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"Infrastructure team has no idea how it works. The changes are that great." - this is actually fairly inaccurate. our changes are not really large (or relevant) a lot of that is just fixing some path stuff and backporting security fixes from later versions. both of that are in no way a showstopper for upgrading...
- I think that meant to say "the changes aren't that great", which is what I just edited it to. Much of the talk was about FreeBSD specific configuration, noted that in that section as well. --Gsmith 15:16, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


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Nick Lachey & Vanessa Minnillo sex pictures from their vacation in Mexico have hit the web! Censored, for now. Australia's Famous magazine just printed them.
Can you imagine when the uncensored pics hit the Internet? Or when/if video becomes available? Oh me, oh my.
Nick recently shrugged off these nudie pics telling OK!, "Where's the scandal? I was in Mexico with my girlfriend celebrating our first anniversary together on a private vacation. It's not like I was caught with a Mexican hooker. We've all gone out and had a few too many and done something stupid. We've all made mistakes."
One word: BANGIN'!
UPDATE: Apologies, pictures removed. Go Internet digging for them!

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Shelby County Commissioners advanced in Wednesday, March 13, committee sessions a general plan to restructure the countywide school board.
But the plan to turn the 23-member board into a 13-member board on Sept. 1, instead of the seven-member board it is now scheduled to become on that date, is far from complete. And lots of legal questions remain about the details.
The new set of district lines for a 13-member school board is also not an exact match of the district lines to be used by the Shelby County Commission in the 2014 county elections.
Having the same district lines as the commission was the initial reason some commissioners advocated a set of 13 single-member districts for the school board.
Commission chairman Mike Ritz said the proposed district map for a 13-member countywide school board was tweaked by the Memphis-Shelby County Office of Planning and Development to avoid having incumbent school board members Billy Orgel and Kevin Woods in the same district and incumbents Chris Caldwell and Teresa Jones in the same district.
"It's not exactly the County Commission map," Ritz said. "We moved some blocks around."
The shifts were designed to avoid any legal complications from shortening the terms the seven incumbent board members were elected to in 2012. Those seven incumbents become the entire county school board effective Sept. 1, when the nine members of the old Memphis City Schools board and the seven members of the old Shelby County Schools board go off what is now a 23-member board.
Commissioner Wyatt Bunker questioned why the commission couldn't agree to expand the school board to 13-members and use the exact boundaries for county commission districts. In that scenario, the commission would not appoint six new school board members to begin serving Sept. 1. The commission would instead wait for the county general election in August 2014 for voters to begin electing school board members to the seats in staggered terms.
Bunker sought to delay any action in committee on the resolution to expand the school board for two weeks. But that was voted down in the committee session that included nine of the 13 commissioners.
The committee then voted to recommend the resolution, putting it on the agenda for a vote Monday by the full commission. But Ritz indicated he will move for at least a two-week delay then.
The delay is to give attorneys for the commission time to vet the proposal with U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays.
Mays in a 2011 consent decree agreed to by all sides in the lawsuit over the schools merger ruled the commission has the power to expand the school board to up to 13 members.
But in a later status conference, Shelby County Attorney Kelly Rayne said Mays told the parties he would have to approve the terms of any expansion of the school board as part of the consent decree.
She also said Mays did not specify then whether the commission would have to pass a resolution or an ordinance to make such a change.
A resolution takes one vote with a simple majority of the commission. An ordinance takes three readings and the proposal in an ordinance must pass on the third reading with a nine-vote, two-thirds majority.
"I think the community would expect us to expand the school board," Ritz said.
Bunker, a former Shelby County Schools board member, initially favored such an expansion. But Bunker said he is now having second thoughts after seeing the problems the 23-member school board has had in reaching a consensus on terms of the schools merger.
"I don't know that it's going to be better for us," he said. "Not only do they have a lot of decisions to make, they have a lot of critical decisions to make."
Ritz countered that most of those decisions will be made by the current board before the Sept. 1 transition to a smaller body – whether it is seven members or 13 members.
County Commissioner Heidi Shafer was among those on the commission who questioned whether the commission would have to draw a new set of school board districts if suburban leaders are able to form separate municipal school districts in the county's six suburban towns and cities.
That is one of the legal points the commission would seek guidance on.
Shafer said she couldn't see the suburbs being represented on the school board if they aren't part of the consolidated school system and have school systems with their own elected boards. But if the suburbs instead were allowed to form charter school districts for those cities and towns, a case could be made for school board representation, she added, because it would be a contract with the countywide school board.
Commissioner Terry Roland said the commission should wait until the Tennessee Legislature acts on bills that would permit the formation of municipal school districts as well as charter school districts.
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Equipment availability depends on engine and configuration selected. You will find details in the equipment information for each model.
BlueEFFICIENCY measures are comprehensive vehicle optimisations that help save fuel and ease the burden on the environment. In the Mercedes-Benz GLS, too, the most efficient engines are combined with the best features available to keep fuel consumption to a minimum.
For many years now, Mercedes-Benz has given great importance to the air quality in the vehicle interior as well as the allergy-friendliness of the components and materials used. For that reason Mercedes-Benz is the only vehicle manufacturer in the world to have been awarded the Seal of Quality of the European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF).


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A preview of the upcoming "Great Outdoors" issue of Mother's sister publication, American Country. When camping choosing a tent is vitally important for your overall camping comfort and ease in setting up and taking down camp. (See the tent design photos in the image gallery.)
Choosing a Tent: Commercial Tent Comparisons, Design and History
A worthy tent is not so much a portable abode as a vessel. In fact, one that's well designed will make an earnest attempt to float if need be.
