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05-06-2010 08:32 AM - last edited on 05-06-2010 11:04 AM by erik
Paraphrasing Steve Martin from the movie The Jerk, the ranks are here!
OK, you've probably already noticed that there was something different since the last time you checked in, but we needed to make an official announcement.
We've implemented the new rank progression to inject a bit of fun with the computer component themes, but more importantly to improve the ability for members to progress up the ranks and to recognize and reward different ways of participating in the community. That's the long way of saying we've added a lot more ranks and we've changed how you get to the next level.
How do you move through the ranks?
We used to just count how many times you've visited and posted and how long you stayed. We thought that was boring and missed an opportunity to give forum members credit for all their great participation in the forum.
What goes into the hopper now? A lot more to reflect what you're actually doing while you're in the forum. For the beginner ranks, we'll still give you credit for the same things we did before, but you'll also get credit for giving out kudos, getting kudos, providing answers that get marked as solutions, taking time to accept messages that answer your questions as the accepted solution, and tagging messages with relevant tags. As you move up the ranks and become more knowledgeable and gain confidence in helping others, just logging in becomes less important and the other types of participation become more important. We've tried to come up with a good mix to encourage and reward both active participation (posting messages, answering questions, writing FAQs, running polls, etc) and passive participation (giving out kudos, tagging, marking messages as accepted solutions, etc).
What's in it for you?
In the near future, we'll be implementing new social networking functions including functionality that allow empowered forum members to see and interact with related discussions on twitter, answering tweets directly, bringing them in and starting forum discussions, or tweeting out existing and valuable forum discussions.
A community driven knowledge base will soon be available. Published articles will be available to all, and members, according to their tenure and rank in the community will be able to nominate discussions to become articles, start new articles on their own, and help edit and revise drafts and some existing articles to make them even more valuable to the community. We'll share additional updates on this as we get closer to launch.
The new ranks and associated permissions are an important foundational step to enabling these two new features, and creating new ways for members to help build the community. Other features or special access may also be added in the future.
So, what are the new ranks, and what are the criteria to get them?
Ahh, that's a surprise that will be unveiled as we go along and members start rising through the new ranks. You can already see some of the new ranks showing up now, so put your heads together and let the guessing begin!
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2015 X1 Carbon, ThinkPad Slate, T410s, X301, X200 Tablet, T60p, HP TouchPad, iPad Air 2, iPhone 5S, IdeaTab A2107A, Yoga Tablet, Yoga 3 Pro
I AM one of those crazy ThinkPad zealots!
If you find a post helpful and it answers your question, please mark it as an "Accepted Solution"!
I am not a Lenovo employee
LOL, I love the new ranks.
The idea is quite ingenious in my opinion. Thanks for coming up with it.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
ThinkPads:- T400[Win 7], T60[Win 7], IBM 240[Win XP]
IdeaPad: U350Apple:- Macbook Air [Snow Leopard]
I'm glad you like these! We gave them quite a bit of thought and I think they are certainly fun and thematic.
Perhaps more importantly, there are exciting new features for the community that will be arriving soon, and these new ranks will help enable members to begin participating in new ways.
Jane did a lot of the hard work in getting these set up in the system and certainly deserves a big pat on the back.
I've got to remember to have the 2nd cup of joe before hitting the forum. Just about hit POST on an "AIEEE someone has hacked the forum!!!!" post before I spotted the "New User Ranks" announcement.
You might consider doing that announcement in flashing red and maybe about 4x the size...
Funny. But scary.
The large print: please read the Community Participation Rules before posting. Include as much information as possible: model, machine type, operating system, and a descriptive subject line. Do not include personal information: serial number, telephone number, email address, etc.
The fine print: I do not work for, nor do I speak for Lenovo. Unsolicited private messages will be ignored - questions and answers belong in the forum so that others may contribute and benefit. ... GeezBlog
ooo token ring
See, now, you may be a serial port or token ring today, but if you two (and everyone else) just keeps on posting solutions to questions, giving out kudos to people who deserve them, tagging messages so we can find things, you just never know what you might be next! ;-)
English Community Deutsche Community Comunidad en Español Русскоязычное Сообщество
2015 X1 Carbon, ThinkPad Slate, T410s, X301, X200 Tablet, T60p, HP TouchPad, iPad Air 2, iPhone 5S, IdeaTab A2107A, Yoga Tablet, Yoga 3 Pro
I AM one of those crazy ThinkPad zealots!
If you find a post helpful and it answers your question, please mark it as an "Accepted Solution"!
I am not a Lenovo employee
I'm HiDef now! lol gotta lov da ranks.
Fresh hot Token Rings!... Get ur Token Rings...Crispy golden, fried Token Rings...
That's great!
Glad to see you are enjoying the new ranks!


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WASHINGTON — Let's play truth or consequences with the budget sequestration that took effect on Friday.
That can be difficult through the fog of political war that has hung over this town. But a step back illuminates roots deeper than the prevailing notion that Washington politicians are simply fools acting for electoral advantage or partisan spite.
Republicans don't seek to grind government to a halt. But they do aim to shrink its size by an amount currently beyond their institutional power in Washington, or popular support in the country, to achieve.
Democrats don't seek to cripple the nation with debt. But they do aim to preserve existing government programs without the ability, so far, to set levels of taxation commensurate with their cost.
At bottom, it is the oldest philosophic battle of the American party system — pitting Democrats' desire to use government to cushion market outcomes and equalize opportunity against Republicans' desire to limit government and maximize individual liberty.
And they are fighting it within a 21st-century political infrastructure that impedes compromise.
Those government initiatives include Social Security from F.D.R.'s New Deal, Medicare and Medicaid from L.B.J.'s Great Society, and the 2010 national health care law. President Obama wants to keep them in roughly their current forms — even as the wave of baby boom retirements makes them costlier than ever.
His Republican opponents are the philosophic heirs of conservatives who opposed their creation in the first place. Beginning in 2009, they gained fresh momentum in the quest to roll them back.
While the Great Recession depressed tax revenues, the Wall Street bailout and stimulus bill gave Americans sticker shock; deficits topped $1 trillion annually. So in 2011, the newly elected Republican House began pushing President Obama backward in budget fights that forced significant slowing of federal spending and some significant spending cuts.
Their climactic showdown over the debt limit in 2011 damaged the nation's credit rating. With both sides battered and exhausted, Republicans joined Democrats in seizing the so-called sequester as the means to end the impasse.
Then Mr. Obama stopped backing up — and moved to generate momentum of his own.
The right's soft spot, as Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich learned amid the conservative ascendancy of the 1980s and early '90s, is the popularity of expensive "entitlements" serving the elderly.
"Cut spending," as a general invocation, is popular. "Cut spending for your mother's Medicare" is not.
Mr. Obama used his re-election campaign to isolate and attack that vulnerability. Acknowledging the need for some entitlement cuts, he offered voters this budgetary choice: his smaller cuts combined with tax increases on affluent Americans, or the Republicans' bigger ones without tax increases.
More Americans, as polls have repeatedly shown, prefer Mr. Obama's approach. He won the election.
Now the president is trying to wield his public opinion advantage as a club to back Republicans down.
The budget cuts of 2011, like sequestration now, targeted smaller "discretionary" programs that don't command the support Medicare and Social Security do. Mr. Obama argues, and some Republicans agree, that Washington has cut most of what it can from those.
