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Snooth, an online wine review and listing database, launched the newest version of its iPhone application last week (free, with a pro version that eliminates ads for $4.99). The most touted feature allows the user to photograph a wine label and instantly have access to detailed information about the bottle, including user reviews and nearby stores where the bottle is available. In theory, the application should function like Shazam (a popular app that magically identifies songs), and be useful for the casual wine drinker, but the technology's still in progress. We tested Snooth on five bottles from the mostly Italian list at New York's Frankies 17 to see how it fared.
* The interface is clean, and the search options ideal. You can find nearby wine stores; view wines that you've previously searched for and saved in your "winelist;" and of course, search for wines by photo or text.
* To see whether the application had some sort of Italian wine bias, we tested a few additional domestic bottles from our own stock. Snooth correctly identified four out of four California wines tested (Corison, Barnett, Frog's Leap and Sherwin Family Vineyards).
* We like the unique photo search feature but there are some kinks. Of the five bottles we searched for, Snooth correctly identified four but could only provide the producer information, leaving the user to manually input the grape varietal and vintage.
* Via photo search: It took three attempts to recognize one of the selections ('07 Oddero Barbera D'Alba). A rep for the company tells The Feast that it all depends on the quality of both the image provided to them by the winemaker and the one taken by the user. But given the optimal light conditions and decent picture quality (tested on an iPhone 4), it's reasonable to assume that there are problems with the database.
The Takeaway:
When the application works, it's very useful. The pricing information would be especially revealing when investigating just how much a local restaurant is marking up a bottle of wine. Snooth tells us that the technology is constantly being improved, and any future updates will be free to all users. In addition, new wines are being added to the company's database of over 820,000 wines everyday. For now, it's a promising novelty.
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When you use MATLAB? and Simulink? together, you combine textual and graphical programming to design your system in a simulation environment.
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Simulink lets you model and simulate digital signal processing systems. It provides a range of test signals and waveforms, collections of filters types and architectures, and scopes for dynamic visualization. Color-coding and in-diagram displays allow you to quickly inspect update rates and signal sizes for sample-based or frame-based system designs.
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With Simulink, you can develop and test smart devices, and then deploy your models to edge nodes on hardware such as Raspberry Pi. Use blocks to send data to MATLAB and ThingSpeak so you can analyze it further.
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"When we do 5G prototyping design and development, we build the whole air access link-level simulation using MATLAB and Simulink, and import the parameters of this model – from the antenna to the new waveform – from the field testing… We can see the whole system's performance, and identify potential issues."Kevin Law, Director of Algorithm Architecture and Design
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China's Bad Earth
Industrialization has turned much of the Chinese countryside into an environmental disaster zone, threatening not only the food supply but the legitimacy of the regime itself.
In Dapu, a rain-drenched rural outpost in the heart of China's grain basket, a farmer grows crops that she wouldn't dare to eat.
A state-backed chemicals factory next to her farm dumps wastewater directly into the local irrigation pond, she says, and turns it a florescent blue reminiscent of antifreeze. After walking around in the rice paddies, some farmers here have developed unexplained blisters on their feet.


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Remembering a tragic protest for peace
Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle
Brian Willson, above, stands with others before addressing the audience, below, at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in Concord. People were gathered there on Saturday to mark the 25th anniversary of his maiming on the weapons station railroad tracks. Peace activist Willson, now 71, lost both legs below the knees and suffered a fractured skull trying to stop a shipment of bombs headed for Central America.


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BigCommerce.com necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
3 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 105 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
Check out BigCommerce at http://www.bigcommerce.com - it's hosted shopping cart software created for designers with clients. Since launching in September 2009 it has become the fastest growing shopping cart software in the world with just under 10,000 clients.
For designers, it's dead simple and fast to create an online store for your clients with the power of Amazon.com and the flexibility of Zappos.com. You also have full HTML&CSS access and can use FTP or the built-in QuickEdit file editor to make design changes on the fly.
BigCommerce is the preferred hosted shopping cart software for more than 2,000 of the world's best designers and it's allowing them to win more jobs and make more cash, all while churning out complete online stores for their clients faster and with less headaches.
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We're looking for a t-shirt that will help us woo more designers to use BigCommerce when building online stores for their clients. The t-shirt design can be whatever you like but it should be connected to e-commerce and design some how. It can use our logo (http://www.bigcommerce.com/images/p…_large.jpg) or a variation of it - whatever you think works and will attract designers like you to check out BigCommerce.
A funky t-shirt design which may or may not use our logo (attached to this project) or a custom variation of it which you can create.
The color scheme is completely up to you. You can use shopping carts, ninjas or whatever else you deem interesting.
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The shirt should NOT include a call to action but it should look awesome and get designers talking - "Hey, funky shirt. Where did you get it?" Etc...
We like the kind of designs that Threadless sells. You know, cool, cartoonish but funky.
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- The Mailchimp t-shirts (http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/mailc…ts-are-in/)
- The Atlassian t-shirts (http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/200…ts_20.html) - notice the funny saying
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The image and legend of Hawaii as a tropical paradise endures for countless reasons. Few places on earth can boast more dramatic or romantic landscapes; the weather is generally gorgeous; the variety of climates one can encounter within the space of a few miles—from arid to tropical to near-alpine to sun-splashed beach—is mind-boggling; the waters surrounding the islands partake of those impossible shades of green and blue that painters have sought for centuries to capture on canvas. The pace of life is utterly, soothingly humane.
But paradise, as we all know, exists only in fairy tales—or, if a paradise did once exist in the Pacific, it long ago gave way to the complex, ambiguous and often politically fraught realities of the modern world. The Hawaii of the travel brochures—as marvelous as it might be in theory, and even at times in fact—is a beautiful construct, but one that often ignores the island chain's bumpier, and endlessly fascinating, history. (For instance, how many Americans in the contiguous 48 know anything at all about the nonviolent "democratic revolution" of labor strikes and major acts of civil disobedience that roiled the islands in 1954, reshaping Hawaii's political landscape for all time?)
Here, on the 55th anniversary of Hawaii's Aug. 21, 1959, Admission to the Union as the 50th state, LIFE.com presents color photographs made that very year on the islands. In a March 1959 article, "Hawaii—Beauty, Wealth, Amiable People," for which these pictures were shot, LIFE painted a largely rosy picture of the place:
The first proposal to make Hawaii a state was put forward more than a hundred years ago when President Franklin Pierce cast his eyes across the Pacific and proposed that the splendid and strategic islands be taken into the union. Pierce's plan faded and it was not until 1898 that Hawaii was annexed as a U.S. territory. Proposals to make Hawaii a state have been on the books of Congress for more than 40 years. Now it seems almost certain that in this session Hawaii will achieve its aim. [Hawaii was granted statehood in August 1959.]
As a territory, Hawaii has developed a sturdy economy based on U.S. military expenditures at Pearl Harbor and elsewhere, and on sugar, pineapple, tourism and livestock. The islands, which have a total area roughly that of New Jersey, have bred an incredibly polyglot and racially integrated population of nearly 600,000. [Note: Hawaii's current population is 1.4 million.] This mean that Hawaiian statehood, besides conferring full U.S. status on a potentially rich and decidedly vital area, would also indicate to all the peoples of the Pacific and of Asia that the U.S. can still be the tolerant, hospitable melting pot of old.
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.


