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Here is something that every American should be aware of when it comes to the issue of releasing terrorists back in the world. A report describing how these former detainees are going back to militant and radical terrorist groups was supposed to be released back on February 2, 2009. It has not yet been released and according to the New York Times, Obama administration officials were the ones behind keeping the report under wraps:
|The Pentagon promised in January that the latest report would be released soon, but Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said this week that the findings were still "under review."
Two administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the report was being held up by Defense Department employees fearful of upsetting the White House, at a time when even Congressional Democrats have begun to show misgivings over Mr. Obama's plan to close Guantánamo.
And writing for the Weekly Standard, Thomas Joscelyn has this:
|But the contents of the report deal with a hotly contested issue–one that is being debated throughout the media and is not going away any time soon. Therefore, the public has a right to know the facts and evidence accumulated by the DOD regardless of the implications for the Obama administration.
This is especially true because the Pentagon had previously released a similar report on June 13, 2008. The report we've been expecting since earlier this year, and which only the New York Times now has a copy, is merely an update of that June 2008 report, which is freely available online. There is no good reason the updated report, as well as further updates, cannot be released in a similar fashion.
Indeed, the differences between the June 2008 report and its successors are especially troubling. Perhaps those differences explain why an updated version of the June 2008 report would be especially problematic for the Obama administration as it attempts to close Gitmo.
The June 13, 2008, report noted that 37 former detainees were "confirmed or suspected" of returning to terrorism. On January 13, 2009, seven months later, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said that number had climbed to 61. Now, according to the Times, the DOD has found that same metric has risen further to 74–exactly double the Pentagon's estimate just 11 months ago.
Critics point out that even with 74 recidivists the total number of former detainees who have returned to terrorism is "only" 14 percent of the 534 total detainees who have been released from Guantanamo. But this ignores the fact, as explained above, that the recidivism rate is continuously increasing.
And what would be the main reason for this recidivism rate increase? Simple. Terrorists no longer fear what the American government will do to them if captured. No, this didn't start with the Obama administration.
Democrats had been working to undermine the anti-terrorism efforts of the Bush administration long before Obama got elected. Those efforts are now paying off for the terrorists who see a Democrat-controlled U.S. government that is weak on terrorists, but hard on those who would protect us from terrorists.
Not only have the Democrats been undermining those would who protect us from terrorists, but they are also undermining our security by pretending that such terrorists are not that big of a threat to us. Hence, the supressed report.
Any Democrats reading this blog can feel free to defend their party by commenting on this post.
You can access the original Weekly Standard article on-line here:
See No Evil
Thomas Joscelyn
The Weekly Standard
May 20, 2009
And you can access the original New York Times article on-line here:
Later Terror Link Cited for 1 in 7 Freed Detainees
Elizabeth Bumiller
New York Times
May 20, 2009
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Nearly two-thirds of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll give the hiring of Doug Marrone as Buffalo Bills head coach a grade of A or B. Only 7 percent of readers give the team a failing grade.
Marrone, 48, replaces Chan Gailey, who was fired New Year's Eve. Marrone spent the last four years as head coach at Syracuse University, his alma mater. He also has seven years of NFL coaching experience, including three years as offensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints and a four-year stint as the offensive line coach of the New York Jets. For two of the three years when he ran the Saints' offense, it ranked No. 1 in the National Football League.
The hiring of Marrone is the first major move by St. John Fisher College graduate Russ Brandon since team owner Ralph Wilson promoted Brandon to president and CEO and gave him full authority over the entire organization's operations.
Four out of five respondents view Brandon's promotion as a positive for the team.
The Bills were 6-10 in the 2012 season and missed the NFL playoffs for the 13th consecutive year.
Some 505 readers participated in this week's poll, conducted Jan. 7 and 8.
How do you grade the hiring of Doug Marrone as Buffalo Bills head coach?
How do you view Russ Brandon's promotion to president and CEO, giving him full authority over the team's operations?
Very positive: 34%
Somewhat positive: 47%
Somewhat negative: 14%
Very negative: 6%
We anticipate the Russ Brandon-Doug Marrone combination to yield big dividends for the Bills and look forward to making next year's playoffs.
—Victor E. Salerno, CEO, O'Connell Electric Co. Inc.
It's hard to figure that Mr. Marrone could be the best choice with a record of 25 wins and 25 losses. Syracuse is not a top national football powerhouse, and his pro experience is minimal. Is his hiring another cost-saving idea? I wish Russ Brandon all the luck in the world when he starts with this kind of change.
—Ken Pamatat, Creative Images
We have a great opportunity to attract world-class talent to a truly struggling team—and we get an inexpensive coach. Why not Lovie Smith, Andy Reid or Jon Gruden? It makes me sad to think that we "think small." Would Jim Kelly think small or second-rate?
—John Cogan, CEO, Vantage Benefits Group
Doug Marrone deserves credit for turning around the Syracuse program, which was all but irrelevant just a few years ago. His record at Syracuse is deceiving when you consider the first few years were spent stocking a cupboard that was completely bare. Most notably, he was able to develop game plans and schemes that matched his players' capability instead of just pursuing some ideological playbook—more than I can say for Chan. He is a solid coach who will bring discipline and consistency to Buffalo.
—Drew Reagan, Modular Comfort Systems
As an SU grad, (I think) it is sad to see Doug Marrone go. The program is on the upswing, and we hope someone can fill his shoes with the same approach to the game. As a Bills fan, I believe there were better choices as far as NFL head coaching experience, but if Doug can deliver the same message he did at Syracuse, get the team to buy in to his program and add a few key players (Russ will help with that), I see a winning record in three years.
—Daryl Wolf, SU class of '78
Marrone can't rig his schedule in the NFL in order to bolster his record (where he only managed 7-6). Syracuse is a second-/third-tier football school, and they aren't very good at that level. Well I guess we get what we pay for, and my only hope is that all Bills games will be blacked out next year so I can watch good games.
—Cliff Milligan
They hired Marrone probably because he was the "cheapest" they could get. Owners aren't serious about being contenders again. It's all about revenue. All the coaches since Marv Levy have been poor choices. Russ Brandon's promotion is laughable, too. What has he done to make the franchise better since he has been involved? Sad, sad, sad. They ought to sell the team to the fans. Let it be a publicly traded stock like Green Bay; maybe then priorities will change for the better.
—Bob Evans
Of course time will tell, but at least Marrone is not one of those NFL retreads; those guys are not going to help.
—David Lamb
The Brandon move reminds me of some of the local corporate changes historically announced with great fanfare, and it's just the same birds in the birdcage switching perches. Between (former team president Tom) Donahoe and (former head coach Marv) Levy, Russ was given some "football" responsibilities, I seem to recall. How did that turn out? Marrone's revamping SU is not in the same universe as the Bills' task. For practical insights about pro personnel challenges in the NFL, John Feinstein's book "Next Man Up" is very informative.
—Jerry McCabe, Irondequoit
Marrone could be a great choice or the next in a series of mediocre coaches. At least he is not a retread like Gailey and (former head coach Dick) Jauron. But he will need better players to be successful. Brandon has been part of the management team that has turned out one bad football team after another. We will now find out if the organization has been handicapped by ownership or their own incompetence. I suspect the latter. Overall, I'm not enthusiastic about these moves.
