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"Crime and Punishment", a brand new track from Anglo-Chilean thrash masters CRIMINAL, is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The song comes off the group's new album, "White Hell", which will be released on February 27 via Massacre Records. The CD's cover artwork, which was created by Chilean designer / tattoo artist / drummer Fran Muñoz, can be viewed below.
"White Hell" track listing:
01. 21st Century Paranoia
02. Crime and Punishment
03. Incubus
04. Black Light
05. The Deluge
06. Strange Ways
07. Mobrule
08. The Infidel
09. Invasion
10. Eyes of Temptation
11. Bastardom
12. Sons of Cain
In Europe the album will be released in a limited edition including a bonus DVD, the contents of which will be announced shortly, while the South American version of the album will contain the bonus track "Hermanos Dementes".
Regarding the direction of the new songs, CRIMINAL guitarist/singer Anton Reisenegger previously said, "the material for the record is incredibly varied, ranging from really technical stuff with odd time signatures, to crushing groove monsters, to all-out death metal and everything in between, so be prepared for one hell of a rollercoaster ride!"
Formed in the early '90s in Santiago, Chile by ex-PENTAGRAM mastermind Reisenegger and guitar virtuoso Rodrigo Contreras, CRIMINAL were combining elements of thrash, hardcore and death metal long before the term "metalcore" was even thought of. The band enjoyed a meteoric rise to the forefront of the South American metal scene, including five-digit album sales, shows with the likes of KREATOR, SEPULTURA and SLAYER and a nomination for Best Rock Video at the MTV Latino Video Music Awards, but was faced with severe personal and business problems around the turn of the decade. Reisenegger and Contreras then decided to relocate to the UK, regrouping in a half-Chilean, half-British lineup. Since then, the band has played on major European festivals such as Wacken Open Air and Summer Breeze, as well as support shows with bands such as CHIMAIRA, SIX FEET UNDER, BRUJERIA and LAMB OF GOD.
CRIMINAL's latest studio offering, "Sicario", was hailed by the press as one of the finest thrash metal releases of 2005 and was voted into the Top Ten Albums of the Year by the readers of Terrorizer magazine. At the same time, the band's status in their home country remains unbroken, as evidenced by a four-page feature in the Chilean edition of Rolling Stone magazine and a recent show supporting MEGADETH in front of over 14,000 metalheads.
CRIMINAL is:
Anton Reisenegger – vocals, guitar
Rodrigo Contreras – lead guitar
Zac O'Neil – drums
Dan Biggin – bass


text: Brother David Graber, M.SS.CC. who is a teacher at St. Augustine Prep School in Richland, NJ was recognized for his work and leadership of the project of the Junior Class at the school. Students volunteer to serve at Cathedral Kitchen in the city of Camden, NJ where meals are provided for the needy and homeless. Once a week Br. David travels with the student volunteers and serves with them. The project and St. Augustine Prep were recently the recipient of an award acknowledging their 25 years of service. Karen Talarico, executive director of Cathedral Kitchen, expressed her appreciation, "We are thrilled to recognize Brother Dave and the hundreds of students he has brought to volunteer at the kitchen over the last 25 years. It's an amazing record. We serve an average of 325 meals each day, so just imagine how many meals those hundreds of young men have served as part of their volunteer efforts. We love Brother Dave and the Prep students."

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Dec 2, 2014
Episode 18 of the Vinylcast is a 2 hour live
recording of Sneak's set at Madbar, in Toronto back in 2002, for
their 5 year anniversary event.
DJ Sneak's 'Budcast' and 'Vinylcast' deliver the raw, jacking beats of one of House music's true pioneers. 'The Budcast' stream focuses on new music currently being played by Sneak as he travels the globe, while the 'Vinylcast' is a real treat for House-Heads as Sneak digs deep in the vaults to unearth classic mixes from a very memorable time in electronic music. These super-exclusive mixes are digitized from tapes held in Sneak's archives for the very first time and reflect on the period 0f 1998-2005 - a time when DJ's showed their skills on vinyl and it is that raw unprocessed sound that you will experience here.
Self-proclaimed House Gangster, Sneak has the passion to keep House music alive and continues to push forward with new releases & remixes that capture and inspire the true essence of House music. While touring the globe and playing some of the most relevant gigs around the world, he continues to make an impact on the scene today. His signature sound of funky-jackin-disco-filtered House has revolutionized and redefined house music for 20 years and counting.
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Welcome to the Nazarene Financial Services page of our website. It is our privilege to support the church in making Christlike disciples in the nations.
Our Financial Services team ensures that your gifts to World Evangelism Fund and Mission Specials are processed quickly and accurately, then safely deployed to the various designated ministries. I invite you to explore the components of Nazarene Financial Services online, including Global Treasury Services, Pensions and Benefits USA/International, and Stewardship Ministries.


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What Is A Public Adjuster?
We Work For You, Not The Insurance Company.
A natural or man-made disaster suddenly strikes your home, interrupting your life indefinitely. How quickly can you recover and keep your family and property safe? And will your insurance policy help handle it? As you focus on protecting your family and property, do you also have the time to become fluent in your policy and prepare a thorough claim to get you everything you're entitled to from your carrier? After all, to the insurance company, it's now your responsibility, not theirs, to prove your loss. They will want to limit their financial exposure in this situation.
That's where we come in.
A public adjuster is an insurance professional who works only for you, the policyholder, not the insurance company. We have the special training and expertise to interpret the intricacies of your policy, evaluate and document the full scope of your damage, and negotiate a claim to maximize and expedite your financial recovery.
Why You Need A Public Adjuster
To your insurance company, your recovery is your responsibility, not theirs. When you notify them, they will send an adjuster to protect their financial exposure from your claim. How then can you be sure you will receive every benefit from your policy and a fair amount from your claim?
You're hit with a disaster and your home is threatened. It's time for your insurance company to step in. You have paid your premiums and you expect that you will be given what you are owed from your insurance policy. But to your carrier, it is your responsibility to prove your loss. How then can you be sure your damage and loss are fully documented, proven, and defended to maximize your financial recovery? Who's looking out for you?
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- We complete detailed valuations of building, equipment, & inventory losses.
- We negotiate on your behalf with your insurance company.
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Written by Duana
(Lainey: you asked for it, here it is!)
And now for something completely different – I'm going to try to recap a show I haven't seen from the beginning, for once. I know. Scandalo!
My research on Vampire Diaries has taken me to any number of Wiki pages, and this is what I've learned. Ready?
Creepy town, Mystic Falls/ Elena's parents died/Stefan loves her/ she looks just like Katherine (vamp from 200 years ago) /did I mention Stefan is 162? But he goes to high school?/His brother Damon is evil (what else are you gonna do with those eyebrows)/ Stefan eats donated hospital blood (so does Damon?)/Stefan and Damon both loved Katherine/Bonnie is a friend. And a Witch/Caroline is a vampire. And a friend?/Elena talks about being a normal teen a lot/her brother Jeremy has the angst/vervain protects you from vampires/Elena's real mother was Isobel/Matt's a guy who might be a werewolf/or maybe it's his uncle Mason?/Katherine can pretend to be Elena to finger cutting-off effect/vamps can walk in daylight because they have rings/Katherine had a hot romance with Damon and Stefan back in the day/Katherine compels people to do bad things. Like stab themselves/ Oh, and Founder's day is really, really important in this town/Also amulets, moonstones, rings, and other semi-precious gem-type things are a really big deal around here.
I know you guys know some of the gaps so yes, please email me (gently). After this we can play catchup for 4 weeks, so I'll need you to tell me which 4 eps would best catch us up.
With all this in mind – Season 2, Episode 16.
Previously on Vampire Diaries, Elena and Katherine looked just alike. A British lady tells Elena she's a "Petrova doppelganger" and the key to breaking a curse. The oldest vampire ever is called Elijah, also British, and he's stalking Elena. Katherine says it can't be done but that might be because she'd be trapped in a tomb. So they kill Elijah, Katherine's loose and in Damon's shower. Meanwhile, Bonnie wants to help someone find his daughter, but he's less than interested.
Adorable gingerbread Swiss house. Inside, Elena and Stefan are late for school because he wants to ravish her. She says 'five minutes', which is kind. But then suddenly she's downstairs tormenting Damon. But also coming downstairs with Stefan! Whaaa? Finally the two are in the same frame, and Kath tells Elena it's easy pretending to be her.
Title Card!
Katherine escaped from her tomb, because killing Elijah the original set her loose. Katherine says she has to stay and help because they all want Klaus dead, and she has the advantage due to knowing what he looks like. They tell her to get out so she threatens Jenna, the maiden aunt who turns a blind eye while Elena and Stefan bang.
Caroline talks to Tyra Collette's cowboy. They start pretending to care about other people but really it seems to be about whether they're getting back together.
Elena and Stefan get out of a sporty sporter car. Katherine's back, Elena wants her gone. You were here for that? OK, Stefan says let's find out how she knows what she knows. He offers to bang her at home tonight, but she's having a girls' night because Bonnie lost her powers. Ah, youth.
(Sidebar: Since most of my vampire history is with Buffy, I will find out why he can do it with Elena with no side effects. Maybe it's just because.)
Firetorch. Damon. Burning the body of Elijah. Apparently Damon wants the dagger they killed him with. Know-it-all Kathy says that won't work, but when Damon tries to firebomb her out, she swears she'll help kill this Klaus character. I hope he's bad.
(Sidebar: I guess they used to distinguish between Elena and Katherine via straight vs. curly hair. Now? Your intuition. Neat! )
Bonnie's late to catch up to Katherine being out of the tomb, Jeremy's all "bummer you don't have powers right about now", Stefan wants her to convince some folks to meet up, meanwhile, Jeremy wants to kiss Bonnie but she hasn't told Elena yet.