This pithy observation came to me the other night as I lay in a meadow of ripstop gluttony. It was snowing. Thanks to a 40-mph tail wind, the flakes sounded and felt more like sand. This is weather that can work its way through all sorts of protection schemes. Tent-testing weather.
My prejudices and curiosities, aided by the happenstance of certain returned phone calls, had resulted in my examining four tents of varying pedigrees and raisons d'etre: The Walrus Orbit Rapide ($298), a roomy, two-person, four-season, six-sided expedition tent; the Sierra Designs Comet ($242), a three-person, three-season, rectangular tent; the Eureka Alpine Meadows ($130), a four-person tent based on the company's time-honored Timberline design; and the Moss Encore ($675), a graceful brown ballroom in which four can easily sleep and eight can easily stand. Two dome de luxes, two Volkstents.
It was 20 degrees Fahrenheit—warm for Wyoming, November, midnight. About an inch of snow had collected on the ground. I was trying to sleep in the Walrus. Rain flies on all four tents whipped and popped, making sincere going-away noises. Should a tent become unmoored, the next two obstacles would be a barbed-wire fence 100 feet away and, a quarter mile after that, a saloon parking lot.
The nagging question was, should I get up and see to their security? The answer was easy: Nah. Each had at least four stakes pounded into frozen ground. I did finally stir, however, when it occurred to me that the same wind was causing a 75-foot cottonwood about 60 feet upwind to gasp for its breath. Feeling adequately inspired about the meaning of tents, I unzipped my down bag, wriggled into britches, emerged from the Walrus, inspected for loose stakes and walked across the lawn to my own bed.
Commercial Tent Progress
Today there's no reason to buy a tent that won't set up in a jiffy, be moved of that dang root in half a jiffy and thwart claustrophobia after you've been penned in for a few days in bad weather.
Brand name: Competition born of the outdoor equipment boom of the '70s has brought to market a bounty of excellent designs and executions. Tent manufacturers have done such a thorough job of stealing refinements from one another that the best reasons for brand loyalty probably concern service. Most popular (and unpopular) brands still offer service in the Baby-Boom outdoor-gear tradition: They're embarrassed when something goes wrong and fix it quickly—for free if they're really embarrassed.
Companies like North Face, Sierra Designs, Kelty and several others were started by outdoor idealists in the '60s (well, Kelty goes further back), made huge profits in the '70s and sold out to larger firms—just in the nick of time—in the early '80s. The outdoor gear market went thud in the mid-'80s as legions of would-be urban campers discovered convection ovens and million-cell spread sheet computer software.
Less well known brands (Moss Tents, Stephenson Warmlite) have resisted the perpetual-growth-or-die philosophy, and they continue to sew limited quantities for a stable customer base, most of whom come by word of mouth. Moss Tents keeps afloat by its diversity as well, making exotic convention booths and innovative, semi permanent fabric structures.
Eureka! is the GM of tentdom. The catalogue sports some 45 different models. The ubiquitous Timberline could well be the first tent you ever slept in. The price of just about any Eureka! is hunky-dory, and—especially for noncritical applications like car camping—any Eureka! will do a fine job.
There are several small, relatively new specialty tentmakers out there. I requested the Walrus to represent this species. It was amusing to learn that Walrus is the baby of Bob Swanson and George Marks, who started a little company called Sierra Designs 23 years ago.
Tent Design: The Gospel of Dome is writ large across the landscape. Like the song "Proud Mary," a dome tent is great when done right. Variations on the dome are manifold. There are countless ways to emulate the arched form of a frightened-cat, but each includes poles fastened to grommets at the tent's lower periphery, which arch and push up and out.
Bill Moss, the nation's foremost designer of what he likes to call "tensioned fabric," is pretty much responsible for the way tents look today. His first dome tent was a "pop tent," an item that made a page in a 1955 Life magazine for its novelty.
The one significant exception to the dome trend is what Kelty now calls the Conestoga, and what others call hoop or tunnel style. Kelty's "new" Windfoil is the latest design that hard-core mountaineers covet—one that's based on a tent that Stephenson Warmlite has been making since 1964. It consists of two or three hoops holding open a tube, vestibules on either end and a tug-of-war means of holding it up.
Tent Seasoning: No arm of the Department of Agriculture regulates the wording in brochures. Most tents are deemed "three-season"; when they say "four-season," they mean winter. A four-season tent, usually tagged "expedition" as well, is supposed to take snow loads, shed high winds and have a vestibule or two (optional or standard) for extra closet space and to offer a spot to perform cooking chores on bare ground.
Tent Sleeping capacity: When all you're going to do in a tent is sleep, and those involved don't move much at night, the tentmaker's number will stand. If you're new at this, I recommend adding one to the number; if just you and another will be using it, a three-person tent is wonderfully roomy with minimal weight increase. (Unless, of course, much backpacking is involved; then every ounce is significant.)
Tent Weight: You'll drive yourself nuts if you squint too hard when comparing advertised weights. Although the competition to have the lightest, largest tent is dogged, reputable manufacturers tend to keep their advertised figures in the ballpark—although the caveat "weight does not include pegs, seam sealer . . ." is standard fare. I put the Orbit and the Comet on the produce scale at Farmer Jack's. Both were within an ounce or two of claimed weight. The usual disclaimer of minor variations covers that.
Weight is as weight does. Heavier is stronger, materials and design being equal. Extra reinforcement, in the form of double-needle stitching, bar tacking, lined stress points and so on, adds ounces. Careful shopping means knowing which are the ounces of prevention.
Tent Fabric: Nylon. It comes in more varieties than snow. Heavier (taffeta, Oxford) nylon better withstands shearing, puncture and abrasion. Thinner nylon is lighter. Urethane-coated nylon is waterproof and less drafty to boot. Ripstop nylon is designed to do just that with its grid of heavier threads. (The benefits of Gore-Tex are moot thanks to one quirk: Gore-Tex does not currently pass the tent industry's fire-retardancy regulations.)
