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"It is vital to keep a clean sheet," the Frenchman told reporters on Monday morning. "Nil nil is not a disaster at home, but of course we will try to score goals."
The Gunners were knocked out of the FA Cup on Saturday after a shock 1-0 defeat at home to Championship side Blackburn, but Wenger is adamant his side have moved on from that disappointment.
"We are fully focused on tomorrow's game," he continued. "You cannot compare the FA Cup with the Champions League.
"We must focus on our own quality and we have to put into our heads that we have 180 minutes to qualify. We have a way to play that everyone in the team knows. We must play with a positive mentality.
"Everyone would like to be in our position - in England only two teams have qualified for the Champions League [last 16]. I don't know why we should not cope with that.
"We know what is important; it's not what people [say], it's what we do on the pitch."
|Bayern Munich are 9/1 with BetVictor to beat Arsenal 2-1
"We are very positive," he told reporters. "They are a great team, but we are a great team. We are prepared."
Arteta also spoke about making up for Saturday's inept performance against Blackburn, before stressing the importance of opening the scoring.
"We have a great chance tomorrow to put that down," he added. "We want to show we are ready to win this game.
"If you score first, you have a great chance of winning these big games."
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Adam (Philipovsky), Acting Exarch, Archbishop of the Aleutian Islands and North America, was a Russian bishop of the Orthodox Church in the United States during the ecclesiastical chaos of the inter-war era of the 1920s to 1940s. He led a group of parishes whose members were of Galician Carpatho-Russian background. [1]
Adam Apollinarievich Philipovsky-Philipenko was born in 1886 in Carpathian-Russia. He attended the Faculty of Law of the University of Lvov, graduating in 1908. In 1912 he arrived in the United States and was [[ordination|ordained a deacon and then priest by Bp. Alexander {Nemolovsky). His ordination was apparently in violation of the canons as he had married to a widow. His wife subsequently died. He was tonsured a monk with the name Adam. In 1916, he moved to Winnipeg, Canada.
Adam (Philipovsky) was consecrated bishop of Canada on October 26, 1922 by Bishop Stephen (Dzubay) who was Bishop of Pittsburgh and senior auxiliary to Archbishop Alexander, then the ruling bishop of the Russian North American Diocese. Bp. Stephen had acted as the self-proclaimed "acting head" of the diocese, having not recognized Patriarch Tikhon's oral appointment of Metr. Platon as Abp. Alexander's successor.
After the confirmation of Metr. Platon's appointment by Patr. Tikhon, Bishop Adam left the North American Diocese and headed an independent "diocese" of Carpatho-Russian communities consisting mainly of parishes in the northeastern United States. In 1925, he was involved in the "ownership" disputes over the Russian Cathedral of St. Nicholas on ninety-seventh Street in New York City. [2]
In 1935, Abp. Adam rejoined the North American Diocese as an auxiliary (Archbishop of Philadelphia and the Carpatho-Russians) under Metr. Theophilus. During the latter part of the 1930s he was involved in the clergy dispute at the Holy Trinity Church in Yonkers, New York that was finally settled in 1940 with the New York Courts' recognition of the legitimacy of the North American Diocese and of Metr. Theophilus' election as ruling bishop. [3]
On July 27, 1939, the Moscow Patriarchate deprived Abp. Adam of his dignity for disobedience. In 1943/1944, he appealed to Patr. Sergius of Moscow for restoration as archbishop. Initially, denied due to his marriage to a widow, he finally regained his episcopate in 1944 and was retained in the Moscow patriarchal exarchate under Bp. Benjamin.
From August 21, 1947 to October 31, 1947, Abp. Adam was temporarily (locum tenes?) assigned to lead the exarchate. In 1953, he was appointed vicar to the Patriarchal exarchate in America. On July 30, 1954, Abp. Adam was granted retirement. He died on April 29, 1956.
The 1956 edition of the Yearbook of American Churches [4] lists Archbishop Adam Philipovsky as the "Officer" of the Russian Orthodox Catholic Church, Archdiocese of the Aleutian Islands and North America.
Bp. Adam is credited with writing a Russian language play, titled Maxim Sandovich, in 1931, about the martyred Priest St. Maxim Sandovich in Carpatho-Russia. [5]
- ↑ [[1]] Holy Trinity Orthodox Church History
- ↑ [[2]] New York Times article - Aug 3, 1925
- ↑ [[3]] Chap. 4 The Storm Clouds Burst 1930-1940
- ↑ [[4]] Edition for 1956, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A, 297 Fourth Avenue, New York 10, N. Y.
- ↑ [[5]] World Academy of Rusyn Culture, Elaine Rusinko - United States.
- Orthodox America 1794-1976 Development of the Orthodox Church in America, C. J. Tarasar, Gen. Ed. 1975, The Orthodox Church in America, Syosett, New York, p183
- Patriarchal parishes in the USA
- Chap. 4 The Storm Clouds Burst 1930-1940

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Leave better half alone
Regarding your June 12 article, "Not Colin: Downtown's unsung backer," (http://www.readthehook.com/93598/news-not-colin-downtowns-unsung-backer) about Dorothy and Colin Rolph: How quickly you forget all the positive community service the Rolphs have provided through their support of numerous non-profit organizations, the University of Virginia, and the economic health of downtown.
How often do we have new arrivals to our community step up to the plate so promptly to help with the many challenges in our community? Mr. and Mrs. Rolph have given generously of their time, money, and influence to affect this community in many positive ways.
For their efforts, you and others in the community see fit only to engage in gossip and innuendo regarding their private lives. Mr. and Mrs. Rolph are not politicians, not public servants, not elected officials. They are generous, well meaning, and truly community-minded individuals.
Their personal affairs are not only none of our business and also most certainly not worthy of criticism by you, simply to sell newspapers. Such "news" reporting acts as a real disincentive for anyone with means and good intention to contribute to our community.
Both deserve their privacy, and more importantly, many thanks for all they have done to make Charlottesville/Albemarle a better place to live.
Sheldon Anderson
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Adam Walker has been a part of the Concordia University Wisconsin football staff since 2006. He started as the running backs coach for the 2006 and 2007 seasons before moving to Defensive Coordinator. The CUW defense has been one of the top units in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference each year under his direction as coordinator.
During the 2016 season, the Falcons led the NACC in fumbles recovered (14) and defensive touchdowns (3). As well, in 2011 his pass defense allowed just 122.6 yards per game and ranked first in all of NCAA Division III. The Falcons followed that up with a strong season in 2012, allowing 18.7 points per game, ranking second in the conference. During the 2013 campaign, they led the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference in tackles per game (75.0) and scored a league-best four touchdowns. In 2014, the Falcons tied for the NACC lead with 13 fumble recoveries.
Prior to coming to CUW, Walker worked at Carthage College for three seasons, where he coached the secondary. Under the tutelage of then Defensive Coordinator Greg Etter, the 2004 secondary finished first nationally with 31 interceptions and 10 defensive touchdowns. He also served as a Head Coach at the high school level for eight years and as an assistant coach for five years. Walker has been a part of three NCAA playoff teams in his eight years of collegiate football. Walker's playing career began at Carthage College (1981-85) where he was a quarterback before playing shortly with the Minnesota Vikings as a running back in 1987.
Walker also served as the Concordia University Wisconsin Head Track & Field Coach (men & women) for five seasons (2006–10). In his short term as leader of the track & field program, he has won nine NAC Championships (indoor & outdoor) and nine Coach of the Year honors. He also has the distinction of coaching three National Champions and several All-Americans. Amanda Kuca was the 2006 National DIII Track Athlete of the Year and a National Champion. Brock Solveson was the DIII National Scholar-Athlete of the Year in both 2009 and 2010, along with winning two National Championships. Walker also serves as the Minority Student-Athlete Recruiting Liaison.
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Mariners' rook helps Young keep A's in check
OAKLAND -- Stefen Romero knew his teammates were up to something once he got back to the dugout in the top of the fifth inning.
The rookie had just belted the first home run of his Major League career, a solo shot to left field off Scott Kazmir to break up a tie game. As he trotted to the end of the dugout to put away his batting gloves and helmet, Romero's teammates gave him the silent treatment.View Full Game Coverage
OAKLAND -- Stefen Romero knew his teammates were up to something once he got back to the dugout in the top of the fifth inning.
The rookie had just belted the first home run of his Major League career, a solo shot to left field off Scott Kazmir to break up a tie game. As he trotted to the end of the dugout to put away his batting gloves and helmet, Romero's teammates gave him the silent treatment.View Full Game Coverage
But the Mariners soon mobbed Romero and his homer would eventually serve as the game-winning run in a 4-2 victory over the American League West-leading A's on Monday night.
"When everyone was quiet, I knew what they were doing," Romero said with a smile.
And what about that feeling of his first Major League dinger?
"Like a hot knife cutting through butter," Romero said. "That's the best way I could explain it."
Romero's homer was just one of the many highlights on the night for Seattle, which received a strong start from right-handed veteran Chris Young. He faced the minimum through three innings and bounced back from Brandon Moss' two-run homer in the fourth before the A's chased him from the mound after two batters reached with no outs in the seventh.
Young (2-0) allowed just two earned runs on three hits and two walks while striking out a pair, lowering his ERA to 3.03 on the year.
"It looks like he's throwing soft and the radar gun says he's throwing soft, but the way he pitches up and down, it makes it tough," Moss said. "It's so rare that you see something like that. ... I think it's his arm angle and his height. He's 6-foot-10 and he's throwing out of the sky."
Young also accomplished a bit of personal history, as he has now won consecutive starts for the first time since May 2009. The 34-year-old missed all of last season due to shoulder issues and hasn't made 30 starts in a season since '07, but he said he feels like he's regaining his form.