Sunny classroom. Some teacher gave 'John' back his ring, which makes Elena's statement that he's going to end up dead on the kitchen floor kind of moot. Meanwhile, he talks to Aunt Jenna, so I guess they're dating? Elena debates how people process hearing all this info.
Dark rando bar? A father and son come to meet Stefan and Bonnie. I'll figure out their names, keep your pants on. But when they hear Elijah's dead, they're like "peace". Stefan says they can help, because Klaus (this guy gets around) has their daughter (slash sister, I assume). So, can they work together?
Damon. Bar. Katherine – or Elena. They're WEARING THE SAME SHIRT, IT'S HARD. Speaking of, she touches him, and then they whirl across the room in an embrace. It's hot for a second, and then they're over it. Pity – now she's dropping knowledge about when a witch is killed hard, they leave a trace. Stefan shows, and they don't help me by calling his former bar companions "Papa Witch and Baby Witch". Apparently what they need is a burial ground –
Which Papa and Baby Witch hope they don't find. Papa says he's going to let Elijah kill them, because I guess we didn't see his flame-ridden corpse?
Okay so now we're at girls' night! "Chinese food or Pizza" is answered with "what do you think"? The girls are way too involved in a tablet product to answer Elena (I think, her shirt is buttoned) about whether Jonah is being sincere. Caroline moons over a picture of her and Matt, Bonnie is all about food.
Aunt Jenna! Maiden-y! She had a fight with 'Rick', and wants the girls' night to be about her feeling better, and hijacks their night. Caroline's issues are all about her, as she tells Jenna that sometimes the truth is not the best thing for a relationship. This is going nowhere fast so they decide to go dancing at 'the Grill'.
Papa and Baby Witch are discussing using his energy. There are lots of candles and lots of concentrating on Elijah. Now some…Latin? Baby Witch is in the Salvatore house, which I think is the Swiss cottage of before. He takes in Damon and Katherine reading, but oh! He thinks it's Elena! Baby Witch goes off (or his spirit does) in search of Elijah.
Meanwhile, Katherine is bored. Surprise! She reads over his shoulder, I guess he's reading journals. Katherine backseat-drives that Damon should be able to find the witch graveyard, no? He doesn't trust her, but she's hungry, and is everything on this show a euphemism? She heads in for some blood, Baby Witch sees her, she senses him, do you get where this is going?
Stefan's at home. Damon's studying. He points out what's in the book while lying that it isn't there. Is it that easy? Baby Witch tries to take the dagger, but Katherine pushes it back in. Dad figures out it's not Elena but Katherine, and Baby witch's name is Luca, and he's supposed to kill her, and Dad's all "Kill her" like it ain't no thing. Katherine can't see Luca though, which is interesting.
And then Luca's back and he's stabbed Katherine and she yells for Damon but it might be through the stomach? Stay tuned!
Luca's trying to steal the dagger still so Damon fireblasts the empty space where he might be, but back in the room with the candles, the REAL LUCA is on REAL FIRE! Dad is FREAKED and incants some incantations again, and that is some Serious burn-victim makeup.
Luca appears to be gone. I'm kind of sad. So is Dad. Like a lot.
Girls' niiiiight! They're at the bar, the band is kinda lame (I'm sure they're huge). Dancing. Glances Between Significant People. Matt ignores Caroline. Rick tries to talk to Jenna. She's not interested, she's doing shots. Conveniently she recaps for me that last year she was a grad student show smoked a lot of pot and now she's a parent. (Albeit one who lets kids bang before school). She storms off.
Caroline's leather jacket is neat but not for a 'first' leather jacket (I'm looking). Elena has a revelation – you can't protect people you love because you're going to hurt them either way. This makes Caroline take off her neat jacket.
Oh, she's up on stage now and she starts off "There was this guy" and so now she's going to sing her feelings, and when a guy tells her to get off the stage, she COMPELS him – my first time seeing it! – to let her sing…"Eternal Flame"! OK, I love this show!
She's singing straight to Matt, and the line "I watch you when you are sleeping" seems to take on another context. Jenna exchanges looks with Rick. How can she be old enough to date a guy named 'Rick'? Elena smiles the winsome smile of one who doesn't have romantic intrigue this episode.
Wait, Matt's kissing Caroline! It worked! Elena and Bonnie are happy. Jenna waves her beer.
WitchDaddy is ANGRY. He growls at a convenient photo of Elena in cheerleading gear, pages through a spellbook, and incants. Meanwhile, Stefan thrusts open a door – wait, were they in the mansion all the time? WitchDad makes Stefan's head hurt, Stefan sees BurnBaby and the picture of Elena –
And we cut to a very peaceful Katherine by a fire. Damon gives her some blood – and stake in the side. These people are very physical, aren't they?
Okay so now Katherine comes clean, maybe. John Gilbert and Isobel want the bros. Salvatore away from Elena. If my research is right, those two might be her folks, maybe. So they offered Kat a deal – either she helps to kill Klaus, or he kills Stefan. There's a lot of eyebrow in this scene, but I think it means Damon's gonna die?
Elena storms into a bathroom, like STORMS, as if Caroline and Matt aren't' totally doing it in there. Then she gets a double-hit of bad because Bonnie's all "So I'm going to date your brother, OK?" She looks conflicted, but then she's OK with it, but she still kind of looks constipated, I can't lie. Phone breaks the boon –
Elena can't hear who's on the phone and runs outside as AngryWitchDaddy comes into the bar. Bonnie clocks, worried.
Damon's about to go after Elena, Katherine wants to come with and flies across the room to make her point.
So AngryWitchDaddy is called Dr. Martin, and stalks Elena. He's all "Luca died, I need Elena". Bonnie says no, so he BLASTS out all the lights in the bar with the fire of his eyes! I could get into this, and so could Caroline and Matt, which – why are they still clothed? He takes off, Stefan and Katherine come in, or maybe it's Elena, Jonas IS AngryWitchDaddyMartin, and they need Caroline!
Rick tries to spirit Jenna out, and is like "Hey, forget about your teenage charge!" Jonas starts a fire and Bonnie tries to stop it. Seriously, the bar is burning. Jeremy carries Bonnie. Elena tries to appeal to Dr. Martin, he says only Elijah can, Caroline goes to jump him, but he does witch voodoo on her, and then TOTALLY stabs (human?) Matt in the neck with some broken glass. So that happened.
Caroline is screeching, as you do when your boyfriend's jugular has been sliced. Oh, but she's also totally vampire attracted to him. This is interesting. She shoves her wrist in his mouth.
Bonnie and Jeremy are totally discussing the death and carnage over tea. Like, tea. Elena and Stefan enter, he's fussy that they didn't check the house. Elena looks in a mirror, and then doesn't see that Jonas is behind her! But then wait, it was totally Katherine! Will the clothing no longer be a clue? She VAMPS out and bites him and kills him and Bonnie is conflicted. She wants to close his eye but OMG he became re-awake and made Bonnie's head hurt and then fell back dead = Vamp?
Elena (I guess) is all "How come Katherine got to be me"? When she says it was Katherine's idea, Elena's worried. These scenes must be hilarious to shoot. Katherine says she's not a threat to Elena, because they have to kill Klaus. She does a convincing job of convincing them, but isn't that her job?
Rick walks Jenna home. He loves her but he can't tell her certain truths, I guess. She just says 'goodnight'. Cold! She walks inside, and I have no idea whether Elena or Katherine greets her.
Jeremy is worried because the only witch who could give Bonnie back her powers is dead, and he gets all flustery-fussy and Bonnie kisses him to shut him up. Time honoured technique. She puts her hands on his heart, and flickers the light – and it turns out he gave her back her powers! And told her to kill Klaus.
Damon in bed, reading. Katherine (thank god for identifying curls!) in lingerie, lounging. Apparently Kat tattled on who Emily Bennett was, she and Damon flirt back and forth with information, and this is all foreplay despite the fact that they talk about hurting each other. He does the also time honoured almost-gonna-kiss-you-but-toss-you-aside.
Matt wakes up. Coughing and blood covered. Caroline's like 'sup'? He processes, really slowly. "I drank your blood." She catches him up, slowly. "Vampire Blood fixes humans, I fixed you, PS I'm a vamp." He's less than impressed. Then he invokes Vicki, who I know was gone along time ago, and he thinks Caroline did something to her because I guess she babbled about vamps?
Kitchen. Ice Cream eating. Jenna. Clichés. Doorbell. Who's that? Turns out it's Elena's mother. Isobel. Which makes Elena hiss, and Jenna looks kind of alarmed. But only kind of.
Whew! Okay so that all happened, and it is a sexy good time! So now remember, hit me up with the four most important eps I've missed, and we'll catch up with those before the show comes back. Word?
Attached – Paul Wesley last night in New York at the opening of That Championship Season.
Photos from Wenn.com
Introducing: The Vampire Dairies recaps
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AP PHOTOS: Fatal race to exit at Brazil club fire
Photo: Agencia RBS
Relatives of victims react as they wait for news near the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. According to police more than 200 died in the devastating nightclub fire in southern Brazil. Officials say the fire broke out at the club while a band was performing. (AP Photo/Ronald Mendes-Agencia RBS)


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Deadman Update
A couple of years ago I came across some of the best street photography I'd ever seen, by a mysterious character named Johnny Deadman, later revealed to be filmmaker John Brownlow. John was kind enough to let me use a choice selection of his work to illustrate one of my articles.
Now he's up to something very--well, almost perversely--different. To check it out, click the title above, which is a link.