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Holiday Season 2011: Your Guide to Office Parties, Gift Giving and More
By Angela Rose, Hcareers.com
It's that time of year again –office party season. If you're employed, or hooked up with someone who is, chances are good you'll be expected to attend at least one work-related holiday soiree. Whether attending your own company party or that of your spouse or significant other, remember this: it may look like a social gathering and feel like a social gathering, but it's still technically business. Keep these tips in mind and you can still hold your head high come Monday.
You must attend, at all costs. It doesn't matter if you don't celebrate Christmas or you'd rather be eaten alive by ferrets than spend a minute of additional time with your coworkers. The office party is essentially a mandatory event, and you'll show if you value your job. If you don't make an appearance, you must have a very good excuse and be prepared to repeat it convincingly numerous times. Appendicitis might work. Death in the family might work. But you'll need irrefutable evidence of either.
You need to stay for at least an hour. Arrive shortly after the party starts, while other guests are still fresh. Mingle with as many people as possible, and make sure you spend at least a few moments chatting up your boss. If the CEO or other senior executives are present, make an effort to speak to them as well. Even if they don't remember your name after the party, they'll remember your face.
Say no to tight, short, low-cut or revealing clothing. The office party is not an appropriate venue for strutting your stuff. Guys, this means you too. No one wants to see your chest hair. A company party is still a business function, so dress appropriately. If the party is right after work hours, your normal business attire should be adequate. If the invitation specifies dress, follow it. A common one this time of year is "Festive Attire." This may mean cocktail party attire or reindeer sweaters, depending on the host. When in doubt, ask for clarification.
Leave the kids at home. Unless the invite states that family is welcome, get a sitter. If the party is held during office hours, it's likely for employees only. Most businesses include spouses and significant others at after-hours events, but ask for clarification if the invitation is unclear.
Drink in moderation, or not at all. Remember this is still technically business. It only takes one tabletop dance or coat closet frolic to become fodder for office gossip. You could even lose your job. If you're worried about looking like a party pooper, start with one gin and tonic or rum and coke, then switch to pure tonic or coke for the rest of the evening. No one else will know the difference.
Don't forget the hostess gift. If the party is held at the home of a coworker or your boss, it's polite to bring a host/hostess gift. Food and beverage items the host can enjoy later are generally good options (think wine, specialty beer, gourmet jam, fancy chocolates, etc.) If the party is held at the office or another venue, no gift is needed –unless you're assigned a Secret Santa or you're playing the White Elephant game.
Choose Secret Santa gifts wisely. If your office participates in a Secret Santa, don't give gag gifts or items that may be considered insulting or inappropriate. Don't re-gift your Secret Santa gift from last year either. Stay away from too personal items as well. Restaurant gift certificates, movie tickets and posh desk accessories are almost always safe options.
The same goes for a White Elephant. If you're going to be playing the White Elephant game, keep the same tips in mind. Because anyone may end up with the gift, choose something non-gender specific. Unless the rules specify that the gifts should be funny, or things found around your house, don't wrap up a gag item or anything used.
Stick to the budget. It's not unusual for an office to set a budget for Secret Santa or White Elephant gifts. If there's a budget, stick to it. Buying a gift significantly over budget can lead to just as many negative feelings as buying one under budget –and most people are pretty skilled at figuring out what something cost.
Exchange other gifts away from the office. If you're close with some of your coworkers and want to exchange additional gifts, do so away from the office. You'll avoid hurting feelings or alienating your other coworkers.
Buy a group gift for the boss. If you're planning to buy your boss a gift, ask your co-workers if they'd like to chip in. You won't look like a suck up and you'll avoid the inevitable one-upping that will occur if everyone buys gifts on their own.
Thank everyone sincerely. Thank your boss for the lovely holiday party (even if you didn't have fun). Thank the coworkers who helped to organize the event. Thank your Secret Santa (even if you're just going to re-gift that Starbucks card to your little sister). After the holidays, follow up with a written thank you note for extra impact.
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Angela Rose researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues for Hcareers.com.
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Michigan Will Not Re-Hang Its Vacated 'Fab Five' Final Four Banners: Why It Makes SensePosted by EJacoby on May 22nd, 2012
Evan Jacoby is a regular contributor for RTC. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter.
Sports fans worldwide recognize The Michigan 'Fab Five' team from 1992 and 1993 as one of the most talented and fascinating teams in college hoops history, but 20 years later, the Ann Arbor university wants no part of the infamy. The Fab Five comprised a starting lineup of all freshmen (before it was in vogue) and became famous in equal parts for its revolutionary style, brashness and incomprehensible talent. Those two, along with four other Wolverines teams in the 90s, were erased from the NCAA history books thanks to admissions of players accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from recruiting booster Ed Martin. In addition, Michigan received a 10-year penalty from the NCAA requiring disassociation from the guilty players and teams, leading to the removal of the '92 and '93 Final Four banners from the Crisler Center. That ban will end in 2013, but the news from over the weekend is that the university doesn't plan on doing anything about it. Despite an upswell of support, there are currently no plans to re-hang the Final Four banners or recognize anything from the Fab Five era, a decision that's clearly irked the former players but one that makes a lot of sense from a publicity standpoint. The stance taken by UM upholds the school's integrity, and it knows that all sports fans will regardless still remember the Fab Five.
No vacation of wins, removal of banners, or lack of contact with former players is going to cause college basketball fans to forget about the Fab Five era. Even Wolverine recruits who were not yet born when Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, and company changed the college game in the fall of 1991 are aware of the Fab Five and its legacy. This is something that UM administrators fully understand and can take advantage of when handling the issue of historical recognition. Continuing to withhold association with the Fab Five teams on campus in Ann Arbor sends a strong message, and yet it will never erase the great memories from those teams in the eyes of fans worldwide. "What happened was not good, and I don't think they'll ever go back up. I don't," said Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman in reference to the vacated banners. And why should she feel any differently?


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A personal blog about my adventures on fashion, sewing, pattern making and everything else!
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
A belated giveaway
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I once bought a big stash of fabric online, mostly cotton prints. I was stupid enough not to look at the description so I bought royal blue fabric with (I thought) had little dots on all kinds of colours on it. It turned out to dots about 1inch in diameter - and looks so horrible it can only be used if I ever want to sew a clown costume. For whatever reason I forgot to send it back. duh!ReplyDelete
This is a pretty pattern :) I like version A very much. Thanks for offering the giveaway :)ReplyDelete
Huh, my 'duh' moment was paying waaaay too much online for silky de chine fabric??? Yep, polyester 'silky like' fabric! Very ripped off and very unhappy :-) Would love your pattern, as a size 14-16 it would fit in my wardrobed nicely. Thanks for the chance :-)ReplyDelete
Just back to sewing after a 10 year gap, and I was never that skilled so why did I recently buy a vintage dress pattern 4 sizes too small when I have no grading skills what so ever and several other projects on the go? duh! I know it's just gonna sit in my stash forever or until I re-home it! but very pretty dress though ;o)ReplyDelete
- JackieNj3 March 2013 at 11:20
No duh! moments to speak of here (Yet!) but having fun reading everyones stories.ReplyDelete
I have horrible organizing skills as well so I understand how you are feeling. It is so important to read the whole label because people will misplace patterns and mistakes like this happen.ReplyDelete