He continues to advocate comparatively modest Medicare cuts focused on reimbursements to doctors and hospitals — more near-term cuts, in fact, than Republicans have been willing to specify. But at one high-profile event after another, in Washington and across the country, he accuses Republicans of preferring reduced benefits for old and vulnerable Americans over higher taxes on the affluent.
Opponents blast him for "campaigning" instead of governing. Yet those events have become his method of seeking outcomes that negotiations with Republican leaders haven't produced.
It worked soon after the election when he forced Republicans to accept some tax increases in the "fiscal cliff" deal. It worked again when Republicans declined to fight anew over the debt limit until May, at the earliest.
That doesn't mean it will work again by making Republicans accept a second tax increase.
Over the last generation, polarization has melted away the alloy that once narrowed differences between Republicans and Democrats, leaving both as masses of near-pure ideological ore.
The Republican rank-and-file is purer — more conservative than the Democratic rank-and-file is liberal.
Resisting tax increases is a matter of such deep conviction that some senior Republicans believe House colleagues would fire John A. Boehner as House speaker for conceding to Mr. Obama again. For less ideological Republicans, the partisan composition of their districts and states can make following national opinion riskier (against a more conservative primary challenger) than defying it (against a Democratic general-election foe).
The difficulty of winning a second tax increase may ultimately make the president regret the fiscal-cliff deal, which brought only half the new revenue he considers necessary.
For now, he seeks to grind down his opposition as the impact of sequestration mounts for air travelers, education programs and the Pentagon. Against Republicans' solid edge on the issue of spending restraint (in this week's NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll), he wields wide Democratic advantages on helping the middle class and protecting Medicare, and a narrow one on handling taxes.
The survey showed 50 percent of Americans approve of Mr. Obama's job performance. Only 29 percent expressed a positive view of the Republican Party.
Among demographic groups, the only one viewing Mr. Boehner's party more positively than negatively was white Southerners (by just 39 percent to 35 percent at that). More than twice as many Americans credited Mr. Obama, as compared with Republicans, with emphasizing themes of bipartisan unity.
Even if numbers like those don't threaten the House Republican majority in 2014, they alarm party strategists who've watched their nominees lose the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections. Mr. Obama's hope: the fact that Congressional Republicans are insulated from national opinion doesn't make them impervious to it.

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(CBS News) Six weeks before an election that may turn on the state of the economy, a new survey out today finds Americans feeling better about it.
Consumer confidence is at its highest level in seven months, largely because more Americans expect the jobs picture to improve. But confidence is still at what's considered a weak level.
Home values are increasing. Another report out Tuesday says prices in 20 major cities rose 1.6 percent in July, the fourth-straight increase. But prices are still 30 percent below where they were before the housing bubble burst. Stock portfolios are looking better. The Dow is up 10 percent this year.
Gas prices, though, are also on the rise. Nationwide tonight, they average $3.81 per gallon -- 30 cents higher than a year ago.
There are also signs of an improving jobs picture. The best gift this holiday season may be more jobs.
Toys "R" Us said Tuesday it will take on 45,000 seasonal workers this holiday -- 5,000 more than last year.
Kohl's, the department store chain, is adding more than 52,000 holiday workers, about 10 percent more than last year.
Target's seasonal workforce will be 80,000 to 90,000, down slightly from a year ago.
But Walmart is adding 50,000 jobs, slightly more than last year, and Gamestop will add 17,000.
"It's about the same as last year. Our fall season, we're really expecting a nice surge in business," said Mike Buskey, senior vice president for hiring at Gamestop, adding that the world's largest videogame retailer is bullish on the holiday.
"I think if you have a significant offering, consumers are ready to spend money. I think the iPhone 5 release is a classic example," Buskey said.
Apple has already sold more than 5 million iPhone 5s.
"That doesn't sound like an economy in recession," Buskey said.
Across the country the recovery has been uneven. Nationally the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1 percent, but in four states -- North Carolina, New Jersey, California and Rhode Island -- the jobless rate is still near 10 percent or above. In Nevada, it's more than 12 percent.
That's why economist Scott Hoyt with Moody's Analytics is forecasting slow growth this holiday.
"It's going to be a modestly disappointing season. Retailers are going to see a growth in sales but not the kind growth they'd like, or even the kind of growth they saw in the last two years," Hoyt said.
It's disappointing but not a disaster, Hoyt said, and two surveys are forecasting that holiday hiring will increase this year, though it will still be well below pre-recession levels.


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It is, according to Susan Gutfreund, the society hostess, the epitome of civilized living. It is, said Karen Mordechai, an entrepreneur behind the successful dining series Sunday Suppers, in Brooklyn, a far less geeky way of networking than a Meetup. It is, said Alex Hitz, the author of a new cookbook, "My Beverly Hills Kitchen: Classic Southern Cooking With a French Twist," the great social equalizer.
It is the dinner party. Remember those?
"The world is so changed, hardly anyone does them anymore," said Louise Grunwald, widow of the former diplomat and Time Inc. editor in chief Henry Anatole Grunwald and among the last left standing of New York's acknowledged great hostesses.
"It's over," Ms. Grunwald said, not entirely convincingly, given that invitations to her dinners remain much coveted, only partly because her kitchen turns out great food. "You may want the dinner party to come back, harkening back to another era. But it will never happen."
There was a time, not so very long ago, when any such doomful pronouncement would have sounded far-fetched. New York, after all, has always been oversupplied with those who pride themselves on their tables, competing to populate them with lively strivers who do their social networking not on tiny, glowing screens but cheek by jowl.
Increasingly, such gatherings seem outmoded, squeezed out by overcrowded schedules, the phony urgency of affinity sites, restaurants cultism and overall tectonic shifts in how New Yorkers congregate.Continue reading the main story
"When I think of all those great hosts and hostesses who were around when I moved to New York," from Atlanta in the 1980s, Mr. Hitz said, "many are now gone with the wind."
Mr. Hitz was referring to types celebrated by Women's Wear Daily as social lions and lionesses, people like Patricia Buckley, the wife of the conservative pundit William F. Buckley Jr.; the clotheshorse gadabout Nan Kempner; the philanthropists Judith Peabody and Brooke Astor; the designer Bill Blass; or the cabaret artist Bobby Short.
"Every single one was different," Mr. Hitz said. "What they had in common was a sense of fun and community and gathering people together for good simple food."
Naturally they shared other likenesses: social prominence, deep pockets, commodious apartments, household staffs and no allergy to drink.
Yet that is not entirely the point. Trained from birth or on the job, the best hosts of another era commanded their tables as though part of the European Theater of Operations, emplacing and deploying and juxtaposing guests in charged combinations, going to the rescue when conversation flagged and a combatant went down. Of course, they made sure the blowhard mogul was seated beside the lissome ingénue. What else is a dinner party besides a comic operetta without a score?
But they also orchestrated every element of the evening, arrival to departure, most crucially directing the conversation, which they either allowed to follow a traditional serve-and-volley pattern (20 minutes right, 20 minutes left), or else commandeered for so-called "general discussion" as provocateur hosts like the television journalist Barbara Walters still do.
"I can remember a dinner at Jimmy Davison's, when he was living on 72nd Street, not in the biggest apartment," Mrs. Grunwald said, referring to a cowboy socialite whose grandfather owned a chunk of Arizona. "There were a couple of tables for the grandes dames like Mrs. Gilbert Miller, and the rest of us ate on the floor."