Personally I have to say I don't care for some of his latest work quite as much, decaying woods and random building fronts in color being subjects most photo teachers have seen quite enough of, but I guess man cannot live by street photography alone.
"Umbrellas," above, taken with a Noblex, has John going back to his roots on the street. It's a picture that's like an accordion, going in and and out, up and down, coming at you and then receding again, and I love the "virtual frame break" created by the nearest lamp-post, and the quasi-stochastic smattering of umbrellas broadcast across the frame holding the whole thing together. A stunningly great shot, I think. By the way, you can click on these images to make them larger.
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Gov. Rick Perry met with executives from hospitals around Texas Tuesday, but several who attended said the meeting wasn't about his decision against Medicaid expansion. Instead, it focused on a Medicaid funding program for hospitals that treat a large proportion of uninsured patients.
The Disproportionate Share Hospital program was affected by the health care reform law because it was scaled back to shift dollars to the Medicaid expansion, said George B. Hernández, Jr., president and chief executive officer of the University Health System. But he said the effect of that on hospitals won't be immediate.
Robert Earley, president and chief executive officer of the JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, said Perry opened Tuesday's meeting by expressing the notion that, "I want you guys to get together and figure out how we serve the citizens of Texas."
Asked whether Perry addressed his Medicaid expansion decision, Earley said, "That wasn't really the purpose of today's meeting."
Harris County Hospital District president and CEO David Lopez said there was a "good dialogue about the issues."
"We are going to continue meeting to see how we can make this thing come to a solution," Lopez said.
The executives described the meeting as productive – as did Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier – but declined to discuss specifics. Frazier said private and public hospitals were represented.


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Budget committee chairs say no deal on residency
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — There is no deal yet on whether to eliminate any requirements that Wisconsin municipal workers live in the cities where they work.
The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee planned to vote on the issue Thursday. But committee co-chair Rep. John Nygren says a deal remains a "work in progress."
Gov. Scott Walker proposed eliminating any requirements statewide. But opponents say it was primarily targeting Milwaukee, which requires all city and school district employees to live in the city.
Nygren said Wednesday a deal was being floated to allow employees to live a certain distance outside the city boundaries, but face a penalty if they do.
Budget committee co-chair Sen. Alberta Darling says senators oppose the penalty part, but agree with setting an allowable radius in which workers can live.


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Thank you to all who came to the Members' Only event. We all loved spending time with you. Thank you for your continued support!
Monday, February 27, 2012
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Members' Event This Sunday!
The event runs from 2:30 to 6:30 and will include:
· Special narrated sessions designed specifically for our members and guests.
· Viewing of some new and unique DRC videos.
· Our annual Sunset Celebration at 6:00 with the dolphins showing off their best moves to music with the Keys' sunset in the background.
This is usually a great time for all our members, their guests and especially for the dolphins. The cost for each guest, more than the number you can normally bring in on your membership level, is $5.00.
In order to make sure we have enough refreshments, we'd very much like to get an estimate of the number of people attending this year in advance. If you think you'll be able to attend and have not yet RSVP'd, or if you have any questions, please call us at 305-289-1121 x229 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com by Friday, February 24th!
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Dad Rainbow, Mom Merina, all her siblings and the rest of the DRC family wish Calusa a very happy 11th birthday! Love you, Goose!
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
What happens if the DRC dolphins see their shadows on Feb 2? Maybe more people will come see them and enjoy FL Keys sunshine!
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Have you ever heard of Karen's Power Tools? Karen Kenworthy is a Visual Basic programmer and she offers most of the programs she writes for free at her website, KarenWare.com. Karen also occasionally sends out a newsletter featuring one of the tools she's recently worked on. This time her newsletter featured a tool named Zone Manager.
Zone Manager let's you quickly control and set new time zones in Windows. You can create a desktop shortcut to any time zone, so that you can switch between zones with a double-click of your mouse. You can also create your own custom time zones and enable or disable Daylight Saving Time. In addition, Zone Manager can synchronize your PC clock to one of the super accurate Internet Time Servers.
Why would you need it? Let's say that I'm hopping on a jet from New York to India. While I'm on the way there, I may stop in Europe or Arabia. If I know my route ahead of time, I can create desktop shortcuts that quickly change my PC's time zones. A double click and I've changed from one time zone to another. I'll have the local time set even before I hit the terminal.
You can find out more about Zone Manager in Karen's most recent Newsletter.
Here's what it looks like.
Here you can see that I've made a time zone named Twilight Zone.
The source code for many of the programs at Karen's site is available for download. That means you can customize these programs or use the code as a learning resource.
Once I asked Karen about making one of these program portable, so that it could run from a flash drive. I didn't get an answer, but I've figured it out on my own. If you want to use any of Karen's Power Tools on a flash drive, follow these steps.
1. Download and install the Power Tool. (note step 4 before you finish installing)
2. Go to the Program folder for that program and copy it to your portable drive. Example path: C:\Program Files\Karen's Power Tools
3. Since Karen's tools need the Visual Basic runtime files, you need to copy these into the portable drive folder you created in step 2. If you don't have VB6 runtime support installed, you can get it here. Here are the files you will need, they are usually located in the C:\Windows\System32 folder.
4. There may also be some OCX files you'll need. When you install a Power Tool, it will display all of the files it needs in it's installation window just as it finishes. Once again, these are usually located in the System32 folder.
Here are some more of Karen's Power Tools, just in case you are curious:
Replicator – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
Countdown Timer II – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptcount2.asp
Directory Printer – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp
Computer Profiler – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptprofiler.asp
Show Stopper – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptstopper.asp
WhoIs – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptwhois.asp
URL Discombobulator – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptlookup.asp
Calculator – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptcalc.asp
Once-A-Day II – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptoad.asp
Hasher – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/pthasher.asp
'Net Monitor – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptnetmon.asp
Cookie Viewer – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptcookie.asp
Zone Manager – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptzone.asp
Print Logger – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptprnlog.asp
E-Mailer II – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptmailer2.asp
Disk Slack Checker – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptslack.asp
Drive Info – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdinfo.asp
Time Sync – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptsync.asp
LAN Monitor – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptlanmon.asp
Window Watcher – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptwinwatch.asp
Recycler – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptrecycler.asp
Alarm Clock – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptalarm.asp
Font Explorer – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptfonts.asp
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The text's logical organization gets readers started with a solid foundation in basic principles and then progressively builds on that foundation. Topics covered include:
Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimating travel demand, and costing transportation projects
Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts for such factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operating costs
Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and land use as well as its impact on society and culture
Assessing a project's environmental impact, including air quality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics
Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multiple performance criteria
Programming transportation investments so that resources can be optimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-wide goals
Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followed by a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation is discussed and available software for performing evaluations is presented. At the end of each chapter, readers are provided resources for detailed investigation of particular topics. These include Internet sites and publications of international and domestic agencies and research institutions. The authors also provide a companion Web site that offers updates, data for analysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decision making.
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Samuel Labi, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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1. Introductory Concepts in Transportation Decision-Making.
1.0 General Introduction.
1.1 Overall Transportation Program Development.
1.1.1 Network-level Planning.
1.1.2 Project Development.
1.1.3 Programming.
1.1.4 Budgeting.
1.1.5 Financial planning.
1.2 The Process of Transportation Project Development.
1.2.1 TDP Steps.
1.2.2 Federal Legislation that affect the Transportation Development Process.
1.3 Impacts of Transportation System Stimuli.
1.3.1 Types of Transportation Stimuli.
1.3.2 Impact Categories and Types.
1.3.3 Dimensions of the Evaluation.
1.4 Other Ways of Categorizing Transportation System Impacts.
1.4.1 Categorization on the Basis of Resource Consumption.
1.4.2 Categorization on the Basis of Affected Party and Resource Type Consumed.
1.4.3 Categorization on the Basis of Other Considerations.
1.5 Models Associated with Transportation Impact Evaluation.
1.6 Role of Evaluation In TDP and Basic Elements of Evaluation.
1.6.1 Role of Evaluation in TDP.
1.7.2 Why Carry out Evaluation?
1.6.3 Goals, Criteria, Impact Types.
1.7 Procedural Framework for Transportation Systems Evaluation.
1.7.1 Identification of Evaluation Subject.
1.7.2 Concerns of Decision-makers and Other Stakeholders.
1.7.3 Identification of Goals and Objectives of the Transportation Improvement.
1.7.4 Establishment of Performance Measures for Assessing the Objectives.
1.7.5 Establish Dimensions for the Analysis (Evaluation Scopes).
1.7.6 Recognize Legal and Administrative Requirements.
1.7.7 Identify Possible Courses of Action and Develop Feasible Alternatives.
1.7.8 Estimation of Agency and User Costs.
1.7.9 Estimation of Other Benefits and Costs.
1.7.10 The Comparison Process.
1.7.11 Good Practices in Evaluation.
1.8 Continuing and Emerging Trends in Transportation.
1.8.1 Operational Accountability of Highway Infrastructure.
1.8.2 Integrated Transportation Asset Management.
1.8.3 Increased Need to Evaluate Investments on Basis of Risk and Vulnerability Performance.
1.8.4Business-like Approach to Asset Management.
