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Lies, damned lies and statistics
After awakening from a Thanksgiving-induced food coma — actually, it wasn't that bad — most of the daily articles about Linux posted this morning by our friends in Mountain View known as Google revolved around the fact that Ubuntu is dropping like a lead zeppelin in the Distrowatch standings, while Linux Mint is surging.
Ireland 1, Isle of Man 0.
There is no surprise here, at least on Linux Mint's part. Plus, I think it's interesting to see how that Unity thing is working out for Ubuntu, and as I've said before, I'd venture to say "not very well" (which is why, as a frequent Xubuntu user, I fight the urge to be smug).
All that has been written recently about this issue would normally be interesting except for a couple of unmentioned, and glaring, caveats missing from the stories by those who are ringing Ubuntu's death knell.
First, Distrowatch numbers are based on page visits, not downloads. Show me the downloads, and then let's talk. Web page hits don't tell me if people are actually downloading a particular distro and using it, or if they're just looking at the pages for whatever reason they might. Page visits might translate into distro downloads, but they also might be visits to forums, wikis, etc., as well. So I'm not convinced this is a valid measurement.
Second, even if you were to use Distrowatch's page-view metric as your yardstick, you'd still have to take into account that a distro's recent new version release — Linux Mint and Fedora, while always both close to the top at Distrowatch, qualify here — gets an extra bounce in views by virtue of the fact that, well, these distros have released a new version. An increase in visits from curious folks doesn't necessarily mean more downloads and subsequently more distro use.
In talking to others and in taking a look at the FOSS landscape lately, my sense is that the numbers for Linux Mint reflect a rising interest that is translating into new users and new community members, whether they're refugees from Ubuntu, they're coming over from other distros or just brand new "walk-ins" using Linux for the first time. After all, Linux Mint has done a huge service to FOSS by developing the Mint GNOME Shell Extensions (MGSE) and MATE, and for that reason perhaps people are joining the ranks of the Minted. Couple that with the recent edict of Unity uber alles handed down by Ubuntu SABDFL* Mark Shuttleworth, and you have the recipe for a rise in Linux Mint at the expense of Ubuntu.
But I'd rather have more accurate data to back this up.
Show me the downloads.
*SABDFL — Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life, a moniker picked up from a recent blog item by Steven Rosenberg. Thanks, Steven.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
November 25, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Exactly what I thought too. Plus Debian is probably getting a bit of Ubuntu-overspill too – those wanting Gnome 2.3x need look no further etc.
November 25, 2011 at 1:39 pm
1) What is happening with Mint on distrowatch is not typical, not even for a release week bump.
This is not normal.
2) What is happening with Mint on distrowatch is not being mimicked in google trends. It both "interest" trends aren't capturing it then it is extremely difficult to build an interpretation that makes sense.
I would humbly submit to you that everything you see in distrowatch is normally dominated by each distributions release week interest bump. Case in point Commodore linux had a new release, and had a blurp on the mainpage at distrowatch a week or so ago. And as a result their distro page got enough hits to actually bump Ubuntu down to 5th place in the rankings for a few days. That's just crazy right…. Commodore linux 5th place in the 7 day average "interest" metric for 2 days running. Crazy. And says something very significant about distrowatch being representative of global trends.
And then look at Ubuntu itself. Generally speaking U. does a very good job release after release of generating release week buzz. This shows up in the distrowatch 7 day average metric AND in the google trends data as well.. The release week bump in google trends is relatively large compared to baseline (where baseline is taken at the 3 month mark halfway between releases).
And in fact, I can argue doing some fancy signal analysis that in the google trends data at least the release week trend has been consistent every release and that there really is a separate long term decline (fft suggests 13 month timescale in the long term trend). I can't tell you what is causing that decline, but I can definitely argue that release week interest is holding very steady and very strong. I can also say that the decline has not accelerated in the last couple of months. No sharp fall, its been a pretty consistent curve for the fall off since Ubuntu peaked a couple of years ago.
But back to distrowatch… because of the way distrowatch averages…the release week spike typically dominates all the 3month+ timescales that distrowatch chooses to display (the 6 month is the default display..and its a crock of poop). The way distrowatch does averaging is very misleading and hides details of short term interest versus long term interest. Ubuntu's consistent high release week interest dominates that average. And the average is too damn short to capture the slow 13 month dominate decline google trends captures. Isn't that cool? You start seeing the decline though if you take the yearly averages and put them on a graph. But man, what laypress writer is going to go and punch numbers into a spreadsheet…that's actually work.
Back to google trends…. Where's mint?
Watch that graph especially the last 12 months. There _is_ a bump in the last month. And its a _new_ bump, not something mimicked in previous Mint release timescales. Suggestive that Mint has in fact reached critical mass of some sort. if you really want to understand what is happening, it will be vital to watch the google trend of "mint linux" over the next couple of months. And again there's no evidence to suggest Ubuntu took a hit because of uptick in Mint interest in the google trends view. Unlike the rise of Android when it screamed into the greenfield market of tablets. Is Mint google trending a spike or is it a new long term trend vector? Distrowatch by itself is not going to tell you jack. But google trends and distrowatch 7-day trending will if they represent consistent pictures.
November 25, 2011 at 2:35 pm
I fell in love with Linux because of Ubuntu. But I can't work with Unity. There are too many missing features and awkward interface designs. I gave Mark 2 releases to get it usable. It's not. Goodbye Ubuntu, it was a great 5 years!
Fedora w/ GNOME 3 isn't much better.
Linux Mint with MGSE is so so close to right. Definitely good enough for daily use. They took GNOME 3 and made it usable.
@FedoraDevs, join in with Mint and integrate Gnome Shell Extensions into Fedora. Throw some more manpower at making GSE complete.
November 27, 2011 at 8:43 am
@Bill that's exactly right. I think what the Mint guys are going is a step in the right direction and I'd love to see their work get folded into the GNOME mainline.
For the time being I'm an Xfce user, but if Mint's code went mainline it would probably be enough to get me to switch back to GNOME.
November 25, 2011 at 5:35 pm
There is an old saying. 50% of your advertising budget is wasted. The problem is you don't know which 50%. Those numbers mean something. The problem is knowing exactly what they mean. The same holds true for the Distrowatch numbers. The mean something. The question is exactly what.
We know that Ubuntu has been the top Distrowatch and at Google for the past 5 years. Ubuntu aslo tells us they are the number one downloaded distro. The thing is, since Ubuntu does not track unique installs they have no way to know for sure how many installs are out there. About the best they can do is figure out how heavy their repos are being pounded for a particular package. Then extrapolate from that what percentage of installs don't update. Ubuntu are not sharing those numbers with us.
Another question is what do you consider Ubuntu to be? Are we talking the flagship Gnome OS known as Ubuntu. Or are we talking about Ubuntu + Kubuntu + Xubuntu + Lubuntu? I think by the first measure we can see that Ubuntu is clearly shrinking and losing mindshare. Unity is currently hurting Ubuntu. Since they are planning on spending the next two years using their community as a test bed for phone + tablet devices and will be integrating Wayland in at the same time, I think their problems are far from over.
If we are talking about all the *buntu's put together. Overall they are doing pretty good. The total number of *buntu users dwarf the total Mint or Fedora variant users.
Still I think it is safe to say Mint is sucking all of the oxygen out of the air with MGSE and giving Ubuntu a slap in the face by skipping Unity. At that point, if Unity is a better interface, people would be leaving Mint in droves. They are not. While those that are leaving Ubuntu for Kubuntu/Xubunut/Mint/Debian/Arch are more than the normal 1% of complainers who grouse whenever anything changes. Too many people are actually leaving Ubuntu and although you will find Ubuntu users who *love* Unity. What you won't find is people leaving Fedora or Debian to be able to run Unity. That is probably the most telling fact of all.
November 25, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Distrowatch is a tinny metric.
Google trends…. are point trends.
Get the facts
– 100 000 daily page views / stable
– 500 000 searchable pages in google / in the rise
– 100 000 000 daily page views / stable
– 6 400 000 searchable pages in google / in the rise
daily page vews – jul 2010 to oct 2011
searchable pages in google – mar 2010 to oct 2011
November 28, 2011 at 6:29 am
1 000 000 page views for Ubuntu, not a hundred million.
