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|2012-10-12, 09:53
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While I can sympathize with the many complaints this series seems to be getting, I personally am finding it a very engaging, immersive, and rewarding watch.
For me, the slow and careful buildup is making this narrative much more enriching and fulfilling to sort of dig my teeth into. Admittedly, it can seem slow when watched in separate 20-something minute chunks. In fact, what it's making me think of so far is an excellent animated movie (or movie series) that's been sliced into a bunch of anime episodes to air on TV. A part of the reason for this is the thick and powerful soundtrack which really does sound like something I'd expect to hear in a movie theater more than on a TV screen.
But this world has truly made me believe in it, which is impressive given the weirdness that is going on.
And I like the sharp contrast between our two lead male protagonists: One of them driven entirely by a thirst for revenge, and even smirking constantly like he was playing the villain. The other one displaying just the slightest touch of sadness over the metallic death plague, while thinking a bit more "big picture" and carefully and shrewdly taking everything in while trying to decide what to do next.
Neither is exactly your conventional anime male protagonist, but both contain some elements of him. And both are somehow more realistic for it. That helps a lot in the overall believability of this anime's fictional world.
All of the above being said, I hope that we do "move over to the next town/city" or something like that next episode. I think that this "first setting" has been played out as well as it can be, and it might be time to shift gears a bit.
|2012-10-12, 11:07
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Now or Never
Zetsuen has been licensed.
|2012-10-12, 11:16
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|2012-10-12, 11:22
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Hakaze is just a guide so far.
Hope we'll get to see her magic in real action.
Mahiro seems to only care about finding his sister's killer.
Yoshino on the other hand is pretty clueless and naive.
Things seem to be changing for Yoshino.
|2012-10-12, 11:37
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But I find the bitterness in his tone only added to his emoness.
I can't find the sorrowfulness his displayed in the manga anywhere in the anime.
The contrast between his smooth, often smiling exterior with some gesture of uncaringness and his sorrofulness inside is what I liked about Yoshino.
How he appears pretty gloomy most of the time in the anime really killed his charm to me.
|2012-10-12, 12:38
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mmm, nice episode. I thought that Yoshino was a different character, given the description we got in the first episode, but it seems that it was related only to the fact that he and aika were hiding their relationship from Mashiro. So, he seems to be the typical good guy who discovers to have some very good skills in shooting/fighting /etc. Anyways I liked how they played with the secret.
I can't really say that Mashiro is more affected that Yoshino, (even if it wouldn't be that odd, I mean, she was her sister) it's simply that Mashiro has super-powers and Yoshino hasn't.
Anyways for the entire episode I switched from Yoshino and Mashiro being the killer.
About the music, I like it very much, but I have to agree that they are misusing it and overplaying it, not all the scenes needs that kind of music
And yes the pace is a bit slow but for now it's ok.
On a side note, until now I haven't connected the dots about the three episodes/bones issue. Now I connected it :ao:
|2012-10-12, 13:16
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|2012-10-12, 13:22
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I guess for me is that I'm not sure what more they can do with this place that's now basically a ghost town. I think that sticking there for two full episodes was a good decision because it allowed the tragedy of this metallic death to settle in a bit more, giving it a greater sense of depth and horror to me.
But yeah, the emptiness and tragedy of this setting is now crystal clear, and part of me is eager to see what happens next.
But ah well, I suppose if they do stay around this city for another episode that might make it a convenient locale for an uninterrupted one-on-one fight anyway.
|2012-10-12, 13:42
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I disagree with you all.
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And the clue from ep2 is that there's a darkness in him that'd allow him to kill in cold blood. Or to make deals with someone he was having a potentially deadly fight with just seconds before.
|2012-10-12, 13:49
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I don't know, Yoshino always appeared pretty bitter to me. I think he's an extremely interesting character. Hell i think Mahiro and Aika are extremely interesting characters too. Two of them dating behind the third's back and one of them ending up murdered really is an interesting twist to the "two guys and a girl" dynamic. I'm liking what I'm seeing so far.
|2012-10-12, 14:42
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|2012-10-12, 14:57
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Although I don't think Evangeline's point was that Yoshino is able to kill in cold blood, more like that when it comes to that Yoshino won't be held back by compassion or pity. I don't think he would've killed Evangeline, but he would've certainly incapacitated her. Basically, Yoshino is not a person you want to piss off.
Then again, this is just my impression of him, as a non-manga reader.
|2012-10-12, 15:33
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|2012-10-12, 16:24
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Me personally as a childhood friend couple shipper, Yoshino is like catharsis for me. Not gonna lie, was completely bummed out when I learned that Aika is dead. And if Mahiro is emotion incarnate concerning the death of Aika, Yoshino in contrast is extremely logical. He is right, in that what would killing the killer accomplish? No, Yoshino asks himself what can he do for her in this 'world that is out of joint'.
Because hey, if magic can do those things, is there a possibility to revive her? In the normal world there isn't, but in this world where people can practically teleport and people are turned to metal? Looks like he at least is holding out a tiny shred of hope for Aika, which I'm holding out for too.
|2012-10-12, 18:56
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|2012-10-12, 20:13
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I love Yoshino, I have been reading the manga and he is the most interesting character in the entire manga, you never know what he is thinking or what he will do next. Mahiro it's okay, but Yoshino is something else. I don't like how they changed the fight between him and Evangeline though. They didn't show Yoshino true character.
|2012-10-13, 02:58
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I'm really hoping they aren't going to pull a fast one and make Yoshino the killer... He's the most interesting character in the series so far and I want more flashback scenes of him with Aika! With the chance of changing the past or bringing her back somehow...
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"Funny," she said, "How much right-side-up can come from upside down."
This hopeful message greets me every morning when I sit down at my desk and reread the card a very understanding friend sent to me during my recent upheavals. The picture accompanying the caption shows someone bending over backward, her head upside down, with a bemused, but not overly fearful expression on her face and a Ferris wheel in the background. My friend inquired: "Could this be you?"
Five centuries ago, if the greeting card industry had been flourishing then, one might have sent this card to Iñigo de Loyola, whose feast day we celebrate on July 31. His knee, his pride and his burgeoning military career had just been shattered by a cannon ball while he was defending the fortress of Pamplona against a French assault. From one moment to the next, everything he thought he was about and had well under control was in pieces. It brings to mind Humpty Dumpty, who, after falling off a wall, could not be put back together again, even by all the king's horses and all the king's men.
The right-side-up from this particular upside down would reveal itself through a long and painful period of convalescence, a dramatic spiritual conversion and a total change of plan —from Iñigo's plan for himself to God's plan for Ignatius.
Humpty Dumpty seems to be an especially meaningful symbol right now. I have observed his various crashes on the world stage and in my own domestic arrangements, and I am left asking myself in the light of my friend's card: "Is the egg really smashed, or is it hatching?" Might a chick be emerging from the broken pieces?
On the domestic scene, I am in the throes of moving house—but nothing so simple as moving from House A to House B. There is, as yet, no House B, and House A is no longer mine. I feel like Indiana Jones standing on a cliff and wondering whether a bridge will appear, knowing that the only way to find out is to step forward.
So for the intervening months I have become more than usually itinerant, partly travelling, partly gratefully receiving the hospitality of friends; and soon I will move to temporary accommodation in Scotland, where I hope to discover the elusive House B. The right-side-up of all this is a rediscovery of the importance and the difficulty of "detachment"—of sitting lightly to all created things, so that if and when it becomes necessary, they can be let go. The pain involved in that letting-go is a birthing pain. Something new is emerging, not just in where I will live but in how I will live.
Nationally, Humpty recently fell off the back of the sacred cow of bipartisan adversarial politics in the United Kingdom. To everyone's complete amazement, we woke up one May morning to discover that we had no government. The message of the people had been resoundingly delivered: We want you now to work together, rather than against each other, for the greater good of us all and not just of your own parties.
