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A geographic information system (GIS) lets us visualize,
question, analyze, and interpret data to understand relationships, patterns,
and trends.
GIS benefits organizations of all sizes and in almost every industry. There
is a growing interest in and awareness of the economic and strategic value
of GIS.
GIS is widely used to optimize maintenance schedules and daily fleet movements. Typical implementations can result in a savings of 10 to 30 percent in operational expenses through reduction in fuel use and staff time, improved customer service, and more efficient scheduling.
GIS helped the City of Woodland refine its fleet scheduling, saving fuel and labor. Read more
GIS is the go-to technology for making better decisions about location. Common examples include real estate site selection, route/corridor selection, evacuation planning, conservation, natural resource extraction, etc. Making correct decisions about location is critical to the success of an organization.
This GIS-based disaster decision support system helps Taiwan plan for and respond to typhoons. Read more
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GIS is becoming essential to understanding what is happening and what
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This new approach to management-managing geographically-is
transforming the way organizations operate. Kuwait University used GIS
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Incredible how fast the days have swept by. Like the soft rains of April, sweet, refreshing and short, it has left a scent heavy with the sugary aftertaste of sweet friendship and a pungent fragrance of labored ventures. Before I could grasp it properly, this whisper of April has already vanished.
It's been a roller-coaster of a month with so much happening and so much to do that I've often felt like a headless chicken. Last week I took a wonderful (and well deserved) break. We did not travel, but entertained some cherished friends who came from Norway, ladened with food and drink - just like food bloggers are known to do. I am not sure how they managed to fit a dried leg of a lamb in their suitcase but you can imagine our surprise when they pulled that out of their bags. They also managed some prized Norwegian salmon, dried fish, cider from the Hardanger region and a few very thick wedges of cheese including my favorite Norwegian cheese, the sensational Brunost.
We spent a few warm and sunny days with Kjersti, her husband and 2 kids here in Weimar. Time slowed down and we just gave in to the lull of the day.
In contrast, however there are a lot of intense jobs and tasks needing my attention at the moment. The first Plate to Page is just a few weeks away and there has been a wild buzz behind the scenes as we get many issues finalized. There has been so much positive response and we have the most amazing sponsors for this workshop. The goodie bags for the participants are going to be full and heavy with high quality and exceptional items.
Things are also moving forward with my photography. I am in the process of setting Meeta K. Wolff Photography up as a business. The German red tape is futile and it's like fighting the fire-breathing dragon in the labyrinth to get to the golden fleece! I am getting there though and elated that the feedback on my portfolio and photography has been so positive from incredible sources I would never have dreamt to work with. Imagine getting emails from big ad agencies and publications you have always looked up to with starry eyes!
With all this happening I've missed visiting my favorite blogs, failed my dear friend Nanette by not making it to World Figolli Day and I was going to give up and tell my sister-from-another-mother Jeanne, there would be no Topless Tarts from here for this month's Monthly Mingle. Then I dug deep into my hard-drive (deep into 2009) and found these divine tarts. To be specific, these are Flammkuchen or Tarte Flambée. Light, crispy and thin crusted dough, spread generously with crème fraiche and scattered with a variety of toppings.
Here I make two varieties both equally delicious - so do not ask me which I prefer. One is spread lavishly with juicy, ripe tomatoes and sweet summer squash, topped with a scattering of feta cheese. Fantastic and aromatic fennel with more zucchini is used for the other, with chunks of soft goat cheese. Both are irresistible!
Printable version of recipe here
Prep Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Time: 1.5 hours
- 21g fresh yeast (approx. 1/2 cube)
- 600g all-purpose flour, you can also use whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 250g sour cream
- 150g crème fraiche
- Salt and pepper
- 3 ripe tomatoes, sliced
- 3 yellow and green zucchini, sliced
- 2 fennel bulbs, sliced
- 200g feta cheese
- 200g goat cheese
- 2 bay leaves
- In a small bowl break up the yeast into smaller pieces using your hands. Sprinkle with sugar and mix until the yeast becomes turns liquid-y.
- In a larger mixing bowl, add flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, oil, 300ml luke-warm water and the yeast-sugar mixture.
- Using the kneading hook of you electric hand-held beater, knead the dough until it just starts to come together. Then with your hands knead into a smooth dough ball. Place the dough back into the bowl and cover with a warm damp cloth. Put in a warm dry place to rise for approx. 45 minutes.
- Whisk the sour cream and crème fraiche together until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
- Pre-heat the oven to 225 degrees C. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Divide the dough into four portions.
- Roll one portion on a floured surface in a 2-3mm thin oval (approx. 25 x 35cm).
- Place on the baking tray and allow to rest for another 20 minutes. Cover the remaining dough balls.
- Spread 1/4 of the sour cream and crème fraiche mixture on each rolled out oval, on two of the ovals spread with slices of tomatoes, zucchini and sprinkle with feta cheese. On the other two arrange zucchini and fennel slices, then break of chunks of goat cheese and scatter over the vegetables.
- Bake in the oven on the lowest rack for 8-10 minutes. Take out, cut into pieces and serve immediately.
These tarts are divine and the light way to enjoy a fun evening with friends. Serve the tarts with a large green salad and a chilled, sparkling, fruity wine to round the meal up perfectly. The flavors are light and summery, and so much easier to put together than pizza. There is no pre-planning and no cold overnight rising is required to put the tarte flambée together, which makes this brilliant for hot summer days or spontaneous visits from friends.
Taking a few of these over to Jeanne for the Topless Tarts mingle. Hope to see you there too! You still have till 30th April to join us.
Hope you have a splendid weekend! See you all next week!
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Championing Life And Liberty For Animals
Before Sam, a white-throated capuchin monkey, threw out the first pitch at a minor league baseball game in Frederick, Md., on a midsummer Friday night, and before Sam and other monkeys — dressed as cowboys and riding shaggy dogs — rounded up longhorn sheep on the baseball diamond as part of Cowboy Monkey Rodeo promotion night, angry animal rights protesters gathered outside the front gate.
The Future Of Nonhuman Rights, Part 1
In 2013, the Pennsylvania-based Nonhuman Rights Project, led by attorney Steven Wise, plans to file a series of lawsuits in hopes that one high court in one American state will finally recognize that a nonhuman plaintiff can be a legal "person" in the eyes of the law.
If Wise and his group are successful, they will break new ground by securing humanlike rights for nonhumans. The result could open all kinds of possibilities for the rights of other nonhuman entities.
Advocates for plant rights and robot rights are already planning for the future. If they eventually succeed, it could bring sweeping changes to the way we live. This three-part series on the Future of Nonhuman Rights explores the people and ideas that may bring radical change to legal systems — and societies — around the world.
The handful of activists at the ballpark of the Class A Frederick Keys waved poster boards reading "No More Monkey Rodeos" and "Inhumane & Demeaning Spectacle." Among the protesters was Kelly Myers, a professional pet sitter from Frederick, who helped organize the rally. Notice of the protest was posted on the website of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
In a post-protest interview, Myers expresses her concerns. The capuchins, she says, "belong in the wild. These sensitive, intelligent monkeys are meant to climb trees and forage for food all day. Being cramped up in a traveling road show and eating Pop-Tarts is not in their best interest."
'A Better Life'
Tim Lepard, the man who feeds Pop-Tarts to the monkeys, tends to disagree. A rodeo entertainer from Mississippi, Lepard is the owner and creator of the Monkey Rodeo. For years he has taken his animal act all over the country. He rebuts the idea that his stunts are inhumane or demeaning to the animals. He says he takes in fragile monkeys — who probably would not survive in the wild — to "give them a better life."
On this night, the star of the show was Sam, a 19-year-old primate who has been riding in Lepard's show for 14 years. Lepard says he treats Sam humanely.
"I don't tie them on the dogs," Lepard says. "I don't make them ride." He says his animals' living conditions are inspected several times a year by the Agriculture Department.
