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Common Practices
UU is designed to provide basic functionality with minimal settings. One of the best ways to set this up as an administrator is to "preconfigure" UU and then distribute it to Guild Members. This way your users don't have to worry about any of the settings in UU. They can just run the exe and they are ready for action.
There is a drawback to this that really can't be avoided the way it is now. The problem however rare, is that when changing the Updater Interface URL, the only way to update the guild's installs of UU, is to redistribute UU and is sometimes annoying for you and/or the Guildies.
Such things as "start with windows" and "auto-launch WoW" you must be careful with because it could anger your users if they don't desire so much automation.
They are good ways to make sure your users have everything running properly and the way you want it to. You could turn on "auto-launch WoW" and instruct your users to just run UU and it will launch WoW, so they can essentially replace any links to the WoW executable, and just use UU to start WoW.
This is a great way to ensure that everyone is up to date.
You can customize UU with your own images.
There are currently 2 images that show in UU, which are logo1.gif and logo2.gif. logo1.gif is displayed in the Settings tab on the right, and logo2.gif is on the about tab. You don't need to have the images there if you want the distrib to be smaller.
If you do wish to equip UU with either or both of the images, here are the requirements:
- the images must be named correctly
- the images must be in the same directory as UU
- the images must be a prominent format (GIF JPG PNG, ETC)
- the images can have wierd dimensions, but not recommended, logo1.gif 216x144, logo2.gif 320x176
If you have support for GZip compression in your interface file, by all means turn that on.
Using compression is good, it will trim a file such as 5 megabytes down to ~20K, greatly increasing bandwidth efficiency.
If you have support for addon updates and/or Website==>WoW communication support in your website, set those up. See Section 4: Addon Updater and Section 5: Website ==> WoW for details about these systems.
Now that you have all that out of the way, all you have to do is set up the Primary Interface URL, which is your website file that recieves the uploads. The setting is in the Settings Tab on the top.
Rezip the ini file, the images (if you opted to include them), and the executable. Upload your package and distribute it to your users.
Basic Setup
The only setting that must be set for UU to perform its basic upload is the Primary URL setting which can be found on the Settings tab. This is the interface file on your website that recieves the SV file uploads. Once this is set, UU will automatically upload on file changes (unless you turned that off). You can set "Additional URL's" in the Options tab.
The additional URL's are basically more websites to upload to. You can set up to 4 additional URL's. the second field in these settings allows you to upload the files with different names for the files.
Note that any data recieved by the additional url's will not show in the server response window, and if you are using compression, SV will be compressed before uploading to any of the additional url's.
If you have authorization using traditional form fields both hidden and visible, "additional variables" fields. Replace "arg1" with "username" (this is the name of the variable), and "value1" with the actual username. Use the same method for the password. You can use the "additional variables" for other things such as hidden form fields. In fact hidden and Visible form fields are all additional variables.
There may not be permutations between fields and sites. This limitation is a long root in the program's history, and needs to be pulled.
To use compression, your interface file(s) must support it. here is a portion of example PHP code as a function:
function GetUploadedLocalFilename() { global $filefield, $_FILES; //filefield is the name of the file array uploaded if (isset($_FILES[$filefield])) { if (substr_count($_FILES[$filefield]['name'],".gz") > 0) { $filename = $_FILES[$filefield]['tmp_name']; $tempHandle = gzopen($filename, "r"); //uncompress $contents = fread($tempHandle,5000000); //read up to 5 megs (no way to see total uncompressed length :( ) fclose($tempHandle); $tmpfname = tempnam("","luatemp"); //create temp file for uncompressed data $handle = fopen($tmpfname, "w"); fwrite($handle, $contents); //write the uncompressed temp file fclose($handle); return $tmpfname; //return the filename (with full path) } else { return $_FILES[$filefield]['tmp_name']; } } else { return ""; } }
Addon Updater
This system is a little tricky, because the updater interface must be set up in a way that it can respond to all of UU's operations. Here is how it works: UU sends a request to the interface, OPERATION = GETADDONLIST , the interface file must respond with ONLY the xml file which is formatted as follows (example):
<addons> <addon name="CharacterProfiler" version="0.97" toc="11000" required="1" > <file name="CharacterProfiler.lua" md5sum="d64d775f5015b16390034ef72688b632" /> <file name="CharacterProfiler.toc" md5sum="255417db5329ad7a88e8fd1cbd997149" /> <file name="CharacterProfiler.xml" md5sum="287a42a55384dad5f10cbf8f92b36bd4" /> </addon> <addon name="guildextract" version="0.0.0" toc="11000" required="0"> <file name="Guildextract.xml" md5sum="0ceddad51783ed35bf4d53f353729f3b" /> <file name="guildextract.lua" md5sum="95b1a7fcd0926c3c439cdb0215dea45b" /> <file name="guildextract.toc" md5sum="b96c0c500e1cce8f898dd283bdbe1588" /> </addon> </addons>
UU then checks to see if the user has the addons installed, and if so, checks the md5sum of the files on the user's hard drive matches that from the xml data. If any of the files from a particular addon are outdated (md5's dont match), that addon's download URL is then requested like this:
- UU sends a request to the interface with 2 variables set, variable 1: OPERATION = GETADDON , variable 2: ADDON = "AddonName" where AddonName is the name of the folder that should be in the InterfaceAddOns folder, and is the same name used in the xml file.
- The interface file returns something like eg. http://somewhere.com/updater/AbcWoWMod.zip
The zip file must have the following directory structure: Interface/AddOns/AbcWoWMod/ with the parent folders included with the zip. UU then downloads the URL location (the zip file) , unzips it, and moves it to the correct wow addons directory.
The interface file must keep a current database with each md5sum of the addon's files, the names of the addons, and the location of the zip download. If the database and the zip files don't match you will have many problems, there is a possibility of UU trying to update the affected addon's every time, or returning an error.
The interface file can be integrated with the main interface by using something like a PHP case() function for the _REQUEST['OPERATION']. The Section 5: Website ==> WoW system also sends a similar request to the interface.
Website ==> WoW
This system provides a way for data from a website to be inserted into the SV file for use in WoW Mod's, essentially making it possible to run Full-Duplex (WoW (==) Website) WoW Addons.
You can find the settings for this system in the Advanced tab in the middle. UU first reads the data from the URL, then appends the data to the bottom of the specified SV file exactly as recieved from the URL. After the data from the website has been appended into the SV file, WoW Addon's can use the data. When logging out of WoW, if 1 or more addons have RegisterForSave set for the data, then it will remain in the SV file. There should never be more than 1 copy of the same variable in the SV file if the upload button is'nt pressed manually. If there are more than 1 of the same variable/data in the SV file, the addons will use the last (latest) copy of the variable/data. UniUploader will retrieve and append the data every time the upload button is pressed and (if option is set) when changes in the SV file are detected.
Upload Data Info
When UU uploads files, a few extra post variables are passed:
- the size of the uncompressed files are sent as integers, (# of bytes), only if gzip is turned on. For every checked SV, there will be a POST variable sent like this:
- usize_ + name of checked SV = # of bytes
- so if it were uploading a SV called myAddon.lua: usize_myAddon=123456
- usize_ + name of checked SV = # of bytes
- The local time of the computer running UU in both regular and UTC.
- The UU User Agent is passed via the HTTP Header, which also contains the UU Version.
Variable Snapshot
_REQUEST["usize_CharacterProfiler"] 712529 _REQUEST["clientTime"] 2007-08-09T19:06:09Z _REQUEST["clientTimeUTC"] 2007-08-09T23:06:09Z _POST["usize_CharacterProfiler"] 712529 _POST["clientTime"] 2007-08-09T19:06:09Z _POST["clientTimeUTC"] 2007-08-09T23:06:09Z _SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] UniUploader 2.0 (UU 2.6.7; English) _SERVER["CONTENT_TYPE"] multipart/form-data; boundary=698585d85ac04b7da6e40e52dc73542b _FILES["CharacterProfiler"] Array ( [name] => CharacterProfiler.lua [type] => application/octet-stream [tmp_name] => C:\DOCUME~1\Matt\LOCALS~1\Temp\php\upload\php56.tmp [error] => 0 [size] => 712529 )
Raw Data
This is a reassembled UniUploader TCP data stream with the binary data cut out:
POST /info.php HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: UniUploader 2.0 (UU 2.6.7; English) Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710 Accept: application/x-shockwave-flash,text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Content-Length: 110174 Connection: Keep-Alive Host: foolyfrag.com --e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="usize_FuBar" 1101 --e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="FuBar"; filename="FuBar.lua.gz" Content-Type: application/octet-stream *BINARY DATA REMOVED FOR WIKI* --e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="usize_PvPLog" 38319 --e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="PvPLog"; filename="PvPLog.lua.gz" Content-Type: application/octet-stream *BINARY DATA REMOVED FOR WIKI* --e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="usize_CharacterProfiler" 712529 --e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="CharacterProfiler"; filename="CharacterProfiler.lua.gz" Content-Type: application/octet-stream *BINARY DATA REMOVED FOR WIKI* --e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="clientTime" 2007-08-09T19:28:20Z --e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="clientTimeUTC" 2007-08-09T23:28:20Z --e62f89ca2c714e0dac26d9c465641710--