"Health-wise, yes," Young said. "Stuff-wise I'm not there and I don't know if I'll ever be; I've had three shoulder operations. There are some differences I'm seeing where I'm getting a little bit quicker contact which is allowing me to pitch deeper into games as compared to in the past when my stuff was a little bit better. I think that could be advantageous, but it's a long season."
Young also benefited from a Seattle lineup that jumped all over Kazmir in the early going.
Michael Saunders and Romero started off the game with consecutive hard-hit singles. Saunders eventually came around to score on Corey Hart's single to right field before Kyle Seager drove home Romero with a fielder's choice, giving Young a 2-0 lead before he even stepped on the mound.
"I try not to get too wrapped up in the score," Young said. "But certainly when you have that lead you get a little more aggressive and you don't second guess yourself. You just try to stay aggressive and put the pressure on them."
Brad Miller drove in another run off Kazmir in the sixth when he lined a ball to left field and Moss appeared to lose it in the lights, allowing Cole Gillespie to score from second. The Mariners were able to hand Kazmir (4-1) his first loss after he gave up four runs on eight hits and two walks while striking out three.
It was a stark contrast to the Kazmir's past two outings against the Mariners dating back to last year, as he didn't allow an earned run in 14 innings during those appearances.
"We had better at-bats," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. "He's a real good pitcher and he had his way with us the two outings in a row. I thought our guys were probably a little bit more determined tonight -- better at-bats and better approach and we were able to get his pitch count up a little bit."
Even though McClendon said struggling reliever Charlie Furbush wouldn't be used in high-pressure situations before Monday's game, the skipper called on Furbush after Josh Donaldson's single and Moss' walk started the seventh against Young. A day after giving up two runs on two hits without retiring a batter, Furbush induced a key 6-4-3 double play.
"I'm just sticking the course and believing in myself," Furbush said. "Just having that confidence that I'm all right, you know? Things aren't as bad as they may seem sometimes, so you've just got to do what you can to keep things simple and keep attacking."
Fernando Rodney struck out one in a perfect ninth inning to earn his eighth save in nine tries this season and third against the A's. With the victory, Seattle (15-15) moved its record 5-1 on the current road trip to the Bronx, Houston and Oakland.
Alex Espinoza is a contributor to MLB.com.


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WASHINGTON—Labor unions seeking a fiscal solution that protects entitlement programs and raises taxes on the rich are trying the carrot approach before taking the stick to lawmakers.
A new six-figure ad campaign backed by three major unions includes radio spots praising four Republican House members as "leaders willing to put people ahead of partisan politics."
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Get Your Djembe from Dolphin | Learn to Play Today!
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What is a Djembe?
The djembe is possibly one of the most enjoyable instruments to play! Djembe performances are all about energy and fun, traditionally played for people to dance, sing and clap along with.
The djembe is a traditional West African drum, which has brought the people of Mali, Senegal and surrounding countries enjoyment for centuries, and it was only in the '50s that the drum became known in the western world.
Traditionally, djembes are carved of hardwood with hollow bodies, the drum heads are made from untreated rawhide, usually goat skin that has had the hair removed. This raw animal skin factor has been known to, well "freak out" some new drummers, as a lot of djembe's feature goat hair surrounding the drum's edge... which is actually a very decorative and attractive feature in a djembe.
Considering that the drum consists of such few and simple materials it is surprising that the djembe can produce such a wide range of sounds, it is one of the most versatile drums in the world, which is why ensembles appear so complete and full.
The Dundun
A real djembe line up would consist of multiple djembe drums and the dundun. The dundun refers to a collection of bass drums, the dundunba which is the largest of the three, the mid-sized sangban and small kenkeni, which support the leading djembe. These names are onomatopoetic reflections of the sounds each drum produces and produce low or high pitches depending on their size.
An ensemble wouldn't be an ensemble without the dundun!
How to Play
The djembe is played between the knees, at an angle from the floor to allow the sound to escape from the bottom of the drum.
The three main playing techniques are the bass, tone and slap sounds. The bass is made by hitting the drum in its centre with a stiff, flat palm and fingers together. The tones and slaps are made from attacking the drums edge. To achieve a tone, the player keeps their fingers together and strikes the drums edge at a flat angle. Slaps are sounded with open fingers, and a fast percussive attack on the drums edge… the finger tips do most of the work.
The tones and slaps can be pretty painful to maintain for beginners… so take it easy if you're just starting out!
If you're more accustomed to popular music, you could think of these three sounds as a bass drum, hi-hat and snare. The bass is most often played on beat 1 of a 4/4 rhythm, the hi hat maintains its consistency through the majority of the performance and the slaps, much like the snare are "accent" beats, determining whether the rhythm is up tempo or down tempo.
One of the most popular and enjoyable djembe rhythms to play is Djole, which or course originated from West Africa and has been entertaining the masses for years. Djole is a great rhythm so begin your playing with, see djembe master Mamady Keita playing Djole here.
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Made of mahogany, this djembe produces a warm tone and features a goat skin drum head, which is exactly what you want in a djembe, if an original sound is what you're after!
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Having successfully deployed Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards for a number of years, CompuGroup Medical (CGM) returned to SanDisk for another solution to support their diverse and complex workloads. By deploying the InfiniFlash System, CompuGroup Medical realized increased data access speeds, decreased power and cooling costs, and reduced their data center footprint—all in a cost-effective solution.
Having successfully deployed Fusion ioMemory™ PCIe cards for a number of years, CompuGroup Medical (CGM) returned to SanDisk for another solution to support their diverse and complex workloads. By deploying the InfiniFlash System, CompuGroup Medical realized increased data access speeds, decreased power and cooling costs, and reduced their data center footprint—all in a cost-effective solution.
A leading global eHealth enterprise, CompuGroup Medical provides software and communications solutions that assist doctors, dentists, hospitals, pharmacists, laboratories and other service providers with workflow, diagnosis, and therapy. The Company has a broad customer base of approximately 400,000 service providers worldwide that includes general practitioners, medical facilities, health insurers, pharmaceutical companies and public sector agencies. The Company's IT solutions keep pace with the latest developments in the field of medicine and meet the needs of the healthcare sector for storing, exchanging, and accessing medical information—when and where it is needed.
CompuGroup Medical was one of SanDisk's early customers of Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerator products. The Company deployed the first generation Fusion ioMemory devices in their Koblenz and Irvine data centers and has continued to be a customer throughout the years. "We are a long-time customer of Fusion ioMemory cards and have had a very low failure rate with the products. We have rarely seen outages with the cards and we have a lot of them running in our data centers. It is a "no-brainer" for us to use them," said Thomas Schend, Senior IT Systems Architect, CompuGroup Medical.
The CompuGroup Medical IT team prefers to work directly with vendors and is complimentary regarding interaction with SanDisk. "With some companies, the people cannot go as deep as we do into the technology," explained Schend. "However, with SanDisk, the support people have the technical knowledge to help us solve problems. We have tried to mimic some of the methodologies that SanDisk uses in their data centers because they are more efficient."
Thomas Schend,
Senior IT Systems Architect, CompuGroup Medical
The CompuGroup Medical IT team supports virtualized and very diverse workloads— from Microsoft SQL Server 2014 databases, Oracle billing applications, and terminal servers, to transactional data and hosting for customers of the software and services businesses. The Company stores data for patients; for example, patients can book appointments from their Smartphones and have the information stored in the system. Additional complexity arises from both organic growth and numerous acquisitions that contribute to CompuGroup Medical's ongoing and rapid expansion. "We cannot design for one specific application because, if we acquire a new company, we need to run those new applications in our data center and the infrastructure must support this. Maybe it isn't the highest performance for this single application, but for all the workloads at the same time, it is very good for the mixed workload."
Although CompuGroup Medical had deployed both standard hard disk drives and flash solutions in the form of Fusion ioMemory cards in their servers, they became limited in the way they could continue to deploy additional drives. The disks were attached through Fabric Attached Storage to the server to create the SAN. However, the point came where the need arose for additional PCIe slots.
Schend currently uses DataCore SANsymphony-V Software as the Software-defined Storage layer. The primary system was mirrored to a second system that was presented to the application server. "We needed something that is block storage, that is blazing fast, and that is low latency to accept the data," said Schend.
Thomas Schend,
Senior IT Systems Architect, CompuGroup Medical
Schend conducted research in the marketplace to evaluate possible solutions. The objective was to obtain more density and higher performance, within a cost-efficient architecture. "There were all-flash SANs already on the market but we were pretty satisfied with the mirroring function from DataCore Software. InfiniFlash System was the product that fit us perfectly. It was just a natural evolution," Schend told us. CompuGroup Medical is deploying the InfiniFlash System in two data centers in Frankfurt.
Because of the intelligence inherent in the DataCore Software product, CompuGroup Medical uses the InfiniFlash System mostly as a JBOF (Just a Bunch of Flash). Due to the striping of data across all of the 8TB InfiniFlash cards, CompuGroup Medical enjoys better performance along with caching and drive availability and resiliency. "We came to InfiniFlash because, for us, it isn't easy to predict what our workload is doing," explained Schend. "We try to have very good overall performance, with about 50/50 reads and writes. We are not tuning the infrastructure for one specific application; we are tuning it for diverse workloads."
Schend was also pleased with the impact on the data center. "We did the math to determine how much space and cooling we needed for our traditional 900GB spindles which were mirrored, and compared that with the space on the InfiniFlash System. The price point here was really attractive. In addition, the risk was low. Because we have the virtualized data layer on top, the risk was not that high."
