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In a change from the normal pattern of Full Moon Club updates, we're turing the tables on you this month – there's no free audio to download, and although there is a short video message from Peter, it's not restricted to Full Moon Club Members. We want to see if we can utilise the combined might of the lunatic community to promote our South Asia Earthquake Appeal.
I can imagine the groans as you discover we're trying to flog you something, but although we are trying to get you and everyone you know to part with £1, we're not keeping any of it for ourselves, and we're being supported in the aim of getting as much of that £1 as possible to the people who need it by our credit card processors – SecureTrading, who have cut their charges on these transactions. We will still loose a little in bank and credit card charges, and if your in the UK, we'll be charged VAT by the Taxman, but beyond those limited charges everything is going to charity. The good part is that you get to give £1 to the appeal, and you also get two amazing pieces of music….I'll let Peter explain..
"This is a request for help. We've had ties with Pakistan from many years, particularly with Qawwali music and the extraordinary voice of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His family have generously agreed to allow us to make available two tracks – one a collaboration with Massive Attack , 'Mustt Mustt' and one with myself 'Taboo', as a download to raise money. So basically you are getting two extraordinary pieces of music for the price of one! We need a lot of downloads and we need you to do a bit of marketing for us. So, if you could persuade say 10 of your friends to do the same download we can get real money to real people really fast. Please help us to help them!" Peter Gabriel

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text: Cash Rents Drive 2014 Profits January 7, 2014 06:47 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ed Clark Top Producer Business and Issues Editor Email On highly productive soils, profits are likely Average cash rents might allow farmers to earn a small profit margin in 2014, but that's not the case for those who are at the upper end of land lease costs. On highly productive soils in central Illinois, $30 per acre profits are likely for 2014, assuming average cash rent of $300 per acre. However, with cash rents of $75 per acre higher than that, or $375, a typical corn/soybean farm is estimated to lose $45 per acre in 2014, according to projections by Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois ag economist. Losses are far greater for farmers paying exceptional land rents in the $500 range, he acknowledges. "In most cases, farmer returns at average cash rent levels for 2014, will be marginal. Cash rents will retreat, but it's too early to know how fast and how far." At $500 rents, losses reach as high as $170 per acre in central Illinois, keeping all other variables constant and using University of Illinois budgets. While high cash rents have grabbed headlines, they are not the norm, Schnitkey adds. If high-end rents equal high-end production, the numbers come out differently. For example, if land rented at $500 provides yields of 250 bu. per acre instead of 195, an additional $253 per acre in corn revenue is generated, more than enough to offset the higher rental price on the corn acres rented. That assumes no additional input investment would be required. Averages, while important on a macro level, don't always tell the entire story. "In most cases, farmer returns at average cash rent levels for 2014 will be marginal," Schnitkey says, but negative on high cash rent land. Most experts believe cash rents will retreat, but it's too early to know how fast and how far. "It depends on the willingness of farmers to take losses on high cash rent farmland," Schnitkey says. He does not look for a softening of cash rents for 2014. In Midwest states, land rents are actually spiking higher for 2014, although the rate of increase appears to be moderating. In Cedar County, Iowa, a tract of land recently went for $525 per acre in a two-year rental auction, suggesting some farmers are still willing to pay top dollar, says Mike Duffy, ag economist at Iowa State University. With the outlook for $4 corn, Duffy has a hard time seeing positive returns with cash rents much higher than $200 to $300 per acre. "The rubber will meet the road on cash rents in 2015," Schnitkey says, as farmers adjust to the new crop price reality and make changes. Does It Pencil Out? It's prudent to evaluate financial returns with and without high cash rent acres. Financial results could improve if high rent acres are not farmed and the farm lessens in size. It also can work the other way. Dale Nordquist, University of Minnesota ag economist, says to calculate total farm impact before letting high-priced farmland go. Minnesota data show that not renewing leases on high cash rent parcels in some cases can actually increase break-even levels. That's because fewer acres farmed drives up machinery costs per acre. Back to news


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The Browns and 49ers have swung a trade for backup quarterback Colt McCoy.
McCoy will head to San Francisco for a late-round draft pick, Jason La Canfora of CBS reports.
The 49ers have 14 picks in this year's draft, so giving up a late-round pick isn't a bad move for them: Their roster is talented enough that 14 rookies aren't going to make the 53-man roster anyway, so going down to 13 draft picks is no problem. And they now have their backup to Colin Kaepernick after trading Alex Smith to the Chiefs. McCoy will make $1.5 million this season, thanks to escalators in his contract that bumped up his 2013 pay based on incentives he reached in 2011.
For the Browns, even if all they get is a seventh-round pick, it's not a bad deal considering that most people thought they'd end up having to cut McCoy and get nothing back for him. With Brandon Weeden and Jason Campbell expected to compete for the starting job, McCoy was the odd man out in Cleveland.
Now McCoy will go to a place where he has no chance of winning the starting job, but has a good chance of making the roster as the No. 2 quarterback. That's a better position than he had with the Browns.


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BEIJING -- Forget Zach Snyder's "Man of Steel" or Keanu Reeves' "Man of Tai Chi." China's movie of the summer is a chick flick that has touched off a mini-culture war while raking in the renminbi -- and a sequel is just weeks away.
"Tiny Times" tells the story of four fashionable college girls in Shanghai and is perhaps best described as "The Devil Wears Prada" meets "Sex and the City" (minus the sex) with a dash of "The Bling Ring." The movie is based on a trio of popular young adult novels by Guo Jingming, a waifish 30-year-old celebrity author/entrepreneur who also directed the film.
Guo's fans say he's the voice of a new material-minded generation, but many critics have savaged "Tiny Times" as a vacuous homage to consumerism that sets a bad example for Chinese youth. In a country grappling with a yawning wealth gap and the striking emergence of a sometimes crass class of nouveau riche, the film has touched a deep nerve about the values of Chinese society.
Yet the battle lines are not neatly drawn. Some commentators closely allied with the Communist Party have improbably rallied to the film's defense, while a number of usually "liberal" voices have decried it.
"I have seen 6,000 or 7,000 movies, and this is one of the few that I hate. I was aghast at it," Raymond Zhou, a well-known critic said in an interview. Reviewing it for the Beijing News, he called it "totally intolerable" and said its promotion of materialism was far worse than advertising in luxury magazines.
When "Tiny Times" opened in late June , some multiplexes turned over all of their screens to the film. As of Sunday the movie had taken in $77.8 million, according to EntGroup. That makes it the sixth-highest-grossing film of the year in China, ahead of Hollywood imports including "The Croods," "Skyfall" and "Star Trek: Into Darkness."
The sequel, which was filmed at the same time as "Tiny Times," was originally set for release in December. But the distributor, Le Vision Pictures, has moved up the release date to Aug. 9 to capitalize on the movie's popularity -- and the heated debate surrounding it.