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Legendary two-time Oscar-winning actor Michael Caine enters into "Amour" territory in his new film, "Last Love," which opens Friday in Los Angeles.
The 80-year-old Caine plays Matthew Morgan, a lonely American widower living in the Paris apartment he shared with his late wife (Jane Alexander), whose ghost visits him on occasion. He has less than an ideal relationship with his two adult children (Gillian Anderson, Justin Kirk), who live in the U.S.
Matthew gets a new lease on life when he becomes a friend and surrogate father to an equally lonely young dancer teacher, Pauline (Clémence Poésy). When a near-tragedy prompts his children to come to Paris, they mistakenly believe their father is having an affair.
For nearly 50 years, Caine has been one of cinema's most accomplished actors — earning lead actor Oscar nominations for 1966's "Alfie," 1972's "Sleuth," 1983's "Educating Rita" and 2000's "The Quiet American" and winning supporting actor Oscars for 1986's "Hannah and Her Sisters" and 1999's "The Cider House Rules."
The British actor brought humor, gravitas and emotion to his role as Bruce Wayne's butler/surrogate father Alfred in director Christopher Nolan's "Batman" trilogy and is collaborating with the filmmaker for the sixth time on "Interstellar."
The effusive and witty Caine chatted about "Last Love" recently over the phone from his home in England.
I loved your last autobiography, "The Elephant to Hollywood." Does writing come naturally to you?
Yes. I never asked for any professional help. A writer once said to me, all you have to do is write the way you talk — like you are telling a story. The only other advice I got was from Kirk Douglas. I said the lawyers kept stopping me from saying certain things, and he said you must write fiction, then you can tell the truth.
You also have nearly 500,000 followers on Twitter.
Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it? My wife, Shakira, put me on to it. Suddenly, I'm doing messages. It's quite amazing. You get one message from New York and one from Iceland, all in 10 seconds. I go on every so often if something happens or I'm doing something.
Let's talk about "Last Love." It changes tone halfway through the movie when we Matthew is dealing with not only loneliness but deep-seated depression. What drew you to the project?
As I got older, I have sort of tested myself more and more with more difficult roles. This is a very difficult role to play. It's very sensitive; you could get it wrong in so many places. I did my best.
You understand the loneliness of the two people, which I thought was the most important thing about the picture. I asked the author of the book — it's based on a true story — if was there anything ever sexual between you and the man. She said no, never. So the first thing I did was grow a paunch belly. I look as unattractive as I possibly could and did a very good job, I must say, because I was afraid of anything sexual coming through.
Have you finished Nolan's "Interstellar"?
I have shot some in Calgary, and I shoot more in Los Angeles in November. I don't have a big part in it. I play the part of the science professor. He gave me another wonderful character in this one. The thing about Christopher Nolan is that he writes so you really believe the characters. In many of these big movies, the characters are just ciphers.
You also have another film set for release next year, "Eliza Graves." What's that about?
It's an Edgar Allan Poe story. It's Ben Kingsley and me. He's a lunatic, and I'm in charge of the asylum! I am doing a picture with Matthew Vaughn in December that's a spoof on the secret service. And director Paolo Sorrentino ("The Great Beauty") came to me with script called "The Future," which I am going to do next year.
So you're pretty booked.
I'm still around. I am hoping to stay here as long as possible.

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i need some help in how to respond to my older sisters religious bs
she has thrown in my face that i am huring mom b/c i don't believe and i refuse to go to church
i moved back home to take care of her b/c of she has cancer.
my older sister and little sister are coming on easter and they are all expecting me to go to church, do i go agaist my values and go or not go?
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yeah, it's not like ancient humans had much left to look forward to after 32 years of age anyway besides a miserable decline during what we now call middle-age followed by an early death. So the Jesus figure missed out on the worst years of mortal human life to skip of into heaven? Good deal!
Interesting that apparently he didn't preach until he hit that age, either.
Christians will torture their chronology to make the gospels compatible with each other when you read the sequence of events (coming up with three distinct incidents with the moneychangers at the temple for example, in order to reconcile John with the synoptic gospels) but it looks like he was only preaching for a few months before getting crucified.
That's because his alleged ministry didn't begin until after his baptism.
Regarding the gospel of John, supposedly the son of Zebedee, the fisherman, he didn't even meet Yeshua the way the synoptic gospels say he did. According to him, there was no "fishers of men" incident. Those guys should have gotten their stories straight.
Yeah, good point. Plus, if you believe the prevailing fable (quite open to interpretation and revision), he had no wife or children. The "starting a religion thing" wasn't working very well judging from the fact the Romans never even mention him and they were record keeping fanatics. Maybe he understood that just as any painter's pictures are worth more after they are dead, he might as well check out and go into retirement.
Heck, most of his 12 buddies were luke warm about him. It wasn't until decades later when those 4 fiction writers got the book rights to his life that things took off. Now we have movies and all sorts of entertainment. : )
Right - the first, "Mark" wasn't written until more than 40 years later - who waits 40 years to write a book about the "savior of the world"?
None of the four gospels were signed, it wasn't until the second century CE that a group of Bishops arbitrarily decided that Mark, Matthew, Luke and John wrote them,
It wasn't until 325 that it was decided, officially at least, that the "trinity" existed, and that Yeshua was a third of it. There were also divided opinions as to whether Yeshua was born the son of god from a virgin, was born normally and was adopted by god at his baptism, or became divine upon his resurrection. These are all decisions that were eventually made by committee.
Ah, the Trinity! Now was there ever a more convoluted, schizophrenic mishmash of mambo-jumbo? Talk about multiple personality disorders. Well he is, no he isn't, yes he is. Oh, I got it, let's say he is and is part of a three-some and we'll throw a ghost in there to boot.
I suspect they will have to retreat from this position in the future as people start to ask the inevitable questions. The poor obsessive/compulsives will miss the incessant signing of the cross.
I remember when they tried to bring it more main stream and said it's not a ghost, it is a spirit. I suspect Trinity will go the way of limbo (remember that one) and the dodo bird.
RE: "But we know there was no Adam and Eve so no original sin and no reason to make up the rest of this unbelievable story."
Exactly - yesterday someone (I don't have time to look up who) commented that we should ignore the Old Testament and concentrate on the New, but I disagree, the OT is where all the provable bullshit is, and the NT proves that Yeshua (Jesus' real name) believed the OT, hook, line and sinker, which in turn proves there was nothing "divine" about him, if he ever existed, he was just another gullible fool who - again, if he ever actually existed - died for absolutely nothing.
Which is why the catholic church treats the OT as an inconvenient book and distances themselves from it as far as they can. Perhaps they have read some of your work Arch.
Why do you think the Pope quit --?
That is a good question. I have no idea myself but the speculation ranges from his increasing infirmity to embarrassment over his handling of abuse cases in the past. With the world growing increasingly more outraged by the stories of cover-ups and the Pope being implicated in many of them, Vatican City provides him with sanctuary from prosecution. He can't be extradited from there. I think a cardinal Britain was recently outed for inappropriate behavior. If they have the balls to go after a cardinal, maybe the hand writing was on the wall. This could have been a face-saving preemptive strike by the Church or negotiated exit by the Vatican and legal authorities in Germany.
Then there are those who feel they have to modernize before there is no one left to turn off the lights. He stood in the way of that and he put his foot in his mouth a number of times. How does someone who is infallible do that?
Geoff, I'm sure the Pope is every bit as infallible as the Bible is, inerrant.
my issue with religion is the lies they tell...I have gone to church with my ma while I have been here but got tired of listening to the lies. When I first started going I would leave during the sermon and now when I am not working I just drop her off and come home.