It was a stunningly upside-down week, followed by months of adjustment to the new face of British politics. The right-side-up will show itself, we hope in a new spirit of cooperation. A lot of humble pie has been eaten, and words uttered in anger have had to be swallowed. Not a bad way to begin a new era.
And if all of that were not enough to contemplate, along came the infamous cloud of volcanic ash indiscriminately grounding our travel plans, leaving us stranded around the globe. The upside down was all over our television screens, even if we were not personally caught up in the disorder. The right-side-up began to dawn: "God is the creator and we are the creatures"—a first principle of life and of Ignatius' insights. We may have all the plans in the world, but the eruption of a minor volcano in a remote land can bring them crashing down, and the chick that hatches from the mess is named humility, a call to return to a right understanding of the way things are—God-centered, not me-centered.
Jesus warns us often that things may have to break down before they can be renewed, that the seed has to fall into the ground before the new life can sprout, that the egg has to break before the chick can hatch.
What makes God laugh? People who make plans! Jesus knew it. Ignatius discovered it. We are learning it.
Margaret Silf

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USC signs star-studded class, also loses a few
Although Southern California signed another loaded recruiting
class Wednesday, the Trojans were left lamenting the talent that
got away.
USC formally added 13 players on national signing day, including
seven elite prospects who already enrolled last month as freshmen.
The recruiting class is even smaller than the limits imposed by
NCAA sanctions, which are still hampering the Trojans' recruiting
efforts through next season.
"If you're only going to sign 13, our top 13 are better than
anybody else's top 13, and I don't think anybody can argue that,"
coach Lane Kiffin said.
Yet even while lauding another class stacked with five-star
recruits, Kiffin acknowledged he didn't get everybody he wanted,
losing players to a combination of the Trojans' NCAA problems,
their awful 2012 season, Kiffin's own job uncertainty and the usual
caprices of teenagers choosing colleges.
"When you go big-game fishing, you're not going to get a lot of
them, but you're going to get some really good guys," Kiffin said.
"They're the cream of the crop – impact players."
Kiffin and star recruiter Ed Orgeron led the effort to ink
several high schoolers ranked among the nation's best at their
positions, including quarterback Max Browne, defensive lineman
Kenny Bigelow and safeties Su'a Cravens and Leon McQuay III.
They're already enrolled at USC along with defensive back Chris
Hawkins, tailback Justin Davis and receiver Darreus Rogers, a
signee from last February who needed a year to get eligible.
USC added six incoming freshmen Wednesday, headlined by elite
offensive lineman Nico Falah from nearby Bellflower, Calif. The
group also includes tailback Ty Isaac, receiver Steven Mitchell,
offensive lineman Khaliel Rodgers and linebackers Michael Hutchings
and Quinton Powell.
"We think that these players can come in right away and help
us," Kiffin said. "Probably a couple of them will start. We
obviously have some holes to fill. We've been on them for a long
time. It's not a ton of guys, but I don't feel like we reached,
either. We took players that are able to perform at this
Falah's commitment to the Trojans apparently wavered late in the
process, but he stuck with USC – unlike cornerback Jalen Ramsey,
defensive end Jason Hatcher, defensive end Torrodney Prevot, safety
Max Redfield and defensive tackle Eddie Vanderdoes, who all
committed to USC earlier in the recruiting process before heading
"As you look at college football recruiting, commitment means
less and less," said Kiffin, who left Tennessee for USC three
years ago after 14 months in charge of the Volunteers. "It's kind
of not cool anymore to be an early commit."
Kiffin cited several reasons for the Trojans' recruiting losses,
including their "really bad season" featuring USC's fall from the
preseason No. 1 ranking to a 7-6 record and an ignominious loss to
Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl. Kiffin realizes his own job
uncertainty put doubt in recruits' minds, given the criticism he
received from fans and alumni for the performance of a team
featuring Matt Barkley, Robert Woods, Marqise Lee and a
talent-laden defense.
"We didn't help. You go 7-6 and finish the way we did, it's not
going to help our energy," Kiffin said. "It gave other schools
more time to catch up to us and pass us in some cases."
Although the Trojans cited their scholarship restrictions as a
factor in many of last season's woes, cutting into the depth that
was exposed during their late-season fade, Kiffin elected not to
sign less-heralded players to fill out the USC roster after those
big names decommitted. Kiffin won't stop looking for late recruits,
but USC apparently won't fill its five available scholarships.
The Trojans' small class has an added benefit, however: USC can
sign 20 players in 2014, five over its NCAA-mandated limit in the
final year of severe scholarship restrictions.
"We just made a decision that we'd rather have those spots for
next year and sign 20 next year," Kiffin said.


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My grandson is graduating from preschool and will even wear a cap and gown. Here's some advice for him to remember as he negotiates kindergarten, grade school and beyond to the coming inevitable lessons.
You have a light, a spark within that is your true identity. Everyone has it. It connects us to God, whether we realize it or not. This light is your Soul/Spirit, your gift from God, and it is why you are the light of the world. It is in everyone — no exceptions. Connect to it every day, for it gives energy in the form of Love. See the light in others. Sometimes if you forget the light, others will inspire you. Knowing this light is "being in spirit." It connects to love and is always merciful and accepting.
You have two types of thoughts that run through your mind. One speaks of kindness and acceptance. The other speaks of fear and judgment. They are exact opposites. You have a powerful mind that can decide which one to follow. One voice speaks of love and will make you happy. The other, the ego, will make you feel alone and separate. Follow the kind voice, even if you think it will not make you popular or rich. It is from the wise spirit within — intuition, an inner feeling or knowing. It knows the peaceful way. Follow its advice.
You can choose peace when things are chaotic around you by saying: "I am spirit, the light of the world. I am Loved." Breathe in and say it over and over. You are pouring calm onto the mind's chaos and remembering your true identity is spirit and not ego. Quietly listen, because truth within has something important to tell you. God is pure love and never condemns.
When you are afraid or think people do not like you or if they bully you, tell them with your thoughts, "You are the light of the world along with me," and smile at them. Make a friend. Invite them over. President Lincoln said, "To defeat an enemy make him your friend." When you reach out they may say "no," but deep down they want to say "yes." The important thing is that you have said "yes" to them and you do not have an enemy. When we help others, we help ourselves as well. See things as either love or a call for love.
Be honest. If you find yourself disliking someone, there is something in yourself you dislike. Ask: "What is it that bothers me?" Maybe you wish you were like them — as smart, rich, talented or had their toys. Your ego thoughts are creating judgment and separation. Don't believe them but look at them and say: "I have everything because I am loved by God and so are they." Bless them for their gifts and know they are loved as you are. This is how to forgive and let go.
When you give, you receive. You can give things away, and they are no longer yours. But when you give love away with your thoughts, it returns because love is in your mind. If you give fear, it also returns because it is in your mind. Which feels the best?
This all sums up to this: Be kind, no matter what comes or may happen. Everyone has problems in life, everyone has fears and worries that they do not talk about. Let kindness for all including yourself guide you in life. You can stand up for yourself, but do so from the love within. Bring the gifts you were given at birth and share them with the world. Exclude no one from your love. Not even a murderer. He/she has suffered and did not know they were loved. Give compassion and have compassion. Give hate and you have hate within.
Congratulations. There may be more advice in the years ahead but for now remember to love yourself, everyone you meet, and have fun.
Sally McKirgan facilitates the Inner Peace column and one of several local A Course In Miracles groups. Send 600 to 700 word articles on inner peace to: firstname.lastname@example.com Her blog at www.innerpeaceforyou.me.
Graduation advice
My grandson is graduating from preschool and will even wear a cap and gown. Here's some advice for him to remember as he negotiates kindergarten, grade school and beyond to the coming inevitable lessons.


