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KTVA.com – Alaska News and Weather
House passes bill designating day to honor Alaska elders
KTVA.com – Alaska News and Weather
The Alaska House of Representatives has passed a bill designating the winter solstice as a day of honor for elders all across the state. Representatives across the board voted to pass House Bill 142 Friday, with only three excluded votes. The bill's …
Stonehenge gets renovated, modern day visitor center – The Spokesman … – New York Recorder
Stonehenge gets renovated, modern day visitor center – The Spokesman …
New York Recorder
Thousands of self-styled Druids, pagans and New Age revelers have been due to collect for the winter solstice Saturday. Senior curator Sara Lunt said there are still major discoveries to be produced – a lot more than half the site remains unexcavated.
Ireland: it's all about the light – Irish Echo
Irish Echo
Ireland: it's all about the light
Irish Echo
"One of the first great pieces of architecture — the 5,000-year-old Newgrange passage-tomb which predates the pyramids of Egypt by more than 500 years – is oriented toward the rising sun at the winter's solstice on Dec. 21, offering an extraordinary …
Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter to bring Celtic harp to Willits March 29 – The Willits News
Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter to bring Celtic harp to Willits March 29
The Willits News
He tours often as a solo artist and with Lisa Lynne, Patrick Ball, and The Windham Hill Winter Solstice Concert series. Advance tickets are $15 and available in person at Mazahar, 38 S. Main St., Willits; online at brownpapertickets.com; or by phone 24 …
Women running for women – The News Herald
The News Herald
Women running for women
The News Herald
Trejo is the public relations and marketing coordinator for Amavida Coffee Co., and completed her first distance run in December for the company's Winter Solstice Run, which was 40 miles. "I am not much of a runner," she said, "but I am a mom. I can't …
Chaa Creek Celebrates The Maya Summer Solstice With New Belize Wellness … – PR Web (press release)
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Chaa Creek Celebrates The Maya Summer Solstice With New Belize Wellness …
PR Web (press release)
"People may remember all of the attention the 2012 Winter Solstice generated, when the media and Internet were alive with theories that the Maya predicted the end of the world on December 21 that year. There was even a major Hollywood motion picture …
No longer in the shadows, McCoy adjusting to spotlight – Golf Channel (press release) (blog)
Golf Channel (press release) (blog)
No longer in the shadows, McCoy adjusting to spotlight
Golf Channel (press release) (blog)
Held before the winter solstice at Frederica Golf Club on Georgia's St. Simons Island, the 16-man session is essentially the first tryout. It's "America's Got Talent," only with 90 holes, pleated khakis and evening pingpong. The participants rise …
Nationally recognized bluegrass artist to perform at OUS-Ironton – Ironton Tribune
Nationally recognized bluegrass artist to perform at OUS-Ironton
Ironton Tribune
Concert appearances for the duo include The Kennedy Center, The Birchmere, The Champlain Valley Folk Festival, The Creative Alliance, three appearances at Helicon's Winter Solstice concerts with Robin Bullock and Chris Norman, several appearances …
Seeing Stones: 10 Facts and Figures about Stonehenge You Might Now Know – Anglotopia.net
Seeing Stones: 10 Facts and Figures about Stonehenge You Might Now Know
… monument from a short distance away. English Heritage does, however, permit access during the summer and winter solstice, and the spring and autumn equinox. Additionally, visitors can make special bookings to access the stones throughout the year.
Goodbye Party for Winter – The Vineyard Gazette – Martha's Vineyard News
The Vineyard Gazette – Martha's Vineyard News
Goodbye Party for Winter
The Vineyard Gazette – Martha's Vineyard News
These cyclic celebrations include Beltain in May, Lithia on the summer solstice, Lamas in the summer, Maybon on the autumn equinox, Samhain on Halloween, Yule on the winter solstice and Imbolic in February. Each holiday has its own customs and …


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Jim Fleming And Richie Whalen Are Laying Down The Miles With Their Non-Identical Twin Deuce Highboys
Let's try and capture the essence of a bygone era that lies just below the surface of these freshly minted shells by taking an in-depth look at both cars to see just what makes them tick.
The Convertible
We will begin with Jim Fleming of Washingtonville, New York. Influenced by Ed Roth, Tommy Ivo, and Mickey Thompson, it's clear there was a distinct path he would follow. Forty-plus years later, the kid from Brooklyn has over a dozen builds under his belt with everything from a hammered '54 Chevy custom to countless Ford coupes and roadsters all with traditional style and unique engine combinations.
It wasn't until recently though when he fell under the influence of a pair of coupes known as the Wicked Sisters owned by Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell, aka The Rolling Bones of Greenfield Center, New York. Studying the coupes, Jim began to absorb everything that made them subtle in order to infuse their style into his next build. Knowing that he wanted a roadster, but also the ability to have a top for when the weather turned, his research brought him to Dearborn Deuce for their premiere '32 Ford steel convertible body. (Editor's Note: by definition roadsters do not have roll-up door windows, hence the Dearborn Deuce falls into the category of a convertible.) The body not only featured a fully disappearing convertible top, but also side glass for those cold and wet East Coast cross state runs.
Being a hands-on guy and knowing he would be taking on the build from start to finish, Jim contacted American Stamping Corporation (ASC) for a pair of their rock solid framerails along with their center crossmember to form a base. In preparation for the build, Jim spent countless hours at local swap meets gathering up the parts that would separate his Deuce from the rest. In designing the chassis he infused a number of classic elements starting with bobbed front and rear framehorns. From there he added a C-notch to the rear as well as a pinch to the front to get just the right look. Settling on a 107-1/2-inch wheelbase, Jim now began to plan out the front and rear suspension. In back, a Winters quick-change rearend and '36 Ford split 'bones were suspended into place along with a Model T rear spring and Girling lever shocks.
Up front an original '32 Ford axle was drilled with lightening holes and matched up to a pair of lengthened, split, and drilled '32 Ford 'bones and '40 Ford spindles. Combined with a Model A front spring the assembly was hung in place suicide-style while '36 Ford (rear) lever shocks soak up the bumps. For plenty of stopping power, Jim added '39 Lincoln brakes matched to classic finned aluminum Buick drums. Navigation was fashioned into a very tasteful cowl steering setup utilizing a Dodge Demon steering box and an owner-fabricated Pitman arm. Completing the chassis, steelies from Stockton Wheel wrapped with nostalgic-looking blackwalls from Diamond Back finish the look.