Nylon's weight, or thickness, is measured in ounces per square yard, with 1.2 and 2.5 the most common at the extremes. One point two-ounce nylon is wispy stuff, perfect for inner walls. Coated 2-pointsomething sheeting is commonly used for floors, while rain flies are likely to be 1.7- or 1.9-ounce coated ripstop. "No-see-um" nettings segregate the bugs from the bags. The finer the mesh, the fewer insects get in your ear.
Tent Poles: Many tentmakers boast high-grade aluminum (7075, for example), usually made by Easton. This is tried and true stuff, guaranteed for life. On some tents, Sierra Designs gives you the cheaper option of glass-composite poles, which are lighter and more compact.
Never, never believe any salesperson or brochure that claims a pole is unbreakable. There's no such thing. Somewhere there blows a wind that will snap any pole, shred any tent.
Shock-corded poles assemble themselves in a magician's trick. This is no small convenience when wind-driven graupel is rolling down your neck. Beware of flimsy cord—threading a broken one is the real trick.
Tent Zippers: YKK has done its part to eliminate the world's concern for reliable zippers. Its plastic-coil models are preferred for tent use and do an admirable job—although the clever salesperson who coined the term "self-healing" deserves an award only for enthusiasm. If you expect perfection, you'll learn a lesson in the nature of things.
Camping Equipment Cost: All companies want your business. Now that the market has flattened, some are desperate for it. It's a double-edged sword. You might be getting more for your money; you might be getting newer short-cut manufacturing methods.
Manufacturers right and left are knocking a hundred bucks off their tents just by having them sewn overseas. Both the Comet and the Alpine Meadow sported tags announcing their birth in Korea. The Orbit proudly displayed "Made in U.S.A.," although that won't be the case by the time you read this. A tent sewn overseas may or may not be made of American fabric.
Finishing the product: That's your job. Needles poke holes in nylon—it's called sewing. Those holes will leak a bit unless you take the trouble to seal them; tents usually come with a tube of seam sealer, and you're foolish not to spend an evening applying the stuff: (All the tents I tried arrived with a tube of seam sealer.)
The Real World: Setting Up and Taking Down Tents
It takes practice to learn to pitch any tent with a modicum of grace and efficiency. My drill is to spread the tent on its proposed site and roll around on it, miming my repertoire of sleeping positions, a practice which assures smooth ground, or at least tells me on which side I should sleep. This sort of Prone Position Efficacy Testing can be postponed, of course, with freestanding tents, which can readily be moved.
I was able to pitch all four test tents without resorting to instructions, but I did resort to reading instructions for installing the Walrus's rain fly. Having poles of equal length helps immensely; if the pole system requires different lengths, they should be either color-coded or of very different lengths.
The Moss Encore is a stunning piece of work. Inserting the poles through lengthy curved sleeves takes some time, a two-person job that ought to be rehearsed. With the poles in place, it's duck soup. The fly clips to four corners with Fastex buckles. Six stakes hold the entire package down, and there are adjusters at each tether. All tents arrived with pegs; only the Moss came with worthwhile heavy-duty ones.
Once pitched, the Encore looks like it's injection molded. Everyone, but everyone, wanted to buy it on the spot. The floor is 84 inches by 105 inches; the tent stands over six feet tall! I never said this is a backpacking tent—the dude weighs over 16 pounds.
For its low price, the Eureka! sported some nice touches. It weighs in at 10 pounds. The fly's side pulls have Fastex-like slide tension adjusters. Little metal hooks hold doors open; everyone else supplies the usual scraps of string. Both the pegs and the cording in the poles were on the thin side, but they were there. The long seam on the floor is heat-sealed at the factory. I found the Eureka! to be easy to set up and a good value for the money.
The Sierra Designs Comet is a no-sweat proposition, thanks to three same-length poles (Easton aluminum). The tent clips to the final pole with its Swift-Clip system. Five shock cords with clips attach the fly to the tent, bim-bam. However, the fly sported loops for three more cords, a job the new owner ought to complete. It has an ample door, ample space—it's an ample tent.
Tent brochures like to point out how thus—and—so can be set up in 90 seconds while you stir your Spaghetti-Os with the other hand. Generally speaking, any tent can be set up by one person in a jiffy—it's the rain fly that gets you. The Walrus Orbit Rapide comes out of its stuff sack looking like the original Spider from Mars. Its six poles are already in their sleeves awaiting insertion in one of two hubs up top. Sounds complex, looks obvious—I had it up in two minutes on my first try. It could probably be done in 30 seconds.
The Orbit's rain fly is another matter. It requires three different-size wands. Inserting the fly's grommets over the pole ends was not easy; the new tent was tight (a good thing), but the pole ends were barely long enough to accommodate both the tent's and the fly's grommets. Pop on a grommet on this side, it would pop off on the other side. No picnic, but when it was over I had one snug unit.
Tent Aesthetics: The Bill Mosses and Jack Stephensons capture my fancy because their passion has brought to us packages that can offer not only shelter but a little bit of smug enjoyment every time out. They cost more, you get it all.
Luckily, there are any number of fine three-person-plus tents in the under-$400 range and some plausible ones for under $300. But don't set your hopes too high. It was generally conceded that the Comet "didn't look right"—something about its rectilinear floor not quite jiving with its domish top. One fellow thought the Comet smelled funny, the remark of a nose obviously attuned to American-made nylon. The Orbit's clever two-hub pole system is simply too busy for my tastes. Too many parts. And as one mountaineer pointed out, it has a doorsill begging to be ripped out by the heel of a big boot.