—Dennis Ditch
Donald Duck would be an improvement over Chan Gailey. Suggest you wait a year before rating Marrone.
—Jim Weisbeck, Bloomfield
I'm hopeful. Both Sean Payton and Herm Edwards spoke highly of Marrone, as have others. I'm not certain about Brandon, as he has just received the title to the position he effectively held for years. Maybe not so much of a change—and we need change here. Let's see how the coaching staff develops and the draft goes. We have good players; now we need coaches!
—Don Dorschel
Could they have done better than Marrone? Certainly. But could they have done worse? Absolutely. At least they did not hire another "retread" who had limited success in the NFL and expect them to be successful in Buffalo. What amazes me is that they interviewed more than three to five candidates and made a decision in less than a week. Not sure if that is great due diligence! I hope they were interviewing prior to the firing of Chan and were not forced into making a hasty decision.
—Gary M. Baker, president, Cochran, Cochran & Yale
Hopefully Marrone will turn out to be a diamond in the rough. He is substance over form (big-name) pick. Let's be honest: Buffalo didn't have a lot of options. Tough to recruit a big name into this market. In my view, Russ Brandon is a solid, smart guy who is trying to bring Buffalo into the new age of football. Time will tell the tale of how successful he will be now that he has the reins!
—P.J. Guisto, managing partner, JC Jones & Associates LLC
The mark, B, and being somewhat positive will go up or down depending on 1) the staff he assembles; 2) how he handles our free agents; 3) the draft; and 4) what he does with Fitzpatrick. Turnaround can come quickly in the NFL, but it is usually driven by the quarterback.
—Rich Mileo
The Bills are due for some luck. Perhaps Mr. Marrone will bring it. I'd like to hear Jim Kelly's opinion.
—Greg Reynolds East Rochester
Actually, the Bills should be allowed to move on out of the area. We keep paying for their stadium and their management can't put together anything other than an embarrassment of a team. As for the personnel changes? Who knows they're all wild cards with low probability of success.
—Wayne Donner, Rush
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What were the best debut by a Wrestler when they first appeared in the WWF/WWE. Here's mine
Tazz (Royal Rumble 2000) - prior to the first PPV of the new millennium, Raw is War episodes would show gimmicks of Tazz entrance music interrupting some matches, Tazz was not yet revealed until the Royal Rumble as Kurt Angle's mystery opponent, at Madison Square Garden, Kurt Angle was undefeated, never been pin when Tazz made a huge impact, forcing Angle to tapped out with his finishing moved. the fans chanted at the start of the first match of the evening "We want Tazz" "We Want Tazz"
Booker T (2001 King of the Ring) - In the triple-threat match for the WWE championship involving champion Steve Austin, Chris Jericho and the late Chris Benoit, Booker T, the WCW champion showed up and put WWE champion Stone Cold Steve Austin into the table, WCW was already purchased by Vince McMahon around that time when WCW wrestlers began showing their stuff in the WWE.
Diamond Dallas Page - was it Raw or Smackdown when he revealed himself as the stalker to Undertaker's wife, Sarah, Page used the Undertaker's music entrance with his face covered, he used the lines "Undertaker, make me famous."


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Hot and Smoky aubergine curry
My nose is tingling as I begin to tell you about what I experienced last week. I taught a cookery class that shifted me emotionally.
It was a community based cookery class, which means that it was for local Londoners and not for profit. I always, agreeably expect a mix people, from different worlds to join me in classes like this. This time too, we had the world in our classroom; a lady, who spoke Spanish and then translated into English, used every opportunity to convey to me how it's done in Spain. She spoke tenderly and her eyes were damp. I'm blushing when I admit, that a few years ago I might have considered this as decelerating the class but this time I felt calmly assured about this gentle lady. It turns out that she has an embolism on her lung and that she lived alone. She filled with tears as she expressed how much she looked forward to attending community classes and passionately, generously offered to sew some more of skilfully made aprons for the cookery school. She overflowed with love and told me that there are choices; show spirit and keeps busy, or not.
A gentleman who walked and talked unhurriedly made much conversation with me and as he filled in a technical term for me, which escaped my mind, I warmed to the way he spoke. I like intelligence. It evolved with his telling me of his trekking in Africa and I told him about my mother's family being expelled from Uganda. He told me about his brother, who despite having high-end cars and a focus on achievement hadn't really lived. As we surveyed spices and checked textures, he drew pictures in my mind of his sisters contrasting life in Italy, living on fresh produce from her garden and feeding many friends, around a laughing table. She has lived. He asked the question on why people should judge themselves or others, for simple choices in life when it is so short.
From a chirpy massage therapist to a man with no fixed abode, from a seasoned cook from Mauritius to someone who gave me the first smiles of acceptance after three cookery classes together. You know the interesting thing? Often in these classes there are light quips about the menu being entirely vegetarian or some vocalised disassociation with spice. There are sometimes questions, 'so you aren't from India then', but in this class, there was simply overwhelming and unanimous praise, encouragement and enjoyment. There were no leftovers. There were empty plates. There were huddles around an iPad as they all perused my blog with intrigued eyebrows and sighs.
'They really like you Deena, you've really given them something today, they loved the food too', the cookery school manager stopped to tell me. It wasn't all about the food I don't always do good things. Sometimes I do darn silly things. But in that class, I took some lessons and I felt emotionally shifted.
One thing they did note is that it's not all curry on the site, even though we did cook a couple during the class. These days, I've been hankering for something with a proper kick. I fancied a curry with attitude; a curry that isn't weakly vegetarian as so often and unfortunately vegetarian curries are described to be. I have been visualizing thick, red gravy with some deep and juicy tones….you get the idea. For me, aubergines can go badly wrong if they are watery, understated and without garlic. Luckily this dish is none of those. Where does the fusion come in? Well, as I served this dish the smell in Mexican but taste is Indian because I use Mexican guajillo chillies as well as chipotle to give smoky aromas and a total block red colour. This is not one for the faint hearted. This is a bold curry, it's alive.
Ingredients to serve 4-6
Two large aubergines
7 desert spoons of plain yoghurt
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. ground coriander
3 dried chipotle chillies
2 dried guajillo chillies
3 tbsp. cooking oil
¼ tsp. mustard seeds
One large onion, finely diced
2 bay leaves
6 green cardamom pods
6 cloves
6 cloves of garlic
Salt to taste
350ml water
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. smoked paprika
- Cut the aubergines into large cubes and marinate them with the yoghurt, ground cumin and coriander. Leave them in the fridge for at least an hour.
- Take the chillies and gently heat them on a non-stick pan and let the aromas release before soaking them in the water for 30-40 minutes.
- Once the chillies have soaked, grind them to a paste with the garlic and then leave it to a side.
- Heat the oil and add the bay leaves, mustard seeds, cloves and cardamom pods. Allow the seeds to pop and then add the onion and salt then soften the onion until it is lightly golden.
- Add the chilli and garlic paste and fry for a minute until the oil surfaces.