Although some of the four main characters supposedly come from families of modest means, they live in a posh apartment and flaunt their Gucci, Dior and Louis Vuitton possessions. One lands a job as assistant to the suave director of a Vogue-like magazine called "M.E.," who is chauffeured around in a Bentley; she struggles to attend to his every whim (and his collection of crystal drinking glasses) as she helps him plan a fashion show.
One of the young women proclaims: "Love without materialism is just a pile of sand" and rejects her wealthy but anti-consumerist boyfriend as a naïve moron.
"The movie is instigating the kind of money-worship that will bring up a generation of gold diggers," Zhou said. "Ordinary people can only attain this level of wealth by becoming mistresses to the wealthy."
Ren Shanshan, a writer for the Guangdong Daily, commented: "No matter how the box office is thriving, 'Tiny Times' is a mishap by any pure artistic standard: its story lines are incomplete; its characters are flat and simplistic; life is unreal and soft-filtered." Borrowing a line from "Lust, Caution" author Eileen Chang, Ren added: "The whole film is just like 'a luxuriant gown covered with lice.'"
Guo and his legions of teen and twentysomething fans have hit back, saying critics are fuddy-duddies who are out of touch with China's "post-90s generation." This group came of age as the nation's consumer culture was taking off and have no memory of the days before the Communist-ruled country began adopting capitalist ways.
"Materialism is something we face every day now, and it is not dirty," Guo told the state-run China Daily newspaper. He and his defenders say the film actually focuses on the "power of friendship" and the compromises and struggles of young people in a materialistic world.
The image-conscious, media-savvy Guo is a polarizing figure who runs his own publishing company and isn't shy about making a show of his wardrobe and fashionable Shanghai home. But after critics began savaging "Tiny Times," he received a surprising amount of support from prominent state-run media outlets.
Hu Xijin, editor in chief of the Global Times, a paper closely affiliated with the Communist Party, praised Guo's mastery of "subtle emotions" and said he was glad to see an author "from the grass roots" attain such success. "I believe [Guo] is a superman who can decipher many types of delight and sorrow," he wrote on Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblog service.
Meanwhile, commentators who disliked the film came in for rebuke; the online arm of CCTV, China's state-run broadcaster, ran a package of articles about the debate, including one headlined, "Shut up, you public intellectuals with big influence on Weibo."
Zhou said he consciously chose not to pen his "Tiny Times" review for China Daily, where much of his criticism normally runs, because it is one of the state's flagship publications and he feared his pan would be taken as government-sponsored anti-capitalist propaganda. He said he was caught off-guard by some of the attacks leveled at him and other critics by state-run media.
"This movie is totally apolitical, but if you want to put it in the political realm, it's totally opposite the Communist values system," Zhou said. "I would expect something like this if I had attacked a film about [model Communist worker] Lei Feng, but not 'Tiny Times.'"
Zhang Zhao, chief executive of Le Vision Pictures, a 2-year-old film branch of the online portal Le TV, which is distributing the film, said he wasn't bothered by the war of words. He attributed some of the criticism to established film industry figures who feel threatened by the success of a "young amateur" such as Guo.
"This war is very emotional," Zhang said. "Parents are worried their kids will follow this example. And ... A-class filmmakers are saying, 'with movies like this succeeding, I don't know how to make a film anymore.'"
Zhang said that based on feedback from fans, Guo and his team are currently tweaking the sequel -- which focuses on the quartet's breakup post-graduation -- to add a bit more levity. By the end of July, Le Vision will make "Tiny Times" available for free on its sister website, letv.com, which attracts 20 million viewers a day, and use that to promote ticket pre-sales for "Tiny Times 2."
Females made up 85% of the audience for "Tiny Times," with most ages 15 to 25. "This is a student-oriented film, so we thought we would get it into theaters before they go back to school," explained Zhang, adding that a third and fourth film are in development.
Still, with the sequel now just weeks away, some are questioning whether it's too much, too soon. An opinion article by journalist Liu Qiong in Monday's People's Daily was shared more than 60 million times on Weibo.
"If we bombard our eyes and ears only with 'Tiny Times,'" she wrote, "materialism and consumerism will rule the society."
Nicole Liu in the Times' Beijing bureau contributed to this report.


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Read Martin Scorsese's open letter to his daughter about the future of film
Director Martin Scorsese has already created a legacy of films that will long be remembered, revered, studied, and admired for a long time. He's crafted some of the finest films ever made, without question, and continues to ply his trade, most recently with THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. With the ever-changing landscape of film seemingly at a crossroads of change, particularly in the mass affordability and availability of filmmaking tools, the world of cinema is entering a revolutionary period, which Scorsese has taken heed of. As such, the director has penned an open letter to his youngest daughter, Francesca, about his optimism for the art of film, but with the caveat of rememebering what's most important in applying the craft. It's an inspiring and thoughtful piece, especially for budding filmmakers.
Dearest Francesca,
Iâm writing this letter to you about the future. Iâm looking at it through the lens of my world. Through the lens of cinema, which has been at the center of that world.
For the last few years, Iâve realized that the idea of cinema that I grew up with, thatâs there in the movies Iâve been showing you since you were a child, and that was thriving when I started making pictures, is coming to a close. Iâm not referring to the films that have already been made. Iâm referring to the ones that are to come.
I donât mean to be despairing. Iâm not writing these words in a spirit of defeat. On the contrary, I think the future is bright.
We always knew that the movies were a business, and that the art of cinema was made possible because it aligned with business conditions. None of us who started in the 60s and 70s had any illusions on that front. We knew that we would have to work hard to protect what we loved. We also knew that we might have to go through some rough periods. And I suppose we realized, on some level, that we might face a time when every inconvenient or unpredictable element in the moviemaking process would be minimized, maybe even eliminated. The most unpredictable element of all? Cinema. And the people who make it.
I donât want to repeat what has been said and written by so many others before me, about all the changes in the business, and Iâm heartened by the exceptions to the overall trend in moviemaking â Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, David Fincher, Alexander Payne, the Coen Brothers, James Gray and Paul Thomas Anderson are all managing to get pictures made, and Paul not only got The Master made in 70mm, he even got it shown that way in a few cities. Anyone who cares about cinema should be thankful.
And Iâm also moved by the artists who are continuing to get their pictures made all over the world, in France, in South Korea, in England, in Japan, in Africa. Itâs getting harder all the time, but theyâre getting the films done.
But I donât think Iâm being pessimistic when I say that the art of cinema and the movie business are now at a crossroads. Audio-visual entertainment and what we know as cinema â moving pictures conceived by individuals â appear to be headed in different directions. In the future, youâll probably see less and less of what we recognize as cinema on multiplex screens and more and more of it in smaller theaters, online, and, I suppose, in spaces and circumstances that I canât predict.
