacitance
> you might have on the board.
> * the board's self-impedance. I believe Larry's
> approach addresses this as effective increase
> in inductance, but the ground/power plane itself
> does offer a low-impedance capacitance. Regardless
> if you have any discrete caps on or not, the planes
> offer some inherent, built-in capacitance.
> * most (all?) dI/dt effects are self-limiting.
> For the calculations you used, they assumed
> dV=0.0. However, if dV>0, then dI/dt will
> be reduced all on its own. I don't have any
> data or theories on how much, but dI/dt
> is likely to be reduced from what you
> predicted (also tied into/related to the
> first issue about packaging).
> Sound reasonable? Comments?
> Anyway, I sympathize and hope you find a solution. If you
> do, please share.
> Pat
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin J Thompson [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 9:49 AM
> > To: <"[email protected]"
> > Subject: [SI-LIST] : Decoupling capacitors (again!)
> >
> >
> > Hi all, this is my first time posting here, although I've
> > been lurking for a while.
> >
> > My problem is figuring out the decoupling requirements for
> > this system:
> > FPGA, DSP, 6 SDRAMS, 2 flash, DPRAM, clock frequency is 100MHz.
> >
> > According to my calculations, my I/O's need to drive a total
> > of about 1.5nF of I/O and trace capacitance.
> > To achieve the 0.5ns edges that the FPGA will drive (3.3V
> > supply) it looks like I need dI=4amps. This is assuming that
> > 50% (is this typical?) of the I/O's toggle each cycle. (dI=0.5Cdv/dt)
> >
> > To achieve a dV of < 0.1V this implies a target impedance of
> > around 20mohm, flat up to 1GHz! (Z=dv/di)
> >
> > This then seems to need around 500-800 decouping caps spread
> > around, which is an order of magnitude more than I've ever
> > used in the past. This is the first time I have taken a
> > 'design' approach to the problem, but the previous boards
> > have worked, using various rules of thumb.
> >
> > Is this sort of number of caps to be expected in this sort of
> > system, or can anyone see any sillies in my understanding (or
> > even in the sums!)?
> >
> > Now, if I don't get right out to 1GHz, the edges will suffer,
> > but that wouldn't necessarily matter if they stayed below
> > 1-1.5ns. Or would this cause the supply to droop elsewhere?
> >
> > As you might gather from the analysis above I've read Larry
> > Smith and co's paper on decoupling design, which states that
> > a flat target impedance is indicated. If I can analyse my
> > application enough, can I then shape the Ztarget vs frequency
> > to make life easier?
> >
> > Many thanks for your time, any help greatly appreciated,
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
> > TRW Automotive Advanced Product Development,
> > Stratford Road, Solihull, B90 4GW. UK
> > Tel: +44 (0)121-627-3569
> > mailto:[email protected]
> >
> >
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Try out new things – find out which software and hardware will fit student and teacher needs
Maintain blog and website in order to share ideas and disseminate information with other staff members – how to guides
Curate other websites to maintain useful educational links
Work with IT to provide appropriate infrastructure for technology based instruction
Read periodicals and books and attend workshops – professional learning community
Contact staff members to collaborate – Schedule and keep appointments
Maintain computer lab equipment and green screen room
Recommend and arrange for purchase of equipment such as cameras, video cameras, computers, laptops, Chromebook carts, etc.
Troubleshoot software and hardware glitches on the fly, especially during class – help teachers overcome fear of failure
Adapt to ever changing technologies – model lifelong learning
Learn from everyone including students
Work in different curriculum areas
Teaching background – ability to work in a classroom environment
Written and oral communication skills
Design curriculum – familiarity with educational philosophies, methods of instruction and align these with technology
Developing webinars – streaming video
Share visual imaging skills
Share skills learned from working with a publisher
Free eBooks on Zing
Zing offers thousands of free eBooks. You can create your own eBook library, create classes and assign books to specific students. Books are leveled according to reading skill and as well as recommending what would be of interest to different students depending on their grade. When I signed up, I had to use our sau.org domain rather than govwentworth.
Do More With Google-55 Tips To Make This School Year Yours
There are some interesting tips here. I am sure most of you will want to "start your Lincoln car by voice".
Unfortunately, "Instaccart" home grocery delivery isn't available in New Hampshire. Not yet anyway.
Editing "Word", "Excel", and "PowerPoint" documents in "Google Docs", "Sheets", and "Slides" could come in handy.
Who knew? Check out the tips here: 55 Tips to make this school year yours
The Moving Image Archive
This is a very large collection of old movie clips, TV shows, TV ads, and newsreels etc. The clips cover an incredible array of topics. For older folks, there is much nostalgia here. For younger people, this is a chance to view clips they have not had the opportunity to see before. Many if not most of the clips have creative commons attributes and might be useful for school projects.
Link to the Trailer of My New Book "Murder At Stillwater Lodge
Here is the link to the trailer for my new book "Murder At Stillwater Lodge".
Here is the trailer for "Catamount, North Country Thriller"
Take some time off and take advantage of these great summer reads.


