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April 30, 2010
Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir lauded the strong economic ties between the Kingdom and the United States during an
at the U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum in Chicago today. The event, organized by the Committee of International Trade within the Council of Saudi Chambers in collaboration with the Saudi-American Business Council and under auspices of the Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Industry, aims at enhancing and increasing bilateral economic cooperation and expanding trade and business partnerships.
"The Saudi-U.S. relationship is in its seventh decade," said Ambassador Al-Jubeir. "It has seen the coming and breaking of many storms. It has been tried; it has been tested. And it has always come out stronger after each experience."
The Ambassador cited a number of statistics to illustrate the depth of bilateral relations, reporting, "Last year, the American Embassy and Consulates in the Kingdom issued almost 70,000 visas to Saudis. Our Embassy in Washington and our Consulates in the U.S. issued over 60,000 visas to American citizens. These are historically high numbers." He noted that the number of Saudi students studying in the U.S. has increased from about 2,300 in 2003 to almost 25,000 today. Furthermore, bilateral investments have reached "unprecedented levels."
Ambassador Al-Jubeir pointed out that the Kingdom and the U.S. are working together to deal with a number of key global issues, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Sudan, nuclear issues, the Mideast Peace Process, the financial crisis, terrorism, piracy and energy. "On all of these, the interests of our two countries are aligned in ways they have never been," he declared. "And the cooperation between our two governments on all of these issues is very extensive." The Ambassador concluded, "We have a relationship that is entering into a new phase, one that will be even deeper and broader than it has been, and one that will hopefully bring prosperity and security and peace to both of our countries."
The U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum is being attended by a delegation of leading Saudi figures, including the Ministers of Commerce and Industry, Finance, and Petroleum; the Chairman of the Saudi Capital Market Authority; the CEOs of Saudi public and private companies and other top businessmen and officials.


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Anyone in the mood to talk about the story of MI 1+2?
I'm desperately looking for monkey island fans who are interested in discussing the story of Monkey Island 1 and 2. I won't ask what the secret of monkey island is don't worry, but I'd like to discuss interesting/weird aspects of the story and I hope you'll mention things you wondered about.
So I'll start with this question:
Right from the beginning you see things which do not fit in the pirate world of the 18th century, e.g. "Employess only" sign on the backdoor in the alley on melee island, the vending machine on stans used shipyard, the sign at meathooks house, breath mints, and later the whole tunnel system thing and many many more. Now one can consider all those things "jokes" and I'm sure they were partly meant as such but Ron Gilbert said about them:
"This isn't a historically accurate game. In fact, you'll see when you play that there are a lot of anachronisms, like the vending machine at Stan's used ship yard. They're there to add humor to the game of course, but they also have a secret, deeper relevance to the story."
So with all this knowledge, where do you think the game actually takes place? Is it the 18th century or is it playing today (or 1990ish when the game was released) and all the pirate stuff is some kind of show?
Please use hints from the game to support your arguments (e.g. one of the pirates during the sword fighting says when Guybrush asks him "Why do you guys talking so funny?":
"Pirate Lingo! It's how everybody talked back then. Come on Guybrush, play along!"
This would be a hint that everything is taking place long after the golden ages of piracy.)
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Solving the secret of Monkey Island?
YES, ME! Hi there!
I have played MI 1-4 several years ago but am still puzzled:
Is Big Whoop the E ticket? Why has the theme park that name too? That "Carnival of the Damned" thing is not connected to Ron Gilberts vision, is it?
Is Big Whoop a gate to hell as hinted in MI3?
I think one should focus on MI 1 & 2 since these are the MI games by Ron Gilbert.
Ron Gilbert says during a chat:
"<Dalixam> Hi Ron, glad to meet you The secret of Monkey Island is probably the most well kept secret ever. Can it actually be seen/found in MI1 or MI2? I'm not asking you to reveal it
<Ron-G> Yes, if you really look at what's going on, you might be able to come close.
<Ron-G> There are a lot of jokes, that aren't really jokes.
<Ron-G> The problem with the Secret of Monkey Island...
<Ron-G> is that it's built up sich a mystic, that when I finally do reviel it, you're all going to go "That was dumb". :-)"
"<DJG> Sort of related to tel's first question, In Monkey Island 2, by the Voodoo Lady we're told that The Big Whoop is a gateway to another world, which still holds true in CMI, but we're also told that its a place where Guybrush can be free of LeChuck forever. However, in CMI, Big Whoop turns out to be the gate to hell. Is this one of the things you would change in your MI3?
<Ron-G> Like I said before, I didn't really have any plans for Big Whoop. I didn't think people would latch onto it, so it was never a part of my story.
<_Dom_> Imagine your surprise. :-)
<Ron-G> As for if I would change that, that's not really a fair question because my story was so different.
<Flirbnic> There are a lot of theories about what the Secret of Monkey Island is...
<Flirbnic> One of them is that there are portals everywhere
<Flirbnic> eg. when guybrush falls down the hole on Dinky Island, he goes through a portal to the hallway world
<Flirbnic> and after Guybrush takes off LeChuck's mask, they go through a portal to the carnival world, where the grog machine came from
<Flirbnic> then there is my theory that the secret is the location of Monkey Island
<Flirbnic> And there is another theory that it's all just a dream that a little boy (Guybrush) was having while in a ride similar to the Pirates of the Caribbean thing...
<Flirbnic> Which of these is closest to the Secret of Monkey Island?
* Flirbnic inhales
<Ron-G> Cold, cold and cold.
<_Dom_> I smell a dead horse.
<Ron-G> One is closer than the others...but not much.
<Flirbnic> Which one?
<Ron-G> the other one."
So I am asking myself: Is the whole end of MI2 a magical illusion or are the adult Guybrush, LeChuck and islands a magical illusion? The theme park at the end of MI2 resembles the MI2 islands...
Maybe, just as Elaine hints, everything that happens after Guybrush and the treasure chest fell down is not real - these strange tunnels with the dead parents, the elevator to Melee Island...
And if the E-Ticket IS Big Whoop, is Guybrush a kid, happy about his Disneyland style E-Ticket? Big Whoop is shown as a theme park at the end, so how can finding Big Whoop
Wait, the Voodoo lady said, that when Guybrush finds Big Whoop, hes save from LeChuck, right?
Its true LeChuck turned into Chucky. I think Im coming close.
But why do both turn into kids? Maybe some kind of parallel dimension? And if so, did the E-Ticket do the trick or LeChucks zapping with the voodoo doll or other powers?
And is LeChuck in control of the whole thing or affected like Guybrush by a mighty magic voodoo power?
Ron Gilbert said in a chat about the MI series look closer grasshopper which is a quote that refers to a situation with a spider being trapped by its own web (a scene from a famous kung fu series or movie).
So MAYBE this is a hint that LeChuck is affected by some magic/dimension jump as well (hence hes seen as a kid).
Now there are hints all over the games that Guybrush is all the time in a theme park there was a acomment from Ron Gilbert that the anachronisms are gags but ALSO have a deeper meaning.