So why is the future so bright? Because for the very first time in the history of the art form, movies really can be made for very little money. This was unheard of when I was growing up, and extremely low budget movies have always been the exception rather than the rule. Now, itâs the reverse. You can get beautiful images with affordable cameras. You can record sound. You can edit and mix and color-correct at home. This has all come to pass.
But with all the attention paid to the machinery of making movies and to the advances in technology that have led to this revolution in moviemaking, there is one important thing to remember: the tools donât make the movie, you make the movie. Itâs freeing to pick up a camera and start shooting and then put it together with Final Cut Pro. Making a movie â the one you need to make - is something else. There are no shortcuts.
If John Cassavetes, my friend and mentor, were alive today, he would certainly be using all the equipment thatâs available. But he would be saying the same things he always said â you have to be absolutely dedicated to the work, you have to give everything of yourself, and you have to protect the spark of connection that drove you to make the picture in the first place. You have to protect it with your life. In the past, because making movies was so expensive, we had to protect against exhaustion and compromise. In the future, youâll have to steel yourself against something else: the temptation to go with the flow, and allow the movie to drift and float away.
This isnât just a matter of cinema. There are no shortcuts to anything. Iâm not saying that everything has to be difficult. Iâm saying that the voice that sparks you is your voice â thatâs the inner light, as the Quakers put it.
Thatâs you. Thatâs the truth.
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When Russian forces crossed into South Ossetia and Georgia, Syria was one of the few countries to voice support for Moscow's actions in the Caucasus as the West was busy condemning the invasion.
The growing rift between Russia and the United States over Georgia promises to be a golden opportunity for Damascus as it seeks a weapons deal with Moscow – an agreement that would give it greater leverage in tentative peace talks with Israel and bolster its standing in the Middle East.
"Syria saw a lot of opportunity in what happened in Georgia and South Ossetia to advance its own interests in the [region]," says Sami Moubayed, a Syrian political analyst and historian.
Indeed, if the US-Russia rift continues to widen, Moscow could start building greater ties with Washington's Middle East foes.
Although Syria's isolation has crumbled in recent years, Damascus remains deeply at odds with Washington over a host of issues: support for Islamist militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, the war in Iraq, and its relationship with Iran.
Syria nonetheless has made a diplomatic comeback in recent months through a carefully calculated balance of patience, stubbornness, and flexibility. Forced into a troop withdrawal from Lebanon in 2005, Syria has seen its Lebanese allies make gains despite the fact that a US-backed political bloc holds a majority in parliament.
Also, Syria has managed to balance its key strategic relationship with Iran against a resumption of indirect peace talks with Israel.
"Syria is keeping its options open," says Andrew Tabler, a Damascus-based analyst on Syria.
Syria may have sniffed another opportunity to leverage regional advantage when fighting erupted between Russia and Georgia earlier this month.
While Russia has signaled a new determination to impose its will on its immediate neighbors, it is too soon to tell whether Moscow intends to increase its influence in the Middle East as well.
The Soviet Union was once Syria's main weapons supplier, leaving Damascus saddled with a $13.4 billion arms-sales debt at the end of the cold war in 1990. In 2005, Russia wrote off almost three quarters of the debt, launching a new era of improved cooperation and fresh arms deals.
Damascus has its eyes on Russia's advanced antiaircraft and antitank missile systems that in Syria's hands could pose a threat to Israel's aerial and armored dominance. According to a Russian diplomat quoted last week by Russia's Interfax news agency, Syria is interested in acquiring the BUK M1 and Pantsyr S1 antiaircraft missile systems.
In April, the Russia-supported autonomous republic of Abkhazia inside Georgia reportedly used the BUK M1 system to shoot down an Israeli-made Hermes reconnaissance drone operated by the Georgian military. The BUK and Pantsyr systems are far more advanced than Syria's current air defense assets, most of which were bought from the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
The ease with which Israeli jets penetrated Syrian airspace a year ago to bomb a suspected nuclear facility in northeast Syria underlined to Damascus the need for an improved air defense system.
During a visit to Russia last week, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that "arm purchases are very important for Syria." And potential arms deals topped the agenda in his talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Acquiring Russian armaments also could strengthen Syria's hand as it negotiates a peace deal with Israel. President Assad was quoted recently as saying that the next round of indirect talks planned for next week in Istanbul would prove "decisive." Success is by no means certain, however, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Monday dampened expectations, saying "unfortunately, there has not been enough progress for the talks to become direct."
Syria also has to calculate that the process may yet fall victim to the leadership crisis in Israel following Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement that he is stepping down.
"If the Syrians purchase Russian arms, that can be an additional pressure card for the peace talks taking place in Turkey," says Mr. Moubayed, the Syrian political analyst. "Let's not forget that the Syrians have no guarantees as to what might happen after Olmert leaves in September."
Israel has eyed Syria's ambition of acquiring Russian weapons with unease, fearing the erosion of its military edge. Furthermore, there is a suspicion in Israel that weapons systems obtained by Syria could end up in the hands of Hezbollah. The Shiite militant group used advanced Russian antitank missiles to deadly effect against Israeli armored vehicles during the 2006 war. The Lebanese group is believed to be seeking new air defense weapons systems to counteract regular Israeli incursions in Lebanon.
But Russia is likely to impose limits on the variety of weapons it sells to Syria. Russian sources denied reports last week that Damascus was hoping to acquire Iskander ballistic missiles that could threaten almost all of Israel. And Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow was willing to supply the Syrians with "defensive weapons which are not breaking the regional balance of power."
Russia's relationship with Israel has improved since the end of the cold war, not least because of the large influx of Russian emigrants to the Jewish state from the early 1990s.
When fighting broke out in South Ossetia, Israel was quick to reassure Russia that it was freezing military sales to Georgia. Mr. Olmert is to visit Moscow shortly to reaffirm bilateral ties and discourage Russia from providing weapons to Syria.
Still, improved ties with Syria has its uses for Moscow. As a potential major arms supplier to Syria, Moscow would gain influence in the Middle East as a counterweight to the US. Also, Moscow and Damascus have been mulling the possibility of building a Russian naval base in Tartous on Syria's Mediterranean coastline, granting the Russians a key warm-water facility.


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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Mayor looks to bill drivers for transit
Read more: Vehicle Levy
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Gas tax is the most fair.
Drivers who drive more or have inefficient vehicles pay more into the system.
People who drive less, either with shorter commutes or using alternate forms of transportation, tend to pay less.
Vehicle Levies have zero correlation with usage.
- Friday, March 23, 2012 12:41:00 pm
"Vehicle Levies have zero correlation with usage".. hmm that is anything but fair. It does, however, pander to the ecozealots who are trying hard to grasp the social engineering levers.
