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P.O Box 117003
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
Celebrating 100 years of IFAS and the Smith-Lever ActVisit the Florida Agriculture and Rural Life Collection for more.
The Haiti SunA collaborative project with the Duke University Archives, the DSS is scanning a run of the of the Haiti Sun from 1950-1962.
Ramón Figueroa Mexican & Cuban Film Poster Collection
Collection: Digital Library of the Caribbean
Drew Field EchoesDescription: Newspaper published at the Drew Field Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.
Collection: Florida Digital Newspaper Library
Antique Maps, Historic Sanborn Maps, and Aerial Photography
Collection: Map & Imagery Library Digital Collections
Archie Carr and Sea TurtlesDescription: Archie Carr attaching weather balloons to sea turtles.
Collection: University Archives Photograph Collection
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Digital Support Services Department
Digital Support Services develops, manages, and publishes digital content from curatorial collections, in support of academic programs, organizes conversion and ingest capabilities, facilitates awareness and coordinates instruction in scholarly use and development of digital technologies and their application to collection and publishing services.
The DSS deparment supports the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC), which is the set of digital collections hosted by UF. UF is also the technical partner and host for the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (both are international collaboratives), the statewide Florida Digital Newspaper Library, and many other collaborative and UF-based digital collections. SobekCM provides the core infrastructure powering the collections. SobekCM is the internally designed, hosted, and supported technology that powers all aspects of the digital collections, including content management and collection management.
With rare children's literature books, unique manuscripts and letters, antique maps, museum objects, herbarium specimens, photographs, oral histories, architectural drawings, recordings of speeches and songs, videos of performances, and more, UFDC offers many resources for research and discovery from anywhere in the world. Over two hundred versions of versions of Robinson Crusoe; over a million pages of Florida and Caribbean newspapers; and over 6,000 photographs from the University of Florida Archives are significant in that they are co-located, have a browse capability, and are cross-referenced and searchable sets. UFDC adds more than one million pages a year, which are accessible online.
The largest and most utilized collections are:
- Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
- Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection
- Institutional Repository, IR@UF
In addition to supporting existing collections and materials in UFDC, DSS is also a digitization facility. It is the primary contributor to all of the collections in and hosted by UFDC, adding more unique materials regularly. The Digital Services Department also supports collaborative and innovative projects.
The Digital Support Services department is among the largest digitization facilities in the southeastern United States. The department is the hosting and technical partner for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library, two collaborative digital libraries partnering Florida and Caribbean cultural and scientific institutions. Past projects have been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Department of Education; National Historical Publications and Records Commission; the Institute for Museum and Library Services; Florida's LSTA program; and private endowments.
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- Salary £17,076 basic salary, realistic first year earnings £40k plus contribution to travel expenses WEEKLY PAID!!
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- This is an exciting opportunity for people looking for a new direction. My client is looking to recruit Street Sales Reps to join their team. We are looking for people with excellent selling skills and the ability to approach the general public and look for them to sign up as a new donor for some of the most recognisable national charities
- You will be working in prepaid venues across the UK (supermarkets, shopping centres etc) signing up the general public to sponsor charity groups by Direct Debit. You will be targeted to sign up an agreed number per week, and the more you sign up the more you earn! Your basic salary will be paid directly into your account WEEKLY and commission is uncapped!
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Sandy Alderson visits Buffalo
First year Mets general manager, SandyAlderson, took in his first Bisons game Wedneday night. Prior to his post-game promotion of infielder Josh Satin, he took questions from the Buffalo media.
The conversation covers a wide range of topics from Major League rehabs, Bisons in the big leagues, the job of the club's staff and Tim Teufel as well as the Mets/Bisons partnership moving ahead:
After the game Bisons broadcaster, Ben Wagner talked with the newest New York Mets infielder, Josh Satin:
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Car bomb kills judge in Syrian capital
BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb killed a judge in Damascus on Wednesday, the second assassination in the capital in two days targeting high-ranking supporters of President Bashar Assad.
The state-run SANA news agency said a "terrorist group" planted explosives under the car of Judge Abad Nadhwah when it was parked in front of his house. The bomb was detonated remotely, killing the judge instantly. Assad's government often refers to the opposition fighters as "terrorists."
The regime stronghold of Damascus has seen an upswing in violence this week with some of the fiercest clashes in months.
The new challenge from rebels in the capital comes as the U.S. and Britain take steps to bolster the fragmented Syrian opposition. British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that the U.K. planned to change its policy and deal directly with opposition military leaders. Previously, Britain has had contacts only with exile groups and political opposition figures inside Syria.
He urged newly re-elected President Obama to join the U.K. in opening direct talks with rebel fighters and said they must do more to end the civil war that has killed more than 36,000, according to activists' tallies.
In the Turkish capital Ankara, a Foreign Ministry official said Turkey and its allies, including the United States, have discussed the possibility of using Patriot missiles to protect a zone inside Syria. The missiles are one of a number of scenarios being considered as a way to stop regime attacks on the Syrian opposition and civilians, the official said. Planning was put on hold pending the U.S. election, but the issue is likely to be taken up now that Obama has won a second term, he added, saying any missile deployment might happen under a "NATO umbrella."
The assassination in Damascus was the second in two days.
The brother of Syria's parliament speaker was gunned down on Tuesday. A prominent actor, a Syrian-born Palestinian who was an outspoken supporter of Assad, was found dead on Sunday. The family of Mohammed Rafeh said his body bore gunshot wounds to the head, neck and shoulder.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Rafeh was kidnapped Friday night in the tense neighborhood of Barzeh, which has been hit by fighting between rebels and government troops. The Observatory said Rafeh was killed for apparently giving information to the regime about rebels and anti-government protesters.
In other violence, three people were killed and seven were injured in a separate attack in Damascus when a mortar round hit Al-Mazzeh district, SANA said. Al Mazzeh neighborhood is predominantly populated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that Assad and many in his regime belong to.
The opposition and rebel forces are mostly Sunni Muslims.


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The Google notebook is to be launched this coming year. I like the concept of cloud-based operating systems and am interested to see how it will stack up against Microsoft and Apple. The 2 years of free cellular service is a pretty generous offer as well. Anyone here going to buy one?
On Tuesday at a press event in San Francisco, Google Inc. announced that computer makers Samsung and Acer will begin selling laptop computers running the company's cloud-based operating system, Chrome OS, in mid-2011 and that each new Chrome OS machine will come with two years of free cellular service from telecom giant Verizon Wireless.


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Dani started the day by anchoring the Lipscomb A Distance Medley Relay to an eight-second victory over the Lipscomb B team, and over a minute ahead of third place in the 11-team field. A few hour s later Dani led a Lipscomb 1-2-4 finish in the women's 800m in a time of 2:18.75. She wrapped up the day by anchoring the women's 4x400m Relay to a four second victory in their heat, with a 58.8 400m split.
"Everyone competed hard," coach Bill Taylor said. "Dani was a highlight for the women's team with three wins. It was very impressive, especially since she is sick. She's a very gutsy runner.
"We let some of the middle distance runners compete in open events for the first time this season. Amanda Twigg won the mile. Dani, Katie Bunker and Alyssa Miller ran amazing in the 800. Our top two DMR teams ran away for a 1-2 finish, and our 4x400m relay ran within a second of the Lipscomb Indoor school record. I think that's a pretty good day."
Another milestone was achieved by freshman Sadie Stone who set a new Lipscomb Indoor school record for the 55-meter hurdles, finishing 13th overall in 9.19, bettering Hannah Joiner's previous record of 9.61 set in 2007.
Field events led the way for the men. Alex Jerkins picked up a second place finish in the shot put with an indoor personal best of 47 feet 11.25 inches, and a third in the weight throw with a toss of 38 feet 1.5 inches.
In the jumps, Logan Ray finished third in the triple jump in 45 feet 9.25 inches, and set a PR in the long jump with a leap of 20 feet 8.5 inches. Adam Austin picked up a fourth in the high jump with an indoor PR of 6 feet 6 inches.
Middle distance success came with Jeff Hoover's third place finish in the men's mile in 4:34.89, and the men's Distance Medley Relay's second place finish.
