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|2009-07-28, 21:56
|Link #11044
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
The Chaos ( young girl and the sky one) 8,7/10 I am not sure if you did use this one before.
Ayu-smepai 8,7/10 interesting
Hs Vi Germania 8,6/10look good if it was not of the quality issue
Simple1 ( posted one) Not sire that that could be considered as a signature
|2009-07-29, 04:30
|Link #11045
Please call me "senpai":)
Quality? Hm.. Reduced it a bit too much. That's really a problem. If I could still change it now.
SimpleM: The posted one is quite good.
Your real sig is a bit too simple. 8/10
|2009-07-29, 14:42
|Link #11047
Dreamer King
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: lost - with no intention to be found...
Age: 33
SimpleM: Posted 8.4/10 I like the transparency and an interesting image of Sabre. The background has fitting colours though just a bit random.
Current: 7.5/10 Nice image but a bit too simple/empty.
ganbaru: 7.2/10 I know thats the way you like your design, personally I have trouble reading the text.
Hs Vi Germania: 8.7/10 I like the colours and bg.
Katocchi: 8.5/10 I like the text/font and use blood spatter brushes.
EDIT: Also since people are having multiple sigs rated (via rotation or including in posts) Id like to know what people think of this one. It will never fit the AS restrictions but for other forums its perfectly fine for a signature.
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|2009-07-30, 04:11
|Link #11049
Please call me "senpai":)
Waking_Dreamer: Think what you want of me, but this is not a sig! It is interesting and the small single motives are good, but with the format you cannot call it a sig.
Real sig: Everything is horizontal. What a pity. 8/10
|2009-07-30, 09:26
|Link #11053
@fallschirmjager 9.1/10 Caption add lot of extra points XD
@Hs Vi Germania 8.9/10 Need to change a bit of font colour,even thought i basicly don't have problem viewing it.
@Waking_Dreamer @ posted Air Gear sig 8.9/10 font need a bit of work,overall it is good.
@Katocchi 8.8/10
@SimpleM @ posted Saber 8.8/10
|2009-07-30, 09:41
|Link #11054
Dreamer King
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: lost - with no intention to be found...
Age: 33
Rikimtasu: 8.4/10
fallschirmjager: 8.2/10
People can be so rigid...
If two lines of text can be considered a signature, I dont see how one image file would be considered one when another image file wouldnt...? Lmao, horizons need to be expanded I say...
Signature definition: On web forums, the rules are often less strict on how a signature block is formatted, as Web browsers typically are not operated within the same constraints as text interface applications. Users will typically use a "signature" text area in their given profile for input, which can then allow a user to turn off signatures. Depending on the board's capabilities, signatures may range from a simple line or two of text to an elaborately-constructed HTML piece. Images are often allowed as well, including dynamically updated images usually hosted remotely and modified by a server-side script.
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|2009-07-30, 18:17
|Link #11059
Graphic Designer
Hs Vi Germania: 9/10
CMHerrera: 8.7/10 I spy Kuran.
Edit: I forgot to say an introduction for my new sig
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For a while, he strode South Africa like a colossus. He was Julius Malema, the ruling African National Congress's Youth League leader, and if he didn't like you, he'd tell you to "jump."
But last month, the ANC suspended Mr. Malema from the party for undermining party leadership and for denouncing the Botswanan government of President Ian Khama, in conflict with ANC policies. And Malema had been taken to the ANC's disciplinary panel before. In May 2010, he was fined 10,000 South African rand (about $1,200) and forced to take anger-management classes after he criticized President Jacob Zuma. (Malema is currently still able to speak at ANC events until the ANC's internal appeal process ends, a fact of some horrified fascination for some South Africans, who thought that perhaps the suspension decision had closed the door on Malema.)
It is this very intemperance in public speaking that explains South Africa's fascination with this not-so-young youth leader – he is 30. How in the world, many South Africans wonder, did this young man make it into politics in the first place?
The short answer to that question is that Malema rose to prominence as the ANCYL's leader. Together with the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the ANCYL endorsed Jacob Zuma to replace President Thabo Mbeki as head of the ANC. Having installed Zuma in power, Malema then set his eyes on changing ANC policy on everything from the ownership of farmland to the nationalization of mines, and anyone who disagreed with him was likely to be branded a traitor, or worse.
In April 2010, Malema kicked out a BBC journalist, Jonah Fisher, from a press conference at the ANC's headquarters. After Malema had railed against rich, selfish people living in Johannesburg's posh Sandton neighborhood, Mr. Fisher had pointed out that Malema himself lived in Sandton. Malema expelled Fisher, calling him a "bloody agent."
That outburst prompted a number of satirical songs on South African radio stations, including one called "Revolutionary House."
In March of 2010, Malema faced charges for hate speech because of his penchant for singing the struggle-era song called, "Kill the Boer." Given that the murder of white farmers in South Africa appears to be on the rise, courts eventually agreed that a song encouraging people to kill boers, or farmers, was perhaps insensitive at best.
Malema continued to sing the song, but changed the lyrics slightly to "kiss the boer."
In October of this year, Malema got himself in trouble for using a racist term offensive to Indians while making the very reasonable statement that poor black kids in townships should have the same educational opportunities as the better-off children in Indian neighborhoods.
If Malema were Queen Elizabeth, he might have called 2011 his "annus horribilis." Or perhaps not.
Malema's antics have naturally been a boon for newspapers, catering to a white readership constantly on the lookout for threats to their survival, as well as to black middle-class readers who frankly expect their country's political leaders to behave themselves better. But Malema has also been a boon to comedians like Riaad Moosa and Trevor Noah, who has refined his impersonation of Malema to a fine art.
Yet while some political observers have been eager to pound a few nails into Malema's political coffin, saying the ANC leadership has essentially dismantled the youth leader's base of support and his access to money and power, it is important to remember that Malema wasn't a misfit on the street, mumbling to himself. At every rally, there was an enthusiastic audience of young people who had come to hear Malema speak.
When Malema talks of nationalization of mines, or the confiscation of white-owned farmlands, or the equitable education of black children, his words reverberate in a country where most major mining firms and other businesses remain in the hands of whites, where farmland remains in the hands of whites, and where rampant unemployment and illiteracy still affect black South Africans much more than other communities. Even comedians will admit that those underlying problems are not a joke. If Malema doesn't give voice to that sentiment, someone else eventually will.

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Chores and Duties...
Over the years, I've read at least a hundred thousand hints about housecleaning. Most were quickly forgotten, but here are three that I actually remember and use.
1. Carry a laundry basket as you clean. You can quickly gather all the items that are in the wrong room and throw them in the basket. Then make everyone get their stuff out of the basket and put it away. In an emergency, you can quickly gather a lot of clutter in the basket and shove it into a closet to deal with later.
2. When in doubt, throw it out. This is a rule for the refrigerator, but it applies to all sorts of clutter. You could "throw it out" at the Goodwill. It doesn't always have to be thrown into the trash.
3. Start at the outside and work toward the middle. This is a rule for cleaning a spill without spreading it, but it's a good principle for attacking a room also.
If anyone else has any tried and true rules or principles to apply to cleaning house and controlling clutter, I would enjoy reading them.
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Twenty years ago, the city of Chicago launched a mission never undertaken before by any major American community.
It dispatched teams of architectural experts to examine every last one of the city's buildings -- nearly half a million.
Their charge: To inventory all the architectural jewels, some well known, most unheralded, strung along 3,676 miles of streets, then color-code them according to their aesthetic and historical value.
The survey took 12 years and cost more than $1.2 million. In that time, the experts turned up thousands upon thousands of sparkling gems.
There was, for example, the ornate movie house that enlivened life along 47th Street near the old Chicago Stockyards; the neo-classical office building that rose majestically above the squatting storefronts of the West Side; and the Art Deco bank that graced Rogers Park with exquisitely crafted stone details, including a stylized figure of a man holding a sun.
Each of the three buildings was historically and architecturally significant, the city declared when it published the results of the survey in 1996. In time, the city said, the structures could be designated official Chicago landmarks and be protected forever from demolition or defacement.
Now they are gone.
And so are hundreds of others, a nine-month Tribune investigation has found.
Mayor Richard M. Daley and his administration have failed to back up the survey with the necessary protections, and in essence have encouraged the rampant demolition of buildings they purportedly had sought to preserve.
Hundreds of buildings have been smashed to bits, carted off to dumps, buried in the ground, the shards of their decoration destroyed or sold to salvagers who peddled them to art museums, restaurants and affluent homeowners.