To determine the impact of the InfiniFlash System deployment, CompuGroup Medical compared the existing hard disk drive architecture in Koblenz with the new InfiniFlash System deployment in Frankfurt. "In Koblenz, we have 15 to 20 milliseconds access time for our data from the SAN side—which is okay," said Schend. "But with the InfiniFlash System, we see just one millisecond for every bit of data we access."
In addition, with the previous architecture, the system tiered storage between the hard disks and the Fusion ioMemory cards. However, with the new architecture, there is only one tier based on the InfiniFlash System, which provides the needed performance at any given point in time.
When considering the power efficiency and space savings of the InfiniFlash System, CompuGroup Medical is seeing significant savings. "My calculations show what would happen if you ramp up to 128TB or even 512TB from 64TB," Schend continued. "With InfiniFlash, the footprint is still three rack units, compared to what would be needed with additional hard disks." For every 64TB, CompuGroup Medical would need another three 3U JBOD hard disk drive rack units, each with space for at least 24 hard disk drives.
CompuGroup Medical is also realizing considerable power and cooling savings with the new InfiniFlash System architecture. "We require four spindles totaling 900GB to have them mirrored—two spindles on each side of DataCore—which requires 20 watts," Schend told us. However, InfiniFlash System requires approximately 500 watts to run—nearly one-third of the power.
"For us, this technology is a big advantage," confirmed Schend. "The first time we used Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards, and now with deploying InfiniFlash, it really is the right strategy."
Schend has an optimistic view for the future of flash in the data center. "We will deploy this solution in Frankfurt and then increase capacity if we reach the limit," said Schend. "We are considering InfiniFlash for all of our data centers, using the Frankfurt data center as a model and test case. Once it is a proven solution for our workloads, we plan to deploy in other data centers, as well."
The fact that there is nothing "mechanical" when storing data in flash storage devices is also a benefit for CGM. "With very large disks there is a potential for failure and error. Personally, I predict that in two years, the all-flash data center will be an option for most companies, because the failure rate is so low and the power and cooling is now economical."
Schend sees advantages with the ability to have one petabyte of storage in a 6U footprint. "Compared with even large eight terabyte hard disks, there is a lot of handling and maintenance required. Therefore, InfiniFlash is something every company should consider."


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The Christmas song has been a staple of pop culture for well over 60 years, but as anyone with ears knows, they're not always a reason to be jolly.
But it is possible to make a good Christmas single. And here's MusicRadar's own festive favourites, from Ray Charles and Mariah Carey to The Killers and Run DMC…
The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York
A song to melt the hardest of hearts, set in the underbelly of New York City. An anthem for anyone who finds themselves staring into the bottom of a glass, reminiscing about lost love and wasted opportunities this Christmas. Certain to provoke raucous sing-a-longs in bars across the globe until the end of time. Here's the late Kirsty MacColl performing live with Pogues on St. Patrick's Day back in 1988. Chris Vinnicombe
Low - Just Like Christmas
Every year, there are but two Xmas traditions for me.
1 - Remember to stick Kahlua on the booze list.
2 - Attack the CD landslide and find Low's Christmas EP.
On the whole, this 2003 release is in line with the Duluth trio's trademark slowcore sound but Just Like Christmas is a revelation - rollicking Spector-style production, jangling sleigh. Mike Goldsmith
Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis
'Novelty' hip-hop is a near-impossible gig to pull off, but in 1987 Run-DMC could still rock the beats and the funnies. Christmas In Hollis is built around a sample of Clarence Carter's Back Door Santa - not about Christmas at all, fools! - and although it's (macaroni) cheesy as hell, it's all y'all need to make any old-skool yule rule. Word! Michael Leonard
Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
Usually, I'm allergic to anything attached to the name Mariah Carey. But this song is an exception. Maybe it's the jingling sleighbells, or perhaps it's the good-time beat. Or maybe, just maybe it's the promise of a pretty girl saying money and gifts don't matter, all she need is...me! This is the carefree, kick-up-the snow, let's-kiss-under-the-mistletoe sound of Christmas all the way. Joe Bosso
Ray Charles and Betty Carter - Baby It's Cold Outside
There are as many grim versions of Frank Loesser's standard as there are great ones (we're looking at you, Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews), but at its best it's a cheeky, cockle-warming classic. Ray Charles and Betty Carter certainly sound like they're having fun in this charming 1961 recording, and because the song doesn't explicitly mention Christmas, you can justifiably keep listening to it well into the New Year. Ben Rogerson
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
A song that's sure to evoke emotion - normally either a bile-inducing hatred for Bob Geldof, or the feeling that we just must, somehow, save the world with music. In this writer's case it's the latter. Band Aid may have numerous flaws (Simon Le Bon's horrific over-singing of the oh-so-evocative line "but when you're having fun" to name but one) but the immediacy of the recording and (overall) sincerity of the cause shine through. And the Bono line? It's great. The lyric is horribly selfish, and it's all the more human for it. Chris Wickett
The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
If there's one song that blows the 'cheesy Chrimbo' stereotype out of the water it's Little Saint Nick. It's so cool, it almost makes us want to take our surfboards out of hibernation and catch a ride on a snowy hill. Ha, imagine that: a board - not skis - on snow! Then again, The Beach Boys always were innovators. Tom Porter
Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody
Blindingly obvious, but it wouldn't really be the festive season without hearing the alarmingly hirsute Noddy Holder bawling, "It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaas!". Noel Gallagher recorded a rather nice acoustic cover of it for UK comedy series The Royle Family's Christmas Special in 2000. However, we're not so sure about this version by Dexys Midnight Runners. Chris Vinnicombe
Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa
First off, MusicRadar apologises for the wantonly sexy nature of this clip but it was either this - the only original we could find - or some 'interesting' cover versions by Jet or Bon Jovi. Anyhoo, Back Door Santa - released in 1968 by filthy soulman Clarence Carter, sampled by Run DMC for Christmas In Hollis and, as the grooviest Xmas song ever written, about to totally hijack the stereo for the MusicRadar Xmas Shindig. Mike Goldsmith
The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa
MusicRadar was a bit underwhelmed by The Killers' Christmas 2008 single (with Elton John), but this 2007 gift to fans is a bit of a, erm, killer. The chorus melody is good enough for a 'regular' Killers tune. You get a bad Brandon Flowers, a murderous Santa, plus Mariachi trumpets, all giving a quirky dark twist to 'Christmas cheer'. Don't like it? Try The Killers' 2006 Christmas single A Great Big Sled. Michael Leonard
Darleen Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
In 1963, The Ronettes' Ronnie Spector couldn't pack the right emotional punch for this rousing 'teenage symphony to God' bit of holiday magic. So legendary producer Phil Spector chose Darleen Love to bring it on home. And oh, how she did, summoning up heartbreak and the yearning for Christmases gone by. In 1987, U2 recorded a version that darn near eclipsed the original. Joe Bosso
Saint Etienne and Tim Burgess - I Was Born On Christmas Day
Can you make a good Christmas dance record? If you're St Etienne and Tim Burgess the answer's yes - despite the fact that both The Charlatans' frontman and Sarah Cracknell sound a little 'pitchy' at various points. Released in 1993, the song still has a bright and breezy charm, though it's probably better played with your mates on Christmas Eve than it is to Grandma on Christmas morning. Ben Rogerson
Howard Blake - Walking In The Air
This one might not be the best choice to drop right after Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody at the work Christmas Party (unless you work for Irn-Bru), but the track from animated short The Snowman is truly an epic piece. Here's the original version sung by Peter Auty - its bleak, expansive sound perfectly captures the feeling of flying through the winter sky holding the hand of an animate snow-sculpture. Also, if you've got a spare seven minutes, check out Oceansize's post-rock interpretation - it's even epic-er. Chris Wickett
Mud - Lonely this Christmas
If you're spending this Christmas with a loved one: well done, hooray for you. If, however, you're on your own: rejoice! The greatest unhappy festive tune ever written is for you. It's so good, those experiencing any hint of relationship problems should seriously consider ending it now - don't wait until the new year, do it now. Wrap up warm, though, it'll be cold, so cold. Tom Porter


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John Frederick Kensett (American, Cheshire, Connecticut 1816 - 1872 New York)
Mt. Mansfield from Malletts Bay, Lake Champlain, ca. 1860
Oil on canvas
9 3/8 x 18 1/4 in. (23.8 x 46.5 cm)
Gift of John G. D. Paul, 1955
Mt. Mansfield from Malletts Bay, Lake Champlain embodies the mature style of John F. Kensett, and is a superb example of that branch of Hudson River school painting now commonly called luminism.
The strong horizontality, asymmetrical composition, and extreme simplification of forms, together with the artist's precise draughtsmanship, refined palette, and subtle modulation of tonal values, create a tranquil and evocative view, in which water, sky, and light itself are the main protagonists.
Despite its title, Kensett's painting focuses on the watery expanses of Malletts Bay, just north of Burlington, rather than on Mt. Mansfield. Vermont's loftiest peak, Mt. Mansfield is located about thirty miles due east of the bay. It has been a major tourist attraction since the 1850s, and a frequent subject for artists, such as Jerome B. Thompson (1814-1886), Charles L. Heyde, Aaron D. Shattuck, and Sanford R. Gifford (1823-1880), who painted near views of the mountain and its slopes, often adding trail guides, campers, and other signs of civilization.1 In Kensett's painting, the mountain, although centrally placed, is relatively insignificant, and, despite the outbuilding at the far right, there is a haunting absence of people and animals.