Tucker Peabody represented the sprints well with a new indoor school record for 200m of 22.45, eclipsing a record he previously shared with Bobby Bassett. Bobby Bassett won his heat of the men's 400m in 50.55.
Also of note, Dillon Seigenthaller competed in the University of Houston heptathlon this weekend, finishing seventh out of 17 men in his first ever heptathlon. Dillon also broke Burton Elrod's school record in the event, posting a score of 4,419 points.
"The big thing for me was to see everyone competing so hard, and the team cheering and supporting each other so well," Taylor said. "It was a good second meet for us and gives the team a lot to build on.
"We had a lot of sick people today, some of which competed, some of which couldn't. Amanda gutted out a win in the mile and helped the DMR win, but she looked miserable. She and others have to be very encouraged about their performances in far less than ideal circumstances and so early in the season."
The teams are back in action Feb. 4-5 at the Niswonger Invite at ETSU in Johnson City.
"I'm really looking forward to our meet at ETSU," Taylor said. "It will be our first chance to see most of the long distance runners in action, and all of our middle distance athletes will get to compete in individual events. I think everyone is excited to see the whole team in action."
55m Hurdles: Sadie Stone 9.19 13th, Natalie Stewart 9.34 16th, Julia Shrewsbury 9.47 19th
200m: Sadie Stone 29.00 46th, Julia Shrewsbury 29.40 49th
400m: Rachel Smith 1:02.66 18th, Valerie Winkler 1:05.06 26th
800m: Dani Walker 2:18.75 1st, Katie Bunker 2:19.06 2nd, Alyssa Miller 2:20.67 4th
Mile: Amanda Twigg 5:14.43 1st, Jaimie McFarland 5:25.06 5th, Priya Pappu 5:32.64 8th
Distance Medley Relay: A Team (Amanda Twigg, Sara Stephens, Katie Bunker, Dani Walker) 12:26.33 1st, B Team (Alyssa Miller, Lacey Printz, Jaimie McFarland, Priya Pappu 12:34.03 2nd, C Team (Anna Belner, Emily Wilson, Reba Francisco, Muriel Epling) 13:32.28 8th
4x400m Relay: A Team (Sara Stephens, Katie Bunker, Alyssa Miller, Dani Walker) 3:59.90 1st in heat, 6th overall, B Team (Valerie Winkler, Jaimie McFarland, Lacey Printz, Rachel Smith) 4:15.34 16th
Long Jump: Natalie Stewart 14-11.5 20th
Shot Put: Taylor Mason 28-9.75 22nd
55m Dash: Tucker Peabody 6.66 15th, Nasheed Burgess 6.75 30th, Evan Tidwell 7.10 51st
200m: Tucker Peabody 22.45 6th, Nasheed Burgess 23.41 27th, Steven Mason 24.45 49th
400m: Bobby Bassett 50.55 8th, Mike Knox 51.85 14th
800m: Isaiah Greer 2:04.46 17th, Cormac Carolan 2:06.27 18th
Mile: Jeff Hoover 4:34.89 3rd, Aaron Todd 4:46.43 9th
Distance Medley Relay: A Team (Cormac Carolan, Bobby Bassett, Andrew Jones, Isaiah Greer) 10:39.46 2nd, B Team (Phillip Brasher, Ryan Powell, Hunter Hethcoat, Jeff Hoover) 10:59.72 5th, C Team (Aaron Todd, Steven Mason, Jonathan Carmody, Justin Weise) 11:38.26 7th
4x400m Relay: B Team (Mike Knox, Phillip Brasher, Ryan Powell, Bobby Bassett) 3:29.79 10th, C Team (Tucker Peabody, Nasheed Burgess, Logan Ray, Steven Mason) 3:34.64 15th
Long Jump: Logan Ray 20-8.5 11th
Triple Jump: Logan Ray 45-9.25 3rd
High Jump: Adam Austin 6-6 4th
Shot Put: Alex Jerkins 47-11.25 2nd
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Heavy rain and inclement weather cut competition short for the UMBC track and field team on Saturday, day two of the Florida State Relays at Mike Long Track.
A day after setting a personal-best in the hammer throw, sophomore Thor Serafenas (Olney, Md./Good Counsel/Clemson) jumped into the UMBC top-ten in the discus. Serafenas recorded a throw of 43.87m (143'11.00") to move into eighth-place all-time while finishing tenth in the competition. Freshman Vincent Rentzsch (Oranienburg, Germany) also competed in the event, placing 13th (39.26m, 128'9.00").
On the track, sophomore Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) earned a top-ten finish in the 200m dash. The school record holder in the event, Jackson finished sixth with a time of 24.26. Freshman D'Nique Phillip (Elkton, Md.) and sophomore Kalane' Abbey (Laurel, Md./Laurel) placed 37th and 44th, respectively, for the Retrievers.
In the men's race, senior Dennison Long (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt/FIU) moved into a tie for ninth-place in the school record book by placing 11th overall in the event with a personal-best time of 21.80. Classmate Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) took 32nd with a time of 23.52.
The UMBC track and field team now returns home to hosts its first meet since the 2011 America East Championships with the Big Dawg Invitational on Saturday, Mar. 30 at UMBC Stadium. The meet will be streamed live on UMBCRetrievers.tv.


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Just went to the ICME conference. It was my first conference and I admit that the experience was very pleasant, even though my poster was a bit off topic. It's great to meet new people from all over the place. We quickly coalesced into a group with which we'd have lunch, dinner and drinks.
I think that in some way I'm a north american because my biorythm there was incredibly stable, yet here it is never. I would go to sleep at 1-2 am and wake up without the need of a clock between 6-8 (depending on the needs of that day).
A majority of the people at the conference were either Chinese or Taiwanese, it seems that Multimedia is very hot in Asia. A lot of the papers were oriented on H264.
Besides the conference I got the chance to look around Toronto, a beautiful city I must say, as well as visit the Falls. Pictures were taken, contact informations were exchanged, though a more personal event happened as well (which I will leave undisclosed). Anyways this led me to finally leaving Toronto with very mixed feelings.
On another note, I bought a book on Kungfu there on my last day, as I've been interested in picking up martial arts. And I was pleasantly surprised that it ties in very well with another interest that I've recently gotten into… buddhism. It seems Shaolin kungfu originates from a Buddhist Temple where (forgot name) himself introduced kungfu as a way of making the monks more active. They needed the activity as meditation is a rather intensive process.
Well that's it for now. Back in Belgium, 30 hours travelling between saturday and sunday and was only really able to sleep 5 hours. That's jetlag for you, though I must say that I'm not overly tired surprising as it may be. Granted, however, that today is a rather slow day and I'm mostly taking care of lighter tasks instead of my core research.


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Hall of Fame sorting through Babe's legend
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- What do you say about someone whose legacy is larger than all of our other heroes, the ones who we say are larger than life?
John Thorn, Major League Baseball's official historian, asks that question another way.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- What do you say about someone whose legacy is larger than all of our other heroes, the ones who we say are larger than life?
John Thorn, Major League Baseball's official historian, asks that question another way.
"How many Twitter followers would Babe Ruth have?'' Thorn wonders.
No one knows for sure, of course. But 65 years after his death, we can say the Babe would still be trending.
Many of Ruth's best known records have been erased, but America's fascination with the urchin from St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore remains. Scores of books have been written about Ruth through the years, with the latest Ed Sherman's "Babe Ruth's Called Shot,'' examining his long-debated blast at Wrigley Field in the 1932 World Series.
Why has Ruth had staying power atop our pantheon of icons?
"Ruth's greatness and aura have transcended time,'' Sherman said. "His feats were so staggering they morphed him into a mythic, Paul Bunyan-type figure. We still talk about him because he always has been the standard for excellence in sports. Even Michael Jordan was known as the Babe Ruth of basketball. No explanation required.''
There's no forgetting Ruth's greatness. He won 94 games as a pitcher, including 47 in a two-season stretch with the Red Sox, and set the mark with his 60-homer season in 1927 and 714 over his career. He still holds some records, including 177 runs and 119 extra-base hits in a season, both set with the Yankees in 1921.
But a lot of myths have been created about Ruth through the years, including the so-called Called Shot against the Cubs. His life away from baseball contains its own set of mysteries.