On the other side of the fence from Lepard — literally and figuratively — is Alan Kellerman, a high school teacher from suburban Washington and one of the placard-waving protesters. According to Kellerman, "Animals need to be afforded the rights to live their lives free of confinement, abuse, torture, murder and all forms of exploitation from humans."
Animals, he says, paraphrasing a PETA mantra, "are not ours to eat, wear or experiment on."
And that, in a nugget, is why some humans are vocal supporters of the rights of some nonhumans — in this case, animals.
When An Animal Is A Person
If Steven Wise gets his way, next year could be a game changer for animal rights in America.
Wise is the director of the Nonhuman Rights Project, an organization of human beings working toward gaining legal rights for other species. Wise says that he and 70 volunteers have logged 30,000 hours over the past four years to prepare the initial test cases to be filed in 2013.
The group is looking for clear-cut cases, sympathetic judges and amenable jurisdictions. And they are crossing their fingers that one high court in one American state will finally recognize, as Wise puts it, that "a nonhuman animal plaintiff is a common-law legal person." With the attending rights.
For Wise — and many animal rights activists — that would be a landmark victory.
"Once a court recognizes that a nonhuman animal has the capacity to possess a legal right," Wise says, "its determination of whether she actually has the rights she claims will appropriately shift from the current irrational, biased, hyperformalistic and overly simplistic question 'What species is the plaintiff?' to the rational, nuanced, value-laden principles- and policy-laden question: 'What qualities does the plaintiff possess that are relevant to the legal right she claims?' "
Animal Rights In Brief
In the past 30 years, there have been some key moments in the push for animal rights. Here are a few:
1975: The publication of Animal Liberation by philosopher Peter Singer. In his book, Singer introduces the idea that speciesism — i.e., humans are superior to other species — is a type of oppression.
1979: The launching of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Founded by attorneys, the group works to protect animals and promote the field of animal law.
1980: The founding of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Today, with more than 3 million members and supporters, PETA bills itself as the largest animal rights organization on the planet.
1983: The publication of The Case for Animal Rights, a moral argument, by Tom Regan.
1985: In Defense of Animals stages an organized, nonviolent protest at the University of California, Davis Primate Center. A number of activists are arrested and put in jail for civil disobedience.
1995: Compassion Over Killing, a nonprofit animal advocacy organization, is founded.
2012: After 30 years — and amid protests mounted by various activist groups — the use of chimpanzees as research subjects is phased out at Rockville, Md.- based Bioqual labs.
-- Linton Weeks
In an address delivered in April 2012, at Pace University law school, Wise likened animals today to human slaves in 18th century England — invisible to the legal system, beings without rights. He cited the ruling of the British judge, Lord Mansfield, in the 1772 Somerset case that opened the door for the abolition of human slavery in England.
Now Wise says he is looking for a modern-day Mansfield, a "substantive common-law judge" who might rule — under the general rubric of "dignity" — in favor of an animal's right to bodily liberty and bodily integrity. He feels that the breakthrough will come if one state high court declares that a nonhuman is a legal person — in the eyes of the law.
Practical Autonomy
One reason for extending fundamental rights to humans, Wise says, is because they possess the dignity associated with autonomy. He calls the minimum autonomy sufficient for rights "practical autonomy." His tripartite definition of practical autonomy: 1) Is the being cognitively complicated enough to desire something? 2) Can she act intentionally to achieve her desires? 3) Does she have a sense of self enough to know if she has achieved these desires?
If practical autonomy is a sufficient condition for extending rights to human beings, it should be the basis for extending rights to any beings. He argues that research proves some animals, such as apes, chimpanzees and Atlantic bottle nose dolphins, possess cognitive abilities far beyond practical autonomy.
"Because it appears that many, perhaps most, mammals and birds have emotions, are conscious, and have selves," Wise writes in his 2002 book Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights, "the burden of proving at trial that an individual mammal or bird lacks practical autonomy should be shouldered by the one who wants to harm them."
Richard A. Epstein, a professor of law at New York University, doesn't agree with Wise. In a 2000 essay spurred by another Wise book, Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals, Epstein — who has provided frequent counterpoint to Wise over the years — wrote: "No one can deny the enormous political waves created by animal rights activists ... But it is another thing to endorse the agenda of the animal rights movement."
Rules that prohibit and prevent "gratuitous cruelty to animals" should be broadly supported, Epstein says, because animals suffer regardless of their level of consciousness, and because animals — both domesticated and wild — are of "enormous value" to humans.
"It is, however, one thing to raise social conscience about the status of animals," Epstein wrote. "It is quite another to raise the status of animals to asserted parity with human beings. That move, if systematically implemented, would pose a mortal threat to human society that few human beings would, or should, accept. We have quite enough difficulty in persuading or coercing human beings to respect the rights of their fellow humans to live in peace with each other."
When it comes to using animals for testing, Epstein says today, "there are real questions of whether animal studies are needed for medicine, where the tendency is — rightly — to cut back but not to eliminate."
But when it comes to the proposed test cases in 2013, "I don't think that they will win," Epstein says. "The rights in question have to be limited to freedom from harm, which can be justified without rights on humanitarian grounds."
'The Rights Of All Creatures'
Getting to this crossroads has been a long journey for animal advocates. Some historians trace the timeline of animal rights activism back to antiquity. But in the past few decades, there has been an acceleration of the movement and an increasing number of notable milestones.
And yet we don't really need a list of monumental moments to see that the animal rights community's influence is everywhere.
Scores of celebrities from Pamela Anderson to Betty White speak out often for the rights of animals. Director Oliver Stone made a video recently for PETA decrying the killing of more than 10,000 live animals "in crude and cruel trauma-training exercises" by the American military and its contractors. When thoroughbreds died during the filming of HBO's Luck, animal rights advocates protested and the show was canceled.
More and more menus and entire restaurants are now tailored to vegetarians and vegans, purposefully or inadvertently protecting the welfare and rights of animals. Increasingly, grocery stores display offerings that promise to be cage-free, range-free, grass-fed and certified humane. The intensified scrutiny of the fur industry, the demise of horse slaughtering, and the end of live animal use in commercial and scientific testing all point to new levels of respect and protection for animals.
Myers, the pet sitter, says she already sees the world changing in favor of the animals.
"The locavore and green lifestyles are leading to more plant-based diets and more money being spent on humanely raised meat," she says. "I don't think animal rights will be won in my lifetime, but we're certainly on our way."
NPR Digital News editor Amy Morgan contributed to this report.


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Bad Toyz, Bad Toyz: What'cha Gonna Do?
Still Life with Phallic Lovey, Flaccid.
We tried, we really did, to imagine it as other things:
Still Life with Mushroom Cloud, mixed media (or 'How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Paper-Cuts')
But it didn't quite work - turn that picture sideways, and you're right back to phallus, only this time dipped in Philadelphia Whipped Cream Cheese with creepy stick figures stuck to the side. You're really no better off, then, are you? And in any case, is a story about thermonuclear war in an alternate paper universe really a more appropriate biography for a lovey than Priapus-Gone-Plushy?
There's just no escaping it: it's phallic, and more than a little bit disturbing. (As evidenced by my experiences taking it through airport security during our recent travels: And what is that, ma'am? It's a lovey. A lovey for who, ma'am? For my daughter? Please step to the side, ma'am.)
But however disturbing, it is much-loved, and we haven't the heart - or the nerve - to take it away from WonderBaby, who keeps it with her at all times.
Except, of course, when Kermie has it:


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User talk:Loadingue
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Hi, welcome to Grand Theft Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the User:Loadingue page.
Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Gboyers (Talk) 14:24, 30 June 2009
i also watch other myth hunters like chaos, jackspicer, gta myth hunters. most of the myths they don't use mods like leatherface, bigfoot, serial killer are not mods and darth didn't use mods on the ghost cars. Darthdemontous seem to forgot a couple of myths to do like eplision cult, serail killer, piggsy and other things. I might of believed him more if it was not the pc versions but the ps2 versions like im using. user--Stephendwan 11:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
So tell me, Stephendwan, how many myths did you find ? I know that ghost cars are real, but they can't chase you--Loadingue 12:09, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
well i kept on seeing things in las brujas ghost town like this shadowy figure just standing there i ran towards it then it disappears i also heard voices there its the most common myth i investigated. I proved the serial killer i attacked him but he did not use his shotgun instead his fists i pointed a shotgun at him but he still tryed hitting then i got him to hit a cop but then he pulled out a pistol and they both started shooting at each other nonstop the serial killer got owned. I investigated the leatherface myth but founded noting but a parked ghost car a chainsaw pick lots of blood in the cabin a shovel pick nexted to three graves however remember theres a low chance of him spawning. Then in gta 4 i investigated the heart of liberty both offline and online, sprunk factory ghost online where theres no bouncer at the honkers place and i then started hearing strange noises we saw a shadowy head out the window a few orbs oh when i shot a rocket at the roof we started to hear sort of polytergeist activity as the barrel down at the hole was rolling down by its self and a fence outside fell down and started to make strange noises but thats all we found out there. We investigated ratman but turned up noting but when i did offline i did and i found a guy running to fast a shadow of a person but when i chased him i got run over by a train. I then went to the power plant offline as i was walking on the platform shooting the employees i saw a sort of apparition i don't know if its some sort of giltch as it lasted for a second then it disappeared and footprints when i killed all of the employees them i went on top of this big platform thing i sort of got scared at the top as i heared footprints coming up then i jumped off the high platform and killed myself befor i seen anything. I also came back online this time with my partner we heard noises footprints and i have seen a few orbs and it caused me to kill myself again. I then on my own investigated the ufos it was interesting. Then in san andreas i investigated the ghost vortex but found nothing so i think i did it wrong. If you want to join my myth hunting group send me a friend invite on the ps3 network my name is irelandcool cause i live in ireland. If you don't got a ps3 you can still investigate myths but you have to tell me what you found oh ya what you think of this bigfoot picture in san andreas notice that this is the ps2 version as theres buttons at the bottom. user--Stephendwan 12:37, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/profiles/63/100001763/17941c580064d12a.jpg
OK I've never seen the Las Brujas ghost (are you sure you saw him ?). About the Serial Killer, I know he is the guy dressed in black, no wonder you found him. Of course he will attack you if you attacked him, like most pedestrians in San Andreas. About the Leatherface, I know exactly where you found that ghost car and the chainsaw, they always appear in this place. There's also blood in every shack in Red County. You found the three graves near Catalina's house, not in Panopticon, didn't you ? I saw the Heart of Liberty, nothing to say about this. About the Sprunk Factory, I've also investigated there, and there were only glitches. I saw the barrel moving, etc. Glitch. I've also chased the Ratman. Shoot at someone in the street, and you'll see that he runs very quickly too. And I don't know what you're talking about the platform. What platform ? About the Ghost Vortex, you will find it on the beach in Bayside Marina, Tierra Robada. You can see it from the dock. Finally, about your picture (that I've already seen), it has been faked. I know exactly the way he did, but it will take too much time to explain here. Just look at the shape of the "Bigfoot" : it's faked... By the way, if I find a real myth, I'll tell you. I know a lot about myths.--Loadingue 13:22, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
ya but i got the serial killer to hit a cop and they both started to shoot each other and he was not afraid of my shotguns. I was on the platforms in alderney i think and its in the powerplant. But there is still myths that you cannot prove or disprove. Oh once i find bigfoot i will tell you. user--Stephendwan 13:36, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
OK I'm waiting for your new messages...--Loadingue 13:46, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
so were exactly can i find bigfoot then. user--Stephendwan 14:05, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Here's my answer : there's no Bigfoot in San Andreas, because there's no Bigfoot in the game's files. But you can still find something weird while looking for a myth...--Loadingue 14:21, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
what if you have version one like me cause i think one the rockstar team put it in there as a joke i have found out the area his suppose to be i am using a jet pack cheat to help with one of the weapons and no cop cheat infinte ammo and infinte health along with the armor cheat cause if i do find him i will kill him i am at the back O'beyond the hotspot area of the reports and its turning to nightime so far i have seen some sort of wierd glowing i guess thats to do with the epilsion cult. user--Stephendwan 14:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
not much put there was a few ghost cars and they was this strange black human shape figure near the spring i only got to saw it for a second then it disapeared this is diffently the creepeist myths so far oh i am going to put the ghost cars and bigfoot together as they are in the same area. You wouldn't believe what one ghost car did it was going down a hill as usually then it did a u turn drove up the hill a bit then stopped that was a very strange ghost cars cause normally they just slided but this just turned pretty fast then it stopped and drove up a bit of the hill then it stoped as if they was something driving it and the an even wierder thing was they was no smoke coming from the exhaust it turned day time so i guess that bigfoot is a sleep. Im going to investigate the ghost vortex again now. user--Stephendwan 14:50, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Well... You should download an in-game cam, like FRAPS... You seem to see strange things sometimes... You should easily find that ghost Vortex.--Loadingue 15:02, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
ya but i don't got gta san andreas for pc i only have it for ps2. user--Stephendwan 15:05, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
yes its nightime and theres a thunderstorm in game a perfect time to look for leatherface. user--Stephendwan 15:10, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
i was investigating the serial killer myth again there i check fort carson but only his ped form was there and then i went to his house his bobcat was there i check the spring nearby clunckin bell he was not there but when i checked his house his bobcat was gone then i checked his so called mass grave and his bobcat was there but no serial killer it was actually a match im now checking the town at the north. user--Stephendwan 15:38, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
That's very interesting, you know. But both Bobcats always spawn in these places...--Loadingue 16:06, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
ya well the strange thing about the bobcat at the mass grave it moved a bit just like the ghost cars oh and i also stole the chainsaw pick at the panoticon area but leatherface was not there i also stole the ghost car there. oh ya i did smart idea and killed the serial killer with to make it look like leatherface did it to prove he was the bigger deal around the areas oh i also checked out the farm area unfortunatly they was no meeting there on the epilsion cult. I did also investigate the mount chillad curse. When the i was going up the mountain i saw this big black thing i got scared put then i discovered it was a plane after crashing a funny thing was it just flew off again and crashed into a huge rock. Ever tried to shoot the mountain bike up there with heat seeking rocket launcher something cools happen. Oh i also found the serial killer driving a rancher. oh i think i sended a friend invite to you there so add me. user--Stephendwan 16:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I agree that a mission in any game is a mission. However, missions are specific to the game that they appear in, unlike vehicles and characters, which/who can appear in multiple games, which is why I have reverted the edits to add the missions category to articles. The argument that it also makes it easier to find missions in the category are also, in my opinion, nul and void due to the sheer number of missions throughout the series. Also, please sign your posts using four tildes (A-Dust 18:12, December 18, 2009 (UTC)), just makes conversations easier. A-Dust 18:12, December 18, 2009 (UTC)
So will the "Missions" category be empty ? There is no mission that doesn't appear in a GTA game, of course.--Loadingue 14:10, December 19, 2009 (UTC)