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California Department of Transportation
Date: May 24, 2012
District: 3
Contact: Dennis Keaton
Phone: (619) 688-6723 Cell: (619) 571-2538
MARYSVILLE - The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $1.7 billion in funding for transportation projects that will strengthen the state's economy by sustaining and creating jobs and provide congestion relief for motorists statewide.
"The benefits these projects bring to California are a huge boon to the economy, and the investment in our transportation system will continue to serve motorists for generations to come," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Approximately $872 million of the funding was provided by Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006. In total, more than $13 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide.
Some of the notable projects that received funding include:
- El Dorado County - $15.5 million for a U.S. Highway 50 project in El Dorado County at the El Dorado Hills and Latrobe Boulevard interchange. Modifications include constructing a new westbound off-ramp undercrossing, improve westbound on and off ramps and adding dedicated ramp meters.
- El Dorado County - $6 million for an El Dorado County project at Placerville between Placerville and Ray Lawyer Drive. Work will be to construct a westbound access ramp and auxiliary lane from Ray Lawyer Drive onto U.S. Highway 50 to Placerville Drive.
- Butte County - $725,000 for a safety improvement project near Chico on State Highway 99 at Neal Road that will install a signal system to eliminate uncontrolled left -turn movements.
- Yolo County - $995,000 for a project in Davis at Mace Boulevard to stabilize a bike path, embankment, sidewalk and slope damaged by heavy rain.
Yesterday's allocations include $766 million in federal funds that will be applied to various local transportation programs statewide. The remaining allocations came from assorted state and federal transportation accounts.
Please see the attached file for more information about all projects that received allocations today.
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Job Description
# of Openings
Responsible for collecting and transmitting data gathered from designated retail stores primarily using a hand-held scanning device. Take direction from the Supervisor and other management individuals. Responsible for meeting defined standards of work volume, quality, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. Maintain a positive relationship with employees and customers as a representative of CROSSMARK.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Collect and transmit consumer product data gathered from designated retail stores as assigned by:
Counting forward reserve inventories
Reconciling purchases (invoices) against inventories
Scanning UPC codes via hand-held device
Collecting display and promotional information
Inputting product price information
Collecting and entering custom survey observational data
Transmitting collected data daily via internet based on the requirements of the collection device
Plan and organize assigned work within CROSSMARK Retail Data Collection by: In-store observation studies
Training updates
Task lists
Store assignments
Occasionally downloading and printing forms
Meet CROSSMARK Retail Data Collection defined standards of work volume, quality, accuracy, cost containment, completeness, and timeliness by:
Complying with travel and mileage standards established by Retail Data Collection
Following management and CROSSMARK expectations on cost containment
Completing assignments and transmitting data according to CROSSMARK's established procedures and deadlines
Submitting time card and expense information in accordance with CROSSMARK's established procedures and schedule
Communicate effectively with management and coworkers by:
Communicating no less than weekly with district management regarding schedules/issues
Checking email daily for operational updates
Returning all phone calls within 1 business day and all emails within 2 business day
Attending all market, team, and other meetings, as required
Advising management of promotional activity changes within retail outlets
Responsibilities with Regard to Workers' Compensation Claims - You are responsible for reporting any employment related injury you incur to your direct supervisor as soon as possible following an incident resulting in an injury.
This role is not expected to exceed more than 25 hours per week, although the company does maintain the discretion to change the role based on the needs of the business and/or the client.
Note: This job description does not imply that the above functions are the only tasks that may be performed. Associates will be expected, if possible, to follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related tasks as directed by management.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Specific Skills:
Complete Causal/Survey and PCT Skills Assessment Qualification Exercise within four (4) weeks of hire.
Complete Audit Skills Assessment Qualification Exercise within eight (8) weeks of hire. (Approximately 160 hours of training.)
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Good organizational skills.
Attention to detail.
Ability to work independently while following directions.
Proficient in basic PC skills.
Must have reliable transportation, valid driver's license, and auto insurance. Must keep driver's license and insurance information current.
Specialized Knowledge, License, etc:
Education and/or Experience - High school diploma or GED equivalent preferred
Physical Demands - While working in retail stores the associate will be required to sit, reach (overhead, under and arms length), bend, climb, kneel stand, squat, walk on flat surface, lift up to 30 lbs., change position, and handle and carry a 2 lb. device for a prolonged period of time.
Counting reserve stock in coolers/freezers may be required.
Working Conditions (environment in which the job is performed) - Retail stores
Language Skills - English is the primary language skill; however, bilingual skills may be required based on business necessity.
At CROSSMARK, you can get the job that gets your lifestyle. Whether you are seeking a career in retail merchandizing, the flexibility of a part-time job or full-time corporate employment, we have a place for you. Join our U.S. team of over 30,000 dedicated and talented individuals in providing expert sales and marketing services for the consumer goods industry.
CROSSMARK is committed to providing accessible employment practices and welcomes applications from people with disabilities. If you require accommodation for a disability during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know.
Req ID 2019-130263
Primary Work Location : Location US-MI-Iron Mountain
Category Data Collections
Online: https://nlx.jobsyn.org/c79d16a390144b80b79e13feaedbac48151
Iron Mountain, MI 49801
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
High School Diploma/Equivalency
Entry Level


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VERGENNES — Posting two of its strongest routines of the winter at Saturday's championship competition at Vergennes Union High School, the Middlebury Union High School dance team finished second in each of its disciplines and third overall by a margin of just 2.75 points.
Mount Mansfield edged South Burlington for the overall title, 480.50-480.25, with the Tigers right behind at 477.75.
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The Tigers were second overall to Lamoille for the second straight competition, second in the pom competition as they performed their pom routine for the first time this winter, and second in the hip-hop category for the first time this winter after winning that event at two earlier competitions.
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Philadelphia 2X Protein Cream Cheese Spread - MAJOR protein find! Not only does this new product contain twice the protein of ordinary cream cheese spread, but it also has FEWER calories and LESS fat than reduced-fat kinds! In Regular and Honey, each 2-tbsp. serving has 50 - 60 calories, 3g fat, 95 - 110mg sodium, 2 - 3g carbs, 0g fiber, <1 - 3g sugars, and 4g protein (PointsPlus® value 1*). We've tried it, and it is SO good! Find some STAT.
Mrs. Dash Salt-Free Seasoning Packets - We love Mrs. Dash's traditional bottled seasonings. (The Original Blend is FANTASTIC!) And now Mrs. D has an entire line of seasoning packets in varieties like French Onion Dip and Taco Seasoning... Just like typical packets lining the supermarket shelves, but with NO sodium. Each serving (3/4 tsp. - 1 tbsp.) has just 5 - 20 calories, 1 - 4g carbs, 0 - 2g sugars, and 0 - 1g protein (PointsPlus® value 0 - 1*). We need them all!
Beyond Meat Chicken-Free Strips - More faux meat has entered the arena. This chicken swap (with an amazingly accurate texture!) is gluten-free, vegan, and made from soybeans and peas. Totally unique! Available in Grilled, Lightly Seasoned, and Southwest Style (our fave!), a serving of about 7 strips has 120 calories, 4.5g fat, 270 - 290mg sodium, 5g carbs, 3g fiber, 0g sugars, and 18g protein (PointsPlus® value 3*). Click to find!
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Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze - With less than half the calories of fat-free dairy milk, this creamy and flavorful stuff has always had impressive nutritional stats. And now it's gone from 40 to 30 calories and from 3.5g to 2.5g fat per 1-cup serving (PointsPlus® value 1*). AMAZING! Click for more on our favorite milk swap.
The Laughing Cow Light Creamy Swiss Cheese Wedges - This HG staple underwent a sodium reduction a couple of years ago, and the salt content has been quietly slashed once again! (So quietly, in fact, that it happened a little while ago and we just noticed.) Each delicious wedge has gone from 210mg sodium to 180mg. We'll be enjoying some on a Fuji apple in celebration. More ways to rejoice with the Cow are just a click away!
Which retro diet food is making a comeback? Melba toast!!! We recently got our hands on countless flavors of Old London All Natural Melba Toast and Melba Snacks, and these things are SO GOOD. They come in Sourdough, Roasted Garlic, Spicy 3 Pepper, and more! Three of the toasts have 60 - 70 calories and 1.5g fat or less (PointsPlus® value 2*); four of the smaller snacks have 60 calories and 1 - 2g fat (PointsPlus® value 1 - 2*). Snag some STAT. ***On to less fun news. The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert due to concerns that raw chicken products produced by Foster Farms are the cause of a current salmonella outbreak. Nearly 300 illnesses were reported in 18 states, predominantly in California. Click here for all the information, and be careful! ***Get this: The TomTato, a plant that produces both white potatoes and cherry tomatoes, is now available for UK home gardens. We're feeling very envious of our British pals right about now... We'd use it to make our Mashie-Topped Meatloaf Cupcakes topped with cherry tomatoes! ***HG event reminder: This Friday afternoon (10/18), Lisa will be in Albany, NY, for a book signing! She'll be answering Qs, giving out prizes and, of course, signing books at the University at Albany SUNY campus. Click for details! And that's all we've got. HG out!
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Crooked Argentine federal police partnered with a Mexican chemist to smuggle liquid cocaine for the Sinaloa cartel to the United States and Europe, Argentine Security Minister Sergio Berni said Friday.
Berni said internal affairs officers had been tracking the band as it stole cars, invaded houses, protected drug traffickers and accumulated cocaine from Bolivia and Peru.
Once the group amassed enough cocaine, Berni said, its Mexican connection came to Buenos Aires to convert it to liquid. The cocaine then was mixed with the oil inside two huge electricity generators and passed undetected through the scanners in Argentine and Mexican ports.
Investigative judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado and other Argentine authorities then followed the trail to Mexico's Yucutan Peninsula, where the generators arrived in a container ship, and urged authorities there to test the liquid. Only then did they confirm that 2,000 liters (525 gallons) of cocaine worth $40 million was inside, Berni said.
"The important thing is to investigate, to not be afraid, to show courage like this judge did," Berni said. "We know the firepower they (traffickers) have." Nine people were arrested, including Cesar Cornejo of Mexico, who engaged in a firefight with police he mistook for cartel assassins. Berni said he personally negotiated Cornejo's surrender on April 22, and that in their search of his apartment, officials were able to document that the cocaine had left Argentina.
Berni did not identify any of the Argentine suspects involved, but said raids of their homes turned up the evidence his ministry put on display Friday: an arsenal of guns and ammunition, official police and private security company uniforms, communications equipment, computers, cash and even snorkeling gear.
Berni said he suspects the band also was involved in a string of recent burglaries in which thieves swam into posh, gated communities in the river delta outside Buenos Aires where Argentina's wealthy seek refuge from crime.