A simple spot-check of some of the more than 17,000 buildings listed as significant by the survey, conducted by Tribune reporters driving and walking through randomly selected Chicago neighborhoods, identified more than 200 structures that have been destroyed -- often, as further investigation showed, with the knowledge and approval of the city.
The demolished structures -- Beaux-Arts commercial buildings, Chateauesque rowhouses, Georgian mansions, Queen Anne taverns, Romanesque churches, Spanish Baroque theaters -- stretched from Rogers Park on the north to Roseland on the south, from the Gold Coast on the east to Austin on the west.
There were enough to fill a small town.
The demolitions have punched gaping holes in the city's poor neighborhoods while radically altering the character of more affluent ones.
They have cost taxpayers millions of dollars. They have been carried out by companies that stock mayoral and aldermanic campaign chests. And, in many cases, they have been done without permits, violating the law.
The total number of razings is assuredly much larger than those found by the Tribune reporters' random sampling -- hundreds, perhaps thousands, more. But the actual number is unknown because city officials say that they cannot put together a digital list of demolitions that would enable the Tribune to determine how many potential landmarks have been destroyed.
The record of the demolished buildings contrasts starkly with the national acclaim Daley has received for saving such high-profile gems as the clifflike wall of Michigan Avenue buildings across from Grant Park.
It also indicates that a Daley-sponsored amendment to the city's building code, trumpeted as a means to save historic buildings and expected to be approved by the City Council on Thursday, will have far less impact than city officials suggest.
The measure would delay the issuance of a demolition permit for 6,200 buildings but would not provide that protection for thousands of others on the city's survey. Even the buildings that supposedly are safeguarded are likely to remain at risk because of loopholes in the law and because some buildings are razed illegally -- without city permits.
"We have what is tantamount to stealth demolition," said David Bahlman, president of the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, a statewide advocacy group. "You can protect 11 blocks on Michigan Avenue and everybody sees it and everybody knows about it. But you can go down to 79th Street and demolish a whole block of buildings and nobody knows about it."
Erosion of character
The demolitions are eliminating affordable housing at a time when it is in short supply in Chicago and are eroding the character of the city's once-distinct communities -- Bucktown, with its workers' cottages; Bronzeville, with its mansions; Wrigleyville, with its graystones; the Near West Side, with its rowhouses.
This housing stock, together with its commercial complement, gave Chicago its cherished reputation as a city of neighborhoods.
But now, that distinctiveness is being devastated by an unlikely combination of tear-down trends that are wreaking havoc nationwide -- one that is replacing small homes with massive new ones in wealthy suburbs such as Hinsdale and affluent neighborhoods such as Lake View, the other that is erasing dilapidated houses in places such as Detroit and Chicago's West Side, turning entire blocks into vast prairies.
"They're two different dynamics, but they're equally devastating to a neighborhood," said Adrian Scott Fine, a senior program officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who recently completed a study of tear-downs in more than 100 communities nationwide.
"It's the homogenization of urban America," added Royce Yeater, the director of the Trust's Chicago-based Midwest office. "All cities look alike."
Preservationists and other experts contend that the Daley administration is operating a two-track policy, saving high-profile buildings to polish downtown's image for tourists and conventioneers, but doing little to preserve the humble two-flats and the grand Queen Annes, the sacred churches and the bawdy taverns, that once were the stuff of everyday life.
"The Loop is the heart and the neighborhoods are the muscle. But we're letting the neighborhoods atrophy," said Jonathan Fine, president of Preservation Chicago, a fledging activist group. (He is no relation to Adrian Scott Fine of the National Trust.)
In Daley's defense . . .
Defending Daley's record, Alicia Mazur Berg, commissioner of the city's Planning and Development Department, gave Tribune reporters a list of 12 landmark buildings and districts approved in 2002.
All but four, however, were downtown or in gentrifying neighborhoods.
"You have to do a sort of triage," she said. "We can't be everywhere."
Nonetheless, Berg acknowledged that she was chagrined at the hundreds of lost buildings from the survey.
"We're talking about the basic community character of Chicago," she said. "There's always this tension between new development and preserving the old."
Other officials argued that the buildings torn down by the city were in danger of falling down or provided havens for gangs and drug dealers. "We don't demolish for the sake of demolition," said Buildings Department Commissioner John A. Roberson.
But Lydia Mohead lives in a once-decrepit Queen Anne rowhouse at 3920 S. Prairie Ave., which was listed on the historic buildings survey and was recently rehabbed by a private developer. Mohead, 32, credits the rehab for much more than putting a roof over her head.
"This building had been abandoned for a long time," she said. "Residents on both sides were battling rats because of it. When [the developer] came in and rehabbed the building, the battle was over. It was a functional property again."
This case, experts say, shows that many decrepit buildings can -- and should -- be saved, even if their destruction appears inevitable.
"Buildings that might to the inexperienced eye be beyond redemption are, in fact, quite often rehabbed at a reasonable cost," said Yeater of the National Trust.
Among other findings of the Tribune's investigation:


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Answer: Well you can always try Shawn Merrows Palladium Gamers Registry (through the links section). There is also a section in the message board for gamers to contact each other.
Answer: We no longer have the license for TMNT and sold what remaining stock we had.
Answer: Chaos Earth is being brought in a serialized format starting with Rifter #17. Once it has been serialized, it will be recompiled and released in a complete RPG format, and while there may be some changes from the serialized version, you will see Chaos Earth in the making.
Answer: You are making more out of it than you should. The artists like to do injokes throughout all out books, and if you look hard enough you will find them. From "Lobotomise Me" on a ley line walker in Rifts, to Darth Maul and "Coffin Cola" in Systems Failure.
Answer: Censorship depends on the material and its methods of transmission inside the cities. Outside broadcasts are hard to censor and could be jammed. AS to speaking other languages, they may speak other languages. I.E. In Quebec, they would speak French and English, in lone star Spanish may be used.
Answer: Music may be taught, and learned (read and rote)
Answer: The ruins there were made by survivors of Rifts Atlantis, after the dimensional accident that sunk Atlantis.
Answer: That is pure hypothetical, but the resulting devastation on the Earth would have a Mirror Like effect on the Nightlands. A similar effect would be like what happened when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were A-Bombed at the end of WW2 and the resulting devastation in the Nightlands.
Answer: As for the timeline for Phase World, since it is a separate dimension, there is no coloration between the time lines.
Answer: Wormwoodians are mega-damage beings in reference to SDC objects from other dimensions. Swords and fists will inflict standard damage within their own dimension.
Answer: A GM who wishes to have these factors affect the alignment change is free to do so for their individual campaign.
Answer: In some respects, the Skraypers races are as advanced as those of the Three Galaxies but in other aspects, they are still lagging behind (this includes areas of Contra-gravity technology, and FTL technology).
Answer: The Golden Age (just prior to the Coming of the Rifts) had technology at least equal to the highest technology present in current Rifts Earth. The Republic of Japan contains Pre-Rift/Golden age Cities that were rifted forward in time, with survivors from the Time before Rifts. The Technology there should be considered "Golden Age Level." More golden age technology and descriptions can be found in the Chaos Earth serialization that is appearing in the Rifter.
Answer: The CS has been surprisingly patient with Los Alamo about their Naruni connections. Although this is primarily because of Los Alamo's overall outlook regarding humankind, it is also because the CS is not ready to open up a war on a third front (they already have Tolkeen and Free Quebec to contend with). So, for now, Los Alamo has been keeping a low profile and the CS looks the other way. However, once Tolkeen and Quebec have been dealt with, the pressure will be on Los Alamo to toe the line or else.
Answer: Although not themselves humanoid, the Dragon Borgs aid and befriend humans and were humans. This is enough to put them on the Mechanoids hate list. That they somewhat resemble Mechanoids will make them a priority target if they ever encounter a Mechanoid.
Answer: The books have a evolving time line, each book is set in a slightly different period of time. In Juicer uprisings the gathering of heroes managed to defeat death and the other 4 horsemen. Of course in your game the 4 horseman might not have united or have succeeded in uniting (or partly). In this case, have Aramis working directly for the Armageddon creature.
Answer: The region right around the city does have the same ambiance as Wormwood and allows the symbiotes to work. However, such symbiotes that are away from the city either far enough (50 miles) or long enough (48 hours) will start to lose their powers.
Answer: The standard colors are a black or midnight blue color, and white
Answer: A Lot of different magic was purged during the millennium of purification, a lot of magic was seen as undesirable, and was removed from the records. Tattoo magic is a restrictive magic form, and can easily be used to inflict pain on Elves, cripple spellcasters (give them enough tattoos, so they cannot cast spells again etc. Tattoo magic was also a uncommon form of magic, with the only tattoo masters being Chiang-Ku dragons, and the True Atlanteans (they either fled the palladium world, or died).
