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Earth Day is here and there is no shortage of opportunities to do something nice for the planet.
The Environmental Protection Agency published a list of events that are taking place across the country to help us honor and celebrate Earth Day. But for those who are less interested in planting trees and more interested in saving the green in their wallets, here are some great deals that also happen to be great for the earth.
The Body Shop - Use coupon code 3MINUTE for any online or in-store purchase and receive a free 8.4 ounce Earth Lovers shower gel. Valid on April 22 only.
Disney Store: Recycle five plastic shopping bags at the store on April 22 and receive a free "Brave" or "Cars 2" reusable shopping bag.
Caribou Coffee - Bring in your own travel mug and fill up with a free cup of coffee on April 22.
EVOS - The healthy fast food chain is giving out free organic milkshakes on April 22.
Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores - The first 50 customers at every store will receive a free tote bag.
Pottery Barn - Visit the store between April 20 and 22 and kids get a free packet of seeds to plant at home.
National Parks - National Park Week comes right on the heels of Earth Day, which means earth lovers can enjoy all that nature has to offer for free. National parks are offering free admission from April 22 to 26.
H&M - This isn't billed as an Earth Day deal, but the planet will thank you: Bring in a bag of used clothes and receive a voucher for a discount on your next purchase. The donated clothes will be recycled or used for raw material for new products.
Best Buy - Save up to 25 percent on appliances until April 27.
Travelocity - The travel site is offering earth-friendly vacations that start at $76.


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Soybeans a source of valuable chemical: Scientists turn low-value soy mash into high-value succinic acid
(Phys.org)—The humble soybean could become an inexpensive new source of a widely used chemical for plastics, textiles, drugs, solvents and as a food additive.
Succinic acid, traditionally drawn from petroleum, is one focus of research by Rice chemists George Bennett and Ka-Yiu San. In 2004, the Department of Energy named succinic acid one of 12 "platform" chemicals that could be produced from sugars by biological means and turned into high-value materials.
Several years ago, Rice patented a process by Bennett and San for the bio-based production of succinic acid that employed genetically modified E. coli bacteria to convert glucose into succinic acid in a way that would be competitive with petroleum-based production.
The new succinate process developed by Bennett, San and Chandresh Thakker and reported recently in Bioresource Technology promises to make even better use of a cheap and plentiful feedstock, primarily the indigestible parts of the soybean.
"We are trying to find a cheaper, renewable raw material to start with so the end product will be more profitable," said Thakker, a research scientist in the Bennett lab at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative and lead author of the study. "The challenge has been to make this biomass process cost-competitive with the petrochemical methods people have been using for many years."
Bennett feels they have done that with soybean-derived feedstock as an inexpensive source of the carbon that microorganisms digest to produce the desired chemical via fermentation. "A lot of people use plant oils for cooking – corn or soybean or canola—instead of lard, as they did in the old days," he said. "The oils are among the main products of these seeds. Another product is protein, which is used as a high-quality food.
"What's left over is indigestible fiber and small carbohydrates," said Bennett, Rice's E. Dell Butcher Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. "It's used in small amounts in certain animal feeds, but overall it's a very low-value material."
The Rice researchers are changing that with the help of E. coli bacteria engineered to process soy meal that generally gets discarded. Certain microbes naturally produce succinic acid from such feedstock, but manipulating E. coli's metabolic pathways (by eliminating pathways that produce other chemicals like ethanol, for instance) can make it far more efficient.
Expanding on their success in producing succinic acid from glucose, the new microbes are engineered to metabolize a variety of sugars found in soybean meal. The theoretical ideal is a 1:1 ratio of feedstock (the extracted sugars) to product, which they feel is achievable by industry. In the lab, under less controlled conditions, they still found the process highly efficient. "We're demonstrating a very high yield," Thakker said. "We're achieving in a flask a non-optimized formation of succinate that is close to the theoretical goal."
Bennett said his lab has been looking at soybeans for nearly three years. "We're always interested in low-cost feedstock," he said. "We were able to get a connection with a soybean group that is very interested in technologies to make better and more profitable use of their crop.
"There's a fair amount of oilseed residuals available including cottonseed carbohydrates, that's not used for any high-value product, and we're in the space of microbial engineering to enable these sorts of materials to be used in a good way," he said.
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Prince William - in character as Flight Lieutenant Wales - flew his Sea King helicopter in freezing conditions to the rescue of two walkers who had got lost in dangerous weather on a moutain Snowdonia, North Wales on Tuesday.The couple were forced to spend much of the night on the mountainside after venturing onto the Glyder range and not being able to get back off.
Ten members of Ogwen Valley mountain rescue team eventually found the stranded couple. William - who now pilots a helcipoter - was then called from his base at RAF Valley in Anglesey to rescue them.
"The helicopter came about 1am to search the mountain which was quite difficult with patches of low cloud," Chris Lloyd of Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue, said. "Flying in the mountains at night with banks of low cloud requires great skill."


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- Page 1 Navigon 40 Premium Review
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Although Navigon's entry-level personal navigation devices have often been great value, such as the 1210, its higher-end models have tended to focus too heavily on flashy 3D widgets. The 8410, for example, renders navigation in select cities like a three-dimensional videogame, albeit one from the late 1990s. Navigon's 40 Premium shies away from that, and focuses on core navigation features instead.
The 40 Premium heralds a new naming strategy for Navigon. Instead of a four-digit number, two digits and a word are used. The 40 series is the mainstream 4.3in widescreen form factor, whilst the 70 series is the larger 5in widescreen. Alongside this, there are Easy, Plus and Premium models, and even Live versions of the Premium that sport mobile data-enabled interactive services. However, there is currently no 3.5in non-widescreen included in the range.
The 40 Premium is therefore the new mainstream widescreen Navigon choice, although a host of previous releases remain available. This model doesn't have any of Navigon's 3D widgets as standard, such as the landmark models, city block approximations in City View 3D or game-like realistic three-dimensional portrayals of city centres in Real City 3D. But we remain dubious about the usefulness of these features, and what the 40 Premium does add is potentially more useful anyway.
The most significant addition to the map view is Active Lane Assistant. Navigon's Lane Assistant already showed a schematic at junctions illustrating which lanes to be in for the correct turning. But now this schematic is animated and three dimensional. We didn't find this was universally available on all roads we drove during testing, but it's included on enough to be useful. Considering how easy it is to find yourself in the outside lane when your turning is looming, this animated graphic gives you a more timely warning than the map to pull over to the inside lane. At select motorway interchanges, you also get Reality View Pro, Navigon's take on the full-screen realistic graphic designed to show even more detail, including the signposts you should be looking out for.