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Mobility, Developer, Enterprise, Multimedia, and Much More: 49 Hot Open Source Applications
Appliances, Audio Players, Browsers, Workflow, developer
What's new in the open source world? We've put together a list of software that was first released (or first made open source) in the last couple of years. While many of these apps are still early in the development process, they're all usable, and in fact, have all acquired fairly substantial user bases in a short time.
What do they have in common? While the apps on our list cover a gamut of categories, we did uncover a few trends.
First, a number of the most successful new open source projects relate to mobility. Several can be used on a USB thumb drive (Appetizer, WinPenPack, UNetbootin), and several others were specifically developed for netbooks (Easy Peasy, eeebuntu, Moblin). Other applications make it easier to use mobile devices like iPods (SyncDocs, MP4 Creator, Streamy).
Second, quite a few of the applications on the list appeal primarily to enterprise users. For example, Turnkey Linux offers open source virtual appliances that are primarily of interest to large organizations. And ProcessMaker, AJAX Chat, and LogicalDOC, also focus on the enterprise market.
Third, multimedia continues to be a hot topic. Songbird, cPlay, Kaltura, Elltube, and others aim to help users do more with their audio and video files.
Finally - and we're not sure if this is significant or not - we found two applications designed to make users smarter: gBrainy and Brain Workshop. Could it be that the open source community is getting older and worrying about short-term memory loss (gasp!)?
Without further ado, here's our list of hot, new open source applications.
Turnkey offers a variety of virtual appliances pre-configured for tasks like Web development, content management, messaging, and database management. It makes it possible to deploy some of the best server-based open-source applications in just minutes. Available appliances include the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP), Joomla, Drupal, MediaWiki, Apache Tomcat, and many others. Operating System: Linux.
Audio Tools
2. Songbird
The open source answer to iTunes, Songbird is a music player, store, organizer, and more. One of its best features, mashTape, displays Flickr photos, YouTube videos, biographies, and news articles related to the artist currently playing. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
3. cPlay
This audio player offers outstanding sound quality with a minimalist interface. The Web site also includes extensive information on factors that affect audio playback. Operating System: Windows.
4. MP3 Diags
Have some of your MP3 files become corrupted? MP3 Diags lets you fix many of the most common problems and make other changes. Operating System: Windows.
5. Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard
Use your computer's keyboard or mouse to play a tune. Note that you will need some additional software and/or hardware in order to get the application to work. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
6. Chrome
No doubt about it, the launch of Google's browser was one of the biggest open source releases of the last couple of years. And while it has a long way to go to match the user base of Explorer and Firefox, its speed and simplicity appeal to an ever-growing number of users. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
Business Process Management
7. ProcessMaker
ProcessMaker helps enterprises simplify their workflows, eliminate paperwork, and become more efficient. In addition to the free, open-source version, it's also available with paid support or as a hosted application. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
Desktop Enhancements
8. Appetizer
Appetizer launches applications and opens folders from a Mac-like dock instead of the Windows Start menu. It can also be used with applications stored on USB thumb drives and even includes built-in support for Portable Apps.com. Operating System: Windows.
9. Circle Dock
Launch your programs from a circular dock with great background graphics. It's still in the early stages of development, but worth a look. Operating System: Windows.
Developer Tools
10. Evolutility
Build your own database-based Web applications without writing any code manually. It's easy to integrate into existing Web sites, offers a lightweight footprint, and supports all the major browsers. Operating System: Windows.
11. AJAX Chat
This Web chat software features multiple channels, private channels, private messaging, invitation system, controls for offensive users, custom emoticons, and more. It also integrates easily with popular forum software like phpBB, myBB, etc. Operating System: OS Independent.
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- 2. Document Management, eBook Organizer, Games, Operating Systems
- 3. Photo Tools, Video Tools, Time Tracking, System Administration, Utilities


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480. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowgadgetgeek Apr 6, 2012 5:58 AM (in response to terry275)
I don't mind alerting them to the problem. In fact I searched the Adobe website for some time trying to find a place that I could log the issue with them. The only support pages I could find made it very clear that I would be paying for any support issues I had. I was rather disgusted at the thought of paying for Lightroom and then paying for support for non-functional software.
If they would like more people to log the issue then I believe they should make support more available to their own customers. The only reason I sought out this message board was because support is fee-based and therefore unreachable.
481. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowMarceloTrad Apr 6, 2012 8:03 AM (in response to gadgetgeek)
I've also downloaded 4.1 RC and I'm running it!
Tethered Capture is terrible slow and I have to restart the program a lot
when it freezes everything once every 30min of work. Not intense work but
when taking 1 photo every 30s!
Not that Lr 3.6 was perfect on tethered. Only Capture One and Nikon Capture
software runs perfectly smooth.
Everything slows down a ton when using on tethered and is just impossible
to work.
I did not notice more then 20% improvement on overall speed on 4.1 RC and
I'm hoping when 4.1 finaly comes out it will solve more issues and speed up
more. Otherwise I'm gonna return my licence and just stick with 3.6!
The new functions do not justify the slowness at all!
Marcelo Trad
482. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowandreas603 Apr 8, 2012 5:58 AM (in response to MarceloTrad)
+1 for Marcelo's post... I am dumbfounded as to how Adobe can release such a product and ask people to pay for it....$99 or not...its still a fair bit of money and an *expectation* based on the Adobe brand reputation. LR is simply a DOG...and not just 4 or worse 4.1 "RC"...in particular for tethering.... I downloaded Capture One demo and tested tethering yesterday on both LR 3.6, 4.1 RC and CO v6....wired and wireless via Eye fi using my Canon 5D Mark III as well as Mark II...First, to be fair, neither program recognizes my new Mark III yet when tethered via USB...that will surely be rectified..however when transferring wirelessly, there is an OCEAN of difference in performace btwn the two programs.... Small example to illustrate: Using only Large JPGs, Tethered directly with a Mark II, the shot appears in CO in about 2 seconds in full resolution...same exact computer but using either LR 3.6 or 4.1 it takes 7, nearly 8 seconds...thats THREE TO FOUR TIMES SLOWER in LR... When you're in the event business (or any high speed shoot like a modeling shoot, etc) this is a KILLER. Using my Mark III via eye fi its about 2 seconds longer with both programs due to the wireless transfer lag.... but to be most illustrative as possible... Capture One with wireless transfer via Eye fi is 4 seconds and LR is 10 seconds...****So Capture One with wireless transfer is twice as fast as tethered USB transfer with LR!!***** If you're doing an event shoot with a line of people you can process twice as many wirelessly or 3 times wired...thats potentially 3 times more income in the same period of time than when using LR.
Not withstanding the other performance issue that continues to dog LR 4.1 RC related to develop slider, sluggish controls, etc, I can't see how a professional shooter who relies on speed of ingest can seriously buy or use LR. I have no experience with Aperture but I'd sure like to know how fast that is.... Fact remains that CO is still much pricier than LR or Aperture but for a professional, paying a couple extra hunded buck for *speed* is recovered in about 2 hours of working with CO! Im going to also assume that CO product marketing folks are also monitoring forums like these and are seriously considering lowering their price (personally I think it would be a smart move while Adobe is quite vulnerable).... One has to ask of LR is being positioned more for casual consumer use than professional with this latest release and poor tethering performance.
483. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowMarceloTrad Apr 8, 2012 9:04 AM (in response to andreas603)
Thank's Andreas for your post!
I wish Adobe would read all this since is their forum, but I've heard that
this is not happening right now!
Marcelo Trad
484. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowDNJphoto Apr 9, 2012 7:00 AM (in response to BCormier)
Hi Folks. Im yet to read the 10 pages before this post but I'm yet another person having issues with the slowness of Lightroom 4.
Current specs:
I72600K @ 5Ghz
GTX570 graphics
32Gb DDR3
120GB SSD SSD as boot.