I'll leave it to you to verify the top speed, because my trainers and data viewers won't work after the latest patch. Just make sure to do repeated testing; 155 km/h still seems pretty slow. - ZS 15:22, June 3, 2010 (UTC)
I totally agree with what you say. There already is a discussion about it on the Talk:Infernus page (2nd fastest car in GTAIV?). I'm using "simple native trainer 5.9" since I think it is the best trainer for GTA IV and EFLC. The previous top speeds that were excessively high were from GTA4.net. I'm trying to replace them all with the right ones. I can't cleary tell you why Rockstar made cars so slow (even if they don't look like they are). However some cars still have a reasonable speed, like the Airtug (80 km/h, 252 km/h on GTA4.net !!).--Loadingue 15:50, June 3, 2010 (UTC)
I'm curious on how you managed to obtain these images. Where do they come from? - ZS 11:42, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- I was looking for some beta stuff in cutscene.img (models folder) using Game Archive Viewer 5.0 and I found those two (cscopcarsf and cspolicesa). Some textures were missing so I took the texture file from another car (it can be seen that some textures are still missing though).--Loadingue 14:54, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Interesting. Have you managed to find more of these beta models? - ZS 19:03, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Well I haven't but I'll try to. The rest of that archive was useless. But I still am keen about beta vehicles and I will soon make further searches. gta3.img is full of beta things but it would take a long time to find them all out.--Loadingue 19:53, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering, what software do you use for viewing GTA IV files? Everything I use doesn't seem to obtain everything I need.--Gta-mysteries Talk 18:11, July 14, 2010 (UTC)
- It depends on the file format. I use the Notepad for any .dat, .ide, .csv or .xml file. That software (or a similar one) should be on any computer. For .img or .rpf archives, I recommand SparkIV or OpenIV, downloadable on every serious GTA website. They can also both open .wtd (texture) files, but only SparkIV allows you to open .wdr (model) files. However, OpenIV allows you to add files to an archive, while SparkIV doesn't. They can also open many other file formats, like .ivaud (audio files). If you need details, just ask. Which files do you need to view exactly ?--Loadingue 19:46, July 14, 2010 (UTC)
Right now I'm having trouble finding something for the whm files.--Gta-mysteries 15:55, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
- Wow. I've been modding GTA IV since its release for PC and I've never seen that file format. Where did you find it ?--Loadingue 11:36, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
I might not have the right file, It's the one that contains all the textures for websites. And I found it in the HTML folder.--Gta-mysteries 11:59, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
- Oh yes, I see. Well the already mentionel OpenIV can open and edit those files. I suggest you to open an IMG archive and add your .whm file(s), to view them. I hope I've answered your question.--Loadingue 19:14, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
Beta Vehicles
Seeing as how you know about some of the beta vehicles. Do you think you could help me an ZS? We are having a discussion about them on his talk page. --Gta-mysteries Talk 10:09, July 30, 2010 (UTC)
Trusted Users & Patrolling
Hi Loadingue. We've made a few changes to Grand Theft Wiki, our staff structure and the way we monitor edits. As you're a Trusted User, we've given you the right to patrol other users' edits. This means you can check out the edits that haven't been checked yet, and either endorse them, fix them or revert them. As you're trusted, your edits are automatically marked as patrolled too! It would be a great help if you could patrol a few edits from Special:Patrol each time you visit GTW, and it would look good if you were nominated for promotion too! See Grand Theft Wiki:Patrolling for help and more info, and give it a go! Let me know if you have any questions - gboyers talk 00:38, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Re: Wrong top speeds in GTA IV
- In reply to Wrong top speeds in GTA IV
I won't pretend to be a technical expert on vehicle dynamics in games here. As I understand it, each vehicle is limited to a certain maximum speed, although they may appear faster or slower than other vehicles, or reach their maximum speed sooner or later than others, and a range of factors can slow a vehicle down slightly. So a vehicle with very high acceleration will reach their top speed quickly and be faster over a short distance than a vehicle with low acceleration, even if the 2nd vehicle has a higher maximum speed.
I guess the best thing for us to do would be to make that clear, instead of trying to reduce everything down to one figure. For example, on each vehicle page have a table which displays (for each game/version) the maximum speed, acceleration, drag, transmission (FWD, RWD, 4WD) and perhaps some measure of direct comparison (such as the time it takes to reach 100km/h on a certain surface in certain conditions). The problem with using an in-game speedometer mod is that I'm not sure how that's calculated, and that the max speed after a few seconds might not be the true maximum - factors such as an incline, rough road surface, wet/windy weather, and lower acceleration might make it appear lower than it can fully achieve.
I'd much rather see a proposal (such as the above) rather than just saying "don't use figures from this site". We should have a discussion in public, maybe change a couple of vehicle articles to demonstrate, and once that's agreed, start a community project to add that information to all vehicle pages. gboyers talk 07:15, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah. Well, I didn't expect it would take so many resources... I'm afraid I'm not ready to do it now, but I'll keep it in mind. Also, about those "factors" that may influence the correct calculation of a top speed: I've taken all those in consideration. All the top speeds I got, were done by sunny weather, at the airport. First I recorded the top speed when going in one way, and then the top speed while going in the opposite way, on the same track, and I repeated it several times for each vehicle. There was usually a difference of about 10 km/h, but in the end, comparisons between all the top speed made sense (the only exception being the Super Diamond, which seems to be the fastest car ever, according to my results...).
- Otherwise, this project is put to rest for now (as long as I'm concerned), but I wish I'll be able to do it very soon.--Loadingue (talk) 18:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- Speedometers are fine as long as results are consistent and reasonable, i.e. what you have done. To shorten the work in reverting inaccurate revisions, try having a table of values in the vehicle discussion page. Have a note on the individual vehicle pages directing to the discussion page saying that the values are obtained directly from in-game. The person who listed the max speed used some sort of calculations to derive the values. It is not obtained directly from the game or from the file, but it's relatively accurate, not absolutely accurate.--spaceeinstein 02:32, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Radio stations
Rockstar did not specifically ask us to remove that content. However, we do not condone or support the cracking of game files (for illegal copying or playing before release) nor the proceeds from such activities. After release we can include all the content from the game we want, but prior to that we should only go on confirmed or public information. We can of course report news of leaks but we should not be posting spoilers or supporting those that have cracked the game. We can still be a great wiki with loads of detail without having to resort to such tactics. I stress this is not an instruction from Rockstar, this comes from me. I appreciate the apology, so let's forget it and move on! gboyers talk 23:54, 25 August 2013 (BST)
- You're right, Rockstar will probably be revealing the stations officially soon anyway. But I still think that our duty is to the users and information, and whenever there's a leak, we should take the opportunity to complete the Wiki. Quite honestly, not publishing the leaked info (in particular, the basic leaked info like the radio stations) is putting the Wiki one step behind everyone else. I've also noticed the GTA Wikia has taken full notes of the leaked playlists, and are subsequently gaining popularity in doing so. But again, you're right, the stations might be officially announced tomorrow.
- I'd just want to say that I will discuss this further if the leak becomes extremely important, as to leaking all the vehicles, the characters, the places, the missions, etc. Still refusing to put anything on the wiki might be missing out on an unprecedented opportunity, that the GTA Wikia, I am sure, will not hesitate to take.--Loadingue (talk|edits) 00:07, 26 August 2013 (BST)
Our policy is not to encourage the hacking of GTA games, and not to spread misinformation. I don't see how "the leak proves it's accurate" but I do take your point that it's probably correct.
What are your concerns about the relationship? Grand Theft Wiki is a recognised fansite, which means we do have some contact with Rockstar on a variety of matters. However, there is no implication of ever being "told" what to do by Rockstar, or being owned/operated by them, or anything of that nature. A-Dust was not at all correct when he suggested that. We are completely independent and will remain so. I'm happy to discuss the details of this if you're interested. gboyers talk 18:35, 11 September 2013 (BST)
Re: Leak? (Brute Tour Bus)
- In reply to Leak?
