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Discontinued Product
Sorry, the manufacturer is no longer producing this product.
Description & Highlights
Decobreeze 3 Basket Cat Table Spinner - Cat
Keep delicious wines on your table ready for drinking with the Decobreeze 3 Basket Cat Table Spinner (DFA1646). This unique wine caddy can hold up to three (3) standard wine bottles on the table, allowing you to be served in style with your very own personal butler. The cat design gives off a lighthearted feel, while the color design makes it look like a classic antique.
Solid metal construction makes this piece durable, allowing you to rest assured that this holder will last a long time, while you can also store silverware and napkins in the holder when you don't have wine to hold. As a perfect conversation piece for guests over dinner, this wine bottle spinner will be able to serve you and your guests for many years to come.
Quantity:This caddy can hold three (3) standard size wine bottle as well as dining utensils for meals
Construction:Solid metal construction makes it durable and easy to keep safe to enjoy for many years
Unique Design:A wine caddy designed as a cat gives the table a lighthearted style and feel
- Model: DFA1646Decobreeze 3 Basket Cat Table Spinner
- Brand: DecobreezeSolid metal construction
- Capacity: 3 standard wine bottlesCan be used indoors or outside
- Unique animal designWeight: 17.04 lbs
- Warranty: 1 yearDimensions: 20" H x 11" W
- Height: 20"
- Width: 11"


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Pacific Southwest, Region 9: Superfund
Serving Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and Tribal Nations
San Gabriel Valley (area 1) El Monte, South El Monte, Whittier Narrows
State: California(CA)
County: Los Angeles
City: El Monte
Congressional District: 28,31
Other Names:
Bulletin Board
EPA is conducting a Five Year Review for all of Area 1, including the El Monte, South El Monte, Whittier Narrows, Richwood, and Suburban OUs in 2016.
On this page
Description and History
NPL Listing History
NPL Status: Final
Proposed Date: 09/08/83
Final Date: 05/08/84
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The San Gabriel Valley (Area 1) site is an area of contaminated groundwater over 4 miles long and 1˝ miles wide located in the San Gabriel Valley. In 1984, the EPA identified four large areas of groundwater contamination in the San Gabriel Valley; each area is a separate Superfund site. The sites include four large areas of groundwater contamination that underlie significant portions of the Cities of Alhambra, Arcadia, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Industry, El Monte, La Puente, Monrovia, Rosemead, South El Monte, West Covina, and other areas of the 170 square-mile San Gabriel Valley. Over 30 square miles of groundwater under the Valley may be contaminated. Contamination of the groundwater by volatile organic compounds (VOCs) was first detected in 1979 when Aerojet Electrosystems in Azusa sampled nearby wells in the Valley County Water District. Subsequently, the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) initiated a well sampling program to assess the extent of contamination. By 1984, 59 wells were found to be contaminated with high levels of VOCs. Hundreds of individual facilities could be contributing to the contamination in the basin through improper handling and disposal practices. The area of contamination parallels the San Gabriel River to the east. The basin's groundwater provides approximately 90 percent of the domestic water supply for over 1,000,000 people who live in the Valley. Over 400 water supply wells are used in the basin to extract groundwater for industrial, business, agricultural, and domestic uses. Forty-five different water suppliers operate in the basin and provide drinking water to more than 1,000,000 people. In 1992, EPA completed construction of a water treatment plant for the Richwood Mutual Water Company to assist them in providing water that meets drinking water standards.
Contaminants and Risks
Contaminated Media
- Groundwater
- Soil and Sludges
Groundwater and soil are contaminated with various VOCs, predominantly trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE). People who inhale vapors from groundwater that contain VOCs could be exposed to hazardous substances. Currently, all drinking water provided meets Federal and State drinking water standards.
Investigation and Cleanup Activities
This site is being addressed in five long-term remedial phases focusing on cleanup of area-wide contamination, the Whittier Narrows area, the Suburban Water System's Bartolo Well Fields, the Richwood Mutual Water Company area, the El Monte Area, the South El Monte Area, and identification and cleanup of the source of contamination.
Site Studies
Area-wide Contamination: In 1984, the EPA began a study into the nature and extent of contamination throughout the four San Gabriel Valley sites. The intent of the investigation was to identify areas of the site for focused study and provide support to ongoing cleanup efforts. The investigation and cleanup were split into multiple areas. A Five Year Review for the entire Area 1 Site was completed in 2013.
Source Identification and Control: The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region, and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control are investigating and remediating some sources of contamination.
Remedy Selected
Whittier Narrows Area: In 1987, the EPA began a study of the nature and extent of contamination in the Whittier-Narrows area of the San Gabriel Valley. The investigation led to a decision in 1993 that no immediate action was needed but that monitoring would continue. Since 1996 contaminant levels had increased significantly. EPA evaluated new alternatives to control the migration of the contaminated groundwater, and in 1999 issued a Record of Decision Amendment calling for extraction and treatment of groundwater from extraction wells just north of the Whittier Narrows Dam.
Suburban Water Systems: Bartolo Well Field: Design of the potential cleanup activities was completed in 1991. However, groundwater contamination levels at the Bartolo Well Field and throughout the area adjacent to and upgradient from the wells dropped and now meet federal drinking water standards. Therefore, the remedy was amended in the fall of 1993 to include monitoring only, with a contingency plan to treat groundwater should contaminant levels again exceed federal drinking water standards.
El Monte : In March 1995, an agreement was reached between U.S. EPA and 15 Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs). In the agreement, the PRPs have committed to complete the regional investigation of the area which was completed in early 1998. A cleanup plan was proposed in late 1998. An Interim Record of Decision was signed in June 1999. An Explanation of Significant Differences was signed in 2002 which incorporated treatment for emergent chemicals in the area.
South El Monte : Regional investigation of the area was completed in late 1998 under an agreement between U.S. EPA and a group of Potentially Responsible Parties. An Interim Record of Decision (ROD) was signed in September 2000. An ESD was issued in 2005 to address the treatment of emerging chemicals. The remedy was declared Operational and Functional in 2013. EPA is currently conducting a supplemental RI to evaluate additional cleanup options.
Cleanup Ongoing
Richwood Mutual Water Company: In 1992, the EPA installed a water treatment system to provide clean water to the Richwood Mutual Water Company. In 1993, responsibility for operating the plant was transferred from the EPA to the California State Department of Toxic Substances. San Gabriel Valley Water Company now serves these customers and the treatment system has been dismantled.
Whittier Narrows OU: The 1999 ROD Amendment selected groundwater extraction and treatment as the remedy. EPA started construction of the Whittier Narrows Groundwater Extraction and Treatment Facility in June 2001 and completed construction in March 2002. The facility consists of seven groundwater extraction wells, conveyance pipelines, and 20 pairs of granular activated carbon (GAC) filter vessels for removal of VOCs. EPA has entered into an agreement with the City of Whittier to operate and maintain the treatment facility and to supply treated water to local businesses and residents. EPA conducted the first Five-Year Review for the remedy in September 2006 and a subsequent Five-Year Review in 2011. The Operation and Maintenance was transferred to DTSC May 2013.
Cleanup Results to Date
Completed actions to ensure that residents are being provided with a safe drinking water supply have addressed immediate site contamination concerns. The EPA performed preliminary investigations and determined that residents near the San Gabriel Valley (Area 1) site are protected while studies are taking place and final cleanup actions are being planned.