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1:00 pm
Looking at Learning....Again Part 2 "Mathematics: A Community Focus" With Dr. Marta Civil. As teachers, we often make assumptions about the knowledge children are exposed to at home. Sometimes it seems that we focus on only reading and writing; Dr. Civil contends that we need to look more carefully at the mathematical potential of the home and that it is essential that schools learn to be more flexible and knowledgeable about students. D
2:00 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Vectors" Physics must explain not only why and how much, but also where and which way. D
2:30 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Newton's Laws" Newton lays down the laws of force, mass, and acceleration. D
3:00 pm
Discovering Psychology "The Mind Awake and Asleep" Surveys the nature of sleeping, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness, and how consciousness empowers us to interpret, analyze, and direct our behavior in adaptive, flexible ways.G
3:30 pm
Discovering Psychology "The Mind Hidden and Divided" Delves into the subconscious mind, examining how events and experiences that take place below the level of consciousness alter our moods, bias our actions and affect our health as demonstrated in repression.G
4:00 pm
Saddle Club "Join Up" All of Pine Hollow is seeking a date for an upcoming dance. Kristi schemes to snare Red as her partner. Carole's matchmaking attempts end in disaster.G
4:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "Businesses That Give Back" Get to know some businesses that are giving back in big ways, including up-and-coming entertainer Cymphonique, who helps encourage positive self-esteem for girls. Learn from socially conscious companies that are doing good. It's the new triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit. D
5:00 pm
Growing a Greener World "Organic Flower Power; All the Beauty-None of the Chemicals" The multi-billion dollar flower industry is thriving, albeit in part by toxic pesticides, herbicides and other non-environmentally friendly chemicals. But there's a new niche in towns scattered across America; Grower's raising flowers using all-organic methods. See how they do it and learn why we need more growers just like them. D
5:30 pm
Cyberchase "The Snelfu Snafu (Pt. 2)" The CyberSquad must find a way to bring Motherboard back to power and oust Hacker. Their friend Slider's invention "the Syncolator" is the answer - but some of the expensive parts are missing and they have limited funds. This is the biggest challenge the kids have ever faced, and if they fail now, Motherboard will be lost forever!. D
6:00 pm
Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "The Perfect Pinot" Pinots are the drink of choice right now. Caprial and John show us how to create concoctions to complement the perfect glass of wine. Crab and Parsnip Cakes with Lemon Creme Fraiche; Morel Mushroom Cannelloni. D
6:30 pm
Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Baja Beach House Cooking" Rick introduces viewers to some of Los Cabos top chefs and their restaurants then cooks dinner for them at a luxurious beach house. Margarita Carrillo, chef/owner of Don Emiliano Restaurant in San Jose del Cabo, joins Rick to purchase the local cabrillo fish and to visit Tamarindo's Farm for organically grown produce. Rick makes a tamarind chile sauce to go with his fish and eggplant course. D
7:00 pm
Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" Philadelphia is one of America's oldest and most interesting cities and the birthplace of our nation. Find out how it was founded as a Quaker colony and why it's the guardian of The Liberty Bell. Learn why Philadelphia is considered the city of brotherly love, tour the largest collection of outdoor murals and visit a Masonic Temple. D
7:30 pm
OpenRoad "Half Dome and Evergreen Lodge" Yosemite on Stone - This show hits the iconic Half Dome as well as the lesser-know attractions of the northwest side of the park. Best of the West - Wildlife - Bears at Pack Creek in southeast Alaska, critters of the sea in underwater Hawaii and winter migrations of wildfowl and native Tule Elk in California's Central Valley. Legend of the West - Recycling artist, Patrick Amiot. D
8:00 pm
The Victory Garden "Easy: Simplify Your Garden with Tricks and Tips" JOIN host Jamie Durie at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and learn how to "learn from the big guys" - garden tourists can recycle great ideas and put them to use in their own gardens. DECORATE your late-season garden with bold ideas for fall containers provided by gardening correspondent Paul Epsom. PRESERVE the freshness when lifestyle co-host Sissy Biggers learns Chef Michel Nischan's tips on growing vegetables and pickling for the winter. D
8:30 pm
The Woodwright's Shop "Hurray for Hickory!" This essential American wood has what it takes as we make wooden rakes and rounded reels from steam-bent stock. D
9:00 pm
Woodsmith Shop "Cherry Console" Sturdy construction and a classic design are just a couple of the features of this classic cherry console. Join the editors of Woodsmith magazine as they show you how to turn a sheet of plywood and some hardwood edging into an elegant storage project. D
9:30 pm
Growing Bolder "Quiet Confidence" NULL
10:00 pm
Scheewe Art Workshop "Red Barn (Country Lane)" Capture the laid-back feel of country life with a painting of a country barn. A red barn, with an approaching country road, provides the perfect subject. Take a still photo to remind you of this moment and give yourself the opportunity to customize and vary your painting later. D
10:30 pm
Best of the Joy of Painting "Winter's Grace" Go far north with Bob Ross and view firsthand the glory of a wintertime landscape. D
11:00 pm
Essential Pepin "Light As Air" Meringue Shells With Chantilly Cream; Macaroons; Chocolate Roll; Chocolate Souffle Cake With Raspberry Sauce. D
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Carolina Rebellion Festival Unveils Daily Lineup
The Carolina Rebellion festival is expanding to two full days this year, and will be held May 4 and 5 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. In addition, a Friday campground party will be held May 3. The bands were previously revealed and now the daily lineups and set times have been unveiled.
The lineup includes Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Rise Against, Volbeat and many more acts. The daily lineup is as follows:
Friday, May 3
Jägermeister Stage
7:30 PM Eye Empire
8:10 PM Beware Of Darkness
9:10 PM Hells Bells
10:10 PM Night Train
Saturday, May 4
Monster Carolina Stage
11:35 AM Otherwise
1:20 PM In This Moment
3:15 PM Halestorm
5:25 PM Papa Roach
7:45 PM Deftones
9:45 PM Alice In Chains
Monster Rebellion Stage
11:00 AM Young Guns
12:45 PM Sick Puppies
2:30 PM Asking Alexandria
4:35 PM Bullet For My Valentine
6:50 PM Three Days Grace
8:40 PM Limp Bizkit
Jägermeister Stage
12:10 PM WEND Winner TBA
1:55 PM MonstrO
4:00 PM Aranda
6:15 PM Device
Sunday, May 5
Monster Carolina Stage
12:00 PM Nonpoint
1:20 PM All That Remains
3:15 PM Hollywood Undead
5:25 PM Volbeat
7:50 PM Rise Against
9:45 PM Soundgarden
Monster Rebellion Stage
12:50 PM Pop Evil
2:30 PM Steel Panther
4:35 PM Buckcherry
6:50 PM 3 Doors Down
8:45 PM Bush
Jägermeister Stage
12:25 PM American Fangs
1:55 PM Heaven's Basement
4:00 PM Red Line Chemistry
6:15 PM Escape The Fate
Single-day and weekend tickets are now available for the mid-Atlantic's biggest rock festival. Prices will be going up on April 22. Ticket and other package information can be found at the fest's official website.


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Pedrito Martinez Group
@ Subrosa – Shows @ 7PM & 9PM (Doors @ 6PM & 8:30PM)
Pedrito Martinez and his Grammy-nominated group have been in residency since the club opened it's doors in November of 2014. Pedrito learned his craft on the streets of Havana and since settling in the NYC area in 1998 has been the recipient of many awards, including the Thelonius Monk Award, The Sphinx Award, and Jazz Journalist's Percussionist of the Year, for 2014 and 2015.
Pedrito has contributed to over 100 albums and has performed or recorded with Wynton Marsalis, Ruben Blades, Paquito D'Rivera, Paul Simon, James Taylor, and Bruce Springsteen, to name a few. The Pedrito Martinez Group's first album was nominated for a Grammy in 2014.
"Pedrito is a genius…working with him has been a revelation to me." Wynton Marsalis Sept, 2014
"The Pedrito Martinez Group is the real thing. They had the club JUMPING! It made me feel like a teenager!" Quincy Jones, May 28, 2013
"…[Mr Martinez] is an incomparable performer." Ben Ratliff, New York Times
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Stafford Loans
A William D. Ford Direct Stafford Loan is extremely low risk loan because the Federal government guarantees them against default. A Federal Stafford Loan allows you to borrow money for your education. Student loans, unlike grants and work-study, are borrowed money that must be repaid, with interest, just like car loans and mortgages. Loans are also legal obligations, so before you take out a student loan, think about the amount you'll have to repay over the years. For more information regarding Federal Student Loans, please visit the www.FederalStudentAid.ed.gov website.
There are two types of Stafford Loans: Subsidized and Unsubsidized
Federal Subsidized Stafford Loan
- U.S. Department of Education pays interest while borrower is enrolled at least half time (6 credit hours) or during grace and deferment periods
- Have a financial need as determined by your FAFSA application
Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loan
- Interest begins to accrue immediately after the first disbursement, unlike the Subsidized Stafford loan
- You must be at least a half-time student (6 credits)
- A financial need as determined by your FAFSA application is not a requirement. However, the borrower must have a completed FAFSA on file
Any federal loans disbursed on or after 7/1/14 and before 7/1/15 will carry a fixed interest rate of 4.66% for Undergraduates and 6.21% for Graduate and Doctoral students.