For plenty of dependable power on the long haul, Jim decided to build an engine that would fit the bill of a classic hot rod. Starting with a '54 Dodge Red Ram Hemi, he had Keller Auto Machine of Salisbury Mills, New York, massage the block to 241 ci. Once completed, Jim assembled the healthy V-8 with loads of go-fast goodies, including Ross slugs, a Clay Smith stick, and MSD spark while headers from Hot Heads dump the spent gases through a 2-inch stainless steel exhaust void of any mufflers. Linked to an '85 Chevy S-10 five-speed transmission topped with a B&M shifter, you just know this balanced, blueprinted, and dyno'd baby Hemi has plenty of gusto.
After studying the Dearborn Deuce new steel, Jim decided it would only need a few tweaks to get it to the level he wanted. He installed a factory-styled Ford cowl vent and followed by having Louvers Unlimited, of Craryville, New York, louver the trunk lid giving the car distinct lakes feel while a custom fabricated front grille guard and rear pushbar seal the deal. After completing all of the body prep, Jim contacted the Kustom Shop in San Diego, California, for plenty of their blue pearlescent vibe to coat the body. With everything ready in the spray booth, Jim pulled the trigger on the gun and didn't stop until the body and chassis were glistening.
Once the assembly was completed, he laid out plans for the bare bones interior, which included a stock dash filled with a combination of Stewart Warner and Auto Meter gauges, '39 Ford steering wheel, and Hurst shifter. Seating came by way of a chopped-down minivan bench covered with dense foam and topped with an Indian blanket. With two round trips from New York to Bonneville under its belt, along with thousands of trouble-free miles canvassing events all over the country, Jim's Deuce has definitely earned his respect, proving that a traditionally built car can hold its own on the long haul.
Jim Fleming
Washingtonville, New York
1932 Ford highboy convertible
|Frame / Manufacturer
|'32 Ford / American Stamping Corp (Olive Branch, MS)
|Front pinched and bobbed, rear bobbed with C-notch by owner
|Chassis plumbing
|Rearend / Ratio
|'40 Ford with Winters (York, PA) quick-change / 3.75:1
|Rear suspension
|Model T rear spring, Girling lever shocks, and split '36 Ford 'bones
|Rear brakes
|'39 Lincoln with 90-fin Buick drums
|Front suspension
|'32 Ford axle, '32 Ford extended, split and drilled 'bones, Model A spring, '36 Ford (rear) lever shocks, and '40 Ford spindles
|Front brakes
|'39 Lincoln with 90-fin Buick drums
|Master cylinder
|Dual reservoir Chevy truck
|Steering box
|Dodge Demon
|Front wheel make, size
|Stockton Wheel (Stockton, CA), 16×5
|Rear wheel make, size
|Stockton Wheel, 16×6
|Front tire make, size
|Diamond Back, P185/75R16
|Rear tire make, size
|Diamond Back, P225/75R16
|Gas tank
|Tanks, Inc (Clearwater, MN) 16-gallon trunk mounted
|Other chassis items
|Chassis Engineering (Riviera Beach, FL) X-member
|'54 Dodge Hemi
|241 ci
|Machining / Assembly
|Keller Auto Machine (Salisbury Mills, NY) / Owner
|Ross (El Segundo, CA) custom line
|Clay Smith (Buena Park, CA)
|Cooling fan
|Walker (Memphis, TN) Z series
|Valves / Springs
|Manly (Lakewood, NJ) / Stock
|Manifold / Induction
|Stock two-barrel / Rochester 2GC
|Ignition / Wires
|MSD (El Paso, TX) / Taylor (Grandview, MO)
|Hot Heads (Lowgap, NC)
|Exhaust / Mufflers
|2″ stainless
|Other engine facts
|Engine balanced, blueprinted, and dyno'd at Keller Auto Machine, 220 hp at 5,400 rpm
|'85 Chevrolet S10 five-speed
|B&M (Chatsworth, CA)
|Trans mods
|Aluminum flywheel
|Denny's (Kenmore, NY)
|Body style / Material
|Convertible / steel
|Body manufacturer
|Dearborn Deuce (Branford, CT)
|Body mods
|Cowl vent added by owner
|Rootlieb (Turlock, CA)
|Paint type / Color
|Kustom Shop (San Diego, CA) / blue pearlescent
|Headlights / Taillights
|Snowplow lights / custom by owner
|Other body items
|Louvers by Louvers Unlimited (Craryville, NY), custom front grille guard and pushbar by owner
|Insert / Gauges
|Stock / Stewart Warner (East Petersburg, PA), Auto Meter (Sycamore, IL)
|Stereo / Speakers
|Hemi V-8
|Kwik Wire (Fond du Lac, WI)
|Steering wheel
|'36 Ford
|Steering column
|Steel pipe
|Interior mirror
|Swap meet special
|Chopped minivan
|Material / Color
|Indian blanket / multi
|RCI (Juniper, FL)
The Coupe
Richie Whalen of Medford, Massachusetts, made friends with Schmidt and Cornell some years ago, and he knew it would only be a matter of time until he enlisted their help to build him a hot rod. Regular readers will remember Richie's hot '31 Ford coupe featured in STREET RODDER a few months back. See, you can't hang around with the 'Bones gang without getting into a trance from the way they weave spiritual connections into their hot rods—a gritty, scathingly raw example of a survivor that had far more than one story to tell.
Starting with one of Henry's original Deuce spines, the team laid out plans to build one of their signature chassis starting with the addition of Model A front and rear crossmembers. From there they pinched the framerails at the hood and frame intersection, C-notched the rear, bobbed the front and rear framehorns, and a 109-inch wheelbase. In keeping with a postwar theme, the rearend is '40 Ford with a vintage Halibrand V-8 quick-change in place suspended by a pair of custom Rolling Bones ladder bars. To smooth out the bumps a Model T rear spring and inboard mounted Houdaille shocks iron it all out.
Up front a stock Deuce axle meets its match with '39 Ford spindles and '32 Ford split 'bones anchored in place. The combination of a Posies hot rod spring with rounded edges and custom-designed friction shocks will surely soak up the bumps. Mapping out a course toward the Salt should be a snap thanks to a Schroeder steering box, while '40 Ford binders at each corner provide enough whoa to the beast. Everyone knows if you miss out on stance the car will stand out like an alley cat begging at a seafood buffet, so the team set the car rolling on a combination of original 16-inch Ford steelies shod with Firestone piecrust rubber in a classic big and little style.
Nothing says "I'm here to party" like a decked-out supercharged Ford Flathead. Richie contacted H&H Flatheads to build one of their bulletproof new S.Co.T.-blown V-8s. Filled with top-of-the-line goodies like Ross pistons and an H&H blower-grind stick, it was topped with Navarro heads and given breath through a set of new-generation 97-series Stromberg carbs riding shotgun on a S.Co.T. huffer. With spark from a Vertex magneto, gear changes come fast through a Chevrolet T5 trans linked to the Halibrand rear by way of a Rolling Bones fabbed driveshaft. Spent gases are tossed out through a 1-3/4-inch steel exhaust with optional side dumps.