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Billie Holiday
With her luminous voice, Billie Holiday changed jazz forever.
Her life was tough but so was she. Billie Holiday took her pain and channeled it into haunting vocal performances that resonated in your spine.
Billie Holiday was the pre-eminent jazz singer of her day and among the most revered vocalists of the century.
Although her brief life was fraught with tragedy, Holiday left a transcendent legacy of recorded work. Her pearly voice, exquisite phrasing and tough-tender persona influenced the likes of Janis Joplin and Diana Ross, among others. She performed and recorded in a jazzy "swing-sing" style from 1933 to 1958 with pianist-bandleaders Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, Artie Shaw and others. She was closely associated with tenor saxophonist Lester "Prez" Young, who dubbed her "Lady Day."
There are varying accounts of her birth. In her memoirs, Holiday claimed she was born in Baltimore, but biographer Donald Clarke notes the time of birth, name of the doctor and original spelling of her name on her birth certificate dated April 7, 1915 from Philadelphia General Hospital in Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon. As a teenager, she began singing along with records by such artists as Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong in after-hours clubs in Baltimore. Her mother, Sadie Fagan, decided to move to New York, and Billie followed her. She began performing in nightclubs in Harlem, and she took the stage name Billie Holiday after film star Billie Dove. In 1933, when she was 18, she was discovered performing in a Harlem club called Monette's by Columbia A&R man John Hammond. Her first commercial recording session occurred that November.
Two years later Holiday recorded four songs, including "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" and "Miss Brown to You," that would become hits. That same year, she appeared with Duke Ellington in the film Symphony in Black (1935). The following year, she began working with Lester Young. She went on to tour with Count Basie in 1937, then Artie Shaw in 1938. Her appearances with Shaw's orchestra made her one of the first African-American women to sing with a white orchestra. That same year she also scored a hit with "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart," which reached Number Two on the pop chart.
In 1939 Holiday struck out on her own, performing at the Café Society in New York City. "I open Café Society as an unknown," Holiday later said. "And I left two years later as a star." The year she started performing there she recorded "Strange Fruit," a harrowing song based on a poem about black lynchings in the South. Because of the controversial nature of the lyrics, Columbia Records would not release the song, so Holiday put it out on Commodore Records. The song became a hit and one of Holiday's signature songs. Two years later she recorded "God Bless the Child," a self-penned classic. The record sold more than a million copies, and in 1976 it was elected into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Her horn-like phrasing and the riveting intensity of her voice, springing from a well of pure feeling, allowed Holiday to transcend even the mediocre material she was sometimes given during the course of her prolific recording career. She recorded for Columbia Records through 1942, then moved on to Decca in 1944. The following year she scored a hit with the song "Lover Man."
At this point, Holiday was a major star on the music scene. In a September 1943 issue, Life magazine wrote of Holiday, "She has the most distinct style of any popular vocalist and is imitated by other vocalists." In 1947 she appeared alongside Louis Armstrong and Woody Herman in the feature film New Orleans. That same year, she was arrested after police found narcotics in her New York apartment. She was found guilty and was sentenced to serve one year at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia. She was released in March 1948. Holiday had been having issues with drugs and alcohol for many years, and she was arrested again in 1949 after police found drugs in her San Francisco hotel room.
Meanwhile, after her 1948 release from prison, Holiday played a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall in New York and appeared in a Broadway musical, Holiday on Broadway. In October 1949 she scored another hit with the song "Crazy He Calls Me." That song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2010.
During the Fifties, Holiday's alcohol and drug use was starting to take a toll on her health, and her appearances became less frequent. However, in 1954 she did her first major tour of Europe. In 1956 she published her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues. An album of the same name was also released that year. It included four new songs: "Lady Sings the Blues," "Too Marvelous for Words," "Willow Weep for Me" and "I Thought About You." In November of that year, she returned to Carnegie Hall, where she played two sold-out shows. Two years later Holiday returned to Columbia Records to record a new album, Lady in Satin.
In 1959 Holiday was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, a result of her heavy drinking and drug use. On May 31, 1959 she was admitted to Metropolitan Hospital in New York City. Police raided her hospital room and again arrested her for heroin possession. On July 17 of that year, Billie Holiday died from pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver. She was 44 years old.
Lady Sings the Blues, a biographical film, was released in 1972. It rekindled interest in Holiday's career and music. Many of her recordings remain in print as her legend continues to grow.
Inductee: Billie Holiday (vocals; born April 7, 1915, died July 17, 1959)


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There is much confusion and speculation still surrounding the next X-Men film, X-Men: Days of Future Past. The sequel to X-Men: First Class sees the return of X-Men 1 & 2 director Bryan Singer to the helm, telling a story that will introduce new levels of sci-fi into the X-Men movie universe.
Today we have a one important piece of this puzzle to share: where Days of Future Past fits into the X-Men movie timeline - at least, where the sequel starts off in the timeline. Considering the time travel plot device, this film could literally be all over the place.
CBM got heads up from TV Chiquita about a casting call sheet for Days of Future Past; if you don't know, these sheets - which describe the type of actors needed for a part and a brief bit about what kind of character they'll play - often contain nice tidbits that rumor hounds can scrutinize and use to deduce facts about a film. In this case, the casting sheet dropped the following piece of info:
Most of the film takes place in 1973.
That would be 11 years after the 1962 setting of First Class. If further evidence is needed, here's the call description for what seem to be extras:
Look 1973. Hair should be left to grow as well as sideburns, mustaches and beards. Modern hair color and hair cuts will be OUT for this film.
Now, this isn't too surprising for several reasons. First of all, it's been teased (and to a certain degree assumed) all along that the First Class continuity could essentially "decade hop." It started in the '60s, so the '70s were always looked at as the natural followup point for the sequel.
However, even if this casting call sheet is to be believed, the fact remains that the '70s are still just the starting point for Days of Future Past. With characters from the original trilogy all returning, and the obvious plot device of time travel (which will hopefully straighten out many of the nagging continuity issues with these films), where this Days of Future Past plotline will go is still a mystery.