- Now add the aubergine, with the marinade. Sprinkle in the paprika and lemon juice. Turn the flame to a low level and cook the aubergine for 5-8 minutes before adding the water.
- Now simmer the aubergine for 45-50 minutes until the aubergine is tender and the curry gravy is thick.


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Newly declassified files from Britain's Ministry of Defense shed further light on why the military shut down its UFO desk nearly three years ago: despite a surge in reported sightings, the expensive operation just had no defense benefit.
The National Archives has been releasing declassified Ministry of Defense files on UFOs for the past five years. The 10th and final tranche released Friday covers the work carried out during the final two years of the Ministry of Defense's UFO desk, from late 2007 to November 2009.
The 25 files detail reports of alien abductions, sightings, offers to develop weapons to shoot UFOs out of the sky — and the reason for the UFO desk's shutdown.
In more than 50 years, no UFO sighting report "has ever revealed anything to suggest an extraterrestrial presence or military threat to the U.K.," the memo said.
The records show that 2009 saw 600 UFO sightings and reports — triple the number of the previous year and the largest ever number of UFO sighting reports since 1978, the year "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was released in cinemas.
Whatever the reason behind the surge — some files suggest the popularity of releasing Chinese lanterns at weddings was behind it — the decision was taken to close the desk.
"The level of resources diverted to this task is increasing in response to a recent upsurge in reported sightings, diverting staff from more valuable defense-related activities," the documents said, with one saying the desk "merely encourages the generation of correspondence."
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I've found them all four, but the Brands Hatch track doesn't work.
First of all, the image in the track selection screen has a piece that's in a wrong colour (I'm not that good in english, so I don't know how else to discribe it) There's a part that needs to be gray, but it's purple.
Now that's not a problem, but when I start the race/training etc. GPL crashes to the desktop with a error message. I think I've downloaded like 10 tracks yesterday, the other ones are all running without any isseus.
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It was early 1977 and I was in the Atlanta IBM Education Center. I had come to Atlanta from Jacksonville, Florida, where I had spent almost a year as the Data Center Director for an insurance company's computer subsidiary. My boss had been convinced by IBM that our company should convert from the DOS/VS operating system that we were running on our IBM mainframe to OS/MVS. So far, so good. The gotcha' seemed to be that the nice-and-easy Job Control Language (JCL) that we used to run DOS jobs had to be converted to MVS JCL and we also had to recompile and reassemble all of our programs with the MVS version of the compilers and assemblers.
Before I get too far along, I should tell you that my basic belief about operating systems was that they were an inconvenience. We programmers had gotten along just fine without them and, it seemed to me, that operating systems were no more than IBM's way of collecting information that was none of their business. Further, I felt that DOS JCL, with as little as it did, was a nuisance. Every programmer that I knew had a box on their desk filled with generic DOS JCL cards. When you needed some JCL to test a program or print a tape, you just shuffled through the cards, grabbed what was needed, put them on the front and back of your card deck, and took it to the computer room. I now knew that the data center operators did the same thing. I also had the nagging suspicion that with OS JCL, things would never be the same again.
The fact that the class that I was attending was scheduled to last five days should have sounded an alarm about the degree of difficulty with OS JCL. I learned the Report Program Generator language (RPG) at a three day class. I learned COBOL at a four day class. It was only years later that I found out that the creator of OS JCL, Fred Brooks, called it the worst programming language ever invented -- and I was supposed to teach that language to the staff when I got home. Another clue about either JCL or the project to convert from DOS to MVS should have been the diversity of my fellow students. Typical IBM training is geared to a homogeneous audience. If it's a COBOL class, the students are programmers. If it's a DB2 class, the students are database administrators. As we went around the classroom for the obligatory self-introductions, I realized that some students were systems programmers, some were data center schedulers, two were application programmers, one student was an IS Director, and then there was me. As I remember, there were about a dozen students setting out together to learn OS JCL and not one of us really knew what we were getting into.
My classmates were of such a wide range of backgrounds because of the nature of the project, itself. It was to be a one-time endeavor and more than a few installations were using the process as a good excuse to make other changes. For our part, the company that I worked for used third-party software like sorts and print-spoolers and we intended to return to IBM utilities as part of our conversion. "You know", my boss said, "while we're going through all of the jobs, anyway, why not save some money?"
Who could argue?
After introducing ourselves to one another, the class began with our instructor telling us that there were only two JCL commands that were absolutely required to run a job: not surprisingly, the JOB command and the EXEC command. Well, I thought to myself, kinda' like DOS JCL.
Let me take a moment to describe DOS JCL -- and it will only take a moment. For instance, if I had written a program named DANPROG that read cards and wrote the data to an output tape, I would need some DOS JCL to execute the job. Like OS, all DOS JCL statements began with the double slash in columns 1 and 2 of the JCL card. In DOS, the slashes were followed by a space. First, there was a JOB statement and a typical DOS JOB statement, for me, was // JOB DAN. That was it for the JOB card. Since my program had a tape, I needed a TLBL statement. A typical TLBL statement looked like this: // TLBL DANTAPE. When the operator mounted the tape, he would place an ASSGN card in the deck to show which tape drive would have the output. Of course, there was an EXEC statement -- // EXEC DANPROG. When there was card input, the cards followed the EXEC statement and the last card in the entire deck was a card with /* in columns 1 and 2. Wrap a rubber band around the cards, give it to an operator, and go to lunch. There were additional, optional parameters that could be used and, for disk files, there were a pair of statements (DLBL and EXTENT) that could get tricky, but why bother? As I said earlier, things would never be the same with OS.
My hope that this new JCL might be like DOS JCL was quickly crushed. Let's once again take that simple JOB statement and my little program to read cards and write them to tape. Here's the new, improved, JOB statement:
//DANJOB JOB (Some Accounting Information),'Some Comment',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=0, // MSGLEVEL=(1,1),NOTIFY=USERID
It took us all day to master the new JOB command. We left, at least the old timers did, whimpering. To encourage us, our instructor told us that on Tuesday we would learn about something called "data sets". A data set, he explained, could reside on any storage medium. I think I ordered a room service meal and went to bed early.
We would spend two days learning about the Data Definition (DD) command with which we could describe data sets. I discovered that the output tape from DANPROG now needed a DD command that looked like this:
//DANTAPE DD DSN=Something,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=800,DSORG=PS)
The DSN (Data Set Name) parameter was for catalogued names. It seemed that we were going to have to replace our hand-logged tape file names with a new disk-resident tape catalogue. For disk files, the DD command was worse, much worse. We spent most of Wednesday talking about defining disk data sets.
By Thursday, I was reeling. Surely the EXEC command couldn't be complicated, I reasoned. And, at first blush, it seemed to be so:
What was the purpose of the PGM= parameter? I asked our instructor. To distinguish it from something called "cataloged procedures", he enthused. He was sure that cataloged procedures, where we created streams of JCL statements, loaded them to disk, and gave them a name; would be the real strength of our new installation. We talked about cataloged procedures on Friday.
If a student had an early Friday afternoon flight, he was to be excused early. Thankfully, my flight was in the mid-afternoon and I left our class, certificate of completion in hand, at our lunch break. This conversion was going to be a nightmare, I convinced myself and I wondered if there wasn't some way that I could get out of doing it.