Answer: The details given in the main book were rough details as mentioned by Erin Tarn. If you refer to the color map of the old American empire on p159, you can clearly make out the coastline, and referring to some maps, Baton Rouge would still be intact.
Answer: The edge of the world, and what lies beyond are mysteries to all. No one knows what is on the other side, and no one has every sailed around it. The world itself was torn about by devastating magic's, from the Time of a Thousand Magic's, and the Age of Chaos, and the battles with the Old Ones.
Answer: That is the known world. The rest of the planet has not been explored or is inaccessible, do to the dimensional barrier in the southern ocean.
Answer: They are both located in Silver City.
Answer: In some cases, such legends may appear in future Rifts supplements.
Answer: The information on Quebec can be found in the Free Quebec Worldbook. The other information on the Coalition States and Tolkeen can be found in the Siege on Tolkeen series.
Answer: There are no current plans for an atlas of Rifts Earth. Although this is something that we may consider at a later time, right now we have too many other projects that we are committed to doing first.
Answer: To see what happened to the Mafia, check out the Sicilian Republic on pages 40-42 of the Rifter #1. Also, Rifts: Black Market is in the planning stages.
Answer: (Bill Coffin) Not all of the big businesses are part of the Council of Industry, but those that are make it very difficult for you to become a big mover and shaker unless you join them. As a result, there are bound to be some powerful companies that are reluctant to enter Century Station because they don't want to put up with the Council's hogwash.
Answer: (Bill Coffin) I suppose they could be purchased legally (seeing as how common guns are through out the city), but you would still need special permits for them. (Having said this, I probably said elsewhere that they are flat-out illegal and am now contradicting myself...)
Answer: NORAD was destroyed by a super volcano, and remains lost. Numerous expeditions have been launched to find the place, but none have succeeded.
Answer: Females are accepted in the CS armed forces. The prejudices are against non humans, not sexism. For Gays in the CS military, there might be some prejudice, but they are still human, and not demonic monsters, so would probably be allowed to serve.
Answer: It never came up. However, you could easily create one there. It would probably be a underwater test center modeled on a space station or base concept. As such you could easily use the plans for Moon Base Copernicus from Return of the Masters for this underwater based operated by the Sea Squad.
Answer: Rifts Earth is the ancient home to the true Atlantean, but Atlantis the continent might exist in other dimensions.
Answer: There are many small towns and cities that do not allow M.D. armour and weapons inside the city proper.
Answer: It is located in South-western Poland, next to the Czechoslovakian border. The exact location is in not defined, allowing the GM to site it within that region wherever they want it. Only a select few known the location, and they are generally well protected.
Answer: They are in different dimensions (planes of reality). The only way for them to get home is to go through a Rift.
Answer: They would not accept them at all. No, matter how Human they look if they are not from Rifts Earth they are a D-Bee to the Coalition.
Answer: They have a moon with a similar cycle to earth's moon.
Answer: That was probably from the early years of the NGR (when there was little contact between North America and Europe). As for accepting D-Bees they accept most kinds, and even limited magic and psionics (they are not as prejudiced as the Coalition).
Answer: The CS is a collection of city states, and the population figures do not count hopeful citizens, those allied with the CS, or those living in the burbs. (counting all these the population is likely to be several times higher). The German population is over a big area, more stabilized, had a huge influx of refugees that were adopted into their population.
Answer: There are, they generally as small dirt strips though. Many post rifts aircraft are VTOL capable so do not require much space, or prepared facilities.
Answer: Mistakes can and do happen unfortunately, just ignore the references to the Juicer Uprisings in the letter, or shift the date of the writing to spring 105 (Mar-May) 4-5 months before Proseks Declaration of War.
Answer: It is meant to be a contemporary setting, or near future.
Answer: Exactly which versions he knows is ultimately up to the G.M. but with a lot of spells he would probably know both versions, and probably in different formats.
Answer: Vampires are seen as a greater threat, and one that can spread through human population centers.
Answer: To teleport in, you have to know exactly where to go, in public he does have body armor, and any magical activity would alert his body guards.
Answer: She probably prefers that title over Empress. Besides the Heir apparent is not called Prince Prosek. While Emperor Prosek is the Emperor, he has not taken royal trappings and titles for the political system.
Answer: The skelebots were there when the facility was being run by the CS Navy, when the Quebec forces took over they mothballed the skelebots.
Answer: It is up to the individual GM to decide which creatures have their own dream pool and to the extent of their permeability. It is reasonable though to allow dream pools for most beings that think, automations and constructs do not have a dream pool.
Answer: Because the dragons are intelligence spell casting creatures of magic who see being just a mount akin to being a slave under the direction of mere mortals. To most dragons the best place someone can ride them is in their stomach.
Answer: The Auto-G finally appears in the Siege on Tolkeen series (Book 3 - Sorcerers Revenge). The Auto-G is a master shape changer capable of changing at the genetic level.
Answer: The regeneration rate is correct as listed. Death is the leader of the four and the most powerful.
Answer: Loss of pay, privileges, rank, punishment details (Latrine duty etc).
Answer: It all depends on the individual location, but shapechangers are generally feared. They would have a hard time fitting in even in a place like New Lazo with no chance at all in the Coalition States.
Answer: It is up to the individual operator how he scales his prices based on need etc. A skilled operator would trade you his product at full price while taking yours at the reduced rate meaning that you are effectively paying more for the item you are after.
Answer: They do have scientific researchers. There are the RSCG Military Scientist (can be found in Coalition war Campaign), as well as Scholars and Scientists (from the main book dropping the Rogue in the title).
Answer: Well there is one, The God of the Undead. He is keeping a tight reign on the Fantasy world, and likes to kill vampires belonging to other intelligences (the other gods tolerate him).
Answer: The Code of honor is probably similar to the code of honor used by many of the armed forces around the world (Saluting a senior officer when wearing a hat, discipline and behavior (being polite, no disrespect, no fighting etc).
Answer: They are a separate entity, a lot of their technology is pre-rift Canadian and American, and as such bears a relationship with the technology employed by the CS.
Answer: Well some creatures ruin the ecology (Xiticix), while in other areas there are relatively few supernatural creatures, and less humans restoring some balance. Not only do you have MDC predators preying on the native inhabitants (plants and animals), a new balance has been achieved, with predators preying on those predators.
Answer: Pages 221-228 of Dragons & Gods (cat. #451) has the most comprehensive description to date of the cult of Dragonwright.
Answer: Skill, courage and leadership in the field will result in increases of rank. Most characters will become corporals and sergeants with relative ease. However, it is unlikely to attain a rank beyond Sergeant Major. The RDF ranks (from highest to lowest) are as follows: General, Lieutenant General, Major General, Brigadier General, Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Captain, 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Lieutenant, Sergeant Major, Master Sergeant, Sergeant 1st Class, Staff Sergeant, Sergeant, Corporal, Private 1st Class, Private.
Answer: The most complete description of Styphon is on pages 226-228 of the Palladium Book of Dragons & Gods (cat. #451).
Answer: There are many True Atlantean Clans out there, several of the clans have been mentioned in the books though. For other clans just make the names up as most likely a full list will never be made.
Answer: As far as we know, they are just very good friends. When asked about any past romantic involvement, Erin just smiles and walks off while Plato will insist (politely at first) that they change the subject.
Answer: Right before the Coming of the Rifts, the American Empire was one of the most powerful nations on Earth. As to what became of them after the Time of the Rifts, that will appear in Chaos Earth.
Answer: She was presumed killed during a terrorist attack by the Federation of magic. It was later found out that she was kidnapped, and was rescued and returned by Lord Coake.
Answer: It is up to you, there is no confirmation in any of the books, but you never know.
Answer: There is no "common" tongue in Palladium Fantasy, each region has its own language, plus the various races may have their own languages. The closes lingua franca would be Dragonese/Elven. Other tongues that may be understood include Gobblely (Goblin), Demongogian (by some monsters). Human languages from Earth are not understood by the inhabitants of the Palladium World, but mages and the nobility may have access to the tongues spell as a magical translator, and some experienced dimensional travelers may know some alien languages including Greek/Atlantean, English, Latin etc.
Answer: Apart from the Fantasy main book these are the other ones. Dragons and Gods, Old Ones, Library of Bletherad.
Answer: See the Rifter #15 for details.


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Bloc 31% (31%)
Libs 30% (35%)
Cons 17% (13%)
Still not a terrible result for the Liberals, tied with the Bloc, but relatively poor. This poll tends to confirm other findings, that have shown a marginal erosion in Liberal support over the past few months, now hovering around 30%.