Will the original trilogy characters all be presented as aged versions of themselves (from a more distant future)? Or will that "future" be kept in real time - meaning, eight years after the events of X-Men 3 by the time the movie is released in 2014? We know The Wolverine will be taking place after X3 and will leave us with a "changed" Logan by the end of the film; that new improved Logan could potentially be a key player in Days of Future Past (as he was in the comic storyline) - especially since we already know Wolverine is confirmed for the film.
All the worries about timeline jumping and continuity aside, starting off in the '70s could allow for some convenient tidying up of storylines and characters - such as how Charles Xavier becomes bald Professor X; how Magneto flourishes as a terrorist and builds the brotherhood; and even why characters like Emma Frost (January Jones) aren't returning. The one curious thing is that the call sheet mentions that the film is "mostly" set in that era; could this film devote much less screen time to the future than originally anticipated? It'd be easy to see how the primary focus would be the race (in the 70s era) to prevent the disastrous event that corrupts the timeline in the first place.
Comic book aficionados will tell you that the '70s era of X-Men comics was definitely a special time; an era that introduced the Phoenix, saw Wolverine, Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler join the team, brought back The Sentinels (which will likely be featured in this film) - all under the hand of legendary creators like Dave Cockrum, John Byrne and Chris Claremont. Even if Days of Future Past is (at least in title) drawing from '80s-era X-Men storylines, there are still plenty of nods the film can give to the proceeding decade. They just better not include any disco stuff (unless we get Dazzler with it)!
What are your thoughts on the decade shift? The potential time-jumping? And all those lingering continuity issues? Let us know in the comments.
X-Men: Days of Future Past will be in theaters on July 18, 2014.
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Hewlett Packard just launched a new $40 million ad campaign in Dr. Dre's studio. The message: Dre wants you to put the Mac down.
As in, Macintosh. As in, let's get some of those cool, urban, music-loving computer users away from the hip MacBooks, and into Best Buy and Walmart to buy HP computers instead.
The hope is to convince computer shoppers that they need an HP laptop to get the job done, just like Dre.
If your first thought is, "How can HP even claim to be cool?," consider that Jay-Z recently stumped for the Palo Alto company, and it's been a strong four years for HP sales and investors since then. But since HP is aleady No. 1, can Dre Day meaningfully boost its bottom line?
"There is no artist Apple can get to counter this," says Adisa Banjoko, whose blog, "Beyond Urban Branding" tracks urban ad trends. "Check and mate."
But is Dre even the best hip-hop artist for the job? He's still arguably among the best-known in the business. He's still making records and producing successful acts. He's not in the headlines for anything negative, a la Lil' Wayne. And, as we recently saw in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show, he still draws a big crowd.
Apple can take a bow for making the link between technology and music hip. HP would love to get some of that hipness for its own machines. If Dre can make an HP laptop cool, can printers be far behind?
Scott loves the fact that you can't spell "hip-hop" without "HP."


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Gearlog Radio: the Classic Top 100 Web Sites, and More
This week on our podcast, GoodCleanTech's Katherine Montgomery stops in to give some advice on the green way to dispose of all those used cell phones, monitors, and PCs--and to give us the scoop on the USB-powered mini-greenhouse. Lab analyst Brian Neal tells the riveting tale of the most recent device to burst into flames in PC Mag Labs (see picture above for a clue). Then Brian Heater joins to debate the choices in PCMag.com's Top 100 Classic Web Sites story.
In the second half, we cover the latest salvo in the high-def media format wars; host Dan Costa bewails the curse of being his household's resident IT expert; and host Jen DeLeo presents this week's Weird Gear (USB, yes; vibrating, not this time). Listen to the podcast here!Hosts: Dan Costa and Jennifer DeLeo
Guests: Carol Mangis, Brian Heater, Brian Neal, and Katherine Montgomery
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A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 3.1 /3.0 Mageia 6, PCLinuxOS 2017.03, Fedora Workstation 27 (KDE spin), PicarOS, Pisi Linux 1, Elive beta, and AntiX 13.
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Happy Birthday, Eimi!
I'm taking a break from the world of computers to post something different today. Eimi, my daughter, is celebrating her first birthday!
One year! Wow, time surely flies!
She is learning to talk...I hope she will learn several languages (Spanish, English, Japanese, French and all the Thai her uncle can teach her).
Oh, she loves to slam the keyboard of my computer as we watch videos...
Yes, she will also learn to respect other people and to value her freedom.
Happy birthday, Eimi!
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そういえば... 先生達にも, ちょっと遅いですけれど...先生達もお誕生日おめでとうございます!!ResponderEliminar
This Eimi's response to your kind comment:
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Cheers Eimi,ResponderEliminar
"May the source be with you!"
@ Walter Olegario,ResponderEliminar
Thanks for your comment. I guess those are going to be Eimi's first words in English!
Feliz cumpleaños, Eimi! สุขสันต์วันเกิด ^___^ResponderEliminar
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It's been a while since Jerry Osteryoung, professor emeritus (that means retired) of finance for Florida State University, appeared in this space. Yet a column he wrote the other day caught my eye about how incentives don't always motivate people the way we think they do – especially when it comes to pay.
He cited a recent study by four economists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about whether or not money motivates people to work harder (and for the life of me I cannot find that one, though this one done back in 2004 touches on some of the same points).
Osteryoung (seen at right) said their research showed that money actually proved ineffective as a motivator – and in some case actually "demotivated" employees as the incentive levels increased.
While this isn't true in every work profession – for example, in sales or in manufacturing work – most employees with what Osteryoung dubs "cognitive or creative jobs" don't respond to the "incremental value" of additional income.
"I think it goes back to the notion of cost-benefit analysis," he said. "For workers who are paid an adequate salary, the benefits of more money just do not make up for the cost of having to produce more work."
In short, Osteryoung sums his point up via a quote from Dale Carnegie: "There is only one way to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it."
Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely discussed this topic last year during a TED Talk and echoed Osteryoung's point that, contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money that motivates people to work harder – but it's not exactly joy either. "It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose," he said.
[If you have 20 minutes to spare, you can watch Ariely's talk on the subject on motivation and money below.]
OK, you ask, so why bring all this "mumbo-jumbo" up in connection with the trucking business? Well, as a follow on to yesterday's post, the finding and keeping of truck drivers is becoming more and more difficult – and while pay typically tops the list of driver issues, the negative treatment they often receive on the dock, on the road, and in the public eye turn many of them off to the profession.