1.8.5 Transportation Deregulation.
1.8.6 Just-in-Time (JIT) Inventory Systems.
1.8.7 Increased Competition:.
1.8.8 Globalization of Business:.
1.9 Chapter Summary.
2. Performance Measures in Transportation Evaluation.
2.0 Introduction.
2.1 Transportation System Goals, Objectives, and Performance Measures.
2.2 Performance Measures at Network and Project Levels.
2.3 How to Select a Good Performance Measure.
2.4 Dimensions of Performance Measures.
2.5 Performance Measures Associated With Each Dimension.
2.5.1 Overall Goals.
2.5.2 System Objectives.
2.5.3 Sector Concerns/Interests.
2.5.4 Flow Entity.
2.5.5 Modal Scope.
2.5.6 Transportation Mode.
2.5.7 Affected Entity or Stakeholder.
2.5.8 Spatial Scope.
2.5.9 Agency Responsibility.
2.5.10 Time Frame and Level of Refinement.
2.6 Linking Agency Goals to Performance Measures - State Of Practice.
2.7 Benefits of Using Performance Measures.
2.8 Chapter Summary.
3. Estimating Transportation Demand.
3.0 Introduction.
3.1 Transportation Demand.
3.1.1 Basic Concepts in Transportation Demand Estimation.
3.1.2 Causes of Shifts in the Transportation Demand Curve.
3.1.3 Categorization of Demand Estimation Models.
3.1.4 Aggregate Methods for Project-level Transportation Demand Estimation.
(a) On the basis of Attributes of the Entire Parent Network.
(b) On the basis of Facility Attributes Only.
(c) General Comments on Demand Estimation Models.
3.2 Transportation Supply.
3.2.1 The Concept of Transportation Supply.
3.2.2 Shifts in the Transportation Supply Curve.
3.3 Equilibration and Dynamics of Transportation Demand and Supply.
3.3.1 Demand-Supply Equilibration.
3.3.2 Simultaneous Equation Bias in Demand Supply Equilibration.
3.3.3 Dynamics of Transportation Demand and Supply.
3.4 Elasticities of Travel Demand And Supply.
3.4.1 Classification of Elasticities by Method of Computation.
3.4.2 Classification of Elasticities by Source of Elasticity.
3.4.3 Classification of Elasticity by Relative Direction of Response: Direct and Cross Elasticities.
3.4.4 Examples of Elasticity Values Used in Practice.
3.4.5 An Application of the Elasticity Concept -- Demand Estimation.
3.4.6 Consumer Surplus and Latent Demand.
3.5 Some Issues in Transportation Demand Estimation.
3.6 Chapter Summary.
Selected Resources.
4. Transportation Costs.
4.0 Introduction.
4.1 Classification of Transportation Costs.
4.1.1 Classification by Incurring Party.
4.1.2 Classification by Nature of Cost Variation with Output.
4.1.3 Classification by Expression of Unit Cost.
4.1.4 Classification by Position in Facility Life-Cycle.
4.1.5 Other Classifications of Transportation Costs.
4.2 Transportation Agency Costs.
4.2.1 Agency Costs over Facility Life Cycle.
4.2.2 Techniques for Estimating Agency Costs.
4.2.3 Risk as an Element of Agency Cost.
4.3 Transportation User Costs.
4.3.1 User Cost Categories.
4.3.2 Impacts of Demand Elasticity, Induced Demand and Other Exogenous Changes on User Benefits.
4.4 General Structure and Behavior of Cost Functions.
4.4.1 Components of a Transportation Cost Model.
4.4.2 Economies and Dis-economies of Scale.
4.5 Historical Cost Values and Models for Highway Transportation Systems.
4.5.1 Highway Agency Cost Models.
4.5.2 Transit Cost Values and Models.
4.5.3 Air Transportation Cost Values.
4.6 Issues in Transportation Cost Estimation.
4.6.1 Aggregated Estimates for Planning vs. Detailed Engineering Estimates for Projects.
4.6.2 Adjustments for Temporal and Spatial Variations (How to Update Costs).
4.6.3 Adjustments for Economies of Scale.
4.6.4 The Problem of Cost Overruns.
4.6.5 Relative Weight of Agency and User Cost Unit Values.
4.7 Chapter Summary.
Additional Resources.
5. Travel-Time Impacts.
5.0 Introduction.
5.1 Categorizations of Travel Time.
5.1.1 Trip Phase.
5.1.2 Other Bases of Categorization.
5.2 Framework for Assessing Travel Time Impacts.
5.3 Issues Relating to Travel Time Value Estimation.
5.3.1 The Conceptual Basis of Time Valuation.
5.3.2 Factors Affecting the Value of Travel Time.
5.3.3 Methods for Valuation of Travel Time.
5.4 Concluding Remarks.
5.5 Chapter Summary.
General Exercises.
6. Evaluation of Safety Impacts.
6.0 Introduction.
6.1 Basic Definitions and Factors of Transportation Safety.
6.1.1 Definition of a Crash and Crash Patterns.
6.1.2 Severity Types of Transportation Crashes.
6.1.3 Categories of Factors Affecting Transportation Crashes.
6.2 Procedural Framework for Safety Impact Evaluation.
6.2.1 Step 1 Define the Analysis Area.
6.2.2 Step 2 Describe Intervention and Select Evaluation Approach.
6.2.3 Steps 3-6 Estimating Crash Frequency.
6.2.4 Step 7 Determine the Safety Benefits.
6.2.5 Step 8 Establish the Unit Monetary Crash Cost.
6.2.6 Step 9 Determine Overall Safety Cost Savings (or Increase) due to the Intervention.
6.3 Methods for Estimating Crash Reduction Factors.
6.3.1 Before and After Studies.
6.3.2 Cross-sectional Studies.
6.3.3 Comparison of the Two Approaches.
6.3.4 Elasticity of Crash Frequency.
6.4 Safety Related Legislation.
6.5 Software Packages for Safety Impact Evaluation.
6.6 Considerations in Safety Impact Evaluation.
6.7 Chapter Summary.
7. Vehicle Operating Cost (VOC) Impacts.
7.0 Introduction.
7.1 Components of Vehicle Operating Cost.
7.1.1 Fuel.
7.1.2 Shipping Inventory.
7.1.3 Lubricating Oils for Mechanical Working of Drive-train.
7.1.4 Preservation of the Vehicle-Guideway Contact Surface.
7.1.5 Vehicle Repair and Maintenance.
7.1.6 Depreciation.
7.1.7 VOC Data Sources and Average National VOC Rates.
7.2 Factors that Affect Vehicle Operating Cost.
7.2.1 Vehicle Type.
7.2.2 Fuel Type.
7.2.3 Longitudinal Grade.
7.2.4 Vehicle Speed.
7.2.5 Delay.
7.2.6 Speed Changes.
7.2.7 Horizontal Curvature.
7.2.8 Road Surface Condition.
7.2.9 Other VOC Factors.
7.3 Procedural Framework for Assessing Voc Impacts.
7.3.1 Discussion of Steps of the Framework.
7.3.2 Implementation of Steps 4, 5 and 6 of the Framework using HERS Methodology.
7.4 Special Case of Voc Estimation -- Workzones.
7.5 Selected Software Packages that Include a VOC Estimation Component.
7.5.1 AASHTO Methodology.
7.5.2 HERS Package - National and State Versions.
7.5.3 HDM-4 Road User Effects (HDM-RUE).
7.5.4 Steam.
7.5.5 Other Models that Include a VOC Estimation Component.
7.6 Comparison of VOC Estimation Methodologies and Software.
7.6.1 Levels of Detail.
7.6.2 Fuel Consumption Rates.
7.7 Chapter Summary.
8. Economic Efficiency Impacts.
8.0 Introduction.
8.1 Interest Equations and Equivalencies.
8.1.1 Cash Flow Illustrations.
8.1.2 The Concept of Interest.
8.1.3 Types of Compounding and Interest Rates.
8.1.4 Interest Equations and Key Variables.
8.1.5 Special Cases of Interest Equations.
8.2 Criteria for Economic Efficiency Impact Evaluation.
8.2.1 Introduction.
8.2.2 Present Value of Costs.
8.2.3 Equivalent Uniform Annual Cost Method.
8.2.4 Equivalent Uniform Annual Return Method.
8.2.5 Net Present Value Method.
8.2.6 Internal Rate of Return.
8.2.7 Benefit Cost Ratio Method.
8.2.8 Evaluation Methods Using Incremental Attributes.
8.2.9 General Discussion on Economic Efficiency Criteria.
8.3 A Framework for Economic Efficiency Impact Evaluation.
8.4 Software Packages for Economic Efficiency Analysis.
8.4.1 Surface Transportation Efficiency Analysis Model (STEAM).
8.4.2 NCHRP's MicroBenCost Package.
8.4.3 Highway Development and Management Standards Package.
8.4.4 FHWA's Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS).
8.4.5 Indiana DOT's MCIBAS.
8.4.6 California DOT's Cal B/C Package.
8.5 Life Cycle Cost Analysis.
8.6 Case Study for Economic Efficiency Impact Evaluation.
8.7 Final Comments on Economic Efficiency Analysis.
8.8 Chapter Summary.
Useful Resouces.