The question is, would you willingly agree to give the government the right to electronically monitor everyone's whereabouts 24 hrs per day all times. This is what Mayor Walton wants to do in order to pay for a few translink buses and trains. That is what road pricing means. If you want to drive you must have a GPS installed in your car and it reports your position and movements 24 hrs per day. You are then charged per kilometre moved and you are charged per minute not moving ( parked ). Plus the government knows all your habits, movements, speed, etc. This is insane. Are we terrorists? Further, why are we building billion dollar transit system plus bureaucracy ? Why is it necessary to coerce people into paying for something they dont want enough to pay the fare on if it is really so necessary?
- Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:21:00 am
I have to agree that gas tax is the most fair for those that drive gas powered vehicles.
The less fuel efficient the vehicle the more you pay.
Partial/non gas fuelled vehicles fly under the radar.
Hydbrids, electric cars, motorcycles, scooters, and cyclists all use the roads but escape some or all of the fuel taxes and transit taxes associated with fuel.
All road users should pay on a graded scale from cyclists at 16 years old up to the largest vehicles.
If that is through a levy on your license then so be it.
GPS tracking our movement - forget it.
- Saturday, March 24, 2012 5:07:00 pm
TO be fair to Walton, when he says road pricing, I think he means tolling bridges, not gps tracking.
- Saturday, March 24, 2012 5:20:00 pm
I liken the GPS tracking us to the smart meters tracking us. It's all big brother BS.
- Saturday, March 24, 2012 5:22:00 pm
The incredible irony about this "tracking" is that our taxes pay for it.
- Saturday, March 24, 2012 5:32:00 pm
People who are on the road more should pay more. Do the math.
- Saturday, March 24, 2012 5:34:00 pm
Forget GPS and just record a cars mileage and tax accordingly.
- Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:43:00 am
- Lyle Craver said...
If we're talking about drivers paying more for road maintenance then I'm fine with that.
What I'm NOT fine with is Translink continually looking to drivers - which are both residents and businesses - to subsidize the bus and transit system.
I get mad when I hear about "the honor system" and how some regularly evade their fares though I am glad to see the stored value card coming in 2013 - it has served Hong Kong and London well and hopefully will help something. But in my opinion Translink has no moral authority to ask for more money when they do such an ineffective job collecting the fares they are due.
I am most particularly opposed to any increase in the property tax system for public transit since it penalizes municipalities which have done a good job making themselves "livable" (which is reflected in housing prices relative to the average) to the benefit of those who haven't.
Under the current 10 year Translink plan adopted in 2004, the North Shore is paying $ 1/4 billion and getting at most 20% of that back. Meanwhile the City of Vancouver and Surrey get more than their share.
That's not reasonable, that's not fair and that's not just. I understand the strictures he's working under but I don't think Mayor Walton has done a good job fighting for the North Shore in his role with Translink at all.
- Monday, March 26, 2012 6:18:00 pm
Until the day comes that they have all riders paying their full fare don't come around saying you want more money.
Everytime gas tax goes up so does every single thing that we purchase.
All food, drygoods, clothing, fuel has to be transported to the location where we buy it and the additional fuel taxes are passed along to the poor consumer.
- Friday, March 30, 2012 4:38:00 pm
The "poor consumer" needs to be nudged to pay attention to politics and get out and vote.
- Sunday, April 01, 2012 5:08:00 pm


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Sunday, May 1, 2011
SB910: bill analysis
Excerpts from comments from the analysis, and my response:
Enforcability.... How can either (the driver or a police officer) be sure that the driver is not 3 feet, 3 inches away rather than 2 feet, 9 inches?
This argument could strike down almost any law in the vehicle code. If the speed limit is 65, how can I be sure I'm going 64 mph and not 66 mph? If the law required headlights after dusk, how can I be sure it's one minute before dusk and not one minute after dusk? Obviously enforcement carries a burden of proof, and behavior requires a margin for uncertainty. So while 2 feet 9 inches may be questionable, 1 foot 0 inches does not. And it's the really close calls which we care about. Ironically, this very comment justifies the need for the law. If a driver can't judge his distance from a cyclist, then obviously passing margins closer than 3 feet are unsafe.
Is three feet always "safe ?" By defining safe distance as three feet, this bill resupposes that three feet is always a safe distance.
This comment exhibits profound ignorance of the principles of the vehicle code. If the speed limit on a road is 45 mph, that does not mean it's always safe to drive 45 mph everywhere on that road. This argument is so flawed, so twisted, that I immediately question the partiality of Jennifer Gress, the analyst.
The committee may wish to consider an amendment to delete the 15 mph (speed differential) provision from the bill.
Here we completely agree. Change it to an absolute speed instead of a differential speed and I am okay with it to handle the shuffle which occurs at intersections. But the 15 mph speed differential component of the bill is bizarre.
I include the full comment on the crossing the double yellow line provision:
Crossing double solid lines . Double solid lines are put in place when traffic engineers determine that characteristics of the roadway make it unsafe to pass. Does allowing a vehicle to cross these lines create an unsafe driving situation? The author argues that a bicycle is moving much slower and requires less clearance than another motor vehicle and thus would not pose the same risk. Others argue that crossing double solid lines when passing a bicyclist is already a matter of practice for some motorists.
Yesterday I rode along Highway 1 north of Stinson Beach, a 2-lane section with relatively light traffic, good sight lines, narrow shoulders, and a double yellow line. I was passed by several cars, each one crossing the double yellow without the slightest issue. Had a car attempted to pass without crossing the double yellow it would have been unsafe: the passing margin too small.
The double yellow is put in where it is unsafe to pass another car, a maneuver which requires moving fully to the opposite lane and accelerating to a speed significantly faster than car travel speeds. Crossing a double yellow while passing a cyclist requires overlapping the opposite lane by at most the passing margin, presumably 4 feet or so. The two actions are of a completely different class. Sure, we could define 3 sets of road markings: dashed for passing anyone, solid for passing nobody, or a special marking for passing cyclists, pedestrians, and equestrians but not cars. But this of course gets silly. The law relies on driver judgement for when it is safe to cross the double yellow for passing cyclists. Driver judgement is used all the time: for example in judging when it is safe to pass with a dashed yellow line. "Some motorists?" Virtually all, at least 98%, of drivers cross the double yellow in these circumstances. Codifying the typical practice, obviously safe by the standards of vehicular behavior, only makes sense and opponents pulling the safety card on this one is nothing short of hysteria.
Passing on the left only ?
This is an excellent point, and one I had noticed as well. When the cyclist is on the left preparing to turn left, obviously cars need to be able to pass on the right.
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- Bill said...
I wrote most of this bill, and agree with most of your comments. Keep up the good discussion. Take a look at my webpage about this bill for more info:
The CBC and City of LA jumped onboard this bill after I wrote it, got the legislative author and discussed difficult conditions, like narrow roads and trucks passing at an appropriate speed differential.