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This Sunday is National Grandparents Day and to celebrate, I've compiled a list of the eight reasons I think grandparents are beyond fabulous:
- They're grand role models. This generation of grandparents rocks, but not in a chair on the front porch. Today's Grandma and Grandpa live more active, interesting lives than any generation before. They've been there, done that – and they've brought the grandkids T-shirts to prove it. Their values, skills and life experience make them people to look up to.
- They're happy to give. Studies show that grandparents are generous with financial support for grandchildren, despite a recession or a fixed income. Grandchildren's needs are very high on their list of priorities; millions pay for basic needs, such as housing, health care and education.
- They provide a buffer. An old joke says grandparents and grandchildren get along so well because they have a common enemy (parents!). While that may be going a bit far, there is something special about that skipped-generation relationship.
- They're willing to listen. Grandparents generally have more patience and time to focus on anything and everything their grandchildren say. They really get it – we have two ears and one mouth for a reason! Kids feel valued when grandparents take time to listen.
- They're a link to our heritage. The family lore my grandparents passed on to me taught me that I come from strong, resilient people who survived hardships I can't even imagine. Knowing this makes me feel grounded and confident I can deal with almost anything.
- They lend a strong helping hand. Grandparents provide a great deal of child care for grandchildren, and many live with and/or raise grandchildren. They quit jobs, move across country and make sacrifices to be available – that's love in action.
- They're living history. I remember my grandfather telling me stories about his adventures homesteading, working on the railroad, CCC camps, WWI and WWII. He brought those times to life for me. Nothing beats firsthand experience.
- They adore – and indulge. Grandparents feel that "spoiling" a child is a hard-earned benefit of being a grandparent. Every kid deserves someone in their life who takes great pleasure in delighting them.
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Whether you're a grandparent yourself, or are lucky enough to have grandparents in your life, I suspect you can add to this list. Why do you think grandparents rock?!
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Amy Goyer is AARP's home and family expert; she splits her time between Washington and Phoenix, where she lives with and cares for her parents. Her new book, AARP's Juggling Work and Caregiving, will be published this fall. Follow Amy on Twitter @amygoyer and on Facebook.
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Winter Film Series to highlight Norway
TAHOE CITY, Caif. and#8212; Winter is here and Alpenglow Sports is proud to announce the second installment of their annual Winter Film Series. World-famous ski mountaineer Andrew McLean will present, and#8220;Norwayand#8217;s Wild Westand#8221; Dec. 8, 7 p.m. at the Sawtooth Ridge Cafe, 877 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City.
Join Salt Lake City and ski mountaineering icon Andrew McLean for a three-part trip to Norwayand#8217;s Spitsbergen archipelago. Situated in the Arctic Circle, the area provides world-class skiing, trekking, sailing and adventure. Tour through abandoned Russian ghost towns, dodge Polar Bear tracks in the fog, and savor the worldand#8217;s most expensive snowmobile ride in a land where the sun never sets. McLean and a host of other ski mountaineers descended on the region in the spring of 2011, resulting in entertaining, grand, and inspiring adventure.
The show is free and is designed to motivate, inspire, and educate! Amazing raffle prizes from our generous sponsors Mountain Hardwear and Black Diamond. Raffle proceeds to benefit the Sierra Avalanche Center (SAC).
Please come early for good seats. The Sawtooth Ridge Cafe will serve dinner specials beginning at 5:30 p.m. Call Alpenglow Sports at 530-583-6917 with questions.


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We are professional NABCEP™ certified solar installers who also offer installation services for all our products. We take great pride in all installations performed, keeping a close eye on the details. In addition to performing all on-site services during installation, we guarantee continued support of our work through the many years it will be a part of your home or business.
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Last fall I worked with art director Suzanne Shade to style and shoot this print ad featuring Minted wedding stationery (designs by Annie Clark and Cadence Paige). It ran in the winter 2012 issues of The Knot and Martha Stewart Weddings and was truly a joy to work on — anything that involves velvet ribbon is pretty much a win in my book.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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Labels: Freelance Work, Photography, Styling, Wedding
8 comments:
- Hannah said...
I want YARDS of that ribbon. Gorgeous!
- March 1, 2012 at 7:55 AM
- karen brown said...
Hi there, just wanted to let you know that I often visit your blog, and thought it was about time that I left a comment to let you know how much I enjoy your lovely photos and craft inspirations. Am also lusting after that velvet ribbon. Cheers from the South Seas, Karen Brown
- March 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM
- Emom said...
- March 5, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- M.M.E. said...
The photographs turned out gorgeously! I love the deep background color and the overall richness of the piece. You have to be so happy!
- March 5, 2012 at 3:03 PM
- elissa said...
turned out great! i've been collecting inspiration for when i finally have a chance to reshoot my portfolio and this has definitely been bookmarked. thanks for sharing!
- March 8, 2012 at 12:47 PM
- Rosa said...
Love the fireflies!! Sweet!!!
- April 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM
- Muffin said...
You are so talented. I love your photos and styling. I'm just getting into designing for Minted. Maybe one of my designs will make it into your photo shoots! Here's to hoping!
- June 20, 2012 at 9:05 PM
- the quiet murmur of gentle things said...
i LOVE the chocolate velvet ribbon!!!
gorgeous thoughts,
her billowing heart
- June 22, 2012 at 1:32 AM


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by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., May 27, 2004 – New Mexico Tech physics professor David Raymond has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in environmental science and will now spend the first two weeks of June teaching at the University of Zagreb in Croatia.
Under the prestigious program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Raymond will conduct various seminars and workshops on atmospheric physics for faculty and students at the University of Zagreb.
He was invited to participate as a scholar in the international exchange program after having visited the Croatian capital last year at the request of one of his graduate students at New Mexico Tech, who happens to hail from Croatia.
Professor Raymond, who has been on the New Mexico Tech faculty since 1973, is an internationally recognized expert in cloud physics, specifically cumulus convection, and tropical weather and climate.
Last month, he was recognized by the university by being named the recipient of the annual New Mexico Tech President's Club Distinguished Researcher Award.
The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program offers two- to six-week grants to leading U.S. university faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at academic institutions in 140 countries around the world.
Created to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholars Program, which started in 1946, the Senior Specialists Program aims at increasing the number of faculty and professionals who have the opportunity to travel and teach abroad on a Fulbright.


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Solid is the new hardware device framework for KDE 4 that features, among other things, a hardware discovery layer which allows you to detect and use devices regardless of operating system or architecture. You can learn more about the Solid project at solid.kde.org.
For a more detailed (still not complete!) description, read here.
The API documentation can be found at api.kde.org
This tutorial is written for developers looking to use the Solid hardware discovery layer within their applications. It can also serve as a good starting point for developers looking to start working on the Solid framework.