Paul Newbourne, senior VP-operations for Pittsburgh-based Armada Supply Chain Solutions, touched on this issue in a recent conference call with reporters hosted by Wall Street investment firm Stifel Nicolaus & Co. [and you can click here to read the full story].
"I doubt anyone on this call is encouraging their children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or other relatives to be truck drivers," he said matter-of-factly on the phone.
"The biggest issues to finding and keeping drivers remain compensation rates and the lifestyle," Newbourne (seen above) noted. "But every carrier I've spoken with also highlights he often unprofessional treatment of their drivers by shipper and receiver personnel: the rude treatment, the lack of access to bathrooms and vending machines for food at the dock. They restrict truck engine idle time but make no other provisions available for drivers to keep warm or stay cool – especially in extreme weather."
Author Daniel Pink delved into some of the thinking behind how and why people are "turned on" and "turned off" but especially into how the perceived "value" of the work being performed can influence how people respond to it.
In sum, Pink suggests that what really motivates workers today is autonomy, mastery and purpose: that the best motivating factors are job autonomy and the mission of the organization. "Workers just want to have more control in their jobs and be involved with firms whose missions they can relate to," he said.
Can all of that be done in relation to the truck driving profession in this day and age? And if so will it result in a better ability on the part of trucking companies to recruit and retain a new generation of drivers? Those are truly "million-dollar questions" the industry must find answers to.


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GP surgeries 'on brink of collapse'
Millions face a postcode lottery in GP services as chronic underfunding has left doctors surgeries' "on the brink of collapse", a top medic has warned.
Research carried out by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) showed a stark divide in access to doctors, with people living in the most deprived communities facing the longest waiting times.
The study found that 22% of people in Bradford raised concerns about not being able to make an appointment with their GP. Whereas the figure was just 5% in Bath and north-east Somerset.
There are "shocking discrepancies" in the number of GPs employed locally, the RCGP warned. North, east and west Devon have 60 GPs for every 100,000 patients - three times as many as Slough in Berkshire which has just 22.
The poorest appear to be the hardest hit by this patchwork of provision, with e ight of out of ten areas with the longest GP waiting times having moderate to high levels of deprivation.
The College said the research, based on the GP Patient Survey, showed the profession is " creaking under the weight of a growing and ageing population".
They have launched a campaign to demand an extra £3.5 billion a year to be ploughed into GP services, and have put up posters in surgeries showing patients having to queue down the street for an appointment unless extra cash is found.
Dr Maureen Baker, chairwoman of the RCGP said: "Every single patient should be able to see their GP when they are in need of medical assistance, regardless of where they live.
"It is absolutely shocking that, due to the current funding crisis in general practice, patients are now facing a postcode lottery.
"It is doubly unacceptable that those patients affected tend to be those who live in deprived parts of the country."
A growing and ageing population coupled with a surge in patients with multiple and chronic conditions was piling pressure on GPs, but their share of the NHS budget has been slashed, she said.
Dr Baker said: "Family doctors are working harder than ever - but with increasing patient demand, due to a growing and ageing population, and plummeting investment, there simply aren't enough GPs to go round.
"There is now a desperate shortage of GPs in many parts of the country, leaving the service teetering on the brink of collapse.
She added: "Over the last decade, investment in general practice has slumped and has now reached an all-time low, with GPs conducting 90% of NHS patient contacts for just 8.5% of the total NHS budget.
"GPs want to provide high-quality care for every single patient, but at a time of plummeting resources we are seeing 40 million more patients a year than just five years ago.
"The simple fact is that family doctors are now heaving under unsustainable workloads, with the majority now routinely conducting 60 patient consultations in a single day."
The College said the number of visits to GPs has soared from an estimated 300m to 340m in the past five years, and a t least 10,000 more GPs need to be recruited to ease the pressure.
Dr Patricia Wilkie, president of the National Association for Patient Participation said: "Patients across the country are frequently unable to obtain a timely appointment with a GP, because there simply aren't enough GPs in some local areas.
"This postcode lottery is totally inappropriate with clear and potentially serious implications for patients.
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Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora''s cousin of a murder charge.
On New Year's Eve, Nick and Nora Charles arrive back home in San Francisco after Nick successfully solved the "Thin Man" murder case in New York. Exhausted from their trip, Nick and Nora want a quiet evening at home, but discover that their house has been taken over by a group of revelers they don't even know. When Nora's Great Aunt Katherine Forrest invites them to dinner, Nick doesn't want to go, but agrees when Nora's cousin, Selma Landis, pleads with Nora. At Katherine's house, they discover that Selma's husband Robert has been missing for three days. Katherine asks Nick to quietly find Robert, and, although he is reluctant, he takes Nora to the Lichee, a Chinese nightclub that Robert frequents. Robert has been at the Lichee, drinking and waiting for the club's entertainer, Polly Byrnes. Polly and "Dancer," one of the club's owners, are expecting to get money from Robert and Dancer tells Polly to take Robert home. A few days previously, Robert had approached David Graham, Selma's former fiancée, for $25,000 to leave for good. David meets Robert a short time later to give him negotiable bonds, then, after cruelly bidding Selma goodbye, Robert walks out into the fog and is shot. When David's car drives up to Robert's body, Selma is standing over it with a gun. Dazed, Selma gives David the weapon and he tells her not to say anything. Despite their efforts to protect Selma, Nick and Nora are unable to prevent her arrest by Lieutenant Abrams. Though Selma says that she had not fired her gun, David reveals that he threw it into the bay, thinking that Selma actually had killed her husband. The next day, Nick goes to the hotel room of Phil Byrnes, a man posing as Polly's brother, but actually her husband. Upon his arrival, Nick discovers Phil's dead body. Later, he also discovers that someone had been listening to Polly's apartment through a device in the apartment above. Suspicious when he hears Dancer enter Polly's apartment, Nick follows him to the basement and finds the body of the janitor. When Nora arrives at the apartment building and hears the janitor's name, Pedro, she reveals that Pedro used to be her father's gardener. Nick then asks Abrams to have all of the suspects congregate at Polly's. Though Dancer and Polly admit their plan to use a check forged with Robert's name, each claims to be innocent of the murders. During questioning, David says that he remembers Pedro, a man with a long white moustache, but hasn't seen him recently. When Nick looks at a picture of Pedro taken years before and sees that Pedro then had a small black moustache, he knows that David must be lying. Nick then says that the murderer has finally made a slip and reconstructs the evidence to reveal that David killed Robert out of revenge, then killed Phil when Phil tried to blackmail him. Finally, when Pedro recognized him, David was forced to kill him as well. Now cornered, David reveals that he had been planning to frame Selma for her husbands murder. He draws a gun and threatens to shoot Selma and then himself, but Lum Kee, Dancer's partner in the club, knocks the gun out of David's hand and David is overpowered. A short time later, Nick and Nora leave San Francisco on the train, accompanied by Selma, who plans to start a new life. Finally, when he is alone with Nora, Nick sees that she is crocheting a baby's sock and is shocked when she says "And you call yourself a detective."