Potentially Responsible Parties
Potentially responsible parties (PRPs) refers to companies that are potentially responsible for generating, transporting, or disposing of the hazardous waste found at the site.
|August 1995 Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study notice letter recipients, South El Monte operable unit
|February 2001 Pre-Remedial Design/Remedial Action notice letter recipients, South El Monte operable unit
|July 2001 Remedial Design/Remedial Action special notice letter recipients, El Monte operable unit
|March 2002 Remedial Design/Remedial Action special notice letter recipients, South El Monte operable unit
Documents and Reports
Public Information Repositories
The public information repositories for the site are at the following locations:
Rosemead Library
8800 Valley Boulevard
Rosemead, CA 91770
(626) 573-5220
West Covina Library
1601 West Covina Parkway
West Covina, CA 91790
(626) 962-3541
The most complete collection of documents is the official EPA site file, maintained at the following location:
Superfund Records Center
Mail Stop SFD-7C
95 Hawthorne Street, Room 403
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 820-4700
Enter main lobby of 75 Hawthorne street, go to 4th floor of South Wing Annex.
EPA Site Manager
Mariam Fawaz
Kathleen Aisling
Mail Code SFD
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
EPA Community Involvement Coordinator
Mail Code SFD
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
EPA Public Information Center
State Contact
Department of Toxic
Substances Control
Carlos Ortez
Cypress, CA 90630-4732
Regional Water Quality
Control Board
PRP Contact
Community Contact
Other Contacts
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Thread: juwel filter help
09-14-2012, 07:17 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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juwel filter help
Hi folks, 1st time here and already looking for advice. Just upgraded my tank from 60ltr to 260ltr (used). Came with this internal box filter. Person I bought the tank from knew nothing about it. Question is, how do I replace media etc. This is a black box filter but has cable ties holding it together. Is that right? No model number etc on the filter to guide me either.


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By Michael Aneiro
A.D. Pruitt offers a recap of the robust first-quarter REIT performance in today's Wall Street Journal, with self-storage REITs like Extra Space Storage Inc. (EXR) and high-end shopping mall REITs like Simon Property Group Inc. (SPG) leading the way, while offices and apartments lagged. From the Journal:
Alexander Goldfarb, an analyst at Sandler O'Neill + Partners, said companies such as Simon outperformed because they own upscale malls and outlet centers that appeal to a broad range of consumers, and they haven't been hurt much by the growing competition from the Internet….
Some office landlords didn't do as well. New York-based Vornado Realty Trust, (VNO), a large office and retail REIT, reported Monday that funds from operations rose to $1.14 cents a share in the first quarter from 98 cents on an adjusted basis a year ago. Revenue increased 7.7% to $721 million. While most office landlords posted earnings largely in line with expectations, according to Mr. Goldfarb, Vornado's quarterly funds from operations missed Wall Street's target by nine cents as the company continues to dispose of its non-core properties. He also noted Vornado faces challenges in the Washington, D.C., area, a market challenged by a downsizing of the federal government.
Large apartment REITs reported strong rental growth, but they face a looming slowdown in growth because of rising competition and more people owning homes.
"We are moving into a new phase of the multifamily housing cycle, a more typical phase, characterized by higher levels of apartment supply and incrementally greater competition from for-sale housing," David Stockert, chief executive of Post Properties Inc. (PPS) said during a recent conference call. He said added competition will result in "a more sensitive trade-off between pushing rents and sustaining high occupancy."
The story notes that a slowly improving economy has allowed landlords to raise rents, while REIT valuations continue to improve, citing an index of 51 REITs that increased 1% in April and now shows REITs hovering above 2007 peak levels.


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The Olympic Games are almost upon us!!!!!!!!! Is anyone else as excited as I am? I can barely hold it in!
We thought it would be a great idea to build up our anticipation here at the STACKS by having an Olympics-themed week on Ink Splot 26. The Games begin on Friday, July 27, 2012. We've got all sorts of fun stuff planned until then (with a few surprises), so stay tuned!
To kick things off, let's CREATE A CAPTION! What do you think would be a great caption for the photo of this Olympic Table Tennis player in the heat of a competition?
I'm thinking the following:
Got a better caption? Share it in the Comments below!
P.S. We're also curious – if there was any Olympic event, real or imaginary, that you could include in the Olympic Games, what would it be? Tell us in the Comments!
— En-Szu, STACKS Intern (a.k.a. MidnightMagic5)
Images Courtesy London 2012


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Major: Biology (Ken) & Nursing (Catherine)
Year of Graduation: 2001 (Ken) & 2002 (Catherine)
Current Job Title:
Ecological restoration for Shooting Star Native Seeds (Ken)
Registered Nurse on a Hematology/Oncology floor (Catherine)
They took time to volunteer after graduation before beginning jobs in nursing and ecological restoration.
What made you decide to volunteer after graduation?
We spent a year volunteering because we wanted to take a break from working for money and instead work to experience new things. We chose to work at the Gesundheit! Institute because we were intrigued by its philosophy and wanted to learn more about it. And what better way of learning than doing? Gesundheit! is Patch Adam's work toward reforming the health care delivery system. We worked at the site in West Virginia where a free hospital will be built and where health care will be achieved through community interaction rather than by a business transaction. We were surrounded by interesting people from around the world who worked at living in a community while working hard and playing hard. Our work involved a lot of organic gardening and some ecological restoration. It was a part of the effort to make the space a healthy place for people to live in community with each other and the land, which will be crucial to realizing health when the hospital is built.
What are you currently doing and what is your typical day like?
Ken: I work for Shooting Star Native Seeds, a company that grows and sells native prairie and wetland seed for the purpose of ecological restoration. There is no typical day at work. Depending on the season and the weather, I can be found planting, harvesting seed with a combine, cleaning seed, and meeting with a landowner about a prairie planting, or conducting a prescribed burn. I enjoy the variety and the mix between hands-on labor and decision-making that employs my educational background in biology.
Catherine: I am employed at Mayo Clinic as a Registered Nurse on a Hematology/Oncology floor. I work with people and their families that have been diagnosed with cancer, usually a leukemia or lymphoma. I like the challenge and mystery of medicine. Getting to know a person at the time of their life that they have been diagnosed with a terrible illness is tough, but it is also beautiful.
What are your favorite aspects of your job and least favorite aspect?
Catherine: I feel that a cancer diagnosis is so all-encompassing of life and therefore enjoy being a part of the many stages that patients experience. Since these people are often in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy or other treatment for so long, I get to know them and their often supportive families so well. This is the best part of my job. It is also the worst part, because after going through much laughter and tears, I sometimes am with my friends as they die. I also get frustrated about the 'why' question of cancer, and how it connects to ways in which we live in and treat our world.
Ken: My favorite thing about working with Shooting Star Native Seeds is the opportunity to make a living by protecting and restoring our ecological heritage. My biggest challenge will be finding ways to combine the cooperative attitude of the conservation field with the competitive mindset of business.
What advice would you offer to students trying to decide what they would like to do after graduation?
We encourage students to study what fascinates them and create a career that involves doing what they enjoy to accomplish something they feel strongly about. Post-graduate plans do not have to be set in stone and career paths can take the scenic route. Our parents' and grandparents' generations worked while they were young and retired when they got old. We have lived a few years of our "retirement" already, while we are young enough to fully experience it. We will have plenty of time to work when we are older. We feel that both our time volunteering and the time we spent after graduation hiking on the Appalachian Trail gave us insight into who we are. We also feel that this experience outside of traditional "work" has really broadened who we are and how we interact in our world...adding to what we have been able to enjoy in and contribute to our jobs.


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USE them, Dont LOSE them: Reviewing Paid Time Away (PTA) Balances
Staff Council, in conjunction with the Office of Human Resources, would like to remind benefit-eligible staff to review Paid Time Away (PTA) balances in Parnassus Employee Self-Service. Reviewing balances now will allow ample time to plan the use of vacation time before new annual grants are applied on June 1, 2014.
To see balances, go to Parnassus:
Self Service Time> Create Timecard and click on "Show PTA Balances"
- The most that anyone will see in their vacation balance is the maximum allowed as per our current policy (an employee's PTA balance may not cause the balance to exceed the hours granted in a 1.5 year period). Vacation is intended to provide time off for rest and relaxation; therefore, employees may not receive pay instead of taking vacation time.