November 25, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Thank you, thank you. I've been annoyed at all the ridiculous blogging that has been going on ever since Mint passed Ubuntu on Distrowatch. It's good to see someone using some common sense to write about what it "doesn't" mean.
I also find it interesting that Mint is based on Ubuntu (yes, I know about LMDE too). For all the smug Mint users out there who are mistakenly cheering about Ubuntu's "apparent demise", you might want to think twice about that. 😉
November 25, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Fedora already packages some gnome extensions. There's no reason to think that Mint's extensions would be excluded from Fedora if people do the work to package them and submit them for inclusion. As long as they don't require patching of gnome components or gtk and are pure extensions of shell then they won't run afoul of any serious complications. People just have to want it enough to do the packaging work.
However, soon there might not be a need for distro specific packaging for gnome shell extensions at all. Gnome is working on an upstream website solution for housing and finding extensionn, in the vein of mozilla's add-on paradigm. I'm pretty sure we'll see a version of gnome's extension site surface by the end of the calendar year.
November 25, 2011 at 8:28 pm
While it is true that distrowatch hits does not determine how many people are using Mint vs Ubuntu… There is no doubt that Linux mint downloads have increased significantly… clem records a 40% increase in a single month recently since Ubuntu 11.10 came out… There are alot of users leaving Ubuntu for Mint… That is a fact. But even if we had download figures from Ubuntu and Mint that still wouldn't mean anything because alot of people including myself download new distros as they come out just to test out, review or play with in Virtualbox… It doesn't mean all those users are actually installing the iso's on their computer and using it as their main system.
So both sides of the debate of how to get an accurate figure is nonesense…
So the question is…. How do you find out how many Ubuntu users there are vs Mint users? that is very difficult… even a built in tool to ping a server for figure counts would not be accurate due to my points above….
November 26, 2011 at 12:06 am
The _real_ question is can Mint Linux build a sustainable project and bring in enough revenue to pay for the work necessary to support their growing userbase. A huge growth in userbase is not necessarily a good thing as it comes with high demands on the core developers. The userbase size itself isn't what is important..what is important is finding a way to _sustain_ a project through both userbase growth and retraction.
Debian as a volunteer project has reached a sustainable growth pattern.
Red Hat has found a way to build a business to sustain the duality of RHEL and Fedora.
Canonical has not yet found a sustainable path for Ubuntu.
If Mint continues to rely heavily on Ubuntu, they've put themselves into a very difficult position because of that fact.if Mint can completely move to Debian as an upstream and can find a revenue model that sustains their own downstream work.. they could survive in the long haul.
November 26, 2011 at 4:45 am
Enjoyed the intelligent article & debate here, thanks all.
Counting daily page hits etc is a useful ballpark figure but I believe it doesn't tell the whole story, e.g. if a distro installs and works painlessly, perhaps it gets fewer hits because of less trouble shooting and griping? I'm sure someone has done the math on that somewhere. As a unity refugee, I built my own Debian system but referred to a lot of Ubuntu and even Arch pages on how to set things up, again throwing the statistics.
Incidentally, my system sucked badly so I installed Crunchbang, stripped it back and built on that instead. That was much better but still problematic. Then, finally, I installed Archbang, stripped it back, built upon that and now have the best-most-perfect system for me, on my old dreadnaught of a Dell 1721 laptop. Thanks to Unity, I got off my backside and did something constructive and learned loads more in the process – so after having been niche-comfortable with Ubuntu since Breezy, evolution finally caught up with me. My wife on the other hand is still stuck with Lucid/10.04 LTS which in my opinion was the best ever vanilla Ubuntu. I truly fear the day when I have to change it to something else for her – Hell hath no fury than a change in mouse clicks.
November 26, 2011 at 7:28 am
Arguably many or even most people using Linux are not even aware of Distrowach, which would make its statistics less relevant if what one wants to know is user share.
Distrowatch would rather be an assessment of geeks' interest — and one of Ubuntu contributions has been precisely to bring Linux outside geeks' universe.
November 26, 2011 at 9:36 am
Ubuntu is done!
No matter how much Canonical-sponsored writers try to revive it.
UNITY killed UBUNTU.
I wonder what the Bantu word for UNITY is?
Why did they not use that?
November 26, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Hummm… Unity is for you something bad, and therefore, according to you, it should be called by a Bantu word, no by an English word, right?
If so, this fact suggests that much of the hatred against Ubuntu is actually inspired by anti-Black racism and hatred.
Remember the attacks against Ubuntu brownish theme? They were very much in line with the feelings expressed by you.
But since, according to science, Humanity (which incidentally is the meaning of 'Ubuntu') came from Africa, even the most sociopathic and schizophrenic racist has a lot of Africa in their DNA.
November 28, 2011 at 1:39 pm
You should ask Mr.Shuttleworth that …
Why did he not use an Swahili word for UNITY?
This is why ……
He just wants to commercialize Ubuntu and he can do that with a widely recognizable English name.
It is strange people launch off into tirades about racism at the smallest chance.
November 26, 2011 at 9:52 am
You can't necessarily go by download either. I downloaded Mint and installed it in VirtualBox just to try it out, but I still run Ubuntu on all my systems. I thought Mint was OK, but I wasn't overwhelmed by it. My Nebook runs Unity (very good fit for Netbook), but my desktop is still at Ubuntu 10.04. I'm still not entirely comfortable with Unity on the desktop, but a lot of the things I don't like are being addressed. Unity on the Netbook, however, is very nice – makes excellent use of screen real estate and gives me eveything I need.
November 26, 2011 at 11:00 am
as haha said. UNITY killed UBUNTU.
it has for me and everyone else I know personally, we hate unity.
just like when KDE forced widget stupidity on me with KDE4 i left, switched to gnome (ubuntu) now ubuntu pulled the same crap KDE did with unity, I went mint.
I am not the only one who has left ubuntu cause of unity.
November 26, 2011 at 12:20 pm
So when the Ubuntu was #1, everything was fine, but when it dropped all of the sudden the metrics are evil, times unfortunate, and this is so damn important that you had to post a rambling on the issue. WOW, before I was blind, but now I see.
My advice: you need life, it won't come on CD so start working on it.
November 26, 2011 at 1:51 pm
What I find amusing is that the distrowatch figures that were looked upon as valid/dependable figures when Ubuntu was #1 are being questioned when Ubuntu dropped from the pedestal.
November 26, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Distrowatch figures were indeed valid and dependable until and up to Ubuntu, because Linux users were mostly Distrowatch fanatic geeks.
With Ubuntu, and thanks to it, many if not most Linux users are nowadays people who never heard about… Distrowhat?
Therefore, Distrowatch figures are certainly less relevant today, unless if one wants to assess the narrow geek universe.
November 28, 2011 at 11:27 am
What logic!
You should be heading the UNITY team!
November 26, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Me personally, I much more like the fact that Mageia is at #11 at the moment. Much ahead of those like Chakra, Sabayon, Bodhi, Pardus.
November 26, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Unity is way superior to Gnome Shell.
Whether Unity is African or not, and whether its critics are racially motivated or not, the fact is that it has application launchers and a taskbar directly accessible from the desktop. Multitask is possible, which is not the case with Gnome Shell.
Gnome Shell is so preposterously anti-functional that the only thing which is available on the desktop is precisely what one less needs: a shortcut to the window which is already open anyway!
Gnome Shell might be adequate to someone suffering from some serious attention disorder syndrom, not for any normal user.
And patches like Linux Mint MGSE just manage to add a taskbar, something even the most basic graphic desktops such as JWM offer, but still no application launcher. What a great achievement!
Add to this the utter lack of configurability of Gnome Shell, and it's clear that Ubuntu did well trashing it.
The extraordinary interest for Linux Mint in the last 6 months derived from its conservative approach, keeping Gnome2 longer than other distros, not from very recent MGSE, except maybe for a momentary spark of curiosity about the Mint patch.
And just in case anyone is interested, I am neither a Ubuntu nor a Unity user: I use LMDE (Debian based) with LXDE, and thus could not care less about the Gnome mess.