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- 1 1/2 cups quinoa
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 1/2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 1/2 cups frozen corn
- 3/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1 medium tomato, chopped
- 4 green onions (green and white parts), chopped
- 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1/4 cup olive oil
Bring 3 cups of water to a boil in a two-quart saucepan. Add quinoa and bring back to a boil. Cover and cook over medium heat for about 12 minutes or until the quinoa has absorbed all of the water. Remove from heat and fluff. Let cool slightly.
While the quinoa is cooking, toss beans with vinegar, corn, green pepper, tomato, green onions, and cilantro in a large bowl. In a small bowl, whisk together lime juice, salt, black pepper, cumin, and oil. Add the cooled quinoa to the vegetables and drizzle the dressing over salad. Toss to combine. This salad may be made one day ahead, covered, and chilled.
Yield: 11 servings.
Serving size: about 3/4 cup.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories: 170 calories, Carbohydrates: 26 g, Protein: 5 g, Fat: 6 g, Saturated Fat: 1 g, Cholesterol: 0 mg, Sodium: 190 mg, Fiber: 4 g
Exchanges per serving: 2 starch, 1 fat. Carbohydrate choices: 2.
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As of this morning, more than 1,009 Americans have been arrested to bring national attention to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. This is what church looks like. Liturgy means "the work of the people" in service of the common good.
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"I'm celebrating my 60th birthday today. As a member of my church's Earth Ministry team, I'm called to protect our earth as an abundant home for all God's children. Being present at the White House was what I wanted to do to celebrate my birthday."-- Betsy Krogh, United Church of Christ
"Construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would significantly increase the production of oil from tar sands. This threatens to irrevocably damage the web of life upon which all life depends."- -Rev. Craig C. Roshaven, Witness Ministries Director, Unitarian Universalist Association
"The act of standing with a few sisters and brothers on behalf of all of us sends out shockwaves. It sets us free from the despair we all feel in a world rapidly deteriorating due to climate change. It reminds us that we're not alone -- that, in fact, we're growing. It builds a movement which will not only stop pipelines but save the planet. It's simple, and it's only just a start. But it's something." -- Tim Kumfer, Tell the Word ministry
"We must turn up the heat in a sustained effort against the scourge of climate change, which harms not just our land and water but people here and now, our human future and all earthly Creation." -- Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation
"Up to now, Congress and the president have failed to act against climate change, and things have reached a critical juncture. The tar sands pipeline, which promises to vastly increase carbon emissions, will bring us to a point of no return in terms of controlling climate change. Therefore, the time has come for us citizens to take matters into our own hands by engaging in acts of civil disobedience. I feel I must play my part in this effort. If I don't, then I will be a hypocrite." -- W. Malcolm Byrnes, Howard University College of Medicine
"Jewish tradition tells us to pursue justice and gives us the laws of 'bal taschit' to not destroy or waste resources unnecessarily. I am risking arrest because we have a moral obligation to act when justice of the well-being of creation are threatened." -- Laura Bellows, Tikkun Leil Shabbat
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Obesity rates are soaring in Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Gulf states, leading to a boom in bariatric surgery on children.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Daifailluh al-Bugami was just a year old when his parents noticed that his lips turned blue as he slept at night. It was his weight, doctors said, putting pressure on his delicate airways.
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The parents of the man arrested for allegedly stabbing a Los Angeles Dodgers fan after Wednesday's Giants game say that their son claims the killing was in self-defense.
Michael Montgomery, of Lodi, Calif., was arrested Thursday in connection with the death of Jonathan Denver, 24. The suspect's mother, Victoria Montgomery, says her 21-year-old son is "freaking out" about what happened when a rivalry-fueled fight turned fatal late Wednesday night.
"My son says he was hit with a chair," Victoria Montgomery told NBC Bay Area Friday morning. "He was just trying to defend himself. He is in shock."
As of Friday morning, Montgomery's court date had not been scheduled.
MORE: Arrest Made in Dodgers Stabbing Death
His mother's comments mirror what her ex-husband, Marty Montgomery, told the Lodi News-Sentinel after speaking with his son, who remains in San Francisco County Jail. According to that account, the suspect said Denver yelled, "Giants suck," at his friend, who was wearing a Giants hat, then Denver and others hit his son and their friends without warning. They were in San Francisco for a concert, Montgomery's mother said.
The elder Montgomery said his grandson was jumped during the fight and stabbed Denver - ironically, the son of a Dodgers security guard - to protect himself. Denver is about 6 feet 3 inches, and Montogmery is about 5 feet 8 inches, his mother said.
"It was a self-defense deal," Marty Montgomery told the Lodi paper. "(Michael) got jumped. (Denver and friends) started swinging chairs and he stabbed (Denver). (Denver) mouthed off about the San Francisco hat. It wasn't even (Michael's) hat.'"
Denver, a plumber's apprentice from Fort Bragg, Calif., was stabbed by the intersection of Harrison and Third streets at 11:49 p.m. Wednesday - about 90 minutes after the Dodgers-Giants game at AT&T Park was over. His father, Robert Preece Jr., works security for the Dodgers and lives in Alhambra, Calif. His sons were there to celebrate his birthday. His friends set up a R.I.P. Jonathan Denver Dodgers Fan Facebook Page to honor his memory.
Denver's grandparents, Robert and Anne Marie Preece, who live in Southern California, released a statement Friday, saying their son was a "gentle, kind-hearted soul."
"Jon was always smiling, and that is how is we will forever remember him," the statement read.
The grandparents said they didn't have details about the fight, but said "everything went bad very quickly."
They said they were in pain because "Jon was taken from us at such an early age."
They said they believe the incident underlines a "symptom of a society whose values seem to have deteriorated over time."