Richie, like Jim decided to take advantage of using freshly struck sheetmetal for the body of his coupe. One call by the team to Brookville Roadster secured a new '32 Ford coupe, complete with all of the needed components to make this portion of the build flawless. To give the body an attitude, the team hammered its lid 5 inches in front and 4-1/2 inches in back, while also adding a steel roof insert by Walden Speed Shop. Louvers Unlimited pounded the insert along with the decklid full of venting while a Rootlieb hood takes residence up front.
Like a fine painting, preparing the exterior finish of any hot rod is a matter of taste and in its final execution. For Richie's car, Schmidt decided to bring its look to a whole new level. Relying on his decades of skill as an artist, he set forth to create a layered effect that would give the new body the look of a car that had been to the prom more than a few times. Once suitably primed, he set forth with paint brushes in hand first with a thick blackened acrylic lacquer primer to be applied in places for a rough texture. From there he followed with a four-color layering process starting with original factory colors Old Ivory, Bronson Yellow, Manila Brown, and finally Cordova Gray. Throughout the application process he would dip his brush first in flattener then the color before dragging it across the rough surface areas. The resulting finish gives the body enough attitude to hold its own amongst any circle of purists.
Coming round the bend to the interior, simplicity rules the roost with a stock dash filled with a swap meet special cluster filled with gauges of unknown origin. An original '39 Ford steering wheel looks right at home while the floors are covered with textured rubber matting sure to wear well as the car ages. The touch of comfort is a cut-down minivan bench topped with dense foam and wrapped in a regulation green U.S. Army blanket. Completed literally the night before the team's yearly sojourn to Bonneville, the coupe performed flawlessly on its initial journey. Once it hit the Salt Flats, one could only step back and gaze at its existence where so much history lurked under its tires. For Jim and Richie, the experience of the journey along with their great friends from Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop solidifies the camaraderie, which is what hot rodding is all about.
Richie Whalen
Medford, Massachusetts
1932 Ford highboy coupe
|Frame / Manufacturer
|'32 Ford / Ford
|Front and rear framehorns bobbed, pinched at hood and frame intersection, and rear C-notch by Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop (Greenfield Center, NY)
|Chassis plumbing
|Rearend / Ratio
|'40 Ford with vintage Halibrand V-8 centersection / 3.62:1
|Rear suspension
|Rolling Bones HRS ladders bars, inboard Houdaille shocks, and Model T rear spring
|Rear brakes
|'40 Ford drum
|Front suspension
|'32 Ford axle, '39 Ford spindles, '32 Ford split 'bones with Posies (Hummelstown, PA) spring, custom friction shocks and mounts by Rolling Bones HRS
|Front brakes
|'40 Ford
|Master cylinder
|'40 Ford
|Steering box
|Schroeder (Burbank, CA)
|Wheel covers
|'40 Ford Deluxe
|Front wheel make, size
|'40 Ford steelie / 16×4.5
|Rear wheel make, size
|'40 Ford steelie / 16×5
|Front tire make, size
|Firestone / Coker (Chattanooga, TN), 4.50×16
|Rear tire make, size
|Firestone / Coker 7.50×16
|Gas tank
|15-gallon by Tanks, Inc (Clearwater, MN)
|'49 Ford Flathead
|286 ci
|Machining / Assembly
|H&H Flatheads (La Cresenta, CA) / H&H Flatheads
|Scat (Redondo Beach, CA)
|Ross (El Segundo, CA) 7.5:1
|H&H, special blower grind
|Water pump
|Speedway Motors (Lincoln, NE)
|Cooling fan
|Cooling Components (Memphis, TN)
|Walker Radiator (Memphis, TN)
|Powermaster (West Chicago, IL) PowerGEN
|Navarro Engineering (La Crescenta, CA)
|Valves / Springs
|Manly (Lakewood, NJ) stainless
|Manifold / Induction
|S.Co.T. / H&H S.Co.T supercharger with new Stromberg 97s
|Ignition / Wires
|Vertex (Grandview, MO) magneto / Taylor (Grandview, MO)
|Custom by Rolling Bones
|1-3/4″ steel
|Other Engine Facts
|Dyno'd by H&H at 260 hp
|Chevrolet T5
|Custom by Rolling Bones HRS
|Custom by Rolling Bones HRS
|Body style / Material
|Coupe / steel
|Body manufacturer
|Brookville (Brookville, OH)
|Body mods
|Chopped 5″ front and 4-1/2″ rear by Rolling Bones HRS
|Rootlieb (Turlock, CA)
|Rolling Bones HRS
|Paint type / Color
|PPG (Strongsville, OH) acrylic lacquer / Multi-layered
|Rolling Bones HRS
|Headlights / Taillights
|Guide / '39 Chevy
|Other body items
|Rolling Bones HRS rear roll pan, Walden Speed Shop (Pomona, CA) roof insert, Louvers by Louvers Unlimited (Craryville, NY)
|'32 Ford
|Insert / Gauges
|swap meet special / swap meet special modified top fit by Rolling Bones HRS
|Stereo / Speakers
|Blown Flathead
|Rolling Bones HRS
|Steering wheel
|'39 Ford
|Steering column
|'40 Ford
|Rolling Bones HRS
|Rolling Bones HRS
|Material / Color
|Army blanket / Green
|Rubber mat

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Bananas – everyone in this household relishes them. In fact, we hardly ever come back from our weekly grocery shopping without having a cluster in our bags. So we decided to educate ourselves and "googled" the word banana. Here are some interesting facts we gathered :
- The word "banana is derived from the Arab word "banan" which means finger.
- Bananas were first found in the region of Malaysia. It was Alexander the Great who brought bananas back with him to the western world.
- They contain Vitamin C, potassium, vitamin B6 and fiber.
- Bananas also contain three natural sugars, sucrose, fructose and glucose along with fiber. A banana thus gives an instant and substantial boost of energy.
- They are harvested green because they keep ripening even after they are picked.
With all this in mind, we were even more motivated to start our afternoon ritual of cooking together with one of our favorite desserts this summer : banana sorbets. It is unctuous, fresh, keeps the fresh fruit's taste almost unchanged. Perfect ending for a substantial meal. Of course, if you are up for a more sweets, you can always add some chocolate, honey, berry treats. Banana sorbet is the perfect occasion to let your imagination flow.
Making these sorbets was so fast and easy that we had plenty of time left to whip up another similar dessert. Our next favorite flavor is apricot. Since we are at the peak of apricot season – and it lasts about a month each year! – those orange little jewels are so ripe and sweet these days that we barely need half the amount of sugar to prepare our frozen treats. It is also a good occasion to freeze some for our winter cravings… The principle for making sorbets is fairly simple : we make a fruit puree (with fresh bananas, and roasted apricots) and add some sugar and fruit juice. Then the ice cream machine does the rest.