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RICHMOND, IND. – Manchester University, withstanding a furious second half rally from host Earlham College, kept itself unbeaten in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference action Saturday, Dec. 7.
The Spartans (3-3 overall, 2-0 HCAC), wrapping up a 2-0 week with their second straight league road victory, scored 21 of the game's first 29 points and built the advantage to as much as 19 in the first half. Earlham (2-4, 1-1 HCAC) battled back late in the first half, trimming the deficit to 10 at the break (39-29).
The Quakers continued to surge in the second 20 minutes and overtook their guests with a 48-47 lead with just under five minutes left. However, MU answered with a key 8-2 run at that point and didn't trail the rest of the way en route to a 61-57 win.
Free throws turned out to be a big key. The Spartans made one less charity shot then Earlham attempted (22-23) which included going 10 of 12 in the final 4:23. MU's fast start was aided by strong field goal shooting, as the Black and Gold went 13 of 25 (52 percent) which included drilling three-pointers at a 60 percent clip (three-for-five) in the first 20 minutes.
Senior forward Erynn Meiklejohn (Fort Wayne, Ind.) led the points' chart with 17. She also blocked two EC shot attempts and picked up two steals. Junior guard Alyssa Smith (Bluffton, Ind.) and junior forward Abby Lang (Indianapolis, Ind.) were just off double-figure pace with nine points each. Junior center Alyssa Hammond (Osgood, Ind.) had another good outing on the boards, pulling down a team-high eight rebounds to lead a 34-28 Spartans' edge.
Manchester University wraps up a three-game league road swing Saturday, Dec. 14. They go to Rose-Hulman in Terre Haute, Ind., for a 2 p.m. tip-off.
NOTES: MU won for the sixth time in the last seven games against Earlham in the series … The victory put them into a tie for first with defending league champion Transylvania University on the conference standings.


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awesomeprojects necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 84 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
We are a startup providing event (e.g. christmas, easter) specific services - such as online-to-print postcards, a "what's the best gift for my girlfriend/wife/w/e" finder.
(below-) average (in terms of intelligence and/or awareness) internet user, 25-50 years, housewifes
- Very clear structure, the user must be able to easily/instantly sign up for the service
---- very few text-paragraphs
---- eye should follow the key elements
- We want it edgy, something everyone wants to be part of.
- With our target audience, something colorful should provide the most success.
- We want to AVOID looking too cheap or having too much content (loss of overview), such as:
---- http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/
---- http://www.123greetings.com/
---- http://www.regards.com/
- Colors: Germany does not follow the american green/red approach, we use red/white (and a little light blue), this is pretty good:
- Some designs we 'liked' (yet, this needs to be way better! We couldn't find any really good christmas designs):
- http://indestudio.deviantart.com/ar…-107759461
- http://kpravash.deviantart.com/art/…s-61316298
- http://rickydeviant.deviantart.com/…-108895914
- http://lkaos.deviantart.com/art/Web…o-92543993
- http://m2cstudio.deviantart.com/art…-101453320
- http://siostranocy.deviantart.com/a…-108624917
- http://a2head.deviantart.com/art/de…2-72019939
- All used images/work must be copyright-able by us, we cannot afford lawsuits.
- The result should be provided as Smarty template-set, so we can simultaneously start the work on the underlying code, OR:
- If you are inexperienced with Smarty or other template engines, please provide only HTML webpages.
- Search-Engine-Optimize(able): No (or as few as possible) text/links embedded into pictures.
- At least 6 layerads (3 for each 'service') with according landing pages are required, the more, the better. 3 of those slogans are:
"Got all your presents yet?"
"What am I going to give for christmas?"
"Free postcards with your signup"
- Menu items:
---- Take the survey!
-------> Evaluations
---- Send greeting cards
---- Tipps & Tricks
-------> How-to wrap a present etc
-------> Christmas carols
(Please excuse the clumsy english, the whole project will be in German, but you wont have to worry about the translation. Hence no buttons with integrated text, as stated above)
edit: because we've hat many questions about that:
Smarty templates are not required. You also don't have to write any php. Plain HTML is sufficcient.
If you can't do HTML, we will still take your design into consideration, but wont pay more than 800$ for it.


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Joan A Detlefsen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 111 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
Joan A Detlefsen, Horse Movement Specialist
My goal is to build a content rich wp website using Thesis. I am currently taking a class in this very topic. I have 3 Mac websites, http://www.bestsaddlesolutions.com, http://www.magicalequineconnections.com &, http://www.equinemassageconnection.com. I am focusing on the saddle site to make it commercial and offer all the various seminars and podcasts and dvd's online. The saddle sale requires a lot of communication, it is a very hands-on purchase for the buyer and they learn a lot from it. And they gain a greater connection with their horses plus have an awesome saddle to improve everything for everyone involved. My 25 years one to one service makes me very good at this communication and I can guide them well.
Horse owners who love their horses, care deeply for their horses, want to do all they can for their horses and really want to learn to ride.
They spend a lot of time worrying and they study a lot. Most of it is edited by veterinarians who have eroded the knowledge in the industry for their coin. Don't blame them. I just want to help the ladies who especially want to learn by feeling and seeing and believing in themselves and their horses the facts of the matter.
I am looking for something clean, that I can put my name on for everything from business cards, to webpage background, to a header if I actually add one. I want the graphic artist who can steer me to making content speak through layout, image (even if it's text pattern). There is a plethora of information for people to take in and I want mine to be the easiest to see and digest. I believe that will define the successful business of the future. (yeah, your era, kids! thanks for your help.)
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The Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office is dedicated to pursuing justice and protecting the rights and safety of the citizens of Albemarle and its visitors. As part of that mission, we work to enhance public safety and welfare through the vigorous enforcement of criminal laws in a fair, compassionate, ethical and just manner. We believe that in order to accomplish this mission the office should maintain a pro-active role in our community by working to prevent crime in addition to its mandate to prosecute with integrity, equality and excellence. It is in this way that we best serve the safety of our community and uphold our oath to protect and defend the Constitution of Virginia and the Constitution of the United States.
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New Taipei City Taiwan Comprised of a series of horizontal, floating "plates" that slip back and forth, this project seeks to create an environment where art and life are intertwined and inseparable. Arranged at various distances from each other and separated by glass, the floating plates engender a space that is light-filled, relaxed and open, and quite unlike the traditional inwardly-focused hermetic museum; this one orients itself outward to the city and its people to welcome them and invite their participation.
Extending up through the building are a metal mesh-clad collection tower and clay-clad service cores. The collection tower serves as storehouse and supplemental exhibition area; its mesh-cladding a surface on which art and films can be projected; it culminates above the building in an iconic vertical element in the landscape. The service cores, whose clay cladding references the history and the local ceramics industry, serve as navigating devices inside the building, directing visitors to a diverse system of vertical circulation that make the museum an enjoyable space to move through.