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12 Inspiring Thanksgiving Kids' Tables
The idea of a kids table for Thanksgiving is attractive for a lot of families - there are many people present and it becomes easier to separate the adults from the children. Since some kids might not be too happy about not being amongst the grownups, it's nice to give them a specially decorated table.
Here's a selection of fun decorating ideas for kids tables sure to help make your younger guests happy to gather around their own little celebration.
• A colorful kids' table by Mirabelle Creations seen on Sweet Designs
• Table featuring stamped napkins, crayons and a turkey finger puppet on Frog Prince Paperie
• Chair bunting, "thankful" wands and more by Maria of Ritzy Bee for Southern Living.
• A mountain log theme table by Anders Ruff
• A Peanuts-themed table at Denna's ideas
• A Pilgrim-themed table by Fiskars
• Adorable handmade turkey placemats by Alyesa Bags
• A simple kraft paper-covered table by Sweet Paul for Country Living
• A pilgrim and Mayflower-themed table by Sandra Lee on iVillage
• Chalkboard table mats by La T Dah
• A popcorn-filled paper turkey on Say Yes to Hoboken
• Free printables by Amanda's Parties To Go
Re-edited from a post originally published 11.08.12 - CM
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Due to the coverage we've given it this past week, I'm sure our readers and listeners are acutely aware of just how excited we are for Armikrog. From a chance encounter at E3, to a face-to-face, to our Bonus Round podcast with Ed and Mike, it's gotten us a lot of traction.
A great deal of that traction comes from Doug TenNapel, co-creator of Earthworm Jim and The Neverhood! When he saw us promoting the game via Twitter, he took it upon himself to open a dialogue, and retweet all of our updates to his throngs of fans (7,694, to be exact). Dozens of tweets later I contacted him, and asked if he'd like to contribute to the coverage here at Double Plus Good Games with an e-mail correspondence interview. What follows is exactly that!
James Bacon: While interviewing your colleagues at Pencil Test Studios this past week, they had made mention that Armikrog wasn't necessarily a new idea; that this is something you've been holding on to for a while. How long, and why now?
Doug TenNapel: All of my ideas stew for a while. It's how I help to see if they will stand the test of time. But it's really hard to say that the final thing like Armikrog existed, since all of the ideas combine at the end, not at the beginning. So I first coined the name Armikrog at least fifteen years ago. That word didn't have a home. I'd try it as a title on a number of projects or use it as a name for a character and nothing worked. But when Mike Dietz asked me if I wanted to make a new stop motion point and click adventure game I said, "Oh yes. It's going to be called Armikrog."
As for Tommynaut, those design principles that make him have been there for twenty years. Those are just the general proportions I use for my lead characters. But the solid black eyes were a thing I tried on a number of previous characters and projects and they just weren't working. Then I tried them on Tommynaut and Mike Dietz said, "Yes. I'd love to try animating that!" And that's how my ideas come together.
James Bacon: Where does your inspiration come from? Regarding Earthworm Jim, I think it's safe to say something like that hadn't ever been done before you did it, and I dare say nothing like it has come since; however, in certain character designs of yours, I can see flashes of Jeff Smith's Bone and other tributaries, but when I read material like Nnewts, or Ratfist, I can see you have a brilliant array of unique and original characters and worlds. How much of it is exterior influence, and how much of it is your own creation? Do you ever decide to pay tribute with intent, or is it more a subconscious leaning?
Doug TenNapel: I think some of my work may hint of Bone because not only is Jeff Smith a big influence on me, but we are both drawing from a similar body of other artists that inform our work. The sheer variety of styles I work in comes from my own impatience with anything I happen to be working on. I love to create the new as much I love to execute the current thing I'm working on so there's always some new crazy project to try. My limitation is never the creative part… that's very easy to do. It's the execution of any crazy idea that takes a lot of work, time and patience. But most of my influence from the outside is on a subconscious level. I devour other people's art and work from a lot of different backgrounds and it all goes into the hopper. I never know when it's going to come back out in a project. So I'm never deliberately going after some idea that I see out there. In fact, I'm often trying to run away from ideas that I already see existing. I just read Moby Dick and all of that stuff is going to come out some day. I'm also studying Bruce Timm's fantastic art and that's going to come out too. I think when I created Ratfist I was reading a lot of Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon's great work. Anyone who looks at Ratfist wouldn't tie it to Gabe and Fab, but I don't know if it all would have shaken out the way it did if I didn't happen to be looking at their work.
JB: Why come back to video games? You're a successful illustrator, and have published several graphic novels (Gear, Cardboard, Bad Island, Ghostopolis, and so many others). What makes Tommynaut, Beak-Beak, and their world and history a better fit for video games? Or is it maybe a personal desire to come back into the fray to revisit older times?
DT: I always say that I didn't leave games, games left me. I've always seen that medium as a legit place to create fun stuff, I just had to wait a while before the players were empowered to fund projects that the contemporary game companies weren't interested in. So I'll work in graphic novels, and I've got a TV pilot at Disney, and I'll do contract work for Dreamworks, then make games. The mediums have their own unique limitations so each one presents a problem to solve and just like working in that space. What I DO love about games is that I get to work with my old friends Mike Dietz and Edward Schofied. These guys are like blood to me and it's one thing that working in games offers that I don't get when I work alone at my art table on comics.
JB: How involved with Armikrog are you? Beyond designing the characters, do you have any input regarding scenario writing, or plot scripting? I know that you've been contracted by Ed and Mike at Pencil Test Studios, but given your long and storied background with those two gents, does this specific creative relationship allow for you to provide more than just crazy creatures and characters?
DT: I do all of the scenario writing and plot scripting too. I also do most of the actual game design, working out puzzles, mechanics and weaving the story in and out of the game. That said, I never have to tell Mike or Ed to be creative when it's time to make something on the fly. The actual creation work on a game means they have to be able to just decide something. They always run it by me, but it's more to see if I can come up with something different and not that I need to approve everything. We've worked enough together that there has never really been any conflict with who does what job. We each probably end up doing about three man's worth of work, so there isn't even time to think too much about anything but the job that's right in front of us. When the game funds my job is to design the hell out of it. Mike and Ed have a mountain of animation to do that needed to be done yesterday. We'll work like that for a year.
JB: In a recent interview you've given with Bryan the Intern of Screw-Attack.com, you mentioned that Armikrog is a much darker game than The Neverhood. I played The Neverhood, and I recall that if you were to remove the whimsey of your design, and the situational humor, the meta-plot was particularly dark. How much darker could Armikorg really be?
DT: It's dark, because there's a lot more at stake than what was in the Neverhood. The hero Tommynaut is a much more stoic being who has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Klaymen was always so innocent and naïve and just kind of loping through the world that I don't think he knew the threat that he was experiencing. But I'm not trying to make some gothic horror thing. The story is definitely bright and funny and there will be laughs… and there will be sadness. I like giving Tommynaut a fuller range of emotion because I think he's more "real" being than Klaymen. Klaymen is a mythic fairy tale, so he has a dreamy quality about him. Tommynaut is a fallen astronaut trying to regain his honor.
JB: This is maybe a bit of a preemptive question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Provided Armikrog is finished (and it WILL, I have full faith), are there formative plans to maybe stay within this universe you're creating? Sort of like how Skullmonkeys and, to a lesser extent, Boombots all took place within the Neverhood universe?
DT: One of the benefits of going to players for funding is that we'll never have to ask a publisher for permission to make a sequel. That's what's really frustrating about Neverhood and Earthworm Jim, we don't control the sequel rights. When Armikrog funds I'll be hoping to do at least one more game in that world and we'll keep it a point and click adventure game, hopefully with some appropriate innovations.
JB: Can you reveal anything regarding the gameplay of Armikrog? I realize it's going to be a point and click adventure game, but even that genre has been evolving (all be it at a slower pace than most other genres). Are there new and fresh mechanics you've been working on, or is this strictly a nostalgic game with nostalgic mechanics?
DT: It has those same Neverhood mechanics, but I've added a first person mode where you move and manipulate a miniature scale of the fortress Armikrog and it moves the real world around you. So it would be like if you had to move the actual buildings around the Neverhood to solve puzzles. The world is a puzzle.
JB: I asked this same question of Ed and Mike, and they seemed to have quite a bit of fun with it. I hope you get the same amount of enjoyment out of it: is there a question that you haven't been asked regarding Armikrog that you would really like to answer?
DT: Making this game is going to be torment… but the best kind of torment! It's a lot of work, but it's what we're here to do, and we intend to make something that is going to stand the test of time.
Thank you very much for this opportunity, Doug! The Armikrog Army stands behind you!