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According to the police account, Denver's group bumped into the suspects' group about four blocks away from the park, at Third and Harrison streets, and the two groups exchanged some sort of "Dodgers-Giants" comments. The suspects' group had not been at a game, but at a nightclub.
The two groups parted ways after the heated exchange, but moments later a second fight erupted, and Denver realized he had been stabbed.
One of the suspects in Montgomery's group was wearing a Giants hat, police said. Denver, his brother and his father were all wearing Dodgers blue. Two suspects were detained a short time later at Second and Howard streets - although one was let go after questioning. Montgomery is now the only one in custody, and police said they were seeking two other suspects.
Denver died later at San Francisco General Hospital.
At a news conference Thursday, Police Chief Greg Suhr said that Montgomery made some "incriminating statements" while in custody that led to his arrest. Another person, whose name was not released, was also taken into custody. Police said they were still looking for two more suspects.
The account from Montomery's parents conflicts with what one friend of the victim told the Associated Press.
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Denver's friend Matt Gomes told the Associated Press that Denver was trying to help a friend who was getting beat up during the fight.
"He was defending his friend," Gomes said. "And then he got stabbed and died.'"
Gomes said he doesn't believe Denver, his family and friends started the fight. He said his buddy wasn't the type to get violent.
"He was an amazing guy who made everybody happy and made them laugh. He was there for everybody," Gomes said.
As for Montgomery's mother, she isn't sure what to believe. She last spoke with her son this summer - the day before his 21st birthday. She said since she didn't live with him, she didn't know his exact goings-on. She didn't know if he owned a knife and didn't want to discuss with NBC Bay Area whether he had any past brushes with the law.
"What does it matter?" she said through tears.
She said her son graduated from Lodi Adult School and was working at a bakery, though he had wanted to go back to school to become an electrician, like his father. She hasn't spoken directly to her son - only to her ex-husband who relayed her son's version of the story to her. She learned about his arrest when she discovered reporters camped out in front of her home - she at first thought they were Mormons - and called police for help. It's the authorities who told her why the reporters were there.
Victoria Montgomery did not want to speak on camera about her son; she was emotional during a phone interview as she said she is at a loss for what to do. She feels horrible for both families.
"I don't want to say anything bad about my son," she said. "I'm sure these are both good kids and who ended up both having a bad result."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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It's worth noting that the features added to the Open/Save dialogs and File Explorer by Spb Pocket Plus also suffice.
That out of the way, here we go:
Let me explain my best guess as to why these functions produce undeclared identifier errors. In the PocketC directory are two files used to compile: devicecompiler.dll (which I'll shorten to dc.dll) and default.dat.
In dc.dll are all the PocketC functions in binary form. However, the functions are not named, only numbered.
When you go to compile your program, the first thing the compiler does is read default.dat. This file has instructions for reading dc.dll; it tells the compiler to load all the numbered functions and to give these functions names.
The image functions are the newest additions before PCCE was abandoned. They were added to dc.dll, but the lines to load them in default.dat were not! This post will tell you how to add these lines to default.dat so they work as they should.
Are you ready?
WARNING: You will be editing a file integral to PocketC's development kit. Be sure to back up the file (step 2). I don't believe it is necessary to kill unclosed runtimes or even the editor (since this file is just used at compile time), though doing so is certainly a good habit to get into.
1) First, open TC. Navigate to the PocketC program directory. For me, it's \Program Files\PocketC.
2) Make a new directory in there for backup. Copy default.dat into the new folder.
3) Select default.dat (the original) and open TC's built-in text editor. Go down to the bottom. It should look like this:
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#export DEFAULT(262) regrbin(int,string,string,string&);
#export DEFAULT(263) regwbin(int,string,string,string);
#export DEFAULT(264) devicesipinfo();
4) I found these "DEFAULT" numbers by trial and error.
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#export DEFAULT(262) regrbin(int,string,string,string&);
#export DEFAULT(263) regwbin(int,string,string,string);
#export DEFAULT(264) devicesipinfo();
#export DEFAULT(266) CaptureBmp(int,int,int,int,string);
#export DEFAULT(267) imgload(string,int,int,int);
#export DEFAULT(268) imgunload(int);
#export DEFAULT(271) imgtrans(int,int,int,int,int,int);
I still don't know about the bitblts. Presumably, one is 269 and the other is 270, but when I try to use them I just get one pixel of color.
If copying what I wrote here does not work on your device, then there are version differences, and you need to find these numbers out through trial and error. Try putting different numbers in default.dat and running a simple test program until they work (if you have the wrong number, usually nothing will happen). Here's a good test for each:
CaptureBmp: Make sure the file you're telling it to save to does not exist. Run a simple program with the command, and open TC. Refresh. If the file appears, you have the right number.
imgload: Make a simple program with an imgload() inside a putsl(). Make sure the file/resource you're telling it to open exists. Run the program. If you have the right number, the Console should output random positive integers generally 6-8 digits long. The other functions tend to always return 0 or 1.
imgtrans: Once you get the test for imgload to work, load a colorful image with it and pass the handle to this function. If it displays, you have the right number.
imgunload: Once you get the test for imgtrans to work, add a line that unloads the image right after the line that loads it, but before the line that displays it. If you have the right number, the image will not show up.
And don't forget to always double all backspaces in a filename string (eg. "\\My Documents\\Prog\\")!
EDIT Feb 16 '08:
-Changed title to something more search-friendly (old title was "How to fix default.dat for imgload, imgtrans, CaptureBmp...")
EDIT March 3 '08:
-Attempted to make it more concise and brief, but ended up making it longer. Happens a lot.


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of dollars' worth of accounts receivable.
Many decades of auditing experience have provided a wealth of fraud cases involving manual accounting systems. Auditors use these case histories to familiarize themselves with the methods of defrauders. Changing technology has created new problems, and the electronic data


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DUNEDIN, Fla. — Roy Halladay said the origin of the four baseball cards that are stuck in his nameplate is a mystery. Prior to the game, cards for A.J. Burnett, Dustin McGowan, Shaun Marcum and Jesse Litsch appeared atop Doc's locker.
Some wondered if it was Halladay's way of hinting at what he believes the rotation should look like this year.
"I don't know. They just showed up there. I had no hand in that," Halladay said with a grin.
Asked if Casey Janssen — competing against Litsch for the fifth spot — might add his own baseball card to the display, Halladay laughed and replied: "I'm sure it'll be up there tomorrow."