So, are things like the waterfall that can be turned off and the dinosaur on Dinky Island hints that Guybrush IS in a theme park? Just like the grog vending machine at Stans (SoMI) and in the tunnel at the end of MI2 (is it the SAME machine?)?
I found this comment, not from Ron, from some forum user:
"Someone wrote an article for The Scummbar claiming that the secret of monkey island was that the whole adventure was a figment of a young boy's imagination, and that the whole thing took place in an amusment park. Guybrush got seperated from his mean brother, (LeChuck), he walked around pretending to be a pirate, went on the Pirates of the Carribean ride, and so on and so forth. The end of the article had supporting evidence that Bill Tiller said, "The secret is that the MI world is not real."
Important hint from Ron:
"<Ron-G> There are a lot of jokes, that aren't really jokes.
But then there are the glowing eyes at the end and Elaine mentioning the possibility of a SPELL
One guy at YouTube claimes to know this:
"However, in the commentary for the special edition, the developers say that you have to understand a lot of science stuff in order to understand the ending, so maybe it is more complicated than you think. I'm not saying I understand it, but i think it's very deep."
2 more theories from my point of view:
- The E ticket or the defective voodoo doll DO send Guybrush (and LeChuck?) to a dimension of pain (thats called Big Whoop)!
-Or Guybrush is at Big Whoop all the time since MI1 SoMI without knowing that this theme park is sending him to another dimension but when Guybrush finds Big Whoop (= reality) he can escape LeChuck.
I think that Guybrush might enter the theme park at the beginning of MI1 and MI2, thats why he just walks on the scene, but in MI2 he had a beard grown between the two visits/games His behavior, the humor of the game and the complicated puzzles indicate that he is that teenage guy that we see on the screen NOT a kid..
So, in my theories, Guybrush is of the age that we see in the first MI games a teenager (in MI2 he states that hes 19).
Maybe the E ticket is just the symbol the Big Whoop meaning endless youth so to say.
But Elaines mentioning at the end of MI2 hints that that the magic did start when Guybrush was down in the mysterious tunnels (wherever the tunnels are maybe these tunnels are Big Whoop, a gate to another dimension hey, that makes sense. A gate to the dimension where Guybrush gets rid of LeChuck (but not Chuckie) am I getting closer to this?
I believe that the answer really has something to do with a theme park.
Remember Monkey Island 1 - when one of the pirates tells Guybrush: "Pirate lingo! It's how everybody talked back then. Come on Guybrush, play along"?
And in MI1 there is that stump joke - a tunnel sytsem below Melee Island is mentioned!
Of course there are several other things such as the self awareness of the characters, being part of a computer game...
My 2 cents about the parents and brothers thing:
Guybrushs parents state to be loving parents why should they have left him (the bone song scene).
So, I think that they might be dead like Rapp Scallion without noticing it (like when you fall asleep you dont know it, you think you are still awake but the one sleeping next to you hears you snoring
About LeChuck:
One YouTube guy states this:
"Well, they explained it nicely in MI3. There are speculations that Ron Gilbert had plans for his own MI3. One for sure - LeChuck is real in this story."
My thoughts about LeChucks identity:
So, a real LeChuck even suits well with MI3 (which Ron Gilbert find pretty good, but totally different and with some mistakes like Elains charcter).
But IF LeChuck is real, can he still be Guybrushs brother? A pirate that became a ghost pirate and then a zombie?
There is a mentioning of Guybrush being an orphan (some dialogue line from MI2 LCR where Guybrush and Wally are trapped at LeChucks fortress).
I found this chat:
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"<|Woody|> Ron-G: This is probably meant to be a secret too, but I'm really curios about the Guybrush-LeChuck-brother thing. Are they brothers or what? You don't have to reveal all your thought about it, but give us at least a hint :-)
<Ron-G> In one sense, yes they are brothers, in another way, they are not. If you get what I mean.
<|Woody|> uh... not really, but ok
<MrMutton> You mean, we're all part of God's family?
<_Dom_> This doesn't involve incest or anything, does it?
<_Dom_> :-)
<_Dom_> LeChuck's my brother... and my father!
<iMSaved> i dont get it
<Ron-G> Let me put it another way...
<Ron-G> In one sense, yes they are brothers, in another way, they are not.
<CaliMonk> lol
<MrMutton> Ah right!
<_Dom_> :-o
<iMSaved> Are they like brothers in law or something?
<Microangelo> Oh, it's all so clear to me now
<Ron-G> Look closly grasshopper.
<|Woody|> oooh that makes it all clear
<Ron-G> YES, THEY ARE BROTHERS!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!"
So, are Guybrush's parents dead? If Guybrush's adventures on Booty Island are real, they are, aren't they?
This would fit with the orphan thing, BUT only if the skeleton parents are not Guybrushs real parents (since they are LeChucks real parents, hence the voodoo doll is working on LeChuck) OR if they are the real parents of both kids, but in that case Guybrush must have been raised in an orphanage and in MI2 he recognized his parents because he knew them from a photo or something.
Btw, I think that all the Disney references are jokes and are there because the Disney ride Pirates of the Caribbean are a main influence for this game. This does not mean that Guybrush is at Disneyland.
Here are further clues and good guesses about the whole thing:
Does someone really know what Ron Gilberts ideas for a third Monkey Island were/are? I read that he once gave some hints in a blog
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These are sophisticated little cookies, rolled in a generous amount of confectioners' sugar to create a snowy coating that cracks attractively and dramatically on cooking to reveal the sweet dark chocolate interior. With a gluten-free option.
Prep Time: 20M, plus chilling time
Cooking Time: 10M-12M
Serves: makes 16 small or 8 large cookies
Dairy, egg, & nut free
- 3 tbsp granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup self-rising flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
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- Place the sugar in a medium bowl. Sift in the flour, baking soda, and cocoa powder.
- Add the butter and rub in with your fingers until the mixture has the consistency of breadcrumbs. Stir in the corn syrup and mix well. Draw the dough together with your hands to form a ball.
- Divide the dough into 16 pieces for small cookies or 8 for large cookies. Chill them in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350° F. Line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment.
- Roll each piece of dough into a ball and roll in the confectioners' sugar, coating very thickly, before placing on the lined baking sheets. Place the pieces at least 11/2 inches apart since they spread during baking.
- Bake in the oven until attractively cracked on the top and still a little bit soft in the center. Check the small cookies after 10 minutes and the double-size cookies after 12 minutes.
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I think text expansion is most useful on mobile devices, for example the text expansion function baked into iOS 5. Typing on mobile devices is easier than it used to be in the T9 days, but it's still nowhere as fast as on a real keyboard.
Some snippets on my iPhone that I've found especially useful:
But the most important thing when using snippets is to define the snippet sensibly. Of course you'll remember the ones you use a lot, but if you define snippets to be what you're going to type when you've forgotten about the snippet entirely, then you'll get a pleasant surprise when the correct thing is inserted.
And remember it's perfectly fine to have multiple snippets re-direct to the same expansion, which makes it all them more robust.