Kensett's attention to detail made him extremely popular with American Pre-Raphaelites, but his style is only coincidentally aligned with their work.2 His paintings, and in particular Mt. Mansfield from Malletts Bay, Lake Champlain, were second-generation manifestations of the Hudson River school. Although here Kensett does not depict the New World as an Edenic wilderness, as did Thomas Cole (compare his Lake with Dead Trees), the isolation of the scene, the absence of any humans or animals, and the precise yet atmospheric depiction of light infuse the painting with a divine presence of a different sort. These luminist qualities link Kensett's mature work with that of Jasper Francis Cropsey, as well as Gifford and Frederic Edwin Church. In 1864 the American collector and writer James Jackson Jarves compared Kensett to the journalist and romantic poet William Cullen Bryant, adding that Kensett's paintings have "a phantom-like lightness and coldness of touch and tint, which give them a somewhat unreal aspect...[and which] take all the more hold on the fancy for their lyrical qualities."3
Wolfgang Stechow dated the painting to about 1860, but it is a difficult work to date so precisely,4 and could have been painted as early as 1860 or as late as 1869. One can see a definite change in Kensett's painting style during the mid to late 1850s,5 but after about 1860 his style remained remarkably consistent, and therefore stylistic analysis alone is not particularly useful for dating. Kensett is known to have visited Lake Champlain only two times, in August 1848 and in the summer of 1853, but he often painted scenes he had seen and/or sketched many years earlier. And while there is a preponderance of asymmetrical compositions in Kensett's paintings from the mid 1860s on, there are also a significant number of such compositions from the previous decade.6 Mt. Mansfield from Malletts Bay, Lake Champlain does bear a remarkable similarity to two dated paintings by the artist from 1869 and 1870, especially in the brushwork of the grass and trees and, in the 1869 work, in the presence and shape of a dominant tree with bright red leaves.7
J. Weidman
Kensett was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, on 22 March 1816. From about 1828 he trained and worked as an engraver in New Haven, first with his father and later with his uncle. He continued to work as an engraver in New York City, New Haven, and Albany until his departure for an extended period of travel and study in Europe from 1840 to 1847. Kensett spent seven years in England and on the continent, primarily in London and Hampton Court, Paris, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. He was in Naples by mid-April 1847, and in May he painted The Temple of Neptune, Paestum(AMAM inv. 04.432). Following his return to the United States in October 1847 Kensett settled in New York City, but continued to travel extensively. In addition to more local trips, he returned to Europe in 1856, 1861, and (possibly) 1868; lived briefly in Washington, D.C. (1860), traveled on the Missisippi River (1868), and to Colorado and the Rockies (1870). After contracting pneumonia in Connecticut in 1872, he died of heart failure at his studio in New York on 14 December 1872.
During his lifetime, Kensett was generally regarded as one of the finest among those second-generation artists of the Hudson River school who built upon Thomas Cole's literal transcriptions of Northeastern scenes and created quiet, intimate, and serene landscapes.
Kensett generously supported artists and artistic organizations, such as the National Academy of Design (elected full member 1849), the U. S. Capitol Art Commission (appointed 1859), and the Sanitary Fair exhibition of 1863-64, which raised funds to support the Union Army's medical services. He served as the founder and president of the charitable Artists' Fund Society from 1865 to 1870, and was active as a founder and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870. He was a diligent and prolific artist, who produced numerous drawings (including Newport, AMAM inv. 77.4) and over six hundred paintings.
General References
Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the Artists: American Artistic Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists. New York, 1867, pp. 510-14.
Johnson, Ellen H. "Kensett Revisited," The Art Quarterly 20, no. 1 (1957), pp. 71-92.
John Frederick Kensett: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 1967.
Sullivan, Mark White. "John F. Kensett, American Landscape Painter." Ph.D. diss. Bryn Mawr College, 1981.
Driscoll, John Paul, and John K. Howat. John Frederick Kensett: An American Master. Exh. cat. Worcester Art Museum, Mass., 1985.
Collection John Stratton Gilman, New Hampshire, from John F. Kensett8
Collection Mrs. John Stratton Gilman (wife of above, formerly Eliza Weyl), Baltimore (by 1893)9
Possibly collection of Charlotte Abbot Gilman Paul (daughter of above) and D'Arcy Paul
Collection J. Gilman D'Arcy Paul (son of above), Baltimore, by whom given in 1955
Baltimore, Fifth Regiment Armory, 1893. Exhibition of Revolutionary Relics and Fine Arts in Aid of the Maryland Revolutionary Monument Fund. Easter week. Cat. no. 13 or 14 (both noted as owned by Mrs. J. S. Gilman).
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of European and American Painting and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1967, p. 92, fig. 16.
Technical Data
The painting is generally sound and in good condition. The canvas was relined and the painting cleaned in 1966, removing the discolored varnish; the painting was then recoated with polymer varnish. There are small losses to the paint surface and ground along the left edge, and a small loss in the sky left of center corresponding to an imperfection in the original canvas support. The paint appears to have been very fluid on application, and the white ground is visible in many places. The leaves and highlights on the trees are more thickly painted; the artist used the shape of the brush to model the water (e.g., lower-left scallop pattern), and there is some modeling in the right foreground and in the sky, where the artist has scratched into the wet paint.
1. Reproductions of such paintings can be found in Vermont Landscape Images, 1776-1976(exh. cat., Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vt., 1976), pp. 58-61.
2. Although Kensett did correspond from 1862 until early 1866 with the American Pre-Raphaelite artist C. H. Moore, Moore initiated the contact and there is no discernible stylistic influence from Moore to Kensett. For a contemporary observation, see Henry T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists: American Artistic Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists(New York, 1867), p. 511. For the correspondence, see Kenneth Myers and Margaret Favretti, "'In Most Extreme Need': Correspondence of C. H. Moore with J. F. Kensett," Archives of American Art Journal 26, no. 1 (1986), pp. 11-17.
3. James Jackson Jarves, The Art-Idea: Sculpture, Painting and Architecture(originally published Boston, 1864), rev. ed., edited by Benjamin Rowland, Jr. (Cambridge, 1960), pp. 192-93. Jarves's readers of the mid 1860s would have clearly understood the comparison to Bryant.
4. Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of European and American Painting and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin, 1967), p. 92.
5. These changes can be summarized as a shift from Claudian tripartite and narrative composition to simplified and relatively abstract design; from a bright to cool palette; and from painterly to smooth facture.
6. For similar works from 1855 to 1872, see John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat, John Frederick Kensett: An American Master (exh. cat., Worcester, Mass. and New York, 1985), color plates 16-27 and 29-35. A similar Kensett painting of Lake George is dated "c. 1860s" by Kenneth W. Maddox in Barbara Novak, Nineteenth-Century American Paintings: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection(New York, 1986), pp. 84-85.
7. The 1870 painting, Lake George, is in the collection of The Brooklyn Museum; see John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat, John Frederick Kensett: An American Master(exh. cat., Worcester, Mass. and New York, 1985), pl 34. The 1869 painting, Mist Over the Lake, which may also be a view of Lake George, was in the sale New York (Christie's), 23 September 1992, lot 24.
8. The Kensett-Gilman connection was mentioned in a letter from Charles Parkhurst to J. Gilman D'Archy Paul in 1955.
9. The painting was exhibited in Baltimore in 1893 as the property of Mrs. J. S. Gilman.


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Basic Guide Window
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How To Install:
- Download the addon using the big shiny button.
- Download TomTom from WoW Interface or Curse. TomTom is important! Without it, you won't see the arrow telling you where to go! Get version v70000-1.0.0 or later.
- Unzip the downloaded files into your addons directory. (How do I unzip the file?)
Windows 7/8 location:
C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons
Mac location:
Macintosh Main HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons
- Log into the game. In the lower left-hand corner of your character select screen, you should see an "Addons" button. Click it. The WoW-Pro addon and TomTom should both be listed. Make sure they are checked, and you're ready to go!
- If you have any trouble installing the guide, stop by our Addon Help Chat Room to get help!
You can also visit the WoW-Pro Leveling Addon Troubleshooting Guide, where you'll find a fix for most common issues.
- Will cover EVERY zone, not just the "best" ones
- Automatically checks off steps as you progress through the guide
- Completely customizable view
- Arrow and map points show you exactly where to go
- Adjustable XP settings work with...
- Heirlooms
- Recruit-A-Friend
- Dungeons
- PvP
- Works great with partially leveled characters
- Integrated quest tracker (can be disabled if desired)
- Integrated quest item buttons
- Supports step skipping (the guide knows the difference between a skipped step and a completed step)
- Innovative "sticky steps" help you manage quests you need to complete as you go!
The Addon Dev Team
Lead Developers:
- Core Addon: Jiyambi/Silvann/Ludovicus
- Leveling Module: Jiyambi/Ludovicus
- Dailies Module: Jiyambi/Twists/Ludovicus
- Professions Module: Ludovicus
Development Team:
- Dunevon
- Gameldar
- Gylin
- Jiyambi
- Ludovicus
- Shakazahn
- Silvann
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Hey it happens to the best of
Submitted by Eidolon Kitsune on Thu, 2011-09-08 21:25.
Hey it happens to the best of us. Guess I better redownload it myself then. Wanted to say I find this to be a must have for me and it's made my questing days enjoyable. Keep up the excellent work!Thanks for fixing it!
Download Link Not Working
Submitted by laz91 on Thu, 2011-09-08 04:08.
I just get redirected to a page that says "404 - This is not the web page you are looking for"
The correct link :D
Submitted by Eidolon Kitsune on Thu, 2011-09-08 07:36.
Though I'm sure the download button will be updated soon to reflect the correction.Found it through locating Jiyambi through github's user search function.Enjoy!
Submitted by laz91 on Sun, 2011-09-11 02:01.
No worries thanks for the
Submitted by laz91 on Sun, 2011-09-11 02:03.
