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North Star Resource Group, Financial Advisor (South Branch-Bell Division), Application Deadline, BTT Gateway Job ID 7206
Thu, October 31, 2013
This is for our financial advisor position at our South Austin branch - Bell Division.
North Star is one of the most respected and successful independent financial services firms in the industry. Our firm is designed around specialists, allowing our advisors to be able to assist their clients with virtually any financial planning need. Every year North Star advisors are entrusted with hundreds of millions of their clients' dollars. This is a vote of confidence and trust.
Our firm is unique. We focus on providing clients in the medical profession with careful financial planning services from competent, experienced, and ethical advisors. North Star is a national leader in fulfilling the advisory needs of physicians and other professionals.
We have a 100 year history training some of the industry's top advisors. Our mentors oversee a 36 month training and scholarship program that focuses on making you successful. It is rated as one of the best in the country and combines one-on-one mentorship, classroom education and hands-on training. Our firm's advisor retention rate is 40.0%. This is nearly four times the industry average of 11%.
If you are looking for an entrepreneurial career in finance then North Star may be the place for you.
---We offer a 4 year comprehensive paid training program.
---Career path track leading to becoming a partner in the firm.
---Mentoring/management/leadership opportunities and programs available.
We are looking for people with the following characteristics:
Interest in finance and/or entrepreneurship
Resides in the Austin, Texas area
Prior positions in sales, finance, real estate, mortgage brokerage, or healthcare a plus
Willingness to promote yourself and North Star's services in the community
Desire to start a business
Desire to help others meet their financial goals
Goal orientation
Effective communicator
The career of financial advising has often been cited by many well read publications as one of the top jobs in the nation. It has the potential to provide the 3 "C"s that everyone looks for in a career; Contribution, Control and Compensation.
"The financial services industry has grown tremendously over the past decade. Aging baby boomers, new retirees, young professionals and longer life expectancies have contributed to this growth. People demand and crave sound financial guidance period. Successful people want to have a relationship with an expert. As a result, financial planning, now, more than ever, is in high demand." ---Jobs Rated Almanac
Commission-Based Salary: This salary format is based on a percentage of your total completed sales, thus your paycheck will fluctuate month-to-month. For example, if you have a strong month of completed sales, you will earn a large paycheck; however, if you have a slow month of completed sales, you will earn a smaller paycheck.
Note: Commission-Based Salary: This salary format is based on a percentage of your total completed sales, thus your paycheck will fluctuate month-to-month. For example, if you have a strong month of completed sales, you will earn a large paycheck; however, if you have a slow month of completed sales, you will earn a smaller paycheck.
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Recruitment is a big deal these days. It's the doldrums of WotLK, as content stalls and eyes focus ahead to an unreleased expansion pack; some players loose interest, some just have a change of summer plans, some graduate and have to completely change their lives. It's expected.
Of course, with that, comes a slew of recruitment posts on forums, which have to be repetitively bumped back to the first page of a forum to ensure maximum advertisement. This is referred to as "bumping."
My guild is one of these forum recruiters.
Now, I have a strange kind of honor upon myself to be creative in my bump posts. It feels like spam to just bump a thread for the sake of bumping. Posting filler content to bump a post to the top of a forum feels like downright cheating. Examples include:
- Bump
- /bump
- Up
- up!
- .
- ..
- ...
- bump bump
- bump!
- And every other variation of these in repetition, punctuation, and capitalization.
Yes, Scythe, I AM LOOKING AT YOU.
So, when I get a poke from my guild to go help bump the recruitment threads, I take a moment to consider what I'm going to write. Some examples:
- "Dot dot dot" Scythe? Moar DOTS! :3
- I'm here cuz Scythe made me do it. /ducks
- I'd shapeshift out of tree to cast more moonfare, but then people might die and that'd be bad.
- AH! Loud noises! I wonder if sound can travel through a pally bubble?
- Moo! Moo, I say, Moo!
- <---spends more time ARGIEING about bumping threads than actually bumping them. Just sayin'.
- Yellow leaves flash by;
A punch as I run in: rawr!
Rabid melee tree.
- Vroom vroom kitty kitty with a pretty post!
Zippy zippy tru da forum
Scythe's done bumps da most!
Shifty shifty CAPS LOCK I CANS SINGS A SONG
Here's hoping they aren't scared away
As I sing it all day long!
Come on... how many recruitment threads sing for their potential applicants?
Now, there are bonuses to this: it keeps you and your guild entertained while doing what would otherwise be an excessively boring chore of thread-bumping. It also gives your potential applicants a glimpse at your guild's personality: their ability to write legibly, their creativity, their typos or use of l33t 5p34k, and how formal or joking they are with each other.
BTW, we're recruiting a healer (sham/pally) and a melee dps (rogue/shaman) for 10-strict raiding, 11/12 hardmodes. ;) If you are interested, clicky here to app!

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Castrol Think with your Dipstick
Castrol USA has introduced Castrol Edge, an advanced synthetic motor oil, to Super Bowl viewers with the help of a dipstick happy Scottish golfer indulging in, quite literally, some slapstick humour.
Castrol EDGE, it is claimed, is not like any other synthetic oil. To drive that claim home the company brings in a Glaswegian dipstick wielding bully. "Think with your dipstick, Jimmy!", he says, as he cracks his dipstick across the legs of men who are thinking about synthetic oil. The advertisement leads to yourdipstick.com, which in turn transfers through to www.castroledgeusa.com. The site includes quicktime copies of the Grease Monkey and Dipstick videos and a behind the scenes look at filming Jimmy in action.
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The Edge campaign was developed at Ogilvy & Mather, New York, by worldwide creative director David Fowler, creative director Jim Nolan, associate creative director Mark Davis, copywriter Stephen Winston, director of broadcast production Patti McConnell, agency executive producer Lisa Christman and agency producer Brie Hagle.
Filming was shot by The Perlorian Brothers via Furlined, Los Angeles, with executive producer David Thorne and producer Jay Shapiro. Post production and visual effects were developed at Smoke & Mirrors, New York.
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Principal Director, Cantiere delle Navi Antiche di Pisa
What can we learn about Italy's ancient people from the ruins they left along the coast of Tuscany? Help us dust off clues.
Dr. Andrea Camilli is the principal director of the Cantiere delle Navi Antiche di Pisa and of the Centro di Restauro del Legno Bagnato, and was the project manager in the creation of the Museo delle Navi Antiche. He earned his Ph.D. in archaeology at the Scuola Nazionale di Archeologia (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"). His main research interests and publications include the ancient topography and urbanism of ancient Italy, the archaeology of villas and small settlements, using GIS in archaeology, maritime and underwater archaeology, and wood conservation. With the Centro di Restauro del Legno Bagnato, he works on methods for the conservation of organic materials and new technologies for archaeology. Dr. Camilli's other interests include hiking, cooking, reading, and drawing (especially comic strips).


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Angelou discusses: her early life; her international travels; dancing; blues and jazz music; and the book "Youngblood" by John Oliver Killens. In this program "In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)" and "Joe Turner No. 2 (Blues of 1892)" by Big Bill Broonzy, "I Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton" by Sam Lightnin' Hopkins is played, as well as other musical selections.


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The newest mom-to-be? Janet Jackson.
The 50-year-old singer confirmed her pregnancy to People magazine.
Jackson announced in April that she was postponing her "Unbreakable World Tour" because she was planning a family with husband Wissam Al Mana. She said then that she was on "doctor's orders" to rest.