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The Nightmare of Accidentally Closed Work Orders
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The Nightmare of Accidentally Closed Work Orders
How do I stop my users from accidentally closing their work orders?
I had a user who accidentally closed 350 work orders, what should I do?
How can I un-close a work order?
I get these kinds of questions all the time. The problem here is closed work orders are closed. We have a closed status for a reason. Its meant to say this work order is done and I don't want anyone making any more changes to it. But what about human error? People make mistakes, right? Sure they do. The bottom line is; If you give users the authority to close work orders, sometimes they will accidentally close a work order (or 350 of them) on accident. So what can we do about it?
The recommendation that I give to every client who brings up this topic is simple. Don't give any user the ability to close a work order. I know what you are thinking. Am I crazy? How will work orders get closed? Let me explain.
Go into the Security Group application. Go into all of your work order applications (Work Order Tracking, Quick Reporting, Activities and Tasks, etc), any application your users use and might change statuses in, and take away the Change Status to CLOSE option from everyone. EVERYONE! Even Maxadmin. Even from the system administrator users. No one gets it. If you ever NEED it, go into Signature Security and grant it on a temporary basis, then take it back away afterward.
The next thing is to create a synonym status of complete (COMP). You can do this in the Domains app – just bring up the statuses for the WOSTATUS domain. Call this synonym status something like PRECLOSE or something like that. Make sure the users who should be able to 'close' work orders have authority to this new synonym.
When a user needs to 'close' a work order, they will change the status to PRECLOSE or whatever you decided to call it. Since this is a synonym to the COMP status, you would still be able to make changes to the work order. If anyone accidentally changes the status of 350 work orders to PRECLOSE, no problem, no big harm done.
Now the last step is to create an escalation in the Escalations application that runs every night at 3am. This escalation finds all work orders in the PRECLOSE status and changes their status to CLOSE if they have been in the PRECLOSE status for 72 hours or some duration that you are comfortable with. This duration represents the 'window of opportunity' to correct an accidentally closed work order. It's up to you how big of a window to offer.
Once all of this is done, you may need to update some reports or saved queries to filter out PRECLOSE work orders where you were filtering out CLOSED work orders.
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NY Troopers Drive Home The State's Move Over Law
State police, the Thruway Authority and towing companies are reminding motorists in New York about the law that requires drivers to change lanes or slow down when approaching roadside vehicles with flashing lights.
They're holding a news conference Friday morning at the state police Thruway barracks in Cheektowaga to publicize the state's "move over" law.
The original law requires drivers to switch lanes away from a stopped police or fire department vehicle when its lights are flashing, if the flow of traffic allows for a safe lane change.
The law was expanded a year ago to include service vehicles such as tow trucks and maintenance trucks with flashing lights. Friday's reminder comes after an accident earlier this month that injured a tow truck operator assisting a driver along a western New York road.


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Earlier this month, the European Professional Golf Association (PGA) Tour made stops in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Dubai and Doha both host major events on the professional tour, and each has spent millions of dollars attracting golf professionals and landscaping beautiful courses out of the desert sand. The resounding success of these two tournaments manifests the burgeoning popularity of golf in the Arab Gulf States. Golf is now beginning to generate serious interest among the local Arab population as well.
The history of the Dubai Desert Classic tournament dates back to 1986 when Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and the UAE's Minister of Defense granted his approval for the innovative concept of developing a grass golf course in the middle of the desert. Merely two years later, the Emirates Golf Club was opened and soon thereafter, the idea of establishing a world class golf tournament was conceived. The Emirates Golf Course opened in March 1988 and at the time, discussions were underway to host a major event as part of the PGA European Tour. An agreement was soon reached and the Desert Classic was inaugurated during the 1989 calendar year.
Since 1986, the Emirates government has invested heavily in golf, not only for the utility of locals but more importantly to attract foreign capital. While the UAE now hosts the world's top players on an annual basis, it also allures significant tourist dollars throughout the remainder of the year. Golf Arabian style is played against the background of a hot sun and date palms, exotic attractions for avid golfers.
The most recent golfing investment is the Emirate Hills project. Situated just outside Dubai, the first phase of this initiative will involve construction of luxury homes for over 500 families and an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Scottish golfing great Colin Montgomerie.
For golf's popularity to really take off at the local level, the UAE must produce an indigenous talent. This would immediately alter the Arab perception of golf being merely a sport played by foreigners. According to Mohamed Juma Bu Amin, chairman of the UAE's Junior Development Golf Program, "you need a champion, someone to look up to. We need people...to represent us at an international level." There is now a core of young golfers in the UAE who show tremendous potential and possess unlimited aspirations to go along with their talent. If one of them does manage to achieve international success, interest in golf in the UAE and throughout the Arab world would spread briskly.
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Events: Foraging in May / Tuna Canning / Slow Food Magazine
A quick post with some highlights for our members or those considering becoming/renewing members...
We still have a few spots left in our Tuna Canning Event on March 30. This event is only open to our members.
If you are a member interested in attending the tuna event, or not a member but interested in becoming one and attending, please feel free to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Also note that with the new membership. members receive the the new Slow Food USA magazine Slow USA in April and October. The first issue will be published in April. Keep an eye out for it!
And lastly, we finalizing the details for our next Slow Food event: a late May foraging walk with local author and forager Melany Vorass.
Her book is called the Front Yard Forager and is a great introduction to what to do with the many wild edibles you can find right here in the urban environment! Members, be on the lookout for an email with the pre-sale details to come out in the next few weeks.
We, the local all-volunteer board of Slow Food Seattle, are very committed to our members and helping to improve the local experience! If you have thoughts, suggestions, questions, please feel free to contact us at email@example.com. We'd love to hear from you!


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copyright, Mark Seliger.
There's something about this image I just love. It could be Shatner's complete commitment to his character. Or that he might be the closest thing to a modern-day cowboy we have. I'm not sure. But Seliger has captured the indescribable perfectly. And with only one light (plus some late-day sun).
Camera: Mamiya RZ67 with Phase One P45 digital back and 110mm lens, handheld 12 feet back. Shot at 1/125, f5.6, ISO 50.
Lighting: With the sun beginning to dip behind the treeline, Mark didn't have much time to capture this shot. The key light is a medium softbox at f5.6 set high and six feet to camera right. The ambient light is at f4. There's definitely quite a bit of post work here, too.
Comments: On three different occasions, Mark caught Shatner replacing the blank ammo with live shells. When the once Captain Kirk was taking a bathroom break, the prop stylist removed the firing pins from the pistols, just to be on the safe side.