All Federal Direct Loans disbursed on or after 10/1/14 and before 10/1/15, will have a loan fee of 1.073% deducted from each disbursement.
|Year In School
|Dependent Undergraduate
|Independent Undergraduate*
|Graduate of Professional Student**
(0-29 earned credit hours)
(maximum of $3,500 can be subsidized)
(maximum of $3,500 can be subsidized)
(unsubsidized only)
(30-59 earned credit hours)
(maximum of $4,500 can be subsidized)
(maximum of $4,500 can be subsidized)
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|Junior & Senior
(60+ earned credit hours)
(maximum of $5,500 can be subsidized)
(maximum of $5,500 can be subsidized)
(unsubsidized only)
|Maximum loan debt from Stafford loans at graduation
(maximum of $23,000 can be subsidized)
(maximum of $23,000 can be subsidized)
(maximum of $65,000 can be subsidized)
* A dependent student whose parent applied and was denied for a Parent PLUS loan is eligible for an increase in the unsubsidized portion of their Stafford Loan
**Graduate debt includes loans received as an undergraduate.
More information on the William D. Ford Federal Direct Stafford Loan.
Once you have accepted the Federal Direct Stafford Loan offer, please begin with Entrance Counseling:
- Please logon to https://studentloans.gov and follow ALL steps listed
- Click "Sign In" under the "Manage My Direct Loan" section
- Type in all requested information, click "Sign In"
- Select "Complete Entrance Counseling"
- Choose your academic status
- Read all information listed, click "Next" to move on. You must answer all questions to complete this process.
- Once completed, please print this confirmation page for your records
After completion of the Entrance Counseling the borrower must complete a Master Promissory Note, please follow the steps listed below
- Select "Complete New MPN"
- Select the type of loan you are completing
- Read over the information listed and complete ALL steps until you reach the end. Please print the completed MPN.
**There may be options that must be expanded to view
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Director's Corner
29 November 2007
New year, new office
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Accelerator Leader for the Global Design Effort.
"If you talk about next year, devils will laugh at you." This is a Japanese saying that corresponds to the English saying, "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." I do not want to be laughed at by the devil, but I would like to write about Building 2 at KEK. This is where my office used to be located. But then it was declared the most fragile site among KEK's buildings for earthquakes. So the building had to be remodelled immediately.
Construction started in September, and I have been forced to work in a temporary office ever since. I am surrounded by piles of boxes that contain the items from my old office. I do not see the point of unpacking them before I will return to my new office, which can't get here soon enough.
The floor layout for the new Building 2 is still under consideration, but plans call for a new office for International Linear Collider Asian researchers. KEK proposed to create this new ILC Asian Office at the ACFA meeting during the CCAST workshop in Beijing. For some time now, we have been building a collaborative relationship between Asian countries, and this new office represents a successful outcome. We view the key for strengthening this collaboration as face-to-face communication, and we expect the ILC Asian Office to work as a central base for this activity.
This office will also have a useful role for effective utilisation of KEK's ongoing visitors' programme. We would like to operate the office with senior scientists who not only participate in the R&D programme at KEK, but also arrange for younger scientists from their country to visit. We would like to host these visitors for longer periods of time than the current average stay of a few weeks. This way the visitors will have enough information to pursue their scientific interests and maybe even permanently join the ILC.
Even before the ILC Asian Office officially opens, we will already have three visitors from India. They will start in January and stay for two months. The Raja Ramana Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) is planning to build their own superconducting facility in India, and they are now in the design phase. Indian scientists are going to participate in the operation of the new electropolishing machine for superconducting radiofrequency cavities at KEK. This machine will start running in January and help our visitors gain experience and learn about the facility design.
The construction of Building 2 will be finished by March 2008. I look forward to writing my next Director's Corner from my brand-new office.
-- Kaoru Yokoya


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That Shiite Muslims, like those in Iran, could never collaborate with Sunni Muslims, like al Qaeda, is an article of faith on the left which is often repeated in American newspapers. Like so much of what we read in newspapers, the fact that the claim is obviously false doesn't prevent it from being repeated. As we have pointed out before, Iran's control of Hamas is just one obvious example of Shia-Sunni cooperation for terrorist purposes.
At National Review's Media Blog, Tom Gross adds a number of similar instances:
The repeated claim by Barack Obama and his supporters in the media that Shia Iran doesnt help Sunni terror groups is wrong very wrong and yet again reveals their ignorance of foreign affairs, an ignorance that may prove extremely dangerous were Obama to become president.
While Shia and Sunni extremists do of course have deep theological differences they cooperate in at least a dozen countries on a political and terroristic level to work against the interests of the United States.
* In AFGHANISTAN, Iran has financed and armed the Sunni Hizb Islami (Islamic Party) since the 1990s.
* In the former Soviet republics (and now independent states) of TAJIKISTAN and UZBEKISTAN, Iran has for years supported two Sunni movements, the Rastakhiz Islami (Islamic Awakening) and Hizb Tahrir Islami (Islamic Liberation Party).
* In AZERBAIJAN, Tehran supports the Sunni Taleshi groups against the Azeri Shia majority (who are pro-American).
* In ALGERIA between 1992 and 2005, Iran financed the Sunni terrorist group, The Front for Islamic Salvation (FIS).
* In 1996, a suicide attack claimed the lives of 19 American servicemen in Al Khobar, in eastern SAUDI ARABIA. The operation was carried out by the Hizbullah in Hejaz, an Iranian-financed outfit, with the help of the Sunni militant group Sword of the Peninsula.
* In 2000, Sunni groups linked to al-Qaeda killed 17 U.S. servicemen in a suicide attack on USS Cole off the coast of YEMEN. A Shia militant group led by Sheikh al-Houti, Irans man in Yemen, helped with the operation.
* There are no PALESTINIAN Shia, yet Tehran has become the principal source of funding for Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian Sunni terror groups.
* Indeed, Iran is now the chief direct state funder of HAMAS. The new Iranian budget, which came into effect on March 21, allocates over $2 billion to the promotion of revolutionary causes. Much of the money will go to Hamas and Hizbullah.
That's not all. One might say that when it comes to promoting terrorism, cooperation between Sunni and Shia extremists is the rule, not the exception.


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Those are some sick cards man. Do they still sell booster boxes of these somewhere?
Thanks for the info!! Those illustration cards are beautiful. I'm tempted to buy a box and some of your illustration cards. Ill see how much tip money I have at the end of the month.
You literally feel like you have hit the lottery when you pull a holo Secret rare.
I bought 15 packs on Ebay and got a Zodd Holo Secret Illustration, I didn't realize they were so rare.
That is good luck indeed. Which volume packs?