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"We thank God for our blessing," Jackson told People in an article published on Wednesday. It features Jackson posing with her baby bump.
Since postponing the tour, the singer has kept a lower profile. She was last seen shopping in London for baby goods in a furniture store.
Jackson's brother, Tito, confirmed his sister's pregnancy in an interview with SiriusXM's Andy Cohen in June. The baby will be Jackson's first.
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Soaking in the soothing mineral springs at Mitchell is just one of the surprises that awaits you in this quaint town on the edge of the outback.
Just 87 kilometres west of Roma via the Warrego Highway, Mitchell sits peacefully on the banks of the Maranoa River. It lies in the westerly-most reaches of Southern Queensland Country and services the adjoining communities of Amby, Muckadilla and Mungallala.
Many a sun-scorched traveller has found bliss floating in the thermal mineralised waters of the Great Artesian Spa. It's relaxing for the body and therapeutic for the soul, and a precious natural resource that the locals proudly share. Located in Mitchell's aquatic centre, the Spa offers two large pools, one warm and one cool, of natural artesian water. It has been designed for easy access, with a hydro chair for those with restricted mobility.
You can explore magnificent sandstone formations, and pristine native ecosystems and take in magnificent panoramic vistas at numerous sites throughout the area. Accessing the Mt Moffatt section of Carnarvon National Park is easy from Mitchell. Nature lovers will be impressed with the abundance of wildlife including over 250 bird species living in and visiting the area.
Mitchell's active community is keen to preserve the treasures and lessons from the past and have created a range of heritage and cultural displays covering its local indigenous cultural heritage, early explorers and pioneers, bushranging past and social history.
Make your first stop the Heritage Museum - packed full of local history, historical items and photographs.
Don't miss Major Mitchell's Campsite - established in 1846 on his fourth expedition to map an overland route from Sydney to Darwin.
For a taste of the town's chequered past take in the history at Kenniff Court House - the original courthouse where local bushrangers, the Kenniff Brothers, were committed to stand trial in 1902.
And well worth a visit is working property and fully restored homestead Bonus Downs, built in 1911 by Australian pastoral legend, Sir Samuel McCaughey.
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Last week I took the train to Prospect Park in Brooklyn to view the cherry blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, hoping to recapture a hint of my life experience in Japan. Sure enough, the Cherry Esplanade delivered its promise: bunches of pink cherry blossoms on the myriad of branches forming arches over the garden alleys; a rain of pastel petals whirling in the wind, dotting the field of grass.
Coincidentally I met my friend Carolyn from Ma Vie en Franglais there. We continued our tour of the garden together, wondering at the bright colors along the way. Don't get me wrong, I hate gardening with a passion (I couldn't even name the flowers pictured below) but if I need to relax, nothing's better than a walk in a park.
Carolyn and I then made our way to the Brooklyn Museum to view the Keith Haring exhibition. One of the best-known American artists of the 20th century, Keith Haring was deeply inspired by graffiti. The exhibition focuses on the beginning of his career from 1978 to 1982, when his energetic street-art was ubiquitous throughout New York City.
A fixture of New York's downtown culture, Haring befriended artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat. New York was quite a different city at the time: gritty, with a somewhat dangerous and creatively bustling energy. The amazing soundtrack of the exhibition stays true to the period with bands like The B-52's, Blondie, Talking Heads and The Clash; you can listen to the iTunes list on the exhibition's page.
The highlight of the exhibition was this impressively long mural. Carolyn wondered if Haring had painted it according to a plan or if he had improvised little by little given how detailed it is.
Apart from the background music, I really loved Haring's sense of humor and his way of mocking the consumer society. I was also impressed to see how detailed his work could be. Finally, this quote from Keith Haring struck me as wonderfully true on art: "I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring together ideas."
I hope you enjoyed this little tour in Brooklyn! Now tell me, how did you spend your own weekend?
You can read Carolyn's great post about our afternoon right here on her blog Ma Vie en Franglais.


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The steady creep of sports bars across Vancouver
From my friend Jonathan, who posted this Google Maps screenshot along with the assessment "No comment."
It would please me to blame this sudden proliferation of sports bars on the damn Vancouver 2010 Olympics. However, though I'm sure the Olympics didn't help, the causes predate 2010. For starters we have the pricing out of non-corporate culture through the condo-ization of the city and related real estate speculation and astronomical commercial rents. Skyrocketing property values and rents have made it extremely difficult for restaurants to make a profit. Then there's the intensification of hockeymania through corporate PR and broadcasting. There's the aggressive expansion of generic restaurant chains taking over older venues which have trouble paying inflated rents and competing with said hockeymania. There's the whole culture of aspirational consumer aesthetics and the insecure anti-cultural swagger of what was historically a resource extraction town. Maybe too there's just laziness and lack of imagination in the restaurant industry. Not doing well? Put up a TV screen.
It's very difficult for any venue or event to compete with the juggernaut of hockey marketing and hype. Restaurant bars seeking for scant revenues in a town with a median income lower than Windsor—we are Canada's Detroit—will most often resort to profiting off that hockey fan market. Chronic lack of provincial/local contribution to the cultural realm doesn't help counter any of this, in a town still noticeably suspicious of ideas and remarkably incurious about its own history. PR is key for arts non-profit culture just as it is for hockey etc., and it costs money. Money that arts organizations and restaurants don't have because too much of their budget goes to rent.
Anyway, as a friend pointed out last week, if you're looking to hang with guys who look like metrosexuals but who talk like hockey fans at megaphone volume about "kicking ass," even when the game's not on, it looks like you have about 55 choices.
Another friend joked about the map above, "The map is not yet entirely obscured by red. There's still opportunity for growth in this sector."
I'm not even going to go into the design of these places; but look.
Finally, I think you will enjoy this. (This Party Just Took A Turn For The Douche, by Garfunkel and Oates)
What I'd love to see on Google maps for Vancouver is a visual guide of every restaurant that contains no TV screen. And if you could add in a filter to exclude any place with fluorescent lighting, you'd really be getting something useful.
Photo below from UBC Thunderbird story about Sin Bin Sports Bar, restyled as sports bar after nearby Olympic Village became ghost town post 2010. Look at that place.


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Letter to the Ediitor: Make your voice heard at Canyon Springs meeting
The town of Truckee will be releasing the Draft Environmental Impact report for the proposed Canyon Springs housing development next week. There will be a town meeting this Tuesday, December 18, at 6 p.m. at Town Hall to discuss how to review and respond to the environmental document.
I strongly encourage all citizens to attend this meeting and become involved with the review process. While many believe that Canyon Springs will only impact those who live and recreate in the Glenshire area, the possible impacts from a development of this scale could affect the entire character of this community.
A sprawling housing development of 200+ units on the eastern boundary of Truckee will set the stage for the future of this region. Our neighbor to the east, Nevada County, contains hundreds of acres of private land slated for housing and commercial development extending from Martis Peak Road to Hirschdale.
Increased traffic along Glenshire Drive will impact Olympic Heights and the already congested intersection of Glenshire Drive and Donner Pass Road. Many of us were not around during the town's incorporation, the last time this land was discussed for appropriate zoning.
If we, the citizens of Truckee, feel that the proposed development is at odds with the community character we hold dear to our hearts, we must advocate for a proposal that better suits our vision. Please join me next Tuesday at Town Hall.