The tour bus image was ripped directly from the official GTA V website. (Image source) I forgot to put that in the image description when I uploaded it. --Gsu eagle 31049 (talk|edits) 22:29, 30 August 2013 (BST)
I was wondering, if you have time, if you could help out with either the location or character pages for GTA V? In particular we need work on location pages. I hope you're enjoying GTA V and/or GTA Online if you've got them. A-Dust 17:42, 25 October 2013 (BST)
- I would really want to help, but though I own GTA V, I don't exactly have regular access to it, to put it so. The PS3 I own is at my father's, and I only visit him during week-ends. However I still want to help, so I'll see what I can do with locations.--Loadingue (talk|edits) 19:37, 25 October 2013 (BST)
Radio Station logos
Is .png format okay? --DT-boy (talk|edits) 19:43, 23 November 2013 (GMT) Unfortunately the pictures found inside the game files are incredibly poor in quality. --DT-boy (talk|edits) 20:08, 23 November 2013 (GMT)
Sorry for being away this long. Here's a sample of what I imagined for the Radio Stations page: User:DT-boy/Sandbox/Radio Stations --DT-boy (talk|edits) 19:23, 14 December 2013 (GMT)
- This is very good! I'll need to make some adjustments with the genres, but that's what I had in mind, maybe even better. Personally, I prefer Idea 1, because the articles won't look like much with Idea 2 before you open it. Now that we've got your model, we can work on integrating those into the articles.--Loadingue (talk|edits) 21:24, 14 December 2013 (GMT)
- Glad you like it. I'll create the tables for all GTA3 era games but I can't do the same for the other games due to lack of experience. I'll gladly consulate about the genres but I recommend doing it through chat. --DT-boy (talk|edits) 09:57, 15 December 2013 (GMT)
- Added GTA3-LCS stations, plus a third idea. --DT-boy (talk|edits) 11:46, 15 December 2013 (GMT)
Shouldn't we use discogs.com links for songs instead of wikipedia? --DT-boy (talk|edits) 19:44, 19 December 2013 (GMT)
- It may be more professional in music, but it provides few interesting information. I searched for Garry Rafferty's Baker Street and I wasn't convinced. The Wikipedia article on in the other hand, has all the info one could ask for regarding the song. In cases where there isn't a Wikipedia article, the Discogs page still provides relatively few information.--Loadingue (talk|edits) 10:43, 23 December 2013 (GMT)
Any progress on the HD universe stations? --DT-boy (talk|edits) 19:23, 11 January 2014 (GMT)
- Yes, they're pretty much done. Now I just need to edit the main page like you did and it'll be good. I might wait until I've reworked every radio station though, to make sure. By the way, do you happen to have a copy of the GTA Liberty City Stories booklet? Because I seem to remember the years for each song are in it, but I seem to have lost my copy.--Loadingue (talk|edits) 19:12, 12 January 2014 (GMT)
- If possible, please make a sandbox page for the main page parts like I did. After that we can discuss the genres (if necessary) and make it final. The standalone radio station pages can wait. Here's a link to the manual: [1] If you're going to write the year of each song then I recommend you to use the earliest date (eg if a song was available on an album earlier than released as a single then write the date of the album) --DT-boy (talk|edits) 18:37, 15 January 2014 (GMT)
- Thanks a lot for the link, that's perfect. However, I think it would be better if I finish the radio station articles, I really need to make sure about the music genres. It shouldn't be long anyway, only GTA III, LCS and SA are left. I'll make a sandbox page once I'm done.--Loadingue (talk|edits) 01:04, 16 January 2014 (GMT)
Any news? --DT-boy (talk|edits) 20:10, 13 July 2014 (BST)
Removed VC/SA songs
R* has removed several songs from the mobile/tablet and digital distribution versions of VC & SA and probably also from the X360 version of SA (the PS3 versions need confirmation). The exact list of removed songs is still unknown because on Steam for those who bought the game earlier the songs aren't removed and because of this I'm unable to check it. However the removals from SA affect me as well so I can confirm that the songs listed here are missing from the latest Steam version of the game. Just thought I should let you know. --DT-boy (talk|edits) 09:52, 9 November 2014 (GMT)


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Letter to the Editor: Correcting the record on Jefferson-Houston performance
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I'm writing to unpack a statement in a letter to the Alexandria Times editors titled "City should spend less money on education."...
Editorial: Criminals have it easy at City Hall
Government employees have a target on their backs as the country wades slowly out of recession. Secure public sector jobs and guaranteed pensions anger...
YOUR VIEW | No crying for criminals
I was amused by the article, "Unfair Word Choice Regarding Immigrants" (December 22, 2009). From the point of view of my ancestors, the Native American Indian, the word "immigrant" did not exist only "welcomed but unwanted visitors" exist.
YOUR VIEW | Thanks for aiding health care, senators
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This guy took a drag off his cigarette and was like, "Tough shit:"
"No big deal," I thought. There's another station right down the block.
Fortunately, there were bikes, but unfortunately the station didn't work, so I was unable to pluck any of its heavy, overripe, human-powered fruit.
Or, if you prefer:
"I pulled the lever on the machine but the Clark bar didn't come out!"
[Exclamation point!]
"Well, crap," I thought, "I guess I'll just have to go to the next next station." So I did just that, and there was a bike waiting for me with my name on it (if my name were "Citi Bike," or else whatever's scribbled on that graffiti tag):
Sadly, that station didn't work either, so there I was, bikeless and adrift in stupid downtown Brooklyn and contemplating jumping this guy for his Citi Bike:
But he must have seen the menacing look in my eye because he rode off like the wind. (If the wind weighed fifty pounds, had only three speeds, and was plastered with corporate advertising.)
So in the end I had to walk, which I don't mind doing ordinarily, but which I do mind when I planned my whole trip around not doing it. On the way back, however, not only did I have success with Citi Bike, but I also got to see the police pull over a driver instead of a cyclist:
Sometimes you're up, and sometimes your down.
Meanwhile, a number of people have informed me that the San Francisco cyclist who ran a red light and killed somebody has pleaded (or pled, or plud, sorry, I don't speak your "Legalese") guilty to manslaughter:
He won't go to jail, but he will have to perform a lot of community service:
Bucchere's plea deal, which does not include jail time, includes three years of probation and 1,000 hours of community service. He was scheduled to go to trial in October.
If nothing else, this is a lesson to beware of the Lucas Brunellian hero-in-your-own-mind mentality that can take over when you're riding in traffic and then compel you to write stupid stuff like this on the Internet after mortally wounding somebody:
"I was already way too committed to stop ... I couldn't see a line through the crowd and I couldn't stop so I laid down and just plowed through the crowded crosswalk in the least-populated place I could find," Bucchere wrote. "I hope he ends up OK."
Wow, what a putz. Too committed to stop? That sounds like the kind of excuse Carlos Danger would give for not pulling out in time.
On the other hand, it's hard to imagine a driver receiving a similar punishment, since in this country killing someone with your car is largely considered little more than an "Oopsie" unless huge amounts of alcohol are involved. For example, I wonder what will happen to this driver when the police catch him?
Yes, after what was probably hours of staking out the intersection, the news crew managed to capture a series of completely non-thrilling utter non-near-misses like this one, in which which nobody narrowly avoided even the smallest amount of harm:
It seems to me that pretty much everyone in this video looks both ways before rolling through, and unlike the guy who was "way too committed to stop" they're all going slow enough to be able to bring their bicycles to a halt in about a foot and a half.
I'm not saying you should ride into an intersection like an idiot, but the only victim in this video was the stop sign, which is too metal and inanimate to give a fuck anyway.
Lastly, here's the latest attempt at redesigning the bicycle saddle by a person who can't come to terms with the fact that he should be riding a recumbent:
Note how hypnotically it undulates. Not convinced this is the future of bicycle saddles? Well, you'll be even less convinced after watching the video:
What is this "chaffing" they keep talking about? Whatever it is, it can't be worse than getting your genitals caught between the saddle and the rails while it's rocking.


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The political left has long claimed the role of protector of "the poor." It is one of their central moral claims to political power. But how valid is this claim?
Leaders of the left in many countries have promoted policies that enable the poor to be more comfortable in their poverty. But that raises a fundamental question: Just who are "the poor"?