Um I don't know I bought 7 packs from vol.4 and 8 from vol.5. But it's the one where Zodd is wielding 2 swords.
Thanks for the cards Tirade, they look gorgeous, and this is the first set of trading cards I've purchased, ever.
I have more cards, Vol 1 - 5, available. I also have more Secret Rare Illustration Cards (Holo and Non-Holo). Finally, I do have a Kentarou Miara Illustration Art Autographed Casca card available for sale. I will some pictures of the Secret Rares and the Auto card. In addition, I will update what cards are available.
Hey, yeah please post some pictures. Depending on the picture. I might buy a holo or two. And that signed Casca card too!
The question I have for you is this: do you have a favorite Berserk character?
If you asked that with any other series I could probably give you an answer. I really need to get in on this trading card business...they look awesome.
Yeah, they are awesome. It is a shame the TCG fizzled out after 5 Volumes. I suspect most people were collecting, rather than playing the game. And even then, there wasn't a big demand back in 2004-2005.
I should also add, a good deal of this site's avatars actually come from the TCG. My avatar, for example, comes straight from Volume 2 #64. The artwork is identical. So for those wondering, that gives you an idea of what to look for. Just search through the site's avatars. You can find them in the Personalized Pictures part of your profile.
To be honest I think we're already lucky to have had 5 volumes. Konami was almost rash in its releases at the time (maybe they were under contract?). Anyway, I think the game itself is pretty cool.http://www.skullknight.net/forum/index.php?topic=5701.0


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1. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsCari Jansen May 5, 2011 8:32 PM (in response to guardaroba)1 person found this helpful
1) You control which objects are included in your EPUB export using the new Articles panel.
2) The unique identifier field auto-fill
- Generally you enter the EPUB isbn here.
- However, If you leave this field empty during export InDesign will automatically generate a random Unique Identifier.
- If you break open the EPUB file and look at the content.opf file inside you should see something like this:
<dc:identifier> urn:uuid:b8123fc9-fbad-4f66-86ae-edbde9159f8f </dc:identifier>
Hope this helps,
my tweets: carijansen
my web-site: carijansen.com (lots of InDesign stuff on there).
my digital magazine for iPad: Latitude3195
2. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 6, 2011 7:57 AM (in response to guardaroba)
Would love a course on creating eBooks for iPad (ePub format) and other tablets, separate from Digital Magazine (PDF) courses, but covering the same inDesign related material/workflow (Rich Media Foundations, Basic Interactivity, Adding Audio/Video, Advanced Interactivity, Deploying and Distributing) uniquely from the standpoint of ePub.
It seems to me that the ePub market is potentially much larger than the Digital Magazine market; there's a finite number of magazines, but an unlimited number of people toiling in home offices/small businesses who want to create eBooks for iPad, other tablets, and Kindle. Especially interested in finding out about deploying ePub formatted multimedia books to iPad and other tablets without having to go through Adobe or some super-expensive, always-escalating service like Roving Bird?
Right now as guardaroba says, the lines between teh two are blurred. Sure Adobe is raking in teh dough from Martha Stewart and all those big magazine clients, but the real numbers, it would seem to me, are in self-publishing/small publisher ePub platform eBooks — all the issues that are different than print, with an emphasis on multimedia and design.
There is simply no dedicated training out there that I can find.
3. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsBobLevine May 6, 2011 8:06 AM (in response to jjsemple)
Have you checked out Lynda.com?
There are some good courses there. This link will get you a free seven day trial: http://bit.ly/fcGpiI
4. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 6, 2011 8:25 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Yes, I subscribe to Lynda, already completed the inDesign CS5.5 New Features course. The instructor is great, but the course focus leaves a lot to be desired. It suffers from the same issue this thread raised: a general muddling of Digital Magazine & ePub. Check the course out for yourself. It's an overview, not an in-depth look, which is normal since the release just occured. However, what I find frustrating is that no one — Adobe or other parties — seem to understand that Digital Magazines and ePub eBooks are two different markets.
It's my understanding, after watching Terry White's tutorials, that CS5.5 now allows us to generate full-fledged, multimedia ePub eBooks for iPad/other tablets without having to program, then deploy them without having to go through a lot of expense. It seems that the CS5.5 allows us to do this, but nobody is putting any efort into the various ways these two solutions are different and what those differences mean in terms of using inDesign for each specific purpose.
5. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 6, 2011 8:34 AM (in response to jjsemple)
In fact, I sent a note to Lynda about their producing such a course (on ePub alone) and received this terse reply:
Thank you for contacting lynda.com.
We really appreciate hearing from you regarding ideas for educational material you'd like to see added to the Online Training Library®. Currently, we do not have InDesign CS5.5 Creating ePub eBooks training in production. However, we keep every request on file, and your request has been forwarded to our Title Development team for consideration.
Stay tuned to lynda.com for new releases, or keep tabs on us through the blog, our Facebook fan page, or Twitter.
Which seems like an aauto response, not like someone even read my note. Gee, I'm sure that by following Lynda on FB/TW, I'll learn all about inDesign CS5.5.
The fact that two people have raised this issue means there are probably thousand either too busy or reluctant to speak up or unable to yet formulate their feelings.
6. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsBobLevine May 6, 2011 8:36 AM (in response to jjsemple)
With all due respect to Terry, who's absolutely brilliant, the stuff on Adobe TV is as much advertising as it is anything else.
There's nothing simple about any of this.
7. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 6, 2011 8:58 AM (in response to BobLevine)
All the more to have in-depth training, starting with general overview issues like how the folio tools fit into the ePub process, then following up with details on each and every phase of production/deployment.
What's more, I realize that Adobe TV is advertising, but there's a fine line between advertising and false advertising. It seemed to me that someone like myself, who's used inDesign to lay out print books, who understands multimedia technology, could learn to use inDesign for ePubs, given the proper orientation and instruction. But if you're saying that no one except an Objective C programmer can create these books, then:
- Adobe has a long way to go before these tools are worth much to the experienced user.
- Adobe is verging on false advertising.
From what I've seen some parts are not complicated. Okay, if some parts are complicated, what are they? How do you accomplish them? What tools do you need besides inDesign? How does the Content Viewer fit into to the process? The folio stuff? When do you need an iPad for testing? How do you upload your content to the Apple store?
It's either black magic or it isn't. It's either something an experienced inDesign user can do or it isn't? In that case, which portions have to be done by the programmer?
Thanks for your help...by the way.
8. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsBobLevine May 6, 2011 9:08 AM (in response to jjsemple)
The folio tools DON'T fit into the EPUB process.
9. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 6, 2011 9:16 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Thanks, Bob. Now if I could only get the rest of my questions answered, I'd be on my way...
10. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsAnneMarie Concepcion May 6, 2011 9:58 AM (in response to jjsemple)
Have you seen my Lynda.com title 'InDesign CS5 to EPUB, Kindle, and the iBookstore"?
I will be going in to record the CS5.5 version of the same title in a few weeks. The automated response you received was disheartening, and I'll forward it on to Lynda.com. But my guess is the response is pulling from some database and my title is not far enough along in production to have made it into the title.