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EDMONTON - Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith was roundly booed and mocked at an Alberta election debate Thursday for questioning climate change, with Premier Alison Redford suggesting Smith in the province's top job would be a national embarrassment.
"There is still a debate in the scientific community," said Smith before being drowned out by a chorus of boos and catcalls from hundreds of people who attended a leaders debate outside CBC's downtown studio.
"And we're going to continue to watch the debate in the scientific community," she said raising her voice to be heard.
The debate was the last chance for voters to see all four party leaders trading shots together on a stage before heading to the polls Monday.
Redford's right-leaning Progressive Conservatives are facing a serious challenge from the further-right Wildrose to their 40-year-old dynasty, dating back to 1971.
Polls put Smith's party out in front. But one recent survey suggested Wildrose had seen a large early lead over Redford's team slip somewhat as anti-gay comments from one Wildrose candidate, racist comments from another, and Smith's assertion on global warming made headlines.
The Liberals have started calling the election a choice between "a bunch of bullies" and "a bunch of bigots."
The crowd at Thursday's forum was heavily weighted toward seniors and was a mostly NDP-partisan, judging from the decibel level of cheers when the individual leaders were introduced.
The climate-change debate was among the most spirited.
Emissions from Alberta's oilsands plants, along with its great inland lakes of toxic waste, have become the poster pictures for those who label Canada environmentally irresponsible.
The effects of those images were seen recently when environmental protesters helped block approval of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the United States on the grounds Canada needed to be sent a message to clean up its act.
It became an issue in the election campaign earlier this week, when Smith reiterated the Wildrose party's long-standing policy that the science of climate change is not settled.
Smith said despite her concerns, the Wildrose party would still take steps to reduce emissions through consumer rebates to spur investment in hybrid vehicles and energy efficient home retrofits.
"We're going to put in constructive policies," said Smith.
"Rebates are not going to fix this problem," NDP leader Brian Mason shot back.
"In my opinion, the science is completely settled. The only people that are disputing it are the phoney scientists funded by the oil industry," he said to cheers. "We need to get serious about it."
Mason said government needs to fix the problem at the industrial level with hard caps on emissions, moving away from coal-fired electricity generation, and funding more mass transit.
"There are a lot of things that could be done that should have been done a long time ago, but denying the science of climate change is just foolish."
Redford said if Alberta has a premier questioning climate change, it won't be taken seriously on the national or international stage.
"When I go to Washington and I talk to people in the White House, at Capitol Hill, and I'm trying to talk to them about why we need Keystone, they don't want to hear that I don't believe in climate change," she said.
"They want to know they have a premier and a leader from this province who is prepared to understand that this impacts our markets, this impacts our investors, and if we don't take it seriously it will impact our economy and our way of life."
Liberal Leader Raj Sherman said his party is also calling for hard caps on emissions, and said they aren't questioning climate change.
"Science informs our position," he said.
Recent polls have also suggest that traditional Liberal and NDP voters may be switching loyalties to the Progressive Conservatives as a palatable centrist alternative to block the right-wing Wildrose.
One video going viral on the Web depicts a young Alberta man admitting he'd rather have his face chewed off by rodents than vote PC, but will anyway to keep the Wildrose from the levers of power.
At the end of the debate, Smith urged people to vote straight up.
"You should vote in your heart who you think will best represent you in the legislature," she said.
"Having a government that has been in power for 41 years and created all of the problems that we have today, I think one thing that the opposition leaders will all agree on is that is not a government that deserves to have another majority."
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WTAPS Fall/Witer 2010 Collection – New Releases
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New Releases
WTAPS presents new pieces from their Fall/Winter 2010 Collection. The drop includes shirts, pants, a hoodie, as well as a hat and some cardigans. We especially like the shirts, which come in two colorways and feature check pattern inserts and some nice small embroidery details. The new WTAPS pieces are now available from Cliff Edge.


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Buddy Franklin interviewed by police after Rose Bay car crash
Lance Franklin has fronted the media on Thursday morning and apologised for the Rose Bay crash in which five cars were badly damaged.
Speaking at the SCG, Franklin indicated that he was not texting nor speeding at the time of the accident, but regretted what had transpired.
"I'm truly sorry for the inconvenience cause to other people's cars," Franklin said.
"This is something that not anyone wants to go through. I don't want to see myself in the spotlight again. The immediate reaction is just shock. I was devastated. I'm just so thankful that no one was in the car with me."
Franklin stated that girlfriend Jesinta Campbell's primary concern was his well-being, and not that of her car, which Franklin was driving at the time of the accident.
"The car is the last thing on Jesinta's mind; it's more about me," he said.
Sydney Swans star recruit Lance ''Buddy'' Franklin has been issued with a traffic infringement notice for negligent driving after he was involved in a car crash in Sydney's east on Wednesday night.
Franklin, 27, was driving a Jeep loaned by Jeep Australia to his girlfriend, television presenter and model Jesinta Campbell, when it was involved in the crash on New South Head Road in Rose Bay just after 7pm.
Police said the driver of the Jeep, whom they did not identify, crashed into four parked cars, but a roadside breath test showed alcohol was not involved.
A NSW Police spokeswoman on Thursday morning said a 27-year-old man had been served with a traffic infringement notice for negligent driving. He would face a fine, but would not be required to attend court.
According to Roads and Maritime Services, the offence attracts a $405 fine and three demerit points.
In a statement, the Swans said that Franklin was the only person involved in the accident, and was unharmed.
"He was not carrying any passengers and there were no passengers in any of the other vehicles involved. No one was injured in the accident," the statement read.
A NSW Police spokesman said on Wednesday night that the Jeep was travelling west along New South Head Road and hit four parked vehicles.
"All four vehicles were damaged as a result of the crash," the spokesman said.
The police spokesman described the driver, who was the only person in the car, as a 27-year-old man from Bondi.
The incident will ensure the spotlight is again on Franklin and the Swans, and coach John Longmire is expected to address the media before training on Thursday.
Witness Craig McDonald, who lives above the street where the collision occurred, said he called police after hearing a "heavy duty" crash through his window.
"I looked out the window and it looked like four cars in the collision," he told Fairfax Media.
Photos from the scene, taken by Mr McDonald, show a row of several damaged cars after the crash.
"He [Franklin] was just hanging around," Mr McDonald said.
"He got recognised and he was trying to stay out of the light of the cameras."
Mr McDonald said Franklin was picked up from the scene by a friend.
Earlier this year, the Swans said Franklin had lent his Mercedes to his teammate Dan Hannebery, who was involved in an accident in the car. Franklin was not in the car and the club said nobody was injured.
Franklin was signed by the Swans in October last year, on a nine-year contract worth $10 million, after almost a decade with Hawthorn.