Those are the things that the National Baseball Hall of Fame is delving into in its new exhibit, "Babe Ruth: His life and his legend.'' It opened on Friday as a part of the Hall's 75th anniversary celebration.
Under the oversight of curator Tom Shieber, the exhibit uses newspaper clippings, recorded interviews and artifacts to explore Ruth.
Using what he calls a "scrapbook style,'' Shieber works to tell Ruth's story in a fresh style. There are clippings about divorces, deaths and suspensions as well as some relics that date to lesser known feats, like a 500-foot home run he hits in an exhibition game at New Haven, Conn., and his exploits barnstorming, including one run in which he hit 20 home runs in 21 games.
There's even a newspaper story about a called shot in 1927, that one to end an exhibition game in Fort Wayne, Ind., against a semi-pro team. The crowd was reported at 35,000.
That was the way it was everywhere Ruth went, in part because of how the newspaper reporters of his day manipulated his image to fit their needs.
"The golden age of sports, which Ruth dominates, was also the golden age of sportswriting and newspapers,'' author Jane Leavy said. "The explosion in column inches and in advertising on those column inches, and the dedication of a preponderance of them to Babe Ruth, was extraordinary. You had the first tabloid in New York, the New York Daily News, created in 1919, hiring a guy, Marshall Hunt, who was a 24/7, full-time Babe Ruth writer. This was unprecedented.''
Thorn points out how coverage glorifying Ruth and other heroes frequently altered facts, spinning events essentially in real time.
"I don't think you can read contemporary accounts of Babe Ruth by many of the most illustrious journalists without a carload of salt,'' Thorn said. "Which is not to say that the legend is uninteresting. How the fact gets rolled up into this big dumpling with the dough of imagined story is a fascinating process. … You have legend creation at the outset.''
And historians continue working to get to the real story.
"The challenge is that we all know the legend,'' Thorn said. "The legend kind of eats up the life. We know about the called shot, St. Mary's, the sale to Yankees, the sad circumstances of his retirement. We can position the signposts of his life. A lot of the interesting detail we skip over. We want the royal road to knowledge, and Babe Ruth was a complicated individual, maybe the first great media celebrity.
"As such we felt we owned him. Him knowing us as we knew him. It was a personal relationship with the Babe established in the 1920s that endures to the era of Miley Cyrus.''
Mike Gibbons, the executive director of the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, was part of a group that interviewed more than 100 people who had met Ruth when they were children.
"To a person, they all agreed it was among the most important moments in their lives,'' Gibbons said. "They didn't see him in the ballpark, they would go to movie theaters, see him in their neighborhoods. There's a story that this woman said her father was a butcher in New York and Babe would go there from time to time. Babe was going to stop by her father's house and word spread throughout the neighborhood, and all these kids lined the street -- imagine this! -- dozens if not hundreds of children.''
Leavy has written two baseball classics in her biographies of Sandy Koufax and Mickey Mantle. She is working on a Ruth biography, and admits that he is a difficult subject.
"I may shoot myself for doing this because God knows there's plenty out there that has been written about the Babe, some of it very, very good and some of it, eeeh,'' Leavy said. "I thought very, very long and hard about whether to take on [Ruth as a subject].''
But how do you say no to the Babe?
Phil Rogers is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
5 and 10: where has the time gone?
So, I started beating the bush, pounding the pavement, knocking on doors, making calls. I had several more interviews; money was tight. At some point, a job was passed around through channels: sitting a drill rig - in Nicaragua, in the rainy season, for a pretty low daily rate. I thought about it, could kind of visualize it, didn't like what I saw, and didn't apply for the job.
Being kind of impatient at times, I didn't feel like I could just sit around waiting, calling and waiting - even though I figured I could find something agreeable by fall. I couldn't wait that long. I needed something to occupy my mind and self, so I started volunteering at a local kindergarten. It was one of the best things I had done for myself (and others) for a long time, besides moving to Alaska for two years. By fall, I was considering getting an education degree so I could teach Earth Science in high school; by the end of the year, I had enrolled in a program to do so. I would never have imagined myself doing something like this even 5 years prior, and certainly couldn't have imagined it when I was an undergrad or grad geology student - and wouldn't have even considered it as a possibility.
For various reasons, I found I probably wouldn't like teaching in high school (I really have never liked high school students very much, even when I was there - and that is something I've been having to let go of, also, now that two nieces and one nephew are in high school, and one niece just graduated a couple years ago), so I re-oriented myself toward teaching in elementary school. I didn't make it - did not make it through student teaching after trying with two sets of teachers. I was still fairly sure I could do it, on a third try I was planning for the following fall - when opportunities changed. MOH and I moved to "the lake" to follow jobs in home construction and to move to an area we had become interested in (I had been working at that with him that one summer; by then it was the summer of 2001). I had set two goals - consulting and teaching - and those hadn't panned out! I had met MOH in the process of all that, and that has worked out!
5 years ago in 2003, with the above story having shifted gears but still continuing - I was just about to lose a job in construction, as a carpenter's helper, a job I'd had for a short time (in the meantime, I'd done a lot of artwork, had sold some things, was too impatient to stay at it, at least to make a money-making career (ha!) out of it). And I was just about to quit a second job in construction after less than a week, working for a very strange person who ultimately gave me the creeps. I had also, not long before that, taken some classes in soil science, and was just about to get a short-term job sitting around outside watching leach tests for septic tanks, working for - ?? - $50 per test - which amounted to less than $10/hour. That didn't ultimately appeal to me very much, and it was barely geological (although I could do art part of the day) - so, late in 2003, coming back with MOH from a trip to "our" hot springs in central Nevada, I looked up at some ash-flow tuffs lying there just off the side of the road, and suddenly - it came to me: I can do that! I can still do that - I can still map and do geology! What a revelation.
I set about, once again, getting back into the business of exploration geology. The price of gold was up, and companies were coming out of the woodwork. It took 3 to 4 months, but I got a job (sitting a drill rig) - my first job ever as a consulting geologist. (Maybe I was less impatient this time?)
I had thought, when I got out of the business for personal reasons, that if I didn't get back into the business in 5 years, that I would never do it, that it wouldn't even be possible, that I'd be out-of-date and no one would want me. My first attempt, in 1997-1998, had already been 2 years past my "due date" - doing it in 2003-2004 was more than ten years down the line. It worked, nevertheless, meaning that my idea of what was possible, and my long-term planning ideas, really were out of touch with ultimate reality. But then, my mom and dad (M+D), had always told me when I was growing up - you can do/be anything you want. (Obviously, though, I'm not really cut out to be a major league basketball player.)
Goals? I'm not really great with goals or long-term planning, and have found that some of my best ideas have been almost spur of the moment things, ideas that have ultimately taken me to places I never would have imagined - like being a field geologist. I never thought I was cut out for that, but circumstances and choices I made showed me that I was wrong about that.
I've had three major goals in my life: 1) move back west after moving east, 2) don't become a secretary, and 3) go to grad school. The first goal I developed at the age of 10 prior to moving east from the west coast to follow M+D when my dad got a job back east. I knew I would come back here (The West); I knew I would do it as soon as possible (at the time, I was thinking 5 years max, but by then I was in high school, and it wasn't quite the right time for me to move on my own!). The second goal I accomplished by not taking typing in high school (I took it later for my own use when it was clear I wouldn't somehow get sucked into the secretarial direction). The third goal, grad school, came to me in a matter of minutes during a personal crisis, in which a sig-oth was telling me that - I would quit undergrad school, I would move into this really awful old, falling down farm house, and I would become a - what? - housewife? Or he would leave me! Yikes! (BTW, don't ever, please, give me an ultimatum!) While crying, I told him that those things absolutely weren't possible, and at that second, I knew I was going to grad school to get my M.S. in geology.
Quite frankly, I never imagined myself as a field geologist, not until I became one, and I never really planned on being a consulting geologist, either. (I didn't really plan on getting any gray hair, but - oh, well). And I think that's "deep enough," as they say in the mining industry.
A Brief Update: BTW, I have the deepest respect for women who have chosen to be what was known then as a housewife - my mom, for one, and my exceptional bright and talented sisters, for two and three. It just wasn't the right thing for me at the time.