I use text expansion all the time for:
What transformed text expansion for me was memorizing the shortcut to create a snippet. Knowing how to create a snippet in just a couple of keystrokes made it so effortless that I don't care if I don't use the snippet again. It's such a small investment of time that I find lots of small uses for snippets, and those small uses add up quickly.
I have tried one or two of them in the past and did not think it was worth the effort. Browsers would be the main place I'd use text expansion, but they have autofill built-in now. I reinstall my O/S's every 6 months or so and move address regularly so there would be a bit of maintenance involved too.
Regular text like my name and address I've typed in so many times in my life that it's just about instantaneous entry anyway, compared to thinking about what keystroke combination you've assigned which changed from last week because it clashed with some new program you've installed.
If you're willing to accept the security risk of
You can use a textexpander to store passwords. That way, you can keep a very complex password but assign a short keystroke, giving a kind of "two-factor authentication."
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you could assign that to !4 on your text expander, and easily enter it.
If you lose your device, you are screwed, but the password itself is highly complex.
You can also mitigate the issue by adding additional characters afterwards for different sites.
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Note that my rabbi holds:
That the main commandment of honoring parents is in certain main categories, including providing food, drink, clothing, and certain other things.
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What happens if you take off your mezuzah because its not yours is a bracha required if you change mezuzas?
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The Sefer Kvias Mezuza KiHilchato (Ch 12:15, pg 176) says:
"If you take down a Mezuza to switch it with another, some say that you have to make a Bracha.
In the footnotes he brings Rav Moshe Feinstein (in Oholei Yeshurun, Vol 2, laws of Mezuza, footnote 261) who says explicitly that you do not make a Bracha. He brings the Mishna Berura - in related Halachot - who implies that one should make another Bracha.
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My follower from the companions unfortunately died while on a quest. For some reason whenever I walk through a door or fast travel her dead body follows me. I can't search her body to get my dragonplate armour set back and my new housecarl (or anyone else) won't follow me because I apparently already have a follower. I'm tired of dying alone and being over encumbered. The body is face down not and moving.
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Expanding on the material introduced in AR-111, this course focuses on creating and writing grooves for the rhythm section (guitar, keyboard, bass, percussion, and drums) and the ways in which different grooves work together. Original techniques and practical approaches to creating grooves will be presented, as well as methods to refine and create variations in grooves and scoring with production goals in mind. Styles studied include funk, hip-hop, rock, reggae, and ska; Latin styles, including bossa, samba, salsa, cha-cha, songo, and baion; shuffle, as used in rock, blues, and funk; generic dance grooves such as techno; and pop and Euro-pop. Projects will include transcription, sequencing, and live performance of grooves.
The course covers the necessary tools, techniques, and applications of MIDI sequencing and digital audio for writing and production. Main topics include the MIDI standard and its applications, set up and use of digital audio workstations (DAWs), integration of MIDI and audio tracks/sources, use of software synthesizers, basic mixing techniques, audio theory, equipment, and techniques. Through practical examples, activities, and projects the student will learn how to effectively use a DAW to write and produce music. Emphasis is on technological needs of the contemporary writer.
Building on the content of AR-203, this course provides in-depth study of the capabilities of the software program Finale. Course content includes using Metatools, Hyperscribe, Shape Designer, a broader range of editing tools, and practical shortcuts to efficiently create scores and parts of professional quality. Instruction and project work is accomplished in the Professional Writing Division MIDI Lab.
Instruction in advanced small group writing concepts that encompasses sophisticated rhythm section scoring and groove writing, including writing for auxiliary percussion; an introduction to writing for voices and strings; background writing for horns, strings, and voices; manipulation of elements of large-scale form and structure; creation of complex, layered textures; and hybrid writing techniques involving sequencing and live players. In addition, the course will focus heavily on score and part preparation.
Conceptualizing, writing, and producing vocals; contemporary writing and production techniques for vocal groups of different sizes; working with vocals in live situations versus the recording studio environment; writing background vocals above a band versus a cappella vocal writing. Creating vocal band effects will also be explored. Range considerations, timbre, vocal production, and notation for various size vocal groups; writing and production techniques and considerations for recording studio situations.
Composition of music for radio and television commercials. Emphasis on means of creating suitable product image. Working with, and alteration of, given lyrics. Some lyric writing. Determining proper instrumentations. Timing considerations.


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text: The Royal Mail Steamer named Titanic collided with an iceberg on April 14, 1912 on a Sunday. What is so sad is that over 3,000 people were aboard and over half died due to small amount of life boats. A few other factors played in this tragedy. But moving on, this ship was grand! To top it off, those four smoke stacks made a statement. Three of those funnels functioned, the last one was for design. To sum this up, this tutorial was the most challenging for me. I have never done a ship before and I hate using a ruler. But I've learned so much about this ship, even learning certain terminology. I'm also really happy to have met this challenge. I hope you'll enjoy this tutorial and learn along with me. Please let me know, vote, comment, or just say hi! Love & peace to you.


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Good nutrition. Your heart's in it because you know it's good for your heart.
But you see, there's that one recipe you love, but just don't know how to prepare without all that (fat/sodium/cholesterol).
That's where I come in. It's no hill for a stepper, and if you will send me the original recipe, I can help you prepare it a more healthy way WITHOUT losing all the flavor.
Just like this recipe, that started with 442 calories and is now 224. 992 mg of sodium and now 331. And a whopping 30 grams of fat, down to 13 grams.
French Stew
Chef Karel Anne Tieszen
Serving Size : 8
1 cup dried apples -- (or pears or combination)
1 1/3 cup water
2 cups carrot -- cut in 1/2 inch slices
1/2 cup celery -- 1/2 inch dice
2 leeks -- cut in 1/2 inch lengths
4 ounces bacon slices -- cut in 1 inch pieces
2 ounces ham sandwich meat, chopped
2/3 cup white wine
14 1/2 ounces new potatoes -- canned
3/4 pound smoked turkey sausage -- cut in 1 inch pieces
1/2 head cabbage -- cut in 8 wedges
1. Place fruit in glass bowl and water to cover the fruit. Place plastic wrap over the fruit. Let stand for 12 hours, or microwave for 30 seconds, and let stand while preparing other ingredients.
2. Add bacon pieces in the sauté' pan, and let them begin to curl, but not crisp. Add carrots, celery, and leeks. Sauté' and stir for about 10 minutes.
3. Drain and reserve liquid from the fruit. Add fruit, 1/3 cup of the wine, and 2/3 cup of the fruit water. Stir in the ham. Cover. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer for 20 minutes.
4. Add potatoes, remaining wine, and 2/3 cup of the remaining fruit water. Stir the sausage into the mixture.
5. Place cabbage wedges on top of stew, in a single layer. Raise heat gently. Simmer for about 10 minutes, covered.
6. Remove from heat when fork easily pierces the core of the cabbage wedge. Season with salt and pepper. Serve in large flat bowls.
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Novell continues to reap the rewards of its investment in Linux. The company on Monday reported second-quarter profits of $10.4 million on sales of $293.6 million. The quarter ended April 30 was Novell's first since acquiring SuSE Linux AG. Sales were up 6% from $276.0 million for the second quarter of 2003. The profit was a vast improvement over last year's $28.6 million loss in the same period.