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Joe Jonas and Jay Sean Join Forces for Fall Tour
Over the years, we've seen many a star make the transition from boy band stardom to a career as a solo act (ahem, Justin Timberlake). With The Jonas Brothers taking a break, middle brother Joe is getting ready to make his mark in music, embarking on a 19-date tour with hitmaker Jay Sean in the fall.
The two singers will start their tour Sept. 6 in Boston and will close it in New York on Oct. 6. After touring with Jay Sean, the middle Jonas will join Britney Spears for the European leg of her Femme Fatale tour, which starts Oct. 16.
Jonas' first solo album, 'Fast Life' goes on sale Oct. 11. Tickets for the Jonas/Jay Sean tour go on sale Friday.
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County native Bill Young said he spent several hours working with Photoshop to restore an important family document, his grandpa's diploma from 1894.
"This is to certify that George Holmes of Marion County in the state of Kansas has completed the course of study in the common branches required by law to be taught in the public schools of the state in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, physiology and hygiene, and United States history," the document reads.
Holmes was 15 when he graduated. The interesting change between current diplomas and his grandpa's was the term "common school" instead of high school.
Common schools were founded in the 18th century as a "common" place of education for students of all ages. Common schools were funded at the local level by tuition rate bills that were paid by students' parents.
After graduation Holmes began farming close to Lincolnville.
Young and his family moved from Marion to California in 1960. He said he is a family history buff and keeps multiple documents that detail his family history in Marion County, including a diary his grandma kept every day from 1904 until her death in 1953.
"We moved when I was 14," he said. "I've been back a couple times for Old Settlers' Day. If I would have stayed in Marion I would have graduated in 1964 and celebrated my 50th year class reunion this Old Settlers' Day. I can't believe it's been that long."
Young said he is currently working on his own autobiography so his family can remember him 100 years from now.


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Like many of you, no doubt, I am a constant tinkerer with programs I'm working on. I'm nearly always refactoring and, in my head, I'm constantly refining designs as I go along. While I try to limit these tendencies so that I can actually get something done, I find the process of constant appraisal and revision to be useful. It deepens my understanding of what I'm doing and often turns up small changes in design that can streamline an operation or facilitate a downstream action.
Many times, I want to capture the design I have in mind without recourse to UML. While UML is a reasonably good format (and due to its universal adoption, the right one to use for many use cases), it's not an easy format to get right, once you move out of the core two or three diagrams known to most developers (class, sequence, use case, etc.) What I'm trying to capture is frequently none of those. I simply want a way to write down a series of actions, decisions, or implementation details that hang off some part of the existing software.
Text is an easy way to do this, and I've previously discussed the value of capturing coding-time decisions in a spreadsheet-like document. However, text quickly becomes problematic for anything but the most trivial of notes. Design artifacts should be easy to shuffle around, change, adapt, and otherwise modify. And so for that, I use a mind mapping tool. Mind maps are a weird name for a diagrammatic representation of loosely connected ideas. They are a central tool in brainstorming sessions. Mind map tools help capture ideas and then mush them around until you have the structure you want. While mind maps take many forms, the canonical representations look like a central idea with branches sticking out:
This is a preliminary mind map for HTML5 capabilities of a project I contribute to. It is read by going to the center point and starting with the top-most right branch ("At Startup"), then proceeding clockwise through all the branches (to "Verification"). Actually, this is the uncluttered, so-called "collapsed" version of the map. When given its full expansion, the mind map looks like this:
As you can see, lots more notes have been filled in off the various branches. I've also added icons on items where decisions still need to be made. By the time I'm done laying out the HTML 5 support in this project, the map will be even bushier. Because I can selectively open and close branches, I can focus on just what I need to. Later, if I want to move items from one branch to another, add images, icons, and the rest, I am able to tweak and modify to my heart's content until I'm satisfied I've captured what I need.
This might not look like a design diagram, but in fact, by the time I'm done, it will contain a huge amount of design data. Beyond its ability to let me initially capture fragments of ideas and then slowly build them out, the mind map has one other salient benefit: I can send it to anyone, including users, and they can read and understand it. Try doing that with a UML diagram!
When the design is more or less to my satisfaction, I can extend the arms of the map to include notes on the code implementation. I might, for example, include references to existing code, comments on the choice of a possible collection needed for a specific feature, as well as other notes about potential coding issues. This is not a full spec, of course, and can't substitute for one, but if it was assembled in conversations with the team, it generally provides enough information so that they can progress without stumbling into crevasses.
Mind maps are beneficial in other contexts: They function equally well as tools for writing documentation. User documentation often consists of discussions of many features that frequently have to be resequenced as new functionality is added. The mind map enables this shifting around and encourages quickly capturing a key point to be made in one of the subsections in a chapter all of which is neatly encapsulated in the hierarchical, spidery format of the mind map.
There are several free mind map products available in the open-source bazaar. The one I've used most and know best is FreeMind. I know users of other packages who prefer theirs, but the OSS packages all do more or less the same thing. Among commercial packages, XMind gets great reviews. If you prefer drawing up maps and diagrams in the cloud, then MapMeister is a choice that many developers seem to like. Whatever your choice, if simplicity is the watchword of good software, then mind maps certainly deliver.
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- Bears Are Bad News: If the paw comes out? Nice knowing ya.
- Berserk Button: Hurt someone she loves. Go on. I'll stand here with a camcorder.
- Mama Bear: Pun not intended.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She likes apples.
- Winged Humanoid
- Ambiguously Brown
- Hot-Blooded: Described as having 'anger issues'.
- Oh My Gods!: "Oh my godhand!"
- Psychic Dreams for Everyone
- Sassy Black Woman: Shades of it.
- Scars Are Forever: One on her cheek and one over the bridge of her nose.
- Rape as Backstory: Implied a couple times.
- Tsundere
- The Voiceless: Is mute, and communicates through sign language.
Studio Ghibli
Comics and Webcomics
- Hair Antennae
- The Hyena: Is "A bit of a giggler".
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
- Manchild: To an extent.
- The Prankster
- Tsundere: Towards Avengers.
Ava's Demon
- Anything That Moves
- Ditzy Genius: Highly intelligent, but has memory problems.
- Does Not Like Spam: Heavily dislikes fish.
- Forgetful Jones
- Half-Human Hybrid: If you put aside her status as an Anthropomorphic Personification, she would appear to be half-human and half-demon.
- Horned Humanoid
- Kill It with Fire: Her usual battle tactic.
- Mood-Swinger
- Alien Blood: Often.