Storage wise I'm using 2 Adaptec 51645 series running a complex raid setup. Suffice to say the Read/Write speed exceeds 1200MB/s so hardly a bottle neck. There is a 500Gb Raid 0 partition set for scratch disk. ( Which in LR4 they limit to 200 odd GB )
What the fruit cake does it take to get LR4 to run well? A 16 core system with 120Gb plus memory and a 24x SSD RAID 0 setup?
( currently running the 4.1 version )
485. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowMarceloTrad Apr 9, 2012 7:02 AM (in response to DNJphoto)
yeah...Adobe and Intel are planing to rule the world with a new i11 with 22
core @44k/hz and Lr4 Capable HyperThreads!
Marcelo Trad
486. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowJao vdL Apr 9, 2012 7:43 AM (in response to DNJphoto)
Actually it seems for some perverse reason that the faster the machine the
slower LR4 appears to people. Perhaps this is an expectations issue (people
with monster machines expect their machine to fly through everything) but
there might be something real here. As a datapoint, I mainly run LR4 on an
older generation Mac book air (core 2 duo) with only 4 GB of ram. It is no
slower than LR3 on this machine except for develop being slightly slower
because of the more intensive processing it does. I edit 80 megapixel
16-bit tiffs on this thing (often stored on an external USB 2 hard drive)
without much issue. Sometimes have to wait a few seconds for those monster
files to load. If people have issues on i7s with gobs of ram something is
487. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowDNJphoto Apr 9, 2012 8:11 AM (in response to BCormier)
I import 250 Sony NEXC3 RAW files which are 16mp for reference.
.. Wait till thats done.
.... I then go to export them changing the long edge to 1600. This takes 10mins.
Canon 5DMkII I Import 1200 RAW files which are 22Mp each.
.. Wait till thats done.
.... I then go to export them changing the long edge to 1600. This takes over 90mins.
I think that is slow considering the system at hand. Im willing to do a screen video and upload to youtube to show my experiences. However I'm not aware of the software for recording screens which is free.
488. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowdorin_nicolaescu Apr 9, 2012 8:07 AM (in response to Jao vdL)
Jao vdL: Actually it seems for some perverse reason that the faster the machine the slower LR4 appears to people.
Ok now... what's Lightroom maximal system requirements?
I never ran Lightroom on a powerful machine and never ever had speed issues since version 1.0. Now I have last gen Core i3 550 ith 4GB at work; before that, I had Pentium 4 with 1GB for most of Lightroom 3's life cycle. At home, I have an Athlon x2 since the beginnig of Lighroom 2; I ran Lightroom 1 on single-core Sempron.
Go figure...
489. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowMarceloTrad Apr 9, 2012 8:29 AM (in response to dorin_nicolaescu)
I had a Centrino 1.8ghz with 4gb ram and no video card until last year with
Lr3.6 working with no issues!
Now I have a i7 with 8gb ram and Nvidia Quadro running Lr4.1 and I´m
wishing I had my old centrino crap with 3.6 on it!
If you did not had problems please send us all the miracle solution please!
Marcelo Trad
490. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowcschenk599 Apr 10, 2012 2:48 AM (in response to BCormier)
I've been using LR4 for a couple of hours. The slowdown everyone is reporting is definitely something that builds up over time since I never noticed anything from the start.
It starts with some slider lag in development and builds up to getting unusuable (every action take several seconds, the program turns into nigh-crash mode, crashes eventually).
The funny thing is: After having tortured my machine with it for a while, LR4 won't even reboot after crashing. There are definitely some memory issues going on with LR4. As it stands,
LR4 is unusable for me and I'm glad that I've got a very cheap upgrade.
I don't have the fastest machine on the planet, but it should be more than enough for LR4.
-i7 2630QM
-Nvidia gtx 560m
Yes, its a notebook and no, it's not overheating. It's barely peaking 40°.
491. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowDNJphoto Apr 10, 2012 6:16 PM (in response to BCormier)
I've rang up Adobe Tech Support in regards to the issue. All they did was take down my specs, do some CMD to get to enable a seperate Admin account and see if the issue occurs. Well ofcourse it still happened. That was level one Tech support. :S
Now waiting for Level 2 support to call back within 72 hours.
Apperantly there is onyl 3 levels of support but considering the "Advanced" skills of level one I think even level 3 will be stumped.
I also did ask Adobe direct " Do you not realise you have 500 replies on X page regarding the slowness of this software?
Adobe: " That is user forums, We don't have anything to do with that page"
492. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowA C G Apr 10, 2012 10:01 PM (in response to DNJphoto)
"That is user forums, We don't have anything to do with that page"
When a user looks at the Adobe logo at the top of the page and the copyright message at the bottom the 'user' is unlikely to assume that Adobe have nothing to do with it.
It's five years since I retired. At that time, when I had problems with my office PC, the off-site IT support logged into it, over the phone line, and did a remote diagnostic. I am sure technology has moved on in those five years. Why does not Adobe use it? My PC is standing by for a call from Adobe.
493. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowjsakhtar Apr 10, 2012 11:11 PM (in response to BCormier)
Have you all tried turning off OpenGL in the Preferences|Interface. It might help some of you. That or upgrade your video card drivers since they are providing the OpenGL implementation.
I think many of these suggestions would apply here: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/gpu-opengl-support-photoshop-cs4.html
I am using 4.1RC and it is much faster. The develop module takes some time to load on the first time, but subsequently is fast.
494. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowJohn Spacey Apr 10, 2012 11:51 PM (in response to MarceloTrad)
MarceloTrad wrote:
I had a Centrino 1.8ghz with 4gb ram and no video card until last year with
Lr3.6 working with no issues!
Now I have a i7 with 8gb ram and Nvidia Quadro running Lr4.1 and I´m
wishing I had my old centrino crap with 3.6 on it!
If you did not had problems please send us all the miracle solution please!
Marcelo Trad
It's extremely strange that there appears to be no miracle solution. I'm still amazed that my PC is doing at laest 3.8 BILLION things a second and is STILL ridiculously slow when editing some images.
495. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowMarceloTrad Apr 11, 2012 7:59 AM (in response to John Spacey)
How would we make Adobe read all this posts?
Marcelo Trad
496. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowmrTortex Apr 11, 2012 8:16 AM (in response to BCormier)
After giving up with LR4, and trying to edit a couple of thousand shots from a recent shoot, I decided to give it another go. It's now running at a useable rate for me, not lightning quick but not the wading through jelly performance of my first few tries. I did this:
1. Deleted LR4, Spotlight search and kill of anything left in my libraries.
2. Software update & system restart.
3. Install LR4.
4. Create a new libray, not an upgrade. Drag in my images and leave it running overnight to do whatever it does. At this point my system was running much harder and hotter then it ever did with LR3.x.
5. Restart system.
6. Use LR4 and notice the big difference.
I'm running on a MacBook Pro, i5 2.4GHz with 8GB of RAM, running to a 27" cinema display in clamshell mode. I have Lion 10.7.3 with all updates. My images are RAW shot from a Nikon D700, D7000 and Fuji X100. All my images are stored on a 3TB GTech GDrive hooked up with USB 2.0. I have an SSD as my main drive, but that only has applications and the OS on it.
Hope that helps, it probably wont, but hope it does.
497. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowbob frost Apr 11, 2012 8:18 AM (in response to MarceloTrad)
From: "MarceloTrad
How would we make Adobe read all this posts?