Company officials attribute much of the rebound to the ability to provide customers with a clear migration message. "People who had thought about moving off of NetWare to go to Linux are now finding they don't have to move off of NetWare," Novell chairman and CEO Jack Messman said during a conference call. "They didn't understand what our future migration path was."
Novell's future is Linux, a message the company made emphatically last year with its acquisitions of SuSE and Ximian Inc., a maker of Linux desktop software. Revenue from SuSE-related software and services accounted for about $10 million of Novell's sales for the quarter, Joseph Tibbetts, senior VP and CFO, said during the call. While that's just a fraction of Novell's sales, the combination of SuSE and Ximian products allows Novell to focus on a growing market. Citing a demand for desktop Linux, the company plans to introduce during the fourth quarter a new desktop product called Sundance.
Although Novell's NetWare business continues to decline, sales of the network operating system fell only 5%, an improvement over the 12% drop during the second quarter in 2003. The company also hopes that sales of its identity-management and Web-services products and services will improve as customers learn the value of these technologies, Messman said. Novell's Nsure identity-management and exteNd Web-services offerings represented $24 million in sales, roughly 8% of total revenue for the quarter.
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Seattle Parks and Recreation Jesús Aguirre, Superintendent
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Park Improvements on the Reservoir Cover
A design team, including artist Douglas Hollis, developed the Olmsted-inspired improvements to the newly created four acres of park land on the reservoir cover include a fountain, texture pool, and reflecting pool; promenade paths, landscaping, an irrigation system, and lighting. This new park site invites walking, sitting, reading, contemplation, and informal sports in the meadow.
Earlier phases at Cal Anderson Park included reconstruction of the reservoir with a hard lid and construction of the new shelterhouse, plaza and public toilets. These improvements were identified in the 1999 park master plan, developed with substantial community participation.
Under this project a number of park improvements were constructed above and adjacent to Lincoln Reservoir. Lincoln Reservoir is located in the north half of Cal Anderson Park.
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has reconstructed Lincoln Reservoir with a hard cover over the reservoir. Seattle Parks and Recreation, in coordination with SPU and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, has constructed park improvements above and adjacent to the rebuilt reservoir. Park improvements include a large water feature (fountain, texture pool, and reflecting pool), promenade, paths, landscaping, irrigation, and site lighting.
For information on related projects, see the Cal Anderson Shelterhouse project page and the Cal Anderson Play Area and Other Improvements project page.
Project History/Background:
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) replaced the open-air Lincoln Reservoir with a new underground lidded reservoir to comply with water quality regulations. The park now extends above the reservoir, increasing the size of the useable park space by 4+ acres. SPU did the project in two steps: SPU�s �Schedule 1� work (completed in 2003) is located within the �Olive Corridor� (between the Olive Street right of way and the reservoir). Schedule 1 included installation of a large valve vault and piping connection work that had to be completed before the existing reservoir could be taken out of service. SPU�s �Schedule 2� work is located in the area north of the Olive Corridor. Under Schedule 2 the reservoir itself was replaced and park above and adjacent to the reservoir was constructed.
A master plan for park improvements was finalized in October 1999 after extensive public involvement. The Seattle Parks Board, Seattle Design Commission, and the Seattle Landmarks Board endorsed the master plan. One of the most prominent elements of the master plan is the water feature.
The park is an Olmsted-designed Seattle Historic Landmark. Specific elements of the site are protected, including the gate house and some of the landscaping.
Park History
Cal Anderson Park includes Lincoln Reservoir and Bobby Morris Playfield. Lincoln Reservoir was built after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 and put to use in 1901. Originally named Lincoln Park by the City Council in 1901, Bobby Morris Playfield was one Seattle�s first playgrounds, opening in 1908.
In 1922, the Park Board renamed it "Broadway Playfield" after the main street and neighborhood school to avoid confusion with a new major park in West Seattle which was to be named Lincoln.
In 1980, the playfield was renamed Bobby Morris, after a beloved Capitol Hill coach and who also served as King County Auditor for many years. In 2003, the entire site was named, "Cal Anderson Park" after the state legislator from this area. The playfield retains its name.
Community organizations and individuals were extensively involved in development of the park master plan, securing funding for the project, and the design process. The most active community groups were Groundswell Off Broadway and Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks.
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I'm manipulating a large number of XML files scattered throughout a nested directory structure. I tried the following (which almost works):
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Western Geology Students and Professor Dig Deep Under Frozen Lake for Science
Dr. David Marchetti, professor of Geology at Western, has since 2005 studied the geology, geomorphology and environmental history of the Fish Lake area. The lake sits at 8,800 feet in northeast Utah, in a structural graben, which is a depression between parallel faults. The lake is roughly 6 miles long, 1 mile across and the largest natural water body in Utah.


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Thank for your reply. But this is not the case that you mentioned, everything is correct with the program.
Check your code - it looks like you called MPI_Init and failed to call MPI_Finalize before exiting
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> I am running my jobs on openmpi linux platform. I am getting the following errors:
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> [compute-12-23.local:10203] *** MPI_ERR_COMM: invalid communicator
> [compute-12-23.local:10203] *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL: your MPI job will now abort
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> mpirun has exited due to process rank 11 with PID 10211 on
> node compute-12-23.local exiting improperly. There are two reasons this could occur:
> 1. this process did not call "init" before exiting, but others in
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> [compute-12-23.local:10199] 11 more processes have sent help message help-mpi-errors.txt / mpi_errors_are_fatal
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(Alexandria, Va.) – Today more than 400 people attended the groundbreaking ceremony for Virginia Theological Seminary's new Immanuel Chapel. Nearly three years after a fire destroyed the Seminary's 129-year old chapel, today's service is a major milestone in the history of VTS.
"For thousands of years, men and women have been creating sacred spaces," said the Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, dean and president of VTS. "Deep in our past (just look at Jacob in our Old Testament lesson) to this moment at Virginia Theological Seminary in our present, this has been our human identity. We need, we must, we feel the urge just to create some space that reflects our conviction that human life is part of a bigger picture – a bigger picture that recognizes that we are not just complex bundles of atoms, but beings intended by God and ultimately living for God."
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The new Immanuel Chapel is part of a "Worship and Welcome" quad, which will include an improved welcome center and a new motor court, creating a new gateway from Seminary Road to VTS for its Alexandria neighbors. The remains of the 1881 Chapel have been converted into a garden, which will be dedicated during Convocation ceremonies next month –
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Markham added during his remarks today, "We gather to break the ground – to start a project that will be a gift to the future. We do so in the context of liturgy; we do so in the context of community; we do so with our friends in the wider Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion."
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"What do you think of this?" So began a phone call from Todd Starnes of FoxNews radio. Starnes asked me for a comment on a shocking story: A band at a high school near Gettysburg, Pa., performed a halftime show titled, "St. Petersburg 1917," a musical commemoration of the Bolshevik Revolution, replete with hammers and sickles, military uniforms, and red flags.


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Plum Creek Nature Center
This center features local natural history exhibits, hands-on displays for children, and family programs that are offered throughout the year. Picnic facilities and camping are available by reservation.