In the years since 1977, a library of books has been written about OS JCL and college courses are still taught on the subject. For a decade, a prosperous cottage-industry arose around DOS-to-MVS conversions. Consultants got rich, systems were written to assist companies with the conversion effort, and small fortunes were made. But not for me. I spent the next six months teaching JCL, writing JCL, testing JCL, cajoling others to write JCL, cursing at JCL cards, and, finally, succeeding.
In the end, for programmers, it was still just a nuisance.


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Julia diLiberti
Program: Humanities
Julia diLiberti believes people can learn as much from the arts as from the "hard" disciplines, such as science and engineering.
"I maintain that everything I know about politics and power I learned from Balzac, who captures aspects of the human spirit as well as any political scientist," explained diLiberti, who has a background in literature. "As I read more and decided to figure out why an author referenced this painting or that opera, I realized that I enjoy delving into the origins of culture and exploring the historical development of the arts that do so much to enrich our existence."
She brings that excitement of exploration to her Humanities students as well as a wealth of experience outside the classroom. For example, diLiberti spent a year in Benin, West Africa, working on education reforms and spending time with teachers in classrooms. She has served as assistant director of a women's shelter run through Family Shelter Services in DuPage County. And she taught at both Purdue University and Bradley University, all before coming to College of DuPage in 2003.
While admitting to once wanting to be the person to put English subtitles on French movies, she became hooked on teaching as a graduate student.
"I would have these great exchanges with students or see changes in them through the duration of the class," diLiberti said. "The opportunity to share knowledge and exchange ideas with a diverse student body is a job that is rarely duplicated in other settings."
Ideally, she wants her students to gain an understanding of and a curiosity for the subject matter and the relevance of arts to daily life.
"I sometimes ask students to imagine a society with no arts, and we speculate on how that society would look, evolve, survive," she said. "Ultimately, students conclude that the arts would be hard to suppress since they are so vital to the expression of who we are. So, I want them to just notice on a daily level how much the arts really do impact their lives.
"On a daily level, a great deal of inspiration comes from my colleagues, who talk about the ways they reach their students and prepare them for what's ahead. I've been known to steal a technique or two from colleagues, and I look to those with good relationships with their students to inspire my own teaching."


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My friend, Mark Korsak, and I went to see the Odd Nerdrum exhibit at the Forum Gallery. The canvas are huge and the paint is masterful...although I didn't really connect with them until I closed in on the key figures, but when you do connect, it's a powerful hit. And you could say that the work is strangely...science fictional.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
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- Bob Eggleton (Zillabob) said...
I too, love Nerdrum's stuff in an odd(no pun) way. The more you look, the more there is to see. Has the same attraction as Bacon's, and sometimes Giger's work-deformity and disease. Things seem ill at ease and dystopian as a thread that runs in his work.
- Jack Ruttan said...
That's quite a name.
What I saw of his work here reminded me of cosmic Bourgereau. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
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His Business is Laying An Egg (Mar, 1952)
I think that an "Eggs Laid While You Wait" place would make a killing in Brooklyn today.
His Business is Laying An Egg
Everybody knows a tree grows in Brooklyn, but it took Murray Weiss' egg farm to prove that hens could thrive there, too.
By H. W. Kellick
THERE'S a chicken ranch deep in the heart of Brooklyn where hens lay eggs while you wait.
More than 3,500 white leghorns working on the fowl line in this indoor farm deliver about 130 dozen eggs daily. And they are sold direct to the consumer.
The indoor farm, known as the Weiss-Way Egg Farm, is an idea developed by Murray Weiss. A former farmer and graduate in husbandry of the New Jersey State Agricultural School, Weiss conducts his business on a purely scientific system.
Each chicken is treated as an individual personality. She receives personal attention from Mr. Weiss just as though she were a patient under a doctor's care. Then, when the hen reaches the age of 5-1/2 months —having been bred by Mr. Weiss in his own hatchery—she is housed in one of the 3,500 cubicles that line the indoor farm.
When the hen goes into business, she gets a chart. Mr. Weiss keeps a daily record of her production. If she fails to deliver a minimum of 175 eggs the first year, she is replaced by another chicken and sold for meat at the city markets.
Usually, a hen is in the egg-laying business for about three years. In the second year, her production drops about 20 per cent; more in the third year. Then she, too, is sold for table food.
Customers are constantly amazed at the daily egg production at the indoor farm. Many have seen their first chickens actually laying. Some customers have favorite chickens and watch them through a glass wall. Then, Mr. Weiss gathers the eggs in a basket and wraps up the order.
Many customers are surprised to learn that a chicken lays eggs without being mated with a rooster. Weiss constantly has to disillusion his uninformed city folks. "Mating a hen with a rooster is primarily done for hatching," Mr. Weiss tells the curious ones. "And we use one rooster for every 18 hens."
Murray Weiss has been interested in poultry husbandry for 25 years and gained first hand experience on farms in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.
One day he was talking to a big poultry producer who bemoaned the fact that his profits were small compared to those of the middlemen—the wholesalers, retailers and brokers.
That gave Weiss some food for thought. He called on brokers, wholesalers and retailers and found out the margin of profit each made on eggs before they reached the consumer. The idea of an indoor farm lodged in the back of his head.
Thus, in 1936, armed with $3,000 he had saved as a farm worker, Weiss invaded Brooklyn to try out his idea. He ran into one immediate obstacle—zoning laws.
After a three-month search, however, Weiss found a spot at 15 Fairfield Avenue which was far enough away from thickly populated sections. He rented the building, which he now owns, and started in business in the 20-by-80 foot structure. He built individual cubicles out of pine boards and chicken screening. Then, he bought 600 hens and had a big sign painted "Eggs Laid While You Wait," which he strung across the outside of the building.
People who saw the sign stopped and gaped. Many thought it was a gag, so they wandered into the indoor chicken ranch. Sure enough, chickens were laying eggs. Surprised by the truth of the sign, the doubting-Thomases decided to try the freshly laid eggs. They raved about the quality.
Soon, they were coming back for more, bringing new customers with them.
Word-of-mouth advertising spread throughout Brooklyn. People drove to the egg farm from distant points and placed regular orders with Weiss.
As business boomed, Weiss expanded his plant to a 40-by-100 foot one-story building. He arranged his production factory in tiers three decks high with 100 cubicles on each deck. This not only conserves room but also affords Weiss an opportunity to keep close check on each hen.
This caged method tends to produce fresher eggs than those which are laid on outdoor farms. The reason for this, explains Weiss, is that the normal temperature of a chicken is 106 degrees. When a hen lays an egg outdoors, she generally sits on it for a long time keeping it warm. But, eggs, to be absolutely fresh, must cool off immediately after passage. When a Weiss hen lays an egg indoors, it cools off because it immediately rolls down a chute into a basket.
The age-old theory that white eggs are better than brown is disclaimed by Weiss.
To prove his point to skeptics, Weiss imported from South America five Auracuana chickens that lay green eggs. Although Weiss proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the color of shells had nothing to do with quality, customers still insisted on white eggs.