A very good result for the NDP. Of all the parties, their % seems to have the most fluctuation, comparing poll to poll. Everyone else tends to be in the same ballpark, between pollsters, but the NDP tally goes anywhere from single digits to this high teen result. As a result, I still see this percentage has a touch high, but I'm sure my NDP friends would say this is the most reliable pollster, so...
A pretty good number for the Cons, relative to prior results. All the pollsters seem to show some slight evidence of a minor rebound for the Cons, still low but better than the dismal trend seen prior.
In the Quebec City region, it's quite competitive:
Bloc 30%
Libs 24%
Cons 23%


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Grant: As Young departs, it's Ian Kinsler's turn to show his mettle for Rangers
ARLINGTON — On Monday, Michael Young bid farewell to Texas and, in doing so, created a need for somebody in the Rangers' clubhouse to step into a bigger role.
On Tuesday, somebody did.
Even while downplaying the need to identify a new clubhouse leader, Ian Kinsler said all the things that needed to be said. He said the Rangers needed to play with more energy and emotion. He said the team needed to worry about playing as a team rather than identifying a leader. He said he would be willing to move to first base if asked to do so.
"I think the question of who will lead us now is overrated, honestly," Kinsler said before a Cowboy Santa Toy Drive event at Rangers Ballpark. "The goal is not to find out who is the leader. The goal is to win. The goal is to get back to the exciting kind of baseball we played from 2009-11. I'm going to do my part to provide whatever I can."
He can provide a lot. In many ways, Kinsler is the perfect successor to Young. He has the most consecutive big league service time with the Rangers in the clubhouse. More important, he belongs to the Rangers "Royal Bloodline," so to speak.
Young helped Kinsler break in in 2006 and though the two are vastly different in personalities, they have been close friends ever since. They've lockered next to each other for at least the last four years.
Before mentoring Kinsler, Young was mentored by Rusty Greer and before mentoring Young, Greer was mentored by Will Clark. Clark, like the new ballpark and new uniforms that he arrived with in 1994, gave the Rangers a tough-minded identity the organization never really had.
Like Clark, Kinsler is an emotional player. He also is probably the most talented member of that group of players. He has power equal to Clark, running ability better than Greer in his prime and defensive capabilities that surpass all three who came before him.
He also, however, has been the most inconsistent.
"There is no 'next in line,'" Kinsler said. "You have to perform on the field. You have to perform in the clubhouse."
In 2012, Kinsler had the lowest on-base percentage of his career (.326) and the lowest on-base-plus-slugging (.749), too. He tied his career high in errors (18) and led AL second baseman. He led the AL in times picked off base (six). And if umpires kept a statistic on times a player complained about a third strike, Kinsler would have probably led the majors in that, too.
When the offense shut down in September, Kinsler's .276 on-base percentage from the leadoff position was a major reason why.
"It wasn't up to my standards," Kinsler said of 2012. "I want to provide more energy for this team and I didn't. I'm an emotional player. I want to show more emotion. The team needs to show more emotion. That's what I'm good at providing. I'm going to prepare myself the best that I can to do that."
The first step in correcting the problem: admitting there is a problem. The second step: addressing it. And in Kinsler's case, there is a third unrelated step. He's likely to also have to learn a new position — first base — while reworking his game.
He acknowledged the Rangers have asked him some "what if" questions about the position this winter.
His take: "If they believe me playing first base will help make us a championship club, I'm all for it. I signed here to win a championship."
If the Rangers are looking for somebody to help take control of the team, Kinsler certainly lived up to the part Tuesday. Now, he's just got to take that to the clubhouse and the field.
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Atlanta 'Housewife' Lisa Wu Hartwell has decided to take her ex-husband, R&B singer Keith Sweat, to court in an attempt to gain custody of her 2 eldest kids.
"I've already been seeing them four or five times a week, but now the time has come when I want to have them with me full-time," Lisa, 38, tells Star. "I immediately filed for an appeal after the verdict, but I was never given a court date in five years. I've been afraid of the judicial system, but I'm finally taking the bull by the horns and trying to get my boys back again!"
Lisa continues, "If Keith has a hang-up about our sons being on TV, I would be fine with that. But Real Housewives is supposed to be a reality series, and the reality is that all the fans watching believe I only have one child," says Lisa, who appears on the series with her husband, Ed Hartwell, and their 2-year-old son, EJ. "Jordan and Justin understand what the show involves, and they'd love to do it. I adore all three of my sons — and I believe they all have a rightful place on the show."
A photo of Lisa with her 2 eldest sons below –
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May 3, 2010
FAIRFIELD, CT (May 3, 2010) – Tom Trgo of the men's lacrosse team has been named the Enterprise Rent-A-Car/Sacred Heart University Student-Athlete of the Week for the week ending May 2.
Trgo, a senior goalie from N. Merrick, NY, paced the Pioneers to an 8-6 win over St. John's on Campus Field, Saturday night, with 19 saves in the cage. The 19-save effort was his third highest of the season and sixth game eclipsing 15 saves in a game.
For the week, Trgo totaled 25 saves in two games. On Tuesday night, he stopped six shots in a 13-8 loss to rival Quinnipiac. He also collected five groundballs in the two games.
The Pioneers are 4-10 overall and wrap-up the 2010 season at Duke on Saturday May 9 at 2:00 pm.


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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
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This particular mission can be undertaken by visiting Tony at the Maisonette 9 club, located on Galveston Avenue, on the western edge of Algonquin. When you arrive, you'll watch a rather interesting (and all together inappropriate) scene, before you finally see Luis meet up with Tony. Seems that Tony has some powerful Russian mobsters at the club tonight, and he's going to play nice with them. These are guys that can make or break Tony, so free drinks is the least he can do. After schmoozing with the Russians for a few minutes, Luis and Tony then head on out to a car parked outside.
The first leg of this mission involves driving northward for just a moment, to the Bahama Mamas club, located on Lorimar Street. When you arrive, you'll see what a bustling club actually looks like, with a long line of patrons waiting to get in. Get out of the car and head on inside; none of the bouncers, or anyone else, will give you a hard time when you do. What you want to do is head to the dance floor, which is covered with people. The ridiculous, disco-like flashing lights should give away its location.
The game will eventually prompt you to meet a woman named Monique. She'll appear as a turquoise dot on your HUD. Approach her, and you'll be asked to start dancing with her. If you were paying attention early in the game, then you'll know full-well how to dance by now. It's simple, and you can even tell the game to give you instructions if you need them. The idea here is to dance successfully with Monique long enough that the circular dance meter in the lower left hand corner of the screen fills up entirely. This will impress Monique.
Monique is so impressed, in fact, that she'll whisk Luis into the back room of the club, and the two will begin to go at it with one another. Unfortunately for Luis, however, this doesn't last very long. Monique's boyfriend busts into the room and catches Luis and Monique in the act. And that's when everything falls apart. After beating Monique, this guy will pull a gun on Luis. Put him down quickly, and then work your way out of the club slowly, shooting the various bouncers that will pull guns on you. Don't advance too rapidly, or you'll get cut apart. Instead, coerce enemies out of their hiding spots by moving towards the front doors slowly. Once you're outside, you're home free. Simply dash away from the club as quickly as you can, and when you're far away enough, the game will tell you that the mission has ended in success.
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Final sign 'preventing 2nd Coming of Jesus'
New film makes major claim with apocalyptic significance
Millions of Christians worldwide are presently awaiting the return of Jesus to Earth to personally administer the kingdom of God, when all the maladies that have beset the human race will disappear.
Now, a brand-new film suggests there's one critical piece of information that has been overlooked by most believers and students of the Bible, a sign that "until it materializes and manifests, prevents the Second Coming of Christ."
That sign has to do with the true location of God's ancient temple in Jerusalem.
"Jerusalem and the Lost Temple of the Jews," just released on DVD, claims the site of the holiest place on Earth, is not where most people presume it stood, and is not where the Muslim Dome of the Rock presently sits on the Temple Mount in Israel's capital.
"It's not hard to understand why there's a corporate amnesia with the Jewish people concerning their histories," says Ken Klein, a former NFL player turned author and filmmaker, "because when the Romans came in in [A.D.] 70 and destroyed this city, they tore down the walls, they destroyed the temple, they destroyed the city. There was nothing left."
"The emperor Hadrian changed the name of Israel to Palestine, and he changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, and banished Jews from ever living in this land again. And for a thousand years, there was no Jewish presence in Israel or in Jerusalem.
"So it's not hard to understand why there's been a lapse of memory and why there were no record-keepers to remember where the walls were, where the city was, and most importantly, where the temple was."