This is a User-to-User forum where we are supposed to help each other. If
you want help from Adobe staff, you should post on their forum -
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/products/photoshop_family_photoshop_lightro om
Bob Frost
498. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowandreas603 Apr 11, 2012 8:41 AM (in response to MarceloTrad)
Marcelo, thats because this is the wrong place to post! As noted before, this is NOT an adobe regulary watched area...none of the forums are...Thats why I would encourge anyone and everyone that is having this problem to post at the below site which is the official Adobe support community and bug reporting site. Specifically the thread about sluggishness is here:
499. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowMarceloTrad Apr 11, 2012 10:09 AM (in response to andreas603)
Thanks guys. I will do this and hope they listen!
Marcelo Trad
500. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowDNJphoto Apr 11, 2012 5:36 PM (in response to BCormier)
Well I spoke with Adobe yesterday. they agreed to having their conversation recorded. Which last a mere 2 hours. Some of the things the Floor manager stated in the call was astounding. None the less I personaly have made sure they have seen this thread. I questioned them if they value their customers and if they did why couldn't they offer one reply? In my belief Adobe didn't know which way to run. First stating they were aware of this thread and saying their working on it, to saying it's a Operating system issue to then saying it's a System issue to then saying it's a software conflict issue. To then the Floor managing stating that he is simply "guessing". :|
Honestly folks, I asked all the questions that I could think of to Adobe in order to find out what the heck was happening, when something will be done, when will we be informed, how they value their customers etc.
It was a quite in-depth phone call which I'd more than happy to add to this thread if I can quickly learn how to fix up the recording.
501. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowBKKDon Apr 11, 2012 7:10 PM (in response to BCormier)
Hi, For a comparision I use a HP Pavillion DV-4 (3 years old) for my travelling machine and it has the following set up:
Lightroom version: 4.1 RC [820174]
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, Version: 6.1 [7601]
Application/System architecture: x64
Physical processor count: 2 x 2.5 GHz (Dual Core Centrino 2)
Built-in memory: 4062.9 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 4062.9 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 458.0 MB (11.2%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 484.5 MB
Memory cache size: 276.3 MB
System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 1280x800
Adapter NVIDIA GeoForce 9200M
Dedicated Video Memory 512 MB
Typically it will take up to 10 seconds to start-up Lightroom 4.1RC and the first time I switch to the develop module it may take up to 5 seconds. After that there doesn't seem to be any lag in either processing or using the sliders. The
My typical workflow is: 1) Import CR2 files; 2) scan and mark those for rejection; 3) delete rejected photos; 4) convert all that are left to DNG deleting the originals.
My desktop machine is a Sony Vaio VPCL-218FG with 2 x i7 quad core processors (8 physical processors) with 8GB ram, 1024MB video memory (NVIDIA GeoForce GT540M) and that is a lot faster.
Hope this gives you some idea of the configurations that seem to work.
502. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowkwdaves Apr 11, 2012 8:46 PM (in response to gadgetgeek)
503. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowdorin_nicolaescu Apr 12, 2012 7:38 AM (in response to kwdaves)
That one is outdated.
Use this:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/products/photoshop_family_photoshop_lightro om
504. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowlauralobiancosword Apr 15, 2012 7:56 PM (in response to BCormier)
I downloaded the trial version of LR4 and WILL NOT be purchasing it. It is PAINFULLY slow. I usually can upload a few hundred pictures in a few minutes with LR3.6. It has been over an hour now and my raw files are still not uploading. The develop module is unresponsive as well. Changes take a few seconds before they show up.
505. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowJ.Chin Photography Apr 23, 2012 12:39 AM (in response to BCormier)
OMG! I just tried to edit a small set of photos in LR4 and moving around is painfully slow indeed compared to LR3.6.
All I did was go into Develop, crop the image, press "2" to set the rating and press "G" to go back to Library. From the moment I pressed "2" followed by "G", it was more than 15 seconds to get to Library. In LR3, that was like 2 seconds.
WTH did Adobe do to slow it down so much for the same exact steps?
506. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowMadscape Apr 23, 2012 2:36 PM (in response to J.Chin Photography)
Shame on me for not trying LR4 out , I just purchased the upgrade. Although I can see some nice new features. The lag time when using sliders or the adjustment brush is PAINFULLY slow...it renders this an unusable program to me. I also dont appreciate the fact that When I try to toggle over to CS5, I am prompted to download bridge 7.0 which isn't even available for download yet. This product WAS NOT ready for introduction yet . My computer absolutely Screams with any other photo editing task in LR3 CS5 or many others. If you haven't bought this yet DON'T till you read that things have been resolved. My guess is it won't be for a while ... what a shame ...
507. Re: Lightroom 4 is email@example.com Apr 24, 2012 12:53 PM (in response to Madscape)
Whew! I thought it was me. Misery loves company so I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that is two days behind deadline on a client's project because LR4 is taking so long to render images, change from one image to another, apply a brush stroke, and crashing! At first I suspected it might be the new Seagate external hard drive I was using, so I moved the entire folder of images (3300 images) to a hard drive I know works well. Same thing. So then I moved the entire folder of images right onto the Mac under Pictures, to make certain it isn't an issue with external HDs in general (I don't normally keep images on the 1TB internal Mac drive; I am only using 1.6GB of space with all my programs and have 10GB RAM). Same problem. Photoshop, Word, Outlook, Acrobat, et al, are working normally. The images only bog down in LR4. I don't believe the LR4 images are backwards compatible with LR3 or I would dump the new program. Anybody else have any ideas?
508. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowgregkmeyer Apr 24, 2012 4:47 PM (in response to firstname.lastname@example.com)
Why don't all you guys just revert your default process to the 2010 version
so that LR4 tests all the images as LR3 does. If you have to revert to LR3
anyway, that's the processes your using there.
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509. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowMadscape Apr 24, 2012 5:34 PM (in response to gregkmeyer)
I went in last night and upped the Camera raw cache... ( Edit/Prefrences/Filehandling/ ).... to 20.0 and it seemed to help things a little....
510. Re: Lightroom 4 is firstname.lastname@example.com Apr 24, 2012 6:02 PM (in response to gregkmeyer)
Greg, A good solution for the short term, thank you. I have spent three days working on 14 images that would have taken 1 day in LR3. I was just starting on the last image when your e-mail came in! I wish I had gotten it sooner, would have saved some of my hair. Using process 2010 the edits are almost instantaneous on my Mac. Anyway, I hope Adobe can address this issue with process 2012. As it is, it is unusable, and I don't appreciate Adobe releasing it in this state. Until now I have recommended all of my students use LR. Maybe a good time to take another look at Aperture.
511. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowLR_Mowang Apr 24, 2012 6:21 PM (in response to firstname.lastname@example.com)
Just curious... this is a very old thread. Are you guys using LR 4.1
RC? There is a version out there which does improve speed but not for
all sliders and multi-monitor options. ADOBE says they are working on
the issues of performance... it has been several weeks and I like the
new features so I put up with the poor release. I can run either version
and I am not going backward. Note... if the 4.1RC version had not come
out I would have asked for my money back.
512. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowjsakhtar Apr 24, 2012 6:25 PM (in response to LR_Mowang)
I am using 4.1 and it is A LOT better than 4.0. I used 3.6 again the other day and it is still a bit speedier, but 4.1 is just fine for me.
513. Re: Lightroom 4 is email@example.com Apr 24, 2012 6:34 PM (in response to LR_Mowang)
I am using 4.0 with Camera Raw 7.0. When I check for updates through LR it says my software is up-to-date. I will go to the Adobe site and see if I can locate 4.1. In the meantime, I have tried Madscapes suggestion and upped the cache to 80.0; don't notice much difference. Thanks, Madscape.
Addendum: I just went to adobe.com and the only LR update I see is for LR3 posted in December. If someone knows where they are hiding 4.1 I'll give it a shot. Thank you.
514. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowLee Jay Apr 24, 2012 6:39 PM (in response to email@example.com)
4.1 release candidate is in Adobe Labs.
515. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowgregkmeyer Apr 24, 2012 7:34 PM (in response to Lee Jay)
516. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowRobbie2006 Apr 25, 2012 8:10 AM (in response to jsakhtar)
I have downloaded the 4.1 version but am unable to open the zipped folder, does anyone know which program to open it with.
517. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowLee Jay Apr 25, 2012 8:15 AM (in response to Robbie2006)
Re-download. Something probably happened during download.
518. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowlauralobiancosword Apr 25, 2012 8:37 AM (in response to BCormier)
I'm having the same problem. I have the trial version of 4 but am unable to load 4.1. The zip file just reloads 4.0 and won't install 4.1. I'm guessing it is b/c it is still the trial version. Of course, I don't want to buy 4 unless this is fixed. I'd be happy sticking with LR3 if I were able to use the LR4 catalog that I created. So it seems I either lose all the work I did in 4.0 or just buy 4.0, cross my fingers and hope they fixed it with 4.1?
519. Re: Lightroom 4 is slowMadscape Apr 25, 2012 9:16 AM (in response to Robbie2006)
I couldn't simply RUN the program, I downloaded the folder onto my desktop ..But it did open for me ..Now when I try to toggle over to CS5 it says I need CR6.7 ( instead of 7.0 ) yet when I go to the adobe site It won't download...also..The 4.1 isn't any faster than 4.0 was ...I'm seriously considering calling Adobe and getting my upgrade money back . I was very content with LR3 .I only upgraded to ....well...upgrade : < /
Also ..when you toggle to CS5 ..they do give you the option to continue anyway ...I tried it and when trying to work a layermask with my Intuos 4 tablet ..the adjustment brush size doesnt show when turning the thumbwheel on the tablet .... Enough for me to say " goodbye " and log out ...


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So it's Wanderer's foredeck with a jib poled out to port. There's a foreguy/downhaul on the end of the pole. There is a chain and pipe arrangement in the foreground. What is it for?
So it's Wanderer's foredeck with a jib poled out to port. There's a foreguy/downhaul on the end of the pole. There is a chain and pipe arrangement in the foreground. What is it for?
A bight of chain is going up a....piece of fire hose??? to connect with a stainless wire??
Perhaps a inner stay, with a bridle because there is no hard point in the right place. The hose is to prevent chafe?
It looks just a little slack though.
That's pretty much what I thought. It seems a horrible arrangement. The jib pole appears to be loosely wrapped in there too.
I wondered the same, and surmised that it was an inner forestay. Odd arrangement, but considering their credentials, it probably works.
To me, this appears to be a baby stay to both keep the mast from pumping and weakening in the heavy weather they frequently encounter and also perhaps to help flatten and depower the main, providing there is a way to tension it, for the same reason. You can see that it only goes as high as the first spreader in this pic: http://www.expeditionsail.com/blog/s...wanderer-3.jpg Likely the bridle is required because the aft end of the hatch would make a very weak attachment point. Seems a reasonable solution to me. Is the objection that it doesn't look yachty enough?
No objection Marujo, although I would have expected wire rather than chain. If it is a baby stay, I wonder if there's a corresponding set of running backstays. I would not have thought the mast would pump downwind.
Chain isn't great for weight or windage, but it's awfully inexpensive for short, low stays and saves $ on terminators and toggles. Hence, it's popularity for bobstays. I expect it was selected for the same reason here. I've never used a baby stay myself, but I believe they're used without backstays in most cases. Not sure.


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Thanks for the answer - I would readily admit that Confession is superior - but is there no forgiveness in personal repentance, ie. in my prayers at the end of the day or I've sinned and on the spot I repent. The book clearly states the answer is that I am not forgiven until I confess. This line in the book could be a problem with translation but as it stands that what the book states.
Presbyters were supposed to be as close to a bishop as strings to a lute. They had jobs like governing the people of God, leadership and helping the bishop. They were teachers, etc. but the bishop was the liturgics par excellence. There was a sort of council formed around the bishop called a synedrion, which now means conference. There was a court which led the people back into communion if they left. This is the first example of confession. After the 3rd century there is a change from this system.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - West Sacramento security services company Quest Intelligence Group violated federal law when it refused to allow a female security officer to return to work after maternity leave, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit, when security guard Tabitha Feeney contacted Quest to schedule her return to work after taking leave to have a baby, she was told that there was no work for her and that she would be called if work became available. Feeney had worked for Quest for about one year prior to her leave. The company never contacted her, yet the EEOC's investigation showed that Quest solicited applications for security guard positions and hired several males within weeks of Feeney's request to return to work.
"Losing my job and facing a brand-new job search right after giving birth was incredibly stressful," said Feeney. "I had a new baby to support and no income. I had planned on going back to my job, and it was devastating to lose that."
Pregnancy discrimination violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. After first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through conciliation efforts, the EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Quest Intelligence Group, LLC, Civil Action No. CV 2:12 01277) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The agency seeks lost wages, damages for emotional distress, and punitive damages on behalf of Feeney, as well as injunctive relief such as training for company managers and employees, and compliance monitoring by the EEOC.
"Pregnant employees must be able to take maternity leave without danger of losing their job," said EEOC Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo. He noted that pregnancy discrimination continues to be an issue for working women. The number of charges filed with the EEOC alleging pregnancy discrimination averaged about 6,000 for the fiscal years 2007 to 2011.
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado said, "The EEOC has seen pregnancy- and caregiving-related claims increase along with the economic crisis, and so we will vigorously defend workers' rights in this area."
He noted that in February the EEOC held a public meeting in Washington concerning discrimination against pregnant women and workers with caregiving responsibilities. Material from this Commission meeting can be found at www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/meetings/2-15-12/index.cfm.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The 2012 Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship marks the 75th Anniversary of the longest continuous national basketball tournament in any sport in the country. To commemorate this celebration of basketball, the NAIA has announced the 75 members on the 75th Anniversary All-Star Team. This team is comprised of 60 athletes and 15 coaches.
Lipscomb's Philip Hutcheson (1986-90), John Pierce (1990-94) and Don Meyer (1975-99) were honored as members of the anniversary team.
Members of the All-Star Team have been invited to be a part of the festivities in mid-March at Municipal Auditorium in downtown Kansas City. Attendees will be recognized with a special reception preceding the National Championship final on March 20 and then introduced at halftime of that contest.
A special committee of current and former coaches, tournament staff, dedicated media and long-time supporters was created to help with the selection process. After fans voted on a web site ballot, this committee followed several criteria to select the 75th Anniversary All-Star Team. Criteria included and in no particular order: performance at a national tournament, game statistics, involvement in a national championship-winning team; status on All-Tournament Team and/or Tournament MVP.


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303coffee needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 185 designs submitted by 54 freelance designers.
3-0-3 Coffee Company
We are a coffee shop which is going from a corporate owned location to an independent shop. Our name reflects our local emphasis. 303 is the prominent Colorado area code. Our new coffee supplier is also a Colorado based company. We strive to provide excellent customer service, and make the best hand-crafted drinks around.
Our target audience is all ages of coffee lovers, who appreciate a local company and hand crafted drinks. Great care is taken into every beverage we serve.
We want the layout like this:
Coffee Company
"3-0-3" should be centered over "Coffee Company".
The dashes can be bullets, diamonds, etc. but we want the 303 separted out.
We want a Colorado appeal. Possibly the Colorado flag (with the "C" symbol). Mountains, nature, etc. would also work. We are a coffee shop, so coffee should also be incorporated into the logo. We definetly welcome creativity!
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New Explosive Claim: Another Angie Affair Revealed! Does Brad Know About It?
Author claims Angie slept with Mick Jagger. Are you shocked by this new allegation?