Plenty of New Yorkers eat on the floor, of course. They do it in their sweat pants while juggling an iPad, a remote wand and the chopsticks that they use to share General Tso's chicken eaten straight from the carton.
The seated dinner, with its minuet of invitation and acceptance, its formalities and protocols, its culinary and dietary challenges, its inherent requirements of guest and host, alike is under threat, many say.
Or is it? "If there's one thing you learn in the etiquette business, it's that life is cyclical," said Judith Martin, the etiquette arbiter known as Miss Manners. "The idea of cooking for others is not something that is going to die."
It is the idea that, having cooked for others, one will then invite them to table that has run into problems. "Conversation is in trouble," she said. "People have been brought up to express themselves rather than to exchange ideas."
What Ms. Martin termed "food fussing" has had the effect of giving hosts the jitters not just about the quality of their cooking but also about its possible adverse effects. Nut allergies anyone?
The influence of hand-held devices, Ms. Martin said, has been disastrous for the social contract. "People don't even respond to dinner invitations anymore," she said. "They consider it too difficult a commitment to say, 'I'll come to dinner a week from Saturday.' " Not only do they cancel at the last minute, they do it by text message.
Those who show up find an additional challenge to keeping things lively, given that in a litigious age, that durable staple of dinner parties, the innocent flirtation, has become a minefield of signals missed or, worse yet, taken up.
What has also occurred, said David E. Monn, a prominent event planner, is that party manners have become so rusty from disuse, and guests so generally clueless, that a need has emerged for people like him to train socialites not to eat peas with a knife.
"People want to be civilized, so it all doesn't turn into Caligula, and so they come to me saying: 'I don't know what to do if I'm having friends over for cocktails. What tray do you use? What do you put on the tray? Do you put out a piece of cheese?' "
Understandably, few anymore can tell at a glance the difference between a fish fork and a dessert fork or whether the curious tongs inherited from Aunt Mabel are meant for serving asparagus, or else flipping a hamburger on the grill.
What is surprising is that fewer still see the point in accumulating china, silver and crystal at all, a truth driven home by the dwindling of departments devoted to table-top appointments at traditional purveyors like Tiffany & Company. Prime real estate once allotted to the staples of the bridal registry at Tiffany's Fifth Avenue flagship have now been supplanted by cases of leather accessories.
Things like the classic Tiffany bamboo silver, designed by the midcentury design god Van Day Truex in 1961 and kept in stock for years, were discontinued some years back, part of a purge that swept away all but a handful of patterns. "I freaked out when I heard they were discontinuing bamboo," said Todd Alexander Romano, an interior decorator and man about town. "I bought every piece I could."
Mr. Romano seldom uses the silver, however. Why bother, when it's so much easier and more convenient to meet friends in restaurants.
Yet even the best restaurants don't approximate the intimate spirit of eating at home, said Ms. Mordechai, a photographer who developed the Sunday Suppers to renew an experience recalled from the Sabbath dinners of her youth. "My favorite part of dinner is just sitting at the table talking for hours, and that doesn't exist when you are at a restaurant," Ms. Mordechai said. "I was born in Israel and grew up in a big, Jewish, Middle Eastern family. We think there's nothing better than sitting around the table with family and friends."
The point of Sunday Suppers was not originally to turn dinner parties into business, Ms. Mordechai added. "I photographed our first one and posted it to a blog. Suddenly we were getting e-mails from strangers and people from all over who, I guess, wanted that old-school dinner-party feel."
Now the dinners, for which subscribers pay $150, sell out as soon as the reservation list is posted online. "It's basically about making friends and hanging out," Ms. Mordechai said. "And eating good food."
The food itself is kept deliberately simple; her preferred culinary style, like that of Mr. Hitz, Mrs. Grunwald, Mrs. Gutfreund and Mr. Monn, is home cooking. Unlike the giddy society matron Billie Burke played in the George Cukor classic "Dinner at Eight," these cooks don't worry about the aspic crashing to the floor.
"Only real food," said Mrs. Grunwald, who like the late and celebrated hostess Nora Ephron likes to keep her hors d'oeuvres simple ("Nora put a can of nuts on the coffee table, and that was it," she said flatly). She serves her guests meatloaf or veal stew and shuns every manner of culinary affectation and fad.
"No filet mignon, nothing nouvelle," Mrs. Grunwald said. "No pyramids and no foam."
The standard for a certain kind of ideal dinner party was probably set by the Hollywood hostess Connie Wald, who died this month at 96 and at whose tables so many stars routinely gathered that, as her obituary pointed out, guests didn't drop names so much as trip over them.
At her rambling, unpretentious house on North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, Ms. Wald assembled newcomers and the Hollywood gratin at a table where she served them meatloaf, roast chicken or veal stew.
"Connie was relaxed and cozy, and it worked on a level that wasn't grand," said Shelley Wanger, a Random House editor whose parents were Walter Wanger, the film producer, and Joan Bennett, the patrician movie star. "It was not caviar pie."
Guests at Mr. Monn's dinner parties are served hors d'oeuvres of raw fennel, celery and carrots, with a spiced dipping powder of turmeric and curry, a recipe swiped, he said, from the repertory of Mrs. Grunwald. He also serves pigs in a blanket, which he stocks up on at Costco.
"I grew up poor in a farm town in Pennsylvania," said Mr. Monn, whose client list includes many of the city's most prominent names. "It took me years in New York to learn that the simplest things are usually the best."
There is no leveler quite like a dinner table, said Mr. Hitz, a longtime bicoastal whose dinners at his California digs, an aerie perched high above Sunset Boulevard, tend to be populated by Hollywood types from across the demographic spectrum. "The 20-year-olds enjoy the 90-year-olds," he said. "And I can assure you the 90-year-olds enjoy the 20-year-olds."
It is safe to assume that former first lady Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan and a frequent guest at Mr. Hitz's table, has dined at the finest tables. What she likes best, Mr. Hitz said, is a simple chicken potpie.
"If anyone tells me, 'I'm freaking out, I have six people coming to dinner, what do I do?' " Mr. Hitz said, "I say serve chicken potpie and a salad, make sure there's plenty of wine and keep the lights low. How can it go wrong?"
After all, Susan Gutfreund said, what draws most people to the bright lights of big cities is not the lure of minced peacock tongue on anchovy toast points.
"The most important part of entertaining is being able to mix people," Mrs. Gutfreund said. "If you live in New York and don't take advantage of that ... well, you might as well stay home in Butte."Continue reading the main story


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Photoshop Automator Actions v.5.0.9
|If you routinely find yourself slogging through tedious, repetitve chores in Photoshop, then you should try using Automator to streamline your batch processing chores. Built-in to Mac OS X 10.4 and later, Automator makes it simple to create sophisticated, complex automations. Out-of-the-box, Automator can't control Adobe Photoshop, but with the addition of this Photoshop Automator Actions collection, you get everything necessary to drive Photoshop using Automator.
Why would I use Automator instead of Photoshop's own actions?
While Photoshop's Actions palette provides a simple way to record and playback complex actions, it's functions are limited to only things you can do in Photoshop. Since Automator workflows can span multiple applications, you can easily automate entire photo and graphics production pipelines. For example, you can can use Automator and the Photoshop Automator Actions collection to batch process the manipulation of your images and then automatically upload the results to a server, archive them to a CD or DVD, build and print contact sheets – and all with a single button press.