Get the DVD that could change everything when it comes to your understanding of the Second Coming of Jesus.
Klein takes viewers on an in-depth probe of Jerusalem, beginning at the famous Western Wall, where countless numbers of people have placed written prayers, thinking the location is a remnant of the wall surrounding the courtyard of God's temple before Roman forces destroyed it in the first century.
"The question I'm about to ask is almost unthinkable. In fact, in some circles, it might even be considered blasphemy," Klein says. "And that question is: Is this really the site where the Jewish temple was?'"
He continued: "Is it remotely possible that the Jewish temple does not belong up on top where the Dome of the Rock defiantly sits? The crushing weight of Jewish tradition refuses to allow such an inflammatory and repugnant question. But a more critical question that trumps this colossal consensus is this: Would God Himself allow for His temple to be rebuilt where it does not belong?"
Many Christians expect a temple to be rebuilt before Jesus returns to Earth, as He spoke of "the abomination of desolation" standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15), which is thought to be the inner sanctuary of the temple.
"Jerusalem and the Lost Temple of the Jews" revisits the facts of history by delving into archaeological discoveries, Bible Scripture, historical writings and eyewitness accounts.
It examines New Testament statements from Jesus concerning the temple, statements that may or may not have been fulfilled when the Romans leveled Jerusalem some 40 years after Jesus was executed there.
"After all the archaeological digs that have taken place in Jerusalem, not even one has unearthed any remnant of any foundation of any building from the first century. It was gone. It became just as Jesus said it would become, not one stone left standing upon another.
"But there's a problem with the words of Jesus' prophecy, because there are many stones left in the walls … that date back to the time of Herod. They are still standing one upon another, in fact close to 10,000 of them. So, either Jesus in His prediction wasn't being precise in His facts, or there is something else we just do not or cannot understand."
Below are six promotional videos for Klein's video featuring a number of subjects:
"The Wrong Place"
"The Model"
"Compelling Arguments"
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Reviewed By Diane H (NEW ORLEANS, LA) Reviewed for a 2009 Kia Spectra —9/15/2015 4:53 PM
I've never used a car cover before and I wasn't sure it would be effective in protecting my car. I've used this cover for 2 months now and it has handled the intense New Orleans sun and frequent t-storms well. I have no complaints about this cover at this time.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Feb 2009 14:07 UTC
Late last week we ran a story on how the Google Chrome team had decided to use Gtk+ as the graphical toolkit for the Linux version of the Chrome web browser. It was a story that caused some serious debate on a variety of aspects, but in this short editorial, I want to focus on one aspect that came forward: the longing for consistency. Several people in the thread stated they were happy with Google's choice for purely selfish reasons: they use only Gtk+ applications on their GNOME desktops. Several people chimed in to say that Qt integrates nicely in a Gtk+ environment. While that may be true from a graphical point of view, that really isn't my problem with mixing toolkits. The issue goes a lot deeper than that.
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How about this? http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/principles-consisten...
While this document serves as the basis for consistency between GNOME applications, you are encouraged to look at and follow other application's conventions where this document provides no guidelines.
Most of the recommendations in the GNOME HI Guidelines are designed to help you create applications that are consistent with the GNOME environment and other GNOME applications.
So, when there is no explicit guidelines, the Consistency principle says you shall HIGify your application so that it is consistent with other GNOME applications
And how about this? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75420
It is a bug that was opened 6+ years ago because the reporter wanted the tab bar at other location than the top. Incidentally, it was shot down immediately by none other than Havoc Pennington, the one who would then bring the holy book of "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum" to the world of GNOME (http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.usability/2002-12/msg00167.html).
And finally, here's a cute one from Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TabConsistency
tabs should appear at the top of the application window
The GNOME guys are working on adding some guidelines to the tab usage, and Mark's document is being referenced by http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/TabImplementation...


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Magnet Cove FFA takes a swing at fighting hunger
Kristyn Sheets, the agricultural education and FFA teacher at Magnet Cove, is teaching more than farming and ranching. Sheets is teaching self-sufficiency and community service.
"Hunger doesn't take the summer off so neither are members from the Magnet Cove FFA Chapter," said Sheets.
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Hey, the Atlanta Hawks: What the hell?
This is a piece of "viral content" that the Atlanta Hawks posted on the team's YouTube page yesterday, and it represents everything that is awful about social media marketing. I can see the pitch meeting where this was created now, at which three people with a passion for "content" decided that Cheerleaders (Sex sells!) + Sharknado (Remember how that just blew up Twitter?!) + Memes (I like the "Ain't Nobody Got Time For That" lady!) = Maximum Social Reach.
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Adjusting to College
Freshmen beginning college usually have expectations about college life long before actually leaving home. Some students look forward to college and are eager to experience more freedom and adventure. Other individuals may be enthusiastic about college initially, but then discover that the actual experience falls short of their expectations. They don't feel happy, comfortable or secure in their new environment. In addition, there are some students who know that leaving home will be difficult and therefore dread the thought of packing and going to college. No matter what the expectations, nearly every student encounters challenging experiences or obstacles at the beginning of college that they didn't anticipate. Positive life changes produce stress, and certainly the changes involved in leaving home for college are demanding and can lead to varying emotions including sadness, loneliness and worry. These feelings are typical and part of the normal developmental transition to college.
Changes to Expect in the First Year of College
Increased personal freedom
Many students welcome the freedom to make their own decisions about what they want to do each day while in college. Others may find this level of freedom to be strangely unfamiliar or difficult. Freshmen who live on campus may maintain daily or frequent contact with family by way of phone or computer, but they make many more personal decisions and choices than they did in high school.
Increased responsibility
Along with an increase in personal freedom is greater responsibility for one's daily schedule. Freshmen must make choices about when and how to study, socialize with new acquaintances, become involved in activities, budget money, exercise, and make time to eat and sleep. They are faced with the challenge of learning how to balance going to class, participation in activities, completing schoolwork on time, taking basic care of oneself and have fun as well. Students are faced, often for the first time, with the need to take more initiative to address responsibilities (e.g. scheduling classes, buying personal items, making appointments to take care of health needs, asking professors and staff for assistance or help).
Managing time
Freshmen typically experience changing demands on their time. Days are less routine and predictable. Some freshmen feel they have virtually no time for themselves because of the time and energy needed to manage multiple obligations. College classes may seem difficult and draining and/or may involve more hours of studying. However, other students may find the academic workload manageable, but then feel they have too much free time that isn't relaxing or comfortable.
Different surroundings and relationships in college
Freshmen have to adjust to new surroundings and relate to unfamiliar people. Other students often seem very different from family, friends and acquaintances from home. Freshmen who live away from home typically have to learn to relate to and negotiate conflicts with new roommates. There may be the hope that one's roommate will be a close friend, and it can be disappointing when this kind of relationship does not develop. Freshmen also experience new expectations from adults at college. For example, professors typically do not call if a class is missed, but will likely grade for attendance. In college, there is usually less interaction between parents and the school, and students are faced with the need to work out problems or concerns directly with professors, Residence Life, etc.
Changing relationships with family and friends from home
As students experience more freedom and responsibility in college, relationships with parents and other significant people change. Freshmen, as well as their parents, may fear losing aspects of their relationship with each other. Frequent calls home from freshmen are common, especially during the first few months away at college. It may be very hard to say goodbye at the end of holiday or semester breaks. It may also be difficult to re-adjust to rules at home, such as curfews, chores or responsibilities for younger siblings. It is important to point out that parents also need to adjust during this period. They are dealing with their child becoming more independent in some ways, but still needing them too.
Many students leave high school boyfriends or girlfriends when they go to college. There may be disagreement about whether it is OK to make new friends or see other people. One or both partners may struggle with feeling lonely, sad or jealous, especially if the other partner seems to be happier and adjusting better.
Freshmen may also find that their relationships with friends from home are different after the time away at school. Some individuals feel closer and more appreciative of friends at home, and may stay very connected to them. Other students find they have less in common with friends from home after being away at school, or may be hurt by a friend becoming distant with them after high school.
"What do I do if I'm not happy at college?"
It is a common cliché that "the college years are supposed to be the best years of your life." If you are a freshman who is feeling upset and miserable, this can be a very confusing and scary expectation. It is important to remember that it is normal to feel sad and scared during the first several weeks of college. You are in a new, demanding environment and everything is different. You may feel like you are expected to "grow up" all at once, and this may feel depressing or even overwhelming. You may feel far away from the people who usually are there to love and support you. Or perhaps you are a student who does not feel "homesick" per se, but feels disappointed in the people you are meeting or the lack of reciprocity by others in initiating activities or friendships. If you are a freshman who is distressed, you may see other students seeming happy and optimistic. But it may surprise you to hear that lots of other freshmen are scared and sad, even if they don't obviously show it or admit it.