Unless a tent is to be used as a storage shed for the kids over summer, being finicky about visual and practical aesthetics will pay off in due time. If you want to compound misery, try weathering a storm in a loose, gloomy tent. To use a tent is to place yourself in a situation where the senses become acute and more than a little fussy.
Every time we take a friend, a lover or a tent on a trip, we can't help but scrutinize strengths and weaknesses. (Just don't dwell on the fact that a friend or lover is probably doing the same thing.) We can change people if they need changing, or at least try. With a tent we can only get mad. Wet, too.
David Swift—writer, photographer and mountaineer—lives in Jackson, Wyoming.


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It's that time of year again… Hurricane Season!
It rolls around every year the beginning of June, Hurricane Season. Those of us who live in hurricane prone areas know what we are supposed to do. But do we? No. As human nature dictates we procrastinate. Yes, we procrastinate until a storm of substantial size approaches our vicinity. Then we put together a last minute plan and try…Read More


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DOD Release of Docs in Manning Case Falls Short of Legal Requirement
WASHINGTON - Today the Army's records management division, responsible for responding to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, released 84 judicial orders and rulings in the court-martial proceedings for PFC Bradley Manning. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which had sued to obtain access under the First Amendment to these and other documents in the Manning proceedings, issued the following statement:
The publication today by the Army of a number of court orders, provoked by our lawsuit and many FOIA requests by journalists, is a long-overdue step towards transparency in the military court proceedings against Bradley Manning. However, the delays up to this point and the redactions make it difficult to trust that the military will provide meaningful access to the court's rulings on an ongoing basis.What the Army released falls far short of what we are seeking in our lawsuit. The First Amendment requires that the press and public have access to the court's orders, the government and defense filings, and transcripts or audio files of the daily proceedings in open court. Today's release only provides some of the court rulings. Other than a small number of defense briefs published by the defense counsel on his blog (with heavy redactions by the government), the rest of the materials connected to the trial are not available to the public in any way, despite the fact that the vast majority of this material is not classified or otherwise sensitive. And some of the documents contain absurd redactions; for example, the name of the trial judge is redacted throughout.What is more, some of these orders are over a year old and are only now being published in written form despite the fact that many had been read out loud in open court. We have no commitment from the military that it will make court orders available to journalists and the public on a timely basis going forward.
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It's an exciting time to be involved in agriculture.
Farmers and ranchers face significant opportunities but equally daunting challenges as they seek ways to double food production by 2050. Success depends on improving productivity and enhancing international trade, according to a respected agricultural economist who sees a bright future for U.S. agriculture.
"I am more optimistic about agriculture that at any time in my career," says Dick Crowder, professor, international trade, at Virginia Tech University. "Agriculture has a huge opportunity and responsibility." Crowder was keynote speaker at the Rural Economic Outlook Conference at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
Crowder, who also worked extensively in the private ag industry sector and served as chief agriculture negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, said maintaining the status quo will fail to double agricultural production. The limitations are real and substantial. If agriculture must double food production with perhaps 10 percent more land but less water, less labor and the same policies and technology available today, the effort will fail.
Success, he said, depends on increasing per acre yields with less waste and increased efficiency. That will require new technology, wide adoption of new policies, improved infrastructure and better management. "Intellectual property rights must be protected," he said. "Also, in some countries, management is a limiting resource."
Some areas, he added, especially developing nations, face serious infrastructure inadequacies, including too little storage and transportation problems.
"Can we double food production by 2050?" Crowder asked. "Yes, but we have to change. We have to thrive on change and risk."
Technology is essential
He said with adoption of new technology, better management, and improved efficiency, "yields will go up."
Change will include more than individual producers, however. Crowder said agriculture will require greater investments in research and development from public, private and joint efforts. Improved infrastructure and human capital also will play important roles in enhanced productivity. Those issues must become priorities at land grant universities. "We can't become complacent."
Adoption of new technology, especially genetically modified products, should become more synchronized so that all trading nations accept new offerings at the same time to limit delays in incorporating them into production.
On-farm changes will include higher but more volatile commodity prices. "We expect higher farm income but with greater risk." He said farmers must "market, don't sell. Get closer to customers."
Producers must become active in policy leadership.
Trade becomes crucial for U.S. agriculture. "Without growth in agricultural exports, agriculture will not grow in the United States," Crowder said.
Agriculture has become a global industry. "Demand and supply changes drive world trade," he notes. "Opportunities exist outside the United States. That's where 95 percent of the population is, where 96 percent of the population growth will be and where per capita food consumption will grow. We will see 1 billion new middle class customers by 2030."
The United States already depends heavily on ag exports. From 2000 through 2010, 49.5 percent of U.S. wheat, 17.6 percent of corn, 49.3 percent of rice, 38.9 percent of soybeans and 70.3 percent of cotton was exported.
Those totals are expected to change from 2011 through 2020. Wheat exports will drop to 46 percent and corn will fall to 14.9 percent. Rice, soybean and cotton exports will increase to 53 percent, 47.3 percent and 81.3 percent, respectively.
For meat products, export percentage has increased significantly since the 1960s, from 0.2 percent for beef, 0.7 percent for pork and 2 percent for poultry from 1960 through 1969, to 6.8 percent, 13.1 percent and 16.5 percent from 2000 through 2010. Those percentages are expected to rise to 10.3 percent for beef, 22 percent for pork and 16.9 percent for pork by 2020.
Export potential faces risk, too, Crowder said. "The importance of trade for U.S. agriculture has never been greater. But the risks have increased." Obstacles include the world economy, protectionism (tariffs and non tariff barriers), the value of the dollar, export bans, competitive decline and a lag in bilateral and regional free trade agreements.