- Dating Catwoman: Often Supernatural's kismesis.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Depending on the Writer: Human or troll? Or a human cosplaying a troll? Or something blend of that two?
- Drop the Hammer: Homestuck is usually depicted wielding the Hammer of Zillyhoo when in combat.
- Horned Humanoid: Though whether they are real or a costume is the subject of much debate.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Kindhearted Cat LoverAnonymous tumblr user: You got your own blog?MHS: No, you misunderstand. I got a cat. The cat came with a blog. So I run my cat's blog.
- Official Couple: With Hetalia.
Problem Sleuth
- Nice Hat
- Trademark Favorite Food: Candy corn.
- Broken Bird
- Horned Humanoid
- Idiot Hair
- Mismatched Eyes: One blue and one green.
- The Quiet One
- Black Magician Girl
- Blind Without 'Em: And nearly blind with them, too.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Human witch/troll.
- Horned Humanoid: They look a little like antlers.
- Mismatched Eyes: One green, one yellow.
- Mood-Swinger
- All Love Is Unrequited: Both his flushed feelings for Miracle Child who considers him her moirail, and his own palecrush on The Binding of Isaac.
- Bad Dreams: Has chronic nightmares related to Hivefled's Torture Porn prequel.
- Berserk Button: Don't hurt kids in front of a fandom whose protagonist is a teenage torture victim.
- Claustrophobia
- Collector of the Strange
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: His slight frame and long hair make him come off as rather effeminate.
- Hates Being Touched: Though, he's learned to deal with it.
- Horned Humanoid
- Nightmare Fetishist
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Lapses into this at times.
Distant Itinerant
Dragon Riders of Pern
Leviathan von Hohenburg
- Action Girl
- Adventurer Outfit: The Airman variant.
- The Beastmaster
- Bifauxnen: Usually mistaken for a boy.
- Can't Take Criticism: She gets very defensive when criticized, and tends to outright leave the room.
- Crossdresser: Wears a midshipman's uniform at all times.
- Cuddle Bug
- Demisexuality
- Desperately Craves Affection
- The Flapper: Whenever she wears a dress.
- Hair Of Gold Heartof Gold: Is blonde and very good-hearted.
- Incompatible Orientation: Her first love.
- In-Series Nickname: Levi.
- Plucky Middie
- Really Gets Around
- Steam Punk: The series itself, and most of her technology.
- Supernaturally Young Parent: Due to a Magic Anon.
- Teen Pregnancy: She had her first child at 15.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Strawberries!~ (And potatoes, to a lesser extent.)
- Quirky Curls
- Wrench Wench
Harry Potter
- Noodle Incident: Terrified of microwaves and rubber ducks due to "a certain event".
- Scars Are Forever
- Squishy Wizard
- Walking Techbane
His Dark Materials
- Ambiguously Brown
- Bond Creatures: Norwich.
- Blood Knight
- Immortal Life Is Cheap: Has been known to engage in suicide to 'prove a point'.
- Mismatched Eyes
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Animal Motifs: Bees.
- Creepy Child
- Mystical Waif
- Not Allowed to Grow Up
- Strange Girl
- Power Floats: Supposedly wears lead in her shoes to prevent this from happening.
- Prophet Eyes: Due to blindness.
Marina and the Diamonds
- Badass Longcoat: Wears a trench coat similar to the one seen on Supernatural character Castiel.
- Dating Catwoman: Homestuck's kismesis.
- Sitcom Archnemesis: Homestuck.
- Winged Humanoid: Depending on the artist, Supernatural is drawn either with permanent wings or with the ability to manifest wings at will.
Doctor Who
- Nice Hat
- Time Travel: But of course.
- Scarf Of Asskicking
- Asexual: Often portrayed as this.
- Great Detective: This is Sherlock, after all.
- Insufferable Genius
- Only Sane Man: Often portrayed as this.
- Scarf Of Asskicking
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky
Criminal Minds
- Big Sister Instinct: Mess with her friends and your shit is wrecked.
- FBI Agent
- Multicolored Hair
- Magical Computer
- The Smart Guy: She can make a profile about you in under 20 minutes.
- The Profiler
- Animal Motifs: Stags, of course.
- Food Porn
- In-Series Nickname: Fannibal.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Though a more subdued one than Hivefled.
- Not So Above It All
- Pungeon Master: Cannibal puns for all.
- Supreme Chef
- Stalker with a Crush: Has one in the form of Alpha Master Fandom.
The Twilight Zone
- Cryptic Conversation: Tends to speak in double-meanings.
- Deliberately Monochrome
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
Videogames and Visual Novels
- Attractive Bent-Gender: A very pretty girl, except that he isn't.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: Played for laughs.
- Duality Motif
- Fashionable Asymmetry
- Jerkass
- Mismatched Eyes
- Split Personality
- Wholesome Crossdresser
- You Gotta Have Pink Hair
The Binding of Isaac
- Amazing Technicolour Population: Blue-grey
- Better as Friends: With Hivefled, in response to the latter's proposition of moirallegiance.
- Eyepatch of Power
- Mommy Issues
- Sanity Slippage: He got better, though.
- Token Mini-Moe: Physically 8 years old.
- Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Not anymore!
- Dark Is Not Evil:
- Fatal Flaw: NEVER get BIT.TRIP insane.
- Goggles Do Nothing: Besides representing Mingrawn Timbletot...
- Rage Breaking Point
- Action Girl
- Hot Scientist
- Mystical White Hair
- Science Hero
- Power of Trust: She doesn't trust easily. So when she does, it definitely means something.
Spyro the Dragon
- Amazing Technicolour Population: He's purple.
- Sleepy Head
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Terrifed of lava.
- Winged Humanoid
Western Animation
Adventure Time
- Action Girl
- Older Than She Looks
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Terrified of the ocean.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Hipster Fandom/Serenity Oceana
- Action Girl
- Alien Non-Interference Clause: Discretely Averted; her kingdom holds diplomatic relations with other countries, just very subtly.
- Apparently Human Merfolk: Specifically, her species is referred to as "seahuman", but she still looks very human. Played With in that her inner organs are quite different from human insides. Also, a lot of her species is more overtly fishy.
- Babies Ever After: She has had dozens of children, since she enjoys pregnancy and having the most children is a requirement for ascention to her country's throne.
- Blue and Orange Morality: At first.
- Boobs of Steel
- Boldly Coming: Yeah. That is, before she was ritually sterilized and neutured as a requirement for becoming Queen. Now she can't have sex, and it's difficult for her to function normally as a result of teh hormonal imbalances.
- Crazy Awesome
- Culture Clash: Usually in the form of Your Normal Is Our Taboo. This isn't as common as it used to be, though.
- Emotions vs. Stoicism: Tends to flip-flop from one end of the scale to the other. Currently stoic.