The Photoshop Automator Actions collection also provides sophisticated logical actions, which allow you to filter your images based on many EXIF and IPTC tags, color mode, size, orientation, and more. So, you can build build workflows that only perform edits on images that match specific criteria. For example, you could build a workflow that processes CMYK images one way, but performs different actions on RGB images.
Finally, while Adobe Bridge provides a simple interface for launching batch processes, it limits you to only operating on the files within a single folder. Automator has no such limitations, so you can process images from multiple folders, or even images located through a Spotlight search. And, with Automator, you have many more ways to launch a batch process. You can save your workflows as applications, turn them into Folder Actions, trigger them from iCal, or save them as OS X Services.
Is Automator hard to use?
No! To use Automator, you simply string a series of "actions"
together to create a workflow. The resulting workflow is an easy-to-read flowchart. No scripting is required.
The full Photoshop Automator Actions collection provides 94 Actions that allow you to control a tremendous number of Photoshop's functions. Obviously, painting operations are not feasible with an automated system, but just about every other Photoshop operation can be automated. What's more, you can trigger Photoshop's internal actions from an Automator workflow, so if you've already got Photoshop actions that you regularly use, you can now add Automator functionality on top of them.
You can see a full list of actions below.
Sophisticated Architecture
Normally, when you pass a group of files to an Automator workflow, every file is processed by the first action, then every file is processed by the second action, and so on. While this is fine for small documents, for large Photoshop documents, having to open every file in a batch at once (which is what Automator will do, by design) can be a tremendous computing hog. The Photoshop Automator Actions collection uses a sophisticated Open/Render architecture so that only one document is opened at a time. This makes for much speedier processing, and better resource management than you'll get with normal actions.
Wow! All this for free??
Er..uh…well, most of it for free! After five years of giving away these actions for free, I had to start charging for some of them. Development takes too much time, and I fear there haven't been enough donations to offset my costs. So there are now two different Photoshop Automator Action bundles, the free bundle which includes 28 actions covering all of your day-to-day automation needs, and a $20 Pro bundle that packs 94 actions, delivering an incredible amount of high-end automation power. These two packages are available for Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, and CC.
In addition to the actions, the package includes an assortment of sample workflows. The 79-page manual gives you a reference for all of the included actions, as well as an introduction to using Automator, and strategies for building Photoshop workflows. If you need more help, training videos are now available!
A full list of actions is provided below.
System Requirements
If you can run Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, or CC on your Mac, then you've got all the hardware and software you need to use some version of these actions.
Important note for CS5 users: the CS5 actions only work with Photoshop CS5 version 12.0.1, a free upgrade from Adobe.
Version 5.0.7 is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 (Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Lion, and Mavericks).
If you're still using CS3, then you'll want the older, CS3 collection.
Purchase the Photoshop Automator Actions
Pro Package For Photoshop CC 2018
$19.95 via Paypal.
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If you're using a previous version of Photoshop, you can still buy one of these earlier versions.
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Or download a smaller set of free Automator actions for Photoshop.
Download the free package for CC 2018 (v5.0.9)
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Earlier versions:
Download the free package for CS (v2.0)
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Complete list of actions
|Add Empty Adjustment Layer (Pro only)
|Flip Canvas
|Add Graphic Watermark (Pro only)
|Gaussian Blur
|Add Layer (Pro only)
|Glass (Pro only)
|Add Watermark (Pro only)
|Arbitrary Rotate
|Assign Color Profile (Pro only)
|Load Selection (Pro only)
|Assign Custom Profile (Pro only)
|Make Clipping Path (Pro only)
|Maximum/Minimum (Pro only)
|Auto Contrast
|Mono Gaussian Merge Visible Layers (Pro only)
|Auto Levels (Pro only)
|Mono Gaussian Noise (Pro only)
|Average (Pro only)
|Motion Blur
|Bleach Bypass
|NTSC Colors (Pro only)
|Change Bit Depth (Pro only)
|Ocean Ripple (Pro only)
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'Once Upon a Time' Co-Stars Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas Are Engaged
Move over, William and Kate -- the world has a new fairytale romance to admire.
'Once Upon a Time' co-stars Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas, who play Snow White and Prince Charming, respectively, are engaged. Yes, you read that right: Snow White and Prince Charming are tying the knot -- in real life.
"We are so thrilled to announce our engagement, and can't wait to celebrate with our friends and family, including our second family at 'Once Upon a Time,'" the couple told PEOPLE in a statement.
The pair, who met on the set of the show, began dating in April 2012. Dallas popped the question to his bride-to-be on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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Consider these stats from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration:
1) Every day, on average, 2,500 teens use prescription drugs to get high for the first time.
2) One in seven teens admit to abusing prescription drugs to get high in the past year. Sixty percent of teens who abused prescription pain relievers did so before the age of 15.
3) Fifty-six percent of teens believe that prescription drugs are easier to get than illicit drugs.
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Operation Medicine Cabinet cannot accept syringes, asthma inhalers, drugs in aerosol canisters, or chemotherapy drugs either in IV liquid or oral form. The medications will be turned over to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration for discarding.


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Sunday, 2 May 2010
Race report: "forårs-klassikeren" i Valbyparken 15k with baby jogger
Wow. Look at that blistering speed.
Lorax's 2.5 km run stats:
Distance before first stop: .2 km
Total Distance: .5 km
Place/Finish Time: DNF
At some point he realized it would be more fun and efficient to by carried by me running than running himself. I regret even offering that now.
I (honestly) tried to put the Garmin on him before the start, so I could analyze his race and discuss strategy with him afterwards, but he wasn't crazy about the heavy thing around his wrist (or ankle). Maybe it's time to upgrade to a lighter Garmin ;). Or time to upgrade the mom.
Here was the kid's race start line:
After a half an hour regrouping, we got in the very large start line. I think I heard then announcer say there were 600 participants. With a baby jogger, I could not rationalize starting near the front. But I knew this would shortly mean a big headache for me.
Here is The Lorax, mentally preparing, seconds before we embark.
When the gun went off, it was ages until we made it up to the start. Then I started my garmin (you better believe I was going for a baby jogger PR). I was running at an uncomfortably slow pace, so I went around the crowd onto uncut grass and hills, looking like a completely insane power mom, making my way up to the front. When I got off the grass and into an opening, I ran at about a 6:45 mile pace just to pass people and get to a place where I could run my comfortable pace. One girl came up to me after the race and said, "Da jeg så dig kom forbi, troede jeg, det var løgn." (Literally, "when I saw you come by, I thought it was a lie".)
And then after 1.5 k, the unthinkable happened: The Lorax undid his straps and stood up in the baby jogger. He started gesturing to me he wanted out. I screamed at him, "Sæt dig ned!" about 30 times, before he finally did sit himself down.
The first 5k was on flat paved roads, without any major hills. And just before the 5k mark, The Lorax fell asleep. My 5k split was 23:20. Not amazing, but okay. I could see there was a woman close behind me, who I continued to gap, but I figured she would be back to bother me. Other than her, I couldn't see any other women right next to me. The next 5k involved a more serious hill, but boy can you fly when you come back down with a jogger. 10k split was 46:50.