November 28, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Yeah, UNITY is how interfaces should be ….
ha ha
November 27, 2011 at 8:38 am
There's a saying that's common in the marketing world: "Perception Is Reality." It doesn't matter what the current numbers are at this moment in time; Ubuntu and its awful Unity interface have already been tried, convicted, and executed in the court of public opinion. The Linux world has already rejected Unity, so it's high time that Spaceman Mark removed the Unity albatross from around Ubuntu's neck before the whole thing becomes little more than a footnote in the annals of open source history.
November 27, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Perception by whom?
For sure precisely by those whose perception are not important for Ubuntu at all.
The Linux world is not necessarily what Distrowatch-maniac geeks believe it is.
And since normal users accept what is usable and reject what is unusable, odds are that Unity survives and flourishes, while Gnome Shell becomes the favorite of some obscure maniacs, some of them driven by their racist schizoid, and sociopathic preconceptions.
November 27, 2011 at 5:47 pm
The Colonel has three good and true friends in the Linux sphere:
Larry the Free Software Guy who seems to be a Fedora user
and who dabbles in other distros. machiner, out in Mass.
this dude owns Debian, seriously a wizard with Debian.
Then there is Madams9 here in GNU Mexico who uses Mageia.
And me? Mint. We are friends because of Linux not distros.
My response to all of the above is: So What? Use what you want.
If Mint does not leave me feeling refreshed I shall move on to a
distro that works for me. If LtFSG starts to use a different distro
he will still be LtFSG. I am not the distro I use and neither are you.
Peace, Bob (DBA Colonel Panik)
November 28, 2011 at 2:02 pm
I have personally said goodby to Ubuntu. I was once a avid Ubuntu user helping on the forums, and a person who recommended Ubuntu to all the people I would talk to about Linux. Both friends and at work. I personally installed it on over 400 machines for my church group and its schools since I installed 6.06 Dapper Drake long ago.
What am I running now and recommending? Mint! Why you may ask, well a few reasons.
1. Unity – imho its the worst piece of code since Windows Bob! Gnome 3 isnt much better, but at least Mint is adding things to make that almost usable.
2. The Ubuntu Forums – They are ruining what little good name Ubuntu has. The people that are in charge have been there to long because they have started ruling it like tyrants. Its now possible to be banned for speaking out against Unity. Its called Unity trolling.
The mods are scaring old experienced users into quitting. The Resolution center, which is supposed to be a place to hash out problems is now a place people are harassed and told to shut up. Who is watching the store? The mods who harass the posters. See they are also members of the forum council.
These are just 2 problems, but they are huge problems for an open source distro. Why? Because the old users who are leaving with over 1000 posts are the most knowledgeable people. The ones who help the new users. Once they abandon the project good luck getting them to come back.
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Gov. Jerry Brown has announced that a special primary election to fill the Inland Empire's 32nd Senate District will be March 12.
If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff between the top two vote-getters will be May 14.
The vacancy was created when Democrat Gloria Negrete McLeod resigned to be in the House of Representatives. She defeated Rep. Joe Baca in November.
Assemblywoman Norma Torres, D-Ontario, San Bernardino County Auditor-Controller Larry Walker, also a Democrat, as well as Pomona Planning Commissioner Kenny Coble have indicated they would seek to succeed Negrete McLeod.
"You know March 12 is just around the corner," said Torres, a former Pomona mayor who has been endorsed by the California Latino Legislative Caucus.
"I'm excited about the campaign. It's very fast paced. Everybody has to hit the pavement running and, as far as me, I'm very excited about the opportunity ... I think it's a very interesting field of people that want to represent the 32nd Senatorial District and I think I'm very well positioned and very qualified for this position."
Ontario Mayor Paul Leon and former Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter, D-Rialto, have also showed an interest in running for the seat.
"First of all, I'm glad it's finally set. We were kind of waiting in limbo, but I think it's going to be fast and furious and we are all jumping out of the block running," Leon said.
"It's going to be a long running, drawn out campaign and I'm ready for it because I'm in shape and I'm ready. I want to bring some common sense back to the state Legislature and bring politicians back to the people. I know I said many times, for my experience, people leave for Sacramento and they forget they represent the people back where they live."
Coble was defeated by Torres in November to represent the 52nd Assembly District.
"I am excited about this election," Coble said.
"This a very different election than the past general election. I am ready for this and serving our communities and state ... What we need now is not someone after the badge. But someone like me that is willing to do the job fully and as a statesman not a politician."
Walker, a former mayor of Chino and San Bernardino County supervisor, has been endorsed by Supervisors Josie Gonzales and Janice Rutherford.
"It's a very short time frame needed to fill the seat and get back to representing the people. I've prepared for it and I'm looking forward to the campaign," Walker said.
"At this point, I'm focused on my campaign so I'm working hard to raise funds and working hard to reach out to folks, and I've done that in various capacities over the years. Both these efforts have been very positive at this stage."
The 32nd State Senate District encompasses Pomona, Colton, Fontana, Montclair, Ontario, Rialto, San Bernardino and part of Chino as well as the unincorporated communities of Bloomington and Muscoy.
Reach Neil via email, call him at 909-483-9356, or find him on Twitter @InlandGov.

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A Closer Look for Kids - The Museum of Modern Art
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Description: Share your ideas and participate in drawing, movement, or writing activities as you explore three to five works of art in the museum galleries. Kids and adults participate together. The theme for May is "Places and Spaces." *This program is free for individual families of up to two adults and up to three kids. Additional adults $25, seniors (65 and over with ID) $18, students $14, member guests $5. *Tickets are distributed at the Education and Research Building reception desk starting at 10am on a first-come, first-served basis. Programs often fill up; we recommend arriving a little before 10am. All participants must be present.


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AMHERST – The owner of a downtown building destroyed by an August fire is disappointed with the town's decision to sell the former police station for $2.
Alex Filimon said his plans to redevelop the former Victorian Arms Apartments property will now go back to the drawing board.
"It was a bit of a blow for us that we didn't get the police station," Filimon said Wednesday. "Christmas came early for Mr. Bembridge."
Last week, during a special meeting, the town accepted Geoff Bembridge's proposal to purchase the former police station which was evacuated the night of the fire that destroyed Filimon's apartment complex and Doolys.
Bembridge plans to redevelop the police property into a new restaurant that will serve a breakfast menu and serve as an extension of Duncan's Pub.
Filimon said he has nothing against Bembridge or his plans, but figures his company's proposal would have been bigger and brought in more property tax revenue for the town.
His company offered $50,000 for the property. The town decided to go with Bembridge's proposal because he plans to have the business up and running within three months. The town said Filimon's would take longer than that.
The town weighed each of the four proposals against four criteria including price, value of the proposal to the town, strength of the overall proposal, qualification and experience of proponent and timeframe for development.
Filimon said he's not in a position to say what his company was proposing for the property, but said he was going to use the existing police station and rebuild on the neighbouring property.
"We'll have to go back to the drawing board to see what we can fit in there," Filimon said.
The town has expressed concern with the hole left where the apartments were and the fence ringing the property. Filimon said he is not going to do anything with the property until he completes his discussions with the town.
"I met with the town before the bid and I was wiling to work with them. We had the financing in place and were prepared to move forward," he said. "Right now, I have to go back and talk to them."
Amherst CAO Greg Herrett said every conversation the town has had with Filimon has been positive.
"He's very positive about investing in Amherst and we hope he decides to rebuild on that property and has success as a property developer in this town," Herrett said.


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This article was published 28/6/2013 (1489 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Sorry, Calgary, you're not the only Cowtown. Just look south to Texas and you have competition for that claim. While you both have steers and beers, hiccups and pickups, not all Cowtowns, even ones in Texas, are created equal.
Take Fort Worth, for example. Though it has a smaller population (just over 740,000 residents) than Calgary, it shares a ranching history. Situated along the Chisholm Trail, a kind of super-highway for herding cattle to the railheads of Kansas, Fort Worth served as a convenient stop.
More than five million head of cattle sauntered their way through town. With the arrival of a railway in Fort Worth to move the animals from the stockyards to markets east in 1876, its Cowtown reputation was rock solid.