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6 comments:
- ReBecca said...
What is up with sig others and ultimatums? I was once told to choose between paleo and him. He didn't like the answer and started trying to pad the option. It was ridiculous!
You have made it at least! You are doing what you wanted to do. Sometimes it seems we do not always take the interstate, but get off on the state road and enjoy the twist turns and scenery.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 8:11:00 AM PDT
- ScienceWoman said...
Wow. What a story. It's great to hear that you were able to get back into the career you wanted, even after a long break. I think too many women think that if we take time "off" (for whatever) reason that there is no way to get back into the game.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 10:09:00 AM PDT
- Kim said...
Inspiring story. (And I'm glad the industry came back, finally, and you were able to get back into it.)
I've got one of those sig other stories, too: a guy who said "I don't want to marry a geologist. I want to marry Kim." It was clear that he didn't know Kim. I dumped him.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 12:28:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Thanks for all the comments - as for the SigOth thing, for me I think it had something to do with how young I was, and how I hadn't been in the right place/space to begin with. Although that story has it's positive sides, the least of which are getting me to grad school, renewing my vow to move back to the West, and getting the opportunity to go to field camp in Arizona (another story) - but also, it somehow cured me of some cynicism that I had been developing.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 4:06:00 PM PDT
- EcoGeoFemme said...
It's really nice to hear that some senior level people haven't always had it all figured out. Hearing that you stepped off the path for a while or weren't sure that you always wanted to do this science makes me feel better about my own uncertainties. Thanks!
- Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 9:31:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
You're welcome! I've probably always been a geologist at heart, thanks to my dad who took me to roadcuts at an early age. When I went to college, I was afraid of physics and chemistry - though I did alright in both.
- Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 7:45:00 PM PDT


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Select the appropriate App Store Icon below ("iTunes Store" or "Play Store") to download the app to your mobile device. You will need to sign in with your iTunes or Google Play account to download. The app will then appear in your available downloads on your device.
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Visit the "iTunes Store" or "Play Store" and search "F&M State Bank" to download.
Once you have downloaded the app, enroll or sign in with your Online Banking User ID and Password. You can then set up a 4-digit passcode or Apple Touch ID® to access your account information faster in the future. Just tap More and Log In Options.
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Account information is never stored on your phone and data transmissions are encrypted with the same secure technology as online banking.
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Tom Sawyer scratched his head. "This here's the bust of our invisible man?"
"The poor fellow had terrible burns and injuries. His scar tissue means that he can never be totally invisible again," said Captain Nemo.
"That right?"
Nemo frowned perturbed. "Dr. Jekyll said the invisibility potion only affected our friend's epidermis but once that was burnt off in the explosion, it meant he would have obvious scarring."
"He saved us all, ya know. I thought his skin would heal. I wouldn'ta left so long but there's been rumors. Some say, Allan's alive, that he dug his way out of his grave. I had ta investigate." Tom spit on the flour, angry at himself.
"This is true. It's said Africa would never let Allan Quatermain die. As for our invisible friend, Mina told me he was handsome once. Having half his head and face deformed was difficult for him." Mina Harker appeared in the hallway suddenly.
"We haven't seen him yet, Mrs. Harker, Ma'am, but the Captain and I were talking about him."
She touched the invisible man's bust. "There's no telling where our friend went. However, I heard most of your conversation." Mina tapped her ears inducting her improved vampire senses.
"Earlier you said you had been searching for Allan when you left us. Maybe the invisible man is searching for someone to help him too? Did you find Allan?"
Tom shook his head and Mina smiled, "Young Tom, Allan Quatermain is alive. He's a youth like you now, but with much more experience at hiding. African Shamans have brought him back to life to fight with us again. I saw him in a vision; a great evil is coming and Allan is the key to stopping it."
Mina tossed back her hair. "Once we find Allan, he will help us unravel our other friend's disappearance."
"Then it's settled," Captain Nemo said. "I will tell the crew to sail towards North Africa. There, our next adventure begins."
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Integrating Access 2003 with Other Microsoft Office Applications
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) isn't a programming language for Microsoft Access 2003 alone. It's a programming language for all application programs that support Automation. Automation (with a capital A) refers to the ability of a program to be manipulated programmatically, or controlled automatically using a programming language such as VBA. All the major applications in Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word support Automation. You can write code to automatically share data among them.
The terms Component Object Model (COM) and OLE automation are older terms for (but are basically synonymous with) what's currently called Automation.
Before you start writing code
Before you exchange data between Access and other programs in the Microsoft Office Suite, be aware that writing code to do the job is rarely required. You can do plenty of importing and exporting data between Microsoft Office applications without writing any code at all. For example, you can perform the following actions:
- Import and export data by using options on the Access File menu.
- E-mail Access objects, such as reports, by choosing Send To –> Mail Recipient.
- Use the OfficeLinks feature to send objects to other programs.
- Use basic Windows cut-and-paste techniques and OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) to copy and link data between programs.
- Merge data from Access tables to Microsoft Word letters, labels, envelopes, or other reports, using the Word Mail Merge feature. (Search the Word Help system for merge.)
If you're just looking to get data from Access to another program (or vice versa), writing code is probably not the easiest approach. Any of the previous approaches are easier than writing custom VBA code to do the job.
Of course, once in a proverbial blue moon, you come across a situation where writing VBA code is the only, or perhaps just the best, way to get the job done. This article shows you some basic concepts that you'll want to understand.
Loading the appropriate object models
The Access object model provides a means of referring to objects by name so that you can manipulate those objects by using VBA code. Every Office application program that exposes itself to VBA has an object model, just as Access does. After an application program's object library is available, you can use VBA to control that application.
An object model defines the names and organization of objects in the application. An object library is the actual file that's stored on your hard disk and defines that conceptual object model.
Before you write code to control an external application from Access, you need to load the appropriate object library into the References dialog box in Access. Follow these steps:
1. Make sure that you're in the Visual Basic Editor.
Press Alt+F11 if you're in the Access program window.
2. Choose Tools –> References from the Visual Basic Editor menu.
The References dialog box opens.
3. Scroll through the Available References list and select the object libraries for the programs that you want to control.
In Figure 1, the selected object libraries are for Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word (among others).
4. Click OK.
All the selected object libraries will be opened, and you have access to all their object models from this point on.
Unloading object libraries
Loading more object libraries than necessary is wasteful because VBA programs run slower. In real life, you rarely need to select all the object libraries available (see Figure 1) unless you really intended to interact with all those programs from the current database.
You can unload libraries as easily as you load them. Open the References dialog box and clear the check mark next to any object library that you don't really intend to use.
Exploring a program's object model
The Object Browser in the Visual Basic Editor provides access to all the object models currently selected in the References dialog box. Each loaded object model contains many objects, classes, properties, and such. But for Automation, you mainly want to look at each program's Application Object. For example, the Access Application Object exposes Access to other programs that support Automation. The Excel Application Object (contained within the Excel object library) exposes Excel to other Automation programs and so on.
To open the Object Browser in the VBA Editor, choose View –> Object Browser or press F2. To get help with an item in the Object Browser, click its name, and then click the Help (?) button in the Object Browser toolbar.
When you choose <All Libraries> from the Project/Library list in the Object Brower and scroll down the Classes list in the left column, you see several Application objects. When you click one of the Application objects, the name of the application appears down near the bottom of the dialog box. Members of that application object appear in the pane to the right, as shown in Figure 2.
Setting references to other programs
With object models loaded, you're ready to start setting up references to available programs in VBA code. The first step is to use a Dim statement to create an object variable that refers to the application to which you want to connect, using the following syntax:
Dim anyName As [New] program.Application
In the syntax, anyName is any name you like, to be used within your code to refer to the application. The program argument is the official name of the Automation program. The New keyword is optional. If included, the New keyword opens a copy of the application in the background (not necessarily visible on-screen) before the code runs.
Some examples of Dim statements are the following:
Dim appExcel As New Excel.Application
Dim appOutlook As New Outlook.Application
Dim appPowerPoint As New PowerPoint.Application
Dim appWord As New Word.Application
A Dim statement is valid only if the appropriate object library is loaded. For example, the Dim appWord As New Word.Application statement fails if the object library for Microsoft Word isn't selected in the References dialog box.