If you use a bureaucratic definition of poverty as including all individuals or families below some arbitrary income level set by the government, then it is easy to get the kinds of statistics about "the poor" that are thrown around in the media and in politics. But do those statistics have much relationship to reality?
"Poverty" once had some concrete meaning — not enough food to eat or not enough clothing or shelter to protect you from the elements, for example. Today it means whatever the government bureaucrats, who set up the statistical criteria, choose to make it mean. And they have every incentive to define poverty in a way that includes enough people to justify welfare state spending.
Most Americans with incomes below the official poverty level have air-conditioning, television, own a motor vehicle and, far from being hungry, are more likely than other Americans to be overweight. But an arbitrary definition of words and numbers gives them access to the taxpayers' money.
This kind of "poverty" can easily become a way of life, not only for today's "poor," but for their children and grandchildren.
Even when they have the potential to become productive members of society, the loss of welfare state benefits if they try to do so is an implicit "tax" on what they would earn that often exceeds the explicit tax on a millionaire.
If increasing your income by $10,000 would cause you to lose $15,000 in government benefits, would you do it?
In short, the political left's welfare state makes poverty more comfortable, while penalizing attempts to rise out of poverty. Unless we believe that some people are predestined to be poor, the left's agenda is a disservice to them, as well as to society. The vast amounts of money wasted are by no means the worst of it.
If our goal is for people to get out of poverty, there are plenty of heartening examples of individuals and groups who have done that, in countries around the world.
Millions of "overseas Chinese" emigrated from China destitute and often illiterate in centuries past. Whether they settled in Southeast Asian countries or in the United States, they began at the bottom, taking hard, dirty and sometimes dangerous jobs.
Even though the overseas Chinese were usually paid little, they saved out of that little, and many eventually opened tiny businesses. By working long hours and living frugally, they were able to turn tiny businesses into larger and more prosperous businesses. Then they saw to it that their children got the education that they themselves often lacked.
By 1994, the 57 million overseas Chinese created as much wealth as the one billion people living in China.
Variations on this social pattern can be found in the histories of Jewish, Armenian, Lebanese and other emigrants who settled in many countries around the world — initially poor, but rising over the generations to prosperity. Seldom did they rely on government, and they usually avoided politics on their way up.
Such groups concentrated on developing what economists call "human capital" — their skills, talents, knowledge and self discipline. Their success has usually been based on that one four-letter word that the left seldom uses in polite society: "work."
There are individuals in virtually every group who follow similar patterns to rise from poverty to prosperity. But how many such individuals there are in different groups makes a big difference for the prosperity or poverty of the groups as a whole.
The agenda of the left — promoting envy and a sense of grievance, while making loud demands for "rights" to what other people have produced — is a pattern that has been widespread in countries around the world.
This agenda has seldom lifted the poor out of poverty. But it has lifted the left to positions of power and self-aggrandizement, while they promote policies with socially counterproductive results.


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The average time it takes for a leak to happen on a flat roof is five to ten years, and these leaks generally are the types that require a bucket underneath. You are probably frustrated with the number and severity of flat roof repairs if you own this style of construction.
The largest question for flat roof repairs is whether you should even bother to fix the problem. The techniques do exist for improving the durability of these type roofs, but it requires much more than a hit-or-miss patching job. There are many roofing companies who claim to seal the damage at a discount price.
In these cases you get what you pay for! Often the companies are unfamiliar with the proper techniques and/or products to correctly stop the leaking from a flat roof. If you choose to repair, you must choose a contractor who specializes in these types of repairs.
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They are vulnerable spots in the roof by their very nature – after all, they are holes with something in them! Once these are addressed, a professional contractor can use a leading edge technology product such as EPDM to resurface the roof. This rubber-like material has all the qualities necessary for extending the life and durability of a flat roof.
You may have spent inordinate amounts of money through the years on flat roof repairs. Yet, every spring there seem to be more leaks. The next most practical option may be to pass on the repair work in favor of building a sloping roofline over the existing structure. This may not be an option in commercial districts, but would mostly likely be feasible for residential areas.
This would solve the largest leak-generating problem associated with flat roofs – standing water. You would be well advised to seek the consultation of a professional contractor regarding an improved style of roof. Otherwise, you may be spending money again next year.


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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Warm Poached Sausage and Potato Salad - Outdoor Wednesday
Hot. Hot. Hot. How do you escape an unexpected heat wave when you have a house full of people, including this beautiful toddler who very much needs to be enjoying the great outdoors? Head with us to Cougar reservoir and join in our French-style al fresco meal. This entree is one of our favorites and it's bistro food at its best. It comes from Lyon, France and it's perfect for a sophisticated picnic hamper or a Styrofoam chest. The salad is extremely easy to make and even easier to eat. It's a perfect meal to serve beside a lake on warm summer days. Here's how it's made.
Warm Sausage and Potato Salad
1 pound fresh, unsmoked pork sausage
3 pounds small new potatoes
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1/2 cup dry white wine
2 1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar or Champagne vinegar
3 tablespoons minced shallots
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/3 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons roughly chopped lightly toasted shelled pistachios
1 tablespoon minced parsley leaves
Sprigs fresh chervil or baby parsley, garnish
1) Place sausage in a large saucepan and cover with cold water by 2 inches. Bring to a simmer; cook until tender and cooked through, about 30 minutes. Do not let boil. Remove pan from the heat and let sausage sit in the hot liquid for 5 minutes. Transfer the sausage to a platter to cool slightly.
2) Meanwhile, in another large saucepan, place potatoes, kosher salt, and enough water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a low boil and cook until potatoes are tender but still firm, about 15 to 20 minutes. Drain and let cool slightly. Slice into 1/4-inch thick rounds and place in a large salad bowl. Sprinkle with white wine while still warm. Set aside.
3) In a mixing bowl, whisk together the Dijon mustard, white wine vinegar, shallots, garlic, salt, and pepper. While whisking, add the oil in a steady stream and whisk until vinaigrette is thick and emulsified. Adjust seasoning, to taste. Pour over the potatoes and gently toss to coat.
4) Slice sausage into 1/4-inch thick rounds and add to potato mixture. Add chopped parsley and pistachios, and toss gently. Plate for serving. Yield: 6 servings.
Recipe adapted from Emeril Live.
This recipe is being linked to Outdoor Wednesday, an event sponsored by Susan at A Southern Daydreamer.
43 comments :
- La Cuisine d'Helene said...
That meal looks so good. We also have an extremely hot week.
- July 29, 2009 at 1:29 AM
- Mary | Deep South Dish said...
What a cutie pie! And the potato salad sounds wonderful. It hasn't been as hot here, not like that earlier hot spell we had late this spring - it's just normal hot here lately, thankfully!
- July 29, 2009 at 2:29 AM
- theUngourmet said...
I love the pistachios in this. What a nice dish!
Your photo is so beautiful! I would love to visit in person. - July 29, 2009 at 2:30 AM
- noble pig said...
Yes the heat...this would be perfect!
- July 29, 2009 at 3:57 AM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
That looks like the perfect dinner salad to enjoy outside. What a smile--he is such a cutie! ;-)
- July 29, 2009 at 4:50 AM
- Regina said...
Beautiful water and my favorite salad. Perfect!
- July 29, 2009 at 4:51 AM
- My Little Space said...
I love this recipe! And the potatoes look so yummy as well!
- July 29, 2009 at 6:50 AM
- Martha said...
The salad looks good and with a crusty loaf and a bottle of wine . . . and perhaps some cherry tomatoes still on the stem . . .
Beautiful lake -- even more beautiful toddler! - July 29, 2009 at 6:58 AM
- Donna-FFW said...
Warm potato salad like this spells comfort to me. Emeril has some great recipes!
- July 29, 2009 at 7:37 AM
- Becky K. said...
The blues in your outdoor photo are amazing.
Your little guy is A-dor-a-ble!
I am shunning the out of doors this week as it is way too hot and humid for wimpy me.