- All vacation leave must be approved by the supervisor in advance and scheduled at the mutual convenience of the employee and the department.
- Personal leave is for use during the current fiscal year; any unclaimed hours will be forfeited when the annual grants are applied on June 1st. Employees are required to obtain approval from the supervisor in advance before using personal time.
How to submit time if you are working on a Flexible Work Arrangement schedule:
- Vacation and sick leave will reflect the hours scheduled for the workday. (For example, if you are scheduled for nine (9) hours on Monday and request vacation for the day, nine (9) hours of vacation will be recorded).
- For those employees working a four day schedule, if a holiday falls on a day that the employee is not scheduled to work, that employee may revert back to a five day work week for that week to be paid for holiday pay. The employee may also take a regular scheduled day during that week, but will only be paid seven and a half or eight hours and will be required to use PTA to make the work week whole. Example: If the employee works Monday – Thursday and the holiday falls on a Monday, the employee will receive seven and a half or eight hours of holiday pay. The employee may choose to use PTA to make up the difference and make the work week whole.
- Alternative schedules cannot be altered to accommodate vacation, sick, or personal time. If an employee is working a four day work week, the employee must use 9.3 or 10 hours of vacation, sick, or personal time to make the week whole.
We all work very hard in our roles here at the College – but it is equally important that we take the time that is available to us to get away from work and "recharge" our batteries to come back ready for more! We are fortunate that Ithaca College identifies the importance of PTA – our current policies are very generous when we include all of the holidays, the winter break, and the allotment of vacation, sick, and personal time. Enjoy your time!
Contact the Office of Human Resources at 4-8000 or email@example.com if you have further questions.
PTA Policy: /hr/docs/hrforms/benefitsdocs/pta/pta_policy.pdf
How to enter PTA, Non-Exempt Employees: /hr/docs/hrforms/hrinfo/ESS/PROHRI43.pdf
How to enter PTA, Exempt Employees: /hr/docs/hrforms/hrinfo/ESS/PROHRI47.pdf
Flexible Work Arrangement Policy and Request Form: /hr/benefits/wrklife/fwa/


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Guys and Gals,
RTF is here for adding value to the retriever community.
All users of RTF must be willing to be accountable for their words and actions that they place on this forum. There are a few reasons that "real names" are not an absolute requirement for all RTF users. They are valid. For now, this will remain the way here. Real names are not a requirement...today.
That said, all users must be willing to provide to RTF administration, their true and accurate contact information upon request. If you are unwilling to do this, your priveleges as an RTF poster will be removed. If you are unwilling to comply, please do not post on this forum.
Users are entitled to one registered name per individual. Folks posting under more than one username will be permanently banned from RTF posting priveleges. Qui Chang Trainer is grandfathered-in and is exempt from this. (many of us miss him... or is it her? ) For those of you who want to come clean, create a new Username, and get away from past trouble-making behaviors, please come to me directly and we'll work it out. This is not a "witch hunt". This is a simple effort to keep RTF chugging along as the value-adding resource that it is... I'm looking to cut out the extremely small amont of nonsense that we have here from time-to-time.
Guys and gals, this board is here for all sorts of benefit. It is not here to take the place of judges, juries, or legal systems in the case of buyer/seller disputes. RTF is not here as a place to attack or defame others. It is not here to promote or use profanity or pornographic content.
As some of you have seen me write before, please use RTF, and write about others as you would like to have others write about you. (I've called it "the golden rule" before... Golden Retriever fans, seem to like this)
Thanks to all of you for the vast majority of the RTF usage. IT is beneficial to all of the retriever community.
Each and every one of you makes this board what it is.
Special thanks are in order to RTF moderators, both past and present, including: Vicky Trainor, Shayne Mehringer, Chris Kingrea, Jerry Harris and Lee Salmon.
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I'm a Complex Kid! (ICK!) Bioengineering Fair Hosted by Binghamton University
BINGHAMTON, NY – The fifth annual Binghamton University I'm a Complex Kid! (ICK!) Bioengineering Fair will be held Saturday, Apr. 9, at the Binghamton University Downtown Center. There will be two sessions offered, the first from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the second from 2 to 6 p.m.
The fair is for students, grades 1-6 and will introduce them to bioengineering concepts such as modeling life, networking and biologically inspired design. The event features 14 bioengineering-based activities including Kitchen DNA, Wind Cars, Patterns in Nature, Bio inspired design and Slime Formation.
The event costs $20 per student and includes all supplies and refreshments. Students can sign up through Apr. 5 at binghamtonbioengineers.com or for more information,
e-mail email@example.com.


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Another Zalmon ZM460 bites the dust. This one probably because the load on the server is more than 460 watts I expect. Put in a Cooler Master Silent PRO 800. And it is silent. Probably will stick with Cooler Masters for now.
Another Zalmon ZM460 bites the dust. This one probably because the load on the server is more than 460 watts I expect. Put in a Cooler Master Silent PRO 800. And it is silent. Probably will stick with Cooler Masters for now.
Frequently get this:
$ evince
Maximum number of clients reachedCannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:
Flew to Melbourne today, for a few holidays + the Drupal Down Under. Had a problem with my K3805-Z stick, wasn't recognised anymore on this machine. Perhaps the Oneiric upgrade? According to syslog usb-modeswitch crashed when inserting the stick. The solution was to get the 1.21 usb_modeswitch, compile and install it, and that fixed the problem.
Good for performance as the always reliable K3565 Vodem worked, but is feeling a bit slow these days.
The only problem I still have is that Ubuntu itself doesn't pickup on the USB sticks anymore. It used to that, perhaps my playing around a year ago to get the K3805-Z working killed things. So need the latest vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux to connect me.
Today was a bit of poking around day. Tried to setup PXE booting from my FreeBSD 8. Didn't get it working using the guides (1, and 2 were particularly helpful) until I understood that the host setting (with MAC address) is really, really required. You can't have a setup where a PXE client boots something default.
After some playing was also able to get linux booting to work. Now installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a Dell PowerEdge R210 using my new PXE boot capabilities.
Lot of changes to my network recently. The old PIII-800MHz became a pfSense router for a friend, and the server is the Intel Core2 4400 at 2GHz, so quite a step up. But getting it all configured was major pain.
After putting the new motherboard into the case, the system sort-of booted, but not really. Couldn't find the kernel. As this was the server, my network was down, so not easy to download a bootable cd, which I should have prepared actually. Somehow I had a FreeBSD 8.0 disk, so was able to boot with that in the end and poke around. It appears the kernel was ad4, instead of ad0 ??? Still don't understand it. The disk was ATA, but I also put in a SATA disk which became ad6. And the MBR was corrupt or perhaps the next boot loader was corrupt. Had to reinstall to boot and set it up to load the kernel from ad4.
Putting the old motherboard in another case went wrong too as the PSU (Zalman ZM460B-APS) died in the process.
Got another Zalman ZM460b-APS power supply die on me. The quality of these units is just very poor. Yes, they're very quiet, but they die way too soon.
Just released new beta for xplain2sql, version 4.1.0.
No new major functionality as this is a very stable tool, but important performance improvements for mysql and postgresql. And bug fixes.
My quest to get svnserve to work has succeeded. Went with saslauthd, so I can use pam authentication, and use stunnel to make sure plain text passwords can't be snooped. All getting pretty complex, but a lot faster than accessing svn over Apache.
Found out the reason why I must store plain text passwords. It's because of the sasl auxprop framework. That only works with plain text passwords, not encrypted ones. Subversion and sasl use the md5-digest method to communicate with the client, so that's covered. But having plain text passwords in the database, really, we can't get away with that these days.