Brookfield Zoo
There's more than 200 beautifully landscaped acres to explore at Brookfield Zoo. Highlights include dolphin shows at Seven Seas, ape encounters at Tropic World and the chance for kids to dress up and play veterinarian at the Hamill Family Play Zoo. The zoo also offers an old-fashioned carousel and a wide variety of shopping and dining options.
Weddings at Brookfield Zoo
Say I Do at Brookfield Zoo! Imagine a breathtaking water fountain as the backdrop for your ceremony. Enjoy "Cocktails with the Animals" in one of our magnificent animal habitats. Savor an elegant dinner in one of our beautiful dinner venues. Let your Brookfield Zoo Consultant assist you to create the celebration of your dreams!
Haunted Trails Family Entertainment Centers
Family entertainment center featuring hundreds of games, rides, award-winning miniature golf, Go Karts & Batting Cages, Restaurant/Party room featuring karaoke. October Haunted House (www.frightmarehauntedhouse.com). Birthday party and group packages available.
Amazing Chicago's Funhouse Maze
This Navy Pier funhouse takes visitors on a 15-minute, full sensory experience that challenges and dazzles guests to navigate through a series of mirror mazes set in the great city of Chicago.
Tall Ship Windy
Navy Pier's resident 148-foot, four-masted schooner pays tribute to the Great Lakes' rich maritime heritage during a variety of cruises each day.
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Come aboard Seadog Cruises for the most thrilling, unique way to experience the windy city! Seadog offers Lakefront Speedboat Rides, Lake & River Architectural Tours and Extreme Thrill Rides, all of which are perfect for a solo traveler to a group of 110. Chicago's favorite dog cruises April through October and is available for private charter.
Centennial Fountain and Arc
A 90-foot jet stream creates an arc across the Chicago River for ten minutes on the hour.
Millennium Park
In the heart of the city you'll find a state-of-the-art park designed for the new millennium. Discover the reflective Cloud Gate sculpture, the multimedia Crown Fountain and the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, all with Chicago's stunning architecture as a backdrop. The park is also host to many free cultural programs, concerts and family activities. Plus, there's alfresco dining in the summer and an ice skating rink in the winter.
Chicago River Architecture Tour - Wendella Sightseeing Boats
The Chicago River Architecture Tour is a 60-minute journey through the heart of the city. Led by an architectural expert, this in-depth tour traces the history and innovations of urban architecture in Chicago.
Combined Lake and River Tour - Wendella Sightseeing Boats
The Combined Lake and River Tour offers a comprehensive overview of Chicago, with breathtaking views of the magnificent skyline and an up-close perspective from the Chicago River.
Lincoln Park Conservatory
Step inside and be transported to another place and time! We invite you to take a journey to the Lincoln Park Conservatory where you will find tropical palms and ancient ferns right in the heart of Lincoln Park. Designed both to showcase exotic plants and grow the thousands of plants needed for use in the parks, the Conservatory offers visitors a tropical experience within its four display houses: Palm House, Fern Room, Orchid House and Show House, which is home to the annual flower shows. This historic facility continues to provide an escape to nature to the millions that live in and visit Chicago. No matter the time of year, Lincoln Park Conservatory is always green and lush. Come take a stroll and let yourself be transported away. Admission is free.
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
The urban gateway to nature and science. The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is a place where city dwellers can reconnect with the wonder of the natural world. From a hands-on water lab to a wilderness walk to the only international, year-round butterfly haven, science comes alive.
Chicago Park District
Come out and play with the Chicago Park District. Founded in 1934, the Chicago Park District is the largest municipal park manager in the nation and owner of more than 8,100 acres of green space. We invite you to take in a concert or a movie at one of our 580 parks.
Lincoln Park Zoo
Located in the heart of the city, the free Lincoln Park Zoo features an impressive ape house, the Farm-in-the-Zoo, a charming children's zoo, and rides on an old-fashioned carousel. Catch ZooLights during the holidays, when the zoo features glittering light displays and seasonal family activities. The zoo was one of the locales featured in the film Return to Me.
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Experience Chicago's world renowned architecture with one of 80+ different tours offered by The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF). Explore by boat, foot, bus, bicycle or Segway, and choose from tours such as the Devil in the White City tour, Lights, Camera, Architecture! Tour, the Daniel Burnham Tour and many others. Interested in the boat tour? Only the Chicago Architecture Foundation and Chicago's First Lady Cruises can showcase Chicago's world renowned city architecture with style, class and comfort. Learn more at www.cruisechicago.com. Also offered: FREE exhibitions, programs and workshops, youth education, family programs and an architecture and design-themed retail store. Private tours and group tour rates available. Open daily 9:30-5:00.
Garfield Park Conservatory
Garfield Park Conservatory is one of the largest gardens under glass in the world. Opened in 1908, this landmark building was the vision of celebrated landscape architect Jens Jensen. The eight exhibit halls feature plants from around the world.
Shedd Aquarium
Strap a mask and flippers onto your imagination and chart a course to Shedd Aquarium. Have you ever seen eye-to-eye with a dolphin? Said hello to a penguin on a stroll to the South Pole? Immersed yourself in a flooded Amazon forest? Or met a friendly beluga whale? You can do it all at Shedd! Photo courtesy of the John G. Shedd Aquarium
Spirit of Chicago Cruises
For a whole new way to experience Chicago, get out on the water with Spirit of Chicago. Come aboard for a fun, energetic cruise experience you won't forget. You'll enjoy delicious food and drink, friendly service and great entertainment with Chicago's sparkling skyline as your backdrop. Join Spirit for a lunch, dinner or special event cruise, or consider Spirit for your next group event.
William W. Powers Conservation Area
Offering fishing, waterfowl hunting, picnicking, and winter sports. At the center of its attraction is Wolf Lake, segmented by dikes and offering six miles of shoreline to bank anglers.
Chicago Public Beaches
Chicago's 26 miles of lakefront and beaches are free and open to residents and visitors alike. In fact, they were foremost in Daniel Burham's plan to make Chicago's lakefront and beaches always open and unobstructed for the public to enjoy. And to this day, you can see that his vision is still alive and well, from the joggers and volleyball players to the swimmers and sail boaters who take to the lakefront every day. Of course, admission is free.
City Segway Tours - Chicago
Chicagoland's first guided Segway tour provides an informative ride with unique and fascinating Chicago stories, fantastic photo ops and the chance to ride the coolest machine in the world.
Diversey River Bowl
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WhirlyBall Chicago
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In this webinar we'll share: information on goals and related steps outlined in the new resource Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships for Children; strategies communities can consider to promote the types of relationships and environments that help children grow up to be healthy and productive citizens; and community examples of work done to address the four goals outlined in Essentials for Childhood. Speakers will include: Sandra Alexander, MEd—Expert Consultant; Division of Violence Prevention, CDC, Jody Becker-Green, PhD, MSW—Chief Knowledge Officer, Planning, Performance, and Accountability; Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Karina Forrest-Perkins—Chief Executive Officer; Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota. To join the webinar: please note that no advance registration is available for this webinar. Instead, participants must join the event at the appropriate day/time using the following information: click on the following link https://www.mymeetings.com/nc/join/, enter the conference number: PW4814918, enter the audience passcode: CHILDHOODWEBINAR and dial in to the toll-free conference telephone line for audio: 1-800-369-1866. Please copy and paste this information into your calendar today!