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It's understandable that advocates for California schools have filed a ballot initiative to impose an oil severance tax to fund education. Schools have taken years of budget hits. And California is the only oil-producing state without a tax.
But early signs are that the proponents are repeating a big previous mistake made by sponsors of a ballot initiative imposing a state lottery more than 25 yeras ago. in 1984, voters were asked to enact the lottery to provide school funding. They did, and to this day, Californians tell pollsters and focus group leaders that they shouldn't have to pay more taxes for schools. They took care of that with lottery.
Here's the problem: The lottery produces a little more than $1 billion a year -- or about 2 percent of state spending on K-14 schools. Since the lottery passed, California school funding -- compared to that in other states -- has dropped precipitously. It's possible that the lottery made it harder to convince voters to give more to education, not less.
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This new oil tax would produce $3.6 billion a year -- but that money would be divided between K-14 and the state university systems. Public schools might get 7 percent of their budgets -- good but not a panacea.
But if history serves, voters -- if they were to approve such a tax -- might come to believe they had done more for schools than they really had. Which is why this method of school financing may produce little net gain for schools.


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The guys over at Panic Inc. have been teasing their new iPad app on their blog and Twitter all week, and today the app known as Status Board hits the App Store.
Panic was kind enough to allow us a preview of its app, and needless to say, we liked what we found.
The Oregon-based software company is largely known for their OS X FTP client Transmit, but entered the iOS space in April 2011 with the launch of Prompt, their SSH client for iPhone and iPad, followed by their affectionately named web editor Diet Coda this past May. This marks the third year in a row that Panic has released an entirely new app on the iOS platform.
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Known widely as the Garden City for its 150 public gardens and parks, Toowoomba's buildings and gardens have been restored and visitors are returning after the flood of January 2011.
It's hard to think of the Darling Downs city of Toowoomba in Queensland's south-east without remembering the deadly and devastating flood of 10 January 2011.
On that day a wall of water rushed through the city's CBD, taking life and property with it.
Nearly two years on, however, there is little evidence of that terrible day - apart from a modest memorial and some flowers fixed to a post near a creek which carried the torrent.
There's much to enjoy in a city which pays homage in its buildings to a rich cultural, spiritual, legal, educational and agricultural history, starting in the 1840s. Grand CBD buildings, like the old sandstone Courthouse which is now a private home, and the splendid art deco Empire Theatre, are typical.
The original theatre was opened in 1911 as a silent movie house but in 1932 a fire all but destroyed it. Although rebuilt the next year, the theatre later fell into neglect.
The city was divided over whether or not to scrap the building. But the preservationists won out and the Empire was restored in the 1990s and re-opened. It is now the largest regional theatre in Australia.
(Do take a self-guided walking tour of the CBD to see the Empire Theatre, old Courthouse and other splendid early 20th century buildings.)
In the residential streets, lined with camphor laurel and Norfolk pine trees, are fabulous homes from the same era, some reborn for other uses, like restaurants, art galleries and antique shops. By contrast, elsewhere you'll find humble workers' cottages.
The heritage-listed railway station is a good place for a high tea. In the elegant ambience of a yesteryear railway refreshment room you'll be served on the old refreshment room crockery.
Art is big on the Darling Downs and there are plenty of galleries to explore. One of the first to open was the Tosari Gallery in Margaret Street, Toowoomba. Director Rosie O'Sullivan is a passionate supporter of local talent. The gallery also features excellent indigenous art from around Australia.
Truck driver Jim Deignan has a small studio hidden away in Tin Mine Road, Crows Nest. The grandson of a bullock driver and son of a bushman, Jim grew up in mulga country with red dirt on his boots. Working in watercolour and oils he captures the spirit of a simple country life in his landscapes.
While you are in Crows Nest visit the Community Arts and Crafts Centre where a collective of local artists, working in a variety of mediums, show their work.
One of the more interesting art forms is in the Crows Nest home of Elissa Bellert. She creates sculptures out of low-status objects - kitchen utensils, steamers, hub caps, old cogs and saucepan lids. Her electrician father would bring home odd objects from his work and they sparked a creative urge in Elissa.
Speaking of kitchen utensils, in Toowoomba's Station Street, Sharyn Donaldson, the wife of a local doctor, has created a wonderful cooking school and retail kitchenware outlet called Sauce. She has transformed a 101-year-old produce store which once supplied a local brewery. It's now just a year old but is already very popular for cooking classes.
"We will continue to build Sauce as a centre for excellence in hospitality,'' Donaldson says.
"We are also passionate about working with local food producers and joining forces with them to create menus which are interesting, delicious and achievable for the home cook.''
Our visit coincides with an Italian cheese demonstration. We learn how to make mascarpone and mozzarella cheeses. Later we could attend a workshop on making and serving Spanish tapas. (The serving of tapas with drinks is designed to promote the appetite - and conversation, we're told.)
Speaking of gourmet food, we drop in on Alex Weston at Veraison, a modern Australian restaurant and one of Toowoomba's finest - certainly one of its most popular. It has earned chef's hats from both the Australian and Queensland good food guides. With a seasonally changing menu that will more often than not include organic, locally produced ingredients, the food here is innovative and evolves often enough to keep locals interested - very interested, indeed, with most nights seeing a full restaurant of happy diners.
We are treated to a degustation special, a four-course fine-dining package with matching wines. We start with a beetroot soup flavoured with figs. Very tasty. Our entree is Banyard Farm Quail followed by tender Grass Fed Rib Fillet and finished with a dessert of Duck Egg Creme Brulee.
We continue our visit at the Cobb & Co Museum, one of the biggest and best tributes anywhere in Australia to the iconic coach service which for 70 years from 1854 criss-crossed Australia carrying passengers, mail and parcels. This museum is truly visitor-friendly - open the lid of a luggage box and Tommy the coach driver talks to you. And `Don't touch' signs are scarce.
Our guide shows us some of the 50 or so horse-drawn vehicles on display, giving us a detailed rundown on the carriages. Do you know where the expression `box seat' comes from? It was the prized, padded seat next to the driver. And the phrase `pulling your leg'? Well, on suburban coach services passengers inside had to signal the driver when they wanted the next stop by pulling a rope attached to the driver's leg.
We finish our visit to the museum in the Have A Go workshop where I work on some leathercrafting. I could also have spent time weaving. At other times resident artisans conduct workshops in blacksmithing, silversmithing, sculpture, glass art and leatherplaiting.
Picnic Point Lookout sits 710 metres above sea level and gives a panoramic view toward the coast. It's a good place for lunch and Kenny and Catherine Kristensen are fine hosts. Their Caesar salad is one of the best. Wattle and violets are the floral emblems of Toowoomba and Kenny introduced a wattle and violet ice cream sundae for visitors to this year's Carnival of Flowers. It is topped with wattleseed and caramel sauce. Very popular during the festival, Kenny has saved a taste for us.
Toowoomba is Australia's largest inland regional city with a population of 128,600. It is about 90 minutes by road (130kms) from Brisbane.
The Cobb & Co Museum is in Lindsay Street and is open daily. Family entry (two adults and four children) is $32; cobbandco.qm.qld.gov.au.
The Sauce Kitchen in Station Street; thesaucekitchen.com.au.
Veraison is at 205 Margaret Street, Toowoomba. A four-course meal, with wines, start at under $60.
City tours by coach are being developed. More information at stonestreetcoaches.com.au.