Fast forward 136 years and Fort Worth is now an oil and natural gas hub. Sound like another Canadian city you know? And where there is that kind of money culture follows. The Cultural District packs together seven of its finest museums in a four-block area.
If the kids are in tow, The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History has plenty to entertain short attention spans with plenty of buttons to push and interactive displays centred around things like dinosaurs, and hometown-inspired topics like cattle ranching and energy.
If you're an art school dropout, you'll recognize the names of the artists whose works are on display at the Kimbell Art Museum. All the A-listers are here, from Cezanne to Matisse, but the facility isn't overly huge and it won't leave your head foggy and overwhelmed.
Meanwhile, the Modern Art Museum showcases art that you can't explain (like a single glass and chrome cube, or a black strip of paint down a white canvas) in a stunner of a building erected in 2002. You can get the maximum impact of the glass/steel/water structure by booking dinner at the Cafe Modern, available just on Friday nights.
But this is a self-acclaimed Cowtown, remember? So you won't be surprised when you see the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame -- the only of its kind in the world. It might sound odd, but it manages to amuse with salutes to western women like Annie Oakley, Dale Evans, Georgia O'Keeffe and Laura Ingalls Wilder (author of the Little House on the Prairie books), plus a bronco ride to tap into your inner cowboy. Go ahead and wear your souvenir Stetson here. No one will blink twice.
In the Stockyards National Historic District, it can be tricky to identify genuine cowboys in the crowd who may have come to compete in the rodeo (held every weekend) and who are the tourist/cowboy wannabes. Look for these identifying signs: Real cowboys always wear Wrangler jeans. They wear boots, not sneakers, and their belt buckles are bigger than a grapefruit, and shinier than a chrome tailpipe,
It doesn't really matter because everyone strolls along Exchange Avenue to shop (for western-wear, of course), drink beer or margaritas (wine is sissy stuff) at popular hangouts like the White Elephant Saloon before taking in twice-daily cattle drive (the world's only). Back up and give these massive Texas longhorns cattle and the cowboys that wrangle them plenty of room as they dash down the main drag.
Then head to Billy Bob's Texas, the world's largest honky-tonk bar. It has an indoor rodeo, stages for live act, copious dance floors and plenty of bar rails to lean against so look like you belong. If you're a klutz and can't dance to save your life, go on a Thursday night for free line dance lessons so you can "boot-scoot" across the dance floor with finesse.
Billy Bob's has a restaurant on-site where you can get beef brisket, steak, burgers and catfish, but there are better places to eat in Fort Worth. The locals put blinders on to the dated decor, complete with wedding banquet-like like chairs and tables, at Angelo's Bar-B-Que. The brisket is the star attraction here, slowly smoked over a hickory fire. Grab a beef plate piled high with meat, beans, salad, coleslaw, pickle and onion. Pair it with a draft beer (a steal at US$2.35) and you'll fit in fine among the locals.
If you want something a bit fancier, but not fussy, Fort Worth has those places, too. A top pick is Ellerbe Fine Foods, helmed by chef Molly McCook. The restaurant focuses on local produce and flavours -- who doesn't these days? But she does it better than most by offering a dinner menu that opts for quality over quantity with just seven entrees, eight appetizers and six desserts.
It's mom's cooking smartened up with modern touches. Say yes to bacon wrapped salmon, Gulf flounder with crabmeat stuffing and Maw Maw's bread pudding.
Don't call Dallas "Cowtown." The folks don't like it. Dallas is like Fort Worth's sophisticated sister city -- one that went away to boarding school and came home with worldly ideas. Seeing that Dallas is less than an hour from Fort Worth, you need to experience it, too. Dallas might have the image of being all big-time corporate with JR Ewing look-a-likes coming out of office towers, the reality is quite different.
Dallas has earned big kudos for its urban planning. City planners thought the freeway running through the downtown cut off the core from surrounding neighbours. The solution? They covered the freeway with an urban park to create a seamless transition from the booming Arts District and the downtown. It works beautifully.
The Arts District is one of the world's largest. (This is Texas after all. Bigger is better, even hairdos -- higher the hair, the closer to God they say.) You can exhaust yourself running from museum to museum, but pick a few favourites.
The Nasher Sculpture Center is a beauty. Designed by architect Renzo Piano, it has an excellent collection with big names like Picasso, Giacometti, Henry Moore and Richard Serra (whose Tilted Spheres work in terminal one of Toronto's Pearson Airport).
The Dallas Museum of Fine Art is a one-stop hop with 5,000 years of art and 23,000 pieces, if you're short on time. Here is where you are most likely to find those really big exhibits like last year's Jean Paul Gaultier show. This fall won't disappoint with Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries, starting October 14.
Maybe the biggest surprise about Dallas is its funky neighbourhoods. For example, Deep Ellum was once an industrial wasteland. Now, it's an unpretentious area where hip-hops clubs share a zip code with artists, bike shops, galleries, and tattoo parlours. It's a harmonious melange that feels welcoming and oh-so-chill.
Do stand in line with the rest of the locals to get the most delicious slab of ground beef you've ever find on a bun at Twisted Root Burger Co. Or nix the beef and go for a patty of turkey, black bean, buffalo or even kangaroo or venison. They're sheer perfection, especially paired with homemade custard shake, sips of heaven sucked up with a straw. If the place looks familiar, it has been featured on the latest version of TV's Dallas and Guy Fieri from Diners, Drive-ins & Dives ate here.
New to the tourist radar is the Bishop Arts District. The shopping is unique -- no big chain stores here -- and plenty of indie shops. For example, there's a store that sells just soda, but ones sourced from all over the world like Asia's Kickapoo Joy Juice or Peru's Inca Cola. Here you're more likely to find locals wearing organic hemp T-shirts instead of cowboy shirts, surfer shorts over Wranglers.
The vibe is almost Seattle-like, minus that city's infamous fog and dampness. For proof, park your butt at the Oddfellows, an artsy cafe that creates even artsier-looking coffees and excellent food. For breakfast, try its gingerbread or red velvet pancakes, guaranteed to make you throw out your Aunt Jemima mix.
And then there's San Antonio. It's no Cowtown, despite places called Cowtown Boots or Cowtown BBQ. San Antonio is where Mexican culture marries the West and makes a beautiful child. Here, the Alamo stands guard in the downtown and picturesque missions from the 1700s are dotted around the outlying area.
But the city is at its most glorious along the famed River Walk (the second most popular tourist attraction, next to the Alamo). When it's too hot, just jump into a boat to get the best view of the changing landscapes along the river. Or make reservations for a resto along the River Walk for great people-watching opportunities.
Luke is the creation of Louisiana chef John Besh and the menu definitely oozes southern charm with dishes like seafood gumbo, buttermilk fried quail, shrimp & grits or cochon au last (slow roasted suckling pig). A nice surprise is the Pearl Brewery site. There aren't any suds here now, but the former industrial area has had an extreme makeover and become a hub for great food and arts.
Sign up for a half-day cooking class at the esteemed Culinary Institute of the Arts. This is the latest location of the college and its roster of sessions is impressive. The well-equipped kitchens will make you envious and even Food Network know-it-alls will come away with a new batch of tips and ideas.
If the DIY approach to eating isn't your thing, let chef Johnny Hernandez cook for you at La Gloria. The beloved chef (and guest judge on TV's Top Chef) channels the flavours of Mexican street food to the plate. This is not Tex Mex, where one or two dominant flavours carry the load of every meal; this is authentic Mexican with layers of flavours creating joyous mouthfuls.
The selection of margaritas is stellar, but don't fill up on those or the fantastic nacho chips and dips that land on your table right away. Save room for the ceviche, tostadas with chicken and queso fresco (fresh cheese) and gorditas with black beans, crowned with pulled pork.
But in San Antonio, the nearest steer is most likely served on your plate. When it comes right down it, it's hard to beat Fort Worth for being the quintessential Cowtown. Its cowboy culture permeates every post and pillar. And for that, hats off to you. You do Texas proud!
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Discussion in 'Sports Zone' started by DFWJC, Dec 27, 2012.
Manziel is the real deal, he will give Clowney a fight for the 1st pick.
Well deserved! I am not an Aggie but glad that program has turned it around. They have a solid team..and I love seeing OU embarrassed.