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Bombers come back from deficit to defeat Rebels
The Barnum Bombers boys basketball team trailed the Moose Lake-Willow River Rebels 32-27 at halftime, but Barnum used a combination of a slightly better inside game, one more three-pointer and three more free throws to defeat Moose Lake-Willow River 63-56 in Moose Lake on Friday, February 22.
By game's end, the Bombers had gone an outstanding 18-22 from the free throw line to help secure the victory. Barnum improved to 20-3 with the win and has just two conference losses (Floodwood and Esko) and one non-conference loss (Braham). Moose Lake-Willow River went to 8-3 in the conference.
Barnum, led by Daniel Warpula's 23 points, including two of Barnum's five three-pointers and free throws to ice it a crunch time, put three players in double figures. The Rebels were paced by Tony Adamczak's 15 points, including two of ML-WR's five threes.
The Bombers went 2-for-7 in the first half from threeland and 3-for-6 from outside in the second half to go 5-for-15 (33 percent) on the long range shots for the game. The Rebels were 3-for-7 in the first half and 2-for-9 in the second half for 5-for-16 (31 percent) for the game from downtown.
Moose Lake-Willow River had the better inside game in the first half at 11-for-24, but that dipped to 6-for-14 in the second half as the Rebels finished the lane game at an average 17-for-38 (45 percent). The Bombers only went 6-for-18 in the paint in the first half but picked that up to a strong 8-for-12 in the second half to end up with a lane game right at 50 percent at 15-for-30.
Free throws found the Bombers sinking 9-for-10 in the first half and 9-for-12 in the second half to end up draining 18-for-22 of their charity tosses for an extremely good 82 percent. The Rebels only shot three times from the line in the first half and made one and they had made six of 10 in the second for a not so hot 53 percent at the stripe for the game.
By halves, ML-WR went 10-8 on the boards and Barnum went 8-11 for a near wash, with the Rebels being up by one off the glass at game's end.
The Rebels did take the thefts at 5-1 for the game and the passes for readily apparent scores were even at 2-2. In a pretty intense game, both teams did a pretty good job of taking care of the basketball with ML-WR committing just 10 turnovers and Barnum having nine lost possessions.
The following represents points (including three-pointers), rebounds, steals and assists for Barnum. Warpula: 23 (2), 1, 0, 0; Brandon Newman: 14 (2), 3, 1, 1; Zachary Carlson: 11 (1), 5, 0, 1; Samuel Anderson: 11, 5, 0, 1; Tory Slater: 4, 3, 0, 0; John Zmyslony: 0, 1, 0, 0.
The following represents points (including three-pointers), rebounds, steals and assists for Moose Lake-Willow River. Adamczak: 15 (2), 1, 1, 1; Ezra Szczyrbak: 11, 5, 2, 0; Jake Disterhaupt: 9, 5, 2, 2; John Zinter: 9, 4, 0, 0; Matt Mach: 6 (2), 1, 0, 1; Brad Fossum, 6 (1), 3, 0, 0.


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The Costa Mesa Planning Commission unanimously denied an application for a proposed 7-Eleven near The Triangle on Monday night, citing the area's problems with homelessness and the convenience store's request to sell alcohol.
Their decision was supported by the Police Department and city staff, who also alluded to potential parking and traffic problems, a concentration of 10 alcohol sale permits in the area, and the 7-Eleven's potential to "magnify exiting problems with transiency."
Some nearby residents also spoke out against having the proposed 24-hour store, which would have occupied a vacant building at 1904 and 1906 Harbor Blvd., near West 19th Street.
Ralph W. Deppisch, who was representing the property's owner, Newport Beach-based VMA Harbor Place LLC, said the store would have provided the only 24-hour service in the area other than the 24 Hour Fitness at The Triangle. Such an operation, he countered, could actually mitigate issues, such as loitering, with the addition of aspects like security cameras and lighting.
"This location would be even less of a [magnet] to loiter, perhaps sleep overnight, because of the activity located there," Deppisch said.
He added that 7-Eleven is not a traditional liquor store in that it has healthy offerings and the corporation donates millions that support local, regional and national programs.
Planning Commission Chairman Colin McCarthy said in his time as a planning commissioner, he's never seen a staff report so critical of a project.
Given the store's nearly half-mile proximity to Lions Park — long known as a haven for the city's homeless — it is "just not a good project for this location," McCarthy said.
The city shouldn't "keep the matches next to the dynamite" with this kind of thing, he said.
McCarthy said he's not against the corporate identity of the national convenience store chain, but that overall the other 7-Elevens in Costa Mesa haven't been "good neighbors."
Commissioner Robert Dicksonsupported 7-Eleven as a company — he even worked for one while in college — but said that the store's reliance on the city would create additional problems.
"That concerns me when I have a Police Department and staff telling me very emphatically that this would create work for them, create problems for them," he said.
Commissioner Sam Clark took particular concern with the store's 23 parking spaces, calling it "severely underparked."
Under current standards, it should have 42 spaces, according to city planner Mel Lee.
Deppisch, however, said parking would not likely be a problem because 7-Eleven customers usually shop quickly before leaving.
A few residents from a 32-unit condominium complex at nearby 401 Bernard St. also spoke against the 7-Eleven. Nancy Gwin contended that the area is bad enough with transients, some of whom have even taken residence on their roofs.
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Nicholas V, original name Tommaso Parentucelli, (born November 15, 1397, Sarzana, Republic of Genoa [Italy]—died March 24, 1455, Rome), influential Renaissance pope (reigned 1447–55) and founder of the Vatican Library. Soon after his election, he brought to an end the schism caused by rivalries between popes and councils. By 1455 he had restored peace to the Papal States and to Italy. He began a program for the rebuilding of many of Rome's architectural wonders, including St. Peter's Church (see St. Peter's Basilica), and became the patron of many artists and scholars. His failure to promote real religious reform, however, helped to bring about the Reformation of the 16th century.
Early life
Parentucelli was born in 1397. His father died when he was nine. Later he studied at Bologna but, for lack of funds, had to interrupt his studies there. Then, to earn money, he acted as tutor for two years in two wealthy, cultured Florentine families, and this contact with the early Renaissance coloured all his life. After returning to the university and completing his studies, at the age of 22 he entered the household of Niccolò Albergati, the cardinal archbishop of Bologna, whom he served devotedly for 20 years, accompanying him on his many diplomatic missions throughout Europe.
Pope Eugenius IV recognized Parentucelli's merit and experience and, on Albergati's death, made him bishop of Bologna (1444), but he was prevented from entering the city by its rebellious inhabitants, who sought independence from papal rule. At the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438–45), he led the discussions with the Armenians, Copts, and Jacobites that attempted to end their doctrinal differences with the Latin church, and he later journeyed on missions for the pope. After his diplomatic success in pacifying the German electors at the Diet of Frankfurt in 1446, he was created cardinal and only three months later, on March 6, 1447, was elected pope. Thenceforward his chief aims were, in his words, "without using arms other than those which Christ has given me for my defence, that is to say, His Cross," to work for ecclesiastical and political peace, to reform the church, and to make Rome architecturally and artistically the worthy centre of Christianity.
Diplomacy and church reform
When Nicholas became pope, the remnant of the rebellious Council of Basel (1431–37)—which advocated control of the church through councils rather than through the pope—and its antipope Felix V still challenged Rome. Nicholas, by demanding little and yielding much, brought the schism to an end. He restored peace in the Papal States, not by mercenary armies, which he disbanded, but by strategically situated castles entrusted to carefully chosen governors. In Rome he was conciliatory with the nobility and granted concessions to the restive citizens. He allowed the town of Palestrina, destroyed by his predecessor, to be rebuilt; pacified Bologna by granting it virtual independence; won the allegiance of Poland by concessions; and, by promising coronation as Holy Roman emperor to Frederick III, gained the support of Austria. In order to give peace to Italy by preserving the status quo and to organize a Crusade against the Turks, he initiated the Peace of Lodi among Venice, Milan, Florence, and Naples and solemnly ratified it on February 25, 1455.
Nicholas helped the church by furthering legislation against the old abuses of simony (buying and selling of church offices) and clerical concubinage and by encouraging bishops to govern their dioceses wisely. In Germany Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401–64), a notable scholar and thinker, and the Franciscan theologian and preacher, St. John of Capistrano (1386–1456), laboured hard at reform with much success. A wider measure to stimulate piety and restore the papal reputation was the proclamation of the 1450 Jubilee Year. Vast numbers of pilgrims visited Rome, and the project did much good, though it was marred by an outbreak of the plague and a tragedy when 172 people died in a panic-crush on the Ponte Sant'Angelo.
Although he did much to bring about ecclesiastical and political peace, his diplomacy is not without criticism. In 1452 Pope Nicholas V issued a papal bull entitled Dum Diversas, which authorized Afonso V of Portugal to conquer "Saracens (Muslims) and pagans" in a disputed territory in Africa and consign them to "perpetual servitude." It has been argued that this and the subsequent bull (Romanus Pontifex), issued by Nicholas in 1455, gave the Portuguese the rights to acquire slaves along the African coast by force or trade. The edicts are thus seen as having facilitated the Portuguese slave trade from West Africa and as having legitimized the European colonization of the African continent.
Architectural and humanistic achievement
Pope Nicholas is best remembered for his influence on the Renaissance in Rome. "Of all Renaissance popes," says Eugène Müntz, a famous curator and art historian, "Nicholas is the one who ventilated the greatest number of architectural ideas: his successors only executed one or another element of his programme." He had plans for building a new St. Peter's Church but was able only to rebuild what was crumbling, to reconstruct the Vatican palace, and to surround the whole with a wall. The restoration and embellishment of many Roman architectural treasures, such as the senatorial palace on the Capitoline Hill, are credited to him, but he pillaged ancient monuments to quarry materials for his new constructions. At his initiative, Rome became a centre for goldsmiths and silversmiths, he employed French, Belgian, and German tapestry makers, and he commissioned artists of note, among them the great Florentine painter Fra Angelico (1387–1455), to beautify his constructions.
He had the humanist's passion for books. On his diplomatic missions he sought them out, and, as pope, he spent vast sums on buying them. He also founded the Vatican Library. His court became a centre for humanists, some of them more pagan in outlook than Christian; they were employed in copying and translating ancient texts, among them the works of Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, and many Greek Church Fathers.
His last years were saddened by a plot against his life. Twice he dealt mercifully with the ringleader, but the third time, in 1453, he had him and his accomplices executed. Also in 1453, Constantinople, the seat of Eastern Christianity, was captured by the Turkish sultan. Nicholas had ordered a fleet to aid the beleaguered city, but it arrived too late. This was a military reverse of great religious and cultural significance.
Nicholas was a man of gentle character who achieved more by wise concession than others did by force. His diplomatic efforts on behalf of peace in Italy and elsewhere and his patronage of the arts, especially of literature, restored to the church much of the ancient prestige it had lately lost. His failure to promote sufficiently religious reform, however, was destined to result in the Reformation in the 16th century.Joseph Gill
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Italy: The arts and intellectual life…the mid-15th century, when Pope Nicholas V made the first full-scale alliance between the papacy and humanism, planning "majestic buildings, combining taste and beauty" for Rome, to exalt the majesty of the Holy See.…
papacy: The Renaissance and Reformation papacyUnder Pope Nicholas V (1447–55) there was a revival of classical studies, which contributed to the development of humanism and the Renaissance. Nicholas also envisioned the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica and the papal library. The vain and ostentatious Pope Paul II (1464–71), who had a virtual…
Leon Battista Alberti: Contribution to philosophy, science, and the artsBy the time Nicholas V became pope in 1447, Alberti was knowledgeable enough to become the Pope's architectural adviser. The collaboration between Alberti and Nicholas V gave rise to the first grandiose building projects of Renaissance Rome, initiating among other works the reconstruction of St. Peter's and the…
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Virtually all serious proposals for health care cost containment include reforming the fee-for-service payment system. Last falls bipartisan proposal to fix Medicares sustainable growth rate included provisions to reward physicians for providing high-value rather than high-volume care. Ostensibly, realigning physicians financial incentives would lead to higher quality, better coordinated, and more appropriate care.
But would patients necessarily be aware that their physicians are being paid differently? And would they even care? A new research report from Public Agenda and the Kettering Foundation suggests that consumers could play a role in advancing payment reform. But in order to work through the trade-offs of changing the system, employers and payers must help members of the public understand that most reimbursement is currently fee-for-service.
Public Agenda asked a total of 44 insured and uninsured Americans, 40 to 64 years old, to deliberate together in focus groups over the pros and cons of several approaches to cost containment. Participants had some recent contact with the health care system as patients but none were seriously ill. They considered payment reform, price transparency, increased consumer cost-sharing, government price-setting, and expanded access to Medicare, among other approaches.
We held the deliberative focus groups in February and March 2013 in Secaucus, New Jersey; Montgomery, Alabama; and Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as a pilot in Stamford, Connecticut. After the groups, we followed up with participants for in-depth interviews. These focus groups do not provide information about how other types of consumers, particularly young people, view different approaches to addressing health care costs.
As we prepared for this research, we spoke with several health system executives, physicians, foundation leaders, and policy researchers who predicted that insured people would be uninterested in cost-containment because their insurance shields them from the true costs of their care. But contrary to their expectations and consistent with recent findings from the Commonwealth Fund we found that both insured and uninsured focus group participants were upset about high out-of-pocket costs and angry about administrative complexity. Moreover, participants routinely described physicians as greedy pushers of too many tests and procedures. A New Jersey woman joked that she would have no blood left if she submitted to every procedure her physician recommended.
But focus group participants did not know that the current reimbursement system is largely fee-for-service. When we explained this defining feature of the American health care system to them in basic terms, participants said that this helped them understand why they had so often been subject to care that they described as overly aggressive. They also were eager to grapple with how payment reform and other approaches to cost-containment would affect their own care.
Focus group participants saw pros and cons to paying physicians fixed amounts per patient or per episode of care. They thought it would help them better predict their own out-of-pocket expenses and help doctors focus more on patients than on paperwork. They also figured that it would prevent some of the excessive, inappropriate care that so many of them reported experiencing.
But participants also expressed some reservations about payment reform. Many were concerned that physicians would retaliate by skimping on care. As a man in New Jersey said, I bet you the doctors wont like it. An Ohio woman asked, Are you really giving me the full scope of everything you would if you were charging for every little thing? Several participants assumed that if reimbursement were based on health outcomes, physicians would discharge people from hospitals prematurely or refuse to treat sicker patients.
Payment reform is not a magic bullet. But in the midst of economists and policymakers debates over projected health care spending growth, the success of payment reform could play a significant role in determining whether or not the current slowdown in growth proves durable. Given the difficulty of dispelling the myth of government death panels, it is reasonable to ask whether it is advisable to engage Americans on cost-containment measures such as payment reform. But in our experience, lack of meaningful citizen engagement on tough policy choices can lead to pushback. As Paul Ginsburg wrote recently, failing to engage beneficiaries exposes payment reforms to the risk of political backlash.
In summary, qualitative focus group research does not provide generalizable data, but this research does provide a detailed picture of how this group of consumers thinks through different options for controlling costs, including payment reform. Our focus group participants were eager to discuss payment reform. They did so with an impressive degree of interest, thoughtfulness and, despite some differences of opinion, civility. Their suspicion that some physicians are motivated by profits indicates that some consumers may be eager to choose providers and insurance plans that embrace value over volume. Helping consumers understand that most physician reimbursement is fee-for-service and making use of their concerns about out-of-pocket spending may help to move payment reform forward.