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"The seventh day of creation is the most eloquent and insightful as to the nature of God. From a literary perspective, the Sabbath forms the pinnacle of the story. Like the dramatic kiss of a soldier returning from war, this is the moment we're not meant to miss. In choosing rest as the grand finale, God reveals himself as one driven by neither anxiety nor fear but one who finds gladness in both the work of creation and the creation of work."
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Landscaping with a Green Thumb: The Ornamental Garden
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If you long for a garden filled with flowers, choose dependable bulbs such as crocuses, daffodils, Asian lilies, and allium, and hardy perennials that need very little division or deadheading.
Division is called for when a perennial has grown into a wide clump and its center begins to die. For a number of perennials, that's about every three years. Division keeps the plants vigorous and blooming, with the bonus that you end up with more plants. However, division also takes time and physical effort. Deadheading is another time-consuming task you may want to avoid. It refers to the practice of removing spent flowers from a plant to keep it from putting its energy into producing seeds—which causes flowering to decline.
Perennials such as ornamental grasses, fringed bleeding heart, echinacea, lady's mantle, peonies, hostas, daylilies, and astilbe need minimal attention and can even withstand the occasional drought. Think in terms of native plants, and you'll save yourself a ton of work and keep your water usage low.
Many people feel that their garden is incomplete without roses. Unfortunately, most roses are extremely labor-intensive, requiring pruning, deadheading, and lots of water and fertilizer to bloom properly. They also can be a magnet for pests and diseases, jeopardizing other plants that share the same bed. If you can't live without roses, try ultra-hardy rugosa roses. Rugosas are very fragrant, disease-resistant, drought-tolerant, and winter hardy. They do not like or need to be sprayed with chemicals, so they are the perfect addition to the organic garden.
When you plant, group similar species together, and try to plant multiples of three. As the blooming season progresses, you will have sequential blocks of color, rather than spotty blooming here and there in the garden.
The best thing you can do for your perennial plants is give them compost—create it yourself or buy it bagged from a nursery. Mix it into the soil well when planting; lightly mix it into the top of the soil around established plants yearly, and make a compost tea to use as a liquid fertilizer. Mulch the bare areas of garden beds well to keep the soil moist and discourage weeds.
A number of natural fertilizers will encourage more blooms, including seaweed, manure, guano, and fish extract. These types of fertilizers are usually applied to the soil in the form of "tea."
Flowering Plants: Annuals and Container Gardening
Plant a dependable perennial, and it will return bigger and better every year. But perennials only bloom for a short time each season. Many annuals bloom from spring to the first frost—and that is their main appeal. The drawback is that they must be purchased as seedlings or started from seed each year and then planted, making them fairly labor- and energy-intensive.
Rather than planting entire beds with annuals, take the low-maintenance approach. Use them in only a few prominent spots, where they can be seen frequently and up close, and will be most appreciated. For example, plant them near your front door or deck, or in a couple of window boxes. Or consider planting annuals in a few large, decorative planters. Container gardening has a number of advantages. You have full control over the soil content, and watering and fertilizing a planter is far easier than an entire bed. The container itself can be ornamental, and it raises the flowers up closer to the eye. You can move containers around as you like—clustering them in an area temporarily for an outdoor party, or moving them around the yard to perennial beds that are no longer blooming.
If you want to try container gardening, use the largest pots you can manage. The smaller the pot, the more quickly the soil dries out and needs watering. You may want to look for the new resin pots that are on the market—they're much lighter than clay pots and the soil doesn't dry out as quickly. It's best to purchase a container mix instead of using soil from your garden. The mix will be free of pests and weed seeds, and won't compact the way garden soil does. Before planting, mix some polymer crystals (available at most nurseries and home supply centers) into the potting medium. These crystals absorb several hundred times their weight in water and release the moisture as the soil dries out.
Entire books have been written about the art of container gardening, but the classic, basic planting method calls for one or more tall plants in the center, surrounded by colorful flowering plants, and a trailing plant at the edges.
Related articles:
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As part of the wider KDE project, there are some things that documentation writers need to be aware of. There are a large number of other developers working on KDE, and working together with all of them is an important part of what we do.
String freezes, when we write, etc
The KDE release process, in which we go from the fast-moving and sometimes unstable world of the KDE svn repository, to a stable, polished product, is never exactly the same twice, but there are some common features:
A schedule for the next release of KDE is published at techbase.kde.org, with the definitive guide to what will be happening and when. There will be two or more "freezes", when changes of a certain type are not allowed in the KDE repository:
One important and fun part of working on KDE is the community of other developers who you work with. The people you'll work with most often as a documentation writer are the documentation team, the quality team (if you're a new contributor) and the maintainer of the application that you're working on.
The documentation team is your main resource for help with doc writing and a central point of contact to ensure that everyone's work is co-ordinated. The main ways to contact the documentation team are via the firstname.lastname@example.com mailing list and on IRC in the #kde-docs channel on the server irc.freenode.net. If you plan to work on a particular application, please tell us, so that we can ensure that no-one else is working on it simultaneously, so that effort would be duplicated. Also, feel free to contact us with any problems or questions you might have about writing documentation. You don't need to feel like you're working entirely on your own – there are plenty of people who are able to help.
The KDE Quality Team provides more broad support. If you have any general questions about KDE development, or how documentation fits into the wider KDE environment, the Quality Team mailing list is a good place to ask: email@example.com. If you're not sure whether to ask a question on the kde-quality or kde-doc-english list, just pick one and ask. Many people who read one list read the other, and you'll be pointed to the appropriate list if necessary.
Working with programmers is a little less formal. The usual reason to contact a programmer is to ask about a feature or behavior of an application that you're documenting. To find the appropriate person to contact for a particular application, look in themenu item for the maintainer. If you cannot find a maintainer, ask on firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com. If asking on the kde-devel list, mention that you're writing the documentation for that application – it helps to identify you to those reading a busy list. In general, programmers and other developers are happy to help, and willing to work with you, so don't feel afraid of asking them for information, and building up a working relationship.
With the pace of change of KDE applications, documentation can rapidly become out-of-sync with the application it is describing. To keep its value, documentation needs to be updated. Often this is simply a case of reading the existing documentation, and checking each description of an item against the latest version of the application. For example, are there new items in the menus that are not described in the documentation?
Sometimes, more extensive updates are needed. If new features of the application significantly change the way it works, then new sections of the documentation may be needed, or reorganization of the existing content might be necessary. In particularly severe cases, an entire rewrite might be necessary.
KDE uses the FDL (Free Documentation License) for all documentation. This license has several variants, some of which place restrictions on how content is used in other contexts.
The specific terms we use are:
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This is the only version of the license that is safe to use for documentation that is to be distributed with KDE.