No worries thanks for the great addon!
Starting guide half way through
Submitted by tobydjones on Thu, 2011-09-08 00:45.
I've just downloaded your guide but I'm half way through a zone. The addon's picked up the quests I've got currently, but is directing me to a quest I've already done. Yes, I know I can mark it as completed, but I don't remember all of them!
There's an addon called quest completist that can poll the server to see which quests have been completed. It would be great if you could incorporate that, so a new user like me could jump into a guide half way through.
Dependency Missing
Submitted by Kazei Stormcaller on Fri, 2011-09-02 18:26.
Sounds like there's a problem with something in the Wow-Pro formula, probably a corrupted or missing file. Try deleting the folder, redownloading the addon, and installing a fresh copy.
I have to agree with the person who commented that the captcha system here basically sucks.
Dependency Missing
Submitted by Zheo on Wed, 2011-08-24 15:15.
So no matter what I do with installation of this addon (extract then copy and paste, direct extraction. I've deleted the SavedVariables, the WTF folder WoWPro portions) when I log in to WoW it says that there are dependencies missing. The WoWPro addon doesnt show up on my addon list, only the dailies and profession modules.
PLEASE HELP!! It's driving me nuts
Thanks a lot!
Submitted by IJ24 on Thu, 2012-07-26 05:33.
The advices I found here were good enough to answer my questions about the game! Now I have found a good reason to stay way from ink and toner from time to time. Thanks a lot guys!
The two addons listed in the
Submitted by Zheo on Thu, 2011-08-25 15:53.
The two addons listed in the in-game folder are WoWPro Professions and WowPro World Events. IN the addons folder, however, there are WowPro, WowPro Leveling, WowPro Professions, WowPro Dailies and Wow Pro Events. The dependency missing when mouse over'd is WoWPro, but it's in the addon folder!
I had uninstalled WoW a few months ago and reinstalled recently and now the addon doesnt work. It had worked great previously.
I am having the same problem.
Submitted by JTwigg978 on Sun, 2012-02-26 02:57.
I am having the same problem. Did you find a fix to it? I have redownloaded it maybe 7 times, and its the same every time.
Hellfire Peninsula section (A): Digging for Prayer Beads
Submitted by Lucky Dragon on Wed, 2011-08-24 01:36.
Guide says to just go to the map location and loot, but Blizzard has since fixed the quest so that the loot item doesn't spawn unless you do the quest as intended. Guide needs to be updated to reflect this.
BTW: your catchpa system is horrible... took me more than 10 tries to get one that I could read
Video Walkthroughs
Submitted by TheXstreamer on Fri, 2011-08-19 04:25.
I have been following this guide out for a while so i decided to make a video walkthrough for the whole of cataclysm, Check it out on my youtube channel at www.youtube.com/thexstreamer :) don't forget to subscribe as i am hoping to start out a nice youtube channel with wow video to get a youtube partnership Also if an admin sees this could you post the videos on the website or something?
Guide: Hellfire Peninsula-Horde
Submitted by Shagrat on Wed, 2011-08-10 05:22.
Hello, first I want to say I love your add-on and I have used it to level several characters on both Horde and Alliance. I have noticed some issues with this particular guide while playing my druid. All of the mag'har related quests after completing the quest 'The Mag'har' are no longer in the game, presumably due to the fact that Thrall is no longer in Orgrimmar. This may have an effect on the Nagrand quest guide, but I have not gotten to that point on my druid yet.
This is a list of quests and their follow-ups that I have noticed have been removed completely from the game:
Messenge to Thrall
Envoy to the Mag'har
A Debilitating Sickness
Administering the Salve
The last two may be unintentional but the option to take 'A Debilitating Sickness' does not pop up unless Envoy to the Mag'har is completed, so I'm pretty sure that this was merely an oversight on Blizzard's part.
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Submitted by Eightdeath on Sat, 2011-07-23 01:16.
I followed the guides for 3 different character at 3 different levels.
After being asked to make a long distance run accross all of Hellfire to Telhmat to pick up ONE quest when I could have finished 3 other quests and FLOWN to the destination or completely SKIPPED the single ... after being asked to fly from and after bing asked to do quests that have lower than 60% drop and HIGH quantity collection rates, I came to the conclusion that I can level much more effieciently on my own.
The game does a much better job of guiding us through the leveling if you let it. ;)
indeed it turns better :)
Submitted by J.Palm on Wed, 2011-07-27 10:09.
indeed it turns better :)
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Tanaris guide suggestion
Submitted by Eightdeath on Wed, 2011-07-20 02:14.
Is there a place to make suggestions?
OK, I'm following the Tanaris guide and I have a suggestion.
I have found that the Gazer Tag and Chicken of the Desert quests are WAY to low of a drop rate to be efficient for leveling.
In fact, I have skipped the quests from Bootlegger outpost completely with 2 other characters.
After completing the Lost Rigger Cove quests, I finish the butcher bot and then move over to Trenton Lighthammer and his friends. With a couple of dungeon queues or battle grounds I did not need the Bootlegger quests.
BTW, I started Tanaris 2 levels lower than what your guide says.
Can you find a different captcha system? This one sucks to read.
Submitted by Twists on Tue, 2011-07-19 20:59.
Not sure it has. I am still seeing spam, so they have figured out a way around it.
We still have spam, but near
Submitted by Crackerhead22 on Wed, 2011-07-20 06:25.
We still have spam, but near as much as usual.
/pokes admin give out more
Submitted by Gylin on Wed, 2011-07-20 07:19.
/pokes admin
give out more spammer banning hammers
yes, unfortunately :*(
Submitted by Gylin on Wed, 2011-07-20 04:29.
yes, unfortunately :*(
Submitted by Eightdeath on Mon, 2011-07-18 16:28.
What a pain in the ass! I had to try 7 times to find a captch I could read.
You really ought to find another way!
but at least it's killed off
Submitted by Gylin on Mon, 2011-07-18 16:46.
but at least it's killed off the endless spam (buy pills/gold/shoes etc here) we were getting
First and second things I look at... 2 Strikes.
Submitted by Eightdeath on Mon, 2011-07-18 14:28.
I just downloaded the addon for the first time.
I followed the on screen instructions and right clicked then wen to the guid list. The list opened in the world events tab which showed a page full...the top 12 lines of the list had 2 or 3 items per line. That is to say that one line had (guessing) 2-3 events listed and all of the text/fonts were piled on top of each other. It was a MESS! So, I clicked on the top line just to see what would happen. Now it shows Midsummer Fire Fest... and no apparent way to change it.
Fine, let's try the Leveling tab. I'm on a level 60 DK... click on Hellfire Peninsula. The guide window now shows a step to set my hearth stone to Undercity. What? Why?!?! And that is all it shows. What? Why?!?!
Ok, the first step is telling
Submitted by Gylin on Mon, 2011-07-18 16:10.
Ok, the first step is telling you to use your hearthstone to travel to undercity, not set it there. Then use the protal to travel to Blasted land and on the Hellfire.
If you can only see one line of text, look through the display settings options as there are settings in there that allow you to view more, and resize the window. Personally I have mine set to 400x200 with all text set at 10, most of the time ends up showing 4/5 steps at once, so you can see what you'll be doing next. Which would be useful, as the previous guide has you in Blasted Lands, once you'd moved onto the Hellfire one, you'd see there's no point going to Undercity as you'll only be porting back to where you already are.
Lines of text
Submitted by Eightdeath on Mon, 2011-07-18 16:26.
You should read more carefully. I did not say I could only see one line of text. I said I see many lines, a full page in fact!
The problem is that the first several lines have more than one line of type per line. I'm not sure how to be much more clear. Perhaps if you think of your printer not advancing and it keeps printing on the same line...letters on top of letters. You can't read them.
No I read perfectly fine, the
Submitted by Gylin on Mon, 2011-07-18 16:43.
No I read perfectly fine, the 1st paragraph, you're talking about the guidelist where the lists on multipe tabs show through each other, which is a known problem and easy to workaround by simply clicking one of the tabs at the top (dailies, leveling etc).
The 2nd paragraph, you talking about only being able to see a single line of text in the hellfire guide (the 1st line), and i'm just trying to assertain as to whether or not it's your display settings that are causing the problem, and give you an insight into things that you could do to fix the issue
Carbonite support
Submitted by Lucky Dragon on Wed, 2011-07-06 23:06.
I use Carbonite addon alongside your guides, and on characters that I'm leveling, I get the following error message:
"WoW-Pro: It looks like you don't have a recent TomTom installed. WoW-Pro's guides won't have their full functionality without it! Download it for free from www.wowinterface.com or www.curse.com"
Carbonite has its own waypoint arrow and it's coded to be compatible with TomTom. WoW-Pro guide works just fine with Carbonite's waypoint arrow, correctly setting and updating waypoints, so there really is no need to install ANOTHER addon with duplicate functionality. I think you need to update your code to detect Carbonite as well, thus preventing a misleading error message appearing on login.
BTW: The catchpas on this site are EXTREMELY difficult for this human to decipher.
Hyjal Problem
Submitted by Mktwoo on Tue, 2011-06-14 19:37.
The hyjal guide is listed as finished ( = / = ) cant remember the numbers exactly. Anyway, I have only actially completed about 100 hyjal quests but because of this I cannot go back to the hyjal guide because the add-on thinks it has been completed. I have checked the written version of the guide and it definitely doesn't end there, (around the quest where you throw bear cubs outta trees). Is there any way I can reset the progress of the guide? I have tried reinstalling. I believe this may have been caused by skipping a few quests.
Answered on your other post.
Submitted by Crackerhead22 on Wed, 2011-06-15 01:08.