When chicks are about 12 weeks old, Weiss vaccinates them against fowl pox and bronchitis, immunizing them for life. In this way, he keeps his mortality down to almost zero.
What's more, when the chickens are raised in cages, they are free from poultry raisers and farmers who are common carriers of virus. Weiss does not allow poultry dealers in his plant for just that simple reason.
Weiss' egg ranch has turned into a tremendous business, contracting for feed by the year. He uses two tons of mash each week plus 500 pellets. He breeds about 3,000 chickens a year. Oddly enough, his operation is run by just himself and one .helper for the compact system is very efficient. And this two-man operation brings a fine return to the men who run it.
When people say that Murray Weiss' business is laying eggs, he just laughs. "Sure," he says "golden eggs."


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PORTSMOUTH — Economic recovery in the Seacoast will be the topic of the Seacoast Board of REALTORS Annual State of the Seacoast News Conference.
The breakfast meeting gets under way at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, February 6 at the Portsmouth Country Club in Greenland.
Tickets are available at the door or in advance by contacting Barbara Lemieux at the Seacoast Board of REALTORS, 433-9990.
The Seacoast Board will host three distinguished guest speakers:
David Mullen, the executive director of the Pease Development Authority, Cliff Sinnott, executive director of the Rockingham Planning Commission and Daniel Gray, managing director of the Coastal Economic Development Commission.
In addition, John Rice, immediate past president of the New Hampshire Association of REALTORS, will review the latest Seacoast sales statistics and trends.
Rice is a former two-term president of the Seacoast Board of REALTORS.
David Mullen, a former real estate broker himself, was also the former Director of Economic Development for the PDA before assuming his current position March 2009. Sinnott was formerly Director of Research at Technology Research Group, Inc., and has led the Rockingham Planning Commission since 1988. Dan Gray has been managing director at CEDC for 12 years. He was nominated by three New Hampshire governors for and currently serves on the NH Community Development Finance Authority, where he was a past chair.
Economic recovery on Seacoast agenda
PORTSMOUTH — Economic recovery in the Seacoast will be the topic of the Seacoast Board of REALTORS Annual State of the Seacoast News Conference.


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Testing Consortium Crafts College-Readiness Definition
Twenty-five states have taken a big step toward designing a shared assessment: They've drafted an initial definition of what college readiness means, and descriptions of the skills and knowledge students must demonstrate at each step of the way toward that goal.
Released today, the college-readiness definition and the descriptors of achievement on each level of the test are part of the work of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, one of two federally funded groups of states that are designing assessment systems for the Common Core State Standards.
Smarter Balanced is soliciting public feedback on the documents through Jan. 15. States in the consortium will then revise them, with an eye toward final adoption in March. Even after that, however, the achievement levels will be considered to be "initial," since they will have to be validated—and possibly revised—by longitudinal research on how students at each level of the test perform when they actually get to college.
You can view the documents, and provide feedback, on a special page of SBAC's website.
Twenty-three other states have already completed their own college-readiness definition and achievement-level descriptors. That was done through the other assessment consortium, PARCC, which released its final college-readiness definition and achievement-level descriptors earlier this month.
Reshaping Tests, College Coursework
These steps by both groups are important, because they will shape the design of the tests that nearly all students in the country will take in mathematics and English/language arts, define what students should know how to do at key points in their education, and carry powerful signals about whether they can skip remedial work in college and enroll in entry-level, credit-bearing courses.
The Smarter Balanced work is the product of a string of meetings in the last few months, culminating in a drafting workshop in October. For the drafting, the consortium's 21 governing states (four additional SBAC states play only "advisory" roles) nominated classroom teachers, curriculum specialists, and others from the K-12 world in their states, as well as professors, lecturers, and other front-line members of two-year and four-year colleges. Members of the consortium's validation and psychometrics work groups, as well as its own math and ELA directors, and other subject-matter experts participated as well, according to Jacqueline E. King, SBAC's director of higher education collaboration.
The documents show that Smarter Balanced is working toward a test with four achievement levels, unlike PARCC, whose test will have five. King said that the four-level design is tentative, however; if the test will yield enough detailed information about students to support five achievement levels, it could still go that route. Students who take the 11th grade test and score at level 3 or 4 would be deemed "college content-ready."
Skipping Placement Tests?
What does that college readiness mean, however? This is a pivotal question for K-12 and higher ed. in every state that participates in the common assessments.
At this draft stage, SBAC's answer is that students scoring at level 4 would be viewed as having a "deep command" of the knowledge and skills associated with college readiness, and should be "exempt from developmental coursework" in college. Those at level 3 would be viewed as having a "sufficient command" of that knowledge and those skills and would be exempt from remedial coursework "contingent on evidence of continued learning in grade 12."
A key element of SBAC's definition is that students who perform at levels 3 and 4 are demonstrating the skills and knowledge necessary to be ready for "entry-level, transferable, credit-bearing" courses in English/language arts or math. The inclusion of the word "transferable" is intended to address the no-man's-land that many students can find themselves in when they take credit-bearing courses in community college that don't transfer to four-year institutions.
States in the Smarter Balanced drafting workshop for these documents decided not to name specific credit-bearing courses for which students can qualify by scoring a 3 or 4, King said, to allow colleges to examine their own curricula and decide for themselves. In math, however, the draft document was constructed specifically to spark feedback on a key question: Should students qualify for entry-level, credit-bearing college courses in statistics as well as other kinds of math? The draft says students scoring at level 3 or 4 would qualify for courses in statistics as well, but that could be revised once feedback is evaluated, King said.
Another key element of Smarter Balanced's college-readiness definition lies in what it doesn't say. Unlike PARCC's definition, it doesn't say that students scoring a 3 or a 4 are exempt from placement tests. It says they are exempt from remedial coursework.
King explained that states sought to "support the movement to multiple measures," and honor the fact that colleges might want to use other information, such as grades, high school coursework, admissions-test scores, in making decisions about which credit-bearing courses to place students in. So while students scoring a 3 or 4 are exempt from remedial work, they might still have to take a college's placement test, King said.
Students scoring at level 2 and 1 have a "partial" or "minimal" command of the necessary skills and need additional support before they can be considered college-ready.
Like PARCC, Smarter Balanced is careful to state in its college-readiness definition that its assessment will measure only the academic skills and knowledge students need for college. This is a nod to the growing recognition that a long list of other factors—from family educational background to persistence and good study habits—exert a powerful effect on higher education success.
Drilling Down to the Grade-by-Grade
Smarter Balanced's achievement-level descriptors are far more detailed at this point than are PARCC's. (PARCC is still working on its grade-by-grade descriptors.) The SBAC document breaks down the overall goals ("claims," or statements of what students can do) into specific test targets for each grade and describes what performance on those targets should look like.
In English/language arts, for instance, the test seeks to make a claim about students' skills in each of four areas: reading, writing, research, and speaking-and-listening. In math, the areas are problem-solving, communicating reasoning, modeling and data analysis, and concepts and procedures. Within each claim are numerous areas, or "targets," the test seeks to mine, and a description of what performance would look like at each of the four achievement levels.
In language arts, for instance, claim 4 is that students can "engage in research and inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information."