Supposedly with saslauthd and the pam framework it might be possible to use encrypted passwords. So testing that now.
Hmmm, disappointed to conclude that even if you configure svnserve with DIGEST-MD5, it doesn't appear to work. Plain text password gets send over the wire, and digest calculation appears to happen at the svnserve side, not svn itself.
UPDATE: looking at the code, you would say that's not true. Need to insert some debug statements...
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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Additionally, I am now purportedly being suspended for failing to confront my former defensive coordinator for his inappropriate use of language.
Fujita was suspended in addition to the others as per the Rooney Rule.
The Commissioner says he is disappointed in me. The truth is, I'm disappointed in him. His positions on player health and safety since a 2009 congressional hearing on concussions have been inconsistent at best. He failed to acknowledge a link between concussions & post-career brain disease, pushed for an 18-game regular season, committed to a full season of Thursday night games, has continually challenged players' rights to file workers compensation claims for on-the-job injuries, and he employed incompetent replacement officials for the start of the 2012 season. His actions or lack thereof are by the league's own definition, "conduct detrimental".
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By Supporting Young Men of Color, We Enhance Our Collected Futures
June 04, 2010
Cheyney University Call Me MISTER students
In January 2010, the Advocacy & Policy Center of the College Board produced a monograph entitled, "The Educational Crisis Facing Young Men of Color: Reflections on Four Days of Dialogue on the Educational Challenges of Minority Males." The stated goal of the Advocacy & Policy Center is to "transform education in America." So, the Center has a laudable objective, and they can use our help.
President of the College Board, Gaston Caperton, remarked that he was "particularly struck by the impact of the lack of education on a person's chances of ending up in prison. This realization led me to an examination of two things: the first was the cost, in human and fiscal terms, of our failure to educate our citizens well. The second was a consideration of what the College Board might do in response to this issue" (Preface, 2010).
To examine the situation closer, the College Board conducted four, one-day seminars to identify the challenges facing young men of color in America. Numerous scholars, social activists, and young men of color discussed the perceptions and experiences of these young men.
The College Board reported in its monograph that the days of dialogue "pinpointed powerful societal forces that threaten educational aspirations of young men of color. These include the lack of role models, the search for respect outside of the education world, the loss of cultural memory in shaping minority male identity and pride, barriers of language, the challenges of poverty, extraordinary community pressures and a sense that the education system is failing our young."
These findings, with my own 30 years of observations, compel me to examine how we at Cheyney University could augment our support to Americans who are falling through the cracks of our educational continuum. Some of these young men find it easier to follow a path to incarceration rather than a path to higher education and more rewarding careers. Unfortunately, America has the largest incarcerated population in the world, and African American males are highly represented in this population of incarcerated Americans often because of a sheer lack of attention or lack of role models.
The findings from the days of dialogue seem to lead the Advocacy and Policy Center to describe a "third America" that is often overlooked or ignored by mainstream America, even though these Americans appear to be headed for the too real cliff of educational decline that is expected to peak in 2020. Moreover, the Center warns that the fate of the "third Americans" – many of them young men of color—affects our collective national, economical, and global lives.
From my perspective, there has been some action nationally since this call. However, much more needs to be accomplished, and best practices should be replicated.
Mayor Michael Nutter has championed the need for increasing the college-going and college completion rate in the Philadelphia area. He has called representatives from the School District of Philadelphia, the charter schools, and nearly 90 institutions of higher education to the table to determine how this grave challenge could be met and managed.
Many institutions, including Cheyney University have responded that we will work more systematically to bridge the transition from high school, or middle school, to college by offering dual enrollment programs, mentorship activities, and more invitations to college events. It seems that sturdy relationship bridges need to be built that establish bonds that help young men of color transition from one life and educational stage to another.
Since 2008, we have been aware of the need to more strategically respond to the fate of men of young men of color. Thus, we became engaged in the Call Me MISTER program. On May 8, 2010, Cheyney University graduated the first cohort of students in the Call Me MISTER Initiative. The mission of the Call Me MISTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) Initiative is to increase the pool of available teachers from broader more diverse backgrounds, particularly among the State's lowest performing elementary schools. Students who participate in the Call Me MISTER program are largely selected from under-served and socially disadvantaged communities.
Thanks to the Honorable James Roebuck of the PA House of Representatives (who secured initial funding for the program here), the Call Me MISTER project is contributing to the talent pool of excellent teachers by identifying and supporting students who aspire to become teachers. Cheyney University is proud to participate in this national initiative because it builds teachers who are leaders and who will return to their communities to inspire other young men and women of color to develop their cognitive, creative, and leadership abilities. Mentoring and leadership development skills are essential components of the Call Me MISTER program.
American icon, Dr. Bill Cosby, has agreed to serve as the Honorary Chairperson of the Call Me MISTER program to help us raise scholarship funds for it and to expand its influence.
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Through these projects, and other initiatives, Cheyney University is affirmatively responding to the need to support young men of color in America. However, we realize that we must have more partners to stand up with us, shoulder to shoulder, to make an even larger impact on this national crisis.
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Very cool Pete!!
If by chance you happen to stop by, say hello to Ginny Wellman. Please let her know we appreciate her supporting the Forum and the rest of us hope to come fish the waters of Little Deadman's Cay soon like you.
Enjoy and hope you have an awesome trip.
I'm going on Saturday - will return on the 29th and will report how things are. The trip is booked through David Bendix of Bucanneer travel out of Sheridan Wyoming. We have contacted him and he had this to say (hope he doesn't mind posting this):
Fishing has been great there. I'd say that the best flies there are like
this (not necessarily in any order of priority):
Pink Puff
Apricot Charlie
Bonefish Special
McVay Gotcha (some minor modifications: wrap the entire shank of hook
eye-to-bend, with 3/0 pink, orange, or yellow thread. Cover that with
either crystal braid or 4 - 6 strands of krystal flash. Put a tiny tuft of
pink, orange, or yellow marabou on the tail. Coat the hook shank after
krystal flash or braid applied with clear fingernail polish. For wing, use
fly fur in pink, yellow, orange or light tan, with 4 to 6 strands of krystal
flash mixed in. Also, put two LONG - like 2 inches long - strands of
krystal flash on the tail. Mimics antennae of a shrimp. This fly is my
All flies should be size 6; some 4s. Make them fairly light weight. You'll
want a bit of weight like tiny lead eyes or bead chain to make the fly sink,
but you DO NOT want a heavy, splashy fly.
About weather conditions, they do have some wind. Nice thing about this
place is that the guides are skilled enough, and the layout of the area is
such, that you can easily position yourself to get whatever wind there is to
work WITH you instead of against.
You're gonna have a great trip. Leave a few for someone else....
David Bendix
My buddy Chris and his Dad went there last year and had a great time. It is a fishing destination, no nightlife, clubs, etc. Just fishing on the hard white sand flats, but I'm sure that is what you are looking for. Another friend used to rent a house on the island, and he liked to tie up some white and yellow Del Brown crab flies (dime and nickle size). They enjoyed it on Long Island enough to book multiple years.
I've read Randall Kaufmann's Bonefishing book and the months of April and May supposedly are very good in terms of weather, fishing, and species found. If you can swing it, and the discount is pretty good, then I'd recommend jumping on it. you might miss out on the start of the striper run, but from what everyone says - these bonefish are a blast. Good luck with your decision.
I will post some stuff upon my return. Just finished up another rod tonight - 4pc 8wt - can't wait to use it.
Deadman's Cay - early May?
Anyone headed to Deadman's Cay early in the first half of next month? I've been made aware of a discount opportunity by one of our sponsors on this private island bonefish paradise
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FWIW....anyone out there have any further info on this guy, aside from what's provided here in this article?