9. Economic Development Impacts.
9.1 Introduction.
9.2 Economic Development Impact Types.
9.2.1 Economic Development Impact Measures.
9.2.2 Economic Development Impact Mechanisms.
9.2.3 Selection of Appropriate Measures of Economic Impact.
9.3 Tools for Economic Development Impact Assessment.
9.3.1 Surveys and Interviews.
9.3.2 Market Studies.
9.3.3 Comparative Analysis Tools/Case Studies.
9.3.4 Economic Multiplier/Input-Output (I-O) Models.
9.3.5 Statistical Analysis Tools.
9.3.6 Economic Simulation Models.
9.4 Estimation of Long-Term Regional Economic Development Impacts.
9.5 Demonstration of Economic Impact Assessment Methodology.
9.6 Chapter Summary.
10. Air Quality Impacts.
10.0 Introduction.
10.1 Air Pollution Sources and Trends.
10.1.1 Pollutant Types, Sources, and Trends.
10.1.2 Categories of Air Pollution.
10.2 Estimating Pollutant Emissions.
10.2.1 Some Definitions.
10.2.2 Factors Affecting Pollutant Emission from Motor Vehicles.
10.2.3 Approaches for Estimating Pollutant Emissions from Highways.
10.2.4 Steps (Procedural Framework) for the Estimation of Highway Pollutant Emissions.
10.2.5 Software for Estimating Pollutant Emissions.
10.3 Estimating Pollutant Concentration.
10.3.1 Factors Affecting Pollutant Dispersion.
10.3.2 Pollution Dispersion Models.
10.3.3 Software for Estimating Pollutant Dispersion and Concentrations.
10.4 Air Pollution from Other Modes.
10.4.1 Air Transportation.
10.4.2 Rail Transportation.
10.4.3 Marine Transportation.
10.4.4 Transit (Various Modes).
10.5 The Monetary Costs of Air Pollution.
10.5.1 Methods of Air Pollution Cost Estimation.
10.5.2 Air Pollution Cost Values.
10.6 Air Quality Standards.
10.7 Mitigating Air Pollution from Transportation Sources.
10.7.1 Traffic Management and Policy Instruments.
10.7.2 Economic Instruments.
10.7.3 Other Modes.
10.8 Air Quality Legislation and Regulations.
10.8.1 National Legislation.
10.8.2 Global Agreements.
10.9 Case Study.
10.10 Chapter Summary.
Useful Resources in Air Quality Impact Estimation.
11. Noise Impacts.
11.0 Introduction.
11.1 Fundamental Concepts of Sound.
11.2 Sources of Transportation Noise.
11.3 Factors Affecting Transportation Noise Propagation.
11.3.1 Nature of Source, Distance, and Ground Effects.
11.3.2 Effect of Noise Barriers.
11.4 General Methodology for Estimating Noise Impacts for Highways.
11.5 Application of the Framework Using FHWA Model Equations.
11.5.1 Reference Energy Mean Emission Level (REMEL).
11.5.2 Traffic Flow Adjustment.
11.5.3 Distance Adjustment.
11.5.4 Adjustment for Finite Length Roadways.
11.5.5 Shielding Adjustment.
11.5.6 Combining Noises from Various Vehicle Classes.
11.6 Application of the Framework Using Software Packages.
11.6.1 The Traffic Noise Model (TNM).
11.7 Estimating Noise Impacts for Other Modes.
11.7.1 Transit Noise and Vibration.
11.7.2 Air Transportation.
11.7.3 Rail Transportation.
11.7.4 Marine Transportation.
11.7.5 General Guidelines for Evaluating Noise Impacts of New Transportation Improvements.
11.8 Mitigation of Transportation Noise.
11.8.1 Cost Estimates of Noise Barriers.
11.9 Legislation and Regulations Related to Transportation Noise.
Chapter Summary.
12. Impacts on Wetlands and Other Ecosystems.
12.0 Introduction.
12.1 Basic Ecological Concepts.
12.1.1 The Concept of Ecosystems.
12.1.2 The Physical Base.
12.1.3 Wetland Ecosystems.
12.2 Mechanisms of Ecological Impacts.
12.2.1 Direct vs. Indirect Mechanisms.
12.2.2 Impact Mechanism by Specie Type.
12.3 Ecological Impacts of Activities At Various TDP Phases.
12.3.1 Locational Planning and Preliminary Field Surveys.
12.3.2 Transportation System Design.
12.3.3 Construction.
12.3.4 Operations.
12.3.5 Maintenance.
12.4 Performance Goals for Ecological Impact Assessments.
12.4.1 Diversity of the Physical Base of the Ecosystem.
12.4.2 State of Habitat Fragmentation.
12.4.3 Significant Species and Habitats.
12.4.4 Diversity of Species.
12.4.5 Ecosystem Stability.
12.4.6 Ecosystem Quality or Productivity.
12.5 Methodology for Ecological Impact Assessment.
12.6 Key Legislation.
12.6.1 The Endangered Species Act of 1973.
12.6.2 Laws Related to Wetlands and other Habitats.
12.7 Mitigation of Ecological Impacts.
12.7.1 Mitigation at Various Phases of the Transportation Development Process.
12.8 Methods and Software Packages for Ecological Impact Assessment.
12.8.1 Wetland Functional Analysis (WET II).
12.8.2 Hydrogeomorphic Classification Method (HGM).
12.8.3 Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) Software.
12.9 Chapter Summary.
Additional Resources for Ecological Impact Evaluation.
13. Impacts on Water Resources.
13.0 Introduction.
13.0.1 The Hydrologic Cycle.
13.1 Categories of Hydrological Impacts.
13.1.1 Source of the Impact (Facility/Vehicle).
13.1.2 Impact Type.
13.1.3 Affected Water Source.
13.1.4 Transportation Mode and Activity.
13.2 Hydrological Impacts by Transportation Mode.
13.2.1 Highway Impacts.
13.2.2 Railway Impacts.
13.2.3 Air Transportation Impacts.
13.2.4 Marine Transportation Impacts.
13.3 Performance Measures for Hydrological Impact Assessment.
13.3.1 Measures Related to Water Quantity and Flow Patterns.
13.3.2 Measures Related to Water Quality.
13.4 Methodology for Water Quality Impact Assessment.
Step 1: Define the Study Area and Temporal Scope of the Analysis.
Step 2: Carry out Hydrological Inventory of the Study Area.
Step 3: Describe the Proposed Changes in the Selected Transportation System Action.
Step 4: Identify TDP Phases of the Transportation Action likely to affect Ground and Surface Water.
Step 5: Select the Appropriate Hydrological Performance Measures.
Step 6: Data Analysis to Predict Hydrological Conditions after the Transportation Intervention.
Step 7: Estimate the Hydrological Impacts (Change in Performance Measures).
Step 8: Evaluate the Predicted Hydrological Impacts.
13.5.1 Impacts on Water Quantity.
13.5.2 Impacts on Water Quality.
13.6.1 Mitigation Measures by Impact Criterion.
13.6.2 Mitigation Measures by Nature of Water Source.
13.6.3 Mitigation Measures by TDP Phase.
13.6.4 Discussion on Mitigation.
13.7 Water Quality Standards.
13.8 Legislation Related to Water Resource Conservation.
13.9 Software for Water Resources Impact Assessment.
Chapter Summary.
Some Useful Resources.
14. Visual Impacts.
14.0 Introduction.
14.1 Principles of Visual Performance.
14.1.1 Performance Measures for Visual Performance Assessment.
14.2 Factors Affecting Visual Performance and Impact Mechanisms.
14.2.1 Factors.
14.2.2 Impact Mechanisms.
14.3 Methodology for Visual Impact Assessment.
14.3.1 Definition of the Study Area.
14.3.2 Transportation Alternatives.
14.3.3 Identification of Scope and Level of Detail of Visual Performance Assessment.
14.4.4 Presentation of the Existing Scene and Simulation of the Proposed Situation.
14.3.5 Estimation of Visual Impacts.
14.3.6 Presentation of Analysis Results.
14.4 Legislation.
14.5 Mitigation of Poor Visual Performance of Existing Facilities.
14.6 Visual Performance Enhancement - The State Of Practice.
14.6.1 Context-Sensitive Design Practices.
14.6.2 Policies and Guidelines for Visual Performance Preservation and Enhancement.
14.6.3 Cost of Visual Performance Enhancements.
14.7 Chapter Summary.
Resources for Visual Performance Assessment.
15. Impacts on Energy Use.
15.0 Introduction.
15.1 Factors that Affect Transportation Energy Consumption.
15.1.1 Fuel Prices and Taxes.
15.1.2 Regulations on Fuel Economy.
15.1.3 Vehicle Sales by Classes.
15.1.4 Vehicle Technology.
15.1.5 Road Geometry.
15.1.6 Transportation Intervention.
15.1.7 Other Impacts.
15.2 Energy Intensity.
15.3 Framework of Energy Impact Analysis.
15.3.1 Direct Consumption.
15.3.2 Indirect Consumption.
15.4 Methodology to Estimate Energy Consumption.
15.4.1 Comprehensive (Macroscopic) Assessment.
15.4.2 Project Screening Level Models.
15.4.3 Microscopic Simulation Incorporated Analysis.
15.4.4 Comparison of Approaches to Estimate Energy Consumption.
15.5 Energy Impact Assessment Model.
15.6 Energy and Transportation - What the Future Holds.
15.7 Chapter Summary.
16. Land-Use Impacts.
16.0 Introduction.
16.1 The Transportation - Land Use Relationship.
16.1.1 Land Use Impacts on Transportation.
16.1.2 Transportation Impacts on Land Use.
16.1.3 Land Use Impact on Cost Estimates.
16.2 Tools for Analyzing Land Use Changes.
16.2.1 Qualitative Tools.
16.2.2 Quantitative Tools.
16.3 Methodology for Land Use Impact Assessment.
16.3.1 Definition of Project Area.
16.3.2 Analysis of the Existing and Future Patterns and Trends for Land Use and Development.
16.3.3 Development of Transportation Alternatives or Policy Assumptions.
16.3.4 Estimation of Potential Changes in Travel Patterns and Accessibility.
16.3.5 Estimation of Regional Population and Employment Growth Resulting from Changes in the Travel Patterns and Accessibility.