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March 7, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference recently announced the 2007-08 NEWMAC Winter Academic All-Conference Team. Once again, MIT reigned supreme, collecting a league-best 26 honors.
Honoress must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2007 fall semester, achieved a second year academic status at his or her institution, and been a member of a varsity team for the entire season.
Winter sports sponsored by the NEWMAC include: men's and women's basketball and swimming and diving.
The NEWMAC consists of 10 highly selective institutions committed to academic excellence: Babson College, Clark University, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Clark secured the second-highest number of honorees with 15 selections, followed by Springfield with 12. The following is a list of MIT's representatives on the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team:
Men's Basketball
Alex Bagley
Jimmy Bartolotta
Patrick Sissman
Hamidou Soumare
Women's Basketball
Alice Yeh
Clara Yuan
Men's Swimming and Diving
Christopher Carper
Zachary Cordero
Udit Garg
Daniel Klenk
Daniel Jimenez
Daniel Lopez-Braus
Peter Wellings
Jeff Zhou
Women's Swimming and Diving
Clara Bennett
Lauren Cipicchio
Abigail Clark
Erika Erickson
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Sarah King
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Hello everyone,
I've done this set up and recorded my set many, many times in the past, but i somehow did something, changed a setting, or i'm not sure what, but now i'm unable to record anything.
So this is my set up right now; Traktor Scratch 2, MacBook, connected to an Traktor Audio 10, which is connected to a Pioneer DJM-350 (very basic and easy set up, i've been using it for years)
Audio 10 Deck A outputs(3&4) connected to the channel 1 CD on the mixer.
Audio 10 Deck B outputs(5&6) connected to the channel 2 CD on the mixer.
My monitor speaker is plugged into the master out 2 on the mixer.
Controller X1 plugged into my computer.
Traktor preferences:
Audio set up is set to the Audio 10
Output Routing; Mixing mode set to external, and decks A and B set to channels (3&4) and (5&6) respectively
Up to here, everything works great. I can play and hear no problem.
Now I want to record, so i take an RCA cable and and plug into the Master out 1 of the mixer and hook it up to Deck D 9&10 input.
Then I go into preferences, Input routing, and change the input routing for deck D to 9&10 channel D.
At this point i see a signal in the signal window(that's just on the right) and on the record section inTraktor.. (is it normal that I see a signal in both those places, eventho I don't have a track playing? is it just picking up noise?)
Now I put a track on and press record, it seems like its recording, the button is this bright orange, and the counter is tracking how long i've been recording.
When I tried to adjust the sound of the recording, I noticed I can't alter the incoming signal. If i turn ALL the knobs to zero (Master volume on the mixer, channel gain on the mixer, all the EQs to 00 on the mixer, the master on Traktor program, the EQs on the TRaktor mixer, the gain on the Traktor mixer, and the gain in the record section (right next to the record button). NOTHING HAPPENS. There still is incoming signal.
Then I press stop and go get the recording in my recording folder, load it in to a deck and press play. Nothing. There's no music recorded. If i crank up the volume to the very max, i'll hear a bit of noise, feeble clicking and such.
I've watched an entire day worth of videos on how to hook everything up and record with an external mixer, and they don't really mention anything about the input routing section.
I believe my problem lies there. But I'm at a loss.
Somebody please help a girl out.


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To use a message box, you will need to know how it all works, how everything is put together. Message boxes are useful and are needed for things like if the program asks the user for a Question, the program delivers a Error Message and wants the user to know, expressing certain Conditions and much more.
Basically, you need to follow this syntax:
MsgBox(prompt[, buttons] [, title] [, helpfile, context])
If you want to call on the message box to do something, this must be used:
memory_variable = MsgBox ( prompt [, icons+ buttons] [,title] )
Each part of the Syntax is explained:
This is required as it is a string expression displayed as the message in the dialog box. This could be a warning, question or just a message for users to know.
This is an optional thing to include with your message box. Basically, this is a numeric expression that is the sum of values specifying the number and type of button/s to display. As this is optional, if this is omitted, it is set to its default (0) which causes only an OK button to be displayed. You may use either the worded syntax, or the assigned number.
This is the title of the message box which is going to be displayed. This is optional and if omitted, a default name will be used.
helpfile and context
These arguments are only applicable when a Help file has been set up to work with the application and therefore these are optional.
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A simple example to use is:
MsgBox "Hello there!"
When this is used under the Form_Load event, the most basic of all message boxes will appear, expressing the message "Hello there!".
We can expand on our first example and use the memory_variable:
Dim Response As Integer Response = MsgBox("Is this a great tutorial?", vbYesNo) If Response = vbYes Then MsgBox("Thank You!") Else MsgBox("ORLYNAO?") End If
This would be a message box appearing, with a Yes and No buttons and if the user selects the first button, Yes, another message box will appear saying "Thank you!". If the second button is clicked, a message box will appear saying "ORLYNAO?".
Obviously, we can expand even more. We can add features and extra emphasis on the message. We can add a button like so:
MsgBox "The floor is wet!", vbExclamation + vbOKOnly, "Caution"
Simply, an Exclamation icon will appear. The vbExclamation can be replaced with other variables, listed below.
And we can make a button a default when the message box pops up:
Dim Response As Integer Response = MsgBox("Do you really like this tutorial?", vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbDefaultButton1, "Question?") If Response = vbYes Then MsgBox "YAY!!!" Else MsgBox "Mhmmm..." End If
The first button will be the default in this can. Like before, it can be changed.
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By CURT ANDERSON
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former NFL star Chad Johnson will serve 30 days in jail after violating probation in a domestic violence case involving his then-wife, TV reality star Evelyn Lozada.
A plea deal that called for no jail time fell apart Monday. Broward Judge Kathleen McHugh rejected it after Johnson playfully slapped his attorney on the behind in court. McHugh says Johnson wasn't taking things seriously enough, even after he apologized. McHugh also extended Johnson's probation for three months.
The 35-year-old formerly known as Chad Ochocinco pleaded no contest to head-butting Lozada during an argument in August. The "Basketball Wives" star immediately filed for divorce after barely a month of marriage.
Johnson was subsequently released by the Miami Dolphins. He previously played for the Cincinnati Bengals and New England Patriots.
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The Great Skeletal Repose of 2011: A Retrospective/
Well, it's 2012, so the Great Skeletal Repose of 2011 must officially come to an end. Most of the bipedal skeletals in my collection have been reposed much like this Velociraptor. I had plenty of things to say, and we saw some great discussion by guest writers, but when it comes right down to it, the issue feels incomplete without some sort of summary as to how I got here, and what's left to do. So let's take a quick look at where things stand now...
To some degree, the walking pose shown above was selected by acclimation. When I started to show off different types of poses, by far the most popular was the walking pose you see above. And I want this pose to be one that other scientific illustrators can feel free to adopt, so widespread can only enhance that proposition. But it wasn't just a popularity contest - there are several practical reasons why this walking pose became the winner:
The Good
1) Utility - Greg Paul of course will continue to use his pose, and a number of previously published skeletals by other authors (including all of mine up until last year) had adopted the same pose. By selecting the walking pose the retracted left leg remains unchanged, allowing for a easy comparison of the proportions. This was probably the biggest factor.
2) Functional Aesthetics - The old pose of animals sprinting along at a lively clip tended to impose a specific hypothesis of activity on the animals. While in some cases dashing along may have been quite likely, it still required that a research who wanted to use the skeletals to swallow that hypothesis, whether they agreed with it or not. With Velociraptor that wasn't unlikely, but with larger theropods it became needlessly controversial, and with graviportal taxa like therizinosaurs the results could be laughable.
3) Laziness - I prefer "efficient" over "lazy", but no matter what label you place on it, this pose required a minimal amount of alteration to my existing skeletals. And the stark reality is that when you have to repose hundreds of technical illustrations that time adds up. Quickly. Of course this reason would not have been sufficient if it weren't for the more important points 1 & 2, but it sure was a nice bonus.
Does that mean I'm thrilled with the outcome?
Yes and no. Since I'm starting with a blank slate, it would have been fun to come up with something truly distinctive. Yet the allure of the new wasn't worth sacrificing how useful the skeletals were for comparative purposes. Also, thanks to lots (and lots) of time spent pondering the issue, and to the extra stimulus provided by Mike Habib and Jon Conway's excellent guest posts, I've come to some unsettling questions that are still unresolved.
The Bad
1) Whither goest utility? - As I wrote way back in the halcyon days of...spring 2011, after I announced that I would relinquish the old pose and select a new one I got many requests that I refrain from this. Almost all of them were concerned with losing the ability to easily contrast my skeletals to others after the repose. I was (and am) sympathetic to that plight, and selected a pose that minimized the "damage".
Yet I also had a disconcerting realization: Both Greg Paul and myself had been varying the pose of the forelimbs for years and no one ever bothered to complain about the loss of utility. Sometimes we've both illustrated maniraptorans with the arms flexed into their folded-wing pose, sometimes not. Less advanced theropods obviously never adopted such a pose, so their arms often hang listlessly. My tyrannosaurs went from a similar "hanging out" pose to one that reflected the work done by Lipkin and Carpenter. Why was the issue never broached? Are forelimbs less important for comparative purposes than hind limbs? Or do we naturally gravitate towards the larger structure because of how our visual cortex's work? I don't know, but I'm unsatisfied by the discrepancy.
2) Is variety the spice of life? - Jon Conway also brought up a good point in his guest article, that there isn't a single pose that best serves every need. This is certainly true, and while I still feel that within groups making poses similar is useful, I also have to admit that in some ways the job has just begun.
3) That job has just begun - Oh yeah, and another thing. Turns out there are quadrupedal dinosaurs too. Who'd have thunk it, eh? Despite the obvious and objective superiority of theropods, prosauropods, and basal ornithiscians, there's still a lot of four-footed critters in my skeletal collection, and I'm going to have to come up with a pose for them as well. Two actually, since the graviportal species will need a pose that is different from the quadrupeds with flexed limbs. Ah well, that just means that 2012 will also need to have a Great Skeletal Repose as well.
An end and a beginning
So we've come full circle. I've adopted a pose for the bipedal dinosaurs, but still have to come up with (two!) new poses for quadrupeds. I still am very much interested in soliciting outside opinions on the subject, but I also want the blog to move back to posts about anatomy and reconstruction, rather than a continuing series of posts on the technical issues behind selecting a pose. So expect to see the occasional progress report on the quadrupeds, but don't expect it to dominate space on the blog this year.
If you have a strong opinion on the subject, don't hesitate to email me (or use that Gchat thing). In the mean time, I really do have a series of upcoming posts on Acrocanthosaurus and Spinosaurus anatomy, as well as the trials and tribulations of reconstructing skeletals in multiple views.
Stick around, won't you? 2012 should be an interesting year.