Bush Picks Utah Governor to Head EPA
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AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) on Monday picked Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites), a nomination that immediately drew fire from a key Democrat and environmental groups.
Bush made the announcement as he arrived in the Denver area for a campaign fund-raising event. He called Leavitt, in his third term, a "trusted friend and a capable executive" and said he would be a "fine addition to my administration."
"Mike Leavitt will come to the EPA with a strong environmental record and a strong desire to improve on what has taken place during the last three decades," Bush said with Leavitt at his side.
Leavitt, a Republican, would succeed former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (news - web sites), who resigned as EPA administrator in May after a tenure in which she found herself frequently at odds with more conservative members of the Bush administration.
Senate confirmation hearings are expected to be held soon after Congress returns from its August recess.
Leavitt said he regretted giving up "the service of a decade to a state I love and to people I love."
"But I may do so knowing that the air is cleaner than when I arrived, that the water is more pure, that the land is better cared for, and that the people are more safe," he said.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record), a Connecticut Democrat and presidential contender, wasted little time using the nomination to attack Bush's environmental record.
Lieberman said that the Bush administration has logged "the worst environmental record in history," and pledged a tough confirmation hearing for Leavitt.
Environmental groups immediately criticized Leavitt for past public statements where he called for more federal environmental regulation to be ceded to states.
"His philosophy on all these is: less regulation, no matter what the cost to public health and the environment," said Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust. "I can't think of too many governors more hostile to government regulations than Mike Leavitt."
Doug Scott, policy director of the Campaign for America's Wilderness, was disappointed.
He said Leavitt is most recently known for "cutting back-door deals and settlements with the Interior Department that abandoned protections for 6 million acres of wilderness-quality lands in his state and placed tens of millions of acres of such lands across the West on a silver platter for development interests."
"Governor Leavitt's poor record on wilderness protections in his home state does not bode well for the American people, who believe they should have a voice in how their environment is protected," he said.
A White House statement drew a different picture of Leavitt. It said he has led Utah and other western states to significant environmental improvements through leadership, consensus building and partnerships.
"Today, Utah meets all federal air quality standards," it said. "This was not the case at the beginning of the Leavitt administration. Utah also has the nation's cleanest watersheds, and they have improved significantly during his tenure."
The Indian on the side of the road has stopped crying.
Leavitt will be perfect. Whitman seemed to be too concerned with her reputation. In this time of turmoil, we need team players. The mission of the EPA is past. The environment has been saved. It is time to scrap clean air and water regs., so we can compete with countries that have no environmental regulations. Sure Canada has alot of trees, but we can go toe to toe with any country if only the enviro-nazis would let us at the forests. Most people will never set foot in a Natl. forrest (or park for that matter).
We've got to get at that oil in Alaska befor a Democrat gets re-elected!
While I'm on a tear, I say good riddance to Colen Powell too. We need team players.
One cast can change your day...maybe your life.
After living with him for the past 10 year, all I can add is that we are in for some interesting times!!! All of the listed accusations do have merit.
Who are they trying to kid??? We have some of the worst air quality conditions in the US come winter when the inversions settle in over the wasatch front, which is the place where 75% of the population resides. You are better off living in SoCal.
Here's the story. The left will villify him, and the right will praise him. Let's be truthful - all we can do is see what he does, then make up our OWN minds.
That's the only FAIR way to do it.
It is more than FAIR
to judge a man by what he has done and what he stands for.
One cast can change your day...maybe your life.
And so yesterday the Bush administration, with an EPA endorsement, effectively gutted the Clear Air Act.
Sure has been a hot summer for the Puget Sound region. Seattle is in the process of shattering its record for consecutive days with temps 70 degrees plus. I hear Norway has been unusually warm. Idaho was hotter than hell in late July into early August. And France, ...well we all know how bad it got there.
So now we get to look forward to more pollutants, more greenhouse gasses.
Hey George, you might not have to walk in our shoes and you might not have to eat our food but you will still have to breathe the same air you moron!
Greenhouse gasses - Is this what they meant with the greening of America?
This scares the crap out of me... let's not forget James Watt, Ronnie Raygun's Secretary of the Interior. He did step foot into a National Park once, to look at the old growth in the Olympic Forest. He decided that the last 3% needed to come down, but luckily it was partially stopped by people who care.
Remember the spotted owl? It forced timber companies to reduce harvest, right? It forced working americans to starve, right? The truth is that annual harvest levels never declined through the ESA war, in fact they increased steadily. The real problem starving businesses was that timber conglomerates who have many hands in their pockets from the right side of capitol hill changed their business model to exporting raw logs overseas instead of dealing with local mills and manufacturers of goods. There is reportedly enough northwest timber buried in salt bogs in Asia that it would take 40 years to consume the reserve at current production rates. Why don't we prohibit that and export finished goods, putting local businesses hard at work utilizing that timber? FYI - much of the finished product from that wood is re-imported to North America. Lose-lose, unless you are a big timber executive. The little guy get shafted.
Watt also supported a proprosal to strip mine Yellowstone.
Regardless of your political position compare his record with Babbitt's - small victories are more meaningful to me, someday before I die I will walk the upper Elwha and see a steelhead above the illegal dam site. Thank you Bruce, may the dream come true.
It's dubious at best that anyone Bush appoints has any genuine interest in protecting natural resources. The agenda is clearly to figure out ways to exploit what we have without damaging Jr's re-election campaign plans, which at this point are looking v-e-r-y bleak.
Ya got to wonder what right wing conserative fly fishermen think about when they are fly fishing? From what I've read here maybe they think of dredging this beautiful river for gold, how can I buy into it and with Bush in charge profit sharing will continue to increase. No I must be wrong they would never think that for their home rivers but someone elses river one that he will never fish who cares.
Americans are so possesed with profit first, truely profit is the American God. Mr. Leavett is there for one reason and that is to continue to undo all that has taken place on the enviro front from Nixon on. Why simply increased profit for about one percent of the American population.
Let's see, one of the first things Bush did when he got in was raise the allowable levels of arsenic in drinking water. Search the net for Bush Arsenic :eyecrazy:
Given that alone, if Bush picked this guy it's not just the little woodland creatures that are in trouble, it's our children.
I saw a "Sports men for Bush" bumper sticker
The most amazing thing to me is that I suspect that most sportsmen support the GOP and Bush. It seems that easy acces to guns are more important to hunters than the land they hunt and fish on. Weird priorities.
The current backlash against environmentalists is scary.
One cast can change your day...maybe your life.
At the ristk of being labeled a "right-wing wacko", I must jump in here.
First of all Bush did not raise the permissible level of arsenic in drinking water, all he did was left it the level it was at for the last 20 years, despite all the b.s. on various internet sites to the contrary. The prior administration was considering making a huge change in the amount of allowable aresenic in drinking. One that would have made most spring water (including Perrie) no longer suitable for consumption by people in the U.S. In other words, it is very disingenuous of people to claim Bush made our water less safe.
Second, the democratic governors of Oregon and Washington encourqged the exporting of timber to Asia by the timber companies. There was a lot of timber sent that was cut on state timber lands in each of these two states. And both state's governors and the democratic state land managers in both states opposed any federal restrictions on the exporting of raw timber. Something about restricting raw timber exports having a negative impact of the economy of rural Washington and Oregon.
Third, the large timber companies were strangely silent on the spotted owl. They had cut most of the harvestable timber from their own timber lands and sent it oversees as raw timber and this provided a very nice reason to the mill workers and timber workers who lost their jobs over the lack of timber. Many of the timber companies created wholely-owned subsidaries to seperate their timber lands from their mills. This let it them lose money on paper in the outdated mills, close the mills without government opposition, get government loans and tax consessions to build a new mill in another town, and get rather large tax write-offs for the supposed losses that resulted from "buying" timber at high, market prices from what used to be one large company before the creation of the "wholely-owned subsidaries. And this move to wholely-owned subsidaries was done with the blessing of the administration in power during the 1990's.