Some protectionist policies exist because some food-insecure countries like to manage trade closely.
"Defending against protectionism is important," Crowder said. "A push to negotiate bi-lateral agreements should be relentless. We also have opportunities within monitoring and enforcement policies. We must nurture a multilateral system. And trade promotion authority is a must."
He said bi-lateral trade agreements increase the competitiveness of U.S. products, reduce non-tariff barriers, and level the playing field. "Benefits accrue quickly."
The free trade agreement recently signed with South Korea will mean as much as $500 million savings for U.S. agriculture when it is fully implemented.
U.S. agriculture must maintain any competitive lead they gain in international trade. That will include protecting intellectual property rights and investing in research and development for people and infrastructure. "Trade policy must keep the playing field level," he said. "We must remain a reliable supplier and the preferred, not the residual, supplier."
Meeting customers' demands with safety, security and specific services also help hold the competitive edge. "And we have to be careful not to let other countries get the first market advantage in free trade agreements."
Crowder said agriculture must "think differently," and become drivers of opportunity. "From today forward, agriculture will be a profitable growth industry; an increasingly global industry; increasingly high tech; a high profile, public industry; and will experience rapid growth in productivity.
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Robert3 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 117 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
I'm looking for a news site to keep people updated with things going on in the urban/hip hop/community.
The only new content being added daily are new songs and videos.
Urban Males and Females Ages 18-35
Get creative with it, I have an idea.... Make it better.
Make the site easy enough for a retard to use, don't get overly complicated. Being user friendly is key.
Make it resemble CNN.com layout/colorway
I'm looking for a news site to keep people updated with things going on in hip hop day by day.
The only new content being added daily are new songs and videos.
All I'm looking for is a simple home page to display the daily updates. Today and the past 5 days will be shown on the home page. I want things to look simple and easy to understand. And by simple... I mean really simple. Like worldstarhiphop.com but not quite as ugly and stupid looking.
If you want to implement a daily rating system for the audio/video or anything like that, make sure it's dumb easy to use. Everyything needs to be user friendly.
Content wise I'm looking for worldstarhiphop.com and hiphopdaily.com combined.
I've extended the auction, I like what I'm seeing but have a few more details to throw at you guys after seeing the mockups so far. Read carefully!
1. Header area:
Logo - Does not need to be huge, the more space we can save with the logo and navigation the better.
Social Icons - I like seeing them at the left of the website either underneath the logo or just beside it. Somewhere prominent. Twitter & "# People like this" facebook icons are great.
Rotator - A nicely sized 16:9 rotator is great, we don't need anything to the left or right of the rotator if it's sized well. If you can squeeze a "Featured Videos" to the right of it then that will work as well. Do what you think looks best.
2. Content Display Areas:
Video Thumbnails should be large, text descriptions are less important, 150 characters max and should not take up much space at all. Let's try to fit 8-10 video thumbnails on screen at one time.
Music Player: Artist Name - Song Title - Play/Pause Button, "Like/Share" Button
I'm liking the minimal style players that I'm seeing, with the Like/Share buttons. I'd like those to link to a twitter/facebook account on the final website, so style it with something friendly.
Most importantly, let's try to make good use of the space in the content areas. With more page space dedicated to videos than to music.
Ad Areas, Let's try to fit space for a 728x90 ad on the page, as well as a 300x250, somewhere near the top of the page.
That's it for now, we're getting close to the end of this auction, thanks to everyone who's submitted so far, looking forward to working with you guys.
Attached a rough outline with all of the page elements I want on the website. Get creative and improve on it, try to use everything seen in the outline.
Home Page
Daily updates - Today, and past 5 days displayed on home page.
Daily New Video and Audio/Songs


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I am not going to tell you "Wild Bill" Hagy was a choirboy, because someone who guzzles nine or 10 Budweisers and shot-puts his cooler from the upper deck of a stadium before being led away in handcuffs probably doesn't qualify for that.
"Drinking nine or 10 beers, you get a little impulsive" was how he explained that crazy cooler-toss, his personal Gandhi moment back in 1985, when he protested the Orioles' new policy prohibiting fans from taking beer into Memorial Stadium.
So there will be no attempt here to canonize Hagy, who died Monday at age 68 and was once the most famous baseball fan in the country.
But if you were around on summer nights in the late '70s and early '80s, when Orioles Magic was at its height, and a great bear of a man with a straw hat and burlap beard and beach-ball gut led the "Roar from 34," you know how passionate baseball fans used to be in this town.
You go to Orioles games at Camden Yards now and it's so quiet you could study for the law boards.
The fans talk on cell phones and wave and mouth "Can you see me?" to their friends back home when the TV cameras are on them.
The fans now talk about where they went on vacation and how the housing market is killing them, then they go off in search of nachos or Dippin' Dots or fancy microbrews.
In between innings, they dance and sing and get all fired up about which crab has the baseball or which hot dog wins the footrace on those goofy scoreboard games.
And maybe there's nothing wrong with that, except it sure would be nice to see people get fired up about what's happening on the field.
Um, isn't that sort of why we're there?
Here's how bad it's gotten at Camden Yards: Fans now have to be told when to cheer.
The scoreboard has to light up with "Let's hear it, O's fans!" or some kind of nonsense like that.
Usually only then do you get any life from the stands, any cheering and clapping.
And it's not the great, pure roar that "Wild Bill" Hagy could summon when he lurched to his feet in the old stadium, with a couple of six-packs sloshing around in his belly.
He'd take off his hat and wave it over his head, and the roar would get louder, so loud your ears would hurt.
After that he'd encircle both arms over his head and the crowd would roar: "O!"