The lines are definitely blurring but there is no way you're going to get the layout control and interactivity of a tablet app into EPUB format, at least not in the next year or two.
11. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsguardaroba May 6, 2011 10:28 AM (in response to Cari Jansen)
Thanks Cari! I'm embarrassed I didn't unzip the EPub to check if it did create a UUID anyway. Actually, the Lynda.com video seems to show a UUID appearing automatically in the export dialogue box, which is why I was confused. It must've been like that in a beta version or something.
As for the articles panel, I had been using the Page Layout ordering option instead of the Articles Panel option. (I still think offering the ability to make objects non-exporting would be helpful for those times when Page Layout ordering makes more sense.)
After playing with the Articles panel a bit, though, I only have more questions. The image I want to exclude is inside an anchored text box (it's a long report, with a table in a text box anchored halfway through the text, and an image inside the text box) and there doesn't seem to be any way to get at anchored objects inside the Articles panel, let alone something -inside- an anchored object.
Am I missing something? Are we expected to break things up into a bunch of text boxes whenever an element should be inserted at a particular point in the text flow and we want to be able to work with it in the Articles panel? I really hope I'm wrong, but so far it seems to be a pretty blunt instrument that's more suited to shorter layouts.
12. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 6, 2011 11:05 AM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)
How gracious of you to step in. I've followed your work over time, on Lynda and on Adobe. You're truly one of the experts.
I did watch part of your CS5 tutorial, but determined that CS5 wouldn't allow us to do the multimedia, design-rich books we wanted to do. So we set about programming the whole thing. Then, when CS5.5 was announced, we figured, from what we saw in the Terry White and other literature, that we could do most of what we wanted (without the Digital Magazine stuff, which we also explored) with the new 5.5 release.
We have a children's book and a sports book that we want to produce for the multimedia tablets (iPad and others) in the first instance only. We want to include interactivity, multimedia, and design. Right now, however, we're confused as to how much programming effort and which tools we'll need. At first, we thought inDesign 5.5 might do it all, but now, from the response on this forum, we're having to revise our hopes. We have almost all the assets; they conform to standards: mp3, mp4, etc.
Nevertheless, there seems to be some confusion, even in the Adobe camp, as to what tools we need to create/view/deploy content. i.e., Adobe Digital Editions is broken. Not sure about what's replacing it, etc.
As for...
The lines are definitely blurring but there is no way you're going to get the layout control and interactivity of a tablet app into EPUB format, at least not in the next year or two.
...it would seem to be relatively easy for the programming staff at Adobe or other organization to create tools for laying out eBooks for (ePub or other tablet platforms) and once they're well laid out, simply pushing a button to render out fully operational multimedia eBooks, just as we now grind out PDF for print books. No one talks about programming PDF any more; it's simply occurs behind the scenes. If it's going to take two years to move eBooks onto the same footing, that's an awful lot of lost business. There are thousands of small publishers (we're one) and self-publishers waiting for these tools, and someone is going to create them. Adobe has a head start, but look what Google did with Blogger; they leap-frogged WordPress. The same kind of user-friendly tools must be in the offing in some entrepreneurial establishment.
Can't wait for you CS5.5 Lynda tutorial, and, in the meantime, will go through your complete CS5 offering.
13. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 6, 2011 11:09 AM (in response to jjsemple)
PS. Hope you include a lot of inDesign to iPad material in your new CS5.5 tutorial.
Thanks, JJ Semple
14. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsmarcusstringer May 6, 2011 5:14 PM (in response to jjsemple)
Check out Liz Castro blog.
I'd also get my hands on her epub "Epub Straight to the point"
Both the epub and the blog site are invaluable.
15. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 6, 2011 6:21 PM (in response to marcusstringer)
Thanks, Somehow found her blog this morning, and already purchased her book. Will study the blog for tips. Anne-Marie's new CS5.5 tutorial should provide a lot of info. I'm going to start laying out my books per her workflow, add to it when her 5.5 tutorial comes online.
One thing I'm confused on is for the Adobe Digital Magazine platform you have to create two versions of a magazine, a vertical and horizontal. According to the Promotional hype, you don't have to do this for ePub platform; it resizes and reflows automatically as you reorient the tablet.
Two versions seem like a ridiculous solution, especially if you don't have to do it for ePub. Can anyone set me straight on this? How it works for ePub: two version 0r one?
Thanks, marcusstringer
16. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsDerek Cross May 7, 2011 12:48 AM (in response to jjsemple)
Think of the ePub format, and its adaptions a such as .mobi, as basically HTML in an XML container and supplying content for eReaders such as the Sony eReader, the Kindle and the Nook. These are suitable for simple one-column text-centric books with few illustrations and the text is reflowable so you don't have pages as such. These formats are ideal for simply designed books, such as novels, biographies and so on.
ePub is not suitable for highly designed books with lots of integrated illustrations, sidebars and so on, for which you'd use a format such as PDF or the newer formats designed for tablets. Often publishers produce two versions for these devices; one for portrait and one for landscape.
17. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsBobLevine May 7, 2011 6:00 AM (in response to jjsemple)
Again, DPS and EPUB are two completely different animals...and you don't have to create two orientations. If you don't, however, you won't get the automatic change when you rotate the tablet. I recently did a job for a major publisher and they elected to have one orientation only. How many people really rotate the tablet when they're reading?
EPUB is very much like the web. The text adapts and flows according to the view port. DPS is a fixed layout. The designer chooses everything.
It's certainly very labor intensive but it's not ridiculous and until you start working with it and get comfortable with the disconnect between some native ID feature and the limitations of the tablets, you're not likely to see why things are the way they are.
18. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 7, 2011 8:12 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Thanks Bob and Derek. I'm going to start laying out my books as per Anne-Marie's Lynda course.
Again, from what you're saying, CS5.5 really doesn't allow the multimedia features that the Terry White videos say it does. So the 5.5 Terry White tutorial demos were really programmed? None of the features can be easily implemented?
19. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsBobLevine May 7, 2011 8:55 AM (in response to jjsemple)
That's not correct. It's just the video does a less than stellar job of pointing out when it's switching from EPUB to DPS.
20. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsAnneMarie Concepcion May 7, 2011 9:15 AM (in response to guardaroba)
Hey Bob, that Terry White video is strictly about EPUB. It does not cover DPS at all.
JSemple, everything that Terry showed in that video you linked to is possible with InDesign CS5.5 and EPUB (reflowable) eBooks. Which parts of it don't seem believable to you?
One of the things he showed was how to include an embedded video. At this point, only Apple's iBook application supports that. (Not Kindle. The Nook is beta testing). But note the video is titled "InDesign CS5.5 Publishing EPUBs to the iBook with Video."
21. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsBobLevine May 7, 2011 9:23 AM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)
Then I'm thinking about a different video where he touches on the new features in CS5.5....I'll see if I can find a link.