16.3.6 Estimation of Potential Changes in Trends or Patterns for Land Use Development.
16.3.7 Mitigation Measures for Adverse Impacts of Transportation Alternatives on Land Use and Development.
16.3.8 Presentation of Analysis Results.
16.4 Demonstration of Land Use Impact Assessment Methodology.
16.5 Chapter Summary.
17. Social and Cultural Impacts.
17.0 Introduction.
17.1 Mechanisms of Transportation Impacts on the Social And Cultural Environments.
17.1.1 Direct Impacts.
17.1.2 Indirect Impacts.
17.1.3 Cumulative Impacts.
17.2 Target Facilities and Groups, and Performance Measures.
17.2.1 Target Facilities and Groups.
17.2.2 Performance Measures.
17.2.3 The Special Case of Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries.
17.3 Equity and Environmental Justice Concerns.
17.4 Methodology for Social and Cultural Impact Assessment.
17.5 Tools for Socio-Cultural Impact Assessment.
17.5.1 Qualitative Tools.
17.5.2 Quantitative Tools.
17.6 Mitigation of Adverse Socio-Cultural Impacts.
17.6.1 State of Practice: Socio-Cultural Impact Mitigation.
17.7 Legislation Related to Socio-Cultural Impacts.
17.8 Chapter Summary.
18. Evaluation of Transportation Projects and Programs using Multiple Criteria.
18.1 Introduction.
18.2 Basic Concepts.
18.2.1 Single vs. Multiple Criteria.
18.2.2 Evaluation, Decision-making, and Optimization.
18.2.3 Knapsack Problems.
18.2.4 Scope of Decision-making Constraints.
18.2.5 Relationships between Decision-making, Programming, Number of Criteria, and Analysis Levels.
18.3 Steps in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making.
18.3.1 Identification of Alternatives.
18.3.2 Identification of Goals and Performance Criteria.
18.3.3 Establish Goal and Criteria Weights.
18.3.4 Scaling of the Performance Measures.
18.4 Case Study: Evaluation of the Washington Light Rail Transit (Lrt) And New West Arterial Projects Using Multi-Criteria.
18.5 Details of the Problem Formulations For Optimization.
18.5.1 Problem Formulations for Project-level Decision-making.
18.5.2 Problem Formulations for Network-level Decision-making.
18.6 Chapter Summary.
Additional Resources.
19. Use of Geographical and Other Information Systems.
19.1 Introduction.
19.2 Hardware for Information Management.
19.3 Software and Other Tools for Information Management.
19.3.1 Non-GIS Relational Database Management Systems.
19.3.2 Geographical Information Systems.
19.3.3 Internet-based GIS.
19.3.4 Video-log Systems.
19.4 GIS Applications in Transportation Systems Evaluation.
19.5 Existing Information Systems and Information Management Systems.
19.4.1 Data Items for the Various Modes.
19.4.2 Existing Databases useful for Transportation Systems Evaluation.
19.6 Software Packages for Information Management.
19.7 Chapter Summary.
20. Transportation Programming.
20.0 Introduction.
20.1 Why Programming is Necessary.
20.1.1 Optimal Investment Decisions.
20.1.2 Tradeoff Considerations.
20.1.3 Linkage to Budgeting.
20.1.4 Efficiency in Program and Project Delivery.
20.1.5 Monitoring and Feedback.
20.2 Relationships between Programming, Criteria List Size, And Analysis Levels.
20.3 Methodology for Programming Transportation Projects.
20.4 Problem Formulations for Programming.
20.5 An Example of Programming Process at a State Transportation Agency.
20.5.1 Initiation of the Process.
20.5.2 Coordination with Local Areas.
20.5.3 Statewide Review and Program Update.
20.5.4 Program Update and Budget Confirmation.
20.5.5 INSTIP Development and Coordination with MPO TIPS.
20.5.6 Public Review and Final INSTIP.
20.5.7 Quantitative Approach Used.
20.6 An Example of a Program Development Process at the Metropolitan Area Level.
20.6.1 The CDTC TIP Process.
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I propose that all academics with research specialties, no matter how arcane (and nothing is too obscure for Wikipedia), enroll as identifiable editors of Wikipedia. We then watch over a few wikipages of our choosing, adding to them when appropriate, stepping in to resolve disputes when we know something useful. We can add new articles on topics which should be covered, and argue that others should be removed or combined. This is not to displace anonymous editors, many of whom possess vast amounts of valuable information and innovative ideas, but to add our authority and hard-won knowledge to this growing universal library.
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Come check out one of our speaking sessions and come by the Zen Lounge (Las Vegas Hilton) on Sunday night for a casual meetup.
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During budget talks last week with Gov.-elect Maggie Hassan and members of the Legislature, N.H. Attorney General Michael Delaney bemoaned the cost borne by his office for fulfilling requests under the state's Right-to-Know law.
According to Delaney, his office spent nearly $400,000 and nearly 4,000 hours over the last two years meeting the demands of RSA 91:a.
"We need to make this information available to the public, but the cost to produce government records about actions taken in the past is materially undermining our ability to perform current functions," Delaney later said, according to the Nashua Telegraph.
While Foster's doesn't believe there is any singularly bright idea to alleviate all this cost and time, we do have some suggestions.
Public officials — at any level — should start with the assumption that anything they do, say or write is subject to full disclosure.
Don't try to flirt with exceptions in the Right-to-Know law. Don't try to mix one part legal matters with nine parts budget talks and claim the privilege of closing the doors to the public. And when there are potential legal matters involved, don't assume that just because there is an exclusion available under RSA 91: a that it should be used. Right-to-know exceptions should be last-resort options.
Put another way, assume when challenged in court that you — the public official or board — will lose.
Such was the case as David Taylor challenged the Oyster River School Board over how it went about replacing top school district administrators. Taylor won not only once but twice. And on one of those occasions the court ordered that he be reimbursed for attorney's fees — a rare event that only occurs under egregious circumstances.
If Delaney is going to get one more red penny from state coffers, it should be to modernize computer systems to make state records more available to the public. Many right-to-know requests could be shortstopped by putting records online and making them searchable with 21st century computer upgrades.
Unfortunately that won't happen with a paternalistic, we-know-better-than-the public view of the Right-to-Know law.
Somehow, Delaney needs to inculcate into the heads of public agencies throughout the state the meaning and intent of RSA 91: a, which begins with these words:
" Openness in the conduct of public business is essential to a democratic society. The purpose of this chapter is to ensure both the greatest possible public access to the actions, discussions and records of all public bodies, and their accountability to the people."
These words must be taken to heart by those who serve the public trust, not dissected and examined under a microscope for fissures and cracks in which to hide information. And, while we greatly appreciate the many improvements made in recent years to the Right-to-Know law, Foster's would like to see more teeth put in the mouth of RSA 91:a so that fewer and fewer public officials will even attempt to keep information from public view.
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Last weekend I got to knock over Naxx25 with my guild, which was a great experience.
I started this weekend out knowing that I wasn't up for anything as grand. I knew that I wasn't going to be raiding with my guild for 2 reasons.
- I wasn't going to really be available till late, as I was babysitting.
- I really wanted to give my time to my mates instead.
When I logged on I raced over to the Argent Tournament grounds and struggled to do anything… I mean anything. The quests may seem great to many, but all that lost flying time makes this casual raider a sad boy. On top of that the jousting isn't going all that well for me.
I have decided that the whole charging thing is a bit too hard when I am 0.5-1 second behind the AI, so I am doing it the hard way with shield breakers and hand-to-hand. If I don't get it right, the NPC opponent just laughs at me because I am taking too long.
Still, soon enough I will be a champion, and the Turbo Mechanostrider will be mine.
I got the call up to join our 10 man attempt at Naxx. The big question being whether to tackle the quarters that hadn't previously been cleared, or go the normal way.
In the end, the Arachnid quarter was the 1st to fall.
Which brought up one more achievement for me.
Next stop was the Plague Quarter, once again, easy peasy.
While I was there I picked up this cool staff…
I love it, crazy little bat winged skull.
and I love my new cloak too…
Cool Cloak, cool staff, Cool Gnome!
I kinda love all the skull and wraithy things I am picking up…
Anyway… we decided we would give the Military Quarter a go, not really expecting to clear it, but what the hey!
Yay… well that's the end of a great weekend, 3 quarters of 10 man Naxx cleared. The boys were going to go back on Saturday, but as we all know, I never play Saturdays….
Or do I…
Yep, that's right. I scored a leave pass to finish it all off..
Last quarter down, so that just leaves Sapp and KT, looks like I am going to clear 10 man Naxx the weekend after clearing 25 man Naxx.
Look out Sapp, here we come!
Whoah.. 2 for the price of one!
Not that I had to do anything special to meet the lack of Frost resistance gear requirement…
We hammered KT for a while then, but I think the closest we got was 40%.
Once again the guys were going back for one last go on Sunday night… but as we all know, I only play of Fridays!
Can you say Sunday leave pass?
Yep, I was back.. 3rd night in a row!
But I had a dilemma when I logged on.
As soon as I did, I was invited to 25 man Eye of Eternity, which was an even bigger dilemma considering I had picked this up on Saturday night…
But my commitment to my mates (and my desire to finish Naxx10) came 1st
Someone was polymorphing rabbits left right and center… Seriously, are you afraid of a DeathKnight when it is all white and fluffy like this? Who would be.
Actually this Death Knight had been suffering to my lucky rolls for the previous two nights… can you say 100 & 98 & 96?
He was smack talking me before the KT attempt… so I brought him down to my size with a little BabySpice.
Not my 1st use of Baby Spice mind you.. I actually used it on a bear riding Tauren in Dalaran.. no real reason, just felt like doing it. He got the surprise of his life.. I saw him riding up and down the streets with lots of exclamation marks over his head.
BTW, those of you that suffer from "I got a mammoth and I know how to plant it in the Dalaran fountain" problem… this is the solution… show the world how big their appendage really is.