Many provisions have been removed in compromise discussions, such as $2000 fines if the vehicle actually hits the rider (in Oregon it is over $6000), and establishing 'gross negligence' of drivers who hit riders.
Overall we have a winning simple bill, that could have the 15mph provision removed. It was placed before we got support for crossing the double solid lines, and was useful for wide trucks on narrow roads.
Remember all our dead rider friends as we move this bill ahead, as they cannot represent their story. Most if us are somewhat lucky to be here still also, partially because this call for respectful driving was not put forward in the vehicle codes.
Ride on safely, Bill Wright Burton
- May 2, 2011 at 6:26 AM
- djconnel said...
Thanks, Bill, for the great work!
The simple question I would ask anyone who opposes the bill is : "So you think it is ever safe to pass a cyclist driving more than 15 mph with less than a 3 foot margin?"
If the answer is no, then this bill changes nothing, and there can be no opposition.
If the answer is yes, I suggest a road test. Surely you have a bicycle they can borrow.
- May 2, 2011 at 6:54 AM


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A few days ago I downloaded a new album from the iTunes Store on my iPhone: Daniel Bashta's "The Invisible". Since he's one of my favorite artists, I purchased the album on the release date while on lunch break and listened to half of it. When I got home that night, I went to my Mac to transfer the music purchase so all my devices would be in sync. Of course, when I opened iTunes it wanted to download the LP and the entire album, but I paused it to shorten the process. To my surprise, the album did not transfer. My iPhone synced "successfully" and the album didn't appear in my library. I then headed to the artist on my iPhone to find out what happened. The whole new album thing was gone.
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Willow House hostesses for this recipe. I tasted it at her party a couple of weeks ago and knew I had to make it. It tastes delicious when it's warm right from the oven and is even great cold or room temperature. I had some for breakfast the next day with a drizzle of agave syrup. I'm considering replacing my Baked French Toast with this dish for my cookie exchange. What do you think?
I didn't make any changes to this recipe besides adding some cinnamon and nutmeg and used 2 cups half and half and 2 cups whole milk. Any combination of heavy cream, half and half and whole milk will work just like it does for the french toast. The bread pudding isn't overly sweet but some of my family felt that a dusting of powdered sugar would really complete this dish. I did notice that it was an option but to be honest on Thanksgiving I was just too busy to pull out the shaker and fill with powdered sugar. Next time I'll do that. After speaking with Mary she mentioned that when making this the second time she sliced the bread instead of cubing it and it held it's shape better. So I guess you can do it either way.
Pumpkin Bread Pudding
1 loaf of challah bread, cut into cubes (or slices)
1 small can of pumpkin puree
2 cups of half and half
2 cups of whole milk
1 cup sugar
sprinkling of cinnamon and nutmeg, to taste
6 eggs, beaten
powdered sugar, optional
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place cubed bread on a baking sheet and bake until toasted and browned (10-15 mins). Combine half and half, milk and sugar, add pumpkin, eggs, cinnamon and nutmeg. Transfer bread cubes to a 9x13x2 casserole dish and cover with milk mixture. Toss all the bread to coat. Wrap with plastic wrap and allow bread to absorb milk in the refrigerator overnight. The next day bake in a 375 degree oven for about 1 hour or until all the liquid is absorbed. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve warm, room temperature or cold.
Click here for a printable version of this recipe.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Pumpkin Bread Pudding
Posted by Michele at 10:32 AM
2 comments:
- janice15 said...
Helo, do you think I can use fresh pumpkin, it sounds and looks divine can't wait to make it thank you for sharing...Have a great day Janice...
- November 30, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- Patti T. said...
I love these types of recipes.I will have to give this one a try.
- November 30, 2011 at 3:51 PM
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I was wondering if we could get a group of Tennisopolis members to go to the great Indian Wells tournament. If we can agree on a day or two, it would be really cool to hang out and have a ball.
The dates are March 5-18. It is free on the first day. There's lots of food vendors, beer garden, tennis equipment and clothing vendors, opportunities to get player signatures (I got Laver and Nadal) test out racquets on a real court at Tennis Warehouse tent, fast gun radar, nice picnic type grass in front of a giant video monitor...
Mark Mayor, the Tennisopolis creator, will be there and we're looking to have a hit on a local tennis court as well. Love to play doubles with a bunch of people!
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Wow! Well, that sounds like a great routine to do every year. Must be fun!
Hi! I am looking to go to the free sessions on 3/5 and/or 3/6. I am in Riverside by the 215 and Van Buren. I am not familiar with all the extra activities that go on there but just there for the (free) tennis. Email me at email@example.com if you are nearby and interested in going as well.
I will be going to the free qualie on Friday the 9th with two guys in my car, most likely. I have room for perhaps two more guys in my car from the Inland Empire area.
Hi Tim,
So glad you posted this! I just realized today is the 5th and see that the women's draw is today. I am more interested in the men's draw tomorrow and am available if anyone wants to go or carpool. I am currently in Yucaipa so the drive is not too long. Would love to get Nadal's autograph. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Ah, yes! Steve Tennis and I are planning on going tomorrow, leaving around 10 am from Moreno Valley. I would be driving to Steve's place from San Bernardino and then we would go from there. Are you closest to the 10, because I think we're coming through the 60.
Great! I am right off the 10. I could meet you guys in Banning/Beaumont off the 60 and the 10 somewhere. Would that work? Or, I could park at the Cabazon Outlets and meet you guys there.
Sounds good to me! Would be great to get a group together. I have a tennis partner that also may go to. We'd have four!
I could actually go on the 6th and the 9th. Tim, I see you are going on the 9th. What day is best to get autographs?
Any day is good to get autographs, if the player want is willing and security allows you to get close. I got Laver's autograph three years ago on my jacket sleeve, then got Nadal's signature on the other jacket sleeve last year. :)
They always have a couple of organized autograph sessions every day. I got Isner's at one of these events. Otherwise, you just catch the players as they head from the matches or practice courts.
So I had a wonderful time with Steve Tennis and Connie watching the qualifying round and the last free day.First, I got to see TIpsarevic practice, and then Fish and Querrey.
Then saw Amer Delic win his match. He is like drinking Diet Federer. lol The backhand looks the same. The forehand sorta the same but without the action. Heck, he even looks like him.
Then onto Andreev/Smyczek, not there long. Onwards to Monfils practice and skid all over the place, then saw Dologopolov serve up close. Insanely quick motion when you're twenty feet away.
Lastly, saw Gasquet practice with Tsonga, with Davydenko warming up, then Lisicki.
Thanks for driving, Steve! You're the best.
I'm getting getting jealous! Tomorrow is our drive day!
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It is sad that, over the last decade or so, postcards have been overtaken by the universal ease of text messaging and email. As most of us know, it wasn't long ago that they were the quickest cheap method of letting your family back home know that you were okay and enjoying yourself, or perhaps merely maintaining a "between Christmas cards" correspondence with old friends.