The items that may differ in other uses of the FDL are as follows:
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The KDE bug tracking system, located at http://bugs.kde.org, is now part of the documentation team's toolkit. Issues with the KDE documentation can be filed in the "docs" product of the bug tracker. Incorrect or outdated content, missing content, outdated screenshots and typos are all appropriate reasons to file bugs.
When filing bugs, especially for incorrect or outdated content, be specific about what's wrong. For example, if a certain page of a configuration dialog is incorrectly documented, say which page it is in the bug report. That way, someone fixing the bug can quickly find the appropriate part of the application and the documentation, and make the necessary changes with a minimum of effort.
For more information on using the KDE bug tracking system, see Bug And Wish Reports Management.


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We were recently featured as an Amazon Web Services Case Study (as well as on Jeff Barr's blog), which highlighted our integration with Amazon's SimpleDB service and the potential for new revenue it unlocks for owners of valuable data. Using the WebServius management and monetization platform, any data stored in SimpleDB can be securely exposed as both a paid API and a manual data download tool that lets customers download data in spreadsheet form based on customized searches. All of the billing, authentication, and user sign up processing is handled by us, making this a true turnkey solution.
Read the full case study: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/webservius/
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An annoying person of Greek origin; often times uses insults that make no sense and laughs at all of his own jokes. Has a very limited vocabulary and mainly uses the same terminology and phrases on a day to day basis (i.e. "Your shit's beat," "Chapped," "Prime," "KNOW DAT!!!," "It is what it is," etc.). Often times interrupts people in the work place to be obnoxious. Prone to uncontrollable fits of giggling and plotting lame pranks against his friends. Likes to throw things at people not unlike a monkey with its fecal matter.
"Oh my gosh I have coworker that is so annoying! He thinks he's hilarious and he keeps bugging me and throwing crap at me!"
"That sucks! You are TOTALLY working with a Taso!!!"
"That sucks! You are TOTALLY working with a Taso!!!"
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A greek name, short form for Anastasious. Usually very attractive, well built, loyal and good personality. They are usually very humorous and know how to handle women.
Taso? Oh yeah he is such a good guy.
by Taylor Mayers March 23, 2010
A young boy who gets extremely mad at video games.
Anthony-That boy gets so angry at video games
T.J.-I know he's such a tasos
T.J.-I know he's such a tasos
by Gotee April 30, 2015
a synonym for a camp cheeser
some greek australian ppl who live somewhere in the world
by Moff November 26, 2003
Tasos is a term used to describe someone with no life, who sits around talking about games that they aren't even necessarily good at. in most cases a Tasos is usually greasy and of ethnic origin.
dude that overweight gamer that won "ultimate gamer" should have won "ultimate Tasos" he's so greasy and lifeless!
by Captain_fa_shizzle_2009 December 22, 2009
A thing of Greek decent with inclinations toward rape, hair gel, and GHB. Also lacks a soul and human emotion.
You see that dude over there with hair gel raping a girl.
Yep, thats Taso.
Oh yea, that's the bitch I Taso'ed last year. I heard she still has nightmares....and AIDS!
Yep, thats Taso.
Oh yea, that's the bitch I Taso'ed last year. I heard she still has nightmares....and AIDS!
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Kind of hard to believe that I've done fifty headers and how much this blog has changed since its inception.
There were a few artists that I thought of representing for this milestone but John Harris is undoubtedly one of the most skilled traditional science fiction illustrators on this planet. Thanks John and thanks to all of you for checking out conceptships ... Here is to fifty more headers!
Keywords: concept spaceship science fiction tor book cover traditional media illustrations by renowned artist john harris born in London july 29th 1948 began painting at 14 and entered Luton College of Art at 16 entered the fine art course at exeter in 1967 to study painting graduated from there in 1970 tor books cover
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I would like a Web site (Rails 3.1 with Devise and Omniauth) and a mobile application (iOS5) to share authentication. By this I mean I would like a user to be able to SSI to the site with Facebook, or SSI to the mobile application and have the mobile application talk to the website's API using the user's credentials to authenticate to the website.
I currently have the web side working nicely with a User being able to SSI to an account. I also have the mobile application working, supporting user SSI. Both are using the same Facebook application.
My problem is finding something shared between the two that I can use for the Mobile application to authenticate against the site. Obviously both have access to the same user ID, but this doesn't seem very secure. My mobile application has an Access Token, but this differs from the website's access token, though they look similar, and my mobile access token expires while my web access token does not.
Web/Rails Token (Not real):
Mobile/iOS Token (Not real)
Using Facebook's access token debugger I get the following (Everything removed is identical between tokens):
For Web/Rails Token:
App ID:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX : SomeAppName
User ID:
XXXXXXXX : My Name
1327507734 : 8:08 am Jan 25 2012
Valid: True
Origin: Web
Scopes: email offline_access
For Mobile/iOS:
App ID:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX : SomeAppName
Metadata: {"sso":"iphone-safari"}
User ID:
XXXXXXXX : My Name
1327507734 : 8:08 am Jan 25 2012
Valid: True
Origin: Native Mobile
Scopes: email offline_access


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Yep, I am starting this.
My suggestion: Add ingame custom skins and looks. With no stat boosts or at least half as good as the lab boosts.
Weapons? Different kinds of stats like higher damage and slower fire rate and whatnot.
But we want to have the most fun with this, right? So let's keep it balanced.


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DALY, Irene E., 95, of Wintersville, died Thursday November 28, 2012 at Sienna Woods.
She was born September 19, 1917 in Gasaway, WV. She is the daughter of the late Henry and Martha Harris James.
Irene is also preceded in death by her husband, John J. Daly, five brothers, Charles, Harry, Homer, Russell and Richard; one sister, Myrtle Burchfield.
Irene was a member of St. Peter Catholic Church and was retired press operator from the former Ohio Valley Tool and Die and the former Mr. Wiggs.
Surviving are one son, James (Diana) Daly of Wintersville; one daughter, Dolores (Sid) Martin of Las Cruces, NM; one brother, Howard James of Alliance, OH; three sisters, Anna Mae (Frank) Myers of Annapolis, OH, Eleanor (James) Gribbin of NC and Eloise James of Alliance, OH; four grandchildren, Sean, Lisa, Nikki and Curt; seven great grandchildren.
Calling hours are Sunday 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Mosti Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel 4435 Sunset Blvd., where services will be held 10 a.m. Monday. Fr. Tim Huffman will officiate and burial will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
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As far as I know, Osipova is currently in London rehearsing Romeo & Juliet with Vasilyev there. But many people bought their tickets specifically to see her and therefore will be terribly disappointed. It's surely even more upsetting for those who have purchased tickets to Cojocaru/Kobborg Friday performance, too.
It seems like ABT did the best they could minus bringing in another Aurora or couple from the outside. I think a lot of ticket holders for Osipova would have been even more upset if they got an "in house" Aurora. This somewhat ties into the discussion about ABT and the state of male dancing - promoting from within vs getting stars.


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6 Feb 2012 4:00 AM #1
Issues with stores , 1.2.2 build 48 , mac osx lion
Hi I have some issues. I "fixed" some of them, but I think they are still issues.