Then he'd contort his body into some other unearthly shape that involved balancing on one shaky leg and hooking his arm until his fist rested against his forehead, and the crowd would roar: "R!"
And by the time he spelled out "O-R-I-O-L-E-S!" - you try doing this after swilling Anheuser-Busch products for three hours - it would be so loud, you thought the place would explode.
It's a different era now, I realize that. It's much harder to be an O's fan.
For one thing, the Orioles have flat-out stunk for the past 10 seasons. So it's hard to get fired up when you see Aubrey Huff wave the bat listlessly at strike three, or when Jay Payton back-pedals furiously and loses a fly ball your grandmother could handle, no sweat.
For another thing, players don't stick with one team as long - and inspire as much fan loyalty - as they did back when "Wild Bill" was the high priest of Section 34.
Back then the O's had Cal and Eddie, Singleton and Dempsey, Palmer, Flanagan and McGregor, great players who seemed to be around year after year, led by a miniature Rottweiler in the dugout named Earl Weaver, who was only the best manager in baseball.
What fan wouldn't be enthralled with those teams?
It was exciting baseball built on the holy concepts of pitching, fielding and three-run homers.
And it turned a humble cab driver from Dundalk named Bill Hagy into an uber-fan, who was first hooked on the Orioles in his 20s when he watched the great championship teams of Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Boog Powell and the rest.
Which makes you wonder where the next generation of Orioles superfans will come from, since a legacy of 10 straight losing seasons won't exactly instill such devotion for the hometown team.
Besides, now, as we all know, the upscale, corporate atmosphere at Camden Yards attracts a different kind of fan from the ones that were once wild-eyed disciples of "Wild Bill" Hagy.
The blue-collar fans, the unpretentious, un-self-conscious fans who will stand and scream for their team for nine innings, seem to show up at the ballpark less and less.
And Camden Yards grows quieter and quieter every year. It's all a little sad, isn't it?
And when you remember how great it was to go to a ballgame when Orioles Magic was in the air and "Wild Bill" Hagy summoned a nightly avalanche of noise from an old stadium on 33rd Street, it makes it that much sadder.


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The Onyxian Drake is my favourite looking drake based mount in the game (including the protos). I was a little reluctant to pay too much for it, and was surprised that I managed to grab it for a little over a quarter of a million gold.
The Black Market Auction House is getting me into a lot of trouble, and it is a little scary that in the recent past I've spent more than the gold cap on mounts.
Regardless of their individual aesthetic appeal, mounts have a number of factors that change their value.
- Sentimental association. Even though Mimi's Head is one of the best looking mounts in the game (in my opinion), the mount is really all about Ulduar. I can't mount up without being flooded with fond memories of one of my favourite raids. It is more than just riding in a robot head helicopter, it evokes the first tram ride to that robot and the gut wrenching process of learning to defeat Yogg Saron (and educating people about the fight over and over and over even through new expansions).
- Ease of farming. Contrasting the last two mounts I purchased... Mimi's Head requires a raid team, even if it's just a small one... and killing most bosses in Ulduar, which is a BIG raid. The time and organisation investment is sizable, even though Yogg+0 itself is getting exponentially easier to beat as expansions come and go. The Onyxian drake drops from both 10 and 25 man and does not require a hard mode. 10 man is soloable, and at worst, if you can get a couple of friends together it is very quickly farmed each and every week (similar to Tempest Keep for Ashes of Al'ar).
- Drop Rate. Unless Blizzard comes right out and tells you what the drop chance is for a particular mount, you're really just guessing. The best guess is usually derived from Wowhead, who have a reasonable sample size to work from. It is worth getting even a rough idea of the ballpark drop rate before you decide to invest the time in farming (or the gold when bidding gold on the BMAH).
- Number of sources. The BMAH has introduced a great new source for mounts, and with enough gold, a much better chance of obtaining them when they eventually appear. However, many mounts already have more than one source. The prime example here is mounts obtainable from dungeons, where tanks and healers can get lucky with their [Misty Satchel of Exotic Goods]. My highlight from the satchel was the [Deathcharger's Reins], as well as many rare pets including a [Tiny Emerald Whelpling].
- Rarity. The factors above, other factors (such as server raid progression and even duping) as well as the newly introduced BHAH conspire to create a certain number of rare mounts on a server. If I saw Onyxian Drakes crisscrossing the skies in Pandaria, would I have paid over 250k for it? Probably not, and time will tell just how quickly the BMAH dilutes the value of these rare mounts as the expansion progresses.
While we can rank the ease obtaining a mount and its scarcity objectively, how much anyone is willing to pay is very subjective. I've heard of mounts like Mimi's Head and Ashes of Al'ar going gold cap very quickly after being posted, so the competition from realm to realm will vary enormously. It is a good idea to start thinking about what different mounts are worth to you, and start saving! When a mount appears, I recommending looking at your current gold situation and deciding on a limit right away. When it comes to bidding, the later the better, and I might post on the science of narrowing down an auction end time later on.
All in all I am very happy with my recent acquisitions and have managed to stay above the gold cap so far. I'm really looking forward to posting my graph of liquid gold since I finally started tracking it before Mists of Pandaria was released. The BMAH has introduced some significant bumps in the short time it has been active.


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This title was really the best I could do. Today I'm talking about benches in the kitchen and how I really want one.
I love bench seating in the kitchen especially when the bench is under a window.
I also love the extra storage they add in the kitchen
I recently purchased a wooden bench to use in my kitchen
I love that it's made from reclaimed wood. The size isn't bad either. It can sit all three of my boys and one more!
The only thing that bothers me with it, is that I have a round table and only one of the boys can sit on the bench at the table.