For that claim, 3rd grade students who score at the lowest level of the test should "be able to rely on limited research/inquiry methods to produce a perfunctory or unpersuasive explanation of a topic." To reach the level 2 threshold, a student should be able to "rely on research/inquiry methods to produce an overgeneralized or inconsistent explanation of a topic." Level 3 would require him to use research to "explore a topic and analyze findings in a reasonable and thorough exploration of a topic." Scoring at level 4 would require using research "as a way to engage with a topic; [students] analyze, integrate, and present findings in a persuasive and sustained exploration of a topic."


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A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 4, Mageia 7, PCLinuxOS, MX 19, PicarOS, Elive 3, and AntiX 13.
sábado, 24 de julio de 2010
On Variety and Linux
Of course, it has been argued that it is this same variety that scares potential migrants away from the free operating system. This idea is true up to a certain extent. First, Windows hegemony has been grounded on a myth that is beginning to fall: people once believed that the learning curve of a different-than-Windows OS was high. We know that Linux can be as friendly as any other OS. I have seen cases of computer users who made no progress in Windows, but once they got Linux, they felt more at ease when using their computers. On the other hand, Windows XP users have refused to adopt Vista 7 because they are also afraid of the learning curve. So, this idea that Linux is difficult to use is slowly fading away.
The other situation that is contributing to overthrow fear of options is fueled by Microsoft itself. Users who like to customize their systems have become frustrated with the rigidity of Windows 7 Starter or certain well-known problems that the latest MS OS displays, such as the auto-arrange Windows feature. In other words, the less-is-best policy that MS enforces does not seem to satisfy users anymore. Therefore, as users grow more experienced, they abandon this sense of fear of destroying the system if they tweak here and there. Hence, they demand OPTIONS. Options are the threshold of FREEDOM, one of the ideas that the Penguin OS champions.
Of course, recalcitrance is high. Some blame Ubuntu's flops for migrants that go back to Windows. However, even so, there are people who resist going back because of what Microsoft is doing (check the case of the restaurant manager here).
The stagnant adoption of Windows 7 and the possibility of Ballmer paying for it with his job prove that MS's hegemony is cracking up. The world is changing and Linux users are presently more prepared to face the advent of a new paradigm. Why? Well, in a post-globalized world, plurality is perceived as an opportunity, not as a disadvantage. Linux users can handle MORE than one operating system. One day, to get a job, having that ability will be as important as speaking a foreign language is.
In the OS World Championship, I'm rooting for Mandriva (FRANCE). Yet, I am typing this post from Linux Mint (Ireland)...And I love using Mepis (USA) and feel very comfortable with Pardus (Turkey). Yes, diversity ensures survival.
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That idea of handling different OSs as a potential job skill is true...Inevitably, that is bound to happen. Those who see their "Windows-only" advocacy as an advantage someday will be at a great disadvantage...the world is changing!ResponderEliminar
- Llewton25 de julio de 2010, 14:35
I don't know how anyone, except someone with mental health issues, can be "scared by variety". It's like going to buy new sneakers and being disturbed and disappointed that there's 80 models in the store to choose from, instead of 1. That just doesn't hold water. People want variety. That's one of the strengths of Linux.ResponderEliminar
That many of those varieties are not very good that's another problem. But there's also the myth that a distro "must be supported by a company to be reliable". Also not true. As for distro hopping... well I call it "distro hoping" :) Hoping to find that perfect distro, that is. Anyway I've stopped doing that, but I do test almost everything new that comes out. It's great fun.
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer stated in a shareholder's meeting that it's (MSFT) biggest competitor was Linux. Whether it's a multi-developer (red-hat, Mandriva, etc.) or just 2 developers (Peppermint), it is the perfect distro since everything in Linux can be self customized (even the branding).ResponderEliminar
@ Llewton: Interesting observations. However, I really wish your analogy of the sneakers applied to operating systems. You see, people coming from Windows and who know absolutely nothing about Linux think that the latter is just one OS. So, when they find more than 300 distributions, they do not know which one to choose. Thus, they feel intimidated by variety. Of course, that happens when they have no one to guide them.ResponderEliminar
I like your term "distro hoping" :) and you are right; it's GREAT FUN!
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Fall Fling Closes Out 2012 Karting Season
The 2012 season at Emmetsburg Raceway came to a close on Sept 23 with seven classes competing for the "Eagle"?trophies. A total of 38 drivers tried to tame the dry-slick surface, as perfect weather and a nice crowd turned out for the Fourth Annual Star Energy/Dunnigan's Irish Pub Luck of the Irish Fall Fling at the track, located at the Palo Alto County Fairgrounds in Emmetsburg.
In the Putt-Putt class, the first feature saw Jaden Mason chase Lianna Duncan to the last lap where Jaden pulled off the pass for the victory. In feature two, Sam Schmidt picked up the win, leading flag to flag. For the third feature, Keagan Riley and Carter Frank battled with Frank taking the win, Riley placed second and Dylan Wickman finished third.
In the Rookie class, Point Champion Joseph Bonnstetter won with Zayn Feaster placing second and Cameron Scholten finishing third.
Weston Long earned his second Fall Fling title in the Junior One class, holding off Jonathan Hall. In Junior Two, Rebecca Bonnstetter took the checkers over Kolten Long.
Kirk Weber beat out his brother Dillon Weber in the Stock Medium class with Jason Braunschewig placing third.
The Clone Class went to Randy Braunschwieg, who was followed by Josh Braunschweig and Jason Braunschweig in third place.
The 390 Animal Class saw heat wins go to Austin Bonnstetter and Chuck Nattress. In the feature event, the duo would battle to the end with Bonnstetter taking his second Fall Fling feature with Nattress finishing second and Brandon Sohl finishing in third place.


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Hermosa Beach, CA (PRWEB) January 22, 2013
A beautiful, sunny California day provided the perfect backdrop for a fresh start to the New Year for some Southbay residents. My Fit Foods of Hermosa Beach hosted local business pals, Studio Pulse in launching the first ever "Ride for Charity" event benefiting the National Organization, "No Kid Hungry." Locals came out to participate in a 40 minute Spinning class and 20 minute Sculpt class held in the parking lot that provided one killer workout, followed by My Fit Foods signature marinated chicken, a protein-rich meal to recharge and re-energize tired muscles and restore energy.
Studio Pulse (Redondo Beach) and My Fit Foods(Hermosa Beach) have been working together in the Southbay over the past year combining their offerings to bring a simple solution to losing weight and staying healthy. "You don't actually have to look far to find balance in your diet & workout routine. We decided to team up and offer a once a month "Workout and Recharge" event to help people stay fit, lose weight and reinforce the importance of a long-term healthy diet and exercise plan," says Kyler Allison of My Fit Foods. "Small steps lead to big rewards", says Hedi Alavi of Studio Pulse. The combination of healthy food, a great workout, all in an effort to support No Kid Hungry is a win-win situation.
As the New Year unravels, it brings with it the anticipation of a fresh start, new beginnings and all the potential to be the best year ever! The time to put the wheels in motion is now, setting small, attainable and measurable goals that can have lasting effects.