Fourth, the Bush administration has simply made a change that allows older, out-dated powerplants and manufacturing facilities to update the equipment in the plants without having to meet the latest, state-of-the-art polution control equipment at the same time. This means that if a turbine wears out (of course we know they never do) the power company can replace the old ones with newer, more efficient ones (instead of the older design it had been using) without also having to install the latest polution control technology as well. The net result, the air is not polluted anymore than it was and the plant can produce more power with the same amount of pollution as before. This has the net effect of more energy with the same pollution level. This is hardly increasing the amount of air pollution.
Let us not forget that the U.S. has the most stringent air and water pollution standards in the world and that they were implimented during Tricky Dick's administration, including the creation of the EPA.
Fifth, several folks in the forum condemned the use of a wind power farm in Mass. This is a non-polluting source of energy that has been in use for quite a while in Mont. Why is it not OK to have it on a coastal island in Mass.? What better way to be environmentally friendly than to use non-polluting, and non-river damming methods to produce power?
I f we don't get this bozo out of the White House we're not going to be fishing or hunting much longer.
Bush, and the current juggernaut of bad-business that props him up represent the biggest threat to sportsmen and those who care about wild places in several generations.
If this isn't painfully obvious, then you aren't paying attention.
Howard Dean is a chance for us Sportsmen. Listen to him sometime.
We have to get together on this. Now.
carter g
flytyer -
A status quo on pollution in a time with an increasingly enlightened and populated planet IS effectively going backwards. That's like acknowledging that dams kill salmon, but the dams won't kill any MORE salmon this year than they did last year, so dams are OK.
Absolutely bogus logic. If arsenic levels need to be reduced, and the National Academy of Sciences has concluded as such, then inaction and a call for more study (Bush plan) is tantamount to a reversal.
If greenhouse gas emissions need to reduced (and they do), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded as such, then inaction and a call for more study (Bush plan) is tantamount to a reversal.
Finally, your statement that the US has the most stringent water and air pollution laws in the world needs some teeth. Consider the Environmental Sustainability Index, which ranks the US pretty far down the list:
Richard Nixon - he was okay on many fronts (foreign relations, environment), and clearly terrible on others. The Endangered Species Act, despite its flaws (nothings perfect) was enacted under his watch. To even insinuate that the current administration is neutral or "status quo" on the environment is an absolute joke. Such inaction in the face of obvious facts is irresponsible, wrong, and an affront to the people of the USA and the entire world.
You are misinformed, the proposal for this private venture is not to put the windmills on an island, it's to put them IN THE WATER over several square miles of area in the middle of the sound in shifting sand shoals in the migratory paths of numerous fish and bird species in a fragile environ which is one of the last remaining somewhat pristine areas in the entire region. They may not emit smoke but they will corrode and leak lubricants, involve major construction projects in the water and habitat of millions if not billions of organisms, and worst of all it's hairbrained science fiction at it's best.
Putting the windmills on an island would be fine my me... in fact I proposed the government owned Otis Air Force Base, which is a massive land area closed to public access in one of the largest areas of the cape. If you were familiar with the area you might agree.
We know the power is meaningless anyway, it's only going to be sold into the grid for private gain. There is no power problem on the Cape today that the windmills will solve.
If anyone thinks the multi-year, big bucks construction will have no negative impact via pollutants and other damages to the Nantucket Sound ecosystem during and after construction they are dreaming. If anyone thinks these structures will last out there for any appreciable number of years, they are ignorant. The whole plan is ludicrous.
Put them on an island, yes please - not in the sound!
Those bumper stickers, "Sportsmen for Bush" are just that. Thank god that fly fishermen concern themselves with conservation issues first and the sportsmenship thing of this era down our list as why we participate in the outdoors. We may not get it right all the time as fly fishermen but our intent is good. We can be proud of that.
To say there will be less air pollution because of the rule changes or the same amount of air pollution is wrong. One must read the language carefully. The Bush administration says that pollution will stay under the current permit level and on that front he is most likely correct. But the majority of the 1700 power plants in this country are below that permit level now and by a fair amount. The rule change is so power companies can make changes that will pollute more than they do now but will increase profit for the companies. No they will not go over the current permit limitations which are artificially too high and have been from day one. Air pollution will go up as will profit.
As for the toughest air quality standards in the world I dought it. Are we not in the lowest 10% for the 30 or so first world countries? Of course there are 90 some odd countries who are not first world who can not afford to clean up their act so if you add us the wealthiest country in the world to the entire countries in the world we do rank high. Big deal, we still consume 25% of the world energy and it's that energy and lax standards to begin with that make the USA as one of the worlds top air polluters only behind China and Russia I'll bet.
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In "Decision Time," Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20-plus years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Post what choice you would have made, and then see how things actually turned out.
A Hard Road
It had been an action-packed day in the turkey woods, yet by 5 p.m., my friend and I still didn't have a gobbler.
With evening approaching, we decided to check a large hayfield where my buddy had seen some strutters the previous week. The field ran north and south, and we wanted to approach from the west. However, a large swamp was in our way, so we'd have to angle south along some sparse woods on high ground that bordered a county highway and then cut back to the northeast to reach the field. Along the way, we'd call and glass for turkeys.
Of course, we hadn't counted on the traffic. Apparently, the day shift at a local plant had just ended, and vehicles cruised by regularly. And sure enough, just as we got close to the busy highway, a gobbler answered my yelps. He wasn't close, but he wasn't that far, either.
The turkey was in the field, which usually wouldn't have bothered me too much. However, with cars streaming steadily behind us on the road, I wanted to move closer to the bird, fearing a vehicle would spook him if he approached. But our path to the hay was fairly open, so even a 100-yard dash to the sparse cover of some field-side pines would be dicey.
What a choice: Risk moving toward the bird and spooking him, or stay put and potentially have the gobbler booger from a passing truck. It was poison-picking time.
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Playing Space Marine got my interested in W40K again, which after some research led me to Warmachine. The fewer models to paint, smaller investment, and less repeated models seemed easier to get into that Warhammer. Has anyone tried it out? Is it fun to play? It will be a hard sell trying to convince any friends to commit, but with the new 2-player box coming out I figured I might have a chance.
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i... dont. but i know in my area it has a decent community which was a surprise to me as i always thought mini games fell under the category of "warhammer or bust." so while i cant offer any tips or advice about the game, check your local gamestore scene - you might be as surprised as i was and if youre really interested in getting in on it you might be able to slowly suck your friends in with a few "impromptu" trips on game night!
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My step-brother convinced me to give this a try, and I really liked it. I have never played any game like it, but it didn't take long for me to get hooked. We used to play once a week, but haven't played since football season started.
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I play it extensively. Did you have any particular questions? Did you want a run down of the game?
Warmachine, and Hordes, are skirmish games that are easy to get into. If you like collecting, you'll probably end up with the same cost as other games if you get the entire line for you army, but you'll be playing all along the way. All you really need to start is a Warcaster and 2 Warjacks, but that's just a basic starter. The 2 player box set is actually a really good deal since it gets you much closer to the normal sized game of 35 points.
I've played almost every faction, and fought every one. My current armies are Retribution and Cygnar, although I used to play Trollbloods from Hordes.
The core mechanic of warmachine is the interplay of the Warcaster, basically the army's leader akin to a King piece in chess and his magical ability in the form of Focus, which is then used to cast spells or power up his Warjacks, big steam powered robots with magi-tech brains (called cortexes) that are psychically bonded to the Warcaster. Every Warcaster has usually 5-6 focus points, and much of the decision making is choosing where to spend it since each spell costs focus, but focus can also make Warjacks incredibly deadly.