Because I don't want to give up on my bench seating and the extra storage it adds to my kitchen, I decided to just add the leaf to my table (Though I actually haven't added it yet)
Now all three of my boys can sit at the bench and eat if they want to!
I'm going to add a few pillows to the bench, but I doubt I'd add a cushion because I really like how the wood looks. Now I need to go and find a few baskets to place underneath it.
What do you think about bench seating in the kitchen?! I'm headed back into the kitchen to finish painting the table and now the leaf


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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:35 pm
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I just recieved a Super Graphic Y-cord from Ritz.... It was supposed to work....
Anyway, it just sparked my curiosity...
My assumption is that this cord is simply a straight wired connection from pin to socket. Is that correct? Or is there something 'special' inside any of the molded plugs?
This one has absolutely no continuity from any pin to any pin/plug. And I don't know why I bothered, but it also doesn't fire the flash o the camera...
So before I try for a refund, or eat it as a "collectible", I just thought I'd ask if anyone had personal experience at looking at the inside of one of these cords...
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:51 pm
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I'll double-check it again later. I don't know how I could get it wrong? Seems there would have to be some continuity between at leat one set of pins...
I know the camera and socket are good because I have a home made cable in there now. Which should indicate that I know the wiring... But sometimes the simplest thing is the easiest the screw up...
I've already heard back from Ritz. They'll of course take it back, but he said he tested the cable a month ago when he got it. Justr seems odd to me that all the connections are bad, so maybe I did something wrong? So I'll let it sit, then look at it again later... I just hate to lose something after I've got it in my hands... But this design cable is deffinitely not repairable, in any cosmetic sense anyway. All moulded plugs.....
"Ya just can't have too many GVIIs"
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:20 am
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Well, double, triple and quadruple checked...
I pulled out my tone tracer. Got tone all the way from the pins to the "Shutter/Remote" splitter. Got tone through the Remote cable, but loses it at the plug. Don't really get tone through the Shutter cable. But there I deffinitely get scratchy 'broken wire' type noises... The cable is deffinitely bad...
Now I just have to talk myself out of keeping it and splitting open the Y junction plug to re-wire it all.....
Hmmm... Anyone know where I could find that old type rubber coated round wire???
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:47 pm
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I have several of these cords, all brand new. I will check these to see what the connections are. If the one you have is defective and you still need one, let me know. May I ask what they cost? Thanks
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On 2005-03-24 09:47, fotch wrote:
I have several of these cords, all brand new. I will check these to see what the connections are. If the one you have is defective and you still need one, let me know. May I ask what they cost? Thanks
Mine is deffinitely defective. And being me, instead of returning it, I'm going to try to split open the plugs and rewire it. The kind of thing I do late at night to keep busy...
And since there's no selling allowed on this board, check your private mail
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:03 pm
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All three have the same connections. One of them still has the new box it comes in, from Singer. Connections as follows:
1 2
I I to Y
1 2
I I to Y
Main (3 Pin connector)
1 2 3
O O O to wire which Y is connected
Shutter 1 to Main 2
Shutter 2 to (not connected)
Remote 1 to Main 1
Remote 2 to Main 3
Hopefully this will make sense otherwise I can scan the drawing in an email you the photo. Good Luck.
PS. I was not aware about the "no sales" and thank you for advising me. Please forgive my ignorance.
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:58 am
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I'm not sure about your diagram.
"Shutter 2 to (not connected) "???
It could possibly work if the remote was plugged in and that connection was grounded, which was not common or very safe.
On my cord, both shutter connection follow down to the 3 pin body plug. Although the black wires do both connect to the same pin ("A" on the Graflex documentation)...
It's not the wiring that's in question, now anyway as I've already cut into the connectors... The whole problem turns out to be the rubber tube around the wires that Graflex used. This dried and rotted the vinyl insulation on the two wires inside the tube. When they were flexed, it broke the thin copper wires inside. This would have been an easy fix if they didn't use molded plugs.... Or if I didn't care about trying to save the original plugs... But some carful slicing, a bit of dremel digging, and I may get new wires inside that rubber tube... With luck, the repair won't even be that obvious, from a moving car, at 60mph.....
Al the fun of Graflex equipment...
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Just some additional info...
I thought it might help others to see what the Super does with those flash connector pins. So here's the schematic out of the service manual:
This shows the connections inside the camera and the plug designations (A, B, C).
And some thoughts... After slicing into the plns on my original Y-cord, I certainly could not recommend to anyone to buy an original cord and expect it to work. The insulation on the internal wires is rendered extremely brittle because of the rubber coating on the outside. Any flexing at all breaks the wires...
I took a look a Paramount to see about a new cord. They do make them, but gees, at some cost!
So... There's another thread around here somplace about making flash cords. Very simple using silicon rubber or liquid tape, or both. Use a Radio Shack "Adaptaplug 'G'" and Adaptaplug socket for the PC side (if you want a modern PC connection. A household plug is just that simple, an AC household plug...
For the Super flash connector, I used .094 (3/32) brass rod to make the pins. Solder the wires for the PC connection to the pins and slop on the silicon... The whole thing may cost 10 bucks...
I thought my .094 rod was a bit too thin when I made my cable, but it was all I had that would fit. When I got the real cable, the pins measured .094... Maybe I have a loose socket?
Anyway, this thread should make clear all that anyone would want to know about Super Y-cords and how to make them. If you decide to make one for yourself and have any questions, feel free to ask...
And after a thought... I'm not knocking Paramount. At least they are making cords for Graflex cameras! Noone else is that I know of. And if you can't understand the schematic above or are not proficient with a soldering iron, then their service is worth the cost. And, ummm, their cords do tend to look a whole lot better than mine
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Hi Rich...Just a thought...I'm not sure what your original cord looks like (or lookED like before it's recent surgery). But from what I've seen it appears that there were atleast 2 generations of these Y-cords.