Then it got complicated. There was a confusing sign and I stopped and asked for directions, thinking everyone around me was off course. Then we started running on a gravel path into the wind. I had trouble keeping up my pace. And next came the part that I thought was a lie: 15 stairs! Boy am I glad I swim so much, because arm strength was sure helpful as I hoisted the now awake Lorax in his stroller up those babies. This was also the point where the girl who had been close behind me caught up. I tried to catch back up to her, but up next was a gravel path up a very steep hill. Wow. This was hard. My pace slowed a lot in the last 5k, but The Lorax stayed calm and pointed out cars, flowers and birds. Through my music, I realized a guy was trying to talk to me. He had been behind me for quite a while and though he was excited about conversing, I was way too breathless, but did my best. He eventually pulled ahead. The head wind in gravel slowed me down too much.
The end couldn't come too soon, but it finally did in 72:20 (and my Garmin's distance was once again almost exactly on 9.33 miles!). 9 minutes slower than my actual PR, but a definite baby jogger PR! :) I'll take PRs any way I can. Honeslty, I was just relieved The Lorax lasted the entire distance, without launching himself into Kalveboderne bay.
It was a beautiful route and really fun experience. The weather was perfect. And I had lots of fun chatting with strangers. Though the conversation after the race with the guy I had run with ended abruptly when he asked about my summer plans and I mentioned my husband. Oh, well.
We stayed for the awards ceremony and they announced the first 15k female ran in 59 something. Wow! But then another woman shouted out "No, that was a man!" Ooops.
I would say what place I got, but I actually don't know since the results aren't up yet.
The beautiful start/finish:
Lorax imitating big inflatable bug:
Happy mother and son:
Running song of the day: Fight for this Love by Cheryl Cole.
Lyrics: below average
Voice: average
Strange soft bongos: the best!
10 comments:
- cherelli said...
Awesome! That is so funny The Lorax wanted out near the start :) Glad he got distracted and eventually went to sleep. So....you thinking of getting your name in for world record womens marathon - with a stroller?
- 2 May 2010 at 17:16
- PiccolaPineCone said...
i'm surprised you have not posted your BBJ 15 km PR yet! well done. Brava! Brava!
It would have been really cool if the woman who was following you would have offered to have taken the front wheel of the BBJ to help you up the stairs. oh well. By the way, in the course of googling for the women's marathon BBJ world record, I came across a conversation on forum:
person 1: there should be races organized for baby joggers to go after records.
person 2: great idea! you organize it and i won't show up.
never did find the world record.
- 2 May 2010 at 17:25
- SteveQ said...
There's been a rash of overly cute reports lately - but the pic of the Lorax imitating the bug balloon makes it completely okay in my book.
- 2 May 2010 at 19:36
Du er en fantastisk fortæller, Tracy. Jeg griner så tårene triller, når jeg læser dine beretninger.Lyder som et dejligt løb ... ville gerne ha' været der.
Du er og bli'r en superwoman.
Hvor er den lille Lorax sød - dejlige billeder!
- 2 May 2010 at 21:36
- sea legs girl said...
If I ran the world record in baby jogging marathons, it would only be because no other time had been recorded. I guess I was thinking it might be something other readers of this blog could strive for :). It has to be the perfect match of a fast woman and a very calm, sleepy baby.
Piccola, I'm just waiting for the real time to come up on their website before I post a BBJ PR. I am not 100% sure of my exact time. So are you saying you're game for trying for the record?
Steve, I'm sure glad I posted that pic at the last minute. But you've left me wondering where all these cute race reports are because they sound like my kind of reading.
Tak for dine søde beskeder. Jeg vidste ikke at jeg ville løbe dette i dag inden i går. Så jeg tænkte det var nok for sent at kontakte dig om det. Men jeg ønskede at du havde været der rigtig meget. Jeg lover at spørge dig næste gang selv om det er i det sidste øjeblik :). Rigtig god uge til dig!
- 2 May 2010 at 21:58
- sea legs girl said...
Steve Q, Ha! I just realized you were talking about MY race reports. I'll work on writing with less cuteness.
- 2 May 2010 at 22:27
I LOVE it that you both got to do the race. I can't wait until I get to do that with my kids. You are one hell of a mom (and a fast one at that)!!
- 2 May 2010 at 23:20
- Barefoot AngieB said...
a baby jogging stroller race would probably get kind of scary like roller derby! I would totally be in for that!
Great job on your race and I love the photos :)
- 3 May 2010 at 00:51
- Abbie said...
I love that the guy striking up conversation with you didn't realize/contemplate a husband due to the fact that you were pushing a baby stroller. Not my way of picking up the guys if I'm were a single mom but hey, to each their own. ;)
- 3 May 2010 at 05:05
- Helen said...
I'll have to read those cute posting as I am just left with the image of you screaming at The Lorax to sit down :) That is about the funniest race report I've read in a LONG time!!
I thought it was actually kinda nice that the guy was okay with chatting you up knowing you had a kid but not so interested when he heard about the hubby :)
And finally... nice job on the PR!
- 4 May 2010 at 04:12


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The tussle at the top of the Sussex Cricket League has become even tighter after yesterday's (Saturday's) matches.
Just eight points now cover the top three after leaders Preston Nomads and third-placed Roffey drew with each other, and second-placed East Grinstead also drew.
Roffey recovered from 32-4 to post 214-8 after being invited to bat away to Nomads. Ben Manenti top-scored with 57, and Daniel Smith (41) and George Fleming (31 not out) also made important contributions. The ever-dangerous Carl Simon took 3-50 for Nomads.
Nomads also got off to a bad start in reply, slumping to 39-4 and 61-5 before recovering to finish their 52 overs on 144-5 thanks to Stuart Faith (41 not out) and Kashif Ibrahim (44 not out). Fleming did the bulk of the early damage with 4-37.
Grinstead missed the chance to go top after having to settle for a draw in a close-fought contest away to Billingshurst, who amassed 249-8 from their 58 overs after being asked to bat. Stuart Barber made 66 at the top of the order, number eight Andy Barr scored 50 exactly and Tom Nightingale hit 40. Bradley Hatchett was the pick of the Grinstead bowlers with 4-66.
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Grinstead have played a match more than the other teams in the top three, but Nomads play their game in hand against the Sussex Development XI later today and will look to stretch their advantage.
Elsewhere, Brighton & Hove and fourth-placed Bexhill contested a rare tied match in which both teams were all out for 104. Bexhill asked Brighton to bat first and bowled them out in 31.3 overs with no batsman making 20, although it could have been worse as Brighton were 26-5 at one stage. Dean Crawford and Shawn Johnson took three wickets each.
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Michael Munday took 4-8 from 6.3 overs and Kevin Stoute 3-16 from seven as Horsham ripped through. Horsham needed less than 14 overs to knock off the runs, Ben Shoare smashing an unbeaten 48 from only 31 balls.
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Middleton were all out for 165 in reply, with only Patrick Colvin (40) reaching 30. Josh Hayward was the most successful Cuckfield bowler with 4-52.
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CBS, Turner, Conan O'Brien Prep For March Madness With 'Brackets Everywhere' Push
By Barry Janoff
February 28, 2012: A fashion designer agonizing over the creation of a new concept gives birth to 'Brackets Everywhere,' a national multi-media campaign to support coverage of the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship on CBS Sports and Turner Sports.
Ultimately caught up in the ensuing bracket fever are celebrities including Conan O'Brien, comedian/actor Kevin Hart, Outkast's Big Boi, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, the latter two channeling their undercover cop roles from the upcoming movie, 21 Jump Street.
As the campaign's title offers, there soon are brackets everywhere: On dresses being worn by models on fashion runways, on jewelry, handbags, the covers of national fashion and news magazines, graffiti on walls, tattoos, architectural designs and even incorporated into comedy routines of O'Brien and Hart and news reports from CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer, Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper and Soledad O'Brien. (See the full spot here.)