Where was I…
Oh yeah… lying bleeding on the floor of KT's room. I would like to say that in gaining this achievement I lived long enough to make a difference, but that would be a lie.
At this point I would like to show that UberHunter, that joined our raid group, the finger… my big fat middle finger.
He was with us for our 1st 2 attempts at KT.. from the moment he joined our raid he was dissing us.
- Complaining about group makeup
- Complaining about the existence of our Hunter Mate
- Slagging us off for any little error.
- Slagging ranged off for not taking down the Soul Weavers fast enough (Err Ummm… you are ranged…what the hell were you doing?)
After the 2nd attempt he declared we were full of fail, and that we should give up and go home. He thought it was a waste of his time.
Before I could type and post…
… to raid chat, he was kicked.
At which point he started laughing saying how he wasn't going to leave the instance… and how he was going to return later with his mates and one-shot KT in a way we never would.
Don't know what your problem was, but even I with only 2 weeks of 80 under my belt, and 1/3 of your purples was doing more dps!
So for you, I have one image…
So in 2 weeks of raiding at 80, I have now cleared both Heroic 25 Man Naxx and 10 man Naxx.
I think the 10 man Naxx is all the sweeter because it was harder just relying on our 10 bodies, especially for me that had only seen the fights once before. The final struggles on KT just made it all the more worthwhile.
Ohh and the point of the title of this post was that overall, I came in 6th in damage, so at 1st assumption I am still not putting out the dps that is required (OK, I require of myself). Yet, for those fights that I survive, like the final KT fight, I am consistently in 2nd or 3rd position.
I just need to live long enough…
Is 2,000-ish dps OK for 10man Naxx doing FrostFire Bolts?
So after asking the question the other day, Is it better to raid with pugs, than not to raid at all?, the answer has to be yes.
After all, the Death Knight finally one a roll or two, and walked away with a T7 headpiece token, while the rest of us left with bags full of loot as well.
A quick shout out and thanks to all the other Puggers that joined us over the weekend. I really appreciate your patience and commitment!
On a final note, what is the point of being an Ambassador of the Alliance, if you can't even drop into the Horde Tent at the Tournament?
Gnomer and Out!
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The Epistle reading for this past Wednesday (13th Week of Matthew) was 2 Corinthians 10:3-6:
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
Let's focus on the verse, "bringing every thought into captivitiy to the obedience of Christ." The book, "Confronting and Controlling Thoughts: According to the Fathers of the Philokalia" by Fr. Anthony Coniaris will help us understand what St. Paul means to say.
Nous – Intellect – Mind
Bp. Kallistos Ware: "The Nous is not primarily the rational faculties but a spiritual vision that we all possess though many of us have not discovered it. It must be cultivated through study and training and developed through prayer and fasting. It can be something higher than the reasoning brain and deeper than the emotions."
Fr. Anthony Coniaris: "The nous is designed to preside over the person as the hegemonikon, meaning the dominant leader or ruler of the personality. Yet, because of the Fall of man, the nous has been wounded and is now subject to disruption by epithymia, by the desires imposed by the powerful passions. It is only by God's grace and askesis, discipline, resistance, that man can be healed and come to prevail over the epithymia (desire) of the passions through the power of the Holy Spirit."
"The nous is the highest faculty in man, through which—provided it is purified—he knows God Unlike the dianoia or reason from which it must be carefully distinguished, the intellect does not function by formulating abstract concepts and then arguing on this basis to a conclusion reached through deductive reasoning. But it understands divine truth by means of immediate experience, intuition or simple cognition."
St. Anthony the Great: "The intellect is not the soul, but a gift of God that saves the soul."
St. Gregory of Sinai: "Instead of a book the intellect has the Holy Spirit; instead of a pen, it has the mind and tongue; instead of ink, it has light. So plunging the mind into the light that it becomes light, the intellect, guided by the Spirit, inscribes the inner meaning of things in the pure heart of those who listen."
The Nous abides in the heart. "It is not that which goes into man's mouth (food) that defiles him, but what comes out if it" (Matt.15:11), "for thoughts come out of the heart" (Mt.15:19).
Unify Mind and Heart; Descent of Mind into Heart
In praying the Jesus Prayer, "Lord Jesus Son of God, have mercy on me," St. Nikiphoros recommends that the intellect (nous) descends into the heart so they are united.
Bp. Kallistos Ware: "So long as the ascetic prays with the mind in the head, he will still be working solely with the resources of the human intellect. On this level he will never attain to an immediate and personal encounter with God. By the use of his brain, he will at best know about God, but he will not know God."
"The intellect/nous is in the heart but the heart is much greater than the nous. The heart includes volition, the will to choose to follow God's commandments. It also includes the faculty of loving and desiring God. Thus, the three faculties of the heart are: 1) To know God with the nous, 2) To love God with the heart, 3) To choose freely to follow Him."
St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain: "The heart of man is like the center of wheel where the spokes connect all the senses, the powers of the body and the activities of the soul."
Conscious Mind and Unconscious Heart
Problems arise when the thoughts of the conscious mind are at odds with the desires (passions) of the heart, the unconscious as expressed by St. Paul in Romans 7:22-25.
Satan strives to invade the heart through temptation. There in the heart sin is born and there in the heart hell is born. That is why many people walk around with a portable hell in the hearts. "Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnesses, blasphemies" (Mt.15:19).
Logismos – Thought is Precursor to Passion
St. Gregory of Sinai: "Distractive thoughts are the promptings of the demons and precursors of the passions, just as such promptings and mental images are also the precursors to particular actions. There can be no action either for good or evil, that is not initially provoked by the particular thoughts of that action."
The Fathers of the Philokalia describe logismoi as essentially a train of thoughts that befog and pollute the mind so that bit by bit it drifts away from reality into a world of fantasy .Logismoi are important because all battles are won or lost first in the internal dialogue of the mind. For example, virtue is natural to us while vice is unnatural. Yet vice is made to appear far more attractive than virtue because the logismoi step in, and backed by demons, darken the mind, preventing it from seeing the beauty of virtue, while clothing vice with an artificial attractiveness.
Filtering Thoughts
How can we best resist the logismoi or evil thoughts that attack us? Every day we need to make a decision as to which thoughts we will allow to enter our minds. We need to screen them carefully and with great discernment. What do we read, watch on TV, movies we see, company we keep? We need to "take every thought captive to Christ" (2 Cor.10:5).
Keep the windows to the five senses covered with spiritual nets of prayer and vigilance (nepsis). Meditate regularly on the fearful and awesome judgment; think of heaven and hell.
St. Theodoros the Great Ascetic: "Think also of the blessings which await the righteous."
An odd little word is used in the Psalms. When it appears it is always found at the end of sentence. The word is 'selah' and it means "Stop! Think! Meditate on what you just read!" This is the same word the Fathers of the Philokalia ask us to use when we are assaulted by evil thoughts. "Stop, Think, Pay Attention." In Greek, "Proskomen!"
St. Theophan the Recluse: "After every thought has been banished from the soul by the memory of God's presence, stand at the door of the heart and watch carefully everything that enters or goes out from there."
St. Gregory the Theologian says we should be virgins, not just of the body, but also to be virgins of the ears, the eyes and the tongue because every sense that wanders with ease, eventually and inevitably sins.
Evagrius of Pontus: "Be the door-keeper of the your heart and do not let any thought come in without questioning it. Question each thought individually: 'Are you on our side or the side of our foes?' And if it is one of ours, it will fill you with tranquility."
Jesus said, "Watch and pray lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak" (Matt.26:41).
St. Philotheos: "Concentrate the scattered intellect though the thought of death and the remembrance of Jesus."
Dealing with harmful logismoi is like tending a garden. Flowers are beautiful but they require constant care. We must pull out the weeds every time they appear because left unattended they quickly take over and then there is no more garden. Hence, we need daily to pull the weeds and tend the soil. By discouraging and renouncing the evil, we are encouraging the good.
Guarding the mind is like watching TV and changing channels in order to screen out the bad and be very selective about what we allow in through the senses. This is why the Philokalia urges us to "cut off' the incipient evil thought (logismoi) immediately with the Jesus Prayer. This is how it works. By diverting our thought to God, the Jesus Prayer defuses the power of the bad thought and expels it from the mind.
If we do not control our thoughts, then they will control us.
Today's gospel reading (13th Sunday of Matthew 21:33-42) is Jesus' parable about the landowner of the vineyard. We can think of the vineyard as our own heart. Who are we going to lease out to? If we're not careful, we will lease it to vinedressers that will beat, kill and stone the servants which are the teachings and commandments of God. If we let them, they will eventually seek to kill the Son of God, Christ within us. Remembering the fate of these wicked men, let us exercise watchfulness and prayer, leasing out the vineyard of our heart to the good thoughts and the remembrance of our Lord Jesus.
Fr. Richard Demetrius Andrews is the pastor of St. George Greek Orthodox Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fr. Andrews is the past president of Minnesota Eastern Orthodox Christian Clergy Association (MEOCCA), and a volunteer chaplain with the St. Paul Police Department.


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8088 MPH by Hornet, CRTC, and Desire wins a Meteoriks award. Great work Phoenix and Trixter!
Added YouTube cross-link ability, so embedded videos will now show up in search results. Still need to populate the catalog more. Jeremy Williams joins Hornet.
Added additional information about the Hornet Wikipedia page (original wiki markup and some extra notes), as well as the 'Demographics: Behind the Scene HD' featurette to the homepage.
The archive is now being fully self-hosted again. A most hearty thank you to Bryan Abshier for hosting the archive on his server for many years.
We now have SSL enabled by default so the NSA won't store your S3M music module preferences in their database. :)
General refresh of the site. Thanks for the feedback and input from the old crew.