If you are struggling with the transition to college, there are some things you can do to help yourself make the adjustment:
- Reach out to others in your dorm. You are likely to find that you are not the only one who is sad and upset. Your RA is a good resource to talk to and to help you figure out how to cope. Upperclassmen may also be eager to share with you experiences of their own difficulty adjusting to college life during their freshman year.
- Join campus organizations and clubs that appeal to you. These activities do not have to be a perfect match for you, but can still help you to meet and interact with others who share similar interests and/or may also be looking to meet friends outside the dorm environment.
- Make an extra effort to take care of yourself, including making time to rest, eat balanced meals, exercise and avoid abuse of alcohol or other drugs. Try to develop a manageable schedule, including identifying your optimal place and time in the day to study.
- Adjust your expectations if things are not working out as you planned. For example, your roommate might not be your best friend. You may need to initiate conversations about conflict over personal space and living habits. Try to give yourself some time to adjust. Recognize that relationships take time to develop (e.g. most students' friendships from home formed over a period of years), and that your surroundings will become more familiar over time.
- Seek out resources on campus that can help you address problems and get support, both academically and personally. These varied resources include your advisor, professors, the Counseling Center, Residence Life staff, the Chaplain's office, Health Services, Career Services and the Dean of Students office. Each of these resources will also assist in connecting you with other helpful resources on campus.
The Student Counseling Center
If you are having difficulty "settling in" here at Wesleyan or have any questions regarding the information contained in this section, please don't hesitate to contact one of the counselors. The Student Counseling Center offers a wide range of information on these types of problems and provides caring, confidential help from professionals experienced in helping students deal with those same problems.
Bill Brown can be reached at 455-5730 and Crista Gambrelli can be reached at 455-3131
Please note: Ideas and information in this section were adapted from the Villanova University website.


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You are looking at the friendliest, happiest and most faithful of puppies. It comes to greet you as soon as your eyes see it, radiates its joy, wags its tail, jumps in circles, and begs to be played with.
Showboat is a very unique bragger of a font. Its bouncy metrics and whimsical shapes are a sure formula for attention. People will soak it in and feel happy while they do. How can anyone greet such happy letters with anything other than a smile? No matter how many fonts your design box has, you can be sure that none of them is this radiant, lively or cute.
This happy camper comes in four fonts: two weights and a large number of corresponding ligatures and alternates.
Showboat can be used in a vast number of design applications; flyers and webs for parties, pre-teen and teen events, scrapbooking, candy branding, posters, children's publications and web sites, pet stores and products, toys, and many many other things.
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Platypus Classic Mono 20lb 300m
Platypus monofilament is manufactured especially for Australasian conditions. It has a hard outer surface annealing that not only offers superior abrasion resistance but also protects the line from harmful UV rays, reducing the chance of fatigue and inevitable breakdown. Platypus monofilament with its soft and limp inner core and high knot strength is ideal for all reels, waters and fishing from offshore to casting in both fresh and saltwater. The low visibility green colour is a natural choice for New Zealand fishing conditions.
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Make your recliner less cumbersome by removing the back when you are moving in or out of your home. Locking brackets safely join recliner and back, ensuring your chair will be stable when you use it.
Get any style of recliner, from plush and cozy to sophisticated and traditional, for a low price tag when buying from this manufacturer.
Relax with the spacious comfort of this zero wall wide recliner. You will enjoy all the benefits of its 100% top-grain leather in the seating areas with skillfully matched vinyl everywhere else. With this wall recliner only three inches from the wall is required to recline.Length fully reclined: 71"Space required between recliner and wall: 3"
The Damacio - Dark Brown Leather Match Zero Wall Wide Seat Recliner by Signature Design by Ashley at Michael's Furniture Warehouse in the San Fernando & Los Angeles area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
The Damacio leather match upholstery collection provides luxuriously comfortable seating for your home's living room. The casual contemporary styling features plush pillow arms, divided bustle backs, and beautifully stitched details that complement the oversized seating. Settle in to watch movies or just hang out with family and friends with your choice of sofa, sectional, or recliner.
The Damacio - Dark Brown collection is a great option if you are looking for Contemporary furniture in the San Fernando & Los Angeles area.
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GeoClue - geographic information service.
GeoClue is a D-Bus API and library that provides all kinds of geographic information to applications. The information may originally come in various forms from many sources (backends), but GeoClue offers it to applications in a simple, abstracted form.
GeoClue is Free Software. It is developed for Linux, but should be portable to any platform that uses the D-Bus messaging bus.
The following APIs (and backend types) are supported or planned:
- Positioning
- Routing
- Geocoding
- Map
- Track Logs Some reference backends are included, but creating your own is encouraged.
There is a lot of ideas you can implement with this service. For example we could automatically set a weather forecast program to show the weather of your current location.
Getting the code
The code is licensed under the GNU LGPL and is available in freedesktop.org Git repository. You can browse through gitweb or clone the repository:
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/geoclueGeoClue is still in early stages of development, so be prepared for hickups. For help with Git, see Usage notes here on freedesktop.org and documentation on Git homepage.
Iain Holmes and Jussi Kukkonen are working on a rewrite at http://folks.o-hand.com/jku/git/geoclue.git/ -- we believe a fairly total API change is needed to make geoclue really work as intended. We're hoping this will be the "main branch" soon.
Contacting the developers
The mailing list is a good place for questions and comments. If you've found a bug or have a feature request, file a bug in our bugzilla. You are also welcome to join the ad-hoc irc channel #geoclue on GimpNet (irc.gimp.org). If you are behind a restrictive firewall, try IRC@Work.
GeoClue for Application Writers -- D-Bus service or C library
There are two methods to accessing this service. You can use the raw D-Bus API through any prospective bindings or you can use the utility C wrapper provided with the package.
The idea is to have several different backends. A GPS is naturally the most accurate source, but it does not work well indoors, and a device might not always be available. Yet, even without a GPS, a bit less accurate position is easily available using other methods, and this information will in most cases be just as useful. Also sometimes you might not want to expose your exact coordinates ("send nukes here"-problem) - thus the API will have ways to serve different types of location data.
Also since there are several web services to provide you with street address -> coordinate (and backwards) coding, this will be one useful service GeoClue will make accessible through itself. A street address or a "plaze" name (see below for plazes) might be more useful to show to your IM buddies for example, since it is more human readable than a lat,lon coordinate pair. Yet for mapping uses etc, it should be good that both are always made available, plus some way to determine the accuracy of the data. Sure, "Boston" is located in W+71°+3'+37"&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=42.358211,-71.060278&spn=0.006961,0.021415&om=1&iwloc=A N 42° 21' 29" W 71° 3' 37" but the area is a lot larger than the actual coordinate reference point, which points to a street corner between Tremont and Beacon Street.
- gpsd - to talk to real gps devices.
- plazes.com - a website that tracks your location based on the network topology, wifi hotspots etc. It has a XMLRPC API. Requires login, lets users tag "places" with names also. "MIT Media Lab" instead of "20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02142".
- hostip.info - a similar thing to plazes, but requires no login, and returns a city based on your IP. In many cases accurate enough for most non-mapping uses like timezone etc.
- Manual - user sets position by hand, using a panel applet or something similar. A fallback when there is no other method, or if the other methods fail to provide correct information. Online Geocoding services can be used to convert street and city names etc to location.
- A flight tracker to find your position if you set your location to "Lufthansa 421" for example ;-) (only half-joking, for example Aeroseek gives you also a google earth (KML) file for the flight's location and route..)
Work that needs to be done
short TODO items:
- Change org.foinse.project references to org.geoclue?
- Old FSF adresses in the source files
- is backend/geocluemaster_ deprecated? should remove it if it is...
- remove references to Geomap (an old project name?) in comments and messages
- review backends for copy-paste errors (in code, strings and comments)
- remove dependency on gpsd
Developer docs
Document the D-Bus interfaces -- both provider and application API.
gnome applet
- http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/appletstutorial.html Make a small applet that can pop up an info box when a location is first reported. "You are in Olathe, KS". When left clicked on brings up a 320x240 image (can just be a static image for now I will add map to it.) with an entry below it that you can type in an address along with a search button. When you left click the applet it would bring up a menu with a properties box. This box would allow you to set preference for what service to use. basically a drop down for "Manual entry", "www.hostip.info", "Gps device" There can be five of these for position, mapping, geocoding, tracking, routing.