Then you add on other unit types like infantry, artillery weapons, solos and special characters, each of which have their own special ability, and the interactions become quite fun.
Most games the objective is to kill the enemy Warcaster, so you'll have to get used to the idea of sacrificing things to line up the chance to get the kill in, which isn't easy.
Hordes is a companion game to Warmachine, it uses mostly the same rules, but instead of steam powered robots, you have fantasy beasts that are magically enraged to generate fury energy that their Warlocks tap into. So if you like big living monsters instead of steam robots, that's another option.
Warmachine factions breakdown:
Cygnar - "Good Guys." The most highest tech faction in the game. Also recently attacked by every single other faction, and on the verge of a civil war/coup. But overall, they're. They're themes are supreme ranged firepower, lightning/electricity weapons, and a solid core of all around warjacks.
Khador - Basically Soviet Russia trying to conquer the Iron Kingdoms. Lower tech, but in a sort of outlandishly low tech deadly. They can't make many cortexes, so they only put them in some of the most heavily armored and hardest hitting, but slowest, warjacks. Their infantry makes up for this with a great deal of mobility interesting tactics.
Menoth - Catholic inquisition with steampunk inquisition, and an obession with fire. Their warjacks are slightly slower than cygnar, and not as hard hitting or armored as Khador, but they make up for it with divine buffs they can put on them. The whole army is built around units buffing each other or other kinds of interplay between abilities. You've got a mix of cheap zealots, to holy knights, and a lot of denial style specials.
Cryx - Undead meets evil mutation causing dragons meets steampunk. This isn't your traditional army of undead with shambling zombies and skeletons. This army tends to have fast warjacks that are a little harder to hit, but lower armor. They are the only ones with lesser warjacks, the bonejacks, and a plethora of arc nodes that effectively extends the range of the warcaster's spells without risking them. Most of the army is actually built around speed, or nasty unit-wide abilities.
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I have a khador army. They have some of the hardest hitting warjacks in the game, but are typically slow. I settled on them after playing with a couple of different factions and realized that I wanted to get up close and personal and smash things.
My step-brother has a cygnar and menoth army. Cygnar has some cool units, and looks like a great way to start. Menoth relies a lot on synergy and the right combination of units, but when it works it works. I can usually mop the floor with menoth in smaller point games, but once you get up to 35 point games and higher they can be really tough.
Also, warcasters significantly affect the game. Khador has some hard hitting warjacks, but some of their casters work best with more infantry, and only 1 or 2 jacks.
Has anyone played a game on vassal? We don't have much time to play, and the idea of playing a game online and being able to walk away from it is very appealing.
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I went ahead and ordered the 2-player box online (my FLGS failed me by only getting one box, which was already pre-ordered). Looked over the quick start rules and reading though some of the full rules now. Khador and Menoth are both interesting, but even if I decide to go another way I figure having a small army around for friends is useful. I also figured my best bet for convincing someone else to buy in is to get them playing. Unlike Warhammer almost every army sound interesting in some way.
About how long does a 35 point game take? I think the box set is a bit less in points.
I was reading about Vassal. I might try to get it setup and see if there are people willing to play around with a new player.
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Game length depends on how many units you have, but my step-brother and I found that 25 and 35 point games took 2-4 hours. Part of that is because we were constantly checking up on rules and we also took way too much time thinking things through. Especially with the menoth armies, where the order of activation is incredibly important.
Smaller games go by much quicker, especially if you are familiar with your models and have a good idea of what they are capable of. The more you play the quicker the games get.
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I have the Khador jacks put together so far. I hate trimming off flash. You can get some interesting poses with these guys using the ball joints. I figured I would get everything built before I started painting anything. That way we can start playing some games.
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I'm bit late to the thread, but I'll add that one thing I've noted abou the WM + Hordes minis is that they seem to be more easily adapted into PnP RPG settings than the Warhammer figs. I run an Interface Zero (2088 cyberpunk) RPG campaign and a few of the players have brought their Horde figs and they've worked out well. We've even used a few of the figs in our Savage Worlds Super Powers RPG campaign. As well, with WM + Hordes you're supporting Privateer Press and not the "cease & desist", fan-hating Gamers Workshop. I don't have the time and $ right now to dive into another CMG, but if I did this would be it.
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Jan 31, 2013 (San Jose Mercury News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Once upon a time, politics in Santa Clara County was genuinely fun. People didn't take themselves so seriously, or dislike their opponents so fervently.
To display their affection for the circus, they created a melange of political paraphernalia -- buttons, hats, signs, fliers, key chains, wine glasses, T-shirts, buckles and mugs.
Today, we pay tribute to that vast local swag with this column's first -- and possibly last -- Political Memorabilia Contest.
Here's how it works: You, dear reader, pull out your local political keepsake -- button, flier, sign, whatever. You take a picture with your cell phone and send it to email@example.com.
Except for buttons, we ask for only one item per photo.
Be sure to include your name and the town you live in. If you prefer anonymity, please tell me. For consideration in the contest, we'll need at least your initials and city. You can enter the contest multiple times.
Our distinguished panel of judges will sort through the nominations in four categories: the Wackiest, the Most Historic /Rare, the Most Authentically San Jose and the Best Button Ensemble.
For each category, we'll come up with three finalists. Then readers will get a chance to go online and vote for the winners. The prize Fame. I'll run a column with your name and try to reach you for the story behind your treasure. We've just finished a campaign season and the next one will be on us soon. Here's a moment to examine where we've been.
The template You can get an idea of what qualifies from the pictures I'm including with this column. It's based on my wife's political button collection, with a few other odds and ends.
I can't claim that the Herhold-Janigian collection will produce a contender. The pink "Elect McHugh for Me and You" might deserve consideration in the wacky category, but it's a distinct long shot.
A couple of provisos before you enter: First, the contest is strictly local, and by that, I mean Santa Clara County and very close environs. You may treasure your Ronald Reagan for President button from 1980, but it will cut no ice in this contest.
A keepsake honoring a local figure who runs for statewide office -- say Meg Whitman or Steve Westly -- is acceptable.
Banned The Santa Clara County registrar's office is banned from the contest. In a display under glass, the registrar has what may be the most extensive political button collection in the county. The registrar's office also has an unfair advantage. It handles paperwork for all the candidates.
I should probably also warn you that a Big Kahuna of memorabilia lurks out there, probably the most famous political photo ever shot in San Jose.
The 1976 piece shows then-Councilman Joe Colla posed with a car atop the unfinished intersection of Highways 101 and 280/680, with the words, "Where do we go from here " If you have the Colla piece, by all means send me a picture. Because it bids fair to trounce the others, I may put it in a Lifetime Achievement category.
One last rule: We entertain no hit pieces, or ugly slogans that insult a rival. Yes, they might have been effective. They do not make us proud.
So pull down that canister from the top shelf. Paw through the box in the garage. Send me the photo of your political memorabilia, and, if you prefer, what category you think it should fit. Enlist a younger relative or friend if you're not comfortable with a smartphone.
I'll write a follow-up piece in a couple weeks and then the final choices will be up to you.
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Apple just announced a pile of new gadgets on stage in San Jose. Here's everything you need to know.
This is, quite simply, a shrunken iPad.
- It has a 7.9-inch screen compared to the normal iPad's 9.7 inches.
- It's very, very thin — like, look at this:
- It has the same screen resolution as the original iPad, at 1024 × 768. It's smaller so the screen will be sharper, but not quite as sharp as the 9.7-inch iPad's 2048 × 1536 screen. They're not calling it retina. The thinking here is that apps designed for the iPad 1 and 2 will work out of the box with the new iPad Mini, no changes necessary.
- It's got all the other regular iPad features: Like optional LTE and the iSight camera and FaceTime HD for videochatting.
- It costs less than all the other iPads, at $329. Not as cheap as many were hoping, since it's still markedly more expensive than Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire HD.