More information from the Southern Queensland Country Tourism at toowoombaholidays.com.au.


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The origins of what came to be known as the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources date as far back as 1823, when the state sponsored a geological survey. Later, state research activities were expanded to include forestry, and in 1891 these and other varied functions were combined in a single agency, the North Carolina Geological Survey. The name was changed to the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey in 1905, and between then and its replacement by the Department of Conservation and Development in 1925 the agency took on still more responsibilities. From the outset, the Department of Conservation and Development was one of the more important divisions of North Carolina state government, and membership on its board was a widely sought political plum.
In addition to geology, mineral resources, and forestry, the divisions of the Department of Conservation and Development included marine fisheries, coastal resources, water resources, tourism, advertising, and state parks. By the time it was replaced by the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development with adoption of the Executive Organization Act of 1971, the new department included 18 different agencies, boards, and commissions. Other name changes followed, and by 1998 the state's catchall agency was known as the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. In the early 2000s, the department worked to protect water quality, air quality, and public health through various programs designed to do everything from encouraging respect for the environment to assisting businesses, local governments, and the public with technical matters related to its divisions.
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North Carolina Department of Environment & Natural Resources website: http://ncdenr.gov
Archived webpages, NC Department of Environment & Natural Resources. 2010-present: http://wayback.archive-it.org/194/*/http://www.ncdenr.gov
Archived webpages, NC Department of Environment & Natural Resources. 2001-present: http://wayback.archive-it.org/194/*/http://www.enr.state.nc.us
Department of Environment and Natural Resources. "A Short History of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources." http://web.archive.org/web/20101120200124/http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/guest/history-of-denr.
North Carolina State Government Publications Collection: http://www.ncgovdocs.org/
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Facial recognition was one of the purported Windows 8 features to surface last summer in a batch of leaked docs. Now, the login API in the latest build of Windows 8 is making that rumor seem more likely.
Windows8Italia made the discovery, and Microsoft News thinks the feature could be used in a Kinect-like manner:
Their latest discovery is that the OS has a sensor API for detecting when humans are in front of it, suggesting that at the very least the device will accept camera input, and possible have face recognition like the Kinect has now.
Looks like logging into your computer just got that much easier. [Win8Italia via Microsoft News via SlashGear]


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The Way ForwardJune 13, 2003
Questioning the W3C's intentions, and coming up pleasantly surprised.
Come and theorize with me for a moment.
You've no doubt seen Owen Briggs' Design Rant. Keeping in mind that it was written in 2001, the concepts are more relevant today than ever.
The World Wide Web Consortium, he says, is taking the long view. Rather than duplicate past experiences like NASA's Viking mission, the data for which is no longer readable by machines, the W3C is planning for the future now. Each new spec coming out is considered in a historical context, as new features added extend existing capabilities, instead of replacing them. An evolving language, each baby step along the way has to set the stage for the giant leaps to come in future revisions. So as not to break stuff.
So what's up with XHTML 2.0? No more <img> tag? That little doozy alone wipes out almost every single page on the existing internet. XHTML–based browsers can "process new markup languages without being updated", oh sure, but that doesn't really do much for existing sites, now does it? It strikes me that in their quest for semantic purity, they're casting off the primary goal of future compatibility.
But then… then the sound of a flick of a switch as the light turns on.
They're doing this once so that it never has to be done again. The goal of XHTML is to transition people from HTML, a non–extensible (and if you'd like to argue this, I present the case of IE4 vs. NN4) subset of SGML to the prior–mentioned XML which, again, can "process new markup languages without being updated."
HTML will die. Today's internet is obsolete, and anyone still coding in HTML 4 is planning the obsolescence of their own code. The big picture says that if, and this is a big if, but if we can move to an XML–based internet, then revisions to markup languages, existing and new, don't require browser updates. Once we have user agents that fully support an eXtensible Markup Language, and the style sheets used to format it, then it doesn't matter anymore if we lose the <cite> tag, or if <img> gets dropped. We create our own damn subsets that include them, and everyone else can use our subsets without downloading a new agent! Wouldn't that have been convenient 5 years ago…
I'm late to the game. Or early, depending on where you're coming from. This is a big thing, and it's taken me a while to see it for what it is. If you approach recent announcements from the Consortium keeping this in mind, it all begins to mesh.
However. It's an ideal, and years and years down the road. Coding for today's web means you can't afford not to create sites that will be obsolete when the dream takes off. Browser and developer support for even the next transitional technologies like XHTML and the absolutely critical CSS is not nearly enough to start coding these future–friendly sites today.
As we've moved from presentational HTML to semantic XHTML separated from style, some have come along for the ride but most haven't. The next few phases are going to be even more difficult to get to, since at least today's transition is still very backwards–compatible. The big leap is going to be far tougher, since killing HTML for good simply cannot happen in today's climate, or tomorrow's, or any time in the next 5 or 10 years.
Will it ever happen? Hopefully. I'm excited about the prospect. I realize this is something to look forward to, and not something to even think about using in the near future. But they've giving us our training wheels in XHTML, and that's a good start.
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I think that some of the biggest challenges of today that's not being addressed is that art directors at ad agencies (and their clients) are still driving the creative process and designing huge numbers of corporate web sites… and these individuals are often not well-versed (or even speak the language) of web standards. Further these sites are then often created by a designer who is more versed in Quark XPress or InDesign than HTML and therefore muddles together a site in Dreamweaver or GoLive. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel when, in the future:
–When the advertising community becomes more fluent in the need for web standards
–When they are provided tools that automatically create ONLY standards-compliant web sites rather than WSIWYG editors that are very"loose" in their code (to put it mildly)
–When this generation grows old, retires, and is replaced by a younger, more web-savvy group of designers
Thanks for the column. It was a thought-provoking read.
Dave - Great post. Very good points.
Another point about HTML > XHTML > XML.
XHTML IS XML. So, just by taking that one (fairly easy) step you make a huge jump in the right direction. You might have implied that, but hey, I'll reiterate.
Tom - I hear you and feel your pain, although I will say, having been working on mainly table-less layouts of late, I find IE rather easy to code for once you learn the quirks. It does get easier as you keep working at it. Although I still have problems with setting height, can we get that fixed at some point? ;)
I cannot stress enough all of the added benefits of ditching old coding habits and moving forward with clean semantic XHTML styled with CSS. Even with the buggy browser implementation and occasional compromises that have to happen. It'll make life easier.
Just stumbled on your site today from a comment left on my site. I'd consider myself an above-average signer with very basic CSS knowledge. I'm slowly moving my entire website over to an entirely CSS-based implementation, but it's hard to move away from tables and the to-the-pixel layouts that I can achieve with them, yet can't with CSS thus far. I'm sure most of that is based upon my lack of knowledge as far as CSS goes, but some of it is due to the fact that IE blows.
As long as IE's CSS support remains limited and buggy (at best), people are going to have to continue to code in normal html with limited CSS if they want 98% percent of the internet population to see what you want them to see. Because "everyone" uses IE, the general computer user sees any errors with it as an error on the web designer's part, not with IE itself. I too look forward to the day when I can use CSS as it should be used, nix all my tables, and make XHTML code that is both compliant AND functional on an IE browser, but I don't think that day is coming any time soon.
Tom — please do check out the Zen Garden. It might surprise you.