Answered on your other post.
dont know what to do
Submitted by kaic lima on Mon, 2011-06-27 18:18.
i downloaded wowpro v2 its not working :/ im on a mac
Submitted by kaic lima on Mon, 2011-06-27 19:45.
i figured out now just need to see if is working :D
thank you
Submitted by kaic lima on Fri, 2011-07-01 18:03.
its AMAZING reaallly is helpful very very very nice well done people very nice job the best of all its free :D and easy to use very easy thank you
I've been using the addon for
Submitted by Gethe on Mon, 2011-05-16 21:49.
I've been using the addon for a while and a couple things have been bugging me:
1). If you have the addon set to auto scale to a certain number of steps, lets say 10. When you get to a sticky step you gain 1 line for the "as you go", 1 or more for the number of sticky steps, then the 10 actual steps. What you end up with is a frame that is actually atleast 12 steps high and may interfer with your UI config(it does for mine).
So i was wondering if it is posible to make the auto scaleing take into account the sticky steps too.
2). Would it also be posible to scroll the regular steps independent of sticky steps? If I have a sticky step and get past the 10 steps after it before completeing the sticky, the 11th step is not visible so I have to scroll down to see it, but now I can't see the sticky.
Looks like someone is using your guide viewer
Submitted by ozzorik on Mon, 2011-05-16 14:06.
I was on wow interface the other day and noticed a link to a new WOW levelling guide, it looks like from the images on their site that they have modified your code to run their guide. I have not downloaded a trial so I am not sure if they are using your guides and guide viewer.
I thought this might be of interest.
Yep, we know. Both Jame's
Submitted by Crackerhead22 on Mon, 2011-05-16 19:18.
Yep, we know. Both Jame's and the author of TomTom (since they have TomTom packaged in) are trying to get those idiots to stop I believe.
Submitted by ozzorik on Wed, 2011-05-25 03:47.
I have noticed that the guide site http://www.xeleratedwarcraftguides.com/index.html has been taken down. Looks like a win for James guides and Cladhaire (TomTom author). :)
I just went to that page and
Submitted by Duchess on Mon, 2011-06-06 18:32.
I just went to that page and it looks like whatever guide is still there. Might want to check again...
I have just downloaded a
Submitted by ozzorik on Mon, 2011-05-16 14:19.
I have just downloaded a trial and looked through some of the code, the few pieces I looked at was the same. Then I checked the 1 - 20 guides. I have copied the content of their Guides.xml, it looks remarkably like the one in the WOW Pro addon.
<Ui xmlns="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/"> <Script file="01_05_Bitsem_Echo_Isles.lua"/> <Script file="01_05_Jiyambi_Valley_of_Trials.lua"/> <Script file="01_05_Malorajan_Kezan.lua"/> <Script file="01_12_Gylin_Mulgore.lua"/> <Script file="01_12_Jiyambi_Tirisfal_Glades.lua"/> <Script file="01_12_Snowflake_Eversong_Woods.lua"/> <Script file="05_12_Bitsem_Durotar.lua"/> <Script file="05_12_Malorajan_Lost_Isles.lua"/> <Script file="12_20_Bitsem_Azshara.lua"/> <Script file="12_20_Bitsem_Northern_Barrens.lua"/> <Script file="12_20_Malorajan_Silverpine.lua"/> <Script file="12_21_Snowflake_Ghostlands.lua"/> </Ui>
I would say they are selling your hard work.
On another note I would like to say thanks to everyone involved in creating your guides as they are very good. I have been using this site since before you had an addon.
Shadowmoon Valley
Submitted by yummum85 on Fri, 2011-05-13 11:48.
I can't see shadowmoon valley in my guide list, is there4 any version I can get this in pls :)
Having a problem
Submitted by Sherlyn on Tue, 2011-09-27 08:42.
i am having a problem in downloading game ....can any one help me and let me know exact way how can i move with this ???
Yes thats the version I've
Submitted by yummum85 on Fri, 2011-05-13 21:36.
Yes thats the version I've got. I followed the troubleshooting guide also and its not in any of the folders or in the xml file list.
Crap on a stick, I thought I
Submitted by Crackerhead22 on Sat, 2011-05-14 21:06.
Crap on a stick, I thought I had done this. I'll see if I can do it.
EDIT: Working on it now.


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Make plans now to come to Rolla for Homecoming 2013, to be held Oct. 18–19. Watch for more details in the Summer issue of Missouri S&T Magazine.
Save the date: Homecoming 2013
Around the Puck
Generous partners complete ACML fundraising
Thanks to an investment from the University of Missouri System, major gifts from industry partners and alumni support, S&T will break ground on the Advanced Construction and Materials Laboratory (ACML) on Oct. 12, during Homecoming weekend.[Read More...]
Alumni help with sesquicentennial planning
Seven alumni, including three Miner Alumni Association board members, have been named to Missouri S&T's sesquicentennial advisory committee. The group is made up of graduates, students, faculty, staff and community members who are involved in planning the university's upcoming 150th anniversary celebration.[Read More...]
Using big data to reduce childbirth risks
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, complications during pregnancy or childbirth affect more than 50,000 women annually, and about 700 of them die every year. Steve Corns, associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering, is working with researchers from Phelps County Regional Medical Center through the Ozarks Biomedical Initiative to reduce […][Read More...]
Bogan solves Benton mural mystery
Missouri State Capitol muralist Thomas Hart Benton wrote in his memoir about being called into then-Gov. Guy Park's office and told that a prominent St. Louis politician objected to Benton's portrayal of black people, especially depictions of slavery.[Read More...]
Breaking bias
According to Jessica Cundiff, assistant professor of psychological science at S&T, women who consider careers in the physical sciences, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields are deterred by stereotypes that impose barriers on the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in STEM.[Read More...]


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I've written an article here on SQL Team Database Backups in SQL Server. It's a first of two articles on backups and backup strategy Backing up a database is one of the most important things you need to do when having a database driven application. It 's only all of your data in there, right? But often developers and management don't realize the importance of backups and overall proper backup strategy for the most important side of the business – data and it's consistency. Part 1: Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Database Backups
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it's my opinion that today we unfortunately live in a world that requires some kind of harder problem solving skills from maybe 20% of the population. And I'm being very very generous. So putting that percentage with the question in the title would give an answer similar to: "Because not every one can do it." DOH, right? I'd say you're wrong since everyone had a problem to solve at least once in a lifetime. So what's the problem? Why is it perceived as hard? Let's take a little trip through your past. When you were just an infant, what was...
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I've written an article here on SQL Team about locking in SQL Server.
It's an introductory article that shows lock modes, lock granularity and lock compatibility matrix
and it will be followed by a few more advanced ones on the topic of locking.
Part 1: Introduction to locking in SQL Server 2005
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I've released a new version of the add-in.
Most of the reported bugs are fixed and I've added two new main functionalities:
- Search Results in Grid Mode and through Execution Plans
- Generate Insert statements for a single table, the whole database or current resultsets (yes all of them) in grids
Insert statement support scripting binary data up to 5 Mb from image and varbinary(max) columns
Minor changes include customizable shortcuts and the ability to move the menu between tools submenu and main menu bar.
You can find it on www.SsmsToolsPack.com or subscribe to the RSS feed to get notified of the new changes...
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NBC has canceled two of its struggling comedies, "A to Z" and "Bad Judge."
Both series will remain in their Thursday night schedules, but the network has decided not to extend their respective 13-episode orders, according to insiders.
"A to Z", starring Ben Feldman and Cristin Milotti, traced the fledgling courtship between two young professionals. Rashida Jones ("Parks and Recreation") was one of the executive producers.
"Bad Judge" features Kate Walsh ("Private Practice") as a criminal court judge who is reckless and crazy in her personal life but is also a committed advocate of the...


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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
J.C. Warner Professor for the Natural Sciences and University Professor
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is one of the most respected and most cited polymer chemists conducting research today.
Matyjaszewski's research focuses on the greening of ATRP. Matyjaszewski's group has developed an environmentally low-impact form of ATRP, a widely used method producing polymers such as coatings, adhesives, lubricants, cosmetics and electronics.
For an interview, email Jocelyn Duffy or call her at 412-268-9982.


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Normally my biweekly CSA delivery comes with a big head or two of lettuce that we use for our regular lunch salads. This week, I received a little note in my box saying they ran out of lettuce and were giving me curly endive (also known as chicory) instead. It looks pretty much like lettuce, but when I tasted it, I realized it's pretty bitter (at least to me). I don't do raw bitter greens. But there was no way I was letting the endive go to waste. So, I did what I do with other veggies I don't love raw--roast them!
Roasting tones down the bitterness in the endive and generally mellows out the flavor. I added some crushed red pepper for heat and garlic-infused olive oil for yummy flavor. It may not look like much, but it really was delicious! And so healthy, too! I think this recipe (if you call it that, it's so simple) would also be good for kale and swiss chard--probably any of the greens you might not like to eat raw.
One thing that always surprises me--and that I want to warn you about--is how much these greens cook down. I used about 2 packed cups of greens, which filled a 9x13 pan about half-way up the side:
When roasted, it's barely 1/2 a cup!
You've been warned!
Roasted Chili-Garlic Endive
(Serves 1 as a side dish)
2 cups curly endive
1.5 tsp. garlic-infused olive oil (regular will work, too)
1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper
1/4 tsp. sea salt
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Tear endive into small pieces (2-3 inches or so) and place in a medium-sized bowl.
Drizzle olive oil over endive and sprinkle with crushed red pepper and salt. Toss to coat evenly.
Spread endive out in the bottom of a 9x13 casserole dish.
Roast at 400°F for 12-15 minutes until soft and browned around the edges, stirring halfway through.