Something like this could pop up from the notification system once GeoClue finds we are in a significantly new place. How and when this happens needs to be determined somehow. Perhaps like, when moving to a new city or switching networks etc. We shouldnt pop these up repeatedly while moving around with GPS location though, that'd be annoying.
.-------------------------------------. | [x]| | *New Location* | | | | Helsinki, FINLAND | | | | Is this wrong? [ Correct it! ] | <- gives a correction dialog | | | [ ] Stop tracking my location | | automatically. | | | `-------------------------------------' Correction dialog: .-( Set Location )-------------------------------(x)-. | | | Address: [ 20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA ] [ Look up ] | | | |.--------------------------------------------------.| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || m a p w i d g e t || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || |`--------------------------------------------------'| | | | [ Set Location ] | | | `----------------------------------------------------'
Already Implemented
- maps yahoo
- position manual
- position hostip.info
geocode yahoo Needs
maps static image (big world image or svg of world)
- position plazes.com
- track turtle
- routing ?
- position GPSD
Application ideas
- Applications like Evolution could set their timezone automatically
- Contacts and Instant Messaging could extend the idea of presence to also include the concept of geographic location. "Bob is in Singapore, and it's 4am there, so you should not call him right now". see loopt, for example: https://loopt.com/loopt/tour.web2.1
- Blogging software could query the location and add "geotags" to the post metadata.
- Groupware and collaboration tools could track project participants to see which technician is closest to a client with a support ticket
- Applications like Turtle could store track log of movement, and could then mesh it with timestamps of documents, photographs etc, to define where they were created and possibly make a map-based timeline/track of events, thus...
- ...Using position as metadata for content ("where is the document I wrote at Tigert's place?")
- Using position for desktop settings (timezone, printers, SMTP servers, whatever). Marco Polo looks like a good implementation on OS X.
- Finding WiFi networks based on position ("I'm in Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki, where are the nearest free WiFis?")
- interacting with/supporting the minimo's geolocation standard: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dougt/archives/016719.html
- It would be nice to for example add and use del.icio.us bookmarks with geo-tags, or placeopedia.com etc, to pull a feed for "stuff near me"
- Many sites publish google earth KML files like RSS. This is for example current earthquakes, overlaid on Google Maps. A lot of other stuff can also be found.
- Amateur Radio - both APRS Automatic Position Reporting System and for automatically filling in the grid square location for contact logging.
- etc etc..
Add yourself here if you are interested, so its easier to keep track of us.. :)
- TuomasKuosmanen
- HenriBergius
- KeithPreston
- SeanKelley
- KentBolton
- RussNelson
- DanieleDiMauro
- AndrewTurner
- EeroHeurlin
- Jussi Kukkonen
GeoClue Hack session 1 at Boston2006
- Mapping 1. Position 1. Geocoding 1. Routing 1. Track
Mapping - Gtk+/D-Bus interface to retrieve map data from yahoo.com using a plugin. Other sources of mapping could be used. On a mapping backend you may not always have a map backend. So it might be a good idea to cache that map data.
Position - Provides position, velocity, and time data. One backend currently supported is gpsd, connected to a GPS sensor.
Geocoding - Find nearest points of interest based on current location. Will have a yahoo.com backend.
Routing - Ability to submit desitinations to a backend like yahoo.com in order to generate a route.
Track - Ability to leave a cookie crumb trail.
Gossip / Jabber
- http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0080.html - implement the location stuff correctly
- Share position with your buddies. Perhaps different accuracy for some buddy groups ("Friends see my street address, others just the city I am in")
- Share position information between clients
- Share interesting places between IM buddies ("Awesome icecream here!", "I'll be going [to the library] to read, lets meet there at 6" )
- Display contacts on a map
Gnome Blog
- Look-up standard XMLRPC and see if postion information is a part of the spec.
- Otherwise add position to XML as a tags
- Blog sites could pick up those tags and have creative ways of presenting location.
- Wikipedia has some info about how to tag blog entries - apparently you need three tags: one "geotagged" to generally make others aware your post is geotagged, and then the coords in two tags: geo:latitude and geo:longitude eg: geo:lat=51.4989 geo:lon=-0.1786
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Geo -(Geo-related plugins for wordpress). We need to find a way to export our geotags with GeoRSS (http://www.georss.org/)
- http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/GeoPlugin - I think ?GeoPress is a better choice for us.
- YAY! http://www.georss.org/trac/trac.cgi/wiki/GeoPress - "a ?WordPress plugin that allows users to quickly and easily embed location information in blog posts. You can then embed a dynamic map, Microformat adr and geo output, and adds GeoRSS to the RSS output." Current progress: AndrewTurner, one of the GeoPress developers is also part of this now, and he said he'd talk to the GeoRSS folks to get feedback on how to do the extension of the XMLRPC API so that we can get somethign everyone can support.
- Embed a map into the application to display the locations of photos
- Add geotags and export them correctly (ie, Flickr)
- Talk with Toshok to get Turtle as part of this effort
Stars (and Maemo Stars)
- Stars and Maemo Stars are GTK applications displaying a map of the night sky. Both of them would benefit from automatically displaying stars of user's current position as default based on the GeoClue information.
Keith - Conglomerate (code) Sean - plazes.com backend
- lookup other choices Tuomas - looking up XMLRPC
- looking up jabber - gossip client Sean - gnome blogger
- planet.gnome.org
Datasources and APIs
- www.geonames.org -- free database project that maps geographical names to coordinates. (Gnome Mine, Idaho, USA is N 45° 44' 26_ W 115° 31' 12_ etc..) - the database is free, under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License).
- I have a geocoder implementation kind-of-working. The problem is that the geocoding api is not usable... If someone wants it, I'll upload. Otherwise I'll wait for a better API. --Jussi Kukkonen
- GEONet Names Server -- another worldwide placename database. Included (and cleaned) in geonames.
- Yahoo Geocoding API (US addresses only). Somewhat implemented.
- Google Maps Geocoding API
- www.plazes.com -- Location database with a social networking twist. A plazes-backend is included, there's also a Python implementation.
Wigle.net -- WIFI hotspot location database (10 million networks)
- There's a semi-official API. SSID data queries look like this:
http://wigle.net/gpsopen/gps/GPSDB/confirmquery?netid=00:11:95:20:DF:11&simple=trueThe result is delivered in a not-set-in-stone format:
netid~ssid~comment~name~type~freenet~paynet~firsttime~flags~wep~trilat~trilong~dhcp~lastupdt~channel~active~bcninterval~qos~userfound 00:11:95:20:DF:11~atmosphere~ ~ ~infrastruc~?~?~2005-08-17 16:01:56~0001~N~60.19763184~24.87971687~?~20060404054848~12~Y~100~2~NThe API is technically available to all, but the license does require users to login (see EULA), so I do not think this is a viable source of position data for geoclue. There's a thread on their forum about this.
- There's a semi-official API. SSID data queries look like this:
HostIP -- IP address location database and lookup (returns city-level data at best, often just country). Implemented.
- GSMLoc -- GSM cell location database
- geocoder.us -- geocoder for the USA (TIGER data)
Related information
- W3C Semantic Web IG -- Basic Geo Vocabulary for semantic web
- Jabber XMPP extension for geolocation
- GeoRSS -- Encoding location in feeds
- PlaceLab -- Intel site for research, databases, applications for mapping by cell tower, wifi, IP, etc.
These links need sorting out:
- https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemoplazer/ Plazes integration on Maemo
- www.geobloggers.com
- http://www.wikimapia.org
- Wikitravel: SVG common map symbols (CC license)
- Del.icio.us geotagging
- del.icio.us KMZ tag search
- KMZ Archive
- Map server spec's: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms and http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs - and the following servers use the above standards for serving maps:
- ?MapServer: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu
- ?GeoServer: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home
- Also, the National Land Survey of Finland has a WMS API available: http://xml.nls.fi (NLS is not exactly open when it comes to licensing, this is probably not usable)
- A lot of other WMS servers around the world: http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/en/wms_serverlist.html
- Here are some websites that use the above map services:
- http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Mobile_Solutions
- ?GeoLocateFox Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1991/
- http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip - like hostip.info
- http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm - wikipedia coord feeds to google earth


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Enrollment is steadily increasing at Monticello High School, with enrollment in the fall expected to top 300 for the first time in several years, reported Principal Scott Shakespeare.
Enrollment was 279 in 2007 and increased to 286 by March. Shakespeare reports ten new students since January. A large sixth grade class and smaller graduating class could increase the total to more than 300 when the new school year starts in August.