I have checked out Zen Garden, and it amazes me. It actually was the first thing that I checked out when I got to your page. My problem with css and therefore xhtml though is that there are all these IE quirks all over the place. I don't use IE myself, I'm a Mac man that uses Safari and Camino, but I have to develope for it and I'm just not familiar enough with CSS and XHTML and their crappy implementation in IE to work around the display problems.
I don't know if I'm old school or what, but I still find myself sketching out on a piece of paper in class what I want my re-design to look like, more or less, and then I try to turn that into a digital projection of my image. I know that's not the best way to look at web design, but it is what works for me, and thus far I think it has worked pretty well. I guess I'm hoping for some sort of W3C stamp of approval on web browsers and other web-based programs, and I hope it seems important to the consumer, much like the Dolby logo on any DVD you may buy.
In conclusion, I hate IE and the tables that it has forced me to implement due to the fact that I have 16+ hours of class a week, 20 hours of work, lots of homework, social activities, and little time to figure out EXACTLY why IE blows. Good work on the site though, I love the layout, and love the beach layout of Zen even more.
In the eternal words of Mark Pilgrim:
"Standards are bullsh!t. XHTML is a crock. The W3C is irrelevant."
Personally, I don't think standards are bullsh!t or that the the W3C is irrelevant but XHTML *is* a crock. The timeframe we are talking about before XHTML can really take off enough that dropping HTML support could even be considered places it no earlier than sometime in the next decade. If we are still accessing the web primarily from desktop devices I am sure most would agree that there would be absolutely no reason to drop HTML support as the overhead is completely trivial. If we are increasingly accessing the web from handheld devices, in 10 years time, the overhead is still trivial thanks to Moore's law or whatever. Where exactly are the real-world benefits of XHTML?
Sure, if the Semantic Web ever takes off then having pages in a machine-readable format would be useful so that you could send your little SearchBot 9000 out on the web to retrieve the best deal on a weekend trip to the moon, but realistically the vast majority of companies are *not* interested in making their content more accessible. They *want* your eyeballs on their home page so that you can be assaulted by pop-up ads. Look at the the whole "deep-linking" issue that's sparked lawsuits over the last couple of years. Webloggers and Accessibility gurus aside, most companies have no interest in XHTML (in terms of its often cited benefits–easier maintenance aside). Tagsoup suits them just fine, in fact, tagsoup suits them better than XHTML because it helps ensure that humans are viewing their site instead of a bot–which they undoubtedly see as wasted bandwidth.
Having clean HTML 4.01 mark-up with CSS for presentation is the way to go IMHO.
Keith: "Although I still have problems with setting height, can we get that fixed at some point? ;)"
What exactly do you mean? Perhaps you already know, but just for educational purposes, you can set the height of div elements by setting the height of body and html to 100% as well. http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/css2tests/100percheight.html
and tom, making a storyboard of your site by paper and pencil is probably the best way of laying out a site, perhaps if you experiment more with relative settings and resizing your text/browser window you can convert this gained understanding better into your paper sketches.
Very nice piece, Dave. The possibilities presented by a full migration to XML are endless, and the notion that designers and developers need not be concerned with browser updates in the future is an exciting one.
The web designer/developer blogsphere is in a state of mourning at the moment. The passing of standalone IE/Win, and the loss of IE/Mac, has effectively frozen us in place for the next few years. But as the fabulous Zen Garden shows us, what can be achieved right now is pretty damn good.
What is needed, therefore, is a concerted effort to lobby Microsoft to provide the world with a browser component that will fully handle XML and CSS3 upon the release of its next operating system. MS seems to like XML. One would hope that this fact bodes well for the future.
Simon, I'd say Microsoft seems to like their version of XML, given the recent flap about forthcoming Office data formats.
I'm well aware of the current stasis of browsers, and what I think it means, keeping in mind the big picture, is that we're going to take that much longer to get there. As web developers/designers, we've enjoyed a relatively short product cycle to get to today's rather mature products. Compare and contrast to everyone else working on software today — they get stuck waiting for everyone to upgrade their OS, a far more onerous task than downloading a new browser.
But we're joining them now. The free ride is over. Development will continue, just at a pace more in tune with the development cycles of the rest of the industry. Everything will still continue forward, of that I have no doubt. But slower.
Sander, the solution you are talking about only works across the board in certain situations. The last time I had this issue (and this solution didn't help that particular problem) I was able to get it to work (using min-height and hacks) in all browsers with the exception of Safari (beta) and IE/Mac (now dead) so you'd think it wouldn't be that big a deal.
BUT - Safari is my browser of choice so I was motivated there, and a rather large group of the particular audience for this site uses IE/Mac and I imagine will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. After all, they aren't Web folks and have no clue that MS has abandoned it.
As far as IE/Win goes. If it's true that MS is going to pull IE into the OS and stop making (pushing) browser updates we are stuck with it. For a long time. I mean forget about the users trying to upgrade their OS. Even if MS puts out a new version of IE with the new version of Windows in 2005, we won't see many folks using that until well after that.
Many people don't upgrade their OS until they BUY A NEW COMPUTER. I still have WIN 98 on my PC here at home and when I left Boeing (which at one point had the largest Intranet in the world) in 2001 many groups were still running WIN 95.
I don't think we can expect the average user to switch browsers as long as IE works well for them, and why would they?
Oh well, like Simon says (bet he gets that all the time) as the Zen Garden shows us, what can be done right now is pretty darn good. It's just too bad – it could be so much better.
Why on earth is HTML support going to vanish? What possible reason is there for removing support for a widely-used standard in a product? You could very slightly decrease the size of the download, but what other advantages would there be?
There are always going to be pages on the Web written in HTML. There are pages now that will never be updated to XHTML, as they've been forgotten about. And also there are pages in archives. Support isn't going away.
The only products that might benefit from only-XHTML browsers are mobile devices with limit memory and processing power, but as far as I can see that's it.
Tom - Similarly, why would Mozilla drop MNG/JNG support if the component already exists, and works? Decisions get made for a variety of reasons. No one says HTML is going anywhere, but it's feasible that in 10 or 15 years from now, the added overhead of supporting legacy HTML pages will be dropped for the sake of a compact, quick rendering engine.
I wrote my comment thinking of Mozilla dropping support for that. MNG/JNG support has been hardly used (can you say that of HTML?), I think will still ship as part of the app suite, and I believe there's a campign trying to get it re-added.
I can't see the resonably slight overhead of having an SGML parser outweights the benefits of having one - namely, web pages keep working.
Breaking backwards-compatibility with older HTML standards is just as bad as not supporting new ones, really.
Ack. I thought that would happen. I wasn't comparing the loss of MNG with HTML in any way, I was more pointing out that these things happen when there are reasons; good or otherwise.
I don't know Tom, you're probably right. HTML support may be with us forever, in one capacity or another. But technology does evolve, and when all new sites are written in XML, a myriad of reasons will pop up why someone would want to release a non-legacy browser, most of which I doubt we can anticipate right now.
Basically, future-proofing involves XML. If you write valid HTML 4 today, it won't be hard to retro-fit your work in 1,2, or 5 years for XHTML Strict 1.0. But the longer the leave it, the more work you'll have to retro-fit. I'd rather make the leap today, futz around with XHTML, and hope that in a few years time I'll start seeing the payoff.