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I'm going home and taking like 9 sleeping pillz...I called A&M as a good team..but no excuse 4 not competing..OUr bowl record z unacceptable
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Seriously I believe in good Sportsmanship but F' that there way to many smile and hugs out there for me. Seriously What they Taste like!!
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Bob Stoops appeared visibly lost for much of tonight's Cotton Bowl. It's a look he's been known to where frequently this time of year.
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BTW Jerry is supposed to be a big Stoops fan.
Great finish to the season for the Ags. I'm really proud of these kids and what they did in their first SEC season.
...if only the basketball team could show up like this...
We lost to Southern the other week... Southern...
Ha! Well you guys have the football team rolling. I imagine they will be highly ranked next year.
One sport at a time. People are talking about the Aggies nationally. Must feel good.
Just read this interesting stat...
"Teams from the state of Texas improved to 12-1 in bowl games over the past two seasons, with the only loss coming by TCU in this season's Holiday Bowl."
the best thing about last night? No bonecrusher posts till October.
Just an awful game for my Sooners last night. That kid Manziel is lightning. Our defense just could not do anything, and neither could the offense.
I think Oklahoma needs a new OC. I just think Josh Heupel is just not up to giving Oklahoma what it needs in this offense.
Oklahoma has some serious talent at QB behind Landry, so I am excited to see next year.
Gratz to A&M.
We'll see you next year jimmy
With the talent that both OU and UT haul in every year, there is no excuse for them to both not be in BCS bowls and ending the year with at most 2 losses.....I know UT is definitely underachieving, but in bowl games, so does OU for the most part in the last several years.
Correct. They have top 10 classes every year. Stoops has underachieved for 10 years now.
Even if you like him, he's gotten stale. It's time for change.
We all know how inexact the recruiting services are.
I mean you just had a freshman Heisman winner that was rated 3 stars by Rivals as a duel threat QB coming out.
But still, at a minimum you would think a team that has top 10 recruiting classes would on average finish at least in the top 15 or so. On average.
The 2013 recruiting classes for OU and Texas are ranked 13th and 18th respectively by Rivals.
UT has suppossedly great recruiting classes in 2011 and 2012, so they don't have too many excuses this coming season to not be a top 10 team....assuming those rating where halfway accurate.
I can't even describe to you how bad it is to live in the middle of aggie nation right about now. I don't blame aggie for being uber exited about Johnny Manzeil (the guy is just amazing)but these clowns acting like they've been a big part of SEC history for 100 years is too much to take. Oh and if Bama wins the championship I'm sure they'll post another national title on Kyle Field to go with the other 2 they made up this year. And one more thing, I don't ever want to hear aggie talk about Tshirt fans again now that they actually have some.
Watching the game last night I thought Greg Davis was calling plays for OU.
question Dallas, would Stoops still be there if it wasn't for the annual raping of Mack Brown?
Poor editing by the news room, TCU played in the Buffalo Wild Wing Bowl, Baylor trounced UCLA in the Holiday Bowl.
I rewatched the game, because I can't believe my eyes.
This kid IS for real.
And yes, he can really throw it too.
I bet he keeps growing too.
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JACK Audio Connection Kit - Qt GUI Interface: A simple Qt application to control the JACK server. Written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. Provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK server parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way control of the status of the audio server. With time, this primordial interface has become richer by including a enhanced patchbay and connection control features.
* Fri May 18 2012 firstname.lastname@example.com - update to 0.3.9: * killing D-BUS controlled JACK server is now made optional, cf. Setup/Misc/Stop JACK audio server on application exit * a new so called "Server Suffix" parameter option appears to rescue on the situations where QjackCtl falls short on extra, exquisite and/or esoteric command line options eg. (net)jack1/2 differences. * fixed D-Bus Input/Output device parameter settings, filled when either interface is selected for Capture/Playback only * main window is now brought to front and (re)activated when clicking on the system tray icon instead of just hiding it * add current xrun count to the system tray icon tooltip, if not zero - added portaudio support - revamped spec file - moved translations to -lang package * Sun Aug 07 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - update to 0.3.8: - Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads. - Session "Save" button now a drop-down menu, replacing the session save type combo-box/drop-down list selection. Also, an early session directory versioning/numbering scheme is now in place, although optional. - Probable fix to debian bug report #624198 - segfault when pressing the stop button (by Grant Adrian Diffey, after a patch from Adrian Knoth, thanks). - Desktop environment session shutdown (eg. logout) is now tapped for graceful application exit, even though the main window is active (visible) and minimizing to system tray is enabled. Both were causing first shutdown/logout attempt to abort. Not anymore, hopefully ;). - Make sure all activated patchbay definition files are in their complete and absolute directory path forms. - Connections refresh button now does an immediate and true reconstruction of all clients and their respective ports and connections, unconditionally. - Command line server start option (-s, --start) is now made independent from configuration setup option (cf. Setup/Misc /Start JACK audio server on application startup). - Now handling cable socket types properly to let patchbay definitions work correctly, whenever having sockets with the very same literal name (twisted from patch #3183467, by Karsten, thanks;). - Abrupt focus behavior when any of the keyboard modifiers (Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Caps Lock) is hit while on Connections client/port aliases editing (rename) has been fixed. - Russian (ru) translation updated (by Alexandre Prokoudine). - Added include "errno.h" alegedly missing for BSD style systems (applying patch for bug #3126091). * Wed Dec 01 2010 email@example.com - updated to 0.3.7: - Session widget has session save type preserved as well. - Connections and the new Messages/Status widgets now have their last open tab preserved across program run-cycles. - Connections and Patchbay widgets have been finally given up on an old feature request: an Expand All items button. - The Messages and Status widgets were merged into one, giving space to the new Session wigdet - libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase - Input/Output latency options were missing but now finally enabled for the firewire back-end. - General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place. - Avoid pre-loading a stalled patchbay definition filename and its nagging error on startup (fixes bug #3017078). - Client connection retrial logic scrapped. Being a leftover from early ages, when machines were slower and JACK server startup times were longer... now, if it can't connect first time as client, it will tear down the server whether it's starting up still or not at all. (cf. Setup/Settings/Start Delay for the rescue). - Server name is finally part of the server settings presets, thanks to Fons Adriaensen for the heads-up. - As a workaround regarding issues switching jack2's backends, Robin Gareus sends us yet another D-Bus metho slot: "preset", (dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.preset string:PRESET). Thanks again. - Another D-Bus interface slot makes it through implementation: "quit" (eg. usage: dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.quit). Besides, there's also these new JACK session management actions which were being overlooked as well: "load", "save", "savequit" and "savetemplate" are also available as D-Bus method slots. - Make sure that Patchbay socket names are unique when adding or copying, fixing previous patch by Dominic Sacre. - JACK version is now being shown on the About box (jack2). - Slight Connections widget behavioral change: (dis)connecting a client (from) to one single port, (dis)connections will be applied in sequence from (to) all client output ports to (from) as many input ports there are in below, one by one (satisfying a 5 year old request from Yann Orlarey, thanks:). - JACK session support is being introduced. - Ignore first XRUN occurrence option dropped from statistics. - Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to wrong main widget hidden state. - Double-quotes are now being added to device names which include blank characters and were rendering invalid all command line invocation of the classic JACK server (eg. specially due for Portaudio device names on Windows). - Transport play (rolling) status is now being guarded to avoid backfiring from extraneous transport state changes. - General source tree layout and build configuration change. - Italian (it) translation added (by Sergio Atzori). - Post-shutdown script invocation logic slightly refactored in attempt to enforce its execution on application quit. - deprecated translation-folder.diff * Wed Apr 07 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Updated to 0.3.6: now has full D-Busification! - Fix patch qjackctl-translation-folder.diff - Make sure socket names are unique on each side of the Patchbay - A bunch of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been added, - Patchbay snapshot now tolerates JACK client port strings that have more than one semi-colon in it. - Most modal message dialog boxes (eg. critical errors) are now replaced by system tray icon bubble messages where available - Comply with jackd >= 0.118.0 which now runs in real-time mode by default; use of -R is now