Test scores continue to fall for seventh and eighth grade students. Shakespeare reports the school has focused instruction on this group this year. Teacher Judy Barton is teaching eighth grade English as part of that effort.
Despite the challenges with dropping test scores, 31 percent of the eighth grade students scored in the top ten percent on national tests. The school expects a three percent increase in language, math and science scores this year.
Shakespeare said the San Juan Education Foundation has contributed to a project to replace the aging curtains in the high school auditorium.
Board president Merri Shumway said, "Good things are happening at Monticello and your scores look great."
Monticello Elementary School plans to increase the emphasis on science in the future, according to Principal Lance Hatch.
The school has strong reading and math programs, with 81 percent of students proficient in language and 87 percent proficient in math in 2007. Hatch reports that the school goal is 90 percent.
Hatch reports the reading programs are successful, with all students receiving instruction at their level every day.
In addition, the math program is successful, particularly with teachers supplementing instruction. Hatch reports that the district incentive plan, which pays teachers for an increase in math test scores, has had a positive impact, "Teachers are thinking about each individual child rather than just getting through the curriculum."
Despite the successful math and reading programs, just 69 percent of students are proficient in science. Hatch said science scores have remained the same for 30 years and added, "It is time to change."
The plan to increase science instruction includes focusing on science at the core academy, purchasing leveled science books with trust land funds, and adding science books to the reading curriculum. "We can kill two birds with one stone," said Hatch.
Despite the strong test scores, Hatch said, "When we talk to the high school, we find that we aren't doing nearly as well in reality as we do on the tests, so the high school teachers are working with the elementary school teachers and providing focused ideas for instruction."
Enrollment remains steady at La Sal Elementary School, despite the loss of 100 jobs at the nearby Lisbon Valley copper mine, reported lead teacher Shelly Thayn.
Enrollment dropped for several years, leading some La Sal residents to fear that the school would close. By May, 2006, enrollment was eight students. By May, 2007, enrollment increased to 20 students. Growth was driven, in large part, by seven students in the kindergarten class. This month, enrollment stands at 14 students and projections estimate three to five students a year entering the kindergarten class. Thayn said that the impact of the mine closure on the school has been minimal.
Thayn reports that 84 percent of students last year were at benchmark for reading. The goal is 100 percent, which was reached in 2006.
The percent of students reading at benchmark grew from 67 percent in September to 79 percent in January.
It has been three years since the school was cut to one certified teacher and a highly-qualified aide. Thayn asked to restore the second teacher. She said that the school struggles to meet the needs of students with a reduced staff.


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fatallylost wrote:I think we need a Danielson / Chuck Taylor rematch.
There still unresolved issues.
maxx powerz wrote:I'm going to vote NO to this, for now at least. Danielson's PWG swan song was done so perfectly, and I'm still not sold that Danielson's departure from WWE-land is a long term thing. So I wonder if its worth bringing Dragon back for maybe two matches and then he'd be gone again. If he's still on the indys come BOLA time, I guess he might be in the indys for the long haul again, and I'd say go ahead and bring him in. But for now, I'd prefer the last PWG moment Bryan had to be that epic title match with Hero.
abouttreefitty350 wrote:Now that Danielson is confirmed, I hope his return isn't wasted in a clusterfuck 4-way match. Please put him in a singles match against Davey in the main event.
How cool would it be if Chris Hero no shows his mid card match since he said he won't be be in Pwg unless it's for a title shot, and he runs in and breaks up the match as Danielson has the cattle mutilation locked in? Chris gets a good amount of heat already, and this could set up a HUGE fued.
Meltman wrote:Looking at the roster, there aren't many people Hero hasn't faced yet. Makes me think if he did win the title we'd mostly be getting rematches.
Personally I want him to team up with one of the locals and have some amazing tags.
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Hi Maki--I love reading your blogs and I've learned a lot about Japanese food on my visits. My question concerns some shiro miso I just bought. It's the first time I've used it (previously using red miso) and when I opened the container, I noticed it had a slightly sweet, almost moldy smell to it. I just used a few teaspoons to make a cup of miso soup with some wakame (yum!) and it tastes fine. Is this smell normal? I never noticed this smell with the red miso. It's a fresh variety called Miso Master, available at Whole Foods here in the Boston, MA (USA) area. What do you think?
Thanks and keep on cooking/blogging! :)
Miso should smell pleasantly fermented, maybe just very slightly sour, but not moldy. But it's hard to tell how exactly it smells from here, lacking Internet Smellovision. :o If you eat it and you have no adverse reaction, I guess it's ok....but see if you can get some other people to take a whiff of it too.
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Hi Maki--thanks for your quick reply. I just conducted another sniffing of my shiro miso and I would say that it does fit your description. I think Western palates (at least mine) are very uneducated when it comes to fermented foods. And, I guess the ultimate tests are how it tasted as miso soup and if I got sick--it tasted quite good and I had no problems after eating. I'll see if I can recruit other noses.
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Article Summary: This article provides information on issues that may arise in an environment in which the Active Directory domain and registered internet domain name are identical.
Best practices for Active Directory (AD) domain design advise against using a registered domain name as the name of an AD domain. Viable alternatives include using a non-public DNS suffix (.local or .lan, for example) in the AD domain name, or making the AD domain a subdomain of the registered domain (corp.domain.com, for example).
You won't always have a choice in the matter, though; you may find yourself supporting an AD domain that has the same name as the company's registered domain, and management may not wish to change either name. This is known as a split DNS (or split-brain DNS) scenario, in which there are two distinct DNS namespaces - the internal namespace used by AD, and the external namespace used by the public domain registrar - with the same name. This scenario can present some unique challenges. This article discusses some common issues arising from a split DNS environment and what can be done to mitigate them.
In all of the examples below, the AD domain and registered domain are both named domain.com, and there is a company website named www.domain.com.
Issue 1: Externally-hosted company website inaccessible from inside the office
This is the most common issue in a split DNS environment: the company's website, or another company-owned, internet-connected resource, can't be reached from inside the office by machines joined to the AD domain, but machines outside the office have no problems reaching the website. The reason this happens can be shown by examining what happens when an internal user attempts to browse the company's website:
The problem arises because a DNS server that has a particular lookup zone in its database - the domain.com zone in this example - will not send queries for records in that zone anywhere else; it will simply return a "not found" response if there is no record matching a given query. In this example, there is another DNS server with the correct record: the DNS server that hosts the public domain.com zone belonging to the domain registrar, as is evident by the fact that machines outside the office can reach the website. Queries from internal machines will never reach that server, though.
The solution to this problem is simple: create a host record named www in the domain.com zone on the DC and give that record the website's IP address. Machines that query that DNS server will then receive the correct response and be able to browse the website.
Issue 2: Internally-hosted public website inaccessible from inside the office
This could be considered a variation of issue 1 above. The difference in this case is that the website is hosted internally, either behind a firewall on the company's internal network or in a DMZ. It is supposed to be accessible to both internal and external users, but internal users are unable to reach it, while external users report no problems.
The reason for the issue is similar to that in issue 1, but internal users in this case are able to correctly resolve the website's name to its public IP address. However, they're still unable to reach the website because of the way the firewall is configured. It expects users on the internal network to access the website using its private address rather than its public address.
Again, there is a simple fix: create a host record named www in the domain.com zone on the DC, but this time give the record the website's private IP address. Internal machines will resolve the website's name to that private address, while external machines will continue to resolve the name to the website's public address.
Issue 3: Website loads incompletely or still won't load after the above changes are made
This can happen if the website code redirects browsers from www.domain.com to domain.com or if internal links refer to the site as domain.com rather than www.domain.com. The same symptoms will be seen on internal machines whether the site is hosted internally or externally:
The problem in this case is a bit more complex. In order for machines to resolve domain.com to an IP address, there must be a blank host record in the domain.com zone in DNS. The name of this record will show up as (same as parent folder) in the Windows DNS console. However, there's a problem in this case: AD uses blank host records in the domain.com zone to represent DCs for the domain.com domain. Domain members use those records when locating a DC for authentication, and if there are extra blank host records in the domain.com zone, delays or authentication problems may result.
For the reason above, this issue cannot be resolved in DNS alone. Creating a blank host record with the website's IP address will only intermittently resolve the website-access issue for internal users, because there will already be other blank host records with the IP addresses of the DCs in the domain, and doing so will cause domain authentication issues.
The simplest way to resolve this issue is to modify the website's code to either remove the redirection or fix the internal links so that everything refers to the site as www.domain.com rather than domain.com. If modifying the code is not possible, the only other option for resolving the issue is to rename the AD domain. This can be a complex task, depending on the size and complexity of the environment.
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