The campaign breaks today (Feb. 28) across CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV, which for the second year will each carry March Madness tournament games; as well as CNN, HLN, Airport Network, CBS Outernet Partners and Turner Digital, which includes SI.com and NCAA.com.
The 2012 NCAA men's hoops tournament begins March 11 with "Selection Sunday," during which the participating schools will be named and placed into regions.
Tournament play stars March 13-14 with the NCAA First Four presented by Northwestern Mutual on truTV, and concludes with the Final Four and National Championship games at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, March 31 and April 2 on CBS.
CBS Sports and Turner Sports said that "Brackets Everywhere" is part of a larger campaign that will include print, radio, social media and digital out-of-home billboards with live score updates. CBS/Turner branding will appear throughout New Orleans prior to and during Final Four weekend.
The Black Keys' "Gold on the Ceiling" will be played "within television creative featured during and around game coverage. The music will be used within spots featuring the band, as well as part of the overall campaign throughout March Madness coverage," according to CBS Sports and Turner Sports. (Here The Black Keys' "Gold on the Ceiling" here.)
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The good news about buying a Nintendo 3DS is that you'll be able to transfer your digital purchases from your DS system to your 3DS using an SD card, and Nintendo will be giving us more details on how that will take place closer to launch. The bad news is that once you buy content on the 3DS itself, it will be locked down to that system. Wired.com spoke with Bill Trinen, Nintendo's senior manager of product marketing, to get the details.
Wired.com: If I buy a piece of 3DSWare on my 3DS, is that restricted to that 3DS that I purchased it on?
Trinen: That would be similar [to] how Nintendo DSi works.
Wired.com So it would be restricted to one 3DS, and I can't move it? Even if I put the software on an SD card?
Trinen: Correct. Once you've bought it, it's for the system you bought it on.
While this isn't a major surprise, it is disappointing. If you want to upgrade into the inevitable Nintendo 3DS part 2 or mini or whatever the plans are, there doesn't seem to be a way to keep your games. If your system breaks? We'll see if Nintendo has a way to retrieve the games you purchased.
There is no other way to put this: this is bad for Nintendo, bad for third parties developing downloadable games for the platform, and bad for gamers.
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Ever got tired of having to type Math.PI whenever you want to access PI?
There is a way to get around this (edit: must be Java 1.5 or new) by using static imports. Basically, static imports allow you to import static members of a class to be used without the class qualifier.
It is possible to "group import" with the static qualifier, too.
You should only use this feature SPARINGLY! It can become extremely confusing if you import every static field from other classes in this manner. Also note that this method only imports the static fields/members, you still need to import the class in order to instantiate that class.
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// illegal: java.lang is a package import static java.lang.*; // illegal: you must qualify which fields from the class you want to import import static java.lang.math;
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How to Hire a Teen
Hiring Teen Workers in Non-Agricultural Jobs
A summary of the basics can be found in these publications:
- Teens at Work: Facts for Employers, Parents and Teens (F700-022-000).
- Hiring Teens? (F700-142-909).
- Parent Authorization Summer Work (F700-168-000).
Steps a business must follow
- Obtain a Minor Work Permit endorsement through your Business License Application prior to hiring a minor. Go to the Department of Revenue - Business Licensing Service website (bls.dor.wa.gov). You must post your Business License with current minor work permit endorsement. This must be renewed annually. Renewal notice will be sent by the Department of Revenue. Allow 2 – 3 business days for a response to online applications. Accuracy and completeness speeds up the processing time.
- Before permitting a minor to work, you must have the minor's parent or legal guardian and the school complete the appropriate authorization form listed below and keep a copy for your files. These forms can be obtained from L&I either online or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
- For employers only hiring youth in the summer, fill out the Parent Authorization Summer Work form (F700-168-000) because school information and signatures are not needed during summer break. It must be renewed annually if a minor returns to work from one summer to the next.
- For employers hiring youth during the school year, fill out the Parent/School Authorization form (F700-002-000).
- Obtain proof of minor's age. You must keep proof of age on file. Examples include a copy of a birth certificate, driver's license, baptismal record, or a notarized statement from the parent or legal guardian.
- Keep employment records for 3 years after you hire a minor. You must keep information such as employee name, address, occupation, dates of employment, rate(s) of pay, amount paid each pay period and the hours worked. These records must be available to the employee on request at any reasonable time.
Special rules for hiring teens into special jobs
- Hiring a teen into the family business.
These requirements also apply to teens working in their family business in non-agricultural settings. You can find more information in our family business fact sheet: If family members work for you, know your obligations (F101-077-909).
- Hiring teens in house-to-house sales.
Find out under what conditions and what the employer needs to do to hire teens in house-to-house sales.
- Hiring teens in theatrical employment.
Can a minor work in a theatrical or modeling job in Washington State? Find out under what conditions and what the employer needs to do.
- Hiring teens in sports jobs.
Teens and adults working as sports team referees and umpires are covered under our workers' compensation, wage and hour regulations. Teens are also covered under child labor regulations.
More information: Sports Teams and Youth Workers (F700-130-909).
- Hiring a minor under the age of 14.
Under very limited circumstances, where the federal laws do not apply, it is possible to hire a minor under 14. Please see the Employer Petition to The Court for Minor Work Permit Under Age (F700-118-000).
Variances and penalties
- Can employers seek variances to the minor work rules?
Variances will be allowed for "good cause," that is, to meet a bona fide business need that only a teen worker can fill, when the business can show that the variance will not harm the minor's health, safety, welfare and school performance.
More information about variances and how to get them.
- What is a special variance?
A special variance allows 16- and 17-year-olds to work up to 28 hours per week and up to 6 hours in a day. This can only be done with approval from the authorized school official and the parent. This form must be signed by the business, the parent or legal guardian, the school, and the student. School officials should not sign this form if the student's progress indicates additional hours would be detrimental to school performance. The form must be renewed annually. The form is part of the Parent/School Authorization form (F700-002-000).
More information about special variances and how to get them.
- Are there penalties for violating minor work rules?
Yes! The Department of Labor & Industries can fine businesses who do not follow these requirements.
What else does an employer need to know about hiring teens?
Adolescence is a time of rapid change and learning. A few "tips" can help keep them safe in the workplace:
- Teens are entitled to a safe and healthy work environment just as adults do. Follow all the health and safety requirements. If assistance is needed, contact a WISHA health and safety consultant in your area.
- Teens are entitled to workers' compensation the same as adults.
- Teens require increased supervision and lots of repetition to learn new skills.
- Teens should be encouraged to ask questions and ask for assistance if they are unsure of how to do assigned tasks.
- Teens have special work requirements regarding:
For more detail, see Washington Administrative Code:
Non-agricultural Employment of Minors (WAC 296-125) (app.leg.wa.gov)


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Keeping on with the Halloween related stuff, I will be showing you "how to draw a ghoul for kids", step by step. I have to be honest, I don't really like how the ghoul came out. I don't know if it's because it looks too much like a cave monster, or because it isn't "ghoulish" enough for me. When I think of ghouls I think of goblin like creatures mixed with a ghost. I guess you can kind of see the ghoulishness in this character drawing I made, but if you can't, maybe you guys can tweak the ghoul and create something way better using this design as your base. You can use the body position, just change what you don't like. Upload what you have done so I can check out everyones Halloween side. Have fun people, and let your imaginations run free!