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Monday, March 31, 2014
Roasted Chili-Garlic Endive
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Monday, March 10, 2014
A Duo of Chocolate Desserts with Milky Way and 3 Musketeers
I have got a treat (well, two treats) in store for you today: 3 Musketeers® S'mores Pie and Milky Way Simply Caramel® Cheesecake - both using the new 3 Musketeers Bites and Simply Caramel Bites. Why a duo of desserts today, you ask? Isn't one enough? Not when my parents are coming to visit! They always take on projects around the house while they're here, but I still try to make it feel like a vacation for them by planning a few day trips and, of course, feeding them yummy desserts! (I don't know about you, but for me, it's not a vacation unless there's dessert. And wine...)
To prepare for their visit, I headed out to Walmart so I could stock up on my dessert supplies and everything else I needed (like cleaning supplies - oh how I turn into a cleaning machine when company comes!). As part of the work I do with #CollectiveBias, I was asked to try out the new 3 Musketeers and Milky Way Simply Caramel Bites, which were a great fit for my dessert plans. I found them right off the bat in the candy aisle:
They were situated along with all of the other mini candy bars. But unlike a lot of mini candies that are individually wrapped, these bites come in a convenient zip package all unwrapped for you. I have to say, I love this concept. Being able to grab just a few bite-sized pieces out of the package makes baking (or having a little post-shopping snack, eh hem) so much easier than having to unwrap and cut up larger candy bars. I know that doesn't seem like it should be hard, but they always seem to stick to the knife and the chocolate flakes off and makes a mess. These bites are a great no-muss, no-fuss solution (not to mention yummy!)
After I found those, I went on to get the rest of my dessert ingredients, cleaning supplies and of course, plenty of tea for my Irish mother. (Gotta have regular British Blend and decaf so you can have a cup at all times of the day!)
Once I got home, it was time to get to the good stuff -- the desserts!
I plan to serve this Simply Caramel Cheesecake with Salted Caramel Sauce as my first dessert when my parents arrive tomorrow. I thought it would be a great way to celebrate my father's birthday, which was this past weekend. My dad has been scaling back on eating flour and grains, so I used a nut crust for this cheesecake--which also happens to make it gluten-free!
The second dessert, the 3 Musketeers Bites S'mores Pie, will be more for my mom (and me!) throughout the week as we need a little something sweet after dinner that's super easy to put together for just 1 or 2 people.(Seriously, it takes less than 15 minutes from prep to eat.) These are a sugar-bomb delight, so be sure whoever you serve it to really likes sweet desserts (as I happen to).
Both of the recipes are below. If you like them and want to give them a try (which you should!), you can get some great coupons right now to use at Walmart:
Also be sure to join the #EatMoreBites Twitter Party on Friday, March 14, from 1:00-2:00 PM EST for a chance to win $550 in Walmart Gift Cards!
Simply Caramel Cheesecake with Salted Caramel Sauce {Gluten-Free}
(Makes 1 6-inch cheesecake; double recipe for a 9-10 inch)
1 Tbsp. butter, melted
3/4 c. finely chopped pecans
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 packages (8 oz. each) light cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 c. fat-free Greek yogurt (or sour cream)
2 eggs
1 c. Milky Way Simply Caramel Bites, divided
Salted Caramel Sauce (for topping)
Prep: Preheat oven to 325°F and assemble ingredients.
1. Mix finely chopped pecans, 2 Tbsp. sugar and butter in a small bowl. Press evenly into the bottom of your 6-inch springform pan.
2. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and 1/2 cup sugar until smooth.
3. Beat in vanilla.
4. Beat in eggs one at a time.
5. Fold in Greek yogurt.
6. Fold in 1/2 c. Milky Way Simply Caramel Bites.
7. Pour cheesecake mixture into springform pan over crust.
8. Give the pan a jiggle to settle the cheesecake down so the top is relatively flat.
9. Place the remaining Simply Caramel Bites evenly on the top of the cheesecake.
10. Carefully press each bite into the cheesecake so it's just even with the surface. (This should help keep all of your bites from falling to the bottom of the cheesecake, though some will naturally go there.)
11. Give the cheesecake one last jiggle to even the top out again (if needed).
12. Place cheesecake pan in a large casserole dish and carefully fill the casserole dish with hot water for a water bath. The water should go about 1 inch up the side of the springform pan.
13. Bake in water bath at 325°F for 50-60 minutes until the outer edges of the cheesecake are set and the middle is just a little jiggly (it will set up after cooling). Cool for at least 4 hours (preferably overnight).
15. Drizzle the top of the cheesecake with the Salted Caramel Sauce, serve and enjoy!
3 Musketeers Bites S'mores Pie
(Makes 1 individual pie; easily scales up for as many as you need!)
1 premade mini graham cracker pie crust
1 handful 3 Musketeers Bites
1 handful mini-marshmallows
1. Start with a mini graham cracker pie crust.
2. Add 3 Musketeers Bites to the bottom (I find 7 to be the best fit).
3. Top with a handful of mini-marshmallows.
4. Bake at 350°F for 6-7 minutes or until golden brown.
Don't forget to get your coupon for $0.75 off coupon for 2 small (2.83 oz.) bags of Milky Way Simply Caramel or 3 Musketeers Bites or $3.00 off two 6 oz. bags or larger!
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce
I am kind of obsessed with salty-sweet combinations--salted caramel being the ultimate sweet treat of late for me. So I decided I might as well learn how to make it myself! I found great instructions from Sally's Baking Addiction that use 4 simple ingredients:
Sugar, cream, butter and salt. (I used sea salt, specifically -- see my version of the recipe below).
The instructions were super easy--no candy thermometer required. The only thing I learned is that you really have to tweak the heat based on your own stove. Medium heat was a little much on my gas stove (if your heat is too high, your sugar can easily burn), so I went down to medium-low. Sally's blog has step-by-step instructions with photos if you need. Here's my version of her terrific recipe:
Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce
(Makes about 1 1/4 cups)
1 cup white sugar
6 Tbsp. salted butter
1/2 cup whipping cream
1 tsp. sea salt
Assemble all of your ingredients first. You're going to need to stir this constantly--no time to run off and get butter halfway through!
Pour 1 cup sugar into a medium-sized sauce pan over medium-low to medium heat (see above). Stir constantly until sugar starts to melt. (Be patient; this will take 3 or 4 minutes before you see the sugar start to clump up.)
Keep stirring until sugar is fully melted and no clumps are left.
Carefully add in the butter all at once (it will bubble up, so watch your hands). Keep stirring until butter is fully melted, about 2 minutes.
Now, very slowly start to drizzle the whipping cream into the sugar butter mixture, stirring constantly. (Again, the cream will make the mixture bubble up, so watch your hands.)
Once the cream is all added, let the mixture boil for about 1 minute.
Remove from heat and stir in your sea salt.
Let cool completely before using in a recipe or storing in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. (Good luck making it last that long!)
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The last time I saw JBJ in person was about 2 decades later when he was selling his book "The hatchet man of Singapore" on the street. He had been made a bankrupt, jailed and lost everything but not his spirit and dignity he was still fighting for Singaporeans - fearless as ever. In June 2008, JBJ at the age of 82 formed the Reform Party. Even in his eighties, he never gave up the fight.
JBJ fought for everything our society needs today - human rights, justice, freedom, equality and democracy and the men who did not want to give us all that fought back. They used everything in their power to fix him but it was they who were afraid not him. They feared the loss of power, change and they feared the empowerment of people they controlled. JBJ was fearless because he was right as defended he ideals of our society - what our flag symbolised and the values in our pledge - from men who did not believe them. He fought with the integrity and passion throughout his life motivated by what is right and his dream of making our society better for all. When he broke the PAP's monopoly on power in 1981, he brought hope to many for a more democratic society. However, the response of those in power was to use politically motivated charges to bring him down and disbar him from future elections. They brought him down and along with that the hopes of many Singaporeans for a better society. JBJ may not have been able to take us where we were suppose to go, but his heroic efforts won the hearts and minds of many - he never gave up and we should never give up.


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Early puppy socialization classes: Weighing the risks vs. benefits
The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB) recently released a position paper ( http://AVSABonline.org/) outlining the importance of early puppy socialization, preferably before the puppy reaches 12 to 16 weeks old. The AVSAB encourages owners to take their pets to puppy classes as early as possible, even before puppies have completed their full vaccination series.
Some veterinarians remain concerned about allowing puppies to commingle before vaccinations are complete. So to further explore the practical and theoretical issues involved, the AVSAB has interviewed four veterinarians who have extensive experience with early puppy socialization. The participants' individual interviews are presented below in a roundtable format.
Dr. Kersti Seksel: Well-run puppy classes undoubtedly provide the basis for happy, healthy dogs and happy owners. The risks of a puppy's exposure to infectious agents always need to be considered, but the risk of being euthanized or surrendered is much greater in unsocialized, untrained dogs than the risk of dying from infectious diseases.
Dr. Brenda Griffin: For puppies, the single most important part of a behavioral wellness program is proper socialization during their critical developmental period, which ends by 16 weeks. Owners must begin socialization the day they bring their new puppies home, and the clock is ticking.
Proper socialization combined with positive reinforcement-based training in the context of a group puppy class helps puppies grow into well-adjusted pets. Classes provide critical socialization time with a variety of people and other puppies. And studies clearly demonstrate that when owners invest in training classes, they are much more likely to keep their pets.1,2 The experience helps owners develop a strong bond with their pets as well as establish realistic expectations of their pets' behavior while learning proper techniques to shape it. And it's fun.