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Earlier this evening I attended what was considered the "world premiere" of the film Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan. Although it has been widely available illegally on the internet, this was the first official screening of the film, before it's debut on multiple media formats Feb. 23rd. In attendance were the writer of the film Dwayne McDuffie, voice director of the film Andrea Romano, and actor James Woods.
The film tells the story of the titular Justice League facing evil versions of themselves in a parallel universe, and really, what more could you want? This film is the latest in a series of direct to video films featuring characters from the DC Universe. The script was written many years ago to be used as a back-door pilot film for the Cartoon Network show Justice League: Unlimited. The script was never produced, until finally executive producer Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series, JLU, JL: The New Frontier), a long time champion of the script, got it off the shelf and into production.
The movie is not set in the Justice League Unlimited universe and is a stand alone film. Writer Dwayne McDuffie made some changes and added some cursing and POOF! you have a new universe to play in. The tone of the film is very similar to that of the cartoon show, but since none of the voice cast of the show is present, it might fall on deaf ears. The voice work in the film, particularly Chris Noth as the "good" Lex Luthor and James Woods as Owlman, is well done. William Baldwin as Batman was an interesting choice, although at times it was hard to distinguish him from his older brother. I enjoyed the script very much and couldn't help but wonder what a wasted opportunity this was to have used the JLU uninverse to tell the story. My only other complaint would be that at times the animation was very cheap looking and akin to some of the stuff we see on Adult Swim.
(James Woods plays the villainous Owlman)
After the film a Q&A session was held, here a few tidbits that were interesting:
Dwayne McDuffie was asked why there weren't more characters of color in the film, to which he replied, "That was DC's Decision." (If I had a nickel…)
James Woods was not the first choice to play Hades in Hercules and was brought in after another actor, who remained unnamed, wasn't working out.
James Woods was originally going to play alternate universe Lex Luthor when this was going to be a JLU film.
Andrea Romano cast Maurice LaMarche as Brain in Pinky & the Brain due to his great Orson Welles impression.
(Long-time DC Animated Universe voice director Andrea Romano)
Somebody asked if future direct to video films will reference or be connected to previous films, it was confirmed that one was in the works.
Dwayne McDuffie confirmed he has turned in a few more scripts for future projects, one already in the animatic stage that will apparently "Blow us away."
According to Dwayne McDuffie the future of Justice League: Unlimited is uncertain, but he never thought his Crisis script would ever get made, "So anything is possible."
(Acclaimed writer Dwayne McDuffie)
I spoke briefly to Mr. McDuffie after the film , he collects the JLU toyline himself, he needs Vigilante and The Question for his collection. He is also clamoring for a Static figure. Thanks for reading, CZ.
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He needs Question? Seriously? Where was he last year?
I guess even a rich dude won't spend the money for the Question 3pack with 2 repeats!
To answer the question about Hades, John Lithgow was the actor who wasn't working out. When he was told that he was out of the project he replied "As long as the check clears…".
Awesome that you were able to attend. I've been a big fan of McDuffie for a while. And I'm on the bandwagon to get Static in the JLU line too.
cool. and glad Dwayne did not give up on the crisis script can not wait to learn what the future film that will blow fans away. and Dwane is only two figures away from his collection being filled. talk about fast. as a static figure . Mattel stated their DC license does not cover Milestone characters so if Dwayne wants static he should look at giving Mattel at least the okay for Static
I just saw the movie today and I think that it still provides a bridge between Justice League and JLU. But it was weird seeing all those characters reflect looks that were more reminiscent of the model sheets we saw when the Justice League debuted in the WB's "The Batman".
As for the tweaking that was done to the script… Well, I didn't notice much, except that not a whole lot appeared to be going on with Green Lantern in terms of personality. I guess that anything that had to do with John Stewart was removed, and as a result, not much was left.
Oh, and I loved Captain Super, Uncle Super & Model Citizen! Sign me up for them figures!
Thanks for reading! Thanks for the Hercules clarification.
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Another blast em up but this time you can play against people online. I didn't play the original version and also haven't had a chance to try this out online. But apparently that's the selling point. Which is good, as for me anyway, the offline arcade mode wasn't really my cup of tea.
The controls were a little fiddly with a flight control circle in the bottom left of the screen. Up and down accelerate and brake, and left and right roate your ship. The more you go around the control circle on the edges, the faster you rotate. If that sounds confusing I'm sure you get what I mean.
Offline arcade mode just has waves of enemies coming at you. You have shields (shown by the green bar) and a primary and secondary weapon. The firing rate and recharge requirements of your primary weapon is shown by the green bar (beneath the red one). You can collect power ups as the game progresses.
This is really about it with offline mode. There are also asteroids floating about out there which you should try to avoid as hitting them depletes your energy. I think the online mode will be pretty cool, and like most online games, you can send messages to your opponents or even invite friends through OpenFeint.
The graphics are fairly small, but reasonable. There's a nice FMV intro to the game and the sound is a bit funky.
Overall if you like online shooters you should check this out. The offline arcade mode isn't enough to get excited about.