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Sepia monochrome colour wash postcard, F.W. Scarratt, 1907
Although I have featured scenic postcards previously on Photo-Sleuth, the articles have dealt largely with the subjects of the images, rather than the postcards themselves and the publishers or photographers. In this article, I'd like to discuss a Derby man whose name has become synonymous with postcards of Derbyshire. F.W. Scarrat is the subject of Yesterday's Derby and its Districts, Rod Jewell's excellent book published in 1995 by Breedon Books, featuring a wide variety of examples from his own collection. While he is arguably less well known than W.W. Winter and Richard Keene, the prolific Scarratt's postcard views spanned a period of over three decades.
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Colourized postcard, F.W. Scarratt, 1906
Although invented in the 1870s, picture postcards only started being produced in any appreciable numbers in the United Kingdom in the late 1890s, after they had been authorised by the Royal Mail in 1894. By the time Frank Scarratt (1876-1964), a Derby stationer, started publishing postcards in early 1906 from his shop at 114 Abbey Street, using scenic photographs that he had taken himself, he was entering a well established market. Initially at least, his scenic views were printed in Germany, which perhaps offered cheaper and/or technologically superior options than were available in England at the time.
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Colourized postcard, Valentine's Series, Postmarked Oct 1905
The first couple of hundred of his colourized and monochrome colour wash scenes followed fairly closely the styles of those already being produced and sold in large numbers by long stablished firms such as James Valentine of Dundee (example shown above). His townscapes generally included a view of a busy urban or quieter suburban street bordered by shops, houses or other notable buildings, trees, electricty lines and lamp posts.
148. Kedleston Road from Five Lamps, Derby.
Colourised postcard (grey frame), F.W. Scarratt, 1907
A large proportion of postcards from this period include a tram somewhere in the fore, middle or background, often accompanied by several other forms of transport, as well as numerous pedestrians, and Scarratt's are no different. The focus on trams is unsurprising considering the rapid expansion of municipal electric tram systems during the 1890s and early 1900s. Several writers have commented on the fact that Frank also managed to include his bicycle within the frame of a good many of his views.
107. Mill Hill, Derby
Colourized postcard (Brown frame), F.W. Scarratt, 1907
In 1907 and 1908 he produced a variety of views with simple wide brown (wood grain finish), white or gray frames, which again followed the trends set by other publishers such as Valentine, AE Shaw (Blackburn), JG Cox (Nottingham), Boots' Pelham Series, and the Grenville and Clumber Series (by unknown publishers), all of whom marketed a variety of Derbyshire scenes. During those first few years he built up a significant portfolio, with about 100 views published in 1906, 52 in 1907, and 108 in 1908, bringing the total to an impressive 260 by the end of his third year in business.
197. Rolleston Hall, Rolleston-on-Dove
Colourized postcard (Scroll frame), F.W. Scarratt, 1908
Then in 1908 he started experimenting with a series of more ornate frames. The first of these appears to have been an oval-shaped scroll type surrounding the picture, and with a brown, wood-grain background, used in at least six different views.
293. Canal Bridge, Weston-on-Trent
Sepia postcard (Ornate frame), F.W. Scarratt, 1909
While the colourized scenes were quickly phased out, the lavishly decorated frames became elaborate and varied, and soon developed into his signature style.
Rings show distance from Derby, at 10 km intervals
As the distribution map above shows, he was also venturing some distance from Derby in search of subjects. The majority of his 400 odd views up to the end of 1910 were taken within 20 kilometres of his home town, but he did on occasion travel a little further afield to places of particular interest, such as Quorn (Leicestershire), Alton and Mayfield (Staffordshire) and Polesworth (Warwickshire). It is possible that these were in response to special commissions. The almost complete absence of views from east of the River Erewash, even well within the 20 kilometre radius from Derby, suggests to me that he faced some significant local competition in that direction, perhaps from a Nottingham-based publisher.
213. The Vicarage, Barton-under-Needwood
B/W postcard (Narrow white border), F.W. Scarratt, 1908
Scarratt made a number of visits to the small village of Barton-under-Needwood, not far from Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire, possibly since he was born nearby and still had family living there. The example shown above uses the simple narrow white border style that he employed only intermittently early his career, but which from about 1914 onwards started to dominate his production.
375. Police Courts, Burton-upon-Trent
B/W postcard (Palette style), F.W. Scarratt, 1910
Introduced in 1910 a frame in the form of a painter's palette was perhaps designed to lend a more artistic air to the postcards. It was used in a number of different forms until 1913, so was obviously popular.
260. 3 Views of Derby
B/W postcard (3x-multiview), F.W. Scarratt, 1908
At the same time Scarratt published postcards in a number of multi-view formats. The early example shown above is slightly unusual, the more common types having four or five panels with rectangular and palette-shaped outlines (below).
380. 5 Views of Derby.
Sepia postcard (5x-multiview), F.W. Scarratt, 1910
The year 1911 brought a move from Abbey Street to Normanton Road; around the same time he opened a shop in the Market Hall, Derby, which quickly became the main trading premises.
Scarratt's peak production was between 1911 and 1914, when he photographed an average of roughly 140 new scenes each year, so that by the outbreak of the Great War he had almost a thousand in his catalogue. This equates to about a dozen each month, which was no mean feat for a sole operator. The pattern of locations visited during this pre-war period roughly followed that of his first five years, with a few notable additions (Swadlincote, Kegworth, Heanor and Dovedale) and omissions (Belper, Mayfield and Alton).
Postcards published by F.W. Scarratt & Co., 1906-1938
Data from Jewell (1995)
However, output in 1915 was cut by almost half, followed by a sharp decline in production during 1916 and 1917, no doubt due to privations of war and the ensuing reduced demand. The graph above shows the variation in numbers of designs published by the firm over its 33 year period of operation, but it should be emphasized that this may not be an accurate relection of the volume of postcards ordered or sold.
1020. Donington Hall and Entanglements.
Sepia postcard (narrow white border), F.W. Scarratt, 1915
During the war, his scenes on occasion show signs of the times, such as barbed wire "entanglements" around Donington Hall, then being used as a prisoner-of-war camp, and the War Cross in Barrow-upon-Soar (1916, not pictured).
1181. War Memorial, Market Place, Derby.
Sepia postcard (narrow white border), F.W. Scarratt, 1925
After the end of the war, Scarratt's postcard publishing ceased almost completely for a few years. Although he did produce a small number of cards in 1920, including a couple depicting War Memorials in Barton-under-Needwood and Burton-upon-Trent, it must have been a very lean period. When he started up again in 1924, he revisited many of his old haunts, but also started to document the changing cityscape, such as in his view of the new bus terminus at Cheapside, and a couple of the recently erected bronze and stone War Memorial in Derby's Market Place (shown above). His lavishly decorated frames and artist's palette surrounds, once a significant point of difference for Scarratt, were sadly no longer fashionable, and they were almost completely abandoned them in favour of the austere narrow white borders which had already become the norm amongst other postcard publishers.