deprecated from the jackd command line interface options; use -r to run in non-real-time-scheduling. - A man page has beed added. - Got rid of a pretty old and never really useful "jackd-realtime" server path option. - D-Bus support, as provided by org.jackaudio.service aka jackdbus, is now being introduced and used wherever available and whenever enabled. - Server name command line option added (-n, --server-name). - Single application instance restriction option added (X11). - Setup for the netjack (slave) "net" driver has now sample-rate and frames per buffer (period size) settings disabled and/or ignored, as those are pretty much auto-detected by default; also, a new "netone" backend driver option has been introduced - Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric). - Fixed glitch on configure portaudio support, specially when the library is not detected as available. See changelog for more. * Mon Nov 16 2009 email@example.com - updated to 0.3.5: * Late support for UTF-8 encoded client/port names. * Allow only one single patchbay connection to or from an exclusive socket. * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build targets (--enable-debug). * Probable fix on the audio connections with regard to client/port (re)name changes (an ancient bug reported by Fons Adriaensen). * Portaudio device selector is now available (after a patch handed by Torben Hohn and Stephane Letz). * A couple of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been introduced, giving the option to start/stop the jackd server from the system bus eg. via dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.start (.stop), (a nice addition supplied by Robin Gareus, thanks). * New command line option (-a, --active-patchbay=path) to specify and activate a given patchbay definition file (a simple patch sent by John Schneiderman, thanks). * Added one significant digit to DSP Load percentage status display. * Tentative support for netjack (slave) by adding the "net" driver to the existing backend driver options on the Setup/Settings section. * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons. * New patchbay snapshot now raises the dirty flag and allows for the immediate salvage of patchbay definition profile. * Conditional build for JACK port aliases support (JACK >= 0.109.2). * Alternate icon sizes other than default 16x16, are now effective to the Connections widget (Setup/Dislay/Connections Window/Icon size). * Mon Aug 31 2009 email@example.com - 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moved translation path from locale directory to its own one, as build doesn't accept it (yet). * Wed Jun 18 2008 email@example.com - updated to version 0.3.3: * load Qt's own translation support and get rid of the ever warning startup message * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance * Only one application instance is now allowed * Full JACK MIDI support sneaks into the patchbay * Sun driver support * Delay window positioning at startup option is now being disabled * Cosmetic fix for apperance * Fri Dec 21 2007 firstname.lastname@example.com - updated to version 0.3.2: * Patchbay port matching has been slightly extended * Start option from Setup/Misc/Start * Regression from QSystemTrayIcon (Qt4 >= 4.2) implementation * Some portaudio backend settings are now being enabled * Server mode display blinking (RT indicator) is now an option * Tool/child windows position and size preservation fixed. * The connections/patchbay auto-refresh option has been removed * Messages line limit was not being checked, now honored. * Patchbay snapshot got its socket and port ordering back. * ALSA Sequencer support is now an optional feature on setup * Get configure to try and detect the correct qmake location * The connections widget is now being properly refreshed * The xrun count stats can now be reset simply by middle clicking on the systray icon or the main window's display area * An improved version of the "shiny" background image was issued * A warning is now being issued, asking whether one wants to remove a corresponding Patchbay connection, etc * The infamous "Keep child windows always on top" global option is now supposed to behave a little better * Input/Output Channel setting is allowed to be greater than 32 * Thu Jul 19 2007 firstname.lastname@example.com - 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Join us for another lunchtime iROC on Thursday, March 6, when
Vivian Milczarski, Library, and Fran Spielhagen, Division of
Education, present Mean Girls and Lord of the Flies: Bullying
in Single Sex Classes.
Single-sex schools and classes are a growing school arrangement
in the United States, particularly in middle schools. At the same
time, teachers, parents, and the general public have become more
aware of bullying in schools, especially among adolescent students.
Popular films like Mean Girls and standard young adult
literature like Lord of the Flies present bullying as a
common, almost normal, part of adolescent socialization. Based on
prior research and collaboration by Vivian and Fran, their research
project sought to answer a simple, but logical question: To what
extent do single-sex classes foster bullying? Is there anything
teachers can do to help stop bullying? The findings were not so
simple and may surprise you.
Vivian Milczarski is Assistant Librarian for Collection
Development at the MSMC Library. Frances R. Spielhagen, PhD, is
Associate Professor of Education in the Division of Education, and
also Director of the Mount's Center for Adolescent Research and
Development (CARD).
This presentation will take place on Thursday, March 6 at 12:45
pm in the Library Café in the Dominican Center. Refreshments will
be served. All are welcome.
For more information about this or any of the iROC
presentations, or to volunteer as an iROC speaker, please contact
Dr. Doug Robinson, Assistant Professor of Biology and coordinator
of the iROC program, at 845-569-3648 or email@example.com
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In Mount Saint Mary College's Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary,
chaplain Fr. Francis Amodio, O.Carm., observed the tradition of
leading Mount faculty and students though the Way of the Cross,
before the Easter holidays.
The solemn ceremony recalls the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
through 14 steps, or stations. These stations are commonly affixed
to the walls of a church, as either carvings or small
Fr. Amodio, director of campus ministry, spoke a prayer at each
"These reflections are based on the Four Gospels of the New
Testament, the Passion Narratives," explained Fr. Amodio. "This
devotion is associated with St. Francis of Assisi."
The stations are:
"The Way of the Cross is always a moving experience," said
Alexander LaPoint, assistant director of campus ministry. "To walk
with Jesus on his journey to Crucifixion helps to remind us what
the Lenten season is about and what we have to look forward to in
The idea of the station comes from the Holy Land, as pilgrims
walk and pray the steps Jesus took on his way to Calvary, outside
the wall of Jerusalem. This walk in Jerusalem is called the Via
Dolorosa, or Way of Sorrow.
"For those who cannot go in pilgrimage to Jerusalem, they make
the Via Dolorosa in their church by walking around at each station,
reflecting on the passion of Jesus Christ," Fr. Amodio said. "This
devotion can also be prayed at home or anywhere else."
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University of Arizona officials want the Tucson-based school to establish a veterinary medical program and are asking the Legislature for a $250,000 state appropriation for an initial study.
Arizona now has no veterinary medicine school, but the state subsidizes some students who attend Colorado State University.
A National Research Council report issued last May concluded there's no national shortage of veterinarians.
However, Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean Shane Burgess said the proposed veterinarian program would address shortages for large-animal vets and in vets for public health, disease research and food safety.
A veterinarian program proposal 20 years ago included building a veterinarian hospital and had a $200 million price tag.
The current proposal is based on a model in which students would meet residency requirements at private veterinary centers and clinics, the Arizona Daily Star reported Monday.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences already operates a ranch, an equine center and a Food Products and Safety Laboratory.


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The centre of all that is Costa Rica probably won't be the centre of your trip to Costa Rica. Most visitors spend two nights in San José—tops. You'll probably head out of town the morning after you arrive, only to return the night before heading home. No, you shouldn't sacrifice precious beach or rain-forest time for a stay in San José. But the city is worth a day or two—as a way to ease into Costa Rica at the start of a visit or as a way of wrapping things up with a well-deserved dose of civilization.
Amid the noise and traffic, shady parks, well-maintained museums, lively plazas, terrific restaurants, and great hotels do exist. Further, the city makes a great base for day trips: from downtown it's a mere 30- to 40-minute drive to the tranquil countryside and myriad outdoor activities of the surrounding Central Valley.
You'd never know San José is as old as it is—given the complete absence of colonial architecture—but settlers migrating from then provincial capital Cartago founded the city in 1737. After independence in 1821, San José cemented its position as the new nation's capital after struggles and a brief civil war with fellow Central Valley cities Cartago, Alajuela, and Heredia. Revenues from the coffee and banana industries financed the construction of stately homes, theaters, and a trolley system (later abandoned and now visible only in old sepia photographs).
As recently as the mid-1900s, San José was no larger than the present-day downtown area; old-timers remember the vast coffee and cane plantations that extended beyond its borders. The city began to mushroom only after World War II, when old buildings were razed to make room for concrete monstrosities. The sprawl eventually connected the capital with nearby cities.