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Say It, Then Say It Again: That's the way it works during election season. California Watch looks at the candidates' catchphrases. [California Watch]
Two-Tier Plan for Pension: Current workers would keep the plans they were promised, new workers would see reductions. [Inland Valley Daily Bulletin]
Sign for Solar Power: A Fremont company withdraws its initial public offering. What's that mean for the solar industry? [The Oakland Tribune]
Whitman Strikes Back: She launched a new website called "Truth for Nurses." [Capitol Alert]
Moving Services to Counties: Under a plan presented by Senate Dems, some prisoners would move to county jails. [Business Week]


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We all love a super-sanitary engine bay where all the clutter has been relocated, covered, or otherwise hidden. Until recently, the options regarding the wiper motor were to either live with the bulky, unsightly motor stuck to the firewall or forego running wipers altogether. Unfortunately, running without windshield wipers can cause you to run afoul of the law.
The Raingear Wiper System from Pacific Western Design lets you have your proverbial cake and dine on it as well. It locates the wiper motor in the unused—and more importantly, the unseen—void of the cowl area. In this location you get all the functionality of wipers and a super-clean, clutter-free firewall.
The kit runs $455 with the standard two-speed motor and $500 if you want the version that has intermittent and delay functions. This is a complete system that comes with the motor, wiper transmission, and wiring. In fact, the only parts not included in the wiper system are the arms and blades. They also offer a washer kit for an additional $65.
To try out the system, we grabbed our 1967 RS and few hand tools. We recently did a makeover of the engine bay, and the old wiper motor was dragging things down. The total install took under four hours, and we found the Raingear system easy to install and very well thought out. Of course it might be some time before we get a chance to test it out here in California.


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Tim Vom Steeg is in his 20th season as head coach of the UC Santa Barbara men's soccer program. He was named NCAA Division I National Coach of the Year by the NSCAA for the second time after leading UCSB to the program's first national championship in 2006 and most recently picked up his fifth Big West Coach of the Year award following the 2015 season.
Under his watch, the men's soccer program has had by far its highest and most consistent level of success. Since his hiring in 1999, UCSB has won 11 Big West Championships, been to the postseason 14 times, advanced to the Sweet Sixteen seven times, played in two College Cups, been the NCAA's attendance champion nine times, and won the 2006 National Championship.
During the 2016 season, the Gauchos won their fourth consecutive Big West North title with a 6-1-3 league record. UCSB went 10-7-3 overall, made it to the Big West Tournament, and saw star striker Nick DePuy selected in the first round of the MLS Draft by the Montreal Impact.
With Vom Steeg at the helm, UCSB had another successful season in 2015. The Gauchos won the Big West regular season championship, their third consecutive North Division title, earned a No. 15 national seed in the NCAA Tournament, and advanced to the Sweet 16. Vom Steeg was voted as the Big West Coach of the Year after the regular season for a record fifth time.
In 2005, Vom Steeg became the UCSB career victory leader after surpassing Andy Kuenzli (1981-89) with his 96th win as the Gauchos defeated UC Davis in double overtime on Oct. 26. He went on to become the first coach in program history to reach the 100-win plateau after he led that squad to a 2-0 victory over San Diego State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. In his 15 years at UCSB, Vom Steeg has comprised a 208-84-33 overall record.
Vom Steeg picked up his 200th career Division I win with a 3-1 defeat of Yale on Sep. 20, 2013.
On Oct. 2, 2009, Vom Steeg became the Big West's winningest coach (during conference membership) when the Gauchos defeated visiting Indiana, 3-0, at Harder Stadium. Since the Gauchos rejoined the Big West in 2001, Vom Steeg has led the team to 175 wins. He also leads the conference's coaches with 84 Big West wins.
After leading UCSB to its first NCAA College Cup appearance and final in 2004, Vom Steeg earned his first NCAA National Coach of the Year award. He also garnered NSCAA National Coach of the Year honors that season, and again in 2006, after leading the Gauchos to the NCAA title, just the second in UCSB Athletics history.
Vom Steeg has been honored as the Big West Coach of the Year on four other occasions: 2004, 2005, 2010, and 2013. Additionally, he garnered Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Co-Coach of the Year accolades during his first season with UCSB after guiding Santa Barbara to a 10.5-game improvement on their 1998 record, the best turnaround in the NCAA at the Division I level that year.
Since taking over the helm of the men's soccer program in 1999, he has coached numerous players who are currently playing professional soccer, including several in Major League Soccer. With just one All-American to come out of UCSB prior to his arrival, Vom Steeg has produced a total of 18 – including two Freshmen All-Americans – in addition to the Big West's Offensive Player of the Year seven of the last 13 years. He has also coached five conference Goalkeepers of the Year, has produced the Big West's Defensive Player of the Year in seven of the last eight seasons, and the league's Midfielder of the Year in five of the last six years.
Vom Steeg guided Santa Barbara to its first ever Big West Conference Championship in 2001, his third season with the program, and led the Gauchos to a 13-7-0 record in his first year at the helm of the UCSB men's soccer program in 1999. He has since led the team to 14 winning seasons, including the last 13.
Vom Steeg achieved a milestone in 2002, guiding Santa Barbara to its first ever NCAA Tournament and posting its first tourney victory in the process. Since then, UCSB has recorded a 17-9-2 overall record in NCAA tourney play, advancing to the Sweet 16 in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2011, to the national title match in 2004 and 2006, and the NCAA Championship in 2006.
Prior to his return to UCSB, Vom Steeg was the head coach at Santa Barbara City College, where he amassed an impressive 121-18-4 (.860) overall record from 1992 through 1998, leading the Vaqueros to five Western State Conference Championships and a 1996 California Community College State Championship. In addition, SBCC reached the State Final Four on four occasions under Vom Steeg, most recently in his final season, 1998. Vom Steeg was a five-time WSC Coach of the Year honoree during his seven-year tenure and was also named State Coach of the Year in 1996 and NSCAA Far West Region Coach of the Year in 1997. In 2008, Vom Steeg was elected to the California Community College Coaches Hall of Fame after his stellar coaching career at SBCC.
Vom Steeg played at UCSB from 1985 to 1988, and graduated in 1989 with a B.A. in history. He received his master's degree from UCSB in 2000. He has also earned his USSF National "B" Coaching License.
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Vast improvement over the previous search function, in the sense that it seems to index forum threads well and gives a preview snippet. Only improvement that jumps to mind would be for clicks on forum searches to jump to the page of the thread w/ the post in question. It's currently clicking through to the first post.
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Lately I've found myself less than successful when finding time to do a little shopping on weekends- maybe it's because I've been shopping under pressure-frazzled and under the gun to find something for a specific event coming up. So when I went out this weekend with no agenda, I found a few AWESOME things that I see becoming staples in my life and had to share….
1) I've been loving the look of boyfriend jeans in images I've seen on Pinterest and on other style bloggers, but on me I've yet to find a pair I like. The thing is, I find the giant, baggy cut unflattering in real life. Enter the Madewell Skinny Boyfriend Jeans- I tried them on this weekend and snapped them up. The trick here though is, they run big. Really big. I went down two sizes in them (I'm typically a 27 in Citizens/Rag & Bone and I got a 25 in these). They are a little more fitted then I wanted at first but after a day of wear they have loosened into the perfect slouchy but flattering fit- cuffed I wore them with heels on Saturday night and with Converseon Sunday and loved them both ways! They are great!