The Dim statements merely create object variables that refer to the application from within your code. To actually make the connection to an application's Application object, you need to set the object variable name to the application. The syntax is
Set objectVariable As CreateObject("appName.Application")
where objectVariable is the same as the name you specified in the Dim statement, and appName is the name of the application program. Referring to the earlier Dim statements, the Set statements that you use for each defined object variable are the following:
Set appExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set appOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set appPowerPoint = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
Set appWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Each application in the Office suite has its own object model with its own objects and properties, but the basic ideas are the same regardless of which program and object model you use.


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Grim Dawn
Kickstarter is almost over but the action will be picking up on the Grim Dawn forums so please visit us!
If you missed out on the KS but still want to contribute or if you wanted a reward that you weren't able to get, we'll be putting up our pre-order system on the Grim Dawn website within the next few weeks. Some rewards may not be available though and physical rewards will only be available until we send the orders to be manufactured. We're not sure yet when that will happen but we'll keep you updated on the forums.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen! Crate loves you!
Update #14: Grim Dawn passes $400k + New melee combat video!
View the REWARD CHART to see what's in each tier!
We pledge to contribute 5% of our profits from the sale of the game to other promising game projects on Kickstarter and elsewhere. Visit: Kicking it Forward for more information on this initiative and to see other projects participating.
Stretch goals:
- [UNLOCKED] $350k - Dual wielding pistols (feature tech and new animation set)
- [UNLOCKED] $360k - 25 extra pieces of unique item art
- [UNLOCKED] $375k - Additional end-game boss monster (total of 2) lurking somewhere out there in the darkness for you to find...
- [UNLOCKED] $385k - 25 more pieces of unique item art
- [UNLOCKED] $400k - A new environment set that you'll get to decide on. We'll create a thread on the Grim Dawn forums to discuss ideas with fans, then select the best ideas and create a poll for you to vote the one you want most.
- [UNLOCKED] $412k - 2 additional monster types (models and animations)
- [UNLOCKED] $425k - Three large, high-level dungeons, each with its own theme and named hero monster. The dungeon entrances will randomly appear in the world.
- [UNLOCKED] $450k - Savage two-handed melee weapons (includes animations and all the art required to create an entirely new item type)
- [UNLOCKED] $465k - Additional end-game boss (total of 3) to encounter in some dark and dangerous corner of the world.
- [UNLOCKED] $480k - New survivor town hidden in the remote wilderness for you to discover. Will include a new faction group and new quest-lines to unlock once you've gained their trust.
- [UNLOCKED] $480.5k - New and higher-quality developer beer, as requested by many after the sad beer in Update #10. Surely this will help enhance the quality of all our work!
- [UNLOCKED] $490k - 2 additional monster types (models and animations) and another 25 extra pieces of unique item art
- [UNLOCKED] $500k - A new dungeon art-set with a choice of catacom... scratch that! Not exciting enough? Fans have suggesting visiting the Aetherial or Chthonic home-worlds and we're down for that! We'll post a thread on the forum to gather other ideas and then put it up to vote in a poll. ; )
- [UNLOCKED] $520k - SURVIVAL MODE! We'll create a new gameplay mode that will be free for all backers (KS or Website Pre-order). In survival mode players will fight to stay alive against increasingly difficult waves of monsters. It will release sometime after the game so as not to delay development.
- [UNLOCKED] $535k - A new faction and story-line! This stretch goal was determined by a fan poll thanks to William Potash for having the idea to run that!
Update #13: The Grim Dawn Kickstarter ends this Friday! Check out our revised reward chart + New Music!
Update #11: THE FINAL WEEK! Detailed Stretch Goals + New Music!
Update #10: 100% Funding achievement unlocked!
Update #9: New music track "Lonely Moon" posted!
Update #7: Sound and music creation for Grim Dawn
Update #4: New music track "Cult of Ch'thon" posted!
Update #2: Grim Dawn is backed 50% in 4 days! New goals on the horizon!
Update #1: Answers to questions - Do you have a publisher? How big is Crate? How far along is Grim Dawn?
Grim Dawn is old-school style, open-world action role-playing!
Grim Dawn is an action role-playing game being created with the tools and technology used to build Titan Quest by a few veteran developers from Iron Lore, including Arthur Bruno, the lead gameplay designer on Titan Quest.
We're a small team with limited resources and we're not competing to launch the next big ARPG but if you're a more traditional gamer that still craves the complexity, intrigue and quirkiness of older games, maybe Grim Dawn can be the next big ARPG for you.
Grim Dawn won't hold your hand to ensure you never make a bad decision and it won't feature a story on rails with linear level design to prevent you from ever getting lost. It will, however, offer you the chance to do things in your own way, have an experience that is unique from everyone else playing the game and explore off the beaten path to see and do things that not every player is likely to find.
Unlike many other ARPGs, in Grim Dawn, you're not the lone hero out on a quest to save the world by vanquishing one ultimate evil. The world of Cairn, in which Grim Dawn is set, has been devastated by a war between two otherworldly powers, with humankind caught in the middle. The dangers facing the survivors of humanity are too great and numerous to be solved by any one individual.
There is still beauty in the world but it is permeated with darkness and peril. The broken remnants of wraith-like Aetherial and demonic Ch'thonian armies rove the lands seeking to gain some advantage in a cataclysmic war that's ground to stalemate. Bands of human marauders turned cannibal roam the roads and creatures from the days of lore, thought driven to extinction, find the world ripe for their resurgence.
It is the dawn of a desperate and dangerous new era in Cairn where isolated enclaves of human survivors struggle to rebuild and many are in need of help. This is the backdrop for the countless adventures that await you in Grim Dawn. There is no one central story; there are many stories and whether you help the weak or help yourself and how you go about it is yours to decide. It pays to have some allies in troubled times like these but choose them carefully…
Core features
We've listened to years of feedback from the Titan Quest community and continue to do so every day on the Grim Dawn forums as we strive to improve upon past performance and make this our greatest work yet. The creation of Grim Dawn is guided by traditional design and old school sensibilities, with innovation only in the areas where we feel it truly improves the game and isn't just a gimmicky back of the box feature.
Grim Dawn will:
- Be DRM free!
- Include robust modding tools so you can create your own worlds!
- Be faster-paced, with much more satisfying enemy hit reactions and deaths.
- Allow you to fight house-to-house as you lay waste to enemies and the former owner's furniture in the process. Break through walls to open up new areas of exploration!
- Feature a more open-world design with randomized elements that will greatly enhance replay-ability. Each play-through will be unique with "set-piece" spawners that can turn a patch of wilderness into different types of enemy camps, a traveling merchant caravan, etc, each with their own unique art.
- We don't control where you go; you do! If you don't want to follow the main story, you aren't forced to. Non-linear progression allows you to unlock new areas by repairing bridges, defeating enemy blockades, etc, as soon as you have the resources and power to do it. Race ahead into higher-level areas and get pwned, we'll warn you but we're not going to stop you!
- Let you combine any two of five distinct skill classes, each with multiple skill trees in which to specialize. Spend money to reclaim skill points if you're unhappy with your build.
- Have a refined loot system that drops far less junk-items, produces more uber randomized gear and ensures more consistent rewards from hero and boss monsters.
- Immerse you in a gritty, dangerous, Victorian era fantasy world where humankind has been pushed to the brink of extinction by warring otherworldly powers.
- Give players meaningful quest choices and the ability to visually change the starting town as they help to rebuild and secure the future survival of humanity.
- Let you ally with NPC factions to earn rewards and unlock new quest lines. Be wary though, aiding one group can make another your enemy!
- Join up with friends in coop-multiplayer through online match-making or play over LAN and experience the full game together.
- And so much more…
What else makes Grim Dawn different?
At its core, Grim Dawn strives to perfect the magical formula of fast-paced, satisfying combat, strategic character development and frenzied loot collection that defines the genre. However, we don't know of too many (or any?) ARPGs that let you make meaningful quest decisions and allow you to earn favor or go to war with different NPC factions. Have you ever been able to repair bridges to unlock new areas in whatever order you choose? With so many stylized ARPGs coming out now, we think our gritty art style and realistic world also help to define us. Speaking of realistic world, did we mention that the levels in Grim Dawn are actually stitched together to form a giant, continuous playable world, reflective of natural geography?