First, some specs
Hardware : Macbookpro , Max OSX Lion
Software : Ext Designer 1.2.2 build 48 . ExtJS 3.1
1) Errors export Designer 1.2.2 build 48 osx
I've already sumitted this issue :
Lukly I already "fixed" this.
The problem ocures when you have a component with a store (for example dataview) , promoted to class. You have probably set the store in the class and the initiated object set empty.
With 1.1.2 the instance extended the promoted class, so the store was set. But with 1.2.2 the instance doesn't "extend" the class, so the instance has a property "store" set empty , resulting a error a component is missing a store.
The "fix" is setting the store in the instance. So now I managed to export the project.
2) Store undefined after export
So I "fixed" issue 1. But now, when I start my application. I get errors like "store undefined". When I console.log the component and retrieve the store property, the property was emtpy.
But I also "fixed" that by rebinding the store to the component with the .bindStore() function.
3) Combobox not working
So now I have a combobox. I also get the same store issue so I "fixed" it by rebinding the store to the combobox. That worked. BUT .. When I set the value , the combobox doesn't show the displayField , but just the value I just set.
Fox example I have
display = "my test"
value = "yes"
I set the combobox value to "yes" , it should display "my test" in the combobox , but it shows "yes". When I trigger the combobox by clicking the comboxbox, it makes the request to the server , get the json response and updates the combobox and then it shows the displayField.
I tried to load the store before the component is rendered, but no luck
4) No Ext.reg
I wondered why this all fails with the stores. Lucky for my I have a 1.1.2 version wich still works , so I compared the javascript. I noticed that with 1.2.2 , the javascript export for the store was different.
To illustrate:
/* 1.2.2 build 48 Mac osx lion */ test = Ext.extend(Ext.data.JsonStore, { constructor: function(cfg) { cfg = cfg || {}; test.superclass.constructor.call(this, Ext.apply({ storeId: 'test' }, cfg)); } });Code:
/* 1.1.2*/ test = Ext.extend(Ext.data.JsonStore, { constructor: function(cfg) { cfg = cfg || {}; test.superclass.constructor.call(this, Ext.apply({ storeId: 'test' }, cfg)); } }); Ext.reg('test', test);new test();
5) Designer 2 beta can't load my xds
Just like the title says .. I downloaded the Sencha Designer 2 beta and tried to open my 1.2.2 xds. But I get
TypeError : 'undefined'is not an object
I hope that I've helped others with this and the fantastic team of Sencha Designer
6 Feb 2012 1:29 PM #2
1) Ok.
2) If you can provide a sample application we could look into this further
3) You are correct in assuming that the store needs to be loaded before the value is set. This will fix this problem.
4) Is the userXType set?
5) We have a bug filed for this DSGNR-1284. This occurs when double clicking on a project that is an unsupported framework type. If you start Designer 2.0 and click on a framework (Ext 4.x or Touch 2.x) and then try to open the project you will see a message along the lines of "This project is targeting an unsupported framework (ext3.x)"Aaron Conran
7 Feb 2012 2:27 AM #3
Ok .. did some tests (yozeff is also my account).
1) First I created a project in 1.1.2 (see attachment 1.1.2.zip)
This works
2) Then I opened the xds in designer 1.2.2 build 48 (attachment 1.1.2_cannot_export.zip). It converted my xds , but I cannot export
3) The new converted xds, I set the store in the instance and export the project (attachment 1.2.2-converted-from-1.1.2.zip)
4) Now I can export, but I cannot intiate the combobox (attachment 1.2.2-converted-from-1.1.2-stores-fix.zip). So I added a js to initiate the store BEFORE the application is started (see index.html)
Ext.reg('myStore', myStore);new myStore();
5) Now try import the xds from step 4 into Sencha Designer 2.
Hopes this helps
7 Feb 2012 8:37 AM #4
Are you able to use Ext 4.x?
Can you try to see if you have the same problems in Designer 2 starting with Ext 4.x?Aaron Conran
7 Feb 2012 8:44 AM #5
At this moment we (my company) cannot use Ext 4.x. Our framework/applications is build on Ext 3.x.
Ext 4.x is still on our roadmap but needs reseach and development.
But now, we cannot use 1.2.2 (to prepare us better for the transition to Ext 4), because of the store problem. So now we are sticking with 1.1.2
I hope Sencha will make a new build for 1.2.2 to fix the store problem
21 Feb 2012 3:10 AM #6
Any word about this issue? Because now, we cannot use 1.2.2. We really want to udate from 1.1.2 to 1.2.2 , but this stores issue is a major issue.
22 Feb 2012 7:34 AM #7
I'm also affected by this bug, I need to manually add all of the Ext.reg() lines now for everystore I have defined. This has happened since moving to 1.2.2 on OSX and upgrading the project, so I can't go back now.
Eventually I want to be using ExtJS 4.x but i'm deliverying a 6+ month project and need to get my first release out on 3.3.x first, otherwise I'll never deliver.
29 Feb 2012 11:31 AM #8
28 Mar 2012 8:15 AM #9
STILL no word about this issue? I know the new Designer is very nice, but please fix this issue for us (Designer 1.x users).
Every time I create a new store , I have to manually add the js code to initiate the store. We (Designer 1.x users) pay good money for your software and now with this build you (Sencha) broke it.
29 Mar 2012 12:13 PM #10
We will fix it in the next maintenance release of Ext Designer 1.2.x.Aaron Conran


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What would be the right sentence to use to say that I am reading a book about cooking?
- I am reading a cooking book
- I am reading a cook book
Please explain the reason for the choice.
What would be the right sentence to use to say that I am reading a book about cooking?
Please explain the reason for the choice.
closed as general reference by Marthaª, Cameron, MετάEd, tchrist, Mark Beadles Oct 17 '12 at 14:34
This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
A cooking book would be an odd thing to say. Cook-book (with or without a hyphen, and with or without a space) is fine, and so is cookery book.
Reading a book about cooking, reading a cookbook, reading a cook book, and reading a cooking book could potentially be four different things:
A book about cooking and includes recipe can be called Recipe Book or Cookery Book.


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I bought this pack for my son who just started scouts and we are both very pleased with the purchase. It's the perfect size for a beginner. He really likes the large water bottle pocket so he can get to his water easily. For the price, this pack can't be beat.
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Bridgewater should cast aside its divisive mentality
Loy Wilkinson, Bridgewater First Selectman William T. Stuart is a polarizing figure in Bridgewater. All residents agree on that. For years, he has used polarization to enhance his political career. He knows who his "friends" are and who his "enemies" are because he has made them so. The number of those insulted or put off by his attitude has increased over the years and has created a political problem for him.


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How do you find the net Mechanical Advantage (MA) of two joint machines. Do you add or multiply the individual MA?
Suppose I have two sets of wheel and axle connected by a fixed pulley. Each of the wheel has a radius of 100cm and each of the axle has a radius of 10cm. What will be their combined MA? I am quite sure that both of them has a MA of 10. But what will be their total MA? Is it 20 or 100? Should I add them or multiply them?