Have a great day!
Becky K.
Hospitality Lane - July 29, 2009 at 7:55 AM
- SmilingSally said...
How pretty is that setting? The food looks good and your child is a cutie. Thanks for sharing. Happy Outdoor Wednesday.
- July 29, 2009 at 8:55 AM
- Penny said...
Three gorgeous pictures; the scenery, the divine salad, and the precious toddler. What more could you ask for?
- July 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM
- Mumzie said...
The Hubs is gonna love this Sausage salad! Thanks, Mumzie :)
- July 29, 2009 at 9:21 AM
- Country Wings in Phoenix said...
Good Morning Sweet Mary. Oh I love the lake pic, and that little guy, oh he is going to be a heart breaker. Isn't he just simply precious. I love this post. I am going to try this warm potatoe sald, as I have only made a cold one before. This sounds so delish. Thanks for sharing Mary. As always I love to come home to visit with you. Country Hugs and Love, Sherry
- July 29, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Jersey Girl Cooks said...
Oh, such beautiful pictures! Great meal.
- July 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Little Joshua is just adorable. The recipe sounds perfect for sitting at my little outdoor table under the Elms. A good book and a glass of fresh lemonade. Just what the doctor ordered.
XOSue - July 29, 2009 at 10:29 AM
YUM! I love salads like this one.
- July 29, 2009 at 11:17 AM
- Pam said...
I am loving the top picture - what a beautiful spot.
The salad sounds really tasty - perfect summer side dish. - July 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM
- NKP said...
What a great picnic salad, and the scenery is beyond gorgeous!
Looks like the cottage country that we have north of us here in Ontario. - July 29, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- petite nyonya said...
Everything looks perfect! Such a pretty place to be having that wonderful salad and your grandson is so handsome!
- July 29, 2009 at 1:38 PM
- Barbara Jean said...
That looks wonderful!
We surely do need to be in or near the water right now with this heat wave.
i feel like i am confined to quarters, where the in the wall air conditioner is.
Where in Oregon are you?
and thanks for coming by.
barbara jean
PS Your grandson is a doll!!! - July 29, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- Katherine Roberts Aucoin said...
He's is adorable and sooo huggable!
Your potato salad is a perfect summer side and I love the inclusion of the sausage! - July 29, 2009 at 2:39 PM
- Shellbelle said...
Sausage in potato salad? What a great idea and adding pistachios sounds delicious.
Looks like you had a wonderful family outing and who could ask for more than that? - July 29, 2009 at 3:07 PM
- Tootsie said...
man that looks good!!! I think it will take more than one perfect bite....more like one whole bowl!!!
- July 29, 2009 at 3:11 PM
- Blue Creek Home said...
You have the best recipes ever!
This looks absolutely delicious.
It has been raining here for a couple of days, so there will no alfresco meals for us.
Rhonda - July 29, 2009 at 3:20 PM
- Glenda/MidSouth said...
1st photo is beautiful - beautiful blues.
2nd photo looks delicious - now I am hungry again( I always get hungry when I visit your blog).
3rd photo - what an adorable little boy.
You did good :-) - Thanks for sharing.
Glenda - July 29, 2009 at 3:34 PM
- Lynette said...
Thanks for the visit today and for posting the yummy looking recipe!
Stop in any time - - July 29, 2009 at 4:08 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
I heard about ya'lls heat wave! Those are the temps we've been tolerating for months! It's the end of the world!
- July 29, 2009 at 4:23 PM
What great sounding potato salad. Joshua is a little cutie pie.
- July 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- Kathleen said...
The food and scenery look great!
Thanks for your visit, Mary.. - July 29, 2009 at 7:17 PM
- SavoringTime in the Kitchen said...
Oh my, that first shot is gorgeous - only upstaged by that adorable little face :)
Thanks for a wonderful-sounding potato salad recipe!
~Susan - July 29, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- sunnymama said...
What a sweet little boy :)
- July 29, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- Christi @ A Southern Life said...
Beautiful pic and the potato salad sounds wonderful! Stay cool!
Christi - July 29, 2009 at 8:41 PM
- Christine Medifast said...
Excellent save on the meal! Perfect for an overly hot day that would be even worse if you had to cook a ridiculous amount of food for visitors.
- July 29, 2009 at 8:42 PM
- Ebie said...
Some fancy dish and simple ingredients. I want to try it!
- July 29, 2009 at 9:40 PM
- Claudia said...
What lovely shots!
Very spot on sharp...
TTFN~~Claudia ♥ - July 29, 2009 at 10:49 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Barbara Jean, I'm in Eugene.
- July 30, 2009 at 12:38 AM
- aspiritofsimplicity said...
That sounds like a delightful picnic.
- July 30, 2009 at 4:53 AM
- jeanne said...
Good morning Mary, I am drooling over your potato salad recipe. I could definitely make this. My hubby will think he has gone to food heaven. The Cougar Reservoir looks so cool and beautiful. Our weather this year has been wonderful here in the NC mountains. I am waiting for the heat to hit.
Have a great day.
Hugs...Jeanne - July 30, 2009 at 6:21 AM
- Andrea at Opulent Cottage said...
My husband would go CRAZY for this! I think I'll make some this weekend - thanks for a great recipe!
Andrea - July 30, 2009 at 8:40 AM
- Heather S-G said...
This looks perfect...it would nestle nicely into my picnic basket with a bottle of wine and a loaf of bread!
- July 30, 2009 at 12:34 PM
- Crystal said...
Mary this looks delectable. I think I have tasted something similar, but never had a recipe. I can't wait to try it out. That mountain and water shot looks refreshing on a hot day. Boy is that little guy ever so cute.
Thanks for visiting and sharing your comment.
Crystal - July 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM
- Lori said...
That does sound delicious. And the reservoir is stunning. Love that blue. And he is a cutie! Have fun!
- July 30, 2009 at 9:01 PM


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Cerebral Palsy
Article Translations: (Spanish)
Maybe someone at your school has cerebral palsy — or perhaps you have it and you've been dealing with it your whole life. As we become more aware of appearance and body image, it can be tough to be in a wheelchair or to have people tease you about the way you walk. But lots of teens with CP don't let it hold them back. They do just what everyone else does.
What Is Cerebral Palsy?
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a disorder of the brain. Normally, the brain tells the rest of the body exactly what to do and when to do it. Because of how CP affects the brain, a person might not be able to walk, talk, eat, or move the way most people do.
CP affects a person's muscle tone and ability to coordinate body movements. People with CP have trouble controlling their muscles. How a person is affected all depends on what part of the brain is involved.
How Does Cerebral Palsy Affect People?
The three types of cerebral palsy are:
- Spastic (pronounced: SPASS-tik) CP is the most common type of CP. People with spastic CP can't relax their muscles or the muscles may be stiff.
- Athetoid (pronounced: ATH-uh-toid) CP affects the ability to control the muscles of the body. A person's arms or legs may flutter and move suddenly.
- Ataxic (pronounced: ay-TAK-sik). People with ataxic CP have problems with balance and coordination. Their movements may seem shaky.
People with CP can have mild cases or more severe cases. It all depends on how much of the brain is affected and which parts of the body that section of the brain controls. If CP affects both arms and both legs, a person might need to use a wheelchair. If CP only affects the legs, someone may walk in an unsteady way or have to wear braces or use crutches.
If CP affects the part of the brain that controls speech, a person with CP might have trouble talking clearly or not be able to speak at all. Some people with CP also have learning disabilities or behavior problems, though many don't have these issues. Others can have medical problems like seizures or epilepsy, or hearing loss.
What Causes It?
In most cases, doctors don't know exactly what causes CP. They do know that it's the result of damage to the brain — either while a baby is in the womb or in the first few months or years after the baby is born.