Angelina Jolie has a real knack for hooking up on-set! In the new tell-all book Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: The True Story, author Jenny Paul reports that Angie hooked up with Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger in 1997 after she was featured in the band's music video for "Anybody Seen My Baby?" New York's Daily News is reporting. At the time, Angelina was married to Jonny Lee Miller, and Mick was married to Jerry Hall. And it didn't end there…
Mick and Angie (who have a 32-year age gap between them) reportedly rekindled their affair in 2003 in a hotel in Bangkok, while Mick was dating L'Wren Scott.
But that's not the only tryst mentioned in the shocking book! According to the author, Angie was still sleeping with her ex-husband Jonny in 2004 when she fell for Brad while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Jenny also claims Angie hooked up with actors Ralph Fiennes and Colin Farrell.


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Tennessee Parks Offering Online Reservations
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Tennessee state parks on Wednesday (March 20) unveiled its new customer-friendly campground reservation system, offering visitors the ability to reserve campsites at 35 state parks up to one year in advance of their planned stay, The Chattanoogan reported.
Reservations can be made online, by visiting the park's office or by calling an individual park during regular business hours.
"Traditionally, campers have had to rely on obtaining their favorite camping spot on a first-come-first-served basis," said Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) Commissioner Bob Martineau. "With the new reservation service, visitors will be offered more ease and convenience when it comes to their park stay."
To check availability and reserve campsites online or via phone, visit www.tnstateparks.com/reservations for a complete list of available campgrounds and phone numbers or visit the online site directly at https://tnstateparks.itinio.com/. Campers can select the state park they wish to visit, arrival/departure dates, and their preferred campsite. Visitors may reserve up to five sites per reservation.
The online system features a campground map, offering photos and prices for each individual campsite. Tennessee state parks' campsites are very popular, so campers are encouraged to check availability through the new online system or by calling the park before departing on a trip.
"Campers who enjoy using state park campsites have requested an advance reservations system for many years, as well as online capabilities," said TDEC Deputy Commissioner Brock Hill. "The implementation of this great, new system is just one of the many ways we are providing additional or upgraded services to our customers. We wanted to make it easier for our visitors to make their plans, while adding an additional layer of customer-focused service for our guests."
Tennessee state parks implemented the program using a phased approached, beginning in late 2012 to ensure the appropriate training could take place and any issues or concerns could be addressed before formally launching the new reservation system. Over the course of the last several months, state parks have been gradually added to the roster.


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College of Veterinary Medicine records, 1871-1999 | Morse Department of Special Collections
Administrative records, meeting minutes, publications, photographs, and information about awards and ceremonies from the College of Veterinary Medicine. The administrative records contain self-studies, statistical data, long-term development plans for the veterinary complex and programs, and information on a partnership with Amhadu Bello University in Nigeria (1969-1977).
The minutes cover faculty, dean's council, and department head meetings. The awards and ceremonies in this collection pertain to distinguished service awards and commencement. The publications in this collection are mainly copies of articles that have been assembled together about veterinary medicine. These reproductions make up the bulk of the earliest material in the collection.


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There won't be any average Utahns there at all unless they're serving food or something. —University of Utah political science professor Matthew Burbank
DEER VALLEY — Mitt Romney and some of the nation's best-known Republicans are holding a private retreat in Utah this weekend with the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's top donors and fundraisers.
The exclusive event is one of the perks for donors who have given at least $50,000 or raised a minimum of $250,000 for the Romney Victory Fund, which shares contributions with the Republican Party.
The more than 700 guests expected will hear from what's being billed as the GOP "Dream Team," a list that includes the party's 2008 nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, strategist Karl Rove, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Besides panel discussions Friday and Saturday on banking, health care, Israel, innovation and the media, there's a barbecue at the Utah Olympic Park, a tea with Romney's wife, Ann, and Olympic ice skating gold-medalist Dorothy Hamill, and golf.
"This is about rewarding your big donors," University of Utah political science professor Matthew Burbank said. "There won't be any average Utahns there at all unless they're serving food or something."
Burbank said there's some risk with bringing the event to a posh place like Deer Valley, because it could reinforce the perception that Romney's personal wealth and privileged background make it difficult for him to connect with voters.
"It's terribly important that this not be seen or widely presented as a Republican rich club meeting planning the future of the country," Burbank said. "It looks like, 'Oh, gee, if I give $50,000, I get to talk to him.'"
There is also some concern that coming to Utah will remind voters of Romney's Mormon faith, an issue particularly with evangelicals who don't view members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as fellow Christians.
Utah GOP Chairman Thomas Wright said that shouldn't be an issue.
"Everybody knows he's Mormon and we're way past that in that race," Wright said.
Romney is using the event to play up his leadership of the 2002 Winter Games. Not only was Deer Valley an Olympic venue, so were the ski jumps just outside Park City where the barbecue is being held.
It's also a chance to see how some of his potential vice-presidential picks play with Republican leaders and major contributors, University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle said.
"It's a good opportunity to see how those folks interact," Hagle said. "If somebody were to make a big faux pas at this sort of thing, that might scratch them off the list."
Several contenders for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket will be at Deer Valley, including Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, who's hosting a fundraiser for 4th Congressional District candidate Mia Love while he's here.
Other names said to be on the short list for vice president won't be attending. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio had to turn down his invitation due to scheduling issues and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in the middle of budget negotiations with his state's Legislature.
Wright said the event will showcase Utah Republicans, starting with Love, who faces a tough battle against the state's lone Democrat in Congress, Rep. Jim Matheson. "We're going to cash in and take advantage," Wright said.
The nation's GOP elite will be able to experience firsthand how red Utah is, Wright said. "They'll want to come back not only because it's a great state and great place to be, but because they like the politics of the state."
Romney, who sold his Deer Valley home several years ago, was in Utah earlier this month for fundraisers at the Grand America Hotel and a $50,000-a-plate dinner at a private home in Bountiful.
The Deer Valley retreat is one of two that will be held for top donors and fundraisers. Details of the fall retreat, including where it will be held, have yet to be announced. The same group will also receive special access to the GOP's national convention in Tampa.
Hagle said such treatment is typical for big campaign backers, Republican and Democrat. "It's that access," he said, "that causes them to open their checkbooks."
Deer Valley retreat schedule
• Former Secretary of State James Baker, former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, Tennesee Sen. Bob Corker, Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol and former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, head of planning for a Romney transition to the White House, panel discussion on banking, health care and Israel
• Barbeque at Utah Olympic Park
• Arizona Sen. John McCain
• Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman, financiar Ken Langone, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and South Dakota Sen. John Thune panel discussion on innovation.
• Romney legal counsel Ben Ginsberg, Fred Barnes, GOP strategists Mary Matalin and Karl Rove, and Kristol panel discussion on the media.
• Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
• Afternoon tea hosted by Ann Romney and Olympic ice skating gold-medalist Dorothy Hamill
• Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
• Golf


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After completing its $1.2 billion acquisition of OfficeMax, Office Depot (NYSE:ODP) has yet to choose a permanent chief executive and a home for the combined retailer.
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At issue is whether Illinois will approve of tax credits for the company to maintain a presence in the state, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Office Depot is considering a headquarters in Naperville, Ill., where OfficeMax employs more than 2,000 people. The alternative is to make Office Depot's current headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., the official home of the new company. More than 1,700 people work at the Boca Raton location.
The choice hinges on whether the company will see a tax relief in Illinois, which, at 9.5%, has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the country.
A bill that would have offered the retailer $53 million in tax credits over 15 years didn't get a full Senate vote in a session that ended last week, and state lawmakers might not return until next month at the earliest.
Meanwhile, Florida's corporate tax rate is 5.5%, and state officials can provide tax breaks without legislative approval. The Journal said Office Depot received up to $4.9 million in incentives about seven years ago, plus a $6.5 million reimbursement from the county to move into its current Boca Raton headquarters.
Florida also has no personal income tax, which would benefit Office Depot's employees.