After developing a site with xml with xslt methods it is apparent that people who code browsers just don't get it. Will Shakespere said " The plays the thing". He was right. I developed AdventCode against Pheonix 0.5 and IE 6 the site was consistant. When I installed the new versions of Mozilla and Firebird I was shocked to find that because the site uses a 'xsl:for-each' method the Mozilla people have decidied to introduce a space similar to a 'br' into the rendering process without any ability to escape it. This type of programming puts behaviors into the XHTML mix. That folks is just scarry. First we need browser programmers from both camps to understand what their job is.
"Tagsoup suits them just fine, in fact, tagsoup suits them better than XHTML because it helps ensure that humans are viewing their site instead of a bot–which they undoubtedly see as wasted bandwidth."
I'm sure the tagsoup will come in handy when the browsers of pda's, disabled people or mobile devices try to view the page, which won't make any sense to them. On a world wide web, setting aside a few percent of the visitors means millions of people that won't understand your side.
I have fixed the issue at Adventcode I was having with XSLT and CSS in Mozilla. Mozilla is making CSS more explicit. A display: block; was used along with removing the br tags from the xslt transform. I have noticed other CSS selectors are now even more explicit. This is a bold stroke in defining content and style and the differences between them.


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In the Panchkhal Valley of Nepal, shadowed by the Himalaya Mountains, platoons of soldiers from 11 nations are being trained in peacekeeping tactics so that they can be ready to don the blue helmets of a UN peacekeeping mission.
This is not easy, because peacekeeping operations call for deep-seated changes in attitudes among soldiers who have been trained to use maximum force to defeat an enemy. In contrast, peacekeeping requires soldiers to apply only that force needed to separate adversaries and bring calm to a hostile situation.
Experienced peacekeepers have likened their work to police wading into a barroom brawl. First they separate the fighters, then stand watch to keep them apart, and finally seek to bring permanent calm to everyone affected.
For soldiers, this means learning and executing new rules of engagement, not an easy task when they have been trained to kill enemies. In a successful peacemaking and peacekeeping operation, there are no enemies and no one gets hurt.
Sergeant Major Gerald Cornell of the US Army, who has been training peacekeepers for five years, said: "Soldiers are often asked to do things for which we are not prepared. So we have to be flexible. We can do any mission we are given, but it is better if we are prepared for it."
The sergeant major, who is assigned to the US Pacific Command headquarters in Honolulu, Haiwaii, was speaking in a telephone call from the Panchkhal Valley.
"We train trainers" who then go home to train other soldiers in peacekeeping, he said, adding that restraint in the use of force was taught in every aspect of the course in Nepal.
The platoons of 30 to 35 soldiers being trained in the two-week exercise in the Panchkhal Valley came from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Paraguay and Rwanda. Instruction is in English, with each platoon having brought translators with them. Working with translators was among the learning points in peacekeeping, Cornell said.
Nepal, land of the famed Gurkha warriors, has had decades of blue helmet experience, while Mongolia, home of the 13th-century conqueror Genghis Khan, is relatively new to such operations. The same is true of Japan, long reluctant to be involved in military operations abroad after its devastating defeat in World War II.
The training centers hold field exercises in which civilians, played by Nepalese citizens, need to be protected. In the use of force, peacekeepers are trained to react, not to initiate, and apply only enough force to stop hostilities. In each drill, respect for basic human rights is emphasized.
Some drills are modifications of standard military tactics — guards in checkpoints examining documents, perhaps searching for weapons. Troops practice running convoys in which local customs are observed. Food and medicine are distributed fairly with troops preventing mobs from overrunning supply points.
This field exercise was preceded by a seminar on peacekeeping for officers from 10 nations in the Nepalese army headquarters in Kathmandu, the capital. Lieutenant General Netra Bahadur Thapa, chief of staff, said at the seminar: "UN peacekeepers are facing very complex challenges and are often required to implement intricate mandates."
In particular, "protection of civilians, [preventing] sex and gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, and human securities are all matters of grave concern for the UN," the general said.


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An argument over a parking space in Sydney's south-west turned violent when a female motorist allegedly slapped a man in the face then stabbed him in the leg with a pair of scissors, police say.
The 21-year-old has been charged with predatory driving and assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the confrontation in Lakemba on Sunday afternoon.
Inspector Ben Hooper, the duty officer at the Campsie local area command, said the woman and a 26-year-old man had argued over who had the right to a parking space on Haldon Street in Lakemba just before 2.30pm.
A short time later the man was driving south along Croydon Street, which runs parallel to Haldon Street, when his car was allegedly bumped from behind by a white Honda Civic.
The man told police that the vehicle belonged to the same woman with whom he had argued a short time earlier.
The man said he followed the Civic to take down its registration number, but witnesses told police the Civic turned around and blocked his car, and the woman got out of her vehicle.
Police allege the woman slapped the man through the open window of his car before assaulting him with a pair of scissors.
"She allegedly punched him a couple of times while holding a pair scissors, which caused some superficial cuts," Inspector Hooper said.
Paramedics treated the man at the scene, but he was not taken to hospital.
Inspector Hooper said tempers had flared earlier over who should have got a public car space along the street. It was not clear who eventually took the spot.
"Situations such as parking spaces should not be causes for violence at all. We just need to be patient with each other on the roads and show some courtesy," he said.
A short time after the stabbing, police went to a house in Kennedy Street in Lakemba and arrested a 21-year-old woman.
She was charged and granted conditional bail to appear in Burwood Local Court on September 16.
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My boyfriend loves carrots. He's probably part rabbit with how excited he gets when I present him with just a raw pealed carrot. One time I was at the store and I impulsively bought a huge bag of carrots. It was like 5 pounds. I have no idea what I was thinking. Even with how much my boyfriend loves carrots, there's no way that two people could eat that many carrots before they went bad.
Carrots started to get added to everything. Carrot sandwiches, carrot quesadillas, carrot anything. Most of it was not super and was more just a desperate attempt to get rid of all the carrots. This cinnamon carrot soup was another attempt to get rid of carrots, but it turned out to be so much better than expected. It was savory, a little spicy, and very carrot-y.
We still have some carrots left, and I think I know what we'll be doing with them (hint: it's making this amazing cinnamon carrot soup).
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp ginger, minced
- 4 cups vegetable stock
- 6-8 medium carrots, chopped
- 1/4 cup cream cheese
- Heat the olive oil to medium heat. Add in the onion and sauté until it just begins to brown. Add in the garlic, cinnamon, thyme, paprika, and ginger and cook for about 30 seconds. Any longer and the cinnamon will start to turn bitter.
- Add in the vegetable stock and the chopped carrots. cover and simmer for about 20 minutes until the carrots are very soft.
- Blend the soup until it is very smooth. Return to the pot and stir in the cream cheese. Ladel into bowls and serve immediately. Top with croutons if desired.


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Gates of Fire (1998)[edit]
- I have always found the spear to be a rather inelegant weapon
- Apollo p. 47
- You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
- Dienekes p. 60
- If you think this is funny, wait 'till you get into combat. You'll think that's hysterical!
- Polynikes p. 80
- There is something I must tell you. When Leonidas selected you for the Three Hundred, I went to him in private and argued strenuously against your inclusion. I thought you would not fight. [...] I was wrong.
- Polynikes p. 324
- I believe him, Dienekes. He's so fucking stupid, this is just the way he would skrew it up.
- Polynikes p. 371
- This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I have sworn before God to die before another man took this from my hand. He crossed to the ranks of Thespians, to a man, an obscure warrior among them. Into the fellow's grasp he placed the shield.