Ah...here we go: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs-55-design-premium-feature-tour-/design-premium-feature-tour-o verview
22. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 7, 2011 2:25 PM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)
Anne-Marie, a priori, I don't disbelieve anything Terry says. It was only after I started asking questions on this forum and having people tell me that the Terry White videos exaggerated the capabilities of CS5.5 that I began to question same.
I'm an open vessel; I know nothing, except that I've used Quark, Framemaker, inDesign to lay out print books since 1990. I was working for Apple at the time. Now I have a publishing company. About six months ago we decided to do no more print books, just concentrate on iPad high-design, multimedia books. Since then we have been exploring the capabilities of various tools. Hoping that some vendor would eventually give us drag-and-drop, plug-and-play, one-button from computer to ePub for iPad, we took our time.
It's very hard to get accurate, top-down info so that we can make good decisions. Each time I tell some what we're trying to do, I get different, conflicting answers. It seems to me that Adobe should be evangelizing the ePub to iPad workflow around the clock.
What we want to do: We want to produce of the design-intensive, multimedia iPad eBooks, not Digital Magazines, not Kindle, not anything that can't be leveraged from the iPad version. We'd like tools that give us the most features and control — like the examples we see in the Terry White overviews — for the least amount of programming. The most control so that what we see on the iPad looks like what we see on the computer screen.
Right now, this sector seems to be stuck in a situation similar to the one when I worked for Apple, the situation with the Postscript printer language. We'd have to print to a Postscript file and had no way of seeing what we'd get. Lots of intermediate steps. Little by little, this process became less opaque, more streamlined. We now have inDesign export direct to PDF so we can skip all the intermediate steps. This will happen in the eBook world. Sooner or later. someone, perhaps Adobe, perhaps not, will come up with a drag-and-drop, plug-and-play toolkit so that non-technical, one/two/three-person small shops — writer/illustrator/designer — can create beautiful iPad eBooks without programming.
In the meantime, we need straight answers. Hopefully, your upcoming CS5.5 for ePub course will provide them:
1. Layout and Testing
Layout choices
Style choices
Content and text flow
Design elements
Embeding audio in a graphic
Testing/viewing documents/layouts
Horizontal/vertical issues
TOC issues
Uploading to iPad
Using the layout to manage content flow
Using XML tags to manage content
Naming styles and linked assets
Modifying Text and Images for EPUB Export
Cleaning up the text flow
Applying paragraph and character styles
Modifying nested, GREP, and line styles
Modifying tables
Converting InDesign graphics
Manually optimizing images
Creating a cover image
Adding a custom TOC as the first page of an EPUB file
Adding metadata to an InDesign file or book
2. Exporting to EPUB
Choosing general EPUB export options
Choosing EPUB export options for images
Choosing EPUB export options for contents
3. Previewing and Validating EPUB Files
Previewing EPUBs on your computer and devices
Previewing for the iBooks app
Validating EPUB
4. Editing EPUB Files for Functionality
Getting inside an EPUB file
Identifying parts of an EPUB
Choosing an EPUB editor
Modifying the navigational TOC
Adding and editing metadata
Creating guide sections for iBooks
4. Editing EPUB Files for Formatting
Cleaning up the XHTML files
Cleaning up the CSS file
Setting spacing in the file
Creating drop caps
Creating sidebars and pull quotes
Setting text wrap rules
Creating links
5. Converting EPUB Files to Other ebook Formats
Preparing your EPUB file for Kindle conversion
Converting with KindleGen and Kindle Previewer
Using the Kindle plug-ins for InDesign
Converting for other resellers
6. Distributing Your ebook
Getting an ISBN for each edition
Getting your ebook into the Kindle Store, iBookstore, or NOOKbook Store
Using third-party aggregators
Selling from your own web site or eCommerce site
JJ Semple
PS. I'm enjoying your CS5 course, looking forward to the CS5.5 update.
23. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsAnneMarie Concepcion May 7, 2011 5:10 PM (in response to guardaroba)
I'm curious, which multimedia ebooks that are on the iPad now are you trying to learn how to create? Any favorite titles?
Are you creating interactive, rich media PDFs of your books at all?
24. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsFred Goldman May 7, 2011 10:31 PM (in response to BobLevine)
BobLevine wrote:
Again, DPS and EPUB are two completely different animals...and you don't have to create two orientations. If you don't, however, you won't get the automatic change when you rotate the tablet. I recently did a job for a major publisher and they elected to have one orientation only. How many people really rotate the tablet when they're reading?
EPUB is very much like the web. The text adapts and flows according to the view port. DPS is a fixed layout. The designer chooses everything.
It's certainly very labor intensive but it's not ridiculous and until you start working with it and get comfortable with the disconnect between some native ID feature and the limitations of the tablets, you're not likely to see why things are the way they are.
How many people really rotate the tablet when they're reading?
That is not really the correct way of looking at it. Some people use their iPad exclusively in landscape mode and others exclusively in portrait mode. The correct way to word the question would be "How many people want to have to rotate their iPad to use your app?" I, for one, would only buy an app that is available in landscape mode.
25. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsBobLevine May 8, 2011 6:25 AM (in response to Fred Goldman)
I don't disagree, Fred. And that's why with a current job that I'm working on, the client and I both agree that if the text flows just a bit differently in the portrait or landscape mode, it's okay. Not very many will notice since they choose a way to read and stick with it.
The other thing to think about is the tablet itself. Take the PlayBook for instance, It's 1024x600. That's not very tall when in landscape mode.
But I digress, the real point here is that the creation process is very, very labor intensive. In the job I referred to my previous post, the client supplied their vertical orientation iPad files and I handled the conversion to PlayBook. It was 80 hours of work to go from 1024x768 to 1024x600.
So, if I have any beef about any of this is the fact that it's made to look to so simple. Again, as I said earlier, there's nothing simple about any of this.
26. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 8, 2011 8:37 AM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)
Purchasing a iPad this week, I hope to start exploring what's out there. So far, I've mostly been looking at tutorials and training videos to get a handle on the possibilities.
I think Bob raises some good points about what clients will settle for and also about the labor-intensive nature of the process. We have to start working with the tools and testing iterations on an iPad. Hope the encouragment we're getting on this forum and Lynda tutorials like yours will help us accomplish this.
27. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsDerek Cross May 8, 2011 9:31 AM (in response to jjsemple)
You might consider attending this two-day online webinar: http://indesign2ipad-eorg.eventbrite.com/
28. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 8, 2011 12:22 PM (in response to Derek Cross)
Thanks, but this one seems more oriented in DPS than ePub; with the RovingBird stuff, way too expensive for a small operation. However, using your lead, I found another from the same group. Unfortunately, it takes place in August. We hope to be further along by then. Depending on our progress, may still do it...
29. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsSilver Plum Digital May 8, 2011 12:50 PM (in response to guardaroba)
Is there a way to get "Overlay Creator" content to an EPUB, HTML, PDF, etc.?
30. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsBobLevine May 9, 2011 4:46 AM (in response to Silver Plum Digital)
Is there a way to get "Overlay Creator" content to an EPUB, HTML, PDF, etc.?
31. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsjjsemple May 14, 2011 9:24 AM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)
What's the best way to embed text in an image? In Photoshop? I read that Apple was going to reject an ePub if text was part of an image because it was no longer searchable? Is there a way to keep the text in the image as text? Without having it move when exported to ePub? I only have about 5-6 short lines of text in each chapter image. The text is actually repeated later on.
I have some audios and videos placed in each of my 7 chapters. When I export to ePub, they don't show up in Calibre or Firefox ePub reader. I get teh following error in ePubChecker: <ERROR: /Volumes/T-Rex03/Kundalini/Books/Carlton/eBookApp/CSS5.5/Book/Test/110514-TaoHoops.epub/O EBPS/110512-Mental.html(30): unknown element "video" from namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">. Am I not setting the controls correctly? Declaring it to inDesign?
I created a style for the first and last lines of some verses so that each vers will be separated from the following one. In addition, in the last line style I selected a paragraph rule to better separate the verses. None of this formatting work appears in the Preview window, except that now the lines are differently justified. Is there any way to get this working properly?
32. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsMystiMac Jun 9, 2011 5:57 AM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)
Hello, Anne Marie,
I'd watched all your Lynda.com tutorials on InDesign CS5, and recently all the adobe TV and whatever offerings Lynda.com has so far (not much) on InddCS5.5. I think I remember in your CS5 tutorials you saying something about no running heads... Not sure if this is different in CS5.5. I'm assuming that now that I'm ready to do the epub version of a book, which I have laid out for the print version, that I will need to make another version for epub, without any running heads (or page numbers). Am I correct? I'd listen to your entire CS5 tutorial again on Lynda.com, but I know so much was changed for CS5.5 and I don't want to get confused.
33. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsMystiMac Jun 9, 2011 6:07 AM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)
Also, AnneMarie,
By now, now that InddCS5.5 has been released, it may be that the specs have changed for nook and kindle. I will get to researching this, but if you cover it in your next Lynda.com tutorial, that would be great.
34. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsAnneMarie Concepcion Jun 9, 2011 1:31 PM (in response to MystiMac)
Hi there,
There is nothing different about running heads and footers in CS5.5 vs. CS5. Assuming they're master page items (that you haven't overridden on the document pages) then you don't have to save a version without them. When you export to EPUB, master page items are ignored.
The CS5.5 title is not done yet, but should be out this summer.
Thanks for your support!
35. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsMystiMac Jun 9, 2011 2:53 PM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)
Thank you so much!!! Really! My headers are in master pages, so I'll just
export my book layout to epub. You've saved me a lot of trouble. I look
forward to your next offerings, re. CS5.5.
~Karen McChrystal
36. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsJessicaBaylis Jun 9, 2011 4:50 PM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)
I posted this elsewhere, but perhaps this is the place for it, since people here seem to be solving problems left and right!
I'm having a play with CS5.5 and have been delighted thus far with the embedded audio functionality. However, I'm having a bit of trouble with the video. I want to embed an MP4 to be read in an epub, both on an iPhone and an iPad screen. Is this possible? I know you can make images conform to screen sizes by rasterising them, but obviously one can't rasterise a video. Embedding the video at iPhone dimensions seems to mean watching a quite tiny clip on the iPad, but embedding video at iPad dimensions results in a video that just won't play.
Is there a workaround for this? I'd love for the epub I'm making to have that kind of flexibility - I don't particularly want to have to make a different book for every device out there.
Thanks for any advice you can give!
37. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/ThoughtsSteve Werner Jun 9, 2011 4:53 PM (in response to JessicaBaylis)
I know of one person who has extensively tested placing video and audio in EPUBs for the iPad. It's Elizabeth Castro. She has published a small EPUB about it. You can order it here:
38. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtsmarcusstringer Jun 9, 2011 4:56 PM (in response to Steve Werner)
Steve Werner wrote:
I know of one person who has extensively tested placing video and audio in EPUBs for the iPad. It's Elizabeth Castro. She has published a small EPUB about it. You can order it here:
http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2011/05/audio-and-video-in-epub-new- straight-to.html
NUts you beet me to it, while I was logging in
Yes Liz Castro is the Guru of ePub
39. Re: General InDesign CS5.5 EPub Issues/Thoughtstomchmski Jun 10, 2011 7:09 AM (in response to Steve Werner)
I'm going to have to get Liz's download, but this discussion has already been quite enlightening. I'm at a decision point on revising an already publshed ebook, and this is clearing up the issues. I designed and published a multimedia e-cookbook on historic recipes. It has illustrated audia narrations (animations), video demos, extensive link navigaton and pop-up notes instead of footnotes. I designed it in InDesign CS3 and released it as an interactive PDF. I did this just prior to the first release of Kindle, and the whole first wave of e-readers just didn't cut it for showing the work. Now I'm anxious to get it on the iPad and other tabliets. You can read the PDF on an iPad, but no videos work.
My choices seem to be:
Sell it with a link to the app EzPDF Reader which does play the videos on an iPad and other tablets (as long as they're MP4s). There are some minor work arounds (Video poster images don't show, so I have to place a jpeg below the video to have it show on the page), and the pop up notes don't appear (but I have a glossarhy and notes section duplicated in the back, so I can live with that). The rest of the e-book is untouched and looks great, and it still doesn't read on a Kindle.
Learn what I can of InDesign CS5.5 during a 30-day trial and export it as an ePub3.
Figure out how to do the fixed layout option for the iPad, which puts me into coding where I've gone before, but it's still like stepping into a dark woods.
While keeping it as a PDF seems the easiest option, it depends on potential readers being willing to buy the book AND the app to read it on tablets. Not a good marketing call. While I'm going to plow ahead anyway with learning what I can of CS5.5, I'm still considering any other options and advice if anyone can help. thanks.


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At least, that's the assertion being made in an Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) policy paper, which suggests consumers pay millions extra because of those regulations.
AIMS compares costs under controls versus a free market system, but does not offer a reason as to why Atlantic governments would want to be partly to blame for higher gas costs for consumers, when the primary reason behind controls is to protect consumers.
A litre of gasoline in Atlantic Canada is heavily taxed, at an average of 26 per cent. For every $1 of price-regulated fuel, 55 cents goes to the provincial or federal government. There is a common base price for gasoline from suppliers, plus a common federal excise tax. Prices vary because of differing HST amounts and provincial sales taxes.
The sales tax applied by Newfoundland and Labrador, for example, is more than double the amount in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Basic arithmetic suggests that governments rake in more tax revenue from higher gas prices.
The key reasons behind controls were to ensure price stability and preserve the availability of gas in rural areas. Lower prices are never mentioned or guaranteed.
Protecting rural gas stations has largely failed. Rural areas have lost many of their gas pumps even with controls, and often motorists from small communities must travel to larger communities for cheaper gas.
AIMS doesn't slam governments, suggesting that high prices are not the result of a conspiracy or ill intent, while at the same time arguing that controls needlessly manipulate market prices.
Would it be overly cynical to suggest that while assuring Atlantic Canadians controls provide a safety buffer, governments secretly prefer higher prices so provincial coffers fill up with tax revenue?