"Feeding our bodies the right mix of protein, carbs, fruits and vegetables, while avoiding the trigger foods that set our bodies out of whack is the key. No hype. No trends. Eating right and working out has always been the key to long-term health, it's that simple," say Elise Hartley of Studio Pulse.
Come find out just what foods the body needs to sustain a healthy immune system, what to eat before and after a workout to maximize the benefit, and how to keep and maintain a healthy weight. Meet the nutrition & fitness experts from MFF and Studio Pulse and get inspired to start the new year with a bang! Stay tuned for the next "Workout and Recharge" workout event at My Fit Foods in Hermosa Beach on February 23, 2013.
About Studio Pulse
Studio Pulse, a Mad Dogg licensed facility, combines Spinning classes with strength and flexibility using fundamental training techniques, exhilarating music and a unique mind/body philosophy, all at a self-directed pace. They hold a very accommodating class schedule for SPINNING and Fusion classes that combine Spinning and Cross Training. Their tagline, "Spin Sculpt Stretch," covers all basics of a healthy fitness routine by incorporating cardiovascular, strength and flexibility training in one place. At 50 classes per week you'll find a convenient time to meet your schedule. Classes are offered as early as 6:00am and as late as 7:30pm. of cardio and strength training.
About My Fit Foods
My Fit Foods was founded in the spirit of service, and they continue that spirit today through their kitchens, stores, schools and communities. Whether you are in need of a quick meal or snack on the go or want take advantage of the convenience and results of their 21 Day Challenge, they are there to make healthy living a reality.My Fit Foods are perfectly portioned meals available in small, medium, and large sizes, made daily with the freshest ingredients. Unhealthy fats, gluten, sodium, and sugar are kept to a minimum, while flavor is maximized with antioxidant rich herbs and spices.
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Weiss uses walk-off to discuss plan for replay
SAN DIEGO -- Manager Walt Weiss admitted that he didn't spend much time reviewing the game-ending hit by the Padres' Jesus Guzman on Friday night.
The ball appeared to be foul, but third-base umpire C.B. Bucknor ruled it fair, and the Rockies lost, 4-3. If the proposed plan for instant replay passes, if a similar play occurs next season, Weiss will have the ability to institute a challenge that would be determined by instant replay umpires in New York.
"I saw one [replay], but it wasn't a great angle," Weiss said on Saturday. "Right after the game, I went in and watched it. To be honest, it was tough to tell from the angle I saw. I don't know if there was a better angle available. I didn't care to look at it after that. After the game I wanted to go in and see what it looked like, but I didn't really research it after the fact."
Weiss has no problem using replay in such cases.
"I like the concept of getting it right," he said. "I think everybody does. Even the umpires have stated that. They want to get it right as much as anybody. I don't think it's going to disrupt the flow of the game.
"It's obviously early in the process. We haven't started doing it yet. Things will pop up that will be a little unforeseen once it gets implemented. The bottom line is, we have an opportunity to get it right. The umpires are only human. They're not going to get it right all the time. They probably still won't get it right all the time. Some of the replays will be inconclusive. But having the concept works."


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HM Magazine Turns 35
In 1985, Doug Van Pelt photocopied a letter-sized sheets of paper, bound them together, and handed them out in person on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. It's all digital now, but, along the way, Van Pelt stirred up quite a few waves, played some seriously heavy music, and made a few friends along the way. Here: A quick look back at the magazine's 35-year history with Van Pelt and new owner, David Stagg.Full Feature More from HM Magazine
Forward Under a Dying Sun
Most of these days, the sun rises and sets on a world that feels like it's dying. Across the pond, where Employed to Serve calls home, they're learning how to support their latest record a year into its release. HM contributor Andrew Voigt recently sat down with Justine Jones to learn more about the band, marrying your bandmates, and their outside shot at touring with Rammstein.Full Feature More from Employed to Serve
Between the White Noise
My Epic's last full-length album came out in 2013; despite a number of EPs along the way, the band's dedication to their craft, lyrical approach, and unyielding approach to let the music come naturally has made them critical darlings. Now, they're learning to interact and feed a rabid fanbase in between albums and in a new normal.Full Feature More from My Epic
Becoming Comrades
The trio of Comrades – husband and wife Joe and Laura McElroy alongside drummer John Gaskil – is used to living in a van and touring the country. Now, their new normal has provided them with a moment to "be adults" for once. We recently sat down with the McElroys to talk more about the spiritual reality within life, how soon they'll be able to release new music, and how koalas are their new normal.Full Feature More from Comrades


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Mapdiva Releases Artboard Drawing Software on the Mac App Store
11.02.08 Indianapolis, Indiana – Today Mapdiva released Artboard 1.0, vector drawing software for Mac OS X. Design logos, posters, floor plans, technical drawings, fun fashions, Web graphics, and more. Use pre-designed templates to create fliers, invitations, signs, and business cards. Artboard is drawing software for everyone. Available exclusively on the Mac App Store.
Artboard delivers with over 1600 awesome styles and fully editable clip art, including speech bubbles, shiny buttons, maps and flags, people factory, and home planning; plus a Library to store your own. Artboard features a powerful style generator and stacked styles that go way beyond simple fill and stroke, providing a wide range of spectacular effects. Artboard is simple, powerful and fun graphic design software that will make school reports and business presentations shine.
Artboard has everything to create your own graphics and illustrations, including:
- Interface designed to work with vector graphics
- Simple and direct drawing controls
- Over 20 tools for drawing rectangles, stars, circles, lines, curves, text and navigating
- Perfectly crisp anti-aliased graphics
- Layers-based drawing
- Smooth Bezier curves
- Beautifully rendered text available with outline, mask, and text on path
- Page and poster-tiled printing
- Automatic graph paper
- Pen tablet support
- Export for web and print the most popular graphics formats PNG, JPG, PDF, and TIFF supporting resolutions from 72 to 600-dpi
- Quick access to iPhoto, Pictures folder, and Smart folders via Image Browser
- Drag-and-drop between popular productivity apps such as iWork(TM) Pages, Number, and Keynote
- Deep Mac OS X integration via technologies such as ColorSync, Quick Look, Spotlight, Apple Fonts palette, Apple Colors palette, drag-and-drop and many other
System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
- Core Image supported graphics card
Pricing and Availability
Artboard is Mapdiva's second vector-based software application for Mac OSX. Artboard 1.0 is only $19.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the Mac App Store in the Graphics & Design category.
About Mapdiva
Founded in 2008, Mapdiva is dedicated to making powerfully easy vector software so you can focus your creative energy on content and design. Mapdiva's flagship product, Ortelius, is the cartography software for map design. Artboard is their latest product. Mapdiva, LLC has offices in Indianapolis, IN USA and Armidale, NSW Australia. Artboard and Ortelius are trademark of Mapdiva, LLC. Apple and Mac OS are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
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Ubisoft reveals Child of Light, a side-scrolling "fairytale game."
Ubisoft has taken the lid off Child of Light, a small Ubisoft Montreal project led by Far Cry 3's creative director Patrick Plourde. Get the first details after the break.