New York or London it is not, but for the Tico living out in Tilarán, today's San José glitters every bit as much. It has attracted people from all over Costa Rica, yet it remains, in many ways, a collection of distinct neighborhoods where residents maintain friendly small-town ways. For you, this might mean the driver you're following will decide to abruptly stop his vehicle to buy a lottery ticket or chat with a friend on the street. Or it might mean you have to navigate a maze of fruit-vendor stands on a crowded pavement. But this is part of what keeps San José a big small town.


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Hearing Procedures
The following guidelines are provided to assist Hearing Officers, hearing board members, and participants in judicial processes in understanding procedure. For a complete delineation of the values, standards, rules and procedures pertaining to student conduct, see Community Standards Policy.
I. There are three Hearing Boards. These boards hear appeals of decisions by designated college officials or hearing body.
A. The Judicial Hearing Board: Hears appeals of decisions by the Dean of Students or his delegate for social violations.
B. The Sexual Misconduct Review Board (SMRB): Hears appeals of decisions made by the Dean of Students for violations of sexual misconduct policies.
C. The Academic Standing Committee: Hears appeals of decisions of the Subcommittee for Academic Standing Committee on all matters of academic dishonesty.
II. Preparation for the Hearing.
The Dean of Students Office, inclusive of the Residence Life Office, has responsibility for all administrative details for the hearing: issuing formal charges, notification of the hearing, arranging the hearing time and place, providing copies of all pertinent policies/procedures and investigative reports, written notification of decisions, and maintenance of disciplinary records. The Dean or his/her delegate will make all hearing arrangements, including provisions for audiotaping, the sequence of testimonies, which parties will remain in the hearing at all times, and other matters. Because details and circumstances surrounding individual cases vary, the Dean of Students Office, in consultation with the Hearing Officer, has the authority to make decisions pertaining to the organization of the hearing.
III. Pre-hearing
A. An appeal of a disciplinary decision and request for a hearing before the appropriate hearing board is filed with the Dean of Students Office.
B. The Dean of Students or his/her delegate meets with the appealing party to review procedure and gather pertinent information for the hearing, including whether the appealing party or others involved with the case have any substantive relational conflicts with any hearing board members. Examples of such conflicts include but are not limited to: past or present close personal relationships, advising relationships between faculty and students, demonstrable concerns about personal bias or conflicts of interest. The Dean or his/her delegate determines if such conflicts exist; if so, alternates will serve on the hearing board.
C. The Dean of Students or his/her delegate notifies hearing board members of the appeal and determines a hearing time and place. In the case of relational or scheduling conflicts, the Dean contacts alternates to serve.
D. The Dean or his/her staff assembles all pertinent materials—statements, investigative reports, original disciplinary findings, etc.—for the hearing and distributes them to the appellant and other parties, as appropriate. In order to preserve confidentiality, hearing board members will be accorded opportunities to review all such materials in a private place prior to the hearing.
E. The Dean arranges a time for the hearing board to review procedures and materials that will be introduced at the hearing, including investigative reports and other testimonies.
F. The Dean reviews with the respondent, complainant, and other parties (e.g. witnesses) procedural guidelines and answer any questions. The Dean asks the respondent and complainant if they have substantive conflicts that preclude the participation of any of hearing board member and makes the necessary adjustments in such cases.
G. The Dean requests the names of the advisor (s) chosen by the respondent and complainants, and discusses the role of advisors in the hearing with each.
H. The Dean or his/her delegate presents the charge to the hearing board on behalf of the College.
IV. The Hearing: The purpose of the hearing is as follows:
- To hear an appeal of the dean's finding and/or sanctions from either or both parties.
- To allow the respondent and complainant to present written statements, testimonies, investigative reports, witnesses or other forms of evidence on their behalf.
- To allow the respondent, complainant, and hearing board members opportunities to challenge or examine further any evidence or testimonies, and to ask questions to clarify facts and understand differences of perspective.
- To provide the hearing board with complete information and adequate time to determine whether the Dean's decision was appropriate, and if not to determine for itself whether the respondent is in violation of a sexual misconduct policy, and if so, to determine appropriate sanctions.
IV. Procedure: The Hearing Officer presides at the hearing to insure an orderly, fair exchange of information and perspective. S/he has the discretion to allow questions and discussion at any point s/he deems appropriate, and to determine the order and sequence of testimonies and witnesses. The following is a basic guideline for the purpose of assisting the Hearing Officer in maintaining an orderly sequence, of insuring that all parties have an opportunity to be heard, and to hear testimonies and information presented.
A. The Hearing Officer calls the meeting to order.
B. The respondent and complainant are invited into the hearing. [In most cases, the complaint may be invited into the hearing from the outset and remain for the duration of the hearing. There may be circumstances, most typically in sexual misconduct cases, where the complainant chooses not to attend the hearing. This will be determined prior to the hearing. The respondent must attend the hearing].
C. Introductions—each person invited into the hearing will be introduced to board members and other participants.
D. The Hearing Officer states the purpose of the hearing: the challenge by one or both parties to the decision of the Dean.
E. The Hearing Officer determines the sequence of testimony from the complainant and respondent. Each is accorded an opportunity to read or make a statement in regard to the finding and/or sanctions of the original decision.
F. The Hearing Officer may call for an open discussion to clarify points of dispute.
G. The Hearing Officer calls for testimonies from any witnesses. Questions and discussion of each witness follows.
H. The Hearing Officer calls for any further information, evidence, questions or discussion from the complainant, respondent, and hearing board members.
I. The Hearing Officer asks the complainant to make a closing statement.
J. The Hearing Officer asks the respondent for a closing statement.
K. The Hearing Officer closes the hearing. The Hearing Board goes into closed session to determine whether a violation of policy was committed, and if so, what sanctions are appropriate.
L. The Hearing Officer reports the outcome of the hearing verbally to the respondent and to the complainant.
M. The following day, or whenever reasonably practical, the Hearing Officer and Dean of Students Office provides a letter detailing the outcome of the hearing, signed by the Hearing Officer on behalf of the hearing board.
N. The Dean of Students Office has the responsibly for conveying to the respondent the written notification of the outcome, insuring compliance with the sanctions set forth by the hearing board, and maintaining the disciplinary record in accordance with the College Student Records policy.
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Gas prices are down
(Cleveland)- Gas prices in Ohio keep moving in the right direction.
After hovering around $4 a gallon for a couple weeks because of refinery problems in the Great Lakes region, prices at the pump here have fallen 42 cents in the past two weeks.
The state average for a gallon of regular gas was $3.50 in Monday's survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. That's down 24 cents less than at the same time last week.
"Relief continues to show up at pumps in the Great Lakes, while the opposite trend has started in California," said clevelandgasprices.com senior petroleum analyst Patrick DeHaan. "Gasoline prices are certainly a bit wacky right now across the country with prices moving in difference directions, but from what we saw in the last few days with oil prices, I'm hopeful that most areas of the United States will see new or continued relief for at least the first half of this week, with some areas seeing a continued drop for most of this week," DeHaan said.
The Ohio price is now below the national average of $3.57 - 4 cents lower than last week and 7 cents lower than this time last month.
Refinery problems were blamed for pushing gas prices way up earlier in June.
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Pettitte 'disappointed' in Double-A start
Yanks veteran throws 81 pitches, allows four runs for Trenton
By Danny Wild / MLB.com | April 25, 2012 8:44 PM ET
Pettitte worked five-plus innings in his first Double-A start for Trenton since 2010, raising his pitch count to 81 on a day the Yankees learned they would be without Michael Pineda for the year.
The veteran lefty, who was scheduled to throw between 80-85 pitches, was charged with four runs -- three earned -- on seven hits and a walk over five innings for the 10-4 loss. He started the sixth, but was lifted after allowing a leadoff single to Erie's Rob Brantly, eliciting the second standing ovation of the night from a packed Waterfront Park.
Pettitte struck out three, throwing 59 strikes and inducing seven ground balls.
"I wasn't happy with my command," he told MLB.com. "I made a few more mistakes than I had in my other starts. The weather was obviously different than it was in Florida, which is something I have to get used to, as well. "A couple of those kids got some good swings against me. ... I know I'm not there yet. ... All in all, it was a positive evening."
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was in Trenton for the start and said Pettitte will need several more Minor League starts. The lefty is attempting a comeback after retiring last year.