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David LaVera, of San Diego, was arrested Tuesday after Baxter police received a kidnapping report. LaVera is charged with enticing a minor and with carrying weapons. Jasper County Jail records say LaVera remained in custody on Friday. Court records don't list the name of his attorney.
The mother of different girl told The Des Moines Register that LaVera had enticed her daughter to a Newton park on June 3 and touched her inappropriately. The mother says LaVera wasn't immediately arrested after she reported the incident.
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Having spent 36 years in the classroom (the past 34 as a teacher), I've always had a special place in my heart for teachers.
Most teachers are very concerned about the health and well being of the children they work with. That's why I wasn't terribly surprised when I was confronted on two separate occasions while I was leafleting just off the road in front of Moraine Elementary in Prospect.
In both instances, a teacher asked who I was and if I had the proper permission to be doing what I was doing. The principal also "checked us out," as did a state trooper.
On both occasions, we (I was working with others) had taken great care to position ourselves off of school property and made it a point to never approach a vehicle if it looked like our presence would cause a safety issue. That being said, I can certainly understand the concern expressed by the teachers; things being like they have been, I probably would have "checked me out" if I were still in the classroom. One can't be too careful.
But here's the rub: I was leafleting Moraine Elementary to advertise a meeting of Protect Our Children — a group formed to try to safeguard the children in our schools.
The Slippery Rock School District is considering leasing 1.3 acres to allow XTO to extract shale gas. Gas extraction is an industrial activity and there are inherent risks, which XTO readily admits to its stockholders. Among the risks outlined in an XTO report to stockholders were: personal injury, property damage, spills, discharge of hazardous materials, and other environmental damage. A recent explosion at a well pad in Texas led authorities to evacuate anyone within one mile of the pad.
I'm not suggesting there will be a pad on school property and I pray that no accident occurs anywhere.
I can only hope the school district is half as vigilant as its teachers. When a pudgy sixtyish grandfather passing out pieces of paper is more alarming than a company that acknowledges its business practices kill and destroy, someone needs to ask, "who do you think you are and what do you think you are doing?"


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Upcoming EventsFebruary 17, 2005
Some housekeeping: a listing of where I'll be over the next month. Feel free to ignore this one if you're not the conference-going type.
Somehow I managed to pack my schedule in the upcoming weeks, so here's a quick listing of places I'll be (also now available in convenient sidebar form on most two-column pages on this site.)
Northern Voice is a brand new blogging conference happening right in my own back yard. Short notice, as it's running in Vancouver on Saturday, February 19th, but I couldn't pass it by. No specific speaking duties here, I'll just be one of the crowd.
Though I suppose it's possible I may be up on stage for at least a few minutes…
Next, on to South by Southwest in Austin, TX from March 11 to 15 this year. I'm pulling double-duty, on both a refresh of last year's panel, "More HiFi Design with CSS", and an as-of-yet untitled panel on what web design might look like in ten years with Mr. Hicks, Mr. Allsopp, Ms. Free, and Mr. Bowman.
And there's also 20x2, a creative evening session billed as "Twenty Speakers. One Question. Two Minutes Each." Having the distinction of completely missing last year's, I've no idea what to expect, but I've got two minutes; should be fun.
Next up we have the just-confirmed stop at Web Design World San Francisco on March 21st and 22nd. I'll be co-presenting "The Marriage of Presentation and Structure" with Molly Holzschlag, my distinguised co-author.
For those keeping score, I'll be playing the role of Ethan Marcotte in a refresh of the WDW Boston session last fall, although I'm not quite sure I can bring myself to utter the phrase "pimp my own kool-aid".
So that takes care of the left and the middle, finally on to a stop on the right. Flash in the Can runs from April 9 to 11 in Toronto, Ontario. I'll be holding down the CSS fort at a predominantly Flash-oriented festival as I try and dispell the 5 Myths of CSS Design.
Confirmed speakers include David Carson, Yugo Nakamura, and me. One of these things is not like the others.
I suspect a meetup with folks from Toronto who actually read this site will be in order.
I'll be at SxSW too, hope to see you there!
I'll also be in San Francisco on March 21st and 22nd, but I'm not sure if I can afford to go to SxSW *and* Web Design World….
Yes. Well. I expect some equally embarrassing utterance of geek flava from you, Shea—these traditions won't just keep themselves going, you know.
Mayu —
Due to the setup of the convention center, I'm sure you'll see me wandering the halls sooner or later.
Come say hi!
Ethan —
No doubt.
Dave, you need to hang out with us Spoono guy's something, perhaps maybe over a case of Bawls? During that time you can teach my fourteen year old brain to do some amazing CSS stuff, maybe. ;-)
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Très cool! I'm only an hour's drive away from Toronto (in Waterloo) - I'd like to be in the loop on any get-together-thing happening during your stay there, but I'm too remote (and unfamilliar with T.O.) to organize something. Flash isn't my bag though, so I'll probably not be at the conference.
Wow. Speechless, Dave. Best wishes.
I'm in Waterloo too, but I'm just some guy. :)
Might even be driving to Seattle for the Penny Arcade Expo, I think I can make the trip into town for FITC.
It'd be great to hear you!
in T.O.? Will make the trek. Might even look at the conference, just to get a perspective outside of our isolated standards/accessibility/whatever community…
"Might even look at the conference, just to get a perspective outside of our isolated standards/accessibility/whatever community"
I'll be much more of a conference-goer than a speaker at FITC, for precisely this reason. Getting out of the bubble we're in is always enlightening.
(Hope to see you in Toronto, Derek.)
I am also attending SXSW this year… from Japan!
Looking forward to see your panel.
The flash in the can website is hardly confidence building with missing cfm files everywhich where.
Heres hoping the organisation of the event is better than the website!
I, too, will be seeing you at SXSW. Much less likely, though, will be you seeing me. ;)


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Location: Newark, NJ
Occupation: Professional leather sofa-impersonator, cab driver.
Hobbies: Getting spray-tans with a bag over his head, olympic weight lifting, smirking triumphantly.
5 Things He Can't Live Without: Self-tanner for touch-ups, his Criterion Collection copy of 'The Incredibles' on DVD, The Paleo Diet Cookbook, a sharp razor, and a good strong watch-tan line.
Skills: Carbo-loading, winning games of hide and seek at Wilson Leather, and karaoke.
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