Dr. Jennifer Messer: Relatively few risks and enormous benefits exist in allowing puppies to interact in a well-run puppy class before they've completed their vaccination series.
Canine parvovirus transmission is the main risk, as the other infectious agents we vaccinate against are either comparatively rare in prevalence and the vaccines are highly effective, or the agents cause relatively minor illness in otherwise healthy puppies. That said, even with the improved efficacy of parvovirus vaccine technology developed in the mid-1990s, about 2% to 8% of puppies may not be adequately protected from parvovirus until after they have been vaccinated at 14 to 16 weeks old.3 This percentage is relatively small, but it can't be ignored, and it must be balanced against the serious behavioral risks of holding puppies back from class until they are fully vaccinated. Specifically, poorly socialized puppies are at greater risk of behavior problems such as fear and aggression toward other dogs and people, and of being unable to engage in safe, ritualized fighting where they inhibit the force of their bite. Puppy class not only offers an opportunity for critical socialization, but is also a great forum for owners to help prevent other types of behavior problems such as housesoiling and hyperactivity (the two most commonly reported behavior problems of relinquished dogs)4 and to develop more realistic expectations of their dog—both of which play key roles in reducing the chance of relinquishment.2


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Message Board
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Talk about the novels, new and used books that Arnold has written!
Author Arnold's Book Reviews
Blooming All Over
Mira, Jul 2004, 6.50, 384 pp. ISBN: 0778320596 No one does bagels better than Bloom's Deli near Central Park. Apparently, no one does romance better either as relationships are forging that no one would have anticipated. For instance, Susie Bloom is a pseudo-sophisticated Manhattan Jew; her beloved Goy Casey Gordon works as a bagel maker extraordinaire and lives in barbaric Queens. Casey lives in a terrific relatively large and new apartment f...
Heart on the Line
Mira, Aug 2003, 6.50, 384 pp. ISBN: 1551667020 TV talk show producer Loretta D'Angelo has pressure on two fronts. At work, the ratings are down, which will result in the staff being reduced by one. Thinking she will be a victim of LIFO, Loretta also struggles with her family of dentists who put pressure on to give up her non-swinging Manhattan single's life to marry dentist Marty Calabrese, whom she never dated. On the Long Island Railroad, ...
Love in Bloom's
Mira, Jun 2002, 6.50, 384 pp. ISBN: 1551669188 One year ago Grandam Ida's son died leaving Manhattan landmark Bloom's Deli in trouble. With the business in trouble, the family matriarch decides that a new Bloom needs to run the deli. She surprises the entire family by selecting her granddaughter, divorce attorney Julia. Shocked at first, Julia wants to refuse and remain in her safe world, but her sister Susie persuades her to at least try. ...


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I have noticed over the past few months that I have been getting many hits on my MS Voice command tutorial (on my blog [briansrobotics.blogspot.com]... So I have decided to update it hive new comments and support for more compilers. As of right now the current link to the tutorial is not working, I will be re-posting the new one during Christmas break. Until then you can email me (BriansAccount(at)Gmail(.)com) to get the current version.
Thanks for your interest, I try to reply to emails as promptly as possible!


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SWANSBORO � Parks and Recreation board member Kathy Fulcher gave a good review to early concepts for improving waterfront access in downtown Swansboro from two perspectives.
SWANSBORO � Parks and Recreation board member Kathy Fulcher gave a good review to early concepts for improving waterfront access in downtown Swansboro from two perspectives.
From a personal perspective, she likes the improved handicap access plans that would provide for her and others who are in wheelchairs or may have disabilities making it difficult to get to locations to enjoy the water. As a board member, Fulcher said the plans would be of benefit for everyone, helping to connect public and pedestrian spaces and offering beautification and amenities for residents and visitors to enjoy.
The conceptual plans proposed for the end of Church Street include a covered deck-overlook at the street end with an added walk along the bulkhead and plaza space in front of the shelter.
Fulcher said the end of Church Street is an active area of the waterfront, with shops, restaurants, and the town square and pavilion within reach. But getting down to the water by wheelchair is now a challenge.
She said the plans would open the view to the water and provide easy access to the water for everyone.
�It would be beautiful, and it would be accessible for everyone,� Fulcher said.
The Waterfront Access Planning Advisory Committee and Parks and Recreation Board held a joint meeting Monday night to review the plans and to get comments from the public.
The concepts presented by landscape architect Susan Hatchell of Raleigh are the first to come from the recommendations made by the committee last year with the completion of the Waterfront Access and Development Plan.
Hatchell reviewed concepts for the street end at Church Street, as well as for improvements for Bicentennial Park and the Walnut Street end.
At both locations, a floating dock and kayak launch is proposed.
There was overall support for the ideas but several potential issues were raised.
Residents said parking availability is an issue downtown. There were also questions about stormwater runoff and water depth for kayak launch at Walnut Street.
Among the suggestions was the need for covering over swings and other amenities where possible to provide shade.
Hatchell said the ideas are just that and the public�s input is valuable in developing the plans.
�We provide a vision and the public helps clarify that vision,� Hatchell said.
Town Commissioner Larry Philpott, who chairs the waterfront committee, said there are other plans, such as the parking study underway, that may overlap with the work being done.
Contact Daily News reporter Jannette Pippin at 910-382-2557 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit JDNews.com to comment.


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We were pleased to be one of three responsible investors to speak at the 2015 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. The three-day event provided a platform for multi-stakeholder conversations on issues that concern the social licence to operate for businesses, as well as the challenges and opportunities faced by the UN's three-pillar Protect, Respect and Remedy framework[1] that addresses labour and human rights.
The discussions helped us understand how the UN principles can be integrated into existing national plans, the current bottlenecks for companies when it comes to complying with them and how we can improve engagement with companies on licence to operate.
We took part in a panel discussion on sustainable development, human rights and the role of private capital with Ebenezer Appeku, deputy permanent representative from Ghana at the UN Office in Geneva, who reiterated our belief that companies should not view human rights as a form of philanthropy but rather see the provision of a living wage, decent working conditions, access to information, healthcare and training and development as fundamental to a sustainable and successful business. At the same time, it is important not to regard all businesses negatively either, in particular because security in emerging and frontier markets is rapidly evolving, despite teething problems.
Mitigating operational risks
A US extractives company we have engaged with, for example, shared its experience of operating in Nigeria. We had visited the company's operations in Lagos to assess its risk management protocols and were assured that the company is doing its best within the limited scope it has to mitigate operational risks. Following our engagement, it adopted a company-wide human rights policy. More recently and guided by the UN Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights, it also improved its due diligence processes to include a comprehensive multi-stakeholder impact assessment – thus covering existing and potential human rights impacts, the integrating of the findings, the tracking of responses and communications on how the impacts are addressed. The resulting issues and solutions are then incorporated into the company's overall environmental, social and governance management framework and action plans.
Access to remedies
Companies are expected to step up their efforts on providing access to remedies, the third pillar of the Protect, Respect and Remedy framework. They need to outline the provision of information on remedial rights, appropriate grievance management, an effective whistleblowing system to address unethical behaviour, fair compensation and transparent payment. A legal expert from Zimbabwe shared that in one of the cases he has come across, 80% of the victims claimed that they had been unable to speak to the mining company that had caused problems to their relocation and livelihoods. Some companies therefore find that community-driven operational grievance system particularly useful. Although it is non-judicial and dialogue-based, it acts as a community support system for relocated residents and indigenous peoples. Companies are well-positioned to provide that support and create open, bottom-up, crowd-sourced community solutions to address the issues commonly identified.
Involvement in local politics
As investors, we need to bear in mind that problems can arise when companies have to get involved in local politics. Sharing our experience with representatives from a large pension fund and a French energy company, we agreed that when global businesses enter a new country or territory, they disturb the power balance of the incumbents. Every party involved – the government, local interest groups and residents – has different expectations. Companies are often expected to build roads, construct power stations, improve telecommunications infrastructure and provide education and healthcare. While on many occasions, these are justifiable requests in exchange for access to resources, a fair and thorough assessment needs to be undertaken to review the level of community support. The French company shared its experience in Myanmar, an issue we had engaged on extensively a number of years ago. The company began its impact assessment by focusing on the needs of the community – Does it need housing? What type of housing is appropriate? Does the community need access to healthcare? Is there a functioning education system? What are the gaps in education? What incentives are needed to ensure employment opportunities are taken up? What is the level of mismatch in expectation between the local community and the company as well as between the government and the company? What can different stakeholders do to address the expectation gap?
Companies aim to provide certain essentials for the community affected by their operations to enable it to live safely and with dignity. The provision of remedies therefore needs to be fair, transparent and ideally empowering. However, it should not be an excuse for complacency or double standards or be seen as an opportunity to squeeze as many handouts from businesses as possible. We expect companies to behave responsibly and rationally but when the operational risks and demands for resources exceed what companies are able to provide – and which is for governments to address – they will leave, freeing themselves from the problems that come with operations in underdeveloped areas.
[1] 1) The state duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties
2) Corporate responsibility to respect human rights and
3) Access to effective, judicial and non-judicial remedies by affected communities
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Google has kicked off I/O with some stats on Android, sharing just how impressive growth has been for the platform as a whole, and for Google Play, Android's app store.
As of this year, Android has reached 900 millions activations. That's up from 100 million Android activations in 2011, and 400 million activations in 2012. Highlighting plans to target growing markets where Android penetration is less than 10%, Android isn't done by a long-shot. By the end of the year, Android will undoubtedly reach 1 billion activations, further solidifying the little green guy's position as the world's most popular operating system.
Google Play also got a moment to shine in the growth stats. If there was any question just how popular Google Play has become, Play's 48 billion app downloads should speak for themselves.