"Andy is between a quarter and halfway through Spring Training after being off for 16 months," Cashman told MLB.com. "He got to near 85 pitches in this start. He looks good and feels good. He's healthy. His strength and stamina have to get to the right levels."
The Yankees will monitor Pettitte's recovery and progress in the coming week as he aims to build arm strength and stamina before returning to the Majors. Pettitte's role in the Bronx -- first viewed as an extra arm in an already crowded rotation -- could be important now that Pineda will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery and Freddy Garcia and Phil Hughes have been inconsistent for New York.
"He has to go through the steps," Cashman told MLB.com. "In his next start, we'll aim for 100 pitches. When everything is right -- strength, stamina and pitches -- he'll be ready. He's not [there] yet, and Michael's situation doesn't change that.
"If I lost every starter in the Yankees rotation, I still wouldn't slot Andy in there."
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he'd like Pettitte to reach 95-100 pitches in a start before the team would consider bringing him to New York.
"Now you're starting to get some higher pitch counts and you want to see how he's bouncing back," Girardi told MLB.com. "At any point, does he need an extra day in between? It's possible. It's not unusual for us to give them an extra day in Spring Training, just because they get up higher."
Pettitte allowed a run in the first inning after Michael Rockett and Brandon Douglas singled and a fielder's choice grounder by Niuman Romero plated Rockett. The lefty retired nine straight Erie batters before issuing a leadoff walk to Romero in the fourth.
Rawley Bishop and Rob Brantly had consecutive singles off Pettitte in the fourth as Erie took a 2-0 lead.
Pettitte endured some bad luck in the fifth and Erie tacked on a third run. Jamie Johnson singled and a fielding error by third baseman Addison Maruszak set up an RBI single by Brandon Douglas. Pettitte tagged out Rockett in a rundown between third and home following a fielder's choice before retiring Jordan Lennerton and Bishop to end the frame.
Trenton fans stood and cheered as Pettitte walked off the mound, assuming the four-time World Series champion was done for the night. He ended up returning to start the sixth, but exited quickly after Brantly grounded a single to right.
Thunder reliever Preston Claiborn eventually allowed Brantly to score, finishing Pettitte's line for the night.
Pettitte spent 13 seasons in New York before retiring after the 2010 season. He announced his comeback during Spring Training and has been working his way back to form in the Minors. In two starts for Class A Advanced Tampa, he allowed one run on four hits and struck out five over seven innings.
"I can't wait to get to the Yankees and do battle with those guys," Pettitte told MLB.com. "But it won't do either myself or the team any good until I'm ready, and I'm not.
Danny Wild is an editor for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Attorneys General Want Flavored E-Cigarette Ban
Albany, N.Y. — New York's attorney general has joined counterparts from two-dozen other states urging federal regulators to impose restrictions on electronic cigarettes with a ban on more than 7,000 flavors now available.
In a letter they plan to submit Friday to the Food and Drug Administration, they say limits on advertising and prohibiting flavors besides tobacco and menthol will help protect minors.
They say tobacco companies recognized years ago that flavored cigarettes were for "teenagers" and the FDA banned them.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says that while they contain no tobacco, e-cigarettes have all the same addictive qualities as regular cigarettes, while research shows an "exponential" increase in their use by young people.
In April, the federal agency proposed treating e-cigarettes as tobacco products, putting them under its regulatory control.


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Seed for Growth Charity Event
The Seed for Growth Organizing Committee
Friday, April 26, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Join us this Spring for an electric evening within the iconic upper terrace of the Bowery Hotel.
Indulge in diverse selections of complementary hors d'œuvres and cocktails while enjoying eclectic beats from our international line up of DJs. All proceeds will benefit the Hope Made Real charity and enable the non-profit organization to build a primary school in Rwanda.
Doors open at 8:00 pm on Friday, April 26th, 2013
DJ Max Pask & DJ Orazio Rispo
Pop-up art Exhibition by the Gerson-Zevi Gallery
Art & Fashion Silent Auction, Illusionist & Tarot Card Reader
Formal Attire Required
The Seed for Growth fundraising initiative helps Hope Made Real, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the most destitute children of Rwanda, to build a primary school in the organization's Urukundo Village and Learning Center.
When & Where
The Bowery Hotel
335 Bowery
New York,
Friday, April 26, 2013 at 8:00 PM
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The Seed for Growth Organizing Committee
Seed for Growth started on a belief that education can empower individuals to take control of their own destinies and bring a critical change to the neediest part of the world. In other words, access to basic education is mankind's fundamental level of freedom: reading, writing and counting are simple yet immensely powerful tools, opening doors to any kind of knowledge.
The organizing team, a group of highly motivated and dedicated professionals in their early twenties, has been moving heaven and earth to make this event happen. Ultimately, their goal is to finance the construction of a primary school in Rwanda, under the umbrella of Hope Made Real, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the most destitute children of Rwanda.
No matter their backgrounds and interests, the Organizing Team got together with the common goal to build the long-lasting infrastructures of education and personal growth.


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Hot Links! Cocktails to Enjoy While Watching the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
Plus: The funniest "NOT UNDER MY ROOF!" holiday memories, simple ways to amp up your beauty routine, and more!
-Lucia Peters
The Victoria's Secret fashion show airs tonight! Why not view it in style with a few tasty cocktails? Bonus: They're paired with specific looks. And yes, it's ridiculous, but it's also AWESOME. (TheGloss)
Do you have a phenomenally dedicated Great Gatsby fan in your life? Help her deal with the fact that the film adaptation's release date has been pushed back by getting her one of these fabulous Gatsby-inspired gifts for the holidays. That's what friends are for, after all! (The Frisky)
Lacking in the holiday spirit? Watch this video. It features Jimmy Fallon, the Roots, Mariah Carey, and holiday music. What's not to love? (The Berry)
Looking to freshen up your look for the holidays? You don't have to get a total makeover to do it! These simple little beauty tweaks will go a long way towards amping it up. Get all the deets here! (YouBeauty)
Quick! Which over-50 actor do you think was the hottest in 2012? George Clooney, Colin Firth, Denzel Washington… there are just so many to choose from! Weigh in here! (TresSugar)
Holiday memories: How did your parents keep you from having sex in their house? Nine of the funniest "NOT UNDER MY ROOF!" stories ahead! (HowAboutWe)
Are you in or near L.A.? Stila is having a warehouse sale on December 15th and 16th! Deets here! (BeautyBloggingJunkie)
Could it be? Was there really a Vogue editor more devilish than Anna Wintour? The answer—surprisingly—is yes. Meet Lady Clare Rendlesham, and prepare to be amazed! (TheGloss)
The definitive answer to the "lead in lipstick" question: YES, most lipsticks have a little bit of lead in them. NO, it's not really enough to worry about. Read more here! (The Frisky)


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WATCH: Miley Cyrus, Mike WiLL Make-It, Juicy J & Wiz Khalifa's '23' video
Listen to Miley Cyrus on iHeartRadio
On the day her Rolling Stone cover drops, Miley Cyrus and her boys (Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa and producer — and rumored boyfriend! — Mike WiLL Made It drop a new music video for single 23.
The music video is a send up to a sexy high school — and there's smoke, ahem! — and idolizes NBA superstar Michael Jordan (who wore No. 23 for the Chicago Bulls). Miley wear a sexy two-piece that pays homage to MJ's Bulls' uniform, and she even shows off some rap skills.
*Warning: Explicit language & suggestive content
"It's basically like a pep rally," producer Mike WiLL told Rap-Up TV of the video. "I'm this kid at school and we play a trick on the principal. The principal leaves his office, I go in there and over the intercom start playing '23.' It just turns up the whole school."
He added: "Miley's like the hot chick in the school. Juicy's like the dude that's messing with all the teachers, the super senior. And then we got Wiz in there. He's in the chemistry lab, he's high as hell. The video gets trippy when he comes up."
The track will be on Mike's upcoming debut album, Est. In 1989 Pt. 3.
"Juicy J's been in the game for the longest, and he's still going. Wiz is that stoner that's just coming in different on his own wave. And then Miley's like the hot chick. And me — I'm like the new kid that kinda took over the game and just brought everybody together," Mike adds.


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