AIMS suggests motorists in Nova Scotia pay up to 2.5 cents a litre extra because of regulation. In the other Atlantic provinces, the amounts are smaller, but there is a significant overall burden, totalling over $200 million. The study estimates motorists have paid in more than an extra $36 million in Nova Scotia since 2006; $15 million in New Brunswick since 2006; $63 million in Newfoundland and Labrador since 2001; and $91 million in Prince Edward Island since 1991.
The information put forward by AIMS is compelling and certainly raises questions about the effectiveness of price controls — if indeed they are in place for the protection of motorists or for the taxation benefits of provincial governments.
The Atlantic provinces should review their respective systems of gasoline price regulation and consider updating, streamlining, correcting or abolishing them.
Clearly, things aren't working as is — at least not for consumers.


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The Norwegian Church, built "under the auspices of Carl Herman Lund" (Roese). 1868; later enlarged; bell tower added in 1885. Wood frame now clad in wood, instead of the original corrugated iron brought over from Norway. Cardiff Bay, Wales. Photograph (2009) and text by Jacqueline Banerjee. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL or cite it in a print one.]
With the massive development of the South Wales Coalfield during the Victorian period, Cardiff became a major port; by the end of the period, it would be the "greatest coal-exporting port in the World" (City Hall, Cardiff, 9). As a result, it was also one of the first ports to have a Norwegian sailors' church. In fact this little Gothic-style church, typical of its kind, "is the oldest surviving church in Britain to be founded by the Norwegian Seamen's Mission and was the centre of Scandinavian religion, culture and tradition" (Roese). The Marquess of Bute had provided a site for it between the East and West Docks, but it was relocated when the docks were redeveloped in the later twentieth-century, and opened again in 1992. It is now called "The Norwegian Church Arts Centre," and is currently being refurbished.
Although in this case the corrugated sheets used in the original construction were brought over from Norway, it was not at all unusual to use such material for a church or chapel. For example, there is a "tin church" in Esher, Surrey, too, on land donated by Queen Victoria from the royal estate of Claremont. Intended to be a temporary structure, this little church survives to this day in its original form. It has been painted white, and is an attractive and much-loved landmark.
City Hall, Cardiff: Visitor Information Guide. 2nd ed. Cardiff: City and County of Cardiff, 2006 (33 pp.) Available from City Hall.
Roese, Herbert E., compiler and ed. "Cardiff's Norwegian Church.". Web. 7 March 2017.
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Can anyone point me in the direction of the "Paper Templates 014 Kit", please??? I can't seem to find by searching or browsing manually... Thanks in advance!
ISO: Paper Templates 014 Kit
I don't think there is one.
I too, searched through them and can't find a template pack number 014 either. It may have just been a number Marisa inadvertently skipped and not really ever existed.
Do you know what was in it? Maybe it is listed with another number/title
No...I was using the naming scheme like "Paper Templates ### Kit" to find the ones I was missing and noticed that 14 was missing, but couldn't find it! Just so long as I am not going crazy!
well we're probably ALL going crazy but that doesn't mean you missed the package 14. hee hee hee
Sometimes numbers get skipped for various reasons. If you can't find it easily, it probably doesn't exist.
You know that is going to bug my OCD self, right?
@Tina: right there with you! LoL
You know that is going to bug my OCD self, right? :-P
Haha. It used to bother me too, until I decided it was better to let it go and focus on making new stuff, rather than trying to get everything numbered just right.


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So, this post represents the 7,000th GetReligion offering that is still stashed on our server. That's a landmark, of some sort or another, especially since this comes so soon after our 8th birthday party the other day. There have, by the way, been quite a few GetReligion posts that were deleted along the way, primarily at the time when we made the jump to the WordPress software after about two years of publishing. You see, we once had a sidebar feature that offered shorter posts that kind of resembled the whole "aggregation" trend that is so hot these days on many news websites. I think we lost all of those in the software switch.
Cyberspace giveth, cyberspace taketh away. So be it.
When we started out it was just me and The Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc who were doing the writing and the goal was to get up one or two posts a day. These days, with 5.5 scribes (give or take a Hemingway), we strive for three and sometimes four -- depending on what's going on in our real jobs and the state of religion coverage on any given day. Then there's jet planes that take us to speaking gigs, conferences, other duties, family life, etc.
Still, 7,000 articles -- at roughly 700 words or so (Wait! Father George averages about 1,400 words a post!) -- is just under 5,000,000 words in seven years. That's a lot of digital ink.
So, on what should I focus this post -- No. 7,000? The topic needs to be somewhat symbolic, don't you think?
I considered having the Divine Mrs. M.Z. Hemingway do a WomenPriests post of some kind. Did you know that if you Google "GetReligion" and "Womenpriests" you get about 24,000 hits? I have no idea what that means.
No, why don't we throw another harpoon at one of those great-white-whale topics that we've been studying from the get-go? So that's ask, once again: What in the world does the oft-abused term "evangelical" mean?
Godbeat veteran Peggy Fletcher Stack of The Salt Lake City Tribune addressed that topic the other day and gave GetReligion a tip of the hat. Click here to read the version of this Religion News Service piece that ran in USA Today. Here is how that opens:
Evangelicals have been in the news a lot lately, from the Denver Broncos' Tim Tebow and his take-a-knee prayers to the Texas pastor and his wife who spent 24 hours in bed preaching the virtues of sex in Christian marriages.
Mitt Romney is struggling to gain evangelical support for his presidential bid, and Rick Santorum -- a Catholic -- won the blessing of more than 100 evangelical pastors gathered at a Texas ranch.
So who are these Christians? What do they have in common and how are they different from other believers? Even famed preacher Billy Graham wasn't sure of the answer.
"Actually, that's a question, I'd like to ask somebody, too," Graham told religion reporter Terry Mattingly in a 1987 interview. "The lines (have) become blurred. ... You go all the way from the extreme fundamentalists to the extreme liberals and, somewhere in between, there are the evangelicals."
So there is one of the keys. If one knows what the word "fundamentalist" means -- the Associate Press Stylebook is pretty clear on that, even if journalists keep ignoring its wise advice -- then the key is to draw a line between the "evangelicals" and the "fundamentalists."
Good luck with that.
You really need to read the whole piece to see how Stack addresses that, with the help of a whole bunch of folks, including Notre Dame historian Mark Noll, author of "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind" and other relevant tomes.
So here is a final bite to ponder, as she chases a definition that all will embrace:
Mattingly, director of the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, expands the definition further, saying "evangelicals have always been a cultural niche/commercial product kind of thing. No set doctrines." ...
Noll: The serious answer is the 'eye of the beholder.' I believe in the Virgin Birth of Christ, which makes me a fundamentalist in the eyes of some people, but I take an occasional glass of wine and don't worry about evolution, which means that, for many people, I can't be a fundamentalist.
Anyway, your GetReligionistas will carry on for, we hope, thousands of other posts -- including more on this topic, I am sure. As you know, words really matter when you're walking the religion beat.