- Ermine Cape Effect: Wears fancy clothing often and lots of jewelry.
- Fun Size: According to Word of God, she's 3'9".
- Girlish Pigtails: Originally - in later stories she has a Tomboyish Ponytail instead.
- The High Queen: Tries to be this.
- Hipster: Of course.
- Interspecies Romance: With Leviathan, and many, many more besides.
- I Want Grandkids: Towards her descendants.
- Married to the Job: Sliding towards this.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: GAH. They're huge, and sharp, and she's got a lot of them.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: Very short, but an excellent combatant.
- Proud Queenly Race Girl: Very, very proud of her culture and country, even the screwed-up bits.
- Scarf Of Asskicking
- Unusual Ears: They're decked with fin ripples on the edges. Her descendants tend to share this trait.
- Expressive Ears: They're capable of stiffening up and spreading out when she's happy or aroused; when she's sad, they droop down listlessly.
- The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask: The stress and responsibility of her job has taken a toll on her.
Maria Von Hohenburg, aka Cryptids.
- Apparently Human Merfolk
- Attractive Bent-Gender: She makes for a very alluring boy.
- Berserk Button: Do not call her mother a whore!
- Big Beautiful Woman: Short, fat, and gorgeous.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: Accepts terrifying creatures, her loved one's occasional deaths, and inexplainable, world-altering events as part of normal life.
- Fangirl: Obviously, for cryptids, but also for things like X-Files and Gravity Falls.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half seahuman, half regular human, all fandom.
- Happily Married: Married to a Cat Boy version of Yuu Tendo.
- Homosexual Reproduction / A Wizard Did It: Daughter of Leviathan and Hipster.
- Little Bit Beastly: She has few visible seahuman traits: fins, gills, and natural hair streaks. (The streaks are Justified, being a holdover from aquatic camouflage.)
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: She's a lot more outgoing and talkative than her shy, Selective Mute mate.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Nobody should be able to fit that many teeth in their mouth.
- Motor Mouth: When she's excited, she talks like this.
- My Own Private "I Do": Soon after their engagement, she and Yuu decided to get married privately, so they wouldn't have to wait until the elaborate royal ceremony Hipster's still planning is finished.
- Nightmare Fetishist: She squeals in delight over the most horrific creatures.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: She barely tops five feet, but she's very, very strong.
- Skunk Stripe: A big yellow one.
- Timey-Wimey Ball: She has twin children in the future. They traveled back in time for some reason and now live with their parents.
- Unusual Ears: They're decorated with fin ripples on the edges.
- Expressive Ears: They can be this, but are usually static.
- Victorious Childhood Friend: Though she has had crushes on others, she and Yuu have been the only people in each other's quadrants ever.
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- Chaste Hero: Interprets overtly romantic advances as shows of platonic affection.
- Graceful in Their Element: Much more graceful in the water than on land.
- Heinz Hybrid: Half Cat Boy, one-fourth seahuman, one-fourth human.
- Heterochromia
- The Klutz
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: DEAR GOD HE HAS THREE ROWS OF TEETH.
- Parental Sexuality Squick: A Running Gag is that he pretends to gag whenever a couple, usually his parents, is being especially affectionate.
- Peek-a-Bangs
- Statuesque Stunner: He's 6'0", in stark contrast to most of his bloodline, which tends towards being barely over 5', if that.
- Timey-Wimey Ball: Traveled back in time with his sister Mitzi and now lives with his parents, who are currently only three years older than he is.
- Uneven Hybrid: Has whiskers and excellent balance, but is otherwise pretty fishy.
- Unusual Ears: They're large and decked with fin ripples on the edges.
- Expressive Ears: They're capable of stiffening up and spreading out when he's happy or aroused; when he's sad, they droop down listlessly.
- You Gotta Have Teal Hair
Other Fandoms
- Celeb Crush: For Gordon Ramsay.
- Food Porn: But of course!
- Hollywood Pudgy
- Nice Girl
- Supreme Chef
- Bad Dreams
- Dude Looks Like a Lady
- Lurker
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold
- The Quiet One
- Scars Are Forever
- When He Smiles
Mary Sue
- For the Lulz
- Multicoloured Hair
- Parody Sue
- Troll: She's proabably at least a bit of one.
Norse Mythology
- Pants-Free: Pants are for squares.
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During pregnancy, lots of women wonder about how their body will change and how much weight they will gain. Maybe this is something that you've been thinking about too.
Weight gain is healthy and normal when you're pregnant. And there's no fixed number of pounds that you should be aiming for. Instead, there's a range of weight gain that's good for you and your baby.
Ask your doctor what your range is for healthy weight gain. It's based on your health, your pregnancy, and your weight before pregnancy.
If you're worried about weight gain during pregnancy, try not to focus too much on the numbers. Think more about having a healthy pregnancy by being active and feeding your baby with healthy foods.
Gaining too much or too little weight raises some health risks for you and your baby.
Gaining too much weight when you're pregnant can raise your risk of having a large baby. If your newborn is 10 lb (5 kg) or larger, you may be more likely to have:
Also, a newborn who is 10 lb (5 kg) or larger may become overweight or obese later in life. That could mean that he or she will have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
Gaining too much weight during pregnancy can also make it harder to lose that weight later on.
And if you are very overweight (obese) during pregnancy, you have greater risks for:
Gaining too little weight when you're pregnant raises your baby's risks for early birth, and for low birth weight and size. When this happens, a newborn is at greater risk for:
Pregnancy is not the time to diet. Your baby needs you to eat a wide variety of foods. Focus on eating a lot of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and low-fat dairy and meats. Stay away from sugars and fats as much as you can.
If you have morning sickness and lose weight during your first trimester, your baby is unlikely to be affected. Just be sure your doctor knows. Get help with nausea and vomiting, if needed.
Based on your weight before pregnancy, experts say it is generally best to gain about:
Ideally, you will gain weight slowly over your whole pregnancy. If you stop gaining weight for more than 2 weeks, or if you gain weight faster than expected, talk to your doctor.
Although pregnant women often joke that they're "eating for two," you don't need to eat twice as much food.
In general, pregnant women in their second and third trimesters need to eat about 300 extra calories a day. You can get this in a sandwich or in an apple and a cup of yogurt.
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Survey finds companies have trouble finding carpenters, laborers and iron workers.
A national survey of construction firms found 74 percent were having problems finding qualified workers amid growing labor shortages in the industry.
The survey by Associated General Contractors of America comes as similar concerns have been raised among builders in Southwest Florida, with the new homes market ramping up and a tight inventory of existing homes.
In the Sunshine State, 80 percent of respondents told the AGC that they were having trouble filling key construction jobs.
Carpenters, laborers and iron workers were the most sought after positions.