1537. Donington Hall with Deer.
B/W postcard (narrow white border), F.W. Scarratt, 1931
In the late 1920s and 1930s, a steady but much lower level output was maintained, with an average of about 40-50 new views a year. Although still visiting some of the regular locations - such as Donington Hall (shown above) where the entanglements were now replaced with peacefully grazing deer - he concentrated on the larger towns i.e. Derby, Burton-upon-Trent and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and tended not to travel so far afield as he had done previously. Judging by the fewer numbers of these later issues that are sold on eBay, I suspect that they may have been originally published in smaller batches than earlier issues.
1586. Derby in Flood, May 22nd, 1932 (Wardwick).
Sepia postcard (narrow white border), F.W. Scarratt, 1931
When Derby was inundated by floods on 22nd May 1932 Scarratt was quick to record the effect that it had on the city, and his views of a Trent bus nosing its way down a flooded Wardwick (shown above), and very soggy Sadler Gate are probably among his best known images.
762. Halfpenny Lane, Derby.
Sepia postcard (no border), F.W. Scarratt, 1913
The firm of F.W. Scarratt & Co. ceased publishing postcards in 1938, when Frank sold the stationers business to his son-in-law and retired to his home in Mickleover.
I hope you have enjoyed this introduction to Frank Scarratt's Derby postcards. Please visit the profile/gallery on my Derbyshire Photographers web site, where I have compiled a comprehensive catalogue with some further examples of his work. If you happen to have some Scarratt postcards which are not displayed, and would be interested in sharing them with a wider audience, I would be happy to receive some low to medium-resolution scans for inclusion. (Email)


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Flags in VC Last Week Represent Abortions in State
The 66,000 pink and blue flags that filled several acres of Interstate 94, including on the lawn of Grace Free Lutheran Church, in Valley City last week represent the number of elective abortions in North Dakota since the procedure became legal in 1973.
The display was the project of Bismarck couple Eric and Maria Wanchic, who began displaying flags in May at the Bismarck State Capitol Grounds when over 40 volunteers, including several women who identified themselves as post-abortive, spent two days planting all 66,000 flags. Since then the flags have visited Valley City, Jamestown and Belcourt and will visit every major city in the state by October.
The organizers say the purpose is two fold. "We want to raise public awareness about the devastating loss of life, which is about 10 percent of the total current state population," they said in a press release. "(Also) we want to reach out to the women who are suffering, often in silence, after an abortion experience and give them the resources they need for healing."
In a phone interview Tuesday, Maria said she has been a pro-life activist since she was a teenager. After getting married, she wasn't as involved, but became more into the issue recently after legislation concerning abortion became a controversial topic in the state.
"After the governor signed (three abortion) bills into law, I thought that's a small victory, but there's still a lot to do," Maria said.
In addition to organizing the traveling display, the couple also hopes to increase support available for post-abortive women and others affected by abortion.
The couple has set up a web-site, titled namethem.org, where post-abortive women can name their unborn child and have the name engraved on a permanent memorial to be commemorated next summer.
Maria said that naming the unborn child can begin the healing process by allowing the woman to grieve and find closure. Carol Kling, volunteer at Rachel's Vineyard where she helps post-abortive women who suffer from a form of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome also known as PAS or Post-Abortion Syndrome, has teamed up with the Wanchic's to promote healing through retreats such as Rachel's Vineyard.
Carol had an abortion in her early twenties and spent many years trying to deal with the emotional aftermath. She said she didn't seek help until she "bottomed out." Now, she has devoted her life to helping other woman heal emotionally and spiritually after abortion.
The next Rachel's Vineyard Retreat in Bismarck will be Aug. 23-25. Call Carol at (605) 374-5639 for confidential information.
After October, Eric and Maria plan to build a database of therapists and clergy who have experience and training in counseling those who have been struggling after an abortion experience. Maria said she found very little post-abortive counseling available. Eric, who is a software engineer, will develop a website where people can enter their zip code to find the professional help closest to where that person lives.
"It's vital to have those resources such as counselors, psychologists and clergy easily accessible right away when the person is ready to seek out that help." says Eric.
Next summer the Wanchics hope to erect a permanent memorial in the Bismarck/Mandan area dedicated to post-abortion healing.
"There will be statues of children playing outside with animals, fishing in a pond, or playing with other children," Maria said. "It will be a place of hope for anyone who's lost a child because as people of faith, we know God has given these little ones a new life in heaven and we all hope to be there one day too."
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Custard Cream Buttons
I've been following Ed's blog for a while now. He won the British Bake Off competition on TV in 2010. He also has a cookbook due out later this year. A few weeks ago he posted about custard creams that he had made, and they looked fabulous. Now, I have made custard creams before but they included cheap white fat, and I really didn't like the mouth feel that this gave at the end of the biscuit. Ed used all butter in his, and I thought why not? – I've been meaning to play around with the white fat issue for ages now, because I do like a custard cream. In fact just typing this I fancy making them again – right this minute!
In Ed's pictures the biscuits look like little button discs, one of the commenters on his post said so, and I thought so too. So I took this one small step further and marked them to look like actual buttons with a round cutter and a cocktail stick (pick) for the 'holes'. The following recipe is the one Ed has on his blog, with the exception of some milk that I added to the filling. To see Ed's neater piped filling, and quite honestly better pictures than mine do have a look at his post here. We really enjoyed these.
Custard Creams
225g plain flour
50g custard powder
30g icing sugar
175g unsalted butter, chilled and diced
1/4 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
50g unsalted butter, room temperature
200g icing sugar
2 tablespoons custard powder
25ml milk
(1) To make the biscuits place the flour, custard powder, icing sugar into the bowl of a food processor and pulse to combine. Add in the butter and vanilla bean paste and pulse until the mixture begins to come together. Tip the mixture out onto the work surface and bring together into a uniform mass with your hands. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
(2) Place the dough on a lightly floured work surface and roll to a thickness of 3-4mm. Cut out small rounds about 3cm in diameter, place on a Place on a baking parchment lined baking tray. Next mark half of them with the tines of a fork two or three times, not going all the way through. Now, to make the 'buttons' take a smaller circular cutter and press into the unmarked rounds, again not going all the way through. Finally take a cocktail stick and make 4 button holes in the center of the 'buttons'. Refrigerate the trays for 15 minutes or until firm. Whilst chilling preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/350F. Bake the biscuits for 10 minutes or until just starting to colour around the edges. Cool on a wire rack.