The first (earliest?) type has a "squarish"-molded "Y" connection that reads SHUTTER and REMOTE. The later version has a more "triangular" molded "Y" connection. I have both types and I think that the first type with the square-molded connection is more durable today, i.e. has probably stood the test of time better, than the later style. On the earlier cord, the outer black rubber insulation is much thicker and more durable on the 2 short legs that lead up to the household plugs. The later cord has much thinner and flimsier outer insulation, and this cord I feel like I have to gingerly treat with kid gloves lest these 2 short pieces will either fall apart or be separated from the plugs.
Would anyone know approximately when Graflex made these types of changes on the "Y" cords? Not that there's a definitive answer, nor that it really matters, I guess. A good estimate might be some time around 1964 or 1965?
I would definitely try to find one of the older style cords with the thicker insulation. Mine has worked fine since I brought it home, got it to my drafting table and scrubbed the household and pin contacts with Never-Dull. It is this older cord that is pictured in the SSG manual that I have.
Just my 2 cents worth.........
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I would have no doubts that Graflex made changes, to everything, all the time
I have no idea about the Y-cords though. The only one I've ever seen is the one I have...
Mine has a triangular "Y" with 'Shutter' and 'Remote' engraved in white letters. Hmmm, didn't notice before, but it does NOT look ike the one on page 10 of the service manual... Is that one the 'square' type you mention? The service manual I have is from after '65, but I don't see a date anywhere. They documented the change in the Super that occured (I believe) in '65...
There's a lot of factors that would affect these cords. The storage, usage (more use the better), temperature, humidity, etc. The big problem with the older electronics was the use of rubber. It had a high sulfur content and cause corrosion and degredation of other parts. And it was still in common use in the 80's. I remember when my old company stopped using rubber insulators in the 80's. Suprising it took 30 or 40 years to realize the problem....
Really what it comes down to is that any electric type cord should be suspect after 40 or 50 years. I had good luck with the bi-pole shutters cords that I bought and maybe this Y-cord just saw a bad life? But after seeing this one, seeing what Paramount wants for a new one, and making my own... I'll be happy with my really ugly cord
If I had the chance to pick up a "working" Y-cord for the right price, I might grab it, mostly because of what mine has now gone through... But I won't be searching for one...
Okay, checked through my catalogs... From 1962 through 1968, the part number remained 2802. From 1964 through 1968, the cord they show is the same as the '65 service manual with the squarish 'Y' connection. So the triangular one is either older than 1962 or newer than 1968... Maybe someone else has catalog from other years?
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Hi Dustin! I would like to get some extra hitting in. I can play this Friday at 6:00 pm if that time is good for you.
Thanks for responding. I would love to play but Fridays are not so good for me. I have a standing dinner every Friday night about that time. How about Thursday night at Cedar Park HS 6pm?
Ok, I can play tomorrow, Thursday, 6pm.Chris
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Unfortunately, when Cliff Lee faces CC Sabathia on Wednesday night, they'll have to put their close friendship aside and wage a battle of Champions. Lee and Sabathia were teammates in Cleveland and are very close.
When the new Yankee Stadium opened on April 16th, the winning pitcher was Lee in a matchup against Sabathia. On that day, Sabathia struggled with his command and was gone long before the bullpen imploded by allowing 9 runs in the 7th inning. Lee wiggled in and out of trouble but avoided any damage in the 9-2 victory by the Cleveland Indians. Jose Veras (remember him?) was the loser, so there are no chances of a repeat performance by the same guys. But note to Joe Girardi, stay away from Damaso Marte…far away!
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Sophomore Kaitlyn Nealon (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) ended the shutout with 7:29 remaining in the half and cut MIT's deficit to 8-1. The Ephs added goals by senior Margie Fulton (Wellesley, Mass.) and Bell, but Du connected on feed from Muri for the first goal of her career with just over three minutes on the clock. Junior Alex Sera (Davidsonville, Md.) and sophomore Stephanie Gallo (Manhasset, N.Y.) closed out the first-half scoring, resulting in a 12-2 lead for Williams at the intermission.
Weinstein was a factor in the first three goals of the second stanza as she picked up assists on efforts by senior Meera Sivalingam (Philadelphia, Pa.) and junior Emily Whicker (Potomac, Md.) before finding the back of the net herself. The Du-Muri connection returned at the 18:41 mark; however, Whicker responded almost five minutes later with an unassisted goal that increased the margin to 16-3. Senior Katie Kauffman (Olney, Md.) buried a free-position shot, which proved to be the final goal for the Engineers. A solo effort by Sera and a free-position blast by sophomore Maggie MacCallum (Rochester, N.Y.) wrapped up the scoring.
Kauffman paced the Cardinal and Gray with four draw controls as Nealon added two of her own. Junior Molly McShane (Lake Bluff, Ill.) and Muri both collected two groundballs while McShane earned a caused turnover. In net, sophomore Sarah Ritter (The Woodlands, Texas) picked up five saves.
Fulton notched four draw controls while Gallo collected three for the Ephs. Bell led the way with three groundballs, followed by two apiece from sophomore Lacey Hankin (Glyndon, Md.), junior Grace Horwitz (Ridgewood, N.J.), junior Katie Pettengill (South Hadley, Mass.), Fleishhacker, and Sera. Sophomore goalie Ali Piltch (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) came away with the win despite not registering a save.
Next up for MIT (0-2) will be a trip to Bridgewater State University on Thursday, March 15. Williams (1-1) returns to action on Saturday, March 17 in its home-opener against NESCAC foe Trinity College.