The AGC said that builders nationwide are concerned that the problem is going to get worse.
"We need to take short- and long-term steps to make sure there are enough workers to meet future demand and avoid the costly construction delays that would come with labor shortages," said Stephen Sandherr, the trade organization's chief executive.
Some of the survey's findings:
• Seventy-four percent of the 700 responding firms nationwide said the jobs that were most difficult to fill were carpenters, equipment operators and laborers.
• Fifty-three percent said they were also having a difficult time finding project supervisors, estimators and engineers.
• Eighty-six percent of respondents said they expect it will remain difficult or get harder to find qualified craft workers while 72 percent say the market for professional positions will remain difficult or get worse.
To deal with the situation, 48 percent of responding firms said they are mentoring future craft workers while 38 percent are participating in career fairs and 33 percent are supporting high school-level construction skills academies.
Forty-seven percent said they are offering internships for construction professionals.
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There was a 70 percent uptick in new home construction activity in Sarasota and Manatee counties this summer, but the industry is now running 50 percent below its employment peak in 2006, state records show.
As of July, construction accounted for 15,100 jobs in the two counties.
Area home builders have found at least one potential answer to the shortage: Military veterans.
The Home Builders Association Manatee-Sarasota and Suncoast Workforce, an entity that operates three Jobs Etc. employment center in the region, have crafted a pilot program aimed at alleviating the problem and providing jobs for vets, who sometimes struggle with unemployment.
Florida has an estimated 744,000 veterans in its labor force. Suncoast Workforce, meanwhile, has seen the number of veterans seeking help in Sarasota and Manatee counties rise 40 percent over the last two years, with about 1,900 now in the system looking for work.
New incentives provided by Congress in late 2011 could help homebuilders hire more vets. The IRS-guided VOW Hire Heroes Act extends tax breaks of $2,400 to employers who hire a veteran who has been jobless for a month, $5,600 for those unemployed at least six months and $9,600 for veterans who have been out of work six months or more and have a service-related disability.
The incentives can increase if the vet is also receiving some type of government assistance.
If builders have to train the new hires, the federal government also will help pick up the tab, paying half of the trainees' paycheck for up to six months.
To deal with the issue at a national level, Sandherr, the AGC chief executive, is urging Congress to "jettison arbitrary caps" on construction workers that were included in immigration reform the U.S. Senate passed this year.
"Lifting those restrictions will go a long way to ensuring construction jobs left vacant by domestic labor shortages go to workers who are in the country legally," he said.
The CEO also is urging local officials to "do more to ensure public school students have an opportunity to participate in programs that teach skills like construction."
His organization's survey, conducted in July and August, included nearly 700 construction firms, including Florida.
Staff writer Josh Salman contributed to this report.


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CHICAGO -- The Chicago Blackhawks got back on the ice Wednesday after taking two days off between series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Forward Kris Versteeg skated on the fourth line at right wing during line rushes and looks to get back in the lineup for the start of the Western Conference Second Round.
Versteeg, who was reacquired during the first quarter of the regular season in a trade with the Florida Panthers, was a surprising scratch Sunday in Game 6 of the Western Conference First Round series against the St. Louis Blues. Instead, Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville went with rookie forward Joakim Nordstrom, who made his postseason debut at right wing on the fourth line.
"You just have to get ready for the next one," Versteeg said. "Obviously you always want to play, but you have to understand what the coach feels and what's best for the team. It's something you want to fight through and come back and be a factor in helping the team."
Chicago's opponent in the second round is contingent upon the outcome of Game 7 of a first-round series Wednesday at Pepsi Center in Denver between the Colorado Avalanche and Minnesota Wild. Whichever way it goes, Versteeg is looking to get back into a game and contribute positively.
"Well, I know I can still play," Versteeg said. "When I'm playing good I can be a help to the team. Right now, it's just about getting back to that, finding your way, reaching deep down, gut-check time, you know? Hopefully when you get your chance, you come through for the guys."
Versteeg said Quenneville explained his logic for scratching him in the final game against the Blues, so he's not in the dark about what needs to improve.
"He's certainly got some experience in his game," Quenneville said. "[We're looking for] more speed and more directness, attack type of a plays, more straight ahead and kind of complementary to how our team plays. I thought he was coming on at the end of the year, and we're going to need him as we go along here."
Versteeg had two goals, two assists and a minus-8 rating in 2012-13 for the Panthers and played 10 games before an ACL tear in his right knee ended his season.
After reconstructive surgery, Versteeg returned to the ice this season for Florida, and scored two goals with five assists and a minus-9 rating in 18 games before the trade. He scored 10 goals with 29 points and a plus-9 rating in 67 games with the Blackhawks, before assisting on two goals in the first five games of the postseason.
In the season prior to getting injured, Versteeg helped the Panthers reach the playoffs by scoring 23 goals and 54 points in 71 games, so getting replaced in a huge game by a rookie was a shot to his ego.
"That's obviously tough," Versteeg said. "I'd be lying to you if you say that you don't want to be out there helping the team. Every time you get a chance to pull on a jersey, it's an honor. I know that by missing a full season last year. So I know every time you get the chance to pull on an NHL jersey, it's something special. It's something you always want to do."
As for the pending series, the Blackhawks will have home-ice advantage if the Wild advance and will fly to Denver on Thursday if the Avalanche win. Quenneville played in Denver as an NHL defenseman and coached the Avalanche, so he knows all about how the altitude difference might affect the lungs of players who don't play there regularly.
He downplayed the effects when asked Wednesday, but admitted coaching decisions are a little different as the visitors at Pepsi Center.
"Whenever we go in there, it's something we want to make sure that shift lengths … you want to make sure you've got to go shorter," Quenneville said. "We need better changes, matchups can be trickier and there will be different challenges as you go along there. But we've got some key guys on their team that we can talk about, but we'll talk more about that [Thursday]."
That's because there's still a chance they'll have to talk about the Wild instead.
"It's going to be intense," Quenneville said of either potential matchup. "If it's Minnesota, not a lot of room. Colorado, you know, they've got a great attack. So there's a little different with any team you play. It's more so how we play that we focus on and we make some adaptations to what the opponents are going to do."


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I will describe a very large class of gauge theories that do not use any external structure such as e.g. a spacetime metric in their construction. When the gauge group is taken to be SL(2) these theories describe interacting gravitons, with GR being just a particular member of a whole family of gravity theories. Taking larger gauge groups one obtains gravity coupled to various matter systems. In particular, I will show how gravity together with Yang-Mills gauge fields arise from one and the same diffeomorphism invariant gauge theory Lagrangian.
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Man Posed as Justin Bieber Online, Convinced Teenagers to Strip for Him
A man was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was caught impersonating Justin Bieber on the web in order to convince teen girls to perform sex acts on camera.