Removed /code/images/ldpcxtga.zip (PCX and TGA image conversion) by author's request.
Confirmed both the SceneSP and Madtracker mirrors are no longer in service. Thanks to their admins for hosting and sorry to see them go.
We continue to try to revive the Hornet Archive Wikipedia page. Let's give a shout out to Josh Kellermeier for trying once again to appeal to the admins for reinstatement. Please contact us if you'd like to help with the effort.
The Wikipedia article about this archive is being recovered. It'll take some time to get it back up to snuff. Feel free to help out: Wikipedia Hornet Archive Recovery.
The SceneSP mirror at ftp.scenesp.org seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Anyone know what happened to it? We've disabled links to that site until it is restored (or maybe it is gone for good?).
The Wikipedia article describing this archive has been deleted by their admins, because all the info in it was "without a single reference to an independent source." We'll do what I can to get it back. Any Wikipedia experts / sceners wanna help lend a hand getting this important article out of "deletion review" status?
After a couple year outage, the Hornet Archive is back up at its original location, hornet.org. The official hosting site for this archive is still at hornet.scene.org, but we may put some updated content here.
Thanks to Brett Neely (GD) for hosting a demoparty in the SF Bay Area this past weekend.
Mind Candy Volume 2 was released last year.
Finally got the website back up. Mind Candy 2 (MC2) very close now.
The following two songs were found to be corrupt, and removed from the archive:
- /music/songs/1998/z/zai-phar.zip (Pharao's Theme by Zaigamor of Breakthrough)
- /music/songs/1998/z/zai-swmp.zip (The Swamp by Zaigamor of Breakthrough)
Reverified archive mirrors:
- BE - Yannick Delwiche's MadTracker ftp site. Now has a complete copy of content. Syncing updates nightly.
- ES - SceneSP. Has an outdated copy of content, and I don't have any contact info for the maintainers.
- NL - scene.org. Has a complete copy of content, and is being sync updated nightly.
A fixed version of /music/songs/1996/k/k_lead.zip has been found, and the file has been readded to the archive.
- /demos/1993/t/tzpython.zip (Monty Python by Twilight Zone), updated party info, reflecting #1 demo at The Gathering 1993.
- /demos/1993/j/jungly.zip (Jungly Kitchen by Twilight Zone), updated party info, reflecting exhibition demo at The Party 1992.
- /music/songs/1996/k/k_lead.zip (Leadership by Astrid, .IT) was corrupt, and has been removed.
- /code/library/multikit.zip (Multimedia Library for xmode ops on GUS) was found by McAfee to have a virus, and was disinfected.
- Note: many directories have a web page index that is leftover from the old days. If you come across one of these pages, don't be surprised of many of the links are broken. I'm keeping those pages around for reference and historical purposes, but they aren't being updated. These pages aren't linked from this main page -- you'd have to go hunting to find them -- but I think some search engines still have links to them.
45 songs added from Mekka/Symposium 1997. /music/uncatalogged is no more.
16 new /graphics/images have been added to the archive. In a routine check of files in the database vs. files on disk, a few missing entries turned up. Most were from the Kernel 1997 graphics compo. These files were uploaded 6 years ago, but never got cataloged properly. Well, now they are.
Additional files cataloged: 20 songs from Takeover 1998, 33 songs from The Gathering 1998, 1 song from MOV97, and 34 songs from Remedy 1998.
Major site revamp. You can now limit general searches to a single subdirectory. The Suggestions feature has been added to highlight some of the best productions. Browse ability lets you inspect individual directories via FTP (see the 00_index.txt file in each dir). Some of the site links have been replaced with graphical buttons. Search output has been reformatted for better readability. Mind Candy Volume 2 is on the way, and there are even rumors of a Music Contest 7 in the works.
It's official. scene.org will be hosting hornet.org. All web and ftp content has been migrated over. Just waiting for DNS to kick in.
The archive has been saved! I've found places to host files and content, following the Apr 26 relocation.
This archive (web site and file server) will be going down before April 26th, 2003. Over the past year, I've been paying to host this machine out of my apartment. I'm moving, and hosting will not be possible in the new place. I want to keep this archive online, but don't know yet how it can be done. Stay tuned.
This archive hosts productions from the PC Demoscene released from 1987 to 1998. Musicians, graphics artists, and coders all uploaded their creations to the /incoming directory on our ftp site hosted by Walnut Creek CDROM. Our team of dozens of reviewers rated and catalogged these productions.
We released news and reviews in our weekly newsletter DemoNews. In total there were 150 episodes. Check out our final issue, DemoNews 150, a more representative issue like DemoNews 147 including file uploads, our futuristic spoof issue DemoNews #314, and Hugi's review DemoNews.314 - What is true?
We hosted 6 international Music Contests; the most recent still have their original contest pages online: MC5 and MC6. We also released many albums, CDROMs, DVDs, and Blu-ray disks: Escape (1994), Freedom (1995), Hornet Underground vol. 1 (1996), Hornet Underground vol. 2 (1997), Hornet MODs vol. 1 (1997), Hornet MODs vol. 2 (1997), MindCandy vol. 1 (2002), MindCandy vol. 2 (2006), and MindCandy vol. 3 (2011).
We hope you find something entertaining here at the archive.
Try watching our documentary Demographics: Behind the Scene HD, a classic demo such as Second Reality by Future Crew (1993), a modern demo such as Masagin by Farbrausch & Neuro (2008), or even a demo we made with OTM Explicit which placed 3rd in the NAID 1996 democompo.
Arguably one of the best writeups about the archive was on Wikipedia. However that page was deleted in 2010 due to a lack of documented sources verifying the archive existed. We have been trying since then unsuccessfully to reinstate the page. If you have energy or inclination please help us restore the Hornet Archive Wikipedia page by throwing in your support in the comments section.. Here are additional links to the original wiki markup and some supplemental notes which may help.
The Hornet Archive was opened on Sep 4, 1992. It ran continuously for the next 6 years, and 16,234 files were catalogged (7.1 gigs in total). On Sep 22, 1998 the archive closed, and for the next several years was idle.
Several years later Jim decided to put together MindCandy, a collection of demos on DVD. On Feb 17, 2002 the archive was partially restored, and a new search engine was created. Thanks to scene.org for hosting and mirroring our site in the long years since the archive closed in 1998.
We also would like to thank Bryan Abshier for hosting the website for about a decade, ending 2014. Currently the website and main ftp site are hosted with Digital Ocean, and scene.org continues to mirror the files and make them available via ftp.
Hornet includes Jim 'Trixter' Leonard, Pim 'Stony' van Mun, Brett 'GD' Neely, Christopher 'Snowman' Mann, Andy 'Phoenix' Voss, Jeremy 'Jer' Williams, Dan Wright, and several other alumni and friends of the family.


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Just about the only thing that could possibly redeem the stupid term "muffin top" is an extremely goofy novelty rap song by a mother of two with lyrics like, "You're a mother-fucking warrior who likes to eat cake." (She sang softly to herself, waiting in line at the bakery.) And what do you know? The Internet has obliged!
Today.com reports it's the work of Erin Keaney, a 43-year-old Toronto comic. "I wanted my girls to know that I love my body," she explained. "I just don't think we should feel like we have to be somebody else," she added. "Just be your best you." As a bonus, Keaney reminds me just a little of Doctor Who's Donna Noble, as played by Catherine Tate.
Perhaps alternate with the just-dropped "Partition" video?


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At the weekend, quite by accident, I came across a new social networking site, especially for genealogists. Call it the Facebook of family history, if you will. You can join groups, add groups, make friends, contact participants … just about everything is covered!
So, why not get wise … get GenealogyWise …. visit www.genealogywise.com and tell them I sent you!
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


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Miranda Lambert, 'I'm Ready To Kick A$$ Again'
By Lauryn Snapp
April 11, 2019
Miranda Lambert, fresh off her performance at the 2019 American Country Music Awards, is ready to release butt kicking music in June.
On the ACM Red Carpet, the Pistol Annie's member says she is ready to take risks and be fearless when it comes to her music. "I'm happy, and I'm healthy, and I'm ready to kick a$$ again," Lambert told the Tennessean.
Singing a mixture of "Kerosene" and "Gunpowder and Lead," Miranda Lambert smashed the ACM Award's stage Sunday night with her powerhouse vocals and stunner black cut-out top.
RELATED: Miranda Lambert Feeling 'Good As Hell' In Glam Jam.
This fall, Miranda will launch her all-female 'Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour' alongside Maren Morris, Tenille Townes, and Ashley McBryde. Tickets go on sale on Live Nation on April 12!
Photo Credit: Getty Images.


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A positive pregnancy test - taken by a man as a gag - led him to find out he had testicular cancer.
The man, whose name hasn't been publicly released, found an unused pregnancy test that had been left in his home by his ex-girlfriend. As a joke he decided to pee on the stick and was shocked when he received a positive result.
He posted a comic about the result on Reddit to share the strange story. But savvy users urged him to see a doctor.
"If this is true story, go see a doctor. Pregnancy test detects increased HcG level. In male around age of 30s, increased level of HcG could indicate Embryonal Carcinoma or choriocarcinoma," one reader commented.
"If this is true, you should check yourself for testicular cancer. Seriously. Google it," another wrote.
Pregnancy tests check for the presence of a hormone called beta human chorionic gonadotropin, Medical Daily reported. In pregnant women the hormone appears in the urine and blood as a result of the growing placenta. But other conditions can produce the hormone - like testicular cancer.
The man visited his local GP where tests revealed he had a small testicular tumour which was caught early enough, although he may still have to have his testicle removed.
- www.nzherald.co.nz