- This is a small upgrade to the current iPad, the "New iPad," which gives it a faster processor and Apple's new Lightning connector.
- It's the same price, $500, which was to be expected.
- But it's early! Apple usually upgrades products on a yearly cycle. Sometimes it takes longer, but it rarely happens faster. This is unprecendented: if you bought a brand new iPad the day it came about a half a year ago, your device is already obsolete. Six month upgrade cycles! Jesus.
Also, does that mean this will be outdated in six months but a new slimmer, model? UNCERTAINTY.
- The guts are upgraded, of course. So you get quad-core i5 and i7 processors, up to 32GB of RAM, a bunch of ports (incuding two Thunderbolt ports) and something called a Fusion Drive: a 128GB solid state drive mated with a much larger normal hard drive, to make performance better without sacrifing storage space.
- The real story, though, is the new design. Both the 21.5 and 27-inch models are very, very thin — 5mm thin — and start at $1300 and $1800, respectively.
- It's got a Retina screen, like the 15-inch model that came out earlier this year. That's 2560 × 1600, for the pixel counters out there. (The 13-in MacBook I'm typing on right now has a 1440 × 900 screen.)
- It's like half the thickness, at 0.75 inches.
- It only weighs a half pound more than the MacBook Air, at just around 3.5 pounds.
- It doesn't have an optical drive, just like the Macbook Air. It also doesn't have a dedicated graphics unit, so most gaming is out.
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- It's really expensive. It starts at $1700. The old MacBook Pro 13 is sticking around, too, for people who don't want to drop two grand on a homework machine.
This little guy doesn't have a whole lot going for it, I don't think. It's got nice new Ivy Bridge Processors, 256GB of SSD storage or up to 2TB of HDD storage, and a $600 starting price tag.
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New Studio Chief Alan Horn Speeds Film Development, Brings Stability
Some Hollywood studio chiefs make their mark in a new job by signing deals with big name stars. Others announce their intention to rethink the ways movies are made and released. Alan Horn did it with a talking monkey.
In one of his first moves after being named chairman of Walt Disney Co.'s DIS -0.21% movie studio last May, Mr. Horn approved reshoots for "Oz: The Great and Powerful," a prequel to the "Wizard of Oz" that comes out Friday. The biggest change was to give star James Franco a wacky sidekick in the form of a chatty flying simian. In the version of the movie shot before Mr. Horn began, the monkey talked only late in the picture.
"Alan took the movie over and really made it his," said producer Joe Roth.
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Few in Hollywood would be comfortable during their first weeks in a new job ordering up $15 million of changes to a movie that already cost about $200 million. But insiders say Mr. Horn, a 70-year-old industry veteran, has brought gravitas to the top of a studio embroiled in drama since 2009, when Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger filled the job with Rich Ross, a television executive who had no filmmaking experience. Mr. Ross lasted less than three years.
"There really is a feeling of stability and that is exactly what was needed," said Mr. Roth, who held Mr. Horn's job from 1994 through 2000. "A year or two ago you'd talk to agents and they couldn't figure out what Disney was up to."
Mr. Horn could hardly be more different from Mr. Ross, who came to the movie studio after running Disney Channels Worldwide. Upon taking the top movie job, Mr. Ross ousted most of the studio's senior executives and sought to revamp established marketing and distribution strategies. His brash approach struck filmmakers, agents and producers as ham-handed, and he won few allies in the creative community.
He was fired last April by Mr. Iger. A spokeswoman for Mr. Iger didn't respond to a request for comment. Messrs. Horn and Ross declined to comment.
By contrast, Mr. Horn has made no changes in Walt Disney Studios' executive ranks, defying typical Hollywood practice. He also is frequently lauded by people who do business with him as courtly and smooth. Mr. Horn was president of Warner Bros. from 1999 until 2011, when he was asked to leave so three younger executives could compete to replace the retiring studio chairman.
Disney's studio—which generated $722 million of operating income on $5.8 billion of revenue in the last fiscal year—is far smaller than the company's television and theme park units, but it creates material that feeds the parks, TV channels and video games.
That strategy makes it very valuable for Disney to fully own its movies, so the company doesn't use financing partners to temper risk, as most of its competitors do. Last year's flop "John Carter" led to a $200 million write-off.
"Oz" should fare better. While early reviews have been lukewarm, pre-release surveys suggest it will open to about $80 million domestically and that interest is strong in many foreign countries.
Uniquely in Hollywood, many of Disney's movies come not from its namesake studio but corporate siblings including Marvel Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, and, soon, Lucasfilm, the company behind "Star Wars" that Disney acquired last year. Those units all ultimately report to Mr. Horn but have separate management teams. Disney also distributes films from DreamWorks Studios, which it doesn't own.
Mr. Horn has been particularly focused on Disney Studios' own live-action movies—a category that had been languishing. When he took over, the studio had only three such pictures scheduled: "Oz," July's "The Lone Ranger" starring Johnny Depp, and next year's "Maleficent" with Angelina Jolie.
"It had gotten down to where they didn't have many [movies] going on," said John Lasseter, chief creative officer of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios.
Mr. Horn has sped up development and gave the go-ahead to a pair of new big-budget pictures: "Tomorrowland," named after a section of the Disneyland theme park, and a fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean." He has also approved low-budget dramas including December's "Saving Mr. Banks," about the making of Disney's "Mary Poppins."
In addition, Mr. Horn hopes he will have a new "Star Wars" movie every year starting in 2015. Lucasfilm chief Kathy Kennedy is working with a trio of writers on sequels, the first of which will be directed by J.J. Abrams, and spin-offs focused on individual characters.
"I can see how much more active the place has become in the past year," said Mr. Roth.
Mr. Horn's lack of digital-age expertise could be his Achilles' heel. Despite the challenges that new technology and evolving consumer habits pose to the entertainment industry—a topic about which Mr. Iger frequently speaks—Mr. Horn is known as a traditionalist. Unlike his predecessor, he hasn't sought to challenge long-held practices by shortening the "window" between theatrical and DVD releases dates or embracing social media in order to spend less on television advertising.
Disney is also the only major studio not to support an initiative to offer movies in the digital cloud in an effort to boost online sales. Its own effort, dubbed Disney Movies Anywhere, has been in the works for more than three years but has no launch date.
But Mr. Horn has garnered respect as he navigates the potentially treacherous waters of assigning release dates and giving feedback on projects he releases but whose production he doesn't directly supervise.
Marvel President Kevin Feige called his approach "a confidence-booster" and DreamWorks CEO Stacey Snider said a note from Mr. Horn prompted a decision to rework the epilogue of her studio's coming movie "The Fifth Estate," about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
"Alan can check in on anything and anyone at Disney with a great deal of authority," said a producer who works with the studio.
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The MacArthur Genius Fellows were announced yesterday, rewarding "exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work." The prize for recipients is a grant for $500,000, "no strings attached," as an investment in the continued growth of good ideas. As Professor John O. Dabiri puts it, "it gives me the room the fail."
Professor Dabiri is one of one of the 23 newly-christened geniuses by the MacArthurers. At 30 years old he's the youngest winner but is already at the vanguard of some of the most interesting engineering problems facing our society today. He studies the biodynamics of cnidarians AKA how jellyfish move, which has wide ranging engineering applications from pacemakers that regulate heart blood-flow to harnessing wind in super efficient wind turbines.
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I've been having one of those weeks where I need inspiration to keep going. When you're overwhelmed, stressed and sick, you sometimes need some external force to kick you sharply in the rear end and remind you that you don't have time to be any of the above and you'll be just fine. That kind of inspiration is best provided by my top female warriors – role models whom I've looked up to, admired, and maybe even crushed on throughout my childhood. And now I'm sharing them with you. Of course, … [Read more...]
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