These are some of the features that help to set Grim Dawn apart. With your contribution, who knows how far we can go!
Sound overly ambitious?
It might be... if it weren't for the fact that these features already exist! Well hey, we're not just some dudes rolling up in here, looking for you guys to take all the risk in funding our dream gig. We've already put a lot of our own blood, sweat and tears into this labor of love over the past 2+ years to get it where it is today. We've developed a ton of cool new features and the core gameplay is already quite fun, if we do say so ourselves. What? You want to see the gameplay? Well, here is our latest sampling! (hopefully just enough to get you hooked...)
Why do we need your help?
Though we have several experienced developers working on Grim Dawn, only two of us are in a financial situation where we can afford to support ourselves without a salary (albeit on a steady diet of bread and moldy cheeses). The other guys involved with Grim Dawn work day jobs at other game studios to pay the bills and contribute as they can on nights and weekends. As you might imagine, this makes for pretty slow going and it is certainly not ideal for creative collaboration. When critical team members end up in crunch at their day jobs, they can sometimes get tied up for weeks, causing certain aspects of our development to temporarily grind to a halt.
Occasionally, just to get things in-game, we have people performing jobs that are really outside their area of expertise. This can result in such things as "1990s looking", designer-created UI and programmer-drawn lightning bolts. Even so, some aspects of development, such as art, animation, and world-building, are falling woefully behind the programming and gameplay development. We're at a point now where we have solid core gameplay and some robust features but not enough content to release anything and we really need to accelerate that process.
While we could still finish a fine little game on our own, that would be rough around the edges but very fun, we believe there is a much greater potential that could be realized if we were more adequately funded and staffed. So we're hoping you can help give us some proper funding so that we can get the team together, start making faster progress and ultimately release a bigger, better game for you and everyone else.
If you'd like to see more information about our current state of progress, check out this recent "State of the Game Address" on our forum.
Why should you care?
Because we care! Yeah, yeah, we know, you probably hear that a lot nowadays. Suddenly everyone is denouncing publishers and talking about how they want to make games for traditional gamers... as long as you provide the funding first.
How are we different?
We also set out to make a game we were passionate about, guided by old school design sensibilities, for traditional gamers. The difference is that we started Grim Dawn over two years ago with no funding except for our personal savings.
I'm Arthur Bruno and at my last job, as Lead Designer at Iron Lore, I made a pretty comfortable salary with great benefits. Now I make zero thousand dollars a year with no benefits (well, there are definitely some benefits but health insurance isn't one of them). I'm not complaining though, it has been totally worth it though to be able to pursue a dream and work on a game I love, for fantastic fans that have supported us from the beginning. It hasn't been easy but I wouldn't have it any other way... well, I mean, if you guys funded this project, that would certainly make things easier and I'm down with that. In thirty some-odd days though, regardless of whether we reach our funding goal or not, I'll still be working on Grim Dawn, trying to make it happen.
Not only are we dedicated to creating this game but we're dedicated to our fans. We don't need to promise that we're going to start a new, open dialog with fans and seek your input on development because we already are. I personally have over 650 posts to the titanquest.net fan-site forum and over 1800 on the Grim Dawn forums. That's an average of over 2 posts a day since the forum went live more than two years ago. We've put up polls to get consensus from forum members when we are on the fence about an issue and we've asked for feedback on everything from place names to class skills, to UI. We've even implemented a few features based on suggestions from the forum.
Here are just a few links to threads that serve as examples of the type of collaborative interactions that take place on our forums:
Main menu development discussion
Mastery names and description discussion
HUD UI modification discussion
Another proof of our dedication to fans is that we don't hold back game information in order to arrange exclusives with the gaming press. We release information and updates directly to the Grim Dawn forums, our Facebook page and... well, actually that's usually it. When stuff appears in the press about Grim Dawn, it usually comes from our website. Fans always see everything first! We've always had a very open, honest and personal dialog with our fans.
Finally, we have a long-standing passion and commitment to making this a hardcore ARPG for PC, guided by the best of old school design principles. The game as it stands today, is the same game we told fans that we were setting out to make in 2009 and the feature set reflects that. Whether we get funding or not, that isn't going to change; it's only going to get better. Want to know more about my philosophies as a designer? Check out these posts, one of which is pasted from an interview I did for Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
Rock Paper Shotgun Interview - Old School Design
Design philosophies - The profit and loss of playing games
How will the Kickstarter money be used?
The first thing we should stress is that our funding goal is not the budget to make this game; only to help finish it. There is no way you could make Grim Dawn from scratch with its current level of quality and feature set on such a small budget. It is only because we've acquired the rights to a pre-existing engine built for ARPG and invested some of our own money and years of unpaid work into this project that we're at a point now where a few hundred thousand dollars can make a big impact.
Our goal is about the minimal level of funding that would be required to make a big difference on this project because it is enough where we can start to bring on some of our part-time people, full-time and guarantee them at least a certain duration of wages. This would likely be an animator, artist and designer to start out. We'd also use money for more outsourcing so that we could get additional unique item art and enemy models.
Just having a few full-time people in these critical roles would be a world of difference for the project. Not only would we be able to get so much more done and produce better work but we'd also have more time to post updates and interact with the community. We'd be able to reach alpha release a little faster but as the extra help had time to work, content would start to flow much faster, leading to a speedier beta and final release, as well as a lot more frequent updates along the way. It would still be a lot of work with such a small team but we'd be progressing at more than triple the rate that we are currently.
If we exceed our goal, all of the extra money will be used to bring more full-time people onto Grim Dawn and expand our art outsourcing. That means more content, more quickly. The ultimate goal would be for us to bring all of our part-time people on full-time and hopefully even hire a few more people. Then we would be totally rocking and well on our way to making Grim Dawn all that it can be!
Thank you for helping us make this happen!
The Crate Team
Please note that reward delivery estimates are conservative. We think we can deliver many of them earlier, especially if we exceed our funding goal but we want to try to play it safe. Also, note that the delivery estimates are based on whatever item will take the longest to produce in any tier. Since we're not sure whether we'll be able to finish the Crate story and get it sent out during development of the game, we've allowed some time post-release. In a best case scenario though, we'll be able to deliver much of this stuff earlier.
Existing Grim Dawn Key-Holders - Please Read!
To ensure that you get the reward that you desire and are properly credited, you must carefully read and follow the instructions posted in the Official Kickstarter Project thread on the forum. It is important that you only pledge the difference between the value of your existing key and the tier you want. If you pledge more, we won't be able to refund you, so please pledge carefully!
Also, please note that the first 3 tiers on Kickstarter are identical to the 3 website pre-order levels despite the minor price differences. If you have a Legendary key, for example, you will get all of the stuff in the KS $50 reward and do not need to pledge any more money if you don't want to.
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What about confirming the functionality in positive tests, proving it is working - should I say it is a waste of time? What kind of concept is behind this quote?
Unsuccessful tests, i.e. tests that do not find errors are a waste of time.
Web Engineering: The Discipline of Systematic Development of Web Applications quoting Cem Kaner.


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Here is a frustrating fact about ballot measure campaigns: one side of the question has to win.
Prop 29 illustrates the problem. Both sides of the campaign deserve to lose, but one side will win. Let's look at it from both sides of 29:
The Yes on 29 campaign is second-to-none in its moral fervor. If only it had been so careful and thoughtful when it comes to the budget -- and the Californians who depend on it. As your blogger described here previously, Yes on 29 takes a perfectly good tax policy -- taxing cigarettes, which would produce more money the state needs and reduce the number of smokers, thus literally saving lives -- and pairs it with the kind of brain-dead budget policy that has made this state such an ungovernable mess.
The initiatives ties up cigarette tax money in a separate fund for cancer research, and a host of priorities that are detailed in the initiative. That's money that can't be used for general fund purposes. And it's the general fund that's hurting right now. Instead, this initiative takes potential tax money off the table that could be used to shore up decimated health and human services programs, and puts it into a gold-plated new program for cancer.