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ANTIOCH — After an appointment process that took a little more than an hour, the City Council whittled down a field of nine applicants to one new council member.
Tony Tiscareno, a retired steelworker at USS-POSCO and political adviser, was sworn in Tuesday as the council's fifth member, filling the seat vacated by Wade Harper, who was elected mayor in November.
"I want to work to provide a much safer and productive Antioch," Tiscareno, 55, said shortly after taking his seat on the dais.
Tiscareno was born and raised in Contra Costa County, moving to Antioch at age 13 from Pittsburg. The father of two and grandfather of four graduated from Antioch High School in 1975 and has been married to his wife, Olivia, for 33 years.
Although he has been mostly a behind-the-scenes guy in the political spectrum, many have been prodding him to run for a long time, Tiscareno said.
"I was seriously looking at running in two years, but when (the vacancy) came up, the timing seemed right," he said.
Tiscareno was one of nine who went through the interview process Tuesday. Each applicant gave a three-minute statement on why they were seeking the position. Afterward, each council member chose two names to go to the next round, submitting slips of paper read aloud by City Attorney Lynn Tracy Nerland.
The City Council eliminated a few well-known names in a first round of votes, including Chamber of Commerce CEO Sean Wright and Manny Soliz, a councilman from 1995 to 2000.
After the field was narrowed to four candidates — Jim Davis, former mayor and third-place vote-getter in the November election; Donald Freitas, mayor from 2000 to 2008; Vincent Manuel, a district representative for Supervisor Federal Glover; and Tiscareno — the council voted on narrowing the field to two.
Freitas and Tiscareno moved on.
Councilwoman Mary Rocha moved that Tiscareno be appointed, and Mayor Wade Harper seconded the motion. Before the vote, Councilman Gary Agopian asked that the council reconsider and discuss the merits of Freitas, particularly his experience.
There was no further discussion after Agopian's comments, and Tiscareno's appointment was approved 3-1. Agopian later asked for a revote to give Tiscareno's appointment unanimous approval.
While at USS-POSCO, Tiscareno served as president of United Steelworkers Local 1440. Upon retiring after 33 years in the trade, he worked as a jobs advocate for the Contra Costa Labor Council and owned a sports card shop in Antioch. Tiscareno has also coached youth sports in Antioch.
"There may be that worry that I'm a new face, but I've been in Antioch a long time. A lot of people know who I am," he said.
This year, Tiscareno worked as campaign manager for newly elected Assemblyman Jim Frazier through the primary election, then shifted his attention to working on state propositions.
Leaving Tuesday's meeting with two large binders' worth of material to study, Tiscareno is looking to hit the ground running. He said his goals include working with fellow council members as a cohesive group, hiring more police officers and improving crime prevention programs to reverse the city's spike in crime.
Tiscareno also wants to create more activity programs to "keep youth involved and off the streets."
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.


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Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) announced yesterday that he would continue to serve as premier "for political stability" and that most of his Cabinet members would also stay on, after President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) rejected his resignation.
Chang resigned from the position on Thursday following a tradition set by previous premiers following the election of a new legislature.
However, with only three months left of his presidential term, Chen decided to reject Chang's resignation in order to avoid any more political upheaval, the Central News Agency reported.
Chang accepted Chen's decision and said that most of his team would stay as well.
"My Cabinet team knows my leadership style well," Chang said when approached for comment outside his residence. "I think they will stay on with me."
As for the vacancies left by former Cabinet members who were elected to the legislature, "those vacancies will be filled with lawmakers who failed in their re-election bids," Chang said.
Meanwhile, Chang confirmed that Government Information Office Minister Shieh Jhy-wey (謝志偉) and Minister of Education Tu Cheng-sheng (杜正勝) would stay on.
Shieh and Tu resigned before the Cabinet did so en masse, after Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and several other Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members said that the two, along with Ministry of Education chief secretary Chuang Kuo-jung (莊國榮), were partly responsible for the party's defeat in the legislative elections because of their "controversial" behavior.
In related news, Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (
"Rejecting the [Cabinet's] resignation is more acceptable. It would be wrong for the president to accept [Chang's] resignation and then appoint a new premier only months before the presidential election," Wang said yesterday outside the Central Election Commission, where he was accompanying Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) as he registered his candidacy.
Constitutional convention stipulates that the Cabinet resign when a new legislature is elected and gives the president the power to choose a new premier without requiring the consent of the new legislature.
Establishing a new constitutional convention, as Chen has suggested, would eliminate the problem of a Cabinet forming twice in the space of three months, once when the new legislature is sworn in on Feb. 1 and again when the new president is inaugurated on May 20.
Rejecting the resignation and making the Cabinet a "caretaker Cabinet" presenting policies and bills through cross-party negotiations was more reasonable, Wang said.
Wang said the Constitution did not require the premier to resign after a new legislature was elected.
Meanwhile, two academics yesterday criticized the DPP caucus' move to seek a constitutional interpretation on the new "single district, two-vote" electoral voting system.
At a forum in Taipei, National Taiwan University political science professor Chang Lin-cheng (張麟徵) said it was "strange" for the caucus to pursue the interpretation, adding that such a move would give the public a negative impression as the new system had been "co-authored" by the DPP and the KMT.