Robert Hunter, 35, of Middlesborough, England was arrested on multiple counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and making indecent photos after one of his victims came forward.
Police who searched Hunter's computer found some 800 videos of both girls and boys — some as young as nine — performing various sexual acts.
According to the prosecution, by pretending to be Bieber, Hunter was able to persuade hundreds of girls from around the world to record themselves stripping in exchange for "being their boyfriend."
Hunter would then use the videos from the girls to convince young boys to perform similar acts on camera, and use those videos "to lure more girls."
When a victim tried to back out of the arrangement, Hunter would threaten to release their explicit footage on social networks.
On one occasion, Hunter made good on his threat by posting indecent photos of a 12-year-old girl on Facebook along with identifying information.
That girl reportedly cut herself in response.
"It represents callous, almost sadistic exploitation over a number of years preying on girls' naivety who were undermined by their own behaviour," said Judge Peter Bowers, who called the Hunter's scheme "one of the most serious cases of internet abuse that the courts have dealt with."
Judge Bowers hoped the parents of teenage children will see the case as a warning "of what can be done via the Internet."


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Barbara Walters is standing by Woody Allen.
"The View" co-host defended the director on the Monday, Feb. 3, episode of her talk show, two days after his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow alleged that the filmmaker sexually assaulted her as a child.
Noting how the "Blue Jasmine" writer behaves around his two daughters with wife Soon-Yi Previn, Walters defended her friend. "I have rarely seen a father as sensitive, as loving and as caring as Woody is and Soon-Yi to these two girls. I don't know about Dylan. I can only tell you what I have seen now."
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Meanwhile, co-host Sherri Shepherd pointed out that seeing is believing. "We've heard so many cases of people going, 'He was the most wonderful person in the world. I would have never thought he would've...,'" she began, before Walters to cut her off and said, "That's not what I'm saying."
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"Barbara, when you say, 'I'm speaking from what I've seen,' there are so many things that go on behind closed doors. We also know that he was with Soon-Yi when she was very young. Mia [Farrow] had adopted this girl when she was young and Woody was around her... You've also got a man who's got a track record. He liked younger women," Shepherd said. "So it's not that far off."
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Yesterday, Microsoft announced some new features and countries for Office 365, its online services for business communication and sharing.
In the blog post, manager Andrew Kisslo noted that Office 365 is selling eight times as fast as its predecessor.
Infoworld writer Woody Leonhard smelled a rat in the way the statistic was phrased -- eight times faster than the previous product (the Business Productivity Online Suite, or BPOS) could still be pretty slow.
"There's no indication as to how many employee seats are licensed, so we're still very much in the dark about the total number of active Office 365 users," he wrote.
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As Rob Helm at Directions on Microsoft (disclosure: my former employer) pointed out on Twitter, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner told analysts, "We just launched that product not that long ago, and we have over five million seats already signed up, and we've deployed around 2.8 million already."
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That was on September 14. Office 365 became generally available at the end of June.
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a long-awaited rule on Friday requiring companies to include codes on medical devices that will allow regulators to track the products, monitor them for safety and expedite recalls.
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Spellings, a Houstonian who served as Bush's second U.S. Secretary of Education, was a key player in crafting the No Child Left Behind education reform law of 2002. No Child Left Behind required the use of standardized tests to judge the progress of schools.
Spellings, who worked closely with Democrats including Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. George Miller to craft a bipartisan plan, "withdrew (from advising Romney) once the candidate rejected strong federal accountability measures," the Times reported.
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Codebits is an annual 3-day conference about software and, well, code. It's organized by SAPO and this year's edition is to be held on November 10 thru 12 at the Pavilhão Atlântico, Sala Tejo in Lisbon, Portugal.
I've never attended SAPO Codebits before, but I heard good things about it from Datacharmer Giuseppe Maxia. The interesting thing about the way this conference is organized is that all proposals are available to the public, which can also vote for the proposals. This year's proposals are looking very interesting already, with high quality proposals from Giuseppe about database replication with Tungsten replicator, Pentaho's chief of data integration Matt Casters about Kettle (aka Pentaho data integration), and Pedro Alves from webdetails who will be talking about "Big Data" analysis and dashboarding work he did for the Mozilla team.
There are many more interesting talks, and you should simply check out the proposals for yourself and give a thumbs up or a thumbs down according to whether you'd like see a particular proposal at the conference. I decided to send in a few proposals as well:
Monday, August 15, 2011
Proposals for Codebits.EU
Posted by rpbouman at Monday, August 15, 2011
Labels: Anchor Modeling, Data Vault, Kettle, MQL, mql-to-sql, MySQL, Pentaho, pentaho data integration, Xmla4Js
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- datacharmer said...
Thanks Roland!
It is not only open voting. It is also competitive innovation.
- Monday, August 15, 2011 at 9:38:00 PM GMT+2
- Roland Bouman said...
Giuseppe, thanks!
Yes, I completely missed that part of it. I guess the home page could make that a bit more clear. But I'm happy to hear this, it sounds like a really interesting event! :)
- Monday, August 15, 2011 at 9:44:00 PM GMT+2
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Nevermore669 wrote:Hi there!
Before you post, take a little time to try to work out the problem for yourself based on the experiences of those who came before. The search function (right at the top of the page) can yield all kinds of juicy tidbits. You will likely find just what you need - just try to describe your issue as best you can, and don't be afraid to try different terms if you don't find what you need right away. Sure, you can post without looking, but you should know that the turnaround on this forum is usually measured in hours - a lot longer than it will likely take you to find the answer yourself.
As surprising as it might seem, a lot of the problems people have connecting can be fixed simply by clearing your caches. It's quick and easy (you'll have to log back into your sites, and your starred items will disappear, though). Here are some instructions:
Whenever anything goes wrong, the first thing you should do is clear your caches and delete all your cookies:
Clear all cookies and browser cache (in Firefox) by selecting the clear recent history function. Be sure all applicable entries are checked (under the details tab), and be sure to select "everything" at the top. Then clear your divx download cache (right-click in player window, select preferences, download cache, and clear it). Restart your browser.
Please interpret the instructions for your browser (if it's not firefox). In chrome it's called clearing "all saved data." Try hitting [ctl,shift,del] then clearing EVERYTHING. The instructions for the divx webplayer are the same.
Note: Recently it appears someone had some issues because of the installation of persistent flash cookies (LSOs) on their machine. To remove them I recommend you get a browser addon for that purpose. For firefox, try Click&Clean, or Better Privacy - be sure to configure after installation. For chrome there's a Click&Clean addon, too.
If all that didn't help and you still need to post, we'll be happy to help. See you on the forums!
restored this one from backups; i killed it by accident. xD
all credit due to Nevermore669.