In so doing, Prop 29 actually hurts the two causes -- public health and research -- that it wants to help. The two pieces of the budget that depend most on the general fund are human services/health and higher education. Of course, the reasons for doing it this way are themselves political; an initiative that threw money into the general fund could be easily attacked as giving more money to politicians. But that's precisely what California needs to do more of: give lawmakers more flexiblity to balance budgets and set priorities. Campaigns like this not only reduce flexibility--but their messaging makes it harder to fix the system. That's why the Yes on 29 side, even though it's fighting for a very good cause (and a good tax policy), deserves to lose.
But the No side deserves to lose too. It's backed by tobacco companies -- an interest group that has a well-earned reputation for deception, death and other evils.
The No campaign has been right in one of its central arguments -- the inflexibility and governance problems with how the money has been spent. But some of its other arguments are wrong or misleading.
One such argument is that the money will be spent outside of California. That seems highly unlikely, given that the people funding this are interests who would stand to gain from money being in spent in California. Another problematic argument is the one about a big government bureaucracy being created by the measure; from what I can tell, the bureaucracy wouldn't be that large.
And while it's politically incorrect to mention it, the real problem with previous initiatives like this -- ballot box budgeting measures for public health issues -- has been a lack of bureaucracy. Most notably, the initiative that establshed the stem cell agency tried to counter attacks on bureaucracy by including limits on the agency. Those very limits have made it harder for the agency to build an institution that can effectively do audits and conduct oversight. If you're going to spend money, you need to build some bureaucracy to make sure you do it well.
So what's good about Prop 29? The measure -- and the campaigns both for and against it -- show how cynical and emotional our debates about ballot initiatives are. Californians needs to come up with ways to build deliberative processes around initiatives so that details and consequences of measures are better understood by the public.
Or else we'll keep having campaigns in which both sides deserve to lose.
University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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Jason Aldean Fights Away Tears While Accepting Artist of the Year Honor at the 2011 American Country Awards
Jason Aldean hid a tear or two under his black cowboy hat as he accepted the 2011 American Country Awards' honor for Artist of the Year. Miranda Lambert presented the award to Aldean, which was his second of the night until the announcer let fans in Las Vegas and viewers at home know the 'Tattoos on This Town' singer had also won four other awards, for a total of six.
In addition to Artist and Album of the Year, Aldean was voted the winner of Single of the Year: Male, Single of the Year: Vocal Collaboration and Touring Headline Act of the Year. It was somewhat predictable that Aldean would win, as he was the only nominee in attendance. Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift, and the Zac Brown Band weren't heard from all night.
"I don't know what else to say. It's been a crazy year," Aldean said. In addition to headlining a major summer tour and earning praise and awards for his most recent album, 'My Kinda Party,' the singer was nominated for the Entertainer of the Year Award at last month's 2011 CMA Awards. He no doubt feels vindicated taking home the top honors at this fan-voted on show.


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Mini Collage: Koi
Original collage made from cut-up, used and expired New York City subway tickets. The collage is a one-of-kind artwork, not a print. It comes matted and framed in a tabletop frame.
Year: 2017
Collage size: 5"x7"
Frame size: 8"x10"
In the check-out screen you will be able to choose between a free in-person pick-up of the collage or having it shipped to you (shipping charges apply). You may pick up the artwork in Lower Manhattan or in South Williamsburg (Brooklyn).


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AS A FRESHMAN IN 2012-13: SINGLES: Went 7-12 in his freshman year on the Mission Campus … primarily played No. 5 and 6 singles with two appearances at No. 4 … defeated his Gonzaga opponent 6-4, 7-6 in the WCC Tournament first round … took home a 6-4, 7-6 win to clinch the 4-3 Bronco win in the dual match against Gonzaga … played the best match of his season against then-No. 6 Pepperdine, upsetting a talented opponent at No. 5 for a 6-4, 6-4 win … topped Sonoma State, UC Irvine and Northern Arizona in straight sets … stepped up and turned in a clutch performance in a rematch against Boise State, winning his three set marathon to clinch the 4-3 Bronco win … picked up his first NCAA win over Max Littlejohn of UC Davis by a 6-4, 6-1 final … DOUBLES: Went 3-9 in doubles, playing primarily at No. 3 with several matches in the second position … gained a big 8-6 win with Logan Chun at No. 3 against UC Irvine helping take the doubles point en route to a 4-3 team win … combined with Ashot Khacharyan for a 9-8 win over Furman in the No. 2 position helping the team to a 4-3 win … teamed with Chun for a strong 8-4 defeat of Northern Arizona in the third spot.
HIGH SCHOOL: Was ranked sixth in the Polish U-18 rankings … ranked eighth in the Polish U-16 rankings … three-time bronze medalist in the Polish Championships under 16 … helped team win the gold medal in the Polish Championships U-16, and the bronze medal in the Polish championships U-18.
PERSONAL: From Golynia, Poland ... graduated from Liceum Jezuitow in 2012 ... son of Waldemar and Krystyna Soltyka ... has an older sister Maja Soltyka and a younger sister Emilia Soltyla. He will be studying in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Why he chose Santa Clara?: "I chose Santa Clara because it has a good tennis team, a high level of education and good weather conditions."


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It's that time of year again. Everyone's favorite holiday – World Water Day! What? Never heard of the holiday that celebrates the one substance that is the basis for all life? Think about it, when scientists are looking for proof of life on other planets, what is the one clue they hope to find? Water. The simple presence of water. They know that if there is water, there may be a possibility for life. No water, no life.
Here on Earth, almost three quarters of our planet's surface is covered with water. The volume of water in your own body is made up of almost that exact same percentage. We all need water to survive. And by "we all," I mean microbes, insects, kittens, people, polar bears, trees, frogs, flowers, birds, turtles, forests, ecosystems, etc. We are all intricately linked through water. As much as we try to separate these groups in our minds, as much as we disassociate ourselves with parts of the rest of the world, it would do us good to remember that we all have one common need.
There is some great information now available that helps us visualize how truly dependent we are on water. We can see how much water it takes to make a one pound of beef, one pint of greek yogurt, one cup of coffee. It's all very fascinating – mostly because it forces us to look at water in new ways. We live in a world where "conserve water" or "save water" used to mean – stop letting the faucet run while you are brushing your teeth, or don't water your lawn in the middle of the hot summer day.
This new view of water, puts a truer value on the resources required to produce the food we eat and makes us think about our daily choices in different ways. For example, it takes three eggs to equal the amount of protein in one serving of beef, but the beef requires nine times the amount of water to produce.
If we are committed to being good stewards of this amazing water planet, we need to start with our own daily choices. Figure out what is most important to you and then look for ways to make less of an impact!
Interested in learning more about the state of our of water supply and how it's impacting marine life? Tune into PBS NewHour's weekly Twitter chat (#NewsHourChats) at 1pm EST to hear from me (@LauraBankey) and our Chief Conservation Officer, Eric Schwaab (via @NatlAquarium)!


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Frozen mixed vegetables make this healthy chicken fried rice recipe quick, easy and economical. If you don't have leftover cooked rice, be sure to thoroughly cool your rice before adding it to the wok—if it's too warm, it creates too much steam and sticks to the wok. To quickly cool warm rice, spread it out on a large baking sheet and refrigerate while you prep the rest of your ingredients, about 15 minutes.
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A homecoming senior prank involving chickens, male genitalia and expanding foam caused thousands of dollars in damage to a high school in Chicago's western suburbs this week.
Close to 70 students have been identified as taking part in the early Wednesday morning prank at Riverside-Brookfield High School that started with a traditional toilet-papering of the building and later escalated to more serious vandalism.
According to the Landmark newspaper, a smaller group returned to the school after the initial prank and took it to a higher level. They spray-painted messages on the walls, posted photos of male genitalia on the windows and doors, left a baby crib at the entrance with four live chickens inside, and left old furniture and a mattress at another entrace. They also left other graffiti directed at school staff and police. Expandable insulating foam was also placed in some of the locks, causing significant damage.
Students were identified through surveillance video, social media and other students, according to the newspaper.
Damage estimates were as high as $3,500.
The school principal said some of the students may be charged criminally and others will face a variety of punishments ranging from the exclusion from social events to suspensions.