2) As I get older I am more in more in need of concealer with insanely good coverage. I picked up Laura Mercier's new Full Coverage Concealer and HOLY HELL this stuff is the Kevlar vest of concealers. Nothing is coming through this stuff- sunspots, dark circles- it's crazy! You only need a TINY dab (which is why it comes out so slow) and it seriously covers better than anything on the market. I'm serious about my concealer, so trust me on this one.
3) As a busy gal who works with her hands a lot I am not the manicure type unless it's a special event (and even then I rarely have time). I just like having clean, simple nails. I've heard good things about the new Dior Nail Glow– a super-shiny pink tinted nail polish that dries fast to a super-shiny finish- so I bought some and LOVE it. It makes the pinks of your nails look pinker and the whites whiter. One coat is super-duper subtle, two a little more pink and my nails feels crazy strong (true to life examples of the color in use here) ! I will be using this ALL THE TIME.
4) So this isn't something I picked up in person, but I carried this new clutch from River Island out to dinner this weekend for the first time and love it. It's roomy enough for lots of stuff and the tassel detail is killer. The giraffe print pony hair feeds my animal print love too. :)
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Bellamy inspires Reds to victory
Craig Bellamy scored one and created another in the space of just four minutes helping Liverpool to their fifth away win in the Barclays Premier League with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa.
The 32-year-old Welshman was lively from the outset, and gave the Reds the perfect start when he fired home from close range in the 11th minute, converting a Stewart Downing corner after a clever flick from Jonjo Shelvey.
Bellamy then swung in a 15th minute corner for Martin Skrtel to head home, doubling the vistors' lead, leaving no way back for the hosts.
Charles N'Zogbia's effort was the closest Alex McLeish's side came as they slumped to their fifth defeat of the season, leaving the Villa Park faithful with very little to cheer about as they head into the festive period.
With Gabriel Agbonlahor suspended and Darren Bent a late withdrawal because of injury, Villa were missing their two top scorers, and it was obvious as they created little in a game that Liverpool dominated.
Charlie Adam had the best chance of the second half, but wasted an opportunity to square to an unmarked Shelvey, with his shot deflecting wide of the post.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Gerald Henderson hit a 3-pointer from 25 feet with 4.6 seconds left to lift the Charlotte Bobcats to a 102-101 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night, snapping a 16-game home losing streak.
The Bobcats streak was stopped two short of the NBA record held by the 1993-94 Dallas Mavericks.
Kemba Walker led Charlotte with 25 points and Ramon Sessions finished with 23 as the Bobcats won at home for the first time since Nov. 21.
Luke Ridnour had 22 points, seven rebounds and seven assists to lead Minnesota, which has lost nine of 10.
Trailing by two, the Bobcats were struggling to get a shot off before the 24-second shot clock expired. A scramble ensued as the ball was knocked into the backcourt late in the possession.
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To mark the launch of its latest publication – Please Come to the Show, edited by Museum of Modern Art Bibliographer David Senior – non-profit publisher Occasional Papers invites Berlin-based Bar Vulkan to host an evening devoted to celebrating the exhibition invitation card, a key yet often overlooked element of exhibition-making.
David Senior's wide-ranging selection of invitation cards and flyers from the Museum of Modern Art Library from the 1960s to the present will prompt remarks from book contributors, designers, artists and publishers including Ruth Blacksell, Sara De Bondt, David Crowley, Juan Cruz, Sophie Demay, Gustavo Grandal Montero, Lola Halifa-Legrand, Will Holder, Antony Hudek, Patrick Lacey, Kaisa Lassinaro, Marysia Lewandowska, John Morgan, Fraser Muggeridge and Clive Phillpot.
With the support of the Exhibition Research Centre, Liverpool John Moores University, and Museum of Modern Art Library, New York.


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SANFORD — Sanford Regional Technical Center's (SRTC) culinary arts program is kicking off its 2013 season with a free breakfast promotion for the month of February.
The culinary program is a two-year course of rigorous hands-on and related studies designed for juniors and seniors in high school. This satellite program is housed at Noble High School in North Berwick as part of a cooperative partnership with MSAD 60 and seven other participating high schools in the SRTC area.
During the second semester of the school year, the culinary program opens its 40-seat dining room to the public as well as faculty, staff, and students. High-school juniors and seniors design menus, prepare and serve breakfast and lunch as part of the restaurant operations unit.
The culinary program's Round Table Restaurant is open most Wednesdays and Thursdays and serves breakfast from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. and lunch from 11:15 to 12:15 p.m. Reservations are required.
For dates and times, and to make reservations for the February breakfast promotion, log online to Noble High School's website, www.nhs.msad60.org and click on "Round Table Restaurant" under the "Departments" heading.
The restaurant does accept donations and gratuities for the Culinary Students Scholarship Fund, which is used to help students further their culinary education.


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President Barack Obama began the 60-day sprint to Election Day facing another lackluster report on the nation's economy: just 96,000 new jobs and an unemployment rate that remains over 8 percent.
Looming over his quest is this daunting fact: No president since Franklin D. Roosevelt has been elected to a consecutive term with unemployment that high.
The numbers were released Friday morning, just hours after Obama closed the three-day Democratic National Convention and accepted his party's nomination with a speech in which he asked voters to stick with him as he works to fix the economy. "The truth is," he said, "it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades."
Mitt Romney seized on the jobs report as proof that Obama doesn't deserve another chance. He likened Friday morning's news as a post-convention hangover.
"There's almost nothing the president's done in the last three and a half, four years to give the American people confidence he knows what he's doing when it comes to jobs and the economy," Romney told reporters in Sioux City, Iowa, according to the Associated Press.
Obama and Romney are locked in a neck-and-neck race that will turn on a sliver of undecided voters in a few battleground states. While polls indicate that voters like Obama more than Romney, they are much less confident in his handling of the economy.
For Obama, the good news is that the unemployment rate dropped slightly, from 8.3 percent to 8.1 percent. And the modest increase in jobs, while modest, marks a sustained growth in private sector jobs.
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But much of the drop in the unemployment rate is attributable to more people giving up their searches for work, the AP reported.
Campaigning in New Hampshire Friday, Obama hit many of the same themes, and many of the same lines, of his Thursday night nomination speech. Speaking at at the Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, he admitted the need to do more to "create more jobs faster" and "get out of this stronger than when we went in."
He described his blueprint for creating more jobs in the next four years: invest in domestic manufacturing, make college more affordable and enhance America's domestic energy production to include more "renewable" sources like wind, solar, natural gas and "clean coal."
Obama said Romney wants to return to the "failed" formula of tax cuts and small government. The president also chided Republicans for blocking a jobs bill he proposed last year, which the president said would have put a million more people to work.
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Later, at a campaign stop in Orange City, Iowa, Romney called the jobs report "simply unimaginable" and accused Obama of falling short of a promise to bring the unemployment rate down to 5.4 percent. Romney did his own number crunching and said the difference between the current jobless rate and 5.4 percent equates to about 9 million people.
"This president tried, but he didn't understand what it takes to make our economy work," said Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and founder of a venture capital firm. "I do. I will use that experience to work again."
Romney summarized his own plan that he said would create 12 million new jobs in his first four years in office: bolster domestic energy production, increase education reform efforts, negotiate new trade agreements, cut the deficit, repeal Obama's health care overhaul and lower taxes and soften regulations for small businesses.