Babies have a higher chance of having CP if they are born early or if they're very underweight at birth. Babies who don't get enough oxygen during or right after birth also have a higher chance of having CP. So do babies who need to be on a ventilator (a machine to help with breathing) for several weeks or more after birth.
CP is not contagious, so people can't catch it from other people. Even a mother with CP can't pass it on to her unborn baby.
What Do Doctors Do?
Doctors diagnose CP when kids are young, so by the time people reach their teens, they usually know they have CP and are used to living with it.
With CP, the problem with the brain will not get any worse as people get older. For example, someone who has CP that affects only the legs won't develop CP in the arms or have problems with speech later on.
Although CP doesn't get worse over time, how it affects someone's body can change as the person grows or develops. For example, some teens with CP may develop dislocated hips (when the bones that meet at the hips move out of their normal position) or scoliosis (curvature of the spine).
Because CP affects people differently, there are lots of ways to treat and manage it. Some teens have only mild problems with movement. Others need crutches or wheelchairs to get around. Doctors, parents, teachers, therapists, and the person with CP all work together to develop the best treatment plan.
Teens with CP may work with these experts:
- a pediatric orthopedist
- a developmental pediatrician who looks at how the person is growing or developing compared with other teens
- a pediatric physiatrist (or rehabilitation physician), who helps kids with disabilities of many kinds
- therapists, like physical therapists to help with movement, occupational therapists to help with skills like handwriting, and speech therapists
Some teens with CP take medicines to relax their muscles (in the case of spastic CP) or to help control seizures. And some might have special surgeries to keep their arms or legs straighter and more flexible.
Coping With Cerebral Palsy
Puberty can be especially challenging for people with CP. Rapid growth can cause weight gain and clumsiness in any teen, but can make it even more difficult for someone with CP to move around. A person's muscles can become tighter as the bones grow, which can restrict movement even more.
If you have CP, what you'll do depends on your CP. One thing you can do is to get more involved in your medical care wherever possible. Keep up with your appointments, including any physical or other therapy visits. This is a time when your medical team will want to keep an eye on you and adapt your treatment or therapy as you grow.
Many guys and girls with CP can do the same sorts of things that other teens do, like enjoying extracurricular activities, listening to or playing music, hanging out with friends, reading, going to the mall, and dating, to name just a few.
Helping a Friend Who Has CP
If you know someone who has CP and you're wondering how to help, just treat that person the way you would anyone else. Some people with CP might need extra assistance once in a while, like when reaching for something. Help out — just as you would with anyone else — without making a big deal about it. If you can't understand what a person with CP is saying or if it takes longer to do things, give him or her extra time to speak or move.
And don't be afraid to talk to a friend about what it's like to live with CP. Everyone wants to fit in, and being in a wheelchair or having other physical problems can make someone self-conscious or feel left out. So if you know someone with CP, try to be welcoming and include him or her in what you're doing.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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This layout was made using the Cricut Pack Your Bags Cricut cartridge and the Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Cricut cartridge and Bo Bunny Double Dot cardstock. I love how the double dot paper gives some interest and texture without being overwhelming.
The "Our Cruise" is cut at 2-1/2", all layers also. The scalloped border is from the Martha Stewart All Occasions cartridge and cut at 10".
On the right hand side, I cut the ship at 5", after flipping it so it faced into the layout. The journaling block was cut at 4", 3-3/4" and 3-1/2".
All photo blocks are for standard 4" x 6" photos. White pen adds some faux stitching around the edges.
Now here is the layout we made on the cruise, based off this one:
The papers are from the Cricut Imagine cartridge, Berries and Cream Patterns and Colors. I love the tropical feel to this. The papers are just fabulous. See how different things look with other colors? Makes such a difference! I think depending on what type of cruise you went on (Alaska versus Caribbean, etc.), each layout has a place.
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We have discovered that if certain XH G1/XH A1 and XH G1S/XH A1S professional camcorders are repeatedly held by the grip belt for long periods of time during shooting, there is a possibility that the grip belt cover that attaches the grip belt may crack.
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One of my favourite discoveries in the last little while has been the cauliflower pizza crust which is a really nice light and healthier alternative to a regular pizza crust. Ever since then I have been wondering what other things could be used to make pizza crusts and the first thing that came to mind was zucchini! Now that zucchini season is here one of the first things that I used it in was a zucchini crust pizza and over the last few days I have been experimenting with them! All of my zucchini pizza crust tests have been successful and it is easier to work with than cauliflower. More importantly than simply being able to use zucchini in a pizza crust, the zucchini pizza crust is amazingly if not addictively good! I will be using all of that zucchini to make many zucchini pizza crust pizzas this summer!
I started with a recipe that was pretty much the same as the cauliflower pizza crust recipe where you cook the zucchini, squeeze out the moisture, mix it with an egg and some cheese and bake it until golden brown before adding the pizza toppings and baking a second time. This recipe works fantastically well but I was wondering if you really needed to cook the zucchini so for my next pizza I tried using the zucchini raw. The raw version of the recipe also works but it is a little bit more difficult to squeeze the moisture out of the zucchini and that meant that it needed to bake a bit longer, 20 minutes rather than 15, and everything else the same. Another common way to extract excess liquid from zucchini is to mix it with a bit of salt and let it sit for 20 minutes so I tried this method next and I found that it works as well a cooking the zucchini and it takes about the same amount of time but I found the crust was a bit salty. I was also wondering what the addition of a touch of flour would do for the crust so for my next one I added 1/4 cup of flour and the results were good; the crust is a little stronger and easier to handle but it is also not quite as light and airy as one might expect. In the end all of the crusts worked well and I think that I will stick with the original one with the pre-cooked zucchini and no flour but feel free to experiment yourself!
Alright enough about the crust, what about the toppings? Given that it is a zucchini crust I wanted to go with something summery and I kept coming back to one of my favourite combos, zucchini and corn. I had several ideas on how to use the zucchini and corn combo in a pizza and I started out with a BBQ bacon, and grilled corn pizza on the zucchini crust. I went with a smoky chipotle BBQ sauce for the base and I topped it with a smoked gouda cheese along with the smoked bacon and grilled corn along with some red onions. The combination of spicy BBQ sauce with the sweet corn and salty bacon and all of the smoky undertones is a fabulous one especially on the tasty zucchini crust! If you are feeling a bit adventurous adding a fresh diced tomato and avocado topping really takes this pizza over the edge!
The zucchini pizza crust holds up well and you can easily pick it up and eat it with your hands! (Note: Leftovers will require a fork…)
Chipotle BBQ Bacon and Grilled Corn Zucchini Crust Pizza
A healthy zucchini pizza crust topped with chipotle bbq sauce, bacon, grilled corn, red onion and plenty of cheese!
- 1 zucchini pizza crust (see below)
- 1/2 cup chipotle barbecue sauce
- 3/4 cup gouda or mozzarella (optionally smoked), shredded
- 1 ear of grilled corn (or 1/2 cup corn)
- 4 slices bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces and cooked
- 1/4 cup red onion, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons cilantro, torn
- Spread the barbecue sauce on the pizza, top with the mozzarella, corn, bacon and red onion and bake until the cheese is bubbling, about 10-15 minutes.
- Top with cilantro and enjoy!
Zucchini Pizza Crust
A healthy zucchini pizza crust!
- 4 cups zucchini, shredded
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup mozzarella, shredded
- 1/4 cup parmigiano reggiano (parmesan), grated
- 1 teaspoon oregano or italian seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
- (optional) Microwave the shredded zucchini on high for 6 minutes, let cool, place it in a tea towel and squeeze as much moisture out as you can.
- Mix the zucchini, egg, mozzarella, parmesan, oregano, salt and pepper, press the mixture onto a baking mat or parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated 450F/230C oven until lightly golden brown, about 15-20 minutes.
Note: You can add 1/4 cup flour, or rice flour, or almond flour, etc. to the zucchini mixture which will help make the crust stronger but it also makes it a little bit tougher.
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