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For some modules, I have come to the conlusion that nothing more than the following is necessary:
I usually end up with code such as the above for very specialized modules that need to load quickly, without any dependencies. Exporter.pm, even split into Exporter.pm and Exporter/Heavy.pm, is beastly long for the most common usages.
Some benefits of this approach include the ability to rename objects, and the ability to export lexical objects (in the above case, $SCALAR1 could be declared with my()).
I am not recommending my solution over yours. I am agreeing that rolling your own import() function can be very practical, and I believe that the practice suits the Perl mindset. Exporter.pm is one (convenient?) way to do it. It isn't the only way to do it.
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Colorado History: "The Giant and How He Humbugged America"
Paging all National History Day competitors! Here's a topic that would be loads of fun: Explaining why so many gullible Americans fell for a sensational scam.
Author Jim Murphy chronologically traces the giant's story from the day that it was discovered by a farmer in rural New York state. The massive figure was 10'4″ long with identifiable human details, including fingernails, toenails, muscles, ribs and an Adam's apple. Was it a Stone Giant, one of the legendary beings from Onodaga Indian folklore?
It was christened the Cardiff Giant by local media, and the news went viral, in the context of 1869: the Syracuse Daily Standard estimated that within the first 24 hours after the figure was unearthed, over 10,000 people had heard about it. John Boynton, a local scientist and eccentric, publicly disputed the farmer's claim of uncovering a petrified super-human, noting that the figure was a man-made statue, perhaps of limestone.


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- England ready for battle to reach World Cup semi
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Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm
Prentice Hall, 2004 - Business & Economics - 534 pages
Information systems knowledge is essential for creating competitive firms, managing global corporations, and providing useful products and services to customers. This book introduces management information systems that readers will find vital to their professional success. Emphasizes the digital integration of the firm through enterprise applications (management of the supply chain, customer relationships, enterprise systems, and knowledge). Offers vivid examples, engaging and interactive exercises, and the most up-to-date information to illustrate the impact of information technology on business. Highlights new applications and technologies to digitally enable business processes for electronic business and electronic commerce--i.e., what will improve firms' relationships with customers and create additional value. Provides new Running Case on Laudon Web site and accompanying CD-ROM; examines a fictitious company called Dirt Bikes USA, with each text chapter containing a project requiring readers to use application software, Web tools, or analytical skills to solve a problem the company has encountered. An indispensable reference for managers and executives who wish to integrate or update MIS in their organizations.
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If you've ever received a text message from an unknown contact announcing you've won a gift card, don't expect a prize in the mail. It's likely a scam.
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced action against 29 defendants for sending the text spam that winds up costing users millions of dollars in cell phone text charges and other fees.
"We believe that the defendants in these cases are collectively responsible for at least 180 million spam text messages," Steve Baker, the FTC's Director for the Midwest Region.
Those who click on the links included in the texts are sent to websites presenting a series of questions requiring personal information, applications for credit and requests for money for subscriptions for the supposed "free" gift cards.
FTC officials say they've received about 20,000 complaints from consumers. The agency is seeking retraining orders to stop the companies and the individuals from sending the texts. The FTC has also filed complaints against companies that own the websites being advertised.
"There are eight cases so far. Courts have entered orders in five of these cases and hearings are scheduled in the others over the next few days. So we think we're going to make a real dent in the spam text problem," said Baker.


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IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys are expecting to be without running back DeMarco Murray for Sunday's game.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says it "looks obvious" that Murray won't play at Carolina because of his sprained left foot.
Speaking on his weekly radio show Tuesday on KRLD-FM, the team's flagship station, Jones said the team is encouraged that the sprain wasn't more serious than it was. Murray had an MRI on Monday.
Murray got hurt in Sunday's 31-29 loss at Baltimore. He missed the final three games of his rookie season last year because of a broken right ankle.
Felix Jones is expected to start in Murray's place.
Murray has run for 330 yards and one touchdown for Dallas (2-3).
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First thing that comes to mind is the use of "fantasy" by certain ill-informed peoples on a few forums and blogs to mean just one tiny subset of a whole spectrum of readings. I recently recall a discussion on the Westeros forums in which a poster there, whose point was mostly civil even if I disagreed strongly with it, argued that he was "thankful" that Michael Moorcock "didn't get his way," because "it would have ruined fantasy."
What in the fucking hell is that shit supposed to mean? "Ruin fantasy?" It's as though there is some standardized format that all authors must follow for something to constitute "fantasy." I suppose the person was thinking of the epic fantasy subtype, but still, there's something just so grating about this presumed "fantasy" uniformity. Whether it be fans on epic fantasy fansite forums or bloggers of various stripes and persuasions, there just seems to be at times this sort of presumptuous belief that "fantasy" is a well-defined and laid out "this is how it is" sort of tale, with little to no time apparently being given to works that might buck this presumption. I cannot help but to wonder if those that use such a label as "fantasy" so cavalierly have even bothered to read beyond a narrow range of works.
Related to this is an ever-more apparent divide between those who read certain subgenres of spec fic and those who choose awards and honors. A week or so ago, it was announced that the Science Fiction Writers of America was going to award a Grandmaster (a sort of Lifetime Achievement Award) to Michael Moorcock. Suspecting there might be some dissension and that there might be a few who are relatively unaware of the genre's past as to fail to recognize his name, I ran a week-long opinion poll both here and on wotmania's Other Fantasy messageboard. The results were worse than I feared:
First are the results from wotmania:
What are your thoughts about Michael Moorcock being selected as being the next SFWA Grandmaster? (97 Votes)
Wonderful - he's been very influential (17.53%)
Good - he's pretty good (10.31%)
OK - decent, but others deserved it more (1.03%)
Meh - not a fan at all of his work (4.12%)
Who the hell is he? (67.01%)
The number of those answering "Who the hell is he?", while much lower than that of wotmania's OF section, belies any claims that any moron might make about "fantasy" being a monolithic bit. Seems to me that the entire concept of "fantasy," fracturing as it seems to becoming with each passing decade, seems to be fated to be as much of a vague and sometimes-misleading label as that older, somewhat more respected (but even more fractious) cousin called "religion." Mind you, I'm not making any truth claims on the veracity of any religion (as I've stated before, my own religious beliefs are pretty strong...and personal), but rather that I'm noting the possibility for at least superficial comparisons to how adherents to certain subtypes of both groups might tend to presume that their singular view is the only valid view.
But for now, this is just the beginning (if I deign to explore this more systematically at a later date) of an exploration of how people view this field. Right now, however, I'm a bit exhausted and more inclined to wonder if "fantasy" readers' selection of reading choices is akin to a bunch of inbred people who keep coming back to the family reunions to make their next breeding selections. Limited explorations of options by others just tends to rile me a bit. I guess that's the teacher in me speaking, though.