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Kidney Transplant Team
Transplant Coordinators
Transplant coordinators are responsible for coordinating every aspect of transplant care, from the time of transplant through long-term, post-transplant care. Coordinators assist the physicians in the medical management of the patient and provide ongoing education for the patient and family and act as patient advocates. Their follow up care includes contact with local physicians, other healthcare facilities and outpatient clinics.
Pre-Transplant Coordinators
Pre-transplant coordinators are responsible for coordinating your care prior to transplant, from the time of initial referral until the time a transplant is received. A pre-transplant coordinator will assist you through the evaluation process by working closely with you, your local physician and dialysis unit. They will maintain contact with you and your physicians during the waiting period will help keep your tests and records up to date during the waiting period.
Financial Counselors
Financial counselors work with you and your insurance company both before and after transplant to facilitate financial matters concerning transplantation, such as billing, collection, deductibles, drug coverage and co-insurances. They are responsible for your education about the financial aspects of transplantation and are your best resource for assistance with any insurance related questions.
Clinical Dieticians
Clinical dieticians work with you and your family to evaluate your nutritional status and develop a plan for good nutrition throughout the transplant process.
Clinical Social Workers
Clinical social workers conduct a psychosocial assessment, discuss available community resources, assist with financial resources, and work with other members of the transplant team to support you emotionally throughout the transplant process. The social worker will provide information and help with completion of advance directives. They can also assist with finding a support group for patients and their families.
Transplant Surgeons
Transplant surgeons meet with the patients and families during the evaluation process to perform a medical evaluation, explain the surgical process and review individual risks and benefits of transplant. The transplant surgeon performs the transplant surgery and works in collaboration with the medical physicians to manage your care after the surgery.
Transplant Internist/Nephrologists
Transplant internist/nephrologists provide medical care to patients once they have received their transplant. This includes the short and long-term management of immunosuppression and other medical issues after surgery.
Inpatient Transplant Nurses
Inpatient transplant nurses specialize in the care and treatment of transplant patients during their hospital stay. Patients are assigned a primary nurse for their inpatient nursing care that will work with physicians, coordinators and other health care disciplines to prepare you for your discharge.
Transplant Clinic Nurses
Transplant clinic nurses care for patients during clinic visits and assist with numerous outpatient procedures. The clinic nurses provide care and support for patients during the recovery period after procedures and assist in setting up required follow-up care. They also provide ongoing education for patients and their families.
Office Support Staff
Office support staff provide phone triage to coordinators and other staff and assist in management of outpatient medical information. They assist coordinators with managing patient lab results and daily patient issues and concerns.
Physician Assistants
Physician assistants assist with inpatient and outpatient care and help organize your discharge needs. Physician assistants monitor patient recovery, assist in daily medical management following transplant surgery and assist physicians in every aspect of patient care.
Surgical Residents
Surgical residents assist with inpatient care including preparing you for surgery assisting in the operating room and helping to manage post operative issues. Surgical residents work with the surgeons, nephrologists and other team members to prepare you for discharge.
Nurse Practitioners
Nurse practitioners assist with inpatient care and outpatient care following a transplant. A nurse practitioner assists the transplant physician with immunosuppression management as well as long-term general health management. A nurse practitioner is available to see patients in clinic on a long-term basis.
Transplant Pharmacists
Transplant pharmacists work closely with physicians, nursing staff and the patient to ensure that the transplant medications are optimized. The pharmacists work with the rest of the transplant team to find the best way to diminish the side effects a patient may experience due to immunosuppression and other medication used during transplantation. They also assist with the management of medication scheduling.
Chaplains help many patients and families receive comfort and meaning from their faith during illness recovery. Our chaplains provide spiritual and emotional support and perform sacraments. Faith and medication opportunities are provided at the hospital chapel. Catholic and Protestant services are held on Sundays.
Other Physician Consultations
Other physician consults may be required either during the transplant evaluation or at any period after transplant to address individual needs. UW Hospital and Clinics have many specialized expert physicians that can be consulted to work together to provide the best care possible. Infectious disease, dental, endocrine, general surgery, dermatology and abdominal transplant are just a few of the physician teams that are available to assist in your care.
Other Services
Other services are available to provide assistance to patients and their families. For example, interpreter services can be made available for anyone needing translation services and housing assistance can assist the patient and family should temporary housing be required.


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With the stock and bond markets butting up against record highs, and volatility not far from all-time lows, that little red devil on your shoulder is whispering in your ear that it's safe to take more risk again.
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Is a rebel uprising brewing in communist Laos?
A few groups of minority ethnic Hmong, who fought alongside the US against communist forces in Vietnam and Laos in the 1960s and 1970s, appear desperate to fight their way out of jungle hideaways.
Observers describe a rag-tag band of rebels with almost nothing to eat, old guns and next to no ammunition. Their war cry: "Better to die today than to die tomorrow."
But reports from exiled Hmong groups say a battle has begun and that army defectors and other unspecified disaffected groups are joining a rebellion in 11 provinces of the land-locked country.
The Laotian government says there is no fighting. And many analysts are skeptical, believing the exiled groups are taking advantage of recent attention on the impoverished Hmong to sell the idea of an anti-communist struggle and raise funds.
But some detect signs of fighting.
"The organizations sending the reports don't have a fantastic track record of being very careful," said Daniel Alberman, a London-based reporter for rights advocate Amnesty International.
"But I'm a believer that there's no smoke without fire," he said. "There are things going on ... there seem to be small groups of Hmong fighters in rural areas fighting with authorities and also fighting among Hmong groups."
Waiting for US rescue
The Hmong recently grabbed the headlines when three foreign journalists, in Laos to report on the rebel groups, were briefly jailed by police before being deported this month.
The Hmong rebels are the remnants of the "Montagnards," founded in the 1950s by the French colonial army and adopted by the US to fight in the Vietnam War.
Author Christopher Robbins has written of tales from US pilots smuggled out of Vietnam into Laos to direct secret US bombing of Vietnamese supply routes. The pilots worked and lived with the Hmong army, led by General Vang Pao.
"Exile groups create their own dynamic of paranoia and craziness and they can be very intimidating to their own communities if anyone tries to say anything different," said Grant Evans, a Laos expert at Hong Kong University.
But Hmong exiles say relatives they left behind in the jungles are now so isolated they are eating tree roots.
Earlier this year, two Time reporters traveled to Northern Laos and visited the restricted "Xaisomboun special zone." They returned with photos of emaciated Hmong clutching old rifles, weeping and begging on their knees for help.
A Belgian -- one of the journalists recently jailed -- said Hmong he visited were starving and waiting for an American rescue.
Jungle battles and media battles
The Fact Finding Commission (FFC), a California-based group set up by Hmong exiles to publicize the anti-communist rebels, is pushing the idea of a coordinated uprising across the country.
But its early claims of fighting have been modest.
The group says the newly formed Lao Citizen Movement for Democracy, led by a former officer in the pre-1975 Royal Lao Army, took brief control of two villages in mid-July and melted back into the countryside when government troops turned up.
Vientiane-based diplomats have heard rumors that some anti-government activity was being planned, but they have not seen or heard anything to substantiate the reports.
The Laotian government denies any uprising.
"The news is groundless and was made up to create confusion and chaos in Laos," Laotian Ambassador to Thailand Hiem Phommachanh said.


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My friend Parker Fitzgerald is a wicked great photographer, but you would never catch him admitting that. He's quiet and thoughtful, but he can carry a conversation for hours if you get him on the right topics. We had some time to hangout when he visited NYC a couple months ago.
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Elizabeth Carr was b. in Georgia circa 1819 and m. Benjamin J. Moss in Lumpkin County, GA on March 11, 1838. Benjamin and Elizabeth moved to Yancey Co., NC where they lived for many years before returning to Dawson Co., GA. At some point, they lived in Murray County and are believed to be buried in the Palmour cemetary. The Palmours were part or 100% Cherokee from Murray County. Elizabeth may have been the daughter of missionaries or may have been a Cherokee who took an English name when she m. Benjamin. He is listed in a book titled "Whites Living Among the Cherokee". Elizabeth's family cannot be found under Carr's from that area and time.
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