- Polynikes p. 405
- Why have I nominated you, lady, to bear up beneath this most terrible of trials, you and your sisters of the Three Hundred? Because you can.
- Leonides p. 427
- Do you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor.
- Orontes (Handing over Xeones' corpse to Athenian civilians) p. 430
Tides of War (2000)[edit]
- The Soldier is a farmer. He knows how to shape the earth. He is a carpenter; he erects ramparts and palisades. A miner, he digs trenches and tunnels; a mason, he chisels a road from a sheer face of stone. The Soldier is a physician who performs surgery without anesthetic, a priest who inters the dead without psalm. He is a philosopher who plumbs the mysteries of existence, a linguist who pronounces "pussy" in a dozen tongues. He is an architect and a demolition man, a fire brigadier and an incendiary. He is a beast who dwells in the dirt, a worm, owning a mouth and an anus and aught but appetite in between.
- Polemides, p. 79
- Among the ways the Spartans differ from other peoples is this. When an ally in distress applies to them for aid, they alone dispatch neither troops nor treasure but a solitary commander, a general. This officer alone, assuming charge of the beleagured forces, is sufficiant, they feel, to turn affairs about and produce victory. This as the world knows is what happened at Syracuse.
- Polemides, p. 162
- I approve of all you say, gentlemen. The fleet's needs are many and urgent. One, however, must take precedence. This item the men need before all, and we must get it for them without fail and without deferral. We must get the men a victory.
- Alcibades, p. 245
Last of the Amazons (2002)[edit]
- Both men were aware of the imperative held by all warrior races to serve honor before survival.
- Mother Bones (Narrator) p. 10
- At Athens and Athens alone, a new stamp of person was being born, neither baron nor yeoman, but a man of the city. A citizen.
- Father p. 87
- A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and the chiseled squint of the vetern.
- Damon p. 91
- Humankind is commanded to ascend from savagery. This is God's mandate, which cries out from the epicenter of our being: the imperative to mount from the base to the noble, from the savage to the civil, from beast to human.
- Theseus p. 119
- Straight to her face advanced the Athenian Lykos, and it must be said that it took no slender spirit for him to do so, such was the light of slaughter in the Amazon's eyes. "What do you call this, thou savage!" The prince gestured to the broth irrigating the walls and floors of the canyon. "Are these God's footsteps?" Is this the 'path of holiness' in which your race treads?" Theseus hastened forward, reining-in at his countryman's shoulder. "This is not war," Lykos bellowed to Antiope. "It is butchery!" Theseus sought to speak, as if to offer extenuation for the actions of the Amazons. Lykos cut him off with a curse. "You cannot defend the indefensible!"
- Lykos p. 153
- Bear your command with humility. Lead, do not condescend. Remember, these are great events and men will rise to them. Treat every man as a Soldier. He may surprise you and be one.
- Theseus p. 210
- It is a terrible thing to be a king, especially a great one, for one must serve ideals of the spirit at the price of lovers of flesh and blood. Who profits from a king's fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care?
- Damon p. 221
- The foe fell back. Our companies pushed through. For the time it takes to count to five hundred, I thought we might even conquer. For now the mulishness of the Athenian Soldier-farmer, the pigheaded refusal to yield which had at first been scorned by his betters-now this shone to the fore. By the gods, these clodkickers had learned how to fight! [...] They no longer fell apart at the apparition of cowardice among their comrades or themselves, but had come to understand that the same man may play the craven in the morning and the hero in the afternoon. Give them this: they were tough. Tougher than the Scyths and Getai, for all their savage valor, and tougher than the Amazons, despite their dash and dazzle.
- Damon p. 308
The War of Art (2002)[edit]
- Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
- p. 13
- To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
- p. 13
- The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
- p. 50
Killing Rommel (2008)[edit]
- Nothing relieves Irish despair. The Irishman's complaint lies not with his circumstance, which might be rendered brilliant by labour or luck, but with injustice of existence itself. Death! How could a benevolent Deity gift us with life, only to set such a cruel term upon it? Irish despair knows no remedy. Love fades; fame is fleeting. The only cures are booze and sentiment. That's why the Irish are such noble drunks and glorious poets. No one sings like the Irish or mourns like them. Why? Because they're angels imprisoned in vessels of flesh.
- Zachary Stein, p. 27
- One act I will never stand for is leaving our fellows behind. Bugger military protocol, or lofty notions of honour. I can't live with running out on a pal, and I won't let any of you do it either.
- Major Mike Mallory, p. 60
- I could be counted upon to perform the mission they had assigned me, or, if that was unworkable, to improvise and turn my men's exertions upon a secondary undertaking as good as or better than the first.
- Richmond Chapman, p. 175, the first criteria for an able commander
- I had become someone they could look to for leadership and direction, who would shield from meddling from above, and would ask no act of them that he wasn't prepared to perform himself. I provided for my men a framework within which they were freed to use their own qualities of courage, resourcefulness and tenacity.
- Richmond Chapman, p. 175, the second criteria for an able commander
- The Mammoth we attacked was not Rommel's after all. [...] Rommel himself, we'll learn later, was not in that camp and never had been. At the time of our raid, he was with the 15th Panzer Division, somewhere west of Kidney Ridge, in the thick of the fighting at El Alamein.
- Richmond Chapman, p. 177
- These are armed enemy, who have hastened to this site with one object only: to take the lives of my comanions and me. I must take theirs first. No truth could be plainer. Yet at the same time nothing can alter the fact that beneath the fascist insignia of their uniforms, these men are fathers, husbands, sons.
- Richmond Chapman, p. 204
- You English are loath to embrace the virtues of the warrior. Such an act embarrasses you. You prefer to see yourselves as civilians summoned reluctantly to arms, as-what is the word?-'amatuers.' But you are warriors, you English. You are, Chapman. Trust me, who has faced you in the field.
- Oberleutnant Ehrlich, wounded German POW, p. 237
The Profession (2011)[edit]
- The greatest commanders never issue orders. Rather, they compel by their own acts and virtue the emulation of those they command. The great champions throw leadership back on you. They make you answer: Who am I? What do I seek? What is the meaning of my existence in this life?
- Gent, p. 2
- I love a guy who knows how to bitch. Any moron can gripe about chow or rotations, but someone who can get exercised over architecture is my kind of dude.
- Gent, p. 202
- In the end the American dream boils down to what? I'm getting mine and to hell with you.
- General Salter, p. 306


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Oct. 8 Dusty Baker workout day interview
Q. Of all the starting rotations that you've had with your teams, is this one the deepest?
DUSTY BAKER: Well, it's one of 'em. You know, we probably other than our one big winner, Johnny Cueto, the rest of everybody was close in 13, 14 wins, something like that. This is probably one of the younger ones I have had since I've once I was in San Francisco I had some young guns over there with Shawn Estes and some of those guys. But, yeah, this is I don't know, my first year was pretty deep in San Francisco, I had that excellent bullpen over there with Beck and Jeff Brantley and Mike Jackson and Burba, we won 104 games with those guys. It's hard to really, after all there's years, to say which one is the deepest.
Q. Dusty, this team didn't play very well in September and you acknowledged that, certainly the way the series started it could having the other way. But this team seems to respond adversity and you have always said playoffs are a very different game. Because of the way this team played in the first two games, does it show that this team has matured from what you saw in 2010?