(3) For the filling place the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until light and creamy about 5 minutes then slowly incorporate the icing sugar and custard powder and beat in high until smooth and fluffy. Beat in the 25ml of milk, if you think it needs it. To make it smooth and spreadable
(4) Spread the butter cream with a knife onto half of the biscuits, the plain half! Sandwiching them together with the top 'button' biscuits. Or Place the buttercream into a piping bag fitted with a small plain and pipe the filling instead.
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First of all, hi! I'm a 2nd year in IT that's into game design, and recently came across a stump, because software rendering is taking too big a chunk of out my CPU to be viable, and so I'm trying to set up OpenGL, to learn a little of it, and have my graphics be drawn by the graphics card, freeing my CPU for the rest of the logistics!
I'm programming c++, in Code::Blocks IDE, using SDL for the context framework, and as seen everywhere, trying to set up glew to ease OpenGL's use.
And I'm having some issues with the linker setup, namely:
obj\Release\main.o:main.cpp.text+0x49): undefined reference to `_imp__glewExperimental'
obj\Release\main.o:main.cpp.text+0x66): undefined reference to `_imp____glewGenBuffers'
I think I did it all right:
-glew32.dll to sys64 (the folder where windows gets the .dll)
-search libs to glew lib folder
-search includes to glew include folder
-add glew32.lib to linker
It's detecting the lib well I believe, because without it I can't compile glewInit(); right.
My includes are:
#include <GL/glew.h>
#include <SDL/SDL.h>
I'm starting to suspect (based on a friend's advice) that it may be my graphic card... but it's "recent", HD 5470 mobility.
I've been, exaggerations aside, an entire afternoon and evening yesterday trying to get this to work!
Thank you!


text: I was out recently checking traps and both a squirrel and a juvenile red-tailed hawk were waiting for me. This bird was incredibly curious, sitting on a stump watching the squirrel. The squirrel was quite vocal (grunting), certainly not pleased to both be in that trap and so close to such a predator. A squirrelologist told me that he saw that same hawk in that forest the day before. Let's hope, now that it has a collar on, that it does not become lunch. That said, in the first week of wearing the collar, the squirrel has staying in that forest patch. Life must not be too dangerous there.


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Urban Baby needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 30 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Subway Baby
I'm an independent producer. This is my 2nd video project. This one is a documentary and my previous one was a TV pilot. I personally lived this documentary and am the main talent for it - so you could say it's my baby!
All is shot in NYC.
Targeted to moms in general, moms with young kids, moms with babies, expecting moms, moms who live in urban setting and struggle with transportation, schooling, and work, urbanites.
They are outgoing, brave, wanting what's right for their kids.
This look would be what's on the Documentary open - the Documentary title, the website, promotional materials for the documentary and possibly on merchandise like tee shirts.
Name: Subway Baby
It's to have a cool urban feel but at the same time - it's not just about city living - but being a mom who has challenges no matter where she lives and how through it all - we can all relate. Places covered in the video are the NYC subway, a taxi, a bus, preschools, walking the city, etc.
But, in this case - less could be more.
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Prison Bride's Chistmas present
This is Monaco's Prince Albert participating in the traditional Christmas bath yesterday in, I guess?, royal swimwear?
And a blue bathrobe.
Just in case you were wondering what Charlene of Serenity goes to bed with every night.
Speaking of Her Highness of Prison, she was allowed to go to Germany this weekend for a charity gala. Just me or has the holiday spirit warmed her face? She doesn't look as… despondent…as she used to. I mean, I'm not saying she's as cheerful as a caroler but …better, right? Or is that because she's not looking at his shrivelled bits coming out of the water?
Can we go back to him coming out the water?
Not to sound like my ass is as tight as the Queen's but this…it's just so very unbecoming from a monarch, non? My friend Lorella pointed it out last week with his Santa Claus tie - is it appropriate for a Prince to be wearing a joke tie? Picture William when he ascends the throne one day - would he wear a joke tie??? Would he jump into the water in Florida retirement trunks? OH MY GOD!
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The final memory of the 21 seniors on the Hillsdale College football team will go down as one they will cherish.
The Chargers concluded the 2013 season with a 24-7 win over Northwood University on a gray Saturday afternoon at Frank "Muddy" Waters Stadium. Hillsdale finishes with a 5-6 record on the season, and 5-4 in the GLIAC. The Timberwolves conclude the season with an overall mark of 2-9.
The Chargers have now won 10 out of the 12 regular-season finales coached by Keith Otterbein including six in a row.
Hillsdale dominated most statistical categories, none more than time of possession. The Chargers held the ball for 43:53 out of 60 minutes of the game. The Chargers took the ball into Northwood's red zone seven times, and they held the ball for more than 10 minutes in three of the four quarters of the game.
The Chargers opened the scoring with a sharp 23-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Sam Landry to junior wide receiver Evan Sassack on the game's opening drive to give Hillsdale a 7-0 lead less than five minutes into the game.
Although Hillsdale's offense missed out on scoring in four of of its seven trips into the red zone, the defense more than made up for it by shutting down the Timberwolves' offense for most of the game. Northwood's lone scoring drive took up 19 yards, which came on the back of an 80-yard interception return.
For the game, Northwood ran 51 plays for 181 yards of total offense, compared to Hillsdale's 94 plays for 475 total yards. Hillsdale allowed Northwood just eight first downs in the game, while the Chargers generated seven first downs via penalty. Northwood was flagged for 10 penalties, totaling 105 yards in the game.
Senior linebacker Devin Moynihan had an interception and led the team with nine total tackles in the win for Hillsdale. His two longtime running mates at linebacker, Brett Pasche and Steven Embry, combined for eight more stops between them.
Defensive lineman Zach Swaffer had a huge game for the Chargers with a team season-high three sacks among his four solo tackles.
A highlight of the game came in the fourth quarter when backup quarterback Gabe Starkey completed two passes. A fourth-year junior who played his final game of his career, Starkey has long been admired by his teammates for his strong work ethic while rarely seeing game action. He barely missed a touchdown pass in a reverse play in the first half, but came in for the team's last drive, with one of his completions going to senior wide receiver Scott Lantis.
Redshirt-freshman tailback Jack Wiseman rumbled into the end zone with 2:28 to go in the second quarter to put the Chargers on top 14-0. Wiseman was one of several running backs to carry the load in the game for Hillsdale. Five players had 10 or more carries in the game out of the backfield, led by Wade Wood's 70 yards on 14 attempts.
In his final game of his career, senior Isaac Spence hauled the rock 15 times for 60 yards and a touchdown. His fourth-quarter touchdown came on the heels of an interception by senior Matt Payne on the final play of the third quarter.
As a team, Hillsdale outgained Northwood by 205 yards in the game on the ground (236-31).
Sassack led the team's receivers with four catches for 72 yards. Sophomore John Haley caught four passes for 55 yards, while senior Andrew Mott caught four passes for 43 yards.