On the way to the clubhouse, I also spotted a kid sporting a Brian Wolfe jersey. I told Wolfe and he laughed and said: "Somebody does own one. I didn't know they sold them."
Also chatted with Scott Rolen after he sat through an odd interview with CityTV's Kathryn Humphreys for the upcoming game broadcast on Sunday. One of the off-beat questions was something to the effect of, "Would you rather have no teeth or no toes?" Rolen went with no teeth.
"I figured if I had no toes, I couldn't walk," Rolen said with a shrug.
Yeah, I guess he could still win a Gold Glove without teeth. Talk about in-depth journalism.
More after the game…
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I'm curious to see how "City" will handle the game, I get the feeling it'll be brutal. Anyone know who's doing the play by play ? I still feel that Janssen is more valuable as a starter for this team.
I know that this is spring training and that stats right now mean nothing, but don't forget last year that the jays werent exactly firing on all cylinders either in spring. I remember J.P. saying that it's only spring training and that he thought the teams play was not indictive of how it would be in the season. We all know how that turned out. If Vernon continues to have his 0 for 3's on a regular, then my concern will return.
I gotta agree with enigma…
I know its only spring…i know its early in the spring BUT i don't like the way the jays have been playing so far…
Overbay might be back…Wells doesn't seem so comfortable …
Halladay's outing wasn't bad but it was pretty weak for him…I think he will rebound though only cause he is the DOC…
Doc's outing was pretty much what is expected.What about Brian Wolfe's inning? He impressed me last year and is getting off to a good start.
I just finished reading Robert McLeod's blog on the Globe@Mail web page. It seems that he thinks that Chacin and Jannsen should be asking for equal time with the cards on the locker.I hope they do as well,by pitching their way onto the Doc's locker.I suspect it was done all in good fun.However could it be that Halladay is being more assertive and opinionated in his leadership role this season?As leader of the pitching staff he has issued a challenge to the hopefulls to step it up and take the job.If this is true,it a good sign for this season.Doc's a CLASS ACT and it's showing through.
Hey Jordan:
Sounds like the baseball cards are from a kid who just wants his cards autographed and returned by a self addressed envelope…
Don't forget, you guys that Halladay and Litsch only used 2 pitches, and Wells has been a slow starter for most of his career. From what I heard on the broadcast, Detroit was playing like it was regular season, not Spring Training. I mean, pitching around Joe Inglett? Walking Snider twice in 2 ABs? Give me a break! Let the guys go out there and swing the bat. That's what Spring Training is for, not winning games. There are lots of games to be won later.
Anyway, it was nice to hear Howarth and Ashby again.
Always nice.
It's waaaaaay too early to even think about assessing Vernon, Halladay or anyone else. Let's just hope they all remain healthy.


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|The verifiability of this key is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved.
|mark particularly desirable or undesirable routes
|Group: Bicycles
|Used on these elements
|Search Wikidata
|Status: unspecified
|Tools for this tag
- 1 Rationale
- 2 Usage and subclasses
- 3 Values
- 4 General Factors to decide on a value for class:bicycle
- 5 Keys that Routing Programs should consider in addition to class:bicycle
- 6 Maps for GPS or Autorouting Programs using this key
- 7 Usage Stats
- 8 Comments
- 9 History
- 10 See also
class:bicycle=* and related keys can be used as an additional hint for bicycle routes which are not adequately described by "objective" tags -- where certain routes are highly desirable or undesirable for reasons for which there is currently no good tagging (nice or ugly scenery, unfriendly dogs, hard to avoid pedestrians, dangerous traffic, bad visibility of cyclists behind parked cars...)
It should not be used where other attributes (e.g. highway=tertiary, lanes=2, oneway=yes, maxspeed=30, incline=45%) are considered adequate description.
There are various subclasses of class:bicycle to accommodate for various types of and needs of cyclists (such as touring, mtb, commute, roadcycling, trailer).
The value of the key should express desirability/practicability for a particular class with values between -3 (least desirable) to 3 (highly desirable)
Not to be confused with the classification of bicycle facilities used in North American transportation planning: Class I (bike path, or separate facility), Class II (bike lane), Class III (bike route).
Usage and subclasses
The main key is class:bicycle with values -3 to 3 (least desirable to most desirable). Subkeys can be used where significant differences between various types of bicycle usage exist and up or downhill.
Subkeys are mtb, commute, touring, roadcycling, trailer, non_experienced to be combined with downhill and uphill as necessary.
Example - class:bicycle:mtb:uphill=1.
Applies to any way or relation suitable for cycling (including mountain biking, road cycling, touring,....)
- class:bicycle=* - General key for all types of cycling
- class:bicycle:mtb=* - Cross country mountainbiking. Use for telling the autorouter that a way should be preferred for mountainbiking. To be used used in addition to keys mtb:scale; mtb:scale:uphill. Typical bicycle: Hardtail or Fully Mountainbike with "fat" tires (>1.95")
- class:bicycle:mtb:technical=* - Technical mountainbiking. Not every difficult way (mtb:scale) has to be nice for allmountain, enduro or freeride use.
- class:bicycle:commute=* - Cycling as a mean of transportation, getting quick from A to B on reasonably safe roads.
- class:bicycle:touring=* - Cycletouring and Trekking. Avoiding ugly and dull landscapes, avoiding cars. Typical bicycle: Trekking bike with medium width tires (1.3"-1.7").
- class:bicycle:roadcycling=* - Road cycling for Recreation/Sport. Typical bicycle: Racing bike with thin tires (<1.25")
- class:bicycle:trailer=* - towing a toddler/luggage trailer needs special planning of the route (usually width and surface and barries should be enough)
- class:bicycle:non_experienced=* - Sunday cyclist who is inexperienced; children and elderly
- class:bicycle:mtb=* - Cross country mountainbiking. Use for telling the autorouter that a way should be preferred for mountainbiking. To be used used in addition to keys mtb:scale; mtb:scale:uphill. Typical bicycle: Hardtail or Fully Mountainbike with "fat" tires (>1.95")
E.g. a primary road inside the city with cycleway=lane with high motorist traffic allows a very quick mean of getting from A to B and there is no suitable alternative road nearby. For the "average" cyclist this way is only suitable to get from A to B. It is however not a way where any cyclist group loves to go along when cycling recreationally. We can put:
- class:bicycle:commute=+1
Therefore we make clear that the way is suited for getting from A to B, but not a good choice for cycling in general. We do not need to put down: class:bicycle=-2 because it is better to the keys (if they don't exist yet, we should add them): oneway=yes; lanes=2: highway=primary; source:maxspeed=local already tell us that the way is not well suited for cycling.