Plourde discussed the project this morning at GDC Europe. Child of Light will be a side-scrolling "fairytale game", created as a deliberate "counterpoint" to Far Cry 3. It aims to capture the "Squaresoft spirit" of PS1 JRPG classics such as the Final Fantasy series and Vagrant Story.
No one has actually seen the project yet. Inspiration for the game's art and music includes Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki and Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano, as well as Disney's Snow White. Plourde described Child of Light as a cross between haunting side-scroller Limbo and classic 16-bit RPG Final Fantasy 6.
We expect more details to emerge during Gamescom, which takes place in Germany throughout the week.
UPDATE: Plourde has shown off a first sample of Child of Light artwork. Apparently this represents how it will look in-game:
IGN's Andrew Goldfarb has managed to nab some footage of the game. Check out his Vine video below:
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From my friend Audi Weitz
Challah Dough
5 pounds sifted flour (sometimes need to add 2 or 3 more cups)
1 cup sugar
4 packets Rapid Rise yeast
2 tablespoons salt
3 eggs
5 cups warm water
1/2 cup oil
For Filling:
1 (8 ounce) container of plain tofutti cream cheese, or cream cheese
½ cup sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1 cup chocolate chips
Put 5 cups of flour in mixer. Add yeast, sugar, and salt. Mix in water, oil and eggs. Mix until well combined and it has no lumps. Add remaining flour one cup at a time. Knead in the mixer for 12 minutes.
Let dough sit in a warm place for 45 minutes to 1 hour. The dough should have at least doubled in size. Punch down dough.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Separate the dough into two large pieces and roll out each piece of dough by hand very flat.
Spread tofutti cream cheese relatively thick in the center of each piece, leaving about a 1 inch border on all sides (use ½ tofutti for each piece). It does not need to be even or perfect as it gets melted when cooked. need to be even
Generously sprinkle the sugar and cocoa on top of the cream cheese on each piece, using ½ of the sugar and cocoa for each piece.
Toss the chocolate chips on top of the sugar/cocoa layer.
Roll as tightly as possible.
Slice into 1" wide pieces and place on a baking sheet and bake for about 20 minutes.


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For the past few days, using a special algorithm we call "first come, first served," we at Rhizome HQ have been busily setting up blind dates (or trying to). This is not only because we want our community to have love and be happy; it's also a way to celebrate the launch of Lauren McCarthy's Rhizome-commissioned iOS app Crowdpilot.
Crowdpilot lets you "crowdsource your social interactions" by audio-streaming them and soliciting advice from your friends, or from total strangers, online. You can download Crowdpilot for free on your iPhone, or you can listen to others' dates, and offer advice to them, by logging in to the project website.
Tonight, from 6:30pm-8:30pm EST, we'll be presenting Crowdpilot as Rhizome's third fullscreen frontpage exhibition (following Vince McKelvie and Molly Crabapple). Visitors to rhizome.org will have the opportunity to listen to, and advise on, any ongoing Crowdpilot sessions that are in progress at that time. We arranged two blind dates, but you can also join in as a dater: just run the app during that time, and it will show up on our front page.


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The Faroe Islands are famous for their waterfalls and towering mountains
This is Gasadalur one of the most famous waterfalls on Vagar Island
While the steep mountains may seem intimidating to humans the sheep are right at home. There are about 55000 people and over 100,000 sheep in the Faroes
This is the famous island of Mykines with it's lighthouse. You may think it looks steep, but when you hike out to the lighthouse you know it is steep!!
The small village has quaint houses, old stone walls, a beautiful view and a coffee shop with lots of hot chocolate for the cold hungy and tired returning from the hike to the lighthouse
The view from the lighthouse is dramatic, but one might ask if this was worth the hike to the end of the island.
But the main attraction of Mykines lies in the steep cliffs on the opposite side which are the home to large numbers of pelagic birds
Gannets are nesting on the cliffside and easily photographed by those brave enough to approach the edge. (Morus bassanus)
Given the height of the cliffs the birds are literally flying right under your nose.
(Morus bassanus)
There are also many puffins to be seen on the island.
(Fratercula arctica)
At rush hour when the colony is returning from the sea they literally fill the sky.
Dramatic peaks peek up out of the ocean making for attactive photography from almost anywhere in the Faroes
But it's hard to imagine that this is the view from someones backyard
The Faroes have been inhabited since around the year 800 so there are plenty of old farm villages with stone walls and sod roofs. This is the preserved village of Saksun
The old churches many of whom have sod roofs are considered a significant attraction for the visiting photographer
Old graveyards accompany most. In some areas there are even 'viking graves' but needless to say not in the church graveyards.
Not every church has a sod roof, but nearly every village has a church. This church is in a small village on the end of Kunoy
Fog is a characteristic feature of life near the ocean and all of the Faroe Islands is near the ocean. One needs of be careful of dramatic high cliffs and there are occassional memorials to those who have fallen while attempting to scale them or even walk along the edge.
As the day progresses the fog lifts and the dramatic view becomes more evident
Only when the fog has fully lifted do you realize there is a large lake off to one side so high on the island that it empties into the ocean as a dramatic waterfall This is lake Sorvagsvatn.
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Wild Beasts | 01/01/70
Wild Beasts release their new single, Albatross, on Monday the 2nd of May 2011. The track is taken from the band's forthcoming album Smother, following on the 9th of May. A very special 7" vinyl version of Albatross will also be available exclusively through Record Store Day outlets on the 16th of April.
Albatross embodies the spirit of Wild Beasts' third album in its tone and texture. Its layers of abstract sounds are combined to form something typically bold and unique. The single sees the band shed their old skin for a fresh blueprint, combining their distinctive vocal, piano and guitar driven melodies with lush electronic sounds. It is Wild Beasts delving deeper, finding a music even more intimate and personal.
The single track (RUG401) is available digitally now, with the bundle being made available on May 2nd. You can download it for free from Wednesday 9th March from the band's Facebook page or for the time being listen to the track here:
Wild Beasts - Albatross by DominoRecordCo
Wild Beasts' forthcoming tour dates are as follows. Summer Camp will be supporting at all shows in May:
Thu 5 May: Gateshead Old Town Hall, Newcastle
Fri 6 May: Oran Mor, Glasgow
Saturday 7th May: Coronation Hall, Ulverston
Sun 8 May: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds SOLD OUT + afternoon matinee performance
Mon 9 May: Y Theatre, Leicester
Wed 11 May: Wilton's Music Hall, London SOLD OUT
Thurs 12 May: Wilton's Music Hall, London SOLD OUT
Fri 13 May: Guildhall, Gloucester
Sat 14 May: City Hall Grand Ballroom, Sheffield
Sat 4th June: Forbidden Fruit Festival, Dublin
Sat 11th June: Isle of Wight Festival
Sat 6th Aug: Victoria Park, Field Day Festival, London
Fri 2nd Sept: End of the Road Festival


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Eucalyptus Print, Plant Wall Art, Printable Botanical Leaf, Modern Minimalist Plant Print, Digital Prints Eucalyptus Decor Large Leaf Poster
This is a digital file so no physical items will be sent!!!!
This is a digital file of my original watercolor painting that was hand-painted by me in December of 2018 using watercolor paints on Hot press paper.
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