Office Depot's permanent CEO will likely want a say in where the company is located. According to the Journal, the conclusion to a long CEO search could still be weeks away. In August, the office supply retailers indicated a CEO would be in place by September.
An Office Depot spokesperson declined to comment on the report.
Until a permanent chief steps in, Office Depot Chairman and CEO Neil Austrian and OfficeMax President and CEO Ravi Saligram are serving as co-CEOs.
Office Depot shares were trading our cents higher at $5.08 in early Monday morning.


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MESA, Ariz. – Mike Moustakas homered twice, Eric Hosmer added three hits and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago Cubs 5-3 on Sunday.
Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro left after the first inning with a slight strain of his right hamstring. He hurt himself trying to steal a base.
Moustakas hit a drive off Cubs starter Edwin Jackson to lead off the second inning. He hit a two-run shot off Carlos Villanueva in the third.
Hosmer doubled twice, and all of his hits went to the opposite field. Lorenzo Cain had two hits for the Royals.
Kansas City starter Wade Davis gave up one hit in two scoreless innings.
The game at Cubs Park drew a crowd of 14,680.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Mar. 6, 2005) - East Tennessee State had its season-opening eight-game win streak come to a close as West Virginia defeated the Bucs, 8-5, Sunday afternoon from Cardinal Park in Johnson City, Tenn. The Bucs fall to 8-1 while the Mountaineers raise their record to 3-7 on the season.
The Mountaineers added three more runs in the top of the third to make the score 5-0. Jenkins reached on an error with one out and scored as Fritz hit a triple to right field. Chad McKown followed with a towering two-run homer over the left-field wall.
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"I am proud of our guys," said ETSU head coach Tony Skole following the game. "We made adjustments to get back into the game."
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Dunham allowed a run on two hits in 1.2 innings of work to earn his second save of the season.
Buccaneer junior lefty Steven Calicutt (Spartanburg, S.C.) was charged with his first loss of the season (2-1), allowing four earned runs on eight hits in six innings of work. He also walked one and struck out five. ETSU sophomore righty McCay Green (
Clear went 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI while Hargis had his second-straight strong day at the plate, going 2-for-4 with a run scored and two RBIs.
McKown led WVU at the plate, going 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Fritz also had a solid afternoon, going 2-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored.
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Authorities inspect the wreckage of two Chicago Transit Authority trains that crashed Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, in Forest Park, Ill. (AP Photo / M. Spencer Green)
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Transit Authority has told employees to take a series of precautionary steps to keep out-of-service, unmanned trains from moving along the tracks.
The guidance was issued late Thursday, three days after an empty, four-car train traveled the wrong way along a Blue Line track before slamming into a parked train at the Harlem stop and injuring dozens of people.
"We wanted to look at adding some redundancies to the controls we already have in place, so we added a few things related to the procedures of storing cars in for repair," CTA spokesman Brian Steele told the Chicago Sun-Times. "Some of it is re-emphasizing procedures already in place, and some are new things."
He compared the new safety redundancies to wearing a "belt and suspenders, and another belt."
The train was in a service yard awaiting repairs when it left the parked area, went past a turnaround and through another station before the accident at the station in Forest Park, about 10 miles west of Chicago.
Video footage shows that no one was driving the four-car train. More than 30 people were treated for minor injuries.
The Blue Line connects Chicago's near-western suburbs with the city's downtown and O'Hare International Airport.
Steele told WMAQ-TV the bulletin was initiated by the transit agency, not federal officials who are investigating Monday's collision
An investigation into what caused the crash is continuing.


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|2010-11-14, 22:31
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User of the "Fast Draw"
I wonder about the King's Pillar ability. Clearly powerful, but wonder if that it's only effect. Maybe the other users fell unconscious because it had a personality effect and would make the user a danger to others. Well it's just speculation after all so who knows.
|2010-11-14, 23:57
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Let's Puppystyle!
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Best Place In The WORLD
Age: 26
Man I lol'd so hard when he dived to catch Sugata. Like catching Sugata at the last moment before he hits the ground with a mecha hand that is probably just as hard as the ground is going to do Sugata any good. Lol.....
*sigh* someone already beat me to it, whoops. But glad to see that others agree with me hahaha
|2010-11-15, 00:40
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
Seriously, if Superman can do it without killing Louise with his arms of steel, anyone can.
|2010-11-15, 02:33
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
So we might have a villain now. Looks like I was right about Sugata and I love the way they depicted him too. I guess Takuto's going to lose next episode and pretty soon the seals are going to break. That's when the show should get truly interesting.
|2010-11-15, 03:38
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Australia
I loathe the "best friends become enemies" type of development so I was really displeased when they went and did that. Well, it was expected but in the end I was hoping they'd do something else =/. Right now I'd rather they pull some power of friendship/love/bromance/talking with fists/mascot animal/dues ex or whatever it takes to steer away from that path next week.
|2010-11-15, 04:31
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Italy
Age: 32
Personally my problem with the series so far is that I find really difficult to relate to any of all the character. I think that the writer should establish a more tight emotional link with the spectator. Because what I have seen so far is not bad, but is not so great either. I feel it lacks of emotions, it lacks of pathos and maybe more content could be filled within each episode. Besides Head, there's not a single character which I find really interesting. Of course the series seems to develop and eventually will give lots of insights about the character and the story, but I think the writer (so Enokido, since he has wrote all the episodes until now) should have already delivered something at least to please the audience. Perhaps is not the best comparison, but in Utena there was much more character exposition thanks to the dramatic retrospective about each of the main characters. While I thought some of them to be over-dramatic, they were good. In Star Driver instead each episode instead feels too "empty", and since we are almost at one third of the story there's no room for setting to tone or introduction anymore.
Dunno, I liked all previous Igarashi's anime, I even liked Soul Eater in terms of direction and animation, but I think that Star Driver does not have that "something" that makes an anime good. Hence I hope in a change in pacing or direction to happen soon.
About Head, well, he's the only character that interests me. I want really to know why he has become what he is. His parts in each episode with the story told by Sakana-chan are my favorites.
|2010-11-15, 04:45
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Age: 28
Pretty good episode, but there's a few things that have been bugging me.
First of all, Sugata got knocked out of his bubble in Zero time yet earliar on, people got bumped around and it didn't burst. There's probably a reason for it, maybe because he was asleep but that's not too bad. The main one, I just cannot for the life of me work out is how can't Takuto recognise any of the glittering crux people in real life. I mean, they've all got different coloured hair and yet he never seems to realise who they are.
I really, really wish they'd animate a new entering scene. having him smash in every time is starting to get a bit annoying. But that's more due to budget probably and me not really liking it, it's cool still and the music really helps. The main thing that irks me with this series, is it seems to be that they do some story, then do a five minute or so fight scene which you know is never going to go any other way as all of the other Cybody drivers seem too agressive and just keep getting owned, It'd be cool if Takuto actually fought with someone and the battle was close, rather than him taking tons of damage at the start then just winning instantly.
Still, this is mainly all down to my personal opinions, I'm still enjoying the series. Can't believe Sugata is probably going to end up evil though, I thought he was one of the good guys.
|2010-11-15, 13:23
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You are Dominated!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Earth
Age: 30
Unexpected development in this episode. Sugata woke up and is now under the dorm leader's control? (?). Looks like he and Takuto will duke it out the next episode. Sakana-chan's story is getting ominous in this episode. Does that mean that Wako will be sacrificed eventually?
The president is definitely talking with someone, not reading the scripts as she said
|2010-11-15, 14:25
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Location: USA
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Lost in your Eyes~~~
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Location: UK
|2010-11-15, 16:31
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
I wonder that the reason why all predesesor of Sugata went in cold sleep to prevent corrupted self run loose with King Cybody as it could be side effect of apprivosing King Cybody as in Fish story,it says the King is somewhat arrogant and corrupted.
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Location: USA
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