Examples where no class:bicycle is needed
|Why not needed?
|highway=path & surface=ground & mtb:scale=0+
|This is a typical path like many others. Standard keys are enough for describing it.
|highway=trunk & lanes=2 & oneway=yes & bicycle=yes
|The normal tags are enough to know that this street is not nice for the average cyclist.
In general only -2 to +2 should be used. -3 Should declare that the way is so unsuitable that it should be avoided at all cost. +3 should be a value that indicates, it is worth making a big detour for getting here.
- "-3" = Avoid at all cost.
- "-2" = Only use to reach your destination, not well suited.
- "-1" = Better take another way
- "0" = as well as other ways around.
- Try to to avoid using 0 but decide on -1 or +1.
- class:bicycle shall only be used as an additional key.
- "1" = Prefer
- "2" = Very Nice way to cycle
- "3" = This way is so nice, it pays out to make a detour also if this means taking
- many unsuitable ways to get here. Outstanding for its intended usage class.
The principle is here to keep it nice and simple.
General Factors to decide on a value for class:bicycle
- cars: how many cars are there? Is there enough space for them to safely pass or are dangerous situations common?
- pedestrians: how many pedestrians?. Is there a clear separation between cyclists and pedestrians, and if so, is that separation respected or are there families with children and dogs walking into your way forcing you to reduce speed and/or brake often.
- bicycle traffic: when you go out on your roadcycle to train, you don't want to have slow "weekend cyclists" in your way. Best are usually roads not cycleways.
Cycleway=cyclelane / cycletrack negative
In countries where the presence of a cycleways obliges you to use them: Can you go fast, or do you have to go slower than you could on the road. Is there increased danger because of cars not seeing you? Crossing Roads where car drivers will overlook you when using the cycletrack instead of the road? Parking Cars (cardrivers open the door without keeping care, cars often blocking the cycletrack/cyclelane)....
Scenery and Nature
Can you see the nice mountains around, or is endless forst blocking your view? Are there nice viewpoints on the way, Nice places to picknick alongside? On long ways outside of civilisation - is there supply to drinking water, either manmade or water from springs in the mountains?
Keys that Routing Programs should consider in addition to class:bicycle
The principle of class:bicycle is that it is used as additional factor. It is not supposed to replace common objective keys.
The list below shall be a list of the most popular keys that help describing the cyclability of a way.
- highway=*
- tracktype=*
- smoothness=*
- mtb:scale=*, with variations
- sac_scale=* - can be used as additional hint where mtb:scale=* is not available
- surface=*
- highway=via_ferrata - usually no cycling possible here
- access=*
- lanes=* - higher number of lanes could mean more traffic and dangerous crossings
- highway=traffic_signals - delays
- incline=*
- route=ferry
- route relations - the router can be assume that routes follow suitable ways.
Maps for GPS or Autorouting Programs using this key
No key or tag in OSM can be suitable without maps/programs pushing them. This is a list of maps that already use not only the class:bicycle scheme, but also already consider all keys in the "objective list", or that are in strong favour of it and will implement the scheme soon.
- Openmtbmap Supported on streets (will need some more tweaking and extending)
- Velomap Implemented on all ways and streets.
- BRouter Implemented at level of script based custom routing profiles, like streetbike_touring profile.
Usage Stats
class:bicycle=* and class:bicycle:mtb=* have each over 5000 counts of usage in November 2014.
- class:bicycle
- class:bicycle:mtb
- class:bicycle:mtb:technical
- class:bicycle:commute
- class:bicycle:roadcycling
- class:bicycle:trailer
Please put them on the talk page. Please copy and adapt class:key for other usages like horseriding or hiking, but open up new pages for this and link them back here so good ideas can be taken over.
Voice your support or constructive objection
Add some personal comments on this key with one catch: You have actively worked on implementing autorouting or at least though about it and used programs that make use of OSM data for autorouting. No harm folks, but many people objecting subjective keys have no clue about how to implement nice autorouting, and should therefore simply shut up or provide an alternative solution before one can take their comments to be constructive. Please use this page and explain why you support this key, or add short statements how you could do it differently.
- As someone who has worked on auto routing before, both with CycleStreets and CloudMade, I can tell you that you don't need this tag. You just need to be clever enough with all the other objective tags out there and you can get good routing, without this subjective tag. Smsm1 22:13, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
- Please see Routino, which already takes into account multiple lanes, bridges, tunnels, highway preferences and bicycle/walking routes. So its just a matter of figuring out the parameters that you prefer for your trip, which is also much more flexible then a single tag stating the preference of a single person. Dranuhl 31 December 2010
- Please don't use this tag. --Richard, cycle.travel.
Based on ideas brought forward Cycleworth and Talk:Cheltenham Standard


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|Pittsburgh, Pa.
|High School:
|Central Catholic
|Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2013-14: Competed in 10 races … sat in seat #2 in the Varsity 8 boat during the spring season, beginning against Bates College and Boston College (3/29) … rowed in the #8 seat in back-to-back races in the Championship 8 boat during the Head of the Charles (10/19-20) and varsity 8 boat during the Princeton Chase (10/27) … sat in seat #4 of the V4 boat during the Foot of the Charles (11/23).
2012-13: Competed in every race this season … switched between the #2 and the #6 seats … opened his first collegiate season at the Head of the Charles (10/21), sitting in the #2 seat of the Varsity A boat … rowed in the #2 seat of the A boat against Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Columbia (4/06) … sat in the #6 seat at the Princeton Chase (10/28), against Williams, WPI, Franklin & Marshall and Connecticut College (4/13), Trinity, Colgate and the University of Rhode Island (4/29) and against Boston University and the University of Wisconsin (5/04) … sat in the #2 seat of the Varsity 4A boat at the IRA National Championships (5/31-6/02).
Off the Water at MIT: Majoring in electrical engineering and computer science … conducted a UROP at the Whitehead Institute … researched the conservation of noncoding sequences in the X chromosome.
High School: A 2012 graduate of Central Catholic High School … three-time varsity letterwinner … also competed on the tennis, soccer and swim teams … National Honor Society.