DUSTY BAKER: Well, I mean, you would hope so. You would hope a team would have matured in that period of time. I don't know what our record was, but I think it was over 500 during that month. Very few teams go the whole season playing 500 or better during that month, even though people say, well, it wasn't a very good month.
We didn't hit very well, but we pitched good and the name of the game is how you not how you hit or how you pitch but it's how you if you win the game and it doesn't really matter, you know, with this team how you win the game, whether it's 1 0 or 10 9, it still counts as a victory.
So this team really doesn't look at things like that. This is a resilient team, a very close team, and these guys find a way.
Q. How about coming home up two and now a home atmosphere tomorrow night?
DUSTY BAKER: Yeah, we haven't had very much time to enjoy home yet. It's been mostly sleeping, but it's going to be all my guys tonight to get a good night's sleep and stay hungry. You stay hungry and humble and you keep playing the way you've been playing. 2 0 doesn't mean anything unless you're up 3 0 which is what counts in this series. You get too far ahead I urge our guys every to look at each at bat each at bat and every inning to every inning.
Q. Phillips started off with a 2 run homer, and what kind of spark is he on and off the field and how hard is it to find that kind of energy?
DUSTY BAKER: It's hard to find that energy with talent. Sometimes you can find that energy but without talent it doesn't do any good.
He sparks us on the field, off the field, on defense, on offense, and he can do many things to beat you. Like the other night when he avoided that tag and that led to two runs, that goes unnoticed but we notice it. Going first to third, taking pitches or not striking out very much. Here is a guy that can do almost anything on the baseball field.
He's the only person that I have had probably other than that I had Barry Bonds that can bat anywhere in the lineup and feel comfortable doing that.
Q. You've been here for a few years. Have you seen a growth in him as a leader on this team?
DUSTY BAKER: I've seen a growth. When I first got here, the leaders of the team were Griffey and Dunn. When guys go elsewhere, then it allows sometimes guys to grow and allows them to grow into a leader. He's one of our leaders here. We have a lot of leaders here in different departments.
But the "B" is the "B." I've seen him grow big time since I've been here. When I first got here I was having to spank him once a month, do you know what I mean? Now it's probably once every three months.
Q. Have you spoken to Johnny today? Do you have an update?
DUSTY BAKER: No, I haven't spoken to Johnny. I spoke to my trainer. I was going to go see him when I get through talking here to decide what we're going to do, what his body allows us to do. We're going to do what's best for him. I just hope that's good for us, too.
Q. Each of your starters has a different personality or makeup or something. What stands out about Homer Bailey both to you in personality and make up and why did he blossom so much this year?
DUSTY BAKER: Number one, I think he blossomed because he has remained healthy for the first time in his career. You hope that a person blossoms and matures just through natural living and learning from your mistakes.
Our guys are different. I urge them to be different. You don't want everybody to be cloned to be the same on your team. That's not what life is all about. We have guys from different walks of life, different countries, different states, different one guy drives a truck, one guy drives a BMW and the other guy drives whatever.
I urge them to be themselves and I've said many times, his strength is also his weakness sometimes where he's a bit stubborn sometimes, but that's a good trait if you can direct it to the right direction.
Q. You got a nice ovation in San Francisco, a welcome back. Is this going to be a special thing for you to manage your first game here in a while and the reception you get tomorrow night?
DUSTY BAKER: I don't know. I don't think about it. I didn't think about getting a reception in San Francisco. I'm just doing my job. I don't really you don't really like jeers and boos, but you don't think about, you know, the cheers either, really. Like I said, I'm just doing my job. I just do the job the best I can at that point in time.
Q. Maybe a little bit on that same vein but in San Francisco, I read where you said that it was special or you felt like you were sort of appreciating things that maybe you had started to take for granted after being in the hospital. I'm wondering if winning in the playoffs counts for something to be appreciated even more and if this can continue for your team how special would that be for you, given that you watched it play without you?
DUSTY BAKER: Well, I mean, it would be very special. But I've been feeling that it's been a special year from the time we got to Spring Training. I told our guys this is a special year. As far as appreciating where we are and what's going on here, I've always had that appreciation.
You know, what I meant was more of an appreciation outside of the game and outside of baseball. I meant my family, just a lot of stuff. Like when you watch the geese fly over. That's why I got my huntin' stuff on now. I see them coming off that river now; I notice every time they come off the river. That kind of stuff. Or the half moon the other night. A lot of times you just take for granted it's a full moon or half moon. Now all of the sudden you start seeing the moon.
I also think about my father a lot that would have been out in San Francisco at every game. These things I think about as far as playing for, as far as winning for some of the people that are responsible for me being here.
Q. Kind of in keeping with that, Johnny Rockets has taken the double bacon off the Double Dusty Baker over here, and they smothered it with couscous now. Do you think some of the fateful components of what has unfolded at the end of September, your issues, Ryan Ludwick needing time off, he comes back, he's fresh and diving and lunging out in left field, he's hitting. Do you believe the planets are aligning and things are in order?
DUSTY BAKER: Yeah, I believe that. Bryan Price's father died early in the year. I was talking to Bryan about that the other day out in San Francisco and his dad would have been there, too. His dad died this summer. These are the things you think about. I had this one kid give me a sweatshirt that said "The Year of the 12." He gave it to me in Spring Training. I believe in that. It's only going to be I'm only going to see one number 12 while I'm living. It's a special year. I just feel that it's our year.
Q. I wanted to ask you about Ryan Hanigan and his place. How much has he been part of this pitching staff and this team as a whole?
DUSTY BAKER: That's a great question. You're only as good as your receiver. I know the pitcher gets a lot of the credit, when he throws a good game but you got to have somebody back there which is very, very important and it's putting down the right fingers and that you have confidence in what he's calling. That is big!
You know, the good teams I've been on, you're only as strong as you are up the middle, that's your backbone, your pitching, second baseman, shortstop, center fielder and your catcher. He is my field general on the field, and it's a great feeling when you trust that field general to carry out what you expect to be done.
Q. You alluded to the fact that you guys weren't hitting well in September. How much of a concern was that going into the postseason or do you look at it as a general up and down cycle of the season?
DUSTY BAKER: Yeah, I mean, you don't know what's going to happen. Everybody wants to get concerned, but there isn't a whole lot you can do with this concern. Sometimes it's not happening but you have to be doing something on one phase of your game which was pitchin', you know what I mean?
Our pitching was carrying us for a while. There was a time our hitting was carrying us for a while and I'm hoping now that during this course of the playoffs, both of them can carry us, you can be strong on both ends. That's the epitome of having a great time.
But it starts with pitchin', you know what I mean? It's sure nice to see us score some runs. That was the first that might have been the first kind of kick back game I've had in about three months, maybe. You know what I mean?
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Daytime highs are expected to be mostly in the upper 70s and 80s at the beaches and between 90 and 104 degrees across interior sections of the coastal plain, in the lower mountain elevations and in the Antelope Valley, officials said in a statement. Some valley areas could see temperatures as high as 108 degrees.
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Among those receiving awards for outstanding performance were Mitch Parker, owner, Frontier Town Campground, Berlin, Md., winner of the large park category in the 2012 Best of Summer promotion; and Vern Mangels, Anaheim Resort RV Park, Anaheim, Calif., winner of the medium size park category. Both recipients were on hand to accept their rewards.
The Best of Summer promotion kicked off the summer inviting consumers and guests to vote for their favorite RV park or campground. With thousands of votes received, these two parks were winners in their categories because of their outstanding service and commitment to excellence.
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